Church" is intended to serve as an update of Mr. McElwain's work. It is part of my work as a member of the Bicentennial and 250th Anni- versary Committee of Middle Octorara United Presbyterian Church. A few of you will remember our 200th anniversary in 1927. Many more will wish to know something about it

name of George Washington. The greatest of them all is WASHINGTON — DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The capital of the United States. The Cornerstone of the capital building was laid in 1793 and built in the Renaissance style. Extensive additions have been made to both wings since 1850. The material used was

Street As I Knew It. (Typescript) n.d. Di Ninni, Ronald V. comp. History of Rutherford, Pennsylvania. (Book) 1979. Drake, Mrs. Wm. Preston and Others. Kentucky in Retrospect, 1792-1942. (Book) 1942. Dructor, Robert M. A Guide to Genealogical Sources at the Pa. State Archives. (Book) 1980. Dyke, Mary Hull

of rival candidates. The first party to go into action was the Democratic party which opened its convention in the hotbed of secession chatter, Charleston, South Carolina. It deadlocked after ten days and only reconvened forty-six days later in Baltimore at which time United States Senator Stephen A

the continued growth of the fame of Lincoln may I refer to the Drinkwater play, which toured the United States about fifteen years ago, after playing in all the principal cities of England; the many movies portraying his life or parts of it; and the "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" play running in the

elsewhere. Unless we keep in mind the fact that the election of 1860 was prior to the radio, telephone and daily mail in many sections, and that there were only a few dailies in the United States, we may not be able to appreciate fully the widely extended influence of Mr. Fell's efforts in securing Mr

of autumn," from Massachusetts to Georgia, among those who hated their religion, detested their country, derided their manners and mocked their language, " few comparatively remained to swell the numbers of the Catholic body in the United States. Landed on distant shores, those who had once known

fishing and wildfowl shooting. And always when I come here I visualize Columbia as the capital of the United States. Picking up one of the mysterious "ifs" of history (and the history of the individual as well as of the nation is deeply indented with "ifs") I visualize this river incline, and more

unanimously approved. It was signed by John Light and the other one hundred and forty-nine officers : "TO JOHN ADAMS, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES : "At a period so momentous as the present, when it but too plainly appears that we must either submit to be dictated to by a �foreign power or resort to