the dead the other day. I am not aware that Israel Smith Clare was ever a member of this society or that he at any time wrote any history for publication in our historical pamphlets. As a writer of World history he has, however, given his native county a pre-eminent name that is an honor to this

who preached at Pequea. On October 9, 1750, Pequea and Leacock united in a call for Rev. Robert Smith, who accepted and was installed March 25, 1751. Mr. Smith was born in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1723 and came with his parents in boyhood to America and settled at the head of the Brandywine. I have no

. The other day the bronze statue of Andrew Jackson was dedicated as the gift of Tennessee to the nation. President Coolidge, in his splendid address, pointed out the prominent historical events of the national govern- ment from the General's birth to his death. That is what I mean by the historical

American history is in the monumental works of Francis Parkman, in which he with a masterhand writes of the "Great Conflict" between the English and French for the posses- sion of North America. The French Jesuit Priest—Father Jaques—in a report on the religious conditions in New Netherland, now New York

every direction and in great disorder. Some of them ran to the Plow and Harrow hotel near the Lancaster bridge, thinking they would be protected, as this was their stopping place when they came to Reading. Those who reached the hotel had to be taken out the rear door and hid in outbuildings until night

men and women who have a local interest for Lancaster county. They included William Henry, inventor, jurist and benefactor, born in Chester county, May 19, 1729, at the time Lancaster county was part of Ches- ter county; General John Gibson, veteran of three wars, born May 23, 1740, in Lancaster

the east end of the house. When this became too small for the increased size of the family, this end was raised two and one-half stories. Robert Wallace came to America from Ireland, though he was by birth a Scotchman, in 1731. He was born in Scotland 1721. Died December 17, 1793. He married Martha