The 250th Anniversary of Middle Octorara United Presbyterian Church by Hiram G. Troop, Sr. Mr. Madison E. McElwain's Faith and Works at Middle Octorara Since 1727 was published in 1956, and there is a copy in the LCHS col- lection. "The 250th Anniversary of Middle Octorara United Presbyter- ian

continued until 1925 but be- fore this, it had again become a weekly periodical. The Examiner and Herald was established in 1830 and then espoused the Anti-Masonic party until that party's collapse. In 1856 it supported John C. Fremont, candidate of the Republican party as opposed to James Buchanan

a few years later. At sharp contrast with a train speeding today across the county, from Conewago to Christiana in about 40 minutes, stands the passing of the funeral train, April 22, 1865, on the following schedule: Conewago siding A M. 11.56 Lancaster 1.19 Elizabethtown P M. 12.07 Gap 2.23 Mt. Joy

century. The vital statistics in Beck's case can be summed up briefly. He was born on December 16, 1833, the seventh of eight children born to John and Johanna Augusta (Reincke) Beck. He was educated at Nazareth Hall, one of the great Moravian academies, where he taught for a number of years following his

this common termination to be the name of the country. Dawson is of the same opinion. Parkman adopts an entirely different etymology. At page 220 of his "Pioneers of France in the New World" he says in a note: "This name is not found in any earlier public document. It was afterwards restricted to the

Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society. �Bronze tablet erected, June 30th, 1931, on the south wall, near the south- east corner, of the Central Market House, which is located at the north-west angle in Penn Square, Lancaster, by The Lancaster County Historical Society. It marks the site of

"Every person wishing to join this society, shall, on subscrib- ing to the constitution, pay the sum of three dollars. "At each stated monthly meeting, each member shall pay a contribution of 371/2 cents. "No widow of any deceased member shall be entitled to the benefits of this association, unless

glory to the American name. The Lancaster Journal of Saturday, May 5th, 1798, informed the public that the address had been transmitted to the President of the United States. It contained upwards of 1800 signatures. At the time the paper was issued, several returns from the townships had not been made

further violence. On the two following evenings, no recurrence of a similar disturbance was attempted. "We have heard various pretenses assigned for the commis- sion of this truly disgraceful outrage, an outrage which inflicts discredit on all concerned, but have understood that the principal

, they built a processing plant at the corner of Lime and Green Streets. Around 1916 (Polk, 1916-17), Mary Darmstaetter and her son, Hugo, traveled to Rochester, NY, where he took a course in amateur photographic processing at the Eastman Kodak Company (Black Album news clip). Darmstaetter's employed