who have gone to their Father in Heaven during the past 25 years. It would not be fair to name some and not others. You can recall many that you have know. But there is one who was the friend, counselor and leader of our flock, always there when needed in times of trouble or joy. He served us for 50

of Ohio, who had been a member of the United States Supreme Court since 1839, although seventy- five years of age in 1860, still had a very definite ambition to reach the White House and in fact was the choice of Thaddeus Stevens, a delegate at large from Pennsylvania to the convention. Enroute to

, but these events, slight and confused as they are, suggest, when compared to the paintings, that he gave most of his energies to life rather than to his art. Slightness of real material, how- ever, in writing a biography or art criticism should not discourage. Bi- ography being usually written by

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

this was not the last of the matter ; and that Lincoln must do as he was requested. Lancaster for many years prior to 1858, the year of Fell's interview with Mr. Lincoln, and since, had been outstanding in law and medicine ; and, probably, none the less in politics, as it was at �that time, and for

education in the parish schools and at the University of Jena, he entered the ministry of the Moravian Church in 1740. At the age of thirty-three he was dispatched to Pennsylvania. He spent the next sixty years in the service of the Mora- vian Church, first as a missionary to the Indians and later as a

the county of Lancaster; and whereas, it appears that the county of Lancaster has in- curred some expense and inconven- ience in furnishing the Legislature with a state house and other accom- modations for a number of years past. �Therefore (section 1) be it enacted, etc., that, as soon as the

connection the writer begs leave to express his thanks to ex. Secretary of the Commonwealth W. F. Harrity, for a copy of the Act in full, which he courteously had copied for the writer two years since. The act is not found entire in any of the volumes of the "Laws of Pennsylvania" and is in manu- script in

site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history have

officers who unanimously adopted and signed this address to the President. It seems somewhat sin- gular that a meeting held on the 21st of June, 1798, was not re- ported in a local paper_ until November 12th, 1803—five years and a half later ; and long after Adams had been succeeded in the presi- dency by