far to visit churches and to hear ministers. After six months of earnestly seeking God's help the com- mittee chose Rev. Robert W. Tanguy, who was the Minister at Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. Rev. Tanguy was born at Greenville, Pennsylvania on December 5, 1926, a son of Clair D. and Lillie May Baker

of Odd Fellows Hall, Colum- bia, composed of friends of Lincoln, Hamlin and Curtin. Called to order by J. W. Fisher. President Col. S. S. Kauffman. Speak- ers—Hon. Joseph Casey of Harrisburg, George Coffey of Philadel- phia and 0. J. Dickey of Lancaster. 2 A Lincoln meeting was held at the house of F

AARON ESHLEMAN Towards the end of the eighteenth century and at the beginning of the nineteenth, painted, in England, Rey- nolds, Romney, Lawrence. After them, in America, painted Gilbert Stu- art. After Gilbert Stuart painted Eichholtz; after Eichholtz painted Bannade; after Bannade painted Aaron

at Albany and Buffalo. At Cleveland, 180 per minute viewed the body, continuing at that average throughout the day. At Columbus, for seven hours a steady stream of people passed. At Indianapolis, great throngs including delegations from a number of states, among them Kentucky, viewed the body. The

Middlesex county, New Jersey, for £200 current money of New Jersey at eight shillings to the ounce. This deed was dated November 8, 1748, and was recorded May 1, 1757. This proves, conclusively, that John Lincoln resided in Lancaster county as then constituted—Caernarvon township extending to the Schuylkill

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

was this day signed by the Jus- tices, Grand Jury, Commissioners and Assessors. "February 7.—The Commissioners and Assessors met according to ad- journment and appointed Isaac San- ders, one of the Commissioners, to at- tend the General Assembly of this Province with petition mentioned in yesterday's

that people were thus to be thrown upon them, and no provision was made for their support there. Troops were collected at various points with numbers of schooners and sloops �to transport them. The Acadians were on September 5, 1755, assembled and dis- armed, only five hundred escaping to the woods

ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE UNVEILING OF A BRONZE TABLET TO JOHN WRIGHT, PIONEER FERRYMAN By PROF. HERBERT H. BECK MADAME PRESIDENT, MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: I consider it a distinct privilege to represent the older of the two coun- ties, Lancaster and York, at this well

until the society con- sisted of thirty-five members, a meeting was to be held each Wednesday evening at the house of Christian Smith. The book of the organization was to be kept open for subscriptions at the store of Messrs. J. and P. Long, North Queen street. Joseph Ehrenfried was the secretary. The