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

twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and thirty two, a celebration should take place in the United States commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest men that ever lived — George Washington — the first pres- ident of the United States. There have been more stamps issued by

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

. John B. Reist,* Lititz, R. D. 2. Scarcely had the crowd fixed their eyes on the next speaker— the President of the United States—after taking a sigh of relief at the close of Everett's lengthy and rather tiresome discourse, when hearing the words— "government of the people, by the people, for the

Judicial Branch of the Government ; but all will yet be well. "Your friend always, "James Buchanan." 1 On the 4th of March, 1861, after Lincoln had taken the oath of office as President of the United States, citizen Buchanan and President Lincoln entered a carriage, and a military procession escorted them

, the highly respected school- master of Lititz, Pennsylvania, wrote a letter to his nephew James Mont- gomery Beck announcing his intention of closing the Beck Family School for boys. "The final closing of my school," wrote Beck. had been in consideration by us ever since Xmas, and with the end of the

the folio in the State Depart- ment at Harrisburg. An examination of the act shows that by it there were appointed the following gentlemen to order and appoint the dis- position of the Acadians : For Philadel- phia county, Wm. Griffitts, Jacob Duche and Thomas Say ; for Bucks county, Griffitts Owen

this great local project submerged and defeated by a resolution by Mr. Stone advocating the Potomac. The very name Colum- bia, deemed by its originators most fitting for the national capital, reveals the purpose as well as the time (1789) of the change of Wright's Ferry to Columbia. Wright's Ferry was

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