-great uncle. John Paxton's life work for the church can be found on page 146 of Faith and Works. It is well worth reading. In April of 1970 construction started on an addition to the educa- tional building. This project was undertaken after a committee appoint- ed by the Congregation reported a need for

concluded in his report, As we had don Speaking The Susquehanna Indians roase up all together and in a great Shout Cry'd out very good, verygood, very good, and then sat in Councill a little time, afterwards one Roase up and said. In y e ffal of ye Leafe wee think some of us to Come and See ye Goverr. then

." Following the meeting, the People's Club of Philadelphia with their band proceeded to compliment Hon. Thaddeus Stevens with a serenade. Mr. Stevens appeared at the window of his chamber — he lived on the eastern side of the first block of South Queen �street — and acknowledged the compliment with a few

, composed of camellias and white �roses, upon the casket. As the train pulled out, few of the great crowd left with dry eyes. Great throngs gathered wherever the body laid in state, enroute to Springfield over the same course Mr. Lincoln had traveled enroute to Washington, as the following will show: The

inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average, one hun- dred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes. No other marks or brands recollected. "Yours very truly, "A. Lincoln." "J. W. Fell, Esq." �This autobiography Mr. Fell submitted to the Hon. Joseph J. Lewis of

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

Micmacs, of Nova Scotia, being of a practical turn of mind, were in the habit of bestowing on places the names of the useful articles found in them, and affixed to such terms the word A-ca-die, denoting abundance of the particular objects to which the names referred. The early French set- tlers supposed

Hall, Pennsylvania,—a handsome, dashing, young fellow at the time of the portrait, whose love letters to Miss Elizabeth Dor- neck prove that early Lancaster sweethearts were courted after much the same fashion as sweethearts today,—except that epistles then were more dignified in diction and in

seat of the General Government ought to be in some convenient place on the east bank of the Susquehanna in the State of Penn- sylvania." I remember that Thomas Hartley, of Quaker ancestry, strongly �advocated Wright's Ferry, pointing out its many merits and possibilities. But he did this only to 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