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

name of George Washington. The greatest of them all is WASHINGTON — DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The capital of the United States. The Cornerstone of the capital building was laid in 1793 and built in the Renaissance style. Extensive additions have been made to both wings since 1850. The material used was

for Young Women, Sept. 1905 to June 1906. (Book) 1906. Lanc. Co. Garden Spot of U.S. (Booklet) n.d. Mountville Sesquicentennial 1814-1964 (Book) 1964. The Old Lancaster Antiques Show, 1981. (Book) 1981. Papers of The Historical Society of York County, 1902-1939. (Book) Pennsylvania in the War Of The

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

--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912 Description: 247-250 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16, no. 8 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.16 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

AutoNumber Surname First Name Middle Name Prefix/Suffix Birth Date Death Date Notes Cemetery Name Cemetery Location Worner Vol # Cemetery # Page # 67444 Erisman Catharina 1809 wife of Michael Erisman Abbeville Cemetery Lancaster Township 24 506 1 67442 Erisman Daniel Sr. 1793 August 11, 1858

-watery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States." The "Daily Evening Express," Lancaster, in an editorial, November 20, 1863, states "that the National Cemetery was dedicated at Gettysburg yester- day, with appropriate ceremonies. The

Stevens, who represented Lancaster county in the congress of the United States from 1849 to 1853, and from 1859 to the date of his death in 1868, would in itself be an interesting study; likewise the conference with John W. Forney, born in Lancaster, newspaper editor, leader in Penn- sylvania Democratic

Harford in Susque- hanna County could produce, within the confines of a group of contem- porary classmates, three or four United States representatives, a like num- ber of United States district judges, a speaker of the House of Representa- tives, a United States Senator and a governor of Iowa was not as

. The act states that, "Whereas, by the act to which this is a supplement, Abraham Witmer, of the county of Lancaster, was authorized to erect, and in pursuance of that authority did erect, a bridge over the Conestogoe Creek on the great road leading from the City of Philadelphia to the bor- ough of