Church" is intended to serve as an update of Mr. McElwain's work. It is part of my work as a member of the Bicentennial and 250th Anni- versary Committee of Middle Octorara United Presbyterian Church. A few of you will remember our 200th anniversary in 1927. Many more will wish to know something about it

as "The First President of the United States". In 1785 he lived at Franklin Square and in 1790 at 39 Broadway. The eight-cent stamp is postmarked at the Washington Bridge �Station where the world's longest suspension bridge has been completed and named in his honor. 15. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA The

Society Of Pennsylvania. (Book) 1864. Aurand, Monroe, Jr. Child Life of the Pennsylvania Germans. (Booklet) 1947. Baer, Christopher T. Canals and Railroads of the Mid-Atlantic States, 1800-1860. (Book) 1981. Ball, Berenice M. Forty Years of Days. (Book) 1980 Bare, Howard C. Ancestors and Relatives of

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

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

the continued growth of the fame of Lincoln may I refer to the Drinkwater play, which toured the United States about fifteen years ago, after playing in all the principal cities of England; the many movies portraying his life or parts of it; and the "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" play running in the

, sharing its toils and trials, and if we can only get these facts sufficiently before the people, depend on it there is some chance for you." "And now," Fell continued, "Mr. Lincoln, I come to the business part of our interview. My native State of Pennsylvania will have a large number of votes to cast for

American political, economic and social life, one important fact cannot be ignored. The small private school of the nineteenth century was the great training ground for American leadership — religious, professional, political and industrial. The fact that a small private school such as Franklin Academy at

, and I will briefly relate them. The Act of April 2, 1811, P. L. 223, declared that, "Whereas, it appears that there is due to the Common- wealth from the estate of William Henry, deceased, formerly treasurer of Lancaster county, the sum of $12,018.34, being part of the arrears of State tax due from

of autumn," from Massachusetts to Georgia, among those who hated their religion, detested their country, derided their manners and mocked their language, " few comparatively remained to swell the numbers of the Catholic body in the United States. Landed on distant shores, those who had once known