have passed on to Glory. We miss them for we have not forgotten their works. It is up to us to continue the work for our Lord Jesus. God has been good to us as individuals and as a church during these last 25 years. Life has gone on as it did in the other 25 year spans. I know we felt sad when loved

. comp. Myers family history. (Typescript) 1981. Androkites, Allen D. Measured Drawings Of Selected Pieces of Woodwork By Paul W. Eshleman. (Book) 1980. Armstrong Cork Co. Building Materials Division. Armstrong's Concealment Materials. (Typescript) 1942. Armstrong Cork Company Manpower Recruiting and

GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

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

fast-thinning ranks of the Blue and the Gray to Gettysburg in final reunion. H. G. Wells, noted authority, classes Abraham Lincoln, the central figure of that great drama, among the first six men of the world's history. If that be true, no excuse need be offered to record in the annals of this Society

Chester county, Pa., with some additional facts rela- tive to Mr. Lincoln's political history and it became the basis of well written articles which practically all of the Pennsylvania papers published in January 1860. When the convention convened, among the names presented for the Presidency, was that of

to be free of toll. Abraham Witmer having received notice from the County Commission- ers to meet on June 25, 1812, at the house of Samuel Slaymaker, in the borough of Lancaster, named three Commissioners on his part. I have been unable to ascertain their names. But these Commissioners, together with

THE ACADIANS IN LANCASTER COUNTY. There is no history in which can be chronologically traced the struggles and changes within that small region known as Acadia, the confines of which were ex- pressly named by Henry IV. of France in his letters patent of November 3, 1603, over the country, territory

site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history 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