, chairman of the Pensions Sub-Commit- tee of the Ministerial Relations Committee of Presbytery, and he has been a member of the General Council of Presbytery. Rev. Tanguy can trace his ancestors back to John Paxton, one of the early members of Middle Octorara, who was his maternal great- great-great-great

. In 1860 he was a Republican leader in Lancaster County and eventually he succeeded Stevens as a member of Congress. He also served in the 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. The stop of the Lancaster group at St. Louis provided an opportun- ity to present a gold headed cane to General Shaeffer

, but these events, slight and confused as they are, suggest, when compared to the paintings, that he gave most of his energies to life rather than to his art. Slightness of real material, how- ever, in writing a biography or art criticism should not discourage. Bi- ography being usually written by

; took off his high hat to me in salute. I saw him several times while in the army. When hearing of the assassination I cried, fearing possible terrible results with his death." Mr. McCracken was a member of Company K, 77th (and later the 122nd) Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. William T. Hubert, aged

, he was referred to as "Virginia John," to distinguish him from a first cousin of the same name in Pennsylvania. His son, Abraham, accompanied the family to Virginia, where he purchased land in 1773 and sold it in 1780, when incited by narratives of his kinsman, Daniel Boone, whom he followed to the

teacher. John M. Beck was born in Schafhausen, Switzer- land, on September 29, 1746. Sometime during youth or adolescence he was "spiritually awakened by the preaching of Moravian itinerants in his native city." 5 He later joined the Brethren in Neuwied and became a very successful teacher in the school

, Adam Weaver, John Brackbill and John Burkholder to view the said premises and that they, or any four of them, if they see cause, lay out the said road by courses and distances in a manner the most useful for the public in general and least in- jurious to private property and make report to the next

Pennsylvania. On November 18, 1775, a vessel as- cended the Delaware river bearing several hundred of these persecuted people, many of them being sickly and feeble, and on November 19 and 20 two more vessels as- cended the same river, bearing, all told, 454 A cadians. The ships which brought them were the

ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE UNVEILING OF A BRONZE TABLET TO JOHN WRIGHT, PIONEER FERRYMAN By PROF. HERBERT H. BECK MADAME PRESIDENT, MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: I consider it a distinct privilege to represent the older of the two coun- ties, Lancaster and York, at this well

of this association the sum of two dol- lars weekly, and every week during her natural life, if she remains the widow of such deceased member; but if she should again inter- marry, the said weekly allowance of two dollars shall immediately cease to be paid." It was also resolved at this meeting that