, pictures of the rise and fall of kings, queens and empires. He dealt with events and facts in a deliberate un- romantic way. He had none •of the charming romance of a Parkman or verbosity of a Macaulay. Some of his writings that are not so well known to many of us, though local as they are, you will find

Presbytery and the first one organized in eastern Lancaster County that has been continued to the present time. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, July 28th, 1820, contains half a column, headed "The Grove Sabbath School in Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." From it, it appears that a meeting of

that came down Turkey Hill. Later this was not sufficient for his work and he then built a steam engine to take the place of the water power. The school facilities in the first half of the nineteenth century in eastern Lancaster County were poor, for a country boy. There was a log cabin school near the

praise and admiration. It is well known that Mr. Burrowes was a Lancaster county man, and his preeminent success in accomplishing what he did in educational affairs, is a credit to the county to this day. In my opinion he was one of the many great and prominent men that the county produced during its

, to report and make preparations to move to Canada the following year, which, they did. These were the pioneer settlers from Pennsylvania in what is now the Mennonite settlement of Waterloo County, Ontario. The descendants of these families who are now some of the prominent citizens of Waterloo county

been done. So much for the origin and history of this infamous and disloyal order. Now let us see how it came to southeastern Pennsylvania, and especially to upper Lancaster county and the adjoining townships of Berks county. The leader of the Knights of the Golden Circle in southeastern Pennsyl- vania

SKETCHES OF SOME LANCASTER COUNTY CHARACTERS FROM THE GODCHARLES BIOGRAPHIES. Hon. A. G. Seyfert. At the regular meeting on Friday evening, June 5, 1925, no original paper was ready to be read. Hon A. G. Seyfert, volunteered to fill in by reading several sketches written by Frederick Godcharles of

THE WALLACE FAMILY AND THE WALLACE STORE OF EAST EARL By Hon. A. G. Seyfert Midway between Blue Ball and East Earl station, on the Lancaster and Downingtown branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, on what was formerly known as the Downingtown pike, now one of the State's best highways, is the old