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

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

Abraham Lincoln and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversaries By C. H. MARTIN Ere long the curtain will fall. All participating in the titanic struggle between the States, which may now be referred to as a great drama, will have passed. The Federal Government last July graciously invited all remaining of the

education in the parish schools and at the University of Jena, he entered the ministry of the Moravian Church in 1740. At the age of thirty-three he was dispatched to Pennsylvania. He spent the next sixty years in the service of the Mora- vian Church, first as a missionary to the Indians and later as a

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

street, near Front street, with Shawanese Indians as his neighbors. The rising tide of travel and traffic focussed toward Wright's Ferry. We can lend our imaginations to-day to these travel lines of man and beast. We can see herds of cattle wading and swimming after their lead-ox led from a canoe across

"Every person wishing to join this society, shall, on subscrib- ing to the constitution, pay the sum of three dollars. "At each stated monthly meeting, each member shall pay a contribution of 371/2 cents. "No widow of any deceased member shall be entitled to the benefits of this association, unless

nation;" and "exhorting" Congress to prepare for war. The effect of this information upon public opinion was instantaneous and far-reaching. Marshall's disclosures in the dispatches "produced such a shock upon the Republican mind as had not been seen since our independence." Public meetings were held

further violence. On the two following evenings, no recurrence of a similar disturbance was attempted. "We have heard various pretenses assigned for the commis- sion of this truly disgraceful outrage, an outrage which inflicts discredit on all concerned, but have understood that the principal

advertising and subscriptions, just like the patriotic Liberty Loan Drives ten years earlier. Popular legend claims this assignment elevated Hallowell to the status of a celebrity. People say he photographed as an insider, with personal access to those who planned the event. A close examination of the