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

anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, nothing could be more fitting nor of more local interest than a review of his connections with Lancaster and its citizens. Prefacing this, I wish to present evidence that Abra- ham Lincoln's ancestral family was represented in colonial Lan- caster county. John

that one of the Pennsylvania signers, James Smith, had read law in Lancaster and was here admitted to the bar. This encouraged a search for information concerning Mr. Smith's connection with Lancaster, and I take pleasure in present- ing this brief paper to our Lancaster County Historical Society on

the Indiana County Normal School, Indiana, Pa., and remained there a few years, later being elected professor of higher mathematics at Swarthmore College. He Iater was offered the prin- cipalship of the West Chester State Normal School, which offer he declined but did accept the vice-principalship

referred to a committee where it evidently was successfully "pocketed." The proposed Conestoga county, for which erection the most persistent efforts were made, was to be formed from eastern Lan- caster, western Chester and southern Berks counties. The first effort to organize this area into a separate

center of military activities in those days. The names of original members of the Society as shown by the Society's records, whose residence was given as Lancaster County at the time of join- ing, and a few other Lancastrians whom I found were members, with brief personal reference and rank through which

. William Addams was born in Lancaster county, April 11th, 1777, and moved to Berks county, where, after serving as a member of the State As- sembly, he was elected to Congress and served from March 4th, 1825, to March 4th, 1829. He died at Sinking Springs, Pa., May 30th, 1858. SYDENHAM ELNATHAN ANCONA