large crowd, which he addressed from the balcony of the Cadwell House, Lancaster, February 22, 1861, have all answered the final call, with possibly only two exceptions, of which later mention will be made, as have nearly all of the many thousands who saw the funeral train pass through Lancaster County

Lincoln, eldest son of Mordecai and Hannah Salter Lin- coln, was born May 3, 1711. With his parents he came to Cov- entry, Chester county, Pa., about 1720, either from Middlesex or Monmouth county, New Jersey. Following his marriage, evidently he located in Caernarvon township, Lancaster county, Pa. In

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

him very busy. He edited and compiled an al- gebra, which was used as a textbook in a number of normal schooIs. In coI- laboration with Prof. Anderson, also a Lancaster County man, he wrote a textbook on arithmetic known as Sensenig and Anderson's Arithmetic. Mr. Sensenig was a tall, slim man, wore a

for the formation of new counties from areas including parts of the present county, any one of which, if successful, would have resulted in Lancaster county having very irregular boundary lines compared with those with which we are now familiar. In spite of several movements for new counties, all of