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

. This story and the stamp collection was prepared fifty years ago in commemoration of the 200th anni- versary celebration that took place in 1932. This is a different historical view of George Washington as the most celebrated hero in American history. He is the first historical figure that children

Street As I Knew It. (Typescript) n.d. Di Ninni, Ronald V. comp. History of Rutherford, Pennsylvania. (Book) 1979. Drake, Mrs. Wm. Preston and Others. Kentucky in Retrospect, 1792-1942. (Book) 1942. Dructor, Robert M. A Guide to Genealogical Sources at the Pa. State Archives. (Book) 1980. Dyke, Mary Hull

candidates of the Constitutional Union party— John Bell, once United States Senator from Tennessee and Secretary of War and his running mate Edward Everett, the peerless orator and edu- cator. This gathering too was held in front of the court house with Henry E. Slaymaker, Lancaster businesss man, in the

the continued growth of the fame of Lincoln may I refer to the Drinkwater play, which toured the United States about fifteen years ago, after playing in all the principal cities of England; the many movies portraying his life or parts of it; and the "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" play running in the

elsewhere. Unless we keep in mind the fact that the election of 1860 was prior to the radio, telephone and daily mail in many sections, and that there were only a few dailies in the United States, we may not be able to appreciate fully the widely extended influence of Mr. Fell's efforts in securing Mr

Harford in Susque- hanna County could produce, within the confines of a group of contem- porary classmates, three or four United States representatives, a like num- ber of United States district judges, a speaker of the House of Representa- tives, a United States Senator and a governor of Iowa was not as

of autumn," from Massachusetts to Georgia, among those who hated their religion, detested their country, derided their manners and mocked their language, " few comparatively remained to swell the numbers of the Catholic body in the United States. Landed on distant shores, those who had once known

fishing and wildfowl shooting. And always when I come here I visualize Columbia as the capital of the United States. Picking up one of the mysterious "ifs" of history (and the history of the individual as well as of the nation is deeply indented with "ifs") I visualize this river incline, and more

unanimously approved. It was signed by John Light and the other one hundred and forty-nine officers : "TO JOHN ADAMS, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES : "At a period so momentous as the present, when it but too plainly appears that we must either submit to be dictated to by a �foreign power or resort to