; took off his high hat to me in salute. I saw him several times while in the army. When hearing of the assassination I cried, fearing possible terrible results with his death." Mr. McCracken was a member of Company K, 77th (and later the 122nd) Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. William T. Hubert, aged

It was not until 1850 that Millard Fillmore, then President of the United States, had the first bathtub installed in the White House. It was made in Philadelphia, of thin cast iron. It is interesting to note that nine years before Adam Thomp- son introduced the first bathtub into this country

a Lancaster Woman Exhibited at Franklin Institute By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Lancaster Journal of Friday, October 22nd, 1824, con- tained an announcement that a hat of grass, made by Mrs. Hopkins, of Lancaster city, was on display at the first annual exhibition of Franklin Institute. The hat

AN AMISH WEDDING THREE VIRTUES — FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY — EXEMPLIFIED BY SOLEMN CEREMONY High noon neared and a solemn hush fell upon the two hundred and fifty relatives and guests asembled in the home of Benjamin Esh, at Mascot, Lancaster county, Pa., to witness a solemn wedding ceremony. To

An Early Threshing Machine in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER LATE in the summer of 1806, a threshing machine, invented in Scotland, was erected at David Witmer's mill in Lancaster county, Pa. The machine was capable of threshing 35 bushels of oats in an hour, of threshing and cleaning 100

Ann Moore, Postmistress of Lancaster, First Woman Appointed to Office Under the Federal Government By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XX XIV, pp. 62-3, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled "Post- masters and Postmistresses of Lancaster." In