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

- film: Roll 1, Public Records Office, London. C.O. 5/1233 (Pa. Material, 1689-1707) F.O. 353/59, 353/60, in the Division of Archives, Pennsyl- vania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg. �Accessions to L. C.H.S. Library By Salinda M. Matt The following accessions to our Library have been

tongue is but little tinged with the German accent. His English is most perfect and the sentences roll from his lips as smooth and as rounded as those of Macauley but possess more fire. During the campaign — I had the assurance from his own lips he will most certainly visit Lancaster County." Returning

AARON ESHLEMAN Towards the end of the eighteenth century and at the beginning of the nineteenth, painted, in England, Rey- nolds, Romney, Lawrence. After them, in America, painted Gilbert Stu- art. After Gilbert Stuart painted Eichholtz; after Eichholtz painted Bannade; after Bannade painted Aaron

people shall not perish from the earth"—the President sat down. The ten sentences in the address were spoken in 2 minutes and 35 seconds. The photographer, lacking a rapid-fire camera of the type used today, did not have time to properly set the tripod and focus the lens before the final words were

. and Mrs. Lincoln lived at a hotel in Springfield, kept by a Mrs. Beck, formerly of Lititz, Lancaster county, Pa. Mr. Lincoln was elected to congress in 1846 as a representa- tive of the 7th Congressional District of Illinois. Many members of congress at that time lived in boarding houses, and formed

Abraham Witmer' s Bridge At the period immediately succeed- ing the RevolutionaryWar, there was no bridge along the King's Highway over the Conestoga River. There was, how- ever, a public fording. A fording still exists, though now partly cover- ed over by the tracks of the Lancaster and Eastern

THE ACADIANS IN LANCASTER COUNTY. There is no history in which can be chronologically traced the struggles and changes within that small region known as Acadia, the confines of which were ex- pressly named by Henry IV. of France in his letters patent of November 3, 1603, over the country, territory