observed on Jan. 28, 1965, in the evening with the Presbytery of Donegal and the Synod of Pennsylvania bringing greetings. The Good Lord blessed him in many ways. On Sept. 6, 1965, God decided to take him to his home in Glory, and it was time for another to take his mantle. Rev. Richard Dunham of Chestnut

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of the bar. He served at times in the State Legislature and the State Sen- ate. When the state militia was organized in 1858, he was appointed a Major General, hence the title which he carried. Failing eyesight and ill health kept him from active service during the Civil War. Back in Lancaster, the

early life was spent in Lancaster. His father was proprietor of "The Fountain Inn." Aaron was born in the year 1827, and, after his remaining canvases, one landscape learned of his early life—he kept an inn of his own, called "The Cross Keys." His wife's name was Sarah Demuth. These few facts and three

AutoNumber Surname First Name Middle Name Prefix/Suffix Birth Date Death Date Notes Cemetery Name Cemetery Location Worner Vol # Cemetery # Page # 67444 Erisman Catharina 1809 wife of Michael Erisman Abbeville Cemetery Lancaster Township 24 506 1 67442 Erisman Daniel Sr. 1793 August 11, 1858

, Sunday, July 3. Of the many thousands of Lancaster Countians who responded to the call of Father Abraham between 1861-1865 a scant corporal's squad remain. In a few weeks 74 years will have passed since Appomatox. In addition to the above named, those Lancaster County veterans living last July at the

Chester county, Pa., with some additional facts rela- tive to Mr. Lincoln's political history and it became the basis of well written articles which practically all of the Pennsylvania papers published in January 1860. When the convention convened, among the names presented for the Presidency, was that of

the secondary education usually associated with the junior and senior high schools of today. Many private schools including the Beck Family School for boys specialized in an intensive and closely supervised elementary education. With the increased emphasis on secondary educa- tion after the Civil War

con- siderable land on that side of the river, and his deed shows that he only acquired the tavern property on the west side on September 23, 1789. It is said, in Evans' and Ellis' History of Lancaster County, that he first pur- chased the land on which the tavern was built and afterwards, in 1789

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