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

the United States Government with the head of George Washington or a picture of some event in connection with him than any other person in the world, except possibly King George of England, whose head is not only on stamps of Great Britain but all of its col- onies. And too, each state in the Union

as it touched Lancaster County. The area at that time was served with four local dailies and it may be of interest to look at the political complexions of these newssheets. The oldest was the Intelligencer which had its beginning in 1799. During the years that James Buchanan was aspiring to the

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

a few years later. At sharp contrast with a train speeding today across the county, from Conewago to Christiana in about 40 minutes, stands the passing of the funeral train, April 22, 1865, on the following schedule: Conewago siding A M. 11.56 Lancaster 1.19 Elizabethtown P M. 12.07 Gap 2.23 Mt. Joy

Judicial Branch of the Government ; but all will yet be well. "Your friend always, "James Buchanan." 1 On the 4th of March, 1861, after Lincoln had taken the oath of office as President of the United States, citizen Buchanan and President Lincoln entered a carriage, and a military procession escorted them

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

portion allotted to a man named Slaymaker. A peculiar fact may be mentioned in connection with this, that a township of this county, which was laid out about the time of the �Acadian dispersion into Lancaster county, is named Bart. Reese, in an early edi- tion of his cyclopaedia, states that Bart is the

territory of the United States is occupied by people whose ancestors crossed Wright's Ferry. Wright's Ferry, of four major ferries along the Susquehanna, was the first important one. In 1730, Thomas Cresap received a ferry patent from Lord Baltimore for Blue Rock—a bluish ledge along the banks of the river

known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and