. Shanholtzer History and allied Family Roots of Hampshire County, W. Va. and Frederick County, Va. (Book) 1980. Keyser, Alan G., and others. Accounts of Two Pa. German Furniture Makers-Abraham Overholt, Bucks Co., 1790-1833 and Peter Ranck, Lebanon Co., 1794-1817. (Book) 1978. Kilheffer, Esther M. and others

-Hamlin meeting at Columbia when George A. Coffey of Philadelphia gave the principal oration. He devoted much of his speech to recounting the history of the Constitution with especial reference to the question of slavery. He queried "Shall the virgin territories of the west become new Lancaster Counties

of the smaller of the "little masters." His followers, those we are considering, with the probable exception of Eicholtz, were not art- ists, for the word artist, when applied to those who have painted, should call up in our minds the names Monet, Goya, and our own Americans—John Twachtman and George

fast-thinning ranks of the Blue and the Gray to Gettysburg in final reunion. H. G. Wells, noted authority, classes Abraham Lincoln, the central figure of that great drama, among the first six men of the world's history. If that be true, no excuse need be offered to record in the annals of this Society

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

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