another envelope addressed to sixty-eight towns and cities, accompanied by a letter requesting that the con- tents be mailed back to the sender on George Washington's birthday. Every one of the sixty-eight Postmasters complied and every card and envelope was re- turned to Lancaster. All were received in

, Walker Lewis Pennsylvania German And Huguenot Antiques. (Book) 1925. Summar, D. J. Notes and Genealogical Charts on John Shiley (1814-1892) of Lancaster, Pa. and some descendants. (Family record) n.d. Suran, Frank M. Guide To The Record Guides In State Archives. (Book) 1980. Texter, Donald A. Descendants

tabulated, the results in Pennsylvania looked like this. Abraham Lincoln (Republican) 268,030 John C. Breckenridge (Democrat) 178,871 John Bell (Constitutional Union) 12,776 Stephen A. Douglas (Democrat) 16,765 The vote in Lancaster County followed the same pattern, with these re- sults. Lincoln 13,353

Eshleman. These men, our lo- cal portrait painters, from Eicholtz on, could no more get away from the influence of Gilbert Stuart than can those so called •ones now, in our own time, rise above that of John Sargent —Sargent who now holds in the world of painting that place which was once Stuart's. If it

following: L. F. McCracken, 243 E. Clay Street, Lancaster. William Douts, 659 W. Orange Street, Lancaster. William T. Hubert, formerly Lancaster, lately San Diego, Calif. William F. Sebastian, 315 Washington Street, Marietta. Matthias Raezer, Ephrata,—did not attend the encampment but visited Gettysburg

anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, nothing could be more fitting nor of more local interest than a review of his connections with Lancaster and its citizens. Prefacing this, I wish to present evidence that Abra- ham Lincoln's ancestral family was represented in colonial Lan- caster county. John

selected letters would never have materialized had it not been for the kindness of George Swan of Lititz, Pennsylvania, who brought Beck's Letter Book to the author's attention and granted permis- sion to publish a portion of it. Part I. A Portrait of a Schoolmaster On June 25, 1895, Abraham Reincke Beck

, and I will briefly relate them. The Act of April 2, 1811, P. L. 223, declared that, "Whereas, it appears that there is due to the Common- wealth from the estate of William Henry, deceased, formerly treasurer of Lancaster county, the sum of $12,018.34, being part of the arrears of State tax due from

, Samuel Brown and Abra- ham De Normandie ; for Chester county, Nathaniel Pennock, Nathaniel Grubb and John Hannum ; for Lancaster county, Calvin Cooper, James Webb and Samuel LeFevre. The act required them within twenty days after its passage to order and ap- point the Acadians as to them appeared most

ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE UNVEILING OF A BRONZE TABLET TO JOHN WRIGHT, PIONEER FERRYMAN By PROF. HERBERT H. BECK MADAME PRESIDENT, MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: I consider it a distinct privilege to represent the older of the two coun- ties, Lancaster and York, at this well