12.30 Christiana 2.32 The speed of the train can be judged by the fact that it took 2 hours and 36 minutes to run the approximate forty miles across Lancaster County, in- cluding a 5-minute stop at the old depot at North Queen and Chestnut Streets. The funeral train was preceded by 10 minutes by a

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S CONNECTIONS WITH LANCASTER AND ITS CITIZENS AN ADDRESS, DELIVERED AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HELD ON FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9TH, 1934, TO COMMEMORATE THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF LINCOLN'S BIRTH BY C. H. MARTIN O N the recognition of the 125th

Col. Timothy Matlack A Revolutionary Patriot In Lancaster By (MRS. D. B.) BERTHA COCHRAN LANDIS Col. Timothy Matlack, although a resident of Philadelphia, lived for a time in Lancaster. It was during the most trying period in the history of our country, and the activities of this remarkable man

that one of the Pennsylvania signers, James Smith, had read law in Lancaster and was here admitted to the bar. This encouraged a search for information concerning Mr. Smith's connection with Lancaster, and I take pleasure in present- ing this brief paper to our Lancaster County Historical Society on

Early Fire Companies Of Lancaster City And County by (MRS. D. B.) BERTHA COCHRAN LANDIS Old records of Lancaster borough reveal the existence of fire fighting implements as early as 1742 and 1744. There were lad- ders, hooks, bags and buckets, but little is known of where they were kept, probably

circulated paper. "Amos Gilbert, Alexander H. Hood, Benjamin Herr and Henry Spiehlman, met one evening in the early part of the winter 1830-31, at the store of George Hoffman, Esq., in Strasburg, Lancaster county. The conversation turning upon the qualifications of teachers, the mode in which the children of

PROPOSALS TO ERECT CONESTOGA AND OTHER COUNTIES FROM LANCASTER By C. H. MARTIN W ITH the erection of Lebanon county, in 1813, the last modifi- cation of the boundaries of Lancaster county was made. Starting shortly thereafter, and extending over a period of twenty years, numerous attempts were made