. Nothing was ever heard of him after this. There is a vague rumor among the people who still remember Aaron Eshleman that he was drowned in the Mississip- pi river. A rather exciting life, when one thinks of it, if only he had allow- ed some of this excitement to get into his paintings. These few facts and

now between the Lancaster-Berks county line �and the Schuylkill river, in Berks county. The third son, Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of the President, was born July 16, 1739. In 1767 or 1768, John Lincoln moved to the Shenandoah Valley settling near the present site of Harrisonburg, Va. Thence- forward

in 1719. He was an Indlan trader, and had sons, John, Thomas, William and Peter, all of whom were also Indian traders. He gave the farm at the river to his son William. In the summer of 1726, the Rev. James Anderson received a call from old Donegal Church, which he accepted, and located in the

city is left to conjecture. How long he remained in the river town and when he came to Lancaster is unknown. The first contemporary notice we have of Mr. Armstrong dates back to December, 1849, which reads as fol- lows: "We were very much gratified with a recent visit we paid to the gal- lery of Mr