quote later on. The original part of the building was the centre part of the present building with a shed roof attached to the west end in which was the store of Robert Wallace. When his family increased, more room was needed. This part was raised two and one-half stories and a shed roof was attached to

as well as of Daniel Erb and Jacob Erb, to whom it was deeded and who signed the deeds of all the parties who bought the whole tract as farms. May I add here, that the cut of the four horse Conestoga wagon is a photo of the wagon also in the Museum part of the Waterloo County His- torical Society

tract of land, granted by Penn to his father, southeast of Churchtown, between the Conestoga and the Welsh Mountain. This tract Note: See Illustrations opposite page 90. �has been in the Shirk name to the present day and now contains three farms. Here the boy, Joseph, was born on January 30th, 1820, in

his environments were such that he cared but little to converse with any but those who thought along the same line as he did. Current events and the World's history of the past were ever uppermost in his mind. Israel Smith Clare had a unique somewhat eccentric one-track mind. His reading and

Rev. Adam Boyd preached his first sermon on a summer day in 1724. Within the shadow of its branches the first log church was erected the same year. Beneath the aisle in front of the pulpit the remains of Rev. Adam Boyd were buried and are now protected by the shade of the Oak that sheltered him from

of Jefferson College, a lawyer by profession, and noted for his eloquence. From 1857 to 1863 he was in Congress and a bitter opponent of the government, denouncing the policy of coercion. When his term expired as a member of the House he returned to Ohio and made violent attacks upon the

county, and died at the residence of his son-in-law, George Wallace, Esq., at Bradford, Pa., April 19, 1822. He was a brave soldier and an honest man of high character. The third paper was a history of the duel between Captain Stephen Chambers and Dr. Jacob Rieger, both Revolutionary soldiers They had a

his fellow students. When he was but fifteen years of age he took charge of a country school. In 1845, at the age of twenty, he came to Marietta as principal of the Marietta Academy. It was his intention to read law, but his success as a teacher, and the advice of his family to remain a teacher, made