Abraham Lincoln and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversaries By C. H. MARTIN Ere long the curtain will fall. All participating in the titanic struggle between the States, which may now be referred to as a great drama, will have passed. The Federal Government last July graciously invited all remaining of the

Party. A few days before Buchanan conducted Lincoln to the White House, a committee under the chairmanship of Mr. Worth left Lancaster to go to Wash- ington for the purpose of accompanying Buchanan upon his journey to Lan- caster. This group of gentlemen reached Washington and were presented to Buchanan

Province. Some of his relatives settled in Chester county and became Friends. When John Smith brought his family to America, three sons, —George, James (the subject of this sketch), Arthur, and several daughters of whom little is now known,— were with him. He came to Lancaster county and settled west of

, Philadelphia, Pa. RATIFIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY Five men who ratified the Constitution of the United States, and one who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, who are buried in Lancaster, were honored at a memorial service held Sunday afternoon, December 12, 1937, in the churchyard of St. James's

Congress of the United States. While making certain researches, I came across the names of several men, born in Lancaster county, who had represented other congressional dis- tricts in the United States ; and knowing the interest our Society takes in the success of Lancaster's sons, whether here at home

United States, whose remains repose under a modest monu- ment in the Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa. �Headed by Mayor James H. Ross and a group of representative citizens, the party left the center of the city at 9 A. M., and were met at the Buchanan tomb by a large group of interested spectators

county where its maker became famous, the author takes this means of qualifying to write on his subject, and also of adding a few facts of historical interest. The writer was born in the Beck Family School at Lititz, which was conducted by his father, Abraham R. Beck (1833-1928) from 1865 until 1895. The

: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, the makers of Lancaster County, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history of their descendants; to go beyond this would make the length of the paper far beyond the limits allowed by our rules. It may be a

. Pub., Vol. 36, p. 164. As ensign, Ellis and Evans, p. 78. Pa. Arch., 6th Series, Vol. 8, p. 1341. Buried in Trinity Lutheran Churchyard, Lancaster, Pa. EVANS, Arthur: buried March 30, 1815. Volunteer from Little Britain. Buried with honors of war. L. C. H. S. Pub., Vol. 5, p. 84. Buried in St. James's

of Lancaster has increased and still daily increases in extent and population, and ought to be able to provide for the order, safety and happiness of its citizens. But the administration of government therein, under its present charter, is inadequate to the advancement of public health and order, to