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

-grandfather advisory and explanatory of the newly-adopted basic law — the Constitution of the United States. Be it said to the credit of all who settled in early Lancaster County re- gardless of the much varied national origin, whether English, Swiss, German, French, Scotch-Irish, Welsh, or others, put their

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

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

received his second papers and for a time was busily engaged in getting his fellow-countrymen to become citizens. He in company with Congressman Kelly, a man known and dubbed as "Pig Iron Kelly" from the Philadelphia Congressional District, stumped together in Penn- sylvania and Ohio in the second Lincoln

Manheim Township and Its Part in the Indian History of the County This society has often been favored by papers on the way in which vari- ous sections of what is now Lancaster county figured in the history of the dusky-skinned inhabitants who knew this section to be their home and hap- py hunting

new county. "Resolved, That from the number and frequency of our courts, justice is administrated with as little delay as could be expected under the new county; that for most of the citizens of the said included parts of Lancaster county, the distance to courts and records of the new county would be

the spirit and alacrity with which they prepare to engage in a service so honorable and so interesting o every Freeman. (Do Oct. 2, 1794.) On Sept. 26, 1794 Gov. Mifflin ddressed the Militia and citizens of Lancaster County at Lancaster, in �a masterful manner, on the Revenue Act imposing a tax on

him very busy. He edited and compiled an al- gebra, which was used as a textbook in a number of normal schooIs. In coI- laboration with Prof. Anderson, also a Lancaster County man, he wrote a textbook on arithmetic known as Sensenig and Anderson's Arithmetic. Mr. Sensenig was a tall, slim man, wore a

Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The

United States. By order G. Washington, H. Knox, Sec. President. A manuscript, on file with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania of great interest to Lancaster is a membership roster, dated Lancaster August 1, 1783, captioned, 3rd Penna. Regiment, Members of the Cincinnati Society. The manuscript bears

production was 770 barrels.5 The 1962 Brewers' Almanac states only 129 breweries were operating in the United States in 1810, and they produced 182,690 barrels of beer and ale valued at $955,791.00. Nine breweries of Lancaster Borough and County con­ stituted seven per cent of the national total. Valentine