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

, leader of the Insurrection, was granted a pardon by the President of the United States in 1799 through the interposition of Andrew Ellicott, Esq., commissioner for ascertaining the boundary line between the Spanish Terri- tory and the United States. This was the Andrew Ellicott who resided in Lancaster

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