James Wright home" on Sunday, September 25, 1938, when the Lancaster County Historical Society unveiled a bronze tablet placed on the wall of this old stone mansion during the Sesquicentennial of Columbia, This tablet was designed and worded by Dr, Herbert H, Beck, president of the Lancaster County

connection with Lancaster either as trustees or patron (Benjamin Franklin) of old Franklin College. These pictures were secured through the United States Constitution Sesqui-Centennial Commission of Washington, D. C. THOMAS MIFFLIN. Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, courtesy Inde- pendence Hall Museum

Ode to the United States on its Bicentennial and to the Rededication of its People to the Principles of the Declaration of Independence by Rabbi Samson A. Shain Rabbi Samson Aaron Shain was a good friend of the Lancaster County Historical Society, and was a dear personal friend of the editor. His

Committee D. F. Magee Presiding Officer James G. McSparran Music Little Britain Orchestra Presentation of Memorial tablet on behalf of Lancaster County Historical Society Rev. George I. Browne �Unveiling of Tablet Mrs. Alice Crary Sutcliffe Great-granddaughter and Biographer of Robert Fulton Acceptance W. U

Count Zinzendorf's native country, and as guests of the Historical Society, Dr. Hans Luther, the German ambassador to the United States, directed the two German envoys, Dr. J. von Rantzau, vice consul in New York city, and Arno Mowitz, consul in Philadelphia, to attend the exercises. The Society was

at Franklin & Marshall College and member of the Executive Committee of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Pro- fessor Barnes, in turn presented as the speaker of the day, Dr. Cornelius Weygandt, Professor of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and an authority on the history

uot exceed my time time- limit—hoping that my example may not be lost on those that come after me. As a member of the Lancaster County Historical Society, and as the Chairman of the Committee in charge of this memorable bi-centennial cele- bration of the first settlement made in our county, it becomes

Buchanan, later President of the United States, was elected President of the Board of Trustees. It had been agreed that Franklin and Marshall College would be located in Lancaster. It was to open there for the spring session of 1853. This decision sadly terminated the relationship between the college of