. Hill. The successive preachers in the place were Rev. Peter Lehman from 1795to 1823, followed in their order by Rev. Andrew Fahnestock, Jacob M. Mc-Pherrin, John Riddesbarger, John Walsh. The church edifice was erected in 1829; cost $1,500; a stone building. TheInstitution buildings were put up at different times from 1814 to 1843. Themill was built in 1807, and has been in use ever since. Shops and otherbuildings were put up as called for by the demand upon the Institution. Tomstown was settled and founded by John Toms, about 1820
. Hill. The successive preachers in the place were Rev. Peter Lehman from 1795to 1823, followed in their order by Rev. Andrew Fahnestock, Jacob M. Mc-Pherrin, John Riddesbarger, John Walsh. The church edifice was erected in 1829; cost $1,500; a stone building. TheInstitution buildings were put up at different times from 1814 to 1843. Themill was built in 1807, and has been in use ever since. Shops and otherbuildings were put up as called for by the demand upon the Institution. Tomstown was settled and founded by John Toms, about 1820. It is situ-ated about a mile southeast of Quincy at the foot of South Mountain. Ithas a population of 200. Quite a Mormon settlement existed, at one time, inits neighborhood, but most of the saints moved to Utah. Five Forks (formerly Mount Hope) is a small postoffice village on the Cham-bersburg and Waynesboro road, four miles northwest of Waynesboro; has agrist-mill, store, blacksmith shop and a population of about eighty. PART III. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES,. Biographical Sketches, BOROUGH OF CHAMBERSBURG. JAMES ADAMS, engineer, Chanibersburg, was born in Adams County,Penn., October 10, 1810; a son of Ignatius and Mary (Hoffman) Adams. Hewas reared on a farm until eighteen years of age, and received such aneducation as was generally given to farmers sons. He then commenced anapprenticeship at the coopers trade, which he completed at Chambersburg, towhich place he came in the spring of 1829, and remained with his employer,Eobert Stewart, as journeyman for some years; then, in 1835, he engaged inthe same business for himself, and in this he was occupied until 1841 or 1842,when he entered the employ of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, first as strikerin the blacksmith department, and was soon advanced to the position of fire-man on a locomotive. He served as fireman two years, when he was promotedto the responsible position of engineer, (this was the day of strap-rail track,and ope
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