County Historical Society, after a few appropriate remarks, in- troduced the Honorable James H. Ross, Mayor of the City of Lancaster. Mayor Ross especially emphasized the worth of such men as Jacob Eichholtz, who, although compelled to follow a trade in order to make a living, at the same time were able

. In the Lancaster loan exhibition of portraits in 1912 there were over a hundred portraits by Jacob Eichholtz. They included pictures of many of Lancaster County's most prominent families. There were the portrait of Thaddeus Stevens, loaned by Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, the portrait of James

Jacob Eichholtz — Life and Paintings By HELEN W. HENDERSON When, last September, I received from your librarian an in- vitation to address the Lancaster County Historical Society on that distinguished Lancaster painter, Jacob Eichholtz, I am afraid that, the time being far distant, I agreed without