GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

given of this country by Martin Kendig, one of the seven heads of families who had settled in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He had landed in Philadelphia, from thence went to Germantown, then to Lancaster, and finally settled in Pequea, Conestoga Township,3 Soon afterward he married a Miss

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts provided the following information. "There are thirteen paintings, all portraits, in the Academy collection by Jacob Eichholtz, as listed below: Mrs. Elizabeth Wurtz and Three Children Edward Eichholtz Jacob Eichholtz (now believed not to be a self portrait) Mrs. Walter

the church is of utmost importance for if Mr. and Mrs. Stiegel had not deeded to this congregation a lot of ground on which to build a church, the Festival of the Red Rose would never have been instituted. �When the earliest history of Lancaster County was published by Daniel Rupp in 1844, a few short

, daughter of the Reverend Tobias Wagner who was among the early itinerant Lutheran pastors in Pennsyl- vania. 5 Soon after their marriage, the couple settled in Rapho Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. From this union there were five surviv- ing chilldren: John C., Peter, Jerome, Frederick and