, December 23, 1784, succeeding Samuel John Atlee on the Board of Pardons, October 3, 1785, and August 6, 1787; a Councillor December 22, 1784, and commissioned Associate Judge, August 7, 1791. John White- hill took his seat as a member of the House of Representatives of the Con- gress of the United States

question. That, however, as re- search went on, ceased to be a dom- inating factor in the case; and by degrees the truth became evident, that while as an artist John Landis may not have been prominent among the painters who have at times dwelt within our county limits, his life may have afforded more of

Early Lancaster Artists JOHN JAY LIBHART Merchant, Druggist, Judge and Artist. The ancestors of John Jay Libhart emigrated to America about the year 1728, and settled in York county, then on the frontier of Pennsylvania civili- zation, in or near the village of Hel- lam. His father, Henry Liebhart

Pennsylvania Militia. In 1824, when General Lafayette visited the United States, he was chairman of the committee ap- pointed by the people of the town and county of Lancaster to do him honor, and had the compli- ment of introducing this distinguished Frenchman who had so nobly helped to gain our liberty. The

Isaac L. Williams, Artist and Portrait Painter, As the subject *of my sketch is not found mentioned in any of the ency- clopedias or journals at present ex- tant, it was necessary to collect the data here gathered from relatives and personal friends of him and from the works he left as testimonials

Plains." (Patent book 16, page 233). This included land to the west and south of his first holdings, now or later occupied by L. R. Patter- son, Cromwell Blackwell estate and others. He likewise later acquired the John Barkley tract, or a portion of it, in which the Union village is lo- cated, and

traditions of our old county's social life and surroundings. These old clocks, first bought and used by the forefathers of many of us, have stood for a century or more in hundreds of our homes, faithfully and tirelessly marking the flight of time, in annual succession, for four genera- tions of our sires

SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LUDWIG REINGRUBER, 1836-1886 Ludwig Reingruber, the Bavarian artist, who was a citizen of Lancas- ter, Pennsylvania, from 1870 to 1883, was the son of Maximilian and Fran- ces Reingruber. He was born August 11, 1836, at Ratisbon on the Danube. Ratisbon, from the eleventh to

and annul all laws of religion and virtue, I am not very pious to be sure, but I don't think I am one of those. But if it is meant by an Abolitionist that I am one who is opposed to the institution of slavery everywhere, wherever it exists, all over the face of this earth, whether in the United States

township for John Wilmer; but no one resided on it even as late as 171.5. �An Addition to the Skippack Settle- ment. 1. We are aim, aware a company of Swiss or German-Swiss settlers came to Pennsylvania in 1709. But they were an addition to the Skip- pack settlement, and did not come to Pequea. June 26

, according- ly,find his name on the official records of the State. Among the list of passengers on board the good ship "Ann," Capt. John Spurrier, master, which arrived in port at Philadelphia on September 28, 1849, from Rotterdam, Holland, we find the names of Henry Mock and Peter Elser, and,of course, his