in the growing town of Lancaster, where the Metho- dist Church was not then established. In fact, as will be evident, it was the last of the Protestant denominations with European back- grounds to have a congregation in Lancaster. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1789—I called on Mr. Hendel,5 a Dutch Presbyterian

to Lancaster from the convention, a number of Lancastri- ans, Thaddeus Stevens not among them, stopped at Springfield and at St. Louis. The party consisted of General B. A. Shaeffer, General George M. Steinman, H. E. Leman, Colonel 0. J. Dickey, W. C. Evans, C. D. Mehaffey, J. W. Fisher, Dr. Rohrer

Collections of Eichholtz Paintings George L. Heiges To those Lancastrians who minimize the status of Jacob Eichholtz as an outstanding American portraitist, it may come as a surprise to be told that in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington there are eleven portraits by Jacob

by the Reverend Henry Ernest Muh- lenberg, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster, on October 26, 1805.7 Growing up in the village of Manheim, his early education was necessarily limited to the instruction provided by the parochial school of the Manheim Lutheran congregation and by private

and pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster for thirty-five years, and Frederick Augustus, who in the fall of 1770 took up his residence at Tulpehock- en as co-pastor with Rev. John Frederick Kurtz, and charged partic- ularly with the pastorate of four small country congregations: Hei- delberg