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

as it touched Lancaster County. The area at that time was served with four local dailies and it may be of interest to look at the political complexions of these newssheets. The oldest was the Intelligencer which had its beginning in 1799. During the years that James Buchanan was aspiring to the

community affairs, as might be expected from one of his position. He became a bank director when the Bank of Pennsylvania established its branch in Lancas- ter.36 He was a member of the Select Council of Lancaster when the town was first incorporated. He was one of the trustees of Franklin Col- lege. He was

fashioned a piece of glassware. We do confidently believe that sometime in the years before he came to Pennsylvania, he learned the rudiments of the art of glassblow- ing, an industry which had its beginning a thousand and more years before the time of Christ, and which even to this present time uses the

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