Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.102, no.4
Notes
Reprinted with permission from Lancaster Newspapers Inc., January 1, 2001.
Contents
Kendig Charles Bare (1913-1989)--D. Luke Biemesderfer (1894-1989)--Bertha Brossman Eby Blair (1892-1985)--Adolph Christian Darmstaetter (1887-1978)--Guy Graybill Diehm (1880-1970)--Milton Thomas Garvin (1860-1946)--William W. Griest (1858-1929)--Nathaniel E. Hager (1900-1982)--Byron K. Horne (1901-1992)--Ruth Grigg Horting (1900-1988)--Nancy Keiper Long (1884-1943)--John Piersol McCaskey(1837-1935)--Paul Albert Mueller, Sr. (1898-1956)--Frank Custer Musser (1873-1933)--Caroline Steinman Nunan (1925-)--Henning Webb Prentis, Jr. (1884-1959)--Earl Franklin Rebman (1895-1984)--Isidore Rosenthal (1872-1954)--William Shand (1889-1982)--S. June Smith--Keith Spalding (1822-)--James Hale Steinman (1886-1962)--Daniel Bursk Strickler (1897-1992)--Clifford G. Twombly (1869-1942)--Henry Stackpole Williamson (1853-1917).
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16, no. 7
Notes
Arthur Armstrongs family included Revolutionary War Brigadier General John Armstrong, Sr. (1717-1795), Revolutionary War physician, Dr. James Armstrong (1748-1828), and John Armstrong, Jr. (1758-1843), President James Madisons Secretary of War (1813-1814). Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, is named for the John Armstrong, Sr. Into this prestigious family, Arthur Armstrong was born in 1798 in Pennsylvania. His leanings were artistic and in 1820, when he was 22, he opened a studio in Marietta, Pennsylvania. On September 25, 1827. He married Harriet Groff Wentz (1808-1896). He taught younger artists, including John Henry Brown (1818-1891) and worked in the Ohio River Valley in 1839 and 1840. By the time of the death of the regions more established older artist, Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842) Armstrong resided in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1849 his studio was in the Mechanics Institute in Lancaster. In times of economic downturn, Armstrong painted signs and constructed and gilded picture frames. But when the economy was good, he painted portraits, landscapes and historical scenes. On the second floor of his Lancaster studio he exhibited Hamlet and Ophelia and a large picture of the Assassination of Caesar. This 1845 portrait of George Gordon, Lord Byron, from a print of a British portrait by Richard Westall, would have been among the artworks on display. Armstrong died at the age of 53 on June 15, 1851. He was remembered as a genial, kindly-hearted man. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.The Lancaster Historical Society owns the preponderance of his works. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, owns a particularly lovely double portrait Two Sisters with Puppy and Flowers, 1842.
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 3, no. 8/9
Summary
The author disputes the account (found in Daniel Rupp's "History of Lancaster County") that Anthony Wayne wintered his troops in Mount Joy, Lancaster County, while Washington and other troops wintered at Valley Forge.
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 6, no. 6 & 7
Summary
This article addresses the practice, during the Amercan Revolution, of Britain contracting with several German principalities to use their troops in America. These troops were the "Hessians." Britain used 30,000 Hessian troops, and about 17,000 of them came from Hesse-Cassel .The author quotes a letter from the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel to one of his ministers in which he is concerned about the payments he should receive from the British for his wounded or killed soldiers. He believes there was a miscalculation.