twenty 01 them we preached in German. We held union or what were called "friendly meetings" where the Methodists and the United Brethren in Christ met in harmony and the ministers took turns in preaching. We held one of these meetings in Columbia in August (1803). Multitudes were present. James Thomas

of Ohio, who had been a member of the United States Supreme Court since 1839, although seventy- five years of age in 1860, still had a very definite ambition to reach the White House and in fact was the choice of Thaddeus Stevens, a delegate at large from Pennsylvania to the convention. Enroute to

American industry began its forward march, this area of Pennsylvania might easily have become the glassmaking center of the United States. Even so, the name of Stiegel will ever be an honored one whenever and wherever the story of glass manufacture is recited; and it is a magnificent trib- ute to 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