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

. In 1860 he was a Republican leader in Lancaster County and eventually he succeeded Stevens as a member of Congress. He also served in the 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. The stop of the Lancaster group at St. Louis provided an opportun- ity to present a gold headed cane to General Shaeffer

, daughter of the Reverend Tobias Wagner who was among the early itinerant Lutheran pastors in Pennsyl- vania. 5 Soon after their marriage, the couple settled in Rapho Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. From this union there were five surviv- ing chilldren: John C., Peter, Jerome, Frederick and

Jacob Stauffer, artist, botanist and owner of the first printing press in Manheim. the Philadelphia shop of a maker of clavichords (forerunner of the piano) to see an instrument which Stiegel was having made. In 1766 Muhlenberg directed the dedication of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster and on that