. 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

property by the executor. Signed John Eberman, Executor." The total amount of the sale of the Heinitsch personal property and merchandise amounted to £1292 6½ pence. Paging through the ledger of the sale gives us a very good idea who attended the various sessions. Public sales in Lancaster County have

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

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

arrival the father moved to Virginia while the junior Stoever remained in Pennsylvania and lived successively at Trappe in Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Earltown (New Holland), finally at Sunnyside (now in Lebanon County). John Caspar Stoever, Jr. wrote an autobiography in which he stated that he

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity Lancaster, Pennsylvania Part Two —1762- 1980 By Dr. George L. Heiges THE CIVIL WAR YEARS 1862 —1867 Rev. Frederick W. Conrad, D. D. Rev. Samuel Laird. D. D. A successor to Doctor Krotel was selected in the person of Rev. Frederick William Conrad

of the county, born in Manor Township in 1815. At the time of the Boehm visit, Smith was an honored member of the Lancaster Bar, and had already served terms in the House and the Senate of the Pennsylvania Legislature. In 1873 he reentered politics and from that year until 1885 he repre- sented

Cape Hinlopen to the Falls of the Delaware and thence westward to the Great Falls in the Susquehanna, near the mouth of the Conewago Creek." 1 The Lancaster County Historical Society held a meeting on April 1 with a program commemorating the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Found- ing of Pennsylvania