GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

. Especially was this true of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg who brought with him to America a book of formulae of medi- cines which had proved to be efficacious; and the many entries in his journals concerning the ills of those to whom he ministered indicate that he really knew a great deal about the human body

-German stock and a powerful Methodist preacher with such amazing physical stamina that he was able to expound the Word on the hundredth anniver- sary of his birth. The other was Francis Asbury, better and more properly known as Bishop Asbury of the Methodist Church. He was once a blacksmith in England

We also have portraits of Mrs. Robert Coleman and Robert Coleman, which have been attributed to Rembrandt Peale, but we now think they are by Eichholtz. With the hope that this information may prove helpful, Sincerely yours, Mary Elizabeth C. Burnet (Mrs. Thornton W. Burnet) Museum Curator �PORTRAITS

Lancaster, Anna Catharine Bart, daughter of George Bart with George Klein and wife as sponsors. All told, in that same year he baptized fourteen persons in Lancaster. Certainly we must think of Stoever as having had a very important part in the beginning of Trinity Church. From the earliest evidence of a

, first elass education, de- voted piety, affable manner, active zeal, a sound Lutheran and a good speaker . . . I therefore propose that the Vestry elect Rev. Charles L. Fry as Assistant Pastor of Trinity Church- In order to equalize our expenditures with our revenues, I last spring relinquished $300 of

by the Reverend Henry Ernest Muh- lenberg, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster, on October 26, 1805.7 Growing up in the village of Manheim, his early education was necessarily limited to the instruction provided by the parochial school of the Manheim Lutheran congregation and by private