early life was spent in Lancaster. His father was proprietor of "The Fountain Inn." Aaron was born in the year 1827, and, after his remaining canvases, one landscape learned of his early life—he kept an inn of his own, called "The Cross Keys." His wife's name was Sarah Demuth. These few facts and three

leading to Philadelphia across Conestoga Creek, having now made report in the words and figures following, viz.: 'To the Worshipful Justices of the General Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held at Lancaster for the county of Lancaster on the first Tuesday in August next, we, the subscribers ap

the Spartan commission to return "with his shield or on it." At best he does not cut any very �heroic figure, and in the accounts rendered to the Gorsuch estate his details are, to say the least, most practical and unsentimental. Baltimore Co., January 1st, 1852. Estate of Edward Gorsuch. To NICHOLAS

on the bench we can pass the judgment that the evidence points strongly to the assumption that Lancaster had a theatre in colonial times. With these documents we have already entered the second chapter in the development of the American theatre—or let us call it an interlude, a military interlude. An

third is that of Henry Robert Reed, his fath- er, dated 1816. Mr. Ford's portrait was painted in 1812, and is, therefore, one of the earliest of the artist's works. A very considerable cluster of Eich- holtz portraits and the relations of a notable Lancaster family have been traced to and through Mr