of the smaller of the "little masters." His followers, those we are considering, with the probable exception of Eicholtz, were not art- ists, for the word artist, when applied to those who have painted, should call up in our minds the names Monet, Goya, and our own Americans—John Twachtman and George

of Schuylkill, George Nace, of the county of York, and John Ritchey, of the county of Dauphin, were appointed Commis- sioners on the part of the Common- wealth, who in conjunction with such Commissioners, not being of Lancaster county, as should be named by Abraham Witmer, should proceed to estimate

took some wheat to one of my neighbor's mill, the miller sus- pecting something wrong, asked him where he got the wheat from. John- son told him that he had received tt from Gorsuch's boys, that the person who had been in the habit of receiving from them had closed up, and that they brought it to him

, mer-chant and Register of Wills, born tn Lancaster, son of Samuel 'and Mary Hamilton; sitting, facing left. Jane McPhail Humes, wife of John Humes, with babe in arms and her daughter. She was a daughter of John McPhail, merchant, of Philadel- phia, and Ann Mackenzie, his wife; sitting, facing left

AN ASTOR IN LANCASTER COUNTY, Many years since a German family, consisting of a man by the name of Fessler, his wife, and two children, named Jacob and Susan, drifted into Bainbridge, where they located, but no one knew from whence they came. They located in a small stone house, which was standing

whose name he bore, conspicuous aforetime in Delaware and Chester counties, and later in Philadelphia. In one para- graph of local personal interest he said: "George B. Porter, Esq., passed through this place two or three days since on his way to Lancaster. Pre- vious to his arrival here he had been

Lancaster county. It was cast at Elizabeth furnace in 1758. Mr. Sehner had occasion to repair the hearth in an old-fashioned fireplace in one of his houses, No. 106 North Prince, just above Orange (the house is still standing). He was having the hearth relaid with brick, but when the fire was built it was

the walls of Fulton Opera House, and the only market house was the open archways under the Masonic lodge room, where butcher stalls rented for $15 per year. There were no common schools, water works nor gas; no railroads nor telegraph; no telephones nor ele- vators; no automobiles and joy rides —or

Two Distinct Periods of Ephrata Cloister History,” by John W. W. Loose. Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Vol. 55, no. 6, 1951. (photocopy) Folder 3 Historical Account of the Ephrata Cloister and the Seventh Day Baptist Society, by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr. The Aurand Press, Harrisburg