to Lancaster from the convention, a number of Lancastri- ans, Thaddeus Stevens not among them, stopped at Springfield and at St. Louis. The party consisted of General B. A. Shaeffer, General George M. Steinman, H. E. Leman, Colonel 0. J. Dickey, W. C. Evans, C. D. Mehaffey, J. W. Fisher, Dr. Rohrer

leading member of Trinity Lutheran Church as well as a physician. He died in 1780. On December 1, 1781, Charles Marshall of the Philadelphia drug firm in writing to his father at Lancaster said: "Please to inform Widow Kuhn that I have her things packed up for several days & I expected that Bousman would

in the growing town of Lancaster, where the Metho- dist Church was not then established. In fact, as will be evident, it was the last of the Protestant denominations with European back- grounds to have a congregation in Lancaster. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1789—I called on Mr. Hendel,5 a Dutch Presbyterian

Collections of Eichholtz Paintings George L. Heiges To those Lancastrians who minimize the status of Jacob Eichholtz as an outstanding American portraitist, it may come as a surprise to be told that in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington there are eleven portraits by Jacob

lament over Lancaster as over Jerusalem." Rev. J. C. Stoever continued as pastor of Trinity until 1738 and after that year continued to ride from his Sunnyside home to Lancaster until 1744 to give limited service to the congregation. Stoever's own records are evidence that dur- ing the years 1730 — 1738

. Ezra Reed as pastor. The congregation begun at that time is now known as Christ Lutheran Church and worships in an impressive edifice erected in 1895. The year 1867 signaled the 350th anniversary of the Protestant Reforma- tion. In Trinity Church the observance was marked by a special series of sermons

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