inimitable, both in style and aesthetic criticism, Walter Pater! �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Demuth, C. B. Title: Aaron Eshleman / by C. B. Demuth. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Eshleman, Aaron, 1827- Artists--Pennsylvania

desirable patronage was not forthcoming. That he did this lower class of work well may be taken for granted, but we have also strong testimony to the tact. In an appreciative, but all too meagre, biographical sketch of him in Harris' Biographical History of Lan- caster County we find the following, which is

the nearby hamlet of Spring- field, Pa., where he was wont to ex- hibit his undeveloped talent in deco- rating the fences and barndoors of the neighborhood with drawings, and by an occasional rude painting for a tavern signboard. "As the first to recognize in these maiden efforts genius of a high

with hemorrhages, and, after his re- turn to America, lived but a year. dying apparently a young man in his twenty-sixth year, October 11, 1840. He is awaiting the glorious resurrec- tion morning with his father and mother in "Christ Episcopal Church- yard," Leacock township. �file:///Volumes/LCHS

painted portraits at Lebanon and at home about this time, besides doing much work in drawing and painting natural history sujects for illustrating scientific works of the late Prof. S. S. Haldeman, who was his contemporary and lifelong friend. His talents were not confined to painting; he exhibited a

of him- self and his life, and in my butterfly- bee-like flitting hither and thither for knowledge and information of my story I am indebted to a number of good people of our city, as well as some few of other cities, and to one who has adjourned to that distant city from which no traveler has yet re

. Marianna G. Brubaker. Doubtless still other pictures from the brush of Mr. Warfel could be found in the rural neighborhood where the greater part of his life was passed. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833