activity and art culture could be more profitably exercised at some early period than a practical study of the evolution of portraiture in Lancaster, accompanied by a pop- ular collection and exhibition of the numberless miniatures and portraits which adorn the households of this city and county, and whose

on April 14, 1741. He was Chief Burgess of Lancaster bor- ough in 1742, 1743 and 1745, and again in 1748 and 1749. In 1744 he was Prothonotary and Register of the county. For a long time he was one of the proprietary surveyors. He was also prominent in military af- fairs being colonel of an associate

, and his always warm personal feeling for this section. He referred in strong terms to the admirable manner in which the people of Lancaster county and city have upheld the hands of the Government in every worthy cause, the present war emergencies especially. He declared that Pennsylvania is standing

to fill. Of all his deeds for the benefit and ad- vancement of his beloved county of Lancaster, I may point with special pride to this as one of his last, if not the last; and it gives me supreme de- light that the Lancaster Historical Society has added to these inscriptions on the tablet the name of