A Henry J. Kauffman Sampler of Antiques Professor Henry J. Kauffman is well-known to most students and antiquarians of Pennsylvania German culture. This busy octogenarian continues to produce books on the arts, crafts, and architecture of southeastern Pennsylvania — especially the Pennsylvania

titled "Seedtime and Harvest" by Dr. F. R. Dif- fenderffer published in 1917. From its very beginning the founders of the Society stressed the importance of having essays published. After the Society was formed in late 1886, Dr. Joseph Henry Dubbs, newly-elected President, was directed to deliver an

StudyofTwo Distinct Periods Perio Ephrata (.,Coiner BY JACK WARD WILLSON LOOSE I. Mills of the Cloister The Ephrata Cloisters owed its founding, if not its raison d'etre to Johann Conrad Beissel, who was born in April, 1690, at Eberbach in the German Palatinate. Beissel's father was an intemperate

mechanical genius in Lancaster County was William Henry. Henry's abilities in gunsmithing and his outstanding contributions to winning the American Revolution have been described well by Samuel Dyke and others of the gunsmithing fraternity. The manufacture of guns obviously presented numerous challenges to

demands. William Henry was the first son of John and Elizabeth Henry, born May 19, 1729, at the old homestead in Chester County. The early death of his father caused him to forego a formal education, but Henry, possessed of a mind being strong in its powers, was evi- dently bent on the acquisition of