. In 1860 he was a Republican leader in Lancaster County and eventually he succeeded Stevens as a member of Congress. He also served in the 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. The stop of the Lancaster group at St. Louis provided an opportun- ity to present a gold headed cane to General Shaeffer

Lancaster, he mistakenly said it was being held at Newtown. In part he wrote to Strahan as follows on July 4, 1744 "A treaty is now holding at Newtown in Lancaster County, a place sixty miles west of this city, between the governments of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania on one side, and the United Five

given of this country by Martin Kendig, one of the seven heads of families who had settled in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He had landed in Philadelphia, from thence went to Germantown, then to Lancaster, and finally settled in Pequea, Conestoga Township,3 Soon afterward he married a Miss

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts provided the following information. "There are thirteen paintings, all portraits, in the Academy collection by Jacob Eichholtz, as listed below: Mrs. Elizabeth Wurtz and Three Children Edward Eichholtz Jacob Eichholtz (now believed not to be a self portrait) Mrs. Walter

written by his hand. Not a great deal is known of this early religious leader as the period of his activity in Pennsylvania was quite brief. Asserting that he had been ordained in Germany, he was accepted as a clergyman in Philadelphia, at Trappe, at Muddy Creek and �at Lancaster. He returned to Germany

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity Lancaster, Pennsylvania Part Two —1762- 1980 By Dr. George L. Heiges THE CIVIL WAR YEARS 1862 —1867 Rev. Frederick W. Conrad, D. D. Rev. Samuel Laird. D. D. A successor to Doctor Krotel was selected in the person of Rev. Frederick William Conrad

of almost fifty years I became more ab- sorbed with those entries—some of them quite commonplace—which told of visits to his home town of Manheim in Lancaster County, Pennsyl- vania. It is of those portions of his diaries that I am writing at this time. Especially am I impelled to give attention to

the church is of utmost importance for if Mr. and Mrs. Stiegel had not deeded to this congregation a lot of ground on which to build a church, the Festival of the Red Rose would never have been instituted. �When the earliest history of Lancaster County was published by Daniel Rupp in 1844, a few short

five thousand, one hundred and sixty miles long." It will be seen from this resume that, even though he wandered far from his native heath in a year, he spent about one-third of the year in his state of Pennsylvania. Time after time he returned to his own county of Lancaster. In 1855, he attended two

Grant to Lancaster was not included in the 1954 list of Presidential Visits to Lancaster so it must not have been known at that time. (L.C.H.S. Vol. 58, p. 84). On June 24, 1876 President Grant made a more extended visit to Lan- caster County when he was the guest of the Cameron family at Donegal