. Nothing was ever heard of him after this. There is a vague rumor among the people who still remember Aaron Eshleman that he was drowned in the Mississip- pi river. A rather exciting life, when one thinks of it, if only he had allow- ed some of this excitement to get into his paintings. These few facts and

minutes, to obtain their assistance in the premises." The Gen- eral Assembly evidently refused the petition, and no further action was taken by the county authorities as such. A little later, an attempt appears to have been made to accomplish the object by means of a lottery; but this effort must also

George Hammonds, Nelson Ford, Noah Buley and Joshua Hammonds. I have good reason to believe they are in Chester or Berks county. I shall be obliged if you will send me this requisition as soon as possible. Address me at, therefore, Baltimore Co., Md. I wish you to appoint Dickinson Gorsuch to go for them

AN ASTOR IN LANCASTER COUNTY, Many years since a German family, consisting of a man by the name of Fessler, his wife, and two children, named Jacob and Susan, drifted into Bainbridge, where they located, but no one knew from whence they came. They located in a small stone house, which was standing

AN EARLY CANAL PROJECT The writer's interest in the early waterways and inland navigation of Lancaster county was somewhat quickened recently by reading an un- published letter, written at Harris- burg, August 12, 1824, to Richard B. McCabe, of Huntingdon, by Persifor Frazer, of the notable family

Stiegel's stoves / by Samuel Miller Sener. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Stiegel, Henry William, 1729-1785. Stoves, Wood--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1915 Description: 153-155 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

difficult to find even a single great work in any one of the thousands of homes in this city and county which have the char- acteristics of culture, taste and refine- ment. This is somewhat due to the fact that wealth has never centered here; and no pre-eminent artist has ever sprung from or been nurtured

city is left to conjecture. How long he remained in the river town and when he came to Lancaster is unknown. The first contemporary notice we have of Mr. Armstrong dates back to December, 1849, which reads as fol- lows: "We were very much gratified with a recent visit we paid to the gal- lery of Mr

application could construct from them a map of our county, in 1729, showing where all the inhabitants owning land lived at that time. The correspondence as to the early taking up of land, finding of min- erals, conflicts of claims, the move- ment and activities of the Indians, etc., is also preserved in the

Benjamin West Henry, A Lan- caster Artist, The ancestors of Benjamin West Henry were Robert and Mary A. Henry, his wife, who emigrated from Scotland to Pennsylvania in 1722, and settled in Chester County. They were accompanied by their three sons, John, Robert and James. John, the eldest son