early life was spent in Lancaster. His father was proprietor of "The Fountain Inn." Aaron was born in the year 1827, and, after his remaining canvases, one landscape learned of his early life—he kept an inn of his own, called "The Cross Keys." His wife's name was Sarah Demuth. These few facts and three

of Philadelphia crosses the same," praying that a law, entitled "An Act establishing a ferry and building a bridge across Conestogoe Creek, in the county of Lancaster" might be passed. Abraham Witmer at that time must have resided on the east side of the Conestogoe. As shown by the records, he owned

- more, ss.: Be it remembered that on this eight- eenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, personally appear- ed before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the City aforesaid, Edward Gorsuch, party to the above manumission or

the United States in the Eastern District of Penn- sylvania, at Philadelphia. After serv- ing on several juries a fugitive slave case name up that was first tried in Cumberland county several times and was finally heard by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. It decided the State Courts had no

- holtz, who died a year or two ago. It bears the date 1820. The subject is Henry Eichholtz, who was a brother of the artist, He moved from Lan- caster to Downingtown, and there kept the hotel which is adjacent to the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was the father of Leonard Eichholtz, who went to Colorado in

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

Bank of Pennsylvania, at Reading, Pa. He was in Philadelphia in March, 1826,a guest at Justice Tilghman Wis- tar's party. Nagler does not mention Gennearino Persico, the miniature painter, and I have hunted for him in vain in other books; but he was evidently in Philadelphia in 1822-1826, teaching and