consideration was given to combining the two com- panies into a new company to be chartered as The Consolidated Gas and Electric Company of Lancaster, Pa. This plan fell through, and in 1895 the gas company bought the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Lancaster, Pa., as well as the patent rights of the

year 1819. Esther Cox Clarkson was the daughter of Rev. Joseph Clarkson, who for many years was the rector of St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Lancaster, Pa. Other Eichholtz portraits now in Reading, Pa., are owned by Miss Marion Douglas Weidman. They consist of a portrait of Mrs. George May