much persecution experienced for God's Sake, She did not long in this Society Dwell, her age was 40 years.

1786.

Sister Eufrosina (S 30).-On the 16 Apriel in the Lord fell asleep, her age 77 years 5 mo: She was from the Anweller Awakening.

[Catherina Gartner or Gitter, who came to Ephrata about 1740 from Amwell in New Jersey.]

Sister Seforam (S 31).-On the 29 August in the Lord fell asleep, her age 74 year, She was also a Beislein from the Gemsheimer Awakening.

Sister Jael (S 32).-On the 14 January in the Lord fell asleep her age 74 year 6 mo. She was the aged Bro: Johann Mayers Daughter, and one of the first Sisters, who in Ephra dwelled together, and has by 51 year lived here, and was with a great funeral followed to the Grave.

[Barbara Mayer, one of the four original Sisters of Kedar. Her family were among the first to follow the leadership of Beissel. Her father was baptized in the Pequea November 12, 1724, and it was on his motion that Beissel was made teacher of the congregation. Sister Jael was one of the rulers of the Sisterhood, and was generally beloved for her amiable disposition. She was also one of the most active nurses in Zion during the Revolution.]

1795.

S: Hanna (S 33).-Fell asleep in the Lord, the 31st of October, her age 79 years 10 mo: who came to Ephrata in the year 1739, though an only child, she left her fathers house, and became a faithfull fellow warrior in the economy of Jesu Christi, her life was edifying, until her end. She was by birth a And in Germany had already been among the Awakened persons.

[Said to be Veronica Funk, who contributed several hymns to the Ephrata collection.]

1796.

S: Eugenia (S 34).—In the Lord fell asleep the 23 Aper age was 81 years-1 mo. 3 days.

[Catherine Hagemann, one of the first to enter the Sisterhood, and succeeded Sister Marcella (wife of Chr. Sauer) as Sub-Prioress. When Mother Maria was deposed, Eugenia succeeded her to the office.]

1797.

Sister Katura (S 35).—In the Lord fell asleep the 10 October her age 79 year 8 month.

[Elizabeth Eckstein, who came to Ephrata in 1743. She contributed a number of hymns to the Ephrata collection.]

1798.

Sister Zenobia (S 36).-Died the 14 March, 1798 her age 72 year 9 mo.

[Susanna Stattler, who is described as having been a beautiful, lovely, and devout girl.]

1799.

Sister Pauolina (8 37).-Died the 5 february 1799 was Old 77 year 5 month.

[A sister to Johannes Müller, and is mainly remembered by the huge hamper she wove in her room, which proved too large for the cell-door, and remains there a monument to her industry (and miscalculation) to the present time.]

1803.

Sister Efigenia (S 38).—In the Lord fell asleep the 29 March her age 86 year 2 mo. 6 day.

[Said to be Anna Lichty. She was a member of the First Class, and had charge of the "Schreibstube" of the Kloster. She was noted for her fine penmanship. It is stated that most of the "Fractur Schrift" in the Saal are specimens of her work. The volume of sample alphabets still preserved in Ephrata was her work, assisted by Sister Athanasia.]

Sister Athanasia (II) (S 39).—Died the 24 November. [Anna Thomen, first known as Sister Tabea.]

Sister Blandina (S 40).—Died the 23 April, 1799 was old 62 year 5 month.

Sister Sara (S 41).--Died the 6. January 1808, was old 78 year 6 weeks.

Sister Sofya (S 42).-Died the 14th of July, was old 82 year 5 months and 6 days.

Sister Meloniga (S 43).-Died the 19th September 1813 her age 87 years and 6 month.

[A Sister noted for her fine penmanship and manuscript notes and music.]

Sister Lucia (S 44).-Died in the year 18-.

[A Sister of the Fifth Class, and the last of the Sisterhood of Saron.]

MEMOIR OF ISRAEL DANIEL RUPP, THE HISTORIAN.

[Read before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, January 13, 1879.]

BY PROFESSOR OSWALD SEIDENSTICKER.

The local history of Pennsylvania has a literature which may be viewed with just satisfaction, if not with pride. Of countries, towns, churches, institutions, and families, not a few have found able spokesmen, and the historian of the State may build upon these local records as upon a firm and broad foundation. Of all this wealth of information very little indeed was to be found forty or fifty years ago. If we ask who was one of the pioneers in the arduous task of gathering materials widely scattered, of blending a thousand facts into an instructive story, of training the people to a proper appreciation of their local history, I believe that honor will hardly be disputed to belong to our lately deceased member Mr. Israel Daniel Rupp. It is, therefore, eminently fit that the Historical Society of Pennsylvania should pay its tribute of respect and gratitude to a man who has done so much towards furthering the very objects for which this Society was instituted.

As far as his standing as an historian is concerned, Mr. Rupp has carved out his own career. There was nothing in the surroundings of his birth and early training that augured the distinction which he has attained. It was his father's pride to bring up his sons as thrifty farmers and good citizens. There was no library like this to develop his taste in the direction of historical inquiry, no institute of learning to initiate him in the ways of an author, not even a prominent scholar to serve him as a model. He was, in the best sense, a self-educated man, and whatever opportunities he had were of his own making.

Israel Daniel Rupp was born July 10, 1803, in East Pennsboro' (now Hampden) Township, Cumberland County, Penn

sylvania. From his carefully-written memorials we learn that his grandfather, Jonas Rupp, a native of Reihen, near Sinsheim, in Baden, emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1751. He at once applied himself to farming; married, in 1755, Anna Maria Elizabeth Borst, and bought, in 1772, a farm on the Providence tract, in Cumberland County, the same place where Daniel Rupp was born. Jonas Rupp had nine children,-five sons and four daughters. George, the father of the subject of this memoir, was born in 1772, and married, in 1800, Christina Boeshor, with whom he had fourteen children.

In the fall of 1807, Daniel, then only four years old, was sent to the log school-house at Friedenskirch. Seventy years of a busy life did not obliterate the affectionate remembrance in which he held that little school, his venerable teacher, Peter Blaeser, and his fellow-pupils, whose names he was able to record in his last book, the "Family Register," published in 1875. In the family and school German only was spoken, and to Daniel the English was a foreign tongue. No wonder he did not relish the instruction of his next teacher, a Mr. Kelso, who knew only English, and tried to come to a mutual understanding with his bewildered scholars by the frequent application of the rod.

Whatever were the shortcomings of these scanty and frequently-interrupted school terms, Daniel had one teacher whose language needs no interpreter, whose voice, sweet and instructive, appeals directly to the senses and the heart. Nature, in her varied forms, the starry heavens and the teeming earth, spoke to him with an eloquence full of meaning and fascinating power.

That much of his boyhood was spent in active life upon the farm, and that he found his pastime in sports such as a wooded country affords, he never had reason to regret. He owed to this apprenticeship a healthy frame, industrious habits, self-reliance, and the art of being content with little.

While thus employed his eager mind imbibed all instruction that floated in his way. As he grew up he became an attentive reader, works on history, political economy, and