Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, Friday, September 5, 1913, Vol. 17: Sketch of the Life of Ludwig Reingruber, 1836-1885; Minutes of the September Meeting In 1868 our artist, aged thirty-two years, came to America, and we learn of him first in Erie, where he executed interior decorative work, frescoing the Opera House, public halls and churches. And now we chronicle the happy circumstance which accounts for his coming to Lancaster. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.