1892: Stained-Glass Windows by Frank Molic
At First Reformed UCC Church, Lancaster, PA:

 The Windows were Installed
During the 1892 Church Remodelling:

 Frank Molic in the 1910 U. S. Census:

  The oldest surviving stained glass windows in First Reformed Church were installed during a renovation of 1891- 92. The windows were made by Frank Molic, of Brooklyn, NY. The church sanctuary had earlier stained-glass windows that predated these Molic windows, but they do not survive today.
Frank Molic and wife Louisa Molic emigrated to the U. S. in the 1880s from Bohemia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Bohemia is today’s Czech Republic. Two of his employees, “glaziers”, boarded in the Molic home. It was a multi-lingual household. Some of the employees spoke Hungarian. German was an official language in their Austro-Hungarian homeland, so presumably Frank Molic could speak both German and English with his contacts at First Reformed Church.
Frank Molic was not nationally known, unlike other better-known artisans who later created projects for this church. His name if often forgotten in time. But his windows continue on, as colorful memorials to his life.

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