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Illistrations, v2; -- Harry Stiff -- Grubey Sam -- Johnny Elliott -- Blind Johnny -- Hans Herr House -- Old Buildings in Lancaster City -- Old Waterworks, built 1836 -- CityHall, as appeared in 1835 -- Frank R. Diffenderffer -- West King Street about 1850 -- Water committee personnel, 1888 -- Centre Square -- James Hamilton -- General LaFayette -- Franklin College -- Franklin and Marshall College, 1854 -- Postlethwaite's Tavern -- W. U. Hensel --
Contents
Illistrations, v1; -- Three Clergy -- William Riddle, at age 17 -- William Riddle -- Adam Reigart -- William Penn -- John F. Steinman -- Samuel Bowman -- Benjamin Franklin -- Franklin College -- Dr. John L. Atlee -- Dr. Samuel Humes -- Christopher Hager --Old Lancaster School at Prince and Chestnut -- General LaFayette -- John Baer -- Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg -- Dr. Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg -- Amos Slaymaker -- James Buchanan -- Thaddeus Stevens -- George Wolf -- Samuel F. Dale -- Joseph Ritner -- John King Findlay -- Old Lancaster Courthouse, 1787-1853 -- George Musser -- Lewis C. Jungerich -- Robert Moderwell -- John W. Forney -- Old School Buildings, South Duke Street -- John Mathiot -- John Zimmerman -- Peter McConomy -- George M. Steinman -- Rev. John S. Crumbaugh -- Lancaster School Diploma -- John Piersol McCaskey -- Common School Celebration, 1854 -- John C. Baker -- Samuel O. Nourse -- Thomas H. Burrowes -- Rev. Bernhard Keenan -- William B. Wiley -- Newton Lightner -- Alexander L. Hayes -- H.S. Gara -- J. B. Livingston -- William P. Brition -- Frederick F. Pyfer -- Christie Musser -- The Children's Home -- William A. Morton -- John W. Jackson -- Charles F. Eberman -- John I. Hartman -- George W. Zecher -- J. M. Johnston -- John Warfel -- William O. Marshall -- East Lemon Street School, 1881-- Lancaster City School Superintendent, R.K. Buehrle -- Daniel G. Baker -- Dr. John Levergood -- Thomas F. McElligott -- Marie E. Gill -- James P. Wickersham -- Dr. D. R. McCormick -- Dr. E. E. Higbee -- South Duke Street School Building, 1892 -- South Mulberry Street School, 1892 -- David McMullen -- George Forrest -- Interior Strawberry Street School -- H.A. Schroyer -- Matilda Zug -- Stevens Highschool -- Nathan C. Schaeffer -- Thaddeus Stevens -- Lancaster Highschool Orchestra -- North Queen Street in the 1840s -- Postlethwaite, First Court held 1730 -- Program for President Taylor's Reception, 1849 -- Penn Square -- The Pequea Creek -- The Conestoga and Bathing Resorts -- Robert Fulton -- Mennonite Brick Meetinghouse -- Birthplace of Robert Fulton -- Oak Hill -- Wright's home at Columbia -- Bleak House -- W. U. Hensel's Birthplace, Quarryville, PA -- Strasburg School -- Lutheren Church, Manheim, PA -- House at Fairview -- The Catharine Long Home -- Linden Hall Seminary, Lititz, PA
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Lancaster, Pa., Intelligencer printing house, 1910. Cherished memories of old Lancaster--town and shireLancaster History Library - Book974.815 LACI R543 Pic.
xiii, [11]-248 p. front., illus., plates, ports. 21 cm.
Notes
Édition de luxe; 508 copies printed for subscribers.
Contents
CONTENTS: COLONIAL DAYS WOMEN IN THE EARLY SETTLEMENT A GROUP OF EARLY POETESSES COLONIAL DAMES. OLD LANDMARKS WEDDINGS AND MERRY-MAKINGS LEGEND AND ROMANCE
Chapters: The Meeting House Devil // Rum and Slavery // The Composite Puritan // The Personality of the Meeting House // The Summons To Worship // The Seating of the People // The Wretched Boys // Disturbers of Public Worship // The Neighbors of the Meeting House // The Comedy and Tragedy of the Pulpit // The Poor Parsons // The Notorious Ministers // The Simple Evangelist // The Muse of Choral Song // The Bible and the Confessional // The Hour Glass
Summary
The author uses the Colonial Meeting House as a central focus of the New England town and from it looks to other practices and customs to better illuminate life in the town and New England.
Battles of the United States, by sea and land: embracing those of the revolutionary and Indian wars, the war of 1812, and the Mexican war: with important official documents
Title pages, preface, and content for the 2v. issue bound at the end of division 5.
LCHS has vols. 1 and 2 only.
Summary
Volume I - Covers the Revolutionary War from Lexington to Yorktown surrender
Volume II - Begins with the defeat of General Harman by native Americans in the Ohio Territory in 1790 and concludes with General Scott's campaign in 1847 in the Mexican War.
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 18, no. 4
Summary
This journal article contains a letter sent by German-American citizens in Pennsylvania to President John Adams. In the letter, they ask for his help in being compensated for their imprisonment that was imposed for their participation in the protest against the tax imposed upon their property. Their protest is known as Fries's Rebellion after the leader of the protest, John Fries. The article also describes Fries's trial and conviction for treason and his pardon by President Adams.
Notes
From Britanica.com: "Fries's Rebellion, (1799), uprising, in opposition to a direct federal property tax, by farmers in eastern Pennsylvania led by John Fries (c. 1750-1818). In July of 1798, the Federalist-controlled U.S. Congress, which greatly needed revenues for an anticipated war with France, had voted a direct federal tax on all real property, including land, buildings, and slaves. This tax, which caused widespread national resentment against the John Adams administration, infuriated the German farmers of Bucks, Northampton, and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania. Eventually, several hundred farmers took up arms under the leadership of John Fries. At Bethlehem, Pa., Fries and his men forced, by intimidation rather than by actual violence, the release of a group of tax resisters who had been imprisoned under the custody of the federal marshal. In response, President Adams called out a force of federal troops and militia, who marched into the rebellious counties and began making wholesale arrests of the insurgents. John Fries was captured and subsequently tried twice, convicted of treason on each occasion, and sentenced to hang. He was pardoned by Adams in April 1800, when the president declared a general amnesty for all those who had been involved in the 'rebellion'."
Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism.
xiv, 521 p. plates, ports., facsim., front., pl. 23 cm.
Notes
Articles by various writers, relating to Curtin.
"Curtin was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He attended Bellefonte Academy and Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law and was employed as a lawyer. Curtin first entered politics in the 1840 election, where he campaigned for Whig presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. In 1855, Governor James Pollock appointed him as Superintendent of Public Schools. With the collapse of the Whigs, Curtin switched to the newly formed Republican Party and successfully ran for governor of Pennsylvania in 1860. Curtin won re-election to the office in 1863. In the 1860 presidential election, Curtin helped Abraham Lincoln win the Republican nomination. Curtin was a strong supporter of President Lincoln's policies in the Civil War, and Curtin committed Pennsylvania to the war effort. Curtin organized the Pennsylvania Reserves into combat units, and oversaw the construction of the first Union military camp for training militia. It opened in an agricultural school nearby Harrisburg as Camp Curtin on April 18, 1861, and more than 300,000 men were drilled there during 4 years. In the years that followed, Curtin became a close friend and confidant of Abraham Lincoln, visiting the White House several times in order to converse about the status of the war effort. Curtin was very active during the Gettysburg Campaign, working with Major General Darius N. Couch and Major Granville O. Haller to delay Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and prevent it from crossing the Susquehanna River. Major General George G. Meade, a Pennsylvania officer whom Curtin had recommended for brigadier general and command of one of the Pennsylvania reserve brigades in 1861, defeated Lee in the Battle of Gettysburg. After the Battle of Gettysburg, Governor Curtin was the principal force behind the establishment of the National Cemetery there. Through his agent, David Wills, Curtin procured the attendance of President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the cemetery. Governor Curtin was sitting with Lincoln on the platform on November 19, 1863, when Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address. To coordinate Union war efforts, Curtin convened the Loyal War Governors' Conference on September 24 and 25, 1862, in Altoona. This event was one of his most significant contributions to the Union war effort. After the war, Curtin lost his party's Senate nomination to Simon Cameron, and was appointed Ambassador to Russia by President Ulysses S. Grant. Curtin later switched to the Democratic Party, and served as a Congressman from 1881 until 1887. He died at his birthplace of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and is buried there in Union Cemetery." [wikipedia]
Contents
Chapters: Andrew Gregg Curtin / Curtin and free schools / Curtin elected governor 1860 / Curtin's first administration / Curtin re-elected governor 1863 / Curtin's second term / Soldiers organized by Curtin / The Pennsylvania Reserves / Curtin and the soldiers' orphans / Curtin and the Altoona conference / Curtin's early war trials / Curtin's first military telegraph / Curtin's care of the soldiers / Curtin and the private soldiers / Curtin's personal attributes / Curtin and his home community / Curtin and the state credit / Curtin and Clement B Barclay / Curtin as minister to Russia / Curtin's gubernatorial battles / Curtin as a civil administrator / Curtin and Pennsylvania at the beginning of the war / Curtin in the constitutional convention / Curtin and the state flags / Curtin's funeral
Summary
The book is a collection of essays by various men who knew or worked with Governor Curtain. They describe aspects of his character and the challenges he faced.
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 18, no. 4
Summary
This article features letters from James Buchanan to Henry A. Muhlenberg and letters from Simon Cameron to Muhlenberg indicating their support for him in the upcoming election for governor of Pennsylvania in 1844. Muhlenberg was nominated by the Democratic party for that position, but he died prior to the election.
