Early land marks and names of old Pittsburgh; an address delivered before the Pittsburgh chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, at Carnegie Institute, November 30, 1923
Includes short biographies of Rev. John Russell, Hon. Simeon B. Chase, Joseph Henderson, Barry Spangler. Also includes an address by Geo. F. McFarland to the voters of Pennsylvania, and the Prohibition Campaign song.
At head of title: Prohibition Party of Pennsylvania.
Declaration of Independence in Lancaster--Thomas Wharton, Jr. in Lancaster--Baron Steuben in Lancaster--Lancaster in 1778--Lancaster in 1783--Ephrata Community--Lancaster in 1788--Camel in Lancaster--Lancaster in 1795--Lancaster in 1797--John Marshall in Lancaster--First elephant in Lancaster--General Pinckney in Lancaster--Lancaster in 1807--Alexander Wilson in Lancaster--Mrs. Royall's visit to Lancaster--Royal Arabian horse in Lancaster--Daniel Webster in Lancaster--Rich men of Lancaster City in 1845--The Wreath--Chinese soldier in the Civil War--Hope Church--Seventy-fifth aniversaryof Hope Church--Story of Salome Le Roy--Tory of the Revolution.
Illustrations--Rare old Lancaster imprint--Lancaster Count Courthouse--Residence of Christopher Marshall--Trinity Lutheran Church--Cat Tavern--Old Ferry House--Buildings of the Ephrata Cloister--Watermark, Ephrata Cloister--Finest Colonial House in Lancaster--Caleb Cope House--Barracks on Howard Avenue--Saron House. Ephrata Cloister--Cell, Ephrata Cloister--Watermarks, Ephrata Cloister--Room in Saron House, Ephrata Cloister--Kitchen, Ephrata Cloister--Fireplace, Ephrata Cloister--Matin Room--Ephrata Cloister--Seal, Ephrata Cloister--Government Buildings, Lancaster--Washington Hotel--Old Powder House--Lancaster Academy--Male camel--Watermarks, Ephrata Cloister--Johann Conrad Beissel--Tomb of Johann Conrad Beissel--Fountain Inn--Rockford, Home of General Hand--White Swan Tavern--Blunderbuss--Lancaster City Hall--Newspaper account of Marshall's arival--Residence of Jasper Yeates--Residence of Timothy Matlack--Advertisement of the elephant--Oldest tobacco shop in the United States--Old wooden sign, Demuth Tobacco Shop--View of North Queen Street about 1840--William Pitt Tavern--Sign of William Pitt Tavern--Lancaster in 1810--Anchor Inn, Lititz, Pa.--Heinitsh's Drug Store--James Buchanan--Steinman's Hardware Store--Slaymaker's Hotel--Abbeville--House and tannery of Georg H. Krug--Fire engine--View of West King Street about 1850--The Wreath--Button Suctio Engine--Hose cart--Hope Episcopal Church, Mount Hope, Pa.--Mount Hope Mansion--Memorial chancel and altar, Hope Church--Brew House--Bird's-eye view of Lancaster--German Reformed Church--House built about 1760--Lancaster County Prison.
Route No.1, A trip to the southern end, Chestnut level, Fulton House, Penn Hill -- Route No. 2, Donegal Church, Elizabethtown and Hershey -- Route No. 3, Some old and famous roads; the Newport road and Peter's road -- Route No. 4, Ephrata, Brickerville, Clay, Elizabeth Furnace, Penryn -- Route No. 5, Conestoga Township, Safe Harbor, The first court house, Postlethwaite -- Route No. 6, The Octorara and the early English settlements and the southern end -- Route No. 7, An all day Sunday route by York, Baltimore Pike, Havre de Grace, Elkton, Wilmington -- Route No. 8, Millersville, Indian Town, Creswell, Columbia, Chickies, Silver Springs -- Route No. 9, Two routes to McCall's Ferry -- Route No. 10, From Lancaster via Wilmington, Delaware, Atlantic City and Bowers Beach -- Route No. 11, Moore's Mill, a beautiful spot via East Petersburg, Salunga, Ironville and the Quay Farm -- Route No. 12, The South Mountain and the Blue Hills: Summer Resorts -- Route No. 13, Some nice evening drives as the sun seeks the west -- Route No. 14, Long's Park, Rohrerstown, Millersville, Wabank, Second Lock -- Route No. 15, Long's Park, Petersburg, Oregon, Lehman's Rifle factory.
"A history of education in the Church of the Brethren" / John S. Flory: p. [2]-104.
Summary
The Educational Blue Book and Directory undertakes to present the main facts of the educational movement in the Church of the Brethren from its origin to the present time (1923), and to preserve for future use as much data as possible connected with the educational work of the Brethren. A brief history of education in the Church of the Brethren was prepared for this volume by Dr. John S. Flory, of Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia. To accompany the text, the Editors assembled numerous photographs of buildings, views, and persons.
Compiled from the records of the first fifty years of its existence; also biographies of the warrant members and past masters of Lodge 476, with a complete list of members
Corrections made by Mrs. Bertha Cochran Landis, 1929 (3 leaves)
"Summary of Graff-Graeff family as it appears in this record by Mrs. Bertha Cochran Landis." Summaries of the De Hoff, William Henry , Dressler-Drissler-Trissler, and Reigart families are also included.
Reprinted from Pa. Genealogical Society Publications,v. 10 & v. 11, (1929-1932)
Also on microfilm #156, part 7.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancastaer County " page 198 #5.
First edition, covering only the years 1774-1776, published in Philadelphia by the same editor in 1839.
Summary
From The History Society of Pennsylvania: Christopher Marshall was born in Dublin, Ireland, on November 6, 1709. He was educated in England and sailed to America sometime in the late 1720s. By 1729, he had established a pharmacy shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His success as a pharmacist and chemist allowed him to retire from business in 1774, but he remained a vital public figure. In 1776, he became a delegate to the Philadelphia Provincial Council, and he was twice appointed to the Continental Committee of Council and Safety. His retirement afforded him the time to keep diaries of public and personal events. He wrote these "remembrances" almost daily from about 1774 to at least 1795. In 1777, Marshall relocated to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to improve his health and to avoid the British armies. After hostilities ceased, Marshall moved back to Philadelphia where he died on May 7, 1797.
3 v. fronts. (2 col.; v.1: port.) illus., plates, facsims. (part double) 25 cm.
Notes
Colophon of vol. III: This work originated with Paul Leicester Ford, was edited by Mrs. Roswell Skeel junior, and printed by Richmond Mayo-Smith, all of one family.
Two hundred copies of vol. I and three hundred copies of vols. II-III have been printed by the Plimpton press of Norwood, Mass. LCHS copy is no. 154.
Most of the letters are addressed to Mathew Carey.
"Books ... periodicals ... newspapers consulted": vol. I, p. 345-385.
Mason Locke Weems, American clergyman, itinerant book agent, and fabricator of the story of George Washington’s chopping down the cherry tree. This fiction was inserted into the fifth edition (1806) of Weems’s book The Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington (1800). Weems was ordained in the Anglican church in 1784 and served as a pastor in Maryland until 1792. From 1794 he hawked books throughout the country as an agent for the publisher Mathew Carey. Weems also wrote a biography (1809) of General Francis Marion that, like that of Washington, was more noted for its apocryphal anecdotes and readability than its accuracy.[from Britanica.com]
