training of youth in patriotism." Although the organization was largely made up of veterans of the 77th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, Shreiner had not performed military service.60 6.7.6 JOHN F. John, born in 1846, was the fourth son to enter the jewelry trade. The county directory for 1869-70

(sometimes spelled "Gump," "Gumf," "Gomp," "Gompf' or "Kumpf") that he believed were gunsmiths. In my collaboration with Prof. James B. Whisker in a review of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, source material relating to that county's numerous gunsmiths' for a book on that subject, I have been able to