These are pictures and some photographs used in Riddle's published book of the same title.
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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.
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'."
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.
Franklin's contribution to medicine, being a collection of letters written by Benjamin Franklin bearing on the science and art of medicine and exhibiting his social and professional intercourse with various physicians of Europe and America
5 p.l., [9]-89, [1] p. front. (port.) illus. 25 cm.
Notes
"Of this book three hundred copies have been printed of which this is copyright no. 2."
References: p. 89.
Contents
The author is convinced that "Benjamin Franklin was one of the greatest benefactors, friends and patrons of the medical profession." This book is a collection of letters "exhibiting his social and professional intercourse with various physicians of Europe and America."
embracing letters of the most vital historical importance from signers of the Declaration of Independence (many of them written in 1776) members of the Continental Congress, generals, commodores, other officers and patriots in the revolution ... to be sold Tuesday afternoon and evening, Jan. 16th, 1917.
[18] p. : mounted ill. (incl. ports.), facsims. ; 13 cm.
Notes
Preface signed: Andrew H. Hershey.
Includes excerpts from "Plea for the Conestoga River," by F.R. Diffenderffer, and poem "To the Conestoga River near Lancaster in June," by Lloyd Mifflin, with sketches of the authors.
Lebanon County Historical Society (Lebanon County, Pa.) Historical papers and addresses, vol. VI, no. 2
Contents
Chapters: Pioneer and colonial period -- Religious beginnings -- First Sunday Schools -- Educational beginnings -- Medical and Law Organizations -- Towns and Townships -- Transportation affairs -- The Court House, courts and Civics -- Lebanon : It's boroughs and the city -- The County jail and certain tragedies -- Taverns -- Early Mills -- Furnaces, forts, banks , fire companies , and newspapers , The Lebanon County Historical Society
The life of William Henry, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1729-1786, patriot, military officer, inventor of the steamboat ; a contribution to revolutionary history
Historic background and annals of the Swiss and German pioneer settlers of southeastern Pennsylvania, and of their remote ancestors, from the middle of the Dark Ages, down to the time of the Revolutionary War; an authentic history from original sources ... with particular reference to the German-Swiss Mennonites or Anabaptists, the Amish and other nonresistant sects
199 p. front., illus., plates, ports., maps (1 fold.) facsims. 28 cm.
Summary
A 1909 tour of the towns and places near the west branch of the Brandywine Creek, it includes Honey Brook and the railroad that once ran through it, Coatesville, Hibernia, Icedale, West Chester, Chadds Ford, and many other sites in Chester County, northern Maryland, and Delaware.
