In 1754 Thomas Cope gave this simple coin to his son, Caleb, when he reached the age of 9. The year on the coin was also the year of Caleb's birth. Twenty-one years later the coin would end up in the hand of a British Officer who would conspire with Benedict Arnold in an attempt to capture one of the colonies' most important military installations.
Photograph- Lancaster Bible College students posed in front of Bausman Mansion at Chestnut and Concord Streets. Man in light overcoat at right is Paul J. Sebastian and future president of the college. Stewart Lease is second from left. An enclosed drawing identifies most of the students. Students identified are: John Reisinger; David Heydt; Melvvin Shultz; Mark Wolgemuth; Donald Pierce; Richard Trout; Otto Stahle; Millard Bedwell; Abram Forry; James Lilton Clark; Leslie Wittiker; Richard Hyatt; Kenneth Shearter; Daniel Klim; Leroy Shelly; Thomas Farmer; John Fry; Donald Burkholder; William Nieto; Laverne Swope; Robert Tapper; Vernon Berry; Robert Hopkins; Grace Asper; Erma Good; Stella Sisk; Betty McGonigle; Dorothy Dugan; Betty May Gerbrick; Charles Warfield; Raymond Hicks; Margaret Musser Stahle; Betty Barr; Josephine Poley; Ida Mae Singleton; Lyda Mae Rutt; Bertha Swope; Jeanette Carper; Frank Tobias.
Photograph- Lancaster Bible College students posed in front of Bausman Mansion at Chestnut and Concord Streets. Man in light overcoat at right is Paul J. Sebastian and future president of the college. Stewart Lease is second from left. An enclosed drawing identifies most of the students. Students identified are: John Reisinger; David Heydt; Melvvin Shultz; Mark Wolgemuth; Donald Pierce; Richard Trout; Otto Stahle; Millard Bedwell; Abram Forry; James Lilton Clark; Leslie Wittiker; Richard Hyatt; Kenneth Shearter; Daniel Klim; Leroy Shelly; Thomas Farmer; John Fry; Donald Burkholder; William Nieto; Laverne Swope; Robert Tapper; Vernon Berry; Robert Hopkins; Grace Asper; Erma Good; Stella Sisk; Betty McGonigle; Dorothy Dugan; Betty May Gerbrick; Charles Warfield; Raymond Hicks; Margaret Musser Stahle; Betty Barr; Josephine Poley; Ida Mae Singleton; Lyda Mae Rutt; Bertha Swope; Jeanette Carper; Frank Tobias.
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Lancaster Bible College students posed in front of Bausman Mansion at Chestnut and Concord Streets. Man in light overcoat at right is Paul J. Sebastian and future president of the college. Stewart Lease is second from left. An enclosed drawing identifies most of the students. Students identified are: John Reisinger; David Heydt; Melvvin Shultz; Mark Wolgemuth; Donald Pierce; Richard Trout; Otto Stahle; Millard Bedwell; Abram Forry; James Lilton Clark; Leslie Wittiker; Richard Hyatt; Kenneth Shearter; Daniel Klim; Leroy Shelly; Thomas Farmer; John Fry; Donald Burkholder; William Nieto; Laverne Swope; Robert Tapper; Vernon Berry; Robert Hopkins; Grace Asper; Erma Good; Stella Sisk; Betty McGonigle; Dorothy Dugan; Betty May Gerbrick; Charles Warfield; Raymond Hicks; Margaret Musser Stahle; Betty Barr; Josephine Poley; Ida Mae Singleton; Lyda Mae Rutt; Bertha Swope; Jeanette Carper; Frank Tobias.
Seven students from John Reynolds Junior High School placing a wreath on the grave of John Fulton Reynolds, one boy is in Boy Scout uniform and is blowing a trumpet. Second from right is Nancy Eckman Bachman.
Directors and officers of Farmers Bank and Trust Company of Lancaster, identified as: James C. Dunlap, R. S. McClure, Jr., George S. Kurtz, treasurer; John H. Wickersham; Robert Y. Garrett, Jr., vice president & trust officer; E. L. Matterer; Leroy H. Nolt; Albert J. McConomy; F. L. Sutter; Earl M. Godshalk; Wallace L. Robinson, vice president & secretary; Gerald H. Effing, president; Leslie S. Hubbard; William Shand; Robert F. Zahm; Theodore H. Distler; Lewis Levy.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. Photograph showing the excavated portion under the Harnish cabin, two sheets of corrugated iron, two picnic table horses, two lawn mowers and two strips of beaver board.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. View of the entrance to the mens' room in the rear of Erb's Service Station, located in East Lampeter Township, where a diamond ring, the property of Marian Louise Baker, had been recovered.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. Up-turned ground that was located approximately 75 feet north of the north side of the driveway at a point that was used by the Harnish family as a dump.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. View of the excavated portion under the porch of the Harnish cabin after the body of Marian Louise Baker had been removed.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. Edward Lester Gibbs, later convicted of murder, pointing to a spot on the ground at the north side of the north driveway on the Harnish property where he had killed Marian Louise Baker.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. Edward Lester Gibbs, later convicted of murder, in the cellar of East Hall with a shovel in his left hand which he described as being the shovel that he used in attempting to bury the body of Marian Louise Baker at the Harnish cottage.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. Edward Lester Gibbs, later convicted of murder, pointing ot a spot on the ground approximately 25 feet west of the dump where he had hid the body of Marian Louise Baker.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. View of the dump used by the Harnish family and the path leading south to the direction of the driveway.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. Close up of the wooden horse and also of the corrigated iron showing that there are two large sheets of corrigated iron and one small sheet. It also shows part of a metal wire basket used for burning rubbish and parts of the beaver board and many tree leaves.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. View of the front or east side of the Harnish cottage and also the south side of the cottage and portions of the driveway.
Crime scene photograph used as evidence in the Commonwealth v. Gibbs murder trial. View of the front or East side of the Harnish cottage and the driveway at the north side of the property and also a water pump.
