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Collection: Frank E. Witmer's 1879 Diary

Title: Diary of Frank E. Witmer

Object ID: MG0847

Date Range: 1879, 2020

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Collection: Frank E. Witmer's 1879 Diary

Title: Diary of Frank E. Witmer

Description: This collection contains Frank E. Witmer's original 1879 diary, as well as a transcription and index prepared by Dr. David H. Wallace. The diary provides a detailed record of the daily activities of all members of the family. He primarily records the work involved in running a truck farm--planting, maintaining, and harvesting crops, and preparing for market. Other entries of interest include helping a neighbor move a carriage house; building a hog pen; canning; attendance at several Mennonite churches in the area; the process of moving from one house and barn to a new house and barn on the property; frequent visits between relatives and neighbors; and a few mentions of school and the leisure activities of the young men.

Admin/Biographical History: In 1879, Franklin E. Witmer (1855-1931), at age 23, was the eldest son of Aaron L. Witmer, farmer of West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and his wife Mary Ann (Herr) Witmer. The household also included his younger brothers Abraham (Abram), 21, and Jacob Elam (Elem), 19; two school-age girls Sarah Dunlap, 13, an apprentice servant, and Hettie Fritz, 8, a ward of Mr. and Mrs. Witmer; and for part of the year a teen-age boarder-farm hand , Thaddeus (Thad) Brackbill. In Frank's diary, each person's activity was recorded daily, almost as if he had set himself a deliberate project to do so.; Mr. Witmer's truck farm embraced fields of grain (wheat, oats and rye), several acres of tobacco, a varied fruit orchard, a large truck garden, and a greenhouse for vegetables and flowering plants, a small herd of dairy cattle, some hogs and chickens; enough variety to make year-round weekly visits to market in Lancaster. During the year the family moved into a new house, raised a new barn, stables, hog-pen and chicken-house, and rented the old house and barn to a tenant farmer, Jacob Dieter.; The Witmers were Mennonites, regularly attending church in Lampeter Twp. and Strasburg, and occasionally in New Providence and Lancaster. Sarah and Hettie and briefly Elam, attended the Lampeter School. Their chief source of entertainment seems to have been visiting among their extended Witmer and Herr families and neighbors, although Abram and Elam sometimes attended "singing school" and the Lampeter Lyceum and did some "driving about" of an evening. Only Abram seems to have had a special girlfriend.; Although all the men of the family did everything in the way of farm chores, each of the boys also had a specialty. Frank, the oldest, had his own corn and tobacco patches to tend and market, Abram tended to concentrate on the greenhouse and truck-garden, and Elam helped his father provide veterinary services to other farmers in the area.; Frank Witmer married Mary Ann Herr on November 30, 1881; he continued general farming in West Lampeter Township, died there on December 10, 1931, and was buried in the Mennonite cemetery in nearby Willow Street, Pennsylvania.; This history was prepared by Dr. David H. Wallace.

Date Range: 1879, 2020

Creation Date: 1879, 2020

Creator: Wallace, David H.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

People: Brackbill, Thaddeus; Dunlap, Sarah; Fritz, Hettie; Wallace, David Harold; Witmer, Aaron L.; Witmer, Abraham Herr; Witmer, Franklin Elmer; Witmer, Jacob Elam; Witmer, Mary Ann Herr

Other Creators: Witmer, Franklin Elmer, 1855-1931

Subjects: Truck farming; Diaries; Agriculture; Indexes

Search Terms: Truck farming; Diaries; Farming; Agriculture; Transcriptions; Indexes; Finding aids; Manuscript groups

Extent: 3 items, 146 pages to scan

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0847

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use transcription and index, MG0847_F002 and MG0847_F003.; Original diary may be used by appointment--contact research@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2021.011

Other Numbers: MG-847

Other Number: MG-847, Folder 1

Classification: MG0847

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: PDFs of the transcription and index are attached to the correlating records.

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Collection: Frank E. Witmer's 1879 Diary

Title: Transcription of the diary of Frank E. Witmer

Object ID: MG0847_F002

Date Range: 2020/11

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Collection: Frank E. Witmer's 1879 Diary

Title: Transcription of the diary of Frank E. Witmer

Description: Transcription of the diary of Frank E. Witmer, 1879.

Admin/Biographical History: In 1879, Franklin E. Witmer (1855-1931), at age 23, was the eldest son of Aaron L. Witmer, farmer of West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and his wife Mary Ann (Herr) Witmer. The household also included his younger brothers Abraham (Abram), 21, and Jacob Elam (Elem), 19; two school-age girls Sarah Dunlap, 13, an apprentice servant, and Hettie Fritz, 8, a ward of Mr. and Mrs. Witmer; and for part of the year a teen-age boarder-farm hand , Thaddeus (Thad) Brackbill. In Frank's diary, each person's activity was recorded daily, almost as if he had set himself a deliberate project to do so.; Mr. Witmer's truck farm embraced fields of grain (wheat, oats and rye), several acres of tobacco, a varied fruit orchard, a large truck garden, and a greenhouse for vegetables and flowering plants, a small herd of dairy cattle, some hogs and chickens; enough variety to make year-round weekly visits to market in Lancaster. During the year the family moved into a new house, raised a new barn, stables, hog-pen and chicken-house, and rented the old house and barn to a tenant farmer, Jacob Dieter.; The Witmers were Mennonites, regularly attending church in Lampeter Twp. and Strasburg, and occasionally in New Providence and Lancaster. Sarah and Hettie and briefly Elam, attended the Lampeter School. Their chief source of entertainment seems to have been visiting among their extended Witmer and Herr families and neighbors, although Abram and Elam sometimes attended "singing school" and the Lampeter Lyceum and did some "driving about" of an evening. Only Abram seems to have had a special girlfriend.; Although all the men of the family did everything in the way of farm chores, each of the boys also had a specialty. Frank, the oldest, had his own corn and tobacco patches to tend and market, Abram tended to concentrate on the greenhouse and truck-garden, and Elam helped his father provide veterinary services to other farmers in the area.; Frank Witmer married Mary Ann Herr on November 30, 1881; he continued general farming in West Lampeter Township, died there on December 10, 1931, and was buried in the Mennonite cemetery in nearby Willow Street, Pennsylvania.; This history was prepared by Dr. David H. Wallace.

Date Range: 2020/11

Creation Date: 2020/11

Creator: Wallace, David H.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

People: Wallace, David Harold; Witmer, Franklin Elmer; Witmer, Aaron L.; Witmer, Mary Ann Herr; Witmer, Abraham Herr; Witmer, Jacob Elam; Dunlap, Sarah; Fritz, Hettie; Brackbill, Thaddeus

Subjects: Truck farming; Diaries; Agriculture

Search Terms: Truck farming; Diaries; Farming; Agriculture; Transcriptions; Finding aids; Manuscript groups

Extent: 1 item, 60 pages

Object Name: Transcript

Object ID: MG0847_F002

Location of Originals: Original diary at LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, MG0847_F001

Related Item Notes: Index: MG0847_F003

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use the PDF.

Copyright: A PDF has been provided for research purposes only.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2021.011

Other Numbers: MG-847, Folder 2

Other Number: MG-847, Folder 2

Classification: MG0847

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Transcribed in November 2020.

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Collection: Woodstream Corporation (Lititz, Pa.) Collection

Title: Decals and catalogs

Object ID: MG0417_F002

Date Range: 1971-1975

) Ephemera Finding aids Manuscript groups Victor Victor Woodstream Corporation Woodstream Corporation Related Materials: See the Photograph Collection See the Curatorial Collection �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Processing History

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Collection: Woodstream Corporation (Lititz, Pa.) Collection

Title: Decals and catalogs

Description: Decals and Catalogs:; Insert 1 Decals for tackle boxes. Models: Mark III, 4800, Mark IV and Mark 33.; Insert 2 Catalog for Victor decoys and hunting accessories. No date.; Insert 3 Catalog for Victor Woodstream decoys and hunting accessories. No date.; Insert 4 Catalog for Victor hunting equipment. 1971.; Insert 5 Catalog for winter sports equipment. [1972].; Insert 6 Catalog for winter sports equipment. Catalog no. WS-73. 1973-1974.; Insert 7 Catalog for decoys and hunting accessories. 1975.

Admin/Biographical History: J. M. Mast Manufacturing Company was organized in Lititz in 1901 to manufacture animal traps, patent fishing floats and vegetable graters. In 1905 the Mast Company was merged with the Animal Trap Company of Abingdon, Illinois; the new company was said to be "the largest concern of its kind in the world." (http://www.horseshoe.cc/pennadutch/places/pennsylvania/lancasterco/towns/lititz/lititz.htm, accessed 16 July 2009); The name was changed to Woodstream Corporation in 1966 and is headquartered in Lititz. Woodstream Corporation manufactures and markets pest control, and wildlife caring and control products for the United States, Canada, and European markets. The company offers rodent control products, caring control products for pets and wildlife, pest control products for the lawn and garden, and wild bird feeder segments. It also offers mouse traps, cage traps, toxic insecticides and fungicides, and bird feeders, as well as dog and small animal cages. It distributes its products through retail locations in the United States and internationally.; (http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=96531, accessed 16 July 2009)

Date Range: 1971-1975

Creation Date: 1971-1975

Year Range From: 1971

Year Range To: 1975

Creator: Victor

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 10

Other Creators: Woodstream Corporation

Subjects: Business records; Catalogs; Decalcomania; Decoys (Hunting); Ephemera

Search Terms: Business records; Catalogs; Decals; Decoys (Hunting); Ephemera; Finding aids; Manuscript groups; Victor; Victor Woodstream Corporation; Woodstream Corporation

Object Name: Decal

Language: English

Object ID: MG0417_F002

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: See the Photograph Collection; See the Curatorial Collection

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Woodstream Corporation (Lititz, Pa.) Collection (MG0417), Folder #, Insert #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-417

Other Number: MG-417, Folder 2

Classification: MG0417

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Processed by DS, 2007. Added to database 16 December 2021.

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