(Lancaster County, Pa.) Stores, Retail--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. General stores--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. East Earl (Pa. : Township)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925 Description: 21-39 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

A PAGE OF LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORY, DURING CIVIL WAR TIMES By Hon. A. G. Seyfert What I am about to say is largely a forgotten page of Civil War history. In the literature of the thrilling four-year tragedy, from 1861 to 1865, there is nothing more interesting to the historian than the enemies in

Presbytery and the first one organized in eastern Lancaster County that has been continued to the present time. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, July 28th, 1820, contains half a column, headed "The Grove Sabbath School in Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." From it, it appears that a meeting of

environments of a human being from the cradle to the grave. The lives of the seven men who for seventy-three years (from 1855 to the present time) acted as superintendents of schools, or head of the public school system in Lancaster county, contain very largely the history of the public schools of the county

, Witmers and Zimmermans all came from eastern Lancaster County and their descendants are many whose homes are now in Waterloo County. Space and time prevents me from going into a detailed history of each. In conclusion I want to say a word of the journey from Pennsylvania to Upper Canada. The distance of

/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Seyfert, A. G. Title: Comments on the death of Israel Smith Clare (historian) by the Hon. A. G. Seifert. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Clare, Israel Smith, 1847-1924. Historians--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

PART I. JOSEPH SHIRK, ASTRONOMER, MATHEMATICIAN AND INVENTOR. By Hon. A. G. Seyfert. Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, October 2, 1925. I am aware of the fact that this is not a biographical "'Who is Who" society. At the same time, we must admit that all history radiates around

county, and died at the residence of his son-in-law, George Wallace, Esq., at Bradford, Pa., April 19, 1822. He was a brave soldier and an honest man of high character. The third paper was a history of the duel between Captain Stephen Chambers and Dr. Jacob Rieger, both Revolutionary soldiers They had a