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Buchanan's campaign in Lancaster County

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Author: Brady, Gerard.

Date of Publication: 1949

throughout the United States swung its support to Mr. Buchanan. On January 8 there appeared on her masthead: For President JAMES BUCHANAN (subject to the decision of the Democratic National Convention)3 1 Auchampaugh, "Buchanan a Political Portrait," p. 12. 2 Minnigerode, "Presidential Years," p. 321. 3

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Responsibility: by Gerard Brady.

Author: Brady, Gerard.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1949

Physical Description: [97]-135 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 53, no. 4

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Politics, Practical - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Elections - United States; Presidents - United States

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 53, number 4 (1949), p. 97-135Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.53

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Early presidential elections in Lancaster County

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Author: Martin, C. H.

Date of Publication: 1943.

the United States. James Wilson James O'Hara Collison Reed Samuel Potts Lawrence Keene George Gibson John Arndt David Grier Edward Hand Alexander Grayson Extract from the Minutes— George Gray, Chairman James Campbell, Secretary These names comprise the ticket known as the "Lancaster-Federalist Ticket

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Responsibility: by C. H. Martin.

Author: Martin, C. H.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1943.

Physical Description: [93]-105 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 47, no. 5

Subjects: Presidents - United States; Elections - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 19th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 47, number 5 (1943), p. 93-105Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.47

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John Fulton Reynolds

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Author: Scott, John F. R.

Date of Publication: 1948

) ; subsequently John Reynolds was tutored in Lan- caster, and then entered West Point through the kind offices of Mr. James Buchanan. His brother, William, was previously com- missioned in the Navy through Mr. Buchanan. John Reynolds, Sr., was very intimate with Mr. Buchanan, and they were closely associated

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Responsibility: by Col. John Fulton Reynolds Scott (U.S. Army, retired).

Author: Scott, John F. R.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1948

Physical Description: [21]-46 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 52, no. 2

Subjects: Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863.; United States. - Army.; Memorials - United States.; Monuments - United States.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 52, number 2 (1948), p. 21-46Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.52

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The backwoodsman and the Kentucky rifle

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Author: Landis, Bertha Cochran.

Date of Publication: 1947

in our great need, to this type of men. Congress lost no time and issued a call on June 14, 1775, for six companies of expert riflemen to be raised immediately in Pennsylvania. These troops, bringing their own rifles with them, under the command of such men as General Edward Hand, Captains James Ross

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Responsibility: by Bertha Cochran Landis.

Author: Landis, Bertha Cochran.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1947

Physical Description: [117]-119 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 51, no. 5

Subjects: Rifles.; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; United States - History - 1783-1865.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 51, number 5 (1947), p. 117-119Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.51

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Letters relating to Colonial military hospitals in Lancaster County

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Author: Heiges, George L.

Date of Publication: 1948

Department to the sick and wounded under their care is a proof not only of their humanity but of their zeal for the service of the United States." In 1777, Dr. Potts was appointed Deputy Director General of the Hospitals of the Northern Department, and then transferred to the Middle Department as a Director

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Responsibility: by George L. Heiges.

Author: Heiges, George L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1948

Physical Description: [73]-96 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 52, no. 4

Subjects: Potts, Jonathan, - 1745-1781.; Craik, James, - 1730-1814.; Shippen, William, - 1736?-1808.; Rush, Benjamin, - 1746-1813.; Morgan, John.; Military hospitals - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Hospitals.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 52, number 4 (1948), p. 73-96Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.52

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Military records of Lancaster Countians : 1784-1815

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Author: Landis, Bertha Cochran.

Date of Publication: 1944.

Trinity Churchyard, New York City. FUNK, John Musser: d. Oct. 25, 1812. Lieut. in U. S. Navy. Killed in battle between frigates United States and the Macedonian, Oct. 25, 1812, off the Azores, under Commodore Stephen Decatur. "Lancaster Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser," Dec. 19, 1812. L. C. H. S. pub

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Responsibility: compiled by Bertha Cochran Landis and Eleanore J. Fulton.

Author: Landis, Bertha Cochran.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1944.

Physical Description: [81]-108 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 48, no. 4

Subjects: Armed Forces.; Military service, Voluntary - United States; Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865.

Additional Author: Fulton, Eleanore Jane,

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 48, number 4 (1944), p. 81-108Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.48

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Were imported bricks used in Colonial America?

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Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Date of Publication: 1946

by clay holes.” 19 William Willis, skillful bricklayer and builder, erected the walls of York County’s first courthouse between the years 1754-56, and lived to see his masterpiece of Georgian colonial architecture become the capitol of the United States during the period from September, 1777, to June

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Responsibility: by M. Luther Heisey.

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1946

Physical Description: [81]-93 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 50, no. 3

Subjects: Bricks.; Clay industries.; Brickmakers - Pennsylvania.; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 50, number 3 (1946), p. 81-93Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.50

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The military hospital at the Cloister

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Author: Martin, C. H.

Date of Publication: 1947.

ceremonies were closed with the benediction by the Rev. Peter Wolle, of Lititz. The whole body then moved toward an adjacent grove where a rostrum had been erected, with the military formed on the outside. The Rev. Mr. Buchanan opened the meeting with prayer. The President of the day, Colonel Scott, of New

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Responsibility: by C. H. Martin.

Author: Martin, C. H.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1947.

Physical Description: [127]-133 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 51, no. 5

Subjects: Cloister (Ephrata, Pa.); Military hospitals - Pennsylvania.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Monuments - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Medical care.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 51, number 5 (1947), p. 127-133Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.51

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George Schaffner : an American Revolutionist who died in the French Royalist cause

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Author: Kieffer, Elizabeth Clarke.

Date of Publication: 1946.

, 1757, the child was baptised John George, in memory of another son who had died in infancy. He was baptised in the stone building of the First Reformed Church by Philip William Otterbein, who later became the founder of the United Brethren in Christ. He doubtless attended school with his brothers in

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Responsibility: by Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer.

Author: Kieffer, Elizabeth Clarke.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1946.

Physical Description: [1]-27 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 50, no. 1

Subjects: Schaffner, John George, - 1757-; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; France - History - Revolution, 1789-1799.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 50, number 1 (1946), p. 1-27Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.50

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A history of St. John's (Center) Reformed Church, East Earl Township, Lancaster County

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Author: Weaver, Glenn.

Date of Publication: 1945

in history, yet neglected by the historian. This church, St. John's (Center) Evangelical and Reformed, has a long his- tory and an enviable record for supplying the old Reformed Church in the United States with an unusually large number of clergymen, some of whom have been leaders in the life and

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Responsibility: by Glenn Weaver.

Author: Weaver, Glenn.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1945

Physical Description: [53]-84 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 49, no. 3

Subjects: St. John's (Center) Evangelical and Reformed Church (East Earl Twp., Pa.) - History.; Reformed Church in the United States.; Church buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 49, number 3 (1945), p. 53-84Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.49

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The Mount Joy Soldier's Orphan School

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Author: Heiges, George L.

Date of Publication: 1944

recommended to the people of these United States "that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to God for singular deliverance and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners

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Responsibility: by George L. Heiges.

Author: Heiges, George L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1944

Physical Description: [109]-[131] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 48, no. 5

Subjects: Curtin, Andrew Gregg, - 1815-1894.; Soldier's Orphan Schools.; Schools - Pennsylvania.; Orphans - Pennsylvania.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 48, number 5 (1944), p. 109-131Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.48

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The Army has a heart : a war incident in Lancaster County

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Author: Klein, H. M. J.

Date of Publication: 1946

The Army Heart A War Incident tin Lancaster County By H. M. J. KLEIN I HAVE lying on the desk before me all available documents relating to a very interesting and important series of events which occurred in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, shortly after the United States entered the Second World

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Responsibility: by H.M. J. Klein.

Author: Klein, H. M. J.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1946

Physical Description: [129]-140 p. ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 50, no. 6

Subjects: Nissly, Harry N.; United States Army T.N.T. Project.; World War, 1939-1945 - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 50, number 6 (1946), p. 129-140Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.50

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John Seybert : a Hessian soldier's son who became bishop of a church

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Author: Heiges, George L.

Date of Publication: 1943.

honest brickmaker." Jacob Albright and his wife were members of the "Berg Strasse" Luth- eran Church in Earl Township, their names appearing on communion records there as late as 1791. But they drifted away from the Lutherans and by 1795 had united with the Methodists. Still, Jacob Albright was not

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Responsibility: by George L. Heiges.

Author: Heiges, George L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1943.

Physical Description: [1]-12 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 47, no. 1

Subjects: Seybert, John, - 1791-1860.; Evangelical Association of North America - Clergy.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 47, number 1 (1943), p. 1-12Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.47

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Henry Harbaugh in Lancaster

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Author: Kieffer, Elizabeth Clarke.

Date of Publication: 1941

too greedy. He approved of the poor. house, but not of the jail. (The new one was built two years later.) He was shocked by local intemperance and Sabbath breaking and "lack of high- toned feeling with respect to education." On June 3, he went with Dr. Philip Schaff to call on James Buchanan at

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Responsibility: by Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer.

Author: Kieffer, Elizabeth Clarke.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1941

Physical Description: [57]-83 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 45, no. 3

Subjects: Harbaugh, Henry, - 1817-1867.; Reformed Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 45, number 3 (1941), p. 57-83Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.45

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Railroad and bridge builders of Lancaster

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Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Date of Publication: 1940

, in the neighborhood of his home. He was selected by Colonel Thomas A. Scott as engineer of the United States military railroads in Northern Virginia, with headquarters at Alexandria. In October, 1861, he was transferred to the Pittsburgh Divi- sion, Pennsylvania Railroad, where he remained until

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Responsibility: by M. Luther Heisey.

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1940

Physical Description: [57]-76 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 44, no. 4

Subjects: Bridges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Transportation.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 44, number 4 (1940), p. 57-76Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.44

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Rock Springs and their historic surroundings

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Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener,

Date of Publication: 1943.

, Jr. This sage, philosopher, historian and humorist of Quarryville was so well known over the nation that when he died (February 7, 1943), a few weeks before this was written, he got more comment from the editors and columnists of the United States than any other Lancaster Countian for many decades

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Responsibility: by Herbert H. Beck.

Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1943.

Physical Description: [45]-58 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 47, no. 3

Subjects: Hensel, George W., - 1866-1943.; Physical geography - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Petrology - Middle Atlantic States.; Indian art - North America.; Rock Springs (Fulton Twp., Lancaster County, Pa.); Mason-Dixon Line.; Maryland (Pa.) - Boundaries.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 47, number 3 (1943), p. 45-58Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.47

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The art of photography in Lancaster

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Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Date of Publication: 1947

, January 4. 1842. �Elizabeth Huber Reigart. Mr. Reigart was postmaster of Lan- caster from 1853 to 1856; he with Dr. Fahnestock were among the first to notify James Buchanan of his nomination for the presi- dency, driving to the latter's home at Wheatland for that purpose on June 6, 1856. Dr. Fahnestock

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Responsibility: by M. Luther Heisey.

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1947

Physical Description: [93]- 114 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 51, no. 4

Subjects: Fahnestock, William Baker, - 1804-1886.; Damant, James.; Photography; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 51, number 4 (1947), p. 93-114Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.51

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