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Diary of Katherine Kauffman

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Author
Kauffman, Katherine.
Date of Publication
2006.
Call Number
929 K21d
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The 1899 diary of Katherine Kauffman.
Responsibility
Katherine Kauffman, edited by Debora E. Dunkle.
Author
Kauffman, Katherine.
Place of Publication
[S.l.]
Publisher
Blurb, Inc. ,
Date of Publication
2006.
Physical Description
54 p. : ill, ; 25 cm.
Summary
Diary for the year 1899, while Ms. Kaufman was a student studying to be a teacher at the Millersville Normal School (now Millersville University). She taught school and, after marrying, was for a time a farm wife. She died in 1956 while living in Lancaster, PA.
Subjects
Kauffman, Katherine - Diaries.
Pennsylvania. - State Teachers College, Millersville - Diaries.
Students
Buck (Pa.) - History - Sources.
Diaries.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 K21d
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The diary of Harriet Amelia Arndt for 1865

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Author
Arndt, Harriet Amelia.
Date of Publication
1946
The he Diary 0/ Harriet Amelia Arndt For 1865 Excerpts from a Paper Read by John Dunlap Kendig As Reported by M. Luther Heisey The feature of the meeting on March 1 was the story, as told by John Dunlap Kendig, from the diary of his grandmother, Har- riet Amelia Arndt, of Manheim. It was a recital
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by Harriet Amelia Arndt.
Author
Arndt, Harriet Amelia.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1946
Physical Description
[73]-76 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 50, no. 3
Summary
Harriet Amelia Arndt was a resident of Manheim.
Subjects
Arndt, Harriet Amelia, - 1834- - Diaries.
Women - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Manheim (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Personal narratives.
Manheim (Pa.) - History - Personal narratives.
Diaries.
Additional Author
Kendig, John D.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 50, number 3 (1946), p. 73-76Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.50
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[Diary of Alexander L. Hayes, 1873-1875]

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Author
Hayes, A. L. (Alexander L.),
Date of Publication
2005.
Call Number
923.43 H417
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Responsibility
by Alexander L. Hayes.
Author
Hayes, A. L. (Alexander L.),
Place of Publication
Computer printout
Date of Publication
2005.
Physical Description
Unpaged ; 28 cm.
Notes
Transcription of a manuscript in LancasterHistory Archives.
Biography of Judge Hayes precedes diary.
Alexander Hayes was born in 1793. He graduated, with honors, from Dickinson College in 1812 and became Judge of Lancaster County Courts from 1854 to 1875. He was a Trustee and Vice President of Franklin and Marshall College. He died in 1875
Subjects
Hayes, A. L. (Alexander L.), - 1793-1875 - Diaries.
Hayes family.
Judges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Courts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Diaries.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.43 H417
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Diary of Phebe Earle Gibbons

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Author
Gibbons, Phebe Earle,
Date of Publication
2000
Call Number
920.7 G441
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Responsibility
by Phebe Earle Gibbons.
Author
Gibbons, Phebe Earle,
Place of Publication
Computer printout
Date of Publication
2000
Notes
Transcribed by Marian Brubaker.
Phebe Earle Gibbons was from a prominent Quaker family. The diary covers years 1849, 1854, 1855, 1856 and 1857. "MRS. PHOEBE EARLE GIBBONS, a lady of literary tastes, was born in Philadelphia, August 9th, 1821. Her father,Thomas Earle, was a man of great note in his day, and in1840 was the first candidate of the Liberty party for Vice President. The subject of this sketch was well educated in select schools in Massachusetts, and taught in Mr. Picot's French school in Philadelphia and elsewhere for some years. In 1845 she was married to Dr. Joseph Gibbons of Lancaster County. In 1861 she began the study of Greek, with Professor William M. Nevin, of Lancaster. A portion of the Odyssey, translated by her was published in the Ladies' Friend of Philadelphia. A small medical work was translated by her from the French, for Lindsay and Blakistoa, which was published in 1866. She has also translated a portion of the Herman and Dorothea of Goethe. At different times she has written articles for magazines. In 1872 she published a small volume, entitled " Pennsylvania Dutch," a portion of which originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. Mrs. Gibbons is an active member of the Lancaster Linnaean Society. She is a lady of varied acquirements and marked intellectual capacity." [Biographical History of Lancaster County by Alexander Harris.]
Subjects
Gibbons, Phebe Earle - Diaries.
Quakers - Pennsylvania.
Country life - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - Social life and customs - Personal narratives.
Diaries.
Additional Author
Brubaker, Marian.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
920.7 G441
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Diary of Ida Stohler Trostle : Adamstown, Pennsylvania, 1901-1907

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Author
Trostle, Ida Stohler ,
Date of Publication
2001.
Call Number
905.748 JHSCV v.26
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by Ida Stohler Trostle.
Author
Trostle, Ida Stohler ,
Place of Publication
Lititz, PA
Publisher
Fulton Press ,
Date of Publication
2001.
Physical Description
1-110 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
In: Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley , v.26 (2 vols)
Includes index.
Summary
Transcription of the diary of Adamstown resident, Ida Stohler Trostle (1874-1967). The diary was written during the years that Ida's husband Lewis Trostle was the proprietor of Adamstown's "Lancaster County House"; it illustrates the day-to-day interaction of Ida with her family, friends and church community. The diary is footnoted and indexed.
Subjects
Trostle, Ida Stohler , - 1874-1867 - Diaries.
Redcay, Elias , - 1782.
Adamstown, Pa. - Personal narratives.
Diaries.
Additional Title
Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Reference
Call Number
905.748 JHSCV v.26
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Diary of Francis X. Ziegler , 1854-1867

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Author
Ziegler, Francis X. ,
Date of Publication
[2002]
Call Number
923.7 Z66
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Responsibility
transcribed by John Bennawit, Jr.
Author
Ziegler, Francis X. ,
Place of Publication
Computer printout
Date of Publication
[2002]
Physical Description
unp. 29 cm.
Notes
Original diary in Lancaster County Historical Society Archives.
Summary
Francis Ziegler was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania in 1817 and he died in 1902. He was a school teacher and a telegraph operator.He recorded in this diary sporadically between 1854 and 1857. His entries describe personal experiences, but many entries pertain to events of the day, both local and national. His discontent with politics and the times, in general, is clear. The diary begins at the time of a cholera epidemic in Columbia during which many people died. He presents a picture of a very frightening time. Another highlight of the diary was his description of the invasion of Pennsylvania by Confederate troops during the Civil War. He witnessed the burning of the bridge over the Susquehanna River between Columbia and Wrightsville. This action closed off a potential route for the Confederates to reach Philadelphia and Harrisburg after Gettysburg.
Subjects
Ziegler, Francis X - Diaries.
Cholera - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Columbia (Pa.) - History - Personal narratives.
Susquehanna River Valley - History, Military - 19th century.
Diaries.
Additional Author
Bennawit, John,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.7 Z66
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Diary of S.C. Slaymaker while on an engineering excusion in Honduras, Central America, 1857

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Author
Slaymaker, S.C.
Date of Publication
2005.
Call Number
625.11 S631
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Responsibility
by S.C. Slaymaker.
Author
Slaymaker, S.C.
Place of Publication
Computer printout
Date of Publication
2005.
Physical Description
[2], 33 p. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Transcribed by William R. Davidson.
Subjects
Slaymaker, S.C. - Diaries.
Railroad engineering.
Diaries.
Additional Author
Davidson, William R.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
625.11 S631
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Diary

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Collection
Frank E. Witmer's 1879 Diary
Title
Diary of Frank E. Witmer
Object ID
MG0847_F001
Date Range
1879
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Frank E. Witmer's 1879 Diary
Title
Diary of Frank E. Witmer
Description
This diary provides a detailed record of the daily activities of all members of the family, such as farm work (planting, maintaining, and harvesting crops); building a hog pen; helping a neighbor move a carriage house; washing the buggies; canning; preparing for market; attendance at several Mennonite churches in the area; the processes involved in 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. Daily Journal for 1879, published annually for the trade, from I. B. Seeley's Truss & Bandage Establishments, 1347 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia and No. 737 Broadway, New York. The volume also contains a counting-house calendar, rates of postage, and interest tables.
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
Creation Date
1879
Creator
Witmer, Franklin Elmer, 1855-1931
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 19
People
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
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Extent
1 item, 146 pages to scan (26 pages are loose), 13.75 x 4.25 inches
Object Name
Diary
Language
English
Object ID
MG0847_F001
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Transcription: MG0847_F002
Index: MG0847_F003
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, Folder 1
Other Number
MG-847, Folder 1
Classification
MG0847
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The California excursion : an illustrated account of a transcontinental train trip in 1874 based on the diary and letters of Chauncey Forward Sargent

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Author
Sargent, Chauncey Forward
Date of Publication
2001.
Call Number
380.509 B945f Oversize
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by Chauncey Forward Sargent.
Author
Sargent, Chauncey Forward
Place of Publication
Lincoln Center, Mass
Publisher
Heritage House ,
Date of Publication
2001.
Physical Description
xvii, 110 pages : ill. : 21 x 28 cm.
Notes
Contains indices.
Subjects
Lockard, William F.
Reynolds, Samuel H.
Carpenter, Henry.
North, Hugh M. , - 1826-1907.
Sargent, Chauncey Forward , - 1828-1904.
Dickey, Oliver James.
Baumgardner, Henry.
Keller, John.
Wolfe, Napoleon B.
Young, James.
Railroad travel - United States.
Diaries.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
380.509 B945f Oversize
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Standing in the light : the captive diary of Catherine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763

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Author
Osborne, Mary Pope.
Edition
Library reinforced ed.
Date of Publication
2003.
Call Number
823 O81
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Responsibility
by Mary Pope Osborne.
Author
Osborne, Mary Pope.
Edition
Library reinforced ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Scholastic,
Date of Publication
2003.
Physical Description
184 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Series
Dear America
Notes
Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763"--Cover.
Summary
A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.
Subjects
Indian captivities - Pennsylvania - Juvenile Fiction.
Delaware Indians - Juvenile Fiction.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Juvenile Fiction.
Quakers - Juvenile Fiction.
Diaries - Juvenile Fiction.
Indian captivities - Pennsylvania - Juvenile fiction.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Juvenile Fiction.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
823 O81
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