Photograph- Joseph Henry Dubbs, D.D. Professor History and Archaeology, Franklin and Marshall College from 1876 to 1910. First president of Lancaster County Historical Society.
Photograph- Joseph Henry Dubbs, D.D. Professor History and Archaeology, Franklin and Marshall College from 1876 to 1910. First president of Lancaster County Historical Society.
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Joseph Henry Dubbs, D.D. Professor History and Archaeology, Franklin and Marshall College from 1876 to 1910. First president of Lancaster County Historical Society.
Exterior of Ezra F. Bowman's first store, located at 106 East King Street. Left to right, William Thomson, Amos Frick, Ezra F. Bowman, Harper Foreman, Howard Werntz, Richard Mason, Harry Sutton.
Stevens House Hotel - opened November 19, 1874 as New Hotel. Christopher Hager moved to get place for traveling salesmen to stay in downtown Lancaster. He sponsored a public stock sale and name of hotel to be person responsible for most stock sales. There was a dry goods merchant at 21 E. King Street - Hoar & McNabb (c. 1872 to 1898) - was Joseph Hoar, and when stockholder voted they voted to call it after Thaddeus Stevens. In 1917 Ralph Alexander bought out participants and subsequently inherited by his daughter, Mabel Alexander Shoemaker. Torn down for apartment house during winter of 1963 - 1964.