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The ladies of the White House, or, In the home of the presidents : being a complete history of the social and domestic lives of the presidents from Washington to the present time

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Author
Holloway, Laura C.
Date of Publication
1881.
Call Number
920.7 H745
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Responsibility
by Laura C. Holloway.
Author
Holloway, Laura C.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Bradley, Garretson,
Date of Publication
1881.
Physical Description
736 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Summary
Biographical sketches of the First Ladies of the White House from presidents Washington to Garfield.
Subjects
Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.
Presidents - United States
Women
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
920.7 H745
Websites
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James Buchanan : fifteenth president of the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17589
Author
Brill, Marlene Targ.
Date of Publication
c1988.
Call Number
923.173 B918br
Responsibility
by Marlene Targ Brill.
ISBN
0516013580
9780516013589
Author
Brill, Marlene Targ.
Place of Publication
Chicago
Publisher
Childrens Press,
Date of Publication
c1988.
Physical Description
98 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
Encyclopedia of presidents
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
Describes the early life and political career of the man who served as president in the years just before the Civil War.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Presidents - United States - Biography - Juvenile literature.
Presidents.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861 - Juvenile literature.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918br
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Collection
General Thomas Welsh Family Papers
Title
General Thomas Welsh Family Papers
Object ID
MG0828
Date Range
1839-1932
Collection
General Thomas Welsh Family Papers
Title
General Thomas Welsh Family Papers
Description
The General Thomas Welsh Family Papers is a collection of original correspondence, official documents, and ephemera. Many of the papers were created by or directed to Thomas Welsh between approximately 1843 and his death in 1863. They provide glimpses into his youth, his experiences in the Mexican War, his life in Columbia between the wars, and his rise in rank to Brigadier General during the Civil War.
The collection contains correspondence with his wife and family from 1861-1863. There are also official correspondence and documents related to Welsh's military service, autobiographical pieces, correspondence following his death, obituaries, and family papers into the early twentieth century. Other items in the collection include genealogy pages from the family bible, photographic images of Thomas Welsh and family members, two scrapbooks, newspaper issues and newspaper clippings, written notes from recollections of one of Welsh's daughter, and a biographical sketch of Welsh written by his son.
Admin/Biographical History
Thomas Welsh (1824-1863) was a Lancaster County native (born and raised in Columbia), who rose from hardscrabble origins to local fame, first as a Mexican War hero, and then as a brigadier general during the Civil War. He was well known and well respected as a no nonsense officer, for his leadership and gallantry in battle, for his dedication to the service of his country, and for his concern for the welfare of his men.
Welsh lost his father at the age of 2, and went to work to support his family at age 8. He had very little formal schooling, and was largely self-educated. In 1843, at age 19, he left Lancaster County for Washington City, then went west as an itinerant carpenter/laborer to Cincinnati, Little Rock, and Fort Smith.
When the Mexican War broke out in 1846, he enlisted in a Kentucky regiment, and was severely wounded at the battle of Buena Vista (1847) from which he never fully recovered. Returning home to Columbia, he re-enlisted as a second lieutenant, assigned to the 11th U.S. infantry regiment in Mexico City. Within days of his arrival in Mexico City, he was declared unfit for service on account of his battle wound, and sent home again.
Back in Columbia as a civilian, he dabbled in politics, and received a patronage job in the Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works (the rail and canal system connecting Philadelphia and Pittsburgh). After several years, he opened up a grocery and dry goods store in Columbia's canal basin. He also became an insurance agent. In 1857, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and his reputation grew as a community leader. By 1860, he was president of the Borough Council, a founding member of the Columbia Board of Trade, Vice President of the Columbia Cricket Club, and a canal boat operator, in addition to a dry goods merchant, insurance agent, and Justice of the Peace. He had a wife, 5 surviving children, and legal guardianship of his sister's 4 children.
When Confederate forces shelled Fort Sumter, marking the beginning of the Civil War, Thomas Welsh raised and organized the first company of volunteers from Lancaster County, and took them into the field as their Captain. Within days, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment, which served out its 90-day enlistment in the Shenandoah Valley.
Returning to Harrisburg, he was appointed Commandant of Camp Curtin, the problem-plagued processing center for new recruits. In short order, Welsh cleaned up the camp's poor sanitary conditions, improved the health of the camp, and implemented soldierly discipline and training.
In October 1861, he resigned from his camp duties, and as Colonel of the 45th Pennsylvania, led his regiment into the field. After brief service outside of Washington, they were sent to South Carolina in December, where they were posted to Otter Island. After the battle of James Island, they were recalled to Newport News, in July 1862, then sent to guard Aquia Creek.
In September, now in brigade command in Burnsides' 9th Corps, Welsh chased Lee's Confederate army west into central Maryland. His brigade broke the enemy line in Fox's Gap, on Sept. 14, then 3 days later achieved the furthest Union advance at Antietam, reaching the edge of Sharpsburg, and nearly cutting off Lee's only avenue of escape. Welsh's gallantry earned him a field promotion to brigadier general, which Congress confirmed on March 13, 1863.
The 9th Corps (Welsh now in command of the 1st Division) was sent west in the spring of 1863, then dispatched south to support Grant's investment of Vicksburg. After Vicksburg fell, they turned east and defeated Confederate General Johnston at the Battle of Jackson. Welsh contracted malaria in the southern swamps, and died in Cincinnati upon their return north. One of his men later recalled, "Had he lived, Welsh would undoubtedly have attained a much higher command. 1
1. Beauge, Eugene, in Albert, Allen D., Ed., History of the Forty-Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Williamsport, PA: Grit Publ. Co, 1912, p. 79.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged in series:
Series A Thomas Welsh before the Mexican War
Series B Mexican War, 1846-1848
Series C Between the Mexican War and the Civil War, 1848-1861
Series D Civil War
Series E Post-Civil War
Series F Miscellaneous Family Papers
Series G Papers from the families of Gen. Thomas Welsh and Blanton C. Welsh
Date Range
1839-1932
Year Range From
1839
Year Range To
1932
Creator
Wiggin, Richard C.
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 19
People
Welsh, Thomas
Welsh, Annie Eunice Young
Welsh, Blanton Charles
Welsh, Effie
Welsh, Lilian
Welsh, Mary Young "Mazie"
Buchanan, James
Subjects
Letters
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Military orders
Military promotions
Personal correspondence
Political campaigns
Presidents--Election
Speeches, addresses, etc.
United States. Army--Military life
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Search Terms
Civil War
Correspondence, Personal
Letters
Mexican War
Military life
Military orders
Military promotions
Political campaigns
Presidential elections
Speeches
United States Army
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Condition
Fair to good
Condition Date
2020-12-18
Condition Notes
Items are in fair to good condition.
Object ID
MG0828
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment. Please contact archives@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.
Copyright
Images have been provided for research purposes only. Please contact archives@lancasterhistory.org for a high-resolution image and permission to publish.
LancasterHistory retains the rights to the digital images and content presented. The doctrine of fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. Fair use includes comment, criticism, teaching, and private scholarship. Any images and data downloaded, printed or photocopied for these purposes should provide a citation. All other uses beyond those allowed by fair use require written permission.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Some items are photocopies from other collections--researchers must obtain permission for reproduction and publication from the owner of the original material.
Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.
Classification
MG0828
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Almost all of the papers have been passed down through successive generations of Welsh's descendants, from Thomas Welsh's wife and children to his granddaughter, Emilie Benson (Welsh) Wiggin, to her daughter Nancy Jane (Wiggin) Townsend. After Nancy Townsend's death, her son Charles Townsend passed them on to his cousin, Richard Wiggin (grandson of Emilie Benson Wiggin) in 2015.
A few papers passed out of the family's possession and found their way into other collections. Richard Abel of Columbia, PA began collecting Welsh papers and artifacts some years ago, and subsequently transferred this collection of Welsh materials to Richard Wiggin in 2012.
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The Hessians of Lewis Miller

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7184
Author
Miles, Lion G.
Date of Publication
1983.
Call Number
759.1392 M652
Responsibility
text by Lion G. Miles ; research by Jonathan R. Stayer and Lion G. Miles ; photography by Hayman Studio of Commercial Photography, Inc.
ISBN
0939016079 (pbk.)
Author
Miles, Lion G.
Place of Publication
[Lyndhurst, Ohio]
Publisher
The Association,
Date of Publication
1983.
Physical Description
iii, 68 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Notes
"Pennsylvania German-American Tricentennial Project of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, Inc. with assistance from the Historical Society of York County (Pa.)."
Bibliography: p. 67-68.
Summary
Drawings of German men who had been soldiers for the British in the American Revolution and then remained in America after the war. Mr Miller knew of these men and made drawings of them. Biographical information accompanies the drawings.
Subjects
Miller, Lewis, - 1796-1882.
Hessians - Pennsylvania - York County
German Americans - Pennsylvania - York County
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Biography.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Portraits.
York County (Pa.) - Biography.
Additional Corporate Author
Johannes Schwalm Historical Association.
Historical Society of York County (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
759.1392 M652
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The Hessians of Lewis Miller: assimilation of German soldiers in America after the Revolution

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Author
Stayer, Jonathan R..
Date of Publication
1988.
Call Number
759.1392 S798
Responsibility
by Jonathan R. Stayer.
ISBN
0939016079 (pbk.)
Author
Stayer, Jonathan R..
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Penn State Univ.,
Date of Publication
1988.
Physical Description
iii, 238 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
A project in American Studies submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Arts degree in American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, The Capital College, July 10, 1988.
Bibliography: p. 233-238.
Summary
Lewis Miller was an artist in York, PA. He made sketches of 22 Hessian soldiers who fought for the British during the American revolution and stayed in the York area after its conclusion. The author's book is based on those Hessians. In the introduction, the author states, "The purpose of this paper is to consider the individual soldiers, their families,their lives, and their involvement in the York community in which they settled. What happened to these men after the Revolution ? Why did they choose the communities in which they settled. Were they accepted by the Americans ? Did they experience financial success ? What was the nature of their family life ? Did their families suffer the stigma of having a 'Hessian' patriarch."
Subjects
Miller, Lewis, - 1796-1882.
Sherbahm family.
Sleeger Family.
Stengel Family.
Younger Family.
Zangel Family.
Vogt Family.
Baumgardner Family.
Cramer Family.
Farnschild Family.
Moore Family.
Engelmohr Family.
Hattendorf Family.
Henicker Family.
Herbst Family.
Hubly Family.
Lochner Family.
Stein Family.
Hessians - Pennsylvania - York County
German Americans - Pennsylvania - York County
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Biography.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Portraits.
United States  - History  - Revolution, 1775-1783  - Participation, German.
York County (Pa.) - Biography.
Additional Corporate Author
Johannes Schwalm Historical Association.
Historical Society of York County (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
759.1392 S798
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Lincoln and the South in 1860

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13025
Author
Johannsen, Robert Walter,
Date of Publication
1989.
Call Number
973.7 J65
Responsibility
Robert W. Johannsen.
Author
Johannsen, Robert Walter,
Place of Publication
Fort Wayne, Ind
Publisher
Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum,
Date of Publication
1989.
Physical Description
31 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Annual R. Gerald McMurtry lecture ;
Notes
Delivered at the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on May 25, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-31).
Subjects
Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865 - Political career before 1861.
Presidents - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7 J65
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Harriet Lane, First Lady of the White House

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1133
Author
Shelley, Mary Virginia.
Date of Publication
c1980.
Call Number
920.7 L265s 1980
Responsibility
Mary Virginia Shelley & Sandra Harrison Munro ; with ill. by Regina Weatherlow.
ISBN
0915010291 :
Author
Shelley, Mary Virginia.
Place of Publication
Lititz, PA
Publisher
Sutter House,
Date of Publication
c1980.
Physical Description
48 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Summary
Presents a biography of James Buchanan's niece who was the White House hostess during her uncle's presidency, helped create the National Gallery of Art, and started the first pediatrics hospital.
Subjects
Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903. - Juvenile literature.
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868. - Family - Juvenile literature.
Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868. - Family.
Presidents - United States
Presidents
Additional Author
Munro, Sandra Harrison,
Weatherlow, Regina.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
920.7 L265s 1980
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Author
Schweitzer, George Keene,
Date of Publication
c1984
Call Number
929.1 S413c
Responsibility
by George K. Schweitzer.
ISBN
0913857009 (pbk.) :
Author
Schweitzer, George Keene,
Place of Publication
Knoxville, TN
Publisher
G.K. Schweitzer,
Date of Publication
c1984
Physical Description
76 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Registers - Bibliography.
United States - Genealogy - Bibliography.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Bibliography.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Archival resources.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Library resources.
United States - Genealogy - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.1 S413c
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Markers : the annual journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies

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Date of Publication
c1980-
Call Number
736.5 M354
ISSN
0277-8726
Place of Publication
[Worcester?, Mass.]
Publisher
The Association,
Date of Publication
c1980-
Physical Description
v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publication Frequency
Annual
Dates of Publication
Vol. 1 (1979/80 ed.)-
Series
1979/80-198 : AGS publications
Notes
Imprint varies: Lanham, MD : University Press of America, <1985->
Library has: v. 1, 2, 5, 6, 16, 17, 21-27.
Subject Index to v. 1-20 also published separately.
America, history and life
Historical abstracts
Contents
v. 1. Resurrecting the epitaph -- Recording cemetery data -- Care of old cemeteries and gravestones -- Protective custody: The museum's reponsible for gravestones -- Willow tree and urn motif -- Archaeological significance of mausoleums -- Mystery, history and an ancient graveyard -- Resources for the classroom teacher -- Gravestones and historical archaeology. v. 5. Pennyslvania German gravemarkers -- Early Pennyslvania gravemarkers. v. 6. Tributes in stone and lapidary lapses: commemorating Black people in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America -- Communities of the dead: tombstones as a reflection of social organization. v 16. The year's work in gravemarker/cemetery studies. v. 17 The Quaker graveyard -- John Solomon Teetzel and the Anglo-German gravestone carving tradition of 18th century northwestern New Jersey --The year's work in gravemarker/cemetery studies. v. 21 Carving a path to freedom: the life and work of African American Stonecarver Sebastian "Boss" Hammond -- Subject index for Markers 1-20 --The year's work in cemetry and gravemarker studies: an international bibliography. v. 22 -- The year's work in cemetery and gravemarker studies: an international bibliography. v.23 -- The year's work in international cemetery and gravemarker studies: and international bibliography. v.24 - Virtuous women, useful men, & lovely children - New Netherland's gravestone legacy - Myths and realities of Laural Hill's "mother and twins" monument - Embodying immortality - Borden Thorton (1762-1838), Rhode Island stonecarver - The year's work in cemetery and gravemarker studies : an international bibliography. v. 25 - Obituary: Gary L Collison - Death , burial and Memorialization in colonial New England - Scottish discoid gravemarkers - Beth El : Michigan's oldest Jewish cemetery - "Gothic" cast-iron gravemarkers in New Hampshire - The year's work in cemetery and gravemarker studies: an international bibliography. v. 26 - A Tribute to James Slater - Headstones, hatchments, and heraldry, 1650-1850 - Home at last: mortuary commemoration in Virginian slave cemeteries - Westall decoration day, a poem - The Tombstones of the English East India Company in Macao: a linguistic analysis - Fok beliefs, mystics, and superstitions in Ashkenazi and Karaite tombstone inscriptions from Ukraine - The Year's work in cemetery and gravestone studies : an international bibliography.v.27 - Memorializing the Civil War Dead -- Cities of the Dead --Eighteenth-Century Gravestone Carvers of the Upper Narragansett Basin: The Real George Allen Jr. --Wooden artifacts in Cemeteries --The Year's Work in Cemetery and Gravestone Studies: an international bibliography. v.28 - A Tribute to Fred Oakley - Preserving the Sightline of Ruckstull's Minerva on the Alter to Liberty in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn - Dearth of Markers: Ambivalence of Memory in Elmira, New Yor, and Its National and Woodlawn Cemeteries-"A Holy War, on Both sides": Stonewalll Cemetery at Winchester, Virginia - Lettering on Gravemarkers in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island: regional Variation and the Scottish Influence - The Year's Work in cemetery and Gravestone Studies: An International Bibliography.
Subjects
Historical markers - United States
Sepulchral monuments - United States
Inscriptions - United States
Epitaphs - United States
Cemeteries - United States
United States - Antiquities - Periodicals.
Additional Corporate Author
Association for Gravestone Studies.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
736.5 M354
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Visiting our past : America's historylands

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Edition
Rev. ed.
Date of Publication
c1986.
Call Number
917.3 V831
ISBN
0870446479 (deluxe : alk. paper) :
0870446460 (alk. paper) :
Edition
Rev. ed.
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
National Geographic Society,
Date of Publication
c1986.
Physical Description
400 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Series
World in color library.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 400.
Subjects
Historic sites - United States
Monuments - United States
United States - Guidebooks.
United States - Pictorial works.
Additional Corporate Author
National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
917.3 V831
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