Includes brief history, timeline and historic sites of Churchtown, Columbia, East Petersburg, Elizabethtown, Lancaster, Lititz, Manheim, Marietta, Maytown, Mounty Joy and Strasburg.
Lehman-Burke family history : a three century narrative of an ordinary American family, 1708-2002, as seen in the lives of my parents, Algie Ellsworth Lehman and Mabel Claire (Burke) Lehman, and in the lives and times of their ancestors and descendants
"Index revised and updated May, 2000. Includes 18 titles."--Prelim. page.
Summary
Ann Burgert takes the names from passenger lists and connects them to church records in Germany. "This index includes names from 18 published volumes of 18th- and 19th-century emigrants that have been compiled by Burgert. The index includes the surname and given name of the emigrant, followed by the year of emigration when given, and a short citation for the work in which the emigrant appears."
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society v.103, no.2.
Contents
From slavery to freedom--middle class African-Americans in Lancaster County (Hannah Bosley, William Whipper, Stephen Smith, Dinah McIntire)--Joseph Simon: Jewish merchant and philanthropist of the eighteenth century--Firefighting in early Lancaster--Family history at the Lancaster County Historical Society (Demuth family history)--Cooking in the County--Blanche Nevin--Lloyd Mifflin: artist and sonneteer--The bridge at Columbia--Ephrata Cloister--A distinguished military family (Henry A. Hambright)--A midwife (Susana Rohrer Mueller)--John Wise, balloonist (1808-1879)--Jasper Yeates, attorney and Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice--Thaddeus Stevens--Robert Fulton, engineer and artist--"Gold!" (John Augustus Sutter)--George Washington--Oddities and the END.
