Memorial addresses on the life and character of Samuel J. Randall, a representative from Pennsylvania, delivered in the House of representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-first Congress, first session
Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism.
Contents : INTRODUCTION - THE INDIGENES --- CONRAD WEISER'S REMOTE ANCESTRY AND NATIVE PLACE --- CONRAD WEISER'S PARENTS-HIS FATHER AND MOTHER --- THE EXODUS OF CONRAD WEISER'S FATHER --- CONRAD'S FATHER CHIEF OF THE COLONY AT LIVINGSTONE MANOR --- CONRAD'S FATHER CHIEF OF THE COLONY AT SCHOHARIE --- CONRAD WEISER"S FATHER THE DEFENDER OF THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF HIS COUNTRYMEN AT SCHOHARIE--- CONRAD'S FATHER LEADS A COLONY TO TULPEHOCKEN , PENNSYLVANIA , HIS RETURN AND WANDERING, HIS VISIT TO TULPEHOCKEN , HIS DEATH --- JOHN CONRAD WEISER JUNIOR, HIS NAME, BIRTHPLACE, BAPTISM -- CONRAD'S ARRIVAL IN AMERICA - HIS STAY WITH THE MAQUA INDIANS --- CONRAD WEISER AND HIS STEPMOTHER --- CONRAD WEISER'S BROTHERS AND SISTERS, HIS OCCUPATION, HIS MARRIAGE, HIS DEPARTURE FOR PENNSYLVANIA --- CONRAD WEISER'S ADVENT IN PENNSYLVANIA , THE BEGINNING OF HIS OFFICIAL HISTORY --- CONRAD WEISER PROVINCIAL INTERPRETER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 1732 to1743 --- TEN MORE YEARS OF INDIAN INTERCOURSE , MISSIONS AND DUTIES1744 to 1754 --- THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR, CONRAD WEISER SUPERINTENDENT OF THE INDIAN BUREAU, COLONEL, HIS DEATH ANNOUNCED 1754 to 1760 --- CONRAD WEISER'S FAILING HEALTH, HIS DEATH, HIS BURIAL PLACE --- CONRAD WEISER AS A RELIGIOUS FIGURE --- CONRAD WEISER's WILL , HIS POSSESSIONS , HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS,HIS POSTERITYALSO, WEISER's LETTERS AND JOURNALS
A good, honest, hard working man : William Christian Paulsen and his family - German immigrants who settled in Lancaster in the mid- to late-nineteenth century
"William Paulsen's story, although unique in its details, is generally typical of the stories of many other middle-class German immigrants in Lancaster. Together, these stories comprise an important part of Lancaster's history that may not be very well known because immigrants in the middle class, although in the great majority, did not leave as many traces in the historical records as did more affluent, well-known immigrants. As a result, the stories of middle-class immigrants are more difficult to piece together. However, in the case of William Paulsen and his family, we are fortunate to have extensive family sources of information to draw on, as well as a substantial number of historical records."
Jonah Davenport, an early eighteenth century Lancaster Indian trader, his son William Davenport, a Carlisle saddler, and grandson, Samuel Davenport, Trader General of the Tribes of Texas
"On the American frontier, there were men who always pushed the edge. These were often the Indian traders, solitary men who purchased great lots of manufactured goods, loaded them on trains of pack horses or mules and set out into the wilderness to trade with the Indians in exchange for skins and furs. Such a man was the Indian trader Jonah Davenport."
Transferred from Objects Collection 2023. Former accession number: 1977.055.4
Publisher's binding: textured fabric with wave pattern, printed with dogwood flowers in white, pink, and green. Spine is turquoise fabric with gold tooling. Considerable foxing at edges of boards, but colors still vibrant.
Chapters: LIFE TO THE ENTRY UPON THE HOLY MINISTRY --- BECOMES A MINISTER,THEN A MISSIONARY --- MINISTRY AT LANCASTER --- MINISTRY AT TULPEHOCKEN --- MINISTRY AT FREDERICK --- MINISTRY AT YORK ---CO-LABORERS--- CALL TO BALTIMORE --- ESTABLISHMENT AND PROGRESS OF THE BALTIMORE CONGREGATION --- CO-LABORERS IN GENERAL --- PROGRESS OF THE RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT --- OTTERBEIN AND THE REFORMED CHURCH --- OTTERBEIN AND THE UNITED BRETHREN --- FRIENDLY RELATIONS - DEATH OFBOEHM AND GEETING --- DOMESTIC LIFE -MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS ----OTTERBEIN'S EXTANT PAPERS --- OTTERBEIN'S LAST YEAR
xvi, 470 p. , [26] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Series
Macmillan's standard library
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Chapters: Homes of the colonists / How homes were lighted / The kitchen fireside / Foods and the serving of food / Flax and wool culture and spinning / Girls occupations / Hand weaving / Clothing / Travel, transportation and taverns / How Sundays were spent / Colonial neighborliness. With many photos and illustrations.
