Gravestone inscriptions from a variety of church cemeteries in Eastern Lancaster County and Western Chester County. Churchtown is in Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County.
Library has: v. 6, no 1 honoring Lieutenant Colonel and Assistant Commissary General Horace L. Haldeman; and v. 21, Aug. 1918, "special number dedicated to Major H. B. Keiper as a testimonial of appreciation of the reception tendered by him to the officers of the Pennsylvania Reserve Militia at Lancaster, Pa., August 22, 1918."
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. Ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle
Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens ... together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States
Commemorative biographical encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania : containing sketches of prominent and representative citizens and many of the early Scotch-Irish and German settlers
"In the compilation of the biographies we were ably assisted by William H. Egle ... Rev. A.S. Dudley ... Harry I. Huber ... and Miss R.H. Schively"--Prefatory note.
Chapters : The Fugitive slave act --- The Result --- War --- The Sequel --- The Testimony At The Hearing --- The Hearing Resumed --- Thaddeus Stevens Scores A Point --- A Western View --- The Trial For Treason --- Specification Of Charges --- The Evidence --- The Trial Continued --- Testimony For The Defense --- Judge Grier's Charge To The Jury --- The Verdict And Comments --- The Hero Of The Riot --- William Parker's Story
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African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Summary
The book title refers to the violent action to prevent the capture of certain escaped slaves living in Christiana, Pa. in 1851.
Lafayette at Brandywine, containing the proceedings at the dedication of the memorial shaft erected to mark the place where Layfayette was wounded in the battle of Brandywine, with supplementary paper on Lafayette and the historians, by Charlton T. Lewis. Also evidence as to the place where Lafayette was wounded: accounts of his visits in 1780 and 1825: names of contributors: members of the Chester county historical society: etc
