Photograph- Lancaster Bible College students posed in front of Bausman Mansion at Chestnut and Concord Streets. Man in light overcoat at right is Paul J. Sebastian and future president of the college. Stewart Lease is second from left. An enclosed drawing identifies most of the students. Students identified are: John Reisinger; David Heydt; Melvvin Shultz; Mark Wolgemuth; Donald Pierce; Richard Trout; Otto Stahle; Millard Bedwell; Abram Forry; James Lilton Clark; Leslie Wittiker; Richard Hyatt; Kenneth Shearter; Daniel Klim; Leroy Shelly; Thomas Farmer; John Fry; Donald Burkholder; William Nieto; Laverne Swope; Robert Tapper; Vernon Berry; Robert Hopkins; Grace Asper; Erma Good; Stella Sisk; Betty McGonigle; Dorothy Dugan; Betty May Gerbrick; Charles Warfield; Raymond Hicks; Margaret Musser Stahle; Betty Barr; Josephine Poley; Ida Mae Singleton; Lyda Mae Rutt; Bertha Swope; Jeanette Carper; Frank Tobias.
Photograph- Lancaster Bible College students posed in front of Bausman Mansion at Chestnut and Concord Streets. Man in light overcoat at right is Paul J. Sebastian and future president of the college. Stewart Lease is second from left. An enclosed drawing identifies most of the students. Students identified are: John Reisinger; David Heydt; Melvvin Shultz; Mark Wolgemuth; Donald Pierce; Richard Trout; Otto Stahle; Millard Bedwell; Abram Forry; James Lilton Clark; Leslie Wittiker; Richard Hyatt; Kenneth Shearter; Daniel Klim; Leroy Shelly; Thomas Farmer; John Fry; Donald Burkholder; William Nieto; Laverne Swope; Robert Tapper; Vernon Berry; Robert Hopkins; Grace Asper; Erma Good; Stella Sisk; Betty McGonigle; Dorothy Dugan; Betty May Gerbrick; Charles Warfield; Raymond Hicks; Margaret Musser Stahle; Betty Barr; Josephine Poley; Ida Mae Singleton; Lyda Mae Rutt; Bertha Swope; Jeanette Carper; Frank Tobias.
Description
Lancaster Bible College students posed in front of Bausman Mansion at Chestnut and Concord Streets. Man in light overcoat at right is Paul J. Sebastian and future president of the college. Stewart Lease is second from left. An enclosed drawing identifies most of the students. Students identified are: John Reisinger; David Heydt; Melvvin Shultz; Mark Wolgemuth; Donald Pierce; Richard Trout; Otto Stahle; Millard Bedwell; Abram Forry; James Lilton Clark; Leslie Wittiker; Richard Hyatt; Kenneth Shearter; Daniel Klim; Leroy Shelly; Thomas Farmer; John Fry; Donald Burkholder; William Nieto; Laverne Swope; Robert Tapper; Vernon Berry; Robert Hopkins; Grace Asper; Erma Good; Stella Sisk; Betty McGonigle; Dorothy Dugan; Betty May Gerbrick; Charles Warfield; Raymond Hicks; Margaret Musser Stahle; Betty Barr; Josephine Poley; Ida Mae Singleton; Lyda Mae Rutt; Bertha Swope; Jeanette Carper; Frank Tobias.
Page 24: Lancaster County Prison, "Only castle in town, May 17, 1902"; Lancaster Cemetery Entrance, May 17, 1902; Advent Lutheran Church, May 17, 1902; Anna Fondersmith with doll in a little stroller, "County Prison Park, May 17, 1902"; Ann Palmer, Mrs. Leon Dodge's niece, May 19, 1902; Anna Fondersmith with unidentified Mennonite woman.
Provenance
First of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, between 1901 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
