This collection contains correspondence regarding Henry A. Zug's employment with the United States Treasury Department, including a letter from Thaddeus Stevens recommending his appointment to the department, as well as recipes for Zug's National Bitters and teaching certificates of his daughter, Lola Zug, who taught in the Lancaster city schools for 47 years.
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Henry A. Zug was born in Penn Township, Lancaster County in 1826. He worked in as a customs agent in the United States Treasury Department in Philadelphia. He married Fanny Hershey in 1847. Zug also manufactured Zug's National Bitters with business partners, Dr. Jacob H. Kurtz and J. S. Walton. He died in Philadelphia in 1890. His daughter, Lola Zug, was a teacher in Lancaster city schools for 47 years before retiring in 1926.
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Back row, left to right: Teacher - Miss Rebecca Diem, Agnes McKay, Viola Blank, Alice Buckwalter, Gertrude Meredith, Leah Brown, Carrie Blank, Mary Sullivan, Earl Ammon, Maurice Sullivan. Second row, left to right: Anna Blank, Viola Fisher, Lela Brown, Lena Fisher, Parke Ammon, Roy Doutrich. Third row, left to right: Ralph Brown, Rueben Doutrich, Dennis Sullivan, Maurice Doutrich, Catherine Fisher, Steward Fisher, Thomas McKay, Elton Buckwalter, Nelson Baker, Marvin Myers, Charles Ammon, David Doutrich.
East End School, Conestoga. Teacher, George Lawrence. Students are: Front row, left to right: Wesley Warfel, Charles Kneisley, Olive Trissler, Elizabeth Markley, Ruth Martin, Mary Markley, Mary Sickman, Ruth Sickman, Hattie Hallman, Olive Markley, Arthur Mattin, John Trissler, Ira Hallman. Second row, left to right: Clarence Wade, Paul Hollow, William Hallman, Jacob Hallman, Clarence Hollow, Elmer Markley, Lloyd Kline, Ira Markley, Warren Sickman, Harry Kneisley,Maris Warfel, Cyrus Biechler, Paul Biechler. Back row, left to right: Grace Benedict, Edna Kreider, Reba Wade, Martha Trissler, George Lawrence, Margaret Beichler, Camilla Beichler, Emily Biechler, Sara Trissler, Mabel Hallman.
Dillman R. Bomberger (December 15, 1879 - 1944) was a schoolteacher and photographer who was born near Lexington, Elizabeth Township. He worked as a schoolteacher in Elizabeth Township and by 1910 was working as a bookkeeper for Bayonne Steel Casting Company in Reading, PA. He married Aimee Brubaker in 1910 and had two children: Verna and David.
The photographs in this collection are mostly of family or friends and locations in the Elizabeth Township, Warwick Township and Lititz area.
Dillman R. Bomberger (December 15, 1879 - 1944) was a schoolteacher and photographer who was born near Lexington, Elizabeth Township. He worked as a schoolteacher in Elizabeth Township and by 1910 was working as a bookkeeper for Bayonne Steel Casting Company in Reading, PA. He married Aimee Brubaker in 1910 and had two children: Verna and David.
The photographs in this collection are mostly of family or friends and locations in the Elizabeth Township, Warwick Township and Lititz area.
Dillman R. Bomberger (December 15, 1879 - 1944) was a schoolteacher and photographer who was born near Lexington, Elizabeth Township. He worked as a schoolteacher in Elizabeth Township and by 1910 was working as a bookkeeper for Bayonne Steel Casting Company in Reading, PA. He married Aimee Brubaker in 1910 and had two children: Verna and David.
The photographs in this collection are mostly of family or friends and locations in the Elizabeth Township, Warwick Township and Lititz area.
