America the beautiful : a family history : the London, Phillips, Scott, and Mitchell families and their related connections in colonial America (1600s-1700s) : with lines in England to Alfred the Great (846 A.D.) and William the Conqueror (1027 A.D.) and in France to King Hugh Capet (938 A.D.)
Baltimore : Arlington, VA (1100 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington 22201)
Publisher
Gateway Press ; Book orders to J.P. London,
Date of Publication
1997.
Physical Description
li, 1000 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes chapters on the Burnett, Oliver, Vaughn, Pettus, Hopkins, Comegys, Brown, Hynson, Smith, Tilden, Blay, Pearce, Wallis, Bodien, and Palmer families of Maryland and Virginia.
Genealogical notes on the family of John Hartz, 1801-1882 (also known as Hatts, Hatz, Hotz, Holtz, Hutz) and Catharine Hershey, 1807-1874, of Dauphin-Lebanon County, Pennsylvania : including a few of their ancestors and some descendants
Chapters: "A Friend" - an essay on the life of Daniel Gibbons by his daughter-in-law, Phoebe Earle Gibbons --- Anecdotes by an unknown friend --- Joseph Gibbons (1818 to 1883 ) obituary from the Lancaster New Era --- Tribute to Levi Johnson by Marianna Gibbons as printed in Lancaster New Era --- Excerpts pertaining to Levi Johnson from the diaries of Phoebe Gibbons and Marianna Gibbons --- "The Underground Railroad " a paper written by Marianna Gibbons Brubaker --- Newspaper articles : "County Duck Farm Unique in Pennsylvania " ; " Underground Railroad stop Holds Pre-Civil War Proof " ; " The Gibbons House . "
The diaries of Peter C. Hiller, Conestoga, Pennsylvania, 1875-1898 : a reflection of the life and times in Conestoga, Pennsylvania during the late 1800s
Library's copy inscribed by Pauline Benedict Eshelman.
Summary
Peter Clinger Hiller was born in Conestoga, PA, and lived there with his wife and four daughters. He was a teacher and farmer. He also sold and repaired organs, bought and sold tobacco, was a clerk in the Internal Revenue office selling cigar stamps along with other duties, wrote deeds for the county Recorder's office, and served as Justice of the Peace. He belonged to several civic organization and had many hobbies.
The McPhersons of Illinois and related families : a genealogy of the descendants of Archibald MacPherson of Scotland, 1581-1989, including the genealogy of the Maxey Family of Wales and the lineage of Laura Estella (Maxey) McPherson through her mother Polly (Irion) Wright to the Poindexter family from the Isle of Jersey
Lebanon County Historical Society : Donald Blyler Offset,
Date of Publication
1990.
Physical Description
221 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Special publication".
Contents
Chapters: Robert Coleman : an American Dynasty --- Mt. Gretna: the early yrs --- Chautauqua in America --- 1892 : Chaurauqua Campus --- United Brethren --- 1892 : Woodland Chapel --- End of a Dynasty; Growth of a Resort --- A New Century --- Coming of Age ReflectionsAlso included : A history of the Chatauqua Movement in America by Joyce Ebright --- A history of the United Brethren faith by Violet Nagle Shelley
Summary
Jack Bitner researched the history of Mt. Gretna from the time the area was used for wood to make charcoal for the Cornwall Iron Furnace a few miles away to the development of the area as the town of Mt. Gretna with its amusement park, the home of the PA National Guard from 1885 to 1935 to the founding of the PA Chautauqua and the settlement of The Brethren in Christ Campmeeting, both in 1892. This book was written and published in 1992 to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the PA Chautauqua & the Campmeeting. This is a colorful story about Robert Habersham Coleman, owner of the land, developing this community until his financial reversals in 1893 and the struggles to provide the unique community it is today.
This is the sequel to the author's first book about the Underground Railroad. It follows the routes north, south, east and west from Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, and tells the story of its "conductors", men and women who helped slaves escape to freedom. Nicely illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. [from Amazon.com]
Peter Gottschall of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and his descendants, the Cutshall/Cutchall Family in the Pennsylvania counties of Venango and Crawford
