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Collection: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Title: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Object ID: MG0166

Date Range: 1738-1920

Methodist Episcopal Church Armor’s Old Bookstore Articles of agreement Beaver Creek Black Horse Farm Bonds Business records Certificates Charles E. Wentz & Bros. Christ Lutheran Church Cocalico Creek Conestoga Steam Mills Constables Correspondence Court records Farmer’s Bank of Lancaster Farmer’s Hay and

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Collection: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Title: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Description: The Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection contains documents collected by Mr. Diffenderffer. These documents are primarily from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and include letters, legal and court papers, indentures, receipts, property and probate records, and financial and military papers. The people and businesses represented include George Ross, Jasper Yeates, A. Herr Smith, Timothy Matlack, Mount Hope Furnace, and the Lancaster, Elizabethtown & Middletown Turnpike Road Company.

System of Arrangement: Collection retains original arrangement.

Date Range: 1738-1920

Year Range From: 1738

Year Range To: 1920

Date of Accumulation: 1738-1920

Creator: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Adams, John Quincy; Adreas, Agnes; Albright, W.; Anderson, James; Andrews, Jacob W.; Andrews, James P.; Ashbridge, Elizabeth; Ashbridge, J. H.; Ashbridge, Sarah; Ashbridge, Sidney; Atlee, Samuel; Attlee, Samuel; Autstch, Adam; Bare, Martin; Barlow, Thomas; Barnitz, Joseph; Barr, John; Barton, David R.; Barton, W.; Bauer, Adam; Beams, Jacob; Beard, Robert; Bearn, John; Beck, Martha; Beck, Paul; Beck, Samuel; Bender, Leonard; Benezet, Daniel; Benner, Henrich; Berntheisel, Henry; Berry, William; Bickham, F. A.; Bickman, George; Bletz, Jacob; Blumer, Abraham; Bollinger, Esther; Bombarger, Martin; Bomberger, John; Bower, Samuel P.; Bowman, Henry; Bowman, J.; Bowman, Samuel; Bowman, W.; Boyd, James; Boyd, Samuel; Bradford, Samuel J.; Breck, Samuel; Bredenstein, Philip; Brown, David; Brown, Matthew; Brown, William; Broud, Bill; Bruener, G.; Bryan, George; Bryan, George I.; Burd, Edward; Burkholder, E.; Burt, Nathaniel; Caldwell, James; Caldwell, Oliver; Caldwell, Robert; Calhoun, John C.; Cameron, James; Cameron, John; Campbell, Sarah; Carpenter, Abraham; Carpenter, Daniel; Carpenter, Jacob; Carpenter, William; Cather, Robert; Chambers, Stephen; Chambers, W.; Charlton, Thomas; Clark, Brice; Clark, John; Clark, Washington; Clemson, Joseph; Cochran, A.; Cochran, William; Coleman, William; Connor, Kitty; Cookson, Thomas; Cooper, William; Creasy, Solomon; Creasy, Solomon M.; Crone, Robert; Cunningham, Hugh; Cunningham, Thomas; Damant, James; Damisch, Fred; Davis, Zaccheus; Deckert, Jacob; Dederick, Henry; Dering, Henry; Derward, Jonas; Detrick, P.; Dickert, Jacob; Dieterick, Jacob; Diffenderffer, David; Diffenderffer, Frank Ried; Diffenderffer, Harold F.; Diffenderfer, Michael; Diffenderfer, Philip; Diller, Peter; Doerses, Frederick; Dougherty, William; Douglass, George; Douglass, James; Doyle, Thomas; Dryer, Andrew; Dubbs, Joseph H.; Duck, Geotge; Duncan, Daniel; Eagen, James; Eagen, Thomas; Eberman, John; Eberman, Philip; Eckert, George; Eckman, John; Eftwein, Johannes; Eichholtz, H.; Eichholtz, Leonard; Eliot, Daniel; Emanuel, John; Ench, Jacob; Espy, George R.; Evans, Frances; Evans, Isaac; Evans, James C.; Evans, Samuel; Ewing, John; Faghterin, Mary; Fahnestock, Samuel; Fehl, Andrew; Feltman, George; Ferree, Conrad; Ferree, Polly; Fissel, Michael; Flowers, Christian; Foltz, Bernard; Fordney, Casper; Fouts, Martin; Franklin, Thomas; Franklin, Thomas E.; Franklin W. B.; Frantz, Phil; Frey, J.; Fultz, John; Galbraith, Bertram; Galloway, Joseph; Geddis, Samuel; Gibble, L. W.; Gibbons, William; Gildersleve, Jonathan H.; Gildersleve Sarah; Gill, Deborah; Gill, Eramus; Gill, James; Gill, Matthew; Givler, Mary; Golden, Jeffery; Graass, Jacob; Graeff, Matthias; Graeff, W.; Graff, Benjamin; Graff, Henry; Graff, Jacob; Gratz, Hyman; Groff, Abraham; Groff, David; Groff, Isaac; Gross, Michael; Grove, Abraham; Grubb, Baird; Grubb, Curtis; Grubb, Henry; Habacker, George; Habacker, Wager; Hartz, John; Hake, Elizabeth; Hake, Jacob; Hale, Charles; Hambright, Henry; Hamilton, James; Hamilton, William; Hand, Edward; Hart, Elizabeth; Hartand, John; Hartmyer, Frederick; Haton, James; Hatz, John; Hayn, Christopher; Hehl, Matthew; Henderson, Mary; Henry, Christopher; Henry, Elizabeth; Henry, Joseph; Henry, Josiah; Henry, John Joseph; Henry, Mary; Herr, Christian; Hensel, William Uhler; Hibshman, Henry; Hoff, John; Hoofnagle, P.; Hoover, Jacob; Host, Catharine; Host, Michael; Howell, William H.; Howell, William Wilson; Huber, J.; Huber, John; Hubley, Adam; Hubley, John; Hubley, Joseph; Hubley, M.; Hubner, Nathanael; Huston, Alex; Hutchinson, E.; Jacks, James; Jenkins, Ron; Johns, Elizabeth; Johns, Jacob; Johns, Paul; Johnston, Sam; Jones, John; Jones, Owen; Jones, Paul T.; Jordan, J.; Kauffman, Abraham; Kauffman, Joseph; Kehler, Andrew; Kelly, Joseph P.; Kelly, William; Kenedy, John; Kittera, John Wilkes; Kittera, Thomas; Kline, David; Kline, George; Kline, Michael; Kling, M.; Konigmaker, James; Krebil, John; Krieg, Philip; Krug, Edward; Krug, H. V.; Krug, Jacob; Krug, Valentine; Kuhn, Frederick; Kuhn, Jacob; Lanck, Jacob; Landes, John; Lauman, Ludwig; Lechler, John; Leman, H. E.; Lewis, Abraham; Lewis, Ellis; Liews, Eliza; Lightner, Nathaniel; Likens, James; Lind, John; Long, Charles E.; Long, Jacob; Longenecker, David; Lowery, Alexander; Lowery, Lazarus; Lowman, Ludwig; Lutz, Peter; Lynch, Thomas; MacGonigle, Jonathan T.; MacGregor, John; MacGregor, Peter; Machold, Lewis Frederick; Marshall, Christopher; Matlack, Timothy; Mattes, George; Mauer, Peter; Maus, Peter; Mayer, John; Mayer, Lewis; McGown, William; McClure, David; McClure, Randle; McKim, James; McKinney, Mordecai; Mease, James; Mease, John; Mercer, John Q.; Messersmith, George; Metzer, Jonas; Metzer, Norman; Miller, David; Miller, Harry; Miller, Henry; Miller, James; Miller, John; Miller, T. H.; Minnich, Lizzie; Mohler, Henry; Montgomery, Jane; Montgomery, S. H.; Moore, James; Moore, John; Musser, John; Myer, John; Myer, John P.; Myer, Josephine; Myers, Christian; Myers, Eckert; Myers, Henry; Myers, Jacob; Myers, John; Myers, Joseph; Myers, Josephine; Myers, S. H.; Myers, Sidney; Muhlenberg, F. A.; Muhlenberg, G. H. E.; Muhlenberg, Henry; Muhlenberg, Henry A.; Munster, Paul; Nager, Ben Willis; Nagle, John; Neal, John; Nees, Adam; Neisser, G. Br.; Nelson, William; Nicholson, John; Norgrave, H.; Odonel, Charles; Old, James; Parvin, Francis; Passmore, John; Patton, James; Pendleton, George H.; Pennypacker, Samuel W.; Penrose, Clement; Petersby, Richard; Physick, Edmund; Pine, Michael; Pohlman, Abraham; Price, Eli K.; Purviance, Samuel; Ralston, Robert; Ramsay, Catharine; Ramsay, David; Ramsay, James; Ramsay, Nathaniel; Ramsay, William; Randall, Samuel; Rank, Samuel; Redsecker, Jacob; Reed, E. L.; Reed, George; Reedly, George; Reedly, John; Reigart, Adam; Reigart, Emanuel; Reigart, Jacob; Riche, Thomas; Rieger, Ann; Rohrer, John; Ross, George; Ross, James; Roth, Jacob; Schaum, Philip; Scheaffer, John; Schnierer, John, Mrs.; Schweinhaupt, Br.; Sell, Henry; Seward, Hugh; Shafer, John; Shaffer, Jacob; Sharer, David; Shearer, Jacob; Sheef, William; Sheldon, William; Shippen, Edward; Shireman, Jacob; Shol, Peter; Shware, Peter; Simon, Joseph; Simon, William; Sindersmith, S. V.; Singer, Casper; Singer, Emanuel; Skiles, William; Slaugher, Hiram; Slaymaker, Amos; Slaymaker, Henry; Slough, Matthias; Smith, A. Herr; Smith, Eliza; Smith, Joanna; Smith, Thomas; Smith, William; Snapp, Samuel; Solomon, Myer; Spencer, S. S.; Sprecher, Frank L.; Stauffer, Henry; Stedman, Alex; Stedman, Charles; Steinert, Christian; Steinman, Charles; Steinman, Frederick; Steinman, George; Steinman, John F.; Stevens, R. S.; Stevenson, George; Stone, John; Stoneman, Tobias; Stones, John; Stuart, Robert; Swan, John G.; Swain, R.; Swentzel, H. Y.; Swift, Joseph; Tanger, David R.; Titball, Joseph; Trimble, James; Trissler, John; Trissler, Joseph David; Turner, Ambrose; Turner, Catharine; Wagen, Philip; Walk, Deetrick; Walker, John; Wallace, John; Wallace, William; Warden, M.; Warfel, John; Washington, Samuel; Watson, David; Webb, James; Weber, Adam; Wegman, Mary; Weitzel, George; Wenger, Roland; Werner, Jacob; Wertsburger, Henry; West, William; Wetherill, Samuel P.; White, George; White, T.; Whitaker, George; Wildred, Daniel; Williams, Evans P.; Williams, John; Wistar, Thomas; Witlow, Hugh; Witman, John; Witman, Michael; Witmer, Abraham; Witmer, Benjamin; Witmer, David; Witmer, Henry; Wolford, Ludwig; Wood, George; Work, Joseph; Wright, James; Wright, John; Wright, S. W.; Yaner, Jacob; Yeates, Jasper; Yeates, John; Young, Henry; Young, Mattias; Zahm, Godfrey; Zantzinger, Adam; Zantzinger, Ester; Zeigler, George; Zimmer, Henry

Subjects: Bonds; Business records; Certificates; Court records; Finance, Personal; Invoices; Letters; Lotteries; Minutes (Records); Probate records; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Schools; Stocks

Search Terms: Accounts; African Methodist Episcopal Church; Armor's Old Bookstore; Articles of agreement; Beaver Creek; Black Horse Farm; Bonds; Business records; Certificates; Charles E. Wentz and Bros.; Christ Lutheran Church; Cocalico Creek; Conestoga Steam Mills; Constables; Correspondence; Court records; Farmers Bank of Lancaster; Farmer's Hay and Straw Market Association; Finance, Personal; Finding aids; Franklin Savings and Building Association; Grosh and Levering; Hamilton Lots; Indentures; Indian Queen Hotel; Invoices; Lancaster Cemetery; Lancaster County Agricultural Park; Lancaster County Historical Society; Lancaster, Elizabethtown and Middletown Turnpike Company; Letters; Lotteries; Manuscript groups; McDowell's Mill; Minutes; Mount Hope Furnace; Northern Central Railway Company; Pennsylvania Council; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Probate records; Protestant Episcopal Church; Receipts; Sam Wetherill and Sons; Schools; Shaffner and Ziegler; St. James Episcopal Church; Steinman and Son; Stocks; Trinity Lutheran Church; W. Kirkpatrick and Company; Zahm and Jackson Jewelers

Extent: 1 box, 27 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0166

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Frank R. Diffenderfer Collection (MG0166), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 1964.013

Other Numbers: MG-166

Classification: MG0166

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: This collection was cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 23 September 2021.; Accession # L64-13

Documents

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Record of St. Paul's Reformed Church of Manheim, Pa. : from July 28, 1771

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1061

Date of Publication: March 1954

Call Number: 285.8 S249

Responsibility: taken from the Zacharias copy, translated and typed by Mr. and Mrs. M. Luther Heisey, Lancaster, Pa., March 1954.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: the author

Date of Publication: March 1954

Physical Description: 24 pgs. : 29 cm.

Notes: Indexed by surname.; Baptisms 1771-1856; marriages 1808-1847; necrology; and confirmands.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 260 # 2.

Subjects: St. Paul's United Church of Christ (Manheim, Pa.); Register of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Manheim; Lutheran church - Pennsylvania - Church records

Additional Author: Heisey, Mr. M. Luther; Heisey, Mrs. M. Luther

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 285.8 S249

Early Marriage Records, Lancaster County, Pa. : copies as shown on church records Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland; Zion Lutheran Church, Manheim Boro and St. John's Lutheran Church, Maytown

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18083

Date of Publication: April 1951

Call Number: 284.1 E121

Responsibility: prepared by the Donegal Chapter of the DAR, Lancaster Pennsylvania.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: April 1951

Physical Description: 20 p. : 29 cm.

Notes: Indexed.; Marriages, Trinity Lutheran, 1730-1752; Zion Lutheran, 1780-1812 and St. John's 1827-1832.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County ", Trinity pg. 336 #2A; Zion Evangelical pg. 261 #3 and St. John's Evangelical pg. 117 #3.

Subjects: Trinity Lutheran Church (New Holland, Pa.); Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Manheim, Pa.); St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Maytown, Pa.); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - New Holland; Registers of births, etc. - Pensylvania - Manheim; Registers of births, etc - Pennsylvania - Maytown

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 284.1 E121

Witch tree symbol

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20961

Author: Keene, Carolyn.

Date of Publication: 1955.

Call Number: 813.54 K26

Alternate Title: The witch tree symbol.

Responsibility: by Carolyn Keene.

Author: Keene, Carolyn.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap,

Date of Publication: 1955.

Physical Description: 213 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Series: Nancy Drew mystery stories ; 33

Notes: Carolyn Keene is a Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonym.; Johnson, D. Stratemeyer pseudonyms and series,

Summary: An unusual hex sign leads Nancy Drew to Pennsylvania Dutch country in pursuit of a thief who stops at nothing to get rid of her.

Subjects: Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character) - Juvenile fiction.; Women detectives - Juvenile fiction.; Mystery and detective stories.; Juvenile works.; Mystery fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.

Additional Corporate Author: Stratemeyer Syndicate.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 813.54 K26

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/7059159a-8204-43cd-94fc-754209174677

Collection: American Lung Association Photograph Collection

Object ID: LA-01-01-15

Date Range: c. 1954

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: American Lung Association Photograph Collection

Description: Volunteers from the Manheim Women's Club working on Christmas Seal campaign

Date Range: c. 1954

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Search Terms: Christmas Seals; American Lung Association; Women's Club of Manheim

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 8 x 10 inches

Object ID: LA-01-01-15

Images

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/4a1a5329-1fb1-4af1-970f-370113725680

Collection: Covered Bridge Album

Object ID: A-11-01-06

Date Range: 1950

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Covered Bridge Album

Description: Bushong's Mill, near Oregon between Upper Leacock and Manheim Townships. State supervised on road LR 36009, built in 1843, longest single span in the county, 195 feet long.

Date Range: 1950

Creator: Gaintner, Jay Richard

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Bridges; Covered bridges; Oregon, Manheim Twp.; Mills; Conestoga River

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 8 x 10 inches

Object ID: A-11-01-06

Images

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/c3db3213-6437-4d3f-b029-763642716593

Collection: Mildred Shopf Smiley Photograph Collection

Object ID: MS-01-04-60

Date Range: August 1955

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Mildred Shopf Smiley Photograph Collection

Description: Flooding on the Conestoga River at Eden after Hurricane Connie.

Provenance: Gift of Beth Mitten

Date Range: August 1955

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Floods; Hurricane Connie; Conestoga River; Eden, Manheim Twp.

Place: Manheim Twp.

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 3.25 x 4 inches

Object ID: MS-01-04-60

Images

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/6a0a92f2-9d51-4994-930e-022178283252

Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-12-02-31

Date Range: 1954

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Employees of F. L. Haldeman & Sons Plumbing, Heating and Cooling and Weber Electric goof off during a lunch break during the construction of Pleasant View Retirement Community in Manheim. Back row: Lloyd Hadleman, Jay Haldeman and Ed Haldeman. Front row: Galen Shelley and John Heisey.

Provenance: Original image owned by Haldeman Mechanical.

Date Range: 1954

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Haldeman, Lloyd; Haldeman, Jay; Haldeman, Ed; Shelley, Galen; Heisey, John

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Haldeman & Sons Plumbing; Weber Electric; Manheim; Employees; Pleasant View Communities

Place: Manheim

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Object ID: 2-12-02-31

Notes: Donated for "Lancaster at Play" photograph book.

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Archive

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Documents

Record of St. Paul's Reformed Church of Manheim, Pa. : from July 28, 1771

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1061

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/e30eb138-2c81-4ecf-97cb-186818252986

Documents

Early Marriage Records, Lancaster County, Pa. : copies as shown on church records Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland; Zion Lutheran Church, Manheim Boro and St. John's Lutheran Church, Maytown

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18083

Archive

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Documents

Witch tree symbol

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20961

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/7059159a-8204-43cd-94fc-754209174677

Images

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/4a1a5329-1fb1-4af1-970f-370113725680

Images

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/c3db3213-6437-4d3f-b029-763642716593

Images

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/6a0a92f2-9d51-4994-930e-022178283252

Images