This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.
System of Arrangement
The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.
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Additional Notes
Prisons.
Payment for lumber for the use of the jail.
Smith, Stephen. Person of color.
1 item. 1 piece.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.
New Street Public School, 1892, Bertha Cochran Landis, teacher. Written on back: "Paul's class at New Street. Bessie Hohein, H. Ruth, Rudy, Dietrich, Lutz, Aument, Allwein, Moyer, Overly, Leila Martin, Mary Debolt." Group of children posed on steps.
Carl Matz, Musician. Taught German and vocal music at the high school in Lancaster. On back of one is printed Dr. McCaskey's Valedictory, June 7, 1906. Also section from a speech by J. P. McCaskey given at Montreal.
Lancaster High School students. Names listed on back of photo: Arthur H. Bell; Walter E. Barr; Harry C. Bolenius; Ralph W. Coho; George W. Cornelius; Harold F. Diffenderfer; Charles W. Diller; Leon D. Dodge; William W. Eichler; James R. Elliott; Frederick Gasser; Ernest W. Haverstick; Eugene A. Heim; John P. Herr; William Hook; Guy H. Killian; William H. Kready; George E. Kuhlman; Walter S. Mellinger; Peter Mohr; Donald G. McCaskey; Robert Bruce McGaw; Harry P. Nolty; William P. Ostermayer; George K. Reynolds; Oliver J. Smith; Clay Sprecher; Lewis B. Sprecher; Harry A. Stauffer; Charles A. Steckman; and William H. Thompson. A number of female students are shown in the photo but their names are not listed. John P. McCaskey is seated at left in the front row.
Lancaster High School class of 1892--group of standing and seated young men with teacher, Prof. John P. McCaskey. Idlentification above and below picture: Leonard, C. Baker, Suleso, Kepler, Sponhert, Fieber, Gable, Higbee, Michael, Joseph, Howell, Frey. Isenberger, Bowman, Myers, Eby, Edgerly, McClain, Gompf, Powell, S. Baker, Smith, Albright, Warren, Campbell.
Lancaster High School class of 1901. List of people attached, but not identified on photograph: Mary Resh; Daisy Greiner; Jennie M. Kieffer; Katharine Brown; Mathilde Globisch; Edna P. Carpenter; Mary M. Book; Alberta W. Paden; Grace R. Hawthorne, Sara D. Lutz, Stella Gingrich, Mary K. Strine, C. Elizabeth Hoyler, Edna A. Miles, Irene F. Haughman, Florentine R. Marx, Mary F. Slaugh. Myrtle Adams, Mary W. Smith, M. Maude Mentzer, Lillian D. Freund, Bertha M. Hostetter, May B. Hawthorne, Lula G. Bausman, Minnie Sulcov, Leila M. Frantz, Mabel Zercher, Amy G. Bartholomew, Minnie R.Wise, Olive J. Bonine, Elsie R. Worrst, Nellie C. Haines, Amelia C. Bertschi, Elsie M. Bauman, Jessie A. Koch, Annie J. Heinitsh, Gertrude L. Siegler, M. Ethel Hurst, Clara Kieffer, Sue F. Fralich, M. Blanche McMichel, Lewis H. Abel, John W. Appel, Leonard J. Bachler, Elwood R. Bucher, John J. Crumbaugh,Daniel M. Dukeman, Ephraim S. Eshleman, Alfred C. Fickes, Charles S. Hoffman, Paul H. Keppel, Kirwin W. Kinard, William E. Zercher, Walter R. Markley, Lewis A. Noll, James I. Pyle, John W. Reith, Roscoe R. Schnader, George A. Schwebel, Frank F. Shue, Bon Smaling, Warren E. Snyder, Andrew K. Stehman, Robert J. Titzel, also John P. McCaskey.
