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Collection: Commissioners' Orders for Payment

Title: Commissioners' order for payment

Object ID: COMMISSIONERS' ORDERS FOR

Collection: Commissioners' Orders for Payment

Title: Commissioners' order for payment

Description: 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.

Date of Accumulation: 1810-1901

Creator: County Commissioners

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives North

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Extent: 70 boxes (35 cubic ft.)

Object Name: Order for Payment

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Condition Date: 2008-03-25

Object ID: COMMISSIONERS' ORDERS FOR

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 08-01 0510

Description Level: Fonds

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Object ID: MG0294

Date Range: 1865-1961

County, Pennsylvania Correspondence Death Decedents' estates Earl Twp. East Earl Twp. Ephrata Estate settlement Farmers National Bank Finding aids Florida Franklin Twp., Adams County, Pennsylvania Funerals Gap, Salisbury Twp. Grand Forks Herald Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota Health Hotel

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Description: The Geist Family Papers include correspondence, tax records, legal documents, and other items related to the Geist family. Some correspondence is personal, while other letters relate to legal proceedings concerning estates and inheritances. A number of wills and associated materials, generally related to adjudications involving family members. Numerous local tax notices and federal income tax returns largely pertain to Daniel W. and Bertha W. Geist. Other materials include notebooks and receipts from Daniel W. Geist's time at Millersville State Normal School, visiting cards, and newspaper clippings.

Date Range: 1865-1961

Year Range From: 1865

Year Range To: 1961

Date of Accumulation: 1865-1961

Creator: Geist family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Alexander, James K.; Anderson, Howard; Bachman, Julie C.; Bard, Bertha; Brown, George; Bulleit, Edward Banister; Dague, Isaac W.; Dague, Lily C. Geist; Diller, Luther R.; Eshleman, John H.; Fox, Christian, Jr.; Geist, Adam; Geist, Agnes; Geist, Bertha Wanner; Geist, Daniel W.; Geist, Ettie G.; Geist, Everett S.; Geist, Harry Kohler; Geist, Lilly Kate; Groff, John M.; Heisher, Daniel; Hobson, Jesse; Hobson, Maria; Horst, Jacob G.; Kjorlien, Alvin C.; Leaman, William; Lyte, Eliphalet Oram; Martin, Luke W.; Milledge, Stanley; Miller, Helen Mildred Diller; Miller, Leon H. B.; Miller, Ruth; Ott, Janet F.; Overly, Herman Witmer; Overly, Richard Geist; Pond, B. C.; Pool, Virginia L.; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Rush, Charles William; Rush, Harriet Geist; Shaub, Sadie; Shirk, H. S.; Shirk, Henry; Shirk, Lawrence; Stoner, H. K.; Weaver, C. R.; Weaver, George A.; Werner, John Thomas; Witmer, Clara; Wolf, Lemon A.; Wolfe, Helen

Subjects: Decedents' estates; Estates (Law); Letters; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Taxation

Search Terms: A. Geist and Son; Adams County, Pennsylvania; Albert Pick Company; Births; Bismarck, North Dakota; Blue Ball Bank; Blue Ball, East Earl Twp.; Calling cards; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Correspondence; Death; Decedents' estates; Earl Twp.; East Earl Twp.; Ephrata; Estate settlement; Farmers National Bank; Finding aids; Florida; Franklin Twp., Adams County, Pennsylvania; Funerals; Gap, Salisbury Twp.; Grand Forks Herald; Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota; Health; Hotel Gladstone; Hunters; Inheritance; Internal Revenue Service; Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota; Johnson City, Broome County, New York; K. Aslesen Company; Lancaster; Lancaster New Era; Leland-Parker Hotel; Letters; Manuscript groups; Masons; McClure House; Miami, Florida; Millersville; Millersville State Normal School; Millersville University; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Minot, Ward County, North Dakota; Mountville Farm Women's Society; New Berlin, Ephrata Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey; Parades; Patterson Hotel; Pennsylvania State Normal School; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Postage stamps; Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; Receipts; Republican Party; San Francisco, California; Schools; Stamps; Stevens, East Cocalico Twp.; Stocks; Tax returns; Taxation; Trusts and trustees; United Commercial Travelers of America; Vienna Bakery Company; Visiting cards; Washington, DC; West Cocalico School District; Wheeling, West Virginia; Wills; YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association

Extent: 1 box, 12 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0294

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this collection must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Accession Number: 2002.Hawbaker

Other Numbers: MG-294

Classification: MG0294

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 19 January 2022.

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Collection: Patents Collection

Title: Patents Collection

Object ID: MG0632

Date Range: 1827-1927

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Collection: Patents Collection

Title: Patents Collection

Description: This collection contains patents issued to inventors in Lancaster County. The patents have the technical information about the invention and also drawings and/or blueprints. Some of the patents are for a horse hay rake, pinions, a railroad car brake, and improvements in threshing machines, balancing mill stones, kitchen slicing utensils and a still. Two of the documents are signed by Secretary of State Henry Clay and President Andrew Jackson.

Date Range: 1827-1927

Creation Date: 1827-1927

Year Range From: 1827

Year Range To: 1927

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 13

People: Becker, Henry; Bennett, T. F.; Blake, James H.; Bomberger, Elias B.; Butler, B. F.; Clay, Henry; Eberly, John A; Fenstermaker, Emanuel Lively; Fenstermaker, Gerald Burkhart; Fellenbaum, David; Gantz, David Zook; Iske, Anthony; Jackson, Andrew; Kauffman, C. L.; Keller, J. Frank; Lutz, Jacob; McLane, Louis; Musser, Peter; Price, Edward F.; Reigart, J. Franklin; Seitz, John; Sieger, P. George; Slaymaker, Amos Fleming; Spillinger, Joseph; Way, Andrew; Weitzel, Jacob; Whitehill, James; Withers, Michael

Subjects: Drawings; Inventions; Inventors; Patents

Search Terms: Blueprints; Brakes, Peerless track; Brakes, railroad car; Canon pinions; Certificates; Double rack and pinions; Drawings; East Cocalico Twp.; Finding aids; Garbage furnaces; Inventions; Inventors; Investments; Kitchen slicing utensils; Manuscript groups; Mill gudgeons; Mill stones, balancing; Nut locks; Patents; Plough-plates; Rakes, horse hay; Salisbury Twp.; Sanitary Engineering and Construction Company; Stills; Threshing machines; Watch mechanisms

Extent: 1 box, 12 folders, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0632

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: An original watercolor drawing by J. F. Reigart of Jacob Weitzel's still (Folder 10) is in the Curatorial Collection (2014.005).; Emanuel Fenstermaker's watch parts (Folder 1) are in the Curatorial Collection (1972.004.2 and 1972.004.4)

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.

Other Numbers: MG-632

Other Number: MG-632

Classification: MG0632

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid prepared by PH, February 2014. Added to database 26 May 2021.

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Collection: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Title: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Object ID: MG0277

Date Range: 1798-1993

scrapbook of Conestoga View. Creator: Lancaster County (Pa.). Board of County Commissioners LancasterHistory (Organization) Conditions for Access: Restrictions noted at the item level. Conditions Governing Reproductions: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at

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Collection: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Title: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Description: The Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection is comprised of accounts, registers, minutes, and other records kept by this county department. There are birth and death records, lists of inmates, supply and payroll books, and auditors' reports, and a scrapbook of Conestoga View.

Date Range: 1798-1993

Year Range From: 1798

Year Range To: 1993

Date of Accumulation: 1798-1993

Creator: Lancaster County (Pa.). Board of County Commissioners

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Ash, Phineas; Bachman, J. M.; Bachman, John; Bair, Ivan; Baney, William; Bard, R. W.; Bare, Adam; Bausman, John; Bubach, Gerhart; Carpenter, Sam; Centini, Jane E.; Clark, Thomas; Coleman, Thomas; Colwell, James; Dale, Samuel; Dorwart, Jonas; Dunlap, Stephan; Eaby, George W.; Esler, P. O.; Gibbons, William; Good, William; Graybill, N. W.; Graybill, H.; Gryder, Christian; Haines, Timothy; Halbach, W. A.; Harnish, Jacob; Harnish, Samuel; Heck, Lewis; Herr, Christian; Hershey, W. E. H.; Hildebrant, W.; Hollinger, George; Humes, Samuel; Jackson, James J.; Kean, Thomas M.; Kready, David C.; Lane, P. C.; Lenegan, Archibald M.; Light, John; Livingston, J. B.; Long, Jacob; Metzger, John W.; Meyers, Samuel M.; Murray, William; Musser, George; Nauman, J. W.; Nicholson, John; Overholzer, H. D.; Patterson, D. W.; Reed, John K.; Schwartz, Conrad; Slaymaker, Henry; Snyder, Simon; Stone, Abraham; Strine, Jacob S.; Summy, A.; Sweigart, E.; Weaver, B. F.; Webb, Will; Wein, John; Wentz, Thomas; Witmer, Abraham; Witters, Jacob W.; Young, Mathias; Zantzinger, Paul

Other Creators: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Subjects: Almshouses; Almshouses--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History; Auditors' reports; Conestoga View (Lancaster, Pa.); Poor--Services for--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History; Scrapbooks

Search Terms: Almshouses; Auditors' reports; Conestoga View; Finding aids; Manuscript groups; Scrapbooks

Extent: 3 boxes, 33 books and folders, 3.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0277

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection (MG0277), Folder or Book #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

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.

Classification: MG0277

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Most of the items in this collection are part of the Lancaster County Government Records, RG 08-12. They were transferred into MG-277 in 1999 during the planning of the Almshouse and Hospital exhibition. Other items are on loan from the Edward Hand Medical Heritage Foundation or were collected by LancasterHistory.; Added to database 21 July 2017.

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Collection: Papers of Josiah F. Passmore

Title: Papers of Josiah F. Passmore

Object ID: MG0859

Date Range: 1856-1858, 1863, 1893

Collection: Papers of Josiah F. Passmore

Title: Papers of Josiah F. Passmore

Description: Teacher's book of Josiah F. Passmore, Union High School for Girls and Boys, New Providence, Providence Twp., Lancaster County, 1856-1858, 1893; Scanned copy of letter from Josiah F. Passmore to his sister. Written in Falmouth, VA. 12 April 1863. (sent with Deed of Gift)

Date Range: 1856-1858, 1863, 1893

Year Range From: 1856

Year Range To: 1893

Date of Accumulation: 1856-1858, 1863, 1893

Creator: Shoffner, Shirey M.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

People: Passmore, Josiah F.

Subjects: Letters; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Search Terms: Civil War; Correspondence; Finding aids; Letters; Manuscript groups; New Providence, Providence Twp.; Union High School for Girls and Boys

Extent: 2 items

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0859

Associated Material: More information about the Passmore family at Chester County History Center. http://www.chestercohistorical.org/online-catalog-0

Notes: Given in memory of Shirley M. Shoffner.; Not fully cataloged

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2021.037

Other Numbers: MG-859

Other Number: MG-859

Classification: MG0859

Description Level: Fonds

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

, maps of routes, and a blueprint. Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization) Conditions for Access: Restrictions are noted at the item level. Conditions Governing Reproductions: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Description: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.

Date Range: 1819-1977

Year Range From: 1819

Year Range To: 1977

Date of Accumulation: 1819-1977

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bitner, John R.; Boardman, Harris; Bowman, John Jacob; Boyer, Zaccur Prall; Cirt, Anna N.; Griest, William Walton; Hostetter, Albert Keller; Kemrer, Clarence M.; Knapp, Walter; Kreider, Kate; Kriebel, Howard Wiegner; McClellan, Oliver Eldridge; Royer, David; Shuman, James P.; Wohlsen, Anna; Wohlsen, Peter

Subjects: Letters; Minutes (Records); Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.); Posters; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading & Columbia Railroad Company; Street-railroads; Trolley cars

Search Terms: Adamstown; Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Blueprints; Booklets; Brochures; Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Center Square Road Station; Chestnut Street; Christiana; Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Columbia; Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad; Conestoga Traction Company; Conestoga Transportation Company; Conewago Water and Power Company; Correspondence; Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania; Drawings; Duke Street; East Belt line; East King Street; East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.; Elizabethtown; Engleside, Lancaster Twp.; Ephemera; Ephrata; Express Printing Company; Greeting cards; Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania; Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.; J. G. Brill Company; Kinport Road; Lancaster; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway; Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company; Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company; Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike; Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Letters; Lititz; Maple Grove; Maps; Marietta Avenue; North Market Street; Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.; Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.; Minutes; Mount Joy; Mulberry Street; National Railway Historical Society; Neffsville, Manheim Twp.; North End Photo Finishing House; North Lime Street; North Queen Street; Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Penn Square; Pequea Twp.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Photographs; Placards; Substations; President Avenue; Princess Street; Prospect Street; Quarryville; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading and Columbia Railroad Company; Receipts; Red Rose Transit Authority; Reports; Roads; Rocky Springs Railroad Company; Schuylkill Navigation Company; Scrapbooks; South Mountain Railroad; South Queen Street; Stock certificates; Susquehanna Railroad; Tickets; Tolls; Trolley car barns; Trolley car yards; Trolley cars; Trolleys; Turnpikes; Walnut Street; WGAL (television station); Williams Park Station; Willow Street Turnpike; Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; WLAN (radio station); Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania; York Bus Company; York Fair; York Railway Company

Extent: 2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0123

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

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.

Other Numbers: MG-123

Classification: MG0123

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 23 September 2021.

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Collection: Calendar Collection

Title: Calendar Collection

Object ID: MG0070

Date Range: 1867-1995

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Collection: Calendar Collection

Title: Calendar Collection

Description: This collection consists of calendars containing photographs, drawings, and prints from Lancaster County and the surrounding region. Some depict local culture, architecture, historic sites, events, or have Pennsylvania Dutch sayings. There are also backs of calendars containing information about Lancaster.

Date Range: 1867-1995

Year Range From: 1867

Year Range To: 1995

Date of Accumulation: 1867-1995

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 02

People: Albright, R. A.; Bushong, Joyce; Ferguson, Novelda H.; Forney, Myrl; Hart, Deborah A.; Hough, Doris; Landis, David Bachman; Mellinger, C.; Reed, Anita; Rider, Jacob D.; Sweigart, Caleb K.; Taggart, M. W.; Warfel, Arthur; Wesley, Hazel S.; Wierman, Julia

Subjects: Calendars

Search Terms: Brown and Bigelow; Calendars; Chickaree Studio; De Laval; Denver Service Station; Drawing Board Associates, Inc.; Finding aids; H. M. Stauffer and Sons, Inc.; Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County; Intelligencer Printing Company; Lancaster County Association for the Blind; Lancaster County Farm Bureau Co-op Association; Lancaster County Postcard Club; Lebanon High School; Manuscript groups; Mount Joy Area Historical Society; Pearsol and Geist; Pensupreme Dairy; Sir Speedy; Southern Lancaster County Historical Society; Susquehanna Association for the Blind and Vision Impaired

Extent: 3 boxes, 14 folders, 3 oversized folders, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0070

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions noted at the item level. Restricted items may be used by appointment. Please contact research@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.

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.

Other Numbers: MG-70

Classification: MG0070

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 23 October 2018.

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Collection: General Thomas Welsh Family Papers

Title: General Thomas Welsh Family Papers

Object ID: MG0828

Date Range: 1839-1932

Collection: General Thomas Welsh Family Papers

Title: General Thomas Welsh Family Papers

Description: The General Thomas Welsh Family Papers is a collection of original correspondence, official documents, and ephemera. Many of the papers were created by or directed to Thomas Welsh between approximately 1843 and his death in 1863. They provide glimpses into his youth, his experiences in the Mexican War, his life in Columbia between the wars, and his rise in rank to Brigadier General during the Civil War.; The collection contains correspondence with his wife and family from 1861-1863. There are also official correspondence and documents related to Welsh's military service, autobiographical pieces, correspondence following his death, obituaries, and family papers into the early twentieth century. Other items in the collection include genealogy pages from the family bible, photographic images of Thomas Welsh and family members, two scrapbooks, newspaper issues and newspaper clippings, written notes from recollections of one of Welsh's daughter, and a biographical sketch of Welsh written by his son.

Admin/Biographical History: Thomas Welsh (1824-1863) was a Lancaster County native (born and raised in Columbia), who rose from hardscrabble origins to local fame, first as a Mexican War hero, and then as a brigadier general during the Civil War. He was well known and well respected as a no nonsense officer, for his leadership and gallantry in battle, for his dedication to the service of his country, and for his concern for the welfare of his men.; Welsh lost his father at the age of 2, and went to work to support his family at age 8. He had very little formal schooling, and was largely self-educated. In 1843, at age 19, he left Lancaster County for Washington City, then went west as an itinerant carpenter/laborer to Cincinnati, Little Rock, and Fort Smith.; When the Mexican War broke out in 1846, he enlisted in a Kentucky regiment, and was severely wounded at the battle of Buena Vista (1847) from which he never fully recovered. Returning home to Columbia, he re-enlisted as a second lieutenant, assigned to the 11th U.S. infantry regiment in Mexico City. Within days of his arrival in Mexico City, he was declared unfit for service on account of his battle wound, and sent home again.; Back in Columbia as a civilian, he dabbled in politics, and received a patronage job in the Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works (the rail and canal system connecting Philadelphia and Pittsburgh). After several years, he opened up a grocery and dry goods store in Columbia's canal basin. He also became an insurance agent. In 1857, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and his reputation grew as a community leader. By 1860, he was president of the Borough Council, a founding member of the Columbia Board of Trade, Vice President of the Columbia Cricket Club, and a canal boat operator, in addition to a dry goods merchant, insurance agent, and Justice of the Peace. He had a wife, 5 surviving children, and legal guardianship of his sister's 4 children.; When Confederate forces shelled Fort Sumter, marking the beginning of the Civil War, Thomas Welsh raised and organized the first company of volunteers from Lancaster County, and took them into the field as their Captain. Within days, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment, which served out its 90-day enlistment in the Shenandoah Valley.; Returning to Harrisburg, he was appointed Commandant of Camp Curtin, the problem-plagued processing center for new recruits. In short order, Welsh cleaned up the camp's poor sanitary conditions, improved the health of the camp, and implemented soldierly discipline and training.; In October 1861, he resigned from his camp duties, and as Colonel of the 45th Pennsylvania, led his regiment into the field. After brief service outside of Washington, they were sent to South Carolina in December, where they were posted to Otter Island. After the battle of James Island, they were recalled to Newport News, in July 1862, then sent to guard Aquia Creek.; In September, now in brigade command in Burnsides' 9th Corps, Welsh chased Lee's Confederate army west into central Maryland. His brigade broke the enemy line in Fox's Gap, on Sept. 14, then 3 days later achieved the furthest Union advance at Antietam, reaching the edge of Sharpsburg, and nearly cutting off Lee's only avenue of escape. Welsh's gallantry earned him a field promotion to brigadier general, which Congress confirmed on March 13, 1863.; The 9th Corps (Welsh now in command of the 1st Division) was sent west in the spring of 1863, then dispatched south to support Grant's investment of Vicksburg. After Vicksburg fell, they turned east and defeated Confederate General Johnston at the Battle of Jackson. Welsh contracted malaria in the southern swamps, and died in Cincinnati upon their return north. One of his men later recalled, "Had he lived, Welsh would undoubtedly have attained a much higher command. 1; 1. Beauge, Eugene, in Albert, Allen D., Ed., History of the Forty-Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Williamsport, PA: Grit Publ. Co, 1912, p. 79.

System of Arrangement: The collection is arranged in series:; Series A Thomas Welsh before the Mexican War; Series B Mexican War, 1846-1848; Series C Between the Mexican War and the Civil War, 1848-1861; Series D Civil War; Series E Post-Civil War; Series F Miscellaneous Family Papers; Series G Papers from the families of Gen. Thomas Welsh and Blanton C. Welsh

Date Range: 1839-1932

Year Range From: 1839

Year Range To: 1932

Creator: Wiggin, Richard C.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

People: Welsh, Thomas; Welsh, Annie Eunice Young; Welsh, Blanton Charles; Welsh, Effie; Welsh, Lilian; Welsh, Mary Young "Mazie"; Buchanan, James

Subjects: Letters; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Military orders; Military promotions; Personal correspondence; Political campaigns; Presidents--Election; Speeches, addresses, etc.; United States. Army--Military life; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Search Terms: Civil War; Correspondence, Personal; Letters; Mexican War; Military life; Military orders; Military promotions; Political campaigns; Presidential elections; Speeches; United States Army

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Condition: Fair to good

Condition Date: 2020-12-18

Condition Notes: Items are in fair to good condition.

Object ID: MG0828

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment. Please contact archives@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.

Copyright: Images have been provided for research purposes only. Please contact archives@lancasterhistory.org for a high-resolution image and permission to publish.; LancasterHistory retains the rights to the digital images and content presented. The doctrine of fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. Fair use includes comment, criticism, teaching, and private scholarship. Any images and data downloaded, printed or photocopied for these purposes should provide a citation. All other uses beyond those allowed by fair use require written permission.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Some items are photocopies from other collections--researchers must obtain permission for reproduction and publication from the owner of the original material.; Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.

Classification: MG0828

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Almost all of the papers have been passed down through successive generations of Welsh's descendants, from Thomas Welsh's wife and children to his granddaughter, Emilie Benson (Welsh) Wiggin, to her daughter Nancy Jane (Wiggin) Townsend. After Nancy Townsend's death, her son Charles Townsend passed them on to his cousin, Richard Wiggin (grandson of Emilie Benson Wiggin) in 2015.; A few papers passed out of the family's possession and found their way into other collections. Richard Abel of Columbia, PA began collecting Welsh papers and artifacts some years ago, and subsequently transferred this collection of Welsh materials to Richard Wiggin in 2012.

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Collection: Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers

Title: Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers

Object ID: MG0720

Date Range: 1798-1939

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Collection: Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers

Title: Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers

Description: This collection contains the family papers of Helen Buckwalter Woerner from 1798-1939 including deeds, farm inventories, public sale posters, estate papers, and contracts. Some items of interest are the deeds, public sale documents, and a Campbell's Soup Company contract for tomato growing. A map shows the site master plan for the Lancaster Airport that was built on this family's farmland.

Date Range: 1798-1939

Year Range From: 1798

Year Range To: 1939

Date of Accumulation: 1798-1939

Creator: Woerner family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 15

People: Bassler, Maria; Bernhard, Henry; Bernhardy, Henry; Breitigan, Daniel Mumma; Bomgardener, Elias; Burkholder, Ann; Buckwalter, Barbara; Buckwalter Daniel W.; Buckwalter, David Joseph; Buckwalter, Elam; Buckwalter, Harry Sahm; Burkholder, Henry; Buckwalter, Henry W.; Buckwalter, Hiram; Buckwalter, Ivan; Buckwalter, Joseph; Burkholder, Martha; Buckwalter, Stella; Burkholder, Rebecca; Burkholder, Veronica; Cross, Peter; Drutt, George; Dunlap, W. M.; Dutt, Anne; Dutt, George; Eberle, Ann; Eberly, H. S.; Fory, Zeno; Frank, Christian; Fulmer, Phillip; Hackman, Andrew; Harnish, M. M.; Hartman, Frank; Heidman, Elizabeth; Heilmand, John; Herr, Isaac; Herr, Walter; Hollersten, Peter; Homsher, Fred; Huber, Abraham; Kreider, Abraham; Kreiter, Christian; Landis, Levi; Myers, N. S.; Myers, Samuel; Masterson, Maria; Masterson, Thomas; Newcomer, Jacob; Nolly, Loretta Jane; Peifer, Amos; Ritter, Benjamin; Ruth, John; Sahm, Aaron; Sahm, David C.; Sahm, Eliza Gross; Sahm, George; Sahm, Henry Gross; Sahm, Lizzie M. Longenecker; Sahm, Levi; Sahm, Menno L.; Shriner, Daniel; Snyder, H. B.; Spacht, Ralph M.; Stauffer, Christian; Weidman, David; Witmer, David M.

Subjects: Airports; Auctions; Broadsides; Campbell Soup Company; Contracts; Deeds; Inventories; Loans; Maps; Probate records; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Runways (Aeronautics); Stocks; Taxation; Wills

Search Terms: Administrators' accounts; Agreements; Airports; American Union Telephone Company; Auctions; Broadsides; Campbell Soup Company; Contracts; Deeds; East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.; Estate inventories; Executors' accounts; Farm Debt Adjustment Committee; Farmers Market Company; Federal Land Bank of Baltimore; Financial records; Guardianship accounts; Inventories; Kissel Hill Telephone Company; Lancaster Abattoir Company; Lancaster Trust Company; Leaf Tobacco Company; Livestock; Loans; Manheim Fairview Cemetery; Manheim Twp.; Maps; Mount Joy Mutual Fire Insurance Company; Neffsville, Manheim Twp.; Penn Twp.; Phoenix Water Power Company; Probate records; Reading Transit and Light Company; Receipts; Runways; Stocks; Taxation; Taxes; Warwick Twp.; West Lampeter Twp.; Wills

Extent: 2 boxes, 46 folders, 1 rolled map, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0720

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers (MG0720), 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.

Other Numbers: MG-720

Other Number: MG-720

Classification: MG0720

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid prepared by EH, Fall 2014. Added to database 26 May 2021.

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Collection: Papers of the Warfel Family of Conestoga Township

Title: Papers of the Warfel Family of Conestoga Township

Object ID: MG0982

Date Range: ca. 1751 - 1869

Collection: Papers of the Warfel Family of Conestoga Township

Title: Papers of the Warfel Family of Conestoga Township

Description: Deeds, patents, letters, family papers of the Warfel, Bachman, Hess, Herr, Haverstick families of Conestoga Twp. and Manor Twp., c. 1751 to 1860s:; 11 deeds, deed polls, patents, property records - ten are for property in Conestoga Twp., most at Slackwater; one is for land in Manor Twp.; Land drafts; Property records; Probate records: Estate inventory for Abraham Warfel, 1851; Administrators' account for Abraham Warfel, 1853; Personal papers of Jacob Warfel, 1833-1852; Abraham Warfel correspondence (Ohio and Iowa), 1846-1862; Martin B. Warfel correspondence (Indiana), 1856-1864; Lewis A. and Rachel Warfel Geiger correspondence (Pennsylvania and Texas), 1850s, 1862, 1869; J. Warfel correspondence (Illinois), 1860; Aaron Goode Bachman correspondence (Kansas), 1862; Benjamin R. Bachman correspondence (Tennessee), 1866; Hiram W. Bachman correspondence (Texas), 1865; John Bachman correspondence (Conestoga), 1842; David Bair correspondence (Ohio), 1840; J. C. Geiger correspondence (Texas), 1858; Samuel Hess correspondence (Salunga), 1869; John and Margaret Good, birthdates of their children, 1818-1842; Agreement for Conestoga Schoolhouse, 1828; Advertising for Thomas W. Evans & Co., Philadelphia, no date; Store account for Miss E. C. [Hess] from Fondersmith & [Son], Lancaster, 1851; Some Warfel and Haverstick genealogy, mostly copied from published sources with annotations; "Speech of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, of the National Finance," 20 January 1863

Date Range: ca. 1751 - 1869

Year Range From: 1751

Year Range To: 1869

Date of Accumulation: ca. 1751-1869

Creator: Warfel family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives North

Storage Wall: Side 13

People: Bachman, Aaron Goode; Bachman, Benjamin; Bachman, Benjamin R.; Bachman, Hiram W.; Bachman, John; Bachman, Susan A. Barton; Bair, David; Breneman, Adam; Buchanan, James; Charles, Henry; Charles, Jacob; Dayton, William Lewis; Dunkle, George; Fillmore, Millard; Fremont, John Charles; Geiger, John C.; Geiger, Lewis A.; Geiger, Rachel H. Warfel; Good, Adam; Good, Catharine; Good, Christian; Good, Elizabeth; Good, Fanny; Good, Jacob B.; Good, John E.; Good, Margaret; Good, Margaret Brunner; Good, Valentine; Gramer, Peter; Harnish, Martin; Haverstick, Anna B. Miller; Haverstick, Charles Arthur; Haverstick, Clara May; Haverstick, Elvina C. Warfel; Haverstick, Florence Ray; Haverstick, Harry Hoyt; Haverstick, John M.; Haverstick, Levi H.; Hess, Christian; Hess, Elizabeth; Hess, John; Hess, Joseph; Hess, Samuel; Hess, Susan Good; House, John; Kaigey, Henry; McClelland, William Bloomfield; Mennert, Frederick; Mennert, Jacob; Morgan, John; Musser, John; Puterbaugh, Elizabeth Warfel Bachman Mennert "Lizzie"; Ross, Indiana McClelland Warfel; Schoch, Jacob; Shank, Michael; Shenk, John; Stauffer, Abraham; Stevens, Thaddeus; Stoner, Christian; Sweigart, Jacob H.; Taylor, Zachary; Warfel, Abraham; Warfel, George W.; Warfel, Jacob; Warfel, John Brenneman; Warfel, Leah Good; Warfel, Martin B.; Warfel, Mary B. Good; Wissler, Jacob; Worley, Caleb

Subjects: African Americans; African Americans--History; Deeds; Family archives; Letters; Real property; Slavery; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Real property surveys

Search Terms: Accounts; Agriculture; Cedar Grove, Kaufman County, Texas; Civil War; Clermont, Marion County, Indiana; Conestoga Schoolhouse; Conestoga Twp.; Correspondence; Crops; Deeds; El Paso, El Paso County, Texas; Elections; Family archives; Finding aids; Galveston, Texas; Genealogy; Ice; Iowa; Land drafts; Letters; Manor Twp.; Manuscript groups; Martic Twp.; Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee; Mexico; Mississippi & Tennessee Railroad; Ohio; Persons of color; Politics; Postal service employees; Presidential candidates; Presidential elections; Real estate; Real property surveys; Rocky Mountains; Safe Harbor, Conestoga Twp.; Slackwater, Conestoga Twp.; Tennessee; Texas; Thomas W. Evans and Company; Washington County, Iowa; Wayne County, Ohio; Wayne Twp., Marion County, Indiana; Weather; Zionsville, Boone County, Indiana

Extent: 66 items

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0982

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).; This collection was given in memory of the donor's maternal grandparents, David S. Warfel and Clara Haverstick Warfel.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: This collection has not been cataloged. Original documents may be used by appointment--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Accession Number: 2023.053

Other Numbers: MG-982

Classification: MG0982

Description Level: Fonds

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