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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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The Lititz Historical Foundation's historical journal

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18572

Date of Publication: 1944--

Call Number: 974.815 LITB L776hf

Place of Publication: [Lititz, Pa.]

Publisher: [s.n.] ,

Date of Publication: 1944--

Physical Description: V. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Formerly the Lititz Museum Historical Journal.; Library has: 1994-present.

Subjects: Lititz Historical Foundation (Lititz, Pa.); Lititz (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LITB L776hf

Stock in trade : being an "inventory of the store in Litiz (Pennsylvania), taken from the 4th to 8th May, 1773," and some pertinent remarks regarding service to the American public

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15935

Date of Publication: [ca. 1940]

Call Number: 974.815 LITB S864

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Home Insurance Co.,

Date of Publication: [ca. 1940]

Physical Description: [20] p. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Facsimile reproduction of the 1773 inventory.

Subjects: General stores - Pennsylvania - Lititz.; Inventories - Pennsylvania - Lititz.; Germans - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania Dutch.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LITB S864

History of the Moravian congregation of Lititz, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17380

Author: Huebener, Mary Augusta,

Date of Publication: 1949.

Call Number: 284.6 H874

Responsibility: by Mary Augusta Huebener.

Author: Huebener, Mary Augusta,

Place of Publication: Bethlehem, Pa

Publisher: Times Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1949.

Physical Description: p. 199-310, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: "This volume is published in connection with the celebration of the Bicentennial Celebration of the Moravian Congregation at Lititz, Pennsylvania [...] The following pages have appeared in the Transaction of the Moravian Historical Society (Volume XIV, Parts 3 and 4)". -- Foreword.; Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Bicentennial history of the Lititz Moravian congregation / by Mary Augusta Huebener -- The Beck Family School / by Herbert Huebener Beck -- Linden Hall Junior College and School for Girls, 1748-1948 / by W.N. Schwarze.

Subjects: Moravian Church - Pennsylvania - History.; Beck Family School for Boys.; Linden Hall Junior College and School for Girls.; Moravians - Pennsylvania - Lititz.; Lititz (Pa.) - Church history.

Additional Author: Huebener, Mary Augusta,; Beck, Herbert Huebener,; Schwarze, William Nathaniel,

Additional Corporate Author: Moravian Historical Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 284.6 H874

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/0532ff7a-824c-44f4-b753-591274249849

Collection: William Byron Hornberger Photograph Collection

Title: Charles and John Hornberger at Lititz Springs Park

Object ID: WBH-01-06-43

Date Range: 1949

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: William Byron Hornberger Photograph Collection

Title: Charles and John Hornberger at Lititz Springs Park

Description: Charles and John Hornberger at Lititz Springs Park, fall 1949.

Date Range: 1949

Storage Location: LancasterHistory

Storage Room: Archives West

People: Hornberger, Charles K.; Hornberger, John M.

Subject: Photographs

Classification: WBH-01-06-43

Search Terms: Children; Lititz Springs Park; Parks

Place: Lititz

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Original or Copy: Original

Print Size: 3.5 x 5 inches

Object ID: WBH-01-06-43

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Accession Number: 2023.052

Images

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/77e1411c-7652-4830-9ff6-433862424448

Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-03-02-26

Date Range: November 1946

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Herbert Beck and Judge Miller at the grave of Sutter.

Date Range: November 1946

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Beck, Herbert; Miller, Judge; Sutter, General Augustus

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Classification: Cemeteries; Historic Sites

Search Terms: Lititz; Graves

Place: Lititz

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 8 x 10 inches

Object ID: 2-03-02-26

Images

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/20b4f034-91a3-42fb-ba33-746755043830

Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-12-02-56

Date Range: 1941

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: In 1941, Lester Shultz, Bill Haines and Henry Lutz (in stream bottom) posed for this picture in Lititz Springs Park. Lutz is demonstrating how dry the stream was that day.

Provenance: Original image owned by Cory Van Brookhoven.

Date Range: 1941

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Shultz, Lester; Haines, Bill; Lutz, Henry

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Lititz Springs Park; Streams; Benches

Place: Lititz

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Object ID: 2-12-02-56

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

Images

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/c5ec771d-8cc7-47df-ad77-078187580770

Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-10-03-89

Date Range: 1940

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Test pump, Lititz Springs, Edward Myers and Norman Miller.

Provenance: Digital image only. Original owned by Myers Bros. Well Drillers.

Date Range: 1940

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Myers, Edward; Miller, Norman

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Pumps; Lititz Springs

Place: Warwick Twp.

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Condition: Good

Object ID: 2-10-03-89

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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2fde02c9-b19c-4251-98b9-115873451547

Documents

The Lititz Historical Foundation's historical journal

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18572

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/ebadea02-7f2c-4998-b1d2-392759509150

Documents

Stock in trade : being an "inventory of the store in Litiz (Pennsylvania), taken from the 4th to 8th May, 1773," and some pertinent remarks regarding service to the American public

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15935

History of the Moravian congregation of Lititz, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17380

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/7b5406be-7368-4e57-a945-397322188277

Documents

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/0532ff7a-824c-44f4-b753-591274249849

Images

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/77e1411c-7652-4830-9ff6-433862424448

Images

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/20b4f034-91a3-42fb-ba33-746755043830

Images

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/c5ec771d-8cc7-47df-ad77-078187580770

Images