"John Piersol McCaskey (1837-1935) was a beloved Lancaster, PA, public school teacher and principal, editor of The Pennsylvania School Journal, mayor of Lancaster, publisher, journalist, and compiler of some of America's first songbooks and textbooks. This biography provides a glimpse into the beginnings of Pennsylvania's public schools, with McCaskey as a pupil, and then the system's evolution, with McCaskey influencing its curriculum and goals. Lancaster's history is interwoven in the text, particularly the Civil War years and McCaskey's mayoral years. A man of integrity who expected the same from his students, McCaskey held family and his Christian faith above all else." [from the publisher]
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society v.103, no.2.
Contents
From slavery to freedom--middle class African-Americans in Lancaster County (Hannah Bosley, William Whipper, Stephen Smith, Dinah McIntire)--Joseph Simon: Jewish merchant and philanthropist of the eighteenth century--Firefighting in early Lancaster--Family history at the Lancaster County Historical Society (Demuth family history)--Cooking in the County--Blanche Nevin--Lloyd Mifflin: artist and sonneteer--The bridge at Columbia--Ephrata Cloister--A distinguished military family (Henry A. Hambright)--A midwife (Susana Rohrer Mueller)--John Wise, balloonist (1808-1879)--Jasper Yeates, attorney and Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice--Thaddeus Stevens--Robert Fulton, engineer and artist--"Gold!" (John Augustus Sutter)--George Washington--Oddities and the END.
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.102, no.4
Notes
Reprinted with permission from Lancaster Newspapers Inc., January 1, 2001.
Contents
Kendig Charles Bare (1913-1989)--D. Luke Biemesderfer (1894-1989)--Bertha Brossman Eby Blair (1892-1985)--Adolph Christian Darmstaetter (1887-1978)--Guy Graybill Diehm (1880-1970)--Milton Thomas Garvin (1860-1946)--William W. Griest (1858-1929)--Nathaniel E. Hager (1900-1982)--Byron K. Horne (1901-1992)--Ruth Grigg Horting (1900-1988)--Nancy Keiper Long (1884-1943)--John Piersol McCaskey(1837-1935)--Paul Albert Mueller, Sr. (1898-1956)--Frank Custer Musser (1873-1933)--Caroline Steinman Nunan (1925-)--Henning Webb Prentis, Jr. (1884-1959)--Earl Franklin Rebman (1895-1984)--Isidore Rosenthal (1872-1954)--William Shand (1889-1982)--S. June Smith--Keith Spalding (1822-)--James Hale Steinman (1886-1962)--Daniel Bursk Strickler (1897-1992)--Clifford G. Twombly (1869-1942)--Henry Stackpole Williamson (1853-1917).
