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A directory of the eleventh census of the population of Schuylkill County : giving the names and ages of males and females, published by cities, boroughs, wards, townships, precincts or towns, in connection with a business directory of the same for advertising purposes ... together with a brief historical resume of each district, statistics, etc

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22249
Date of Publication
©1999.
Call Number
974.817 D598
Alternate Title
Eleventh census of the population of Schuylkill County
Place of Publication
Mt. Vernon, Ind
Publisher
Windmill Publications,
Date of Publication
©1999.
Physical Description
1060 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes
Facsimile reproduction of the ed. from: Lebanon, Pa. : E.E. Schartel, 1891.
"The reproduction of this publication has been made possible through the sponsorship of the Schuylkill County Historical Society"--Title page verso.
Subjects
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County.
Registers of births, etc.
Schuylkill County (Pa.) - Genealogy.
Schuylkill County (Pa.) - Census, 1890.
United States - Census, 11th, 1890.
Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County.
United States.
Census data.
Genealogy.
Additional Corporate Author
Schuylkill County Historical Society (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.817 D598
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Hale Columbia. Columbia, Pa., medical record, 1893-1905: A true and complete study of infectious disease & medicine in a small Pennsylvania town at the turn of the century

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Author
Lahr, Joseph W.
Date of Publication
2017.
Call Number
610.9 L183
Responsibility
by Joseph W. Lahr.
Author
Lahr, Joseph W.
Place of Publication
[n.p.]
Publisher
[self-published]
Date of Publication
2017.
Physical Description
352 pages : ill (part colored) ; 23 cm.
Notes
Contains extensive footnotes and citations. Indexed.
Summary
"From 1893 until 1905 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania required local municipalities to record vital statistics such as births, deaths, and cases of infectious disease. The record for the community of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa., survives in the county archives and is a valuable record of one community's struggle to contain diseases that are seldom encountered today: smallpox, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis. Within these pages, one can learn about the diseases and the treatments available in that time period and meet the physicians and community leaders who were in the front lines of the sturggle." [book jacket]
Chapters: The Institutions/ The Diseases/ The Cures/ Medical Education in the 1800s/ The Physicians of Columbia/ The Ledger/ Annotations
Subjects
Communicable diseases - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Medicine - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Medical personnel - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
610.9 L183
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The hanging of Susanna Cox : the true story of Pennsylvania's most notorious infanticide & the legend that's kept it alive

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Author
Suter, Patricia.
Date of Publication
c2010.
Call Number
364.152 S965
Responsibility
Patricia Earnest Suter and Russell and Corinne Earnest ; foreword by Don Yoder.
ISBN
9780811705608 (hardcover)
0811705609 (hardcover)
Author
Suter, Patricia.
Place of Publication
Mechanicsburg, PA
Publisher
Stackpole Books,
Date of Publication
c2010.
Physical Description
xii, 164 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue: the Kutztown Folk Festival -- Reading and the Oley Valley -- Fingers of guilt -- Middling stiff -- When law and humanity had but faint connection -- Twelve honest men -- A distraction from grim tidings -- As innocent as a child -- The last melancholy resource -- Ten o'clock to two o'clock and fifty minutes -- Slinking off anonymously -- A last hope -- Seduced by the devil -- Confession -- I poor wretch -- A final jolt -- Peace be to her -- The printers of Exeter Township -- The sad, sad song of Susanna Cox -- Advice from the dead to the living -- Her exit--infamy -- Epilogue: back to the festival.
Summary
The unfortunate Susanna Cox gained notoriety for killing her illegitimate infant son. The fatal episode led to her hanging in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1809, the last public execution of a woman in the commonwealth. But was Susanna really the culprit? The legend of her fate, repeated in Pennsylvania German broadsides by the generations that followed, suggests she herself was a victim. Now, in this first full-length investigation into the tragedy, new evidence reveals some startling facts about how indifference, an undeveloped court system, and the inexact science of nineteenth-century forensics combined to determine Susanna's tragic fate. A full look at how Susanna's "sad song" became romanticized through broadside ballads follows, complete with illustrations.
Subjects
Cox, Susanna, - d. 1809.
Filicide - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Unmarried mothers - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Women murderers - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Berks County (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
Earnest, Russell D.
Earnest, Corinne P.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
364.152 S965
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2015 U. S. Women's open Lancaster Country Club, Lancaster, PA July 6-12, 2015 : The Women's Open is the oldest championship open to women professionasl and amaterus. A USGA record of 1,873 golfers competed to play in the 2015 U. S. Women's Open at Lancaster Country Club

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Date of Publication
2015.
Call Number
796.35266 T974
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Publisher
Lancaster Country Club, Lancaster, Pa.,
Date of Publication
2015.
Physical Description
72 p. ; ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.
Contents
PARTIAL CONTENTS. -- Jerry and Anita Hostetter (top left), Ted Brubaker (Margot's & George's son (white shirt, bottom left), p. 30 -- Mark and Patti Mauer (top left), p. 33 -- Kathryn Brandt, Bobby and Emmy (top right), p. 34 -- In the crowd, Kathryn and Bobby Brandt (top right), p. 40 -- Bernadette & Eugene Gardner (top right), p. 48 -- Scott Radcliff and Eugene Gardner (bottom right), p. 48 -- Scott Radcliffe and Eugene Gardner (top right), p. 55 -- Bobby Brandt (top right) and Rod Messick (bottom right) p. 59.
Subjects
U. S. Women's Open (Golf tournament)
Lancaster Country Club (Lancaster, Pa.)
Golf - United States.
Golf - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Golf for women - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Women golfers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Additional Corporate Author
United States Golf Association.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
796.35266 T974
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Growing up free and black in mid-nineteenth century Lancaster County

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Author
Mitchell, Faith.
Date of Publication
2011.
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Responsibility
Faith Mitchell, Ph.D.
Author
Mitchell, Faith.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
LancasterHistory,
Date of Publication
2011.
Physical Description
pp. 102-113.
Summary
"By following the story of my great-grandmother Isabella Ford's life, and adding to it with information from available sources, I have been able to get a better understanding of the circumstances of Lancaster's free blacks. Her story provides a sense of life in mid-nineteenth century Lancaster County and shows how free black families held their own, despite an environment that was often unfriendly and that restricted their opportunities by both law and custom."
Subjects
Ford, Maria Proctor
Proctor, Jeremiah
Ford, Ellen Isabella
Proctor, James
Proctor, Hannah
Ford, John
Skerrett, Emma Victoria Crawford
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Fulton Township
African American families - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African American Methodists
Underground Railroad
Slavery - America - History
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 113, number 2/3 (2011), p. 102-113Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.113
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A good, honest, hard working man : William Christian Paulsen and his family - German immigrants who settled in Lancaster in the mid- to late-nineteenth century

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Author
Gerhart, James M.
Date of Publication
2010.
  1 website  
Responsibility
James Gerhart.
Author
Gerhart, James M.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
LancasterHistory,
Date of Publication
2010.
Physical Description
pp. 102-123 : illus, photo. ; 23 cm.
Summary
"William Paulsen's story, although unique in its details, is generally typical of the stories of many other middle-class German immigrants in Lancaster. Together, these stories comprise an important part of Lancaster's history that may not be very well known because immigrants in the middle class, although in the great majority, did not leave as many traces in the historical records as did more affluent, well-known immigrants. As a result, the stories of middle-class immigrants are more difficult to piece together. However, in the case of William Paulsen and his family, we are fortunate to have extensive family sources of information to draw on, as well as a substantial number of historical records."
Subjects
Paulsen family.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 112, number 3/4 (2010), p. 102-123Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.112
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Sarah Burd Yeates : a woman of the eighteenth century

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo325
Author
MacPherson, Doris.
Date of Publication
1993.
those who are conspicuous by their prominence or notoriety. With a few exceptions, those who are particularly absent from historical notice are women of all ethnic groups and social strata. When the history does deal with the contributions of the eighteenth century woman, it concerns itself chiefly with
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Responsibility
by Doris MacPherson
Author
MacPherson, Doris.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1993.
Physical Description
[47]-57 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 95, no. 2
Subjects
Yeates, Sarah Burd.
Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817.
Women - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 95, number 2 (1993), p. 47-57Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.95
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Lititz, our community in story : a collaborative project by the Lititz Historical Foundation and the Archives Committee of the Lititz Moravian Congregation

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Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
c2013.
Call Number
974.815 LITB L778Li
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
Lititz (Pa.)
Publisher
Miller Printing,
Date of Publication
c2013.
Physical Description
[vi], 140 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 28 cm.
Subjects
Moravians - Pennsylvania - Lititz.
Lititz (Pa.) - History.
Additional Corporate Author
Historical Foundation of Lititz (Pa.)
Moravian Church (Lititz, Pa.). Archives Committee.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LITB L778Li
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James P. Wickersham on nineteenth century European and American schools

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Author
Adams, Paul Kinder.
Date of Publication
1990
James P. Wickersham on Nineteenth Century European and American Schools By Paul K. Adams, Ph.D. James P. Wickersham, one-time Lancaster County Superintendent of Schools, Millersville Normal School Principal and Pennsylvania Superintendent of Com- mon Schools, throughout his career had a strong
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Responsibility
by Paul K. Adams, Ph.D.
Author
Adams, Paul Kinder.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1990
Physical Description
[70]-92 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.92, no.3
Subjects
Wickersham, James Pyle, - 1825-1893.
Education
Education - Pennsylvania.
Education - Europe.
Technical education
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 92, number 3 (1990), p. 70-92Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.92
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The nineteenth century Lancaster artisan as businessman : the view from R.G. Dun and Company

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Author
Winpenny, Thomas R.
Date of Publication
1993.
The Nineteenth Century Lancaster Artisan as Businessman; The View from R. G. Dun and Company By Thomas R" Winpenny, Ph.D" To mention the 19th century artisan is to call forth a variety of images. From the vantage point of the connoisseur and avid reader of Antiques magazine there is a reverence for
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Responsibility
by Thomas K. Winpenny, Ph.D.
Author
Winpenny, Thomas R.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1993.
Physical Description
[86]-95 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 95, no. 3
Subjects
R.G. Dun & Company.
Artisans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 95, number 3 (1993), p. 86-95Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.95
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