StudyofTwo Distinct Periods Perio Ephrata (.,Coiner BY JACK WARD WILLSON LOOSE I. Mills of the Cloister The Ephrata Cloisters owed its founding, if not its raison d'etre to Johann Conrad Beissel, who was born in April, 1690, at Eberbach in the German Palatinate. Beissel's father was an intemperate

played a substantial role in the development of American culture. So disproportionate to its real importance in American history has the cult of Ephrata become that several years ago it was possible to publish a volume of annotated bibliography on literature pertaining to the Cloister. The Ephrata

Henry Frank Eshleman. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Beissel, Conrad, 1690-1768. Ephrata Cloister. Ephrata (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 67 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 5 Notes

/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Dubbs, J. H. (Joseph Henry), 1838-1910. Title: Ephrata hymns and hymn books / by Joseph Henry Dubbs, D.D., LL.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Ephrata Cloister. Hymns, German. Ephrata (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1909 Description: 21

the Ecker- lin brothers, his becoming joint own- er of 150 acres of land, and other events of his life, without passing judgment on the credibility of the writer or the importance of his auto- biography as a contribution to the history of the Ephrata Cloister. W. M. Fahnstock, M. D., in an ar- ticle

was a matter of many years before all the Cloister buildings were erected. F. R. D. Account of the Society of Dunkards in Pennsylvania. Communicated by a British Officer to the Editor of the Edinburgh Magazine. Sir, Edin. April 27, 1786. The whole road, from Lancaster to Ephrata, affords a variety of