Stricklers of Pennsylvania; a history of the Strickler famielies who emigrated from Switzerland and settled principally in Bucks, Lancaster, York, and Lebanon counties in Pennsylvania
The Strickler Reunion Association of Pennsylvania [Printed by the Mennonite Publishing House]
Date of Publication
1942.
Physical Description
5 p., leaf, 420 p. frontispiece, illustrations, (facsimiles, coat of arms) plates, portraits. 24 cm.
Notes
Begun by Mrs. Abigail M. Strickler, completed by Alice N. Strickler and Mame E. Strickler; the data of Henry Strickler, son of the immigrant, gathered by Jacob S. Strickler.
History of the early settlement of the Juniata valley: embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley, predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the war of the revolution, &c
By U. J. Jones. With notes and extensions compiled as a glossary from the memoirs of early settlers, the pension statements of revolutionary war soldiers, and other source material, by Floyd G. Hoenstine ...
The Lords Baltimore; contemporary portraits of the founder and the five proprietaries of Maryland, now the possession of the people of Maryland through the initiative and generosity of Dr. Hugh Hampton Young, who presented five of these paintings
The Bible in iron : pictured stoves and stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans; notes on colonial firebacks in the United States, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace, and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the United States and Canada
Bound with: Old Home Week , Manheim, Pa. (1912) and History of Lancaster (1870)
Bibliography: p. 206-208.
Contents
Chapters : The decorated iron stoves of Europe /// The decorated iron stoves of colonial America /// Notes on colonial firebacks, date plates and miscellaneous stoves
Summary
Contains notes on colonial firebacks in the US, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the US and Canada.
Simon Cameron's adventure in iron, 1837-1846; new biographical material including an account of the formation and dissolution of a partnership of Simon Cameron, S.F. Headley, Samuel Humes, and Thomas McNair for the manufacture and sale of iron (principally to what is now the Pennsylvania Railroad) and its political connotations
The first air voyage in America; the times, the place, and the people of the Blanchard balloon voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury, together with a fac simile reprinting of the Journal of my forty-fifth ascension and the first in America
60, 27 p. incl. front., 1 illus., plates, port., map, facsim. pl. 21 cm.
Notes
"The first air voyage in America" (p. [7]-60) was written by Carroll Frey for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, from whose present property the voyage was made.
"The original Journal copied is the one in the Ridgway Library of the Library Company of Philadelphia, except for the copy of the frontispiece engraving in the collection of the American Philosophical Society."--p. 59.
Secret history of the American revolution, an account of the conspiracies of Benedict Arnold and numerous others, drawn from the Secret service papers of the British headquarters in North America, now for the first time examined and made public
3 p. l., [v]-xiv p., 2 l., [3]-534 p. illus. (map) ports., facsims. 24 cm.
Notes
Based largely on the Clinton papers in the William L. Clements library at the University of Michigan. Other sources cited are the Washington papers and the Papers of the Continental Congress at the Library of Congress. cf. Pref.
"This first edition is limited to five hundred ninety numbered copies signed by the author." This copy not numbered.
