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Collection: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Title: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Object ID: MG0277

Date Range: 1798-1993

between the Directors of the Poor and House of Employment and Matthias Slough. Ninety acres south of the turnpike road leading from the borough of Lancaster to Abraham Witmer’s bridge. 27 November 1798. Transferred from a drawer of assorted county documents, 2005. RG 08-12. Folder 32 Blueprints for

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Collection: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Title: Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection

Description: The Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection is comprised of accounts, registers, minutes, and other records kept by this county department. There are birth and death records, lists of inmates, supply and payroll books, and auditors' reports, and a scrapbook of Conestoga View.

Date Range: 1798-1993

Year Range From: 1798

Year Range To: 1993

Date of Accumulation: 1798-1993

Creator: Lancaster County (Pa.). Board of County Commissioners

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Ash, Phineas; Bachman, J. M.; Bachman, John; Bair, Ivan; Baney, William; Bard, R. W.; Bare, Adam; Bausman, John; Bubach, Gerhart; Carpenter, Sam; Centini, Jane E.; Clark, Thomas; Coleman, Thomas; Colwell, James; Dale, Samuel; Dorwart, Jonas; Dunlap, Stephan; Eaby, George W.; Esler, P. O.; Gibbons, William; Good, William; Graybill, N. W.; Graybill, H.; Gryder, Christian; Haines, Timothy; Halbach, W. A.; Harnish, Jacob; Harnish, Samuel; Heck, Lewis; Herr, Christian; Hershey, W. E. H.; Hildebrant, W.; Hollinger, George; Humes, Samuel; Jackson, James J.; Kean, Thomas M.; Kready, David C.; Lane, P. C.; Lenegan, Archibald M.; Light, John; Livingston, J. B.; Long, Jacob; Metzger, John W.; Meyers, Samuel M.; Murray, William; Musser, George; Nauman, J. W.; Nicholson, John; Overholzer, H. D.; Patterson, D. W.; Reed, John K.; Schwartz, Conrad; Slaymaker, Henry; Snyder, Simon; Stone, Abraham; Strine, Jacob S.; Summy, A.; Sweigart, E.; Weaver, B. F.; Webb, Will; Wein, John; Wentz, Thomas; Witmer, Abraham; Witters, Jacob W.; Young, Mathias; Zantzinger, Paul

Other Creators: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Subjects: Almshouses; Almshouses--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History; Auditors' reports; Conestoga View (Lancaster, Pa.); Poor--Services for--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History; Scrapbooks

Search Terms: Almshouses; Auditors' reports; Conestoga View; Finding aids; Manuscript groups; Scrapbooks

Extent: 3 boxes, 33 books and folders, 3.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0277

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection (MG0277), Folder or Book #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

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.

Classification: MG0277

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Most of the items in this collection are part of the Lancaster County Government Records, RG 08-12. They were transferred into MG-277 in 1999 during the planning of the Almshouse and Hospital exhibition. Other items are on loan from the Edward Hand Medical Heritage Foundation or were collected by LancasterHistory.; Added to database 21 July 2017.

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Is this your son, George? : the Coleman-Shoop genealogy and family history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5141

Author: Burnite, Ruth Stark,

Date of Publication: 1988.

Call Number: 929 C692b

Responsibility: Ruth Stark Burnite ; edited by David Clark Burnite.

Author: Burnite, Ruth Stark,

Place of Publication: [United States?]

Publisher: R.S. Burnite,

Date of Publication: 1988.

Physical Description: 234 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: Coleman family.; Shupe family.; Shoop family.; Miller family.; Poor family.; Young family.; Pohl family.; Walter family.; Pennsylvania - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Burnite, David Clark,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 C692b

Re-discovering Horatio Alger, Jr. 1832-1899 : the most popular storyteller who ever lived--and the most widely read

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo380

Author: Gerlach, Dorothy B.

Date of Publication: 1985

was such that some 400 million copies were published and purchased. All of this helps support the statement that he was the most popular American storyteller who ever lived. Today there is a growing interest in Alger's writings as Americans look to the past, seeking for and re-examining those ideals

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Responsibility: by Dorothy B. Gerlach.

Author: Gerlach, Dorothy B.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1985

Physical Description: 86-93 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 89, no. 3

Subjects: Alger, Horatio, - 1832-1899.; Children

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 89, number 3 (1985), p. 86-93Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.89