Chapters: LIFE TO THE ENTRY UPON THE HOLY MINISTRY --- BECOMES A MINISTER,THEN A MISSIONARY --- MINISTRY AT LANCASTER --- MINISTRY AT TULPEHOCKEN --- MINISTRY AT FREDERICK --- MINISTRY AT YORK ---CO-LABORERS--- CALL TO BALTIMORE --- ESTABLISHMENT AND PROGRESS OF THE BALTIMORE CONGREGATION --- CO-LABORERS IN GENERAL --- PROGRESS OF THE RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT --- OTTERBEIN AND THE REFORMED CHURCH --- OTTERBEIN AND THE UNITED BRETHREN --- FRIENDLY RELATIONS - DEATH OFBOEHM AND GEETING --- DOMESTIC LIFE -MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS ----OTTERBEIN'S EXTANT PAPERS --- OTTERBEIN'S LAST YEAR
Address in commemoration of the inauguration of George Washington as first president of the United States, delivered before the two houses of Congress, December 11, 1889
Printed at the Methodist Book Concern, for the author,
Date of Publication
1863.
Physical Description
546 p. port. 19 cm.
Summary
This is an autobiography. The author was born in Lancaster, PA, in 1811. His parents sailed from Ireland in 1801.
Notes
Maxwell Pierson Gaddis (1811-1888) was a prolific author and Methodist itinerant preacher. His best known book is his autobiography "Footprints of an Itinerant".
xvi, 470 p. , [26] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Series
Macmillan's standard library
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Chapters: Homes of the colonists / How homes were lighted / The kitchen fireside / Foods and the serving of food / Flax and wool culture and spinning / Girls occupations / Hand weaving / Clothing / Travel, transportation and taverns / How Sundays were spent / Colonial neighborliness. With many photos and illustrations.
Records of the revolutionary war: containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their commissions and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown and Valley Forge; with a list of distinguished prisoners of war; the time of their capture, exchange, etc. To which is added the half-pay acts of the Continental Congress; the revolutionary pension laws; and a list of the officers of the Continental Army who acquired the right to half-pay, commutation, and lands
