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225th anniversary, Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18259

Corporate Author: Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church (Cochranville, Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1955]

Call Number: 974.813 F574

Alternate Title: Two hundred twenty-fifth anniversary, Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church

Corporate Author: Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church (Cochranville, Pa.)

Place of Publication: [Cochranville, Pa

Publisher: The Church,

Date of Publication: 1955]

Physical Description: [16] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title.

Subjects: Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church (Cochranville, Pa.) - History.; Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church (Cochranville, Pa.) - Anniversaries, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.813 F574

The 1955 year book of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Revolution

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Corporate Author: Sons of the American Revolution. Pennsylvania Society.

Date of Publication: 1956.

Call Number: 369.13 P413

Alternate Title: Year book of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Revolution

Responsibility: compiled by Floyd G. Hoenstine.

Corporate Author: Sons of the American Revolution. Pennsylvania Society.

Place of Publication: Pittsburgh

Publisher: The Society,

Date of Publication: 1956.

Physical Description: 773 p. : ill. 24 cm.

Notes: Includes index to surnames.

Subjects: Sons of the American Revolution. - Pennsylvania Society.; Patriotic societies; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Societies, etc.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Societies, etc.

Additional Author: Hoenstine, Floyd G.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369.13 P413

American colonial painting: materials for a history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8229

Author: Belknap, Waldron Phoenix,

Date of Publication: 1959.

Call Number: 759.13 B432

Author: Belknap, Waldron Phoenix,

Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication: 1959.

Physical Description: xxi, 377 p. ports., coats of arms, facsims. 28 cm.

Notes: "Catalogue of prints and paintings": p. 279-322.; Bibliographical footnotes.

Subjects: Portrait painting - United States; Portrait-painters, American.; New York (State) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Sellers, Charles Coleman,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 759.13 B432

American firearms makers: when, where, and what they made from the Colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century

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Author: Carey, Arthur Merwyn,

Date of Publication: [1953]

Call Number: 683 C273

Author: Carey, Arthur Merwyn,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Crowell

Date of Publication: [1953]

Physical Description: xiii, 146 p. illus. 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 145-146.

Subjects: Firearms industry and trade - United States.; Firearms

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 683 C273

Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch tourist guide

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Date of Publication: c1959.

Call Number: 917.48 A516

Responsibility: edited by Alfred L. Soemaker.

Place of Publication: Kutztown, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania Folklife Society,

Date of Publication: c1959.

Physical Description: 116 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "Dunkard 'Love Feasts' by Don Yoder": p. [40]-41.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Amish; Pennsylvania Dutch - Folklore.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.

Additional Author: Shoemaker, Alfred Lewis,; Yoder, Don.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Folklife Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.48 A516

Andrew Ellicott : surveyor of the capital of our nation

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1192

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Date of Publication: 1950

., commis- sioners for viewing and laying out, on the most "eligible" ground, a road from Reading to Presque Isle. Much of two years was spent in building roads and planning towns in the northwestern part of the state. He was appointed Secretary of the Land Office of Pennsyl- vania by Governor Thomas McKean

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Responsibility: by M. Luther Heisey.

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1950

Physical Description: [1]-14 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 54, no. 1

Subjects: Ellicott, Andrew, - 1754-1820.; Surveyors - Pennsylvania.; City planning - Washington (D.C.); United States - Capital and capitol.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 54, number 1 (1950), p. 1-14Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.54

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Annual report

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Corporate Author: Lancaster City Planning Commission (Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1958-

Call Number: 352.1 L244a

Responsibility: Lancaster City Planning Commission.

Corporate Author: Lancaster City Planning Commission (Pa.)

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1958-

Notes: Library has 1958, 1959.; 1958 cover title: Lancaster moves ahead;Publication 3.; 1959 cover title: Progress thru planning; Publication 7.

Subjects: City planning.; Lancaster City (Pa.) - Politics and government

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.1 L244a

The antiques book : outstanding, authoritative articles on ceramics, furniture, glass, silver, pewter, architecture, prints and other collecting interests

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Date of Publication: 1950.

Call Number: 745.1 A632

Responsibility: Edited by Alice Winchester and the staff of the magazine Antiques.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Bonanza Books,

Date of Publication: 1950.

Physical Description: 319 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Notes: "Articles from the first fifty-six volumes of Antiques, January 1922 through December 1949."

Subjects: Collectors and collecting.; Antiques.

Additional Author: Winchester, Alice.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 745.1 A632

Archive

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Collection: Commonwealth vs. Edward L. Gibbs Records

Title: Commonwealth vs. Edward L. Gibbs

Object ID: MG0476

Date Range: 1950-1951

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Collection: Commonwealth vs. Edward L. Gibbs Records

Title: Commonwealth vs. Edward L. Gibbs

Description: On 10 January 1950, Marian L. Baker was brutally murdered by Edward Lester Gibbs. This collection contains W. Hensel Brown's copies of the clerk's file, transcripts, appeal briefs, and other court records from the murder trial of Edward L. Gibbs, 1950. Newspaper articles report on the 1950 trial and his 1951 electrocution.

Admin/Biographical History: Edward Lester Gibbs (1924-1951), veteran (98th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force) and husband of Helen Woodward, was from Gloucester County, NJ. In 1950, he was a student at Franklin and Marshall College. (1); Marian Louise Baker (1928-1950), the daughter of Walter M. Baker and Helen Beatrice Soule Britcher, was originally from New Bloomfield, Perry County, PA. (2) She had spent much of her childhood in Conestoga, PA with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy O'Donel. (3) In 1950, she worked as a cashier and secretary in the treasurer's office at Franklin and Marshall College (4) and was engaged to Edward Rankin. (5); W. Hensel Brown was the attorney chosen to defend Gibbs.; "On January 10, 1950, Marian Louise Baker was brutally slain by being; beaten to death with a lug wrench. Eight days later Edward Lester; Gibbs, defendant, confessed the killing. Thereafter, he was indicted in; Lancaster County, tried by a jury, and convicted of murder in the first; degree with the penalty fixed at death. Prior to his bringing this appeal, his motion for new trial was denied and sentence was imposed in accordance with the verdict.; At the time of the killing, defendant, a married war veteran twenty-five years of age, was a student at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. *185 In the early afternoon of January 10, 1950, he was in downtown Lancaster when he saw Miss Baker, an employee of the college. He offered to drive her back to the campus in his car and she accepted. However, instead of returning directly to the college, they rode out of town and into the open country. When they reached an isolated spot several miles from the city she commented on the view and defendant stopped the car so that they both might enjoy it. While sitting there he suddenly reached over and began choking her. She broke away and got out of the car. He followed her and after choking her again, he returned to the car, unlocked and opened the luggage compartment, removed the lug wrench, and beat her over the head with it until she was dead. He then left but later returned to hide the body and remove any incriminating evidence. The body was not discovered until four days later.; On January 18, 1950, defendant admitted committing the crime and on that same day he signed a statement setting forth the facts as we have synopsized them here. Neither at the trial nor at any other time did he deny the truth of that confession and substantially all of the facts contained in it were verified by the independent investigation of the Pennsylvania State Police." (6); 1 "Edward Lester Gibbs," Find A Grave, accessed November 27, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76555590/edward-lester-gibbs.; 2 "Marian Louise Baker," Find A Grave, accessed November 27, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76632108/marian-louise-baker.; 3 "Vintage photos, the 1950 murder of an F&M secretary," PennLive.com, last modified January 8, 2016, https://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/01/vintage_photos_the_1950_murder.html.; 4 "Marian Louise Baker," Find A Grave, accessed November 27, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76632108/marian-louise-baker.; 5 "Vintage photos, the 1950 murder of an F&M secretary," PennLive.com, last modified January 8, 2016, https://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/01/vintage_photos_the_1950_murder.html.; 6 "Opinion by Mr. Chief Justice Drew, November 20, 1950," Justia, accessed November 27, 2018, https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/supreme-court/1950/366-pa-182-0.html.

Date Range: 1950-1951

Creation Date: 1950-1951

Year Range From: 1950

Year Range To: 1951

Date of Accumulation: 1950-1951

Creator: Brown, W. Hensel, b.1902.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 11

People: Brown, W. Hensel; Baker, Marian Louise; Gibbs, Edward Lester

Subjects: Murder; Trials (Murder); Trial transcripts; Trials; Court records; Jury selection; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)

Search Terms: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Court records; Finding aids; Jury selection; Manuscript groups; Murder; Newspaper clippings; Trial transcripts; Trials; Trials (Murder)

Extent: 1 box, 15 folders, 24 items, 1,081 pages to scan, .5 cubic feet

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0476

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Information about photographs used as evidence may be found in the Photograph Collection-many of the photographs are restricted.; ObjectID 2-15-04-01 to 2-15-04-21; Information about photographs used as evidence may be found in the Photograph Collection-many of the photographs are restricted.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Folders 12-15 are restricted. Use photocopies in Folders 8-11.

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.

Other Number: MG-476

Classification: MG0476

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid prepared by RC, May 2017.

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225th anniversary, Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18259

The 1955 year book of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2648

American colonial painting: materials for a history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8229

American firearms makers: when, where, and what they made from the Colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2771

Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch tourist guide

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16619

Andrew Ellicott : surveyor of the capital of our nation

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1192

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Annual report

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17647

The antiques book : outstanding, authoritative articles on ceramics, furniture, glass, silver, pewter, architecture, prints and other collecting interests

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14035

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/37256600-2e6b-4520-95f0-423425752838

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Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/68e63311-b54d-477a-8bae-110207122448

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