1st series. Statesmen, military officers, journalists, educators, and prominent persons recently deceased. 1888.--2d series. State officials, judges, lawyers, physicians, artists, etc. 1889.--3d series. Financiers, railroad officials, merchants, manufacturers, inventors, publishers, and other practical men of affairs. 1890.
Boyd's business directory and gazetteer of Reading, Harrisburg, Williamsport, Lancaster, Pottsville, Allentown, Norristown, Lebanon : and over eighty of the principal towns on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and its branches
Supplement 1 entitled Catalogue of Mechanics' Library Society of Lancaster City, with Supplement containing list of books purchased from 1884 to 1889 inclusive (1890); Supplement 2 entitled Supplement to catalogue of Mechanics' Library Society of Lancaster City,containing list of books purchased from 1889 to 1889 inclusive (1890).
The centennial memorial of the Presbytery of Carlisle; a series of papers, historical and biographical, relating to the origin and growth of Presbyterianism in the central and eastern part of southern Pennsylvania
"The design of this work is to present , as far as possible, full and strictly accurate descriptions of the titles , with collations, of every book , pamphlet and broadside printed in the Province and state of Pennsylvania , during the first hundred years of the operations of the press within their limits." [from the preface]
Translation of Chronicon ephratense, enthaltend den lebens-lauf des ehrwürdigen vaters in Christo Friedsam Gottrecht ... zusamen getragen von br. Lamech [i. e. Jacob Gass?] u. Agrippa [i. e. Johann Peter Miller also known as Prior Jaebez] ... Ephrata: Gedruckt anno M. DCCLXXXVI. cf. Seidensticker, First cent. of German printing in America, p. 117, and Sache, The German sectarians of Pennsylvania 142-1800, p. 471.
"Reprint and index" copy by Gary T. Hawbaker compiled in 1993
Summary
Squire Thon was born in Germany in 1807. He kept a diary from 1847 until his death in 1888. He was well known in the county. His diary entries appeared in the Lancaster New Era newspaper for several years. His title of Squire came from his service as Justice of the Peace in Lancaster Township for 25 years
A complete business directory of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : together with a few of the most important events of the borough's past, and a correct pen picture of Columbia in 1887
