Contents: - Ancestors of Lewis Allen. - Life of Lewis Allen... - Lewis Denison Allen and his Descendants... - Mary Smith Allen and her Descendants. - Frances Elizabeth Allen and her Descendants. - Harriet Amelia Allen and her Descendants. - Sarah Ann Allen and her Descendants. - Frederick Lee Allen and his Descendants. - Thomas Humphrey Cushing Allen and his Descendante - Jane Cellina Allen and her Descendants. - Eleanor Caroline Allen and her Descendants.
History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science
published monthly under the aspices of the Lancaster County Agricultural and Horticultural Society.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Wylie and Griest, Inquirer Printing House,
Date of Publication
1869-
Physical Description
v. ; 26 cm.
Notes
Library has v. 1 - v. 16.
Publisher: v. 1- (1869) Lancaster, Pa.: Wylie & Griest, Inquirer Printing House and Book Bindery - v. 2-3 (1870-1871) Lancaster, Pa.: Wylie & Griest, Inquirer Printing House and Bindery - v. 4 (1872) Lancaster, Pa: J. B. Develin, Publisher, Wylie & Griest, Inquirer Printing House and Bindery - v. 5 (1873) Lancaster, Pa: J. B. Develin, Publisher, Inquirer Printing and Publishing Company - v. 6 Lancaster, Pa.: Pearson & Geist, Printers - v. 7 (1875) Lancaster, Pa.: Pearsol & Giest, Printers and Publishers - v. 8 (1876) Lancaster, Pa. : John A. Hiestand Printer and Publisher - v. 9-10 (1877 - 1878) Lancaster, Pa. : Linnæus Rathvon, Publisher - v. 11-16 (1879-1884) Lancaster, Pa. : John A. Hiestand, Publisher.
The author was a professor of mathematics and chemistry at Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg at the time of the Civil War. He was also the Lutheran pastor at the campus church.This book is a day-by-day account of the invasion beginning weeks before the Battle of Gettyburg. It was published in the year following the battle. The is no bibliography nor footnotes, but there is an excellent map of the battlefield.
xix, 256 p. : ill., col. coat of arms, facsims., geneal. table, port. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes indexes.
Summary
The book is a genealogical history of the LeFevre family in America. As Huguenots, the family was persecuted in France and many were killed. Isaac Lefevres of 1669 escaped to America and settled in Strasburg Township.
