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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

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Author: Fuller, Melville Weston,

Date of Publication: 1890.

Call Number: 923.173 W318fu

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Responsibility: by Melville Weston Fuller, chief-justice of the United States.

Author: Fuller, Melville Weston,

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.,

Date of Publication: 1890.

Physical Description: 39 p. 24 cm.

Subjects: Washington, George, - 1732-1799 - Anniversaries, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 W318fu

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t02z1nx3v&view=1up&seq=7

Andree's balloon expedition in search of the North pole

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Author: Lachambre, Henri,

Date of Publication: 1898.

Call Number: 629.13322 A555

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Responsibility: by Henri Lachambre and Alexis Machuron

Author: Lachambre, Henri,

Uniform Title: Andree.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: F.A. Stokes

Date of Publication: 1898.

Physical Description: 306 p. incl. illus., plates, port. front. 19 cm.

Notes: Translation of: Andree : au p^ole nord en ballon.; Andree's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was an effort to reach the North Pole in which all three Swedish expedition members S. A. Andree, Knut Fraenkel, and Nils Strindberg perished. Andree, the first Swedish balloonist, proposed a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Russia or Canada, which was to pass, with luck, straight over the North Pole on the way. The scheme was received with patriotic enthusiasm in Sweden, a northern nation that had fallen behind in the race for the North Pole. [from Wikipedia]

Subjects: Andree, Salomon August, - 1854-1897.; Balloon ascensions.; North Pole.

Additional Author: Machuron, Alexis.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 629.13322 A555

Websites

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Andrew Ellicott, the great surveyor

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Author: Ely, Warren S.

Date of Publication: 1926.

Call Number: 974.821 B926 v.5

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Responsibility: by Warren S. Ely, Doylestowns, Pa.

Author: Ely, Warren S.

Publisher: Bucks County Historical Society ,

Date of Publication: 1926.

Physical Description: 745 - 751 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: A Collection of papers read before the Bucks County Historical Society ; v. 5.

Subjects: Ellicott, Andrew , - 1754-1820; Surveyors - Pennsylvania

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.821 B926 v.5

Websites

https://archive.org/details/buckscountyhisto05buck/page/744/mode/2up

Andrew Gregg Curtin: his life and services

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Author: Egle, William Henry,

Date of Publication: 1895.

Call Number: 923.2 C978e

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Responsibility: Ed. by William H. Egle, M. D.

Author: Egle, William Henry,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Avil Printing Company,

Date of Publication: 1895.

Physical Description: xiv, 521 p. plates, ports., facsim., front., pl. 23 cm.

Notes: Articles by various writers, relating to Curtin.; "Curtin was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He attended Bellefonte Academy and Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law and was employed as a lawyer. Curtin first entered politics in the 1840 election, where he campaigned for Whig presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. In 1855, Governor James Pollock appointed him as Superintendent of Public Schools. With the collapse of the Whigs, Curtin switched to the newly formed Republican Party and successfully ran for governor of Pennsylvania in 1860. Curtin won re-election to the office in 1863. In the 1860 presidential election, Curtin helped Abraham Lincoln win the Republican nomination. Curtin was a strong supporter of President Lincoln's policies in the Civil War, and Curtin committed Pennsylvania to the war effort. Curtin organized the Pennsylvania Reserves into combat units, and oversaw the construction of the first Union military camp for training militia. It opened in an agricultural school nearby Harrisburg as Camp Curtin on April 18, 1861, and more than 300,000 men were drilled there during 4 years. In the years that followed, Curtin became a close friend and confidant of Abraham Lincoln, visiting the White House several times in order to converse about the status of the war effort. Curtin was very active during the Gettysburg Campaign, working with Major General Darius N. Couch and Major Granville O. Haller to delay Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and prevent it from crossing the Susquehanna River. Major General George G. Meade, a Pennsylvania officer whom Curtin had recommended for brigadier general and command of one of the Pennsylvania reserve brigades in 1861, defeated Lee in the Battle of Gettysburg. After the Battle of Gettysburg, Governor Curtin was the principal force behind the establishment of the National Cemetery there. Through his agent, David Wills, Curtin procured the attendance of President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the cemetery. Governor Curtin was sitting with Lincoln on the platform on November 19, 1863, when Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address. To coordinate Union war efforts, Curtin convened the Loyal War Governors' Conference on September 24 and 25, 1862, in Altoona. This event was one of his most significant contributions to the Union war effort. After the war, Curtin lost his party's Senate nomination to Simon Cameron, and was appointed Ambassador to Russia by President Ulysses S. Grant. Curtin later switched to the Democratic Party, and served as a Congressman from 1881 until 1887. He died at his birthplace of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and is buried there in Union Cemetery." [wikipedia]

Contents: Chapters: Andrew Gregg Curtin / Curtin and free schools / Curtin elected governor 1860 / Curtin's first administration / Curtin re-elected governor 1863 / Curtin's second term / Soldiers organized by Curtin / The Pennsylvania Reserves / Curtin and the soldiers' orphans / Curtin and the Altoona conference / Curtin's early war trials / Curtin's first military telegraph / Curtin's care of the soldiers / Curtin and the private soldiers / Curtin's personal attributes / Curtin and his home community / Curtin and the state credit / Curtin and Clement B Barclay / Curtin as minister to Russia / Curtin's gubernatorial battles / Curtin as a civil administrator / Curtin and Pennsylvania at the beginning of the war / Curtin in the constitutional convention / Curtin and the state flags / Curtin's funeral

Summary: The book is a collection of essays by various men who knew or worked with Governor Curtain. They describe aspects of his character and the challenges he faced.

Subjects: Curtin, Andrew Gregg, - 1815-1894.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.2 C978e

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t82j7153w;view=1up;seq=11

Andrew McNair and the Liberty Bell, 1776

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Author: Alexander, Mary D.

Date of Publication: 1929.

Call Number: 974.80092 A377

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Responsibility: [by] Mary D. Alexander.

Author: Alexander, Mary D.

Place of Publication: [Chicago

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press]

Date of Publication: 1929.

Physical Description: 2 p. Ã¸., 10 p. front., 2 facsim. on 1 pl. 21 cm.

Notes: "First appeared as "The ringers of the Liberty bell". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, XVIII (October, 1925), 658-67."; Andrew McNair, as the doorkeeper of the Assembly of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for 18 years, was the person who would ring the Liberty Bell during the years leading up to the Revolutionary War.

Subjects: McNair, Andrew, - fl. 1776.; Liberty Bell.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80092 A377

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b727655&view=1up&seq=9

The attitude of James Buchanan towards slavery

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Author: Ranck, James Burne.

Date of Publication: 1927.

Call Number: 905.748 HSP

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Responsibility: by James B. Ranck.

Author: Ranck, James Burne.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,

Date of Publication: 1927.

Physical Description: pp. 126-142 ; 23 cm.

Notes: This record provides a link to this resource on the publisher's official online repository.; In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 51.

Summary: Discusses James Buchanan's feelings toward slavery.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - views on slavery.; Slavery - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP

Websites

https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/28098/27854

The awakening and the early progress of the Pequea, Conestoga and other Susquehanna Valley settlements : as shown by official letters, etc., of the time

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Author: Landis, David M.

Date of Publication: 1921.

order is directed by Jacob Taylor to Isaac Taylor, sur- veyor of Chester County. It is No. 572. A similar order bearing like date reciting a like warrant requests 500 acres to be surveyed adjoining the large tract, to Bundely and company. It is No. 573. These are the orders on which the original

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Responsibility: by David M. Landis.

Author: Landis, David M.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1921.

Physical Description: 5-16 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 1

Subjects: Land settlement - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Taylor papers.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 25, number 1 (1921), p. 5-16Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.25