Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-376) and index.
Contents
A new year and a fresh start -- Politics and the social milieu -- James Buchanan : President-elect -- The President, the Chief Justice, and a slave named Scott -- The heart of the matter : slavery and sectionalism -- Popular sovereignty, Kansas style -- Dog days -- Flush times and an autumn panic -- Northern politics : the parties in equipoise -- Politics as farce : the Lecompton Constitution -- Politics as tragedy : Buchanan's decision -- 1858 : the fruits of Lecompton.
Summary
It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Morman governor to replace Brigham Young. The Supreme Court outraged northernRepublicans and abolitionists with the Dred Scott decision ("a breathtaking example of judicial activism"). etc.
Volume 1: Marriage Records of Rev. Daniel Weiser 1825-1833 - Selinsgrove, Snyder Co., Penna.--Pastoral Records of Rev. Johannes (John) Waldschmidt, Reformed Pastor of Lancaster & Berks Co.'s (1752-1786)--Pastoral Records of Rev. Isaac Shellhammer, Reformed Minister of Luzerne, Columbia and Schuylkill Counties (1832-1872)--Records of the Port Carbon Circuit of the Evangelical Association. Port Carbon, East Norwegian Twp., Sch. Co., Pa.--Records of the Hegins/Reiner City Circuit of the Evangelical Association--Marriage Record of the Rev. James Linn, Presbyterian Minister of Centre County, Penna.--Egypt Cemetery "The Congregation on the Lehigh"--Private Record of the Rev. Peter S. Fisher, Reformed Pastor of Centre and Clinton Counties, Penna.--Marriage Record of Rev. Charles H. Zerbe, (1896-1958) - mostly of Lower Mahanoy Twp., Northumberland Co., Penna., some upper areas of Dauphin Co., Penna.--Frieden's Evangelical Lutheran cemetery, Myerstown, Jackson Twp., Lebanon Co., Penna. (1812-1880)
Vol. 2: Pastoral Record of Rev. Charles G. Herman, mostly Berks County--Pastoral record of Abraham Blumer--Northumberland Republicaner--Nordwestlich Post--Marriages and deaths from early Pottstown Newspapers.
Correll chronicles : the ancestors and descendants of the Correll families of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : through four hundred fifty years, from the 1500's through 1996
A directory of the eleventh census of the population of Schuylkill County : giving the names and ages of males and females, published by cities, boroughs, wards, townships, precincts or towns, in connection with a business directory of the same for advertising purposes ... together with a brief historical resume of each district, statistics, etc
"The ninety-nine references which folloe were originally compiled and published by the Pennsylvania Genelaogical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before 1900."
Indexed, edited and republished by Adams Apple Press.
