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Collection: Woodstream Corporation (Lititz, Pa.) Collection

Title: Notes of conversations

Object ID: MG0417_F001

Date Range: 1990

Source of Acquisition: Folders 1 and 2: gift of Ellen Endslow, 5 February 2007. Folder 3: gift of Mrs. June R. Bomberger, 31 January 2009. Accruals: LancasterHistory will continue to add items to this collection. Preferred Citation: Woodstream Corporation (Lititz, Pa.) Collection (MG0417), Folder

2 documents

Collection: Woodstream Corporation (Lititz, Pa.) Collection

Title: Notes of conversations

Description: Ellen Endslow's notes of conversations with Leroy Wentzel, Pulp Foreman, 16 January 1990; Carolyn Black, store manager, 1990; and Pete Askins, 14 February 1990.

Admin/Biographical History: J. M. Mast Manufacturing Company was organized in Lititz in 1901 to manufacture animal traps, patent fishing floats and vegetable graters. In 1905 the Mast Company was merged with the Animal Trap Company of Abingdon, Illinois; the new company was said to be "the largest concern of its kind in the world." (http://www.horseshoe.cc/pennadutch/places/pennsylvania/lancasterco/towns/lititz/lititz.htm, accessed 16 July 2009); The name was changed to Woodstream Corporation in 1966 and is headquartered in Lititz. Woodstream Corporation manufactures and markets pest control, and wildlife caring and control products for the United States, Canada, and European markets. The company offers rodent control products, caring control products for pets and wildlife, pest control products for the lawn and garden, and wild bird feeder segments. It also offers mouse traps, cage traps, toxic insecticides and fungicides, and bird feeders, as well as dog and small animal cages. It distributes its products through retail locations in the United States and internationally.; (http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=96531, accessed 16 July 2009)

Date Range: 1990

Creation Date: 1990

Creator: Endslow, Ellen

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 10

People: Askins, Pete; Black, Carolyn; Endslow, Ellen; Wentzel, Leroy

Subjects: Oral histories

Search Terms: Animal Trap Company of America; Finding aids; Manuscript groups; Victor; Victor Woodstream Corporation; Woodstream Corporation; Notes

Extent: 1 item, 4 pages to scan

Object Name: History

Language: English

Object ID: MG0417_F001

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: See the Photograph Collection; See the Curatorial Collection

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Woodstream Corporation (Lititz, Pa.) Collection, MG0417_F001, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-417

Other Number: MG-417, Folder 1

Classification: MG0417

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Processed by DS, 2007. Added to database 16 December 2021.

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 1 James Buchanan

Title: A brief history of the President’s activities in Lodge No. 43, Free and Accepted Masons, Lancaster

Object ID: JBFP 1.5.1.003

Date Range: 1816/11/13

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 1 James Buchanan

Title: A brief history of the President’s activities in Lodge No. 43, Free and Accepted Masons, Lancaster

Description: Facsimile of petition for membership presented 13 November 1816 to Lodge No. 43, Free and Accepted Masons, Lancaster, Pa., by James Buchanan. A brief history of the President’s activities in the organization as well as brief histories of both recommenders, John Reynolds and Morton C. Rogers.

Date Range: 1816/11/13

Creator: Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Container: JBFP Part 1, Box 5

People: Buchanan, James; Reynolds, John; Rogers, Morton C.

Subjects: Petitions; Freemasons; Freemasons--Membership

Search Terms: Masonic Lodge No. 43; Petitions; Freemasons; Buchanan Collections; James Buchanan; James Buchanan Presidential Library

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages to scan, 8 x 10 in.

Object Name: History

Language: English

Parent Object ID: JBFP Part 1 Series 5

Object ID: JBFP 1.5.1.003

Location of Originals: Photocopy. Location of the original is unknown.

Associated Material: James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,; http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers; James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,; https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/; James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,; http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html; James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,; https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm

Related Item Notes: James Buchanan Family Papers; MG-96 James Buchanan Collection; Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm; Photograph collections; Curatorial collections; Wheatland Mansion

Notes: May 2020 PastPerfect Conversion

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Photocopy may be used by appointment. Please contact archives@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: JBMS1995.350

Other Number: JBFP Part 1, Series 5, Subseries 1, Folder 3

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.