Smedley & Clark Prospect Mills Daybook D contains an itemized list of their profits, a list of client names, and expenses and the employees of the mill and what they were being compensated for. The profits list ranges from selling corn, wheat, bran, oats, and flour, as well as sawing boards and planks. The recorded expenses for the mill include employee wages and transportation costs.
Admin/Biographical History
Joel Smedley was born in 1799 to parents Joseph Smedley and Rebecca Lewis Smedley. Joel married Martha Wildman and fathered six children including Charles, Mary, John, Lewis, Anne, and Ellwood. Joel inherited the mill from his father in 1833 and expanded it by building a sorghum factory. Joel died in 1872.
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Walnut Hill School, c. 1939. First row: Ruth Shenk, Mary Frey, Helen Kauffman, Kenneth Witmer, Grace Breneman, Mildred Frey, Marian Urban, Betty Orbank. Second row: Charles Roberts, Robert Witmer, Leroy Kauffman, Russel Frey, Hilda Rice, Marty Breneman, Anna Rice. Third row: Emma Breneman, Paul Witmer, Roy Kreider, Glenn Kauffman, Ruth Urban, Ivan Rice, Richard Witmer, Susie Hess. Fourth row: Elvin Sauders, Earl Breneman, Bill Rice, Ruth Breneman, Ida Hess, John Kauffman, Elizabeth Drum (teacher).
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Walnut Hill School, 1933. First row: Steve Hecimovich, Kenneth Witmer, Leroy Kauffman, ?, Marty Breneman, Robert Witmer, Russel Frey. Second row: Charles Roberts, Richard Witmer, Roy Kreider, Elvin Sauder, Earl Breneman, Glenn Kauffman, John Kauffman, Ivan Rice, Paul Witmer. Third row: Vicki Urban, Betty Orbank, Violet Hecimovich, HIlda Rice, Susie Hess, Emma Breneman, Anna Rice, Mildred Frey, Mary Frey. Fourth row: Marian Urban, Willis Rice, Ida Hess, John Urban, Theda Groff, Nicholas Hecimovich, Ruth Breneman, Dorothy Witmer, Elizabeth Drum (teacher).
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The City Police Department poses for the photographer. Front row, left to right: Det. Howard Anderson, Chief Guy Eckman, Mayor Frank Musser, Agnes Ferriter, first Lancaster City policewoman, Det. George Parmer, Lieut. Frank Bradycamp. Seated in sidecar behind Det. Howard Anderson is Sgt. Elwood Gainor who was killed in the line of duty in 1927. Man with goggles is Edward Sullenberger. Also pictured are the following:
Shannon Hartley
James Crawford
David Shank
Lewis Matt
Ray Charles
Sgt. Blaine Silvius
John Wilkinson
clerk Albert F. Montgomery
Myron Boettner
Lewis Piersol
Ross Brubaker
Ray Rohrer
William Bitts
David Kauffman
Ivan Eberly
Edward Lapman
Morgan Medlar
John Kauffman
Charles McNutt
F. Reinhart
Walter Yarnall
Joseph Godino
Carl Wenninger
Edward Millen - first African-American police officer on Lancaster's police force