Samuel E. Dyke was a noted authority on the Pennsylvania rifle and wrote on this subject. Collection consists of articles, correspondence, photographs, research notes, and working papers on firearms. Also included is information on gunsmiths, the Rockford Foundation, the Heritage Center, cabinetmakers, grandfather clocks, and the Armstrong Cork Company. 1670-1985
One of two metal signs from the exterior of the Tally Ho Tavern, 201 West Orange St., Lancaster, PA. Each sign reads "TALLY HO" in large red block letters on white background.
See also 2023.020.002
Date Range
Circa 2020
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
South Wall
Object Name
Sign, Trade
Height (cm)
21.59
Height (ft)
0.7083333333
Height (in)
8.5
Length (cm)
152.4
Length (ft)
5
Length (in)
60
Object ID
2023.020.001
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
One of two metal signs from the exterior of the Tally Ho Tavern, 201 West Orange St., Lancaster, PA. Each sign reads "TALLY HO" in large red block letters on white background.
See also 2023.020.001
Date Range
Circa 2020
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
South Wall
Object Name
Sign, Trade
Height (cm)
21.59
Height (ft)
0.7083333333
Height (in)
8.5
Length (cm)
152.4
Length (ft)
5
Length (in)
60
Object ID
2023.020.002
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Bronze maquette or statuette of the Henry Norwood "Barney" Ewell statue dedicated 11/19/2022 in Ewell Plaza, Lancaster City. Statue and Statuette is of Ewell in a running stance; created by sculptor Chad Fisher of York County. Includes brass label plate.
Date Range
2022
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
West Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 30
Storage Shelf
Shelf 4
Object Name
Maquette
Object ID
2023.050.001
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Transcription of the diary of Frank E. Witmer, 1879.
Admin/Biographical History
In 1879, Franklin E. Witmer (1855-1931), at age 23, was the eldest son of Aaron L. Witmer, farmer of West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and his wife Mary Ann (Herr) Witmer. The household also included his younger brothers Abraham (Abram), 21, and Jacob Elam (Elem), 19; two school-age girls Sarah Dunlap, 13, an apprentice servant, and Hettie Fritz, 8, a ward of Mr. and Mrs. Witmer; and for part of the year a teen-age boarder-farm hand , Thaddeus (Thad) Brackbill. In Frank's diary, each person's activity was recorded daily, almost as if he had set himself a deliberate project to do so.
Mr. Witmer's truck farm embraced fields of grain (wheat, oats and rye), several acres of tobacco, a varied fruit orchard, a large truck garden, and a greenhouse for vegetables and flowering plants, a small herd of dairy cattle, some hogs and chickens; enough variety to make year-round weekly visits to market in Lancaster. During the year the family moved into a new house, raised a new barn, stables, hog-pen and chicken-house, and rented the old house and barn to a tenant farmer, Jacob Dieter.
The Witmers were Mennonites, regularly attending church in Lampeter Twp. and Strasburg, and occasionally in New Providence and Lancaster. Sarah and Hettie and briefly Elam, attended the Lampeter School. Their chief source of entertainment seems to have been visiting among their extended Witmer and Herr families and neighbors, although Abram and Elam sometimes attended "singing school" and the Lampeter Lyceum and did some "driving about" of an evening. Only Abram seems to have had a special girlfriend.
Although all the men of the family did everything in the way of farm chores, each of the boys also had a specialty. Frank, the oldest, had his own corn and tobacco patches to tend and market, Abram tended to concentrate on the greenhouse and truck-garden, and Elam helped his father provide veterinary services to other farmers in the area.
Frank Witmer married Mary Ann Herr on November 30, 1881; he continued general farming in West Lampeter Township, died there on December 10, 1931, and was buried in the Mennonite cemetery in nearby Willow Street, Pennsylvania.
This history was prepared by Dr. David H. Wallace.
This collection contains Frank E. Witmer's original 1879 diary, as well as a transcription and index prepared by Dr. David H. Wallace. The diary provides a detailed record of the daily activities of all members of the family. He primarily records the work involved in running a truck farm--planting, maintaining, and harvesting crops, and preparing for market. Other entries of interest include helping a neighbor move a carriage house; building a hog pen; canning; attendance at several Mennonite churches in the area; the process of moving from one house and barn to a new house and barn on the property; frequent visits between relatives and neighbors; and a few mentions of school and the leisure activities of the young men.
Admin/Biographical History
In 1879, Franklin E. Witmer (1855-1931), at age 23, was the eldest son of Aaron L. Witmer, farmer of West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and his wife Mary Ann (Herr) Witmer. The household also included his younger brothers Abraham (Abram), 21, and Jacob Elam (Elem), 19; two school-age girls Sarah Dunlap, 13, an apprentice servant, and Hettie Fritz, 8, a ward of Mr. and Mrs. Witmer; and for part of the year a teen-age boarder-farm hand , Thaddeus (Thad) Brackbill. In Frank's diary, each person's activity was recorded daily, almost as if he had set himself a deliberate project to do so.
Mr. Witmer's truck farm embraced fields of grain (wheat, oats and rye), several acres of tobacco, a varied fruit orchard, a large truck garden, and a greenhouse for vegetables and flowering plants, a small herd of dairy cattle, some hogs and chickens; enough variety to make year-round weekly visits to market in Lancaster. During the year the family moved into a new house, raised a new barn, stables, hog-pen and chicken-house, and rented the old house and barn to a tenant farmer, Jacob Dieter.
The Witmers were Mennonites, regularly attending church in Lampeter Twp. and Strasburg, and occasionally in New Providence and Lancaster. Sarah and Hettie and briefly Elam, attended the Lampeter School. Their chief source of entertainment seems to have been visiting among their extended Witmer and Herr families and neighbors, although Abram and Elam sometimes attended "singing school" and the Lampeter Lyceum and did some "driving about" of an evening. Only Abram seems to have had a special girlfriend.
Although all the men of the family did everything in the way of farm chores, each of the boys also had a specialty. Frank, the oldest, had his own corn and tobacco patches to tend and market, Abram tended to concentrate on the greenhouse and truck-garden, and Elam helped his father provide veterinary services to other farmers in the area.
Frank Witmer married Mary Ann Herr on November 30, 1881; he continued general farming in West Lampeter Township, died there on December 10, 1931, and was buried in the Mennonite cemetery in nearby Willow Street, Pennsylvania.
This history was prepared by Dr. David H. Wallace.
Please use transcription and index, MG0847_F002 and MG0847_F003.
Original diary may be used by appointment--contact research@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Accession Number
2021.011
Other Numbers
MG-847
Other Number
MG-847, Folder 1
Classification
MG0847
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
PDFs of the transcription and index are attached to the correlating records.
In 1879, Franklin E. Witmer (1855-1931), at age 23, was the eldest son of Aaron L. Witmer, farmer of West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and his wife Mary Ann (Herr) Witmer. The household also included his younger brothers Abraham (Abram), 21, and Jacob Elam (Elem), 19; two school-age girls Sarah Dunlap, 13, an apprentice servant, and Hettie Fritz, 8, a ward of Mr. and Mrs. Witmer; and for part of the year a teen-age boarder-farm hand , Thaddeus (Thad) Brackbill. In Frank's diary, each person's activity was recorded daily, almost as if he had set himself a deliberate project to do so.
Mr. Witmer's truck farm embraced fields of grain (wheat, oats and rye), several acres of tobacco, a varied fruit orchard, a large truck garden, and a greenhouse for vegetables and flowering plants, a small herd of dairy cattle, some hogs and chickens; enough variety to make year-round weekly visits to market in Lancaster. During the year the family moved into a new house, raised a new barn, stables, hog-pen and chicken-house, and rented the old house and barn to a tenant farmer, Jacob Dieter.
The Witmers were Mennonites, regularly attending church in Lampeter Twp. and Strasburg, and occasionally in New Providence and Lancaster. Sarah and Hettie and briefly Elam, attended the Lampeter School. Their chief source of entertainment seems to have been visiting among their extended Witmer and Herr families and neighbors, although Abram and Elam sometimes attended "singing school" and the Lampeter Lyceum and did some "driving about" of an evening. Only Abram seems to have had a special girlfriend.
Although all the men of the family did everything in the way of farm chores, each of the boys also had a specialty. Frank, the oldest, had his own corn and tobacco patches to tend and market, Abram tended to concentrate on the greenhouse and truck-garden, and Elam helped his father provide veterinary services to other farmers in the area.
Frank Witmer married Mary Ann Herr on November 30, 1881; he continued general farming in West Lampeter Township, died there on December 10, 1931, and was buried in the Mennonite cemetery in nearby Willow Street, Pennsylvania.
This history was prepared by Dr. David H. Wallace.
This collection contains records of the Wheatland Diner, including correspondence, advertising, menu, recipe cards, blueprints and documents for the sale of the property. Newspaper articles report the plan for and delivery of the diner ,fires, 1956 fatal accident, problems with teenage customers and the sale of the property.
Les reports de Sir William Jones, chevalier ... De divers special cases cy bien in le Court de banck le roy, come le Common-banck in Angleterre. Cy bien en le darreign temps del ̕reign de roy Jaqves, come en la̕nn de roy Charles. I. [1620-1640] Queux fueront adjudge en les dits courts en le temps en que il fuit justice en ceux. Colliges par luy mesme, et imprimee per lo̕riginal south son maine propre en francois remanent in les maines de Dorothy Favlconberge, & Lvcy Jones, files & executrices del ̕dit justice
Printed by T.R.N.T. for Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswel, at the George near Cliffords Inne in Fleet-street, and at the Rose and crown in St. Paul's church yard,
The countrey justice : containing the practice of the justices of the peace out of their sessions, gathered for the better help of such justices of peace, as have not been much conversant in the study of the laws of this realm
by Michael Dalton ... ; to which is now added, the duty and power of justices of peace in their sessions, an abridgment (under proper titles) of all statutes relating thereunto, a large table of the principal matters herein contained, with two other tables, one of the chapters in this book and the other of such acts of Parliament as concern the office of a justice of peace.
Printed by G. Sawbridge, T. Roycroft and W. Rawlins, assigns of Richard Atkyns and Edward Atkyns Esquires, and are to be sold by H. Twyford ... [and 14 others],
Printed by George Sawbridge, William Rawlins, and Samuel Roycroft ...,
Date of Publication
1679.
Physical Description
2 pts. in 1 volumes ; 39 cm (fol.)
Notes
Part 1 covers the period 1-10 Edward III (1328-1338); part 2, 17-39 Edward III (1344-1367) with the omission of some years.
Part 2 has title: Le second part de Les reports des cases en ley, que furent argues en le temps de tres haut & puisant prince, roy Edward le Tierce. Ore nouvelment imprimes, corriges & amendes, avec les notations & references a l'abregement de l'tres reverend & tres sage juge de cest royaulme, Fitzherbert.
LHO spine labels: volume 1: Reports, Edward II - volume 2 Reports Edward 3d part 1; - volume 3 Reports Edward 3d part 2 - volume 4 Reports Henry 6 part lst; - volume 5: Reports Henry 6, part 2nd; Edward 4th - volume 6: Reports Edward 5th, Richard 3, Henry th7th & 8th.
Les Reports des cases argue & adjudge in le temps del' roy Edward de Second, et auxy memoranda del' Exchequer en temps le roy Edward le Primer : Solonq ; les ancient manuscripts ore remanent en les maines de Sir Jehan' Maynard, chevaler, serjeant de la ley al Sa Tres Excellent Majesty le roy Charles le Second. Ovesq ; un perfect table des matters en les dits cases de temps del' roy Edward le Second, colligee per le mesme serjeant
Printed by G. Sawbridge, T. Roycroft, and W. Rawlins, assigns of R. Atkins and E. Atkins,
Date of Publication
1678.
Physical Description
[2], 685, [64], 43 pages ; 39 cm (4to)
Notes
Text in law french.
Known as Part 1 of Maynard's edition. cf. Legal biblio. Brit. commonwealthnatition, 1:312.
Signatures (summary): A-M/2 B2 C-4R/4 A-S/2.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 786 as assigned by Yeates.
LHO spine labels: volume 1: Reports, Edward II - volume 2 Reports Edward 3d part 1; - volume 3 Reports Edward 3d part 2 - volume 4 Reports Henry 6 part lst; - volume 5: Reports Henry 6, part 2nd; Edward 4th - volume 6: Reports Edward 5th, Richard 3, Henry th7th & 8th.
Le premier[-second] part de Les reports del' cases en ley : que furent argues en le temps de le tres haut & puissant prince roy Edward le Tierce : ore nouvelment imprimes, corriges & amendes, avec les notations & references a l'abregement de l'tres reverend & tres sages juges de cest royaulme
Printed by George Sawbridge, William Rawlins, and Samuel Roycroft, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires, and are to be sold by H. Twyford ... [and 14 others],
Date of Publication
1679.
Physical Description
2 volumes
Notes
Reports for each year or group of years has separate paging.
Part 1 covers 1-10 Edw. III (1328-1338); pt. 2, 17-39 Edw. III (1344-1367); with the omission of some years.
Part 2 has title: Le second part de Les reports des cases en ley ... : ore nouvelment imprimes, corriges & amendes, avec les notations ... de ... Fitzherbert ...
LHO spine labels: volume 1: Reports, Edward II - volume 2 Reports Edward 3d part 1; - volume 3 Reports Edward 3d part 2 - volume 4 Reports Henry 6 part lst; - volume 5: Reports Henry 6, part 2nd; Edward 4th - volume 6: Reports Edward 5th, Richard 3, Henry th7th & 8th.
Les reports des cases contenus in les ans vingt premier, & upres en temps du roy Henry le VI : Communement appelles, the second part of Henry the Sixth, novelment reviews & corriges in divers lieux : Avec une table perfecte des choses notables contenus en ycel
Printed by G. Sawbridge, W. Rawlins and S. Roycroft, assigns of R. and E. Atkins,
Date of Publication
1679.
Physical Description
1 volume (various pagings) ; 39 cm
Notes
The table (or index), 'Syntomotaxia', by Robert Barnewal, has special t.p.
Includes regnal years 21, 22, 27, 28, 30-39, covering the period 1442-1461.
LHO spine labels: volume 1: Reports, Edward II - volume 2 Reports Edward 3d part 1; - volume 3 Reports Edward 3d part 2 - volume 4 Reports Henry 6 part lst; - volume 5: Reports Henry 6, part 2nd; Edward 4th - volume 6: Reports Edward 5th, Richard 3, Henry th7th & 8th.
The article surveys the following topics: The purchasing of tobacco by agents; warehouse architecture; the sorting and packing that took place in the warehouses; and some of the companies and their owners who built the warehouses.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 120, number 4 (2020), p. 210-245Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.120 n.4
The article describes how congressman Griest , for whom the Griest building in Lancaster is named, advocated for Lancaster County's tobacco industry by arguing against the removal of tariffs on cheap Philippines tobacco and by acquiring federal funding to raise the national profile of Lancaster County's tobacco industry.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 120, number 4 (2020), p. 248-277Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.120 n.4
