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Life and sermons of Elder James Quinter : Late editor of Gospel Messenger, President of Brethren's Normal College, and author of "Trine Immersion"

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Author: Quinter, Mary N.

Date of Publication: c1891

Call Number: 922.65 Q7

Responsibility: By his daughter, Mary N. Quinter.

Author: Quinter, Mary N.

Place of Publication: Mt. Morris, Ill

Publisher: Brethren's Publishing Co.,

Date of Publication: c1891

Physical Description: 426 p. : port. ; 21 cm.

Notes: Binder's title: Quinter's life and sermons.

Contents: Pt. 1. A sketch of the life of Elder James Quinter -- Pt. 2. Sermons.

Subjects: Quinter, James, - 1816-1888; Church of the Brethren - Sermons

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 922.65 Q7

Register of marriages and baptisms kept by Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing : In connection with the churches of St. Peter's (Lutheran) Middletown, and Caenarvon (Episcopal) Lancaster County, Penna

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Date of Publication: 1891.

Call Number: 283 B216i

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Harrisburg Publishing Company ,

Date of Publication: 1891.

Physical Description: 43 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Photocopy.; Rineer's "Churchs and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 51 #1, and page 117 #3 and page 165 #2.

Subjects: St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Middletown, Pa.); Bangor Episcopal Church (Caernarvon Twp. , Pa.); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Illing, Traugott Frederick Illing.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 283 B216i

College chapel sermons

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Author: Nevin, John Williamson,

Date of Publication: 1891.

Call Number: 813 N528c

Responsibility: Edited by Henry M. Kiefer and compiled from the editor's notes of these sermons taken at the time of their delivery. With an introd. by W. M. Reily.

Author: Nevin, John Williamson,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Reformed Church Publication House,

Date of Publication: 1891.

Physical Description: 231 p. port. 19 cm.

Subjects: Universities and colleges; Sermons, American.

Additional Author: Reily, W. M.; Kiefer, Henry M.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 813 N528c

Lancaster County Papers

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Date of Publication: 1854-1922.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L245i

Date of Publication: 1854-1922.

Physical Description: 2 vol. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: A series of pamphlets bound together.

Contents: Vol 1: Father Ferdinand Farmer, an apostolic missionary in three states by John F. Quirk--A discourse, delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854 by P.J. Timlow--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, July 21st, 1892 by P.J. Timlow--Christ Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa.--Report of the commissioners appointed to examine the affairs of the Lancaster Savings Institution.; Vol.2: Resources and industries of the City of Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa.--Historical sketch of St. Anthony's Church, Lancaster, Penna., 1870-1895 by Anthony F. Dorley--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, July 21st, 1892 by P.J. Timlow--Historical sketch of Zion's Reformed Church [Millersville] by D.H. Landis.

Subjects: Timlow, P.J.; St. Anthony's Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Christ Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Lancaster Savings Institution - Report.; Leacock Presbyterian Church (Lancaste County, Pa.) - History.; Sacred Heart Academy (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; St. Anthony's Parochial School (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Presbyterian Church (Lancaste County, Pa.); Reformed Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Roman Catholic Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Lutheran Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Millersville (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Directories.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L245i

Marked graves

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Date of Publication: 1896

Call Number: 284 G776

Responsibility: copied by B.F. Owens in 1896.

Place of Publication: Manuscript

Date of Publication: 1896

Physical Description: 150 p. : 23 cm.

Notes: This handwritten volume is a copy made in 1896.; Gravestone inscriptions from a variety of church cemeteries in Eastern Lancaster County and Western Chester County. Churchtown is in Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County.

Subjects: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (New Holland, Pa.); Pequea Presbyterian Church (Salisbury Township); St. John's Protestant Episcopal Chuch (Chester County); Caernarvon Presbyterian Chuch (Churchtown, Pa.); Churchtown Methodist Episcopal Church (Churchtown, Pa.); Great Valley Baptist Church (Chester County); Cemeteries - Pennsylvania; Caernarvon (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Salisbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; New Holland (Lancaster County, Pa. : Borough) - Genealogy.; Chester County - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 284 G776

Minutes of District meetings of the German Baptist Brethren of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania : from 1867 to 1896

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Corporate Author: Church of the Brethren. Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Date of Publication: [1896?]

Call Number: 289.2748 B844

Corporate Author: Church of the Brethren. Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Place of Publication: [Place of publication not identified]

Publisher: [publisher not identified],

Date of Publication: [1896?]

Physical Description: 135 pages ; 23 cm

Notes: Printed and bound at the order of the District Meeting; J.H. Longenecker and H.E. Light, committee in charge.

Subjects: Church of the Brethren. - Eastern District of Pennsylvania - History.; Church of the Brethren. - Eastern District of Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - Church history.; Pennsylvania.; Church history.; History.

Additional Author: Longenecker, J. H.; Light, H. E.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 289.2748 B844

History of the Donegal Church

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Author: Zeigler, J. L.

Date of Publication: 1897

in the northeast corner of the grave yard. The name of Bertram Gal- brath appears in the church records in 1790 as an Auditor and subsequently as a Trustee,indicating that the family took a prominent part in church affairs. The name of James Stevenson, who owned the land (now Cameron's) north of the

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Responsibility: by Dr. J. L. Ziegler.

Author: Zeigler, J. L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1897

Physical Description: [258]-279 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 6

Subjects: Donegal Presbyterian Church (East Donegal, Pa.) - History.; Presbyterians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Presbyterian Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Sepulchral monuments - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; East Donegal (Pa. : Township) - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 1, number 6 (1897), p. 258-279Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.1

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History of the Brickerville congregation in Lancaster County : an old Lancaster County church

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Author: Schantz, F. J. F.

Date of Publication: 1899

varied, history, and the purpose of this paper is to contribute to the preservation of the same. The congregation has a number of very interesting church records, and the oldest of these, bound in parch- ment,is of exceedingly great value. The cover contains an inscription which has, however, become very

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Responsibility: by F.J.F. Schantz, D.D.

Author: Schantz, F. J. F.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1899

Physical Description: [57]-99 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 3, no. 4

Subjects: Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church (Brickerville, Pa.); Lutheran Church - Pennsylvania - Brickerville.; Lutherans - Pennsylvania - Brickerville.; Church buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 3, number 4 (1899), p. 57-99Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.3

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One hundred and thirty and three years : sketch of the Reformed Church of Maytown, Pennsylvania

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Author: Hay, Ellis S.

Date of Publication: 1898.

Call Number: 285.8 H412

Responsibility: by Ellis S. Hay.

Author: Hay, Ellis S.

Place of Publication: Marietts, PA

Publisher: The Times Printing House,

Date of Publication: 1898.

Physical Description: 66 p. ; ill. ; 14 cm.

Notes: Cover title: 133 years, Reformed Church, Maytown, Penna.; LCHS has photocopy.

Subjects: Reformed Church of Maytown (Pa.) - History.; Reformed Church of Maytown (Pa.) - Registers.; Maytown (Lancaster County, Pa.) - Church history.; Maytown (Lancaster County, Pa.) - Genealogy.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 285.8 H412

Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia

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Date of Publication: 1887-c2000.

Call Number: 905.748 CHS

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ISSN: 0002-7790

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia,

Date of Publication: 1887-c2000.

Physical Description: 109 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 23-25 cm.

Publication Frequency: Twice a year, <1998>

Dates of Publication: Vol. 1 (1884-86)-v. 109, no. 3-4 (fall-winter 1998).

Notes: These volumes are in the "library work room". They are not on the open shelves. However, there is an index on the open shelves. Its call number is 905.748 CHS Index. Patrons should consult the index first. If there is a volume that they want to see, the library attendant should pull the volume from the shelves in the "library work room".; Library has: Vol. 1 (1884-1886) - Vol. 109, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998); Vols. 1 (1884-86)-31 (1920). 1 v.; Vols. 32 (1921)-41 (1930). 1 v.

Subjects: Catholic Church - History - Societies, etc. - Periodicals.; Catholic Church - United States - History - Periodicals.; Catholic Church - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Periodicals.

Additional Corporate Author: American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748 CHS

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A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854 : in which is sketched a history of that church and congregation from 1741 to the present time

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Author: Timlow, P. J.

Date of Publication: [1892]

Call Number: 285.1 L434

Responsibility: by P.J. Timlow.

Author: Timlow, P. J.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Daily intelligencer Print.,

Date of Publication: [1892]

Physical Description: 55 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title: A history of the Leacock Presbyterian church and congregation of Leacosk, Lancaster County, Pa.

Subjects: Leacock Presbyterian Church (Leacock, Pa. : Township) - History.; Thanksgiving Day addresses.; Leacock (Pa. : Township) - Church history.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history.

Additional Author: Timlow, P. J.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 285.1 L434

History of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of the city of Lancaster, Pa., from 1807 to 1893 : with some account of earlier efforts to establish Methodism in Lancaster, also, an appendix containing a sketch of St. Paul's M.E. Church, by the pastor [C. Lee Gaul] and "Conestoga's" notes on the conference of 1855

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Author: McConnell, John S. Janes.

Date of Publication: 1893

Call Number: 287 M592h

Responsibility: by John S.J. McConnell.

Author: McConnell, John S. Janes.

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1893

Physical Description: 164 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.

Subjects: First Methodist Episcopal Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Church history.

Additional Author: Gaul, C. Lee.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 287 M592h

Decennial register of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, 1888-1898

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Corporate Author: Sons of the Revolution. Pennsylvania Society.

Date of Publication: 1898.

Call Number: 369.13 P412

Corporate Author: Sons of the Revolution. Pennsylvania Society.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by F. B. Lippincott,

Date of Publication: 1898.

Physical Description: 457 p. illus., ports., fold. map. 26cm.

Subjects: United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Societies, etc.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Societies, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369.13 P412

A memorial history of Peter Bitsche, and a complete family register of his lineal descendants and those related to him by intermarriage, from 1767 to 1892. Chronologically arranged. With an appendix of those not received in time for their proper place

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Author: Peachey, Samuel M.,

Date of Publication: 1892.

Call Number: 929 P355b

Responsibility: By Samuel M. Peachey ...

Author: Peachey, Samuel M.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: J. Baer's Sons, Printers,

Date of Publication: 1892.

Physical Description: 205 p. 18 cm.

Subjects: Peachey family.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 P355b

A brief history of Bishop Henry Funck and other Funk pioneers : and a complete genealogical family register, with biographies of their descendants from the earliest available records to the present time

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Author: Fretz, A. J.

Date of Publication: 1899.

Call Number: 929 F979f

Responsibility: by Rev. A.J. Fretz ; with an introduction by John F. Funk.

Author: Fretz, A. J.

Place of Publication: Elkhart, Ind

Publisher: Mennonite Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1899.

Physical Description: 874 p. : front., plates, ports. ; 21 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: Funk family.; Funk, Henry, - d.1760 - Family.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 F979f

The American historical register

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Date of Publication: 1895-1897.

Call Number: 369.1 A512

Alternate Title: American historical register and monthly gazette of the patriotic-hereditary societies of the United States of America; American historical register and monthly gazette of the historic, military and patriotic-hereditary societies of the United States of America

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Historical Register Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1895-1897.

Physical Description: 5 v. : ill., plates (part col.) ports., facsims. ; 26 cm.

Publication Frequency: Monthly

Dates of Publication: [Vol. 1] no. 1 (Sept. 1894)-v. 4, no. 6 (Oct./Nov. 1896); new ser., [v. 1, no. 1] (Mar. 1897)-v. 1, no. 3 (May 1897).

Notes: Title from cover.; Edited by Charles H. Browning.; LCHS has v. 1 - v.4.

Subjects: Patriotic societies - Periodicals.; United States - History - Periodicals.

Additional Author: Browning, Charles Henry,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369.1 A512

Historical discourse at the Sesqui-centennial of Christ Ev. Lutheran Church on the Tulpehocken, near Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pa., on Sunday, Sept. 3, 1893

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Author: Schantz, Franklin Jakob Fogel,

Date of Publication: 1894.

Call Number: 974.816 S889

Responsibility: by F.J.F. Schantz.

Author: Schantz, Franklin Jakob Fogel,

Place of Publication: Lebanon, Pa

Publisher: Weigely & Co.,

Date of Publication: 1894.

Physical Description: 27 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "Published by request of Church Council."

Subjects: Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church (Stouchsburg, Pa.) - History.; Lutherans - Pennsylvania - Stouchsburg; Stouchsburg (Pa.) - Church history.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 S889

Some Helffenstein letters

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Author: Dubbs, J. H.

Date of Publication: 1897

SOME HELFFENSTEIN LETTERS. The Reverend John C. Albertus Helffen- stein was pastor of the Reformed Church of Lancaster from 1776 to 1779. He was born in the Palatinate, February 16, 1748, and died at Germantown, Pa., May 17, 1790. He was the sou of the Rev. Peter Helffenstein, Superintendent of

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Responsibility: by Dr. Joseph H. Dubbs.

Author: Dubbs, J. H.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1897

Physical Description: [218]-225 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 6

Summary: The Reverend John C. Albertus Helffenstein was a pastor of the Reformed Church in Lancaster, PA. He had immigrated from Germany in 1772. This journal article contains letters to him from his family in Germany.

Subjects: Helffenstein, Johann Conrad Albertus, - 1748-1790 - Correspondence.; Reformed Church of Lancaster (Pa.); Reformed Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 1, number 6 (1897), p. 218-225Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.1

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Country clergy of Pennsylvania

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Author: Hotchkin, S. F.

Date of Publication: 1890.

Call Number: 283 H832

Responsibility: by S. F. Hotchkin.

Author: Hotchkin, S. F.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: P. W. Ziegler,

Date of Publication: 1890.

Physical Description: 305 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Notes: Lancaster county churches included in this volume: St. James (Lancaster), p. 131-155; St. John's Free Church (Lancaster), p. 155-161; St. Paul's (Columbia), p. 106-110; St. John's (Pequea), p. 197-200.

Subjects: Episcopal Church - Clergy - Biography.; Clergy - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - Biography.; Pennsylvania - Church history.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 283 H832

The Cookman Call [Cookman Methodist Episcopal Church] : 1895-1902, inc

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Date of Publication: 1895-

Call Number: 287 C773c Oversize

Place of Publication: [Columbia, Pa.]

Publisher: Christian Endeavor of Cookman M.E. Church,

Date of Publication: 1895-

Physical Description: v. : ill. ; 28 x 44 cm.

Notes: Includes advertisements.

Subjects: Cookman Methodist Episcopal Church (Columbia, Pa.); Church newsletters.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 287 C773c Oversize

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Life and sermons of Elder James Quinter : Late editor of Gospel Messenger, President of Brethren's Normal College, and author of "Trine Immersion"

Register of marriages and baptisms kept by Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing : In connection with the churches of St. Peter's (Lutheran) Middletown, and Caenarvon (Episcopal) Lancaster County, Penna

College chapel sermons

Lancaster County Papers

Marked graves

Minutes of District meetings of the German Baptist Brethren of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania : from 1867 to 1896

History of the Donegal Church

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History of the Brickerville congregation in Lancaster County : an old Lancaster County church

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One hundred and thirty and three years : sketch of the Reformed Church of Maytown, Pennsylvania

Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia

Websites

A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854 : in which is sketched a history of that church and congregation from 1741 to the present time

Decennial register of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, 1888-1898

A memorial history of Peter Bitsche, and a complete family register of his lineal descendants and those related to him by intermarriage, from 1767 to 1892. Chronologically arranged. With an appendix of those not received in time for their proper place

A brief history of Bishop Henry Funck and other Funk pioneers : and a complete genealogical family register, with biographies of their descendants from the earliest available records to the present time

The American historical register

Historical discourse at the Sesqui-centennial of Christ Ev. Lutheran Church on the Tulpehocken, near Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pa., on Sunday, Sept. 3, 1893

Some Helffenstein letters

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Country clergy of Pennsylvania

The Cookman Call [Cookman Methodist Episcopal Church] : 1895-1902, inc