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Collection: Elizabethtown Insurance Company Records

Title: Elizabethtown Insurance Company Records

Object ID: MG0684

Date Range: 1872-1941

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Collection: Elizabethtown Insurance Company Records

Title: Elizabethtown Insurance Company Records

Description: This collection contains documents and record books from the Elizabethtown Insurance Company. Items include records of new policies issued, policies cancelled, reinsurance policies, and books documenting taxes owed to the Elizabethtown Insurance Company. The collection also contains receipt books, personal agent books, and various notes and documents inserted into the lager record books. All documents are handwritten by multiple individuals and some books have missing, or broken spines. Many items are fragile, and caution should be used when turning pages to avoid further tearing and damage.

Admin/Biographical History: The Elizabethtown Insurance Company was formally chartered on December 23, 1843 as Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company. They started doing business January 31, 1844 and by June 1844 had applications from prospective policy holders for enough insurance to issue their first policy. The company was originally developed to insure against loss or damage by fire, but eventually began insuring other types of property damage. Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company moved multiple times; finding homes in Lampeter and Conestoga Townships, as well as Lancaster City. The company moved to Elizabethtown in 1925, and in July of 2009, Farmers' Mutual changed their name to Elizabethtown Insurance Company. In 2011 Elizabethtown Insurance Company stopped accepting new applications, and in 2012, the company relocated to Delaware.

Date Range: 1872-1941

Creation Date: 1872-1941

Year Range From: 1872

Year Range To: 1941

Creator: Elizabethtown Insurance Company

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 14

People: Beare, Harry W.; Brandt, J. N.; Dulebohn, G. Walter; Gantert, H. A.; Gibbel, H. R.; Gise, Henry L.; Haldeman, John; Herr, Isaac; Herr, Isaac R.; Landis, H. Reist; Leaman, B. E.; Martin, Christ; Miller, A. W.; Miller, C. H.; Miller, Susan E.; Oweiler, J. N; Shimp, H. G.; Snavely, B. H.; Trout, J. M.; Zartman, E. R.

Subjects: Elizabethtown (Pa.); Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company (Lancaster, Pa.); Fire insurance--Pennsylvania; Insurance companies--Pennsylvania; Insurance policies--Pennsylvania; Lancaster (Pa.)

Search Terms: Correspondence; Elizabethtown; Elizabethtown Insurance Men's Association; F & M Hat Company; Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company (Lancaster, Pa.); Finding aids; Fire insurance; Insurance companies; Insurance policies; Lancaster; Letters; Lykens Valley Mutual Insurance Company; Manuscript groups; Penn Township Mutual Fire Insurance Company; Postcards; Receipts; Taxes

Extent: 4 boxes, 38 folders, 2.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0684

Related Item Notes: MG-0065 Griest: William Walton Griest Collection, Series 19 Taxes/Tariffs, 1909-1929; MG-0283 Long: Judge Henry G. Long Collection, 1752-1888

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-684

Classification: MG0684

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid prepared by RA, 24 March 2015.

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Collection: John Leaman Collection

Title: John Leaman Collection

Object ID: MG0274

Date Range: 1865-1898

and Company Business records Columbia Correspondence Crops Envelopes Everts and Overdeer F. M. and H. Brooke Farm produce Finding aids First National Bank of Strasburg Friedenthal George Cookman and Company Grain trade Harbert and Raymond James C. Walker and Son Kennedy, Eckert and Company Lancaster

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Collection: John Leaman Collection

Title: John Leaman Collection

Description: The John Leaman Collection consists primarily of letters between John Leaman of Leaman Place and businesses in Philadelphia regarding produce and grain markets and prices.

System of Arrangement: Arranged chronologically.

Date Range: 1865-1898

Year Range From: 1865

Year Range To: 1898

Date of Accumulation: 1865-1898

Creator: Leaman, John

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Baumgardner, H.; Bruner, H. F.; Bushong, Viola; Eberman, E. M.; Ellmaker, Nathaniel; Herr, Calvin A.; Herr, J. F.; Leaman, A.; Leaman, Henry; Leaman, John; Leaman, Joseph H.; Leaman, Mary E.; Leaman, William; Lefevre, C. H.; Rakestraw, Charles J.; Seldomridge, J. F.; Shuey, D. B.; Thomas, W. B.; Thomas, William B.; Witmer, John S.; Woods, John N.

Subjects: Business records; Crops; Farm produce; Grain trade; Letters; Produce trade

Search Terms: Agriculture; Bitners and Company; Business records; Columbia; Correspondence; Crops; Envelopes; Everts and Overdeer; F. M. and H. Brooke; Farm produce; Finding aids; First National Bank of Strasburg; Friedenthal; George Cookman and Company; Grain trade; Harbert and Raymond; James C. Walker and Son; Kennedy, Eckert and Company; Lancaster County Mutual Insurance Company; Leaman Place, Paradise Twp.; Letters; Manuscript groups; McCallum and Sloan; Newberry Brothers; Prices; Princeton, New Jersey; Produce trade; Thomas, Mason and Company; Trout and Miller

Extent: 1 box, 8 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0274

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-274

Classification: MG0274

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 9 September 2021.

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Collection: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Title: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Object ID: MG0166

Date Range: 1738-1920

Turnpike Company Letters Lotteries Manuscript groups McDowell’s Mill Minutes (Records) Mount Hope Furnace Northern Central Railway Company Pennsylvania Council Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Probate records Protestant Episcopal Church �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125

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Collection: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Title: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Description: The Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection contains documents collected by Mr. Diffenderffer. These documents are primarily from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and include letters, legal and court papers, indentures, receipts, property and probate records, and financial and military papers. The people and businesses represented include George Ross, Jasper Yeates, A. Herr Smith, Timothy Matlack, Mount Hope Furnace, and the Lancaster, Elizabethtown & Middletown Turnpike Road Company.

System of Arrangement: Collection retains original arrangement.

Date Range: 1738-1920

Year Range From: 1738

Year Range To: 1920

Date of Accumulation: 1738-1920

Creator: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Adams, John Quincy; Adreas, Agnes; Albright, W.; Anderson, James; Andrews, Jacob W.; Andrews, James P.; Ashbridge, Elizabeth; Ashbridge, J. H.; Ashbridge, Sarah; Ashbridge, Sidney; Atlee, Samuel; Attlee, Samuel; Autstch, Adam; Bare, Martin; Barlow, Thomas; Barnitz, Joseph; Barr, John; Barton, David R.; Barton, W.; Bauer, Adam; Beams, Jacob; Beard, Robert; Bearn, John; Beck, Martha; Beck, Paul; Beck, Samuel; Bender, Leonard; Benezet, Daniel; Benner, Henrich; Berntheisel, Henry; Berry, William; Bickham, F. A.; Bickman, George; Bletz, Jacob; Blumer, Abraham; Bollinger, Esther; Bombarger, Martin; Bomberger, John; Bower, Samuel P.; Bowman, Henry; Bowman, J.; Bowman, Samuel; Bowman, W.; Boyd, James; Boyd, Samuel; Bradford, Samuel J.; Breck, Samuel; Bredenstein, Philip; Brown, David; Brown, Matthew; Brown, William; Broud, Bill; Bruener, G.; Bryan, George; Bryan, George I.; Burd, Edward; Burkholder, E.; Burt, Nathaniel; Caldwell, James; Caldwell, Oliver; Caldwell, Robert; Calhoun, John C.; Cameron, James; Cameron, John; Campbell, Sarah; Carpenter, Abraham; Carpenter, Daniel; Carpenter, Jacob; Carpenter, William; Cather, Robert; Chambers, Stephen; Chambers, W.; Charlton, Thomas; Clark, Brice; Clark, John; Clark, Washington; Clemson, Joseph; Cochran, A.; Cochran, William; Coleman, William; Connor, Kitty; Cookson, Thomas; Cooper, William; Creasy, Solomon; Creasy, Solomon M.; Crone, Robert; Cunningham, Hugh; Cunningham, Thomas; Damant, James; Damisch, Fred; Davis, Zaccheus; Deckert, Jacob; Dederick, Henry; Dering, Henry; Derward, Jonas; Detrick, P.; Dickert, Jacob; Dieterick, Jacob; Diffenderffer, David; Diffenderffer, Frank Ried; Diffenderffer, Harold F.; Diffenderfer, Michael; Diffenderfer, Philip; Diller, Peter; Doerses, Frederick; Dougherty, William; Douglass, George; Douglass, James; Doyle, Thomas; Dryer, Andrew; Dubbs, Joseph H.; Duck, Geotge; Duncan, Daniel; Eagen, James; Eagen, Thomas; Eberman, John; Eberman, Philip; Eckert, George; Eckman, John; Eftwein, Johannes; Eichholtz, H.; Eichholtz, Leonard; Eliot, Daniel; Emanuel, John; Ench, Jacob; Espy, George R.; Evans, Frances; Evans, Isaac; Evans, James C.; Evans, Samuel; Ewing, John; Faghterin, Mary; Fahnestock, Samuel; Fehl, Andrew; Feltman, George; Ferree, Conrad; Ferree, Polly; Fissel, Michael; Flowers, Christian; Foltz, Bernard; Fordney, Casper; Fouts, Martin; Franklin, Thomas; Franklin, Thomas E.; Franklin W. B.; Frantz, Phil; Frey, J.; Fultz, John; Galbraith, Bertram; Galloway, Joseph; Geddis, Samuel; Gibble, L. W.; Gibbons, William; Gildersleve, Jonathan H.; Gildersleve Sarah; Gill, Deborah; Gill, Eramus; Gill, James; Gill, Matthew; Givler, Mary; Golden, Jeffery; Graass, Jacob; Graeff, Matthias; Graeff, W.; Graff, Benjamin; Graff, Henry; Graff, Jacob; Gratz, Hyman; Groff, Abraham; Groff, David; Groff, Isaac; Gross, Michael; Grove, Abraham; Grubb, Baird; Grubb, Curtis; Grubb, Henry; Habacker, George; Habacker, Wager; Hartz, John; Hake, Elizabeth; Hake, Jacob; Hale, Charles; Hambright, Henry; Hamilton, James; Hamilton, William; Hand, Edward; Hart, Elizabeth; Hartand, John; Hartmyer, Frederick; Haton, James; Hatz, John; Hayn, Christopher; Hehl, Matthew; Henderson, Mary; Henry, Christopher; Henry, Elizabeth; Henry, Joseph; Henry, Josiah; Henry, John Joseph; Henry, Mary; Herr, Christian; Hensel, William Uhler; Hibshman, Henry; Hoff, John; Hoofnagle, P.; Hoover, Jacob; Host, Catharine; Host, Michael; Howell, William H.; Howell, William Wilson; Huber, J.; Huber, John; Hubley, Adam; Hubley, John; Hubley, Joseph; Hubley, M.; Hubner, Nathanael; Huston, Alex; Hutchinson, E.; Jacks, James; Jenkins, Ron; Johns, Elizabeth; Johns, Jacob; Johns, Paul; Johnston, Sam; Jones, John; Jones, Owen; Jones, Paul T.; Jordan, J.; Kauffman, Abraham; Kauffman, Joseph; Kehler, Andrew; Kelly, Joseph P.; Kelly, William; Kenedy, John; Kittera, John Wilkes; Kittera, Thomas; Kline, David; Kline, George; Kline, Michael; Kling, M.; Konigmaker, James; Krebil, John; Krieg, Philip; Krug, Edward; Krug, H. V.; Krug, Jacob; Krug, Valentine; Kuhn, Frederick; Kuhn, Jacob; Lanck, Jacob; Landes, John; Lauman, Ludwig; Lechler, John; Leman, H. E.; Lewis, Abraham; Lewis, Ellis; Liews, Eliza; Lightner, Nathaniel; Likens, James; Lind, John; Long, Charles E.; Long, Jacob; Longenecker, David; Lowery, Alexander; Lowery, Lazarus; Lowman, Ludwig; Lutz, Peter; Lynch, Thomas; MacGonigle, Jonathan T.; MacGregor, John; MacGregor, Peter; Machold, Lewis Frederick; Marshall, Christopher; Matlack, Timothy; Mattes, George; Mauer, Peter; Maus, Peter; Mayer, John; Mayer, Lewis; McGown, William; McClure, David; McClure, Randle; McKim, James; McKinney, Mordecai; Mease, James; Mease, John; Mercer, John Q.; Messersmith, George; Metzer, Jonas; Metzer, Norman; Miller, David; Miller, Harry; Miller, Henry; Miller, James; Miller, John; Miller, T. H.; Minnich, Lizzie; Mohler, Henry; Montgomery, Jane; Montgomery, S. H.; Moore, James; Moore, John; Musser, John; Myer, John; Myer, John P.; Myer, Josephine; Myers, Christian; Myers, Eckert; Myers, Henry; Myers, Jacob; Myers, John; Myers, Joseph; Myers, Josephine; Myers, S. H.; Myers, Sidney; Muhlenberg, F. A.; Muhlenberg, G. H. E.; Muhlenberg, Henry; Muhlenberg, Henry A.; Munster, Paul; Nager, Ben Willis; Nagle, John; Neal, John; Nees, Adam; Neisser, G. Br.; Nelson, William; Nicholson, John; Norgrave, H.; Odonel, Charles; Old, James; Parvin, Francis; Passmore, John; Patton, James; Pendleton, George H.; Pennypacker, Samuel W.; Penrose, Clement; Petersby, Richard; Physick, Edmund; Pine, Michael; Pohlman, Abraham; Price, Eli K.; Purviance, Samuel; Ralston, Robert; Ramsay, Catharine; Ramsay, David; Ramsay, James; Ramsay, Nathaniel; Ramsay, William; Randall, Samuel; Rank, Samuel; Redsecker, Jacob; Reed, E. L.; Reed, George; Reedly, George; Reedly, John; Reigart, Adam; Reigart, Emanuel; Reigart, Jacob; Riche, Thomas; Rieger, Ann; Rohrer, John; Ross, George; Ross, James; Roth, Jacob; Schaum, Philip; Scheaffer, John; Schnierer, John, Mrs.; Schweinhaupt, Br.; Sell, Henry; Seward, Hugh; Shafer, John; Shaffer, Jacob; Sharer, David; Shearer, Jacob; Sheef, William; Sheldon, William; Shippen, Edward; Shireman, Jacob; Shol, Peter; Shware, Peter; Simon, Joseph; Simon, William; Sindersmith, S. V.; Singer, Casper; Singer, Emanuel; Skiles, William; Slaugher, Hiram; Slaymaker, Amos; Slaymaker, Henry; Slough, Matthias; Smith, A. Herr; Smith, Eliza; Smith, Joanna; Smith, Thomas; Smith, William; Snapp, Samuel; Solomon, Myer; Spencer, S. S.; Sprecher, Frank L.; Stauffer, Henry; Stedman, Alex; Stedman, Charles; Steinert, Christian; Steinman, Charles; Steinman, Frederick; Steinman, George; Steinman, John F.; Stevens, R. S.; Stevenson, George; Stone, John; Stoneman, Tobias; Stones, John; Stuart, Robert; Swan, John G.; Swain, R.; Swentzel, H. Y.; Swift, Joseph; Tanger, David R.; Titball, Joseph; Trimble, James; Trissler, John; Trissler, Joseph David; Turner, Ambrose; Turner, Catharine; Wagen, Philip; Walk, Deetrick; Walker, John; Wallace, John; Wallace, William; Warden, M.; Warfel, John; Washington, Samuel; Watson, David; Webb, James; Weber, Adam; Wegman, Mary; Weitzel, George; Wenger, Roland; Werner, Jacob; Wertsburger, Henry; West, William; Wetherill, Samuel P.; White, George; White, T.; Whitaker, George; Wildred, Daniel; Williams, Evans P.; Williams, John; Wistar, Thomas; Witlow, Hugh; Witman, John; Witman, Michael; Witmer, Abraham; Witmer, Benjamin; Witmer, David; Witmer, Henry; Wolford, Ludwig; Wood, George; Work, Joseph; Wright, James; Wright, John; Wright, S. W.; Yaner, Jacob; Yeates, Jasper; Yeates, John; Young, Henry; Young, Mattias; Zahm, Godfrey; Zantzinger, Adam; Zantzinger, Ester; Zeigler, George; Zimmer, Henry

Subjects: Bonds; Business records; Certificates; Court records; Finance, Personal; Invoices; Letters; Lotteries; Minutes (Records); Probate records; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Schools; Stocks

Search Terms: Accounts; African Methodist Episcopal Church; Armor's Old Bookstore; Articles of agreement; Beaver Creek; Black Horse Farm; Bonds; Business records; Certificates; Charles E. Wentz and Bros.; Christ Lutheran Church; Cocalico Creek; Conestoga Steam Mills; Constables; Correspondence; Court records; Farmers Bank of Lancaster; Farmer's Hay and Straw Market Association; Finance, Personal; Finding aids; Franklin Savings and Building Association; Grosh and Levering; Hamilton Lots; Indentures; Indian Queen Hotel; Invoices; Lancaster Cemetery; Lancaster County Agricultural Park; Lancaster County Historical Society; Lancaster, Elizabethtown and Middletown Turnpike Company; Letters; Lotteries; Manuscript groups; McDowell's Mill; Minutes; Mount Hope Furnace; Northern Central Railway Company; Pennsylvania Council; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Probate records; Protestant Episcopal Church; Receipts; Sam Wetherill and Sons; Schools; Shaffner and Ziegler; St. James Episcopal Church; Steinman and Son; Stocks; Trinity Lutheran Church; W. Kirkpatrick and Company; Zahm and Jackson Jewelers

Extent: 1 box, 27 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0166

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Frank R. Diffenderfer Collection (MG0166), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 1964.013

Other Numbers: MG-166

Classification: MG0166

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: This collection was cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 23 September 2021.; Accession # L64-13

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Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Object ID: MG0331

Date Range: 1762-2003

, Massachusetts Brenner & Reed Cambridge, Massachusetts Cape May, New Jersey Charles C. & J. Watson Christ Church Burial Ground Cincinnati, Ohio Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence Delaware Dixon Walker & Co. Earp & Bros. Finding aids Grape Hotel Greene County, New York H. Behlen & Co. Illnesses

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Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Description: The Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection contains correspondence between Adam Reigart, Jr. in Lancaster and Philip Wager in Philadelphia and their families. The letters are primarily from the early nineteenth century and provide information about family illness, travel, visits, business, and family chatter. The receipts and invoices show purchases made in Lancaster and Philadelphia, especially clothing, fabric, dry goods, and meat. The remainder of the collection is made up of newspaper articles, books, and an album of poetry and drawings. The items were housed in a gig trunk which is now in the museum collection.

Admin/Biographical History: Adam Reigart, Jr. (1765-1844) was born in Lancaster. He was the eldest son of Col. Adam Reigart, owner of the Grape Tavern which served as general headquarters during the Revolutionary War. Adam Jr. founded the Reigart Wine Store in 1785 and was in business with Philip Wager in Philadelphia and Philip's son Peter throughout his career. He was the first president of the Lancaster branch of the Bank of Pennsylvania, and was involved with the Conestoga Navigation Company and the Union Fire Company.; Adam Jr. married Mary Magdalena Wager (1772-1806) in 1791. Mary was the daughter of Philip Wager, a Philadelphia wine merchant. They had eight daughters and a son. Susan married Stephen C. Slaymaker and Margaretta married Henry Y. Slaymaker.

Date Range: 1762-2003

Year Range From: 1762

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1762-2003

Creator: Murphy, John Slaughter, 1921-2011

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Arnold, Benedict; Baker, W.; Bare, Jacob; Blight, Peter; Boughter, Charles; Breidenhart, George; Brien, Edward; Brown, Luke; Butter, Charles; Cassidy, Edward; Clarke, John; Clendenin, Samuel; Coleman, Edward; Coleman, William; Edwards, Susanna; Ehler, John; Fisher, Sammy; Fox, Sam M.; Frey, John; Gaskill, Edmund; Gay, Edward F.; Getz, John; Givens, John; Graeff, George; Greland, D.; Hahn, B. Christian; Harrison, George; Haverstick, William; Hopkins, A. R.; Hopkins, Ann; Houston, James; Hubley, Frederick; Hubley, Joseph; Hultzheimer, N.; Hyde, Charles; Irving, Robert; Jack, Joshua; Kauffman, Jacob; King, George; Kirkpatrick, William; Kline, Jacob; Lane, John; Leiper, George G.; Lowry, Robert; Lowry, Robert K.; Mayer, George Louis; Metzger, Emanuel; Metzger, George; Metzger, Jacob; Miller, Barbara; Miller, Henry; Miller, Martin; Miller, Philip; Montgomery, William; Morris, John; Mosher, Joseph; Murphy, John Slaughter; Myer, John; Myers, John; Newlin, Nathaniel; Nice, Levi; Nimrod, Maxwell; Ogilby, Joseph; Otto, Jacob S.; Otto, John C.; Pennington, Edward; Peters, Abraham; Phinney, Zina; Price, Joseph; Price, Richard; Reigart, Adam; Reigart, Adam, Jr.; Reigart, Ann; Reigart, Emanuel; Reigart, Henrietta; Reigart, Maria Wager; Reigart, Mary; Reigart, Mary C.; Reigart, Philip Wager; Reigart, Susan; Rimfast, John; Sample, Joseph; Schaubel, Johannis; Sener, Samuel Miller; Sewell, Charles S.; Shaeffer, Jacob; Shenk, Abraham; Shenk, Christian; Shippen, Peggy; Singer, A.; Slaymaker, Henry Edwin; Slaymaker, Mary Steele; Slaymaker, Stephen Cochran; Smith, Ann; Smith, Anthony; Smith, Ralph; Stein, Philip; Steinman, George; Stewart, William; Sullivan, Susannah; Wager, George; Wager, Hannah; Wager, James; Wager, Mary; Wager, Peter; Wager, Philip H.; Wager, Sally; Wager, Sophia; Wager, William; Walsh, Christopher; Wentz, Thomas; Wertz, Christian; Wharton, Charles; Whitaker, George; Whitaker, John; Wimer, Michael; Winroth, Margaret; Witmer, David; Woodmund, William; Yeiser, Philip

Other Creators: Reigart family

Subjects: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Invoices; Letters; Obituaries; Receipts (Acknowledgments)

Search Terms: Adam Reigart and Son; Albums; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Brenner and Reed; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cape May, New Jersey; Charles C. and J. Watson; Christ Church Burial Ground; Cincinnati, Ohio; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Delaware; Dixon Walker and Company; Earp and Brothers; Finding aids; Grape Hotel; Greene County, New York; H. Behlen and Company; Illnesses; Invoices; J. Walker and Company; John Warden and Sons; Kentucky; Lancaster; Lancaster County Almshouse; Lancaster Bar Association; Lancaster Intelligencer; Lancaster Journal; Lancaster New Era; Lancaster Sunday News; Lane Slaymaker and Company; Letters; London, England; Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Lowry and Myers; Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; Manuscript groups; Margaretta Furnace; Marietta Bank; Morning News; Mount Auburn Cemetery; New York, New York; Newspaper clippings; Obituaries; Ohio; Pennsylvania German Society; Pensacola, Florida; Peter Wager and Company; Philadelphia Inquirer; Pratt and Kintzing; Race Street; Receipts; Reeve's Tavern; South Carolina; Southwark, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Spain; St. James Episcopal Church; Union Fire Company; Vintners; Wager and Company; Washington Fire Company; West Point Military Academy; William Noyes and Company; Wine merchants; York Springs Boarding House; York Springs, York County, Pennsylvania; York, York County, Pennsylvania

Extent: 2 boxes, 35 folders, 1.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0331

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Gig trunk (2003.078); Adam Reigart Collection (MG0122)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection (MG0331), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2003.078

Other Numbers: MG-331

Classification: MG0331

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid created by KR. Added to database 8 March 2022.

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Collection: Mayor James H. Ross Collection

Title: Mayor James H. Ross Collection

Object ID: MG0058

Date Range: 1933-1937

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Collection: Mayor James H. Ross Collection

Title: Mayor James H. Ross Collection

Description: The Mayor James H. Ross Collection documents Ross's political career from 1933-1937. James Ross, a businessman and civic leader, served as mayor of Lancaster from 1934-1938. The collection consists primarily of correspondence and a scrapbook. The letters are related to his mayoral election and responsibilities, the James H. Ross Ready to Wear Department Store, and personal matters. The scrapbook, compiled by his wife, contains information about his political career, the department store, and other local merchants, and provides a good background on the housing issues that threatened Lancaster City. The collection gives a fragmented picture of life in Lancaster in the 1930s, including commercial transactions, the Depression, religious charitable organizations, politics, and the Democratic Party.

Admin/Biographical History: James H. Ross was born in Green County, Ohio. When he was six, Ross's family moved to Monroe County, West Virginia where he attended school until he was seventeen. His family moved back to Ohio where he finished his schooling at Bowersville High School. After graduating, Ross moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and began working for M. T. Garvin & Co. Ross left M. T. Garvin & Co. in 1928 and established his own store, James H. Ross Ready to Wear Department Store, in December of that same year. James H. Ross was elected Mayor of Lancaster as a Democrat in 1934.

Date Range: 1933-1937

Year Range From: 1933

Year Range To: 1937

Date of Accumulation: 1933-1937

Creator: Ross, James Hubert, 1875-1962

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 02

People: Ross, James Hubert; Ross, Ethel E. Dietrich; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Other Creators: Ross, Ethel E. Dietrich, 1892-1977

Subjects: Business records; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Lancaster (Pa.)--Politics and government; Letters; Local elections; Local taxation; Mayors--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County; Photographs; Scrapbooks; Speeches, addresses, etc.

Search Terms: Business records; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Elections; James H. Ross Ready to Wear Department Store; Letters; Milton J. Brecht Elementary School; Mayors; Newspaper clippings; Politics; Schools; Scrapbooks; Speeches; Taxes; Unitarian Universalist Church of Lancaster; Wheatland; Young Men's Democratic Club; Manuscript groups; Finding aids

Extent: 2 boxes, 10 folders, 1 scrapbook, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0058

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please make an appointment with the Research Center staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org to view the scrapbook.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-58

Classification: MG0058

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Scrapbook, Career of James Ross, Former Merchant and Mayor, was previously housed in the Scrapbook Collection, Book 121. Scrapbook, Career of James Ross, Former Merchant and Mayor, was cataloged and preserved with funding from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, ME60112, 2007-2008.

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Collection: Brinton Family Collection

Title: Brinton Family Collection

Object ID: MG0038

Date Range: 1808-1946

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Collection: Brinton Family Collection

Title: Brinton Family Collection

Description: The Brinton Family Collection contains genealogy, estate records, receipts, school workbooks, correspondence, farm records, tax records, bank records, wedding and funeral announcements, invitations, visiting cards, and postcards.

Admin/Biographical History: The Brintons were a prosperous family, owned farms and mills, and participated in other business ventures. They were of English heritage and members of the Quakers, or Society of Friends. In order to escape religious persecution in England, William Brinton purchased 200 acres in Birmingham Twp., Pennsylvania in 1684. His descendants eventually moved further west to eastern Lancaster County.1; Cyrus Brinton (1830-1917), the fourth of six children, was the son of Samuel and Lydia P. Jackson Brinton. In 1813, Samuel purchased 200 acres of land in Christiana (land that was later bounded by the Christiana Machine Shop on the south, Pine St. on the west, Sadsbury Ave. on the north, and Rte. 41 on the east). The land was not ideal for farming, but the property was picturesque and the farm was successful. Cyrus married Rebecca Whitson and they farmed on his father's property for about ten years. At that time they purchased a farm and mill on the road from Cooperville to the Noble Road. The original woolen mill was later turned into a grist mill, then a creamery. Cyrus and Rebecca had five children: Francis, Thomas Luther, William Haslam, Anne Haslam, and Martha Alice.2; Genealogy:3; Thomas Whitson m. Martha Hobson; b. 7 February 1796 b. 10 November 1800; d. 27 November 1864 d. 18 June 1889; (Sadsbury, Chester County) (Sadsbury); They were married at New Salem Meeting, 17 May 1827. Rebecca was one of their eight children.; Cyrus Brinton m. Rebecca Whitson; b. 28 December 1830 b. 3 February 1832; d. 9 February 1917 d. 29 October 1903; (Sadsbury, Lancaster County) (Lancaster County); They were married at Christiana, PA, 12 February 1857.; Thomas Whitson m. Hannah Starr; b. 27 September 1760 b. 3 February 1765; d. 1 June 1826 d. 20 April 1836; (Sadsbury); The parents of Thomas Whitson, they were married 31 October 1787.; Francis Hobson m. Ann Johnson; b. 14 February 1768 b. 15 December 1775; d. 1835 (Lancaster County); farmer and shoemaker d. 1852; (New Garden) (New Garden); The parents of Martha Hobson, they were married 14 September 1797.; 1 Garrett, Mary. 1979. "Brintons of Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County: Where they originated, what they accomplished, and where they have gone." Octorara Area Historical Society 1:13.; 2 Ibid.; 3 Whitson Family Chart, August 1951. The Albert Cook Myers Collection. Chester County Historical Society (Pa.)

Date Range: 1808-1946

Year Range From: 1808

Year Range To: 1946

Date of Accumulation: 1808-1946

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 01

People: Bacon, Benjamin C.; Brinton, Samuel; Garrison, William Lloyd; Whitson, Martha Hobson; Whitson, Thomas

Subjects: Abolitionists; Antislavery movements; Finance, Personal; Invitation cards; Letters; New-England Anti-Slavery Society; Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society; Personal correspondence; Receipts (Acknowledgments); School notebooks; Social reformers; Visiting cards

Search Terms: Abolitionists; Antislavery movements; Calling cards; Correspondence; Finance, Personal; Finding aids; Invitations; Land records; Letters; Manuscript groups; New-England Anti-Slavery Society; Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society; Receipts; Sadsbury School District; Sadsbury Twp.; School books; Sharon Boarding School; Social reformers; Surveys; Visiting cards

Extent: 4 boxes, 40 folders, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0038

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Associated Material: The Chester County History Center (Pa.) also has information on the Brinton and Whitson families.

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Brinton Family Collection (MG0038), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.; Folder 40 was a gift of Betsey Collins, 5 March 1993.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-38

Classification: MG0038

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged prior to 1997. Box 1 was recataloged by JB, Fall semester 2006. Added to database 16 June 2021.

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Collection: William McCaskey Civil War Papers

Title: William McCaskey Civil War Letters

Object ID: MG0355

Date Range: 1862-1865

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Collection: William McCaskey Civil War Papers

Title: William McCaskey Civil War Letters

Description: The William McCaskey Civil War Papers contain letters written by William Spencer McCaskey to his brother, Jack and sister-in-law, Ellen during his service in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. In most letters, he writes about politics, life in camp, members of his unit, their brothers, and the campaigns in Georgia and South Carolina with General Sherman. Related biographical data and images are among the contents of this collection.

Admin/Biographical History: William Spencer McCaskey was born near Paradise, Lancaster County, in 1843. The family moved to Lancaster in 1855, where William received his education in public schools. And in 1859, he began an apprenticeship at the printing office of the Examiner, where he worked until the outbreak of the Civil War.; Just days after Fort Sumter was fired upon in April 1861, William joined the army and served with Company F of the 1st Pennsylvania Infantry until he mustered out in July. He joined Company B of the 79th Pennsylvania Regiment as 1st Sergeant in September of that year; this company of Lancastrians served under Col. Henry A. Hambright and Lt. Col. David Miles. They engaged in battles in Kentucky and Tennessee before they returned to Lancaster in 1864 and re-enlisted. Company B joined Gen. Sherman's army in May 1864. As they moved through Georgia and South Carolina in Sherman's March to the Sea, William wrote about the campaign, the residents, and affects that the Union Army's actions had on the South.; Capt. McCaskey mustered out in July 1865, and in spite of the many objections he had voiced about army life, he re-enlisted in 1866 after receiving a recommendation of the commission of second lieutenant from Thaddeus Stevens. William commanded troops throughout his career on the frontiers of Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, Texas, and Missouri and also during the Spanish-American War in Cuba and the Philippines. He retired at the rank of Major General in October 1907.; John Piersol "Jack" McCaskey is better known to Lancastrians as J. P. McCaskey, a teacher and publisher. He began teaching at the Boys' High School in Lancaster in 1855, accepted the position of principal in 1865, and later became superintendent. Jack married Ellen Margaret Chase in 1860.

Date Range: 1862-1865

Year Range From: 1862

Year Range To: 1865

Date of Accumulation: 1862-1865

Creator: McCaskey, William Spencer, 1843-1914

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 09

People: Brown, Daniel; Brown, Mrs.; Hambright, Henry Augustus; Johnston, Joseph E.; Kaufman, Innis; Locher, Michael H.; McBride, John S.; McCaskey, Cyrus Davis "Cye"; McCaskey, Ellen Margaret Chase "Ellie"; McCaskey, John; McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"; McCaskey, Joseph; McCaskey, Walter; McCaskey, William Spencer; Miles, David; Riley, George; Riley, George, Mrs.; Sherman, William Tecumseh; Stevens, Thaddeus

Subjects: Letters; Personal correspondence; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 79th (1861-1865). Company B; Wounds and injuries

Search Terms: Alexandria, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; Camp McCloud, Tennessee; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Civil War; Correspondence; Correspondence, Personal; Finding aids; Goldsboro, North Carolina; Letters; Louisville, Kentucky; Manuscript groups; Martha's Vineyard, North Carolina; Milledgeville, Georgia; Moorsville, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Richmond, Virginia; Savannah, Georgia; Washington, DC

Extent: 1 box, 6 folders, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0355

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use digital images and transcriptions when available.; The original letters in Folders 2 and 3 may not be used. Transcriptions have been provided in Folder 1 for patron use.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-355

Classification: MG0355

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 14 January 2021.

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Collection: Andrew J. Steinman Collection

Title: Andrew J. Steinman Collection

Object ID: MG0066

Date Range: 1833-1937

. Steinman, Andrew Jackson �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Subjects: Invoices Lawyers Legal documents Letters Receipts (Acknowledgments) Search Terms: Correspondence Finding aids Letters Manuscript groups Related Materials at

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Collection: Andrew J. Steinman Collection

Title: Andrew J. Steinman Collection

Description: The Andrew J. Steinman Collection contains the personal and business papers of Andrew J. Steinman, the Steinman family, and John M. Hale. Andrew was a lawyer; his wife was the daughter of John M. Hale, also a lawyer. This collection is comprised of correspondence, legal papers, and financial records.

Date Range: 1833-1937

Year Range From: 1833

Year Range To: 1937

Date of Accumulation: 1833-1937

Creator: Steinman family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 02

People: Hale, John M.; Steinman, Andrew Jackson

Subjects: Invoices; Lawyers; Legal documents; Letters; Receipts (Acknowledgments)

Search Terms: Correspondence; Correspondence, Legal; Finding aids; Invoices; Lawyers; Legal correspondence; Legal documents; Legal papers; Letters; Manuscript groups; Receipts

Extent: 4 boxes, 101 folders, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0066

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: George Steinman Papers (MG0184); Steinman Family Business Records (MG0563); See the Curatorial Collection; See the Photograph Collection

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.; This collection may have been a gift of Mrs. Buller, 21 October 1966.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original documents may be used--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at the Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-66

Classification: MG0066

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Originally processed prior to 1997. Finding aid revised by PW; typed by KR, Winter 2012. Added to database 26 December 2023.

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Collection: Lebkicher Family Civil War Letters and Discharge Papers

Title: Lebkicher Family Civil War Letters and Discharge Papers

Object ID: MG0258

Date Range: 1855-1865, 1972

Collection: Lebkicher Family Civil War Letters and Discharge Papers

Title: Lebkicher Family Civil War Letters and Discharge Papers

Description: Lebkicher Family Civil War Letters and Discharge Papers contain letters from Lebkicher family members before and during the Civil War. There are discharge papers for Jonah R. Duke and William H. Lebkicher who enlisted with Captain J. Miller Raub's Company D, 122nd Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers in August 1862. William (1846-1929) re-enlisted and his letters continue to 1865. Some of the letters concern transportation by train and subsequent wrecks and derailments, the rioting in Lancaster, the shortage of food and feed for animals, and the soldiers getting used to the shelling of their camp by the rebels. The majority of letters were written during the Civil War.

Admin/Biographical History: For more information about William H. Lebkicher, please see the Hershey Community Archives website. https://hersheyarchives.org/encyclopedia/lebkicher-william-henry-lebbie-1845-1929/

Date Range: 1855-1865, 1972

Year Range From: 1855

Year Range To: 1972

Date of Accumulation: 1855-1865, 1972

Creator: Lebkicher family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 06

People: Lebkicher, William Henry "Lebbie"; Lebkicher, Edwin M.; Lebkicher, David McGran

Subjects: Letters; Military discharge; Personal correspondence; United States. Army--Military life; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Soldiers; Soldiers, Black

Search Terms: Civil War; Correspondence, Personal; Discharge papers; Finding aids; Letters; Manuscript groups; Military discharge; Military life; Persons of color; Soldiers; Soldiers, Black

Extent: 1 box, 12 folders, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0258

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Lebkicher Family Civil War Letters and Discharge Papers (MG0258) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/4b929d84-1c6a-4e1f-8bc2-523672636170

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Lebkicher Family Civil War Letters and Discharge Papers (MG0258), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 1998.MG0258

Other Numbers: MG-258

Other Number: MG-258

Classification: MG0258

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Organized and finding aid prepared by JM. Finding aid typed by KS and SH, 2013. Added to database 10 January 2022.

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Collection: United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records

Title: United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records

Object ID: MG0514

Date Range: 1934-1990

) Newsletters United Steelworkers of America. Local 285 (Lancaster, Pa.) Search Terms: Armstrong Cork Company Business records Correspondence Finding aids Kerr Group, Inc. Labor unions Letters Manuscript groups Minutes Newsletters United Steel Workers Union, Local 285 Related Materials at LancasterHistory

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Collection: United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records

Title: United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records

Description: The United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records contain minutes of union meetings, negotiations with Armstrong Cork Company and Kerr Group, Inc., publications of Local 285 and Armstrong, correspondence with national union representatives, union flyers and other documents related to labor issues and strikes at Armstrong.

Date Range: 1934-1990

Year Range From: 1934

Year Range To: 1990

Date of Accumulation: 1934-1990

Creator: United Steelworkers of America. Local 285 (Lancaster, Pa.)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 11

Subjects: Business records; Labor unions; Labor unions--Records and correspondence; Letters; Minutes (Records); Newsletters; United Steelworkers of America. Local 285 (Lancaster, Pa.)

Search Terms: Armstrong Cork Company; Business records; Correspondence; Finding aids; Kerr Group, Inc.; Labor unions; Letters; Manuscript groups; Minutes; Newsletters; United Steel Workers Union, Local 285

Extent: 8 boxes, 206 folders, 6 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0514

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Armstrong World Industries Collection (MG0032); Kerr Group, Inc. and Armstrong Cork Company Architectural Drawings, 1916-1992 (MG0372); Photograph Collection

Notes: This finding aid is a box list showing folder titles in order to make the collection available to researchers. The documents within the folders have not yet been cataloged at the item level. LancasterHistory replaced the folders with acid-free archival folders and retained the original folder titles. The newsletters, Local 285 Spotlight and Floor Plant Journal, were organized and placed in folders.; Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records (MG0514), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: This collection is not fully cataloged, but may be used by appointment. Please contact research@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@LancasterHistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2009.MG0514

Other Numbers: MG-514

Classification: MG0514

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Box list prepared by FM, 2010. Added to database 12 March 2022.

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Collection: Reigart Family Papers

Title: Reigart Family Papers

Object ID: MG0687

Date Range: 1822-1869

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Collection: Reigart Family Papers

Title: Reigart Family Papers

Description: This collection contains letters, accounts, an attorney's records, and other documents of various members of the Reigart family.

Date Range: 1822-1869

Year Range From: 1822

Year Range To: 1869

Date of Accumulation: 1822-1869

Creator: Reigart, Emanuel, 1797-1869

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 14

People: Brinton, William P.; Caines, O. C. M.; Hopkins, Adam Reigart; Hopkins, George R.; Hopkins, Horace; Magraw, Emily W.; Magraw, Henry S.; O'Brien, John; O'Brien, William; Oldenburgh, Daniel; Reigart, Adam; Reigart, Emanuel C.; Reigart, Henry M.; Reigart, John; Schwartz, John H.; Slaymaker, Henry E.; Van Camp, Annie; Van Camp, J. C.

Other Creators: Reigart, Adam

Subjects: Letters; Business records; Law offices--Records and correspondence

Search Terms: Business records; Correspondence; Finding aids; Law offices; Letters; Manuscript groups; Receipts; Reigart's Old Wine Store; Taxes

Extent: 1 box, 3 folders, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0687

Related Item Notes: MG0331, Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection, 1762-2003

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-687

Classification: MG0687

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged prior to July 1997. Added to database 23 January 2018.

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Collection: Letters to Annie Kendig

Title: Letters to Annie Kendig, 1877-1878, 1934

Object ID: MG0701

Date Range: 1877-1878

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Collection: Letters to Annie Kendig

Title: Letters to Annie Kendig, 1877-1878, 1934

Description: This collection contains letters to Annie Kendig (1852-1936), from Annie to her cousin and the obituary of Henry G. Rush. The majority of the letters are love letters written to Annie from Frank Griest (1853-1900), son of Elwood Griest, editor of the Lancaster Inquirer. Frank Griest's letters also include detailed descriptions of plants and technology exhibited in Lancaster, as well as occasional mentions of politics.

Admin/Biographical History: Annie Kendig was the daughter of Abraham M. and Elizabeth Barr Kendig. Her father was a descendent of Adam Kendig of Conestoga Twp. Annie married Henry Gall Rush in 1881. She is buried with her husband at the New Danville Mennonite Cemetery in Pequea Twp.

Date Range: 1877-1878

Creation Date: 1877-1878

Year Range From: 1877

Year Range To: 1878

Creator: Rush, Annie Kendig, 1852-1936

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 15

People: Dinan, Ella; Dinan, Kate; Griest, Elwood; Griest, Frank; Heinkh, Charlie; Pfahler, Lillie K.; Rush, Annie Kendig; Rush, Henry G.

Other Creators: Griest, Frank, 1853-1900

Subjects: Love-letters; Letters

Search Terms: Letters; Correspondence; Fulton Opera House; Obituaries; Rocky Springs; Manuscript groups; Finding aids

Extent: 1 box, 6 folders, .2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0701

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-701

Classification: MG0701

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid prepared by KV, July-August 2014. Added to database 25 January 2018.

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Collection: Edward Hand Reunion and Genealogy Collection

Title: Edward Hand Reunion and Genealogy Collection

Object ID: MG0116

Date Range: 1805-1984

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Collection: Edward Hand Reunion and Genealogy Collection

Title: Edward Hand Reunion and Genealogy Collection

Description: Collection consists largely of information on the descendants of Edward Hand and on the Hand Family Reunion. Contains correspondence, genealogical materials, family charts, photographs, and commemorative booklet 1912, on Lancaster County in the Revolutionary War. Also, three documents concerning the settling of the Hand estate.

Date Range: 1805-1984

Year Range From: 1805

Year Range To: 1984

Date of Accumulation: 1805-1984

Creator: Hand family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

People: Hand, Edward; Lear, Robert H.; Brien, Edward; Brien, Dorothy Hand; Hand, Jasper

Subjects: Genealogy; Family records; Letters

Search Terms: Genealogy; Family records; Family reunions; Rock Ford; Correspondence; Letters; Manuscript groups; Finding aids

Extent: 1 box, 27 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0116

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Edward Hand Reunion and Genealogy Collection (MG-116), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.

Other Numbers: MG-116

Classification: MG0116

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 1 May 2019.

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Collection: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Title: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Object ID: HC0001

Date Range: 1905-1974

. Berlinwork patterns Cheney Silks Cheney Weaves Christmas V-mail Correspondence Cricket Club Dickinson Presbyterian Church Estate sales F. Schumacher & Co. Farm Journal Media Fiber arts Finding aids Gilbert's store Griest Homestead Guernsey Sales Pavilion Hagers' Department Store Hershey Fire Hall Hooked rugs

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Collection: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Title: Archive of Alice P. Fordney

Description: This collection contains ephemera related to Alice Potter Fordney, antiques dealer and rugmaker. Items in the collection include business correspondence with Armstrong, F. Schumacher & Co., and the Montclair art museum; personal correspondence with friends and family; hooked rug patterns; and antiques sale flyers from the early 20th century. Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings, including the obituary of Fordney's sister Ellen Franklin; reference material for rug making and interior design (informational sheets, books and patterns); several items related to the Yeates School, which Fordney's brother William Bush Fordney attended; several photographs of unidentified persons; and a statement related to the will of William J. Fordney, her uncle.

Admin/Biographical History: Alice Potter Fordney was born June 21, 1887 in Lancaster, the daughter of Ida Cox and Thomas Potter Fordney. A prominent antique dealer from the late 1920s to her retirement in 1965, Fordney also made and sold hooked rugs.; Fordney's family features prominently in Lancaster County history. Her maternal great-grandfather was John Michael, who owned the historic Grape Hotel from 1805-1839. Fordney's paternal great-grandfather William Jenkins built Wheatland in 1828 and later sold the property to President James Buchanan. Colonel William Bush Fordney, her paternal grandfather, was a prominent lawyer in Lancaster. He served as district attorney from 1839-1845 and negotiated for the loan that enabled Lancaster city to build the "water works" in the 1830s. Sarah Cox, her maternal grandmother, was a known philanthropist and for years helped to manage the Home for Friendless Children in Lancaster. Her sister, Ellen Fordney Franklin, was a "pioneer" in the industry of women's knit suits, opening her first shop in 1929 in Philadelphia.; Fordney never married. She kept in contact with her nieces and nephews, as evidenced by letters in the collection. According to notes provided by Wendell Zercher, Sarah Ellmaker McIlvaine Muench, her niece and the donor of the collection, recalled her as "warm and artistic," and "a character." She died April 17, 1973, at the age of 85.; Works Cited:; "Mrs. Franklin, pioneer of women's knit suits, dies." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 10 May 1963, p. 2.; "Accident Fatal to Mrs. Sarah A. Cox." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], no date, page unknown.; "Miss Fordney, Antique Dealer, 85, Succumbs." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 18 April 1973, p. 2.; "One of Lancaster's Most Prominent and Venerable Citizens Passes Away." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 29 July 1889, p. 1.

Date Range: 1905-1974

Year Range From: 1905

Year Range To: 1974

Date of Accumulation: 1905-1974

Creator: Fordney, Alice Potter, 1887-1973

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives North

Storage Wall: Side 28

People: Appel, Charles Rengier; Bohlen, Sidney Franklin; Bowman, Mrs. Edward J.; Boyer, R. J.; Brenneman, Mary Rue Bard; Brown, Hazel Dell; Chiarell, Fred P.; Clark, George W.; Daugherty, Harvey P.; Demuth, Charles; Dodge, Arthur B.; Embsweiler, Ruth; Erb, Edna; Fordney, Alice Potter; Fordney, William Bush Jr.; Fordney, William Jenkins; Franklin, Ellen Julia Fordney; Gibbons, Alice McIlvaine; Gilbert, L. J.; Gingrich, Milton E.; Graybill, John M.; Griest, Charles J.; Higby, Everett; Hostetter, A. K.; Howe, John; Irvine, Blanche; Kent, William Winthrop; Knodle, Edward; Krone, Herbert B.; Lindenmuth, J. D.; Long, Yvonne; Maclay, Helen Hurley; Malone, Clarence; Morris, Charles R.; Morris, Grace M.; Nauman, Gertrude Colson; Orr, Barclay; Pennypacker, Charles A.; Pennypacker, James G.; Randall, Meda; Rannels, Paul; Stokes, Agnes M.; Strickler, Belle; Wolf, Emily

Other Creators: Muench, Sarah Ellmaker McIlvaine, d. 2006

Subjects: American newspapers--Sections, columns, etc.--Women; Antique dealers; Armstrong Cork Company; Armstrong World Industries; F. Schumacher & Co.; Farm Journal Media; House & Garden; Interior decoration; Letters; Montclair Art Museum; Patterns for crafts; Rugs; Rugs, Hooked; Student newspapers and periodicals; Woman's world magazine

Search Terms: Albert Steiger Company; Antique dealers; Antique sales; Armstrong Cork Company; Armstrong World Industries, Inc.; Berlinwork patterns; Blue and Brown (Yeates School); Cheney Silks; Cheney Weaves; Christmas; Correspondence; Cricket Club; Dickinson Presbyterian Church; Estate sales; F. Schumacher and Company; Farm Journal Media; Fiber arts; Finding aids; Gilbert's store; Griest Homestead; Guernsey Sales Pavilion; Hager's Department Store; Hershey Fire Hall; Hooked rugs; House & Garden; Interior decoration; Kleinfelter's auction rooms; Letters; Manuscript groups; Montclair Art Museum; Odd Fellows Hall; Olson Rugs; Patterns for crafts; Rossmere Hotel; Rug patterns; Rugs; State Armory Hall; V-mail; Woman's World Magazine; Yeates School

Extent: 3 boxes, 37 folders, 333 items, 1,015 pages to scan, 4.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: HC0001

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Associated Material: Sarah McIlvaine Muench Family Papers, MS 44 at Archives and Special Collections, Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.

Related Item Notes: See photograph collection.; See curatorial collection for examples of rugs.; Fordney Family Diaries (MG0539)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Archive of Alice P. Fordney (HC0001), Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: The kraft paper patterns in Folders 33-37 are restricted. Please make an appointment with the Director of Archival Services to view these items.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: G.04.23.52

Classification: HC0001

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: From the Heritage Center of Lancaster County collection, G04.23.52.; Processed and finding aid prepared by MJ, June 2018.

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Collection: John Leonard Ellmaker Collection

Title: John Leonard Ellmaker Collection

Object ID: MG0071

Date Range: 1726-1922

Genealogy Letters Marriage records Stocks Wills Search Terms: Aoelian Hall Carnegie Hall Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence Deeds Ephrata Cloister Family records Finding aids Genealogy Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia Letters Manuscript groups Marriage records Metropolitan Opera

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Collection: John Leonard Ellmaker Collection

Title: John Leonard Ellmaker Collection

Description: Collection of Ellmaker family papers, including original papers of the first immigrant, John Leonard Ellmaker of Germany. Papers include correspondence, genealogy charts, deeds and legal papers. newspaper clippings, photographs, articles on Jacob Eichholtz, and a diploma and teachers' certificate. There is also a blank book with paper made at Ephrata Cloister in 1796.

Date Range: 1726-1922

Year Range From: 1726

Year Range To: 1922

Date of Accumulation: 1726-1922

Creator: Ellmaker family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 02

People: Cochran, Thomas B.; Eichholtz, Jacob; Elder, Thomas; Ellmaker, Alfred; Ellmaker, Amos; Ellmaker, Ana Margareta; Ellmaker, Benjamin Ellmaker; Ellmaker, E. Ben; Ellmaker, Edgar O.; Ellmaker, Elizabeth; Ellmaker, Enos; Ellmaker, John Leonard; Ellmaker, John Watson; Ellmaker, Leonard; Ellmaker, Lucy H.; Ellmaker, Nathaniel; Ellmaker, Thomas; Graunnon, Christiana Margaretta; Haverstick, H. B.; Hoofgardner, Ferdinand; Hornberger, Maria; Hubbard, Elbert; Huston, R. M.; Koning, P.; Mayor, Robert; Moor, John; Nicolaas, I.; Pancoast, Dr.; Schnierer, Jacob; Snyder, Edwin L.; Snyder, John A.; Snyder, Mrs. Edwin L.

Other Creators: Ellmaker, John Leonard

Subjects: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Deeds; Family records; Genealogy; Letters; Marriage records; Stocks; Wills

Search Terms: Aoelian Hall; Carnegie Hall; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Deeds; Ephrata Cloister; Family records; Finding aids; Genealogy; Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia; Letters; Manuscript groups; Marriage records; Metropolitan Opera House; Newspaper clippings; Obituaries; Philharmonic Society of New York; Roycroft; Stocks; Wills

Extent: 2 boxes, 58 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English, German, Dutch

Object ID: MG0071

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Photograph Collection

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions. Please request at Reference Desk or contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.

Copyright: Collection may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Classification: MG0071

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 23 October 2018.

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Collection: David B. Hackman Collection

Title: David B. Hackman Collection

Object ID: MG0072

Date Range: 1850-1896

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Collection: David B. Hackman Collection

Title: David B. Hackman Collection

Description: Collection contains the original and typed copies of correspondence describing life in the gold fields of California in the 1850s, an account of crossing the desert on the way west, and a journal describing the sea voyage home. Also, two newspaper images relevant to the gold rush and Mr. Hackman's obituary. He sent many letters home to his family in which he related the details of his experience, hardships of finding gold, the high prices and lack of provisions, observations of life in mining towns, his health, and asked for news from home. He also wrote letters to his sweetheart, Harriet B. Miller asking her to write him back, and his uncle, regarding family financial information.

Admin/Biographical History: David Baer Hackman (1827-1896) was the second child of David Heistand Hackman and Susanna Frantz Baer. He was a third cousin, once removed, of Milton Hershey. David left Lancaster in the fall of 1849 with the hope of finding gold in California. In the spring of 1850, he went to Ohio and joined others headed west. They boarded a steamboat in Cincinnati that was bound for St. Louis and then travelled by wagon train to Sacramento City, where they arrived in September 1850. David found enough gold to buy food and supplies, and then had modest success in 1853. In 1854, he decided to return home, this time travelling by steamer and train from San Francisco to New York via Panama.; The adventure of travelling westward and his life in the gold fields of California are described in detail in David's journal and correspondence. He sent many letters home to his family in which he related the details of his experience, hardships, the prices and lack of provisions, observations of life in mining towns, and asked for news from home.; David also wrote to his sweetheart, Harriet B. Miller (1829-1870), the daughter of Adam and Rebecca Miller of Manheim. Although he did not receive any letters from her, they reunited upon his return to Lancaster in 1854 and married soon after. They had one son named Augustus, who became a minister. Harriet passed away in 1870. David later married Ella C. (1851-1907) and they had five children, Frank, Mabel, Harry, Walter, and Edith.; David's obituary shows that he was involved in the grocery, clothing, hat, and shoemaking businesses. In the 1860 Census he is listed as a hatter, and in 1880 as a saloon keeper. He was well-liked and respected in the community. David and Harriet are buried in Manheim Fairview Cemetery.

Date Range: 1850-1896

Year Range From: 1850

Year Range To: 1896

Date of Accumulation: 1850-1896

Creator: Hackman, David Baer, 1827-1896

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 02

People: Hackman, David Baer; Miller, Harriet B.; Hackman, Susanna Frantz Baer

Subjects: Letters; Diaries; Gold miners; Gold mines and mining; California; Manheim (Pa.); Lancaster (Pa.)

Search Terms: California; Correspondence; Diaries; Finding aids; Gold miners; Gold mines and mining; Lancaster; Letters; Manheim; Manuscript groups

Extent: 1 box, 4 folders, 52 items, 484 pages to scan, .25 cubic feet

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0072

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original materials in Folder 1, Insert 1 and Folder 3 may not be used. Patrons may use the transcripts provided within this collection.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-72

Classification: MG0072

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid prepared by DT, 1999; revised by JK, 2016. Added to database 30 October 2018.

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Collection: John Beyer's World War II Letters

Title: John Beyer's World War II Letters

Object ID: MG0770

Date Range: 1945

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Collection: John Beyer's World War II Letters

Title: John Beyer's World War II Letters

Description: This collection contains correspondence with servicemen and newsletters during World War II. The fourteen newsletters date from January to June 1945. They were written by John W. Beyer, Esq., but with some content provided by those lawyers who were serving in the war, as well as from individuals who were still working stateside at the Lancaster County Courthouse. The newsletters are a collection of stories and anecdotes from the local legal community, as well as about their fellow lawyers serving elsewhere. It was Beyer's way to help those from the Lancaster Bar Association who were serving during the war to feel a little more connected with what was going on back home in Lancaster, at their courthouse, and with their colleagues.; The other half of the collection are the letters that Beyer received from his colleagues who were serving in the military. Many of the letters thanked Beyer for the newsletters and for the news from home and the court. They also informed him about where they were serving and what was happening during their time of service. There are also letters from Beyer to others regarding the newsletters.; An issue of the Lancaster Law Review contains the names and addresses of members of the Lancaster Bar Association who were serving in the military.

Admin/Biographical History: John W. Beyer was born on September 19, 1914 in Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, to Caroline and Robert Beyer. He graduated from Upper Leacock Township High School in 1932, and then attended Franklin and Marshall College. After graduating in 1936, Beyer attended the University of Pennsylvania, and received his law degree in 1939. Beyer began practicing law in 1940 as a partner in the law offices of Arnold, Beyer & Homsher. Beyer served in the Lancaster County District Attorney's office from 1943 until 1953 when he resigned from the position. Beyer served on many committees and was involved in multiple civic organizations including the Lancaster Aero Club, the Lancaster Exchange Club, and the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. He passed away August 14, 1990.

Date Range: 1945

Creation Date: 1945

Creator: Beyer, John W., 1914-1990

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 15

People: Beyer, John W.

Subjects: Lawyers; Letters; Newsletters; World War, 1939-1945

Search Terms: Correspondence; Finding aids; Lawyers; Letters; Manuscript groups; Newsletters; World War II; WWII

Extent: 1 box, 14 folders, 84 items, 154 pages to scan, .25 cubic feet

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0770

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory

Notes: Passed down from John W. Beyer to his son, Bill Beyer.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

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Other Numbers: MG-770

Other Number: MG-770

Classification: MG0770

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid prepared by GK, May - October 24, 2017. Added to database 11 May 2021.

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Collection: Haldeman Family Papers and Business Records

Title: Haldeman Family Papers and Business Records

Object ID: MG0736

Date Range: 1814-1957

, Paris Haldeman, Preston Elder Haldeman, Samuel Steman Haldeman, Victor Macholski Solis-Cohen, Jacob da Silva �230 North President Avenue · Lancaster, PA 17603 717.392.4633 · lancasterhistory.org Subject Headings: Business records Letters Search Terms: Business records Correspondence Finding aids Letters

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Collection: Haldeman Family Papers and Business Records

Title: Haldeman Family Papers and Business Records

Description: The Haldeman Family Papers and Business Records collection contains correspondence between various members of the Haldeman family-the majority of which were sent or received by Samuel Haldeman or his daughter Eliza. The first sets of letters are between Samuel's parents and other family and acquaintances, then progress to Samuel and his family. The content includes Paris Haldeman's life during the California gold rush; Eliza's studies in Philadelphia and France; the Civil War; Carsten Haldeman's severe throat illness; and Samuel's travels throughout Europe. The letters span from 1814 to 1883. Mentioned in many of the letters to and from Eliza is her friend Mary Cassatt, an American Impressionist artist. As for the letters sent by Samuel, their content tends to be extremely detailed, sending home as good a description of his travels as he could with locations ranging from Philadelphia to Pompeii. Also included in the collection are several newspaper clippings concerning the Haldeman mansion and Chickies Rock as well as a ledger from the E. Haldeman and Co. furnaces at Chickies.

Admin/Biographical History: Samuel Steman Haldeman (1812-1880) born at the mansion in Bainbridge on August 12, 1812, was the oldest of seven children of Henry Haldeman (1787-1849) and his wife Frances Steman (1794-1826). His father, who appreciated culture, endeavored to foster a love of learning in his children. His mother, an accomplished musician, died when Samuel was fourteen years of age.; Samuel was educated in the public schools, at the classical academy in Harrisburg and at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. He found college routine irksome and left after two years at the age of eighteen saying, "I cannot learn from others, I must see for myself." Thereafter he educated himself by attending lectures, recording observations of bird habits, learning to stuff birds and mammals from a traveling Methodist minister, resulting in a large collection of specimens in natural history and also a scientific and linguistic library.; As a child Haldeman had a penchant for collecting specimens from nature and Native American stone implements found on and near the mansion site, keeping them in his own museum. His collection included skeletons of rabbits, opossums, muskrats, and field mice, which he prepared by boiling the carcasses. It also included fresh-water shells from both banks of the Susquehanna River and its islands. A letter from Samuel to a friend, dated 1844, says, "I collected shells on the banks of the Susquehanna long before I knew the meaning of genus and species." We'll see later what an influence these early shell-collecting days on the Susquehanna River had on Haldeman's scientific scholarship.; After his marriage in 1835 to Mary A. Hough of Bainbridge, he moved to a new residence at the base of Chickies Rock, Marietta. Not only did he design the stately home built by his father, he laid out the grounds with native specimens of trees and shrubs gathered from the surrounding woods, and some foreign varieties, all of which were planted with his own hands.; Not having a particular fondness for business, he continued his studies of nature, but did assist his father in a saw mill and later became a silent partner in the iron business with his brothers. He wrote articles on anthracite furnaces for Silliman's Journal, and contributed sound and practical suggestions for improvements to both the mill business and construction of the blast furnace.; At the age of twenty-three, Samuel contributed to the Lancaster Journal an article refuting Locke's "Moon Hoax". From then on, his life was devoted to science. For forty-five years he spent most of the time in his library, many times working sixteen hours a day. In 1836, Professor Haldeman became an assistant on the State geological survey of New Jersey, and was later transferred to a similar position in Pennsylvania. During extensive geological work, he discovered a new genus and species of fossil plant. Geology did not engross his whole attention, as he was now busy collecting and studying shells, and made substantial contributions in this field through an expertly illustrated massive work of copperplate engravings, drawn and colored from the original shells and living animals. This was finished in 1845.; One professional association of Samuel Haldeman during this period of 1840 to 1850 is particularly significant for his scientific development as well as for the development of American science. In 1844 he became a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fledgling organization just beginning to function. At the request of this organization, he prepared a paper entitled "Enumeration of the Recent Freshwater Mollusk Which are Common to North America and Europe, with Observations on Species and their Distribution." Fifteen years later, an obscure British scientist had the following to say about this paper, "In 1843-44 professor Haldeman (Boston Journal of Natural History, United States, Vol. IV, pg. 468) has ably given the arguments for and against the hypothesis of the development and modification of species: he seems to lean towards the side of change." This scientist was Charles Darwin and he was writing in the preface to his Origin of Species, one of the most influential and controversial science books ever published. Samuel was said to have been the only American Naturalist with whom Charles Darwin corresponded, and whose opinion Darwin regarded as authoritative."; Samuel continued to write important and prize-winning essays and articles in philology, phonography, ethnology, natural history, and archaeology. His writings in all fields of science are literally innumberable, with well over one hundred articles on such scientific subjects as conchology and crustacea (the study of mollusks and shells), entomology (the study of insects), arachnidae (the study of spiders), annelids (the study of earthworms, leeches and related animals ), geology, chemistry and archeology.; He became professor of zoology at Franklin Institute of Philadelphia in 1841; chemist and geologist of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society in 1852; professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania from 1850-1853; and the same position at Delaware College at Newark, Delaware from 1855-1858; and professor of comparative philology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1876 until the time of his death. This university conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. Professor Haldeman was among the first to undertake the spelling reform of English words. He corresponded with Noah Webster, who credited him with many words and definitions in his dictionary, also contributing to Worchester's Dictionary, the National Dictionary, and Johnson's Cyclopedia. He studied the languages of our Indian tribes, and of various nations and tribes of other parts of the world. He considered his most outstanding accomplishments to have been his investigations in philology (the study of the evolution of speech sounds).; Dr. Haldeman was elected to twenty-eight honorary scientific societies, both in this country and abroad. With others, he formed the Entomological Society of Pennsylvania and was president of the American Philological Association. Letters of inquiry from all parts of the world came across his desk; publishers asking opinions of books; writers begging information; teachers with a pronunciation to be settled; naturalists forwarding packages of shells, insects, or minerals for identification; farmers and others sending clays to be analyzed; requests for lectures; requests for data from scientific newspaper articles; request for reviews from editors, and so on.; Samuel Steman Haldeman died on September 10, 1880 at the age of sixty-eight, at his study table, of heart paralysis. He left a wife, two sons, and two daughters. He is buried beside his wife in the Haldeman family plot in the Marietta Cemetery. At a meeting of scientists following his death, this remark was made of him, "He was no ordinary man whom you might compliment with a passing respectful obituary notice - in science and letters he was a great man." - HMPS Records www.haldeman-mansion.org/samuelstemanhaldeman.htm; The biographical information was provided by the Haldeman Mansion Preservation Society. www.haldeman-mansion.org

Date Range: 1814-1957

Creation Date: 1814-1957

Year Range From: 1814

Year Range To: 1957

Creator: Haldeman family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 15

People: Haldeman, Samuel Steman; Figyelmessy, Elisa Jacobean Haldeman; Haldeman, Henry; Haldeman, Paris; Haldeman, Mary Ann Hough; Haldeman, Carsten N.; Haldeman, Victor Macholski; Haldeman, Horace; Haldeman, Preston Elder; Black, Mira H.; Black, Harry "Pep" Crawford; Figyelmessy, Loyos Philip Haldeman; Cassatt, Mary Stevenson; Solis-Cohen, Jacob da Silva

Subjects: Business records; Letters

Search Terms: Letters; Correspondence; Business records; Manuscript groups; Finding aids

Extent: 1 box, 73 folders, 291 items, 1,115 pages to scan, .5 cubic foot

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0736

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Associated Material: Haldeman Mansion Preservation Society https://www.haldeman-mansion.org/

Related Item Notes: Curatorial Collection; S. S. Haldeman Papers, MG0344

Notes: The following notes, including a partial Haldeman Family tree, document only those who authored and/or received the letters:; Henry Haldeman (18 Dec 1787 - 21 Mar 1849); m. (1) Francis Steman (1 Mar 1794 - 15 Feb 1826) on 1811; Children: Samuel Steman Haldeman; Horace Haldeman; m. (2) Margaret Armstrong (15 Aug 1804 - 17 May 1867) on 1830; Children: Paris Haldeman; Samuel Steman Haldeman (12 Aug 1812 - 10 Sep 1880); m. Mary Ann Hough (12 Dec 1812 - 6 Jul 1883) on 1835; Children: Carsten N. Haldeman (13 Oct 1837 - 14 Apr 1892); Eliza (Itty) Jacobean Haldeman (5 Nov 1843 - 10-Dec 1910); Frances H. Haldeman (9 May 1840 - 20 Oct 1904); Victor M. Haldeman (29 Jul 1854 - 12 Aug 1924); Horace Haldeman (14 Aug 1820 - 10 Sep 1883); m. Annie Breneman Haines (1823 - 16 Jan 1892); Paris Haldeman (30 Jan 1831 - 13 Aug 1893); Preston Elder Haldeman was Eliza Haldeman's cousin; Mira/Myra H. Black (1847-1895) and her brother Harry (Pep) Crawford Black (14 Mar 1846 - 22 Mar 1921) were second cousins to Eliza Haldeman.; Loyos Philip Haldeman Figyelmessy (2 Sep 1877 - 8 Apr 1889) was Eliza Haldeman's son. Eliza was married to Col. Philip Figyelmessy (1822-1907).; Mary S. Cassatt (May 22, 1844 - June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. She was a close friend of Eliza Haldeman.; J. Solis-Cohen had a private medical practice in Philadelphia, where he concentrated on diseases of the throat and chest. www.collegeofphysicians.org

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2014.MG0736

Other Numbers: MG-736

Classification: MG0736

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: The letters and record book in this collection were kept by Eliza Haldeman and later sold by her son, S. Haldeman Figyelmessy, to his cousin and the donor's father, Guy K. Haldeman.; Processed and finding aid prepared by RR and SM in Summer and Fall 2015; and SW in Spring 2016. Added to database 23 May 2021.

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Collection: William J. Buch Papers

Title: William J. Buch Papers

Object ID: MG0658

Date Range: 1917-1958

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Collection: William J. Buch Papers

Title: William J. Buch Papers

Description: The William J. Buch Papers contains photographs, scrapbook pages, and personal letters to and from William J. Buch, also known as Joe. Several letters and items pertain to his likeness to Franklin D. Roosevelt, including correspondence with the White House and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. Other items include documents and photographs of his service in World War I, Lancaster County boxers, and his son's World War II service.

Admin/Biographical History: William "Joe" Buch served in World War I. He founded Buch's Pharmacy at the corner of Charlotte and King Streets in Lancaster, Pa. and later ventured into the sporting goods business. Mr. Buch was known as a Franklin D. Roosevelt double and wrote often to offer support to the President. Mr. Buch was very active in the local and state Democratic Party. He posed as Roosevelt's twin at many political events. More information is available in Folder 17.

Date Range: 1917-1958

Year Range From: 1917

Year Range To: 1958

Date of Accumulation: 1917-1958

Creator: Buch, Stanley Jay, 1924-2016

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 13

People: Bowman, Lester; Brodbeck, Andrew R.; Buch, Stanley Jay; Buch, William Joseph "Joe"; Cantor, Eddie; Gott, Peter; Graves, David Bibb; Hauck, Johnny; Nutt, Carl; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Smythe, J. Henry, Jr.; Wise, Robert P.

Other Creators: Buch, William Joseph, 1893-1962

Subjects: Boxers (Sports); Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Democratic Party (U.S.); Drugstores; Letters; Lookalikes; Pharmacists; Scrapbooks; Veterans; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945

Search Terms: Boxers (Sports); Buch's Drug Store; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Democratic Party; Drugstores; Finding aids; Letters; Manuscript groups; Newspaper clippings; Pharmacies; Pharmacists; Photographs; Veterans; World War I; World War II; WWI; WWII

Extent: 2 boxes, 18 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0658

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use digital images when available.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-658

Other Number: MG-658

Classification: MG0658

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid prepared by KB, July 2014. Photographs transferred to the Photograph Collection, 6 October 2017.; Added to database 24 May 2021.

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Collection: Robert C. Price Papers

Title: Robert C. Price Papers

Object ID: MG0724

Date Range: 1842-1895

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Collection: Robert C. Price Papers

Title: Robert C. Price Papers

Description: This collection contains the papers of Robert C. Price. Examples of school assignments and teaching-related ephemera include geometry, poetry, and a preamble to a teachers' society constitution. He was involved with several arbitrations with the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County. The personal and business correspondence contains political and religious references.

Admin/Biographical History: Robert C. Price taught at Millersville Normal School.

Date Range: 1842-1895

Creation Date: 1842-1895

Year Range From: 1762

Year Range To: 1855

Creator: Price, Robert C.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 15

People: Price, Robert C.

Subjects: Letters

Search Terms: Manuscript groups; Finding aids; Letters; Correspondence

Extent: 1 box, 9 folders, .25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0724

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-724

Other Number: MG-724

Classification: MG0724

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Transferred from the Document Collection, 31 May 2014.; Processed and finding aid prepared by PH, July 2014. Added to database 26 May 2021.

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