This book discusses eight successful military men who all grew up in Columbia, Pennsylvania. Chapters: Brigadier General Thomas Welsh, Major General Edward Shannon, Lieutenant General Daniel Strickler, Vice Admiral Charles Mason, Brigadier General Charles Supplee, Rear Admiral Richard Kern, Major General Richard Snyder, and Major General Frank Smoker. No bibliography
This is the remarkable story of Hertha Jurgens Schmidt, who was born in northern Germany in 1910. She grew up during the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, marrying August Wilhelm Schmidt in 1932. Hertha bore eight children as she and her family witnessed the rise of the Nazis, suffered the deprivations brought on by WWII, and managed to escape the fury of the Soviet advance through eastern Germany in 1945.Read of her daring dash across the city of Berlin, which she made twice so she could smuggle her children into the Allied Zone, as well as her emigration to the United States. [from the publisher]
Brenneman-Keagy roots and branches : the family history of Daniel Brenneman (1834-1919) and Susannah Keagy (1839-1908), their ancestors and descendants, including surnames Beery, Burkholder, Funk, Huber, Gochenauer, Good, Miller, Schenk, Steiner, and many others
"This second edition adds to, subtracts from, and replaces material on the Marion Family History, 1992. Page numbers in the center of the page relate to the 1992 History."
Separate supplement to this edition added in June 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 511-515) and index.
Phebe Earle Gibbons was from a prominent Quaker family. The diary covers years 1849, 1854, 1855, 1856 and 1857. "MRS. PHOEBE EARLE GIBBONS, a lady of literary tastes, was born in Philadelphia, August 9th, 1821. Her father,Thomas Earle, was a man of great note in his day, and in1840 was the first candidate of the Liberty party for Vice President. The subject of this sketch was well educated in select schools in Massachusetts, and taught in Mr. Picot's French school in Philadelphia and elsewhere for some years. In 1845 she was married to Dr. Joseph Gibbons of Lancaster County. In 1861 she began the study of Greek, with Professor William M. Nevin, of Lancaster. A portion of the Odyssey, translated by her was published in the Ladies' Friend of Philadelphia. A small medical work was translated by her from the French, for Lindsay and Blakistoa, which was published in 1866. She has also translated a portion of the Herman and Dorothea of Goethe. At different times she has written articles for magazines. In 1872 she published a small volume, entitled " Pennsylvania Dutch," a portion of which originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. Mrs. Gibbons is an active member of the Lancaster Linnaean Society. She is a lady of varied acquirements and marked intellectual capacity." [Biographical History of Lancaster County by Alexander Harris.]
