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

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Author: Fretz, A. J.

Date of Publication: 1899.

Call Number: 929 F979f

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

Author: Fretz, A. J.

Place of Publication: Elkhart, Ind

Publisher: Mennonite Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1899.

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

Notes: Includes index.

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

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 F979f

The American genealogist : being a catalogue of family histories, a bibliography of American genealogy or a list of the title pages of books and pamphlets on family history, published in America, from 1771 to date

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Edition: 4th ed. /

Date of Publication: 1897.

Call Number: 929.1 M969 1897

Edition: 4th ed. /

Place of Publication: Albany, N.Y

Publisher: J. Munsell's Sons,

Date of Publication: 1897.

Physical Description: 328 p. ; 27 cm.

Notes: Spine title: Munsell's American genealogist.; Former editions were edited by William H. Whitmore in 1862, 1868, and 1875.

Subjects: United States - Genealogy - Bibliography.

Additional Author: Whitmore, William Henry,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.1 M969 1897

Documentary history of the Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent states. Proceedings of the annual conventions from 1748 to 1821. Compiled and translated from records in the archives and from the written protocols

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Corporate Author: Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States.

Date of Publication: 1898.

Call Number: 284.1 E92

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Corporate Author: Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Board of Publication of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America,

Date of Publication: 1898.

Physical Description: iv, 619 p. 24 cm.

Notes: Lettered on cover: Jubilee memorial, 1748-1898.; "Sources": p. 1-2.

Subjects: Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States - History.; Lutheran Church

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 284.1 E92

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A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his family. Who were surprised by the Indians and taken from their farm, on Mahoning creek, in Penn township. Northampton county, not far from where Fort Allen was built, on the frontier of Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1780

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Author: Walton, William,

Date of Publication: 1890.

Call Number: 974.822 N218

Author: Walton, William,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Priv. print.,

Date of Publication: 1890.

Physical Description: 1 p.l., 38 p. 24 cm.

Notes: 150 copies printed.

Subjects: Gilbert, Benjamin, - 1711-1780.; Indians of North America

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.822 N218

Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders

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Author: Watson, John F.

Date of Publication: 1891.

Call Number: 974.811 W339

Responsibility: By John F. Watson ... Enlarged, with many revisions and additions, by Willis P. Hazard...

Author: Watson, John F.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: E. S. Stuart,

Date of Publication: 1891.

Physical Description: 3 v. fronts., illus., plates, port. 25 cm.

Notes: The third volume of this ed. was prepared at the publisher's request, by W. P. Hazard.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - History.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Additional Author: Hazard, Willis P.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.811 W339

A genealogical record of the descendants of Daniel Stauffer and Hans Bauer and other pioneers, together with historical and biographical sketches, and a short history of the Mennonites

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Author: Bower, Henry S.,

Date of Publication: 1897.

Call Number: 929 S798b

Responsibility: By Rev. Henry S. Bower ... With a history of the house of Hohenstaufen, by Fred. Raumer, of Germany.

Author: Bower, Henry S.,

Place of Publication: Harleysville, Pa

Publisher: News Printing House,

Date of Publication: 1897.

Physical Description: 203 p. front., port. 21 1/2 cm.

Notes: "History of the house of Hohenstaufen," tr. from the German: p. 7-13.

Subjects: Stauffer family.; Bechtel family.; Moyer family.; Bauer family.; Mennonites

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 S798b

A biographical history of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants

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Author: Eby, Ezra E.,

Date of Publication: 1895.

Call Number: 971.344 E16

Responsibility: by Ezra E. Eby.

Author: Eby, Ezra E.,

Place of Publication: Berlin, Ont

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1895.

Physical Description: 887 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "Volume I."; Includes index: p.2-16.

Subjects: Mennonites - Ontario; Waterloo (Ont. : County) - Biography.; Waterloo (Ont. : County) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 971.344 E16

Americana germanica : a quarterly devoted to the comparative study of the literary, linguistic and other cultural relations of Germany and America

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Date of Publication: 1897-

Call Number: 943 AG

Place of Publication: New York

Date of Publication: 1897-

Physical Description: v. ; 27 cm.

Dates of Publication: Vol. 1 (1897)-Vol. 3 (1899-1900)

Notes: Continued by: German American Annals.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 943 AG

A historical sketch of Michael Keinadt and Margaret Diller, his wife. The history and genealogy of their numerous posterity in the American states, up to the year 1893

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Corporate Author: Michael Koiner Memorial Association.

Date of Publication: 1893.

Call Number: 929 K27

Responsibility: Prepared by a committe appointed for that purpose by the "Michael Koiner Memorial Association".

Corporate Author: Michael Koiner Memorial Association.

Place of Publication: Stauton, Va

Publisher: Stoneburner & Prufer,

Date of Publication: 1893.

Physical Description: vi, [1], 171 p. front. 22 cm.

Subjects: Koiner family (Michael Keinadt, 1729-1796)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 K27

Memorial addresses on the life and character of Samuel J. Randall, a representative from Pennsylvania, delivered in the House of representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-first Congress, first session

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Corporate Author: United States. Congress

Date of Publication: 1891.

Call Number: 923.2 R188

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Corporate Author: United States. Congress

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: Govt. print off.,

Date of Publication: 1891.

Physical Description: 157 p. front. (port.) 26 cm.

Series: 51st. Cong., 1st sess. House. Misc. doc. 265

Notes: Published by order of Congress.

Subjects: Randall, Samuel J. - 1828-1890.

Additional Corporate Author: United States. Congress. Memorial address.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.2 R188

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Donegal in the Revolution: patriotism and piety. An address at the unveiling of a monument to the memory of the Revolutionary Soldiers of Donegal, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, erected by the "Witness Tree Chapter," Daughters of the American Revolution, Thursday, October 5, 1899

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Author: Brosius, Marriott,

Date of Publication: [1899]

Call Number: 973.36 B874

Responsibility: by Hon. Marriott Brosius.

Author: Brosius, Marriott,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: New Era printing co.,

Date of Publication: [1899]

Physical Description: 18 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Scotch-Irish in Lancaster co., Pa.; Donegal (Lancaster County, Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 973.36 B874

The making of Pennsylvania; an analysis of the elements of the population and the formative influences that created one of the greatest of the American states

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3077

Author: Fisher, Sydney George,

Edition: [8th ed.]

Date of Publication: 1908 [c1896]

Call Number: 974.8009 F536

Author: Fisher, Sydney George,

Edition: [8th ed.]

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott,

Date of Publication: 1908 [c1896]

Physical Description: viii, 380 p. front. (map) 20 cm.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - Population.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8009 F536

List of titles of genealogical articles in American periodicals and kindred works. Giving the name, residence, and earliest date of the first settler of each family

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5806

Date of Publication: 1899.

Call Number: 929.1 M969 1899

Place of Publication: Albany

Publisher: J. Munsell's sons,

Date of Publication: 1899.

Physical Description: 165 p. 27 cm.

Notes: Designed as a companion volume to the "American genealogist", by W. H. Whitmore.

Subjects: Periodicals; United States - Genealogy - Indexes.

Additional Corporate Author: Munsell. firm. publishers. Albany.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.1 M969 1899

American Indians : the who, what and whence of the Pre-Columbian dwellers, or the misnomered peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County

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Author: Urban, Theodore L.

Date of Publication: 1898

of people shall be separated from thy bowels, and the one people shall be stronger than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger." From the quotation and subsequent information relative to the birth of these twins, it becomes apparent that they differed in a very marked degree. We

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Responsibility: by Theodore L. Urban, Esq.

Author: Urban, Theodore L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1898

Physical Description: [89]-103 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 2, no. 4

Summary: This late 19th century article asks the question, "Were the indians of Pennsylvania the descendants of the Lost tribe of Israel ?"

Subjects: Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Delaware Indians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 2, number 4 (1898), p. 89-103Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.2

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A genea-biographical history of the Rittenhouse family and all its branches in America, with sketches of their descendants, from the earliest available records to the present time, including the birth of Wilhelm in 1644

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Author: Cassel, Daniel Kolb,

Date of Publication: 1893.

Call Number: 929 R613c

Responsibility: By Daniel K. Cassel. With an introduction by Alvah Rittenhouse. Vol. I.

Author: Cassel, Daniel Kolb,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: The Rittenhouse Memorial Association,

Date of Publication: 1893.

Physical Description: xlix, 272 p. illus., ports., maps. 23 cm.

Notes: Binder's title: Origin and history of the Rittenhouse family. Vol. 1. Three generations in Europe, 1591 to 1644. Four generations in America, 1644 to 1825.; The author published a supplementary volume under title: The family record of David Rittenhouse, including his sisters Esther, Anne and Eleanor...Norristown, Pa., 1897.; Bibliography: p. xix.

Subjects: Rittenhouse family.; Rittershausen family (William Rittenhouse, 1644-1708)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 R613c

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

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Author: McConnell, John S. Janes.

Date of Publication: 1893

Call Number: 287 M592h

Responsibility: by John S.J. McConnell.

Author: McConnell, John S. Janes.

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1893

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

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

Additional Author: Gaul, C. Lee.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 287 M592h

Work of the Daughters of the American Revolution, resident in Pennsylvania : between February, 1898, and February, 1899

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Corporate Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Pennsylvania.

Date of Publication: 1899?]

Call Number: 369.135 D235d

Corporate Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Pennsylvania.

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: Pennsylvania Daughters of the American Revolution,

Date of Publication: 1899?]

Physical Description: 28 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Daughters of the American Revolution. - Pennsylvania.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Societies, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369.135 D235d

Combination Trade Mark Holy Bible : showing in simple form all changes, additions and omissions that appear in the revised version, enabling all Bible readers to see at a glance wherein the two versions differ. Containing the Old and New Testaments. Translated out of the original tongues. And with the former trnaslations diligently compared and revised. The text conformable to that of the Oxford Bible, printed at the University Press, Oxford. Copious marginal references, chronological tables, and many important and valuable aids to the study of the Holy Scriptures. Written to increase the interest in and simplify the word of God

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Edition: Self-pronouncing Edition. In which all the proper names are divided, accented, and marked with the vowel sounds, showing how they should be pronounced.

Date of Publication: [c.1895]

Call Number: 220 H564 1895

Edition: Self-pronouncing Edition. In which all the proper names are divided, accented, and marked with the vowel sounds, showing how they should be pronounced.

Place of Publication: Place not identified

Publisher: Publisher not identified,

Date of Publication: [c.1895]

Physical Description: iv, 9-14, [4], 16, 28, [8], 48, [2], 16, [2], 32, 6, 4, 16, [2], 872, [8], 16, 8, [30, 6, 33-340, 4, [2], 8, 44, 4, 102, 36, 112 pages, 23 leaves of plates (some color), presentation page, 6 pages for family history, 4 pages for family portraits : illustrations ; 31 cm .

Notes: From the Collection of the Heritage Center Museum P95.17.1.; Viewing bibles contingent on staff availability, an appointment may be required.; Herr family bible.; Genealogy of Abram R. Herr, 1882 - , and Mabel Anna Herr, 1882 - .; Marriage license 18 x 28 cm. of Abraham R. Herr and Mabel Anna Herr 1904 in the hand of Bishop Abraham B. Herr removed.; Genealogy of Herr family, 1882-1937.; Calligraphy by David C.Hoke, Lititz, Pa.; Full leather binding over boards with floral design and gilt tooling on edges ; gilted titlet; Holy Bible, gilted title Combination edition on spine; gilt page edges. Front cover detached.

Contents: History of the translation of the English Bible -- Contents of the books of the Old and New Testaments -- History of religious denominations of the world, both ancient and modern / H. D. Northrop-- Chronological and other valuable tables -- Maps -- Comprehensive and critical history of all the books of the Holy Bible / William Smith -- A comprehensive and critical description of the Isreaelitish Tabernacle and its sacred furniture / William Smith, Dean Milman, Johnn Ditto, Drs. Von Ewarld and Michelson -- Captiving Bible stories for the young, comprising narratives and interesting scenes and events in the Old and and New Testaments -- Cities and towns of the Bible, with descriptions and explanations / John Wilson -- Natural history of the Bible: containing descriptons of the animals, birds, insects, and reptiles that are mentioned in the holy scriptures / A. F. Thompson -- Illustrations and descriptions of ancient money -- Explanatory key to the vowel and consonant sounds in the perfect self-pronouncing Bible -- Only authentic self-pronouncing dictionary of the porper names in the Bible / J. R. Jones -- The parables of our Lord Jesus Christ / John Franklin -- List of readings and renderings preferred by the American Committee, recorded at their desire -- Chronological index to the Holy Bible -- Four thousand questions and answers on the Old and New Testamednts... -- Scripture difficulties explained -- Cruden's concordance to the Oland and New Testaments... / Alexander Cruden -- The psalms of David in metre -- Complete and practical household dictionary of the Bible ... / William Smith.

Subjects: Herr family, - Genealogy.; Herr, Abram R., - 1882- .; Herr, Mabel Anna., - 1882- .; Herr family.

Additional Author: DoreIÃŒâ°â„—Â£, Gustaav,; Bertrand, A., Sr.; Pannemaker; Friston, D. H.; Hoke, David C.

Additional Title: Bible.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Bible

Call Number: 220 H564 1895

The Sehner ancestry : compiled from authentic records and illustrated with Wappen, or coat of arms, and Stamhaus in Schweigern, WÃ¼rtumberg, dedicated to John Fick Sehner

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Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Date of Publication: c1896.

Responsibility: by Samuel Miller Sener.

Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: c1896.

Physical Description: 5 leaves. : ill., coat of arms ; 25 cm.

Notes: Title from cover.; Fifty copies.; Bound with other pamphlets by the author: The Catholic Church at Lancaster, Penn'a (1894, 52 p.) -- Historical sketch of the ancient parish of St. Mary's, Lancaster, Pa. (n. d., 12 p) -- Additional historical notes in reference to St. Mary's at Lancaster (n. d., 5 p.) -- Some Lancaster Catholics, adn other historical notes (n.d ., 6 p.) -- Very Rev. Bernard Keenan, V. G. Sketch of one of the pioneer priest's [sic] of Pennsylvania (n. d. 10 p.) -- The Acadians in Lancaster County, Paper read before Lancaster County Historical Society, September 4, 1896 (1896, 8 p.) -- Simon S. Rathvon, Ph.D: Lancaster's oldest living devotee of science (n. d. 8 p.) -- Old time heroes of the War of the Revolution and War of 182-14 (1895, 11 p.) -- The Lancaster barracks where the British and Hesian prisoners were detained during the Revolution (1895, 20 p.

Subjects: Sener family.; SÃ¶hner, Gotlieb, - 1721-1780?; Kennan, Bernard, - 1779-1877.; Rathvon, Simon S., - 1812- .; Roman Catholics - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Roman Catholic Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Lancaster (City), Pa.; Revolutionary War, 1775-1783; Prisoners of war - United States.

Contained In: Sketches by Samuel M. SenerLancaster History Library - Lancaster County282 S475

The Sehner ancestry : compiled from authentic records and illustrated with Wappen, or coat of arms, and Stamhaus in Schweigern, WÃ¼rtumberg 1500 to 1896, dedicated to John Fick Sehner

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Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Date of Publication: c1896.

Call Number: 929 S475

Responsibility: by Samuel Miller Sener.

Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: [s.n.] ,

Date of Publication: c1896.

Physical Description: 16 leaves : ill., coat of arms ; 21 cm.

Subjects: Sener family.; SÃ¶hner, Gotlieb, - 1721-1780?

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 S475

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

The American genealogist : being a catalogue of family histories, a bibliography of American genealogy or a list of the title pages of books and pamphlets on family history, published in America, from 1771 to date

Documentary history of the Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent states. Proceedings of the annual conventions from 1748 to 1821. Compiled and translated from records in the archives and from the written protocols

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A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his family. Who were surprised by the Indians and taken from their farm, on Mahoning creek, in Penn township. Northampton county, not far from where Fort Allen was built, on the frontier of Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1780

Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders

A genealogical record of the descendants of Daniel Stauffer and Hans Bauer and other pioneers, together with historical and biographical sketches, and a short history of the Mennonites

A biographical history of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants

Americana germanica : a quarterly devoted to the comparative study of the literary, linguistic and other cultural relations of Germany and America

A historical sketch of Michael Keinadt and Margaret Diller, his wife. The history and genealogy of their numerous posterity in the American states, up to the year 1893

Memorial addresses on the life and character of Samuel J. Randall, a representative from Pennsylvania, delivered in the House of representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-first Congress, first session

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Donegal in the Revolution: patriotism and piety. An address at the unveiling of a monument to the memory of the Revolutionary Soldiers of Donegal, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, erected by the "Witness Tree Chapter," Daughters of the American Revolution, Thursday, October 5, 1899

The making of Pennsylvania; an analysis of the elements of the population and the formative influences that created one of the greatest of the American states

List of titles of genealogical articles in American periodicals and kindred works. Giving the name, residence, and earliest date of the first settler of each family

American Indians : the who, what and whence of the Pre-Columbian dwellers, or the misnomered peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County

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A genea-biographical history of the Rittenhouse family and all its branches in America, with sketches of their descendants, from the earliest available records to the present time, including the birth of Wilhelm in 1644

Work of the Daughters of the American Revolution, resident in Pennsylvania : between February, 1898, and February, 1899

The Sehner ancestry : compiled from authentic records and illustrated with Wappen, or coat of arms, and Stamhaus in Schweigern, WÃ¼rtumberg, dedicated to John Fick Sehner

The Sehner ancestry : compiled from authentic records and illustrated with Wappen, or coat of arms, and Stamhaus in Schweigern, WÃ¼rtumberg 1500 to 1896, dedicated to John Fick Sehner