This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.
System of Arrangement
The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.
Signers of petition: William M. Gibson, George Tollinger, Isaac Moore, Jesse Jenkins, J. C. Jamison, B. Franklin Taylor, Samuel Jamison Jr., William Robinson, Henry C. Sapp, Joseph Hilton Jr., James Wright, James C. Lynch, John W. Zell, John Johnson, William Griffith.
Receipt to keep a tavern.
Signers of remonstrance: Joseph Hilton Jr., Rebecca D. King, Marg N. Brabson, Eliza J. Brabson, J. W. Thompson, M. Eugenia Thompson, Catharine Thompson, Susan H. Griffith, Mary Pugh, Joseph Furniss, Morris Reynolds, William Wood, M. J. Jamison, William King, Jonathan Pickering, Guli Elma Pickering, Elizabeth M. Bradley, Addie Scott, Margaret J. Scott, John T. Hill, J. B. Millington, J. L. Wright, Rachel P. Wright, Anthony Pickering, Narcisa D. Wright, Rebecca J. Brown, Matilda J. White, Ann Kidd, Rachel Gibson, Hattie G. Scott, Eliza White, James A. Pyle, C. Brown, Eliza Gibson, Priscilla Bradley, H. C. Bradley, Lavinia Pennel, Annie Reynolds, Lewis Brown, Elias H. Pickering, S. E. Thompson, John Cummings, Abraham Scott, Isabel T. Hewes, Hettie E. Swift, Mary E. Millington, Philena C. Millington, Maggie White, Lizzie D. Haines, Mary R. Carter, Mary A. Thompson, Elizabeth Harlan, Siddie W. Harlan, William Peeples, Maria Peeples, Annie E. Brabson, Sarah J. Brabson, Hannah Brabson, James M. Ballance, Sarah Sollinger, Margret J. Sollinger, Mary J. Blackburn, William Wivel, Elizabeth H. Gibson, Matilda A. Patterson, Letita Carter, Anna Hensel, James A. Steel, Maggie A. Swift, Jane Wilson, John E. Miller, J. J. Pennel, Amanda R. Pennel, S. E. McClurg, Ann E. Roberts, Letitia P. Carter, Amos Carter, Maggie Jamison, H. Jamison, Lucy Jamison, Robert Scott, Tillie E. Scott, Annie Wright, Sallie Miller, Amelia Thompson, Emily M. Harlan, Mary R. Wason, Mary J. Wason, Eliza E. Wason.
4 items, 4 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Signers of petition: Jacob Rehm, Jacob Echternach, Jacob Miller, Abraham Metzler, Amos E. Cochran, Emanuel Row, A. M. Herr, Christian Binkley, Charles L. Hoffman, Daniel Miller, J. Hoffman, John S. Rohrer.
Receipt to keep a tavern.
3 items, 3 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
From left: Martha Robinson, Ellen Robinson Gutfleisch, and Ethel Robinson, with William Lenker Robinson seated, in the yard of the Robinson home in Harrisburg.
Provenance
Transfer from Schuylkill County Historical Society
Seated from left: Robert John Robinson, William Lenker Robinson, Anna Lenker Robinson. Standing from left: Martha Robinson, Ellen Robinson Gutfleisch, Ethel Robinson, and Evelyn Robinson. Written on back: "Mother and Father's 40th Wedding Anniversary March 9, 1928" and "Ages, Mother, 61; Father, 63; Ellen, 36; Ethel, 35; Martha, 33; Bill, 27; Evelyn, 23"
Provenance
Transfer from Schuylkill County Historical Society
Group of Stevens and Lancaster High School graduates, mid class 1931, photograph taken at 930 Marietta Avenue. Identified, left to right, are: B. F. Gochenour, Clayton Frey, Kathry Young, William J. Robinson, Ruth Barth, Guy R. Gilgore, Sarah Darmstaetter, R. Harcourt Darmstaetter and John R. Barth.
