Issued as: Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley, v. 19 (1994).
Includes appendix of printers' ornaments.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [88-93]).
Summary
This issue features the historical and genealogical record of Ephrata's Bauman/Bowman family beginning with John Bauman (1703-1771) and continuing through the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Also included is an illustrated bibliography of the imprints produced on the printing presses of Ephrata printers John, Samuel and Joseph Bauman, along with an illustrated study of the printer's ornaments used by the Baumans. The journal also includes an account of the Ephrata paper mill operated by Christian Bauman and his sons.
Family files are created for Lancaster County families. They may contain correspondence about a family, short genealogies and charts, photocopies of inventories and accounts, letters, etc. The size of any particular family file varies greatly.
