This collection contains financial and legal papers of Joseph Simon, including a mortgage, his will, and a bill of exchange. There is also a 1768 letter of introduction from Thomas Barton, rector of St. James Episcopal Church to William Johnson, First Baronet.
Admin/Biographical History
Joseph Simon was a successful trader and owned enormous tracts of land in the West. As the head of one of the earliest Jewish families in Lancaster County, he was also a religious leader in Lancaster,Pa. See Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 3, number 7 (1899), p. 165-172.
Two images of Jacob Bausman, businessman, banker, and treasurer of the board of trustees of Franklin & Marshall College. One image by Galaxy Publishing Company, Philadelphia; the other is a photograph.
George Steinman Papers, Series 1 (MG0184_S01) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/786b3ffc-7908-40de-9362-817467455650
George Steinman Papers, Series 2 (MG0184_S02) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/6c7e11c6-f3ca-469c-891a-145832196710
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Other Numbers
MG-184, Series 2
Other Number
MG-184, Series 2, Folder 71, Item 2
Classification
MG0184
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Item
Custodial History
Added to database 16 February 2024.
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.
Samuel Heintzelman was born in Manheim, Pa. in 1805. He graduated from West Point in 1826 and served in the Army until retiring in 1869. He served in the Mexican War and the Civil War. He was also posted in California and the Arizona territory for several years. In 1857 while still on active duty he was involved in establishing the Sonora Exploring and Mining Company south of Tucson to reopen old mines there. He took leave from the Army for 6 months while he managed the company.
Contents: I. A Southwestern Pioneer/ The Sonora Exploring and Mining Company; II. The Journal (entries in his journal from August 1858 through January 1859 while he was managing the company); III. Epilogue: A hole to bury money in/The benefit of my abilities.
xv, 219 p. : ill. (some col.), geneal. table ; 29 cm.
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Includes index.
This is the family history of prominent civic leaders and industrial promoters of Lancaster. Steinman Enterprises in Lancaster have included hardware merchandising, cotton and iron manufacture, newspaper and commercial printing, radio, television and cable television.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Trinity College, 1982)
Bibliography: p. 77-79.
Robert Habersham Coleman was the fourth -and last- generation scion of a family which controlled Cornwall Iron Furnace, in Cornwall, Pennsylvania. This major coal-burning ironmaking facility was founded in 1742 by Peter Grubb and produced pig iron, domestic products, and, during the American Revolution and Civil War, cannon barrels. [Wikipedia]
