topic:"Schuylkill County" found 30 records - Research Collections

An index to the subscribers to I. Daniel Rupp's 1845 History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon and Schuylkill counties

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Author: Hawbaker, Gary T.

Date of Publication: c1984.

Call Number: 974.822 H389

Responsibility: by Gary T. Hawbaker.

Author: Hawbaker, Gary T.

Place of Publication: Hershey, PA

Publisher: G.T. Hawbaker,

Date of Publication: c1984.

Physical Description: 62 p. ; 21 cm.

Subjects: Northampton County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Lehigh County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Monroe County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Carbon County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Schuylkill County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Rupp, I. Daniel

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.822 H389

Appraisal

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Collection: Collateral Appraisements

Title: Collateral Appraisements

Object ID: Coll App 1875 F002 D

Date Range: 1875

Collection: Collateral Appraisements

Title: Collateral Appraisements

Description: Appraisements of real estate for inheritance tax. Some personal property appraisals are also included. Appraisals include: name of decedent; location and description of real estate; description of personal property; valuation of real estate and personal property; and assessed tax. May also include names of heirs. Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by first letter of decedent's last name. Handwritten; from 1886, handwritten on printed forms.

System of Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by first letter of decedent's last name.

Date Range: 1875

Date of Accumulation: 1849-1913

Year: 1875

Creator: Register of Wills

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives West

Storage Container: Box 0003

People: Diezel, Frederick Augustus

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Collateral appraisement; Ephrata Twp.; Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County

Place: Ephrata Twp.

Extent: 16 boxes (8 cubic feet)

Object Name: Appraisal

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Coll App 1875 F002 D

Box Number: 003

Additional Notes: Formerly of Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County.; 1 item, 1 piece

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 03-00 0312

Description Level: Item

Archive

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Object ID: MG0294

Date Range: 1865-1961

Jersey Parades Patterson Hotel Pennsylvania State Normal School Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Postage stamps Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Receipts Republican Party San Francisco, California Schools Stamps Stevens, East Cocalico Twp. Stocks Tax returns Taxation Trusts and trustees United

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Description: The Geist Family Papers include correspondence, tax records, legal documents, and other items related to the Geist family. Some correspondence is personal, while other letters relate to legal proceedings concerning estates and inheritances. A number of wills and associated materials, generally related to adjudications involving family members. Numerous local tax notices and federal income tax returns largely pertain to Daniel W. and Bertha W. Geist. Other materials include notebooks and receipts from Daniel W. Geist's time at Millersville State Normal School, visiting cards, and newspaper clippings.

Date Range: 1865-1961

Year Range From: 1865

Year Range To: 1961

Date of Accumulation: 1865-1961

Creator: Geist family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Alexander, James K.; Anderson, Howard; Bachman, Julie C.; Bard, Bertha; Brown, George; Bulleit, Edward Banister; Dague, Isaac W.; Dague, Lily C. Geist; Diller, Luther R.; Eshleman, John H.; Fox, Christian, Jr.; Geist, Adam; Geist, Agnes; Geist, Bertha Wanner; Geist, Daniel W.; Geist, Ettie G.; Geist, Everett S.; Geist, Harry Kohler; Geist, Lilly Kate; Groff, John M.; Heisher, Daniel; Hobson, Jesse; Hobson, Maria; Horst, Jacob G.; Kjorlien, Alvin C.; Leaman, William; Lyte, Eliphalet Oram; Martin, Luke W.; Milledge, Stanley; Miller, Helen Mildred Diller; Miller, Leon H. B.; Miller, Ruth; Ott, Janet F.; Overly, Herman Witmer; Overly, Richard Geist; Pond, B. C.; Pool, Virginia L.; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Rush, Charles William; Rush, Harriet Geist; Shaub, Sadie; Shirk, H. S.; Shirk, Henry; Shirk, Lawrence; Stoner, H. K.; Weaver, C. R.; Weaver, George A.; Werner, John Thomas; Witmer, Clara; Wolf, Lemon A.; Wolfe, Helen

Subjects: Decedents' estates; Estates (Law); Letters; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Taxation

Search Terms: A. Geist and Son; Adams County, Pennsylvania; Albert Pick Company; Births; Bismarck, North Dakota; Blue Ball Bank; Blue Ball, East Earl Twp.; Calling cards; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Correspondence; Death; Decedents' estates; Earl Twp.; East Earl Twp.; Ephrata; Estate settlement; Farmers National Bank; Finding aids; Florida; Franklin Twp., Adams County, Pennsylvania; Funerals; Gap, Salisbury Twp.; Grand Forks Herald; Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota; Health; Hotel Gladstone; Hunters; Inheritance; Internal Revenue Service; Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota; Johnson City, Broome County, New York; K. Aslesen Company; Lancaster; Lancaster New Era; Leland-Parker Hotel; Letters; Manuscript groups; Masons; McClure House; Miami, Florida; Millersville; Millersville State Normal School; Millersville University; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Minot, Ward County, North Dakota; Mountville Farm Women's Society; New Berlin, Ephrata Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey; Parades; Patterson Hotel; Pennsylvania State Normal School; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Postage stamps; Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; Receipts; Republican Party; San Francisco, California; Schools; Stamps; Stevens, East Cocalico Twp.; Stocks; Tax returns; Taxation; Trusts and trustees; United Commercial Travelers of America; Vienna Bakery Company; Visiting cards; Washington, DC; West Cocalico School District; Wheeling, West Virginia; Wills; YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association

Extent: 1 box, 12 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0294

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this collection must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Accession Number: 2002.Hawbaker

Other Numbers: MG-294

Classification: MG0294

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 19 January 2022.

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Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania : comprising a historical sketch of the county

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Author: Wiley, Samuel T.

Date of Publication: 1993.

Call Number: 974.817 W682

Responsibility: by Samuel T. Wiley ; together with about five hundred and fifty biographical sketches of the prominent men and leading citizens of the county ; carefully revised and edited by Henry W. Ruoff.

Author: Wiley, Samuel T.

Place of Publication: Mt. Vernon, IN

Publisher: Windmill Publications,

Date of Publication: 1993.

Physical Description: 811 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes: Reprint, with new index. Originally published: Philadelphia : Rush, West and Co., 1893.

Subjects: Schuylkill County (Pa.) - Biography.; Schuylkill County (Pa.) - History.; Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County.; Biographies.; History.

Additional Author: Ruoff, Henry W.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.817 W682

Birthplaces of 1400 early residents, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author: Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services.

Date of Publication: c1987.

Call Number: 974.817 S728

Responsibility: recompiled and indexed by Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services.

Corporate Author: Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services.

Place of Publication: Laughlintown, Pa

Publisher: The Services,

Date of Publication: c1987.

Physical Description: 30 p. ; 21 cm.

Notes: Originally compiled c1845 by Israel D.Rupp.; Includes index.

Subjects: Schuylkill County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Rupp, I. Daniel

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.817 S728

Blue book of Schuylkill County : who was who and why, in interior eastern Pennsylvania, in Colonial days, the Huguenots and Palatines, their service in Queen Anne's French and Indian, and Revolutionary Wars : history of the Zerbey, Schwalm, Miller, Merkle, Minnich, Staudt, and many other representative families

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Author: Elliott, Ella Zerbey

Date of Publication: 1916.

Call Number: 974.817 E46

1 website

Responsibility: by Mrs. Ella Zerbey Elliott.

Author: Elliott, Ella Zerbey

Place of Publication: Pottsville, Pa

Publisher: Pottsville, Pa. "Republican", Joseph Zerbey, proprietor,

Date of Publication: 1916.

Physical Description: 456 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Genealogy - Pennsylvania.; Schuylkill County (Pa.) - History.; Schuylkill County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.817 E46

Websites

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A Centennial history of Tower City and Porter Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: 1969]

Call Number: 974.817 T737

Place of Publication: [s.l

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1969]

Physical Description: 219 p. : ill., maps, ports; 28 cm.

Subjects: Tower City (Pa.) - History.; Schuylkill County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.817 T737

Certificate

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Collection: Quarter Sessions

Title: Quarter Sessions

Object ID: NOV 1836 F014 QS

Date Range: 1836

Collection: Quarter Sessions

Title: Quarter Sessions

System of Arrangement: Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.; Arranged by case number within each term.

Date Range: 1836

Year: 1836

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Raush, Henry; Harper, Oliver B.

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Quarter Sessions; Certificates; Jailors; Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Object Name: Certificate

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: NOV 1836 F014 QS

Additional Notes: Certificate of Henry Raush, keeper of the jail at Schuylkill County, regarding Oliver B. Harper.; 1 item, 1 piece

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 02-00 0908

Description Level: Item

Die Pennsylvaanisch Deitsche = The Pennsylvania Germans

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Author: Haag, Earl C.

Date of Publication: c2010.

Call Number: 430 H111

Alternate Title: Pennsylvania Germans

Responsibility: Earl C. Haag.

ISBN: 9780911122114; 0911122117

Author: Haag, Earl C.

Place of Publication: Kutztown, Penn

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: c2010.

Physical Description: xxii, 328 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; 44

Notes: "Der alt Professer."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-320) and index.

Summary: "This volume contains 312 'Es Neinuhr Schtick' columns gleaned from The call, Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, and The press and herald, Tremont, Pennsylvania"--P. xv.

Subjects: German Americans - Pennsylvania; American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County; Pennsylvania German dialect - Texts.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania-German Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 430 H111

A directory of the eleventh census of the population of Schuylkill County : giving the names and ages of males and females, published by cities, boroughs, wards, townships, precincts or towns, in connection with a business directory of the same for advertising purposes ... together with a brief historical resume of each district, statistics, etc

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Call Number: 974.817 D598

Alternate Title: Eleventh census of the population of Schuylkill County

Place of Publication: Mt. Vernon, Ind

Publisher: Windmill Publications,

Physical Description: 1060 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes: Facsimile reproduction of the ed. from: Lebanon, Pa. : E.E. Schartel, 1891.; "The reproduction of this publication has been made possible through the sponsorship of the Schuylkill County Historical Society"--Title page verso.

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County.; Registers of births, etc.; Schuylkill County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Schuylkill County (Pa.) - Census, 1890.; United States - Census, 11th, 1890.; Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County.; United States.; Census data.; Genealogy.

Additional Corporate Author: Schuylkill County Historical Society (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.817 D598

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