- Collection
- Dr. Charles Herbst Papers
- Title
- Dr. Charles Herbst Papers
- Object ID
- MG0725
- Date Range
- 1823-1867
1 document
- Collection
- Dr. Charles Herbst Papers
- Title
- Dr. Charles Herbst Papers
- Description
- This collection contains estate papers and financial documents of Dr. Charles Herbst.
- Admin/Biographical History
- Charles Herbst (1782-1865) studied medicine with Dr. William Fahnestock and started his practice in 1804. The following year he was a physician at the prison. In May 1813, he served as surgeon in Major Samuel Humes' Lancaster Battalion. Dr. Herbst is buried at Woodward Hill Cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Date Range
- 1823-1867
- Year Range From
- 1823
- Year Range To
- 1867
- Date of Accumulation
- 1823-1867
- Creator
- Beates family
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 15
- People
- Armstrong, Arthur
- Bart, Nathaniel
- Beates, Anna Mary Herbst
- Beates, William
- Bruner, M.
- Ellmaker, Nathaniel
- Geiger, Christopher
- Grubb, Edward Burd
- Harman, Susan
- Herbst, Charles
- Herbst, Elizabeth
- Herbst, Henry
- Huber, Jacob
- Humes, Samuel
- Keller, Samuel
- Kirkpatrick, William
- Long, Henry Grimler
- Longenecker, Catherine
- Longenecker, John
- Sener, Frederick
- Wisler, Jacob
- Wisler, John
- Search Terms
- Lancaster Cemetery
- Bonds
- Promissory notes
- Probate records
- Receipts
- Deeds
- Finding aids
- Manuscript groups
- Extent
- 1 box, 4 folders
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0725
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-725
- Other Number
- MG-725
- Classification
- MG0725
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Documents were transferred from the Document Collection, Box 5, Folders 6, 7, 8 and 12 in May 2014.
- Processed and finding aid prepared by PH, July 2014. Added to database 25 May 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Patents Collection
- Title
- Patents Collection
- Object ID
- MG0632
- Date Range
- 1827-1927
1 document
- Collection
- Patents Collection
- Title
- Patents Collection
- Description
- This collection contains patents issued to inventors in Lancaster County. The patents have the technical information about the invention and also drawings and/or blueprints. Some of the patents are for a horse hay rake, pinions, a railroad car brake, and improvements in threshing machines, balancing mill stones, kitchen slicing utensils and a still. Two of the documents are signed by Secretary of State Henry Clay and President Andrew Jackson.
- Date Range
- 1827-1927
- Creation Date
- 1827-1927
- Year Range From
- 1827
- Year Range To
- 1927
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 13
- People
- Becker, Henry
- Bennett, T. F.
- Blake, James H.
- Bomberger, Elias B.
- Butler, B. F.
- Clay, Henry
- Eberly, John A
- Fenstermaker, Emanuel Lively
- Fenstermaker, Gerald Burkhart
- Fellenbaum, David
- Gantz, David Zook
- Iske, Anthony
- Jackson, Andrew
- Kauffman, C. L.
- Keller, J. Frank
- Lutz, Jacob
- McLane, Louis
- Musser, Peter
- Price, Edward F.
- Reigart, J. Franklin
- Seitz, John
- Sieger, P. George
- Slaymaker, Amos Fleming
- Spillinger, Joseph
- Way, Andrew
- Weitzel, Jacob
- Whitehill, James
- Withers, Michael
- Subjects
- Drawings
- Inventions
- Inventors
- Patents
- Search Terms
- Blueprints
- Brakes, Peerless track
- Brakes, railroad car
- Canon pinions
- Certificates
- Double rack and pinions
- Drawings
- East Cocalico Twp.
- Finding aids
- Garbage furnaces
- Inventions
- Inventors
- Investments
- Kitchen slicing utensils
- Manuscript groups
- Mill gudgeons
- Mill stones, balancing
- Nut locks
- Patents
- Plough-plates
- Rakes, horse hay
- Salisbury Twp.
- Sanitary Engineering and Construction Company
- Stills
- Threshing machines
- Watch mechanisms
- Extent
- 1 box, 12 folders, .25 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0632
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- An original watercolor drawing by J. F. Reigart of Jacob Weitzel's still (Folder 10) is in the Curatorial Collection (2014.005).
- Emanuel Fenstermaker's watch parts (Folder 1) are in the Curatorial Collection (1972.004.2 and 1972.004.4)
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-632
- Other Number
- MG-632
- Classification
- MG0632
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Processed and finding aid prepared by PH, February 2014. Added to database 26 May 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents
- Title
- Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents
- Object ID
- MG0721
- Date Range
- 1762-1855
Peace, to Brecknock Twp.’s Overseers of the Poor, Christian Messner and John
Lesher. 24 December 1793. Transferred from Document Collection, Box 7, Folder 6,
March 2015.
James Welsh of Philadelphia apprenticed to John Hess of Providence Twp., Lancaster
County to learn farming. 5 March 1855. Transferred
1 document
- Collection
- Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents
- Title
- Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents
- Description
- The Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents include legal contracts between apprentice, or the parent or guardians, and master; as well as one contract between an indentured servant and master. The contracts identify the parties involved, municipalities, trade to be learned, and terms of contract.
- Date Range
- 1762-1855
- Creation Date
- 1762-1855
- Year Range From
- 1762
- Year Range To
- 1855
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 15
- People
- Boyd, Nickolas C.
- Brant, John
- Carver, Seneca
- Convery, Patrick
- Daly, James
- Eshleman, Guy
- Eversole, Jacob
- Fenney, Catherine
- Ganter, George
- Hess, John
- Humerich, Christian
- Humphreville, Frank
- Humphreville,Henry
- Humphreville, Susanna
- Ihling, John
- Johns, Jacob
- Johnston, Abraham
- Lesher, John
- Long, George
- Messner, Christian
- Moore, David
- Moore, Zacharias
- Parsons, Mary
- Peddin, John
- Porter, John
- Porter, William
- Quick, Philip
- Reinhard, Jacob
- Reinhard, Mary
- Remo, Jenetta
- Remo, Samuel
- Remo, Susanna
- Ruch, John
- Ruch, Peter
- Seeger, Fredrich
- Steele, William W.
- Stewart, Peter
- Welsh, James
- Subjects
- Apprentices
- Blacksmiths
- Carpenters
- Contract labor
- Contracts
- Joiners
- Saddlery
- Tinsmiths
- Weavers
- Search Terms
- Apprentices
- Blacksmiths
- Brecknock Twp.
- Carpenters
- Contract labor
- Cocalico Twp.
- Colerain Twp.
- Donegal Twp.
- Drumore Twp.
- Finding aids
- Indentures
- Joiners
- Lancaster
- Little Britain Twp.
- Manuscript groups
- Persons of color
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Providence Twp.
- Saddlery
- Tinsmiths
- Weavers
- Extent
- 1 box, 6 folders, .25 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English, German
- Object ID
- MG0721
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents (MG0721), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-721
- Classification
- MG0721
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Processed and finding aid prepared by PH, July 2014. Added to database 26 May 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers
- Title
- Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers
- Object ID
- MG0720
- Date Range
- 1798-1939
1 document
- Collection
- Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers
- Title
- Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers
- Description
- This collection contains the family papers of Helen Buckwalter Woerner from 1798-1939 including deeds, farm inventories, public sale posters, estate papers, and contracts. Some items of interest are the deeds, public sale documents, and a Campbell's Soup Company contract for tomato growing. A map shows the site master plan for the Lancaster Airport that was built on this family's farmland.
- Date Range
- 1798-1939
- Year Range From
- 1798
- Year Range To
- 1939
- Date of Accumulation
- 1798-1939
- Creator
- Woerner family
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 15
- People
- Bassler, Maria
- Bernhard, Henry
- Bernhardy, Henry
- Breitigan, Daniel Mumma
- Bomgardener, Elias
- Burkholder, Ann
- Buckwalter, Barbara
- Buckwalter Daniel W.
- Buckwalter, David Joseph
- Buckwalter, Elam
- Buckwalter, Harry Sahm
- Burkholder, Henry
- Buckwalter, Henry W.
- Buckwalter, Hiram
- Buckwalter, Ivan
- Buckwalter, Joseph
- Burkholder, Martha
- Buckwalter, Stella
- Burkholder, Rebecca
- Burkholder, Veronica
- Cross, Peter
- Drutt, George
- Dunlap, W. M.
- Dutt, Anne
- Dutt, George
- Eberle, Ann
- Eberly, H. S.
- Fory, Zeno
- Frank, Christian
- Fulmer, Phillip
- Hackman, Andrew
- Harnish, M. M.
- Hartman, Frank
- Heidman, Elizabeth
- Heilmand, John
- Herr, Isaac
- Herr, Walter
- Hollersten, Peter
- Homsher, Fred
- Huber, Abraham
- Kreider, Abraham
- Kreiter, Christian
- Landis, Levi
- Myers, N. S.
- Myers, Samuel
- Masterson, Maria
- Masterson, Thomas
- Newcomer, Jacob
- Nolly, Loretta Jane
- Peifer, Amos
- Ritter, Benjamin
- Ruth, John
- Sahm, Aaron
- Sahm, David C.
- Sahm, Eliza Gross
- Sahm, George
- Sahm, Henry Gross
- Sahm, Lizzie M. Longenecker
- Sahm, Levi
- Sahm, Menno L.
- Shriner, Daniel
- Snyder, H. B.
- Spacht, Ralph M.
- Stauffer, Christian
- Weidman, David
- Witmer, David M.
- Subjects
- Airports
- Auctions
- Broadsides
- Campbell Soup Company
- Contracts
- Deeds
- Inventories
- Loans
- Maps
- Probate records
- Receipts (Acknowledgments)
- Runways (Aeronautics)
- Stocks
- Taxation
- Wills
- Search Terms
- Administrators' accounts
- Agreements
- Airports
- American Union Telephone Company
- Auctions
- Broadsides
- Campbell Soup Company
- Contracts
- Deeds
- East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.
- Estate inventories
- Executors' accounts
- Farm Debt Adjustment Committee
- Farmers Market Company
- Federal Land Bank of Baltimore
- Financial records
- Guardianship accounts
- Inventories
- Kissel Hill Telephone Company
- Lancaster Abattoir Company
- Lancaster Trust Company
- Leaf Tobacco Company
- Livestock
- Loans
- Manheim Fairview Cemetery
- Manheim Twp.
- Maps
- Mount Joy Mutual Fire Insurance Company
- Neffsville, Manheim Twp.
- Penn Twp.
- Phoenix Water Power Company
- Probate records
- Reading Transit and Light Company
- Receipts
- Runways
- Stocks
- Taxation
- Taxes
- Warwick Twp.
- West Lampeter Twp.
- Wills
- Extent
- 2 boxes, 46 folders, 1 rolled map, 2 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0720
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers (MG0720), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-720
- Other Number
- MG-720
- Classification
- MG0720
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Processed and finding aid prepared by EH, Fall 2014. Added to database 26 May 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Brinton Family Collection
- Title
- Brinton Family Collection
- Object ID
- MG0038
- Date Range
- 1808-1946
· Lancaster, PA 17603
717.392.4633 · lancasterhistory.org
Genealogy:3
Thomas Whitson m. Martha Hobson
b. 7 February 1796 b. 10 November 1800
d. 27 November 1864 d. 18 June 1889
(Sadsbury, Chester County) (Sadsbury)
They were married at New Salem Meeting, 17 May 1827. Rebecca was one of their
eight children
1 document
- Collection
- Brinton Family Collection
- Title
- Brinton Family Collection
- Description
- The Brinton Family Collection contains genealogy, estate records, receipts, school workbooks, correspondence, farm records, tax records, bank records, wedding and funeral announcements, invitations, visiting cards, and postcards.
- Admin/Biographical History
- The Brintons were a prosperous family, owned farms and mills, and participated in other business ventures. They were of English heritage and members of the Quakers, or Society of Friends. In order to escape religious persecution in England, William Brinton purchased 200 acres in Birmingham Twp., Pennsylvania in 1684. His descendants eventually moved further west to eastern Lancaster County.1
- Cyrus Brinton (1830-1917), the fourth of six children, was the son of Samuel and Lydia P. Jackson Brinton. In 1813, Samuel purchased 200 acres of land in Christiana (land that was later bounded by the Christiana Machine Shop on the south, Pine St. on the west, Sadsbury Ave. on the north, and Rte. 41 on the east). The land was not ideal for farming, but the property was picturesque and the farm was successful. Cyrus married Rebecca Whitson and they farmed on his father's property for about ten years. At that time they purchased a farm and mill on the road from Cooperville to the Noble Road. The original woolen mill was later turned into a grist mill, then a creamery. Cyrus and Rebecca had five children: Francis, Thomas Luther, William Haslam, Anne Haslam, and Martha Alice.2
- Genealogy:3
- Thomas Whitson m. Martha Hobson
- b. 7 February 1796 b. 10 November 1800
- d. 27 November 1864 d. 18 June 1889
- (Sadsbury, Chester County) (Sadsbury)
- They were married at New Salem Meeting, 17 May 1827. Rebecca was one of their eight children.
- Cyrus Brinton m. Rebecca Whitson
- b. 28 December 1830 b. 3 February 1832
- d. 9 February 1917 d. 29 October 1903
- (Sadsbury, Lancaster County) (Lancaster County)
- They were married at Christiana, PA, 12 February 1857.
- Thomas Whitson m. Hannah Starr
- b. 27 September 1760 b. 3 February 1765
- d. 1 June 1826 d. 20 April 1836
- (Sadsbury)
- The parents of Thomas Whitson, they were married 31 October 1787.
- Francis Hobson m. Ann Johnson
- b. 14 February 1768 b. 15 December 1775
- d. 1835 (Lancaster County)
- farmer and shoemaker d. 1852
- (New Garden) (New Garden)
- The parents of Martha Hobson, they were married 14 September 1797.
- 1 Garrett, Mary. 1979. "Brintons of Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County: Where they originated, what they accomplished, and where they have gone." Octorara Area Historical Society 1:13.
- 2 Ibid.
- 3 Whitson Family Chart, August 1951. The Albert Cook Myers Collection. Chester County Historical Society (Pa.)
- Date Range
- 1808-1946
- Year Range From
- 1808
- Year Range To
- 1946
- Date of Accumulation
- 1808-1946
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 01
- People
- Bacon, Benjamin C.
- Brinton, Samuel
- Garrison, William Lloyd
- Whitson, Martha Hobson
- Whitson, Thomas
- Subjects
- Abolitionists
- Antislavery movements
- Finance, Personal
- Invitation cards
- Letters
- New-England Anti-Slavery Society
- Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society
- Personal correspondence
- Receipts (Acknowledgments)
- School notebooks
- Social reformers
- Visiting cards
- Search Terms
- Abolitionists
- Antislavery movements
- Calling cards
- Correspondence
- Finance, Personal
- Finding aids
- Invitations
- Land records
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- New-England Anti-Slavery Society
- Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society
- Receipts
- Sadsbury School District
- Sadsbury Twp.
- School books
- Sharon Boarding School
- Social reformers
- Surveys
- Visiting cards
- Extent
- 4 boxes, 40 folders, 2 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0038
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Associated Material
- The Chester County History Center (Pa.) also has information on the Brinton and Whitson families.
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Brinton Family Collection (MG0038), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Folder 40 was a gift of Betsey Collins, 5 March 1993.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-38
- Classification
- MG0038
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Cataloged prior to 1997. Box 1 was recataloged by JB, Fall semester 2006. Added to database 16 June 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Linden Hall Seminary Collection
- Title
- Linden Hall Seminary Collection
- Object ID
- MG0010
- Date Range
- 1817-1996
: LancasterHistory will continue to add items to this collection.
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Linden Hall
Seminary Collection (MG0010), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
People:
Beverly, Jane B.
Kepler, Mary
�230 North President Avenue · Lancaster, PA
1 document
- Collection
- Linden Hall Seminary Collection
- Title
- Linden Hall Seminary Collection
- Description
- The Linden Hall Seminary Collection contains school catalogs and Linden Hall Echo, the school yearbook. Other items include financial records, fundraising information, school workbooks, and a diploma from 1886.
- Admin/Biographical History
- Linden Hall Seminary is a girls' school located in Lititz, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1742 by the Moravian community, it is the oldest continuously operated girls' school in the United States.
- Date Range
- 1817-1996
- Year Range From
- 1817
- Year Range To
- 1996
- Date of Accumulation
- 1817-1996
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 01
- People
- Beverly, Jane B.
- Kepler, Mary
- Subjects
- Girls' schools
- Linden Hall (Lititz, Pa.)
- School catalogs
- School notebooks
- School yearbooks
- Women--Education
- Search Terms
- Broadsides
- Finding aids
- Girls' schools
- Linden Hall
- Linden Hall Echo
- Manuscript groups
- School catalogs
- School notebooks
- Yearbooks
- Extent
- 2 boxes, 22 folders, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English, German
- Object ID
- MG0010
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Linden Hall Seminary Collection (MG0010), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-10
- Classification
- MG0010
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- This collection was cataloged prior to 1997; added to database 8 Febraury 2018.
Documents
- Collection
- Henry Slaymaker Collection
- Title
- The Henry Slaymaker Collection
- Object ID
- MG0004
- Date Range
- 1790-1835
1 document
- Collection
- Henry Slaymaker Collection
- Title
- The Henry Slaymaker Collection
- Description
- Collection includes waste books and an account book from the Salisbury Store, Justice of the Peace dockets, child's school exercise books, receipts, summons, letters, and other papers.
- Date Range
- 1790-1835
- Creation Date
- 1790-1835
- Year Range From
- 1790
- Year Range To
- 1835
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 01
- People
- Chambers, P.
- Leech, George
- Slaymaker, Henry Fleming
- Slaymaker, Isabella
- Slaymaker, Jasper
- Small, Henry
- Other Creators
- Slaymaker family
- Subjects
- Business records
- Court calendars
- Family records
- Legal documents
- Letters
- Salisbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township)
- School notebooks
- Search Terms
- Bethania Seminary
- Business records
- Correspondence
- Court calendars
- Family records
- Finding aids
- Legal documents
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Promissory notes
- Salisbury Store
- Salisbury Twp.
- School notebooks
- Extent
- 2 boxes, 12 folders, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0004
- Related Item Notes
- Samuel R. Slaymaker II, White Chimneys Collection, MG0268
- Curatorial Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Please use the photocopies provided for items in Folders 6 and 7.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-4
- Classification
- MG0004
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Collection was cataloged prior to July 1997; added to database 1 March 2018.
Documents
- Collection
- Mills and Bridges of Lancaster County, The R. Harold Barton Collection
- Title
- Mills and Bridges of Lancaster County
- Object ID
- MG0015
- Date Range
- 1637-1916
1 document
- Title
- Mills and Bridges of Lancaster County
- Description
- Collection contains the research materials of R. Harold Barton on the mills and bridges of Lancaster County. Included are field notes, working papers, photographer's negatives, and postcards. Indexes are available listing mills by name and location, and bridges by name.
- Four notebooks are the finished product of the mills and bridges research of R. Harold Barton. These notebooks are in the library under Barton, R. Harold on the online catalog (LC621.85, B283, v.1-v.4). The notebooks constitute 1 cubic ft. of the collection.
- The remaining six boxes are located within the manuscript collection. These boxes house working papers, field notes, worksheets, notebooks, photographs, negatives, additional albums of photographs and other miscellaneous material relating to Lancaster County bridges and mills.
- Mr. Barton uses a numerical system to locate bridges and mills by township or by the names of the streams, rivers, runs and creeks. Three indexes have been prepared: one lists the bridges by name, one the location by town or townships, and one the names of the mills.
- There are a few notes related to Lancaster County gunsmiths, missionaries, and Indian traders.
- System of Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by township, number, and index.
- Date Range
- 1637-1916
- Creation Date
- 1637-1916
- Year Range From
- 1637
- Year Range To
- 1916
- Date of Accumulation
- 1637-1916
- Creator
- Barton, R. Harold
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 01
- People
- Barton, R. Harold
- Search Terms
- Bridges
- Covered bridges
- Mills
- Research
- Manuscript groups
- Finding aids
- Extent
- 6 boxes, 2 notebooks, 33 folders, 2.4 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0015
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-15
- Classification
- MG0015
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- This collection was cataloged prior to 1997; added to database 6 March 2018.
Documents
- Collection
- S. S. Haldeman Papers
- Title
- S. S. Haldeman Papers
- Object ID
- MG0344
- Date Range
- 1799-1977
- Collection
- S. S. Haldeman Papers
- Title
- S. S. Haldeman Papers
- Description
- The S. S. Haldeman Papers are an overview of Haldeman's career. The collection contains biographical information about and published works of Samuel Steman Haldeman on the freshwater univalve mollusca, language, and agriculture. There is also a handwritten biography on Ben Keywood.
- Admin/Biographical History
- Samuel Steman Haldeman was born in Locust Grove, Lancaster County circa 1812. He was the eldest of seven children of Henry Haldeman and Frances Steman. (Haldeman genealogy chart) Samuel was raised in the family mansion in Bainbridge and developed an interest in science and nature by wading in the Susquehanna River. There he collected shells, eels, Indian relics, minerals and insects. (Barber, 53) He was educated in public schools and attended Dickinson College for two years before withdrawing. Samuel left Dickinson because he found college to be irksome and that he could learn more on his own. After college Samuel educated himself by going to lectures, analyzing specimens, and studying books.
- Also after college he moved into the mansion near Chickies Creek, which he designed. In 1835 S. S. Haldeman married Mary Hough of Bainbridge and they had four children. (Haldeman genealogy) Haldeman was not a religious man and was born protestant, but when he was in his thirties he converted to Roman Catholic and was a member of St. Mary's Church in Lancaster City.
- During his life, Samuel was the author of scientific works, as well as many works on the study of language. One of his more famous works was A Monograph of the Limniades and other Fresh-Water Univalve Mollusca of United States. Samuel published these volumes during the 1840s. These volumes on mollusca were viewed as authoritative by most of the scientific world including Charles Darwin. (Sunday News, Lancaster, Pa.) Haldeman was considered an expert of many of the subjects he wrote about because of his attention to detail. He worked 16-hour days going over different specimens and spent time practicing the correct way to pronounce words and letters in different languages. (Croll)
- Haldeman was the author of over 150 articles on natural science, zoology, ethnology, language, natural history, and archaeology. His publications include several newspaper articles for Lancaster County newspapers, the Marietta Times and the Intelligencer Journal. Additionally, he was the editor of the Pennsylvania Farm Journal for three years. Haldeman's articles were also published in Silliman's Journal, better known as The American Journal of Science, and Popular Science Monthly. (Croll)
- However, Haldeman's career was not limited to publishing. His interest in the sciences led to careers in teaching and geology. In 1836 he began working for the State Geological Survey in New Jersey as an assistant and later held the same position in Pennsylvania. He received his first professorship to teach zoology at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia in 1841. Haldeman was elected professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania in 1851, and then in 1855 he became a professor of natural history at the University of Delaware. He returned to the University of Pennsylvania as a professor in 1876 and retained that position until his death in 1888. (Barber)
- Haldeman did not limit his career solely to science. He managed the First National Bank of Marietta. He was also a partner with his brothers in the iron business that his father had built. The original name of the furnace was Chiqusalungo. It operated under the name E. Haldeman and Co. The brothers later built another blast furnace, and called the two furnaces Chickies 1 and Chickies 2. These furnaces were located along the Susquehanna south of Marietta. Haldeman perfected the practice of smelting iron with anthracite coal. Some of his articles on the use of anthracite coal in blast furnaces were published in Silliman's Journal during the 1840s. (Gramm)
- Samuel Steman Haldeman brought the forefront of science to Lancaster County. He worked on issues relevant to his home and community. He was never involved in any business that did not affect his home or family and worked hard to the end of his life. He returned home, tired and exhausted, from a convention in Boston in 1888. Samuel Steman Haldeman died six days later of a heart attack at age 68. "Thus peacefully ended a useful life, full of years and honors." (Barber)
- Works Cited:
- Barber, Edwin A. "The Late Professor S.S. Haldeman" The Museum; 1885. MG-344 S. S. Haldeman Papers, Lancaster County Historical Society.
- Croll, P. C. "Famous Pennsylvania Germans; Professor Samuel S. Haldeman, LL.D." The Pennsylvania German, v.6 1905.
- Gramm, Bertha Sue, The Ironmasters of Marietta and vicinity during the period 1848-1878, Lancaster County Historical Society: Lancaster, Pa. 1948.
- Haldeman genealogy chart prepared by Horace L. Haldeman, 1893. Haldeman Family file, Lancaster County Historical Society.
- Date Range
- 1799-1977
- Year Range From
- 1799
- Year Range To
- 1977
- Date of Accumulation
- 1799-1977
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 08
- People
- Haldeman, Frances
- Haldeman, Henry
- Haldeman, Samuel Steman
- Hough, Mary
- Keywood, Ben
- Munsell, Joel
- Subjects
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Letters
- Linguistics
- Mollusks
- Proofs (Printing)
- Scientists
- Scientists' writings
- Search Terms
- Agriculture
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Correspondence
- Farming
- Finding aids
- Letters
- Linguistics
- Manuscript groups
- Mechanics' Society
- Mollusks
- Newspaper clippings
- Pennsylvania Farm Journal
- Proofs (Printing)
- Scientists
- Extent
- 1 box, 24 folders, .5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English, German, and Latin
- Object ID
- MG0344
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Associated Material
- Haldeman Mansion Preservation Society https://haldeman-mansion.org/
- Related Item Notes
- Haldeman Family Papers and Business Records (MG0736)
- Curatorial Collection
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), S. S. Haldeman Papers (MG0344), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- See the attached finding aid for a list of S. S. Haldeman's publications.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Please use photocopies of newspaper articles.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-344
- Classification
- MG0344
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Cataloged and finding aid prepared by AV, Fall semester 2006. Added to database 22 August 2017.
- Collection
- Paul A. Mueller, Jr. Collection
- Title
- Paul A. Mueller, Jr. Collection
- Object ID
- MG0360
- Date Range
- 1774-1916
1 document
- Collection
- Paul A. Mueller, Jr. Collection
- Title
- Paul A. Mueller, Jr. Collection
- Description
- The Paul A. Mueller, Jr. Collection contains a deed for property in Lancaster Borough, an early collection of recipes, a receipt book for the Hamilton Lots, a valentine, stock certificate books for the New Process Steel Corporation, and Civil War letters. The Honorable Paul A. Mueller, Jr. is a descendant of the Zahm, Shreiner, and Cochran families on his mother's side. The items in this collection were passed down through the family for several generations.
- Admin/Biographical History
- Klein, Huffnagle, and Mussertown
- The deed shows the sale of property in Mussertown by innkeepers Leonard and Rosina Klein to Peter Huffnagle. Leonard (1725-1793) married Amalia Rosina Waidlin (1732-1795) at Warwick, Lancaster County in December 1749. At that time he was a saddler in Lancaster. Although they did not have children, they were sponsors at several baptisms at the Moravian Church and Trinity Lutheran Church, both in Lancaster. Peter Huffnagle (1746-1806) and his wife, Charlotte, had their children baptized at the First Reformed Church in Lancaster. They were also buried in that churchyard. Mussertown was laid out in 1760 by John Musser, and was later added onto by Henry Musser. Its original boundaries were the streets now called Church, Strawberry, Locust, and Rockland.
- Hamilton Lots
- In 1730, Andrew Hamilton, a skilled lawyer, purchased a tract of land in the newly incorporated Lancaster County and convinced the commissioners to place the county seat within his holdings. Queen Street and King Street run through that tract. James Hamilton (1710-1783) acquired 500 acres of land from his father in 1734, and started selling lots by 1735. Although Hamilton sold the lots, he imposed ground-rents so tenants had to pay for the right to occupy and improve the land that they owned. Tenants were also required to build dwellings on their property within two years and to meet certain building specifications. He continued to acquire and sell lots until 1773. Ground-rents were still being collected on the Hamilton Lots after World War II.
- Zahm and Shreiner
- Godfried Zahm was a brushmaker in Lancaster. His son, Michael (d.1883), learned the brushmaking business from his father and then learned the watchmaking and jewelry business from his brother-in-law, Martin Shreiner, Jr. (1767-1866). Godfried's daughter, Maria, married Martin Shreiner who is best remembered as a Lancaster clockmaker. Maria kept a trimming shop on North Queen Street in Lancaster.
- Cochran and New Process Steel Corporation
- Harry B. Cochran, great-grandfather of Paul A. Mueller, Jr., was the president of New Process Steel Corporation in 1916. New Process Steel Co. began as New Process Steel Wire Manufacturing Co. and was renamed in 1907. This manufacturer of drill rods and special steel shapes became a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation in 1919. It is significant that Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. owned stock in the New Process Steel Corporation in 1916. Sloan was president of Hyatt Roller Bearing Company when it merged with the United Motors Corporation in 1916. He then became president of United Motors which merged with General Motors Corporation in 1918. Sloan was president and CEO of General Motors from 1923-1946.
- Date Range
- 1774-1916
- Year Range From
- 1774
- Year Range To
- 1916
- Date of Accumulation
- 1774-1916
- Creator
- Mueller, Paul A., b. 1930
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 09
- People
- Albright, F. S.
- Angeoine, Harry W.
- Balsbach, Andrew
- Barrett, Richard L.
- Bough, Mathias
- Bubach, Gerhart
- Buback, Garret
- Bugie, Henry A.
- Burkhart, Samuel H.
- Burkholder, I. Dora
- Burkholder, John D.
- Cochran, Harry B.
- Cochran, John S.
- Cochran, Thomas
- Curtis, John
- Eberman, P. G.
- Eshleman, Benjamin
- Fairer, A.
- Frantz, Carrie B.
- Goble, Jacob
- Godshalk, Earl M.
- Good, Henry
- Hamilton, John
- Hamilton, William
- Harnish, Aaron B.
- Hartman, John K.
- Hinerdeer, Henry G.
- Hite, Edward B.
- Hoofnagle, Peter
- Hostetter, A. H.
- Ingersoll, Charles H.
- Ingersoll, Fred R.
- Keller, A. S.
- Kline, Leonard
- Kline, Rosina
- Knell, Henry
- Kreider, Elizabeth
- Kunkle, Aaron
- Lefever, George D.
- Lenher, Philip
- Leonard, Philip
- Loucks, Aaron
- Lowry, William
- Martin, Samuel O.
- McCleery, Carpenter
- McClure, H. L.
- McClure, Harry L.
- McCoy, Sarah A.
- Messenkop, John A.
- Michenfelder, Caspar
- Moore, John
- Moore, Martin A.
- Mueller, Jane Moffat
- Mueller, Paul A.
- Musselman, Amos
- Musser, Ann
- Musser, Henry
- Nauman, David
- Newman, Charles
- Parry, Vaughn Ingersoll
- Price, John
- Reichenbach, William
- Scott, George A.
- Shertz, Jacob
- Sherwood, Warren A.
- Shreiner, John F.
- Shrum, William
- Sloan, Alfred P. Jr.
- Stoddard, Williston B.
- Stoner, C. L.
- Turbett, Samuel
- Weaver, Henry M.
- Weidler, David
- Weiss, Jay G.
- Wenger, A. D.
- Wenger, D. H.
- Wenger, D. M.
- Wentz, Henry
- Witmer, Amos K.
- Yeates, Jasper
- Zahm, Godfried
- Zantmiller, Kate
- Zercher, Jacob
- Other Creators
- Shreiner family
- Cochran family
- Zahm family
- Subjects
- Cookbooks
- Deeds
- Letters
- Recipes
- Stock certificates
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Valentines
- Search Terms
- Boswell and McCleery
- Civil War
- Cookbooks
- Correspondence
- Finding aids
- General Motors Corporation
- Hamilton lots
- John Meaner and Company
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Mussertown, Lancaster
- New Process Steel Corporation
- New Process Steel Wire Manufacturing Company
- Recipes
- Stock certificates
- Valentines
- Extent
- 1 box, 10 folders, .5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English, German
- Object ID
- MG0360
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- Shand, William and Dean Keller. 1965. "Twentieth Century Industrial Development of Lancaster." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society 69: 151-162.
- Wood, Stacy B. C. 1994. "Martin Shreiner: from Clocks to Fire Engines." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society 96: 114-137.
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Paul A. Mueller, Jr. Collection (MG0360), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-360
- Other Number
- MG-360
- Classification
- MG0360
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Folders 1-9 cataloged in 2005. Folder 10 cataloged in 2009. Added to database 7 September 2017.
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