- Collection
- Collateral Appraisements
- Title
- Collateral Appraisements
- Object ID
- Coll App 1892 F007 H
- Date Range
- 1892
- 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
- 1892
- Date of Accumulation
- 1849-1913
- Year
- 1892
- Creator
- Register of Wills
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives West
- Storage Container
- Box 0007
- People
- Hobart, Henrietta W.
- Subcategory
- Documentary Artifact
- Search Terms
- Collateral appraisement
- Collateral statement
- Correspondence
- Place
- None
- Extent
- 16 boxes (8 cubic feet)
- Object Name
- Appraisal
- Language
- English
- Condition
- Fair
- Object ID
- Coll App 1892 F007 H
- Box Number
- 007
- Additional Notes
- Only: two correspondences and collateral statement.
- 3 items, 3 pieces
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.
- Classification
- RG 03-00 0312
- Description Level
- Item
- Collection
- Captain John M. Groff Collection
- Title
- Captain John M. Groff Collection (MG-44)
- Object ID
- MG0044
- Date Range
- 1905-1940
1 document
- Collection
- Captain John M. Groff Collection
- Title
- Captain John M. Groff Collection (MG-44)
- Description
- Collection contains photographs, many labeled and dated, and two scrapbooks. One scrapbook contains newspaper articles concerning the military and professional life of Captain Groff. The other scrapbook contains military records including special orders, certificates, passes, correspondence, and government requirements. There are also newspaper articles, maps, and other memorabilia.
- Date Range
- 1905-1940
- Year Range From
- 1905
- Year Range To
- 1940
- Creator
- Groff, John M.
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 02
- Search Terms
- American Defense Society
- American Expeditionary Forces
- American Expeditionary Forces, Supply Division, Postal Express Service
- American Red Cross
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Correspondence
- Finding aids
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Maps
- Newspaper clippings
- Photographs
- Postal Express Service
- Scrapbooks
- World War I
- WWI
- Extent
- 1 box, 9 folders, .5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0044
- Related Item Notes
- See the Photograph Collection.
- 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-44
- Classification
- MG0044
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 17 May 2018.
Documents
- Collection
- Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers
- Title
- Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers
- Object ID
- MG0061
- Date Range
- 1670-1985
- Collection
- Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers
- Title
- Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers
- Description
- Samuel E. Dyke was a noted authority on the Pennsylvania rifle and wrote on this subject. Collection consists of articles, correspondence, photographs, research notes, and working papers on firearms. Also included is information on gunsmiths, the Rockford Foundation, the Heritage Center, cabinetmakers, grandfather clocks, and the Armstrong Cork Company. 1670-1985
- Date Range
- 1670-1985
- Creation Date
- mid-20th century-1985
- Year Range From
- 1670
- Year Range To
- 1985
- Creator
- Dyke, Samuel Eugene, 1900-1985
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 02
- People
- Armstrong, John
- Atherton, Cornelius
- Atkins, Wyatt
- Beck, John Philip
- Berry, Peter
- Breitenhard, Johann Christoph
- Brown, Parker B.
- Buchele, William M.
- Corridon, Raymond R.
- Dobson, Thomas
- Dubbs, Jacob
- Dyke, Samuel Eugene
- Fetter, George
- Feder, George
- Fondersmith, John
- Grancsay, Steven V.
- Grove, S.
- Grubb, Peter
- Hawkins, Henry
- Henry, William
- Hoff, H. Bare
- Kendig, Joe, Jr.
- Kuntz, Jacob
- Kuntz, Peter
- Landis, George
- Landis, Henry
- Lehn, Joseph
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Magee, D. F.
- Manger, Henry
- Meyhardt, Peter
- Pennypacker, A. J.
- Sprecher, Peter
- Walker, Joseph E.
- Yeates, Jasper
- Search Terms
- Armstrong Cork Company
- Booklets
- Cabinetmakers
- Clocks and watches
- Conrad Weiser State Park
- Correspondence
- Flintlock Rifles
- Gunsmiths
- Halbach Pistols
- Harpers Ferry Arsenal and Armory
- Hopewell Forge
- Kentucky Match Rifle
- Kentucky rifles
- Kentucky Rifle Association
- Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee
- Malsh Pistols
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Pamphlets
- Pennsylvania Rifles
- Rotary International
- Pennsylvania Deithsch Eck
- World War II
- Extent
- 6 boxes, 113 folders, 4.25 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0061
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- Photograph Collection
- 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
- Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers (MG-61), Folder #, LancasterHistory.org
- Other Numbers
- MG-61
- Classification
- MG0061
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Collection
- Archive of Alice P. Fordney
- Title
- Archive of Alice P. Fordney
- Object ID
- HC0001
- Date Range
- 1905-1974
.
Berlinwork patterns
Cheney Silks
Cheney Weaves
Christmas V-mail
Correspondence
Cricket Club
Dickinson Presbyterian Church
Estate sales
F. Schumacher & Co.
Farm Journal Media
Fiber arts
Finding aids
Gilbert's store
Griest Homestead
Guernsey Sales Pavilion
Hagers' Department Store
Hershey Fire Hall
Hooked rugs
1 document
- Collection
- Archive of Alice P. Fordney
- Title
- Archive of Alice P. Fordney
- Description
- This collection contains ephemera related to Alice Potter Fordney, antiques dealer and rugmaker. Items in the collection include business correspondence with Armstrong, F. Schumacher & Co., and the Montclair art museum; personal correspondence with friends and family; hooked rug patterns; and antiques sale flyers from the early 20th century. Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings, including the obituary of Fordney's sister Ellen Franklin; reference material for rug making and interior design (informational sheets, books and patterns); several items related to the Yeates School, which Fordney's brother William Bush Fordney attended; several photographs of unidentified persons; and a statement related to the will of William J. Fordney, her uncle.
- Admin/Biographical History
- Alice Potter Fordney was born June 21, 1887 in Lancaster, the daughter of Ida Cox and Thomas Potter Fordney. A prominent antique dealer from the late 1920s to her retirement in 1965, Fordney also made and sold hooked rugs.
- Fordney's family features prominently in Lancaster County history. Her maternal great-grandfather was John Michael, who owned the historic Grape Hotel from 1805-1839. Fordney's paternal great-grandfather William Jenkins built Wheatland in 1828 and later sold the property to President James Buchanan. Colonel William Bush Fordney, her paternal grandfather, was a prominent lawyer in Lancaster. He served as district attorney from 1839-1845 and negotiated for the loan that enabled Lancaster city to build the "water works" in the 1830s. Sarah Cox, her maternal grandmother, was a known philanthropist and for years helped to manage the Home for Friendless Children in Lancaster. Her sister, Ellen Fordney Franklin, was a "pioneer" in the industry of women's knit suits, opening her first shop in 1929 in Philadelphia.
- Fordney never married. She kept in contact with her nieces and nephews, as evidenced by letters in the collection. According to notes provided by Wendell Zercher, Sarah Ellmaker McIlvaine Muench, her niece and the donor of the collection, recalled her as "warm and artistic," and "a character." She died April 17, 1973, at the age of 85.
- Works Cited:
- "Mrs. Franklin, pioneer of women's knit suits, dies." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 10 May 1963, p. 2.
- "Accident Fatal to Mrs. Sarah A. Cox." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], no date, page unknown.
- "Miss Fordney, Antique Dealer, 85, Succumbs." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 18 April 1973, p. 2.
- "One of Lancaster's Most Prominent and Venerable Citizens Passes Away." Daily Intelligencer Journal [Lancaster, PA], 29 July 1889, p. 1.
- Date Range
- 1905-1974
- Year Range From
- 1905
- Year Range To
- 1974
- Date of Accumulation
- 1905-1974
- Creator
- Fordney, Alice Potter, 1887-1973
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives North
- Storage Wall
- Side 28
- People
- Appel, Charles Rengier
- Bohlen, Sidney Franklin
- Bowman, Mrs. Edward J.
- Boyer, R. J.
- Brenneman, Mary Rue Bard
- Brown, Hazel Dell
- Chiarell, Fred P.
- Clark, George W.
- Daugherty, Harvey P.
- Demuth, Charles
- Dodge, Arthur B.
- Embsweiler, Ruth
- Erb, Edna
- Fordney, Alice Potter
- Fordney, William Bush Jr.
- Fordney, William Jenkins
- Franklin, Ellen Julia Fordney
- Gibbons, Alice McIlvaine
- Gilbert, L. J.
- Gingrich, Milton E.
- Graybill, John M.
- Griest, Charles J.
- Higby, Everett
- Hostetter, A. K.
- Howe, John
- Irvine, Blanche
- Kent, William Winthrop
- Knodle, Edward
- Krone, Herbert B.
- Lindenmuth, J. D.
- Long, Yvonne
- Maclay, Helen Hurley
- Malone, Clarence
- Morris, Charles R.
- Morris, Grace M.
- Nauman, Gertrude Colson
- Orr, Barclay
- Pennypacker, Charles A.
- Pennypacker, James G.
- Randall, Meda
- Rannels, Paul
- Stokes, Agnes M.
- Strickler, Belle
- Wolf, Emily
- Other Creators
- Muench, Sarah Ellmaker McIlvaine, d. 2006
- Subjects
- American newspapers--Sections, columns, etc.--Women
- Antique dealers
- Armstrong Cork Company
- Armstrong World Industries
- F. Schumacher & Co.
- Farm Journal Media
- House & Garden
- Interior decoration
- Letters
- Montclair Art Museum
- Patterns for crafts
- Rugs
- Rugs, Hooked
- Student newspapers and periodicals
- Woman's world magazine
- Search Terms
- Albert Steiger Company
- Antique dealers
- Antique sales
- Armstrong Cork Company
- Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
- Berlinwork patterns
- Blue and Brown (Yeates School)
- Cheney Silks
- Cheney Weaves
- Christmas
- Correspondence
- Cricket Club
- Dickinson Presbyterian Church
- Estate sales
- F. Schumacher and Company
- Farm Journal Media
- Fiber arts
- Finding aids
- Gilbert's store
- Griest Homestead
- Guernsey Sales Pavilion
- Hager's Department Store
- Hershey Fire Hall
- Hooked rugs
- House & Garden
- Interior decoration
- Kleinfelter's auction rooms
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Montclair Art Museum
- Odd Fellows Hall
- Olson Rugs
- Patterns for crafts
- Rossmere Hotel
- Rug patterns
- Rugs
- State Armory Hall
- V-mail
- Woman's World Magazine
- Yeates School
- Extent
- 3 boxes, 37 folders, 333 items, 1,015 pages to scan, 4.5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- HC0001
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Associated Material
- Sarah McIlvaine Muench Family Papers, MS 44 at Archives and Special Collections, Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.
- Related Item Notes
- See photograph collection.
- See curatorial collection for examples of rugs.
- Fordney Family Diaries (MG0539)
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Archive of Alice P. Fordney (HC0001), Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- The kraft paper patterns in Folders 33-37 are restricted. Please make an appointment with the Director of Archival Services to view these items.
- 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.
- Accession Number
- G.04.23.52
- Classification
- HC0001
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- From the Heritage Center of Lancaster County collection, G04.23.52.
- Processed and finding aid prepared by MJ, June 2018.
Documents
- Collection
- Pennsylvania Railroad Collection
- Title
- Pennsylvania Railroad Collection
- Object ID
- MG0131
- Date Range
- 1859-1956
1 document
- Collection
- Pennsylvania Railroad Collection
- Title
- Pennsylvania Railroad Collection
- Description
- The papers in this Pennsylvania Railroad Collection are largely the documents of legal actions against the Pennsylvania Railroad. Among the items are property records, agreements, a construction contract, correspondence, and a proposal for a footbridge.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged chronologically.
- Date Range
- 1859-1956
- Year Range From
- 1859
- Year Range To
- 1956
- Date of Accumulation
- 1859-1956
- Creator
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 04
- Search Terms
- Columbia
- Contracts
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Finding aids
- Footbridges
- Lancaster
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- Extent
- 3 boxes, 68 folders, 1.5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0131
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Pennsylvania Railroad Collection (MG0131), Box #, 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. 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.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-131
- Other Number
- MG-131
- Classification
- MG0131
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- This collection was cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 7 September 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- John Leaman Collection
- Title
- John Leaman Collection
- Object ID
- MG0274
- Date Range
- 1865-1898
and Company
Business records
Columbia
Correspondence
Crops
Envelopes
Everts and Overdeer
F. M. and H. Brooke
Farm produce
Finding aids
First National Bank of Strasburg
Friedenthal
George Cookman and Company
Grain trade
Harbert and Raymond
James C. Walker and Son
Kennedy, Eckert and Company
Lancaster
1 document
- Collection
- John Leaman Collection
- Title
- John Leaman Collection
- Description
- The John Leaman Collection consists primarily of letters between John Leaman of Leaman Place and businesses in Philadelphia regarding produce and grain markets and prices.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged chronologically.
- Date Range
- 1865-1898
- Year Range From
- 1865
- Year Range To
- 1898
- Date of Accumulation
- 1865-1898
- Creator
- Leaman, John
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 08
- People
- Baumgardner, H.
- Bruner, H. F.
- Bushong, Viola
- Eberman, E. M.
- Ellmaker, Nathaniel
- Herr, Calvin A.
- Herr, J. F.
- Leaman, A.
- Leaman, Henry
- Leaman, John
- Leaman, Joseph H.
- Leaman, Mary E.
- Leaman, William
- Lefevre, C. H.
- Rakestraw, Charles J.
- Seldomridge, J. F.
- Shuey, D. B.
- Thomas, W. B.
- Thomas, William B.
- Witmer, John S.
- Woods, John N.
- Search Terms
- Agriculture
- Bitners and Company
- Business records
- Columbia
- Correspondence
- Crops
- Envelopes
- Everts and Overdeer
- F. M. and H. Brooke
- Farm produce
- Finding aids
- First National Bank of Strasburg
- Friedenthal
- George Cookman and Company
- Grain trade
- Harbert and Raymond
- James C. Walker and Son
- Kennedy, Eckert and Company
- Lancaster County Mutual Insurance Company
- Leaman Place, Paradise Twp.
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- McCallum and Sloan
- Newberry Brothers
- Prices
- Princeton, New Jersey
- Produce trade
- Thomas, Mason and Company
- Trout and Miller
- Extent
- 1 box, 8 folders, .5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0274
- 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 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 site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-274
- Classification
- MG0274
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Added to database 9 September 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Transportation Collection
- Title
- Transportation Collection
- Object ID
- MG0123
- Date Range
- 1819-1977
Penn Square. Transferred from library, 24 June 2022. (1
item, 1 page to scan)
Folder 28 1931 Letters Patent for the consolidation of the following public
transportation companies: Conestoga Traction Company; Lancaster, Mechanicsburg
and New Holland Railway Company; Lancaster, Petersburg and Manheim
1 document
- Collection
- Transportation Collection
- Title
- Transportation Collection
- Description
- The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.
- Date Range
- 1819-1977
- Year Range From
- 1819
- Year Range To
- 1977
- Date of Accumulation
- 1819-1977
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 04
- People
- Bitner, John R.
- Boardman, Harris
- Bowman, John Jacob
- Boyer, Zaccur Prall
- Cirt, Anna N.
- Griest, William Walton
- Hostetter, Albert Keller
- Kemrer, Clarence M.
- Knapp, Walter
- Kreider, Kate
- Kriebel, Howard Wiegner
- McClellan, Oliver Eldridge
- Royer, David
- Shuman, James P.
- Wohlsen, Anna
- Wohlsen, Peter
- Subjects
- Letters
- Minutes (Records)
- Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
- Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.)
- Posters
- Railroads
- Rates and tolls
- Reading & Columbia Railroad Company
- Street-railroads
- Trolley cars
- Search Terms
- Adamstown
- Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania
- Blueprints
- Booklets
- Brochures
- Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
- Center Square Road Station
- Chestnut Street
- Christiana
- Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania
- Columbia
- Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad
- Conestoga Traction Company
- Conestoga Transportation Company
- Conewago Water and Power Company
- Correspondence
- Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania
- Drawings
- Duke Street
- East Belt line
- East King Street
- East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.
- Elizabethtown
- Engleside, Lancaster Twp.
- Ephemera
- Ephrata
- Express Printing Company
- Greeting cards
- Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania
- Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
- Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.
- J. G. Brill Company
- Kinport Road
- Lancaster
- Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway
- Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company
- Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company
- Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike
- Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
- Letters
- Lititz
- Maple Grove
- Maps
- Marietta Avenue
- North Market Street
- Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.
- Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.
- Minutes
- Mount Joy
- Mulberry Street
- National Railway Historical Society
- Neffsville, Manheim Twp.
- North End Photo Finishing House
- North Lime Street
- North Queen Street
- Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
- Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania
- Penn Square
- Pequea Twp.
- Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company
- Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Photographs
- Placards
- Substations
- President Avenue
- Princess Street
- Prospect Street
- Quarryville
- Railroads
- Rates and tolls
- Reading and Columbia Railroad Company
- Receipts
- Red Rose Transit Authority
- Reports
- Roads
- Rocky Springs Railroad Company
- Schuylkill Navigation Company
- Scrapbooks
- South Mountain Railroad
- South Queen Street
- Stock certificates
- Susquehanna Railroad
- Tickets
- Tolls
- Trolley car barns
- Trolley car yards
- Trolley cars
- Trolleys
- Turnpikes
- Walnut Street
- WGAL (television station)
- Williams Park Station
- Willow Street Turnpike
- Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania
- WLAN (radio station)
- Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania
- York Bus Company
- York Fair
- York Railway Company
- Extent
- 2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0123
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Restrictions are noted at the item level.
- 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-123
- Classification
- MG0123
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Added to database 23 September 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection
- Title
- Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection
- Object ID
- MG0166
- Date Range
- 1738-1920
Straw Market Association
Finance, Personal
Finding aids
Franklin Savings and Building Association
Grosh & Levering
Hamilton Estate
Indentures
Indian Queen Hotel
Invoices
Lancaster Cemetery
Lancaster County Agricultural Park
Lancaster County Historical Society
Lancaster, Elizabethtown & Middletown
1 document
- Collection
- Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection
- Title
- Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection
- Description
- The Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection contains documents collected by Mr. Diffenderffer. These documents are primarily from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and include letters, legal and court papers, indentures, receipts, property and probate records, and financial and military papers. The people and businesses represented include George Ross, Jasper Yeates, A. Herr Smith, Timothy Matlack, Mount Hope Furnace, and the Lancaster, Elizabethtown & Middletown Turnpike Road Company.
- System of Arrangement
- Collection retains original arrangement.
- Date Range
- 1738-1920
- Year Range From
- 1738
- Year Range To
- 1920
- Date of Accumulation
- 1738-1920
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 04
- People
- Adams, John Quincy
- Adreas, Agnes
- Albright, W.
- Anderson, James
- Andrews, Jacob W.
- Andrews, James P.
- Ashbridge, Elizabeth
- Ashbridge, J. H.
- Ashbridge, Sarah
- Ashbridge, Sidney
- Atlee, Samuel
- Attlee, Samuel
- Autstch, Adam
- Bare, Martin
- Barlow, Thomas
- Barnitz, Joseph
- Barr, John
- Barton, David R.
- Barton, W.
- Bauer, Adam
- Beams, Jacob
- Beard, Robert
- Bearn, John
- Beck, Martha
- Beck, Paul
- Beck, Samuel
- Bender, Leonard
- Benezet, Daniel
- Benner, Henrich
- Berntheisel, Henry
- Berry, William
- Bickham, F. A.
- Bickman, George
- Bletz, Jacob
- Blumer, Abraham
- Bollinger, Esther
- Bombarger, Martin
- Bomberger, John
- Bower, Samuel P.
- Bowman, Henry
- Bowman, J.
- Bowman, Samuel
- Bowman, W.
- Boyd, James
- Boyd, Samuel
- Bradford, Samuel J.
- Breck, Samuel
- Bredenstein, Philip
- Brown, David
- Brown, Matthew
- Brown, William
- Broud, Bill
- Bruener, G.
- Bryan, George
- Bryan, George I.
- Burd, Edward
- Burkholder, E.
- Burt, Nathaniel
- Caldwell, James
- Caldwell, Oliver
- Caldwell, Robert
- Calhoun, John C.
- Cameron, James
- Cameron, John
- Campbell, Sarah
- Carpenter, Abraham
- Carpenter, Daniel
- Carpenter, Jacob
- Carpenter, William
- Cather, Robert
- Chambers, Stephen
- Chambers, W.
- Charlton, Thomas
- Clark, Brice
- Clark, John
- Clark, Washington
- Clemson, Joseph
- Cochran, A.
- Cochran, William
- Coleman, William
- Connor, Kitty
- Cookson, Thomas
- Cooper, William
- Creasy, Solomon
- Creasy, Solomon M.
- Crone, Robert
- Cunningham, Hugh
- Cunningham, Thomas
- Damant, James
- Damisch, Fred
- Davis, Zaccheus
- Deckert, Jacob
- Dederick, Henry
- Dering, Henry
- Derward, Jonas
- Detrick, P.
- Dickert, Jacob
- Dieterick, Jacob
- Diffenderffer, David
- Diffenderffer, Frank Ried
- Diffenderffer, Harold F.
- Diffenderfer, Michael
- Diffenderfer, Philip
- Diller, Peter
- Doerses, Frederick
- Dougherty, William
- Douglass, George
- Douglass, James
- Doyle, Thomas
- Dryer, Andrew
- Dubbs, Joseph H.
- Duck, Geotge
- Duncan, Daniel
- Eagen, James
- Eagen, Thomas
- Eberman, John
- Eberman, Philip
- Eckert, George
- Eckman, John
- Eftwein, Johannes
- Eichholtz, H.
- Eichholtz, Leonard
- Eliot, Daniel
- Emanuel, John
- Ench, Jacob
- Espy, George R.
- Evans, Frances
- Evans, Isaac
- Evans, James C.
- Evans, Samuel
- Ewing, John
- Faghterin, Mary
- Fahnestock, Samuel
- Fehl, Andrew
- Feltman, George
- Ferree, Conrad
- Ferree, Polly
- Fissel, Michael
- Flowers, Christian
- Foltz, Bernard
- Fordney, Casper
- Fouts, Martin
- Franklin, Thomas
- Franklin, Thomas E.
- Franklin W. B.
- Frantz, Phil
- Frey, J.
- Fultz, John
- Galbraith, Bertram
- Galloway, Joseph
- Geddis, Samuel
- Gibble, L. W.
- Gibbons, William
- Gildersleve, Jonathan H.
- Gildersleve Sarah
- Gill, Deborah
- Gill, Eramus
- Gill, James
- Gill, Matthew
- Givler, Mary
- Golden, Jeffery
- Graass, Jacob
- Graeff, Matthias
- Graeff, W.
- Graff, Benjamin
- Graff, Henry
- Graff, Jacob
- Gratz, Hyman
- Groff, Abraham
- Groff, David
- Groff, Isaac
- Gross, Michael
- Grove, Abraham
- Grubb, Baird
- Grubb, Curtis
- Grubb, Henry
- Habacker, George
- Habacker, Wager
- Hartz, John
- Hake, Elizabeth
- Hake, Jacob
- Hale, Charles
- Hambright, Henry
- Hamilton, James
- Hamilton, William
- Hand, Edward
- Hart, Elizabeth
- Hartand, John
- Hartmyer, Frederick
- Haton, James
- Hatz, John
- Hayn, Christopher
- Hehl, Matthew
- Henderson, Mary
- Henry, Christopher
- Henry, Elizabeth
- Henry, Joseph
- Henry, Josiah
- Henry, John Joseph
- Henry, Mary
- Herr, Christian
- Hensel, William Uhler
- Hibshman, Henry
- Hoff, John
- Hoofnagle, P.
- Hoover, Jacob
- Host, Catharine
- Host, Michael
- Howell, William H.
- Howell, William Wilson
- Huber, J.
- Huber, John
- Hubley, Adam
- Hubley, John
- Hubley, Joseph
- Hubley, M.
- Hubner, Nathanael
- Huston, Alex
- Hutchinson, E.
- Jacks, James
- Jenkins, Ron
- Johns, Elizabeth
- Johns, Jacob
- Johns, Paul
- Johnston, Sam
- Jones, John
- Jones, Owen
- Jones, Paul T.
- Jordan, J.
- Kauffman, Abraham
- Kauffman, Joseph
- Kehler, Andrew
- Kelly, Joseph P.
- Kelly, William
- Kenedy, John
- Kittera, John Wilkes
- Kittera, Thomas
- Kline, David
- Kline, George
- Kline, Michael
- Kling, M.
- Konigmaker, James
- Krebil, John
- Krieg, Philip
- Krug, Edward
- Krug, H. V.
- Krug, Jacob
- Krug, Valentine
- Kuhn, Frederick
- Kuhn, Jacob
- Lanck, Jacob
- Landes, John
- Lauman, Ludwig
- Lechler, John
- Leman, H. E.
- Lewis, Abraham
- Lewis, Ellis
- Liews, Eliza
- Lightner, Nathaniel
- Likens, James
- Lind, John
- Long, Charles E.
- Long, Jacob
- Longenecker, David
- Lowery, Alexander
- Lowery, Lazarus
- Lowman, Ludwig
- Lutz, Peter
- Lynch, Thomas
- MacGonigle, Jonathan T.
- MacGregor, John
- MacGregor, Peter
- Machold, Lewis Frederick
- Marshall, Christopher
- Matlack, Timothy
- Mattes, George
- Mauer, Peter
- Maus, Peter
- Mayer, John
- Mayer, Lewis
- McGown, William
- McClure, David
- McClure, Randle
- McKim, James
- McKinney, Mordecai
- Mease, James
- Mease, John
- Mercer, John Q.
- Messersmith, George
- Metzer, Jonas
- Metzer, Norman
- Miller, David
- Miller, Harry
- Miller, Henry
- Miller, James
- Miller, John
- Miller, T. H.
- Minnich, Lizzie
- Mohler, Henry
- Montgomery, Jane
- Montgomery, S. H.
- Moore, James
- Moore, John
- Musser, John
- Myer, John
- Myer, John P.
- Myer, Josephine
- Myers, Christian
- Myers, Eckert
- Myers, Henry
- Myers, Jacob
- Myers, John
- Myers, Joseph
- Myers, Josephine
- Myers, S. H.
- Myers, Sidney
- Muhlenberg, F. A.
- Muhlenberg, G. H. E.
- Muhlenberg, Henry
- Muhlenberg, Henry A.
- Munster, Paul
- Nager, Ben Willis
- Nagle, John
- Neal, John
- Nees, Adam
- Neisser, G. Br.
- Nelson, William
- Nicholson, John
- Norgrave, H.
- Odonel, Charles
- Old, James
- Parvin, Francis
- Passmore, John
- Patton, James
- Pendleton, George H.
- Pennypacker, Samuel W.
- Penrose, Clement
- Petersby, Richard
- Physick, Edmund
- Pine, Michael
- Pohlman, Abraham
- Price, Eli K.
- Purviance, Samuel
- Ralston, Robert
- Ramsay, Catharine
- Ramsay, David
- Ramsay, James
- Ramsay, Nathaniel
- Ramsay, William
- Randall, Samuel
- Rank, Samuel
- Redsecker, Jacob
- Reed, E. L.
- Reed, George
- Reedly, George
- Reedly, John
- Reigart, Adam
- Reigart, Emanuel
- Reigart, Jacob
- Riche, Thomas
- Rieger, Ann
- Rohrer, John
- Ross, George
- Ross, James
- Roth, Jacob
- Schaum, Philip
- Scheaffer, John
- Schnierer, John, Mrs.
- Schweinhaupt, Br.
- Sell, Henry
- Seward, Hugh
- Shafer, John
- Shaffer, Jacob
- Sharer, David
- Shearer, Jacob
- Sheef, William
- Sheldon, William
- Shippen, Edward
- Shireman, Jacob
- Shol, Peter
- Shware, Peter
- Simon, Joseph
- Simon, William
- Sindersmith, S. V.
- Singer, Casper
- Singer, Emanuel
- Skiles, William
- Slaugher, Hiram
- Slaymaker, Amos
- Slaymaker, Henry
- Slough, Matthias
- Smith, A. Herr
- Smith, Eliza
- Smith, Joanna
- Smith, Thomas
- Smith, William
- Snapp, Samuel
- Solomon, Myer
- Spencer, S. S.
- Sprecher, Frank L.
- Stauffer, Henry
- Stedman, Alex
- Stedman, Charles
- Steinert, Christian
- Steinman, Charles
- Steinman, Frederick
- Steinman, George
- Steinman, John F.
- Stevens, R. S.
- Stevenson, George
- Stone, John
- Stoneman, Tobias
- Stones, John
- Stuart, Robert
- Swan, John G.
- Swain, R.
- Swentzel, H. Y.
- Swift, Joseph
- Tanger, David R.
- Titball, Joseph
- Trimble, James
- Trissler, John
- Trissler, Joseph David
- Turner, Ambrose
- Turner, Catharine
- Wagen, Philip
- Walk, Deetrick
- Walker, John
- Wallace, John
- Wallace, William
- Warden, M.
- Warfel, John
- Washington, Samuel
- Watson, David
- Webb, James
- Weber, Adam
- Wegman, Mary
- Weitzel, George
- Wenger, Roland
- Werner, Jacob
- Wertsburger, Henry
- West, William
- Wetherill, Samuel P.
- White, George
- White, T.
- Whitaker, George
- Wildred, Daniel
- Williams, Evans P.
- Williams, John
- Wistar, Thomas
- Witlow, Hugh
- Witman, John
- Witman, Michael
- Witmer, Abraham
- Witmer, Benjamin
- Witmer, David
- Witmer, Henry
- Wolford, Ludwig
- Wood, George
- Work, Joseph
- Wright, James
- Wright, John
- Wright, S. W.
- Yaner, Jacob
- Yeates, Jasper
- Yeates, John
- Young, Henry
- Young, Mattias
- Zahm, Godfrey
- Zantzinger, Adam
- Zantzinger, Ester
- Zeigler, George
- Zimmer, Henry
- Subjects
- Bonds
- Business records
- Certificates
- Court records
- Finance, Personal
- Invoices
- Letters
- Lotteries
- Minutes (Records)
- Probate records
- Receipts (Acknowledgments)
- Schools
- Stocks
- Search Terms
- Accounts
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Armor's Old Bookstore
- Articles of agreement
- Beaver Creek
- Black Horse Farm
- Bonds
- Business records
- Certificates
- Charles E. Wentz and Bros.
- Christ Lutheran Church
- Cocalico Creek
- Conestoga Steam Mills
- Constables
- Correspondence
- Court records
- Farmers Bank of Lancaster
- Farmer's Hay and Straw Market Association
- Finance, Personal
- Finding aids
- Franklin Savings and Building Association
- Grosh and Levering
- Hamilton Lots
- Indentures
- Indian Queen Hotel
- Invoices
- Lancaster Cemetery
- Lancaster County Agricultural Park
- Lancaster County Historical Society
- Lancaster, Elizabethtown and Middletown Turnpike Company
- Letters
- Lotteries
- Manuscript groups
- McDowell's Mill
- Minutes
- Mount Hope Furnace
- Northern Central Railway Company
- Pennsylvania Council
- Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company
- Probate records
- Protestant Episcopal Church
- Receipts
- Sam Wetherill and Sons
- Schools
- Shaffner and Ziegler
- St. James Episcopal Church
- Steinman and Son
- Stocks
- Trinity Lutheran Church
- W. Kirkpatrick and Company
- Zahm and Jackson Jewelers
- Extent
- 1 box, 27 folders, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0166
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Frank R. Diffenderfer Collection (MG0166), 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.
- Accession Number
- 1964.013
- Other Numbers
- MG-166
- Classification
- MG0166
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- This collection was cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 23 September 2021.
- Accession # L64-13
Documents
- Collection
- John Leonard Ellmaker Collection
- Title
- John Leonard Ellmaker Collection
- Object ID
- MG0071
- Date Range
- 1726-1922
Genealogy
Letters
Marriage records
Stocks
Wills
Search Terms:
Aoelian Hall
Carnegie Hall
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Correspondence
Deeds
Ephrata Cloister
Family records
Finding aids
Genealogy
Jefferson Medical College of
Philadelphia
Letters
Manuscript groups
Marriage records
Metropolitan Opera
1 document
- Collection
- John Leonard Ellmaker Collection
- Title
- John Leonard Ellmaker Collection
- Description
- Collection of Ellmaker family papers, including original papers of the first immigrant, John Leonard Ellmaker of Germany. Papers include correspondence, genealogy charts, deeds and legal papers. newspaper clippings, photographs, articles on Jacob Eichholtz, and a diploma and teachers' certificate. There is also a blank book with paper made at Ephrata Cloister in 1796.
- Date Range
- 1726-1922
- Year Range From
- 1726
- Year Range To
- 1922
- Date of Accumulation
- 1726-1922
- Creator
- Ellmaker family
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 02
- People
- Cochran, Thomas B.
- Eichholtz, Jacob
- Elder, Thomas
- Ellmaker, Alfred
- Ellmaker, Amos
- Ellmaker, Ana Margareta
- Ellmaker, Benjamin Ellmaker
- Ellmaker, E. Ben
- Ellmaker, Edgar O.
- Ellmaker, Elizabeth
- Ellmaker, Enos
- Ellmaker, John Leonard
- Ellmaker, John Watson
- Ellmaker, Leonard
- Ellmaker, Lucy H.
- Ellmaker, Nathaniel
- Ellmaker, Thomas
- Graunnon, Christiana Margaretta
- Haverstick, H. B.
- Hoofgardner, Ferdinand
- Hornberger, Maria
- Hubbard, Elbert
- Huston, R. M.
- Koning, P.
- Mayor, Robert
- Moor, John
- Nicolaas, I.
- Pancoast, Dr.
- Schnierer, Jacob
- Snyder, Edwin L.
- Snyder, John A.
- Snyder, Mrs. Edwin L.
- Other Creators
- Ellmaker, John Leonard
- Subjects
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Deeds
- Family records
- Genealogy
- Letters
- Marriage records
- Stocks
- Wills
- Search Terms
- Aoelian Hall
- Carnegie Hall
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Ephrata Cloister
- Family records
- Finding aids
- Genealogy
- Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Marriage records
- Metropolitan Opera House
- Newspaper clippings
- Obituaries
- Philharmonic Society of New York
- Roycroft
- Stocks
- Wills
- Extent
- 2 boxes, 58 folders, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English, German, Dutch
- Object ID
- MG0071
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- Photograph Collection
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions. Please request at Reference Desk or contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.
- Copyright
- Collection 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 site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Classification
- MG0071
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 23 October 2018.
Documents
- Collection
- David B. Hackman Collection
- Title
- David B. Hackman Collection
- Object ID
- MG0072
- Date Range
- 1850-1896
1 document
- Collection
- David B. Hackman Collection
- Title
- David B. Hackman Collection
- Description
- Collection contains the original and typed copies of correspondence describing life in the gold fields of California in the 1850s, an account of crossing the desert on the way west, and a journal describing the sea voyage home. Also, two newspaper images relevant to the gold rush and Mr. Hackman's obituary. He sent many letters home to his family in which he related the details of his experience, hardships of finding gold, the high prices and lack of provisions, observations of life in mining towns, his health, and asked for news from home. He also wrote letters to his sweetheart, Harriet B. Miller asking her to write him back, and his uncle, regarding family financial information.
- Admin/Biographical History
- David Baer Hackman (1827-1896) was the second child of David Heistand Hackman and Susanna Frantz Baer. He was a third cousin, once removed, of Milton Hershey. David left Lancaster in the fall of 1849 with the hope of finding gold in California. In the spring of 1850, he went to Ohio and joined others headed west. They boarded a steamboat in Cincinnati that was bound for St. Louis and then travelled by wagon train to Sacramento City, where they arrived in September 1850. David found enough gold to buy food and supplies, and then had modest success in 1853. In 1854, he decided to return home, this time travelling by steamer and train from San Francisco to New York via Panama.
- The adventure of travelling westward and his life in the gold fields of California are described in detail in David's journal and correspondence. He sent many letters home to his family in which he related the details of his experience, hardships, the prices and lack of provisions, observations of life in mining towns, and asked for news from home.
- David also wrote to his sweetheart, Harriet B. Miller (1829-1870), the daughter of Adam and Rebecca Miller of Manheim. Although he did not receive any letters from her, they reunited upon his return to Lancaster in 1854 and married soon after. They had one son named Augustus, who became a minister. Harriet passed away in 1870. David later married Ella C. (1851-1907) and they had five children, Frank, Mabel, Harry, Walter, and Edith.
- David's obituary shows that he was involved in the grocery, clothing, hat, and shoemaking businesses. In the 1860 Census he is listed as a hatter, and in 1880 as a saloon keeper. He was well-liked and respected in the community. David and Harriet are buried in Manheim Fairview Cemetery.
- Date Range
- 1850-1896
- Year Range From
- 1850
- Year Range To
- 1896
- Date of Accumulation
- 1850-1896
- Creator
- Hackman, David Baer, 1827-1896
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 02
- Search Terms
- California
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Finding aids
- Gold miners
- Gold mines and mining
- Lancaster
- Letters
- Manheim
- Manuscript groups
- Extent
- 1 box, 4 folders, 52 items, 484 pages to scan, .25 cubic feet
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0072
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Original materials in Folder 1, Insert 1 and Folder 3 may not be used. Patrons may use the transcripts provided within this collection.
- 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-72
- Classification
- MG0072
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Processed and finding aid prepared by DT, 1999; revised by JK, 2016. Added to database 30 October 2018.
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