- Collection
- Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection
- Title
- Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection
- Object ID
- MG0166
- Date Range
- 1738-1920
Content Note: 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
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
- Revolutionary War Collection
- Title
- Revolutionary War Collection
- Object ID
- MG0098
- Date Range
- 1776-1976
2 documents
- Collection
- Revolutionary War Collection
- Title
- Revolutionary War Collection
- Description
- The Revolutionary War Collection contains a variety of materials from and about the Revolutionary War in Lancaster County and Pennsylvania. The original records include correspondence, military pay certificates, court records, and an orderly book kept by Lt. Col. Adam Hubley, Jr. during the Sullivan Campaign of 1779. There are also research notes and secondary sources, including a list of prisoners of war, a list of males in Lancaster County in 1776, Continental Hospital Returns 1777-1780, articles, information on soldiers buried in Lancaster County, and an article about John Paul Jones.
- Date Range
- 1776-1976
- Creation Date
- 1776-1976
- Year Range From
- 1776
- Year Range To
- 1976
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 03
- People
- Beddulph, Robert
- Boyd, John
- Burd, James Edward
- Chambers, Stephen
- Coedans, James
- Cooke, William
- Ferree, John
- Getty, Christian
- Gurney, Francis
- Hubley, Adam
- Jolly, James A. "Jim"
- Joy, Daniel
- Kieffer, Henry Martyn
- Moore, William
- Neal, James
- Patterson, Alex
- Porter, Thomas
- Ramsay, David
- Rapp, Brandon
- Reid, George W.
- Worner, William Frederic
- Zellty, John A.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Letters
- Military history
- Military regulations
- Newtown, Battle of, Newtown, N.Y., 1779
- Prisoners of war
- Soldiers
- Stony Point, Battle of, Stony Point, N.Y., 1779
- Sullivan's Indian Campaign, 1779
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons
- Search Terms
- Battle of Newtown
- Battle of Stony Point
- Cemeteries
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Correspondence
- Finding aids
- Haudenosaunee Confederacy
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Military history
- Military records
- Military regulations
- Prisoners of war
- Receipts
- Revolutionary War
- Soldiers
- Sullivan Campaign, 1779
- Extent
- 3 boxes, 40 folders, 1.25 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0098
- Notes
- Harmful Language Warning: LancasterHistory is committed to preserving and providing access to materials chronicling Lancaster County's heritage. As a historical resource, this orderly book reflects the racial prejudices of the era and the violence perpetrated against the Haudenosaunee Confederacy during the American War of Independence. In order to maintain the historical integrity and context of collection items, LancasterHistory does not censor historical documents or edit language, titles, or organization names when transcribing original content. This volume contains language that is offensive, oppressive, graphic, and may cause distress. LancasterHistory does not condone the use of this language.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions. Please use digital images and transcriptions when available.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.Images have been provided for research purposes only. Please contact research@lancasterhistory.org for a high-resolution image and permission to publish.
- LancasterHistory retains the rights to the digital images and content presented. The doctrine of fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. Fair use includes comment, criticism, teaching, and private scholarship. Any images and data downloaded, printed or photocopied for these purposes should provide a citation. All other uses beyond those allowed by fair use require written permission.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Some items are photocopies from other collections--researchers must obtain permission for reproduction and publication from the owner of the original material.
- 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
- Revolutionary War Collection (MG-98), Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.
- Other Numbers
- MG-98
- Other Number
- MG-98
- Classification
- MG0098
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Cataloged prior to 1997. Items have been added and the finding aid has been updated since 1997.
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
- James Buchanan Family Papers
- Title
- James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 8 Papers of Others (Not Part of the Family), Series 2 Financial and Legal Documents
- Object ID
- JBFP Part 8 Series 2
1 document
- Collection
- James Buchanan Family Papers
- Title
- James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 8 Papers of Others (Not Part of the Family), Series 2 Financial and Legal Documents
- Description
- James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 8 Papers of Others (Not Part of the Family), Series 2 contains financial and legal documents. Series 2 includes financial and legal documents within three subseries. Subseries 1 has bills, receipts, ledgers and accounts. Subseries 2 has deeds and land records. Subseries 3 has legal papers.
- The financial and legal documents are arranged chronologically, spanning almost 100 years, from 1770 through 1866. The bulk of the items, dated between 1784 and 1790, are promissory notes, receipts of payment and rental slips. There is a large gap between 1790 and 1849. The items from the 1800s include bills of sale, accounts and receipts. The deeds and land records include one hand-drawn survey for an unknown location (1858) and a title report for property in Warren County, New York (1865). The legal papers include documents filed with the courts, transcriptions of a legislative act from Maryland, notes, purchase contract, as well as two foreign documents, possibly a German enlistment record and a Swedish passport, both for Eugene Francois Theodore de la Croix.
- Admin/Biographical History
- The origination of many of the items contained in this part of the collection are unknown. It is also unclear of the relationship they have with James Buchanan. In the first subseries, there are two names that reappear often from 1770 to 1790, Daniel McCausland and James Crawford. All of these items are either promissory notes, receipts of payment of loans or letters from Daniel to James requesting that he pay a certain sum to the bearer of the note and the reverse would show the receipt of payment of that loan. There is some mention of a Revolutionary War Colonel James Crawford from Lancaster and Daniel addresses one of the notes to "Col. Crawford" so this may be the same individual. (See 8.2.1.001) There is a gap in the receipts and promissory notes from 1790 to 1849. This is also where we see the money on the documents change from pounds and shillings to dollars and cents. There is a bill of sale of the Lancaster Intelligencer newspaper from Edwin W. Hutter by a S. Boyd Hamilton in July 1849, as well as some follow up correspondence regarding that sale. However, in an article published in the Intelligencer on August 7, 1849, Mr. Hutter states that his successor is Captain George Sanderson of Carlisle, Pennsylvania (Lancaster Intelligencer, August 7, 1849, p. 2), which is confirmed in the December 4, 1849 edition which names the editor as "Geo. Sanderson (Lancaster Intelligencer, December 4, 1849, p. 1). The name McCausland reappears in the next subseries for legal papers, however, it is not a William McCausland, Jr. This is in reference to a law suit he filed against James Crawford and William McCausland for money due to him in outstanding rents and profits. There is a deposition notice addressed to "Col. Crawford" so it is likely to be the same James Crawford who had business dealings with Daniel McCausland.
- An interesting piece in this subseries is a large transcript of the Court Papers filed in the action by the stockholders of the Marietta & Susquehanna Trading Company against five of their Trustees. The Trustees were entrusted to resolve the company and collect all outstanding debts. However due to a robbery at the bank wherein all of the notes were stolen, they were unable to collect any of the debts. The background of this case is illustrated in Francis Lyman's A Mysterious Bank Robbery (LCHSR 905.748 HSP v. 94, p. 384-385), where it is alleged that one of the Trustees/Defendants, Jacob Grosh, committed the crime. The remaining items are random and vague in the origination and contextual relationship.
- 1 Ellis, F & Evans, S. (1883). History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Everetts & Peck. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?id=WsQxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA52&dq=%22James+Crawford%22+Lancaster,+PA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBWoVChMIhPb155rHyAIVAV0eCh2FDgt6#v=onepage&q=%22James%20Crawford%22%20Lancaster%2C%20PA&f=false
- System of Arrangement
- JBFP Part 8 Series 2 Financial and Legal Documents
- Subseries 1 Bills, Receipts, Ledgers, Accounts
- Subseries 2 Deeds and Land Records
- Subseries 3 Legal Papers
- Year Range From
- 1770
- Year Range To
- 1866
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- People
- Buchanan, James
- Cameron, Simon
- Curtis, George Ticknor
- Drayton, John Grimke
- Foltz, Jonathan Messersmith
- Foster, Stephen Collins
- Foster, Morrison
- Johnston, Harriet Lane
- Muhlenberg, Henry Augustus
- Search Terms
- Correspondence, Personal
- Letters
- Wheatland
- Finding aids
- Manuscript groups
- Buchanan Collections
- James Buchanan Presidential Library
- Extent
- 1 box, 36 folders, 39 items, .5 cubic feet
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English, German, Swedish
- Object ID
- JBFP Part 8 Series 2
- Associated Material
- James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers
- James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/
- James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html
- James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries, https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm
- Archives of Maryland Online. Session Laws 1862. (Vol 532. Pg. 267). Retrieved from: http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/000001/000532/html/am532--267.html
- Related Item Notes
- James Buchanan Family Papers
- James Buchanan Collection, MG0096
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm
- Photograph collections
- Curatorial collections
- Wheatland Mansion
- Charles S. Foltz, Surgeon of the Seas: The Adventurous Life of Surgeon General Jonathan M. Foltz In the Days of Wooden Ships, Told from His Notes of the Moment. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931. Call # 923.5 F671f
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Please use digital images and transcriptions when available.
- Original documents may be used by appointment. Please contact archives@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.
- Copyright
- Images have been provided for research purposes only.
- LancasterHistory retains the rights to the digital images and content presented. The doctrine of fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. Fair use includes comment, criticism, teaching, and private scholarship. Any images and data downloaded, printed or photocopied for these purposes should provide a citation. All other uses beyond those allowed by fair use require written permission.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Some items are photocopies from other collections--researchers must obtain permission for reproduction and publication from the owner of the original material. 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.
- Please contact archives@lancasterhistory.org for a high-resolution image and permission to publish.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Description Level
- Series
- Custodial History
- The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.
Documents
- Collection
- James Buchanan Family Papers
- Title
- James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 8 Papers of Others (Not Part of the Family), Series 3 Invitations, Broadsides, Visiting Cards
- Object ID
- JBFP Part 8 Series 3
1 document
- Collection
- James Buchanan Family Papers
- Title
- James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 8 Papers of Others (Not Part of the Family), Series 3 Invitations, Broadsides, Visiting Cards
- Description
- James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 8 Papers of Others (Not Part of the Family), Series 3 contains ephemera, including invitations, broadsides, calling cards, and poems. There are several tickets to various democratic conventions and rallies, calling cards, business cards, invitations to homes as well as to parties and balls, two poems, a World War I speech and a railroad scrip ticket book. The majority of the tickets in this series are for political conventions during the 1860s and 1870s from Baltimore, New York, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, as well as a few with no date or location. Invitations range from business sized cards requesting the recipient's company to printed cards for a ball and New Year's Eve Gala.
- Admin/Biographical History
- The majority of the items in this series are missing context and relationship with the other items in the collection. There is no clear connection with the items and who they belonged to or how they ended up in the collection. There are a few items that can be examined further, such as a ticket to the Eulogy on John Sergeant by Hon. William M. Meredith at the Musical Fund Hall on April 22, 1853. This eulogy was published as Eulogium on the Character and Services of the Late John Sergeant. The convention ticket in folder 1 labeled "L. Vallandingham" may refer to Louise Vallandingham the wife of Clement Vallandingham who was a states' rights advocate and an outspoken opponent to Abraham Lincoln.
- System of Arrangement
- JBFP Part 8 Series 3 Ephemera
- Year Range From
- 1770
- Year Range To
- 1866
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Search Terms
- Buchanan Collections
- Ephemera
- Invitations
- Business cards
- Tickets
- Wheatland
- Finding aids
- Manuscript groups
- James Buchanan Presidential Library
- Extent
- 1 box, 26 folders, 32 items, .5 cubic feet
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English, German, French
- Object ID
- JBFP Part 8 Series 3
- Associated Material
- James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers
- James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/
- James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html
- James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries, https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm
- Related Item Notes
- James Buchanan Family Papers
- James Buchanan Collection, MG0096
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm
- Photograph collections
- Curatorial collections
- Wheatland Mansion
- Charles S. Foltz, Surgeon of the Seas: The Adventurous Life of Surgeon General Jonathan M. Foltz In the Days of Wooden Ships, Told from His Notes of the Moment. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931. Call # 923.5 F671f
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Please use digital images and transcriptions when available.
- Original documents may be used by appointment. Please contact archives@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.
- Copyright
- Images have been provided for research purposes only.
- LancasterHistory retains the rights to the digital images and content presented. The doctrine of fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. Fair use includes comment, criticism, teaching, and private scholarship. Any images and data downloaded, printed or photocopied for these purposes should provide a citation. All other uses beyond those allowed by fair use require written permission.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Some items are photocopies from other collections--researchers must obtain permission for reproduction and publication from the owner of the original material. 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.
- Please contact archives@lancasterhistory.org for a high-resolution image and permission to publish.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Description Level
- Series
- Custodial History
- The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.
Documents
- Collection
- Muddy Creek Lutheran and Reformed Church Collection
- Title
- Muddy Creek Lutheran and Reformed Church Collection
- Object ID
- MG0007
- Date Range
- 1744-1927
1 document
- Title
- Muddy Creek Lutheran and Reformed Church Collection
- Description
- The Muddy Creek Lutheran and Reformed Church Collection contains church records, property records, legal documents, a songbook, and a liturgy book.
- Admin/Biographical History
- Peace United Church of Christ was formed in the late 1960s by the joining of St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Adamstown and Muddy Creek United Church of Christ. Muddy Creek UCC is one of the earliest German Reformed churches in the area, its founding marked with the first recorded baptisms in January of 1731.
- Date Range
- 1744-1927
- Year Range From
- 1744
- Year Range To
- 1927
- Date of Accumulation
- 1744-1927
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 01
- People
- Bechtolt, Catherine
- Bechtolt, William
- Becker, Jacob E.
- Egly, Marcus
- Frey, Jacob
- Frey, Peter
- Grill, Adam
- Haller, Henry
- Hartung, Maria
- Hartung, Richard
- Hartung, Solomon
- Hefft, George
- Lauch, Henry
- Laush, Mary
- Lesher, Samuel
- Lutz, Casper
- Penn, Richard
- Penn, Thomas
- Schnider, Valantin
- Schober, Philip
- Shoup, Christopher
- Swartz, Levi P.
- Swartz, Lydia
- Weiss, Peter
- Subjects
- Lutheran Church
- Reformed Church
- German Reformed Church
- Church records and registers
- Deeds
- Hymnals
- Liturgies
- Search Terms
- Calvinist Reformation Congregation
- German Reformed Congregation of Muddy Creek Church
- Lutheran Congregations of Muddy Creek Church
- Muddy Creek Church
- Lutheran Church
- Reformed Church
- German Reformed Church
- Financial records
- Surveys
- Church records and registers
- Deeds
- Hymnals
- Liturgies
- Manuscript groups
- Finding aids
- Extent
- 1 box, 10 folders, .5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English, German
- Object ID
- MG0007
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Folder 3: Please use photocopy in Folder 3a; make an appointment with the Director of Archival Services to use original.
- 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-7
- Classification
- MG0007
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- This collection was cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 8 February 2018.
Documents
- Collection
- Hubley Collection
- Title
- Hubley Collection
- Object ID
- MG0002
- Date Range
- 1741-1864
1 document
- Collection
- Hubley Collection
- Title
- Hubley Collection
- Description
- The Hubley Collection contains legal documents, case papers, family and military papers, wills, deeds, bills and receipts, indentures for servants and enslaved persons, correspondence, petitions, and church-related information.
- Admin/Biographical History
- John Hubley and Joseph Hubley were Lancaster attorneys.
- System of Arrangement
- The legal papers are arranged chronologically. Case papers are arranged
- alphabetically by surname of the plaintiff or defendant. Family papers are grouped by the family member's name and chronologically within that name. Box 6 is arranged chronologically.
- Date Range
- 1741-1864
- Year Range From
- 1741
- Year Range To
- 1864
- Date of Accumulation
- 1741-1864
- Creator
- Hubley family
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 01
- People
- App, Michael
- Barr, John
- Deshler, Adam
- Ferree, Polly
- Foulke, Caleb
- Franklin, Thomas
- Fromberger, John
- Hubley, Adam
- Hubley, Frederick
- Hubley, George
- Hubley, John
- Hubley, Joseph
- Hubley, Michael
- Jones, Owen, Jr.
- Lauman, Ludwig
- Musser, John
- Porter, Andrew
- Rieger, Jacob
- Rieger, Catherine
- Thomas, Adam
- Subjects
- Court records
- Deeds
- Depositions
- Family records
- Indentured servants
- Judgments
- Law offices
- Letters
- Promissory notes
- Slavery
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
- Wills
- Search Terms
- Correspondence
- Court records
- Deeds
- Depositions
- Enslaved persons
- Family records
- Finding aids
- Indentured servants
- Judgments
- Law offices
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Military
- Promissory notes
- Revolutionary War
- Slavery
- Warder, Parker and Company
- Wills
- Yeiser & Weaver
- Extent
- 6 boxes, 84 folders, 2.25 cu. ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0002
- Related Item Notes
- Hubley Family File in the library.
- 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-2
- Classification
- MG0002
- 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
- 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.
Documents
- Collection
- Lloyd Mifflin Collection
- Title
- Lloyd Mifflin Collection
- Description
- This collection contains the papers of Lloyd Mifflin, including diaries, his poetry, typescripts, galleys with marginal notes, Mifflin family material, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings. Lloyd Mifflin was a poet and painter from Columbia, Pa. He is best known as a writer of sonnets, publishing over 500.
- Admin/Biographical History
- Lloyd Mifflin (1846-1921), artist of landscape and portraiture, was also "America's greatest sonneteer." He was born and lived much of his life in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where he was free to wander the banks of the Susquehanna River and its tributaries.
- His father, J. Houston Mifflin, of English Quaker descent, was Lloyd's first teacher in drawing and sketching. His mother, Elizabeth A. Heise, came from German heritage. She was born in Columbia and died when Lloyd was very young. His father, a kind and patient man, noted that Lloyd was a rather weak child and provided equestrian and water sports to improve his health.
- Lloyd was taught in the public schools in Columbia, including the Washington Classical Institute. The Mifflin family supported local education by bequeathing two houses from their estate, the cottage known as "Norwood" and the grand house, "Cloverton," as well as the estate itself. The school district annually planted a flower on his birthday, September 15, and read one of his sonnets, "A Picture of My Mother."
- At the age of 14, Lloyd undertook drawing and sketching with his father. He also had Thomas Moran as an instructor in painting and worked with Isaac Williams of Philadelphia for a short time. In 1869, he traveled to Europe where he studied with Henry Herzog at Dusseldorf, Germany. His adventures also took him to Italy, France, England, and Scotland. He returned to Columbia from Europe and continued painting scenes from along the Susquehanna-from Cooperstown, NY to the Chesapeake Bay. As did most other painters of the time, he earned money from portraiture.
- In his paintings, he captured the natural with refined color and light, which yielded firm and balanced forms. He preferred to capture the peacefulness of a woodland path or other quiet spots, rather than the noise of an industrial area. Later in his life he liked seasonal paintings, since they gave him a chance to probe deeper into a philosophical spirit.
- Mifflin turned to poetry at the age of 51. According to what he wrote in The Hills, his first volume of poetry (1896), he claimed that the fumes of the paint made him sick. In his lifetime he filled twelve books of verse with two hundred poems and more than six hundred sonnets. He wrote more sonnets than William Shakespeare, John Milton, and William Wordworth. John Keats, however, was his favorite. He preferred Keats for his expression regarding the love of beauty, both real and ideal; his forms were always poised and dignified. During this time he also taught himself the art of etching, using this technique to illustrate The Hills.
- Mifflin stressed a strong love of beauty in his poetry as he did in his painting. His imagination and beautiful sense of harmony characterize his verse. The main source of his ambition, inspiration and consolation are clearly seen in The Invocation.
- He devoted his greatest efforts to the category of the sonnet, considering it the most distinguished and exalted of all forms of English poetry. He enjoyed the structure, the metrical and rhythmic beauty, the plan of metrical rhyme and diction. Mifflin found it much like a musical composition.
- Sonnets bipartite in structure usually have a combination of eight lines followed by six. The rhyme schemes and diction include many metaphors and an extensive vocabulary. His one hundred and fifty nature sonnets emphasize the descriptive, not the intuitional. To sample his poetic styles, one should turn to his three hundred and fifty collected sonnets, published in 1905 with a second edition in 1907. A large number came from earlier books.
- As a poet, Mifflin was an idealist and respected the ideal of Greek mythological beauty. In the Echoes of the Greek Idylls and Slopes of Helicon, we find no roughness of spirit. There was a conscience of a spiritual presence. His religious sonnets were grounded in the faith of a personal God which related more to his aesthetic feelings than to traditional Christianity. Themes of life and death occur in many sonnets. His poetry inspired faith, hope and deep emotion. These sonnets were more descriptive than philosophical.
- Mifflin's personal ambition was to excel; he wanted to write the perfect sonnet. Like the classical Greeks, he hoped his poetry would obtain an immortality. Mifflin thought the world had largely ignored him, even though his poetry received high praise. At his life's end he changed his opinion and credited his readers with more accolades than he had earlier thought. Perhaps he was too hard on himself. Lloyd Mifflin carried the name "Hermit of the hills" who walked the 'world as one entranced' and 'in life's turbid wave', dropped ' the crown-jewel of his melody.'"
- E. Hershey Sneath. America's Greatest Sonneteer. The Clover Press (Geo. D. Hall): Columbia, PA.,1928.
- Year Range From
- 1751
- Year Range To
- 1965
- Creator
- Mifflin, Lloyd, 1846-1921
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 02
- Search Terms
- Artists
- Columbia
- Diaries
- Illustrations
- Painters
- Poetry
- Poets
- Press reviews
- Scrapbooks
- Sonnets
- Susquehanna River
- University of Pennsylvania
- Wills
- Extent
- 2 box, 26 folders, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0059
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- J. Houston Mifflin Collection, MG-150
- Lloyd Mifflin paintings and other items in the Curatorial Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- Copyright
- Collection may not be photocopied. Please contact Research Staff or Archives Staff with questions.
- Credit
- Lloyd Mifflin Collection (MG-59), Folder #, LancasterHistory.org
- Classification
- MG0059
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Collection
- J. Houston Mifflin Collection
- Title
- J. Houston Mifflin Collection
- Object ID
- MG0150
- Date Range
- 1754-1881
1 document
- Collection
- J. Houston Mifflin Collection
- Title
- J. Houston Mifflin Collection
- Description
- Collection consists of personal, legal, and business-related letters and documents concerning the life and affairs of J. Houston Mifflin. Also, similar documents to, from, and about other members of the extended Houston and Mifflin families. Contains typed copies of two letters from J. Houston Mifflin to his son, Lloyd Mifflin, containing an eye-witness account of the June 1863 Confederate advance into Wrightsville. Also, a legal document signed by John Passmore.
- Date Range
- 1754-1881
- Year Range From
- 1754
- Year Range To
- 1881
- Date of Accumulation
- 1754-1881
- Creator
- Mifflin, J. Houston, 1807-1888
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 04
- People
- Archer, H. W.
- Bayard, A. C.
- Cowen, John F.
- Fisher, J. N.
- Franklin, Thomas E.
- Gamble, J. A.
- Grier, David
- Grisein, David J.
- Houston, Anna S.
- Houston, Henry H.
- Houston, J. W.
- Houston, John J.
- Houston, Robert W.
- Houston, Susanna
- Houston, William F.
- Howell, C. M.
- Jenkins, William
- Jordan, John
- Kerbaugh, Francis
- Lane, J.
- Marshall, William
- Mattack, Thomas
- Mifflin, Ann
- Mifflin, Elizabeth A. B.
- Mifflin, James E.
- Mifflin, John Houston
- Mifflin, Joseph
- Mifflin, Lloyd
- Mifflin, Samuel W.
- Neagle, J.
- Nunemacher, John R.
- Plant, Augusta Mifflin
- Plant, T. H.
- Reynolds, James L.
- Rogers, Anna R.
- Wilson, Benjamin
- Other Creators
- Mifflin family
- Subjects
- Artists
- Business records
- Family records
- Legal instruments
- Real property
- Letters
- Photographers
- Search Terms
- Artists
- Bank of Pennsylvania
- Business records
- Charlton and Ward
- Columbia Bank and Bridge Company
- Correspondence
- Family records
- Finding aids
- Land records
- Legal documents
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Mifflin and Houston Company
- P. Malcolm and Company
- Photographers
- Real estate
- Tilford and Samuel
- Wills
- Extent
- 1 box, 11 folders, .25 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0150
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- Photograph Collection
- Curatorial Collection
- Lloyd Mifflin Collection, 1751-1965, MG0059
- 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-150
- Other Number
- MG-150
- Classification
- MG0150
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Folders 1-10 processed and finding aid prepared by DT, 1998-1999. Folder 11 was cataloged in 2011. Added to the database 28 September 2017.
Documents
- Collection
- Almanac Collection
- Title
- Almanac Collection
- Object ID
- MG0092
- Date Range
- 1775-present
1 document
- Collection
- Almanac Collection
- Title
- Almanac Collection
- Description
- The Almanac Collection consists of almanacs printed in Lancaster County and other locations. They contain long-range weather predictions, calendars, moon phases, planting guides, and natural remedies. Many publications also contain articles and poems about historical events and persons, as well as government and political information, housekeeping information, recipes, songs, titles of sheet music, music for a variety of instruments, times and places of the Meetings of the Friends on the Continent of America, and engravings and descriptions of battles. Some almanacs are illustrated.
- System of Arrangement
- Organized by language. Each series has paper indexes arranged alphabetically, chronologically, and by box and folder numbers.
- Series 1 English
- Series 2 German
- Date Range
- 1775-present
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 03
- People
- Baer, John
- Foulke, Joseph, Jr.
- Gruber, John
- Ibach, Laurence
- Magee, Richard
- McDowell, Joseph
- Sheaffer, John
- Thomas, Robert B.
- Subjects
- Almanacs
- Extent
- 12 boxes, 5.5 cubic ft
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English, German
- Object ID
- MG0092
- Location of Originals
- 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-92
- Classification
- MG0092
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Added to database 24 October 2017.
Documents
- Collection
- Steele Family Papers
- Title
- Steele Family Papers
- Object ID
- MG0591
- Date Range
- 1775-1990
�230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125
717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org
Search Terms:
Correspondence
Family records
Finding aids
Genealogy
Letters
Manuscript groups
Obituaries
Probate records
Scrapbooks
Related Materials:
Adam Reigart Collection (MG0122)
Adam Reigart Jr
1 document
- Collection
- Steele Family Papers
- Title
- Steele Family Papers
- Description
- The Steele Family Papers contain genealogical records, notes, and documents supporting the lineage between Mary Edna Cowell Murphy (DAR No. 297765) and Revolutionary War soldiers Robert Bailey, John Cowell, Adam Reigart, Henry Slaymaker, and John Steele, and architect Robert Smith.
- Date Range
- 1775-1990
- Date of Accumulation
- 1775-1990
- Creator
- Steele family
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 12
- Search Terms
- Correspondence
- Family records
- Finding aids
- Genealogy
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Obituaries
- Probate records
- Scrapbooks
- Extent
- 1 box, 18 folders, .5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0591
- Related Item Notes
- Adam Reigart Collection (MG0122)
- Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection (MG0331)
- Samuel R. Slaymaker II, White Chimneys Collection (MG0268)
- See also the Photograph Collection
- See also the Curatorial Collection
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Steele Family Papers (MG0591), 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.
- Accession Number
- 2011.001
- Other Numbers
- MG-591
- Classification
- MG0591
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Processed and finding aid prepared by MK, 2014. Added to database 26 December 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Alice E. Brown Family Papers
- Title
- Alice E. Brown Family Papers
- Object ID
- MG0583
- Date Range
- 1727-1963
Terms:
Advertisements
Certificates
Deeds
Family records
Finding aids
Genealogy
Horse breeders
Lutheran and Reformed Church
Manuscript groups
Pikeland Church
Probate records
Sadsbury Friends Cemetery
Simmontown School
Union Cemetery
Related Materials:
See also the Photograph Collections
Processing
1 document
- Collection
- Alice E. Brown Family Papers
- Title
- Alice E. Brown Family Papers
- Description
- The Alice E. Brown Family Papers contain genealogy and family records, deeds, land drafts, ads and ephemera for local businesses, bonds, estate papers, wills, and personal papers. Some of the deeds and maps are for property also owned by the Coates and Pownall families. Alice's father was a race horse breeder and the collection contains certificates from the American Trotting Register for some of his horses.
- Admin/Biographical History
- "Alice E. Brown, age 93, of Christiana, PA passed away on Monday, March 15, 2010 at Tel Hai Retirement Community. She was born in Salisbury Twp., daughter of the late John H. & Lizzie F. Brown. She was a member of Latta Memorial Presbyterian Church of Christiana. Alice graduated from the Millersville Normal School in 1934. She was a School Teacher for 7 years at the former Simmontown one-room schoolhouse. She also worked for Dr. Beacher of Gap. She was known as a wonderful artist. She was preceded in death by 4 siblings: Norris, Phares, Lela, and Leah Brown. She was the last of her immediate family. Funeral service will take place from the Shivery Funeral Home, 111 Elizabeth Street, Christiana, PA on Wednesday, March 17th, at 11 a.m. with Rev. Jane DeFord officiating. Interment will be in the Sadsbury Friends Burial Grounds, Gap, PA."
- From the obituary of Alice E. Brown, Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, 16 March 2010.
- Date Range
- 1727-1963
- Year Range From
- 1727
- Year Range To
- 1963
- Date of Accumulation
- 1727-1963
- Creator
- Brown, Alice E., 1916-2010
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 12
- People
- Bedard, A. J.
- Beecher, Eleanor
- Beecher, Samuel
- Beyer, W. F.
- Brinton, Susanna
- Brown, Alice E.
- Brown, Barbara
- Brown, Clemson
- Brown, David
- Brown, David, Jr.
- Brown, Elizabeth F.
- Brown, Hannah
- Brown, J. Norris
- Brown, Jacob
- Brown, John H.
- Brown, John Henry
- Brown, Leah
- Brown, Lindley T.
- Brown, Lizzie F.
- Brown, Lydia
- Brown, Margaret C.
- Brown, Phares
- Brown, Samuel
- Brown, Sarah "Sallie"
- Brown, William
- Coates, Lindley
- Davis, Benjamin F.
- Dubree, Absolom
- Dubree, Ann
- Elliot, Joseph
- Eshleman, Jacob
- Fleming, John
- Hipple, Mary Ann
- Hostetter, Abraham F.
- Howell, Philip
- Jackson, Mary Louise
- Kunkel, H. Clinger
- Lindley T. Brown
- McNeely, Abigail
- Mews, Hannah
- Mews, John
- Moore, Thomas
- Murray, John
- Murry, John
- Murry, Susanna
- Pownall, Deborah
- Pownall, Ellen
- Pownall, George H.
- Pownall, Harriet
- Pownall, Levi
- Wasson, Samuel
- Pownall, Martha
- Pownall, Theodore
- Rhea, Ann
- Samson, Margaret
- Samson, William
- Steele, Elizabeth
- Steele, Hugh E.
- Swanger, John H.
- Taylor, Isaac
- Walker, Asahel
- Wasson, Ann
- Wasson, Ruth
- Wasson, Usher
- Wayser, Janet L. Knox
- Whitson, George
- Williams, Robert
- Search Terms
- Advertisements
- Certificates
- Deeds
- Family records
- Finding aids
- Genealogy
- Horse breeders
- Lutheran and Reformed Church
- Manuscript groups
- Pikeland Church
- Probate records
- Sadsbury Friends Cemetery
- Simmontown School
- Union Cemetery
- Extent
- 1 box, 35 folders, .5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0583
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- See also the Photograph Collections
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Alice E. Brown Family Papers (MG0583), 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
- 2010.MG0583
- Other Numbers
- MG-583
- Classification
- MG0583
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Processed by RW, February 2010; finding aid typed by SH, July 2013. Added to database 26 December 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Coulter and Hepler Land Records
- Title
- Coulter and Hepler Land Records
- Object ID
- MG0426
- Date Range
- 1733-1929
Finding aids
Land drafts
Manuscript groups
National Fire & Marine Insurance Co. of New Jersey
Octoraro Creek
Quarryville
Real estate
Sadsbury Twp.
Processing History: This collection has been documented, preserved and managed
according to professional museum and archives standards. The finding aid was
1 document
- Collection
- Coulter and Hepler Land Records
- Title
- Coulter and Hepler Land Records
- Description
- The Coulter and Hepler Land Records contain property records for land in southeastern Lancaster County that once belonged to the Reids, Coulters, and Heplers. The records include deeds, land drafts, and articles of agreement. There is also a desk blotter for I. P. Hepler.
- Admin/Biographical History
- Walter R. and Esther E. Hepler (parents of donor) purchased a farm from R. M. Coulter in 1929. The farm was located in Bart Twp. and Colerain Twp. with an address of 113 Rosedale Road, Quarryville. In the early 1930s, Walter was injured in a farm accident and the family had to sell the farm in a sheriff's sale. They subsequently lived with Esther's parents and helped on their farm, earning 50¢ per week plus meals and shelter. Somehow, Walter was able to keep the family's truck through these difficult times.
- He later was employed as manager at the Capital Theatre in Lancaster where he earned $14.75 per week. He moved the family into a three-story house in Lancaster with indoor plumbing and electricity, which was an exciting change for the children-James and his sister, Dorothy. As the U.S. emerged from the Depression and entered World War II, Walter used his carpentry skills to obtain a position in the shipyards and earned $2.37½ per day. James Hepler retired from Trojan Yachts as a boat-builder.
- Date Range
- 1733-1929
- Year Range From
- 1733
- Year Range To
- 1929
- Date of Accumulation
- 1733-1929
- Creator
- Hepler, Walter Rupert, 1897-1967
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 10
- People
- Armstrong, Jackson
- Beyer, John D.
- Caughey, John
- Coulter, Hugh
- Coulter, James
- Coulter, John
- Coulter, Nathaniel
- Coulter, Rankin Martin
- Coulter, Samuel
- Dip, Robert
- Downing, Samuel
- Duire, David
- Eastburn, Benjamin
- Eshleman, B. B.
- Eshleman, Isaac S.
- Eshleman, William G.
- Hepler, Esther E. Sheaffer
- Hepler, Israel Painter
- Hepler, Walter Rupert
- Homsher, John
- Hunter, Alexander
- Jackson, Levin H.
- Johnson, J. B.
- Johnson. J. Buckley
- McCauley, James
- McNiss, Edgar
- Parke, John
- Read, Andrew
- Read, John
- Read, Nathan
- Read, Sarah
- Read, Thomas
- Reid, Andrew
- Reid, Sarah
- Reinhart, William
- Thompson, John
- Thompson, Mary
- Trout, Frank M.
- Trout, Jerre P.
- Wilson, Josephine
- Other Creators
- Hepler, Esther E. Sheaffer, 1901-1997
- Coulter, Rankin Martin, 1860-1929
- Coulter family
- Search Terms
- Advertisements
- Bart Twp.
- Blotters (Paper)
- Colerain Twp.
- Deeds
- Finding aids
- Land drafts
- Manuscript groups
- National Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Jersey
- Octoraro Creek
- Quarryville
- Real estate
- Sadsbury Twp.
- Extent
- 1 oversized box, 7 folders, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0426
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Coulter and Hepler Land Records (MG0426), 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
- 2007.MG0426
- Other Numbers
- MG-426
- Classification
- MG0426
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Added to database 28 December 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Broadsides Collection
- Title
- Broadsides Collection
- Object ID
- MG0357
- Date Range
- 1775-1958
717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org
Search Terms:
Advertisements
Announcements
Arithmetic
Boys Work Fund
Broadsides
Camons Island
Cheap Job Printer, Lancaster Inquirer
Steam Book and Job Printing
Court of Quarter Sessions
Cromwell & Bomberger
Finding aids
Flyers
Frantz’s Mill
Ku Klux Klan (1915
1 document
- Collection
- Broadsides Collection
- Title
- Broadsides Collection
- Description
- This collection contains broadsides for lectures, stores, businesses, and organizations.
- Date Range
- 1775-1958
- Year Range From
- 1775
- Year Range To
- 1958
- Date of Accumulation
- 1775-1958
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 09
- People
- Bailey, Francis
- Becker, John
- Bomberger, M.
- Bowman, Michael
- Brinton, F.
- Bryson, J. H.
- Chryst, Drue Young
- Chryst, James
- Conyngham, Redmond
- Cromwell, J.
- Deshong, P. M.
- Eply, John
- Eshleman, Elam Witmer
- Fahnestock, William B.
- Funk, Amos H.
- Gable, Jacob
- Haines, Samuel B.
- Harbaugh, Henry
- Hershey, Benjamin
- Jefferies, Thomas
- Kennedy, J. P. M.
- Landis, Benjamin
- Landis, David
- Landis, Jesse
- Landis, John
- Lefever, John
- Lehman, John S.
- Lindsay, John J.
- List, Friedrich
- Mathiot, John
- Maxwell, Hugh
- McCall, H. W.
- Mercer, J. Q.
- Messersmith, Jacob
- Metzler, Christian E.
- Michael, J.
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Scott, Joseph
- Shreiner, Martin
- Steele, John F.
- Stevens, Enos
- Witmer, A. K.
- Witmer, Henry
- Wylie, S. A.
- Subjects
- Broadsides
- Political posters
- Posters
- Search Terms
- Advertisements
- Announcements
- Arithmetic
- Boys Work Fund
- Broadsides
- Camons Island
- Cheap Job Printer, Lancaster Inquirer
- Court of Quarter Sessions
- Cromwell & Bomberger
- Finding aids
- Flyers
- Frantz's Mill
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
- Lancaster Adler
- Lancaster County Prison
- Lancaster Soil Conservation District
- Lancaster Unemployed Council
- Lititz Turnpike Company
- Manor Turnpike Company
- Manuscript groups
- Mayors
- Mount Vista Gold and Silver Mining Company
- New York and Pennsylvania Oil and Coal Mining Company
- Newspapers
- Notices
- Paradise Lyceum
- Pennsylvania General Assembly, House of Representatives
- Petitions
- Philadelphia Mourning Store, Jones & Fisher
- Poetry
- Political posters
- Posters
- Programs
- Railroads
- Reports
- Review Print
- Russel & Myers
- S. B. Cox and Company
- Sheriffs
- Slackwater Turnpike
- Steam Book and Job Printing
- Stockholders
- Stocks
- Tolls
- Union and Tribune Office
- Youth Appreciation Week
- Extent
- 2 boxes, 23 folders, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English, German, and Pennsylvania German
- Object ID
- MG0357
- 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 site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
- Other Numbers
- MG-357
- Classification
- MG0357
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Added to database 3 January 2022.
Documents
- Collection
- Black History Collection
- Title
- Black History Collection, Series 2
- Object ID
- MG0240_Ser02
- Date Range
- 1779-1984
- Collection
- Black History Collection
- Title
- Black History Collection, Series 2
- Description
- Series 2, Black History Records, contains the Mayor's Register of Coloured Persons or Negro Entry Book, a census of free persons of color living in Lancaster city; a biographical account of Rev. James William Charles Pennington; and items related to early twentieth century Black History in Lancaster County. The collection also contains letters from anti-slavery societies, papers related to abolitionist activity, a letter regarding the American Colonization Society, and a manumission paper from the state of Virginia.
- Date Range
- 1779-1984
- Year Range From
- 1779
- Year Range To
- 1984
- Date of Accumulation
- 1779-1984
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 06
- People
- Allen, Richard
- Anderson, George L.
- Anderson, Mildred
- Bailey, Bessie
- Bailey, Charles
- Ball, James H.
- Barber, Florence
- Beaubian, Beulah
- Beaubian, Charles S.
- Blonden, Louisa
- Book, Anna H.
- Book, Simon
- Bradley, Daniel
- Bridgett, Alexander
- Broadnax, Joseph
- Brown, E. D.
- Brown, Ernest
- Brown, H. H.
- Brubaker, Marianna Gibbons
- Cain, Annie
- Cain, Jennie
- Cain, John
- Cain, Louisa
- Carter, John C.
- Carter, John W.
- Carter, Laura
- Carter, Nettie
- Clark, Josephine
- Clark, Russia
- Clark, Ruth
- Cohn, Jason
- Cooper, Bella
- Craig, Mary
- Craig, Samuel
- Davis, Emily
- Davis, Robert
- Dorsey, Steven
- Edwards, Mary
- Edwards, Thomas L.
- Foster, Carrie
- Foster, Daniel
- George, H. E., Mrs.
- George, Harriet
- Goins, Dora
- Green, Annie
- Green, Charles
- Green, Cora
- Green, Jane
- Green, Mary A.
- Hardy, Laura
- Hayes, Hannah
- Hayes, O. H.
- Heard, William Henry
- Henry, Ella
- Henry, Mary
- Hill, Emily
- Hill, Harriet
- Hood, Solomon Porter
- Hopkins, Ada
- Hopkins, Sadie
- Hopkins, Stanton
- Hunter, Mabel
- Hunter, Rosie
- Hurdle, Emma
- Hurdle, James
- Jackson, Florence
- Jackson, Letitia
- Jackson, Rebecca
- Johnson, Chester A.
- Johnson, Estella Book
- Johnson, Florence
- Kelley, Calvin
- Kelley, David
- Keyes, Emma
- La Barre, John
- Link, John Lewis
- Lynch, Dora
- MacNeal, William
- Mason, Alice
- Mitchell, Blanche
- Moore, Martha
- Morrison, J. S.
- Morrison, J. S., Mrs.
- Moton, Charles
- Murray, Clara P.
- Nickumn, Theresa
- Palmer, John M.
- Payne, Benedine
- Polite, Abraham L.
- Polite, Blanche
- Price, J. C.
- Richardson, Ella M.
- Robinson, Sara
- Rosenthal, Isidore
- Shissler, Simon
- Shorter, George
- Snow, Josephine
- Spraggan, R. F.
- Stewart, J. O.
- Tall, Rebecca
- Thomas, Virginia
- Thornton, Elizabeth
- Toney, Joseph M.
- Trout, Henry Leightner "Harry"
- Tryman, Mary
- Turner, Ruth
- Waters, Ruth
- Webster, Frank T. M.
- William, Ella
- Williams, Mary
- Wilson, Albert E., Sr.
- Wilson, Edith
- Wilson, Helen
- Wilson, Laura
- Wilson, Maude
- Winston, Charity
- Winston, William
- Witcher, W. E.
- Wolford, Edward
- Woods, Elizabeth
- Other Creators
- Pennsylvania. Court of Quarter Sessions (Lancaster County)
- Subjects
- Abolitionists
- African Americans--History
- Antislavery movements
- Free Black people
- Freedmen
- Letters
- Slaveholders--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County
- Slavery--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County
- Search Terms
- Abolitionists
- Antislavery movements
- Certificates
- Correspondence
- Court of Quarter Sessions
- Enslaved persons
- Free persons of color
- Freedmen
- Letters
- Persons of color
- Slaveholders
- Slavery
- Extent
- 17 folders, 35 items, .5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0240_Ser02
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- Black History Collection (MG0240) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2b3d42c6-a313-4ebc-966f-516114048136
- Conestoga Elks Lodge Records (MG0760)
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Black History Collection (MG0240), Series 2, Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL. Date accessed (day, month, year).
- LancasterHistory is committed to preserving and providing access to materials chronicling Lancaster County's heritage. As a historical resource, this document reflects the racial prejudices and actions of the era. In order to maintain the historical integrity and context of collection items, LancasterHistory does not censor historical documents or edit language, titles, or organization names when transcribing original content.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment--contact research@lancasterhistory.org prior to visit. Restricted access for the "Mayor's Register of Coloured Persons" found in Series 2, Folder 2: Use transcript in Folder 3 or microfilm.
- 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-240, Series 2
- Classification
- MG0240
- Description Level
- Series
- Custodial History
- Processed prior to 1997 and updated from 2007-present. Added to database on 17 January 2022.
- Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.
- Collection
- Summy Family Genealogy
- Title
- Summy Family Genealogy
- Object ID
- MG0550
- Date Range
- 1692-1997
Letters
Manuscript groups
Processing History: Processed and finding aid prepared by KV, 25 September 2013.
This collection has been documented, preserved and managed according to
professional museum and archives standards. The collection was cataloged using
DACS conventions.
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1 document
- Collection
- Summy Family Genealogy
- Title
- Summy Family Genealogy
- Description
- The Summy Family Genealogy contains two folders and four binders of published works, research notes, family history, and original documents pertaining to the Summy family (1692-1997).
- Date Range
- 1692-1997
- Year Range From
- 1692
- Year Range To
- 1997
- Date of Accumulation
- 1692-1997
- Creator
- Summy, John
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 12
- People
- Geisey, John
- Heistand, Christian
- Ramsauer, Deitrich
- Schwar, Martin
- Sumi, Hans
- Sumi, Peter
- Summey, Charles Ballard
- Summy, John
- Summy, John W.
- Summy, Peter
- Webster, Nancy
- Search Terms
- Correspondence
- Finding aids
- Genealogy
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Extent
- 1 box, 2 folders, 4 binders, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0550
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Summy Family Genealogy (MG0550), Folder or Binder #, 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-550
- Classification
- MG0550
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Processed and finding aid prepared by KV, 25 September 2013. Added to database 19 January 2022.
Documents
- Collection
- Jacob N. Beam Collection
- Title
- Jacob N. Beam Collection
- Object ID
- MG0224
- Date Range
- 1758-1940
.
Zimmerman, Heinrich
Subject Headings:
Churches
Genealogy
Letters
Scrapbooks
Search Terms:
Churches
Correspondence
Donegal Presbyterian Church
Dr. Robert Smith’s Academy
Family history
Finding aids
Genealogy
Lancaster Morning News
Leacock Presbyterian Church
Leacock Twp.
Letters
Manuscript groups
Paradise
1 document
- Collection
- Jacob N. Beam Collection
- Title
- Jacob N. Beam Collection
- Description
- The Jacob N. Beam Collection contains information and papers relevant to Dr. Beam's research and writing on the history of the Leacock Presbyterian Church, which he presented in the church's bicentennial address in 1940. Materials in this collection include letters and correspondences, family histories, military and land records, and other publications, as well as copies of drafts and final publication of the bicentennial address.
- Date Range
- 1758-1940
- Year Range From
- 1758
- Year Range To
- 1940
- Date of Accumulation
- 1758-1940
- Creator
- Beam, Jacob Newton, 1869-1954
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 05
- People
- Adams, John Quincy
- Anderson, Robert
- Barton, John
- Bausman, Lottie M.
- Beam, Jacob Newton
- Beam, Victor S.
- Bishop, Louis Faugeres Jr.
- Boehm, John Philip
- Bower, Michael
- Boyd, John
- Brown, George
- Buyers, William B.
- Carpenter, Henry
- Carpenter, Jacob
- Clark, John
- Clark, Robert L. Jr.
- Clark, William
- Connell, Moore
- Cooke, William B.
- Cooper, John
- Craig, John
- Crawford, David
- Crawford, James
- Crawford, Jessie
- Creighton, Thomas
- Creighton, William
- Ellmaker, Watson
- Ferree, David
- Finley, John H.
- Hamilton, James
- Hamilton, William
- Hasson, Alexander
- Hawthorn, James
- Hawthorn, Samuel
- Hawthorn, William
- Henry, John
- Herbert, Stewart
- Hinke, William J.
- Huston, Alex
- Kaufman, Jay Warren
- Knox, James
- LeFevre, Samuel
- Le Rue, Jonas
- Lyon, John
- McCamant, Isaac
- McCaskey, John
- McCausland, John
- McCausland, Mary W.
- McCausland, William
- McClung, Charles
- McClung, Matthew
- McCurdy, James
- McCurdy, Robert
- McFadden, Alexander
- McGowan, John
- McIlwain, Robert
- McIlwain, William B.
- Mercer, James
- Montgomery, James
- Moorehead, William
- Morris, Roland S.
- Parker, Robert
- Patterson, Samuel
- Patton, Robert
- Pepley, Elizabeth
- Porter, William
- Quigley, James
- Reese, John
- Rodgers, William
- Scott, Phillip
- Slaymaker, Matthias
- Smith, Robert
- Stewart, George
- Tetley, John
- Timlow, P. J.
- Torbet, John
- Tout, Jacob
- Truslow, John
- Van Tyne, Claud Halstead
- Vernor, John
- Watson, John
- Whitehill, James
- Whitehill, John
- Williston, Seth
- Winslow, Ola Elizabeth
- Wood, George
- Woodhull, John
- Woodhull, Sally
- Woods, Adam
- Woods, Thomas
- Workman, David R.
- Zimmerman, Heinrich
- Subjects
- Churches
- Genealogy
- Letters
- Scrapbooks
- Search Terms
- Churches
- Correspondence
- Donegal Presbyterian Church
- Dr. Robert Smith's Academy
- Family history
- Finding aids
- Genealogy
- Lancaster Morning News
- Leacock Presbyterian Church
- Leacock Twp.
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Paradise Twp.
- Pennsylvania State Archives
- Presbyterian Historical Society
- Revolutionary War
- Scrapbooks
- Strasburg Twp.
- Extent
- 2 boxes, 26 folders, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0224
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Jacob N. Beam Collection (MG0224), 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.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-224
- Classification
- MG0224
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Processed and finding aid prepared by KV, Fall 2013. Added to database 3 February 2022.
Documents
- Collection
- Harry Lincoln Long Collection
- Title
- Harry Lincoln Long Collection
- Object ID
- MG0380
- Date Range
- 1739-1883
, Pennsylvania 17603-3125
717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org
Search Terms:
Accounts
Agreements
Altick and McGinnis
Baltimore, Maryland
Bank of the United States
Barns
Broadsides
Correspondence
Deeds
Drumore Twp.
Estate settlement
Finding aids
Fishing Creek
Independent Whig Steam Press
Insurance policies
1 document
- Collection
- Harry Lincoln Long Collection
- Title
- Harry Lincoln Long Collection
- Description
- The Harry Lincoln Long Collection contains documents of the Long family of Drumore Twp. Most papers pertain to property of the Long and Worrell families, and the estate of Robert H. Long. The documents include a broadside, deeds, land drafts, receipts, insurance policies, and correspondence.
- Date Range
- 1739-1883
- Year Range From
- 1739
- Year Range To
- 1883
- Date of Accumulation
- 1739-1883
- Creator
- Long, Harry Lincoln, 1865-1948
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 09
- People
- Ball, John
- Ball, Joseph
- Barclay, James
- Barclay, Mary
- Black, James
- Boyd, Ann Margaret
- Boyd, Hugh
- Boyd, Isabella R.
- Boyd, Samuel
- Buchanan, James
- Calvert, John
- Churchman, George
- Churchman, John
- Clark, Nathaniel
- Clerk, Nathan
- Collins, Cornelius
- Crawford, David
- Crawford, Edward
- Crawford, Robert
- Dickson, Samuel
- Ensminger, Samuel
- Fairman, George Walter
- Findlay, William
- Forsh, Jonathan
- Gardner, Valentine
- Gill, George
- Gryder, Jacob
- Harrah, Patrick
- Hecket, Frank
- Hibshman, Jacob
- James, John
- King, Robert
- Lamborn, Robert
- Long, Harry Lincoln
- Long, Hugh
- Long, James
- Long, Robert H.
- Martin, Hugh
- McElray, John
- McPherson, James
- McPherson, Martha
- Mitchell, John
- Mitchell, Samuel
- Moore, Alexander
- Neel, Thomas
- Pennepacker, Henry W.
- Penny, Hugh M.
- Penny, John Joseph
- Porter, Thomas
- Quin, Bryan
- Rippey, Matthew
- Robertson, James
- Robinson, James
- Seiple, Samuel
- Slaymaker, Henry Edwin
- Smith, Howard
- Smith, Joseph
- Stevens, Thaddeus
- Walker, John
- Warner, Rily
- White, William
- Widmyer, C.
- Worrell, Elijah
- Worrell, Elizabeth
- Worrell, Joseph
- Yost, Jacob
- Search Terms
- Accounts
- Agreements
- Altick and McGinnis
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Bank of the United States
- Barns
- Broadsides
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Drumore Twp.
- Estate settlement
- Finding aids
- Fishing Creek
- Independent Whig Steam Press
- Insurance policies
- Invoices
- Land drafts
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Mortgages
- Promissory notes
- Real estate
- Real property surveys
- Receipts
- Southern Mutual Insurance Company of Lancaster County
- Surveys
- Extent
- 1 box, 9 folders, .25 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0380
- 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.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Accession Number
- 2005.MG0380
- Other Numbers
- MG-380
- Classification
- MG0380
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Harry Lincoln Long was the donor's maternal grandfather; he kept these documents for the family.
- Added to database 20 February 2022.
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