History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 1

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Evans, Samuel, 1823-1908, joint author
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1320

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HISTORY

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LANCASTER COUNTY

PENNSYLVANIA,

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF MANY OF ITS

PIONEERS AND PROMINENT MEN.

BY FRANKLIN ELLIS AND.

SAMUEL EVANS.

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par, 547-1101 BOROUGH OF COLUMBIA.

Old Taverns .- When John Wright procured a charter for his ferry, he erected a tavern, which stood on the north side of Locust Street, opposite the depot of the Reading and Columbia Railroad, in the year 1730. It was built of logs, two stories high, with a large room at either end, with a passage-way between. John Wright, Jr., was the first person who kept this tavern. He remained there until he married, in 1734, when he removed to the western side of the ferry, where he built a hotel.

Col. John Lowden, of Revolutionary fame, kept the Ferry House prior to the war. He was the son of Richard Lowden, who married John Wright's daughter. He removed to Buffalo Valley, upon the West Branch of the Susquehanna, from which place he raised a company of volunteers and marched to Boston in 1776.

Joseph Jeffries came from Quaker stock in Chester . County. He removed from there, about the year 1774, to Hellam township, York Co., where he kept the Ferry House. He was wagon-master for York County during the Revolutionary war, and at its close, in 1783, he removed to the east side of the ferry and took charge of the Ferry House. He re- mained there until the year 1794-95, when the heirs of James Wright erected a new brick hotel near the northern line of their property, the site of which is now occupied by the round-house of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, when he took charge of the new hotel. He removed to Lancaster, where he also kept hotel.

Frederick Stump first settled at Vinegar's Ferry above Marietta, after he came to this country from Germany. On account of malarial fever, which was then prevailing among the settlers along the river, he removed to Maytown, where he commenced to keep tavern about the close of the Revolutionary war. From thence he removed to Columbia in 1796, and rented the Ferry House and ferry. On the 14th day of February, 1798, he purchased two acres and Lots Nos. 1, 2, and 3, which adjoined the first-named tract on the south, and all the boats belonging to the ferry, from Samuel Wright for the sum of two thousand eight hundred pounds. The hotel, which was new, stood on Lot No. I. The two acres mentioned Mr. Stump sold to Samuel Miller, who laid the same out into lots. The ferry was the most profitable one on the river. He purchased the extensive brewery on West King Street west of the Stevens House in Lancaster City, which he afterwards sold to C. Barnitz, of York, Pa. He also purchased a large number of lots in Columbia. He died in Columbia in 1804. His widow and Sam- uel Evans, administrators of his estate, sold the hotel and other property to Samuel Miller, who rented the hotel and ferry to Joshua Ring. He also ran a line of stages from Lancaster to York.

Mr. Miller sold the hotel and ferry-boats to Thomas Brooks Feb. 14, 1814. The latter died before he ob- tained possession of the property. His administra-

tors, William and Amos Green, offered the property at publie sale on the 24th day of December, 1814. While the vendue was in progress, John Reynolds (father of Gen. Reynolds, who was killed at Gettys- burg in' 1863) and Jasper Slaymaker, a young lawyer of Lancaster, while on their way to Marietta, and when passing called out to the crier, "Six thousand seven hundred dollars !" They thought nothing more of the matter, but received notice that they were the highest bidders. And thus they became the owners of the " Ferry House." They held this property for twenty years. The erection of the bridge over the river destroyed its profits. They sold the property to John Guy, the famous hotel-keeper of Baltimore. He was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. He removed to this county in 1815 and leased the Wash- ington Hotel at Big Chikis, where the Lancaster and Mount Joy turnpike crosses the same. He also established a line of stages, which ran between Lan- caster and Harrisburg. From thence he removed to Marietta and kept hotel in the large brick building adjoining Abraham N. Cassell. He purchased a farm a mile farther east, along the Lancaster and Marietta turnpike, from whence he removed to Columbia. His daughter, Anu, married the late Maj. Frederick Haines, of Donegal. The hotel was afterwards pur- chased by Joseph Black, and was thenceforth called Black's Hotel. After his decease it was purchased by his son, Joseph H. Black, who, by his integrity and good management, built up a very profitable busi- ness. He sold the property to the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company. Their "round-house" occupies the spot where this famous hostelry stood.

The " Sorrel-Horse Hotel" was built by Joseph Jef- fries, who had been keeping the hotel upon the west- ern side of the river. It stood at the corner of Walnut and Front Streets, the site of which is now occupied by the passenger depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. It remained in possession of the Jeffries until 1835, when Frank Boggs, who married Maria Jeffries, purchased the property and enlarged it at the northern side. After the death of Mr. Boggs the property was leased by Chip. Parsons, Mrs. Ann Haines, and that prince of landlords, John Barr.

On the opposite corner, adjoining the store of Houston, Barber & Gossler, the Washington Hotel was built by Jacob Gossler, who removed the old frame building, and erected a three-story brick addi- tion fifty-one years ago. He was followed by Daniel IFerr and Joseph H. Black, and it is now owned by the latter. The reputation of the house has always been " No. 1."

For a period of forty years after the town was laid out, the principal street through which wagons passed to the ferry was Walnut Street. Ilence there were several hotels along that thoroughfare which did a large business. There has been no hotel on that street for many years. The large brick building now owned by Col. McClure was owned by Charles Odell.

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Joshua Ring also kept the tavern. Occasionally a wandering theatrical troupe gave performances at this hotel.

Reuben Mullison kept the hotel on the east side of Commerce Street. He was also largely interested, with the late Thomas Collins and others, in several stage lines and was a railroad contractor. When he first came to Columbia he ran the river in the spring of the year as a pilot. He was a very active citizen. His daughter married Thomas A. Scott, the great railroad magnate.

Charles Odell came from the State of New York and settled in Marietta, where he remained one or two years. Ile married Miss Lockard, of Hempfield, and removed to Columbia, and took charge of the hotel west of Mullison's.

The " Black Horse Tavern," at the corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets, was kept by one Getz originally. He was followed by Henry Knight.

Jacob Compfort kept the brick hotel on Locust Street, on the east side of the Reading and Columbia Railroad depot.

James Sweeny kept tavern in a frame house which stood back from Locust Street fifteen or twenty yards, upon ground which is now occupied by the "Franklin House."

"The Lamb Tavern" was torn down a few years ago to make room for the Columbia National Bank, on Locust Street, between Second and Third Streets. It was a noted tavern in its time. There was a large yard attached to this property into which wagons could be driven, which made it a desirable place for teamsters to stop over night. The Kendricks, Bink- ley, and Michael Strein (and his son, Jacob, many years after him) kept this tavern,

Ezekiel Cook came from Little Britain township about the year 1812, and first kept tavern in the frame house, of which the Franklin Hotel is the successor, on Locust Street, near Bank Alley. He removed to Ma- rietta, where he kept tavern a few years, when he re- turned to Columbia again, where he died fifty or more years ago. He was a candidate for sheriff in 1827, but was defeated.

The " Washington Hotel" was built by Jacob Goss- ler. He was the son of Philip Gosster, who removed from York to Columbia about the year 1798 and estab- lished a coal- and lumber-yard. His sou, Jacob, married Miss Stump, daughter of Frederick Stump, who owned the ferry and Ferry-House. He dealt largely in real estate. There were fewer changes in the ownership or management of this hotel than in any of the others.

The " Pine Creek Hotel" was kept by Mr. Withers fifty-five years ago, who was succeeded by the late Cornelius Tyson. It is located on Front Street below Union.

Brown's tavern was kept by Jeremiah Brown, who came from Little Britain, seventy years ago.

The "Swan Hotel" was built by Samuel Eberlein

eighty years ago. It stood on the north side of Locust Street, near the Columbia National Bank.

Moses Montgomery built a frame tavern on the north side of Locust Street above Third Street eighty years' ago. He had been in the Irish Rebellion, and came to America about the year 1799, and settled in Columbia. He raised a company of volunteers in 1812, and was preparing to go into the field when he got into a scuffie with Paul Wolf, who shot through a window at a candle in his house out of pure mischief. He was thrown upon a pile of rails in front of the tavern, and had his collar-bone broken.

In the early history of the place "cherry fairs" and "harvest homes" were quite common. They frequently lasted several days. These were profitable seasons for the landlords.

Old Grist-Mills. - The little corn or grist-mill which stood on the north side of Shawanese Run, a few hundred yards above its mouth, was built of stone, two stories high, and about twenty-five feet square, in the year 1735. It was erected upon land of John Wright, and built by his son, James, and Samuel Blunston, the old pioneer settler. The stream was not large, but there was ample fall to turn an "over- shot" wheel of more than twenty feet in diameter, which gave all the power required to drive the machinery long enough to grind the grists of the pioneer settlers.

Samuel Blunston made his will in 1745, and de- vised to James Wright one-half of the "corn- and grist-mill." This little mill ran day and night in the spring of 1755, grinding flour for Braddock's army, and in 1758 for Gen. Forbes' army. The flour was packed in kegs and carried on pack-horses over the mountains to Fort Bedford. And upon several other occasions the colonial authorities called upon James Wright to supply flour for the use of the asso- ciated companies of rangers along the frontiers, and to supply the vagrant Indians at Turkey Hill.

This mill and land belonging to it descended to Sam- uel Wright, the oldest son of James, and the founder of Columbia, who conveyed it to his brother, John, who laid out that part of Columbia called "John Wright's addition" in the year 1788. On April 1, 1807, James Wright, Jr., son of John, sold the mill, shad-fishery, and fifteen acres of land to John Halde- man, who sold the same, April 14, 1812, to Rudy Herr, of Manor township, for six thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds. Jacob Strickler and his brother-in- law, George Weaver, purchased this mill about the year 1818 from Rudy Herr. They tore down the old stone mill and built one of brick at the corner of Mill and Front Streets. It afterwards came into pos- session of William Atkins, Jonathan Pusey, George Bogle, and is now owned by McBride and Maulfair, who have introduced new machinery, and manufac- ture "new process" flour. The mill is almost wholly run by steam power.

The Fairview Grist-Mill is located on the north

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bank of Barber's Run near its mouth, at the south- ern boundary line of the borough. This mill was `built by James Barber, son of Robert Barber, the pioneer settler, about 1780. On the 7th day of May, 1791, William Barber, Esq., of York, and oldest son of James, sold the mill and fifty-seven acres of land to Judge William A. Atlee, of Lancaster, who resided in the mansion which stood where E. K. Smith, Esq., resides. This property was sold by order of the Or- phans' Court. On the 28th day of August, 1795, Al- exander Scott, Esq., and Mary, his wife, sold the one- half to Alexander Anderson, who was sold out by Sheriff Michael Rine May 15, 1801, and purchased by James and William Miller. On the 11th day of August, 1801, James Miller, merchant, of Philadel- phia, and William Miller, of Washington County, Pa., and Alexaoder Anderson, of Lancaster, con- veyed the property to John Haldeman, of Donegal, and Jacob Strickler, of Hempfield. Mr. Haldeman sold his interest to Mr. Strickler, from whom it went to his son, Jacob, and the latter's son-in-law, Ephraim Hershey, who sold to Samuel Truscott, Michael Shu- man, and J. W. Stacy, who now own it.

The first saw-mill erected at Columbia or neighbor- hood was built by Robert Barber, the pioneer settler in 1727, in the meadow below his dwelling, which stood near Kauffinan's stone-quarries. There is noth- ing now left of it.

Shad Fisheries .- There were but three shad fish- eries along the shore prior to the erection of the dam across the river. The first one established was at or near the ferry, in front of the public ground, and belonged to James Wright and his heirs. After his death, when the property came to be divided, in 1788, his son, John Wright, established a fishery near the mouth of Shawanese Run, which was sold with the Shawanese mill property.

Robert Barber also had a fishery opposite his land below John Wright's. The entire shore in front of the town was well adapted for fishing with a drag seine. The shore sloped gradually, and there was a gravel bottom.

Mifflin's Island, across which the old bridge ran, hud a profitable fishery on the west side. It was owned by James Mifflin, Esq.

The erection of a dam across the river in 1838 to form a pool to float boats to the mouth of the Susque- hanna and Tide-Water Canal effectually destroyed all of the fisheries above that point.

Post-Office and Postmasters .- Joseph Smith came to Columbia about 1795, and opened a store, in con- nection with James Wright, in the lower room of the old Ferry House, which stood on the north side of Locust Street, near Front. A post-office was estab- lished at Columbia in 1797, and Mr. Smith was ap- pointed the first postmaster. The receipts of the office for the year 1799 were $10.44. Ile was the eiglith child of Col. Robert Smith, of Chester County, aod was born Sept. 24, 1770. He removed to Phila-

delphia in 1802, where he embarked in the iron and shipping business. He died on his farm at "Steam- boat Hotel," in Chester County, Dec. 18, 1845. He left several children surviving him, to wit: Persifer Frazer Smith, E-q., late reporter of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and a distinguished mem- ber of the Chester County bar; Elizabeth; Rhoda ; Vaughan, a daughter, married Rev. Riley, of Mon- trose; Joseph Smith married Mary, daughter of Col. Persifer Frazer and Mary Worrall Taylor, who was the granddaughter of Isaac Taylor, the surveyor of Chester County. Mr. Smith and Frazer were the progenitors of a number of distinguished military and civil officers.

William P. Beatty was appointed postmaster by President John Adams in 1802. He was the son of Rev. Charles Beatty (of Log College memory) and Ann Reading, daughter of Governor Reading, of New Jersey. He was born in Neshaminy, in Bucks County, March 31, 1766, and died in Philadelphia, July 28, 1848. When Jefferson was elected President another postmaster was appointed. In 1825 he was appointed postmaster under President John Quincy Adams, which office he held for twelve years.

John Mathiot was appointed postmaster in 1807, and retained the position 'until he was elected sheriff of the county in 1818. His father, John, was a Hu- guenot, and came from France to Lancaster about the beginning of the Revolution. He removed to Columbia in 1798, and opened a dry-goods and grocery-store in connection with Michael Gundecker, of Lancaster, in the brick building he erected on Walnut Street, adjoining Bank Alley. While hunt- ing upon Mifflin Island, above the bridge, he was ac- cidentally shot by a friend and killed about the year 1804. His son John, as stated, was elected sheriff in 1818, although a Democrat, whose party was then in a minority in the county. The Wrights, who were Federalists, all united in his support. He was elected mayor of Lancaster in 1831, and re-elected eleven times. He died Jan. 22, 1843, aged fifty-eight years. In the year 1807 the quarterly receipts of the office were fifteen dollars, and for the year 1815 they were from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty dollars. Although he was not subject to military duty, he procured a horse and marched with Capt. Jacob Strickler's company to Kennet Square, in 1812, expecting to be mustered into the service of the United States. Owing to some informality they were not mustered, and the company returned to Co- lumbia.

Philip Eberman, a brother-in-law of John Mathiot, was appointed postmaster in the fall of 1818, and re- tained the position until he was succeeded by William P. Beatty, in 1825.

In 1837, Dr. F. A. Thomas was appointed post- master under the administration of Martin Van Buren.

Guilford G. Claiborne was appointed postmaster

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under Gen. Harrison's administration in the spring of 1841. But for an accident he probably would not have received the appointment.

After it was known in Columbia that Gen. William H. Harrison was elected President, in November, 1840, the Anti-Masons and Whigs of that place con- cluded that they would celebrate the event by firing a salute with a cannon in honor of the event, in the orchard of John L. Wright, between Second and Third Streets and Alleys " J" and " K." During the night before this was to take place some person spiked the cannon with a rat-tail file. When the time came to fire the salute there was great disap- pointment among the friends of Gen. Harrison. Col. Amos S. Green, Mr. Claiborne, and others, after working for more than an hour, succeeded in getting ont the file, and proceeded to announce the fact by firing the cannon in rapid succession. After firing it three times, and Mr. Claiborne and William Dickey were forcing a wadding of sod down upon the powder, a boy attempted to jump or run across in front of the cannon, when he fell. Abraham Myers, who had his thumb upon the touch-hole, raised it, when the charge went off prematurely when Claiborne and Dickey had hold of the ramrod. The former had his arm shat- tered, which had to be amputated above the elbow. Dickey was knocked insensible, but recovered. There was a great deal of sympathy for Mr. Claiborne. He was appointed postmaster, a position he retained for twelve years. He was succeeded by A. P. Modernell in 1853, who died while in commission, and his widow succeeded him, and held the position until 1861, when Henry H. Fry was appointed under President Lin- coln's administration. He also died while in com- mission, and his widow was appointed to succeed him, and retained the position for twelve years, when Henry Mullen was appointed, and is now the postmaster. He enlisted in the "Cookman Rangers" in April, 1861, and marched to Camp Curtin, mustered into the United States service in Co. K, Fifth Regiment Penn- sylvania Reserves, on the 21st of June, 1861; was appointed quartermaster-sergeant of that regiment in November, 1861 ; served three years, and was in all of the battles with the Army of the Potomac. After the expiration of his term of service, on the 6th of June, 1864, he re-enlisted as a veteran, and was appointed first lieutenant of Co. A, One Hundred and Ninety- first Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was taken prisoner at Weldon Railroad, below Petersburg, Va., on the 19th day of August, 1864, and was im- prisoned at Libby, Va., Salisbury, N. C., and Dan- ville, Va., where he remained till March 22, 1865. He was mustered out with the company June 28, 1645. The business of the office for the year ending in July, 1883, amounted to 87822.88.

Taxable Inhabitants in 1814-15 .- The size of the town during the war of 1812 is approximately shown by the following list of taxable inhabitants, most of whom were heads of families :

Freeholders.

Robert Barber.

Hester Broomfield. William P. Beatty.

Mary Jeffries. Martha Jones. Elizabeth Jones.

Amos Buckalve.

Ezra Breece.

Thomas Bartlett.

Christ. Beur.

Julin Brown. Peter Livergood. Ierael Lloyd.

Julin Barber. John Bromfield.

Peter Borus, Sr.

Christian Brenneman.

Christian Brennemau, Sr.

Jolin Lockard.

Joseph Boyd, guusmith.

James Little.

Thomas Birch.

William Ladley.

Thomas Boude.

Lewis Lowman's estate.

Samuel Bethel.

Jacob Lightheiser.

Bernard Brown.

Jacob Long.

Henry Brubaker.

Thomas Lloyd.

James Bugle

Samuel Miller.

Robert Boyd.

William Cox.

James Clyde.

Anthuny McElwain.

Calvin Cooper.

Johu Mellon.

Widow Crossman,

Jonathan Mifflin.

Patrick Carney.

Joseph Mifflin.

James Collins.

James E. Mifflin.

Abraliam Correll.

William McManamy.

John Mathiot.

Jolin Mathiot's estate.

Christian Dittwiler.

Robert Magill. Daniel Musser.

Joseph Dittwiler.

Thomas Dominick.

John McKissick.

John Davy.

James McClean.

John Evans.

George Nicholas.

Joseph Evans, Esq.

Charles Evans.

Casper Peters.

Michael Elder.

George Peters. Martin Rohrer's estate.

Widow Elwes.

Juel Richardson.

Anthony Ellmaker.

John Roth's estate.

Daniel Flory.

Widow Rhinehart.

Jacob Forry.

Robert Fullerton.

Joseph Richardson. John Snyder.

Samuel Fipps.

Henry Summy.

James Sweeny.

Jonathan Findley. Jacob Gossler. Philip Gossler.

Philip Spyder.

William Green.

John Gonter, Jr.

Dr. Thomas Gilffith.

Wilham Gillasby.

Evan Green.

Michael Gondecker.

Michael Gundecker, Jr.

John Gunter, Sr.

John Greenleaf.

James Wright.

Christian Ilouser.

William Wright. James Wright, Jr.

Susanua Houston.

James Wilson.

Robert W. Houston.

Jacob Williams.

Rudolph Herr.

Dominick Haughey.

Michael Wisler. George Wyke. Benjanun Worrell.

John Hippy.

Christian Hertzler.

John Wilson, Esq. Thomas Watters.

Christian flabecker. Daniel Herr.

James Warden.

Jolın Haldeman.

Lewis Wisler. William Welsh.

Christian Haldeman.

William F. Houston.

Amos Harmer.

James Hopkins.

Sumuel Wright's estate. George Zeigler. Widow Zeigler.

George Zeigler, cooper.

Widow lleller. Emuquel lleller.

Samuel McNeil. Henry Martin.

Moses Montgomery.

Jolin Dicks. Martin Durrell.

John Eberlein.

Robert Patton.

Jobu Forry, Jr.

David Sherrick.

Williem Smallwood.

Daniel Spring. William Vickory.

Thomas L. Wilson. Edward Williame.

Samuel Wright.

Thomas Wright. Henry Withers.

Jacob Hoon.

Emor Jeffries' estate. William Kirkwood. Isaac Kendrick. Julın Karne.

William Liston. Charles Lockard. John Livergood.

Jesse Burrell.

llugh McCorkle.

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Inmates.

George Alright, macon.

Jacob Marley.

Joseph Mosher, lankeeper.

Philip Moor.

Samuel C. Mckean, lumber mer- chant.

Stephen Boyer, minister.

Jolin Bennet.

William Martin.

John McGlaughlin, painter.

William Quarrell, merchant.

George Rock, innkeeper.

Joshua Ring, innkeeper.

Jonathan Deen, ionkeeper.

Hugh Dougherty, hatter.

Ephraim Eby, miller.

John Eclan, carpenter.

Stephen Sonith.

Heury Fisher.

John Trump.

James Given.

Wm. B. Hunt, lumber merchant.

Joseph Hunt, store-keeper.

William Hassen, innkeeper.

Michael Heisely, gate-keeper at bridge.

James Jordon.

Jacob Johnson, shoeinaker.

Robert Johnson, carpenter.

Dr. Vincent King.

John Keim, butcher.

Benjamin Barrey, barber.

William Kruchmso.

John Briggs, tailor.

Maitio Currie.

Israel Cooper.

Freemen.

John Atlee, cabinet-maker.

Daniel Brown.

Alexander Bradley.

Jacob Mathiot, cooper.

Eli B. Betinet.

John Maxwell, saddler.

Robert Boyd, carpenter.

William McClure, gunsmith.

William Brown.

Joho Mans, Jr., watchman. William Roxberry, barber.

Samuel Brown.

Alexander Cowen, book-kasper.

John L. Stake.

Henry Steel.

Joseph Eues.

Peter Epley, store-keeper.

James Tuild, shoemaker.

Killian Epley, store-keeper. Dr. Samuel Fahnestock.

Christopher Taylor

Dr. Samuel Honstop.

Thomas Wright, tarner.

Samuel Houston.

James Wilson, cabinet-maker.

John Hudders. Jobu Hemes.

Samnel Whitehill, store-keeper. Joho Zeigler, cooper.

Civil List .- The borough was incorporated in 1814. The principal officers from that time to the present were as follows :

1814 .- Chief Burgess, Christian Brenneman; Assistant Burgess, John Dicks.

1815 .- Chief Burgess, Jobo Dicks; Assistant Burgess, Michael Elder. 1816 .- Chief Burgess, William Vickty; Assistant Burgess, Thomas A. Wilson.

1817 .- Chlef Burgess, William P. Beatty; Assistant Burgess, Thomas A. Wilson.

1818 .- Chief Burgess, James Clyde; Assistant Burgess, John Snyder. 1819 .- Chlef Burgess, James Clyde; Assistant Burgess, Robert Rich- ardaon.

1820 .- Chief Burgess, William Grier; Assistant Burgess, James Bwseny.

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History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 1

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Evans, Samuel, 1823-1908, joint author Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Everts & Peck Number of Pages: 1320

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Evans, Samuel, 1823-1908, joint author
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1320