History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 69

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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Yet this did not satisfy the patriotic ardor burning in the bosoms of the citizens of Ephrata, therefore a public meeting was called, measures taken, and the above-named association was subsequently chartered by the State authorities, and on Sept. 11, 1845, the corner-stone of what was to be a monument was laid with the usual ceremonies on such occasions. It was to be some sixty feet in height, but for lack of gov- ernment aid, no doubt, it never reached an altitude of over six feet.

There it stands, a square pile of hewn red sand- stone, with hundreds of square blocks of the same material laying around the foundation ready to take their place in the obelisk and do honor to the noble dead. But, alas! alas! the parsimony of a great gov- ernment allows its noble defenders to lie beneath a field covered with brambles and briers, instead of a monument that could be pointed to with pride and : fire, which occurred in the winter of 1859-60. be an honor to a great and powerful nation.

Lincoln (formerly New Ephrata) is situated two miles west from old Ephrata, on the old Downingtown, Ephrata and Harrisburg turnpike, which followed the old road leading from Philadelphia to Paxtang.

March 28, 1813, John Reist purchased twenty-five acres of land from Philip Kraig and Elizabeth, his wife, and the same year laid the same out into build- ing lots and named the town " New Ephrata." Dur- ing the administration of the late lamented President Lincoln the name was changed.

Reuben W. Bard, a former postmaster, and one of the influential men of that part of the township. lle was born near Hinkletown, and came to Lincoln and engaged in mercantile business, and in 1882 was elected one of the poor directors of Lancaster County. Ile has also held other offices of honor and trust. There are at present at Lincoln twelve business places. The present store and post-office is kept by 1. A. Snavely. The building has been occupied as a store sinee 1852. The Union House was opened as a hotel in 1879. This is a thriving little town, growing in favor as a pleasant place for the location of retired farmers and others, Population, about five hundred ; valuation of real estate, $173,900; number of proper- ties, ninety-three.

New Berlin is a scattering village near the south- i

east corner of the township, and is about fifty years of age: There was no particular design on the part of the owners of the land upon which the hamlet is situated .in building a town, and when the place began to assume the dignity of a village a few of the inhabitants inet at the village tavern to fix upon a name, and finally selected that of New Berlin, by which it has since been known.

Akron is a small hamlet and railroad station on the Reading and Columbia Railroad. Here is a post- office, store, etc., with a population of three hundred and twenty-five. Valuation of real estate, $85,800. Number of properties, sixty-four.

Hahnstown, another small hamlet of this town- ship, has a population of one hundred, and a valua- tion of $22,200, with twenty properties.

Greenville has a population of one hundred, and a valuation of $40,600, with twenty properties.

Baptist Brethren, or Dunkers .- This organiza- tion, among the oldest and most prominent in this section of the county and Ephrata township, have five houses of worship. Moller's, one mile east of Ephrata village and near the Reading and Columbia Railroad, is the largest of the live. The building stands on a plot of one and a half' acres of land, is built of stone, and in size is fitty by eighty feet, and built in 1872. Building committee, John L. and Simon Mohler.

On the site of the present church a school-house was built in 1838 or 1839, and occupied both for school and church purposes until its destruction by

The religious society at this place was organized in 1859, and called the " Ephrata Congregation," and in 1861 a stone meeting-house was built upon the site of the old school-house, and the present one, as above stated, built in 1872. Present membership of this congregation, two hundred and seventy. This meet- ing-house is designated, on account of the capacity of the house, as the place for holding annual love- feasts for the East Conestoga District, on which oc. ension the house is none too large to accommodate the large assemblage of Christian worshipers.

The ministers for this congregation have been C. Bomberger, J. Pfoutz, Is. Myers, Israel Wenger, Wil- liam Price, Isaac Keller, and Samuel Harley as bishop.

The ministers that serve this congregation also serve the congregations at Springville and Ilahns- town.

Royer's Middle Creek Meeting .- This congre- gation is in what is known as the West Conestoga District, although in Ephrata township. The original building at this place was also ocenpied as a school- house and meeting-house combined, and was built of logs in 1824, and subsequently a frame addition to the log house was built to accommodate the increase in the congregation, In 1874 the present stone and frame meeting-house, forty-five by seventy-five feet, was built. Here also annual love-feasts are held,

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the house having been built large for that purpose. The present membership at Royer's is two hundred.

The ministers serving this congregation have been

. Christian Rupp, Jacob Pfoutz, Christian Bomberger, Joseph Myers, James Pioutz, George Biugaman, - Gibble, and John Moyer. Previous to the building of these large houses of worship the annual love- feasts were held in the larger barns of some of the members.

Steinmetz Meeting also belongs to the West Con- estoga District, and is situated west from Ephrata village, on the line of the Reading and Columbia Railroad. The meeting-house at this place was built by the general contributions of the community, and is occupied both for school and religious purposes. Present membership about fifty.

There are also congregations at Mumma's and at Springville, with a membership of twenty at the former and seventy-five at the latter place.

The time of services are so arranged that they are held at no two points upon the same day, therefore giving the membership an opportunity of attending each place of worship.

ization, and the house of worship built as a Union Reformed and Lutheran Church. The first congre- gation was organized in February, 1852, and in the spring of 1853 the first church officers were elected. as follows : Elders, William K. Stober and George Bentz (Mr. Bentz subsequently removed from the place, when Allen Harker was elected to fill vacancy ); Trustees, Peter Hacker, Andrew Enck; Deacons, John Striner, Jacob Hacker; Treasurer, Levi S. Hacker.

The ministers who have served this congregation since June 5, 1853, were --- Harpel, D. P. Rosemiller, S. R. Boyer, George A. Trabert, C. A. Fetzer, and E. S. Brownmiller, the present pastor. Present member- ship, one hundred.

the Lutheran congregation, for a school-house and burying-ground." This land had been purchased in 1753, nine years previously, but the deed was not given until 1762. The land is said to be " situate, lying, and being in Earl township."

The first church, built about the year 1753, was a log edifice, weather-boarded; it stood nearly a hun- dred years, and in 1848 gave way to the handsome edifice on the hillside at present used by the congre- gation. The first pastor was John Theophilus Engel- lond, from 1753 until 1758; John Samuel Swerdfeger, from 1758-63; William Kurtz, 1763-81 ; John Daniel Sehræter, 1781-84; Frederick Melsheimer, 1785-90; Heinrich Moeller, 1790-98; John Plitt, 1798-1813; Peter Filbert, 1813-23; John F. Engle, for a brief period; Charles Riitze, 1823-25; John W. Richards, 1825-34; S. Trumbaur, 1835-56; D. P. Rosenmiller, 1856-58; G. M. Mertz, 1858-59; S. R. Boyer, 1859- 68; R. S. Wagner, 1869-73; S. S. Henry, 1873-82; J. 11. Umbenhen, the present pastor. The church is built on a road leading from the Harrisburg and Downingtown turnpike over the Ephrata Mountains, hence its name, " Bergstrass."

At each of the above-named places of worship are We find by the records that the first church-book was purchased Feb. 7, 1753, and cost five shillings. The following-named person> were among the original members of the old Bergstrass Church : Philip Schwer- cemeteries, each of which has been occupied as a burial-place for over a hundred years. The land for the cemetery at Royer's was donated by Amos Royer, and the first interment was that of the remains of , inschall, Henry Sower, John Bernhardt Frankly, Michael Pfontz, as near as can be ascertained from Christoph Kolpp, Martin Brown, Michael Oberlin, Elias Myer-, Benjamin Lesly, Rudolph Breneisen. the inscription on tombstone one hundred and forty years ago.

The present church edifice is of brick, and valued Lincoln Salem Church .- This is a Lutheran organ- ; at ten thousand dollars, together with the sexton's house and ground, belonging to the church. The present church building was built in 1848, the corner- stone having been laid May 7th of that year, and the church edifice dedicated May 27, 1849,- The building committee were John B. Bitzer, Zaccheus Killian, llenry Bard, and Curtis Fry. The church officers at that time were as follows: Trustees, David Wade, Henry Bard, Richard Killian, and Jacob Holsinger ; Deacons, Samuel Hoeffer, George Withers, and Cur- tis Fry. Present membership, one hundred and fifty. Officers for 1853: Trustee, Henry Snyder; Elders, Jacob S. Kemper, Isaac Miller, Adam MeCloud ; Deacons, I-aae Jacoby, E. S. Killian, Lemon B. Frankford.

The cemetery adjoining the church is the resting- place of many of the prominent citizens of the sur- rounding country, and contains many beautiful

Bergstrass Church .- The first notice of the church is an article of agreement among twelve citizens, dated Erlen Town, May 18, 1752, for the purpose of | monuments. building a church and calling a minister. Then Ephrata Evangelical Lutheran Congregation was organized at Dening Hall, where meetings had frequently been held, which led to the building of their present sandstone church edifice, forty by sixty- five feet, the corner-stone being laid in May, 1869, and the building dedicated October 10th of the same year. The first pastor was Rev. George Trabert, who remained from 1869 to 1873, and was suereeded by comes the " Church Book (record) for the congrega- tion in Earlings Down, which the same has purchased out of the common treasury for 5 shillings, the 7th day of February, 1753." On Feb. 27, 1762, George Wernes and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, gave a deed for two acres of ground for two pounds ten shillings to Andrew Sweigart and Conrad Brenviser, in trust, " for the proper use and behoof of the members of . Rev. C. A. Fetzer from 1874 to 1881, when he was

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succeeded by Rev. E. S. Brownmiller, the present Steef, Alice Bingaman, Frederick Grostefahn, Mary pastor.

Reformed Church of Lincoln was organized iu 1852, in which year the present house of worship was built by this and the Lutheran congregation. The corner-stone was laid Oct. 10, 1852, and house dedi- cated May 29, 1853. The original members were Ilenry Appel, George Becker, Jacob Hoffman, Amelia Shirk, Francis Witmyer, Mary Rock, John Wolf, Eliz- abeth Rank, John Appel, Mary Danner, Isaac Beck. The first church officers were as follows : Elders, Henry Appel, Jacob Hoffman ; Trustees, Francis | Witmyer, John Wolf; Deacons, John Appel, Isaac Beck.

The first pastor was Rev. Daniel Hertz, who re- mained from 1852 to 1862, and was succeeded by Rev. William T. Gerhardt, from 1862 until 1870, when Rev. S. Schweitzer, the present pastor, was installed.

Present membership, one hundred and seventy- four ; value of church property, five thon-and dollars.

Rev. S. Schweitzer became pastor of the congrega- tion, and preached his first sermon on July 23, 1871. The first communion was held the following fall, on September 17th, when twenty persons presented them- selves at the communion-table. Of this number two, namely, Elder George Kis-inger and Mrs. Catharine Hershberger, have died, three have moved away, and the remaining fifteen are, at the present time of writing, enjoying life and health and the visible means of grace from time to time. At the last communion held the number of communicants was one hundred and three. The organization at present is as follows : Elders, Jacob Gorgas, Ira B. Zwally, Daniel Irwin ; Deacons, Martin Wolf, Samuel S. Erb, Daniel B. Mellinger ; Trustees, Samuel Stuber, James Krick ; Secretary and Treasurer, L. E. Miller ; Organist, L. E. Miller.

The first class of catechumens were confirmed on April 27, 1822, consisting of eight persons : Elias Sahm, Sarah E. Bentz, Evan Flory, Emma Rellew, Joanna Flory, Kate T. Irwin, Catharine Demmy, Mary A. Wolf.

Of this class, one, namely, Catharine Demmy, after- wards Bingaman, died on Nov. 28, 1881.

The second class was confirmed on Nov. 9, 1873, consisting of eleven persons: Isaac Sahm, Mary Grostefahn, Isabella Eitnier, Lavinna Sahm, Emma Heistand, Mahala Reinhold, Horace Heistand, El- mira Eitnier, Christian Bingaman, Catharine Stuber, John Bingaman.

Third class, Nov. 8, 1874, nine persons : C. W. ' R. W. Bard, Daniel Wingenroth, M. D. Hoover, Levi Myers, Henry Wolf, Cecilia Bentz, L. E. Miller, Samuel Witmer, Emma Bentz, Jacob Eberley, Annie Wolf, Mary Ann Kaffroth. Of this class, one, namely, Cecilia Bentz, died.

Fourth class, on Oct. 10, 1875, five persons : Martin D. Irwin, Mrs. M. D. Irwin, Alice Sahm, Lucy Grube, Sallie Miller.

Mellinger, Henry Felger, Salinda Leisey.

Sixth class, May 24, 1870, six persons: Mary Alice Nagle, Lizzie Kaffroth, Anna Habecker, Alice Leisey, Anna Frey, Susan Catharine Ream.

Seventh class, April 25, 1880, six persons : Henry W. Miller, Laura Erb, Jere Neese, Anna Wike, Susan Neese, Susan Habecker.

Eighth class, on April 22, 1882: Christian Kramer, Anna Heistand, Lizzie Benjamin, Kate Witmer, Lizzie Rock, Mrs. James M. Krick, Anna Walker, Henry Miller, Mrs. Samuel D. Erb, Kate Giroff, Frank Groff.

Ninth class, on April 21, 1883 : Lizzie Smith, Mrs. Lizzie Faust, Mary Young, Ada Nillen, Jacob Swei- gert, Lizzie Sweigert, Alma Kaffroth, Lizzie Urner, Susan MeGuind, Susan Weider, Henry Witmyer, Adam Diehl.

Bethany Church is located about one mile south from Ephrata village.

United Brethren in Christ .- During the year 1871 meetings were frequently held at the house of Burton Keaner, and in 1872, at a Quarterly Conference held at New Holland, a board of trustees and building committee was appointed, consisting of Messrs, Levi Hoover, John R. Boyer, and William G. Sprecher, who selected the site whereon stands their present church edifice, on Church Street, in Ephrata village.

The corner-stone of the church edifice, which is of brick, was laid July 28, 1872, and the church dedi- cated on the first Sabbath of December of the same year.

The above-named persons were the original mem- bers, and in 1883 the membership numbered fifty-six. The first pastor was Rev. M. J. Mumma, who served two years, and was succeeded by Rev. J. F. Moneer, three years; Revs. S. R. Grabill and J. M. Groff, one year ; Rev. Israel Carpenter, one year; and Rev. P. A. Bowman, the present pastor, who has already served this people four years.

New Mennonites. This branch of the Christian Church is represented in Ephrata township and vil- lage, but have no house of worship of their own. Rev. A. S. Kurtz holds occasional services in Union Chapel.

The Old Mennonites also hold occasional services at the same place for the accommodation of their members,

Lincoln Congregational Church was organized Feb. 16, 1869, with the following-named members : fleck, and H1. G. Cooper. The first three named were the original trustees. Their church building is of brick, thirty-six by fifty feet, and valued at two thousand dollars. The corner-stoue was laid June 2, 1872, and the church formally dedicated Oct. 13, 1872.

The pastors of this church have been as follows : Fifth class, on April 22, 1877, six persons : Peter Rev. D. Lentz, one year; Jacob Zern, one year; A.

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Shultz, one year ; Reuben Drubelbeis, one year ; C. S. ing of the citizens interested in financial matters, held Brown, one year ; William Heim, one year ; A. Kem- at the Mount Vernon Hotel, Feb. 4, 1881. ple, two years; A. M. Sampsell, one year ; F. Sechrist, one year ; F. Sechrist and W. D. Bicksler, one year ; F. Sechrist and D. G. Reinhold, one year ; J. L. War ner and I. F. Ileisler, one year ; A. Zeigenfuss and A. B. Saylor, one year.

Akron Congregational Church was organized at Akron in 1875, and in 1876 a frame church editice was built and dedicated the same year at a cost of nearly fifteen hundred dollars. The official board of the church in 1883 consisted of Martin Reuben, William P. Albright, Frank Zwally, and S. K. Wolf. Present membership, seventy. The same pastors served this people that served the congregation at Lincoln.

Union Chapel .- This building is the property of no particular -eet or denomination of Christians, and was built by the voluntary contributions of the citi- zens of Ephrata and other places. The object of the building was to furnish a suitable place for holding a Union Sabbath-school. The building committee con- sisted of the following-named persons : D. R. Hurtz, president ; J. B. Keller, E. Konigmacher, William M. Overly, and J. S. Sharp.

The ground was broken and consecrated by Revs. Tobias and Schweitzer, Sept. 14, 1882. The corner- stone of the building was laid by the Masonic fra- ternity, according to the Masonie ritual, on Oct. 8, 1882, and in March, 1883, the Union Chapel was chartered by the State authorities, with the following- named trustees : A. Konigmacher, president; D. R. Hertz, secretary ; S. R. Hess, J. B. Keller, and J. S. Sharp.

Physicians,-Among the earlier physicians of Ephrata were Drs. Gershon Wenger and H. Reim- snyder, who were located at Akron, and practiced in this township for over twenty-five years each. Dr. D. E. Shirk practiced at Lincoln for about twenty years, I. M. Groff at Ephrata for ten years, and died in 1876. A. S. Brubaker was at Akron in the practice of medicine for about seven years.

The present physicians of the township are Dr. D. I. MeCha, who located in Ephrata in 1875; Dr. J. Charles, located at Lincoln in 1875; Dr. J. Ibach, located at Akron in 1879, and Dr. J. Kreider, located in 1883. Dr. 1. Armstrong located at Hinkletown in 1874.

Ephrata National Bank was organized at a meet-

Mr. W. Z. Sener was chosen president of the meet- ing, and Samuel Ni-sly, Esq., appointed secretary. The amount of capital stock was fixed at seventy-five thousand dollars, and the following-named persons elected directors of the bank : W. Z. Sener, E. Konig- macher, J. W. Landis, II. S. Eberly, John Y. Weid- man, Samuel Royer, A J. Ream, R. R. Bitzer, Levi Bard, J. B. Keller, Reuben Reidenbach, Jolm Sel- domridge, and R. W. Bard.

The board of directors then proceeded to the elec- tion of officers, as follows: President, W. Z. Sener; Secretary, E. Konigmacher.

The banking-house was formally opened for the transaction of business April 18, 1881, having been located in a room formerly occupied by E. Konig- macher as a drug-store.

Cocalico Lodge, No. 400, K. of P., was insti- tuted in Ephrata village, June 19, 1878, with the fol- lowing-named charter members, who were also the first officers: P. C., E. S. Royer; C. C., Israel Bushong; V. C., Samuel Slough ; P., John Roland; K. of R. and S., Jolm S. Nolde; M. of F., H. S. Kauffinan; K. of E., Isaac Strobl ; I. G., John B. Zwalley ; O. G., D. S. Retlew ; Rep. to G. L., E. S. Royer.

The regular meetings of the lodge are held in the third story of Strohl's block on Friday evening of cach week. Present membership, twenty-six.

The officers in August, 1883, were: P. C., George Kegereise; C. C., Daniel Munshower; V. C., J. E. Kessler; P., J. W. Leber ; M. of F., David Muns- hower; M. of E., Isaac Strobl; K. of R. and S., H. B. Keller; M. at A., John Smith; I. G., Harvey Bar- ringer ;. O. G., John Stuber.

Schools .- In 1883 the value of school property in Ephrata was sixteen thousand five hundred dol- The Northern Mutual Insurance .Company, lo- cated at Ephrata village, was organized at a meeting held at the house of Jacob Reddig, April 27, 1844. lars. Amount of tax levied and raised for school purposes during the year, four thousand eight hun- ; of several of the prominent citizens of this vicinity, dred dollars. \Number of school-houses, fourteen ; number of schools, sixteen ; number of teachers, six- teen ; average salary of teachers per month, forty dollars; number of pupils in the township, seven BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. hundred and fifty-nine; length of school term, six and one-half months.

JACOB WISLER LANDES.

The Landes family is of Swiss origin, and the an- cestors of the family emigrated from that country to the United States at a very early day, and took up his settlement with the pioneers of Lancaster County. John, of the second generation, resided where Michael Keller now lives, in Ephrata township. He engaged in the ardnous duties of pioneer agriculture, married a Miss Mohler, and had a patriarchal family of chil- dren. Among these were Abraham, who succeeded his father on the old homestead ; David, who engaged in farming in West Cocalico township; Elizabeth, who married John Shurr, and resided where Jacob W. Landes' tenant-house now is, and Jacob, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. The latter

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married Elizabeth Mellinger, and through that fam- the same business at Hagerstown, Md., Petersburg, ily derived his homestead farm, now occupied by Pa., and other points, meeting with varying success. Jacob W. Landes, who is the third generation to till | In the spring of 1848 he purchased of his brothers, the ancestral soil. Four of the children of Jacob Landes grew to years of maturity, namely, Maria, Elizabeth, Anna, and Jacob (20). None of the ehil- dren married, save Jacob, who passed his entire life- ' time on the old homestead, now occupied by his son. He led a plain, industrious life, holding himself aloof from public affairs, and sustaining a reputation for integrity and uprightness in the community in which he dwelt. He married Magdalena, daughter of Jacob Wissler, of Ephrata township, and had three chil- dren, who attained adult years, viz., Elizabeth, who became the wife of Levi Landes, of Ephrata town- ship, Jacob W., and Mary, widow of Simon P. A. Weidman, a deceased merchant of Clay township. Jacob and Frederick Sener, the lumber business in Lancaster which they had established in 1832, it being the first enterprise of the kind along the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Here he continued to engage in active and successful business until his retirement on Dee. 21, 1870. Hle was the founder of the well-known firm of G. Sener & Sons, of Lan- caster, and an active, enterprising, and useful citizen. He served as a member of the City Council of Lan- caster, but had neither ta-te nor ambition for public place. He married, Aug. 13, 1826, Rebecca, daugh- ter of Godfried Zalm, of Lancaster, and had a family of four sons and three daughters. The former were J. Frederick Sener, Henry M., William Z., and Ed- ward A. Sener (deceased), all of whom were succes- sively admitted into partnership with their father, and the three remaining of whom compose the present firm of G. Sener & Sons. Gottlieb Sener died on Jan. 11, 1877.

Jacob W. Landes was born on the farm where he now resides in Ephrata township, on Nov. 2, 1834. He enjoyed only a common-school education, and passed the earlier years of his life as an assistant to his father in his agricultural operations. His indi- vidual business life began in 1860, when he com- menced working the home-traet on shares, and so continued until, by the death of his father on Aug. 30, 1876, he came into possession of the farm. He has continued to reside on the old place ever since, and is recognized as one of the successful representa- tive farmers of his section. Besides his agricultural operations, Mr. Landes has engaged extensively in the purchase and sale of horses, and is prominently known in that trade. He has always been willing to contribute hi- part towards all objects of a progressive character, and is ranked with the public-spirited and enterprising men of his township. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Ephrata Na- tional Bank since the organization of that institution in 1881. Hle married Sarah, daughter of Curtis and Catharine (Shefer) Fry, of Ephrata township, and has six children, viz., Alma, J. Harlan, Anna C., Jacob C., Emma, and Charles S. Landes.

WILLIAM ZAHM SENER.

William Z. Sener was born in Lancaster on Nov. 25, 1841. He completed his academic education at the Lancaster High School, in 1858, and subsequently engaged in school-teaching in Upper Leacock town- ship, and Manheim, for two seasons, earning his first money in a calling that has claimed the earliest efforts of so many successful and prominent men in the world's history. In 1860 he entered the employ of his father, in Lancaster, and devoting himself to the study of book-keeping, took charge of the books of G. Sener & Sons for several years. In 1862, upon attaining his majority, he was admitted as a partner in the lumber and coal business of the firm. Soon after, it being considered desirable to extend the business of the concern, Ephrata was selected as the point at which a branch should be established, and in the fall of 1863 he proceeded to that place and or- ganized the enterprise. The Ephrata branch of the business, under his management, has proven very successful, and is recognized as one of the well-estab- lished and growing enterprises of the section in which it is located. From a small hamlet, situated at the burg and Downingtown turnpikes, Ephrata has de- veloped into a growing active business centre, and has taken a place among the live villages of the large

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History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 69

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