Jay Gotwahls Francis Papers

Collection Overview

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: Descendants

Folder 2: Insurance Paper

Folder 3: Francis, J.G. Speeches, etc.

Folder 4: Francis Family Letters, 1945-1957

Folder 5: Newspaper Clippings

Folder 6: Francis, J.G. Letters Record

Folder 7: Letters, 1910-1943

Folder 8: Will and Descendants

Folder 9: Written Articles, 1887-1951

Folder 10: Written Articles, unknown dates

Folder 11: Papers on Family History

Folder 12: Newspapers

Folder 13: Booklets, 1930; unknown

Box 2

Folder 1: Biography

Folder 2: Brethrenism

Folder 3: Scanned Articles on Brethrenism

Folder 4: Notebooks

Folder 5: History- Congregations

Item 1: Berks

Item 2: Chiques

Item 3: Conestoga

Item 4: Coventry

Item 5: Fairview

Item 6: Green Tree

Item 7: Midway

Item 8: Mingo

Item 9: Myerstown

Item 10: Parkerford

Item 11: Sandblook

Item 12: Tulpehocken

Item 13: White Oak

Item 14: Big Swatara

Folder 6: Elders

Folder 7: Education

Folder 8: History- Meetings and Groups

Folder 9: History- Lebanon County

Folder 10: Membership

Folder 11: Miscellaneous Records

Box 2-1

Folder 1: Elizabethtown College: Founding (Letters), 1898-1917

Folder 2: Elizabethtown College- History

Folder 3: Elizabethtown College: COB Historical Associations, 1898-1957

Folder 4: Elizabethtown College: Lebanon County

Folder 5: Elizabethtown College: COB Preachers

Folder 6: Elizabethtown College: Mt. Morris College

Photograph 1: "A circle of friends at Mt. Morris, Ill. College", 1892-1893

Folder 7: Glass paper weight with Elizabethtown College photograph

Folder 8: Elizabethtown College: Miscellaneous Papers

Oversize Box 3

Folder 1: Church History

Folder 2: History Notes

Item 1: Notepad

Item 2: Lecture of Mr. Lehman delivered before the Citizens of Lebanon on the evening of December 18, 1851 (35 Pages), 1851

Item 3: Notebook: History of Pennsylvania, -1923

Folder 3: Lebanon County Historical Notes, 1734-1933

Folder 4: Fire Company Histories

Folder 5: Perkiomen Valley

Folder 6: Sauer Printers

Folder 7: Scheme to educate the Germans

Folder 8: Valley Forge History

Item 1: Providence's Part in Provisioning the Camp

Item 2: Jacy Richardson's Ride

Folder 9: Valley Forge Newspapers

Folder 10: Historical Notes, Misc.

Item 1: Notebook

Item 2: Journal on People, "Origins of our Brotherhood and its Transplanting to America"

Item 3: Paper on Henry W. Longfellow

Box 4

Folder 1: Bachman Family

Folder 2: Bason Family

Folder 3: Bollman Family- Handwritten Notes

Folder 4: Bollman Family- Family History Manuscripts

Folder 5: Bollman Family- Correspondence

Folder 6: Bollman Family- Photographs

Folder 7: Brandt Family

Item 1: Correspondence

Item 2: Notes

Item 3: Family History Manuscripts

Folder 8: Dubbs Family

Item 1: Notes

Item 2: Correspondence

Folder 9: Eby Family

Item 1: "A Visit to an Aged Mennonite Farmer"

Item 2: Newspaper Articles

Folder 10: Eisenberg-Jones Family

Item 1: "Poley Ancestry"

Item 2: Handwritten Notes

Book 3: Eisenberg-Jones Family Record

Item 4: "Will of Peter Jones"

Item 5: History of Eisenberg Descendants

Item 6: Eisenberg-Jones Family Association Reunion

Item 7: Eisenberg-Jones Ninth Reunion Flyer

Item 8: Family History Manuscript

Item 9: "Historical Sketch of the Eisenberg-Jones Family"

Item 10: "Eisenberg-Jones Family Reunion" by George E. Fry

Item 11: "Eisenberg-Jones Family Association Report for the Year", July 1922- July 1923

Item 12: Reunion Post Cards, 1926-1937; incomplete

Item 13: Letters from Elle E. Hartley, June 4, 1927 and June 15, 1927

Item 14: 14th and 15th "Annual Reunion of the Eisenberg-Jones Family" Association Programs

Item 15: Newspaper Articles

Folder 11: Gingrich Family

Item 1: Newspaper Article, "The History of Bachmanville that was..."

Folder 12: Gotwahls Family

Item 1: Handwritten Notes

Item 2: Letters from Henry S. Landis, 1948

Item 3: Family History Manuscript and Outline

Item 4: Letter from Nelson H. Bergey

Item 5: Letter from Ralph L. Johnson

Item 6: Newspaper Clippings

Folder 13: Graby Family

Item 1: "Plain People of Lebanon County" Articles

Box 5

Folder 1: Harnish Family

Folder 2: Kohr Family

Folder 3: Kreider Family

Item 1: "Family History of Kreider Family" Newspaper Articles (in a flat box), May 22, 1919- Sept 9, 1919

Folder 4: Light Family

Folder 5: Long Family

Folder 6: Meiley Family

Folder 7: Oberholtzer Family

Folder 8: Reinwohl Family

Folder 9: Reist Family

Folder 10: Roop Family

Item 1: "The Genealogy of the Roop Family: Descendants of Christian Roop" book

Folder 11: Royer Family

Folder 12: Schaeffer Family

Folder 13: Spangler Family

Box 6

Folder 1: Tice Family

Folder 2: Umberger Family

Folder 3: Umstad Family

Folder 4: Walker Family

Folder 5: Weber Family

Folder 6: Yordy Family

Folder 7: Zug Family

Box 7

Folder 1: Notes

Photograph 1: West End of Tunnel and Lock No. 1

Item 2: Misc Notes: "Development and Passing of the Union Canal by J.G. Francis; "George M. Lebanon"

Photograph 3: Picture (of West End Tunnel?)

Item 4: Coal Yard Pictures and Notes (Development and Passing of the Union Canal: biographies)

Item 5: Newspaper Article "Lebanon Park Increases Access to Tunnel"

Item 6: Union Canal: The Great Flood, June 4, 1862

Item 7: Newspaper Articles "Surviving Boatmen of Penna. Canal in Reunion"

Item 8: Cleaning of the Canal and Swinging Bridge, 1866-1878

Folder 2: Notes

Item 1: Pennsylvania Institutes

Item 2: The Lebanon Canal Feeder

Item 3: "...commenced their labors in Pennsylvania..."

Item 4: Water Works Aqueduct

Item 5: "...numerous writers give credit to Robert Faloin..."

Item 6: A Notable Position

Item 7: "Montgomery in his theory of Berks Country..."

Item 8: Programming

Item 9: "Have showed some words by way of Preface..."

Item 10: The Union Canal Pre-eminently a Lebanon County Affair

Item 11: Traffic

Item 12: Canal (Old and New)

Item 13: "The statement of Wilham M..."

Item 14: The Union Canal

Item 15: "...some other young lady..."

Item 16: A History of the Union Canal, established about 1834

Item 17: Rich

Item 18: H. Dale for the Leb. Co. Hist. Society

Item 19: Canal in Feb.

Item 20: Union Canal Project

Item 21: The Report of Engineer W.N. McBullongh, August 2, 1894

Item 22: The Brandt Family

Item 23: Misc Notes

Item 24: "Another prominent business man..."

Item 25: East from Lebanon

Item 26: Lock

Item 27: Stroll (Lay)

Item 28: Locks, Warehouses, and Bridges

Item 29: Stroll, Myerstown

Item 30: "Allen Bollinger moved in 1956..."

Item 31: Leekners

Item 32: Snyder

Item 33: Seltzer

Item 34: From Palmyra

Item 35: Store Houses

Item 36: The Basin Here

Item 37: West of the Tunnel

Item 38: Kreider

Item 39: Stroll

Folder 3: Notes

Item 1: A Stroll across the Sixteen Lock Section

Item 2: Stroll from Jonestown Road to Water Works, August 1941

Item 3: Galen

Item 4: John Adam

Item 5: Note on paper from Ursinus College

Item 6: Public Forum

Item 7: Canal Superintendents

Item 8: Bio: William Lebanon

Item 9: A Life of the... As Early Means of Transportation, Conceived by Penn

Item 10: Land Purchases

Item 11: Great Dawn

Item 12: Land on Canal in Lebanon

Item 13: The Weslian Locks

Item 14: Canal, July 30, 1845

Item 15: June 14, 1866

Item 16: January 2, 1868

Item 17: Relative to the Enlargement of the Union Canal

Item 18: Canal, January 19, 1866

Item 19: Retrenching

Item 20: Weber

Item 21: From Feb.

Item 22: Strolls along the Union Canal

Folder 4: Notes

Item 1: Postcard "Oldest Tunnel in the United States, Built 1822-1823, Lebanon, Pa."

Item 2: Letters from Philip G. Nordell, August- September 1953

Folder 5: Notes

Item 1: "2 Annville Teen Score in Dreamboat of a Dig" Sunday Patriot News

Item 2: Misc Notes

Item 3: Notebook: "The Old Canals"

Folder 6: Drawing Records- Location of Canal

Oversize Box 8

Folder 1: Union Canal- Lebanon Courier, June 18, 1845

Folder 2: Map Union Canal

Folder 3: Union Canal- in the Courier, July 9, 1845

Folder 4: Union Canal and Reading R.R., Swinging Bridge

Folder 5: Union Canal Letter Philip Nordell

Folder 6: Land Purchases on Lebanon/ Weston Locks

Folder 7: Union Canal- Snyder

Folder 8: Union Canal- List of People

Folder 9: Union Canal

Folder 10: William Lehman- Resident engineer and General Sept of Union Canal. He and wife Elizabeth Keyser were German Baptist Brethren of Germantown. [Lorenzo L. Lehman, Benjamin B. Lehman, Samuel B. Lehman]

Folder 11: Union Canal Review from Courier, July 30, 1854-August 4, 1886

Folder 12: Lebanon Canal Feeder

Folder 13: Pa. Canals- Sec. of Internal Affairs, June 30, 1900

Box 9

Item 1: Ursinus College Commencement Herald, June 25, 1891

Item 2: Elocution (Prof. Roberts)

Item 3: Dogmatics. Fall Term, 1896

Item 4: Doctrine

Item 5: Church History (Prof. McGiffert)

Item 6: Hebrew (Prof. Fagnani) and Greek (Prof. Vincent)

Item 7: Church Polity (Prof. Prentiss)

Volume 1: Record Book: Life of Christ

Volume 2: Record Book: Genesis

Volume 3: Record Book: Book of Isaiah

Book 1: Bible (personal copy)

Box 10

Item 1: Photographic Plates

Box 11

Item 1: Photographic Plates

Box 12

Item 1: Photographic Plates