MS 062
AUTHOR :	Eshleman, Henry Frank (1869-1953)
TITLE :	Henry Frank Eshleman Papers
DATES :	1873-1945
SIZE :	6 boxes; 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 x 12 inches, 1 box; 5 x 10 1/2 x 12 inches and 1 box; 2 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches.
ARRANGEMENT :	Notebooks and ledgers; Chronological and alphabetical by subject.
HISTORY :	Henry Frank Eshleman was an attorney and local historian from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was born near Marticville, Lancaster County in 1869 educated in county schools and attended Millersville State Normal School (Millersville, Pennsylvania) graduating in 1890. He later entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and received a law degree in 1894. Eshleman passed the Lancaster County Bar in October of 1894 and began his own law practice soon afterwards. He was a prolific writer of history and was one of the founders of the Lancaster County Historical Society. During the 1920's he served as president of the Society and as editor to the Society's Journal. Henry Frank Eshleman died on October 13, 1953.
CONTENTS:	Contains the notebooks, ledgers, scrapbooks and correspondence of Henry Frank Eshleman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania from 1873 to 1945. Includes daily research notebooks from 1936 to 1946, notebooks on specific subjects relating to Pennsylvania history, manuscripts of articles, scrapbooks from 1906 to 1909, personal account ledger from 1897 to 1925, the Lancaster County Voting Register from 1911 to 1916, notes on law by Congressman Marriott Brosius and miscellaneous correspondence from 1909 to 1945. Click here for an online inventory of the collection.
SUBJECTS :	Notebooks -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster County. Scrapbooks -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) -- History -- Sources. Pennsylvania -- Politics and government. Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster County. Patents -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster County. Agricultural Trust Company (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) Ideal Dairy Company (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) Reist family. Lloyd, David Taylor, Isaac. Ritchie, Albert C. Brosius, Marriott (1843-1901) Eshleman, Henry Frank (1869-1953)

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