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The Historical Society has an active publications initiative
which makes available works on the genealogy and history 
of Northumberland County.  

The following publications may be ordered by mail.

 

  Genealogy 
Adams Family Ancestors and Descendants, by S. S. Adams $   10.00
  Every Name Index to Floyd’s Annals of Northumberland County
          By Barbara A. and Carl R. Riegel. 		SALE $     5.00
Floyd’s Genealogical and Biographical Annals 
          of Northumberland County, PA. 
          New reprint edition with index. 		$   65.00
  Index to Wills of Northumberland County, by Charlotte D. Walter   $     5.00
Genealogical Papers No. 1—Baptismal Records 
           of St. Jacob’s (Howerter’s) 
           Lutheran and Reformed Church, 
           Upper Mahanoy Township,
           Northumberland County, PA 1803-1869, with an index 
           by Charlotte D. Walter   		$   30.00
  Genealogical Papers No. 2—The 1859-1867 
            Funeral Lists (Leichenverzeigniss) of Isaac Faust Stiehly, 
            a Pennsylvania-German Reformed Minister of the 
            Mahantongo Valley, by William N. Richardson   		  $   30.00
Genealogical Papers No. 3—The Baptismal Records 
            of Himmel’s Union Church,
            Rebuck, Northumberland County, PA, 1774-1846, 
            Compiled and Indexed by 
            Jack. L. Pensyl and Charlotte Darrah Walter 		$   30.00
  Genealogical Papers No. 4—All-Name Index to Bell’s 
            History of  Northumberland County, 
            Compiled by Jack L. Pensyl and Library Staff, 1996-1997   		  $   30.00

 
Genealogical Papers No. 5—All-Name Index to Gravestones in 
             St. Edward’s Catholic Cemetery, Coal Township, 
             Northumberland County, PA.
             Compiled by Jack L. Pensyl   		$   30.00
  Genealogical Papers No. 6—All-Name Index to Gravestones 
             in St. Michael the Archangel Lithuanian 
             Catholic Cemetery, 
             Coal Township, Northumberland County, PA. 
             Compiled by Jack L. Pensyl 		  $   15.00
Genealogical Papers No. 7—All-Name Index to Gravestones 
             in Transfiguration Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, 
             Coal Township, Northumberland County, PA.
             Compiled by Jack L. Pensyl   		$   25.00
  Genealogical Papers No. 8—All-Name Index to Gravestones 
             in St. Mary’s Slovak Catholic Cemetery, 
             Coal Township, Northumberland County, PA. 
             Compiled by Jack L. Pensyl 		  $   15.00

 
Genealogical Papers No. 9—All-Name Index to Gravestones 
             in St. Stanislaus Polish Catholic Cemetery, 
             Coal Township, Northumberland County, PA. 
             Compiled by Jack L. Pensyl   		$   30.00
  Genealogical Papers No. 10—All-Name Index to Gravestones 
            in B’nai Israel Jewish Cemetery, 
            Coal Township, PA. Compiled by Jack L. Pensyl 		  $   10.00

 
Genealogical Papers No. 11—Baptismal Records 
             of Himmel’s Union Church,
             Rebuck, Northumberland County, PA. 1846-1911, Book 2. 
             Compiled by Heber G. Gearhart;
             Indexed by Nathan Lawrence and Jack Pensyl.   		$   30.00
  Marriages and Deaths from German Newspapers 
             published in Dauphin,
             Northumberland and Snyder Counties, 
             by Jack L. Pensyl and Sam Adams		  

$     5.00

 

 

  History 
Northumberland County in the American Revolution  paper
 		$   10.00
  Northumberland County Trolleys,
            by Benson W. Rohrbeck and Gene D. Gordon		   $   14.95
Over the Blue Mountain: Pennsylvania German Craft and Continuance 
             in the Mahantongo Valley,
             by Jane DuPree Richardson   		SALE

 

 $  5.00

 

   Mini Publications  
“A Brief History of Sunbury Airport and the Mile Hill Beacon,” 
             by Lewis Dewart		 $     2.50
  “The Catawissa Railroad,” by Charles Fisher Snyder    $     2.50
“Colonel James Cameron and the Soldier’s Monument,” 
             by Garry E. Leister		 $     2.50
  “Edison’s Experiment in Northumberland County,” 
             by Hugh A. Jones		   $     2.50
“Historic Trail of Riverside,” 
             by Mike Bernath   		$     2.50
  “Historical Sketches of Sunbury,” 
             compiled by E.B. Haines   		  $     2.50
HISTORY OF MILTON – “Reminiscences of Early Milton and
              Its Founder, Andrew Straub” and 
              “The Great Milton Fire,” 
             by Frederic A. Godcharles   		$     2.50

 
  HISTORY OF SUNBURY – “Indian Tribes of Shamokin,” 
             by John H. Carter and 
             “How the Indians Lived at Shamokin,” 
             by George H. Neff   		  $     2.50
“Indians of Pennsylvania,” 
             by George P. Donehoo   		$     2.50
  “Notable Women of Northumberland County,” 
             by Heber G. Gearhart  		   $     2.50
“The Maclay-Wolverton House"
             by Heber G. Gearhart		 $     2.50
  “The Pennsylvania Railroad Station at Sunbury,” 
             by William Marion Schnure		   $     2.50
“The Shamokin Indian Traders,” 
             by John H. Carter 		$     2.50
  “Shikellamy the Indian Vice King at Shamokin,”
             by John H. Carter		   $     2.50
“The Story of Early Sunbury and Fort Augusta,” 
             by Charles Maxwell Clement  		 $     2.50
  “The Warrior Run Presbyterian Church,” 
             by Mrs. Helen B. Burrowes		   $     2.50

 

 

  Monographs  
“Allummappees, King of the Delawares,” 
             by John H. Carter		 $     3.50
  “Conrad Weiser in the Susquehanna Valley,” 
             by Charles Fisher Snyder		   $     3.50
“Early Taverns Along the Centre Turnpike,” 
             by Carl Rice		 $     3.50
  “Edison, A Great American,” 
             by Frank A. Neff, Heber G. Gearhart, Harry L. Keefer,
             & Hugh A. Jones		   $     3.50
“The Great Shamokin Path and,
             Other Indian Trails Which Radiated
             from the Forks of the Susquehanna,” 
             by Charles Fisher Snyder		 $     3.50
  “The Himmel Church,”
             by John H. Carter		   $     3.50
“History of Education in Sunbury,”
             by Mrs. Cora E. Yoder and
             “Rev. John Bryson – His School,”
             Elizabeth B. Montgomery		 $     3.50
  “Joseph Preistley and His Contributions to Modern Life,”
             by Warren Gutelius          		   $     3.50
“The Logans, Sons of Shikellamy,”
             by Harry E. Swanger 		 $     3.50
  “Lumbering and Rafting on the West Branch,”
             by Lewis Edwin Theiss and
             “The Lumber Industry in Northumberland County,”
             by Charles Fisher Snyder		   $     3.50
Majestic Solitude: Mozart's Librettist in Sunbury in Sunbury,
             by Chuck Ungar 		 $     3.50
  “The Palatine Migration, Schoharie to Tulpehocken,”
             by John H. Carter and
             “Early German and Hessian Settlement,”
             by William Harvey Wiest		   $     3.50
“The Pennsylvania Canal: Canals and Canal Lore,”
             by Charles Fisher Snyder		 $     3.50
  “The Pennsylvania German Wills of Northumberland County,”
             by Russell Wieder Gilbert		   $     3.50
“Priestley in America,”
             by Edward Lyon and
             “Priestley the Chemist,”
             by Charles Fisher Snyder		 $     3.50
  “The Story of Early Sunbury and Fort Augusta,”
             by Charles Maxwell Clement

large print

 $     3.50
“The West Branch Canal: How Lewisburg Became a Canal Port,”
             by Sidney Davis, M.D.		 $     3.50
  “Zion's Stone Valley Church,”
             by Elmer L. Ressler and
             “The Folksong Tradition in the Mahantongo Valley,”
             by Walter E. Boyer		   $     3.50

 

  N.C.H.S. Proceedings 
Index to N.C.H.S. Proceedings— Available free of charge 
in the Library
  Volumes XXVII      printed 1978

members
non-members

 $   5.00
$   6.00
    includes
"Our Lancaster Triangle" by John H. Carter,
"Old Northumberland" by Nelson and Willie Gutelius,
"The Story of May Burr" by Sue Geise,
"Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Sunbury" by Heber G. Gearhart,
"Tories along the Susquehanna" by Major James R. Williamson,
"Amos Beeber Vastine, His Professional Life" by Dr. G. Paul Moser,
"Fort Swartz" by Mary Belle Lontz,
"Lt. William A. Bruner Post # 335 Grand Army of the Republic"
       by Jack K. Hetrick,
"Early German and Hessian Settlement" by William Harvey Wiest,
"The Importance of Welsh Immigration into the Anthracite Region
        of Northumberland County" by Hugh A. Jones, and
"Captain Hambright of the Augusta Regiment and the Supreme
       Executive Council" by John H. Carter.		    
  Volume XXVIII      printed 1979

members
non-members

$   5.00
$   6.00
    includes
"Pontiac's War Along the Susquehanna"
       by Major James R. Williamson,
"The Captivity of  Fort Freeland Prisoners of War" by John H. Carter, "Major-General James Potter" by Dan McClenahen,
"Field Report on the 1979 Excavations at 36 Nb 71"
      by Deborah L. Nichols,
"Some Afterthoughts on the Fort Augusta Dig" by Jack K. Hetrick,
"The Elliott-Davis House in Northumberland" by Jack K. Hetrick,
"Early Marriages and Cemetery Records" by Charlotte D. Walter, and
"Warch Day Receet" submitted by Charlotte D. Walter.		    
  Volume XXX      printed 1990

members
non-members

$   5.00
$   6.00
   

includes
"The Pennsylvania German Tombstones of Isaac Faust
     Stiehly (1800-1869)" by William N. Richardson,
"Spies Along the Susquehanna 1776-1782" by James R. Williamson, "The Sullivan Expedition" by Joseph R. Fischer,
"Chillisquaque Church and Cemetery" by Dr. Mary Belle Lontz, "Samuel Wallis: Colonial Merchant,
Secret Agent" by Linda Fossler, Gwynedd-Mercy College,
"The Pennsylvania Longrifle: Its History, Construction,
     Loading and Firing" by D. Edward J. Brosius,
"Garrison Orders Fort Montgomery" by Henry J. Retzer,
"Wild Pigeons" by Charles M. Lesher,
"The History of the Great Fire of Milton, Pa., Friday, May 14, 1880"
     by W. H. Smith, Editor of the Argus,
"A Record of Marriage & Death Notices found in the Northumberland
      Republicaner 1812-1818" translated and transcribed by Mark
     Charles Kerstetter and
"The Pennsylvania German Influence of Lower Northumberland
     County" by Karen A. Reiner. 
   
  Volume XXXI      printed 1993

members
non-members

$   5.00
$   6.00
   

includes
"Our Pet Boltie" John Boulton Young, A Drummer Boy from
     the 47th PA" by Garry E. Leister,
"Archaeological Investigations of the Powder Magazine at Fort
     Augusta" by Stephen G. Warfel,
"Some Reminiscences of 'Old Northumberland' and Her People"
     by Mrs. Henry Kuhl Nichols,
"The Early History of Mount Carmel" by Hugh A. Jones, "Brewmeisters and Boatbuilders: The Frick Family
     of Early Northumberland" by John Paul Deeben,
"The Battle at Rampart Rocks: Colonel Plunkett and
     the Second Yankee-Pennamite War" by James R. Williamson, "Simon P. Hullihen: Pioneer Oral and Plastic Surgeon"
     by Dr. Robert M. Goldwyn,
"A Record of Marriage and Death Notices found in the Nordwestliche Post, 1818-1822" translated by Mark Charles Kerstetter,
     with corrections by Charlotte Darrah Walter.
   
  Volume XXXII

members
non-members

$   5.00
$   6.00
   

The Priestley Volume -- Introduction by James Bohning, Ph.D., "Joseph Priestley, A Commemorative Sermon"
     by George H. Williams,
"Reason and Relevance: the 1811-1813 Chemistry Lectures
     of Professor Thomas Cooper at Dickinson College"
     by Derek Davenport, Ph.D.,
"Priestley, Pantisocracy and the Poets" by Michael Payne, Ph.D., "Northumberland" reprinted from Bell's History,
"Joseph Priestley's American Home" by William N. Richardson, and "The Descendants of Joseph Priestley, LL.D., F.R.S."
     by Priestley Toulmin, III, Ph.D.


Selected out-of-print back issues of the N.C.H.S. Proceedings (limited quantities) CALL FOR PRICE & AVAILABILITY 
   

 

  N.C.H.S. Videos  
Sunbury: “The Great Flood of 1936” (Silent with captions) $   15.00
  “The Trial of Peter McManus—The Last of the Molly Maguires” 
             a modern  recreation and dramatization  		  $   19.95

 

  Other Publications  
The Breaker Whistle Blows: Mining Disasters and 
            Labor Leaders in the Anthracite Region		 $   6.95
  Country Chairs of Central Pennsylvania
            by Maire P. Musser 		   $ 19.95
  Covered Bridges of Pennsylvania
            by Susan M. Zacher		   $   9.95
  Eastertide in Pennsylvania
            by Alfred L. Shoemaker; new introduction by Don Yoder 		   $ 19.95
  The French and Indian War in Pennsylvania 1753-1763
            by Louis M. Waddell and Bruce D. Bomberger		    
  Historical Preservation (1796)
            by Northumberland County Planning Commission		   $ 5.00
  Hex Signs - Barn Symbols and Their Meaning
            by Thomas E. Graves and Don Yoder		   $ 19.95
  Indian Paths of Pennsylvania
            by Paul A. W. Wallace		   $ 14.95
  Indian Trails to Super Highways
            by William H. Shank		   $ 8.00
  Indians in Pennsylvania
            by Paul A. W. Wallace		   $ 9.95
  Into the American Woods
            by James H. Merrill		   $ 27.95
  Life in a Longhouse Village
            by Bobbie Kalman		   $  7.95
  My Family Tree Workbook
            by Rosemary A. Chorzempa		   $  2.95
  Pennsylvania Battlefields and Military Landmarks
            by Arthur P. Miller, Jr. and Marjorie Miller		   $ 19.95
  Colonial Maid Cookbook 
            by Sally Pietrandrea and Ann Reeves		   $  8.00
  Redware Pottery
            by Jeannette Lasansky		   $ 14.50
  Rural Sketches
            by Guy Graybill		   $  2.00
  Shamokin and Edgewood Electric Railway Company
            by Gene D. Gordon		   $ 13.75
  Susquehanna's Indians
            by Barry C. Kent		   $ 16.95
  Trader's Travelers and Tomahawks
            by John L. Moore		   $  7.95
  Your Story: A guide Interview Through 
            Your Personal and Family History
            by Paul A. W. Wallace		   $ 16.95

 

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