Inventor Joe: The Life and Work of Mennonite Joseph Shirk (1820-1902) in Lancaster Co., PennsylvaniaJoseph Shirk applied his exceptional mechanical and inventive skills to agricultural and domestic life in the nineteenth century. His knowledge of astronomy, surveying, and botany was acquired with little formal education. He was a farmer, carpenter, surveyor, printer, and manufacturer of various agricultural and domestic tools. This book provides a detailed account of his life and images of all available artifacts. (74pp. illus. index. hardcover.

000 family units are listed in this volume of Immigrant Jacob Hochstetler's descendants

mom of six

Hochstetler

One of the emigrants from this village was an ancestor of President Dwight David Eisenhower

Mary Slonaker m

Rothlisberger

Many Mennonite families from Germany

and lessons from life

and references to land and other property

This fourth and final volume of the "Mennonite Experience in America" series provides a rich interpretive story of how Mennonites have preserved their identity through the 20th century

The standard work on the Amish that explores their beliefs and practice and change and resistance to change

Carlisle Press