Occasional Publications


The Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society either published or has the only remaining stock of the following items. These are nonseries titles that appeared on an occasional publication schedule.


Ancestral Fan Chart, 1993. $7.95.

Space for ten generations, beginning with present and working backward. 25"(h) x 36.5"(w), suitable for framing. Click here for additional information.


The Early Years of Weaver Book Store, by Virginia Kreider Weaver. Revised ed. 1994. 35 pp. $8.00 (paper).

Locations, personnel, history, and human interest anecdotes of life in literature ministry at what later became Provident Book Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Includes illustrations, poetry.



An Every-Name Index to a Genealogical History of the Cassel Family in America (1896), by Daniel Kolb Cassel, by Albert Edwards, 1993. 55 pp. $8.00 (paper).

Major: Benner, Bergey, Boorse, Cassel, Delp, Detwiler, Freed, Gotwals, Hiestand, Kolb, Kratz, Kulp, Musselman, Pennypacker, Reiff, Stover. Allied: Alderfer, Bean, Buckwalter, Funk, Harley, Hunsicker, Kline, Moyer, Shutt.



Genealogical Record of Reverend Hans Herr and His Direct Lineal Descendants from His Birth A.D. 1639 to the Present Time Containing the Names, Etc. of 13223 Persons . . . with Corrections and Supplemental Data, by Theodore W. Herr and Phillip E. Bedient. 3d edition. 1994 (originally published in 1908). 800 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Add $1.00 additional shipping.

New reprint of classic Mennonite genealogy with all-new, 1994 addenda of additions/corrections to early generations, nos. 1-38. Major: Bachman, Barr, Bowman, Brackbill, Breneman, Carpenter, Eckman, Forney, Forrer, Frantz, Frick, Funk, Groff, Grove, Harnish, Hartman, Herr, Hershey, Hess, Hoover, Kauffman, Kendig, Landis, Lefever, Long, Martin, Metzler, Miller, Myers, Neff, Rohrer, Rudy, Shaub, Shenk, Snavely, Strite, Weaver, Wilson, Witmer. Index; illustrations. ISBN 1-884732-03-8.



Glimpses Past: Annotations of Selected Social and Cultural History Materials in the Mennonite Herald of Truth, Gospel Witness, and early Gospel Herald, by Steven L. Denlinger, 1985. 155 pp. $18.00 (paper).

Thematically arranged article annotations in areas of arts, dress and external conformity, education, emulation of other groups, sense of heritage/history, migration, nationalism, nonconformity, pacifism, political involvement, race relations, social attitudes, temperance, urbanization and upward mobility, women’s role and identity.


Hans Herr: The Lancaster Mennonite Patriarch, by J. C. Wenger, 12 pp. $6.00 (paper).

Monograph on early Herr family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Tells story of Swiss and Palatinate backgrounds of early area settlers, colonial history, 1719 Herr House history and restoration vision; chronological bibliography. Full-color illustration of Herr House painting by Andrew Wyeth plus other black-white illustrations.


Add $4.00 postage/handling for the first item and $1.00 for each additional item. A surcharge of $10.00 per order will be added to all international orders. Pennsylvania residents add six percent sales tax to total cost of items and postage/handling.


To place an order or for more information, contact: Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster, PA 17602-1499. Telephone: (717) 393-9745; Email: books@lmhs.org

Updated 8/21/2008