George Washington Shaiffer poetry book, 1844-1857 (bulk 1845-1847)

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George Washington Shaiffer poetry book, 1844-1857 (bulk 1845-1847)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/699491068

The book contains printed obituaries for four of George Washington Shaiffer's siblings, R. Douglass, Jane, Mary, and James; his sister-in-law, Eliza Gemmill Stewart Thompson, and her daughter Mrs. Anna Thompson Gemmill. The book apparently was Jane's property in 1843 and passed to her brother upon her death in 1845. George wrote thirty-five unpublished poems in this volume, many of which dwell on funerals, lost siblings, time, seasons passing, lost friends, distant memory, sad days, loneliness, and also friendship and religion. There are several brooding, romantic poems to women friends, four acrostic poems, and four previously published poems by other authors that Jane Shaiffer copied into the book. Also includes two steel engravings tipped in (View of Northumberland (on the Susquehanna) by H. Bartlett, and The Indian fruit-seller, drawn by W. Daniell and engraved by R. Woodman, and a dried pressed rose.

1 volume (68 pages) : half morocco, marbled boards ; 20 cm.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8001419

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Shaiffer, Jane, d. 1845

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Shaiffer, George Washington, 1818-1896

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George Washington Shaiffer, born 16 May 1818, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, was an ordained Presbyterian minister, and a principal at several seminaries in Pennsylvania. He moved to California in 1893 where he died of pneumonia, 17 April 1896, in Alhambra, Los Angeles County. From the description of George Washington Shaiffer poetry book, 1844-1857 (bulk 1845-1847) (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 699491068 ...

Gemmill, Anna Thompson

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Thompson, Eliza Gemmill Stewart, b. 1799

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Shaiffer, Mary, d. 1848

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Woodman, Richard, 1784-1859

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Bartlett, H.

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Shaiffer family

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Shaiffer, R. Douglass, d. 1845

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Shaiffer, James

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Daniell, William, 1769-1837

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English landscape painter and engraver. From the description of Autograph letter signed in third person, not signed : Cleveland St. [London], to Mr. Huggins, no year Apr. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270521357 Epithet: painter and engraver British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000205.0x000390 William's Daniell's A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and com...