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Jacob Beiler (d.1772) and his son, Christopher, emigrated from Switzerland to Philadelphia in 1737. They settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Jacob Byler (1799-1867), a great-grandson, married Nancy Kauffman and lived in Mifflin and Lawrence Counties, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, the Midwest, Delaware and elsewhere.
From the early 1960s to the late 1980s, John A. Hostetler was the world&’s premier scholar of Amish life. Hailed by his peers for his illuminating and sensitive portrayals of this often misunderstood religious sect, Hostetler successfully spanned the divide between popular and academic culture, thereby shaping perceptions of the Amish throughout American society. He was also outspoken in his views of the modern world and of the Amish world&—views that continue to stir debate today. Born into an Old Order Amish family in 1918, Hostetler came of age in an era when the Amish were largely dismissed as a quaint and declining culture, a curious survival with little relevance for contemporary A...
with Biographies of their Descendants from the earliest available records to the present time; with Portraits and other illustrations.
This Amish and Mennonite genealogy traces 8,757 families descended from 1703 Jacob Hertzler of Berks Co., Pa. Also provides background history and statistical information on the Hertzler-Hartzler families. (733pp. index. hardcover. reprint of 1952 edition. Higginson Book Co.) Please visit www.HigginsonBooks.com to purchase this title.
Previously published by Magna Carta, Baltimore. Published as a set by Genealogical Publishing with the two vols. of the Genealogies in the Library of Congress, and the two vols. of the Supplement. Set ISBN is 0806316691.
Most of the following has been copied from John Murray's book "A Family History of Murrays, McKibbens, Smiths, Plank Neffs and Related Families of Elkhart & LaGrange Countys in Ind." Some additions have been made by him and the Authors of this book.