Irv Mitchell's QUEST
Genealogy Bibliography

Albert, George Dallas, Editor, "History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, The," L.H. Everts & Co., 1882.

Andersen, Christopher, "Jack and Jackie - Portrait of an American Marriage," William Morrow & Co., New York, 1996.

Ariés, Philippe and George Duby, General Editors, Arthur Goldhammer, Translator, "A History of Private Life - II - Revelations of the Medieval World," Harvard University Press, Boston, London, 1988.

Ashmead, Henry Graham, "History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania," L.H. Everts, Philadelphia, 1884.

Baker, Jean H., "Mary Todd Lincoln - A Biography," W.W. Norton & Co., New York, London, 1987. Bingham, Caroline, "The Steward Kingdom of Scotland - 1371-1603," Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1974, Barnes & Noble, 1995.

Barber, Malcolm, "The Two Cities - Medieval Europe 1050-1320," Routledge, London, 1992, 1993.

Beeson, Henry Hart, "A Genealogy of the Beeson - Beason Family," Houston, 1968.

Bingham, Caroline, "The Stewart Kingdom of Scotland - 1371-1603," Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1974, Barns & Noble, 1995.

"Biographical Directory of the American Congress 1774-1971 - The Continental Congress - September 5, 1774 to October 21, 1788 and The Congress of the United States from the First Through the Ninety-First Congress," United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1971.

Birmingham, Stephen, "America's Secret Aristocracy," Little, Brown & Co., New York, 1987.

Bloch, Ivan, "Sexual Life in England Past and Present," Oracle Publishing, Ltd., Royston, 1938, 1993.

Boller, Paul F., "Presidential Wives - An Anecdotal History," Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1988.

Bowser, Addison Bartholemew, A.M., "The Bowser Family History - Authorized and established by the Executive Committee of the Bowser Reunion which meets annually at Kittanning, Armstrong Co., Pa., on the last Tuesday of August," Excelsior Printing Co., Chicago, MCMXXII.

Brinton, Howard H., "Friends for 300 Years - The History and Beliefs of the Society of Friends since George Fox Started the Quaker Movement," Pendle Hill Publications, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, 1952, 1964.

Brown, William Beckett III, "Thomas Knight of Pennsylvania and Some of his Descendants," Royer Printing Co., Pennsanken, NJ, 1973.

Browning, Charles H., "Magna Charta Barons and their Descendants - With the story of the Great Charter of King John; Sketches of the Celebrated Twenty-Five Sureties for its Observance, and their Lineal Descents from Them of the Members of the Baronial Order of Runnemede," Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1969.

Caro, Robert A., "The Years of Lydon Johnson - The Path to Power," Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.

Clark, Ronald W. "Benjamin Franklin - A Biography," Random House, New York, 1983.

Clemens, William Montgomery, editor & compiler, "American Marriage Records Before 1699," limited edition, The Biblio Co., Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, 1926.

Collier, Peter and David Horowitz, "The Kennedys - An American Drama," Simon & Schuster, New York, 1984.

Collier, Peter and David Horowitz, "The Roosevelts - An American Saga," Simon & Schuster, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, 1994.

Comfort, William Wistar, "Just Among Friends, The Quaker Way of Life," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1945.

Cook, Blanche Weisen, "Eleanor Roosevelt - Volume One - 1884-1933," Penguin Books, New York, 1992.

David, Saul, "Prince of Pleasure - The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency," Atlantic Press Monthly, New York, 1998.

Davies, John, "A History of Wales," Penguin Books, London, 1990, 1993, 1994. Davis, John H. "The Bouviers - From Waterloo to the Kennedys and Beyond," National Press Books, Washington, 1993.

Davis, John, "A History of Wales," Penguin Books, London, 1990, 1993, 1994.

Davis, John H., "The Bouviers - From Waterloo to the Kennedys and Beyond," National Press Books, Washington, 1993.

Davis, John H., "The Kennedys - Dynasty and Disaster - 1848-1984," McGraw-Hill, New York, 1984.

Douglas, David C., "William the Conqueror - The Norman Impact Upon England," University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1964.

Durant, Will, "The Story of Civilization - 4 - The Age of Faith," Simon & Schuster, New York, 1950.

Durant, Will and Ariel, "The Story of Civilization - 7 - The Age of Reason Begins," Simon & Schuster, New York, 1961.

Durant, Will and Ariel, "The Story of Civilization - 11 - The Age of Napoleon," Simon & Schuster, New York, 1975.

Eakle, Arlene and Johni Cerny, Editors, "The Source - A Guidebook of American Genealogy," Ancestral Publishing Co., Salt Lake City, 1984.

Eisenhower, Julie Nixon, ""Pat Nixon The Untold Story," Simon and Schuster, New York, 1986.

Ellis, Joseph J., "American Sphinx - The Character of Thomas Jefferson," Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997.

Fell, Sarah M., Compiler, "Genealogy of the Palmer Family in America Descended from John and Christian Palmer Who Settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1683," 1902.

Felsenthal, Carol, "Princess Alice," St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988.

Fischer, David Hackett, "Albion's Seed - Four British Folkways in America," Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1989.

Fonda, Henry, "Fonda - My Life as Told to Howard Teichmann," New American Library, 1981.

Fraser, Antonia, "Faith and Treason - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, " Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Aukland, 1996.

Fraser, Antonia, "Mary Queen of Scots," Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Ltd., Frogmore, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, 1969.

Fraser, Antonia, "The Weaker Vessel," Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984. Fraser, Antonia, "The Wives of Henry VIII," Random House, New York, 1984.

Fraser, Antonia, "The Wives of Henry VIII," Random House, New York, 1992.

Freeman, Douglas Southall, "Washington - An abridgement in one volume by Richard Harwell of the seven-volume George Washington," Simon & Schuster, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, 1968.

Fuller, Gerald R., June Markus Hoopes, Lillian Fredsall Webster, "The Hoopes Family Record - A Genealogical Record of The Hoopes Family, Descendants of Daniel Hoopes of Westtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania - Vol. I - The First Six Generations," Published by the Hoopes Family Organization, Inc., Houston, Texas, 1979.

Futhey, J. Smith and Gilbert Cope, "History of Chester County Pennsylvania," Louis S. Everts, Philadelphia, 1881.

Gies, Frances & Joseph, "Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel - Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages," HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1994.

Gies, Joseph and Frances, "Life in a Medieval City," Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1969, Harper Perennial edition, New York, 1981.

Gies, Frances & Joseph, "Women in the Middle Ages," Thomas Y. Cromwell Co., New York, 1978.

Gresham, John M., Compiler, Editor, "Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania," Published by John M. Gresham & Co., Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant, Philadelphia, 1890.

Guy, John, "Tudor England," Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 1988. Hastings, Charles, "Pioneer Settlers of Western Pennsylvania," 1976.

Harlan, Alpheus H., "History and Genealogy of the Harland Family and Particularly of the Descendants of George and Michael Harlan Who Settled in Chester Co., Pa., 1687," Baltimore, 1914, Gateway Press Inc., Baltimore, 1991.

Hibbert, Christopher, "George III - A Personal History," Basic Books, Perseus Books Group, New York, 1998.

Higham, Charles, "The Duchess of Windsor - The Secret Life," Charter Books, New York, New York, 1988.

Horle, Craig W., et. al., "Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania A Biographical Dictionary," University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1991.

Huidekoper, Frederic Louis, compiler, "The American Ancestry of Frederic Louis Huidekoper and Reginald Shippen Huidekoper of Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America," Imprimerie Albert Kundig, Geneva, 1931.

Hunt-Jones, Conover, "Dolley and the "great little Madison,"" American Institute of Architects Foundation, 1977.

Iscrupe, William L. and Shirley G.M. Iscrupe, "Pennsylvania Line - A Research Guide to Pennsylvania Genealogy and Local History," Fourth Edition, Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services, Laughlintown, Pennsylvania, 1990.

Jordan, John W., "Colonial Families of Philadelphia - Vol. II," Lewis Publishing Co., New York, 1911.

Jordan, John W., Editorial Supervisor, "History of Westmoreland County Pennsylvania - Genealogical Memoirs - Volume II," Lewis Publishing Co., New York and Chicago, 1906.

Kelly, Amy, "Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings," Harvard University Press, Cambridge, London, 1950, 1978.

Kendall, Hazel, "Quaker Greggs," published by the author, Anderson, Indiana, 1944.

Kitman, Marvin, "The Mafking of the Prefident 1789 - The Unauthorized Campaign Biography," Harper & Row, 1989.

Kroeger, Brooke, "Nellie Bly - Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist," Random House, Times Books, New York, Toronto, 1994.

Lacy, Robert, "Majesty - Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor," Harcourt Brace Javonovich, New York and London, 1977.

Lee, Lucy Chaplin, "An American Sojourn in China," The Turnpike Press, Annandale, Virginia, 1968.

Leech, Margaret, "In the Days of McKinley," Harper & Brothers, New York, 1959.

Levi, Peter, "The Life and Times of William Shakespeare," Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1988.

Levy, Barry, "Quakers and the American Family - British Settlement in the Delaware Valley," Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1988.

Longford, Elizabeth, Editor, "Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes, The," Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1984.

Luke, Miriam, compiler, "Some Descendants of Thomas Bryant of Chester County, Pennsylvania," publisher unknown, 1976.

Lunt, W.E., "History of England," Harper & Brothers, New York and London, Third Edition, 1928, 1938, 1945.

Manchester, William, "American Caesar," Little, Brown & Co., New York, 1978.

Manchester, William, "A World Lit Only by Fire - The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age," Little, Brown and Co., Boston, Toronto, London, 1992.

Maris, George L. And Annie M., "The Maris Family in the United States - A Record of the Descendants of George and Alice Maris - 1683 - 1885," West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1885.

Martin, Ralph G., "Henry and Clare - An Intimate Portrait of the Luces," G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1991.

Mateer, Constance Louise (Leinweber), Compiler, "Early Death and Marriages in Armstrong Co.," 1985.

McCrum, Robert, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil, "The Story of English," Elisabeth Sifton Books, Viking, New York, 1986.

McCollough, David, "Mornings on Horseback," Simon & Schuster, New York, 1981.

McCollough, David, "Truman," Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992.

McFeely, William S., "Grant - A Biography," W.W. Norton & Co., New York and London, 1981.

Morris, Sylvia Jukes, "Edith Kermit Roosevelt - Portrait of a First Lady," Random House, New York, 1980.

Mosley, Charles, Compiler, "American Presidential Families With Political Essays by Hugh Brogan and Family Essays by Charles Mosley Biographical Details and Descendants Tables Compiled by Charles Mosley," Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, Maxweel Macmillan Canada, Toronto, 1993.

Murray, W. H., "Rob Roy MacGregor His Life and Times," Richard Drew Publishing, Canongate Press, 1982, 1995.

Myers, Albert Cook, "Immigration of Irish Quakers into America 1682-1750 - With Their Early History in Ireland," 1902, Reprinted 1969. Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985.

Nagel, Paul C., "The Lees of Virginia - Seven Generations of an American Family," Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1990.

Nelson, William, "New Jersey Marriage Records 1665-1800 Edited, with an Historical Introduction on the Early Marriage Laws of New Jersey, and the Precedents on whitch they were Founded," Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1973.

Ogden, Christopher, "Life of the Party - The Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman," Little, Brown & Co., Boston, New York, Toronto, London, 1994.

Oppenheimer, Jerry, "The Other Mrs. Kennedy - ETHEL SKAKEL KENNEDY: An American Drama of Power, Privilege, and Politics," St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994.

Painter, Sidney, "A History of the Middle Ages - 284-1500," Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1954. Parker, John, "King of Fools," St. Martin's Press, New York, New York, 1988.

Parker, John, "King of Fools," St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988.

Powell, J.H., "Bring Out Your Dead - The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793," University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949, 1965.

Randall, Ruth Painter, "Mary Lincoln - Biography of a Marriage," Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1953.

Reagan, Ena (Hughes), "The Autobiography of Irvin Garfield Reagan," handwritten manuscript, 1947.

Roberts, Gary Boyd, Compiler, "Ancestors of American Presidents," Published by Carl Boyer III, Santa Clarita, CA in cooperation with the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989

Roberts, Gary Boyd, Compiler, "The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States," New England Historical Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1993.

Robertson, Wyndham, "Pocahontas and her Descendants," Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1986.

Rupp, I.D., A Gentleman of the Bar, "Early History of Western Pennsylvania, and of the West, and of Western Expeditions and Campaigns From MDCCLIV To MDCCCXXXIII (1754-1833)," Daniel W. Kauffman, Pittsburgh, William O. Hickock, Harrisburg, 1847.

Rupp, I.D., "History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, The," Rush, Benjamin, "German Pioneer Lifestyle," 1789.

Sandburg, Carl, "Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years & The War Years - One Volume Edition," Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London, 1954.

Scharf, John Thomas, "History of Delaware 1609-1888," L.J. Richards & Co., Philadelphia, 1888.

Schoonover, Janetta Wright, compiler and editor, "The Brinton Genealogy A History of William Brinton Who Came From England to Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1684 And of His Descendants with Some Records of the English Brintons," Trenton, 1924, Gateway Press, Baltimore, 1992.

Scott, Ronald McNair, "Robert the Bruce - King of Scots," Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., New York, 1982.

Seale, William, "The President's House - A History - Volume One," White House Historical Association, with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society, Washington, 1986.

Seale, William, "The President's House - A History - Volume Two," White House Historical Association, with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society, Washington, 1986.

Shepherd, Jack, "The Adams Chronicles -- Four Generations of Greatness," Little, Brown & Co., Boston and Toronto, 1975.

Sitherwood, Sara Frances Grimes, "Throckmorton Family History," Bloomington, IL, 1929.

Skemp, Sheila L., "William Franklin - Son of a Patriot, Servant of a King," Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1990.

Smith, Gene, "When the Cheering Stopped - The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson," William Morrow & Co., New York, 1964.

Smith, Robert Walter, Esquire, "History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, The," Waterman, Watkins & Co., Chicago, 1883, Reprinted Unigraphic, Inc., Evansville, Indiana, 1975.

Spada, James, "Peter Lawford - The Man Who Kept the Secrets," Bantam Books, New York, 1991.

Stenton, Sir Frank M., "Ango-Saxon England," Third Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1943, 1947, 1971.

Stillwell, John E., M.D., "The History of Captain Richard Stillwell Son of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell and His Descendants," New York City, 1930.

Stillwell, John E., M.D., "The History of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell Progenitor of the Stillwell Family in America with Some Notices of the Family in the Kingdom of Great Britain," New York, 1929.

Stilwell, Benjamin Marshall, "Early Memoirs of the Stilwell Family, comprising the Life and Times of Nicholas Stilwell, the common ancestor of the numerous families bearing that surname, with some account of His Brothers John and Jasper, and incidentally, A sketch of the History of Manhattan Island and Its Vicinity, under The Dutch, with some contributions to A Genealogy of the Family," New York, 1878.

Trefousse, Hans L., "Andrew Johnson - A Biography," W.W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 1989.

Truman, Margaret, "Bess W. Truman," MacMillan Publishing Co., New York, 1986.

Truman, Margaret, "First Ladies," Random House, New York, 1995.

Tuchman, Barbara W., "A Distant Mirror - The Calamitous 14th Century," Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984. Baltimore, 1970.

Unknown, "Record of Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1810 - Vol. II," Lane S. Hart, State Printer, 1880.

Unknown, "Record of the Jackson Family, Proc. of the Sesquicentennial Gathering of the Descendants of Isaac and Ann Jackson at Harmony Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania," published in Philadelphia, 1878.

Wallechinsky, David and Irving Wallace, "The People's Almanac," Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York, 1975.

Wallechinsky, David and Irving Wallace, "The People's Almanac #2," Bantam Books, Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, 1978.

Wallechinsky, David and Irving Wallace, "The People's Almanac #3," Bantam Books, Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, 1981.

Ward, Geoffrey C., "Before the Trumpet - Young Franklin Roosevelt 1882-1905," Harper & Row, New York, 1985.

Warren, Louis A., "Lincoln's Youth - Indiana Years - Seven to Twenty-one - 1816-1830," Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, 1991.

Warren, W.L., "King John," University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1961, 1978.

Wedgewood, C.V., "A Coffin for King Charles - The Trial and Execution of Charles I," The MacMillan Co., 1964.

Weintraub, Stanley, "Victoria - An Intimate Biography," Truman Talley Books, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1987.

Weir, Alison, "The Life of Elizabeth I," Ballantine Books, New York, 1998.

Weir, Alison, "The Princes in the Tower," Ballantine Books, New York, 1992.

Weir, Alison, "The Six Wives of Henry VIII," Ballantine Books, New York, 1991.

Weir, Alison, "The Wars of the Roses," Ballantine Books, New York, 1995.

Wheatcroft, Andrew, "THE HABSBURGS Embodying Empire," Penguin Books, London, New York, Victoria, Toronto, Auckland, 1995, 1996.

Wickcliff, Charles, "Throckmorton Family - A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Throckmortons," Old Dominion Press, 1868.

Williamson, Hugh Ross, "Lorenzo the Magnificent," G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1974.

Wood, Michael, "In Search of the Dark Ages," Facts on File Publications, New York, 1987.

"World Almanac and Book of Facts 1993," Scripps Howard Co., New York, 1993.

Worth, Carley Bisher, Compiler, "Mendenhall - Ancestry and Descendants of Nathan and Rebecca Mendenhall," 1997.

 

CHARTS

Walthour, Frank Probst, "Descendants of Christopher and George Walthour," Greensburg, PA, 15 Nov 1930.

PERIODICALS

DAILY LEADER-TIMES, Kittanning, Pennsylvania:

"Mrs. Shiloh S. Walthour Vividly Recalls Anxious Night When She Sat At Her Key to Receive Message of Lincoln's Death," ? February 1930.

Obituary, Harold Reynolds Starr, ? December 1944.

Obituary, George Washington Luke Starr, 22 November, 1962.

Obituary, Loretta Walthour Starr, ? November 1952.

Obituary, Mary Starr, ? October 1946.

MENDENHALL MATTERS, Dean Leonard, Editor.

NEWSWEEK, "Four Generations in the Spotlight," 23 June 1997, pp. 36, 37.

QUAKER YEOMAN - Louis E. Jones, "William Clayton of Chichester," January 1985, pp. 1-2.