Now & Then - A Newsletter Of The Muncy Historical Society

A few years ago, I was gifted 28 bound Volumes Of Now & Then.  This is an incredible treasure trove of local history!

 Now And Then was a quarterly magazine of history and biography devoted to north-central Pennsylvania and with special attention given to the Borough of Muncy and the Valley of Muncy. It was first published in 1868 by J. M. M. Gernerd, was revived in 1929 by Dr. T. K. Wood and was adopted as the Muncy Historical Society's publication in 1939.

For my own research purposes, I'm finding a searchable digital list of the contents would be very helpful.  As with pretty much everything I do, this is a work in progress, but as I find, or have time, list the contents of each volume, I will list the topics here.  And I will fix the formatting at a later date.  

CONTENTS BY VOLUME NUMBER

Volume 1 (1868-1878)
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• Recollections of Muncy in 6 parts
• John Henry Pepper

Volume 2

Volume 3

Volume 4 (1929-1932)

• Muncy in 1857; 
• Underground railroad; 
• Conestoga wagons;
•  Dr. Lasalle;
•  Recollections of Muncy; 
• Muncy Female Seminary;
•  In the Hermitage;
•  The resurrected jury list; 
• First brick house in Montoursville; 
• The old Bloomingrove Meeting house; 
• House of many stairs; 
• Diary of Mary Hollingshead; 
• Old Tarbot Horse Protection Co.;
•  Journal of Martha Lewis Walton Grier; 
• Old Scholars Association of Friends School; 
• Muncy Dam; 
• Battle of Muncy Hills; 
• Old Stone Tavern;
•  Old canal days; 
• Recollections of Muncy Normal; 
• Old Central School; 
• Rachel Silverthorn; 
• Shady Bank School at Pennsdale;
•  The Elkland;
•  Manor of Pomfret;
•  A journey on horseback from New Brunswick, N.J. to Lycoming County in 1799;
•  Hill Burying Ground; 
• Rose Elizabeth Cleveland;
•  Origin of the name Williamsport;
•  Civil War diary of Richard Sanders;
•  Michael Risler Ross;
•  Family of Comly Randall;
•  French Azilum
• ; Mrs. Lucy Potter; 
• Muncy's old fortification; 
• Henry Scott, a pioneer of early Muncy Township;
•  Lycoming County Normal School;
•  Fort Muncy;
•  Old time village barber shops; 
• Connecticut colonization on the north branch of the Susquehanna River; 
• The Great Bend of the Susquehanna River;
•  List of Muncy Light Volunteer Infantry 1812; 
• Old letters of John Hill of Hillsgrove, Pa.

Volume 5 (1936)

 Jeremiah M.M. Gernerd; Celesta; David Allen's account of the Wyoming Massacre; Preserved Wheeler's account of the Wyoming Massacre; Diary of a Muncy boy kept while attending the West Branch High School at Jersey Shore in 1865-66; George Gabriel and his trace called Springfield; Job Chilloway, the friendly Delaware; Catherine Smith, forgotten woman patriot of the Revolution; The Kentucky Rifle and the rifle-boring mill of the "Widow Smith"; Observations made by John Bartram in his travels from Pennsylvania to Onondaga, Oswego and the Lake Ontario in 1743; Sulpher Springs history; On the Genesee Road; Muncy Borough's birth year; Man-aw-ky-hic-kon, the last chief of the Muncies to rule in Muncy Valley; Journal of an English emigrant farmer, 1838; Old letters (1760-1800) from the Wallis collection of papers; Indentured servants; Intimate glimpses of a few Friends in the early days of Muncy Monthly Meeting; Notes from the early records of the Muncy Friends Meetings; James Kiteley and his journal, 1790-1820; Journal of James Ecroyd; Muncy Creek's place in Indian history; Dr. Thomas Wood, pioneer physician, 1780-1826; A brief sketch of early history of the town and valley of Muncy; McMeen family.

Volume 6 

Revolutionary Fort Muncy; Edward D. Kittoe; Benjamin Lightfoot's diary; Job Chilloway; John Beeber Revolutionary War record; Muncy flood of 1889; "Little forts" of the West Branch Valley; History of the Muncy Historical Society; Crawford family; John Long, Muncy tinner; Port of Muncy (canal days); Black Harry (Henry Harris); Adam Beeber or Beiber Revolutionary War record; List of 500 names of Rev. soldiers who made pension claims; Muncy Female Seminary; Rachel Silverthorne legend; North country Pennsylvania; California fever in Muncy in 1852; Benjamin Pott; A Williamsporter looks at Muncy; Dr. Hugh Montgomery, his home in Black Hole Valley; Captain John Brady; Lewis Glass Works; Samuel Wallis, pioneer settler; Shoemaker's Mills; Trial of Barney McCue; Friends' influence on the early settlement of Muncy Valley; Wolf Run Post Office; Muncy reminiscences of the 1870s; A list of settlers living north of Muncy Hills in June 1778.

Volume 7 (1942-1945)

Wolf Township; Road Hall Tavern; Genealogy of John Piatt of France; Muncy Abolition Riot of 1842; Miss Susan E. Hall; Robert Coleman family; History of Clarkstown and vicinity; Founders of Muncy Presbyterian Church; Black Hole Valley and Clinton Township; Whirl's End vs. World's End and Cooper's Retreat; Old Stone Tavern; Susan Jane LaMonte life; Diary of C. Milton Battin, Fox Twp., Sullivan Co., 1865-1866; William Kent Lathy; First permanent settlers of Upper Loyalsock; William Kitchen of Hughesville, 1804-1859; Muncy houses built before 1800; Liberty Hall and Innkeeper Edward Jarvis Eldred; Opp family; Trial of John Earls for murder, 1835; Place names of Lycoming County; Black Hole Valley and Creek; Early gunsmiths of Lycoming County; Some Muncy bands; Recollections of Rose Valley; Old militia days, a history of the Penn'a militia; West Branch Canal; A partial list of Muncy's founders; John Penn's Manor of Muncy.

Volume 8 (1945-1948)

Painter family; Influence of the early church; Claus Borneman Bull; Conrad Weiser; Muncy, the ancient borough; John Wesley Little; Lost history of Seth Kinman; Name and location of Rev. soldiers' graves; Lydia Hollingsworth Wallis; Primary streams of Lycoming County; Dutch Billy, the rag man; County teachers' institutes; Sam Brady, Indian hunter; Williamsport in 1830.

Volume 9

Hughesville and its founding fathers; Sally Fairfax diary, 1772; Chautauqua movement in Lycoming County; First tin peddlers were Irish; Monsey Indians move westward; Wolf Run and Mt. Equity; Judge Jones of Lewis' Lake; Muncy's four Dr. Woods; General John Borrows; Old Muncy Normal days; The ragin' canarl; Marriage and death notices from Muncy Luminary 1842-1852; Muncy voters list 1845; Elizabeth Drinker's journal; Laporte and Michael Meylert; Sullivan County's first murder trial; Thomas Updegraff; Indian highways; Catherine Smith; Wintermoot's Fort; William McClay; Where stood Fort Brady?; Volunteer fire companies of Muncy; Old Hill burial ground; Muncy Dam and lumber days; Muncy as it was populated in 1870; John Adlumn and his Amelung glass.

Volume 10

• Celesta at its best;
•  Early life of William Simpson, surveyor; 
• Muncy High School in 1892; 
• Frederick Fleschhut, M.D.;
•  Pioneer doctors;
•  Mt. Vina, the Quynns and Amelung; 
• Narrative of captivity of Mrs. Whittaker;
•  Nonagenarians buried in Muncy Cemetery; 
• Fowler genealogy; 
• John Heckewelder's travels;
•  Names of doctors graduated from Muncy Normal; 
• Marriages and deaths from Muncy Luminary 1852-1854;
•  Edward J. Eldred's docket 1808-1815; 
• William Kent Lathy; Reminiscences of a circuit rider's daughter;
•  Forksville first settlers; 
• Williamson road;
•  Life of T. Coryell;
•  Lycoming Presbyterian Church burial records; 
• Forksville House hotel registers; 
• Saw Dust War of 1872;
•  Journal of William Colbert, itinerant preacher; 
• Diary of an unknown traveler, 1794;
•  Mingo farm;
•  Davy's 1794 diary;
•  Partial list of burials in Walton Cemetery, Muncy.

Volume 11 (1954-1957)

• Growing up at the foot of a mountain; Dr. Michael Steck;
•  The Molly Maguires;
•  History of early lighting devices; 
• Captivity of the Webster children;
•  Eagle Woolen Mill; 
• Marriages and deaths from the Muncy Luminary 1854-1857;
•  Scott family cemetery; 
• Job Packer; 
• Dr. James Davidson; 
• Neece family;
•  Journals of Bishop Asbury and Rev. Henry Boehm;
• Nippenose Valley;
•  Sergt. John Brady
•  Adam Hart;
•  Simon Schuyler's J.P. marriage docket, 1827-1833; 
• Canal riot of 1833; 
• Williamsport's first Sunday School, 1819;
•  Senator Henry Johnson of Muncy; Williamsport in 1830;
•  Eagles Mere Glass Factory daybook 1818-1830; 
• A trip across the Allegheny, 1826; 
• Col. John D. Musser Post No. 66, GAR Muncy; 
• Pennsylvania German fractur art;
• Diary of a Muncy boy at boarding school in 1865-1866; 
• Old Sam Brady; 
• Samuel Wallis' list of redemptioners;
• Samuel Eaton Sprout, a Forty-niner.

Volume 12:

Immanuel Lutheran Church including burials; Marriages and deaths from the Muncy Luminary, 1857-1860; Wood family; Major Samuel Bryan of Bryantown; Third party movements and independent political figures in Lycoming County; History of the Lutheran Church in and around the borders of Lycoming County; Warrior Run Presbyterian Church including burials; The great Milton fire of 1880; Cawley family; Early Methodism in north central Pennsylvania; Some Muncy lawyers; Logging railroads and locomotives in eastern Pennsylvania; Turncoats, traitors and heroes; Hughesville in the Nineties; Hartley's expedition of 1778; Old militia days; Baptist beginnings in Lycoming County; A journey through Sullivan County in 1874; Lycoming Fire Insurance Co. 1840-1885.

Volume 13 (1961-1962)

Muncy Female Seminary papers; Marriages and deaths from the Muncy Luminary, 1860-1861; Civil War begins; A brief account of the original settlers of Muncy Manor whose names appear on the 1776 survey; Automobile registrations in Lycoming County under Act of 1903; Civil War diary of Richard Sanders; Sprout-Waldron and Co.; Davidson's Burying Ground; Mosquito Valley chronicles 1750-1950; The Toonerville Interurban that met all trains; Blooming Grove settlement.

Volume 14 (1962-1965)

The Susquehanna boom; Covered bridges of Lycoming County; Landmarks of Lycoming County; Record of deaths in the Muncy area 1861; Mosquito Valley School 1872-1925; Marriages and deaths from Muncy Luminary 1861-1865; History of the settlement of Nippenose Valley; Muncy Masons a century ago; Forgotten schools of yesteryears; James P. Guyer, gunmaker; Jersey Shore Baptist Church; Ancient art of medicine in Lycoming County; A pre-Revolutionary incident (local); Loyalsock; Muncy Normal School principals 1870-1910; Birthdays of our boroughs and townships; Anthony Wayne Baumgartner 1839-1930; Muncians made Masons in 1865; Churches of Orwell (Bradford Co.); Life and times of Henry Antes; Year of the '89 flood; Frontier forts on the Susquehanna; It happened in 1898-1899; Amandous McKee and Ella Louise Huffman.

Volume 15 (1965-1968)

The amazing Pennsylvania Canal; Miniscules of Muncy history; Compact news capsules 1890; Lydia Margaret Weidenhamer; Record of an early local ministry; Marriages and deaths from Muncy Luminary 1865-1868; Muncy women to remember; History of music in Williamsport area; Muncy Lodge of Masons, class of 1866; Covered bridges in Lycoming County; Antes family; Ecroyd family; Ella Louisa Huffman; Remingtons of Armstrong Township; Yesteryears in Nippenose Valley; St. James Church; Rolandus Kocher; Battle of Muncy Hills; John Knorr, Civil War soldier; Battle of Fort Freeland; The Clapps; Tanning industry; Muncy business concerns 1899; Muncy postmasters 1800-1966; John DuBois; Proctorville; Town of White Deer; Fishing Creek Confederacy; Early missionaries in Muncy Valley; The Manvilles of Muncy; Follmer family; Early Lycoming County doctors; A cemetery record of 1857; Our county schools; Burlington Church; Thomas Smiley; Cascade; The Governor who lived at Montoursville; Great fire of 1874; Muncy pastorate 1893; French colony of Asylum; Little known Pine Creek hero; Peter and Mary Palmer.

Volume 16 (1968-1971)

 Welshans family; Marriages and deaths from Muncy Luminary, 1868-1871; Williamsport and North Branch Railroad; Early surveys and surveyors of Lycoming County; Salute to Gentle Jerry Gernerd; Quaker Meeting records 1796-1860; Follmers of Northumberland County; Names in the news in the Nineties; Captain John Brady story; Bucktown; Original townhip schools 1877; John Alward, early settler of Muncy; Delaware Township survey; Some early medicine in Lycoming County; McConnel genealogy; Muncy Hills survey 1849; Earliest Muncy musicians, 1830; John A. DeWald family and memories; The Big Runaway of 1778; Early stone houses around Muncy; Halls Station Cemetery; Lycoming County Normal School; Judge William Turner of Muncy; Riebsams of Muncy; Lycoming County fair, 100 years; Ledgers of James Rogers; The Guyers, Muncy gunmakers; Williamsport's 28 mayors; John Adlum 1759-1836; Painter family; Jacob A. Hazen; Multiple murder at Montgomery 1899; Webster and Tallman families 1741-1966; Life on a Mosquito Valley farm; Last days of the canal.

Volume 17 (1972-1974)

Montgomery's of the Muncy region; Marriages and deaths from Muncy Luminary, 1871-1874; William F. Packer, governor; Families of Halls Station; Shoemaker pioneers; Religious heritage of Muncy area; The Ralston I remember; Legal papers of Isaac D. McCarty; Michael Sechler's grave in Montgomery; First schoolhouse in Lycoming County, 1795; Ye Muncy of Olde; Early pioneers of Pine Creek Valley; Baptismal records of 1840 [St. Peter Lutheran of Collomsville]; Fahrenbach-Swisher families; Charles Lloyd at Fairview; The McNitts; Eli [McNitt] and the old Brick; Hartzell family; Van Horn ancestors; Warrensville; Armstrong Township early landholders; Gibson family of Muncy and Nisbet; James Pollock, Milton resident; The blacksmiths; John Steiner Gold's ancestry; Early Quakers of Muncy Meeting; Madame Montour's Indian village; Supplying horses to the local farmers; Fort Swartz in Milton; Muncy's many fire companies; Cherry Tree Joe; Acor and Lemon families; Opp family; Local episode of the Johnstown flood; Smith-Wallis Grist Mill; Immanuel Lutheran pastors.

Volume 18 (1974-1977)

St. Boniface Catholic Church; Phoebe and Henry Fritz; Early Quakers of the Muncy Meeting; Marriages and deaths from Muncy Luminary, 1874-1877; Muncy Valley Hospital and Medical Society; Mining village of McIntyre; Robert Guy and his descendants; When the trolleys ran in Williamsport; Tomb family of Pine Creek area; Fowler family; Pennsdale in 1896; Shikellamy, illustrious Indian leader; Montgomery in 1897; Conners family; A local family experiences the American Revolution; Teachers and directors of Lycoming County, 1889; Col. Milton Opp 1835-1864; Floods on the Susquehanna 1692-1894; Col. Samuel Mills, Revolutionary soldier; Peter Pence, local colonial hero; Underground railroad of Lycoming County; How Muncy established her three wards; Updegraff family; Willson family of Hepburn Township; Methodism in Muncy; Local events following the Revolution; Family that moved to Muncy during Revolution; Declaration of Pine Creek; First white man to visit Muncy; Moreland Lutheran Cemetery burials; Samuel Wallis; Charles Lose, last of the old schoolmasters; Muncy's two Lutheran churches; Aunt Betty Herritt, a pioneer woman; New look at the ancient boro of Muncy; The Gray's of Lycoming County; A few of Muncy's pedigreed houses; Schoch family; Clark family; Wolf Township school tax duplicate 1838; Lt. Col. Henry Shoemaker of Muncy; Immanuel Lutheran's supporting families; Muncy Cemetery 1857-1896; Barto family; Walton Cemetery; Stolz family from 1778; Nessmuk 1822-1890; Roricks and Ploofs, some local connections; Hughesville history; Floods on the West Branch 1692-1972; Smith-Madison-Farr family; John B. Hall Iron Works; Johnny Appleseed 1744-1845.

Volume 19  (1977-1980)

The ancient borough (Muncy); Clarkstown Methodist Church; Edwards family; Marriages and deaths from Muncy Luminary, 1877-1880; Klees family of Lycoming County; Jan Edwards; Unique station of the Underground R.R.; Van Fleet genealogy; Amish of Pennsylvania; St. James Church; Historical houses in Lycoming County; Gregg Township; Muncy Indians; Trips and travelers on the West Branch Canal; Early rural schools in Lycoming County; My first rural school; Civil War record of Lt. Col. John D. Musser; The stone house and North Mountain; Old Order Mennonites.

Volume 20 (1980-1983)

Muncy industries; Marriages and deaths from Muncy Luminary, 1880-1883; Oral history, Pennsdale; Black Tom; Warner tales; 25th anniversary of Muncy Baptist Church; Muncy trivia; Tales of Bull's Head Tavern; Friends settlement in Muncy Valley; Warner genealogy; Muncy past; Muncy Canal Company; Pre-Canal days on the Susquehanna; A legend of the Susquehanna; Mozley Opera House; St. Andrews Evangelical Lutheran Church.

The last volume I own is XXVIII [28] from 2010.  The last issue of the magazine that  I'm aware of being published was June/July of 2023.

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Dr Kenneth Wood

"Dating from January 1937, this publication, which had previously been a privately conducted magazine throughout a series of five volumes, became the publication organ of the Muncy Historical Society and Museum of History. Its function has been to print important papers read before the Society and any other local historical material coming to light from time to time. Also reports of activities of the Society and its affiliates, the Muncy Public Library and the Muncy Garden Club."