Shontz Family


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Descendants and some ancestors of Christian Schontz (1776-1862), son of John Schantz. He was born in Lancaster Co., Pa. He married abt. 1801 (1) Mary Margaret Hoover (1787-1839), daughter of Ulrich Hoover. He married (2) Elizabeth Betsey Graffius, daughter of John Graffius and Miss Coryell. Christian migrated from Lancaster County to Huntingdon County, Pa. in the late 1790s. He had seven children with his first wife. He is a great-grandson of the early Mennonite immigrant, Christian Tschantz (ca. 1695-1741), who immigrated to Philadelphia in 1717 from Switzerland. Descendants live in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Includes other unrelated Shontz families from Lancaster County in the early 1700s.










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Policing Women


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Today, we take female police officers and workers for granted. But what is the truth behind the scenes? Author Janis Appier traces the origins of women in police work beginning in 1910, explaining how pioneer policewomen's struggles to gain footholds in big city police departments ironically helped to make modern police work one of the more male dominated occupations in the United States. 12 illustrations.







Perspectives on Drug Use in the United States


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Here you’ll find perceptive critical analyses of areas of concern within the field that have important implications for both research endeavors and clinical intervention.