The writer of this diary was born in Hereford Twp., Berks Co., Pa., in 1829, and died in the same township in 1901. John B. Gehman introduces us to a time of history when men and women harvested the grain in the fields, the first locomotive arrived in 1855, Abe Lincoln was elected president in 1861, etc. (48pp. illus. index. Compiler, 1992.)