Norman Gasbarro | April 25, 2014
A biographical sketch of Charles T. Palmer, M.D., appeared in the Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, published in 1893, and was authored by Samuel T. Wiley. It is presented below in slightly modified form. Previously, a post on this blog featured his father, Robert M. Palmer, who was Abraham Lincoln’s Ambassador to […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 24, 2014
Today’s post is the second installment of a series on The Great Shohola Train Wreck. Some of the early newspaper accounts from Pennsylvania newspapers are presented. On 15 July 1864, at about 2 P.M., a train carrying 833 Confederate prisoners of war and a contingent of Union guards, collided head-on with a 50-car coal train […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 23, 2014
The following story appeared in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader on 8 March 1915: KILLED IN STORM WHILE RETURNING FROM A WEDDING Civil War Veteran Crushed by Train After Witnessing Marriage of Daughter WAS BLINDED BY SNOW Death Discovered When the Body Drops Off Pilot Several Squares from Scene Shamokin, Pennsylvania, 8 March 1915 — Benjamin […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 22, 2014
Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the second circle, third quadrant, beginning with photograph 111. The photographs in this segment are numbered 111 through 119. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 19, 2014
On 15 July 1864, at about 2 P.M., a train carrying 833 Confederate prisoners of war and a contingent of Union guards, collided head-on with a 50-car coal train on a single-track main line of the New York and Erie Railroad. The collision occurred about one-and-a-half miles west of the small village of Shohola, Pike […]
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