Norman Gasbarro | February 20, 2015
On 23 March 1917 a brief obituary appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot noting the death of a prominent businessman of Millersburg, Frank N. Douden. Although the obituary gave his middle initial as “S,” it is the same person who served in the Civil War in Company G of the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry. Frank S. Douden […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 19, 2015
The 102nd Pennsylvania Infantry Monument at Gettysburg is located south of the town of Gettysburg near Wheatfield Road. It was dedicated in 1889 and turned over to the Memorial Association. The drawing of the monument pictured above is from a Philadelphia Inquirer article of 11 September 1889. A picture of the monument can be seen […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 18, 2015
The obituary of Billy Harley appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot on 6 August 1904: DEATH TOOK OLD DRIVER FOR GOVERNOR CURTIN Special Despatch to the Patriot Middletown, Pennsylvania — 4 August 1904 William T. Harley, a picturesque character of this place and a veteran of the Civil War and at one time driver for the […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 17, 2015
Major John W. Simpson was an African American Civil War veteran from Philadelphia who settled in Harrisburg after the war. He died on 6 April 1899 and is buried in Lincoln Cemetery in Harrisburg. The Harrisburg Patriot commemorated his life with a lengthy obituary: MAJOR J. W. SIMPSON Prominent Colored Citizen of This City Passes […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 16, 2015
An interesting obituary was located in the pages of the Harrisburg Patriot of 10 October 1895. Previous to finding this, it was not known that the upper townships of Dauphin County had been served by a justice, a teacher, and medical doctor who was a brigade surgeon in a Confederate cavalry regiment. Little is known […]
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