In April 1865, Abraham Lincoln‘s funeral train left Washington, D.C., on a three-week journey on its way to Springfield, Illinois. During the time that Lincoln’s body lay in state for viewing by thousands in New York City, a photographer, Jeremiah Gurney Jr., with permission of those responsible for security, took a photograph. Secretary of War […]
Edward Gratz Jr. died on 22 October 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, A notice of his death appeared in Textile World: Edward Gratz Edward Gratz, cotton goods broker, with offices at 242 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, died Saturday, 22 October, after an illness of two weeks of pneumonia. Mr. Graz [sic] was 80 years old. He was […]
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project as updated 19 April 2012. In a series of post beginning Friday, 20 April 2012 and continuing intermittently for seven posts until concluding tomorrow, a brief sketch of each of the newly […]
The removal of Laura Keene from the Northern Central Railroad train arriving at Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on the morning of 17 April 1865, and her subsequent arrest and detention were noted in the post Laura Keene Arrested at Harrisburg. Traveling with Keene were John Dyott and Harry Hawk, the two male members of her […]
A previous post entitled Gratz Area Veterans Monument, was presented here in November 2010 and discussed the memorial that is located in front of the Gratz Community Center on Center Street in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. One face of that monument, the side that looks east, was not mentioned. The east side is the face […]
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