An editorial from the Harrisburg Telegraph, 15 October 1866, on the election of John W. Geary as Governor of Pennsylvania, over the avowed white supremacist Hiester Clymer: THE GOVERNOR ELECT There has never been a man elected Governor of Pennsylvania who as fairly earned the position as has John W. Geary. We do not pretend […]
Hiester Clymer (1827- 12 June 1884), a member of the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania, was a State Senator who was opposed to Lincoln and his prosecution of the Civil War. In 1866 he ran for Governor and strongly espoused white supremacist policies. His opponent was Union General John W. Geary. According to Heister Clymer’s Wikipedia […]
F. Asbury Awl (1837-1907) was previously profiled here in a post entitled Brothers Who Were Colonels. What was not mentioned in that post was that he had racist views which were openly professed in 1866. After the war, Francis Asbury Awl openly supported the white supremacist views of Heister Clymer by signing a call for […]
Daniel Reisch, Civil War veteran and one of the Charter Members of the Slocum G.A.R. Post at Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, died at Steelton, Dauphin County, on 27 November 1899. A brief obituary appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph, 28 November 1899: This morning, after three month’s illness from Asthma, occurred the death of Daniel Reisch, […]
John Wesley Awl (1832-1894) was previously profiled here in a post entitled Brothers Who Were Colonels. What was not mentioned in that post was that he had racist views which were openly professed in 1866. After the war, John Wesley Awl openly supported the white supremacist views of Heister Clymer by signing a call for […]
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