On 21 November 1878, Philip Hoffman of Lykens Borough, Dauphin County, was killed in a mine accident at Short Mountain Colliery. The notice of his accidental death appeared in the Lykens Register and was reprinted in the Harrisburg Telegraph of 25 November 1878: Killed in the Mines. The Lykens Register of Friday says: “Mr. Philip […]
For the 17 May 1917 edition of the Lykens Standard, Claude Keiser, son of Civil War Veteran Henry Keiser and a member of the local Sons of Veterans, provided a list of soldiers of that war and other wars who were buried in the Lykens cemeteries. ____________________________ I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Lykens William P. Miller —–Jonathan Hoffman […]
Some time after 1903, the Lykens Standard responded to a request to print a list of all mine-related fatalities at the Short Mountain Colliery, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Many of the men named in the fatalities list were Civil War veterans or were the sons of Civil War veterans. The list is presented below for […]
A listing of the October 2015 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Philip Hoffman – Killed in Mines, 1878 Clifford H. Romberger (1947-2015) – Civil War Re-Enactor September 2015 Posts Isaac Darker – Accident at Short Mountain Colliery, 1874 Obituary of James E. Lambert Who Were These Lykens-Wiconisco Soldiers? Who is John […]
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012. In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented. […]
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