William George Buehler retired as a Rear Admiral from the United States Navy after a long career which spanned the Civil War period. Although he had no direct connection to Gratz or the Lykens Valley area, his brother Henry B. Buehler, served for a short time as a physician in Gratz before the Civil War […]
Mrs. Elizabeth Christine Buehler, wife of the late Dr. Henry Buehler, died at the home of her daughter in Baltimore on Monday morning aged 68 years. The remains were buried at her former home, Harrisburg, on Wednesday. From: Lykens Standard, 12 August 1904. The Harrisburg Patriot, 8 August 1904, gave a more detailed description in […]
Death of Dr. H. B. Buehler LYKENS, 5 February 1904. — After an illness lasting almost two years, Dr. Henry B Buehler, one of Harrisburg’s best known citizens, died Monday evening at his residence, No. 227 North Second Street. The direct cause of his death was dropsy born of the lingering illness that struck him […]
In the Lykens Standard of 25 April 1902, the editors began in serial form a lengthy article that had appeared in 1865 in the Lykens Valley Miner, which was then published by Samuel B. Coles and G. Washington Fenn. The article was entitled, Recollections of 40 Years: Regarding the LykensValley Coal Mines and Vicinity Adjacent, […]
The 118th Pennsylvania Infantry Monument at Gettysburg is located in the Rose Woods off Sickels Avenue. It was dedicated in 1889 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is the second monument to this regiment at Gettysburg; the first monument is located on the northeast side of Bog Round Top. The drawing of the monument pictured […]
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