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The Gruesome Death of Israel B. Morgan of Valley View, 1885

| October 28, 2019

In doing further research on Israel B. Morgan (1841-1885), Civil War veteran from Valley View, Hegins Township, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, a small notification was discovered in the Pottsville Republican of 21 July 1885 as part of a general mining report: General remarks: fatal accidents: 11 June, 1885 – Israel Morgan, a miner at West Brookside Colliery, […]

Daniel Messner – Served in Infantry & Cavalry

| October 23, 2019

Daniel Messner (1834-1904) served in both an infantry and cavalry regiment during the Civil War. He died on 23 December 1904 is is buried in the cemetery in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and is also recognized on the Lykens G.A.R. Monument at that place. At the time of his death, the Lykens Standard, on 30 […]

W. H. Harris – 24th United States Colored Troops

| September 30, 2019

William H. Harris, an African American who was born in Henrietta County, Virginia, died on 14 October 1910 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Several local newspapers provided a brief obituary: From the Harrisburg Patriot, 4 November 1910: W. H. Harris The funeral of W. H. Harris, a Civil War veteran who died at his home, […]

Charles Henry Laudenslager of Lykens

| September 9, 2019

A recently discovered portrait of Civil War veteran Charles Henry Laudenslager (1847-1921), shown above, has prompted a revisiting of the information available on him to the Civil War Research Project. Previously noted here on this blog, in a post focusing on burials at Calvary United Methodist cemetery in Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was the following: […]

4 Lykens Printers Went to War – Only 1 Returned

| January 7, 2019

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, […]