Norman Gasbarro | August 6, 2012
The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 5, 2012
On the evening of 14 April 1865, William Withers Jr. was the leader of the orchestra at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. When John Wilkes Booth fled the theatre after firing the pistol shot that would result in the first assassination of a U.S. president, he supposedly encountered Withers who was standing near the rear […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 4, 2012
A listing of the July 2012 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Steve Maczuga’s Pennsylvania Civil War Project – An Update Popular Women’s Names from the Civil War (Part 2 of 3) Tragedies in the Life of William H. Hawk Independence Day – July 4, 1862 June 2012 Posts Statistical Record of […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 3, 2012
During the Civil War, Luther R. Keefer served as Deputy U.S. Marshal for the 14th Sub-District of Pennsylvania, which included Harrisburg and Gratz in Dauphin County. He was also a veteran of the Civil War having served in the militia that was called into state service for the Emergency of 1863. KEEFER, 28 July 1908, […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 2, 2012
The following is taken from the Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Schuylkill County, by Samuel T. Wiley, published in 1893 by Rush, West and Company, Philadelphia: Professor Charles D. Arters, ex-postmaster of Tremont and superintendent of the schools of Tremont Township [Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania], is a son of Robert Arters and Harriet [Cox] Arters, and […]
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