Norman Gasbarro | December 31, 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 […]
Brian Tomlin | December 30, 2012
In February, the post Inventions of the 1860s was published and has become one of the most viewed pages on the blog. In 1861, the U.S. Patent Law underwent a significant revision. Among the more important were: the appointment of three examiners-in-chief to hear appeals from the primary examiners of any application that had been rejected twice ; the […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 29, 2012
According to Burke’s Presidential Families of the United States, Abraham Lincoln is a direct descendant of King Edward I Plantagenet (1239-1307) of England. This connection with the royalty of the British Isles gives some descendants of the same king who currently have a connection with the Lykens Valley area, a distant cousin relationship with our […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 28, 2012
The memorial for Pennsylvania recipients of the Medal of Honor is located in Harrisburg, Dauphin County on the east side of the Capitol Building. A grove of trees (Soldiers and Sailors Grove) flanks the grounds where the name of each individual with the date and place of service is noted on a stone in the […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 27, 2012
Most stories of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln begin the same way. The author gives the date of Friday 14 April 1865 and mentions that Lincoln was taking in a play as a form of winding down from the pressures of office and four years of war. A brief description of the activities of […]
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