Norman Gasbarro | July 8, 2015
The following is a small sample of Civil War veteran suicides that took place around the turn of the century. —————————- From the Harrisburg Telegraph, 28 April 1900: A Veteran Commit Suicide Lancaster, 28 April, 1900 — John A. Taylor, a veteran of the Civil War, committed suicide last night by taking strychnine. He had […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 6, 2015
In 1912, the Hon. James Martin Yeager wrote and published A Brief History of the Yeager, Buffington, Creighton, Jacobs, Lemon, Hoffman and Woodside Families and Their Collateral Kindred of Pennsylvania. Yeager was formerly the President of Drew Seminary for Young Women of Carmel, New York as well as a former Member of the House of […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 3, 2015
Open House at Pillow Historical Society – 4 July 2015 The Pillow Historical Society will host an Open House at the museum on Saturday, 4 July 2015, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The museum will have some new displays including stove pipe making tools used by Earl Bingaman, the council minute books from Pillow […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 1, 2015
Philip C. Swab, or Philip C. Schwab as he is sometimes found in the records, served in the 208th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, as a Private, from 30 August 1864 through his muster out on 1 June 1865. He died in Tennessee on 10 January 1900, but his roots were in the Lykens Valley in […]
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