Norman Gasbarro | May 10, 2016
The following message was forwarded to The Civil War Blog by Barry Stocker, regular contributor of information on Civil War soldiers from the Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, area. I found an interesting story about some Confederate POW’s used by an Iron Baron by the name of Grubb. They died while being used for slave labor in […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 9, 2016
The Harrisburg Telegraph reported the tragic death of John M. Hughes, prominent hosiery mill owner of Williamstown on 29 July 1898: CRUSHED BY THE WHEELS The Frightful Death of a Williamstown Mill Owner It was a frightful accident which befell John M. Hughes, of the firm of Hughes and Hoffman, proprietor of the Williamstown Hosiery […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 6, 2016
Jacob Zerby, Civil war veteran of the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, died on 19 November 1913. His death was reported in the Harrisburg Telegraph of the next day: Elizabethville — Jacob Zerby, a member of Sherman’s Cavalry during his famous march “to the sea,” died of the infirmities of old age yesterday after a year’s illness […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 5, 2016
A listing of the April 2016 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links. March 2016 Posts Civil War Railroad Structures of Elizabethville Selected Items from the Pension Files of Mrs. Daniel Williard Henry H. Weaver – Died in War at Jeffersonville, Indiana Gen. George McClellan’s Philadelphia Home – Historical Marker Civil War Railroad […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 4, 2016
The Mount Carmel Item published the obituary of Henry Hoover on 5 March 1912: DEATH OF NEWSPAPERMAN Henry Hoover, senior proprietor of the News Publishing Company, of Shamokin, died at his home in Shamokin this morning at three o’clock from a complication of diseases. He had been ill for the last several months. He was […]
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