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The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1873-1896
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on April 27, 2018
During the Civil War, Daniel Paul served as a Private in the 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H. After the Civil War, he moved to Michigan, but kept in touch with his Lykens Valley friends and relatives via correspondence to the editor of the Lykens newspaper.
Some of the result of that correspondence from the period 1873-1896 is reported below:
Mr. Jonas Paul, of Jefferson Township, about a mile from this place, was very unfortunate last week. While unbridling his horse at the stable, he became somehow entangled in the reins, fell and broke a leg above the ankle. The same gentleman a few years ago, while felling trees in the woods was caught by a limb and broke a leg at several places. He is a mason by trade, and is no doubt well known in your vicinity. Daniel Paul, his only son living, who moved to Michigan some years ago, was in on a visit a few months, and had left for his home only one day before the accident befell his father. He expressed great surprise on the many improvements made since he moved to Michigan. Mrs. Fitting, the widow of Samuel Fitting, from the same state, is also on a visit here. She is stopping with Mr. Nelson Enders.
Lykens Register, 17 January 1873
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Miss Cora Paul, of Constantine, Michigan, daughter of Daniel Paul, has come to visit friends in this section and intends to remain some time in the Keystone State. She spent a week in Washington with her brother Charles, who is employed by the government in that city.
“Enders Jottings,” Lykens Register, 9 October 1896.
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“Elmore” was glad to notice a few weeks ago a communication from his friend Daniel Paul of Constantine, Michigan. That is right Dan, stir up Tennessee, Missouri and Kansas readers of the popular Register. Boys let us hear from you occasionally at least. Why is our friend Philip J. Whitman of Chattanooga, Tennessee, so quiet? Let us hear from you.
“Enders Jottings,” Lykens Register, 11 December 1896.
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News articles from Newspapers.com. This series will continue up through the death of Daniel Paul, which occurred in Lykens in 1911.
Special thanks to Debby Rabold, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for discovering these articles about her relative.
I recently spent some time doing a little research on G.R. Prowell, a noted historian from York county, Pa. I found that mining newspaper articles was a treasure trove of information about a time and place in history.
It seems that you have to pay to do any such research on the web. I thought of this in reading to letters regarding Daniel Paul, noted above. Lots of work going thru micro fish etc. yet a gold mine. Do you have an internet source that does not require a subscription?