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The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1904
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on June 8, 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.
One result of that correspondence from the year 1904 is reported below:
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LETTER FROM DANIEL PAUL OF MICHIGAN
EDITOR STANDARD – As I am the only subscriber to your paper in this part of the country, I thought perhaps a few lines to your readers and my old friends and neighbors, many of whom are scattered all over the west, would prove of interest to them. Some went west when I did – in the Spring of 1867 – and other later on. It scarcely seems that long, but time flies very fast. I am not a stranger in your part of the country as I have been back quite a number of times and have always taken a Lykens paper to keep informed of the happenings at my old home. Our winter, which is not over yet, has been a cold one all through, the thermometer registering not less that 2 degrees below zero every morning during December, January and February, and sometimes 20 degrees below. We had sour first sleighing on Thanksgiving day, and thus far have had 115 days of good sleighing. The ice on our lakes is two feet thick, and last week they had horse races on the ice. Last year in March we sowed oats, made garden and planted potatoes, while this year the ground is covered with snow yet and banked up four feet high at some places. The snow in the woods is 8 inches deep yet and melting very slowly. Some of our people have commenced making maple sugar. We don’t have much high water as the country is too level.
Rock Creek let’s hear from you.
DANIEL PAUL.
Constantine, Michigan, 21 March.
Lykens Standard, 25 March 1904.
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News articls 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.
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