Norman Gasbarro | October 12, 2018
Charles Artz Coleman (1844-1915), was drafted into Civil War service and reported to Camp Curtin and was assigned to Company I, 177th Pennsylvania Infantry. The record indicates that this occurred on 2 November 1862 and on the same day, he was discharged on a Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability. Because of the way Civil War rosters […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 11, 2018
Minersville, Schuylkill County, is adjacent to the area of study of the Civil War Research Project. No doubt though, what happened there was well known within the Lykens Valley area. The Pottsville Republican, of 30 June 1927, reported on a Ku Klux Klan event for the 4th of July – a parade of Klansmen in Minersville. […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 10, 2018
William Washington Davidson (1842-1923) was previously profiled here in a post entitled William W. Davidson Dies on Visit to Detroit. An additional obituary has been located – from the Harrisburg Telegraph, 12 December 1923: William W. Davidson, aged 81 years, retired Pennsylvania [Railroad] System yardmaster, and well-known Civil War veteran, died suddenly yesterday at the […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 9, 2018
Few religious leaders spoke out against the Ku Klux Klan when it was at its height in the mid-1920s in the Lykens Valley area. One exception was the Rev. Dr. George W. Humphreys, who delivered a scathing sermon against the hooded order when he was the pastor of the Methodist Church at Shenandoah, Schuylkill County […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 8, 2018
Civil War veteran Benjamin Davis died on 13 April 1924. He is buried at the United Methodist Church Cemetery in Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the Davis family plot. Previously on this blog, a brief biographical sketch of him appeared as part of a post describing burials in that cemetery in Williamstown: Benjamin Byron Davis […]
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