Norman Gasbarro | February 15, 2019
A “Resolution of Respect” was published in the Lykens Standard of 19 October 1923 for Samuel M. Fenn: At a meeting of the Directors of the MINERS DEPOSIT BANK, of Lykens, Pennsylvania, held the 16th day of October 1923, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted. WHEREAS, by the inscrutable laws of Providence, our Associate Director, […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 13, 2019
Henry W. Faust died in March 1899 and is buried at the United Methodist Church Cemetery in Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. During the Civil War he served in the 39th Pennsylvania Infantry Militia (Emergency of 1863), Company H, as a Private from 29 June 1863 to 2 August 1863 when he was discharged at the […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 11, 2019
According to information found at the Pennsylvania Archives (above), Patrick Fagan, a 19-year-old miner, enrolled in the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company K, as a Private, on 23 September 1861, at Pottsvillle. He stood about 5 foot 9 inches tall, had dark hair, a dark complexion and light-colored eyes. According to information on the card, he […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 8, 2019
George Farber, who was born in Prussia, Germany, about 20 May 1840, was living in Petersburg, Lackawanna, County, Pennsylvania, at the time of the Civil War, when he enrolled there in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry on 17 September 1861. Like his father, he was a carpenter. After traveling to Harrisburg to be mustered into service […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 6, 2019
Ephraim F. Knipe was born in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, about 1839. He was a painter at the time of the Civil War, and according to military records, he served in three different regiments, one of which was an 1863 emergency militia. He was married to the former Elizabeth Zimmerman. In 1890, at the time […]
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