The 34th Pennsylvania Infantry (5th Pennsylvania Reserves) Monument at Gettysburg is located south of Gettysburg on the Big Round Top. It was dedicated in 1890, after the extensive number of battlefield monument dedications that took place in 1889 on the 25th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The view of the monument pictured above is […]
In the Lykens Standard of 25 April 1902, the editors began in serial form a lengthy article that had appeared in 1865 in the Lykens Valley Miner, which was then published by Samuel B. Coles and G. Washington Fenn. The article was entitled, Recollections of 40 Years: Regarding the LykensValley Coal Mines and Vicinity Adjacent, […]
The name John Roberts appears on the Lykens G.A.R. Monument as a Civil War soldier who was killed in action. At first, it was difficult to identify him, but recently, a Pennsylvania Veterans’ File Card was located for a John E. Roberts, who lived in Dauphin County at the time of his enlistment. An 18 […]
Michael O’Leary, whose name appears on the Lykens G.A.R. Monument as a Civil War veteran from the Lykens-Wiconisco area who was not a member of the Heilner Post, was identified as to his regiment and company by a record found on Ancestry.com in the series, Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Soldiers. The index […]
In 1912, the Hon. James Martin Yeager wrote and published A Brief History of the Yeager, Buffington, Creighton, Jacobs, Lemon, Hoffman and Woodside Families and Their Collateral Kindred of Pennsylvania. Yeager was formerly the President of Drew Seminary for Young Women of Carmel, New York as well as a former Member of the House of […]
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