Norman Gasbarro | March 30, 2016
From the Philadelphia Inquirer, 20 February 1906: CARS CRUSH SHANTY: KILL WAR VETERAN Special to the Inquirer SHAMOKIN, Pennsylvania, 19 February 1906 — While sitting in a shanty near the Reading Railway, near here, to-day, Charles Henning, an aged war veteran and well known local resident, met a horible death. Two freight cars left the […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 28, 2016
William Hicks (1839-1904), who is buried at St. Paul (Bowerman’s) Lutheran Cemetery in Enterline, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, served in the 8th Illinois Infantry, Company D, as a Private. There is conflicting data on his dates of service. In one source, it is stated that he had three enlistments, while another source indicates his service as […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 23, 2016
In the Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, by J. L. Floyd and Company, 1911, a biographical sketch appears of the ancestry of James F. Heckert (1855-1936). James F. Heckert was too young to serve in the Civil War, but several his relations did serve. They are mentioned in the biographical sketch. [Note: click […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 21, 2016
A brief story appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph, 27 December 1875, describing an incident involving Civil War veteran Daniel W. Tobias of Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, which occurred at the Miners’ Deposit Bank: Forgery — On Monday last, Mr. Daniel W. Tobias of Jackson Township stepped into the Miners’ Deposit Bank, of this place, […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 14, 2016
This post will identify and review two readily-available print sources of information on the Ku Klan Klan in Pennsylvania in the 20th Century. This 20th Century iteration of the Klan was a re-incarnation of the first Klan that came about after the Civil War to deny rights to Freedmen by using terror and intimidation. From […]
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