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Eisenhower Family Civil War Veterans

| November 29, 2010

Entering Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from the west on Route 209, a large stone monument can be seen up on a grassy bank on the right side of the road.  The bronze plaque reads: Eisenhower Ancestral Home.  Built in 1854 by Jacob F. Eisenhower, grandfather of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States […]

Rebecca Gratz & 19th Century America

| November 24, 2010

About a year ago, longtime friend, Bob Linblad, invited a small group to visit the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia.  He had just completed his “certification” as a docent and wanted to practice on some of us who he knew would challenge his knowledge of the collection.  The tour began in a small room […]

Hoffman Family Civil War Veterans – Part 2 of 2

| November 23, 2010

Go back to the year 1924 when the Hoffman Monument was erected.  If 10% of the Civil War veterans from the Lykens V alley area were still alive at that time, they would have numbered about 200, and surely, as senior members of any family, would have been sought after to tell their stories of […]