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The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1898

| May 7, 2018

During the Civil War, Daniel Paul served as a Private in the 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H.  After the Civil War, he moved to Michigan, but kept in touch with his Lykens Valley friends and relatives via correspondence to the editor of the Lykens newspaper. One result of that correspondence from the year 1898 is […]

Tower City Area Schools Close to Allow Student Attendance at Ku Klux Klan Picnic, 1925

| May 2, 2018

It is not known whether the Ku Klux Klan would have survived in the Lykens Valley area without the support of major institutions, including religion, government and the schools.  This example of a Klan event was reported by a Tower City newspaper, which indicated that the schools of the area were officially closed following the […]

The Disappearance and Return of John Adams Miller of Halifax

| April 30, 2018

In September 1910, news reports of the discovery of a long-lost Halifax area Civil War veteran began to appear in the local newspapers.  That veteran was John Adams Miller who was born in Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on 23 May 1834, the son of Joseph H. Miller III (1812-1897) and Elizabeth B. [Bowerman] Miller […]

The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1873-1896

| April 27, 2018

During the Civil War, Daniel Paul served as a Private in the 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H.  After the Civil War, he moved to Michigan, but kept in touch with his Lykens Valley friends and relatives via correspondence to the editor of the Lykens newspaper. Some of the result of that correspondence from the period […]

The Ku Klux Klan Funeral of Lenore Schwalm of Hegins, 1925

| April 25, 2018

Lenore Felicia [Schwalm] Otto Stutzman died in 1925. Her obituary, which appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, told of many achievements in her life, but also did not fail to mention her Ku Klux Klan membership or the participation of that organization in her funeral rites. This post is […]