Norman Gasbarro | December 30, 2016
William McClain, a farmer who was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and resided in Dauphin County, enrolled in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry on 21 February 1864, at Harrisburg. On the same day, he was mustered into service in Company D, as a Private. His personal information included his age of 18, his height of nearly […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 14, 2016
A brief obituary of Rev. Joel Light appeared in the Reading Times, 25 February 1904: REV. JOEL LIGHT Rev. Joel Light died at his home, in Lebanon, of general debility, yesterday morning aged about 70 years. He was one of the best known ministers in the United Brethren Conference and had charges at various times […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 30, 2016
In April 1865, Abraham Lincoln‘s funeral train left Washington, D.C., on a three-week journey on its way to Springfield, Illinois. During the time that Lincoln’s body lay in state for viewing by thousands in New York City, a photographer, Jeremiah Gurney Jr., with permission of those responsible for security, took a photograph. Secretary of War […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 25, 2016
John D. Manning of Llewellyn, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, son of John Manning and Elizabeth Manning, was mustered into the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, as a Private, on 9 September 1861. The records of that regiment show that he was about 27 years old at the time and was working as a laborer. The Pennsylvania […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 18, 2016
The Harrisburg Daily Independent, 17 February 1905, printed a brief notice of the death of Isaac E. Marks of Tremont: —Isaac Marks, a prominent Tremont, Schuylkill County, citizen and retired merchant, is dead of pneumonia at his home, aged 62 years. He was a veteran of the civil war. As shown by the Pennsylvania Veterans’ […]
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