Norman Gasbarro | March 13, 2012
The Dauphin County Memorial to the Civil War is currently located in a park at 3rd Street and Division Streets near William Penn High School and near Italian Lake. It is now in the Uptown section of Harrisburg, north of what was once the entrance area to Camp Curtin. The monument stands about 110 feet […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 11, 2012
DEATHS SAMUEL S. MATTER LYKENS, 20 November 1903. — Samuel S. Matter, an old resident of this place, was found dead in a back kitchen at his residence on Main Street, about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday. Mr. Matter, who was employed at Short Mountain Breaker, returned home from work shortly after five o’clock and entered the […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 10, 2012
TWO KILLED IN PLYMOUTH MINE PLYMOUTH, 27 August 1903. — A heavy fall of coal in the Red Ash vein of the No. 5 colliery of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company in Plymouth at 10:30 this morning cost the lives of two men. They are, J. W. Steever, miner, aged 52 years, of East […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 9, 2012
Death of Dr. H. B. Buehler LYKENS, 5 February 1904. — After an illness lasting almost two years, Dr. Henry B Buehler, one of Harrisburg’s best known citizens, died Monday evening at his residence, No. 227 North Second Street. The direct cause of his death was dropsy born of the lingering illness that struck him […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 8, 2012
On 1 January 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Much has been written about the proclamation and its effect on the war and the policy for the conduct of the war. On the day after its release, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported the following: The President’s Emancipation Proclamation. The important Proclamation of the President of […]
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