Norman Gasbarro | September 9, 2016
Herman Melville was born in New York City on 1 August 1819. His most famous work, Moby-Dick, was a novel that was published in 1851 and was based on his own experiences at sea in the 1840s. But by 1857, he stopped writing fiction and turned to other endeavors. His 1866, his first book of […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 26, 2016
“The late American historian Shelby Foote remarked that the following passage from Ourselves to Know [by novelist John O’Hara] is ‘…the single finest thing ever written about the Civil War.’”* A few months after the visit of the cavalrymen and a few weeks after the Fourth of July the noon train brought home two men […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 24, 2016
In researching the descendants of John Bender (1780-1827), who laid out the town of Elizabethville in 1817, Henry Benjamin Meffert was discovered as a Civil War soldier who served in the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F, as a Private and a Corporal. Portraits of Henry B. Meffert and his wife Lydia Dell Tunks are shown […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 22, 2016
In researching Civil War soldiers with a connection to Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, a question was asked by Jack Richter who is researching veterans for the Elizabethville Bicentennial, whether Dr. Wilson E. Naylor, a retired dentist of Elizabethville, was related to John Bender, considered to be Elizabethville‘s founder in 1817, which he named for his […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 19, 2016
Peter Crabb, one of the earliest settlers of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was an African American who was born in Pennsylvania about 1787. He was the father of two known Civil War soldiers, John Peter Crabb and Edward Crabb, both previously profiled here. At the present time, there are two working theories on where Peter […]
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