Norman Gasbarro | May 2, 2016
On 25 August 1865, David Muir, a mine superintendent who lived in Foster Township, was murdered near his home in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. A description of his death appeared in the Reading Times, 29 August 1865: MURDER — We learn that David Muir, a superintendent of the Forest Improvement Company, was murdered on Friday, on […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 29, 2016
Some time after 1903, the Lykens Standard responded to a request to print a list of all mine-related fatalities at the Short Mountain Colliery, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Many of the men named in the fatalities list were Civil War veterans or were the sons of Civil War veterans. The list is presented below for […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 28, 2016
On 4 November 2014, a post entitled “The Groff Brothers? Hiram, Valentine and William,” was presented here. Some questions were asked in that post and readers were asked to submit additional information about the men named Groff. Note: A prior post also discussed “Israel M. Groff and Sons – All Civil War Veterans?” The following […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 26, 2016
Hiester Clymer (1827- 12 June 1884), a member of the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania, was a State Senator who was opposed to Lincoln and his prosecution of the Civil War. In 1866 he ran for Governor and strongly espoused white supremacist policies. His opponent was Union General John W. Geary. According to Heister Clymer’s Wikipedia […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 22, 2016
In the 1860 Census of Washington Township, (Post Office Elizabethville), Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, there appears a family identified in the “Color” column as “m” for Mulatto. The head of the family was Marks Hornet, a 38 year-old laborer. He indicated to the census that he was born in Pennsylvania, that did not own any real […]
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