Norman Gasbarro | April 22, 2013
While working as track foreman on the Rattlling Run Division of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Leonard Craig was stabbed by another employee when he tried to stop a work-place quarrel. The following article appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot, 18 June 1889: Stabbed in the Abdomen Dauphin, Pennsylvania – 17 June 1889 – [Special] – […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 21, 2013
William Irving was one of Lykens elderly and respected citizens. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1841 and came to Lykens Borough, Dauphin County, in 1874 and entered the bottling business in which he engaged until 1874 when he entered the hotel business. He conducted the Valley House which was located at Main and […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 20, 2013
A question was asked by the Perry County Democrat in 1881 as to whether the Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens was from Pennsylvania. Information known at the time was that Stephens had an uncle who had lived in Perry County, Pennsylvania, and it was believed that his father, Andrew B. Stevens was born in […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 19, 2013
A set of three commemorative stamps was issued in 1959 in recognition of the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The first stamp in the set, a one cent value, was issued 12 February 1959 at Hodgenville, Kentucky, the place of Lincoln’s birth. It featured a portrait of Lincoln by George Healy. […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 18, 2013
What was the role of Freemasonry during the Civil War? Were members of Masonic lodges more loyal to Freemasonry than to the nation? In a prior post entitled, A Civil War Masonic Story, Most likely Fiction, a story was presented that was told by the historian of a Masonic Lodge in Virginia which presented the […]
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