Norman Gasbarro | January 15, 2013
John Peter Crabb was born in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in October 1843, the son of Peter Crabb and his wife Mary Magdalena Crabb. The Peter Crabb family arrived in Gratz in the early part of the 19th century and purchased land from Simon Gratz. John Peter Crabb, like his father, was a skilled blacksmith. […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 12, 2013
John W. Hoffman had two enlistments during the Civil War. In the first, he served as a Musician in Company D of the 127th Pennsylvania Infantry, and in the second, he was a Private in the 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company G, serving on Roanoke Island, eventually being discharged at New Bern, North Carolina, 25 June […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 8, 2013
Irving W. Tyson (1843-1922) was Postmaster of Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, for a time after the Civil War. He was a Civil War veteran who served in Company C of the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry. Irving W. Tyson was the son of Henry Tyson (born about 1817) and Hannah “Anna” Heebner (born about 1821). Irving’s […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 6, 2013
The Gettysburg Address was delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, 19 November 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. The historical marker […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 4, 2013
John Arnts, or John Arntz, as he was also known, was a Civil War soldier from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who had ties to Dauphin County through his son who was a creamery owner in Elizabethville and Gratz. John Arnts was born on 30 September 1828 and died on 7 December 1897. On 8 August 1864, […]
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