Norman Gasbarro | November 22, 2014
Jacob W. Bowers was born 18 January 1846 at Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of Adam Bower (1818-1885) and Mary Bower (1820-1856). The family name is found both as Bower and Bowers as can be seen by the various records presented here in this blog post. At the time of the Civil War, Jacob […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 20, 2014
About 105 years ago, the Army-Navy Football game, scheduled to be held at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, was cancelled as a result of the death of an Army player in a prior football game with Harvard University, and the football programs at West Point and Annapolis were is danger of being abolished. “Young Byrne expired just […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 19, 2014
Josiah Folk (or Foulk or Fulk as he is sometimes found in the records) was born about 1829, probably in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. In the 1850 census of Wiconisco Township, Dauphin County, he is found as a blacksmith. Living in his household were his wife Susanna [Riegle] Folk, working as a milliner, and infant daughter, […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 17, 2014
An entry in a 9th Pennsylvania Cavalryman’s diary read as follows: Saturday 30th [November 1861] – In the morning about 4 A.M. another excitement On board the Arago owing to a report that Isaac Messner was kicked over board by one of the Horses on board the Anglo Saxon… one of Co. B…. Both sides […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 16, 2014
Manuel Walker was one of many ex-slaves who chose to relocate in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the years immediately after the Civil War. He died on 18 September 1907 and his obituary appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot the next day. DEATH OF AN EX-SLAVE Manuel Walker, the aged colored sexton of Paxton Presbyterian Church, died […]
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