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Two Pennsylvania Democrats Who Voted for the 13th Amendment

| December 6, 2012

The Stephen Spierberg film, Lincoln, is based somewhat on the Pulitizer Prize winning book by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,  However, the film focuses on only a small part of the book, mainly a few pages describing the last months of the Lincoln presidency, when Abraham Lincoln was […]

The Husbands of the Sisters of John A. Sipe – Monroe Chronister and Hiram M. Jacobs

| December 4, 2012

In a section describing John A. Sipe, found in the Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County Pennsylvania  (1911), no less than ten Civil War veterans are mentioned in his extended family.  John A. Sipe was a merchant tailor who had a post-Civil War business that centered in Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, but operated in […]

The Brothers Thomas Vanaman, George Vanaman and David Vanaman

| December 2, 2012

In a section describing John A. Sipe, found in the Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County Pennsylvania  (1911), pages 627-628, no less than ten Civil War veterans are mentioned in his extended family.  John A. Sipe was a merchant tailor who had a post-Civil War business that centered in Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, but operated […]

The Brothers of John A. Sipe in the Civil War

| December 1, 2012

In a section describing John A. Sipe, found in the Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County Pennsylvania  (1911), pages 627-628, no less than ten Civil War veterans are mentioned in his extended family.  John A. Sipe was a merchant tailor who had a post-Civil War business that centered in Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, but operated […]

John A. Sipe – Tailor of Herndon

| November 30, 2012

In a section describing John A. Sipe, found in the Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County Pennsylvania  (1911), no less than ten Civil War veterans are mentioned in his extended family.  John A. Sipe was a merchant tailor who had a post-Civil War business that centered in Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, but operated in […]