Norman Gasbarro | October 19, 2016
Part 6 of this murder story will be told in today’s blog post. It begins with the incarceration of Henry Fisher in Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia following his sentencing and ends with the years after his release – with a few surprising twists in-between. The photo above of Eastern Penitentiary was taken in March 2009. […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 14, 2016
In the Memorial Book of the Otterbein Church of the United Brethren of Christ, Lykens Borough, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the following tribute is recorded: Brother Nathaniel Charles Lehman was born 12 September 1844 at Berrysburg, Pennsylvania, and died in Lykens, Pennsylvania, 5 March 1918, age 73 years, 5 months and 23 days. He was married […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 12, 2016
Part 5 of this murder story will be told in today’s blog post. It includes the appeal of the second trial and the third trial and conviction of Henry Fisher, this time for second degree murder. Sarah Ann [Reed] Klinger, a widow of a Civil War veteran and a pensioner, was brutally murdered in her home […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 10, 2016
On 29 January 1863, according to the U.S. Register of Deaths of Volunteers, James Ferguson, a Sergeant of the 142nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, died at the Stanton General Hospital, Washington, D.C., of “vulnus sclopet,” an abbreviation of the Latin term, vulnus sclopeticum, for “gunshot wound.” The treating surgeon who verified the death was John […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 7, 2016
The above family card for Anthony Wayne Loomis (1806-1864) was found in the Mennonite Vital Records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1750-2014, available on Ancestry.com. It shows a child, William A. Loomis, born 27 December 1842, married Harriet Thomas, and died 4 September 1900. The card states that Anthony Wayne Loomis lived in Halifax, Pennsylvania. On […]
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