In 1912, the Hon. James Martin Yeager wrote and published A Brief History of the Yeager, Buffington, Creighton, Jacobs, Lemon, Hoffman and Woodside Families and Their Collateral Kindred of Pennsylvania. Yeager was formerly the President of Drew Seminary for Young Women of Carmel, New York as well as a former Member of the House of […]
Today’s post features the grave of Col. Edward H. Leib who is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and also gives some additional information about him and his service in the Civil War. One of the above two men is thought to be “Capt. E. Leib, 5th U.S. Cavalry” and the […]
In October 1939, there appeared an obituary in the Elizabethville Echo newspaper for Gen. Francis A. Stitzer, who passed away at his home in Colorado at the age of 99. Francis A. Stitzer was a native of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and was born to John David Stitzer and Sarah [Heckaman] Stitzer on 29 August 1840. […]
When the guns ceased firing and Fort Sumter surrendered to its Southern attackers in April 1861, a “war-footing” began as hundreds of thousands of men, North and South, patriotically enlisted for their respective causes. In Pennsylvania, dozens of militia units formed with those already in existence to form regiments destined to participate in civil war. […]
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 […]
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