On 14 March 1901, a Civil War veteran, Charles W. Ryan was shot and killed during a robbery at the Halifax National Bank in Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, by one of the two men committing that robbery. Ryan, who was serving as cashier at the bank, was also one of the bank’s founding shareholder members. […]
Jacob Zerby, Civil war veteran of the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, died on 19 November 1913. His death was reported in the Harrisburg Telegraph of the next day: Elizabethville — Jacob Zerby, a member of Sherman’s Cavalry during his famous march “to the sea,” died of the infirmities of old age yesterday after a year’s illness […]
DAVID H. SMITH, FORMER JAIL TURNKEY DIES Progress [Dauphin County, Pennsylvania], 6 August 1917 — David H. Smith, 64 years old, Civil War veteran, and for nineteen years turnkey in the Dauphin County Prison, died at his home her yesterday after a long illness. He was a member of Mount Vernon Council, No. 333, Junior […]
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012. In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented. […]
John W. Simonton, the presiding judge at the trial of Keiper and Rowe, the two Halifax National Bank robbers and murderers of bank cashier and Civil War veteran Charles W. Ryan, was himself a Civil War veteran, having served as a Private in the 1st Pennsylvania Infantry (Militia of 1862), Company K. The biography and […]
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