During the Civil War, John D. Messner served in the 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. According to the Veterans’ File Card from the Pennsylvania Archives, John Messner enrolled at Harrisburg on 19 February 1964 and on the same day was mustered into service in the 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Company D, as a Private. He was […]
John C. Davis, was born 18 May 1846, in Wales, and emigrated to the United States only a few years before the Civil War. In 1890, he was living in Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and reported to the census that he had served in the 179th Ohio Infantry, Company G, as a Private. The above […]
Gratz Cohen was born in Georgia, 3 November 1844, the son of Solomon Cohen (1802-1875) and Miriam Gratz [Moses] Cohen (1808-1891). The mother Miriam, was a daughter of Solomon Moses and Rachel [Gratz] Moses. Gratz Cohen‘s maternal grandmother, Rachel [Gratz] Moses (1783-1823) was a younger sister of Simon Gratz (1773-1839), who is considered the founder […]
John Chubb, a Civil War veteran, accidentally died on 17 April 1870, after falling into the Pennsylvania Canal. From the Harrisburg Telegraph, 19 April 1870: MAN DROWNED AT MIDDLETOWN — Last evening, between eight and nine o’clock, a man named John Chubb, aged about forty-five years, originally from the neighborhood of Halifax, this county, who, […]
Dr. John Boyer Beshler died at Oakdale, Washington Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 8 April 1869, and was buried at the Peace Cemetery, Berrysburg, Dauphin County. He was the son of Dr. Henry C. Beshler (1806-1888) and Mary [Boyer] Beshler (1814-1894) and was born 8 September 1839. The Lykens Register from 1869, reprinted in 1907, […]
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