Two portraits of Rev. Milton H. Sangree have been recently discovered in a file folder. Attached (with a paper clip) to the portraits was a note stating the following: “Keep these… think he may be a former Salem Church Pastor.” There are several churches in the Lykens Valley area with the name “Salem”, so it […]
John Peter Crabb was born in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in October 1843, the son of Peter Crabb and his wife Mary Magdalena Crabb. The Peter Crabb family arrived in Gratz in the early part of the 19th century and purchased land from Simon Gratz. John Peter Crabb, like his father, was a skilled blacksmith. […]
William H. Geanslen was born in August 1846 in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, the son of George L. Genslin (1810-1850) and Mary [Lehr] Genslin (1812-1889). His father, George, was born in Germany and was a baker and confectioner, who had come to America before 1838 and settled in the Pottville area. The mother, Mary, was […]
Part 3. The Dauphin County Memorial to the Civil War is currently located in a park at 3rd Street and Division Streets near William Penn High School and near Italian Lake. It is now in the Uptown section of Harrisburg, north of what was once the entrance area to Camp Curtin. The monument stands about […]
Improvements in mechanical factory systems and the movement of many people from farms to cities helped drive the need for “convenience foods,” and many we still depend on were introduced during the 1860s. Tobasco sauce. Edmund McIlhenny (1815-1890), a New Orleans banker, was given a gift by a soldier returning to New Orleans from Mexico of […]
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