Part 2 of this murder story will be told in today’s blog post. It includes pre-trial events involving Henry Fisher, the defendant, which resulted in the judge’s sending him to the Danville Insane Asylum for evaluation. Sarah Ann [Reed] Klinger, a widow of a Civil War veteran and a pensioner, was brutally murdered in her […]
Frank Fenstermacher is buried at Charles Evans Cemetery in Reading. According to information available in the Civil War records, he served honorably in the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, as a Private, but he was not on the muster out roll of the company in 1865. However, according to his pension application and soldiers’ home […]
Henry Feindt (1843-1914), a Civil War veteran of the 10th Pennsylvania Infantry (26th April 1861 – 31 Jul 1861) and the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (7 October 1861 – 18 July 1865), was Postmaster of Lykens in 1907 when an “earthquake of vast extent” hit the Upper Dauphin County area of the Susquehanna Valley. Feindt was […]
William W. Davidson was born in South Manheim Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, the son of John H. Davidson and Elizabeth [Schwenk] Davidson, on 18 December 1842. In the 1860 Census he was single, living in Millersburg, and working as a tanner. In September 1862, William responded to the emergency presented to Pennsylvania by joining the […]
Irving W. Tyson (1843-1922) was Postmaster of Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, for a time after the Civil War. He was a Civil War veteran who served in Company C of the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry. Irving W. Tyson was the son of Henry Tyson (born about 1817) and Hannah “Anna” Heebner (born about 1821). Irving’s […]
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