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March 2015 Posts

A listing of the March 2015 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Monuments at Gettysburg – 107th Pennsylvania Infantry Two Lost Men with a Lykens Township Connection Monuments at Gettysburg – 109th Pennsylvania Infantry February 2015 Posts Capt. James K. Helms of Schuylkill Haven & Pottsville Obituary of Albert G. Cummings – […]

William B. Meetch – Had Connections to All of Dauphin County

The following is the obituary of William B. Meetch as it appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph, 3 September 1919: Former Power in Local Politics is Dead at Advanced Age WILLIAM B. MEETCH, LONG PROMINENT, IS DEAD Was for Years Repubilcan Leader and Widely-Known Hunter of Big Game LOVER OF OUTDOOR LIFE Although 75 Years Old […]

Capt. James K. Helms of Schuylkill Haven & Pottsville

The obituary of James K. Helms appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot on 25 July 1893: Death of a Prominent Pottsville Citizen. By Telegraph to THE PATRIOT. POTTSVILLE, Pennsylvania, 24 July 1893 — James Knox Helms, of Schuylkill Haven, died last evening, aged fifty-two years.  Captain Helms was one of the most widely known residents of […]

February 2015 Posts

A listing of the February 2015 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Dan Haller – Former Slave Dies at Harrisburg Almshouse Rev. George Shorter – 127th United States Colored Troops January 2015 Posts Cassius Mars – Founder of Stevens Post in Harrisburg More on Eli Gray – Barber of Harrisburg – and […]

Obituary of Frank N. Douden of Millersburg

On 23 March 1917 a brief obituary appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot noting the death of a prominent businessman of Millersburg, Frank N. Douden.  Although the obituary gave his middle initial as “S,” it is the same person who served in the Civil War in Company G of the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry. Frank S. Douden […]