Norman Gasbarro | March 21, 2012
William Irving was one of Lykens elderly and respected citizens. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1841 and came to Lykens Borough, Dauphin County, in 1874 and entered the bottling business in which he engaged until 1874 when he entered the hotel business. He conducted the Valley House which was located at Main and […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 17, 2012
In the post yesterday, there was speculation on how Laura Keene got to Cincinnati after she was released from arrest in Harrisburg. The story of how she acted immediately after the Lincoln assassination on 14 April 1865 has been told here in a series of posts. The goal has been to determine whether the story […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 16, 2012
When Laura Keene and her travel party of Harry Hawk, John Dyott, and Manager John Lutz left Harrisburg after their release from arrest following their removal from the Northern Central Railroad train from Baltimore, their objective was Cincinnati, Ohio, where Laura was booked to perform Our American Cousin on the Monday following the fatal Friday […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 8, 2012
On 1 January 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Much has been written about the proclamation and its effect on the war and the policy for the conduct of the war. On the day after its release, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported the following: The President’s Emancipation Proclamation. The important Proclamation of the President of […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 6, 2012
In prior posts on the actions of Laura Keene immediately after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the story of her rushing up to the State Box with a pitcher of water and then cradling Lincoln’s head in her lap was examined. There is no contemporaneous evidence that this actually happened, but there are many who […]
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