Norman Gasbarro | September 11, 2014
Two views of the Old Catholic Cemetery at Williamstown have been located. The pictures have been enhanced for presentation here on this blog. The first view appeared on page 92 of the Sesquicentennial History of Williamstown and Williams Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, published in 1976 by the Sesquicentennial Commission: The picture appears to show a […]
Norman Gasbarro | June 14, 2014
Military and pension records for Samuel Spotts (1841-1862), who is also found in the records as Samuel Spatz, indicate that he died by drowning in the James River, Virginia, on 7 July 1862 at Harrison’s Landing. Samuel was a member of the 35th Pennsylvania Infantry (also known as the 6th Pennsylvania Reserves) and had been […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 25, 2014
A biographical sketch of Charles T. Palmer, M.D., appeared in the Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, published in 1893, and was authored by Samuel T. Wiley. It is presented below in slightly modified form. Previously, a post on this blog featured his father, Robert M. Palmer, who was Abraham Lincoln’s Ambassador to […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 10, 2014
A biographical sketch of Robert M. Palmer appeared in the Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, published in 1893, and was authored by Samuel T. Wiley. It is presented below in slightly modified form. It tells the story of the minister President Abraham Lincoln appointed to Argentina. The Hon. Robert M. Palmer was […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 27, 2013
“The Lincoln Flag Hoax“, first published on 21 December 2012, was one of the conclusions to a long series on the Lincoln assassination that appeared throughout 2012. The series took the reader through a chronology of events that supposedly took place at and after the Lincoln assassination and included characters Laura Keene, Jeannie Gourlay, William […]
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