Norman Gasbarro | September 22, 2018
When Riley Bressler died on 7 December 1899, two local newspapers published lengthy obituaries of him. The West Schuylkill Herald of Tower City, Schuylkill County, said the following in its 14 December 1899 edition: DEATH OF RILEY BRESSLER Riley Bressler who’s serious illness we mentioned in last week’s issue, passed peacefully away at about 1 […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 14, 2018
Cyrus Bitterman was born 21 April 1837 in Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of Hugh Bitterman (1813-1841) and Susanna [Bressler] Bitterman. On 18 November 1860, in Millersburg, Dauphin County, he married Louisa McCoy (1841-1892), daughter of William McCoy (1800-1894) and Eva [Bohner] McCoy (1810-1881). At the time of the Emergency of 1863, when the […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 9, 2018
Dr. John Boyer Beshler died at Oakdale, Washington Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 8 April 1869, and was buried at the Peace Cemetery, Berrysburg, Dauphin County. He was the son of Dr. Henry C. Beshler (1806-1888) and Mary [Boyer] Beshler (1814-1894) and was born 8 September 1839. The Lykens Register from 1869, reprinted in 1907, […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 14, 2018
Abel Wise, who was born in Millersburg on 3 October 1821, the son of Adam Wise (1751-1833) and Catherine Neiman Patton Wise (1785-1863). At the time of the Civil War, he served in the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, as a Sergeant, from 25 February 1865 through his honorable discharge on 24 August 1865. […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 26, 2018
Today’s post presents some events involving the Ku Klux Klan that were reported in the Lykens Standard. Each event needs further research. The above photograph was published in the Lykens Standard on 31 July 1925 along with three other photographs of the funeral of James Spangler, all showing hooded Klansmen marching in Lykens Borough in […]
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