Norman Gasbarro | February 3, 2012
The following article appeared in the Lykens Standard, 22 August 1902: WOMAN’S RELIEF CORPS LYKENS — The Woman’s relief Corps of this place is not a large body, but notwithstanding they have labored for many years, and with good results, to advance the standard of patriotism and loyalty to country and to instill the belief […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 2, 2012
COL. WILLIAM W. JONES COL. WILLIAM W. JONES, train dispatcher and yardmaster, Summit Branch railroad, Lykens, Pa. He was born at Llandilo, Caermarthenshire, Wales, August 22, 1827. His father, John J. Jones, was also born in Wales, where he spent his younger days as keeper for the estate of Lord De Never. In 1829 he […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 1, 2012
THOMAS M. WILLIAMS, manager of the Lykens Valley and Summit Valley Branch Coal Company. He was born in Wales, G. B., June 5, 1835. He is the only child of John and Margaret (Morgan) Williams. His father was a tiler and plasterer; he died in Wales in 1837. His mother was married again, to Thomas […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 25, 2012
ALEXANDER F. THOMPSON, senator and attorney-at-law. He was born at Pottsville, Schuylkill county, Pa., December 7, 1845. He is a son of Alexander and Isabella (Pennman) Thompson, both paternal and maternal sides of the family being of Scottish ancestry. The father, Alexander Thompson, was born in Dalkeith, Scotland, in 1808, and spent the first twenty […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 15, 2012
Peter Low (also spelled Lowe) died on 20 December 1906 in Lykens, Pennsylvania. His obituary was contributed by Sally Reiner of the newly formed Lykens-Wiconisco Historical Society: PETER LOWE LYKENS — After an illness of paralysis dating back nearly a year, since which time he was quite helpless, Peter Lowe of North street, an old […]
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