Norman Gasbarro | January 17, 2013
Amos Garverich was born in Middle Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on 9 March 1821, the son of Daniel Garverich and Elizabeth [Umberger] Garverich. Before 1849, he married Juliann Harten and set about raising a family in Jackson Township, Dauphin County, while working as a laborer. And before the beginning of the war, at least […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 30, 2012
In a section describing John A. Sipe, found in the Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County Pennsylvania (1911), no less than ten Civil War veterans are mentioned in his extended family. John A. Sipe was a merchant tailor who had a post-Civil War business that centered in Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, but operated in […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 20, 2012
Of Rev. John R. Kooken, it was said that “as a pastor, he was faithful, earnest and successful, and as preacher, acceptable and even popular. He unfortunately took up the sword, and, in accordance with the sure word of inspiration, ‘died with the sword.’” During the Civil War, Rev. John R. Kooken was Capt. John […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 18, 2012
Information about the life of William Bender, of Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, a Civil War veteran, can be found in the Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, published in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1910, J. L. Runk and Company, and authored by William Henry Egle. (Click on book title for free download). William Bender, wheelwright and […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 15, 2012
On 23 February 1904, the Harrisburg Patriot reported the following death: John G. Killinger The death of John G. Killinger who was well known in Northern Dauphin County, occurred Saturday morning at his home in Fisherville. For twenty years he had been Justice of the Peace in Jackson Township. Mr. Killinger had also been a […]
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