Norman Gasbarro | September 29, 2011
Philip Keiser Jr. (1800-1839) was born in Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Hoffman (1800-1876), a daughter of Peter Hoffman (1778-1864) and a great-granddaughter of Johann Peter Hoffman (1709-1797), Lykens Valley pioneer settler. All of Philip Keiser Jr.‘s descendants are therefore descendants of Johann Peter Hoffman [see prior posts on Hoffman family, […]
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Tags: Bird family, Eisenhower Family, G.A.R., Hoffman family, Hoover family, Keiser family, Lykens Borough, Matter family, Railroad, Regiments, Zerby family
Norman Gasbarro | June 19, 2011
This is the second part in a series on Civil War Gratz. This post focuses on the first public school in Gratz which was on Lot #11. The 1862 map of Gratz has a space marked “S.H.” where the school house existed. Most records indicate that there was a free public school located on Lot […]
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Norman Gasbarro | March 27, 2011
On 29 August 1863, in front of about twenty-five thousand witnesses including the soldiers of the 5th Army Corps, five deserters were executed near Washington, D.C. It was not unusual for deserters to be executed during the Civil War. What was unusual about this execution was that one of the soldiers was of the Jewish […]
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Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Jewish, Keiser family, Kuhn family, Regiments
Norman Gasbarro | February 13, 2011
A previous post on this topic gave some Pennsylvania Dutch words which were used to describe some basic foods which were common during the Civil War period. This post includes some of the Pennsylvania Dutch words used to name meals, food combinations in recipes, and finally, will give some of the recipes. As before, the […]
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Norman Gasbarro | January 30, 2011
Daniel Henry, whose father and uncles took part in the war for independence, was born in Reading in the last quarter of the18th century. When Pottsville was laid out, he as a carpenter, moved there, and on 9 January 1825, his son, William Henry was born. William Henry‘s mother died when he was eleven years […]
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Tags: G.A.R., Gratz family, Henry family, Keiser family, Porter Township, Regiments, Thompson family, Tower City
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