Norman Gasbarro | June 26, 2011
Johann Philip Klinger (1723-1811) is buried in Zion (Klinger’s) Church Cemetery, Erdman, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Johann Philip was an immigrant and Revolutionary War soldier, and one of his sons, Johann Peter Klinger (1773-1858) married Catharine Steinbruch (1774-1845), the granddaughter of Johann Peter Hoffman (1709-1797), and was the subject of a post this past […]
Norman Gasbarro | June 21, 2011
There are many branches of the Klinger family in the Lykens Valley area. Many persons with the Klinger surname served in the Civil War. One good attempt to sort out a major branch of the Klinger family was made by Max E. Klinger and is entitled The Descendants of Johann Peter Klinger and Catharina Steinbruch. […]
Norman Gasbarro | June 17, 2011
St. Michael’s Lutheran Church, located in Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, has a relatively new cemetery for the Lykens Valley area, the first recorded burial being recorded there in 1894, the same year the church was built. It was that of Barbara [Wiest] Klinger (1832-1894), the wife of David S. Klinger (1827-1916). The church is located […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 22, 2010
Judith Giesberg’s Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), caught my attention while browsing in the open stacks at the Central Library here in Philadelphia a few weeks ago. Imagine my surprise when I opened the book to find several pages devoted to […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 23, 2010
Go back to the year 1924 when the Hoffman Monument was erected. If 10% of the Civil War veterans from the Lykens V alley area were still alive at that time, they would have numbered about 200, and surely, as senior members of any family, would have been sought after to tell their stories of […]
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