Norman Gasbarro | August 17, 2012
A biography of Capt. John K. McGann appeared in the Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, published in 1894: Capt. John K. McGann, retired farmer and real estate dealer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28 May 1835. Edward McGann, his grandfather, was born and passed his life in Ireland; he was a wool carder and spinner. […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 14, 2012
Two previously published biographies of John F. Helt are presented below: John F. Helt was the son of David Helt and Elizabeth [Miller] Helt of Clark’s Valley, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he was born on 14 January 1841. John married Margaret A. Enders in October 1861. She was the daughter of Philip Enders and Margaret […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 29, 2011
The railroad station at Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, which was built about 1872, still stands today and is one of the oldest stations still in existence in central Pennsylvania. The tracks, which once ran through this borough, were torn up in the 1970s, and a street and parking lot exists where once there was […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 11, 2011
No less than twelve persons with the surname Hoover have thus far been identified for this Civil War Research Project. Their connection to each other, if there is a connection, has for the most part not yet been determined. For a few, there is extensive information available but for others, much more research needs to […]
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