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 […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 29, 2011
Nearly all of the men who served in the Civil War from the Lykens Valley area served in military units as soldiers. But a few did serve as sailors or marines. Finding information on the sailors and marines is much more difficult than finding information on soldiers who served in Pennsylvania Civil War regiments, because they […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 27, 2011
In locating interesting stories about the Civil War, often the best ones are found in obvious places. The one told below was located in an anthology entitled Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends & Folklore, edited by B. A. Botkin, and published in 1960. It comes from a Confederate Gen. John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), and […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 26, 2011
Charlemagne Tower (1809-1889) was the founder of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. A biography of him appears in A Centennial History of Tower City and Porter Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. As noted in the previous post, his name was omitted from the list of Civil War veterans although the biography states he did have Civil […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 23, 2011
In yesterday’s post, two immigrant ancestors of Dietrich‘s from the Lykens Valley area were presented. The information on those immigrant ancestors was printed in Our Dietrich Lines, a genealogy by William Dietrich, a direct descendant of both Dietrich immigrants, Michael Dietrich and Lenhart Dietrich. It was also pointed out that there was no ancestral connection […]
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