Norman Gasbarro | April 17, 2013
Rev. O. E. Pflueger was the Lutheran pastor of the Lykens Valley Charge from 1889 to 1902. The charge at first consisted of five congregations in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania: Simeon’s Lutheran Church in Gratz; St. John’s Lutheran Church (also known as the Hill Church) in Mifflin Township, near Berrysburg; Salem Lutheran Church, Elizabethville; Zion Lutheran […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 6, 2012
Daniel Y. Lenker (1841-1900). Today’s post presents another of the biographical sketches from the volume, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, published in 1896 by J. M. Runk and Company, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Daniel Y. Lenker, distiller, was born in Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, 17 October 1871. He is a son of Nicholas Lenker […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 14, 2011
Zion’s Lutheran and German Reformed Church and Cemetery, also known as Hoover‘s Church, is located just north of Route 209 in Rife, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Rife is a small village located to the west of Elizabethville. Today, the church is known as Zion Lutheran Church and its pastor is Rev. Beth George. […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 13, 2011
Zion’s Lutheran and German Reformed Church and Cemetery, also known as Hoover‘s Church, is located just north of Route 209 in Rife, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Rife is a small village located to the west of Elizabethville. Today, the church is known as Zion Lutheran Church and its pastor is Rev. Beth George. […]
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