Norman Gasbarro | April 24, 2019
Henry Helt was born about 1844 in Pennsylvania, the son of David Helt (1817-1883) and Elizabeth [Miller] Helt (1823-1901). In 1850, he was living with his family in Rush Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where his father was a farmer. By 1860, Henry was engaged in farm work in Jackson Township, Dauphin County. On 6 December […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 7, 2018
Previously on this blog, Joseph Ehrhart, also known as Joseph Erhart was briefly profiled as part of a series on veterans of Tower City, Porter Township and Rush Township: JOSEPH ERHART (1836-1900) is also found as Joseph Ehrhart. He served in the 208th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, as a Private. In the 1890 Census, he […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 21, 2016
Previously, on 9 February 2013, Jonathan Miller was profiled as art of a blog post on Civil War burials at the St. Paul’s Cemetery, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania: Very little is known about Jonathan Miller (c. 1824-1890) except that he served in the 39th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1863), Company H, as a Private, from […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 29, 2016
There are now known to be three men named Lewis Kopp who had some connection to the Tower City area and to Civil War service. Two of them served in the Civil War and one was the son of a Civil War veteran: Lewis Kopp (or Ludwig Kopp), born about 1846 in Germany. Served in […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 10, 2016
Daniel D. Rumberger was originally located in the 1890 Veterans’ Census for Porter Township, Schuylkill County (shown below). Initially, there was some difficulty in identifying his birth and death dates and his connection to the Romberger family. However, using some of the information from Bob Averell’s Romberger research, he was positively identified as Daniel D. […]
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