Norman Gasbarro | February 23, 2011
Nicholas Adams (1843-1927) was born in Sacramento, Hubley Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Some sources give his birth date as 20 April 1843 while other sources give it in March. He was the son of Nicholas Adams and Salome [Hoffa] Adams of Sacramento, who had twenty-one children, among them the sisters Hannah Adams and Ellen Adams, […]
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 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 25, 2011
In 1968, Tower City and Porter Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, celebrated its centennial. The “History Book Committee” was chaired by Howard G. Stutzman whose strong qualifications for the job were given in a brief biography on one of the book’s opening pages: attorney, historian, civil leader, churchman, public speaker, political leader, World War II […]
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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