Norman Gasbarro | March 2, 2012
An Honorable War Record LYKENS, 7 August 1903. — We read almost daily in the papers of the State the military record of some veteran of the Civil War who believes his services were of much character as to prove of interest to the general public, but we doubt if any can show up a […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 1, 2012
Death of Joel B. Myers LYKENS, 26 June 1903 — Joel B. Myers died at his home in Wiconisco on Friday evening, 19 June, at about 5 o’clock, after an illness of one week. Thursday preceding his death he had an attack of cramp and so great was the strain upon his constitution that the […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 19, 2012
The last stop on the Lykens Valley Railroad was Millersburg, where connections could be made with the Northern Central Railroad. This was one of the busiest points in the Union during the Civil War and everything from freight to regular passenger trains to troop trains to prisoner trains traveled through this small town day and […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 31, 2012
1943. Henry Maurer, Last Civil War Veteran in County to Mark 97th Birthday. Henry Maurer, last Civil War veteran in Dauphin County, who will observe his ninety-seventh birthday anniversary next Tuesday, is shown with some members of his family at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Samuel Miller, Wiconisco, where the aged man now makes […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 25, 2012
ALEXANDER F. THOMPSON, senator and attorney-at-law. He was born at Pottsville, Schuylkill county, Pa., December 7, 1845. He is a son of Alexander and Isabella (Pennman) Thompson, both paternal and maternal sides of the family being of Scottish ancestry. The father, Alexander Thompson, was born in Dalkeith, Scotland, in 1808, and spent the first twenty […]
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