Norman Gasbarro | September 16, 2011
DEATH OF JOHN C. MILLER LYKENS — John C. Miller of Market street, mention of whose serious illness from grip and pneumonia has several times been made in these columns during the past few weeks, died at noon Wednesday, aged 57 years, 2 months, and 22 days. His illness dates back to about eight […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 8, 2011
This is the eleventh in a series of posts on Gratz during the Civil War. The original house on Lot #85 on the north side of Market Street was built about 1832 at the time the land was conveyed to John Welker (1784-1854). The earliest found picture of the house is shown above and is […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 29, 2011
OUR NEW POSTMASTER LYKENS — Henry Feindt, whose appointment as postmaster was sent to the United States Senate for confirmation on Feb. 8, and who received his commission Thursday, Feb. 22nd, was born at Elizabethville on the 1st of January, 1842, and came to Lykens with his parents in May, 1851. His father, the late […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 26, 2011
William Thomas was born on 3 April 1838 in Wales and came to America at an early age with his father, John Thomas, who was a coal miner. The family settled in Wiconisco, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania. Like his father, William became a coal miner and in 1860, he was working in the mines around Lykens. […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 23, 2011
Civil War veteran burials in the Calvary United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, concludes today. —————————— Samuel Klinger (1819-1891). Served in the 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company K, as a Private. See prior post on Samuel Klinger. He was married four times: Rebecca Cooper; Magdalena ?; Belinda Savidge; and Catherine Kissinger. Samuel was a […]
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