Norman Gasbarro | April 28, 2012
LYKENS, 20 August 1928 — Funeral services for J. Wesley Witmer, 83 years old, Civil War veteran and former Burgess of this place, who died at his home here Saturday morning, will be held at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock with the Rev. Frank Matter, of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will […]
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Norman Gasbarro | February 25, 2012
Today, the blog post features two officers of the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, who served the full term of nine months and received honorable discharges on 5 August 1863. The research results presented here are based on preliminary data gathering on each of the members of the company and searches for Pension Index Cards […]
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Norman Gasbarro | January 2, 2012
The Good Tannery was located at the west end of Gratz. In 1842, a “tanyard” was owned by Daniel Good and Samuel Ritter but tax records show that the property on which the Good Tannery was located was not conveyed to Daniel Good until 1843. Good had originally settled in Loyalton and operated a tannery […]
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Norman Gasbarro | October 6, 2011
During the Civil War, the owner of this property known as Lot #64 was Solomon Wolf (1811-?), an immigrant from Prussia, who was said to have tried many occupations including farmer, huckster, saddler and liquor dealer – all from this property and the adjacent property, Lot #62. In 1846, Wolf had purchased the house and […]
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Norman Gasbarro | September 21, 2011
In the years before the Civil War and in the years following the war in which veterans returned and lived in Gratz, this property, known as Lot #42 on the original Simon Gratz subdivision, was owned by three families. Each of the families had a number of Civil War veterans who were associated with it. […]
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