Norman Gasbarro | September 21, 2016
Part 2 of this murder story will be told in today’s blog post. It includes pre-trial events involving Henry Fisher, the defendant, which resulted in the judge’s sending him to the Danville Insane Asylum for evaluation. Sarah Ann [Reed] Klinger, a widow of a Civil War veteran and a pensioner, was brutally murdered in her […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 14, 2016
Through the pages of newspapers of the time, this horrendous murder story will be told. Sarah Ann [Reed] Klinger, a widow of a Civil War veteran and a pensioner, was brutally murdered in her home near Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, on 21 November 1906. Jacob Klinger was born on 3 April 1843 in Lower Mahantongo […]
Norman Gasbarro | June 3, 2016
When Elizabeth Imschweiler died in 1908, her obituary did not mention that she was the widow of a Civil War veteran, but it did contain information about Peter Imschweiler, who, according to Civil War veteran records, served in the 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, as a Sergeant. The obituary, which appeared in the Lebanon County […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 26, 2016
Catherine “Kate” Pinkerton was born in 1833 in Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of George Kirby Pinkerton (1797-1875) and Margaret Mary [Wright] Pinkerton (1802-1882). She married Hamilton Bailey, a blacksmith of Harrisburg. Two of Miss Pinkerson’s brothers served in the Civil War: (1) Hiram W. Pinkerton, buried at Odd Fellows Cemetery in Pottsville, and […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 24, 2016
Wouldn’t you like to know more about these newspaper people who died in 1913? From the Harrisburg Patriot, 8 August 1913: MINE OWNER DIES Norristown, Pennsylvania, 7 August 1913 — Henry L. Acker, a wealthy mine owner of Colorado, died at the home of his sister here today at an advanced age. He went West […]
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