Millersburg Music Supervisor Killed by Train, 1930
WOMAN IS KILLED IN GRADE CRASH AT MILLERSBURG Former Music Teacher in City Is Victim; Husband Escapes Mrs. James Zerbe, 32, Dalmatia, former music tutor in this city [Harrisburg] and […]
Missing Man Found Dead Along Wiconisco Creek, 1942
BOYS FIND BODY OF MISSING MAN ALONG CREEK SUNDAY While walking along the bank of the Wiconisco Creek, near Tower City, Sunday afternoon, two Tower City boys discovered the body […]
William Harrison Snyder – Elizabethville Area Hometown Hero
WILLIAM HARRISON SNYDER US NAVY WORLD WAR II Joy Snyder & Family _____________________________________ See also: For information on the availability of copies of this book, contact Elizabethville Area Historical Society. […]
Henry Breslin – Another Victim of Lykens Valley Bigotry?
Henry Breslin was born on 6 April 1846 in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of James Breslin Sr. (1821-1909), an immigrant from Donegal, Ireland, and a Roman Catholic, and […]
Edward Crabb – African American Victim of Bigotry in Gratz (2)
This story was previously posted on The Civil War Blog on 1 July 2016 and then updated on 19 July 2017: ______________________________________ Almost exactly one year after an extremely critical […]
Jennie Kissinger – Buried in Her Ku Klux Klan Robes, 1925
The presence of the Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania in the 1920s and 1930s has been briefly discussed here in past blog posts. What has not been mentioned before is […]
Clarence R. Schaeffer of Dalmatia, 1936
A 1936 portrait photograph of Clarence R. Shaeffer of Dalmatia, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from the 1936 yearbook, Lanthorn, of the Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, available […]
Edward Crabb – African American Victim of Bigotry in Gratz (1)
This story was previously posted on The Civil War Blog on 1 July 2016 and then updated on 19 July 2017: __________________________________ Another Memorial Day has gone by and the […]