Levi Umholtz Family of Gratz, 1900
A studio photograph taken about 1900 of the Levi Umholtz family of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Levi Umholtz was born on August 30, 1853, in Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, […]
Levi Umholtz Family – More Questions
An undated photograph, possibly from around 1920, of a reunion or anniversary celebration of the Levi Umholtz family at a house in either Gratz or Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Levi […]
Gerald Dieter of Lykens- Editor of Swastika Yearbook, 1935
A 1934 portrait photograph of Gerald Wayne Dieter of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from the Swastika, the 1934 yearbook of the Catawba College, Salisbury, North Carolina, available […]
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
On May 31 and June 1, 1921, mobs of White residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, some deputized by city authorities, descended on the Black neighborhood of Greenwood, also known as Black […]
Near East Relief and the Lykens Valley Area
Today’s blog post looks at news items from the Elizabethville Echo that described community efforts to educate and raise funds for relief for the tens of thousands of orphans of […]
Fred P. Margerum Reports from Armenia, 1921-1922
From about May of 1921 through July 1922, Fred P. Margerum of Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, served in a humanitarian capacity as a field commander for Near East Relief, a […]
Fred P. Margerum Travels to Armenia, 1921
The passport photograph for Fred P. Margerum, included in his April 5, 1921 application for a U. S. Passport. The two pages of the passport application along with a third […]
The Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide
Fred P. Margerum, of Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, returned home from his humanitarian work in Armenia in 1922 and wrote a brief history of the Armenian Genocide, its aftermath, and […]