The Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election of 1866 pitted a Union General and war hero, John W. Geary, against a avowed racist and white supremacist, Heister Clymer. Geary headed the Republican or […]
Rev. John J. Stauffer served as minister of Simeon Reformed Church, Gratz, Dauphin County, from 1891 to 1902. ________________________________ John J. Stauffer was born at Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania on […]
Finding a complete list of all with some connection to the Lykens Valley area who served in the Revolutionary War is nearly impossible, but several attempts have been made, one […]
A 1951 portrait photograph of Louis J. Kratzer of Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from the 1951 yearbook, Ciarla, of Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, available in […]
Jeers to Cross-Burners Ashley Brooks of Elizabethville in northern Dauphin County, had to deal with the racially charged symbol last week. State police are treating the incident as an act […]
Police: 2 Teens Burned Cross at Woman’s Home ELIZABETHVILLE – Two teenage boys have been charged in a cross-burning incident at the northern Dauphin County home of a black woman. […]
On 20 November 1873, the Harrisburg Telegraph published a directory of School Directors and Teachers in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for the school year 1873-1874: Directory of the Public Schools of […]
On September 30, 1926, Milton A. Miller, editor and proprietor of the Elizabethville Echo, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, published an editorial which seemed to indicate that he favored the selective […]