Richard Nolen – Recollections of 40 Years, 1825-1865 (4 of 7)
Part 4. From the Lykens Standard, 16 May 1902: RECOLLECTIONS OF 40 YEARS Regarding the Lykens Valley Coal Mines and Vicinity Adjacent BY RICHARD NOLEN, ESQ. Which first appeared in […]
Rev. Ruben S. Wagner – Lutheran Minister of the Lykens Valley
Rev. Ruben S. Wagner served as minister of Simeon Lutheran Church, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 1874-1881. Ruben S. Wagner was born on 11 May 1817, at Emmaus, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, […]
Richard Nolen – Recollections of 40 Years, 1825-1865 (2 of 7)
Part 2. From the Lykens Standard, 2 May 1902: RECOLLECTIONS OF 40 YEARS Regarding the Lykens Valley Coal Mines and Vicinity Adjacent BY RICHARD NOLEN, ESQ. Which first appeared in […]
Minnie A. [Coleman] Riegle (1880-1958) – Widowed from Short Mountain Accident, 1913
An undated portrait photograph of Minnie Amanda [Coleman] Riegle (1880-1958), who was born near Gratz, in Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 21 December 1880, the daughter of John C. Coleman […]
Gratz Fair – Getting the Attention of a Rabbit, 1951
A 1951 newspaper photograph of Billy Leitzel of Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, trying to get the attention of a large, white, Flemish rabbit and lure it out of the corner […]
Rev. Thomas Steck – Lutheran Minister of the Lykens Valley
Rev. Thomas Steck served as minister of Simeon Lutheran Church, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 1870-1873. Thomas Steck was born 1 January 1822 at Manchester, York County, Pennsylvania. He was ordained […]
Rev. Jeremiah Schindel – Lutheran Minister of the Lykens Valley
Rev. Jeremiah Schindel served as minister of Simeon Lutheran Church, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 1865-1870. Jeremiah Schindel was the eldest child of Rev. John P. Schindel Sr. He was born […]
Gratz Fire Company Gets New Truck, 1940
A February 15, 1940 newspaper photograph of the new fire truck put into operation by the Gratz Fire Company, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The following article appeared in the Elizabethville […]