The following article appeared in the Elizabethville Echo, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 20 March 1919. While it is not really a comprehensive history of the local draft board that was […]
John Rickert, farmer, was born near Gratz, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 4 January 1829, a son of Henry Rickert and Sarah [Romberger] Rickert. Adam Romberger, maternal grandfather of John […]
At the time of the creation of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from a portion of Lancaster County, 4 April 1785, there was only one township in the upper part of the […]
James Miller, Justice of the Peace, Elizabethville, Pennsylvania, Secretary-Treasurer of the Lykens Valley Mutual Insurance Company, was born 16 February 1835. He is a son of Daniel Miller and Catherine […]
Halifax Township was officially created in March 1804. Its original territory included the green area shown on the map above. Halifax Township was later diminished by the creation of Jackson […]
Lykens Township was officially created on 3 September 1810. Its original area (green on map above) included several other townships which were later divided from parts of Lykens Township. Present-day […]
Mifflin Township was officially created on 3 September 1810. Its original area (green on map above) included one other present-day township [Washington Township] which was later divided from the southern […]
Nathaniel Miller, distiller, was born in Washington Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 19 November 1837. He is a son of Daniel Miller and Catherine [Snyder] Miller. His grandfather, John Miller, was […]