History of the Berrysburg Seminary (3)
A History of Berrysburg Seminary, from an address by D. G. Lubold at a reunion of alumni and students held at Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Thursday, August 11, 1904. Published […]
The Jackson Township Anti-Vaccination Court Case of 1906
This post is an introduction to the seven part series describing the protest that took place in Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, over the enforcement of the compulsory vaccination law […]
John C. Fitting – Memories of Teaching in a One-Room School
John C. Fitting (1860-1933) taught for twenty-seven years in the one-room schoolhouses of Jackson Township and Wayne Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. After his retirement, he agreed to be interviewed by […]
Farmer’s Daughter Nearly Killed in Milk Wagon Accident, 1909
A story from 1909 about the daughter of a prominent farmer, A. J. Spannuth, of Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, whose daughter while driving a milk wagon was forced to […]
Jackson Township’s Anti-Vaccination Protest, 1905-1906
On December 9, 1905, the Board of Education of Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, voted to admit students to school whether or not they could produce a certificate of vaccination. […]
Challenges to the Vaccination Law in January 1906
A newspaper photograph of Frank M. Eastman, a Harrisburg attorney who represented Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, Pennsylvania Health Commissioner, in the vaccination case against the school directors and others of […]
Jackson Township School Directors Charged, March 1906
A portrait of Reuben Lentz (1851-1925), a member of the School Board of Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, who was arrested in March 1906 along with other members of the […]
Trial of the Jackson Township School Directors, 1906
A portrait of Judge George Kunkel (1855-1920), who presided over the trial of the Jackson Township school directors and community members in late March, 1906. The portrait is from the […]