From the Lykens Standard, April 12, 1929: F. E. SHAMBAUGH TO SUPERVISE WICONISCO SCHOOLS Prof. F. E. Shambaugh, North Second Street [Lykens], former superintendent of the Dauphin County Schools, and […]
United States Postmasters at Wiconisco Post Office, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Appointments made by the President of the United States. Henry Schrafer April 23, 1835 Simon Gratz; George H. Alenson […]
From the Lykens Standard, August 5, 1971: VISITS ROME AND PARIS Vogue Pattern Company of New York has sent Joseph E. Molko of Wiconisco and New York City to the Fashion […]
The final story in Jonas Garman’s life began in 1899 with the “assignment for the benefit of his creditors,” a comfortable retirement in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and his death, […]
A portrait of Jonas Garman (1827-1908) that appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in March, 1899, included with a description of him as a missing person. Garman, who had been postmaster of Lykens, Dauphin County, […]
In June 1900, the town of Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was shocked to hear of the untimely death of one its own, James Israel, son of Civil War veteran Daniel […]
An undated portrait photograph of Edward Holtzman, born October 5, 1849, in Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, son of John Peter Holtzman (1809-1863) and Catherine Elizabeth [Kissinger] Holtzman (1810-1881). The […]
The front page of the Pottsville Republican, February 9, 1939, reporting that three men from Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, were buried in a bootleg mine cave-in near Good Spring, Schuylkill […]