A newspaper photograph showing Col. Roscoe H. Turner, noted aviator, standing beside his coast-to-coast record plane which was forced down by bad flying conditions on the Erdman farm near Elizabethville, […]
With the plans for the building of the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad came a number of so-called “investors” who sought money-making opportunities in the Lykens Valley. At a meeting held in […]
The death of Albert Williams was reported in the Elizabethville Echo, 6 July 1899: Killed at Lykens Lykens, 3 July 1899 — Albert W. Williams, a young man about 25 […]
Isaac Sitlinger, farmer and stockman, was born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 15 September 1833. George Sitlinger, the father of Isaac Sitlinger, was born in Germany, and formerly spelled his name […]
David D. Elder was born on the farm on which he now lives, in Washington Townswhip, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 16 March 1838, a son of Robert Elder and Hannah [Dietrich] […]
John D. Snyder, justice of the peace, Berrysburg, Pennsylvania, was born in Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 9 December 1827. Leonard Snyder, great-grandfather of John D. Snyder, came from Germany […]