WESTON MERRITT KEIPER Weston Merritt Keiper, born in 1879, was the oldest son of William Henry Keiper and Susanna [Row] Keiper of Lykens. Weston’s father, William Henry Keiper, was a coal miner, who was described as […]
A 1964 colorized portrait photograph of Linda Lou Minnich, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1964 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]
On April 6, 1906, the Lykens Standard took the opportunity to criticize the parents of a young girl who had died giving birth to a baby that had been conceived […]
A cropped portion of a photograph taken around 1909 (and recently colorized) of the Hotel Koppenhaver, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The original photograph was of the Daniel Miller Fountain, and was […]
A photograph taken when the McKinley Funeral Train was entering Harrisburg, September 16, 1901. The train had begun its journey earlier in the morning at Buffalo, New York, and was […]
A 1964 colorized portrait photograph of Edward Aaron Minnich, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1964 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]
A photograph taken around 1916 (recently colorized) of the water tower near the roundhouse at the Lykens railroad yard, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The railroad needed a regular supply of […]
Frank Lyter, the son of Civil War veteran Isaac Lyter, met a tragic death at Halifax in July 1899, as reported in the Elizabethville Echo of July 20, 1899: Accident at Halifax Frank Lyter, son […]
