Rev. Dr. Calvin P. Wehr & Family with Horse & Buggy
An undated photograph of Rev. Dr. Calvin Peter Wehr with his wife, Agnes E. [Peters] Wehr and daughter Florence A. Wehr and Rev. Wehr’s horse and buggy. Rev. Dr. Wehr […]
Ministers Respond to ‘Despicable’ Cross Burning in Elizabethville
Te following was submitted to the Harrisburg Patriot-News on February 15, 2015, in response to a late January 2015 cross burning in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania: The recent cross-burning incident […]
Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election of 1866 – Defeat of a White Supremacist
The Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election of 1866 pitted a Union General and war hero, John W. Geary, against a avowed racist and white supremacist, Heister Clymer. Geary headed the Republican or […]
Rev. John J. Stauffer – Reformed Minister of the Lykens Valley
Rev. John J. Stauffer served as minister of Simeon Reformed Church, Gratz, Dauphin County, from 1891 to 1902. ________________________________ John J. Stauffer was born at Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania on […]
Revolutionary War Soldiers with a Connection to the Lykens Valley
Finding a complete list of all with some connection to the Lykens Valley area who served in the Revolutionary War is nearly impossible, but several attempts have been made, one […]
Washington Township School Directors & Teachers, 1873-1874
On 20 November 1873, the Harrisburg Telegraph published a directory of School Directors and Teachers in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for the school year 1873-1874: Directory of the Public Schools of […]
Adam Weise in the Revolutionary War
Adam Weise was born December 23, 1751, in New Goshenhoppen Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvnaia, to John George Weise and Eva Weise. When he was twenty three years old, he moved […]
Rev. Dr. Calvin P. Wehr – Reformed Minister of the Lykens Valley
Rev. Dr. Calvin P. Wehr served as minister of Simeon Reformed Church, Gratz, Dauphin County, from 1905 to 1937. ________________________________ The Rev. Dr. Calvin Peter Wehr was the eldest son […]