Dietrich – Zimmerman Suicide, 1906
From the Lykens Standard, December 14, 1906: SUICIDE AT DIETRICH Henry Zimmerman of Dietrich, who has been despondent for some time, committed suicide by shooting himself in the top of […]
Fisherville Man in Hunting Party Accidentally Kills Another, 1925 – Murder Trial, 1926
On December 10, 1925, a group of men from the Elizabethville and Halifax areas, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, set out to hunt deer on Berry’s Mountain. At one point, three shots […]
Anna Margaret [Kinder] Beidenmiller Dressel (1828-1902)
MRS. IGNATZ DERSSEL Mrs. Ignatz Dressel of North Second Street, died on Sunday of heart trouble and old age, after an illness of about four weeks, aged 74 years and […]
Deitrich Falls to Death at Mine, 1903
FALLS TO HIS DEATH Benjamin R. Deitrich, a young single man of Lykens, fell 200 feet into a slope at Short Mountain Colliery at Lykens last Monday, and died on […]
Suicide of Goldie Marie Myers, 1936
From the Lykens Standard, May 15, 1936: GUN ENDS LIFE OF YOUNG MOTHER According to Deputy Coroner George W. Wren, of Williamstown, Mrs. Goldie Marie Myers, residing for the past […]
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 […]
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. […]