John P. “Frank” Sholey (1876-1948) – Halifax Bank Robber
JOHN P. “FRANK” SHOLEY It is difficult to determine who this person actually was and what was his real name. Has been variously reported as F. B. Sholey, Frank Sholey, […]
John Henry Rowe (1879-1902) – Halifax Bank Robber
JOHN HENRY ROWE Henry Rowe was born in Perry County, Pennsylvania. His father, John Rowe, a coal miner, arrived in United States from Cornwall, England, in 1865, at the end of the […]
Lykens – Flobert Rifle Ban, 1906
On March 30, 1906, the Lykens Standard reported on an incident in which Elijah Dietrich (1871-1965) and his family were subjected to a bullet crashing through a window in their […]
Weston Merrit Keiper (1879-1902) – Halifax Bank Robber
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 […]
Tower City – Girl Dies “In Confinement,” 1906
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 […]
Lykens – New Water Line for the Railroad, 1906
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 […]
Lykens Church Gets New Pipe Organ, 1906
From the Lykens Standard, September 7, 1906: THE NEW LUTHERAN PIPE ORGAN August Bauer, of the Barckhoff Church Organ Company, of Pomeroy, Ohio, completed the erection of the pipe organ […]
Millersburg – Hotel Koppenhaver Lobby, 1910
A photograph taken around 1910 (and recently colorized) of the lobby of the Hotel Koppenhaver, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The two men in the photo are not identified, but the […]