Jacob A. Bogar
Jacob A. Bogar Mr. Bogar was born in Wiconisco in the year 1875. In the year 1892 he graduated from the Lykens High School. Since 1897 he has managed the […]
Henry Keiser
Henry Keiser Mr. Keiser was born in Gratz, 26 October 1840.In the spring of the year 1850, Mr. Keiser came to Lykens, and is probably the oldest citizen of the […]
George A. Kosier
George A. Kosier Mr. Kosier,. one of the successful and progressive businessmen of Lykens, was born at Gratz. When a young boy his family removed to Wiconisco where he worked […]
Isaac Mossop (1860-1931)
Isaac Mossop & Company With a reputation as solidly founded as the mines, the town’s big industry is Isaac Mossop & Company’s hosiery mills. Employment is furnished one hundred. The […]
Rev. Christian C. Moyer (1867-1931)
Rev. Christian C. Moyer, pastor of the Evangelical churches of Elizabethville, Oakdale, Lykens and Wiconisco, was born in Blooming Glen, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 28 March 1867, a son of Christian […]
Lykens Valley Coal Company, 1875
A map of Wiconisco Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from 1875, showing coal mining operations of the Lykens Valley Coal Company at Bear Gap – between Short Mountain, Coal or Thick […]
Lykens Valley Coal Company, 1858
A map of Wiconisco Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from 1858, showing coal mining operations of the Lykens Valley Coal Company at Bear Gap – between Coal or Thick Mountain, and […]
Lykens Valley Coal Company, 1862
A map of Wiconisco Township from 1862, with the operations of the Lykens Valley Coal Company shown in Bear Gap between Short Mountain, Coal or Thick Mountain, and Big Lick […]