Whitfield Jenks Bell, Jr., (3 December, 1914-2 January, 2009) was born in Newburgh, New York, and grew up in suburban Philadelphia.1 After graduating from Lower Merion High School, he enrolled in Dickinson College, graduating in the class of 1935.
John Belt served in the 22nd United States Colored Troops with Company I from January 2, 1864 to September 8, 1864.
Summer after summer Stephen Benet and his siblings,who were all writers, visited their maternal grandparents William and Mary (Mahon) Rose who resided in a Carlisle home located at the northwest corner of North Hanover and West Penn Streets.
John D. Berry served in the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry from January 11, 1864 to December 9, 1864. He was born in about 1822 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He had a colored complexion and stood five foot, nine inches.1 At about 42 years old, he enlisted into the United States Colored Troops in Somerville, Somerset County, Massachusetts by Mr.
An extraordinarily informative advertisement was inserted in the October 19, 1785, issue of The Carlisle Gazette by Alexander Biggs who thought very highly of his skills as a tailor and a party planner who courted the local gentry.
Interview of Robert W. Black for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Black picks up from his last interview to discuss his military career spanning time in the Korean War and Vietnam War as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division and Army Rangers. Black also talks about overseeing the ROTC program at Miami University as well as his career as a freelance travel writer as well as writing histories of the Army Rangers.
Interview of Robert W. Black for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library an initiative of the Cumberland County Historical Society. Black discusses growing up on a farm in Gardners, Pennsylvania during the Great Depression.
The editor of the American Volunteer newspaper was so impressed after he visited Andrew Blair’s ice house that he wrote an article describing it in the January 4, 1872 edition of his newspaper.
Paul A. Bloser is thought to have been born in Bloserville, Frankford Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1891. He died in 1971, aged 80 years, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and was buried, in Collingswood, New Jersey.
By the early 1730s the proprietaries (Thomas, John, and Richard Penn) had decided to expand the colony’s western border across the Susquehanna River as far as the present day Kittochtinny Mountains.