Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on May 30, 1882, Jane Deeter was the middle child of five and the youngest of the daughters.1 She lived in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania with her mother while her father worked in Harrisburg, but came home on the weekends.
Interview of Ray Heckman for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Heckman discusses his life in Newville, Pennsylvania from his childhood attending Newville schools to his life on a farm raising sheep and fixing old furniture.
Miss Minerva White and her mother, Matilda Vickers, came to Mt. Holly from Virginia in 1859. Minerva worked for several years in the paper mills in Mt. Holly, but about 1870 she and her mother took charge of the toll gate and ran a small store.1 After her mother’s death in 1885, Minerva continued to operate the Mt. Holly toll gate for another 19 years.
Interview of Peggy Wolf for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Wolf discusses growing up in Westfield, New Jersey before attending Penn State University and meeting her future husband Wilbur Wolf. The Wolfs then moved outside Newville where they have lived on a farm for the past 50 years.
When the Septennial Census of Carlisle was taken in 1814, it included the names and occupations of all the borough’s taxables. Nineteen of them, including two women, were identified as weavers, and at least half of them were born in Ireland.
Part 2 of an interview with Ron Baughman for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Baughman follows up on some of the charcters who spent time at his father's store in Bloserville, PA and his grandfathers who served in World War I.
Interview of Lisa Brousse for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Brousse discusses her work for the Red Cross in Carlisle including responding to and preparing for emergencies in Central Pennsylvania.
Interview of Ron Baughman for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Baughman discusses growing up in the village of Bloserville in Upper Frankford Township. Baughman's father owned one of two general stores in Bloserville and he also talks about attending a two room school house before moving to the Big Spring School District school and his career as a photographer.
Interview of Jill Sunday Bartoli and Thomas Sunday for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Bartoli and Sunday discuss the Sunday Family of New Kingston, Pennsylvania and their parents restaurant the Country House.
In 1899, Chinaman Sing Gee, planning to make a trip to China, sold his laundry business at 120 West High Street to Lewie Sing for $160. Lewie paid Sing Gee $100 and agreed to pay him the balance when he returned from China.