Chris Morton
Interview of Chris Morton for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Morton discusses his Army career from West Point to his retirement as an Aviation Officer.
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J. Mark Frey and the Bethlehem Bach Choir
J. Mark Frey (1880-1958) and his wife, Miriam Anna Dum (G: Thommen) (1891-1988), raised their family on South Hanover Street, Carlisle from the early 1930s forward. Mark, as he was called, was born to a confectioner living in Allentown, about seven miles west of Bethlehem.
J. Matthew Lissner
Interview of J. Matthew Lissner for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Lissner discusses his time in the United States Army and in the Army Reserves.
Scott Shirk
Interview of Scott Shirk for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Shirk discusses his time in the United States Army.
Charles Franklin Moss
Charles Franklin Moss (b. 1878 Winchester, VA; d. 1961 Winchester VA), painter and professional photographer, was the first African American member of the National Association of Professional Photographers (1914), the winner of a competition to design a new Pennsylvania flag in 1907,and member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh.
Capt. Alexander Peebles, Sr. (1740-1824), Shippensburg And the Peebles Family
Capt. Alexander Peebles Sr., was a blacksmith and farmer whose homestead of 1774 sits on what is now known as Cramer Rd., Southampton Township (formally Hopewell Twp.), Shippensburg. He was my paternal 4th great-grandfather through my great-grandmother Abbie (Highlands) Baker, whose dad, Wm. Isaac was a son of James Highlands & Mary Elizabeth Peeples (1797-1871), a daughter of Capt. Alexander.
History In the Making: A Few 20th & 21st Century Inventors and Academicians Associated with the Intellectually Fertile Cumberland Valley
Cumberland County has a long, well known, and valued history as home, whether by birth, descent, or relocation, to inventors, researchers and academicians.
The Baker Family of Shippensburg
The old farm house and barn of my paternal grandfather, Charles Burnett “C. B.” Baker Sr. (1860-1933), stood just off the Walnut Bottom Rd, being situated on Strohm Road, Lees Crossroads, Shippensburg. In 2005, it was leveled, a farm equipment company buying all but a few of the original acres.
Matthew Wright
Interview of Matthew Wright regarding his experience serving in the United States Army.
Steven Markle
Interview of Steven Markle regarding his experience serving in the United States Navy.