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The history of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, through the end of the Twentieth century, told through reminiscences, diaries, letters, pictures, and anecdotes collected by the Author over the past forty years.
A compilation of cases discussed by the Potomac Street Irregulars, a study group of Antietam Historical Association. The Potomac Street Irregulars meet monthly to study crimes in the history of the region of Maryland and Pennsylvania drained by Antietam creek and contiguous territories. These cases include the unsolved 1946 murder of Miss Betty Jane Kennedy, the Revolutionary-era Shockey counterfeiters, the murders of the brothers Shockey, the 1830 massacre of the Newey family which resulted in the first Maryland execution for murder based entirely on circumstantial evidence, and more.
"Containing cases decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania." (varies)
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He was found dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, an unknown soldier with nothing to identify him but an ambrotype of his three children, clutched in his fingers. With the photograph as the single, sad clue to his identity, a publicity campaign to locate his family swept the North. Within a month, the bereaved widow and children were located in Portville, New York, and the devoted father was revealed to be Sergeant Amos Humiston of the 154th New York Volunteers. Using many previously untapped sources, this book tells the tale of 19th-century war, sentiment, and popular culture in greater detail than ever before. The Humiston story touched deep emotions in Civil War America, and inspired a ...
This is a genealogical history of the various Keefer, Kieffer, Keffer, Kueffer families who were early immigrants to America -- those who came to the western hemisphere before 1800, settling primarily in Pennsylvania and Maryland.