Anthony Hart Reynolds
Anthony was one of four boys who sailed across the Atlantic with his parents from Ireland just before the devastating Irish famine began in the 1840s. He became a naturalized…
Read MoreJoseph Hill Sinex
Joseph was born in Delaware, the third child of Seneca and Sarah Hill Sinex. The surname was not his father’s original name, being a former enslaved person in the Danish…
Read MoreGabriel DeKorponay
This man’s life is a paradox. He eagerly stepped into military service on numerous occasions but his life’s work was teaching the latest dance steps. Source material for Gabriel’s life…
Read MoreJacob Douty
Details on Jacob’s growing years are lost to history except he must have had to grow wise quickly to provide for himself. The earliest record is the 1850 census showing…
Read MoreWilliam Mackabee
It’s one thing for a man to be on record for having lived 107 years, but this man also served on active duty in the Navy longer than anyone else.…
Read MoreDavid Handy
He was on his own in the big city. David was born in Delaware but, according to the 1860 census, he was living in a boarding house on Ogden Avenue,…
Read MoreSamuel Dixon Johnston
Sam’s birthplace, like his father’s, was in the borough of Muncy, just east of the Lycoming county seat of Williamsport in north central Pennsylvania. The town’s name was derived from…
Read MoreLewis Wood Robinson
Farm living wasn’t the life for Lewis, but it was how he grew up. All that is known of his youth is that his parents were William and Anna and…
Read MoreArchibald Murdock
Like many Civil War soldiers, “Archie” wasn’t officially recognized as a naturalized citizen. And, like many who crossed an ocean to live in America, he enlisted to serve his adopted…
Read MoreMargaret Anna Pulver Smith
The Pulver family had three daughters when they were living in the town of Wayne, New York in the Finger Lakes region. Margaret was the middle child of the three,…
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