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During the Civil War, he joined the Pennsylvania Volunteers, Twenty-Sixth Regiment, Company C, entering the service as a sergeant and leaving in 1862 by medical discharge. In 1867, he came to Wilkes-Barre and joined the staff of the Wilkes-Barre Record. [31] For many years Barthe was the editor of the Plymouth Weekly Star newspaper.
The Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855, and in 1863 the school became Pennsylvania's land-grant university under the terms of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Temple University in Philadelphia was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell , originally as a night school for working-class citizens.
The disputed land had generally been administered by Delaware, even electing a member of the Delaware legislature in the mid-19th century, [375] but federal maps had included the land as part of Pennsylvania at least as late as 1900. [376] The states had agreed on a resolution, and it was affirmed by an act of Congress on this date.
During the American Civil War, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania played a critical role in the Union, providing a substantial supply of military personnel, equipment, and leadership to the Federal government. The state raised over 360,000 soldiers for the Federal armies. It served as a significant source of artillery guns, small arms, ammunition ...
English: Map of the early settlements of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Published 1862, but shows landholdings c. 1790 when Delaware County separated from Chester County. Library of Congress Metadata follows: Title Map of the early settlements of Delaware County, Penna. Contributor Names Smith, George, 1804-1882. Ashmead, Henry Buckley.
Pennsylvania State Archives. The Pennsylvania State Archives is the official archive for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, administered as part of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Located at 1681 N. Sixth St. in the state capital of Harrisburg, it is a part of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex. [1]
Pennsylvania Archives. The Pennsylvania Archives are a 138 volume set of reference books compiling transcriptions of letters and early records relating to the colony and state of Pennsylvania. The volumes were published in nine different series between 1838 and 1935 by acts of the Pennsylvania legislature.
About 1806, Abijah Smith came to Plymouth from Derby, Connecticut, intending to mine, ship, and sell coal.Smith and Lewis Hepburn, his business partner, bought a 75-acre plot (Lots 45 and 46 on the Plymouth Township Warranty Map) on the east side of Coal Creek, and in the fall of 1807, Smith floated an ark down the Susquehanna River loaded with about fifty tons of anthracite coal, shipping it ...