Monday, June 10, 2024

Portraits & Biographies

 
Biographies, Portraits, and Memoirs

This index is specifically by date, so that we can better see who was living, and which stories were occurring,  in the area in certain time frames.

If I were to subtitle this post, it would be 
"Who Were Their Contemporaries?"

For a list specifically of Memoirs, Letters, and other "Wednesday Words" posts, go here:


?-1748

Madam Montour
1667-1753
1720-1785
Founder Of
Lewisburg Pa
 
1731-1798
Cunning Land King
Spy
Muncy Pa


 Capt. John Brady
1733-1779
1733-1804
Scientist, Inventor
Northumberland Pa

1737-1804
First PA Senator
Sunbury, Pa

Mozart's Librettist
1749-1838
Sunbury Pa
   
Soldier, Surveyor, Author, Winemaker, often called The Father of Viticulture
Pennsdale, Pa
1769-1849
Hermit, Leaning Tower
Sunbury Pa

 


Hugh Lindsay
1804-1860
Showman
Milton, Pa
1805-1895
Cherry Tree Joe
Muncy, Pa

1815-1872
Artist
Williamsport Pa
1810-1890
Milton Pa
1810-1880
Norwegian Violinist
Purchased land to create
New Norway
 

?-1865
Author
Williamsport Pa

1818-1888
Lewisburg Pa
1819-1890
Invented Typewriter
Mooresburg Pa



Peter Herdic
1824-1888
Lumber Baron, Inventor
Williamsport Pa

Eber Culver
1824-1911
Williamsport Architect
Left Memoir 


1827-1912
Escaped Slave
Lewisburg Pa
 
George Bushar Markle
1827-1888
Millionaire, Coal
Milton Pa

 

John F. Meginness

1827-1899
Historian, Author
Williamsport, Pa

 

 

 

 

1852-1922
Historian, Publisher



1865-1939
Washingtonville, Inventor

 

1869-1937
Father of Old Age Pensions
Lewisburg Pa
 
1871-1918
Architect
Milton Pa
1875-1951
Millionaire For A Day
Photographer
1874-1965


 Henry Shoemaker

1880-1958
Folklorist
McElhattan Pa

 

1884-1970
Apostle Of Literacy
Benton Pa

 

 


1889-1956
Notorious Bootlegger
Williamsport Pa
1889-1958
Suffragette
Shamokin Pa

 

 

 

 

 

 


1904-1964
Williamsport

 

1910?-2000
Lion Tamer
Newberry Pa

1916-2014
Musician, Shopkeeper
Williamsport, Pa

 

1925-2010
Knoebels Artist

 

 

 

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Jim Thorpe

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