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:

https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2022/02/wednesday-words.html

Stories Of Shikellamy ?-1748	Madam Montour 1667-1753	Ludwig Derr 1720-1785 Founder Of Lewisburg Pa
Samuel Wallis 1731-1798 Cunning Land King Spy Muncy Pa	Capt. John Brady 1733-1779	Dr. Joseph Priestly 1733-1804 Scientist, Inventor Northumberland Pa

William Maclay 1737-1804 First PA Senator Sunbury, Pa	Lorenzo Da Ponte Mozart's Librettist 1749-1838 Sunbury Pa
John Adlum 1759-1863 Soldier, Surveyor, Author, Winemaker, often called The Father of Viticulture Pennsdale, Pa	Gov. Simon Snyder 1759-1819 Selinsgrove Pa

Gen. John Burrows 1760-1837	John Mason 1769-1849 Hermit, Leaning Tower Sunbury Pa
William Cameron 1795-1877 Lewisburg Pa	Senator Simon Cameron  1799-1889	James Cameron 1801-1861 Statue in Sunbury Park

Hugh Lindsay 1804-1860 Showman Milton, Pa	Joe McCreery 1805-1895 Cherry Tree Joe Muncy, Pa	Severin Roesen 1815-1872 Artist Williamsport Pa
Gov. Pollock 1810-1890 Milton Pa	Ole Bull 1810-1880 Norwegian Violinist Purchased land to create New Norway	Julia Collins ?-1865 Author Williamsport Pa

Paul Geddes Alias Talbot Green 1810-1889 Lewisburg & his Alias in California	Ira Thorne Clement 1813-1898 Sunbury Pa
Col. Eli Slifer 1818-1888 Lewisburg Pa	Christopher Sholes 1819-1890 Invented Typewriter Mooresburg Pa

Peter Herdic 1824-1888 Lumber Baron, Inventor Williamsport Pa	Eber Culver 1824-1911 Williamsport Architect Left Memoir	Alexander Rea 1824-1868 Laid Out Centralia Murdered By Molly Maguires
Charles Bell 1827-1912 Escaped Slave Lewisburg Pa	George Bushar Markle 1827-1888 Millionaire, Coal Milton Pa	John F. Meginness 1827-1899 Historian, Author Williamsport, Pa

J.C. Irwin 1830-1912 Reminisces Of Sunbury	Elizabeth Lyman Nice 1832-1895 Lycoming County SPCA

John M. Runk 1852-1922 Historian, Publisher	Mary Catherine Faux 1857-1942 Witness to McKinley's assassination, and Molly Maguire hangings.	"Hungry Sam" Samuel Miller 1859-1936 Champion Eater

Frank Emerson Delong 1865-1939 Washingtonville, Inventor	J. Walton Bowman 1865-1931 Bowman's Field First Car in Williamsport	George J. Higgins 1865-1931 Shamokin Pa
	Benjamin K. Focht 1869-1937 Father of Old Age Pensions Lewisburg Pa

Faye Kellogg 1871-1918 Architect Milton Pa	Dr. Nelson Fithian Davis 1872-1939 Professor, Photographer Lewisburg Pa
John J. McDevitt 1875-1951 Millionaire For A Day	Nelson Caulkins Photographer 1874-1965

Henry Shoemaker 1880-1958 Folklorist McElhattan Pa	Frank Laubauch 1884-1970 Apostle Of Literacy Benton Pa	Jim Thorpe 1887-1953
Hazel Dodd 1889-1965 Sunbury's Madam Benefactor	Prince Farrington 1889-1956 Notorious Bootlegger Williamsport Pa	Kate Heffelfinger 1889-1958 Suffragette Shamokin Pa

Cleo F. Pineau 1893-1972 Motorcycle Racer &  WWI Flying Ace Williamsport Pa	George Keller 1897-1960 From Professor to  Lion Tamer, Bloomsburg Pa
	Clarence Levi Faust 1900-1969 Hughesville Inventor

 

Author H. Beam Piper 1904-1964 Williamsport	Prince El Kigordo 1916-2000 Lion Tamer Newberry Pa	Sammy Ray 1916-2014 Musician, Shopkeeper Williamsport, Pa
Matt G Rusnack 1925-2010 Knoebels Artist	A. Frank Krause 1925-1941 The Front Porch -  Life in Milton

 

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