Main & Franklin

 

27 May 1938 - The Johnstown Democrat - Partial Edition

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CIVIL WAR - Week of April 17, 1862 - 54th PA on the Move & Member Captured by Rebels, 55th PA, 11th PA (Cambria Guards) Picks New Leader

Capt. Bennett

Cambria Guards Co. A. 11th Regiment on the move in Virginia. 

Construction begins on the vacation cottages at Cresson.

54th PA on the move to Great Cacapon near Washington on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

Former Cambria Guards stationed out west.

Resignation of Maj, Robert Litzinger of the 11th (Cambria Guards). 

Napolean Street Bridge - Joe Johns in Background

 

November 25, 1857 - BODY SNATCHING IN BROOKVILLE - This story is so awful on so many levels...just so sad.

Ice house of K.L. Blood broken into and a dead body found. 

Body of Henry Sutherland

 

Happy Memorial Day

 

Lt. Col. Boyd "Buzz" Wagner - First Ace of WWII - My Newspaper Clipping Collection

 

Lt. Col Boyd David "Buzz" Wagner (October 26, 1916 - November 29, 1942) was the First United States Army Air Corp (Force) - Fighter Ace of World War II. He was born in Emeigh, Cambria County and grew up in the Nanty Glo area before their family later moved to Johnstown. The following clippings are from a scrapbook of WWII soldiers that my mother's cousin - Erma Rose Gloor - kept during the war. She was a childhood friend of Wagner's. And I know that members of my own family went to his funeral at Grandview. My grandmother said that the line to get into the cemetery reached the whole way down Millcreek Road. He was also written up in LIFE Magazine but I no longer have access to that since I donated it.