February 12, 1886 - The Oldest Pocketbook & Marriage Licenses

Tobias Stutzman, Abraham and Sarah Stutzman, Joseph Schreck, John Schreck

Marriage Licenses

 

February & March 1885 - Shot by Own Gun. East Conemaugh Hospital, Lightning Strike and Sleighing Party

Peter Gates shot by gun he was handling. 

East Conemaugh Hospital

Sleighing Party

Isaac Yoder - Somerset County

 

June 18, 1880 - Odds & Ends - YIKES! That had to Hurt - Dumb Tailor Accident & More Train Track Problems - Cambria Freeman

William Murray - Scissors in the butt - Wood, Morrell Tailor Shop.

Charles Prosser of Minersville lucky to be alive. 

 

April 1880 - Conemaugh Boro Girl Stuck with a Needle, Story of a Possible Former Slave of George Washington - Cambria Freeman

Emma Deiver - Conemaugh Boro stuck with a needle

 

Odds & Ends - August 16, 1860 - Alleghenian

Giant tapeworm

Mrs. Clarke bitten by rattlesnake in South Fork

 

Part 2 - Update on Mrs. Mary Saeger - August 8, 1878 - Cambria Freeman

 

Part 1 - July 1878 - The Sad Tale of Mrs. Mary Saeger of the Fourth Ward - Cambria Freeman

Matthias Wissel - Conemaugh Boro

Mary Saeger & Anton Saeger - 4th Ward
 

Johnstown - August 24, 1868 - Grant Clubs (U.S. Grant running for President), Assorted Accidents, Perkinsville (Coopersdale), New Steel Mill & Scalp Level Name

U.S. Grant Clubs, Patrick Dullenty, Beam and Dunford Boy

Cambria Iron new steel mill

How Scalp Level got its name. 

 

Odds & Ends - Accident Roundup and Proposed Train Service - August 20, 1868 - Alleghenian

John Garens

Ebensburg to Johnstown Train Service

John Lloyd and James Easley

 

Death of "Little X" a Cambria County Dwarf, First Water Pipes Laid along with Assorted Accidents - October 31, 1867 - Alleghenian

Demetrius Augustine Conrad - Dwarf "Little X"

First water pipes Downtown Johnstown

 

Odds & Ends - The Weekly Assorted Horrible Accidents + Baseball Fever - October 10, 1867 - Alleghenian

Charley Lyon and Dennis McCarty

Michael Boland and Samuel Shaffer

 

Update on Baby Left on Doorstep, Assorted Fires, Gun Powder Explosion at Union Hall - December 7, 1877 - Cambria Freeman

Baby on Doorstep Adopted by Mrs. Chalres Unverzagt.

John Phillips and George Townsend

Henry Werner - Third Ward

Charles Ware

 

Odds & Ends - More Train Accidents, Prospect Kid Shoots his Finger Off, Baby Dropped off on Doorstep & Conemaugh Boro Guy tries to Blow Himself Up - Nov 23, 1877 - Freeman

John Johnston - Sheridan Station

Daniel McConologue shoots finger off

Baby dropped on the doorstep of Charles Unverzagt's

Jim Curran tried to blow himself up.
 

Odds & Ends - Cambria City Shooting, Guy Accidentally Run Over Twice, Gen. Campbell Robbery, Horrible Train Accident & Girl Escapes West Disguised - Nov. 11, 1877 - Freemanas a Man -

Cambria City Shooting

Daniel Conrad run over twice

Gen. Jacob Campbell home robbery

John Lord - New Florence

 

Odds & Ends - Messy Affair & Thief Caught Redhanded - October 12, 1877 - Cambria Freeman

William Vannatt and Mrs. Kyle

 Frank Goughnour

Odds & Ends - Johnstown - Coal Mine Fatal, Mill Fatal & Missing Body Finally Found - June 13, 1867 - Alleghenian

John Schatz - Cambria Iron Coal Mine

Leopold Haiser killed by Brimmer

Body of Anthony Campbell found after missing for months. 

 

Johnstown - July 2, 1866 - Mill Strike Continues, Picnic at Morrell's Grove near Woodvale, Lightning Hits Prospect, Undertaker Accident - Alleghenian