Vintage Johnstown

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Johnstown - 1963

Pvt. Andrew Kalenak - Nanty Glo

Monday, August 31, 2026

February 1904 - Assorted Local Obits

Sarah Elizabeth Black - cholera - Sheridan Street

Mrs. Lawrence Saylor - 8th Ward

Kenneth Knepper - Pneumonia - Third Street - Conemaugh

Ellwood Griffith - Woodvale Avenue - Small-pox

Mrs. Kate Ryan Kelley - native of Johnstown

Stephen Metaski - McConaughy Street

Preston L. Meneley - Walnut Grove - 12 years old

Elizabeth Conway - Fairfield Avenue

Miss Amanda Layman - Napoleon Street

Elais Yoder - Mishler - Somerset County

February 13, 1904 - LIVED THREE CENTURIES - PATRICK KERWIN OF SEWARD - NEARLY 107 YEARS OLD

CIVIL WAR - Week of April 30, 1863 - Local Troops Letters Home & Union League Meeting

FROM OUR VOLUNTEERS

133rd Co. F

CAMP NEAR FALMOUTH, VA

April 20, 1863

R.A. McCoy and Lewis Jones

Union League At Chest Springs

February 6, 1904 - Coroner's Cases - Update on Horrible Mill Accident - Sheridan (Oakhurst) Station Fatal - Yet Another Mill Accident

Theodore Hessler - Broad Street - Cambria City - survivor of Mill Wheel Accident released from hospital. Calvin Updkye still alive.

James Moran found dead on train tracks at Sheridan (Oakhurst) Station.

TWO MEET SUDDEN DEATH

Thomas G. Worrell - Bedford Street - Dale Cambria Billet Mill - Charles Burke

Cambria Rolling Mill around 1870

Pvt. John Hill - formerly of Strongstown

Sunday, August 30, 2026

February 4, 1904 - An Odd Mixture of Stories - From a Record Breaking Wedding to a Brave Little Boy

Aaron Stutzman, George W. Keis, John Sullivan, John Morrison, Ed Rogers and Frank Boyle

Harvey Adams - Seward Miner - Frozen Feet

Little Leonard Thomas gave his little sister his mittens and now he has damaged hands due to the cold conditions.

Huge New Florence Wedding - Joseph Barron and Paulino Rusic - married at St. Mary's Cambria City

February 4, 1904 - AN OLD AND INTERESTING PAPER - Allotment Roll 54th Pa. Co. I

January 23, 1904 - WARNING GRAPHIC READ - TERRIBLE FATALITY AT JOHNSTOWN - CAMBRIA STEEL

The simple breaking of a governor belt caused an awful catastrophe in Rail Mill No. 2 of the Cambria Steel works at 1:15 Thursday morning. As a result the ponderous fly wheel, weighing forty tons, gained such terrific momentum that it burst from centrifugal force....crashing thru the roof and bursting the steam and water pipes....flooding the floor with two feet of water and filling the room with steam.