Mysterious Disappearance of Harvey Wentworth in 1862
In July 1862 Harvey B Wentworth a New Hampshire farmer lad and private in Company D of the Nineteenth New Hampshire volunteers vanished after a furlough to see Washington. A court of inquiry cleared him of desertion and there is no trace of him since with a monument in Suncook NH memorializing his mysterious disappearance in Washington.
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Harvey Wentworth
Harvey B. Wentworth
New Hampshire
Young Wentworth
Suncook
N. H
Nineteenth
New Hampshire Volunteers
Virginia
Potomac
Acqueduct Bridge
Wentworth
Washington
Capital
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Capitol Hill
Little Church Yard
Harry B. Wentworth
Washington, D. C
Wheeler B Syndicate
Smallest War Memorial in London Noted by Looker On
Looker On in the London Daily Chronicle describes a tiny glass case on Albert Embankment near Vauxhall. A home made memorial for about twenty residents of a block who served in the war, with crosses for the fallen, tended for years by tenants with blooms and jars as tribute.
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London
London Daily Chronicle
Albert Embankment
Vauxhall
Joseph R Grundy a Bristol mill man to U S Senator
Joseph R Grundy began as a wool sorter at a Bristol mill 1882 to 1896 shaping his public role from borough to county. He served on Bristol Town Council 1896 to 1913, attended Republican National Conventions as a delegate, organized the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association and led it as president until his U S Senate appointment in 1929. He modernized the Bristol mill, funded a community building and high school, financed sewage and water works, and gave over 100000 for streets and improvements.
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Bristol
U. S. Senate
Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association
Penrose
J. Hampton Moore
Philadelphia
Moore
John S. Fisher
Grundy
Gifford Pinchot
Washington
Congress
Pennsylvania
Fisher
Senate
Society of Friends
Executor and administrator notices from West Wheatfield area
Notices published for the estate of Mary Brendlinger of West Wheatfield Township executor L E Miller requests claims and debts be presented for settlement. Pearl Hall and Jack and Jack serve as executors with date April 28 1990.
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L. E. Miller
Mary Brendlinger
West Wheatfield Township
Pearl Hall
Robinson, Pa
Jack & Jack
Nancy Ann McAdoo
Burrell Townshirp
Porter McAdoo
Blacklick
Willi J. Alligon
Green Town
Loretta M. Allison
Administrateix
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For Assembly
Marion Center, Pa
Indiana County
Griffith
Dibson Machine Shop and Garage
Indiana, PA
McCormick-Deering
Hoover and McKenzie
Farmer’s Exchange
Farm Machinery Headquarters
Water &T
Indiana
Joseph R. Grundy
Coolidge
National Committee
Fire Department
Hoover
Jay Cooke
James J. Davis
Alabama
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of
Ameica
Elwood
Madison County
The
Loyal Order of Moose
Harding
Illinois
Ditto
U. S
Church
United States
Republican Committee
RDA
Clymer, Pa
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