November 2012 Whole No. 193 Vol. 40, No. 4
PENNSYLVANIA POSTAL HISTORIAN
THE BULLETIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETY
Inside this issue:
Pennsylvania “Cartes de Visite” Luxury Tax Paid with Revenue Stamps
Philadelphia to Aspinwall, 1858
LITIZ ACROSS THE POND Unpaid Letters by Prussian Closed Mail, 1853 and 1854
Faded Letters Speak
From a Distance it Looks Tiny, but Up Close it Seems Immense!
2nd Update on Pennsylvania Manuscript Markings, Part XIV (Lawrence, Lebanon and Lehigh Counties)
PENNSYLVANIA POSTAL HISTORIAN
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PENNSYLVANIA POSTAL HISTORIAN The bulletin of the Pennsylvania Postal History Society Published quarterly by the PPHS for its members Volume 40 No. 4 (Whole No. 193) November 2012 APS Affiliate No. 50 Member of the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations
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(Editor’s Note: Our President again chose not to provide a letter for this issue so in its place is an interesting reader response from Harry Winter (# 571) regarding articles in the last issue and some Society news.)
Reader Response to Last Issue
Hi, Norm Received my copy of the PPH the other day. Great issue - thanks for running my Mauch Chunk article prominently. And it was a stroke of genius (or luck) to have that article on the New Hope manuscript letter from Samuel Ingham juxtaposed, since there's really a connection between them - interesting that Ingham got into the anthracite business, too. Although he probably never set foot in or near the territory or the States of Michigan, his name is well known here, because Ingham County (site of Lansing) was named for him. The story is that in the late 1820's, when the Michigan Territory and Ohio were disputing the Toledo Strip, the territorial legislature named a group of new counties they erected after President Jackson and his cabinet, hoping to curry favor with the administration to support their claims for the Toledo strip, in order to gain statehood. So Michigan has Jackson, Ingham (his then Secretary of the Treasury), Van Buren (V-P), Eaton, Branch, Livingston, and several other counties, known as the “Cabinet Counties”.
Ultimately, of course, Jackson lost that cabinet over a dispute about Eaton's wife and her social standing, Michigan lost the Toledo Strip but gained the Upper Peninsula and statehood, so all ended well, I suppose.
Harry Winter (E-mail dated 8/22/12)
Society News
By a unanimous E-mail vote of the Board of Directors, Steven Kennedy (# 537) was
elected to replace Jim Boyles (Class of 2013) on our Board of Directors.
Our next Annual Meeting will take place on Saturday April 6, 2013 at the Philadelphia National Stamp Exhibition , Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, Oaks, PA
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EDITOR’S COMMENTS
As indicated on the previous page, Steve Kennedy has been elected by a unanimous vote of the Board of Directors to replace Jim Boyles on our Board. Steve is currently our Publicity Chairman and is in the process of assuming responsibility for our web site. Steve Roth, our current webmaster has been trying to find someone to assume that responsibility for some time. Kennedy has volunteered to do so and is currently working with Roth on the transition which hopefully will occur before the end of the year.
The first article in this issue, “ Pennsylvania “Cartes de Visite” Luxury Tax Paid with Revenue Stamps ” was submitted by our newest member Steve Swain. When Steve sent me this article earlier this year he was not a member. He recently joined and has already sent me another outstanding article. As you can imagine, I am delighted that Steve is now a member.
In “ Philadelphia to Aspinwall, 1858 ”, Neal Erkes shows a cover he recently obtained addressed to the U. S. Frigate Sabine and details his research on the Sabine which played an important role in the Civil War and in the U. S. involvement in Panama.
Dick Colberg illustrates and analyzes three Prussian Closed Mail covers which he recently added to his collection in “ Litiz Across the Pond ”. From his excitement in finding the covers it is clear that Trans-atlantic covers from Litiz are not prevalent.
All it took for Norm Nicol to begin a genealogical study of the Linskill family were two faded letters. His research in “ Faded Letters Speak ” illustrates the passion of a philatelic genealogist.
With a couple of picture postcards, Charlie Fricke again entertains and informs us in his article entitled, “ From a Distance it Looks Tiny, but Up Close it Seems Immense” .
The issue ends with an update of the manuscript markings for Lawrence, Lebanon and Lehigh Counties by Tom Mazza.
(Continued on page 23)
MEMBERSHIP SUMMARY
Total Membership as of 7/15/12 ------117
New Members ------+2
# 589 David Latzko (York, PA) (York County)
# 590 Steve L. Swain (Roswell, GA) (Revenues, Civil War, Mourning Covers)
Deceased ------1
# 554 Thomas J. Post (Scotts, MI)
Total Membership as of 10/15/12 ------118
(includes 4 life members)
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Pennsylvania “Cartes de Visite” Luxury Tax
Paid with Revenue Stamps
By Steve Swain (# 590)
Patented in Paris, France, by photographer Andre Adolphe Eugene Disderi in 1854, cartes de visite (CDVs) were photographs created with a special camera that produced eight poses on one negative. CDVs quickly replaced the old glass images of the ambrotypes, producing a card the size of the then standard calling card, around 2.5” by 4". CDVs arrived in the United States around 1859.
Faced with the financial demands of the Civil War, a June 30, 1864 Act of Congress placed a new luxury tax on "photographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes or any other sun- pictures." Photographers were required to affix a properly denominated revenue stamp on the back of the image and cancel it by initialing and dating it in pen or using an appropriate handstamp.
A 2 cent “Proprietary”, Scott R13c, paid the tax on this Pottsville, PA, carte de visite
However, there was not a special stamp created for photography. So, you will see on the backs of CDVs revenue stamps originally intended for Bank Checks, Playing Cards,
Certificates, Proprietary, Bill of Lading, etc. These were accepted by the Federal Government on cartes de visite as long as the stamp denomination was appropriate.
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Examples of revenue stamps affixed to cartes de visite photos are shown below.
Scott R5c Scott R15c Scott R19c Scott R11c
“Bank Check” “Internal Revenue” “Telegraph” “Playing Cards”
Scott R10c Scott R18c Scott R3c “Express” “Proprietary” “Proprietary”
The amount of tax required for a carte de visite was determined by the cost of the photograph:
● Less than 25 cents: 2 cent stamp
● 25 to 50 cents: 3 cent stamp ● 50 cents to $1: 5 cent stamp
● More than $1: 5 cents for each additional dollar or fraction thereof
The majority of CDVs required either a 2 cent or 3 cent revenue stamp. But some studios specialized in higher quality photographs commanding a higher cost and thus requiring more tax for the cards. For these CDVs, the photographers would often affix multiple 2 cent and 3 cent stamps creating some beautiful combinations.
Cartes de visite were so profitable during the Civil War period that studios sprang up throughout Pennsylvania to support the high demand. In West Chester alone there were at least 17 studios making CDVs.
On the next page are examples of the affixed revenue stamps on four unique
Pennsylvania photo cards.
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This card of a young couple was made by the Tyler Created by the A. Meyers studio in Mechanicsburg, studio, EASTON, PA. A 2 cent “Proprietary” revenue Pa., a 2 cent “Internal Revenue”, Scott R15c, stamp, Scott R13c, paid the tax on the card. satisfied the tax on this carte de visite.
A Philadelphia photographer created this portrait of C. L. Lochman, “Artist”, of Carlisle, PA, created “William Harris”, affixing a 3 cent “Proprietary” this card. A 2 cent “Playing Card” variety, stamp, Scott R18c, to the card. Scott R11c, paid the card tax.
For the first few months after the passage of the new luxury tax on cartes de visite, most photographers did not affix revenue stamps to the backs of their cards. They were convinced that the
law would be repealed given the outcries and petitions to
government officials by the photographer community. However,
this was not to be and the tax was supported by the courts. As such, some photographer’s acceptance of the tax required for their cards can be seen on redesigned backs of their CDVs that
have a designated area for the revenue stamp.
In the example card shown here, M. B. Yarnell of Phoenixville, PA, even printed an image of a blank perforated
stamp on his cards where the revenue stamps would eventually be placed.
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A splendid example of Pennsylvania philatelic ephemera is shown below with the use of a bisected 4 cent “Playing Cards” revenue stamp (Scott R21c) on a CDV created in the Altoona, Pa., studios of Elias A. Bonine.
Bisected revenue stamps are somewhat rare on cartes de visite. But in addition, and most interestingly, the photographer for this card was known for signing his name as a play on words, using 'Bo9' rather than 'Bonine'. This is clearly apparent on the magnified portion of the bisected revenue stamp.
Photographer Elias Bonine’s cancellation of the revenue stamp with “Bo9”.
End Notes
The tax on photographs created and sold in the United States was repealed effective August 1, 1866. But, it is indeed quite possible that a collector could find a post-August, 1866, carte de visite card with an affixed tax stamp if a photographer was not aware of the recently repealed law. Such an item would certainly be very rare and collectible
An extraordinary collection of cartes de visite, with numerous Pennsylvania items, is the
Darrah Collection of Cartes-de-Visite, 1860-1900, one of Penn State University’s special collections. The William Darrah collection includes 62,608 cartes de visite assembled systematically over a period of more than thirty years (1957-1988).
Information about the Darrah collection can be found by visiting: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/speccolls.html .
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Philadelphia to Aspinwall, 1858
By Neal Erkes (# 491)
I recently obtained a mid-19 th century Philadelphia cover bearing a pair of Scott #35’s and bound for the curious sounding Aspinwall, New Granada (Figure 1). It was addressed to a lieutenant stationed on the naval vessel, the USS Sabine. Because of its ornate design and rich color, the 10-cent issue of the 1850’s has been one of my favorites, and the combination of two of them on cover, the uncommon 20-cent rate, and the even rarer destination (especially originating from Philadelphia) was instantly sine qua non. So I bid on it and fortunately won.
The cover is not fresh, and its inscription is faint and inartistic, however, it is a unique piece of Philadelphia maritime postal history. Thanks to the Internet I was able to perform an elementary research of the terms “ USS Sabine, Aspinwall, and New Granada,” and by simply following links piece together the stories behind why the Sabine was at port in Aspinwall, and how this Central American town acquired and then lost this name.
Figure 1
In the mid-nineteenth century the United States and Paraguay were engaged in a minor standoff. The USS Water Witch , a side-wheel gunboat, had set sail from Norfolk in 1853 to survey the coastal rivers of Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay. In February, 1855, the Sabine was on the Reo de la Plata, when a Paraguayan fort fired on her, killing a United States crewman. The United States responded in 1858, by sending a squadron of four ships
(including the repaired Water Witch) to Asuncion, Paraguay to extract an apology and compensation from that government. This display of such naval power prompted the
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Paraguayans to concede to the United States’ demands and sign a new treaty. The USS Sabine , a sailing frigate, served as the flagship for this expedition and was under the command of Flag Officer William Shubrick. (Later, during the United States’ Civil War the Sabine would participate in the naval blockade of the renegade South, ferreting out
Confederate Raiders, and also supplied a good number of crew for the ironclad Monitor. )
A common stop-off for United States vessels destined to South America was the Panamanian port of Colon, and it is here that my cover comes into play. The pair of Scott #35’s, tied by the large octagonal Philadelphia c.d.s. of the late 1850’s, pays the 20 ct. steamship rate for over 2500 miles, and is addressed to Lieutenant Cash of the U.S. Frigate Sabine. Cash and his shipmates were preparing for the last stage of their journey to join the expedition to confront Paraguay. The cover was mailed in 1858, the year of the Sabine’s mission as indicated by the year date in the cancel.
th The term, “New Granada” (Nueva Granada) originated in the 16 century as a political division, and in 1717, as a viceroyalty which comprised Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. After the Bolivar revolution and other events, only Colombia and Panama remained as the Republic of New Granada. In the late 19 th century it was renamed the
Republic of Colombia, and in 1903, Panama seceded.
“Aspinwall” was a United States’ moniker; the Colombians, who at the time had authority over the Isthmus of Panama, called it Colon in honor of Christopher Columbus (who had touched down at the area in 1502). It was U.S. citizens, those that had immigrated to Panama to build the Atlantic terminus of the Panamanian Railroad, who in 1850, named the town “Aspinwall” after William Henry Aspinwall, the project’s promoter. His railroad would connect the swampy islet on which these immigrants had settled to mainland Panama, providing an expeditious route across the isthmus. Now all those involved with the California Gold Rush could speed up their transit time. The illustration in Figure 2, which depicts the train station at Aspinwall, appeared in the May 30, 1868 issue of Harpers Weekly.
Figure 2
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William Henry Aspinwall’s firm was involved in international trade with the East and West Indies, the Mediterranean, and China. It built and owned some of the fastest clipper ships of the time and established speed records, some of which today still stand. In 1848, Aspinwall was among a group of merchants, who started the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company. The company contracted with the U.S. government to carry mail from Panama to California, and in the late 1860’s, introduced a line between San Francisco, Hong Kong, Yokohama, and Shanghai. Numerous Japanese and Chinese would use these ships to immigrate to California. Aspinwall was also a prominent philanthropist, helping to found the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.
At its inception, Aspinwall was a grim morass of muddy thoroughfares, populated by a hodgepodge of nationalities, and overrun with prostitutes and pimps. Tropical rain storms poured over 11 feet of water per year, and in the absence of any sewer system the land was awash with dysentery and other critical illnesses. “Death was distilled in every breath of air,” said one prominent resident, referring not only to the daily victims of disease but to those of violence. Murder was commonplace, and people were inured to the daily sight of unidentified bodies floating in the river.
In 1852, Panama Railroad officials arrived at Aspinwall to lay the cornerstone for a new station and office building. The Colombian Minister to the U.S., Dr. Victoriano de Diego Paredes, presided over a public celebration and in tribute to Anglo-Latin alliance announced that the name of the place was indeed “Aspinwall,” magnanimously boasting that the new town would rise as the commercial center of the Americas. However, in Bogota, the Colombian government objected, and demanded the name instead be “Colon.” Railroad officials dismissed this claim, continued to call it “Aspinwall,” and engraved the shipping baron’s name on all administrative buildings. As a result over the rest of the 19 th century the town was referred to either name as well as the hyphenated combinations of the two.
Mail could be addressed to Colon, Aspinwall, Colon-Aspinwall, or Aspinwall-Colon. Finally, in 1890, the Colombian government ordered all mail addressed to “Aspinwall” be returned to sender. The railroad ceded and the town henceforth has been known solely as “Colon.”
References:
“History of Colon, Panama,” www.coloncity.com/history1.html “Railroads and the Making of Modern America,” www.railroads.unl.edu “New Granada,” The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6 th edition, Columbia University Press, 2007. “USS Sabine (1855),” and “USS Water Witch,” Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. nd Wierenga, Theron J., United States Incoming Steamship Mail 1847-1875, 2 Edition, U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, Austin, TX, 2000. “William Henry Aspinwall,” www.wikipedia.com Young, Mathew, “Iron Clad: the Remarkable Odyssey of the U.S.S. Water With,” Columbus State University, www.state.ga.us/informationcenter/programs ...
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LITIZ ACROSS THE POND
Unpaid Letters by Prussian Closed Mail, 1853 and 1854
By Richard Colberg (# 378)
My Litiz postal history collection/exhibit got a shot in the arm earlier this year when I received an E-mail from Steve Taylor, a dealer in England. Steve said he had a few transatlantic covers from Litiz and was I interested. That’s like asking an alcoholic if he’d like a free bottle of booze!
After getting the covers, my next task was to figure out the markings so that I could write them up for my exhibit. I sent scans to Dick Winter, who has always been of valuable help in this area. The results shown on the next three pages illustrate a double-rate unpaid letter (Figure 1) and two single-rate unpaid letters (Figures 2 and 3) as they now appear in my exhibit. I suspect most of you who collect small towns like Litiz are eager to find pieces out of the normal domestic mail stream. So you can understand my enjoyment and excitement in being able to add these covers to my collection. I have just finished preparing a 24-page exhibit of Litiz Postal History for Marcophilex
XXXVI in Epernay, France in October 2012. Writing up these new covers for the exhibit was both informative and fun. The exposition is billed as an International Exposition of Philately and Postal History. I am excited to be going, seeing old friends and taking an after-the-show tour of champagne country. We will visit the well known firm of Moet et Chandon, have a 2-hour lunch featuring chicken cooked in , what else, champagne, and a sampling of three of the area cheeses. Later we’ll visit other wineries for three different champagne tastings.
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Figure 1
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Figure 2
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Figure 3
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Faded Letters Speak
Norman D. Nicol (# 478)
I have another hobby besides genealogy-family history and that is collecting postally used envelopes and postcards with postmarks from Luzerne and Wyoming Counties. Sometimes, the envelopes I acquire still contain the original letters which makes for interesting reading. On a recent visit back to my Luzerne County home, I decided to study a couple of those letters and try to build up a family portrait beginning with just the information contained in those missives. What began as a simple exercise in genealogical research led me down paths
I had not contemplated at the start.
The two letters that stirred my interest were both mailed in Huntsville, Jackson Township, Luzerne County in the early 1870s. They were addressed to C.D. or Chas. Linskill and the reader may recognize that name, but I confess that I was beginning with absolutely no knowledge of the man or his family. The first letter was mailed at Huntsville on 5 April 1871 and addressed to C.D. Linskill, Plymouth, Luzr, Penna. (Figure 1). The letter reads as follows:
Figure 1
Lehman Apr 5 th : 71.
Dear Brother,
I thought I would write you a few lines, not that I have any thing especial to write but I thought you would like to hear from us we are all pretty well Merritt came down on Sat. He has quite a good team for farming.
Almira is geting around again John has been quite sick, but he went past this morning Mother was very much pleased with the present you sent her the other day. You will see to Josie Silk. eleven yards of oil boiled-black. Give my love to the two Nellies write when you can as we are always pleased to hear from you come over when you can
I can't write much now Johnny is waiting to take this to the Office.
Yours affectionately
B.L.S.
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What genealogical information could be gleaned from this letter? It is readily apparent that Charles had a sister whose first name (or nickname) began with B. Her given middle initial L was probably for Linskill following the practice common before the widespread use of second names of using the maiden name for a middle name after marriage. The sister's married surname begins with S, possibly Silk as that of Josie mentioned in the letter, in which case Josie may be B's sister-in-law. Other persons are also named. Charles is probably married, his wife and daughter sharing the same given name or nickname, Nellie. There are also named Merritt, Almira and John, but their relationship to Charles and his sister are not apparent.
The second letter was mailed at Huntsville on 3 August 1872 to Chas. Linskill at
Grand Tunnel Pa.(Figure 2). It reads as follows:
Figure 2
Huntsville Aug 1 st 1872 My Dear Son I have been thinking of you and wanting to see you very much lately I trust you are well I am about as well as could be expected after so long a sickness Eva has been very poorly but is some better The baby grows nicely but takes a great deal of care and time to take care of it. an-other summer of toil and care is nearly gone But through it all the Lord has been good I find him as of old a strong hold in the day of trouble How is Nellie and the baby I want to see you all I was very pleased to hear that Nellie got well so soon I hope she may keep so do not let her expose her self to much Eva's house is nearly done will finish next week I think. I wish you could see the choke cherries that came up around the old stoop where you use to eat them they look so pretty among the gren leaves how they remind me of you when you were children I want to come and see you as soon as I can May God bless you and may we meet in that home prepared for us in my prayer Your loving Mother Charles Mary Linskill
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From this second letter we learn that Charles' mother is still alive and residing in Huntsville. As there is no mention of her husband, she is probably a widow. The only other person mentioned in the letter who can be definitely identified is Nellie, Charles' wife, although the daughter is mentioned without being named. A person named Eva is also mentioned with references to her being ill and also that she has a baby. In addition, there is a house being built for Eva and her family and is nearing completion.
As for the place names given on the envelopes, Huntsville has already been mentioned as being located in Jackson Township. There was a post office located there from 1826 until 1911. 1 Lehman Township is just to the west and northwest of Jackson Township and the town of Lehman is about three miles distant from Huntsville. Although Lehman had a post 2 office from 1832 and well into the twentieth century, the above letters were mailed from Huntsville, probably because it was more convenient. The destinations of the letters were not far from Huntsville. Plymouth is on the west bank of the Susquehanna River opposite the southern reaches of Wilkes-Barre. It has had a post office in continual use since 1811. 3 Grand Tunnel may not be so familiar to readers. It was actually the post office address for
Avondale in Plymouth Township, site of the great mine disaster of 1869. The post office of Grand Tunnel was established in 1871, just a year before the letter written by Mary Linskill. It closed on 31 October 1901. 4
What we could know of Charles D. Linskill and his family from the two letters is only that he is married with a wife and baby daughter, his mother is alive and living not far from his sister. One other thing is apparent from the covering envelope of his mother's letter and that is how he remembered her. Written on the front of the envelope, presumably in Charles' hand, is "From my dear mother - very sweet and Precious 3/11/20. She was long gone by 1920, but he probably thought of her often.
I was determined to find out more about the Linskills since I had some time for research at the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society in Wilkes-Barre before I was scheduled to travel back to California.. I decided to check the 1870 Federal Census because it was the
closest in time to my two letters. The only Linskill name found in Jackson Township was the 5 family of John Linskill, age 32, his wife, Almira (29), children Mary (10) and Ruey (8). Here were, undoubtedly, the John and Almira mentioned in the letter from B. I next checked the returns for Lehman Township and found Elizabeth Linskill (35) and her mother, Mary (60). 6 I had found Charles' mother and she was already a widow. I was unable to conclusively identify Elizabeth as the sister who had written to Charles in 1871, but it could have been Elizabeth if she was called Betty.
The next step was to check the 1860 Census for the same areas. I found no Linskills in Jackson Township, but looking through the pages of Lehman Township, I came upon John Linchkill ( sic ), age 60, farmer. He was followed by Mary (50), Bessie (25), Eva (11) and Jane (23). John was born in England, all the others were born in Pennsylvania. 7 Despite the misspelling of the surname, there was no doubt that this was the family of Charles. Bessie at age 25 was the same as Elizabeth in 1870. She must have been the sister who wrote the 1871 letter. Also, I now had the identification of Eva mentioned in Mother Linskill's letter.
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The next family enumerated was that of J.C. Linchkill, age 23, a farm helper, and his wife, Almirah (19). He was born in Pennsylvania, she in New York. 8 These were John and Almira before they had any children, although daughter Mary must have been on the way as she was ten in 1870. A few pages along, we find Thomas Linchkill, age 31 and a farmer from
England. He was domiciled with his wife, Eliza (32), children George (5) and John (2), all 9 born in Pennsylvania. Here was a relative of John Linskill, but there was no way to tell how the two were related from the information available in the manuscript census.
Charles was not with the family in 1860, so I looked at the 1850 Census. The family was enumerated on 28 September of that year and included John, age 37, farmer with real estate value of $1,800, Mary (41), Thomas (20), Jane (17), Betsey (16), James (14), John (12),
Charles (10) and Eveline B. (1), with all born in Pennsylvania except father John, who was 10 born in England.
After reviewing what I had found, I now knew that Charles' father, John, had died at some time between the 1860 and 1870 censuses. I took a look at Maud Luskey's listing for the Huntsville Cemetery. 11 There was John Linskill, born 28 November 1799 and died 18 August 1865. 12 A few lines below was Mary, who died in 1876 at age 52. She had not lived very many years after writing the 1872 letter to her son and one wonders if he was able to visit her often before her demise. There are other Linskills listed in the Huntsville Cemetery transcript, but their relationship to the family of Charles and his parents are not readily apparent.
The next source to check was the excellent enumeration of the Lehman Cemetery, also by Maud Luskey. 13 A few Linskills are found there, but a surprising number of females are also listed with their maiden surnames of Linskill. Among them is Elizabeth Linskill Sickler, born 10 October 1833 and died 22 January 1916. She is found with her husband, Merritt H. Sickler who was born 15 March 1839 and died 20 January 1894. 14 Elizabeth can be none other than the Bessie of 1860 and the Elizabeth of 1870, the same B who wrote the letter to Charles in 1871. We now know the identity of Merritt in that letter. As related in Bessie's
letter, he had come to call on his future wife and they must have married at rather late ages for both of them, although he may have been married once before.
I had found references for most of the people connected with my two letters, but what of the addressee and his own ancestry. I decided to look in the surname card catalog at the Historical Society and found several references to Charles D. Linskill. The first one guided me to The Michael Shoemaker Book. 15 I learned that his father, John, had been born in
Whitby, England and the date coincided with that in the cemetery record, as did that of his 16 death. He settled in Jackson Township and was one of the best know and most popular "Criers at Vendues," or auctioneers, in the county.17 He was married first to a widow, Rebecca (Major) Wharran, who died on 26 August 1832 at the age of 41. Their third child was Thomas, born in Burton, England 23 December 1829. This is the same Thomas Linskill
I had found in the 1860 Census, as mentioned above. The narrative by Blair goes on to explain why he is not to be found in the census ten years later. He enlisted in the 143rd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers Infantry and was taken prisoner at Gettysburg. He died in Bell Isle Confederate Prison on 21 November 1863, leaving a widow and young
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children.
John Linskill married a second time to a young widow, Mary (Steele) Pringle, and Charles Dorrance Linskill was their fifth child, born on 10 April 1840. 18 Charles was married for the first time on 21 September 1864 to Clara Helen Donley who must have been the Nellie of the letters. She died in 1887 and Charles married his second wife, Jennie Howland, on 29 March
1892. He worked as a clerk for a number of years in Wadham's general store at Plymouth and that is where he was located when my two letters reached him. Now I was getting somewhere for, as it turns out, Charles D. Linskill is very well known to the historians of Luzerne County, if not by this writer.
What I did not know about Charles Linskill could fill volumes. 19 As stated above, he was not living with his family in 1860, but as a single man was enumerated on 30 June 1860 living in Wilkes-Barre. He was twenty-one at the time and a clerk, boarding in the household 20 of John Sturdevant (58) a civil engineer. By the time Charles was enumerated on 23 July for the 1870 Census, he was married and living in Plymouth Township, his home when he received the two letters. He is listed as age 30, with real estate worth $1,200 and personal estate of $200. With him were his wife Hellen (25), daughter Hellen (5) and George W. 21 Linskill (15), who may have been a nephew or cousin.
In August of 1873 he began work as a traveling agent for The Record of the Times, which later became The Wilkes-Barre Record. He established The Wilkes-Barre Telephone, in 1880 as a monthly newspaper. It became a weekly news vehicle in 1884 and he sold his interest in it in 1896. From that time until 1919 when he retired, Charles worked for The Semi-Weekly Record, the interim form of the future Record. After the death of his first wife in January
1887, Charles traveled in the summer of that year to Europe and spent several months. A description of his experiences there, under the title of Travels in Lands Beyond the Sea, was published in 1888.
It was the columns he wrote in the several newspapers about local towns and people which are his lasting legacy, however. Attorney F. Charles Petrillo has sought out and compiled a large number of Linskill's newspaper articles and they make very interesting reading. 22 As
Mr. Petrillo comments in his introduction, Linskill's articles are full of vignettes of his early life, his family and others in small towns throughout the county, very rich in detail and contains information found nowhere else. In making further inquiries at the Society Library, I learned that ten volumes of Charles Linskill's meticulous diaries are preserved there. Time did not permit an examination of them, but this writer is left to wonder what other genealogical gems await the careful researcher. The combination of numerous newspaper articles and his own diaries are worthy of careful and considerable study for both local history and genealogy.
My story does not end here for, as I was flying back to California after the holidays, I recalled something I had seen a year earlier. Soon after arriving back in Santa Rosa, I went to my files and found the clipping that had been in the back of my mind, making me think that I had occasion to see the name Charles D. Linskill before. In the January 1997 issue of Global Stamp News was the monthly column "Hands-On History" by Robert F. Welt, a public school
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teacher who uses stamps, letters and postcards to stimulate his students' interest in history. Mr. Welt's column of a year ago centered around a collection of letters he had purchased in Manchester, Connecticut and all addressed to Charles D. Linskill! I knew I had heard of him before! The letters ranged over the period from the 1870s to about 1908 and had been studied by one of his junior high students. At the time I had read this, I had no idea who Linskill was, but I did write to Mr. Welt through the stamp monthly. I requested that he consider selling the collection of Linskill letters to me should he ever decide to dispose of them. He answered me by e-mail soon afterwards that he would be glad to offer them to me if and when he sold them. I am looking forward to the time when I can place those letters with the two in my possession and pass them all on to join Charles' diaries and other papers in the Historical Society's collection.
The foregoing little exercise has really turned into a project larger than I had imagined when I began. All sorts of interconnected family lines could be followed in numerous directions. I am sure that many other courses could be taken given time and access to sources. Even from where I live far from the rich material of the Historical Society and other
Northeast Pennsylvania depositories, I would be able to retrieve further information about Charles Linskill and his family. But, I leave that to those who have an interest in the Linskills as ancestors to carry the work forward. My hope is that others will become interested in aspects of our local history which will cause them to seek out previously unexplored paths. The result can be a better understanding of our past, both on a personal and a general level.
References:
1) John L. Kay and Chester M. Smith, Jr., Pennsylvania Postal History, Lawrence MA: Quarterman
Publications, Inc., 1978, p. 236.
2) Ibid., p. 237.
3) Ibid., p. 239.
4) Ibid., p. 235.
5) U.S. National Archives micropublication M593, roll 1366, Jackson Twp., Luzerne Co., Pa.,
p. 3, nº 18/18.
6) Op. cit., Lehman Twp., p. 6, nº 39/39.
7) U.S. National Archives micropublication M653, roll 1134, Lehman Twp., Luzerne Co., Pa., p. 25
(sequential p. 481), nº 170/163.
8) Loc. cit., nº 171/164. The obituary of John Cramer Linskill is found in The Wilkes-Barre Record,
25 October 1910, and contains much biographical and family information. The writer is indebted
to Lee Swan for providing a copy.
9) Op.cit., p. 30 (486), nº 219/210.
10) U.S. National Archives micropublication M432, roll 793, Lehman Twp., Luzerne Co., Pa.,
p. 25181/180, nº 1221/1246.
11) Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Newsletter, v. 3, nº 2 (Summer 1994), pp. 14-22.
12) Ibid., p. 15.
13) Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Newsletter, v. 4, nº 4 (Winter 1995), pp. 22-27; v.
5, nº 1 (Spring 1996), pp. 23-28; v. 5, nº 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 21-26.
14) Op. cit., 5/1, p. 24.
15) Williams T. Blair, The Michael Shoemaker Book (Schumacher), Scranton, 1924, pp. 594-5.
16) The International Genealogical Index (IGI) shows that John Linskill was baptized, not born, on
28 November 1799 at Whitby, Yorkshire, the second of five children registered of James Linskill
and Jane Oliver, married at Whitby 24 October 1795.
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17) John Linskill Sr. is mentioned in several anecdotal passages of William Penn Ryman's "Early Settlement of Dallas Township, Pa.," Proceedings and Collections of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society 6 (1901, pp. 166, 168, 247, 269. 18) Blair, op. cit., p. 594. 19) A good biographical sketch of Charles Linskill, in addition to the material in The Michael Shoemaker Book, can be found in his obituary in The Wilkes-Barre Record of Saturday, 7 May 1932. The following is condensed from that account. 20) U.S. National Archives micropublication M653, roll 1133, Wilkes-Barre Borough, Luzerne Co., Pa., p. 107 (sequential p. 1052), nº 769/756. 21) U.S. National Archives micropublication M593, roll 1367, Plymouth Twp., Luzerne Co., Pa., p. 57/490, nº 335/337. 22) F. Charles Petrillo, The Bear Creek Region - Charles D. Linskill (1840-1932), unpublished compilation, deposited in the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society Library, December 1995.
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From a Distance it Looks Tiny, but Up Close it Seems Immense!
By Charles A. Fricke
Picture postcards many times offer an opportunity of bringing to light things happening in the past. During the golden age of postcards (1893 – 1926), the sheer number still available baffles the mind, opening up a view of the past. The un-mailed picture postcard shown in Figure 1 is a straight-on view of City Hall looking south on Broad Street. The statue seems tiny atop the towering clock tower of City
Hall. The horse and carriage in the foreground and the automobiles further down the street th suggest the card is vintage early 19 Century, the transition from horse and buggy to automobile.
Figure 1
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The postcard shown in Figure 2 clearly indicates the immense size of the statue. Just compare its size with the men standing in front. The photograph was probably taken in 1893 when the statue was assembled on the ground before being taken apart so that it could be reassembled at the top of the clock tower. It was mailed from Philadelphia to Lock
Haven, Pa. on April 22, 1906 (Figure 3) clearly many years after the photograph was made.
Figure 3
Figure 2
Designed and sculpted by Alexander Calder, the bronze statue is 37 ft. high and weighs
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My sincere thanks to all who contributed to this issue and to those who responded to my plea for articles. Although I now have a small backlog, please don’t let up.
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nd 2 Update on Pennsylvania Manuscript Markings, Part XIV
By Tom Mazza (# 301)
Lawrence County (New Castle – ch)
Cross Cut M-1 Joseph Cox A (12/24/56 – 3/19/62) -/--/59 1 B (9/28/65 – 12/15/71 3/14/67 1
East Brook
M-1 Thomas Fisher 3d (6/2/46 – 5/1/50) 1/9/49 1 Edinburgh M-1 Lewis Frankenburger (6/11/49 – 4/24/51) 5/20/50 1 Marvin M-1 William Leslie (3/16/52 – 4/25/54) Joseph S. Williamson (5/6/56 – 10/27/63) 11/20/5+ 1 Neshannock Falls M-1 Samuel Holstein (12/19/54 – 7/9/66) 3/6/58 – 4/10/5+ 2 New Wilmington * M-1 David McCombs (4/12/50 – 8/8/53) 6/13/51 – 8/11/51 2 Plain Grove M-1 Hutchinson Bovard A (5/11/50 – 10/6/56) B (2/17/59 – 5/27/68) David McBride (10/6/56 – 12/23/56) Samuel McBride (12/23/56 – 7/30/57) Aquilla Miles (7/30/57 – 2/17/59) 6/15/5+ 1 Pulaski M-1 William McCready (2/28/51 – 4/4/62) 3/18/54 1
Lebanon County (Lebanon – ch)
Achey’s Corner M-1 Samuel Achey (7/9/57 – 8/7/61) 5/7/59 1 Annville M-1 Henry Bowman (*1/1/11 – *1/1/12) Daniel Henning (*1/1/12 – 8/29/29) John Killinger (8/29/29 – 10/17/37) Adam Miller, Jr. (10/17/37 – 6/7/41) Jeremiah Behm (6/7/41 – 5/12/43) Jacob Henning (5/12/43 – 10/23/45) 2/6/-- (pre 7/1/45) 1 M-2 George C. Stein (10/23/45 – 1/27/49) 1/13/48 – 2/5/49 2 M-3 Samuel Biever (5/11/49 – 6/9/53) 10/26/50 – 2/3/53 3 M-4 John Frantz (6/9/53 – 7/11/57) Charles H. Steinmetz (7/11/57 – 5/21/61) -/16/5+ 1 Belleview M-1 Adam E. Mark (3/19/62 – 12/23/63) 3/13/63 1 Campbelltown M-1 Jacob Schwar (10/1/19 – 10/17/28) 3/29/27 1 M-2 John Wolfersberger (10/17/28 – 3/21/64) 10/4/39 – 4/20/50 2
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Cornwall *
M-1 Robert W. Coleman (7/5/48 – 1/5/65) 8/14/49 1 East Hanover * M-1 Michael Weise (1/26/41 – 2/24/51) 9/14/41 - 10/8/41 2 Fredericksburg * M-1 Christian Long (1/12/43 – 7/6/46) -/--/45 1 Lebanon * (ch) M-1 Jacob Karch (*6/12/92 – 10/20/34) 4/21/14 - -/--/22 3 Mount Hope M-1 John Koch (1/23/36 – 1/12/43) 10/17/40 1 Myerstown * M-1 John Albright A (3/23/08 – 1/25/19) B (12/31/40 – 7/6/43) 6/17/43 1 M-2 William Stoever (5/23/29 – 12/31/40 11/20/34 – 9/18/38 3 M-3 Cyrus G. Stoever (7/6/43 – 2/3/46) 9/27/44 – 5/19/45 2 M-4 George Donges (2/3/46 – 5/11/49) 3/3/46 1 Ono M-1 Michael B. Horning (6/22/60 – 5/28/63) 3/13/62 1 Palmyra M-1 Conrad Horstick (1/20/32 – 8/16/42) 4/20/40 – 6/29/41 2 M-2 Peter Rodearmel (8/16/42 – 11/14/49) 3/11/46 – -/--/48 2 Richland Station M-1 Eli Klopp (12/16/58 – 5/4/61) 1/30/60 1 Shaefferstown M-1 William M. Weigley A (2/27/39 – 6/18/41) B (7/6/43 – 2/9/49) 12/24/45 – 12/16/46 3 Stumptown M-1 Amos Shannon (3/2/25 – 1/12/39) 2/27/33 1
Lehigh County
Allentown * (ch)
M-1 Charles L. Hutter (5/4/14 – 11/22/20) 12/19/14 – 9/1/17 4
M-2 George Hanke (11/22/20 – 2/10/24) -/--/20 – 10/30/23 4 or 5
M-3 Henry Weaver (2/10/24 – 1/1/36) 3/29/25 – 11/3/28 3
Allentown * (ch)
M-1 Charles L. Hutter (5/4/14 – 11/22/20) 12/19/14 – 9/1/17 4
M-2 George Hanke (11/22/20 – 2/10/24) -/--/20 – 10/30/23 4 or 5
M-3 Henry Weaver (2/10/24 – 1/1/36) 3/29/25 – 11/3/28 3
Breinigsville
M-1 Peter Breinig (3/29/39 – 5/28/50) 6/17/41 1
M-2 David O. Mosser (5/28/50 – 5/27/53) 4/19/52 1
Catasaqua *
M-1 Nathan Fegley (6/10/46 – 4/10/50) 3/8/47 – 9/18/4+ 2
Coopersburgh (2) *
M-1 Erwin Burkhalter (4/5/58 – 9/1/62) 8/26/61 1
Cranesville
M-1 Nathan Fegley (6/10/46 – 4/10/50) 8/12/46 1
Fogelsville
M-1 Solomon Fogel (3/25/23 – 4/12/58) 9/24/32 – 9/8/57 3
Frysburg
M-1 David Roth (4/1/18 – 5/26/19) 5/5/19 1
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Kern’s Mills (1)
M-1 Thomas Kern (2/8/33 – 11/17/36) -/--/34 - -/--/35 2
Kern’s Mills (2)
M-1 Thomas Kern (2/3/37 – 1/13/45) 3/20/37 1
Lynnville
M-1 John Seiberling (2/2/20 – 2/18/76) 9/20/42 - -/--/53 2
Macungie
M-1 James Singmaster (2/10/49 – 5/27/53) 5/20/50 1
New Tripoli
M-1 Samuel Camp (1/1/31 – 5/21/57) 7/20/48 – 11/14/50 2
North Whitehall (1)
M-1 Stephen Balliett, Jr. (5/11/31 – 8/27/60) 8/8/43 – 7/13/5+ 5
Orefield
M-1 William Wetherhold (1/15/61 – 2/7/65) 8/6/63 1
Saegersville
M-1 Joseph Saeger (12/18/28 – 5/11/31) 5/12/31 1
Schnecksville
M-1 Peter Gross, Jr. A (2/16/46 – 6/21/55) 11/30/49 1
B (7/11/55 – 5/10/62)
Shoenersville *
M-1 Samuel Saylor (5/29/54 – 5/17/67) 8/29/54 1
Trexlertown
M-1 Jacob Fisher (1/29/47 – 11/27/49) 3/8/49 1
M-2 John R. Schall (5/27/53 – 7/25/62) 1/15/55 1
Vera Cruz
M-1 Charles Bernhart (2/8/61 – 8/13/63) 4/4/63 1
Note: For column headings and explanation for manuscript listings see page 19 in the August 2012 Historian
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