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EDITH L. WRIGHT, Secrelar) LORING B. PRIEST, 2nd rice Pres HAROLD B.TAYLOR,Treasurer 1978 - 1980TERM 1979 - 1981 TERM MRS.JOHN W. BITNER MRS.NORMANS.INGERSOLL SAMUEL J. DORNSIFE EVERETT W. RUBENDALL WILLARD A. SCHELL MISSJEAN T. HELLER CHARLESE.NOYES,SR EDWARD J. DURRWACHTER EX-OFFICIO BOARD MEMBERS MRS. JAMES MAEULEN, RE/)RISEN'7H T/}T JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WILLIAMSPORT DR. JUNE E. BASKIN, /LEES/DENT THE GREATER WILLIAMSPORT COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL ROBERT D.SMINK HISTORICAL SOCIETY RETIRING PRESIDENT SOCIETYSTAFF EXflCUT.rrE SECRETHRy and fl)/TOR - MARY ANN JOHNSON VOLUMEXV FALL NUMBER TWO 1979 Copies of theJournal One Dollar Fifty Cents Each MUSEUM STAFF CONTENTS D {Tectov Andrew K. Grugan A ssistant to D{TectoT Patricia Kahle Gift Shop Manager 8 Tout D{Tectov Gloria Grugan Page Executive Secvetav) Mary Ann Johnson MUSEUMVOLUNTEER STAFF Greetings from the President 5 RegistTatfon Committee Miss June Foresman, Ch airman M rs. Stanley Bassett Historical Outline of the llth Regt. Penna. Volunteers Miss Ethel Ertel 1861 - 1865 by Dr. George W. Howe 6 Mrs. Frederick Snell The Tidewater Oil Pipeline, 1878 1883 C)PeTat£onMul,seam Andrew K. Grupan by Dr. William A. Turnbaugh 18 This and That About Thread Pubtfcft) and Put)t£cRetatfons Andrew K. Grugan by Eva Berry Steffan (1890 - 1974) 26 General R estoTation Philip N. Gould Mr. and Mrs. Emlin S. Massey First Local Telephone Exchange Started by Hiram R. Rhoads in 1819 28 Curatorial Del)aTtments. Williamsport Telephone Exchange 29 GeneTat CuvatoT Andrew K. Grugan Military History from Everett Rubendall's WRAK Mort ing Radio 37 A Tcha eoLog) James P. Bressler, Chairm an ShowFebruary 10, 1976 Willard Schell William Turnbaugh The Presbyterian Ministers of Lycoming County (Conclusion) by Warren L. Marsh: Rev. Adolos Allen, Mr. JesseS. Bell 38 ATchiues and Records Miss Gladys Tozier, Chief Mrs. Richard P. Foresman MissJean Little Miss Phyllis Briel Educafzon Andrew K. Grugan COVERPICTURE Fine Arts Dr. June E. Barkin Welcome Home Pro- gram held at Williamsport luau.stT at Exhibits Francis Maneval PA, July 4, 1865. This program goes with the last Minerals Lewis Harper paragraph of Dr. George W. Howe's article Textiles M rs. Norman Ingersoll Mrs. Edith Wright Mrs. LesliePainton John Sloan Memorial Collections Gloria Grugan 5 MEETINGS, 1979 1980 GREETINGSFROM THE PRESIDENT'SDESK LYCOMING COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY October1 , 1979 September20, 1979 'The Civil War'' - Mr. Irving ''Bud'' Berndt Fellow Members September29, 1979, 8:30 A.M. Societe' trip to State College, Boalsburg Area, visiting the Pennsylvania Military I appreciate the trust that you have placed in me by electing me President of the Museumand 28th Division Shrine. There will be a conductedtour of the Baal Society and Museum for this year Mansionand ChristopherColumbus Family Chapelat Boalsburg.We will visit the It appearsthat one of our greatest needs is to strengthen our financial base so we Museumof Art and the Zoller Gallery on the Penn State Campus. can better meet our annual operating budget. It is difficult to plan a budget on a yearly basis when our annual income depends mainly on memberships which are hopefully renewedthroughout the year as the anniversarydate of each member joining the Society October18, 1979 comesup. There are a numberof waysthat we can accomplishthis: (1) to build up our The KeystoneShortway" - Mr. C. E. Noyes,color 6llm and archives endowment fund so that the income from this fund will produce a greater portion of our annual budget, (2) to increaseour total membership and to get more personsto October 27, 1979,8:00 A.M change from individual or family memberships to sustaining memberships, (3) to in- crease our business and industrial memberships, (4) to seek increased support from the Society trip to Eckley, Hazelton, and Jim Thorpe, visiting first the Anthracite County Commissioners,(5) to seeksupport from additional school districts of the Museum Visitors Center in the Village of Eckley, lunch in Hazelton and a con County. To attempt to accomplishthis I am in the processof contacting a number of personsto serveon a DevelopmentCommittee to work on all of the above areas. ducked tour of the Asa Packer Mansion, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Jane Ingersoll is in the processof forming a Women'sAuxiliary to the Societyand Museum. A number of you will be contacted by Jane to help in this important work November 15, 1979 Your cooperation will be appreciated. Time indeed marches on. We realize too late that we cannot locate information Williamsport Trolleys'' - Miss Naomi Woolever and artifacts concerningour public and private institutions, businessesand industries that were or still are located in Lycoming County. We must somehowactively solicit and December8 & 9, 7:00 A.M collect from all pertinent sourcessuch data, records, drawings, house magazines, adver- Overnight Societytrip to New York City for the Christmasshow at Radio City tisements, samples of products manufactured or sold, photographs and such other Music Hall material that would help in establishingand maintaining their historical records.Each of us can do much to encouragethe collection of such material through our friends and associates. December20, 1979 I believe that by working together we can continue to uncover much of yesterday's Holiday Program ' history and preservetoday's memorabilia for tomorrow'scitizens. In this way we can help make our accomplishmentsand history come alive for our youth and bring back cherished memories for our senior citizens. April 1980,6:30 P.M. Dinner meeting at Eldred Township Fire Hall, Warrensville.A short annual business meeting will be held Sincerely Kenneth E. Carl, .f'yeszdenf l 6 7 HISTORICALOUTLINE U ofthe N D llth REGT.PENNA.VOLUNTEERS n P 1861-1865 0 H H 'a P By Dr. George ll '. .f/owe € The stores were closed in Williams brigade. Brigadeswere grouped into P g'!' =' }' port on that morning when the first eager divisions, and divisions composed a corps 0 }' {' {'{ soldiersfrom the local mills, shopsand Thus the achievementsof one regiment n farms entrainedfor Harrisburg.Just may be similar to those of another with N eight days earlier, PresidentLincoln had which it shared the risks of combat. And 0 issueda call for 75.000men to bear arms the work of a corps reflectsthat of each in defenseof the Union, and this stirring lesserunit within its table of organization 0 P response was typical of the cheerful com- mitment being displayedthroughout the The original staff of the new reg- entire Commonwealth. By noon on that iment was headedby Col. Pharon Jarrett 'a { 23rd of April, 1861, the Lycoming of Lock Haven.His electionto the 0 { Gazette had produced a special issue colonelcy was unanimous. Second in 0 which recountedin full detail the story command was Lt. Col. Richard Coulter a' N H of this colorful and historic departure. 4. of Greensburg, Westmoreland County. 3 Col. Jarrett was formerly the captain of Company B. The arts of war were hardly new to Lhe young men who converged on Camp Curtin. The Woodward Guardshad been On Saturdaymorning, May 4th, the new regiment boarded a Pennsylvania g organized in Williamsport as an artillery Central Train.