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This Was My Pottsville
Life and Crimes During The Gilted Age
J. Robert Zane
$12.95 + .77 Tax, Shipping and handling $2.50.
The Ghosts of Inishfree and Other Stories
Patrick Campbell
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Tunnel Tigers
Patrick Campbell
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The Schuylkill County Book Of Lists
A collection of Historical Facts
Compiled by J. Robert Zane
In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County
The Schuylkill County Book of Lists is a kaleidoscope of historical facts involving Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, presented in a familiar style of lists for easy reference. It is not merely a history book, fact book or a reference book. It is an informative book that is meant to provide entertainment to the reader. This is an amazingly interesting book of Schuylkill County events and names from the time of the founding of the county to people living today.
The following list of chapter titles will give you an idea of the variety of interesting Schuylkill County topics covered in this book.
Congressional Medal of Honor Winners
Noteworthy Military Figures
Congressmen
Musicians
Disasters
Literary Figures
Clergy, Churches and the Spiritual
Breweries of Schuylkill County
Pro Baseball Players
Medical Professionals
Inventors and Creative Thinkers
Schuylkill County Movie Connections
Controversies
Artists & Sculptors
Law and Order
Who, What, Where
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1902! The Great Coal Strike in Shenandoah, PA
A true story of martial law in an anthracite community, by J. Robert Zane
On July 30, 1902 the Great Anthracite Coal Strike, which was already in progress, took a violent turn. Joe Beddall, a hardware store owner, went to the assistance of his brother, a county deputy sheriff. He was brutally murdered by a mob of his own neighbors in the first ward of Shenandoah, PA. The incident caught the attention of the Governor of Pennsylvania and even the President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.
1902! Gives you the inside story of what really happened. When author J. Robert Zane was told the story of the Bloody First Ward by his grandfather he could not find any proof of its truthfulness in any books. For years he thought that the story was an imaginative story made up by a grandfather to entertain a youngster. The story stuck with him, as it was full of adventure, immigrant settlers, troops on horses, murder, revenge and labor struggle.
"1902! The Great Strike in Shenandoah, PA" is an interpretive historical accounting of the community, the labor dispute and subsequent riot, murders and court trial. Interspersed with ethnic and family stories, the book brings to life a by-gone time loaded with adventure and suspense.
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Two Weeks Under
The Sheppton Mine Disaster/Miracle
By James A. Goodman
The Author tells the 1963 Sheppton mine cave-in story with new insight and fervor as he answers some of the long and burning questions surrounding this tragic, yet miraculous event.
What was the petition of the Deputy Attorney General for the Department of Mines and Mineral Industries asking the court to do? Did the UMWA attempt to make a political football of the operation, or were they responsible for turning a recovery operation into a rescue operation? Did Fellin and Throne hallucinate, or did they see Pope John XII and the blue lights?
"Anybody who looked down that slope after the cave-in would not believe it possible that anyone could have survived." – Andy Drebitko
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Souvenir Plate
Historical Society of Schuylkill County
100th Anniversary
1903-2003
The Historical Society of Schuylkill County has a souvenir plate to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Society on September 15, 1903. The plate is sepia color. The Female Grammar School is pictured in the center of the plate. The inscription under the school is Female Grammar School, Erected 1863, Society Headquarters, March 13, 2002.
On the back of the plate is the following inscription:
The Historical Society of Schuylkill County was incorporated September 14, 1903 in the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill County. The purpose of the Society is to discover, procure and preserve the records of the history of Schuylkill County and any data or materials which may establish or illustrate that history. The Society purchased the Female Grammar School, erected in 1863, located in the National Historic District of downtown Pottsville, and renovated the old school to meet the requirements of the Society. The Society moved into its new headquarters March 13, 2002.
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 Images of America
Pottsville in the Twentieth Century
Farewell 1899! Welcome 1900! Was the headline in the Pottsville Republican on January 1, 1900. The people of Pottsville ushered in the new century in the usual manner with noisy gatherings and crowded churches. Coal was king in Schuylkill County during the 19th century, but the demise of coal had already begun by 1900. At the beginning of the 200 century Pottsville had seven volunteer fire companies, the second-finest courthouse in the state, a first-class hospital, twenty three churches, a $100,000 YMCA building, a public Mission, a free kindergarten, twelve fine schoolhouses, two parochial schools, and a free public library.
Leo L. Ward and Mark T. Major have compiled this memorable history from the Society's extensive vintage photograph collection. Ward and Major are also authors of Pottsville, Schuylkill County, and Schuylkill County Volume II
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New Molly Maguire Books
A Molly Maguire Trial - The Thomas Munley Story, by H. T. Crown, 2002
The Molly Maguire trials of the mid 1870s took place in an atmosphere of anti-Irish hysteria generated by the Pottsville Miners Journal, the Shenandoah Herald, and Philadelphia and New York newspapers. It was in this atmosphere that Thomas Munley a Molly Maguire accused of the murder of Thomas Sanger at Raven Run, went on trial.
The Pinkerton detective, James McParlan, was put on the witness stand for the prosecution. McParlan had infiltrated the Molly Maguire using the name, James McKenna, and learned all of the secrets of the Mollies. Author Howard Crown examines McParlan's testimony in the trial and raises startling questions about the detective's testimony. Did McParlan commit perjury on the witness stand? Was Munley innocent of the crime? The author answers many questions that have been raised about the trial in his well written book.
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Who Killed Franklin Gowen? By Patrick Campbell, 2003
Who Killed Franklin Gowen? Is an in-depth analysis of the death of Franklin Gowen, whose death in Washington, D. C. on December 13, 1889, was called a suicide by the Washington coroner, but believed to be murder by Gowen's immediate family. Gowen's death created a sensation in the national newspapers.
Author Campbell did an exhaustive study of Gowen's clues in search of clues that would prove that Gowen was murdered mysteriously by an unknown assailant. Molly Maguire buffs must have this book in their libraries.
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A Molly Maguire Story by Patrick Campbell, 1992
On June 21, 1877, ten Irish-Americans were executed in the anthracite mining areas of Pennsylvania. All were accused of being members of a terrorist group called the Molly Maguires, and all were convicted of planning and carrying out the murders of mining officials, Ten more Irish-Americans were executed on the same charges. One of the men who were executed on June 21, 1877 was Alexander Campbell, grand-uncle of the author.
The author undertook a fifteen year investigation of the execution of Alexander Campbell. A Molly Maguire Story is an account of that investigation.
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A Guide to the Molly Maguires, Featuring the ORIGINAL Molly Maguire Tour, by H. T. Crown and Mark T. Major
Students of Molly Maguire history will find this book an indispensable aid to visiting the landmarks of that chapter of Pennsylvania's colorful past. This guidebook is designed to map out the important places, people, and events of the Molly era. But even more than that, A guide to the Molly Maguires provides information that goes beyond directions, it allows for self-paced, self-study along the route of the tour.
The Molly Maguire saga is geographically spread over five eastern Pennsylvania counties, with most key events happening in Schuylkill and Carbon counties.
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Beers 1916 Genealogy - Family History - Biography
A beautiful two volume set of over 1,200 pages of the families of Schuylkill County and the prominent citizens, listing their many children, their parents and relatives, their occupations, marriages, and deaths.
The two volumes traces where the families came from and if they left the county, where they went. These two beautiful volumes are printed on acid free paper by offset lithography and contain hundreds of photographs of places and people dating back to the early days of the county.
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Making Sense of the Molly Maguires by Kevin Kenny, 1998
In the 1860s and 1870s, the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania drew national attention for their violence. After a series of assaults and killings, deep-rooted fears of a secret Irish terrorist organization hardened into certainty. Sixteen men were assassinated, most of them mine officials, and there were numerous beatings and acts of industrial sabotage.
Because of the uncertainties in the subject and the many biases involved in it, the story of the Mollies has not received the plain unvarnished truth that it needs. Kevin Kenny, in his superb book, has done that. "Making Sense of the Molly Maguires' is the best book ever written on the subject.
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John Siney - The Miners Martyr by Edward Pinkowski, 1963
John Siney was an Irish immigrant who came to America in 1863, at the age of thirty- two, settled in Saint Clair, Pennsylvania, and rapidly became the leader of coal miners from the anthracite fields in Pennsylvania to the mines of Missouri.
Nowhere else has the story of Siney's life been so well told. Edward Pinkowski has dug carefully into the past. There is no doubt that a great deal of research and hard work went into the writing of this book.
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Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County 1989
A collection of manuscripts from the collections of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County, including The Last Days of the Confederacy a speech by Confederate General John B. Gordon, 125 Years of Journalism by Herwood Hobbs. The Story of the Miners' Journal, The Story of the Yuengling Brewery, by Edith C. Yuengling, The History of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company , by Bernard Buggy. Published in the Pottsville Republican on the occasion of the 75h Anniversary Edition of that newspaper October, 1959.
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Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County 1994
A collection of 20 Historical Musings written by Leo L. Ward and published in the Pottsville Republican. Highly illustrated with historical photographs.
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Early Transportation of Schuylkill County
This is the story of transportation in Schuylkill County told with photographs from the collections of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County. The book goes from early travel by stage coach, to canal, railroad, and trolley.
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Lithograph of Pottsville 1831
A view from Sharp Mountain looking over the southern part of the Borough of Pottsville in 1830. The scene was captured by an architect from Philadelphia. The lithograph shows the island where John Pott set up his first foundry. The island is surrounded by the Schuylkill River on the north and the Schuylkill Canal on the south. Off to the east is Port Carbon.
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Makes a great gift when framed.
Mountain Majesties
By Charles Strange, 1996
A historical novel set in Pottsville and Schuylkill County for the period 1927-1937. The novel tells the story of the elite families of Pottsville, the downward spiral of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron co., and the autobiography of the author.
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Schuylkill County Railroads, Vol. I
A video tape of Schuylkill County railroad scenes from the collection of Bruce Kantner, showing scenes from Port Clinton through Auburn, Schuylkill Haven, Pottsville, Palo Alto, Port Carbon, to Frackville. Narrated by Leo F. Haley.
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Schuylkill County Railroads, Vol. II
The second volume of railroad scenes from Bruce Kantner's collection showing scenes from Port Clinton along the Little Schuylkill River to Tamaqua and then through Mahanoy City to Ashland. Narrated by Leo F. Haley.
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Schuylkill County Railroads Volumes I-II
Two volumes of the railroad Videos.
Special discount for the package.
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Jack Kehoe Mock Trial Glasses
Souvenirs of the mock trial that the Historical Society of Schuylkill County conducted of the famous Black Jack Kehoe. The jury found Kehoe innocent in the trial, proving that his trial and execution was a travesty of justice.
$5.00. Shipping and handling $2.50.
Makes a great conversation piece on your coffee table.
Soldiers Memorial Plate
The plate was commissioned by the Historical Society of Schuylkill County to commemorate the 100th anniversary and re-dedication of the Soldier's Monument in Pottsville, PA. October 1, 1991.
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Makes a great gift.
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