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Read more about the article Louise Treadwell Tracy: Deaf Community Advocate

Louise Treadwell Tracy: Deaf Community Advocate

  • Post published:May 19, 2022
  • Post category:1900-1929/1930-1949/Women

By Betty Hoover DiRisio, LCHS Board Member & Volunteer Lawrence County has had a hand in helping probably hundreds of thousands of deaf children worldwide, through the efforts of one…

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Read more about the article The Electric Vehicle. New Technology?

The Electric Vehicle. New Technology?

  • Post published:April 24, 2022
  • Post category:1900-1929

By Betty Hoover DiRisio, LCHS Board Member & Volunteer Shortly after the invention of electricity, Edison and others turned their attentions toward the invention of an electric vehicle. By 1898,…

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Read more about the article Another New Castle First – Penn Radio

Another New Castle First – Penn Radio

  • Post published:April 24, 2022
  • Post category:1900-1929

By Betty Hoover DiRisio, LCHS Board Member & Volunteer In 1909 and 1910, Rex Patch was in the telegraph business and became interested in wireless telegraphy. After building numerous wireless…

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Read more about the article First Woman to Own a Movie Theater (Grace Phillips Johnson)

First Woman to Own a Movie Theater (Grace Phillips Johnson)

  • Post published:March 21, 2022
  • Post category:1900-1929/Women

By Betty Hoover DiRisio, LCHS Board Member & Volunteer The Theatorium is believed to be the first dedicated movie theater in New Castle. It was opened in December 1905 by…

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Read more about the article Advise Against Establishment of Business in North Hill Historic District

Advise Against Establishment of Business in North Hill Historic District

  • Post published:July 21, 2021
  • Post category:1849-1899/1900-1929/1930-1949/Mansions

By Edward X. Petrus, Board President, LCHS. Originally posted on our front page April 26, 2021. “The Lawrence County Historical Society strongly advises against the establishment of a Dollar General…

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Read more about the article Lawrence County’s Black Orphanage

Lawrence County’s Black Orphanage

  • Post published:February 17, 2021
  • Post category:1900-1929/Black History/Education

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer) – originally posted on our Facebook page February 13, 2021 Established and Supported by Black Women In 1896, the National Federation…

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Read more about the article George Chauncey Stanton

George Chauncey Stanton

  • Post published:February 1, 2021
  • Post category:1900-1929/Black History

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer)After the U.S. entered World War I, Black selectees from the Pittsburgh area, nearly all educated, many of them having college training,…

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Read more about the article “Harry the Hermit”

“Harry the Hermit”

  • Post published:May 16, 2020
  • Post category:1900-1929

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer)Harry Stein was born in May 12, 1903 to Isaac and Harriet Stein in Wampum. He made his home in the Turkey…

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Read more about the article Sound Familiar? Influenza Epidemic 1918

Sound Familiar? Influenza Epidemic 1918

  • Post published:May 8, 2020
  • Post category:1900-1929

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer) The Spanish flu or the grippe as it was also called, came in two waves. The first wave lasted three months.…

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Read more about the article First Female Funeral Director in PA (McGonigle)

First Female Funeral Director in PA (McGonigle)

  • Post published:March 21, 2020
  • Post category:1900-1929/Women

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer) Elizabeth May Mangan, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Mangan of Allegheny was born in August 1876. She worked as a confidential…

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Read more about the article Suffrage Pioneer Pamphilia Hardman Phillips

Suffrage Pioneer Pamphilia Hardman Phillips

  • Post published:March 8, 2019
  • Post category:1900-1929/Women

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS volunteer) Pamphilia Hardman Phillips was a Lawrence County Suffrage Pioneer. She was born on October 31, 1844 in Petersburg, Ohio to Mr. and Mrs. David…

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Read more about the article Women Also Served in the Great War
Nurse Harriet J Eckels

Women Also Served in the Great War

  • Post published:February 8, 2019
  • Post category:1900-1929/War/Women

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS volunteer) Nurse Harriet J. Eckels was born on April 2, 1888 in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. She and 100 fellow Red Cross nurses and 30 physicians…

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