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SOURCES1. GEDCOM file imported on 24 Aug 1998.2. GEDCOM file imported on 24 Oct 2000. 3. GEDCOM file imported on 19 Aug 2001. 4. William S Keffer's Family Bible circa 1850 has been passed to Charles Keffer to Willliam Keffer to Susan Keffer (his daughter) and recently passed on to Donald Allen Keffer. The Bible has been restored and should be considered as a very precious artifact of our heritage. Each geneartion should decide among themselves how to pass the Bible to the next generation of male Keffer's. It is our hope and desire that this Bible will become a living legacy of this branch of the Keffer lineage. 5. From the Philadelphia Inquirer December 3 1989 a review by Larry Fish of The Reading Railroad - History of a Coal Age Empire Volume 1 The Nineteen Century James L Holton, Garrigues House (610) 261-0133. But now a valuable new history spotlights the important role that the Reading played in making of Philadelphia and the anthracite industry of the Schuylkill Valley. 6. The Reading Railroad: History of a Coal Age Empire by James L. Holton is the first book-lenght look at this important regional force and at the men who guided it, frequently ineptly. The first volume of Holton's history (Volume 2 is due next year) covers the Reading from its beginning as a adjunct to the Schuylkill Canal in 1830 to the aftermath of its bankruptcy in 1893, an event blamed for triggering an economic "panic" and its subsequent depression. 7. In the second volume of The Reading Railroad, Holton - a former executive at NBC News who is a descendant of four generations of Reading employees - will deal with the 20th century company. Volume 1 contains a chapter of particular value that is devoted exclusively to the Schuylkill Canal, which Holton rightly notes is long overdue for longer treatment of its own. It also has some wonderful early photographs of Reading and canal operations from the superb collection of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and from private collections. the book is a welcome addition for the serious rail buff and for anyone with an interest in the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania history. The Reading Railroad may be ordered by mail from the publisher at Box 400, Laury's Station, Pa 18058. The $57 price includes postage. 8. Another article about the Battle of Antietam can be found in the American Heritage magazine in "The Terrible Price of Freedom". 9. John Poist Keffer. Keffer's of the Conewago Valley. MacCrellish & Quiley Co - Trenton, NJ 1960. 10. Lucille Hartman Nevin. Information from the book and church records of the Most Blesed Sacremant Chruch of Bally, Pa. |