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Samuel Richard Peale, Esq.
1830 - 1910

State Senator & Railroader

Alexander McDonald
1832 - 1903

U. S. Senator

Dr. Augustus Green Walls
1837 - 1890

Physician

John W. C. Floyd
1853 - 1930

Photographer

John W. C. Floyd Story

Thomas Iverson Poorman
1857 - 1905

Major League Baseball

John French Sloan
1871 - 1951

Artist

William T. Piper, Sr.
1881 - 1970

Founder
Piper Aircraft Corporation

Piper J-3 Cub

Col. Henry W. Shoemaker
1882 - 1958

Newspaper Publisher
McElhattan, PA (Wayne Twp)

Colonel Henry Wharton Shoemaker was the author of Extinct Pennsylvania Animals. Col. Shoemaker kept a live cat at his home in McElhattan, Centre County, Pennsylvania in 1935. Another one was kept at the Little Roadside Zoo near Kane, PA, in 1938. Col. Henry W. Shoemaker also authored Wolf Days in Pennsylvania, dedicated to Charles W. Dickinson. Col. Henry W. Shoemaker was also Acting Assistant Director of the Pennsylvania State Museum in 1939.

Warren J. Bauman
1890 - 1969

Bauman Article

John Sloan Dickey, Esq.
1907 - 1991

President of Dartmouth
Diplomat

Rebecca F. Gross

Newspaper Editor

About Becky Gross

Read about Dave Long, Chief Design Engineer

Dave Long over Lock Haven in 1948

I had lunch today with Rob Long, Don Shearer and John Lowery - we went to Pottstown for some GROWLERS! While in Rob's office, I admired the above photo of his dad, Dave Long, in his Midget Mustang, so he gave me a digital copy for my website (above). Dave was killed in a plane in 1950, but today there are hundreds of his design still flying. In fact, #67 above is still operational. Neat, huh? kp 10/8/2009

PS: I never met Rob's dad, but his mom, Barbara Long, was really nice. She was County Treasurer for many years.

Hey Rob, remember the gig at the Centre Hills Country Club! Ha!

Now here's a coincidence. A couple weeks ago Tom Gratz and I were driving down to Helen's Famous Sausage House in Smyrna, Delaware for breakfast. My brother-in-law, Chris Sydlowski, told me about Helen's. So I was driving down Route 13, and I remembered that Rob moved to South Delaware, but I didn't know where in Delaware. I pulled over and called him on my cellphone. I told him I was on my way to Helen's, and he asked where I was. I said at the red light in Odessa. He said you're only a couple minutes from my house! He said he and Paula go to Helen's occasionally. So we stopped by and took him along. After breakfast we toured his beautiful new home. Jeffersonville isn't the same without Rob & Paula :( kp 9/5/2011

Click on Mick

Michael R. Greenberg, M.D.

LHU Physician Assistant Program

U.S. Combat Medics
The Greenberg Auditorium

Mickey . . . remember the gig at the Lewisburg Penitentiary Officers Club? You could really book 'em. Just happens that a few years later, I knew a guy who worked in the Pen, Spence Craybill; and later yet I had a friend who's brother worked there too, sort of . . .

PRESIDENT JUDGE

J. Michael Williamson

I remember our first day in algebra class at Lock Haven Junior High, second floor, Miss Z. I don't think Mike lasted a week in Miss Z's class, and he headed for the hills . . . The Hill School, that is. But I was brave and stuck it out - and - did better than expected. I landed a D- . . . ha! And I'm here to say that I never once, not once, in my whole entire lifetime, needed to use algebra! But maybe that's why Mike is the Judge, and I'm not? (Solving for the unknown, get it? Judge . . . never mind.)

Stephen P. Poorman

Steve Poorman, former owner of Realtylease Corp. conducted the largest combined real estate deal in the history of Clinton County, June 2009. The transaction of Poorman's properties to The Rainier Group L.P was approximately $6 Million.

"The Deal"

Steve is my bro, I might add!

Oh . . . another Lock Haven Sports Hero . . . Eddie Draucker (wrestler). Ed won a District title and became Lock Haven's first State champion by pinning Forty Fort's returning State runner-up Bob Bach in the 105-pound finals of the 1940 State tournament. Ed was a good egg. Treated us kids good at his establishment. Liked him. (Wow . . . he was State Champ before I was born. He didn't seem that old to me.)