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In all the prime of his strength and usefulness
The Citizens Union Bank of East Waterford, Pennsylvania, was a small-town bank organized in 1922. A few of my family members were among the leaders of the bank, which rolled along through the 1920s before failing during the Great Depression. Its assets were transferred to the Port Royal National Bank in 1931. In my collection is a bound minute book from the Citizens Union Bank, giving reports of all board meetings from the bank’s founding to its dissolution. On April 14, 1926, the board passed a resolution mourning the passing of Dr. R.M. Quiq, longtime doctor in East Waterford and bank director. At the time of his death, Dr. Quiq…
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Samuel Pannebaker’s car
Many of the papers in my grandfather’s collection came from John and Beulah Patterson, aunt and uncle to my great grandfather, both of whom died childless. Beginning in the early 1950s, my great grandparents lived in the same East Waterford house as the Pattersons, after moving from Harrisburg back to the old hometown. Following John’s and Beulah’s deaths, these papers, I surmise, stayed behind in the old home. When my great grandmother moved to spend the final decade of her life in the single-level house my grandfather built in Honey Grove for just that purpose, the papers moved with her. She died in 1994; my grandfather moved in for the final…