J.A. Lumbard & Company G 147th: newspaper clippings

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Preliminaries

Company G, 147th, P. V. I.

BY CORPORAL J. A. LUMBARD.

PRELIMINARIES

The following history was published in the SNYDER COUNTY TRIBUNE, Selinsgrove, PA., J. A. Lumbard Editor, from January 13, 1876 to June 27, 1878. The document from which this copy was produced consisted of photo-copies from a microfiche copy of a document that was made up from newspaper clippings of the original publication that were pasted into a book. The copying was very poor and often segments of pages were black in the center of the book when it was not flat enough for the copying. In addition many pages were speckled with spots that gave the OCR program difficulty with recognition. While it was possible to guess at most of the missing words, there are six places in the document where the missing words are replaced by question marks, one for each letter that must have been in the word. The reader is left to supply his/her best guess.

Lumbard appears to have been a frustrated poet and the language is even more flowery than the times would support. This along with his rather liberal, and seemingly random, use of commas with an accompanying reluctance to use periods, and an excessive use of clichés, makes for tedious reading at times. However, the recounting of the events is quite interesting and well worth the patience the reader may need to make it to the end. Many of the events are the same as in the diary of Michael S. Schroyer, but in many places it provides more detail than Schroyer. It is more than twice the length of Schroyer’s, but then Lumbard often uses two or three times as many words to describe an event than does Schroyer. W. L. HAFLEY

Most of the articles can be found on microfiche at the Snyder County Historical Society, Middleburg Pa.

September 8 1862 - Maryland Invaded

Lewisburg Chronicle

(Lewisburg, Pennsylvania)

9 Sep 1862, Tue • First Edition • Page 1

Monday, March 2, 2015

February 7 1863

"The 147th Regiment, which is the company from Selinsgrove, commanded by Capt. Davis, is the finest and apparently the best drilled regiment in the Brigade, and numbers more men than any other belonging to it."

Sunbury American

(Sunbury, Pennsylvania)

7 Feb 1863, Sat • First Edition • Page 3

Friday, February 7, 2014

J.A Lumbard, Editor Of The Selinsgrove Tribune

J.A Lumbard began as a printers apprentice for the Selinsgrove Times, where he learned under Frank Weirick. When he returned from the war, he purchased the Tribune and moved it to Selinsgrove, as a competitor to the Times.

Joseph A. Lumbard brought the Snyder County Tribune to Selinsgrove from Middleburg, publishing his first issue on February 9, 1871—but that issue was misdated, stating February 9 1870 on several pages.

"With Rev. Richard Lazarus as junior editor. Lumbard moved to Selinsgrove as he said for three reasons:

first, there were already three Republican newspapers in the county seat and none at Selinsgrove, a larger place;

second, many friends had said that there was a chance for a profitable paper in the metropolis of the county they probably meant there was need of someone to take Weirick’s measure and defend Republicanism against his attacks);

and third, since Selinsgrove was a larger place, there was more business, and Lumbard thought he could serve the farmers better by giving them more dependable and quicker market quotations. By March 23. 1871, the new organ had 600 subscribers, altho if one is to Judge by the numerous appeals for payment of subscriptions, many read the paper without ever paying for it."

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"Snyder County Tribune
The Snyder County Tribune, a strongly Republican paper, had its beginnings in Middleburg in 1854. In 1858, the paper was purchased by John Bilger, who continued to be owner and editor with much success until 1867. Joseph A. Lumbard, who had just returned from the Civil War, began serving the postion of foremanship with the Tribune in 1865 and became part owner in October of 1866. He then became full owner, editor and publisher in 1867. Lumbard became known as the paper's most prominent editor. He ran the paper until 1913. In 1871, Lumbard moved the Tribune to Selinsgrove. Here he provided "a barbed exchange of editorial opinion with Weirick which lasted for decades." Weirick referred to Franklin Weirick, current editor of the Selinsgrove Times. A big fire in 1872 completely destroyed the printing office and equipment. Despite this, Lumbard quickly bounced back and had the paper on the presses within several weeks. The App Building and the Tribune business was rebuilt until 1913 when Lumbard retired. Joseph Lumbard sold the paper to Harry A. Coryell, a lawyer, and Garfield Phillips. Coryell sold his rights to the business to Edward Wingard. Phillips soon became sole owner after buying Wingards share of the business. The presses were then moved to a new location near the Cavlin North property. Phillips ran the paper until his enlistment into the armed forces in 1917. The Tribune was sold to Garfield's brother, Benjamin T., upon his return, who ran the paper until 1929. At this time, his sisters, Mary and Aberdeen Phillips took control as owners and editors. In 1944, the paper was bought by Marlin Schoch, the current owner and editor of the Selinsgrove Times. The newspaper was renamed the Selinsgrove Times and Snyder County Tribune. The Tribune was published on Thursday of every week. " http://www.rootsweb.com/~pasnyder/news.htm

There was an ongoing feud between Times editor Franklin Weirick and Tribune editor Joseph Lumbard, it is documented in an article in the Snyder County Historical Society Volume I pages 329-336, written by Dr William A. Russ. You can read that here - https://lumbard147thcog.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-weirick-lumbard-editorial-feud.html