PA soldier

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Johann Paul & Catherine Reiter Roth at one time owned and ran the Eagle Hotel in Shamokin. Shamokin hosted many smaller hostelries, Among these were the Pennsylvania House, the Germania, City, Girard and Eagle Hotels, all of which offered rooms by the day, week, or month. With few exceptions, these hotels were located in the immediate vicinity of both the Reading and Pennsylvania Railroad Stations. Although not as luxurious in appointments, perhaps, as their larger counterparts, these residence-type hotels provided a friendly, homelike atmosphere which many found appealing.
My Father had lived near Shamokin in Trevorton, and Grandfather worked repairing looms at the silk factory until the War when he became a machinist at Olmstead Air Base near Harrisburg in Middletown. My Grandmother's GGrandfather hailed from Tremont and enlisted in the 96th PA, but did not survive the Civil War.