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(Photo by Richard F. Hope)

Armstrong Homestead (40 North 3rd Street).

3-1/2-story brick town house with Mansard roof and two dormer windows. The entryway and entablature above the windows of the house may be remnants of an original Greek Revival style building popular before the Civil War, but the Mansard roof is in the “Second Empire” style that was popular in the late 1860s and early 1870s.

The property is the southern portion of original town Lot No.144, as surveyed by William Parsons when Easton was founded in 1752. That Lot was occupied informally by John Messinger, with a house built before 1779; Messinger also fenced in the vacant Lot No.145 next door. The Penn Family formally sold Lot Nos.144 and 145 to John Messinger in 1789. Messinger’s will left the property to his daughter, Susanna, the wife of Peter Shook; the Messinger estate satisfied that bequest, by conveying to Peter Shook (also spelled Schug) an irregular piece or property carved from the two Lots in 1812, with a 60’ frontage on North Pomfret (now 3rd) Street.

Shook subdivided the land. He sold one piece on Pomfret Street to Joseph Dawes a few weeks later, for $525. It had 24’ 3” of frontage on Pomfret Street – the same as the Armstrong Homestead property has today, although the modern property has more depth. Purchaser Joseph Dawes was a successful “Millstone Maker”.

· Joseph Dawes’s second wife was Euphemia (Wall) Dawes, herself a substantial real estate owner in Easton.

· Joseph Dawes’s grandson, James K. Dawes, was a long-time Easton Postmaster, lawyer, and editor of the Free Press.

Near the end of 1812 – the same year in which he purchased the property – Joseph Dawes sold it to John Yohe and William Richart for $550, representing a modest $25 profit. Rickert held his interest for ten years, but then sold out his half toYohe in 1822 for $350, and in return purchased from Yohe on the same day a frame house and shop on Bank Street located a little farther up the block, for $800.

John Yohe held onto his North Pomfret (3rd) Street property until he died in 1825, at age 42. His obituary in Easton noted that he was “formerly a respectable inhabitant of this borough” (he was then a resident of Lower Mount Bethel Township), and that his burial in the Lutheran burial ground (at Ferry and 4th Street) was “accompanied by a great concourse of weeping relatives and friends”. In 1827, Yohe’s estate divided his property up among his heirs. The portion of this property on Pomfret (3rd) Street was transferred to John Yohe’s oldest son, merchant Samuel Yohe, and valued at $350. The following year, Samuel Yohe sold it to his father’s widow, Rebecca Yohe, for the same $350 valuation. The property included a house at this time, which is consistent with a modern assessment that the house was begun c.1820, but may be a little early for the Greek Revival architectural features.

· Samuel Yohe had his own house, located on part of the ground now occupied by the parking lot at 56 North 3rd Street. A storekeeper by trade who inherited a mill along the Bushkill from his father-in-law, Samuel Yohe also opened a distillery. He was also a frequent holder of public office, including Prothonotary, Associate Judge, and County Treasurer. In his spare time, he commanded a private military company in Easton known as the Washington Grays, and later the National Guards. When news arrived in Easton of the bombardment of Fort Sumpter at the start of the Civil War, Yohe’s military company was incorporated as Company C into the 1st Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and he was himself elected Colonel of that Regiment. His near neighbor William Armstrong (see below) was then elected as his replacement as Captain of Company C.

In 1850, Rebecca Yohe sold the Pomfret Street property to Henry Keller for $3500, ten times the amount valued in her husband’s estate. This substantial increase in sale price compared to the earlier valuation suggests that it may have been Mrs. Yohe who built a substantial house on the property, probably for her own use shortly after she acquired it. The underlying Greek Revival architectural features of the house are also fully consistent with construction in the late 1820s or early 1830s by Mrs. Yohe. “The Greek Revival Style dominated architecture in America from the late 1820’s to the late 1840’s.”

In 1855, Henry Keller also purchased the rear portion of the property, running back to what is now Bank Street. This added purchase restored the depth of the combined property back to the 240’ of original town Lot No.144 (although without restoring the original Pomfret Street frontage of William Parsons’s day). This depth is the same as the modern Armstrong Homestead property.

Keller, a coal dealer, established his residence on the property in the 1850s. The property was listed as 22 North Third Street, under the street numbering scheme in effect at that time. Keller died in 1857, and his estate was forced to sell off the combined property in order to pay debts. The property contained two houses at that time – a second one on the land that Keller had acquired in the rear. William H. Lawall acquired the property from Keller’s estate for $6,200. Lawall was a successful merchant of “general merchandise” (i.e., dry goods) who began his store on North 4th Street and later moved to the building that (as remodeled) has become the Lawall-Bricker Building at 450-52 Northampton Street.

In 1859, Lawall resold his North 3rd Street property for $6,500 to William H. Armstrong. William Henry Armstrong (1833 – 1896) had come to Easton as a young man to become an attorney. He married Myra Louisa Chidsey in 1857 – the oldest daughter of prominent Easton businessman Russell S. Chidsey – and (as noted above) purchased this Pomfred (3rd) Street property two years later. Two years after that (in 1861), he was “one of the first Eastonians” to volunteer for military service in the Civil War. Armstrong became the Captain in Company C, 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers, after the original Captain, Samuel Yohe, was promoted to become the Colonel of the Regiment. Samuel Yohe was, in fact, a former owner of Armstrong’s property (see above), and a neighbor living just a few doors North of Armstrong.

· A fellow officer from Easton was Jacob Dachrodt, the Captain of Company B. Dachrodt later served with distinction as the Lt. Colonel of the 153rd Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. [After the War, he lived for many years as the butcher in the Parsons-Taylor House in Easton.]

· Yet another fellow Captain was Charles A. Heckman, the Captain of Company D. By October 1861, Heckman was appointed Lt. Colonel of the 9th New Jersey Regiment, and joined General Burnside’s campaign against North Carolina. He was promoted to full Colonel on 10 Feb. 1862, and then to a Brigadier General of Volunteers in November of 1862. He frequently led his troops into battle personally, was wounded several times, and had “his uniform . . . perforated with bullets on a number of occasions”. “[I]t was widely believed by his men that he had a charmed life.” At Drewry’s Bluff, Va. on 16 May 1864, his brigade repelled five Confederate assaults, but he was captured and spent time in Libby Prison and other P.O.W. camps before being exchanged on 25 Aug. 1864. After his exchange, he commanded the 2nd Division of the U.S. XVIII Corps at the capture of Fort Harrison. He temporarily commanded the XXV Army Corps, but was not promoted to Major General and was relieved of duty in 1865. As a civilian, he became a public utility contractor, a railroad dispatcher, and a member of the Board of Education in Phillipsburg, N.J. He is buried in Easton Cemetery Plot D-197.

The 1st Pennsylvania Regiment was enlisted for only three months duty; it mustered out of service on 23 July 1861.

Armstrong then re-enlisted in the 129th Pennsylvania Volunteers. He served as Lt. Colonel of that regiment, with distinction. He had his horse shot out from under him at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Late in the day, his Regiment was ordered to participate in the frontal assault on prepared Confederate positions on the hills around the town, using bayonets only, over “the prostrate bodies of thousands of Union dead” who had tried the same assault earlier in the day. This last charge failed, as had all the others, when the men were hit by heavy Confederate fire, and were ordered to lie down and return fire. The Regiment lost “a full third of its number in little more than ten minutes’ time”, although “the caps found nearest the rebel wall at the slaughter of Fredericksburg were marked ‘129th P.V.’”. When Lt. Col. Armstrong returned to Easton briefly on furlough in April 1863, a replacement horse was presented to him at a ceremony at Whitesell’s Hotel (now, the Hotel Lafayette). The presentation was made by Judge Henry D. Maxwell (with whom Armstrong had studied law years before), and was accompanied by Thomas Coates’s “Cornet Band”.

In an intriguing incident in January 1863, Armstrong and his superior officer, Col. Jacob G. Frick (commander of the 129th Regiment) were court-martialed and briefly given dishonorable discharges from the Army over a supply dispute. Divisional headquarters had issued orders for each man to carry a full dress greatcoat. Since each man of the 129th had just been provided with two blouses, and the Regiment was due to be discharged shortly, the two Colonels (Frick and Armstrong) asked for an exception to avoid the men having to carry the extra bulk, and refused to obey Division’s order pending the exception being made. Contemporaneous commentary explains the real issue: the ordered military greatcoats had to be purchased by the soldiers themselves, out of their military pay, costing a sum equal to a half month’s pay each. The supply order was given “in order to help some government contractor out of a scrape, by getting rid of his supply”. The newspaper commentator candidly stated: “We glory in the spunk of these officers and the soldiers we are pleased to know, look upon the matter in the right light.”

The Division’s General responded by placing the two Colonels under guard and refusing to allow them to communicate with anyone; court-martialing them both; and having them dishonorably discharged from the Army. Their confinement was (apparently deliberately) made as unhealthy and uncomfortable as possible; it gave Lt. Col. Armstrong a “camp fever” that was later considered the “seed” of the debilitating illness that ultimately blinded and finally killed him. However, the complaining Divisional General (Andrew A. Humphreys) did, at least, testify at trial to both of the Colonels’ fidelity to duty and gallantry in battle. In the end, Armstrong’s and Frick’s defiance of the greatcoat order prevailed. Their convictions and discharges were reversed by higher authority, and they returned to their commands in time for the Battle of Chancellorsville. In that desperate fight by the Regiment, Lt. Colonel Armstrong was briefly captured, but managed to escape from the Confederates in the confusion of the battle.

Their term of enlistment over, the men of the 129th were discharged after the Battle of Chancellorsville, on 18 May 1863. “Upon their return to the regiment a grand occasion was given to them by the officers and men of their command, to which many from other camps participated. It was all the more marked for being spontaneous, and strongly showed the gratitude of the volunteers for the stand taken by the officers in their behalf.”

· Charles Francis Chidsey – a son of Armstrong’s father-in-law (see above) who later became the first Mayor of Easton – and Joseph S. Osterstock – later a frequent Marshall of veterans’ parades in Easton – both served as privates in Company D of Armstrong’s Regiment, as did Albert Drinkhouse (who lived up the Street in his father’s apartment at 116 North 3rd Street).

In late 1863 Armstrong wrote a book (published anonymously in 1864) entitled “Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals”, which purported to be fiction but was in fact a thinly-disguised account of the 129th Regiment and an attack on its Divisional Commander, General Andrew A. Humphreys XE "Humphreys, General Andrew A." . He later published sketches and stories under the pen name “William Henry”.

After he returned from the War, Armstrong served as Deputy Secretary of Pennsylvania under Governor Curtin. By the time he returned to Easton, many of his law clients had dispersed or found other legal counsel, and by 1870 he had retired from law practice. In that year, he settled ownership of the house to his wife, Myra. The “Second Empire” style Mansard roof on the top story of the house may have been added by Lt. Col. Armstrong at this time, because it was very popular after the Civil War. This addition may very well have been done in 1870, when the property ownership was formally settled upon Mrs. Armstrong. Col. Armstrong and his family continued to live in this house as he became very ill from chronic rheumatism. He became completely blind a few years before his death in 1896 (at age 63). He is buried in Easton Cemetery Plot C-173.

After Col. Armstrong’s death, his wife (Myra) and family moved out of the 3rd Street house. It was rented by 1900 to Lillian Hapgood, where she lived with her son and a servant; and in 1910 to locomotive engineer Fred Fisher and his family, who supplemented his income by taking in a boarder. The Armstrong Family continued to own the property, however. Myra Armstrong died in 1906, survived by four sons. By 1916, ownership of all four quarter-interests in the property had been consolidated by one of her sons, William Armstrong, who sold the property for $11,800 to Dr. Edwin J. West. The residence was described at that time as a “three story brick house”. Three days later, Dr. Edwin West described the property as a “four story brick house” and transferred it to Dr. John Howell West, his son. The West deed’s description of the house as having four stories has continued to the present day, and apparently reflects the top half-story (under the Mansard roof). The change in property description may indicate that this attic space was added at that time (despite the distinctive roof characteristic of an earlier period), or perhaps only that it was finished, improved or renovated at the time of Dr. West’s deed.

Dr. John Howell West was born in 1895 in Hope, New Jersey. After an undergraduate career at Lafayette College, John West continued on to graduate first in his class at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1913. He then practiced medicine for 56 years. Dr. West served as the athletic team physician for Lafayette College from 1916 until 1922, and also provided sports medicine services for high school students. He founded the pediatric ward at Easton Hospital in 1924, and continued on as its chief until 1946. His medical office at 40 North 3rd Street was conducted without appointments for patients, on a first-come, first-served basis. He also resided at that address at first, but later he moved the family residence up to College Hill. He retired from medical practice in 1970.

In 1971, Dr. John West sold the property at 40 North 3rd Street for $31,000 to Alex and Marie Wanzilak. Alex Wanzilak had been born in 1922, and graduated from the Hamilton School of watchmaking. He started working in an Easton jewelry store in 1943, at first apparently at Morris Jewelers in Northampton Street. He later had his own jewelry store at several locations, moving it to his building at 40 North 3rd Street at least by 1974. He also moved his residence to his North 3rd Street building by 1982, but died in the following year (1983). Since his wife had predeceased him in 1977, the property was sold by an appointed administrator of the Wanzilak estate to Thomas and Ellen Moskella for $57,000.

In 2003, the Moskellas sold the property to an LLC for $189,900, which resold it a year later (2004) for $395,000 to Leonel S. Garcia. However Mr. Garcia, a Florida resident, ran into financial trouble thereafter. In 2010, his failure to pay a loan of $4,239.27 to the Florida office of Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC resulted in the property being seized by the Sheriff and sold, with Bayview as the buyer. A Realty Transfer Tax form attached to the recorded deed assessed the fair market value of the property at $207,868. The following year (2011), Kindred G. Scott purchased the property for $160,000.

· In the previous year, Scott had also purchased the Whit Wood Mansion at 62 North 3rd Street.

In December 2011, the “Sweet Girlz” bakery operated by Kari Kirchgessner and Jill Fuls opened in the building’s commercial space. That business started as a hobby making jams in July 2008.

� Building pictured in Richard F. Hope, Easton PA: A History 95 (AuthorHouse 2006)(bottom photo).

� See City of Easton, Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form, Attachment: Building Description Survey Area 1 Zone D (City Council Resolution approved 12 May 1982)(combination “Greek Revival/Second Empire” built c.1820).

� Compare A.D. Chidsey, Jr., The Penn Patents in the Forks of the Delaware Plan of Easton, Map 2 (Vol. II of Publications of the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society 1937) with Northampton County Tax Records map, www.ncpub.org. Chidsey’s map shows that Lot No.144 had a 55’ frontage on Pomfret (now 3rd) Street, while Lot No.145 had a 60’ frontage; both lots were 240’ deep.

� Charles de Krafft, Map of Easton Original Town Lots (from the collection of Luigi “Lou” Ferone (“Mr. Easton”) auctioned 27 Feb. 2010, said to have been used by the Penn clerks for notations to keep track of the town lots c.1779-1801)(Lot Nos. 144 and 145).

� Deed, John Penn the Younger and John Penn the Elder to John Messinger, F5 492 (26 Oct. 1789)(sale price £50 “in Specie” for Lot Nos.144 and 145, measuring 115’ (on Pomfret Street) X 240’ deep).

� Deed, Michael Messinger and Henry Shook, Executors of the Will of John Messinger, to Peter Shook, G3 399 (17 Jan. 1812)(sale price listed as 5 shillings). This property covered the entire front of Lot No.144 and a strip of Lot No.145, but with less depth than the original Lots.

� Deed, Peter (Susannah) Shook (Schug) to Joseph Dawes, G3 404 (1 Mar. 1812)(sale price $525 for a “lot or piece of Ground” that is part of original town Lot No.144, lying just North of Lot No.143 owned by Jacob Reese, measuring 24’ 3” on Pomfret Street X 120’ deep).

� See Deed Poll, Randall P. Miller, Sheriff, for Leonel S. Garcia, to Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, 2010-1-194990 (21 Sept. 2010)(property measuring 24’ 3” X 240’).

� 1850 Census, Series M432, Roll 802, p.159A, Image 324, Ancestry.com image 125 (Joseph Dawes then age 70). At that time, he owned real estate worth some $12,000. His household included Euphemia Dawes, then listing her age as 55. Id. at p.159B, Image 325, Ancestry.com Image 126. See generally separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for the Parking Lot at 56 North 3rd Street.

� Henry F. Marx (compiler), II Marriages and Deaths Northampton County 1871 – 1884 342 (Easton Area Public Library 1935)(Euphemia Dawes, “relict” of Joseph Dawes, died 2 July 1872 age 80).

Joseph Dawes had married Euphemia Wall (her surname from a first marriage) on 10 March 1835. Trinity Episcopal Church of Easton, Pennsylvania, Register of Baptisms – Funerals and Marriages 108 (Copied in Easton Public Library 1936)(Easton Area Public Library Reference T).

Joseph Dawes had married his first wife, Susanna “Johe” [Yohe], of Easton on 9 January 1803. Parish Records of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church, supra at 275 (EAPL Reference G).

� See separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for 165 Spring Garden Street, and sources cited therein.

� See separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for 241 Spring Garden Street, and sources shown therein.

� Deed, Joseph (Susanna) Dawes to John Yohe, A4 96 (28 Nov. 1812)(sale price $550).

� Deed, William (Catharine) Ricker/Rickert to John Yohe, G4 31 (27 March 1822)(sale price $350 for half interest in property measuring 24’ 3” on Pomfret Street X 120’ deep).

� Deed, John (Rebecca) Yohe to William Ricker/Rickert, G4 31 (27 Mar. 1822)(sale price $800 for “Frame Messuage Tenement Shop” on property on the East side of a 20’ alley identifiable as the modern Bank Street; the property had been part of original town Lot Nos. 144 and 145).

� Henry F. Marx (compiler), I Marriages and Deaths Northampton County 1799 – 1851 Newspaper Extracts 162 (Easton Area Public Library 1929)(died Saturday, 9 July 1825, extracted from Easton Centinel Fri., 15 July 1825).

� Subpart No.4 of Inquisition on Real Estate of John Yohe, deceased, Northampton County Orphan’s Court 10 at 414 (24 Nov. 1827)(Subpart No.4 confirmed to eldest son Samuel Yohe and valued at $350); see Deed, Samuel (Maria) Yohe to Rebecca Yohe, D5 219 (19 Feb. 1828)(recital).

� Deed, Samuel (Maria) Yohe to Rebecca Yohe, D5 219 (19 Feb. 1828)(sale price $350 for “Messuage Tenement” on property measuring 24’ 3” on Pomfret Street X 120’ deep).

� City of Easton, Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form, Attachment: Building Description Survey Area 1 Zone D (City Council Resolution approved 12 May 1982).

� See www.WalkingEaston.com entry for the Seville Theatre Parking Lot at 56 North 3rd Street.

� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July 1880, p.3, col.3; Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 36 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879)(opened the store in April 1827); see also www.WalkingEaston.com entry for 168 Northampton Street.

� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July 1880, p.3, col.3; see Article, “Fire at Col. Yohe’s large mill on Bushkill”, Easton Express, Fri., 10 Jan. 1868, p.1, cols. 4-5; Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 35 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879)(Samuel Yohe took possession after his “father’s” death – 19th Century usage did not always clearly discriminate between a father and a father-in-law); see also Article, “Fire – Destruction of Yohe’s Mill on the Bushkill”, Easton Argus, Thurs., 16 Jan. 1868, p.2, col.4. The mill that burned down in 1868 was in Forks Township. See James Wright, History of Forks Township Northampton County, Pennsylvania 74 (1991)(Samuel Yohe operated this mill in the 1860s, but it burned down around 1863); accord, James A. Wright, History of Palmer 61 (Palmer Township Historical Society 1984)(burned down around 1867). Wright indicates that this was the mill that had earlier been operated by Jacob Arndt, located “at the old falls at Bushkill Park”). Wright does not mention Jacob Heller. See generally Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 84-85 (George W. West 1885 / 1889)(discussing the Arndt mill).

� Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 36 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879).

� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July 1880, p.3, col.3; Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 36-37 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879). Copp also recorded (at 39) that Samuel Yohe had commanded the Washington Grays military unit before he took the National Guards.

� Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 39 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879).

� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July 1880, p.3, col.3 (formed in 1849); Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 36-37 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879).

A contemporaneous newspaper article indicates that Yohe probably actually took command of the National Guard in the latter part of 1848, when the unit was formed. See Article, “New Military Company, Democrat & Argus, Thurs., 21 Sept. 1848, p.2, col.2 (“A new military corps has been organized in our borough, of which Captain Yohe is to take command.”).

� Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5 13, 17 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869); Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July 1880, p.3, col.3. See also www.WalkingEaston.com entry for the Armstrong Homestead at 40 North 3rd Street.

The other three companies from Easton were:

Company D (Capt. Charles Heckman), which also left for Harrisburg on 18 April with Yohe’s and Armstrong’s troops.

Company B (Capt. Jacob Dachrodt [Dachardt]), formed from the Easton Citizens Artillary, which left two days later (on 20 April).

Company H (Capt. Ferdinand W. Bell), formed from the Easton National Guard, whih also left on 20 April.

Keith Carlin Clark (Lafayette College Student), Eastonians in the Union Forces: First Pennsylvania Volunteers) 6 (typewritten paper 1973)(Marx Room, Easton Area Public Library call no. 974.822 N11 C598e).

In addition, the Easton Jaegers (Capt. Charles Glanz) left on 22 April to become Company G of the 9th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Clark, Eastonians in the Union Forces, supra at 8.

� Deed, Rebecca Yohe to Henry Keller, D8 329 (1 Apr. 1850)(sale price $3500 for “Messuage brick Tenement” on property measuring 24’ 3” X 120’).

� See nancy J. Sanquist (City of Easton Office of Preservation), Easton Architectural and Historical Survey Manual unnumbered p.10 (Easton: August 1978).

� Deed, William (Elizabeth B.) Ricker Jr. to Henry Keller, B9 96 (4 Apr. 1855).

� See Deed Poll, Randall P. Miller, Sheriff, for Leonel S. Garcia, to Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, 2010-1-194990 (21 Sept. 2010)(property measuring 24’ 3” X 240’).

� Article, “Interesting Reminiscence, North Third Street a Third of a Century Ago”, Easton Daily Free Press, Thursday, 20 Aug. 1885, p.3 (Henry Keller residence in 1852); C[harles] Kitchen, A General Directory of the Borough of Easton PA (Cole & Eichman’s Office, 1855)(alphabetical listing for Henry Keller, coal dealer, home at No.22, business at 56 South Third Street); see Deed, John Davis, Administrator for Henry Keller Estate, to William H. Lawall, F9 260 (7 Sept. 1857).

In 1825, Keller married Sophia Snyder, apparently one of the prolific Snyder/Shnyder/Schnyder family in Easton. See Henry F. Marx, I Marriages and Deaths Northampton County Newspaper Extracts 1799 – 1851 157 (Easton Area Public Library 1929).

� See Article, “Interesting Reminiscence, North Third Street a Third of a Century Ago”, supra (Henry Keller); C[harles] Kitchen, A General Directory of the Borough of Easton PA (Cole & Eichman’s Office, 1855)(alphabetical listing for Henry Keller, coal dealer, home at No.22, business at 56 South Third Street).

� Deed, John Davis, Administrator for Henry Keller Estate, to William H. Lawall, F9 260 (7 Sept. 1857)(sale price $6,200 for “two certain Messuages or Tenements” on two parcels of real estate: the Yohe property along Pomfret Street, and the Ricker property behind it).

� See Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 113-14 (Hillburn & West 1879).

� See D.G. Beers, Atlas of Northampton County Pennsylvania, Plan of Easton (A. Pomeroy & Co. 1874); Jeremiah H. Lant, The Northampton County Directory for 1873 91 (1873)(alphabetical listings); Article, “The New Numbers”, Easton Daily Free Press, Friday, 21 Nov. 1873, p.3; 1880 Census, Series T9, Roll 1161, p.415B. See generally separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for 450-52 Northampton Street.

� Deed, William H. (Mary) Lawall to William H. Armstrong, H9 144 (13 March 1859)(sale price $6,500 for “Messuages Tenements” on property measuring 24’ 3” X 220’ deep).

� Jane S. Moyer (compiler), I Marriages and Deaths Northampton County 1885 – 1902 Newspaper Extracts 92 (Easton Area Public Library 1976).

� See William H. Boyd, Boyd’s Directory of Reading, Easton, etc. (William H. Boyd 1860)(W.H. Armstrong, attorney-at-law); 1860 Census, Series M653, Roll 1147, p.271 (William H. Armstrong, age 27, attorney-at-law, wife and son Elliott).

� Obituary, “The Late Col. Armstrong”, Easton Daily Free Press, Wed., 8 Apr. 1896, p.3, col.4 (Maried Louisa Chidsey, oldest daughter of Russell S. Chidsey, on 11 June 1857); see Henry F. Marx, I Marriages and Deaths Northampton County 1852-1870 Newspaper Extracts 25 (Easton Area Public Library 1934)(married to Myra Louisa Chidsey); see generally separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry regarding the Chidsey Family for 212-20 Northampton Street.

� Obituary, Easton Express, Tuesday, 7 April 1896, p.3, col.3.

� James Wright, The Civil War: A Northampton County Perspective 32 (Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 2004)(William H. Armstrong, Captain of Company c, First Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry); Henry F. Marx (compiler), I Marriages and Deaths Northampton County 1852-1870 Newspaper Extracts 25 (Easton Area Public Library 1934).

� Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5 13 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869).

� See separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for the Parking Lot at 56 North 3rd Street. Colonel Yohe’s house was at the northern edge of the parking lot, next to the space where the Seville/Boyd Theatre would later be located.

� Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5 13, 17 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869); Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 225-26 (George W. West 1885 / 1889); see also James Wright, The Civil War: Northampton County Perspective G (The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 2004).

� Alice J. Gayley, 153rd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, www.pa-roots.com/pacw/infantry/153rd/153dofficers.html (accessed 25 May 2009); James Wright and Kim Kromer, Nazareth’s Company A, 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War 6, 22 (Nazareth (PA)Keepsakes No.19: Moravian Hall Square Museum/Craft Shop Dec. 2004); Samuel P. Bates, IV History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5 772 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1870); S.M. Parkhill, “Dachrodt Led Easton Into Civil War”, Morning Call, Thurs., 22 Oct. 1998, p.B-3.

� See separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for the Parsons-Taylor House at 60 South 4th Street.

� Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5 13, 18 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869); James Wright, The Civil War: Northampton County Perspective 4 (The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 2004).

� James Wright, The Civil War: Northampton County Perspective 4 (The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 2004); Historical Data Systems (comp.), American Civil War General Officers (online database, Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc. 1999)(accessed through www.ancestry.com); but see Historical Data Systems (comp.), American Civil War Soldiers (online database, Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc. 1999)(accessed through www.ancestry.com)(first enlisted as a Major on 3 Oct. 1861 at age 39, in 9th New Jersey Infantry Regiment).

� Kerry Webb, U.S. Civil War Generals, sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ung_h.html (accessed 6 May 2009); accord, Historical Data Systems (comp.), American Civil War General Officers (online database, Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc. 1999)(accessed through www.ancestry.com).

� James Wright, The Civil War: Northampton County Perspective 4 (The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 2004).

� Kerry Webb, U.S. Civil War Generals, sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ung_h.html (accessed 6 May 2009); accord, Historical Data Systems (comp.), American Civil War General Officers (online database, Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc. 1999)(accessed through www.ancestry.com)(29 Nov. 1862).

Historian James Wright states that Heckman’s promotion to General was won through his “participation in the terrible six-days’ fighting in the Goldsboro Expedition”. James Wright, The Civil War: Northampton County Perspective 4-5 (The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 2004). However, the three major battles of that campaign (also known as Foster’s Raid) took place in December, and historian Wright admits that Heckman’s promotion occurred on 29 November – before the major fighting of that campaign. See Matthew D. Parker, “Goldboro Expedition”, thomaslegion.net/goldsboroexpeditionakagoldsboroughexpedition.html (accessed 25 May 2009); accord, “Kinston Civil War North Carolina American Civil War December 14, 1862”, americancivilwar.com/statepic/nc/nc007.html (accessed 25 May 2009)(Brigadier General John G. Foster left New Berne in December 1862 to attack Goldsborough).

� James Wright, The Civil War: Northampton County Perspective 5 (The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 2004).

� Historical Data Systems (comp.), American Civil War General Officers (online database, Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc. 1999)(accessed through www.ancestry.com); see also Kerry Webb, U.S. Civil War Generals, sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ung_h.html (accessed 6 May 2009)(exchanged in Sept. 1864).

� Kerry Webb, U.S. Civil War Generals, sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ung_h.html (accessed 6 May 2009)(exchanged in Sept. 1864); see Historical Data Systems (comp.), American Civil War General Officers (online database, Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc. 1999)(accessed through www.ancestry.com).

� Historical Data Systems (comp.), American Civil War General Officers (online database, Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc. 1999)(accessed through www.ancestry.com); but see Ethan Allen Weaver, “The Forks of the Delaware” Illustrated xxxiv (Easton, Pa.: Eschenbach Press 1900)(Commander of 14th Corps, Army of the James).

� Kerry Webb, U.S. Civil War Generals, sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ung_h.html (accessed 6 May 2009); James Wright, The Civil War: Northampton County Perspective 5 (The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 2004).

� James Wright, The Civil War: Northampton County Perspective 6 (The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 2004).

� Kerry Webb, U.S. Civil War Generals, sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ung_h.html (accessed 6 May 2009); accord, James Wright, The Civil War: Northampton County Perspective 6 (The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 2004).

� Historical Data Systems (comp.), American Civil War General Officers (online database, Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc. 1999)(accessed through www.ancestry.com).

� Information from Christine Blanco of Easton Cemetery Company (5 May 2009).

� Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5 15 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869); see James Wright, The Civil War: Northampton County Perspective 32 (The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 2004); Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 234-36 (George W. West 1885 / 1889).

� Charles T. Joyce, “Foreword”, in Lt. Col. William H. Armstrong, Red-Tape and Pegeon-Hole Generals xi (reprint Charlottsville Va.: Howell Press, Inc. 1998); see also Samuel P. Bates, IV History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers: 1861 – 1865 185 (Harrisburg: B. Singerly, State Printer 1870, reprinted by Broadfoot Publishing Company 1994)(142 men killed and wounded that day, while an officer and seven privates were taken prisoner by the Confederates); cf. “Dear Father” (21 Dec. 1862), in Ethan Allen Weaver (1853-1929), II The Book Shelf Scrap Book of Easton and Vicinity in the Civil War 224-25 (original copied in Easton Public Library 1936)(lost 130 killed, wounded or missing); Lt. Col. William H. Armstrong, Red-Tape and Pegeon-Hole Generals 189-90 (Carleton of New York 1864, reprint Charlottsville Va.: Howell Press, Inc. 1998)(bayonet charge, the Regiment left “one-third of its number in dead and wounded”).

� Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 256 (George W. West 1885 / 1889); Samuel P. Bates, IV History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers: 1861 – 1865 185 (Harrisburg: B. Singerly, State Printer 1870, reprinted by Broadfoot Publishing Company 1994); see “Dear Father” (21 Dec. 1862), in Ethan Allen Weaver (1853-1929), II The Book Shelf Scrap Book of Easton and Vicinity in the Civil War 224-25 (original copied in Easton Public Library 1936); see also Obituary, “The Late Col. Armstrong”, Easton Daily Free Press, Wed., 8 Apr. 1896, p.3, col.4; Henry F. Marx (compiler), I Marriages and Deaths Northampton County 1852-1870 Newspaper Extracts 25 (Easton Area Public Library 1934).

� Obituary, “The Late Col. Armstrong”, Easton Daily Free Press, Wed., 8 Apr. 1896, p.3, col.4. See generally history of Thomas Coates and the band in separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for the Mebus Building at 158-60 Northampton Street.

� Samuel P. Bates, IV History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers: 1861 – 1865 186 n.* (Harrisburg: B. Singerly, State Printer 1870, reprinted by Broadfoot Publishing Company 1994); see Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 257 (George W. West 1885 / 1889).

� Frederick B. Arner, “Andrew A. Humphreys in the Army of the Potomac”, Commentary to William H. Armstrong, Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals 311 (reprint Charlottsville Va.: Howell Press Inc. 1998)(quoting an article in the Easton Express of 17 Jan. 1863); see also Newspaper transcriptions in Ethan Allen Weaver (1853-1929), II The Book Shelf Scrap Book of Easton and Vicinity in the Civil War 28 (original copied in Easton Public Library 1936)($7.50 per man).

� Newspaper transcriptions in Ethan Allen Weaver (1853-1929), II The Book Shelf Scrap Book of Easton and Vicinity in the Civil War 28 (original copied in Easton Public Library 1936).

See also Armstrong’s account of the affair (published as anonymous fiction in 1864), in which he has the following dialogue:

“’This money for the coats does not come out of your pocket,’ said the General, blandly. ‘Why need you concern yourself about it?’

‘It comes out of the pockets of my men, General,’ said the Colonel”.

Lt. Col. William H. Armstrong [first published anonymously], Red-Tape and Pegeon-Hole Generals 207 (Carleton of New York 1864, reprnted Charlottsville Va.: Howell Press, Inc. 1998).

� See contemporaneous newspaper articles transcribed in Ethan Allen Weaver (1853-1929), II The Book Shelf Scrap Book of Easton and Vicinity in the Civil War 28 (original copied in Easton Public Library 1936).

� Samuel P. Bates, IV History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers: 1861 – 1865 186 n.* (Harrisburg: B. Singerly, State Printer 1870, reprinted by Broadfoot Publishing Company 1994); see Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 257 (George W. West 1885 / 1889); see also Ned D. Heindel, The 1863 Diary of Beates R. Swift A Year in the Life of an Easton Youth during the Civil War 49 (Easton: The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 2004).

� W.D. Luckenbach, Obituary Tribute, in Ethan Allen Weaver (1853-1929), III The Book Shelf Scrap Book of Easton and Vicinity in the Civil War 71 (original copied in Easton Public Library 1936). Lukenbach asserted that the “seeds” of the disease that caused his “later years” to be spent in “darkness and misery” and ultimately caused Col. Armstrong’s death, were sewn during his imprisonment by a “malevolent official” (apparently referring to General Humphreys in the issue over he coats). Accord, Frederick B. Arner, “Andrew A. Humphreys in the Army of the Potomac”, Commentary to William H. Armstrong, Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals 359 (reprint Charlottsville Va.: Howell Press Inc. 1998).

Armstrong’s account of the incident – published as anonymous fiction in 1864 – states that “The Sibley [tent] . . . was put up over ground so wet that you couldn’t make a track upon it without it would fill with water, and the Lietenant-Colonel had to sleep upon this ground with a single blanket” because the General refused to allow his servant to pass him a blanket roll through the guards. “No one is permitted to see them unless by special permission of the General.” Lt. Col. William H. Armstrong [first published anonymously], Red-Tape and Pegeon-Hole Generals 206 (Carleton of New York 1864, reprnted Charlottsville Va.: Howell Press, Inc. 1998).

The Sibley tent was invented and patented by Major H.H. Sibley in 1856. The U.S. War Department contracted to use the tent design, at a royalty of $5 per tent. The army made over 40,000 of them. However, during the Civil War, Major Sibley resigned his commission and joined the Confederate Army; in consequence, the U.S. Government refused to pay him anything. Before he went, however, Major Sibley assigned half his royalties to Major W.W. Burns, who remained a Union officer. In 1870, the United States Supreme Court ruled that whatever might be the case with Major Sibley, Major Burns was entitled to his half of the royalties. United States v. Burns, 79 U.S. (12 Wall.) 246 (1870).

� Samuel P. Bates, IV History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers: 1861 – 1865 186 n.* (Harrisburg: B. Singerly, State Printer 1870, reprinted by Broadfoot Publishing Company 1994); see Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 257 (George W. West 1885 / 1889); see also Ned D. Heindel, The 1863 Diary of Beates R. Swift A Year in the Life of an Easton Youth during the Civil War 49 (Easton: The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 2004).

Although the convictions and sentences of cashiering were endorsed by Generals Meade and Hooker, Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania intervened with the War Department. The Judge Advocate General, Joseph Holt, and the court martial board itself recommended clemency. The War Department reinstated the two Colonels. Frederick B. Arner, “Andrew A. Humphreys in the Army of the Potomac”, Commentary to William H. Armstrong, Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals 311-12 (reprint Charlottsville Va.: Howell Press Inc. 1998); see also William H. Armstrong, Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals 224 (originally printed by Carleton of New York 1864, reprint Charlottsville Va.: Howell Press Inc. 1998).

� Samuel P. Bates, IV History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers: 1861 – 1865 186 (Harrisburg: B. Singerly, State Printer 1870, reprinted by Broadfoot Publishing Company 1994); see Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 257-58 (George W. West 1885 / 1889); but see Obituary, “The Late Col. Armstrong”, Easton Daily Free Press, Wed., 8 Apr. 1896, p.3, col.4 (indicates he was almost captured at the Battle of Fredericksburg).

� Samuel P. Bates, IV History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers: 1861 – 1865 186-87 (Harrisburg: B. Singerly, State Printer 1870, reprinted by Broadfoot Publishing Company 1994).

� Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 257 (George W. West 1885 / 1889).

� Samuel P. Bates, IV History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers: 1861 – 1865 192-93 (Harrisburg: B. Singerly, State Printer 1870, reprinted by Broadfoot Publishing Company 1994); see separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for Chidsey / Osterstock Parking Lot at 212-230 Northampton Street.

� Obituary, “Grim Reaper Takes Albert Drinkhouse – Well-Known Eastonian Only Lived a Month After His Brother, Adam, Passed Away – A Civil War Veteran”, Easton Semi-Weekly Free Press, Fri., 29 Dec. 1911, p.3, col.3; National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm, “Albert Drinkhouse” (accessed 23 Apr. 2011)(private with 129th Pennsylvania Regiment); see separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for 114-18 North 3rd Street.

� Frederick B. Arner, “Andrew A. Humphreys in the Army of the Potomac”, Commentary to William H. Armstrong, Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals 253 (reprint Charlottsville Va.: Howell Press Inc. 1998); see generally Obituary, “The Late Col. Armstrong”, Easton Daily Free Press, Wed., 8 Apr. 1896, p.3, col.4.

� Frederick B. Arner, “Andrew A. Humphreys in the Army of the Potomac”, Commentary to William H. Armstrong, Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals 359 (reprint Charlottsville Va.: Howell Press Inc. 1998); Obituary, “The Late Col. Armstrong”, Easton Daily Free Press, Wed., 8 Apr. 1896, p.3, col.4.

� Frederick B. Arner, “Andrew A. Humphreys in the Army of the Potomac”, Commentary on Lt. Col. William H. Armstrong, Red-Tape and Pegeon-Hole Generals 359 (reprint Charlottsville Va.: Howell Press, Inc. 1998)(served “during the later phases of the war”); Ethan Allen Weaver (1853-1929), III The Book Shelf Scrap Book of Easton and Vicinity in the Civil War 71 (original copied in Easton Public Library 1936)(Tribute of Judge Schuyler)(after the war).

� Ethan Allen Weaver (1853-1929), III The Book Shelf Scrap Book of Easton and Vicinity in the Civil War 71 (original copied in Easton Public Library 1936)(Tribute of Judge Schuyler); see also Obituary, “The Late Col. Armstrong”, Easton Daily Free Press, Wed., 8 Apr. 1896, p.3, col.4 (Deputy Secretary o f the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under Governor Curtin).

� 1870 Census, Series M593, Roll 1382, p.21 (W.H. Armstrong, retired attorney-at-law, wife, and sons Elliott, William, Henry, and Myron).

� See Deed, William H. (M. L.) Armstrong to Andrew D. Chidsey (27 Nov. [recited in deed below as June] 1870)(sale price $15,000); Deed, Andrew D. Chidsey to Myra L. Armstrong, B13 381 (2 July 1870)(sale price $15,000 for “three Story Brick house” and property measuring 24’ 3” X 240’, noting that Myra L. Armstrong was the wife of William H. Armstrong).

� See George W. West, Directory of Easton, [Etc.] 39 (Geo. W. West 1894); Transcription of data from Census Directory of Northampton County (Eleventh U.S. Census 1890) 39 (Joseph H. Werner 1891), data for City of Easton last names A through D available online at www.bethlehempaonline.com/beth1890/eastoncityabc.html (accessed 15 Feb. 2011)(entry for William H. Armstrong, lawyer at 40 North 3rd Street, with Myra L. Armstrong and Frank W. Armstrong); Article, “Interesting Reminiscence, North Third Street a Third of a Century Ago”, supra (Col. Armstrong “now resides” here in 1885); 1880 Census, Series T9, Roll 1161, p.403 (W.H. Armstrong, age 46, with wife Myra and sons Harry K, and Frank W. Armstrong); George W. West, West’s Guide to Easton, etc. 64 (West & Everett, Job Printers 1883)(residence of Elliott C. Armstrong); D.G. Beers, Atlas of Northampton County Pennsylvania, Plan of Easton (A. Pomeroy & Co. 1874)(Mrs. W.H. Armstrong); 1870 Census, Series M593, Roll 1382, p.21. But see Article, “The New Numbers”, Easton Daily Free Press, Monday, 24 Nov. 1873, p.3 (No.40 assigned to the residence of Thomas Sletor).

� Obituary, “The Late Col. Armstrong”, Easton Daily Free Press, Wed., 8 Apr. 1896, p.3, col.4 (“had been in failing health for a long time”; “total blindness a few years” before his death); Frederick B. Arner, “Andrew A. Humphreys in the Army of the Potomac”, Commentary to William H. Armstrong, Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals 359 (reprint Charlottsville Va.: Howell Press Inc. 1998)(chronic rheumatism).

� Obituary, “The Late Col. Armstrong”, Easton Daily Free Press, Wed., 8 Apr. 1896, p.3, col.4; Obituary, Easton Express, Tuesday, 7 April 1896, p.3, col.3. He was survived by his four sons, of whom Harry K. Armstrong continued to live in Easton. See Jane S. Moyer (compiler), I Marriages and Deaths Northampton County 1885-1902 Newspaper Extracts 92 (Easton Area Public Library 1976).

� Sandra S. Froberg (transcriber), I Cemetery Record Books of the Easton Cemetery Company 19 (Easton Area Public Library and District Center, Easton Cemetery Company, and Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society Jan. 1993).

� 1900 Census, Series T623, Roll 1447, p.69A.

� 1910 Census, Series T624, Roll 1381, p.25A.

� Deed, William R. (Etta M.) Armstrong to Edwin J. West, C43 271 (24 Apr. 1916)(Edwin West identified as a physician; recitals regarding Myra Armstrong and her four sons: Henry K. Armstrong, William R. Armstrong, Elliott C. Armstrong, and Frank W. Armstrong).

Henry Armstrong sold his quarter-interest in the property to his brother, William, immediately in 1907. Deed, Henry K. (Alice M.) Armstrong to William R. Armstrong, A37 51 (2 Apr. 1907), recorded again at C43 164 (2 Apr. 1907).

Elliott and Frank Armstrong sold their quarter-interests to their brother, William, on 19 Apr. 1916, just 5 days prior to William’s sale to Dr. West. Deed, Elliott C. (Mary) Armstrong and Frank W. (Clara) Armstrong to William R. Armstrong, D43 126 (19 Apr. 1916).

Both of the deeds to William Armstrong describe the residence as a three story brick house.

� Deed, Edwin J. (Tillie/Matilda) West to John Howell West, C43 270 (27 Apr. 1916).

� Obituary, “Dr. John Howell West, 89, Retired Physician in Easton”, Easton Express, Mon., 23 June 1975, p.23, cols.2-5 (Dr. John Howell West’s parents were Edwin J. and Matilda West); also compare 1910 Census, Series T624, Roll 1381, p.106B (Edwin J. West, Doctor in private practice, age 50, and Tillie his wife, shown residing at 26 South 5th Street with (among others) a son Frank West, age 24) with 1920 Census, Series T625, Roll 1609, p.99A (John West, physician, resident at 40 North 3rd Street, age 34).

� See, e.g., Deed Poll, Randall P. Miller, Sheriff, for Leanal S. Garcia, to Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, 2010-1-194990 (2010)(“four story brick house”).

� Obituary, “Dr. John Howell West, 89, Retired Physician in Easton”, Easton Express, Mon., 23 June 1975, p.23, cols.2-5.

� 1920 Census, Series T625, Roll 1609, p.99A (John West, physician, resident at 40 North 3rd Street, age 34); see Obituary, “Dr. John Howell West, 89, Retired Physician in Easton”, Easton Express, Mon., 23 June 1975, p.23, cols.2-5 (formerly lived at 40 North 3rd Street).

� See Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1942 405 (R.L. Polk & Co. 1942)(Dr. John West practice at 40 North 3rd Street, house at 151 Parker). However, by 1944 Dr. West himself resided at the Terminal Hotel, while his wife Rosemary continued to reside at 151 Parker. Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1944-45 479 (R.L. Polk & Co. 1944-45); Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1947 533 (R.L. Polk & Co. 1947); Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1949 793 (R.L. Polk & Co. 1949).

� Obituary, “Dr. John Howell West, 89, Retired Physician in Easton”, Easton Express, Mon., 23 June 1975, p.23, cols.2-5. He died at the home of Darian Smith in Phillipsburg. His retirement ended a line of West physicians and dentists that had continued for 120 years.

� Deed, John Howell (Rosemary J.) West to Alex (Marie C.) Wanzilak, 402 586 (6 July 1971)(sale price $31,000). Dr. West died four years later. Obituary, Easton Express, 23 June 1975, p.23.

� Obituary, “Alex Wanzilak, 61, owned, operated Easton jewelry store”, Easton Express, Sun., 9 Oct. 1983, p.B-4, col.2.

� See Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1944-45 308, 469 (R.L. Polk & Co. 1944-45)(Alex Wanzilak, living in YMCA, watchmaker at Morris Jewelers at 423 Northampton Street) .

� Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1953 576 (R.L. Polk & Co. 1953)(Alex Wanzilak, jeweler at 306 Spring Garden Street, house at 8 North 5th Street); Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1970 518 (R.L. Polk & Co. 1970)(Alex Wanzilak, jeweler at 54½ North 3rd Street, house at 332 Spring Garden Street); Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1971 541 (R.L. Polk & Co. 1971)(Alex Wanzilak, jeweler at 54½ North 3rd Street, house at 332 Spring Garden Street)(same); Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1972 540 (R.L. Polk & Co. 1972)(Alex Wanzilak, jeweler at 54½ North 3rd Street, house at 332 Spring Garden Street)(same).

� See, e.g., Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1974 551 (R.L. Polk & Co. 1974)(Alex Wanzilak, jeweler at 40 North 3rd Street, house at 332 Spring Garden Street).

� See Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1982 687 (R.L. Polk & Co. 1982)(Alex Wanzilak, jeweler at 40 North 3rd Street, house at the same address).

� Obituary, “Alex Wanzilak, 61, owned, operated Easton jewelry store”, Easton Express, Sun., 9 Oct. 1983, p.B-4, col.2.

� Deed, Luanne Smith Jorgenson, Administratrix of the Estate of Alex Wanzilak, to Thomas D. (Ellen M.) Moskella, 669 1131 (4 Sept. 1984)(sale price $57,000). A deed recital indicates that Alex Wanzilak’s will had intended to appoint his wife, Marie, as executor, but she predeceased him. Another deed recital establishes that Alex Wanzilak died on 7 October 1983.

� Deed, Thomas D. (Ellen M.) Moskella to 40 North LLC, 2003-1-360752 (29 Apr. 2003)(sale price $189,900).

� Deed, 40 North, LLC to Leonel S. Garcia, 2004-1-392556 (30 Sept. 2004)(sale price $395,000).

� Deed Poll, Randall P. Miller, Sheriff, for Leanal S. Garcia, to Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, 2010-1-194990 (2010)(debt judgment against Garcia for $4,239.27). The property measurements are described as 24’ 3” X 240’, consistent with the earlier deeds. See also see also Richard F. Hope, “Walking Tour: Armstrong Homestead (40 North 3rd Street)”, Easton Irregular Heritage Edition 13 (Summer 2011).

� Deed, Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC to Kindred G. Scott, 2011-1-048810 (23 Feb. 2011)(sale price $160,000 for property measuring 24’ 3” X 240’ deep).

� Deed, Vera K. Fedorov to Kindred G. Scott, 2010-1-101900 (24 May 2010)(sale price $350,000); see separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for the Whit Wood Mansion at 62 North 3rd Street.

� Susan Boerchers, “Sweet Girlz a Treat for Downtown Easton”, Easton Patch, Sun., 4 Dec. 2011, easton.patch.com/topics/Sweet+Girlz; see Sweet Girlz Website, www.sweetgirlzpa.com, “Blog” and “About Sweet Girlz” (accessed 30 Dec. 2011); Facebook, “Sweet Girlz”, www.facebook.com/pages/Sweet-Girlz/179586945427413?sk=wall.

� Susan Boerchers, “Sweet Girlz a Treat for Downtown Easton”, Easton Patch, Sun., 4 Dec. 2011, easton.patch.com/topics/Sweet+Girlz.