Willoughby G. Hagenbuch: A Rich Life in Spite of Adversity
About a month ago, I saw a piece of Hagenbuch history for sale on eBay. It was a postcard sent on August 4, 1967 by Willie Hagenbuch of Bowmanstown, Pennsylvania to Félix Duval of...
About a month ago, I saw a piece of Hagenbuch history for sale on eBay. It was a postcard sent on August 4, 1967 by Willie Hagenbuch of Bowmanstown, Pennsylvania to Félix Duval of...
About a month ago, I saw a piece of Hagenbuch history for sale on eBay. It was a postcard sent on August 4, 1967 by Willie Hagenbuch of Bowmanstown, Pennsylvania to Félix Duval of...
As you know, I am now on hospice care due to the advancement of prostate cancer. I was still hoping to buy more time; but two weeks ago, after my wife Linda, my oncologist,...
Moving pictures are a powerful way to capture and preserve history. In 1929, the Ukrainian filmmaker Dziga Vertov released his silent film, Man with a Movie Camera. It was largely dismissed due to its...
My goodness! How things have changed during the holidays over the years! In previous articles for Hagenbuch.org we have explored Christmases, Easters, and patriotic holidays of years gone by. And, we’ve touched on what...
Every family has a story. So in that sense, the Hagenbuch family is like any other. Although, when you look past the surface, you’ll start to discover what makes each family unique. Again, the...
Never in my wildest dreams would I have believed on October 30, 2014, ten years ago, that articles about our family history and related topics would have mushroomed into a huge volume of information....
A decade ago in the summer of 2014, I was living in California and filled with thoughts of my Pennsylvania family and the lives of our ancestors. I knew that years before, my father,...
The scenarios could have been very different over the past 50 plus years. I may have had no interest in our Hagenbuch family’s history. Uncle Perce may have never latched on to me as...
On January 30, 1890, 26-year-old Elmer J. Hagenbaugh was arrested in Los Gatos, California. He was charged with grand larceny and accused of stealing $206 of books (around $7,000 today) from the State Library...
As we approach the end of the tenth year of writing articles for Hagenbuch.org (yes, that will be 520 articles!), Andrew and I have discussed, “Where are we going from here?” The impetus of...