Louis E. Hunsinger Jr.2023-04-06T18:11:41-04:00

Louis E. Hunsinger, Jr.

Louis Hunsinger Jr. is a freelance writer and historic researcher. He contributes to newspapers, as well as research journals. His areas of expertise include writing, researching, baseball, politics, popular culture, military history, and Lycoming County topics. A former writer with the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, he has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History. He has written several books on Minor League Baseball and regional history. His hobbies are reading and watching the Williamsport CrossCutters.

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Thomas Cooper: A Remarkable Lycoming Judge

"Knowledge is power. To a nation it is wealth. To individuals it is a virtue."These are the words of arguably the most remarkable man to ever preside over a Lycoming County courtroom. That man was Thomas Cooper. He was a bundle of contradictions. On the one hand he was a brilliant and enlightened man who was comfortable in the fashionable salons of French Revolutionary Paris. On the other hand he

Lycoming Hangings a Spectator’s Event

Executions weren't always such a subject of controversy. Individual counties handled the grim task themselves in many cases. Lycoming County was no exception to this but, surprisingly, the first hanging conducted under the auspices of the county judiciary did not occur until 1836 some 41 years after the county was organized in 1795. 'Murder at Muncy Creek' details the Earls murder trial. The lurid story of

Salladasburg and its founder

One of the most picturesque towns in the western part of Lycoming County is Salladasburg. It also is the home of the noted Cohick's Trading Post, a Lycoming County institution.Captain Jacob Sallade founded Salladasburg in 1837, laying out lots for the town and building Lutheran and Presbyterian churches there. Larry's Creek Bridge Located on Larry's Creek and named for its founder, Salladasburg was incorporated as a borough on Jan. 12,

Lycoming United Way: more than 80 years of caring

Saturday will be the Lycoming County United Way's annual Day of Caring. It is a day in which volunteers perform various types of needed work at many of the United Way's member agencies' facilities.The Lycoming County United Way has been in the business of caring for more than 80 years, beginning in 1922 as the Community Chest.The origins of what would later become the Lycoming United Way occurred at a

The Herdic Cab: A variation on a transportation theme

When most people think of Peter Herdic they think of an industrialist, a wheeler-dealer and entrepreneur who had much with the development of Williamsport as a major economic center. Most people don't think of him as a transportation innovator.According to an article in the Fall 1973 edition of the Journal of the Lycoming County Historical Society, in 1878 Herdic invented a form of bus or coach that would later be

Friends for Freedom in Pennsdale-Muncy

It is no accident that one of the main centers of the Underground Railroad in Lycoming County was the Pennsdale-Muncy area. This was an area in which many members of the Society of Friends or “Quakers” lived. In fact there was, and still is, a Quaker Meeting House there. Members of the Society of Friends were among the most ardent abolitionists and most active conductors of the Underground Railroad. The

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