Walter Vincent Tobias, a deaf tailor who helped establish Lebanon’s first deaf community organizations in the 1890s, was a pioneering athlete who played football and baseball before becoming a respected craftsman in early 20th-century Lebanon.
Bruce D. Bomberger, Ph.D.
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Putting it all together: A journey from Jefferson’s estate to Lebanon’s history
Historical research suggests that the Jones family, buried in East Hanover Township’s Salem Evangelical Cemetery, may have roots tracing back to a slave named Daniel from President Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest estate.
