Little Known Historical Facts of Pennsylvania and the World

About the Book

“Little Known Historical Facts of Pennsylvania and the World” by C. Arnold McClure is a collection of sometimes almost unbelievable facts little known by the public concerning: US Presidents and the Presidency; US wars, weapons and soldiers; Famous Pennsylvanians; high school, college, and professional sports and athletes from Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania businessmen and industrialists; early days of travel in Pennsylvania; unknown Civil War facts ; unique facts about surnames and location names in Pennsylvania; ancient recorded facts of American Indians; early churches in Pennsylvania; the early Pennsylvania frontier; Revolutionary War times in Pennsylvania; the ancestral homes of many Pennsylvanians and why they came to America; Pennsylvania politics and elections; early education in Pennsylvania; folk remedies and early medicine; old words, terms, and expressions; Pennsylvania authors and publishing; strange and unusual events in Pennsylvania; and more.

About the Author

C. Arnold McClure has been publisher of The Valley Log, a weekly newspaper in Orbisonia, Pennsylvania, for 28 years. He graduated from Penn State University in 1971 with a B.S. in Social Studies of Secondary Education. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War, serving in the U.S. Army Security Agency from 1966 to 1969. This book is the first in a series of books that he will soon be publishing that have resulted from his more than 20 years of research into Pennsylvania history.