In a message dated 4/10/03 12:10:30 AM, seachelesc@sc.rr.com writes: << My dad was born in Tunkhannock, PA. Anyone have any info on the Baumgardner family? >> Source Information: HISTORY OF LUZERNE, LACKAWANNA & WYOMING COUNTIES, PA. NEW YORK: W.W. MUNSELL & CO. 1880 F. Sandway, John Baumgardner, John Rader, Andrew Nett, Philip Shellenberger and Charles Resler came to Ransom [Lackawanna Co.] in 1841, from Germany, and settled on what is known from then as "German hill."