Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....LILLEY, Joseph M. unknown - living in 1899
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  JOSEPH M. LILLEY, a member of the firm of Lilley & Smith, proprietors of the
  Berwick Manufacturing Company, and one of the most reliable and enterprising
  business men of the town of Berwick, was born at Limeridge, Columbia County,
  Pa., and is a son of Joseph and Lucinda (Evans) Lilley.
  
    Joseph Lilley, the father of our subject, was born at Black Hole Valley,
  Lycoming County, Pa., and during his manhood came to Columbia County, where he
  accepted a position as lock-tender at Limeridge. Later he embarked in the
  mercantile business, in which he was more than ordinarily successful. He was
  very prominent in his community and served his fellow-citizens as justice of the
  peace for many years. He formed a matrimonial alliance with Lucinda Evans, a
  daughter of Ephraim Evans, a well-to-do farmer of Columbia County. Five children
  were the result of this union, namely: William, an Evangelical minister residing
  in Glenrock, Pa.; Mary, united in wedlock with L. M. Sleppy; Etta, wife of Harry
  Towsend; James, who is prospecting in the West; and Lizzie, who wedded Dr. A. S.
  Stoddard. Mr. Lilley died in 1867 at the age of sixty-eight years; his wife
  passed from this life, aged sixty-nine years.
  
    Our subject possesses a good education, which he acquired in the public
  schools of his native town. For some time he was station agent and operator at
  Wyoming; later he worked as an extra at Bloomsburg, Espy, Shickshinny and other
  places on the D., L. & W. R. R., but in 1872 he was appointed to a regular
  station and was sent to Berwick, where he remained until 1893, honestly and
  faithfully discharging the duties to which he had been assigned. In 1896 the
  Berwick Manufacturing Company was established, and in 1897 our subject and James
  E. Smith became the proprietors. They erected a large two-story building 30 by
  90 feet, with an engine room 15 by 20 feet, on the corner of Ninth and Pine
  streets, and employ about seventy hands, who are constantly kept busy in the
  making of men's shirts and ladies' shirtwaists. The proprietors of this
  establishment are thoroughly acquainted with this line of business, and by their
  honest methods of dealing have built up a large and paying patronage.
  
    Mr. Lilley was united in marriage to Emily Dietrich, a daughter of Jacob
  Dietrich, a resident of Berwick, and as a result of this happy union one child
  was born to them, Harriet W., who is a graduate of the Baltimore Women's
  College, Neff's College of Oratory at Philadelphia, and Mrs. Kirk's Kindergarten
  School at Philadelphia. She conducted a kindergarten school in Berwick and met
  with the greatest of success until appointed model instructor of the model
  department of the State Normal School at Bloomsburg, Pa.
  
    Our subject strongly advocates the principles of the Republican party and has
  represented his fellow-citizens two terms in the town council. He is a member of
  Knapp Lodge, No. 461, F. & A. M., of Berwick. In 1887 our subject built a neat
  residence on Second street, which he has since made his home.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
  
  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
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