BIO: Milton W. ISENBERG, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JO Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************** __________________________________________________________________ Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers. Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, page 231. __________________________________________________________________ MILTON W. ISENBERG, Huntingdon, Huntingdon county, Pa., born in Alexandria, Huntingdon county, August 22, 1847, is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Stonerod) Isenberg. Samuel Isenberg was born in Frederick, Md. The family settled in Huntingdon about 1826, and afterwards removed to Alexandria, where he was educated in the common schools, learned carpentry and cabinetmaking, and worked at these trades until 1857. He then purchased a farm in Shirley township, and spent the remainder of his active life in its cultivation. He filled the offices of supervisor and school director, and was a worthy and honored citizen. He died aged eighty years, December 13, 1890. His wife, a native of Mifflin county, resides in Huntingdon. Milton W. Isenberg was educated in the common schools of Alexandria and of Shirley township, and at the seminary in Shirleysburg. He passed a few winters in teaching, and the summers in farm work. In 1872, he began mercantile business in Altoona, Pa. Having bought a farm in Shirley township in 1878, he was for twelve years a farmer. In 1890, he was elected register and recorder, and re-elected in 1893, without opposition. He is also clerk of the Orphan's Home, a faithful and competent official. He has been a member, and the secretary, of the school board of Shirley township. He is a Republican. Mr. Isenberg belongs to Standing Stone Conclave, I. O. of H., and to the P. O. S. of A. Milton W. Isenberg was married in Altoona, Pa., February 26, 1874, to Emma, daughter of Lawrence P. and Delilah Work. Two of their children died young; those surviving are: Mabel S.; Edith W.; and Frederick M. Mr. and Mrs. Isenberg are members of the Reformed church.