Local History: Chapter LI- Biographical Sketches : Davis's 1877 History of Northampton Co, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Susan Walters USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. HTML Table of Contents may be found at http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/northampton/davistoc.htm _______________________________________________________________________ HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. ††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† 266 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES PROMINENT MEN OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY PAST AND PRESENT HON. ANDREW H. REEDER Andrew F. Reeder was born at Easton July 12th 1807. His great-grandfather Charles Reeder born in England in 1713 came to Pennsylvania in 1734 settling in Bucks county. His son Joseph crossed the Delaware settled in Mercer county, New Jersey where Absalom Reeder the father of Andrew H. Reeder was born in 1760. Shortly after the termination of the Revolutionary War Absalom Reeder came to Easton and in 1788 married Christiana Smith. A granddaughter of Frederick Nungesser one of the earliest settlers of this section and mine host of the first inn established at the Forks of the Delaware. Andrew H. Reeder received a very liberal education at Lawrenceville High School Lawrenceville N. J. and after his graduation at that institution pursued the study of the law under the tutelage of General Peter Ihrie being admitted to practice in 1828. He was married in 1831 to Amalia Hutter daughter of Christian J. Hutter also an early settler of this section; founder and for a long time editor of the Correspondent one of the first newspapers published in Pennsylvania. He was also the founder of the Centinel in 1816. For a long time he edited both papers. Immediately his admission to the bar Andrew H. Reeder by his industry and talents assumed a high position among his professional brethren and rapidly found himself in the enjoyment in a large and lucrative practice. He devoted much of his spare time to politics and by means of his very rare power as a public speaker and debater readily acquired all influential position in the counsels of the Democratic party in Northampton county and throughout the State. In June 1854 he was appointed by President Pierce first Governor of the Territory of Kansas without solicitation by him or any knowledge an his part that his sales was presented. For one or two years afterward his name was like a household word. He had scarcely assumed his office before prominent members of his party-who were privy to the pro-slavery scheme to overbear the fair public sentiment of Kansas and make it a slave State-approached him to obtain his aid or at least acquiescence in their infamous plans. The result of their appeals may be imagined when it is known that before he had been in office two months strenuous efforts were made by the principal men the leaders and controllers of that administration, to obtain his removal. In August 1855 President Pierce yielded to their demands and in the false pretext that Governor Reeder had been speculating in Indian lands, removed him without hearing or opportunity for defence. Having passed his life in the quiet of a well-ordered community he like most of the settlers of the new Territory was new to the scenes which border-ruffianism inaugurated but alone amidst all the disorders he bore himself and it firmness, courage and consistency that won for him universal respect. We insert an extract taken from the New York Evening Post of May 17th 1855, showing fully the determined spirit which he had taken with him to the discharge of his duties. His reply to the Missouri delegation indicates his determination of character and strength of purpose. When told he lead fifteen minutes to make up his mind either to sign the certificates of election for the men who had been given majorities, is members of the Legislature by the illegal votes and fraud of the Missouri invaders-resign or hang he replied Gentlemen my mind is made the without any further advisement-I shall hang. Before his removal he was unanimously elected, by the people their delegate to Congress afterwards, by the Legislature convened under the Topeka Constitution, the first United States Senator from Kansas. The new Constitution not having been ratified, he did not however take his seat. Upon his return from Kansas he resumed the arrive practice of his profession associating with him, as a partner Hon. Henry Given under the firm name of Reeder & Green and announced his resolution never again to accept political office; and in all his subsequent life he firmly and positively declined all overture looking to such an end, although always remaining actively in the service of the Republican party. He attended the Chicago Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln as a delegate-at-large from Pennsylvania and was made Chairman of the State delegation. At this convention his name was strongly urged for the nomination as Vice-President, and was honored with the third highest vote upon the first ballot. At the outbreak of the war, the military appointments made by the President were Nathaniel Lyon and Governor Reeder to be Brigadier Generals in the regular army. The well-known qualities of Governor Reeder caused a general approval of his selection but after mature consideration he arrived at the patriotic conclusion that he was too far advanced in life to learn a new profession on the field of battle, and at the risk perhaps of the lives of good and brave men and at the peril of the cause which he loved He was ever made to render what services were in his power to the country and his contributions for that purpose were frequent and large. In 1863 he was appointed by the President under a resolution of Congress Chairman of a Commission to investigate the accounts of Surgeon General Hammond United States army charged with irregularities and peculation. While engaged in this task so severe was the labor and on untiring his industry that he brought upon himself the ailments which on July 5th 1864 terminated in his death. Governor Reeder was a man of incorruptible integrity of great firmness of purposes in whatever he believed to he right and of ardent and devoted attachment to his family and friends. As a lawyer he attained the very highest distinction. Accustomed for many years to the arduous and responsible duties connected with the trial of contested cases, he acquired an extraordinary facility in that department of his professional life. He was full of resources ready for use in every emergency; and those who knew him best, admired him most for the vigorous and powerful reasoning and the bursts of splendid eloquence by which his argument were so often distinguished. He loved his profession and gave himself up to it with a heartiness and devotion not often witnessed. When called away by death he was in the very midst of the active duties of life and in the zenith of his fame. His loss was widely felt and greatly deplored not only by his professional brethren but by the great body of the people in Eastern Pennsylvania. HON. DAVID D. WAGENER David D. Wagener the subject of the sketch was born in Easton on the eleventh day of October 1792. PICTURE OF HON. DAVID WAGENER APPEARS HERE His father David Wagener a prominent citizen of Easton and Associate Judge of Northampton county was born in Bucks county near Doylestown in the year 1766. Removing to Easton in 1777 during the heat of the Revolutionary contest he became identified with the many interests of the town and county; built the large Merchant Mill on the east side of the Bushkill Creek in 1792 (his father having built the mills on the opposite side of the creek in 1780) and engaged in the milling and mercantile business for a number of years. He died in 1842 at the advanced age of seventy-seven years leaving three sons and two daughters to whom he bequeathed a handsome estate and an unsullied name. The early years of David D. Wagener's life were spent in obtaining a substantial education and assisting his father in his business; it was then he laid the foundation of that consistent christian and public spirited character to which he was in so great a degree indebted for his remarkably successful career. In 1816 he was elected Captain of the Easton Union Guards then newly organized and continued in command until the company's dissolution in 1829. In this capacity he visited Philadelphia in 1824 and together with his company (135 men) whiled in the ceremonies of the reception of Lafayette. He took a great interest in political life and became an active and prominent member of the Democratic party with which he held the closest relations until his death. In 1828 he was elected to the Assembly and performed the duties of his position so fully to the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens that its was twice re-elected serving the terms of 1829, 1830, and 1831 and only leaving the Assembly for the higher honors of the National Congress to which he was elected in 1832 after a close and exciting contest; his opponent being no other than his fellow-townsman the gifted and popular Peter Ihrie. The course of David D. Wagener in Congress was the same plain and straightward pursuit of his duty as a public-spirited and high-minded citizen and met with the same approval which had been bestowed upon him for his public record in the Assembly receiving the highest possible to the fact for bring re-elected from term so term until 1839, when he retired from more active public life requiring rest and more time to devote to the management of his own private affairs. On the fourth of May 1852 he was unanimously elected president of the Easton Bank to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Colonel Thomas McKeon and continued in this office to the full satisfaction of the Board and the great advantage of the Bank until his death. It is but appropriate here to mention that the Court House now stands upon ground largely donated from his estate. David D. Wagener was married on the twentieth of September 1821 to Mary Krauss a woman of great personal beauty and piety who died February 13th, 1833. The issues of this marriage was two sons and three daughters of whom all are still living. He never married again and died October 1st 1860, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. He was a gentleman esteemed by all who knew him and enjoyed the friendship of many of the leading men of his time. James Buchanan and General Jackson were his intimate friends and their relations were of the pleastantest and most confidential kind. An eloquent obituary published in the Easton Argus of October 4th, 1860 truly says: "He was not only a good man but a useful man. He was a kind and faithful friend a safe counselor an indulgent and affectionate father and an upright man in all relations of life. To the latter he was kind and liberal and many a penniless beginner as he started on his voyage to fight the battle of life has been cheered on by the kind assistance and good counsel of David D. Wagener. The possessor of an ample fortune, he was ever plain and simple in his habits familiar and sociable in his intercourse with his fellow men yet dignified in his hearing. He was a strictly upright man and scorned to do a dishonorable act in public or private life. Be was constitutionally all honest man and his went was as; good as his bond Few own have left behind them a brighter record or a more illustrious example than the Hon. David D. Wagener. 267 HON. JOSEPH LAUBACH The first account of the Laubach family begins with the emigration to America from the Palatinate in Germany of Christian and Reinhart Laubach They embarked at Rotterdam on board the ship Queen Elizabeth Alexander Hope Master and landed at Philadelphia Pa. September 16th, 1738. Reinhart Laubach settled in Lower Saucon township soon after his arrival and from him the entire Laubach family are descended. Peter Laubach, his son, roared from Lower Saucon township probably prior to 1755 and settled near Kriedersville; many Indians being in that vicinity. His family consisted of two sons and three daughters. He died about 1818 (at the age of eighty-four years) and was buried at the stone church near Kreidersville His son Peter-married a Miss Stedler and moving to Columbia county died about the year 1860. Adam his other son bought the old homestead where he resulted until his death. He carried on blacksmithing in connection with his agricultural pursuits. He married Margaret Newhard from Lehigh county about the year 1788. His children were: Peter born August 1789 died September 1857 Susanna-born April 1791 died August 1826 Elizabeth-born March 1793 still living near Kreidersville Polly born March 1795 died May 1854 Adam-born March 1797 died October 1852 Catharine-born March 1799 died April 1844 Peggy-born April 1801 died September 1828 Lydia-born July, 1803 living at Allentown John-born August 1805 still living near Kreidersville William-born January 1808 died October 1819 Joseph-born April 1810-still living as he has for years a life of usefulness. He spent the first nineteen years of his life upon the farm The ensuing year was spent at Easton attending school at the old Academy. At the age of twenty he entered the employ of J. & M. Butz millers and dealer in dry goods and groceries. In 1839 Mr. Laubach opened business for himself at what is now Laubach's Station dealing in general merchandise coal etc. He continued in business at this place thirty-one years during which time he was Postmaster and Captain of Volunteers eleven Years and in 1840 was elected County Auditor in which capacity he served three years. During the years of 1848 and 1849 he served as State Representative and in 1855 was elected State Senator for the term of three seats. In 1861 Mr. Laubach was at elected as one of the Associate Judges of Northampton county and served fifteen years being returned for three successive terms. He now holds the position of President of the Northampton County Savings Bank President of the Lehigh Valley Iron Works arid President of the Allen town Female College. In June 1862 Judge Laubach was a heavy loser by the flood his store being inundated to the depth of six feet and seven inches. The grist-mill of which he was part owner was also flooded and several hundred barrels of flour were carried away many of which were found floating more than eighty miles from the mill. His house though flooded withstood the terrific torrents which left large logs in the parlor and was a refuge for about fifteen persons. His barn stock and outbuildings were carried away and his total lost was not less than $12,000. But notwithstanding this heavy drain upon his resources he was one of the foremast and most liberal it rendering assistance and consolation to his fellow sufferers. His nomination to the Senate was unanimous and although serving in a term noted for its bribery and corruption. Judge Laubach had the proud satisfaction of refining from his official duties with his name untarnished by the faintest breath of suspicion from either political party. The endorsement of his official acts, and the encomiums showered upon him from papers from his own district are tributes that will live long after he has passed away. Upon his departure from the bench his farewell speech recalling old associates of the beach and bar many of whom have now passed away, was listened to with deep emotion and called forth responses from many of his legal associates who witnessed his retirement from the bench with feelings of deep regret. Judge Laubach has never been a seeker for political preferment but quiet and unassuming in his manners he owes his place in the confidence and affections of the people only to his strict integrity his benevolence his unvarying kindness and courtesy his sound judgment keen perceptions and intuitive knowledge of the right. DR. HENRY DETWILLER 1 Henry Detwiller M.D. of Easton was born at Langenbruck Canton, Basel Landschaft, Switzerland, December 18th, 1795. His parents were Henry and Verena Detwiller. After attending the village school until the thirteenth year of his age, he was placed in a French institute at St. Immier for two years. At the expiration of that term he became the private pupil of Laurentius Senn M.D., a graduate of Wurzburg, under whose systematic instruction he during three years prepared for matriculation in the medical department of the University at Freyburg Grand Duchy of Baden. In the spring of 1814 he was admitted to the University and remained there five consecutive semesters. He had then just entered his twenty-first year. Being a great admirer of natural sciences he longed for a new field in which to cultivate his scientific tastes to their fullest extent. He therefore resolved to visit the United States, and devote four years to the collection of zoological mineralogical and botanical specimens etc. Accordingly he embarked in the spring of 1817 in company with several hundred emigrants at Basel on the Rhine and landed at Muyden near Amsterdam. During the passage he acted as physician to the company. On arrival at Muyden he was requested to present himself before a medical board at Amsterdam: he did so and was appointed physician on the ship John of Baltimore an old three-master that made then its last trip with over four hundred souls on board. The captain taking a very southerly course going south of Bermuda in the middle of July, the oppressive heat produced dysentery cholera morbus and prostrating diarrhoeas. The medicine chest was inadequately supplied and had it not been for Dr. Detwiller's and General Vandame's private stores the mortality would have been fearful. The vessel arrived in the port of Philadelphia in the latter part of July The greater part of the passengers being Redemptioners they had to remain on board until disposed of. Many of them were on the sick list and they as well as the sick on board another vessel in port were entrusted to Dr. Detwiller's care by the port physician. The same trust was reposed in him at the quarantine station by the official physician. While thus detained in Philadelphia he became professionally acquainted with Dr. Munges an eminent French doctor by whom he was frequently called in consultation in the family of General Vandame and other French refugees of rank in Napoleon's time. At the suggestion and persuasion of Joseph Bonaparte, General Vandame and Dr. Munges he abandoned the idea of going into the Western wilderness-the Indian country-and made preparations to establish himself in a locality where the German language was mostly spoken. Being well provided with letters of introduction he proceeded first to Allentown Pennsylvania; and on September 3d 1817 entered the office of Dr. Charles H. Martin as assistant. Here he practiced seven months with signal success. During the fall and winter of 1817-18 there appeared in many parts of Lehigh and the adjoining counties a disease attacking whole families with more or less severity and intended in convalescence with frequent relapses the patients dragging along a pitiable existence for months and frequently succumbing to either phthisis or dropsy. This disease was diagnosed by the physicians with whom he came in contact its bilious colic; a one of the most prominent symptoms was abdominal or intestinal pain with very obstinate costiveness and vomiting The prevailing practice was opium and calomel in very large doses; powerful doses if all kinds of laxatives; tobacco smoking being forced into the rectum through a peculiar apparatus while salivation was produced to a fearful extent. It was the discovery of the real cause of this so-called bilious colic or verstopfung as it was called by German laymen that brought to the favorable notice of the public the young German doctor under which appellation the subject of this sketch was generally known. It proved to be lead poisoning in the form of malate of lead produced from the glazing with litharage, of the earthen pots in which apple butter often rather sour had been kept. This discovery and his successful antidotal treatment created for him all enviable professional reputation and many were the invitations he received from different parties to establish himself permanently in their localities. He finally selected Hellertown Pennsylvania and in April 1818, he opened an office there. In the following December he married Miss Elizabeth Appel a native of the vicinity of the village. By this marriage he had three sons and four daughters. In November 1835 his wife after a protracted illness died of phthisis pulmonalis. In 1836 Dr. Detwiller visited Europe in company with his eldest son whom he placed in an institute of learning, to remain for four years under the guidance and guardianship of a particular friend and professional gentleman. During his sojourn in Europe he made it one of his special objects to have interviews with the illustrious Dr. Samuel Hahneman at Paris, Professors Shoelein Oken and Schnitz, in Zurich on scientific subjects and in the interest of the Allentown Academy of the homeopathic healing art, also of the Coryphaeus of homeopath in the United States Dr. C. Hering. He also visited his Alma Mater presented his certificates of examination (absolutorium) executed it the fall of 1816, when he had not attained his majority or the age required by the statutes for holding of a degree. So after an absence of twenty year he applied to the medical history for a re-examination and if found worthy for the grant of a diploma. The faculty met and after subjecting him to a rigorous examination of all the different branches surgical operations on the cadaver and so forth he was rewarded with that to which he would have been entitled twenty years before had he been of age, namely, a diploma of Doctor Medicine Chirurgioe et Artia Obstetricioe. Returning to the United States he resumed his practice in Hellertown and pursued it until 1852 when he removed to Easton Pa. He introduced homoeopathy in this place and had to contend against the usual on fair and unprofessional opposition of some otherwise respectable allopath. During its residence of thirty-four-years in Hellertown, Pa. He was fourteen years School Director of Lower Saucon and President at time of introduction of Free Schools and notwithstanding his very extensive and laborious practice he always managed to husband time to follow his favorite study of Natural Science. In the course of time he got together flora sanconesis the name by which he calls his herbarium the specimens being reflected principally in Upper and Lower Saucon. Many botanical excursions were made in company with life friends Dr. De Schweinitz and Dr. Huebner. The ornithological specimens-the mammals, reptilae, chelonioe, etc. ect. -collected, and by him prepared represent with but few exceptions the whole fauna of Pennsylvania. The greater part of his collections have been donated to various public institutions and museums in Europe especially to the museum at the University of Basil. He being a corresponding member of the Natural Historical Society there. On July 23d, 1828, Dr. Detwiller dispensed the first homoeopathic remedy selected in accordance with the law of similia simlibus curantur and from that onward till now in his eighty-second year he has continued an active and successful practitioner of homeopathy. To him also belong the honor of being the first dispenser and introducer of homeopathic remedies in the State of Pennsylvania as is set forth in a paper entitled: "The Rise and Progress of Homeopathy in Pennsylvania" published in the Transactions of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State at the eighth session as reported by Dr. Dudley Pemberton. In 1836 he was elected a member of the Medical Faculty of the Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing Art at Allentown. At the organization of the American Institute of Homoeopathy in New York City in 1844 he became a member and is one of the few surviving original members of that flourishing institute. On April 5th, 1850 he was elected a fellow and corresponding members of the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the Homoeoepathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania. Dr. Detwiller has two sons four grandsons and one son-in-law all graduates of medicine and three of them homoeopathists. Dr. Detwiller took an active interest in the manufacture of pig-iron and is interested in most of the blast-furaces and rolling-mill in the Lehigh Valley. He was President of the North Penn Iron Company from the time of its organization in 1869 during the years of prosperity until 1873. Through his long and honorable career Dr. Detwiller has displayed unusual ability and resource as a physician; base been rewarded with distinguished success and has gained the confidence respect and esteem of all classes. ______________________________________________________________________ 1. From the Galaxy of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons. 268 JOHN HERSTER The subject of this narrative was for many years one of Easton's most influential and highly respected citizens. He was born at or near Pottsgrove (now Pottstown), Montgomery county, Pa. October 6th 1758. He was the son of Andrew Herster who with his family removed to Easton when his son John was about eight years of age. The parents of the youth were poor and he after his days of childhood had passed sought employment at whatever came to his hand until when verging towards manhood he had the good fortune to secure employment in the store of Meyer Hart upon the Southeast corner of Northampton street and Centre Square. About the time of the breaking out of the Revolution and before he was eighteen years of age he became a member of a volunteer company which was formed in Easton in anticipation of the time when their country might need their services. It was not long before that time came. In 1776 when Howe's army menaced New York and Washington needed help from the Middle States the Easton company found themselves called on to make a port of Northamptons quota to the "Flying Camp" at Amboy. There was no hesitation in their response; and as they mustered in the Public Square preparatory to departure young John Herster stood bravely in his place. But his father Andrew saw him there and his parental affection forbade the thought of allowing that tender boy to incur the departure and hardships of the campaign although his patriotism would never permit him to withhold a single man from the service of his country in the time of her need. So he said to his son John "give me your musk! You are too young for the camp; stay and take care of your mother and the children and I will take your place!" He shouldered his son's musket and marched away with the company; but he never returned. He braved proud Britains marshaled host Her glittering pomp and pride; No feared to quench his patriot flame In life's red gushing tide The company was that of Captain John Arndt, and Andrew Herster was made a Sergeant in it. In his first fight (the battle of Long Island August 27th 1776) he was taken prisoner and placed on the old "Jersey" prison ship where he remained in confinement until his death which occurred about the following Christmas. He was afterwards buried near the Brooklyn-Navy Yard. The son remained to care for the family but his patriotism was not inactive. While his father was facing the enemies of his country in the field, he rendered good service at home in watching and guarding against the machinations of the tories. He afterwards served most honorably m a member of the Committee of Safety; and through the whole struggle, he hesitated at no sacrifice for the good of that cause for which his father had laid town his life. While in the employ of Michael Hart he laid the foundation of a successful and prosperous business career. Making the knowledge which he them gained conducive to his advancement and carefully saving his small earnings he in 1786 opened a store on Hamilton street now Fourth and with a small stock of goods set in the valuation at £50 Pennsylvania currency ($133.33), embarked in the mercantile business for himself. With a capital that some young men, at the present day would hardly consider sufficient for a week's personal expenses, the young merchant with his eye steadily fixed on the star of success started a business career that was to make him one of Easton's leading and most honored men. His business prospered; his capital increased and he soon found himself able to engage more extensively. Following the necessity for a change to accommodate his constantly growing trade he moved to Northampton street above Fourth and opened a store which now stands adjoining the Franklin House on the east. Here his business rapidly increased and in a few years he was known as a leading merchant keeping pace with the towns growth. His aid and encouragement were given to every worthy enterprise. He was ready in his perception accurate in his estimate of character prudent in opinion and unalterable in good principle. Remarkably successful in the merchant business he soon engaged extensively in manufacturing. To his energy and enterprise the citizens were indebted for the erection of several of the flouring-mills in Easton. About 1790 he erected a flouring-mill, oil-mill, and saw-mill on the Bushkill near Third street (then Pomfret). The oil-mill and saw-mill have since been demolished. The flouring-mill has been repaired from time to time and is now in operation; known as the Lafayette Mills. At that early day there was no bridge across the Bushkill at what is now Third street; the only facility for crossing the creek and reaching the mills from that direction being a narrow plank walk. Some time subsequently he purchased a fine property line and a-half miles further up the creek on which distillery flouring-mill and oil-mill all of which he greatly improved. The flouring-mill is now remaining and in operation; known as the Lehicton Mills; the property being owned by Mr. C. E. Hecht. About half a mile farther west he erected a flooring and an oil-mill in 1828. Engaged extensively in the manufacture of flour be became a heavy grain and seed dealer in addition to his other large business. During the winter months he employed a large number of trams in transporting the products of his distilleries oil-mills and flouring-mills to New York and Philadelphia. During the warmer season, the Delaware with its Durham boats, furnished a less expensive channel of transportation. Public spirited and ever ready to aid all projects looking to the welfare and growth of Easton he was early chosen to fill offices of public trust and to take the lead in many of the important enterprises of that time. He was one of the incorporators and Board of Managers as well as Treasurer of the Delaware Bridge Company incorporated in 1795. His thorough honesty and sound judgment in all matters eminently qualified him for such positions. He was elected to the office of County Treasurer in 1799. This office he filled for two years. For many years he was a director in the old Easton Bank and he was one of the projectors and incorporators of the Easton and Wilkesbarre Turnpike Road Company incorporated February 11th 1803. To his liberal aid and assistance the citizens of Easton were indebted for the erection of Chain Bridge across the Lehigh in 1811. He was one of the originators and Board of Managers of the Easton Water Company, incorporated in 1817. He often received appointment as guardian trustee and administrator of estates often filling several of those positions at the same time. In the Lutheran Church of which he was a member a remembrance of his philanthropy and Christian example will always be cherished. His liberal aid and assistance was given in the erection of the Lutheran and German Reformed Church on Pomfret street in 1776. Some time after a separation was made between the two denominations. The Lutherans selling their right in the old church erected a fine new edifice on Ferry street known as St. John's Lutheran to which his support was liberally given. Some years after this he freely contributed to the erection of Christ's Lutheran Church on the corner of Fourth and Ferry streets. These with many other institutions attest his generosity and rank him as it public benefactor. In politics Mr. Herster early espoused the principles of the old Whig party and was one of the earnest supporters of that grand old organization. There may still be seen the names of Samuel Sitgreaves John Ewing John Arndt John Herster Robert Trail appended to an address to the citizens of Northampton county June 1st, 1803 asking their support of James Ross Federalist candidate for Governor of the Commonwealth whose election was strongly contested by the opposition party. Mr. Herster was twice married; the fruits of his first union being a family of seven children-four sons and three daughters-all of whom are now resting in the Easton Cemetery. He had no issue by his second wife. He was a conscientious and faithful citizen advancing steadily in his laborious pursuits and in the estimation of his fellow men; a successful add judicious merchant, an enterprising manufacturer, a benevolent and philanthropic Christian man. He was the benefactor of his town add his county, and a thorough honest man. He died February 25th, 1856, at the great age of ninety-eight, He passed away- "Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, And lies down to pleasant dreams." 269 JOHN EYERMAN, ESQ. This widely known and useful citizen was born in Easton, in 1808. PICTURE OF JOHN EYERMAN APPEARS HERE He was the eldest in a family of three children of Henry and Elizabeth Eyerman. His mother was the second child in a family of seven children of John Bender, one of Easton's good men, and most enterprising merchants and manufacturers. Mr. Eyerman's father died when he was about six years of age. He had no more than the limited opportunities of education which were afforded by the common schools of that time. His youth and early manhood were spent in the store and grist-mill of his maternal grandfather. In September 1828, he became a clerk in the store of his uncle, Joseph Herster, which position he continued to fill for six years, when desiring to engage in business for himself, his uncle relinquished merchandising, and he succeeded to the business. In the spring of 1846, he began the erection of a fine brick edifice, on the south side of Northampton street nearly midway between Fourth and Fifth streets, for dwelling and business purposes, the store room being, for size and convenience, greatly in advance of any other one in the place, at that time, thus manifesting an enterprising spirit, which by many were considered rash, but, notwithstanding, these discouragements, the building was completed, and occupied during the following fall. The large increase of business which resulted from this movement, stimulated others to enlarge their places of business, and provide themselves with additional conveniences. Ill health, however, soon obliged Mr. Eyerman to relinquish the mercantile business, after only about a year's occupancy of his new store. In the fall of 1849, his health having in the meantime greatly improved, he engaged in the distilling business in Phillipsburg and Harmony, N. J., which business he continued until the year 1864, when failing health again necessitated his temporary retirement. After an interval of two years, he purchased an interest in the Delaware Rolling-mill and Axle-factory, of Phillipsburg, N. J., which was subsequently organized into a stock company, and in which he held an interest until 1874. During all these years of active business life, Mr. Eyerman took part in the organization of different stock companies, and held many offices of trust. He was one of the incorporators of the Warren Foundry and Machine Company, at Phillipsburg, chartered 1856 the Lehigh Water Company, chartered 1860; and the Easton and South Easton passenger Railway Company, chartered 1867. He was elected president of the Easton Delaware Bridge. Company, and of the Easton Water Company, in 1868. He was also a Director in all these companies, and in the Easton Bank, North Pennsylvania Iron Company, and Phillipsburg Stove Works, in New Jersey. He served at different times as Notary Public, Member of the School board and Town Council, very frequently as Executor, Administrator, and Trustee of estates. For many years he look an active interest in military matters-he was a member of the Citizen Volunteers, about six years, and afterwards joined the National Guard, filling in this company several different position up to Captain, by which title he is still known among his friends. Mr. Eyerman was originally a Whig, and afterwards, at the organization of the Republican party, he took an arrive part in the new movement, manifesting an unflagging interest in State and National politics. During the late rebellion he aided the government in every possible way in raising soldiers, and visiting and contributing for the relief of their families, while they were in life camp and on the field of battle. From early life he was a regular attendant at church, and for many years was a member of the Lutheran denomination, contributing towards the liquidation of the debt of Christ Lutheran Church, and holding the position of Treasurer until 1868, when he was present, in the, organization of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, in which he has been, and still is, Treasurer. Both of these congregations, as well as St. Peter's Lutheran Church, on College Hill, are largely indebted to him for their success. Other institutions and benevolent enterprises of the church have also been liberally aided by him, his interest in the voting, drawing him particularly to the Orphans Home. In this respect the life, of Mr. Eyerman is a plain proof that an extended business, may be diligently and successfully conducted, without neglecting the higher duties, of lift In his whole life he has strictly adhered to what he believed to be duty, and in ever position, he has relied for success upon principle, and persevering industry. The result has been the attainment of that which constitutes the real success of life, and proves what a young man can do by self-reliance, industry, perseverance, and principle. As a clerk, he regarded not the wages he was to receive, so much as the interest of his employer; as a merchant, he gave his sanction only to honorable and fair dealing, and in official position, he has manifested the same regard for the interest of others as for his own. He was united in marriage October 25th, 1844, to Anna M., daughter of James and Mary Black, of Easton. MRS. ANNA M. EYERMAN was born in Easton, August 17th, 1820,being the second in a family of six children of James and Mary Black, and great-granddaughter of Colonel Peter Kichline of Revolutionary fame. PICTURE OF MRS. ANNA M. EYERMAN APPEARS HERE This estimable lady has long held a high place in the sphere of usefulness. During the late rebellion she was always among the first to serve on different committees, and in distributing stores of food and clothing to the soldiers and their families, and many are the hospital dinners she has prepared for the invalid soldiers lying at Easton. Her charity extends to all, and no case of want goes from her door unrelieved, and no appeal for aid is disregarded. In religious and private circles she is a zealous, worker, taking a leading part in all matters of benevolence, and by her example and christian kindness many hearts have been made happy. Mrs. Eyerman is now a little over fifty-six years of age, in the enjoyment of good health, beloved by all who know her, and surrounded by a large circle of steadfast friends. There could be no more appropriate expression of the kind wishes of many hearts towards this deserving couple, than that which is embodied in these lines: And may life's sunset on your porting hour, A hallow'd radiance of true glory pour, And make the evening of your lengthen'd day, In Heavens own sunlight sweetly melt away." EDWARD H. EYERMAN Only child of John and Anna M. Eyerman, was born at Easton, August 5th, 1843. Growing to manhood, influence and usefulness, big cheerful and social disposition, rendered his companionship genial, and attractive, add surrounded him with an extended circle of warmly attached friends. Endowed with more than ordinary business ability, his early career was one of great promise. At the age of about twenty-one years, he engaged in the Delaware rolling-mills, as bookkeeper, which position he filled almost one year, when he became a partner in the iron store of the Delaware Rolling-mill, which soon afterwards took the firm name of Eyerman & Company. In April, 1869, he engaged in the manufacture of sad irons, both department or which business he followed as long in, health would permit. Although possessed of but moderate means, yet his generous aid was never withheld in any matters of benevolence. In the church, his liberality will ever be remembered, and his name cherished. He was united in marriage February 10th, 1865, to Miss Alice S. Heller, daughter of Christian B. and Henrietta Heller. During the year of 1874, he fell a victim to the insidious approaches of the disease, consumption; medical skill and the offices of affection were of no avail. Cheerfully, he bore his suffering, waiting patiently and trustingly for his release. He died on the seventh of March, 1874, leaving a wife and one son, hearing the name of his grandfather, and the only surviving heir of this esteemed and respected family. 270 DR. C. C. FIELD Was born of English parents, on board the American ship "Arm," commanded by Captain Crocker, of New Bedford, when she had just arrived from England, within the bounds of Queens county, New York. The Captain's name was incorporated with that of the new comer, Cridland being derived from the mother's side. From Queens county they finally went to Philadelphia, and thence to Plainfield, this county, whence again they removed to Philadelphia. The father of our subject, as well as his grandfather, were both physicians and surgeons. The former was graduated it the University of London, and was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. In Philadelphia he enjoyed an extensive practice. After completing a classical course, the subject of this sketch began the study of medicine, as a private pupil of Wm. E. Homer, M. D, late a distinguished Professor of Anatomy, in the University of Pennsylvania. Was graduated from that University as a physician, in the spring of 1831. In 1838, he came to Northampton county, and in the same year was married, in Bethlehem, to Susannah Freeman, daughter of the late Jacob and Susannah Freeman, of that place. He shortly afterward settled in Easton, where, he still attends to an extensive practice, medical and surgical; his office and residence being at Nos. 411 and 413 Northampton street. In the body of this work will be found a notice of the starting, by him, of the first Odd Fellows Lodge in Easton, from which sprung the lodges in the adjoining towns and counties. REV. JOHN VANDERVEER Mr. John Vanderveer who has always taken an active and lending interest in the education of the county, was born in Hunterdon county, N. J., in the year 1800. PICTURE OF JOHN VANDERVEER APPEARS HERE He commenced his education at Amwell Academy, N. J., entered Princeton College, and graduated at the age of seventeen. He came to Easton immediately after his graduation to assist the Rev. David Bishop, the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, in teaching at the Academy of which he was Principal. After remaining with him about two years, Mr. Vanderveer organized a private school near his present residents. It commenced on a small scale, having not more than a dozen pupils, which number increased until his rooms were filled; there being at times upwards of one hundred names enrolled. From the organization of this school until his retirement from teaching in 1847, he had taught twelve hundred young men from this and adjoining counties, many of whom, have since become prominent citizens and leading educators. The following are among the number: Henry W. Green, Professor of Hebrew, at Princeton College Professor Thomas Apple, of Lancaster College O. H. Moyers, the President Judge of Northampton county James Kennedy, formerly Principal of the Female College, at Chambersburg, Pa. Mr. Kennedy has now become blind, but is still teaching at the same College, associated with Mr. Cornelius R. Lane. Mr. Vanderveer retired from teaching in 1857. He served several years on the Easton Board of Control. Has lived for a number of years a retired life at his residence, on the northeast corner of Second and Bushkill streets. Mr. Vanderveer has, without doubt, more than any other living being, been instrumental in moulding the abilities, character, principles, and ambitions, of the leading men at Northampton county of today, in all branches of business. Now, in his seventy-seventh year, he is nearing the end of life's journey, surrounded by these he has taught and encouraged in their, youth and manhood, boys and nice, and hearing with him their love and reverence even to his home above. Truely, he leaves behind him, in the hearts and lives of his pupils, a monument broader than the most imposing shaft of granite or marble man ever reared. REV. AUGUSTUS FOX The subject of this sketch, who has long been well known as one of the most popular German preachers in Northampton county, was born on the sixth of May, 1803, at Steddorf in the Kingdom of Hanover. When he was eight years of age, his father, Doctor John C. Fox, placed him in the gymnasium at Stade. On the death of his parents, he entered the Theological Seminary at Stade, where he continued his studies until he received an appointment as private tutor in the family of a wealthy physician of Rothenburg. Soon after, he accepted a call as Cantor to Altenbruch, in Haden. The missionary spirit prevailing at this time in Germany, he was led to prepare himself for the mission work among American Indians he embarked for America, and soon after his arrival at Philadelphia, proceeded to Baltimore, where he was most kindly received by Rev. Uhlhorn. By his advice, he entered the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. After remaining there awhile, he accepted an appointment in Columbia county, Pennsylvania; whilst engaged in this service on the fourth of June, 1833, he was licensed by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania. In 1835, he received and accepted a call to Bath, Pennsylvania where he became the first pastor of the Lutheran Church that had been newly organized out of the older congregations in the neighborhood. Strongly attached to his native land, her language and customs, he visited the Fatherland in 1870, accompanied by his only son, Dr. G. T. Fox, and lingered awhile amid the scenes of his childhood. Constrained by illness, and the growing infirmities of age, he resigned his ministry during the month of May 1875, after a pastorate (in this charge) of forty years. Though worn out in the service of his Master, and suffering in body and mind, he still manifest an active interest in the church. He says he feels that his days are numbered, and confidently looks forward to a happy reunion in Heaven with those that have gone before. WILLIAM SHOUSE, ESQ. William Shouse was born in Easton, November 15th, 1788. His great-grandfather, from best accounts that can he gathered, was John George Schauss, who came over in the ship Samuel, Hugh Percy, master, and landed in Philadelphia, August 27th, 1739. He was a native of the Palatinate, being born on the Nedar near Heidelberg, His sons were Conad Frederick Adam, who settled in Easton, previous to 1760. Previous to this, the spelling of the name seems to have been changed to Shouse. Frederick, the grandfather of William Shouse, had five children, named John Henry Christian Jacob Mary Jacob, the father of William Shouse, had two children both sons, William and Samuel, who were also born in Easton. William Shouse, the subject of this sketch, received his education in Easton, and was considered well educated for that early day. PICTURE OF WILLIAM SHOUSE APPEARS HERE He learned the trade of chair making, and followed the business, in connection with his father from 1811 (when he was married to Sarah Trettenbach) until April 1st, 1819, at which time he commenced keeping the hotel named the "Green Tree" the same building now called the Franklin House. In 1824, he commenced running stages, and followed the business for twelve years. During which time he was probably by far the heaviest owner and operator in stages in Eastern Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, being identified with nearly every line running out of Easton. After selling out his stage routes, he retired from active business until 1843, when, in company with his two sons Jacob A. and Henry W. Shouse, he moved to Wilsonville, Pike county, Pennsylvania, where he entered into the milling, lumbering, and merchandising business. In these, he continued until 1850, when he sold out to his three sons, and retired from active business. In 1870, he returned to Easton, where he still lives at the advanced age of eighty-nine, surrounded by most of his children, and closing a long and useful life in the midst of peace and plenty. Mr. Shouse was the originator of the famous "opposition" line of stages to Philadelphia, a history of which appears on another page of this work, and owner or part owner in several other lines there mentioned. CHARLES RODENBOUGH Was born in 1797, in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. After receiving a common school education, he worked on the farm until twenty-one years of age, when he entered the store of George Bidleman, in Greenwich, Warren county, as a clerk, and afterwards as partner, at the same place and business, with Enoch Green, in which position he remained some years, when he was employed by Eseck Howell, as manager and confidential clerk of a mill, store, and distillery, in Lower Mount Bethel, until his failing health obliged him to go to a Southern clime. Upon the re-establishment of his health, he returned to Phillipsburg, in 1830, and entered into the coal, lumber, and iron business, to which he subsequently added a wholesale grocery, in Easton, in connection with George W. Housel and Wm. Muirheid, and upon the dissolution of this firm, his brother, S. Leigh Rodenbough, was co-associated with him until 1868, during which time, in connection with Mr. John Stewart, he originated and established the "Wire Manufactory" in South Easton, of which they were managing partners until about 1853. In 1868, he retired from active business with an ample fortune, acquired-under God-solely by energy, industry, tact and honesty. Mr. Rodenbough had no political aspirations; his only desire for his country was the supremacy of religion, law, and order. He held but few offices, and these unsolicated by him. He was first President of the Lehigh Water Company Director of the Easton Bank President of the Board of Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church His moral character from his early boyhood was without a stain. In 1827, he became a member of the First Presbyterian Church, of Easton, in which communion he lived and died a consistent Christian. To his business habits is attributed-in a great measure-his success. He never put off till to-morrow what could be, done to-day;" he established a system, from which he never swerved; he possessed great business tact; knowledge of the fluctuation of the markets; indomitable energy and strict honesty; he had no idle hours; during his whole business life, his leisure time was devoted to reading some useful book or posting himself on the news of the day. He died August 1872, at his residence in Easton, Pa., in the seventy-fifth year of his age. LEWIS DOSTER Was born at Neiderhofen, in the Kingdom of Wurtemberg, July 26th, 1796. He learned the trade of dyer, but, at the proper age, entered the army, and fought in the Napoleonic wars. PICTURE OF LEWIS DOSTER APPEARS HERE In 1817, he emigrated with his father, Dr. Daniel Doster, to America, and obtained employment at his, trade, in Bethlehem, at the Moravian dyeing and fulling-mill, then in charge of Matthew Eggert. At the end of five months, he left Bethlehem, and established himself in business in Philadelphia; but afterwards, at the solicitation of friends, returned to his old position at Bethlehem. In 1826, he married the daughter of his employer, and, leasing the Society's mill, commenced business fur himself. In 1837, he also leased the Society's saw-mill, on Sand Island, and removed the fulling-mill there. In 1843 he bought the property, built new and extensive mills near the canal lock, and became a manufacturer of woolens. This business he pursued with great success until his death. He was remarkable as a man of enterprise, and to his business he applied the principles of industry, perseverance, and unswerving honesty, He died in 1860, and was laid in the quiet old cemetery, at Bethlehem. His widow, Mrs. Pauline Louise Doster is still living. Their children were: Edmund, who died in 1864 Louise, who married George L. Baum, and died in 1875 Albert T. Herman A. Lewis Henry E. William E. Doster, the last named five being yet living W. GIBSON FIELD, ESQ. Attorney-at-law, office, 415 Northampton street, Easton; studied low in the office of the late ex-Governor Reeder and Hon. Henry Green, graduated from the Law School of Harvard University, with the degree of LLB., and shortly afterward admitted to the bar of Northampton county . Also a graduate of Harvard College, Lafayette College, and the Easton High School, from the two former of which he received the degree of AM. He made the original proposition (in an article contributed to The Lafayette Monthly Magazine) that a National Collegemen's Association, for literary and other contests, be formed. Such an association (the Inter-Collegiate) now exists, and holds annual contests in New York City. He was the first President of the Eastern High School Alumni Association. For some months he was, connected with the editorial department of The Brooklyn Daily Times. From May 16th, 1874 until August 28th, 1875, he was the editor and proprietor of the Easton Daily Dispatch; and, although he has in the past contributed articles to magazines and periodicals. He new intends altogether to the business of his profession, he is, by appointment of the Governor of California, it Commissioner for that State in Pennsylvania A member of the vestry of Trinity Episcopal Church. Mr. Field is a son of Dr. C. C. and Susannah Field. PROMINENT MILITARY AND NAVAL OFFICERS OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, PA. GENERAL FRANK REEDER Born at Easton, May 22d, 1844, son of Andrew A. Reeder and Amelia Hutter. 1855 to 1860, attended school at Lawrenceville, N. J., Allentown, Pa, and Princeton, N. J. 1860 entered the Sophomore, class at Princeton College. PICTURE OF GENERAL FRANK REEDER APPEARS HERE In 1862, while in senior class he left college to enlist for the emergency in Pennsylvania, in Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment. In October, 1862, entered the One Hundred "Seventy-fourth" Pennsylvania Regiment, November 20th, 1862, appointed Adjutant of his regiment. Served with regiment, and on Staff of Generals Peck and Vogdes, until August 7th, 1863, participating in the active operations of the Tenth and Eighteenth Army Corps in Eastern Virginia and North Carolina, and in the Foster expedition and the movements against Charleston, South Carolina. On being mustered out began recruiting for Nineteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. Was commissioned Captain Nineteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry October 19th, 1863. Served with his regiment and as Judge Advocate of General Grierson's Cavalry Corps, and as Assistant Adjunct-General, Seventh Division (General Knipe), Wilson's Cavalry Corps. He took part in the engagement at West Point Joy Farm Cypress Swamp Guntown Big Black Port Gibson Grand Gulf Coldwater Oxford Pilot Knob Nashville Hollow Tree Gap, and others Was slightly wounded at Cypress Swamp, April 2d, 1864. At battle of Nashville was wounded in the right side. Brevetted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel for "gallantry," in the battle of Nashville. Mentioned in General Frank Reeder, of my staff, conducted himself a great deal of bravery, exposing himself, when necessary, with a courage that reflects the greatest credit upon him. During the course of the battle Captain Reeder had three horses shot under him, and was himself wounded in the side. In the second day's battle he volunteered to lead a charge against a position, from which the charging party had repeatedly failed to dislodge the enemy; this time, however, the position was taken and held. I have the honor to recommend and earnestly urge his promotion by brevet." After the completion of the Nashville campaign, and the recrossing of Hoods army over the Tennessee River, his regiment was ordered to Mobile, Alabama, to take part in the siege, of that place, and Captain Reeder being the senior officer of the regiment was relieved from staff duty to take command. Commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel, January 26th, 1866. After surrender of General Dick Taylor, commanding the Confederates, forces in Alabama, Colonel Reeder was ordered with regiment up Red River, to participate in movements against General Kirby Smith. Upon surrender of the Trans-Mississippi forces, war stationed on the Louisiana and Texas, borders. until May 1866. Mustered out at New Orleans, La., May 14th, 1866. Brought his regiment to Philadelphia, where he was likely discharged June 13th, 1866. Upon returning from the army, Colonel Reeder went to Albany, N. Y. to prosecute his law studies. He was admitted to practice March 2d, 1868, and at once Insured in New York City, where he remained until the autumn of 1869, when he returned to Easton, associating in the practice of his profession with his brother, Hon. H. J. Reeder, under the firm title of Reeder & Reeder. Taking an active interest to politics, he was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eleventh District of Pennsylvania, February 3d, 1873, which position he held until October 1st, 1876. He was appointed Brigadier-General in the National Guard of Pennsylvania, commanding the Fifth Brigade, Second Division, July 224 1871. GENERAL WILLIAM E. DOSTER William Emile Doster was born at Bethlehem, on the eighth day of January 1837, being the seventh son of Lewis Doster and his wife, Pauline Louise, second daughter of Matthew Eggert, and granddaughter of Christian Eggert, who had joined the Moravian Brotherhood, at Berbice, Guiana, and came to the United States in 1749, settling in Bethlehem. Having fitted himself for college, under the tutorship of Professor Benjamin Van Virk, at the Moravian school in Bethlehem, young Doster entered Yale, and was graduated at that institution with the chair of 1857. Two years later he took his degree at the Harvard Law School; on which occasion he was selected to deliver the annual oration. During this time he had read law, in the office of Governor A. H. Reeder, at Easton. In order to perfect himself still more markedly, in the principles of his chosen profession, he crossed the Atlantic, in 1859 and prosecuted the study of civil law at Heidelberg, Germany; and of the Code Napoleon, at Paris. The next year he returned to Philadelphia, where he still pursued his studies, until the outbreak of the Rebellion, when, returning to Bethlehem, he raised a company of Cavalry for the national service, which, however, the government declined to accept, as there, had been no call for troops of that arm. But after Bull Run, there no longer existed any obstacle to acceptance; so he at once established a rendezvous at Sand Island, near Bethlehem, where he recruited another company so rapidly that on the fifteenth of August, it was mustered 116 strong, as Company "A" of Harlan's Light Cavalry, W. E. Doster, Captain, but was afterwards designated as "A" Company of the Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry; as Second Major of which regiment he was mustered, October 18th, 1861. On the thirtieth of October 1862, Major Doster was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and attached to the headquarters of Major-General Keys, in command of his body guard. In February, 1862, he succeeded General Andrew Porter, as Provost Marshal at Washington; having in his command one cavalry and three infantry regiments, as well as the Chesapeake Flotilla, under Commodore Harwood. This service was distasteful to him. He desired the active life, of the field, and he was, at his own request, in February, 1863, relieved of duty in Washington and returned to his regiment, which he commanded through the bloody campaigns of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; in times, being invested with command of the brigade (the Second, of the Second Division Cavalry Crops). During this service his horse was killed under him in the engagement at Ely's Ford, and at Upperville he was taken prisoner, but was enabled to make his escape later during the fight, by striking down his guard. At Gettysburg, on the second day, his command supported the batteries on Cemetery Ridge, and on the fifth of July, he led the pursuit; encountering Fitzhugh Lee in a severe fight, at Marion. At Amissville, Va., he was attacked by typhoid fever, so severely as to compel him to resign his commission, October 18th, 1863; after which, however, the commission of Colonel of the Fifth Cavalry was tendered him, but declined. He received the brevet rank to Brigadier General, on the thirteenth of March 1865. PICTURE OF GENERAL WILLIAM E. DOSTER APPEARS HERE. In May 1861, he was admitted, to the bar of Northampton county. Afterwards he located, for a time, in Washington City; and during the conspiracy trials, in 1865, conducted the defence of Payne and Atzerodt, charged respectively, with attempt to murder Secretary Seward and Vice-President Johnson. He afterwards settled in the practice of his profession at Easton and, in 1867, was appointed Register in Bankruptcy for the Eleventh Congressional district, which office, he still holds. In the year 1871 he returned, to locate permanently in Bethlehem, and still lives in that pleasant old town. He has been for a number of years, Chairman of the Republican County Committee of Northampton. In 1866, he, in company with D. J. Godschalk, Esq. gave to Bethlehem its first daily newspaper, the Daily Times; now a popular and prosperous journal. He was also the originator of the New Street Bridge Company, and, in connection with his brother, Herman A. Doster, carried to successful completion the enterprise which has spanned the Lehigh at that point with one of the very best carriage bridges in Pennsylvania. He is an enterprising and public-spirited citizen, and a talented lawyer; as, during the term of his military service, he was in able and gallant officer. GENERAL NATHANIEL MICHLER Nathaniel Michler, son of the Hon. P. S. Michler and Mary B. Howell, was born at Easton, September 15th, 1827. He entered Nazareth School in 1836, and Lafayette College in 1841. He graduated at West Point, July 1st, 1848, with distinguished honor, and was appointed brevet Second Lieutenant in the Topographical Engineer Corps of the army. He surveyed the boundary line between Mexico and Texas; and then assisted Major Emory in running the boundary line between Mexico and the United State, being in command of the party operating from the Pacific side. He endured many hardships in crossing the plains, in performance of his duties. He was appointed Second Lieutenant, April 7th, 1854. After the completion of this work, he was ordered to take charge of an expedition to survey the direct route, for a ship canal access the Isthmus of Darien. This important work he performed in the most satisfactory manner, making voluminous reports to the Government. This may be called the pioneer work on the part of the Government for this great undertaking. After returning from this expedition, he was ordered to California, to locate and construct light-houses on that coast, and on the nineteenth of May 1856, was appointed First Lieutenant. He remained there until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when he requested to be recalled, and made application to Governor Curtier for the command of a regiment of volunteers. The Government refused to allow him to accept any appointment, having great need of him in the Engineer Department, and ordered him on the staff of General Sherman, who was then operating in Kentucky. He was appointed Captain, September 9th, 1861. General Sherman was subsequently relieved from the command of that department, and General Rosecrans appointed, upon whose staff, General Michler served as Chief Engineer in his various engagements. General Rosecrans was relieved by General Buell, upon whose staff Chief Engineer, General Michler was ordered. He participated in General Buell's various movements, which finally culminated in the reinforcement of General Grant at the battle of Shiloh, and was in the thickest of the fight there on the second day, when he was slightly wounded. He was then ordered to Washington, upon General Meade's Staff, and was captured by J. E. B. Stuart's Cavalry, on his way to the battle-field of Gettysburg. He was paroled by General Stuart and released, but the Government would not recognize the parole, and he was ordered on duty again on General Mead's Staff. He was promoted to Major of Engineers, April 22d, 1864, and served on General Meade's Staff as Chief Engineer, during all his operations around Petersburg, planning and engineering the various fortifications about that place, which played such an important part in that wonderful and final siege. For his services during this period he was, on August 1st, 1864, brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel, After the, war of the Rebellion, he was brevetted Colonel and Brigadier-General, to date, from April 2d, 1865, for his services, and ordered to Washington. After General Grant's election to the Presidency, he made him Commissioner of Public Works, the duties of which office he performed in the most satisfactory manner. He remained in that position until the middle of General Grant's second term, when he was relieved and ordered to California, and was there employed locating and constructing light houses, on the Pacific Coast, from Oregon down. On the opening of the Centennial Exhibition, he was ordered to Philadelphia, and remained there until its close, he is now engaged in locating lighthouses along the Lake coasts. 272 GENERAL T. F. RODENBOUGH Brevet Brigadier-General Theophilus Francis Rodenbough U. S. A. the son of Charles Rodenbough and Emily Cauffman, his wife, was born at Easton, on the fifth of November 1838. PICTURE OF GENERAL T. F. RODENBOUGH APPEARS HERE He was carefully and liberally educated in his native town and on the breaking out the Rebellion he received the appointment of Second Lieutenant, in the Second Regiment U. S. Dragoons, March 27th, 1861. Upon his, appointment he joined the Cavalry School of Practice at Carlisle Barracks, where he was stationed as Post-Adjutant and Quarter-Master, until January 1862, when he was ordered to join his regiment at Washington, D. C. On the fourteenth of May, he was promoted to First Lieutenant Second Cavalry. He commanded his troops at the Siege of Yorktown, at the battle of Gaines' Mill, Va., and in the other battles of the popular campaign. He was promoted to Captain in the Second Cavalry, July 17th, 1862, and served with his regiment at the battle of Manassas, August 29th and 30th, 1862. He was there captured by the enemy, and held as a prisoner of war one week, at end of which time he was exchanged. He took part in the Rappahannock campaign, January to May 1863, commanding a squadron of his regiment in the famous Stoneman raid April 13th to May 2d, 1863. During the Pennsylvania campaign, he took part with the Second Cavalry in the battle of Beverly Ford, June 9th, 1863. In the course of this engagement which is justly regarded as one of the most brilliant of the war. Captain Rodenbough commanded a detached squadron, and was hotly engaged: having two horse killed, and was, himself slightly wounded, in a band to hand fight with a Virginia cavalryman. He took part in the skirmishes at Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville. He commanded his regiment in the battle of Gettysburg, was engaged at Williamsport, Boonsboro, Funkstown, Falling Waters, and Manassas Gap during the month of July; also at Brand Station, August 1st and 2d, and at Culpeper Court House, September 13th. While the Second Cavalry was in winter quarters, at Mitchell's Station, Va., Captain Rodenbough was for a great part of the time in command of it. In the spring of 1864 the regiment left its winter cantonment, and under command of Captain Rodenbough, took part in the engagements at "The Furnaces, and at Todd's Tavern; participated in Sheridan's raid to Haxall's Landing, in the battle of Yellowstone and actions Meadow Bridge, Old Church, Hawes Shop, and in the battles of Cold Harbor and Trevillian Station, June 11th, 1864. At the last named fight Captain Rodenbough was severely wounded and in consequence was absent from his command until the middle of September 1864. Upon rejoining resuming command of his regiment he led it into the battle of the Opequan, September 19th. In the course of the morning while charging a force of infantry sheltered behind a formidable work, his horse was shot and himself dismounted within a few yards of the rebel line, and it was with difficulty that he escaped by mounting behind a sergeant of the regiment. In the afternoon while leading his regiment in a charge against a battery, he was severely wounded and lost his right arm. He was brevetted Major, U. S .A., "for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of the Opequan." From this time he was engaged in various duties, such as recruiting, and as a member of Ordinance Board etc., until the spring of 1865. He was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel March 19th, 1865, for "gallant and meritorious service during the war, and on April 9th, 1865, was appointed by Governor Curtin, Colonel of the Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and upon its consolidation with Twenty-second regiment (June) appointed Colonel Third Provost Pennsylvania Cavalry. He served in Maryland and Virginia, commanding brigade, and the District of Clarksburg, until November 1865. He was brevetted Brigadier-General U. S. V. "for gallant and distinguished conduct during the war," and assigned to duty, with his brevet rank, by the President, in July 1865. October 1865, he was mustered out of the Volunteer Service, and brevetted Colonel U. S. A. "for gallant and meritorious services" at the battle of Todd's Tavern. He was attached to the staff of Major-General Dodge, as Acting Assistant Inspector-General and was on duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and other Western stations, until September 1866. He was brevetted Brigadier-General U. S. A. March 13th, 1865, "for gallant and meritorious service, at the battle of Cold Harbor, Va.," and was appointed Major of the Forty-second U.S. infantry. He joined his regiment at Hart Island, New York Harbor; and was successively President of Board of Examination and Commandant at Pittsburg, New York Barracks, at Madison's Barracks, and Sackett's Harbor, New York. He was on recruiting service at Cincinnati, Ohio, and at Detroit, Michigan. In 1870, he was by President assigned to duty as Deputy Governor of Soldier, Home, D. C., where remained two years. He retired from active service December 15th 1870, "with full rank of Colonel of Cavalry, on account of wounds received in the line of duty." He has, since his retirement from active duty, engaged largely into work of a literary character; is an associate editor of the Army and Navy Journal, of New York and is the author of a most valuable history of the Second Dragoons (Second U. S. Cavalry) entitled from "Everglade to Canon." GENERAL J. L. SELFRIDGE. James Levan Selfridge, Colonel of the Forty-sixth Regiment, Brevet Brigadier General, and now Major General in the Pennsylvania National Guard, was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-second of September 1824. His father was a Scotch-Irishman, and his mother of German and French extraction. PICTURE OF JAS. L. SELFRIDGE APPEARS HERE He was educated at Lafayette College; on leaving which, He studied law with Henry King, of Allentown. He afterwards took charge of the Lehigh Transportation Company of Philadelphia, of which his father had been one of the projectors. Having a taste for business, he entered a commission house; and, in 1830, commenced that business on his own account. In 1857 he removed to Bethlehem, where he was engaged in the coal and real estate business, up to the breaking out of the Rebellion. The call for troops found no more prompt or active respondent, and so popular was his standard that, on the eighteenth of April 1861, he reported with his company at Harrisburg, where it was, on that day, mustered into service as Company A, of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, in which command he served under General Patterson: at whose request, the regiment remained ten days beyond the period of its enlistment. On returning home, he was tendered a commission as Colonel of his regiment which he should raise; but, impatient of delay, he united with Colonel Joseph F. Knipe in recruiting, and was commissioned Lieutenant- Colonel of the Forty-sixth Regiment. It left for the field on the seventeenth of September 1861; and was reported to General Banks, at Darnestown, Maryland, participating under him in the action at Kernstown, in the two battle; at Winchester, and at Cedar Mountain. In the latter engagement, the Forty-sixth was led over open and exposed ground, in assaults upon the enemy's gun, and the slaughter in its ranks was fearful. Colonel Selfridge had his horse shot under him, and received a slight wound. He was also engaged with his regiment on the Rappahannock, and in the second battle of Bull Run under Pope at South Mountain and Antitam, under McClellan at Chancellorsville, under Hooker and at Gettysburg, under Meade. During the progress of the battle of Antitam, Selfridge took command of the regiment, Colonel Knipe leading the brigade. When Hooker, with the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps, went to the assistance of Rosecrans, at Chattanooga. Selfridge was of the column, and in the campaign on Atlanta took a prominent part in the battles of Resaca Dallas Pine Knob Lost Mountain Kenesaw Mountain Peach Tree Creak. In the latter action, Hood attacked the Union right with terrific violence. Nothing like its impetuosity had been witnessed in the whole protracted and bloody campaign. On that part of the line where the weight of the blow fell, stood Colonel Selfridge with his indomitable Forty-sixth. Its valor, with that of the rest of the noble division, was equal to the emergency, and in the bloody repulse which the enemy received, none, were more conspicuous than Selfridge. At Marietta, Casville, and the descent upon Atlanta, he was likewise constantly engaged, and so mark had been his courage, and so constant and unwavering his gallantry throughout the entire campaign covering a hundred days, in which the noise of battle was scarcely hushed for a single hour that at its conclusion, General A. S. Williams the veteran commander of the First Division, commended him to the attention of the Government, in the following forcible language:" This officer has been in service since the beginning of the Rebellion. For over three years he has been constantly in the field, and ever at the post of duty. Few officers have been so steadily, with their command so prompt intelligent, and capable. The condition of his regiment bears testimony to the superiority of its commander." On leaving Atlanta, Colonel Selfridge took command of the brigade, and during the march to the sea, was chiefly occupied in destroying railroads, though having part in the engagement at Monteith Swamp, and the siege of Savannah; soon after which he received the brevet rank of Brigadier-General. In the movement of the army northward through the Carolinas, he continued to lead his brigade, and fought with it in the actions at Averysboro and Bentonville. At the conclusion of hostilities he was mustered out, having shared the fortunes of his command with constancy and fidelity, from the first to last day of the service. In the testimony of this, General Sherman said of him, " General Selfridge was one of my steady, hardworking and fighting brigade commanders, and served all the time." Since the war General Selfridge took taken an active part in public interests, and has been prominently named for the office of Governor. While yet at the front, on Sherman's famous march, he was nominated to represent the Eleventh District in Congress, and though it was politically hopeless against him, his opponents majority was reduced nearly 2,000 votes. In 1867, he was nominated for Senator, and made an equally strong canvass. He had been appointed, by President Lincoln. Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Eleventh District, but was removed by President Johnson. In 1868, he was elected Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, a position to which he was annually elected until 1873, when he was no longer a candidate. In 1872, he removed to Philadelphia and became proprietor in the business of the Lehigh Hydraulic Cement, Company. He was appointed by Governor Geary, Major-General of the Seventh Division of the National Guard of Pennsylvania which commission he still holds. COLONEL CHARLES GLANZ. A little more than fifty years ago, Heinrich Christian Glanz held the honorable position of Registrator and Postmaster, at Walkenreid, near the foot of the Hartz Mountains, in the Dukedom of Brunswick, Germany; and it was at that place that his son-now Colonel Charles Giant, of Easton-was born in the year 1823. PICTURE OF COLONEL CHARLES GLANZ APPEARS HERE Charles Glanz was educated at his German home under the care of private teachers, until about thirteen years of age, when he entered the college at Blankenburg, where he remained until sixteen years of age. Upon leaving college, he remained with his maternal uncle, near Brandenburg, for five years. At the age of twenty-one, he was appointed Superintendent of the Government domain of 3,400 acres at Walkenreid; which important position he held until the year 1845, when he relinquished it, for the purpose of emigrating to America, preferring the advantages of free institutions to any office under a monarchical government. After spending some time in Philadelphia and Pottsville, he located in Easton, where he has since become so prominent and well-known, a citizen. He became associated in the brewery business with Mr. W. Kuebler, in 1852; and the firm then established has been eminently successful, and is now doing a large and constantly increasing business. On July 27th, 1857, he was appointed, by President James Buchanan, Consul to Stettin, on the Baltic; the appointment being confirmed by the Senate, January 11th, 1858. This position he held until compelled to relinquish it by the pressure of his large and growing business interests here. On his return from Germany, he was elected Captain of the Easton Jaegers; commissioned by Governor W. F. Packer, and again commissioned, June 6th, 1859. When the sound of the first gun fired on Sumter roused the war spirit of the North to a fever heat, he was among the first to respond to his country's call; and to him belongs, the honor of being the first captain of uniformed militia who tendered his service, to the Governments and was accepted. On the twenty-third of April, 1861 he was commissioned Major of the Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, by Governor Andrew G. Curtin, in Camp Curtin. Here he performed the duties of Assistant Commanding Officer, until the regiment was ordered to West Chester. He participated in the skirmish of Falling Waters, Virginia, with his regiment; and on August 20th, 1862, he received a letter from the Executive Office, Military Department, requesting him to raise a regiment for the nine months service. Such was his popularity, and his prompt action, that on the twenty-fifth, of September, precisely thirty-six days after receiving, instructions, his regiment nine hundred and ninety-one strong, was an the way to Camp Curtin; and, on the eleventh of October, he was mustered in as Colonel of the one hundred and Fifty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, by Captain A. J. Phimmer, of the U. S. A. His command was attached to the Seventh Division of the Eleventh Corps of the Army of the Potomac. The corps was commanded by General Franz Siegel, and joined the army, November 6th, 1862. Colonel Glanz, with his regiment, fought in the battle of Chancellorsville, in which they, suffered most severely being attacked with terrific force enemy in overwhelming numbers. Abandoned by their support, the regiment was forced to retreat. Being outflanked by the enemy, and delaying his retreat a little too long, he was, surrounded and captured, with two of his officers, and thirty-three men. He was confined to Libby Prison for a period of forty-five days and was finally exchanged, at City Point. On the sixteenth of June Colonel Glanz again joined his regiment, at Goose Creek, to the great joy of his men, already well along on that toilsome northward march, which brought them to the bloody field of Gettysburg. But such was his debilitated condition, from the effect of the privations and suffering, of his imprisonment, that he was ordered back to Washington by General Howard and he was unable to leave that one until about July 5th His naturally robust constitution, however, eventually carried him through to his usual condition of health and strength. The regiment was mustered out of service, July 24th, 1863 and was greeted by a grand operation upon their return to Easton. Upon which occasion, Colonel Glanz was presented with a magnificent sword by Captain Howard Reeder, on behalf of the officers and members of the One Hundred and Fifty- third Regiment. Upon March 3d, 1871, he was unanimously elected Chief Engineer of the Easton Fire Department, the only unanimous election to that office in the history of the town, Colonel Glanz was married in 1848, to Miss Elizabeth Evans, of Williamsburg, by whom he had six children of whom two (Sarah Elizabeth, Edwin Schuer) are living, he is at present entirely occupied in managing his large business interests. COLONEL JAMES MILLER. Was born in Consul Antrim, Ireland, in April, 1823, he learned the trade, of jeweler, and, emigrating from Ireland to America, he settled in Northampton county, in 1834, before Carbon county had been erected. At the opening of the Mexican War, he was carrying on the business of his trade, in Mauch Chunk and when a company was raised in that town for the National service, James Miller was elected Captain, and was duly mustered into service who the company, as a part of the Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He took part in all the most desperate and glorious battle in Mexico; among which were those of Vera Cruz and Churubusco. At the storming of the heights of Chapultepec, he was severely wounded in the arm notwithstanding which, on the entrance of the army into the City of Mexico, he marched at the head of his company with his arm in a sling. After peace was declared, he resumed his former business for a little, at Mauch Chunk, but afterward, removed to South Easton, and there engaged its mercantile pursuits. From there, he moved to the City of New York, where, he engaged in the coal business; but at the opening of the War of the Rebellion, he was called to the command of the Eighty-first Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, then in camp it Easton. He was engaged with his regiment in the operations in front of Yorktown, also at Golden's Farm, and at Fair Oaks; in which last named engagements, he lost his life. His regiment in that battle occupied the extreme left of Casey's division, the left flank of the regiment being, little exposed. A regiment of the enemy advancing close upon their front, Colonel Miller, supposing it to be a Massachusetts regiment, withheld his fire, and called out to them, in the supposition that they were friends, upon which, they delivered a volley at short range and Colonel Miller fell, shot through the heart. At one of the commencement of the Lincoln University, Major General Howard, in an allusion to the Pennsylvania Volunteers, mentioned Colonel Miller by name, paid a warm and deserved tribute in his services and gallantry. An obituary published in a New York paper, said of him: "He was not only a true soldier and faithful officer, ever seeking the good of his men physically and naturally, striving to make them a regiment relic trusted in the day of battles but he was a faithful Christian: a true soldier of Jesus Christ, as energetic hero, under the banner of the cross, as he was under the banner of his country." CAPTAIN DAVID B. HARMONY, U. S. N. David B. Harmony, son of Major William J. Harmony, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, September 3d, 1872, and educated at the private school of the Rev. John Vanderveer, in his native town, at the age of fourteen, he was appointed a midshipman in the U. S. Navy, and April 7th, 1847, reported himself at the Naval School, at Annapolis, for examination. After passing a very thorough and creditable examination, he remained but six weeks at the school (the allotted time given to officers of that grade to prepare themselves for active duty, was from eighteen months to two years), when he was attached to the frigate Brandywine, Brazil Squadron. In 1847-48, be was attached to the frigate Ohio, Pacific Squadron, and to the sloop Warren, of the same Squadron, in 1849-50 and to the sloop Falmouth, of the same squadron, in 1851-52. He was in active service during the whole of the Mexican War, and acted as Aid-de-Camp to Caption Long, in garrisoning Fort Mazatlan, Lower California. In 1853, he returned to the Naval School, and June 10th, in the same year, was promoted to passed Midshipman. In 1854, he was attached to the store-ship Relief, and promoted to Master, in 1855, and commissioned as Lieutenant on the sixteenth of September. In 1856-57 was attached to the receiving, ship at Baltimore, and to the sloop Decatur, Pacific Squadron, in 1858-60, and their to the sloop Iroquois, of the Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, in 1861-62. He was at the bombardment add capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip Chalmette Batteries, and at the capture of New Orleans and Grand Gulfs. He was in both engagements with the batteries at Vicksburg, and also in the engagement with the Rebel ram Arkansas. On the tenth of July, 1862, he was commissioned as Lieutenant Commander, and attached to the iron-clad Nahant, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and engaged in the attack on the defence, of Charleston, April 7th, 1863. On the seventeenth of June, 1863, he took part in the capture of the Rebel ram Atlanta, which was considered the most valuable prize captured during, the war, and to him was assigned the pleasing duty of receiving the sword and surrender of the commander of that iron-clad. He was at the bombardment of Morris Island, from July 10th to August 1st, 1863. In 1864, he took command of the steam gunboat Tahoma, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, and in 1864-65, he commanded the steam gunboat Sebago, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, and aided in capturing Mobile. In 1866-67, he was stationed at the New York Navy Yard, and on July 25th, he was commissioned Commander. In 1867-68, he was in command of the steamer Frolic, belonging to the European Squadron, and was one of the staff officer, of Admiral Farragut. On his return, he was stationed at like New York Navy Yard, as Inspector of Supplies. In this position, he remained until 1871. In 1875, he became commander of the steamer Kearsarge, and was placed in the Asiatic Station. While in command of this ship, he was promoted to Captain. After this promotion, be was transferred and placed in command of the Hartford, which ship he brought home. MAJOR ANDREW PARKER PORTER. The third son of Hon. James M. and Eliza Porter, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, June 17th, 1835. He attended Lafayette College until the Junior year, when he went to West Point. where he entered July 1st, 1852, and graduated July 1st, 1856 received the appointment of Second Lieutenant in the Second Cavalry, and assignment to frontier duty at Camp Colorado, in Texas. During the year he was mostly engaged in scouting, and had his first fight with the Commache, Indiana, while at this service, near the head waters of Craddo River, Texas, December 22d. He continued this service at Camp Colorado until 1858 when he with the Regiment went to Fort Chadbourne, and from there on the Washoo expedition; being engaged in action near Washita village in the Indian Territory, October 1st, 1858. The rest of the rear, and during 1859, he was stationed at Camp Radzimainski, Texas. Was stationed at Fort Mason, Texas, and on scouting, duty until 1861. During that year he was at Fredericksburg, Texas, a short time and was then sent to Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, in garrison. On March 20th, 1861, he was promoted to First Lieutenant of Second Cavalry, and served as Quartermaster of the Fifth Cavalry from April 1st to August 3d, 1861. During this time he was purchasing horse, for remounting the Fifth Cavalry, and acting as Assistant-Adjutant General of Brigadier General George H. Thomas' brigade in the Shenandoah Valley. He acted as Assistant Commissary of the Army of the Potomac in the defence of Washington, from August, 1861, to March, 1862, having been promoted to Captain and Commissary of Subsistence August 3d, 1861. He was in the Virginia Peninsular campaign in March and August, and in the Maryland campaign in September and November, 1862; also in the Rappahannock campaign from December, 1862, to June, 1863. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of United States Volunteers August 20th, 1862, and served as such to July 3d, 1865. From July until October, 1863, he was at Alexandria Virginia. He served as Chief of Commissary Department of the Cumberland from November 1863, to February 15th, 1865, and on the Board for examination of Commissary Department from October 26th, 1864, to July 24th, 1865. He was Brevetted Major, March 13th, 1865, "for faithful and meritorious services during the Rebellion." He served a, Chief of Commissary Department of Arkansas from September 18th 1865, to August 15th, 1866, and of the State of Arkansas and the Indian Territory front December 5th, 1865, to August 13th, 1866, when he died at Little Rock, Arkansas, aged thirty-one years he was interred in the Easton Cemetery. 274 MAJOR CHARLES A. WIKOFF. Charles A. Wikcoff was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, March 8th, 1837. He graduated at Lafayette College, in July 1855, and adopted the profession of civil engineer. PICTURE OF MAJOR CHARLES A. WIKOFF APPEARS HERE He was employed in this capacity for several years, by the Illinois Central Railroad Company. Later, he commenced the study of law with William Davis, of Stroudsburg, Pa, he lacked but two months of admission to the bar, when Fort Sumter was taken, and the President called for volunteers. He was among the first to respond, and enlisted April 15th, 1861 in company "H" First Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanding by Captain Bell. On the fourteenth of May, 1861, he was appointed First Lieutenant in the Fifteenth Regiment U. S. Regular Infantry, and assigned to duty in the Department of the Tennessee. In the first days fight at Shiloh, April 7th, 1862, he was wounded (losing his left eye), and left for dead upon the field. He was brevetted Captain for his gallantry in this action, to date from April 7th, 1862. He served with distinguished bravery at the battle of Chickamauga, and again at Missionary Ridge, being brevetted Major for gallantry in the later action, November 25th, 1863. On the fifteenth of August, 1864, he was appointed Captain in the Twenty-fourth Regiment, U. S. Infantry. After the close of the war, he was transferred to the Eleventh Infantry, and held positions, of trust and responsibility under the Reconstruction Act, being stationed at Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss.; at times having control of the whole State. He was ordered to Texas, and stationed at Parts Coucho and Richardson, where he was engaged in scouting duty, and also in guarding the parties surveying the line of the Southern Pacific Railroad. From here, he was transferred to Cheyenne Agency, Dakota Territory, where he is now stationed. (Henry Wikcoff, a brother, two years older, enlisted in the First Regiment, in 1861, and fell at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2d, 1863.) CAPTAIN FERDINAND W. BELL. Ferdinand W. Bell was born September 27th, 1831, at Easton, Pa. He was elected Captain of the Easton National Guard, in 1859, and upon the fall of Fort Sumter and the President's call for volunteers, so prompt was Captain Bells response, that he raised a full company of infantry volunteers, for the three months service, in about two days. His company left Easton April 20th, 1861, for Harrisburg where they were mustered into service as Company " H," First Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Yolle, and left Harrisburg for the front the same night. They saw no fighting of consequence during their three months term of service, and were mustered out it Harrisburg, July 27th, 1861. Soon after his return from the three months service, Captain Bell recruited a company for the Fifty-first Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, which was mustered in as Company "B," September 1st, 1861, and ordered to report at Annapolis, Md., and there formed part of the Burnside expedition to North Carolina. Captain Bell participated in the capture of Roanoke Island, February 8th, 1862, in the battle of Newbern, March 14th, and South Mills, on the Dismal Swamp Canal, April 9th, 1862. He was also engaged in several skirmishes after the battle of South Mills, until the departure of his regiment from Newbern, which occurred July 4th, 1862, to join the Ninth Corps of the Army of the Potomac, at Slaughter Mountain. The march from here to Bull Run was a constant skirmish. Captain Bell was engaged on the twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, and thirtieth days of August, 1872, at the second battle of Bull Run, and displayed great bravery, he was also engaged in the battles of Chantilly, September 1st South Mountain, September 14th Antitam, September 1761, 1862. Being on the extreme left of the army at the assault at Stone Bridge, the Fifty-first were ordered to be supported by the Fifty-first New York Regiment, and made one of the grandest and most desperate charges of the war. They then marched to the support of General Pleasanton, who commanded the advance in the second campaign in Virginia, and participated in the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, on the thirteenth of December, 1862. He was acting as Major upon that bloody day, and while gallantly and fearlessly leading his men in the battle, he was struck with a fragment of a shell, and his earthly fight was finished. In two hours, the life that promised so much was ended. His body was buried in the Easton Cemetery, where a beautiful monument-the last grateful tribute of his friends-marks his final resting-place. DR. JAMES CAVANAUGH. Dr. James Cavanaugh, born at Summit Hill, Carbon county, April 18th, 1830. He went through an academic course of six years, with Rev. Dr. Vanderveer, of Easton; read medicine with Dr. C. C. Field, also of Easton, and with Dr. W. V. Keating, of Philadelphia. PICTURE OF DR. JAMES CAVANAUGH APPEARS HERE He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, in the class of 1850, and commenced the practice of medicine in the same Year at South Easton, where he continued until 1852, when he removed to Easton and there continued in practice until 1855. On February 19th of that year, he was united in marriage to Theresa M. Stewart, in New York City. In 1855 he accepted the position of Surgeon and Purser of the steamer Star of the West, plying between New York and Central America, and remained with the ship in that capacity until 1857, when he returned to Easton and resumed the practice of medicine. He has been connected as Surgeon with the Northampton County Jail for several years, also for thirteen years a Surgeon of the Western Division of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and for three years past as consulting Physician and Surgeon of St. Luke's Hospital at Bethlehem; and although being connected with numerous public institutions as Physician and Surgeon he continues his daily attendance upon a very large number of private patients.