Local History: Chapter XLII - Part II: Biographical Sketches - SUNBURY 
Part II. Bell's History of Northumberland Co PA

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Transcribed from Bell's History of Northumberland County Pennsylvania


                        BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

                          SUNBURY - PART II


	MARTIN L. SNYDER, attorney at law, was born in Point township, 
Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, April 3, l853 son of John S. and 
Margaret (Weiser) Snyder.  He was educated at Bloomsburg State Normal 
School, and from 1876 to 1878 was cashier of the Augusta Bank of 
Sunbury. In August, 1879, he began the study of law with S. P. 
Wolverton, and in the fall of 1880 was admitted to the bar.  After about 
one year in Mr. Wolverton's office while that gentleman was in the State 
Senate, he opened an office and has since been actively engaged in 
practice.  Mr.  Snyder is a Republican in politics, a member of the K. 
of P., and one of the trustees of the Presbyterian church.  From the age 
of thirteen to sixteen young Snyder followed canal-boating between 
Williamsport and Philadelphia and thereby earned the money to purchase 
books and defray incidental expenses. From sixteen to twenty-one years 
of age he taught school and was graduated at the Bloomsburg Normal 
School, and had just entered Princeton College when his brother, William 
Lester, died, and he was called home to succeed him as cashier of the 
bank.  Thus it will be seen that from the age of thirteen years Mr. 
Snyder has had to make a way for himself, and it is but proper to say 
that his success has been commensurate with his efforts.  Beginning life 
without a penny, he is educated, has made himself a reputation as a 
lawyer, and has acquired wealth.  Though often solicited he has steadily 
declined all official preferment; his only appearance in the political 
field was as a candidate for the nomination for district attorney, an 
honor he missed through indifference on his own part.  Mr. Snyder's 
grandfather, Peter Snyder, was one of the first settlers in this part of 
the county.  He was a farmer and justice of the peace, lived at 
Hollowing run, Lower Augusta township, and left large property, 
principally in real estate.  He had four sons and four daughters: John 
S. and Peter H., twins; Anthony, and William S.  Peter H. lives in 
Sunbury; Anthony lives in Fayette, Ohio, and William S. lives on a farm 
in Lower Augusta township.  Of the daughters Mrs. Sober is dead: Jemima, 
Mrs. Griffith, was first married to a Mr. Bergstresser, and now lives in 
Dauphin county; Susan, Mrs. George Fisher, lives at Selinsgrove, on the 
Isle of Que, and Lydia, Mrs. Benjamin Fisher, is now in Nebraska.  Peter 
was a descendant of Governor Snyder.  Mr. Snyder's father, John S. 
Snyder, was born in Lower Augusta township, February 6, l820, and 
married Margaret Weiser in 1844; she died in 1856 and he afterwards 
married Catharine Gemberling, and in 1877 moved West and now lives near 
Three Rivers, Michigan.  His first wife, by whom he had four sons, was a 
daughter of Philip Weiser, a grandson of the famous Conrad Weiser, and a 
farmer by occupation.  He had two sons and four daughters: Solomon, of 
Illinois; George, who died in 1882 in Lower Augusta township; Margaret, 
Mrs. Snyder; Elizabeth,  Mrs. George Kiefer; Sarah, Mrs. John Evert, and 
Catharine, who married Henry Fausold, now deceased. Philip Weiser, the 
grandfather of Mr. Snyder, was born in Pennsylvania in 
	
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1786, and died in Upper Augusta township, November 16, 1802, his wife 
Catharine having died, March 31, 1851.  John S. Snyder, the father of 
the subject of this sketch, had four sons by his wife, Margaret (Weiser) 
Snyder: Anson W., who on the 24th of December, 1574, married Sophie 
Kerns, of Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, and now lives upon his farm near 
Lewistown, Pennsylvania; William Lester, who died at the age of twenty-
four years, January 23, 1876, after having served as cashier of the 
Augusta Bank of Sunbury, Pennsylvania; John Calvin, who was graduated in 
medicine at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Buffalo, New York, and after 
serving with distinction as assistant professor of anatomy at the 
University in Buffalo, New York, one year, located at Osborne, Kansas, 
in 1884, where he has since practiced his profession with credit and 
success, and married Jennie Annette Bainton, of Buchanan, Michigan, 
January 30, 1890; and Martin Luther, the subject of this sketch, who has 
been interested as counsel in both the civil and criminal, courts of 
this Commonwealth, in which he has represented a number of important 
cases, as well as before the Supreme court of the State.

	JOHN JUNIUS REIMENSNYDER, attorney at law, was born in Augusta 
county Virginia, June 2, 1812, son of Rev. George Henry and Christina 
Reimensnyder, the former a native of Germany and the latter of 
Frederick, Maryland.  They were the parents of five daughters and two 
sons; both the sons, like their father, entered the ministry of the 
Lutheran church. Rev. Cornelius Reimensnyder was for some years the 
agent of the American Sunday School Union, and died at Lancaster, 
Pennsylvania.  Rev. J. J Reimensnyder received his education under the 
tuition of his father and at local academies, received the degree of A. 
M. from Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia, and was licensed to preach at 
the age of twenty years.  He was successively located in the ministry at 
Mt. Sidney, Virginia, Woodsboro and Smithburg, Maryland, and Milton and 
Northumberland, Pennsylvania; from 1854 to 1864 he resided in Turbut 
township, Northumberland county, and since the latter date has been a 
resident of Sunbury. Owing to physical disability he was obliged to 
relinquish the work of the ministry, and in 1874 was elected as the 
first superintendent of public schools in Northumberland county; he 
filled this office with great acceptability six years, and during this 
period did much to promote the educational interests of the county.  The 
first county institute was held in the first year of his incumbency, and 
at every subsequent institute he has taken part in the exercises.  In 
1860 and 1862 he received the county nomination for Congress, but 
withdrew on each occasion from personal considerations without making a 
contest in the district convention. He was elected prothonotary of 
Northumberland county in 1863 and re-elected in 1866, serving in this 
office two terms.  On the 14th of March, 1876. he was admitted to the 
bar, and has since been engaged in the practice of law.  Mr. 
Reimensnyder was married May 3, 1838, to Susan Margaret, daughter of 
Benjamin Bryon, of Augusta County,  Virginia, a captain in the 
	
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war of 1812.  To this union were born eight children: Cornelius, a 
lawyer of Toledo, Ohio; Rev. Junius Benjamin a Lutheran clergyman of New 
York City; Rev. John M., a Lutheran clergyman of Milton; George B., a 
lawyer of Sunbury; Millard F., a druggist of Sunbury; W. Virginia; S. 
Augusta, and H. Cleora, organist of Zion Lutheran church and a graduate 
of the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music.

	GEORGE B. REIMENSNYDER, attorney at law, was born at Smithburg, 
Washington county, Maryland, July 27,1849, son of Rev. J. J. and Susan 
(Bryan) Reimensnyder.  He obtained his education at the public schools 
and at the academy of Sunbury, and received the honorary degree of A. M. 
from Pennsylvania College, June 25, 1886.  He began active life as an 
apprentice to the printing trade in the office of the Democrat at 
Sunbury, where he remained one year.  In 1866 he entered the 
prothonotary's office at Sunbury as deputy clerk, retaining that 
position until July 1,1870. After teaching in the public schools of 
Rockefeller township one year he entered the office of the register and 
recorder at Sunbury, in which he was employed nine years and served as 
deputy clerk seven years.  In 1875 he began the study of law under 
Leffert H. Kase, and was admitted to the bar on the 6th of August, 1877. 
In 1879 he entered upon the practice of his profession, in which he has 
achieved fair success.  He has served as a member of the examining 
committee of the local bar association continuously since 1881, and as 
borough solicitor of Sunbury 1888-89; in 1881 he was president of the 
convention of the Young Men's Christian Association of Pennsylvania at 
Bellefonte.  At the present time he is secretary of the council of Zion 
Lutheran church, Sunbury, a director in the Sunbury Trust and Safe 
Deposit Company and solicitor for that institution, and president of the 
Pomfret Manor Cemetery Company.  Mr. Reimensnyder was married, November 
22, 1887, to Miss Clara B., only daughter of David L. Stackhouse, 
druggist, of Philadelphia. They are the parents of one child, Lillian, 
born March 23, 1889.

	C. R. SAVIDGE, attorney at law, was born, January 19, 1851, in 
Trevorton, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania.  His father, Samuel K. 
Savidge, a mason and bricklayer by trade, was a native of Rush township. 
He married Ellen Campbell and to this union were born three children: C. 
R.; Harrison C., who is manager of Whitmer & Sons' lumber business in 
West Virginia, and Lizzie A., who married Williard Robinson, of West 
Virginia.  The father died in 1858 and the mother in 1882.  Both were 
consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church.  C. R. Savidge was 
fond of books from the time he learned to read, and in 1865 was employed 
to teach in the country schools, in which be was engaged four years.  In 
1869 he taught in the public schools of Danville, Pennsylvania, after 
which he entered Princeton College, from which he was graduated in 1874, 
a classmate of Henry, M. Hinckley and James Scarlett, both well known 
gentlemen of Riverside and Danville.  On his return from college Mr. 
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saw mill and continued that with other arduous labors for some time. 
After reading law with Simon P. Wolverton, he was admitted to the bar of 
Northumberland county in 1877.  He at once began practice in Sunbury and 
has taken a high rank among his fellow members at the bar.  In 1880 he 
was elected district attorney by a majority of one thousand sixty-six.  
On the   31st of December, 1875, he was married  to Louise Essick, of 
Montour county, this State, and to this union have been born seven 
children, six of whom are living:  Harry W.; Albert C.; Ralph W. E.; 
Preston M.; Louise, and Lucile.  Mr. Savidge belongs to the F. & A.M. 
the Conclave, and K. of G.E. He is a Democrat, and the family are 
adherents of the Baptist church.

	H. M. McCLURE, attorney at law, was born in Lewisburg, 
Pennsylvania, August 8, 1859, a son of J. C. and Glorvina (Elder) 
McClure.  He received his education principally at Bucknell University, 
Lewisburg, from which institution he was graduated in 1877.  In January, 
1878, he began the study of law under the tuition of Simon P. Wolverton, 
and was admitted to the bar of Northumberland county, June 28, 1881. 
During the summer of 1878 he played base ball with the Binghamton and 
Syracuse clubs; in 1879 he played with the Rochester club, and in 1882 
with the Baltimore club.  From January 9,1884, to February 9, 1888, he 
was practicing law in the office of Simon P. Wolverton, and in the last 
mentioned year he established an office by himself; and by strict 
attention to business is meriting a large and growing practice.  On the 
12th of June, 1890, at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, he was married to Miss 
Margaret Focht.  In politics he is a Republican.  Mr. McClure gave 
material aid in securing the national regatta of the National 
Association of Amateur Oarsmen which was held at Sunbury in July, 1887.

	CHRISTIAN NEFF was born, October 18, 1817, in Lancaster county, 
Pennsylvania, and died in Sunbury, June 27, 1882.  His father, John 
Neff, a farmer during his lifetime, was a native of Lancaster county, as 
was also his mother.  Our subject spent his boyhood days upon a farm, 
until apprenticed to the tailor's trade, which he followed for some 
years in Louisville, Kentucky.  Returning thence to Lancaster county, he 
was married, September 24, 1846, to Ann Brennaman, a step-daughter of 
Col. Abraham Greenawalt, of Elizabethtown, that county.  He then 
purchased a small farm and after following rural pursuits for a while, 
he opened a dry goods and grocery store at Buck Lock along the line of 
the Pennsylvania canal.  About the year 1860 he rented the Washington 
House at Middletown, Dauphin county, and kept it until April 1, 1867, 
when he purchased the old Washington House at Sunbury, which stood on 
the present site of the new Neff House.  He at once removed his family 
to Sunbury, where he thereafter kept hotel until his death.  He was 
courteous and gentlemanly, ever ready to accommodate his guests and make 
their stay with him as pleasant as possible.  He thereby merited an oft 
remark from the traveling public, "that he was one of the most open-
hearted landlords they had ever met."  He was a member of the 
	
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Perseverence Lodge of the Masonic order at Harrisburg. and served in the 
borough council of Sunbury.  Mr. Neff began his political career as a 
Whig, and naturally drifted into the ranks of the Republican Party, and 
although he always took an active interest in political issues, yet he 
never sought official position.  Possessed of a large fund of general 
information, a keen knowledge of human nature, quick to perceive the 
ludicrous in all things and apt in telling an anecdote in the proper 
place, he was consequently very popular among his friends and 
associates.  His wife, who was born, February 18, 1822, died, April 26, 
1878, and was the mother of the following children by her union with Mr. 
Neff: Helen A., deceased; Anna F., deceased; Catharine J., wife of B. M. 
Aughinbaugh; Horace B., who married Mary Gill; Caroline; George H., who 
married Ella Bright and is an attorney of Sunbury; Lewis F., who married 
Margaret J. Martin; Christian S., who married Blanche Long; Walter, 
deceased, and Annie, deceased.  Of these children, Catharine J., 
together with her husband and Lewis F. and George H., are the 
proprietors of the new Neff House of Sunbury.

	GEORGE H. NEFF, attorney at law, was born, June 26, 1857, in 
Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, son of Christian and Ann (Brenneman) Neff. 
He received his education at the common schools, finishing at the high 
school of Sunbury, from which he was graduated in 1874.  He learned 
telegraphy in Sunbury, and was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company as operator at Sunbury, Shamokin, and Mt. Carmel for about one 
year.  On the 7th of January, 1877, he entered the law office of S. P. 
Wolverton as a clerk.  While there he studied stenography and type-
writing and subsequently became his private secretary, which position he 
held for thirteen years.  He also took up the study of law under Mr. 
Wolverton and was admitted to the bar, June 28, 1881.  At this date he 
was made assistant to Mr. Wolverton in his office practice and continued 
as such until September 1, 1889, when he opened an office and has since 
practiced by himself.  He is a Democrat, and has always taken an active 
part in State and county politics. He is a director in the Southern 
Central Railroad Company, now in process of construction, extending from 
Sunbury to Harrisburg along the west shore of the Susquehanna river.  He 
was married, June 2, 1887, to Ella Bright, daughter of Peter Bright, a 
boot and shoe merchant of Sunbury, and to this union one child has been 
born, Harold M.  Mr. Neff with a few others was instrumental in securing 
the national regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen, 
which was rowed on the Fort Augusta course on the Susquehanna river at 
Sunbury in July, 1887.

	DANIEL BECKLEY, court crier, was born, February 2,1802, in Berks 
county, Pennsylvania, son of Daniel and Hannah (Eyster) Beckley.  The 
parents came to Northumberland county about the year 1812 and settled 
near Milton, in which town they both died, respected citizens and 
consistent members of the German Reformed church.  Our subject received 
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cation and was brought up at farm labor.  He clerked in stores at 
Sunbury, Milton, Selinsgrove, and Trevorton. He was elected by the 
Democratic party to the offices of Prothonotary and sheriff and served a 
term in each with credit.  At the beginning of his term of office Judge 
Rockefeller appointed Mr. Beckley court crier, which position he has 
continued to fill to the present time.  He is a member of the 
Presbyterian church and is one of the most upright and respected 
citizens of the county.

	WILLIAM WHITMER, one of the active business men of Sunbury, was 
born at McAllistersville, Pennsylvania, December 11, 1835. He came to 
Sunbury in 1872 and immediately embarked in the mercantile and lumber 
business, in both of which he has been successful.  He is now a member 
of the mercantile firm of Whitmer & Trexler, the oldest dry goods house 
in Sunbury. He has branched into business from his present town into 
different parts of Pennsylvania, and also West Virginia, where he gives 
employment to a large number of men.  He is a Republican, and one of the 
enterprising business men and highly respected citizens of the borough 
in which he resides.

	LEWIS DEWART, attorney at law, was born in Sunbury, Northumberland 
county, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1849.  After a thorough academic 
preparation he entered Princeton College and was graduated therefrom in 
the class of 1872.  He read law with the late Judge Jordan and was 
admitted to the bar in 1874.  In 1875 he was elected borough clerk, held 
the office one term, and in 1877 was elected district attorney.  He is 
an active and energetic Democrat, and for his party does much hard and 
effectual work.  He has served on the central committee, and was a 
delegate to the convention that nominated Pattison for Governor.  The 
degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by his Alma Mater.

	CHARLES D. GIBSON, attorney at law, was born in Sunbury, 
Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, August 29, l863.  His father is the 
Rev. Lewis W. Gibson of the Episcopal church, now located at Dover, 
Delaware, and his mother was the daughter of the late Judge Charles G. 
Donnel, of Sunbury.  Charles, the elder of the two sons, was educated by 
his father in private instruction and at Union College, Schenectady, New 
York.  He began the study of law in 1887 with John B. Packer as his 
preceptor and was admitted to the bar in September, 1889.  Prior to his 
taking up the study of law he was five years in the employ of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Company as clerk.

	JOHN S. HAAS was born May 6, 1810, in Northumberland county, 
Pennsylvania.  He received a common school education and on the 6th of 
December, 1835, was married to Margaret Deppen, who was born, March 4, 
1812, in Berks county, Pennsylvania.  When a Young man he belonged to a 
militia company and held the position of colonel.  He was a Democrat, 
and served as overseer of the poor for many years.  He died, November 
30, 1885, followed by his widow on the 13th of December 1887.  Both were 
members of the German Reformed church.  To their union were born four 
children, 
	
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only one of whom is living, Hiram M.; the others died in infancy.  The 
Sunbury American of December 4, 1885, contained the following: "Colonel 
John S. Haas died at his residence in Upper Augusta township, near 
Sunbury, on Monday last, aged about seventy-five years. He resided in 
Jackson township, this county, until 1850, when he purchased what was 
then called the Sunbury mill property, where he resided since.  By 
economy and good management he accumulated a large amount of wealth.  He 
was unassuming and seldom mingled in company and was respected for his 
fair and honest dealing.  His death was caused from paralysis."

	HIRAM M. HAAS, farmer, was born in Jackson township, March 4, 1846, 
son of John S. and Margaret (Deppen) Haas.  He was educated at the 
Sunbury schools and at Missionary Institute, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, 
and also took a course at the Poughkeepsie Commercial College.  He was 
occupied for fifteen years in conducting the mill, and in the management 
of his father's business.  In 1870 he married Lusetta, daughter of John 
Hull, a merchant of Snydertown.  By this union they have nine children: 
John F.; Edward L.; Isaac J.; Bessie May; Hiram W.; Mary Margaret; Essie 
Mabel; Nellie Jane, and Marion Valeria.  Mr. Haas is an active member of 
the Democratic party.  He has served as township auditor for three 
successive terms, and as school director three terms.  He is connected 
with the I.O.O.F. and the Royal Arcanum of Sunbury.

	PETER H. SNYDER, a retired citizen of Sunbury, was born in Lower 
Augusta township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1820, 
son of Peter and Joanna (Shipman) Snyder.  His grandfather, Casper 
Snyder, came from Germany and settled in this county before the 
Revolutionary war.  He was a farmer and tavern keeper on the old 
Harrisburg and Sunbury road, where his son Peter succeeded him; the old 
brick tavern house was built by Casper Snyder in 1798.  Peter Snyder was 
born in 1788 and died in February, 1866; his wife died six years 
previously at the age of seventy years.  They reared nine children, and 
buried three; eight are now living.  Peter H. Snyder was born, February 
6, 1820; he was reared upon the farm and educated in the common schools 
and at Danville Academy. He studied surveying, and taught school twenty-
one winters.  He removed to Sunbury in 1881 and retired from active 
business.  October 23, 1845, he married Malinda Wolverton, and they are 
the parents of four children: Nelson W.; Dennis H.; Rosetta J., and Anna 
Laura. Mr. Snyder is a Republican in politics, and in faith a member of 
the Presbyterian church.

	HENRY B. SMITH, merchant, was born at Womelsdorf, Berks county, 
Pennsylvania, November 19, 1855, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Haak) 
Smith. The father, a lumber merchant, died in 1876 at the age of fifty- 
six years, and his widowed mother yet lives at Womelsdorf.  Henry is the 
eldest of two sons and two daughters.  The straitened condition of their 
financial affairs after the death of his father limited his schooling to 
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was possible prior to his thirteenth year. At that age he began to clerk 
in his native village and remained there one year. Having accumulated 
the (to him) vast sum of twenty dollars, he packed up his valise and 
started West.  Arriving at Sunbury, the "great west" was yet a great way 
off, and his capital had dwindled down to a minimum. He sought 
employment with Clement and Dissinger, merchants, and remained with them 
ten or eleven years.  In 1882, having saved about two hundred dollars, 
he formed a partnership with S. C. Drumheller and engaged in the coal 
business.  The year following the dry goods house of Smith, Drumheller & 
Zeigler was established as H. B. Smith & Company.  Zeigler retired at 
the end of three years and Drumheller at the end of two more. Thus, 
since 1887, Mr. Smith has had no partner.  They began with a capital of 
three thousand dollars: Mr. Smith has now invested over twenty thousand 
dollars and not only does an extensive trade but sells a great many 
goods at wholesale. He is a member of the Patriotic Sons of America, 
Royal Arcanum, Conclave, and the Lutheran church. He was married in 
Sunbury, October 24, 1888, to Mary E., daughter of Nathan Martz.

	JOHN WEISER BUCHER.- The Bucher family date their advent into 
Northumberland county back to the Indian occupation, and the name 
figures with more or less prominence in all the succeeding generations. 
Henry Bucher, grandfather of John W., reared a large family of children, 
and his youngest son, Francis, a tanner by occupation, married Mary Ann 
Mawser, December 8, 1831, reared six sons and two daughters, and died, 
March 19, 1875.  Of his eight children, the subject of this sketch is 
the oldest of four sons and one daughter now living.  He was born in 
Sunbury, September 15, 1835, received an academic education, learned the 
tanning business under his father, and at the age of about twenty years 
became clerk and deputy of the register and recorder, a position he 
filled about six years.  He was next appointed deputy prothonotary and 
held that office one year.  In February, 1864, he enlisted in Company C, 
Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, at Harrisburg, and served one 
year as a private under General Hancock in the Nineteenth army corps. He 
was mustered out at Charleston, South Carolina, returned to Sunbury, and 
for two or three succeeding years was engaged in the tanning business.  
His next employment was with Ira T. Clement as book-keeper of that 
gentleman's manufacturing establishment, a position he was continued in 
for several years.  He has been secretary of the Sunbury Steam Ferry and 
Tow Boat Company and associate manager or superintendent of the various 
manufacturing industries of Mr. Clement, in whose employ he was for the 
fourth of a century.  Mr. Bucher has been chief burgess and treasurer of 
Sunbury and four of five terms borough councilman.  In July 1890, he was 
elected secretary and treasurer of the Sunbury Trust & Safe Deposit 
Company, a new bank now being started up on the corner of Fourth and 
market streets.  He is prominent in Masonry, Odd 
	
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Fellowship, Knights of Pythias, Improved Order of Red Men, and the 
Reformed church. He was first married in Sunbury, December 15, 1858, to 
Hester A., daughter of the late James Beard, at one time prothonotary of 
the county and afterward a lawyer.  She died December 26,1862, leaving 
three children: Francis Edward, a lawyer in Philadelphia: John Beard, a 
merchant of Sunbury, and Mary Margaret, who was born, September 13, 
1862, and died, February 14, 1877.  His second wife, to whom he was 
married, March 4, 1868, was Mary Jane, daughter of Ira T. Clement, who 
died in December following, leaving one child, Laura C.  February 13, 
1872, Mr. Bucher married Mary Faust, by whom he has had five children: 
Samuel Faust, deceased; William Henry; Sarah Helen; George Franklin, and 
Mary Ann Masser. deceased.

	CHARLES M. MARTIN, physician and surgeon, is a son of Rev. Jacob 
Martin, of the Lutheran church, and Abbie A. (Stephenson) Martin, and 
was born at Greencastle, Franklin county, Pennsylvania. January 15, 
1840.  His grand-father, George Martin, was one of the pioneers of 
Sunbury and here his sons, George, William, Henry, John, Charles, 
Luther, and Jacob were born and reared.  George served thirty-two years 
in the United States Army, including the Seminole Indian war.  He and 
his brother William served through the Mexican war, and William, Luther, 
Henry, George, and Charles were soldiers in the Union Army during the 
late Rebellion.  Luther was killed in the battle of Gettysburg, and 
Henry at the battle of the Wilderness. William was a major and George a 
captain; both live retired in Philadelphia. Charles resides in Savannah, 
Ohio.  Rev. Jacob died in Sunbury in 1872 at the age of sixty-eight 
years, fifty years of his life having been spent in the ministry.  His 
widow survived him but three months.  Of his four children, Henry died 
at the age of eighteen years; one of his daughters is the wife of James 
Lyon, of Sunbury; another is the wife of D. W. Shryeck, of Greensburg, 
Pennsylvania, and Charles M., the subject of this sketch, is a 
physician. At the outbreak of the war between the States Mr. Martin was 
living at Westminister, Maryland, and Charles M., after an academic 
training at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, was attending lectures at 
the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, from which institution he was 
graduated in March, 1863.  While in Baltimore he was a resident student 
of the hospital and after graduating was appointed assistant surgeon by 
Surgeon General Hammond of the United States Army, and assigned to 
hospital duty at Frederick, Maryland.  At the close of the war he 
located in practice at Owing's Mills, Baltimore county, Maryland, and 
was there until the summer of 1870, at which time he came to Sunbury. 
Here his talents were readily recognized and he at once took and has 
since maintained high rank in the professions. Doctor Martin is vice- 
president of the Sunbury Medical Association, and has been resident 
surgeon of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for the past twelve or 
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iners, removed by President Cleveland in the spring of 1884, and re-
appointed by President Harrison in June, 1889.  The Doctor is a 
Republican in politics, has been a member of the borough council, is now 
a school director, is a Knight Templar Mason, and a member of the 
Lutheran church.  He was married in 1865 at Westminster, Maryland, to 
Sallie H. Shreeve, who died in 1872 at Owing's Mills.  In February, 
1883, he married Mary Alice, daughter of John Haas, of Sunbury, and has 
one son, William H.

	HIRAM LONG, physician and surgeon, was born in Northampton county, 
Pennsylvania, April 30, 1831.  He was reared upon his father's farm and 
educated at Stroudsburg.  He read medicine in his native village, and 
was graduated from New York Medical College in the spring of 1859. In 
1862 he became assistant surgeon of the One Hundred Seventy-third 
Pennsylvania Volunteers and subsequently in order of promotion assistant 
surgeon and surgeon of the Two Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, a position he held at the close of the war.  With the Two 
Hundred and Fifth regiment he was in the Ninth army corps and took part 
in all the battles fought by the Army of the Potomac.  Returning home he 
resumed the practice of medicine in Union county, and was there until 
1871, when he located in Sunbury. In 1880 he removed to his present 
residence in Purdytown, and sought to give up as far as possible the 
practice of his profession.  Under President Cleveland's administration 
he was appointed pension examiner and held the office until displaced by 
Corporal Tanner.  The Doctor is a member of the Sunbury Medical 
Association and was some years its president.  He is prominently 
identified with the Masonic fraternity, the G.A.R., the Loyal Legion, 
the Presbyterian church, and the Sunday school.  He was married at his 
native place, October 28, 1860, to Frances M., daughter of Dr. Robert E. 
James.  Dr. Long's father was William A. Long and the maiden name of his 
mother was Eva Miller.  The Longs were Scotch-Irish and came to America 
in 1740, settling first in Chester county, Pennsylvania; later some of 
them moved into Bucks and subsequently others into Northampton county. 
William A. Long's grandfather located at Mt. Bethel in Northampton 
county prior to the war for independence and there his children, 
grandchildren and many great-grandchildren were born.  William A. Long 
married Eva Miller, whose parents were of German descent, and they 
reared three sons and three daughters.  The daughters are all deceased 
and of the sons Jeremiah is a merchant in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Jacob 
E. is a banker in Bangor, Pennsylvania, and Hiram is a physician at 
Sunbury.

	PHILIP H. RENN, physician and secretary of the Sunbury Medical 
Association, was born in Sunbury, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, 
May 26, 1851.  He received his primary education at the public schools 
and at Sunbury Academy, read medicine with Doctor Clark and later Doctor 
McKay, and in 1877, was graduated from the University of Louisville, 
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tucky, to which institution he was cadetted by the United States 
government.  In 1879 he opened an office in Sunbury, coming hither from 
the Marine hospital at Louisville, where he was house surgeon.  Here he 
stepped steadily into prominence in the profession and has steadily kept 
abreast of the foremost.  Doctor Renn is a member of the K. of P., the 
I.O.O.F., and the Presbyterian church.  He was married in Chicago, July 
254, 1889, to Miss Dora, of Louisville, Kentucky.

	JACOB MASSER, deceased, physician and surgeon, was born in 1820, 
graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1841, and from that time 
until his death successfully practiced medicine in Sunbury.  He served 
one term as register and recorder of Northumberland county, was a 
surgeon in the late Rebellion for about one year, and died, September 
10, 1876; his widow survives him and now resides in Sunbury, 
Pennsylvania.

	FRANKLIN B. MASSER, physician and surgeon, son of Dr. Jacob and 
Sarah (Heighler) Masser, was born in Sunbury, this state, July 14, 1860. 
He received a common school education; when seventeen years of age he 
commenced the study of medicine with Dr. R. H. Awl as his preceptor, was 
graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1880, and has since been in 
active practice.  Our subject is a member of the Sunbury Medical 
Association, has been city physician, and pension examiner; he is also a 
member of the Royal Arcanum, Knights of the Golden Eagle, and the  and 
the Episcopal church.  Mr. Masser was married in Sunbury, April 12, 
1884, to Harriet Houtz, daughter of the late Dr. Henry Houtz, and to 
their union have been born two children: Franklin and Sarah.

	JACOB R. CRESSINGER, D. D. S., was born in Sunbury, Northumberland 
county, Pennsylvania, May 31, 1844. His father was the Rev. John B. 
Cressinger of the Baptist church, a native of this county and a grandson 
of Michael Cressinger, a German count who came to America in 1768 and 
settled in Berks county, Pennsylvania. Count Cressinger was an officer 
in the Continental army during the seven years' war for liberty, and 
took an active part in many hard battles with the British.  His wife 
accompanied him through the entire war and with him lived many happy 
years of subsequent peace.  After the war he came into this county and 
lived in Augusta township to a ripe old age.  He reared four sons: 
Michael; Henry; William, and Peter.  Henry, the grandfather of the 
subject of this sketch, was an officer in the war of 1812, and lived 
many years at the mountain near the mouth of Shamokin creek; just when 
he died is not known, but he is buried in Sunbury cemetery.  His wife 
was Margaret Renn. And he reared two sons: John B. and Barney.  The 
latter left Sunbury some time in the '50's and died in Michigan.  John 
B. preached many years in this county, organized and built up several 
churches, and in 1848 removed to Ohio, where he yet lives.  He was born, 
January 1, 1812, and in July, 1831, married Mary Baumgardner.  She died 
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years. They reared four sons and one daughter, and buried two sons and a 
daughter in infancy.  Jacob R., the youngest of the family, was educated 
at the common schools and studied dentistry with his brother.  At the 
outbreak of the war he was attending Oberlin College, Ohio, and from  
there joined the army in August, 1861, served until November 27, 1865, 
in the Forty-first Ohio Infantry, and left the service as brevet second 
lieutenant. With the gallant Forty-first he fought in the brittle of 
Shiloh and the siege of Corinth, and did garrison duty at Murfreesboro; 
he met the enemy face to face at Perrysville and at Stone River, where 
on the second day he was wounded.  He was on duty at Readyville, 
Tennessee, and in the Tullahoma Campaign; he participated in the bloody 
engagements of Ringgold, Gordon's Mills, Chickamauga, Brown's Ferry, 
Orchard Knob, Mission Ridge, and the expedition to the relief of 
Knoxville, and was finally mustered out at Blain's Cross Roads, December 
31, 1863.  By reason of re-enlistment as veteran, January 1, 1864, he 
took part in the battle of Dandridge, Tennessee, January 16-17th, and on 
January 17th started for home on a thirty days' veteran furlough, 
rejoined his command at Chattanooga, Tennessee, March 10, 1864, and was 
with it in the following engagements, Rockford Ridge, Resaca, 
Adairsyilie, Dallas, Kennesaw, Culp's House, Knickajack Creek, 
Chattahoochee River, Pickett's Mills, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Utah 
Creek, Lovejoy Station (Georgia), Columbia, Franklin, Nashville 
(Tennessee), and in Pursuit of Hood to Huntsville, Alabama.  From that 
time on to the close of the war he was with his regiment in Texas. After 
the War he completed the study of dentistry, and in February, 1868, came 
to Sunbury.  Mr. Cressinger is a thirty-second degree Mason, an Odd 
Fellow, and prominent in the G.A.R and in the Baptist church.  He was 
married in Sunbury, May 31, 1869, to Mary A. Brice, has three children 
living, and has buried one, Edna, at the age of one and one half years. 
John B. is a student at Bucknell University and Horace G. is at home. 
Doctor Cressinger's brother, Isaac, enlisted in 1862 in Company C, 
Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was captured at Harper's Ferry, 
confined in Libby and Andersonville prisons, in the fall of 1863 was 
exchanged and subsequently discharged on a surgeon's certificate.  In 
January, 1864, he re-enlisted and October 19, 1864, at the battle of 
Cedar Creek, Virginia, he was killed.  Another brother, Daniel B. 
enlisted in a company from Ohio in 1861, was discharged in 1863, and 
soon after his return home died at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. The Doctor has 
in his Possession a hammer which was used by his great-grandfather, 
Michael Cressinger, to sharpen his flints while serving in the 
Revolutionary war, and used by his grandfather in the war of 1812.

	ANDREW NEBINGER BRICE, editor and proprietor of the Sunbury Weekly 
News, is a lawyer by profession and a justice of the peace by repeated 
elections.  He was born at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1840, 
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of Thomas and Mary (Wenck) Brice, natives of this county and the city of 
Philadelphia, and of Irish and German extraction, respectively. Mr. 
Brice was educated at the common schools and in the office of the 
Sunbury Gazette he started to learn the printing business in 1857, 
serving three years and a half. In the spring of 1861 he assisted in 
starting the Northumberland County Democrat, and was connected with that 
paper about a year, reading law in the meantime with Judge Alexander 
Jordan.  In the summer of 1862 he joined the army and was made second 
lieutenant of Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-first Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, served nine months, and was mustered out as first 
lieutenant.  July 4, 1863, he re-entered the army, going out as a 
private in a volunteer cavalry squadron, and served six months. 
September 7, 1864 he again enlisted and served nearly one year as a 
private in Company H, Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry.  While a member of the 
One Hundred and Thirty-first regiment he was at Chancellorsville and 
Antietam, with the volunteer squadron he was looking after the wounded 
at Gettysburg, and with the Fifth Cavalry he was in front of Richmond 
and Five Forks.  In front of Richmond, December 14, 1864, he was 
slightly wounded, but the great irreparable injury received by him while 
a soldier was not caused by the armed enemy; it was the more formidable 
and dangerous work of disease.  That enemy that attacks you in the air 
you breathe, in the water you drink, in the food you eat; that silent, 
invisible, and insidious monster which hovers about you while you sleep; 
that evil genius which mixes the fetid effluvium of decaying animal and 
vegetable matter with the pure hydrogen and oxygen of life and plants 
the germ of destruction in the blood - from the wounds of this enemy. 
Mr. Brice will never wholly recover.  After the war he resumed the study 
of law and diversified the time with school teaching until admitted to 
the bar in 1870.  He has been three years chief burgess of Sunbury, more 
than once in the council, and five times elected justice of the peace. 
In 1881 he started the Sunbury News, which in 1883 absorbed the old 
Gazette, and is publishing the Legal News, a small periodical of law-
book size.  Mr. Brice was first commander of the local post of the 
G.A.R. He is a past grand of the Order of Odd Fellows, past chief 
patriarch of the Encampment branch, and also past grand marshal of the 
State of Pennsylvania of the same order.  As a Mason he belongs to the 
Elysburg Lodge, and is a member of Northumberland Chapter of Sunbury. He 
belongs to the commandery at Danville and to Bloomsburg Consistory, 
having taken thirty-two degrees in Masonry.  He is a past master of the 
Blue lodge and a past high priest of the chapter.  He is one of the 
leading Republicans of the county, having served three years as chairman 
of the county committee.  In his leisure moments he has been working on 
the history of his first regiment, the One Hundred and Thirty-first 
Pennsylvania Volunteers.  The new building just  put up by him where the 
News is located is opposite his residence. It is a well equipped 
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ment, the basement containing the newspaper Hoe press, boiler, and 
engine. Though Mr. Brice of late years has suffered much from ill 
health, contracted from exposure in the field, he is a very busy worker, 
spending most of his time with a pen in his hand.  It is a noteworthy 
fact in his life that in 1880 he was offered the nomination for 
Congress, but declined it in favor of another county in the 
congressional district.  He was married in Sunbury, July 31, 1862, to 
Rebecca Friling, and has three children: Edward L.; William F., and 
Mary.  His sons are associated with him in newspaper business.  He was 
commissioned postmaster of Sunbury by President Harrison, and his son, 
William F., is the efficient deputy in charge.

	JACOB E. EICHHOLTZ, one of the proprietors and editors of the 
Northumberland County Democrat and the Sunbury Daily, was born in 
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, November 11, 1836.  His father was the Rev. 
George Eichholtz, of the Lutheran church, and his mother was Harriet 
Ely.  The senior Mr. Eichholtz's ministerial duties led him to various 
places of abode, and he died in Lycoming county in 1885, aged seventy-
two years.  His grandfather came to America from Germany with John Jacob 
Astor, and was for a tune engaged in the fur trade with that great 
accumulator of wealth.  Harriet Eichholtz died in 1881. She was the 
mother of four sons and four daughters, the subject of this sketch being 
her second son.  Jacob received a common and high school education at 
Lancaster, learned the printing trade in Mifflintown, and from that to 
the present time has been at newspaper work as "jour," publisher, 
reporter, editor, and proprietor.  He came to Sunbury about the time the 
Northumberland County Democrat was started, joined Mr. Purdy in its 
publication, and in July, 1868, purchased the plant.  In 1880 he sold a 
fourth interest to Mr. Dewart, his partner and associate in both papers 
mentioned in this sketch.  In 1873 and 1874 Mr. Eichholtz was chairman 
of the Democratic county central committee; in May, 1885, he was 
appointed postmaster by Mr. Cleveland.  He was first married in 
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, January 19, l860, to Harriet Erisman, who died 
in the fall of 1883.  The present Mrs. Eichholtz, to whom he was married 
at Lewisburg, February 11,1885, was Rosa Schaffle.  By his first 
marriage he has one son, Herbert; by his second, a son, William.

	THOMAS J. SILVIUS, editor and publisher of the Sunbury American, 
was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1854.  His father, Jacob 
Silvius, also a native of Lancaster, was born, December 11, 1827, and 
his mother, whose maiden name was Mary Tucker, was born in Chester 
county, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1830.  They now reside in East 
Sunbury, the father having some years since retired from active 
business.  The names of their children are: Ellis T., master mechanic of 
a railroad in Florida; Thomas J.; Charles L., foreman of the 
Pennsylvania railroad tin shops, Sunbury; Jennie, married to R. F. 
Bateman, of Lancaster; Sadie, of Florida; Clara, and Allie. The parents 
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ization each of their children belongs.  Thomas J. was educated at the 
common schools, learned the printing business, and has followed it thus 
far almost to the exclusion of everything else.  He spent six months in 
the photograph business, one year clerking in a store, and twelve months 
as a traveling salesman, and has been four years assessor of property 
for taxation in the Fifth Ward of the borough of Sunbury.  In 1875, 
associated with J. Adam Cake, he published the Sunbury Independent, and 
in 1875-76, with W. J. Walsmith, issued the Sunbury Daily.  In 1878 he 
joined Mr. J. A. Coker in the utterance of the Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 
News, and devoted his time thereto for the succeeding five years.  He is 
now editor and publisher of the Sunbury American, the oldest newspaper 
published in this place.  Mr. Silvius is a thorough newspaper man, a 
terse and vigorous writer, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
and a Republican in politics.  He was married in Cape Girardeau, 
Missouri, June 15, 1879, to Lelia A. Jennings, and two children have 
been borne to them Pearl E. and Robert C.; the latter died, June 15, 
1890.

	HUDSON WITHINGTON, one of the proprietors, editors, and publishers 
of the Sunbury American, is a native of Snydertown, Northumberland 
county, Pennsylvania, a son of William and Sarah (Shaffer) Withington, 
and was born, February 14, 1858.  The senior Mr. Withington, a farmer by 
occupation, was also born in Snydertown, and his wife, Sarah Shaffer, 
was born in Zerbe township.  They reside now at Snydertown, as does also 
the subject of this sketch, and their children are: Jacob; Mary E.; 
Franklin; Minnie C., and Hudson.  The latter received a common school 
education, and at Sunbury learned the printing business, in the 
practical application of which, in all its various branches, he is a 
recognized expert.  Under the subject head of the Press, this volume, 
will be found the history of his identity with the American, a paper 
whose every issue shows in its mechanical make-up a completeness in 
detail that evidences the skill of an adept.  Mr. Withington is a 
Republican in politics and a member of the I.O.O.F. He was married, 
November 18, 1888, at Snydertown, to Aldah M. Neice, who was born in 
Rush township, this county, April 13,1867.  (Since the foregoing was 
written Mr. Withington has withdrawn from the paper, and is now a 
compositor on the Philadelphia Inquirer.)

	GEORGE: B. CADWALLADER, ex-chief burgess of Sunbury, was born in 
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, October 20, 1830, son of Dr. Peter and Hannah 
(Magill) Cadwallader, natives of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and 
descendants of Scotch ancestry.  Doctor Cadwallader died in 1832, and 
his widow lived to the advanced age of eighty years.  Of his three sons 
and one daughter George B. is the only one living.  The subject of this 
sketch was reared in Bucks county, received an academic education, and 
subsequently graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 
Engaging in the drug business at Danville, he followed it altogether at 
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five years.  When the war broke out he was in business at Shamokin, and 
in April, 1861, entered the army as first lieutenant of Company A, 
Eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served three months.  Re-enlisting 
in August following he was made first lieutenant of Company K, Forty-
sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and thereafter served in about the 
following manner until September 10, 1866, at which time he was mustered 
out at Richmond, Virginia: September 17, 1861, he was first lieutenant 
and quartermaster of the Forty-sixth regiment; July, 1863, captain and 
assistant quartermaster U.S.A.; March, 1865, brevetted major and 
lieutenant colonel; for faithful and meritorious service during the war 
he was brevetted colonel, and in November, 1865, for faithful and 
efficient services in the quartermaster's department, he was brevetted 
brigadier general. During the period covered by the foregoing 
promotions, he was brigade quartermaster of William's brigade, Army of 
Virginia; quartermaster of the First brigade, Second corps, Army of 
Virginia, and of the First brigade, First division, Twelfth corps, Army 
of the Potomac; post quartermaster at Dechert, Tennessee, and Atlanta, 
Georgia; in charge of transportation on Sherman's march to the sea; in 
charge of marine and land transportation at Savannah, Georgia; in charge 
of quarter-master's depot at Cleveland, Ohio, and Richmond, Virginia, 
and finally in charge of the national cemeteries at Seven Pines, Fair 
Oaks, and Hollywood. Leaving the army, he came to Sunbury and for a 
short time was in the grain, flour, and feed business.  From 1869 to 
1884 he was engaged in the drug business, thence to the present time in 
the manufacture of nails, an enterprise with which he is now connected.  
General Cadwallader was married in this place in 1870 to Mrs. Georgiana 
(Markle) Wolverton.  Mrs. Cadwallader died, May 9, 1885, leaving her 
husband and two daughters: Mary and Annie. The General is a member of 
the Masonic fraternity and of the Presbyterian church.  He was first 
elected as chief burgess in 1887, on the Republican ticket, and re-
elected in 1889.

	HENRY T. ECKERT was born in Northumberland, Northumberland county, 
Pennsylvania, August 20, 1842, and was educated at the public schools 
and at Freeburg Academy in Snyder county, Pennsylvania.  He taught a few 
terms of school, clerked a season for a Northumberland firm, and 
conducted a grocery of his own about three years.  In the fall of 1869 
he went on the road as a "Knight of the Grip" for Burns & Smucker, 
grocers, of Philadelphia, and it is written of him that his employers 
knew where he was every pay-day for the fifth of a century.  He remained 
with this firm regularly until March, 1889.  Since the last named date 
he has been engaged with the firm of R. C. Williams & Company of New 
York.  The position of the drummer is no sinecure, and the fitness of a 
man for its duties is established by a multiplicity of tests.  Success 
is the one word that fixes the tenure with his employers; but the 
accomplishments prerequisite to that rating are beyond the reach of many 
who deem themselves equal to the most difficult under-
	
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takings.  To have represented on the road one house for two decades 
admits of but one conclusion.  Mr. Eckert's popularity among all classes 
led his party in 1886 to place his name at the head of their legislative 
ticket and their good judgment was made manifest in his triumph.  At the 
ensuing struggle for his successorship he was again the Democratic 
candidate, but, as is well known, the whole ticket was defeated.  Though 
always a hard worker he has never been a candidate for any other office.  
Mr. Eckert is not unknown as a man of letters.  His contributions to the 
Detroit Free Press and other leading journals have met with favor, and 
some of his verse, notably "The Susquehanna" and "Milton in Flames," 
find places in the choice collections of the connoisseur.  In prose and 
in song many of his productions are familiar.  In the latter, his "Under 
the Buttonwood," "The Orchard Bars," "Down by the Murmuring Sea," and 
others are exceptionably fine.  Mr. Eckert is a Knight Templar Mason, 
and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  He was married in 
Catawissa, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1866, to Charlotte C. Long, and has 
living five children: Curtie W.; Edwin S.; Henry T.; Jennie Long, and 
Nellie Robins; two others died in infancy.

	JARID C. IRWIN was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, March 
13, 1830, son of Martin and Rachel (Irwin) Irwin, natives of Chester and 
Lancaster counties, respectively.  Martin Irwin came to Sunbury in 1832 
and here spent the rest of his life, dying in 1849 at the age of forty- 
five years. His widow subsequently became the wife of Frederick Lazarus, 
whose widow she now is.  Martin Irwin, a shoemaker by occupation, was a 
most reputable citizen, and served the county as register and recorder, 
having been elected in 1848.  He reared a family of three sons and six 
daughters. Jarid, the eldest son, learned the shoemaker's trade under 
his father.  In 1861 he responded to the President's first call for 
troops, and served three months in Company F, Eleventh Pennsylvania 
Volunteers.  He next served one year as musician in the Forty-fifth 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, and later as a private carried a musket eleven 
months in the Forty-seventh Pennsylvania.  With the Eleventh regiment he 
served in Maryland and Virginia; with the Forty-fifth he was in the 
battles of James Island, South Carolina, Antietam, and South Mountain, 
Maryland.  Since the war he has lived in Sunbury, where he has been five 
years a borough councilman, and is now serving his fifth term as school 
director.  Mr. Irwin is a consistent and reliable Republican in 
politics, a member of the G.A.R., and a citizen of high standing.  He 
was married in Danville, Pennsylvania, in 1851, to Ann S., daughter of 
the late George Kiehl, one time sheriff of this county, and has one 
child, Georgiana, Mrs. Sharon Stevens, of Harrisburg, who has two 
children: Fred and Bessie.

	URIAS BLOOM, register of wills, recorder of deeds, and clerk of the 
orphan's court, was born in Lower Augusta, now Rockefeller township, 
	
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Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1854, son of Hiram and 
Maria (Hileman) Bloom.  Stephen Bloom, the first of the name to locate 
in this county, came here prior to l795, as shown by his will, and was 
therefore a pioneer in this part of the country.  His son Samuel was the 
father of Jacob, and Jacob was the father of Hiram; thus with the stroke 
of the pen we connect the fifth with the first generation of a family 
whose name appears frequently in the early archives of the county. 
Samuel Bloom was commissioned as justice of the peace, February 28, 
1809, served as county commissioner, 1813-15, and as county treasurer, 
1834-36.  The farm he bought from old Martin Raker and wife in 1797 in 
Rockefeller township near the old stone church is the property of Urias 
and is highly prized by him.  Hiram Bloom reared nine children, eight of 
whom are living.  Urias, the eldest, was educated at the common schools, 
and at the age of sixteen years began teaching.  When about twenty years 
old he accepted a clerkship with Lemuel Shipman in the recorder's 
office, remained with that gentleman until 1880, and with his successor, 
George D. Bucher, from 1880 to 1886.  In 1885 he was elected register 
and recorder and re-elected in 1888.  At his first election he was about 
two hundred fifty ahead of his ticket (Democratic), and at his second 
over twelve hundred more votes were cast for him than for the rest of 
the ticket.  Mr. Bloom is identified with the I.O.O.F., the Conclave, 
the Masonic fraternity, and the Methodist Episcopal church.  He was 
married in Lower Augusta township, November 25,1879, to Anna M. 
Wintersteen and has three children: Essie Uarda; Grace Imogene, and 
Goldie Edna.

	SIMON P. FAUSOLD, prothonotary, was born, April 30, 1840, in what 
is now Rockefeller township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, a son 
of Jonathan and Catharine (Bartholomew) Fausold. He was educated at the 
common schools and the Sunbury Seminary, then taught by Simon P. 
Wolverton. He taught school from 1858 to 1865, including terms in the 
Shamokin and Sunbury public schools.  In 1865 he was appointed deputy 
recorder for Northumberland county by J. A. J. Cummings, which position 
he filled creditably for a term of three years.  He then engaged in the 
mercantile business at Montandon, this county, under the firm name of S. 
G. Fry & Company. From 1872 to 1877 this firm conducted a wholesale 
notion business on a canal beat, extending from Montandon to Lock Haven 
and Pittston, down the main line of the Pennsylvania canal to 
Wrightsville, York county, and up the Juniata river to McVeytown.  After 
withdrawing from this in 1878 he taught one term of school, after which, 
in 1879, he was appointed deputy prothonotary by Wesley Auten, and was 
continued in the position by Prothonotary Auten during his two terms. H. 
F. Mann succeeded Auten and Mr. Fausold was retained by him during his 
two terms of office.  In 1890 he was nominated by the Democratic party 
for prothonotary without opposition and was elected by a majority of 
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on Northumberland county in the late Rebellion, his name was in the 
list, but he was excused through the order of the Governor that school 
teachers in active service should be exempt from the draft.  When the 
second draft was made he was again selected and this time furnished a 
substitution.  Mr. Fausold has been married three times; first, in 1873, 
to Annie E. Andrews who died in 1877; his second marriage was in 1879 to 
Anna J. Diehm, who died in 1881; his third marriage was in 1883 to Ella 
C. Diehm.  He is a Democrat, and with his wife belongs to the Methodist 
Episcopal church.

	LUDLEM B. ROCKWELL, patentee and manufacturer of the celebrated 
Rockwell process for tempering steel, is a native of Wayne county, 
Pennsylvania, son of William P. and Sarah S. (Bassett) Rockwell, and was 
born, September 10, 1843.  The Rockwells came originally from England, 
the Bassetts from France, and both families were found among the early 
American colonists. The subject of this sketch received a common school 
education, and at Waymart learned the trade of blacksmith and wagon 
maker, at which he was engaged at the outbreak of the Rebellion. In 
October, 1862, he entered the army, and spent nine months on detached 
duty in Philadelphia.  February 28, 1864, in New York City, he enlisted 
in Company F, Fiftieth New York Volunteers, and served until the close 
of the war in the Army of the Potomac.  Leaving the army he returned to 
Waymart, Pennsylvania, and there for three years worked at 
blacksmithing. He came to Sunbury in 1872 and for some years followed 
his trade. In December, 1884, he patented his process for tempering 
steel, and in 1888 secured letters on his method of moulding steel, an 
invention whereby he converts refused, worn-out and broken steel tools 
into the highest grades of knives and other steel and iron-cutting 
implements.  Mr. Rockwell is a member of the G.A.R. and of the Methodist 
Episcopal church.  He was married in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, September 
5, 1865, to Margaret Thorpe.

	JOHN J. BATMAN, manufacturer and patentee of the Keystone Radial 
Drill Press and general manufacturer of engines, boilers, and machinery, 
was born near Hickory Corners, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, May 
13, 1847, a son of Jacob and Matilda (Burrell) Batman.  The senior Mr. 
Batman, a blacksmith in early life, and later a manufacturer of 
agricultural implements, was the son of one of the pioneers of this 
county.  From here he moved to Dauphin county and at Uniontown 
manufactured grain drills and agricultural implements for some years. 
From thence he removed to Selinsgrove, where he now carries on a 
machinery repair shop. He has been the father of fourteen children, nine 
of whom are now living.  John J., the eldest child, was educated at the 
common schools, and with his father learned the machinist trade.  In 
1866 he bought his father's shops at Uniontown and began business for 
himself.  At the end of one year he and his father went into business at 
Selinsgrove, and he was there five years.  In 1874 he came to Sunbury 
and began the manufacture of agricultural implements as the suc-
	
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cessor to Haupt & Youngman in Arch street.  In 1880 he removed to his 
present site on East Market street, where his specialty is the 
manufacture of the Radial Drill Press, an ingenious device for drilling 
metal from a fixed center at any point within a given radius.  In 1864 
Mr. Batman entered the army at Harrisburg as a Private in Company A, Two 
Hundred and Eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served to the close of 
the war.  He Is a member of the G.A.R. and of the Reformed church.  His 
wife, to whom he was married near Uniontown in September, 1866, was 
Rebecca Romberger, and the children born to them are: Mary Minerva; 
Harry Oscar; Charles Albert, and Lillie May.

	HENRY K. STOUT, master mechanic of the Philadelphia and Erie 
division of the Pennsylvania railroad, is a native of Pottstown, 
Pennsylvania, a son of the late S. A. Stout, and was born, May 17, l845. 
His father was nearly all his life a railroad man.  He was with the 
Philadelphia and Reading from its beginning in 1844, and for twenty-five 
years superintendent of that company's shops at Pottstown.  He died in 
1883, at the age of seventy-three years. He was a highly esteemed 
gentleman, a Democrat in Politics, a Mason, and held many minor offices 
by appointment and election. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Ann 
Kline, died in 1859.  They reared three sons: Eugene, foreman of the 
Philadelphia and Reading shops at Newberry Junction, Pennsylvania; John 
M., a miller and farmer, and Henry K.  Henry K., the eldest son, was 
educated at the Pottstown public schools, and in the shops of the 
Philadelphia and Reading railroad learned the trade of machinist. During 
1864 he served one hundred days in the army, and in the following year 
Worked in the railroad shops at Pottstown From autumn, 1865, to 
November, 1866, he worked at his trade in Philadelphia with William 
Sellers & Company, and from the last named date until April, 1882, he 
worked for the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company at Renovo in the 
capacity of gang foreman and foreman of the machine shop.  From Renovo, 
where he was chief burgess, he came to Sunbury in his present position. 
As master mechanic he has under him over four hundred men and the 
responsibilities of the position he occupies are multiform.  Mr. Stout 
was married at Lock Haven, August 21, 1867, to Sarah B. Singer, and has 
four children: Annie; Mary; Harry and Charles.

	JOHN ADAM CAKE, for whose father was named the hamlet of Caketown, 
a place yet familiarly known by that name though for years past forming 
a part of Sunbury, was born in Harrisburg, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, 
August 25, 1846.  He was educated at Russell's military School, and at 
Yale and Princeton.  With Benjamin H. Brewster as preceptor he read law 
for some time in Philadelphia, and in March, 1870, was admitted to the 
bar in Sunbury,  after having pursued his studies one year with Messrs. 
Rockefeller and Rohrbach.  Since coming to the bar he has had his office 
in Caketown, where he has large Property interests requiring much of his 
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During the years 1867 and 1868 he held the position of assistant cashier 
in the Philadelphia Custom House under his father, who was then the 
United States collector of that port.  Becoming a convert to the 
Greenback idea then so prevalent, he was a delegate to the convention 
held at Toledo, Ohio, in 1878 for the purpose of organizing the National 
Greenback and Labor party and therein took an active part. He was 
subsequently the representative of that party from his district to the 
national conventions of 1880 and 1884. and in the ensuing campaigns 
labored hard for the success of the respective nominees, Weaver and 
Butler.  In 1880 he was his party's nominee for Congress, and in 1882 
their candidate for the Supreme court.  Mr. Cake is now a Republican, 
but virtually withdrawn from active politics.  He was married at 
Pottsville, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1868, to Minnie E., daughter of 
the late Captain Hugh McCullough, who fell at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 
and has four children:  John A.; Minnie C.; Joseph W., and Edith.

	SAMUEL M. ELLIOTT, foreman of the blacksmith shops, Philadelphia 
and Erie division of the Pennsylvania railroad, was born in Mifflin (now 
Juniata) county, Pennsylvania, June 6,1825, and his parents were William 
Elliott and Mary Crozier, both descendants from Scotch-Irish ancestors. 
Samuel was educated at the common schools of his native county, and 
there with John Middaugh, of Honey Grove, learned the blacksmith trade. 
He spent three years as an apprentice, conducted a shop three years, and 
in 1851 in the Pennsylvania railroad shops at Mifflin began his life as 
a railroad blacksmith.  In June, 1856, he was made foreman of the shops, 
in 1869 transferred to Renovo, and in 1879 to his present position at 
Sunbury.  In March, 1865, he joined Captain Musser's company, One 
Hundred and First Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until July 
following as orderly sergeant under General Schofield.  While in Renovo 
he was three years a borough councilman, and is now serving his third 
year as member of the Sunbury school board.  Mr. Elliott is connected 
with the Masons, Odd Fellows, and Red Men, and is a member of the 
Presbyterian church.  He was married in Juniata county, January 2, 1849, 
to Hannah R. Kissinger, and has had borne to him seven children: Alfred; 
Rebecca R.; Lee, deceased; Hannah J., deceased; Mary M., Mrs. Victor T. 
Kissinger; Julia J., and Samuel E.

	GEORGE W. KEEFER, contractor and builder, was born in Lower Augusta 
township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, April 22, 1845, son of 
George and Elizabeth (Weiser) Keefer.  He was educated at the common 
schools and learned the carpenter trade while a young man.  He followed 
his trade four years and then embarked in merchandising, which he 
followed nine years, the last six years in Sunbury.  In 1873 he turned 
his attention to his present vocation, and is now one among the most 
successful contractors in bridge building and all kind of public work. 
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many men during a season.  He was married in Sunbury, December 16, 1879, 
to Belle M., daughter of George W. Zeigler.  Mr. Keefer is a member of 
the Masonic fraternity and of the Presbyterian church.  His father was 
born in Berks county in 1796 and died in this county in 1879.  By his 
first wife he reared two sons and three daughters.  By his second wife, 
Elizabeth Weiser, he had three sons and three daughters.

	NORMAN S. ENGLE, broker and real estate agent, was born at Albion, 
Noble county, Indiana, January 20, 1841, son of William F. Engle, a 
former resident of Sunbury, who settled in the northern part of Indiana 
in 1837 and was one of the prominent pioneers of that section of the 
State. He married a western lady, who died at an early age and was 
followed soon after by her husband.  Norman S. and his sister Emily came 
to Sunbury in 1851 and made their home with the family of H. B. Masser. 
His education was obtained at the public school taught by Jacob Ulp in a 
building at the site of the present Masonic hall, and also under the 
private tuition of Miss Kate Black.  In June, 1854, he entered the 
office of the Sunbury American to learn the printing business, at which 
he continued until June, 1863, when he was appointed to a clerkship in 
the office of the provost marshal at Harrisburg under his uncle, General 
J. K. Clement.  There he continued until June, 1865, and then returned 
to Sunbury.  On the 1st of April, 1866, he entered into partnership with 
H. B. Masser in the publication of the Sunbury American, retiring from 
this connection on the 1st of January, 1869.  He then opened a real 
estate and brokerage office at Sunbury, and has been in business 
continuously ever since.  He has been active in establishing and 
promoting building and loan associations, and at the present time is 
vice-president and director of the Susquehanna Building and Loan 
Association.  He was elected borough treasurer in 1875, and annually 
thereafter for eleven consecutive years; it was under his management 
that the reorganization of the borough finances was effected by the 
issue of bonds to the amount of forty-five thousand dollars, thus 
establishing the credit of the borough upon a firm basis. When Lee 
invaded Maryland in 1862 he enlisted in Company D, Third Pennsylvania 
Militia, and was mustered out with his regiment, September 25, 1862.  At 
the age of sixteen he became a member of the Good Intent Fire Company, 
and is now an honorary member of Sunbury Steam Fire Company, No. 1. 
Since 1867 he has been identified with the Masonic fraternity.  In 
politics he is a stanch Republican, and since attaining his majority has 
taken an active interest in every important political campaign.  On the 
17th of November, 1869, he married Jane W., daughter of Henry and 
Catherine (Weaver) Haas; they are the parents of one child, a son.

	H. E. DAVIS, coal operator and dealer, was born, June 7, 1845, in 
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, a son of John and Agnes (Swineford) Davis. He 
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grove. At the age of eighteen years he was employed by the Empire Stove 
Company at Meadville and Greenville, Pennsylvania, for one year. In 1867 
he became a clerk in the First National Bank of Sunbury, remaining until 
1869, when he was married to Miss Kate Haas, daughter of Henry Haas, 
then proprietor of the Central Hotel of Sunbury.  In the fall of 1871 he 
began representing Hall Brothers & Company, who were sole agents for the 
Mineral Railroad and Mining Company and the Lykens Valley Coal Company, 
and remained with them until 1881, when he became a member of the firm 
of Hall Brothers & Company, continuing until 1883; from the latter date 
until 1889 he was agent for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron 
Company.  During 1889 he was made vice-president and general manager of 
the Bethel Coal Company; he is president of the Sunbury and 
Northumberland Street railway, president of the Sunbury Electric Light 
and Power Company, a director of the contemplated Southern Central 
railroad, a director of the First National Bank of Sunbury, and was 
assistant burgess of Sunbury one term.  He has two children: Helen A. 
and Mary C.

	JEROME B. REED, merchant, was born in Northampton county, 
Pennsylvania, June 21, 1850, and is a son of Abram and Matilda (Elick) 
Reed. The mother died about the year 1859 while the father, who is a 
distant relative of T. B. Reed, the present Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, resides in Kansas City, Missouri.  At the death of his 
mother our subject went to make his home with a cousin, where he 
remained a few years alternating farm labor with attendance at the 
common schools. When sixteen he began to learn the tinsmith trade at 
Milton, Northumberland county, this State, where he progressed rapidly 
for two years, and in March, 1868, was assigned to the management of A. 
Krause's branch store in Sunbury and held that position until May, 1869; 
he then went to Louisville, Kentucky, and after six months service as 
conductor of a street car, was employed at his trade in a tin shop, 
serving also an apprenticeship in the art of plumbing and gas-fitting. 
In 1872 he gave up his position at that city and returned to Sunbury, 
where, in February, 1873, he was married to Catharine J. Harrison, 
daughter of George and Rebecca Harrison, old residents and respected 
citizens of this borough.  To this union have been born three children: 
George; Daisy, and Florence.  Soon after marriage he was employed as 
foreman of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's tin shops at Sunbury, 
under the instructions of Martin Walls, master mechanic.  Following this 
term of employment was a severe spell of sickness which reduced his 
finances to a small amount. Judge Jordan, having taken an interest in 
Mr. Reed, induced him to accept from him a loan of three hundred dollars 
and establish a business.  He opened up on a small scale a line of 
tinware, stoves, plumbing and gas-fitting, has added from time to time a 
general line of house furnishing goods, guns, ammunition, etc., and now 
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steam and hot water heating apparatus; in these he has built up a large 
trade, not only in Northumberland but also in the adjoining counties, 
employing from twelve to thirty-five men.  In 1884 he built his present 
commodious business house in which he carries a regular stock of goods 
valued at from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars.  Mr. Reed is a 
Republican and with his family belongs to the Lutheran church.

	JACOB G. KRAMER, ex-sheriff, was born September 20, 1829, and is a 
son of Christian and Lena (Brown) Kramer.  The father came to America in 
1833, settling in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania.  He removed to this 
county in 1853 and died at Trevorton the same year at the age of fifty-
four years, his wife having preceded him to the grave one year.  They 
reared four sons, of whom our subject was the eldest.  He was educated 
in the common schools and worked as miner and superintendent of mines 
thirty-five years.  In 1887 he was elected sheriff of Northumberland 
county by the Republican party.  He was married in Pottsville, 
Pennsylvania in 1850, to Agnes Griffith.  She died in 1877 and was the 
mother of eight children: Agnes, wife of A. Miller; Maggie; Elmira, wife 
of R. James; George; Susannah, wife of John Schatzlein; Louisa, wife of 
Edward Kase; Emma, and Clinton.  He is a Republican, belongs to the 
Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities, was for eight years treasurer of 
the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and is a member of the Lutheran church.

	GEORGE W. STROH, ex-chief burgess and proprietor of the Packer 
House, was born in Upper Augusta township, Northumberland county, 
Pennsylvania, February 10, 1830.  His father, Philip Stroh, was a native 
of Lancaster county, and one of the early settlers of Upper Augusta 
township, where he became a prominent farmer, contractor, and distiller. 
Politically he was a Whig, served as township constable for many years, 
and was also a prominent member of the German Reformed church.  He was 
twice married, and by the first marriage had eight children, all of whom 
are deceased.  His second wife was Margaret Farron, daughter of James 
Farron, and widow of John Christian; by her he had two children: A. J. 
and George W.  The subject of this sketch received but three months' 
schooling, his education being mostly self-acquired.  After leaving the 
homestead farm he went to Danville, where he learned the trade of 
harness maker, finishing the same in Sunbury, and when eighteen years of 
age engaged in business for himself, which he conducted nine years.  He 
then engaged in contracting and hauled the greater part of the limestone 
and iron used by the Dry Valley and Shamokin furnaces for a number of 
years.  In 1865 he located on Packer's island, where he was engaged in 
farming nine years.  When he first came to Sunbury he purchased the 
present site of the Packer House, and in 1876 built the same, which he 
has since conducted.  In March, 1855, he married Sarah, daughter of John 
Keefer, of Upper Augusta township, by whom he has ten children: Rachel 
Ellen; Mary R., wife of Walter Holmes; Mayberry H.; Isaac K.; 
	
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Susan; Flora; Charles H.; Harry J.; Edward, and George W., Jr. Mr. Stroh 
is an active member of the Republican party, and has filled the office 
of constable five years, was borough treasurer of Sunbury three years 
and in February, 1890, was elected chief burgess.  Mrs. Stroh is a 
member of the Presbyterian church.

	BENJAMIN HENDRICKS was born, September 25, 1811, in Snyder county, 
Pennsylvania, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Duese) Hendricks.  He 
received a common school education and learned the trade of cigar 
making. His active life, however, was principally spent at farming, 
merchandising, and the manufacture of lime.  He removed to Sunbury in 
1824, locating in a house which stood near the present site of the 
residence of John Haas. He at one time owned what is known as the Hunter 
farm, on which Fort Augusta was located, and at his death, in 1883, he 
possessed some good property in Caroline county, Virginia.  He was a 
director in the Sunbury, Hazelton and Wilkesbarre Railroad Company 
during the construction of that railroad, now owned by the Pennsylvania 
Company, and held that position until the latter made the purchase.  He 
married Anna M. Shindel, and to this union were born twelve children: 
Samuel S., deceased; William M., deceased; Jacob S.; Elizabeth, wife of 
S. P. Wolverton; Martin L.; Susan A., deceased; Louisa, wife of M. R. 
Hemperly; Mary, wife of Samuel Faust; Catherine, deceased; Isaac N.; 
John P. S., and Ann M.  Mrs. Hendricks died, December 9, 1877, and with 
her husband belonged to the Lutheran church.

	BENJAMIN HECKERT, funeral director and furniture dealer, was born 
in Lower Mahanoy township Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, August 
14, 1835, son of Peter and Hannah (Witmer) Heckert.  The former was a 
son of Michael Heckert, whose father emigrated from Germany and settled 
in Lower Mahanoy at an early period in its history.  He owned a 
considerable body of land, some of which is still in the possession of 
his descendants, who are numerous in this county and in the western 
States.  Peter and Hannah Heckert were the parents of fourteen children, 
of whom Benjamin Heckert, the subject of this sketch, was the twelfth in 
order of birth.  He obtained a limited education in the local schools, 
learned the trade of cabinet making in his native township and under 
Sebastian Haupt at Sunbury (with whom he was employed eight years), and 
engaged in the furniture and undertaking business at Northumberland in 
1862; there he remained until 1871, when he established his present 
business at Sunbury.  In 1859 he married Sarah J., daughter of Andrew 
and Nancy (Mahany) Durst, and they are the parents of six children: 
William N., deceased; Rev. Charles G., a clergyman in the Lutheran 
church, a graduate of Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, and 
professor at that institution; Emma D., wife of William Savidge, of 
Sunbury; Jennie M.; B. Franklin, and Harry N.  Mr. Heckert is a member 
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	IRA HILE, carpenter, contractor. and builder. was born in Rush 
township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, July 19, 1824, and his 
parents, John and Elizabeth (Johnson) Hile, were natives of Pennsylvania 
and New Jersey, respectively.  The senior Mr. Hile, a farmer by 
occupation, died in 1843 at the age of fifty-five years; his widow lived 
until 1873 and died at the age of seventy-six years.  They reared three 
sons and four daughters, John being the youngest of the former.  He was 
brought up to farm life and educated somewhat meagerly in the common 
schools.  He learned the carpenter trade in his native township and 
divided his time thereat with farming. Since 1866, in which year he 
moved to Sunbury, he has followed his trade exclusively.  April 2, 1848, 
he was married to Christiana Moore, daughter of Garret Moore, of Rush 
township, this county, and has had borne to him four children: Margaret 
F., who was born, February 8, 1849, and died, December 16, 1859; Ida 
Florence, who was born, May 1, 1855, and died, November 2, 1863; George 
M. who was born, September 20, 1863, and is a merchant, and Lillie Dale, 
who was born, January 14,1867.  Mr. Hile and family are members of the 
Baptist church, in which he holds the position of deacon, treasurer, and 
trustee.

	GEORGE GUYER, deceased, was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, 
October 19, 1829, and died, April 20, 1887.  He was nineteen years of 
age when his father immigrated to Illinois; the family were passengers 
on the ill-fated Belle of the West which burned to the water's edge on 
the Mississippi, and were the only whole family rescued out of a large 
number. George Guyer's father was a miller and transmitted the trade to 
his son, who followed it until 1870, in the spring of which year he came 
to Sunbury.  Here he conducted the Fairmount Hotel a year; thence he 
removed successively to Middleburg and conducted the Fairmount seven 
years, thence to Selinsgrove, where he conducted the Keystone two years 
and the National about the same length of time, and thence to Sunbury, 
where he purchased the Central from Henry Haas.  Here he spent the most 
of his life, increasing the capacity of his hotel and building up for it 
a patronage that rapidly brought him wealth and enabled him to leave his 
family a substantial competency.  The Central is today one of the first-
class hotels of Sunbury. Mr. Guyer was married in Dauphin county, 
October 4, 1857, to Catharine Hoke, who survives him, and his children 
are as follows: Alice M., Mrs. S. J. Pawling; Ella R., Mrs. George W. 
Gilbert; Irvin F.; Ida C.; Cora B., Mrs. E. A. Herr; Harry W., and 
George Scott.  Irvin F., the eldest son, is the popular manager of the 
Central Hotel under his mother, who succeeded to its ownership at the 
death of her husband.

	CONRAD RIPPEL, photographer, was born, November 27, 1854, in 
Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, son of John and Louisa Rippel.  He 
received a common school education, learned photography in his native 
county, and has followed the same since he was twenty years old.  In 
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Muncy, Lycoming county, this State, to Milton, where he did business 
under the firm name of Rippel Brothers until 1880, when their 
establishment was consumed by the great fire. He soon after located in 
Sunbury, where he had done the leading trade. He is a member of the F. & 
A.M. Lodge, Milton, and the I.O.O.F. Lodge and Encampment and Knights of 
the Golden Eagle, all of Sunbury.  He was married in 1881 to Kate 
Dillman and has three children: John; Guy L., and Clyde B.  He and wife 
belong to the Methodist Episcopal church.  
	
	END OF CHAPTER XLII.