Northumberland-Lehigh County PA Archives Biographies.....Binder, Ignatius B. 1845 - 

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IGNATIUS B. BINDER, a worthy citizen and retired merchant of Shamokin, Coal

township, is of German-Bohemian descent. He is a son of Joseph and Agnes

(Sterski) Binder and was born July 30, 1845, in Austria-Bohemia. His parents

were natives of Bohemia.



  The father of our subject was born in 1820, immigrated to America in 1873 and

located in Northampton County, where he purchased a large farm and engaged in

agricultural pursuits. In this calling he met with much success, and after some

years of careful work he finally died at Berlinville in 1884, at the age of

sixty-four years. He and his good wife were parents of eleven children, three of

whom died in the Old Country and the following grew to manhood and womanhood,

besides our subject: Ferdinand, Anthony, Adolph, Albert, Philip, Mary, and

Rudolph. Ferdinand, Anthony, Albert, Philip, and Rudolph are residents of Mauch

Chunk, while Adolph lives in Berlinville and Mary is a nurse in St. Louis, Mo.



  Ignatius B. Binder received a good education in his native country, where he

also learned the butcher's trade. He immigrated to America several years before

his parents, locating in Bethlehem in 1867, where he followed butchering about

one year. He then removed to Catasauqua, where he carried on the same business

for about two years, returning to Bethlehem again for a short time. He sold out

his business" to good advantage and spent some time traveling in the states and

thus familiarizing himself with the scenery and customs of America. After

spending three months in travel throughout the West he returned to the East and

again embarked in business, following his trade quite successfully in

Heidelberg, Lehigh County, Pa., then in Lehigh Gap, and finally located

permanently in Shamokin in 1872. After being actively engaged in butchering for

about twenty years he decided to discontinue the butcher business. In 1893 he

engaged in general merchandising, at which he prospered for two years. Having

accumulated a snug sum of money and having no family depending upon him, he

retired from active business pursuits, and he and his amiable wife are spending

their days in comfort and ease, in a way to suit their fancy.



  On July 10, 1870, Amelia Kautter became the wife of our subject. She is a

daughter of Conrad Kautter of Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, Germany, and first saw the

light of day February 4, 1845. Her sister, Paulina Slopey, widow of Edward

Slopey, also resides in this country.



  Our subject and his worthy wife were denied a family of their own, but one of

his brother's children was taken into their home and they reared and loved her

as their own. This was Mary, now the wife of Wesley Berren of Shamokin. Mr.

Binder is a faithful member of St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church and is deeply

interested in all work pertaining to the church.





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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)









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