Floyd's Northumberland County Genealogy Pages 123 thru 148 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Tony Rebuck. Tar2@psu.edu USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file within 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. DUNKELBERGER. The Dunkelberger family is an old settled and numerously represented family of Northumberland county, and allied by marriage with many other of the foremost families of this region. The name itself, according to tradition, originated from Dunkel Berg, a spur of the Black Forest, in Germany. Little is known of the Dunkelbergers before the time of the Reformation. During that period they espoused the cause of the Reformers, and their descendants to the present day have continued to adhere to Protestant denominations. Up to the time of their emigration to the New World they were industrious and patriotic citizens of what is now the Kingdom of Wurtemberg, in lower Germany, but being deprived there of their religious liberty they turned to America, coming hither in 1728 by way of the Rheinfels, down the Rhine to Holland, whence they sailed in the English ship "Morehouse" landing at Philadelphia Aug. 28, 1728. They proceeded at once to what is now Berks county, Pa., locating in Windsor township, a little southeast, of what is now the borough of Hamburg. They were frequently molested by the Indians. These emigrants were Clement, Daniel and John Dunkelberger. Clement, who was the ancestor of the others (the name of his son Daniel, however, does not appear in his will), at once paid taxes to the English Crown. "Clementz Doncleberger" is on the first list of taxables of Windsor township (1754). He paid six pounds tax in 1754. At the time of his death, in 1782, his home was in Windsor township. His will, made Feb. 12, 1776, was probated April 8, 1782, and is on record in Will Book B, page 38. At the time the will was made his wife Anna Maria was still living. Their children were (no record of Daniel) Clemens, who obtained the plantation; Catharine, married to Andrew Winiger; Mrs. John Beck; John; Frederick; Christopher; Elizabeth, married to Michael Deck; Philip; Sevila; Magdalena, and Dorotha. John Dunkelberger, grandson of Clement, was born in Windsor township, near Hamburg, in 1740. He married there and had two sons by that marriage, in 1780 (at which time he was a widower) moving with his son George to the northern part of the Mahanoy Valley, in Northumberland county - that part of Mahanoy now embraced in Little Mahanoy township. He received from the State a warrant for more than two hundred acres of land, located north of Line Mountain and between that and Mahanoy creek. The Indians were his neighbors and were friendly to him, but during the terrible Indian disturbances his family on several occasions had to flee for safety. There he built a stone gristmill and stone dwelling house. In 1814 he is credited with a grist and saw mill on Mahanoy creek, which mill is said to have been the first in that section. He built the mill several years after locating in that district. On the John Dunkelberger homestead still stands a large stone house, 45 by 35 feet in dimensions, and two and a half stories high, which was built in 1818, the year in which this pioneer died. Large, well-selected stones were used in its construction and the wall is exceptionally strong. After settling here John Dunkelberger married again and had two sons by his second wife, Solomon and Jonathan, from whom most of the Dunkelbergers are descended. These pioneers are buried on their own farm, on an elevation below a piece of pine woods, about fifty feet northeast from a public road. Their graves are marked by marble tombstones, inscribed as follows: Hier ruhet Johanes Dunkelberger Gabo. den 28 Sept. 1745 Stort den 27 Novem 1818 Alt 73 yahr 2 mo 1 Tag Text I Buch Moses 48 Capitel 21 V. Hier ruhen die gebine von Elizabeth Dunkelberger war Eine geborne Kahwel war geboren den 20ten Marz, 1761, und starb den 3ten September, 1827 ist alt warden 66 Yahr 5 monot und 12 tag. Ten Heob. 7, Capitel den 11, ver. 5. END OF PAGE 123 John (Johannes) Dunkelberger, known as "Little Johnny, one of the sons of John by his first marriage, was born in Berks county Sept. 14, 1775. He died May 17, 1835, and was buried in the Howerter cemetery in Upper Mahanoy township. He was a farmer and like his brother George settled in Mahantango Valley, in Mahanoy (now Lower Mahanoy) township, Northumberland county. He married Susanna Zimmerman, born in April, 1785, who died Jan. 19, 1860, and their children were: Daniel (settled in Mahantango Valley), Catharine (Mrs. Knerr), George, John, Joseph, Magdaline, Susanna (married Abraham Howerter), Solomon and Elizabeth (Mrs. Klock), George is fully mentioned below. John, who married Christiana Geist, is fully mentioned elsewhere in this work. Joseph, who married Rachel Federolf, is also mentioned at length elsewhere. Solomon, born in 1821, died in 1892, at Shamokin. He followed the tailor's trade. He married Elizabeth Wagner, born Feb. 17, 1823, died April 6, 1861, and they had five children, William, Jeremiah, Edmond, Ellen and Franklin. John Dunkelberger, the father, died May 17, 1835, in territory now embraced in Lower Mahanoy township. He had a tract of twenty-four acres of land when he died. His will, made May 5, 1835, on record in Will Book III, page 200, was probated June 12 1835. It was witnessed by George Haas and H. F. Heintzleman, and he names "my friends" Peter Fetterolf and John Maurer, Sr., as executors. George Dunkelberger, son of John. was born March 10, 1810, in the Mahantango Valley, and was a lifelong farmer. Moving to what was then Shamokin (now Rockefeller) township, he settled near Seven Points, where he bought a farm of 160 acres on which he spent the remainder of his life, dying there Jan. 6, 1884. He is buried at Seven Points. His wife, Catharine Rebuck, daughter of John, was born in 1810 and died Oct. 1, 1895. They had children as follows: Susan, who is in Oklahoma; Jonathan, deceased; George, living in Michigan; Catharine, of Sunbury; Elizabeth, of Shamokin; Tobias; Mary, living at Sunbury; Henry W.; and Harriet, living in Sunbury. TOBIAS DUNKELBERGER, son of George, is a well known farmer of Shamokin township, where he was born, near Seven Points, Dec. 4, 1851. He attended the local schools and remained with his father until he reached the age of nineteen years, after which he was associated with his brother Jonathan for five years, engaged in butchering. He then spent two years upon the homestead again, after which he went to Shamokin and entered the milk business, in which he continued four years. He then bought the old Wilkinson homestead of seventy-six acres in Shamokin township, to which he added until he now has two hundred acres in the one tract, as well as another farm of 145 acres in the same township. In addition to general farming he makes a specialty of dairying. Mr. Dunkelberger is a progressive man and has taken considerable interest and part in various affairs affecting the welfare of the community, was postmaster at Yordy for about five years, until the office was discontinued upon the establishment of the rural free delivery, and is a director in two telephone companies. He is a member of the M. E. Church, in which he has likewise been active, serving upon the building committee when the new church was erected, in 1905. He has always been liberal in his support of religious work and enterprises. Fraternally he is a thirty-second-degree Mason, belonging to Elysburg Lodge, No. 414, F. & A.M., Bloomsburg Lodge of Perfection and Bloomsburg Consistory. Mr. Dunkelberger married Martha Chamberlin, daughter of Isaac Chamberlin, and they have six children: Alverta M., wife of D. A. Beck; Mary C., wife of Harry Robinson; George A.; Susan G., wife of H. L. Beck; Herbert H.; and L. Anabel, who graduated from the Bloomsburg State normal school in 1910. GEORGE A. DUNKELBERGER, son of Tobias, was born July 18, 1882, in Shamokin, and was quite young when his parents settled at the home in Shamokin township where he was reared. He attended the focal schools, and later was a student for two years at the Millersville State normal school, in Lancaster county. Returning home he assisted his father until his marriage, after which he lived for two years upon the farm at Seven Points owned by his father. In 1908 he bought the old Swank farm, near the upper M. E. Church, where he follows agricultural pursuits, also carrying on a daily milk business, his route being to Trevorton. He is a director of the Irish Valley & Seven Points Telephone Company. Mr. Dunkelberger is an estimable young man, an active member of and worker in the Methodist Church, where he has served as president of the Epworth League and superintendent of the Junior League. In 1905 Mr. Dunkelberger married Hannah R. Sober, daughter of Isaac and Abigail (Furman) Sober, and they have three children: Verna May, Oscar Wallace and Tobias Henry. The Sober family came to America from Germany, and Samuel Sober, Sr., the founder of the family in this section, was a native of New Jersey. He came thence to Pennsylvania settling in Shamokin township shortly after the close of the Revolutionary war, and purchased a tract of land containing about seven hundred acres where the Sober brothers at one time resided his wife, who maiden name was Moore, was a resident of Shamokin township, and their children were as follows. John; Michael M., born March 12, 1801, who died Nov. 26, 1870 (his wife, Mary, died Sept. 2, 1863, aged fifty-two years) Susan, who married Morris Smith; Alexander; Isaac, born in END OF PAGE 124 1814, who died in l882 (his wife Mary, born in 1817, died in 1896); and Aaron. Samuel Sober, the father of this family, died about 1820. Alexander Sober, son of Samuel, Sr., was born in 1807 on the homestead in Shamokin township, Northumberland county, was a farmer throughout life, and inherited a portion of the homestead farm, living and dying in Shamokin township. His death occurred in December, 1869. His wife Mary Foy, also born in 1807 (probably in Rockefeller township), survived him many years continuing to live in her native place until her death in 1895. Mr. Sober was a quiet and industrious citizen and farmer, highly esteemed by his neighbors. Twelve children, nine sons and three daughters were born to him and his worthy wife, namely Samuel who is deceased; Beulah, deceased; Uriah living in Shamokin; Morris; Aaron; William A. deceased; Isaac; Salathiel, deceased; Alexander Jordan, deceased; Mary A., who married Frank Hummel; Susanna, who married Jared Neidig and Joseph, living in Sunbury. Isaac Sober, son of Alexander, born Nov. 28, 1837, followed farming and threshing throughout his active years. He resides in Shamokin township. By, his marriage to Abigail Furman the following children were born: Lillie B. married Charles Schrader; Florence A. married Grant Smith; Mary R. and Susan E. died young; Amos V. is living in California; John F. lives at home; George R. is a resident of Sunbury; Atwood lives in Baltimore; Katie L. married Harvey Wynn; Alvin A. lives in Iowa; Hannah R. married George A. Dunkelberger. Daniel Furman, grandfather of Mrs. Isaac Sober, lived in Shamokin township, Northumberland county, and followed farming. He married Rebecca Moore, and they had the following children: Moore, who was drowned; Annie, who married Bevy Taylor and (second) George Campbell; Lovina, who married Christ Yordy; Rachel, who married Peter Kreiger; Abigail, who died young; William, who died in Shamokin township: John, and Samuel, who died in Shamokin township. John Furman, son of Daniel, followed farming, and died in Shamokin township. He married Ann H. Riche, daughter of Moses Riche and they had the following children: Moore, M. Riche, Rebecca, Catharine, Hannah, Abigail (Mrs. Isaac Sober) and Elizabeth J. HENRY W. DUNKELBERGER, son of George and Catharine (Rebuck) Dunkelberger, was born on his present farm in Shamokin township Feb. 25, 1856. He obtained his education in the public schools and was engaged with his father on the farm until he reached the age of twenty-one years, when he went to Michigan. After farming in that State for eighteen months he returned to his old home and learned the trade of butcher at Locust Dale, following this business for three years. It was during the time the "Molly Maguires" made times so exciting in that section. He was next engaged in farming on the old homestead for his father for some time, and he subsequently located at Weigh Scales, where he farmed for ten years. On April 15, 1890, he bought the old homestead, ninety-six acres of good land, which formerly belonged to Benneville Keim, of Reading, Pa. He is now successfully engaged in farming and trucking. Mr. Dunkelberger has attended the Shamokin markets since 1871, and is as thoroughly familiar with the marketing of produce as with its cultivation. He is an industrious, respected citizen, and has served as overseer of the poor in his district for the past twenty-three years. He is a Democrat in politics, a member of the United Evangelical Church, has been a member of the P.O.S. of A. since 1878, and also belongs to the Brotherhood of America. Mr. Dunkelberger married Elizabeth Reed, daughter of Amos Reed, and they have had a family of eight children, namely: Mabel, who married Webster Lot ?? and has one son, Fain; Charles, a resident of Shamokin, who married Susan Behrent and has four children, Adelina, Carl, Mabel and Emanuel; Howard, of Snydertown, who married Mary Hawk; Viola; Emma; Charlotte; Arthula, and Leon. Amos Reed, father of Mrs. Henry W. Dunkelberger, was born Jan. 10, 1820, in Little Mahanoy township, son of Leonard and Elizabeth (Dunkelberger) Reed. His father, who was a native of Berks county, Pa., came to Northumberland county with his parents at an early period, the family settling along Plum cheek, in what is now Rockefeller township. Leonard Reed was a mason by trade. He was a Lutheran in religious faith. Of his six children, we have record of three: Solomon, Elizabeth (wife of Abraham Shaeffer) and Amos. In 1846 Amos Reed married Rebecca Fagely, daughter of Jonathan Fagely, and she died in 1852, the mother of three children: Emanuel, of Iowa; Mary, wife of Newton Furman, of Williamsport, and Maggie, wife of Andrew Wilson, of Rockefeller township. Mr. Reed's second marriage was to Sarah Swinehart by whom he had six children: Elizabeth, Mrs. Henry W. Dunkelberger; Harriet, wife of Luther Ellis, of Washington, D. C.; Charlotte, of Nebraska; Jemima, wife of Henry Miller, of Rockefeller township; Coleman, of Iowa, and Ira, of Idaho. For his third wife Mr. Reed married Susanna Trion, widow of Abraham Reitz. Mr. Reed died in 1889 and is buried at the Wolfs Cross Road church. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, which he served as elder and deacon, and in politics he was a Republican. WILLIAM G. SHOOP, of Danville, Pa., one of the leading business men of that place and of the surrounding territory, was born in Danville, only END OF PAGE 125 son of Gideon M. and Amelia (Gearhart) Shoop, the former of whom was for years one of the foremost citizens of this part of Pennsylvania. George Shoop, grandfather of William G. Shoop, was born Jan. 1, 1783, in Cumberland county, Pa., son of John Shoop. He married Elizabeth Cockley, who was born in Dauphin county April 30, 1783, and she died July 21, 1832, in Sunbury, Pa., Mr. Shoop surviving until June 21, 1849. They were the parents of seven children, born as follows: Mary Ann, Aug. 30, 1804 (born in Cumberland county); John, Sept. 10, 1807 (born in Sunbury); Amelia, March 30, 1810 (born in Sunbury); George, Jr., June 14, 1813; Jeremiah, Oct. 1, 1815 (died April 19, 1847); Sarah, Aug. 24, 1818 (died Oct. 26, 1818); Gideon M., Jan. 23, 1821. Gideon M. Shoop attended public school at Sunbury until thirteen years of age, when he went to Franklin county, Pa., to learn the art of making French buhr millstones, at which he was employed for two years. When fifteen he went to Cumberland county, where he followed his trade for some time, until ready to establish himself in business. In 1841 he came to Danville as collecting agent for several stage lines, and in that capacity performed the duty of sorting and distributing the mail. In 1846 he rented the "Brady Hotel," which he repaired and improved, added another story and changed the name to the "Montour House," by which name it is still known. After eighteen months in the hotel business he sold out and went into the mercantile business, in which he was engaged for several years. On April 11, 1849, he was appointed postmaster of Danville, serving as such until Nov. 26, 1852. In 1850, when Montour county was formed out of Columbia, Mr. Shoop and Dr. Frick were the prime movers in the formation of the new county, and instrumental in its erection. For over thirty years he served as a director of the Danville National Bank, and he was influential in the promotion of various industries in Danville, was a director of the Danville Nail & Manufacturing Company, of the Danville Bridge Company, and of a number of similar concerns. Mr. Shoop became interested in the lumber business as opportunity offered, purchasing several tracts of timberland in Montour and adjoining counties, cutting the timber and building a number of sawmills in which to prepare the lumber for market. When wood grew scarce in his own locality he turned his attention to the South, where he acquired large interests. This was his last business. One of Mr. Shoop's pet enterprises was the Danville high school, of which he was one of the foremost advocates from the project was first broached. If there was one of his achievements which he valued above others it was undoubtedly what he accomplished in this direction. For fourteen years previous to his death he was a trustee of the hospital for the care of the insane at Danville. In political sentiment he was a stanch Republican, and influential in his locality, but not an office seeker; socially he was identified with Danville Lodge, No. 224, F. &. A.M., and with the Royal Arch chapter. He was a prominent member of St. Paul's Methodist Church, which he served faithfully as president of the board of trustees, steward and teacher in the Sunday school and his interest extended to the denomination at large. In 1880 he was elected a lay delegate to the Central Pennsylvania Conference, and the same year was elected by the Conference to the General Conference which met at Cincinnati Ohio. His death occurred March 20, 1909. On Dec. 2, 1846, Mr. Shoop married Amelia Gearhart, daughter of William and Sarah (Boone) Gearhart, both members of prominent old families of this region more particularly mentioned later in this article, and to them were born four children: Clarence and Jeremiah, twins, who died in infancy; William G., and George, who died at the age of five years. Mrs. Shoop died Oct. 17, 1896. William G. Shoop, son of Gideon M. and Amelia (Gearhart) Shoop, was given educational advantages in his youth, and upon commencing the earnest business of life became associated with his father. He has continued the sawmill successfully to the present time, maintaining the high reputation established by his father in a long and prosperous career. He has worthily worn a name which has been identified with the most progressive interests of this portion of the State for many years, and has managed all his interests with an ability which entitles him to rank among the most substantial men of the vicinity. On Dec. 2, 1906, Mr. Shoop married Mary Emma Robertson, of Galesburg, Ill., daughter of John and Mary (Wallace) Robertson, formerly of Cumberland county, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Shoop reside in the beautiful stone mansion at the corner of East Market and Fern streets, Danville. They attend the Presbyterian Church. William Gearhart, grandfather of Mrs. Gideon M. Shoop, came to Northumberland county, Pa., in 1790 with his brother Capt. Jacob Gearhart, William taking up the land between Kipp's run and the stream that enters the river above Riverside. Both had married in New Jersey, from which State they moved to this region, William (probably the elder) marrying Eleanor De Knight. They were the parents of seven children: William, Tobias, Aaron, Jacob, Elizabeth (Mrs. Amens), Mary (Mrs. Lamberson) and Ann (Mrs. Amens). William Gearhart, son of William and Eleanor Gearhart died in 1847. He married Sarah Boone, and they had five children, born as follows: Mayberry, in 1813; Eleanor, in 1814; Harriet, in 1815; Julia Ann, in 1818; Amelia, in 1821. END OF PAGE 126 The Boones, Mrs. Gideon M. Shoop's maternal ancestors, descended from George Boone (1), who lived in England. His son, George (2), was born in the city of Exeter, Devonshire, England, and died at the age of sixty years. By trade he was a blacksmith. He married Sarah Uppey, who lived to the age of eighty, and to their union was born George Boone (3), whose birth occurred in 1666 at the village of Stoak, near Exeter. He married Mary Manbridge, who was born in 1669, daughter of John and Mary (Milton) Manbridge, and died in 1740, in her seventy-second year. George Boone (3) and his wife arrived in Philadelphia Oct. 10, 1717, spent some time at Abington, Pa., then two years at North Wales, eventually moving to Oley township, Berks county, where they settled. Warrants for 400 acres of land there issued to him, dated 1718, are on record. The original homestead is now owned by Morris DeTurk. This George Boone died in Berks county July 27, 1747. He left eight children, fifty-two grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren, all of whom excepting Sarah and Squire remained and died in Exeter township, Berks county, as the records of the Exeter Friends burying ground show. We have the following record of the children born to George Boone (3) and his wife Mary (Manbridge): (1) George (4), born July 13, 1690, died Nov. 20, 1753. He was a teacher by profession, served as magistrate, and was a man of great prominence in the community. On July 31, 1713, he married Deborah Howell, who died Jan. 26, 1757. (2) Sarah, born Feb. 18, 1691 (?), married Jacob Stover. They moved to Virginia and later to Kentucky. (3) Squire, born Nov. 25, 1696, died in 1764 in North Carolina, whither he moved in 1750. About 1745 he erected what was then the largest barn in Berks county, a stone structure which remained standing until 1875, when it was torn down by Mr. DeTurk, who needed a larger building. The masonry was found to be perfect, and the walls had to be blasted to pieces in spite of the fact that they had stood for over one hundred and thirty years. In 1750 Mr. Boone sold his farm to Mr. DeTurk, and it has since remained in the latter's family. Squire Boone married Sarah Morgan, an aunt of Gen. Daniel Morgan, of Revolutionary fame, and they were the parents of eleven children, nine of whom lived to the ages of between eighty-three and ninety-one years, one of this family being Daniel Boone, the famous Kentucky pioneer. Another was Hawkins Boone, who built Fort Boone, at the mouth of Warrior Run. (4) Mary, born Sept. 23, 1699, died Jan. 16, 1774. She married John Webb, and they were the parents of eleven children, of whom Samuel moved to Columbia county, Pa., settling near Espy. His daughter Mary married Mordecai Lincoln, brother of Abraham, and son of Mordecai who died in 1735-36. (5) Joseph, born April 5, 1704, died Jan. 30, 1776; his wife's name was Catharine. (6) Benjamin, born July 16, 1706, died Oct. 14, 1762. In 1726, at Abington, Pa., he married (first) Ann Farmer, and they were the parents of John and Susanna. There were five children by the second marriage, Mary, Benjamin, James, Samuel (whose daughter married Hezekiah Pancoast) and Dinah, who married Benjamin Tallman, son of William and Ann (Lincoln) Tallman - Benjamin being their only child who reached maturity and left descendants. Ann (Lincoln), his mother, was the sister of Sarah Lincoln, wife of William Boone, and they were daughters of Mordecai Lincoln, whose will was probated in 1736. Mordecai Lincoln married (second) Mary Robinson, and Sarah and Ann were their children; there was also a posthumous son, Abram. Among the sons of his first marriage was John, who had a son Abraham, who was the father of Thomas Lincoln, who married Nancy Hanks and became the father of Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States. William and Ann (Lincoln) Tallman moved to Virginia, where they died. Benjamin and Dinah (Boone) Tallman also moved to Virginia, but about 1805-10 they settled in Ohio, where he died about 1820 and she about 1824. (7) James, born July 18, 1709, died Sept. 1, 1785. He married Mary Foulke and (second) Anna Griffiths, and by his wife Mary had fourteen children. One of his sons, James, became an astronomer; he wrote the Boone manuscript from which much of the material used in this article is taken. The eldest child, Ann, married Abram Lincoln, posthumous child of Mordecai Lincoln, who died in 1735- 36. Mordecai Lincoln, son of Abram and Ann (Boone) Lincoln, married Julia Mayberry, sister of Margaret Mayberry, who was the wife of George Boone, son of William and Sarah Boone. Margaret Lincoln, only child of Mordecai and Julia (Mayberry) Lincoln who reached maturity, married a Mr. Barto. George Boone (4), born July 13, 1690, married Deborah Howell, and they had a family of ten children, born as follows: George (5), May 3, 1713, who died Sept. 30, 1737; Mary, Feb. 10, 1716; Hannah, July 20, 1718; Deborah, Dec. 18, 1720; Dinah, Oct. 18, 1722; Wm. Sept. 18, 1724; Josiah, Jan. 6, 1726; Jeremiah, Jan. 16, 1729; Abigail, Aug. 9, 1732; Hezekiah, March 22, 1734. William Boone, son of George (4), born Sept. 18, 1724 died in 1771. His will, signed May 23, 1768 and probated Dec. 6, 1771, provides for the following: To daughter Abigail, wife of Adin Pancoast 70 pounds; to repair the Exeter burying ground; to daughter Mary, 100 pounds at age of twenty years; to son Mordecai 50 pounds before division. The remainder of the estate was to be divided equally among the sons who were to be put to trades. On March 26, 1748, William Boone married Sarah Lincoln, who was born END OF PAGE 127 in January, 1727, and died April 21, 1810. The mother and children Mordecai, William, Mary, George, Thomas, Jeremiah and Hezekiah, by certificate members of Fairfax Meeting, Virginia, Oct. 30, 1776 were dismissed from Exeter; Sarah Boone and her children Mary, William, George, Jeremiah and Hezekiah were dismissed to Exeter Meeting by certificate later. Following is the record of the children born to William and Sarah (Lincoln) Boone: (1) Abigail was married May 28, 1767, to Adin Pancoast, who died Dec. 12, 1822. Her death occurred May 14, 1808. She had a certificate to Fairfax Meeting and another to return to Exeter, June 28, 1797, and a third from Exeter to Catawissa, and in the last are named children as follows: William, Mary and Hezekiah. Of these, William married Vashti Cooper and their daughter Mary married James Evans Lindsey, by whom he had a son, William Lindsey. Hezekiah, born June 8, 1789, was married March 26, 1815, to Rachel Boone, who was born May 30, 1789, daughter of Samuel Boone, who died on Fishing creek in 1811. (2) William married Susanna Parks, of Reading, Pa., who in 1778 had a certificate to Pipe Creek. In 1782 their descendants founded Boonsboro, Md. (3) Mordecai. (4) Mary married Isaac Lee, Exeter Meeting, May 8, 1777. (5) Thomas died Oct. 28 1823, in Amity township, Berks Co., Pa. married a daughter of Richard Lee. (6) Jeremiah. (7) Hezekiah married Hannah Hughs daughter of George Hughs, in Exeter township Berks Co., Pa. He died in Catawissa township Columbia Co., Pa., and his will was probated April 5, 1827. The children of his first wife were: William and George, of Schuylkill Co., Pa.; Martha Mrs. Lewis Vastine; Ann, Mrs. J. Wolverton; and Newton, who died in Bloomsburg, Pa.; the children by the second marriage were: Milton, who died at Pottsville; Surrissa; Hannah; John; Judah, of Schuylkill County, Pa.; Willetts, who died in Bloomsburg, Pa.; and Elizabeth, who died in Pottsville, Pa. (8) George, born in 1739, died in 1824. He married Hannah Hughs, and to them were born the following children: Edward Margaret, T. Ellis, Joseph, William Ridgeway, Elizabeth, and Jeremiah, all of whom died early in life. The mother of this family died in 1774 and Mr. Boone married (second) Margaret Mayberry, of Hereford township, Berks Co., Pa., daughter of Mrs. Ann Lee, wife of Richard Lee and widow of William Mayberry. By this union there were ten children, born as follows: Sarah, May l0, 1782 (married William Gearhart); William, Nov. 12, 1783; Ann, Aug. 21, 1785; Charles, Dec. 23, 1786: Mary, Oct. 18. 1788; George, Aug. 7, 1790 (died May 30, 1860); Elizabeth, Aug. 23, 1798; Harriet, Nov. 22, 1795; Margaret, May 25, 1798; Rachel, Feb. 5, 1801. DAVID LLEWELLYN, late of Shamokin was prominently connected with the coal mining industry in this region for many years and was also one of the foremost citizens in various other phases of the local business development. His association with the Shamokin Banking Company and with companies which promoted various public utilities of the borough, involving services which give his name a permanent place among the valuable residents of this section. Mr. Llewellyn, who was born Nov. 20, 1825, in Caerphilly, Wales, was the eldest son of Edward and Sarah (Harris) Llewellyn, natives of South Wales, who came to this country about 1831. The parents first settled in Carbondale, Pa., in 1836 moving to St. Clair, Schuylkill county, and in 1838 to Pottsville, in the same county, where the remainder of their lives was passed. The father, Mr. Edward Llewellyn, died in 1844, his wife surviving until 1866. David, Llewellyn and John were their sons, Mary and Ann, their daughters. David Llewellyn, came to America with his parents and began miner's work in early life; working at different branches of the business. In 1853 he located at Mount Carmel, Northumberland county, where he spent several years, engaged in the development of what became known as Bell's Tunnel. Thence he went to Locust Gap, where he was with Haas & Bowen and other firms as inside superintendent in 1863 coming to Shamokin to take the position of superintendent with Haas & Fagely, coal operators. In 1869 he was admitted to the firm and from that time until 1886, when he relinquished the coal business, he was one of the active figures in the local coal field. He held interests in the Cameron, Helfenstein and Big Mountain mines, and was one of the prominent and wealthy operators of this region, which in his progressive and enterprising spirit gained a fresh impetus and an added factor in its prosperity. His last business operations were with E. B. Patterson, running the Big Mountain colliery. Meantime, as his means accumulated, Mr. Llewellyn became interested in other lines, and for almost twenty years he was officially connected with the Shamokin Banking Company. On March 29, 1872, he was elected a director of that institution, and on Sept. 14, 1883, was chosen president, filling that office ably until Jan. 20, 1891. He was a promoter and one of the original directors of the Shamokin Electric Light Company and was one of the directors of the Shamokin Water Company. During his residence in Mount Carmel he was elected first treasurer of that borough and also served as president of the school board. In politics he was a Republican. Mr. Llewellyn's death, on Nov. 18, 1896, removed one of the foremost citizens of Shamokin, one who had been identified with the evolution of many projects which have made it the prosperous and desirable bor- END OF PAGE 128 ough which it now bears the reputation of being, and one who was farsighted and intelligent enough to foresee its possibilities and to show his faith by helping to realize them. He was buried in the Shamokin cemetery. Mr. Llewellyn married (first) Mary Haine, of Columbia county, Pa., and three children were born to them: Emma (deceased), William and Sarah (wife of Nathan Swank). By his second marriage, to Susan Laubenstein, he had six children: Frank, Alice, Ida, Annie, Effie and Kate. For his third wife he married Annie G. Robinson, of Pine Grove, Schuylkill Co., Pa., who survives him. DAVID A. FURMAN, farmer and dairyman, has passed most of his life in Rockefeller township, where his family has been settled many years. His grandfather, William Furman, lived there when the territory in which he resided was known as Augusta township. He was a man of affairs and various interests, following farming, operating a grist and saw mill, and engaging extensively in the lumber business, continuing the latter line for many years. He gave employment to as many as twenty-five men in his lumber operations, in the course of which he cut many forests. He furnished most of the timber used in the construction of the Pennsylvania roundhouse at Sunbury. He owned two farms, now owned by Andrew Lentz and Tobias Dunkelberger, respectively. In his day he was a man of more than ordinary prominence. In politics he was a Jeffersonian Democrat, in religion a Baptist. His wife, Huldah (Chamberlin), who was from the Irish Valley, was born May 6, 1816, and died Oct. 15, 1885, and they are buried in the cemetery of the Plum Creek Church. They had three children: John Wesley, and two who died in infancy. John Wesley Furman was born Aug. 13, 1839, in Rockefeller township, and was a lifelong agriculturist cultivating the place now owned by Andrew Lentz. In his day the tract comprised 120 acres, and he was an enterprising and prosperous farmer, making a good living and ranking among the substantial men of the community in his time. He died in Rockefeller township May 1, 1886, at the comparatively early age of forty-six years. His wife, Mary Ann (Fasold), daughter of Jonathan Fasold, died Feb. 20, 1893, aged fifty-five years, two months, ten days, and they are buried at the Eden (Plum Creek) Church, where a number of their children are also interred. Mr. Furman was a Lutheran member of the Plum Creek Church, and served many years in the church council. He and his wife had children as follows: William M. died July 14, 1899, aged thirty-eight years, ten months, seven days; David A. is mentioned below; Calvin N. is a resident of Sunbury; Josephine died aged fourteen years; Edward B. is a resident of Shamokin township; Jonathan E. is a resident of Sunbury; Charles D. died Oct. 11, 1894, aged nineteen years, six months, eleven days; Anna D., twin of Charles D., died March 25, 1906, aged thirty years, eleven months, twenty-five days; Martin L. died March 6, 1898, aged twenty years, one month, seventeen days; Roy died March 15, 1899, aged eighteen years, six months, twenty-nine days. David A. Furman was born April 7, 1863, in Rockefeller township, and was there reared and educated, being trained to farm work from early boyhood. Working for his parents until he attained his majority, he commenced farming for himself in the spring of 1884 on a tract of seventy-two acres in Shamokin township, where he remained until 1891. Selling that place, he moved to the Amos Epler farm, in the same district, where he lived for one year, after his wife's death (which occurred in 1892) selling out at public auction and returning to the home of his parents, where he remained until that place was sold out, a year later, on account of his mother's death. After his second marriage he lived at Shamokin for one year, at the end of that time returning to farming, in Little Mahanoy township, where he was thus occupied for eleven years on the William Dunkelberger farm. In the spring of 1907 he came to Rockefeller township, where he has a 100-acre farm which he purchased Sept. 1, 1906, the old Joseph Gass homestead in the Plum Creek Valley. The land is fertile and well cultivated, and Mr. Furman does a large dairy business in addition to general farming, keeping from fifteen to twenty cows and wholesaling the milk at Sunbury. He is a thrifty and energetic worker, and has had excellent returns on all his work. Mr. Furman is a Democrat, and is at present serving on the board of school directors of his township. Mr. Furman's first marriage was to Laura J. Adams, daughter of Casper and Elizabeth (Lake) Adams, who then lived at Elysburg, Pa. She died Dec. 29, 1892, aged twenty-nine years, nine months, nine days, and is buried at the Eden Evangelical Lutheran (Plum Creek) Church in Rockefeller township. Five children were born to this union: Ward married Ida Drumheiser, of Shamokin: Mary E., who is unmarried. lives at home; Clyde married Flossie Shambauch, of Sunbury; William married Jennie Kembel of Upper Augusta township; Clara lives in Shamokin. On Oct. 25, 1894, Mr. Furman married (second) Hannah J. Wagner, and to them have been born three children: Phoebe V., John L. and Helen M. He and his family are members of the Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church of Plum Creek Valley, and he is serving at present as member or the church council. Edward B. Furman, son of John Wesley Furman, was born May 17, 1870, in Augusta (now Rockefel- END OF PAGE 129 ler) township, received a common school education, and remained with his father until the latter died. After his marriage he was with his lather- in-law, Joseph Yeager, for ten years, after which he spent about ten years on the Jonathan Kreigbaum farm of forty acres, engaged in dairying as well as general farm work in Shamokin township, which farm he now owns. On May 1, 1892, he married Cordelia A. Yeager, daughter of Joseph and Rosanna (Farley) Yeager, and their children are Wave Marie and Joseph Groevenor. Mr. Furman is a member of the Cross Road Church, which he has served as trustee for sixteen years. Politically he is a Democrat. William Furman, grandfather of David A. Furman, had a brother Samuel, whose son George Furman lived at Stonington, in Shamokin township. They are mentioned elsewhere. FASOLD. The Fasold family has been settled in Northumberland county for almost a hundred years, Valentine Fasold (or Fausold), the first of the name in this country, having brought his family hither in the year 1816. The brothers Daniel and Samuel Fasold (the latter now deceased), of Sunbury were long well known carpenter contractors of that and other sections of the county, and their younger brother, Eli Fasold, now living on the old homestead in Rockefeller township, was for many years associated with Daniel in such work. The members of this family are among the best known carpenters of the region. Valentine Fasold was a native of Hessen, Germany, emigrated about the year 1795, and made a location in Whitehall township, Lehigh Co., Pa., where he lived for some time. He served in the war of 1812. In 1816 he came to Northumberland county, settling on a farm in Shamokin township now owned by a Schlegel, and there he remained until he died. Like the members of the family generally, he was a Lutheran, belonging to the church at Augustaville, where he is buried. The inscription on his tombstone reads: "Valentine Fasold, born in Deutschland Oct. 6, 1765, died Nov. 16, 1824." He was a weaver by trade. He was twice married, his first wife, Christian Xander of Whitehall township, Lehigh Co., Pa., being German born. They had three children, as follows: Susanna married Abraham Wolf; Mary Elizabeth married Henry Dornsife; John, the only son, settled in Richmond, Ind., and there died. The baptismal certificate of Susanna Fasold is in the possession of her granddaughter, Mrs. Theo Chester, daughter of Abraham Wolf, and the following is written upon it in German script: Susanna Fasold, daughter of Valentine and Christian, a born Xander (in), his wife, was born into this world Oct. 8, 1798, at 10 o'clock in the morning, in Whitehall township, Northampton [now Lehigh] Co., Pa. She was baptized Oct. 18th of same year in the Lutheran faith. Her sponsors were Johannes Slichter and his wife Dorothea. Valentine Fasold's second wife, Catharine B. Schriver, born Dec. 28, 1775, died Dec. 31, 1858, was from Lehigh county. She was the mother of these children: Catharine (married Jonathan Kreigbaum), Jonathan, Peter (settled in Pottsville, Pa.), George, Lydia (married Samuel Haupt), Charles (lived in McKeesport, Allegheny Co., Pa., and had a family; he was a carpenter), Mary (Polly) (married Jonathan Daughenbach), Joseph, Sarah (married George Zimmerman), Henry (1821-1885, who lived and died in Rockefeller township) and Mary Ann (married Daniel Kreiger). At a reunion of the Fasold family held Dec. 15, 1885, at Farrow's Grove, in Snydertown, Northumberland county, about three hundred descendants of Valentine Fasold were present. Jonathan Fasold, son of Valentine, was born in Lehigh county, Pa., in 1805, and when eleven years old came with his parents to Northumberland county. He owned the farm in Rockefeller township, on which he died in 1885, and followed his trade of shoemaker in connection with farming. He was a Democrat, and he and his family were Lutherans. His widow Catharine (Bartholomew) survived him a number of years, living on the old homestead in Rockefeller township until her death, Sept. 5, 1891, at the age of eighty-three years, one month, twelve days. Their graves are marked by a large monument. They had children as follows: Jonathan, Elizabeth, Catharine, Mary Ann, Simon Peter, David, Hannah and Lucinda (married Saul Shipman). DAVID FASOLD, a citizen of Rockefeller township, was born Aug. 31, 1842, son of Jonathan and Catharine (Bartholomew) Fasold. He was reared to farming and learned the trade of stone mason and paving when a young man, following that line of work in Sunbury and the surrounding territory. He has passed the major part of his life in Rockefeller township, purchasing the farm where he now lives, a tract of ninety- eight acres; about 1885. This was part of the John Shipmans farm. Here Mr. Fasold built a large frame house in 1900, and has made a pleasant home. He also owns part of his father's homestead, which comprised forty-seven acres, but he sold thirteen acres, the part on which the buildings were erected, retaining the other thirty-four acres. It joins his large farm. Mr. Fasold does general farming, disposing of his products in Sunbury. Mr. Fasold was a member of the township school board and during his administration two substantial school buildings were erected in the district, serving as models for those that were built afterward. In politics he is a Democrat and he and his family are Lutherans of the General Synod. Mr. Fasold END OF PAGE 130 has been a useful member of the church, has served in he council many years and has been superintendent of the Sunday school many terms, still filling the position. Mr. Fasold married Ida Dressler, daughter of Isaac and Luzetta Dressler, residents of Perry county, Pa. Three children have been born to this union: Leon Launcelot, Howard Russel and Edward Warren. Mr. Fasold is a prominent Odd Fellow, a member of Augusta Lodge, No. 614, at Augustaville, which he represented in the Grand Lodge for several terms. He was also a member of the Encampment and filled all its offices. He is a good citizen and a man highly esteemed wherever known. George Fasold, son of Valentine, was born in Lehigh county May 25, 1809. He lived and died in Rockefeller township. By trade he was a carpenter and he did considerable contract work, employing a number of men and erecting many houses and barns. He owned the farm now owned and occupied by his son Eli, and there died Dec. 13, 1895. When he settled on this tract it was all covered with forest, and he cleared it with the help of his sons. His wife Mary (Kreiger), a daughter of Christian Kreiger, was born March 25, 1813, and died March 30, 1868. Mr. and Mrs. Fasold were Lutherans and are buried at the Plum Creek church. He was a member of the church council many years. He was a Democrat and active in local affairs, serving his township as school director, supervisor, and overseer of the poor. He was one of the progressive citizens of his district in many respects. Mr. and Mrs. George Fasold had a large family, namely: Daniel, mentioned below; Henry, who did not marry; Samuel, mentioned below; Jeremiah (1839-1872), who married Sarah Kelley and had four children, Rosa, Emma, Gertrude (Mrs. Ammon Geist) and Minnie (Mrs. Cadwallader Reeser); Sarah, who died aged sixteen years; Lydia, who married Samuel L. Kulp and died when twenty-two years old (their daughter Minnie married Albert Teitsworth); John George, who married Eva Rhoads, and had Mary, Ada, Emily, Ella, Daniel H., Walter, Reuben and George; Reuben, who married Sarah Malick and had four children, Amy (Mrs. Isaac Haas), Elwood (married Mary Snyder), Mabel and Homer; Eli, mentioned below; Albert, who married Lucinda Peiffer and had five children, Cora, Truman, Molly, and Flora and Lydia, both deceased; Sophia, who married Henry Conrad; Josiah, who married Florine Shindel and had Harry, Mary and Maggie. DANIEL FASOLD, son of George, was born Oct. 5, 1835, in what was then Augusta (now Rockefeller) township, and there received his education in the public schools, which were just being established in that locality. He received a license to teach from the first superintendent of Northumberland county, Prof. J. J. Reimensnyder, being eighteen when he taught his first term, in what was then Lower Augusta township; it lasted three months, and he taught ten terms in all, being quite successful in his profession. He had learned the carpenter's trade from his father, practically growing up with a knowledge of that business, which he followed during the summers while teaching, and to which he devoted all his time eventually. He was engaged thus from 1848 to 1910, a period of sixty-two years in all, and from 1856 to 1890 was largely engaged in contract work, often employing as many as ten men. Much of his work was done in and around Sunbury, but he had a reputation which extended beyond that locality, for he was well and favorably known over a radius of twenty miles, and was the leading contractor of his section for many years. In 1873 he built the Plum Creek church; he assisted to build Millers Cross Road church, in Rockefeller township; put up a number of schoolhouses in that township; and assisted as foreman in the erection of the large St. Peter's church at Mahanoy, in 1858. In the spring of 1895 Mr. Fasold moved to Sunbury, where he has since resided, his home being at No. 448 Catawissa avenue. From the time of his settling in the borough he has taken quite an active part in public affairs, having served as assessor of his district since 1903. While in Lower Augusta township he was school director one term, and also served a term as auditor; in Rockefeller township he served two terms as school director and two terms as auditor. Politically he affiliates with the Democratic party, in whose work he has taken an active interest. He has also been an energetic church worker, and was long a prominent member of the Plum Creek Lutheran congregation, serving as a member of the building committee when the present edifice was erected, in 1873; he was also deacon, elder and trustee. He and his family now unite with Zion's Lutheran Church in Sunbury. On Dec. 18, 1856, Mr. Fasold married Elizabeth Bartholomew, daughter of Jacob Bartholomew, and they have had three children, one of whom died in infancy. H. Frances married Francis Culp, a railroad employee, who died in February, 1911, and they lived in Sunbury; they had five daughters, Laura (who married Joseph B. Kline and has a daughter, Mildred E.), Elizabeth (who graduated from the State Normal school at Bloomsburg and is engaged in teaching), Elsie I. (stenographer), Ruth Evangeline (a milliner, now in Middletown, Del.) and Verdie Winifred (wife of Edward Harrison and living at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.). Charles E., a carpenter by trade, formerly followed contracting, but since 1888 has been foreman of a gang for the Pennsylvania Railway Company, and makes his home at No. 217 Fair- END OF PAGE 131 mount avenue, Sunbury; he married Caroline Shipe, and they have eight children, Agnes M. (wife of Joseph Moyer), F. Edith (who is married and has a son, Kennert F.), Sarah (wife of Charles Hart, of Danville), Daniel S., Irving G. (an employee of the Bell Telephone Company), Ellis Lee, Francis and Helen B. SAMUEL FASOLD, son of George, was born Feb. 16, 1839, on the homestead in Rockefeller township, and obtained a common school education. At an early age he began to learn the carpenter's trade under his father's instruction, and from his early manhood worked as a boss carpenter, being for a time engaged at Shamokin and surrounding towns. On May 21, 1867, he and his wife came to Sunbury, where they settled permanently, Mr. Fasold building the home at No. 904 East Market street, Sunbury, in 1869, and it has been occupied by the family from that time to the present. Mr. Fasold became one of the leading contractors in Sunbury, and in his time had the bulk of the best patronage, putting up main residences and large business structures, giving employment to a number of hands; and teaching the trade to various apprentices. He deserved his success, proving himself worthy of the confidence shown in him, and was honorable and trustworthy in all his dealings, giving honest work in everything he undertook and making an excellent name for himself throughout this region. Mr. Fasold died May 9, 1906, at the old home on East Market street where his widow still resides. He was a member of Augustaville Lodge, I.O.O.F., and an active member of the Lutheran Church, assisting in the work of church and Sunday school; he held the office of deacon. During the Civil war he was a member of Company C, 136th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. On Dec. 25, 1866, Mr. Fasold married Mary Catharine Evert, (daughter of John C. and Sarah (Meiser) Evert, late of Rockefeller township, the former of whom is buried at Plum Creek Church. Mrs. Fasold was born in Lower Augusta township. Her maternal grandfather, Philip Weiser, was grandson of Conrad Weiser, the noted Indian interpreter. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Fasold: (1) Ida J. lives with her mother. (2) Rev. John Calvin is a minister of the Lutheran Church now located at Williamstown, Pa. He married Maggie Albert, and they have had children, Evert L., Robert A., Hannah Weiser (died in infancy) and Marshall. (3) Dolan W. is engaged as station agent at Selinsgrove Pa. He married Lulu App, daughter of Solomon App, and they have three children, Florence, Irene A. and Lena May. ELI FASOLD, son of George, was born in Rockefeller township Nov. 20, 1846. He lived at home and worked for his parents until he was of age, and was trained to carpenter work from an early age; when but fifteen years old he went with his father and did such work as he was capable of, he and his brother Daniel continuing their father's work after his death. They did day's work as well as contracting, and became the best known carpenters in their district. Eli Fasold owns and lives on the homestead, which contains fifty-five acres, located in the Plum Creek Valley. George Fasold, his father, cleared this tract and erected the present buildings on it. On April 3, 1870, Mr. Fasold married Lydia Hepner, daughter of John Hepner, of Shamokin township. She died Sept. 24, 1905, aged sixty-two years, ten days. To Mr. and Mrs. Fasold were born six children: Charles E., now of Shamokin, Pa., Carrie E, married to P. L. Klinger, of Rockefeller township; William W.; Milton, of East Sunbury; Christian K.; and Jennie B., married to Charles Snyder. Mr. Fasold and his family are Lutheran members of the Plum Creek Church, in the work of which he has been very prominent, having served many years as deacon and treasurer. Politically he is a Democrat, and has been quite active in his community, being school director, auditor and supervisor. Joseph Fasold, son of Valentine, lived in Upper Augusta township, where he had a farm. He was a stonemason by trade. He and his wife, Catharine (Hartzell), had: Mary Ann, James B., Lillie and Catherine. ELISHA M. CAMPBELL, a farmer of Rush township, Northumberland county, was born in Shamokin township in 1863, son of Elisha Campbell, Sr., and grandson of Henry Campbell, who lived in West Virginia and followed lumbering and farming. Elisha Campbell, Sr., was his only child. Elisha Campbell, Sr., married Hannah Karchner, and they were the parents of six children, namely: Hannah married Harmon Snyder, and they had children, Calvin, William, Mary, Cora, Rachel, Jacob and Edith; Sarah married George A. Miller and had children, Elizabeth, Jesse, Albert and Orville; Ella married William Ford and had four children, all of whom are deceased but Hazel; Clara married John Snyder and had three children, Greda, Anna and John; Charles married Lillie Snyder and has two children, Raymond and Edward; Elisha M. is a resident of Rush township. Elisha M. Campbell has followed farming all his life. He married Sarah Catherine Vastine, daughter of Hugh Hughs Vastine, and to them was born one child, Elwood, who is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell attend the Baptist Church. Abram Van De Weestyne, from which Mrs. Campbell is descended, came from Holland to America in the seventeenth century and settled END OF PAGE 132 in New Jersey. In 1698 John Vastine, his son, lived in Germantown, Pa. He soon purchased a tract of land in Hilltown township, Bucks Co., Pa., from one Jeremiah Langhorn, and became one of the pioneers of that county. His wife Abigail, whom he married in New Jersey, survived him, his death occurring Feb. 9, 1738; he was buried at Hilltown, Bucks Co., Pa. Their children were as follows: (1) Abraham, born May 24, 1698, died in October, 1772. He married Sarah Ruckman and they had five children: Abigail married Andrew Armstrong; Ruth married James Armstrong; Mary married Robert Jameson; Rachel married Hugh Mears; Sarah married Samuel Wilson. (2) Jeremiah, born Dec. 24, 1701, died in 1769. He and his wife Deborah had children: Jeremiah, who died in 1778 in New Britain, Bucks Co., Pa. (his wife's name was Elizabeth); Martha, Mrs. John Louder; Hannah, Mrs. Samuel Gresham. (3) Benjamin, born Jan. 9, 1703, was the next in line of descent to Mrs. Elisha Campbell. (4) John died Feb. 9 1765, in Hilltown, unmarried. (5) Mary, born March 1, 1699, married a Mr. Wilson and moved to South Carolina. Benjamin Vastine, born Jan. 9, 1703, son of John; died in August 1749. He married Mary Griffith, and they were the parents of the following children: (1) Hannah married Emerson Kelly. (2), John married Rachel Morgan and had children Benjamin (married Mary Van Zant), Simon, Nancy and Margaret. Of these, Benjamin and Mary (Van Zant) Vastine had three sons: Benjamin, who married Elizabeth Hand and had Margaret (Mrs. William Savidge), Amanda, Harriet (Mrs. Alvin Hughs), Algernon and Thomas F.; Thomas, who married Sarah Ellis and had Ann (Mrs. George Pensyl), Lucinda (Mrs. John Adams), Mary, Samantha, Beneville, Grace Ella, John, Rufus, Thomas J., Jane and Sarah Matilda; and John, who married Sarah Scott and had Hannah (Mrs. Mahlon Huff), Ellen, Sarah Jane, Benjamin, Catherine and Isabella. Simon, son of John and Rachel, married and had a son John. (3) Abraham married Elizabeth Williams, and their children were John, William, Abraham, Nancy, Mary and Jeremiah. The family lived in York county, Pa., for a time, later moving to Kentucky. (4) Benjamin, who died in September, 1775, married Catherine Eaton, and their children were: Mary married Josiah Lunn, Peter married Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Vastine, and had children, Catherine (unmarried), Elizabeth (married John Colket), Benjamin (unmarried), Mary (married Henry Johnson), Ann (married H. Boone), Lydia (unmarried), Thomas Jefferson (married Harriet Paxton and had Peter, Margaret P., Charles, Joseph, Sarah and Hannah), Peter E. (married Mary Miller) and Jeremiah (unmarried). Benjamin married Dorothy, daughter of Amos Vastine, and they had children Martha (married Joel Miller) and Catherine (married Benjamin Miller). Elizabeth married Alem Morris. (5) Jonathan, who married Elizabeth Lewis, is next in the line of descent to Mrs. Elisha Campbell. (6) Isaac married Sarah Matthews. (7) Amos married Martha Thomas and they had two daughters; Dorothy who married Benjamin Vastine, son of Benjamin; Martha, who married Robert C. Shannon. Jonathan Vastine, son of Benjamin and Mary (Griffith) Vastine married Elizabeth Lewis, and their children were: (1) Benjamin married Elizabeth Van Zant and their children were: Lewis V., who married Martha Boone and had Hannah (Mrs. Dudley Andrews), Margaret (Mrs. Jacob B. Gearhart), Rachel Jane, Elizabeth (Mrs. John H. Morrall), Matilda (Mrs. Abraham Gulick), Sarah, Martha, William B., Lewis B. and George; Mary, who married Samuel Boone; Ann, who married Isaac Wolverton; and Rachel, who married John M. Housel. (2) Ann married Thomas Robbins. (3) Hannah married Peter Vastine, son of Benjamin Vastine. (4) Mary married William Marsh. (5) John married Catherine Osmun and had William (married Elizabeth Hursch), Amos (married Susan Lerch), Margaret (married Charles Heffley), Sarah (married Robert Campbell), Thomas (married Lanah Vought) and John. (6) Jeremiah married E. Reeder, and their children were: Mary, who married C. Fisher; Margaret who married D. Robbins; Surrissa, who married William Leighaw; and Thomas, who married Eliza Reeder and had children Catherine and Elizabeth. (7) Thomas died unmarried. (8) Jonathan married Nancy Ann Hughs. Jonathan and Nancy Ann (Hughs) Vastine had children as follows: Hugh Hughs; Lewis, who married Sarah Potts and had one daughter Ann, now the wife of Alfred Halberstattel and the mother of one child; and Benjamin, who died single. Hugh Hughs Vastine, son of Jonathan and Nancy Ann (Hughs) Vastine, married Catherine Zimmerman, and to them were born the following children: Martha Ann died single; William L. married Alice Cardell and had children, Blanche, James, Mary and Cora; Oscar married Ada Gillaspy; Mary F. married John K. Erdman and had children, Hattie, Sarah, Nora, Alice, Bert John, Calvin, Kimber, and Frank; Jonathan married Cora Hess and had children, Charles, Katie and Chester; Jacob married M. Smith and had children, Ethel, Hatten and Grethel; Lewis married Mary Nunamaker; Sarah C. married Elisha Campbell, Jr.; Harriet married William Arnold and had children, Bessie and Annie; Ida married Charles Hoffman and had children, Vergie, Edwin, John, Mary, Wesley, William, Lillie and Frank. END OF PAGE 133 I. C. M. ELLENBERGER, present superintendent of the public schools of the borough of Sunbury, has been engaged in educational work for over twenty years, about half of that time as teacher and the remainder in his capacity of superintendent. He was born Oct. 30, 1863, at Gatesburg, Pa., and received his elementary education in the public schools. He prepared for college at Stone Valley Academy and Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, Pa., and took his collegiate course at Pennsylvania State College, from which he was graduated in 1890. From 1891 to 1894 Professor Ellenberger was principal of the Bremen Institute, in Kentucky. In 1894 he took the position of principal in the high school of Tyrone (Pa.), filling that incumbency until 1899, when he was made superintendent of the Tyrone public schools. He continued in that work until he came to Sunbury, in 1908, to serve in a similar capacity. Some idea of his responsibilities may be gained from a brief outline of the educational facilities Sunbury affords its youth at the present time. The borough is fairly well provided with large and commodious school buildings, well equipped for thorough and efficient work. There are eight buildings advantageously located, readily accessible so as to be convenient for the pupils in all the various parts of the borough. The borough of Sunbury was incorporated as such March 24, 1797, by Act of Assembly, and divided into two wards, East and West, thus establishing the school district. Some time later the first free school was opened on Third street, where the post-office now stands. The town grew considerably and was soon divided into four wards. and the schools were managed by a board of six directors, the board meetings being held semi-monthly. Previous to 1870 there was no Central high school in Sunbury, but the schools in the different wards were partially graded. The first step to establish a central high school was taken by the board of directors in 1870. Bartholomew's store room, at No. 35 North Fourth street was rented for the purpose, and in December 1870, J. R. Miller was elected first principal, at a salary of one hundred dollars a month; at the time primary teachers received thirty-five to forty dollars a month, secondary teachers, fifty-five dollars, and grammar school teachers, sixty dollars. The school term was but seven months. Because of poor health Professor Miller resigned almost immediately after accepting, and Prof. Elias Schneider, who formerly taught in the Sunbury Academy, was elected principal in January 1871. Shortly afterward the high school was moved to the Second street building, opposite the county prison; then to the building on Front street, near the Reading railroad bridge, the same building the academy had occupied for a short time: then it was partly in the Front street building and partly in the Eighth ward building. For some time the high school was small. Professor Schneider served three years as principal, being succeeded by W. M. Boal, W. H. Black, H. P. Roth, C. D. Oberdorf, Professor Conser, Professor Young, Professor Dennis and Professor Rhodes, the present principal. The first regular high school class was graduated in 1882, and consisted of three pupils. After several years it was thought superior school advantages could be secured by consolidating Sunbury and East Sunbury, a project which was consummated in 1895. The school district then consisted of nine wards, a new Central high school was built on Fifth street, at the head of Court street, midway between Market and Chestnut streets. In 1893 the borough superintendency was established, C. D. Oberdorf being elected superintendent, his place as principal of the high school being taken by Professor Conser. In 1897 the high school of the Sunbury school district took up its quarters in the new building. Professor Oberdorf was succeeded as borough superintendent by Prof. Ira Shipman who held the office until 1908, since when Prof. I. C. M. Ellenberger has been the incumbent. The annual reports indicate the steady growth of the schools. In 1860 there were four teachers, 269 pupils, and the school term was eight month, in 1870 there were ten teachers, 672 pupils; term seven months. In 1880 there were fourteen teachers, 822 pupils; term, eight months. On Dec. 7, 1884, the wards had increased to five, by reason of the increase of the borough population, and there were in all five school buildings, accommodating one boys' and girls' high school, two intermediate, two secondary and three primary schools. In 1890 there were nineteen teachers, 1,109 pupils, and the term was eight months. In 1900 there were forty-two teachers, 2,100 pupils, and the term had increased to nine months, as at present. In 1910 there were fifty-six teachers, 2,504 pupils. Including the class of 1910 the Sunbury high school has had 708 graduates, and the East Sunbury high school 63. The State appropriation has increased from $213.20 in 1860 to $13,131.83, in 1910. LEINBACH. The brothers D. O. and Charles F. Leinbach, of Milton, Northumberland county, are natives of Turbut township, this county, where their father and grandfather lived, but the family is an old one of Berks county, and has been settled in Pennsylvania since 1723. The first known ancestor of the Leinbachs was Henry Leinbach, of Langen-Weibolt, Wetterau, Germany, who married Barbara Lerch. Johannes Leinbach, Sr., son of Henry and Barbara, was born in Langen-Selbold, Wetterau, March 9, 1674; he was baptized by the Reformed pastor. In his native land he was an organist. On Oct. 2, 1700, he married Anna Elizabeth Kleiss, who was born in Eidengup, Wetterau, Feb. 2, END OF PAGE 134 1680, daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Schillinger) Kleiss, and was baptized in the Lutheran faith, to which her parents adhered. Johannes Leinbach, Sr., came to Pennsylvania Sept. 11, 1723, with his three sons and two daughters Frederic, John Henry, John (Johannes, Jr.), Joanna Maria and Maria Barbara, the family settling in Oley township, Berks county. He was "vorsteher" of the Oley congregation, into which office he was inducted April 9, 1742. Frederic Leinbach, son of Johannes, Sr., was born in Hochstadt, near Frankfort on the Main, July 15, 1703, and was baptized by the Reformed pastor, Rev. Mr. Bender. He was a tailor by trade. On June 2, 1737, he married Elizabeth Frey, of Skippack, who was born there July 1, 1719, and was baptized by Count Zinzendorf May 6, 1742. John Henry Leinbach, son of Johannes, Sr., was born Nov. 26, 1705, in Hochstadt, and was baptized in his infancy by the Reformed pastor, Rev. Mr. Bender. On Nov. 2, 1739, he married Joanna Herman, born in Conestoga March 16, 1718, and baptized by Count Zinzendorf May 6, 1742, the same day as Elizabeth Frey, above mentioned. Johannes Leinbach, Jr., son of Johannes, Sr., was born in Hochstadt Feb. 13, 1712. He accompanied his parents to Pennsylvania in 1723, and settled as a farmer. On Aug. 12, 1735, he married Catharine Riehm, of Muddy Creek, and they had eleven children, one of whom died in infancy, the others being: Frederick, John Daniel, Lewis, Abraham, Benjamin, Joseph, Elizabeth, Maria Barbara, Johanna and Catharine. John C. Leinbach, great-grandfather of D. O. and Charles F. Leinbach, lived and died in Oley township, Berks Co., Pa. His son, John C. Leinbach, born in 1796, died in 1853. Coming to Northumberland county, he settled in Turbut township about 1820, and there he is buried, at Paradise. He was a tinsmith by trade and a skilled mechanic in various lines, being quite famous for the grandfather clocks which he made; the last one he made is owned by his grandson, D. O. Leinbach. His wife, Mary (Stitzel), was born in 1799 and died in 1887; she was a member of the Judge Stitzel family of Berks county. John C. and Mary (Stitzel) Leinbach had two children, Daniel S. and Hannah. The daughter married John Kutz, of Northampton county, who died in Limestone township, Montour county, the mother of Daniel (deceased), Emma (married John Wolfinger), Annie (married Judson Derr), Wallace (of Milton, Pa.) and Nelson (of Sunbury, Pa.). Mrs. Archer Van Dyke, sister of John C. Leinbach, lived in the Juniata valley. Daniel S. Leinbach, father of D. O. and Charles F. Leinbach, was born Aug. 31, 1822, in Turbut township, and died Nov. 13, 1902; he is buried at Paradise. He attained prosperous circumstances through his own efforts; and was highly respected by all who knew him. He owned a fine farm, containing about one hundred acres, located near Follmer's church in Turbut township, repaired the residence on that tract and built a fine new barn. He was independent in politics and an active member of the Reformed Church, which he served as elder and deacon. Mr. Leinbach married Mary Fick, who was born July 8, 1828, daughter of John Fick, and died Dec. 23, 1891; she is buried beside her husband. They became the parents of four children: Annie A. is the wife of John Ditzler, of Turbut township, and has three children, Emma, John M. and Charles; John A., now a retired farmer, who owns the old homestead in Turbut township, married Eliza Bieber; D. O. and Charles F. are mentioned below. D. O. LEINBACH was born July 29, 1859, near Paradise, in Turbut township, Northumberland county, and received his education in the township schools. He remained with his father until he reached the age of twenty-one, when, he came to Milton, Aug. 6, 1880. Here he has since made his home. He learned the trade of machinist at the well known establishment of S. J. Shimer & Sons, in Milton, and continued to follow that occupation as a journeyman until 1887, when he became traveling salesman for the concern, a capacity in which he was engaged until 1894, traveling through the States, Territories, and Dominion of Canada. Continuing in the service of the above named firm, who established the iron business known as The Milton Manufacturing Company, he assumed the salesmanship of this company and after years of extensive travel became their Philadelphia representative, a position he now holds. He has been in the same employ for a period of upwards of thirty-one years. Mr. Leinbach's practical experience in the machine shop and his mechanical skill are valuable supplements to his ability as a salesman and his judgment in business dealings, and the combination of qualities has made him an appreciable factor in the success of the company in the field over which he has operated. He is a substantial citizen of Milton, and retains his home there, living in the fine residence which he built in 1906, at No. 398 East Broadway. He is a Lutheran and has been an active worker in the church, which he has served as deacon. In politics he wears no collar, and is no man's man. On March 19, 1889, Mr. Leinbach married Ella M. Klapp, daughter of Peter and Catharine (Haag) Klapp, and granddaughter of John Klapp and John Haag. Mr. and Mrs. Leinbach have one son, W. Dewitt, who was born March 6, 1899, and is now attending the local schools. CHARLES F. LEINBACH was born Jan. 28, 1866, END OF PAGE 135 in Turbut township, Northumberland county, and after attending the local schools went to the academy at Limestoneville, Montour county, and to the academy at McEwensville, Northumberland county. He also spent one year in study at the normal school at Hickory, N. C. Upon his return home, in 1888, he began clerking in the store of W. L. Raup, where he remained five years, subsequently clerking one year in West Milton and then six years with the Schreyer & Sons Company, at Milton. He has since been in business on his own account. He bought out the grocery of D. L. Hogue, of Watsontown, which he conducted for two years, until 1904, that year returning to Milton and establishing himself at his present location, No. 436 Broadway. Here he has a first-class store, dealing in groceries, flour and feed, and he enjoys a steady and lucrative patronage, built up by honorable methods and earnest efforts to please his customers, who appreciate his attention to their wants and his ability to meet all the requirements of his trade. Mr. Leinbach is deservedly a much respected citizen of the borough in which he makes his home. On Dec. 27, 1895, Mr. Leinbach married Sarah C. Lahr, who was born Nov. 11, 1872, daughter of William B. and Sarah (Sterner) Lahr, and died March 24, 1907; she is interred at the Harmony cemetery at Milton. Mr. and Mrs. Leinbach had one daughter, Mary Helen, who was born May 20, 1900. The family home is at No. 432 Broadway, Milton. Socially Mr. Leinbach is a member of Castle No. 265, K.G.E., and Commandery No. 27, K. of M. He is active in the work of St. John's Reformed Church, which be has served as a member of the consistory. HEINRICH KLERX, general superintendent of the Susquehanna Silk Mills, at Sunbury, stands at the head of one of the foremost enterprises established in that borough as the result of the efforts of local business men to enhance the interests of this place by drawing industrial capital hither with special inducements of convenience and economy of production. That the reciprocal advantages for which the Susquehanna Silk Mills agreed to establish a plant at Sunbury have been exceeded to a notable degree may be gathered from the citation of a very few statistics. The Sunbury Board of Trade was organized in 1894, and not long afterward the industrial committee became particularly active in urging the advantages of the borough as an industrial center upon capitalists in search of suitable locations. Through the industrial department of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company it was ascertained that the old established silk manufacturing firm of H. E. Schniewind, of Germany, was, considering the establishment of a plant in this country. An offer was made on the condition that a factory at least 100 by 300 feet in dimensions be erected, and that employment be furnished to at least 250 people. That the success of the plant has surpassed the expectations of its founders and of the Sunbury citizens who induced them to choose this location is shown in the simple fact that the main mill in the Ninth ward occupies an area 400 feet square, taking no account of substantial additions, and that a working force of over 800 finds constant employment therein. Moreover, another large establishment, the converting works of these mills, has grown out of the needs of this and other mills operated by the same concern, giving employment to another force of 400 workers. The Susquehanna Silk Mills, manufacturers of the famous Suskana silks, are operated by a German house of long standing. H. Schniewind, Jr., is the present president and treasurer of the American branch of this concern, Max Siepermann, secretary. For ten years before the establishment of the plant at Sunbury Mr. Siepermann had been the New York representative of the firm. Through him negotiations were entered into with the visiting representative of the firm by which a plant of the proportions above given was to be erected and put into operation, a company being incorporated under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania. Mr. Heinrich Klerx had at that time been connected with the German house for a period of fifteen years, and through efficient service in various capacities had risen to the position of superintendent. His ability, no less than his long and varied experience, seemed to qualify him particularly for the special responsibilities of the new venture, though he was at the time unfamiliar with American methods and business customs, and had but slight acquaintance with the English language. His resources, however, proved equal to the unusual demands made upon them. Assuming control at the outset he superintended all the details in the construction of the plant and the setting up of machinery, and after the factory commenced operations soon learned by actual contact with conditions here whatever he needed to grasp the local situation. The methods of his native land combined with the best in American commercial tactics have proved sufficient to raise the plant under his control to foremost standing among the industrial institutions of the country. Mr. Klerx has the advantage of being a skilled mechanic, and his inventive faculties have enabled him to produce many devices for saving labor in the Susquehanna Silk Mills, some of his appliances, in fact, being now in general use in similar establishments all over the United States. His familiarity with the executive and financial intricacies of this branch of manufacturing is no less comprehensive, and the combination of faculties which he has shown in his administration of this great plant makes his service invaluable. END OF PAGE 136 In 1903 the Susquehanna Silk Mills established another plant, at Marion, Ohio, the demand for the product having outgrown the capacity of the mills at Sunbury. It was erected and equipped under the personal supervision of Mr. Klerx - a high compliment to his management of the Sunbury plant. Since then two other plants, one at Lewistown, Pa., the other at Jersey Shore, Pa., have been put into operation by this concern, the main office being at Sunbury, where Mr. Klerx resides. There are also salesrooms and offices at No. 18 West Eighteenth street, New York City. In 1903 it was found that another plant, for dyeing and finishing the product of the weaving mills, would be a desirable addition, and through Mr. Klerx' efforts this new establishment was also located at Sunbury, though it finishes the product of all the mills of the concern. Mr. Klerx had full charge of all the preliminary arrangements, the purchase of suitable property and the construction of the factory, which is located in the Fifth ward. This new plant known as the converting works, was completed and set in operation in December, 1903. In construction and equipment it is second to no establishment of the kind in the State. Every branch of the silk business has been the object of Mr. Klerx' earnest study. The welfare and health of employees, no less than the prosperity of the factory, has received his attention from the time he took up his work here, and it was he who organized the Silk Mill Relief Association, which pays benefits to employees, members incapacitated through accident or illness. Moreover, movements looking to the general welfare have always received his hearty support, for a well ordered community means healthful, industrial conditions for both employer and employee. Socially Mr. Klerx holds membership and is past Exalted Ruler in the B.P.O. Elks, Lodge No. 267, the Americus club, and other organizations. JACOB G. HOFFMAN, a venerable resident of Washington township, Northumberland county, was born in that district Aug. 1, 1836, son of William D. and Anna Maria (Gonser) Hoffman. John Hoffman, his grandfather was a native of Colebrookdale township, Berks Co., Pa., and was a pioneer in Northumberland, where he followed farming. He is buried at the Reformed and Lutheran Church at Rakers, Pa. He made his home in Washington township, along the mountain. His wife, Susanna (Drumheller), daughter of Nicholas Drumheller, a native of Earl township, Berks county, came with him to this county. They had children as follows: Jacob D. died in Jackson township and is buried at St. Peter's Church (he married Rebecca Snyder, born April 21, 1812, died Aug. 15, 1835; their twin sons, Montgomery and Cornelius, born Aug. 14, 1835, died in 1835 and 1836, respectively); Henry D., born Jan. 9, 1810, died Nov. 10, 1889, lived in Washington township, where he followed the occupations of farmer and stonemason (his wife Maria Elizabeth, nee Hetrich, born Sept. 21, 1812, died Feb. 3, 1867); William D. is mentioned below; Elizabeth married Fred Raker; Catharine married Jacob Groh, and they located in Missouri. William D. Hoffman, son of John, was born Dec. 23, 1802; in Colebrookdale township, Berks Co., Pa, and, came to Northumberland county with his parents when a young man. He was a stonemason and farmer in Washington township, his property there including the farm now owned by his son Jacob O. Hoffman; his purchase was a much larger tract. He was a Lutheran member of the Himmel Church, where he held various offices, and is buried there. His death occurred Oct. 2, 1885. His wife, Maricha or Anna Maria Gonser, born Sept. 17, 1812, was a daughter of Daniel Gonser, and came of a very prosperous family. She died May 16, 1899. The children of this union were as follows: Daniel Gonser, born June 26, 1832, died Dec. 22, 1860; Elizabeth married a Mr. Drumheller; John G., born April 19, 1835, died Nov. 10, 1868 (his wife Sarah died May 9, 1904, aged sixty-six years, three months, nineteen days); Jacob O. is mentioned below; Maria (or Maricha) was the next in the family; Denah married Elias Hetrick; William G. lives at Pillow, Pa; Emanuel died in infancy; Henry G., born Sept. 24, 1843, died Feb. 9, 1874; Conrad G. was the next son; Rudolph A., born Nov. 8, 1847, died Jan. 9, 1886; Louisa married Henry Keihl, of Pillow, Pa.; Benjamin, born April 29, 1850, died Feb. 20, 1861; Robert G., born March 27, 1852, died March 1, 1857; Caroline, born Jan. 17, 1857, died May 13, 1866; Ernestus G. lives at Pillow. Jacob G. Hoffman was reared to farm life and remained at home working for his parents until he attained his majority. Meantime he attended the subscription schools for a limited period. He then learned the blacksmith's trade, which he has continued to follow, though he has lived partially retired since 1892. His first home was in Washington township, whence he moved to Upper Mahanoy, but after less than two years residence there he returned to Washington township, where he was established for eight years. For three rears afterward he was in Jackson township, thence moving to Lower Mahanoy, where his home was near Hickory Corners for one year. From there he moved to his present location, remaining ten years at that time and moving elsewhere for two years, after which he purchased the place where he and his family had made their home so long, and there they have resided continuously since 1887. This formed part of the Solomon Campbell homestead, which originally was very large, Mr. Hoffman owning about 150 acres. END OF PAGE 137 There are two dwellings on the place. Part of his present residence is of log construction and was built before 1800, and the stone house was built in 1819. There is good water on this farm, and Mr. Hoffman has been successfully engaged at his trade and in agricultural pursuits. He has taken an interest in local affairs, was overseer of the poor for twelve years, school director six years and supervisor one year. Politically he is a Democrat. In 1860 Mr. Hoffman married Sarah Drumheller, who was born July 29, 1840, daughter of Nicholas Drumheller and granddaughter of Nicholas Drumheller, a native of Berks county, the family being prominent and fully mentioned elsewhere in this work. Twelve children have been born to this union: Emma R. married Frank Rothermel and died at the age of twenty, the mother of three children, one of whom survives; Lilian A. married Adam Rebuck and has two children (she is now -1911- fifty years of age); Franklin L., of the Mahantango Valley, married Catharine Strohecker, and they have had fourteen children, nine of whom are living; Francis W., who is engaged in farming his father's land, married Bertha Klock, and they have had four children, all of whom survive; Daniel M. died when four years old; John T., who lives in the Mahantango Valley, married Louisa Klinger and they have had five children, all living; Sara J. married Daniel Bordner and died at the age of nineteen, the mother of one child, deceased; Ira I. died when six months old; Ida J. married John H. Hoffman and has had five children, three of whom are living (they live in Lykens, Pa.; Rosa May, born March 30, 1879 married Daniel Kahler, of Washington township who was born Sept. 1, 1875, and they have had seven children, Harry A. (born Jan. 3, 1900) Howard J. (June 18, 1901), Jennie M. (March 26, 1903), Nora Alice (Oct. 23, 1905), Mary Agnes (Feb. 3, 1907), Irwin D. (Aug. 11, 1908) and Claude A. (Sept. 9, 1910); Jacob Edwin, who lives in Schuylkill county, married Lizzie Weis and they have had two children, both of whom are living; Charles Elmer, who lives in the Mahantango Valley, married Nora Wiest and has two children. Mr. Hoffman and his family are members of the Lutheran Church. Katon H. Hoffman, son of Henry, was born Feb. 24, 1848, and married Elizabeth Bellman, born the same day. Their children were born as follows: Paul, March 14, 1872; a son (that died in infancy), Aug. 9, 1873; Susan E., Sept. 3, 1874; John H. March 18, 1876; William Harvey, July 12, 1878; Emma J., Nov. 11, 1879; Daniel L., Oct. 14, 1881; Mary E., Nov. 29, 1884; Solomon Carey, Nov. 28 1886; Samuel Howard, July 5, 1888. Of these Susan E. married William Dornsife, born Feb. 20, 1867, and they have had four children: A daughter, born dead April l7, 1895; Edith E., born March 6, 1897 (died Oct. 3, 1900); Dela Direne, born July 16, 1900, and Ruth E., born Feb. 17, 1909. CHRIST. Several members of this family have been associated with the business interests of Mount Carmel as butchers and dealers in meat, the brothers B. F. Christ and J. M. Christ now conducting well equipped stores in the borough, where their father, John Christ, was established in the same line from 1877 until his retirement. All have been substantial and useful citizens, a credit to their name and the community in which they have lived and worked. The father of John Christ died when a comparatively young man, in Schuylkill county, Pa. His widow married a Mr. Snyder. She had three children by her first marriage, namely: Emanuel, who settled at Ashland, Pa., where he died (his son Isaac lives at Tamaqua, Schuylkill county); Elias, who died in the Mahantango Valley, unmarried; and John. John Christ was born Feb. 3, 1831, and died in October, 1905. Early in life he became a drover and butcher, and he made Western trips to buy cattle, which he drove East in the early days. He was, however, one of the first dealers to ship cattle by railroad. In 1877 he came to Mount Carmel and some time later entered the retail branch of the business, in which he continued until his retirement, selling out to his son B. F. Christ some time before his death. Mr. Christ was a prominent member of the United Evangelical Church, in which he was an active worker. He married Hannah Heckert, who survives him, still making her home at Mount Carmel, and they had a family of five children, viz.: Emma, widow of J. E. Huber, resides at Mount Carmel; Agnes is unmarried and living with her mother; Jeremiah M. is mentioned below; Hannah N. is the wife of Rev. C. D. Huber, now located at Sunbury, Pa., as pastor of the First United Evangelical Church; and Benjamin Franklin is mentioned below. Michael Heckert, Mrs. Hannah (Heckert) Christ's first ancestor in America, emigrated from Germany some time during the latter part of the eighteenth century, and settled in Lower Mahanoy township, Northumberland Co., Pa. Of his children, Francis and Yost went West; Peter was the father of Mrs. Christ; Elizabeth married Jacob Miller, who moved to Armstrong Valley, in Dauphin county, Pa. There may have been other children. Peter Heckert, son of Michael, served in the war of 1812-15, was honorably discharged, and received two tracts of bounty land for his services. He remained in Lower Mahanoy township, having taken up farm lands there, and died at the age of eighty five years. His wife, Eva, died at the age of forty nine. They had children as follows: George; END OF PAGE 138 Michael; Peter; Elias; Isaac; Benjamin; Joseph; Riley; Elizabeth (Mrs. Isaac Lenker); Polly (Mrs. Harry Weaver); Sallie; Catherine (Mrs. Jacob Wentzel); Christina (Mrs. Aaron Conrad); Hannah (Mrs. John Christ); and two who died in youth. Elias and Hannah (Mrs. Christ) are now the only surviving members of this large family, of which the following settled and lived in Northumberland county: Peter, whose son Jacob is a marble cutter at Millerstown, Pa., and son Willis, a railroader living at Georgetown (Dalmatia), Northumberland county; Elias (now - 1910 - aged eighty-three), who has ten children, all living, Henry A. (of Kansas City, Mo.), Emma E. (Mrs. I. J. Shroyer, formerly of Shamokin, now living in Dauphin county, Pa.), Riley W. (a farmer of Northumberland county), John W. (a merchant at Hegins, Schuylkill county), Mary A. (Mrs. John K. Maurer of Schuylkill county), Sarah J. (Mrs. Jacob Maurer of Schuylkill county), Joseph L. (a baker of Girardville, Schuylkill county), Lydia A. (Mrs. John W. Bahner, residing near Stonington, Northumberland county), Lizzie A. (Mrs. Elmer A. Bohner, of Northumberland county), Eli P. (principal of schools at Schuylkill Haven, Pa.), Benjamin, who was for years a leading furniture dealer and undertaker in Sunbury, and whose children are Dr. Charles G. Heckert (president of Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio), Emma (Mrs. Savidge, of Sunbury, Pa.), Jennie May (Mrs. Sharon Stephens, of Harrisburg, Pa.), and B. Frank (attorney at law, of Sunbury); Polly, Mrs. Harry Weaver, whose son George lives in Shamokin; and Hannah, Mrs. John Christ, whose children have been previously mentioned. Joseph and Christina (Mrs. Aaron Conrad) resided in Perry county, Pa.; Joseph was a soldier in the Civil war and was shot while in the act of relieving a picket, who did not recognize him. Mr. Conrad was also a soldier in the Civil War, and died of typhoid fever after a forced march to Gettysburg in 1863, after his term of enlistment had expired. Catherine, who married Jacob Wentzel resided in the State of Indiana. JEREMIAH M. CHRIST, son of John and Hannah (Heckert) Christ, was born March 16, 1867, in Eldred township, Schuylkill Co., Pa. He began his education in the schools of that locality, receiving the rest of his schooling at Mount Carmel, whither he removed with his parents in 1877. He was in his father's employ until 1892, when he went west, spending eighteen months traveling throughout the West and Northwest, finding employment at different places. After his return home he again worked for his father, until he was thirty-two years old, at which time he and his brother became associated with their father under the name of John Christ & Sons. At the end of a year Jeremiah M. Christ withdrew from this partnership and located in Buffalo, N. Y., where he engaged in business on his own account. Returning to Mount Carmel, he established his present store, at No. 221 South Market street, in 1906. He deals in groceries, provisions, butter and eggs, as well as fresh and smoked meats, and carries a large and comprehensive stock in all those lines, catering to a fine class of trade. By upright dealing and close attention to the wants of his customers he has built up a profitable patronage, which continues to show a steady increase. Mr. Christ has found time to interest himself in the public affairs of the community, and has been chosen to represent the Second ward in the council. He was formerly a Republican in his political views, but since 1909 has supported the Socialist party. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and in social connection belongs to Mount Carmel Lodge No. 378, F. & A.M., to the Sons of America and to the Knights of Malta. On June 3, 1897, Mr. Christ married Alice Fagely, daughter of Isaac and Lydia (Leipensberger) Fagely, of Topton, Berks Co., Pa. They have had two children, Lydia C. and Benjamin Franklin. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CHRIST, son of John and Hannah (Heckert) Christ, was born Nov. 3, 1874, in Eldred township, Schuylkill Co., Pa. He received all his education in the public schools of Mount Carmel, and learned the butcher business under his father, with whom he was associated as a member of the firm of John Christ & Sons, as above stated. and whose interest he purchased in 1903. In 1907 he built his fine store at No. 123 North Oak street, one of the most complete and up- to-date meat markets in this district. He also conducts another market at No. 135 South Oak street. Mr. Christ commands a thriving trade, and gives constant employment to from twelve to fifteen men. He has a stock farm of his own, comprising 150 acres at Stonington, in Shamokin township, this county, and there keeps his cattle until they are ready for slaughter, an arrangement which gives him many advantages over the average dealer. He is a business man of ability and resource, enterprising in his ideas and methods, and his prosperity is the best evidence of his sound judgment on such matters. Mr. Christ was one of the organizers of the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company of Mount Carmel, one of the most important financial institutions of the borough, and has served as one of the directors throughout the period of its existence. Fraternally he unites with the Sons of America and the local lodge of Elks (No. 356), and in religion he is a member of the Evangelical Church. On Oct. 14, 1897, Mr. Christ married Annie Gross, daughter of Frederick Gross, of Mount Carmel, and they have two children, John Frederick and Emil Marshall. END OF PAGE 139 WILLIAM H. ROHRBACH, late of Sunbury, was throughout his active years thoroughly identified with the business interests and material growth of that borough. He was associated with his father for a number of years in the foundry business, was superintendent of the Sunbury waterworks for a period of eight years, and as an intelligent and public-spirited citizen was esteemed by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances who had known him well through years of business or personal association. Mr. Rohrbach was a member of an old Pennsylvania family, of German origin, descended from John George Rohrbach, who emigrated to America about the middle of the eighteenth century. He settled in eastern Pennsylvania, in Berks county, in the territory now embraced in District township, and the family is now quite numerous in the eastern end of that county. The ancestral homestead is still owned by one of his descendants. He was twice married, and by his first union had a son Lawrence. By his second wife, Christiana Moser, he had five children, George, John, Simon, Eva and Christiana. Those of the name now living in Berks county are descendants of Lawrence and John; Simon is said to have moved to Catawissa Columbia county; George to have gone West; Eva married Jacob Finkbohner, who after her death married her sister Christiana. The grandfather of William H. Rohrbach devoted himself to his business affairs and was a successful and influential man of his day, although he had no aspirations toward public honors and took no part in anything outside of his private interests. For many years he conducted a charcoal furnace in conjunction with farming. He married Catharine Fenstermacher, and to them was born a large family. George Rohrbach, father of William H. Rohrbach, was born in 1808 in Columbia county, Pa. He early became interested in the iron industry and continued to follow the foundry and furnace business all his active days. In 1838 he moved to Northumberland county, locating in Upper Augusta township, where he resided a few years afterward removing to Sunbury. There he lived more than half a century until his death in 1894. He was one of the oldest citizens of the borough at that time. In 1838 he had established a small foundry a mile east of Sunbury, between the Center turnpike and Shamokin Valley railroad. Two years later, having secured a location on the south side of Chestnut street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, he removed his business to Sunbury, being the first foundry at that place. He continued to operate it for some years, either individually or in association with his brothers William, Jacob and Daniel. They were succeeded by Clinton D. and Jacob Rohrbach, the latter retiring in favor of T. G. Cooper, and in 1866 the firm of Rohrbach & Cooper gave place to Rohrbach & Son, composed of George Rohrbach and his son William H. Later Jacob Rohrbach (another son of George) was admitted, the style becoming Rohrbach & Sons who continued to carry on the business until 1883, when the plant was sold to Halfpenny Brothers. George Rohrbach was an active member of the Lutheran Church and one of the founders of the church of that denomination in Sunbury, in which congregation he served as trustee for a long time and also held other official positions. He married Mary C. Artley, who died in 1887, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. They had a family of nine children, two of whom died in infancy, those who reached maturity being: Clinton D. carried on lumbering and farming as well as the foundry business, and died in Upper Augusta township; he married Sarah Engle. Jacob engaged in the foundry business, was afterward postmaster at Sunbury, subsequently lived in retirement and died in 1911. Elizabeth is the widow of Henry G. Cooper, of Sunbury. Catharine, widow of Harry Bourne, also lives at Sunbury. Lloyd T. was a business man of Sunbury. Edward died at the age of eighteen years. William H. is mentioned below. William H. Rohrbach was born Feb. 14, 1845, on Chestnut street Sunbury, and died in that borough Feb. 9, 1898. He learned the trade of molder and long followed the business with which the family has been so closely identified in Sunbury, being connected with his father's foundry for eighteen years. He also acted as bookkeeper for the concern. For eight years he filled the responsible position of superintendent at the Sunbury waterworks. He was quite active in the material improvement of the borough, and erected many houses there as a builder, the house in which his widow now lives, at No. 440 North Eighth street, being in fact the third which he put up for his own use. Thoroughly public-spirited, be took an active part in the promotion of many movements which had the benefit of the community generally for an object, and though he was a shrewd businessman he was not selfish in advancing his own interests at the expense of others. He had hosts of friends, and was highly esteemed wherever known. With his family he worshipped at the Lutheran Church, and for years he gave of his time and means to the furtherance of its work, serving many years as deacon and for twenty years as Sunday school superintendent. In politics he was a Republican, and he served in the Union army during the Civil war, under two enlistments. Mr. Rohrbach married Jennie Miller, daughter of William M. and Annie (Strickler) Miller, of Lower Augusta township, and grand-daughter of Alexander Strickler, who lived in Sunbury. The following children were born to this union: Lloyd M. who died in infancy; Alexander S. who died when eight months old Annie E. Jacob A., END OF PAGE 140 Franklin L., a graduate of State College, an electrical engineer by profession, and at present engaged as superintendent of a plant at Spokane, Wash. (he is fond of athletics and an able business man); Hattie M.; Charles E. who is an invalid; and Clarence G. CHAMBERLIN. The Chamberlin family of Shamokin township has been settled in that part of Northumberland county from pioneer days. Joseph Chamberlin, grandfather of Joseph H. Chamberlin and Silas Chamberlain (as one branch of the family writes the name), and of the late Lewis Chamberlin, cousins, all of whom make their homes in Shamokin township, was born in New Jersey, whence he removed to Pennsylvania at an early date, settling on land in Northumberland county now owned by Silas Chamberlain. He had a tract of about two hundred acres, and there he lived and died, reaching the age of eighty-seven years, seven months, fourteen days. Vast improvements were made upon the property during his lifetime. Though frequently in danger of being molested by the Indians in the early days he persevered in the work of clearing his land and getting it under cultivation. He and his wife, Mary (Young), are buried in the cemetery of the Upper Valley M. E. Church. They had the following children: Peter, who died in Jefferson county, Pa.; Rachel, Mrs. Alexander Tharp; Annie, Mrs. Moore, Huldy, Mrs. William Furman; Mary, who married Mahlon Hull; Cabel and Isaac, mentioned below; Lewis, who died in Shamokin township; Lemuel, mentioned below; and Aaron, who died in Shamokin township. Cabel Chamberlin, son of Joseph, was born in 1813, and died May 2, 1884, aged seventy-one years, four months, one day. He was a farmer, and owned part of the old homestead, the farm having been divided between him and his brother Lemuel. In his young manhood he was engaged in teaching for some time, first in the subscription schools then commonly conducted in this region and later as one of the first teachers under the free school system. He was intelligent and energetic and for many years a leader in his community. On political questions he was a Republican. He died upon his farm, and is buried with his wife, Mary E. (Krissinger), at the Upper Valley M. E. church. She died Nov. 20, 1866, aged fifty-two years, seven months, fifteen days. Eleven children were born to this worthy couple; Sarah married Isaac D. Kline; Lewis is mentioned below; Elnorah married Jared Haupt; Annie died Nov. 6, 1865, aged twenty-four years; Catharine died April 4, 1864, aged twenty-five years; Hulda died Jan. 20, 1866, aged nineteen years; Emeline married Newton Morgan; John died in 1846, when three years old; Mary Ellen died Aug. 19, 1861, aged six years; Alfred died at Trevorton, Pa.; Oliver died when twenty-two years old. LEWIS CHAMBERLIN, son of Cabel and Mary F. (Krissinger), was at the time of his death, April 11, 1911, a retired farmer of Shamokin township. He was born there Aug. 7, 1834, and was reared to manhood upon the paternal farm. In 1857 he went to Shamokin borough, where he remained for three years, engaged in running a stationary engine. Returning to his native township, he leased the farm of Michael M. Sober, his father-in-law, and conducted that property for a period of five years as a renter, in 1873 purchasing the tract which consists of 130 acres of valuable land. It is located in Irish Valley. He erected all new buildings on this farm, and the farm at present is one of the very finest in this section, due to his unremitting and intelligent care. In addition to general farming he made a specialty of dairying for about twenty-five years, selling his milk in Shamokin. Mr. Chamberlin retired from active pursuits in the spring of 1910, his son George W. taking charge of the farm. He always held the respect of his fellow citizens, and was elected school director of his township, filling that position faithfully and efficiently. In politics he was a Republican, in religion a devout member of the M. E. Church, in the work of which he took an active part. He is buried at the Summit church in Shamokin township. Socially he held membership in the P.O.S. of A. Mr. Chamberlin's first wife, Esther (Sober), daughter of Michael M. Sober, died in 1868, leaving three children: Calvin, who died at the age of twenty-three; Ada, who died when five years old; and Ella May, wife of George Lawton, who is in the coal business and lives in Virginia. Mr. Chamberlin's second marriage was to Mrs. Elizabeth (Sober) Dresher, widow of Jacob Dresher, by whom she had these children: Harris M.; Mary F., wife of Lemuel Tharp; Spencer H., of Shamokin: William H., of Shamokin township; Clara, wife of C. C. Wilson; and Jacob C., a teacher of Shamokin township. Two children were born to Lewis and Elizabeth (Sober) Chamberlin: Edward O., who died in 1906; and George W., now engaged in farming the homestead in Shamokin township, who married Ada Scott and has children, Austin L., Wilfred F., Ella G. and Margaret O. Mrs. Lewis Chamberlin died April 8, 1905. Isaac Chamberlain, son of Joseph, was born May 29, 1814, and died on the old homestead Jan. 8, 1906, in his ninety-second year. He was reared upon the home farm, and farming was his principal work throughout his active years, though in his young manhood he taught school for a time, first in the pay schools and later in the free schools. His wife was also a school teacher in her early years. Mr. Chamberlain was not only one of the best known men in his district, but one of the most highly esteemed, having many friends who ad- END OF PAGE 141 mired and appreciated his sterling qualities. His wife, Mary (Campbell), died May 14, l885, aged seventy-one years, seven months, nineteen days. They were the parents of four children: Jane is deceased; Silas is mentioned below; Martha is the wife of Tobias Dunkelberger, of Shamokin township; Rhode (deceased) was the wife of Aaron Raker and had a large family, all dying young but one son, Adam G., who died in April, 1911, aged twenty-seven years. SILAS CHAMBERLAIN was born July 30, 1848, in Shamokin township, and there obtained his education in the public schools. He was reared upon the homestead farm, where he has spent all his life with the exception of four years after his marriage, during which time he was engaged in farming elsewhere. Returning to the old home he took the farm, which originally contained about 130 acres, and has added to his holdings until he now has 160 acres. His industry has been well rewarded, and he is considered one of the substantial farmers of his neighborhood, where his honorable life has gained him high standing personally as well as in a business way. In 1875 Mr. Chamberlain married Derresa Adams, daughter of David Adams, of Ralpho township, this county. They have had a family of nine children: Lorenzo D. married Mary B. Moore and they have a son, James F.; Ellsworth L. married Maud E. Osmun and they have a son, Lamar Ellsworth; William A. is still at home; Martin L. married Myrtle Hamilton and they have three children, Elwood H., Glendine M. and Cornelia; Keturah L., Adam, Roselda, Evelyn Viola and Ira Rankin are at home. Mr. Chamberlain and his family are members of the M. E. Church. He votes independently, supporting the candidates he considers best regardless of their party affiliations. Lemuel Chamberlin, son of Joseph, was born Dec. 16, 1823, and lived and died in Shamokin township, passing away Jan. 20, 1906. When a young man he learned wheelwrighting, and for some time followed that trade, eventually buying part of the old homestead, where he followed farming until seventeen years before his death. For four years he lived in Jefferson county, this State returning thence to the homestead, where he died on Oct. 17, 1850, Mr. Chamberlin married Margaret Hoffman, daughter of John C. and Catherine (Dunlap) Hoffman. She died July 14, 1889, aged sixty-five years, eight months, seventeen days, the mother of two children, Joseph H. and John M. both residents of Shamokin township. Mr. Chamberlin's second marriage was to Ida Bowers, by whom he had one son, Lemuel M. , who is now living in Jefferson county. JOSEPH H. CHAMBERLIN, son of Lemuel, was born July 31, 1851, in Shamokin township, where he is now engaged in farming. He obtained his education in the local public schools, and remained at home, assisting his father with the farm work until twenty-four years of age, since when he has been living at his present location. He has a tract of seventy acres, bought of Lewis Chamberlin in 1873, lying along Irish creek, and besides this is half owner of another farm in Shamokin township. In addition to general farming and tracking he has engaged in lumbering to some extent, and has prospered in all his various undertakings. His natural mechanical ability has been of great use to him in his work, enabling him to do many things for himself, and his handiness has not only saved him hiring much work done but has proved convenient in many emergencies. Mr. Chamberlin was one of the organizers of The Irish Valley & Seven Points Telephone Company, and is serving as one of its directors. Mr. Chamberlin married Margaret C. Grove, who was born May 15, 1856, daughter of Joseph and Susanna (Weary) Grove, of Mahantango Valley, later of Shamokin township, and they have had a large family, born as follows: Elleroy, Dec. 26, 1872 (died Aug. 12, 1876); Margaret E., Dec. 22, 1877 (married Samuel A. Kopenhafer); Mary E., Nov. 21, 1879 (married Frank Fahrensworth); Carrie V., Oct. 3, 1881 (married William A. Snyder); Lettie M., Sept. 5, 1883 (married Emanuel Smith); Hattie I., Jan. 18, 1886; Ellis R., July 10, 1888 (died Jan. 29, 1890); Zella D., Dec. 23, 1890; Percy A., Aug. 20, 1892; Prossie M., Nov. 7, 1893; Florence A., Jan. 28, 1898. Mr. Chamberlin is an active member of the United Brethren Church. In politics he is a Democrat and he has long been prominent in the public affairs of his township, which he has served sixteen years as school director, also holding the offices of treasurer and supervisor. Fraternally he is a Mason, holding membership in Elysburg Lodge, No. 414. ABRAHAM H. REED, a prosperous farmer of Shamokin township, was born there Nov. 16, 1846, son of Jacob Reed, and is a representative of a family which has been well and favorably known in Northumberland county for over one hundred and thirty-five years. It was founded here by Jacob Reed, whose posterity is now numerous in this section, ranking among the most substantial and useful citizens and most highly respected members of their various communities. Jacob Reed was born in England in 1700, and married a Miss Wolford, a native of Switzerland. They came to Berks county, Pa., where a son Jacob was born, and later removed to Lebanon, Pa., where a son Casper was born. Jacob and Casper Reed, brothers, came from Berks county to Northumberland in 1774, being among the early pioneers in the region where they settled. They took up about five hundred acres of END OF PAGE 142 land in what is now Shamokin and Ralpho townships, which land is still owned by their descendants. Jacob Reed was one of the foremost men of his time in the community. He was a skilled mechanic, as a worker both in iron and wood, carrying on such work in connection with farming, having a blacksmith and carpenter shop; he had natural ability as well as training for mechanical work, and was successful and enterprising in everything he undertook. Much of the progress of the valley in his day owed its initiation to him. He was a promoter, in fact the chief advocate for the organization, of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church, which was named in his honor, and he was the largest contributor toward its foundation and support, his skill as a tradesman enabling him to do much more than most of the organizers and supporters; his brother, Casper Reed, donated much of the land for the cemetery. In politics Jacob Reed was a Whig. In Berks county Jacob Reed had married Elizabeth Dreher, and they had a family of nine children: John, Jacob, David, Matthias, Salome (married John Hursh), Catharine (married George Bower), Magdaline (married John Smith), Eva (married Daniel Haas) and Elizabeth (married William H. Muench, a noted schoolmaster of his time). John Reed, eldest son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Dreher) Reed, was born June 5, 1780, upon the homestead at Reed's station, and himself owned the old Reed homestead, which is now the property of the Martz family. He was a well known and highly respected man of his day, and lived to a good old age, dying Aug. 26, 1865; at the age of eighty-five. His wife, Eva G. (Gillinger), born in 1787, died May 11, 1876. They are buried at Reed's church, in Ralpho township. Their children were: Jesse; Maria, Mrs. John Lake; Jacob; Elizabeth, Mrs. Casper Scholl; Hannah, Mrs. Solomon Martz; and Eva C., who married William Zuern, this couple moving to Colorado. Jacob Reed, son of John Reed, was born at Reed's station in 1812, and died Jan. 10, 1852. He is buried at Reed's church. He took the old homestead, which he cultivated all his life. He married Maria Hoffman, who was born Nov. 13, 1818, and six children were born to this union: Elizabeth, who married Herman Campbell; Jane, who died unmarried; John, who died unmarried; Abraham H.; Lydia, who married Peter Overdorf; and Jacob G., a resident of Sunbury. After Mr. Reed's death Mrs. Reed married (second) Daniel Hummel, who was born Sept. 8, 1814, and died Feb. 10, 1874; she died Jan. 18, 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hummel are buried in the United Brethren cemetery in Shamokin township. Abraham H. Reed obtained his early education in the common schools near his home, and later went to the academies at Lewisburg and Elysburg. In his early manhood he taught school for three terms, in Shamokin township. He then settled down to farming, locating on his present place near Paxinos, where he erected a fine residence in 1908. All the other buildings on the farm have been improved and kept in excellent condition since the place came into his possession, and he has the reputation of being a thorough business man, which the success of his various undertakings bears out well. He has 130 acres of fine land, all under cultivation, and in agricultural matters and affairs of general interest is considered one of the leading men in his district, a typical member of the substantial old family to which he belongs. He has served as auditor of his township. Mr. Reed married, Feb. 25, 1875, Lucy A. Boughner, daughter of Peter and Margaret (Reply) Boughner, of Ralpho township, this county. They have no children. Mr. Reed is a Lutheran, holding membership in St. Jacob's (Reed's) Church. Politically he is a Republican. WILLIAM H. MORGAN, late of Northumberland, was a prosperous merchant of that borough for almost forty years, and at one time served as postmaster there. He was a self-made man, universally respected, and was long classed among the best and most enterprising citizens of his community. Mr. Morgan was born Oct. 13, 1839, at Northumberland, son of Henry and Sarah Morgan. Both the parents were born and reared in Chillisquaque township, where they lived until their removal to the borough in 1828. They had a family of eight children, of whom Thaddeus G. settled in Chillisquaque township, Martin L., William H. and Mrs. John Ulp lived in Northumberland, and Samuel B. in Watsontown. William H. Morgan began life humbly. When a boy of thirteen he husked corn for the sum of twenty-five cents a day, and when a few years older drove mule teams for various employers, and was engaged as a clerk in the grocery store of Samuel Burkenbine, at the locks. In May, 1861, he enlisted in the Union service, becoming a member of Company B, 5th Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserves, the company being commanded by Captain Taggart (who was killed in the war) and composed principally of men from Northumberland and vicinity. Mr. Morgan served three full years, and had a fine record as a soldier. At the second battle of Fredericksburg he was wounded in the foot and captured, being confined for a month in Libby prison. Returning to Northumberland after the war Mr. Morgan clerked about a year for W. T. Forsyth. In 1865 he and J. C. Forsyth bought the grocery business at the locks, which they carried on in part- END OF PAGE 143 nership, until 1875, after which Mr. Morgan continued the store alone until 1885, when he sold out to Evans Brothers. Purchasing the McFarland property on the corner of Queen street and Depot alley, he renovated some parts of the building, converting one room into a store room, and was in the city buying a stock of shoes for the store he expected to open when fire (supposedly of incendiary origin) partly destroyed the building. As it was built of brick, and the fire department responded promptly, it was not ruined, though considerably damaged, and new repairs were necessary. The building was long considered one of the most creditable business and residence structures in the borough, being of substantial construction and well kept up by the owner. Mr. Morgan built up an excellent trade as a shoe merchant, continuing in the business until his death, which occurred Dec. 21, 1904. Meantime, in 1894, during President Cleveland's second administration, he received the appointment of postmaster. By economy and thrift in his younger years he obtained a fair start and by continued industry and devotion to business he gained substance and standing that made him one of the most esteemed residents of Northumberland, a man looked up to for his honorable life and high standards of conduct. He was a member of the Methodist Church, though his family belong to the Lutheran denomination, and socially was an active member of Capt. James Taggart Post, No. 350, G.A.R., and of the Masonic lodge at Northumberland. At one time he also held membership in the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He had numerous friends. In 1872 Mr. Morgan married Annie E. Stroh, daughter of John S. Stroh, who came to Pennsylvania in the early days, making the journey in a Conestoga wagon, a favored method of transportation at the time. Mrs. Morgan proved of great assistance to her husband in the conduct of his business. Thirteen children were born to them, two of whom are deceased, the survivors being: Minnie A., wife of Harry Barnhart, living in Point township (she was a trained nurse before her marriage); Gertrude B., who graduated from the Bloomsburg State normal school and was a successful public school teacher for three terms in Michigan before her marriage to Edward Northy, of Calumet, Mich., where they reside; Estelle, married to Homer Derk and residing at Northumberland; Mary J., a seamstress, who lives at home; Sarah, a milliner, of Philadelphia; John S., night clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company al Sunbury, Pa.; George V., of Northumberland; Elsie, clerk in George M. Howell's store at Northumberland; Rachel C., a clerk in Northumberland; Helen I. and Ruth E., both of whom are attending school. LLOYD T. ROHRBACH, late of Sunbury, commenced his active career as a lawyer, was for several years in his earlier manhood quite prominent in official - especially court - circles in Northumberland county, and for many years before his decease was one of the foremost business men of this section of Pennsylvania. Though his commercial interests became large and varied, he always kept in touch with the public and political life of the county, and for years was one of the most valuable workers in the Republican party in the State. He was born Jan. 22, 1839, in Upper Augusta township, Northumberland Co., Pa., and died at his home on Chestnut street in the borough of Sunbury, March 8, 1909. The Rohrbach family is of German origin and its members were among the early settlers of eastern Pennsylvania. The grandfather of Lloyd T. Rohrbach lived and labored in that section, devoting himself to his business affairs. He was a successful and influential man of his day, although he had no aspirations toward public honors and took no part in anything outside of his private interests. For many years he conducted a charcoal furnace in conjunction with farming. He married Catherine Fenstermacher, and to them was born a large family. George Rohrbach, father of Lloyd T. Rohrbach, was born in 1808 in Columbia county, Pa. He early became interested in the iron industry and continued to follow the foundry and furnace business all his active days. In 1838 he moved to Northumberland county, locating in Upper Augusta township, where he resided a few years, afterward removing to Sunbury. There he lived for more than half a century, until his death, in 1894. He was an active member of the Lutheran Church and one of the founders of the church of that denomination in Sunbury, in which congregation he served as trustee for a long time and also held other official position. He married Mary C. Artley, who died in 1887, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. They had a family of nine children, two of whom died in infancy, those who reached maturity being: Clinton carried on lumbering and farming as well as the foundry business, and died in Upper Augusta township; he married Sarah Engle. Jacob engaged in the foundry business, was afterward postmaster at Sunbury, and subsequently lived in retirement. Elizabeth is the widow of Thomas G. Cooper, of Sunbury. Catherine, widow of Harry Bourne, also lives at Sunbury. Lloyd T. is mentioned below. Edward died at the age of eighteen years. William was engaged in the foundry business for many years and later was superintendent at the Sunbury waterworks. Lloyd T. Rohrbach began his education in the public schools of Sunbury, receiving his higher training at the Missionary Institute (now known END OF PAGE 144 as Susquehanna University) at Selinsgrove, from which he was graduated in 1861, and at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, where he spent the freshman year of his college life, finishing at Selinsgrove. In April, 1861, he became a soldier in the Union army, becoming a member of Company F, 11th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers of which company he served as clerk. During his service of about three months he took part in the battle of Falling Waters, Md. Going to Harrisburg, he was assigned to a position in the auditor general's office. On his return to Sunbury he taught school in the old academy which stood on the present site of the former Masonic Temple building on Third street and took up the study of law in the office of Horatio Wolverton, finishing his legal course with Judge William M. Rockefeller, of Sunbury. He was admitted to the bar of this county in 1865 and began the practice of his profession in Sunbury, giving the greater part of his time and attention to law work until 1872. During this time he had won a place in the confidence of his fellow citizens and become very well known, his success being notable. Meantime, however, he had begun his association with the official life of the county. In 1868 he was appointed United States commissioner, which office he continued to fill until he resigned it in 1872 to take that of prothonotary and clerk of Orphans' court, to which he had been elected. By reelection, in 1875, he was continued in that position for six years in all. Though a Republican in a county conceded at the time to have a normal Democratic majority of from 1,200 to 1,500 votes, Mr. Rohrbach was first elected by a majority of 600 and reelected by a majority of 300. Though not much in office after giving up his court work he continued to hold an influential place in the councils of his party, local, State and national, until the end of his active life, was a Presidential elector in 1892, and in 1896 was a prominent candidate for the nomination for State treasurer; he had a strong following, but withdrew his name before the balloting began. He served several years as member of the Sunbury school board. The extensive business interests, gradually acquired by Mr. Rohrbach after he entered business life in 1878, in time came to require the principal part of his time and it was probably in this connection that he made his widest reputation. In 1878 he began the manufacture of lime, in conjunction therewith also dealing in coal and ice, and he continued that business with some variations as long as he was in active association with such interests. Several years before his retirement he gave up the lime business, carrying on the ice and coal trade and the manufacture of brick, in which he was interested with his two sons. No man in Sunbury was more prominently identified with undertakings of importance in the industrial development of the borough. He was interested in the Sunbury Nail, Bar and Guide Iron Manufacturing Company, of which he was treasurer, and assisted in organizing, in 1882, the Sunbury Water Company, now grown to vast proportions, which he served as secretary and treasurer. About four years before his death, which occurred March 8, 1909, at his home on Chestnut street, Sunbury, Mr. Rohrbach retired, being incapacitated by ill health to such an extent that he took no further part in affairs of importance. Of his previous activity the Sunbury Daily Item said at the time of his death: "While his business interests were multiple, he attended to the exacting details with a master hand and rare ability, and enjoyed the proud distinction of having the unmeasured confidence and esteem of the public at large. He was always quick to further any project having for its object the betterment of the community's interests. * * * The deceased lived a life that was crowded with many accomplishments and good deeds. To his friends he was stanch and true, in spite of any ordeals that might spring up, and never turned a deaf ear when appealed to for a favor or helping hand. He was a public benefactor in all that it implies, regardless of his personal interests. In his home life he was a kind, devoted husband and father." Though always progressive and aggressive in his business life to such an extent that his success seemed inevitable, Mr. Rohrbach was always pleasant and cordial in his manner and genial to all with whom he came in contact, finding time for the amenities as well as the necessities of existence, and making himself agreeable in all his relations. Temperate in his acts and principles, large-hearted and liberal in his views, he was not only a citizen valued in his own community, but one who would have been an accession to any community. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and one of its leading workers and supporters, serving many years as elder of that congregation. Socially he belonged to Sunbury Lodge, No. 22, F. & A.M., and to the Masonic chapter. He was buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery, and during the funeral the prothonotary's office was closed as a mark of respect to one who had worthily filled the office in his day. On Dec. 20, 1866, Mr. Rohrbach was married to Jennie C. Haas, who was born Nov. 6, 1846, and died April 10, 1902. They were the parents of three children: John Haas (deceased), George Edward and William R. JOHN HAAS, father of the late Mrs. Lloyd T. Rohrbach, was born June 22, 1822, in Shamokin township, Northumberland county, one of the eleven children of Daniel and Eva (Reed) Haas. His early days were spent on his father's farm, but when a young man he engaged in the mercan- END OF PAGE 145 tile business and in coal mining, spending many years at the latter business. He was a member of the firms of John Haas & Co. and Haas & Fagely, of Shamokin, both well known concerns in their day. Retiring from the coal business in 1875, he became interested in the Sunbury Nail Works, with which he was identified until 1894, resigning the position of president that year. His other business associations were numerous and important. He was president of the Sunbury Water Company, a director of the First National Bank, one of the first directors of the Shamokin, Sunbury & Lewisburg Railroad, and for many years president of the board of directors of the Missionary Institute (now Susquehanna University), at Selinsgrove. He was also prominent in religious work, serving thirty-five years as elder in the Lutheran Church of Sunbury, and for thirty years he was superintendent of the Sunday school of that church. In politics he was a Republican. Mr. Haas married Mary Gheen, and they had a family of four children: John Packer, born Sept. 30, 1849, now deceased; Jennie Clementine, who became the wife of Lloyd T. Rohrbach; Mary Alice, who was the wife of the late Dr. C. M. Martin and Louisa, who died in infancy. GEORGE EDWARD ROHRBACH son of Lloyd T. Rohrbach, was born in Sunbury Nov. 24, 1869. He received his education in the public schools there and gained a thorough business training as assistant to his father. At the age of eighteen years he became a member of the firms of Lloyd T. Rohrbach & Sons and the Sunbury Water Company, retaining his connection with the former concern until 1909, when he sold his interest therein to his brother, William R. When he entered the firm it was extensively engaged in dealing in coal and ice (now handling ice only), the wholesale coal business being relinquished in January, 1903, when George F. Rohrbach became manager of the Sunbury Water Company. Mr. Rohrbach has continued his interest in the Sunbury Water Company, of which concern - now grown to large proportions - he is secretary; is a director of the First National Bank of Sunbury; and has large holdings in a Southern lumber concern. He has devoted considerable time to local matters affecting the general welfare, having served since 1903 as a trustee of the Mary M. Packer hospital (succeeding his father on the board), was a member of the borough council for eight years, from 1896 to l904, and has been an active worker in the Republican party serving as committeeman for the First ward. He has numerous social connections, being a member of Lodge No. 22, F. & A.M., of Sunbury Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M.; the Temple Club; Lodge No. 267, B.P.O.E. of which he is a past exalted ruler and the Conclave. He is a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church, with which he and his wife unite. On Christmas Day, 1905, Mr. Rohrbach married Laura Irene Welker, daughter of Cares and Abbie (Clement) Welker, of Sunbury. They reside in the homestead of his father on Chestnut street. Mrs. Rohrbach is a member of Fort Augusta Chapter, D.A.R., of Sunbury, and is prominent in social and civic circles. She manifests at all times an intelligent and devoted interest in the affairs of her husband, to whom she is a charming companion. WILLIAM R. ROHRBACH, son of Lloyd T. Rohrbach, was born in Sunbury, March 5, 1876. He graduated from the Sunbury high school in 1895, and the same fall entered Susquehanna University, at Selinsgrove, Pa. He entered Bucknell College, at Lewisburg, Pa., in 1899, and graduated in 1900, after which he became connected with his father, Lloyd T. Rohrbach, in 1901 becoming a member of the firm of Lloyd T. Rohrbach & Sons, in the wholesale ice business. In 1902 he became secretary of the Sunbury Water Company and in 1909 assumed the duties of treasurer and general manager of that company, buying out his father's and brother's interest in both the water company and the firm of Lloyd T. Rohrbach & Sons. Since that time he has continued the business successfully, displaying ability and initiative in his enterprise. Socially Mr. Rohrbach is a member of Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A.M.; of Williamsport Consistory, and of Irem Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., at Wilkes Barre, Pa. He is also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega and T. & N.E. fraternities, at Gettysburg, Pa.; the I.O.O.F. and Encampment, the Temple Club of Sunbury; the Sons of Veterans, and the Conclave. In politics he is a Republican. On June 10, 1902, Mr. Rohrbach married Hannah Derr, daughter of John F. and Susan (Knight) Derr, and they have two children, Lloyd Derr and Mary Elizabeth. In 1911 Mr. Rohrbach completed his handsome residence on Market street, Sunbury, a Colonial mansion, and one of the most up-to-date homes in central Pennsylvania. SAMUEL EGOLFF MAY, engineer of the borough of Shamokin, is a representative of a profession indispensable to the opening and upbuilding of a town or country. He is a member of a family whose early home was in England, and he was born in Shamokin Oct. 8, 1876, son of Maj. James and Mary G. (Snyder) May. Joseph May, his great-grandfather, came to America from England, accompanied by his wife, whose maiden name was Anna George. They located in Schuylkill county, Pa., but later moved to Canada, where both died. Isaac May, son of Joseph and Anna born in Cornwall, England, March 18, 1819. After END OF PAGE 146 coming to the New World, he was employed in the coal mines in Schuylkill county, Pa., and later in the lead mines at Galena, Ill. After some time spent at the latter place, he returned to Schuylkill county, and again entered the mines. In 1864 he located in Shamokin, and as the head of the firm of May, Patterson & Co. operated for ten years the Buck Ridge colliery, which was afterward carried on by May, Audenried & Co. He then leased and operated the Barnside for six years, after which, under the name of Isaac May & Co., he leased and operated the Morris Ridge colliery for several years. This ended his active participation in business. He was once the owner of the Maysville tract where Maysville Park, named after him, is situated. Outside his coal interests he was engaged actively and officially with several financial institutions, being a director of the Northumberland County National Bank, president of the Miners' Trust & Safe Deposit Company, one of the originators of the First National Bank and its second president. He married Mary Sterling, daughter of John and Sarah Sterling, of Berks county, Pa., and they had fourteen children, among whom were James, Elizabeth (Mrs. H. W. Morgan), Isaac, Jr., Emma (who married A. D. Allen and later M. M. Markle), Jennie (Mrs. A. A. Heiztman), Ida (who married J. F. Graeber and later Thomas O'Connnor), Susan (Mrs. W. W. Ryon), George, Joseph, Carrie and Laura (Mrs. D. J. Driscoll). Mr. May was a Republican in politics, and a Methodist in religious faith. Mrs. May was a member of St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church at Shamokin. Maj. James May, son of Isaac, was born in Schuylkill county, Pa., Dec. 4, 1843, and there attended school and grew to manhood. In 1861 he enlisted in Company E, 48th Pa. Vol. Inf., and participated in a number of the noted engagements of the Civil war, among these being Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam; Fredericksburg, the Wilderness (where he won a second lieutenant's commission), Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg Mine, Knoxville, Loudon, Campbell Station and Petersburg. In the latter engagement he was promoted to first lieutenant, and as such completed his term of enlistment, serving throughout the war. In 1867 he joined the Pennsylvania National Guard, becoming first lieutenant of the Shamokin Guards, later captain, and finally major, serving in the latter capacity twelve years. After his return from the war he was engaged in a mercantile business until 1871, when with his father he began the operation of the Burnside colliery. He was also interested in the Morris Ridge colliery, under the firm name of Isaac May & Co., which later dissolved, after which Morris Ridge colliery was operated by May, Troutman & Co., with Maj. James May as senior partner. He died Sept. 29, 1905, and is buried in St. Edward's cemetery, Shamokin, Pa. Major May was prominent in public life, and served the borough three years in the council, and was treasurer of the Home Building and Loan Association. He was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and of Lincoln Post. No. 140, G.A.R. Gov. R. E. Pattison appointed Major May one of a commission to locate the position of the 48th Regiment during the battle of Antietam, upon which ground a monument was erected; it was unveiled Oct. 17, 1904. In politics he was a Republican. His religious connection was with St. Edward's Catholic Church. On Jan. 31, 1866, he married in Shamokin, Pa., Mary Gillen Snyder, daughter of John A. and Catherine Styles (Egolff) Snyder, and ten of their twelve children reached mature years namely: Catherine, born Nov. 26, 1866, married May 2, 1893, William A. Mullen, of Shamokin, a powder manufacturer, and they have had two children, John, born in 1894 at Shamokin, and Mary May, born Dec. 25, 1895, the latter of whom died March 7, 1910, and is buried in St. Edward's cemetery at Shamokin. Louise, born March 20, 1870, is the wife of Frank K. Conley, a hardware merchant at Shamokin, and they have had one child which died in infancy. Elizabeth Egolff, born Jan. 8, 1872, married J. Edward Gilger, of Shamokin, a clerk in the Shamokin post office, and they have had four children, William Mullen, Margaret May, and James May and Edward, twins. Margaret, born Aug. 5, 1873, is the wife of J. A. Shephard, of the Wood, Shephard Varnish Company, of New York, Mr. Shephard being the patentee of Shephard's Paragon Varnish; Mr. and Mrs. Shephard have no children; Charles Heizmann, born March 2, 1875, a druggist at Shamokin, married Catharine M. Morris, of Shamokin, and they have had two children; Richard Morris and Eleanor Claire. Samuel Egolff was born Oct. 8, 1876. Richard Francis, born Aug. 17, 1878, is unmarried, and is a mining engineer at Shamokin. Jeanne, born Dec. 4, 1881, married Dr. G. O. Roberts, of Savannah, Ga., a dentist at Shamokin, and they have had one child, Louise May. Eleanor Claire, born Jan. 25, 1884, and James Isaac, born April 4, 1890, are unmarried. The latter assists his brother Samuel Egolff May. The mother of this family, Mrs. Mary G. May, still resides at Shamokin. Samuel Egolff May has been well fitted for the responsibilities of his position, his practical experience and his school training both tending to place him at the top of his profession. He has made a careful study of all branches from the construction of roads to sewerage and the building of water-works, and his work has won him a high reputation. He has been borough engineer since 1905, and has done a great deal of work for the county. Mr. May is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the B.P.O. END OF PAGE 147 Elks, Sons of Veterans and West End Fire Company, and enjoys high social standing.