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	ANDREW L. BUTCHER, who is farming his father's old homestead in Washington 
township, is a grandson of Dieter Bucher, the ancestor of a prominent branch of 
the Bucher family, many of whose members may be found in Northumberland county.  
One branch located in Lower Mahanoy township.
	
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	The Bucher family has long been settled in Pennsylvania, the homes of the 
earlier members being in Lancaster and Montgomery counties. Dieter Bucher was a 
native of Limerick township, Montgomery county, whence he came to the Mahantango 
Valley, in Northumberland county, purchasing two farms lying along the creek, 
from Uniontown to the county line.  He never lived there any length of time, 
however, dying in, his native district.  His son Andrew lived upon one of these 
farms for some years, and his son-in-law David Lenker occupied the other, in 
later years purchasing Andrew Bucher's place and eventually owning both 
properties. Dieter Bucher was twice married, his first wife being a Ziegler, his 
second a Miss Shutt.  To the first marriage were born three children: Mary, who 
married Frank Markley; Catharine, who married David Lenker; and Andrew. By the 
second wife he had two children: Ephraim and Louisa, the latter marrying 
Jonathan Eisenbrown, who is still living in Philadelphia, at an advanced age.  
Dieter Bucher had a sister, Lydia, who was the mother of Gov. John F. Hartranft, 
of Pennsylvania.
	Andrew Bucher, son of Dieter, was born Nov. 22, 1822. He came from the 
Mahantango Valley to Washington township about 1852, settling at the Mahanoy 
(St. Peter's) Church, where he owned the eighty-five-acre farm now the property 
of his son Andrew L. Bucher. He was a lifelong farmer and prospered in his work, 
about 1860 building what is now the west end of the dwelling on the farm, and in 
1868 putting up the barn which is still in use. He was a useful and highly 
esteemed member of the community, serving as school director, tax collector and 
assessor, and he was a very active member of the Reformed congregation at St. 
Peter's Church, of which he was deacon, elder, trustee and treasurer. In 
political conviction he was a Republican. He died in April, 1894, aged seventy-
four years, four months, fourteen days, and is buried with his wife at Mahanoy. 
Her name was Elizabeth Lenker, and she was born Dec. 7, 1827, daughter of 
Michael Lenker, of Lower Mahanoy township; she died in September, 1888, aged 
sixty years, nine months, nine days.  Mr. and Mrs. Bucher had five children: 
Mary married Isaac O. Billman; Sallie married Jacob Smith; Amanda married I. M. 
Wentzel; E. Alice died aged twenty-six years; Andrew L. was the only son.
	Andrew L. Bucher was born March 16, 1861, and received his education in 
the common schools. He was reared to farm life, and began farming for himself on 
the homestead in 1884, since which year he has continued to follow general 
agricultural pursuits, disposing of his produce at Trevorton and Shamokin; he 
has been huckstering for a number of years. He is also agent for fertilizers, 
and is a successful business man, recognized as such by all his neighbors and 
associates.  The homestead, which came into his possession in 1897, is nicely 
located, overlooking Mahanoy and Mahanoy Church, and it is equipped with 
substantial buildings.  Mr. Bucher is a Republican, and has been school director 
of his township, but his principal activity outside of his private affairs is in 
St. Peter's Church, of which he has been a trustee many years; formerly he held 
the office of deacon. He has served the congregation faithfully, and takes a 
sincere interest in the welfare of the church.
	Mr. Bucher has the old grandfather clock of his grandfather Dieter Bucher, 
which is still a good timepiece, though fully one hundred and fifty years old. 
It has a brass face and besides marking the hours and minutes shows the date and 
the movements of the moon.  Mr. Bucher also has a lot of red chinaware that 
belonged to his father.
	On Oct. 23, 1881, Mr. Bucher married Sarah A. Blasser, daughter of Jacob 
Blasser, of Herndon.  She died May 21, 1895, aged thirty-two years, three 
months, leaving a son, Charles E., who is now employed as a tombstone cutter at 
Mahanoy; he married Mary Harris and has two children, Guy and Stanley.  Mr. 
Bucher's second marriage was to Lizzie Latsha, daughter of Adam W. and 
Wilhelmina (Fegley) Latsha, and they have three children: I. May, Harry F. and 
John J.
	Jacob Billman, grandfather of Isaac O. Billman, who married Mary Bucher, 
daughter of Andrew Bucher and sister of Andrew L. Bucher, belonged to a family 
which was settled in Berks county, Pa., in an early day and was himself a 
pioneer of Schuylkill county. He married Maria Magdalena Weaver, and their 
children were: Maria (or Polly, who married Jacob Tressler), Solomon, Peter, 
Daniel, Jacob and David.
	Solomon Billman, son of Jacob, was born Sept. 24, 1812, in the vicinity of 
Hegins, Schuylkill county; where his father then lived. He died near Mahanoy, 
Pa., at the age of seventy-eight years, and is buried at St. Peter's Church, 
Mahanoy. His first marriage was to Luzetta Ossman, by whom he had three 
children, Isaac O., Amos and Solomon. By his second wife, Salome (Michael), he 
had four: Aaron, Lizzie, Sarah and Mary.
	Isaac O. Billman, son of Solomon, was born in 1839, and died in 1904. He 
married Mary Bucher, and to them were born the following children: Agnes, 
George, Charles, J. Calvin, Lizzie, Verna and Lester.

	ALFRED CAMERON BOBB, of Paxinos, justice of the peace and surveyor, and 
also well and favorably known in other connections in his section of 
Northumberland county, was born at Paxinos June 11, 1873, son of the late Peter 
C. Bobb.
	Michael Bobb, the first of this family to come to America, was born in 
Germany and settled in Jackson township, Northumberland Co., Pa. His
	
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son, Michael M. Bobb, was born Sept. 28, 1812, at Big Mahanoy, Northumberland 
Co., Pa., and grew to manhood in Lower Augusta township, this county.  There he 
followed the tailor's trade for about nine years, in 1852 removing to Shamokin 
township, where he located at Snufftown. At that place he followed farming in 
addition to his trade. Selling out later he moved to near Mifflinburg in Union 
county, where he carried on farming, and thence removed to Rockefeller township, 
Northumberland county, where he passed the remainder of his life, living in 
retirement for some time before his death, which occurred when he was seventy-
two years old. His wife, Elizabeth (Gonsar), was a daughter of Daniel Gonsar, a 
farmer of Jackson township, this county, who died at the age of sixty-two years.  
Mrs. Bobb survived her husband nine years, dying at the age of seventy-five.  
She and her husband were members of the Lutheran Church.  They had a family of 
twelve children: Mary Ann (deceased) married J. A. Treats, a resident of 
Snufftown; Daniel operates a planing mill in Sunbury; Elizabeth (deceased) 
married William Biles, of Mount Carmel Pa.; Caroline became the wife of Jacob 
Dundore (deceased), a cattle drover; Peter G. is mentioned below; Sarah married 
C. Frederick Lindig, of Lewisburg, Pa.; William W. is deceased; Michael died 
young; Franklin Pierce, who married Mary Bone, operates a planing mill at East 
Lewisburg, Pa.; Louisa, widow of James Havens, lives in Lewisburg;  Lucy married 
Wilson Russell, at Lewisburg, Pa.; Catherine, unmarried, lives in Sunbury.
	PETER G. BOBB, son of Michael M., was born Sept. 28, 1842, in Jackson 
township, this county, and lived at home until he reached the age of eighteen, 
meantime receiving public school opportunities, as did his brothers and sisters.  
He then taught school for two years, after which he clerked for John Nesbit, in 
his store at Paxinos, three years.  After 1867 he embarked in the general 
mercantile business for himself, at Paxinos, continuing only a short time, 
however, when he sold out to Thomas Metz, subsequently clerking for another 
three years. He was appointed postmaster at Paxinos, and filled that office for 
twenty-three years continuously.  In 1871 he was appointed ticket agent and 
freight agent at Paxinos for the Northern Central Railroad Company, holding that 
position until 1894, after which he started the business in which his son Alfred 
C. Bobb succeeded him, dealing in farm implements of all kinds, harness, whips, 
coal, fertilizers, etc.  He also owned two farms in Ralpho township.  He lived 
in Paxinos for over forty years, and became one of its foremost citizens, 
esteemed by all who knew him. He died Feb. 8, 1899, and is buried in Pine Hill 
cemetery, in Ralpho township.  Mr. Bobb was always a staunch Republican, and in 
June, 1863, he enlisted in Company A, 28th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer 
Infantry, serving until June 27, 1863.  He never sought office or took any 
particularly active part in politics, but he was an influential citizen of his 
community for many years and one in whom his fellow citizens took pride for he 
was a self-made man and one of the most creditable residents of the town.  He 
was a worthy and active member of the Methodist Church.
	In 1865 Mr. Bobb married Mary Jane Fisher, daughter of John and Hannah 
(Yocum) Fisher; and she survives him, still residing in Paxinos. Four children 
were born to this union: Bessie married John H., Kase, formerly a farmer of 
Mayberry township, Montour Co., Pa., now living at Elysburg; Carrie Belle 
married H. M. Fetterolf and they reside in Berwick, Pa.; Alfred C. is mentioned 
below; Mildred P. married Charles L. Pensyl and is living at Bloomsburg, 
Pennsylvania.
	Alfred Cameron Bobb received his early education in the local public 
schools, later attending the Bloomsburg State normal school, from which he was 
graduated in 1895.  He also took a post graduate course at that institution, 
finishing same in 1897. His experience as a teacher covered three years, one 
year at Reed's, one year at Deiblers and one year at Paxinos.  He then took the 
management of the implement business established by his father, at Paxinos, and 
carried it on successfully for a number of years, selling out to N. G. Adams May 
28, 1910.  He is now devoting the greater part of his time to surveying in his 
own district. His attention is also taken up to a large extent with his musical 
interests.  He organized the Paxinos band, which is composed of twenty-three 
men, and is the leader of that body, which is well known in this region and in 
popular demand. In 1904 Mr. Bobb was elected justice of the peace, and was 
reelected at the close of the term, being still in office.  His political 
affiliations are with the Republican party. He belongs to the Methodist Church 
at Elysburg, and socially holds membership in Elysburg Lodge, No. 414, F. & A.M. 
(of which he is a past master), and in the Modern Woodmen.
	In July, 1904, Mr. Bobb married Viola H. Pensyl, daughter of William and 
Harriet (Hull) Pensyl, of Elysburg, and they are the parents of two daughters, 
Winifred and Dorothy.
	On the maternal side Mr. Bobb is a member of the Fisher family, being a 
descendant of Joseph and Catharine (Minegar) Fisher, natives of Germany, the 
former born in April, 1734, the latter in August, 1746.  They were married June 
5, 1764.  It is claimed they settled near the site of Catawissa, in what is now 
Columbia county, Pa., some time in the eighteenth century, but evidently they 
had previously lived in Bradford county, where their oldest son, Henry, was born 
July 25, 1767.  He resided in Columbia county, whence
	
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he removed to Northumberland county.  To Joseph Fisher and his wife were born 
the following children:  Catharine, Mrs. Nicholas Shipman; Henry; Mary, Mrs. 
Samuel Mutchler; Hannah, Mrs. Caleb Farlee; Elizabeth; John; Moses; David; 
Jacob; and Joseph.
	Henry Fisher, eldest son of Joseph, came from Columbia county to 
Northumberland county, locating upon the land now owned by Peter Leisenring, 
where he built a gristmill and tavern which he operated many years. He also 
owned about eighteen acres of land adjacent to the hotel and mill property.  His 
death occurred about 1825, after which all his family except his son John left 
Northumberland county.  He was the father of eight children:  Jacob, John, 
Caleb, Clotworthy, Joseph, Sarah, Elizabeth and Catharine.
	John Fisher, son of Henry, was born Sept. 20, 1800, in Columbia county, 
and learned the trade of miller. After the old mill property passed into the 
hands of the Leisenring family, he was engaged as miller for them until 1851, at 
which time he purchased the Sober mill (now known as Reed's mill) on Shamokin 
creek, which he operated until 1873.  Meantime he also conducted his farm of 
eighty acres.  Then he purchased two farms in Ralpho township, one of which his 
son Albert S. later occupied, the other passing into the possession of his 
daughter Mrs. Charles Paul.  John Fisher died Sept. 17, 1881. He was a 
Republican in politics, in religion a member of the Methodist Church.  His wife, 
Hannah (Yocum), daughter of Nicholas Yocum, died Aug. 11, 1889.  They were the 
parents of fourteen children, two of whom, Jacob F. and James B., died young, 
the others being as follows:  Clotworthy, of Snyder county, married Sabina 
Stambach; Sarah married Joseph Sanders; Nicholas Y., of Indiana, married Julia 
Haas; Esther is the widow of Charles Martz, of Shamokin: Charles, formerly of 
Columbia county, lives near Bear Gap; Catharine married Samuel Adams and 
(second) John McWilliams, of Kansas; Peter, who married Hannah Yocum, was killed 
at the battle of Fredericksburg, while serving in the Union army as a member of 
Company C, 131st Pennsylvania Volunteers; Albert S., born March 2, 1843, married 
Mary Martz and lives in Ralpho township; Harvey E., of Boston, Mass., married 
Savilla Repley, (second) Emma Treibley, and (third) Mollie Neely; Margaret, 
widow of Franklin Martz (of Columbia county), resides at Paxinos: Alice, 
deceased, was the wife of Charles Paul; Mary J. is the widow of Peter G. Bobb, 
of Paxinos.

	WILLIAM B. GOTTSHALL, of Sunbury, member of the firm of Blank & Gottshall, 
leading millers in their section, was born in March, 1860, near Schwenkville, 
Montgomery Co., Pa. and belongs to a family which has been prominent in that 
county, especially in its connection with the ministry of the Mennonite Church, 
from  early Colonial days.
	Rev. Jacob Gottshall, who came over from Holland in 1702, is said to be 
the direct ancestor of all of the name in Montgomery and surrounding counties.  
He was a minister of the Mennonite Church, well educated, energetic and self-
sacrificing. He was one of the three translators, from Dutch to German, of the 
celebrated "Mirror of Martyrs" (1601) a translation that was one of the 
important literary achievements of Colonial Pennsylvania.  The date of his death 
and place of burial are not known. He preached many years at Skippack, and may 
be buried at the old Mennonite Lower Skippack church, or he may be buried at 
Germantown (where he first settled) in the cemetery surrounding the oldest 
Mennonite Church in America, built in 1770, on the site of the log church 
erected in 1708. Some of his children settled in Montgomery county.
	Gottshall Gottschalk, great-grandfather of William B. Gottshall, settled 
in Frederick township, Montgomery county, in 1781, and his old homestead is now 
owned by M. C. Gottshall, a cousin of William B. Gottshall.  He was a weaver by 
trade, and followed that occupation in connection with farming, doing an 
excellent business, and at his death in 1824 he left a fine farm of 246 acres to 
be divided between his two sons, Dillman and William.
	William Gottshall, grandfather of William B. Gottshall, was born in 1784, 
and lived to a good old age, dying in his ninety-second year.  He was a 
Mennonite and is buried at the Schwenkville meetinghouse. He inherited the farm 
above mentioned as belonging now to M. C. Gottshall, located one mile west of 
Schwenkville, in Montgomery county, and there lived and died. He married 
Magdalena Hunsberger, and to them were born thirteen children, eleven sons and 
two daughters, namely: William, who died in Montgomery county in 1901, at the 
age of ninety-five; Dillman, who died in Montgomery county; Andrew, who died at 
Collegeville, Pa.; Abraham, who died in infancy; Abraham (2); Gottshall, who 
died at Schwenkville; Joseph, who died in Spring City, Chester county; Adam, of 
Uniontown (Pillow), Northumberland county; Jacob, who died young; John, of 
Philadelphia; Moses H., a minister of the Mennonite Church, who died in 1888 on 
the old homestead in Montgomery county; Mrs. Jacob Umstead, and Mrs. Bergy (one 
of these daughters was named Elizabeth, the other Hannah).
	Abraham Gottshall, son of William, was born at Schwenkville, Montgomery 
county, in 1826, and died April 1, 1911; he is buried in the Mennonite cemetery 
at Bally, Berks county.  He lived at Niantic, Montgomery county, where he owned 
a farm of fifty-four acres, and followed farming, be-
	
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ing an industrious, thrifty and respected citizen. From the age of forty, for a 
period of thirty-five years, he was like so many members of the family a 
preacher in the Mennonite Church; he was a New Mennonite.  He married Maria 
Bauman, daughter of John and Magdalena (Bauer) Bauman, of Niantic, from Huber's 
Church, and they had the following children:  Menno is a merchant of Boyerstown, 
Berks county; Abraham died when six years old; Rev. John, twin of Abraham, is a 
well known evangelist, now located at York, Pa.; William B. is mentioned below; 
Milton is a resident of Boyertown; Abraham lives at Sunbury, Pa.; Frank B. is in 
business at Boyertown; Diana died aged fourteen years; Elizabeth, of Boyertown, 
died at the age of forty, unmarried; Mary (deceased) married Daniel Urfer of 
Schwenkville; Catharine is the wife of Harry Reigner, of Pottstown, 
Pennsylvania.
	William B. Gottshall received his education in the public schools and 
learned the trade of millwright with Daniel Bowman, at Sumneytown, Montgomery 
county, later working for Wolf & Hamaker, of Chambersburg, Pa. He followed his 
trade for a period of seven years before forming his present partnership, with 
Charles F. Blank, in 1888.  They have since done business together under the 
firm name of Blank & Gottshall. After running the H. M. Haas flour mill at the 
east end of town from 1888 until 1895, they began to operate the new mill in the 
spring of the latter year, its capacity being 100 barrels daily, and Blank & 
Gottshall have since conducted one of the leading establishments of the kind in 
this section.  In 1900 the mill was enlarged, from 100-barrel capacity, to 200-
barrel on wheat flour, and they have since added a complete rye mill with 75-
barrel capacity daily, and a 75-barrel buckwheat and cornmeal mill; 40 tons of 
feed are the daily output in that line, and the plant has a storage capacity of 
forty thousand bushels.  At the City Roller Flouring Mills, as the plant is 
known, there are not only manufactured high-grade flours and all kinds of feed, 
but the firm also deals in grain, hay, salts and seeds, and in poultry and stock 
foods and remedies, and similar commodities.  They do a thriving trade in the 
various lines into which their business has extended, and their standing in the 
community is of the best.  Mr. Gottshall has also become interested in other 
fields of activity, and he is a stockholder in the Sunbury & Selinsgrove Street 
Car Company.
	On Feb. 13, 1890, Mr. Gottshall married Flora Reinhard, daughter of Israel 
and Josephine Reinhard, of Allentown, Pennsylvania.

	C. HULL KNAUER, shoe merchant, of Milton, Northumberland county, comes of 
an old family of Chester county, Pa., where he was born Nov. 19, 1859, at 
Knauertown, in Warwick township.
	The earliest members of this family in America were John Christopher and 
Jacob Tobias Knauer, brothers, who came over from Germany, their native land, 
when young men, settling in the French Creek Valley, in Chester county, Pa., 
where they purchased a tract of land from the Penns. The old deed to the Penns 
for this land was given to John Christopher Knauer.  It reads as follows:
	We, Packenah, Jarckhan, Sikals, Part Quisatt, Jervis, Essepennauk, 
Felkhop, Hekllappco, Wissa Pyma, Indian Kings and Sachemakers, right owners of 
all lands from Quigg-Quiggus, called Duck creek, unto Upland, called Chester 
creek, all along the west side of the Delaware river and so far between said 
creeks and backwards so far as a man can ride in two days on a horse, for and in 
consideration of these following goods to us in hand paid and secured by William 
Penn, Proprietor and Governor of the province of Pennsylvania and territories 
thereof, namely: twenty guns; twenty fathoms matchcoat; 20 fathoms of strong 
water; 20 blankets; 20 kettles; 20 pounds of powder; 100 pounds of lead; 40 
Tomahawks; 100 knives; 40 pairs of stockings; 1 Barrel Beer; 20 lbs. of red 
lead; 100 fathoms of wampum; 40 glass bottles; 30 pewter spoons; 105 blades; 200 
tobacco pipes; 100 hanks of tobacco; 20 tobacco tongues; 20 steels; 300 flints; 
30 pairs of scissors; 30 combs; 60 looking glasses; 200 needles; one kipple of 
salt; 30 lbs. of sugar; 5 gal. molasses; 20 tobacco boxes; 100 jews'-harps; 20 
hoes; 30 gimlets; 30 wooden screw boxes; 100 strings of beads;
Do hereby acknowledge and give under our hands etc. this 2 day of Aug. 1685.
                 [Signed]
               His mark X PACKENAH
               His mark X JARCKHAN
               His mark X SIKALS
               His mark X PART QUISATT
               His mark X JERVIS
               His mark X ESSEPENAUK
               His mark X FELKHOP
               His mark X HEKLLAPPCO
               His mark X WISSA PYMA
Indian Kings and Sachemmakers to William Penn.

	John Christopher and Jacob Tobias Knauer divided the land by a line 
running due north and south, each building his cabin near the line, for company 
as well as protection, where Knauertown has since been located. Much of the land 
remains in the possession of the family to this day. John Christopher's old home 
is still owned by a Knauer. Here, upon their land, was erected a church, 
probably a Mennonite meetinghouse, as the old burying-ground still bears the 
name Seven Days' graveyard.  In this burying ground are the remains of John 
Christopher and Jacob Tobias Knauer, and some of their descendants are also 
buried there. The names of their wives are not known.  Jacob Tobias Knauer had 
three children: Christopher, Jr., Amos and Jacob.
	John Christopher Knauer, who was the ancestor of C. Hull Knauer, was born 
Oct. 4, 1702, in Coburg, Germany.  His children were: Samuel, David, Daniel, 
Jonathan, Tobias, Mary (married a Hetherby), Rebecca (married a Brunner) and 
John.
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one of the two brothers who came to America, was born in 1752, and died April 2, 
1825, aged seventy-two years, ten months, seven days. He erected the first flour 
and saw mill at Knauertown, log structures, and he followed farming and milling 
all his life.  There were five Knauer flour mills in Chester county. His 
children were as follows: John, born Dec. 12, 1778, died July 28, 1845; Daniel, 
born May 6, 1780, died April 7, 1859 (Daniel Knauer was his only son); Samuel, 
born May 3, 1784, died Aug. 14, 1856 (his sons were Samuel, Isaiah and Nathan); 
David, born June 10, 1786, died Aug. 14, 1856 (Thomas, Daniel and Davis Knauer 
were his sons); Jonathan (C. Hull's grandfather), born July 17, 1788, died June 
2, 1848; Tobias, born Oct. 6, 1790, died Oct. 18, 1845.
	Jonathan Knauer, son of John, born July 17, 1788, died June 2, 1848. Like 
his father he followed milling and the manufacture of lumber all his active 
years.  He replaced the old log mills with stone structures which are still 
standing, owned by Morris Knauer and in operation.  He married a Miss Rice, who 
long predeceased him, and to them were born five children: Jonathan, Joshua, 
Hannah (married Evan Dampman), Rebecca and Maria (married Henderson Esseck).
	Prior to the Revolutionary war and during that period the Knauers had much 
to do with the settling up of this part of Chester county and operated the 
Warwick Furnaces, manufacturing cannon and similar supplies for the Continental 
army.  John Knauer (son of Christopher) owned and operated ironworks at 
Knauertown and manufactured the first round iron in the United States.  The 
British, learning of these furnaces, determined to destroy them, but the troops 
sent out on that mission were repulsed after proceeding as far as Fountain Inn, 
now a part of Phoenixville, near Valley Forge. Many of the supplies at the 
furnaces were hurriedly buried in plowed fields, and lost for the time being, 
and some of the old cannon and ordinances of war have been found within the last 
generation.  One of the plowed-up cannon, which had been spiked and had to he 
set off with a fuse, was used to celebrate the Fourth of July and battalion 
days.  At one of the battalion day meets at Knauertown the muzzle burst off and 
a fatal accident was barely escaped, one of the pieces coming down through the 
roof of a porch that was crowded with people. This old Continental cannon was 
later stolen, first from the Republicans and then from the Democrats, to "shoot 
out" of the country any Republican or Democrat moving out. As there were no 
wheels under it Mr. Knauer's teams and log wagon were used to haul it from place 
to place. Eventually, to avoid strife and conflict between the two parties, it 
was taken and sunk in Mr. Knauer's upper mill dam, in eighteen feet of water.  
But someone "squealed," and again the opposite party obtained Mr. Knauer's log 
chains and hoists from his mill, and with boats and a raft to complete the 
equipment raised it one night and laid it away along the race bank in the woods 
until it was again used to "bang" another party out of the country. It was once 
more captured by the other party one night and taken up on the hill near the 
falls of French creek, where it was dropped, muzzle down, into an old abandoned 
well, which was filled up with rock and stone.  There it still remains, but 
there are few living today that know of its existence.
	In 1907, when the Fountain Inn at Phoenixville was marked and dedicated by 
the Sons of the American Revolution, Mr. David Knauer furnished the marker, 
which was taken from his granite quarries at Knauertown. This marks the inmost 
point of the Colonies reached by the British during the Revolution, Sept. 21-23, 
1777, was erected by the borough of Phoenixville, and dedicated by the 
Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Revolution, Sept. 21, 1907, with 
appropriate ceremonies, various historical societies and members of the borough 
and State government being among those who participated in the exercises. Hon. 
Samuel W. Pennypacker, former governor of the State, made an address, and the 
occasion was altogether an imposing one.  It commemorated the movement of Lord 
Cornwallis which resulted in Washington being obliged to spend the winter with 
his army at Valley Forge. After the battle of Brandywine and the Paoli event 
Washington took possession of Philadelphia, intending to pass the winter of 
1777-78 there, which would have compelled the British to remain outside of the 
city. Lord Cornwallis led Washington to believe he was going with his army to 
Reading, to destroy the materials of war there stored, and Washington, 
therefore, occupied the country north of Phoenixville.  Then Cornwallis, with 
his left wing resting on the French creek and his right wing near Valley Forge, 
got his army across the Schuylkill, near Phoenixville at Gordon's Ford, and took 
his troops to Philadelphia, where he remained. Thus it was that Washington came 
to spend the memorable winter at Valley Forge.
	Joshua Knauer, son of Jonathan and father of C. Hull Knauer, was born Feb. 
20, 1820, at Knauertown, Chester county, and died March 31, 1886, aged sixty-six 
years, one month, eleven days.  He succeeded his father, engaging in flour 
milling and the manufacture of lumber and shingles, purchasing the old mills 
which had been in the family for so many years and which he continued to operate 
for many years.  He was a mechanical genius, as the numerous appliances with 
which his mills were equipped showed, the elevators, conveyors, smut machine and 
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invented and used in his mills the first high power apple grinder and hydraulic 
presses - now in use all over the country. His flour mill was known as the best 
in that part of the country. There was ample water power, with several runs of 
burrs, in addition to which he had a plaster burr, in those days, before the 
advent of phosphate, grinding and selling plaster to the farmers.
	Mr. Knauer was a natural-born musician and a man of considerable note in 
that line in his day, and was a member of the Knauertown Band, an organization 
composed entirely of members of the Knauer family.  Here again his mechanical 
skill was highly useful.  He made all the drums for the band, of which he was 
the expert tenor drummer. His brother Jonathan, also one of its members, was an 
expert fifer, and served as such during the Civil war, in which several members 
of the band enlisted.  Before the Civil war, when "battalion days" were held, 
this hand was much in demand.
	Joshua Knauer married Rebecca (John) Davis, who was born Jan. 9, 1821, and 
died May 24, 1896. She was a descendant of Welsh Quaker stock. Griffith John, 
Sr., who was born in 1683 in Pembrokeshire, South Wales, landed at Philadelphia 
Feb. 11, 1709. He moved, to the district in Chester county known as Welsh Barony 
and there on July 23, 1714, married Ann Williams, a daughter of Robert Williams, 
surnamed "the King of Goshen." Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Knauer became the parents of 
eleven children, of whom are mentioned: Griffith, who lives in Reading, Pa,; 
Dorcas, married to Benjamin  P. Fout; Hannah; C. Hull; Dora; Theodosia, married 
to Dr. Elwood Schiner; and Ida. Six are deceased.
	C. Hull Knauer received his education in the schools of his native county. 
When a young man he went to Phoenixville, Pa., where he acquired his early 
knowledge of the shoe and leather business, and in 1885 he came to Milton. Here 
he opened a shoe and leather store, and he has been engaged in the same line 
continuously to the present  In 1898, the business having outgrown the old 
accommodations, he purchased and remodeled the place he now occupies, a 
commodious and convenient building, known as the Knauer block, on Front street.  
He carries a large and up-to-date stock and his store is a model of taste and 
neatness  His motto, "We never sleep," is typical of his enterprise and the 
business methods which have made him a leader in his line. His patronage is not 
confined to Milton and the immediate vicinity, but is drawn from all the 
surrounding towns, and has been increasing steadily ever since he commenced 
business. Mr Knauer's jovial disposition has won him many friends among those 
with whom he has dealings, and his sincere desire to please his patrons and give 
honest values has been a factor in his success recognized by all who know him.
	Although he is not a native of Milton Mr. Knauer is thoroughly identified 
with its various interests and devoted to its welfare, taking part in a number 
of movements designed to promote the prosperity of the borough.  He is connected 
with the Methodist Church and has for some years been one of the active workers 
in Milton. He is a thirty-second-degree Mason, having been made a Mason in 
Phoenix Lodge, No. 75, at Phoenixville, May 3, 1884, and transferred to Milton 
Lodge, No. 256, in 1897; is a member of Williamsport Lodge of Perfection; of the 
Chapter, Rose Croix; and of Williamsport Consistory, A.A.S.R., thirty-second 
degree; he was made a Shriner at Irem Temple, Wilkes-Barre, May 13, 1903.  
Coming from a family of musicians, he is himself a born musician, has organized 
several quartettes, and is at present a member of the Temple choir, A.A.S.R., at 
Williamsport, singing first tenor.
	Mr. and Mrs. C. Hull Knauer have two sons: (1) Henry graduated from the 
Milton high school at the age of eighteen, immediately took and passed the 
examinations for entrance to Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., where he 
graduated June 26, 1911, with the degree of B.S., cum laude, making the four 
years' course in three and one-half years; he has entered the employ of the New 
York Central Railroad Company and will be located at Albany, N.Y.  (2) C. Hull 
Jr., is at home with his parents, a student in the Milton high school.  By 
reason of the service of their ancestors in the Revolutionary war Mrs. Knauer 
and her sons are eligible for membership in the Sons and Daughters of the 
American Revolution.

	SIRVETUS O. REED, of Sunbury, Northumberland county, is a teacher of long 
experience and high standing there and also well known in business circles as a 
successful insurance man, representing many of the substantial fire insurance 
companies. His work in both lines has made him widely acquainted all over his 
section of the county.  He was born here, in Shamokin township, May 21, 1844, 
son of Farnsworth Reed, and is a great-great-grandson of Jacob Reed, whose 
posterity is now numerous in Northumberland county. Of this same stock is Dr. 
Jesse J. Reed, a prominent physician of Pillow, Pa., whose line is also given in 
this article; and C. Oliver Reed, of Point township, this county, is likely of 
the family, though his immediate forefathers were located in Union county.
	Jacob Reed, the emigrant progenitor, 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 
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settled. They took up about five hundred acres of land in what is now Shamokin 
and Ralpho town-ships, 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 black-smith 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), Catherine (married George Hower), Magdaline (married John Smith), Eva 
(married Daniel Haas) and Elizabeth (married William H. Muench, a noted 
schoolmaster of his time; he had a crippled arm).
	Casper Reed, brother of Jacob, married Mary E. Bausloch. They had a son, 
born in 1782, who married Hannah Renn. To them was born a son Jacob, May 22, 
1806, who married Maria Jones, born Aug. 4, 1808.  Their children were: Mary, 
born Oct. 29, 1828; William, April 13, 1830; Liberty, Feb. 10, 1832; Angeline, 
Jan. 1, 1834; Alfred, Feb. 7, 1835; Josiah, Oct. 23, 1836; Hannah, June 13, 
1838; Harriet, Oct. 13, 1841; Malissa, March 30, 1844; Jacob M., May 25,. 1849; 
and Emma A., July 16, 1852.
	John Reed, eldest son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Dreher) Reed, married Eva C. 
Gillinger. Their children were: Jesse, Maria (married John Lake), Jacob, 
Elizabeth (married Casper Scholl), Hannah (married Solomon Martz) and Eva C. 
(married William Zuern, of Colorado).
	Of this family, Jesse Reed, born in Shamokin township March 3, 1808, died 
June 18, 1884. In 1834 he married Charlotte, daughter of Joshua Farley, of 
Hunterdon county, N.J., and six children were born to them.: Harriet S. (married 
John Shipman), John W., Farley, Catherine, Oliver and William A.
	John W. Reed, son of Jesse, born Oct. 3, 1838, married in 1876 Bethiah, 
daughter of Robert Davison of Montour county, Pa.  They have one daughter, Kate 
M.
	Jacob Reed, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Dreher) Reed, was born in 1795. 
Like his father he was very enterprising and had good executive ability, 
engaging successfully in various lines of work. He learned tanning and milling, 
and purchasing a tract of 250 acres in Shamokin township settled there and 
erected a carding and saw mill, which he operated in connection with the 
cultivation of farm land.  He married Hannah Duttinger, daughter of John and 
Elizabeth (Leise) Duttinger, natives of Germany who emigrated to Alsace 
township, Berks county, about 1800, in 1819 moving to Northumberland county and 
settling where Deiblers station is now located. To Mr. and Mrs. Reed were born 
seven children: Daniel, Maria (married George Young), Simon P., Elizabeth 
(married John Nathan Deibler), Julianne (married John Rohrbach), William and 
John Jacob.
	Simon P. Reed, son of Jacob and Hannah (Duttinger) Reed, was born in 1825, 
and in 1850 married Jane, daughter of Daniel Campbell. They had the following 
children: Daniel Jacob, Ambrose Alvernon (married Harriet A. Berger), Clara E. 
and Norman C.
	David Reed, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Dreher) Reed, was born on the Reed 
homestead in Shamokin township. He was a lifelong farmer, and owned 140 acre. a 
mile east of Reed's church; he had thirty-five acres of land on Shamokin Hill. 
Like many other members of the family he is buried at St. Jacob's (or Reed's) 
Church, at Reeds station, and he was a Lutheran member of that church.  
Politically he was a Republican, though the family before the war were all 
Jeffersonian Democrats.  His wife, Catharine (Haas), was a daughter of Peter 
Haas, who was a Revolutionary war soldier; they had a family of fourteen 
children, of whom two died small and all are now deceased but Dr. Jesse J. Reed. 
Those who grew to maturity were as follows: Jacob, Mary (Polly), Eve, Susanna, 
Louisa, Daniel, Henry, Samuel, Dr. Jesse J., Malinda, Harriet and Oscar.

	JESSE J. REED, M. D., of Pillow (Uniontown), Pa., was born in Shamokin 
township, Northumberland county, Aug. 14, 1840.  He was reared on the farm and 
obtained his early education in the old pay school at St. Jacob's (Reed's) 
church, later attending Elysburg Academy, where in time he became assistant 
teacher to the Rev. Jacob Wampole, who was a leading educator of his day and for 
many years taught in Elysburg Academy, in connection with preaching, having six 
congregations in that section. During the Civil war Dr. Reed enlisted in Company 
C, 131st Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served nine months.  Returning, he was 
home only three weeks when he again enlisted, for the existing emergency, in 
Company A, 28th Regiment, serving two months, when the regiment was discharged.  
He taught public school four winters (terms of four months).  Dr. Reed took up 
the study of medicine at Shamokin with Dr. E. S. Robins, with whom he remained 
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years, after which he attended Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 
graduating in the winter  of  1865-66;  he  had  completed  his course,  
however,  some  time before.  Locating at  Centralia,  in  Columbia county,  he 
shortly afterward came to Georgetown (Dalmatia), where he remained two years.  
In the winter of 1868 he came to Pillow (then known only as Uniontown), which is 
in Dauphin county, north of the Mahantango mountains. He has had a large field, 
over a radius of from six to twelve miles, and is now the only physician in the 
borough. Dr. Reed has in his long and busy career become well and favorably 
known as a physician, and his kindly disposition and liberal mind have made him 
many warm friends whose good will he enjoys. The Doctor is a Democrat and has 
always stood high in the confidence of his fellow citizens, having been chosen 
burgess of the borough of Pillow different terms, was a member of the town 
council and was on the school board many years. He was a deacon and elder of 
Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church of Pillow, and is an all-around representative 
and esteemed citizen of his community. He is active for his years.
	Dr. Reed's first marriage was to Catharine Leinbach, daughter of Dr. 
Benjamin H. Leinbach, of Pillow.  She died in 1877, aged thirty-two years, the 
mother of five children: Elizabeth; Clara A., who married Dr. Elmer M. Hoffman 
(he is now deceased); Arthur Benjamin, a druggist of Philadelphia; Vinnie C., 
who married Charles Kessler, of Glen Union, Clinton Co., Pa.; and Jay E.  On 
April 24, 1878, the Doctor was married (second) to Addie A. Bassler, daughter of 
Rev. H. S. Bassler, who was a prominent Reformed minister of Lykens Valley, Pa., 
preaching in Berks and Lehigh counties at old Zionsville, Lehigh county, and at 
Boyertown, where he was long located.  Rev. Mr. Bassler married Rebecca M. 
Dechant daughter of the Rev. William L. Dechant, who is buried at Oley, Pa., a 
foremost minister of his day and generation. Dr. and Mrs. Reed have had an only 
son, Dr. Henry David Reed, now a prominent practitioner at Pottstown, Pa., where 
he is associated with Dr. Todd.
	Matthias Reed, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Dreher) Reed, was born in 1790 
in Shamokin township.  He married Priscilla Farnsworth, of Irish Valley, moved 
to Rush township, and in 1833 returned to Shamokin township, where he spent the 
remainder of his life, dying there in 1859. He was a farmer by occupation.  Mr. 
Reed was a Whig in politics and in religious connection originally a Lutheran, 
later a Baptist, his wife also belonging to the latter denomination.  For many 
years he served as a deacon in the Baptist Church. Mrs. Reed died in 1857, and 
she and her husband are buried at the Summit church. They were the parents of 
seven children: William, Abigail, Elizabeth, Jacob, John (who was burned to 
death), Farnsworth and Sarah.  The last named, now (1911) over eighty years old, 
is still living at Riverside, this county; she married Dr. Samuel Smith and 
after his death became the wife of William Depew.
	Farnsworth Reed, son of Matthias, was born Dec. 17, 1824, in Rush 
township, and attended the public schools of Rush and Shamokin townships. After 
his marriage he lived in Shamokin township until 1866, when he moved to Point 
township, buying a farm of 200 acres on which he spent the remainder of his 
life, dying there Feb. 2, 1898. For a few years he conducted a sawmill at 
Trevorton. He was an energetic man and traveled quite extensively, having 
visited twenty States of the Union, journeyed as far west as Nebraska, and as 
far south as Florida.  He was active in the affairs of his community, filling 
most of the township offices; was at one time a director of the Shamokin Bank; 
was well known in politics as a member of the Republican party and in religions 
matters as a faithful member of the Baptist Church, which he served for years as 
a deacon both at Northumberland and at Shamokin, where he joined in 1842. In 
1843 he married Rosanna Miller, who was born Sept. 9, 1823, daughter of David 
Miller, late of Shamokin township, who was a descendant of George Miller, called 
"Hunter Miller."  One of his sons, John Miller, settled in Shamokin about 1785, 
purchasing 1,300 acres of land there.  Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth Reed were the 
parents of nine children: Sirvetus O.; Maria Elizabeth, who married Charles P. 
Seasholtz, of Upper Augusta township, and they had three children, Annie A., 
George G. and Clara C.; Clarissa A., who married George W. Van Devender, of 
Northumberland county, Pa.; Jacob A., of Nebraska: Sarah L., who married Thomas 
J. Vandling; Laura D., who married Charles M. Park; Harriet I., who married 
James B. Lesher, of Nebraska; Elmer E., of Reading, Pa.; and George M., of 
Laurel, Nebr.  At the time of his death Farnsworth Reed had twenty living 
grandchildren.  His widow, now (1911) eighty-eight years old, makes her home 
with her daughter, Mrs. Seasholtz.  She has thirty-six grandchildren and ten 
great-grandchildren.
	Sirvetus O. Reed, son of Farnsworth, obtained his early education in the 
public schools of his native township.  Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil 
war, though only in his eighteenth year, he enlisted in the 131st Regiment 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the many engagements in 
which his command fought.  At the battle of Fredericksburg he was wounded in a 
bayonet charge, by reason of which he was eventually discharged for disability, 
in March, 1863.
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tention to augmenting his early education,  attending the academy at Elysburg, 
Northumberland county, and later Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.  For some 
time afterward he followed mercantile pursuits and lumbering, finally engaging 
in teaching, which he has followed for over thirty-six years in various graded 
schools (all but the primary grades).  Out of school hours Mr. Reed has given 
his attention principally to the insurance business, in which he has built up a 
most substantial patronage, representing many of the leading fire insurance 
companies, Continental, of New York; National, of Hartford, Conn.; American, of  
Trenton, N. J.; and several others. 
	Mr. Reed married Agnes A. Beidelsbach, of Point township, Northumberland 
county, and they have had one daughter, Mary B., who is the wife of W. B. 
McCaleb, superintendent of the Philadelphia division, Pennsylvania Railroad.  
Mr. Reed is a member of the Baptist Church, in which he is an active worker and 
holds office.  Mrs. Reed is a member of the Presbyterian Church.  In social  
connection he holds membership in the Knights of Pythias, the A.O.U.W. and the 
G.A.R. His political opinions are those of the Republican party.  He is a 
public-spirited citizen in everything affecting the general welfare. 
	The grandfather of C. Oliver Reed was a native of Berks county, Pa., 
thence removing to Union county, where he lived and died in White Deer 
township, owning land and following farming. He was a Lutheran and is buried at 
the White Deer church.  His children were: Eve, who married Jacob Dershern and 
lived in White Deer township; Jacob; Valentine, a resident of White Deer 
township; Susan; and John, a farmer near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 
	Jacob Reed was born at his father's home in White Deer township in 1809, 
and died in 1869.  He was a farmer and had a tract of ninety-three acres.  He 
was a member of White Deer Church, where he is buried. His wife Susan 
(Cronrath) was a daughter of Daniel Cronrath, of Union county, and died in 
1871, aged sixty-six years, four months.  They had eleven children, as follows: 
William died at Watsontown, Pa.; John died at Montgomery station, Pa.; 
Elizabeth died small; Harriet (deceased) married Washington Delaney; Rachel 
married Joseph Ramer and they live in Mifflin county, Pa.;  Charles is a 
resident of Kelly township, Union county; Daniel lives at Milton, Pa.; Helen 
(deceased) married Frank Princehoff; Emma married Charles Ramsey and died in 
Mifflin county, Pa.; C. Oliver is  mentioned later; Samuel died aged two years. 
	C. OLIVER REED, of Point township, Northumberland county, was born on the 
Reed homestead in  Kelly township, Union county, Nov. 5, 1855. He was educated 
in the, public schools and reared to farming pursuits.  His father dying when 
he was fifteen years old he helped his mother for nine years, after which he 
labored for six years among farmers in Union and Lycoming counties. At the end  
of that time he was married, March 16, 1885 to Emma Dieffenbach, daughter of 
David and Elizabeth (Truckenmiller) Dieffenbach, of Deleware township, 
Northumberland county, and granddaughter of  Solomon Truckenmiller, a native of 
Berks county.  They have had one child, Elsie May.  After his  marriage Mr. Reed 
went out to Ogle county, Ill., where he remained for ten years engaged as a  
farmer, and then went to Appanoose county, Iowa, where he farmed for three 
years. Removing to the  central part of the same State, into Story county, he 
farmed there five years, in 1902 coming back  to Pennsylvania.  In 1904 he 
purchased the George Ditzler farm, in Point township, along the North  Branch of 
the Susquehanna, which is one of the best farms in the district, consisting of 
140 acres, nicely located, with excellent buildings. Mr. Reed is a general 
farmer and has prospered deservedly.  He owned four farms in Iowa, and made 
considerable in this field of speculation. For one tract of ninety-eight acres 
locate at State College, at Ames, Story Co., Iowa, he paid $73 an acre, and sold  
it for $98 an acre after holding it one year. Mr. Reed is modern and intelligent 
in his methods, and  on the alert always for progress in his line. He is a 
Republican in politics. While at Ames, Iowa,  he and his family became members 
of the Christian Church.  
	GEORGE O. MARTZ, of Shamokin, secretary of the Roaring Creek Water 
Company, was born in that borough June 4, 1842, son of Solomon Martz and a 
great-grandson of David Martz. The early members of the Martz family in America 
came from Germany and settled in Berks county, Pa. whence David Marts  moved 
into Northumberland. David Martz and his brother Jacob moved from Berks county 
toward the close of the eighteenth century, settling on Shamokin creek, three 
miles south of Sunbury. He was a blacksmith, and followed his trade in 
connection with farming.  He married Barbara Miller, and they had a family of 
seven  children, five sons and two daughters: David, Henry, Peter, Abraham and 
George, all of whom but  Henry moved to Dayton, Ohio, where they died; Susan, 
who married John Richstine, and Elizabeth, who  married Abraham Arter. 
	Henry Martz, son of David, was born on the homestead in Shamokin township, 
Northumberland county, and was a farmer by occupation. He married Elizabeth 
Fagely, daughter of Christian and Magdalena Fagely, pioneers of Shamokin 
township. Mr. and Mrs. Martz both died in Shamokin and are buried in St. 
Peter's graveyard. They had six children: Hettie, Katie, Mary Ann, George, 
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but Nathan, who resides in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
	Solomon Martz, son of Henry, was born March 22, 1818, in Upper 
Augusta township,  Northumberland county, and when seven years old went to live 
with his uncle, Solomon Fagely, in  Shamokin township, remaining with him until 
he was eighteen years old. He then entered the employ of his uncles Amos, 
George and Nathan Fagely, who had a store at Monchhunk, clerking there sixteen  
months.  Returning to Shamokin he engaged with William and Reuben Fagely in a 
similar capacity, continuing for a year, after which he went to Mount Carmel to 
work for Solomon Fagely who kept a tavern there.  He remained with him a year.  
At that time a stage line was started between Mount Carmel and Shamokin, and he 
was appointed driver and mail carrier, working as such for a few months.   He 
then took the same position on the stage line between Pottsville and 
Northumberland, for one year, and he was the last survivor of those connected 
with this method of transportation in central Pennsylvania at that time.  
Returning to Shamokin, he was elected supervisor of Coal township, having 
charge of the roads from Mount Carmel to Trevorton, and filled that office two 
years.  During the next seven years he was engaged in hauling coal over the 
railroad from Shamokin to Sunbury for William and Reuben Fagely, under 
contract, at the end of that time settling on the farm at Reed station where he 
passed the remainder of his days.  He died Oct. 4, l894, in his seventy-seventh  
year, and is buried at Reed's church. 
	Mr. Martz was always interested in the welfare of the community and the 
success of those  enterprises that affected all its members.  His generosity to 
those less fortunate than himself, his  benevolence to all philanthropic 
movements, his sympathy with all who needed it, were as much the  cause of the 
esteem he enjoyed as his industrious and successful career. He and his family 
attended the German Reformed Church, and when St. Jacob's (Reed's) was rebuilt, 
in 1870, he contributed all  the brick necessary, one hundred thousand, his 
children giving the money to erect the steeple, $1,200.  In politics he was a 
stanch Republican and greatly interested in the success of the party,  though he 
never had any political aspirations for himself.  He was overseer of the poor 
for one year  after settling in Shamokin township. 
	On April 6, 1841, Mr. Martz married Hannah Reed, born in 1815, died Dec. 
15, 1895, aged eighty years, daughter of John and Eva (Howard) Reed, of 
Shamokin township, and to this union were born seven children: George O.; 
William F., who died young; Isabella, who died in 1875, aged thirty-one years; 
Sophronia, who died in 1874, at the age of thirty-three years; Reuben F., John 
Henry and  Jesse R., all of whom live at Reed station, Jesse being on part of 
the old homestead. 
	George O. Martz received his education in the public schools 
of the home locality, and was  ten years old when he moved with his parents on 
to the home place in Shamokin township.  When he was seventeen years old he 
went to Locust Gap, where he took the position of bookkeeper with Haas &  Bowen, 
proprietors of the Locust Gap colliery. In January, 1864, he came to Shamokin to 
take a  similar position at the Cameron colliery, where he subsequently became 
outside foreman.  In 1869 he became a member of the firm of Haas, Fagely & Co., 
who then operated that colliery, and in July, 1872, the firm of Fagely & Martz, 
merchants, was organized.  Subsequently he became a member of the firm of  
Patterson, Llewellyn & Co., who operated the Big Mountain colliery, and he 
continued his interest in the coal business until a year before that colliery 
was purchased by the Philadelphia &  Reading coal and Iron Company.  In 1872 he 
commenced the lime business, about 1888 commencing the  manufacture of wood-
burned lime, for building purposes, burning the first made in that part of the  
State. 
	Mr. Martz has been a leader in supporting movements for the advancement 
and material  improvement of the town, having long been a director of the 
Shamokin Banking Company (of which he was one of the organizers), a director 
and secretary of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, a director of the 
Shamokin Arc Light Company, secretary and director of the Shamokin Water 
Company, and of the Roaring Creek, Anthracite and Bear Gap Water Companies.  He 
is still secretary of the Roaring Creek Water Company.  He is a member of the 
Shamokin Board of Trade, and in every way has done his share toward bringing 
the borough up to the standard of modern business ideals. 
	On Sept. 2, 1865, Mr. Martz married Emma L. Keener of Schuylkill Haven, 
Pa., and they reside in their home at No. 141 East Sunbury street, Shamokin.  
They have had one daughter, Ada G., who married H. C. Beury and resides in 
Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. Beury have three children, William  M., Emma L. and 
Susanna G. 
	In politics Mr. Martz has always been a stanch Republican.  During the 
Civil war he enlisted in Company A, 28th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.  

	MARTZ. The Martz family has been settled in Northumberland county for 
over a century, and  David P. Martz, now retired, of Ralpho township, occupies 
part of his father's old homestead, living  along the Central turnpike.  Edward 
H. Martz, of Shamokin, is a nephew of David P. Martz, being a  son of Franklin 
Martz. 
	David Martz, father of David P. Martz and grandfather of Edward H. Martz, 
was born Oct 15, 1802, in Lower Augusta township, Northum-
	
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berland county, and died Nov. 11, 1855. Shortly after his
marriage he located at Paxinos and owned 
and operated a fulling mill there, being quite successful in business. He was a 
respected man, and for many years was chosen to serve as justice of the peace  
at Paxinos. His wife, Hannah (Evert), born Oct. 6, 1804, died June 9, 1880 and 
they are buried at the Blue church in Ralpho township.  Children: Eliza died 
unmarried; Henry, who was a teacher, died  unmarried; Margaret married David 
Adams; Sarah married Emanuel Artman; Franklin is mentioned below;  Mary married 
Albert Fisher; David is mentioned below; John, twin of David, is deceased; 
Hannah  married Jackson Hoffman; Susan died young. 
	Franklin Martz, son of David, was born Dec. 12, 1835, in Northumberland 
county, was reared upon a farm and learned the carpenter's trade, following 
both farming and carpentry.  He died near  Paxinos in July, 1887, and is buried 
at the Blue church. His wife, Margaret (Fisher), a native of Northumberland 
county, daughter of John Fisher, still survives, residing at Paxinos. She is a 
member of the German Reformed Church, as was also Mr. Martz. They were the 
parents of ten children, five of whom are living: Edward H.; William, who lives 
in Shamokin; Bertha M., married to Frank Wertley;  Catharine A., married to 
William Kriegbaum; and Clarence C., living at Paxinos. 

	EDWARD H. MARTZ has been engaged in the livery business at Shamokin since 
1889, at present  in partnership with Jacob I. McCollum.  He has a large 
patronage and is counted among the substantial citizens of the borough, where 
he has been located practically throughout his business life. He was born Jan. 
3, 1867, at Paxinos, Northumberland county, son of Franklin Martz, and received 
his education in the public schools.  During his boyhood he did farm work and 
later was employed at the mines for three years before entering his present 
line. In 1889 he purchased a half interest in the livery and feed business of 
C. M. Adams, and subsequently admitted Andrew O. Murray to a partnership, being 
associated with him for seven years under the name of Martz & Murray.  Mr.  
Murray withdrew from the firm in 1809 and the business is now conducted by Mr. 
Martz and his father-in-law, Jacob I. McCollum.  Their stable is located at 
Rock and Webster streets, and they keep about thirty-five horses, having a 
constant and profitable trade. They are up-to-date in management and methods as 
well as equipment and enjoy a reputation second to none in the place.  Mr. Martz 
has prospered, and besides his business owns a fine farm in Ralpho township, 
consisting of 195 acres located on the main road leading from Paxinos to Bear 
Gap. 
	Mr. Martz has been twice married.  His first wife, Hannah Brocious, 
daughter of John H. Brocious, died in June, 1908, leaving one daughter, Helen. 
By his second wife, Mamie McCollum, daughter of Jacob I. McCollum, he has had 
one son, John Edwin. 
	Fraternally Mr. Martz holds membership in the B.P.O.E., P.O.S. of A. and 
Knights of Malta.  He is a Republican in political preference. 

	DAVID P. MARTZ, son of David, was born April 16, 1840, in Ralpho township, 
with which he has been identified throughout his long life. He was reared upon 
the farm and in his boyhood attended the public schools of the locality. When a 
young man he commenced to learn milling, but never followed it to any extent.  
On Sept. 10, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, 50th Regiment, Pennsylvania  
Volunteer Infantry, and served throughout the Civil war, receiving his honorable 
discharge Aug. 5, 1865. He was in twenty-nine battles, with the Army of the 
Potomac, among them the important engagements at Hilton Head, Antietam, South 
Mountain, Fredericksburg, Bull Run, Vicksburg, the Wilderness, Knoxville, etc.  
He was wounded four times, twice in the head and twice in the right leg. At the 
close of his army service Mr. Martz began farming for himself, settling upon his 
present property, a farm of 101 acres at Paxinos, lying along the old Central 
turnpike.  It is part of the  old Martz homestead.  On this place Mr. Martz 
erected a substantial barn and outbuildings, and in 1873 he put up a sawmill on 
the site formerly occupied by a fulling-mill. He operated it for some time. 
Since 1907 he has been retired from the more active duties of the farm, enjoying 
the fruits of his early labors. He is a citizen of the highest worth, deserving 
the confidence of his fellow men, and is a much respected member of the 
community.  He has served the township three years as school director, is a 
member of Progress Grange, P. of H., and is active in the work of the Methodist  
Episcopal Church, to which he belongs, serving as steward and teacher in the 
Sunday school.  He is a Republican in political sentiment. 
	On Dec. 12, 1869, Mr. Martz married Rebecca C. Repley, daughter of John 
and Rachel Repley.  She died Oct. 6, 1900, and is buried at the Oak Grove Church 
in Ralpho township.  To this marriage  were born children as follows: John W. is 
living at Norfolk, Va.; Grace is married to William C. Bower and has two 
children, Lois and Leona; Nora is the wife of Wilson Willow, living in Ralpho  
township, and has two children, Ellen and Alfred; Ruth married Harrison Erdman, 
living in Shamokin, and has one child, Mildred.  

	REV. CHARLES J. GALLIGAN, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Locust Gap, 
Northumberland county, who has just celebrated the twenty-first anniversary of 
his ordination, beloved by his flock and respected by people of all religious 
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first saw the light of day in July, 1863.  Graduating 
from Manhattan College in 1884 he assumed the study of 
his natural vocation and witnessed the consummation of his cherished ideal when 
he was elevated to the priesthood, by Bishop Curtis, of Baltimore Seminary, 
Feb. 7, 1890. His career since has been marked by continuous success in his 
chosen field of goodness. His zeal and fidelity to the different laity  who have 
been under his spiritual care furnish an example to all laborers in Christ's 
Vineyard.  During his career he has seen service at Harrisburg, Marietta, York, 
Renova, Mount Carmel and Lykens, being transferred to his present location 
April 27, 1908. In a constructive sense he exhibited his personal influence and 
business ability by paying off an indebtedness of long standing on his church 
at Marietta.  He has made many improvements at Locust Gap, but his crowning  
achievement in this direction was the erection of St. Patrick's Church, at York, 
which is a credit to the city and will ever stand as a monument to Father 
Galligan's taste and industry.  It is in the  spiritual work, however, that 
Father Galligan loves to exercise his faculties.  He is, therefore, beloved by 
his congregation, a credit to his church and to the vocation for which he has 
such  natural fitness, and the duties of which he has so creditably discharged. 
He is, par excellence, an ideal priest. 

 	KAUFFMAN.  The Kauffmans of Northumberland county have been settled there 
for several generations, but the earlier representatives of this name in the 
United States were residents of Berks county, where many Kauffmans are to be 
found to this day. 
	On Sept. 15, 1749, one Jacob Kauffman landed in the United States, having 
come hither in the ship "Phoenix," with 550 other passengers from Zweibrucken, 
Nassau, Wurtemberg and the Palatinate.  He and two brothers located in Lancaster 
county, Pa., but the land there was not what he wanted, so he did not remain 
long. He did not want to undertake the work of clearing away the forests which  
then covered that region, and land which could be converted into meadows, to 
raise hay to feed his stock, seemed to him more desirable, so with one brother 
he settled in Berks county, in Bern (now  Upper Bern) township.  He took up a 
large tract of land in the fertile valley at the foot of the Blue Mountain, 
near the present site of St. Michael's church, receiving a patent for about 
seven hundred acres, part of which was meadow land, with an abundant water 
supply. He built a log house with a cellar, particularly adapted for defense 
against the Indians, there being no opening which  afforded an easy entrance, 
and an attack could be repelled by shooting from a window. The few settlers in 
the vicinity at that time suffered much from the treachery and depredations of 
the  Indians, and they accordingly established a military post, the men carrying 
their guns when they went forth to their work in the morning and returning to 
the fort when their day's work was done.   This state of affairs continued from 
1754 to 1764, but with all their precautions about one hundred settlers were 
killed, a brother of Jacob Kauffman being among the number.  Jacob Kauffman 
himself had many thrilling adventures and some narrow escapes from death, but 
he continued to work and prosper and in time became a well-to-do man. In later 
years he built a substantial stone mansion  upon this farm, and this dwelling is 
still standing in a good state of preservation.  He followed farming on his old 
homestead until his death in 1804, and he left a tract of a little over one  
hundred acres (the old homestead) to his son Yost; this is now owned by the John 
Kauffman Estate, the sixth generation.  Jacob Kauffman was buried at St. 
Michael's church, of which he was one of the promoters and an active member.  
He reared a large family of children, and it is said that his sons became great 
hunters, deer in that day being very plentiful in their section.  Tradition has 
it that a gun now owned by one of his descendants has killed as many as two 
hundred deer. 
	Philip Kauffman, son of Jacob, born Dec. 21, 1757, died Nov. 17, 1843. He 
was buried at St. Michael's Lutheran church, of which he was a member.  He 
served as a soldier in the Revolutionary  war. For many years he carried on 
farming, living on a portion of the original tract taken up by his father, 
where he remained until his death.  He married Magdalena Seaman, daughter of 
Ludwig Seaman, and to them were born eleven children, seven sons and four 
daughters. 
	Jacob and Samuel Kauffman, brothers, who emigrated from Switzerland to 
America in 1770, have  many descendants in Berks county, the former settling in 
the Oley Valley and the latter in Maiden- creek, where he became a very 
prosperous farmer and stock dealer and a man well and favorably known in his 
vicinity.  The name of his wife is not known, but it is known that their son, 
Samuel, married Catharine Berndt and had a large family, among whom were: John 
G., Samuel, Daniel, David and two  daughters, one of whom married a Mr. Sell, 
the other David Haas. In religious belief the family were members of the 
Reformed  denomination.  The Kauffmans were Whigs up to the time of the 
formation of the Republican party, when many joined the latter organization. 
	There is a very old family of Kauffmans in Oley township, Berks county, 
which was formed there between 1720 and 1734 by David Kauffman, who came there 
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mother resided.  In 1734 he obtained a warrant 
for land from the Penns for property located in Oley township, Philadelphia 
(now Berks) county. This warrant bears the date May 24, 1734, and is for one  
hundred acres located in the eastern part of the township, and part of this 
property is still in the  possession of the family, being the property of Frank 
Y. Kaufman. Later David obtained another warrant under date of July 1, 1740, 
for 54 acres, 154 perches. This tract adjoined the former one, and part of it 
is also owned by Frank Y. Kaufman.  In addition to this property David owned 200  
acres (now owned by his descendants Ephraim K. Kauffman and Frank Y.), which he 
obtained prior to 1734, his holdings totaling 354 acres, admitted to be among 
the very choicest land of the township.  Upon this property he erected 
buildings, since replaced by those of more modern construction, but in their 
day considered models of convenience and elegance.  He is buried in a private 
burying ground upon the premises and his resting place is marked by a limestone 
without any inscription.  Five  generations are buried in that little plot. His 
wife, Veronica; in 1763, with her other children, released the property to her 
son Jacob. In the release it is stated that she was the widow of David, and 
therefore it is evident that David died some time prior to 1763. This release is 
signed by the widow and her children, who were as follows: Annie Yoder, Mary 
Shenkle, Barbara Lasker, and John, who settled in Maiden-creek township, where 
his descendants still reside. It is evident that David had but two sons, Jacob 
and John. 
	Another interesting fact revealed by the records of the township is that 
in 1758 and 1759  Jacob Kauffman paid heavy taxes in Oley township, his 
assessment being thirty pounds. 
	David, the original ancestor of this Oley township family, had a brother 
Jacob who died without will, and his mother, Anna, of Philadelphia county, took 
out letters of administration in 1732, the letters stating that she was his 
mother and next of kin. Anna, mother of David and Jacob, made a will in which 
she bequeathed the grandfather clock to David, and the balance of her estate to  
all the children of her son David, except David's son John, who was left out. 
	Jacob Kauffman, son of David, obtained the family estate in 1763, as above 
stated, purchasing it from the other heirs, and he retained it until his death, 
residing upon the property and engaging in farming.  His wife was a member of 
the family of Hill, and among their children were: Jacob, John, Nicholas, 
Peter, Samuel and David. 
	There is a tradition in the family that two of  these sons, David and 
Nicholas, settled in Union county, Pa., and that Samuel settled in the State of 
Indiana.  It is also believed that a son of the first Jacob located in the then 
wilds of Texas, where a county, a town, a paper and a postoffice bear the family 
name. 
	Daniel Kauffman, son of Leonard, was born on Jan. 17, 1804, in Upper 
Mahanoy township,  Northumberland Co., Pa., and died in 1889, aged eighty-four 
years, in Lower Augusta township, this county. He followed farming all his 
life, renting until he was able to have his own property, and he purchased the 
farm of 150 acres in Lower Augusta now owned by H. S. Bowersox. He is buried in 
that township, at the St. Elias Union church.  Daniel Kauffman married Mary 
Ressler, born Aug. 23, 1807, who died in 1885. He was a member of the Lutheran 
Church, she of the Reformed denomination. They had  children as follows: Sallie, 
who married Samuel Conrad; John R., who lives at Sunbury, this county;  
Elizabeth, who died an infant; Eliza, who died of smallpox after reaching 
maturity; Daniel, also of Sunbury; Levi; Caroline, of Sunbury, widow of James 
Coldren; Mary, who married Hiram Savage; Levi;  Melinda, widow of Isaiah J. 
Renn; Lucy, of Buchanan, Mich., widow of Abraham Brosius (now spelled  Broceus); 
and Rache1 who married (first) Ira T. Renn and (second) James Lower. 
	LEVI KAUFFMAN, a substantial citizen of Lower Mahanoy township, 
Northumberland county, was  born Dec. 27, 1842, in Lower Augusta township, son 
of Daniel and Mary (Ressler) Kauffman. He lived  at home until just before he 
attained his majority, at the age of twenty going into business with  his 
brother John, the young men conducting a store in Lower Augusta. After two years 
association Levi Kauffman went into business at Augustaville on his sole 
account continuing thus for three years, after which he practically retired for 
a year, being ill for some time.  In 1869 he came to Lower Mahanoy, where he 
was in the milling business for a year before he resumed merchandising, opening 
a general store in the southwestern part of the township, on the banks of the 
Susquehanna.  He carried this place on successfully for about fifteen years, at 
the end of which time it was taken  over by his son Webster. Meantime, in 1880, 
Mr. Kauffman had purchased the ninety-six-acre farm in Lower Mahanoy on which 
he now lives, and on which he built the present large residence in 1889. Many  
other valuable improvements have been made on the place during the thirty years 
of his ownership.  The land is excellent, and under his management has 
increased steadily in value. Mr. Kauffman is a thrifty and much respected 
citizen of his section of the county. He has become widely known personally as 
well as in a business way. 
	Mr. Kauffman married  (first)  Mary Ann Wynn, whose parents, John and 
Elizabeth (Snyder) Wynn, of New Jersey, were English people; John Wynn had a 
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children  were born to this union: Webster, who is 
a merchant at Bridgeport, in Lower Mahanoy; Tamar; Warren  L., of Yonkers, N. 
Y.; Lee, of Danville, Pa.; Daniel, a farmer living at home; and Mary O., who  
married George Cowan and lives at Brooklyn, N. Y. For his second wife Mr. 
Kauffman married Amanda Trautman, widow of Daniel Messner, and they have had 
two sons: James, who was accidentally killed on the railroad; and Harrison, a 
graduate of Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 
	Mr. Kauffman and his family are members of St. Luke's Lutheran and 
Reformed Church, of which  he has been an elder for more than twenty-five years. 
He is a Democrat in political opinion.  

	MATTHIAS TEITSWORTH, a farmer of Ralpho township, has spent all his life 
in the section where he now resides, having been born upon the farm where he 
still makes his home. He is a great-grandson of John Teitsworth, the founder of 
the family in Northumberland county, who was one of the pioneer settlers here, 
coming from New Jersey, before the Revolutionary war.  It is quite certain that 
his father came at the same time, and they settled on Shamokin creek, near what 
is now  Snydertown.  He owned about five hundred acres of land.  Subsequently he 
kept a tavern at what is  known as Paxinos, on the line of Ralpho and Shamokin 
townships, and he died about 1800. He had two sons, William and Robert, and one 
daughter, who married Benjamin Campbell. The family is of Scotch- Irish 
extraction. 
	Robert Teitsworth, the younger of the two sons of John Teitsworth, was 
born Aug. 8, 1768, and died June 9, 1832. His first wife, whose maiden name was 
Elizabeth Taylor, was born Oct. 6, 1775, and died Oct. 17, 1815. They were 
married June 17, 1794, and their children were born as follows: Leanah, July 
29, 1795; William, Dec. 1, 1797; John, March 15, 1800; Sarah, Oct. 7, 1802;  
Margaret, May 14, 1805; Phebe, Oct. 10, 1807; Robert May 25, 1811; Eliza, Aug. 
5, 1814.  On March 27, 1817, Mr. Teitsworth married (second) Elizabeth Andrews, 
who was a daughter of Philip (born Oct. 15, 1772) and Elizabeth (DeWitt) (born 
Jan. 26, 1778) Andrews.  There were two children by this marriage, James and 
Perry. Robert Teitsworth and his first wife are interred in the old Presbyterian  
burial ground near Reed's station, in Ralpho township. 
	William Teitsworth, elder son of John Teitsworth, was born in Shamokin 
township. He served  in the Revolutionary war.  For many years he conducted the 
tavern which he inherited from his father, and was also engaged in farming, at 
one time owning about eight hundred acres of land where Paxinos is now located. 
Later he sold this tract and bought about 250 acres where his grandson  Matthias 
now owns, building a log house and clearing land which he continued to cultivate 
until his death, in March, 1836. He was long a leading citizen of his district. 
He was twice married, but the name of his first wife is not known, and he had 
no children by that union.  By his second marriage, to Mary Campbell, he had 
five children: Isaac; John B., deceased; Elizabeth, of Ralpho township; Katie, 
deceased, who married Peter Yocum; and Mary, deceased, who married John Persing. 
	Isaac Teitsworth, son of William, was born Dec. 5, 1801, at Paxinos, 
Northumberland county, and in time became the owner of his father's farm, which 
is now in the possession of his son  Matthias. He cleared this land and followed 
farming, in his latter years removing to Elysburg, where  he lived retired and 
died Aug. 28, 1882. He was a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church, of  
which he was an elder fifty years, and he and his wife are buried in the old 
Presbyterian graveyard in Ralpho township, near Reed's station. He married 
Sarah Catharine Persing, who was born Oct. 18, 1806, daughter of John Persing, 
and after her husband's death resided with her son Isaac N. in Columbia county, 
Pa., dying Jan. 28 1895. They were the parents of a large family: Mary A. 
married Jacob H. Reed and (second) William Haas; Lemuel died at Bloomsburg, 
Pa.; Rev. William P. is living at Oakland, Cal.; Benjamin Franklin died in 
Columbia county; Alfred, born Feb. 9, 1833, enlisted for service in the Civil 
war in the 46th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was killed in battle near  
Culpeper, Va., at the engagement of Cedar Mountain, Aug. 8, 1862; Susanna 
married Daniel Adams and resides at Bear Gap; Isaac Newton, who lives in 
Columbia county, was also a soldier in the Civil war; Matthias is mentioned 
below; Kate died unmarried; John H. died in Michigan; Harriet, born Nov. 24, 
1834, died June 6, 1853, and she and her brother and sister are interred in the 
same cemetery as their parents; Matilda married Theodore Clayton, formerly of 
Riverside, Pa., and is now living at South Danville, Pa.; Antoinette (Nettie) 
married Harvey B. Soult of Elysburg, and they now live in the State of 
Washington.
	Matthias Teitsworth was born Oct. 25, 1840. He was reared upon the farm 
and attended the schools of the home locality, and after his parents died he 
took the old homestead, where he is  still living.  This farm contains 107 
acres, near Elysburg, and Mr. Teitsworth is still actively engaged in its 
cultivation and improvement.  In 1894 he erected his present residence there.  
He owns another farm of ninety-six acres, also in the vicinity of Elysburg. Mr. 
Teitsworth formerly attended market at Mount Carmel, later taking his produce 
to Shamokin.  He is a substantial and influential citizen, ready to do his 
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of the community. He was one of the promoters of 
the old Elysburg Academy, built in 1865; was a  
charter member of Elysburg Lodge, No. 548, I.O.O.F, organized Jan. 1, 1859; was 
one of the organizers of the Pine Hill Cemetery Association (the cemetery being 
located near Elysburg, in  Ralpho township), and is still a trustee; and he has 
served as a trustee of the Presbyterian Church, of which he and his family are 
active members. In politics he is a Republican. In 1862 he became a member of 
Company H, 172d Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, and served for ten months, being 
stationed  at Yorktown for seven months. 
	In 1865 Mr. Teitsworth married Lanah Louisa Myers, who was born March 14, 
1849, daughter of John C. and Rachel (Watson) Myers, of Columbia county, Pa. 
Mr. Teitsworth died Jan. 20, 1910, aged sixty years, and is buried in Pine Hill 
cemetery.  The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs.  Teitsworth: Alfred, 
who lives at Sunbury, married Minnie Kulp; Harvey B., who lives in Ralpho  
township, married Annie Wilt; William Morris, now of Mount Carmel, married 
Elizabeth Unger; Amos is in the west; Maggie M. married Clark Campbell; Josiah 
B. married Minerva Rhoads; Preston, who is  living in Ralpho township, married 
Lucy Leiby; Della I. is at home.  

	LEISENRING. The Leisenrings of Northumberland and Lehigh counties, Pa., 
trace their line from John Conrad Leisenrinck, who came from Saxony, Germany, 
as early as 1744 and first located in  Baltimore. He found a permanent home in 
Pennsylvania, coming first to Northampton county and in 1752 settling in White 
Hall township, Lehigh county, where he purchased a very large estate, securing 
the title from the Penns. He is buried in the cemetery at Egypt, Lehigh county, 
and his name, spelled as  above, is still to be seen on his tombstone, which was 
bought in Germantown and was the first marble gravestone in that cemetery. He 
and his family lived like the typical thrifty people of their day.  His wife 
spun yarn and sold it to customers in Philadelphia.  They had a family of four 
sons and three daughters, namely Conrad, Andrew, Peter, John Sebastian, Annie 
Maria, Elizabeth and Barbara. 
	Peter Leisenring, son of John Conrad, was born Feb. 28, 1770, in Lehigh 
county, Pa., where he passed his youth and early married life.  Coming to 
Northumberland county in 1805, he settled upon a tract of 109 acres about two 
miles south of Sunbury, in what is now Upper Augusta township, and on this 
property erected one of the first tanneries in the county; he also ran a 
distillery, carrying on a large business for the time. He was a progressive 
man, and raised the first red clover in this section of the county. He also 
planted the first orchard in his district.  Enterprising and  hard-working, he 
became one of the leading men of the county. He married Susan Schod, who was 
born in Lehigh county May 17, 1774, and they had the following children: Jacob 
E., Gideon, Peter, Lydia  (married Christian Baldy) and Kittie (married Martin 
Weaver). All are now deceased.  The parents both died in Northumberland county. 
	Jacob E. Leisenring, eldest child of Peter, was born in Lehigh county July 
14, 1794, and  when a young man learned the tanning trade with his father.  He 
was engaged in hauling the products of the tannery, distillery and farm to 
Philadelphia and Pittsburg, where they attended the markets, and he used to 
carry to Philadelphia large sums of money to purchase supplies for the farmers 
in the  district. In the war of 1812 he enlisted under Captain Hummel and served 
nine months.  In 1833, in  company with William Cloyd; whose interest he later 
bought, he purchased the old Fisher property at Bear Gap, where his grandson, 
Jacob E., now resides, this property consisting of 105 acres of land, a 
gristmill and tavern, of which latter he was the landlord for a period of forty 
years.  The house, a large stone structure, was built by Caleb Fisher about 
1812, and the location being a changing  point for the stagecoaches the stand 
was a very prosperous one.  During this period the country was so wild that 
bears were still very plentiful. Mr. Leisenring later bought from Benjamin 
Tillman the adjoining land, so that he had in one tract then about six hundred 
acres; he also had another farm at what is now Paxinos, of two hundred acres. 
As the thriving condition of his affairs would indicate, he was a man of 
excellent judgment and a good overseer in business matters, and his opinion and 
counsel were often sought by his neighbors.  He devoted all his time to business 
and was considered one of the leading men in the county, though he took no 
direct part in the conduct of  public affairs. He was a Democrat, and interested 
in the success of the party, but was never active in its affairs. He found time 
for church work, however, being a zealous member of the Lutheran Church, in 
which for many years he filled the office of deacon, and few men were as highly  
respected. 
	On June 13, 1819, Mr. Leisenring married Mary Bucher, daughter of Henry, 
of Sunbury, Pa., and she died a few years before he did, June 11, 1873, aged 
seventy-three years, six months.  Mr. Leisenring died May 11, 1878, and they 
are buried at the Blue church in Ralpho township.  They were the parents of 
nine children, two of whom died in infancy, and Mr. Leisenring was able to give 
a farm or a house to each of the seven who reached maturity, namely: Charles, 
Henry, who is deceased: Lydia (deceased), Mrs. Benjamin Wolverton; Catharine, 
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deceased, who married George Mifflin, of Paxinos.; and Peter  Shindel. 
	PETER SHINDEL LEISENRING, son of Jacob E., was born May 12, 1842, upon the 
homestead at Bear Gap, and was educated at the local schools. In his youth he 
was employed with his father, clearing the land and farming, and at the age of 
twenty-two years he engaged in the lumber business in connection with farming 
and grist and saw-milling, continuing all these industries with success. His  
farm consisted of 285 acres of land, under profitable cultivation, and with all 
these interests he also conducted the hotel for some time. He was very well 
known, being one of the most substantial citizens of his time, and his success 
in all his undertakings was such as to make him one of the most valuable men in 
his community, where his death was regarded as a general loss. On Feb. 13,  
1876, Mr. Leisenring married Mary A. Sanders, daughter of Joseph and Sarah 
(Fisher) Sanders, of Columbia county, Pa., and they had two children, Jacob E. 
and Mary C. The latter is the wife of David K. Geise, and they have one son, 
Frank; they reside in Ralpho township. 
	Mr. Leisenring was a Democrat in politics and a Lutheran in religious 
faith, belonging to the Blue Church in Ralpho township.  He died July 8, 1898, 
aged fifty-six years, and is buried at the Blue church. His widow resides with 
her son and daughter in Ralpho township. 
	JACOB E. LEISENRING, a well known business man of Bear Gap, Northumberland 
county, is the only son of Peter Shindel Leisenring.  He was born Nov. 17, 
1877, at the place where he still resides, and attended the local public 
schools and Elysburg Academy.  From the time he was old enough to be useful he 
assisted his father, and after the latter's death he continued his business  
affairs for four years.  He then bought the old homestead, which now consists of 
about 132 acres of land, and his holdings at present aggregate about 450 acres, 
of which a good deal is timber land. He  carries on the lumber business in 
addition to farming, and has given every evidence that the reputation of the 
family for business thrift and sagacity will not suffer in his career. Well 
known in his business and social relations, popular personally, ambitious, 
honorable and trustworthy, he has gratifying prospects for a useful and 
prosperous future. He has served as road commissioner and  auditor of his 
township. 
	Mr. Leisenring married Emma Yocum, daughter of Ezra and Joannah (Hummel) 
Yocum, and they  have had four children: One son that died in infancy; Kathleen, 
who died when six years old; Charlotte, and Mary Johannah.  Politically Mr. 
Leisenring is a Democrat, and in religion a Lutheran.  He is a member of 
Elysburg Lodge, No. 414, F. & A.M., and of Shamokin Lodge of Elks. 
	Charles Leisenring, son of Jacob E., was born 1821 and received his 
education in the schools of the home locality. He followed farming and also 
kept hotel at Paxinos, this county.  Mr.  Leisenring died Aug. 27, 1868, at the 
comparatively early age of forty-seven years, his death being caused by the 
kick of a colt, while he was going about his work. He is buried at the Blue 
church.  His widow, who is still living at Bloomsburg, Pa., was Maria Haas, and 
they were the parents of five  children: Ida, Mrs. John Pensyl; Emma, who 
married Rev. John Adams, a Lutheran minister (both are  dead); Lewis C.; James; 
and Clara, Mrs. John Snyder. 
	Lewis C. Leisenring, son of Charles, was born at Paxinos, Pa., Aug. 4, 
1856, and when a boy came with his parents to a farm in Ralpho township, near 
Bear Gap.  He followed the life of a farmer, and in 1896 took his father's 
homestead of 147 acres, which is located at Bear Gap and joins the farms of his 
cousins, Jacob E. and George K. Leisenring. Lewis C. Leisenring married Emma 
Teats, daughter of Jeremiah Teats, of Shamokin township, and they have had 
children as follows: Charles (married Blanche John), Walter, Grace and Warren. 
Mr. Leisenring is a Democrat and served Ralpho township as school director for 
five years. In religion he is a Lutheran, a member of the Blue Church.
	Henry Leisenring, son of Jacob, was born at Sunbury, Pa., March 31, 1823, 
and died at  Elysburg, Pa., Feb. 22, 1895.  He is buried at the Blue church. In 
early life he learned milling and  was engaged in the flour and feed business at 
Bear Gap.  He was also engaged in the lumber business, which he followed some 
time, and then returned to the milling business at Bear Gap. He was a Lutheran 
in religion; His wife, Mary A. Eckroth, daughter of John, died Oct. 15, 1898, 
aged seventy-nine years. They had these children: (1) Anna died unmarried aged 
twenty-eight. (2) Herbert, who lives in Shamokin, married Catharine Lanciscus, 
daughter of John and Lena (Bird) Lanciscus, and they  have had four children, 
Malcolm L., Edna L. (deceased), Lena M. (at home) and Ether F. (deceased). (3) 
Estella is the wife of Clark R. Creasy, and they are living in Shamokin. Their 
children are  Dayton, Clara and Grace. (4) Tacie, widow of Theodore Heck, of 
Shamokin, is the mother of Irene  (wife of Dr. A. G. Shissler), Millie (wife of 
J. A. Shipman), and Harry (who died aged twenty-one). (5) Dayton, who lives at 
Elysburg, Pa., married Carrie Vought and has one son, John. 
	Frank Leisenring, son of Jacob E., was born in 1835, upon the homestead at 
Bear Gap, and was educated in the public schools of the vicinity. He had a fine 
farm of 150 acres at Bear Gap, cultivating the same until his death, which 
occurred at the farm Jan. 16, 1902, when he was sixty- six 
	
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years, three months, four days old.  In 1861 he 
married Angeline Keller, of Ralpho township, who is 
now living with her son, George K. They had three children: Savanna, deceased; 
George K.; and Laura, widow of William Campbell, of Ralpho township. Mr. 
Leisenring was a well known member of the  Democratic party and filled the 
office of school director and other township positions. He was a  Lutheran in 
religious faith. 

	GEORGE K. LEISENRING, son of Frank, was born Jan. 31, 1866, in Ralpho 
township, and became a farmer. He was employed with his father until he began 
for himself in 1890, and now owns his father's homestead, having a fine farm at 
Bear Gap, well appointed, with substantial and up-to-date buildings. 
Politically he is a Democrat, has served his community as overseer of the poor, 
and in religious connection, like so many others of the family, is a Lutheran 
and a member of the Blue  Church. 
	Mr. Leisenring married Elizabeth Haas, daughter of Abraham Haas, and to 
them have been born  six children: Frank (died aged six years), Ruth, Mary, 
Dorothy, Catherine and Marcella. 

	CHARLES O'CONNOR is identified with the business life of Trevorton, 
Northumberland county, in various associations, being owner and proprietor of 
the well known "Elk Hotel," proprietor of the  New York clothing store, 
treasurer of the Trevorton Industrial Stock Company and director of the Miners' 
Savings & Loan Association, in which relations he has come in contact with so 
many of his fellow citizens that he is an unusually well known man in his 
community.  He was born March 19, 1861, in England, son of Michael O'Connor. 
	Michael O'Connor was born in 1836 in the Province of Munster, Ireland, and 
brought his family thence to America in 1868, landing at New York City. After a 
brief residence in New Jersey, engaged at his trade, that of potter, he came to 
Shamokin (in 1868), Northumberland Co., Pa., and here found work at mining; 
following that occupation most of his active years. For some time before  his 
death he was in the shoe business at Shamokin, his store being in the old Weaver 
building.  He died in Shamokin January 16, 1894. Mr. O'Connor married Catherine 
Costello, a native of Ireland, whose people settled at Fall River, Mass., and 
she died Oct. 17, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. O'Connor are buried at Shamokin. Nine  
children were born to them: Michael, who lives in Shamokin; Charles; Thomas, of 
Shamokin; Patrick, of Shamokin; James, of Shamokin; Margaret, wife of Thomas 
Tamey, of Shamokin; William Francis, who died young; William P., of Shamokin; 
and F. Henry, who died June 15, 1870, and who was the second person buried in 
the Catholic cemetery at Shamokin. Charles O'Connor was eight and a half years 
old when he came to America, in 1869, and he attended school at Shamokin for 
some years thereafter. He began work as a slate picker, and in time engaged in 
mining, following this occupation until Feb. 5, 1905.  Meantime, however, he had 
acquired  other interests, and he is now an active business man.  On Feb. 5, 
1905, he engaged in the hotel business at Trevorton, becoming proprietor of the 
"Elk Hotel," the best known hostelry in the town.  It was built in 1851, and is 
now the property of Mr. O'Connor.  Since October, 1909, he has also been 
interested in the clothing business, being proprietor of the fine, up-to-date 
store located opposite his hotel, conducted by what is known as the New York 
Clothing Company.  He is connected with the Trevorton Industrial Stock Company 
as treasurer and member of the board of trustees, his son Michael being 
secretary of the company and Mr. Plummer president of the board of trustees. He 
is  treasurer (since 1908) and member of the board of directors of the Miners' 
Savings & Loan  Association of Trevorton (serving as vice president from 1904 to 
1908, when he was elected treasurer), which was established April 20, 1904.  In 
1898 Mr. O'Connor became jury commissioner of Northumberland county, and 
succeeded himself for another term, in 1901, having the distinction of being 
the first man ever to succeed himself in this office since the county was 
organized, 1772.  Politically he is a Democrat; and he has numerous social 
connections, being a member of Lodge No. 267, B.P.O. Elks, of Sunbury, this 
county (since 1898); a member of the F.O.E. Aire at Shamokin, of which he was 
one of the first trustees; a member of St. Patrick's Beneficial Society, and a 
member of the A.O.H. In religion he is a Catholic, belonging to St. Patrick's 
Church at Trevorton. 
	Mr. O'Connor married Mary Kelliher, daughter of John and Catherine 
Kelliher, and they have  had a large family, viz.: Thomas, who died young; 
Michael, who was educated at St. Vincent College, Latrobe, Pa., and Mount St. 
Mary's, Emmitsburg, Md., and is now clerk of the Quarter Sessions court  at 
Sunbury; Patrick (also a student at St. Mary's College), who married Verna 
Kehler and has one son, George; Catherine; Charles Raymond, who died when one 
year, five months old; Joseph, who died  at the age of thirteen years; Francis, 
who died when eleven months old; William Raymond, who died in infancy; Barmary, 
who is still attending school; Margaret; and Joseph.  

	ZIMMERMAN. The Zimmerman family, now represented in Schuylkill county for 
several generations, and among the most substantial and public-spirited 
citizens of this region, has been settled in Pennsylvania for a hundred and 
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Sebastian Zimmerman came from Germany in 1730-31.  They first settled in eastern 
Pennsylvania near Kutztown, in Maxatawny township, Berks county, in which 
township Abraham paid  sixteen pounds tax in 1759 - the year the first tax was 
levied, Sebastian (or Bastian, as he was known in Berks county) paying twenty-
three pounds tax there that year. The latter, who was the  ancestor of the 
branch of the family in which we are here interested, the line of the present  
Sebastian Zimmerman, of Sunbury, an old resident of that place, served as a 
soldier in the Revolutionary war. 
	Abraham Zimmerman, son of Sebastian, married Bernice Werley, and 
they lived near Kutztown, in Maxatawny township, where they were farming 
people. Their children, all born in that township, were: Elizabeth, Abraham, 
Samuel, Jacob, Sebastian, Solomon, Carrie, Esther, Dewald, John and Isaac. 
	Sebastian Zimmerman, son of Abraham, was born May 7, 1796, in Berks 
county. He, together  with three of his brothers, was a soldier in the war of 
1812, and was one of the four men detailed to bury the dead in the disasters 
about Washington that resulted in the burning of the national capital by the 
British.  Moving to Schuylkill county, he acquired a large farm in Upper 
Mahantango township, which has since been divided into two farms, one of which 
is owned by Felix Masser. The property originally comprised over two hundred 
acres. Mr. Zimmerman died in July, 1885, in the Upper Mahantango Valley, near 
the Northumberland county line, aged eighty-nine years, two months, one Jay.  
His wife, Elizabeth B. Klock, daughter of Jacob Klock, was born Aug. 30, 1796, 
and died Jan. 13, 1875.  They were Lutherans, and are buried at the Salem 
(Herb) Church at Rough and Ready, in  Schuylkill county. They were the parents 
of children as follows: Joseph, Catharine, Elizabeth, Salome, Esther, Lydia, 
Sebastian and George. The last named was killed at the battle of Petersburg,  
Va.; he married Eliza Herter, and they had four sons, Jonathan, Washington, Joel 
and Monroe. 
	SEBASTIAN ZIMMERMAN, son of Sebastian and Elizabeth B. (Klock) Zimmerman, 
was born June 2, 1830, in Cameron township, Northumberland Co., Pa.  His 
parents moved across the line into Upper  Mahantango township, Schuylkill 
county, when he was about a year old, and he was there reared to farming, which 
he continued to follow after beginning life on his own account acquiring a farm 
in  that locality which he cultivated until his removal to Northumberland county 
in 1867. At that time he settled in Lower Augusta township, the part now 
included in Rockefeller township, remaining there for about twenty years, until 
he retired from active pursuits, in 1887. Since his retirement he has made his 
home in Sunbury, of which place he is one of the oldest and most respected 
residents.  Mr. Zimmerman has never sought office, but he has served thirteen 
years as school director, part of the time for what is now Rockefeller township 
and part of the time for the borough of Sunbury.  He is a Democrat in political 
matters. He has always been interested in the welfare of the Lutheran Church,  
having served as deacon while he was a resident of Upper Mahantango, and he and 
his wife are members of the Zion's New Lutheran Church at Sunbury. On Oct. 28, 
1862, Mr. Zimmerman enlisted from Schuylkill county in Company K, 172d 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. F. A. Hoffman, was promoted to 
second sergeant of that company, and served with the Army of the Potomac. He was  
discharged Aug. 1, 1863, with his regiment, at Harrisburg.  Mr. Zimmerman has 
long been an active  member of William Bruner Post, No. 335, G.A.R., in which he 
has held various offices. 
	On Feb. 23, 1851, Mr. Zimmerman married (first) Elizabeth Schlappig, who 
was born Nov. 25, 1832, daughter of Benjamin Schlappig, and died Dec. 8, 1872, 
in her forty-first year.  They had a family of ten children, born as follows: 
Henry S., Jan. 22, 1852; Sarah, Sept. 17, 1853; Lewis, May  1, 1855 (died Nov. 
22, 1907); Edwin, March 10, 1857 (died June 15, 1866); John, July 20, 1859;  
Sebastian, Dec. 15, 1861; Elizabeth, May 12, 1864 (died Dec. 8, 1872); William, 
July 11, 1866;  Benjamin, July 25, 1868 (died Aug. 11, 1870); Mary Ann, May 26, 
1870 (died July 15, 1871). 
	Mr. Zimmerman's second marriage was to Mrs. Harriet (Klock) Yoder, born 
Feb. 18, 1832, daughter of Jacob and Polly (Masser) Klock, and to this union 
there are two children: Alice, born Feb. 13, 1874, and Clara, born Dec. 13, 
1875. By her first marriage, to Peter Yoder, son of Anthony  Yoder, of 
Schuylkill county and later of Northumberland county, Mrs. Zimmerman had six 
children: Sarah (deceased), Lewis, Emma, Juliann, Christian and Peter. 
	Mr. Zimmerman is much interested in incidents of the early days in this 
region, and he relates one story, about the manner in which the famous Conrad 
Weiser acquired possession of one of the islands in the Susquehanna river, 
which is worth repeating: The Indians had great faith in dreams, and as far as 
possible executed commands or heeded warnings received during sleep. Conrad  
Weiser, the great friend of the Indians, had a fine gun which the Redmen admired 
as much as the owner prized it. Shikellimy, the Oneida chief, who was Weiser's 
stanch friend, was stationed at Sunbury at the time of this happening.  He 
coveted the gun, and one night dreamed that Weiser gave it to him.  The next 
time he met Weiser he told him of the dream, and Weiser, knowing that it would  
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treasured gun to the Indian, though reluctantly. Now it 
was the white man's turn to dream. In the Susquehanna 
river, below Sunbury, is the Isle of Cue, upon which the Indians lived and 
which they valued highly. Weiser had often asked for it, but the  Indians, 
though friendly, said they could not part with it: Weiser dreamed that his 
friend Shikellimy made him a present of the island, and when he met the Chief 
began by apologizing for having a dream to relate which might not please the 
latter. The Chief reassured him on the strength of their great friendship and 
Weiser, with apparent regret, told his story. Shikellimy, though evidently 
disturbed, was game and insisted that the dream must be fulfilled, but at the 
same time  he gave his friend to understand that it was time to put an end to 
their dreaming.  This story is related as the true version of the manner in 
which the island came into Weiser's possession.  It is a matter of record that 
he did own it. 
	John Zimmerman, who was from Berks county, Pa., settled in Upper Augusta 
township,  Northumberland county.  His children were: Daniel, who married 
Catharine Hall; John, who lived in Upper Augusta township; Sarah, who married 
Abraham Hartman; a daughter, who married Daniel Zimmerman; George, who married 
Mary Hall (sister of Catharine); and Peter, who moved away from this section.  
Of this family, George Zimmerman lived in Augusta township, and later came to 
Sunbury,  Pa., where he built a house, which is still standing, now occupied by 
his grandsons Samuel and  William H. Stroh.  George Zimmerman's children were: 
Jeremiah (a prominent man, who served as  Representative in the State 
Legislature), Rachel, Luzy (died young), Mary, Elizabeth and Emma. 
	Daniel Zimmerman, grandfather of William A. Zimmerman, a resident of 
Rockefeller township, Northumberland county, was born in Oley township, Berks 
Co., Pa., Feb. 1, 1793, son of Johannes (John) Zimmerman, and died March 26, 
1842, in Northumberland county, aged forty-nine years, one  month, twenty-two 
days. This record and that of his wife are to be found in the old cemetery at  
Sunbury. After his marriage he came to this county and settled in what is now 
Rockefeller township, and he followed farming as well as his trade of 
blacksmith, his shop being in Brush valley, near where his grandson, William A. 
Zimmerman, now resides.  The latter owns his grandfather's old  ledger, in which 
he kept the accounts and records of his blacksmith business, the first account  
entered bearing date Aug. 20, 1816. He continued to follow his trade until his 
death, and prospered, owning the farm now in the possession of his grandson 
William A. and also an adjoining tract of eighty acres, now owned by Samuel 
Lantz.  He was a man of more than ordinary intelligence and well-informed for 
his time, and was looked up to by his neighbors for his sound judgment and 
common sense.  His wife, Catharine (Hall), born Aug. 1, 1791, died June 30, 
1858, aged sixty-six years, ten  months, twenty-nine days.  They are buried in 
the old Sunbury cemetery on South Fourth street.  Two children were born to 
this couple, Samuel H. and Susan, the latter of whom married James Covert and  
lived first at Sunbury, later at Selinsgrove, this county. Mr. Zimmerman and his 
family were members  of Zion Lutheran Church at Sunbury. 

	Samuel H. Zimmerman, son of Daniel, was born Aug. 23, 1824-25, in what was 
then Augusta (now  Rockefeller) township, Northumberland county, and died Feb. 
3, 1893. He succeeded his father in the ownership of the home farm, where he 
passed all his life engaged in agricultural pursuits.  He improved the place 
considerably, building the present dwelling on the property in the year 1876 and  
the barn in 1888. Mr. Zimmerman had received a good common school education for 
his day, and like his father was a man of intelligence and good sense above the 
average, showing his character in all the relations of life. He was a member of 
the Lutheran Church, confirmed at Sunbury and was active in the work of the 
church at Plum creek, where he is buried. He served as a member of the church  
council. He was a Republican in politics. In 1850 Mr. Zimmerman married Mary 
Bartholomew, daughter of Jacob and Catharine (Bloom) Bartholomew of Rush 
township, and five children were born to their union: Malinda married George W. 
Schive and they reside at Scranton, Pa.; Angeline (deceased)  married Henry 
Wolf; Morris A. is deceased; William A. is mentioned below; Sarah (deceased) 
married  David Fegley. 
	WILLIAM A. ZIMMERMAN was born Sept. 10, 1858, on the homestead, and 
received his education in the common schools.  Since he was eighteen he has 
followed the carpenter trade off and on, having learned it through his own 
efforts and by applying himself faithfully.  He has followed the trade in  
Sunbury and in his home township, and still maintains a carpenter shop, though 
he also gives considerable attention to farming, having owned the homestead 
since the fall of 1893. He has ninety-three acres, under profitable 
cultivation. In the summer of 1910 Mr. Zimmerman built an addition to his 
residence for his son Domer, who had just been married, doing all the carpenter 
work himself. He has a high reputation as a mechanic. 
	On Oct. 6, 1878, Mr. Zimmerman married Susan Shipe, daughter of John H. 
and Esther (Garinger) Shipe and granddaughter of Samuel Garinger and his wife, 
whose maiden name was Conrad.   Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman have had two children: 
Jennie, who is unmarried; and Domer a silk worker, who  married Bertha F. 
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	Mr. Zimmerman is a Lutheran, belonging to the church at Plum Creek, which 
he has served a number of years as member of the council. His family are of the 
Reformed faith. In political  sentiment he is a Republican, and he is at present 
serving as one of the township auditors.  He has  served three years as school 
director. 
	George Zimmerman was born March 26, 1784, son of Georg and Anna Maria 
(Moutz) Zimmerman, and died Sept. 24, 1835. He is buried in the old graveyard 
at Sunbury.  He lived in Upper Augusta township, where he engaged in farming, 
owning a tract of 300 acres, his land extending along  Shamokin creek from the 
gristmill down to the old Methodist Church, the old cemetery of which is  still 
to be seen. A man of pious disposition, he was strictly temperate in all things 
and a devout member of the Lutheran Church.  He was of tall figure.  Mr. 
Zimmerman's first marriage was to a sister of Henry Yoxtheimer, and by that 
marriage he had four children: Rebecca, Mrs. Daniel Haas; Sarah, who died 
unmarried; Jeremiah, who lived at Shamokin; and Catharine, Mrs. Oyster. His 
second  wife, Catharine (Hartzell), died March 17, 1840, aged fifty-seven years, 
nine months.  She was the  mother of four children: George, Peter, Henry and 
Simon. 
	George Zimmerman, son of George, was born in Upper Augusta, Aug. 18, 1815, 
and died May 13, 1887.  His wife, Sarah (Fasold), was born Feb. 18, 1818, and 
died May 2, 1863. Mr. Zimmerman was a shoemaker and also cultivated the old 
homestead, owning the farm.  He was an active Democrat, and  served as school 
director, supervisor, tax collector, assessor, and overseer of the poor, being a  
prominent man in the public affairs of his township.  He and his wife were 
members of the United  Brethren Church, of which he was a trustee and steward.  
They had a large family, viz.: Mary Ann  married Jacob Gass; Catherine M. owns 
the homestead of 100 acres in partnership with her brother Samuel and resides 
there; Sarah died unmarried; George V., who never married, lived in Upper  
Augusta; William H. died in infancy; Samuel is a resident of Upper Augusta; John 
died when two weeks old; Harriet F. died aged eleven years; Alice died aged 
eighteen years; Clara married T. H. Lippiatt, of Sunbury; Emma died of scarlet 
fever at the age of fourteen years, five months; Rachel  A. married Jacob 
Deibler, of near Snydertown. 
	Samuel Zimmerman, son of George and Sarah, was born on the Zimmerman 
homestead April 24,  1848. He was educated in the public schools and went to 
learn the carpenter's trade when nineteen years old, following it about eleven 
years, at Pottsville and throughout the oil regions of Western Pennsylvania.  
Returning to his native township, he worked for several seasons at his trade in  
Sunbury. About 1882 he bought his present farm of 100 acres in Upper Augusta 
township, former]y the Martz homestead, and there he has since carried on 
general farming.  Mr. Zimmerman is a Democrat, and has served as tax collector 
since 1907; he was school director for a period of six years.  He married Anna 
Mensch, daughter of Henry and Hannah (Reish) Mensch, who lived in Upper Augusta, 
and seven children have been born to this union: Ralph, who is a farmer of 
Upper Augusta township; Eva  V., married to Dr. J. William Schultz, of Tremont, 
Pa.; Mabel, at home; George, of Reading; Clarence, at home; a son that died in 
infancy; and Carrie, at home. Mr. Zimmerman and his family are  Methodists in 
religious connection. 
	Jacob Zimmerman was born March 19, 1764, in Maxatawny, Berks Co., Pa., and 
came thence after his marriage to Northumberland county, settling at 
Augustaville.  He owned a farm of over three hundred acres, and being a tanner 
by trade operated a tannery in connection with his large farm. He married 
Susanna Brown, daughter of Michael Brown, of "Swabian" Creek, Washington 
township, Northumberland county, and to them were born three children: (1) 
John, who died Aug. 10, 1870, aged sixty-five years, lived on a farm adjoining 
that of his brother Daniel. He was a first class  mechanic; made spinning-wheels 
and fine guns, for which latter there was especial demand, and also  made 
musical instruments. His wife, Molly Fetherolf, was a sister of his brother 
Daniel's wife. They had one son, Peter, who died in Waverly, Nebr. (2) Daniel 
is mentioned below.  (3) Jacob, born  March 30, 1794, died unmarried Oct. 5, 
1817, aged twenty-three years, six months, five days. Jacob  Zimmerman, the 
father, died March 6, 1835, aged seventy years, eleven months, seventeen days. 
The mother died Feb. 27, 1854, aged eighty-three years, six months, eight days. 
Both belonged to the Stone Church at Augustaville, he being a Lutheran, and his 
wife a Reformed member. They are buried  there. 
	Daniel Zimmerman, son of Jacob, was born Oct. 5, 1808, in Augusta 
township, Northumberland County, on the homestead where he passed all his life.  
He was a tanner and farmer, owning 100 acres of land, now the property of Harry 
Zimmerman, of the fourth generation. He died Aug. 27, 1883, aged  seventy-four 
years, ten months, twenty-two days.  He married Hannah  Fetherolf, daughter of 
Peter Fetherolf of Mahantango Valley, Northumberland county, and she died Sept. 
30, 1863, aged sixty  years, six months, ten days. They are buried at the Stone 
Church. Their family consisted of twelve children, namely: Jacob, of Union 
county, Pa.; John F.; Henry; Mary; Christian, who married Susan M.  Reeser; 
Daniel F.; Peter; Elias, deceased; Samuel F., of Aber-
	
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deen, S. Dak.; William, who lived and died at Allentown, Pa. (he had children: 
Jennie, Annie, Mary and Eve); Jeremiah, who died when young; and Hettie, who 
married H. S. Koppenhafer, of Sunbury, Pennsylvania. 
	John F. Zimmerman, son of Daniel, was born Feb. 5, 1829, on the homestead, 
learned the trade of cabinet-maker and house carpenter, and has passed most of 
his life in Augusta. During his later  years, however, he has lived at Lewisburg 
and Williamsport, also spending considerable time with his daughter in Georgia. 
He has been twice married, first, in 1851, to Magdalena Kieffer, who died at  
the age of twenty-seven years, Feb. 27, 1863, while her husband was serving in 
the Civil war. By  this union there were two sons and one daughter, David A., H. 
Rebecca (who married T. H. Finn and  lives at Way Cross, (Ga.) and Aaron P. Mr. 
Zimmerman was married (second) in 1869 to Rebecca Campbell, who died in 1897, 
aged fifty-four years.  To them were also born three children: Landis  I., who 
lives at Punxsutawney, Pa., has three children, Eugene, Myron and Hilda; 
Ellemeta died when sixteen months old; and Ira J. lives in Detroit Michigan. 
John F. Zimmerman was a Union soldier  during the Civil war, serving in Company 
H, 177th Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. He was mustered in at Sunbury, in 
November, 1862, and served nine months. 
	Henry Zimmerman, son of Daniel, born April 17, 1830, died March 23, 1863, 
while serving in the Civil war, at Yorktown, Va., of typhus fever, and is 
buried at the Stone Church, near his old home. He was in the same company as 
his brothers.  He had children: Martin M., Morris, and Alice, the last named 
deceased. 
	Daniel F. Zimmerman, son of Daniel, lived and died on the old 
homestead, passing away Nov. 29, 1905, aged seventy years, eight months, eight 
days. He too served for nine months during the Civil war in the same company 
as his two brothers. He was twice married, first to Hannah Zerfing,  who died 
Sept. 23, 1863 (aged twenty-nine years, nine months, one day), and by whom he 
had one son,  William, and second to Sallie A. Reeder, by whom he had Joseph, 
Elmer, Tura, Katie and Harry. 
	PETER ZIMMERMAN, son of Daniel, was born April 4, 1836, in Lower Augusta 
township, Northumberland county.  When twenty years old he commenced to learn 
the trade of carriage-builder, which he has ever since followed.  He served his 
apprenticeship at Berrysburg, and later worked at Mifflinburg for five years. 
He began business for himself at Zimmermantown (Augustaville P.O.) in what is 
now Rockefeller township, Northumberland county, and remained at that location 
for nineteen years, coming to Herndon, Pa., where he has since maintained his 
stand. He not only does the wood  work, but also painting and trimming, and the 
family generally do cabinet-making. Mr. Zimmerman is a public-spirited citizen, 
and was active in helping to organize Herndon into a borough.  He is a Democrat 
in politics. 
	On June 2, 1862, Mr. Zimmerman married Rachel Kebauch, of Dauphin county, 
Pa., who died Feb. 21, 1877, at the age of thirty-three years, seven months, 
fourteen days, the mother of four  children: Calvin O., now of Seven Points, 
Pa.; Addie, who died in infancy; Laura, married to Monroe Ziegler, of Herndon; 
and a son that died in infancy. In 1889 Mr. Zimmerman married for his second  
wife Mary Auchmuty, of Millersburg, Dauphin county. They have had no children. 
The family are  members of the United Evangelical Church at Herndon. 
	Samuel F. Zimmerman, son of Daniel, was born in Rockefeller township in 
September, 1839, and  was there reared to farm life. At the age of seventeen he 
learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed in Rockefeller township until 
he went to South Dakota, in 1887.  There he farmed and raised stock until his 
retirement in 1903. He has his home at Aberdeen, South Dakota. Before his 
marriage Mr. Zimmerman spent about two years at South Bend, Ind., where he was 
in the employ of the Studebaker Manufacturing Company, returning East to be 
married.  He is a Democrat; was originally a Lutheran, but since settling out 
West has belonged to the Presbyterian Church, there being no Lutherans in his 
locality.  He married Lucy Ann Martz, daughter of Isaac and Polly (Emerick) 
Martz, of Rockefeller township, and she died May 6, 1908, aged fifty-eight 
years., She is buried at Aberdeen, S. Dak. To them were born seven sons, viz.: 
Warren H.; Reuben Clay, of Aberdeen, S. Dak.; Benjamin F., of Sunbury, Pa.; 
Charles M., of Ashley, N. Dak.; Orville W. who died aged four years; Freeman 
A., of Aberdeen, S. Dak.; and Frederick F., of Ashley, North Dakota. 
	Warren H. Zimmerman, of Sunbury, Pa., was born in Rockefeller township, on 
the homestead, May 22, 1871. He learned the blacksmith's trade in his native 
township following it there until the  family went West, in 1887, after which he 
farmed for one year. Then for three seasons he conducted a grain elevator at 
Roscoe, S. Dak.  In 1892 he returned East to Sunbury and followed his trade  
another year. Returning to Roscoe he worked for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 
Paul Railroad Company for a year, and he again returned East in 1895. After 
working at carpentering and painting some time he connected himself with the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Company being first employed as car repairman, then 
foreman of engine tenders, having charge of from fifteen to as many as twenty-
five men.  It is responsible work, and he has shown himself capable of handling 
it.  Mr. Zimmerman has become quite a prominent citizen of Sunbury in his 
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1901 he was elected to the council from the Seventh Ward 
as an independent candidate, defeating the two regular party  
nominees and he has twice been reelected. He has taken an active part in the 
doings of that body, having served as secretary one year, treasurer one year; 
and member of the Finance committee two  years; since 1907 he has been a member 
of the Supply committee. Mr. Zimmerman was instrumental in the erection of the 
Francis E. Drumheller, M. D. public school building in the Seventh Ward in 1910,  
the most complete and up-to-date school building in Central Pennsylvania; it has 
eight rooms, and was erected at a cost of $35,000.  Though independent in local 
affairs, he is a Democrat on national issues.  Socially he belongs to Maclay 
Lodge No. 632, F. & A.M., of Sunbury, to P.O.S. of A. Camp No. 194, also of 
Sunbury, to the Royal Arcanum and the Modern Woodmen of America.  He and his 
family are members of the Lutheran Church. 
	Mr. Zimmerman was married to Cora J., daughter of Valentine and Amelia 
(Hauck) Bartholomew, who lived in Rockefeller township.  They have two 
daughters, Hazel May and Beulah Irene.  
	AARON P. ZIMMERMAN, son of John F. and Magdalena (Pieffer) Zimmerman, was 
born Jan. 6, 1862, in Lower Augusta (now Rockefeller) township, Northumberland 
county, and there attended the public schools.  He remained with his 
grandfather until 1878, after which he went to Sunbury, Pa., where he  was in 
the employ of Ira T. Clement for one year. In the fall of 1881 he went to 
Shamokin, where he engaged as a clerk with Seiler & Zimmerman, and where he 
remained continuously until his removal to Lebanon, Pa., in 1898. He was in the 
hardware business at that place for one year. In 1902 Mr. Zimmerman engaged in 
business as a shoe merchant at his present location in Shamokin, No. 154 East  
Independent street, where he has since done business, carrying a high class of 
goods. He formerly resided in the Sixth Ward, and served two terms as school 
director from that Ward, but his home is now in the Third Ward. Mr. Zimmerman 
married Lizzie Zimmerman, daughter of Sebastian Zimmerman, and they have had  
three children, Mabel, Helen and Ruth.  He is a member of Trinity Lutheran 
Church, of the P.O.S. of  A., the Royal Arcunum and the B.P.O. Elks. David A. 
Zimmerman, another son of John F. Zimmerman, has four children: Edwin, of 
Renova, Pa.; Ella, at home; Spencer, unmarried; and Emery, who lives in Detroit 
Michigan.