Floyd's Northumberland County Genealogy Pages 611 thru 634 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Tony Rebuck. Tar2@psu.edu Electronic edition copyright 2001 by Tony Rebuck. All rights reserved. This electronic work may be freely distributed and displayed: (1)without modification, (2) on a strictly non-commercial basis, and (3) retaining this copyright notice. USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. JAMES F. KENNEDY, a retired resident of Milton, was engaged in the plumbing and tinning business in that borough for fifteen rears before his retirement, conducting the establishment now carried on by his son, John C. Kennedy. Though not an old resident of the place, comparatively speaking, he has been thoroughly identified with its best interests and is a man of substantial worth, esteemed by all who know him. He is a native of Clearfield county, Pa., born Dec. 13, 1843. Rev. James Kennedy, his grandfather, was born in Ireland, and came thence to America when a young man, settling first at Lewistown, Pa., where he was the first Presbyterian minister in that section. Later he located at Brookville, Clearfield county, where he continued to follow his profession, and he died there. He had a family of four sons. James Kennedy, son of Rev. James, was born at Lewistown, and became a well known lumberman, engaging in sawing and rafting throughout his active years. He died in 1847. He married Margaret R. Bradford, daughter of Samuel and granddaughter of Samuel, early settlers at the Trappe, in Montgomery county, Pa. Two children were born to this union, James F. and Mary Jane, the latter of whom married John Jackson, of Kent county, Delaware. James F. Kennedy received his education in the schools of his native district, first attending the old-fashioned pay schools and later the public schools. Subsequently he was engaged in farm work until he enlisted in 1861, in Battery F, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, which was known as Rickett's Battery. He served as corporal, and was in the principal battles included in the operations of the Army of the Potomac during his long service, escaping with but one slight injury, on the right side of his neck, which was made a trifle black by a passing bullet. He has a fine army record. Mr. Kennedy was mustered out in July, 1865, at Harrisburg, Pa., after which he located in Blair county, this State, where he followed farming for several years. In 1871 he moved thence to the West, making a settlement in Clay county, Kans., where he was one of the pioneers. He took up land there, which he improved, and continued to farm in that section for twenty-two and a half years, returning East in 1892. His home has since been in the borough of Milton, Northumberland county. Here he engaged in the plumbing and tinning business, which he followed with steady success until his retirement in 1907, at which time he sold out to his son, John C. By honorable dealing and good management Mr. Kennedy made his business profitable, and he is now enjoying the rewards of a long life of industry and well directed effort. Mr. Kennedy is a Methodist and was at one time quite active in church work. He was among the first to help organize a Presbyterian church in northern part of Dickinson county, Kans., and served several years as elder of same. But the distance from his home was so great he united with the Methodist Episcopal denomination and assisted in building the first M. E. church in that section. Socially he belongs to the Union Veteran Legion and the Knights of the Maccabees. On Dec. 25, 1866, Mr. Kennedy married (first) Isabella Clark daughter of John Clark, of Blair county, Pa. and her death occurred in Kansas March 28, 1878. To this union were born two sons, William C., who has taken up land in Jerome, Lincoln county, Idaho, and is engaged in farming and John C., born Jan. 16, 1874, in Dickinson county, Kans., who learned the plumbing business with his father and succeeded him in 1907 (he married Elsie Austin, of Bellefonte, Pa., and has three children, James K., William E. and Margaret). By his second marriage, on Nov. 26, 1890, to Clara R. Shearer, Mr. Kennedy has no children. While in Kansas Mr. Kennedy served in various public offices, being school director of Athelstane township, Clay county, for sixteen years, roadmaster eight years, and justice of the peace. He is a Republican in political sentiment. Maj. James Shearer, grandfather of Mrs. James F. Kennedy, was born in 1789, was a farmer in Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, and lived to the age of seventy-five years, dying April 12, 1864, at Lewisburg. He was a member of Milton Lodge, F. & A.M. He married Rebecca Rupert, born Sept. 26, 1796, died May 24, 1852, and they are buried at Milton. Their children were as follows: Charles R., Leonard R., Hiram R., Harry R. (who went West), Elizabeth (married Col. Joseph Fisher, of the 5th Reserves), Sarah (married Charles Bartholomew, Susan (married William Nolon and is now living at Harrisburg, END OF PAGE 611 Pa.), and Mary (married Joseph Mellinger, of Washington borough, Lancaster Co., Pa., where they lived many years; she is now living in Philadelphia with her three children, Preston, Lillian and Thad). Charles R. Shearer, son of Maj. James, was the father of Mrs. Kennedy. He was born April 26, 1819, and followed contracting and building at Milton until his death, which occurred May 22, 1864. Socially he was a Mason (member of Milton Lodge, F. & A.M.) and Odd Fellow. He married Mary Ann Alexander, born in 1819, who long survived him, dying in 1882, and to them were born three children, William A. (who is living in Milton), Clara R. (wife of James F. Kennedy) and Rebecca (who died in infancy). John Alexander, Mrs. Kennedy's maternal grandfather, was born at Mooresburg, Montour Co., Pa., and followed the trade of wagonmaking. He is buried in Chillisquaque cemetery. His wife, Mary (Housel), was a member of an early family of this district. Their children were: Philip; William; Jane, who married John Miller, of Lewisburg; Mary Ann, who married Charles R. Shearer; and Sarah, who married Asbury Donachy and lives at Lewisburg. PATRICK J. GLENNAN, a citizen of Shamokin borough who has become well known for his efficient service in various public capacities, was born June 18, 1864, at Locust Dale, Pa., son of Thomas Glennan. Thomas Glennan was a native of Ireland, born in 1818, and came to America in the fall of 1840, landing at New York City. He continued his journey to Pennsylvania at once, and from that time to the end of his active years followed coal mining in Schuylkill and Northumberland counties. In 1871 he settled in Shamokin, where he died at his home, No. 136 West Willow street, Dec. 28, 1891. He was married at Pottsville, Schuylkill county, to Mary Fougerty, like himself a native of Ireland, who came to America when a young girl and lived at Pottsville until her marriage. She died April 17, 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Glennan were members of St. Edward's Catholic church. They were the parents of eleven children, as follows: John; Patrick, who was killed at the Potts colliery, at Locust Dale, when fifteen years old; James; Margaret, wife of John Brennan; Mary wife of Patrick E. Brennan; Eliza, who died young; Thomas, who died young; Patrick J.; Annie, who married Patrick Wallace; Thomas F. and Ellen, deceased. Patrick J. Brennan attended the schools of Coal township, Northumberland county, but not for the length of time now required. He was but ten years old when he began picking slate at the breakers, and when sixteen he began mining, which work he continued to follow until 1905. During all this time he was in the employ of the Philadelphia & Reading Company. In 1905 he was elected county commissioner, and served three years in that office, making a high record for public-spirited and intelligent service. He has also served his ward - the Fourth - as councilman, and he is a well known and respected figure in local public matters. In 1909 he was appointed by W. H. R. Smink, burgess of Shamokin, as inspector of the street paving, also looking after the crossings and supplies. During 1909 he also served as mercantile appraiser of Northumberland county. Mr. Glennan's wide experience has made him a practical authority on borough affairs, and he is considered a valued counselor. Mr. Glennan holds membership in a number of the local fraternal bodies, belonging to the Elks, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Ancient Order of Hibernians and Knights of Columbus, and he was a charter member of the West End Fire Company. He is a Catholic in religion, belonging to St. Edward's Church. On May 12, 1891, Mr. Glennan married Mary E. Golden, daughter of James and Mary (Clark) Golden, and they have had seven children (of which five are living), namely: Thomas, Maria, James, Ellen, Edward (deceased), Madeline and Catherine (deceased). DAVID W. COOPER, who is living retired at Sunbury, Northumberland county, was a successful farmer in Upper Augusta township for a number of years and for nine years a resident of East Lewisburg, this county. He is a native of Upper Augusta township, born Aug. 8, 1844, and according to tradition the family has been settled in that section since early in the nineteenth century. John Cooper, grandfather of David W. Cooper, lived in New Jersey before he came to Pennsylvania with his family, about 1804, settling in Augusta township, Northumberland county. It is thought some of his children were born in Pennsylvania. He is said to have been a farmer by occupation. He and his wife are buried at the old stone church at Augustaville, but they have no tombstones. Their family consisted of four sons and two daughters: Israel, who located in Indiana, where he engaged in farming; Jacob, who also located in Indiana; Henry, who lived at Bloomsburg, Pa. (his son Charles lives in Shamokin, this county); John; Mary, Mrs. Philip Renn; and Mrs. Barrett. John Cooper, son of John, was born Aug. 19, 1807, in Northumberland county, and passed his life in Upper Augusta township, dying on his farm there Sept. 3, 1879; he is buried in the old south (Fourth street) cemetery. Mr. Cooper was a successful farmer, owning the property of 245 acres which now belongs to his son David W., and he took an interest in the public affairs of the township, serving as a member of the school board. He was a Republican in politics and a Lutheran in religion, holding membership in Zion's Church at Sunbury. His wife, Catharine (Snyder), of Augusta township, was born April 13, 1809, died Sept. 19, 1893. She is buried at her husband's side in the old south cemetery. They were the parents of eleven children, born as follows: Hiram P; Sept. 25, 1830; Jeremiah, Aug. 23, 1882; Isaac N., July 29, 1834; Thomas G., Nov. 15, 1836; Harriet S., Oct. 8, 1838; John L., Dec. 19, 1840; Simon, July 1, 1842; David W., Aug. 3, 1844; Mary C., Oct. 4, 1846; Dr. Joseph, Feb. 1, 1849; Luther S., May 3, 1851. David W. Cooper received his education in the public schools of the home locality, and was reared to farm life, working for his parents until he attained his majority and remaining at home until he was twenty-seven years old. He taught school in his native township for three years, 1870-71-72. Mr. Cooper succeeded his father in the ownership of the farm, which he cultivated until 1902, when he retired and settled in Sunbury. Meantime, however, he was away from the place for nine years, during which time he resided in East Lewisburg. On his removal to Sunbury he built the comfortable residence at the corner of Fourth and Church streets, in 1902-03, which he and his wife have since occupied. Mr. Cooper has always been a public-spirited citizen, willing to work in a cause for the general good, and he served six years as a member of the board of school directors in Upper Augusta township, which was the first township in Northumberland county to adopt the free textbook plan; this change was made during his service. He was treasurer of the board for a time. He has always been a stanch supporter of the Republican party and was committeeman of his township for a number of years. In 1897 Mr. Cooper was appointed a member of the Farmers National Congress, by the late Gov. Daniel H. Hastings, the meeting being held at St. Paul, Minn. Mr. Cooper attended this congress with thirty-three other delegates of Pennsylvania, and he is now a life member. He is the vice-president of the Pennsylvania delegation. For some years he held membership in the I.O.O.F. and the Conclave. On Feb. 15, 1872, Mr. Cooper married Hannah Fasold, daughter of Jonathan Fasold, of what is now Rockefeller township. She died Feb. 23, 1884, aged thirty-eight years, the mother of one child, George, who was accidentally shot when seventeen years old. On March 29, 1888, Mr. Cooper married (second) Emma Lesher, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Vandling) Lesher, of Blue Hill, Snyder Co., Pa., and granddaughter of George Lesher. They had one daughter, Catherine P., who died at the age of fifteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper worship at Zion's Lutheran Church, Sunbury. While living at East Lewisburg he was identified with the Lutheran Church at Lewisburg, and served as trustee of that congregation. KEISER. The Keiser family has been represented in Northumberland county for several generations, having been founded in this section by Henry Keiser, a native of Berks county, Pa., who had several brothers, Daniel, John and Reuben all locating in central Pennsylvania. Reuben eventually went West, Daniel was a farmer and tobacco grower in the vicinity of McEwensville, and is buried in that vicinity. He had children: Judiah Henry, and a daughter now deceased, and Susan, who married John Bender and lived near Milton, Northumberland county. Henry Keiser was born June 25, 1781, in Berks county, and came to Northumberland county after his marriage. Locating in Lower Augusta (now Rockefeller) township, on a large tract of land, he followed farming as well as his trade of carpenter. The Keiser homestead is now owned by the Nelson Miller estate, and the log house built thereon by Henry Keiser is still standing (1911). He cleared his land and remained there until his death, which occurred Nov. 13, 1861. He is buried in the how abandoned Dunkelberger U. E. Church graveyard and was a devout and active member of that church. The church itself has been torn down and the cemetery is in a sadly neglected state. Mr. Keiser's first marriage was to Eva Zimmerman, born Aug. 5, 1781, who died March 11, 1852, and his second was to Mrs. Anna (Chamberlin) Morey. His children were all by the first union, namely: George is mentioned below; Hannah married John Foy; Polly married Nathaniel Lytle; Daniel, who married Mahala Lytle, lived for many years in Shamokin township, but died at Mount Carmel; Isaac died in 1894 at Mount Carmel, where his widow, Susan (Kerr), now lives; Henry is mentioned below; Christina married Asa Morey and they lived in Potter county, Pa.; one daughter married Jonathan Smith; Teina married Mr. Morey. George Keiser, son of Henry, was born Feb. 16, 1810, in Rockefeller (then Lower Augusta) township, and became a farmer, occupying part of his father's original tract where he died Aug. 24, 1877. He was a Lutheran member of the Augustaville Stone Church. Mr. Keiser married Magdalena Bloom, daughter of Samuel Bloom, and to this union were born five children; we have record of Elizabeth (Mrs. Wesley Haupt), Absalom B. and Harriet (who was choked to death by a bean). His second wife was Elizabeth Bloom, sister of the first, born Nov. 9, 1813, died Sept. 2, 1901. Several children were born to this marriage: Hulda married George B. Conrad; Jacob S. married Polly Ruppert; Albert married Pauline Lerch, who lives in Hollowing Run, in Lower Augusta township; END OF PAGE 613 Jerome is out West, in the gold fields; Mary married M. Luther Conrad and they live on the George Keiser homestead; Aaron B. is a resident of Mount Carmel. Some children died when young. ABSALOM B. KEISER, now a retired resident of the borough of Sunbury, was born July 17, 1839, in Lower Augusta (now Rockefeller) township, son of George Keiser. He lived on the home farm until of age. During the Civil war he served as a member of Company H, 172d Regiment, Pennsylvania Drafted Militia, into which he was sworn for nine months or to the end of the war, and he reached the rank of corporal. At the close of his term, after the battle of Gettysburg, he returned to Lower Augusta township in August, 1863, and until 1865 cultivated his father- in-law's farm in that township. In 1865 he settled in Sunbury, where that year he bought a piece of ground containing one and a half acres upon which he built a small house, on Catawissa avenue. His wife had agreed to have a home anywhere but in the flat. When he drove his well he went down fifty feet and came to rock, finding plenty of water, but as others dug wells the supply was not so plentiful, and he went down seven feet through the rock, with satisfactory results. In course of time he enlarged his house, and there he has remained to the present time, being now the oldest resident of his part of the borough. His land has greatly increased in value. For the first two years after his removal to Sunbury he burned lime and drove team, and he continued to follow hauling and draying throughout his active years, until his retirement in 1907. He prospered by thrifty management and industry, and now owns, besides his home property, a house in Augusta street and several lots. On April 8, 1862, Mr. Keiser married Mary Ann Gass, who was born July 29, 1840, daughter of Joseph Gass, of Plum Creek Valley, and died Sept. 18, 1901. She is buried in the family plot in Pomfret Manor cemetery. Six children were born to this union: Martin L. died young; Della married Henry Heckert and had children, Lottie, Harry, Roy and Sarah; George died young; Maria G. married Frank Houghton (they have no children); William died young; Elizabeth, who is unmarried, keeps house for her father. Mr. Keiser is a Democrat in political matters, and he has taken some part in local affairs, having served several terms in the council of East Sunbury; a few terms as constable of the borough of Sunbury; and four years as supervisor of Upper Augusta township. He is a citizen who has always commanded the respect and confidence of his fellowmen, and his upright life and faithful public services have gained him many well wishers. He was catechized at the Augustaville Stone Church, and he and his family have been identified with the Lutheran Church in Sunbury. Henry Keiser, son of Henry the pioneer in Northumberland county, was born in May, 1811, in Northumberland county, Pa., and grew up on the home farm. He assisted his father with the agricultural work, and also learned how to make spinning wheels, at which he was engaged for some time. He then bought a tract of land at Trevorton, which he cleared, but in time he sold it and in 1834 removed to Shamokin, being one of the pioneers of that now thriving borough. For a number of years he followed contracting and teaming, in 1856 entering the mercantile business in partnership with Joseph Porter. This venture did not last long, however, as they were obliged to discontinue after a year, during the panic, and Mr. Kaiser turned to a new industry, being one of the first men to contract timber to the mines in this section. He died at Shamokin in June, 1872, of smallpox. Mr. Keiser was a member of the Evangelical Church. He married Catherine Raker, and they had children as follows: Maria married David Fisher; Isaac R. became the father of Joseph A. Keiser; Harner married John R. Boughner; Jacob R., born May 1, 1845, is deceased; Henry H. was for many years a prominent merchant at Shamokin; Reuben is living in Shamokin. Isaac R. Kaiser, son of Henry, was born June 30, 1839, and died March 29, 1901, at the age of sixty-two years. He was for a number of years a well known merchant of Shamokin, where he engaged in business in 1869 and continued until 1880, in which year he removed to Mount Carmel. He followed the same line there until his demise. Mr. Kaiser married Elizabeth Wolfgang, daughter of George Wolfgang, and she still resides in Mount Carmel, continuing the business formerly owned by her husband. Four children were born to them: Joseph A.; Missouri, who married Harry Haas; George H., of Mount Carmel; and Isaac N., of Akron, Ohio. JOSEPH A. KEISER, son of Isaac R. Keiser, was born Feb. 10, 1862, in Shamokin, and there attended the public schools and Shamokin Academy, graduating from the latter institution. In 1879 he went to Joliet, Ill., where he spent some time, and returning home assisted his father in the grocery business which be had meantime established in Mount Carmel. He has since continued in this line, his location at the corner of Third and Maple streets being well known and well patronized. His excellent business methods and honorable dealings have gained him a large custom, which he retains by accommodating his patrons in every possible way. He is well known in various associations in the borough, being president of the school board at the present time, is a director of the Anthracite Building and Loan Association, member and chaplain of Mount Carmel Lodge, No. 378, F. & A.M., and member and recorder of the local organization of the Knights of Malta. He also belongs to the END OF PAGE 614 P.O.S. of A., and is secretary of the Loyal Association. His activities have also extended to church life, Mr. Keiser being a leading member of the United Evangelical Association and at present serving as trustee of same. In political matters he is a Republican. On April 6, 1886, Mr. Keiser married Alice J. Herb, daughter of Rudolph Herb, and they have one daughter, Emma E., who is a student at Bucknell University, member of the class of 1912. GEORGE HENRY KEISER, son of Isaac R., was born in Shamokin; Pa., Nov. 3, 1867. He attended the public schools of Shamokin and afterward clerked in his father's store, moving with his parents to Mount Carmel where he continued in his father's employ until the latter's death, when his mother continued the business, which is conducted by the two sons, Joseph A. and George Henry. Mr. Keiser was married May 28, 1890, to Ella H. Swank, daughter of Jacob Swank. Socially Mr. Keiser is a member of I.O.O.F. Lodge No. 1150, of Mount Carmel. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and in politics is a Republican. He is a director of the People's Building and Loan Association. HON. JOHN T. McMULLEN, of Shamokin, Northumberland county, present representative of his district in the State Legislature of Pennsylvania, is an employee of the Pennsylvania Railway Company and well known among his fellow workers as well as in local public affairs. He was born May 6, 1877, in Montour county, Pa., son of Samuel McMullen, who has become well known in both Montour and Northumberland counties in various connections. Samuel McMullen was born in 1847 in Montour county, and during his early life became familiar with farm life. But when a young man he learned the carpenter's trade, which he has since followed. For a number of years he was engaged as a contractor at Danville, Montour county, employing six men, but since 1893 he has been carpenter foreman at the Natalie colliery, at Natalie, Northumberland county. He is a stanch Republican, has served as county commissioner and jury commissioner of his native county, and while a resident of Danville was prominent as an Odd Fellow, filling all the chairs in the local lodge. He is a member of the German Reformed Church. His wife, Mary Alice (Geist), is a daughter of David Geist, of Catawissa, Pa., and to them have been born eight children: John T.; Truman F., Florence C., David and M. Frances, all of whom reside with their parents at Natalie; and three who are deceased. John T. McMullen received a public school education, attending the borough school at Danville for four years, and night school at Natalie for one year. When sixteen years old he commenced to learn the carpenter's trade, which he followed for three years, subsequently finding employment about the coal mines. In 1900 he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, with which be has since been engaged at railroad work. Mr. McMullen is a veteran of the Spanish American war, in which he served as a member of Company E, 12th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he is a member of Aerie No. 534, F.O.E., at Shamokin, and of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, which he has served as secretary of the General Grievance committee since 1902. In politics he is a Republican and has been active in the local affairs of the party, on whose ticket he was elected Nov. 8, 1910, to represent his district in the State Legislature, his plurality being 260 votes. This was his first candidacy for county office. He is favorably regarded in the party and in his community, where he has many friends. On June 14, 1898, Mr. McMullen married Fay E. Ditty, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Tailor) Ditty, whose ancestors were from Lower Mahanoy township, this county. Three children have been born to this union, namely: Ruth R., Thomas S. and Alice B. Mr. McMullen has made his home in the borough of Shamokin since 1900. GEORGE W. HARTLEIN, of No. 430 West Pine street, Shamokin, has been secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America in District No. 9 since its organization, in 1899, his work covering four counties and about fifty-one thousand, two hundred mine workers. His long retention in the office is the best evidence of his satisfactory services. He is a native of Shamokin, born June 21, 1865, son of Joseph Hartlein and grandson of George Hartlein, and comes of old Berks county stock, the Hartleins or Hartlines having long been prominent in that section. The family is of German origin and has been a part of the substantial German element of Pennsylvania citizenship since the first half of the eighteenth century. John Jacob Hartlein was born Sept. 8, 1699, in Saxony, Germany, son of Nicholas and Dorotha Hartlein, as indicated by the Hill Church records. On Sept. 28, 1726, he married Julia, daughter of John Christian and Appolonia Dressler, born July 4, 1694. They came to America in 1732, and settled in Earl township, Berks Co., Pa. To them were born six children: John Jacob and Jacob both died young; Margaret, born in 1729, married John ___; George was born in 1732; Anna Dorotha, born in 1734, died in 1736; Nicholas, born in 1736, died in 1741. George Hartlein, son of John Jacob, was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1732, shortly before the emigration of his parents to the New World. In 1750 he was a taxable in District township, Berks county, as was also George, Jr. In 1755 he mar- END OF PAGE 615 ried Maria Catharine Bochm (Boehm), who was born in 1730, daughter of Conrad Bochm, a native of Fehrfeld, Wurtemberg, Germany, born about 1705, who came to America in 1732. George Hartlein and wife had the following children: Jost (or Yost), born Jan. 8, 1767, died Dec. 21, 1852, and is buried at Oley church, and by his side is buried Sarah Hartlein, born Oct. 18, 1780, died Sept. 24, 1873 (it is not known whether she was his wife or his sister); George, Jr., was born Jan. 11, 1781. There were perhaps other children, but the names of these two alone are of certain record. George Hartlein (the name George is very common in this family), grandfather of George W. Hartlein, was a farmer in Berks county, where he died, at Spangsville. His wife, whose maiden name was Mosser, bore him the following children: Isaac, who died in Michigan; Joseph; Jared; George, living in Philadelphia; and Mary, who married Samuel Brosius and is living at Stonington, Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania. Joseph Hartlein was born Dec. 15, 1829, in Berks county, and when a young man came to Northumberland county, settling in the Mahantango Valley. He was a wheelwright, and followed the trade for many years, in time moving to Paxton, where he lived for a while before coming to Shamokin. After settling in the latter borough he followed mining and the lumber business until 1890, from which time until his death he lived retired. He married Lydia Rebuck, who was from the Mahantango Valley, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Maurer) Rebuck, and she died Nov. 28, 1881. Mr. Hartlein died July 9, 1893, and both are buried in the Shamokin cemetery. They had a large family, viz.: Mary married Gabriel Snyder and they live in Shamokin; they have had seven children. Amelia married Harvey Maurer, of Shamokin, and has had sixteen children. Abbie married Charles Kerstetter, of Shamokin, and has had fifteen children. Jared died in infancy. Elmira married John Drumheller, of Shamokin, and has had twelve children. Margaret married August Ross and they are living at Shamokin; they have had ten children. Harry died in infancy. George W. is mentioned below. Alice, who died in Shamokin in 1895, was the wife of Frank Sheetz and had five children. Frona, who lives in Indiana county, Pa., married Joseph Powell and has had eight children. George W. Hartlein received his education in the public schools of Shamokin, but his educational advantages were limited, for when only seven years old he began picking slate at the Bear Valley breaker. He continued this work until he reached the age of fifteen, when he commenced mining, at which he was engaged until 1900. Meantime, on Oct. 21, 1899, the United Mine Workers of America organized in this district (No. 9) at Mount Carmel, forming District No 9, which includes the counties of Northumberland, Schuylkill, Dauphin and Columbia, with the main office at Shamokin. Mr. Hartlein was elected secretary-treasurer at the time of the organization, and has filled that office continuously since. As there are over fifty-one thousand mine workers in the district, his duties are varied and heavy, but he has discharged them to the satisfaction of all concerned. Besides his membership in the mine workers body he is associated with the P.O.S. of A., having been a charter member of Camp No. 187 and later transferred to Camp No. 149. Mr. Hartlein married Elma Drumheller, daughter of Levi T. and Lydia (Daniels) Drumheller, of Northumberland county, and they have had six children: Grover C., who died in infancy; Lydia, who died in 1902, when sixteen years old; Clarence W., of Shamokin, who married Hattie Neihart; Nolan at home; George O., at home; and a daughter that died in infancy. Mr. Hartlein has three grandchildren. In political sentiment Mr. Hartlein is a Democrat, but he votes independently. His religious connection is with the Reformed Church. MILLER. The brothers John L. Miller and J. Adam Miller, of Sunbury, are natives of Germany who came to this country in boyhood, the former taking up his residence in the borough in 1879, the latter in 1890. The family came to America in 1860, landing at Baltimore, Md., after a most thrilling experience. They had taken passage for New York, but were captured en route by a man-of-war and taken to the island of Saint Thomas, one of the West Indies, where they were obliged to pay three hundred dollars ransom before released. The Millers proceeded from Baltimore to Ashland, Pa., where the family settled, the father, Andrew Miller, finding work in the coal mines, as did also his son John. As soon as they became old enough the sons all had to work in the mines. There the mother died in 1862, and the family of six children consequently became scattered. JOHN L. MILLER, son of Andrew, was born March 19, 1848, in Wurzburg, Bavaria, Germany, and came to this country with the family as related. Though only a boy at the time of the Civil war he enlisted in the Union service, becoming a member of Company H, 79th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, with which, among other experiences, he participated in Sherman's famous march to the sea. Upon his return to civil life he began to learn the trade of carpenter, at Williamsport, Pa., from which place he came to Sunbury in 1879. He has been connected with a number of important business enterprises in the borough during the thirty and more years of his residence there. He has been extensively engaged in contracting and building, and became senior partner of the firm END OF PAGE 616 of Miller & Heim, manufacturers of extension tables. Mr. Miller has had many large and responsible contracts in Sunbury and the surrounding territory, among others the interior fitting of the present First National Bank building. Mr. Miller has acquired extensive interests in the Adams Clay Mfg. Company, of New Jersey, which operates extensively in the manufacture of buff brick, and he has been a director of the concern for a number of years. His activity and success have made him an influential member of local commercial circles, his ability having been demonstrated in a number of prosperous undertakings. Moreover, he has taken prominent part in other local affairs of interest to those who have the welfare of the community at heart, having served most efficiently as school director. During his service the schools of East Sunbury were raised to a high standard, and his good judgment and disinterested labors were highly appreciated by his fellow citizens. Mr. Miller also took a conspicuous part is securing the establishment of the Odd Fellows Orphans Home near Sunbury, and in 1897 became its first president and superintendent, resigning that position in 1901 when his duties in connection with the Adams Clay Mining Company demanded so much of his attention that he did not feel he could do justice to both. Mr. Miller is also widely acquainted in Masonic circles, being a thirty-second degree Mason, and he is also an active member of the Odd Fellows fraternity. At the Odd Fellows convention held in Sunbury April 26, 1905, he was grand marshal, and as such deserves high credit for the successful manner in which the affair was conducted. J. ADAM MILLER, son of Andrew Miller, was born Aug. 11, 1853, in the kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, and attended school there for six months before the family came to America. Since his mother's death he has lived in Northumberland and Lycoming counties, Pa., principally the former, however. He acquired an excellent practical education, sufficient to enable him to enter the teaching profession, which he began in Shamokin township, this county, in 1872. He taught sixteen terms in all, fourteen in Northumberland county and two in Lycoming county. For ten terms he was engaged in Rockefeller township, where he was licensed by Prof. Saul Shipman. For one term, after be began teaching, he was a student at Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport. Mr. Miller carried on farming in Rockefeller township for two years before his removal to Sunbury, in 1890, at which time he took a position in the clerical department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was thus engaged for fourteen years, giving up the work on account of his health, and for a time solicited insurance. Then for six years he was employed at the Susquehanna Silk Mills, in Sunbury, in May, 1910, commencing the grocery business in which he is now interested. Mr. Miller has always taken the interest of a public spirited citizen in matters affecting the general good, served as assessor for three years while a resident of Rockefeller township, and since settling in Sunbury has served as borough auditor. He does not give his allegiance to any particular party, voting for the candidates he considers most suitable. Socially Mr. Miller holds membership in the Knights of Malta at Sunbury. While in Rockefeller township Mr. Miller met Miss Conrad, whom he married. They have had one daughter, Mabel Grace, who is at home. Mr. Miller and his family are Lutherans, and while living in Rockefeller township be served as deacon of the Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church. WILLIAM KNAPP is engaged in the furniture and undertaking business at Trevorton, carrying on the business established some fifty or more years ago there by his father, who was one of the first men in his line to settle at the place. Mr. Knapp was born in 1843 in Würtemberg, Germany, son of John Michael Knapp, who brought his family to America in 1857. The voyage was made in a sailing vessel, and they landed at New York after a voyage of forty-three days. Locating in Trevorton, Northumberland Co., Pa., Mr. Knapp, who was a skilled cabinet-maker, followed cabinet-making and undertaking, being one of the first here to pursue that kind of work. He was successful, and was so engaged until his death, which occurred in December, 1871. He married Margaret Ebbling, and they had the following children: Michael, Fredericka, Christiana, Margaret and William. William Knapp came to America with the family and has lived in Trevorton ever since. Under his father's able instruction he learned the trade of cabinetmaker, and upon the death of his father himself assumed the business. At one time he made all the caskets himself, but of late years he has obtained them from the factories. Under-taking is his specialty, but he also deals in furniture, of all kinds, and has a lucrative patronage in both lines, being one of the leading business men of the town. His store is located on Shamokin street. He is a citizen who holds the esteem and confidence of his fellowmen, and has been chosen to fill various local offices, having served as school director, tax collector and overseer of the poor of Zerbe township. Politically he is associated with the Republican party. In 1869 Mr. Knapp married Eva Rosina Pfesterrer, who was born June 29, 1845, in Germany. They have no children. Mr. and Mrs. Knapp are members of the Evangelical Church. JOHN DAVID PFESTERRER, father of Mrs. Knapp, was born Aug. 11, 1810, in Wurtemberg, Germany, END OF PAGE 617 and came to America in 1854, making the voyage in a sailing vessel which brought him to New York City. His first location in the New World was at Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., from which place he came to Trevorton in the early days of that town. Here he followed his trade, that of carpenter, and was an industrious and respected citizen until his death, which occurred May 6, 1889. His wife, whose maiden name was Susanna Margareta Ott, followed him to America in 1856 with four of their children. She died in 1890. They had the following family: John George is living at Trevorton; Maragreta married John Ross; Christiana married George Walter, who was killed at a breaker at Trevorton; John David was killed in the mines at Trevorton; Eva Roams is the wife of William Knapp. JAMES COOPER, proprietor of the well known "Cooper's Hotel" at Trevorton, is conducting practically the same business which his father entered forty years ago, and is a worthy successor of that much respected citizen of Trevorton. His son, Alexander Cooper, is engaged in the bakery and general store business, and has been other-wise prominent in the life of the town, where the name is associated with public- spirited citizenship in all that term implies. William and Susan (Jones) Cooper, grand-parents of James Cooper, never came to America. Their son, James Cooper, born Jan. 26, 1818, in Staffordshire, England, lived in his native land until 1863, following mining from the age of ten years. Coming to America in the year named, with his family, he landed at New York City and was soon settled at Trevorton, Northumberland Co., Pa., where he found work at mining. Later he removed to Shamokin, this county, where he was employed in the mines until 1869, when he returned to Trevorton, working at the mines. In 1870 he went to Mahanoy City, but the following year came back to Trevorton, in 1872 becoming proprietor of the hotel known as "The Home of All Nations," which he had bought in 1869. From that time until his death he was successfully engaged in the hotel business, becoming one of the best known men in his section. He was one of the oldest miners of the region, a man respected and trusted by all who knew him, served as supervisor of Zerbe township, and stood high in the community as a man of sterling qualities. He was a Republican in politics, and socially held membership in the I.O.O.F. and the K. of P. He died in 1899. On Nov. 15, 1845, Mr. Cooper married Jane Sunderland, of England, who died May 26, 1885, the mother of Seven children; all now deceased but James and Mary A., the latter the wife of Otto Lout, of Trevorton. On Nov. 17, 1885, Mr. Cooper married (second) Mrs. Betsy Whittle, a native of England, whose parents, Abraham and Jane Roper, were also born in that country. James Cooper, son of James and Jane (Sunderland) Cooper, was born Nov. 18, 1850, in Staffordshire, England, and came to America with his parents. At an early age he commenced mining, and in 1879 he made a prospecting tour in the Black Hills, where he was associated with Colonel Cody ("Buffalo Bill") and had many interesting experiences. But he returned to mining in Pennsylvania, being long in the employ of Baumgardner & Douty, at Shamokin. In 1899, after the death of his father, he took over the hotel business, which he had purchased, and this business he has since continued. For some time Mr. Cooper was in Clearfield county, this State, engaged in the horse business, and he is still interested in that line, which he carries on in connection with his hotel business. Mr. Cooper has a notably fine array of mounted birds, the collection of which has been a hobby affording him much interest and pleasure. He is a member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle and of the Knights of Malta, and in political matters he is identified with the Republican party. Mr. Cooper married Isabella Matheason, daughter of Alexander Matheason, and they had a family of seven children: Alexander; James W., who is employed at the North Franklin Colliery (he is a leading member of Trevorton Fire Company No. 1, of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and of the Trevorton band); Isabella, deceased; Jennie, deceased; Clara E.; Bertha M., and Charles. The mother of this family died April 4, 1909, and is buried at Trevorton. ALEXANDER COOPER, eldest child of James and Isabella (Matheason) Cooper, was born at Trevorton March 10, 1872, and there obtained his education in the public schools. Like his forefathers he began work in the mines, as a slate picker, and continued to follow mining of both soft and hard coal, until 1904. In 1905 he bought out the baking business of A. C. Fisher, who is now cashier of the Trevorton Bank, and he has continued this business to the present time, having a large and steadily developing trade. In addition, he has dealt in groceries, notions and general merchandise, building up a profitable trade, which reflects great credit upon his management and enterprise. He is considered one of the fine business men of the town, and has the good will and respect of his many patrons and friends. Outside of his private business concerns, Mr. Cooper's special activity has been in the interest of the Trevorton Fire Company, which he organized in 1900, being its chief promoter and becoming its first president and first chief. It is practically through his efforts that the town is able to boast of so efficient an organization, and he is still its leading member. It is a valuable factor in the END OF PAGE 618 business life of the town, and is thoroughly appreciated by all the progressive citizens of the community. Mr. Cooper is a member of the State Firemen's Association. He assisted in organizing the Trevorton business men's association in 1906, and has served as its president ever since. He is quite prominent in local fraternal circles, being a past officer of the Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Woodmen of the World. In politics he is a Republican. On Dec. 28, 1904, Mr. Cooper married Jennie C. Zartman, daughter of S. S. Zartman, of Shamokin, this county. They have one daughter, May Elizabeth. JACOB R. DEIBLER, who follows farming in Shamokin township, having a fine property at Snydertown, is a well known member of a family which has been settled in that section of Northumberland county for several generations. He was born in Shamokin township March 6, 1857, son of Jonathan Deibler, and grandson of George Deibler, the pioneer settler here. George Deibler was born in Dauphin county, Pa., and came to Northumberland county about 1812, locating in Shamokin township, where he purchased land in 1813 and followed farming the remainder of his active days. He was one of the substantial and respected residents of his section, and Deiblers Station, in Shamokin township, was named for him. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Bastian, are buried at the Brick church, at Reed's station. They had children as follows: Daniel, Mary, Jonathan, Hannah, George, William, John, Catharine, Elizabeth, Harriet and Rebecca. Jonathan Deibler, son of George, was born in 1825 on the old homestead at Deiblers station, which farm is now owned by R. S. Aucker, of Shamokin. He was reared to farming, and always followed that vocation, becoming a well known and highly respected citizen of his district. He died Aug. 27, 1887, at the age of sixty-two years, and is buried at Reed's church in Ralpho township. His widow, Elizabeth (Reed), daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Duttinger) Reed, now (1911) eighty-three years old, makes her home with her son Jacob at Snydertown. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Deibler, namely: Flora A., who is married to S. Ellis Klase and lives in Snydertown; Jacob R.; and Emma C., who is married to Wallace Hoover and lives at Riverside, this county. Jacob R. Deibler received his education in the public schools of the home locality. When a young man he taught for one term, at the American school in Shamokin township, but he did not care for the profession and decided to devote himself to farming, in which he has been very successful. He bought the old Jones homestead, at Snydertown, having a tract of 135 acres under excellent cultivation. Mr. Deibler has been progressive and thrifty, and has shown such good judgment in the management of his own affairs that he has been called upon to participate in the administration of public matters, having served as township auditor, school director and borough councilman; he is still filling the latter office, which he has held for seven years. He has taken an active part in the work of the school board and council, having been president of the former and secretary of the latter body. Politically he is a Republican. In religion he is a Lutheran. Mr. Deibler married Rachel A. Zimmerman, daughter of George and Sarah (Fasold) Zimmerman, and they have had four children: Helen E., Wallace H., Luther E. (who died in infancy) and Warren E. JOHN CUMMINGS MOORE is the foremost dealer in his line, confectionery and cigars, in Shamokin, conducting an up-to-date establishment on Independence street, in the Parmley building, which is one of the most popularly patronized places in the borough. His quick perception of the demands of the public, his readiness to adopt new lines and install new conveniences for the satisfactory service of his patrons, have brought him the best and largest trade in Shamokin. Though handicapped by a lack of early advantages he has made his way to the front, and he has made up in ability and enterprise for any such deficiency. Mr. Moore was born March 20, 1871, at Selinsgrove, Snyder Co., Pa., son of Henry and Annie M. (Rarich) Moore, the latter a daughter of Amos Rarich, of Snyder county. His father was born at Selinsgrove in 1850 and died there in 1873. He was a saddler by trade. John C. Moore was a child when he and his mother moved to Shamokin, and here he attended public school until he commenced work, as a slate picker at the mines. He was employed about the collieries for about fifteen years in all, and then commenced railroading in the employ of the Philadelphia & Reading Company, with which he continued for a period of twelve years. Having met with an accident, Aug. 17, 1891, at Locust Summit, whereby he lost his left hand, he began his present business on a humble scale the following year, and throughout his business career has been located in the same block on Independence street, his present number being 132, in the Parmley block. He has been there since 1903. His line of business naturally makes Mr. Moore one of the best known men in Shamokin, but it is his excellent methods and high-class management which make him one of the most popular. He has an attractive and modern store, well equipped, his soda fountain being the finest in Shamokin, and he is constantly making changes and improve- END OF PAGE 619 ments to facilitate the work of his employees or increase the conveniences of the establishment. His stock of confectionery and cigars is complete and attractively arranged, and everything about the store betokens the management of a man who foresees the demand of his patronage and is willing to forestall it. It is this faculty which has drawn to him the best class of trade in the city. His windows are always the best dressed in town, and all the appointments at Moore's are typical of the proprietor. In addition to this place he conducts the cafe at Edgewood Park, and there, too, has made a fine reputation, for the excellence of his meals and service. He deserves all his success, for it is the result of his individual efforts, and he is a credit to his community as well as to himself. Mr. Moore is quite prominent in the ranks of the Republican party in Shamokin, served five years as jury commissioner and was committeeman of the Eighth ward for ten years. He is a well known member of the Elks and Odd Fellows fraternities. On Jan. 12, 1892, Mr. Moore married Mary Walker, daughter of Thomas Walker, of Shamokin, and they have one daughter, Dorothy, who is now in school The family belong to the Methodist Church. WILLIAM H. KUTZNER, late a successful and enterprising merchant of Shamokin, Pa., was born in Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa., Dec. 18, 1835, and died in Shamokin May 24, 1885. Edward A. Kutzner, father of William R., was a well known citizen of Northumberland county. He was three times married. By his first wife, Anna Robins, who died at Minersville, he had three children, Rebecca, William R., and a son that died in infancy. His second marriage was to Susan Lawrence, of Schuylkill county, and they had two children, Mary and George. He married (third) Margaret Simington, who died at Princeton, Mo., in 1908, the mother of Gertrude, Simington, Preston and Harriet. Mr. Kutzner died aged ninety-one years, eight days. William R. Kutznter was but twelve years old when his parents went West, and in his Missouri home he grew to manhood. His first employment was at clerking. In 1857 he returned to Northumberland county, and locating in Shamokin the following year became one of the pioneers of this little city. He clerked in a drug store, and later was a member of a drug firm. In the spring of 1861, with John B. Douty as a partner, he entered upon a drug and general store business which they carried on until 1864, when the partnership was dissolved. Mr. Kutzner then conducted on his own account a drug and hardware store until August, 1888, when he sold out to Peter E. Buck and retired. He had amassed a considerable fortune in his business, and his investments had proved his farsightedness. At his death he left his family in very comfortable circumstances. On June 12, 1861, Mr. Kutzner was married to Anna M., adopted daughter of John B. Douty, and she is still a resident of Shamokin. The children born of this union were: William R., who died in infancy; John D., who lives at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Anna Laura, wife of Dr. J. M. Maurer, of Shamokin; Lavinia G., who died unmarried; Kathrina, wife of Edward K. Evert, of Shamokin; William Edward, who died in West Virginia, in 1909, aged forty years, leaving a daughter, H. Ethel; Harriet S., who married Howard Bertolette, and lives in West Virginia; Edith C., of Shamokin, Pa.; Charles P., who was superintendent of three collieries at Lansford, Pa., now with the Mineral Railroad & Mining Company, of Shamokin, Pa. Politically Mr. Kutzner was a stanch Republican, and while he was never active in politics he was nevertheless greatly interested in the public welfare. He was a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard, and during the labor riots of 1877 held the rank of major. He was a Presbyterian in religious faith. Fraternally he was a Mason, belonging to Shamokin lodge, No. 255, F. & A.M. As a man, both in the business world and in private life, he commanded the respect of all who knew him, and his death was sincerely mourned. HENRY MILLER, a farmer of Shamokin township, has owned his present farm for over a quarter of a century. He has been particularly active in public affairs in his connection with the school board, of which he has been a member since 1896, and is also assessor of his township, where be is a much respected citizen. Mr. Miller was born Jan. 5, 1842, son of Isaiah Miller and grandson of Isaiah Miller, who was one of three brothers, Isaiah, Daniel and Jacob, who came to Northumberland county at an early date. Daniel, who settled in Shamokin township, was a shoemaker by trade; he died unmarried. Jacob, who also settled in Shamokin township, where he died, married Mary Saylor, a sister to his brother Isaiah's wife, but left no children. The family is of German origin, and the first of its members to come to America settled in Berks county, Pa., before the Revolution. Isaiah Miller, grandfather of Henry Miller, came to the site of Snufftown, near Paxinos, in what is now Shamokin township, in 1800, making the journey from Berks county by team, and bought forty-eight acres of land, which he cleared and cultivated. In Berks county he had learned the trade of tailor, which he continued to follow in connection with farming, and he became one of the best known residents of his section. Upon his farm be built a stone house in 1814, and it is END OF PAGE 620 standing and in good repair, though the oldest house in the district at present. He died upon his farm in May, 1861, at the age of eighty years, and is buried in Ralpho township at the Blue church, in whose welfare he was deeply interested. He was a member and official of the Reformed congregation there, and helped to build the church. In polities he was a Democrat. His wife, Susanna (Saylor), born in 1787, died in April, 1878, at the advanced age of ninety-one years. They had children as follows: Daniel, who died young; Isaiah; Susan, Mrs. Samuel Schrock; Jacob, who died in Ralpho township; Mary, Mrs. John Rothermel; Peter, who died in Shamokin, Pa.; and Godfrey, who died at the old homestead. Isaiah Miller, son of Isaiah, was born in the stone house upon his father's farm in 1817, and died June 12, 1853, at the comparatively early age of thirty-six. He is buried at the Blue church. Mr. Miller learned the trade of shoemaker, which he followed in Shamokin township, and for a year before his death carried the mail from Shamokin to Mount Carmel, a distance of eight miles, which he walked; for this service he received eight dollars a month. He married Sarah Himmel, daughter of Abraham and Barbara (Hoffman) Himmel and to them were born these children: Daniel, who died in infancy; Elizabeth, who died in infancy; Mary J., who married Charles Brown; Susanna, wife of George Dentzer; Henry; John J., living at Mount Camel; Maria, who married Jacob Farnsworth; and Charles W., who died in Brooklyn. Henry Miller attended the township schools. He lived with his grandfather until twenty-two years old, meantime working for his clothes and board, and then went to Shamokin, where for two years he was employed around the old Lambert colliery. For the next seven years he was engaged in repair work on the Pennsylvania railroad, and he has since been engaged in farming. In 1883 he bought the old homestead, which he has since cultivated. He now has seventy-nine acres of land, and makes a specialty of trucking, attending the Shamokin markets. His success has been the reward of well directed industry and the exercise of good judgment in his work, and he is regarded by his neighbors as a man of excellent business ability. His barn was built in 1868, and is in first-class condition, in keeping with everything else about his property. Mr. Miller has held various local offices, having served as road supervisor and assessor, which latter position he still holds. In 1896 he was elected to the school board, and has done good work for the community in his capacity as a member of that body, which he has served as secretary, treasurer and president, at present filling his second term as president. The cause of education and proper public school facilities have always been pet objects of his attention and have been measurably benefited by his devotion. He is an active member of the Democratic party, and has made many friends in all the associations of life. Mr. Miller married Sarah A. Price, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Weeks) Price, and they have five children: Ezra, member of the firm of Mifflin & Miller (his partner being J. W. Mifflin), manufacturers of brick at Paxinos, where he resides, married Malissa Slegel; Charles G. lives at Paxinos; Jackson makes his home in Fort Wayne, Ind.; George L. lives in Ralpho township, Northumberland county; Nora married W. E. Snyder and lives in Shamokin township. DANIEL N. BERKHEISER, who is engaged in business at Trevorton as hotel owner and proprietor of the Pleasant View Poultry Yards, was born at that place Oct. 16, 1860, son of Isaac Berkheiser. As Isaac Berkheiser died when his children were young, Daniel being a boy of ten at the time, little is known of the early history of the family, except that it is of German origin. Isaac Berkheiser was one of the early settlers at Trevorton, and was a miner by occupation. He met his death when fifty years old in 1870, during the time of the W. B. A., at the hands of the Mollie Maguires, being shot while sitting up at night with a sick friend. The first shot fired struck the window sill, but the second hit Mr. Berkheiser in the head and killed him. He is buried at Augustaville. Mr. Berkheiser was a soldier during the Civil war. His wife, Elizabeth (Haupt), daughter of George Haupt of Irish Valley, Northumberland county, survived him many years, dying in 1900 at Trevorton, where she is buried, in Greenwood cemetery. They had children as follows: Josephine, who was drowned in a spring when a child; George, who lives at Freeburg, Snyder Co., Pa.; Elizabeth, deceased, who was the wife of Albert Brosious; Daniel N.; Alice, wife of Frank K. Getche; and William, of Pittsburg, Pa., who is yard foreman in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Daniel N. Berkheiser received his education in the public schools. When a boy he began picking slate at the North Franklin colliery, and subsequently, in turn, was employed at door tending and driving, loading cars and mining, remaining at the same colliery for a period of about twenty years, from the age of ten until he was thirty. Since then he has been in business on his own account. For about fifteen years after giving up mining he had a store, dealing in groceries, fish, oysters, etc. and enjoyed a profitable trade. For five years he conducted the "Central Hotel" at Trevorton, selling it in June, 1907. In 1908 he put up a fine, substantial, four-story building at Trevorton for hotel purposes, containing twenty-one rooms with modern improvements and conveniences. Mr. END OF PAGE 621 Berkheiser is also interested in the poultry business as proprietor of the Pleasant View Poultry Yards, breeding the single comb Rhode Island reds, and has met with considerable success in this line, as he has in his various ventures. He is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Trevorton, and by his industry and excellent management has become one of the substantial residents of that place, where he is highly respected for his integrity and honorable life. Politically he is a Republican, and in 1908 he was elected a member of the board of school directors of Zerbe township. In religion he is a Methodist in fraternal connection a member of the I.O.O.F. On May 26, 1887, Mr. Berkheiser married Anna M. Edwards, daughter of Henry and Catherine (Pengally) Edwards, the former of whom came from England May 26, 1881. Mrs. Berkheiser was born in England, and was twelve years old when she accompanied her parents to America. Mr. and Mrs. Berkheiser reside next door to his hotel property above mentioned. They have no children. Her parents had a family of six: Richard H. (of Trevorton), John, Margaret, William, Jesse and Mary A. HARVEY SHINDEL ROBINS, now living retired at Mount Carmel after a long life of business activity, was for many years identified with the coal industry, in West Virginia, the leading characteristic industry of that section. But the members of the family generally have been specially noted for their honorable connection with the medical profession. Mr. Robins's father was the first physician to settle permanently at Elysburg, this county, and three of his brothers adopted the profession. Aaron Robins, grandfather of Harvey S. Robins, was a bricklayer and followed his trade at Sunbury, where he lived and died. He is buried there. He married Rebecca Richardson, and to them were born five children, namely: William, Joseph Craven, David (who died near Union Corners, this county, and whose son died at Burlington, Iowa), John K. and Anna (who married Ed. Kutzner and lived at Milton, this county). Three of these sons became physicians, William, Joseph Craven and John K. Dr. William Robins, born at Sunbury in 1804, received his academic education at Northumberland under Robert Cooper Grier, and at the age of eighteen years began the study of medicine with Dr. John Kennedy. He furthered his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, began practice at Sunbury shortly after attaining his majority, and remained there for eighteen years, building up an excellent patronage. Thereafter, until his death, which occurred in December, 1863, he was settled at Minersville, Schuylkill county. He married three times, and had seven children. Dr. John K. Robins was the first resident physician of Shamokin after that place assumed the proportions of a village. He was born at Sunbury April 14, 1820, and began the study of medicine at the age of twenty, graduating from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1842. In April of that year he began practice at Shamokin, where he was located for nearly four years, thence removing to Catawissa, Columbia county, in January, 1846. He made a permanent home there and established a lucrative practice, following his profession there until his death. He had two sons and three daughters, William, Joseph, Mary, Ada and another daughter. Dr. Joseph Craven Robins, son of Aaron, was born at Sunbury June 1, 1806, and there attended the common schools, later going to the academy at Northumberland, which was then conducted by Robert C. Grier. He first read medicine with his brother William at Sunbury, completing his professional preparation at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1828 began practice at Sunbury. The following year he removed to Elysburg, at which point he was the first physician to locate permanently, and he was in active practice there for forty-two years, his field covering all the eastern part of Northumberland county and the adjoining portions of Montour, Columbia and Schuylkill counties. He was of the old "saddle- bag" doctors, and in spite of the hardships of a physician's life in his day survived all his fellow practitioners who were in practice at the time his career began, living to the advanced age of eighty-seven years. He retired from active professional labors about 1870, and in 1877 removed to Shamokin, where he lived until his wife's decease, in 1881. After that he lived among his children, and his death occurred in Harrisburg in 1893; at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Swallow. He was buried in the family plot at St. Jacob's church, at Reed's station, Northumberland county. Dr. Robins was one of the most widely known men in the county in his day, and his reputation extended far beyond the limits of his own community. He was one of the charter members of Elysburg Lodge, No. 414, F. & A.M. Dr. Robins married Leah Shindel, daughter of Peter Shindel, and to their union were born seven children, five sons and two daughters, namely: Galen S., Edwin S., Harvey S., Annie M. (who died shortly after her marriage to. S. A. Bergresser), Lorenzo D., Rebecca (wife of Rev. Silas C. Swallow, a prominent Methodist minister at Harrisburg, Pa.) and Joseph (who died young). Three of the sons became physicians, and we give a brief record of their lives. Galen S. Robins was born, Oct. 4, 1830, began to read medicine with his father, and completed the course at the Pennsylvania College of Medicine, from which institution he was graduated. END OF PAGE 622 After a year's practice at Elysburg he located at Shamokin, in 1852, and was there in active and successful practice until his early death, Oct. 9, 1856. He was for a time associated in practice there with Dr. J. J. John, and afterward with his brother, Dr. Edwin S. Robins, who at the time of his death was the oldest physician at Shamokin. Edwin S. Robins, M. D. was born June 3, 1,832, Elysburg, and there grew to manhood, receiving his early education in the common schools. Later he attended Dickinson Seminary, at Williamsport, Pa., returning to his native place in 1851, when he began, reading medicine with his father. In 1852-53 he attended lectures at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and in 1853-54 attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated, March 10, 1854. He commenced practice at Elysburg with his father, in October, 1855, settling at Shamokin, where he was in partnership with his brother, Dr. Galen S. Robins, until the latter's death in 1856. Dr. Robins built up a large practice, and held a creditable place among the progressive members of his profession, being one of the most successful physicians of his county and one of the best known medical men in his section of the State. He made a particularly fine reputation as a surgeon, performing successfully some of the most difficult amputations, and his services in this branch of practice were in wide demand. He served as surgeon of the 7th Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, for several years during Governor Hartranft's administration. Few men in any line of work enjoy a longer career of unbroken activity than did Dr. Robins, who continued his practice to an advanced age. He died in 1907. On Oct. 10, 1853, he married Matilda Gulick, daughter of William Gulick, of Elysburg, and they had eight children, five of whom reached maturity, namely: Frank A., Lizzie (wife of F. A. Thomas), Ella (wife of William Brice), Edwin S. and Josephine. The family belong to the Episcopal Church. The Doctor was a Democrat in politics and a Mason in fraternal affiliation. Lorenzo D. Robins, M. D., began practice with his father at Elysburg. During the Civil war he served as a surgeon in the Union army, and at the close of that struggle returned to Elysburg, where he continued in practice until his death, in 1875. Harvey Shindel Robins, third son of Dr. Joseph Craven Robins, was born July 5, 1836, at Elysburg, and obtained his schooling in that locality. For a time after he began to make his own way he was employed at farm work, was later engaged as clerk by Jonas Stine, when only a boy of fourteen, and then began farming, in 1859. Later he engaged in merchandising on his own account. He came to Mount Carmel March 26, 1885, and investing in considerable land became extensively engaged in real estate dealing, in that connection building a number of houses. He made a success of this line, as he did also in the coal business. With his son Joseph he became interested in the soft coal business in West Virginia, and he named the field of their operations in Fayette county, that State, Alaska. He was also associated with the Lawtons and Brown in the Greenwood Coal & Coke Company, of Lawton, W. Va., and met with considerable success before he sold his interests in this concern. Though he has now retired from active business pursuits Mr. Robins still retains his place on the board of directors of the Union National Bank of Mount Carmel, of which he was one of the organizers and original directors. He has done much traveling in his day, and in 1900 made a trip to California. He has long ranked among the most intelligent and progressive citizens of his portion of Northumberland county, a worthy representative of a name which has for almost a century been held in the highest esteem here. In April, 1859, Mr. Robins married Elizabeth Hefley, daughter of Charles Hefley, at one time a merchant of Bloomsburg, Columbia county. Mrs. Robins died Dec. 10, 1901, the mother of three children: (1) Joseph graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and is now located in practice at Charleston, W. Va., where he is a prominent citizen, being president of the National City Bank of that place. He married Anna Knapp and they have three children, Margaret, Joseph E. and Hugh B. (2) Margaret, who died in September, 1908, was the wife of H. B. Young, of Mifflinburg, Union Co., Pa., and the mother of two children, William R. and Harvey. (3) Charles H., who lives at Mount Carmel, is in the real estate business. He married Cynthia Hughes, of West Virginia, and they have had four children, Elizabeth, Margaret, Harvey and Charles. Socially Mr. Robins holds membership in the Elks and in Elysburg Lodge, No. 414, F. & A.M., having been made a Mason in 1870. He is a Republican in political sentiment and a Presbyterian in religious connection. CLAYTON S. SCOTT, managing editor of the Shamokin Dispatch, was born Dec. 1, 1858, in Wilson, Niagara Co., N. Y., almost within the sound of the roar of Niagara's world-famous cataract. Rev. Milo Scott his father, at that time one of true prominent Methodist clergymen of western New York, came from Pennsylvania stock, being a son of Cephas and Polly (Winslow) Scott, of Smithport, McKean Co., Pa. His mother, Ann Eliza Barrett, was a native of New York State but came from the stanch old New England Barrett family, which settled in Vermont, and who END OF PAGE 623 were in direct line of descent from the Barretts of England. Rev. Milo Scott died in 1864, when his son was but five years of age, and his mother a few years later located at Brockport, N. Y., where is located one of New York States most prominent normal schools, from which Mr. Scott was graduated in 1879, after which for several years he engaged in public school work in his native State, filling high school principalships at Byron, Churchville and Cohocton. While located at Cohocton he was united in marriage with Etta M. Haynes, of Binghamton, N. Y., who was also a graduate of the State normal school at Brockport and was the preceptress of the Cohocton high school, of which Mr. Scott at the same time was principal. Their marriage occurred June 24, 1884, at Binghamton. The following year Mr. Scott embarked in news-paper work, locating at Owego, N. Y., the county seat of Tioga county, where he purchased the Tioga County Record, a well established weekly paper. A year later he sold a half interest in the business and a daily edition, called the Owego Daily Record, was started, which from the first was a marked success and so continued for twenty years under the same firm of publishers, Scott & Watros, until their sale of the business on Oct. 1, 1906. Mr. Scott remained with the new owner as managing editor of the paper until May 1, 1907, when he resigned, and after a few months rest came to Shamokin and began his duties as managing editor of the Shamokin Dispatch, the oldest daily newspaper in the borough. It is issued daily except Sundays. In 1910 Mr. Scott became one of the stockholders of the Leader Publishing Company, which corporation publishes the Dispatch, and at the company's annual meeting that year he was elected its secretary. While a resident of New York State Mr. Scott was one of its most prominent members of the Masonic fraternity, filling the Masters chair five years. For nearly twenty years he was almost continuously a member of the Grand Lodge of that State, serving on the staff of eight of its Grand Masters, filling the offices of District Deputy Master, Grand Standard Bearer, and other important positions. He is also a Royal Arch Mason, with the rank of Past High Priest and a member of Malta Commandery, No. 21, Knights Templar, of Binghamton, New York. ROBERT MUIR, of Mount Carmel, is a leading business man of that place and also has important interests elsewhere. His connection with the financial affairs of the borough has extended over a long period, and he has been prominent in the establishment of a number of local institutions which have not only afforded opportunities for the profitable investment of local capital, but have proved highly beneficial to the general welfare. He was born in 1856 in Schuylkill county, Pa., and is of Scottish descent, his grandfather, David Muir, having lived and died in Scotland. He had three sons who came to America, William, Michael and David. Michael Muir, father of Robert Muir, was born in Scotland, and came to America in 1851 with his wife and family, which then consisted of three children. Locating at Branchdale, in Schuylkill county, Pa., he followed his trade, that of engineer. Before the Civil war, however, he moved to Mount Carmel, where he was among the early residents, and there he followed mining as well as engineering. He also lived in the borough of Shamokin for a number of years. His death occurred in March, 1885, at Mount Carmel, and he is buried in the Shamokin cemetery. During the Civil war he served as a private in Company E, 48th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. Michael Muir married Elizabeth Muir, daughter of Robert Muir, also of Scotland, and they had a large family, namely: (1) Elizabeth married Thomas Wardrop, and their children are Thomas, Mary E., David, John, Robert, Elizabeth, Walter, Andrew, Agnes, Isabella and Jean. (2) Mary died young. (3) David married Annie Fulton, daughter of David Fulton, and they reside in Shamokin. Their children are David, Gilbert, Robert, John, Anna, Donald, Elizabeth, Marion, Laura and Mary. (4) Margaret died young. (5) Robert is mentioned later. (6) William died at Scranton, Pa. (7) Andrew is living in Colorado. (8) John, of Shamokin, married Jennie Anderson and their children are Helen, Andrew, John and Jean. (9) Jean married Harry Minnier and their children are Allen, Russell and Grace. (10) Dal. died when two years old. Robert Muir attended school at Mount Carmel. In early boyhood he began picking slate at the breaker, and was employed about the mines for several years. In the spring of 1877 he went West, prospecting for a time in the Black Hills and in Colorado, and then proceeding to California. He remained in the West about seven years, and upon his return to Mount Carmel engaged in mining at the Green Ridge colliery, near the borough. He continued mining until 1891, since which year he has given most of his time to the real estate business, in which line he has interests at Mount Carmel, in Hazleton, Luzerne Co., Pa., and at Brooklyn, N. Y. The greater part of his attention is given to a large tract of land which he owns at Hazleton, known as Hazleton Heights, the development of which property is in a most promising condition. Various local enterprises have had his influence and support. He was one of the organizers of, the Mount Carmel Iron Works, of which he is now president; was one of the organizers of the Mount Carmel Gas Works, of which he END OF PAGE 624 is now vice-president; and is a director of the Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Company, of Mount Carmel, of which he was the first secretary. Mr. Muir has taken considerable interest in the administration of borough affairs, for thirteen year served as tax collector of Mount Carmel and is now borough treasurer. His fellow citizens have the fullest confidence in his judgment and integrity, and his services have in every way justified their high opinion of him. On April 25, 1883, Mr. Muir married Mary S. Jeffrey, daughter of Andrew Jeffrey, who came from Scotland. Mrs. Muir was born in California. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Muir, namely: Helen; Elizabeth, who died at the age of seven years; Anna; Roy, who died in infancy; and Robert Jr. Mr. Muir and his family unite with the Presbyterian Church. He is a Republican on political questions. SIMON P. SAVIDGE, of Sunbury, at present serving the borough as tax collector, is one of the respected residents of his community, a faithful official and a useful citizen. He was born Nov. 22, 1847, in Lower Augusta township, this county, son of Henry Savidge and is a great-grandson of George Savidge, the founder of the family in Northumberland county. George Savidge probably came from New Jersey, and settled in this county in pioneer times, living in what was then Lower Augusta (now Rockefeller) township, in the vicinity of the Plum Creek Church. He was a farmer and stonemason, and built the present stone church at Augustaville, receiving the sum of one hundred dollars for his work. The excellent condition in which the walls of this church are still found is the best testimony as to the honesty and thoroughness of his work and mechanical skill. He was a Lutheran, and is probably buried at that church. He had the following children: George, grandfather of Simon P. Savidge; Zinn, who was drowned while building the Sunbury dam in the Susquehanna river; Valentine, an able penman and school teacher, who moved into Lancaster or one of the other lower counties of Pennsylvania; Joseph, who became a farmer in Upper Augusta township; Samuel, a farmer, who lived in Upper Augusta township; Lydia, Mrs. McGee (she and her husband were Catholics and lived on the priest's farm in Chillisquaque township); and John, lived in Lower Augusta township and was a farmer (he died upon his farm and was buried at Eden Church). George Savidge, son of George, was born in Lower Augusta township, was a blacksmith by trade, and a prosperous farmer, owning a farm of almost three hundred acres located near the Plum Creek Church. He was a leading man in his district, and managed his business affairs so well that in his time he ranked third among the most substantial citizens of Rockefeller township. He died in October, 1867, at the age of seventy years, five months, sixteen days, and is buried in Plum Greek at the Eden Church, of which he was a foremost member, serving as elder for many years. He married Catharine Raker, who died Dec. 20, 1870, aged sixty-nine years, eleven months, seven days, and to them were born children as follows: Henry; William, who died aged eighteen years; Dr. Aaron, who lived in Chester county, Pa.; Hiram, born Nov. 27, 1832, who was a farmer of Rockefeller township and died Aug. 30, 1909 (his wife, Mary A., born July 30 1842, died June 30, 1875; four of their children were Irene, 1864-1887; Johnson; Minnie, 1868-1890; and Oliver, 1871- 1895); Lafayette, a farmer of Rockefeller township, who lived retired some years and died April 23, 1900, aged sixty-five years, two months, ten days (his wife, Margaret died Dec. 16, 1888, aged fifty years, nine months, three days; they have a large monument in the Eden Church cemetery); Barbara, Mrs. Samuel L. Keefer, who died early in the sixties; and Mary, Mrs. Reuben Sholl. Henry Savidge, son of George and father of Simon P. Savidge, was born Dec. 14, 1822, on the homestead farm, and died Oct. 21, 1878. He was a potter by trade, and carried on a pottery for many years, turning out all kinds of earthenware, colored as well as white, and earthen ornaments of various kinds. He owned a farm which he cultivated, and was an energetic and successful man, prosperous in his business and useful in all the associations of life. A prominent member of the Democratic party, he and Judge Abraham Shipman were the leading political factors of that faith in this district in their day, deciding its policies for many years and wielding a wide influence in this region. Mr. Savidge was also prominent in church work as a member of the Eden Church at Plum Creek, where he filled all the offices; serving many years in the church council. He is buried at that church. His wife, Gertrude (Heilman), born Nov. 28, 1823, died Jan. 26, 1901, was a daughter of Daniel Heilman, and they were the parents of ten children, namely: Maria married Andrew Burns and (second) Dr. David Shipe; Catharine married William Clark; Simon P. is mentioned below; George W. died in Rush township; Isaac lived on the original Savidge homestead; Elizabeth married Ira Reed and they lived out West (she died 1883); Morris A. is of Mount Carmel; Daniel H. lives at Shamokin, Pa.; Russia married Harry Harbold, of Mount Carmel; Wilson A. is a resident of Dornsife, Northumberland county. Simon P. Savidge received a common school education and was reared to farming, which he followed until he went to learn the trade of stonemason, at the age of eighteen years. He also learned stone- cutting, and with the exception of END OF PAGE 625 twelve years during which be was employed as clerk in a store at Sunbury he has followed his trade, in which he has made a high reputation as a skillful and reliable workman. In August 1906, Mr. Savidge was appointed tax collector of Sunbury by the court served three years under that appointment, and was then elected to the office, the present (1910) being the second year of his term. He had had considerable previous experience in this line, having held that office in Rush township for two years, and served as tax collector in East Sunbury during 1893-94- 95-96. He is a member of Augustaville Lodge, I.O.O.F., and in religious connection belongs to Zion's Lutheran Church, with which his family are also identified. Mr. Savidge married Jane Isabella Evert, daughter of John C. and Sarah (Weiser) Evert, farming people, who lived near the Plum Creek Church. Mr. and Mrs. Savidge have had two children: (1) Eugene M. served eight and a half, years as clerk in the register's and recorder's office at the court-house, Sunbury, and is now money order clerk in the Sunbury post office. He is a member of Maclay Lodge, No. 682, F. & A.M., the Conclave, and the Temple Club. He married Mary E. DeHaven. (2) Mary M. married O. N. Conrad and they reside at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. PROF. NORMAN W. H. SCHAFER, teacher of piano, organ and theory at Shamokin, Pa., and a man well known to the musical profession as a thorough musician and conscientious instructor, is one of Pennsylvania's own sons. He was born at Petersville Church, Petersville, Northampton Co., Pa., son of John D. Schafer, organist and teacher. Professor Schafer is of French and German extraction. Valentine Schafer, his great-great-grandfather, came to America from Germany early in the eighteenth, century, and settled in Lehigh county, Pa., his home being near Macungie, along the Little Lehigh. He became a very prominent man in his district and in 1750 assisted in the building of the Little Lehigh church at Macungie, of which he was one of the organizers. He is buried there. He married Margaret De Schotte, who came from France. They had nine children, among whom were George, Peter and John. John Schafer, son of Valentine, was born in November, 1773, near Klecknersville, and became a large landowner. He was quite prominent and held the office of justice of the peace. During the war of 1812 he held a captain's commission. He died in November, 1831. His wife, Sarah Billheimer, born July 4, 1779, died in November, 1832, and both are buried at Moorestown. Their children were: Catharine, born May 14, 1803, who died May 14, 1898; Elizabeth; Jacob; Dewalt; Peter; and Solomon. Jacob Schafer, son of John, was born in Northampton county in 1807. In early life he learned the stonemason's trade, and for many years held the office of justice of the peace in Moore township, Northampton county. He died in 1870. He married Sarah Michael, of Northampton county and they are both buried at Moorestown. Their children were: Jacob; Sarah; John D.; Mary; Stephen, a soldier of the Civil war who suffered in Libby prison and died of weakness shortly after his release; and Francis, living at Kreidersville, Pennsylvania. John D. Schafer, son of Jacob, was born May 13, 1834, at Klecknersville. He taught school in early life, and served as organist at Petersville and Indianland, and Cherryville, in Northampton county. He was the organizer of the Heimback Slate Company (which is still in existence), and also of a slate mine at Walnutport, of which he was president and superintendent. He opened six quarries. He is very well informed in this work, and is now often consulted, though he has been retired from active business since 1900. He resides on the homestead at Danielsville, Northampton county. In politics he is a Democrat, and he has served as trustee of schools in the Walnutport and Danielsville districts. He is a member of the Reformed Church. Mr. Schafer married Mary L. Henry, who was born Jan. 5, 1839, daughter of David Henry; her mother's maiden name was Brown. Mrs. Schafer died Jan. 2, 1896, and is buried at Slatington. Mr. and Mrs. Schafer had children as follows: Norman W. H.; Laura J., deceased wife of Nathan Haas; Augusta L., who married Frank Fenner; Charles Osborne, who died in infancy; and David H., a merchant at Danielsville, Pennsylvania. Prof. Norman W. H. Schafer was reared in an atmosphere of music, his first teacher having been his father. Later he studied with the Rev. Dr. Ohl and Professor Benkhardt, an old Leipsic graduate. In 1877 he went abroad, and entered the Royal Conservatory at Stuttgart Germany, where under Professors Schuler, Krueger and Speidel he studied the piano; under Professor Fink, the organ; and under Professor Seyerlen, theory. He also for several years studied harmony, counter-point fugue, canon and composition and under Dr. S. N. Penfield, of New York City. After his return from Europe he accepted the position of director of music at Pennington Seminary, Pennington, N. J., where he remained four years. He then accepted a similar position at the Danville (Va.) College for Young Ladies, also acting as organist for the Main Street Methodist Episcopal church of that town. At the end of six years he was obliged to resign on account of ill health and return North. He came to Shamokin in 1878, and since 1895 has been organist of Trinity Lutheran Church, besides conducting a large private class. He has given a large number of high-class organ END OF PAGE 626 recitals, and was the organizer of the Shamokin Choral Society, which under his direction has given a number of oratorios. As the former president of Danville (Va.) College, Prof. R. H. Sharp, M. A., wrote of him: "Scrupulously conscientious, he will work beyond his strength rather than neglect any known duty. With such a spirit to animate him, it is not surprising that he achieved a success with us beyond anything known before in our music department." Professor Schafer has also made his mark as a composer. In 1881 Professor Schafer married Emma C. Gable, daughter of Capt. William Gable, and the following children have been born to them: Myrtle, who married William Albert Moore, in business in Philadelphia; Norman W. H., Jr., a graduate of Shamokin high school, 1903, Lehigh University, 1907, now a civil engineer stationed at Reading, Pa., as supervisor of the W. & N. branch of the Reading railroad (he is a member of the University fraternity); Clara, who died in infancy; Pauline; Carolyn, G., and John R. Prof. Schafer was made a Mason in Cyrus Lodge, No. 148, at Pennington, N. J., and transferred his membership to Roman Eagle Lodge, No. 121, at Danville, Va. He belongs to the Temple Club at Shamokin. He is a man of strong personality, enthusiastic in his profession, and thorough in all that he undertakes. Thomas Hanlon, D.D., LL.D., president of Pennington Seminary, said of him: "He is very competent, very trustworthy, faithful, a Christian gentleman;" and it is safe to say that, such high praise is fully approved by those who have long known him in Shamokin. JOHN A. SIPE, of Herndon, is a resident and business man of long standing there, being the senior member of the firm of Sipe & Son, tailors, who have the only tailoring establishment in the borough and do an extensive business, having a large patronage in the territory from Sunbury to Millersburg. He is a veteran of the Civil war, in which his father also served, dying of starvation in Libby Prison in 1864. Mr. Sipe is a native of York Springs, Adams Co., Pa., born May 5, 1847. The family is of German extraction, his grandfather, Martin Sipe, having been born in Germany, whence he came to America before his marriage, locating at Clear Springs, in Adams county, Pa. He was a laborer and owned a small home in a glen. His wife, Sarah, was from White Hill, Cumberland Co., Pa., and lived to the age of eighty-six years. She was the mother of twenty children, Martin Sipe being her second husband. Her children by him were: Jacob, Peter, Sallie, Leah, Jeremiah, Hettie, Maria, William and Lena. Jeremiah, now (1910) seventy-six years old, lives at Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co., Pa. He served in the Civil war under two enlistments, in the 43d Pennsylvania Infantry and the 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry. He was captured at the battle of the Wilderness and was held at all the noted Rebel prisons When he went into the service he weighed over two hundred pounds, but his weight when discharged was only seventy-one pounds. His sister Leah's husband, Nelson Day, was a soldier of the Mexican war, in which service he died. Jacob Sipe, son of Martin, was born in 1819 in Adams county, Pa., and lived near York Springs. He was a laborer, and owned a small home in Latimore township. During the Civil war he was drafted for the Union service, but he said he would never go to the front as a drafted man and accordingly enlisted. He was drafted one Thursday, and was to report at Gettysburg, the following Monday. On Sunday night he bade his family good-bye and walked to Harrisburg, where he enlisted in Company B, 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry, asking to be credited to his native township as a volunteer. He had been in the service only three weeks when captured at Sulphur Springs, Va., and thrown into Libby Prison, where he died in 1864, after fourteen months confinement. He is buried among the other unfortunate soldiers who perished there. His wife, Ruth, was a daughter of Nelson Day, a native of Lancaster county, Pa., who lived to be ninety-six years old. By her first marriage Mrs. Sipe had a son, William Ickes, who served in the Civil war as a member of the 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers. To Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Sipe were born children as follows: Jacob H., who served during the Civil war in Company I, 165th Pennsylvania Regiment (he was corporal); John A.; Jennie, who married Monroe Chronster and lived at Hampton, Adams county (he was a veteran of the 93d Pennsylvania Volunteers); Adaline, who married Hiram Jacobs and lives at York Springs (he was a soldier in the Civil war, serving with the 90th Pennsylvania Regiment); Annie, who married Emmerson Fickel and lived at Lattimer, Pa. (he is now deceased) and three who died in infancy. Mrs. Ruth (Day) Sipe died in 1881, aged fifty-eight years, six months, four days. John A. Sipe was reared to farm life in the vicinity of York Springs, working thus until he was thirteen years old, when he began to learn the tailor's trade. He served his apprenticeship in the old- fashioned way, doing anything around his employer's house that was to be done, for the first six months of his term, cutting wood, looking after the children, or attending to any other work given to him. Then another new apprentice came, and he commenced work at the bench, after his three years of service doing journeyman work at various places in this State, Pittsburg, Altoona, Hollidaysburg, Newport, Harrisburg, Baltimore, Carlisle, Shippensburg, and Church (Cumberland county), where he remained seventeen months with a German named Cooney Draker. From END OF PAGE 627 there be came to Georgetown (Dalmatia), Northumberland county, and thence after a seven months stay to Herndon, which has since been his home. He arrived in Northumberland county on Whitsunday, 1867, and he was one of the earliest settlers at Herndon, which was then all woodland. He is one of the four oldest residents of the town. Mr. Sipe has seen many changes in domestic as well as civil life in his day. When he learned his trade the sewing machine was unknown, and he purchased the first sewing machine brought to Herndon. His business underwent the various changes of custom work and merchant tailoring, and he has always kept abreast of the times in his line, being a first-class tradesman. In 1902 he admitted his son Harry to a partnership in the business, and Sipe & Son enjoy the best trade between Sunbury and Millersburg. They are the only tailors at Herndon. By industry and good management of his affairs, honorable dealing and intelligent use of his opportunities, Mr. Sipe has become a substantial man, and his prosperity has been wholly the result of his own efforts. He began his career at Herndon in the most modest way, commencing housekeeping in a one-room house 16 by 16 feet in dimensions, and advancing his fortunes by diligence and commendable thrift. He was married Oct. 24, 1869, to Eve Vanaman, daughter of George and Annie (Comfort) Vanaman, formerly of Lancaster county, Pa., later of Jersey Shore, Lycoming county, and finally of Reward, Perry county, where Mr. Vanaman lived for fifty-four years in one house, dying Dec. 3, 1899, at the age of eighty-three years; he is buried near that place, as is also his wife. Mr. Vanaman was a molder by occupation. His father, Jacob Vanaman, was a native of Lancaster county, and moved to Jersey Shore on a canal boat living there the rest of his life; he followed the trade of molder. Three of George Vanaman's sons served in the Civil war, Thomas, George and David, one in the 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry. To Mr. and Mrs. Sipe were born children as follows: George died aged eighteen months, four days; Annie E. died in infancy; Mamie died in infancy; Bessie V. married C. M. Troutman and they live on Mr. Sipe's farm in Jackson township; Harry C., born April 1, 1882, at Herndon, was educated in the public schools and at Central Pennsylvania College, which he attended for four terms, afterward learning the trade of tailor under his father, with whom he is now in partnership (he is a member of Lodge No. 267, B.P.O. Elks, Sunbury; of Polaris Lodge, No. 765, I.O.O.F.; General Sickles Camp, No. 57; and John B. Packer Council, No. 154, Jr. O.U.A.M.; he married Feb. 23, 1904, Jennie A. High, daughter of W. H. High, and they have had three, children, Carrie V., Mildred M., and one that died in infancy); Jennie A. married Harry A. Glace, who is a weaver in the silk mills at Sunbury, where they reside, and they have one child, Geraldine. During the Civil war, though only a boy, Mr. Sipe was very patriotic and he ran away from home to Chambersburg three times trying to enlist, when only sixteen. He was refused because he was under size and too light but later, when troops were needed and the conditions were not so rigid, he managed to get into the service, joining Company I, 205th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Aug. 2, 1864, at Harrisburg, where Camp Curtin was established. He was discharged June 7, 1865, after the close of the war. Mr. Sipe saw considerable active service, participating in the operations at Fort Steadman, Va., March 25, 1865; and was with his regiment when it led the charge of the 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 9th Army Corps, on Fort Mahone, April 2, 1865, in front of Petersburg. On Dec. 10, 1864, the 3d Division of the 9th Corps made a raid, called the Weldon raid, on Hatcher's Run, having several skirmishes with the enemy. He served under Capt. J. C. Machan, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., and Lieutenant Colonel Walters, of Lancaster county. He is a member of John J. Arnold Post, No. 407, G.A.R., and of the Sons of Veterans at Herndon (Sickles Camp, No. 57), and he is also associated fraternally with Lodge No. 551, I.O.O.F. SPENCER H. DREHER, of Shamokin, who is interested in the coal business but not as a local operator, was born in that borough Sept. 8, 1858, and comes of a family of German origin which was founded in Pennsylvania during the early days. His paternal great-grandfather lived in both Schuylkill and Northumberland counties, and died in Sunbury, in Northumberland county; he is buried at the Stone church. His family consisted of ten children, viz.: John, who is mentioned below; Samuel and Joseph, who died in the West; Isaac, who died in Shamokin township; Sophia, who married George Falck; Sallie, Mrs. Fasold; Tyson; Susan, Mrs. Renn; Rachel, Mrs. Kramer; Polly, Mrs. Joseph Shipman. John Dreher was born in 1801 in Schuylkill county, and while a resident of that county followed farming and was engaged on the old canal boats. In 1855 he moved to Mount Carmel, Northumberland county, where he was employed at the collieries, and there he died in 1873. His wife; Sarah (Kreiger), daughter of Christian Kreiger, died in 1868, and both are buried in the Mount Carmel cemetery. Their children were as follows: Mary A. married Fred Fahrian and died in Missouri; Jacob is mentioned, below; Andrew J. was killed by the Molly Maguires, it is supposed, he having disappeared from Mount Carmel and never been heard from afterward; Edward died in Mount Carmel; Daniel died in the West; John died near END OF PAGE 628 Richmond, Va., while serving in the Civil war; Sarah J. married John Roup and is living in Mount Carmel; Aaron is a resident of Mount Carmel; Eliza married William Stillwagner and is living in St. Louis; Eli lives at Mount Carmel. Jacob Dreher, son of John, was born March 12, 1830, at Plum creek, near Stonington, Northumberland county, in Shamokin township. He was well educated, and followed teaching during his earlier manhood, being thus engaged for a period of twelve years, in Shamokin and Mount Carmel. Later he became inside foreman at the Gap colliery (where David Llewellyn was then outside foreman) and was employed there for several years. He died Oct. 8, 1865, at his home in the Irish Valley, in Shamokin township; and was buried at the Summit church in that township. An intelligent, industrious, Christian citizen, he was a leader in his community and thoroughly respected for his upright life. He married Elizabeth Sober, daughter of Michael M. Sober, and she survived him, after his death marrying Lewis Chamberlin, of Shamokin township. She passed away April 8, 1905, at the age of seventy-one years, and is also buried at the Summit church. To Jacob and Elizabeth (Sober) Dreher were born the following named children: Mary F., wife of Lemuel Tharp; Harris M., who is living in Shamokin township; Spencer H.; William H., of Shamokin township; Clara, wife of O. C. Wilson, of Philadelphia; and Jacob G., a teacher, of Shamokin township. Spencer H. Dreher attended school in Shamokin township and was reared upon a farm. When he started work on his own account he followed farming in that township and also engaged to some extent in the dairy business, owning a fine tract of 100 acres in the neighborhood of the Summit church, upon which property he erected a fine residence in 1898. In time he sold this farm to Mr. Yordy, the present owner, and on Oct. 22, 1908, he settled in Shamokin, where he has established his home. Since 1894 he has been interested in the coal business, as part owner of three collieries in Quinnimont, W. Va., all of which are in a thriving condition, yielding an abundance of soft coal for which a ready market is found. Mr. Dreher married Hannah Lawton, and they have one son, Charles Edgar, who is a member of the class of 1912 at Bucknell University, at Lewisburg, Pa. Mr. Dreher is a Republican in politics and in religion a member of the M. E. Church. JOSEPH LAWTON, father of Mrs. Hannah (Lawton) Dreher, was born in England and came to America when a young man, and lived for a time in the Irish Valley in Northumberland county. He became interested in the coal business in West Virginia and met with success in that line. In 1893 he moved to Carlisle, Pa., where he made his home to the end of his days. He died while making a trip to his West Virginia mines, in 1896. His wife, Mary (Mathews), died in 1910, and they are buried at Carlisle. The following children survive them: Catherine, William, George, Hannah (Mrs. Dreher), Elmer, Sallie, Walter and Albert THOMAS M. LAWLER, late of Sunbury, was filling the office of prothonotary of Northumberland county at the time of his death, June 5, 1907. He was one of the most popular men in that community, a typical representative of his race, genial, sociable, friendly, known to many and liked by all who met him. Mr. Lawler was born Nov. 30, 1857, in County Wicklow, Ireland, son of William Lawler, a native of the same country, who came to America with his family in the year 1867. Thomas M. Lawler was ten years old when brought to America by his parents, the family settling in Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa., where the boy attended public school. When twelve years old he started to learn the printing trade in the office of the Sunbury American, at that time owned and edited by Emanuel Wilvert, and he completed a five years apprenticeship with the Northumberland County Democrat and Sunbury Daily in 1875. The next two years he spent in Pittsburg, returning to Sunbury to become foreman in the establishment of the Democrat and Daily, which he held for over ten years, until March, 1888. For the following years, until October, 1898, he was in the Government printing office at Washington, D. C., after which he was engaged on the Washington Post, having charge of the mechanical work on the advertisements. In September, 1894, during Cleveland's second administration, he was appointed foreman of the night bill force in the printing office. He received the appointment on recognized merit and ability, and held it until the administration changed. Though he had done well at the printing business, Mr. Lawler upon his return to Sunbury did not return to that occupation, but entered into the restaurant business on Market Square, the Park Restaurant being one of the most popular places of the kind in Sunbury. Mr. Lawler was "Tom" to the many who knew and loved him, and his wide circle of acquaintance's extended beyond the limits of Northumberland into neighboring counties. His personality will not be readily forgotten. The Sunbury Daily Item of June 3, 1907, said: "He was a man whom you liked to meet; he put sunshine into the day by his kindly greeting and enjoyed a bit of pleasantry that eased many a heart with his ready wit and humor." His genial disposition, thoughtfulness, fidelity to his friends, sincerity and naturalness won him a last- END OF PAGE 629 ing place in the hearts of all with whom be came in contact. Mr. Lawler was a stanch Democrat and always active in politics, and on June 12, 1905, he was nominated for the office of prothonotary, to which he was elected the following November. At the time of his death he had served seventeen months of his term of three years. He filled the office with credit to himself and to his constituents, though for some time he suffered so with rheumatism that he was unable to attend to its duties personally. However, he recovered sufficiently several months before his death to return to its activities, and although he was far from being a well man he kept up so well that his friends were hopeful his recovery would be complete. But he succumbed to a sudden relapse and grew rapidly worse until his death. The Evening Standard of Milton, this county, in an editorial written by one of Mr. Lawler's friends, said: "Few people perhaps, either in public or private life, in central Pennsylvania were more generally known or more universally beloved. In many respects he was a most remarkable man. Of commanding presence and genial disposition, he quickly enlisted the lasting good will of all with whom he came in contact. Endowed with a high order of natural intelligence, his acquired information, coupled with that unfailing fund of humor so characteristic of the people of his race, attracted to him a multitude of friends and admirers. "His open handed charities (oft abused) were dispensed with a lavishness wholly disproportioned to his means. A partisan, in political warfare, his powerful personality was a tower of strength to those whose cause he so unselfishly espoused. But when the storm of conflict subsided, if, as sometimes occurred, his was the portion of the vanquished, he never failed to greet the victor with a warmth of feeling that at once established an centente cordiale which no future embroilments could dissolve. His public life was characterized by the same distinguishing traits that made him such a conspicuous figure in private life. His captivating manners and graceful courtesy made him easily approachable at all times. "Fidelity to duty, strict integrity and thoroughness in method in his official duties, establishes a record in the important department over which he was called to preside. * * * The standard of his sterling manhood was never lowered. Purity of thought and action were the high ideals ever before him, such indeed was the active principle of his life, the shrine of his devotion. "To the bereaved wife, the venerable mother, the sorrowing sister and brothers, the full measure of public sympathy will go forth. Some solace for them will he found in the knowledge that an entire community shares their grief and most profoundly regret the passing of one whose like they will never see again." Mr. Lawler was a member of the Elks, the Eagles, the Typographical Union, Good Intent Fire Company and the Board of Trade, which latter body had been newly organized just before his death and with which he had been actively identified. His active association with labor organizations began in 1875, when he joined the International Typographical Union, and he was mainly instrumental in starting the Knights of Labor in Sunbury in 1876, serving as first president of the local organization, No. 400. He was a regularly commissioned organizer of the American Federation of Labor. For two terms he was vice- president of the Washington Typographical Union, which he represented at Louisville, Ky., in 1894, and just before his death he had been chosen as a delegate to the approaching convention of the Union to he held at Hot Springs, Ark., in August, 1907. In 1886 Mr. Lawler married Virginia Mills, daughter of Henry and Mary (Brown) Mills, the former a native of England, who, at the age of sixteen, upon coming to this country, first settled in Baltimore, Md., in 1873, coming to Sunbury, Pa., where he resided until his death in 1886. Mrs. Mills is also deceased, and they are interred in Pomfret Manor cemetery. They were the parents of eight children, all of whom died young except Virginia, Mrs. Lawler. Mr. Lawler was a member of the Catholic Church, to which his widow also belongs. He is buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. Besides his wife, Mr. Lawler was survived by his mother, sister, Miss Mary Lawler, and brothers William, John, Charles and James Lawler, all of Sunbury. SMITH. This family has been identified with Lower Augusta township and that vicinity for over eighty years. Robert Smith, whose parents came from Ireland, lived at Lewisburg, Pa., then called "Derrstown" until 1830, when he came to Lower Augusta township, Northumberland county. Here he lived and died. He was born in 1777, and died Sept. 24, 1844, aged sixty-seven years. He was a tall, heavily built man, very strong, and was engaged as a boatman. His wife, Mary, died Jan. 13, 1861, aged sixty-six years, nine months, three days. They are buried at the Mountain Presbyterian church in Lower Augusta township. Mary Smith was a daughter of James and Barbara Ann (Weinhold) Smith, both natives of Berks county. They were Germans, and spoke German. Robert and Mary Smith had children as follows: James Washington, William, Sarah Charles, Robert, Mary, Barbara Ann and John. Robert Smith, son of Robert, was born at Lewis- END OF PAGE 630 burg, Pa., Aug. 20, 1822. When he was eight years old his parents settled in Lower Augusta township, where he was reared to manhood, and there later he purchased 300 acres of land. This has now been divided into a number of tracts, some of which are still in the family name. He was a stonemason, and reputed to have been one of the very best mechanics of his time. He built the County jail at Sunbury, the law office of Simon P. Wolverton, Esq., the residence of the late Judge Rockefeller, and many more of the most notable structures in Northumberland and surrounding counties. In Connecticut he erected a large granite railroad bridge. He died Jan. 1, 1896 in his seventy- fourth year, and is buried at Mount Zion U. B. church, in Lower Augusta township. His wife, Isabella St. Clair, was born Oct. 11, 1823, and is still living, the oldest woman in her township. She has her home with a son. She is exceptionally well preserved, and has a clear memory. She was a daughter of Casper St. Clair and granddaughter of Daniel St. Clair, who was a Drum Major in the Revolutionary war. Robert and Isabella (St. Clair) Smith had eleven children: Charles (a stone mason), Kate, James H., Henry C., Newton, Wellington (who died in infancy) and Oliver (a stonemason), twins, Matilda, Andrew J., William, Henrietta (the two last named died in infancy). Andrew J. Smith, son of Robert, Jr., was born Feb. 20, 1861. When he was seventeen years old he began teaching school, and in 1889 began working at Honey Pot Scales, at Nanticoke, for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, with which he remained in all fourteen years, being their chief clerk there eight years. In 1903 he moved to one of his farms, a tract of 146 acres located in Rockefeller township, formerly the Andrew Gonsor homestead. Mr. Smith has another farm of 120 acres, near Fisher's Ferry in Lower Augusta township. He and his family are members of the German Reformed church. He married Carrie F. Heilman, and they have a family of nine children: Ada (a school teacher), Edna, Harold, Maud, Helen, Robert, Walter, Lillian and Albert. James H. Smith, son of Robert, Jr., was born Nov. 20, 1847. He worked for his parents until twenty-one years old, and then for eleven years farmed on shares in Lower Augusta township where he has always lived. In February, 1882, he purchased his present 120-acre farm, which was the Joseph Shipman tract. For the past thirty-eight years Mr. Smith has attended the Sunbury markets. He is a Republican, was school director for twelve years, and has been overseer of the poor for the past twelve years. He and his family are members of the Mountain Presbyterian Church, which he has served officially for the past twenty years. In 1871 he married Matilda Snyder, and they have the following ten children: Martha, Benjamin, Cora, Lottie, Florence, Peter, James, Mary, John and Sarah. HENRY J. MAIER, merchant at Locust Gap, Northumberland county, was born July 27, 1867, at St. Clair, Schuylkill Co., Pa., but has lived at Locust Gap from early boyhood. His father, Henry Maier, came from Breitenbach, Germany, when a young man and settled first in Schuylkill county, where he followed mining at St. Clair and Girardville before his removal to Locust Gap, in 1871. There he also followed mining. He died in 1887 at Ashland, Schuylkill county, and his wife, Margaret (Schwartz), died in 1880. Their children were as follows: Louisa (Mrs. John Knauf), Jacob, Mary, Margaret, Henry J., Frank, John, Nicholas, Elizabeth (deceased) and Peter (deceased). Henry J. Maier was reared and educated at Locust Gap. When only fourteen months old he met with a misfortune which disabled him physically, a doctor administering medicine which was too strong for him and which so affected his nerves that the greater part of his body is paralyzed, though he does not suffer. He has the use of his right arm and left leg, however, and he has not allowed the unfortunate accident to check his ambition or impair his usefulness to society in any way. In 1888 he began the grocery business on his own account, in the basement of the McCarthy hotel, and later removed to his present location, carrying a well selected and comprehensive general stock, chosen to meet the demands of his trade, which has increased steadily. In 1905 he built his home at Locust Gap, and he is one of the substantial and respected citizens of that place. His fellow citizens have shown their confidence in his integrity and ability by electing him to various local positions of trust, he having served Mount Carmel township seven years as school director and filled all the offices of the hoard, and he was township auditor for a term. He is a Democrat in political connection and a Catholic in religion, belonging also to the Knights of Columbus, the Holy Name Society and the Foresters. On April 21, 1904, Mr. Maier married Mary Ruffing, daughter of Lambert Ruffing, and they have had seven children, four of whom, Catherine, Helen, Estella and Henry Joseph, Jr. (who died July 2, 1910), are deceased. The survivors are: Florence, Mary and Margaret. JOHN WESLEY HENRIE, of Shamokin, Northumberland county, manager and part owner of the "Windsor Hotel," is well known to the local and traveling public there in that connection as well as in his capacity of assessor, in which position he has served for the past twelve years, from the Second ward. Mr. Henrie is a native of Shamokin, born March 9, 1870, at the old family home, No. END OF PAGE 631 120 North Shamokin street. His father, Harrison Henrie, was a well known contractor and builder of the city in his day, and his grandfather came to this county many years ago. George Henrie, the grandfather, was born in one of the lower counties of Pennsylvania, and on coming to Northumberland county settled near Elysburg. He died at the comparatively early age of thirty-five years. He and his wife, Kate, had six children: Samuel, Harriet (married Jacob Swank), Margaret (married a Mr. Kelly and a Mr. Startzel), Harrison, William and George. Harrison Henrie, son of George, came to Shamokin when a young man and here spent the remainder of his days. He began his business career following his trade, that of bricklayer and plasterer, and in time became a contractor, building many of the substantial residences and churches in that place. He was a prominent Democrat and in 1875 was elected to the office of county commissioner, being re-elected in 1877, at the close of his first term. But he died shortly afterward, and Philip Hile was appointed his successior. He was a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Henrie married Mary J. Bird, daughter of Ziba Bird, and to them were born the following children: Margaret, wife of Charles F. Ruth, an attorney practicing at the Northumberland county bar; Edward, who died young; William, of Bloomsburg, Pa.; George, of Trenton, N J; Emma, wife of William Mutchler; Samuel, who died in infancy; John W.; Edna, who died in infancy; and Jennie, wife of William Harpel, of Rochester, New York. John Wesley Henrie received his education in the common and high schools of his native place. After commencing work he was employed by the Philadelphia & Reading Company for a period of six years; part of this time in the office of the superintendent. He then engaged in business, as a dealer in men's furnishings, continuing thus until May 12, 1902, when his connection with the "Windsor Hotel" began. He was clerk for several years, until the Windsor Hotel Company of Shamokin was incorporated, April 16, 1906, when he became a member of the company and manager of the hotel. His success in this incumbency has been sufficient evidence of his fitness for the work He is popular with the traveling public as well as with his fellow townsmen, both for his enterprise in conducting a satisfactory hotel, one that is a credit to Shamokin, and for his high character as a man. Socially he is well known, having been one of the organizers of the Clover Club, in 1888, and a charter member, and he has filled all the offices in that body. He is a member of Elks Lodge No. 355 and of the Liberty Fire Company and for a time served as president of the Liberty Hose Company; he is a member of the Pennsylvania State Firemen's Association. In politics Mr. Henrie is a Republican, and for the past twelve years has been assessor of the Second ward of Shamokin. The Bird family, to which Mrs. Mary J. (Bird) Henrie, widow of Harrison Henrie, belongs, has been quite numerous and well known in this region since her grandfather, James Bird, came hither from New Jersey. James Bird was born in Warren county, N. J., and was married in his native State, moving to Northumberland county with his family and settling in Rush township in its pioneer days. He purchased a large and uncultivated tract of land on Little Roaring creek, and died in Rush township, on the farm where he first settled. His children were: John, Joseph, William, Sylvanus (born in 1796), Ziba, Susan (married William Kimball), Sarah (Mrs. Scott), Rachel (married Jacob Shipman) and Nancy. Ziba Bird, son of James, was born in Warren county, N. J., and came with his parents to Northumberland county. He assisted his father in the development of the farm in Rush township and also learned the carpenter's trade. He followed farming for a time on Little Roaring creek, but later went to Shamokin to take charge of the mining operations there of John C. Boyd, a prominent citizen of Danville, and he became quite prominent in the early days of the town. He was one of the first settlers there, and erected the first two buildings in what is now Shamokin. He also did considerable building later, two double houses on the south side of Commercial street, between Franklin and Pearl, and probably others, being of his construction. He continued to be interested in coal operations for several years, but retired from that line when the town and business began to settle down to a level after the first wave of prosperity, and he then returned to Rush township, where he established himself as a farmer. He subsequently moved to Red Point, on the Susquehanna river, just on the Montour and Northumberland county line, below Danville, purchasing a home there in which he passed the remainder of his life. He died there at the age of sixty-five. His activity and usefulness in promoting Shamokin's interests in the early days of the town entitle him to be classed among the real founders of the place. Mr. Bird married three times and had in all nineteen children. His first wife Hannah Metz (Mentz or Metze), was the mother of six children Annie; Joseph, born in 1814; Catharine Sarah Elizabeth, born in 1818, who married William Burkenbine and is still living, making her home in the borough of Northumberland; and James, who died in infancy. By his second wife, Elizabeth Farley, Mr. Bird had the following children: END OF PAGE 632 John, Hannah, Ziba, Jr., Kellop (who died in infancy) and Susanna (who died in infancy). His third marriage was to Margaret Mutchler, by whom he had eight children: Mary J. (widow of Harrison Henrie, of Shamokin), William, Nelson, Montgomery, Eliza, Emma, Samuel and Margaret. Mrs. Mary J. Henrie, widow of Harrison Henne, was the first girl born in Shamokin, one John Snyder being the first boy. She was born Oct. 14, 1885, at the corner of Commerce and Shamokin streets. WILLIAM DALIUS, who lived from early manhood until his death in Upper Augusta township, Northumberland county, was born Feb. 16, 1800, in Berks county, Pa. On coming to this county he settled on a small farm, a tract of eighteen acres, which he cultivated, and where he passed the remainder of his long life, dying April 2l, 1882, at the age of eighty-two years, two months, five days. He is buried at Lantz's church. He was a Lutheran in religious faith. Mr. Dalius married Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold, who was born Aug. 11, 1805, in Berks county, and whose father died when she was a child. She was reared in the family of her older sister, Mrs. Komp. Mrs. Dalius died Dec. 10, 1869, aged sixty-four years, three months, thirty days. Seven children were born to their union: (1) Caroline, born April 1, 1827, died July 26, 1896, unmarried, and she and her sister Sarah are buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery, at Sunbury, where a large monument has been erected to their memory. (2) Sarah, born May 3, 1830, died Aug. 23, 1896, unmarried. (3) Eliza married Benjamin Lake and lives at Shamokin, Pa. (4) Mary, who resides at No. 324 Market street, Sunbury, is a member of Zion's Lutheran Church in that borough. (5) Louisa died when thirteen years old. (6) Catharine and (7) Margaret twins, died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Dalius also reared another girl, Louisa, who took their name and made her home with them. On Aug. 28, 1893, she was married in Buffalo, N. Y., to Walter T. Keiner, and their home is in Sunbury, Miss Mary Dalius residing with them. Mrs. Keiner became the legatee of the Dalius estate. WALTER T. KEINER was born in Danville, Montour Co., Pa., and has for a number of years been engaged as a hotel clerk. He was formerly connected with the "Aldine Hotel," in Sunbury, in that capacity, and is now at the "Hotel Normandy," in Philadelphia. He also conducted the "Westmount Hotel," at Atlantic City, N. J., for one year. Mr. and Mrs. Keiner have no family. THOMAS J. McCAFFERY, of Shamokin, a teacher of almost forty years experience in Coal township, Northumberland county, is naturally one of the best known citizens of that region. He holds the respect and friendship of a wide circle, including his fellow educators and those who have come under his instruction. Mr. McCaffery was born in 1853 at Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., son of Dennis and Elizabeth (Doyle) McCaffery, natives of Ireland, the former of whom came to America when a young man, in 1846, the latter when she was a girl of fifteen. Dennis McCaffery first located at Pottsville, in 1853 coming to Shamokin, where he passed the remainder of his days. He followed mining, and was killed at the mines Oct. 7, 1863. His wife survived many years, dying at Shamokin in 1906. She left many friends, being particularly well known among the older residents of the borough. Thomas J. McCaffery was the only child of his parents. He attended public school in Shamokin, but began work before his school days were over, as a slate picker. Later he followed mining for a time, but his mind turned to more congenial occupation, and he took up his studies again, going to the Eastman Business College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and also to the State normal school at Millersville, in Lancaster county, Pa. He began teaching in 1872, and has followed that profession ever since, having been engaged in Coal township throughout that long period. He is one of the teachers at the Morse building. Mr. McCaffery resides at the old family home, No. 429 West Spruce street Shamokin. He is a Democrat and has done some local party work, and for three years he served his ward as member of the borough council. On May 27, 1884, Mr. McCaffery married Mary Sweney, of Shamokin, daughter of Michael and Mary (Mitchell) Sweney, and they have one daughter, Elizabeth, who is at home with her parents. Mr. McCaffery is a member of St. Edward's Catholic Church and of the Knights of Columbus. HENRY WILSON LARK, senior member of the firm of Lark & Lark, manufacturers of overalls, shirts and coats, of Shamokin, is one of the enterprising and progressive young business men of Northumberland county. Mr. Lark was born in this city May 9, 1881, son of Emanuel S. Lark, sketch of whom is given in full elsewhere in this work. He attended the public schools, graduating from the high school in 1899. For a short time after leaving school he did clerical work, and then became a traveling salesman for P. K. Haas & Co., with whom he continued for four years. After leaving the road he was bookkeeper for the Shamokin Hardware Company until April 18, 1903, when he formed a partnership with C. C. Malick, under the firm name of Lark & Malick, for the manufacture of overalls, coats and shirts, and they established their factory at No. 27 Carbon street. In 1908 Mr. Malick withdrew from the firm, and Mr. Lark's END OF PAGE 633 younger brother, Thomas F. Lark, was admitted in his stead, the firm name becoming Lark & Lark. The business has been continued with a steadily increasing trade, and from thirty-five to forty people are now employed all the year round. Mr. Lark married Grace A. Aucker, daughter of Jacob and Sallie (Deibler) Aucker, of Shamokin, and their children are: Henry W., Jr., Emeline Boyer, Sarah Elizabeth, Jacob Aucker and Frederick Emanuel. Mr. Lark is a member of St. John's Reformed Church, and is also a member of the consistory. He is a director of the Central Building and Loan Association of Shamokin, was one of the organizers and original directors of the new Dime Trust & Safe Deposit Company, of Shamokin, and is looked upon as one of the substantial citizens of that borough, highly respected by all who know him. THOMAS FREDERICK LARK, junior member of the firm of Lark & Lark, manufacturers of overalls, coats and shirts, is one of the rising young business men of Shamokin. He was born in that city April 18, 1883, son of Emanuel S. and Emeline (Boyer) Lark, his father being the present superintendent of the Shamokin cemetery. Mr. Lark was educated in the public schools, attending until the close of his second year in high school. He then began the serious business of life as a bookkeeper for Warren Unger, with whom he remained for a period of seven years. In May, 1906, he entered the firm of Lark & Malick, and in 1908, on the retirement of Mr. Malick, the name was changed to Lark & Lark. Mr. Lark has devoted his entire time to business, and he is highly regarded by those who have come in contact with him. He has high principles; and is careful and conscientious in his dealings. Mr. Lark was married to Blanch H. Sowers, daughter of C. L. Sowers, a well known merchant at Shamokin. To this union have been born two children, Thomas Chester and Dorothy Blanche. Mr. Lark is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Triple Links Club. His religious connection is with St. John's Reformed Church. DAVID H. SNYDER, who has resided in the borough of Snydertown since he gave up farming, in 1909, was born Sept. 25, 1845, in Schuylkill county, Pa., and comes of a family of German origin which has long been settled in Pennsylvania. Frederick Snyder, grandfather of David H; Snyder, was a farmer, and lived and died in Eldred township, Schuylkill county. He was twice married, and among his children were Gideon, Isaac, Samuel, Peter, Benneville, Israel, and some daughters. Isaac Snyder, son of Frederick, was born Jan. 9, 1816, in Eldred township, Schuylkill county, and there passed his youth and early manhood. About the year 1855 he came to Northumberland county, locating in Ralpho township, where he bought the old Daniel Haas farm of 136 acres, besides 121 acres of woodland known as the Little Mountain. His farm was near the Blue church. He carried on agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred upon his farm March 31, 1886, when he was aged seventy years, two months, twenty-two days. His wife, Elizabeth (Herb), daughter of Daniel Herb, was born in Schuylkill county near the Northumberland county line, Oct. 3, 1819, and died Dec. 23, 1900. They had children as follows: Hannah, who married Samuel Savidge; Lydia, who married Fisher Klase; David H.; Amelia; Gabriel; Joseph; Charles; Mary E., who married J. E. Pensyl; and Sarah J., who married Isaac Klase. David H. Snyder, son of Isaac, remained with his father until he attained his majority, mean-while obtaining his education in the local public schools. For the next four years he was in the employ of Boughner & Fredericks, making powder, and at the end of that time began farming, buying part of the old homestead, a tract of seventy acres upon which he settled, following farming there until a short time ago. He made a success of his agricultural operations, and was a citizen of standing and enviable reputation, active in the affairs of his township, which he served as school director and overseer of the poor. He was also well known in his connection with the Methodist Church, which he served as class leader for a period of twenty years. In politics he gives his support to the Prohibitionist party. In 1909 Mr. Snyder gave up active farm work and moved into the borough of Snydertown. Mr. Snyder married Ursula Repley, who was born Sept. 26, 1845, daughter of Henry and Mary E. (Scout) Repley, and died Nov. 12, 1907; she is buried at the Oak Grove church. One daughter was born to this union, Eulalia, wife of George W. Cook; they reside in Ralpho township. On Feb. 13, 1910, Mr. Snyder married (second) Clara E. Martz, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Kaseman) Martz. END OF PAGE 634