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	E. F. SCHRAWDER, of Shamokin, dealer in ladies furnishings and 
fancy goods, at No. 108 West Independence street, has been established 
at his present place of business since 1904, and he had previous 
experience in practically the same line as traveling salesman for a 
number of years in the employ of the well known firm of English & Henry. 
He has made a success and has a well stocked store.
	Mr. Schrawder was born Nov. 2, 1874, at McKees Falls, Snyder 
county, son of Henry H. Schrawder and grandson of Jacob Schrawder. The 
family is of German origin, the first of the name in this country having 
come from Germany and settled in 1774 in Berks county, Pa.  He took part 
in the Revolutionary war and members of the family have been represented 
in nearly every war in which this country has been engaged since his 
time.
	Jacob Schrawder, the grandfather of E. F., was a native of Berks 
county, whence he moved to Snyder county, settling at McKees Falls, 
where he conducted a shoe store and also did custom shoemaking.
	Henry H. Schrawder, father of E. F., learned the trade of 
stonemason and plasterer, which he followed for many years, now living 
retired, at Port Trevorton, Snyder county. He served in the Civil war.  
His wife, Mary (Weaver), daughter of David Weaver, bore him four 
children David, E. F., William, and Jennie (married Clarence Hershey).
	E. F. Schrawder attended public school at Port Trevorton and McKees 
Falls. When fifteen years old he began clerking for N. T. Dundore in 
Snyder county, near Port Trevorton, remaining with that employer eight 
years, after which he clerked two years in the First National Bank at 
Selinsgrove. In 1895 he came to Shamokin, where he engaged as traveling 
salesman with D. G. Snyder & Co., continuing with the same house after 
it passed into the hands of English & Henry. He was with that concern 
for seven years in all, and has since been in business on his own 
account, handling ladies furnishings, children's goods and fancy goods. 
His first venture in this line was at Phillipsburg, Pa., where he 
remained four and a half years, and since 1904 he has been established 
at his present location in Shamokin. Mr. Schrawder carries complete 
stocks of his special lines, and enjoys an excellent trade, which has 
increased steadily from the beginning.
	Mr. Schrawder is a high Mason, holding membership in the following 
bodies: Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A.M.; Shamokin Chapter, No. 264, 
R.A.M., of which he is past high priest, having held the office in 1909; 
Shamokin Commandery, No. 77, K. T. (in which he is an officer); 
Williamsport Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth degree; Williamsport 
Consistory, thirty-second degree; and Rajah Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S.  In 
religious connection he is a Lutheran.    
	Mr. Schrawder married Mamie Shuman, daughter of Edw. (deceased) and 
Joanna (Kulp) Shuman, the former of whom was a merchant at ,Shamokin.  
Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Schrawder, J. Merrill and 
Thelma.

	LEVI B. BARBER, who is engaged in farming about three miles east of 
Milton, in Turbut township, was born Oct. 28, 1873, in Delaware 
township, Northumberland county, son of Anthony A. Barber and grandson 
of David Barber.
	David Barber was bound out when a boy to Anthony Armstrong, of 
Turbut township, to live, with him until he reached the age of twenty-
one. He afterward continued to live in that township, and did day's work 
among farmers, being an industrious, respected man.  He died in that 
part of Turbut township now included in the borough of Milton, when 
sixty-eight years old.  His wife was Mary Jones, daughter of William 
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they are buried in Harmony cemetery, Milton. Children as follows were 
born to them: Jane, who married William Falls; William, who died in 
Milton; Anthony A.; Margaret, Mrs. Robert Seiler; Isaac J.; Catharine, a 
resident of Milton; and Washington, who died in Milton. Of these, Isaac 
J. Barber, born in 1835, learned the boat building business and has 
resided in Milton for the past fifty years. By his first wife, Lucy A: 
Hester, he had a son Harry, and his second marriage was to Sarah J. 
Krisher.
	Anthony A. Barber, son of David, was born in Delaware township in 
1833, and there followed farming, retiring about four years before his 
death which occurred March 18, 1892. He is buried in Harmony cemetery, 
at Milton.  In politics Mr. Barber was a Democrat, and he took quite an 
active part in local affairs, serving as tax collector and school 
director.  He was a member of Mesiah Lutheran Church at McEwensville, 
and took an active part in its work. His widow, Maria (Bender or 
Binder), daughter of Jacob Bender, of Delaware township, is living with 
her daughter Mrs. Greinly at Berwick, Pa. They had the following 
children: Anna is the widow of William C. Thomas and resides in Berwick; 
Cora married Lewis L. Follmer; Ida B. married William Tobias; Minnie M. 
married H. Greinly, of Berwick; Frances E. E. married David R. Eves and 
is living in Berwick; Charles A. married Mary Summers and is engaged in 
farming in Montour county; Levi B. is mentioned below; David F. married 
Emma Kreisher and is farming in White Deer township, Union county; Maude 
M. married John E. Kurtz.
	Levi B. Barber attended the public schools of Delaware township, 
and later worked with his father until he began farming for himself, in 
1896. He was in Delaware township for three years, and in Lycoming 
county for two years, returning to Northumberland county, where he 
farmed one year in Turbut township, when he decided to removed to 
Jerseytown.  Selling out his farm stock he made the change, but after 
six months he returned to this county and in 1902 bought the Lantz farm 
sixty-six acres in Turbut township where he has since resided.  This was 
at one time Abraham Follmer's farm, it having belonged to him for fifty 
years, after which it passed into the possession  of the Kase family and 
from them to the Lantzes. It is about three miles east of Milton.  Mr. 
Barber has all the modern improvements on his place, and is one of the 
enterprising farmers of his locality.  He was formerly a member of the 
Grange. In politics he is a Democrat, in religion a Lutheran.
	Mr. Barber married Rachel Gold, daughter of George Thomas Gold, of 
McEwensville, Pa., and they have two children, Helen May and George 
Anthony.

	David Gold, Mrs. Barber's grandfather, was a native of Bushkill 
township, Northampton Co., Pa., born about 1805, and died about 1878, 
aged seventy-three years.  In the spring of 1841 he came to 
Northumberland county, locating at McEwensville, where he built the Gold 
gristmill, now owned and operated by Oliver Gold. He bought a tract of 
fifty acres, upon which be erected his mill and later three of his sons 
built homes upon the property; the McEwensville, high school also stands 
upon land he owned. Both the cemeteries of McEwensville were laid out 
from his land, and all but thirty-seven acres of his holdings have been 
cut up into building lots or turned to public use. During the fifties he 
was one of the organizers of the of McEwensville. In politics he was a 
Whig, and he served as school director and for many years as overseer of 
the poor in Delaware township.  In his earlier life Mr. Gold was a 
Moravian in religious connection, as were all his family in Northampton 
county, but he later became a Lutheran. His wife, Maria (Rissmiller), 
was the daughter of Daniel Rissmiller, who was earlier a resident of 
Berks county, Pa., and his first ancestor in America came hither as one 
of the Hessian army sent over to fight the Colonists in the Revolution. 
David Gold and his wife had children as follows:  Rosanna married 
Charles Sensenbaugh, and they lived at Sunbury; Henry D., who was a 
merchant, died at Charlestown, Pa.; George Thomas settled in 
McEwensville; Edwin F. is mentioned below; Joseph died at Watsontown; 
Mary married Reuben Derr; Maria married Ellis Irwin; Charles was killed 
while serving in the Union army during the Civil war; David died in New 
Brighton, Pa.; Margaret, widow of E. Lewis Painter, lives at Lewisburg; 
Susan married Abram Redcay and they live in Milton; John L. is a 
resident of Newcastle, Pa. Of these, Rosanna, Henry D., Joseph, Mary, 
Maria, Charles and David are deceased.
	EDWIN F. Gold, born July 29, 1832, near Nazareth, Northampton Co., 
Pa., attended the McEwensville Academy in his boyhood.  On April 26, 
1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil war from Northumberland 
county, in Company B, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Col. Pharon 
Jarett's regiment, which was assigned to the 6th Brigade, 2d Division, 
Army of the Potomac. They proceeded through Westchester, Hagerstown and 
Williamstown, and were discharged at Harrisburg July 25, 1861. Mr. Gold 
again enlisted June 18, 1863, becoming a sergeant in Company I, 28th 
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia, under Lieut. Col. Chamberlain. 
He was discharged at Harrisburg July 27, 1863, and in the meantime took 
part in the battle of Gettysburg and did valiant duty as a scout, being 
arrested three times. He wore a Southern uniform, and with two 
companions performed notable service.  On Feb. 28, 1865, he again 
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ment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, with which he served to the close 
of the war. One of his discharges is upon sheepskin.  Returning to 
McEwensville after the war he cultivated some land which he owned, and 
meantime continued to follow teaching, which he had begun when only 
fifteen years old and followed in all for thirty-three terms. He has a 
certificate bearing the date Nov. 18, 1857, issued by County 
Superintendent John J. Reimensnyder. He taught principally in and around 
McEwensville, and was one of the old-time school-masters of that 
vicinity, thorough and efficient in all his work and bearing a high 
reputation. Mr. Gold is an independent voter and at one time took an 
influential part in county politics. For a quarter of a century he was 
constable of McEwensville, and has been justice of the peace for a 
number of years.
	On July 4, 1861, Mr. Gold married Sarah Cooper, who died April 13, 
1910, aged seventy-nine years.  She was a Presbyterian in religious 
faith, while Mr. Gold is a Lutheran. They had children as follows: 
Davilla, unmarried, who lives at McEwensville; Ambrose, unmarried, of 
Homewood, Pa.; Mary, who married Dr. E. J. Schlicher, and lives at 
McEwensville; Inez, wife of Charles Woller, living at Williamsport; 
Elizabeth, who died in infancy; John C., who died in the oil region in 
Ohio, by suffocation; and Susan, who married Wilson Cotner, of 
McEwensville.

	Henry D. Gold, another son of David Gold, was born Feb. 10, 1829, 
in Bushkill township, Northampton Co., Pa., and came with his parents to 
Northumberland county in 1841, locating at McEwensville, where be grew 
up. When about eighteen he began clerking in a general store, following 
that work some years, after which he conducted a store of his own at 
Exchange, Montour county, where he was in business for some years. 
Moving thence to Clarkstown, Lycoming county, he carried on a general 
store at that place until his death, Feb. 8, 1899, when he was seventy 
years old, less two days.  He was a Republican in sentiment, but was no 
politician. Widely known as a business man, his patrons came from a 
large territory, and he was universally liked and respected. For twelve 
years he served as postmaster.  He is buried at McEwensville. Mr. Gold 
was a Lutheran in religious faith.  He married Eleanor Wilson, who was 
born July 3, 1831, daughter of William and Eleanor (Blaine) Wilson, of 
Lewis township, this county, and died Feb. 9, 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Gold 
had three children:  William W., born in April, 1859, who died in his 
fifth year, in February, 1864; and Horace and Henry D., Jr., both born 
in Muncy Creek township, Lycoming county.

	Horace Gold, born April 9, 1864, was educated in the common schools 
and in the Lycoming county normal school, and when seventeen years old 
was licensed to teach. He taught five terms in his native county and one 
term in Northumberland. In the spring of 1887 he engaged in farming in 
Lewis township, Northumberland county, where he and his brother now 
live. He has a tract of 161 acres, formerly the James Blaine homestead, 
the Blaines having been the original owners of this land. The old patent 
deed, written on parchment, is in Mr. Gold's possession.  Mr. James 
Blaine built the large stone house which is still standing in 1810. Mr. 
Gold is a general farmer. He is a member of the Reformed Church and a 
Republican in politics.
	On Dec. 25, 1890, Mr. Gold married Julia Ann Steiner, daughter of 
William H. and Caroline (Desher) Steiner, whose parents came from 
Northampton county, Pa. Five children have been born to this union: 
William H., Edith Ellen, Margaret J., John S. and Florence E.
	Henry D. Gold, Jr., born June 4, 1867, was educated in the common 
schools and the Normal school at Muncy.  He was reared to farming, 
assisting his father in the store until he moved to Lewis township, he 
and his brother owning the farm jointly for some years, when he sold his 
interest to his brother Horace, for whom he has since worked. He is 
holding a local office at present and takes an interest in public 
affairs.  In politics he is a Republican, in religion a member of the 
Presbyterian Church.

	AARON SHAFFER, a farmer near the village of Urban, in Jordan 
township, was born Feb. 7, 1853, on the farm where he now lives, son of 
William T. and Mary (Lenker) Shaffer.  He is a grandson of Michael 
Shaffer, who came into this region from Berks county, and who it is 
supposed was a descendant of Michael Sheaffer, who settled "on 
Tulpehocken" in 1733 and died about 1760. Among his children were: John 
Nicholas; Maria Catharine; Mrs. John Jacob Larch; Anna Barbara, who 
married David Brown; Margaretta Elizabeth, who married Hieronymus Rudy; 
and Leonard.  We have record only of Leonard, who was a resident of 
Heidelberg township, Berks county, where he owned a farm and the old 
Sheaffer hotel stand, which he conducted for some years. He died in 
middle age, and his wife conducted the hotel for some years, marrying 
for her second husband George Gernant, who was sheriff of Berks county 
from 1844 to 1847. One daughter was born to this union, Harriet, who 
became the wife of Henry Van Reed.  To Leonard and Elizabeth (Hain) 
Sheaffer were born children as follows: Leonard, who died when twenty 
years old; Benjamin, who married Catharine Mengel and died in Cumru 
township, Berks county, Nov. 24, 1887, in his eightieth year; John, who 
settled in Washington, D. C., where his children still reside; Joseph, 
whose son Daniel is a well known cigar-maker at Norristown, Pa.; 
Catharine, who married John Saylor; and Sophia, who married Daniel 
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a drover of Reading, who it is believed was murdered, as be never 
returned from a trip on which he went with money to buy cattle.
	Michael Shaffer, the grandfather of Aaron Shaffer, was born in 
Berks county March 17, 1783, therefore it would seem likely he was a 
grandson of the Michael Sheaffer mentioned above if he came from that 
stock. Moving from Rehrersburg, Berks county, he settled in Dauphin 
county, near Gratz, where he lived for about two years, thence removing 
to Jordan township, Northumberland county, where he took up land upon 
which he resided the remainder of his life. He was one of the pioneers 
in the Stone Valley, where he was one of the extensive land owners and 
substantial citizens of his day. Physically he was of medium size. He 
died June 30, 1860, and is buried at St. Paul's Church, at Urban, of 
which he was a Lutheran member. Michael Shaffer was married before his 
removal into this section, his wife being Elizabeth (Tobias), born June 
13, 1788, died Oct. 6, 1861. She, too, is buried at the Urban Church.  
They had three sons and two daughters: Joseph settled in Crawford 
county, Pa., where he followed farming and died leaving a large family; 
William T. is mentioned below; Moses, who was a carpenter and farmer, 
settled in Jefferson county, Pa., where he died (he had two sons); Lydia 
married Abraham Klock and they lived and died in Northumberland county; 
Amanda married Edw. Baum.
	William T. Shaffer, son of Michael, was a farmer on the old 
homestead in Jordan township, where he passed all but a few years of his 
life, moving away for a short time after his marriage. He was born June 
17, 1819, and died May 28, 1888. In his earlier life he was a boatman on 
the Pennsylvania canal, and later he was extensively engaged in lime 
burning as well as farming, keeping many teams busy hauling his lime.  
He was active in church and public affairs, and held offices in his 
township and church.  He and his wife, Mary, are buried at St. Paul's; 
she was born July 4, 1816, daughter of Michael Lenker (who married an 
Emerich), and died Dec. 28, 1896. They were the parents of the following 
children:  Michael, who served as a soldier in the Civil war, after 
which he went out to northwestern Nebraska, where he became a cowboy (he 
had a family of four children); Moses; Isaac; Aaron; William, who died 
young; Catharine, married to Jacob Byerly; Louisa, married to Daniel 
Sherry; Mary, married to William Kutz; and Jane, who married Jesse Stehr 
and (second) Charles Shade.  Aaron and Jane are the only survivors of 
this family.
	Aaron Shaffer was reared under the parental roof, and learned the 
details of farm work at an early age.  He obtained a good, practical 
education in the public schools of the home locality and by applying 
himself as he grew older, and he lived at home, working for his parents, 
until he became of age. When quite young he began to burn lime, which he 
hauled to the different farmers summer and winter, after that became the 
custom. In the early days, when he burned as much as 28,000 or 30,000 
bushels in a year, the farmers came for the lime, doing their own 
hauling, but it soon became the custom for the lime burner to deliver 
it. When he came to carry on this business less extensively, Mr. Shaffer 
averaged 12,000 bushels annually for ten years.  For a number of years 
Mr. Shaffer furnished the horses to the State of Pennsylvania for use at 
the annual encampments of the National Guard, held at Mount Gretna and 
Gettysburg.
	When Mr. Shafer's grandfather, Michael, owned the farm, which has 
been in the family name at least since 1830, its acreage was much 
greater, between 250 and 300 acres, extending down to Urban.  When Aaron 
Shafer bought the homestead it comprised only ninety acres, to which he 
has added until he now has 130. The present house and barn were erected 
by William T. Shaffer, the latter about 1866-67, and there is still 
standing on the tract a log tenant house built by Michael Shafer.  Aaron 
Shaffer is a progressive but conservative member of his community, 
respected and trusted by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.  He 
has been a valuable citizen, having served many years as a member of the 
township school board, and for a number of years past he has been an 
overseer of the poor. Politically he is a Democrat, and in religion he 
is a Lutheran, belonging to St. Paul's Church; he was deacon for many 
years, later an elder, and since 1900 has been a trustee.
	In 1882 Mr. Shafer married Lizzie Baum, daughter of Henry D. and 
Catherine (Moyer) Baum, of Mahantango township, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and 
they have had five children: Jennie M., who married Charles Engel and 
lives at Herndon, Pa.; William H., born May 31, 1887; Charles D., born 
Feb. 2, 1889; Mamie C.; and George R.

	ROTHERMEL. The Rothermel family is well represented in Jordan 
township, where William W., Lazarus W., Manasses W. and Monroe 
Rothermel, all sons of the late Isaac Rothermel, reside. The Rothermels 
have been identified with this section of Northumberland from the 
beginning of the last century, when Abraham Rothermel, grandfather of 
the four brothers mentioned, came hither from Berks county, where his 
ancestors located in an early day.
	This Rothermel family traces its genealogy back some four hundred 
years to one Johannes Rothermel, who won both fame and a name in the 
early wars of Germany. He was a brave soldier, and so frequently dyed 
his arm in the blood, of his enemies that his comrades designated him as 
der Roth Ermel (red sleeve), and in this way he acquired the name 
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	 John Rothermel, descendant of this early progenitor, was born in 
the Province of Wachbach, Holland, in 1688, and in 1708 married Sybilla 
Zimmerman, native of the same province, and a sister of the famous 
General Zimmerman of the Dutch army.  In 1730, after the birth of one 
daughter and five sons, he set sail from Rotterdam with his entire 
family for America.  John Rothermel died at sea and never saw the shores 
of the country for which he started. His wife and children arrived at 
Philadelphia Aug. 29, 1730, and the following year settled in what is 
now Berks county, Pa. The daughter, Anna Maria, who had married Peter 
Fetherolf in Wachbach in 1729, soon settled with her husband in Macungie 
township, Lehigh Co., Pa., where they passed the remainder of their 
lives. The five sons were: Lawrence, Peter, Paul, John and Christian, 
all of whom settled in Berks county. All the early Rothermels are buried 
in the family cemetery at Walnuttown, Berks county. Lawrence, the eldest 
son, settled in Windsor township, where he married a Miss Kuhns; he rose 
to be one of the foremost citizens of that section.  Paul purchased a 
large tract of land in Maiden-creek township and settled upon it; he 
married Catharine Maurer, by whom he had five sons and one daughter. 
Peter became a large land owner in the fertile valley of the Manatawny, 
where he prospered and raised a family of four children.  John settled 
in Windsor township, where his elder brother, Lawrence, had already 
located.  Christian, the youngest of the family, purchased a large tract 
of land in Maiden-creek township, adjoining the property of his brother 
Paul; he married and had six children, two sons and four daughters.
	One Leonard Roadarmel, "late of Berks county," died in Rush 
township, Northumberland Co., Pa., in 1835.  On June 12, 1835, letters 
of administration were granted to his son John Roadarmel, who gave bond 
in the sum of $500 (record at courthouse, Sunbury, Pennsylvania).
	A son Abraham is recorded among the children of Peter Rothermel, 
son of John, but as the records say Abraham had a brother Joseph, "a 
tall man," he could not have belonged to that family, as Peter had no 
son Joseph. Abraham was evidently, however, a grandson of John and 
Sybilla, but through which son these records do not show.
	Abraham Rothermel was born in Oley township, Berks county, Aug. 22, 
1777; came to Northumberland county after his marriage, and lived near 
Rebuck, in what is now Washington township. He owned a large farm (now 
in the possession of Daniel Kahler), was a blacksmith by trade, and was 
noted for his strength. He died Feb. 23, 1861, when over eighty-three 
years old, and he and his wife, Catharine Yeager (or Feager), are buried 
at the Himmel Church; she was born Dec. 21, 1779, and died Sept. 1, 
1872, when over ninety-two years old. This worthy couple were the 
parents of the following children: Charles, mentioned at length below; 
Martin, who located in Ogle county, Ill. (his son Robert served in the 
Union army, and he had also a son Amos); Hannah, who married Michael 
Emerich (no children); Susanna, who married Jacob Hoffman, of 
Washington, Northumberland county; Mary, whose first husband was a Mr. 
Geist, her second Andrew Kahler (they located at Red Bank, in Jefferson 
county, Pa.); Catharine, who married Charles Boardsherry, and lived at 
Northumberland; Isaac, mentioned below; and Amos, who settled in 
Illinois, and whose daughter married a minister (he served in the 
Federal army during the Civil war and met his nephew, William, in the 
general review at Washington at the close of the war).
	Charles Rothermel, son of Abraham, was born Aug. 8, 1808, and died 
aged eighty-three years, seven months, five days.  He was a farmer, 
residing where Daniel Kahler now lives, in Washington township, and 
owned that farm, having 133 acres cleared and some woodland. He was a 
Democrat served as school director of his township, and was an active 
member of the Reformed congregation at the Himmel Church, where, he held 
the offices of deacon and elder many years, also giving long service as 
member of the church council. He was twice married, and by his first 
wife, whose maiden name was Bower, had children: Killian, Harriet (wife 
of Benjamin Phillips), Aaron, Joseph and Amanda.  We have record of 
Joseph Rothermel, who died Oct. 5, 1901, aged sixty-three years, eleven 
months, six days, and who may have been the son Joseph here mentioned. 
Amanda Rothermel, "daughter of Carlos and Elizabeth," born Nov. 4, 1842, 
died June 3, 1861. For his second wife Mr. Rothermel married Mrs. 
Harriet (Beissel or Beisel) Clark, daughter of Daniel Beissel or Beisel 
and widow of John Clark.  She was born April 28, 1823, and died Jan. 1, 
1894.  By this marriage there were eight children:  Abraham, born in 
1847, who died in 1862; Helena, who married Elias Oxenreider (he is 
deceased); Daniel, mentioned below; Frank, now a resident of Trevorton, 
Pa.; Catharine, twin of Frank, who was born in 1855, and died in 1862; 
Lewis B., who is mentioned later in this article; Mary, who married 
James Geist and (second) Monroe Rebuck; and Sarah, deceased, who was the 
wife of Daniel Snyder.
	Daniel Rothermel, son of Charles, was born Sept. 22, 1852, in 
Washington township, and was reared upon the farm, working for his 
parents until he attained his majority.  He began farming on his 
father's homestead as a tenant continuing thus four years, after which 
he moved to Eldred township, Schuylkill county, where he farmed for 
seven years.  He then spent four years in Washington township, 
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years in Jackson township, and for the next seven years farmed in the 
Lykens Valley. In 1902 he returned to Washington township and purchased 
the David Ferster homestead of 135 acres, owning also his father-in-
law's house near Urban, where he lives; this house stands on an acre of 
ground which formerly belonged to the Ferster farm. Mr. Rothermel rents 
his own farm. Mr. Rothermel married Catharine Ferster, daughter of David 
and Judith (Brosius) Ferster, and they have had, a large family, viz.: 
John died at the age of twenty-one years; Jane married Wilson Brosius 
and they live in Washington township; James, born May 4, 1879, is now 
the tenant on his father's farm, which he is engaged in cultivating (he 
married Anna Bohner, daughter of Peter Bohner, and they, have one child, 
Carrie); Ida lives in Sunbury; Charles is in business as an undertaker 
at Herndon, this county; Levi is mentioned below; Katie and Mabel are 
engaged as silk workers at Sunbury; Minnie died aged four years; one son 
died in infancy.  Mr. Rothermel is a Democrat, and in religious 
connection he and his family are Reformed members of St. Paul's Church 
at Urban, of which he was deacon some years and since 1903 has held the 
office of elder.
	Levi Rothermel, son of Daniel, was born in Washington township and 
received his early education in the common schools, later attending 
Union Seminary, in Union county, Pa. In 1904 he received his license to 
teach public school and has since been engaged in teaching in Washington 
township, the past four terms in the Salem schoolhouse. During the 
summer months he engages in clerking in the store at Mount Carmel.
	Lewis B. Rothermel, son of Charles, passed his earlier years in 
Washington township, where he was engaged in farming. In 1895 he moved 
into Upper Mahanoy township, where he also carried on farming, and in 
1902 he purchased the farm where he afterward made his home, dying there 
Sept. 22, 1906, aged forty-eight years, nine months, twenty-two days.  
He is buried at Howerters Church, in Upper Mahanoy township. In politics 
he was a Democrat, in religion an adherent of the Reformed faith.  His 
wife, Mary R. (Brosius), daughter of Andrew Brosius, died July 1, 1902, 
aged thirty-nine years, two months, sixteen days. Nine children were 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Rothermel: Minnie, who married John Miller; 
Lizzie, unmarried Harvey A.; Etta, who married Samuel Snyder and lives 
in Nebraska; Allen; Arthur; Francis; John, and Mary.
	Harvey A. Rothermel was born Sept. 19, 1882, on the Charles 
Rothermel farm near Rebuck, attended the township schools, and was 
reared to farm life.  For four years he worked in the store for F. L. 
Kehres at Rebuck, and for one year hired out on a farm, beginning for 
himself, at his present place, in 1906. This farm, which has seventy-
eight acres of cleared land, formerly belonged to his uncle, Joseph 
Rothermel, and before his ownership was a Reitz homestead. It is in 
Washington township, near the Himmel Church.  Mr. Rothermel is at 
present serving as one of the auditors of his township. He is a Democrat 
in politics, and in religion clings to the Reformed faith, belonging to 
that congregation at the Himmel Church, where his wife holds membership 
in the Lutheran congregation. On May 28, 1904, Mr. Rothermel married 
Katie Kahler, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Paul) Kahler, prominent 
residents of Washington township; and they have three children: Charles, 
John and Allen.

	Isaac Rothermel, son of Abraham, the pioneer of the family in 
Northumberland county, was born April 13, 1820, in Washington township, 
and died Oct. 1, 1896, in Jordan township, at the home of his son 
Manasses. He was a man of medium size, raw-boned and muscular, and 
followed the trade of blacksmith in his earlier life, later devoting 
himself to farming. He had his blacksmith shop in Jordan township, where 
his son William now lives, and he carried on farming from 1851 until his 
retirement, some years before his death.  He made his home with his son 
Monroe, though he did not die at his house. Mr. Rothermel was a Reformed 
member of Klingers Church, but he and his wife Hannah (Wiest) are buried 
at Zion's Union Church, near Klingerstown. She was born Dec. 10, 1823, 
daughter of Samuel Wiest and granddaughter of Jacob Wiest, of Berks 
county, and died Sept. 7, 1887.  To Isaac Rothermel and his wife was born 
a family of twelve children: William W.; Amos; Jestina, widow of John 
Weiser; Lucy, Mrs. Nicholas Adams; Eve, who died young; Catharine, who 
died young; Lazarus W.; Manasses W.; Esrom; Monroe; Abraham; and Hannah, 
Mrs. Ammon Houck.

	WILLIAM W. ROTHERMEL, son of Isaac, was born May 2, 1842, in the 
same district where he now lives in Jordan township. He remained at home 
on the farm until he went into the army during the Civil war, as a 
member of Company A, 50th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 
enlisting for three years or during the war. He was nineteen when he 
entered the service. Before the expiration of this term he reenlisted, 
in eastern Tennessee, at Blaine's Cross Road, for another three years, 
in the same company and regiment, and served to the end of the war. He 
became a third sergeant and right general guide. His experiences of 
trial and hardship were unusual, even for army life. He not only 
traveled all over the South, but also in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and 
was in thirty-two engagements, including Bull Run, Fredericksburg, 
Antietam, South Mountain, Vicksburg, Jackson, siege of Knoxville and 
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man's  army. Returning to Northumberland county at the close of his 
service, he soon began farming in Hubley township, Schuylkill county, 
where he was a tenant for nine years, in 1877 settling at his present 
location in Jordan township, Northumberland county. His home is on a 
tract of twenty-two acres, which he cultivates, though he leads a semi-
retired life.  He is a carpenter, and has followed his trade in 
connection with agriculture.  He is serving at present as an auditor of 
his township, has been school director and supervisor, and is one of the 
most respected residents of his section.  He is a Republican in 
politics.  On Dec. 30, 1865, Mr. Rothermel was married in Northumberland 
county to Sarah Shaffer, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Bohner) Shaffer, 
and they have the following children: Emma, Mrs. John Saltzer; Manasses, 
of Klingerstown; Polly, Mrs. Charles Brown; Monroe, of Gowen City, Pa.; 
Jennie, Mrs. Gordon Klinger; and Minnie, Mrs. Harvey Smith. Mr. 
Rothermel and his family worship with the Reformed congregation of the 
Klingerstown Church, which he formerly served as elder, at present 
holding the offices of trustee and treasurer.

	LAZARUS W. ROTHERMEL, son of Isaac, is a farmer in Jordan township, 
where he was born April 15, 1855, on the homestead, which is now owned 
by his brother Manasses. He was reared to farm life, and worked for his 
parents until he reached the age of twenty-six years, when he married, 
after which he began farming on his own account in Hubley township, 
Schuylkill county. After three years residence there he settled in 
Jordan township, purchasing a tract of seventy acres adjoining his 
father's homestead. It was formerly the Israel Geise place. The present 
house was remodeled by Mr. Rothermel, and in 1890 he built the 
substantial Swiss barn. He has made a specialty of poultry raising, and 
has been very successful in his work, being one of the leading farmers 
of his township. He has served three terms as school director, and is 
also active in church life, being a member of the Reformed congregation 
of the Hebe Union Church, where he has held the office of elder for a 
number of years. Before becoming a member at Hebe he was identified with 
Klingers Church, of which he served as deacon. In politics he is a 
Republican.
	On Aug. 7, 1881, Mr. Rothermel married Emma Bush, daughter of 
Samuel and Mary (Hollenbach) Bush, and thirteen children have been born 
to this union: Jane, who died aged ten years, two months; Jestina, now 
the wife of James Runkel; Alice E., wife of Jacob Wiest; Charles H., who 
died in his second year; Ida M., who has been teaching public school in 
Northumberland county for three years; John L., who is a carpenter; E. 
Bertha; Samuel E.; Eva M.; Harry N.; Maizie M.; Minnie E., and Elma E.

	MANASSES W. ROTHERMEL, son of Isaac, was born Sept. 24, 1857, on 
the farm in Jordan township where he now lives, and was there reared to 
farm life. After working for his parents until he reached the age of 
eighteen years, he followed the blacksmith's trade for seven years, in 
Uniontown and at Klingerstown.  He was next engaged in huckstering for 
about fifteen years. In the spring of 1898 he began farming on his 
father's homestead, where he has since lived, now owning the place, 
which contains 101 1/2 acres.  This farm is part of a tract of 500 acres 
which long ago belonged to the Bickels, who lived in Berks county, and 
was bought by them from Samuel Wiest; it is now divided into several 
farms.  On April 20, 1908, Mr. Rothermel had the misfortune to lose his 
house by fire, which totally destroyed it with all its contents, 
including valuable documents of historic worth.  The summer of that year 
he erected the nice frame house which he and his family now occupy.  The 
barn on the farm is a landmark of the region, having been built by Isaac 
Rothermel in 1851, when he came to Jordan township, and he built the 
house (the one burned in 1908) the same year; at that time only ten 
acres of the farm were cleared.  Mr. Rothermel is one of the substantial 
and esteemed residents of his neighborhood, being a typical member of a 
family which has long been known for solid worth.
	In 1880 Mr. Rothermel married Eliza Wentzel, daughter of Isaac 
Wentzel, and to them were born eight children, all of whom are deceased. 
His second marriage was to Susan Bixler, daughter of John and Sallie 
(Baum) Bixler, of Valley View, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and they are the 
parents of five children:  A. Robert, Ruth, Mabel a., John E. and 
Manasses.  Mr. Rothermel and his family are members of the Reformed 
congregation at the Klingerstown Church, and he has served as deacon and 
elder. In political matters he is a Republican.
	David Bixler, Mrs. Rothermel's grandfather, was related to the 
Bixlers of Berks county, the families often exchanging visits.  He 
served in the Civil war, and died soon after his return home from the 
army.  He married Susan Wolfgang, and their children besides John were:  
Elias, Amos, Emanuel, Paul, Helen, Maria, Katie and Matilda.
	John Bixler, son of David, was a farmer and miner by occupation.  
He was the father of the following children: James, Thamson (deceased), 
Susan, Frances, Lewis, Alfreda, Rufus (deceased), Hettie, Lora and 
Mabel.

	MONROE ROTHERMEL, son of Isaac, was born March 6, 1862, in Jordan 
township, and is now successfully engaged in farming there.  He lived 
with his parents until they died and was brought up to farming, working 
for his father until 1888 and since that time for himself. All his life 
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is an attractive place of 100 acres, well located, on the road between 
Hebe and Klingerstown, is equipped with good buildings and has been 
materially improved during the ownership of Mr. Rothermel, who is an 
intelligent worker and a notably good manager. It was once the homestead 
of Peter Rebuck and was later bought by Frederick Schwalm, from whom Mr. 
Rothermel purchased it.  He also owns a twelve-acre tract of woodland in 
Dauphin county. He is one of the desirable citizens of his community, is 
at present serving as elder of the Reformed congregation at the 
Klingerstown Church, and was formerly deacon.  His family also belong to 
that congregation.  Politically Mr. Rothermel supports the Republican 
party.
	On Nov. 28, 1886, Mr. Rothermel married Lizzie Schmeltz, daughter 
of Jonas and Lena (Masser) Schmeltz and granddaughter of Andrew and 
Catharine (Haag) Schmeltz. They have had three children: Charles, Allen 
and Hannah.

	Andrew Rothermel, of Dalmatia, this county is one of the well known 
residents of his section He is at present serving as road supervisor of 
Lower Mahanoy township, and for some years a tax collector. He owns his 
home at Dalmatia. To him and his wife Sarah (Zartman), daughter of Adam 
Zartman, were born the following children George, Ida, Oscar, Annie, 
Charles E., Malinda Emma, Alice and Adam.
	Charles E. Rothermel, son of Andrew, was born April 22, 1869, in 
Lower Mahanoy township, and was reared upon the farm. After reaching 
manhood he tended bar in Shamokin for a time, and later, in 1888, 
engaged in the bottling business at Georgetown (Dalmatia), carrying it 
on for three years. For the next two years he was in the hotel business 
at Dalmatia, at the end of that time moving to Sunbury, where he was 
engaged in the same line. His next location was in the borough of 
Northumberland, where he conducted the "Vankirk House" for several 
years, after which he purchased the "National House" at Dalmatia and ran 
it for seven years. He then returned to Sunbury, where he became 
proprietor of the "Packer House," being thus engaged for a period of 
five years, until, in 1909, he became proprietor of his present 
establishment, the "City Hotel." It is the leading hotel in the city and 
is carried on along modern lines, enjoying the patronage of the best 
trade.  Mr. Rothermel served as school director while a resident of 
Lower Mahanoy township, and he has always been active in the interests 
of the Republican party. Socially he belongs to the Order of Owls at 
Sunbury.
	Mr. Rothermel married Sarah Fenstermacher, daughter of Michael 
Fenstermacher, of Lower Mahanoy township, and they have one daughter, 
Arlie May.  Mr. Rothermel and his family are members of the Lutheran 
Church.

	JACKSON M. ENGLE, who has a fine farm in Boyle's Run, in Lower 
Augusta township, Northumberland county, has made his home on that 
property for many years, and its present fine condition is due entirely 
to his progressive and systematic industry.  Mr. Engle was born May 2, 
1857, on the farm of his father in Lower Mahanoy township, this county, 
and he is a son of Joel Engle and grandson of George Engle.
	George Engel lived in Jackson township, Northumberland county, he 
and his brother Abraham coming from one of the lower counties of the 
State, probably Berks. He did laboring work, and was well known for his 
skill as a violinist. His children were: William, Joel and Ed.
	Joel Engle, son of George, was but three years old when his father 
died.  He settled one mile south of Dalmatia, in Lower Mahanoy township, 
where he followed farming, owning a tract of ninety acres now the 
property of Jacob Martz. The place was an old Ziegler homestead, and as 
laid out at present comprises four different tracts, located on the 
eastern bank of the Susquehanna.  Mr. Engle built the present dwelling 
on the place. He was a Republican in politics, served his district in 
the capacity of tax collector, and was also a useful member of the 
church, holding office for many years as deacon and elder at the Stone 
Valley Church, where he was identified with the Reformed congregation. 
He and his wife, who died only four weeks apart, are buried there. She 
was Catharine Walt, daughter of Willoughby Walt. Thirteen children were 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Engle: Malinda died in childhood; Amelia married 
Charles Schlaman, who is deceased; Polly married Joseph Kessler; Jackson 
M. is mentioned below; Jeremiah is a resident of Shamokin; Willoughby 
Lincoln lives in Shamokin; Jane is the widow of Josiah Zimmerman; Annie 
married Adam Lenker; Katie married Charles Wirt; John and Charles are 
residents of Shamokin; Frank lives in Illinois; Carrie died aged five 
years.
	Jackson M. Engle was reared upon the home farm, working for his 
parents until nearly twenty years old, when he married. He came to the 
farm in Lower Augusta township which he has since occupied some time 
after that event, and during the first twenty-one years of his residence 
there farmed the land on shares, buying it in 1906. It contains 120 
acres of valuable land in the district known as Boyle's Run and is in 
excellent condition, thanks to his care and good management. Mr. Engle 
has the reputation of having the best live stock in the valley, and he 
always keeps fine horses. He is a Republican in his political 
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in religion he is a Presbyterian, belonging to the Mountain Church, of 
which he is a trustee.  As a citizen he is respected by all who know him 
for his sterling worth and reliable qualities.
	On Jan. 13, 1877, Mr. Engle married Beatte DeWitt, daughter of Paul 
and Abby (Shipman) DeWitt and to them have been born the following 
children: Galen married Della Reader; Emma married Dennis Conrad; Rosa 
married Peter Conrad (brother of Dennis); Ira is married and living in 
Harrisburg; Irwin lives in Harrisburg; Harry; William lives in Sunbury; 
Samuel and Carrie are at home.

	DANIEL STAHL, now living retired in Shamokin, was connected for 
over thirty years with the old Eagle Run Brewery, in Coal township, a 
short distance from the city, as brewmaster. For about twenty years he 
held that position under the proprietorship of Martin Markle and after 
he sold out continued for twelve years with his successors, retiring in 
1907.
	Mr. Stahl was born Aug. 10, 1847, at Leonberg, about twelve miles 
from Stuttgart, the capital of Würtemberg, Germany, son of Jacob and 
Wilhelmina (Heiges) Stahl, who brought their family to America in 1853, 
landing at New York City.  The trip was made by sailing vessel, and took 
fifty-five days.  The family first settled at Newark, N. J., remaining 
there one year, and then moved to Mauch Chunk, Pa., where a permanent 
home was established.  Jacob Stahl had been a house builder in his 
native land. At Mauch Chunk he found employment in the car shops, and 
also followed contracting and building to some extent. He died there in 
1875, his wife surviving until 1877, and both are buried at Upper Mauch 
Chunk. They were the parents of sixteen children, six of whom died 
young, in Germany, the other ten accompanying the parents to America, 
viz.: John, Wilhelmina, Catherine, Mary, Jacobina, Barbara, Christina, 
Peter, Daniel and Frederick
	Daniel Stahl attended school at Mauch Chunk. He learned the 
carpenter's trade with his father, with whom he worked during the 
summers, in the wintertime learning brewing.  In 1875 he came to 
Shamokin and entered the employ of Martin Markle, for whom he was 
brewmaster until 1895, when Mr. Markle sold his interests in the brewery 
to Fuhrmann & Schmidt.  Mr. Stahl was brewmaster with the new owners 
until his retirement in 1907. He is acting as one of the executors of 
the large estate of his father-in-law, Martin Markle.
	In 1877 Mr. Stahl married Helena M. Markle, daughter of Martin 
Markle, his employer, and a family of eight children was born to them, 
Daniel and Sarah dying young; Wilhelmina married John Edmund and lives 
at Shamokin; Sybilla S. married August Steinhart of Shamokin; Mary C. 
married Thomas Morgan, of Shamokin; George D. lives with his father; 
Henry M. is a resident of Shamokin; Gertrude C. married Ephraim  S. 
Weaver, of Shamokin. The mother died Feb. 11, 1905, and is buried in the 
Shamokin cemetery. Mr. Stahl makes his home at Shamokin. He is a 
Lutheran in religious faith.

	CHARLES H. NEWCOMBE, who is engaged as chief clerk in the 
converting works of the Susquehanna Silk Mills, at Sunbury, has resided 
in that borough since 1902. He has been employed in silk mills ever 
since he commenced work, and his familiarity with the business and 
fidelity to his duties make him deserving of his present 
responsibilities. He is a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., born May 28, 1882.
	Mr. Newcombe's grandfather was born in Scotland, and on coming to 
America settled in New York City.  Albert Post Newcombe, his father, was 
born in that city, and became a shipbuilder. He has followed that 
occupation all his life, being still active and engaged at his trade in 
Brooklyn. He married Janet Cornell, member of a well known family of New 
York City, one of whose members is Frank Cornell. To Mr. and Mrs. Albert 
Post Newcombe were born eight children, those besides Charles H. being: 
Jane married William Hatch, and they reside in Brooklyn; Charlotte 
married F. D. DeGroff, who is now deceased; Abbie I. married Harvey L. 
Tester; Beulah married William J. Briggs; William C. is a resident of 
Brooklyn; Harry and Alice are deceased.
	Charles H. Newcombe received his education in the public schools, 
graduating when sixteen years old.  He then found a position in the silk 
house of Hoeninghaus & Curtiss, with which firm he remained until he 
took his present position, in Sunbury, where he arrived Dec. 15, 1902.  
Since settling in this borough he has become well known in the Masonic 
fraternity, being a member of Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A.M.; of 
Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M.; and of Mount Hermon Commandery, 
No. 85, K.T.
	On June 18, 1901, Mr. Newcombe married Laura F. Quincy, who belongs 
to an English family, daughter of and Annie Quincy. Mr. and Mrs. 
Newcombe have had two children: Evelyn Gladys and Cornell Harold.

	THOMAS G. FRYER, a young business man of Turbutville, 
Northumberland county, engaged as a tinsmith and dealer in stoves, etc., 
is building up an excellent trade by industry and thorough attention to 
the calls of his customers.  He is a native of Lewis township, born May 
27, 1891, son of John H. Fryer and grandson of Jacob Fryer, who now 
lives at Milton, Pa., with his daughter, Mrs. Amanda Smith, on Mahoning 
street.
	John H. Fryer was born Jan. 13, 1856, at Port Clinton, Pa. and when 
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carpenter's trade, which he followed some years, at Milton, Pa., with 
Charles Koch. Later he became a railroad engineer on the Philadelphia & 
Reading road, following this occupation for about ten years before his 
death, which was caused by heart failure, when he was a comparatively 
young man. He ran a freight train from Catawissa to Newberry for some 
time, and later had a run between Shamokin and Newberry. He died in 
Lewis township, where he made his home upon a farm of forty-five acres 
still owned by his widow. On Nov. 9, 1876, Mr. Fryer married Clara 
Mackey, daughter of Henry and Lucinda (Berkenstock) Mackey, who lived 
near McEwensville, and grand-daughter of Jacob Berkenstock, who also 
lived near that place.  To Mr. and Mrs. Fryer were born twelve children, 
Elsie, Mabel, Charles, Edwin, Mary E. (deceased), Morris, Homer, Thomas 
C., Russell, Ralph, Mildred and Paul. Mrs. Fryer is a Lutheran in 
religious connection. Her husband was a member of the Evangelical 
Association, and in political sentiment he was a Democrat.
	Thomas G. Fryer attended the public schools of Lewis township, and 
after commencing work learned the trade of tinner with William N. 
Reynolds, of Turbutville. On March 19, 1910, he engaged in business on 
his own account, carrying a full stock of stoves and ranges, roofing, 
spouting, tin and granite wares, and being prepared to do all kinds of 
job work in his line, tinsmithing, heating and plumbing. He handles the 
Acorn stoves and ranges. Mr. Fryer has one man in his employ, and he has 
enjoyed a thriving trade, which he is enlarging steadily by honest 
business methods and attention to the wants of his patrons. His business 
establishment is on Main street, in the center of the town of 
Turbutville. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and of the Modern 
Woodmen of America, and is considered a steady-going and reliable young 
man, one of the useful members of the community.
	On Feb. 27, 1910, Mr. Fryer married Cora Greiner, daughter of A. D. 
and Mary (Wykoff) Greiner, of Turbutville, who have a family of five 
children Zwingle, who lives at Milton, Pa.; Tacy, wife of Frank 
Lawrence; Raymond, of Turbutville; Florence; and Cora, Mrs. Fryer.

	ADDISON C. MILLER, farmer of Upper Augusta township, Northumberland 
county, was born on the old Miller homestead in Shamokin township taken 
up by his great-grandfather.
	The Miller family has long been established in Pennsylvania.  
George Miller, Sr., commonly called "Hunter George," because of his love 
for the chase, emigrated from Germany some time during the eighteenth 
century, and after taking up considerable land in what is now Shamokin 
township, Northumberland county, built his little log house near the 
large spring on the Miller farm. In 1792 his son, John, purchased this 
land (Pine Grove) from him, and "Hunter George" took up land near 
Hamburg, in Berks county, Pa., where he lived the remainder of his days.
	John Miller, son of George, Sr., born in 1759, in 1785 married 
Catharine Raber, who was born Sept. 26, 1769, and to them were born two 
sons and two daughters: George; David; Elizabeth, who was twice married, 
first to a Mr. Rockefeller and (second) to a Mr. Wilhour; and Sarah, 
Mrs. Miller.  John Miller's death occurred Feb. 10, 1804, when he was 
forty-five years old, his wife, who survived him many years, dying Aug. 
19, 1854, at the age of eighty-five years. John and Elizabeth Miller are 
interred in the old Baptist graveyard near Deibler's station, in 
Shamokin township.
	George Miller, eldest son of John, was born on the homestead June 
13, 1794. There he built the large stone barn in 1818.  He was one of 
the most enterprising men of his day.  Previous to the construction of 
the Centre turnpike the locality was not developed to any extent. He 
obtained a contract for constructing two miles of the pike, erected the 
buildings where his grandson George W. Miller now resides, and after the 
stage line was started opened a hotel which he conducted, in addition to 
carrying on his farm, until the Northern Central railroad was built. In 
politics he was a Democrat, and he filled a number of the township 
offices. He died July 24, 1880, at the advanced age of eighty-six years, 
his wife dying three weeks later.  They are buried at the Blue Church. 
On Dec. 23, 1820, Mr. Miller had married Mary M. Startzel, daughter of 
George and Elizabeth Startzel, and twelve children were born to this 
union: Elizabeth, deceased, Mrs. Daniel Smith; Catharine; deceased, Mrs. 
Silas Farrow; John J., who died in Iowa; Rosetta, Mrs. Samuel Lewis; 
Amandus S.; Russia, deceased, who married Dr. Aaron Savidge; Juliana, 
deceased, who married Rev. Ephraim Barker, of Iowa; Allison R., a 
teacher, who died in Illinois; William J., of Springfield, Ill.; Clara 
L., deceased, wile of Dr. Isaac Huff; Emma, who married John Epler, of 
Point township; and one son who died in infancy.
	Amandus S. Miller, second son of George Miller, was born upon the 
homestead Sept. 13, 1828, and there grew to manhood. He received a 
common school education and improved his opportunities so well that in 
early manhood he commenced teaching in the public schools, which 
experience undoubtedly accounted for the interest he always took in the 
cause of public education. He engaged in farming on an extensive scale, 
cultivating some acres, and was one of the most substantial men of his 
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borough.  He was not only foremost in business matters, but also looked 
to on various other questions, especially regarding the general welfare, 
though he never sought office, and held no public positions except those 
of assessor and member of the school board, of which body he was 
treasurer for years.  He was an influential and highly respected 
citizen, and his death, which occurred Feb. 21, 1906, was widely 
mourned.  He was a Democrat in politics and a Lutheran in religion.
	Mr. Miller married Hannah J. Wolverton, who was born Sept. 21, 
1832, daughter of John Wolverton, of Shamokin township, and died Aug. 3, 
1908.  They are buried at St. Jacob's (Reed's) Church in Shamokin 
township. Ten children were born to this marriage: Florence V., who died 
when twenty-three years old; Ida M., deceased, wife of John M. Kline; 
George W.; Silas W., who is living in Upper Augusta township, this 
county; Laura E., wife of W. H. O. Dyer; Julia F., wife of William F. J. 
McKee; Addison C.; John A., deceased; Cora E., deceased, married to 
Elwood Yocum; and Lulu V., married to Harry E. Snyder.
	Addison C. Miller, son of Amandus S. Miller, was born Oct. 28, 
1872, on the Miller homestead in Shamokin township. After attending the 
public schools he went to McKee & McCullough's business college at 
Shamokin. Practically all his business years have been devoted to 
farming.  In the spring of 1892 he engaged in farming on the homestead, 
where he remained until 1901, in which year he removed to the place upon 
which he has since lived, in Upper Augusta township. It is a tract of 
125 acres, at the end of the narrows, south of Sunbury, and was formerly 
the Henry Arnold farm.  Mr. Miller is a prosperous and thoroughly modern 
farmer, progressive in his work and in adopting up-to-date devices and 
methods in his agricultural operations.  He makes a specialty of dairy 
farming, disposing of his milk at wholesale in Sunbury.  His home is 
equipped with all the modern conveniences, and everything about the farm 
bespeaks well-directed energy. In short, he is a typical member of the 
Miller family, whose industry and thrift are proverbial in this section.
	On Aug. 31, 1899, Mr. Miller married Lizzie Snyder, daughter of 
John N. Snyder, a retired farmer, now living in the borough of Sunbury. 
One daughter has been born to this union, Violet Catharine.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Miller are members of the Reformed Church. He is a Democrat on 
political questions.

	JOHN WACHTER, who holds the responsible position of outside foreman 
at the Hickory Ridge colliery; in Mount Carmel township, Northumberland 
county, has been engaged there in that connection since 1898. He was 
born Dec. 27, 1858, in Baden, Germany; son of Nathan and Atillia (Heid) 
Wachter, both of whom died in the Fatherland.  The father was a farmer 
by occupation. There were six children in the family: Rudolph, Max and 
Robert, all now deceased; John; and Fenorica and Victoria, both living 
in Germany.
	John Wachter attended school in his native country and meantime 
helped with the work on the farm until he reached the age of fourteen. 
He then learned the carpenter trade.  Coming to America in the early 
eighties, he landed at New York City Sept. 7th, and after a day and a 
night at that point went on to Philadelphia, where he spent a week.  He 
arrived in Shamokin Sept. 28th, and soon found work at his trade, which 
he followed at various places in this section, for twelve years filling 
the position of boss carpenter at the Nelson colliery.  In 1898 he came 
to Hickory Ridge (Sagon post office), having been made outside foreman 
at the Hickory Ridge colliery.  The fact that he has 360 men and boys in 
his charge is sufficient to show that he is a trustworthy and reliable 
man for the place he has efficiently filled for these twelve years.  He 
has the respect of his employers and of the men with whom he is 
associated, and is known to all as an intelligent, faithful worker.  He 
is a substantial and esteemed citizen of the community into which his 
work has brought him.
	Mr. Wachter married Barbara Waltford, a native of Switzerland, who 
came to America before her marriage, in the same ship which brought over 
her future husband.  They have become the parents of a large family, 
namely: John N., who is employed as an engineer at the Hickory Ridge 
colliery and resides in Shamokin; Clara, who married Thomas Connolly, an 
engineer at Hickory Ridge; Bertha, who is still attending school; Ida, 
who died when four and a half years old; Lena, who died at the age of 
eight years; Anna, who died when one year old; Henry, who died when nine 
months old; Ludwig, Charles and William, all of whom died in infancy; 
and Emma, who died at the age of five and a half years.
	The Wachters are Lutherans in religious connection. Mr. Wachter is 
a Republican in his political views, and he is a member of the I.O.O.F., 
belonging to a lodge at Shamokin.  On July 1, 1909, he set out on a trip 
to Germany with his wife and two daughters, and they had nine weeks of 
enjoyable travel, visiting his sisters and various places of interest on 
the Continent. They were among the passengers on the "George Washington" 
on its first trip across the Atlantic.

	ELLIS F. ORNER has been engaged in merchandising since he retired 
from mine work, and he has a well established business at Gowen City, in 
Cameron township, where he has been located since 1899. Mr. Orner was 
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Pa., seven miles from Gettysburg, son of Jeremiah Orner. The family is 
of German origin. His grandfather, who lived and died in Adams county, 
had children as follows: Amos, Samuel, Jonas, Solomon, Israel, Felix, 
Jeremiah and Mary.
	Jeremiah Orner was a carpenter by trade and worked by the day in 
Adams county, where he made his home for some time.  He died April 27, 
1905, at the home of his son Ellis in Gowen City, Northumberland county, 
aged seventy-five years, three months, twenty-three days.  He is buried 
in the Reformed cemetery at Gowen City.  During the Civil war he served 
in the Union army as a member of Company I, 165th Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteer Infantry, and after the war he never fully recovered his 
health.  Removing with his family to Shamokin, he followed mining for 
some time. Mr. Orner was a member of the G.A.R. He married Catharine 
Hartzel, daughter of Henry Hartzel, of Adams county, Pa., who belonged 
to a prominent family of that section. Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Orner had 
the following children:  Ellis F.;  Henry, who is living in Shamokin; 
and Clara, who married William Gephart of Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
	Ellis F. Orner attended public school in Adams county.  He remained 
with his father, moving to Shamokin with the family, and was employed at 
the mines also, though not at regular mine work,  running an engine most 
of the time. He was thus engaged for a period of eighteen years. In 1899 
Mr. Orner began the mercantile business at Gowen City, where he has 
since been established. He has not only made an excellent name as a 
business man but has served his fellow citizens in various public 
capacities, having been tax collector and school director of the 
township. Socially he is well known in this locality, belonging to the 
Odd Fellows and the Red Men, the latter organization holding its 
meetings in the hall above his store; the Red Men's Band, which includes 
three of his sons in its membership, also meets there. In political 
opinion he is a Democrat, in religion a Lutheran. 
	Mr. Orner married Matilda Koons, daughter of Michael Koons, of 
Northumberland county, and to them have been born the following 
children: Olive (married to Amos Frederick), Clara, O. Ellsworth, 
Harvey, Charles, William and Evelina.

	MARTIN L. HENRY, of Shamokin, Northumberland county, is a member of 
the firm of English & Henry, of that borough, importers and jobbers of 
hosiery, underwear and notions, manufacturers of overalls and shirts.

	WILLIAM F. KEEFER, of Sunbury, has been in the service of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Company from boyhood, and is now chief clerk to 
the superintendent.  He has been prominent in the municipal borough, 
where he has been honored with offices of trust, and is at present 
secretary of the board of trustees of the Mary M. Packer hospital of 
which he been a trustee since 1900.
	This Keefer family was established in America by Mr. Keefer's 
grandfather, Baltzer Keefer, a native of Wittenburg, Germany, who was 
born Feb. 21, 1812, and coming to this country settled at Sunbury, 
Northumberland Co., Pa., in 1839. He was a cooper, and followed his 
trade to some extent after coming here, working around the coal wharves 
at Sunbury. His wife, Elizabeth Knoebel, was born Oct. 26, 1812, and was 
from the same locality as himself in Germany, where they had known each 
other, but they were married in this country. Mrs. Keefer died Jan. 3, 
1881, and Mr. Keefer Jan. 21, 1892, and they are buried in the old 
cemetery at Sunbury. They were members of the Lutheran Church.  Six 
children were born to them, as follows: Philip, who is a resident of 
Sunbury; Jacob K.; John, of Wilkinsburg, Pa., who is a paper-hanger by 
occupation (he is unmarried); Leona, who died in infancy in December, 
1841; Reuben, who died in infancy in June, 1847; and Charlotte, who died 
April 11, 1855, aged four years, six months.
	Jacob K. Keefer, son of Baltzer, was born Nov. 15, 1842, in 
Sunbury, where he has made his home all his life. In his fourteenth year 
he commenced to learn the printing trade, which he has ever since 
followed. On Aug. 19, 1861, Mr. Keefer enlisted in Company C, 47th 
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served a term of three 
years; at the close of which he reenlisted for four years or during the 
war. He was mustered out Dec. 26, 1865, at Charleston, S. C. He rose to 
the rank of lieutenant during his long and faithful service, and in his 
home locality he is generally referred to as "Colonel" Keefer. Upon his 
retirement from the army he returned to Sunbury and resumed work at his 
trade, and he has always been a steady-going reliable citizen, respected 
by all who know him. He is a Republican in political matters.
	Mr. Keefer married Margaret Hafer, daughter of John Hafer, late of 
Paxinos, Pa., and she died in 1882, aged forty-four years. Four children 
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Keefer, two of whom died when young; the 
survivors are William F. and Edward, the latter a printer of Sunbury.
	William F. Keefer was born Dec. 4, 1866, in Sunbury, and there 
received his education in the public schools, graduating from the high 
school in 1881. On Jan. 16, 1882, he became a telegraph operator in the 
employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Sunbury, continuing in 
that capacity until Jan. 1, 1887, when he was promoted to clerk. He was 
thus engaged in the superintendent's office until May 1st of that year, 
when he was again promoted, to the telegraph department; remaining there 
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made train dispatcher. On March 1, 1895, he became chief clerk to the 
train master, and on  Aug. 1, 1900, chief clerk to the superintendent, 
in which position he has continued to serve up to the present time. His 
duties have been discharged with ability and efficiency, and he has made 
a record which won the confidence of those that know him to such an 
extent that he has been well supported in his candidacy for political 
office. For six years he was a member of the council of Sunbury; serving 
as president of that body two years. He is a Republican on political 
questions.  In August, 1900, he became a trustee of the Mary M. Packer, 
hospital, and as previously stated is now secretary of the board. In 
every association of life he has been recognized as a man feted for 
responsibility, and he has justified the confidence of his fellow men in 
his devotion to any work intrusted to him. He is a representative 
citizen of the borough in every way. Mr. Keefer has a well selected 
library, containing a number of valuable works.
	On June 21, 1,888, Mr. Keefer married Clara M. Zimmerman, youngest 
daughter of Peter and Harriet (Malick) Zimmerman and granddaughter of 
John and Magdelene (Fetherolf) Zimmerman. They have had five children: 
Sarah A., Clarence F. (who died Dec. 9 1898, aged nine years), Mabel F., 
and Myrtle M. (twins) and Helen.  Mr. Keefer and his family are members 
of Zion's Lutheran Church at Sunbury. He is a member of the Old Veterans 
Association of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, of Sunbury Lodge No. 
203, I.O.O.F., and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

	MORRIS WETZEL, a young farmer of Lower Augusta township who has 
shown ability and enterprise in his profitable management of an 
excellent farm of 100 acres, was born June 28, 1883, at Selinsgrove 
Junction, Northumberland county. He is a descendant of Jacob Wetzel, a 
pioneer settler of Hereford township, Berks Co., Pa., who made his last 
will and testament May 8, 1785, and died prior to Nov 9, 1785, the date 
the will was probated. He makes ample provision for his "worthy" wife, 
Maria, who survived him. His children were: Jacob, Johannes, George, 
Philip, Catarina, Peter, Heinrich, Conrad (who was left the large 
"Bossler" Bible) and Marialiss. One of these sons settled in the 
Mahantango valley in Northumberland county and founded the branch of the 
family in which we are interested.
	John Wetzel, the great-grandfather of Morris Wetzel, was an early 
settler in Lower Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, living near 
the Uniontown road, on a tract now owned by Jonathan Byerly. He was a 
Lutheran in religion, and is buried at Zion's (Stone Valley) Church, in 
Lower Mahanoy, where his wife, whose maiden name was Leffler, also 
rests. They had the following children, all now deceased: Peter, who 
lived in Snyder county, Pa.; John, who lived in Lower Mahanoy township; 
Jeremiah; Abby, Mrs. Daniel Hepner; Mrs. John Howard; Mrs. Mattern, and 
Mrs. John Wentzel.
	Jeremiah Wetzel, son of John, was born in Lower Mahanoy township. 
He was a lifelong farmer, in 1840 coming to Lower Augusta township, 
where he owned and occupied the property which now belongs to his son 
Isaac, a tract of farm land lying along the Susquehanna river. He built 
the dwelling on that place in 1862, and the barn was put up by Isaac  
Wetzel in 1900. An intelligent and public-spirited man, he took an 
interest in the general welfare and served as supervisor of the 
township. In politics he was a Democrat, in religion a member of the 
United Evangelical Association, belonging to the church at Herndon. He 
died in 1878 and is buried in the River cemetery at Fisher's Ferry.  
(Among the River cemetery records we find a Jeremiah Wetzel who died Feb. 
4, 1887, aged seventy-three years, eleven months, twenty-three days; 
wife Magdalena, born June 29, 1811, died Aug. 1, 1871; second wife, 
Sarah, died, Feb. 2, 1884, aged seventy-three years, three months, three 
days.) By his wife Mary Magdalena (Peifer), daughter of John Peifer, 
Jeremiah Wetzel had a large family, several of whom died young; James 
lived and died at Sunbury; Levi died at Fisher's Ferry Jan. 22, 1901, 
aged sixty-five years, eight months, five days (his wife Harriet died 
April 22, 1901, aged sixty-one years, seven months, one day); Lovina 
married Solomon Glace; Edward is a resident of Indiana; William died at 
Sunbury; Mary married Paul Hollenbach and (second) Solomon Raker; 
Jeremiah is a resident of Titusville, Pa.; Isaac is mentioned below; 
Eliza married Hiram Wayne; Cornelius, born in 1849, died in 1868; Henry 
died young; Jacob died young.
	Isaac Wetzel, son of Jeremiah, was born May 19, 1846, in Lower 
Augusta township, where he is now engaged in farming. He was educated in 
the public schools and was reared to farming, continuing to work for his 
father until he attained his majority. He then began to work on the 
Northern Central railroad, and for fifteen years was engaged at 
railroading.  At the end of that period he bought his father's homestead 
and took to farming, which he has followed ever since. His property 
contains thirty-eight acres, which he cultivates systematically, making 
a good living. He attends the markets occasionally. Mr. Wetzel served 
his township as school director for six years. In 1875 he married Sarah 
Reitz, daughter of Abraham Reitz, of Swabian Creek, and they have a 
family of ten children: Samuel H., who married Mary Martz; Susan 
Matilda, who married George Olmstead; George H., who married Susan 
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ris; Mary, who married Henry C. DeWitt; Charles W., who married Mary 
Lahr; Walter Ray; Claud Howard, and Catharine. Mr. Wetzel and his family 
are members of the Augusta Baptist Church, of which he has been a 
trustee. In politics he is a Democrat.
	Samuel H. Wetzel, son of Isaac, was born May 23, 1876, in Lower 
Augusta township, and there passed his early life. In 1896 he moved to 
the borough of Herndon, where for seven years he clerked in the general 
store of E. C. Adams.  In 1904 he learned the baking business, which he 
has since continued to follow. He was the first to enter this line of 
business in his borough, and he has made a great success of his 
enterprise. He has been prominently identified, with public affairs 
there, has served as borough auditor, and in the spring of 1909 was 
elected chief burgess, whose office he is now filling. Politically he is 
a Democrat, socially a member of the Modern Woodmen, and in religion he 
and his family are of the Reformed faith. On Oct. 10, 1902, Mr. Wetzel 
married Mary Martz, daughter of Jacob and Emma (Snyder) Martz, and they 
have two children, Geraldine M. and Charles H.
	Morris Wetzel was reared in the usual manner of farm boys and 
obtained a public school education. He worked for his parents until he 
was fourteen, after which he continued on the home farm as hired man for 
six years.  The next five years he was employed on the railroad, and in 
the spring of 1905 began farming where he now lives, in lower Augusta 
township, on a tract of 100 acres which was formerly the W. H. Swinehart 
homestead. The farm came into Mr. Wetzel's possession through his 
marriage into the Swinehart family. He raises general crops, and is 
adopting the most approved up-to-date methods in his work, which has 
been highly successful. He is regarded, as one of the substantial young 
citizens of the township.
	On Feb. 7, 1905, Mr. Wetzel married Minnie A. Swinehart, daughter 
of William H. and Sallie (Snyder) Swinehart. They have no children. Mr. 
and Mrs. Wetzel are members of the Baptist Church.
	John Swinehart, great-grandfather of Mrs. Wetzel, lived in Little 
Mahanoy township, on a farm now owned by a Deppen. He was a pioneer 
settler in that region, and in 1814, when the first triennial assessment 
of Little Mahanoy was made, was one of the taxable residents of the 
township. He and his wife Margaret are buried at Little Mahanoy Church, 
of which he was a Lutheran member. In 1900 Enoch Swinehart, a descendant 
of John, was the only male member of the congregation bearing the name. 
To John and Margaret Swinehart were born the following children: John, 
who married Betzy Drumheller; Samuel, who never married; Daniel; and 
Mary, who never married. The Little Mahanoy Church records show one 
Henry Swinehart, born Oct. 31, 1793, died Sept. 11, 1869; his son 
Samuel, born in 1823, died, in 1875, was a soldier in the Civil war.
	Daniel Swinehart, son of John, passed his childhood and early 
manhood in Little Mahanoy township, coming thence across the mountain 
and settling in Lower Augusta township, where he passed the remainder of 
his life engaged in farming. He owned the place which later passed into 
the possession of his son William and is now owned by Mr. and Mrs. 
Morris Wetzel.  He is buried at the Brick Lutheran and Reformed Church. 
He married Judith Heilman, daughter of Daniel Heilman, and they had 
these children: Maria, Adam, Hanah, William, Judith, and three who died 
young.
	William H. Swinehart, son of Daniel, lived in Lower Augusta 
township. He taught school there (except for one term in Lower Mahanoy) 
until he reached the age of twenty-five years, and in 1866 engaged in 
merchandising at Fisher's Ferry, where he continued, in that line, until 
1871, when he was burned out, his establishment being a complete ruin.  
In the spring of 1872 he began farming at the place where his son-in-
law, Morris Wetzel, now lives, and where in 1876 he built the 
comfortable dwelling now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Wetzel. He built the 
barn in 1895. He was a successful man and a most respected citizen, and 
his death, which occurred Feb. 19, 1906, when he was aged sixty-two 
years, nine months, six days, was regarded as a loss to the community. 
He is buried at the Augusta Baptist Church.
	On May 31, 1868, Mr. Swinehart married Sallie Snyder, daughter of 
Thomas and Esther (Randall) Snyder, and they had two children: Edwin; 
Boyd, who died in 1873, aged one year, less three days; and Minnie A., 
wife of Morris Wetzel.

	SAMUEL L. WEITZEL, who is employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company at Sunbury and resides not far from that borough, in Rockefeller 
township, comes of a family which has been represented in that 
neighborhood for many years. His great-great-grandfather, John Weitzel, 
was the first merchant at Sunbury.
	John Weitzel was born Dec. 30, 1752, at Lancaster, Pa., son of Paul 
and Charlotte Weitzel. The following is taken from a history of the 
county published some years ago: He obtained a fair education at his 
native town, and was sent to Philadelphia at an early age to learn the 
business of merchandising. He opened the first store at the site of 
Sunbury in 1771 in a log building near the bank of the river below 
Market street, and from that time until his death was prominently and 
responsibly connected with public affairs. At the organization of 
Northumberland county in 1772 he was one of its first commissioners. On 
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the county court; to this office he was recommissioned on the 9th of 
June, 1777, for the term of seven years. At the organization of the 
committee of Safety for Northumberland county, Feb. 8, 1776, he appeared 
as a member from Augusta township, and participated in the deliberations 
of that body until Aug. 13, 1776. In the Provincial Conference of June 
18, 1776, he was one of the representatives from Northumberland county; 
on the 8th of July he was elected to the Constitutional Convention of 
1776, and in that body of ninety-six members, "the representative men of 
the State," he was the youngest delegate; and, as a member of the 
Council of Safety from July 24, 1776, to March 13, 1777, he participated 
in its deliberations during the first months of the State government. On 
the 22d of January, 1776, he qualified as county commissioner, in which 
office and as justice of the county courts he was actively connected 
with the conduct of civil affairs in the county during the Revolution.  
July 7, 1780, he was commissioned issuing commissary for this county, 
and in 1782-84 served as contractor of supplies for the State troops.  
In this capacity he furnished provisions for the detachments stationed 
at Fort Rice and in Buffalo Valley in 1782 and the companies of Captains 
Robinson and Shrawder at Wyoming in 1783-84, performing the duties of 
his office with promptness, energy and fidelity.  He was again 
commissioned as a justice of the county courts June 19, 1789, serving 
until 1791, and in the autumn of 1789 was elected county commissioner 
for the term of three years. In 1794 he was appointed by act of the 
Legislature one of the commissioners for the erection of public 
buildings at Sunbury, and in this responsible position acted in a public 
capacity for the last time, as his death occurred in 1799. He was twice 
married, first to Tabitha, daughter of John and Rose Morris, of 
Philadelphia, by whom he had four children: John, Paul, Charlotte and 
Mary. His second wife was Elizabeth Susanna, daughter of Paul Lebo, of 
Lancaster, and sister of Henry Lebo, and by her he had three children:  
George, Elizabeth and Tabitha. At the time of his death John Weitzel 
resided at a stone dwelling on Market street, subsequently kept as a 
hotel by his family many years. In connection with his business as a 
merchant he operated a mill two miles east of Sunbury; it was built by 
Casper Weitzel, his brother, who died in 1782, and was run successively 
by his son, John Weitzel, Jr., and his grandson, Joseph Weitzel, who was 
long the oldest living representative of the family.
	Casper Weitzel, the brother of John Weitzel mentioned, was the 
first resident practicing attorney of Northumberland county. He was born 
in 1748 at Lancaster, was admitted to the bar of Lancaster county in 
1769, and in August, 1772, was admitted to practice at Sunbury; where 
the early records show that he received a large share of the legal 
business.  His talents and patriotism were early recognized. He was a 
member of the Provincial Convention of January, 1775, from 
Northumberland county. On Feb. 7, 1776, he was elected first major of 
the battalion of the lower division of the county; on March 9, 1776, he 
was appointed captain of a company recruited by himself at Sunbury, 
which was attached to Col. Samuel Miles's Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment 
and was the second company formed in Northumberland county.  It suffered 
serious loss at the battle of Long island, and in consequence of the 
great misfortunes met with there was consolidated with other commands in 
October and thus lost its individuality.  Captain Weitzel returned to 
Sunbury, where he died in 1782.
	John Weitzel, Jr., son of John and Tabitha (Morris) Weitzel, was 
born at Sunbury March 21, 1772.  He was a merchant and miller there, and 
in the later years of his life occupied the farm where his son Joseph 
Weitzel so long resided.  He died there Oct. 9, 1835.  In politics he 
was a Whig, and he served as justice of the peace from 1806 to 1830. He 
married Elizabeth Walters, of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, who was born 
on the same day that the battle of Germantown was fought.  They were the 
parents of five children, among whom were Joseph and William.
	Joseph Weitzel, son of John Weitzel, Jr., was born Oct. 5, 1808, 
and lived to be over ninety, dying in March, 1899. He is buried in the 
South Fourth street cemetery at Sunbury.  A man of energy, executive 
ability and large interests, he was a citizen of more than ordinary 
prominence throughout his active years in the district where he resided. 
He was a millwright and a lifelong miller, operating the mill on Little 
Shamokin creek, two miles east of Sunbury, in Rockefeller township, 
along the line of Upper Augusta township, on the property now owned by 
his grandson, Samuel L. Weitzel. The mill has now been razed, only the 
ruins marking its site.  For fourteen years Mr. Weitzel also ran a 
distillery, operated a sawmill for a time, and bought and sold grain and 
lumber. He was a carpenter as well as millwright. In fact, his 
versatility and gift of managing various kinds of enterprises made him 
familiar with many lines.  He had a farm of about three hundred acres.  
A tall, lusty, well proportioned man, he had the physical as well as the 
mental strength necessary to carry his undertakings to success.  In 
politics he was an old-line Whig, later a Republican, and in his 
religious views he was a Lutheran.
	In 1832 Mr. Weitzel married Sarah Woodruff, daughter of John 
Woodruff, a native of Middletown, who settled in Rockefeller township.  
She died July 19, 1884, aged over sixty years. Mr. and Mrs. Weitzel had 
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formerly of Scranton, now of Philadelphia; John deceased; Charles B.; 
William; Lot B., formerly of Kansas, now living in Rockefeller township; 
George B., of Philadelphia; Lizzie, Mrs. Ellis Vandling; and Joseph, 
deceased.
	William Weitzel, son of Joseph Weitzel, lived on the homestead of 
his father, in Rockefeller township, now owned by his son Samuel, and 
followed farming. He died July 14, 1875, at the age of thirty-nine 
years, a member of the Reformed congregation at Lantz's Church. Mr. 
Weitzel married Susan Culp, daughter of Peter Culp, and seven children 
were born to them: Emma A. (deceased) married S. G. Arnold; Jordan H. is 
an engineer on the Sunbury division of the Pennsylvania railroad and 
resides at Rock Glen, Pa.; William E., who lives at Harrisburg, is a 
passenger engineer on the Eastern division of the Pennsylvania railroad; 
Samuel L. is mentioned below; David C. is in Cleveland, Ohio; Lizzie J. 
married William Renn, of Elizabeth, N. J.; Sarah Gertrude married J. H. 
Cooper, of Sunbury, a conductor on the Sunbury division.
	Samuel L. Weitzel was born Nov. 26, 1862, in Rockefeller township, 
on the Weitzel homestead. There he grew to manhood, living on the farm 
and working at agricultural pursuits and in his father's mill and 
sawmill until after his marriage. Leaving the home place Sept. 19, 1889, 
he went to work in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's shops at Sunbury, 
where he has since been employed.  Until 1905 he was engaged at car 
repairing, and has since been a piece work inspector, holding a 
responsible position, which he has proved himself competent to fill. 
Except for his interest in the church, Mr. Weitzel has been content to 
look after his private affairs, having refused offers of local office, 
and taking little part in politics beyond the casting of his vote. He is 
a Republican. He has a nice home two miles east of Sunbury, in 
Rockefeller township, and owns a 112-acre farm, a valuable and well 
cultivated tract, which he has rented to his son-in-law. He and his 
family are Reformed members of the Lantz Church, which he served some 
years as deacon, is now an elder, and for many years was in the church 
council. He is also Sunday school superintendent at present.
	On April 20, 1884, Mr. Weitzel married Annie E. Bartholomew, 
daughter of Valentine and Amelia (Houck) Bartholomew, of Rockefeller 
township, and they have had seven children: Ethel B., Mrs. A. B. Culp; 
Erma G., Mrs. P. H. Grady; Leo M., who died aged one year, one month, 
ten days; Naomi D.; A. Elizabeth; Miriam; and a daughter that died in 
infancy.

	WILLIAM H. HOWELLS, now living retired in the borough of Shamokin, 
Northumberland county, was engaged as a miner all his active life, for a 
period of over sixty years. Mr. Howells was born Feb. 13, 1840, at 
Minersville, Schuylkill Co. Pa., son of James Howells.
	James Howells was a native of Wales, and on coming to this country 
landed at Philadelphia July 4, 1838.  He had followed farming in his own 
country. Locating at Minersville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., he engaged in 
mining, and remained in that vicinity to the end of his days, dying at 
Black Valley, near Minersville, at the age of fifty-one years. He 
married Mary Morgan, like himself a native of Wales, who died at Branch 
Dale, in Schuylkill county. Twelve children were born to them, only six 
of whom grew to maturity, namely: Anna, who was born in Wales; Watkins, 
who was three months old when the family came to America; William H.; 
Rosser, who died while serving in the Civil war; James, who died in 
Texas; and Benjamin, who died in Colorado. All the sons of this family 
served in the Civil war and had creditable army records. 
	William H. Howells began life at the mines when a boy in the 
humblest position, picking slate. By diligence and satisfactory work he 
advanced until he became fire boss, holding such responsible position 
and others of trust for many years before his retirement, in 1908. He 
was engaged in the mines for sixty years and for one year at outside 
work. Coming to Shamokin in 1887, he was first employed here as inside 
foreman at the Luke Fidler colliery, later going to the Cameron 
colliery, where he was assistant boss for about eighteen years, until he 
retired to spend his days in leisure. He is well known in the coal 
region; among employers and employees, and is a man respected for 
industry and high character wherever he has been placed.
	Mr. Howells is a Republican in political opinion but has never been 
active in public affairs. However, he was a Union sympathizer during the 
Civil war, in which he served as a member of Company A, 129th Regiment.  
Fraternally he is a Mason, holding membership in Swatara Lodge, No. 267, 
F. & A.M., of Tremont Pa.; in Chapter No. 221, R.A.M., and in 
Constantine Commandery, No. 41, K.T., of Pottsville. In religion he is 
connected with the Mennonite Church.
	Mr. Howells married  Margaret (Prosser) Brown, widow of Owen 
Brown. All of the six children born to this union died young. Mr. and 
Mrs. Howells have their home at No. 17. South Seventh street, Shamokin.

	HORACE C. BLUE, JR., special agent at Sunbury for the Pennsylvania 
Railway Company, is a member of a family long identified with 
Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, and the adjacent 
territory in that county and in Montour county.
	Samuel Blue, his grandfather, was born in Chillisquaque township, 
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at Danville, Montour county, where he conducted the "Mansion House." His 
wife was Abbie Hulligan, and their children were  Mary E., Thomas H., 
William D.,  Clarence F. and Horace C. (clerk in the county 
commissioner's office at Danville).
	Thomas H. Blue, son of Samuel, was born Jan. 28, 1847, at 
Washingtonville, Montour county, and in the fall of 1865 came to 
Sunbury, where he commenced to learn the machinist's trade. In the 
spring of 1866 he moved to the borough of Northumberland, where he has 
since made his home, though he has had interests which have taken him to 
various places. He continued to follow the machinist's trade for thirty-
five years, being engaged at such work in the navy yard at Washington, 
D. C., for eight years, after which he found employment in that line at 
Danville and Northumberland. For two years he was located in 
Shelbyville, Tenn., where he had charge of an ice manufacturing plant, 
and in the spring of 1910 he took charge of the plant of the Sunbury Ice 
Manufacturing Company, which has a capacity of twenty-five tons per day 
of twenty-four hours.  He continues to reside at Northumberland. In 1868 
Mr. Blue married Adda Eckert, daughter of George and Elsie (Ulp) Eckert. 
of that place, and they have had six children: Charles S., of 
Shelbyville, Tenn.; Hope F., of Winchester, Tenn.; Horace C., of 
Sunbury; Robert E., of Northumberland; Mary S., deceased, and, Walter, 
deceased.  Mr. Blue and his family are members of the Presbyterian 
Church.
	Horace C. Blue was born March 9, 1877, at Northumberland, and 
received his early education in the public schools there. Later he was a 
student at Danville, and in the State Normal school at Bloomsburg, Pa.  
For about a year afterward he filled a position as traveling salesman in 
the western part of the State.  Returning to Northumberland, he became 
connected with the Pennsylvania railroad service in 1895 as messenger, 
later becoming clerk, and in 1905 special agent, in which capacity he is 
now engaged. He is engaged in the general claim department at 
Williamsport, his work taking him all over the Sunbury, Lewistown and 
Shamokin division. Since 1901 he has made his home in the borough of 
Sunbury, where he is interested in the ice business, he having been one 
of the organizers, in January, 1909, of the Sunbury Ice Manufacturing 
Company, which manufactures ice from distilled water, the purest sold in 
Sunbury. The establishment is conducted along hygienic lines, and the 
business has been a success from the start, seven two-horse teams being 
kept constantly on the road, serving the large trade which has been 
built up.  Mr. Blue is president and manager of this company, and he 
also has interests in ice plants in Tennessee. He is an enterprising 
young business man and thoroughly respected in his community.
	On Aug. 27, 1900, Mr. Blue was married to Mary Cameron Packer, 
daughter of Cameron Packer, late of Sunbury. Mr. and Mrs. Blue are 
connected with the Episcopal Church, where he sang in the choir for some 
years.

	DAVID P. RUSSELL, engineer at the Latsha pumping station for the 
National Transit Company, is a native of Canada, born Oct. 30, 1871, at 
Port Hope, Ontario. The Russell family hails from Strathaven, Scotland, 
and its members are people of rank, tracing their line back in Scotland 
to Lord Patterson.
	David Russell, grandfather of David P. Russell, was born in 
Strathaven, and came to America in 1851, landing at New York. For a few 
years he lived in New York State, thence moving to Cold Springs, 
Ontario, and later to Port Hope, seven miles west of Cold Springs. By 
trade he was a carpet weaver, and he was a prosperous and thrifty man, 
acquiring considerable real estate. He was interested in public affairs, 
the leader of a band of Liberals located in a Conservative stronghold. A 
Scotch Presbyterian in religious faith, he was a worker in the church 
and choir leader for many years, a man of the highest repute and 
character. He died in 1887, at the age of sixty-seven, and is buried at 
Port Hope. His wife, Anne (Cochran), daughter of John Cochran, died Jan. 
7, 1907, at the advanced age of eighty-seven.  Their children were 
Joseph and Robert G., the former, now deceased, having lived in 
Lancaster county, Pa.; he was superintendent of all the Standard Oil 
subsidiaries in Pennsylvania.
	Robert G. Russell, son of David, was born March 12, 1836 or 1837, 
lived for a number of years at Millway, Lancaster Co., Pa., being 
foreman for the Standard Oil Company in that region.  He held a most 
responsible position, having at times as few as 125 men under his 
supervision and again as many as several thousands. On April 1, 1908, he 
retired and removed to Port Hope, Ontario, where he has since made his 
home. He married Lena Chislett, whose parents, Robert and Charlotte 
(Manley) Chislett, of England, came to America before her birth, 
settling in Port Hope, Canada. Robert G. and Lena (Chislett) Russell had 
three sons and three daughters: David P.; William C., who is foreman for 
the Bell Telephone Company, of Newark, N. J.; Robert F., of Millway, 
Lancaster Co., Pa.; Mertie M.; Anne C.; and Lena C.
	David P. Russell received his education in the public schools of 
his native province, about the equal of a high school courses in the 
Pennsylvania schools. When a youth of seventeen he commenced to learn 
telegraphy, on Nov. 21, 1888, becoming an employee of the Standard Oil 
Company, in whose employ he has remained continuously since. Since 1894 
he has been an engineer. On Nov. 21, 1889, he came to the Latsha pumping 
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Jackson township, Northumberland Co., Pa., which is a subsidiary of the 
Standard Oil Company. Here he met his future wife, Lydia M. Otto, 
daughter of Washington and Harriet Otto, and they were married Sept. 18, 
1893. They have four children, Jesse M., Edith M., Robert Fred 
and Lena H.
	Politically Mr. Russell is a Republican, and though living in a 
Democratic stronghold was elected a member of the school board of 
Jackson township. Fraternally he is a member of Lafayette Lodge, No. 
194, F. & A.M., of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.

	JOSEPH D. WAGNER, of Sunbury, has been in the postal service there 
since 1897, and at present holds a clerkship in the office. In his early 
years he was engaged in school teaching for a number of terms in the 
lower end of Northumberland county and for five years followed that 
profession in Sunbury.
	Mr. Wagner was born Aug. 24, 1864, in little Mahanoy township, this 
county, and is a great-grandson of Jacob Wagner, a native of Berks 
county, Pa., who was born and reared in the Tulpehocken valley. He was 
there married to Anna Maria Rentschler, a member of an old Berks county 
family, and this couple came to Northumberland county, settling on a 
farm in Little Mahanoy township now owned by Daniel Reitz. On this old 
farm is a graveyard where Mrs. Wagner is buried, the spot being marked 
by a marble tombstone Jacob Wagner is buried at Little Mahanoy Church. 
They were Lutherans in religious faith. They had a family of eight 
children (several of the older ones born in Berks county), namely: 
Michael, Jacob, George, Samuel, Catharine (married William Baker and 
moved to Michigan), Magdalena (married Frederick Latsha and lived at 
Swabian Creek), Rosina (married Adam Daniel, of Jackson township) and 
Betzy (married Jacob Reitz and lived at Red Bank, Pa.). Of the sons, 
	Michael Wagner married Susanna Holshue and they lived and died at 
Lewisburg, Pa. He was a blacksmith by occupation. Their children were: 
Adam, Daniel, Jesse, Leonard, Isaac, Polly, Hettie and Betzy.
	Jacob Wagner married Sally Seiler, of Jackson township, and they 
had children: Salinda, Elias, Carolina, Harriet, Amanda, Emanuel and 
Stephen. About 1845 they moved out to Illinois, making the journey by 
wagon, and there lived and died. Several of their younger children were 
born in that State.
	George Wagner was a shoemaker. He married Betzy Seitz, of the 
Swabian Creek section, and they are buried at Little Mahanoy Church. 
They had children:  Samuel, Peter, John, David, Rosina and Bevvy.
	Samuel Wagner passed the greater part of his life in Little Mahanoy 
township, where he owned a tract of land now the property of Hiram Reed. 
He was a tailor by trade. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and he 
and his wife, Catharine (Ferster), are buried at the Little Mahanoy 
Church. They had children as follows:  Henry died young; Levi is a 
resident of Washington township, this county; Durrell lives at Geneva; 
Fla.; George is a resident of Polo, Ill.; Augustus died at Shamokin, 
Pa.; Isaac F. was the father of Joseph D. Wagner; Moses (deceased) lived 
in Washington township; Julia (deceased) married Jacob Gass; Rebecca 
(deceased) married Samuel Feese; Polly is the wife of Henry Derrick; 
Anna (deceased) married Benjamin Zartman.
	Isaac F. Wagner, son of Samuel, was born Nov. 21, 1843, in Little 
Mahanoy township, where he died Nov. 22, 1905. He was a shoemaker, 
following his trade among the farmers of his section for many years, and 
was a well known man. He was assessor of his township for many years and 
also served as school director. In politics he was a stanch Democrat, in 
religion a Lutheran, he and his family being members of the Little 
Mahanoy Church, where he is buried. He married Esther Derr, daughter of 
William and Hannah (Reed) Derr, of Little Mahanoy township, and fifteen 
children were born to this union: Joseph D.; William, who died aged 
thirteen years, eight months and twenty-seven days; Cassa Mish, wife of 
Levi G. Knouse, living at Sunbury; Samuel, who died when aged one year, 
seventeen days; Wilson D., of Shamokin, Pa.; Hannah J., wife of David 
Furman, of Rockefeller township, this county; Mary Ida, an invalid, who 
died at the age of twenty-eight years, eight months and twenty-seven 
days; Edgar D. of Sunbury; Charles I., of Herndon, this county; Tama 
Cora, who is a sister in the Mary J. Drexel home at Philadelphia; 
Stephen D., of Sunbury; Francis D., of Pennbrook, Pa.; Isaac I., of 
Chester, Pa.; Robert D., of Philadelphia; and Esther Gertrude, who died 
when eighteen years old, at The Training School for Feebleminded, of 
Western Pennsylvania, Polk, Pennsylvania.
	Joseph D. Wagner received the greater part of his education in the 
public schools of his native township, and for twenty-eight weeks was a 
student at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa.  When twenty years old he 
began teaching, a profession he followed for a number of years, being 
engaged in Little Mahanoy township three years; in Cameron township, two 
years; at Dalmatia, in the normal school and public school one year; at 
Snydertown, two years; and at Sunbury, five years - thirteen years in 
all. On Nov. 1, 1897, Mr. Wagner was appointed carrier No. 1 in Sunbury, 
after passing the civil service examination with the second best average 
(89.2) in a class of forty. He was thus engaged for eleven years and one 
month, on Dec. 15, 1908, being transferred to a clerkship, which he now 
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the highest efficiency and highly esteemed as a citizen throughout the 
borough.
	On March 17, 1888, Mr. Wagner married Phoebe J. Long, daughter of 
Samuel C. and Lydia (Dunkelberger) Long, of Little Mahanoy township, and 
they had one child, William D., born May 14, 1889, who died when six 
days old.  Mr. and Mrs. Wagner reside in their own home at No. 1030 
Chestnut street, Sunbury. They are members of Zion's Lutheran Church, 
and Mr. Wagner belongs to Camp No. 194, P.O.S. of A.; to the Modern 
Woodmen of America; to the Clerks' and Letter Carriers' Association, and 
to the Friendship Hose Company of Sunbury.

	P. H. TYE, of Mount Carmel, Northumberland county, is engaged in a 
general blacksmithing business at the corner of Second and Maple 
streets. He deals in carriages, wagons and sleighs, builds and repairs 
wagons, does horseshoeing, carriage painting, etc.

	THEODORE TALPASH, proprietor of the Talpash Cafe and Hotel, located 
at No. 318 East Sunbury street, Shamokin, has been in business there 
since 1899 and is a very well known citizen of the borough.  He has been 
quite a prominent worker among those of his own nationality and is very 
popular.
	Mr. Talpash was born Oct. 28, 1859, in Galicia, Austria, son of 
Lucus Talpash, who followed farming in that country and died there. 
Theodore Talpash received his education in the public schools of his 
native land and was reared to farming, which he followed until he 
entered the army, at the age of twenty years.  He served four years and 
two months as a soldier, taking part in the local war of the revolution 
between the Turks and the Austrians, and at the expiration of this 
period returned to his home.  But his father came to the conclusion that 
army life had spoiled the young man for farming, and after three months 
he determined to try his fortune in America.  Leaving his home March 13, 
1884, he landed at New York City April 3d and came on at once to 
Shamokin, Northumberland Co., Pa., where a number of his fellow 
countrymen were settled.  For about five years after settling here Mr. 
Talpash followed mining, being engaged by Baumgardner & Douty, at the 
Enterprise colliery.  He then began keeping store on North Shamokin 
street, but after seven months in that line changed to his present 
business. His cafe and hotel are well managed, and he has a profitable 
patronage, built up by excellent business methods and successful 
catering to the wants of his customers.  His reputation as citizen and 
business man has always been above reproach.
	Mr. Talpash was one of the organizers of the Ruthenian Catholic 
Church in Shamokin, of which he is still a trustee, and he is one of 
those devoted members who by their untiring efforts have brought the 
parish to its present prosperous condition and made possible the 
erection of the magnificent church now approaching completion. He has 
also been active in the various societies connected with the church. He 
is a member of the Russian Union of the United States and Canada.
	Mr. Talpash's wife, Anastaize, is also a native of Austria. They 
have a family of five children: Ulger, Jennie, Helen, Annie and John.

	DANIEL C. BLANK, who has been a resident of Sunbury since 1872, has 
been a railroad man since 1866 and an engineer since 1886, running on 
the Pennsylvania railroad. He has been in the employ of the Pennsylvania 
Company for the long period of thirty-eight years.
	Mr. Blank is a son of Samuel Blank and grand-son of Joseph Blank, 
who lived in Berwick, Columbia Co., Pa., whither he came at an early 
period in the history of the settlement of Columbia and Montour 
counties.  He owned a farm, but was obliged to retire at a comparatively 
early age, because of rheumatism, which so affected him in his closing 
years that he could not walk without using two canes.  He died at 
Berwick about 1870, at a very advanced age, and is buried near that 
place. Mr. Blank was a Methodist in his earlier years, later uniting 
with the Evangelical Association. He was twice married, and survived 
both wives. His family consisted of three children, all born to the 
first union, namely: Samuel, and Joseph and Polly, twins.  Joseph lived 
near Berwick. Polly married Jacob Kissner.
	Samuel Blank, son of Joseph, was born in 1814 and died in 1868, 
aged fifty-four years. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and is 
buried in the old Lutheran cemetery back of Briar Creek, in Columbia 
county. By occupation he was a farmer.  He married Maria Klinetob, 
daughter of Christopher and Catharine Klinetob, of Salem township, 
Luzerne Co., Pa., and she died in 1867 at the age of forty-eight years, 
the mother of the following named children: One daughter that died in 
infancy; Katie Ann, who died young; Rolandus, of West Pittston, Pa.; 
Elmira, wife of Benjamin Eveland, living at Jonestown, Pa.; Daniel C.; 
Malinda (deceased), who married Samuel M. Smith and lived in Forty Fort, 
Luzerne county; Jennie, widow of Samuel Poet, who was an engineer on the 
Pennsylvania railroad and was killed at Duncannon, Pa. (she lives at 
Harrisburg); Sarah, widow of Wilson Stoudt, living at Sunbury; Louisa 
(deceased), who married Webster Gensel, now a resident of Berwick, Pa.; 
and Annie (deceased), wife of Thomas Poet (brother of Samuel, who 
married her sister Jennie), who lives in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
	Daniel C. Blank was born July 5, 1848, in Sugar Loaf township, 
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youth of sixteen when he enlisted, Sept. 2, 1864, from Columbia county, 
for one year, to serve as a musician. He became a member of Company I, 
110th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to 
the 3d Brigade, 2d Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac.  He 
was present at Lee's surrender and received an honorable discharge May 
30, 1865, at Arlington Heights, Va., by reason of the close of the war.  
In 1866 Mr. Blank began work as a railroad man, and has been thus 
engaged ever since.  He first worked for the Delaware, Lackawanna & 
Western Company, later for the Northern Central and then for the 
Philadelphia & Erie, both the latter being now under the control of the 
Pennsylvania, for which he has been working thirty-eight years. Since 
1886 he has been engaged as an engineer. His efficiency and 
trustworthiness may be best judged by the length of his service, which 
of itself would constitute a remarkable record. He is a member of the 
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
	On Aug. 25, 1872, Mr. Blank married Emma C. Sensenbach, daughter of 
Charles and Oradio (Gold - now Gould) Sensenbach, who died at Sunbury, 
but were earlier of Nazareth, Pa.  Mrs. Blank had the following brothers 
and sisters: Sarah, who died aged twelve years; Cloyde, of Bethlehem, 
Pa.; Mary E., who is the widow of Daniel Paden; James, of Louisville, 
Ky. (he was drowned at that place, in 1910); Angus, of St. Louis, Mo.; 
Charles A., of Sunbury; Elmer, of Lewisville, Pa.; and David G., of 
Sunbury.
	Mr. and Mrs. Blank have had four children: Harry N., of Pittsburg, 
Pa.; George W., of Pittsburg; Bessie A., married to Samuel D. Best, a 
merchant  of  Sunbury; and  Charles W., at home.

	GEORGE W. RUPP, of Marion Heights, Northumberland county, is 
foreman at the Greenough colliery, where he has been engaged since 1900, 
and is very well known at the mines, where he has been employed for 
about fifty years, since early boyhood. His home was in Shamokin until 
his recent removal to Marion Heights.
	Mr. Rupp was born Jan. 1, 1819, in Catawissa township, Columbia 
Co., Pa., and is a representative of the fifth generation of his family 
in America, being descended from George Rupp, who came to America from 
Alsace Lorraine, Germany, in 1750.  There is quite a romance in 
connection with his emigration from his native land and settlement in 
America.  In his native land he had met Countess Ursila von Petersholtz, 
daughter of John Heinrich von Petersholtz, and her family, being of the 
nobility, objected to their union, in spite of the fact that young Rupp 
was a most superior young man.  The young couple thereupon married and 
eloped to America, where they founded a family which has become honored 
in every locality in which it has been represented.  The following 
account is mostly from family and church records.
	(1) George Rupp was born Aug. 11, 1721, at Wimmern, Lower Alsace, 
son of Ulrich and Margarette (Holtz) Rupp. On Jan. 27, 1750, he married 
Ursila von Petersholtz, and came to America, at once locating in Lehigh 
county, Pa., settling first at Trexlertown, where he took up a large 
section of land on a grant received from the Penns. Some of the 
descendants of this couple still live on a portion of the original 
grant.  George Rupp died in Northampton (now Lehigh) county Sept. 13, 
1807, aged eighty-six years. Rev. Heinrich Helfrish, the minister who 
preached at Trexlertown from 1784, baptized and married George Rupp's 
children, who were nine in number, four sons and five daughters.  We 
have the following record of this family: (1) Maria Clara was born Dec. 
4, 1750.  (2) Margarette was born Aug. 25, 1752.  (3) Anna Margarette 
was born Sept. 10, 1754.  (4) Adam Harmanus, born Nov. 7, 1756, married 
Barbara Berer, who was of Swiss descent and they had one son named 
Jacob, who married Mary Vogel. Jacob Rupp died in 1860.  (5) Johann 
George was born Feb. 28, 1758.  (6) Andreas, born March 26, 1760, had a 
family.  (7) Johannes, born July 9, 1762, is mentioned below.  (8) Maria 
was born Jan. 2, 1764.  (9) Anna was born in 1766.
	(II) Johannes Rupp, son of George, was born July 2, 1762, at 
Trexlertown, Lehigh county, and died in Philadelphia.  He was a 
blacksmith by trade. His children were: William, Jacob, George and Mary 
(married Jacob Stein).
	(III) George Rupp, son of Johannes, was born May 30, 1790, at 
Trexlertown, Lehigh county, and died Feb. 8, 1870.  He learned weaving 
and followed that trade for some time. But he was still a young man when 
he moved to Columbia county, Pa., and settled in what is now Catawissa 
township, taking up farming, in which work he prospered.  He acquired 
three large farms.  He was a Lutheran in religious faith. George Rupp 
married Elizabeth Moyer, and they had four children, namely: (1) Mary 
(Polly) married Michael Stein, and their children were: Jacob, George, 
David, Michael, Jonas, Amanda and Elizabeth. (2) Reuben, who died in 
Mount Carmel, had a large family, viz.; George, Sally Porger, Jonas (who 
had children Cora Rorich, Sarah Peipher, Kate Mench, Herman, William, 
Franklin, Albert, Luzetta Cooper and Elizabeth Fabringer), Mary 
Hirshfield, Harriet Lentz, Harmon, Andrew (who had a son Warren) and 
Elizabeth Duddinger (who had children William, Lorenzo, Sarah English, 
Harriett Martin, Clara Klein, Daniel, Flora Conrad, Edward and Irvin).  
(3) John is mentioned below.  (4) Jonathan, who died in Mount Carmel, 
Pa., had children: Frank, Elizabeth Henry, Alfred, Carrie Jane Owens, 
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sie Eisenhart, wife of J. H. Eisenhart, of Shamokin.
	(IV) John Rupp, son of George, was born Oct. 17, 1819, in Catawissa 
township, Columbia county, and followed farming in that county, becoming 
well-to-do and acquiring land there. Retiring, he removed to Shamokin, 
but his death occurred while he was in Illinois, on a visit to his 
daughter, July 12, 1890.  He married Mary Bachman, of St. Clair, Pa., 
daughter of Daniel Bachman, and to them were born the following 
children. (1) Elizabeth married Lemuel Fisher and John Meisberger, and 
her children are: John H.; George; Margarett, Barbara Ella Zuerns, who 
has had two children, John and Ella, and Mary Etta Henning, who had 
Lizzie, Kate and Raymond.  (2) Anna married David Eveland and lives at 
Hagerstown, Md.  (3) Daniel, who died in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., had 
children: Ella Thomas, Mrs. Donlan and Elizabeth.  (4) John is a 
resident of Shamokin. (5) George W. is mentioned below.  (6) David lives 
in Johnson City, near Shamokin.  (7) Kathryn married Richard Henley, of 
Indiana.  (8) Ellen married William Cute. (9) Rebecca married William 
O'Brien.
	(V) George W. Rupp received his education in the public schools of 
Shamokin, but he was a mere boy when he began picking slate at the Cold 
Run Colliery.  He had only worked at that for three weeks, however, when 
he was made door-tender, and later he drove team.  He next commenced 
mining, at the Brady colliery, and later was at the Enterprise, run by 
Baumgardner & Douty, where he was employed for some time. In 1900 he 
came to the Greenough colliery, as assistant inside foreman, and there 
he has since remained.  He is an industrious, reliable and intelligent 
worker, and has a respected name among his fellow employees and among 
his employers.
	On Oct. 17, 1871, Mr. Rupp  married  Della Lyons, daughter of 
Thomas Lyons.  The latter emigrated from Ireland, and on his arrival in 
this country first located at Pittsburg, Pa., thence coming to Shamokin, 
where he was one of the early settlers, among his neighbors being the 
Weaver, Zuern, Dailey, Fagely and Snyder families.  To Mr. and Mrs. Rupp 
have been born children as follows: John E.; Thomas J., who lives in 
Shamokin; Catherine M., married to Daniel Hyland, of Philadelphia; 
George F.; William J., of Philadelphia; Raymond V.; and Mary V. and B. 
Irene, both of whom are deceased.  In February, 1909, the family moved 
from Shamokin to Marion Heights (Keiser post office). Mr. Rupp and his 
family are members of St. Edward's Catholic Church. Fraternally he is a 
member of the F.O.E., Aerie No. 533. He is an independent voter.

	ABRAHAM REDCAY, foreman of the foundry department of the American 
Car & Foundry Company at Milton, and one of the faithful employees of 
that company, was born in Lewis township Jan. 23, 1847, son of Daniel 
and Abby (Kint) Redcay.
	The name Redcay (Redche, Retge) has been common in Lancaster and 
Berks counties in Pennsylvania for one hundred and fifty years.  (I) 
Elias Rattge (or Redehe), the first of the name here, came to 
Pennsylvania Sept. 26, 1737, from Germany, and was accompanied by 
Nicholas Rattge, a relative. Both names were written by a clerk and that 
of Elias was spelled Ratgen. Tradition says he was related to John Jacob 
Radge, who arrived in Philadelphia Dec. 3, 1740, on the ship "Robert and 
Alice," Capt. Goodman, commander. Elias Rattge settled at once in 
Robeson township, Lancaster county, and Nicholas in Albany township, 
Berks (then Philadelphia) county; and on Nov. 28, 1750, the latter 
received a warrant for fifty acres in Philadelphia county.  He was a 
farmer, but little is known of him. He died in 1760, leaving a widow, 
Maria Ann Ursula, and children Elias (died in Greenwich township, Berks 
county, in 1773) and Anna Margarete.
	In 1750 Elias Rattge (or Redche) secured a warrant from the 
proprietaries of Pennsylvania for sixty-five acres of land in Robeson 
township, Lancaster county; in 1752 this township was transferred to 
Berks county. On Oct. 28, 1765, he purchased 140 acres adjoining the 
sixty-five, and there he farmed until 1773. On June 12, 1773, he sold 
his property at Gibraltar to his only son, Elias, Jr., and moved to 
Cumru (now Brecknock) township, in what was called "the Forest." There 
he purchased 134 acres, through which ran the Allegheny creek, and on 
the banks of that stream he erected a sawmill, which he conducted 
successfully until the time of his death.  He also followed farming on 
this land. He died in 1786, aged about seventy years, and is buried at 
St. John's cemetery, Gibraltar - a part of his old farm. Elias Redche 
was twice married. By his first wife Elizabeth he had the following 
children:  (1) Elias, born in 1745, married April 6, 1773, Elizabeth 
Hunter, of Oley (born in 1752, died Jan. 11 1816), and died Jan. 3, 
1829.  (2) Barbara married John Kendall.  (3) Mary, born Aug. 5, 1747, 
married May 28, 1770, Gottlieb Christian, and died in 1832.  (4) 
Catharine, born April 22, 1756, married Sept. 5, 1773, Christian Krauss, 
and died Feb. 14, 1809.  (5) Elizabeth married Frederich Rapp Sept. 20, 
1770, and died before 1786. Elias Redche married (second) March 21, 
1773, Rosina Zigler, widow of Adam Zigler. They had no children, and at 
his death in 1788 she married Christian Eschelman, a neighbor.
	(II) Elias Redcay, Jr., only son of Elias, lived in Robeson 
township, where he carried on farming and conducted a sawmill.  He 
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from his father in 1773, up to 1804, when he decided to sell out.  He 
was an extensive dealer in land and a large property owner, owning 
several good farms and a few timber tracts on which he operated 
sawmills. On April 29, 1791, he and his wife deeded to Valentine Geiger 
and Herman Umstead in trust for the inhabitants of this section a tract 
of land containing one acre, ten perches, it being part of the land he 
had purchased from his father.  This land contained the private burying 
ground of the Redcays, who in later years allowed people of their 
section to bury their dead there. It was the intention to have a church 
built there, but this was not done until 1809, and it is known as St. 
John's Lutheran and Reformed Church. It is said that a log church was on 
the property before the present church was built. All Christian 
congregations which contributed to its support were allowed to worship 
in the building, and they were also to maintain and keep the graveyard. 
Late in life Elias Redcay lost most of his competency, through 
disastrous financial investments. He was a member of the General 
Assembly from Exeter in 1805-1806, and during the Revolutionary war he 
served as a lieutenant of militia from Pennsylvania in Capt. Adam 
Beard's Company, 3d Battalion, Lieut. Col. Jonathan Jones.  He was a 
great reader and delighted to tell stories of the war. He died Jan. 3, 
1829, and is buried in the old Redcay burying ground.  On April 6, 1773, 
Elias Redcay married Elizabeth Hunter, born 1752, died Jan. 11, 1816, 
and their children were: (1) Henry, born Aug. 13, 1775, married Mary 
Catharine Neykirk, of Exeter, born Jan. 25, 1779. He died May 22, 1848, 
and she Sept. 3, 1842, and both are buried in the Muddy Creek cemetery 
in Lancaster county.  (2) John.  (3) Elias, born Dec. 28, 1782, married 
(first) Jan. 29, 1809, Sarah Harner, of Exeter. She died and was buried 
in Muddy Creek cemetery, and he married (second) July 16, 1826, 
Elizabeth Strauss, of Bern, born Feb. 12, 1790. He passed away Jan. 28, 
1867, and she died Aug. 19, 1875, and both are buried at Adamstown, 
Lancaster county.  (4) Elizabeth married Samuel Ludwig, of Cumru, and 
they moved to Missouri in 1832.  (5) Maria married June 9; 1805, Jacob 
Ludwig.
	(III) John Redcay, son of Elias, was born in Robeson township, 
Berks county, about 1779. On April 10, 1810, he, with his father, 
purchased a farm of John Barr, of Exeter township, which they farmed 
until 1823, when they sold out. He then moved to a farm near 
Schwartzwald in Exeter, which had a clover mill on it. There he remained 
until his death in 1836, and he is buried in St. John's graveyard at 
Gibraltar.  About 1807 he married Esther Rhoads, of Amity township, 
Berks county, and they had children as follows: (1) Mary, born Oct. 14, 
1807, married Thomas Lewis.  (2) Betzy, born April 10, 1809, married 
Pete Romig, and died Oct. 16, 1851.  (3) John, born April 25, 1810, 
married Phoebe Schrack, born Oct. 31, 1817, died Feb. 13, 1854. He died 
in July, 1848.  (4) Daniel, born Feb. 1, 1812, married Abby Kint and 
died June 1, 1890.  (5) Jacob, born June 13, 1816, died unmarried Dec. 
18, 1898. (6) Catharine married John Lewis.
	(IV) Daniel Redcay, son of John, was born Feb. 1, 1812, and died 
June 1, 1890, and is buried at McEwensville, Pa. He came to 
Northumberland county in his young manhood, and settled at McEwensville, 
where in 1859 he built the home in which he resided until his death. He 
was a contractor and builder, and many of the houses and barns in that 
district were built by him. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and 
in politics was a Democrat.  He married Abby Kint, who was born at Brier 
Creek, Berks  County, April 18, 1818, and died April 13, 1904, and is 
buried at McEwensville. Their children were: William and Christian, who 
both died young; Angeline, born Dec. 24, 1842, on the old homestead; 
Henry, born Feb. 4, 1845, living in Watsontown; Abraham; and Edward, 
born in 1861, living at Scranton.
	(V) Abraham Redcay, son of Daniel, was born Jan. 23, 1847, and in 
his youth learned the trade of molder at McEwensville. In 1872 he came 
to Milton, and became connected with the American Car & Foundry Company, 
and in 1889 was made foreman of the foundry department, a position he 
still holds. During the Civil war he served as a private in Company B, 
210th Pennsylvania Volunteers, spending nine months in the service of 
his country.  He is a member of Henry Wilson Post, No. 129, G.A.R. He 
and his family attend the Lutheran Church.  They reside at No. 231 Park 
avenue, Milton, in a home Mr. Redcay built and moved into at the time of 
his marriage. He votes the Prohibitionist ticket, and takes a firm stand 
for his party's principles.
	Mr. Redcay married Susanna Gold, daughter of David and Maria 
(Bissmiller) Gold, and they have had children: Edgar P., who died aged 
thirteen years, four months, twenty-one days; Elizabeth, who married 
Bert Hill, and lives in Turbut township; Franklin G., a jeweler employed 
by G. Dal. Fox, at Milton; and Clarence H., a molder, residing at 
Milton.

	CHARLES LEVAN KREMER, of Sunbury, whose business and official 
activity has gained him a wide acquaintance, has been a prominent 
contractor and builder and is now engaged in the real estate business. 
He is a son of Jacob Kremer, who as sheriff and treasurer of 
Northumberland county won popularity and friends.
	Jacob Kremer, son of Benjamin, was born April 30, 1827, in Albany 
township, Berks Co., Pa., and was but a child when brought by his 
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education attending school at the various places in which the family 
resided during his early life. After reaching his majority he engaged in 
the stock business at Allenwood, and during the Civil war supplied 
horses for all branches of the army service. In 1879 he became owner of 
the "Mansion House," at Watsontown, where he passed the remainder of his 
life. Though a resident of Northumberland county for less than twenty 
years, Mr. Kremer attained unusual prominence. In 1884 he was elected 
sheriff of Northumberland county, and in 1887, before the expiration of 
his term, he received the Republican nomination for county treasurer, 
and was elected.  He died March 6, 1892, and was buried at Watsontown.
	On Jan. 6, 1853, Mr. Kremer married Julia Ann Allen, eldest 
daughter of Isaac and Jane (Piatt) Allen, of Allenwood, Union county, 
which place was named in his honor. Mrs. Kremer was born Dec. 25, 1829, 
and died Dec. 29, 1902. She was the mother of nine children, four of 
whom, George W., Newton, Boyd and John, died in infancy, and the 
surviving are: Sarah Alice, wife of Charles G. Purcell; Allen I., who 
married Ada Taylor; Charles Levan, mentioned below; Daniel A., who 
married Emma Forseman; and Jennie L., married to G. R. Nauss.
	Charles Levan Kremer was born Jan. 4, 1857, at Allenwood, Union 
Co., Pa., and attended the district schools and at Williamsport. He came 
to Sunbury in 1884-85, at which time he became deputy sheriff under his 
father.  He served during his father's term, 1885-88, and again became 
deputy when his lather took the office of treasurer, serving as such 
from 1888 to 1891, and then as deputy under Robert Montgomery, 
Democratic sheriff.  In the fall of 1893 he was elected prothonotary of 
Northumberland county by a majority of 1,400, and at the close of this 
term he was reelected, by a majority of 1,399, serving six years in 
succession. During his service as prothonotary Mr. Kremer was also 
extensively engaged as a contractor and builder, in which line he was 
notably successful.
	Fraternally Mr. Kremer is a Mason, holding membership in Maclay 
Lodge, No. 632, F. & A.M.; Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M.; and 
Mount Hermon Commandery, No. 85, K.T.
	On Feb. 25, 1897, he married Mrs. Kate (Finnay) Van Horn, the 
ceremony being performed by Dr. Hamlin, of Washington. Her parents were 
Hamilton and Catharine Finney, of Kansas City Missouri.
	Hamilton Finney, her father, was a native of Northumberland county 
and spent his early life here.  About the year 1840 he moved to 
Harrisonville, Mo., and after the Civil war he went to Kansas City, 
where he took a prominent part in the political life of the city. There 
his daughter Kate was born and lived all her early life.  She married 
Robert Van Horn, who died in 1885. In 1895, after the death of Mrs. 
Finney, Mr. Finney and his daughter came back to Sunbury to live and 
here she met Mr. Kremer, whom she married in Washington, D. C., in 1897. 
For twelve years they lived in Sunbury and then bought "Honeywood Farm," 
on the hill opposite the town, where she lived until her death one year 
later.  Mrs. Kremer occupied a unique place in the life of Sunbury.  She 
was a woman of rare refinement and culture, having had the advantages of 
extensive travel and study.  She was an artist of unusual ability, 
studying in Paris and New York, where she did some notable work in oils. 
She was a linguist, and up to the time of her death spent much time in 
the study of German and French. Mrs. Kremer had a charming personality 
and possessed to an unusual degree the faculty of making and keeping 
friends.  She was most lavish in her hospitality and possessed gifts 
which made her home the center of the best sort of social intercourse. 
She died May 21, 1910, and is buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery at 
Sunbury.

	FREDERIC ANTES GODCHARLES, president and general manager of the F. 
A. Godcharles Company, of Milton, manufacturers of iron and steel nails, 
hinges, washers and puddled iron, is at the head of an industry which 
has done much for the borough's prosperity for over a third of a 
century. This company is the successor of the C. A. Godcharles Company, 
which was established in 1875 by the late Charles A. Godcharles; father 
of Frederic A. Godcharles.  Employment is given at present to about four 
hundred, a fact which conveys some idea of the importance of the 
Godcharles plant in its relation to the local industrial situation. Mr. 
Godcharles is one of the young business men foremost, in his section of 
Pennsylvania, and he has not only extensive business interests but also 
numerous social connections.  Moreover, he has been conscientious in the 
discharge of his civic responsibilities, having served faithfully in 
public office, for which his ability and experience make him peculiarly 
competent.
	Mr. Godcharles was born June 3, 1872, oldest son of Charles A. and 
Elizabeth (Burkenbine) Godcharles. His father was one of the constituent 
members of the firm of C. A. Godcharles & Co., organized in 1875. His 
mother was the daughter of the late Samuel A. Burkenbine, one of the 
most prominent newspaper men of his day; she was also the granddaughter 
of Alexander Hughes, another member of the newspaper profession and at 
one time State printer, and the great-granddaughter of Col. Philip 
Frederic Antes, a colonel in the Revolution, a most prominent early 
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treasurer of Northumberland county.  The subject of this sketch was 
named for this illustrious ancestor.
	CHARLES AIKEN GODCHARLES,  son of Henry and Esther (Price) 
Godcharles, was born at Farrandsville, Clinton Co., Pa., Dec. 8, 1843. 
He attended the public schools for a few years, and learned the trade of 
nailmaker, under his father, who was a pioneer nailmaker in this 
country, traveling all the way from his native place in Canada by foot. 
At a very tender age Mr. Godcharles enlisted for service in the Civil 
war in Company G, 131st Pennsylvania Volunteers, and reenlisted in 
Company A, 201st Pennsylvania Volunteers.  After the close of the war he 
followed his trade at Duncannon, Pa., and later removed to 
Northumberland, where he accepted a similar position with Van Alen & Co. 
In 1874 he headed a company which built a nail mill at Milton, later one 
at Towanda, and then a third at Northumberland. He retired from active 
business a few years before his death, which occurred January 17, 1903.   
He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity, belonging to all the bodies, 
and was a prominent member of the Republican party.
	On June 25, 1905, the F. A. Godcharles Company, successors to the 
C. A. Godcharles Company was incorporated, Frederic A. Godcharles 
becoming president and general manager; Walter A Godcharles, vice 
president; and William B. Godcharles, secretary and treasurer, these 
officers being brothers.
	Frederic A. Godcharles received his preparatory education in 
Milton, graduating from the high school in May, 1888, after which he 
took a course in electrical engineering at Lafayette College, Easton, 
Pa., graduating in 1893. Since that time he has been associated in 
business as above stated. His principal interest is in the F. A. 
Godcharles Company, of which he is the title member, but he has also 
formed other important connections, local and otherwise.  He is a 
director of the Garrett County Coal and Mining Company. He is also 
interested in other corporations, either because of the advantages they 
offer, the locality or because they appear attractive propositions for 
the investment of capital. In short, he is a typical modern progressive 
business man. In 1910 he bought The Miltonian, the only weekly newspaper 
of Milton, the first newspaper of the place and the oldest in the 
county, it having been established by Henry Frick in 1816 and published 
without interruption since. This paper has grown wonderfully in the past 
year and ranks with the largest and best in this section of the State.
	Mr. Godcharles served throughout the Spanish-American war with the 
12th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and he has been a 
captain and inspector of rifle practice in the 12th Regiment, 
Pennsylvania National Guard. He was a member of the lower house of the 
Pennsylvania Legislature, session of 1901, and in November 1904, was 
elected to the state senate; he served on the Inaugural committee, 
Appropriations,  Public Road and Highways, Military, and as chairman of 
the committee on Game and fish. He is a past officer in the Sons of 
Veterans and Knights of Malta, and a charter member of the Milton lodge 
B.P.O. Elks. He is a prominent member of the Masonic Fraternity, being a 
past officer in Lodge, Chapter and Commandery and a member of the 
Council, Scottish Rite  (in which he is a thirty-second degree Mason) 
and Mystic Shrine. He is at present serving his fifth year as district 
deputy grand master for the Forty-sixth Masonic district.
	Mr. Godcharles has just published a history of Freemasonry in 
Northumberland and Snyder counties, which is the largest work of its 
kind ever attempted in the fraternity. He is a member of the Harrisburg 
Club of Harrisburg, the Union League Club of Philadelphia, the Ross Club 
of Williamsport, the Milton Rod and Gun Club, the Otzinackon Rod and Gun 
Club of Clinton County, the Automobile Club of Central Pennsylvania (of 
which he is president) the Motor Federation of Pennsylvania (of which he 
is chairman of the touring committee), a director of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen's Association and a member of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. When in college he became a member of 
the Phi Kappa Psi and the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities. His favorite 
recreations, as may be gathered from the foregoing, are automobiling, 
hunting and shooting. He is a Presbyterian in religion and a Republican 
in politics.
	On June 15, 1904, Mr. Godcharles was married, in Washington, D. C., 
to Mary Walls Barber, of St. Mary's county, Maryland.

	ISAAC M. GROSS, of Sunbury, who followed the milling and lumber 
businesses for a number of years, has been a resident of the borough 
since 1874 and has been a useful citizen and a respected member of the 
community during all those years.
	Mr. Gross was born in Snyder county, Pa., Aug. 5, 1845, and he is a 
great-grandson of Michael Gross, an early settler in Berks county, Pa., 
who lived and died there. Israel Gross, son of Michael,  moved thence to 
Snyder county when a young man, being among the early settlers in his 
locality. He was a farmer on Blue Hill, just across the river from Fort 
Augusta, where his grandson, Isaac M. Gross, now lives.
	John Gross, son of Israel, was born in 1833 in Snyder county, 
opposite Fort Augusta, and died in 1876, being killed in a sawmill. He 
is buried at Shamokin Dam.  He married Mary Gougler, daughter of George 
Gougler, of Snyder county, and granddaughter of the late Capt. Jacob 
Hummel, a widely known man in his day, who served as a 
	
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captain in the Revolutionary war; he was the second person buried in the 
cemetery at Selinsgrove. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. John 
Gross  Milton G.; Olivia J., who married Dr. Bordner (both are 
deceased); and Isaac M.
	Isaac M. Gross received his education in the public schools of 
Snyder county.  In his early manhood he was in the milling business, and 
before his removal to Sunbury was in the lumber business from 1866 to 
1873, at Shamokin Dam. In 1874 he settled in Sunbury, where he continued 
to carry on the lumber business, retiring from active pursuits in 1893.  
Since 1895 he has lived at his present home, Fort Augusta, a beautiful 
place along the river front in Sunbury.  He has taken a public-spirited 
interest in the welfare of the borough, and served two terms in the 
council, to which he was first elected in the year 1899.
	On Jan. 21, 1874, Mr. Gross married Amelia Lucust Hancock, and to 
them have been born two daughters, Olivia J. and Ella B., the former of 
whom is deceased. Ella B. Gross married William M. Rossiter, of Sunbury, 
and they have six children, Jane A., Gertrude B., Monroe C., Mary R., 
William M. and Marcella G.
	Mrs. Gross is a woman of intelligence and of enterprising 
disposition.  Born at St. Blazey, Cornwall, England, in 1849, she 
learned the millinery business in her native land and came to America 
with her parents in 1869.  The family landed at Castle Garden, and 
stopped only two hours in New York, continuing their journey at once to 
Reading, Pa. Hotel accommodations were not so plentiful in those days as 
at present, and they were obliged to spend the night of their arrival in 
the railroad station.  They settled at Locust Dale, in Schuylkill 
county, and Mrs. Gross was for three years engaged at her trade in 
Ashland, that county, and at Mount Carmel, in Northumberland county, 
before she commenced business in Sunbury, in 1872. She became one of the 
successful business women of the borough and received her full share of 
the local patronage. On May 5, 1895, at sheriff's sale, she bought the 
old Colonel Hunter property at Fort Augusta, well known all over 
Pennsylvania and in fact to historians everywhere.  It has been improved 
and beautified through the efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Gross until it is one 
of the notably handsome places along the river front.
	William Hancock, father of Mrs. Gross, was an expert mining 
engineer and inspector of mines, and was well known in and around Locust 
Dale, where he made his home. He died Jan. 21, 1876, and is buried at 
Sunbury. He married Jane Lucust, daughter of John Locust, and they had a 
family of eight children: Richard, who came to America in 1852 and 
fought through the Civil war; Mary J., who died young; Mary, who married 
Thomas Stephen and died in England; William, who served three months in 
the English army before he came to America, in 1853, and served here 
through the Civil war; John, who died young, Jane; Caroline; and Amelia.
	In 1911 Mrs. Gross made a tour of England, setting sail June 27th 
and returning in September. She visited her old home and many notable 
places; attended Ambassador Reid's reception on July 4th; and had the 
honor of touching the original plan - now in the British Museum - of 
Fort Augusta, which was built in America by the British during the reign 
of King George III.  Among other famous places she visited Westminster 
Abbey and the Cathedral of Canterbury.  She was very proud to visit the 
Cathedral, as she had been confirmed in 1862 at Tywardreath Church by 
Archbishop Longley who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1795 to 1869.

	EARL M. ROUSH, of Sunbury, a young member of the Northumberland 
county bar who is gaining a creditable practice and standing in his 
section, is a member of an old Snyder county family. His great-
grandfather, Simon Roush, moved to that county from Lebanon county and 
settled near Freeburg. His children were as follows: Charles, Edward, 
Joshua,  Christiana,  Amelia, Louisa, Esther and Alexander.
	Alexander Roush, grandfather of Earl M. Roush, was born in 1822, 
and died in 1890.  He was a farmer by occupation, and lived near 
Freeburg, Snyder county.  He married Charlotte Mengis, born in 1835, 
died in 1900, and they had a family of eight children, of whom we have 
the following record:  (1) Wallace is deceased.  (2) Jacob M. is 
mentioned below. (3) Noah married Ella Gundrum, and they had children, 
Mabel, Nelson and Lucy.  (4) Elijah married Ellen Wertz, and they had 
one son, Simon.  (5) Luther.  (6) T. Jefferson married Sallie Wert.  (7) 
Mary married John McCreary and had children, Clarence, Isabella and 
Walter.  (8) Esther married William V. Baker.
	Jacob M. Roush, son of Alexander, was born in 1848, in Snyder 
county, where he passed the greater part of his life, in 1891 removing 
to Sunbury, Northumberland county, where he built a home on Susquehanna 
avenue and passed the remainder of his life.  His death occurred Oct. 
31, 1903. Early in life he learned the carpenter's trade, which he 
followed until his death. He was married at Freeburg to Sarah J. Schnee, 
daughter of Mathias Schnee (whose wife's maiden name was Rine).  She 
survives him with the three children of their union, Earl M., Charlotta 
and William. The last named is still a student. Charlotta Roush 
graduated from the Sunbury high school in June, 1902, and subsequently 
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A. Flick, of the firm of Flick & Leib, Sunbury. Mr. and Mrs. Flick have 
had two children, Virginia and Bettie.
	Earl M. Roush was born in 1881 in Freeburg, Snyder Co., Pa., and 
there received the beginnings of his education.  He graduated from the 
Sunbury high school with the class of 1900. Being ambitious to gain a 
college education, but being dependent entirely upon his own resources, 
he secured the position of assistant secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at 
Sunbury, which he held for one year, meanwhile pursuing his studies 
under private tutors.  He then entered the sophomore class at Dickinson 
College, Carlisle, Pa., from which institution he was graduated in June, 
1905, and in September following he entered the Carlisle law school, 
where he completed the course, graduating in 1907. In August, 1907, Mr. 
Roush was elected to fill the chair of mathematics at the Sunbury high 
school, and was reelected in 1908. On Nov. 18, 1907, he was admitted to 
the bar of Northumberland county, and in 1908 opened an office in the 
Bassler building, in Sunbury, and began the regular practice of his 
profession. His early efforts, and the obstacles he has successfully 
overcome in acquiring a thorough education and adequate professional 
training, are excellent indications of what his future may be.
	Mr. Roush's social connections are with the Sigma Alpha Epsilon 
fraternity and the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, and he is a Mason, 
belonging to Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A.M. He is a member of Zion's 
Lutheran Church.

	EMERICK.  The Emerick or Emrick family (early spelling Emrich) has 
been represented in Pennsylvania since the first half of the eighteenth 
century. There is record of a number who emigrated to this country 
during that period, the Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. XVII, showing the 
following, with name of ship and date of arrival: Johan "Nickel" Emrich 
(aged thirty-six), "Glasgow" Sept. 9, 1738; Jacob Emrich (aged 
nineteen), "Patience and Margaret," Sept. 25, 1748; Johan Fried. Emrich, 
"Chesterfield," Sept. 1, 1749; Anthoni Emrich, "Royal Union," Aug. 15, 
1750; Johan Georg Emmerich, "Richard and Mary," Sept. 20, 1752; Herman 
Emrich (aged twenty-seven) and Carl Emrich (aged twenty-seven),  
"Louisa," Oct. 3, 1753; Johan Peter Emrich, "Bannister," Oct. 31, 1754; 
Andreas Emrich snow "Tryall," Dec. 4, 1764; Johannes Emrich, "Chance," 
Sept. 23, 1766; Joseph Emrich, "Betsy," Oct. 26, 1768; Johan Theobald 
Emrich, "Minerva," Oct. 13, 1769; Andreas Emmerich, "Charming Molly," 
Oct. 22, 1773.  One John Bolters Emerick died on shipboard April 22, 
1806.
	That the family has long been quite numerous in eastern 
Pennsylvania is shown by the Federal Census Report of 1790, in which, 
under Emrich, we find indexed Adam, Andrew, Balser, Herman, Jacob, 
Jacob, Jr., John, John (Philadelphia county), John, Jr., John, Jr., John 
George, Leonard, Ludwig (Philadelphia county), Michael, Nicolas 
(Cumberland county), Philip and William; of the Emricks, there were 
George, Henry (of Dauphin county), and Jacob, John, John and Valentine 
(all four of Montgomery county). Of these, Adam Emrich, of Tulpehocken 
township, Berks county, had two sons under sixteen and two daughters; 
Andrew Emrich, of that township, had one son above and two sons under 
sixteen and four daughters; John George Emrich, of the same township, 
had four daughters; Balser Emrich, of Bethel township, Berks county, had 
three sons under sixteen and two daughters; John Emrich, Jr., of Bethel 
township, had one son under sixteen and one daughter; another John 
Emrich, Jr., of the same township, had two sons above sixteen; Jacob 
Emrich, also of Bethel township, had wife but no children; Jacob Emrich, 
Jr., same township, had one son above and one son under sixteen and two 
daughters; William Emrich, of Bern township, Berks county, had one son 
above and one son under sixteen, and two daughters; Leonard Emrich, of 
Brunswick (Brecknock?) and Manheim townships, Lancaster county, had one 
son above and one son under sixteen; Michael Emrich had four sons above 
sixteen and two daughters; Philip Emrich, of the borough of Reading, 
Berks county, had two sons above and one son under sixteen, and three 
daughters; Herman Emrich, of Rockland township, Berks county, had one 
son above and two sons under sixteen, and three daughters.  One Andrew 
Emrich, of Bethel township, Berks county, died before 1789, leaving a 
wife Margaret and children Valentine, Julianna (married Henry Moyer), 
John and Henry.  During the Revolutionary war one Jacob Emmerick was a 
private in Capt. James Todd's company from Dauphin county.
	Of the Emerich wills on record the earliest is that of Nicholas 
Emerich, regarding which we find the following in the register general's 
office at Reading, Berks county: Letters of administration under the 
said office with a true copy of a translation from the German original 
of the last will and testament of Nicholas Emerich, late of the township 
of Rockland in the County of Berks, aforesaid, yeoman, deceased, were 
granted to Valentine Emerich of the Township of Whitehall, in the County 
of Northampton, in the Province of Pennsylvania, yeoman, eldest son of 
the said testator, no executor or executors being therein named, he 
having first given bond according to Law (Anna Barbara, the widow, 
relict of the said testator, appearing not to be of sound understanding 
sufficient to take upon her the burden of the administration of the 
estate of the said testator); inventory to be exhibited at or before the 
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sixth day of July next and an account of his administration at or before 
the twenty-sixth day of June, which will be in the year of our Lord one 
thousand, seven hundred and seventy; which will of the said Nicholas 
Emerich, deceased, was duly proved by the solemn oath of George 
Oberdorff and Jaque Baral, the Subscribing Witnesses to the said will, 
but being in the German Language could not be recorded.  The will was 
proved the 16th of June, 1769; letters of administration, the 26th of 
same month.  Examined by James Read, deputy register.
	Descendants of Valentine Emerick live in Center county, near Center 
Hall.  One is a doctor, and his sister is married to an attorney who has 
a number of Emrich family papers.
	Other wills recorded are those of Jacob Emerich (1803); Adam 
Emerich (1809); Balzer Emerich (1810); Adam Emerich (1813); John Emerich 
(1816); Leonard Emerich (1834); Christian Emerich (l840); Hannah Emerich 
(1842); Barbara Emerich (1849); George Emerich (1865). Guardians were 
appointed for John and George Emerich in 1809; for Mary and Catharine 
Emerich in 1810; for a child of John Emerich (deceased) and for Peter 
and Joseph Emerich, 1815.
	There was a John Nicholas Emerick, born in 1749, who came to this 
country in 1774, and engaged in the fur trade as a partner of John Jacob 
Astor, founder of the celebrated New York family. Astor, also a German, 
born in 1763 near Heidelberg, was engaged in the manufacture of musical 
instruments with his brother in London, and came to America in 1783, to 
Baltimore, with the idea of disposing of some of his instruments. He was 
the first regular dealer in that line in this country.  Having exchanged 
musical instruments for furs, in New York, he accidentally entered into 
the business upon which his great fortune was founded  Returning to 
London with his stock, he disposed of it to such advantage that he 
speedily made another trip.  In time he came to invest largely in real 
estate in New York, where he made his home until his death, in 1848.  
(See "Frolic and Fun," by Isabel Allardyce, 1907). John Nicholas 
Emerick, who was his partner in the fur business for thirty years, was 
stationed at Berlin and was probably the best known agent in Europe in 
that line of trade. He never married, leaving all his property to the 
children of two brothers in the United States.  According to tradition 
Astor and Emerick entered into an agreement to the effect that no 
settlement of their partnership affairs was to be made for a certain 
number of years after the death of either. So far as the descendants of 
John Michael Emerick - supposed to have been a brother of John Nicholas 
Emerick - are concerned, no settlement has ever been reached.  Michael 
Emerick, late of Lower Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, father 
of the present Dr. M. L. Emerick, of that section, and grandson of John 
Michael, frequently referred to the family's claim to this estate and 
his hopes that his children would gain their legacy. The estate was 
reputed to be so vast as to stimulate the activities of possible 
beneficiaries.  Franklin Square, Philadelphia, is part of the property 
involved.  Some of the money is in banks at Bremen, Germany.  On July 
28, 1886, there was a press inquiry and notice to the heirs of the 
estate of Nicholas Emerick, and newspaper articles relating to the 
matter which have appeared at various times are preserved by members of 
the family as possible clews. Several Emericks in different parts of the 
country are reputed to have received money as heirs, and efforts are 
being made to have the matter closed up.
	John Michael Emerick, the ancestor of the Emericks and Emricks of 
Northumberland county with which this article is concerned, was born 
Sept. 6, 1757, and had brothers and sisters as follows: Elizabeth, born 
April 18, 1752 (Mrs. Groover); Anna Catherine, born Sept. 9, 1754; Mary 
Barbara and John, twins, born July 12, 1760; Rose Elizabeth, born Nov. 
20, 1763; Henry Landis, born July 30, 1767; Samuel, born Oct. 1, 1769.
	John Michael Emerick, who died Nov. 14, 1835 (this does not agree 
with family record which says "he died aged thirty-eight years"), is 
buried on the farm now owned by John Michael Emerick, but which at that 
time was the property of Balthaser Bordner.  A translation of an article 
of agreement made Nov. 29, 1784, between Martin Kerstetter, of Mahanoy 
township, Northumberland County, Pa., and Michael Emrich, of Bethel 
township, Berks Co., Pa., shows that Martin Kerstetter sells to Michael 
Emrich a tract of land located in Mahanoy township containing 150 acres 
for 160 pounds; 25 pounds on above date; 25 pounds on May 1, 1785; 10 
pounds on Oct. 1, 1786; and 10 pounds yearly thereafter until paid. In 
article of agreement entered into between George and Michael Emrich, 
both of Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, and John Weidenhammer, 
from Richmond township, Berks county, parties of first part bound 
themselves to pay John Weidenhammer the sum of 166 pounds 17 shillings, 
four pence, lawful money, to be paid April 18, 1821.  The same parties 
of first part agree to pay a like sum in 1822. A like sum they appear to 
have paid in 1820.
	John Michael Emerick married Anna Catharine Pontius, born April 14, 
1757, died March 11, 1838, and to them were born the following children: 
John, who never married, located in Ohio; (John) George is mentioned 
fully below; Sarah Marie, born April 28, 1789, died about 1871-72, 
married Jacob Spotts (born June 18, 1788, died June 14, 1852, one of the 
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daughters, of Johannes and Maria Spatz, the former born March 24, 1762, 
died Nov. 24, 1856; the latter born July 5, 1765, died Aug. 5, 1834); 
Catharine, born March 11, 1791, married Michael Lenker, and died Sept. 
18, 1860; Elizabeth, born Aug. 11, 1785, married a Latsha, and died June 
26, 1861; Michael, born in 1794, located on a farm adjoining the 
homestead, and died in 1873; Anna Mary, born in 1792, was married to 
Martin Kerstetter (the ceremony being performed by Adam Lenker, J. P., 
and witnessed by George Emrich, George Wolf and Michael Lenker), and 
died aged sixty-two years, eight months eight days.
	(John) George Emerick son of John Michael, born March 9, 1788, died 
in 1871, and is buried at Zion's (Stone Valley) Church, of which he and 
his family were Lutheran members.  His will, made April 25, 1870, was 
proved June 7, 1872. He came to  Northumberland county in 1813, making 
the journey with one wagon, and became a farmer in Lower Mahanoy 
township, cultivating a large tract of land. His wife, Eva Magdalena 
(Zartman), daughter of Martin Zartman, born Oct. 8, 1795, died in 1876, 
and she, too, is buried at the Stone Valley Church. They were the 
parents of thirteen children, born as follows: George, April 23, 1813; 
Jacob, Dec. 21, 1814; Rebecca, Sept. 12, 1816 (married Charles  
Brosius); Benjamin, Feb. 1, 1818 (had children); Sarah, Nov. 7, 1819 
(married Jonas Snyder); John, Dec. 2, 1821 (died Feb. 18, 1896); 
Elizabeth, Sept 9, 1823 (died in infancy); Elias, Sept. 16, 1824 (died 
March 2, 1898); Catherine, 1826 (married John Stein); Mary, Sept. 2, 
1828 (married Isaac Martz); Susannah, Jan. 14, 1831 (died young); 
Michael, Nov. 27, 1832; Joseph, Nov. 27, 1834.
	Michael Emerick, son of (John) George, was born Nov. 27, 1832, on 
the farm in Lower Mahanoy township now owned by Frank Phillips.  He 
owned and operated the farm which is now the property of his son-in-law, 
Jonathan Byerly, and in 1863 erected the large brick house now standing 
on that place, all the brick for which was made on the premises.  A man 
of enterprise and intelligence, he was a useful and progressive citizen 
in every respect, encouraged public education and took an active part in 
matters of interest to the community generally.  He enjoyed such 
confidence among his neighbors and friends that he was called upon to 
settle a number of estates. In polities he was a Republican, in religion 
a Lutheran, he and his family being Lutheran member of the Stone Valley 
Church, which he served as deacon and trustee. He died Dec. 21, 1899, 
and is buried at that church.
	On Jan. 25, 1855, Mr. Emerick married Hannah Tressler, who was born 
Jan. 20, 1832, daughter of Jacob and Mary Ann (Billman) Tressler; and 
who, though nearly eighty, is a well preserved woman, her vitality being 
remarkable. The following children were born to this union: (1) Sarah 
Minerva, born Jan. 29, 1856, married J. F. Blasser, and they have had a 
large family, born as follows: Charles Albert, July 10, 1882; John Ezra, 
born July 10, 1882 (married Nov. 10, 1906, to Crissie P. Dreibelbis); 
Mabel Saloma, Dec. 3, 1883; Mary Magdalene, May 23, 1885 (married July 
27, 1909, Roscoe E. Walborn); Walter Jacob, Nov. 20, 1886; Hannah 
Henrietta, March 29, 1888; Naomi Susannah, March 14, 1889; Alice Minerva 
and Julius Abraham, twins, June 16, 1893; Ray Michael, Feb. 4, 1895; and 
Moses Obadiah, Feb. 27, 1897. (2) Theodore T., born July 22, 1857, 
married Rosa A. Latsha. They have no children. (3) Mary Magdalene, born 
Oct. 2, 1858, died in infancy. (4) Louisa Catherine, born Aug. 31, 1859, 
married Jonathan Byerly, and they have had nine children: Beecher, born 
Dec. 8, 1881; Naomi Josephine, Jan. 5, 1883; Claude Alveretta, June 27, 
1884; Hannah Elizabeth, Oct. 16, 1885; Elias Michael, Oct. 23, 1886; 
Saloma Ellen, Aug. 10, 1889; Isaac Theodore, Nov. 3, 1892; Maude H., 
Dec. 6, 1894; Mark Jonathan, Nov. 18, 1900. (5) George Jacob Michael, 
born in August, 1865, is a farmer in Jordan township, in his native 
district. He was reared to farm life, working for his parents until 
thirty-two years of age, when he undertook to farm the homestead on his 
own account, continuing thus two years.  In 1899 he purchased his 
present well located farm of 150 acres, two and a half miles north of 
Uniontown, one mile south from Urban, on the road leading to Pillow. 
This was the homestead of George Brosius, and before him his father, 
Daniel Brosius, owned it.  The barn on this place is a landmark, and the 
house was erected by George Brosius during the nineties.  Mr. Emerick 
has a fertile tract, in a good state of cultivation, and has prospered 
in his agricultural work. Politically he is a Republican, and served as 
supervisor of the township from 1907 to 1910. He and his family worship 
at Zion's Union Church, Stone Valley, of which he was a deacon three 
years.  He was married Dec. 17, 1897 to Adeline Witmer, daughter of 
Henry S. and Phoebe (Zartman) Witmer. They have had one son, Michael 
Henry. (6) Hannah Rufina, born July 19, 1869; died in infancy.  (7) 
Martin Luther, mentioned below, was born Nov. 10, 1872. (8) Ellen 
Miranda, born June 15, 1874, married Isaac R. Phillips, and has one 
child, Hannah Harriette, born Aug. 24, 1909.

	MARTIN LUTHER EMERICK, M. D., of Hickory Corners, Northumberland 
county, is one of the notably successful physicians of his section of 
Pennsylvania. He was born on the farm in Jordan township where his 
boyhood days were passed, and received his early mental training in the 
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mal school at Bloomsburg, and for one term taught public school in his 
home township. He then took a special course in chemistry at the 
Pennsylvania State College, and later a special course at Susquehanna 
University, finally entering Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 
where he pursued his medical course and graduated in 1896.  His special 
work was in diseases of the eye, a maternity course and optics, and upon 
the completion of his college work he did practical work in the German 
hospital at Philadelphia, under the special direction of Dr. Freese, 
formerly a lecturer in the Royal Medical College at Berlin, Germany.  In 
June, 1896, he passed the examination of the State Medical Council, and 
returning home commenced practice.  He remained at the homestead for two 
months, since when he has been a resident of Hickory Corners, his home 
being out from Dalmatia (Georgetown), on the Northern Central railroad.  
The most conservative admit his success, from the beginning. His 
practice was at first a typical general country practice, until his 
office work became so heavy that he was compelled to give up country 
calls and devote his attention to those who came to him.  Few young 
physicians have attained even local renown so quickly. Dr. Emerick has 
had to bring his work into the limits of a specialist on chronic 
diseases and as such enjoys the most extensive practice in the State. He 
is reputed to have few equals as a diagnostician, and his fame has 
spread over several States because of the large number of people whom he 
has cured.  Yet he is a most modest, unassuming gentleman, sympathetic, 
liberal and great-hearted, and has performed many services gratuitously, 
deserving his reputation as a benefactor of suffering humanity. His 
patients come from all over the country, especially from the anthracite 
and bituminous coal fields, and as many as seventy-two people have come 
on one train to his office in the rural section of Lower Mahanoy 
township.  Dalmatia and Herndon teams and hacks have gained thriving 
business through his popularity. Such demands have been made upon him 
that in on day of twenty-three and a half hours he saw 21 patients.  He 
buys his drugs and supplies in wholesale quantities (medicine bottles in 
carload lots), his store room and office presenting the appearance of a 
wholesale drug store. Dr. Emerick himself manufactures a remedy which 
has considerable fame, the noted "Ginseng Dandelion Compound" for 
stomach and liver troubles, which has a gigantic sale.
	Dr. Emerick is honored in his home community as a citizen who has 
few equals, for he is a high type of manhood. The business interests he 
has acquired have made him as influential a factor in the material 
prosperity of his fellow citizens as his professional work has given him 
prestige and personal popularity. He owns several fine farms in the 
township where he lives, is interested financially in the shoe 
manufacturing business at Dalmatia, and also in a paint mill and the 
cement manufacturing industry. His largest investments, however, are in 
city real estate in Washington, D. C., and Carlisle, Pa. He is a man of 
large affairs and has accumulated considerable means.
	In February, 1897, Dr. Emerick married Catharine Ellen Lenker, 
daughter of Paul and Catharine (Garman) Lenker, and granddaughter of 
Jacob and Catharine (Wert) Garman. They have had three children: John 
Paul Luther, born Jan. 16, 1900, who died May 18, 1902; Myrtle Hannah C. 
A., born Jan. 5, 1904; and Emma Irene, born Feb. 1, 1909.  Dr. Emerick 
is a member of the Junior O.U.A.M., and the M.W.A. at Dalmatia.

	JOSEPH  EMRICK, a retired citizen of Sunbury, was born Nov. 27, 
1834, in Lower Mahanoy township, son of (John) George Emerick. Brought 
up to farming, he passed his early years engaged in that work at home 
and among the neighboring farmers. For two years he followed lime 
burning. In 1859 he began farming in Lower Mahanoy township, where he 
lived for three years, at the end of that time moving to Rockefeller 
township, where he farmed for the long period of thirty-one years, until 
his retirement in 1894.  He has since lived in Sunbury, making his home 
at No. 17 Fairmount avenue.  He has taken some part in public affairs 
since settling there, having served three years as assessor of the 
Eighth ward.  Mr. Emrick is a Republican in politics, and he and his 
family are Lutherans in religion.
	In 1858 Mr. Emrick married Sarah Wirt, who was born June 12, 1836, 
daughter of Michael Wirt, of Lower Mahanoy, and died June 19, 1904. She 
was the mother of ten children, viz.: (1) Henry Morris was born Aug. 29, 
1858.  (2) Clara Ann, born Nov. 10, 1859, died Oct. 26, 1863.  (3) One 
daughter died in infancy.  (4) a Sarah Jane, born May 8, 1863, was 
married Oct. 31, 1886, to J. Edward Reitz, and they have had  the 
following children: a daughter born Sept. 20, 1887, who died the same 
day; Harrison Edward, born Oct. 10, 1889; Verna Viola, born March 27, 
1891; a son born Aug. 20, 1894, who died the same day; Minnie 
Catharine, born Feb. 17, 1898, who died May 26, 1906; Lillian Martha, 
born Nov. 26, 1899; Martin Luther, born Feb. 17, 1904, who died March 
13, 1904; and Charles Emrick, born Jan. 31, 1906.  (5) Mary Magdaline 
was born Dec. 31, 1864.  (6) Charles Lincoln, born June 26, 1866, 
married Sarah Isabell Raker, and their children have been born as 
follows: Harry Clarence, Jan. 20, 1893; Willie Charles, Feb. 3, 1895;  
Elmer Charles, Oct. 25, 1898; Leroy, Aug. 5, 1902; Herbert Roosevelt 
Nov. 12, 1904; Wesley Weber, Jan. 21, 1907 (died Aug. 4, 1907); Viola 
Catharine, April 11, 1908; Minnie Josephine, Oct. 23, 1909. (7) George 
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1868, has two children: Ralph Obadiah, born Nov. 3, 1892, and Edith 
Christanna, born April 26, 1894. (8) Minnie Alice was born May 23, 1672. 
(9) Joseph Albert born Jan. 29, 1875, died Feb. 19, 1875. (10) A child 
born Aug. 22, 1878, died unnamed.
	On Sept. 19, 1907, Mr. Emrick married (second) Mrs. Sophronia 
Elizabeth (Kerstetter) Martz, widow of Daniel B. Martz, of Sunbury, by 
whom she had two sons, Robert S. and Arthur A.  Mrs. Emrick is a 
daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Gass) Kerstetter, of Shamokin (now 
Ralpho) township, and granddaughter of Philip Kerstetter, whose wife was 
a Slack, of Cameron township, this county, who died at Trevorton, in 
Zerbe township.

	SAMUEL DURELL JORDAN (deceased), organizer and first cashier of the 
First National Bank of Milton, was in his day one of the foremost 
citizens of that borough, where the name of Jordan has been one 
respected and influential for a century and more. His brother, Alexander 
Jordan, was presiding judge of the Eighth Judicial district for twenty 
years.
	Mr. Jordan was born in 1812 at Jaysburg (now a part of the city of 
Williamsport), Lycoming Co., Pa., son of Samuel J. and Rosanna 
(McClester) Jordan, the latter a daughter of Alexander McClester, a 
native of Aberdeen, Scotland. His father, born about 1764, lived at 
Jaysburg for a number of years.  He was a boatman and pilot by 
occupation, and is mentioned by Tunison Coryell as one of the first to 
introduce sails in the navigation of the Susquehanna.  About the year 
1802 he removed with his family to Milton, where he owned canal-boats 
and continued to follow the business. Mr. Jordan died at Milton July 27, 
1851, aged eighty-seven years, ten months, and his wife died Aug. 29, 
1840, aged seventy-three years, ten months, fifteen days. They are 
buried at Milton. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan were the parents of three 
children: Alexander, William and Samuel D.

	ALEXANDER JORDAN was born at Jaysburg May 19, 1798, and was a young 
child when the family removed to Milton, where he was reared. He had the 
educational advantages afforded by the local schools, but they were none 
too good and he went to work early. Moreover, though little more than a 
boy during the war of 1812-15, he accompanied the militia in the march 
across the State to Meadville, Crawford county, as deputy commissary, 
being absent several weeks. After clerking for several years in a store 
at Milton Mr. Jordan entered upon what was practically his 
apprenticeship to the legal profession, becoming an employee of Hugh 
Bellas, prothonotary of Northumberland county, for whom he was deputy 
clerk. During his work in that capacity he did begin the study of law 
under Mr. Bellas, but he did not study regularly for some time, as his 
inclination was toward mechanical pursuits, and his leisure, moreover, 
was limited.  He continued to serve as deputy prothonotary under Mr. 
Bellas's successors, George W. Brown and Andrew Albright meanwhile 
carrying on his law studies with such success that he was admitted to 
the bar April 19, 1820, having passed an examination by Messrs. Hepburn, 
Hall and Bradford. He commenced practice at once, opening an office at 
Sunbury, and rose rapidly in the profession. His diligence as a student 
which made his preparation especially thorough, was never relaxed after 
he entered upon the practice of the law, and much of his success was of 
the kind that may be won always by industry and patient care. His 
ability was unquestioned, but he did not depend upon natural talent 
alone to gain his patronage and prestige or to win his cases. In 
addressing the court or the jury he used language concise and to the 
point, and arguments which showed the most painstaking preparation, and 
his occasional eloquence was the eloquence of conviction, not of flowery 
but shallow discourse. Several years after his admission to the bar he 
received his first public honor, and from that time until the end of his 
days he was an influence in the judicial circles of his section.  In 
1826 he was commissioned prothonotary of the Supreme court for the 
Middle district, a connection which was of great value to him, bringing 
him, as it did, into contact with the leading jurists of the State. When 
the judiciary became elective in this State his high professional 
standing combined with his personal popularity made him a desirable 
candidate of his party - the Democratic, then dominant in the State, and 
in October, 1851, he was elected president judge of what was then the 
Eighth Judicial district, comprising Northumberland, Lycoming, Center 
and Clinton counties, by a large popular majority. He took the oath of 
office Nov. 28, 1851, and continued to serve, by reelection, for twenty 
years. In 1861 the counties of Northumberland, Montour and Lycoming 
constituted the district. Such continued honors as came to Judge Jordan 
were not the result of chance.
	"Many complicated questions affecting large personal and property 
interests, and involving principles not heretofore considered, arose 
during Judge Jordan's incumbency; in these important cases his decisions 
have stood the severest scrutiny and will be an enduring evidence of his 
ability as a jurist He was endowed in a remarkable degree with the 
logical faculty, while his analytical powers - keen, incisive and 
accurate - grasped at once the essential points in an argument, 
dismembered of all irrelevant matter. To him the law was an intricate 
science, and its study was quite as much a source of intellectual 
gratification as a professional duty. His intercourse with members of 
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bar was characterized by uniform courtesy, and his rulings were so given 
as to leave no unpleasant feelings; to the younger members his manner 
and words were kind, considerate and encouraging.
	"A professor of the Christian religion, seeking to regulate his 
public and private conduct in strict conformity with the Christian 
faith, and to exemplify, by justice and diligence, the harmony of 
religious principles and professions with the diversified, important and 
dignified duties of a citizen, a lawyer, and a judge, he was for many 
years an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Sunbury and superintendent 
of its Sunday school."
	Judge Jordan was twice married, his first union, in 1820, being to 
Mary, daughter of Daniel Hurley. After her decease he married Hannah 
Rittenhouse, formerly of Philadelphia, who survived him many years, 
continuing to make her home in Sunbury. Judge Jordan died Oct. 5, 1878, 
and is buried in the Sunbury cemetery.
	Samuel Durell Jordan was one of the leading business men of Milton 
for many years, noted for his good judgment and executive ability, and 
he was prominent in the life of the borough generally. He was the 
organizer of the First National Bank of Milton, and became cashier when 
that institution opened for business, in February, 1864, continuing in 
that relation until his death, which occurred April 17, 1875. His 
opinion in financial matters was sought and followed for many years in 
this section.
	On June 28, 1849, Mr. Jordan married Elisabeth Tharp, daughter of 
James and Phebe (Vincent) Tharp, who was born in 1828, and died March 
24, 1886, at the age of sixty-three. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan are buried at 
Milton. They were the parents of the following named children: Florence 
V. who is deceased; Mary Hurley, who makes her home in Milton; Elisabeth 
M., who married Thomas Wilson and has two children, Elisabeth J. and 
Hurlburt L.; Frank, deceased; and Virginia J., deceased.  The family are 
members of the Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Jordan belonged to the I.O.O.F. 
and was a Democrat in politics.

	The Vincent family, to which Mrs. Samuel Durell Jordan belonged, 
was of noble origin. Louis Vincent, the first ancestor to come to 
America, was born in 1676 in France, during the reign of Louis XIV. in 
that country and of Charles II in England, of an old Huguenot family, 
and came to America after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The 
family first settled in Alabama and there became large slave owners, 
selling their slaves some time before the war and then coming to what is 
now Chillisquaque, Northumberland Co., Pa.
	Bishop John H. Vincent erected a beautiful church at Tuscaloosa, 
Ala., in memory of the family.
	John Vincent, son of Louis, was born Jan. 26, 1709. On Dec. 1, 
1733, he married Elisabeth Doremus, and they had children born as 
follows: Esther, July 2, 1734; Cornelius, April 15, 1737; Rachel, Feb. 
24, 1789; Elisabeth; May 27, 1741; Elizabeth (2), Sept. 13, 1743; Jane, 
Feb. 28, 1746; Mary, March 5, 1748; Benjamin, March 10, 1751; Peter, 
Jan. 18, 1754.
	Cornelius Vincent, son of John, born in 1737, married Phebe Ward, 
who was born April 8, 1740. They had children as follows: Isaac, born 
June 20, 1757; Daniel, Jan. 17, 1760; Bethuls, June 3, 1763; Sarah, July 
25, 1765; Benjamin, Oct. 5, 1768; John, Feb. 4, 1772; Elizabeth, Jan. 4, 
1774; Rebecca, Oct. 27, 1776; Mary, Feb. 10, 1779.
	Daniel Vincent, son of Cornelius, born Jan. 17, 1760, became the 
owner of about four hundred acres of land near Fort Freeland, 
Northumberland county, lying along Warrior run. In 1790 he built the 
first mill in the vicinity, becoming particularly well known in this 
connection. The mill was remodeled in 1818 and is still standing.  
Daniel Vincent was at Fort Freeland when it was attacked by the Indians 
and he and his wife were taken prisoner, but she was sent back to her 
friends on horseback, while he was taken to Canada, where he was held 
for four years. During this time he acted Commission Agent for his 
captors. During his fights with the Indians he sustained an injury in 
his side which continually grew worse and, finally, caused his death. He 
and many members of his family are buried in the Warrior Run cemetery.
	On March 3, 1778, Mr. Vincent married Angelica Huffe, who was born 
in August, 1760, and their children were born as follows: Phebe, Sept. 
15, 1779 (married James Tharp); Isaac, Oct. 21, 1783; Nancy, Dec. 6, 
1785; Polly, Oct. 19, 1787; Elisabeth, 1789; Joseph, Sept. 18, 1790; 
John, Oct. 24, 1798; Lydia, Sept. 6, 1795; Bethuls, Oct. 17, 1798; and 
Jane, March 7, 1803.
	Isaac Vincent, born Oct. 21, 1783, married March 24, 1812, Rebecca 
Comly, who was born in Philadelphia Nov. 16, 1790. He was born on the 
old homestead in Northumberland county and early in life took to 
agricultural pursuits. He was heir to one half of his father's estate 
and lived thereon all his life. His children were born as follows: 
Comly, Dec. 20, 1812; Daniel, Oct. 12, 1814; Nancy, Sept. 9, 1816; 
Daniel (2), Aug. 16, 1818; Charles C., Jan. 4, 1820; Sarah Caroline, 
Nov. 25, 1822; Isaac, Oct. 12, 1824; John H., Dec. 2, 1826; Rebecca, 
Dec. 8, 1829; Hannah M., Aug. 12, 1831.
	James Tharp, who died in 1849, at the age of seventy-three years, 
married Phebe Vincent, who died in March, 1855. They were the parents of 
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	G. DAL FOX, proprietor of one of the most up-to-date jewelry stores 
in Northumberland county, is an enterprising citizen of Milton. He was 
born in Rush township, this county, Jan. 28, 1859, son of Joseph and 
Hannah (Zehnder) Fox. The emigrant ancestor of this branch of the Fox 
family settled in Germantown, Pa., and from there entered the service of 
the Colonies during the struggle for independence.
	George Fox, grandfather of G. Dal, settled in Shamokin township, 
Northumberland county, and there followed farming.  He and his wife are 
buried at Irish creek in that township.  Their children were: Jacob; 
Martin, who served in the Civil war; Joseph; Matilda; Susan; Rachel; and 
Polly.
	Joseph Fox, son of George, was born in 1826, and died in 1904, and 
is buried at Milton. He was a miller by trade, and followed that 
occupation at Roaring Creek in Rush township. Afterward he bought the 
Vastine mill at Catawissa, located four miles east of Danville on the 
Shamokin road. Later he came to Milton, where he died. He married Hannah 
Zehnder, daughter of John Zehnder, who was born in Germany. Their 
children were: Emma, who married W. H. Aten; Clara B. wife of Robert 
Foresman, of Scranton, Pa.; G. Dal; Sue E., who married Jacob Drashem, 
of Whitedeer, Union county; Josephine, deceased wife of E. P. Hilliard; 
and James S., business partner of G. Dal, and a resident of Milton.
	G. Dal Fox attended the schools of Rush township and Lewisburg 
College. After leaving school he began his preparation for commercial 
work by working as a clerk, continuing at this for fourteen years, three 
of which were spent in a general store, and the rest of the time in a 
hardware store. In 1902 he engaged in the jewelry business and has a 
most complete establishment, carrying a fine line of first-class goods. 
He also deals in the hammer and hammerless guns, cutlery, fishing tackle 
and general sporting goods. His brother is his partner and these two 
young men have a fine patronage - one in fact that is drawn from far 
beyond the confines of the town of Milton.
	Mr. Fox was elected tax receiver of Milton on the Democratic 
ticket, and served three terms, making nine years in all, and this in 
spite of the large Republican majority usually polled in the borough. 
Fraternally Mr. Fox is very prominent and as well very popular.  He is a 
member of Lodge No. 913, B.P.O.E., of Milton, and represented his lodge 
at Los Angeles, Cal., in the summer of 1909, his trip and visit to the 
coast covering a period of six weeks. He is also a member of Castle No. 
256, Knights of the Golden Eagle.

	SYDNEY H. SOUTER belongs to  that class of manufacturers who know 
their field of work thoroughly. A member of the third generation of the 
Souter family to successfully engage in the manufacture of silk, he 
himself began in a mill as bobbin boy and learned the business from the 
ground up. His familiarity with every step in the manufacturing process, 
gained by practical experience as well as through scientific study, and 
his masterly grasp of the commercial problems of this industry, give him 
a commanding position not only in local industrial circles but also 
among silk manufacturers throughout the country.
	Mr. Souter is a native of England, born April 1, 1869, at Presbury, 
son of William Souter, Jr., and grandson of William Souter, both also 
natives of England.  The latter was born near the Scottish border, where 
he was reared and educated, and where he learned the silk manufacturing 
business. Coming to America about 1865, he settled in Paterson, N. J., 
becoming one of the pioneer silk manufacturers of that State, where he 
made a permanent home. In January, 1906, though he had attained the age 
of ninety-two, he was well preserved in mind and body, a patriarchal 
resident of Paterson.
	William Souter, Jr., was born and reared in England, and his entire 
business career was one of prominent identification with the silk 
manufacturing industry, in which line he was considered an authority, 
having made an exhaustive study of the business. He traveled 
extensively, making a special study of the methods of silk making in 
both China and Japan. At the time of his death he was vice president and 
manager of an extensive silk manufacturing concern in Whitehall, N. Y. 
He met his death in October, 1900, when only fifty-three years of age, 
as the result of an accident, being killed by a trolley car in Newark, 
N. J.  Mr. Souter married Martha Anna Chanelley, who died in 1880. She 
was born and reared in England, daughter of Robert Chanelley, a prominent 
contractor.  Of the ten children born to William Souter, Jr., and his 
wife, Annie died in infancy; Sydney H. is mentioned below; Robert 
William is superintendent of the Littlestown silk mill in Littlestown, 
Pa.; Charles Harold is in the railroad service at Schenectady, N. Y.; 
Clyde Douglass graduated in 1907 from Dartmouth College; Ada is the wife 
of Edward Sargent, a contractor of Newark, N. J.; Jessie, Elizabeth and 
Margie are all trained nurses, graduates of the training school of the 
Newark (N. J.) General Hospital; and Edna is the youngest. The parents 
having emigrated to this country in 1865, the eldest daughter was born 
in America. But the family returned to England two years later, not 
becoming permanent residents of the United States until 1879.
	Sydney H. Souter obtained his early education in the common schools 
of his native land, and after the family settled in America he became a 
student in Latimer's Business College, in Paterson, N. J., and later 
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brated Bryant & Stratton Business College, Buffalo, N. Y.  He began his 
active business career in a silk mill in Paterson, N. J., where he was 
employed in 1881-82, after which he attended school for one year at 
Northampton, Mass.  He then secured a position in the silk mill in that 
city, where he was an employee for the next nine years, at the 
expiration of which period he returned to Paterson, where he continued 
to be identified with the same line of industry for one and one half 
years. He next passed a year in the silk mill at Pompton, N. J., and for 
the following three years was employed in the mill of which his father 
was manager and vice president at Whitehall, N. Y. During the following 
two years he was again employed at Paterson, and he then removed to 
Catasauqua, Pa., where he had charge of the establishing, equipping and 
placing in operation of a silk mill, ably completing his work, after 
which he came to York, Pa., arriving in that city Sept. 6, 1900.  He 
there became associated with Henry Musser, until recently the president 
of the Monarch Silk Company, which they forthwith organized, equipping a 
modern mill and instituting active operations on Sept. 18th of the same 
year, the date the company received its charter from the state.  
Employment was afforded to a corps of about six hundred persons, and the 
annual business soon reached an aggregate of a million and a quarter 
dollars, with a constantly increasing demand for the company's products 
in the markets of New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, 
and other commercial centers. As vice president and general manager of 
the company Mr. Souter showed great administrative and executive 
ability, while his intimate knowledge of the details of the business 
largely conserved the phenomenal but substantial growth of the 
enterprise. So well was this appreciated that on the resignation of 
President Musser Mr. Souter was the unanimous choice of the directors 
for president, and he also continued to act as general manager.
	But the Monarch Silk Company was not the only vast concern in which 
Mr. Souter was actively and prominently interested. He and Mr. Musser 
successfully promoted the Littlestown Silk Company, which was organized 
in Littlestown, Adams Co., Pa., on July 2, 1903. It was capitalized at 
$50,000, and like the Monarch kept running to its full capacity, the 
demands for its products keeping the mill in operation until midnight.  
As vice president and general manager of the Littlestown Company, Mr. 
Souter paid the place a weekly visit; and between this mill, the Monarch 
and the main office, at No. 27 Spring street, New York, which Mr. Souter 
also visited weekly, there was certainly no busier man in York, and yet 
so systematically did he work that he was ever ready to give courteous 
attention to those who called upon him.  His prominent association with 
so important an enterprise of York county makes him one of the leading 
business men of that section. However, he had not attained the limit of 
his usefulness even in such high capacity, being identified with other 
important ventures.
	In politics Mr. Souter is a consistent and unswerving advocate of 
the principles of the Republican party, and his religious faith is that 
of the Presbyterian Church, in which he has been a zealous worker for 
many years. Within the time of his residence at Paterson, N. J., he was 
secretary of the board of trustees of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian 
Church, and he and his wife became members of the First Presbyterian 
Church of York, Pa.  Fraternally Mr. Souter has attained degrees of high 
distinction in Freemasonry, in which he  has passed the thirty-second 
degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He became affiliated with: 
Zeredatha Lodge, No. 451, F. & A.M.; Howell Chapter, No. 199, R.A.M.; 
Gethsemane Commandery, No. 75, Knights Templar, all of York; while he is 
identified with the I.O.O.F., the B.P.O.E. and the Lafayette Club, of 
York; and the Woll Club of New York City.
	On June 25, 1890, Mr. Souter married Margaret Morton McLeod, 
daughter of Alexander McLeod, a representative business man of Paterson, 
N. J. To this union have been born two children, Sydney Herbert, Jr., 
and Martha Catherine.

	BURT O. MILLER, of Sunbury, proprietor of the Keystone Steam 
Laundry, is a young business man who has made a name for himself as one 
of the most enterprising citizens of his generation in that borough. He 
undoubtedly inherits his ability in that line, his father, Charles S. 
Miller, having long held his own as a substantial and intelligent 
business man of the place, where he has been established since 1893. He 
does the largest meat business in the locality and is otherwise 
interested in its material advancement being an energetic and 
progressive citizen, of high character and irreproachable standing.
	This Miller family has long been settled in Dauphin county, Pa., 
where Abraham Miller, great-grandfather of Burt O. Miller, was born. He 
was a farmer, owning land in Mifflin township. His brother John lived at 
Berrysburg, and another brother, Samuel, also lived in the upper end of 
Dauphin county. Abraham Miller was twice married, and by his first wife, 
whose maiden name was Row, had four children: Simon; George, who lived 
at Gratz, Dauphin county; Anna, wife of Elias Werner; and Josiah A., who 
married Polly Cooper and lived in Lykens valley between Berrysburg and 
Elizabethville. By his second wife, Anna (Bitterman), he had two 
children: John N., of Valley View, Pa.; and Rebecca; who married 
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Miller, died about 1865, at the age of sixty-five.  He and his family 
were Lutheran members at the brick church, below Berrysburg, which he 
served officially.
	Simon Miller, son of Abraham, was born in 1825 in Lykens valley, 
near Berrysburg, Dauphin county, and met an accidental death in the 
powder mill explosion at Trevorton, Pa., in March, 1863. He is buried at 
the Dunkelberger Evangelical Church in Rockefeller township, 
Northumberland county.  Though a comparatively young man at the time of 
his death he owned his home and was in comfortable circumstances. He 
married Catharine Kobel, daughter of Frederick Kobel, and she survived 
him many years, reaching the age of sixty-five; she is buried by his 
side.  Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Simon Miller: A daughter 
that died in infancy; Mary, who died young; Charles S.; Louisa, Mrs. 
Edw. Fry, of Shamokin; Henry, a butcher, who worked for his brother 
Charles S. and lived and died at Trevorton, Pa.; B. Franklin, a miner, 
who lives at Trevorton; and Harriet, wife of Frank Conrad and living at 
Trevorton.
	Charles S. Miller, son of Simon, was born July 29, 1849, at Gratz, 
Dauphin Co., Pa., and was reared to farm life. When thirteen years old 
he came to Zerbe township, Northumberland county, where he was employed 
in the mines for eight years, cutting coal.  In 1872 he engaged in the 
cattle business at Seven Points, this county, and from that line quite 
naturally changed to the butcher business, in which he now has his 
principal interest.  He was located at Seven Points until his removal to 
Sunbury in 1893. He has since done business at his present location, on 
Market street, and has long commanded the bulk of the business in his 
line in the borough and surrounding territory.  Mr. Miller keeps two 
delivery wagons constantly employed in his city deliveries, and has ten 
men regularly engaged to handle his large trade. He not only kills the 
meat for his own establishment, twenty steers weekly, thirty hogs, etc., 
but also slaughters for dealers at Williamsport and Northumberland. He 
put up his own slaughter-house, which is the largest in this section, 
having a capacity of $1,500 worth of business daily, if necessary, and a 
switch from the yards connects direct with the Philadelphia & Reading 
railroad, giving unusual advantages for prompt shipping and handling of 
all products. In 1890 Mr. Miller erected an ice plant on the extensive  
property adjoining his slaughter-house, being the pioneer ice 
manufacturer in Sunbury. His plant has a daily capacity of fifteen tons. 
An eighty horse-power boiler has since been added to the original 
equipment. Mr. Miller has not only shown himself progressive in 
providing the most approved modern appliances for the convenient 
dispatch of his business, but also in installing all the devices for 
sanitation known to the modern trade. In this respect, he has not only 
met all the legal requirements, but in most ways has anticipated and 
exceeded them, introducing many innovations in this line which are a 
credit to his intelligence and to his disposition to do the right thing, 
whether it is expected of him or not.  Mr. Miller is a member of the 
Sunbury Board of Trade and of the Business Men's Association. He is a 
director of the North Branch Fire Insurance Company of Pennsylvania, 
which was organized in 1909 with a capital of $300,000 (fully paid), and 
whose home office is at Sunbury, and is interested in the Sunbury and 
Selinsgrove Trolley Line.
	On Dec. 22, 1871, Mr. Miller was united in marriage with Catharine 
Dunkelberger, daughter of George and Catharine (Rebuck) Dunkelberger, 
who lived in Upper Mahantango Valley, and nine children have been born 
to them: Arthula (wife of Robert Worrer), Harvey (of Sunbury), Katie May 
(Mrs. H. E. Lebo), Ezra J. (of Sunbury), Burt O., Cora M., Charles M., 
Calvin E., and Bertha (who died aged six years). Mr. Miller and his 
family are members of the First Evangelical Church of Sunbury.  Socially 
he holds membership in the Knights of Malta, the Royal Arcanum and the 
Protected Home Circle.
	Burt O. Miller was born Oct. 25, 1881, at Seven Points, in 
Rockefeller township, this county, and there received his early 
education in the public schools. Later he attended high school at 
Sunbury and the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 
graduating from the latter in 1902. Returning to Sunbury he began 
working for his father as bookkeeper and clerk in the large meat market, 
but he soon entered business on his own account.  Forming a partnership 
with Harry C. Fasold, who had had five years previous experience in the 
laundry business, he became interested as one of the proprietors in the 
Keystone Steam Laundry, which they opened Oct. 25, 1902, at No. 239 
South Fourth street, the firm of Miller & Fasold lasting until Dec. 4, 
1909, since which time Mr. Miller has conducted the business on his own 
account. He bought out his partner's interest and is now handling the 
business alone. The laundry, which is now located at Nos. 16-18 North 
Fifth street, is a most completely equipped plant, with all the 
facilities for doing a large amount of first-class work, and twelve 
hands are constantly employed.  Mr. Miller commands the leading trade in 
Sunbury.  His executive talent and enterprise have been well illustrated 
in the manner he has built up the business, and the fact that he gains 
trade and holds it speaks well for his methods and standards of honor.
	Mr. Miller is a member of Lodge No. 267, B.P.O. Elks, of the 
Protected Home Circle, of Lance and Shield Conclave, No. 11 (of which he 
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the latter connection holding membership in Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & 
A.M., of Sunbury; Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M.; Mount Hermon 
Commandery, No. 85, K.T.; Williamsport Consistory, thirty-second degree; 
and Zembo Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., of Harrisburg. On June 5, 1906, Mr. 
Miller married Mary Elizabeth Felton, daughter of George F. and Mary 
(Clifford) Felton, of Sunbury.  Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of, the 
Presbyterian Church at Sunbury.

	DAVID CLOYD MINGLE, owner and proprietor of the "Mansion House," at 
Watsontown, Northumberland county, has been engaged in the hotel 
business ever since he was old enough to be of any assistance, his 
father having long been a successful hotel proprietor. He has been 
proprietor of the "Mansion House," the leading hotel at Watsontown, 
since 1906.  Mr. Mingle was born at Huntingdon, Pa., July 6, 1875, and 
belongs to a family which has been settled in Pennsylvania since the 
first half of the eighteenth century, the first of this line having 
located in Berks county in 1732.
	The original spelling of the family name, Mengel, is still used by 
many of its members, the form Mingle having been used by the branch here 
under consideration ever since a school teacher spelled Squire Mingle's 
name that way.  The whole family followed the new spelling for the sake 
of uniformity.
	There are also Mingles or Mengels in Lancaster county, Pa.  In 1890 
David Mingle, father of David C. Mingle, met a "cousin" in Hagerstown, 
Md., Isaac Mengel, of the "Franklin Hotel," who told that his father's 
name was Isaac and that the father was a native of Lancaster county, 
Pa., and a shoemaker by occupation. He also remembered having uncles 
David and Samuel, and an aunt which would seem to make him of the same 
family as David Mingle. This Isaac Mengel had a brother in Reading, 
Berks Co., Pa., and a son William. There are Mingles at Warriorsmark, 
Huntingdon Co., Pa., and at Tyrone, Pa., who came from the South, but 
whether they are related to the Mingles here mentioned or not is 
unknown. Those of the name at Hagerstown write it Mengel.
	The great-grandfather of David Cloyd Mingle, of Watsontown, lived 
in Lancaster county, Pa., where all his children were born. His family 
consisted of at least two sons and two daughters, of whom we have the 
following record: Samuel was the grandfather of David C. Mingle and is 
mentioned more fully below. David settled in Mifflinburg about 1823, but 
later moved to Brush Valley, in Haines township, Center Co., Pa., where 
he lived until 1854, at which time he moved to Stephenson county, Ill., 
where he passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1872. He was twice 
married, his first wife dying in Center county, and of his twelve 
children we have record of four by the first union, Samuel (a shoemaker, 
who lived and died at Lock Haven, Pa.), Henry A. (of Aaronsburg, who 
died in 1891), Mrs. Samuel Fisher (of Rock Grove, Stephenson Co., Ill.) 
and Mrs. Susan Motz (who lived on a farm at Woodward, Center Co., Pa., 
where she died Dec. 11, 1897); and two sons of the second union, who 
live in the West. The two daughters of whom we have record, sisters of 
Samuel and David Mingle, were Mrs. Reigle and Mrs. Fox; the latter's son 
George married a Miss Reigle, his cousin, and lived at Woodward, Center 
Co., Pa., but nothing further is given concerning the children of either 
Mrs. Reigle or Mrs. Fox, both of whom lived near Hartleton, Union Co., 
Pa. The great-grandfather was evidently a shoemaker, and both the sons 
mentioned followed that trade.
	According to one account of this family, "David, who was still 
quite young, accompanied by a brother, joined the army during the war of 
1812, David becoming a member of Capt. Henry Miller's company, stationed 
at Marcus Hook. At the close of the war he learned the art of 
shoemaking, and later married a Miss Grove, of Union county, a member of 
the family noted for their prowess in battling with the Indians."
	Samuel Mingle, brother of David, was a shoemaker by occupation.  He 
lived at Aaronsburg, Center Co., Pa., and died at Millheim, that county, 
in 1849.  He married Elizabeth Bordner, of Geneva, N. Y., and to them 
were born nine children, of whom David is now (1910) the only survivor.  
The family lived for a number of years in Union county, Pa., where four 
of the children were born, moving to Center county in 1835 and settling 
at what was then called Motz Bank, now Woodward. We have the following 
record of the family: Hannah married Henry Dinges, of Millheim, and 
later moved to Orangeville, Stephenson Co., Ill. (she had one son, 
Frank, and two daughters, Libbie and Sarah); Absalom married Susan Roup, 
of Millheim, and had six children, two sons, David and Alfred, and four 
daughters, Annie Swartz (of Lewisburg), Libby (whose husband, Mr. Boltz, 
is a farmer below Aaronsburg), Kate and Rosie; Mary married Henry Ano, 
of New Berlin, Union Co., Pa., a coachmaker, and they have six living 
children, Johanna, Charlie, Jennie, Tim, Harry and Durben; Manda died in 
young womanhood; David was fifth in the family; Jeremiah died in 
infancy; Catherine married Levi Caver, a farmer of Stephenson county. 
Ill. (no children); Elizabeth died in infancy; Samson Q. married Rosie 
Bower and had three children, Bertha, Elizabeth and Harry, of Fast 
Orange, New Jersey.
	David Mingle, father of David Cloyd Mingle learned the trade of 
coachmaker. If his father had not died when he was so young he would 
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edly  have learned his trade, shoemaking. In 1886 he entered the hotel 
business as proprietor of the "American House" at Lancaster, Pa., which 
he conducted until 1889. From there he went to Mount Joy, same county, 
where he ran the "Red Lion Hotel" for a year, after which he was at 
Greencastle, Franklin county, where he conducted the "Crowl House" for 
six years. He was then at Danville, Pa., for four years, conducting the 
"City Hotel," after which he lived retired at Lancaster for about two 
years. His next location was at Newport, Perry Co., Pa., where he had 
the "Mingle House" for a period of six years, until his retirement. He 
still makes his home at that place, now (1910) in his seventy-fifth year 
enjoying the fruits of his active days in well earned leisure. In 
politics Mr. Mingle is a Democrat with independent inclinations.
	In January, 1863, Mr. Mingle married Catherine Mutherbaugh, who is 
now over seventy years old. Nine children were born to this union: Flora 
married Thomas Pendergast, an engineer, of Lancaster, and had four 
children, Dolly (deceased), Claudy (deceased), Harold (who has a 
daughter, Margaret), and Mildred; Carrie, Mildred and Myrtle are 
unmarried; Minnie May married Joseph Henderson and died April 28, 1910, 
leaving one daughter, Catherine; one son died in infancy; David Cloyd is 
mentioned below; Sanford Bruce is a resident of Harrisburg; Jennie Alice 
married Samuel Myers, and they live at Newport (they have no children).
	David Cloyd Mingle received a good education in the elementary and 
high schools of Lancaster, Mount Joy and Greencastle. He was trained to 
the hotel business from early youth, assisting his father, and when he 
engaged in the business on his own account took the "City Hotel" at 
Danville, which he conducted for four years. He then became proprietor 
of the well known "Cocalico Hotel" at Ephrata, Pa., which he carried on 
for two years, later going to Newport when he ran the "Mingle House" for 
five years. Thence he moved to Milton, Northumberland county, where he 
had the "Mingle Cafe," now known as summers Cafe, for two years, until 
he bought the "Mansion House," the leading hotel of Watsontown, in 1906.  
This hotel has twenty-four rooms, and is a modern structure of fine 
appearance, surrounded with spacious porches and well equipped and 
appointed. It is well kept up and conducted along modern lines, and
	Mr. Mingle has made a success of the establishment from the 
beginning, his thorough understanding of the business insuring his 
patrons that everything possible to efficient management may be expected 
of him.  He is a member of the Hotel Protective Association and the 
Commercial Travelers Association. Fraternally he is an Elk and a member 
of the Improved Order of Red Men, belonging to Lodge No. 663, of 
Lewistown. 
	On Nov. 9, 1905, Mr. Mingle married Laura M. Gast. 

	JOHN H. JOHNSON, merchant of Milton, Northumberland county, is 
engaged as a dealer in iron, stoves and tinware, and has also built up 
an extensive patronage in tin-smithing, roofing, spouting and sheet 
metal work. Since 1903 he has also done contracting, and as his business 
interests reach out beyond Milton to surrounding towns he bids fair to 
become one of the most successful men in this section of the county. He 
has made his home in Milton from boyhood.
	Mr. Johnson is a native of Center county, Pa., born July 25, 1867, 
at Milesburg, and his family is of Swedish origin, but has long been 
settled in this country.  His ancestors first emigrated from Sweden to 
Scotland, from which country his great-grandfather, John Johnson, came 
to America, settling in New Jersey, where he built the first forge along 
the coast.  The records show that he was an expert mechanic and he was 
thus engaged until his death.
	John Johnson, grandfather of John H., was born in New Jersey, 
whence he removed in young manhood to Center county, Pa., being one of 
the pioneers in the iron business in that region. He was engaged in that 
line of work all his life, finding a market for his iron at Pittsburg, 
whither he hauled it from his own forge with mules. He died at 
Milesburg, Center county. His wife was Margaret Bryson, and among their 
children were: Elizabeth, who married Daniel McKinley, and died at the 
advanced age of ninety; George; Ella, who married Henry Eberly; Peter, 
who was killed before Petersburg, while serving in the Civil war; and 
Charles, who was killed in the same battle. Four sons and two son-in-law 
of this family were killed while serving in the Civil war.
	John Johnson, father of John H., was a native of New Jersey and 
very young when he moved with his father to Center county, Pa.  Like his 
father he also followed the iron business all his life, and after coming 
to Milton, in 1882, was employed in the old rolling mill. He died in 
1891. During the Civil war he served as a member of Co. H, of a Pa. 
regiment, Volunteer Infantry, and contracted typhoid fever while on duty 
as a soldier, suffering from poor health for a long time after leaving 
the service. But he eventually recovered. He married Rebecca Croft, 
daughter of John and Rebecca (Irington) Croft.  Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are 
buried at Milton. Five sons were born to their union: John H., Samuel, 
William, Elmer and Morris, all residing in Milton with the exception of 
William, who lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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public school, of Milesburg and at Bellefonte Academy. He removed to 
Milton with his father, and like the members Of his family generally 
early became interested in the iron business.  For three years he had 
charge of the nail department of the C. A. Godcharles Company's plant, 
and then engaged in the scrap iron business on his own account, a line 
in which he has continued with profit to the present time. His main 
office is on South Front street Milton, and be has warehouses at both 
McEwensville and Milton. It was in natural order that tin-smithing and 
similar work should come his way, and he has built up an extensive trade 
in general work of that kind and in roofing, spouting and sheet metal 
work, his customers being found all over Milton and adjacent towns. 
Since 1903 he has also done contracting, and he was engaged  on  the  
excavation  for  the  Souter Silk Company's mills at Milton.  Mr. 
Johnson has proved his ability to keep up with the times and to lead 
progress in his chosen line of work, which undoubtedly accounts for the 
success he has made. His personal and business standing is 
irreproachable.
	Mr. Johnson married Florence E. Krock, daughter of John and Emma 
(Whitman) Krock, and they have had one daughter, Elizabeth.  He is a 
member of the Lutheran Church, a Republican in politics and in fraternal 
connection a Mason, belonging to Danville Lodge, No. 224, F. & A.M., to 
the Chapter, R.A.M., and Calvary Commandery, K.T.