Northumberland-Elk County PA Archives Biographies.....Herr, August C. 1855 - living in 1899

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AUGUST C. HERR, a worthy German-American citizen of Shamokin, and inside-foreman

of the Luke Fidler Colliery, was born May 8, 1855, in Bremen, Germany, and is a

son of Lewis and Sophia (Willis) Herr. The father was a native of Germany and

lived there until his death in 1866, when only forty-five years of age.



  August C. Herr attended the schools of his native country until thirteen years

old when he went to sea on a vessel of the North German Lloyd line, and remained

with that company until 1870, being in England when war was declared between

Germany and France. From England he came to Hoboken, N. J., where he secured

leave of absence from the ship on which he was employed with the understanding

that he would go back as soon as the ship returned. He did not return, however,

but went to St. Mary's, Elk County, Pa., where he worked in the soft coal mines

until March, 1873, and then removed to Shamokin Pa., where he worked at the Luke

Fidler Colliery as a miner for a period of about three months. He then became a

miner at the Cameron Colliery and after a term of fifteen years was promoted to

assistant foreman, in which capacity he was employed five years, serving in all

for a period of twenty years, and was connected with the Mineral Railroad &

Mining Company exactly twenty-six years. In 1893 he became inside-foreman at the

Luke Fidler Colliery, in which position he has since efficiently served.



  On February 21, 1875, Mr. Herr married Minerva Milbrand, whose parents were

lost at sea on the voyage from the Old World to America, and to them have been

born the following children: Charles Augustus, born August 10, 1875, who married

Mary E. Kerstetter, and is living in Shamokin, Pa.; Minnie, who died when five

or six days old and was born April 19, 1877; Clara Wilhelmina, born April 21,

1879, is the wife of Harvey C. Kerstetter; Ludwig C., born June 16, 1880,

resides at home; William, born October 26, 1882; Ida, born December 21, 1884;

Franklin Monroe, born July 30, 1887; John Alfred, born September 15, 1889;

Edward Benjamin, born March 22, 1892; and Annie May Allen, the pet of all, who

came to bless their home on October 8, 1895. Socially our subject is a member

and past grand of Shamokin Lodge, No. 664, I. O. O. F.; and a member and past

master of Lodge No. 225, F. & A. M.; also a member of Shamokin Chapter No. 264,

R. A. M.; and member of Shamokin Commandery No. 77, K. T.





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Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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



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