Northumberland-Berks-Union County PA Archives Biographies.....Schoener, Solomon 1830 - living in 1899

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SOLOMON SCHOENER, a highly respected citizen of the borough of Mount Carmel, who

for many years was employed in the collieries in that locality, is a son of John

and Anna (Evans) Schoener, and was born near Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pa., May

15, 1830.



  John Schoener, the father of our subject, was born in Bucks County, Pa., but

emigrated to Berks County and settled near the village of Rohrersburg, where he

lived until his death. His occupation was that of a blacksmith and he always

followed it successfully. He married Anna Evans, by whom he had a family of

eleven children, namely: Andrew, deceased; Mary; William, deceased; Sarah;

Mahlon, a farmer living in Berks County; John, also a resident of Berks County;

Solomon, our subject; Frank, a resident of Berks County; and three others who

died in infancy.



  Solomon Schoener was reared in Berks County, where he resided until fifteen-

years of age, when he removed to Union County, and there learned the trade of a

tobacconist. He subsequently removed to Schuylkill County, where he resided

until he removed to Mount Carmel, in April, 1876, where he was employed in the

collieries several years as a laborer in getting out timber for the mines. He is

a man of excellent judgment, is energetic, and possesses the confidence of all

with whom he has any business or social relations. In political attachments he

is a firm supporter of the Prohibition party, both by influence and vote, but he

was at one time a member of the Republican party. He has served as a councilman

in the borough a number of times to the entire satisfaction of his constituents.

In addition to his other business interests he has always dealt quite

extensively in real estate in Mount Carmel, at one time owning the Mount Carmel

House. He was for some time the largest real estate dealer in Mount Carmel, but

as the town grew and the demand for building property increased he gradually,

disposed of his holdings. At the present time he owns three tenement houses and

five vacant lots in Mount Carmel. He owns also two tenements in Mahanoy City,

and is also interested in real estate in Lewisburg and Wyomissing, the latter a

suburb of Reading.



  Mr. Schoener has been twice joined in hymeneal bonds, his first union being

with Maria Womer, by whom he had three children, as, follows: Irvin, deceased;

Franklin, a confectioner at Mount Carmel; arid Anna, the wife of Harry Woodley

of Mount Carmel.; He formed a second alliance with Catherine Womer, now

deceased, a sister of his first wife, and they had nine children: John,

deceased; Charles, deceased; William, who holds a clerical position; Delia, the

wife of Elmer John, an attorney-at-law of Mount Carmel; Andrew, a resident of

Mount Carmel, who was admitted to the bar at Carlisle, Pa., in June, 1898; Ada;

Catherine; and two others whose deaths occurred in childhood. Religiously our

subject is a member and trustee of the United Evangelical Church of Mount Carmel.





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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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