Northumberland-Cumberland County PA Archives Biographies.....Sollenberger, David L. 1853 - 

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DAVID L. SOLLENBERGER, the popular postmaster at Shamokin, and one of the best

known newspaper men of Pennsylvania, is a son of Samuel S. and Anna M. (Lehn)

Sollenberger, and was born October 14, 1853, in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland

County, Pa. At the age of sixteen years he became a compositor in the office of

the Newville Pennsylvania Star, at Newville, Cumberland County, Pa., where he

served three years; in 1873 he went to Pittsburg, Pa., where he worked at his

trade as a journeyman until 1877, when he removed to Northumberland County and

purchased the Watsontown Record and published it ten months, when he sold out

and bought a half interest in the Sunbury Democrat, and was associated with it

until June, 1879. In November, 1879, he purchased a half-interest in the

Shamokin Times, and continued in connection with it until 1891. In 1886 he

formed a partnership with W. S. Ginterman and founded the Shamokin Daily

Dispatch, which he continued to publish until 1891, when he severed his

connection with the Dispatch and Times and entered a new field of labor, that of

editing the Sunbury Evening Item.



  August 24, 1894, during the latter part of the Cleveland administration, our

subject was appointed postmaster at Shamokin. His popularity and worth as a

public servant have been recognized by the head of the Postoffice Department at

Washington and Mr. Sollenberger has been honored, as well as rewarded, for his

efficient service, by being continued in office under the present administration.



  John Sollenberger, great-grandfather of our subject, was born in Lancaster

County, Pa., in 1774, but removed to Cumberland County, locating in Monroe

township, near Carlisle, where he followed the occupation of a farmer. He died

in 1856, having attained the ripe age of eighty-five years.



  Our subject's maternal grandfather was born in Lancaster County in 1794, and

was a farmer by avocation; he died at the old homestead in Cumberland County in

1878, lacking but one year of having lived as many years as did his venerable

father. Religiously, he was of the German Baptist persuasion. The grandfather on

the maternal side was David Lehn.



  Samuel S. Sollenberger, father of our subject, was born in Mechanicsburg, Pa.,

in 1830, and lived all his life in his native county. In the later years of his

life he engaged in teaching school. He was a valued, citizen, and his premature

demise was deeply regretted by a large circle of friends. His death occurred in

1873, he having crossed the threshold of only forty-three years. The marriage of

Samuel S. and Anna M. Lehn was blessed with but one child, David L., subject of

this sketch, who was educated in the common schools of the county of his birth.

He was a close student and by diligent application to his studies at school he

acquired a good practical education. Politically our subject is a Democrat and

always has taken an active interest in party work and is a successful party

organizer. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Allentown state convention and an

alternate to the national convention of the same year. Socially he affiliates

with the Odd Fellows and is a member of Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F., of Pittsburg, Pa.



  November 29, 1876, he married Annie A. Brown, an accomplished and charming

lady, and to them have been born five children: Erie G.; Helen Pearl; Mary G.;

Vida C., who died August 22, 1898; and David B.





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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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