Northumberland-Schuylkill County PA Archives Biographies.....Wendling, Peter 1832 - 

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PETER WENDLING, outside-foreman of the Bear Valley Colliery, is a son of Adam

and Phoebe (Wentz) Wendling, and was born January 31, 1867, near Patterson,

Schuylkill County, Pa.



  The grandfather on the maternal side was Peter Wentz, a native of Germany, who

never came to America. The father of our subject, Adam Wendling, was a coal

miner, and a resident of Schuylkill County, Pa. To him and his wife were born

ten children as follows: Mary, Emma, Louisa, Rose, Kate, Phoebe, Sarah, Adam,

Peter the subject of this sketch, and George.



  Peter Wendling, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the common

schools, and began work in the factory at Manayunk at the age of thirteen years

and continued for two years when he went to Shenandoah. There he entered the

breaker, picking slate and, alternately, working in various stores for about

eight years. At the end of that time he took up outside work around the

collieries near Shenandoah, remaining there until June 1, 1896. Prior to moving

to Bear Valley Colliery, he was foreman at Schuylkill Colliery, Mahanoy City, Pa.



  On October 15, 1891, our subject married Elizabeth Frost, and their union has

been blessed with two children: Thomas Nelson and Phoebe Elizabeth. Mr. Wendling

is well known in Northumberland County and has many warm friends. He is a member

of Council No: 367, Jr. O. U. A. M., of Shenandoah, Pa.







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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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