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The Framptons have been a prominent family in Pennsylvania, especially in the early days in Philadelphia, from Colonial times, and some of the descendants of William Frampton, a Friend who was a member of Penn's first Provincial council, are living in Northumberland county at this day. They are of English stock. In Burke's "Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland" the Frampton family of England are spoken of as "Frampton of Moreton in 1355. John De Frampton was returned to serve in that year in Parliament for the borough of Dorchester in the County of Dorset His son Walter De Frampton acquired the manor and estate of Moreton by marriage. It was entailed and is in the possession of the family still. There seems to be a William in almost every generation. Mr. James Frampton built the present house at Moreton in 1746 on the site of the ancient mansion, also the church in 1776 on the site of the former church. He died in 1781 and was succeeded by his only son, the present James Frampton of Moreton. Col. James Frampton served as high sheriff for the County of Dorset in 1793." They have arms and a crest, the latter a greyhound; the motto is "Perseverando." The family seat is at Moreton in Dorsetshire. John Frampton of England, born in 1581, was a merchant and a compatriot of John Hampden, Oliver Cromwell and other members of the Parliament which resisted the aggressions of Charles I., and founded the English Commonwealth. He was probably the grandfather of William Frampton, the ancestor of the American branch. In the Pennsylvania Archives, and in the Colonial Records, we find numerous references to his services and participation in important affairs. He was a brother- in-law of Robert Turner (a prominent member of Penn's council), with whom we frequently find his name associated in public service. His business was evidently that of merchant, as his name first appears in the Provincial records in the year 1683, as a merchant to whom certain bills (given) were due for merchandise; and among the proceedings attending a common council meeting March 1, 1683-84, from minutes of the common council, City of New York, 1675-1696, we find the following: "Pursuant to an order from the Mayor and aldermen and common Council, bareing date the 23rd of Feb. 1683-4 appointing us underwritten as A Committee to make a listt of all barques, sloopes, and open boates, Belonging to this Porte, and to inquire wt vessels are in Areare for their Dockage doe returne this underwritten as Our Report (233) and cannot understand what vessels are in Ateare. 2 Sloopes - Francis Richardson, Wm. Frampton." Then follows a long list of other boats and owners. In New, York is also found a record, 27th day of 9th month, 1678, showing that William Frampton was present at the marriage of George Masters and Mary Willis, [Item found in Lennox Library, New York City.] At the Hall of Records, New York City, there are two deeds, both long documents, one from William Frampton to Alexander Farley, Lib. XIII, page 42; date of instrument Oct. 17, 1681; recorded May 16, 1684; place of residence, New York City; Merchant. The second is from "Wm. fframpton & Elizabeth his wife, Grantors, to Daniel Butts, Grantee. 13 Lib., 44th Page. Date of Instrument, May 15th, 1684. Recorded May 27th, 1684." This property was on Newe street, a short street two blocks long, extending from Wall street to Exchange place. The deed is dated thus: "15th day in the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Sovereign Lord Charles ye 2nd by the grace of God of Eng., Scot., France & Ireland, Defender of the faith." END OF PAGE 23 William Frampton was a large landholder in Philadelphia county, as shown in the Pennsylvania Archives, where lists are preserved of the first purchasers of lots in Philadelphia. In a list of those purchasing lots of less than one thousand acres, "& placed in the back streets of the Front of Delaware, beginning with No. 5 at the South Side, and so proceed north as numbered in Draught," we find the name of William Frampton as purchaser of No. 10. In a list of "Old Rights," consisting of the first purchases of land from William Penn, we find the following: Under "William Frampton" the following quantities of land in Philadelphia county - "Return, 10 acres, 2nd of Oct., 1684"; Warrant, "500 acres, 13th day, 1st Mo., 1683"; Warrant, "Bank Lott, 2nd day of 6th Mo., 1684"; Warrant, "2 City Lotts, 17th day of Mo., 1683"; Warrant, "City Lott, 17th day of 1st Mo., 1683." In Bucks county William Frampton had a warrant for 1,500 acres, 5th day of 5th Mo., 1686; and in Chester county "Wm. Frampton & ors" had an order for 289 acres, 3rd day of 6th Mo., 1686. Besides, it appears that William Frampton was the owner of land in Kent county, Del., and in Burlington, N. J. He died insolvent, however, in 1686, and it would seem that his death was premature, and somewhat sudden; had he lived longer he would probably not have been insolvent. In further confirmation of the theory that his death was rather sudden we have the record of his nuncupative will, "spoken before Samuel Spicer, Samuel Bulkley at Phila., 9th of 7th month, 1686, Proved 8th of 9th month, 1686, said witnesses, Robert Turner having a knowledge of the matter. Release of interest by Elizabeth Frampton, acknowledged before Robert Turner, same date. Wm. Frampton, Robert Turner, Wm. Southby, Registers." With the copy of this nuncupative will there is on file the last will and testament of William Frampton made the same date and properly executed. There are three seals to the signature: (1) A Griffin head; (2) a head pierced by an arrow; (3) a lion passant. Wills proved at Philadelphia. [Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. I, No. 1, June, 1900; New York Library - Lennox] Philadelphia was laid out in 1682, and as previously noted William Frampton was a member of William Penn's first Provincial council, for the government of the Province of Pennsylvania (and the lower counties, now called Delaware), and he represented Kent county, Del., in that council. During the time he was a member of that body Penn was not in this country, Thomas Holmes acting as president of the council alternately with Thomas Lloyd, for a time, after which the latter presided altogether. From the time William Hampton became a member of the council he was invariably present, his name always appearing in the list of the seven or eight members comprising that body and recorded as present. He was also one of the peace commissioners for the county of Philadelphia, and was one of the three persons who jointly filled the office of register general, and keeper of the Great Seal. In the "Colonial Records, Vol. I," which contains the minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania from March 10, 1683, the date of its first organization, to Nov. 27, 1700, we find the following items regarding William Frampton: Page 82, record of meeting 12th of 7th Mo., 1683: Accounts and bills due to "Wm. Frampton" are given from seventy-eight persons. They are for tobacco, pork, Indian corn, wheat, etc., chiefly tobacco. Page 94, record of meeting 20th of 2d Mo., 1683: "Wm. fframpton being sent for before this board, his petition was read, and it was Ordered that James Claypoole, Roht. Turner, Jno. Greene, Jno. Jones, and Wm. fframpton, or any two of them, to have the Keys & to take into Possession the estate in the hands of John Vanburson, and to Inspect his accts in psuance of the same, and to make a returne distinctly of said goods & accts to this board." Meeting 21st of 12th Mo., 1683: "James Claypool, Jno. Joanes, & Wm. frampton made their return to this board Concerning the Estate of John VandBorsons." "Whereupon James Claypool & Wm. fframpton were appointed to Inspect and make up accts of John Vanborson, & to give an acct of it to this board when they make up the Cr. & Dr." "Wm. fframpton makes a report of the reference of the Council covering estate of John Vanborson Lately deceased." "The provll Council Ordered Wm. fframpton & Samll Carpenter of this town, Marchts, to administer on ye behalf of ye creditors and Heirs of Jno. Vanborson, & to make report of what they doe there in to this board." Page 127, meeting 1st day of 2d Mo., 1685: Wm. Frampton appears for the first time as a member of the council. The minutes say: "Wm. Clark being attested deposeth that he saw ye returne of the Sherriff of ye County of Kent for a member of Councill, & he did read in the returne that Wm. fframpton was ye man Chose for the membr of Councill." "And it being put to the Question whether that was sufficient for him to Sit, past in the Affirmative." "Wm. fframpton was this day attested to keep secresy. "Ordered that Wm. fframpton, Phin. Pemberton & John Cann doe draw up a Bill that all pay may be made in kind acc. to contract, also that they bring in the Distance of takeing up of Servants." Meeting 4th day of 2d Mo., 1685: "Ordered that END OF PAGE 24 Wm. fframpton draw a new Bill for the Size of Caske Exported, and also to be used within the Province" etc. "Ordered that Jno. Symcock, Jno. Cann, Wm. fframpton & Phinehas Pemberton be a Committee to draw up the former bills." Page 133: "Richard Ingelo Cl. Concy Appointed for a Committee Jno. Symcock, Wm. Wood, Jno. Cann, Phi. Pemberton, Wm. fframpton & Tho. Holmes, to receive proposals from the Assembly." The council was notified of the death of King Charles II.; council ordered that Richard Ingelo, clerk, read a "publication of King James the 2nd as King." This proclamation is given, and ends with the words: "AND SO GOD SAVE THE KING." Page 141, meeting 28th of 3d Mo., 1785: In the list of members noted as present on this date, the same is printed "Wm. Frampton." Later it is sometimes written "frampton)' "Framptone," and "fframpton." Page 162, meeting 6th day of 9th Mo., 1685: "Ordered that James Claypool, Robt. Turner, Saml Carpenter, John Jones, Wm. frampton, Patrick Robinson, John Test, John Songhors be writt to desireing them to come forthwith to the Councill, they having urgent business with them about the Subscriptions." "The persons above mentioned all Came to ye Councill, where they Discoursed about ye subscriptions. Concluded amongst themselves to meet together in ye afternoon to Consult about methods how to proceed in order to discharge their Obligation and give in acc't thereof at next Sitting of ye Councill." "James Claypool, Wm. frampton," and seven others, were made "General Commission of the Peace for the County of Philadelphia." Meeting 16th day of 9th Mo., 1685: Ordered that "ye Respective Indian Kings be sent for to the Council with all speed to answer their Complaint." Page 163, meeting 17th day of 9th Mo., 1685: "The undertakers of ye subscription Came to ye councill according to their promise ye Sixth Instt. and Presented their Report with a list of ye Subscribers and what Subscribed, ye whole amounting 201,19,2 to wch Chris Taylor at ye board subscribed 6.00.00. The Councill Commended their Dilgence and promised them their furtherence Assistance therein." Meeting 9th day of 11th Mo., 1685: A new Commission for Kent County was appointed, as the old would not serve, inserting the names of "Wm. Southersby, Wm. frampton" etc. in the list Meeting 1st day of 12th Mo., 1685: The Justices for the County of Philadelphia appeared, consisting of "Wm. frampton," James Claypool and others. "Wm. frampton's petition was read requesting Removall of ye Caves before his Door, he being about building a Wharfe. It was Granted, & a fortnights time given for ye Removall of ye Goods out of ye Caves." Meeting 5th day of 5th Mo., 1686: "Ordered that Robt. Turner, Wm. frampton, & Wm. Southersby take charge of ye office of Register Gen'll, in as full and ample a manner as Christop Taylor had in his Lfe Time." Meeting 6th day of 5th Mo., 1686: "Commission impowring Robt. Turner, Wm. Frampton, & Wm. Southershy to manage ye Register Genll office of this Province & Territories, New Castle only excepted, was this day signed." Page 176, meeting 1st day of 3d Mo., 1686: "Robt. Turner & Wm. frampton were attested as Justices of ye Peace for the Towne and County of Philadelphia, they having had a Commission Lately made." Page 178, meeting 11th day of 3d Mo., 1686: "Councill Ordered John Symcock & Wm. frampton to go with ye promulgated hills to ye Assemly." "Wm frampton having urgent business had leave for this day's absence." Page 179, meeting 12th day of 3d Mo., 1686: "The petition of ye frenchmen sent over by - Bellases was Read Complayning agt Bellases agents for not performing ye Contract between Bellases & ye frenchmen: it was Ordered yt Arth Cook John Symcock Robt. Turner Wm frampton should Examine and Redress the same with all Expedition." Pages 189-190: On the 3d day of the 7th Month, 1686, council, after a morning session in the usual place, adjourned for an afternoon session "at Robt Turner's house" "he being sick." "Wm frampton" is recorded as being present at both sessions, this being his last recorded attendance (evidently being ill). Page 195, "At a meeting of Councill in the Councill House ye 18th 9th Mo. 1686, P. M.": "The Commission upon ye Death of Wm frampton one of ye persons Commissioned for ye management of ye Registry office etc., it was unanimously [word missing?] that ye Genll Registry be proposed to the acceptation of James Claypoole Senr having lately Requested ye same; Upon his consent thereunto, a Commission be Drawne to Impowre him to act therein During ye Govrs Pleasure." Meeting 30th day of the 1st Mo. 1687, P. M.: "Returne of Kent County send returning Griffith Jones to serve in Provll Councill the Remaining part of the time Wm Frampton Deceased was to have served: signed ye Obligation & took his place in ye Councill." The Friends' records referring to William Frampton show that he was present at a monthly meeting in Philadelphia 4th Mo., 3d, 1684, when he was appointed with others to have charge of END OF PAGE 25 building a meeting house for the accommodation of Friends 8th Mo., 7th, 1684, he was appointed with another to take the account of what is collected for poor Friends and give information to next meeting. 12th Mo. 3d, Friends belonging to the meeting were desired to meet at William Frampton's house "to consider what to do in relation to poor Friends." 12th Mo., 9th: It is agreed that subscriptions for the poor he paid to Wm. Frampton, "who is to pay it to whom the meeting shall order." He was also appointed with others to assist the poor in providing work for them, etc. 3d Mo., 4th, 1685; William Frampton "acquainting the meeting that he is going to divide his house and desires Friends that some other place be considered and provided against the Quarterly Meeting he and others were appointed to provide such a place etc." He is also appointed at this meeting to prepare a certificate for certain Friends who were about to remove out of the Province. He is also desired "to speak to poor Friends that are like to be in want and that they advise them the properest way for the getting of a livelihood." 2d Mo., 5th, 1686, he is named with another to see about the money rights of a certain child; 3d Mo., 3d, appointed on a certain property matter; 4th Mo., 7th, he is desired to pay out certain money belonging to the Meeting. This entry of 4th Mo., 7th, 1686, is the last one relating directly to him, and it appears that he must have died soon afterward, for in the Monthly Meeting held 7th Mo., 24th, 1686, the following minute was made: A. B. "is appointed by Friends to go to the widow Frampton and get those books that belong to this meeting, which her husband had in his custody." Elizabeth Frampton is mentioned as having been appointed on certain matters of business in the meetings on the meetings held 12th Mo., 25th, 1686, 1st Mo., 25th, 1687, 3d Mo., 29th, 1687, and 3d Mo., 27th, 1687. In William Penn's "Further Account" of the Province of Pennsylvania, published in 1685, he mentions the fact that he has built a brick house to "encourage others and that from building in wood." He adds: "many have brick houses now going up with good cellars." He enumerates houses built by Arthur Cook, William Frampton, John Wheeler, and others, on Front street chiefly. He says: "All these houses have balconies." The "History of Philadelphia County" says: "Robert Turner's brick house on Front and Arch Streets was built in 1685." The history says further: "Bristol Township adjoined Bucks Co. having Tacony Creek on the east, and Germantown south and west of it. The lands in this township were taken up by such men as Samuel Carpenter, Richard Townshend, William Frampton, Samuel Benezet, Griffith Jones, etc." William Frampton married Elizabeth, sister of Mary, wife of Philip Richards, but as we find no record of his marriage it was presumably lost or destroyed, as he was too prominent a man for the record not to have been made. His widow remarried, as in the meeting held 8th Mo., 26th, 1688, Richard Basnet or Bassnett and Elizabeth Frampton declared their intentions of marriage. Elizabeth was desired "to make what reasonable provision she could for her children before the next monthly meeting." 9th Mo., 13th, the Friends finding nothing to obstruct their marriage set them at liberty to accomplish it "according to the good order of Truth." No record appears to have been preserved of their marriage certificate, though there is the following record: "At the Philadelphia monthly meeting, Elizabeth Frampton to Richard Bassnet, 9th Mo., 30th, 1688." [There must be, another record.] Thomas Frampton, son of William, married an Ellis, first name unknown, who was probably the daughter of Thomas Ellis of Burlington, N. J. They had three children: John, Hannah (who married David Price) and another child, name unknown. [The death of a Thomas Frampton, 10th Mo., 27th, 1726, is mentioned among the Friends' records.] John Frampton, son of Thomas, lived and died in Cumberland county, Pa., in Derry township, near the town of Carlisle, which was then little more than a trading post. He owned a farm. He married a Critchfleld, first name unknown, and they had sons: William, John, Samuel, Nathaniel and Arthur, who have numerous descendants in various parts of the country. One of Nathaniel's descendants became a Mormon. John, Arthur and Samuel served in the Revolutionary war, as members of the "Cumberland County Rangers." William Frampton, son of John, was a very successful and wealthy farmer of Mifflin county, Pa., living near what is now Lewiston. He married & Staley, and died in 1829, in Clarion county, when over eighty years old, and is buried near Churchville, in that county. Previous to his time the family had all been Quakers, but he became a Baptist, and all his numerous descendants have clung to that faith. He had an only son, David, and several daughters, whose descendants are numerous. David Frampton, son of William, born near Lewistown, Pa., removed to a farm near Reidsburg, Clarion Co., Pa. He married Hannah Lobach, who was of Holland-Dutch lineage, and they had sons Samuel, William, Abraham, Jonathan, David and Reid, and a number of daughters. Samuel Frampton, son of David, born in 1810, died in 1887. He was a well-to-do farmer residing near Clarion, Pa. He married Eveline Reynolds, granddaughter of a Revolutionary soldier, and of Scotch and English descent. They had children: Richard; Thomas; Byron Hays; and several daughters, one of whom, Ida, is the wife of END OF PAGE 26 J. S. Wrightnour, D. D., a graduate of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Byron Hays Frampton, of Clarion Pa., youngest son of Samuel, married Nellie Mohney and they became the parents of three children: James Villiard (who was a student at Bucknell University), Samuel and Romaine. JOSEPH DEPPEN, though one of the oldest citizens of Mount Carmel, is still one of the most prominent business men in the borough, and is probably one of the best known men in Northumberland county. As proprietor for a number of years of the "Deppen House" of Mount Carmel, he came in contact with many citizens of the locality in his earlier days, and at the time he owned most of the ground now included in the borough limits. He was the organizer of the Mount Carmel Savings Bank and has been engaged in the real estate business for many years. Mr. Deppen was born Dec. 2, 1837, in Upper Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, near Greenbrier. His parents, Abraham and Mary (Snyder) Deppen, had a family of six children, four of whom are living: Louise, who married Dr. Reuben Muth; George, born in 1836, at Locust Gap, this county, who married Mary Mertz (he lives in Herndon, Jackson township); Joseph; and Alexander. In 1844 the parents took their family out to Wayne county, Ohio, making the journey by wagon. The trip was a remarkable one, always remembered with interest by all the family. They took up farm land, but not finding conditions favorable returned to Pennsylvania in 1846 and located at County Line, Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland county. In the spring of 1848 Abraham Deppen bought land at Greenbrier where he followed farming and tanning, selling this place in 1851 and locating at Mahanoy, now Red Cross, near Herndon. In the fall of 1852 he purchased the well known island opposite Herndon where the family lived for a period of fourteen years. It was during this time that the bridge was built connecting the island with the shore at Herndon, and Joseph Deppen was the first to drive a horse over the bridge. It was torn down about 1875. During the time the Deppen family lived on the island occurred the disastrous flood of 1865. From March 17th to March 21st the island was all under water and the Deppen family had to live in the barn for a week, during which the floating sawlogs entered the second-story windows of the dwelling house. The flood was one of the worst which have visited this district and the Deppens lost nearly all their possessions. In 1866 they moved to Herndon and rented the rented the island. Abraham Deppen died Aug. 13, 1899, his wife Nov. 5, 1868. Joseph Deppen attended an old pay school typical of the times. It was located in Dauphin county near the Northumberland county line, and was held in the building of a gristmill. The grinding of grain and the grinding of an education occurred at one and the same time. The seats or benches were arranged in a circle around the teacher, each pupil with his or her back towards the instructor. When the family moved from near Greenbrier and located near Herndon the old Trevorton railroad was in process of construction, and he found employment on the job. After attaining his majority he was in the droving business for three years, and in the mercantile business at Herndon for two years. From 1867 to 1869 he was in business with his brother George at Herndon, Pa., in April, 1869, locating in Mount Carmel, with which place he has since been identified. For fifteen years after settling here he was engaged in conducting the "Deppen House," now known as the "Commercial" and after abandoning that line of business was devoted principally to real estate. He at one time owned most of the ground on which Mount Carmel is situated, and he sold his property off in lots, making a success of his transactions, which have covered many years. In 1872 he organized the Mount Carmel Savings Bank, which began business at his hotel April 9, 1872; Amos Vastine was president of this institution. Upon the expiration of the bank's charter the stockholders discontinued business and a new institution, now known as the Union National Bank, was formed. Mr. Deppen was not only prominent in business but also in the public life of the borough, which he served as treasurer, as treasurer of the council, and as school director. In all his relations with his fellow men he gave evidence of public spirit and an intelligent insight into local needs which made him a valuable public servant. On Sept. 7, 1867, Mr. Deppen married Eva Elizabeth Hoffman, daughter of Jacob and Eva Elizabeth (Weiser) Hoffman, of Jordan township, Northumberland county. Mrs. Deppen died June 17, 1896, and is buried at St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jackson township. She was a lifelong member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, which Mr. Deppen and their children joined Nov. 2, 1890. He is a Democrat in political faith. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Deppen: (1) Lizzie F. is at home. (2) Mary Ada married Dr. F. D. Raker, of Shamokin, who was at one time treasurer of Northumberland county, and they had four children, Conrad Joseph, Moses, Ralph Edward, Susan Eva and Alma Elizabeth. Mrs. Raker died May 8, 1898. (3) Joseph Henry is mentioned below. (4) Gertrude Jane is at home. Mr. Deppen resides with his daughters at Nos. 109-111 South Chestnut street. JOSEPH HENRY DEPPEN, son of Joseph Deppen, was born Dec. 10, 1874, at Mount Carmel, and there received his preparatory education. He graduated from the high school in 1893, and subsequently END OF PAGE 27 attended the business college at Shamokin, graduating in 1894. For two years he was secretary for Judge Voris Auten, in 1896 entering Bucknell University, at Lewisburg, Pa., graduating in 1900, with the degree of Sc. B. Thereafter he studied law in the office of Judge Auten, and was admitted to the bar of Northumberland county Dec. 29, 1902. He has since been engaged in practice in Mount Carmel his office being at No. 32 North Oak street. Mr. Deppen has won high standing at the bar as a lawyer of thorough training and reliable intelligence. He has established an excellent practice, which is being steadily augmented by reason of his conscientious attention to all the work intrusted to him. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. At the present time he is treasurer of the Mount Carmel school district and is now completing the last year of his third term as school director. TRUMAN HARVEY PURDY was born June 26, 1830, in the village of Purdytown, Wayne Co., Pa, and died April 4, 1898 in Sunbury, of which place he had been a citizen for thirty-six year. The measure of his influence upon that community and upon the various other communities with which his interests were linked cannot, however be expressed in a simple statement of time. One whose versatile abilities brought him into contact with many phases of the progressive period in which he lived, whose diversity of talents made him known to almost every class, he had a well-rounded career - a life unusually well spent and lived close to high ideals. His professional work as journalist, lawyer and writer won him high reputation and popularity and gained wide recognition of his mental attainments; in the years of his early manhood he was a successful political leader; throughout his mature life he displayed rare business qualities, his accomplishments in the way of industrial development showing a degree of foresight and executive faculties of surpassing strength. He prospered in his business operations, which were not confined to Sunbury, his interests in Sunbury being extensive and important to the evolution of that place into a modern, progressive city; and in association with J. B. Ewing he founded the town of Steelton, Dauphin county, where he retained large interests. Mr. Purdy was a son of Harvey and Ruth (Clark) Purdy, both natives of Pennsylvania, born, respectively, in Wayne and Lackawanna counties. They traced their ancestry in this country back to Colonial days. The father died Nov. 9, 1847, aged forty-six years, the mother Dec. 31, 1852, at the age of forty-eight. They had a family of four children, three sons and one daughter, namely: Drusilla, Myron E., Truman Harvey and Dr. Nathaniel C., the last named of Allenwood, Pennsylvania. Truman H. Purdy spent his youth at Lewisburg, Union county, and there received his early education, also attending Madison Academy at Factoryville. He took the collegiate course at Lewisburg University. Leaving the institution about 1858, he was for the next three years engaged in newspaper work at that place, having established the Union Argus, a weekly Democratic paper which he edited until induced to move to Sunbury in 1861. In the stormy days preceding the outbreak of the Civil war when party lines meant much, the need of a Democratic newspaper was felt at Sunbury, and selling out his interests Lewisburg Mr. Purdy founded the Northumberland County Democrat, with which he was associated, as editor and proprietor, until the winter of is 1866-67, meantime publishing also the German Democrat; which went out of existence upon his retirement. At the time of his death the following paragraph appeared in the Democrat, which is still one of the leading newspapers of this section: "On this page is announced the death of Hon. T. H. Purdy, of Sunbury. He was the founder of this paper. He was a Democrat of Democrats, and never wavered in support of the principles of his party. During the war he suffered for opinion's sake, but he was as unbending as the sturdy oak. He died as he lived, true to himself, his family and friends and all humanity. We deeply mourn the death of our friend and benefactor," Such was the opinion his successors were able to voice after a lapse of over thirty years, when time had shown the wisdom and integrity of his conduct of that paper in its early days. Under his management the paper grew in circulation from three hundred to thirty-five hundred. Reference was made to the stanchness of his Democracy. Always a zealous worker in the councils of his party as an organizer or in meeting during the period of his active association therewith, he was a forceful influence in its local triumphs. In 1862 he made sixty-five speeches, and at the election that year the party had one thousand majority as against sixty-four in 1861. He was elected to represent his district in the State Legislature twice, serving in 1864- 65 and 1865-66, but thereafter bore no working part in political affairs. Throughout his career as a newspaper man Mr. Purdy had been engaged in the study of law, which he began before establishing the Argus. He studied at Lewisburg under Judge Bucher, and continued his studies at Sunbury under Alexander Jordan, being admitted to practice in 1866. When he disposed of the Northumberland County Democrat in the winter of 1866- 67 it was to have all his time for the practice of law, in which he was most successful. In 1881 he was the choice of the Democrats of the county for president judge, but "was defeated for the nomination by the sheer overconfidence of his friends." END OF PAGE 28 From the early sixties to the close of his life he was prominent in the development of industrial enterprises of various kinds, a field in which his executive ability had ample scope. He was not afraid to trust to his foresight in real estate investments, and thus in 1863 he purchased much of the land upon which what is now East Sunbury is located, reserving a piece of about two and a half acres, upon an elevation overlooking the town, for the site of his own residence. He built several houses there at a time when there were only one or two other buildings on all the ground which now forms about a fourth of the entire greater Sunbury. His own palatial home, built some twenty years before his death, was sold to the Mary M. Packer hospital organization at the time the latter body was formed. In 1876, in association with J. B. Ewing, Mr. Purdy purchased many acres of land adjoining the growing town of Steelton, a venture which proved highly profitable. A few years later he started an addition to Lewisburg, when he built the nail and forge works and a furniture factory, being president of the Lewisburg Furniture & Planing Mill Company, treasurer of the Lewisburg Nail Works and a director of the Lewisburg Steam Forge. He was the organizer and for many years manager and treasurer of the Sunbury Gas Company. Public improvements of all kinds, those changes necessary to keep a community abreast of the material progress of the day, always received his encouragement and support, but he was particularly favorable to projects affecting the advancement of public education, and the establishment of the high school at East Sunbury was due principally to his influence. Mr. Purdy had literary gifts of a high order, and though a busy man never neglected his intellectual pursuits, in which he found his keenest pleasure. His historical oration, "Sunbury," delivered at the centennial celebration July 4, 1872, "a delicious bit of local history, colored with the master hand of one who dearly loved his subject," was published in pamphlet form and widely read. It is "a most interesting and exhaustive pen picture of the town's history from the time it contained but a few cabins up to the time of the centennial. It was the only authentic history of Sunbury ever prepared and delivered." His "Legends of the Susquehanna" is rich in charming verse, in which the lore and the legends of the Indian inhabitants of the region are beautifully told; another work, "Doubter," a long poem, a religious argument of great depth, was also published in book form, but is now out of print. At the time of his death he had in preparation a novel, which never reached the press. Though gentle in disposition, and tolerant of the opinions of others, Mr. Purdy was noted for his unyielding defense and advocacy of what he believed to be right and he had the courage of his convictions on any question. This trait was especially noticeable during the Civil war period. His greatest political activity was at a time when party differences often came between the best of friends, and though he himself was unswerving in his allegiance to the standards of his party, men who had been his strongest political opponents became his warmest personal friends and admirers. His true nature appealed to intelligent men of all minds. This characteristic marked his relations with his fellow men throughout life, and his support was often solicited when an able and influential champion was needed. It is seldom that traits conducive to success in so many lines are combined in one man, or that talents so diversified are so well employed. His name will be revered in many circles for years to come. Mr. Purdy is buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. On Dec. 19. 1861, at Lewisburg Mr. Purdy married Mary E. James daughter of the late Dr. Robert E. James and sister of Robert E. James, the latter of Easton, Pa. Her father was a native of Bucks county, Pa., and lived at Centerville, Northampton county, where he died. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Purdy: (1) Robert Harvey died in infancy. (2) Carrie M. is engaged in missionary work under the auspices of the Methodist Church, having since 1895 been located at Pueblo, Mexico, where she has charge of 430 girls. (3) Truman J. received his early education in the public and select schools of Sunbury, graduated from Bucknell University, Lewisburg, and after a course of law study was admitted to the bar of Northumberland county, where he is now engaged in legal practice. He has been particularly successful as a counselor in corporation law, and holds rank among the leading junior practitioners at the Northumberland county bar. (4) Hiram L., who lives with his mother at Sunbury, received his early education in the public schools of that borough and was graduated from Bucknell University. He is a civil engineer by profession and one of Sunbury's enterprising young business men. VAN ALEN. The Van Alens have played so important a part in the prosperity of the borough of Northumberland for the past forty years and more that no mention of its industries would be complete without the record of their achievements. Throughout this period their establishment has been one of the mainstays of the place, for in times of financial depression it has been kept running for the benefit of employees when other plants close rather than operate at a loss. At present about one hundred and fifty men find profitable employment with the Van Alen Company. The first of the Van Alens in America emigrated to this country from Holland, settling in Co- END OF PAGE 29 lumbia county, N. Y. There was born his son Gilbert, who followed agricultural pursuits all his life. The latter married Annis Moore, of Columbia county, and they had two children, Reuben and Catherine. The daughter married John J. Van Volkenburg, a farmer and merchant of Columbia county. Reuben Van Alen, son of Gilbert, followed farming and merchandising at Chatham Center, Columbia county, N. Y., for a number of years. In 1827 he moved to Salisbury Mills, Orange Co., N. Y., where he engaged in the manufacture of paper, continuing in that line for many years. He was a man of intelligence and superior business ability. The closing years of his life, after his retirement from business, were spent with his son Timothy at Danville, Pa., where he died. He married Mary Oakley, daughter of Timothy and Sallie Oakley, and they became the parents of three sons and one daughter, Gilbert R., Timothy O., Sallie O. (who died at the age of thirteen years) and Lewis O. Timothy O. Van Alen was born in Chatham Center Columbia Co., N. Y., Aug. 19, 1819, and there passed his early years. He was ten years old, in 1829, when his father employed a private teacher for him, for two years, and at the age of twelve he entered the academy at Kinderhook, Columbia county, N. Y., where he studied for two years, during that period residing with the family of Dr. Henry Van Dyke. Subsequently he returned to Orange county, N. Y., where he attended the school of Nathan Stark, at Goshen; one year. At the age of fifteen he went to New York City, where he served as apprentice in a hardware store until 1839. Returning home, he engaged in the manufacture of paper and agricultural implements and in the mercantile business with his father, continuing thus for five years. In 1844 he went to Danville, Montour Co., Pa., to represent the Murdock, Leavitt Company in Montour Iron Works, acting as resident agent of that company. The same year he built at Danville what was afterward known as the "company store" and in 1846 engaged in the mercantile business in association with individual stockholders of the company, under the firm name of T. O. Van Alen & Co. In 1866, in company with George M. Leslie and A. H. Voris, Mr. Van Alen built a nail factory at Northumberland, Northumberland county, establishing a business which has since been one of the features of the industrial life of the place. At the time it was opened the mill contained five puddling furnaces, one coal heating furnace, and fifteen nail machines. In 1872 Mr. Van Alen purchased the interest of Mr. Voris, and in 1886 that of Mr. Leslie. He then enlarged the plant, putting in five more puddling furnaces, one thirty-ton Smith's gas heating furnace and thirty-eight more nail machines, bringing the annual capacity up to one hundred and fifty thousand kegs of cut iron and steel nails. In 1891, upon the death of Mr. Timothy O. Van Alen, his five sons took the business, which they continued until the plant was destroyed by fire in 1894. In that year three of the brothers Cornelius G., Gilbert B. and Edmund G., with William B. Waples purchased the mill property of Taggarts & Howell, and rebuilt the mill, opening it for business in May, 1895. That year the Van Alen Company purchased the plant of the Keystone Forge Company, located at Elizabethtown, Lancaster Co., Pa., and moved it to Northumberland; this plant is now owned by the members of the Van Alen Company, Isaac Cornwall and J. D. Weekes. In 1908 the Van Alen Company devoted the entire mill to forge work and the manufacture of nail products, in which they give employment to about one hundred and fifty men. This establishment has been one of the thriving interests of Northumberland throughout its existence, bringing prosperity to owners and employees alike. Mr. Timothy O. Van Alen always took an active interest in his home town, Danville, of which he was one of the foremost citizens for many years. He kept his business in operation through periods of financial depression as well as in prosperous times, and the appreciation of his generous policy was shown in the high esteem in which his fellow citizens of all classes held him. For many years he was a director of the First National Bank of Danville, and he served many years as a trustee of the State Hospital for the Insane at that place. He was a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church, and acted as president of the board of trustees for a number of years. In 1846 Mr. Van Alen married Miss Anne Catherine Garretson, daughter of Cornelius Garretson, an ironmaster of Shippensburg, Pa., and their union was blessed with eight children: Cornelius G., Gilbert R. (deceased in infancy) Gilbert R. (2), Alexander Oakley (born 1850, died 1893), Edmund G. (deceased in infancy), Edmund G. (2), Mary A. (died young) and George L. Of these Edmund G. married Margaret Bibby. Cornelius G. Van Alen, born Sept. 25, 1846, is vice-president of the First National Bank of Danville, and has served as a member of the borough council. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He married Marion Beveridge, of Newburgh, N. Y., and to them were born seven children, Thomas B. (deceased), Marion B. (married J. D. Weekes and has two children, Rachel and Marion), Catherine B. (married John E. Van Devender), Henrietta (deceased), James S. (married May Peters and has one child, Charles), Gilbert B. and George L. The mother of this family died, and Mr. Van Alen has since married the widow of his brother Alexander O. Van Alen. END OF PAGE 30 GILBERT R. VAN ALEN was born Sept. 10, 1848, in Danville, Montour Co., Pa., son of Timothy Van Alen. He married Frances Withington daughter of M. J. D. and Elizabeth G. (Forsythe) Withington, and they are the parents of two children, Timothy O. and Helen W. Mr. Van Alen was the first eminent commander of Mount Hermon Commandery, Knights Templar, of Sunbury, Northumberland county. JOHN FREDERICK SCHAFFER, of Sunbury, is considered one of the foremost legal practitioners of his section of Northumberland county, where as borough solicitor for Sunbury from 1899 to 1907, and since in the capacity of corporation lawyer, he has taken part in some of the most important litigation of recent years. His success in a number of involved and notable cases has gained him high reputation and enviable standing. Mr. Schaffer was born in Sunbury Sept. 20, 1867, son of John F. and Sarah A. (Houghton) Schaffer, and is a great-grandson of Jacob Schaffer. The family name is now frequently spelled Shafer. Jacob Schafer was born at a small town called Soffensburg, on the border line of Germany and Switzerland, about three miles from the city of Basel. His father was in the silk business in Soffensburg, where he lived and died. His children, besides Jacob, were Frederick and Hans (John), neither of whom came to America. Frederick fought under Napoleon, serving as one of his bodyguard, was taken prisoner, and died on the island of Corsica. The other brother, Hans, lived at Soffensburg and corresponded with his brother Jacob after the latter settled in America, his letters being now in the possession of his great niece, Catherine Rowland. Jacob Schafer also fought in Napoleon's army, for seven years, leaving the army after receiving a serious wound in the chest. He was married in Germany to Catherine D. Fossinger, who was born May 8, 1771, at Frankfort, and they came to this country in 1801 with one daughter, Catherine, who died when two years old, shortly after their arrival here. They settled in Reading, Pa. The other children of this couple, all born in this country, were: Samuel, born in Reading in 1805, who died Nov. 14, 1891, at the age of eighty-six years, and was buried in the Charles Evans cemetery in Reading (he served in the Civil war, being one of the oldest soldiers who enlisted in the Union service, and was a corporal in Company H, 31st Regiment, State Militia); John, the grandfather of the present John F. Schafer; Frederick, who died young; and Anna, who married Levi Wunder and died in Reading. John Schafer, son of Jacob, was born in Reading and early in life learned the trade of tailor, which he followed in that city all his life, becoming very well known in that connection. He died in Reading about 1859. Mr. Schaffer was quite active in the Democratic party in his day, giving of his time and means to help desirable men to local positions, and he was a leading member of and worker in the Reformed Church, serving as superintendent of the Sunday school. He was twice married, and by his first wife, Louisa Winckler, had a family of four children: John F.; Francis, who died young; Catherine E., who married Daniel W. Rowland (she is the only one of her generation now living, and supplied the information concerning the early generations used in this article; she lives in Reading); and Anna L., who died young. John F. Schaffer was born Aug. 3, 1834, in Reading, and there in his youth learned the tailor's trade under his father's instruction. In 1855 he located at Lewisburg, Union Co., Pa., where he followed merchant tailoring until 1864, and then on returning to Reading remained there until his removed to Sunbury, in the spring of 1865. There he was in business until his death, which occurred Aug. 3, 1878, and he is buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. He prospered well in his work, giving employment to a number of people, and was also an artist of more than ordinary ability. About 1852 he was married at Lewisburg to Sarah A. Houghton, daughter of James Houghton, of Lewisburg, and they became the parents of four children, namely: Anna M., who is unmarried; Irma H., born in 1862, who died in 1866; John Frederick; and Helen L., born in 1872, who died in 1892. John Frederick Schaffer grew to manhood in Sunbury and received his education in the public schools, graduating from the high school in 1884. He then became a clerk in the office of the register, recorder and clerk of the Orphans' Court at Sunbury, under George D. Bucher, and also served under his successor, Urias Bloom, until August, 1887. That year he went West spending about three years in California, Colorado and Arizona. For a short time he was employed in the office of an abstract and title company at Los Angeles, later finding employment as cashier with Fred Harvey, the celebrated proprietor of a chain of restaurants from Kansas City to San Bernadino, Cal., for whom he worked at four different points, San Bernadino, Cal., Williams, Ariz., Needles, Cal., and LaJunta, Colo. Before going West Mr. Schafer had passed the preliminary examination, and on his return to Sunbury, in May, 1890, he took up the reading of law under Hon. John B. Packer, a distinguished practitioner of that borough. Mr. Packer dying in 1891, he completed his studies under George B. Reimensnyder, a prominent lawyer of Sunbury, finishing the course in January, 1894. He was admitted to the bar in December of that year. Meantime Mr. Schafer had entered the office of the prothonotary, S. P. END OF PAGE 31 Fausold, under whom he served three years as chief clerk. After his admission to the bar he remained in the office of his preceptor for a year and a half, in May, 1896, opening an office of his own in the Masser building, where he has since been located. From 1899 to 1907 Mr. Schaffer was solicitor for the borough of Sunbury, and as such successfully defended a number of suits for the municipality. He is now the legal representative of the Sunbury & Northumberland Electric Railway Company and the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Sunbury, which, has the first plant installed by Mr. Edison personally, he having superintended its construction, the installation of all machinery, etc. As the attorney for the Sunbury & Northumberland Electric Railway Company Mr. Schaffer's most important work was in connection with the injunction suits instituted against the corporation by Guy Webster, acting for the Sunbury & Selinsgrove Electric Railway Company and the borough of Sunbury. In both instances the Sunbury & Northumberland Company scored a complete victory. After failing in the injunction suits the prosecutors made application to the attorney general for a quo warranto proceeding in the Dauphin county courts, but the matter was never brought to an issue. It was largely through Mr. Schaffer's efforts as attorney for the Sunbury & Northumberland Company that the bridge over the north branch of the Susquehanna river, between Sunbury and Packer's Island, was constructed, in 1910. He is a valued counselor and an authority whose opinion commands general respect. On June 20, 1906, Mr. Schaffer married Gertrude Lindsay Gervin, daughter of Charles and Jane M. (Brown) Gervin, late of Northumberland, and they have had one daughter, Helen Josephine. Mr. Schaffer is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Politically he is a Democrat, but he takes no active part in the work of the party. CHARLES C. LEADER, of Shamokin, Northumberland county, is connected with so many business interests in that city, of private and public importance, that his name is synonymous with all that represents its progress and well-being. As merchant and banker he has been a leader in the business life of the city for years. As promoter, stockholder and officer of important financial institutions his name and reputation have given the confidence needed by such concerns at the outset of their career and they in turn have benefited the community and increased its possibilities of expansion and sound development. Mr. Leader was born July 13, 1843, in Alsace township, Berks Co., Pa., son of Edward Leader, and grandson of George Leader, both of whom were natives of Montgomery county, this State. The grandfather removed to Reading, Berks Co., Pa., where he resided until the time of his death. Edward Leader, father of Charles C. Leader, was a farmer by occupation. He died in 1859 in Alsace township, Berks county, at the age of forty-five years, and, he is buried at Alsace Church. He was twice married, his first wife being Catherine Snyder, his second Hettie Wanner. Charles C. Leader was reared on his father's farm in Berks county, and there received his education in the local schools, having also the advantages of one year's study at Schuylkill Haven, Pa., before he commenced work. In 1860 he became a clerk in, the general store of A. J. Medler, in Schuylkill Haven, where he was employed for about three years, at the end of that time removing with his employer to Pottsville, Pa., where he continued with him as clerk for three years more. Returning to Schuylkill Haven in 1865, he opened a store of his own, carrying a stock of general merchandise, and remained there ten years, doing remarkably well. However, feeling that he had exhausted the possibilities in that line at Schuylkill Haven, he resolved to try his success elsewhere, and in 1875 he established himself at Shamokin, where he has continued to reside to the present time. During his first three years in that city he was the head of the firm of Leader, Muir & Co., who had a store at Liberty and Independence streets. After the firm was dissolved, by mutual consent, in 1878, Mr. Leader, opened a dry goods store of his own at Shamokin and Sunbury streets, two years later, in 1880, removing it to Independence street. In 1881 he formed a partnership with R. G. Eisenhart, the firm name being Leader & Eisenhart, and they were associated for three years, until Mr. Leader bought out his partner and took his brother, Edward M. Leader, into partnership. When he entered into the partnership with Mr. Eisenhart a clothing department was added to the original business, and Leader & Brother continued both lines until 1889, when they divided the trade, Charles C. Leader retaining the dry goods branch, and Edward M. Leader the clothing branch. Mr. Charles C. Leader, at the time of the separation, established himself in the new building, built in 1889, in which he has ever since continued the dry goods business, his brother remaining at the old stand on Independence street. The business was incorporated in 1908, as the C. C. Leader & Sons Company, Mr. Leader's two sons, Harry K. and Edward R., and daughter, E. May Leader, being now members of the firm. He himself continues to act as president of the concern. Mr. Leader has always been known as a progressive man in his methods and ideas, and when he erected his present dry goods store, in 1889, it was one of the finest buildings used for the purpose in the State, modern in construction, commodious and complete in equipment, pleasant, attractive, and convenient beyond the ordinary. The building is 48 by 125 feet in dimensions, three stories and basement, and is devoted entirely to the END OF PAGE 32 accommodation of this business, which has enjoyed a career of uninterrupted prosperity. As the founder of one of the largest and most successful dry goods houses in this section Mr. Leader would be entitled to front rank among the enterprising business men of Shamokin. But he has not devoted himself entirely to this one under-taking. As an extension of his first interests, he had a dry goods store at Mount Carmel, Northumberland county, while when the Shamokin store was incorporated he sold to his son C. F. Leader, who is conducting it on the same scale and in the same progressive style characteristic of the Shamokin store. An earnest desire to please their patrons may he said to be the keynote of the success of this concern, and the results commend the policy. Liberal management has also been a leading feature of Mr. Leader's code, and its wisdom has been made apparent by his continued prosperity. Several of the most important financial corporations in Shamokin count Mr. Leader among their promoters and founders, and he has been identified with their conduct in various capacities, his connection and influence being considered important factors in their welfare. He was the leading promoter of the Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Company, capitalized at $250,090, which was organized and began business in March, 1896, and has been its president since the organization; he is also president of the First National Bank of Schuylkill Haven, of the W. P. Zartman Lumber Company (with offices at Shamokin), of C. C. Leader & Sons Company (dry goods and carpets), and of the Hillsboro Telephone Company of Hillsboro, Texas. He is a director of the Cement Block Company, of Shamokin, of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Shamokin, of the Mississippi Telephone Company and of the Auburn Shale Brick Company of Shamokin; and a trustee of Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., and of Bethany Orphans Home, Womelsdorf, Pa. Mr. Leader was the prime mover in the establishment of the First National Bank of Schuylkill Haven, which was organized in 1899, with a capital of $50,000, and held the office of vice president until 1904, when he became president. He is a member of the building commission for the State hospital, including the district of Trevorton, Shamokin and Mount Carmel. His services in every position of responsibility have shown his selection to be a wise one. Few men have done more for the community, though he has not gone into the realm of public life, confining his efforts to doing the best he can for his fellow men in his capacity of private citizen. His gifts to charity have been generous and well distributed, his interest in benevolent projects leading him to support worthy organizations, and his sympathy for less fortunate fellow beings prompting many private beneficences. In May, 1867, Mr. Leader married Amanda F. Ketner, of Schuylkill Haven, daughter of Benjamin Ketner, and they have had a family of five children: Emma May is at home; Charles Franklin married Cora Pensyl; William C., born in 1874, was manager of the Mount Carmel store at the time of his death, in 1899, in a terrible railroad accident on the Lehigh Valley road at Dunellen, N. J.; Harry K., a member of the corporation of C. C. Leader & Sons Company, married Bertha Dress and had two children, Charles C. and Richard; Edward B. succeeded his brother William in the management of the Mount Carmel store and is a member of the corporation of C. C. Leader & Sons Company. In politics Mr. Leader was originally a Democrat but he now votes independently; he is a man of strong Prohibition tendencies, and a stanch advocate of reforms which have for their object the permanent elevation of the human race. He has long been a member of St. John's Reformed Church, and has served many years as elder. For twenty-five years, from 1880, he served as superintendent of the Sunday school. During the Civil war he responded to the call when the invasion of the State was threatened, enlisting at Harrisburg and serving in an emergency regiment at Wrightsville, York Co., Pennsylvania. SIMON PETER BROWN was a resident of the borough of Milton for forty years, during which period he was not only considered one of the substantial citizens of that place but also one whose influence counted for much in the promotion of progressive enterprises. He made a great success of his own undertakings, and when he became interested in public institutions, those bearing on the general welfare of the community, he gave them the same thought which had made his personal affairs prosper. Intelligent, broad-minded and public-spirited, he was a man whose life, though unassuming and avoiding rather than seeking notoriety, was one of continuous usefulness to his fellow men as well as to those who had the right to claim his attention. Mr. Brown was a native of Union county, Pa., born Aug. 14, 1843, son of Cyrus and Elizabeth (Wooltrout) Brown whose children were as follows: Mary Ann (who married Aaron Van Buskirk), Daniel, Reuben, Abram, Obediah (died young), Jeremiah (died young) and Simon Peter. The last named was a pupil in the schools of his home locality in Union county and later went to school at Lewisburg. He came to Milton about 1867 and there spent the remainder of his days. He began work in the borough as a clerk in the store of William Heinen, remaining there when it was conducted by the firm of Heinen, Etzler & Raush, and later by the Heinen & Schreyer Company. But he did not continue long in the hum- END OF PAGE 33 ble capacity in which he began his connection with the business. He became a partner, and after the death of Mr. Heinen the firm became Schreyer, Brown & Co., continuing thus until Mr. Brown withdrew from the association, in 1894. Though unostentatious in everything he did Mr. Brown was recognized as a most efficient worker by all who had any dealings with him. Many of the most important movements in Milton counted him among their most effective promoters. He was one of the organizers of the Milton Water Company and served as director; was for years president a the Milton Gas Company and was one of the directors of the Milton National Bank. He was faithful member of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics a Republican. His death, which occurred April 28, 1907, was a distinct loss to the community. On March 14, 1882, Mr. Brown married Laura B. Knauff, daughter of John and Susan (Clinger) Knauff, and she survives him, she and her mother occupying the beautiful home on East Broadway erected by Mr. Brown. JOHN KNAUFF, late of Milton, who served as assessor of the Second ward of that borough, was born in 1833 in Lycoming county, Pa., but was long a citizen of Northumberland county. Frederick Knauff, his father, was born in 1809 in Germany and was only a boy when he came to America, in 1817. He followed farming all his life. His wife, Anna, of Schuylkill county, Pa., was born in 1810 and survived him, dying in 1885. Mr. Knauff's death occurred in 1875. He was a Lutheran in religion and a Democrat in politics. To Mr. and Mrs. Knauff were born children as follows: John; Henry, who lives in Lewisburg; Peter, living in Jersey Shore, Pa.; Daniel, who lives in Scranton, Pa.; Abram, deceased; Susan, who married John Zere and died in 1860; Margaret, Mrs. Wagner; Julia Ann, who married Peter Heilman and lives in Indiana (they have two children, Fred and Lloyd); Catharine, who married Edward App; and Matilda, who married Harry Noll. John Knauff followed farming in his early life, later engaging in lumbering for a number of years. For over twenty years he was connected with the Milton Car Works as foreman, during the time that plant was under the management of Murray, Dougal & Co. Although a Democrat in a ward which is normally Republican by a majority of 100 Mr. Knauff was elected assessor a few years ago, the second time by a majority of 168, which statement needs no comment. He held this office during his last years, dying Aug. 1, 1910. His trustworthy character and efficient service's were well appreciated by his fellow citizens. On Feb. 9, 1856, Mr. Knauff married Susan, daughter of Henry and Susanna (Wagoner) Clinger, and their union was blessed with the following children: Laura B., who is the widow of Simon Peter Brown; Amanda V., Mrs. Crane; Carrie (deceased), Mrs. Hanam; and Robert C., who married Bessie May Hottenstein and has two children, John A. and Robert S. Mrs. Robert C. Knauff is the daughter of Allen S. Hottenstein, granddaughter of Charles Hottenstein and great-granddaughter of Henry and Catharine (Spohn) Hottenstein. Though Mrs. Knauff has passed the threescore and ten mark she enjoys good health and is active beyond the ordinary, and the same was true of Mr. Knauff. They made their home with their daughter, Mrs. Brown, spending their days in well deserved peace and contentment surrounded by all that goes to make life worth living. VORIS AUTEN, of Mount Carmel, judge of the courts of Northumberland county, comprising the Eighth Judicial district, occupies a conspicuous place among the leading citizens of that section of Northumberland county and the State of Pennsylvania. His success in both professional and business lines indicates the strength and versatility of his makeup, and his services as judge have established him firmly in the confidence of the people. Judge Auten, son of William Maxwell Auten and Sarah (Allison) Auten, was born in Chillisquaque township, this county, July 8, 1856. His original paternal ancestor in this country was Adrian Hendricksen Aten, who came from Holland and settled at Flatbush, Long Island, in 1651. Just when or under what circumstances the letter "u" was inserted in the paternal name is not definitely known. Some of the descendants of this ancestor retain the original form of the name. In the latter part of the eighteenth century, probably between 1780 and 1800, John Auten (Aten), descendant of Adrian Hendricksen, settled in what is now Montour county, Pa., along the banks of the Chillisquaque creek, about nine miles from its mouth, where were born Joseph Auten and William Maxwell Auten, grandfather and father of the Judge. John Auten assisted in building the first Chillisquaque Presbyterian church, a log structure subsequently destroyed by the Indians. His son Joseph married Elizabeth Maxwell. William Maxwell Auten, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Maxwell) Auten, was born July 7, 1814. He received a common school education, and when about eighteen years old began to learn the trade of millwright which he followed in connection with farming throughout his active years. He made his home in Chillisquaque township until his death, which occurred Jan. 8, 1891, after a severe illness of about four weeks duration. Mr. Auten was a man of considerable prominence in END OF PAGE 34 his township, where he served one term as justice the peace and several terms as school director, taking especial interest in the welfare of the public schools. He was a Democrat and took part in the work of the party, serving as delegate to county and State conventions. In religion he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was a conscientious Christian and an earnest student of the Bible, conducting himself in all the relations of life so as to retain the respect and good will of all his fellow men. Mr. Auten was twice married. By his first union, with Sarah Kline, daughter of Joseph Kline, he had six children, namely: Joseph H., Wesley, Isaiah, Catharine J. (Mrs. Samuel Giffen), John J., and a sixth which died in early infancy. The mother died in 1848, and Mr. Auten subsequently married Mrs. Sarah (Allison) Marr, widow of John Marr, and daughter of James Allison, who settled in Northumberland county in pioneer days. Seven children were born to the second marriage: James A., William M., Voris, Elizabeth (Mrs. W. B. Cox), Edward, George B. M. and Annie (wife of Angus Fairchild). Voris Auten grew to manhood in his native township, gaining his early education there in the common schools. Later he attended the academy and university at Lewisburg, taking part of the scientific course at the university and like many who follow the professions he taught school while preparing for his life work. He was engaged for several terms as teacher in the common schools of his native township, and was six years thus engaged in the Sunbury schools, meantime, in April, 1879, commencing the study of law under Frank A. Marr, attorney, of Sunbury. He was admitted to the bar of Northumberland county in September, 1881, and in June, 1883, removed to Mount Carmel, where he has since been engaged in practice. In the fall of 1889 he was elected district attorney of the county, and was reelected in 1892, serving two terms. In November, 1901, he was elected judge of the county courts. Such is a brief outline of his legal career. Of the steps by which he has attained his success, the conscientious fulfillment of every trust reposed in him, the skillful handling of all his legal cases and his efficient discharge of every duty, we can best judge by results. He is a man who has done his best as a citizen, in both the relations which he has formed in the pursuit of his professional and business interests, and those which the intelligent man feels called upon to assume as a useful member of society. He is a Democrat in politics. Socially Judge Auten belongs to the I.O.O.F. and the F. & A.M. On June 9, 1887, Judge Auten married Jennie Renn, daughter of Dr. George M. Renn, of Sunbury, and they have had one daughter, Agnes Renn, who was born July 11, 1893. WILLIAM M. LLOYD, of Shamokin, present treasurer of Northumberland county, is a citizen who enjoys excellent standing in both business and official circles. Before taking his present office he filled that of justice of the peace for some time, and he has business interests which entitle him to be considered one of the substantial men of his community. He is a native of the county, of Welsh extraction. Mathew Lloyd, grandfather of William M. Lloyd, was born in the south of Wales, in 1814 and came to America in 1854. He had married Mary Powell, also a native of South Wales, and on coming to this country they brought their family of three children, two sons and one daughter. Mr. Lloyd followed mining throughout his active years, and died in 1884 in Shamokin, Coal township, Northumberland Co., Pa., where he is buried. Of the children, William died in Shamokin; Elizabeth married John Knittle, of Roaring Creek, Columbia Co., Pa., and died at Centralia, that county; Thomas is the father of William M. Lloyd. Thomas Lloyd, son of Mathew, was born April 14, 1852, in Nantyglo, South Wales, and came to America when very young, landing at New York His first home here was at Minersville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and later he was in Lycoming county, this State, whither his father moved in 1858. In 1859 the family moved to Danville, Montour county, remaining there until 1869, when they settled in Shamokin. Here and in the vicinity Thomas Lloyd has since resided. He worked at mining at the various places where the family lived, following that occupation, part of the time in connection with contracting, for twenty-five years in all. He then embarked in the grocery business, at Marshallton, in Coal township, Northumberland county, being engaged in that line for about seven years, in association with his son William M., under the name of Lloyd & son. His next venture was in the hotel business, on the same site as he had his grocery store, and he continued in this line for thirteen years, making a success of it. Since settling at his present home he has devoted all his time to his real estate interests. He purchased property at Edgewood, in Coal township, in 1907 erecting thereon the fine residence he now occupies, at No. 1401 Arch street. In many ways Mr. Lloyd has proved himself a trustworthy and intelligent citizen, and his business reputation is unimpeachable. On July 1, 1872, Mr. Lloyd married Delilah Ann Dilliplane, daughter of Ezekiel Dilliplane. She is a native of Roaring Creek, Columbia Co., Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd have had six children: William M.; Albert, now a member of the firm of Malick & Lloyd, manufacturers of overalls and shirts at Shamokin, formerly superintendent of schools in Coal township (he married Nellie Ernst); Lydia A., unmarried; Thomas, M. D.; END OF PAGE 35 Edward, D. D. S., of Shamokin; and Harvey, M. D., of Shamokin. Mr. Lloyd, the father, is a member of the I.O.O.F. and of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. William M. Lloyd was born April 9, 1873, in Coal township, near Shamokin, and attended the schools of his native township. But as was common in those days he commenced work at the age of eight years, as slate picker at the mines near Shamokin, following this vocation for four years. Then he entered his father's grocery store, clerking there for seven years, after which he engaged in the wholesale bottling business in Coal township. He conducted that business until 1900, when he was elected a justice of the peace of his native township, and he served in that capacity until he was elected county treasurer, in November, 1908. Though a Republican, Mr. Lloyd was given flattering support, having a majority of 234 votes in his run for the treasurer's office. He is well and favorably known throughout the county, and his successful race for the position was undoubtedly due in large measure to his personal popularity and his high standing for integrity and moral strength. Mr. Lloyd is one of the owners of the well known "Windsor Hotel" at Shamokin, of which Mr. J. W. Henrie is in charge, and in this connection is well known to the traveling public; he is vice-president of the company which owns the hotel. He is president of the Miners Building & loan Association of Shamokin, of which Charles O'Connor is vice- president. Mr. Lloyd holds membership in Shamokin Lodge, B.P.O. Elks, and also belongs to the West End Fire Company. Mr. Lloyd married Julia Eagan, daughter of William Eagan, of Shamokin, and they have had a family of four children: Letitia, Albert, Valeria and Lyman S. GRANT HERRING, of Sunbury, a distinguished lawyer whose professional talent and attainments have gained him standing among the foremost legal practitioners of the day in Pennsylvania, has been a resident of Northumberland county for only a few years. His reputation and achievements, however, entitle him to recognition wherever he goes. Bloomsburg, Columbia county, was his home for a number of years. For a considerable period he was prominent in Democratic politics, but since January, 1899, he has devoted himself to the practice of his profession. Mr. Herring was born May 19, 1862, at Centerville (now Limeridge), Columbia Co., Pa., son of George A. and Mary A. (Hess) Herring. The family is of German peasant origin. Christopher Herring, the emigrant ancestor, came to this country with his wife and eight children before the Revolutionary war. They were "redemptioners," their services being sold to defray the expenses of the passage. Two of the eight children were killed in the battle of the Brandywine. Another, Ludwick, was the great-grandfather of Grant Herring. He settled in Orangeville, Columbia Co., Pa., in 1800. He was a teamster and was engaged in hauling produce and goods from Orangeville and Pottsville to Reading before the introduction of the railroad system in that section. John Herring, son of Ludwick, was born in Orangeville, Pa., in 1808, and there resided throughout his active life. He was a carpenter by occupation, and for twenty years was a carpenter foreman on the Pennsylvania canal, between Nanticoke and Sunbury. Politically he was a Jacksonian Democrat, casting his first vote for Jackson, and adhered to the Democratic party until his death. For ten years he was justice of the peace at Orangeville. In 1889 he moved to Bloomsburg and for the rest of his years lived in retirement, dying in 1893. He married Rebecca Snyder, a sister of the late Sheriff John Snyder, of Orangeville, and they had eight children, six sons and two daughters. George A. Herring, son of John, was born in Orangeville, Dec. 24, 1833, and obtained his education in the academy at that place. At the age of twenty years he moved to Bloomsburg, where he learned the trade of molder, which he followed for a period of four years in Bloomsburg, Illinois and Michigan. Returning home he engaged in carpentering with his father, building canal boats at Limeridge, Columbia county, and continued carpenter work and boatbuilding until 1864, when he purchased a colliery, now known as No. 3, at Shenandoah, Schuylkill Co., Pa., in connection with J. W. Williams, Esq., operating it for a few years as a member of the firm of Williams & Herring. He then met with a serious accident which nearly resulted in his death and which terminated his connection with the mine. He disposed of his interest and engaged in merchandising in Shenandoah up to the year 1876, when he sold out. During this period he was elected treasurer of Schuylkill county, serving from 1870 to 1873. He was one of the organizers and a director of the Shenandoah Water Company; also a director of the Shenandoah Valley Bank. In 1876, owing to poor health, he sold his store and moved to Bloomsburg, purchasing a farm two miles from there and also renting a tannery, which he operated until 1882. He then disposed of the tannery, but has since owned the farm. From 1881 to 1887 he served as deputy treasurer of Columbia county, and for the following three years as treasurer. In 1894 he was made deputy collector of internal revenue for the Twelfth district of Pennsylvania, with office at Scranton, under his son Grant, and he has Since held that office. Po- END OF PAGE 36 litically Mr. Herring is a firm supporter of Democratic principles and has frequently served as delegate to State conventions from Columbia and Schuylkill counties. He was a delegate to the convention which nominated Pattison for governor, the first time he was elected, and the delegation from Schuylkill county, being the last to cast its vote, had the distinction of naming the Democratic candidate, as the vote was very close. Mr. Herring married Mary A. Hess, who died in 1893 at the age of fifty-seven years, and they became the parents of three children: Grant; Ida, who resides with her father at Bloomsburg; and John, who died in March, 1890, at the age of twenty-two years. The latter was graduated from Lafayette College in June, 1889, and during his junior year in college received honors in oratorical contests; upon leaving school he began the study of law with his brother and continued it until his death. Grant Herring attended the common schools of Shenandoah until 1876, when he entered the Bloomsburg State normal school, to prepare for college, remaining there until 1879. He then took a classical course in Lafayette College, graduating therefrom in June, 1883, with the degree of A. B.; later he received the A. M. degree from his alma mater. He is an excellent speaker and a fluent writer, and in his junior year took first honors in the oratorical contest. In September, 1883, he began the study of law in Bloomsburg with E. R. Ikeler, Esq., afterward president judge of the Twenty-sixth Judicial district of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar in Columbia county Feb. 5, 1885. He formed a partnership with Mr. Ikeler on the same day, under the firm name Ikeler & Herring, and they continued together for four years, until the former was elected to the bench. He has been admitted to the County, United States, State and District Supreme courts. He built up a good corporation practice, becoming solicitor for the Farmers National Bank, attorney for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, for the Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company, of Berwick, and a number of other prominent firms. Mr. Herring was active in the councils of the Democratic party for some years. He was delegate-at-large from Pennsylvania to the Democratic National Convention of 1892, which nominated Cleveland, and was delegate from his district in 1896 to the convention held at Chicago, where he was an earnest advocate of sound money doctrines throughout the financial excitement which characterized that period. He received a number of honors from the party. He was elected to the State Senate from the Twenty-fourth district which he represented in that body from 1890 to 1894, serving in the extra sessions called in 1893 by Governor Pattison for the investigation of State officials. He was the youngest member of that body. He was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Twelfth district of Pennsylvania, assuming the duties of this office Feb. 3, 1892. On Aug. 12, 1898, he was appointed president judge of the Twenty-sixth Judicial district (succeeding his former preceptor and partner, Mr. Ikeler, in that position), and soon after was one of three judges to decide a contest at a judicial election in Schuylkill county. He was not a candidate for the election which took place the following November, and in January, 1899, resumed the private practice of his profession, which he followed alone at Bloomsburg from the time he and Mr. Ikeler dissolved partnership until he came to Sunbury, April 22, 1907, and formed a partnership with Hon. S. P. Wolverton. They practiced together for two years, since which time Mr. Herring has practiced alone. His office is in the Bossler building, at the corner of Market and Fourth streets, Sunbury. Mr. Herring's success in handling the cases intrusted to him has come as the result of indefatigable devotion to the interests of his clients, and his thorough familiarity with legal methods in all the courts. His standing, because of his brilliancy and conscientious devotion of his best efforts to any work he undertakes, is of the highest, and he has a forceful personality which attracts the most substantial elements in any community. Mr. Herring was made a trustee of the State normal school at Bloomsburg in 1895, and again appointed in 1898; since the latter year he has also been a trustee of the State Hospital for Injured Persons, located at Fountain Springs, in Schuylkill county. On Sept. 4, 1885, Mr. Herring married Emma Jones, of Bloomsburg, daughter of John C. Jones; she died Nov. 8, 1910, at the age of forty- nine years, the mother of three children, viz.: (1) Donald Grant Herring, born Sept. 25, 1886, attended Bloomsburg high school, was graduated at Lawrenceville in 1903, and then entered Princeton, from which university he was graduated with the degree of A. B., in 1907. He won the Rhodes scholarship for the State of New Jersey, which entitled him to a three years' course at Oxford University, England, where he was graduated with honors in June, 1910. While there he played Rugby football on the Oxford side in the intervarsity match between Oxford and Cambridge (the only American who enjoys that distinction). He is now an instructor at Princeton in Woodrow Wilson's department of History, Politics and Economics. (2) Laura Douglas Herring, born Dec. 24, 1887, graduated from the Bloomsburg State normal school and from Rye Seminary, N. Y., entered Vassar College, and subsequently took a course at the Damrosch School of Musical Art, New York City, studying vocal music. She is now preparing to sing in grand opera under the famous Madam Milka Ternina. (3) Mildred Herring, END OF PAGE 37 born Sept. 24, 1893, graduated from the Bloomsburg State normal school, attended Susquehanna University, at Selinsgrove, Pa., and is now at Rye Seminary, preparing for Vassar College. ROCKEFELLER. The Rockefeller family has long been well represented among the best class of citizens in Northumberland county, and one of the townships of the county bears the name. The family was founded here by Godfrey Rockefeller, from whom the brothers to whom this article chiefly refers are descended in the fifth generation. All the surviving sons of the family of the late Lewis Rockefeller are prosperous and substantial business men of Sunbury, and there resides the family of the late Lemuel C. Rockefeller. His brothers, Isaac and Charles O. Rockefeller, are associated in business under the firm name of C. O. Rockefeller & Brother, and are proprietors of the Sunbury Market House and of the Sunbury Sanitary Dairy Company, both of which are well patronized by the people of the borough. The Rockefeller family traces its beginning in America to one Peter Rockefeller, who was born in Europe in 1710 and on emigrating to America settled at Amwell, Hunterdon Co., N. J. He died there about 1740, leaving to his son, who was also named Peter, 763 acres of land in the county mentioned. Godfrey Rockefeller, born in 1747, was a son of Peter Rockefeller (2). He came to Northumberland county, Pa., in 1789, and took up land in the vicinity of Snydertown. He married Margaret Lewis, and they had a family of eleven children, three sons and eight daughters. One of the sons was the grandfather of John D. Rockefeller, of Standard Oil fame. The other two were John and William, the former the great-grandfather of the brothers of Sunbury just referred to, the latter the father of David (born Sept. 6, 1802) and grandfather of Judge William M. Rockefeller (born Aug. 18, 1830), who married Emily Jones, daughter of Thomas and Maria Housel Jones, of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. John Rockefeller, son of Godfrey, was the great-grandfather of Lemuel C., Charles G. and Isaac Rockefeller. John Rockefeller, the grandfather, was killed on his way home from Reading, at a time when much of the country was still a wilderness. He married Elizabeth Moore, and they were the parents of Lewis Rockefeller, mentioned below, their other children being as follows: Henry married Elizabeth Morgan and had five children, John, James, Jacob, Franklin and Harriet (Mrs. John Gulick); Michael never married; David was twice married, his first wife being Isabella Campbell; John married Harriet Kneiss and had five children, Alice (wife of Rev. John Bowman), Caroline (Mrs. Woods) Anne (wife of Jacob Frye), Elizabeth (wife of Jesse Cleaver) and Ella (Mrs. Sanders); Mary married George Bassett and had six children, Lucy, Alda, Ruth, Maggie, Elizabeth and George; Hetester married Isaac Eckman and had children, Col. Charles (married Sophia Gearhart) and David (married Ella Wolfe and had children, Franklin, Alfred, Dyer and Ethel), Elizabeth (married first Oscar Heller and second Joseph Bonner); Harriet (married George Mettler and had two children, Ella and Susan) and Lewis. Lewis Rockefeller, born Sept. 12, 1823, died in October, 1898. He married Catherine Campbell, who survives him and they became the parents of a large family: Lemuel C., born Nov. 8, 1848, is mentioned elsewhere in this publication; Sarah married H. Clay Seasholtz and has had one son, David; Isabella died in 1888, at the age of twenty-five; Hattie married H. C. Lyons; Charles O. is mentioned below; Isaac is mentioned below; Joseph, born in 1859, died in 1870; David P. married Agnes Cummings; Oliver P. married Jennie A. Haupt; Emery was united in marriage with Minnie Gonser. Mrs. Catherine (Campbell) Rockefeller, though now (1910) in her eighty-first year, is active and retains all her faculties, and to her excellent memory we are indebted for much of the data in this article. She enjoys good health, and her kind and unselfish disposition keeps her interested in the welfare of her numerous descendants and endears her to a wide circle of relatives and friends. She now makes her home with her daughter Mrs. Seasholtz. Her cheerful temperament and fine Christian character have won for her the esteem and love of all fortunate enough to know her. She was one of a family of nine children born to Christopher and Sarah (Kline) Campbell, the former of whom was the son of Christopher Campbell, the latter the daughter of Isaac Kline. Isaac Kline and his wife Catherine had the following sons: Harmon, Henry, Isaac and Christopher. The children of Christopher and Sarah (Kline) Campbell were as follows: (1) Isaac married Hannah Campbell. Children: Dr. John, who died in Philadelphia, Pa.; Lemuel, who married Sally Kersuge; James, who married Alice Van Zant; Rebecca, who married Joseph Eckman; and Flora, who died young. (2) Lemuel married Emma Smith. Children: Dr. Charles, who married Lizzie Enos; William, who died young; Eli, who died young; and Mary, who lives in Sunbury. (3) Abraham died young. (4) Herman married Elizabeth Reed, and their son, Edmund, married Mary Haupt. (5) Sarah married Charles Eckman, and had two children, Frank and Ellard (who married Ella Snyder). (6) Ella married (first) Kelso Savidge, by whom she had three children, Clinton (who married Louise Essie and has six children, Harry W., Albert C., Ralph W. E., Preston M., Louise and Lucile), Harrison C. and Lizzie A. END OF PAGE 38 (married Willard Robinson). Her second marriage was to George Forrester, by whom she has had two children, Isabella (Mrs. Clark) and Ellen, the latter dying young. (7) Rhoda married Samuel Oberdorf, and they have had eleven children, Oliver (deceased), Isaac (deceased), Hamilton (deceased), Isabella (deceased), Chalmers (deceased), Mary, Peter, G. Donald (a graduate of Princeton and now principal of the Mount Carmel high school, who married Olive A. Ruch), Maurer (married to Amanda Gearhart), William (who married Ollie Wolverton and has two children, Calvin and Robert, the former a graduate of Bucknell University) and Susan (Mrs. Lorenza Eckman, who has two children, James and Chalmers). (8) Elizabeth married (first) Bloomfield Carr, by whom she had two sons, James and William, and (second) Charles Houghout, by whom she has two daughters, Virginia and Roda, the latter the wife of William Clark and the mother of three children, Bessie, George and Morris. (9) Catherine married Lewis Rockefeller. CHARLES G. ROCKEFELLER was born Aug. 5, 1856, on one of the Rockefeller homesteads in Upper Augusta township, near Klinesgrove, and he and his brother Isaac lived on the farm there until they came to Sunbury in 1906. They are now associated in business as C. G. Rockefeller & Brother, and own and conduct the Sunbury Market House and the Sunbury Sanitary Dairy Company, Charles G. Rockefeller looking after the sanitary milk and cream depot where four people are constantly employed. This plant supplies about eight hundred quarts of Pasteurized milk and cream daily to the local market The Sunbury Market House, which is 100 by 280 feet in dimensions, was built by them in 1901, several years before they removed to Sunbury to manage their interests from that point and has been well patronized by the farmers of this district and by the people of the borough ever since its establishment. The brothers own considerable valuable land, having one farm of 187 acres, another of fifty-seven acres, and a wood tract of twenty acres, and they keep help on these tracts all the year around. They stock their own farms, and have thirty-five bead of dairy cattle, also buying considerable milk, for which, handled by their excellent methods, they find a ready market. In February, 1886, Charles G. Rockefeller married Mattie Minnier, of Upper Augusta township, and they have had two children, Harrison L. and Helen P. The son is agent in Northumberland and Snyder counties, Pa., for the Velie Motor Car Company of Moline, Ill., and is an able machinist, thoroughly familiar with the machinery he handles. Mr. Rockefeller and his family reside on East Chestnut street near Seventh street Sunbury. ISAAC ROCKEFELLER was born Dec. 18, 1858, in Upper Augusta township, at Klinesgrove, and lived in that township until his removal to Sunbury. He formed a partnership with his brother Charles and they were engaged in general farming and dairying. Their Pasteurized milk has always had a ready sale in and around Sunbury, and their market house, of which Isaac Rockefeller is the manager, is one of the standard supply depots of the borough. These brothers have made and maintained the highest reputation for reliable table commodities, and their trade is one of the largest in Sunbury, with a steady increase which speaks well for its future. In December, 1907, Mr. Isaac Rockefeller married Emma Specht, daughter of Adam and Agnes Specht. They are members of the Methodist Church. DR. FREDERICK TREON (also spelled Tryon) was a native of Berks county, Pa., and coming to Northumberland county settled in what is now Washington township, where he practiced medicine until his death, being a physician of wide acquaintance. He traveled around on horseback, being a typical "saddle-bag doctor." He is buried at the Himmel Church, of which he was a member. He had a large field of operation - and in his time rode thousands of miles. His wife, whose maiden name was Gougler, is also buried at the Himmel Church, in Washington township, located near Rebuck. They had these children: Michael, born Nov. 8, 1790, died Jan. 2, 1871 (he married a Miss Reitz and they had two children when she died, Isaac and Maricha); Dr. George located at Muncy, Pa., and was a prominent doctor; Dr. Frederick is mentioned later; Benjamin, who was a laborer and lived in Washington township, had a large family, Joseph, William, Henry, Emanuel, Matilda, Sarah, Polly and Abbie; Peter married Sarah Glace and they lived in Little Mahanoy (children, Henry, William, and some daughters); Barbara married Henry Moyer and they lived near Lewistown, Pa.; Julia, married Dr. Smith; Susanna married (first) Abraham Reitz and (second) Amos Reed; Ann married Peter Kobel and they lived in Stone Valley (he was a tanner); Elizabeth married Martin Drumheller; Sarah married Philip Moyer, of Snyder county, Pa.; Polly married John Bobb and they moved to Centre county, Pennsylvania. Dr. Frederick Treon was born Oct. 16, 1803, and died June 27, 1870. His wife, Maria (Polly) Reith, daughter of George Reith, was born Feb. 9, 1809, and died May 7, 1859. They are buried, at the Himmel Church. He was reared in Washington township and received his early education in the schools in vogue there in his day. He read medicine with his father who was a learned man END OF PAGE 39 for his time, and was about twenty-four years old when he engaged in practice, in Lower Mahantango and Jackson townships. He had a large field, and went as far as Buffalo Valley and Snyder county. He was specially skilled in treating gangrene, and people came to him for many miles. He, too, like his father was widely known, and his life was a useful one, his existence a benefit to the afflicted and to fellowmen generally. He lived near Rebuck, in Washington township. Like his father before him he was a Lutheran in religion. He was once voted in for township clerk for a joke, as he never cared for office. His children were: Adam R., Jacob, who died at Ashland, Pa.; Peter, who died at Shamokin; and Lovina, who married George B. Kiehl (they live in Philadelphia). ADAM R. TREON, an old and respected citizen of Lower Augusta township, was born July 23, 1837, son of Dr. Frederick Treon. He is a native of Washington (now Jackson) township, was reared on the farm, and received such advantages as the local schools afforded, learning to read English and "cipher." He began farming at the tender age of thirteen years, and in 1858-59 began farming for himself in Washington township, as a tenant. There he lived and farmed until the spring of 1885, when he crossed the mountains and came into Lower Augusta township, where he has a farm of seventy-three acres located on the Hollowing Run Road between Fisher's Ferry and Trevorton. This tract was a Hummel homestead many years ago, and the property originally was much larger. Here Mr. Treon has since farmed. He has owned the tract since 1894, before which he farmed it on shares. Mr. Treon is a Democrat and was School Director many years, holding the office for twelve years in succession. He was constable seven years, also in Washington township, and was also auditor of that township; in Lower Augusta township he was auditor three years. At present he is a supervisor, having been elected in 1906. He is a prominent and useful citizen. In religious conviction he and his family are New Lutherans. In 1858 Mr. Treon married Susanna Hoffman, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Hetrich) Hoffman, of Washington township. She died April 15, 1894, aged fifty-six years, and is buried at St. Peter's Church. To Mr. and Mrs. Treon were born the following children: Edward H. married Sarah J. Miller, daughter of Andrew Miller, and they reside with his father and follow farming (their children are Mabel Ruth, Dennis D., George A., and Jessie Susanna); Jeremiah is a farmer in Lower Augusta township; Alexander died aged twenty-one years after an illness of five years, finally becoming blind about one year before he died; Galen, Lewis and Daniel died young: Mary married John A. Minnier; John is a resident of Fishers Ferry, Pa.; Wesley of Asherton, Pa.; Alice died young. WALTON F. RHODES, cashier of the First National Bank of Sunbury, the oldest financial institution of that borough, has been identified with that community all his life, but he belongs to an old Berks county family, being a son of William S. Rhoads and grandson of Benneville Rhoads. The Rhoads family is one of the oldest in Berks county, where it was planted in the early day of the eighteenth century - some accounts give the year 1710 - by several brothers of the name, one of whom was John Jacob Rhoads. His nationality is uncertain, and in the early tax lists and record his name is also spelled Roth and Roads. In 1753 he was a taxable resident of Amity township, Berks county, and owned considerable land. He was a man of affairs and operated a paper mill in Amity township. Tradition has it that one of the sandstone tombstones east of Amityville church, whose inscription has become illegible by time, marks his grave. His children were: (1) Lena married Henry Baum. (2) Jacob in 1778 was a captain in the Revolutionary army. He married Susanna Yocum and their children were: Hannah, Daniel, John, Jacob, Samuel and Elizabeth. (3) Matthias was a lieutenant colonel in the Revolution. He married Elizabeth Gotterin and had children: Mary, Esther, Capt. Jacob, Joseph, Abraham and John. (4) Daniel married Magdalena Kerst and they had twelve children: David, Peter, Samuel, Jacob, John, Solomon, Adam, George, Daniel, Henry, Abraham and Mary. (5) Mary married Maj. George Lorah, a Revolutionary soldier. (6) Elizabeth married Maj. George Lorah after the death of her sister Mary. (7) Samuel is mentioned below. (8) Christina married Jacob Griesemer. (9) John married Catharine Greiner and had children: Jacob, Hannah, John, Catharine, George, Mary, Eleanor, Elizabeth, William and Samuel. Samuel Rhoads, son of John Jacob, married Elizabeth Auvenshine, and they became the parents of children as follows: William, John, Daniel, Samuel, Abraham, Elizabeth, and two sons that died young. Samuel Rhoads, son of Samuel and Elizabeth, married Sarah Ludwig and they had children as follows: William L. married Lydia Hine; Jonas married Rachel Hunter; Abraham L. married Harriet Straub; Frederick lived in Dayton, Ohio; Sarah married John Nein and lived in Chester county, Pa., where she is buried; Eliza married Samuel Sands and both are buried at Boyertown; Benneville married Rebecca Lewis. Benneville Rhoads, who married Rebecca Lewis, was born at Amityville, Berks Co. Pa., and for many years lived in Ohio. Among his children was a William, father of Walton F. Rhoads. END OF PAGE 40 William S. Rhoads, son of Benneville, was born May 25, 1835, in Berks county, Pa., and came to Sunbury, Northumberland county, in 1866, spending the remainder of his life at that place. He moved hither from Paxtonville (earlier known as Beaver Furnace), Snyder Co., Pa., where he had been engaged as a bookkeeper, and he followed the same work in Sunbury, where he died March 13, 1891. He is buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. He became a highly esteemed citizen of Sunbury, where for fifteen years he served as a member of the school board from what was then the Third ward, serving many years as secretary of the board. Politically he was a Republican, in religion a Lutheran, and socially he belonged to the Knights of Pithias and the Odd Fellows. Mr. Rhoads married Hannah Koch Francis, who was born May 25, 1835 and died Feb. 28, 1907. They were the parents of the following children: Mary C. (deceased) married Elwood P. McConnell; Adelaide F. married Charles A. Sensenbach, of Sunbury; Joseph W. died when eleven years old; Walton F. is a resident of Sunbury. Walton F. Rhoads was born Sept. 22, 1860, at Hecla, Schuylkill county, and received his literary training in the Sunbury schools, going to the Sunbury high school. Later he entered the military academy at West Point but resigned in 1881, after one year's attendance, and returning to Sunbury became employed as bookkeeper in Whitmer & Foster's general store. There he remained one year, when he became connected in the capacity of bookkeeper with the First National Bank of Sunbury, with which he has since been associated. This was in 1883. From bookkeeper he was promoted to the position of teller, then to assistant cashier, and on Feb. 1, 1909, he became cashier, succeeding George W. Deppen. This bank was established in 1831, and is one of the substantial and reliable financial concerns of Sunbury and the adjacent territory. Mr. Rhoads long and honorable career in its service has given him the highest standing among business men in this section, and his personal reputation is equally enviable. Fraternally he is associated with True Cross Commandery, No. 112, Knights of Malta, and Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A.M., both of Sunbury, and he also belongs to the Temple Club and to Good Intent Fire Company, No. 1, of Sunbury, of which latter organization he has been treasurer since 1895. He and his family attend the Lutheran Church. On Nov. 4, 1883, Mr. Rhoads married Mary C. Cooper, daughter of Thomas G. and Mary Elizabeth (Rohrbach) Cooper, who lived in Sunbury. Children as follows have been born to them: Florence Edna, wife of Bruce G. Frick, who is employed in the treasury department at Washington, D. C.; Bertha Irene; Alma Catharine, who died March 27, 1906, at the age of fifteen years; Thomas W.; Mary Cooper; Walton Francis Jr.; and Martha Elizabeth. THE FRANCIS FAMILY, to which Mrs. Hannah Koch (Francis) Rhoads, mother of Walter Francis Rhoads, belonged, is also a Berks county family. Her grandfather, Jacob Francis, was born Oct. 10, 1777, and lived on the farm in Amity, near the Exeter township line, now owned by his grandson, Jacob S. Francis. In June, 1806, he purchased five acres from one Jacob Bower and settled upon it for the remainder of his life, dying there Aug. 16, 1849. In April, 1810, he added twelve acres to the original tract and more from time to time until he had fifty-four acres. In 1819 he built the barn which is still standing on the place, and in 1843 the present dwelling house. He was a shoemaker and farmer, industrious and thrifty, and prospered. He was a Lutheran and a regular attendant of Amityville Church, and he and his wife, Susanna Rosena, are buried in the graveyard at Amityville, in Amity township. She was born Oct. 8, 1777, and died Feb. 24, 1843. They had a family of nine children: John, born Dec. 31, 1801, was married Dec. 3, 1826, to Elizabeth Susan Snyder; Samuel is fully mentioned below; Daniel, born Aug. 8, 1805, was married Dec. 26, 1829, and died Aug. 8, 1849; Jacob, born Aug. 6, 1807, married Dec. 18, 1843, Lydia Yaeger (or Hunter); Lydia, born Aug. 10, 1809, died Nov. 27, 1824; Elizabeth was born Oct. 10, 1811; Catharine was born Jan. 21, 1814; Susanna was born Oct. 29, 1817; William is mentioned below. Samuel Francis, son of Jacob, was born Jan. 31, 1803, and on Nov. 25, 1827, married Catharine Koch, by whom he had children as follows: Jacob K. is mentioned below; Abram K. died at Pinegrove, Pa.; Rev. Samuel A. K., D.D., is a Lutheran minister located in Philadelphia; Layanna married Isaac O. Bortz; Hannah K. was the wife of William S. Rhoads, late of Sunbury, Pa.; Dr. Lesher K. lives at Boyertown, Pa.; a son, twin of Lesher, died in infancy; Amanda married William Bruner, of Amity township, Berks county; Bertolette is a resident of Amity township, Berks county. Jacob K. Francis, son of Samuel, was born in Berks county, and died at Harrisburg, Pa., when past fifty years of age. He is buried at Myerstown, Pa. In his earlier life he was a teacher, later engaging in business as a merchant at Harrisburg. His wife, Elinda (Breitenbach), died Oct. 18, 1908, at the age of eighty-four years and is buried at Colorado Springs, Colo. Their children were as follows: Elizabeth A., deceased; Mary J.. who married Thomas P. Barber and resides at Colorado Springs, Colo.; Ida, who married T. S. Hull and lives at Colorado Springs; S. Newton, a publisher, of Denver, Colo.; Rev. J. M.. mentioned below: Alma E.. wife of D. W. END OF PAGE 41 Shetzline, of Philadelphia; and William, a printer, of Fort Collins, Colorado. Rev. J. M. Francis, D. D., pastor of Zion's Lutheran Church, at Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa., was born March 4, 1865, at Myerstown, Pa., and has been in the Lutheran ministry for almost twenty years. He received his college education at Gettysburg College, from which he was graduated in 1888 and took his theological course immediately afterward, at Gettysburg Seminary, graduating therefrom in 1891. His first charge was at Louisville, Ky., whence he transferred to Columbia City, Md., and later to Springfield, Ill., becoming quite prominent in the administrative work of the church in the latter State, serving as president of the Lutheran Synod of northern Indiana and holding the same position in central Illinois; he was chaplain of the Illinois Legislature for four years, from 1904 to 1908. On May 17, 1908, he entered upon the duties of his present charge at Sunbury, Pa., where he has an important pastorate, the congregation of Zion' Church numbering fourteen hundred members. He is a devoted and efficient worker and his services have proved highly acceptable. Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to Maclay Lodge, No. 632, of Sunbury, and to the consistory at Bloomsburg. Dr. Francis married Elizabeth M. Toot, daughter of H. S. and Harriet S. (Deardorf) Toot, of Gettysburg, Pa. They have three children: Raymond T., who graduated from Sunbury high school in 1910 and is now a student at Bucknell University; Reginald K., and Robert M. William Francis, son of Jacob, was born Aug. 6, 1820, in Amity township, Berks county, where his son Jacob S. now resides. He passed all his life on that farm dying there April 4, 1901, when over eighty years old. He owned the place and cultivated it, also following shoemaking, and outside of his own affairs he was principally interested in church work, in which he was very active. He and his wife were devout Lutherans, and he was deacon and elder in the church, chorister for many years, and one of the trustees of the cemetery board, which he helped to organize. On May 14, 1843, he married Julian Steinmetz, daughter of Michael and Mary Ann Steinmetz, and their children were as follows: Mary A., born Aug. 15, 1844, married Augustus Redcay and they lived in Birdsboro, Berks county; Emeline, born Sept. 3, 1846, married Samuel McLean; Amanda, born Feb. 3, 1849, died aged fourteen years; Jacob S. is mentioned below; Ellen, born April 1, 1853, died Oct. 19, 1871; David, born May 10, 1855, died in infancy. Jacob S. Francis was born Sept. 3, 1850, on the Francis homestead in Amity township where he was reared and where he has spent all his life, the place coming into his possession in 1901. It had been successively the property of his grandfather and father. The place now contains fifty-seven acres, valuable land, which is under a profitable state of cultivation. On March 25, 1875, Mr. Francis married Catharine Bitting, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Behn) Bitting, of Exeter township, and they have had a large family, born as follows: William, Dec. 31, 1875; Charles, Aug. 31, 1877 (he is deceased); Daniel, April 19, 1879; Jacob, Jan. 22, 1882; James, Jan. 3, 1884; Henry, Sept. 8, 1885; Lizzie, Apr. 7, 1887 (deceased); George, March 23, 1888; Sallie, Aug. 23, 1890; Vesta, Nov. 3, 1893 (deceased); Pearl, June 9, 1896; and Luther and Annie, twins, July 16, 1898. Mr. Francis and his family are Lutherans in religious belief, members of the Amityville Church. JOHN JACOB KELLER, M.D., has been located in medical practice at Seven Points, Rockefeller township, since 1890 and during that period has built up a large practice, his patients being scattered over a wide territory, some of them in Sunbury and Trevorton. He was born Oct. 5 1861, one mile south of Elysburg, Northumberland county, son of Jacob Keller, and was named for his great-grandfather John Jacob, who was born Nov. 22, 1773, and died April 28, 1847 aged seventy-three years, six months, six days. He came to Northumberland county in his later years and settled in Ralpho township. He is buried at the historic Blue church, at Dark Corner. His wife, Mary Magdalina, born Aug. 5, 1777, died Aug. 26, 1857, aged eighty years, twenty-one days. His children were: Philip, the Doctors grandfather; Henry, who lived at Bear Gap, Pa; Samuel, who lived in Snyder county, Pa.; another son, who lived in Venango county, Pa.; Daniel, who lived and died in Ralpho township, Northumberland county, at Dark Corner Valley (he was a farmer); and George, who married Rebecca Hoover, and died in Ralpho township. Philip Keller, grandfather of Dr. John J. Keller, was born Oct. 2, 1803, in Shamokin township, Northumberland Co., Pa., and there obtained his education. He married Catherine Roth, who was born July 15, 1806, in Limerick township, Montgomery Co., Pa. She died Dec. 15, 1870, aged sixty-four years, five months. They had these children: Jacob, born Sept. 26, 1826; Daniel, born Jan. 17, 1828; Louisa, born Feb. 22, 1830, who married Jacob Kerschner; Isaiah, born July 22, 1833, who died young; Mary, born Sept. 29, 1838, who died Feb. 1, 1868, wife of William Kreigbaum; and Anna, born July 17, 1841, who died Dec. 3, 1867, wife or Thomas Smith. Philip Keller settled in Shamokin township and followed farming, owning a farm at Elysburg, now END OF PAGE 42 the property of Valentine Swank. By trade he was a weaver, of both plain and fancy articles, for turning out bedspreads, cloth, linen, etc. He was a devout member of the German Reformed Church, deeply interested in religion and a devoted. Bible student, taking great pleasure in the perusal of the Scriptures. He died about 1884, at the age of seventy- eight, and is buried at the Blue church. Jacob Keller, son of Philip, was born on his father's farm at Elysburg, and died in 1896, aged sixty-nine years, seven months. He is buried at the Blue church, of which he was a member, belonging to the Reformed congregation. Having learned the trade of carpenter, he was engaged on the construction of many coal breakers, and later in life he took up farming, owning a farm which is now the property of Percy Swank, adjoining the homestead place. He married Rosetta Conrad, who survived him dying in 1905, aged seventy years, and they became the parents of thirteen children: Uriah R., who is deceased; Malissa, wife of James Kramer, of Shamokin; Amos, who died in Wisconsin; Tillie (deceased), who married Luke Bird and lived in Shamokin; Frank, who died of typhoid fever when nine years old; John Jacob; Viana, who married Leonard Pensyl and lives at Shamokin; Hannah, who married Harry Kline and lives at Shamokin; Elias Wesley, a carpenter, who lives on Dewart street in Shamokin; and four who died young. John Jacob Keller received his early education in the public schools, and after leaving the Elysburg high school took private instruction and a Chautauqua correspondence course. He then taught school for six years, in what is now Ralpho township, and began reading medicine with the late Dr. S. F. Gilbert, of Elysburg. He completed his professional preparation at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated in 1890 with the degree of M. D. From that time he has been located at Seven Points, where he has not only established an excellent practice but gained a high reputation for skill and conscientious devotion to his duties, and a personal standing that is beyond reproach. He has been a valuable citizen, and has interested himself in matters of business as well as of professional concern. Though conservative he is progressive, and his judgment is regarded as reliable among those who have been associated with him in business transactions. He is a large owner of real estate in Sunbury, and was one of the organizers and a member of the first board of directors of the Sunbury National Bank. He has served his township as school director and is a Democrat in politics. Fraternally he is a Mason, holding membership in Elysburg Lodge, No. 414, F. & A.M., Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M., of Sunbury, Mount Hermon Commandery, No. 85, K.T., of Sunbury, and Bloomsburg Consistory. On Feb. 23, 1882, Dr. Keller married Catharine Barron, daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Slaughterback) Barron, who lived at Elysburg; the Slaughterback family came from Juniata county, Pa. Five children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Keller, namely: Myrtle attended school at Williamsport, Pa., and later studied at Bucknell University, at Lewisburg, Pa.; Verna graduated from the State normal school at Bloomsburg, Pa., in 1908, and is now engaged in teaching public school, this being her second term; Russell died in infancy; Grace died in 1907, when nine years old; Gladys is the youngest. Dr. Keller and his family worship at the Methodist Church. EDWARD B. VOUGHT, proprietor of the Paxinos Roller Mills, is one of the leading business men of his section of Northumberland county, where he has resided from young manhood. He is a native of Montour county, this State, born July 30, 1857, son of Esick Howell Vought, and is a grandson of John Vought, Sr., the founder of this branch of the family in Pennsylvania. The Voughts are of German origin, and the first of the family to come to America settled in New Jersey, near what is now Trenton. Among his children were the three brothers, John, Daniel and Isaac, who came to Pennsylvania and settled in this region in pioneer times. A large number of Voughts are buried in the section where they settled, and most of the dates in this article have been taken from tombstone records gathered by Mr. Jerry Vought, of Danville; many of the family, however, had no markers, and some are buried at Catawissa, Berwick, and other places, but the records have been made as complete as possible under the circumstances. John Vought one of the sons of the emigrant ancestor who came to Pennsylvania, was born July 3, 1785. About 1817 he came from New Jersey to what is now Mayberry township, Montour Co., Pa., making the journey with teams, and he was among the early settlers in that district. He took up about twelve hundred acres of land, followed farming, and built the first sawmill along the Big Roaring creek. He married Hannah Metz, who was born Feb. 9, 1787, and died June 18, 1875, upon their farm, where Mr. Vought died Sept. 30, 1869. They are buried at St. Johns Lutheran church, also known as Vought's Brick church, in Mayberry township. They had children as follows: (1) John, Jr., born June 1, 1807, died Oct. 7, 1885. He was a boy when he came with his parents to Montour county, where he followed farming. He married Esther Knittle, who was born Oct. 11, 1813, and died Dec. 20, 1898, and they had children: Peter H.; Caroline, who married Samuel Mutchler; Hannah, who married John Martz; Simon, a resident of Elysburg, who has been a justice of the peace of Ralpho township since 1875 (an infant daughter of himself and wife Clara, END OF PAGE 43 born Oct. 2, 1875, died Oct. 4, 1875); Mary, who married James Broffel; Julia, born in 1845, who died in 1902, wife of Samuel Pensyl, who was born in 1837 and died in 1897 (their son Elwood, born in 1867, died in 1871 and their son John, born in 1873, died in 1874); Jane, who married Joseph Campbell; and Serenda, wife of S. S. Helwich. (2) Daniel. (3) Esick Howell is mentioned below. (4) Valentine, born March 21, 1814, died Feb. 14, 1901. His wife Maria, born Dec. 9, 1821, died May 9, 1881. Their son J. M and his wife Elizabeth had a son born Jan. 1, 1881, who died the same day; and another grandchild of Valentine and Maria was Mary Gertrude Unger, born March 27, 1882, who died Feb. 14, 1907, leaving twin sons who were cared for and reared by their grandmother, Mrs. J. M. Vought. (5) James, born Dec. 30, 1826, died May 9, 1894. His wife, Emaline, died April 22, 1868. Their daughter, Emaline, died May 2, 1868; their son Archibald Luther died June 30, 1867; their daughter, Amelia Elizabeth died May 10, 1866, their daughter, Naoma Ann, died March 20, 1866; their son, Esick Calvin, died Oct. 23, 1863 also dying in infancy or early childhood. Alice Aumiller, daughter of James and Jane Vought, and her young child are also buried with the Voughts but their graves are not marked. (6) Anna. (7) Elizabeth. (8) Leanah, born April 28, 1819 died Nov. 25, 1889. She married Thomas P. Vastine, born Jan. 20, 1822, who died Dec. 3, 1885. Of their children: Hannah died May 26, 1867, aged fifteen years, eight months, eleven days; Sarah Catharine died April 15, 1867, aged eighteen years, three months, twelve days; and their son J. W. and his wife Emma had a son born March 6, 1893, who died the same day. Esick Howell Vought, son of John Vought and his wife Hannah (Metz), died July 29, 1894, aged seventy-two years, twenty-one days. He was born in Columbia county, and spent practically all his life in Mayberry township, Montour county, where he followed farming. He married Louisa Crowl who was born in June, 1819, daughter of Harry Crowl, and died in January, 1902. They are buried at St. John's Lutheran church in Columbia county. Their children were as follows: (1) Annie E, born April 6, 1844, died Oct. 28, 1889. (2) Mary J. is deceased. (3) Henrietta married Adam Pensyl and they live at Elysburg, Northumberland county. Their son, Edward Harris, born June 6, 1871, died March 23, 1873; their daughter Linnie, born July 6, 1875, died Sept. 4, 1880. (4) Christian M., who is deceased, married Araminta Campbell, who was born March 10, 1855, and died May 16, 1877. Their daughter Araminta, born May 4, 1877, died July 25, 1877. (5) Sallie E. married A. W. Long, and is deceased. (6) Margaret married H. W. Hartman and they are living in Ralpho township. They have children, May, Clark, Ray and Wilbur. (7) Alfred Chester, born May 31, 1855, died July 15, 1879. (8) Edward B. is mentioned below. (9) Joseph H. is living in Sunbury. (10) Alonzo C. is living in Sunbury. Clara E., his wife, died July 25, 1896, aged thirty years, six months, six days; daughter Daisy A. died Feb. 16, 1891, when two months old; son Frankie E. died July 16, 1889, when nine months old; Nora, twin of F. E., is living; an infant son died Aug. 29, 1896. Edward B. Vought was born in Mayberry township, Montour county, and was reared upon the farm, remaining with his father until he reached the age of twenty-two years. At that time he became engaged in business as a general merchant at Union Corners, in Rush township, Northumberland county, where he was located for a period of ten years, removing thence to the borough of Shamokin. There he remained another ten years, conducting a shoe store at Independence and Liberty streets, after which he spent a year in the lumber business. In 1900 he bought the old mill property of J. W. Reed, near Paxinos, Northumberland county, and has since conducted the mill. This mill was built in 1840, and a milling business has been done at this site for the last hundred years. In 1909 Mr. Vought equipped his plant with the most improved roller process, and he carries on a general milling business, in flour, feed, etc., his leading brands of flour being White Loaf, White Satin and Gilt Edge. He has become one of the foremost business men of his section, and is quite prominent in public affairs, being at present road commissioner. He was school director for six years, during which time he acted as president and treasurer of the board, one year in each capacity. He is a past master of Elysburg lodge, No. 414, F. & A.M. Mr. Vought's first marriage was to Mary E. Pensyl, daughter of Solomon and Caroline (Epler) Pensyl. She died in 1884 and is buried at Reed's church. Three children were born to this union: Caroline L., Jesse R. and Ambrose J. For his second wife Mr. Vought married Catharine Wilhour, daughter of Peter Wilhour, and they have three children: Marion L., Grant S. and Violet E. Daniel Vought, one of the three brothers who came from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, was born Dec. 23, 1788, and died Dec. 13, 1870. He settled in Mayberry township, Montour county, and followed farming. His wife, Mary, born Oct. 22, 1791, died July 12, 1859. Their children were: (1) Jacob. (2) Peter. (3) Daniel, whose son-in-law, William Mutchler, born in 1842, died in 1909. Two sons (Mutchlers) are buried with him, John and Oscar, but no age is given. (4) John M. died April 7, 1882, aged fifty-three years, ten months, eighteen days. His wife, Elizabeth, born April 26, 1827, d. June 7, l900, aged seventy-three END OF PAGE 44 years, one month, eleven days. (5) Samuel died March 5, 1889, aged fifty-eight years, one month, twenty days; his wife Catharine died Sept. 20, 1887, aged thirty-eight years, seven months, twenty-three days. Their son, Lorenzo E. A., born in 1873, died in 1902. (6) Mary died after reaching maturity, but her grave is not marked. (7) Catharine died Jan. 2, 1868, aged forty years, twenty-six days. (8) Sarah A. Dimick, the other daughter, also died after reaching maturity, but her grave is not marked, and age is not known to the present writer. Concerning the posterity of Isaac Vought, the third brother who came from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, Z. O. Vought, his son, born July 26, 1831, died April 12, 1906; the latter's wife, Mariah, born Nov. 5, 1835, died Feb. 17, 1900. Their daughter, Mary Gertrude, born Dec. 29, 1855, died Feb. 18, 1860; their son, Charles, born Dec. 17, 1860, died Nov. 7, 1877. A grandson of Daniel Vought, Sr., Henry Vought (whose wife's name was Hattie), had infant twins that died May 13, 1878; an infant son that died March 20, 1875, when one month, seventeen days old; and another infant Son that died Dec. 5, 1882, aged twelve days. JESSE R. VOUGHT, who is engaged in the flour and feed business at Shamokin, Pa., was born at Union Corners, Rush township, Northumberland county, June 13, 1881, son of Edward B. and Mary E. (Pensyl) Vought. He received his education in the local public schools and at the Elysburg Academy, and then entered Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancaster, Pa., where he remained one and a half years. He then entered the shoe business with his father in Shamokin, working with him during the year 1900 in this business, and next engaged in the milling business with his father at Paxinos, where he remained until 1909. At that time he embarked in his present business at Shamokin, dealing in flour, feed, hay, grain and straw. His place of business is situated at the corner of Commerce and Ninth streets, and he has a flourishing trade. Mr. Vought married Leona Linderman, daughter of William Linderman, of Shamokin, Pa. Socially he is a member of the local lodge of Elks. JAMES O. SHEARER, president chief burgess of Milton, Northumberland county, is engaged in the insurance business in that borough and has long been associated with its civil administration, having held office - local or county - continuously for a number of years. His high standing in the borough is attested by the many marks of confidence which have been shown him by his fellow citizens. Mr. Shearer was born in 1858 in Limestone township, Montour Co., Pa., and is of Irish descent, a member of the fourth generation of his family in this country. His great-grandfather, Michael, who spelled the name Sherred, was a native of Ireland and lived and died in that country. He married Esther Dutton, and they had three children, Robert, Jane and another daughter who died at sea while the family were en route for America. The mother was remarried, to Thomas Wallace, by whom she had six children: Susan, who married John Russell; Esther, wife of Samuel DeArmand (she died in 1851, and he in 1818); Nancy, Mrs. McKinney; Mary, Mrs. Morehead; Mrs. McKee; and John, who died young. About 1780 this entire family came to America, settling in Dauphin county, Pa. In 1793 they removed to Delaware township, Northumberland county, where Mr. and Mrs. Wallace lived and died. Jane Shearer, daughter of Michael, married William Hunter and settled near Washingtonville, Pennsylvania. Robert Shearer, son of Michael, was born in Ireland, and was fifteen years old when he came to America with the family. He also accompanied them on their removal to near Warrior Run in Northumberland county, and one of his granddaughters, a Miss Shearer of Milton, has his church certificate for transfer of membership from the Derry Church in Dauphin, county, dated March 26, 1793. He married Margaret Hutchinson, who was born Oct. 30, 1782, and upon his marriage purchased a farm of 160 acres in what was then Turbut township, Northumberland county (now Limestone township, Montour county). Here he and his beloved wife spent their entire married life, his death occurring March 31, 1839, hers Sept. 15, 1856. They were the parents of the following children: Esther, Eleonore, Margaret, John, Jane and Mary, all but John dying unmarried. Joseph Hutchinson, Mrs. Margaret (Hutchinson) Shearer's father, was born in 1740, and in 1762 married Margaret Hutchinson, who was born in 1741. Their children were born as follows: Mary, Jan. 16, 1763; Joseph, July 10, 1765; Jean, June 15, 1767; John, July 23, 1770; Elder, Feb. 7, 1773; Margaret, Jan. 23, 1775 (died young); Sarah, Nov. 23, 1777; Andrew, April 16, 1780; Margaret (2). Oct. 30, 1782; Florence, April 5, 1785. The father of this family died Sept. 21, 1864, the mother Jan. 17, 1813. He gave the land for the burying ground at Warrior Run church, entering in the deed a provision that any of his descendants forever who so desired should be buried there free. John Shearer, son of Robert, was born Aug. 23, 1811, and died April 12, 1892, at Milton. He purchased his father's farm and lived on that property until 1885, when he sold the place to Gideon END OF PAGE 45 Shoop and moved to Milton, passing the remainder of his days in that borough. Before his removal to Milton he had served thirty-five years as justice of the peace and there were few better known men in his locality. He married Catharine Frick Oakes, who was born in White Deer Valley, Union Co., Pa., Nov. 21, 1834, and died Nov. 8, 1908, and they are buried in the upper cemetery at Milton. They had a family of five children: Robert, now of Duluth, Minn.; Samuel, of Oklahoma; Margaret H.; James O.; and Wallace, who died in 1890 (he was serving at the time as Secretary of Milton Lodge, No. 256, F. & A.M.). Judge Samuel Oakes, father of Mrs. John Shearer, was born Dec. 30, 1796, and died Dec. 21, 1867. On March 14, 1822, he married Sarah Montgomery, who was born Sept. 20, 1803, daughter of Robert (born 1762) and Catharine (Frick) Montgomery, (born 1767, died 1805), granddaughter of John Montgomery (born 1738, died 1792) and Christiana (Foster) (born 1741, died 1821), and great-granddaughter of Robert and Sarah Montgomery, who came to this country from County Armagh, Ireland, in 1737 and settled in Dauphin county, Pa.; this Robert Montgomery died Oct. 15, 1776, aged seventy-one years, and is buried at Paxton Church, near Hamburg, Pa. To Samuel and Sarah (Montgomery) Oakes was born a large family, viz.: Catherine F. was born Feb. 14, 1823; Gen. James, born April 4, 1826, who married Maria Beehn, of Philadelphia, was a captain in the Mexican war, served on the Western frontier, and was a member of the Union Veteran Legion (he died in 1910); Sarah J., born Feb. 7, 1829, married John V. Goodlander, of Milton, and died May 5, 1898; Margaret, born Aug. 30, 1832, married Peter Hughs (associate judge), of Danville, Pa.; Catharine F. was the wife of John Shearer; Lucretia, born Sept. 6, 1836, died Sept. 21, 1842; Christiana, born Jan. 5, 1839, married Dr. C. H. Dougal and died March 25, 1873; Caroline, born Feb. 6, 1841, married James D. McGinnes, of Limestoneville, Pa.; Elizabeth, born Sept. 24, 1843, married B. Lyons, of Columbia county, Pennsylvania. James O. Shearer spent his boyhood days on his father's farm. In 1885 he went West, remaining until 1887, when he returned East and located in Milton, finding employment in the Milton Car Works. In 1896, with his election as overseer of the poor in Milton, he began his connection with the official life of the town, and he continued to fill that position for ten years, until 1906, in which year he was appointed chief clerk in the county commissioners' office, which is located at Sunbury. There he remained until 1909, when he returned to Milton, and the same year he was honored with election to the office of chief burgess, which he is now filling. He is also deputy prothonotary of Northumberland county. It was in 1902 that Mr. Shearer began the insurance business, which he has since continued, having his office at No. 11 Front street, Milton. He has established a profitable patronage in this line, which he is constantly widening by his diligent efforts and enterprising methods. Mr. Shearer has been a well known worker in the Democratic organization in this county, and was county chairman for his party from 1903 to 1905. Socially he is a Mason, holding membership in Lodge No. 256, F. & A.M., of Milton; Warrior Run Chapter, R.A.M., of Watsontown; Williamsport Consistory; and Iram Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, to which his ancestors for generations, before the emigration to America, have belonged. On Sept. 7, 1910, Mr. Shearer married Algie D. Lamberson, of Sunbury. WILLIAM T. GRANT, late of Sunbury, was during his active years one of the prominent citizens of Northumberland county. His strong character and business ability were demonstrated in a life of energetic and successful effort, but he is probably best remembered as he would have chosen to be, for his gentle and kindly nature, his unassuming but effective labors in the interest of the general welfare, a career of quiet usefulness continued long beyond the ordinary span. He was one of the oldest residents of Sunbury at the time of his death, and one of the most respected. Mr. Grant was born Oct. 9, 1828, on the old family homestead farm now within the upper part of the borough of Sunbury, and was a descendant of a family which in the early days bore its share in the making of history in this section of the State. His great-grandparents, Alexander and Anna (Gordon) Grant, came from Scotland and settled in what is now the northwestern part of the borough of Sunbury, and there they passed the remainder of their lives. They are buried in the upper graveyard; Mrs. Anna Grant lived to be 104 years old. They brought with them two children, Thomas and George, both of whom had been baptized in the cathedral at Edinburgh. Both served in the Revolutionary war, and George was killed at Stony Point. Col. Thomas Grant, son of Alexander and Anna (Gordon) Grant, was a colonel in the Continental forces during the Revolutionary war, and settled in Sunbury after its termination. He was a farmer by occupation and remained with his father on the homestead, becoming the owner of the extensive farm, which is now within the limits of the borough. He was a man of intelligence and enterprise, a leading citizen of his day, and was supervisor of the turnpike company. He died June 16, 1815, aged fifty-eight, while his wife END OF PAGE 46 Deborah (Martin), who was from Northumberland, this county, born Jan. 19, 1763, died Feb. 22, 1815. They had children: George, Mary, Julian, Deborah, William, Thomas, Martin, Sarah, Robert (who died in infancy) and Robert S. Of these Deborah married Kenderton Smith and had children, Elizabeth, Virgellia, Deborah, Julia, Annie, Thomas, Mary A., Kenderton and Cadwallader. William (son of Col. Thomas Grant), born Nov. 7, 1788, died Feb. 28, 1838; he married Dorcas Montgomery (born Dec. 5, 1790, died July 3, 1863), and their children were Clarinda, Thomas, Robert Montgomery (born Feb. 2, 1816, died Dec. 27, 1840), Deborah (born Feb. 15, 1818, died Feb. 1, 1851), Margaret Ann (born in 1820, died in 1823), and Mary (who married Dr. Reed and had sons Thomas and William). Robert S. Grant son of Col. Thomas, was born Dec. 4, 1804, in the brick house which is still standing on the old homestead place, and passed his life there, dying April 25, 1849. He followed farming. He married Elizabeth Dyer, who was from the Wyoming region, being of Wilkes-Barre, and to them were born three sons: William T. is mentioned below; George J., born in 1831, died in 1853; Thomas D., born Nov. 21, 1834, died Aug. 13, 1879, while his wife Amelia D., born April 15, 1839, died Jan. 15, 1875. There was also a daughter, who died young. The mother of this family died Feb. 27, 1837, at the age of thirty-one. William T. Grant spent his boyhood at the home place and received his education in the schools of Sunbury. At an early age he entered the employ of Henry Yoxtheimer, who at that time had one of the largest general stores in this part of Pennsylvania, and there he became familiar with business methods and laid the foundation of his future success. Marrying Mr. Yoxtheimer's daughter, he and another son-in-law of that gentleman, John W. Fryling, formed a partnership and became proprietors of this extensive business. Mr. Grant followed merchandising successfully for a number of years, later becoming interested in the coal trade in the Shamokin region, making large shipments from his wharves in Sunbury. It was in this connection that he became one of the founders and officers of the Shamokin National Bank. After giving up the coal business he was in the Pennsylvania Railway Company's service at Sunbury until he retired because of advancing age a few years before his death. Though he never aspired to public honors Mr. Grant had such close association with various phases of the life of his borough that he was very well known. He was always ready to do his full duty as a citizen in private life, and during his active business years was diligent in the care of his own enterprises, but he invariably found time to be a devoted and faithful church worker, and in this connection he was known of all over the State. He was one of the oldest Episcopal Church officers in Pennsylvania, having been a vestryman of St. Matthew's Church, at Sunbury, for a period of nearly sixty years, from early man hood until his death. All his church duties were efficiently and promptly performed, and he was a regular attendant at services as long as his strength permitted. Sincere and unostentatious in his religious life, he carried the principles of Christianity into all his relations with his fellowmen. "His life has been an open book, full of usefulness, consideration for others and gentleness. All his ways were ways of gentleness, for he was a gentleman, and taken all in all his life is worthy of emulation. It can be truthfully said the world is better for his having lived in it and there are many sorrowing hearts in this community, for his friends and acquaintances were legion." His "consideration for others" was a trait he carried to the extent of speaking well of others or not at all, and was so marked that it was always a pleasure to meet him, his unfailing kindness and courtesy being a matter of heart as well as of principle. In the home circle, as well as among his neighbors and friends, he was cheerful and thoughtful, a delightful companion and loving father and husband, whose first thought was for others Among his business associates he was no less esteemed for his clear judgment and fairness to all. His last years, after his retirement from business activities, were enjoyed in simple outdoor life, in the cultivation of flowers and vegetables, for which he seemed to have a gift, his success with such ventures being remarkable. It was undoubtedly his method of living which so prolonged his years, for with the exception of the last few months he enjoyed unusual vitality throughout his long life of nearly eighty-two years, his death taking place in August, 1910, at his home on Arch street, Sunbury. He was buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. Mr. Grant was probably one of the oldest Masons in the State at the time of his death, having been a member of Lodge No. 22, F. & A.M., for over sixty years, and for many years he took an active part in the work of the fraternity. He was master of his lodge in 1857. On Sept. 23, 1852, Mr. Grant married Rachel A. Yoxtheimer, who was born Sept. 30, 1830, daughter of Henry and Nancy (Bacon) Yoxtheimer, and she survived him, with seven children, namely: George E., who is at present secretary of the school board of Sunbury: Charles of Northumberland, this county; Robert D., who makes his home in Los Angeles, Cal., engaged in the mining business (his wife, Ruth Lola Gaylord, born at Waterbury, Conn., July 9, 1868, died at Salt Lake City Sept. 1, 1903); Annie; Elizabeth; Katherine; and Edith, Mrs. William L. Dewart, of Sunbury. END OF PAGE 47