Floyd's Northumberland County Genealogy Pages 48 thru 72 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Tony Rebuck. Tar2@psu.edu Electronic edition copyright 2001 by Tony Rebuck. All rights reserved. This electronic work may be freely distributed and displayed: (1)without modification, (2) on a strictly non-commercial basis, and (3) retaining this copyright notice. USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals And libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. HON. CHARLES HEBER DICKERMAN, of Milton, president of the First National Bank, and ex-Congressman from the Sixteenth Congressional district, is one of the citizens to whom this borough proudly refers as representative of its best interests. As member for many years of the firm of Murray, Dougal & Co. Limited, which had one of the large industrial plants at that point, he was instrumental in bringing to the borough an amount of business which materially increased its prosperity. As a public-spirited citizen he has been at the front in most movements calculated to increase Milton's attractiveness. His business interests, though centered at Milton for many years, have not been confined to that place. His business and political connections have made him well known all over the state, and beyond its limits. Though a native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Dickerman belongs to an old New England family, tracing his ancestry in America back to the early Colonial days, when in 1635 Thomas Dickerman came from England and settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts. John Dickerman, of the sixth generation of the Dickerman family in this country, and the grand-father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Vermont March 17, 1764. At the age of sixteen he enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, in which he served about nine months. During the latter part of his service he was employed as a scout. In 1789 he married Thankful Smith, a native of Granby, Mass., daughter of Seth and Thankful Smith, of that place, the former of whom served as a colonel in the Revolution. Mr. Dickerman moved to New Haven, Conn., when a young man, and there learned blacksmithing. About 1800 he removed with his family to Guilford, Chenango Co., N. Y., where he followed his trade, also engaging in farming. Later he removed to Otsego county, N.Y., where he died Nov. 6, 1848. His wife died at the same place Oct. 7, 1856. Clark Dickerman, father of Charles Heber Dickerman, seventh in the family of John and Thankful (Smith) Dickerman, was born June 12,1803, in Guilford, Chenango Co., N. Y. He received there an academic education, and afterwards took a medical course in Jefferson College, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Dickerman was twice married, his first union being with Eliza Knapp, whom he married in November, 1829, and who died Nov. 9, 1830. He was married Oct. 14, 1833, at Gibson, Susquehanna Co., Pa., to Sarah Adelia Chandler, who was born July 30, 1815, daughter of James Chandler, a member of the Chandler family of Vermont and Michigan. He settled in Harford, Susquehanna Co., Pa., where he engaged in the active practice of his profession until his death, which occurred there Aug. 5, 1853. To his second marriage were born six children James Bedell and Eugene Durand, both deceased; Eliza Knapp, who married Ralph H. Eaton; Charles Heber; Payson Kingsbury; and Mary Louisa, who married Clement R. Woodin. Charles Heber Dickerman was born Feb. 3, 1843, in Harford, Susquehanna Co., Pa., and there received his early education in the public schools. He supplemented this with a course at Harvard University, being graduated from that institution in 1860. For several years afterwards he was engaged in teaching in the public schools of Susquehanna and Luzerne counties. In 1862 he was registered as a law student in the office of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, at Binghamton, N. Y., but in 1863 he abandoned the law and accepted a position with Carter & Son, coal operators at Beaver Meadows, Carbon Co., Pa. In 1868 he removed to Bethlehem, Pa., and engaged in the coal commission business. In 1869 he became interested in the Chapman Slate Company, Chapman Quarries, Northampton Co., Pa., miners and manufacturers of roofing slate and other slate products, was elected secretary of that company, and in 1870 was chosen general manager. In 1880 he became associated with S. W. Murray in the manufacture of freight cars, and removed to Milton, where he has since resided. The firm of Murray, Dougal & Co. Limited, with which Mr. Dickerman was associated, engaged extensively in the building of railroad freight cars, and Mr. Dickerman continued his active connection with the establishment until the entire plant was sold, in 1899, to the American Car & Foundry Company, the present owners. The firm of Murray, Dougal & Co. Limited gave employment to several hundred men, and was an important factor in the industrial welfare of the community. Mr. Dickerman has been interested in numerous financial institutions. He was for many years a director of the Second National Bank of Mauch Chunk, Pa., of the Lehigh Valley National Bank, of Bethlehem, Pa., of the Sunbury Trust & Safe Deposit Company, Sunbury, Pa.; and of the First National Bank of Milton, Pa., of which latter he became president in 1897, and is still serving in that capacity. He has always been an unswerving, uncompromising Democrat, and a fearless, outspoken advocate of Democratic principles. He served for three years as chairman of the county committee of Northumberland county. In 1891 he was elected a delegate to the Constitutional convention to form a new constitution for this State, and was a delegate to the National convention in 1892. In November, 1902, he was elected a member of Congress, representing the Sixteenth Congressional district, served as a member of the Fifty-eighth Congress, and declined a renomination and reelection, preferring private life. In 1905 he was appointed by President Roosevelt delegate to the Peace congress which met at Brussels, Belgium, on Aug. 14th of that year. END OF PAGE 48 Mr. Dickerman was married March 10, 1869, at Beaver Meadows, Carbon Co., Pa., to Joy Ivy, daughter of William and Margaret Carter, natives of Cornwall, England, where Mrs. Dickerman was born. Four children were the fruits of this union: Adelia Margaret (Mrs. Howard H. Williams, Plainfield N. J.), William Carter (vice president of the American Car & Foundry Company, No. 165 Broadway, New York City), Grace Beatrice (Mrs. Guido C. Vogel, Milwaukee, Wis.) and Joy Chandler (Mrs. G. W. B. Fletcher, Philadelphia, Pa.). The family are attendants of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Dickerman is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Lawyers Club, of New York City. DUNKELBERGER, a name well represented in Northumberland county, originated, according to tradition, from Dunkel Berg, a spur of the Black Forest. Little is known of the Dunkelbergers before the time of the Reformation. During that period they espoused the cause of the Reformers, and their descendants to the present day have continued to adhere to Protestant denominations. Up to the time of their emigration to the New World they were industrious and patriotic citizens of what is now the Kingdom of Wurtemberg, in lower Germany, but being deprived there of their religious liberty they turned to America, coming hither in 1728 by way of the Rheinfeld, down the Rhine to Holland, whence they sailed in the English ship "Morehouse," landing at Philadelphia Aug. 28, 1728. They proceeded at once to what is now Berks county, Pa., locating in Windsor township, a little southeast of what is now the borough of Hamburg. They were frequently molested by the Indians. These emigrants were Clement, Daniel and John Dunkelberger. Clement who was the ancestor of the others (the name of his son Daniel, however, does not appear in his will), at once paid taxes to the English Crown. "Clementz Doncleberger" is on the first list of taxables of Windsor township (1754). He paid £6 tax in 1759. At the time of his death, in 1782, his home was in Windsor township. His will, made Feb. 12, 1776, was probated April 8, 1782, and is on record in Will Book B, page 38. At the time the will was made his wife Anna Maria was still living. Their children were (no record of Daniel): Clemens, who obtained the plantation; Catherine, married to Andrew Winiger; Mrs. John Beck; John; Frederick; Christopher; Elizabeth, married to Michael Deck; Philip; Sevila; Magdalena; and Dorotha. John Dunkelberger, grandson of Clement, was born in Windsor township, near Hamburg, in 1740. He married there and had two sons by that marriage, in 1780 (at which time he was a widower) moving with his son George to the northern part of the Mahanoy Valley, in Northumberland county - that part of Mahanoy now embraced in Little Mahanoy township. He received from the State, a warrant for more than two hundred acres of land, located north of Line Mountain and between that and Mahanoy creek. The Indians were his neighbors, and were friendly to him, but during the terrible Indian disturbances his family on several occasions had to flee for safety. There he built a stone grist mill and stone dwelling house. In 1814 he is credited with a grist and saw mill on Mahanoy creek which mill is said to have been the first in that section. He built the mill several years after locating in that district. On the John Dunkelberger homestead still stands a large stone house, 45 by 35 feet in dimensions, and two and a half stories high, which was built in 1818, the year in which this pioneer died. Large, well-selected stones were used in its construction and the wall is exceptionally strong. After settling here John Dunkelberger married again and had two sons by his, second wife, Solomon and Jonathan, from whom most of the Dunkelbergers are descended. These pioneers are buried on their own farm on an elevation below a piece of pine woods, about fifty feet northeast from a public road. Their graves are marked by marble tombstones, inscribed as follows: "Hier ruhet Johanes Dunkelberger Gabo. den 28 Sept. 1745 Storb den 27 Novem 1818 Alt 73 yahr 2 mo 1 Tag Text I Buch Moses 48 Capitd 21 V" "Hier ruhen die gebine von Elizabeth Dunkelberger war Eine geborne Kahwel war geboren den 20ten Marz, 1761, und starb den 3ten September, 1827 Ist alt worden 66 Yahr 5 monot und 12 tag. Text Heob. 17, Capitel den 11, ver. 5" Early members of the Dunkelberger family (probably sons of John Sr. and of Frederick) were David, Joseph, Samuel, Solomon, John and Daniel (who was lame). The following Dunkelbergers were mentioned in the first assessment list of Little Mahanoy township in 1814: John, Frederick, Christopher, Christopher, Jr., and Philip. Christopher Dunkelberger, who died in Little Mahanoy township in 1835, made his last will and testament (on record at Sunbury courthouse) Feb. 12, 1834, and it was probated March 2, 1835. He made ample provision for his "beloved" wife Catharine. Items of the will: She shall have two cows, two beds and their beddings, privilege of the house, and of one horse to ride when she END OF PAGE 49 wants to go abroad. Their children: Abraham (received the homestead, cattle, sheep and swine), Susanna, Catharine, Ester, Salomey, Elizabeth, Henry, Daniel, Magdelina, John, Peter, Hannah. In a private graveyard in Little Mahanoy township, on a farm formerly owned by Frederick Dunkelberger (now owned by Galen Raker), is a tombstone bearing the inscription "Hier ruhet Friederich Dunkelberger gebo. 1747, storb d. 24, Jener 1815 alt. 67 y. 9 mo." His wife, Catharina, nee Hauer (in), is buried at Little Mahanoy church, where may be found record of her birth and death, Oct. 18, 1749, and Jan. 17, 1831, respectively. Her will is on record in Will Book III, page 83; executor, Leonard Reed. On a farm in Little Mahanoy, on Little Mahanoy creek, formerly owned by Christophel Dunkelberger (now owned by Jacob Dreibelbis), is tombstone with the following inscription: "Hier ruhet Christofel Dunkelberger worde geboren den 27 Hornung, 1773, und Storb den 29 Jenner 1827 Ward alt 53 yahr 11 mo nat 2 Tag" There is another stone with the inscription: "Hier Rhuet ein Sohn von David Dunkelberger b. 1831, d. infancy." Eve Eister, the wife of Christophel Dunkelberger, is buried at the Little Mahanoy Church; she was born July 8, 1780, and died Nov. 30, 1830. George Dunkelberger, eldest son of the John Dunkelberger who came into Northumberland county in 1780, settled in the Mahantango Valley in Mahanoy (now Lower Mahanoy) township, about 1802, being one of the early pioneers in that region. He attended the Reading markets from there. Shortly before his removal he was married (in 1800) and he had four sons, Jacob, Samuel (who lived in Little Mahanoy) Daniel, (who died July 18, 1865; his wife, Catharine, nee Wagner, born Aug. 29, 1816, died July 6, 1863) and John. George Dunkelberger died in August, 1837. His will, on record at Sunbury, Pa., in Will Book III, page 282, provided by item for his wife Elizabeth as follows: She shall have a cow, spinning-wheel, 9 bushels rye, 3 bushels wheat, 24 pounds beef, 25 pounds pork, iron pot, one pan, one bucket, kitchen utensils, etc. The will speaks of four children, but only three are mentioned, as follows: Samuel, and Daniel shall have homestead: John shall have certain tract of land of my old farm, etc. The executor was John Mowrer. George Dunkelberger lived in Upper Mahanoy township, and had land at Mahanoy which the Saibals had before him. Of George's children, Jacob, the eldest, born in 1802, in 1850 moved to Hegins township, Schuylkill county, where he had bought a large farm and gristmill near the present town of Hegins. There he died in 1874, and was buried in the Evangelical cemetery. He had married in 1828 Catharine Maurer, and they had eight children, Moses, William, Emanuel, Caroline, Lena, Hannah, Mary and Salome. Of these, Moses, born in Mahantango in 1829, married in 1853 in the locality mentioned, Elizabeth Bensinger, and they are both living at present at their homestead in the town of Hegins. Their children are: R. B. Dunkelberger, a prominent business man of Reading, Pa.; Mary Jane, wife of John H. Schrope, a prosperous farmer of Hegins township; and James H. Dunkelberger, living on the homestead farm with his two sons, Harry and Ray. John Dunkelberger, son of George, was born in the Mahantango Valley Sept. 16, 1806, and he died March 23, 1892, aged eighty-five years, six months and seven days. He was a farmer and lived in Rockefeller township, near the Shamokin township line. His farm consisted of 212 acres, upon which he built two barns, rebuilt the present house, rebuilt the sawmill and erected all the other buildings now standing. This farm is now owned by John Erdman. John Dunkelberger was a short stout man and was known as "Der dick John," or "Sawmiller John." He married Lydia, daughter of Daniel Beisel, born April 14, 1811, and died Nov. 30, 1890, aged seventy-nine years, seven months and sixteen days. John and Lydia Dunkelberger are buried at Dunkelberger's graveyard, at what was formerly known as the "White Church," in Rockefeller. They were the last members of this church. John Dunkelberger gave the ground for this church and graveyard, and was one of its foremost members. They had fifteen children, all deceased, save two, Jeremiah, of Holt Co., Mo.; and Jesiah. JESIAH DUNKELBERGER, son of John, is a citizen of Rockefeller township. Born Jan. 16, 1849, on his father's homestead, he was reared there, and here, spent his entire life. He worked for his parents until he was twenty-one, then for three years farmed the homestead for a quarter share of his father's stock. After that he began with his own stock for one-half interest, which he did for three more years. He then labored one year when he purchased a farm of nearly forty acres in Lower Augusta, living there one year. In 1877 he purchased his present farm of sixty-eight acres in Rockefeller township and built the present barn. He markets his produce at Shamokin. Jesiah Dunkelberger was married in December, 1872, to Susan Raker, daughter of Solomon and END OF PAGE 50 Elizabeth (Dornsife) Raker, of Rockefeller township. Their children were six in number, viz.: Irwin G., who married Ella Conrad, and lives at Kutztown, Pa., Edwin G., Daisy and John who died young; S. Pearl, who married Harry Moyer, of Trevorton, Pa.; and Jesse E., who married Emma Riland, lives at home and has a son Harry J. Mr. Dunkelberger is a Republican, and served as supervisor for three years. He and his family are members of the Evangelical Church at Seven Points, where the United Evangelical Church is now located. Mrs. Dunkelberger was the granddaughter of Jacob Raker, who lived in Lower Augusta township. He was the father of William, George, Jacob, Solomon, Lovina (Mrs. George Long). John (Johannes) Dunkelberger, known as "Little Johnny" (brother of George), the other son of John by his first marriage, was born in Northumberland county, Sept. 14, 1775. He died May 17, 1835, and was buried in Howerter cemetery in Upper Mahanoy township. He was a farmer and like his brother George settled in Mahantango Valley, in Mahanoy (now Lower Mahanoy) township, Northumberland county. He married Susanna Zimmerman, born in April, 1785, who died Jan. 19, 1860, and their children were: Daniel (settled in Mahantango Valley), Catharine (married a Mr. Knerr), George, John, Joseph, Magdaline, Susanna, (married Abraham Howerter), Solomon and Elizabeth (married _____ Klock). George, John and Joseph are more fully mentioned below. Solomon, born in 1821, died in 1892, at Shamokin. He followed the tailor's trade. He married Elizabeth Wagner, born Feb. 17, 1823, died April 6, 1861, and they had five children, William, Jeremiah, Edmond, Ellen and Franklin. John Dunkelberger, the father, died May 17, 1835, in territory now embraced in Lower Mahanoy township. He had a tract of twenty-four acres of land when he died. His will, made May 5, 1835 (on record in Will Book III, page 200), was probated June 12, 1835. It was witnessed by George Haas and H. F. Heintzelman, and he names "my friends" Pete Fetterolf and John Maurer, Sr., as executors. George Dunkelberger, son of John, was a well known farmer at Seven Points, in what is now Rockefeller township, where he lived and died. He married Kate Rebuck, and they had children as follows: George, Jonathan, Henry, Tobias, Susan, Kate, Harriet, Mary and Elizabeth. JONATHAN DUNKELBERGER, son of George, was born July 1, 1843, at Seven Points, and died Aug. 21, 1901, at his home in Shamokin, being the first of his family to pass away. His youthful days were spent upon the home farm, where he not only learned agricultural work but also the butcher's trade, following it successfully; he was in business as a butcher at Taylorsville and Locust Dale, Pa., and at the latter place was also in the general store business for a time. On June 12, 1893, he moved to Shamokin, and from that time lived retired, occupying his home at No. 536 North Second street during the winter season and in the summers moving with his family to a farm at Seven Points which he had purchased. Mr. Dunkelberger was a man of upright life and high ideals, and for years was a prominent church worker, belonging to the United Evangelical Church, where he taught a class of young men in the Sunday- school. For one period of three years he missed but one Sunday at Sunday-school. He was a great Bible student and well versed in the Scriptures. Mr. Dunkelberger married Susanna K. Kehler, and they had one daughter, Jennie, the deceased wife of Charles Geist, a young business man of Shamokin. Mr. And Mrs. Geist have one son, Paul Jonathan. Mrs. Dunkelberger still lives at he old home on Second Street. She is a granddaughter of John Kehler, who lived and died in the Mahantango Valley, as did also her father, John Kehler. The latter was a farmer. He married Kate Knerr, and to them were born the following children: Elias, Joseph, Frank, Joel, John, Benjamin, Charles, Catharine (married Joseph Dreibelbis), Harriet (married Jacob Hepler) and Susanna (married Jonathan Dunkelberger), all now deceased but Mrs. Hepler and Mrs. Dunkelberger. John Dunkelberger son of John and brother of George and Joseph, was born in Mahantango Valley, in Upper Mahanoy township, and died in Shamokin township. He is buried at Dunkelberger's Evangelical Church, in Rockefeller township. He and another John Dunkelberger, with Henry Keiser and George Dunkelberger, built the "Dunkelberger Evangelical Church," in Rockefeller township. There is a graveyard, and there rest the founders of this house of worship. John Dunkelberger was a carpenter earlier in life, but later became a farmer, owning a 223-acre farm in Shamokin township. The old goat-skin deed of this land is still in the possession of Mr. William L. Dunkelberger, who is his son. This farm is now owned by Julius Behrent. Mr. Dunkelberger was an active member of his church and class leader and exhorter of the Evangelical Church which was named after his family. He was a slim, tall man. His wife was Christiana Geist, who died in her ninetieth year, her birth occurring Dec. 21, 1818, and her death May 18, 1901. They were the parents of nine children: (1) Lucinda married Elias Bingaman. (2) Lanah married William Klase. (3) Gabriel was born in 1841 and died in 1864. (4) Solomon married Lorinda Miller. (5) Simon married Mary Yordy. (6) John married Louisa Neidig. (7) Mariah married Cyrus Buffington. (8) Josiah, who is a END OF PAGE 51 bachelor, is blind. He makes his home with his brother William L. (9) William L. is mentioned below. WILLIAM L. DUNKELBERGER, son of John, resides at Seven Points, in Rockefeller township. He was born Aug. 20, 1858, in Shamokin township, where all his brothers and sisters were born. Reared on the farm he received his educational training in the local schools, and, when eighteen years of age entered his apprenticeship in the carpenter's trade, serving three years, at Shamokin. He then farmed for two years, at County Line, for Elias Bingaman, went back to carpentering again for a short time, bought a 65-acre tract in Irish Valley and followed farming in connection with his carpenter work. He was thus occupied for sixteen years when he sold his tract and went to Rockefeller township, where he has an excellent tract of seventy acres at Seven Points. William L. Dunkelberger was married three times, his first wife being a widow, Mrs. Catharine Underkoffler, and there were no children born to this marriage. He married (second) Viola Swank and they had two children, Versa, who married Bert German; and Roy, who married Bessie V. Reitz, and they live at Sunbury, where he follows the trade of baker. William L. Dunkelberger married (third) Almeritta Witmer, and their children are: Calvin, Howard, Ralph, Katie, Myrtle and Esther. Mr. Dunkelberger is active in the Dunkelberger Family Association, which holds annual reunions, the reunion of 1910 being held at Carsonia Park, Reading, Pa. He is a Democrat in politics, and has served as treasurer of Shamokin township for the school board, as a school director, and at one time was a delegate to the County Convention. He is active in the P.O.S. of A. at Seven Points, and frequently serves it as delegate. He is a member of the Evangelical Church at Seven Points, was class leader and exhorter for years and at present serves as superintendent of the Sunday-school and is very active in all church interests. ROY O. DUNKELBERGER, who has been engaged in the bakery business at Sunbury, Northumberland county, since June, 1908, was born Nov. 19, 1887, in Irish Valley, Shamokin township, this county, son of William L. Dunkelberger and his second wife, Viola Swank. He obtained his education at the Swenk public school, in Irish Valley, meantime assisting with the farm work at home until he reached the age of fifteen years. At that time he went to Trevorton, where he worked in the coal mines about two years, and for the next three years he was engaged in threshing. In October, 1907, he came to Sunbury, where he worked for the Adams Express Company for a year and a half on June 1, 1908, purchasing the stock, fixtures and good-will of F. A. Jacobs, in the bakery at No. 23 Packer street. He has continued the business with such success that it has been necessary to enlarge the establishment, and he keeps three helpers and two teams busy, selling about six hundred loaves of bread daily, besides a large variety of other bakery goods. He now owns his place of business and residence and has his affairs in prosperous condition, his thrifty management having brought excellent results. Mr. Dunkelberger is connected with several insurance companies in Sunbury. He is a respected young business man of the borough, and has attained a substantial position through his own efforts. On May 27, 1908, Mr. Dunkelberger married Bessie V. Reitz, daughter of U. P. Reitz, of Seven Points, this county. They worship at the First United Evangelical Church of Sunbury. Joseph Dunkelberger, son of John, and brother of George and John, was born in the Lower Mahanoy Valley and died there at the age of eighty-four years, eleven months; he is buried at Union Church in Upper Mahantango Valley. He followed farming and also did carpenter work. His wife was Rachel Federolf and their children were: Elias, born Sept. 24, 1844, who died Oct. 2, 1870, in Schuylkill county, and is buried at the Little Mahanoy Church; Henry, who is living retired in the Mahantango Valley, who owned the old homestead for several years; Esther, who married William Kerstetter; Isaac, deceased; Lucetta, who died young; Mary, who married David Mowery; Joseph, deceased; Simon F,; Hannah, who died young; Susanna, who died young; and a son that died in infancy. SIMON F. DUNKELBERGER, son of Joseph, was born April 20, 1855, in the Mahantango Valley, in Schuylkill county, and lived upon the farm until he reached the age of twenty two years. In 1877 he came to Shamokin and took up the plastering trade, which he has since continued to follow, having engaged in the business as a contractor on his own account in 1887. He now employs from five to twelve men, according to the work he has in hand, and he has plastered many dwellings in the borough in his day. His work is high class, and he deserves the large share of the local patronage which comes to him. On July 21, 1878, Mr. Dunkelberger married Helena Wetzel, daughter of Daniel and Kate (Kehler) Wetzel, and five children have been born to them, namely: Estella, married to Harry Renn; Walter, a traveling salesman, now of Williamsport, Pa., married Anna Willauer; Joseph, of Philadelphia; Mabel, who graduated from the Shamokin high school with the class of 1911; and Goldie, at school. The family reside at No. 630 West Penn street, Shamokin. Mr. Dunkelberger has long been an active member of the United Evangelical Church, in which he has held the responsible positions of class-leader and trustee for twenty years. END OF PAGE 52 About 1780 another branch of the family at Hamburg moved to Perry county, Pa., and some of these later moved to near Niagara Falls, N. Y. One descendant of this branch was a delegate to the Republican National Convention held in Philadelphia, when McKinley was nominated for President the second time. Another branch moved to Oley township, near Reading, and at the present time quite a number live in the city of Reading. In language the Dunkelbergers are mostly Pennsylvania German. As the early members of the family, who suffered severely during the Thirty Years' war, showed their love for right and liberty by their active participation in that struggle, so the descendants in this country have shown their loyalty and patriotism by supporting our struggles in the cause of Independence. Some took part in the Revolutionary war, and quite a number were in the Civil war on the Union side. Some were killed in battle, and some were wounded, notable among the latter number being Capt. Isaac R. Dunkelberger (son of Solomon Dunkelberger and grandson of John D. Dunkelberger), of the 1st Pennsylvania Infantry, who enlisted April 20, 1861, and served during the war, was twice wounded, promoted for bravery, and continued in the army until placed on the retired list by the Government in 1901 as captain of cavalry, U. S. A. He resides at present in California. In the direct line of William S. Dunkelberger and Luther L. Dunkelberger, both of Shamokin, Northumberland county, Henry Dunkelberger (grandfather of the former and great-grandfather of the latter) was born May 4, 1791. He was an early resident of Shamokin, where he had his home for some time, but later moved West, dying in June, 1875, in Starke county, Md., where he is buried. He was twice married, and by his second wife, Leah, born Dec. 5, 1799, had children born as follows: Elizabeth, Oct. 29, 1823; Daniel, Sept 24, 1826; Hannah, Nov. 5, 1828; Benjamin, Nov. 2, 1834; Joel, June 14, 1836; George W., May 9, 1840; Matilda, Jan. 1, 1843. John Dunkelberger, only child of Henry by his first marriage, was born June 8, 1816, on Scotch Hill, at Shamokin, in Little Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, in a little log cabin which is still standing. His mother dying when he was a child, he lived with his grandparents in Mahantango until he was thirteen, at which age he returned to his native place, spending the remainder of his days there. His association with its business and political interests made him one of the best known citizens of the place, useful, progressive, respected and active to the close of his long life. His early days were spent upon the farm. He was engaged upon the building of the Pennsylvania railroad between Shamokin and Sunbury, worked in the mines, and later carried on the coal mining business in partnership with Reuben and William Fagely, continuing in this line for some time, but finally disposing of his interest therein to Withington Lake. The firm name was changed to John Dunkelberger & Co., who engaged in the mercantile business, and after his withdrawal from this line Mr. Dunkelberger became associated with the Shamokin Water Company, on June 5, 1876, succeeding Daniel Zuern as superintendent. He continued to hold that position, also acting as secretary of the company, until April, 1886, proving competent as well as faithful in the discharge of his important duties. Having an intimate knowledge of the affairs of the company, his valuable services were highly appreciated, but he resigned at the time named because he felt that it was due to himself to withdraw from active affairs. His resignation was accepted with regret by the board of directors. However, he did not give up all responsibility, as he was appointed tax collector for the borough just a few weeks before his death. He had served in other official capacities, having been elected Dec. 2, 1864, to a seat in the first council upon the incorporation of the borough, and he was re-elected at the spring election following. He was the second notary public commissioned in the borough. Mr. Dunkelberger was a Republican in political conviction. His death, which occurred May 30, 1889, at Milton, this county, removed a citizen who had witnessed and aided the growth of Shamokin from the days of its earliest infancy, for the site of the borough was little more than a mountain forest and a valley of swamp at the time of his birth. In those days wild animals, panthers, bear and deer, were still numerous in the region. And here he lived and labored to the end of his span, passing the three-score years and ten, with but a brief absence the few months he spent in Indiana. He had moved out to that State in 1875, for the purpose of settling, and bought a farm, but love for the scenes of his early home was too strong and he returned the same year. About a week before his death he had gone with his daughter, Mrs. Phillips, of North Judson, Md., to visit relatives in the neighborhood of Milton, when he was suddenly taken, with his fatal illness. He was a member of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Dunkelberger was married three times. On Aug. 14, 1836, he married Mary Gass, born Feb. 7, 1815, who died Oct. 11, 1866. She was a daughter of John Gass (died Oct. 8, 1861, aged seventy four years) and his wife Margaret (died April 17, 1864, aged seventy-three years). To this union were born ten children, viz.: Salome, born Feb. 13, 1837, died March 22, 1837; Sarah F. married Jefferson Bare; Henry, born Dec. 26, 1840, died Dec. 28, 1893; Mahalia, born Aug. 28, 1842, married Charles Krieger; Susanna, born Jan. 26, 1844, END OF PAGE 53 married Andrew Kreiger (second) Thomas Hughes and (third) William Gilbert; Amanda, born March 24, 1846, married Francis Moore; Mary J., born Aug. 27, 1848, died Aug. 29, 1849; William S., born Dec. 12, 1850, is mentioned below; John A. born April 17, 1854; Margaret L. born June 27, 1858, married John R. Phillips. Mr. Dunkelberger married (second) Lavina Gass and (third) the widow of John Van Zant. Henry Dunkelberger, son of John, born Dec. 26, 1840, learned the butchers trade and followed it for some time, later engaging in the hotel and restaurant business. He died in Shamokin Dec. 28, 1893. He married Hannah Huldy, and to them were born children as follows: Luther L., Clinton (deceased), Clara (wife of Frank Kerstetter) and Bessie (who married Michael Slater). LUTHER L. DUNKELBERGER, son of Henry, was born in Shamokin in 1868 and there received his education in the public schools. All his active years have been spent in the restaurant business, and since 1905 he has been manager for Emanuel Malich, at the West End Cafe. He is very well known in Shamokin, both in his business relations and as a member of the I.O.O.F. and the Knights of Pythias; he also belongs to the Friendship Fire Company and to the Veteran Firemen's Association. The family are Lutherans in religious connection. Mr. Dunkelberger's responsible position speaks for his business ability and integrity, and his personal standing is also high. WILLIAM S. DUNKELBERGER, son of John, was born in Shamokin Dec. 12, 1850, and there received his education in the public schools. He worked in the mines for a time, and when seventeen years old commenced to learn the blacksmith trade, which he followed in all for twenty-three years, for about seventeen years of this time being located at Pine Run, in Lycoming county. He then came to Shamokin, in 1891 opening his restaurant, which is the largest and best place of the kind in the city. He occupies the premises at Nos. 105-107 East Independence street, Shamokin where he has become one of the substantial business men. Mr. Dunkelberger married Mary E. Lush, who was born July 17, 1851, daughter of Jacob Lush of Lycoming county, Pa.; she died June 20, 1901 the mother of the following children: Thomas E. born Dec. 10, 1871; Harry Warren, Aug. 30, 1873; Ernst D., Aug. 15, 1875; John H., July 19, 1877; Joseph M., June 5, 1879, died April 19, 1911; Jacob A., Feb. 11, 1881; David M., Aug. 27, 1885; William, Aug. 20, 1887 (died Sept. 27, 1887). Mr. Dunkelberger is a member of the Knights of Malta and of the Jr. O.U.A.M. He was one of the organizers of the Dunkelberger family association, and served some time as its treasurer. He is a Republican in political views, and in religion a member of the United Evangelical Church. JOHN HENRY DUNKELBERGER, son of William S., was born July 19, 1877, at Salladasburg, Lycoming county, Pa. He was twelve years old when his father brought the family to Shamokin to reside, and his education, begun in the public schools of his early home, was continued in this borough. He attended the high school and later the Shamokin Business College, from which he was graduated in the commercial course, subsequently taking a course at the Williamsport Commercial College, from which he was also graduated. After working one summer at Eagle's Mere, Sullivan county, he went to Philadelphia, in 1900, there finding employment on the Evening Telegraph. He remained in that city until his return to Shamokin in 1903, at which time he became a clerk for Senator W. C. McConnell, one of the most prominent business men of Shamokin. So capable did he prove that in 1906 he was given full charge of the office. Mr. Dunkelberger is secretary of the Union Brick Company of Shamokin, and he is considered one of the rising business men of that borough, where he has made an excellent name for himself by able and diligent service in the discharge of his various responsibilities. On Jan. 30, 1901, Mr. Dunkelberger married Emma M. Thomas, daughter of William B. And Elizabeth (Hudson) Thomas, and they have one 1 child, Marion Elizabeth. The family are Methodists in religious connection. Mr. Dunkelberger is a member of the Royal Arcanum and a Republican in politics. NELSON M. SMITH, M.D., of South Danville, Northumberland county, has practiced medicine at his present location since 1882, and has built up a wide clientele, having high professional and personal standing all over the adjacent territory. He is a native of Trevorton, this county, born Aug. 12, 1857, and belongs to a family which has been settled in this region for several generations. He is a descendant of Ulitt Smith, who lived in Morristown, N J, and there married Delilah Morris, a member of the family after which Morristown was named. They were the parents of Morris Smith, grandfather of Dr. Nelson A. Smith. About 1790 this family probably along with other families who came to Northumberland county, Pa., from New Jersey, left the old home in Morristown and settled in the Irish Valley, in what is now Shamokin township, where Morris Smith became a well known resident. He followed milling throughout his active life. Dr. Samuel S. Smith, son of Morris Smith, was born in 1828 in Shamokin township, and there obtained his early education. When he reached maturity he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Joseph C. Bobbins, who for more than forty years was located at Elysburg. A few years later he entered the University of END OF PAGE 54 Pennsylvania, where he studied for two years, graduating from that institution. He then located at Hartelton, Union Co., Pa., where he met with marked success in his profession, but after a few years moved thence to Trevorton, where he built up a large practice. His career was cut short by his early death which occurred in 1862, in the thirty- forth year of his age. He married Sarah Reed daughter of Matthias and Priscilla (Farnsworth) Reed and granddaughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Dreher) Reed, whose family is fully mentioned in the sketch of Servitus O. Reed, elsewhere in this work. Mrs. Sarah (Reed) Smith married William Depuy in 1871, his death occurring in 1873. She still survives, making her home at Riverside. Six children were born to Dr. Samuel and Sarah (Reed) Smith: Galen R., who lived in Virginia; Nelson M.; William R., who lives in Washington; Clinton S., of Riverside, Pa.; Laura who married Dr. D. C. Kline, of Reading, Pa.; and Clara, who married Lafayette Sechler, of Riverside. Nelson M. Smith attended the public schools of Northumberland county and later the Danville Academy, Bloomsburg State normal school and Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., after which he took up the study of medicine with Dr. Pursell, of Danville. Entering the University of Pennsylvania, he there completed the medical course in 1882, since which time he has been located in South Danville, which lies just east of the borough of Riverside. He at once built an office on Sunbury street, and met with gratifying success from the start, enjoying a wide patronage, which he has held by his skillful treatment and conscientious devotion to the needs of his patients. Personally he is esteemed by all who come in contact with him, in any of the relations of life, and he is looked upon as one of the most useful and influential citizens of the community. He is a member of the Montour County Medical Society and of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society. On Jan. 29, 1885, Dr. Smith married Lillian Gearhart, and they occupy a fine home on Gearhart street. Dr. Smith owns considerable real estate in his own village, and he is the manager of the Depew and Gearhart estates, in which capacity he has shown marked business ability. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and fraternally is a Mason, holding membership in Danville Lodge, No. 516. The Gearhart family, to which Mrs. Smith belongs, is one of the oldest and most prominent in this part of Pennsylvania. Capt. Jacob Gearhart, her great-grandfather, was born in Strasburg, then a city of France, now of Germany, in 1735. In 1754 he came to America, settling in Hunterdon county, N. J. In New Jersey he married Katherine Kline. When the Revolutionary war broke out he enlisted, becoming a sergeant in the 2d Regiment of volunteers of Hunterdon county, N. J., was soon promoted to ensign and in time reached the rank of captain. In 1776 when Washington crossed the Delaware to attack the Hessian troops then encamped at Trenton, Captain Gearhart was detailed with Captain Van Tenye to take charge of the boats with orders to destroy them should the expedition prove a failure. Captain Gearhart was with Washington at Valley Forge and took part in the battle of the Brandywine. In 1790 Captain Gearhart, with his wife and family, left the old home in Hunterdon county N. J., and journeyed by means of horses and wagons into central Pennsylvania, encountering many difficulties and hardships on the trip. Upon reaching a point near a spring in what is now Gearhart township, Northumberland county, they found a deserted log cabin in which they stopped to rest. The water was of such excellent quality, and the land apparently so fertile, that Captain Gearhart decided to locate there, and he purchased a tract upon which he settled. He at once began to clear this land with the help of his sons, and prospered so well that from time to time he was able to add to his holdings, until at the time of his death, which occurred in 1813, he owned all the land from Kipp's run to Boyd's, for a mile back from the banks of the Susquehanna river. He built a frame house upon a slight elevation overlooking the river, and it is still standing and in a good state of preservation, although about one hundred and twenty years old. Here his grand-daughter, now (1910) in her ninetieth year, resides. His family consisted of eleven children, namely: (1) Jacob, born in 1763, died at the age of seventy-eight. He married Margaret Runkill, and they had a son John, born in September, 1789. The latter married Sophia Brown, and their children were born as follows: Jacob S., 1818; Sarah; Jan. 17, 1821; Margaret, April 22, 1823 (married I. H. Torrence); Mary B., Sept. 15, 1825; Henry T., Aug. 7, 1829; Jesse B., May 17, 1833. (2) Herman, born in 1765, was the grandfather of Mrs. Nelson M. Smith. (3) William, born in 1776, died in 1854. He married Sarah Maclay. (4) George married Achie Bunyan, by whom he had children: Bonham R., Benjamin, Eliza and Rebecca. His second wife was Phoebe Lutt and they had three children, Alice, George and Herman. (5) John, born in 1771, died in 1858. To him and his wife Ann (Cool) were born eight children: Annie F., who married Wilson Mettler and had children, Sarah (Mrs. Hoffman), Susan M. (Mrs. Hugh Vastine), Spencer C. (married Anna Brandon) and Anna; Tunis, who moved to Iowa; Jacob, who moved to Ohio; William; John, who moved to Union county, Pa.; Sarah; Catharine, and Elizabeth. (6) Benjamin. (7) Elizabeth married Jacob Depew. (8) Margaret married John Gulick. (9) Kate married Asa Moore. (10) END OF PAGE 55 Charles married Sarah Ephland and they had three children: Charles Perry, born Jan. 18 1818 married in December, 1850, Agnes Blue, daughter of Isaiah and Agnes Blue, and their six children were Arthur C. (who died unmarried), Anna (Mrs. S. M. Oberdorf), Edith (who married Philip W. Mettler and had Charles G., a captain in the United States army; Agnes, wife of John Smith; Edith; Alice; John, and Catharine), Mary Alice (Mrs. E. M. Eckman), Charles P. and Gertrude (Mrs. George H. Sonneborn), Samantha married Thomas Jameson and had four children; Charles, who married Mary Lyon and had Nellie (Mrs. H. Billmeyer), Thomas (married Alice Kardisky) and Louis (who married V. V. Hidecker and later Elizabeth Laubach); Helen, unmarried; Arthur, deceased; and Frank, who married Alice Richards and had children Mary and Catharine. Arthur and his wife Lucy had four children, Arthur, Annie, William (married Lena Harman) and Sarah (who married Samuel Detwiler and had children Lucy and Clara). (11) Isaac moved to Ohio. Herman Gearhart, son of Capt. Jacob, born in 1765, died aged eighty-one years. He married Abigail Baylor and they were the parents of the following children: Mary, who married Henry Yorks and had Clinton, Amanda, and Ellen, who married David Unger; George, who moved to Ohio (he had two sons and two daughters); Margaret, who married Jonas Wolfe and had Donald, Gearhart, Willington, and three daughters; Jacob, deceased, who never married; Daniel, who married Sarah Koons; William, who died unmarried; Hannah, who lives at Riverside, now (1910) aged eighty-nine years; Elizabeth, Ellen, Susan and Katie, all of whom died unmarried; and Peter. Peter Gearhart, son of Herman, married Celestia Koup, and to them were born three children George; Gertrude, Mrs. Charles Chalfont; and Lillian, who married Dr. Nelson M. Smith. THOMAS P. BOUGHNER, farmer of Ralpho township, Northumberland county, is a member of a family whose name has been intimately connected with the progress of that district for several generations. He is a great-grandson of John Boughner, a native of Hunterdon county, N. J. who in 1814 removed to what is now Snydertown in Shamokin township, Northumberland Co., Pa. The same year he enlisted and served a short time on the northern frontier in a company organized at Snydertown among his neighbors in Shamokin and Rush townships in defense of Erie. He was a tanner by trade, and after his settlement at Snydertown engaged in the carpenter business, continuing to follow same until his death. He also lived in Milton and Shamokin for some time, but died at Snydertown. He was looked upon as one of the enterprising men of his day, and filled a number of the minor township offices. In politics he was a Republican. To him and his wife Margaret (Kolcker), also a native of New Jersey, were born six children: Peter; Mahlon, deceased; Charity, who was the second wife of Jonas Gilger; Susanna, who was the first wife of Jonas Gilger; Andrew Jackson, deceased; and William, deceased. Peter Boughner, son of John, was born Jan. 23, 1816, at Snydertown, and received such education as the subscription schools of the day afforded. After learning the carpenter's trade with his father he settled at Shamokin and engaged in railroad work. The railroad company later placed him in charge of repairs and construction from Sunbury to Mount Carmel. When the Shamokin Valley & Pottsville railroad, later the Shamokin division of the Northern Central, was extended from Shamokin to Mount Carmel, he and Mr. John Dunkelberger were associated in the work of laying the rails between those points, under contract. In 1850 he was placed in charge of grading and constructing the streets of Trevorton, but with the exception of the period of eighteen months he was thus engaged he was continuously in the employ of the Northern Central Railway Company for thirty years. As member of the firm of Boughner & Gilger, who built the first breaker at the Luke Fidler mine, and of the firm of Cleaver & Boughner, who built the first two at Locust Gap, he was also associated with another industry which played a most important part in the development of this rich section. Upon his retirement from active business pursuits he purchased the farm in Ralpho township where he resided up to the time of his death, in 1897. He was one of the leading pioneers of Shamokin, and one of the last survivors of the first settlers of the borough. His intimate connection with its affairs through so long a period, and his intelligent comprehension of the changes which took place during his life, were so well recognized that he is spoken of as being consulted regarding dates and localities to verify points concerning local history. Shortly after his death one of the newspapers published an interview which took place in 1890 and which is quoted in part here as being of considerable interest in this connection: "While yet a mere boy I commenced to work with my father at the carpenter trade, but work was scarce, the times were dull, and little or no money was paid. In 1832 work was started on grading some twelve miles of the Danville & Pottsville railroad between Mount Carbon and Girardville. This was commonly called the 'Girard Road,' as Stephen Girard had the principal interest in the construction of this part of the eastern division. In the early part of 1833 I went to work on this line and got my first lesson in railroad making. It was a good place to learn the business and what I picked up here served me well in END OF PAGE 56 after years when I became railroad boss and supervisor. I was then a boy of seventeen years, but large for my age. I was given different kinds of work and as I was handy and showed a willingness to work I was soon favored with jobs that required some skill. My knowledge of the carpenter trade helped me very much. "This railroad of twelve miles, crossing over the Broad Mountain direct, was at that time one of the greatest undertakings in the country. It was under the charge of Moncure Robinson, then the greatest railroad engineer in this country. This 'Girard Road,' with its heavy masonry, complicated structures and many planes, its hoisting machinery, bridges and a tunnel of 800 feet, was a wonderful feat in engineering if not entirely satisfactory in all its workings. A number of persons afterward residents of Shamokin worked here. Among these I can recall George Shipe, Jacob Mowery and Mr. Katterman, and also Ziba Bird, a contractor, who a few years later was connected with laying out Shamokin and putting up the first house in the town proper. And here also was a boy, some two years older than myself, connected with the engineer force, as a peg driver and later as a rods-man, who a few years later was to become the great engineer of the Shamokin coal region. This was Kimber Cleaver, and here a friendship was formed that was never broken and in after years we were associated in several business undertakings. At the close of 1838 the Girard portion of the road was finished and I returned to Snydertown. It was generally understood that the western division of the D. & P. railroad, between Sunbury and Shamokin, would be commenced the next year. "Early in the spring of 1834 work was commenced on this branch. Here there was a natural location for a railroad, as the route followed the water courses and therefore much labor and expense were avoided. The entire roadbed from Sunbury to Shamokin and one mile beyond, some twenty miles in length, was graded about August 1st, 1835. A large force was employed and a number of Irish from the public works came on this job to handle the pick, shovel and wheelbarrow. When the grading was started I went on as a common laborer at first, as the wages on the road were much better than I could get elsewhere. I was soon promoted as it was evident that I had some experience in that kind of work. Here I again met my friend Cleaver on the engineer corps, who was now promoted to the use of an instrument. * * * The roadbed was graded 22 feet wide, being intended for a double track when the second one was needed. This permitted a space of 5 feet between the tracks. The track we put down was on the north side of the roadbed. While the road was being graded, the bridges that were to span Shamokin creek at four or five points were put up. They were models of good workmanship for those times. It was then decided, as the basin at Sunbury to connect with the Pennsylvania canal had not been finished, the railroad should only be completed to Paxinos, and the remainder of graded road when the basin was prepared for coal shipments. During August the work of superstructure, as it was then termed, was commenced in good earnest and pushed ahead with all possible dispatch. Why there was so much haste I really cannot tell. Sills by the thousands were hauled on the ground, that had been hewed by such of the neighboring farmers along the line as had suitable timber. All the sawmills far and near were working day and night in sawing white oak rails for the track, and strap iron, imported from England (no tariff then), was distributed along the whole line. In three months the road was completed between Sunbury and Paxinos, ready for the cars to run. The formal opening of the road took place on Nov. 26, 1835, at Paxinos. * * * I acted as foreman in putting down the track, and here my knowledge of the carpenter trade and the experience I had gained on the Girard road stood me well in hand." The remainder of the interview was devoted to a description of the manner in which a track was laid before the modern days of T rails and other up-to-date devices. In 1837 Mr. Boughner married Margaret Repley, daughter of John Repley, and she died long before him, in 1877. They had the following children: Henry R., a resident of Shamokin, married Sarah Lake, and they have had children, Edwin, Emily, Libby, Edna, Ethel, and Mabel (the last named deceased); Joseph R. is mentioned below: John R. died in Shamokin; Catharine married James A. Shipp and is deceased; Lucy A. married A. Hoffman Reed, of Paxinos; Somerfield married Emma Snyder. Mr. Boughner was one of the charter members of the Odd Fellows and Free-masons lodges at Shamokin. In political sentiment he was a Republican. Joseph R. Boughner, son of Peter, was born in 1840 in Shamokin, and died Feb. 5, 1907, aged sixty-six years, three months, one day. He is buried at Oak Grove Church, in Ralpho township. Mr. Boughner passed his early years in Shamokin and was employed at railroad work with his father, later, in July, 1862, going to Ohio. There, on July 29, 1862, he married Sarah Tanneyhill, daughter of Rev. Thomas Tanneyhill, of Scotland, and they remained in the West until 1864, in which year they settled at Shamokin. Mr. Boughner was track foreman on the railroad until 1867, later followed farming, and subsequently engaged in the manufacture of powder in partnership with Samuel Frederick, continuing in that business until 1875. Selling his mill and farm interests to a Mr. Weldy he went out to Goshen, Ind., where he was located from October, 1875, until END OF PAGE 57 1876, in which year he embarked in the general merchandise business at Montandon, Northumberland Co., Pa. in association with O. B. Hoffman. There he remained until his removal to Juniata county, Pa., in 1878. After a year in the mercantile business there he bought the John Repley farm in Ralpho township, Northumberland county, in 1879, and there he afterward resided, engaging in farming until his death. He had seventy- four acres of land. For some time Mr. Boughner was also in the slating business in Shamokin. He was a Methodist in religion and served as steward of his church. Fraternally he was a Mason, holding membership in Elysburg Lodge, No. 414. In politics he adhered to the doctrines of the Republican party. Mrs. Boughner died Jan. 14, 1890, aged fifty-five years, ten months, nineteen days, and is buried at Oak Grove church. They had four children: Clark, who died in infancy and was buried in Ohio; Annie M., who lives on the homestead; Thomas P., our subject; and Margaret E., who died in infancy. Thomas P. Boughner, son of Joseph R. Boughner, was born March 7, 1868, in Shamokin township, and attended public school in his boyhood. He was with his father in his various removals, and was eleven years old when he came to the homestead at the Blue church where he has remained to the present. He is an intelligent and prosperous farmer and a worthy member of a respected family. Mr. Boughner married Lydia Adams, daughter of Daniel H. and Sarah A. (Pensyl) Adams, and their children are Clarence and Frank. Mr. Boughner is a member of the Oak Grove M. E. Church, and socially belongs to the P.O.S. of A. BENJAMIN F. DEPPEN, one of the foremost business men at Trevorton, is the leading merchant of that town and variously identified with its industrial progress. He established his general store there in 1889. Mr. Deppen was born in Jackson township, this county, in 1847. The history of his family in this country goes back to the early part of the eighteenth century. Christian Deppen, the founder of this family in Pennsylvania, came hither from the German Palatinate, arriving (qualifying) at Philadelphia Sept. 16, 1736. He crossed the ocean on the vessel "Princess Augusta" from Rotterdam, Samuel Merchant, master, along with a number of others from the Palatinate, their wives and children - in all three hundred souls, according to the historian Rupp. On the "List of Ship's Foreigners" his name is given as Christian Dappen, and his age as thirty years. In the Captain's book his name appears as Christian Teppe. In his will his name is written, in plain English, Christian Deppe. Thus we find that there has been considerable uncertainty concerning the correct orthography of the name. It appears often as Depp, Depew and Dupee, and some genealogists declare its original form to have been that of the old French Huguenot name, DePui. Christian Deppen settled near Womelsdorf in Heidelberg township, Berks Co., Pa. In the tax lists of Heidelberg township Christian "Deppy" is assessed as follows: 1767, on 300 acres, 3 horses, 3 cattle, 3 sheep; 1768, on 150 (?) acres, 4 horses, 4 cattle, 5 sheep; 1779, on 220 acre, 5 horses, 15 cattle; 1780, on 395 acres, 5 horses, 12 cattle; 1781, on 395 acres, 5 horses, 8 cattle. The will of Christian Deppe, of Heidelberg township, is on record in the Berks county courthouse as made Sept. 27, 1775, and probated in 1782, the year of his death. It was witnessed by Philip Moyer, John Casper Reed and Adam Kalbach, and it begins thus: "I, Christian Deppe, an aged yeoman of Heidelberg township, Berks County." As the will contains no reference to his wife, it is presumed she was dead at the time it was made. At the time of his death Christian Deppe also owned fifty acres of land in Northampton county. In his will he refers to his "eldest and beloved son, Johannes, who shall have fifty pounds over and above his other share." His children as named in the will were: Johannes; Barbara (married Peter Zimmerman); Anna (married George Yeakly) Treanic; Elizabeth; Thomas; Peter; David, who died in 1804 (his German will is on record in Berks county courthouse); Joseph; Jacob; and Abraham, who died in 1840 intestate, and whose heir was Richard Boone, of Heidelberg. Joseph Deppy (one of the older sons of the pioneer Christian) in the Federal Census Report of 1790 is recorded as a resident of Heidelberg township, and as the head of a family consisting of himself, wife and three sons above sixteen years of age. Christian, Peter, William and George Deppen, natives of Berks county, were pioneers of Northumberland county. They located in that section now embraced in Jackson and Washington townships; in 1778 the name of Christian Deppen appears in the list of pioneers of Mahanoy township (both Jackson and Washington were originally embraced in Mahanoy township). This Christian Deppen and Peter Deppen, who were pioneers in Northumberland county, tradition states were sons of the ancestor Christian Deppy. The name of Peter is found in the will, but Christian is said to have been a heavy drinker, and poor probably on that account, and for this reason he was not mentioned in his father's will. He was unlike his brothers. Early in the nineteenth century he went to Mercer county, Pa., where he died. He was married three times, and among his children were a son Washington and a daughter Betsy. Peter Deppen came, as stated, from Berks to END OF PAGE 58 Northumberland county, and after living there a short period went to Ohio, finally settling in Missouri, where he was a prosperous farmer. His descendants in Missouri and the West are said to he many. Among his children were sons Zetic and Andrew. William and George Deppen, mentioned above as having settled in Northumberland county, were grandsons of the ancestor Christian, through his oldest son, John, and from these two spring all the Deppens now living in Northumberland county. Whether Christian Deppy, the ancestor, was a Roman Catholic or not is uncertain, but tradition states that he was. His son Joseph was a Catholic as were the latter's children, and a number of the family still adhere to that faith. Most of the name now living in Reading are members of St. Paul's Catholic Church. There were sixteen persons by the name of Deppen in the Reading city directory for 1908. George Deppen, one of the two grandsons of Christian mentioned as settling in Northumberland county, was born June 21, 1787, in Berks county, Pa., and in 1810 came to Northumberland county with his brother William, as previously stated. He was a lifelong farmer, and upon his removal from his native county settled on the farm now owned by Isaac Tressler, a tract one and a half miles north of Herndon. This place he sold, and purchased an adjoining farm, on which stood a gristmill. From the latter property he removed to the farm now owned by his grandson, Samuel Deppen, a fine place of fully 200 acres in Jackson township. He died Feb. 7, 1850, and his wife, Maria Madg. Greise, a native of Berks county, born April 3, 1785, long survived him, dying Aug. 11, 1869. They are buried at St. Peter's church, in Mahanoy township. He and his family were Reformed members of St. Peter's, which was a Union Church, and he served as an official; he was an old-time Whig in political opinion. To Mr. and Mrs. Deppen were born four children: Rebecca, who married John Haas, of Sunbury; William; John, who died at Herndon; and Isaac, who spent most of his life at Herndon and died in Snyder county, Pennsylvania. William Deppen, eldest son of George, born in 1814, was a merchant in Jackson township and at other places in this county for forty years, at one time owned much real estate, and was a prominent man in his section. He engaged in the mercantile business at Augustaville when a young man, and was subsequently at Mahanoy, in Jackson township, for eighteen years. In the spring of 1860 he located at Trevorton, where he was a merchant for about two years, until his retirement from business. He died Jan. 8, 1876, and is buried at Mahanoy, in Jackson township. He was a member of the German Reformed Church, and a Republican in politics. His wife, Susan Lantz, who survived him, was of Lower Augusta township, this county, and to them were born children as follows Mary, Samuel, William (all three died young), Benjamin F., George W., Richard L. (of Shamokin) and Sarah A. (living in Trevorton on the old homestead). George W. Deppen, who was cashier of the First National Bank of Sunbury, died in January 1909. Benjamin F. Deppen attended the schools of the home locality, later Millersville State normal school, at Lancaster, Pa. Having been appointed agent for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company at Trevorton, he filled that position continuously for twenty years, and as such became one of the best known men of this district. In 1889 he began what has proved to be a highly successful business career, opening the general store at Trevorton which he has since conducted, and which he moved to its present location in 1898. He has the principal trade of the kind in the town, his patrons coming from a wide area. Business has occupied all his attention, his interests having broadened until, he is now identified with a number of enterprises. He is a trustee of the Trevorton Silk Mills, and a director of the Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Company of Shamokin, and in 1910 he succeeded the late Charles Fritz in his connection with the First National Bank of Trevorton. Mr. Deppen is a Republican, but takes no part in polities. Mr. Deppen's first wife, Susan (Herb), daughter of Daniel Herb, of the Mahantango Valley, died in 1888, at the age of thirty-eight. In 1893 Mr. Deppen married (second) Louisa Leitenberger, daughter of Charles Leitenberger, who was killed at Minersville, Pa., by the kick of a horse. Four children were born to Mr. Deppen's first marriage, namely: Laura M.; Susan M.; Samuel H., born in 1876, who died in 1905 (he married Mamie Holshue and they had two children, William Frank and Donald H.); and William Ralph, who married Eva Kline and has two children; Russell C;. and William Robert. 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, which was founded here by Godfrey Rockefeller, from whom David P. and Emery Rockefeller, brothers, of Sunbury, are descended in the fifth generation. The Rockefeller family traces its beginning in America to one Peter Rockefeller, who was born in Europe and in 1710 emigrated to America, settling 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 Northum- END OF PAGE 59 berland 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 David P. and Emery Rockefeller, of Sunbury, 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 David P. and Emery Rockefeller. John Rockefeller, the grand-father, 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, 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; Esther married Isaac Eckman and had five children, Col. Charles (married Sophia Gearhart), 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, Eta 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: Joseph, born in 1850, died in 1870; Lemuel married Hattie McClow and they have three children, Catharine, Mary and Margaret; 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 married Mattie Manier and has two children, Harrison and Helen; Isaac married Emma Specht; David P. is mentioned below; Oliver married Jennie Haupt; Emery is mentioned below. Mrs. Catharine (Campbell) Rockefeller though now (1911) 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 eight 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 Catharine 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 Lee 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. (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. DAVID P. ROCKEFELLER, son of Lewis and Catherine (Campbell) Rockefeller, is a well known business man of Sunbury, being president of the Sunbury Table Works, manufacturers of extension and parlor tables, and similar goods. Mr. Rockefeller was born in Sunbury Nov. 23, 1859, and there received his early education in the public schools. After a few years attendance there he went to Philadelphia, where he was a pupil in the school at Seventeenth and Pine streets. Dur- END OF PAGE 60 ing his residence in that city he clerked for his cousin, John Rockefeller, for a period of ten years. Returning to Sunbury in 1883, he engaged in the bottling business, which he continued to follow until 1898. For three years afterward he was engaged in the lumber business, and for a similar period in the mercantile business, in 1905 selling his stock of merchandise to J. K. Frederick. At that time he began the manufacture of tables, in which he was engaged alone until he established the present concern, in May, 1907. The plant is located on North Second street, the factory and yards covering nearly a city block. The main building is 200 feet square, and there is another 50 by 150 feet in dimensions. The establishment is equipped throughout with the most modern machinery and all improvements designed to facilitate the work, and from seventy-five to eighty men are given constant employment supplying the demands of the large trade. Mr. Rockefeller has devoted himself to the building up of this business, and his efforts have been rewarded with unusual success. He is respected and trusted by his fellow citizens, who elected him to the borough council in 1904, and he served in that body from that year until 1908. He is a Republican in politics and in religion a member of the Presbyterian Church. Socially he belongs to the I.O.O.F. On Sept. 18th, 1891, Mr. Rockefeller married Agnes Cummings, daughter of Andrew and Harriet Cummings, of Washingtonville, Montour Co., Pennsylvania. EMERY ROCKEFELLER, retired farmer and dairyman, now living in Sunbury, was born June 15, 1868, in Upper Augusta township, Northumberland county, where he was reared and educated. He lived on the family homestead in that township for some time, and in 1900 purchased from Gen. George B. Cadwallader a fine farm of 154 acres in Upper Augusta township, fertile and valuable land, which he cultivated until 1906. That year he built a fine home on East Market street in the borough of Sunbury, where he has since resided with his family. While on the farm Mr. Rockefeller carried on the dairy business, which he has continued since his removal to Sunbury. Though unostentatious in his habits and retiring in disposition he has always interested himself in the public welfare, and while in Upper Augusta township served as a member of the school board for two terms. Since becoming a resident of Sunbury he has been elected to the borough council, at present representing the Eighth ward in that body. He is an excellent neighbor and friend, kind and hospitable, and has the respect of all who know him. In religions connection he is a member of the Catawissa Avenue Methodist Church, of which he has been a trustee since 1909. On Jan. 24, 1894, Mr. Rockefeller married Minnie Gonsar, and to them were born two children, Verne and Iliff. Mrs. Rockefeller died March 12, 1911, aged forty-one years and was buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. Like her husband, Mrs. Rockefeller was a member of one of the early settled families of the county. Her grandparents, Samuel and Catharine (Long) Gonsar, natives of Schuylkill county, Pa., came to Northumberland county in an early day, settling in Shamokin township, where they passed the remainder of their lives, dying there. They are buried at Snydertown. He was a farmer and miller by occupation. In religion he was a member of the Lutheran Church. He and his wife had a large family, viz.: John, David, Andrew, George, Daniel, Isaac, Jacob, Jesse, Sarah (married Benjamin Evert), Harriet (married Jefferson Miller, of Lewisburg) and Hannah (married John Campbell, of Snydertown). George, Daniel, Isaac, Jacob and Jesse all lived in Shamokin township. Jesse Gonsar, father of Mrs. Emery Rockefeller, was born in 1836 and died in 1898, aged sixty-two years, five months, sixteen days. He married Harriet Houseworth, and she survived him with their three children: Minnie, Mrs. Rockefeller, now deceased; Laura, who is the wife of Andrew Lantz and has one son, Jesse; and Grant of Snydertown, Pennsylvania. HAUPT. The Haupt family to which belonged the late Henry Haupt long a resident of Sunbury and later of Upper Augusta township, Northumberland county, was founded here by one George Haupt. There are several distinct families of the name in the county, that of Shamokin township bearing no known relationship either to the one here under consideration or to the family of which John D. Haupt, of Rockefeller township, is a member. George Haupt was a native of Berks county, Pa., and came to Northumberland county in 1802, settling in what was then Augusta (now Rockefeller) township, where he owned many acres to the east of Augustaville. He was a tailor, and followed his trade for some years, but farming was his principal vocation. His farm was later owned by his grandson, A. G. Haupt (son of his son Samuel), but the present owner is John D. Haupt, before mentioned. George Haupt was a Lutheran, and he and his wife, Margaret (Overpeck), are buried at the Augustaville (Stone) Church. According to the records there he was born July 13, 1761, and died Feb. 11, 1853; she was born Jan. 21, 1772, and died Nov. 30, 1858 They were the parents of ten children: John; Samuel (born 1804, died 1882, who married Lydia Fasold and had eight children); George; David; Jacob; Henry; Sebastian, who lived at the corner of Third and Market streets, in the borough of Sunbury; Cath- END OF PAGE 61 erine, who married Peter Flook; Mary, who married John Shipe; and Elizabeth, who died when twenty-one years old. HENRY HAUPT, son of George, was born May 30, 1812, in Augusta township, and learned the tailor's trade from his father. In 1840 he located in Sunbury, at what is now No. 321 Market street, in a typical log cabin, and he followed his trade until 1853, when his health failed and he moved out of the borough, settling in Upper Augusta township. The change proved beneficial, for he lived to the ripe age of eighty- four years, dying Feb. 10, 1897. After giving up tailoring he became a watchman on the Shamokin branch of the Pennsylvania railroad. He is buried in the old cemetery at Sunbury. Mr. Haupt was a Presbyterian in religious faith, and served as trustee of the church at Sunbury. He took an interest in the affairs of the community, and served some years as overseer of the poor. His first wife, Maria Yordy, died March 26, 1844, the mother of two children, Samuel Y. and Freeman. His second marriage was to Sarah Mowery, who was born Christmas Day, 1810, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Kerschner) Mowery, of Sunbury, and died Nov. 4, 1876. There was one child by this union, Liberty Dewart, born in Sunbury, on the site where she still resides. She married in 1871, John O. Dugan and has three children, Harry W., of Plymouth, Pa.; Fannie B., who married Claude E. Wilson, of Sunbury; and Sallie, who married W. C. Forrester, of Upper Augusta township. She is an active member of the Presbyterian Church. She was named Liberty after Miss Liberty Brady, who was born about the time the Liberty Bell proclaimed freedom to all the inhabitants of the United Colonies upon the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, and who was a sister of the six Brady brothers, noted Indian fighters and scouts of the Susquehanna valley, in Pennsylvania. JOHN D. HAUPT, a prosperous farmer of Rockefeller township, was born there May 25, 1851, son of George G. Haupt, on the old home-stead of his family. His grandfather lived in Cameron township, this county, where he followed farming, and he and his wife, whose maiden name was Gearhart, are buried in that township. He owned property. They were Lutherans in religious faith. Of their children, John, Jacob and Benjamin lived in Cameron township; George G. is mentioned below; Sarah married George Derk; Hettie married Gideon Derk, brother of George; there were other daughters whose names are not given. George G. Haupt was born Sept. 12, 1810, in Cameron township, and learned the trade of shoe-maker, which he followed to some extent, but farming was his principal occupation through life. He owned a farm of thirty-three acres in Rockefeller township, where he died Jan 11, 1866. He was a Democrat in politics, and at the time of his death was holding the office of overseer of the poor, and it is singular that his associate in office, Daniel D. Conrad, died just two weeks before. His wife, Barbara (Dornsife), born Feb. 18, 1824, died April 8, 1897. They were Lutherans, and are buried at the Augustaville Church. Their children were: Mary Elizabeth married Simeon Haupt, who was a descendant of George Haupt (1761-1853), of another family resident in the same community, and who had Indian blood in his veins; John D. is mentioned later; Emeline is the widow of Hyman Shilly; Catharine E. married Milton DeWees. John D. Haupt has followed agricultural pursuits all his life. His farm consists of 100 acres in the southeastern part of Rockefeller township, and is the old homestead of George Haupt, who was the founder of another Haupt family in this neighborhood, being no known relative of John D. Haupt. Mr. Haupt raises general crops and sells his produce at Trevorton. He is an enterprising citizen and has taken some part in public affairs in his locality, having served the township as school director and roadmaster. In politics he is a Democrat. In 1883 Mr. Haupt married Matilda Neidig, daughter of Solomon and Maria (Conrad) Neidig, and five children were born to them: Stella B., who was married in 1910 to Atwood Wetzel; Blanche M., wife of William E. Straub; and Donald D., Myrtle V. and Hatton H., at home. Mrs. Haupt died Oct. 3, 1903, aged forty-one years, twenty-five days, and is buried at Augustaville. CHARLES M. MARTIN, M.D., late of Sunbury, was a physician and surgeon of high standing in that borough, where he was successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession for over thirty years. A man of admirable personal traits, public-spirited, energetic, progressive in his special field of labor and in all that had to do with the real good of his fellow men, he was a citizen to be esteemed and valued, and his memory will live long in the hearts of the many who knew and appreciated him. Dr. Martin belonged to one of the oldest families of Sunbury, having been a grandson of George Martin, who came thither among the pioneers. George Martin was active in the public affairs of Northumberland county in his day, serving as county prothonotary and for some years as justice of the peace. He is buried in the old cemetery at Sunbury. He and his wife Mary had children as follows: Rev. Jacob was the father of Dr. Martin; George served for thirty-two years in the United States army, attaining the rank of captain, and was in the Indian Seminole war, END OF PAGE 62 through the Mexican war and in the Civil war (he lived retired in Philadelphia) William served through the Mexican war and in the Union army during the Civil war and attained the rank of major (he too lived retired in Philadelphia); Charles, who served in the Union army during the Civil war died in Savannah, Ohio, where he had made his home for a number of years; Henry, who was a resident of Sunbury, entered the Union army during the Civil war and was killed at the battle of the Wilderness; Luther, who lived in Elizabethville where he was married, was also a soldier during the Civil war and was killed at the battle of Gettysburg; Betzy married a Mr. Stroh and they lived at Selinsgrove, Pa.; Catharine (Kitty) married Peter Rhoads and they lived near Pittsburg, Pa.; Mary; and two others. All of this family were born and reared at Sunbury. Rev. Jacob Martin, son of George and Mary Martin, was horn in Sunbury Feb. 11, 1803, and died there in 18725 after a service of fifty years in the ministry of the Lutheran Church. His first charge was in New York State, at Dansville. For some years he was at Westminster, and at Reisterstown, both in Maryland, each of his charges comprising four or five congregations. He was an able speaker, preaching both English and German, and also a good singer, usually leading the church singing. He married Abbie A. Stevenson, daughter of Henry Stevenson, who came from Ireland, and she survived him but three months. They were the parents of seven children, namely: Henry and George died young, but five days apart; Mary E. died young; Margaret married D. Wilson Shryoeck, of Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., Pa.; Charles M. is mentioned below; Harriet married James Lyon, and they live at Sunbury; Harry died at Westminster, Md., when eighteen years old. Charles M. Martin was born Jan. 15, 1840, at Greencastle, Franklin Co., Pa. He received his academic training at Pennsylvania College Gettysburg, Pa., and attended medical lectures at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, from which institution he was graduated in March, 1863. The family was living at Westminster, Md., during that period. While in Baltimore he was a resident student at the hospital and after his graduation received the appointment of assistant surgeon from Surgeon General Hammond of the United States army, being assigned to hospital duty at Frederick, Md. He remained in the government service until the close of the war, after which he located for practice at Owing's Mills, Baltimore Co., Md., remaining there until he settled at Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa., in the summer of 1872. From that time until his death, which occurred Dec. 26, 1892, Dr. Martin took high rank as a physician and surgeon in the locality of his birth. He had a very extensive general practice, and attended faithfully to all its demands, in addition to which he served for thirteen years as resident surgeon at Sunbury for the Pennsylvania Railway Company, being succeeded in that position, upon his death, by Dr. Drumheller, of Sunbury. He was appointed a member of the board of pension examiners, removed when the Democrats came into power, in 1884, and reappointed in June, 1889. His standing in the profession was high, and he was honored with the vice- presidency of the Sunbury Medical Association. In spite of a busy professional career he found time for local public service, acting as member of the borough council and for some years as a school director. He was also known in social circles, and fraternally was a Knight Templar Mason. He was a Republican in politics and a Lutheran in religious connection. In 1865 Dr. Martin married, at Westminster, Md., Sallie H. Shreeve, who died in 1872 at Owing's Mills, Md. On Feb. 18, 1873, he married (second) Many Alice Haas, daughter of John and Mary (Gheen) Haas, late of Sunbury, and Mrs. Martin still occupies the large residence at No. 141 Chestnut street which the Doctor erected in 1875. To the second union was born one son, William H., on December 28, 1873; he died Nov. 13, 1902, while a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and he and his father are buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery, at Sunbury. WILLIAM W. RYON, of Shamokin, a legal practitioner of over thirty years standing in that borough, was born April 29, 1857, at Lawrenceville, in Lawrence township, Tioga Co., Pa. His parents were George L. and Hannah (Hammond) Ryon, both descendants of prominent pioneer families of Pennsylvania, the mother a member of the Connecticut Hammond family, which came to Pennsylvania in Provincial days. Both of Mr. Ryon's great-grandfathers served in the Continental forces during the Revolution, one attaining the rank of colonel and commissary of subsistence in General Anthony Wayne's division. Several of the name have attained distinction in high offices of public trust. John Ryon, Jr., grandfather of William W., was born in Luzerne county, and left the Wyoming Valley, where the family had then been settled for nearly a century, when about eighteen years of age. He removed to Elkland, Tioga county, where he became a prominent citizen, taking a leading part in the public affairs of that section, which he represented in the State Senate (from the Tioga and Bradford districts) for eleven years, and while in the Senate introduced a resolution favoring the nomination of Andrew Jackson for President, which was passed by both houses. He was associate judge of Tioga county END OF PAGE 63 for fifteen years. About eighty years ago he was located at Milton, Northumberland county, as superintendent of the Pennsylvania canal, and his name, as such, was cut on a stone in the lock at Shamokin dam, opposite Sunbury, under date of 1829. George L. Ryon removed with his family from Elkland to Lawrenceville (both in Tioga county) about 1849. Their eldest son, George W. Ryon, of Shamokin, has been a resident of that borough for over forty years and long one of its leading citizens. William W. Ryon grew to manhood in his native township, and received his early education in the common schools of Tioga county. Later he attended the Mansfield (Pa.) State normal school, from which he graduated in June, 1874, and soon afterward entered the office of his brother George W. Ryon, of Shamokin, to take up the reading of law. After his admission to the bar of Northumberland county, in March, 1878, he practiced for a short time, until he accepted an appointment as deputy sheriff under Sheriff William M. Weaver, with whom he served three years, continuing in the position for three months longer under Mr. Weaver's successor, John C. Morgan. Mr. Ryon then resumed the practice of his profession, was in time admitted to practice in the Supreme and the Superior courts and has continued his legal work successfully and profitably to the present day, though he is also interested in a number of the most important commercial and manufacturing enterprises of the borough. He was an original stockholder in the Shamokin Street Railway Company, was president of the Shamokin Valley Telephone Company, of which he was one of the organizers, until it was taken over by the United Telephone & Telegraph Company; and a leading member of the Shamokin Board of Trade, having been connected with the organization from its inception. He is attorney for the First National Bank of Shamokin and for the Union, Home and Citizens' Building & Loan Associations, of which he was one of the original promoters. Politically Mr. Ryon is a Democrat and active and influential in the party. He is a leading member of St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church of Shamokin. IRA T. CLEMENT, late of Sunbury, was a leading citizen of that community to the close of his long life, which covered a period of over eighty-five years. In his day there was scarcely a more conspicuous figure in the development of the borough and the surrounding territory, and his descendants are classed among the most valuable citizens there today. His interests as merchant and manufacturer not only brought to him means and influence, but were also the means of enhancing the industrial facilities of the entire region. A man of strong character, of progressive disposition, of foresight, he combined the possession of all these traits with sufficient enterprise to launch and carry through the various undertakings he felt could be successfully prosecuted in this section. His sons in time engaged in business with him, and in the activities of various members of the family the position of the Clements among the most prominent residents of this section has been well sustained. Joseph Clement, the father of Ira T. Clement, died on Staten Island, New York. He served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. In 1805, in Sussex county, N. J., he married Hannah Hazen, daughter of Samuel or Ezra Hazen, and to them were born three children: Augustus married Caroline Lyons, and died in Sunbury; Sarah was twice married, first to a Mr. Hazen and later to Dr. Woodbridge, and raised a large family (she died at Buchanan, Mich.); Ira T. is mentioned below. After the death of Joseph Clement his widow married Solomon Smith, of Amherst, Mass., and they moved out to Ohio, where they settled and reared their family. Mr. Smith died there, and Mrs. Smith then came to Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa., where she spent several years before her death, which occurred June 25, 1868, in her eighty-fourth year. She was born April 12, 1785, in Woodbury, New Jersey. Ira T. Clement was born Jan. 11, 1813, in New Jersey. He was a young child when he came with his mother to Northumberland county, and in fact was only five years old when his mother indentured him to Jacob Hoover, with whom he lived on what is now the Odd Fellows' Orphanage farm. He learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed for a few years, but he soon embarked in the mercantile business on his own account in Sunbury, continuing in that line for thirty years. However, there were too many opportunities in this then opening region to permit him to devote all his energies to one field of enterprise. He had a small tract of land and a sawmill near Arters station, a few miles east of Sunbury, and he worked in the woods during the day, getting out his logs, which he sawed into lumber at night. In 1847 he came to Sunbury, where in that year he built the first sawmill established in the place, at what was later the site of his table factory on Front street, having bought the land shortly after his arrival here, from Ebenezer Greenough. Besides conducting this place, he engaged in the mercantile business, his first store in Sunbury being located on Market street, near Third street. He ran the sawmill until 1867, when he sold it to William Reagan, and it was subsequently owned successively by the Sunbury Lumber Company and the firm of Friling, Bowen & Engle. After they failed, in 1877, it was conducted in the interest of their creditors until 1883, when Mr. Clement repurchased it. END OF PAGE 64 Meantime, about 1868, he had built the first planing mill in Sunbury, originally a two-story frame building 60 by 80 feet in dimensions, but later enlarged considerably to meet the demands of expanding business. In 1875 the upper story of this structure was equipped for the manufacture of coffins, but the coffin business grew so rapidly that in 1887 a two-story frame building 40 by 140 feet was built for its sole accommodation. In 1880 Mr. Clement had begun the manufacture of extension tables at the planing mill, and in 1887 his old mill, which as recorded he had repurchased in 1883, was adapted for this special branch of manufacturing. For a number of years his combined industries occupied an extensive site extending from Front Street to Third, north of Race, the saw mill, planing mill, table factory and coffin factory affording employment to one hundred and twenty-five men, with an annual product valued at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The influence of such an establishment on the general prosperity may be easily conjectured. Further, Mr. Clement established the Sunbury Steam Ferry and Tow Boat Company, of which he was the president, and which or many years kept a line of steamboats plying on the Susquehanna between Sunbury, Northumberland, Shamokin Pam and other points. He also invested heavily in real estate, buying the Kutz farm in Upper Augusta township and the Oberdorf farm in East Sunbury, on which he made vast improvements, and at the time of his death he owned over one hundred houses in Sunbury, of which borough he was the heaviest taxpayer. He engaged in contracting to some extent in 1876-77 building the Northumberland county prison; and other buildings, including the city hall and the Moore & Dissinger block on Market street, were of his construction. In this line he also gave employment to a considerable number of men. Mr. Clement relinquished comparatively little control of his affairs in his old age, being active to the end of his days. Although rheumatism affected and finally destroyed his power of locomotion, he never lost interest in the condition and management of his numerous business concerns, giving them his direct personal supervision, as he had been in the habit of doing, and he continued to be a power in local industrial and commercial matters until his death. A born leader, he was foremost in many movements which have made a permanent impression upon the development and welfare of Sunbury. He was one of the pioneer casket manufacturers of Pennsylvania, and as such started a line of industry in Sunbury which continues to be one of its business factors. Though he never took any direct part in public affairs he had strong convictions on political questions, and, originally a Whig, changed his allegiance to the Republicans and later to the Democratic party. He and his family were members of the Reformed Church. Mr. Clement married, when in his twenty-second year, in 1834, Sarah Martz, of Shamokin township, daughter of David and Magdalena (Shissler) Martz, and twelve children were born to them, namely: Amelia, who died unmarried; Henry; Catharine A., who died young; David; a child that died in infancy; Mary Jane, who married John W. Bucher; Louisa, widow of Henry E. Moore; Sarah Frances, who married David C. Dissinger, who died before she did; Laura I., who married Dietrich James; Maria W., who died unmarried; and Grace and Emma, who died young. Only two of this family, Henry and Mrs. Moore, survived the father, who died Oct. 28, 1898, attaining the great age of eighty-five years, nine months, seventeen days. He was buried at Sunbury. HENRY CLEMENT, the only son of Ira T. Clement who survived him, is still a resident of Sunbury, where he was born, in what was then Upper Augusta township, Sept. 4, 1838. When a mere boy he commenced clerking in his father's store, and he was always associated with him in his lumber and manufacturing interests, for many years before his father's death being with him in the management of his entire business. He stepped into a busy career, but he has proved himself well adapted to its demands, as his capable management of his various interests shows that he not only inherited the business but the ability to look after it to advantage. He was one of the pioneers in the West Branch lumber industry, but though thoroughly progressive he is conservative and has a reputation for sound judgment which makes his opinion on business questions highly valued. Though his time is well taken up with his private affairs he has found time to serve the borough as councilman. He is a Republican in political faith. Fraternally Mr. Clement is an Odd Fellow and a Mason, belonging to Lodge No. 203, I.O.O.F., to Lodge No. 22, F. & A.M., and to Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M. On March 23, 1860, Mr. Clement married Catharine Geist, of Northumberland, this county, daughter of John and Susan (Frederick) Geist, and she died in 1899, leaving two children: Jennie M., who is the wife of William H. Faries, a court stenographer of this and surrounding counties; and Ira T., of Sunbury, who married Elizabeth B. Fisher and has one son, Henry Clement Jr. HENRY F. MOORE, late of Sunbury, where he was well known in business life as an associate of Ira T. Clement, was born in 1842, at Millmont, in Buffalo Valley, Union Co., Pa., son of Jacob Moore, and died April 3, 1903. Mr. Moore was for many rears engaged as a merchant and banker before coming to Sunbury, and throughout his residence in that borough was one of its substantial and highly respected citizens. He married Mrs. END OF PAGE 65 Louisa Haupt, widow of George W. Haupt and daughter of Ira T. Clement. They had no children. Mr. Moore was a Lutheran in religious connection. GEORGE W. HAUPT was born in Sunbury Feb. 22, 1840, son of Sebastian and Sarah (Hahn) Haupt. In his earlier manhood he followed teaching and won considerable success and local distinction in that profession, serving as superintendent of the Northumberland county schools from 1866 to 1868. He resigned Sept. 1, 1868, on account of ill health, William J. Wolverton being appointed by the State to fill the unexpired term. Mr. Haupt studied law under Judge Jordan and practiced from the time he was admitted to the bar until his death, which occurred Jan. 18, 1870. He was a Presbyterian in religious faith, and a Mason in fraternal connection, holding membership in Lodge No. 22, F. & A.M. In politics he was a Democrat. Mr. Haupt married Louisa Clement, daughter of Ira T. Clement, and by this union there was one son, Wilson. FRANKLIN MARTZ, late of Ralpho township Northumberland county, was one of the substantial and highly respected citizens of his locality and a descendant of an old family, his father David Martz, having been born in the county. David Martz was born Oct. 15, 1802, in Lower Augusta township, Northumberland county, and died Nov. 11, 1855. Shortly after his marriage he located at Paxinos and owned and operated a fulling mill there, being quite successful in business. He was a respected man, and for many years was chosen to serve as justice of the peace at Paxinos. His wife Hannah (Evert), born Oct. 6, 1804, died June 9, 1880, and they are buried at the Blue church in Ralpho township. Their children were: Eliza died unmarried; Henry, who was a teacher, died unmarried; Margaret married David Adams; Sarah married Emanuel Artman; Franklin is mentioned below; Mary married Albert Fisher; David P. is a resident of Ralpho township, this county; John, twin of David, is deceased; Hannah married Jackson Hoffman; Susan died young. Franklin Martz was born Dec. 12, 1835, in Shamokin township, and received his education in the local schools. When a young man he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed several years. During the Civil war he enlisted in the 172d Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, and was out eleven months. After he returned home he bought a farm in Shamokin (now Ralpho) township, of 150 acres, the old Solomon Hummel place, and there he lived and farmed until his death, which occurred July 21, 1889. He is buried at the Blue Church, of which he was a Reformed member, and was serving as elder at the time of his death. In politics he was a Republican. On Oct. 25, 1860, Mr. Martz married Margaret Fisher, daughter of John and Hannah (Yocum) Fisher, who was born in Northumberland county Dec. 7, 1840; she now makes her home at Paxinos. Mrs. Martz is a member of the German Reformed Church. To Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Martz were born the following children: Henry E. died of smallpox when eleven years old; Mary H. died in infancy; Catharine A. married William Kreigbaum, and they reside at Elysburg, Pa.; Edwin H. lives in Shamokin; William F. married Elizabeth Fisher and they reside in Shamokin; Clarence K. lives at Paxinos; Ira T. died in infancy; John C. died in infancy; Bertha M. married Frank Weitley, and they reside at Paxinos. WILLIAM H. ROHRBACH, postmaster and merchant at Paxinos, has been prominent in the business and public affairs of that section of Northumberland county for many years, and is indeed well known all over the county. He bears a name which has long been regarded as the synonym of progress and executive ability, many members of the Rohrbach family having attained position and means, and their honorable lives have been a credit to themselves and to the community as well. Mr. Rohrbach was born July 13, 1852, in Catawissa township, Columbia Co., Pa., son of John Rohrbach and grandson of Jacob Rohrbach. The family is an old one in Pennsylvania, of German origin, being descended from John George Rohrbach, who emigrated to America about the middle of the eighteenth century. He settled in eastern Pennsylvania, in Berks county, in the territory now embraced in District township, and the family is now quite numerous in the eastern end of that county. The ancestral homestead is still owned by one of his descendants. He was twice married, and by his first union had a son Lawrence, who had five sons, Daniel, George (who had eight children), Christopher (or Stophel, who had eleven children), Jacob and Henry. By his second wife, Christiana Moser, he had five children, George, John, Simon, Eva and Christiana. Those of the name now living in Berks county are descendants of Lawrence and John; Simon is said to have moved to Catawissa, Columbia county; George to have gone West; Eva married Jacob Finkbohner, who after her death married her sister Christiana. The ancestor of a number of the name now living in Northumberland county devoted himself to his business affairs and lived and labored in the section of Pennsylvania referred to. He was a successful and influential man of his day, although he had no aspirations toward public honors and took no part in anything outside of his pri- END OF PAGE 66 vate interests. For many years he conducted a charcoal furnace in conjunction with farming. He married Catharine Fenstermacher, and to them was born a large family. Their son George, born in 1808 in Columbia county, Pa., was the father of the late Lloyd T. and William H. Rohrbach, both prominent citizens of Sunbury. John Rohrbach, son of Jacob and father of William H. Rohrbach, of Paxinos, was born Oct. 15, 1819, in Clay township, Berks Co., Pa., moved to Columbia county, Pa., with his father, and in 1855 came to Shamokin township, Northumberland county. In his early years he had followed farming for some time, later being employed in the ironworks at Catawissa, Columbia county, and after coming to this region purchased, in partnership with his brother-in-law, William Reed, a farm at Reed's station, consisting of about 175 acres. Here he followed farming until his death, which occurred April 2, 1895, and he is buried at St. Jacob's (Reed's) Church in Ralpho township. He married Julian Reed, daughter of Jacob and Hannah Reed, and she survives him, making her home at Paxinos. They had two children, Clara E. and William H. The daughter married Amos Epler and both are deceased; they left five children. William H. Rohrbach was only three years old when the family settled in Shamokin township, and after attending the local public schools he became a pupil at the Elysburg Academy, then taught by Rev. James Wampole. He remained at home, assisting his father, until the latter's death, after which he took the farm for five years, conducting it until elected county commissioner, in 1900. He filled that office efficiently for one term of three years, and in 1904 took another public position, having been appointed mercantile appraiser, in which capacity he served for one year. During that time he purchased the business of Miller Brothers, general merchants at Paxinos, which he has since carried on, and in connection with which he has performed the duties of postmaster, to which office he was appointed in 1904. Mr. Rohrbach has been prominent in the political and public activities of his township as a zealous member of the Democratic party. He has served as member of the election board, and has been elected assessor, tax collector and auditor, his work in every capacity justifying the flattering support he received as a candidate. He stands high in the opinion of his fellow citizens and has endeavored to merit their judgment of his character and abilities. Socially he is a member and a past master of Elysburg Lodge, No. 414, F. & A.M. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Rohrbach married Emma Keifer, daughter of Abraham and Maria (Eyerly) Keifer, of Columbia county, Pa., and they have two children, John L. and Wallace K. OLIVER P. ROCKEFELLER, of Sunbury, was engaged in the bottling business in that borough for many years, and is at present dividing his attention between the "Montour House," at Danville, Pa., of which he is a part owner, and his extensive real estate interests. He was born in Upper Augusta township, this county, Nov. 6, 1862, son of Lewis and Catherine (Campbell) 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 which was founded here by Godfrey Rockefeller, from whom David P., Emery and Oliver F., brothers, of Sunbury, are descended in the fifth generation. The Rockefeller family traces its beginning in America to one Peter Rockefeller, who was born in Europe and in 1710, 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 P. Rockefeller, of Standard Oil fame. The other two were John and William, the former the great-grandfather of David P. and Emery and Oliver P. Rockefeller, of Sunbury, 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 David P., Emery and Oliver P. 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, 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; Esther married Isaac Eckman and had five children, Col. Charles (married Sophia Gearhart), David married Ella END OF PAGE 67 Wolfe and had children, Franklin, Alfred, Dyer and Ethel), Elizabeth (first married 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: Joseph, born in 1859, died in 1870; Lemuel married Hattie MaClow and they have three children, Catharine, Mary and Margaret; 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 married Mattie Manier and has two children, Harrison and Helen; Isaac married Emma Specht; David P. married Agnes Cummings; Oliver P. married Jennie A. Haupt; Emery married Minnie Gonsar. Mrs. Catherine (Campbell) Rockefeller though now (1911) in her eighty-first year is active and retains all her faculties, and to her excellent memory we are indebted for much of this 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 relative 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 eight 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 Catharine 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 the 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 had six children, Harry W., Albert C., Ralph W. E., Preston M., Louise and Lucile), Harrison C. and Lizzie A. (married Willard Robinson). Her second marriage was to George Forrester, by whom she 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. Oliver P. Rockefeller, son of Lewis and Catherine (Campbell) Rockefeller, attended the public schools of his native township, and later was a pupil at private school in Sunbury. He followed farm work until fifteen years of age, when he went to Philadelphia. After clerking there for five years he returned to Northumberland county and settled at Sunbury, engaging in the bottling business with his brother David P., in 1883. After an association of fourteen years he bought out his brother, in 1898, and thereafter conducted the business alone till November, 1909, when he gave it up after a career of twenty-seven years in the one line. He was very successful, and by his ability and fine business qualities became one of the leading men of Sunbury. He lived retired one year, until he and Mr. H. W. Geyer bought out the well known "Montour House" at Danville, to which Mr. Rockefeller has given most of his time since. He is also a large real estate owner, the management of his property occupying most of his time. Mr. Rockefeller married Jennie Alice Haupt, daughter of the late Dr. Fred L. Haupt. They have no children. He is a member of the local lodge of Elks, No. 267, and of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. In politics he is a Republican. FRED L. HAUPT, M.D., late of Sunbury, was born in that borough Nov. 11, 1836. He received his preparatory literary training at the Dickinson Seminary, at Williamsport, Pa., began reading medicine in Sunbury, and completed the course at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1861, in which year he commenced practice at Sunbury. At the beginning of the Civil war he enlisted, as surgeon, for three months, serving that term with the 130th Regiment, and upon its close reenlisted in the same command, for three years. His army record is highly creditable. He was poisoned at Winchester, Va., con- END OF PAGE 68 tracting illness which never wholly left him and which eventually was partly responsible for his death. After the war he resumed practice at Sunbury, where he not only established a large private practice but also served sixteen years as surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railway Company, some years as physician at the county jail and five years as member of the board of pension examiners of which he was president. As a surgeon be gained high repute and was widely known. He was an intimate friend of Dr. James D. Strawbridge and Dr. Martin, and they were associated in performing many operations. For a number of years before his death Dr. Haupt, being unable because of poor health to endure the demands of his heavy medical practice, was engaged in the drug business at the corner of Fourth and Market streets, Sunbury. He died March 16, 1894, and is buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. Few citizens of the borough were more generally known or respected. Politically he was a Democrat, and was elected a member of the board of education of Sunbury; fraternally he belonged to Washington D.C., City Lodge, F. & A.M., and to the Improved Order of Red Men. In 1866 Dr. Haupt married Angeline Bowen, and to them was born a family of five children, four sons and one daughter, namely: John B., bookkeeper, machinist and druggist of Sunbury, lives with his mother; Alice Jennie married O. P. Rockefeller; Alexander B. died at the age of forty-one years; William F., born in 1871, died in 1900; Joseph Priestley died at the age of thirty-two years. John Bowen, father of Mrs. Angeline (Bowen) Haupt, was a native of Wales and came to America about 1825, when four years old. He was engaged in business as a coal operator at Shamokin, this county, and was a lumber dealer at Sunbury as a member of the firm of Fryeling, Bowen & Engel. He died at Sunbury about 1896, at the advanced age of eighty- five years. Mr. Bowen was a Republican in politics and in religion a member of the Reformed Church. He married Hannah Barnhart daughter of Michael Barnhart, and they had three children: William, deceased; Jane, deceased; and Angeline, Mrs. Haupt. LENKER. The Lenker family has many representatives in Northumberland county, descendants of Adam Lenker (or John Adam Lenker), a native of Switzerland, who was one of the pioneer settlers in this region. He located in territory now embraced in Lower Mahanoy township, and followed farming, the original homestead upon which he settled being the farm now owned by David Bohner. He was born Dec. 12, 1765, died March 24, 1834, and is buried at the Zion church in Stone Valley, as is also his wife, Anna Maria; she was born June 15, 1764, and died May 12, 1822. Their children were: Michael, John Adam, Jacob, Polly (married John Witmer) and Mary (married William Schaffer). Michael Lenker, son of Adam (or John Adam) Lenker, married Catharine Emerick, and they were farming people in Lower Mahanoy township. She was born March 11, 1791, and died Sept. 18, 1860. They had children as follows: Abraham, Polly, Isaac (born Jan. 22, 1818, died March 27, 1881), Sarah, Catharine, Lydia, Elizabeth, and Jacob. John Adam Lenker, son of Adam (or John Adam), born Aug. 14, 1789, died Oct. 13, 1861. He lived in Lower Mahanoy township, his homestead being now the property of Jacob F. Lenker, and was a farmer and stonemason. He and his wife Maria (M.) Bobb, born May 13, 1792, died March 30, 1864, are buried at Zion's Stone Valley church. Their children were: Rev. Nicholas, Adam, David, John B., Rev. Michael (who died at Lykens, Pa.), Jacob, Elizabeth (married Joseph Negley), Mary (married David Ditty), Lydia (married John Wetzel) and Catharine (married Jonathan Bonawitz). Jacob Lenker, third son of Adam (or John Adam), the pioneer, according to one account was married in Lebanon county, this State, and had no children. This seems doubtful, however, as his children are elsewhere given as follows: Jacob, John, Simon (who had a son Peter), Susanna (Mrs. Losch), Christina (who married John Schaffer and died when nearly ninety-three years old), Catharine (never married), Peter, and maybe others. Jacob Lenker, born 1809, son of Jacob, lived in Lower Mahanoy township, and died on his farm there in 1880. By trade he was a weaver of carpet and cloth, but he also operated his farm, the place now owned by Isaac Batdorf. He was a Lutheran member of Zion's Church, and he and his wife Susanna (Haupt) are buried at that church. Their family consisted of four sons and two daughters: Catharine, who married Isaac Schroyer; Jacob, who settled in Iowa; Benjamin; Henry, who lived and died in Lower Mahanoy township; Reuben, of Shamokin, Pa.; and Helena, who died unmarried. Benjamin Lenker, son of Jacob, was born in Lower Mahanoy township Aug. 29, 1836, where Michael Lenker now lives, and received his education in the pay schools conducted in the neighborhood during his boyhood. Learning the trade of stonemason, he followed it for twenty-four years, and he also engaged in farming. Though he began life in humble circumstances, he became a substantial man through his own industry and thrift and he is a much respected citizen of his township, which he has served officially four years as school director. END OF PAGE 69 Politically he is a Republican. He and his family worship at Zion Union Church, at Stone Valley, in which he held office for many years, having served as deacon, elder and trustee. In 1863 Mr. Lenker married Mary Wert, daughter of Michael and Lydia (Bubb) Wert, and she died July 31, 1887, aged fifty-eight years, six months, seven days. Four children were born to their union: Jacob F.; Irving; Gertie, wife of Oscar Harder, a grocer of Allentown, Pa.; and Boaz, of Allentown, a milk dealer. JACOB F. LENKER, son of Benjamin, was born June 16, 1864, on the home farm, and obtained his early education in the public schools of the vicinity. Subsequently he spent considerable of his time at home in study, and at the age of twenty-one he received a license to teach, his first experience being at Blasser's schoolhouse, in his native township. Altogether he taught eighteen years in the same district, making an excellent record for efficiency, while his personal popularity made him many stanch friends among his pupils and associates. In 1886 he began farming on his own account, and he has since followed that calling, owning a nice home place of thirty acres, which was the homestead property of his maternal grandfather, Michael Wert. He owns another tract of 117 acres, and 135 acres of woodland, having in all over three hundred acres. Mr. Lenker is one of the intelligent and progressive citizens of his locality, and though he has made a success of his personal ventures he has also interested himself in public affairs, having served as auditor and justice of the peace; he was first elected to the latter office in 1901, and reelected at the end of his term. in political opinion he is a Republican. During the year 1886 he spent three months out West. On Aug. 30, 1886, Mr. Lenker married Mary Frymoyer, daughter of Isaac and Catharine (Bowman) Frymoyer, and they have one child, a son Oscar. The family are members of Stone Valley Church. Jacob Frymoyer, grandfather of Mrs. Lenker, lived in Lower Mahanoy township, where he followed farming. He died, however, in Snyder county, Pa. We have the following record of his children: Isaac, Jacob (of Iowa), Catharine (married Isaac Phillips), Royal (married Andrew Ziegler), Polly (Mrs. Hummel) and Harriet. Isaac Frymoyer, son of Jacob, was born in Lower Mahanoy township, this county. He and his wife Catharine (Bowman) are buried in Snyder county. Their children were: Seneries, William, George, Joseph, James, Jacob and Mary. IRVING LENKER, son of Benjamin and Mary (Wert) Lenker, was born March 14, 1865, at Hickory Corners, in Lower Mahanoy township and was there reared, passing his early years in the manner of the average farm boy. After attending the public schools of his township he went to Berrysburg Academy, receiving his first license to teach when only sixteen years old, from County Superintendent Wolverton. He taught his first term at Lenker's schoolhouse, in Lower Mahanoy township, in the fall of 1883. From that time to the present he has taught in all twenty-two terms, three in Lower Mahanoy township, fifteen in Jackson township and the borough of Herndon, and one term at Middleburg, Snyder county, where he was principal; earlier in his career as an educator he was at Danville for one term. At Herndon he was engaged eleven terms in succession, having been principal of the schools of that borough for a longer period than any other teacher has served up to this writing. His efficiency could have no better commendation. He has also taught fifteen normal school sessions at Herndon. For two years he taught at Gowen City, this county. He is one of the oldest and one of the leading educators of this section. Mr. Lenker has always been conscientious in the pursuit of his profession, and he has continued his studies with a view of increasing his efficiency. He furthered his early training by study at Lebanon Valley College, and graduated from Central Pennsylvania College (now known as Albright College) in 1890; the institution was then located at New Berlin, but has since been removed to Myerstown. He was granted a professional certificate in 1894 and a permanent certificate in 1897. In 1892 Mr. Lenker took up his home at Herndon, moving away in 1902, after his wife's death. For two years he was engaged in teaching at Gowen City, and for one year he was at Allentown, as agent for the Prudential Life Insurance Company, returning to Herndon in 1905. He has since remained in the borough, where in December, 1908, he established his present printing business and founded the Herndon News, of which he is editor as well as proprietor. The paper has the largest circulation of any journal in the borough, and Mr. Lenker is the leading job printer there, doing all kinds of printing and also book-binding, his plant being well equipped. Though this business was a considerable departure from his former line of work he has found it congenial and profitable, and he has made a success of it by his customary thoroughness and attention to detail profiting by his experiences and surmounting difficulties with characteristic steadiness. In political faith he is a Republican, and he has served five years as justice of the peace at Herndon. His influence has always been given to the support of the best causes and his worth as a citizen has been demonstrated in his various activities. On Oct. 28, 1891, Mr. Lenker married Ella Neiman, daughter of James Neiman, of New Berlin, Pa., and they had three children: Mabel END OF PAGE 70 Grace, Lena May, and Rex Benjamin. Mrs. Lenker died April 14, 1902, aged thirty-five years, and is buried at New Berlin. On Jan. 12, 1907, Mr. Lenker married (second) Katie Wagner, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Masser) Wagner, of Gowen City, Pa. They have a daughter Mary Hilda. Mr. Lenker and his family worship with the Lutheran congregation of Zion Church at Herndon, of which he is a deacon. He sang in the choir for five years. John B. Lenker, son of John Adam and Maria (Bobb) Lenker, was a native of Lower Mahanoy township. He learned the trade of tailor, which he followed in Sunbury for about six years. Later he became a brick manufacturer and dealer in real estate, as such laying out "Lenker's Addition" to Sunbury; he owned the greater part of the site of Purdytown. He was a man of affairs, influential in the public life of Sunbury, where he served as school director, councilman, street commissioner and overseer of the poor. He was public-spirited, and had as much to do with the advancement of the place in other directions as he did in its material upbuilding, with which he is identified to a considerable extent. He built more than twenty-five houses in the borough. He was a prominent Freemason, a Republican in polities, and a Lutheran in religion, being an active member of Zion's Church at Sunbury, which he served as member of the church council. He married Mary A. Garland, and they are buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery at Sunbury. They had children as follows W. G., of Sunbury; John N., or Minneapolis Minn.; J. Harris and David, twins: and Mary G., who is unmarried. All but John N. Lenker live in the old homestead at the corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets, Sunbury. J. HARRIS LENKER, son of John B., born June 27, 1862, in Sunbury, is one of the prominent business men of that borough. He and his twin brother, David Lenker, are the members of the firm of the Sunbury Supply Company, with office and warehouse at No. 599 East Chestnut street, dealers in limes, sands, cements, fire clay, fire bricks, galvanized pipe, iron pipe, sewer pipe, plastering hair, common bricks, terra cotta ware, and all other building supplies, doing a large business. Mr. J. Harris Lenker is a director of the Sunbury Trust & Safe Deposit Company, president of the Middle Creek Electric Company, of Sunbury, and with his brother largely interested in Sunbury real estate as holders and dealers, buying, building and selling. On December 25, 1883, Mr. Lenker married Ida Badman, daughter of Zacharias Badman, of Uniontown, Pa., who died in 1876 when a comparatively young man, of smallpox, which he had contracted while visiting the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lenker: John E., a civil engineer, who graduated from the Sunbury high school and from State College, at State College, Pa., and William G., a graduate of the Eastman Business College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., who is now in business with his brother, under the name of the Selinsgrove Supply Company. Mr. Lenker and his family are members of Zion's Lutheran Church at Sunbury. He is a Republican on political questions. DAVID LENKER, M. D., twin brother of J. Harris Lenker, was educated in the public schools of Sunbury, the Missionary Institute at Selinsgrove, Wittenberg College at Springfield, Ohio, and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating April 12, l889. Returning to Sunbury, he was appointed physician at the Northumberland County prison, holding that office for several terms. But medical practice did not appeal to him, and he became associated with his brother, J. Harris Lenker, in business and in the manufacture of bricks, which latter they continued for six years, eventually organizing under the firm name of the Sunbury Supply Company. Every year they build from two to ten houses in addition to continuing the other lines of their extensive business. Lenker avenue is named for this family. Dr. Lenker, in association with his brother, has large real estate holdings. He is a man of broad intelligence, and has taken an active part in the local welfare, in which he is deeply interested; he served some years as auditor of Sunbury. Dr. Lenker is a stanch Republican, and was at one time most active in the interest of the party. John Adam Lenker, another son of John Adam and Maria (Bobb) Lenker, was born June 29, 1818, on the old homestead, where Jacob F. Lenker now lives, was a lifelong farmer, and owned the property which Michael Lenker now owns. He was also an extensive contractor, erecting a number of county buildings, houses and barns in the lower end of the county, a part of the Central Pennsylvania railroad, the Mahantango bridge in Lower Mahanoy, a number of other bridges along the Mahantango creek, and helped to build the State road from Tower City to Tremont. He filled various public offices in his locality, among others that of school director, and in fact was one of the leaders in the establishment of the free school system in Lower Mahanoy, being long its principal supporter. He was enterprising in giving his influence to worthy public movements as well as in the conduct of his personal interests, and was also active in church affairs, holding all the offices in his church. He died March 24, 1881, and is buried at Stone Valley church, where he belonged. His wife, Sarah Massner, born Dec. 11, 1821, died March 23, 1899. She was a daughter of John Massner. They had children as follows: Lizzie, wife of Abraham D. Blasser; Jeremiah, deceased; END OF PAGE 71 John M., of Lower Mahanoy township; Sallie, unmarried; Ellen, wife of John H. Snyder; Newton deceased; Adam; and Michael, who has the old homestead. ADAM LENKER, son of John Adam and Sarah (Massner) Lenker, was born Jan. 9, 1860, in Lower Mahanoy township, and until he reached the age of thirty years lived on his father's farm in the Mahantango Valley. Moving to Shamokin, he lived in that borough three years, engaged as drayman, and then returning to the Mahantango Valley he purchased a farm of sixty-five acres which he cultivated for the next twelve years. The place was a part of the old William Deppen homestead. Renting that place he removed farther north, in the same township, where he became tenant on the A. D. and Jacob Blasser farm, the present year (1910) being his fifth on that property. His own place is at County Line and is very desirable tract, but he rents it because it is too small to occupy all his attention, and his family being a large one he finds a larger place more profitable. He was elected a school director of Lower Mahanoy township in the spring of 1910. In politics he is a Republican. On May 25, 1885, Mr. Lenker married Annie Engel daughter of Joel and Catharine (Wald) Engel, and they have had twelve children; Birdie (who died young), Joel (who died aged sixteen years), Howard, Sallie, Annie, Alvin, John, Clarence, Clara, Irwin, and two that died in infancy. Mr. Lenker and his family are Lutheran members of the Zion Church at Stone Valley, where many Lenkers are buried. JOHN B. REPLEY, of Ralpho township, Northumberland county, engaged in farming on the place formerly owned by his father, and which has been in this family for about sixty years, was born Oct. 27, 1851, on that place. The family is of German origin, and the name is also found with the spellings Reply and Ripple. Henry Repley, great-grandfather of John B. Repley, lived in this section, owning and occupying the farm now owned by T. B. and Annie Boughner, in what is now Ralpho township. John Repley, son of Henry, was born Dec. 26, 1789, and died Nov. 5, 1864. He spent all his life at the homestead in Ralpho (then Shamokin) township, following farming and also cabinet-making, and was a well known man in his day. By his first marriage, to Jane Zartman, he had four children: Henry; Margaret, Mrs. Peter Boughner; Mary, Mrs. Samuel Campbell; and Elizabeth, wife of Simeon Campbell (brother of Samuel). His second wife, Rachel (Sober), who died March 6, 1877, aged seventy- seven years, four months, was the mother of the following children: Jane, born in 1836, who married Henry K. Price, and died in 1874; Savilla, who married Harvey Fisher; Louisa, who married John K. Erdman; and Rebecca, who married David P. Martz. All these four daughters are buried at the Oak Grove church in Ralpho township. Henry Repley, son of John, was born April 7, 1820, and died Jan, 16, 1882. He was a farmer, and with the exception of the period spent in the service during the Civil war gave all his active years to that occupation. In 1849 and 1850 he bought part of the Haas and Porter farms, in what is now Ralpho township, having a tract of sixty acres upon which he erected all the buildings, and there he farmed until his death. During the Civil war he was a member of Company H, 162d Pennsylvania Regiment He is buried at the Oak Grove church, in whose welfare he was interested from the beginning, having been one of the organizers of that church and active in its work. His father's home was a stopping-place for the Methodist ministers. Mr. Repley married Mary E. Scout, who was born Feb. 15, 1824, daughter of John Scout, who was of Scottish extraction. She died July 15, 1892. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Repley: Ursula, born Sept. 26, 1845, who married David H. Snyder, and died Nov. 12, 1907 (she is buried at Oak Grove Church); and John B. John B. Repley attended the public schools and Elysburg Academy, acquiring an excellent education, and he himself long followed the teacher's profession, teaching twenty-two terms of school in all, in six different schools in Shamokin and Ralpho townships. His success in this work has made him very well known in this section of the county, his efficiency and conscientious devotion to the best interests of his pupils gaining him many friends. Meantime he had also commenced farming, to which he was reared from boyhood, and in September, 1882, he took possession of his father's old farm. He has now seventy-six acres, located along the Center turnpike between Paxinos and Bear Gap, and gives all his time to his agricultural work, in which he has prospered by intelligent attention to his land. He has served twenty years as assessor in his district and has always been a leading citizen in influencing public opinion for the good of the community, in which he takes a public-spirited interest. Politically he is a Democrat. On Jan. 25, 1879, Mr. Repley married Kate Erdman, who was born May 5, 1850, daughter of George and Mary (Knorr) Erdman, and they had children as follows: Edward A. is at home; Gertrude B., twin of Edward, is the wife of Frank Sanders and has two children, Catharine A. and Charles L.; George Henry, who is a carpenter, married Clara Crowl and they live at Shamokin, Pa.; John C. is at home; Frank F., twin of John, died in infancy. The mother died Feb. 5, 1908, and is buried at the Blue church. END OF PAGE 72