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	GEORGE W. PARMLEY, deceased, for many years successfully engaged as 
a florist and merchant at Shamokin, was of English blood but American 
birth  He was born at Tamaqua, Schuylkill county, in 1858, son of Samuel 
and Matilda (Ellis) Parmley.
	Samuel Parmley was born in England, and came to America with his 
first wife. After a short time in New York his wife died, leaving two 
children, Henry (since deceased) and Elizabeth (who married Dallas Van 
Horn).  Mr. Parmley married (second) Matilda Ellis, and to this union 
were born: Charles S.; George W.; Thomas J., of Carlisle, Pa.; and Mary 
E., deceased wife of Llewellyn James. Mr. Parmley after his second 
marriage settled at Tamaqua, in Schuylkill county, where he engaged in a 
mercantile business and prospered.
	George W. Parmley came to Shamokin in 1884, and was first engaged 
in a milling business with Andrew Robertson. Later he became a florist, 
and acquired a wide reputation by his success in that line. He also 
carried on a china store, located at Independence and Orange streets, 
one of the best locations in the city, and was so engaged until his 
death.
	Mr. Parmley married Minnie F. Douty, daughter of William H. Douty, 
and to this union were born: George W., Jr.; Samuel C.; J. Hillmer; and 
Dorothy L.  Mrs. Parmley resides in her comfortable home at No. 126 
Church street.

	DOUTY. Mrs. Parmley is a member of a family that was active in 
pioneer days in Pennsylvania.
	JOHN BLUNDIN DOUTY, her grandfather, was  a prominent man in the 
coal regions.  He was born near Lambertville, N. J., May 30, 1812, son 
of William and Mary (Blundin) Douty, who came to Rush township, 
Northumberland county, about 1822.  Four years later they removed to 
Pottsville, where the father became the owner of five boats on the 
Schuylkill canal, John B. being placed in charge of one of them. He 
worked as a boatman until 1842, when he became interested in the coal 
trade at the East Delaware mines.  After a few years there he went to 
the West Delaware mines where he operated until the failure of the 
company in 1851 caused the loss of all he had accumulated. In 1852 he 
came to Shamokin and began mining in a small way at the Gap, as a member 
of the firm of Kase, Douty & Reed.  This venture met with little 
success, and in 1856, with others, under the name of Bird, Douty & John, 
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end proved successful. In 1859 he withdrew from the firm to take charge 
of the Henry Clay colliery, and he acquired a handsome fortune. He 
opened and operated the Brady colliery for a few years, and in 1873 
began working the Ben Franklin colliery, at which he was engaged for the 
remainder of his life.  He died Nov. 15, 1874, in the faith of the 
Presbyterian Church.  On May 22, 1836, he married Lavinia Jones, 
daughter of William and Catharine Jones, of Reading. They had one son, 
William H.  Mr. Douty was a man of decided views, and was very tenacious 
of his opinion. He had a kind heart, and was ever generous to those less 
fortunate than himself.
	WILLIAM H. Douty, son of John B., was born at Pottsville, Pa., in 
1836, and died in October, 1896, in Philadelphia, where he was buried. 
He assisted his father in the management of his coal mines at Shamokin 
and Doutyville. He was sole manager of the Ben Franklin colliery at 
Doutyville, one of the largest mine workings in the anthracite field, 
and with John Gabel became the owner of the Garfield mine.  He was one 
of the chief movers in suppressing the terrible crimes of that desperate 
band of men known as the "Mollie Maguires," who infested the coal region 
in the early seventies.  He had other business relations, however, being 
engaged in the dry goods and grocery business on Sunbury street, his 
place being known as the "Brown Stone Front," and was very successful in 
his undertakings. In 1893 he went to Philadelphia, where he lived in 
retirement until his death  He married Dorothea M. Stroup, daughter of 
William and Sarah (Christ) Stroup.  Their children were: Phoebe, wife of 
Philip Goodwill, of Bramwell, Mercer Co., W. Va.; Minnie F., widow of 
George W. Parmley; John, of Cumberland, Md.; and Sallie, who lives with 
her sister Mrs. Goodwill.
	Mr. Douty was burgess of Shamokin in 1873, an office in which his 
father's brother, R. B. Douty, had been the first incumbent in 1864-65. 
He was the first president and director of the Edison Electric 
Illuminating Company of Shamokin, which was incorporated Nov. 29, 1882.  
Mr. Douty was one of the prominent citizens of Shamokin appointed as a 
committee to prepare a constitution and by-laws for the Board of Trade, 
Jan. 24, 1887, and he became the first president of that important 
organization.  The first attempt at fixing up the streets of Shamokin 
was made by Mr. Douty and Dr. R. S. Hollenback, both going to Harrisburg 
to appeal to the Legislature for a loan of money from the State for that 
purpose, as the taxes at that early time were insufficient for any 
improvements of this kind.  Mr. Douty and his family were 
Presbyterians.

	JOHN H. BECK, of Rockefeller township has long been considered one 
of the most progressive farmers of his section of Northumberland county. 
He was born Aug. 30, 1850, in Frailey township, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and 
belongs to a family which has been settled in Pennsylvania since 
Provincial times, being a descendant of John Martin Beck, who was born 
in Europe in the year 1724, and died Sept. 29, 1785.  His wife, 
Catharine, was born May 1, 1726, and died Oct. 19, 1804.  Among their 
children were sons Daniel, John and Jacob.  A Catharine Beck, born June 
27, 1766, who died July 2, 1846, was probably a daughter of John Martin 
and Catharine Beck, who were the grand-parents of Gottlieben Hoeckly.
	John H. Beck, the grandfather of John H. Beck, was a grandson of 
John Martin Beck, the immigrant ancestor. He was born Feb. 11, 1786, in 
Northampton county, Pa., and settled in Lykens valley, in Dauphin 
county, where he followed farming throughout his active years.   He died 
June 20, 1855, aged sixty-nine years, four months, nine days, and is 
buried at Uniontown, Dauphin Co., Pa.  He gave considerable land to the 
cemetery. He married Susan Greenswicht, of Northampton county, and to 
them were born the following children:  Daniel; John and David, twins; 
Jonathan; George; John Jacob; Polly, Mrs. Benneville Ossman; Harriet 
Mrs. Wolf (she and her husband moved to Ohio); Susanna, Mrs. Heater; and 
Christianna, Mrs. Charles Drumm.
	John Jacob Beck, son of John H., was born June 24, 1820, and died 
May 15, 1883.  He is buried at the Wolfs Cross Road Church.  For a 
number of years he was a coal miner, living in Audenried, Pa., for 
several years, and for three years at Hazleton. After his marriage he 
moved to Lower Augusta (now Rockefeller) township, Northumberland 
county, where he bought from David Shipe the farm of eighty acres upon 
which he made his home to the close of his life. He carried on general 
farming, in which he prospered so well that he was able to buy more 
land, adding materially to his original acreage. He was a Republican in 
politics and a Lutheran in religion.
	In the spring of 1848 he married Elizabeth Shadel, who was born in 
Schuylkill county Aug. 24, 1822, daughter of David Shadel, a native of 
Northumberland county, who married Polly Hoffey, of Lykens valley, 
Dauphin county.  Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Shadel: 
Elizabeth, Henry, Caroline, Sarah, Catharine, and Eve. Mr. Shadel passed 
most of his life in the Lykens valley, and was a hat manufacturer by 
occupation. Mr. and Mrs. Beck had three children: John H.; David, who 
died when seven years old; and Louisa, who married W. B. Eister, Esq., a 
merchant and postmaster at Seven Points, this county.
	John H. Beck was reared and educated in Rockefeller township, where 
he has passed all his life. He was reared to farm work and eventually 
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until he now has a tract of 260 acres, where he carries on general 
farming.  He has raised considerable stock, and for many years was 
engaged in the dairy business, running a milk team daily to Sunbury. He 
kept as many as thirty-two cows, which were cared for in the most 
approved hygienic fashion, his barn being a model modern establishment, 
supplied with running water and various other facilities for keeping it 
cleanly and attractive. He has also made a number of improvements in his 
residence, which is supplied with running water and is a comfortable 
home, kept up with the same care which characterizes all Mr. Beck's 
possessions.  He has shown excellent business ability in every branch of 
his work, which has thriven under his management until he is justly 
regarded as one of the leading agriculturists of his section.  He has 
interested himself in the local welfare, taking part in such movements 
as affect the entire community, and has been particularly active in 
local educational matters, having served six years as school director, 
as supervisor, to which office he was appointed by the court and from 
1903 to 1906 as county commissioner; he was secretary of the board three 
years. Politically he is a Republican.
	Mr. Beck's hobby has been music, and he is a fine performer on the 
B-flat cornet which he has played as member of the Seven Points band; he 
has also played the tenor horn with that organization. Socially he is a 
member and past master of Lodge No. 414, F. & A.M., of Elysburg, and a 
member of Camp No. 139, P.O.S. of A., of Seven Points. He and his wife 
belong to the Lutheran Church.
	On Jan. 2, 1868, Mr. Beck married Abbie R. Zostman, of Lower 
Augusta township, daughters of Daniel and Esther (Raker) Zostman, both 
of that township, whose children were: Sarah Ann, one that died in 
infancy, Alexander, Harriet, William, Mary Jane, Rebecca, Catharine, 
Abbie, one that died in infancy, Daniel and Esther. For his second wife 
Mr. Zostman married Susanna Conrad, of Lower Augusta.  He was a tanner 
by trade, and died in 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Beck have had a large family, 
namely: William Edward who died April 21, 1872; David Albert, born May 
6, 1871, a dairyman in the Irish valley, in Shamokin township, who 
married Alberta Dunkelberger; Mary Alice, born Aug. 26, 1872, wife of 
Harvey E. Miller, a butcher, of Sunbury; Daniel J., born Dec. 13, 1873, 
a farmer of Rockefeller township, who married Emma J. Maurer and had 
children, Laura V. and Lloyd E.; George W., born June 18, 1875; Harry 
Luther, born July 18, 1877, who married Susanna Dunkelberger and lives 
in Shamokin township; John Norman, born June 26, 1881; Susan Elizabeth, 
born Oct. 12, 1883, who married Theodore P. Bennett of Columbia county; 
Franklin W., born Jan. 20, 1886; Abbie M., born Sept. 30, 1888; Kate F., 
born May 30, 1890; Esther N., born Sept. 13, 1892; and Orville E., born 
July 23, 1895.
	Among the family traditions preserved by the Becks are stories of 
the trouble these pioneers had with the Indians during the early days in 
Northampton county. It is said that they suffered from several attacks 
of the savages, from whom they were in such danger that they had a place 
of refuge constructed under the floor of their house, where they would 
secrete themselves when the outlook was threatening.

	NELSON MILLER, late of Rockefeller township, was one of the leading 
farmers of his section for a number of years. He was born there June 14, 
1860, on the homestead of his father, Solomon Miller, who at the time of 
his death was the oldest citizen of Rockefeller township; and grandson 
of David Miller.
	The Miller family has long been established in Pennsylvania.  
George Miller, commonly called "Hunter George," emigrated from Germany 
some time during the eighteenth century. He settled near Hamburg, in 
Berks county, Pa., and had several children, of whom nothing is known at 
present except such history as has been preserved concerning the son 
John. John Miller, born in 1759, settled in Shamokin township, 
Northumberland county, prior to 1785. He owned about thirteen hundred 
acres of land situated upon the Centre pike, and built his log house 
upon the south side of the road opposite where George W. Miller, his 
great-grandson, now resides. In 1785 he married Catharine Reber, who was 
born Sept. 26, 1769, and to them were born two sons and two daughters: 
George; David; Elizabeth, who was twice married, first to a Mr. 
Rockefeller and second to a Mr. Wilbour; and Sarah, Mrs. Miller.  Before 
his death, which occurred in 1804, when he was forty-five years old, 
George Miller divided his property between his sons, David obtaining the 
land on the south side of the valley and George that on the north side.  
His wife, who survived him many years, died Aug. 19, 1845, at the age of 
seventy-six years.  John and Elizabeth Miller are interred in the old 
Baptist burial ground near Deiblers station, in Shamokin township.
	Solomon Miller, father of Nelson Miller, was born in August, 1826, 
in Shamokin township, this county, and thence moved to Rockefeller 
township, where he lived for sixty years.  For many years he was one of 
the most prominent residents of his section.  A prosperous farmer, he 
acquired the ownership of several of the finest farms in the township, 
and had a long active career, retaining his physical vigor until well 
advanced in years. He continued to work until five years before his 
death, when he sustained an injury which made it necessary for him to 
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ities. He died July 11, 1909, when almost eighty-three, and was the 
oldest citizen of the township at that time.  His death was caused by 
paralysis. Mr. Miller's home was seven miles from Sunbury, here his 
remains were taken for interment, in Pomfret Manor cemetery.  The 
community felt as in his death it had lost one of its most valuable 
citizens. He had not only managed his own affairs well but had been 
intimately associated with the best interests of his section, 
encouraging and supporting everything that would advance the prosperity 
of the township, and those in financial distress found a true friend in 
him.  Mr. Miller had been married three times, his first wife being 
Adaline Kline, who died three or four years after their marriage. To 
this union was born one daughter, Theresa, now the widow of Prof. Ira 
Shipman and living in Sunbury. By his second wife, Catharine (Long), 
daughter of Daniel Long, there were two sons, Nelson and Jefferson, the 
latter now in Texas, where he holds a responsible position in the oil 
fields.
	Nelson Miller received his education in the public schools and was 
reared to farming, which he followed all his life. From the time he was 
twelve years old he had charge of his father's teams. In 1910 the 
homestead farm of his father came into his possession, one of the finest 
farm properties in Rockefeller township and under an excellent state of 
cultivation. The farm on which he died, and where his widow and family 
live, contains considerably over one hundred acres, and in addition Mr. 
Miller owned two adjoining farms.  He died Nov. 14, 1910, suddenly, 
succumbing to a stroke of paralysis from which he suffered the day 
before.  Fifty years of age, and possessing abundant vitality and 
splendid physique, he was taken away when the best part of his life was 
apparently before him.  He is buried at the Stone Church at 
Augustaville.  The family are Lutherans.  At the time of his death Mr. 
Miller was serving as supervisor of his township, and he had been a 
member of its school board.  He was a man who possessed the confidence 
of his fellow citizens, and proved himself worthy of it in the discharge 
of the duties of his public trusts.
	On May 13, 1883, Mr. Miller married Tillie C. Klase, daughter of 
Francis and Rebecca (Shaffer) Klase, who lived at Stonington, Pa., and 
seven children were born to them: Dora E.; Carl W., now farming one of 
the tracts belonging to his father's estate, who married Stella 
Bartholomew and has one child, Arline; Arthur E.; Frank S.; Ralph M.; 
Mary T., who died in childhood; and Grace R.

	PETER W. SCHLEIG, justice of the peace and retired merchant, of 
Gowen City, in Cameron township, is one of the best known citizens of 
his section of Northumberland county, where he has been identified with 
business and public affairs for a long period. He was born in Cameron 
township April 28, 1845, son of Daniel and Catharine (Weary) Schleig, 
and comes of a family of German origin.
	Adam Schleig, his great-grandfather, came to this country from 
Germany, and served his adopted land in the Revolutionary war. He 
afterward settled upon the land now owned by Brinton Hartline, in 
Cameron township, Northumberland Co., Pa., and died at the age of 
seventy years. His son Adam, who was born about 1774, inherited that 
property and passed his entire life there. He taught German in the local 
schools. He died in Cameron township about 1819, at the age of forty-
five years.  To him and his wife, Catharine (Derck),  were  born  six  
children: Daniel; Michael; Martin; Elizabeth; Sarah, Mrs. John Derr; 
and Catharine, Mrs. Philip Kerstetter. Elizabeth, who lived in Cameron 
township, was the last survivor of the family.
	Daniel Schleig, eldest son of Adam, was born Aug. 8, 1812, at the 
old homestead, and died in 1872, at the age of sixty years.  He learned 
the trade of blacksmith, which he followed in connection with farming, 
and was quite a prominent man in his day in the locality, holding minor 
township offices and being an active worker in the Reformed Church, 
which he served as elder and deacon. In politics he was a Democrat. He 
married Catharine Weary, who survived him, continuing to make her home 
in Cameron township until her death, in 1897, at the age of seventy-one 
years. They were the parents of six children: Peter W., Joseph, 
Michael, Hannah (wife of Daniel Knarr), Salome (wife of Henry Sortman), 
and Martin, all now deceased except Peter W. and Hannah.
	Peter W. Schleig was reared upon the old homestead place, which his 
father inherited and occupied.  He received his education in the public 
schools of Cameron township, and when a boy of thirteen commenced work 
in the mines, where he was employed for sixteen years, filling various 
positions.  In 1874 he established himself in the mercantile business at 
Gowen City, which he continued for over thirty-five years, retiring June 
22, 1910, since when the store has been carried on by his son Andrew H. 
Schleig. Mr. Schleig, however, has by no means retired from active 
participation in business or matters of general interest. In 1909, in 
partnership with his son Andrew and Elias Gonser, he established a 
telephone company for local service which has proved a boon to the 
community, both as a progressive measure and for the convenience it has 
afforded many residents of the locality.  It is known as the Gowen City 
branch of the Bell phone, and has been a highly successful enterprise.
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more prominently identified with the administration of local public 
affairs.  Mr. Schleig has always been an enthusiastic supporter of the 
cause of free education, and as such was repeatedly elected to 
membership on the school board, his willing services meeting with the 
highest approval of his fellow citizens.  He has also served his 
township as treasurer, auditor, assessor (five years) and justice of the 
peace, to which office he was first elected in 1876, and in which he has 
served contiguously since. He has been a lifelong Democrat, and one of 
the leading members of the party in his township. In every relation of 
life he has won the respect of all associated with him.  Socially he 
holds membership in Gowen City Lodge, I.O.O.F., and Rebekah Lodge No. 75 
of Gowen City, Shamokin Lodge, F. & A.M., and Gowen City Camp, P.O.S. of 
A.  In religion he is a member of the Reformed Church, and has served 
six years as deacon.
	Mr. Schleig's first wife, Annetta  Haupt, daughter of Benjamin 
Haupt, died at the age of forty-six years.  By this union there was one 
son, Andrew H., who was born March 28, 1864, received a public school 
education, and at an early age entered the employ of his father, with 
whom he has ever since been associated in business. In 1885 he was 
appointed postmaster at Gowen City and he has held the office ever 
since.  He has served the township as auditor and tax collector, and 
served as county auditor two terms.  He is a Democrat in politics, and 
has been an active citizen in many ways, leading a busy and useful life. 
He is a member of Gowen City Lodge, I.O.O.F., and of the encampment, and 
a member of Shamokin Lodge, F. & A.M.  He married Mary Henninger, 
daughter of Nathan Henninger, of Cameron township, and they have had two 
children, Charles and Goldie. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew H. Schleig are members 
of the Lutheran Church.
	For his second wife Peter W. Schleig married Mrs. Lillie A. (Yoder) 
May, daughter of Enos D. Yoder and widow of Harry May, by whom she had 
two children, Joseph G. and Enos D.  Her father was born in the Mahanoy 
Valley and moved thence to Shamokin, where he engaged in the jewelry 
business; he married Susanna Drumheller.  Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Schleig 
have had these children:  Rolland L., Goldie L. and Annie S. all living.  
Socially Mrs. Schleig holds membership in Rebekah Lodge No. 75 of Gowen 
City the ladies auxiliary of the I.O.O.F., and she is a member of the 
Reformed Church.

	LAFAYETTE SECHLER, now a resident of the borough of Riverside, was 
until recently a farmer in Gearhart township, in which section his 
family has resided for several generations.  Mr. Sechler was born in 
l860 at Bradys Bend, Armstrong Co., Pa., son of Alem Marr Sechler and he 
is a grandson of Jacob Sechler and great grandson of John Sechler.
	John Sechler was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.  In 1775 he 
purchased from the Penns some five hundred acres of land in what is now 
Danville, and built a house not far from where the State hospital now 
stands, in which house, in 1790, his son Jacob was born, the first male 
child born within the present limits of Danville.  The old Mahoning 
burying ground was taken from his land.
	History informs us that there were four brothers of the Sechler 
family who settled in or around Danville. One of these was Rudolf 
Sechler, born in 1772, who married Susanna Douty. He was a blacksmith by 
trade, but later became register and recorder of Columbia county, Pa., 
and in 1821 he was appointed justice of the peace, which office he held 
until 1845, resigning on account of his age.  He died in 1857, at the 
age of eighty-five. He was the father of six children, of only one of 
whom, at this writing, we have any definite knowledge, this being H. B. 
D. Sechler, who was born Jan. 26, 1808.  In his early life he became a 
painter, following that business all his active life. In 1830 he married 
Jane Jamison, of Mifflin county, Pa., who died in 1831; in 1835 he 
married (second) Sarah Gearhart, daughter of John Gearhart, and a member 
of the Gearhart family so prominent in this section, and they were the 
parents of Harriet (Mrs. John Watters) and Emma, (Mrs. John Yorgy).
	Jacob Sechler, son of John, born in 1790, was a soldier in the war 
of 1812. He married Barbara Reese, and they were the parents of a large 
family, of whom we have the following record: (1) Abram, born in 
Danville April 13, 1814, was twice married, the first time, in 1835, to 
Lavina, daughter of Asa Pancoast.  She died in 1864, the mother of five 
children, of whom are mentioned Mary Alice (Mrs. Henry Schick), Sarah 
Jane (Mrs. John Kerwin) and W. W. (of Philadelphia, Pa.). In 1869 Abram 
Sechler married (second) Harriet Wertman, daughter of John Wertman, and 
to this union was born one child, Martha (Mrs. Charles Robinson).  (2) 
Samuel, born in Danville, married Martha Morgan, and they were the 
parents of Jacob, Hannah (Mrs. Ends), Dallas, Isaac, John and Mrs. 
Newberry (of Sunbury, Pa.).  (3) Jacob married Susan Harris and they 
were the parents of the following children:  Harris, Charles, Anna, Ida 
and Jay, all of whom live in the West, their father having moved to that 
section many years ago, settling in Wisconsin, where he founded the town 
still known as Sechlerville. (4) Mary, Mrs. Coxey, had children, Jacob 
Sechler, Martha and Elizabeth, all of whom live in Ohio.  (5) Alem Marr 
is mentioned below.  (6) Frank R., born March 22, 1826, in Mahoning 
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married in 1850 Abigail Best, and they have children, Barbara (Mrs. 
Kinney) and Clarke (of Philadelphia, Pa.).  (7) James moved out to St. 
Louis, Mo.  (8) Lafayette, born in Danville, married Rosanna McBride, 
and they had four children, Margaret (Mrs. Jeremiah Faust), Anna wife of 
Rev. J. H. Mortimer), William A. (who married Mary Williams and has one 
son, Jay) and Ida M.
	Alem Marr Sechler was born in 1824 in Danville, Montour Co., Pa., 
and died in 1903.  He was by trade a straightener of iron rails, for 
railroads, and straightened the first rail made in the iron mills at 
Danville.  In 1854 he purchased a farm in Gearhart township, 
Northumberland county lying along what is known as Kipp's run, it being 
a part of the tract settled by the Doutys and later owned by the Kipps. 
Mr. Sechler married Emily Love, daughter of Stephen Fairchild and Mahala 
(Nelson) Love, and they had three children, Lafayette, Kate and Gardner 
Little (who died in fancy); the daughter married Charles W. Blakeslee, a 
teacher in the High school at Long Branch, N J, and they became the 
parents of three children, Marrion and two sons who are deceased.
	Lafayette Sechler was reared on the farm, mean-time receiving his 
education in the common schools of his home township and at 
Williamsport, Pa. After attaining his majority he continued farming, on 
his own account, and upon the death of his father he purchased the old 
homestead in Gearhart township, which he carried on until 1909. At that 
time he moved to his present home in the borough of Riverside, and he 
has since rented his farm, which comprises 156 acres of excellent river 
bottom land. Mr. Sechler has been enterprising in his business, and has 
made a success of his undertakings, but he has also found time to take 
part in various matters of interest to the community generally, and he 
has filled different township offices, having several times held that of 
school director. He is a Mason, holding membership in Lodge No. 516, F. 
& A.M., of Danville, of which he is a past master.
	On Oct. 9, 1884, Mr. Sechler married Clarissa Smith, daughter of 
Dr. Samuel S. and Sarah (Reed) Smith, and they have two children.: 
Blanche is the wife of P. M. Irey, and lives in Lewisburg, Pa., where 
Mr. Irey owns and conducts what was formerly the Marsh shoe store; Paul 
is in his senior year at the Danville high school.  The family are 
members of the Baptist Church, though Mr. Sechler is a Methodist in 
religious connection.

	JOSEPH F. CUMMINGS, of Sunbury, former chief burgess, an 
influential and honored citizen of that borough, whose career has made 
him one of its most respected residents, has had long and intimate 
connection with public affairs in Pennsylvania in his capacity of court 
reporter, a profession he has followed for a period of thirty-five 
years. His work has not only taken him into the courts of a number of 
counties in this State, but also into the State Legislative bodies. He 
was the first official stenographer appointed in the counties of Union, 
Snyder, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry after the act authorizing their 
appointment in 1874 was passed.
	Mr. Cummings was born March 13, 1853, at McEwensville, 
Northumberland county, son of Alexander Cummings and grandson of James 
Cummings, who was a son of John Cummings, the first ancestor of this 
family in America.
	John Cummings landed at Newcastle, whence he proceeded to 
Philadelphia and from there to Sunbury, Northumberland county. He 
located in Sunbury at an early day, having been a member of the town 
council in 1797. He is known to have been possessed of some means upon 
his arrival in the borough.  Of Scotch-Irish extraction, he was a 
Presbyterian in religious faith, and he left the reputation of having 
been a man of exceedingly kindly disposition. He is buried at Middle 
Creek, Snyder Co., Pa.  His children were:  John, James; Nancy, who 
married a Mr. Spence; Elizabeth, who married John Cummings, and died at 
the age of eighty years; and Nancy (the second of that name in the 
family), who married James Russell and lived at Danville, Pa.  John 
Cummings, husband of Elizabeth, was the first sheriff of Lycoming 
county, Pa., served as associate judge and was known as "Judge" 
Cummings, and in 1816 was master of the Masonic lodge at Williamsport, 
where they resided. He was the owner of a farm on which part of Newberry 
is located.
	James Cummings, son of John, was born July 11, 1794, and died June 
26, 1836. For some time he was a merchant at Washingtonville, Montour 
Co., Pa., where he was residing at the time of his death, winning an 
excellent reputation as a business man. He was public-spirited and took 
an active interest in the affairs of his time, held the rank of major in 
the State militia, and was a member of Lodge No. 22, F. & A.M., at 
Sunbury, to which his father also belonged. On Nov. 6, 1817, he married 
Fannie Billmeyer, who was born in 1788, near Washingtonville, now in 
Montour county, daughter of Andrew and Fannie Billmeyer, and died April 
16, 1835.  Mr. and Mrs. James Cummings are buried in the Billmeyer 
private graveyard, six miles east of Milton, along the Chillisquaque 
creek.  Their children were born as follows:  Andrew, Sept. 11, 1818; 
Alexander, April 3, 1819; Christiana, June 18, 1822; Fannie, March 16, 
1826; Nancy, Sept. 11, 1829.
	Alexander Cummings was born at Washingtonville, Montour Co., Pa. He 
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where he was burned out in 1857, his place of business being completely 
destroyed, and he himself so badly injured in the disaster that he died 
six months later, in the same year.  His wife, Mary E. (Morgan), whom he 
married Feb. 26, 1846, still survives at the age of eighty-six, making 
her home with her daughter at Mexico, Montour county.  She is a faithful 
member of the Presbyterian Church.  To Mr. and Mrs. Cummings were born 
six children: James H. (who was killed at the Billmeyer sawmill, at the 
age of nine years, while seated on a sawlog), Robert M., John J., Joseph 
F., Annie F. and Robert A.
	Mrs. Mary E. (Morgan) Cummings was born Nov. 4, 1824, one mile east 
of the Chillisquaque Church, daughter of Robert and Anne (Auten) Morgan.  
The latter was the daughter of John Auten, who was a large land owner 
and miller conducting as well a sawmill on the Chillisquaque creek, 
having been among the first settlers along the said creek to utilize its 
waters for business purposes.  His farms are now owned by Hon. Mezander 
Billmeyer. The children of Robert and Anne Morgan were:  John J., Mary 
E. (Mrs. Cummings), Joseph A. (died young), Jane, Joseph T., Sarah A. 
and Robert G.
	Mrs. Anne (Auten) Morgan, maternal grand mother of the subject of 
this sketch, was a descendent of Adrian Hendrickson Auten and his wife 
Elizabeth (Thomas), who came from Holland and settled in Flatbush, Long 
Island, in 1651, his descendants having moved to Northampton Co., Pa., 
near Delaware Water Gap, in 1764 and soon thereafter one of the members 
of the family located in Northumberland county.
	Joseph F. Cummings began his education in the common schools, and 
in his youth learned telegraphy in the Milton office of the Philadelphia 
& Erie Railroad Company.  He was only fourteen years of age when he took 
charge of a telegraph office near Lock Haven, and after a few years 
service was transferred to the day office at Lock Haven, where he was 
operator for the Philadelphia & Erie and Bald Eagle Valley roads and the 
Western Union Telegraph Company.  It was at this time that he took up 
the study of shorthand, without a teacher, and with no help from any one 
who understood its practice. This was in 1872, and in spite of obvious 
disadvantages he had progressed so far in 1873 that he was requested to 
proceed to Erie to take the position of private stenographer to William 
A. Baldwin, then general superintendent of the Philadelphia & Erie 
railroad. He was the first incumbent to hold a position of this kind in 
the service of the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Company, and he was with 
Mr. Baldwin when the offices were removed to Williamsport.  After he had 
remained a year with Mr. Baldwin the Act of Assembly authorizing the 
appointment of official stenographers was passed, and in the fall of 
1874 he received such appointment to serve in the courts of Union, 
Snyder, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry counties. At the beginning of such 
service he entered the Millersville State normal school, near Lancaster, 
Pa., and pursued the studies of the course between courts, and at the 
expiration of three years entered the office of Hon. S. P. Wolverton and 
remained with him between courts until 1881.
	For seventeen years Mr. Cummings reported for the courts of Union, 
Snyder and Mifflin counties, and continues his work in the courts of 
Juniata and Perry counties, in addition to the courts of Northumberland 
county. In his long experience as court reporter he has been engaged 
specially in the counties of Cambria, Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon, 
Dauphin, Lebanon, Berks, Adams, Montgomery, Delaware, Philadelphia, 
Lycoming, Clinton and Elk. He was for seven years official reporter for 
the State Board of Agriculture before said body was organized as a 
department, and he was similarly employed a number of times as reporter 
for the State Horticultural Society, of which he is a life member. For 
the past ten years he has also reported in the State Senate of 
Pennsylvania, his work including the proceedings of the committee 
appointed by the Senate and House to investigate the insane asylums of 
the State, which report was published in book form. In 1880 he was 
stenographer on the State committee of which Hon. A. H. Dill was 
chairman. In 1888 he accompanied the Pennsylvania Millers' State 
Association on their trip across the continent to San Francisco and as 
far north as Tacoma, Wash., stopping at various places along the route 
and traveling a week in Yellowstone park. In 1890 he planted a peach 
orchard of five thousand trees four miles south of Sunbury, and with his 
other duties managed the growth and product of the orchard for twenty 
years.  When the trees became exhausted he sold the place.
	Mr. Cummings's wide experience of and thorough insight regarding 
public affairs has made him a particularly valuable citizen of his home 
place. He served some years as a member of the council of the borough of 
Sunbury, and was subsequently elected chief burgess, in 1891. During his 
incumbency of that office the first square of vitrified brick paving was 
laid. He showed his progressive spirit and intelligent understanding of 
the needs of the community in many ways, chief among which was the 
bringing to Sunbury of a  representative of the Lewis Mercer Sewer 
Construction Company, of New York City, for the purpose of establishing 
a general sewer system throughout the borough.  An agreement was made 
satisfactory to the borough council and an ordinance formulated to 
accomplish the object. The authority was afterward vested in a local 
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ments for the benefit of the greatest number, and giving his aid to 
worthy projects whenever possible. He and his family are members of the 
Presbyterian Church, in the work of which he has taken an active part, 
being at present a ruling elder and superintendent of the Sabbath 
school, which latter position he has held for a number of years.  He has 
served as a director of the Sunbury Mutual Fire Insurance Company from 
its organization in 1896.
	Socially Mr. Cummings is a Mason, being a member and past master of 
Lodge No. 22, F. & A.M., member and past high priest of Northumberland 
Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M., both of Sunbury, and a member of Bloomsburg 
Consistory, thirty-second degree.  He is at present senior grand master 
of ceremonies of the Grand Chapter of Holy Royal Arch Masons of 
Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the Veteran Association of the 
Eastern Division of the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Company.
	On Dec. 29, 1887, Mr. Cummings married Emily Umberger, daughter of 
Dr. John R. and Mary E. (Moody) Umberger, of Dauphin, Co., Pa., and they 
have a family of four children: John U., Mary E., Juliet R. and Joseph 
F. The last named, who was born May 18, 1898, is generally conceded to 
be the largest child of his age in Pennsylvania.  When seven years of 
age, in the summer of 1909, he was four feet eleven inches in height and 
weighed 226 pounds.  Except for his size he is a normal, healthy boy.  
Mr. and Mrs. Cummings have an ideal home, a large, convenient and well 
appointed residence with all the comforts which go to constitute a 
desirable dwelling place.

	JOHN F. DRUMHEISER, of Shamokin, former chief burgess of that 
borough and for over ten years a member of the borough council, is a 
citizen who has done his share in administering the affairs of the 
community in such a manner as to reflect credit on both himself and the 
community. During his long service in the council - of which body he was 
president one year - and his three years as chief burgess he was in a 
position to promote much valuable legislation affecting the local 
welfare, especially as regards improvements in the borough's public 
utilities.  That he used his powers in the most public-spirited manner 
is attested by his long retention in office. He has made a permanent 
place for himself among the citizens of Shamokin who have done something 
for the borough.
	Mr. Drumheiser was born Aug. 23, 1857, at St. Clair, Schuylkill 
Co., Pa., son of Conrad Drumheiser, a native of Germany, born near 
Berlin in April, 1831, who came to America when eighteen years old. He 
landed at New York City, but proceeded at once to St. Clair, Schuylkill 
county, where he followed mining. He first came to Shamokin in 1859, but 
his wife died there and he went back to Schuylkill county, returning to 
Northumberland county in 1860 and remaining until his death, which 
occurred June 10, 1873. At the time of his death he was in the employ of 
Douty & Baumgardner, at the old Henry Clay colliery, which was operated 
by Alexander Fulton, of Shamokin, and the gas explosion there in which 
he and ten other men lost their lives was the first accident of such 
serious importance in the district. Mr. Drumheiser was well known in the 
town in various connections.  He organized the first band at Shamokin 
and taught the same, and he was also known as a composer of music, 
devoting all the time possible to such work, in which he took the 
keenest enjoyment. He was a charter member of the German Reformed Church 
of Shamokin and one of its liberal supporters.
	Conrad Drumheiser was twice married, his first union being with 
Elizabeth Neagart, of Schuylkill county, by whom he had two children, 
John F. and Charles, the latter also a resident of Shamokin.  By his 
second wife, Henrietta Machet he had four children: Elizabeth (married 
William Lewis), Conrad, Philip W. and Barbara (Mrs. Adams).
	John F. Drumheiser came to Shamokin with his father and here 
received all his education in the public schools.  When a boy he began 
work at the mines, which he has continued ever since, having been 
employed in that line for the long period of thirty-nine years. He is 
now at the Burnside colliery, in the employ of the Coal & Iron Company. 
Mr. Drumheiser is a worker whose intelligence and reliability can be 
depended upon, and he has the highest reputation for efficiency.
	In 1879 Mr. Drumheiser married Caroline Yoder, and to this union 
have been born the following children:  Oliver Charles, Raymond, Ida 
May, Cora, Gertrude, Malcolm, Helen Irene and Curtis Allen.
	Mr. Drumheiser's public service began with his election as member 
of the council from the Second ward, in 1897. He served ten and a half 
years in that position, during which time he presided over the council 
for a year.  In 1906 he was elected chief burgess, and served as such 
until 1909. He is a Republican in political faith. He is a member of 
Camp No. 149, P.O.S. of A., in Shamokin, of the West End Fire Company, 
and of the German Reformed Church.

	ZARTMAN.  The Zartmans of Jackson township, Northumberland county, 
have been identified with the best element in that region for several 
generations past, and the family has been settled in this county for 
over one hundred and forty years.  The founder of the family in this 
country settled in Lancaster county.
	Alexander Zartman and his wife Ann Catharina came from Germany to 
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1728. They were classified with the German Palatinates, but it is more 
likely that they came from the province of Wurtemberg, possibly from 
Edenbach. Their first stopping-place was Philadelphia, whence they 
followed the pike leading to Harrisburg, and at length found their way 
into the region of the Tulpehocken, southwest of Reading, in Berks 
county, not far from the Muddy Creek Lutheran and Reformed Church, where 
they worshipped in the years 1728 and 1729. Before 1730, however, they 
located in Warwick township, Lancaster Co., Pa., and in 1738 purchased a 
tract of land near Brickerville, that county, the deed for which 
(calling for 197 acres) was given by the Penns to Alexander Zartman in 
about 1750. He made his last will and testament (recorded at Lancaster, 
Pa.) Oct. 6, 1762, and it was probated in December, that year.  His age 
is not given. He lived in America thirty-four years. His wife survived 
him some years. They had two sons, Jacob and Alexander, and as there is 
no record of other offspring it is probable these were their only 
children. The line in which we are interested is descended from Jacob, 
and is given in detail presently.
	Alexander Zartman, son of the emigrant was born July 29, 1731, near 
Brickerville, Lancaster Co., Pa., and spent all his life in his native 
county, most likely on the farm he received from his father. This 
property was near Brickerville, and Alexander Zartman (2) was a member 
of the Lutheran Church there, at which church he is buried. He lived to 
the age of seventy-two years. His homestead remained in the family until 
about 1907, descending through his son Emanuel to Alexander (3), Jacob, 
George, David and William, son of David.  To Alexander Zartman (2) and 
his wife Magdalena were born children as follows: John Michael, 
Alexander, Susanna, Maria Elizabeth, Catharine, Emanuel and Margaret. 
The three sons became the heads of large families, and their posterity 
is scattered over many States of the Union.
	Jacob Zartman, ancestor of the Zartmans of Northumberland county, 
may have been born in Germany.  He received his inheritance from his 
parents in 1754, when they deeded to him seventy-one acres of the old 
homestead. This land Jacob Zartman sold to George Graffe in 1759 for 
£280 ($1,355.20). In about 1768 he came to Mahanoy township, 
Northumberland county, where he purchased a 122-acre tract at the foot 
of Line Mountain. In 1775 John Adam Shaffer deeded a farm of 100 acres 
to Jacob Zartman, of Mahanoy township, the consideration being £11, and 
there, between what are now known as Kneass and Otto stations, 
established the old Zartman homestead, which after his death was owned 
by his sons Martin and Peter; later by their brother Henry, and then 
successively, by Henry's son Martin, Martin's son Daniel and Daniels son 
Samuel S., who sold it only recently to Edward Hilbush. There is a very 
good spring near the old house, and there stood a beautiful pear tree, 
from which four generations gathered fruit. In February, 1793, Jacob 
Zartman made his last will and testament, and died either that month or 
the month following. He is interred in a private burial-ground in the 
meadow west of the house; he has no tombstone. He married Anna Margareth 
Roemin (Ream), and their children were: Henry; Martin; Anna Margareth, 
born Oct. 28, 1755; Susanna; Eve, born Oct. 1, 1758 probably died young; 
her birth and baptism are recorded at Brickerville Church); Peter, born 
March 3, 1760; Jacob; Anna Maria. 
	Henry Zartman, son of Jacob, married Elizabeth Hauser, and they had 
ten children, namely: Christena; John Martin, born Dec. 31, 1774; John 
Henry, born Sept. 5, 1776; John Peter, born Nov. 30, 1778; John Jacob, 
born Dec. 10, 1780 (died Feb. 7, 1849); Elizabeth; Sophia, born May 12, 
1785; Alexander, born Oct. 29, 1786; Samuel, born Dec. 13, 1788; and 
Michael.
	John Martin Zartman, son of Henry, was born Dec. 31, 1774, and in 
accordance with the terms of his father's will purchased the old 
homestead in Mahanoy township.  It then consisted of 206 acres. He was 
born on that place and passed his entire life there, dying April 27, 
1833; he is buried on the farm. By trade he was a blacksmith. His wife, 
Elizabeth (Kniss), born Nov. 19, 1779, died Jan. 14, 1854, and they had 
three children: Samuel, born Feb. 23, 1803; Daniel, born May 18, 1808, 
who died March 5, 1883 (his wife Catharine, born April 23, 1814, died 
May 5, 1898); and Mary.
	Samuel Zartman, son of John Martin, moved in 1828 to Jamestown, 
Greene Co., Ohio, and died July 31, 1856.  Like his father he was a 
blacksmith by trade.  On Feb. 12, 1824, he married Margaret Crumrine, 
who died Feb. 2, 1875. They had the following children, the first two 
born in Pennsylvania: Elizabeth Ann Maria, Harriet, James W., Eliza, 
Adelia, Miranda, Samuel H., William Isaac, Charles H., Daniel E. and 
Essannia H.

	Martin Zartman, son of Jacob and Anna Margareth Zartman, was born 
in Lancaster county, and in about 1769 moved to Northumberland county, 
where he passed the remainder of his life. Under his father's will he 
and his brother Peter became joint owners of the homestead at the foot 
of Line Mountain. He made his last will and testament Oct. 2, 1816, and 
it was probated Oct. 2, 1817. He married Susanna Futler (Fitler), sister 
of his brother Jacob's wife, and their children were born as follows: 
Elizabeth, April 27, 1780; Martin, Nov. 11, 1781; Benjamin, March 13, 
1783; William, May 28, 1785; Eve Magdalene, Oct. 8, 1795; Margaret, 
1797; David, Dec. 30, 1799.
	
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 	Martin (Johann Martin) Zartman, son of Martin, born Nov. 11, 1781, lived 
in Northumberland county, and died May 8, 1849. He was a weaver by 
trade. He married Elizabeth Kobel, born Sept. 10, 1775, died June 3, 
1856, and they had three children: Sophia, John, and Sarah Ann (who 
married William Schlappig and moved out West, where they died).
	Benjamin Zartman, son of Martin, born March 3, 1788, was a farmer 
in Northumberland county where he married Mary Stonebraker (Steinruch). 
In 1811 he and his family moved out to Millville, Butler Co., Ohio, 
where they arrived Nov. 9th. He bought land there, reared a large 
family, and died Feb. 18, 1834; he is buried in the Ziegler graveyard, 
west of Hamilton, Ohio. His children (at least one, Daniel, born in 
Northumberland county) were:  Daniel, Jonathan, David, Benjamin, 
William, Sarah, Margaret, Mary, Elizabeth and Lydia.
	William Zartman, son of Martin, born in Northumberland county May 
28, 1785, was a farmer in Jackson township, owning and occupying the 
farm there which is now the property of his grandson, Samuel M. Zartman.  
He died April 30, 1857, very suddenly, while engaged in burning brush; 
he was sitting on a fence when overtaken by the stroke which ended his 
life instantly. He is buried at St. Peter's church, at Mahanoy. His 
first wife, Sarah (Herb), who is buried at Hunter, was the mother of 
eleven children, namely: Adam, born Aug. 1, 1810; Daniel, born Sept. 29, 
1811; Lydia, born Feb. 12, 1814; George H., born April 4, 1817; Abraham, 
born Dec. 5, 1821; Mary (Polly), born in 1824; Rebecca; Harriet; Sarah; 
Abigail; and Hannah, who married Charles Leader.  One of the daughters 
married Daniel Reitz, one Simon Bohner, and another Adam Campbell. After 
the death of his first wife William Zartman married Mrs. Catharine 
Elizabeth (Wolf) Seiler, who was born Feb. 25, 1787, and died Feb. 22, 
1867. They had a son Joseph, born May 11, 1833, who died Dec. 21, 1858.
	Adam Zartman, son of William, was born Aug. 1, 1810, in Jackson 
township, and passed all his long life in Northumberland county, dying 
Dec. 28, 1889, as the result of an accident at Herndon. He was caught 
and killed by a fast train on the Pennsylvania railroad, while crossing 
the track. He is buried at St. John's Lutheran church. He was a lifelong 
farmer, in 1844 purchasing the farm in Jackson township which now 
belongs to his son Elias F. Zartman, and he was a well known and highly 
respected resident of his district, serving many years as supervisor of 
his township.  On Feb. 27, 1834, Mr. Zartman married Susanna Reitz, 
daughter of Jacob Reitz, of Little Mahanoy township, and she died Nov. 
23, 1842, the mother of five children, who were born as follows: Henry, 
Dec. 30, 1834; Hannah, Dec. 25, 1835 (died Oct. 3, 1838); Lydia, Sept. 
3, 1837; Abigail, Dec. 24, 1838 (died Jan. 18, 1894); Eliza, July 11, 
1841. On July 8, 1843, Mr. Zartman married (second) Susanna Forney, 
daughter of Peter Forney, and by this union there were eight children:  
Sarah, born April 15, 1845; Harriet, Oct. 7, 1846; Polly, June 20, 1849; 
Phoebe Nov. 24, 1850; Elias F., Sept. 14, 1852; Michael, April 13, 1854; 
Malinda, July 25, 1856; Lucy Ann, Oct. 22, 1858.

	ELIAS F. ZARTMAN, son of Adam, was born Sept. 14, 1852, in Jackson 
township, on his father's homestead, and received his education in the 
home district attending subscription schools and for the last two years 
of his school life the free schools. He was reared to farming, which he 
commenced on the homestead place on his own account in 1874, and with 
the exception of 1876 and 1877, when he lived at Berrysburg, Dauphin 
county, he has been there continuously since. He was also farming at 
Berrysburg.  In September, 1890, the Adam Zartman farm came into his 
possession. It consists of 188 acres of good land, located in the upper 
end of Jackson township, and is a valuable piece of property. Mr. 
Zartman is a thrifty farmer and a representative member of an excellent 
old family.  He is a Democrat in politics and has served three years as 
school director.
	In January, 1873, Mr. Zartman married Hannah Metz, daughter of 
William and Kate (Forney) Metz, of Berrysburg, Pa., and they have two 
children:  Henry A. married Nettie Steffy and has children, Stanley C., 
Warren U., Lennie, Hannah L. and Edith May.  Charles F. married Martha 
Lenker and has two children, Paul Bliss and Max Alvin. Both the sons 
live in Jackson township, Henry A. Zartman farming for himself and 
Charles F. assisting his father. Mr. Zartman and his family are Lutheran 
members of St. John's Church in Jackson township.
	Abraham Zartman, son of William, was born Dec. 5, 1821, on the home 
place now owned by his son, and was a lifelong farmer, successful in his 
work and active in the public affairs of his section. For many years he 
held local offices, serving as school director and supervisor, and he 
was also interested in church work as a prominent member at St. Peter's, 
where he held the offices of deacon and elder. He died Dec. 31, 1898, 
and is buried at that church.  Politically he was a Democrat. His wife, 
Sarah Michael, was born Nov. 25, 1826, and died May 10, 1880. They had a 
large family, namely: Wilhelmina married Isaac Raker; Daniel M. 
(deceased) was a resident of Little Mahanoy township; Hannah married 
Benjamin Peifer; William M. lives near Sunbury; Samuel M. is a resident 
of Jackson township; Joseph M. lives in Rush township, near 
Montoursville; Alice married Galen Latsha; Elizabeth married Levi 
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 	DANIEL M. ZARTMAN, son of Abraham, was born Oct. 21, 1848, in 
Jackson township, and entered upon his busy career at an early age. In 
1877 he succeeded Joseph Reitz in business at Dornsife, in Little 
Mahanoy township, a railroad station on the Herndon branch of the 
Reading railroad.  It is a busy place, being the nearest railroad 
station for the farmers up the Swabian Creek Valley, and for twenty-nine 
years Mr. Zartman was at the head of its principal activities there. He 
was not only a general merchant, but also conducted the "Dornsife 
Hotel," and handled coal during the early years of his residence there, 
later adding the lumber business to his other interests.  He purchased 
the old Sholly homestead, and in time several other tracts. A thorough 
business man in everything he undertook, he gained a large and 
profitable trade, employing three men and doing well in every line he 
entered. He was the first postmaster at Dornsife, his service beginning 
in 1879. He died Sept. 21, 1909, and is buried at St. Peter's, of which 
church he was a Lutheran member.  In politics he was a Democrat and he 
served some years as township treasurer.
	On Jan. 18, 1868, Mr. Zartman married Lana Peifer, daughter of 
George and Kate (Zimmerman) Peifer. They had one son and one daughter: 
William P. is an extensive lumber merchant having his office and home in 
Shamokin (he employs many men); Cassie married Fred Dornsife and they 
live at Dornsife.

	SAMUEL M. ZARTMAN, son of Abraham, was born Feb. 3, 1855, in 
Jackson township, was educated in the township schools, and continued to 
work on the farm until 1885. That year he began working for the National 
Transit Company, a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company, in which 
employ he still remains. Since 1892 he has made his home at Latsha's 
pumping station (his post office being Dornsife).  In 1900, after his 
fathers death, he obtained the homestead of 145 acres in Jackson 
township, which he has since rented out.  In 1909 he built a large barn, 
85 by 38 feet in dimensions, upon the property. The old log house still 
standing upon the place is one of the land marks of this region.  It is 
now roughcast.  Mr. Zartman is a substantial and respected citizen of 
his community, a member of the Lutheran congregation at St. Peter's 
Church, Mahanoy, to which his family also belong.
	On June 25, 1882, Mr. Zartman married Olive Wolf, and they have had 
three children, one of whom is deceased, the survivors being:  Aura 
Mabel, who is unmarried and living at home; and Lottie May, wife of 
Buffington Bohner, of Jackson township.
	Joel Wolf, Mrs. Zartman's grandfather, was a farmer in Rockefeller 
township, owning land there. He is buried at Wolfs Cross Road church, 
which was built upon his ground. His wife, whose maiden name was 
Hannebach, bore him the following children:  Raymus, Lydia, Sallie, 
Henry (deceased), Maria (deceased), Harriet, Reuben, and Elizabeth 
(deceased).
	Henry Wolf, son of Joel, was born in Rockefeller township, where he 
passed his life, following the trade of carpenter. He died in August, 
1896, at the age of fifty-eight years.  Mr. Wolf was a Lutheran in 
religion, as are the members of his family. He married Elizabeth Yordy, 
daughter of Joel Yordy, and to them were born seven children: Clara 
married Gabriel Klinger; Olive married Samuel M. Zartman; Annie married 
George Long; Frazier lives in Rockefeller township; Raymus is a resident 
of New York; two died in infancy.
	David Zartman, grandfather of William E. Zartman, farmer of Jackson 
township, was born Dec. 30, 1799, son of Martin Zartman, grandson of 
Jacob Zartman and great-grandson of Alexander Zartman, the emigrant. He 
was a weaver by trade, and lived in Washington township, dying Oct. 30, 
1879, aged seventy-nine years, ten months.
	Isaac D. Zartman, son of David, was born Nov. 25, 1835, and is now 
living at Dalmatia. He married Sarah Campbell.

	WILLIAM E. ZARTMAN was born Feb. 23, 1864, on the Zartman homestead 
in Washington township, son of Isaac D. and Sarah (Campbell) Zartman.  
He was reared to farm life and educated in the township schools, at the 
close of his school days hiring out among farmers in Washington and 
Jackson townships. In 1894 he began farming for himself, having 
purchased a tract of eighty-six acres in Jackson township, one and a 
quarter miles northeast of Herndon, where he has since made his home. 
The water facilities on this place are unusually good, and Mr. Zartman 
has cultivated the place successfully and profitably. He has by good 
management succeeded in accumulating property, owning several houses in 
Herndon. In the administration of local public affairs he has done his 
share as a good citizen, serving six years as school director of Jackson 
township. In political opinion he is a Democrat.
	In 1884 Mr. Zartman married Alice Drumheller, daughter of Nicholas 
Drumheller. Three children have been born to them:  Abbie married 
Cleveland Klock (who works for Mr. Zartman, his father-in-law) and they 
have two children, Hilda E. and Felix William; Carrie L. and Thomas  
Eugene are at home. Mr. Zartman and his family are Lutherans in 
religious connection.

	ARTHUR R. TREXLER, of Sunbury, proprietor of the largest department 
store in Northumberland county, is naturally one of the best known 
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owner of this large establishment since 1893, and previous to that time, 
as a member of the firm of Whitmer & Trexler, was part owner.  The 
business is the oldest in the borough in the dry goods line, and has 
always been foremost among local commercial enterprises.
	Mr. Trexler is a native of Snyder county, Pa., and comes of a 
family which has been settled in Pennsylvania from the early days, being 
one of the oldest and most numerous in Berks county, where the first of 
the line of whom we have record, Peter Trexler, made his home before 
1720.  We give a record of the early generations in chronological order.
	(I) Peter Trexler came to Berks county before 1720, settling in 
Oley township.  As early as Sept. 5, 1720, he was one of the petitioners 
for the erection of the township.  It was but a short time afterward, 
however, that he left Berks county, moving to what is now Upper Macungie 
township, Lehigh county, which territory then, covered with brush and 
scrub oak, offered very little in the way of attraction to the early 
settler except the abundance of water with which it was blessed. He 
settled near Breinigsville, his land embracing what is now the John R. 
Gonser farm.  On Nov. 18, 1729, he obtained from Casper Wister, the 
patentee, a deed for this land, which deed is one of the earliest, if 
not the earliest, in that region. A seven-years residence was required 
before naturalization, and Peter Trexler did not take out his papers 
until 1730.  He and his family were the first white settlers in 
Macungie, and Dr. Helfrich, in his history of the various congregations 
in Lehigh and Berks counties, says: "Way down in the valley near what is 
now Breinigsville lived, before the general migration into this 
neighborhood, a Trexler family, with whom the Indians were very 
friendly.  Mother Trexler often presented the Indians with gifts and 
gave them bread, and in return they brought her wild skins and showed 
friendship to the pale-faces."
	Peter Trexler died in 1758, and his will, dated Dec. 17, 1744, 
divides his estate among his widow, Catharine, and three sons and three 
daughters, Jeremiah, John, Peter, Anna, Catharine and Margaret.  The son 
Peter (2) was made executor of the will.  Peter Trexler and his wife 
were both buried in the family cemetery on their farm, but the graves, 
originally marked by soft sandstones now wasted away, cannot be 
definitely located. Steps were recently taken by the Trexler Family 
Association, in reunion Aug. 28, 1907, to restore this ancient burial 
place of their ancestors, and to place a tablet to the memory of Peter 
Trexler and wife.  Of the daughters of Peter Trexler nothing is known, 
but in the diary of Rev. John Casper Stoever, Nov. 9, 1732, is the 
record of the marriage of John George Schumacher and Catharine Trexler, 
of Macungie.
	(II) Peter Trexler (2), son of Peter the emigrant, was born Feb. 
11, 1721, and was bequeathed the homestead near Breinigsville, which had 
been deeded to him in 1748.  He became a man of considerable importance, 
and was justice of the peace from 1752 to 1776, as such, under the 
Colonial system, sitting in the courts at Easton.  The first election in 
Northampton county occurred Oct. 1, 1752, many of the voters being 
obliged to travel twenty-five miles to deposit their ballots.  The 
opposing parties were the Irish and German settlers. Peter Trexler was 
elected one of the three county commissioners.  He was a frugal man, of 
methodical habits, and in favor of education. When compelled to be away 
from  home to attend court, he filled his saddlebags with provisions so 
he could board himself.  When schools were established in Pennsylvania 
by the English nobility for the purpose of teaching the English 
language, Peter Trexler was made one of the trustees of the William 
Parsons school at Easton. He died Aug. 25, 1798, and was buried in the 
family cemetery on the home farm.  He married Catharine Winck, born Aug. 
7, 1728, died Aug. 14, 1815, aged eighty-seven years, daughter of Casper 
and Gertrude (Kemp) Winck.  According to the Lehigh Church book, at her 
death she left sixty-two grandchildren and seventy-nine great-
grandchildren.  Seven children, three sons and four daughters, survived 
Peter Trexler.  The sons were Peter, Jonathan and John. The daughters: 
Maria Christine, born Nov. 3, 1753, who married Aug. 13, 1776, Peter 
Haas, and died Sept. 13, 1829, the mother of ten children; Mrs. Philip 
Fogel; Mrs. Henry Grim; and one of whom there is no record.
	(III) Peter Trexler (3), son of Peter of Macungie, and the third of 
the name, was born Aug. 15, 1748, and is known as Mertztown Peter; 
frequently in the records his name appears as John Peter or Hom Peter.  
He was a patriot of the Revolution, serving as captain of the 5th 
Company of Colonel Breinig's 2d battalion of militia, and on May 5, 
1783, was made lieutenant colonel. He was elected county commissioner in 
1782; representative in the General Assembly, 1785-86-87-88, thus 
serving four years, the time limit set by the constitution of 1776.  He 
died March 13, 1828, aged seventy-nine years, six months, twenty-eight 
days, and was buried in the family cemetery. His will [see Will Book 6; 
page 187] was made Feb. 15, 1825, and entered April 3, 1828, his sons 
Peter, Jacob, Reuben and Jonas being executors. He married Catharine 
Grim, daughter of Henry Grim, youngest son of Geittie Grim, the ancestor 
of the Grim family so prominent in that section. She was born July 30, 
1757, and died July 7, 1828, aged seventy-one years less twenty three 
days. Eleven children were born to Peter and Catharine (Grim) Trexler, 
namely: (1) Maria married John Folk, and had children, Joshua, John, 
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Anna (Shuman), Catharine (first married to a Keizer and second to a 
Hilbert), Caroline (Guise) and Lydia (Guise).  (2) John Peter (Jan. 2, 
1777 - March 6, 1828) married Rachel Fogel (Sept. 11, 1784 - Jan. 1, 
1867) and had children, Caroline (Horlacher), Sarah (Seiberling), Maria 
(Fogel), and Jonas. (3) Jacob became the father of Reuben, David, Peter, 
Jacob, Mrs. James Breinig, Catharine (Breinig) and Mrs. Stephen Sawyer. 
(4) Reuben (1782-1846) was an ironmaster, residing in Mertztown, 
Longswamp township, Berks county, where he also carried on farming and 
was well and favorably known.  He married Anna, daughter of Jacob 
Lesher, a charming, charitable woman of refined tastes, and they lived 
in the old Trexler mansion in Longswamp. They had children, Col. William 
(1816-1905), Horatio (who lived at Reading, where he was president of 
the National Union Bank), Dr. Lesher (of Fort Wayne, father of Mrs. Anna 
Wertz, of Allentown, and Mrs. Judith Reno, mother of Claude Trexler 
Reno, of Kutztown), Lucinda (wife of Gen. James Rittenhouse) and 
Caroline (wife of William Schall).  Mrs. Anna (Lesher) Trexler died in 
1848, aged fifty-four years. (5) Benjamin (1784-1855) married Maria 
Drescher, by whom he had nine sons and two daughters, and (second) 
Catharine Bolich, who bore him one daughter.  (6) Catharine married a 
Mr. Haas and had children, Judith (Gregory), Nathan, Leana (Butz), Kate 
(Hoffman), Tallie (Hoffman), Jonathan T., Reuben T. and J. P. T.  (7) 
Jonas is mentioned below.  (8) Anna married Philip Dresher, and had two 
children, Nathan and Judith (Reiter).  (9) Nathan lived in Longswamp 
township, where he died in February, 1865. His will is on record in Will 
Book 11, page 363. His wife Phebe bore him four children, Edwin H., Mary 
(Mrs. George Schall), Amelia (Mrs. Jonathan B. Grim) and Sarah 
(Esterly).  (10) Daniel died leaving no children. (11) Judith married 
Rev. Isaac Roeller and was affectionately known as "Aunty Roeller." She 
died in 1885, leaving no children. On Aug. 17, 1809, Peter Trexler 
bought his son Benjamin a large family Bible, printed in 1798, costing 
seven dollars.  This is now in the possession of Oliver Trexler (born 
Dec. 21, 1852), son of Nathan and grandson of Benjamin.
	(IV) Jonas Trexler, son of Peter (3), was the grandfather of Arthur 
R. Trexler, of Sunbury. He was born at Mertztown,, Berks county, where 
he lived and died. He married Sarah Hottenstein, daughter of Dr. 
Hottenstein, and they had eleven children born to them. We have mention 
of the following: Willoughby (married Amelia Filbert), Ahal (or Abyle) 
H., David H., Peter (married Mary Himmel), Sarah (married George 
Ludwig), Angeline (deceased, wife of Milton Ahlum), Eliza (married Harry 
Miller) and Jonas.
	(V) Jonas Trexler (2), son of Jonas, born Nov. 18, 1829, at 
Mertztown, went to live at Kutztown, Berks county, when a boy, and later 
to Reading, that county. In 1854 he went to Union county, Pa., where he 
first followed farming, being a large landowner, and he subsequently 
engaged in the mercantile business at Shamokin Dam, Snyder county, where 
he prospered, becoming one of the substantial and well known citizens of 
that section. He retired from active pursuits ten years prior to his 
death, which occurred April 6, 1906, when he was aged seventy-seven 
years.  He is buried in the family plot in the Pomfret Manor cemetery, 
Sunbury.  Mr. Trexler married Mary Elizabeth Good, daughter of George 
Good.  She was born near Milton, Pa., and survives Mr. Trexler, still 
residing at the old home in Snyder county. To Mr. and Mrs. Trexler was 
born one child, Arthur R.
	(VI) Arthur R. Trexler received his early education in the schools 
of his native place and took a business course at the famous Eastman 
commercial school in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Returning to Shamokin Dam, 
which is near Sunbury, he entered mercantile business on his own 
account, continuing thus for six years, meeting with success and gaining 
valuable experience.  He has since been identified with the business of 
which he is now sole owner. This store was founded by Whitmer & Foster, 
which firm was succeeded by Whitmer & Trexler when Mr. Trexler acquired 
an interest. As previously stated, he has been sole proprietor since 
1893. By progressive methods, by anticipating the needs of this growing 
community, by catering successfully to the various demands of a wide 
patronage, Mr. Trexler has proved his right to be considered a leader in 
his line of business in Northumberland county. The fact that his house 
is known as "The Old Reliable" is ample proof that he merits the 
confidence and support which have been his throughout his career in the 
community; while the growth of his establishment, in keeping with other 
business advances made in the borough during his mercantile experience 
there, shows that he meets their appreciation with increased service and 
better accommodations, even more than the local trade would seem to 
warrant to one less enterprising. The store has maintained its place as 
the largest and best stocked in Northumberland county for many years, 
the lines now carried including dry goods and ladies wearing apparel of 
all kinds, ready to wear suits, cloaks, waists and other articles of 
dress, while the grocery department is fully stocked with the best and 
most desirable goods of every kind. Mr. Trexler has long given his 
principal attention to his store, though he has other interests, being a 
director in the Sunbury Trust Company and otherwise identified with 
local concerns.  His business standing is irreproachable.
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Thompson, daughter of W. G. Thompson, formerly of Thompsontown, Pa. They 
have two children: Tompson A., who is a student at the University 
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and Mary E. The family occupy a beautiful 
residence on Arch street, Sunbury.

	RAKER.  The Raker family, now numerously represented in several 
sections of Northumberland county, is of German extraction, the founder 
of the name in America coming from Baden, near Wurtemberg, Germany, and 
settling in Montgomery county, Pa., where he lived and died.
	Conrad Raker, son of the emigrant ancestor, was born in Montgomery 
or Berks county and came to Northumberland county among the pioneers. 
According to tradition he first settled at a "Block House," in one of 
the eastern counties of the State, and he had a brother who located in 
one of the upper counties of Pennsylvania.  Dr. William Raker, of 
Pillow, Pa., and his brother,  Morris Raker, of Augustaville, Pa., were 
second cousins to the descendants of the second generation from Conrad 
Raker, the pioneer in Little Mahanoy township, Northumberland county. 
After his marriage Conrad Raker settled at Augustaville, in what is now 
Rockefeller township, whence he moved two years later to Little Mahanoy 
township, settling on the Little Mahanoy creek and following farming 
there until his death.  His holdings comprised between five hundred and 
six hundred acres, and he gave a farm to each of his sons.  He was a 
strong man, of "chunky build", was a great hunter and fisherman, shot 
many a deer, and had a fight with a bear in which his life was saved by 
his faithful dog.  His adventurous spirit made him well known in this 
respect. In public and church affairs he was a prominent man in his day, 
serving as county commissioner in 1837 and 1838, and helping to build 
two churches, the Emanuel Lutheran in Little Mahanoy township and the 
Stone Church at Augustaville. In religion he was a Lutheran, in politics 
a Democrat.  He is interred in a private burial ground on the farm now 
owned by Kerstetter & Kraemer, at Raker, in Little Mahanoy township; 
this place was named in honor of the family. Conrad Raker married 
Elizabeth (or Rebecca) Dunkelberger, of Northumberland county, daughter 
of Frederick, and they had children as follows: Frederick, Jacob, 
William D., Isaac D. and Enoch D. are all mentioned in detail below; 
John moved out to Illinois, where he died; Mary (Molly) married Elias 
Peifer and died at Raker; Barbara Alice married Joseph Gass; Esther 
(Hettie) married Daniel Zartman and died in Lower Augusta township; one 
daughter married George Savage; and Kate.  (Conrad's wife's name is 
given as Elizabeth or Rebecca here, while in another account it appears 
as Barbara; if it was Barbara, then the following dates, from Little 
Mahanoy cemetery, would apply to Conrad and wife:  Conrad Raker, born in 
Montgomery county, Pa., June 7, 1778, died Sept. 4, 1849; his wife 
Barbara (nee Dunkel), born April 5, 1779, died Dec. 17, 1838.)
	Frederick Raker, son of Conrad, was born Dec. 21, 1804, in what is 
now Rockefeller township, and spent all but three or four years of his 
life in his native county. He went to Lycoming county after his marriage 
and returning to Northumberland settled in Little Mahanoy township, at 
Little Mahanoy Church.  He was a blacksmith, and also followed 
carpentering and farming, besides keeping "Baker's Hotel" for many 
years. He died in Little Mahanoy Aug. 4, 1844, and is buried at Raker.  
Like his father he was a well known and active citizen of his section, 
serving as justice of the peace and taking a prominent part in the work 
of the Lutheran Church.  He was a Democrat in politics.  In 1825 Mr. 
Baker married Elizabeth Hoffman, daughter of John and Susanna 
(Drumheller) Hoffman, who settled in Washington township, this county, 
in 1813.  Mrs. Raker was born in District township, Berks county, in 
1806, and survived her husband, dying at the age of eighty-seven.  She 
is buried at Raker.  Seven children were born to this union: Conrad  H.  
married Susan Dornsife and is mentioned at length elsewhere in this 
work; Susanna died young; Jeremiah married Jane Martin and died in 
Philadelphia;  Harriet married Israel Dunkelberger, who was killed in 
the Civil war, and (second) Samuel Dornsife, whom she also survived; 
Catharine married Samuel Frederick; John H. died Jan. 14, 1862, while 
serving in the Civil war, at Rolla, Mo.; Jane married a Mr. Bechtel.
	Jacob Baker, son of Conrad, was born April 26, 1808, in Little 
Mahanoy township, and was one of the well known citizens of that 
locality in his day, living near the present railroad on part of the 
homestead near Dunkelberger station.  He followed farming, and died in 
Little Mahanoy Dec. 28, 1869, living to be sixty-one.  His wife, 
Margaret, whose maiden name was Zartman, was born Jan. 4, 1813, and died 
June 12, 1883. They had children as follows:  Lucinda, Harry, William, 
Samuel Z. (died Aug. 19, 1892, aged forty-eight years, eleven months, 
fourteen days; wife Margarette died Jan. 21, 1888, aged thirty-four 
years, seven months, twenty-three days), Enoch, Daniel Z. (died July 13, 
1898, aged sixty-two years, two months, twenty-four days; his wife, 
Annie, died Aug. 20, 1905, aged seventy years, ten months, fourteen 
days), Abbie, Rebecca, Conrad, Cornelius, Alice and Joseph.
	William D. Baker, son of Conrad, was born June 7, 1812, in Little 
Mahanoy township, where he died in February, 1887. He is buried at 
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thirty acres near the Mahanoy Church, also owned the farm now in the 
possession of his son Isaac F., and had houses in Trevorton. He was an 
active and progressive citizen, held the office of supervisor for many 
years, and was prominent in the Little Mahanoy Church, which he served 
as deacon, elder and trustee.  He is buried at that church. His wife, 
Catharine (Fink), daughter of John Fink and sister of David Fink, bore 
him a large family, namely: Martin (deceased), Henry (deceased), James 
F. (deceased), Isaac F., Lewis (deceased), Galen (who lives on his farm 
in Little Mahanoy, and is unmarried, his unmarried sisters living with 
him), Elizabeth (unmarried), Mary (married Adam Reitz), Sarah (married 
John Kiehl), Hettie (unmarried), Lovina (married William Kiehl), Rebecca 
(who died unmarried) and Susan (deceased, who was the wife of William 
Reitz).
	Enoch D. Raker, son of Conrad, was born on the farm now owned by 
his son Edward B. Raker, in Little Mahanoy township, and died in that 
township June 23, 1888, aged sixty-six years, sixteen days. He was a 
farmer, and owned the 120-acre tract now in the possession of his son 
Edward B.  A stanch Democrat in politics, he took an interest in 
politics and local public affairs, holding office for many years, and 
was also active in the religious life of the community, being a Lutheran 
member of the Little Mahanoy Church, of which he was a deacon, elder and 
trustee. He married Sarah Bingaman, daughter of John Bingaman (locally 
known as "Jack"). To Enoch D. and Sarah Raker were born three children 
Edward B.; and Alice and Jane B., twins, the former married to Robert H. 
Hoffman, the latter to James Rose.
	Isaac D. Raker, son of Conrad, was born Dec. 6, 1825, and died 
March 11, 1907.  He lived in Little Mahanoy. During the Civil war he 
served as county commissioner and, subsequently was jury commissioner.  
In politics he was a Democrat.  His wife, Phoebe A. (Witmer), born Dec. 
6, 1824, died April 5, 1890. Their children were Alvin, Willie, Clinton, 
Nelson, Laura, Minnie and Jennie.
	James F. Raker, son of William D. Raker, was born in Little Mahanoy 
township, where he was a well known citizen, being postmaster and 
station agent at Hunter, a railroad station on the Herndon branch of the 
Philadelphia & Reading road, for many years. He was postmaster at Raker, 
also in Little Mahanoy township, from 1882 until his death.  The latter 
post office was established through the influence of Conrad H. Raker, 
son of Frederick and grandson of Conrad, the pioneers in this region. 
James F. Raker was also a farmer, owning a tract of about forty acres 
near Hunter. In politics he was a Democrat, and he served as supervisor. 
He died June 18, 1904, aged sixty-six years, five months, twelve days.  
His wife Catharine (Rothermel), daughter of William Rothermel, died 
Jan. 12, 1899, aged sixty-two years, one month, twenty-four days.  Three 
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. James F. Baker: William, of Shamokin; 
Mary, of Hunter, Pa.; and Lewis R.
	Lewis R. RAKER, son of James F. Raker, was born Jan. 12, 1876, in 
Little Mahanoy township, and spent his youth upon the home farm, 
receiving his education in what is known as the Raker schoolhouse. He 
lives at Raker, where he and his wife conduct a grocery store, and also 
look after the post office, he being assistant postmaster. He also works 
as hoisting engineer for the Trevorton Coal Land Company.  He has his 
own home, and by his upright life has made an excellent name for himself 
among his fellow citizens, who have shown their faith in his ability and 
trustworthiness by choosing him to public responsibilities of various 
kinds. He was tax collector for nine years, and in the spring of 1910 
was elected for his second term as township auditor.  In politics he is 
a Democrat. He is also active in the work of the Lutheran Church, and is 
secretary and teacher in the Sunday school.
	On Nov. 11, 1899, Mr. Raker married Cora Deppen, daughter of John 
Deppen, of Lower Mahanoy township, this county, and they have one 
daughter, Verna May, and one son, William Lewis.
	ISAAC F. RAKER, son of William D. Raker, was born April 20, 1846, 
on the homestead, and received his education in the subscription schools 
conducted in the neighborhood during his youth. Farm work has been his 
principal occupation, though when eighteen years old he went to learn 
the trade of miller with his brother Henry, in Juniata county, Pa. He 
had been there only two months when his brother was drafted for service 
in the Civil war, and it fell upon the shoulders of the apprentice to 
make the flour and do all the work of an experienced miller.  He 
continued at milling for one and a half years, farmed for his father 
twelve years, until the latter died, and then did the same for his 
mother with whom he remained twelve years also.  At the end of that 
period he bought his present farm in Little Mahanoy, fifty-five acres of 
which constituted the old Abraham Rothermel homestead.  Mrs. Rothermel 
died at a very advanced age.  To this Mr.  Raker added two tracts, of 
forty-two and thirty-nine acres, respectively, having 136 acres in all   
His father, William D. Raker, erected the buildings now on this 
property, building the house in 1874 and the barn in 1875. Mr. Raker is 
one of the substantial and esteemed citizens of his community, has 
served as school director and for many years as supervisor, being at 
present one of the three road-masters, and has given efficient service 
in every capacity. In political faith he is a Democrat and he is now 
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In religion he is a Lutheran, and he has been an elder and trustee of 
the Little Mahanoy Church.
	In 1873 Mr. Raker married Wilhelmina Zartman, daughter of Abraham 
Zartman, and they have had four children: Kate is the widow of Albert 
Raker; Sallie is the wife of John A. Ferster; George married Gertie 
Sipe; Francis died when eight years old.
	EDWARD B. RAKER, son of Enoch D. Raker, was born July 9, 1853, on 
the homestead, and was reared to farming, working for his parents until 
be was thirty-five years old.  In 1902 he began farming for himself at 
his present home, this being the farm which belonged to his grandfather 
and father in turn.  The old buildings, however have all been razed.  
Mr. Raker is a Democrat and for a number of rears was active in county 
politics, being delegate to many county conventions of the party.  He 
has held a number of offices.  For three years, from 1895 to 1898, he 
was jury commissioner of Northumberland county, having been elected to 
that office on his first candidacy by a majority of over six thousand 
votes. For eleven years he was constable of Little Mahanoy township, and 
he served two years as inspector.  He erected many bridges in the county 
under contract from the county commissioners, and has given thorough 
satisfaction in every way and in every capacity.  In February, 1900, Mr. 
Baker married Sarah Reed, daughter of Solomon Reed, and they have one 
daughter, Goldie.

	CHARLES LAFFERT WALDRON, of Milton, has been engaged in contracting 
and building since 1879, his work in this line covering practically the 
entire period of his residence at that place, as he began carpentering 
when he came to Milton, in the spring of 1871.  His patrons in this 
borough and all the surrounding towns are numerous, many of the most 
substantial buildings in this section testifying to the thoroughness of 
his work and the part he has taken in its material development.
	Mr. Waldron's first ancestor in this region was his great-
grandfather, Cornelius Waldron.  The family has been established in 
America from Colonial days, and is of Dutch origin, Baron Waldron, its 
founder in this country, having come from Holland to what was then New 
Amsterdam, now New York, in 1660. After the English took possession of 
New Amsterdam the family moved to New Jersey, and Cornelius Waldron, 
above mentioned, moved from Hunterdon county, N. J., to Pennsylvania in 
1785. His first location was near Muncy, in what is now Lycoming county, 
and he afterward bought a farm in Brady township, that county, still 
later buying land at the mouth of Muddy run, in Northumberland county. 
He moved his family to this place, where he was accidentally killed 
while felling a tree.  He was laid to rest in the old Warrior Run 
burying ground.  Cornelius Waldron served as a captain in the 
Revolutionary war and after its close was captain of a military company.
	Laffert Waldron, son of Cornelius, was born in 1764 in Hunterdon 
county, N. J., came to Pennsylvania with his father, and purchased the 
farm on Muddy run.  But he soon sold it and bought a place about a mile 
east, in Turbut township, from the Kelchner estate - the place afterward 
occupied by his son William.  There he passed the remainder of his life, 
dying on his farm in 1837. His wife, Hannah (Webb), died in 1832, and 
they are buried at the Warrior Run Presbyterian church. The family 
attended services there.  Mr. and Mrs. Waldron had the following 
children: John, Cornelius, Richard, William, Charles, David, M. D., Mary 
(Mrs. Sloat), Sara (who married Mr. Stoat after her sister Mary's 
death), Jane (married James Stadden) and Hannah (who became the second 
wife of James Stadden after the death of her sister Jane).  Laffert 
Waldron was a fine penman, and some of his work now in the possession of 
his grandson, Charles L. Waldron, of Milton, shows unusual ability; 
though it is over a century old it is not faded, and it is well cared 
for by the present possessor, who prizes it highly.
	William Waldron, son of Laffert, was born Sept. 17, 1814, on the 
old farm in Turbut township, and received his education in the township 
schools. He followed farming all his life and prospered by dint of 
industry, winning the respect of all who knew him because of his upright 
methods and high Christian character. Though his own affairs demanded 
constant attention he was progressive, and recognized the fact that a 
citizen owes his duty to his community as much as to his immediate 
personal interests, and he did his share in local matters, filling 
various township offices and serving fifteen years as justice of the 
peace. The cause of free education, not a particularly popular one in 
his early manhood, also received his earnest support, and all his 
children received good advantages. He was an original member of the 
Turbut Grange, P. of H., and an original stockholder of the First 
National Bank of Milton, giving his influence and support to all 
institutions which in his opinion would be of general benefit. In 
religious connection he was a Presbyterian, an active and consistent 
member of the Milton Church. He died in 1901.
	In 1841 William Waldron married Anna Hilgert, daughter of Philip 
and Catherine Hilgert, of Chillisquaque township, and she died at the 
age of seventy years.  Eleven children were born to this union: Philip 
H., now living at Trevose, near Philadelphia, who served during the 
Civil war in Company B, 131st Pennsylvania Volunteers;  Hannah J.,  who 
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Duitch, of Williamsport David, who died young; Prof. William A., who 
died at Bay City, Mich.; Mary, who married James Marsh, and lives in 
Michigan; Charles Laffert; Frank P., of Turbut township, who married 
Susan Hummell; George W., of Coatesville, Pa., who married Ida Brobst; 
Sarah Elizabeth, of Sunbury, Pa.; John C., who married Mary Kerr; and 
James M., who graduated from the Pennsylvania State College, became a 
civil engineer, was formerly in Georgia and is now engaged in the 
construction of the subway and tunnels in New York City.
	Dr. David Waldron, brother of William Waldron, was born in 1820 in 
Turbut township, Northumberland county, and died in that township April 
22, 1885.  He stood high in his profession and had a large practice, 
though he was somewhat erratic in disposition, and he was honored with 
the office of sheriff of the county, serving from 1860 to 1863.  He was 
a Democrat in politics. From the time he commenced practice until a few 
years before his death he resided at Milton.  
	Charles Laffert Waldron, son of William, was born Aug. 26, 1850, in 
Turbut township, and there grew to manhood. He assisted his father on 
the farm from an early age, especially during the summer season, but in 
the winters had good educational advantages, being sent to the academies 
at Limestoneville and McEwensville.  In the spring of 1871 he came to 
Milton, where he at once began to do carpenter work, though he was 
engaged teaching school during the winters of 1874, 1875 and 1876.  In 
1879 he began contracting and building on his own account, and has since 
devoted himself to that line with most gratifying results. He is a 
progressive business man, in both his work and his methods of handling 
it, and success has come to him because he has made an earnest effort to 
do the best possible in his line. Outside of his service as school 
director he has taken no direct part in public affairs. He is a Democrat 
in politics.
	On Feb. 3, 1876, Mr. Waldron married Clara Sharrow, daughter of 
Jonathan and Anna (Barclay) Sharrow, of Lycoming county, and they have 
one daughter, Grace Barclay Waldron, who is a graduate of the Milton 
high school, 1896, and of the Philadelphia Musical Academy, 1898, being 
particularly accomplished in music. Mr. Waldron and his family are 
members of the Presbyterian Church.

	WILLIAM C. McCONNELL was born in Halifax, Dauphin Co., Pa., on the 
4th day of Apr. l860.  His family was one of the oldest in that section, 
both his father and mother being natives of the county. His parents were 
George Washington and Sarah (Marsh) McConnell, both of whom are now 
deceased.
	The early days of the subject of this review were spent in his 
native county, and he received his primary education at the neighboring 
public schools.  In these institutions he made such excellent progress 
and proved himself such a ready student that in 1877 he entered Franklin 
and Marshall Academy, located at Lancaster, Pa., in which institution he 
rounded out his education and prepared himself for admission to Franklin 
and Marshall College, where he spent two years, during which he profited 
by every opportunity.
	On Jan. 1, 1882, Mr. McConnell associated himself as a partner with 
the firm of Kulp, McWilliams & Company, dealers in lumber, brick and 
ice. For more than four years he remained a member of this business 
house, and in 1886, when the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Kulp 
continued the lumber business, Mr. McConnell and Mr. McWilliams, the 
remaining members of the firm, formed a partnership under the title of 
McWilliams & McConnell, and continued in the ice and  brick trade. This 
firm was dissolved in the spring of 1903.
	The business capacity and indomitable energy of Mr. McConnell are 
best illustrated, however, by a statement of the many interests with 
which he is allied, and the public and semi-public enterprises which owe 
a large measure of their success to his ready guidance. He was one of 
the incorporators of the Roaring Creek, Anthracite and Bear Gap Water 
Companies, and his associates in their management have indicated their 
confidence in his abilities by electing him to the presidency of these 
corporations, which important position he held for several years, 
discharging the duties thereof with rare fidelity.  He has also been 
president of the Shamokin Water Company, elected in May, 1886.
	Mr. McConnell is a director of the Shamokin Banking Company, of 
which he is now president, and a member of the Shamokin Board of Trade, 
connections which aptly show how varied have been his interests and how 
diversified his energetic efforts. All in all, he is one of the most 
intelligently and a thoroughly progressive men of his borough, active in 
every phase of its development.
	Mr. McConnell was appointed a member of the commission for the 
selection of a site and the erection of a State Hospital for Injured 
Persons of  the Trevorton, Shamokin and Mount Carmel coal fields by Gov. 
Edwin S, Stuart, in pursuance of an Act of Assembly passed by the 
Legislature of 1907.  Upon organization of the commission Mr. McConnell 
was made chairman of the same. The hospital is now in course of 
construction and will be open for the reception of patients sometime 
during the month of October, 1911. The building site and surrounding 
grounds, equaling about eleven acres, was donated by the Philadelphia & 
Reading Coal & Iron Company and W. C. McConnell.
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by participating to the greatest extent possible in the political 
affairs of the country, Mr. McConnell early allied himself with the 
Republican party and has always been a stalwart member of that great 
political organization. In 1800 he was a delegate to the State 
convention which placed George W. Delamater in nomination for the 
governorship, and in 1892 he represented the Seventeenth Congressional 
District of Pennsylvania in the Republican National Convention held at 
Minneapolis, which renominated Benjamin Harrison for the presidency of 
the Union. At the election in November, 1908, Mr. McConnell was chosen, 
as the nominee of the Republican party in the Twenty-Seventh senatorial 
district, comprising the counties of Northumberland, Snyder and Union, 
to represent the same during the sessions of 1909 and 1911.
	On April 14, 1896, he was appointed aide-de-camp, with the rank of 
lieutenant colonel, on the staff of Governor Hastings.  The Union League 
of Philadelphia elected him to membership in that famous social 
organization in February, 1897. Colonel McConnell is a member of 
Elysburg Lodge, No. 414, Free and Accepted Masons, of Shamokin; Chapter 
No. 264, Royal Arch Masons; and Shamokin Commandery, No. 77, Knights 
Templar.
	On June 9, 1881, he was married to Ida V. Martz, daughter of Nathan 
F. and Eliza (Samuels) Martz, of Sunbury, Pa.  Mrs. McConnell is a 
native of Northumberland county.  She is the mother of two children, 
William Donald (deceased) and Katharine Martz.  Senator McConnell and 
his family are members of the Trinity Lutheran Church of Shamokin.
	VASTINE. Abraham Van De Woerstyne, with his wife and their three 
children, viz., John, Catherine and Hannah, left Holland in the 
seventeenth century and crossed the ocean on a sailing vessel, landing 
in New York.  They soon crossed over into New Jersey. About the time 
William Penn founded Philadelphia they came into Pennsylvania.  In 1696 
we find them in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
	In 1698 John Van De Woerstyne purchased several tracts of land from 
one Jeremiah Langhorn, in Hilltown township, Bucks Co., Pa., and there 
erected a granite dwelling along the pike leading from Philadelphia to 
Bethlehem.  It stood, as was the custom in that day, with its gable to 
the road, fronting south, at a point two miles north of Line Lexington 
and four miles southwest from Sellersville, Bucks Co., Pa. The name John 
Van De Woerstyne appears on a number of official papers and documents on 
record in Bucks county; it is found on many papers pertaining to roads 
and improvements in Hilltown township.  John Van De Woerstyne died  
Feb. 9, 1738.  His wife, Abigail, survived him some time.  They were 
the parents of five children, as follows: (1) Abraham, born May 24, 
1698, died in October, 1772, in Hilltown.  He married Sara Ruckman, and 
they were the parents of five daughters: Abigail, married to Andrew 
Armstrong; Ruth, married to James Armstrong; Mary, married to Robert 
Jameson; Rachel, married to Hugh Mears; and Sara, married to Samuel 
Wilson.  Thus far we have been unable to learn anything about their 
descendants.  (2) Jeremiah, born Dec. 24, 1701, died in Hilltown in 
November, 1769.  He and his wife Debora were the parents of one son and 
two daughters: Jeremiah died in New Britain, Bucks Co., Pa., in April, 
1778 (his wife's name was Elizabeth); Martha married John Louder; Hannah 
married Samuel Greshom.  (3) Benjamin, born July 9, 1703, died in 
August, 1749.  (4) John died Feb. 9, 1765, in Hilltown, Pa., unmarried.  
(5) Mary, born March 1, 1699, married a Mr. Wilson and removed to South 
Carolina.
	Benjamin Vastine, son of John and Abigail, was the progenitor of 
the family in Northumberland county, Pa.  He became a member of the 
Friends Meeting and at one of the meetings held in Philadelphia 
requested permission to hold meetings in his house. He married Mary 
Griffith, and their union was blessed by the birth of seven children, as 
follows: Hannah married Emerson Kelly; John married Rachel Morgan; 
Abraham married Elizabeth Williams; Benjamin married Catherine Eaton (he 
died in September, 1775); Jonathan married Elizabeth Lewis; Isaac 
married Sara Matthews; Amos married Martha Thomas.
	The name Van De Woerstyne has changed gradually, first to Voshne, 
then to Vashtine and lastly to Vastine.  The name in Dutch meant forest, 
hence the early settlers often called John Van De Woerstyne 
"Wilderness."
	John Vastine, son of Benjamin and Mary (Griffith) Vastine, married 
Rachel Morgan, and they became the parents of two sons and two 
daughters: Benjamin, who married Mary Van Zant; Simon, who had a son 
named John; Nancy, and Margaret. 
	Abraham Vastine, second son of Benjamin and Mary (Griffith) 
Vastine, married Elizabeth Williams. Their family, four sons and two 
daughters, was as follows: John; William; Abraham; Nancy; Mary, and 
Jeremiah. This family first settled in York county, Pa., and later moved 
to Kentucky.
	Benjamin Vastine, third son of Benjamin and Mary (Griffith) 
Vastine, married Catherine Eaton, and they were the parents of two sons 
and two daughters, namely: Mary married Josiah Lunn; Peter married 
Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Vastine; Benjamin married Dorothy, daughter 
of Amos Vastine; Elizabeth married Alem Morris. 
	Jonathan Vastine, fourth son of Benjamin and  Mary (Griffith) 
Vastine, with his nephew Peter, who was also his son-in-law, came to 
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the former about six hundred acres where later Valentine Epler lived, 
and the latter three hundred acres near that of his uncle.  Jonathan, 
like his father, was a member of the Society of Friends. He was a 
farmer, and built a house on his farm. He died about 1830 and is buried 
in the old Quaker burying ground at Catawissa, Pa.  He married 
Elizabeth Lewis, and their union was blessed by the birth of five sons 
and three daughters as follows: Benjamin married Elizabeth Van Zant; 
Ann married Thomas Robbins; Hannah married Peter, son of Benjamin 
Vastine; Mary married William Marsh; John married Catherine Osmun; 
Jeremiah married E. Reeder; Thomas died unmarried;  Jonathan married 
Nancy Ann Hughs.
	Amos Vastine, sixth son of Benjamin and Mary (Griffith) Vastine, 
married Martha Thomas, and they were the parents of two daughters: 
Dorothy married Benjamin, son of Benjamin Vastine; Martha married Robert 
C. Shannnon.
	Benjamin Vastine, son of Jonathan and Nancy (Morgan) Vastine 
married Mary Van Zant and they were the parents of three children:  
Benjamin married Elizabeth Hauck; Thomas married Sara Ellis; John 
married Sara Scott.
	Benjamin Vastine, son of Benjamin and Mary (Van Zant) Vastine, 
married Elizabeth Hauck, and they were the parents of the following: 
Margaret, who married William Savidge; Armand; Harriet, who married Alem 
Hughes; Algernon, and Thomas.
	Thomas Vastine, son of Benjamin and Mary (Van Zant) Vastine, 
married Sara Ellis, and they became the parents of four sons and seven 
daughters: Ann (married George Pensyl), Lucinda (married John Adams), 
Mary, Samantha, Beneville, Grace Ella, John, Rufus, Thomas J., Jane and 
Sara Matilda.
	John Vastine, son of Benjamin and Mary (Van Zant) Vastine, married 
Sara Scott, and their children were: Hannah, who married Mahlon Huff; 
Ellen; Sara Jane; Benjamin; Catherine, and Isabella. 
	Peter Vastine, son of Benjamin and Catherine (Eaton) Vastine, 
married Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Vastine, and their union was 
blessed by the birth of nine children: Catherine, unmarried; Elizabeth, 
who married John Colket; Benjamin, unmarried; Mary, who married Henry 
Johnson; Ann, who married Henry Boone; Lydia, unmarried; Thomas 
Jefferson, who married Harriet Paxton; Peter E., who married Mary Miller 
and Jeremiah, unmarried.
	Thomas Jefferson Vastine, son of Peter and Hannah (Vastine) 
Vastine, married Harriet Paxton and had children: Peter, Margaret P., 
Charles, Joseph, Sara and Hannah.
	Benjamin Vastine, son of Benjamin and Catherine (Eaton) Vastine, 
married Dorothy, daughter of Amos Vastine.  They were the parents of two 
daughters: Martha, wife of Joel Miller; and Catherine, wife of Benjamin 
Miller.
	Benjamin Vastine, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Lewis) Vastine, 
married Elizabeth Van Zant, by whom he had one son and three daughters: 
Lewis married Martha Boone; Mary married Samuel Boone; Ann married Isaac 
Wolverton; Rachel married John M. Housel.
	Lewis Vastine, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Van Zant) Vastine, 
married Martha Boone, and they were the parents of the following 
children Hannah (married Dudley Adams), Margaret married Jacob B. 
Gearhart, Rachel Jane, Elizabeth (married John H. Morrall), Matilda 
(married Abraham Gulick), Sara, Martha, William B., Lewis B. and George.
	John Vastine second son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Lewis) Vastine, 
inherited a portion of his fathers farm and built what is known as the 
old stone house - it is still standing - where he lived. He married 
Catherine Osmun and their union was blessed with four sons and two 
daughters: (1) Thomas P., born in 1808, married Lanah Vought, and they 
had children: John Willington, who married Emma Fisher; Catherine and 
Matilda, both unmarried; Rosanna, who married George W. Miller and was 
the mother of Gussie M., Florence V., Daniel O. and Ruth A. (2) William 
is fully mentioned later.  (3) John began the study of medicine at the 
age of eighteen, in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., and 
graduated at the age of twenty-one years, but soon died.  (4) Amos, born 
in 1813, married Susan Lerch, and died Nov. 15, 1881. His principal 
business was farming, but at one time he was engaged in the mercantile 
business at Paxinos.  He owned some six hundred acres of land, which he 
tilled, and also had large real estate interests in Mount Carmel. He was 
one of the promoters of the Mount Carmel Savings Bank, of which he was 
president from its organization until his death; was also one of the 
organizers of the Shamokin Township Fire Insurance Company and was 
treasurer of same at the time of his death.  Politically he was a 
Republican, and he filled the office of county commissioner from 1871 to 
1874. Mrs. Vastine was the daughter of Felix Lerch, one of the pioneer 
settlers of Mount Carmel.  Mr. and Mrs. Vastine were the parents of the 
following: Felix, who died young; John, who married Kate Bird; Thomas, 
who married Lizzie Haas, and has children, Amos and Hattie; Catherine, 
who married E. S. Persing (children, Anna, Sadie, Amos and Susan); and 
Hattie, who had two children (Amos and William) by her first husband, 
Olive Reed, and married for her second husband William  Metz. (5)  
Margaret married Charles Hefley and they are the parents of three 
children. Elizabeth (married Harvey Robbins and had children Margaret 
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Persing and had children, Harriet and Harvey).  (6) Sara Ann married 
Robert C. Campbell and was the mother of Abram (died unmarried), John L. 
(unmarried, lives in Danville, Pa.), James C. (married Margaret 
Mettler), and Margaret C., Hannah J., Isabella A. and Sara Alice, all 
four of whom died unmarried.
	Jeremiah Vastine third son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Lewis) 
Vastine married E. Reeder, and they had a family of one son and three 
daughters, as follows: Mary married C. Fisher; Margaret married D. 
Robbins; Surrissa married William Leighon; Thomas married Eliza Reeder 
and they are the parents of Catherine.
	Jonathan Vastine, fourth son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Lewis) 
Vastine, married Nancy Ann Hughs, and their children were the following: 
Hugh Hughs married Catherine Zimmerman; Lewis married Sara Potts and had 
one daughter, Anna, who married Alfred Hablerstadt; and Benjamin died 
unmarried.
	Hugh Hughs Vastine son of Jonathan and Nancy Ann (Hughs) Vastine 
married Catherine Zimmerman, and they were the parents of the following 
children: Martha Ann died unmarried; William L. married Alice Cardell, 
and had children, Blanche, Jane, Mary and Cora; Oscar married Edna 
Gillaspy; Mary married John K. Erdman, and had children, Hattie, Sara, 
Nora, Allen, Bert, John Calvin Kimber and Frank; Jonathan married Cora 
Hess and had Charles, Katie and _____; Jacob married M. Smith, and had 
Ethel, Hattie and Grethel; Lewis married Mary Minamaker; Sara C. 
married E. Campbell and had a son Elwood who is deceased; Harriet 
married William Arnold and had children Bessie and Ann; Ida married 
Charles Huffman and had a large family, Vergie, Edwin, John, Mary, 
Wesley, William Wellington and Frank.
	William Vastine, son of John and Catherine (Osmun) Vastine, when he 
reached the age of twenty-one years settled on the farm later occupied 
by his son Simon, and followed farming.  He was a large land owner, 
cultivating between 450 and 500 acres.  In religious faith he was a 
member of the Lutheran Church.  Politically he was first a Whig and 
later a Republican. He died in 1859. In 1832 William Vastine married  
Elizabeth Hursh, who was born in 1809 and died in 1890. To Mr. and Mrs. 
Vastine were born the following children (1) Amos will be fully 
mentioned later. (2) Jacob H., M. D. born April 2, 1836, was educated in 
the common schools of his native township at Danville Academy, Shamokin 
Collegiate Institute and Jefferson Medical College, from which he 
graduated in 1858.  In 1861 he married Sara daughter of George Hughs, of 
Catawissa, Pa., and they are the parents of the following children: 
Henrietta (married Asa Spencer), Elizabeth (deceased), Dr. George H. 
(married Nettie Pfahler), William (married Elizabeth Custaborder), 
Marion (married Catherine Sharpless), Harriet B. (married Horace Boas), 
Sara (married Ralph Ray Griffith) and Alder (married Mable ____). (3) 
Hugh H. is fully mentioned below.  (4) Simon married Elizabeth Faux and 
they were the parents of Catherine and Ellen M. (5) Ezra married Sarah  
Davidson and had two daughters, Bethia and Sara M. (6) Elizabeth A. 
married Dr. James Oglesby M. D. of Danville, Pa., and their union was 
blessed by the birth of two sons, George (deceased) and William V. (an 
attorney of Danville). (7) Daniel and (8) Ellen died young.
	Amos Vastine eldest child of William and Elizabeth Vastine was born 
in Rush township, Northumberland Co., Pa.,  Nov. 18, 1833, and was 
educated in the public schools of his native township and in the 
Presbyterian Institute at Wyoming, Pa. He was reared on a farm, and 
purchased the homestead place where he subsequently lived nine years.  
In 1863 he purchased a farm of 280 acres, whereon he lived until 1890, 
in which year he removed to his present home in Danville, Pa.  
Politically Mr. Vastine is a Republican, and he has served in various 
township offices and was for several terms a member of the Danville city 
council, of which body he was president.  He is a member of the Mahoning 
Presbyterian Church, of which he has for years been an official.  
Fraternally he belongs to Danville Lodge, No. 224, F. & A.M.  In 1855 
Mr. Vastine married Mahala, daughter of Jacob Shultz, of Danville, and 
they had a family of six children: (1) Elizabeth died at the age of 
twenty-one years. (2) William is fully mentioned below. (3) Laura M. 
married Dr. John B. Kimmerer, M. D.  They left three children, Jeffie, 
Helen (since deceased) and John, the survivors living with their 
grandfather, Amos Vastine. (4) Dr. John H. married Helen Beniscoter, and 
has children, Richard B., Robert and Josephine L. (5) Ella Kate, twin 
of John H., married Henry S. Mains and has one son, Charles Vastine.  
(6) Amos Beaber married Lulu F. McClure, and they have one daughter, 
Mary F.
	WILLIAM VASTINE, a retired farmer residing in West Market street, 
Danville, Pa., through whose efforts and assistance much of the early 
history of the Vastine family here given was obtained, was born in Rush 
township, in Northumberland county, in 1859.  He is the oldest son of 
Amos and Mahala (Shultz) Vastine.  His early boyhood days were spent on 
his father's farm, the summers in tilling the soil and the winters in 
attending the native schools and later Danville Academy. After he 
reached the age of maturity he purchased a farm of some 320 acres of 
river valley land in Point township, Northumberland county, which he 
farmed for several years.  Eventually he purchased a beautiful home on 
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resided. Mr. Vastine was a successful farmer, and by close attention to 
his work, notwithstanding his farm is so large, has made it one of the 
best in the valley.  Although he lives in town, he continues to give 
careful attention to his farm.  He is a Republican, but very liberal 
minded politically, voting for whom he considers the best man.  In 
religious faith he and his family are members of the Mahoning 
Presbyterian Church, at Danville, and earnest workers in that 
congregation.
	Mr. Vastine married Elizabeth Boone Gearhart, daughter of Maybury 
Gearhart, and granddaughter of William and Sara (Boone) Gearhart, of 
Maybury township, Montour Co., Pa.  They are the parents of two 
daughters: Catherine Gearhart and Elizabeth Boone, both of whom were 
educated in the Danville schools, graduating from the high school. Mrs. 
Vastine is a descendant of the Boone family, a record of which we here 
append.
	George Boone lived in Exeter, England, and was the father of a son 
whom he also called George. George, Jr., was born in the city of Exeter, 
Devonshire, England, and when a young man learned the blacksmith's 
trade, following it until the time of his death, which occurred in his 
sixtieth year. He had married Sara Uppy, who survived him about twenty 
years, dying at the advanced age of eighty. They were the parents of a 
son George.
	George Boone (3) was born at the village of Stoak, near the city of 
Exeter, in 1666. When a young man, as was the custom in that day, he 
learned a trade, selecting that of weaver. He married Mary Manbridge, 
who was born in 1669, daughter of John and Mary (Milton) Manbridge, and 
died in 1741, aged seventy-two years. George Boone (3) arrived with his 
family in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 10, 1717. They spent some time in 
Abington, Pa., and then removed to North Wales, where they remained two 
years, thence removing to Oley township, Berks Co., Pa., where he 
purchased 400 acres of land, as the warrants, dated 1718, show, and 
settled upon it.  The original Boone farm is now owned by Morris H. 
DeTurk. Mr. Boone died July 27, 1744, aged seventy-eight years.  He 
left surviving eight children, fifty-two grandchildren and ten great-
grandchildren, in all seventy descendants all of whom excepting Sara and 
Squire remained and died in Exeter, as the record of the Friends burying 
ground in Exeter shows.
	We have the following record of the descendants of George (3)  and 
Mary (Manbridge) Boone:
	(1) George Boone (4), born July 13, 1690, died Nov. 23, 1753.  He 
was by profession a teacher, for many years held the office of 
magistrate and was a man of prominence in the community.  He married 
Debora Howell July 31, 1713; she died Jan. 26, 1757.  Their children 
are mentioned below.
	(2) Sara Boone, born Feb. 18, 1691 (?), married Jacob Stover and 
moved to Virginia, later to Kentucky.
	(3) Squire Boone, born Nov. 25, 1696, died in 1764, in North 
Carolina, whither he had removed in 1750. He married Sara Morgan and 
they were the parents of eleven children, nine of whom lived to be from 
eighty-three to ninety-one years old, one of these being Daniel Boone, 
the Kentucky pioneer.
	(4) Mary Boone, born Sept. 23, 1699, died Jan. 16, 1774.  She 
married John Webb, and they were the parents of eleven children, one of 
whom, Samuel, removed to Columbia county and settled near Espy.  His 
daughter Mary married Mordecai Lincoln, brother of Abraham and son of 
Mordecai Lincoln, who died in 1736.
	(5) Joseph Boone, born April 5, 1704, died Jan. 30, 1776. His 
wife's name was Catherine.
	(6) Benjamin Boone, born July 16, 1706, died Oct. 14, 1762.  In 
1726 he married (first) Ann Farmer, at Abington, and they were the 
parents of the following children John; Susannah. There were evidently 
five children of Benjamin Boone's second marriage, Mary, Benjamin, 
James, Samuel (whose daughter Rachel married Hezekiah Pancoast) and 
Dianah (or Dinah).  The last named married Benjamin Tallman, who was a 
son of William and Ann (Lincoln) Tallman, Benjamin being their only 
child to live to maturity and leave descendants.  Ann Lincoln, his 
mother, was a sister of Sara Lincoln, who was the wife of William Boone. 
They were the daughters of Mordecai Lincoln, whose will was probated in 
June, 1736.  The Tallmans removed to Virginia in 1780. William and Ann 
died in Virginia, Benjamin and Dinah settled in Ohio about 1805 or 1810. 
He died in 1820, and she in 1824.
	(7) James Boone, born July 18, 1709, died Sept. 1, 1785.  He 
married (first) Mary Foulke and (second) Ann Griffith, and his first 
wife was the mother of fourteen children.  His son James was an 
astronomer and the writer of the Boone manuscript, from which records 
much of the Boone family history has been obtained.  Ann, eldest child 
of James and Mary (Foulke), married Abraham Lincoln, the posthumous son 
of Mordecai Lincoln, who died in 1736. Mordecai Lincoln, son of this 
couple, married Julia Maybury, sister of Margaret Maybury, who was the 
wife of  George, son of William and Sara Boone.  Only one child of 
Mordecai and Julia (Maybury) Lincoln lived to maturity,  she married a 
Mr. Barto. 
	To George (4) and Debora (Howell) Boone were born the following 
children: George (5) born May 3, 1714 (died Sept. 30, 1737); Mary, Feb. 
10, 1776; Hannah, July 20, 1718; Debora, Dec. 18, 1720; Dinah, Oct. 18, 
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Jeremiah, Jan. 16, 1729; Abigail, Aug. 9, 1732; Hezekiah, March 22, 
1734.
	William Boone, son of George (1), married March 26, 1748, Sara 
Lincoln, who was born in January, 1727, and died April 21, 1810.  Their 
union was blessed by the birth of the following children: Mordecai; 
William; Mary; George; Thomas: Jeremiah; Hezekiah, and Abigail. The 
first seven named, together with the mother, had certificates from the 
Exeter Meeting to the Fairfax Meeting in Virginia, under date of Oct. 
30, 1776, and again a return certificate for the mother and Mary, 
William, George, Jeremiah and Hezekiah from Fairfax to Exeter Meeting. 
The will of William Boone, dated May 23, 1768, and probated Dec. 6, 
1771, bequeathed as follows: To Abigail wife of Adin Pancoast, 70 
pounds; to repair Exeter burying ground; to Mary, 100 pounds at age of 
twenty years; to Mordecai, 50 pounds before division; the remainder of 
the estate to be divided equally among sons, and they to be put to 
trades.
	We have the following record of the descendants of William and Sara 
(Lincoln) Boone: (1) Abigail married Adin Pancoast May 28, 1767. He died 
Dec. 12, 1822: she died March 14, 1808. Abigail had a certificate to 
Fairfax Meeting and another to return to Exeter, and a third from Exeter 
to Catawissa, June 28, 1797. In the last are named children as follows: 
William Pancoast, who married Vashti Cooper (their daughter married 
James Evans Lindsay and they were the parents of a son, William T. 
Lindsay); Mary Pancoast; and Hezekiah Pancoast, born June 8, 1789, who 
married Rachel Boone, March 26, 1814 (she was born May 30, 1789, a 
daughter of Samuel Boone, who died on the Fishing Creek in 1811). (2) 
Mordecai died in August, 1774, in Frederick county, Md., unmarried.  (3) 
William married Susan Parks, of Reading, Pa., in 1778. She had a 
certificate to Pipe Creek Meeting dated 1782. Their descendants founded 
Boonsboro, Md. (4) Mary married Isaac Lee, at Exeter Meeting, May 8, 
1777. (5) Thomas died in Amity township, Berks Co., Pa., Oct. 28, 1823.  
(6) Jeremiah. (7) Hezekiah married Hannah Hughs in Exeter township 
daughter of George Hughs.  Hezekiah died in Catawissa township, Columbia 
Co., Pa., and his will was probated April 5, 1827.  The children of his 
first wife were: William and George, of Schuylkill county, Pa.; Martha, 
wife of Lewis Vastine; Ann, wife of J. Wolverton; and Newton, who died 
in Bloomsburg, Pa.  By his second marriage he had children: Milton, who 
died at Pottsville, Pa.; Surrissa; Hannah; John Judah (of Schuylkill 
county); Willette, who died in Bloomsburg, Pa.; Elizabeth, who died in 
Pottsville, Pa.  (8) George (5) married Aug. 6, 1780, in Hereford 
township, Berks Co., Pa., Margaret Maybury, daughter of Richard and Ann 
Lee, and widow of William Maybury.  She died April 21, 1825, aged sixty-
five years.  Their children were born as follows: Sara May 10, 1782; 
William, Nov. 12, 1783; Ann, Aug. 21, 1785; Charles, Dec. 21, 1786; Mary 
Oct. 13, 1788; George, Aug. 7, 1790 (died May 30, 1860); Elizabeth, Aug. 
23, 1793; Harriet Nov. 22, 1795; Margaret, May 25, 1798; Rachel, Feb. 5, 
1801. 
	George Boone (6), son of George (5), married Hannah Hughs, born 
Feb. 9, 1794, died March 11, 1844.  Children: Edward, born April 12, 
1817; Ellis, Dec. 30, 1818; Margaret Dec. 29, 1820; Thomas, Dec. 26, 
1822; George, March 14, 1825.
	Sara Boone, born May 10, 1782, married William Gearhart, and they 
were the parents of five children, as follows: Maybury, Julia Ann, 
Harriet, Eleanor and Amelia Douglas.
	Maybury Gearhart married Margaret C. Nixon, and their union was 
blessed with seven children: (1) Sophia G. married Col. Charles W. 
Eckman. Children: Catherine G., Hester R. (married George Darby) and 
Elizabeth B. (superintendent of Bryn Mawr hospital).  (2) William 
married Margaret Thompson. (3) Clarence F. married Malissa Burd.  
Children: Amelia H. and Magdaline (married Gustaf Peterson).  (4) Amelia 
S. married Hon. H. M. Hinckley.  Children: Sara G., John M. (married 
Mabel Key), Eleanor (married C. F. Zimmerman), Edna (deceased) and 
Elizabeth Shoop. (5) Elwood Sayn married Ella Creveling.  Children:  
Mary  Catherine,  Helen Sophia, Marion and Eveline Regina.  (6) 
Elizabeth Boone married William Vastine. Children: Catherine Gearhart 
and Elizabeth Boone.  (7) George S. married Harriet G. Yetter. Children: 
William L. G.; Julia Ann, married to Samuel Harder (children, Arthur and 
Harriet Y.); Harriet, married to Lewis Yetter (son William G. Yetter); 
Eleanor, married to David Clark (daughter Cordelia is married to George 
Gearhart and has children Eleanor and Charles); and Amelia, married to 
G. M. Shoop (they have a son William G. Shoop).
	HUGH H. VASTINE, third son of William and Elizabeth (Hursh) 
Vastine, was born July 22, 1838, in Northumberland county, and died 
Sept. 25, 1908. He was educated in the common schools of his native 
township, at Danville Academy, and at Greenwood Seminary, a Friends' 
institution at Millville, Pa.  Upon attaining his majority he married 
Susan Mettler, daughter of Wilson and Anna F. (Gearhart) Mettler, and 
settled upon a farm of some three hundred acres, which he purchased and 
where he lived for some years, following farming. He then moved to 
Riverside, where he put up a fine brick house on what was once a part of 
the Gearhart farm, the pleasant home which his widow now occupies with 
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son and daughter. The ground was originally taken up by Capt. Jacob 
Gearhart, Mrs. Vastine's maternal great-grandfather. 
	Mr. and Mrs. Hugh H. Vastine were the parents of three children: 
(1) Wilson M., born in Rush township, was educated in Danville Academy 
under Prof. Kelso; and at Bucknell University, located at Lewisburg, 
Pa., from which institution he graduated. Since the death of his father 
he has been engaged in overseeing his father's estate.  (2) Elizabeth 
B., only daughter of Hugh H. and Susan M. Vastine, was also educated in 
the Danville Academy, at Danville, Pa., and Bucknell Seminary, at 
Lewisburg.  She now lives with her mother at Riverside.  (3) Hugh 
Spencer, second son of Hugh H. and Susan M. Vastine, was born in Rush 
township, educated in the Danville (Pa.) high school and Dickinson 
College, at Carlisle, Pa., and now follows farming.  He married Sarah P. 
Mettler, daughter of William H. and Julia (Kreigbaum) Mettler, and their 
union has been blessed by the birth of two daughters, Pauline and 
Rachel, and one son, Hugh H.
	Mrs. Susan (Mettler) Vastine can trace her paternal ancestry to one 
William Mettler, whose father came from England and settled in Hunterdon 
county, N. J. He had five sons, viz.: Benjamin, Isaac, Philip, Henry and 
William. The last named married (first) Katy Hann and (second Katy 
Brush, and there were born to him five sons and four daughters, viz.: 
Jonathan, Philip, Matthias (Tice), John, William, Mary (married William 
Taylor), Elizabeth (married Francis Apgar), Catherine (married Isaac Van 
Konk) and Sara (married Philip Sine).
	William Mettler, son of William and Katy Mettler, was born Aug. 25, 
1778, in Hunterdon county, N. J., and married Elizabeth Apgar, daughter 
of William and Katie (Pickle) Apgar.  About 1790 he came to 
Northumberland county, Pa., and settled near Klinesgrove, in Rush 
township, upon lands recently owned by Harmon Savige. He first leased, 
paying money rent once a year to one George Sutton, agent, at 
Philadelphia, Pa., for the owner who resided in England.  Later, when 
the owner came to inspect the lands he purchased 318 acres and resided 
thereon to the time of his death, which occurred Oct. 11, 1848. He was a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for nearly thirty years  and 
had held several prominent positions  in the church, such as class 
leader, steward and trustee.  He was of a charitable disposition 
assisting not only his own church but other congregations and he was 
ever ready to help the needy.  He was great Bible student, well versed 
in the Scripture.  Politically he was a Democrat but took little 
interest in politics.  For his time he had enjoyed good educational 
advantages, was a good mathematician, and fond of astronomy.  
Industrious, economical and prudent, he reared his large  family and 
left an unincumbered estate to his heirs.
	His wife, as has been noted, was Elizabeth Apgar. This name was 
originally Ehgert or Ebcher. The family came from the borders of 
Lombard, in Italy, to Philadelphia in 1749.  The records show that Sept. 
13, 1749, Johan Adam Ebgert signed the oath of allegiance. He is said to 
have been one of two brothers who came to this country, the other going 
to Monmouth county, N. J.  Johan Adam Ebgert was the father of ten sons 
and one daughter, viz.: Herbert, Henry, Jacob, Peter, John, William (who 
settled near Clinton, Hunterdon Co., N. J.), Adam, Frederick, Conrad, 
George and Catherine.
	 William Apgar, of Clinton, N. J., born in 1752, died April 9, 
1836.  He married April 17, 1774, Catherine Pickle, daughter of Conrad 
Pickle, born in 1752, and died in 1831.  To them were born five sons and 
seven daughters, viz.: Joanna Gertrude, born March 31, 1775  Hannah, 
March 3, 1776 (died  young); Elizabeth, 1777 (died young); Nicholas 
P., June 29, 1779 (married Catherine Manning); James, Jan. 28, 1781 
(died single); William, Oct. 29, 1752 (died young); Elizabeth (2), June 
12, 1785 (married William Mettler); Sarah, twin of Elizabeth (2) 
(married Isaac Bloom); Catherine, Aug. 2, 1789 (died young); Nancy, July 
12, 1792 married Samuel Manning, son of Samuel); William (2), July 15, 
1794 (died young); George, 1799 (married Elizabeth McPherson, of 
Brooklyn).  Of these, 
	Mrs. Mettler died Feb. 17, 1876, at the ripe old age of nearly 
ninety-one years.  She had been a member of the Methodist Church nearly 
sixty years.  As was expressed by her minister, who wrote her obituary, 
"her house was the home of the weary itinerant, and a church in which to 
worship God." At the time of her death her descendants were fourteen 
children, sixty grandchildren, sixty-three great-grandchildren and five 
great great-grandchildren, a total of one hundred and forty-two.  It is 
worthy of record that the resemblance between Elizabeth Apgar Mettler 
and her twin sister Sara Apgar Bloom was so marked that their closest 
friends were puzzled to know them apart.  They were married the same 
day, by the same minister, one of them wearing a bit of ribbon to 
distinguish her from the other.  Each was the mother of fourteen 
children the last two of Mrs. Bloom's children being twins.
	We have the following record of the seven sons and seven daughters  
of Mr. and Mrs. William Mettler: (1) Nicholas,  born June 18, 1803, died 
July 16, 1803.  (2) Catherine born Jan. 17, 1805, on Oct. 17, 1822, was 
married by Rev. John Rhodes to Robert Campbell.  Their home was first at 
Snydertown, Pa., and later on a farm near there. Their children who 
reached maturity were: William, John and Harry.  Mrs. Campbell died at 
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home of her son John, in Snydertown, Dec. 6, 1881.  (8) Hannah, born 
Nov. 27, 1806, on April 6, 1827, was married to William Price, of 
Clearfield county, Pa., where she resided until the time of her death, 
July 9, 1892.  Their children who grew up were Elizabeth, William 
Lorenzo, Annie, Martha, George and Wesley.  (4) Isaac B., born May 20, 
1808, died Dec. 31, 1850, unmarried.  (5) William, born Jan. 13, 1810, on 
Oct. 9, 1834, was married by Rev. Thomas Tannehill to Jane Kline. They 
first lived on a farm afterward the home and property of John K. Kline, 
then on a farm near the old Mettler homestead, and later went West and 
settled on a farm near Joliet, Ill., where he died Oct. 8, 1885. Their 
children who reached maturity were A. Brittian, Jasper, McKendree, 
William Henry, Keturah, Harriet Ann and Mary Eliza.  (6) Sarah, born 
July 5, 1811, on Oct. 21, 1831, was married by Rev. Daniel Steele to 
Charles Gearhart, of Danville, Pa., and settled on a farm near Danville.  
She now makes her home with her sons Wesley, of Scranton, Pa., and 
Clark, of Lock Haven, Pa. Her children, who grew up, were Susan, William 
M., Wesley and Clark R.  She married (second) Andrew Runyan.  (7) 
Eleanor, born April 16, 1813, on Sept. 10, 1832, was married, by Rev. 
Josiah Forrest, to Philip Huff, and located on and afterward purchased 
the farm owned by Philip's grandfather. (8) George, born Oct. 12, 1814, 
died Oct. 9, 1824. (9) Nancy, born Sept. 8, 1817, on Dec. 17, 1835, was 
married by Rev. Oliver Ege to William Carr, of Sunbury, where they 
located and where she died June 18, 1892.  She married for her second 
husband ex-Sheriff Daniel Buckley.  Of the children born to her first 
marriage, the following grew up: William M., George, Bartley, Francis, 
Charles, Alfred and Edward.  (10) Eliza, born Feb. 2, 1819, was married 
by Rev. Henry Dill, Jan. 3, 1839, to John F. Kline, and located on a 
farm near Klinesgrove, Pa., where they both died, the former Jan. 30, 
1899. Their adult children were: Sara; Ellen; Martha; Ann; Henry M.; and 
Ida, Mrs. James Stoner.  (11) Lorenzo, born March 27, 1821, was married 
May 31, 1842, by Rev. C. A. Hewitt to Permelia Wolverton. They first 
located in the old stone parsonage near home, then at Deiblers Station 
in Irish Valley, and later came to own a farm near Rushville, Pa., where 
he spent most of his life. He died March 17, 1889.  His adult children 
were:  Charles, William H. and Margaret. His second wife was Matilda 
Eckman, daughter of Jacob Eckman.  (12) John, born Jan. 13, 1823, was 
married Jan. 8, 1846, by Rev. J. W. Haughawout, to Jerusha Kline.  They 
located on the old farm at Union Corners and then for a time at 
Elysburg, Pa., where he purchased a farm on which he died May 22, 1889. 
They were the parents of but one child, Preston. (13) Susan, born Oct. 
19, 1825, was married Jan. 9, 1844, by Rev. Alem Brittian, to Isaac 
DeWitt Kline. They first farmed for Mr. Kline's father, then purchased a 
farm near Mettler's Church on which he died in 1861, a victim of the 
then prevailing typhoid fever scourge of Rush township.  His widow died 
July 30, 1887.  Their adult children were Delia, Ella and Garner.  (14) 
Enoch, the youngest of the family, born July 25, 1827, was married Nov. 
3, 1853, by Rev. Andrew Barr, to Mary Ann Robinson, and resided for a 
time on the old homestead. Later he went West with his brother William 
and located on a farm near Joliet, Ill.  Returning East he located on a 
farm near the Mettler Church, and afterward came to Riverside and made 
his home with his son William.  His adult children were William L. and 
Ambrose Apgar.
	William H. Mettler, the only surviving son of Lorenzo and Permelia 
(Wolverton) Mettler, was born in 1848 in Shamokin township,  
Northumberland county, and was reared upon a farm and educated in the 
common schools. In 1874 he purchased a farm in Rush township. In 1873 he 
married Julia, daughter of Daniel Kreigbaum, and their union has been 
blessed with the following children: Lorenzo P. married Bertha Hartung; 
Elizabeth J. married Dallis G. Pensyl and has one son, J. Mettler; 
Willard K. married Carrie Pensyl and has one daughter, Beatrice; Sarah 
P. married Hugh Spencer Vastine; John D. married Verna Enterline; Rachel 
R. is unmarried; Charles Mark died when five months old.
	Philip Mettler, son of William, married Susan Carter, and they were 
the parents of the following children: (1) William married Elizabeth 
Wolverton and had children, Irene Ann (deceased), Charles and Amzi.  (2) 
Spencer married Rebecca Gearhart and had George, Susan and Jasper.  (3) 
Charles married Miram Moore and had one child, Amy.  (4) Wilson, born in 
1813, died Oct. 8, 1900.  He married Anna E., daughter of John and Ann 
(Cool) Gearhart, and their four children were: Sara. E., who married 
Gobin Hoffman, and has a child Anna, Mrs. William G. Williams; Susan, 
who married Hugh H. Vastine; Spencer C., who married Amanda Brandon, and 
they were parents of Flora A. (Mrs. C. V. Amerman, who has one child, 
Ruth) and Spencer W. (died young); and Anna A., who lives with her 
sister, Mrs. Vastine.  (5) Kate married David Rockefellow and had two 
sons, William M., an ex-judge, and Jordan.  (6) Sarah married Isaac 
Kase, and her children were Ellen, Catherine, Henrietta and Mettler.  
(7) Theodosia married John Eckman and had children, Philip (who married 
Harriet Conrad and had a daughter Esther) and Mary (unmarried).  (8) 
Carter married Mary Haughawout and had children, Laura, Alice, Susan C., 
Philip, Wilson and Jennie.  (9) Jonathan married Bulah Hoffman and had 
Annie and Elizabeth.
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cestry to Capt. Jacob Gearhart, who was born in Strasburg, then in 
France, now in Germany, in 1735, and in 1754 came to America and took up 
his residence in Hunterdon county, N J He married Catherine Kline. They 
were the parents of the following children: Herman, Jacob, George, 
William, John, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Mary, Kate, Charles and Isaac.
	John Gearhart, fifth son of Capt. Jacob Gearhart, married Ann Cool, 
of New Jersey, and in 1790 removed with his parents to what is now 
Riverside, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. John Gearhart were the parents of: Anna E., 
Jacob, Tunis, William, John, Sara, Catherine and Elizabeth.
	Anna E., daughter of John Gearhart, married Wilson Mettler, and 
they were the parents of Mrs. Susan Mettler Vastine.
	In her beautiful home at Riverside, surrounded by her children and 
grandchildren, Mrs. Vastine and her sister, Miss Anna A. Mettler, live 
in plenty and comfort. Hers is a model Christian household, 
characterized by charity and hospitality. She and her family belong to 
the Presbyterian Church, with which Mrs. Vastine united when a girl in 
her teens, and she has ever since been a faithful member.

	DEPPEN.  The Deppen family of Northumberland county to which George 
Edward Deppen, lawyer of Sunbury, belongs is descended from John Deppen, 
of Berks county, Pennsylvania.
	(I) John Deppen had children as follows: David, of Berks county; 
Peter, of Berks county, whose children were Alexander, William, Isaac, 
George, Andrew, Catherine, Lizzie and Rebecca; Christian, whose children 
were John (by first marriage), Washington, Harriet and Elizabeth (by 
second marriage)  William, great-grandfather of George Edward Deppen; 
Henry, whose children were Gabriel and two daughters; and George, whose 
children were William (father of G. W. Deppen), John, Isaac, a daughter 
whose name is not given. Catherine and Elizabeth.
	(II) William Deppen, son of John, was born in 1782 in Berks county.  
He married a Miss Maurer, and they were the parents of ten children, 
namely: Mrs. George Snyder (born in 1811), Abram, Isaac, David (died 
unmarried), Alexander, William, Mrs. Witmer, Mrs. Boyer, Mrs. Bower and 
John.
	(III) Abram Deppen, born in 1812, died in 1899.  He was a sawyer 
and farmer by occupation, and cleared the first five acres of the 
present site of Shamokin.  Later he removed to Locust Gap, where he 
followed farming. After his marriage he lived in the house which Pat 
Hester subsequently occupied, and there his son George was born.  He 
then moved to what was called the Deppen plantation, his father's farm, 
and later purchased a part of the White Island. near Herndon, finally 
removing to Herndon, where he died. He accumulated considerable property 
during the course of his industrious life.
	In 1833 Mr. Deppen married Mary Snyder, who died in 1868.  They had 
four children: Louisa, born in 1834, who married Dr. R. H. Muth; George, 
born in 1836; Joseph, born Dec. 2, 1837, now of Mount Carmel; and 
Alexander, born in 1839.
	(IV) George Deppen, born in 1836, spent his early life upon the 
farm.  In 1867 he moved to Herndon and began the grain, flour and feed 
business, which he still carries on.  During the Civil war he served as 
postmaster at that place, and for thirty years, with but one 
intermission, he served continuously as justice of the peace. He is a 
member of the Lutheran Church.  His wife, Mary (Mertz), born in 1847, 
died in 1898. They had the following children: Lizzie, born in 1870, who 
married H. E. Snyder; Laura, who married H. E. Engle; George Edward, 
born in 1873; and Harvey C. (born in 1874), Charles P., Sue, Carrie, 
John E., Nettie, Raymond and Abram Earl, at home.
	(V) GEORGE EDWARD DEPPEN received his primary education in the 
local schools, and later attended the academy at Freeburg, Snyder 
county, for three years. In 1890 he entered Ursinus College, at 
Collegeville, Pa., and in 1893 became a student at Bucknell University, 
Lewisburg, Pa., from which institution he was graduated, in the 
classical course, in June, 1894.  He then took up the study of law with 
H. S. Knight, of Sunbury, and was admitted to the bar May 3, 1897, the 
same year opening his office in Sunbury, where he has since devoted 
himself to the practice of his profession.  He is connected with various 
social bodies at Sunbury, belonging to the Temple Club, to Maclay Lodge, 
No. 682, F. & A.M., Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M., and Mt. 
Hermon Commandery, No. 85, K.T.  He is a member of the National Guard of 
Pennsylvania, having served as regimental sergeant major, battalion 
adjutant, and being at present inspector of small arms practice of his 
regiment with the rank of captain. He takes an active part in local 
polities as a member of the Democratic party, and is a member of the 
Reformed Church, in which he is active in the Laymen's Missionary 
movement.
	On April 17, 1901. Mr. Deppen married Laura Koons, of Collegeville. 
Pa.  They have had one daughter, who is deceased.

	EDMUND W. SAMUEL, M. D. of Mount Carmel, Northumberland Co., Pa., 
physician and druggist of long standing at that place, representative of 
the Sixteenth Congressional district for one term, and a leader in 
founding and conducting several of the most progressive business 
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development of this section, was born Nov. 27, 1857, at Blanavon, 
England, son of Edmund and Mary (Bower) Samuel.
	Edmund Samuel brought his family to America in 1860 and first 
located at Scranton, Pa.  In 1861 they removed to Schuylkill county, in 
1863 settling at Ashland, that county, where they resided continuously 
until 1872.  They then lived in different parts of the county until 
1886, when they returned to Ashland and there made a permanent home. Mr. 
Samuel was a well known man in his day in mining circles, having been 
superintendent of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company for 
the long period of fifteen years, and in 1880 he was a member of the 
State board of mining examiners. His family consisted of seven children, 
three sons and four daughters: Edmund W.; Lizzie, Mrs. Samuel McConnell; 
Thomas P.; William C.; Mellie; Emma, and Gertrude.
	Edmund W. Samuel received a thorough preparatory education, having 
the privilege of four years under private instructors as well as the 
benefits of the public schools. He began to learn the drug business in 
1874, when he entered the drug store of J. H. Pritchard & Co., at 
Ashland, and meantime also pursued the study of medicine with Dr. 
William B. Owens, of that place. In October, 1878, he entered Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated 
March 13, 1880, the following month commencing practice in Ashland.  He 
remained there only until November, however, when he came to Mount 
Carmel, which has since been his field of practice. In 1887 he became a 
member of the drug firm of Dr. E. S. Heiser & Co., this association 
lasting until July 25, 1889, when he purchased Dr. Heiser's interest 
becoming sole proprietor of the business. His establishment is one of 
the leading drug stores in the borough, or anywhere in this section, and 
his high personal character is reflected in the management and standing 
of the business.
	Besides making a success of his professional work and drug business 
Dr. Samuel has interested himself in local affairs to an unusual extent 
for one of his calling. Few men have had better opportunities to acquire 
an insight into the greatest needs of the community, and few would have 
possessed the energy to try to put so many different plans into 
successful operation.  In 1907 he was elected president of the Shamokin 
& Mount Carmel Transit Company, and he is also president and general 
manager of the Mount Carmel & Locust Gap Trolley Company, chartered Dec. 
6, 1908, which in 1909 built the road from Bear Dale to Locust Gap, 
about two miles long. J. G. McConnell is vice-president of the latter 
company, R. D. Heaton, secretary, and William J. Kiefer, treasurer. Dr. 
Samuel is a director of the Union National Bank of Mount Carmel and of 
the People's Building & Loan Association of Mount Carmel; president of 
the Hazleton Heights Land Company; president of the Penn Bond & Mortgage 
Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and president of the Samuel Realty Company, 
also of Brooklyn, N. Y.  He has shown great executive skill in the 
management of the various interests he has acquired, to all of which he 
gives his personal attention.
	Dr. Samuel has long been an ardent Republican, and as such he was 
elected to Congress in 1904 as representative from the Sixteenth 
District embracing Northumberland, Montour, Columbia and Sullivan 
counties.  He has always been particularly interested in the cause of 
public education, and has served as a member of the local school board.
	On April 28, 1886, Dr. Samuel married Alice Kiefer, daughter of 
William and Deborah Kiefer, of Mount Carmel, and they have had four 
children, all sons: Frank J., who is now engaged in clerking for his 
father; E. Roger, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, class of 
1913; E. Willard, who is in the class of 1911 at the Mount Carmel high 
school; and E. Walter, who is at school.
	The Doctor is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has 
various fraternal connections, belonging to the I.O.O.F., the K. of M., 
the Royal Arcanum and the Masons - Mount Carmel Lodge, No. 378, F. & 
A.M.; the Williamsport Consistory, thirty-second degree; and Rajah 
Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S.  He is a member of the Schuylkill County Medical 
Society and of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society.

	SHADE. The name Shade is well represented in business circles in 
Shamokin, where the brothers Daniel E., Jacob M. and Richard A. Shade, 
sons of the late Andrew Shade, are established in various lines, 
identified with local activities and well known in Masonic 
organizations.
	Andrew Shade, great-grandfather of these three brothers, was a 
native of Berks county, Pa.  He was the first of the family in 
Schuylkill county, settling near what is now Fearnot where he purchased 
a tract of land which he at once began to clear. He remained here all 
his active life and died upon his farm. His son John became owner of the 
homestead, but it is now in the possession of Reuben H. Shade, uncle of 
Daniel, Jacob and Richard.
	John Shade, son of Andrew, moved with his father by team from Berks 
county Pa., to Schuylkill county, settling near Klingerstown.  He 
purchased a tract of land containing two hundred acres, on which he 
farmed, and he became a well known man in his district.  He died at the 
age of sixty-five years, and is buried at Klinger's Church, as is also 
his wife, Hannah (Hoffa). They had children: Elizabeth; Andrew; Jacob, 
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Emanuel; Katie; Abraham; Polly; Louisa, who married John Lantz and lives 
near Seven Points, Northumberland county; and Reuben H., who now owns 
the old homestead near Fearnot.
	Andrew Shade was born in Schuylkill county. When a young man he 
learned tanning, which trade he followed successfully for several years, 
having a tannery about four miles from Tremont, Schuylkill county.  
Selling out he moved to Snyder county, Pa., where he purchased a farm 
near Freeburg on which he remained for some time, in 1870 removing to 
Shamokin, where he remained about four years.  His last days were spent 
in Schuylkill county, where he died in 1895, at the age of sixty-four, 
and was buried at the Methodist Church near his home. He married 
Caroline Stein, of that county, who died at Shamokin. They were the 
parents of the following children: Hannah married John Shoup and they 
live in Missouri; John is living in Kansas; Jacob M. is mentioned below; 
Savilla died young; Daniel E. is mentioned below; Alice married Emanuel 
Long, a merchant of Shamokin; Mary married Daniel Snyder of Shamokin; 
and Richard A. is mentioned below.
	JACOB M. SHADE was born in 1856 near Hegins, Schuylkill county, and 
received his education in the public schools. In common with many boys 
of this region he began work at the mines at Shamokin, but he eventually 
went to a trade, learning the carriage-making business, which he 
followed, being employed at different places, until 1892. He spent some 
time at Renovo, Clinton county, whence he came to Shamokin, on Jan. 2, 
1892, establishing the store at No. 509 North Second street which he has 
since conducted. He carries a comprehensive line of groceries, notions, 
shoes, etc., and is well known in his section of the borough as one of 
its most progressive business men.  He has built up an excellent trade 
by the most honorable methods, and is one of the most esteemed citizens 
of Shamokin.  His attention has been given chiefly to the care of his 
business interests, but he has served as a member of the school board 
from his ward, the Tenth, for seven years.  In politics he is a 
Republican, and in fraternal connection a member of Renovo Lodge, No. 
495, F. & A.M., and of the Temple Club of Shamokin.
	Mr. Shade was married three times, (first) Dec. 18, 1877, to Emma 
Malick, daughter of Daniel Malick, of Seven Points, Pa.; she died Nov. 
12, 1880.  They had one daughter who died in infancy.  He married 
(second) Mary Rhoads, daughter of Daniel Rhoads of Elysburg, Pa., and 
she died Dec. 18, 1881. They had one son Charles, who assists his 
father.  He married (third) Feb. 16, 1883, Annie C. Gray, daughter of 
John and Rachel (Fox) Gray, of Paxinos, Pa., and to this marriage came 
one son Clarence, who died aged thirteen years.
	DANIEL E. SHADE was born in 1857 near Tremont, Schuylkill Co., Pa., 
and received his education in the public schools.  For nineteen years 
after he began to earn his own living he was engaged at the mines, being 
employed at the Cameron colliery. He then embarked in the mercantile 
business, for many years occupying the location at Third and Spruce 
streets where his brother-in-law, Emanuel Long, is now doing business, 
and in connection with his lines of general merchandise he dealt in 
oils.  This specialty in time attained such proportions and offered such 
good prospects that he gave up his original business and devoted himself 
exclusively to the oil trade, which he has ever since continued. He is 
manager of what is known as the Merchants Oil Company, with offices in 
the Market Street National Bank building, Shamokin, and handles a large 
wholesale business which has not yet by any means reached the limit of 
expansion.  His partners in this concern are Martin and Charles Jameson, 
of Warren, Pa., and these two young men are associated with W. B. 
Stewart as proprietors of the Warren Refining Company, of Warren, Pa., 
which furnishes the product disposed of by the Merchants Oil Company.  
Mr. Shade has developed the business by the exercise of ability and good 
judgment, which he possesses to an unusual degree, and his success has 
placed him among the most enterprising men of Shamokin.  His personal 
and social standing is equally good. He is a prominent member of the 
Masonic fraternity, holding membership in Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & 
A.M.; in Shamokin Chapter, No. 264, R.A.M., of which he is a past high 
priest; in Shamokin Commandery, No. 77, K.T., of which he is a past 
eminent commander; in Williamsport Lodge of Perfection (fourteenth 
degree); Williamsport Consistory (thirty-second degree); and in Rajah 
Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., of Reading, Pa.  He is a Republican in politics 
and has held the office of school director, serving from the Sixth ward. 
He is a member of the Reformed Church.
	Mr. Shade married Sept. 20, 1876, Frances Ross, daughter of Thomas 
and Anna (Kerrey) Ross, of Jersey Shore, Pa., and six children have been 
born to this union: Minnie married Claude Morgan and they live in 
Pittsburg; Gertrude married Ray Kellerman and they live in Mount Carmel; 
Edith is bookkeeper for her father; George is a graduate of the 
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; Mabel and Frances are at home.
	RICHARD A. SHADE was born July 21, 1871, at Shamokin.  He attended 
public school and was reared to farming on his uncle's farm in Dauphin 
township, Schuylkill county, continuing to follow this occupation until 
he reached the age of twenty-one years.  In the meantime, however, he 
had learned harness-making, at which he began to work when seventeen, 
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with agricultural work.  After reaching his majority he gave all his 
time to his trade, and in 1894, returning to Shamokin, established 
himself in business in that line at No. 15 South Market street. He has 
all the latest conveniences for carrying on harness-making, and his work 
is first class and in large demand, his trade being extensive and 
profitable.  His trade is as good as the best in the borough, where he 
is regarded as a substantial and desirable citizen, one who holds the 
respect of all who know him.  He is a thirty-second-degree Mason, 
belonging to Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A.M.; Shamokin Chapter, No. 
264, R.A.M.; and Bloomsburg Consistory, thirty-second degree. In 
religious connection he is a member of the Evangelical Church.
	Mr. Shade's first marriage was to Mamie Wolfgang, who died April 6, 
1891, the mother of two children: Allen, who is at home; and Normand, 
who died young.  On April 9, 1895, Mr. Shade married (second) Miss Ida 
Straub, daughter of Elias and Mary (Walborn) Straub, and to this union 
have been born five children: Clyde L., James A., Edna M., Richard W. 
and Leona D.