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	FRANK A. GABLE, assistant cashier of the National Bank of Shamokin, 
at Shamokin, Northumberland county, has been associated with that 
institution since 1902 and has held his present position since 1906. He 
has resided in Shamokin all his life, having been born in that city 
Oct. 18, 1869. 
	Mr. Gable is a representative of the fifth generation of his family 
in this country, his great-grandfather, John Gable, a native of Hessen-
Cassel, Germany, having come to America in boyhood with his parents.  
They settled in Berks county, Pa. John Gable served during the 
Revolutionary war in the Continental army, the Pennsylvania Archives, 
5th Series, Vol. VII, page 1140, showing that one John Gable was a 
private in Capt. Philip Baker's company, Lancaster county militia, 1782; 
battalion and battalion commander not  stated. 
	John Gable, grandfather of Frank A. Gable, was born in 1794 in the 
upper part of Berks county, and died in 1878. He served his country 
during the war of 1812.  He was identified principally with Schuylkill 
county, where his first settlement was at Orwigsburg, but he did not 
remain there long, going thence to Pottsville.  He was a carpenter, but 
did not follow his trade many years, being engaged as a merchant at 
Pottsville, where he became quite a prominent citizen. He teamed his 
goods all the way from Philadelphia.  Mr. Gable lived retired for 
several years before his death, which occurred at the home of his 
daughter, Mrs. Conner, at Girardville, Schuylkill county, His wife, 
whose maiden name was Sarah Hammer, died in 1855, at the age of sixty-
two years.  Both are buried in the Odd Fellows cemetery at Pottsville.  
They had a family of ten children, viz.: Lydia, who married Tobias 
Houser, died at the age of eighty-four years; Lucy married John Hower; 
Rebecca married John Miller; Mary married John Freehafer; Nancy married 
Thomas Conner; Harriet now the only survivor of her parents' family, is 
the widow of George D. Bensinger and resides at Mount Carmel, 
Northumberland county (her children are Sarah E., Clara B., married to 
J. L. Haas, Minnie, Maude and Henry); Henry died Aug. 1, 1860; John is 
mentioned below; Jacob died young; William died at Shamokin Sept. 3, 
1908. 
	John Gable, father of Frank A. Gable, was born Sept. 16, 1825, in 
Schuylkill county, and there received a common school education.  About 
1863 he came to Shamokin, and thence went with several other men to 
Harrisburg, to enlist for service in the Civil war.  They were not 
needed at that time, however, and Mr. Gable returned to Shamokin, where 
for a number of years he was interested in mining, becoming very well 
known in that connection. For several years he was superintendent for 
the late Thomas Baumgardner, of  Lancaster, Pa., who owned the 
Enterprise Coal Company. Mr. Gable later operated the  Colbert colliery 
successfully - during the W. B. A. strike, and in company with John B.  
Douty also operated the Gar-
	
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field colliery, in the course of time selling his interests to Mr. 
Douty. From that time on he lived retired until his death, in November, 
1902; he is buried in St. Edward's cemetery.  He was prominently 
identified with other business interests besides mining after coming to 
Shamokin, was one of the promoters of the street railway company and of 
a fire insurance company which was one of the first companies of the 
kind in Shamokin. 
	Mr. Gable married Caroline Sterling, daughter of John and Elizabeth 
(Wingert) Sterling, and to them were born children as follows: Louise, 
Joseph and Cecilia all died in infancy; Amelia Ida is unmarried; William 
married Maria Devitt; Alfred R. married Catherine Kennedy; Frank A. is 
mentioned below; Charles married Emma Moyer. Frank A. Gable received 
his education in the parochial and high schools of Shamokin, and began 
his business career as a clerk.  On Jan. 13, 1902, he entered the 
National Bank of Shamokin as bookkeeper, in 1906 receiving promotion to 
the office of assistant cashier, which he has since held, George C. 
Graeber being cashier.  Mr. Gable has given the greater part of his 
attention to business the only important departure he has ever made 
from this rule being his two terms of service as borough treasurer. He 
is a Republican in political principle, but not active in party affairs. 
Socially he holds membership in Lodge No. 355, B.P.O Elks, in the 
Knights of Columbus (of which he is district deputy) and in the Crescoe 
Club. He is member of St. Edward's Catholic Church. 
	On June 3, 1896, Mr. Gable married Mary Brennan, only child of 
Edward and Annie (Walsh) Brennan, and they have had a family of eight 
children: Anna M., Caroline S.,  Margaret W., Edward B., Frank, Louise, 
John J., and Natalie P. Mrs. Gable's father is a  prominent mine 
inspector and banker of Shamokin.  
	HON. WILLIAM GABLE (deceased), who had the honor of being the 
second Republican in the history of Northumberland county to be sent as 
its representative to the Legislature, was born June 26, 1837, near 
Pottsville, in Schuylkill county, Pa., and died Sept. 3, 1908, at 
Shamokin, Northumberland county.  Some early history of the family is 
given elsewhere, in the sketch of Frank A. Gable. 
	Mr. Gable passed his boyhood in his native county, attending the 
public schools until he reached the age of sixteen.  He then took up 
mechanical engineering, for which he showed considerable aptitude, and 
his success in later years showed him to be well adapted for such work. 
In 1860, the year he cast his first Presidential vote, he supported the 
Republican candidate, and from that time on to the end of his days he 
continued to be an ardent member of the party, in which he was a leader 
for many years.  His father had fought for his country in the war of 
1812; his grandfather had been a member of the Continental forces in the 
Revolution; and when the Civil war broke out he was among the first to 
offer his services in the Union cause. He enlisted in 1861 in Captain 
Jenning's  company, at St. Clair, the command being assigned to the 14th 
regiment; it went to Camp Curtin, at Harrisburg, and made an unimportant 
tour of the "sacred soil of Virginia" to Martinsburg, Bunker Hill and 
Harper's Ferry, whence, the term of service having expired, it was sent 
to  Carlisle, Pa., and mustered out. Mr. Gable returned to St. Clair at 
the end of this three months' term.  About this time Capt. William J. 
Palmer, who was in command of the Anderson Troop in the Southwest, 
received permission to recruit a cavalry regiment in Pennsylvania to act 
as bodyguard to General Buell. The organization was popularly known as 
the "Anderson Cavalry" (named in honor of Robert Anderson, the hero of 
Fort Sumter), but was officially the 15th  Pennsylvania Cavalry.  As it 
was to be a picked body, representative of the entire State, each county 
was to be allowed to furnish eight men. William Gable applied from 
Schuylkill county and was accepted.  His company was sent to Carlisle 
barracks, where it was drilled by officers detailed from the regular 
army. When General Pope was defeated at the second battle of Bull Run 
the Anderson Cavalry went to Chambersburg, pressed into service a 
sufficient number of horses, and took part in the battle of Antietam, at 
the very beginning of which the Colonel was taken prisoner; he did not 
rejoin the regiment for more than a year. After the battle the regiment 
returned to Carlisle, and shortly afterward was transferred to 
Louisville, Ky., where it was equipped with horses and marched to 
Nashville, arriving in time to take part in the battle of Stone River; 
in that conflict it suffered the loss of seventy men, including two 
acting majors, Rosengarten of Philadelphia and Wara of Pittsburg. It was 
also in the battle of Chickamauga, after which Mr. Gable was promoted 
to sergeant for service on the field.  The regiment then joined the Army 
of the Cumberland, participating in its principal engagements under 
General Thomas.  In 1864 Mr. Gable went before the examining board at 
Nashville, Tenn., and received a commission as first lieutenant being 
assigned to the 101st United States Colored Infantry, and sent to 
Gallatin, Tenn., to recruit a company. Then he joined the regiment at 
Clarksville, was ordered to Nashville and remained there, doing guard 
duty, until the regiment was  mustered out, in 1866. 
	After the war Mr. Gable engaged in cotton raising in Arkansas for a 
time, but the surroundings were not congenial and after a six months' 
trial he gave it up and went to  Washington, D. C., to appear before the 
examining board as a candidate for the regular  army.  He called on 
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his influence to secure a position which would prepare him for the 
examination.  But in the meantime Congress passed an act reducing the 
army, and that put an end to his ambitions in the military line. 
	In November, 1869, Mr. Gable came to Shamokin and engaged with his 
brother in the operation of the Lancaster colliery, and later, when the 
Mineral Railroad and Mining Company was organized, he was made outside 
superintendent at the Luke Fidler colliery, holding that position until 
1874, when he became general manager for the Enterprise Coal Company.  
He continued thus until 1884, passing safely through all the troublous 
days of the "Molly Maguire" terror. 
	In the early eighties he was nominated by the Republicans of 
Northumberland county to represent the district in the State Assembly, 
and although the county was Democratic by a normal majority of one 
thousand he was elected, and took a very active part in the work of that 
body. He was chairman of the committee on Pensions and Gratuities and 
under the rules which apply to the second member was secretary of the 
committees on Mines and Mining and on Geological Surveys. He had charge 
of the Geological Survey Bill, succeeding only by the most untiring 
efforts in securing its enactment into a law.  Other special results may 
be credited to his activity. Hall's Island, in the Susquehanna, opposite 
Georgetown, although a very valuable property, had until then enjoyed 
immunity from certain taxes by reason of its being an independent school 
district. Through Mr. Gable's exertions the law  so exempting it was 
repealed.  Among other things, he succeeded in securing the passage of a 
bill, which he seconded, creating an additional law judge for 
Northumberland county, but the same was vetoed by the governor.  Mr. 
Gable was one of the committee of fifteen Republicans of the Legislature 
appointed by the party caucus to draft an Apportionment Bill and was 
earnest in his opposition to the measure which was finally passed, but 
which was vetoed by Governor Pattison.  Mr. Gable was a delegate to the 
State convention which nominated James A. Beaver for governor the first 
time. 
	At the end of his service as representative Mr. Gable became 
proprietor and  manager of the "National Hotel" at Shamokin, conducting 
that establishment until Oct. 31, 1889, when he was appointed to the 
position of deputy United States internal revenue collector. In 1889 he 
was again the choice of his party receiving the nomination for the 
Legislature, but owing to the complication rising from the presence of a 
ticket placed in the field by the Knights of Labor the support was 
divided, and he was defeated. 
	Mr. Gable was a member of Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A.M., of 
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of the Grand Army of the 
Republic (Post No. 140) and of the Union Veterans Association. He was 
captain and commissary of the 7th Regiment, National Guard of 
Pennsylvania, from its organization until it was mustered out. He died 
at Shamokin Sept. 3, 1908, and is buried there. 
	In 1859 Mr. Gable married Mary J. Bloom, of Pottsville.  

	CHARLES W. MANTZ, senior member of the firm of Mantz Brothers, who 
conduct the  largest planing mill at Sunbury, has been a valuable 
citizen of that borough for many years, successful in business, an 
interested worker in its public and religious circles, and highly 
respected for his useful, industrious career.  He was born May 16, 1854, 
in Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and belongs to a family which has 
long been settled in  this State.  The name is also found spelled Mountz 
and Moutz. 
	The only records of the arrival in this country of any Moutzes or 
Mountzes are as  follows: George Mountz, ship "Charming Nancy," of 
London, Charles Stedman, master, from Rotterdam, Oct. 8, 1737; Peter 
Moutz, ship "Molly," Thomas Oliver, master, from Rotterdam, Oct. 17, 
1741; Peter Mautz, ship "Sandwich," Captain Hazleman, from Rotterdam, 
Nov. 30, 1750. A Samuel Mautz, son of George, went to Holland for a 
fortune.  It is not known definitely from which of these emigrants the 
Northumberland county family with which this article is concerned 
descends, but it is likely that George was the ancestor. There was a 
Mountz family early in Berks county, one Joseph Mountz having been a 
taxable in Heidelberg township, that county, as early as 1759, when he 
was assessed as a single man.  He had a brother George, who died in 
1800, the year his will was entered on record in the  courthouse (a son, 
John G., was executor of the estate). 
	One Nicholas Moutz (also Mautz), born about 1754, (died in Berks 
county in 1810, aged fifty-six years. He was a private soldier in the 
war of the Revolution [see Pennsylvania Archives, 2d Series, Vol. XIII, 
page 138] and received depreciation pay from the State of Pennsylvania; 
and Mary Mautz, his widow, was granted a gratuity of forty  dollars and 
an annuity of forty dollars by special act of the Pennsylvania 
Legislature, Jan. 1, 1829 [Smith Laws, Vol. X, page 273]. Nicholas 
Moutz married Mary Heilman, who was born in 1756 and died in 1839, aged 
eighty-three years. They had a son Samuel, born July 31, 1797, who died 
Sept. 22, 1827, aged thirty years; he married Susanna Durst, born Nov. 
26, 1798, daughter of Jacob Durst, died Dec. 4, 1864, aged sixty-six 
years. 
	There is a tradition that Nicholas Mautz came to this country 
bringing with him a sister, who married a Zimmerman or a Rothermel. 
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county, Book III, page 118, states that letters of administration were 
granted to Adam Heilman and George Martin (the widow  Mary and son 
George having sent in their renunciation) upon the estate of Nicholas 
Moutz, late of borough of Sunbury, deceased 28 Feb., 1810; the widow's 
name, Mary, and children George, John and William only, are mentioned.  
Some of the thirteen children of Nicholas "Mountz" were: George, born 
March 26, 1776; Jacob, born Jan. 4, 1781, in Greenwich township, Berks 
county, who died Dec. 19, 1858, and is buried in the lower cemetery at 
Sunbury (he married Elizabeth Cressinger, and his daughter Katie was 
Mrs. Cheny); Sallie, wife of Benjamin Underwood, of Harrisburg, Pa.; 
Betsy, wife of Henry Bucher, of Sunbury; and Polly, wife of Benjamin 
Deal, of Sunbury. 
	The line of the Northumberland county Mantz family comes from this 
source, but is not definitely traced.  We give the following fragmentary 
records from the Orphans' court of Berks county; Vol. I, page 86, 
recites that John Mauntz, age nineteen and upwards (13th  Nov., 1761), 
son (Jacob Mantz, late of Heidelberg township, Berks county, deceased, 
and who died intestate, petitioned for a guardian.  Court appointed John 
Eckert, blacksmith, of same township. 
	Page 87, same date, Mary Catharine, widow above named, petitioned 
court to appoint guardians for her children, Lacarus, aged thirteen 
years, and Michael, aged eleven years.  Court appointed Lazarus Winger 
and Henry Fiedler. 
	Page 101, same date, Jacob Moutz, aged sixteen years, son of Jacob, 
deceased, states that his father left considerable estate and that the 
widow was appointed administratrix, that she had lately intermarried 
with John Fister, and petitioned the court to appoint as his guardian 
his uncle George Loucks. - Granted. 
	Page 102, Feb. 12, 1762, George Mountz, in his petition to court 
states that his  father died seven (7) years ago, leaving a widow and 
seven children and prays that the father's estate be valued. Commission 
appointed and it appraised the land at £600 and that George, the son of 
Jacob Mountz, late of Heidelberg township, Berks county, shall have the 
land upon paying the widow her dowry and the children their respective 
shares. 
	The records of Little Tulpehocken Church, Bernville, Berks county, 
state that they were communicant members in the years 1761, 1762 and 
1763. 
	John A. Mantz, father of Charles W. Mantz of Sunbury, was born May 
11, 1827, in Sunbury Northumberland Co., Pa., where he died Dec. 1891. 
He was a carpenter and planing mill man by occupation. Removing to 
Pottsville during his young manhood, he was married there to Harriet 
Sevilla Smith, who was born in Berks county, Pa., May 5, 1831, daughter 
of John Smith, and died Nov. 23, 1863, at Ashland, where they then 
resided; she is buried there.  She was the mother of four children, born 
as follows: Reynold D., March 17, 1851; Charles W., May 16, 1854; 
William D., April 23, 1858; and Elmer E., Dec. 12, 1862.  They came 
with their father to Sunbury after the mother's death.  John A. Mantz 
subsequently married (second) Adaline Good, daughter of George Good, of 
Sunbury, and to this union were born six children, namely: George 
Edward, born July 4, 1869; Oliver S., Feb. 18, 1871; Susan J., Feb. 3, 
1873; John T., Dec. 21, 187- (died Aug. 15, 1878); Cinton A., Feb. 10, 
1877; and J. Barton, March 27, 1879 (died April 23, 1881). 
	Charles W. Mantz received his education in the public schools of 
Ashland,  Schuylkill Co., Pa. Coming to Sunbury in 1865, he here learned 
the planing mill business in the employ of Ira T. Clement with whom he 
remained for the long period of twenty-five  years, in the planing mill 
for ten years of that time and the other fifteen  years as manager of 
the table works. In 1904 he began business on his own account, he and 
his three brothers, William D., Reynold P. and Elmer E., forming a 
partnership that year under the firm of name of Mantz Brothers, and they 
have since been associated, having now the largest planing mill 
establishment in Sunbury.  Charles W. Mantz is manager of this concern.  
The firm employs sixteen men, and all kinds of planing mill work are 
turned out.  They also handle and deal in all kinds of lumber, and in 
both lines have built up as a large business, which has shown a steady 
increase from the beginning. Mr. Mantz's long  experience fits him well 
for the management of this plant and he has shown business ability as 
well as practical knowledge in the conduct of the establishment, much of 
the  success of which has been due to his efficient oversight. 
	On Nov. 21, 1871, Mr. Mantz married Kate Rogers, of Pottsville, 
Schuylkill county, who died July 27, 1894, at the age of forty-one 
years. She was buried in the lower cemetery at Sunbury. Nine children 
were born to this union, all the survivors living in Sunbury except 
Katie, viz.: Alice, who married Arthur E. Kelly; W. Harry; Sarah I., who 
married E. E. Jacoby; Margaret, unmarried; Katie M., who married Medus 
Huff and lives in Philadelphia; Guy and Charles E., twins, who died in 
infancy; Benjamin Wert, married to Nellie Markell; and Raymond L., who 
died when four years old. 
	Mr. Mantz has long been an active member of Zion's Lutheran Church 
at Sunbury, having led the choir - which has from twelve to sixteen 
excellent voices - for forty years, and he was chorister of the Sunday 
school for many years, having charge of the singing; he is still a 
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Sunday school.  In politics Mr. Mantz is an independent Republican, and 
interested in good local government. He represented the old Second ward 
in town council for two terms. Socially he belongs to the Protective 
Home  Circle, which has a membership of six hundred in Sunbury. 
	WILLIAM D. MANTZ, another member of the firm of Mantz Brothers, of 
Sunbury, was born April 23, 1858, in the Catawissa Valley, in Columbia 
county, Pa.  His education was obtained principally in the public 
schools of Sunbury, to which place he came with his father in childhood 
in 1867. All his active years have been spent in the line of work in 
which he is still interested. In his youth he learned sash and door 
making at Sunbury, having followed this trade in all for about thirty-
eight years.  In 1904, when the firm  Mantz Brothers was organized, he 
became a member of the concern, in the success of which his long 
experience in sash and door manufacturing has proved a valuable asset.  
He has  borne his share in the upbuilding of the business and has worked 
faithfully to establish it upon a substantial and permanent basis. Mr. 
Mantz is a member of the Pennsylvania Relief Association, and of the 
Knights and Ladies of Honor, the latter a fraternal insurance 
organization.  In political matters he is identified with the Republican 
party. 
	In January, 1882, Mr. Mantz married Clara E. Rockefeller, daughter 
of Solomon and Catharine (Unger) Rockefeller, of the same family as 
Judge Rockefeller, of Sunbury, and  they reside in their own home at No. 
257 South Third street Sunbury. Two children have been born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Mantz, John S. and Lillie Adora. The son, an employee of the  
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, lives at Sunbury, and is married to Emma 
Dietz; they have a daughter, Clara E., born Dec. 28, 1909. Mr. Mantz and 
his family are members of Zion's Lutheran Church of Sunbury.  

	WILLIAM J. GASS, a prominent farmer of Shamokin township, is a 
native of that township, born Aug. 29, 1845, and is the only son of 
Martin Gass, one of the leading citizens of this district in his day. 
	The Gass family is of German origin. William Gass, grandfather of 
William J. Gass, was an early settler in what is now Shamokin township, 
Northumberland county, and also lived in Lower Augusta township.  He was 
a miller by trade, and ran the old mill now owned and conducted by W. A. 
Reed, at Paxinos. He hauled goods as far as Reading, Pa.  William  Gass 
died upon his farm in Shamokin township, near Paxinos, and is buried at 
St. Jacob's (Reed's) Church.  He was well known in the locality in his 
time. His wife, Mary (Kershner), died at the age of one hundred years 
and is buried near Pottsville, Pa.  They  had children: Jacob, Reiley, 
Martin and Kate (Mrs. Zerbe). 
	Martin Gass, son of William, was born in 1823 in Shamokin township, 
and died Dec. 1, 1909, at the age of eighty-six.  He followed farming 
principally, but also engaged in boating on the canal. He was well known 
in Shamokin township, being a leading member of the Democratic party, 
and a faithful official of the township, which he served as justice of 
the peace and school director. He married Elizabeth Persing, daughter of 
William and  Mary Persing, the former of whom was born Nov. 18, 1792, 
and died June 18, 1881, aged eighty-eight years; his wife, Mary, born 
Aug. 22, 1795, died June 4, 1873.  Mr. and Mrs.  Martin Gass are buried 
at the Blue church. They had two children, Eliza (who married J. J. 
Hogland) and William J. 
	William J. Gass was reared upon the farm, and remained with his 
father until he reached the age of twenty. He then resolved to try his 
fortune in the West, where he remained three years, spending two years 
of that time in the Rocky Mountain region. His experiences were varied 
and interesting, but he returned to his native home and has since 
remained in Northumberland county. After coming back home he was with 
his father for a time, until he took the farm in the Irish Valley, in 
Shamokin township, where he still makes his home. It was the old 
homestead of Solomon Himmel, one of the pioneers in this region, and 
here he has since worked and prospered, becoming one of the most 
substantial  men of his community.  For about fifteen years Mr. Gass 
also followed the butcher business in connection with farming, 
eventually selling his interests in that line to his sons.  He has been 
active in local affairs, particularly in the welfare of the public 
schools, having served fifteen years as school director, which office he 
still holds; he has served twice as president of the school board. He 
has also been auditor of his township. The high standing he enjoys among 
his fellow citizens could be shown in no better way than by his long 
continuance in positions of responsibility, and his influence has always 
been considered a factor in local enterprises of every sort. He was made 
a Mason in 1872, is a member and past master of Elysburg Lodge No. 414, 
F. & A.M., and is a member of the Grange at Paxinos. Politically he is a 
Democrat. His religious connection is with the U. B. Church.  
	Mr. Gass married Clara Moyer, daughter of David Moyer and 
granddaughter of Jacob Moyer. They have had the following children: 
Oswald P., who lives at Reed's station, this county; Harry S., who lives 
in Sunbury; Sidney W., of Shamokin, this county, who is in the butcher 
business; Lorenzo D., who is associated with his brother Sidney; Harvey 
L., at  home; Ursula, wife of William
	 
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Moody; Bertha, wife of J. Wesley Richie; and Annie.  
	NATHAN G. ADAMS, of Paxinos, Northumberland county, has established 
a substantial business as a dealer in agricultural implements and a 
manufacturer of wagons.  His trade has grown steadily from the 
beginning.  The stand is an old one.  Mr. Adams is a comparatively 
recent comer to Paxinos, and previous to his removed hither was located 
at  Bear Gap, in Ralpho township, where he carried on a general 
mercantile business. 
	Mr. Adams is a native of the county, born Feb. 1, 1866, in Ralpho 
township, near what is now the Blue church, and he is a great-grandson 
of Casper Adams, the first of the  family in this country. Casper Adams 
was born April 25, 1755, at Langendiebach, Offenburg, Germany.  Little 
is known of his early life.  On coming to this country he lived in Berks 
county, Pa., before coming to Northumberland county, where he was one of 
the earliest pioneers in Ralpho township, owning several hundred acres 
of land there.  He cleared some of his land and followed farming. He 
died Jan. 26, 1832, and is buried at St. Peter's (the  Blue) church in 
Ralpho township.  Casper Adams married, in Berks county, Elizabeth 
Hinkle, of that county, and they had a large family, six sons and six 
daughters, namely: Frederick (1792-1853), John, Samuel, Casper, Leonard, 
Peter, Nellie (married George Startzel), Susanna (married Samuel 
Startzel), Elizabeth (married Gilbert Liby), Polly (married Peter 
Strausser), Maria (married Jacob Kreher) and Catharine (married Samuel 
Anspach). Casper Adams, fourth son of Casper and Elizabeth (Hinkle) 
Adams, was born April 10, 1796, on the homestead farm in Ralpho 
township, and was there reared to farm life.  When he became of age his 
father deeded 100 acres of land in Ralpho township to him, this being 
the farm afterward occupied by his son George C., near the Blue church.  
Mr. Adams  was a man of active mind, one who interested himself in the 
general welfare as well as in the promotion of his own interests, and he 
was one of the foremost men of his locality for  many years, well known 
as a stanch Democrat and as one of the most liberal supporters of the 
Blue Church, with which he was identified all his life; he served as 
elder of that church and was one of the most generous contributors 
toward the erection of the church edifice. He married Susanna Startzel 
(daughter of John), who was born March 14, 1800, and died Jan. 22, 1873; 
Mr. Adams died Jan. 28, 1882, and is buried at the Blue church. Their 
children were: Benjamin, who died in 1895, at the age of seventy-four 
years, (Edward, William F. and Lucinda were his children); Daniel H.; 
Casper, deceased; George C., born  Aug. 17, 1826; David, born in 1830; 
Jacob, born in 1833, who died in 1895; Samuel, deceased; William; 
Elizabeth (deceased), who married William Smith; Susanna (deceased), who 
married William Klase; Polly, Mrs. Fry, deceased; Angelina, who married 
William Smith;  and Harriet, deceased. 
	Daniel H. Adams, son of Casper and Susanna (Startzel) Adams, was 
born in 1822 on the old homestead near Elysburg, in Ralpho township. He 
followed farming all his life, owning a tract of about fifty acres near 
the Blue church, and in connection with his agricultural work engaged in 
lime burning.  He died June 20, 1892.  Mr. Adams married Sarah A. 
Pensyl, who was born in 1829, daughter of Leonard Pensyl, and died Jan. 
4, 1908.  They are buried at the Blue church. Twelve children were born 
to their union, viz.:  Francis is a resident of Shamokin; John is 
deceased; Henry N. lives near Bear Gap, in Columbia county; D. Alonzo is 
on the old homestead in Ralpho township; Leonard M. is a resident of 
Shamokin; Nathan G. is located at Paxinos; Allison C. is living in 
Ralpho township; Marietta (deceased) was the wife of Frank Erdman, 
commissioner of Northumberland county; Emma married George Erdman; 
Elizabeth married Philip Richard and they live at Elysburg, 
Northumberland county; Lydia married Thomas Boughner, of Ralpho; Casper 
died young. 
	Nathan G. Adams attended the Kaseman school in Ralpho township. He 
was reared to farm life, remaining at home with his father for some time 
after his school days were over. His first employment away from home was 
with the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, in whose employ he 
remained about twelve years, being engaged as track foreman and having 
charge of the Weigh Scales division. Establishing himself as a general 
merchant at Bear Gap, in Ralpho township, he continued business there 
for seven years, at the end of that time selling out to J. W. Marks and 
removing to Paxinos, in Shamokin township, where he bought out A. C. 
Bobb.  Here he has since been engaged as a dealer in implements, also 
manufacturing wagons, finding a steady demand in both lines in this 
community.  His square methods and satisfactory transactions have won 
him a growing patronage.  He has been quite active in the community 
since taking up his residence there, and is considered a substantial 
citizen.  He has business interests also in Bear Gap, being president of 
the  Bear Gap & Numidia Telephone Company. 
	Mr. Adams married Daisy Yocum, daughter of Obadiah Yocum, of 
Cleveland township, Columbia Co., Pa., and they have had a family of six 
children: Grace, Malcolm, Frederick, Earl (who died March 14, 1911), 
Sarah and Lewis. 
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burg Lodge, No. 414, F. & A.M., and in the P.O.S. of A., Camp No. 189.  
In religion he adheres to the Reformed faith, being a member of the Blue 
Church (St. Peter's).  He is a Democrat in politics, and while in Ralpho 
township served as constable and auditor.  

	DIETRICH. The branch of the Dietrich family to which Samuel and 
Levi Deitrich,  prominent citizens in their respective communities, 
belong, is descended from one of eight brothers of that name who came 
from Germany about 1740 and settled at Philadelphia. John Michael 
Dietrich, son of one of these eight brothers, was born in Philadelphia 
before the beginning of the Revolutionary war. When the battle of 
Brandywine was fought, in 1777, the Dietrich family lived near that now 
famous battlefield, and his mother took him and other small children 
into an underground cellar for safety. John Michael Dietrich served as a 
soldier under Maj. "Mad Anthony" Wayne, in 1794, in the Indian wars; 
and later he served in the war of 1812, receiving for his services four  
grants of land in Schuylkill county.  It is probable one or two of these 
grants were located below Sunbury, in Northumberland county.  After 
living for some time in Schuylkill county (where he was among the first 
settlers at what is now the site of Pottsville) he moved to a place, 
below Sunbury, in what is now lower Augusta township, and he farmed one  
of the islands of the Susquehanna river, all of which are embraced in 
Lower Augusta township. At this place he remained some years, and some 
of his children were married while the family resided there.  Later he 
returned to Schuylkill county, locating in the  Deep Creek Valley, in 
Barry township. There he died at an advanced age. He was a pensioned  
soldier at the time of his death. He was a cooper by trade. After 
leaving Philadelphia he had lived in Longswamp township, Berks Co., for 
a time, and there hie was married to a  Miss Seasholtz. Thence they 
moved to Schuylkill county.  He was tall, raw-boned and of dauntless 
courage, and possessed a roving and adventurous disposition, taking part 
in  several wars.  His ten children, five sons and five daughters, were: 
Conrad never married; Jacob never married; Philip was killed in the 
coal mines at Mount Carmel, Pa.; John was  married and some of his 
family now live at Mount Carmel; George is mentioned later; Polly 
married George St. Clair; Betsy married Daniel St. Clair, brother of 
George; Hannah  married Adam Snyder; Susan; Sally married Jacob Derr. 
	George Deitrich, son of John Michael, was born in 1809, at 
Pottsville, Schuylkill county. In 1871 he moved to Mount Carmel, 
Northumberland county, where he died Nov. 3, 1895. He was a laborer, and 
for a number of years was employed in a brickyard, continuing to be 
active until late in life. His wife was Hannah Oyster, and their union 
was blessed with the following eleven children: Eliza was burned to 
death when twenty years old, at Newcastle, Schuylkill county; Harriet 
married Lance Parker, and they live at Shenandoah, Pa.; Mary, never 
married; Kate married Abraham Fry; Hannah never married; Elizabeth 
married Peter Kauffman; Sarah married Thomas Moser; George died aged 
four years; John died aged twenty-two years; Samuel is mentioned later; 
Levi is mentioned later. 
	SAMUEL DEITRICH, former sheriff of Northumberland county, and at 
present warden of the county jail at Sunbury, was born in Schuylkill 
county June 21, 1854, son of George Deitrich.  He began working in early 
youth in the coal mines, and followed the mining business until 1884, 
after which he conducted a hotel at Mount Carmel for five years.  In 
1894 he was appointed warden of the Northumberland county prison and 
served as such six years. In 1901 he was elected to the office of 
sheriff, in which he served in 1902-03-04.  In 1909 he again received 
the appointment of jail warden, in which office he has since served. 
Mr. Deitrich has been active in Republican party affairs since 1880, and 
has served frequently as delegate to county convention, being a power 
in county political circles. He is financially interested in various 
business enterprises, and is a man of substance and prominence, 
occupying an honorable position in the community he has served so ably 
as a public official.  He is a large man, six feet, two inches in height 
and weighing 240 pounds. In 1876 Mr. Deitrich married Margaret Jane 
Manney, daughter of Dennis Manney, and to them have been born six 
children: Mary married Claude Savage, and they live at  Northumberland; 
Della is a school teacher at Mount Carmel; Maud married John Noadhecker 
and they live in Sunbury; Dr. George A. graduated from Mount Carmel high 
school and from Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, later attending 
four years and graduating from the  University of Pennsylvania (1910); 
Ada died in infancy; Margaret is at home. 
	LEVI DEITRICH (DIETRICH), justice of the peace and prominent 
citizen of Mount Carmel, Northumberland county, was born at Llewellyn, 
Schuylkill Co., Pa., in 1857.  He  began work at the coal mines as a 
slate picker when a mere boy, and followed the occupation of mining 
many years.  In 1871 he came with his parents to Mount Carmel, where he 
has since made his home. Mr. Deitrich is a Republican and has been 
active in promoting  the welfare of his party. In 1897 he was elected 
constable of the borough of Mount Carmel, serving in this office nine 
years, until, in the spring of 1906, he was elected a justice of the 
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also overseer of the  poor of his district for some years. 
	Mr. Deitrich is popular socially. He is a member of the I.O.O.F., 
the P.O.S. of A. and the Improved Order of Red Men. In 1882, when the 
Anthracite Fire Company of Mount  Carmel borough was organized, Mr. 
Deitrich was a charter member, and for many years was its efficient 
treasurer; for twenty-one consecutive years he rang the fire bell. 
	In May, 1878, Mr. Deitrich was united in marriage with Susan 
Stutzman, daughter of Adam and Susan C. Stutzman.  To this union were 
born seven children, as follows: Elmer, George W., Clarence, Levi, Jr., 
John, William, and Annie (who died when three and a half  years old). 
Mrs. Deitrich died May 7, 1899, aged forty-four years, six months, 
twelve  days.  

	JOHN R. KAUFFMAN, of Sunbury, is a man of large financial affairs 
and real estate interests, principally active at present in the latter 
connection.  His property holdings in the borough and, in fact, all over 
Northumberland county, are extensive and valuable, and their management 
now occupies the greater part of his time.  For forty years Mr. Kauffman 
was engaged in mercantile business at Asherton, Lower Augusta township, 
his establishment being the business center of that locality for years. 
He was the first postmaster at that point, serving until his removal to 
Sunbury in 1889, and there was no better known citizen in that section.  
Since he settled in Sunbury, upon his retirement from the mercantile 
business, he has continued to give his numerous interests his personal 
attention, although he is now in his eighty third year; his zeal and 
ability, however, are unabated and his intellect as keen as ever. 
	Mr. Kauffman was born Oct. 19, 1828, in Upper Mahanoy township, 
Northumberland county, son of Daniel and Mary (Ressler) Kauffman. His 
education was begun in the old German subscription school held in Upper 
Mahanoy, which he attended until 1838, when his parents moved into Lower 
Augusta township. He there continued his studies in the English 
language, attending school, though not regularly, until he was about 
twenty years of age.   Meantime he had worked on his father's farm, and 
was thus engaged until the age of twenty- two years, at which time, in 
1850, he embarked in the mercantile business at what is now  Asherton, 
in Lower Augusta township.  He remained there until 1889, with the 
exception of six years during which he had a mercantile establishment at 
what is now Meiserville, in  Snyder county, at the end of that period 
moving back to Lower Augusta township. In 1889 he removed to Sunbury. 
Prospering in everything he undertook, as his interests expanded he 
found himself extensively engaged in farming and the real estate 
business in addition to his original line. He became postmaster at 
Asherton in 1886, when the office was established, and continued to 
serve as such until he came to Sunbury. One of the oldest business men 
in his section, he enjoyed a large patronage throughout his location 
there, and his place was long a business center, his full line of 
merchandise attracting the custom of a wide territory, and his 
accommodating methods holding customers from year to year. As his 
business throve he acquired other interests and accumulated considerable 
real estate, still owning about three hundred acres in Lower Augusta 
township.  Since he settled in Sunbury he has been one of the shrewdest 
investors in that borough, and by his foresight and sagacity has made a 
place for himself in the front rank of its intelligent business men. He 
is a director of the Sunbury Trust & Safe Deposit Company, and has been 
such since the organization of that concern, which he is also serving as 
a member of the finance committee. He is a director of the Pennsburg 
Manufacturing Company, of Pennsburg, Pa., and was connected with the 
Kauffman & Sons Planing Mill Company of Sunbury until the  plant was 
removed to Pennsburg. For some years he was connected as director with 
the Blue Wing Copper Company of North Carolina, with the Sunbury Nail, 
Bar and Guide Iron Manufacturing Company and with the Buffalo Lumber 
Company of West Virginia.  During his earlier years Mr. Kauffman was 
quite active in the local Democratic organization, was auditor of Lower 
Augusta township for a number of years, and also served as assessor. In 
1861 he was drafted for the Civil war, and paid $300 for a substitute, 
being unable to give personal service on account of home 
responsibilities. 
	On March 28, 1852, Mr. Kauffman married Boann Shaffer, daughter of 
John Shaffer,  of Berwick, Pa., and they celebrated their golden wedding 
March 28, 1902. Mrs. Kauffman  died April 15, 1907, aged seventy-five 
years, seven months, thirteen days.  Eight children were born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Kauffman, as follows: Abia died April 27, 1873, aged twenty  
years, eight months, fifteen days; Dora A., who is unmarried, lives with 
her father; Frank  S., born in 1857, now of Newton, N. J., who has for 
many years been secretary and treasurer of the Hart & Iliff Coal, 
Lumber & Supply Company, married Minnie Smink, daughter of Isaac Smink, 
of Shamokin, Pa., and they have two children, Elizabeth and John; Daniel 
S., who was a merchant at Millheim, Center Co., Pa., died April 26, 
1903, aged forty-two years, one month, twelve days, unmarried; Alfretta 
married E. H. Long, of Lower Augusta township, Northumberland county, 
and died Aug. 11, 1892, aged thirty-four years, twenty days (she was the 
mother of three children, Elroy and Stanley, both deceased, and  Flossie 
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grandfather from childhood, and who graduated in 1904 from the Woman's 
College, Frederick, Md.); Clara died unmarried March 11, 1889, aged 
twenty-six years, seven months, eleven days; John F., Jr., who has been 
highly educated, having graduated from Selinsgrove Academy and from 
Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancaster, Pa., later having a year's 
study in Leipsic, Germany, was admitted to practice before the 
Northumberland county bar Sept. 2, 1889, when but twenty-two years old, 
was formerly secretary of the Buffalo Lumber Company, of Bayard, W. Va., 
and is now proprietor of the planing mill at Pennsburg, Pa. (he is 
married, and has one daughter, Ruth); Annie died Sept. 15, 1894, aged 
twenty-two years, eleven months, thirteen days. Mr. Kauffman and his 
family occupy a fine residence at No. 1103 Market street Sunbury.  He is 
a member of the Reformed Church, and during his residence in Lower 
Augusta township was a very active worker in St. Elias Church, Which he 
served many years as elder and member of the council; he was also 
superintendent of the Sunday school for many years.  In 1880, when the 
present brick building of the St. Elias Lutheran and Reformed Church was 
erected, he served as chairman of the building committee, giving most 
efficient service in that capacity.  His wife was a member of the 
Lutheran congregation of that church.  

	HIRAM DREISBACH was born in Buffalo Valley, Union Co., Pa., Aug. 9, 
1831. His original progenitor in America, Martin Dreisbach, emigrated 
from Witgenstein, Germany, arriving at Philadelphia Oct. 4, 1751, in the 
ship "Queen of Denmark," and located in Cocalico township, Lancaster 
Co., Pa. In 1773 he bought from Dr. William Plunkett a large tract of 
land in Buffalo Valley, in what is now Union county, Pa. This was on the 
frontier of the Province, and during the Revolutionary war, which 
followed soon after his removal thither, the family endured great hard-
ships and dangers. 
	The subject of this sketch was one of a family of six sons and one 
daughter, born to the marriage of Martin Dreisbach, one of the early 
judges of Union county, and Elizabeth Kleckner, both of Buffalo Valley.  
The history of both families is closely interwoven with the early 
development of the country, the Dreisbach family being especially active 
in early religious work, as attested by the history of the Dreisbach 
Church, which forms so conspicuous a part in the religious annals of the 
community.  Mr. Dreisbach received his early education in an old log 
schoolhouse under private tutelage, this training being accompanied with 
all the hardships and inconveniences common to the early days. Later he 
attended the Union College at New Berlin, Pa., completing his  education 
with a business course at Crittenden Business College, Philadelphia.  He 
came to Sunbury shortly after the flood of 1865, and in company with his 
brother Solomon engaged in the grocery and queensware business, which 
they successfully conducted until the year 1892. This business, however, 
did not occupy all his attention, as he found time to carry on the 
retail lumber business, and later formed a partnership with the late 
William Whitmer, under the firm name of the Sunbury Lumber Company; they 
engaged in a general lumber business, operating both sawmills and 
planing mills for a number of years. Mr. Whitmer later retiring from 
the business, Mr. Dreisbach conducted it alone until the year 1904, when 
he sold it to the Mantz Brothers by whom it is still conducted. From 
that time until within a few months of his demise, which occurred Feb. 
19, 1910, he gave his  attention to the interests he had acquired during 
his more active years, retaining his business acumen to the last. His 
operations in the lumber business were carried on at a time when the 
lumber traffic on the Susquehanna was at its height, and he accumulated 
an excellent competence in that line alone, increasing his means by 
good investments and judicious management until he was accounted one of 
Sunbury's most substantial citizens.  At the time of his death, he was 
one of the oldest business men of the community, and had the unlimited 
respect of all who knew him. 
	On July 28, 1864, Mr. Dreisbach married Rebecca Houghton, who was 
born Dec. 19, 1844, at Lewisburg, Pa., daughter of James and Margaret 
Houghton, formerly Margaret Bowman, of Halifax, Dauphin Co., Pa. She 
died Feb. 22, 1881. Three children of this union survive: Frank M., a 
lumber merchant of East Oakland, Cal.; and Nellie M., wife of Charles 
L. Benson, and Edith M., both of Sunbury.  

	MICHAEL J. HAILE, of Shamokin, senior member of the firm of M. J. 
Haile & Bros.,  merchants, began business on a small scale there in 1887 
and has built up a trade which is a credit to his good management and 
honesty.  He and his two brothers have an establishment at No. 110 North 
Hunter street so well stocked and patronized that they are justly 
classed among the most enterprising dealers of the borough. 
	Mr. Haile's father, Lawrence Haile, was born Aug. 10, 1830, in 
Wurtemberg, Germany, son of Matthias Haile, who lived and died in 
Wurtemberg. Lawrence Haile came to America in 1854, landing at New York 
City, whence he proceeded to Minersville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and from 
that time until his retirement, in 1897, a period of forty-three years, 
he was in the employ of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company.  He 
was section boss for some time, and baggage master at Shamokin - to 
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many years, and in one stretch of thirty-five years lost but thirty-six 
days, all on account of sickness. Such a record of industry is not often 
equaled. Mr. Haile took a trip to Germany in 1903 to visit his sisters. 
	On Sept. 30, 1857, Mr. Haile married Catharine Maringer, who was 
born Dec. 17, 1833, daughter of Peter Maringer, a native of Prizen, 
Germany, who died in his native land; he was a cabinetmaker by trade, 
and had the reputation of being a skilled workman.  Mrs. Haile came to 
America in 1857 and was married shortly afterward. Mr. and Mrs. Haile  
celebrated the golden anniversary of their wedding Sept. 30, 1907. 
Though both have reached advanced years they enjoy good health, and 
their long and industrious lives are rewarded with the peace due in old 
age. They had a family of seven children: Peter, a clerk, of Shamokin, 
married Mary Gribbins; Michael J. is mentioned more fully below;  
Lawrence, a boss carpenter at Scranton, Pa., married Annie Brennen; 
Francis J., a member  of the firm of M. J. Haile & Bros., married Mary 
Burk of Locust Gap, Pa.; Joseph T. resides with his parents; Katie is 
the widow of Joseph McLaughlin; Charles A., member of the firm of M. J. 
Haile & Bros., married Elizabeth Callaghan, of Locust Gap. The family 
home is at Race and Hunter streets. 
	Michael J. Haile was born Oct. 12, 1862, in Schuylkill county, Pa., 
eight miles northeast of Pottsville, and there received what little 
schooling he was allowed, attending but ten months. Before he was eight 
years old he began picking slate at the  mines, and at that time he 
could speak only German.  He continued at this work about eight years, 
doing outside duty at the mines, where he remained until eighteen years 
old.  He then took up the butcher's trade, with Nicholas Timmes, and 
learned the business thoroughly.  In 1887 he engaged in business in that 
line for himself, and three years later formed a partnership with his 
brother Francis J., under the firm name of M. J. Haile  & Bro.  In 1906 
their younger brother, Charles A., became a member of the firm, which 
has  since been known as M. J. Haile & Bros.  Meantime various lines 
have been added to the original one, the stock now including meats, 
groceries, dry goods and notions, confectionery etc., for all of which 
they find a steady demand. The business has had a slow but sure growth, 
and it has expanded until the attention of all three brothers is well 
taken up with its conduct and management.  Michael J. Haile is a 
director of the Shamokin and Coal Township Building and Loan 
Association, which he helped to organize July  1, 1904. He was one of 
the organizers and is a member of the original board of directors  of 
the Dime Trust & Safe Deposit Company of Shamokin. 
	On Jan. 6, 1890, Mr. Haile married Elizabeth Reck, daughter of 
Clemens and Genevieve (Reiber) Reck, and a native of Wurtemberg, 
Germany. Five children have been born  to this union: Cecelia E., 
Elizabeth, Clement, Michael, Jr., and Edward. All this family are 
members of St. Edward's Catholic Church and Mr. Haile is a member of the 
Knights of Columbus.  

	CRONE.  The Crone family has been represented in Northumberland 
county from the time of Gotthilf C. Crone, a native of Westphalia, 
Germany, who brought his family here in the middle of the last century. 
He came to the United States in 1848, and first located at Reading, 
Pa., subsequently removing to Lehigh county (where he was engaged in the 
mining of slate), and one year later settling at Middleport, Schuylkill 
county. In 1855 he located at Trevorton, Northumberland county, where he 
died in 1868.  He was a mine boss in  Germany. In that country he 
married J. W. L. Stollen, who died while they were living in Middleport, 
and they were the parents of the following named children: Carl died in 
Germany; Henry Julius is mentioned below; Franklin, who died at 
Trevorton, was the father of Herman, Christian, Lena and Emma; Herman T. 
is mentioned below; George F. is mentioned below. 
	Though a resident of Trevorton for only a few years, comparatively, 
Gotthilf Crone was recognized as an intelligent and valuable citizen, 
and he was chosen to the offices of supervisor, tax collector and 
director of the poor. He took an active part in politics as a supporter 
of the Democratic party, and in church work as a member of the Lutheran 
Church, which he served many years as elder and also as superintendent 
of the Sunday school. 
	Henry Julius Crone, son of Gotthilf C., was born in Germany April 
13, 1830, and came with his parents to America. He followed mining, 
acting for many years as boss for Douty & Baumgardner, at Shamokin. He 
served a term in the Union army during the Civil war, enlisting Oct. 17, 
1862, in Company D, 172d Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and  
receiving his discharge Aug. 1, 1863, at Harrisburg. Mr. Crone married 
Mary M. Kopp, who  was born March 8, 1831, and who survives him, making 
her home at Shamokin. Mr. Crone died Jan. 1, 1899, and was buried at 
Shamokin.  Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Crone: (1) Francis 
G., born Nov. 26, 1854, married Hannah Hepler, and they have had 
children: Henry, Mamie, Millie, Ida, Cyrus, Dora, Clara, Alma, Ethel, 
Victor and Francis. (2) Mary  M. was born Feb. 23, 1856.  (3) Theodore 
H., born May 9, 1857, died at Shamokin; he married Emma Schweitzer and 
they had three children, Maude, Minnie and Bessie.  (4) Gotthilf C. is 
mentioned below.  (5) Christiana Fredericka, born Aug. 28, 1860, married 
Joseph Kerstetter, and they have had children: Alvin, Lena, Della, 
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Edward,  Mildred, Joseph and Herbert. (6) Lewis is mentioned below. (7) 
Mary Sophia, born Jan. 31, 1864, married Samuel Crist and they live at 
Shamokin; their children are Hazel, Violet, Malcolm, Elsie and Elva. (8) 
Julius H., born March 1, 1866, married Minerva Rhine, and their children 
are Grace, Lena, Retta, Leah and John. (9) John Jacob, born Oct. 26, 
1867,  married Mary Romberger and has one daughter, Emma.  (10) Henry 
John, born July 22, 1873,  died young. 
	GOTTHILF C. CRONE, fourth child in the family of Henry Julius 
Crone, was born Nov. 2, 1858, in Trevorton, Northumberland county. He 
followed mining until he was twenty-nine years old, mean-time, in 1884, 
moving to Shamokin, where he was employed in the mines for about two 
months. He then engaged in the butchering business with his brothers 
Francis and Jacob, later carrying on business on his own account. He now 
does an extensive business at Second and Chestnut streets. Mr. Crone is 
a member of Lodge No. 664, I.O.O.F., and of the  Sr. O.U.A.M.  In 
religious connection he is a member of Grace Evangelical Lutheran 
Church. 
	On Nov. 4, 1878, Mr. Crone married Diana Long, and ten children 
have blessed this union: Theodore H. married Kate Treon, of Shamokin; 
George E. is mentioned below; Cora is the wife of Joseph W. Manse and 
they have one daughter, Josephine; Charles married Ida  Mattern and they 
have three children, Herbert Elline and Florence; Frances, a graduate of  
the Shamokin high school, taught three years in Cameron township and two 
years in Shamokin before her marriage to Grover Shipman, and they 
reside at Danville, Pa., (they have a  daughter, Marion E.); Oscar 
married May Swift and (second) Helen Boch and they have one child, Maude 
Helen; Arthur married Pearl Boyd, and has one child, Harriet F.; Grover 
is at home, assisting his father; Madeline and Dorothy M. are still in 
school. 
	George Long, grandfather of Mrs. Gotthilf C. Crone, was a farmer 
and the largest landowner in Cameron township, Northumberland county, 
and served upon the first school board of that township. He was twice 
married, and by his first wife, whose name was Leah Bracher, had the 
following children: Samuel, Daniel, John, Peter, Jacob, William, Kate 
and  Hannah. By his second wife, Elizabeth (Selileich), he also had a 
large family, viz.:  Elias, Ellen, Kate, Polly, Elijah, Joseph, Jessie 
and Sallie. 
	Elias Long, eldest son of George by his second marriage, was the 
father of Mrs. Crone. He was a lifelong farmer in Cameron township, and 
the family have a burial plot there, at the Union church, at Gowen City. 
He married Angeline Houpt, and their children  were: William, 
Benneville, Diana (Mrs. Crone), Joel, Alice, Hettie, who survive, and 
Lydia  A., Francis, Ella and Rosie, all deceased. 
	GEORGE E. CRONE, son of Gotthilf C., was born Aug. 27, 1879, in 
Doutyville,  Northumberland county, and learned the butchering business 
with his father at Shamokin, where he began business on his own account 
March 21, 1907. His location is at No. 132 South Market street, and he 
has established a profitable trade. His good business methods and 
honesty show him to be a typical representative of the name he bears. 
	On Dec. 22, 1899, Mr. Crone married Nettie A. Goodling, daughter of 
Isaac Goodling and  granddaughter of Charles Goodling, who was born near 
York, Pa., and later moved to Snyder county, where he followed farming 
near Meiserville. He married Lucy Diehl, of York county, and their 
children were: Isaac, George, Lewis, Henry, Jonathan, and Lucy 
(deceased). 
	Isaac Goodling, father of Mrs. Crone, is a farmer near Freeburg, 
Snyder county.  He married Catharine Gehnett daughter of George Gehnett, 
and three children were born to them: John W., who died Dec. 28, 1899, 
in the Philippines, while serving in the United  State's army; William; 
and Nettie A., Mrs. George E. Crone.  No children have been born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Crone. 
	LEWIS CRONE, sixth child in the family of Henry Julius Crone, was 
born April 6, 1862, at Trevorton, Northumberland county, and received 
his education in the public schools. When but nine years old he 
commenced work as a slate picker at Brady, this county, and he was 
employed at the mines for about fourteen years, as engineer and 
machinist.  For two years after that he was in the hotel business at 
Helfenstein, Pa., returning thence to Shamokin, where he was engaged as 
an engineer for some time and also followed the hotel business for eight 
years. He has since been in the cigar manufacturing  business, which he 
started May 1, 1905, having factory No. 296, in the 12th district at  
Nos. 556-558 North Third street.  Mr. Crone disposes of the greater part 
of his product in  Northumberland county, where his five-cent brands  
"Crone  Special,"  "Graino,"  "Honest Value," "American Leader," "John 
Trumbull" and "American Bond," and his "William Windom" ten-cent brand, 
are well and favorably known, being popular because of their proved 
excellence. He gives employment to six men, and by turning out goods of 
high grade has established a constant demand for the output of his 
factory. 
	Mr. Crone is very well known beyond the limits of his business 
acquaintanceship, having numerous other interests which bring him into 
contact with his fellow citizens.  He plays in the Our Band, is a member 
of the Rescue Fire Company, and socially holds  membership in the 
Knights of Pythias, in Taghneghdoarus Tribe, No. 225, I.O.R.M., and in 
Shamokin Lodge No. 664, I.O.O.F. His religious connection is with Grace 
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Republican ward he has been assessor of the Tenth ward since 1893. 
	On June 11, 1881, Mr. Crone married Christiana Koons, daughter of 
Michael Koons, and to them have been born children as follows: Robert 
A., a musician, who plays with Our Band and Zenda Orchestra (he is a 
cigarmaker by trade); William H., who is also a musician (member of Our 
Band and the Zenda Orchestra) and who assists his father in the cigar 
manufacturing business; Raymond L., at school; Charles L. and Francis 
W., both at school.  
	GEORGE FRANCIS CRONE, son of Gotthilf C. and J. W. L. (Stollen) 
Crone, was born in 1832 in  Westphalia, Prussia, and came to this 
country with his parents.  He was employed for many years in the slate 
and coal mines of this region, in 1865 being appointed superintendent of 
the mines at Trevorton.  Later he was engaged in the same capacity at 
Mahanoy Valley  and Shamokin, continuing at this work until 1885, when 
he opened a restaurant at Shamokin.  He has conducted the establishment 
ever since, making a success of that business as he has of his other 
ventures. He was associated with his brother, H. T. Crone, in the 
manufacture of powder, the works being at Trevorton, where, as at 
Shamokin, he has many friends. While living there he was honored with 
choice to the offices of election judge and constable. He is a Democrat 
in politics and a member of the Lutheran Church, socially belonging to  
Shamokin Lodge, F. & A.M., and Lincoln Post, G.A.R. He is entitled to 
membership in the latter organization by reason of his service in the 
Civil war, having enlisted in 1862 in Company D, 172d Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, with which command he served nine months. 
	In 1857 Mr. Crone married Charlotte Creamer and they have had eight 
children, the survivors being: Lena (wife of Isaac P. Treon), Christian, 
Herman T. and Sarah A. 
	HERMAN T. CRONE, brother of George F. and son of Gotthilf C. and J. 
W. L. (Stollen) Crone, was born in Westphalia, Prussia, in 1834. He came 
to this country with his parents, and like most of the family engaged in 
mining during his early years, which he also followed after moving with 
his father to Trevorton. In 1862 he enlisted in Company D, 172d 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in which he served nine months. In 1869 
he engaged in the butchering business at Trevorton continuing it until 
his death, and in 1882 he also  engaged in the powder business, becoming 
a member of the firm of Gillespie, Crone & Co., who founded the Shamokin 
Powder Company. Subsequently selling his interest in that concern, he 
formed a partnership with his brother George F. Crone, and they erected 
the works at Trevorton, manufacturing powder under the firm name of H. 
T. Crone & Brother. He died at Trevorton. Mr. Crone was long regarded as 
one of the most substantial and progressive citizens of that place, 
taking great interest in public matters, encouraging the establishment 
of various public utilities, and serving as school director and tax 
collector. He was a Democrat in polities and in religion a member of the 
Lutheran Church.   Socially he held membership in the Knights of Pythias 
and the I.O.O.F. 
	In 1861 Mr. Crone married Fredrica Knapp, who died in 1862, leaving 
one child, who died young.  His second marriage was to Mary S. 
Yuengling, of Trevorton, and six of the children born to this union 
reached maturity: Emma C., Louisa P., Francis G., Henry J., Bertha C. 
and William.  
	SAMUEL H. McKINNEY, present chief burgess of the borough of 
Sunbury, has been  engaged in business there from early manhood, 
conducting the only established general transfer business at that point. 
He is a native of Herndon, Northumberland county, born Feb. 20, 1868. 
	The McKinney family is of Scotch-Irish origin. David McKinney, the 
great-great-grandfather of Samuel H. McKinney, lived in New Jersey and 
Virginia before he came to Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa., where he 
located in the spring of 1772. He was a miller by trade, but he 
established one of the first distilleries at Sunbury and carried on the 
business some years. Late in life he removed to a farm on the West 
Branch, near the Great  Island, and there died at an advanced age. He 
had a family of nine children, Abraham,  Mary, John, Isaac, Sarah, 
Jacob, James, Elizabeth and Rachel. Of these, Isaac removed to  Center 
county, Pa., where he became a prominent citizen, establishing an iron 
furnace and  serving as associate judge. 
	Abraham McKinney, son of David, was born Nov. 12, 1762, and came to 
Northumberland county from New Jersey. He first lived at what is now the 
site of Herndon, being one of the earliest settlers thereabout and later 
moved to Sunbury, where he followed his trade of stonemason and built 
many of the stone houses in that section, some of his work still 
standing. He built and operated the first mill on Mahanoy creek, in 
Jackson township. He died at Sunbury Sept. 13, 1885, and was the first 
person buried in the lower cemetery at  Sunbury. Among his children were 
Jacob, John and James, of whom Jacob served as sheriff of  
Northumberland county (1830-33) and was a prominent man in various ways; 
he subsequently went West where he died. 
	James McKinney, son of Abraham, was born in 1805 at Mahanoy, 
Northumberland county.  He learned milling, and followed that trade for 
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on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad he located in Schuylkill county, 
and followed that line of work throughout his active years.  He died at 
Cressona, that county, at the age of seventy-seven years, and is buried 
there.  He married Lydia Sheriff, a native of Northumberland county, 
who also died at Cressona, Schuylkill county.  They were the  parents of 
seven children: Hiram, who died young; Abraham, who died young; Abigail, 
who died young; David, who died at Cressona, Schuylkill county; Lovina, 
wife of Michael Thomas; Sarah J., Mrs. Lynch; and Samuel. 
	Samuel McKinney, father of Samuel H. McKinney, was born May 2, 
1826, six miles east of Sunbury.  He learned the trade of stonemason, 
which he followed all his active life, being in the employ of the 
Pennsylvania Railway Company for the long period of forty-one years, 
engaged on the construction of bridges, locks and canal repairs. In 1849 
he settled at Herndon, where he has since maintained a home, being now 
the oldest living resident of the place. He has always been an 
intelligent citizen, and is well informed on local matters.  He retired 
in the year 1899.  Mr. McKinney is a Democrat in political conviction, 
but has  never been active in public or political affairs. 
	Mr. McKinney married Mary A. Ziegler, daughter of Andrew and 
Catharine (Wise) Ziegler. She  died July 25, 1900, aged sixty-six years, 
five months, eleven days, and is buried at Herndon. Five children were 
born to this union: James Monroe married Hettie Heim and they have 
children, Archie B., Erma, Charles E., Guy, Samuel W., Daniel H. and 
Wilbur; Andrew  J. married Catharine Ruth and they have had four 
children, Ethel, Dorothy, Gerald and  Harold; Samuel H. is mentioned 
below; Sarah died young; Catharine died aged twenty-three years. 
	Samuel H. McKinney received his education in the schools of his 
home locality at Herndon.  His first work was upon a sawmill, where he 
was engaged for a short time, after which he did farm work at Herndon 
for a while.  In 1885 he first came to Sunbury, finding  employment with 
Ira T. Clement with whom he remained four months, after which he was 
engaged at the "Neff House." In 1888, while still employed at that 
hotel, he began the draying business which he has ever since continued.  
In 1894 he added a general hack and transfer business to his original 
line, which he has extended until he now has the best trade of the kind 
in his section. He runs three hacks and three drays, and he makes his  
headquarters at the "City Hotel."  Mr. McKinney owes his prosperity to 
his earnest  attempts to please his patrons in every branch of his 
business, his accommodating disposition and excellent management 
enabling him to accomplish many things which have won him friends and 
customers all over this section. 
	For several years Mr. McKinney has taken an active part in the 
local civil administration.  He was elected to represent the Second ward 
of Sunbury twice in the borough council, and in 1908 was elected chief 
burgess, receiving a majority of 345 votes - a very large  majority for 
a Democrat in his community.  Socially he holds membership in Lodge No. 
267, B.P.O. Elks, of Sunbury, Pa., and in No. 1 Fire Company.  
	PENSYL. The Pensyl family has been represented in Northumberland 
county for one hundred and thirty-five years, ever since the advent in 
America of Jacob Pensyl, or, as the name was originally spelled, 
Bentzel.  He was a native of Germany, and coming to this country made 
his home in Northumberland county, Pa., taking up fifty acres of land at 
the present  site of the borough of Shamokin.  His location was where 
the "Eagle Hotel" now stands.  Later he abandoned this place and took up 
a 200-acre tract in Ralpho township (where his great-grandson, David R. 
Pensyl, later resided) to which he moved.  He had one son, John. 
	John Pensyl, son of Jacob, was born in 1767, and was nine years old 
when his father settled at what is now Shamokin. He was a member of the 
German Reformed Church, one of the organizers and original members of 
the old Blue Church in Ralpho township, and donated an acre of ground 
for church purposes, the edifice of that congregation being located 
thereon to this day.  He died upon the homestead in Ralpho township in 
April, 1849, at the age of eighty-two. John Pensyl married Barbara 
Hinkle, and to them were born five children: Kate,  who married 
Frederick Lebic; Leah, who married John Fisher; John, who was twice 
married;  George, born, Aug. 1, 1799; and Leonard. 
	John Pensyl, eldest son of John and Barbara (Hinkle) Pensyl, was 
born on the old homestead in Ralpho township. When a young man he went 
to Sunbury and learned the trade of shoemaker. Later he purchased a farm 
of two hundred acres at Union Corners, in Rush township, where he lived 
for a number of years, afterward purchasing and removing to the 
adjoining farm, where he died in 1873. By his first marriage, to Lydia 
Kaseman, he had six children: George, born May 14, 1818, died July 7, 
1880; John, shoemaker and farmer of Rush township, lived retired before 
his death; Daniel lives at Danville, Pa.; Barbara, deceased, was the 
wife of Henry Hill, of Shamokin township; Hannah, who died at Manayunk,  
Philadelphia, was twice married, her first husband being Charles Dimick, 
her second John Hiney; Catherine married James Matter, of Scranton, Pa. 
For his second wife Mr. Pensyl  married Mary Arter, daughter of John and 
Mary (Heller) Arter, of Elysburg, and she died  Nov. 18, 1890, at the 
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advanced age of eighty-seven years.  Seven children were born to this 
marriage: Jacob died in 1861, when twenty-six years old; William is 
mentioned below; Samuel, who was a retired farmer of Rush township, died 
in 1897; Margaret died when twenty years old; Adam is mentioned below; 
Henry A. died at the age of twenty years; and Francis lives at Jersey 
Shore, Pa. (he was a  merchant, miller, postmaster and farmer at Pensyl, 
Columbia county, for some years). 

	WILLIAM PENSYL, son of John and Mary (Arter) Pensyl, is probably 
the best known man in his section of Northumberland county.  He was born 
Sept. 29, 1835, on the Pensyl homestead in Rush township, and was 
educated in the local schools.  When a boy he went to learn tanning with 
Charles Hull, with whom he worked for several years, at the tannery near 
Elysburg which is now his own property.  He manifested considerable 
aptitude for the work and became an expert, and in 1857 he was made a 
partner in the business with William Hull, in Ralpho township, this 
association lasting until 1867.  Mr. Pensyl then took his brother 
Francis into partnership, meantime purchasing and enlarging the tannery 
property, raising the capacity to two hundred hides a week. The brothers 
carried on the business together until 1880, in which year William 
Pensyl became sole owner. He has one of the oldest and best known 
tanning establishments in central Pennsylvania, and his output has 
always been in steady demand.  This place has been burned out twice, 
with considerable loss, the first time in May, 1859, and again on Feb. 
3, 1901; Mr. Pensyl rebuilt at once.  Though he was successful in the 
tanning business he did not devote all his time to that one line, 
becoming quite extensively interested in the shipping of horses, which 
he found profitable, and in connection with his tannery he has three 
hundred acres of valuable land at Elysburg, the old Rothermel and Hull 
farms. On this property he has erected all new buildings, and has 
everything in up-to-date condition.  Mr. Pensyl was one of the first 
directors of the First National Bank of Danville, Pa., and of the 
Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Company of Shamokin, but he has resigned 
from both boards. He is director and president of the Shamokin Township 
Fire Insurance Company. He was president of the board of supervisors of 
Ralpho township, has served many years as school director (being also 
president of the board), and in other useful associations has proved his 
public spirit and real interest in the general welfare.  His extensive 
business enterprises have afforded employment for a number of men, and 
all in all he has been as thoroughly identified with the best interests 
of the community as any other one citizen. He is a Republican in 
polities and a Baptist in religion, and formerly served as trustee of 
his church.  Socially he is a prominent member of Elysburg Lodge, No. 
414, F. & A.M., of which he is a past master, and he has been treasurer 
of that body for the past twenty years. 
	On June 28, 1860, Mr. Pensyl married Harriet C. Hull, daughter of 
Isaac and Catharine (Ritter) Hull, of Ralpho township. She died Aug. 
10, 1899, and is buried at the Rush Baptist church.  The following 
children were born to this marriage: M. Laura married William Reed, a 
prominent miller at Shamrock, Pa.;  Estella V. is the wife of Dr. Amos  
Persing; Annie M. married Preston Vought, an attorney of Mount Carmel; 
Viola married A. C. Bobb, of Paxinos; Carrie B. married Willard Mittler, 
who is engaged in farming for his  father-in-law. 

	ADAM PENSYL, son of John and Mary (Arter) Pensyl, is now living 
retired at  Elysburg, a respected citizen, who has led an industrious 
and useful life. He was born  Jan. 18, 1842, at Union Corners, in Rush 
township, Northumberland county, and there  attended the public schools. 
He was reared upon the farm, where he remained until his  enlistment, in 
1864, in Company C, 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry, with which he served to 
the close of the Civil war, thereafter doing guard duty until 
discharged.  His service included the battle at Petersburg and the eight 
days fight.  Upon his return from the army he went to Sunbury, where he 
drove a mill team for some time, after which he went back home and 
farmed his father's land until the latter's death. He then bought the 
homestead place, consisting of 150 acres, some of which has been cleared 
by him. He has made many improvements on the property, including an 
entire set of new buildings, and made his home there from 1866 until his 
retirement, in 1900.  That year he removed to Elysburg, where he has 
since resided. During his army service Mr. Pensyl contracted rheumatism, 
from which he has suffered ever since. While in Rush township he served 
as overseer of the poor, and he is a well known member of the community, 
commanding the esteem of all with whom he  associates. 
	Mr. Pensyl married Henrietta Vought, daughter of F. Howell and 
Louise (Crow]) Vought, and they have had four children: Edward, who died 
when twenty-one months old; Ambrose; Addie, who is at home; and Lena, 
who died when five years old.  The son Ambrose is now engaged in farming 
the homestead, being the third generation of his family to cultivate 
that place. He married Sadie Klingman, and their children are Leon, 
Chester, Lawrence, Myrlan and Henrietta.  The family are Lutherans in 
religious connection.  Politically Mr. Pensyl is a Democrat.  

	EMANUEL S. RADLE, of Dalmatia, now living retired, has had a 
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township and that section of the county, having held official positions 
and engaged in business there for a number of years. He was  born Jan. 
16, 1845, in Upper Paxton township, Dauphin Co., Pa., on the farm of his 
father, Daniel Radel. 
	According to family tradition and the statements of the older 
residents of this region the Radel family descends from one of the 
Hessian soldiers who came to this country to fight in King George's army 
during the Revolution and remained here after the close of the war. It 
is in part confirmed by record that Daniel and John Radel were brothers 
who came to America as Hessian soldiers. John Radel lived near 
Berrysburg, Dauphin Co., Pa., later moving across the Susquehanna river 
to Snyder or Juniata county. He was twice married, and by his first 
wife, whose maiden name was Schroyer, had these children Hannah, 
Catharine, Julia, Elizabeth, Polly, Susan, Sallie, Philip and John. His 
second wife, whose maiden name was  Minnich, was the mother of: George, 
Thomas, Simon, Jonas and Daniel. 
	There is record of the will of one Michael Roedel, of Mifflin 
township, Dauphin county, made Feb. 1, 1828, probated Jan. 26, 1829. The 
executors were his oldest son-in-law, Christophel Yeger, and Joseph 
Roedel; witnesses, John Happel, John N. Happel and Samuel Koppenhaffer. 
He left a farm in Mifflin township to his oldest sons, Joseph and  
Michael ($2,000); a farm in Mifflin to his son Daniel ($1,100); Joseph 
"shall have $471  for his hereditament"; Elizabeth, $351; Annamaria, 
$221; Marktha, $200; Catharine, $271;  Anna, $271 ; Hana, $231; Susanna, 
$251. There was another clause: Because my housewife left me 15 months 
ago without cause, and contrary to agreement as made Aug. 4, 1824, that 
had she remained until after my death she would have been paid $60 in 
money and been given free place of residence in my house and land." 
	There is also on record the will of Elizabeth Radel, dated June 9, 
1841; executor,  Benjamin Koppenhaffer.     
	The grandfather of Emanuel S. Radle had a family of three sons and 
several  daughters, three of whom are mentioned, namely: Daniel; 
Michael; Joseph; Margaret, Mrs. Jacob Hoch; E1izabeth, Mrs. Christophel 
Yeager; and Mrs. Mittle. This would indicate that he was the Michael 
Roedel whose will is given above. Of the sons, Daniel and Michael are  
mentioned below; Joseph settled across the Susquehanna river in Perry 
county, owned land and was a farmer; he is buried at Liverpool, along 
the Susquehanna.  His wife, whose maiden name was Weaver, bore him 
three children: George, Rebecca, and another daughter. 
	Daniel Radel, son of Michael, was born about 1805 in Lykens Valley, 
Dauphin county, and owned a farm of 162 acres in Upper Paxton township 
(now owned by Henry Lark) which formerly belonged to his father. He died 
in March, 1857, aged fifty-one years, six months, of typhoid fever. He 
is buried in the cemetery of Killingers Lutheran Church. He was an 
enterprising man and successful in his work. His wife, Mary Magdalena 
(Spotts), daughter of Adam Spotts, was born in Tulpehocken township, 
Berks Co.; Pa., and died in her eightieth year; she is buried at the 
Stone Valley Church, in Lower Mahanoy township, Northumberland county.  
They had children as follows: Benjamin lived in Pauls Valley, Dauphin 
county; Lydia married Alexander Schuman; Polly (Mary Magdalena) died 
unmarried; Daniel lives in Lower Mahanoy Township; John died unmarried; 
Kate married William Allman; Emanuel S. is mentioned below; Rebecca 
married Levi Bohner, and died in young womanhood. 
	Emanuel S. Radle was reared to farm life and followed that kind of 
work until he enlisted, during the Civil war, for service in the Union 
army. In August, 1864, he became a member of Company F, 201st 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, volunteering for a year, and saw 
active service in Virginia; he was detailed as dispatch carrier for a 
signal corps.  After the war he located in Lower Mahanoy township, 
Northumberland county, where he entered into a partnership with his 
father-in-law, Philip Messner, under the firm name of Messner & Radle, 
conducting a general store at Mahantango, in the extreme southwestern 
part of the township. This firm existed for four years, at the end of 
which time Mr. Radle commenced railroading on the Northern Central road, 
on which he was engaged for ten years, being watchman on Section No. 25, 
between Mahantango and Georgetown. After that he followed lumbering in 
the lower end of the county for twelve years, employing on an average 
six men. For the next four years his operations were transferred to 
Harrisburg, where he ran a mill, having purchased a section of stray 
logs. He sawed fully four million feet during those four years, and had 
as many as twenty-five men in his employ at a time.  Most of his lumber 
was disposed of in Harrisburg, Gettysburg, Carlisle, and in the central 
part of the State. His next business venture was as proprietor of a drug 
and hardware store at Georgetown (Dalmatia), and in 1902 he assumed 
personal charge of the establishment, having had a clerk there for fully 
a year. This store he conducted until the fall of 1909, when he sold out 
and retired. He prospered steadily during his active years, and besides 
two dwellings in Dalmatia, where he makes his home, he has several 
properties in Tower City, Schuylkill county. He has taken considerable 
part in the work of the Democratic party in his locality, having been 
township committeeman for four years and delegate to a number of county 
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and was justice of the peace of Lower Mahanoy township. 
	In August, 1866, Mr. Radle married Sarah Messner, daughter of 
Philip and Mary (Dockey) Messner. Mrs. Radle died May 12, 1894, aged 
forty-four years, one month, seven days, and is buried at the Union 
Church at Dalmatia. Seven children were born to this union: (1) A 
daughter, lived only twenty-four hours. (2) Philip E. graduated from the  
Mount Joy Soldiers' Orphans school, in Lancaster Co., Pa., and received 
a gold medal of honor; he also graduated from the Millersville State 
Normal school in 1898, and taught school in Philadelphia. Afterward he 
took a course in the Dickinson School of Law, was  graduated, and was 
admitted to practice in Cumberland, Northumberland and Snyder counties,  
Pa. He was accidentally killed Feb. 22, 1909, on the railroad, near 
Paradise, in Monroe county, Pa. By his first marriage, to Mamie Ziegler, 
he had one daughter, Mamie I. Mrs. Mamie Radle dying not long after her 
marriage, he married (second) Edna Paige, by whom he had three sons, 
Lawrence, Philip Rex and William M. (3) Lettie died aged seven years.  
(4) Howard died when thirteen years old. (5) Irene graduated from the 
Mount Joy, Soldiers' Orphans school, and attended the Shippensburg State 
Normal school. In 1894, in her senior year, owing to her mother's 
illness, she was obliged to return home and she tended and cared for her 
until her death. She was most successful as a teacher, having taught 
when she was but sixteen years of age. She married George W. Dilling, 
and they reside in Philadelphia.  She has two children, Carl Emerson, 
aged sixteen, and Bissie, aged seven.  (6) Julia graduated from the 
Mount Joy Soldiers' Orphan school. She also attended the Shippensburg 
State Normal school, finishing the course there.  Like her sister Irene 
she was a most successful teacher. She taught the high school at 
Dalmatia for two years, and also taught high school at Uwchland, Chester 
Co., Pa., for a time. She was a graduate from the Shoemaker Elocution 
College, Philadelphia, and later on from the Dickinson School of Law at 
Carlisle, Pa., being the first lady lawyer upon whom that school 
conferred the degree, She married Daniel A. Kline, now serving his 
second term as superintendent of schools of Perry county, Pa., where 
they reside, at New Bloomfield. Mr. Kline is a graduate of the State 
Normal school, having later taken a course at Lafayette College, at  
Easton, Pa., where he graduated with honors.  Mr. and Mrs. Kline have 
three children, all daughters, namely, Sarah V., aged six years, 
Margaret, four years and Carolyn, two years.  (7) Daniel W., who is 
unmarried and resides with his father at Dalmatia, served during the  
Spanish-American war in Cuba and the Philippine Islands. 
	Mr. Radle and his family are members of the Reformed congregation 
of the Georgetown Lutheran and Reformed Church. He has served as elder 
for twenty years, from 1891 to the present time.  
	Michael Radel, son of the Michael Roedel mentioned above, was a 
resident of Lower Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, living and 
farming near Radel's schoolhouse. He owned four large farms (one of 
them the place now belonging to Daniel Heckert) and a half interest in 
Wert's gristmill which was located along the Mahantango creek in Lower 
Mahanoy township. He was a man of affairs, and wielded considerable 
influence in his district.  His death occurred March 25, 1864, when he 
was aged fifty-six years, eight months, three days, and his wife, 
Catharine, whose maiden name was Bonawitz, subsequently married for her 
second husband Jacob Witmer. She died May 25, 1892, aged 80 years, 6 
months, 6 days, and they are buried at Zion's Church, of which Mr. 
Radel was an active Lutheran member, holding various church offices. 
The children of Michael and Catharine Radel were as follows: Solomon, 
Isaac, Henry, John, Elias, Elizabeth (married Elias Byerly), Catharine 
(married  Alexander Bingaman), Lovina (married Emanuel Klinger), Polly 
(married Harry Lentz), Emma,  Mrs. Andrew Riegel and Mary (married Hiram 
Hoch). 
	Isaac Radel, son of Michael, was born in Lower Mahanoy township, 
became a farmer, and lived and died on the farm of 100 acres near Stone 
Valley Church which he owned. He  also owned a tract of thirty-five 
acres in Mahantango Valley, Lower Mahanoy township, and was a 
substantial, respected citizen, a successful farmer and a useful member 
of his community.  His homestead is now owned by Morris Bohner. He died 
June 28, 1897, aged sixty-four years, eight months, two days, and his 
wife, Mary Ann (Lenker), daughter of George and Catharine (Snyder) 
Lenker and granddaughter of Johan Adam Snyder, died Nov. 11, 1895, aged 
sixty years, nine months, ten days. They are buried at the Stone Valley 
Church.  Mr. Radel was an active member of the Lutheran congregation of 
that church, and held the offices of deacon, elder, treasurer and 
trustee. Mr. and Mrs. Radel had these children: George, Benjamin, Emma  
(married Adam  Seaman), Malinda, Michael, Marietta (married  Harry 
Spotts), Elmer I., Jeremiah and Frank. 
	ELMER I. RADEL, a farmer of Lower Mahanoy township, near Hickory 
Corners, was born in that township Sept. 3, 1869. He worked for his 
parents until he attained his majority, gaining a thorough knowledge of 
farm work, and afterward for ten years engaged in threshing, sawmilling 
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He was engaged in his own and other counties, having spent about five 
years, in all, in Montour county. In 1900 he purchased the William 
Schaffer homestead, a tract of 131 acres (some of which is woodland) 
near Hickory Corners, upon which he has since made his home.  He is 
successfully engaged in dairying as well as general farming, having a 
fine dairy herd, including some registered Holstein cattle, and takes 
milk daily to Dalmatia and Hickory Corners. He has been road 
commissioner of his township since 1908. On June 18, 1892, Mr. Radel 
married Lizzie Spotts, daughter of Aaron and Sarah J. (Schaffer) 
Spotts, and they have had children as follows: Charles (deceased), Nevin 
(deceased), George B. (deceased), a son that died in infancy, Maud H., 
Clarence E., Margaret E. and Mabel Pauline. In politics Mr. Radel is a 
Republican, and in religion he is a Lutheran, holding membership in the 
Stone Valley (Zion's) Church, of which his wife is a Reformed member. He 
is giving his second period of service as treasurer, and has also been 
deacon and elder. He has also been active in the work of the Sunday 
school, in which he was a teacher for about fifteen years.  

	DANIEL W. KEHLER, member of the firm of Kehler Brothers, attorneys 
at law, and who also conduct a real estate and fire insurance business, 
at Mount Carmel, is a member of a family of German origin which has been 
long established in this State.  He was admitted to the bar Dec. 22, 
1902. 
	Charles Kehler, grandfather of Daniel W., followed farming in 
Eldred township, Schuylkill Co., Pa., where he died.  His son, Charles 
Z. Kehler, was a butcher, and followed his trade for some time. He 
located in Mount Carmel in 1882, and was here engaged at day labor 
until his death which occurred Jan. 25, 1898.  He is buried in the Union 
Cemetery, in Eldred township, Schuylkill county. His widow, Sarah 
(Wetzel), daughter of Henry and Catharine (Hoffman) Wetzel still makes 
her home in Mount Carmel.  They had a family of seven children, namely: 
Emma is the wife of S. H. Geist a merchant of Mount Carmel; Thomas died 
when nineteen years old; Daniel W. is mentioned below; B. W. is employed 
as car inspector on the Lehigh Valley railroad; Charles H. is a boss in 
the employ of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company; Kate is 
the wife of H. H. Otto and is living at Tremont Pa.; James O. was 
graduated from the Mount Carmel high school, the Bloomsburg State normal 
school and the University of Pennsylvania and is now practicing law in 
partnership with his brother. 
	Daniel W. Kehler was born in 1868 in Schuylkill county, came to 
Mount Carmel in  the spring of 1882 with his parents, and graduated from 
the high school in 1888. He then entered Schuylkill Seminary (now 
Albright College), at Myerstown, Lebanon Co., Pa., and subsequently 
studied law in the office of J. E. Bastress at Mount Carmel. He was 
admitted to the bar of Northumberland county Dec. 22, 1902, and to 
practice in the Supreme court in January, 1903. In 1909 he formed his 
present partnership with his younger brother, James G. Kehler.  Their 
offices are at No. 18 1/2  North Oak street and in addition to a general 
law business of growing proportions they deal in real estate and fire 
insurance.  Mr. Daniel W. Kehler has, in his several years of practice, 
attained considerable reputation and gained the confidence of his fellow 
citizens of Mount Carmel, and he is at present serving them as borough 
solicitor. He has filled other public trusts, having been borough 
auditor three years and is at present a member of the school-board from 
the Fourth ward.  He is a member of the Anthracite Fire Company and was 
one of the trustees of same for some time. 
	When a boy, shortly after the family removed to Mount Carmel, Mr. 
Kehler met with an unfortunate accident while engaged in picking slate 
at one of the collieries, losing his right arm Sept. 12, 1882. He has, 
however, completely overcome any disability on this  account. 
	Socially Mr. Kehler holds membership in the P.O.S. of A., 
Washington Camp No. 231; in the I.O.O.F., John Stine Lodge, No. 1150; 
in the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Red Men.  He is a leading 
member of St Paul's United Evangelical Church, in the work of which 
congregation he takes an active part, and he has been an official many 
years.  In politics he is identified with the Republican party. 
	On Oct. 16, 1904, Mr. Kehler married Carrie Ayers, daughter of 
Alfred Ayers, of Mount Cannel, and they reside at No. 32 South Maple 
street, Mount Carmel. They have had two children, a son that died in 
infancy and Anna Evelyn. 

	ALFRED Ayers, father of Mrs. Daniel W. Kehler, is one of the oldest 
residents of Mount Carmel. He was born July 25, 1841, at York Tunnel, 
Schuylkill Co., Pa., son of Abram and Anna (Russell) Ayers, the former 
of whom was a miner in Schuylkill and Northumberland counties, at one 
time a mine foreman; he also operated a mine on his own account. He 
moved to Mount Carmel in 1853 and there resided until his death, in 
1883. He married Anna Russell, like himself a native of England, whose 
father, James Russell, was a pioneer  miner of Schuylkill county, where 
he lived and died. To Mr. and Mrs. Abram Ayers were born the following 
children: Mary A., Mrs. Frank Pershing; Alfred; Caroline; Ettie, Mrs. 
John  Bell; Clara, Mrs. John Shaw; and Sarah, Mrs. Frank Shoener. 
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father in 1853. He began mine work on a breaker, was afterward employed 
as a loader, and finally became a miner. By faithful work he won 
promotion to the position of fire boss, then became assistant boss, and 
in December, 1888, became inside foreman at the Alaska shaft. 
	During the Civil war Mr. Ayers served nine months in Company G, 
129th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and received an honorable 
discharge after completing his term. He is a Republican in politics. 
	On Oct. 18, 1860, Mr. Ayers married Caroline E. Adams, daughter of 
James Adams, of Mount Carmel, and they had a large family, ten of whom 
reached maturity, namely: Eliza E. (Mrs. Robert Taylor), Matthew H., 
Bessie (Mrs. Charles Hertzog),. S. Matilda, Carrie (Mrs. D. W. Kehler), 
James, Alfred, Claude, Howard and Irvin.  

	RICHARD. H. EDWARDS, of Trevorton, has lived practically retired 
since 1903; though he finds his time occupied to a great extent with 
the management of his real estate holdings. He is an old miner and 
former hotel-keeper, having for five years conducted the "Central 
Hotel," which he still owns. Mr. Edwards was born Sept. 29, 1848, in 
Cornwall, England, son of Henry Edwards, who followed farming and worked 
in the copper mines in England. He came to America after his son had 
settled here, arriving in this country May 26, 1881, and from that time 
until his death made his home at Trevorton, Northumberland Co., Pa.  He 
followed farming and hauling after settling here.  His death occurred 
May 6,  1893, and his wife, Catherine (Pengally), died in Trevorton 
March 27, 1890, aged sixty- seven years.  They are buried in the 
Methodist cemetery at Irish Valley.  Of their children, Richard H. is 
mentioned below; John, Margaret and William died in England; Jessie and 
Annie M. came to America with their parents. 
	When twenty-two years old Richard H. Edwards came to America, and 
for a short time was employed in the iron works at Mount Hope, Morris 
Co., N. J.  Coming to Pennsylvania, he located at Ralston, Lycoming 
county, for a short time before settling at Trevorton, where he found 
employment at mining, in the North Franklin colliery.  He was engaged at 
such work for about twenty-eight years in all.  Meantime he acquired the 
"Central Hotel" property, and himself conducted the hotel for five 
years, before he gave up mining.  In 1898 he made vast improvements in 
this property, of which he still retains possession, the hotel business 
being now conducted by William H. Francis. It is a stand well known to 
the traveling public and a good business has been done there for many 
years.  Mr. Edwards retired from active work in 1903 since when he has 
given his attention to the care of his real estate interests, which are 
quite extensive. By good management and thrift he has gained a position 
among the substantial men of his community, and has received recognition 
as one of its trusted citizens, having been chosen to serve as township 
treasurer. He is a Republican in politics, a Methodist in religious 
connection and fraternally a member of Lodge No. 528, I.O.O.F., of 
Trevorton. In 1907 Mr. Edwards made a trip to his native  country, 
having a pleasant visit to his old home and friends. 
	By his first marriage, to Christian Rahmer, Mr. Edwards had no 
children. His second marriage was to Alma Rahmer, and they became the 
parents of six children: Katie, who married Henry Pengally; George, of 
Trevorton; Grace, who married William Shuck; Blanche, who married Lewis 
Sheaffer; Emiah, who married D. Fuller; and John. His third marriage was 
to Mrs. Emma (Ossman) Umholtz. There are no children of this union, but 
by her first marriage Mrs. Edwards had a daughter, Eva, who is now the 
wife of Charles Cook and lives at Elizabethville, Dauphin Co., Pa. Mr. 
and Mrs. Edwards make their home on  Shamokin street, in Trevorton.  

	JOHN T. BROWER, late of the borough of Herndon, was one of the 
substantial and influential residents of that place, with whose 
progress he had been identified for a number of years, as a business man 
being one of the leading factors in its material development.  He 
retired from active business in 1905. 
	Mr. Brower was born May 18, 1845, in Jackson township, 
Northumberland county, son of Nathan and Caroline (Troutman) Brower.  
Nathan Brower was born in Chester county, Pa., June 20, 1817, and when 
fourteen years old moved to Uniontown, Dauphin county, where he made his 
home with Isaac Matthias until he reached the age of twenty years. He 
learned the milling trade, and after following it several years at 
Uniontown went to Dornsife, Northumberland county, where he was engaged 
in the same line for a period of eleven years, doing a prosperous 
business. Later he became a farmer, acquiring a 115-acre tract in  
Jackson township, which he continued to cultivate until a few years 
before his death. He died June 4, 1895, and is buried at Uniontown. Mr. 
Brower was prominent in his section in both business circles and church 
life, being active in the work of the United Evangelical Association, 
which he supported with a liberal hand. He married Caroline Troutman, 
who was born Sept. 28, 1821, daughter of Jacob Troutman, and died Feb. 
24, 1901. They were the parents of five children, namely: Mary married 
Benjamin Clement (who is now deceased) and they lived in Jackson 
township; John T. is mentioned below; Sarah married Samuel Rumberger and 
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live at Elizabethville; Elizabeth married Henry Lautenslayer; Daniel is 
mentioned below.  
	John T. Brower was reared in Jackson township, being trained to 
farm work from early boyhood. On March 29, 1865, he enlisted, at 
Harrisburg, Pa., in Company C, 74th  Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer 
Infantry, for three years' service, but the war closing he was mustered 
out Aug. 29, 1865.  Upon his return to civil life Mr. Brower engaged in  
merchandising at Bull Run, in Jackson township, where he continued for 
one year, coming thence to Herndon, where he was in active business for 
thirty years, having a successful career until his retirement, in 1905, 
when his son John succeeded to the business, which he still conducts. 
Mr. Brower carried a comprehensive line of general merchandise, and his  
patronage was large, being drawn from the surrounding territory for 
miles around. He took a public spirited interest in the welfare of the 
place, and helped to establish several industries at Herndon, built a 
number of dwellings and business houses in the town, and in various ways 
contributed to its upbuilding in the best sense. He was instrumental in 
the organization of the borough, which he advocated warmly as important 
to the best interests of the town. He was a Republican or political 
questions. 
	Mr. Brower's first wife, Sarah (Latsha), died in 1886, the mother 
of two children: Mary, who married Lincoln Otto, postmaster at Herndon; 
and John, who has succeeded his father in the mercantile business at 
Herndon.  On April 9, 1889, Mr. Brower married (second) Emma (Hensyl) 
Hoke, daughter of Jesse and Magdalena (First) Hensyl and widow of George 
Hoke. By her first marriage she had one son, George E. who is located at 
St. Paul, Minn., attorney for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. 
	Mr. Brower died May 21, 1910. 

	DANIEL BROWER, brother of John T. Brower was born Aug. 25, 1856, 
and during his boyhood attended the schools of the home locality. 
Meantime he began his practical training for farm work, continuing with 
his father until twelve years after his marriage, and in 1888 he began 
farming his present property, a tract of 107 acres in Jackson township, 
two miles east of Herndon. This was an old Peifer homestead. Mr. Brower 
remodeled the house and the barn, and has made other improvements to 
bring his place up to modern requirements, keeping the farm in 
creditable condition. He makes a specialty of dairying, running a daily 
milk route to Herndon. Since l908 he has been a school director of his 
district. 
	On Dec. 31, 1876, Mr. Brower married Amanda Swab, daughter of Eli 
and Nellie (Cooper) Swab, of Washington township, Dauphin Co., Pa., and 
granddaughter of Jacob Swab and of Jacob Cooper, of Washington township, 
that county. Mr. and Mrs. Brower have had children as follows: A. Alice, 
who is unmarried; Sallie, wife of Daniel Willard, of Jackson township, 
who has children Olive and Earnest F.; Nellie; Mabel, who married 
Charles Kobel and has a son, Daniel E; and Katie. Mr. Brower and his 
family attend the Lutheran Church. He is a Republican in politics.  

	WILLIAM P. O'CONNOR, former member of the Pennsylvania Legislature 
from  Northumberland county, is a resident of Shamokin, where he is 
proprietor of the "Shamokin House," located at No. 613 North Shamokin 
street. He is a prominent member of the Democratic party, served as 
committeeman from his district a number of years. Mr. O'Connor is a 
native of the borough of Shamokin, born May 4, 1870, son of Michael 
O'Connor. 
	Michael O'Connor was born in Ireland and brought his family from 
that country to America in 1868, landing at New York City. After a brief 
residence in New Jersey, engaged at his trade, that of potter, he came 
to Shamokin (in 1868) and here found work at mining, following that 
occupation the rest of his active years. He lived retired for a number 
of years before his death, which occurred Jan. 16, 1894.  He married 
Catherine Costello, a native of Ireland, whose people settled at Fall 
River; Mass., and she died Oct. 17, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. O'Connor are 
buried at Shamokin.  Nine children were born to them: Michael, who lives 
in Shamokin; Charles, of Trevorton, Pa.; Thomas, of Shamokin; Patrick, 
of Shamokin; James, of Shamokin; Margaret, wife of Thomas Lamey, of 
Shamokin; William Francis, who died young; William P.; and F. Henry, who 
died July 20, 1872, and who was the second person and first male child 
buried in the Catholic cemetery at Shamokin. 
	William P. O'Connor received his education in the public schools of 
Shamokin. In 1897 he was appointed a letter carrier in Shamokin and was 
thus engaged for about ten years, until he took his seat in the 
Legislature, to which he was elected Nov. 10, 1906.  His services began 
Jan. 1, 1907, and during his term he performed one service for the  
community which has given him a permanent place in the esteem of his 
fellow citizens. It was through his efforts that the State hospital for 
injured persons at Shamokin, which cares for the injured from the 
Shamokin, Mount Carmel and coal fields, was established, and he was 
highly complimented for his labors in behalf of this institution, which 
has proved such a blessing to the locality. Mr. O'Connor is at present a 
candidate for reelection to the Legislature. On Aug. 1, 1907, he became 
proprietor of the hotel known as the "Shamokin House," at No. 613 North 
Shamokin street, and he is making a success of the business, his genial 
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good management gaining and retaining a lucrative patronage. Fraternally 
he is well known as a member of the Owls, the A.O.H. and the F.O.E., and 
he was a charter member of the West End Fire Company and is a member of 
the Veteran Firemen's Association, in the work of which he takes an 
active part. He  belongs to St. Edward's Catholic Church. 
	In 1894 Mr. O'Connor married Ella Cotter, daughter of Cornelius and 
Catherine Cotter, and they have a family of four children: Chester, 
William, Cornelius and Sarah. 
	Mr. O'Connor is a "double" of Frank McClain, present mayor of 
Lancaster, Pa., who was formerly speaker of the State House of 
Representatives.  

	FREDERICK HAAS, whose connection with the business and public life 
of Sunbury has been important and long continued, is the owner of a 
thriving industrial establishment at that place and one of its most 
prosperous business men. He was for two terms, l895-1900 - register and 
recorder and clerk of the Orphans' court, to which responsibility he was 
elected although a Republican in what was then a Democratic stronghold. 
Mr. Haas has been identified with many local organizations, business, 
social, political, etc., and is a citizen of the most reliable 
character, one whose work for the community is the best guaranty of what 
he may be counted upon to perform. 
	Mr. Haas was born May 3, 1858, in Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., 
but his family has been identified with Northumberland county for 
several generations.  The first of the family in America, Frederick 
Haas, came to this country from Germany in 1757, and located for a time 
in Berks county, Pa., later settling in Northumberland county, at 
Sunbury,  where he remained until his death. His son Frederick, who 
conducted a general store and had various other business interests in 
Sunbury, married a Miss Martz, and they had two sons, Frederick and 
John, the former being the grandfather of the present Frederick Haas of 
Sunbury. 
	Frederick Haas, grandson of the emigrant and grandfather of 
Frederick Haas, was born in Sunbury in 1800. He carried on a tanyard, 
was engaged in merchandising, and ran a line of boats, being one of the 
busiest men of his day, energetic and thrifty in everything he 
undertook. Going to Pottsville, Schuylkill county, he engaged in the 
coal business as an operator, and after four years at that place moved 
to Schuylkill Haven, same county, where he carried on the hotel 
business, in which he was also interested at Pottsville. In 1850 he 
located in Shamokin and for seven years was in the hotel business  
there. He died in 1859, and is buried in the Shamokin cemetery.  Mr. 
Haas was an old-line Whig and prominent in local politics in his day.  
He was treasurer of Northumberland county from 1824 to 1827. He married 
Elizabeth Schwartz, daughter of Philip Michael and Margaret (Slosser) 
Schwartz, the former of whom came to America from Wurtemberg in Colonial 
days and served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war; he was at Valley 
Forge, was taken prisoner while in the service and was eventually 
exchanged.  In 1798 Mr. Schwartz came to Sunbury and took up 600 acres 
of land at Beaver Meadows, where he remained the rest of his active 
life.  He was the father of Hon. John Schwartz, who represented the 
Seventh Congressional district of Pennsylvania in Congress. He died at 
Sunbury and is buried in the old cemetery there. Mr. and Mrs. Haas had a 
family of ten children: Dr. William died at Mount Carmel; Elizabeth 
died young; Margaret married Edw. C. Hannah; Frederick died in Shamokin; 
Jacob W. is mentioned below; Catharine died unmarried; Francis died 
young; James H. was a member of Company K, 46th Pennsylvania Volunteer 
Infantry, during the Civil war, and was killed at the battle of Cedar 
Mountain; Charles was a conductor on the Pennsylvania railroad and was 
killed; John P. M., who served in the  Civil war, died in Washington, D. 
C. 
	Jacob W. Haas, father of Frederick Haas, was born June 25, 1833, at 
Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and there passed his early life. He was 
engaged as a clerk and bookkeeper until his enlistment for service in 
the Civil war, Sept. 1, 1861, at Pottsville, where he became a member of 
Company G, 96th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, with which command he 
served throughout the war. He attained the rank of captain. He took part 
in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac from 1861 to 1863.  After 
the war Mr. Haas spent two years in the oil fields of western 
Pennsylvania.  In 1867 he went to Shamokin, and was connected with 
various collieries in that vicinity for thirty-five years, being clerk 
and foreman. In 1880 he made a tour of the Southern States prospecting 
for the Roanoke Iron Company. During his son's terms as recorder he 
served as deputy recorder.  In 1901 Mr. Haas gave up active work and has 
since lived retired at Shamokin.  He is a Republican in politics, but 
has taken little interest in active public life.  He married Eliza E. 
Jones, daughter of John J. and Mary (Jenkin's) Jones, and they have had 
four children: Mary, who married E. L. Burkert, of Philadelphia; 
Frederick; John, of Brooklyn; and James Franklin, of Shamokin, who is 
the Associated Press correspondent at that point. 
	Frederick Haas was nine years old when his parents settled in 
Shamokin. He had commenced his education in the public schools of his 
native place, and he took the course in the high school at Shamokin, 
after which, in 1878, he entered the United States Military Academy at 
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Point, N. Y., intending to qualify for the army. However, after taking 
part of the course he was obliged to resign on account of ill health, 
and he returned home. For fourteen years Mr. Haas was engaged as clerk 
at the Luke Fidler colliery, at Shamokin, and in the recorder's office 
at Sunbury, so that when he was himself elected recorder was well 
prepared to enter upon the duties of the position. In 1894 he was the 
Republican candidate for the office of register, recorder and clerk of 
the Orphans' court, and though the county was strongly Democratic at 
the time he was successful, assuming the office Jan. 1, 1895. In 1897 
he was re-elected, and completed his second term, serving to the close 
of 1900. He has long been an influential member of his party, and in 
1900, during the McKinley campaign, he was county chairman.  He has 
proved an efficient worker in every capacity. 
	Upon the expiration of his second term as recorder Mr. Haas engaged 
in business, purchasing the Sunbury Coffin & Casket Company, which was  
organized in 1874 with members of the Clement family as principal 
owners.  Under Mr. Haas's management the business has shown a 
gratifying increase. The greater part of the trade is found within a 
hundred miles of Sunbury, but it is growing constantly, and Mr. Haas has 
made a number of improvements in the equipment of the establishment and 
the  handling of the business which promise to bring about good results. 
	Mr. Haas is member of Mount Tabor Lodge, No. 125, I.O.O.F., and of 
Sunbury Lodge, No. 22, F. & A.M. He was a charter member of the Rescue 
Hose Company of Shamokin., In 1877 he became a member of Company B, 7th 
Regiment Pennsylvania National Guard, in 1880 became lieutenant, and 
four years later resigned. 
	In 1892 Mr. Haas married Nellie Murray, of Shamokin, and they have 
had two children: Frank M. and Frederick, Jr.  

	FRANK W. SHIPE, secretary of the Herndon Manufacturing Company, of 
Herndon, Northumberland county, is one of the foremost citizens of his 
section, and has been prominent in official as well as business circles, 
serving the community efficiently in various positions of trust and 
proving his ability in his various undertakings. He is native of Jackson 
township, born July 25, 1851 son of Abraham and Lydia (Rebuck) Shipe, 
and comes of a family which has been settled in this county for several 
generations, since the time of his grandfather, Jacob Shipe. This name 
is variously spelled, Shive, Scheib  and Sheib being common forms. 
	Jacob Shipe was born Jan. 24, 1772, in Doylestown, Bucks Co., Pa., 
and coming to Northumberland county settled shortly after his marriage 
on a farm near Seven Points, in what was then Lower Augusta township. He 
purchased 240 acres, and there passed the remainder of his life, dying 
there Jan. 27, 1845. He followed farming and was successful. His wife 
Barbara (Fluck), born March 27, 1777, died Oct. 29, 1857, and they are 
buried at the Stone church,  Augustaville, both having been active 
members of the Reformed congregation of that Church. Their children were 
as follows: (1) John F. (Shive), who obtained the homestead after his 
father's death, died Jan. 30, 1890, aged eighty-eight years, one month, 
seventeen days. His wife, Rachel Gehringer, died March 8, 1885, aged 
seventy-nine years, eleven months, twenty-one days. They had a large 
family, among their sons being Levi, Henry George and  William.  (2) 
Henry is mentioned below. (3) David was a farmer in Upper Augusta 
township, and died Oct. 30, 1881, aged seventy years, twenty-five days.  
His wife Margaret, who died June 28, 1890, aged seventy-seven years, 
four months, sixteen days, was the mother of Enos, Hettie, Sarah, Mrs. 
Emanuel Kulp, Mrs. Sarah Barhart and Hannah.  (4) George passed most of 
his life at Shamokin, and followed merchandising. His wife was a Hoover, 
and they had three sons and three daughters, William, George, Albert, 
Catharine, Barbara and Alice.  (5) Samuel was a farmer in Lower Augusta 
township.  His wife, Lovina Fryling, born Aug. 29, 1814, died March 15, 
1877. They had children: John, Reuben (born March 25, 1848, died Jan. 1, 
1872, being killed while "shooting off" an anvil loaded with powder), 
Isaac F., Henry, Washington, and Louisa C. (deceased).  (6) Catharine 
married Daniel Long, and they had one son (Samuel) and six daughters. 
They were farming people in Lower Augusta  township. (7) Abraham was the 
father of Frank W. Shipe. 
	Abraham Shipe, son of Jacob, was born Dec. 14, 1822, in Lower 
Augusta township, and there grew to manhood. He learned the carpenter's 
trade in his youth, and followed it all his life, both as a journeyman 
and as an employer, having work for a number of men and teaching the 
trade to many. He erected a number of substantial buildings in Sunbury. 
He lived, at Lock Haven, Pa., for seven years, and thence in 1868 came 
to Sunbury, where he passed the remainder of his days, dying Aug. 14, 
1874, in his fifty-second year. Mr. Shipe was an intelligent man, 
showing fine mechanical ability in his work and proving a valuable  
factor in the various circles in which he moved. He served six years as 
assessor of Jackson township, and was an officer of the Reformed Church 
in which he held membership. 
	In 1840 Mr. Shipe married (first) Esther Henninger, who died Nov. 
2, 1846, aged twenty-three years, eleven months, eight days, the mother 
of three children: Peter, who  died at Reading, Pa.; Susan, widow of 
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apolis, Kans., where she still resides; and Barbara, who died in 
infancy.  Mr. Shipe's second marriage was to Lydia Rebuck, who died  
Nov. 10, 1905, in her eighty-sixth year.  She is buried at Mahanoy 
church, and Mr. Shipe is buried in Lower Augusta township. They had four 
children: Abbie Ann and Lucy Jane, twins, the former of whom is the 
widow of H. Z. Drumheller (Lucy Jane died at the age of twelve years); 
Frank W.; and Martin E., a carpenter, now residing at Montgomery, 
Alabama. 
	Frank W. Shipe received his education at the schools of Lock Haven, 
Pa. At the age of seventeen he commenced to learn the carpenter trade, 
which he followed for two years.  In 1873 he entered the employ of Ira 
T. Clement, who operated a large planing-mill, remaining with him for 
nine years, after which he took charge of an organ factory at Sunbury. 
He was thus engaged three years, at the end of that time taking charge 
of William Whitmer & Sons' planing-mill, at Sunbury, where he was 
engaged for seven years. Seventy people were employed there. In 1891 Mr. 
Shipe came to Herndon, where he became associated with John D. Bogar and 
George W. Rhoads in the organization of the Herndon Manufacturing  
Company, of which he has been secretary and manager ever since. They 
manufacture fine mill work and interior finishings of all kinds, 
especially the high class work required in the completion of houses, and 
have been successful from the start. When they commenced business six 
men were sufficient to turn out the work in hand. Now employment is 
given to eighty men, and the trade extends all over the eastern part of 
the United States. The business has been built up by progressive methods 
and the ability to hold customers by giving the satisfaction and service 
they desire, by anticipating their wants and enterprise in introducing 
new and improved products, all of which appeal to up-to-date business 
people. 
	Mr. Shipe has been an excellent citizen, and in spite, of his busy 
life has found time to serve the community. He was a member of the 
school board of Jackson township for six years, during which time he was 
secretary of the board four years and president one year. Since 1906 he 
has been a member of the Herndon council, and he was the second chief  
burgess of that town.  Politically he is a Republican. 
	On July 3, 1873, Mr. Shipe married Margaret Martz; daughter of 
William K. and  Susan (Bowen) Martz, of Sunbury, and to them were born 
two children: Laura married A. W. Smith, of Lewisburg, Pa., and has one 
daughter, Ethel Wynn; Elizabeth M. married Charles Eby, of Herndon, and 
has four children, Edgar, Gertrude, Esther and Margaret. Mrs. Shipe died 
Sept. 10, 1883, aged thirty-nine years. Mr. Shipe's second marriage was 
to Lydia L. Drumheller, daughter of Nicholas S. and Abigail (Kembel) 
Drumheller, of Jackson township, prominent residents of that district, 
who were members of the Evangelical Association and are buried at 
Zartman's church. By this marriage there are also two children; Robert 
W., of Herndon, his father's assistant at the Herndon Manufacturing 
Company, married Nellie Trautman; Paul E. graduated from the Herndon 
high school in 1908, at the age of fourteen.  Mr. Shipe and his family 
worship at the Reformed Church.  
	Henry Shipe, son of Jacob, above, was an extensive farmer in Lower 
Augusta township, where he was a large landowner, among other holdings, 
owning the farm now in the possession of John Drumm. He had a farm for 
each of his eight children. He died May 28, 1887, aged eighty-three 
years, three months, eight days, and is buried at Hollowing Run Lutheran 
and Reformed church., His wife, Hannah, was a Reeser. She died Aug. 24, 
1880, aged seventy-six years, four months, five days.  They had 
children: Catharine married Daniel Shipe; Mary married John Gehringer; 
Hannah married Frank Kelley; Hettie married Jacob Long; Solomon R., who 
lived at Sunbury, died Jan. 24, 1885, aged fifty-seven years, twenty-
six days (his wife Mary died Jan. 27, 1901, aged sixty-six years, seven 
months, twenty-two days); David R., who lived at Shamokin Hill, died 
Dec. 3, 1887, aged fifty-eight years, three months, twenty-five days 
(his wife Maria died March 20, 1900, aged seventy-three years, three 
months, fourteen days and they are buried at Mount Pleasant M. E. 
church, in Upper Augusta township); Aaron lived at Shamokin Dam; there 
was another son. 
	Daniel Shipe (son of Samuel) and his wife Catharine (daughter of 
Henry) lived on the farm now the property of Landis Shipe, and were 
farming people. They are buried at the Lutheran and Reformed church in 
Hollowing Run. Mr. Shipe died Dec. 10, 1902, aged seventy-one years, two 
months, seven days, and his wife died Jan. 20, 1905, aged seventy-one 
years, seven months, thirteen days.  They had these children: Samuel, 
Nelson, Sneary (?), William, Landis (died aged four years), Alice 
(married Oliver Shaffer) and Rose. 
	Landis Shaffer Shipe, son of Oliver and Alice (Shipe) Shaffer, has 
formally adopted the name Shipe. He was born July 9, 1878, was reared to 
farm life, and after his mother's death obtained the farm which belonged 
to her, a tract then consisting of 130 acres. Mr. Shipe has sold forty-
seven acres, retaining the other eighty-three acres; where he carries on 
general farming.  He attends the Sunbury markets, his farm being located 
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ing an energetic young man and an excellent manager. Mr. Shipe married 
Maud Hetrick, daughter of John and Catharine (Thomas) Hetrick, of Lower 
Augusta township, and they have had four children, Daisy, George, Mary, 
and Harry, all born in the month of July, two years apart. Mr. Shipe is 
a member of the Reformed Church, with which his family is identified. 
	Samuel Shipe was a resident of Lower Augusta Township, living on 
the tract now belonging to the estate of Peter Lenker.  He was a 
blacksmith by trade. His children were: Maria married David R. Shipe; 
Sallie married Daniel Martz; Elizabeth married Joseph Neidig and 
(second) Joseph Gass; Samuel lived and died in Washington township; a 
daughter died after she had grown up and left these parts; Daniel 
married Catharine Shipe, daughter of Henry. 

	ELIAS R. REITZ, of Mount Carmel, and formerly a well known resident 
of Washington township, this county, is a member of a family well 
represented in Northumberland, particularly in Washington, Little 
Mahanoy and Lower Augusta townships, in which section it was founded in 
the middle of the eighteenth century by one George Reitz, who settled in 
Washington township among the earliest  pioneers of that region. 
	George Reitz settled in Washington township among its first 
residents and was a large landowner there, his original tract including 
the land now embraced in the farms of Luther Rebuck, William Rebuck, 
Harvey Rothermel, Charles B. Hetrich and A. C. Adams. He is buried in an 
unmarked grave near a fence, in the orchard on the farm now owned by C. 
B. Hetrich. Among his children were sons Andraes (Andrew) and Michael. 
	Michael Reitz, son of George, born in January, 1757, died Dec. 17, 
1825.  He lived near what is now Rebuck, in Washington (then Upper 
Mahanoy) township, and there his death occurred; he is buried at 
Himmel's church, in that township, having been a Lutheran member of that 
church. When the church was erected in 1818 there were a Michael and a 
Peter Reitz among the members of the building committee. A Michael Reitz 
is on the communion list of June 30, 1776, of that church. He married 
Elizabeth Schnope, who died Dec. 18, 1853, aged  eighty-seven years, and 
they were the parents of the following children: Michael; Peter, who 
settled near Richfield, in Juniata county, Pa.; William, who settled in 
Jefferson county, Pa.; Daniel, who lived on the old homestead, as did 
Jonathan; Henry, who lived in Washington township; George, who settled 
in Jefferson county; John, who settled in Jefferson county; and two 
daughters.  All lived to old age.  
	Daniel Reitz; son of Michael, Jr., was born Aug. 11, 1804, near 
Rebuck, and came into possession of the old homestead, which comprised 
about four hundred acres. He followed farming there to the end of his  
active life, and died upon his farm Jan. 9, 1886.  His wife, Susanna 
Burrell, born June  26, 1810, died Jan. 12, 1881. They had a large 
family, viz.: Maria married Elias Rebuck; Jonathan B. died in Missouri; 
Samuel B. is mentioned below; Katie married (first) Godfried Rebuck and 
(second) Andrew Rebuck (brothers); John B. is living in Nebraska; Salome 
married Milton Drumheller; Elizabeth married Jared Snyder; Michael B. 
lives in Washington township, this county; Leonard B. lives in Nebraska; 
Daniel B. lives in Mifflintown, Juniata county, and is at present (1910) 
sheriff of that county. 
	Samuel B. Reitz, son of Daniel, was born in 1832 on a part of the 
old Reitz  homestead. In his early life he learned the tailor's trade 
and followed it for some time, but he eventually settled down to 
farming, owning part of the old homestead. He died June 29, 1906.  He 
married Eliza Reitz, daughter of Philip and Annie Wagner, and to them 
were born nine children: Nathan died young; John B. is a resident of 
Nebraska; Elias B. is mentioned below; Henry M. is a resident of 
Sunbury, this county; Mary A. married William Rebuck; Andrew D. is 
living in Jefferson county, Pa.; Susan married George A. Foltz, of 
Sunbury; George W. is living at the homestead; Hannah A., who is 
unmarried, lives in Shamokin, this county.  
	Elias R. Reitz, son of Samuel, was born Jan. 19, 1858, at the old 
Reitz homestead.  He received his education in the schools of the 
locality and taught school for five terms in Washington township. Until 
he was twenty he was engaged at farm work, to which he had been reared, 
and for eleven years was in the mercantile business at Rebuck, in 
Washington township, where he became very well known, serving eleven 
years as justice of the peace and three years as jury commissioner 
during his residence there. In 1905 he came to Mount Carmel, where he 
has since resided.  He engaged in the wholesale produce business in  
partnership with John L. Reitz, under the firm name of E. R. & J. L. 
Reitz, and after withdrawing from this association engaged in mercantile 
business on his own account for a short time. His home is at No. 234 
West Third street, and he has represented his ward, the Fourth, on the 
school hoard, although he is a Democrat and the ward is normally a 
strong Republican district. In public or private life his record is a 
creditable one, for he has won recognition as a useful citizen in every 
community with which he has been identified.  
	On Dec. 27, 1885, Mr. Reitz married Lydia E. (Gehres) Kehres, 
daughter of Nathan  E. and Catherine (Hoffman) Gehres, or Kehres, and 
they have had three children, as follows: Bertha M. died when eighteen 
years old; Mabel G. is a graduate of the Keystone  State normal school, 
at Kutztown; Charles H. is attending the Mount Carmel  
	
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high school, being a member of the class of 1911. Mr. Reitz is a 
Lutheran in religious connection, his wife a member of the Reformed 
Church.  Socially he holds membership in the Elks, Odd Fellows and Red 
Men.