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	BENNEVILLE M. BUBB, of Dalmatia, is one of the oldest justices in 
Northumberland county, his services as such having extended over a period of 
more than forty years - from 1869 to the present. There are few men in his 
locality better known, and none commands more respect than this venerable 
citizen, who holds a most honored place in the esteem of all his fellow men. He 
was born Nov. 21, 1833, in Lower Mahanoy township, son of Philip Bubb, and 
comes of an old settled family of the region, where his grandfather, Johan 
Philip, lived and died. 
	Johan Philip Bubb, born Sept. 28, 1789, owned a tract of land in Lower 
Mahanoy township, and was a cooper by trade. He died Dec. 10, 1854, and was 
buried at Zion's church. His two wives, Magdalena and Hannah Kerstetter, 
respectively, were sisters, and his children, the two first named born to the 
first union, were as follows: Philip, Lydia (married Joseph Fenstermacher), 
Polly (married John Patrick), Sally (married Josiah Wert), Catharine (married 
Jacob Michael), Susan (married Augustas Badman, late of Montgomery county, Pa.) 
and Isaac (who was a farmer in Lower Mahanoy township). Philip Bobb had a 
brother Michael and sisters Elizabeth (Mrs. John Lenker), Mrs. Paul Lahr, Mrs. 
Michael Wert and Mrs. Witmer. 
	Philip Bobb, son of Philip, was born in Mahanoy township, Northumberland 
county, and became a well known resident of Lower Mahanoy township, where he 
owned a tract of land. He followed shoemaking until his retirement, and died at 
a ripe; old age. His wife, Magdalena (Michael), was born Jan. 2, 1810, 
daughter of Wilhelm Michael, and died Jan. 16, 1895. Philip Bubb and his wife 
are buried at Dalmatia. He was a Lutheran, she a member of the Reformed Church. 
They had ten children, five of whom died young, the others being: Benneville 
M.; Elizabeth, who married Peter Sechrist; Sarah, who married George Shull; 
Isaac, who died while serving in defense of his country in the Civil war, being 
killed at the siege of Atlanta while serving as a regular in the 15th United 
States Infantry; and Anna, who married Henry Spotts. 
	Benneviile M. Bubb was reared at the paternal home in Lower Mahanoy 
township. He obtained his education in the subscription schools and at Freeburg 
Academy. When about fifteen years old he became clerk in a general store at 
Georgetown (which is now known as Dalmatia) conducted by one Andrew Ditty, who 
was succeeded in the business by the firm of Ditty & Lenker, of which he was 
the senior partner. Later Mr. Lenker withdrew and was succeeded by John 
Bingeman, the firm then becoming known as Bingeman & Ditty. Mr. Bubb was with 
Mr. Ditty about two years, at the end of which time he became clerk in the 
general store of Peter Borel (name now spelled Burrell, it is of French 
extraction). Mr. Borel operated a general store and bought up grain, which was 
taken across the Susquehanna at Georgetown, by flats, to "McKees Half Falls," 
to the Pennsylvania canal, was loaded onto a Union canal boat, at Middletown, 
where the Union canal started, and went by way of Reading to Philadelphia, 
where the grain was sold. Mr. Bubb was with Mr. Borel for five years, until he 
and George W. Arbogast bought out the good will, stock and fixtures of Borel's 
store, the firm being Arbogast & Bubb. This association lasted three years, 
when Mr. Bubb bought out the interest of his partner and conducted it alone for 
two years. At the end of that time he admitted George Bordner to the firm, 
which became Bubb & Bordner for two years. When the Civil war began they sold 
out to Backhus & Ells, for whom Mr. Bubb continued clerking, also conducting 
the post office in the store. He was the postmaster during the two 
administrations of President Lincoln, from 1860 to 1866. He remained as clerk 
with P. S. Bickel, who succeeded to the general merchandise business of Backhus 
& Ells, and who was a justice of the peace many years, Mr. Bubb succeeding him 
in this office in 1869. He has continued to hold this office, by reelection, 
ever since and in this connection has also been extensively engaged in 
surveying, conveyancing, etc., establishing his business as surveyor in 1880. 
He has written many wills, deeds, etc., and his reputation for reliable work is 
such that his services are in great demand. He is a true peacemaker, having by 
his friendly and wise advice settled many cases without recourse to the regular 
processes of law, thus saving those who consulted him, as well as the 
community, many thousands of dollars which might have been expended in useless 
litigation, to say nothing of maintaining goodwill between relatives and 
friends. He has clerked at many public sales. During 1908, 1909 and 1910 Mr. 
Bubb was badly hampered in his work by a cataract in the right eye; he has also 
an undeveloped cataract in the left eye. Having been a resident of Dalmatia 
from his youth he has seen the town improve greatly. It was laid out by one 
Gray, a deputy surveyor of Pennsylvania, in 1798, and the original name was 
Georgetown. In 1908 the name was changed to Dalmatia because of a Georgetown in 
Beaver county, Pa., causing errors in mail and freight shipments. Mr. Bubb owns 
a number of lots in the town, and has also a stone quarry of six acres. 
	Mr. Bubb is a Republication in politics, and has served Lower Mahanoy 
township on the school board a number of years. He was one of the first 
	
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school directors elected in the township, in 1865, and helped to establish the 
free schools here, although he had opposed their introduction. At the time he 
was teaching subscription school, and he taught two terms of public school. He 
continued to serve as school director until 1888. He was instrumental in the 
establishment of the Dalmatia independent school district and the erection of 
the present four-room brick school building. All in all, he has been a highly 
useful citizen. 
	Mr. Bubb's first wife, Eliza (Roush), born Sept. 9, 1838, died April 8, 
1861, leaving a son, William C. She is buried at Georgetown church. On Dec. 7 
1862, he was married (second) to Susan Sechrist, daughter of Christian and 
Elizabeth (Sechrist) Sechrist, and granddaughter of Christian Sechrist, whose 
wife's maiden name was Grace. To this marriage were born seven children: 
Pauline married Luther Albert; Lizzie A. died young; U. S. Grant lives at 
Milton, Pa.; Isaac N. died in infancy; Henry S. is a resident of Dalmatia; Lewis 
N., of Herndon, Pa.; Arthur S., of Philadelphia (he is a printer and works on 
the Philadelphia Inquirer). Mr. Bubb and his family are members of the Reformed 
Congregation of the Dalmatia Church, and he has served as deacon and elder for 
many years. He has an old German Bible brought to America by the Sechrists, 
who hailed from Switzerland, and in whose family it has been for several 
centuries. Though fully three hundred and fifty years old it is well preserved. 
	WILLIAM C. BUBB, son of Benneville M. Bubb, is postmaster at Dalmatia, 
where he was born Feb. 14, 1861. He was engaged at clerking in a store there 
for many years, first for P. S. Bickel & Son, later for Albert Schnee; and for 
two years he was engaged in the mercantile business at Dalmatia on his own 
account. On Aug. 29, 1897, he was appointed postmaster of Dalmatia, which is a 
fourth-class office. He married Sevilla Brosius, daughter of Napoleon Brosius, 
who lived at Mount Pleasant Mills, Pa., and they have one daughter, Mary 
Magdalene. Mr. Bubb and his family are members of the Reformed Church. He has a 
nice residence in Dalmatia. Politically he has been identified with the 
Republican party, was formerly committeeman from Lower Mahanoy township, and 
has been delegate to a number of county conventions. 

	FRED RICE, M.D., of Sunbury, has been engaged in the practice of his 
profession in that borough since 1901, the year after his graduation from 
medical college, and commands a large patronage, being considered one of the 
foremost physicians of his section. He devotes himself to general practice. Dr. 
Rice is a native of Schuylkill county, Pa., born in Butler township Aug. 17, 
1875, son of Charles Rice and grandson of Frederick Rice. 
	Frederick Rice was born near Taylorsville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and died 
at Gordon, in Butler township. He was a farmer by occupation, and retired at a 
comparatively early age. His wife, Catharine (Carl), died in 1881, and they 
are buried at Kimmel's church, in Schuylkill county, both having been members 
of the Reformed congregation of that church. Mr. Rice was a Whig in politics. 
His children were: Edward, William, John, Charles, Alfred, Aaron, Louisa 
(married Charles E. Bergstresser, a passenger conductor on the Lykens Valley 
railroad), Arvella (married Elsworth Shoemaker, who is employed on the Lykens 
Valley railroad) and Mary (unmarried). 
	Charles Rice, son of Frederick, was born April 24, 1850, in Schuylkill 
county, and in his early life followed farming, later learning the machinist's 
trade in the car shops at Cressona; he is now one of the oldest workmen at 
Gordon. Since 1873 he has made his home in the borough of Gordon, in Schuylkill 
county, and he has served that community in the official capacity of school 
director. He is a Republican in political sentiment. He and his family are 
members of the Reformed Church. Mr. Rice married Isabella Seitzinger, and they 
are the parents of ten children: Dr. Fred, Margaret (who died of diphtheria, 
about 1883), Gertrude, Aaron L., Edith, Stella, Charles, Ruth, Cameron, and 
Beatrice (who died in infancy). 
	Mrs. Rice is a granddaughter of Jacob Seitzinger, a native of Berks 
county, Pa., born near Reading, who settled in Pottsville, Schuylkill county, 
where he was one of the leading men of his day. He built the "Exchange Hotel" 
at that point, the first hotel there, and prospered well in his business 
ventures, leaving a large estate. His wife, Elizabeth (Scott), was also from 
Berks county, and both are buried at Pottsville. Their children were as 
follows: Capt. Israel was the father of Mrs. Rice; Jeremiah owned and operated a 
coal breaker and owned and occupied a mansion back of the present courthouse in 
Pottsville; Isabella married George Palmer and they lived in Pottsville; 
Elizabeth married William Bigler (brother of former Governor Bigler, of Iowa); 
Nettie married Joseph Scuyler, who lived in Pottsville; Sarah married John 
Fernsler and they lived in Pottsville; Adelia married Charles Hipple, Esq., of 
Pottsville. 
	Capt. Israel Seitzinger was born Aug. 17, 1823, in Berks county, and came 
to Schuylkill county in young manhood, settling at Pottsville. He followed the 
livery business there for some years, and for many years was a railroad 
employee. Throughout the Civil war he served as captain of Company E, 116th 
Pennsylvania Volunteers. Captain Seitzinger was married at Pottsville to 
Margaret Heubner, of Schuylkill Haven, who survived him, dying Oct. 31, 1909, 
at the advanced age of eighty-four years. He died in 1889, at the age of sixty- 
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Schuylkill county. Ten children were born to this couple, namely John L., 
Mary Elizabeth, James, Jacob, Charles, Isabella (Mrs. Charles Rice), Sarah, 
Harry, Franklin and William. 
	Fred Rice spent his youth at Gordon, Schuylkill county, and was seventeen 
years old when he graduated from the high school of that borough. Meantime, 
between school terms and after school hours, he had begun to work as clerk in 
the general store of Rice & Brother, there. He was a substitute teacher in the 
Gordon schools until 1896, when he matriculated at the medical department of 
the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1900. While taking his medical 
course he further improved his time by spending his summers at the Fountain 
Springs State Hospital, at Ashland, and one year he was at the Williamsport 
Hospital. After his graduation he was assistant to Dr. Daniel Rice, at Hastings, 
Cambria Co., Pa., for some months, on Oct. 21, 1901, establishing his office at 
Sunbury, where he has since practiced on his own account. He is located at No. 
256 Arch street. Dr. Rice has met with gratifying success in his profession, 
and has a large and profitable general practice which is a tribute to his 
personal worth as well as to his medical skill. His efficient services and 
conscientious attention to patients have won the appreciation of all who know 
him. He has taken no part in public affairs, his time being well occupied with 
his work. 
	On June 30, 1903, Dr. Rice married Emma B. Van Allman, daughter of William 
and Sue (Wall) Van Allman, of Blair county, Pa., both being from Frankstown, 
and two children have been born to this union, Carl F. and Paul V. The Doctor 
and his family are members of the Lutheran Church. 

	HOLLENBACK. The Hollenback family is represented in various parts of 
Northumberland county, its members being specially well known in professional 
circles. Dr. D. S. Hollenback, a prominent physician and surgeon of Shamokin, 
is one of the best known medical practitioners in that section, and one of the 
oldest still actively engaged in that calling there. His brother Dr. Reuben H. 
Hollenback and two of the latter's sons, are practicing dentistry; his brother 
Samuel Hollenback, a retired railroad man, is a respected resident of Fisher's 
Ferry, this county. 
	John George Hollenback, the first ancestor of the family in America, came 
from Germany with his two sons, Michael and George, arriving at Philadelphia, 
Pa., Sept. 24, 1754, on the ship "Neptune." 
	Michael Hollenback, son of John George and grandfather of Dr. D. S. and 
Samuel Hollenback, was the founder of the family in Northumberland county. He 
was born in Germany, in Briesen, and was but five years of age when brought to 
this country. He lived in Upper Augusta township, where he followed 
agricultural pursuits, owning the farm which is now the property of one John 
Snyder. His wife was Elizabeth Lantz, and he is buried at Lantz's Church in 
Upper Augusta township. Their children were as follows: Daniel; Charles, who 
lived in Upper Augusta township, and had a son Noah and daughter Mary (this 
family has died out); Henry, a shoemaker, who died at Selinsgrove (his wife was 
of foreign birth, and they had two children, the mother and one daughter dying; 
the other daughter, Elizabeth, married and moved to Nebraska); Samuel, a 
farmer, who died at Shamokin (he had sons Oscar and Theodore); Eliza, wife of 
Samuel Zimmerman; Hannah, wife of Charles Conrad; Catharine, wife of George 
Kramer; and Mrs. Haupt. 
	Daniel Hollenback, son of Michael, was born Aug. 3, 1803 and died in 1883, 
aged eighty years. He married Elizabeth Sherri, and of their children we have 
record of D. S., the eldest son; Samuel; and Reuben; born Sept. 1, 1841, 
mentioned elsewhere in this work. 
	D. S. HOLLENBACK, M. D., was born May 26, 1836, in Lower Augusta township,  
Northumberland county. He received his early education there, in the local 
public schools, later attended the academy at Freeburg, and began his medical 
studies with Dr. Eyster, who afterward practiced at Sunbury. He was graduated 
from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in April, 1864, and soon after 
entered upon the practice of medicine and surgery in Shamokin, where he has 
since resided. His standing as one of the leading practitioners of 
Northumberland county has been gained by conscientious devotion to the duties 
of his profession, of which he is a foremost member in his locality. 
	On Oct. 2, 1878, Dr. Hollenback married Clara Sober, daughter of Isaac 
Sober, of Shamokin township, and they have had one child, William W. 
Politically Dr. Hollenback is a Republican. He served as director of the poor 
in 1876, and was elected treasurer of Northumberland county in 1893, with a 
majority of 2,300 votes, serving until 1896. He is a prominent member of St. 
John's Reformed Church at Shamokin. 
	SAMUEL HOLLENBACK, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Sherri) Hollenback, was 
born in Upper Augusta township, April 5, 1839. He was reared in Lower Augusta, 
being trained to farm work, which he followed from early boyhood until he took 
a position, at the age of twenty- six, as laborer on the Northern Central 
railroad. He was then engineer for three years, from 1865 until 1868, and 
meantime, in 1867, had become track foreman. He remained in the employ of the 
same company continuously for a period of thirty-three and a half years, until 
November, 1908, when he was honorably retired with a pension and pass. He has 
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cumstances, owning his own home at Fisher's Ferry and a small farm in Lower 
Augusta township, which latter property he rents out. He and his family are 
Reformed members of the Elias Union Church in Lower Augusta township. 
 Politically he is a Republican. 
	On May 16, 1867, Mr. Hollenback married Harriet Reitz, daughter of Abraham 
and Susan (Treon) Reitz, of Swabian Creek, this county, and granddaughter of 
Michael Reitz, who lived to the age of ninety-five years. Eight children were 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Hollenback, two of whom died in infancy. The others are: 
S. Elizabeth married A. W. Baer and they live in Sunbury; Sallie married Fred 
Seaman, who was from Snyder county, Pa., and they live at Sunbury; John H. 
lives in Lower Augusta township; George E. is a resident of Sunbury; Katie 
married Francis Gamberling, and they live at Selinsgrove, Pa.; Lottie is the 
wife of William Engely, of Sunbury. 

	BARTHOLOMEW. The Bartholomew family has been settled in what is now 
Rockefeller township, this county, since the early days, the brothers James W. 
and John L. Bartholomew being members of the fourth generation of Bartholomews 
resident in Northumberland county. James W., senior member of the firm of 
Bartholomew & Jarrett, coal dealers of Sunbury, is also engaged in the marble 
and granite business at that point. John L. Bartholomew is in the stone cutting 
business and operates a quarry. 
	William Bartholomew, great-grandfather of James W. Bartholomew, was born 
in Chester county, Pa., and married Elizabeth Miller, who was from the same 
section. Some of their children were born before their removal to 
Northumberland county. They settled in what is now Rockefeller township, Mr. 
Bartholomew owning a farm in the Plum Creek district (the place later owned by 
Solomon S. Snyder), and he also followed his trade of wheelwright. He and his 
wife are buried at Augustaville. They had the following children: William; 
Jacob; John M.; Mary, who married Daniel Bloom; Elizabeth, who married William 
Bloom, brother of Daniel; Hannah, who married John Kreeger; Catharine, who 
married Jonathan Fasold; and Sarah, who married Dr. John Raker. 
	William Bartholomew, son of William and Elizabeth (Miller) Bartholomew, 
was born in 1797 in Berks county, Pa., came to Northumberland county with his 
parents, and followed farming throughout his active years. He lived in 
Rockefeller township, after his marriage settling near Emanuel church, in the 
Plum Creek section, where he died in 1860. He and his wife were Lutherans in 
religion, and he is buried at Lantz's church there. His wife, who survived him 
many years, was Susan Elizabeth Wolf, and they were the parents of thirteen 
children: Mary (Polly), Mrs. William Taylor, of Shamokin township, this county; 
Julian, Mrs. John Strasse; Anna Eliza, who married William Conrath and (second) 
Michael Smith, of Shamokin township; Amanda, Mrs. Nathan Eister; Hester, 
Mrs. Ambrose Taylor, of Shamokin township; Elizabeth, who died young; Henry, 
born Nov. 3, 1821, who married Mary M. Shipe; William; Charles; Joel, of 
Shamokin township; Valentine; Harvey H., who lived at Kendall Creek, McKean 
Co., Pa.; and Rev. Edward F., of Illinois. 
	Jacob Bartholomew, son of William and Elizabeth (Miller) Bartholomew, was 
the first of their family born in Northumberland county. He was a wheelwright 
and farmer, settling on his farm in the Plum Creek district in 1831, from which 
time until his death he farmed and worked at his trade. He was born Sept. 19, 
1803, and died Feb. 11, 1877, and is buried at the Plum Creek church - the Eden 
Evangelical Lutheran Church. He married Catharine Bloom, of the same township, 
born May 7, 1807, died April 7, 1870, and they were the parents of twelve 
children, viz.: Mary, born Nov. 7, 1826, who married Samuel Zimmerman; Peter, 
born Oct. 20, 1828, who died March 29, 1902 (he lived in Rockefeller township); 
Maggie, Mrs. Henry Zimmerman; Jacob B.; Elizabeth, Mrs. Daniel Fasold; John, 
who died at Sunbury; Lot who lives in Upper Augusta township; Sarah, who died 
young; Hulda, who has never married; William; Daniel; and one who died young. 
Four of this family survive, Mrs. Mary Zimmerman, Mrs. Elizabeth Fasold, Lot 
and Hulda. Miss Hulda Bartholomew attended to the wants of her parents 
faithfully in their declining years, nursing them both in their last illness, 
and she also nursed her sister Maggie, who was paralyzed. 
	John M. Bartholomew, son of William and Elizabeth (Miller) Bartholomew, 
lived in the Plum Creek section of Rockefeller township, in his early life 
working on the farm and teaching school. He then moved to Sunbury, where for 
some years he conducted a livery, later working in the railroad shops, where he 
met with an accident losing part of his hand. He married Eve Bennett, and they 
had four children: Emma is a school teacher in North Carolina; Harry, 
unmarried, lives in Sunbury; Rebecca married Harry Heil; Cora taught school in 
Sunbury for a number of years. 
	Jacob B. Bartholomew, son of Jacob and grandson of William, was born in 
1833 in Augusta (now Rockefeller) township, and lived in Rockefeller township 
until a few years after the Civil war. He was drafted for service in that 
conflict three times. Removing to Sunbury, he there passed the remainder of his 
life, dying on the evening of April 16, 1902, when sixty-nine years old. He is 
buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. Mr. Bartholomew learned the trade of 
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stone cutting, and after his removal to Sunbury established 
himself in business there, laying pavements, etc. Ha gave employment 
to a number of man, and there are quite a few who learned the trade from him. A 
man who took an interest in affairs generally, he served as school director and 
tax collector in Rockefeller township, and while living there was an active 
member of the Lutheran Church at Plum Greek (where he was confirmed;) which he 
served as deacon, later holding the same office in the church at Sunbury. 
Politically he was a Democrat. 
	On Jan. 17, 1856, Mr. Bartholomew married Charlotte H. Lyon, daughter of 
George and Mary (Leonard) Lyon, of Sunbury, the latter formerly of Lancaster, 
Pa. Four children were born to this union: James W. is mentioned below; Mary 
C. married Albert J. Spinner and they live at St. Louis, Mo.; Hattie married 
Ira D. Hanna and they live at Philadelphia; John L. is a resident of Sunbury. 
	Lot Bartholomew, son of Jacob and Catharine (Bloom) Bartholomew, was born 
on the homestead in Rockefeller township Sept 17, 1844. He was educated in the 
local schools and learned the trade of stonemason, serving his full 
apprenticeship when twenty-one years of age. He followed his trade until 1895, 
for two years in partnership with Solomon Klase, and worked all through the 
coal regions at Williamsport and eastern Pennsylvania employing from three to 
twelve men. He bought his farm Nov. 29, 1899. It contains 100 acres and at one 
time was the Yost farm, later the Jonas Fry homestead. Before moving to his 
farm he resided in East Sunbury and was one of the first councilmen of the 
Eighth ward. He is a Democrat in politics and overseer of the poor, also fills 
the office of tax collector. 
	Lot Bartholomew was married in 1867 to Beulah Fahrensworth, daughter of 
Robert Fahrensworth of Shamokin township. Their children were: Elsie married 
Edward M. Noble and they live in Upper Augusta township; Minnie E. died young; 
Sarah C. died in infancy; and Rose M. married J. P. Van Dyke, a druggist of 
Sunbury. Mrs. Bartholomew died Jan. 13, 1887, aged forty-one years, and she is 
buried in the old Sunbury cemetery. 

	JAMES W. BARTHOLOMEW was born Jan. 11, 1857, in Lower Augusta (now 
Rockefeller) township, and there began his education in the local public 
schools. He was ten years old when his parents moved to Sunbury, settling in 
the East End, and he attended for several years the private school of Professor 
Brown, who then had four assistants. In April, 1873, he commenced to learn the 
trade of marble cutting, which he followed for a time as journeyman, and 
assisting his father, who was then doing an extensive building stone business. 
In 1881 he engaged in the marble and tombstone business on his own account, 
continuing same until 1892 when he gave it up because he found the marble dust 
injurious to his health. Meantime, from 1883 to 1888, he also ran a successful 
livery stable in Sunbury, and in 1889 he opened a first-class restaurant at No. 
34 South Third street having a hotel license. He carried this on for thirteen 
years, during which period, in 1900, he resumed his old line of business, 
establishing the marble and granite yard which he still conducts. In 1907, in 
partnership with his nephew, Charles F. Jarrett, he founded the firm of 
Bartholomew & Jarrett dealers in anthracite coal, who are located at Third and 
Court streets. They are among the leading coal dealers in the city, and own the 
only coal elevator in Sunbury, having facilities for raising and depositing in 
bins forty tons of coal an hour. Their equipment is up to-date and complete in 
every respect their methods of doing business equally enterprising, and their 
standards gain and hold trade. Mr. Bartholomew has made a high reputation by a 
career of consistent integrity and fair dealing, and he occupies an enviable 
position among his business associates. He has not been particularly active in 
public affairs, though he served as a member of the borough council during the 
eighties. He is a Democrat in politics, a prominent member of No. 1 Fire 
Company and of the Americus Club, of which latter he is an official; he was a 
member of the governing board of the club for 1892, and is the only member of 
that organization who has twice been honored with election to the presidency. 
	In 1883 Mr. Bartholomew married Margaret L. Garinger, daughter of Charles 
and Deborah (Haas) Garinger. They have no children of their own, but have 
reared two nephews, Charles F. and Clarence W. Jarrett sons of W. W. and Mary 
(Garinger) Jarrett of Sunbury, both Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett being deceased. 

	JOHN L. BARTHOLOMEW, son of Jacob B., was born May 8, 1861. He came to 
Sunbury when a babe and has lived here all his life. He obtained his education 
in the Sunbury public schools and at the age of fifteen learned his trade of 
stonemason from his father with whom he worked until the latter's retirement 
from business, and then worked with others in Sunbury. At the death of his 
father he became the owner of a flagstone quarry and other interests and now 
quarries flagstone from the quarry located in Upper Augusta township, employing 
eight men. This quarry is located on the S. H. & W. railroad, a branch of the 
Pennsylvania line. Mr. Bartholomew owns his home where he resides, No. 989 
North Eighth street Sunbury, and also has other real estate. In politics he is 
a Socialist. He and his family are Lutherans. He is a member of the Friendship 
Hose Company, of Sunbury, of which he was the organizer on Feb. 11, 1895, and 
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its first president, later foreman of the company and afterward 
secretary for two terms. The company has a membership of two hundred and is 
located at the corner of Tenth and Court streets where it has fine quarters. 
	On Jan. 17, 1901, Mr. Bartholomew married Alice Marks, daughter of Cyrus 
Marks, of Center township, Snyder Co., Pa. They have three children, Mary 
Irene, Charlotte Florence and Margaret Rose. 

	JOHN DANIEL, a farmer of Jackson township, Northumberland county, belongs 
to a family which was established in this county by his great grandfather, 
Heinrich Daniel. The Daniel family first settled in Berks county, Pa., upon 
coming to America, the emigrant ancestor settling there in Bethel township, 
prior to 1754. He was a farmer and landowner. In 1790 Jacob Daniel (brother of 
Heinrich, who came to Northumberland county) was living with his wife and seven 
daughters; in Heidelberg township, Berks county to the east of Bethel, lived 
Godfrey Daniel, another brother. To this day there are representatives of the 
family in the locality where they first settled after their arrival in this 
country. 
	Heinrich Daniel, great-grandfather of John Daniel, was born July 6, 1755, 
in Bethel township, Berks Co., Pa., and coming to Washington (then Jackson) 
township, Northumberland county, located on a tract of 110 acres upon which he 
erected the original set of buildings. A log house he built in the year 1800 is 
still standing. On this place Heinrich Daniel lived from 1774 until his death; 
which occurred Nov. 7, 1841. His wife, Maria Magd., died in 1823, aged sixty-
five years. Their home stood near the mountain. They had a number of children, 
among whom were Heinrich and John Adam, the latter succeeding to the ownership 
of the farm. 
	John Adam Daniel, son of Heinrich, was born June 8, 1795, was a lifelong 
farmer, and succeeded to the home place, retaining the ownership until a few 
years before his death, when, becoming lame, he sold it to his son Jared. After 
the latter's death it was purchased by his brother John, whose son Adam Daniel 
owned it subsequently, until 1907, in which year H. J. Donmoyer purchased it. 
John Adam Daniel died June 1, 1878, and he is buried at St. Peter's church, 
Mahanoy, where all the Daniels since the time of Heinrich, the pioneer, have 
been interred. He was a Reformed member of that church, and being a good 
singer was chorister there for some years. He was married three times, his first 
wife being Rosanna Wagner, his second Polly Rubendall and his third Esther 
Freymoyer, who was born Feb. 22, 1804, and died March 30, 1881. All his 
children were by the first union, namely: John is mentioned below; Elias died 
at Hepler, Pa.; Joel lived and died near Hepler; Adam and Jared died on the 
homestead; Polly married Abraham Blasser; Catharine married Benjamin Rubendall; 
Lydia married Levi Drumheller. 
	John Daniel, son of John Adam, owned the old homestead on which he was 
born April 10, 1815. He died there Sept. 3, 1897, after a life-time spent 
principally in farming, though he had learned the trade of shoemaker and 
followed it in his earlier manhood. In politics he was a Democrat, and he was 
a public-spirited citizen, taking a hand in public affairs and filling a number 
of local offices; he was supervisor of Washington and Jordan townships for a 
number of years. He also held various church offices; serving many years as 
elder. Mr. Daniel married Catharine Swartz, who was born Oct. 10, 1817, and 
died Nov. 13, 1897, and they are buried at St. Peter's church, at Mahanoy, in 
Jackson township. They had the following children: Elias, who died when 
twelve years old; Sarah, Mrs. Elias Crissinger; Emma, Mrs. Henry Crissinger; 
Adam, who owned the homestead until 1907 and now lives, near Herndon, Pa.; 
John; and Catharine, who married Nathan Latsha. 
	John Daniel was born April 10, 1850, in Jordan township, son of John and 
Catharine (Swartz) Daniel, and obtained his education in the subscription 
schools of the home district which afforded rather limited opportunities, 
however. He was reared as a farmer and continued to work for his father until 
his forty-eighth year. After his father's death he began farming for himself in 
1898, in Jordan township, where he was located for five years, in 1903 coming 
to the place in Jackson township which he purchased that year and which has 
since been his home. He has a farm of eighty-eight acres, originally an old 
Latsha homestead and later known as the Henry Roger farm. Mr. Daniel is a 
substantial and respected citizen, and his affairs are in prosperous condition. 
	In November, 1885, Mr. Daniel married Louisa Kobel, who was born Jan. 16, 
1858, in Cameron township, this county, daughter of Daniel and Eliza 
(Kerstetter) Kobel, and died April 17, 1909. She was the mother of one child, 
Charles Wilson, who was born Feb. 17, 1887, and is still at home with his 
father. Mr. Daniel is a Democrat in politics and of the Reformed faith in 
religion, he and his family worshiping at St. Peter's Church, at Mahanoy. 

	CAMPBELL. There is a numerous Campbell family in Northumberland county 
descended from Obadiah Campbell, a native of New Jersey who removed to this 
section in 1779 and located in Ralpho township. He purchased a tract of 400 
acres of what became valuable land (the south part of the village of Elysburg, 
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part of the tract) and built his own log cabin upon what later 
became the site of the residence of Davis Huff. This place continued to be the 
homestead of the Campbells for several generations. Obadiah Campbell was a 
tailor by trade, but never followed that vocation after settling in this county. 
He was a Presbyterian in religions faith and one of the organizers of the 
church of that denomination in his settlement, helping to build the old church 
between Snydertown and Elysburg; he served as elder in same many years. 
Politically he was a strong Democrat, the leader of the party in his locality. 
His children were: Benjamin, John, James, Robert, Obadiah, Albert, Jane (who 
married Caleb Ely), Joanna (wife of George Ely) and Elizabeth. All were good 
singers and sang at the memorial service held at Sunbury at the time of 
Washington's death. 
	Robert Campbell, evidently son of Obadiah, above, born in New Jersey, was 
the first of the family to come to this county. He settled in Rush township 
and became one of the prominent citizens of that locality. His children were: 
Christopher; Abraham, who lived in Rush township and died in 1861 (he and his 
wife Jane had Robert, Duncan and David); Robert, who died young; James, who 
lived in Upper Augusta township (he married Polly Kline and had children Harmon 
and Robert); Elenor, Mrs. John Kline; Jane, Mrs. John; and Maria, Mrs. Sanders, 
who moved with her husband to New York State about 1830. 
	Christopher Campbell, son of Robert, was born in 1795 in Rush township, 
and died July 31, 1851, aged fifty-six years, six days. In 1823 he moved to 
Upper Augusta township, settling on the farm now owned by his grandson, James 
H. Campbell, where he owned 100 acres. He was a lifelong farmer, and gave the 
rest of his life to the cultivation and improvement of this property, on which 
he built the house and barn. His death was caused by a fall from the top of the 
barn, and he was buried at Klinesgrove cemetery. He was a Methodist in 
religious faith. Mr. Campbell married Sarah Kline who died at her home in Upper 
Augusta township, Feb. 26, 1841, aged forty-four years, eleven months, fourteen 
days, the mother of ten children: Isaac died on the homestead; Rhoda married 
Samuel Oberdorf; Abraham, who remained with his father died at the old home, of 
typhoid fever; Isabella married David Rockefeller; Catharine married Lewis 
Rockefeller; Elenore married Kelso Savidge and (second) George M. Forrester; 
Elizabeth J. married Bloomfield Carr and (second) Charles Haughawout and they 
live at Riverside, Pa.; Lemuel is a resident of Sunbury; Harmon K., born in 
1837, died in 1870; Sallie (Sarah) M., born in 1839, married Charles P. Eckman. 
	Isaac Campbell, son of Christopher, was born May 9, 1816, in Rush 
township, and died Dec. 26, 1896, on his farm in Upper Augusta township. He 
received a common school education. In his early life he was employed on the 
construction of the Pennsylvania canal, and later became a boatman on that 
canal, later engaging in farming and for many years in merchandising at 
Klinesgrove. He was the silent partner in the store there for many years, and 
was afterward extensively engaged in the milling business, at both Klinesgrove 
and Sunbury, conducting two mills, and giving employment to a number of men in 
his milling and agricultural operations. Able and energetic in his business 
affairs, he was also a useful man in the general affairs of the community, was 
one of the organizers and builders of the Klinesgrove Methodist Church and took 
some part in public matters. Possessed of force and character, he was the man 
chiefly instrumental in the construction of the church and the collection of 
funds for that purpose. He and his brothers, Lemuel and Harmon K., gave the 
ground upon which the fine edifice was erected, and he burned the brick and gave 
time and effort to the successful completion of the building, in which he took 
much pride. During the Civil war he rendered service to the government; he was 
public-spirited in local matters; served on road views and often as juryman; 
and was a candidate for the nomination for sheriff of the county, but was 
defeated. He was a Republican in his political views. 
	In 1848 Mr. Campbell married Hannah C. Campbell, who was born in 1822 in 
Shamokin (now Ralpho) township, near Elysburg, daughter of Joseph D. Campbell. 
Until her death, April 3, 1911, she made her home with her son, James H. 
Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell had children as follows: Dr. John Moore, born 
July 18, 1849, who died in July, 1893; Rebecca, who married Joseph Eckman and 
lives at Snydertown; Dr. Lemuel C., deceased, who was a veterinary surgeon of 
Philadelphia; James H.; and Flora H., who died when twenty-two years old. 
	JAMES H. CAMPBELL, who is engaged in farming on the homestead in Upper 
Augusta township, was born Aug. 22, 1858, and received his early education in 
the township schools. Later he attended the academies at Freeburg and Elysburg 
and the State Normal school at Bloomsburg, and was only seventeen when he began 
teaching, which profession he followed for twelve years. He was in Shamokin one 
year, Upper Augusta township, seven winters; Snydertown, two winters; Evert 
school, in Upper Augusta, one term; Hile school, in Rush township, one term. 
Meantime, about 1884, he had become interested in the lumber business, and for a 
number of years after giving up teaching devoted his time principally to that 
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he bought 887 acres of timber land. He had lumbered 
over about half of this acreage at the time of his 
father's death, and had employed as many as thirty men at one time. From 1882 
he has been interested in farming, which he continued during his lumbering 
operations on a farm adjoining the homestead, and after nine years of lumbering 
he decided to give all his attention to agriculture, which he carries on yet. 
Since 1897 he has owned the homestead, which consists of 172 acres, and he also 
has an adjoining tract of sixty-three acres, all of which is under cultivation, 
Mr. Campbell following general farming. He is an intelligent and 
prosperous agriculturist, energetic and up-to-date in his business affairs, 
which are in a thriving condition. Since 1902 he has served as assessor of 
Upper Augusta township and still has four years to serve in that office, in 
which he has given general satisfaction. 
	On Feb. 17, 1881, Mr. Campbell married Anna F. Van Zant, daughter of 
Kinkade and Sarah M. (Vastine) Van Zant and they have had two children: Verda 
died Jan. 6, 1902, of measles, after an illness of but two days (she was twenty 
years, one month, sixteen days old); Lessly I., born Dec. 25, 1882, lives at 
home with his parents; and Bessie A., who is an adopted daughter, is attending 
school. Mr. Campbell and his family support the Methodist Church. 
	Joseph D. Campbell, father of Mrs. Hannah C. Campbell, was a farmer, and 
lived at Elysburg. He is buried at the Baptist Church in Shamokin township. He 
and his wife Annie (Moore) had five children: Rebecca, Hannah C., Amos, Alma 
and Asenath. 
	LEMUEL CAMPBELL, a well known citizen of the borough of Sunbury, now 
living retired, was born Jan. 9, 1834, son of Christopher and Sarah (Kline) 
Campbell. He received a common school education and was reared to farm life, 
remaining with his parents, as was customary, until he reached the age of 
twenty-one years, after which he began farming for himself, in Rush township. 
There he resided four years, in 1860 becoming associated with his brother 
Harmon in the purchase of a mill at Klinesgrove, in the conduct of which he was 
engaged until 1866, meantime making his home at that place. Thence he moved to 
what is now the farm of Dr. Isaac Huff, who bought the place from Mr. Campbell, 
and in 1870 he bought a farm at Keefer station, in Upper Augusta township, this 
county, upon which he resided until his removal to Sunbury, in 1882. He 
continued to own the property, however, until 1905, when he sold it to William 
Hoover. Since his removal from that place he has been a resident of Sunbury, 
where he was engaged in business continuously until the fall of 1910. His 
first venture was as a dealer in farm machinery, and he later added coal, being 
a retail coal dealer for twenty-six years before his retirement. He was the 
first agent to handle from the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company. For 
about five years he owned and operated a boat on the Pennsylvania canal, 
between Sunbury and Baltimore. Mr. Campbell has acquired a large amount of 
valuable property, owning a block 175 by 230 feet in the heart of the borough, 
lying between Fifth and Sixth streets, bounded on the north by Woodland avenue 
and on the south by Market street. He has refused a high price for this block. 
Mr. Campbell devoted himself faithfully to the management of his business 
affairs throughout his active career, but he served one term as councilman of 
Sunbury from the Eighth ward, to which position he was elected on the 
Republican ticket. He is a substantial citizen, esteemed by all who have had 
dealings with him, and has made an honorable record during his long residence 
in Sunbury. Socially he is a member of Lodge No. 22, F. & A.M., of Sunbury. 
He and his family united with the Methodist Church. 
	In 1860 Mr. Campbell married Emma J. Smith, daughter of John and Eliza 
(Rockefeller) Smith, of Klinesgrove station, and they have had four children: 
Mary (married to J. C. Crawford), Dr. Charles F., Sarah Eliza (who died aged 
three years) and William Moore. 
	Charles Foster Campbell, M. D., of Sunbury, was 
born in Upper Augusta township, Sept. 17, 1867. He received his early 
education in the common schools, later attending Bucknell University, from 
which he was graduated in 1891, with degree of A. M. He then entered the 
University of Pennsylvania taking the course in the medical department, and 
graduating in 1893. He specialized in diseases and treatment of the eye, ear, 
nose and throat. After practicing three years in Philadelphia he came to 
Sunbury, in 1896, and has since been located there. He is physician at the 
Mary M. Packer Hospital of Sunbury. Dr. Campbell is a member of Lodge No. 22, 
F. & A.M., of Sunbury; of the County Medical Society, and of the State Medical 
Society, as well as the American Medical Association. He was married in 1896 
to Lizzie Lee Enos, daughter of the late John M. Enos, of Delaware. 
	William Moore Campbell, son of Lemuel, was born in 1873 in Upper Augusta 
township. He was given a public school education, graduating from the Sunbury 
high school when sixteen years old, after which he assisted his father in the 
conduct of his business affairs. During the Spanish-American war he enlisted, 
becoming a member of Company F, 12th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, with 
which command he served until his death, from the effects of typhoid fever, 
Sept. 20, 1898. He had become a corporal while in the service, and in the 
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was known, was recognized as a young man of bright 
mind and promising future. He was well known as a sharp-shooter, and had a medal 
of honor. As a bicyclist he enjoyed considerable local fame and had won a 
number of races; he made the round trip between Sunbury and Snydertown a 
distance of sixteen miles, in fifty to fifty-five minutes. 
	Obadiah Campbell, one of the sons of the Obadiah mentioned at the opening 
of this article, was born in New Jersey in 1776, and was a young boy when his 
parents came thence to Pennsylvania, in 1779. He was brought up on the farm in 
Ralpho township, part of which is now embraced in the south end of Elysburg, 
and eventually came to own his father's homestead, upon which he made his home 
for some years. He then made a settlement in Columbia county, upon a large 
tract of timber land which he had purchased; just three or four miles east of 
Elysburg, erected a sawmill and engaged in the lumber business which he 
continued all his life. He was a man of thrift and enterprise, and built up a 
business which kept his sawmill busy day and night, giving employment to a 
number of men. He had three hundred or more acres of land upon which there was 
good timber, his land extending to the creek which divides Columbia and 
Northumberland counties, and he cleared two farms there, both now owned by one 
of his grandsons, Ezra Yocom, whose mother was Jane Campbell. There Obadiah 
Campbell lived, worked and died, and he is buried upon that place, as is also 
his father, Obadiah, who brought the family out from New Jersey. They were 
Presbyterians, but many of the old Campbells are buried at the Sharp Ridge 
Church, which is a Methodist church. Obadiah Campbell was a man of note in his 
community in every way. He was, like his father, a strong Democrat, and 
wielded considerable influence in the local councils of the party, though he 
would not accept office. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church, 
held offices in the church and led the choir for many years. He was captain of 
a military company for thirteen years. His death occurred July 27, 1865, and 
that of his wife May 27, 1866. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Shipman, and she 
was like her husband a native of New Jersey, coming to Pennsylvania when five 
years old with her father, Nicholas Shipman, who settled with his family in 
Rockefeller township. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell had a family of ten children, 
namely: Nicholas settled in Elysburg; Mary married William Thompson; Hannah 
married James Hile; Jane married Elijah Yocom; Obadiah S. is mentioned below; 
Elizabeth married and is deceased; Joanna married a McMirtry (or McMurtrie), 
who was from New Jersey and returned to that State (they had a son John and a 
daughter Maggie); John is mentioned below; Sarah married Shultz Knittle; 
Jackson settled on one of the two farms into which his father's 300-acre tract 
was divided, Elijah Yocom, his brother-in-law, coming into possession of the 
other. 
	Obadiah S. Campbell, son of Obadiah, was born Nov. 25, 1816, near 
Elysburg, was reared upon the homestead, and received his education in the 
local schools. He learned the trade of millwright, which he followed for the 
long period of thirty five years, until he was fifty-five years old, building 
saw and grist mills in Lycoming, Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and 
Schuylkill counties; he worked at his trade considerably in the eastern part of 
Northumberland county, putting up five or six gristmills on Roaring creek. 
During part of the time he was engaged at his trade he lived in Columbia 
county. After giving up millwrighting he farmed for about ten years, living one 
mile east of Elysburg, on a farm in Ralpho township which he had purchased in 
1852 in partnership with his brother-in-law, James Fox, removing there in 1856. 
The place contained 120 acres, now owned by Columbus Raup. Here Mr. Campbell 
carried on general farming until his retirement, in the spring of 1889, after 
which he made his home in Elysburg until his death, which occurred there in 
1896. Mr. Campbell was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sharp 
Ridge, where he is buried; he was active in the work of that church for a 
number of years, served many, years as class leader, and was faithful in all 
his religious duties. In politics he was a Democrat and quite active in the 
party, held various township offices, and was specially interested in public 
education, serving on the school board and assisting in the advancement of the 
schools whenever possible. In 1865 he was elected a justice of the peace of 
what is now Ralpho (then Shamokin) township, continuing to hold that office for 
a quarter of a century and giving eminent satisfaction in the discharge of its 
duties. Fraternally he was a member of the I.O.O.F. A public-spirited and 
intelligent citizen, ready to give his time and influence to all matters 
affecting the general welfare, he was respected and beloved by a large number 
of friends and acquaintances and left a name which will long be honored in the 
community. 
	On Jan. 9, 1840, Mr. Campbell married Eliza Teats, who was born at "Dark 
Corner," daughter of John Teats, and is buried by her husband's side at Sharp 
Ridge Church; she lived to be about ninety-six years old. They had children as 
follows: Oliver died in Michigan; Elmira (deceased) married Samuel Swank or 
Schwenk; John is a resident of Elysburg; Clement is a resident of St. Louis, 
Mo.; Edgar B. is mentioned later; Alvin died at Elysburg; Iva married Oliver 
Brady and they live at Elysburg; Lorin died young. 
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at Elysburg, Northumberland county, and was reared 
to farm life, working for his parents until after he 
attained his majority. In 1889 he began work in the car shops at Sunbury, where 
he was employed as car repairman for twenty-one years, until his retirement, 
Feb. 26, 1910. Mr. Campbell has had his home in Sunbury since 1899, but he 
spends his summers upon his farm in Rockefeller township, with the tenant on 
the place. The property consists of 110 acres situated on the Tulpehocken road, 
which he purchased from Isaac Lepley in 1904, and was formerly the George Conrad 
homestead, later owned by Elias Emrich. Mr. Campbell is a Democrat in politics, 
and he and his family are Lutherans in religion. He married Annie George, 
daughter of William and Elizabeth (Schuler) George, of Columbia county, Pa., 
three miles east of Elysburg. They have had one child, William Kimber. 
	WILLIAM K. CAMPBELL, of Sunbury, who is regarded as the leader in musical 
matters in that borough, was born Oct. 21, 1880, and has lived in Sunbury from 
boyhood. He attended public school there, and began taking music lessons when 
twelve years old, in 1900 entering Combs' Broad Street Conservatory of Music, 
Philadelphia, which he attended four years, graduating in 1904. Returning to 
Sunbury, he began teaching music, violin and piano, and has since devoted 
himself to teaching and orchestra work, usually having about fifty pupils in 
Sunbury. He plays in the Chestnut street theatre and at Armory Hall, in Sunbury, 
and is the director of Campbell's Orchestra, of Sunbury, which he organized in 
1905 and has led ever since. This is an ambitious musical organization and very 
popular throughout this region. Mr. Campbell has been notably successful in his 
chosen work, to which he is enthusiastically devoted, and he has labored 
faithfully to establish and uphold the most worthy musical standards in his 
community. 
	On Dec. 9, 1904, Mr. Campbell married Annie Ditty, and they have one 
child, S. Ruth. They occupy the comfortable home at No. 530 North Seventh 
street, Sunbury, which Mr. Campbell erected in 1907. He and his family are 
members of Zion's Lutheran Church. 
	The Ditty family located in Lower Mahanoy township, 
this county, soon after the close of the Revolutionary war, its 
founder being one of the Hessian soldiers who decided to remain in America. He 
is buried at the Zion's Union Church in Stone Valley, near Hickory Corners, 
where many of his descendants have also been interred. Members of this family 
still live in the neighborhood of Georgetown (Dalmatia), in that section of 
Northumberland county. Andrew Ditty, grandfather of Mrs. Campbell, married a 
Lenker, of Dalmatia, and his son Charles, Mrs. Campbell's father, married Sarah 
Arndt. They live in Sunbury. 
	John Campbell, son of Obadiah and brother of Obadiah S., was born Dec. 7, 
1823, at Elysburg, and died March 8, 1909. He received a good education, and 
taught school for a time, also assisting his father in his business affairs. 
Purchasing a farm in Shamokin township, he lived thereon three years, and for 
three years was settled with his family near Waverly, Ohio, engaged in farming. 
Returning to Pennsylvania in 1859, he traded farm's with his uncle, Caleb Ely, 
receiving a farm of 225 acres in Lower Augusta township, which tract is still 
in the Campbell name, being now owned by his son Delmer. It was originally the 
homestead of William Shipman (brother of Elizabeth Shipman, who married Obadiah 
Campbell) and the house which this pioneer occupied stood between the present 
home of Delmer Campbell and his neighbor to the east, Lincoln Troutman, 
standing on the left side of a public road that passed through the land; some 
of the foundation is still intact, and sour cherry trees grow around the spot. 
Here Mr. Campbell lived and died. He was a prosperous farmer, and except for 
the springhouse built by Caleb Ely about a hundred years ago erected all the 
present buildings on the premises. He was a useful citizen and active in local 
affairs, serving as school director twelve years, as township assessor and as 
overseer of the poor. In 1853 he married Mary A. Fuller, daughter of John and 
Phoebe (Maly) Fuller, natives of Lancaster county who came to Elysburg from 
Dauphin county, Pa. Mrs. Campbell died July 11, 1895, aged sixty-one years, 
eight months, ten days. She and her husband are buried at the Mountain 
(Hollowing Run) Presbyterian Church in Lower Augusta township, of which he was 
a leading member and for many years an elder, filling this office until his 
death. Their children were as follows: Georgiana married Henry C. Smith, of 
Lower Augusta; Theodore Alvin married Katie Reitz and they live in Jackson, 
Mich.; Clara Jane married Hall Yeager and lives at Shamokin; Delmer F. is 
mentioned below; Charles W. died of diphtheria when seven years old; Warren L. 
married Stella Reitz, and they live at Rising Springs, Center Co., Pa; Miles H. 
died aged twenty-one year, 5. 
	DELMER F. CAMPBELL was born Feb. 13, 1864, in Lower Augusta township, son 
of John Campbell. He obtained his early education in the local schools, and 
later attended summer Normal sessions at Dalmatia and Milton, then taught by 
the county superintendent and one Professor Geho, both men of high education, 
the latter a graduate of Princeton. When twenty-one years old Mr. Campbell 
received a license to teach public school in the county, and has taught 
fourteen terms in all, eleven in his native township, - six years of this 
period in what is now Rockefeller township, which was then a part of Lower 
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the high school at Herndon; two terms in Lower Mahanoy. He 
is well remembered by pupils and fellow teachers as an educator of high repute, 
and he was always in demand while engaged in the profession. He has been a 
farmer from young manhood, and followed farming in the summer season while 
teaching. On Feb. 23, 1908, he came into possession of his father's homestead, 
upon which he now resides, devoting himself to the cultivation of this large 
tract, which contains 175 acres. It is located between Fisher's Ferry and 
Trevorton, in the southeast corner of Lower Augusta township, along the Little 
Mountains. He is an enterprising and progressive man, and has found farming 
very profitable. Like his father Mr. Campbell is a Democrat in politics, but he 
has never cared for public preferment and has taken no part in public affairs. 
He is active in church life, however, being a prominent member of the Mountain 
Presbyterian Church, which he has served as elder since he was twenty-two years 
old; he was treasurer of the church four years, and has filled all the Sunday 
school offices. 
	On June 23, 1890, Mr. Campbell married Thomson Speece, one of 
the seventeen children born to Anthony and Ann (Shipman) Speece, of Little 
Mahanoy township, the latter a daughter of Abraham Shipman, who served as 
associate judge of Northumberland county. To Mr. and Mrs. Delmar F. Campbell 
have also been born seventeen children, and another daughter of Anthony S. and 
Ann (Shipman) Speece, Effie, wife of Ambrose DeWitt, also of Lower Augusta 
township, has the same number. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are the parents of: Myrtle 
A., Ada V. (whose birthday is on Dec. 7th, her grandfather Campbell's 
birthday), Don Lee, Grover, John Anthony (named after both his grandfathers), 
Goldie, Ora, Alvin, Fay, Vera (who died of measles when three years old), 
Russell, Ethel, Lloyd, Elsworth, Elwood, Marvin and Theodore A. 

	WILLIAM PENN HASTINGS, late of Milton, Northumberland county, a newspaper 
man of that borough for over twenty years, died March 2, 1911. He was editor of 
the Evening Standard at that time. 
	Mr. Hastings was born Aug. 1, 1854, in Pittsburgh, Pa., son of Captain 
John Hastings, who married a daughter of Charles C. Gaskill, of Camden. He was 
but four years of age when his parents removed to Punxsutawney, Jefferson Co., 
Pa., where he resided until 1885. Mr. Hastings edited and published the 
Punxsutawney Plain Dealer when but sixteen years of age. In 1873 he purchased 
the Spirit, a paper started but a few months before, the publication of which 
was about to be abandoned. In twelve years he had made the Spirit one of the 
best paying country newspapers in the western part of the State. In 1885 he 
removed to Harrisburg and published the Patriot until the fall of 1886, when he 
established the Evening Star, now the Star-Independent. In 1887 he removed to 
Milton and assumed the management of the Economist, which paper was later 
merged with the Record. This paper was continued until 1909, when it was 
consolidated with the Standard. 
	With the exception of a year spent on a Virginia 
plantation Mr. Hastings made his home in Milton from the time of his removal 
there. In January, 1890, he established the Weekly Standard, which was made a 
tri-weekly a few months later. In May, 1900, he changed the paper to a daily, 
and under his management it increased rapidly in circulation and influence. 
	Mr. Hastings inherited a love for newspaper work, four generations of his 
family having been engaged in it. His grandfather, Thomas Hastings, published 
the first newspaper in Jefferson county, the Backwoodsman, the publication of 
which was commenced in 1838. 
	Politically Mr. Hastings was a Democrat. In 1884 he 
was a candidate for State senator in the Jefferson-Indiana district, but was 
defeated by twenty-three votes. In 1902 he was defeated for chief burgess of 
Milton by but six votes. He served one term as school director and three terms 
as councilman of Milton, and gave the same arduous labor and devotion to his 
public duties that characterized his newspaper work. For many years he was an 
active member of the Pennsylvania State Editorial Association, being its vice 
president at the time of his death. 
	Mr. Hastings had an attack of paralysis on Monday, Feb. 27, 1911, while at 
his office, but though he seemed to rally at first he passed away the following 
Thursday evening at his home on North Front street. He was buried in the Milton 
cemetery. 
	Mr. Hastings married Emma L. Evans, daughter of the late John Evans, of 
Punxsutawney, Pa., and she survives him with five sons and three daughters: 
Mrs. Leon W. Budd, of Chicago; and Mrs. Harry D. Crane, Penn G., J. Edward, 
Percy W., Anna G., Berkeley V., and Frederic G., of Milton. 

	JOHN HAAS, for many years of his long life one of the leading citizens of 
Sunbury, was not only a successful man so far as his personal interests were 
concerned, but also gave his aid and influence to insuring the success of a 
number of enterprises affecting the general welfare of the borough and 
vicinity. He was not only interested in the material prosperity of his 
community, but in the promotion of educational and religious projects, of 
philanthropic affairs, and of public improvements which would benefit the 
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degree of public-spiritedness which betokened an intelligent and unselfish 
interest in humanity generally. Mr. Haas was born June 22, 1822, near Bear 
Gap, in Ralpho township, this county, son of Daniel Haas. 
	Daniel Haas and his wife Eve (Reed) were natives of 
Northumberland county, and lived in Shamokin (now Ralpho) 
township. He was a farmer there for some years, but selling his farm removed 
in 1854 out to Indiana, settling in Newtown, Fountain county, where they passed 
the remainder of their lives. They had a family of eleven children, seven sons 
and four daughters, only three of whom now survive: William, of Indianapolis, 
Ind.; Julia A., who married Nicholas Y. Fisher and lives in Indiana; and Maria 
A., widow of Charles Leisenring, living at Bloomsburg, Pa. The deceased were: 
Peter; David, Jacob and Daniel R., all of whom lived in Indiana; John and 
Jonas, of Northumberland county, Pa.; Caroline, who married George Wicks, and 
Betsy, who married Charles Martz. The parents originally joined the Lutheran 
Church, but after removing to Indiana united with the Methodist denomination, 
there being no Lutheran Church in the town where they located. 
	John Haas attended at a log cabin schoolhouse, 
and among his early teachers were Albe C. 
Barrett, Jehu John and William H. Muench. He worked on a farm until he reached 
the age of eighteen, when his father apprenticed him to learn the trade of 
fuller and carder, with David Martz, at the mill located on a small stream near 
the present site of Paxinos.  Thinking there were no prospects in that line for 
him he became discontented, and his father apprenticed him to Daniel Roads, to 
learn blacksmithing. But after one winter he found that equally uncongenial, 
and his father allowed him to choose his own way. He soon began clerking for 
his cousin, Jonas Haas, a merchant at Lineville, Lehigh Co., Pa., beginning at 
the modest wages of five dollars a month. At the end of one year there he 
returned home, and soon found employment at railroad repair work near 
Pottsville, being thus engaged for one year. After a visit home he again went 
to work for the same employer, at Pottsville, but within a short time came to 
Sunbury, Ira T. Clement having offered him work as a clerk in his general 
store. He was with him from 1845 until 1857. The latter year he became a clerk 
for Fagely, Seasholtz & Co., coal merchants at Sunbury, and in the fall of 1857 
became a member of the firm, being associated for a time with William and 
Reuben Fagely under the firm name of Fagely & Haas, the name of the firm later 
changing to John Haas & Co. They were most successful, conducting extensive 
coal operations until 1872, in which year they sold their personal property to 
the Mineral Mining Company, continuing to deal in coal, however, until William 
Fagely's death. Mr. Haas retained his interests in the coal business until his 
retirement some years before his death. During the Civil war period the firm 
shipped considerable coal to Baltimore and Philadelphia.  While in partnership 
with Mr. Fagely Mr. Haas purchased four thousand acres of woodland in Lycoming 
county, Pa., and they had large quantities of lumber cut and manufactured from 
that tract selling it at a comparatively small profit. 
	In 1883, when the Sunbury Nail, Bar and Guide 
Iron Manufacturing Company was organized, Mr. Haas became 
president, remaining as the executive head of that concern until he retired 
from the active management in April, 1890; he continued to serve as president 
until 1894. To the upbuilding of this, one of the most important industrial 
establishments of the borough, he gave his principal attention and best 
energies for a number of years, and much of its success was due to his efforts. 
Numerous other local concerns of considerable magnitude also counted him among 
their most effective promoters. He was one of the first directors of the 
Sunbury, Shamokin & Lewisburg railroad, now the Philadelphia & Reading road; a 
director of the First National Bank of Sunbury; and president of the Sunbury 
Water Company. 
	Mr. Haas was a member of the Lutheran Church for about sixty 
years, being associated with the church at Sunbury, which he served as elder 
for thirty-five years, being an important member of the church council, and as 
Sunday school superintendent for thirty years. The Sunday school of this 
church is a large one, numbering several hundred members, and Mr. Haas was able 
to do some of his most worthy work in that connection. He was treasurer of the 
Pennsylvania State Sunday School Association for one year; served as president 
of the board of directors of the Missionary Institute at Selinsgrove, now known 
as Susquehanna University; and was for a time a director of the Loysville 
Orphans School. In politics he was a Democrat until the formation of the 
Republican party, which he ever afterward supported, voting for John C. Fremont 
for President. During the Civil war he was an ardent Unionist. He died March 
10, 1899, in his seventy-seventh year, after a life of all-around usefulness 
such as falls to the lot of few men. 
	In 1846 Mr. Haas married Mary A. Gheen, of Jersey Shore, Pa., who died in 
1855. To this union were born four children: Jennie Clementine, who married L. 
T. Rohrbach, of Sunbury, both being now deceased; John Packer, born Sept. 30, 
1849, now deceased, who married Sarah Scheffley, of Lewisburg; Mary Alice, 
widow of Dr. C. M. Martin; and Louisa, who died in infancy. On Oct. 2, 1856, Mr. 
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rietta (Becker) Martin. Though now past eighty, Mrs. Haas is a remarkably well 
preserved woman, has an excellent memory, and is a pleasing conversationalist, 
The large residence at the corner of Chestnut street and River avenue, where 
she makes her home, was built by Mr. Haas in 1868. 
	Mr. Haas was a Mason, holding membership in 
Lodge No. 22, F. & A.M., of Sunbury, Northumberland Chapter, No. 
174, R.A.M., and Crusade Commandery, K.T., the latter organization of 
Bloomsburg; he also belonged to the I.O.O.F. lodge at Sunbury. 
	Isaac Martin, grandfather of Mrs. Mercy Ann 
(Martin) Haas, was a native of Warren county, N. J. 
He came to Northumberland county in an early day, living two miles south of 
Sunbury, in what is now Upper Augusta township, on a large tract which he owned 
-about four hundred acres. There he died, and he and his wife, Rachel (Bacon), 
who long survived, him, are buried in unmarked graves in the old South cemetery 
of Sunbury, donated by William Penn as a place of burial. They were 
Presbyterians in religious faith. Two children were born to this pioneer 
couple: Jacob and Margaret. The daughter married Edward Harrison, and they lived 
at the "old dam" below Sunbury, in Upper Augusta township, where Mrs. Harrison 
owned much land. Their children were: Sarah Jane, who married Jacob Slough; 
Harrison, who died leaving a family; and Rachel, who married John Young. 
	Jacob Martin, son of Isaac, was born 
Jan. 30, 1802, on his father's homestead, and 
died July 29, 1849, aged forty-seven years. He was principally engaged 
assisting his father in the work of the home farm, which was located below 
Sunbury. His wife, Henrietta (Becker), born Aug. 30, 1800, died March 24, 1891, 
in her ninety-first year, and they are buried at Sunbury. They were 
Presbyterians in religion. Their family consisted of five children: Isaac, born 
Feb. 4, 1824, died April 6, 1891, at Port Carbon, Pa.; William B., born March 
31, 1826, lived at Sunbury, and died March 6, 1893; Mercy Ann, widow of John 
Haas, was born May 31, 1828; Charles Follmer, born July 15, 1831, is a resident 
of Sunbury; Louisa B., born June 7, 1834, died April 18, 1908. 
	CHARLES FOLLMER MARTIN, son of Jacob, 
was born July 15, 1831, in Sunbury, on the site of his 
present home. He attended public school there, and was engaged at boating and 
various work on the Pennsylvania canal until 1864, after the war following 
different vocations until his retirement from active pursuits. After the flood 
of 1865 he had a contract from the borough for $2,500 worth of work, "filling 
in" the streets which had been washed out. In 1862 he was in the Emergency 
troops called out to defend the State, serving as a member of Company D, 3d 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia. He enlisted Sept. 12, 1862, and was honorably 
discharged Sept. 25th. 
	Mr. Martin is a Democrat, and in his active years wielded 
considerable influence in the local ranks of his party, being a leading member 
of the organization in Northumberland county. He served as county coroner, was 
an overseer of the poor for some time, and served as councilman of the borough. 
	On Feb. 20, 1866, Mr. Martin married Susanna Reinhart, daughter of Charles 
and Mary (Cressinger) Reinhart, of Sunbury, and to their union were born two 
children: John H. married Minnie Withington and has two children, Sarah L. and 
Elizabeth (they live at Hazleton, Pa., where he is freight agent for the 
Pennsylvania Railway Company; Sarah L. died unmarried at the age of twenty-two 
years. 

	HENRY HOOVER, business manager of the News Publishing Company, of 
Shamokin, publishers of the Shamokin Daily News, has been a resident of that 
borough for over twenty years and in the latter part of 1893 founded the Daily 
News, with which he has continued his association to the present. 
	Mr. Hoover was born in 1834 in Shamokin township, 
Northumberland county, where his 
parents, John and Mary Hoover, were pioneer settlers, moving thither from Bucks 
county, Pa., in 1811. He was one of a family of sixteen children. Working on a 
farm until he reached the age of seventeen, Mr. Hoover subsequently learned the 
trade of coachmaking at Catawissa and followed it until his enlistment in the 
Union army in 1862. He became a private in the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry, with 
which he served until the close of the war, the regiment being attached to the 
Army of the James until March, 1865, when it joined Sheridan's Cavalry 
Division, Army of the Potomac. Mr. Hoover was wounded in the engagement near 
the Albemarle Sound, N. C., in October, 1863. After the war he located at 
Ashland, Schuylkill Co., Pa., where he was engaged in business until 1888, the 
year of his removal to Shamokin, where he has become recognized as a 
substantial and valuable citizen. 
	On Dec. 11, 1893, in association with his son, 
J. F. Hoover, he founded the Shamokin Daily News, of which J. F. Hoover is 
managing editor. In 1892 C. C. Hoover, another son of Henry Hoover, became a 
partner of his father and brother, acting as circulation manager of the News. 
They do business as the News Publishing Company. A printing plant, for book, 
commercial and job work, is successfully maintained. The location is at the 
corner of Lincoln and Liberty streets, Shamokin. 
	On Dec. 30, 1866, Mr. Henry Hoover married Mary E. Bindley, of 
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	JOHN M. BRIGHT is engaged in the lumber business at Seventh and Oak 
streets, Mount Carmel to which place he came in September, 1900, having bought 
out his brother, Hunter F. Bright. 
	This Bright family has long been established in Pennsylvania, and is of 
old standing in Berks county, where Michael Brecht, as the name was formerly 
spelled, was married in 1728 to Margareta Simone. He was born in 1706 and died 
1794; she was born in 1708 and died in 1778. They had the following children: 
Jacob, born April 13, 1729; George, Feb. 9, 1731; Michael, March 24, 1732; 
Katherine, April 6, 1734; John, Feb. 20, 1736; Peter, May 13, 1738; David, Aug. 
9, 1740; Maria, Aug. 1, 1742; Sarah, Jan. 19, 1745; and Christina, Aug. 12, 
1747. A genealogical sketch of this Bright family, in pamphlet form, prepared 
by the late A. G. Green, Esq., may be found among the archives of the Berks 
County Historical Society. 
	Michael Bright evidently the son of Michael recorded above as born March 
24, 1732, was the great-grandfather of John M. Bright. He was born in Berks 
county, and was an early pioneer in central Pennsylvania. 
	Hunter F. Bright, son of Michael, was born in Lewisburg, Union Co., Pa., 
and passed many years in Schuylkill county, living at Minersville and later 
settling at Ashland. He died in Philadelphia at the age of ninety-nine years. 
He was engaged in the lumber business. To his marriage with Catharine Dreher 
were born four children: William H., Daniel, Harrison and Carrie (who married 
James Lawrence). 
	William H. Bright son of Hunter F. and Catharine (Dreher) Bright, was born 
at Minersville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., Nov. 27, 1831. He learned the saddler's 
trade, but did not follow it long, as he embarked in the hotel business and 
later engaged in the lumber business at Ashland, cutting most of the timber in 
that district He died Jan. 11, 1896, at Reading, Pa., while on a visit and was 
buried at Ashland. Mr. Bright married Anna Barbara Seitzinger, who was born 
Feb. 18, 1839, daughter of Peter Seitzinger, at one time a large landowner in 
Schuylkill county, who sold big property to the Reading Company. Mrs. Bright 
died July 26, 1902. She was the mother of a large family, namely: Kate, born 
Nov. 7, 1855; Adelaide L., born June 20, 1857 (wife of Rev. A. Stewart, a 
Presbyterian minister now located at Marietta, Pa.); Hunter F., born Jan. 18, 
1859, who resides at Ashland, following the lumber business there and at 
Hazleton, Pa., and in the South (he married Laura Orth); Winfield P.; born Oct. 
16, 1860, who died young; Martin D., born Nov. 26, 1861, Eveline E., born May 
11, 1865 (wife of H. A. Acker, of Reading, Pa.) William E., born May 26, 1870; 
John M.; and David J., born Nov. 19, 1877. 
	John M. Bright was born Dec. 27, 1873, at Ashland, Schuylkill Co., Pa., 
and there received his education, attending high school. He was thoroughly 
trained to practical lumbering by his father, and has been principally engaged 
in that business since he commenced his active career. In September, 1900, Mr. 
Bright located at Mount Carmel, having bought the interests of his brother, 
Hunter F. Bright at this point. His yard is located at Seventh and Oak streets 
and is the center of a large trade, which is being steadily built up under Mr. 
Bright's excellent management. He is also agent for the Rubberoid roofing. With 
an extensive knowledge of his business gained by actual experience, and an 
enterprising spirit that is equal to the demands of modern successful 
operations, Mr. Bright has made a good start on a prosperous business life. 
	Mr. Bright married Bertha E. Slanker, daughter of David Slanker, of 
Gordon, Schuylkill Co., Pa. They have had two children, William and Marshall. 
	Mr. Bright is a member of the Elks lodge at Mount Carmel, and of the 
American Fire Company of Ashland, Pennsylvania. 
	JOHN H. VINCENT was for forty years before his death one of the leading 
and most estimable citizens of the borough of Northumberland, commanding a 
large and creditable legal practice, serving about twenty years as justice of 
the peace and filling various other local positions of trust, in all of which 
he displayed intelligent zeal for the welfare of the community and a degree of 
public spirit which insured the best care of the interests of his fellow 
citizens. His son and name-sake, John H. Vincent is now engaged in general law 
work at that borough, making a specialty of civil law, and has been highly 
successful. 
	The Vincent family is of French descent. From a pamphlet containing a life 
sketch of the late John Himrod Vincent father of Bishop John H. Vincent born 
April 20, 1798, at Milton, Pa., died Aug. 13, 1873, we take the following 
regarding the origin and early history of the Vincents. The Vincents are from 
an old French family. The name is Latin, and tradition carries it back to the 
fourth century. The Bibliotheque Nationale, in Paris, contains a long list of 
Vincents of various provinces and lines, Roman Catholic and Huguenot. On 
account of religious dissensions many Huguenots emigrated to England, Germany, 
the Netherlands, Switzerland, South Africa and the North American colonies.  
There are many Vincent families in England. Several large families of the same 
name in America came directly from France, some from England and some from 
France via England and Holland. 
	John Himrod Vincent belonged to the family of Levi Vincent who was born in 
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ferieur, on the west coast of France, and probably in the Canton of 
Rochelle, during the reign of King Charles II., April 10, 1676. He settled in 
New Rochelle, N. Y., and afterward moved to New Jersey, living in Newark 
township, where he died in 1763, aged eighty-seven years. His wife was Esther 
Debue, and they had one son, John. 
	John Vincent, son of Levi, was born Jan. 26, 1709, on the farm where his 
father died, and on Dec. 1, 1733, married Elizabeth Doremus, born July 13, 
1711. She died Feb. 11, 1788, and he died Feb. 24, 1801. She descended from 
Anneke Jans Webber, whose father was Wolpfert Webber, her family records 
reaching back to 1600. The children of John and Elizabeth (Doremus) Vincent 
were: Esther, Cornelius, Rachel, Elizabeth, Elizabeth (2), Jane, Mary, Benjamin 
and Peter. 
	Cornelius Vincent, son of John, was born April 15, 1737, on his father's 
farm near Bloomfield, N. J., and died July 16, 1812, in Milton, Pa., at the 
home of his daughter Mary ("Aunt Polly Derickson"). In November, 1756, he 
married Phoeba Ward, and their children were Isaac, Daniel, Bethuel, Sarah, 
Benjamin, John, Elizabeth, Rebekah and Mary.  (Further information in the 
pamphlet concerns only the posterity of Bethuel Vincent.) 
	Daniel Vincent, son of Cornelius, became the owner of about four hundred 
acres of land near Fort Freeland, lying along Warrior Run creek and in the year 
1790 built the first mill in the vicinity; it was remodeled in 1818 and is 
still standing. He did the work for the residents within a large radius and was 
very well known. He was at Fort Freeland when it was attacked by the Indians 
and he and his wife were taken prisoners, but she was sent back to her friends 
on horseback, while he was taken into Canada and held four years, during which 
time he acted as butcher for his captors; During one of his fights with the 
Indians he sustained an injury in the side which gradually grew worse and 
finally caused his death. He and many other members of his family are buried in 
the Warrior Run cemetery. He married Anglechy Huff, and they had children as 
follows: Phoebe, Isaac, John and Elizabeth. The old family property was divided 
equally between the two sons. 
	Isaac Vincent was born Oct. 21, 1783, on the old homestead in 
Northumberland county, and early in life took to agricultural pursuits. He 
inherited one half of his father's estate, and there lived throughout his life. 
His wife, Rebecca (Comly) was a native of Philadelphia, Pa., and they had 
children as follows: Ezra C., one that died in infancy, Nancy, Daniel, Charles, 
Caroline, Isaac, John H., Rebecca, Hannah M., Elizabeth, Comly and Henry Clay. 
	John H. Vincent, son of Isaac, was born Dec. 2, 1826, in Delaware 
township, Northumberland county, and received his early education in the public 
schools and at McEwensville Academy. He then taught school for some time, and 
saving his earnings was enabled to enter Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa., 
where he remained until he had passed the junior year. He then, with ex-
Governor Hoyt of Pennsylvania and ex-judge Schuyler of Northampton county, 
enrolled as a student at Williams College, in Massachusetts, from which 
institution he was graduated in 1849, after which he went to Charleston, S. C., 
and engaged as a school teacher. Later he removed to Alabama, where he also 
followed teaching, being private tutor for the children of a wealthy planter's 
family. After a few years he returned home and began his preparation for the 
legal profession, entering the law office of Gov. James Pollock, at Milton, and 
after a year taking up study in the McCarty Law School, at Easton. There he was 
admitted to the bar in 1854, and immediately began practice at Easton with 
Judge Schuyler as partner, remaining there until 1857. That year he located at 
Milford, Pike Co., Pa., where he resided until the Civil war. In 1862 he 
enlisted in Company B, 151st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was made 
second lieutenant before the company saw service, was later promoted to first 
lieutenant, and served as such at the battles of Chancellorsville and 
Gettysburg and in many skirmishes, receiving his discharge in 1863. 
	Returning to Milford, Mr. Vincent resumed the practice of law, which he 
continued at that point until 1867, meantime serving two terms as district 
attorney of Pike county.  From that time until his death he was located at 
Northumberland, where he not only built up a large practice as a lawyer, among 
the most influential class of citizens in the locality, but also became a 
leading business man, being secretary of the Bird Coal & Iron Company. With the 
exception of one year, he was justice of the peace continuously from 1889 until 
his death; was solicitor of the borough; school director a number of terms; and 
filled minor local offices for several years. In politics he was a Democrat. In 
1877 he built a large and handsome brick residence and office on Queen street, 
where, he remained until his death, which occurred in 1909, when he was in his 
eighty-third year. He is buried at McEwensville. 
	Mr. Vincent's first marriage was to Mary C. Davis, daughter of John Davis, 
of Easton, Pa., and they had two children: Julia, who died at an early age; and 
May, who married J. W. Elliott, of Renova, Pa., now deceased, Mrs. Elliott now 
residing at Barnesboro, Pa. The mother died young, and on Oct. 9, 1867, Mr. 
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union were born four children, John H., Caroline, William M. and Ella, of whom 
John H. is the only one now living. 
	JOHN H. VINCENT son of the late John H. Vincent was born March 7, 1876, in 
the borough of Northumberland, and there received his preparatory education in 
the public schools, graduating from the high school in 1894. He next attended 
Bucknell University, at Lewisburg, and for one year was a student at the 
Dickinson School of Law, at Carlisle, Pa., after which he registered in the 
office of Hon. Simon P. Wolverton, of Sunbury. On Dec. 18, 1899, he was 
admitted to the Northumberland county bar, and has since devoted all his time 
to legal practice, making a specialty of civil law. His office is on Queen 
street Northumberland. Mr. Vincent enjoys the highest standing personally and 
professionally.  His inherent aptitude for the law has been developed in 
practical work, and like his father he commands a clientele whose patronage 
itself is a recommendation of his ability.  He is a Democrat in politics, a 
member of the Presbyterian Church of his town, and was formerly a member of the 
National Guard of Pennsylvania, which he joined in 1895. In April, 1898, he 
was mustered for service in the Spanish American war with Company E, 12th 
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and he was mustered out with that 
command in October, 1898; he was a corporal. 
	On Jan. 26, 1899, Mr. Vincent married Margaret Starick, adopted daughter 
of William A. and Mary (Dunham) Starick, the former of whom, now deceased, was 
in his time a prominent hardware merchant of Northumberland, and active in 
civic affairs in the borough.  Mr. and Mrs. Vincent have one child, Elizabeth. 
	Mr. Vincent recently found a register of the genealogy of the Vincents 
written by one of his relations Aug. 22, 1822. 
	Mrs. Caroline (Montgomery) Vincent traces her ancestry back to Robert 
Montgomery, who emigrated to this country from County Armagh, Ireland, when 
thirty-two years old, and settled in Dauphin county, Pa. He located on the site 
of the present city of Harrisburg and was one of the first grand jurors of 
Dauphin county. He, died in 1776, aged seventy- one years. To him and his wife 
Sarah were born five children: William, Thomas, Hugh, David and John. 
	John Montgomery, son of Robert, was born in Ireland, and was four years. 
old when he came to this country with his parents. He grew to manhood in 
Dauphin county, became a farmer by occupation, and in 1773 exchanged an 
improved tract in that county for a wild tract in Turbut township, 
Northumberland county, making a trade with William Patterson. The deal proved 
advantageous for Mr. Montgomery, who started his life in the new region under 
better conditions than most of the pioneers. But after getting his affairs in 
prosperous shape his home was attacked by a band of Indians and he was obliged 
to flee with his family to Fort Freeland for safety. There, on July 28, 1779, 
they were attacked by a party of over three hundred British and Indians. After 
that John Montgomery sought temporary refuge with his family at his old home in 
Dauphin county, near Harrisburg. When peace had finally been declared, in 1783, 
he went back to the home in Northumberland county, restored the buildings which 
had been destroyed, and erected a limestone house which is still standing. He 
continued his work on this place until Nov. 8, 1782, when he was killed by a 
falling tree while engaged on the building of the Derry road. At the time of 
his death he was fifty-eight years old. He had married Christianna Foster, who 
died March 2, 1821, at the advanced age of eighty years, and both are interred 
in the Chillisquaque burying ground. They were members of the Presbyterian 
Church. Mr. and Mrs. John Montgomery had the following children: Robert John, 
William, David, Jane and Sarah. 
	William Montgomery, son of John, was born at what is now Paradise, in 
Turbut township, Northumberland county, and succeeded to the ownership of the 
old homestead, where he followed farming all his life. He died Aug. 22, 1853, 
aged seventy-six years, and his wife, Rachel (Simpson), died in 1806, at the 
early age of twenty-six years. They were the parents of three children: Nancy, 
who married Robert Van Valzah, M. D.; John T., who married Hannah Hower; and 
William. 
	William Montgomery, son of William, was born March 7, 1805, on the old 
homestead, and early in life settled at Limestone Ridge, but later bought a 
fine property at McEwensville, where he engaged in farming He was very 
successful, and owned a fine estate at the time of his death, which was caused 
by smallpox, in February, 1875. He married Molly Caldwell, daughter of John 
Caldwell, and they had children as follows: William C., who married Hadassa G. 
Dearmond; Mary Jane, who resides with her sister Mrs. Vincent and who is the 
widow of John M. Thatcher, a hot water furnace manufacturer of New York; 
Caroline M., widow of John H. Vincent; and Sarah E., wife of Valentine S. 
Truckermiller, of Truckermiller's Mills. 
	PHILIP ECKMAN, late of Sunbury, was for a number of years engaged in 
business in that borough as a merchant and later as agent for farming 
implements, in which lines he did a thriving trade; His widow, Mrs. Harriet 
(Conrad) Eckman, still continues to make her home there. 
	Mr. Eckman was, born in 1843 in Rushtown, Northumberland county, and was a 
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this county. Charles Eckman was a native of New Jersey, and coming to 
Northumberland county settled in Upper Augusta township, many of his 
descendants now living in this section. His wife's maiden name was DeWitt. 
	Philip Eckman, son of Charles, had five sons: Charles, Isaac, John, Jacob 
and Abram. Of these, Charles married Elizabeth J. Kline and they had children: 
John Edgar, who married Theodosia Forrester, and died in 1868; Elisha M., who 
married Mrs. Mary E. (Reed) Campbell, widow of Harmon K. Campbell; Margaret, 
deceased; Clarissa Ann, deceased, who was, the wife of H. C. Savidge and had 
children Grace and, Edgar; and James D.; Isaac, son of Philip, had children 
Col. Charles Eckman and David Eckman. 
	John Eckman, son of Philip, was born in 1847 and died in 1906, beloved by 
all who knew him. He was a conscientious Christian gentleman, for many years an 
elder in the Presbyterian Church, and the weather was never so severe that he 
could not be found in his pew. He married Theressa Mettler. 
	Philip Eckman, son of John and Theressa (Mettler) Eckman, was engaged as a 
merchant in Sunbury for many years, and later became a general agent for 
agricultural implements in which line he was also successful. He died in 1904. 
He was a substantial citizen and highly esteemed by the many who knew him in 
both business and social relations. 
	On Oct. 1, 1868, Mr. Eckman married Harriet Conrad, who was born in what 
was then Upper Augusta township, now included in the borough of Sunbury. One 
child was born to them, Esther, who is a graduate of the Sunbury high school. 
Mr. and Mrs. Eckman also reared Gertrude Fausold Eckman, who is now the wife of 
Ammon Geise and has had the following children: Paul, Harriet, Charles W. 
(deceased), Henry Lee, Stanley Eckman, Esther, Gertrude and Philip Eckman. 
Since the death of Mr. Eckman Mr. Geise has assisted Mrs. Eckman in her 
business affairs. After the death of her father she erected a fine brick house 
upon the property her father left her. It is a pleasant residence, surrounded 
by a beautiful and well kept lawn, and she and her daughter have a comfortable 
home there. She has divided her farm into borough lots, most of which she has 
sold, and Mr. Geise has helped her in the division of the property and the sale 
of the lots. She is held in the highest respect by her neighbors and friends, 
who are numerous in the community. 
	John Conrad, Mrs. Eckman's grandfather, was born March 18, 1777, and died 
June 11, 1839. He married Julia Cooper, who was born June 1, 1778, and died 
Dec. 22, 1841. They lived on the hill near Sun-bury, and Mr. Conrad gave his 
attention principally to the raising of fruit, having the largest orchard in 
the vicinity. He made a specialty of peaches, which he took to market in such 
quantities that he used a six-horse team. Nine children were born to John and 
Julia (Cooper) Conrad, (1) Daniel married a Miss Wolfe. (2) William married 
Susan Huey and (second) a Bartholomew. (3) George married Esther Reiser.  (4) 
Julia Ann married Henry Gass and had children, William, Jacob, George, Maria, 
Susan, Louise and. Harriet. (5) Sarah married a Mr. Gehrunger. (6) Elia, born 
June 20, 1819, died Jan. 27, 1849. His wife was a Gehrunger. (7) Kate married a 
Mr. Cooper. (8) Ann Maria married Decaton Herb and had five children, Julia, 
Maria, Daniel, Decaton and Samuel. (9) Susan married Samuel Herb. 
	GEORGE CONRAD, son of John and Julia, (Cooper) Conrad, was the father of 
Mrs. Eckman. He was born Aug. 26, 1808, in Upper Augusta township, and died May 
17, 1877. His wife, Esther (Reiser), born July 26, 1811, died Nov. 11, 1886. 
They were the parents of the following children: (1) Catharine married Albert 
Beckley, and their children were Florine (married Charles Zerbe), Clara 
(married John Evert), Alice (died young) and Hattie. (2) William died young. 
(3) Harriet is the widow of Philip Eckman, of Sunbury. (4) Henry married Sophia 
Fasold and they had a family of seven, George M. (who married Della Burns and 
had a daughter Ruth), Cora (wife of W. P. G. Hoffman), Esther (died young), 
Charles (who married a Miss Lawrence and subsequently a Miss Eyster), Ida (wife 
of J. B. Gould), Emily (Mrs. William Scott, whose children are Thomas and 
Henry) and William. (5) Amandus A. married Mary Wise. (6) Gideon. (7) Silas 
married Ellen Clark. 
	WILLIAM B. LEWIS, general manager of the W. F. Tauble hosiery mills at 
Shamokin, Northumberland county, has risen to his present position of 
responsibility by faithful attention to duty and executive ability which has 
proved valuable to the large concern with which he is identified. He entered 
the business when twenty-one years old in an humble capacity and has made his 
way by intelligent service and unremitting application to his work. The concern 
occupies an important place in the industrial life of Shamokin and vicinity, 
giving employment to about five hundred and seventy-five hands at the mills in 
the city as well as to two hundred in the mill at Mount Carmel. 
	Mr. Lewis was born in March, 1869, at Camden, N. J., son of Enoch Lewis 
and grandson of Benjamin Lewis. The grandfather lived and died in New Jersey. 
Enoch Lewis was an engineer in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, 
on the ferryboats taking freight from Philadelphia to Camden. He died when 
only thirty-three years old. He married Rebecca Bishoff, who now makes her home 
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children: Wesley, Nettie, William B. and Elizabeth. 
	William B. Lewis received a common school education. He was first employed 
at firing on a steamboat for the J. W. Paxton Company of Philadelphia, at Pier 
No. 45, continuing at this work for five years. When twenty-one he began work 
in the hosiery business at Riverside, N. J., in the employ of William F. 
Tauble, as a stocking knitter, and by industry was advanced steadily until he 
attained the position he now holds. The company was incorporated at Shamokin 
Jan. 1, 1901, and on March 17th following located in a small building on 
Lincoln street. In October of the same year a one-story building was erected 
for the accommodation of the business, which was promising from the start, and 
the following year a two-story building was put up. In 1903 a large four-story 
building was constructed, and all of these buildings, which occupy an 
advantageous location on West Walnut street, Shamokin, are now used for 
manufacturing the output of seamless hosiery for which the Tauble mills have 
become famous. In construction and equipment they are first- class in every 
particular and a credit to the city as well as to the owners. About five 
hundred and seventy-five hands find employment in the mill at Shamokin. Several 
other mills are operated by the same concern, one at Mount Carmel, one at 
Philadelphia, one at Riverside, N. J., and one at Tamaqua, Pa., the combined 
output placing it among the most extensive manufacturers of seamless hosiery in 
the United States. Mr. Lewis, the general manager at Shamokin, is a busy man, 
well liked among those with whom he has dealings in any of the relations of 
life, and has earned the esteem and respect of his fellow citizens in Shamokin 
since taking up his residence in that city. He was one of the organizers and 
original directors of the new Dime Trust & Safe Deposit Company of Shamokin. 
	On March 31, 1891, Mr. Lewis. married Laura Pike, and they have one 
daughter, Elizabeth, now the wife of Jacob Neihoff, of Shamokin. Mr. and Mrs. 
Lewis live at No. 1020 West Chestnut street, Shamokin. The family are 
Methodists in religious faith. Fraternally he holds membership in the B.P.O. 
Elks and the Jr. O.U.A.M. 
	MOWERY. This name is found in various forms here in Northumberland 
county, Mourer, Maurer, Mowery and Moury being common forms. This article 
pertains particularly to the three surviving sons of Daniel Mowery, Peter, 
Daniel W. and Harvey, the first and last named being residents of the borough 
of Shamokin, and Daniel W. living in Shamokin township, where he owns the 
valuable Brookside farm. All are worthy representatives of a name long and 
favorably known in this region. 
	The family came from Germany to this country, and first settled in Berks 
county, later moving to the Mahantango Valley, in Northumberland county. Peter 
Mowery, grandfather of the three brothers named, was born in the Mahantango 
Valley, and later settled near Edgewood Park, at Bear Valley (Shamokin), where 
he was among the first settlers.  Subsequently he removed to Locust township, 
Columbia county, where he followed farming until his death. His wife was 
Magdalena Loudelsleger, and both are buried in Columbia county They were the 
parents of a large family: Michael, who died in Columbia county; John, who died 
in Jefferson county, Pa.; Solomon, George and Peter, all three of whom died in 
Columbia county; Daniel; Sarah; Sophia; Fronie; Elizabeth; Leah; Sabina, and 
Catharine.  The mother of this family had an experience typical of the time in 
which she lived. While they were living near Bear Valley she was attracted by 
a noise in the pig pen, and going to investigate found a bear trying to steal a 
pig. The men being all away from the house, clearing the land, she attacked the 
animal with a long-handled fire shovel and killed it. 
	Daniel Mowery, son of Peter, was born at Bear Valley. In his, earlier 
years he followed farming, but he later became engaged at mining, and he was 
killed in the mines in 1855, when forty-five years old. He was interred in a 
small burial ground on the Mount Carmel road out from Shamokin. His wife, Mary 
(Yeager), daughter of John Yeager and his wife Sarah (McClow), of Columbia 
county, Pa., is buried in the Shamokin cemetery. They had the following 
children: John is deceased; Mary is the widow of John B. Snyder, of Shamokin; 
Caroline is deceased; Peter, Daniel W. and Harvey are mentioned below; Susan is 
the widow of Daniel Zimmerman; William died young; Lucy (deceased) married 
Washington Leiby and (second) Washington Fahringer. 
	PETER MOURY, eldest surviving son of Daniel, was born Nov. 14, 1842, in 
Shamokin. He received his education in the schools of Columbia county, was 
reared upon the farm, and in his young manhood learned the carpenter's trade, 
which he followed for some time at Shamokin and elsewhere in Northumberland 
county. In all he was engaged at his trade for about thirty years, being at 
the Big Mountain colliery about eleven years, and also at the Henry Clay, 
Nelson, Pennsylvania and Green Ridge collieries. Upon giving up his trade he 
was elected janitor of the McKinley school building, in Coal township, in 1906, 
and has since filled that position, which occupies all his time. He has long 
made his home in Shamokin, having built his present home, at No. 1111 Walnut 
street, in 1886. He is a respected citizen, well known in Shamokin and 
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a Lutheran. Socially he holds membership in the I.O.O.F. 
	On Jan. 5, 1868, Mr. Moury married Mary A. Moyer, who was born March 10, 
1852, daughter of David and Catharine M. (Cherry) Moyer, and fifteen children 
have been born to their union, namely: Mary C., born Nov. 9, 1868, married John 
A. Mengel; David died when seventeen years old; Ella R., born March 17, 1872, 
married William H. Ritche; Daniel H. was born Aug. 29, 1873; John W. was born 
Jan. 15, 1875; Ida S., born Nov. 19, 1876, married Wilson G., Yoder; Stella C. 
died in infancy; Clara E., born July 10, 1880, married Edward Hess; Alice W., 
born March 13, 1883, married Absalom Davis; Bertha E., born July 18, 1884, 
married Bert Goodman; Sarah M. died when five years old; Fannie A., born Nov. 6, 
1888, died when eight years old; Florence M., born March 17, 1891, is at home; 
Carrie M. and Arthur E. died in infancy. 
	DANIEL W. MOWERY, son of Daniel, was born Jan. 31, 1845, in Columbia 
county, Pa., and received his education in the public schools. When nine years 
old he began to pick slate at the breaker, working thus one year. He then went 
to live with Daniel Keller, at Bear Gap, and while there enlisted for service 
in the Civil war, joining Company D, 95th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 
under Capt. Charles Grosh, of Lancaster, Pa., the company being recruited from 
Lancaster county. He served one hundred days. In 1866 Mr. Mowery located at his 
present home in Shamokin township, which formed part of the old Persing 
property. He has erected all new buildings upon his land, and his property, 
known as the Brookside farm, is in up-to-date condition in every respect. He 
follows general farming and trucking, and has prospered steadily by dint of 
hard work and good management. Mr. Mowery is a good neighbor and well liked in 
his community, has served three years as township treasurer, is a very active 
member of the U. B. Church, which he has served as treasurer, trustee, class 
leader and Sunday school superintendent, and politically is a Prohibitionist. 
He is a man who possesses the courage of his convictions, and he has been 
influential in promoting the best interests of his locality. He is one of those 
interested in the Irish Valley Rural Bell Telephone Company, which has seven 
miles of wire, put up in 1909 and 1910 by fourteen enterprising men of the 
valley. 
	Mr. Mowery married Mary C. Zimmerman, daughter of Michael and Clarissa 
(Snyder) Zimmerman, of Columbia county, and they have become the parents of ten 
children: Laura, John and Ida, all died young; Michael married Rosie Furman, 
and their children are Daniel, Ruth and Paul; Eva married Lewis S. Tharp, and 
they have had children, Mary, Beulah, Ida, Elva, Donald and Howard; Adam died 
when fifteen years old; Albert died at the age of thirteen; Lottie died when 
ten years old; Ellis died at the age of eight years; Clarence D. is at home. 
	HARVEY MOWERY, son of Daniel, now living retired in the borough of 
Shamokin, was born Nov. 9, 1847, at Shamokin. He followed mining for a 
considerable period, being in the employ of the Philadelphia & Reading Company 
for about twenty years, retiring in the year 1910. Mr. Mowery owns a farm in 
Shamokin township, which he rents out, and has some valuable holdings of real 
estate in Coal township, at the limits of Shamokin borough. His home is at No. 
826 West Pine street. 
	Mr. Mowery married Amelia Hartline, daughter of Joseph and 
Lydia (Rebuck) Hartline, and to them has been born a large family: Minerva, now 
the wife of Lewis Reed; William, who married Laura Hains and (second) Katie 
Noll; Daniel, who lives in New Jersey; Mary, wife of Harry Lake; Michael C., 
living at home; Edna, at home; Lucy, married to William Thomas; Malchom, who 
married Edna Persing; Ellis; Ruth; Clinton; Annie, deceased; Rosie, deceased; 
Edith and Ethel, twins; and a son that died in infancy. 
	Fraternally Mr. Mowery is an Odd Fellow, belonging to Black Diamond Lodge, 
No. 1092, and to the Encampment; and he is a member of Washington Camp No. 149, 
P.O.S. of A. In religious connection he is a member of the Reformed Church. 
	CHARLES WOLVERTON CLEMENT, attorney at law, of Sunbury, Northumberland 
county, is a native of that place and a member of one of its most prominent 
families. His grandfather, Ira T. Clement, long the most influential man in 
this section, was a man who not only acquired means and position by his own 
efforts, but also brought advantageous industrial enterprises into the region 
which benefited the entire community. 
	Joseph Clement, Mr. Clement's great-grand-father, 
served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He died on Staten Island, 
New York. In 1805 he married, in Sussex. county, N. J., Hannah Hazen, and they 
had three children: Augustus, who married Caroline Lyons and died in Sunbury; 
Sarah, who first married a Mr. Hazen and later became the wife of Dr. 
Woodbridge, and raised a large family; and Ira T. Mrs. Joseph Clement married 
for her second husband Solomon Smith. 
	Ira T. Clement, born Jan. 11, 1813, in New Jersey, was a young child when 
brought by his mother to Northumberland county, Pa., where he spent the 
remainder of his life, dying Oct. 28, 1898. A more complete account of his life 
appears elsewhere in this work. In 1834 he married Sarah Martz, of Shamokin 
township, daughter of David and Magdalena (Shissler) Martz, and to them were 
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married; Henry; Catharine A., who died 
young; David; a child that died in infancy; Mary Jane, who married John W. 
Bucher; Louisa, widow of Henry F. Moore; Sarah Frances, who married David C. 
Dissinger and survived him; Laura I., who married Dietrich James; Maria W., who 
died unmarried; and Grace and Emma, who died young. Only two of this family, 
Henry and Mrs. Moore, survived the father. 
	David Clement son of Ira T., was born in August, 1840, in Sunbury, and was 
interested with his father and brother in the lumber business throughout his 
active career, continuing thus until his death, April 7, 1876, at a 
comparatively early age. On Nov. 2, 1866, he married Sarah Wolverton, a member 
of a prominent family of this locality, born Nov. 22, 1844, on the Wolverton 
homestead some miles below Sunbury, daughter of Dennis Wolverton, in his day a 
prominent resident of Upper Augusta township. Mrs. Clement continued to live 
at the home at Second and Arch streets, Sunbury, until her death, May 30, 1910, 
after an illness of over six months, and she is buried in Pomfret Manor 
cemetery. The funeral was conducted by Rev. R. R. Thompson, pastor of the 
Baptist Church, of which she was a lifelong member, faithful and conscientious 
in her Christian duties and in all other relations of life. She was also an 
active member of the board of directors of the Y.W.C.A. and of the Ladies' 
Auxiliary of the Mary M. Packer hospital. Her many excellent traits of 
character and useful life endeared her to a wide circle of friends and 
acquaintances. She was the last survivor of her family, her brothers and 
sisters having all predeceased her. They were as follows: Horatio J. Wolverton, 
at one time a well known lawyer of Sunbury; William J. Wolverton; also a 
lawyer, and at one time county superintendent of schools; Mrs. Peter Snyder; 
Mrs. James Riland; Mrs. Thomas Snyder, and Mrs. William Kline. 
	Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. David Clement: Mary, who is the 
wife of James A. Watson, a patent attorney, of Washington, D. C., and has three 
children, Robert C., J. Angus and C. Harold; John W., who died in infancy; and 
Charles Wolverton. 
	Charles Wolverton Clement born Feb. 1, 1875, at Sunbury, there received 
most of his preparatory education, in the local schools; graduating from the 
high school in 1892. He spent one year of his high school life at Washington, 
D. C. Entering Bucknell College, he graduated from that institution in 1898, 
with the degree of B. S., receiving his master's degree from that institution 
in 1904. Meantime, however, he had completed his preparation for the legal 
profession. He attended what was then known as Columbian University, at 
Washington, D. C., now George Washington University, graduating in 1902 with the 
degree of LL. B., and supplementing his course with special work which won him 
the degree of Master of Patent Law in 1903. He was admitted to the 
Northumberland county bar June 23, 1902. While taking his law course he was 
associated with his brother-in-law, Mr. Watson, gaining practical experience in 
patent law, of which he too makes a specialty. He also studied for a time with 
Gen. C. M. Clement of Sunbury. Remaining in Washington a short time after 
completing his work in the law school, Mr. Clement returned to Sunbury and has 
since devoted himself to practice in this locality. His office is in Room 322, 
in the First National Bank building, at which location he has done business 
since 1904. His patronage has been a creditable one from the beginning, and has 
shown a steady increase, his standing being irreproachable, whether from the 
professional or the personal standpoint. He is a member of the Sunbury Board of 
Trade. 
	Mr. Clement is a Republican in politics and is at present serving in the 
borough council as representative of the First Ward. His social connections 
are numerous, he being a member of Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A.M., of which 
he is at present senior warden (1911); Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M.; 
Mount Hermon Commandery, No. 85, K.T.; the Royal Arcanum; the Sons of Veterans; 
the Temple Club; the Country Club, of which he is president; the Phi Kappa Psi 
college fraternity; and the Bucknell Alumni Association. He is an attendant of 
the Baptist Church. 
	DR. A. T. DEWITT was born in 1837, in Augusta township, Northumberland 
county, and is a member of the DeWitt family here. In the early part of the 
seventeenth century, when the emigrant ancestors came to this country from 
Holland, they settled on Manhattan island, naming it New Amsterdam. 
	The records show that there were two brothers, one remaining in New York, 
while the other moved to New Jersey. About 1807 Paul DeWitt, a member of the 
New Jersey branch of the family, and grandfather of Dr. DeWitt came with a 
number of other New Jersey families to Pennsylvania, settling in Augusta 
township, Northumberland county. He married Margaret Persing, and to them were 
born three children: Abraham,, who moved to Philadelphia, Pa.; William, and 
Elizabeth, Mrs. Reppard. 
	William DeWitt son of Paul, married Elizabeth Tressler, and to them were 
born seven children: Jacob, who married Mary Clark and had three children: 
Isaac, who married Elizabeth Cressinger and had seven children, two sons and 
five daughters; Paul, who married Abigail Shipman, and had five children, three 
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children, two sons and six daughters; Matthew, who married Elizabeth Shipman 
and had two children, one son and one daughter; Moses, who married Lavina 
Strausser and had four children, one son and three daughters; and Abraham T., 
who married Sarah Renn and had four children, three sons and one daughter. 
	Dr. Abraham T. DeWitt, the youngest son, was reared upon a farm until he 
reached the age of sixteen years. He next spent two years at work in the mill 
of his brother William, and then took the opportunity to improve his early 
education, attending the academy at Boalsburg, in Center county, Pa. After that 
he began his experience as teacher, being thus engaged for one term in Snyder 
county, Pa., at the close of which he became a student at what then was known 
as the Freeburg Academy, in Snyder county. The following winter he taught 
school in Schuylkill county, and then again resumed his studies, at the 
Missionary Institute, now Susquehanna University, located at Selinsgrove, Pa. 
He began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Caslow, of 
Halifax, Dauphin county, and in 1861 entered the University of Vermont, from 
which institution he was graduated June 9, 1862. Dr. DeWitt at once settled at 
Snydertown, Northumberland county, where he continued private practice until he 
took the examination for army service in June, 1863, and passing was soon 
appointed assistant surgeon, 54th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Emergency Men, for 
one hundred days service. The command was sent out of the State, and Dr. 
DeWitt assisted in the capture of Gen. John Morgan, who was making his famous 
raid into Ohio. After receiving his discharge with the regiment, at the end of 
his term, the Doctor reentered the Union service, being appointed surgeon of 
the 2d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery Regiment, within the fortifications at 
Washington, D. C., at the northeast; in 1864 he was transferred from the 
northeast to the southwest, Washington defenses. In June, 1864, the regiment was 
ordered to join the army under General Grant, took part in the battle of Cold 
Harbor, and subsequently marched to White House Landing, where the troops took 
transports for City Point. The regiment was the first to advance upon 
Petersburg, where they remained until August, at which time they were stationed 
at Bermuda Hundred, continuing at that point until Lee evacuated Richmond. They 
were then ordered to Petersburg, remaining in charge of the city until Jan. 1, 
1866, when they were discharged by general order. While in the defenses at 
Washington Dr. DeWitt was a member of the staff of General Fariero, with 
headquarters at Arlington. During the summer of 1865 he was chief medical 
officer of the district of Roanoke, with headquarters at Berksville Junction, 
Va. He was mustered out at Philadelphia in 1866. 
	On April 1, 1866, Dr. DeWitt resumed the practice of his profession, at 
Snydertown, Pa., in 1878 moving to the borough of Riverside, where he has since 
been located. He has won a place among the most esteemed citizens of that 
place by his busy and well spent life. His skill as a physician has bought him 
a long list of patrons, to whom he is friend as well as doctor, and he is 
widely known in Riverside and the surrounding territory. 
	While at Snydertown, in 1873, Dr. DeWitt was elected a member of the 
Pennsylvania House of Representatives, was reelected to serve in the same 
capacity in 1874, and in 1875 was elected transcribing clerk of the House. 
Since becoming a resident of Riverside he has not been identified with public 
affairs as an office holder, but the establishment and maintenance of what is 
known as DeWitt's park is due to his efforts and is a worthy monument to his 
interest in the general welfare. It is a naturally wooded tract of some twenty 
acres, which has been well equipped for amusement purposes, with a pavilion 50 
by 110 feet in dimensions, a dining hall 65 by 36 feet, and large ball grounds 
with a 100- foot grand stand. The park is well supplied with flowing water, 
cool, and of excellent quality, conducted through the grounds from a spring. 
The spot is cool and beautiful on the hottest days, and the recreation ground 
has proved not only an improvement to the vicinity but a blessing to the many 
who take advantage of its benefits. The idea was typical of Dr. DeWitt. He is a 
man of kind and genial disposition, and in spite of his advanced years is 
remarkably well preserved. 
	Dr. DeWitt married Sarah Renn, who died July 2, 1906, at the age of sixty-
six years. Of the four children born to this union one son died young, the 
others being: W. O., who married Luella Gruver of Nanticoke, Pa., and has 
children, Helen, Florence, John and William; Heber Loran, who married Anna 
Morrell and has two children, George and Sarah; and Cora Irene, who married 
William Mettler and has one daughter, Evelyn. 
	WILLIAM R. REINHARDT, general superintendent for the Mineral Railroad & 
Mining Company, whose offices are at Shamokin, has been a miner ever since he 
became a resident of that borough in 1871. A man who carries large 
responsibilities ably, a citizen of the highest standing-, he is self-made in 
the best sense of the term, having won his success by industry and the most 
honorable methods. Mr. Reinhardt was born June 1st, 1855, in New York, and he 
is of German extraction, his father, William Frederick Reinhardt, having been 
born in Germany. 
	William Frederick Reinhardt came to America about 1853-54. After a short 
residence in New York he came to Schuylkill county, Pa., and he also lived 
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coming to Shamokin, Northumberland county. He died 
at Topton, in Berks county, of apoplexy, in 1892, at the age of 
fifty-eight years. By trade he was a printer, engaged in casting prints, but 
after coming to America he followed different kinds of outdoor work.  His 
brother in Germany was a prominent citizen of Wittenburg and served as 
postmaster there. Mrs. Elizabeth Reinhardt, wife of William Frederick 
Reinhardt, was a native of Switzerland. She came with her husband to America, 
and died about 1898, at the age of sixty-seven years. They are buried at 
Topton. Both were Lutherans in religious faith. They had children as follows: 
William B.; Christian, of Topton, Pa.; Frank, of Shamokin, Pa.; and Emma, of 
Topton, who married John Dye and (second) John Brouse. 
	William R. Reinhardt received such educational advantages as the common 
schools afforded, most of his training, however, having been acquired in the 
fields of practical work. After he was fifteen years old he began working in 
the coal mines at Shamokin, starting as a laborer, and gained promotion by 
merit from time to time until he attained his present high position, the duties 
of which he assumed Jan. 1, 1900. During all this time he has continued to make 
his home in Shamokin, except for the two years 1898 and 1899, when he was 
general inside foreman at the Williamstown and Lykens collieries, which, 
however, were operated by the same company. He returned to Shamokin to take 
charge as general superintendent for the Mineral Railroad & Mining Company, 
having supervision of all the work in its seven collieries, Cameron, Luke 
Fidler, Hickory Swamp, Hickory Ridge, Scott, Pennsylvania and Richards. Over 
five thousand men are employed in the district, which is one of the important 
coal fields of Pennsylvania. The original concern, the Union Coal Company, had 
five colleries, all those above named except the Cameron and Luke Fidler, which 
belonged to the Mineral Mining Company. In 1904 the Union Coal Company was 
changed to the Susquehanna Coal Company, and in January, 1909, this was in turn 
absorbed by the Mineral Railroad & Mining Company, with offices at Shamokin. 
Mr. Reinhardt has been a director of the Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Company 
of Shamokin since 1900. He has not taken any active part in municipal affairs, 
except to give his influence as a public- spirited citizen to projects intended 
to advance the local welfare. He is a Republican in political matters. 
	Mr. Reinhardt is prominent in local fraternal circles, belonging to Lodge 
No. 256, B.P.O.E., of Shamokin; to the P.O.S. of A. at Shamokin; and to the 
Masonic fraternity, in which connection he holds membership in Shamokin Lodge, 
No. 255, Shamokin Chapter, No. 264, R.A.M., Shamokin Commandery, No. 77, K. T., 
Rajah Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., of Reading, and the Temple Club at Shamokin. He is 
a member of the Lutheran Church and at present serving in the church council. 
	In 1877 Mr. Reinhardt married Amelia T. Sowden, daughter of Samuel and 
Elizabeth (Williams) Sowden, of near Allentown, Pa., and they had one child, 
Elizabeth, who died of diphtheria and was buried in the same coffin with her 
mother, near Slatedale, Lehigh Co., Pa. Mrs. Reinhardt had been in poor health 
for about a year, and shortly before her death contracted a cold which ended 
fatally in April, 1883. Mr. Reinhardt's second marriage was to Alice Shipe, 
daughter of George and Rebecca (Hoover) Shipe, of Montour county, though her 
father was a pioneer of Shamokin and built one of the very first houses at that 
place. He was a lumber merchant in the earlier days, later a dry goods 
merchant. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Reinhardt: George died 
of diphtheria when six years old; Walter was a mining engineer and was killed 
in the mines while a member of an engineer corps; Harry is a mining engineer 
and lives at Shamokin; Robert and Florence are still at school. 
	SAMUEL SOWDEN was an Englishman, born at Liskeard, England, May 11, 1816, 
and came to the United States in 1846, settling in Northampton county, Pa. Here 
he was engaged in ore mining, employing a number of men, and he followed that 
business from the time of his settling there until his retirement from active 
pursuits. He was employed for a number of years by the Allentown Iron Company. 
Earlier in life he was a farmer in his native land. In 1858 he located at 
Ironton, where he lived until a few years before his death, when he moved to a 
location between Meyersville and the Iron Bridge. Here his death occurred Feb. 
5, 1891, when he was aged seventy-four years, eight months, twenty-four days, 
and he was buried at the Egypt Church in Lehigh county. He always took an 
active interest in public affairs, and was a public-spirited-man in the best 
sense of the word, never failing to lend a helping hand to promote the best 
interests of the community. 
	Mr. Sowden's first wife was Mary Elliott. She died in 1844 and was buried 
at Liskeard, England. They were the parents of two children: Hon. William H., 
born in 1840, who was twice elected to Congress from the Berks-Lehigh district 
of Pennsylvania, was a most popular orator and a strong and convincing speaker; 
and John, who emigrated from England to Australia, and who never married. Mr. 
Sowden married (second) Elizabeth H. Williams, also a native of Liskeard, born 
Sept. 27, 1827, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Sowden) Williams. Her death 
occurred Aug. 17, 1890, at the age of sixty-two years, ten months, twenty days. 
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who married William R. Reinhardt, of Shamokin Edwin E., deceased; Jabez B., 
retired, of Slatedale, Pa.; Samuel, who died in infancy; and Mame E., who 
married Morris A. Lentz, of Slatedale. 

	GILBERT VORIS (deceased) lived for over fifty years on a farm in what is 
now West Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, in which region, in the 
territory embraced in either this or Montour county, the Voris family has been 
well known for many years. He was one of the most respected citizens of his 
community, a worthy representative of a name which has long been honored as 
standing for intelligence, integrity and sterling qualities of manhood and 
citizenship. 
	The first of the family to come to America emigrated from Holland and 
spelled the name Voorhees, as appears from the church record of Okey Voorhees, 
ancestor of the branch in which we are interested. But as the name at one time 
was written de Voorhees it is supposed the family is of French origin. It is 
known that three brothers, Okey, James and Abraham, came to this country from 
Holland and settled on Long Island during the seventeenth century, later 
settling near Trenton, in New Jersey, where they took up a large tract of land. 
Okey, the ancestor of the branch in Northumberland county, was born in either 
Holland or France, and as stated settled in New Jersey, where he reared a 
family. Eventually he moved out to Michigan, where he became a prosperous 
farmer, and a county was named for him. He died in Michigan. 
	Gilbert Voris, son of Okey, came about l765 to Montour county, Pa., 
obtained a tract of over six hundred acres near Mooresburg, and died in 1797. 
He was buried in the old cemetery at Danville, now Memorial park, and when the 
question came up of changing the cemetery grounds into a park Mr. William Voris 
transferred the markers and remains elsewhere. Gilbert Voris was one of the 
founders of the Presbyterian Church at Danville. In New Jersey he married Jane 
McClanathan, who survived him and remarried, her second husband being John 
Carson; she died in October, 1816. She was the mother of four children by her 
second marriage, and four children were also born to her union with Mr. Voris, 
namely: (1) James settled in Liberty township, Montour county, and died at 
Danville. He married Anna Grey and they were the parents of fourteen children. 
(2) John is mentioned below. (3) Eleanor married Elijah Crawford and they 
became the parents of ten children. (4) Elizabeth married Peter Vandalang and 
had children: Adam, John, Gilbert, Jane, James and Peter. 
	John Voris, son of Gilbert, was born Aug. 29, 1791, and died April 2, 
1863. By trade he was a carpenter, though he also followed farming. He was the 
most prominent contractor in his district during his active years, building 
many of the most important structures in the locality, among them the old 
eight-cornered schoolhouse known as the Sodom school in Chillisquaque township, 
which he erected in 1814. In 1852 he purchased part of the Maj. James McMahan 
farm, known as the Teneriffe tract, for which his son's widow, Mrs. Gilbert 
Voris, now holds the original deed made by the Penns to the McMahans. The tract 
is now occupied by her son John L. Voris. Here stood the old fort, close to 
which, Major McMahan was taken prisoner by the Indians. Later Gilbert Voris 
purchased more land in Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, until he 
owned about seven hundred acres, and he became very successful in his 
agricultural pursuits, being a man of great business ability as well as an 
intelligent worker. He retired when about sixty years of age. Mr. Voris married 
Sarah Hendrickson, who was born May 11, 1796, daughter of Adam and Catharine 
(Vandling) Hendrickson, and died May 11, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Voris were members 
of the Methodist Church. They were the parents of the following children: 
Mary; Jane, born in 1819, who died in 1895, the wife of Joseph Kerr (1815-
1876); Catharine; Peter, who had one child, Lizzie B., wife of Dr. J. S. 
Follmer; Gilbert; Elizabeth; Abraham; William, who married Anna Mack and had 
twelve children, Josephine (Mrs. Charles Blue), George M., Jennie (Mrs. Harry 
Kramer), Mary E., Bertha, John, Nellie (deceased), Okey (deceased), Anna G., 
Sarah L., Emma Caroline (married Edwin Murray) and William Edwin; John; and 
Ellen. 
	Gilbert Voris, son of John and Sarah (Hendrickson) Voris, was born May 3, 
1826, in Montour county, and received his education in the public schools of 
his native township. Until he became of age he worked on his father's land; and 
in 1862 he purchased one of his father's farms, all his life continuing to 
engage in farming, in which he was very successful. Though a faithful Democrat 
in politics he always refused any offers of public office, but he was a very 
active worker in the Presbyterian Church, serving as president of the committee 
that had charge of the erection of the Chillisquaque Church at Pottsgrove, the 
fourth structure built by that organization. The first church building, erected 
in 1773, the oldest church in this vicinity, was burned by the Indians. In 
1789-90 the second was erected, the third in 1853, and the fourth in 1889-91. 
Mr. Voris was not only a zealous church worker, but actively interested in 
everything that affected the welfare of the community, where he was held in the 
highest esteem. He died Jan. 26, 1904, and is buried in Harmony cemetery, at 
Milton. 
	On March 14, 1854, Mr. Voris married Harriet McWilliams, and they had a 
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Dr. H. M. Emerick, of Milton, and died Sept. 3, 1897. 
(2) John L. is mentioned more fully below. (3) Hugh McW., 
born in 1864, died young. (4) Harriet E., born 
Feb. 20, 1873, is the wife of Luther Moll and has three children, Sidney V. 
(born April 10, 1897), Anna R. (born Sept. 30, 1899) and Frank H. (born Nov. 8, 
1906). Mrs. Voris now makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Moll, in 
Pottsgrove, whither she removed after her husband's death. She and her husband 
lived on the farm where they began their married life for over fifty years. 
	The McWilliams family to which Mrs. Gilbert Voris belongs has long been 
settled in this section of Pennsylvania. The earliest of the name of which we 
have record was her great- great-grandfather, Robert McWilliams, who married 
Jean Orr, by whom he had three sons, Hugh, John and Robert. 
	Hugh McWilliams, son of Robert married Rebecca Dunwoody, and with his 
bride came to Montour county, Pa., where he took up some eight hundred acres of 
land. 
	Robert McWilliams, son of Hugh, was born in 1775, and in 1797 married Jane 
Curry, whose father, Robert Curry, was killed by Indians. To this union were 
born three children, Hugh, John and Mrs. Caldwell. 
	Hugh McWilliams, son of Robert, was born in 1799 and died in 1877. He 
married Rebecca Lemon, and they had children: Harriet now the widow of Gilbert 
Voris; Regina (deceased), who married Dr. Simington; and Anna, widow of Frank 
Hain. 
	John L. Voris, son of the late Gilbert Voris, was born Aug. 6, 1858, in 
East Chillisquaque township, and there began his education in the public 
schools. He also went to school at Bloom and at Lewisburg. He has followed 
farming all his life, and in April, 1884, settled at his present home, a tract 
of 212 acres which was one of his father's farms, the famous Teneriffe tract, 
adjoining the old Voris homestead. In 1891 he built the handsome residence 
which stands on this property, one of the most beautiful homes in this region, 
up-to-date in every respect and embodying all the conveniences found in 
metropolitan dwellings - a comfortable, commodious house which is a credit to 
the vicinity. It is located on the road between Lewisburg and Danville. Mr. 
Voris is one of the leading citizens of his district. He is at present serving 
his third term as member of the township school board, and he has always been 
among the first to support worthy movements in his neighborhood, of whatever 
nature. He was a member of the Grange and also of the State Grange, doing all 
he could to raise the standards of agriculture, in which he himself has been 
most successful as the result of progressive methods and well directed energy. 
Politically he is a Democrat, in religion a Presbyterian, belonging to the old 
church at Pottsgrove which the family has so long helped to support. 
	Mr. Voris married Mary Hamor, daughter of William and Emma (Robins) Hamor, 
and they have had the following children: Gilbert, who married Grace Schell; 
Emily, who is at home; Frank, who died in infancy; and J. Harold, at home. 

	WILLIAM MACLAY, one of the first officials of Northumberland county and 
one of the two men who first had the honor of representing Pennsylvania in the 
Senate of the United States, left an impress upon the politics of the State and 
country more appreciable in the present generation than ever before. He and his 
brother, Samuel Maclay, who was the first representative of Northumberland and 
Dauphin counties in the Lower house of the National Congress, 1794, and later 
served as United States senator, were recognized as men of the highest 
influence and important figures in the life of their day. William Maclay served 
only two years in the Senate. But he helped to direct the course of the ship of 
state for a much longer period. Moreover, time has proved that his ideas, or 
more properly his ideals, were so far in advance of his time that he became 
almost discouraged in his hope of ever seeing them generally adopted. Yet today 
these ideas are by common consent the only ones which a high-minded statesman 
will acknowledge, the ones upon which he counts most to gain popular support. 
Mr. Maclay thought a man should enter politics with the one idea of serving his 
constituents to the highest and best of his ability; that he should receive 
their confidence on that basis; that he should be unhampered by the 
solicitations of selfish private interests, seeking to exalt the prosperity or 
promote the advantages of the few at the expense of the many. The project 
seemed simple enough. It was so big that though a full century has elapsed it 
is now only partially developed. But the evolution has been of a stable 
character. The theories which this broad-minded and far-sighted legislator 
attempted to put into practice over a century ago are becoming crystallized in 
modern political standards. 
	Mr. Maclay was born July 20, 1737, in New Garden township, Chester Co., 
Pa., son of Charles and Eleanor (Query) Maclay. He was of Irish extraction, his 
father having been born in County Antrim, Ireland, a descendant of Charles 
Maclay, Baron Fingal. In 1742 the family moved to Lurgan township, Franklin 
Co., Pa., and there William grew to manhood. At the outbreak of the French and 
Indian war he was a pupil at the classical academy of Rev. John Blair, in 
Chester county; entering the military service as ensign, he was promoted to the 
rank of lieutenant May 7, 1758, in the 3rd Battalion, and served with credit in 
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eral Forbes's expedition in that year. In 1768 he participated in the battle 
of Bushy Run, and during the subsequent progress of Bouquet's campaign was 
stationed in command of his company at one of the stockades on the route of the 
expedition. Meantime, in the intervals of his military service, the young man 
had studied law, and was admitted to the bar, in York county, Pa, April 28, 
1760. It does not appear that he ever devoted himself to legal practice, but he 
must have found his knowledge of the law extremely useful in administering the 
duties of the various public trusts to which he was called. Surveying was his 
principal occupation during his earlier manhood, and in that work he covered the 
vast tracts of wild land in the central and western parts of Pennsylvania. At 
the close of the French and Indian war he visited England and had an interview 
with Thomas Penn, one of the proprietaries, relative to the survey of lands on 
the frontier of what was then the "Province" of Pennsylvania, he being a deputy 
surveyor for the Penns in Berks county which then embraced the whole 
northwestern portion of the Province. It was as a surveyor that he first became 
familiar with the territory of what is now Northumberland county. On Feb. 23, 
1769, he made the first survey in the valley of the West Branch, Buffalo Valley, 
one of the tracts apportioned to officers of the French and Indian war, in 
which he shared by virtue of his own services. Thus he became a settler in the 
region he so honored by his able and public-spirited devotion to its 
advancement, and which in turn honored him by intrusting him with its most 
important public affairs. When Northumberland county was formed out of Berks 
in 1772 he became the first prothonotary and clerk of the courts, register of 
wills and, recorder of deeds, receiving his commission March 24th of that year. 
The same day he was commissioned justice for the county, his later commissions 
to that office bearing the dates June 11, 1777, and Jan. 24, 1785. He served as 
prothonotary etc. until 1777. In 1772 he assisted John Lukens in surveying the 
town of Sunbury, and in the following years erected a stone dwelling at the 
northeast corner of Arch and Front streets, the most substantial and 
pretentious of the early private houses at the county seat where he continued 
to make his home for a number of years. He subsequently moved to Harrisburg. 
He was a foremost advocate in his section of the Colonists' cause from the 
early part of the Revolutionary period. He "assisted in equipping and forwarding 
troops to the Continental army, and marched with the Associators" to the seat 
of war, participating in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. After his return 
to Sunbury he served as issuing commissary, and he fled with his family to 
Paxtang in 1778, his letter to the Council, written July 12th of that year, 
urging that reinforcements be sent to Colonel Hunter, forming part of his 
correspondence relating to affairs in Northumberland county published in the 
Pennsylvania Archives. Mr. Hunter, the Colonel's wife, accompanied the Maclays 
when they left Sunbury. Another letter of Maclay's written July 26, 1779, 
states: "The stores at Sunbury are deposited in my late dwelling house, which 
is large and conveniently situated, both for defense and the reception and 
delivery of stores. The back part of it was stockaded last year by Colonel 
Hartley; a small expense would complete the stockade and mount a few swivels, 
several of which he there dismounted  . . . I have had the charge of the 
magazine at Sunbury for some time past." 
	After the war Mr. Maclay was steadily in the popular favor, In 1781, 1782, 
1783 and 1785 he was elected to the State Assembly from this county, and in 
1786 to the Supreme Executive Council, over which Benjamin Franklin presided. 
In January, 1789, he had the honor of being one of the first two senators from 
Pennsylvania to the National House of Representatives, his colleague being 
Robert Morris, who drew the long term. Mr. Maclay's services ended, therefore, 
March 3, 1791. Though his service in that capacity was brief, it included 
participation in some of the most momentous affairs in the organization of the 
national government. Thus he took part in the inauguration of our constitutional 
government when the First Congress assembled in New York in 1789 and Washington 
was invested with the Presidency Senator Maclay enjoyed an intimate personal 
acquaintance with Washington and was a frequent guest at his table. He kept a 
journal during his senatorial term, in which he summarized the debates in both 
open and secret sessions, and the comments it contains upon the events of the 
first Congress now form valuable and important contributions to the history of 
the period. His journal has been published in book form with notes by George 
Washington Harris, and also in the New York Sun. Dr. Egle, in his "Pennsylvania 
Genealogies," throws a light upon Maclay's strength of character and influence 
which could not be gathered, naturally, from his own writings, and we quote the 
same as important to an insight of his real worth: 
	"His election to this body raised him upon a higher plane of political 
activity, but contact with the Federal chiefs of the Senate only strengthened 
his political convictions, which, formed by long intercourse with the people of 
middle Pennsylvania, were intensely Democratic. He began to differ with the 
opinions of President Washington very early in the session; he did not approve 
of the state and ceremony attendant upon the intercourse of the President with 
Congress; he flatly objected to the presence of the President in the Senate 
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against his policy in the immediate presence of 
President Washington. The New England 
historians, Hildreth and Goodrich, repute Thomas Jefferson as the 'efficient 
promoter at the beginning and father and founder of the Democratic party.' 
Contemporary records, however, show beyond the shadow of a doubt that this 
responsibility or honor, in whatever light it may be regarded, cannot be 
shifted from the shoulders or taken from the laurels of Pennsylvania 
statesmanship. Before Mr. Jefferson's return from Europe, William Maclay 
assumed an independent position, and in his short career of two years in the 
Senate propounded ideas and gathered about him elements to form the opposition 
which developed, with the meeting of congress at Philadelphia on the 24th of 
October, 1791, in a division of the people into two great parties, the 
Federalists and Democrats, when for the first time appeared an open and 
organized opposition to the administration. The funding of the public debt, 
chartering the United States Bank, and other measures championed necessarily by 
the administration, whose duty it was to put the wheels of government in motion, 
engendered opposition. Mr. Maclay, to use his own language, 'no one else 
presenting himself,' fearlessly took the initiative, and with his blunt common 
sense (for he was not much of a speaker) and democratic ideas, took issue with 
the ablest advocates of the administration. Notwithstanding the prestige of 
General Washington and the ability of the defenders of the administration on 
the floor of the Senate, such was the tact and resolution of Mr. Maclay that 
when, after his short service, he was retired from the Senate and succeeded by 
James Ross, a pronounced Federalist, their impress was left in the distinctive 
lines of an opposition party - a party which, taking advantage of the warm 
feeling of our people toward the French upon the occasion of Jay's treaty with 
Great Britain in 1794, and of the unpopularity of the Alien and Sedition laws, 
passed under the administration of President John Adams, in 1798, compassed the 
final overthrow of the Federal party in 1800.
	" From the close of his senatorial career until his death Mr. Maclay 
resided upon his farm at Harrisburg, erecting the substantial stone building 
subsequently occupied by the academy of that city. His services to his 
community did not end with his retirement from the Senate. In 1795 and 1803 he 
was again elected to the State Legislature, in 1796 he was a Presidential 
elector and in 1801-03 he served as associate judge of Dauphin county. He died 
April 16, 1804, and was buried at Paxtang Church. In 1769 he married Mary 
McClure Harris, daughter of John Harris, the founder of the city of Harrisburg, 
and granddaughter of the renowned John Harris, who was rescued from being 
burned to death by the Indians on the river bank where the State Capitol is now 
located. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Maclay, of whom Mary, fourth 
child and second daughter, married Samuel Awl, a prominent resident of Upper 
Augusta township, Northumberland county. 
	MOESCHLIN. The firm of J. & A. Moeschlin, incorporated, owners of the 
Cold Spring Brewery at Sunbury, was established in 1873 and has been in 
continuous existence since that time, doing a large business in the borough and 
surrounding territory. It was incorporated under the present name Jan. 11, 
1911. The brothers Julius and August Moeschlin, originally composing this firm, 
were born in Baden, Germany, sons of Jacob Moeschlin, who was also a brewer by 
occupation. Jacob Moeschlin was born in 1820 in Wittlingen, Baden, Germany, and 
learned the trade of brewer in his native land, where he was proprietor of 
breweries. Coming to America in 1866 he started a brewery at Norristown, Pa., 
where he remained three years, thence moving to St. Clair, Schuylkill county, 
where he was located for a short time before coming to Sunbury, 
Northumberland county. After a year and a half at this point he returned to the 
Fatherland to settle up his business affairs, in 1874 returning to America, 
where in the meantime his sons Julius and August had become engaged in the 
brewery business, at Sunbury. He started the Star Brewery at Williamsport, Pa., 
but after one year there came to live with his sons at Sunbury, where he passed 
the rest of his days, dying May 6, 1890, aged sixty-nine years, six months, two 
days. He is buried at Sunbury. His wife, Anna Maria (Noll), who was born in 
Baden in 1817, died Nov. 4, 1890, aged seventy-two years, seven months, 
eighteen days (six months later than her husband), and is buried by his side in 
Pomfret Manor cemetery. They had two children, Julius and August. 
	JULIUS MOESCHLIN was born June 12, 1851, in Loerrach, Baden, Germany, and 
there received his education in the public schools, which he attended from the 
time he was seven years old until he reached the age of fifteen. At an early 
age he began to learn the brewing business in all its branches, so that he was 
familiar with the commercial side of the work as well as the trade practically 
from boyhood. In September, 1867, when in his seventeenth year, he came to 
America, landing at New York City. His father, who had come to this country 
the previous year, had a brewery at Morristown, Pa., and the son went there to 
assist him, spending his first few years in the United States at that point. In 
1870 the father came to Sunbury, and Julius Moeschlin arrived there on 
Thanksgiving Day of that year, again to become his father's assistant. He 
became brewmaster for Joseph Bacher, who had established what is now the Cold 
Spring Brewery in Sunbury in 1865, and remained with him until 1873, when he 
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brother bought out Mr. Bacher and continued the business on their own 
account. During the thirty-seven years of their ownership the plant was 
improved and enlarged until there is little of the original establishment left 
to recognize. The site was chosen for its convenience, the first buildings - 
all of which have been replaced by modern structures - having been erected over 
a fine spring, from which the plant derives its name. The location is at 
Seventh and Packer streets, and the large and well equipped buildings are the 
best evidence of the prosperity the concern enjoys and of the intelligent 
manner in which the business has been built up. The output is large, and a good 
market is found in the home community and in surrounding counties. A 
considerable amount is sold at Northumberland. Employment is now given to 
thirty men, and fifteen horses and two motor trucks are required for the 
distribution of the product. On Jan. 11, 1911, after the death of Mr. Julius 
Moeschlin, the concern became incorporated under the firm name of J. & A. 
Moeschlin, and began business as such on Feb. 1st with August Moeschlin as 
president; Edward A. Moeschlin, vice president; Reinhart J. Moeschlin, 
treasurer; John H. Otto, secretary and manager; Sophia C. Moeschlin and C. E. 
Sautters, directors. 
	Mr. Julius Moeschlin became one of the substantial business men of his 
adopted town, and he was interested in the Sunbury National Bank, of which he 
was a director from 1907. From 1901 he served continuously as a member of the 
school board, representing the Sixth ward. He died Dec. 14, 1910, aged fifty-
nine years, six months, two days. 
	Mr. Moeschlin had numerous fraternal and social relations, belonging to 
Lodge No. 22, F. & A.M., of Sunbury; Lodge No. 143, Knights of Pythias, of 
Sunbury; Lodge No. 89, I.O.R.M.; Aerie No. 503, Fraternal Order of Eagles; 
Conclave No. 11, S.P.K.; the Order of Moose; the Temple Club; the Lewisburg 
Club; the Concordia Saengerverein; and Washington Fire Company, which he served 
ten years as treasurer. He was a member of the First Reformed Church. 
	On Dec. 28, 1880, Mr. Moeschlin married Sophia C. Mulfinger, of Danville, 
Pa., and they had eight children, of whom two are deceased, the six survivors 
being as follows: Edward A., who graduated from the Sunbury high school in 
1901, and from Wyatt's Business Academy, of New York City, in 1907, and who is 
now brewmaster in the employ of J. & A. Moeschlin; Mary H., a trained nurse of 
Sunbury, who graduated from the Philadelphia Women's Homeopathic Hospital in 
1906; Catharine M. (who graduated from high school in 1903), who married Melvin 
G. Fahringer, of Elysburg, now the bookkeeper of J. & A. Moeschlin, Inc.; 
Reinhart J., who graduated from high school in 1906 and in 1909 from the 
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy as a druggist; Harriet E., who graduated from 
high school in 1908 and is now at home; and Annie L., at home. 
	AUGUST MOESCHLIN was born June 10, 1853, in Loerrach, in the Grand Duchy 
of Baden, Germany, and received a good education in the public schools of his 
native land, attending between the ages of six and fourteen continuously. For 
two years he attended night school. He learned the trade of butcher, but he 
did not follow it long, having given his principal attention to the brewing 
business. Coming to America in July, 1873, he was in Philadelphia for about two 
months, arriving in Sunbury Sept. 21st of that year. He and his brother 
purchased the brewery from Mr. Bacher, as previously related, soon after his 
arrival, and from that time conducted it together, August Moeschlin taking 
charge of all the outside work, looking after the horses, attending to 
collections and managing the farm - a most important branch of the work, the 
firm owning a tract of 170 acres in Upper Augusta township, this county, which 
they cultivate in connection with their brewing business. He is an able 
business man, and though not himself a brewer has thorough familiarity with all 
the needs of the work, doing his share toward the maintenance and upbuilding of 
the trade, which has shown a gratifying increase through-out the existence of 
the firm. 
	Like his brother, Mr. Moeschlin is well known socially, holding membership 
in the Elks, Knights of Pythias, Order of Moose, Odd Fellows, and Owls, all of 
Sunbury, and in No. 1 Fire Company. He belongs to the Lutheran Church. He is a 
director of the North Branch Fire Insurance Company, of Sunbury, and succeeded 
his brother as director of the Sunbury National Bank. 
	On Nov. 23, 1884, Mr. Moeschlin married Annie Fenstermacher, daughter of 
Isaac Fenstermacher, of Dalmatia, in Lower Mahanoy township. Eight children 
have been born to this union, two of whom are deceased, the survivors being: 
Gussie, who is now the wife of C. E. Sautters, collector and a director of J. & 
A. Moeschlin, Inc.; Elena M.; Frank F.; M. Ralph; Rachel V., and John K.