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LIPPIATT, who has long been in the front rank of the progressive and successful business men of Shamokin, where he is at present engaged as a dealer in furniture and carpets, is a native of Somersetshire, England, born Jan. 3, 1853, son of Henry and Ann (Hodges) Lippiatt. Henry Lippiatt was a miner in England, where his entire life was passed. He married Ann Hodges, who after her husband's death brought her three children to America, landing at New York City in May, 1864. They first located at Locust Gap, Pa., but in 1865 came to Shamokin. Mrs. Lippiatt, the mother, is still living, now (1911) at the age of eighty- six years, and makes her home with her son Thomas H. Her children were: Elizabeth, who married James Swift, and died in Shamokin in 1908, the mother of Sarah, John, Job, William, Jennie, May and David; James, chief of police at Lewisburg, Pa.; and Thomas H. Thomas H. Lippiatt accompanied his mother to America and to Shamokin, and here attended the public schools. His first work was in the mines, where he continued to work for seventeen years. In 1881 he began the manufacture of picture frames, and later he took up photography in connection with his frame business. His studio was located on Independence street, where he had a most attractive art room, as well as the leading place of its kind in this section of the State. In 1892 he built a fine four-story building, and bought out the furniture business of ex-County Treasurer Malcolm Farrow in February, 1894. At this time he gave up the photographic part of his business, and by devoting his whole time and energy to the one line has made a great success of it. He is a man of good executive ability, and his prompt and pleasing method of dealing with his patrons, who have learned to have implicit confidence in him, has won him a leading place in commercial circles. In 1875 Mr. Lippiatt married Clara Zimmerman, daughter of George and Sarah (Fasold) Zimmerman, of Upper Augusta township, Northumberland county. Seven children have been born to them, as follows: Alice C. married Samuel Harris, of Philadelphia, and has two sons, Clarence and Paul Eugene; Eva E., who was a trained nurse for ten years, is now the wife of M. G. Gonnerman, of Shamokin, and has one son, Frederick L.; George died aged nine years; Charles a member of the firm of T. H. Lippiatt & Sons, having been admitted as a partner in the fall or 1908; Elizabeth married Joseph Jones and has one daughter, (Gertrude Elizabeth); John Stanley became a member of the firm of T. H. Lippiatt & Sons in the fall of 1908; Fay is at home. Mr. Lippiatt has taken a very prominent part in church and Sunday school work, has held all the offices in the Lincoln Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and has served as general superintendent of the Sunday school, a position which he still continues to occupy. Since 1900 he has been president of the Northumberland Sunday School Association. At the time the new church was built he was appointed collector, and in five years time had raised $25,000. The church was built in 1883, and Mr. Lippiatt was a member of the building committee. He is a charter member of the Shamokin Business Men's Association, and was elected its president in 1909. Fraternally he is a member of Lodge No. 125, I.O.O.F. In politics he is a Republican. In many ways he has proved himself a very useful citizen, as well as a very genial companion, and he is highly respected as a man and esteemed as a friend. LEWIS LEVAN HUNTZINGER has been stationed at Sunbury in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railway Company since 1899 and now holds the responsible position of train dispatcher at that point. He has been in the railroad service from youth and with the Pennsylvania Company since Nov. 7, 1894, and has proved able and efficient in the performance of the various duties which have been intrusted to him. Mr. Huntzinger is a native of Shamokin, Northumberland county, born March 17, 1876, and is a member of the fifth generation of his branch of the family in America, being a lineal descendant of John George Huntzinger. John George Huntzinger came to this country from Germany in 1749 as a passenger on the ship "Jacob," from Amsterdam, which qualified Oct. 2, 1749. He became a taxpayer of what is now Brunswick township, Schuylkill (then Berks) Co., Pa., where he was a pioneer farmer and died in END OF PAGE 656 1802. His family consisted of nine children, six sons and three daughters: Jacob, George, John, Henry, Michael, Daniel, Rosina, Molly and Catharine. Jacob Huntzinger, son of John George, lived at Orwigsburg, Schuylkill county, where he was a leading merchant and he died there during the time of the Civil war, at the age of eighty-seven years. He also owned farm lands, and was a wealthy man for his day. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Holler, were both six feet in height They had a large family, viz.: Samuel, who died at Pottsville; Jacob, who died at Pottsville; Edward, who died at Schuylkill Haven; Frank, who died at Fairfield, Iowa; William, who died at Schuylkill Haven; Charles, who died at Philadelphia; Mrs. Stephen Balliet; Mrs. John Schoener; and George L., who died in Cuba. Charles Huntzinger, son of Jacob, was born in 1820 and died Jan. 27, 1902, at Philadelphia, whither he removed in 1864. He was engaged in business at Schuylkill Haven, having a large mercantile establishment there while the canal was at the height of its popularity, and also had farms and a boat yard, being a thrifty, energetic and prosperous man. He married Amanda Kitchen, daughter of William Kitchen, at one time sheriff of Montour county, Pa., and she survived him, dying at Philadelphia Feb. 28, 1903, at the age of eighty-one years. They were the parents of eight children, as follows: Emma married Harry Rothermel; Sue married George Wells, a prominent citizen of Des Moines, Iowa; William C. is mentioned below; Albert died in Philadelphia; Ida married Robert Clark, of New York City; Addie (deceased) married William Folger; Nellie married William Hedley, of Philadelphia; George died young, in Philadelphia. William C. Huntzinger, son of Charles, was born Feb. 6, 1847, at Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and received his education in the public schools of that place and at the Danville Business Academy. He was employed as bookkeeper by Douty, Reed & Gable, miners, and later took a position as bookkeeper with Heim & Goodwill, of Shamokin, remaining with them for six years, at the end of which time he entered the employ of the Adams Express Company, with which his services cover a period of forty years. He still holds a position with that company, and is one of the most respected citizens of Shamokin, where he has so long made his home. He is well known there in various connections, being a member of Shamokin Lodge No. 255, F. & A.M., of which he is a past master; a member of the Temple Club of Shamokin; a past noble grand of Mount Tabor Lodge No. 125, I.O.O.F.; and a past chief patriarch of Susquehanna Encampment, I.O.O.F. He was at one time captain of a military company at Mount Carmel, this county, and during the Civil war enlisted for service in the navy, Sept. 2, 1863, being assigned to the "Iroquois," under Capt. C. R. P. Rogers. At the time of President Lincoln's assassination he was on the island of Java. He had many and varied experiences while in the navy, traveling all around the world, and was discharged in 1867. On Oct. 30, 1870, Mr. Huntzinger married Catharine Louise Hoover, daughter of Benjamin and Margaret (Keefer) Hoover, and eight children were born to this union: Frederick Charles and Lewis Levan of Sunbury; Annie, wife of James Schlegel, of Shamokin, Pa.; Arthur B., of Sayre, Bradford Co., Pa.; Margaret, wife of Arthur Hudson, of Shamokin; and three who died young. The mother of this family died Oct. 22, 1908, and is buried at Shamokin. Lewis Levan Huntzinger attended the public schools of Shamokin and the district schools of Upper Augusta township, this county, graduating from the grammar school at Shamokin and from the Shamokin business college. He was engaged for a year at Shamokin in the Koch bookstore as clerk and circulation manager, and then took a position with the Adams Express Company at Shamokin, since which time he has been in the railroad service. He began as a student of telegraphy on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad at Excelsior, Northumberland county, serving three months while learning, after which he was engaged in the main office at Shamokin under the management of E. G. Markley, until placed as extra operator between Tamaqua and Newberry Junction. He resigned in 1894 to enter the service of the Pennsylvania Company, as night operator at Shamokin, and after only a week's service in that capacity was made day operator at Weigh Scales, this county; continuing for four and a half years under W. W. Evert, weigh master. In 1899 he was transferred to Sunbury as extra operator, was made regular operator here Feb. 1, 1901, and Dec. 20, 1902, became assistant to the train dispatcher. He was himself promoted to the position of train dispatcher May 15, 1905. Mr. Huntzinger was sent by the company to Shenandoah Aug. 6, 1905, to handle Philadelphia & Reading trains over the Pennsylvania tracks caused by Mahanoy Plane breaking down, a trust which he discharged most ably and satisfactorily. He returned to Sunbury Sept. 17, 1905. Since he has made his home in Sunbury, Mr. Huntzinger has taken part in its public administration as a member of the school board from the Eighth ward, in which position he has served continuously since 1906. He has been chairman of the financial committee of the board ever since becoming a member of that body, of which he was treasurer in 1909. Two buildings have been erected during his incumbency, the Lloyd T. END OF PAGE 657 Rohrbach and Francis E. Drumheller, M. D. school buildings. Mr. Huntzinger has been very active in the Republican organization, was committeeman of the Eighth ward two terms and was made chairman of the Republican Club of Sunbury organized in 1904. Socially he is a well known Mason, holding membership in Lodge No. 22, F. & A.M., of Sunbury (having demitted from Shamokin Lodge No. 255), of which he is the present master, in Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M., and Mount Hermon Commandery, No. 85, K.T., and a charter member of the Temple Club. On Feb. 28, 1894, Mr. Huntzinger married Mary Rebecca Kramer, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Rhoads) Kramer, of Excelsior, Pa., and they have had two children, Sarah Catharine and William Joseph, the latter of whom died in infancy. The family are members of the Zion Lutheran Church. FREDERICK CHARLES HUNTZINGER, brother of Lewis Levan, was born in Mount Carmel, Aug. 20, 1874. He was educated in Shamokin schools, graduating from the Shamokin high school in May, 1889. He began as a clerk in a book and stationery store in Shamokin for E. A. Koch and remained here for about two years, and then accepted a position as driver for the Adams Express Company. He then came to Sunbury as messenger for the same company, was transferred to Williamsport Pa., as depot agent, remaining here three years, then to Harrisburg as receiving clerk, remaining two years, finally coming back to Sunbury as agent of that station in 1903, and he is now filling that position to the satisfaction of the company. Mr. Huntzinger married Emma G. Garber, daughter of John and Mary Ellen (Search) Garber, of Montandon, and they reside at No. 444 Race street, Sunbury. In politics Mr. Huntzinger is a Republican. He and his family worship at Zion's Lutheran Church at Sunbury. He is a member of Lodge No. 22, F. & A.M., of Sunbury. WETZEL. Among the early immigrants to Pennsylvania were a number of Wetzels, some of them undoubtedly related. One Hans Martin Wetzel arrived on the ship "Brittania" and qualified by taking the oath of allegiance, at Philadelphia, Sept. 21, 1731. His age then is given as thirty-one years. His wife, Maria Barbara Wetzel, was thirty-three years old. On the same ship were the following, probably children: Hans Martin Wetzel aged six years; Nicholaus Wetzel, aged four years; Catherina Wetzel, aged three years. There is also the name of Maria Barbara Wetzel, who may have been a sister of the pioneer (Pennsylvania Archives, pages 29, 34 and 35). John Jacob Wetzel came on the ship "Charming Nancy" of London, Charles Stedman, master, from Rotterdam, qualified Oct. 8, 1737. Philip Wetzel came on the ship "Davy," William Patton, commander, from Amsterdam, qualified Oct. 25, 1738. Hans Martin Wetzel, who came to the New World in 1731, settled on that territory now embraced in Lehigh county, Pa. Six years later he was followed by John Jacob Wetzel, who located in Hereford township, in Berks county, only several miles distant; and these two, in 1738, were followed by Philip Wetzel. That a kinship existed between these three pioneers cannot be doubted, and it is very probable that they were brothers - another group of the "three brothers" found among the immigrant ancestors of so many American families. In the list of early settlers in the region of Emaus, Lehigh Co., Pa., in the section of Milford and Longswamp townships, whose names with place of birth appear on the original church record of the Emaus Moravian Church, was that of Catharina Wetzel, who was from "Uppa" Mannheim, in the Palatinate. The genealogist gleans from the above item that the Wetzels were German Palatinates. According to family tradition an old Wetzel had settled somewhere on the Ohio river, and had a number of children, among whom were sons: John, Georg, and Louis. It is further stated that this pioneer and his wife were scalped by the, Indians, and that when the sons returned home and found their parents thus cruelly murdered they vowed vengeance upon the savages. Louis thereafter devoted himself to the extermination of the Indians. He was a rare marksman, and could run like a deer. The compiler of this article is of the impression that the place of settlement was not the Ohio, but the Susquehanna, river. A large number of Wetzels live in Snyder county, Pa., in the Buffalo Valley, in Union county, and in the Mahantango valley, in the lower part of Northumberland county. They all speak German, and say their forbears spoke of "Der Longswamp, in Bercks County." The Federal Census Report of 1790 records these Wetzels as heads of families, etc.: George Wetzel and wife had five sons and two daughters, all the sons under sixteen years of age; he then lived in Longswamp township. Conrad Wetzel also lived in Longswamp township and had two daughters. Philip Wetzel lived in Hereford township, and he and wife had then two sons under sixteen years of age, and three daughters. John Wetzel had two sons over sixteen years of age, one son under sixteen, and two daughters: he lived in Macungie township, Northampton (now Lehigh) county. John Wetzel, Jr., lived in the same township as his father, and he and his wife had two daughters. Conrad Wetzel lived in Upper Milford township; his family consisted of himself and wife, two sons under sixteen years of age, and three daughters. Peter Wetzel lived in Upper Mil- END OF PAGE 658 ford township, Northampton (now Lehigh) county, and had one son under sixteen years of age and two daughters. Michael and Conrad Wetzel both lived in Penn township, Northampton county, in 1790; it appears that Michael was a widower, and had a son over sixteen years old, and that Conrad was married but had no children. John Wetzel lived near the present line of Berks and Lehigh counties, Pa. He had sons: Henry, Peter, Daniel and Hans Georg, who lived in Lehigh county. The old Wetzel homestead is located near St. Peter's Church, in Upper Milford township. It was built in 1740, of logs, and was occupied until 1900. Peter Wetzel, son of John, was born in 1778 and died in 1870, in his ninety-second year. He owned a thirty acre tract of land near Red Lion, in Longswamp township, on which he lived. He was a carpenter and coffin maker, being an excellent mechanic and an expert wood worker. In his day he made many coffins. It was then the custom to place the dead on a large covered wagon, to which usually were hitched fourteen horses. The seats were arranged along the two sides of the wagon, and occupied by the bereaved, the coffin being placed in the middle between the two rows of mourners. They now proceeded to the church. "Old Peter" Wetzel, as he was known, was a popular man, personally, and well known in his line. He held many funerals, and taught many the carpenter's trade. His wife, Anna Margaret Gaumer, died when past eighty years of age. Both were members of the Reformed congregation of Longswamp church. They had children: George; Sallie, who married Nathan Heimbach and had children, Amanda, Lovina, Sarah and Henry; and Lydia, who married Henry Heimbach, a brother of Nathan (they had no children). George Wetzel was born in Longswamp township in November, 1818, and died there in October, 1900, aged eighty-two years. His wife Leah was a daughter of David Conrad, of Longswamp township. She was born in 1821, and died in 1899, aged seventy-eight years. They are buried at the Longswamp Church, of which both were members, belonging to the German Reformed Congregation; he was a deacon and elder. He was a Democrat in politics, and served his district on the school board. He owned his father's homestead of thirty acres, and also bought 120 acres of land, was prosperous, and built an addition to the old barn. He and his wife had eleven children, namely: Peter, Mary, Charles, Caroline, David C., Henry C., Lovina, Sallie, Amanda, Katie and Levi. Of these Mary, Caroline, Lovina, Katie and Levi all died within six weeks time, from diphtheria, in 1862. David C. Wetzel, shoemaker at Seisholtzville, in Berks county, Pa., was born in the adjoining township of Longswamp, Feb. 28, 1847. When seventeen years old he commenced to learn his trade from his brother Charles. When twenty-four he married Amelia, daughter of William and Amelia (Ruth) Meitzler, of Hereford township, and in 1873 they moved to Seisholtzville, where they have since lived. He usually had three or four apprentices, and in a winter season made several hundred pairs of shoes by hand, shoe factories in those days being unknown. He and his family occupy a house that was built about the time of the Revolutionary war, if not earlier; it is of log construction, but is now weather- boarded, and in winter is very warm. Mr. Wetzel and his family are members of the Reformed Church in Longswamp township. He and his wife have two children: Irwin D., now of Norristown, Pa., married Rosa Fry, and their children are, Ambrose, Herbert, Warren and Minerva; Minnie married Harry O. Moll, of Seisholtzville, Pa., and had Pearl, Verna and George. Henry C. Wetzel (brother of David C. Wetzel), a retired farmer at Seisholtzville, Pa., was born in Longswamp township, Feb. 17, 1849. When twenty-one years of age he began farming for his father at Red Lion, continuing thus for fourteen years. In 1888 he purchased the Christophel Bittenbender farm on which he has since lived, a tract of 112 acres. The present house on this farm was built by Jacob Bittenbender, Sr. Mr. Wetzel in 1895 built the present barn. He has a valuable property and the excellent condition of farm and buildings testify to his good management and prosperity. He retired in 1900. He is a Democrat and has held township offices. He and his wife are members of Huffs Church, where be serves as elder. In 1875 he married Hannah, daughter of Christophel and Abby (Rush) Bittenbender, and granddaughter of Jacob and Susanna (Jung) Bittenbender, also of Hereford township. Mr. and Mrs. Wetzel have had one son, Ambrose, who was born in 1876 and died in 1895. There was a John Wetzel who became an early resident of Packer township, Carbon Co., Pa., as early as 1812, and located on lands still owned by his descendants. He had four sons, John, Valentine, Daniel and David, and four daughters. The sons settled in the township, David living to be very old. The daughters became the wives of Stephen Kerber, James Troy, Lewis Hettinger and Philip Hinkle, respectively. WILLIAM A. RILAND, of Sunbury, has been engaged in business there as a liveryman for over a quarter of a century, has been prominent in the municipal administration as president of the borough council, in which capacity he served two years, and has been found a valuable and substan- END OF PAGE 659 tial man in all the relations of life, business, social or purely personal. He is thoroughly respected and merits the high position he holds in the estimation of his fellow citizens. Samuel Riland, grandfather of William A. Riland, was a native of Ireland. On coming to this country he settled in Upper Augusta township, Northumberland Co., Pa., where he followed farming, owning the farm which was later the property of his son H. James Riland and is now in the possession of the latter's son, H. B. Riland. He married a native of Germany, and he was a member of the German Reformed Church. He is buried in the lower cemetery at Sunbury. His children were: H. James; Mary, Mrs. William Snyder; Malinda, Mrs. Rohrbach; Alice, Mrs. Hirst Trego; Martha; who married William Keller and (second) Jeremiah Cooper; and Lucy, who married James Strine; of Milton, Pennsylvania. H. James Riland was born in 1833 in Upper Augusta township, and passed his active years there, on the homestead farm of 135 acres, succeeding his father in the ownership of that place He was an intelligent man and influential in the affairs of his day, serving a number of years as school director of his home township, as county commissioner from 1863 to 1866, and as representative of his district in the State Legislature from 1882 to 1884. He was prominent in the work of the Democratic party, and for several years served as county chairman. He was one of the promoters of the Upper Augusta Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of which he was a director for some years. Mr. Riland passed his last years in Sunbury, where he died in 1901, aged sixty- eight years, and is buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. He was a member of the German Reformed Church, and socially belonged to the Knights of the Golden Eagle and to Lodge No. 22, F. & A.M. of which he was one of the oldest members at the time of his death. H. James Riland married Mariah Woolverton who was born in 1834, daughter of Dennis Woolverton, of Northumberland county, and died 1894. Eight children were born to them: Emma, wife of Peter Weiser, of Lower Augusta township; H. B., of Selinsgrove Junction, this county; Laura, who is unmarried; William A.; Samuel of Upper Augusta, this county; Charles S., Herndon, this county; Jordan W., of Sunbury; and Mary, wife of John Miller, of Sunbury. William A. Riland was born Sept. 15, 1859, in Upper Augusta township, and there received his education in the public schools. He was reared to farm life, which, however, he did not follow long after commencing on his own account. For two years he worked at Berwick, Pa., after which he clerked in a general store at Sunbury for two years and then returned to the homestead, where he was engaged in farming for several years. In 1884 he purchased the livery business in Sunbury which has since been his main interest. He has an excellent location at No. 246 Woodlawn avenue, only a half square from the Pennsylvania passenger station, and does the leading business in his line in Sunbury, keeping fifteen horses for hire, and boarding a large number of horses. He deals occasionally in horses and teams, and, in fact, has built up an all- around profitable trade, which he has handled capably, and which occupies the greater part of his time and attention. He is a director of the North Branch Fire Insurance Company of Pennsylvania, which was organized in 1910. Mr. Riland has for a number of years been a leader in Democratic circles in Sunbury, and he has served four years as a member of the council, during the last two years of that time having the honor of presiding over that body. He is a member and trustee of Lodge No. 267, B.P.O. Elks, of Sunbury, and chairman of the board of trustees of the First Baptist Church, in the work of which he and his family take an active part. On May 25, 1897, Mr. Riland married Mary M. Walters, whose parents came from Germany. Three children have been born to them, one son and two daughters, namely: William, Jr., who died in infancy; Mildred M., and Gertrude L. KRIEGER. The Kriegers of Northumberland county have been settled in this region for several generations, Wilson Krieger, the oldest living native born resident of the borough of Shamokin, being a son of Daniel Krieger (who was born in Lower Augusta township, this county) and a grandson of John Krieger. The family is one of ancient record, and the name, variously spelled Cruger and Kruger in the earlier days and by branches of different nationalities, shows that it dates back to the time of the crusades, Cruger being originally Cruciger - the medieval Latin word for cross-bearer. From Cruciger the name became Creuziger and Creutrzinger, and finally Cruger, and in Germany and in Holland it was written Kruger. The name was first given to a knight in one of the crusades, at the end of the eleventh century, and from him the family spread throughout Germany, Holland, Denmark, and England. In 1190 Sir Philip de Crucuger went with Richard I. of England on the third crusade to Palestine. Sir Philip is supposed to have descended from the German baronial house in of Von Kruger or Kruger, and from him the line is unbroken down to John Cruger, who founded an American branch of the family. One Caspar Cruciger, a German, helped Luther to translate the Bible in 1532. The John Cruger mentioned as the founder of a branch of the family in America, an Englishman of good education, appearance and standing, came to New York about 1700, and engaged in business. END OF PAGE 660 He was also prominent in the political life of the city, in 1712 being made an alderman, which office he held for twenty-two consecutive years. Five years after his retirement from this office, in 1739, he became mayor, serving as such until his death, in 1744. He is spoken of as a man of tact and discretion, and such must have been his character, for he succeeded in keeping peace between the people on one side, jealous of their rights, and the governor on the other side, guarding the King's rights. In 1702 John Cruger married Maria, daughter of Hendrick Cuyler, of Albany, and they had a large family, three sons and five daughters, Tileman, Henry, John, Anna, Maria (who died of smallpox when young); Sarah, Maria (2) and Rachel. Of the sons, Tileman went to Curacao, and returned home to die when he was twenty-five. Henry was the son through whom this line is continued, and John died unmarried. Both the sons who lived to mature years were like their father active in public life and able in many ways. John Cruger showed unusual ability even as a child. From 1754 to 1755 he was alderman, and from 1756 to 1765 he served as mayor. He was the first speaker and president of the first Colonial Assembly, of which body he was a member for seventeen years, 1759 to 1775. He wrote the famous "Declaration of Rights and Grievances" adopted by the Stamp Act Congress in 1765, the first notable piece of political writing in the history of this country, and said to be the model upon which Jefferson based the Declaration of Independence. He also started the movement which led to the establishment, in 1768, of the New York Chamber of Commerce, modeled on the English Board of Trade, and the first mercantile society established in America. He died in 1791. Henry Cruger, through whom this line is continued, was twice married and had six children. Like his father, he was interested in politics in New York, but he died in England, at the home of one of his children, and was buried there, at the Cathedral of Bristol. In the next generation, John Harris Cruger, who like his uncle John left no descendants, had a brilliant military record. He commanded Fort Ninety- six in South Carolina when it was attacked, and it was he who forced General Greene to raise the siege. After the war he went to England, where he died. He married Anne, daughter of Brig. Gen. Oliver DeLancey, of New York, an officer in the British army, who when war was threatened raised a brigade known as "DeLancey's Battalions," for the "defense of Long Island and other exigencies"; and he commissioned his son-in-law, who was strongly in sympathy with his mother country, lieutenant colonel. Tileman and Nicholas Cruger, brothers of John, were West Indian merchants. Nicholas became a prosperous business man at Santa Cruz, and one of the clerks in his counting house was Alexander Hamilton. Nicholas Cruger took a friendly interest in the boy, aiding him with advice and encouragement. This Nicholas Cruger was also a great friend of Washington, and his sympathies during the Revolution were with the Colonies, but he never took any active part in the struggle. It is said that on one occasion he was glad to rely on the renown of his brother John as a loyal British subject. He was with one of his boats on the way to Santa Cruz when captured by a British man of war. The Captain asked his name, and on hearing it asked if he might by any chance be related to Lieutenant Colonel Cruger. Learning that the two men were brothers, the Captain informed Mr. Cruger that he was bearing messages to the British government reporting on John Cruger's good work, and he let Nicholas Cruger go. He was captured again, however, this time with an incriminating picture of Washington in his possession, and was recommended for severe punishment, but he was freed on parole, and lived with relatives in New York until after the war. Henry Cruger, brother of John, Tileman and Nicholas, was sent by his father to England to work in a counting-house. There he married twice, his first wife being named Peach, and their son changed his name from Samuel Peach Cruger to Samuel Peach; his daughter married Lord John Murray of Aynsley. By his second wife Henry had six children, who eventually returned with him to this country. He stayed in England until 1790, and had a prosperous career there. In 1774 he and the famous Edmund Burke ran for Parliament, and were elected after a heated campaign. A sample of the campaign literature of those days runs: You good Bristol folk, an election's no joke, But serious indeed is the work; Let none represent ye, that do not content ye, Vote, therefore for Cruger and Burke. In 1790 Cruger refused reelection to Parliament and returned home. He was a member of the New York State Senate in 1792. The arms of the family are: Argent, a bend azure charged with three martlets or, between two greyhounds courant, proper. Motto: Deo, non Fortuna. Crest: A demi greyhound salient, gorged or. Beneath the wreath, Fides. Daniel Krieger (father of Wilson Krieger) was born in 1805 in Lower Augusta township, Northumberland Co., Pa., son of John Krieger. He came to Shamokin at an early day, erecting the third house in the town, at what is now Sunbury and Pearl streets, and here he passed the remainder of his life, dying Feb. 9, 1864. He was a carpenter by trade. He married Mary Ann Fasold, END OF PAGE 661 born June 20, 1820, died Sept. 6, 1891, who was the youngest of the seventeen children of Valentine Fasold. To Mr. and Mrs. Krieger were born ten children, namely: Angeline (deceased), who married James Lippiatt; Louisa, who died unmarried; Sebella, wife of Enoch Jones, of Shamokin; Sarah J., wife of Clinton Thomas, of Shamokin; Emma F., wife of Elmer E. Felix, of Shamokin; Ida (deceased), who married William Woolcock; Freeman, deceased; Valentine, deceased; Wilson; and Oliver, of Shamokin. Valentine Fasold, father of Mrs. Mary Ann (Fasold) Krieger, was born Dec. 6, 1765, in Baden, Germany, son of Valentine Nieman Fasold, a tanner, who had a family of five children, two sons (Valentine and Casper) and three daughters. These five children came to America in 1781, landing at Philadelphia after a voyage of eleven weeks. Valentine remained in Philadelphia with one of his sisters for two years, the other three going to Whitehall township, Lehigh Co., Pa., near Allentown. Valentine followed his brother and sisters thither, the other sister remaining in Philadelphia, where she had married. He had started school in Germany when six years old, attending until he was twelve, after which he served an apprenticeship to the trade of weaver. Then he served the required time in the German army. In Lehigh county he followed the weaver's trade for thirty-five years. While living there he was twice married, his first wife being Sara Sanders by whom he had six children, three of whom died in childhood, those who reached maturity being Susan, Elizabeth and John. After the death of his first wife he married Catharine Barbara Schriber, daughter of Herman Schriber, and to then were born six sons and five daughters, Jonathan Peter, George, Joseph, Charles, Henry, Katharine (married Jonathan Kreigbaum), Lydia (married Samuel Haupt, of Frackville, Schuylkill county); Polly (married William Dachenbach, of Allensville, Mifflin County), Sarah (married George Zimmerman) and Mary Ann (married Daniel Krieger). Only two survived Mrs. Krieger, Mrs. Haupt of Frackville, and Charles, of McKeesport. In 1816 Mr. Fasold removed from Lehigh county to Northumberland county with his family and settled on the "John Reed" farm in Plum Creek where he lived the balance of his life. There he followed farming and weaving. In the middle of November, 1824, a dose of quicksilver was given him for medicine by an ignorant servant of doctor and he died Nov. 16th, at the age of fifty nine years. He lived an honest exemplary Christian life, and brought up his family according to the instruction of Holy Writ, being a firm believer in the proverb, "Bring up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." He was a strong advocate of the cause of the Colonists, believing that they should depend upon themselves and not upon the mother country. He was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation, of which all his family were members and under which all received catechetical instructions. He was buried with his wife at Zion Lutheran church near Augustaville, Northumberland county, on Nov. 19, 1824. WILSON KRIEGER was born Feb. 22, 1849, in Shamokin, and when a young man learned the carpenter's trade, which he has always followed. For many years he has been boss carpenter at Locust Gap for the Philadelphia Coal & Iron Company. He is the oldest native born resident of Shamokin at the present writing, and has been a member of the Presbyterian Church there for over forty years, having joined it March 2, 1869. His father served on the building committee of this church in 1846. Mr. Krieger is a member of Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A.M., of Shamokin Chapter, No. 264, of Commandery No. 77, K.T., and of the Carpenters and Joiners' Union. He married Annie Neely, daughter of Adam and Anne (Gott) Neely, and to this union were born four children, A. Maude (who died young), A. Ralph, Mary E. and Bessie B. A. RALPH KRIEGER, son of Wilson, was born April 11, 1881, at Shamokin, and there received the principal part of his education, graduating from the high school in 1899. He also attended the local business college, after which he entered the Pierce Business College, at Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1901. For the two years following he was in the employ of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, at Tamaqua, Pa., under Supt. A. T. Dice, and then with the Shamokin Water Company, at Shamokin, later taking the position of private secretary with Senator W. C. McConnell, with whom he remained for six years. In 1907 he commenced business on his own account as a shoe merchant at Shamokin, having the store at No. 3 East Independence street which he has since conducted. His trade is good and is increasing steadily, and his methods are such as to make him deserving of success. Outside of business he is particularly active in fraternal circles, belonging to Shamokin Lodge, No. 664, I.O.O.F., Camp No. 30, P.O.S. of A., the Royal Arcanum and the Masonic fraternity; in the latter connection he is a member of Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A.M.; Shamokin Chapter, No. 264, R.A.M.; Shamokin Commandery, No. 77, K.T.; Williamsport Consistory, thirty-second degree; Rajah Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., of Reading, and the Temple Club at Shamokin. He also belongs to the Triple Links Club at Shamokin, the Acacia Club at Williamsport, and Rescue Fire Company. He END OF PAGE 662 holds membership in the Presbyterian Church and is a member of the Brotherhood of that congregation. DR. KENNEDY ROBINSON (deceased), father of Mrs. Annie G. (Robinson) Llewellyn, of Shamokin, was of Irish descent his ancestors coming from Ireland and settling at Myerstown, Lebanon Co., this State. He became a prominent citizen of Schuylkill county, serving two terms in the State Legislature from that section, and he died in 1887. His wife, whose maiden name was Frances McConnell, was a native of Womelsdorf, Berks county, and a descendant of the famous Conrad Weiser. She died at Pine Grove, Schuylkill county, in 1909, at the great age of ninety-six years, five months. Dr. and Mrs. Robinson had two children, Frances and Annie G., the latter the widow of David Llewellyn. WILLIAM HAROLD LEE, architect is a young business man of Shamokin who has already established an excellent reputation and patronage in his chosen profession. He is a native of the borough, but his family has long been identified with Columbia county, Pa., where it was established during the eighteenth century by John Lee, Sr., from whom he is a descendant in the fifth generation. It is almost impossible to obtain an accurate account of the ancestry back of the Revolutionary period, for though the John Lee mentioned was a member of the Society of Friends there were many Lees engaged in the Revolutionary war, many also bearing the same Christian names. Tradition states that John Lee, Sr., was a relative of General Lee of Revolutionary fame, and the Pennsylvania Archives, 5th Series, record twenty-four different Lees as having rendered service in the cause of independence. Besides General Lee there was a Colonel Lee, a Major Lee and a Captain Lee in the war; and there was a Fort Lee. John Lee, Sr., was born in Berks county, Pa., and came thence to Columbia county, settling in Locust township, where a colony of Friends (to whose society he belonged) from Berks county became established. To this day may be seen the old log meeting-house and burial ground of the Society of Friends in that locality. John Lee, Sr., had a large tract of six hundred acres, on which he built a log house, which gave shelter to four generations. He also cleared some of the land, and the following year, 1787, brought his family to their new home. His wife was like himself from Berks county, where their son was born. They had three children: John, Jr., Martha and Nelly. Neither of the daughters married. John Lee, Jr., was born in 1782 in Berks county, and was five years old when brought by his parents to Columbia county, where he passed the remainder of his long life. He became the owner of the homestead, where he made his home for eighty-nine years, dying early in 1876, at the ripe old age of ninety-four years. He is buried at the Friends meeting-house mentioned, as are also his two sisters. When the Williams family, who hailed from Virginia, settled in this section they took part of his father's 600-acre tract but John Lee, Jr., retained his father's homestead place. He married Mary Williams, who came to Columbia county with her parents, when only six weeks old, the journey being made on horseback. She lived to be eighty-eight dying in 1874. In her eighty- fifth year she published a poem which is treasured by her descendants. Five children were born to John Lee, Jr., and his wife Mary (Williams), as follows: Sarah married a Mr. Oliver and (second) David Hauck and died aged ninety-one years; Lewis, who lived in Locust township, Columbia county, died aged eighty-three years (he married Hannah Hughes, daughter of John Hughes, and also member of a family of Friends); Mary E., who lived to be eighty-eight years old, married John Levan, a leading business man of Locust township, Columbia county; William and Susan were twins, the latter dying in infancy. William Lee, son of John Lee, Jr., was born in January, 1823, at the homestead, and obtained his father's farm, being of the third generation to possess that place. Besides farming he followed his trade of stonemason. He died in December, 1909, at LeMars, Iowa, at the age of eighty-six years, and is buried at Dixon, Ill. He attended the Friends' meetings, and entertained many Quaker ministers from Philadelphia. His wife, Mary Ann (Wintersteen), daughter of Jefferson Wintersteen, died in 1890, aged fifty-nine years. They were the parents of ten children: Beulah A., who married Josiah Rhoads, of a Berks county family; Kimber C.; Sarah E., who married F. P. Llewellyn; Horace G.; Martha M. (deceased), who married Walter Merriman and lived out West; Mahala, who married Ellis Mason and lives near Dixon, Ill.; Elizabeth, who married Carson Herring, of LeMars, Iowa; Ida A., who married Walter Monroe, of LeMars, Iowa; and John and Lydia, both of whom died young. Kimber C. Lee, of Shamokin, was born in November, 1852, on the Lee homestead, and was reared to agricultural pursuits, which he followed until his removal to Shamokin, in 1880. He has since made his home at that borough, where he is interested in the Shamokin Lumber Company. In 1877 he married Clara R. Creasy, daughter of Elias and Elizabeth (Hower) Creasy, of Briar Creek township, Columbia county, and they have had five children: C. Atwood, who married Natalie Robbins Haas; Clarence C., of Harrisburg, Pa.; William H.; Florence E., who married Conrad R. Graeber; and Ella M. Mr. Lee and his family END OF PAGE 663 are members of the Methodist Church, which he has served as trustee since the year 1895. William Harold Lee was born Dec. 9, 1884, in Shamokin, and there obtained his preliminary education, in the public schools, attending high school. Later he became a student at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, after which he followed his profession for a time in Philadelphia before settling in Shamokin, in March, 1910. He has a business suite in the building of the Dime Trust & Safe Deposit Company. Mr. Lee designed and supervised the erection of the Masonic Temple, Elks Home and Dime Trust & Safe Deposit Company's buildings in Shamokin; the schoolhouse for the Odd Fellows Orphanage near Sunbury; the new Majestic theatre at Pottsville; and numerous other buildings in Shamokin and the surrounding territory. He has attained considerable reputation in the comparatively brief period of his business career. Socially Mr. Lee holds membership in the Cresco Club of Shamokin; the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity; Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A.M.; the Temple Club; and Shamokin Lodge, No. 355, B.P.O. Elks. Amos Lee, an early settler in Oley township, Berks Co., Pa., owned a large tract of land on the Manatawny creek. In 1797 he built a barn on his land which is still standing. The Lee farm was in the family name until 1904. Amos Lee and his family were members of the Society of Friends, and he is buried at the Quaker meeting-house in Exeter township. To him and his wife Sarah were born the following children: Rachel, Mrs. Geigus; Nellie, who died unmarried; Sallie, who married John Lee, of Exeter township, near the Friends' meeting-house; Fannie, who died unmarried; Thomas Pine; and Amos, of Norristown, Montgomery Co., Pa., who was engaged in the manufacture of brick (his wife Sarah bore him one child, Sarah, who married a Mr. Alberson, of Norristown). Thomas Pine Lee was born in 1795 and was engaged throughout his active years as a farmer on the homestead. He lived to his eighty- seventh year, and is buried at the Quaker meeting-house in Exeter township. His wife Rachel was also a born Lee, of Maiden-creek township, Berks county, and died when less than fifty years old. Their children, four sons and one daughter, were as follows: Ebenezer, who lived in Ohio, enlisted from that State for service in the Civil war, and died of starvation in Andersonville prison, after taking part in many battles; Deborah married Solomon Ely and (second) E. F. Miller; Thomas P. is a merchant of Philadelphia, Pa.; Amos is mentioned below; George W. lives in Ohio. Amos Lee was born June 30, 1842, on the Lee farm in Oley township, Berks county, and was brought up there. In 1888 he moved to Friedensburg, Pa., where he is now living in retirement. He married Mary B. Levan, daughter of Joel and Esther Levan, and they have had three children: Annie, of Germantown, Pa.; Hettie, unmarried, who lives at home; and Sallie, born Feb. 4, 1885, who died Feb. 18, 1904. SCHLEGEL. John Christian Schlegel, the American ancestor and progenitor of this family, was a native of Germany, and undoubtedly was the Johanis Schlegel who emigrated on the ship "Bilander Townsend," which landed (qualified) at Philadelphia Oct. 5, 1737. On Aug. 16, 1738, and Nov. 7, 1754, he obtained proprietary warrants for land situated in Berks county, Pa. In 1759 he paid six pounds tax in Richmond township, where he had lived since coming to the New World. He was a farmer and owned more than three hundred acres of land, and in 1797 built a stone house which is still standing and in good condition, and is owned and used by his great grandson, Abraham, and his children and grandchildren. To John Christian Schlegel and his wife Esther were born a number of children, among whom were: Peter; Wilhelm; Christian, born March 25, 1765; Elizabeth, born April 9, 1767; Johannes, born Sept. 7, 1768, and Heinrich, born July 15, 1779. Peter and Wilhelm left this section, traveling on horseback across the Blue Mountains, and settled in the Mahantango Valley (in Schuylkill), then a part of old Berks county. They visited their brother Heinrich at the old home every two, three or four years, coming on horse back and remaining for a week or two. One of the sons of John Christian Schlegel lived with the Indians, liking their manner of life. He was greatly admired by them, because of his courage, strength and marksmanship, and when he was quite an aged man he and some of his adopted brethren of the forest came to visit his old home near Fleetwood. Because of the great journey on which they came, and the effects of his strenuous life with the red men, he became exhausted at Dreibelbis Spring, and he died soon thereafter, and fills an unknown grave. This account is based on tradition, and the old Family papers give brief accounts of it. There were two brothers, Wilhelm and Peter Schlegel, of Berks county, who settled in Northumberland county at an early date and who, according to the inscription on Peter's tombstone, in the graveyard of St. Peter's Church, Mahanoy, were sons of Johann Christian and Anna Barbara Schlegel. Wilhelm Schlegel was born in Richmond township, Berks county, near Fleetwood, on the original Schlegel homestead, May 26, 1782. He came to Northumberland county after he was mar- END OF PAGE 664 ried, and settled on the farm now owned by Samuel Zartman. Later he bought the farm now owned by Henry Rebuck, in Washington township, and there he died Jan. 14, 1856. This was a large farm and he was a farmer until his death. The house he built is still standing. He went to visit his parents every two years, going horseback or walking. He and his children had to go to mill at Reading until a gristmill was established by John Dunkelberger on the Little Mahanoy creek. His wife, Elizabeth (Wentzel), born June 24, 1785, died April 9, 1871, and they are buried at St. Peter's Church in Jackson township. Mr. and Mrs. Schlegel were Lutherans in religion. They had fourteen children, all of whom grew to maturity and all survived the parents: Peter; Samuel; Benjamin; William, born April 6, 1817, who died March 27, 1903 (his wife, Sarah Ann Mill, born July 25, 1837, died Jan. 31, 1903); Abraham, who died July 25, 1903, aged eighty-three years, four months, nine days (his wife was Emilie Mill, 1826-1870); Daniel; David; John; Jacob; Polly, Mrs. Israel Zartman; Mrs. Adam Herb; Mrs. Peter Fegley; Esther, Mrs. Peter Klock; and Harriet, Mrs. Nicholas Hetrich. Peter Schlegel, brother of William, was born Oct. 12, 1786; came to Northumberland county from Berks county; and died Feb. 1, 1864. The wife was Elizabeth (Rettinger) born Sept. 11, 1789, died July 16, 1866. They are buried at the Herb (Salem) church. They had sons Peter, David and another. Of these, Peter had five children, Joel, Milton, _____, Elizabeth and another daughter. David's children were Samuel, Peter, ____, and Charles. John Schlegel, son of William, was born in Washington township, Northumberland county; where he died, aged ninety-two years. He was for many years a blacksmith in his earlier life and built many iron bridges in his time, among which were the Wrightsville and Ringtown bridges a double bridge at Reading and a large one a Buffalo, N. Y. Later he bought what is now the James Ferster farm in Washington township where he farmed some years. Then he sold the tract and bought another farm, in Jordan, of 103 acres, which was an Engel homestead, and there he lived many years. The last seven years of his life he lived with his son Daniel K., at whose home he died. His wife Sarah, daughter of Valentine Klock, died July 13, 1883, aged sixty-eight years, seven months, three days. They had nine children, Wilhelmina, William, Charlotte, Jane, Frank, Daniel K., Sarah, Rudolph and one that died in infancy. Daniel K. Schlegel, son of John, is a native of Jordan township where he is now a farmer on 162 acre place. He was engaged as a blacksmith for twelve years, then learned the carpenter's trade, which he has followed off and on ever since. He also operated a portable sawmill and thrasher for five years. He is a member of the Lutheran Congregation at Urban. In 1884 Mr. Schlegel married Susanna Bower, daughter of Elias Philips, and they have had children: John A., who married Amy Deppen; Sallie; and Lizzie. Daniel Schlegel, son of William, was born in Washington township, on the Schlegel homestead, which consisted of about eighty acres. He was a farmer. A leading member of St. Peter's church at Mahanoy, he was a member of the building committee when the present brick church was erected. He died July 16, 1893. His wife, Amanda, was a daughter of Marks and Sarah (Wolf) Leader. They had these six children: Orella; who died unmarried; Samuel, of Lykens Valley; Oscar; Agnes, who is unmarried and has her home with her brothers Oscar and John; Elmer, of California; and John A., who with his brother Oscar owns a large farm in Lower Mahanoy township. Oscar Schlegel, son of Daniel, is a farmer along the Susquehanna river one mile above Dalmatia, Pa. He was born Jan. 3, 1868, in Washington township. In 1902 he and his brother John came to Lower Mahanoy township, where they own and farm a tract of 186 acres, formerly belonging to Martin Bachman. John A. Schlegel, brother of Oscar, was born Sept. 7, 1872. Since their father's death the brothers have been partners. They are Lutheran members of St. Peter's church at Mahanoy, and in polities are Democrats. In 1896 John A. Schlegel married Jennie Starr, daughter of Andrew and Susanna (Blasser) Starr. They have three children, Mark F., Walter R. and Elmer A. E. C. ROGERS, of Sunbury, was born at Danville, Montour Co., Pa., Jan. 11, 1874, and received his education in the public schools at that place, after which he entered the factory of his father, D. J. Rogers, and learned the trade of stone and granite cutting. In June, 1901, he removed to Sunbury and engaged in the stone and granite cutting business, and there he is now successfully producing high-grade monuments, mausoleums and cut stone trimmings for buildings. OSCAR W. PENSYL, member of the firm of Paul & Pensyl, butchers of Shamokin, Northumberland county, was born April 20, 1877, in Ralpho township, this county, and is a member of one of the pioneer families. Jacob Pensyl (Bentzel), his great-great-grandfather, was a native of Germany, and coming to America made his home in Northumberland county, Pa., taking up fifty acres of land at the present site of the borough of Shamokin. His location was where the "Eagle Hotel" now stands. He aft- END OF PAGE 665 erward abandoned this place and took up a two-hundred-acre tract in Ralpho township (where his great-grandson, David R. Pensyl later resided) to which he moved. He had one son, John. John Pensyl, son of Jacob, was born in 1767 and was nine years old when his father settled at what is now Shamokin. He was a member of the German Reformed Church, one of the organizers and original members of the old Blue Church in Ralpho township, and donated an acre of ground for church purposes, the edifice of that congregation being located thereon to this day. He died upon the homestead in Ralpho township in April, 1849, at the age of eighty-two. John Pensyl married Barbara Hinkle, and to them were born five children: Kate, who married Frederick Lebic; Leah, who married John Fisher; John, who was twice married; George, born Aug. 1, 1799; and Leonard. Leonard Pensyl, son of John and Barbara (Hinkle) Pensyl, was born May 11, 1804, on the homestead in Ralpho township, and died Oct. 1, 1883 (date is also given Oct. 31, 1884). He was a farmer by occupation. He was an active member of the German Reformed Church, which he served as deacon and elder for twenty-one years; in politics he was a Democrat. He married Elizabeth Kaseman, daughter of Frederick William Kaseman, of Ralpho township, and to this union were born three children: Sarah A., born July 3, 1828, died Jan. 3, 1908, who was the wife of Daniel H. Adams, of Ralpho township; Daniel, who died Jan. 24, 1834, aged seven months, sixteen days; and David R. David R. Pensyl, son of Leonard, was born Sept. 25, 1835, on the old Pensyl homestead, which he inherited, following farming there throughout him active years, except for a short time when he was in the mercantile business, which he started in 1857 and carried on for two years. He had over two hundred acres of lands Mr. Pensyl died Feb. 15, 1910, and is buried at the Blue church. He was a member of that church, and socially was a Mason, holding membership in Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A.M. Though a Democrat in politics and interested in the success of his party, he never took any active part in its affairs or in public matters of any kind. In 1859 Mr. Pensyl married Carolina Fry, daughter of Joseph Fry, and eleven children were born to their union: Lonora, who is the wife of Alonzo D. Smink, of Shamokin, and has children, Florence (wife of Robert Roth and the mother of two children, Robert L. and Harriet L.) and Reuben L.; Joseph E., who lives at Paxinos, in Ralpho township; Laura, wife of Joseph B. Hill, of Tharptown, Pa.; Leonard, a resident of Shamokin; David J., living at Weigh Scales, Northumberland county; Elizabeth, deceased, who was the wife of George Burkert; Hannah, living at Mount Carmel; Cora, wife of Frank Leader, a merchant of Mount Carmel; Bertha M., who died in infancy; Oscar W.; and Carrie F., deceased, who was the wife of Rutherford Hayes. Oscar W. Pensyl received his education in the public schools of the home locality and was reared on the home farm. He also learned the butcher's trade, and when nineteen years of age came to Shamokin, where he found employment with M. Croninger, remaining with him for a period of three years. Following that experience he was employed by A. L. Witmer for six years, and in 1906, in company with Thomas H. Paul, he bought out James H. Straub, the well known butcher at No. 104 South Market street, where Paul & Pensyl are doing a profitable business. These young partners are both enterprising and hard-working young men, and they are not only winning material success but also high standing among the most substantial business men of the borough. That Mr. Pensyl is considered a reliable and trustworthy young man is evidenced from the fact that though he is a Democrat in a Republican ward - the Sixth - he was elected to the borough council in 1910. Socially he has numerous connections, holding membership in Lodge No. 355, B.P.O. Elks; the I.O.O.F.; Jr. O.U.A.M.; K. of M.; Modern Woodman; Our Band of Shamokin, and the Merchants Association. On Dec. 25, 1905, Mr. Pensyl married Rosie L. Gets, daughter of George Getz, a well known resident of Shamokin, and they reside at No. 104 South Market street which property he purchased June 13, 1910. JULIUS BEHRENT, farmer of Shamokin township, has not been a resident of that region as long as most of his neighbors, but he has made a place for himself among its substantial and respected citizens. He was born June 28, 1851, in eastern Germany, son of Louis and Augusta (Raher) Behrent. The father was a miller, and followed that occupation in Germany until his death, at the age of seventy-four years. The mother subsequently came to America, passing the remainder of her days at the home of her son Julius, and dying June 19, 1900, at the age of seventy- eight. She was buried at Shamokin. Louis and Augusta Behrent had the following children: Amelia, Adelina, Annie, Leo, August, Lupold and Julius. Julius Behrent learned the trade of miller and followed it while he lived in his native land. In 1873 he came to America, landing at New York City June 9th of that year, and he spent two and a half years there, in the employ of a railroad company. From there he came to Shamokin, Pa., where he was engaged at mining for eleven years, at the end of that time buying his present farm, in Shamokin township, from M. H. Kulp. This place consists of 190 acres, and Mr. Behrent has since END OF PAGE 666 devoted all his time to its cultivation, in which he has been very successful. His produce is disposed of at the Shamokin markets, which he attends. Mr. Behrent has not taken any part in the public affairs of his adopted community, although he is interested in the general welfare and ready to support any measures for the universal good. He is a Republican on political questions, and in religion a member of the Reformed Church, holding membership at Shamokin. Mr. Behrent married Wilhelmina Krum, also a native of Germany, daughter of Edward Krum. They have eight children, namely: Louis, at present living in Jersey City; Susan, married to Charles Dunkelberger; Annie, married to George Bodsoskie; Frank, living in Jersey City; Minnie, at home; Edward; Martha, and Adeline. J. WESLEY MARKS, of Ralpho township, storekeeper and assistant postmaster at Bear Gap, has done business in this section of Northumberland county for a number of years and has a wide acquaintance here. He was born in Columbia county, Pa., April 23, 1862, son of Jonas Marks and grandson of George Marks. His great-grand-father came from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania. George Marks lived at New Media, Columbia county, and died there. He was a lifelong farmer. Jonas Marks, father of J. Wesley Marks, was born in Columbia county. He was a carpenter by trade and also followed farming. In 1890 he went out to York county, Nebr., where he died in 1907. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Raup, died in Columbia county. Of their four children, Elizabeth, Ida, Minnie and J. Wesley, all but the last named are in the West. J. Wesley Marks attended the public schools and was reared upon the farm. When nineteen years old he began clerking for J. K. Pensyl, with whom he remained five years, at the end of that period going to Mount Carmel, where he engaged in the wholesale liquor business. In that connection he became well known throughout this district, following that line for nine, years, after which he bought out the hotel at Helfenstein, Pa. He conducted it only a short time, however, when he sold out and purchased the "Elysburg Hotel,"' which he carried on for four years. He sold that place to G. G. Adams, and on May 5, 1910, bought out the store of Nathan G. Adams at Bear Gap, where he is now located. He is also assistant to Jacob Leisenring, the postmaster. Mr. Marks is a business man of substantial qualities, a good citizen, and enjoys high standing among his fellow men. He is a Republican in political connection and socially belongs to the Elks and the Sons of Veterans, both at Mount Carmel, being entitled to membership in the latter organization through his father's service in the Civil war. Mr. Marks married Ida A. Fegely, daughter of Isaac Fegely, and they have had two children, both of whom died in infancy. Cornelius Fegely, grandfather of Mrs. Marks, was born in Berks county, Pa., and was a farmer by occupation, owning a large tract in Maxatawny township, near Bowers station. He died upon his farm. His wife, Annie (Heffner), is buried at Bowers. Their children were: Isaac, Mary (married Charles Kline) and James (died in Reading, Pa.). Isaac Fegely, father of Mrs. Marks, was born in Maxatawny township, Berks county, and followed farming and hotel-keeping, having a hotel at Monterey, in Maxatawny township. He died in Allentown, Pa., Aug. 27, 1907, and his wife, Lydia C. (Leibensperger), died at Mount Carmel, Pa., March 24, 1899. They had children as follows: Ida A., Mrs. J. Wesley Marks; Mary A., wife of J. M. Christ a merchant of Mount Carmel; Louisa, who died young; and Harry C., who is living in New York City. Benjamin Leibensperger, Mrs. Marks's maternal grandfather, lived near Zion's church in Maxatawny township, Berks county, and followed farming. He and his wife Lydia (Guildin) are buried at that church. Their children were: Reuben; Caroline, wife of Thomas Breinig; David, living at Allentown; Lydia C., who married Isaac Fegely; Susan, Mrs. James Fegely; Edward, who died young; Allen, living at New Ringgold; Rebecca, unmarried, who is a teacher at Allentown; Ellen, Mrs. Sipe; Oscar, living at Allentown; and Mary, widow of Nathan Wolbert. SCHADEL. This family is said to be descended from Urban Schadel, who was a German by birth. Coming to Berks county, Pa., about the middle of the eighteenth century, when the Indians still roamed the forest and were his neighbors, tradition states that he located at a place in Greenwich township, where there was an apple orchard in a woods. He had a son, Heinrich Schadel (spelled "Scheddel" on his tombstone), who was born May 24, 1761, and died Nov. 22, 1828. He was a man of small stature. His wife, Eve Leisenring, was a native of Berks county, born Jan. 5, 1769, and died April 7, 1856. Both are buried at Zion's Union Church, near Klingerstown - locally known as Klingers Church. There is also a Klingerstown Church, the latter standing in the village. Heinrich Schadel came from Berks county to Northumberland county, settling on the farm now owned by his grandson Moses, who is a bachelor, the farm having remained in the family name continuously. Some of the old buildings Heinrich Schadel erected are now crumbling, the wall of a house standing in a meadow being almost in ruins. He was an excellent wood worker and mechanic, END OF PAGE 667 making spinning wheels, reels, flax brakes, and various other devices fashioned of wood. His wife Eve (Leisenring) bore him fourteen children, as follows: Jonas; Solomon (1790-1857); Gideon (1794-1848; wife Maria, 1795-1850); Jacob; David (1796-1876); Johannes (1799-1862); George; Samuel; Daniel (1801-1833); Abraham L.; Hannah, married to John Ossman; Catharine, married to Jacob Buffington; Mrs. Abraham Maurer; and one whose name is forgotten. All those whose dates of birth and death are mentioned are buried at Klingers Church, where many of the name are interred. Some of the others removed to other counties and climes. The family are all Lutherans. Abraham L. Schadel, son of Heinrich, was born March 20, 1809, and died March 14, 1885. He was a farmer in Upper Mahanoy township, owning the farm now the property of his son Moses, as well as another farm across the township line in Upper Mahantango township, Schuylkill county, where another son, Harry S., now lives. He had a one-half interest in a farm adjoining the one now owned by his son Moses. He was a substantial man. His wife, Froenica (Schneider) was a daughter of Abraham and Eve (Batteicher) Schneider. They had four children: Moses S.; Catharine, who died aged seven years; Harry S.; and Ellen A., who died in infancy. CHARLES H. SWANK has been a contractor in Sunbury for a number of years, having followed his trade of stone mason as a journeyman for several years after settling in the borough, in 1871, and for a number of years as an independent worker. He was born Jan. 9, 1847, in Shamokin township, Northumberland county, son of Solomon Swank and grandson of Peter Swank. Peter Swank, born in 1789, settled a mile north of Elysburg, in Ralpho township, this county, then known as Shamokin township. He followed farming. His death occurred in 1848, and he is buried at the Reed Church. Like most of his family he was a Lutheran in religious faith, and he served as a member of the council of his church. His wife, Elizabeth, born in 1784, long survived him, dying in 1873. Their children were as follows: William, born Feb. 15, 1813, died April 14, 1886, married Kaziah, born Oct. 19, 1817, died Dec. 28, 1893 (buried at Reed's Church); Peter; Henry H., born Oct. 22, 1820, died Aug. 19, 1890; Solomon; Mary Ann, wife of Daniel Zimmerman; Lydia, wife of Daniel Vought; Elizabeth, born in January, 1815, who died July 14, 1884, unmarried. Jacob Swank, brother of Peter, was born Oct. 16, 1791, and died July 14, 1863. His wife Mary, born June 15, 1790, died Jan. 18, 1877. Their son Peter died Jan. 14, 1853, aged twenty-two years. Their daughter Catharine, wife of Morris Emerson, died Jan. 17, 1846, aged twenty-six years. Solomon Swank, son of Peter, was born in 1814 and died in 1849. He, too is buried at Reed's Church. He lived in Rush township, where he owned his house and a lot of some thirty acres, and he enjoyed a large custom as a shoemaker, being one of the best known men of his trade in the locality. In those days shoes were made entirely by hand, and at the time of his death he had two apprentices, George Deibler and a Mr. Zimmerman, the former being his brother-in-law. He was buried at Reed's Church, of which he was a prominent Lutheran member, as were many of the name living around Elysburg. A large number of Swanks are buried at that church. He served as deacon, and on one occasion, when the church was locked as the result of some controversy, he crawled through a window and opened the doors. His wife, Mary (or Polly) Deibler, daughter of George and Elizabeth Deibler, is buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery at Sunbury. They were the parents of only one child, Charles Henry. Charles Henry Swank received the educational advantages afforded by the township schools, which he attended for about two months a year. He was reared to farming, and learned the trade of stonemason in his young manhood. Coming to Sunbury in 1871, he worked as a journeyman for Jacob Bartholomew about eight years and then began contracting, in which he has been very successful. At times he keeps as many as nine men employed. Mr. Swank has done the mason work on a number of local school buildings, laid the foundation for the original U. B. church, put up the wall for the Sunbury Safe Deposit & Trust Company, the stone work of the Episcopal parish house, the East End hardware store, the D. R. Zartman store, and many other well constructed buildings in the borough. He has also done considerable work in another branch of his business, the laying of flagstone, having in one year laid thirty-seven carloads of flagstone, and he also deals in that commodity. He has prospered by good management and thrift, and has won respect by an honorable career of industry and honest dealing. He has served six years as constable in Sunbury. In 1868 Mr. Swank married Maria Alice Bloom, daughter of Henry and Maria (Wolf) Bloom, and four children have been born to them: Prof. Edward W. is engaged in teaching grammar school in Sunbury; Solomon F. died when five months old; Mary died in her sixth month; Leslie I. married Frank E. Heddings and they reside in Sunbury (they have one daughter Hazel A.). Mr. Swank and his family are members of Zion's Lutheran Church at Sunbury. He is a Democrat in politics. END OF PAGE 668 HARRY E. HAUPT, member of the firm of Haupt Brothers, butchers, of Shamokin, was born in that borough, July 2, 1879, son of Benjamin Haupt. The family history is given in full elsewhere. He attended the local schools and under his father learned the butcher's trade, remaining with his father until the latter's death, after which he entered into a partnership with his brother William T. They have their place of business at the old stand at the corner of Mulberry and Market streets, Shamokin, and have established a large trade, in the grocery as well as the meat line. Mr. Haupt is a Republican in politics, a Lutheran in religion, and socially a member the Sons of Veterans, the I.O.O.F., the, Royal Arcanum and the Knights of Pythias. On Jan. 29, 1898, Mr. Haupt married Gertrude E. Shuey, daughter of George and Sarah Shuey, of Shamokin; and they have had six children: Joseph H., Jr., Catherine (deceased), Sarah, Alma, Josiah R. (deceased) and Harry. JEREMIAH LENKER, who has been a farmer in Rockefeller township for a number of years, was born March 7, 1850, in Lower Mahanoy township, this county, in which region the Lenkers have been settled for many years. Mr. Lenker is a son of George Lenker and grandson of Simon Lenker. One Adam (or John Adam) Lenker, evidently the first of the family to settle here, was a native of Switzerland, born Dec. 12, 1765. He located in territory now embraced in Lower Mahanoy township, and followed farming, the original homestead upon which he settled being the farm now owned by David Bohner. He died March 24, 1834, and is buried at the Zion Church in Stone Valley, as is also his wife, Anna Maria; she was born June 15, 1764, and died May 12, 1822. Their children were: Michael, John Adam, Jacob, Polly (married John Witmer) and Mary, (married William Schaeffer). Descendants of the three sons named are still found in this region. Simon Lenker, born Oct. 28, 1788, in Lower Mahanoy township, was probably of this same stock, but whether a son of John Adam or not the records do not show. He owned a farm near Hickory Corners (now owned by Samuel Latsha) and followed farming all his active life, dying April 28, 1852. His wife, Catharine (Dockey), born Dec. 17, 1789, died Dec. 10, 1871. They were Lutherans, and are buried at Stone Valley Church. They had these children: Simon, Jr., is buried at Herndon, Pa.; Isaac, born Jan. 22, 1818, died March 27, 1881, lived on the homestead; George is mentioned later; Jonas owned a farm adjoining the homestead; Elizabeth died unmarried; Catharine married James Yeagly. George Lenker, son of Simon, was born Feb. 26, 1815, in Lower Mahanoy township, and there owned the farm now the property of Morris Bohner, a tract of about one hundred acres. He followed farming all his days. He died June 17, 1854. Mr. Lenker and his family were Lutheran members of the Stone Valley Church and he served the congregation in various official capacities. Mr. Lenker married Catharine Snyder, daughter of John Dietrich Snyder, also of Lower Mahanoy, and she survived him many years, dying Sept. 6, 1887, aged seventy-six years, three months, ten days. Two children were born to this union: Mary, who married Isaac Radel; and Jeremiah. Jeremiah Lenker was reared to farm life until he was seventeen, at which time he began to learn the trade of tanner. He followed that occupation until 1880, in which year he returned to farming, locating in Toad valley, in Lower Mahanoy township. After six years at that place he moved his family to Limestone, in Upper Augusta township, where he was also located for six years. Returning to Lower Mahanoy, he farmed there for nine years, at the end of which period, in 1900, he settled on his present farm in Rockefeller township. There he has a tract of thirty- six acres, located about, two and a half miles southeast of Sunbury, on the Plum Creek road. Mr. Lenker has taken no part in public affairs since his removal to Rockefeller township, but while in Lower Mahanoy he served nine years as a member of the board of school directors. He is a Republican on political questions, and in religion he and his family are Lutherans; holding membership in Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church. During his residence in Lower Mahanoy he served many years as deacon of his church. On May 8, 1868, Mr. Lenker married Caroline Boyer, daughter of Benjamin and Catharine (Stein) Boyer, the former a native of Amity township, Berks Co., Pa., the latter of Hubley township, Schuylkill Co., Pa. When sixteen years old Mr. Boyer came with his parents to Stone Valley, in Lower Mahanoy township, where he lived and died. He was an enterprising and prosperous agriculturist, acquiring the ownership of three farms. Mr. and Mrs. Lenker have had six children: (1) M. Alma was born in Lower Mahanoy township and there received her early education, later attending Susquehanna University, at Selinsgrove, Pa. She began teaching public school in 1892, receiving her first license from Prof. Ira Shipman, then county superintendent, and has taught every term since, three terms in Lower Mahanoy, three terms in Upper Augusta and nine terms in Rockefeller township. In 1901 she was granted a State teacher's permanent certificate. On Oct. 31, 1905, she was graduated from the Sunbury Business College, having completed a course in stenography and typewriting. She is an accomplished pianist, and from 1891 has taught music, both vocal and instrumental. Her high END OF PAGE 669 reputation as a teacher has been maintained by conscientious devotion to her duties in every line. She married May 18, 1911, Warren L. Shipman, Esq., son of Saul Shipman. (2) Rev. George Irving Lenker received his elementary education in the public schools of Lower Mahanoy and taught school for two terms in his native township. He then entered Muhlenberg College, at Allentown, Pa., in 1898, and after his work there became a student at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Germantown, from which he was graduated in 1901. He was ordained at Philadelphia, and stationed at Grace Lutheran Church, Allegheny, which he served as pastor for seven years, resigning because of failing health. He is now sojourning at Southern Pines, N. C., for the benefit of his health. (3) Katie P. married M. Oscar Engel and they reside in Sunbury. (4) John B., a carpenter, residing at Sunbury, married Elsie Eister. (5) Lucy J. died unmarried, at the age of eighteen years, and is buried at Wolfs Cross Road (Emanuel) Church in Rockefeller township. (6) Ulysses H., who graduated from the Sunbury high school in 1910, is now living with his parents. ROBERT L. RIEGER, of Herndon, Northumberland county, has been in business at that point since 1902, and also conducts two farms in Jackson township. He is a progressive citizen, and has been a useful man in various circles, taking an intelligent interest in the general welfare and managing his own affairs with the good judgment which has won the recognition of his fellow men in all the associations of life. The Riegers are of German origin. Christian Rieger, great- grandfather of Robert L. Rieger, lived at Gien, an independent walled city in Wurtemberg, Germany, was a man of fine intellect and an able minister, a servant of the king. The family belonged to the German nobility. John Rieger, son of Christian Rieger, passed all his life in Germany. He was a shoemaker by trade and occupation, and also a city policeman for years. He was the father of sixteen children, only four of whom, however, reached maturity, the other twelve dying young. Casper Rieger, eldest son of John, was born Dec. 20, 1833, in Gien, and came to America in May, 1852, landing at Philadelphia, where he spent two years. After a short residence at Reading, Pa., he came to Herndon, and he followed his trade of stone cutter until 1894. Meantime he acquired an eighty-acre farm in Jackson township, which his family cultivated. He is now living retired, in Jackson township. During the Civil war Mr. Rieger served his adopted country as a member of Company B, 172d Pennsylvania Regiment in September, 1862, and in Company A, 208th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, with which command he saw active service, taking part in the engagement at Bermuda Hundred, in the Belfield raid on Dec. 10-11-12, 1864, next at Hatcher's Run, in Virginia (where the regiment remained one week, returning thence to Petersburg), at the taking of Fort Steadman (1865), the taking of Fort Mahone (April 2, 1865) and the capture of other forts. He married Arelia Sowers, who died in l891, at the age of fifty-six years, and ten children were born to them: Charles H. is a farmer of Jackson township; George W. lives in Vancouver, Wash.; John died in infancy; Ellen married Wesley Wolf, of Sunbury; Robert L. lives at Herndon; Elizabeth M. married William Geiger, of Sunbury; William F. is deceased; Joseph M. is at Vancouver, Wash.; Samuel is engaged in farming in Jackson township; Francis J. lives at Portland, Oregon. Back in the seventeenth century one of the forebears of the Riegers was a general in the regular army. He was arrested and tried for treason, and was sentenced, and during his imprisonment composed and penned a number of hymns still in use in the Lutheran Hymnal. He was subsequently pardoned and reinstated in his former office, and when he retired from active service received a letter of honor from the king for faithful service. This letter descended to the eldest son in each generation, and Casper Rieger, being in the direct line, was entitled to it, but neglected the privilege, leaving the country when he was eighteen years of age. Gien had been captured by Napoleon and given to the Kingdom of Wurtemberg, and though the officers of the independent city escaped with their lives they had nothing left to boast of, and the influence of the Riegers in Gien was at an end. Hence Casper Rieger, who believed very much in independent government, came to America without his "letter of honor." Robert L. Rieger was born April 26, 1864, in Jackson township, and obtained his education in the township schools. He was reared to farming, and gave all his attention to agriculture for some years, in 1889 purchasing White island, at Herndon, which contains 131 acres of valuable land. He lived there for a period of twelve years. In 1902 he settled at Herndon, engaging in his present line of business, which he has enlarged and added to meet the demands of trade until his stock and interests are now quite extensive. He is engaged as a manufacturer of and dealer in mill lumber, flooring, shingles, siding, molding, window sash, doors, bricks, shingle bands, coal, and similar commodities, doing a thriving business, which he has built up by enterprising and accommodating methods. He also operates a farm of 208 acres, and one of sixty-six acres, in Jackson township. Mr. Rieger is president of the board of health of the borough of Herndon and END OF PAGE 670 has given useful service in that capacity. He is independent politically. On Dec. 13, 1879, Mr. Rieger married Elmira Lenker, daughter of Henry and Mary (Witmer) Lenker of Mahantango, Pa., and they have had three children: Alice married T. S. Updegrove, who is now engaged in farming White island; Charles L. is a farmer in Jackson township; Clinton W. is also a farmer. Mr. Rieger and his family are members of the United Evangelical Church at Herndon, in which he is quite active, serving at present as trustee of the church and teacher of a large men's class in the Sunday school. He is a graduate of the Perkasie Park Normal Assembly Course. CONRAD YEAGER, a native of Berks county, Pa., about the year 1800 settled near Elysburg, in Northumberland county. He had a son, Conrad, Jr., and a number of daughters. Conrad Yeager, Jr., was born in Berks county about the year 1795, and when a child came with his parents to Northumberland county, settling in Rush township. He was a farmer., He was a Lutheran in his earlier life, but at the time of his death was a Baptist. He and his wife, Elizabeth (Reed), are buried at Reed's Church. Their eleven children were: John, Absalom, Conrad, Henry, Solomon, Jacob, Elizabeth (married Isaac Hile), Esther (married Christopher Rhine), Deborah (married Joseph Haas), Sarah (married Leonard Boyer) and Mary (married Jacob Pensyl). Solomon Yeager, born in Shamokin township July 18, 1837, now resides at Sunbury, Pa. He married Losanna Dawson, and they have children: J. Truman, Clarence, Reuben, Lizzie, Emma and Ella. JOHN A. FERSTER, a prominent farmer of Little Mahanoy township, has passed all his life there on the farm where he now resides. Several generations of Fersters have lived in the lower part of Northumberland county. One William Ferster settled there prior to the organization of the county, in 1772, and in 1778, in the list of taxables of Mahanoy township (which then included all that part of the county lying south of Line Mountain), were the names of William, George, Peter and George Ferster, Jr., William being the father of George and Peter. William Ferster died when his son Peter was a young man, and is buried on his farm in Little Mahanoy township, in a field on the east side. Other persons were buried near him, but the plowshare now turns the sod over his grave. He owned the land which is now the property of the Joseph Haas estate near Dornsife. His children were: George, Leonard, Peter, Michael, Sally (married Bernhard Adam), Lydia (Mrs. Miller), Catherine (married Christopher Dunkelberger), Eve (born July 8, 1780, died Nov. 30, 1830, married S. Christophel Dunkelberger), and Maria Magd. (born March 5, 1791, died October, 1812, married Wilhelm Schneider). Among the taxables in Little Mahanoy township when the first tax was collected, in 1814, after the township was organized (in 1813), were Leonard and John Ferster. Peter and John Ferster had the first eight-day clock ever in use in Little Mahanoy township; this was in 1804. They bought it in Reading, Pa. The Fersters were noted for their strength, John and Peter performing the feat of lifting a full barrel and drinking out of the bunghole. In Washington township, this county, there is a valley known as "Foersters Thal" Fersters Valley. In the early records the spelling is sometimes Furster. We have the following record of the four sons of William Ferster: George Ferster became a farmer and settled in the State of Indiana. He married and had a family. Leonard Ferster, born March 23, 1777, died Aug. 3, 1843. He lived in Little Mahanoy township, where he owned the farm now belonging to Daniel W. Wirt His wife, Anna Barbara (Hetrich), born Aug. 17, 1780, died Jan. 6, 1853, and they are buried at the Little Mahanoy Church. The Fersters are Lutherans in religious connection. To Leonard and Anna Barbara (Hetrich) Ferster were born children as follows: Peter, Sally, Betzy (married Jacob Philips), Catharine (married Samuel Wagner) and George. Peter Ferster located in Washington township, where he took up considerable land in what is now known as "Fersters Valley," practically. all the residents being Fersters, and four adjoining farms belonging to Fersters. Peter Ferster lived on the tract now owned by his grandsons Elias and Frank Ferster (sons of Simon). He was twice married, his wives, Christina and Barbara, respectively, being sisters and daughters of Michael Rebuck. To the first union were born children as follows: Peter; Simon, who died March 1, 1901, aged seventy-six years, five months, eleven days (his wife Mary A., born Dec. 18, 1821, died Oct. 29, 1880); Daniel; David; Isaac. born March 5, 1832, who died Nov. 10, 1862 and John. The son John was only fourteen weeks old when the mother died. in 1838. By his second wife Peter Ferster had a son George, who married Peggy Thomas; they live in Much Valley, in Washington township. Michael Ferster (son of William), born Feb. 27, 1787, lived and died on a small tract near Rebuck. He had a farm farther up the valley. His death occurred Nov. 18, 1840, and his wife Lydia (Hepler), born Nov. 27, 1792, died Jan 17, 1858. They are buried at the Himmel Church. Their children were all daughters: One daughter END OF PAGE 671 married Henry Reitz (he was married four times); Kate married Peter Rebuck (Known as "Curly Peter" Rebuck); Sarah married Peter Rebuck (Known as "Little Peter Rebuck, also as Levvy Peter"); Lydia married Peter Rebuck (Known as "Pette Balser" Rebuck), she was the "Rod Lyd"); Harriet married Joseph Rebuck; Hannah married Samuel Malick. Peter Ferster, son of Leonard, lived for some years on the farm in Little Mahanoy township now owned by Daniel W. Wirt, which was his father's homestead and may have been a part of the land belonging to his grandfather, William Ferster. A log house still (1910) standing or this farm was built by Leonard Ferster. George Ferster, brother of Peter, obtained nineteen acres of this farm. In his later years Peter Ferster crossed the Susquehanna and settled near Richfield, in Juniata county, Pa., where he died and is buried. His wifes maiden name was Peifer, and among their children was a son George, who lived at Richfield and reached an advanced age. George Ferster, son of Leonard, was the grandfather of John A. Ferster, and lived at the same place his grandson occupies, though he had a much smaller tract. He was born March 24, 1804, and died Oct. 26, 1830, at the early age of twenty-six years, and he is buried at the Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, of which he was a member. He married Barbara Rebuck, and they had two children, Adam and Catharine, the latter the wife of John Bohner. Adam Ferster, son of George, was born on the farm in Little Mahanoy township, where his son John A. Ferster now lives, and passed his entire life there, dying Jan. 14, 1897 at the age of sixty-seven years, six months, twenty-eight days. He was a blacksmith, and followed the trade in addition to farming, having a shop which is still standing on his son's farm, along the road. He was considered a good mechanic, and had plenty of work to do when the timber on the surrounding mountains was cut. He was an active and intelligent man, interested in everything that concerned the general welfare, and held various political and church offices, being willing to do his share as a good citizen. In politics he was a Democrat His first wife, Catharine (Bohner), daughter of John Bohner, is buried at the Little Mahanoy Church. She was the mother of three children: William, who lives at Snydertown, Pa.; Emeline, wife of David Long; and Aaron. Mr. Ferster's second marriage was to Rebecca Runkle, who was born Oct. 13, 1841, daughter of Philip and Susanna (Brown) Runkle, and died Jan. 17 1908. Adam and Rebecca Ferster are buried at St Peters Church, Mahanoy. They were the parents of three children: Susan, married to Henry Kahler; George E., who is unmarried; and John A. Aaron Ferster, son of Adam Ferster and his first wife, was born April 7, 1859, in Little Mahanoy, in which township he is still engaged in farming. He was reared in his native place, and worked for his father until twenty-five years old at which time he married and moved to Shamokin, where he lived for ten years, meantime working, in the coal mines, for the Reading and Pennsylvania Coal Companies. In December, 1895, he moved with his family back to Little Mahanoy township, settling on a farm which adjoins his father's homestead to the northeast. This place was one time the Daniel Wagner homestead, and Mr. Ferster owns a nice tract of sixty-six acres, some of which is timberland. He is engaged principally in truck farming, and attends market at Shamokin every week. Mr. Ferster is a Democrat and has officiated at elections, and he was school director for a number of years, his last term expiring in 1910. He and his family are members of the Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, which he is serving as deacon. On Aug. 31, 1884, Mr. Ferster married Mary Hoffman, daughter of John and Sarah (Hetrich) Hoffman, of Washington township, and they have had a family of seven children: Cora, who died young; Mabel M., who married George Bingaman; Edna S.; Robert L., who died young; Annie P.; Katie A.; and Adam Fred. John A. Ferster, son of Adam and Rebecca (Runkle) Ferster, was born Aug. 13, 1875, in Little Mahanoy township, and has passed all his life on the farm where he resides, which belonged in turn to his grandfather and father. His father added to the original tract and the farm at present contains sixty-five acres, which Mr. Ferster devotes to general crops. He sells his produce at Shamokin, where he attends market every week. Mr. Ferster is one of the energetic and intelligent young farmers of his section, has held the office of school director since 1909, and has been high constable of the township since 1902. For one year he was supervisor. In politics he is a Democrat in religion a Lutheran, being a member of the Emanuel Evangelical Church (Little Mahanoy), to which his family also belong; he was deacon of this church. On Feb. 1, 1898, Mr. Ferster married Sallie Raker, daughter of Isaac and Wilhelmina (Zartman) Raker, of Little Mahanoy township, and they have had three children: Ida, a daughter that died in infancy, and Adam. David Ferster, son of Peter and grandson of William, was born March 2, 1828, in Washington township, and died Aug. 11, 1903, at his home in the southwest portion of that district. He learned the trade of wheelwright. During the Civil war he enlisted in Company K, 172d Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. After the war he settled down to farming in Washington township, where he owned two farms, one now END OF PAGE 672 the property of his son James, the other owned by his son-in-law, Daniel Rothermel. He was a man of enterprise and public spirit, and served as school director and overseer of the poor in Washington township. His wife Judith (Brosius) was a daughter of Gottfried and Catharine (Klock) Brosius, and died March 3, 1904, aged seventy-five years, eleven months, six days. David Ferster was prominently identified with the Urban Church, and he and his wife are buried there. They had children as follows: Marie B., born April 22, 1852, married Urias Schreffler, and they are farming people of Washington township; Catharine, born Dec. 1, 1854, married Daniel Rothermel, and they, too, are farming people in Washington township; James and Levi are mentioned below; Sarah, born Aug. 14, 1864, married Killian Philips, and they are farming in Lower Mahanoy township; Emma J., born Nov. 12, 1867, is the wife of Charles R. Kauffman, a farmer of Washington township. James Ferster, son of David, was born May 20, 1857, and when eighteen years old commenced to learn cigar-making, which trade he followed for eight years. For nine years he was engaged as store clerk in Mahanoy, and since 1887 has cultivated the farm of the late Rev. J. Charles Smith, on the Pottsville road between Mahanoy and Urban. In 1880 he married Sevilla Philips, who was born in 1860 and died in 1901, the mother of these children: Susan, Maud, J. William and Gertrude F. In 1904 Mr. Ferster married (Second) Cora Brown, and to them have been born two children, John B. and Amanda S. Levi Ferster, son of David, was born Dec. 16, 1859, and worked on the farm for his parents until he was twenty-eight years old. At that time he married, and in 1889 he began to farm the tract of 144 acres in Washington township where he has since lived, and which he now has under a fine state of cultivation. In 1891 he built the present barn on that property. He is a prosperous farmer and one of the substantial citizens of his township, which he has served as school director for nine years. He is also prominent in church work, being a member of the Lutheran congregation at the Himmel Church, which he has served officially as deacon, elder and, at present, trustee. In 1887 Mr. Ferster married Mary A. Kahler, and they have had children as follows: Katie, Mary Elizabeth, Charles M., William I., John D. and Daniel J. John Ferster, son of Peter and grandson of William; was born July 31, 1838, in Jackson (now Washington) township, where he was reared, and throughout his active years was a farmer in what is locally known as Fersters Valley. He owns ninety-five acres of land, part of his father's farm. In 1863 Mr. Ferster married Harriet Zartman, who was born Oct. 17, 1836, daughter of David Zartman, and to them were born two sons, Daniel and Peter Z. The latter, who also lived in Fersters Valley, died March 10, 1899, aged thirty-five years, eight months, twenty-seven days; he had been twice married, his first wife, Lovina (Rebuck), dying Feb. 17, 1894, aged twenty-two years, ten months, seventeen days, the mother of one child, Charles, who died young; by his second wife, Ellen J. Miller, he had one child, Alice, who lives with her grandparents. Daniel Ferster, son of John, was born Aug. 9, 1870, and was reared to farm life in Fersters Valley where he still resides. Until he was of age he worked for his father, and has since been farming on his own account, in 1900 settling on the place of eighty acres (formerly an Eyster farm) where he has since remained. The barn on this place was built by David Eyster in 1871, and Mr. Ferster has made a number of improvements on the tract since he acquired it. He married Ella Lebo, daughter of John and Polly (Kobel) Lebo, late of Jackson township, and they have one daughter, Carrie May. Mr. Ferster is a Democrat, and at present is serving as school director of Washington township. He and his family are Lutheran members of St. Peter's Church, at Mahanoy, and he is now filling the office of deacon. CHARLES H. ROTHERMEL, proprietor of the "Trevorton House" at Trevorton, is one of the younger business men of that place who are by their energy and enterprise winning a place among its substantial citizens. He was born June 5, 1878, in Washington township, Northumberland county, and comes of a family long settled in that section. His great-grandfather, Abraham Rothermel, a native of Berks county, Pa., came to Northumberland county about 1810 and settled in Washington township. He and his wife, Catharine (Yeager), both died in that township, and are buried there, at the Himmel Church. They had children as follows: Charles, Martin, Isaac, Amos, Katie, Mrs. Hoffman and Mrs. Emerick. Charles Rothermel, son of Abraham, was the grandfather of Charles H. Rothermel. He came with his parents from Berks county and lived in Washington township, where he owned a farm and followed agricultural pursuits. He was twice married, the maiden name of his first wife being Bower, and to them were born four children: Killian; Joseph; Aaron, who is living at Mount Pleasant Mills, in Snyder county, Pa.; and Harriet. His second wife, whose maiden name was Beisel, bore him the following children: Lena, Daniel, Benjamin F., Lewis, Mary and Sarah. Benjamin F. Rothermel, father of Charles H. Rothermel, was born Aug. 9, 1855, in Washington township, and in his early life followed farming. Subsequently he was employed for some years on public works and he is now working at END OF PAGE 672 the Dunkelberger colliery. He has made his home at Trevorton since 1907. Mr. Rothermel's first wife, Emma (Hoffman), daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Drumheller) Hoffman, died March 6, 1880, and is buried in Washington township. She was the mother of two children: Charles H. and Edward, the latter dying young. Mr. Rothermel has since married (second) Lydia Brown, daughter of Andrew Brown, and they have had one daughter, Ida, who died in infancy. Charles H. Rothermel received his education in the public schools and passed his boyhood upon the farm. When twelve years old he began picking slate at the mines and later became a regular miner, being thus engaged until April, 1910. Before this, in 1905, he had become interested in the hotel business, but he continued his work at the mines for several years, until he felt that his hotel business needed all his attention. He is a popular host and has one of the leading hotels in the locality, enjoying a well deserved patronage. In this connection, and as a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Red Men and the Cameron Gun Club, he is very well known. He is a member of the Republican party and interested in its success, and during his residence in Cameron township served as a member of the election board. In religion he unites with the Reformed denomination. On May 17, 1902, Mr. Rothermel married Lottie Long, daughter of Felix and Lena Long, and to them have been born the following children: Clarence, Charles B., David F. and Elmer E. ISAAC LEPLEY, who has lived upon his present farm in Lower Augusta township since the spring of 1909, is a native of Union county, Pa., born Nov. 26, 1864, two miles from Winfield, son of Isaac and Catharine (Kline) Lepley. The Federal Census Report of 1790 records three Lepleys as heads of families: Adam, of Bradford county, Pa., who had a wife, four sons under sixteen years old, and one daughter; Jacob, of Northumberland county, Pa., who had a wife, seven sons under sixteen years of age and four daughters; and Lawrence Leply, of Berks county, Pa., residing in Ruscomb manor township, who had one son above sixteen years of age. Of these, Jacob Lepley was probably the ancestor of the family here under consideration. The Lepleys have long been prominent among the most respected residents of Union county. Several members of the Union county branch of the family entered the ministry, and the family was also represented in other professions. In the courthouse at Sunbury was found the following record regarding Michael "Leapley," deceased: Papers of administration were given to Jacob Leapley, date May 7, 1779, Will Book I, page 13. Under date of June 12, 1779, Will Book I, page 14, we find: Michael "Leaply," deceased, administrator John Nye. Isaac Lepley, Sr., father of Mr. Isaac Lepley of Lower Augusta township, had two brothers: Joseph, who lived in Snyder county, Pa., where he was engaged in farming; and Samuel, who lived in the upper part of Pennsylvania. Isaac Lepley, Sr., was born at Winfield, in Union county, Pa., was a lifelong farmer, and met with unusual prosperity in his undertakings, acquiring the ownership of three farms, two in Union county and one in Snyder county. The latter contained forty-five acres, and those in Union county comprised eighty-two and forty acres, respectively. The forty-acre tract was valuable lime-stone land, and Mr. Lepley erected three kilns and burned lime on an extensive scale. His talents as a business man were generally recognized, and he was called upon to serve his community officially, being a member of the school board and frequently serving the county as juryman. His efficient services were much appreciated. He died in Union county about 1890, at the age of sixty-eight years, and is buried at Kratzerville, Snyder county. He was a Lutheran member of the Kratzerville Church, in the work of which he was prominent holding the offices of deacon, elder and trustee. His second wife, Catharine (Kline), died about two years after he did. They were the parents of two children, Isaac and Sarah; the latter the wife of Jacob Kreisher. By his first marriage Mr. Lepley had three sons: John, who lives in the borough of Shamokin, this county; Samuel, who died at the age of thirty-five years; and Thomas, who lives in Snyder county, three miles from Winfield, Pennsylvania. Isaac Lepley has followed farming all his life, having assisted his father during his early life and later worked for others until able to begin on his own account, which he did in 1892. In the spring of that year he settled on what was formerly the Emerich farm in Rockefeller township, which he had purchased shortly before, and which contained 110 acres. After living there for ten years he sold the place to Edw. Campbell, and for several years lived in the Irish Valley, until he moved to his present tract in Lower Augusta township, a place of sixty- seven acres which he purchased from Franklin Gonsor. He is a reliable and valuable citizen, and universally respected. In December, 1894, Mr. Lepley married Dora Van Horn, daughter of Pierce Van Horn, of Irish Valley, in Shamokin township, and they have two sons, William P. and Edwin O. Mr. Lepley and his family are Lutherans. In politics he is a Democrat. END OF PAGE 674 JESSE CABEL, farmer of Ralpho township, belongs to a respected family of that section of Northumberland county. The Cabels are of German extraction. Joseph Cable, his grand-father, was extensively engaged in farming in Jackson township, this county, and in his later years went West, where he died about 1865. His children were: Daniel, Abraham, Christian, Eliza, Wilhelimina and Elizabeth. Christian Cabel, son of Joseph, first followed farming, but he was a man of mechanical ability and learned the trades of shoemaker, stonemason and clock-maker, at all of which he worked. Coming to Ralpho township he took up about twelve hundred acres of land, making his home near Weigh Scales, and following farming and clock-making. He sold one tract to Charles Snyder. He met his death in 1860, when about forty-nine years old, along the pike between Schuylkill Haven and Orwigsburg Landing, and is buried at the Blue church in Ralpho township. His wife, Sarah (Hensyl), was a daughter of George Hensyl, who lived in Mahanoy township, this county. They had a large family, namely: Harriet is unmarried; Caroline married Isaac Haas and (second) George Hartline; Eliza married Isaac Hill; Kate married John Hoffman; Sarah married Hugh Campbell; Mary married James Adams; Susan married Adolph Walbridge; Annie married Joseph Dunkelberger; John died in Mifflin county, Pa.; Albert is a resident of Pottsville, Pa., where he is engaged in business as a druggist; Jesse completes the family. Jesse Cabel was born in Ralpho township April 1, 1848, and was reared to agricultural pursuits on the home place, working out among farmers for a time after commencing on his own account. He then found employment doing repair work for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and spent five years in the shops at Shamokin. In 1870 he located at Weigh Scales, buying a small tract of land there from Mrs. Mary J. Snyder, and there he has since followed farming, also doing considerable work for the township. He is an honorable man, and highly respected in his neighborhood for his straightforward, industrious life. Mr. Cabel married Lucinda Adams, daughter of Benjamin and Mary M. (Pensyl) Adams, and they have had children as follows: Franklin E. and Edward E., twins, both deceased; William, who was accidentally killed at Irish Valley when fifteen years old, while hunting; Millard, a barber by trade, who lives at home; John, at home; and Caroline, who is engaged as a stenographer in Philadelphia. Mr. Cabel is a member of the Blue church, and he formerly belonged to the I.O.O.F. He votes independently, supporting the best candidates, regardless of party. Cabel station, on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad, was named after Christian Cabel, father of Jesse Cabel, and Cabel post office, at Weigh Scales, was also named for the family. A. MILTON DELCAMP is proprietor of the "Locust Mountain House" at Mount Carmel, having one of the oldest and best established hotel stands in that vicinity. He took charge of this place in June, 1906, and has done a thriving business, his management having proved a success from the start. Mr. Delcamp has passed all his life at Mount Carmel, having been born there Nov. 9, 1870, son of Daniel Delcamp. The Delcamp family is of French origin and the name was formerly spelled De La Camp. Mr. Delcamp's great-great-grandfather came to this country from France in 1753, settling in Philadelphia. His son Peter, the great-grandfather of A. Milton Delcamp, settled at Minersville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., where he died at an advanced age. He was a farmer by occupation. His children were William, Philip, Peter, John, and one son who settled in Ohio. William Delcamp, son of Peter, was born in 1803 at Minersville, and died in 1869 at Llewellyn, Schuylkill county. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that calling for many years, also engaging in farming. He married Rebecca Faust, who died at Mount Carmel and is buried in Alaska cemetery, and they had a family of six children: Eli, Matilda, Anetta, Joseph, Daniel and William. Three of the sons served in the Civil war, namely: William was a member of Company A, 50th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the battle of the Wilderness. Joseph also served as a member of the same company and regiment. Daniel enlisted in the same command (Company A, 50th Regiment) in February, 1864, from Pottsville, and served seventeen months, until after the close of the war; he was wounded in the left cheek and still carries the mark. Daniel Delcamp, son of William, was born Nov. 2, 1837, in Branch township, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and has lived in Mount Carmel since 1867. He followed mining for a period of fifty-one years, retiring in 1910. By his first wife, Bella Klinger, who died in 1872, Mr. Delcamp had two children, William and A. Milton. His second marriage was to Sarah Eisenbach, daughter of George Eisenbach, and eleven children have been born to this union: Charles, Matilda (married John Morgan), Edward, Elmer, Maude (deceased), George, Ida, Irene (deceased), Robert, Raymond and Flossie. A. Milton Delcamp received his education in the public schools of Mount Carmel. He began work as a slate picker, being thus employed for two years after which he was engaged at selling milk, five years. He then attended school again for one term, following which be was employed by William Klees, in the butcher business, for three years, and later became a bar clerk. In END OF PAGE 675 February, 1900, he entered the employ of I. K. Wetzel, and in June, 1906, took charge of the "Locust Mountain House" as proprietor. The hotel has twenty-seven rooms, and is conveniently equipped. Mr. Delcamp is well fitted for the hotel business, having the faculty of making his guests comfortable and well satisfied with the service they receive and an obliging disposition which not only meets but anticipates the demands of his patrons. He does a profitable business and deserves the success he has won. Mr. Delcamp is well known in the local social organizations, belonging to the P.O.S. of A., the Sons of Veterans, the Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Anthracite Fire Company. Politically he does not adhere to the principles of any one party, voting independently, and his hotel is the voting place of the 1st precinct of the Third ward. On Aug. 7, 1904, Mr. Delcamp married Hetty Grove, daughter of John and Elizabeth Grove, of Mount Carmel, and they have had two children, Dorothy and Sarah. EDGAR B. HUME, senior member of the firm of Hume & Shipe, who are engaged in business at Sunbury as dealers in automobiles, and also conduct an automobile repair establishment, is a thoroughly enterprising business man, and well fitted by his familiarity with modern machinery for the line in which he is at present interested. Mr. Hume was born Aug. 19, 1876, in Cincinnati, Ohio, of which city his father, G. W. Hume, is also a native. He received his early education in the public schools of his native city and later attended the Ohio Wesleyan University, of Delaware, Ohio, after which he took up mechanical work. He learned the machinist's trade at Columbus, Ohio, with the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, remaining at the plant of that corporation for five years and during that time working in every department except the drafting department. His next employment was at Portsmouth, Ohio, where he was engaged in the Portsmouth Foundry & Machine Works a short time. For the next three years he was with the Friedman Brothers Shoe Company, at St. Louis, Mo., having charge of the mechanical end of their large establishment and at the end of that time returned to his native city, where he gained his first experience in the automobile business. He and a partner opened an auto repair shop, which they conducted successfully for two years, following which Mr. Hume accepted a position as traveling salesman with the Union Special Machine Company, of No. 781 Arch street Philadelphia, being thus engaged for six years. He afterward held a similar position with the United Shoe Machinery Company, of No. 415 Arch street Philadelphia, traveling from Boston to Winston Salem, N. C., where there is a thriving Moravian settlement; he had the novel experience of visiting a community where people never lock their doors at night where there is no jail, no courthouse, no postoffice, and no need for any of the precautions ordinarily taken in well settled places. In May, 1907, Mr. Hume came to Sunbury, where he formed his present partnership with Harry P. Shipe. Their establishment is at No. 132 South Front street, where they occupy a new two-story building, 40 by 60 feet in dimensions. They handle the Buick, Maxwell and Matheson cars; and do an extensive repair business, employing six men regularly. Mr. Hume is a member of Lodge No. 4, Knights of Pythias, at Columbus, Ohio; of B.P.O. Elks Lodge, No. 267, Sunbury; and of the Sunbury Automobile Club. HARRY P. SHIPE, junior member of the firm of Hume & Shipe, is a native of Sunbury and has passed all his life in that borough. He belongs to the family of Shipes numerous in Upper and Lower Augusta townships, in Northumberland county, being a grandson of Moses Shipe, who resides at No. 907 East Market street Sunbury. Isaac P. Shipe, son of Moses, was born in Northumberland county, and died at Sunbury July 8, 1893, at the early age of twenty-eight years. He passed all his life in Sunbury, and at the time of his death was engaged as a fireman on the Northern Central railroad; he was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. He married Catharine Greenaugh Bright, daughter of S. P. Bright of Sunbury, and to this union were born four children: Mabel V., now the wife of Charles E. Dalzell, of Sunbury; Harry P.; Annie Isabelle, married to Edward Roberts, of Sunbury; and Earl H., of Sunbury. Mrs. Shipe married for her second husband J. L. Golden, and they make their home in Sunbury. Harry P. Shipe was born in Sunbury July 9, 1885, and there received his education in the public schools, graduating from the high school in the class of 1903. For the next two years he was employed as clerk by the Pennsylvania Railway Company, and then for three years was in the employ of the United Telephone Company at Sunbury. At the end of that time he became associated with Mr. Hume in their present business, to which he gives all his time. He is well known to be industrious and ambitious, and has done his share toward making a success of the venture. Mr. Shipe is well known socially, holding membership in Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A.M., Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M,, Mount Hermon Commandery; No. 85, K.T., and in the Temple and Americus Clubs, both of Sunbury. He belongs to the Lutheran Church. END OF PAGE 676 BOHNER. The Bohner family has long been a numerous and prosperous race in the lower part of Northumberland County, where Nicholaus Bohner, its founder here, settled in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was one of the Hessian soldiers who came to America during the Revolutionary War and remained here after the struggle for independence was over. We give the record of his posterity in chronological order. (I) Nicholaus Bohner was born Jan. 18, 1754. He first located in Pennsylvania near Womelsdorf, in Heidelberg township, Berks county. Thence he moved to Lebanon county, near Fredericksburg, and from there to the Lykens Valley, in Dauphin county, near Gratz. He lived there some years on a tract of land in Lykens township later owned by a Klinger, and then removed to what is now Jordan township, in Northumberland county, when he bought a tract of land which remained in the family name to the third generation, until it passed into the possession of one Samuel Rower; part of it is now owned by Emanuel Shoop, and part by Daniel K. Schlegel. Nicholaus Bohner followed farming to the end of his days. He was a tall, erect and handsome man, the ideal or a soldier. he died Feb. 5, 1824, and is buried at Zion's Church in Stone Valley, where his wife also rests. He was a member of the Reformed Church. While living in Lebanon county Nicholaus Bohner married Margarett Stahr born Feb. 26, 1754, who died Aug. 13, 1831. To them were born four sons and one daughter, the sons being Jacob, Henry, Frederick, and John. The daughter was married to a Stump in Northumberland county but she and her husband left Pennsylvania, settling in Ohio. (II) Jacob Bohner, son of Nicholaus, was born Nov. 8, 1783, in the Lykens Valley. He followed farming and became very successful, owning three good farms. For some years he lived on a farm about two miles west of Hebe, and he was a Reformed member of the Hebe Church, where he is buried. He died Dec. 20, 1863. His wife, Catharine (Deibler), daughter of Mathias Deibler, was born May 16, 1789, and died Sept. 27, 1855. They were the parents of twelve children: Jacob, Jonathan, John, Abraham, Daniel, David, George, Matthias, Michael D., Elizabeth, Eve and Polly. (III) Michael D. Bohner, son of Jacob, was born in Jordan township Nov. 15, 1833. He was reared to farming and also learned the saddler's trade, commencing his apprenticeship when he was fifteen and following that calling for forty years in all. He now lives on a tract of twenty- nine acres in Lower Mahanoy township. Mr. Bohner has taken some interest and part in local affairs as an adherent of the Democratic party, and has served the party as precinct officer and his township as school director and supervisor. In religion he is a member of the Reformed Church. Mr. Bohner married Catherine Rubendall, daughter of Abraham and Molly (Carl) Rubendall, and they have had the following children: Amelia J., Jacob M., Sivilla, Polly Q., Franklin, Lizzie and Catharine. (II) Henry Bohner, son of Nicholas, remained on the homestead and followed farming. He was twice married, and by his first wife, whose maiden name was Brosius, had children: Peter, Jacob, Henry, Nicholas, Catharine, (married Michael Spotts), Elizabeth (married Isaac Heim), Rebecca, (married Michael Schaffer) and Mrs. Jacob Miller (who had three sons and one daughter, Mary). Henry Bohner's second wife was Rebecca Troutman, who bore him two children, William and Sarah. (Among the Bohners in the Pillow cemetery is Mary, wife of Henry Bohner, born Nov. 17, 1790, died June 3, 1830.) (III) Jacob Bohner, son of Henry and grandson of Nicholaus, was born in the Mahantango Valley, in Jordan township, Northumberland county, Dec. 3, 1815, and died on his birthday, Dec. 3, 1896, aged eighty-one years. He and his wife are buried in the Pillow cemetery, Uniontown. He lived two miles south of his father's homestead, on the line of Mifflin and Lykens townships, in Dauphin county, the township line passing through his house. When he built a new house, however, he located it in Mifflin township, where he voted and where his children went to school. In addition to farming he operated a sawmill, running what was known as Bohner's sawmill in Mifflin township for nearly forty years. His first mill, an old-fashioned structure, he replaced with a new one, which was washed away by the flood. His farm comprised 130 acres. He was a man not only well known but highly respected, and was an active member of the Reformed congregation of the church at Uniontown, serving as deacon and elder. Jacob Bohner married Salome Reitz, who was born April 10, 1822, daughter of Peter Reitz, and died Nov. 9, 1890. Twelve children were born to them, viz.: Henry, Louisa, Elias (died young), Joel (died young), David, John, Cornelius (died young), Sarah, Mary J. (died young), Jacob M., Peter Morris (died young) and Edwin D. (IV) DAVID BOHNER, son of Jacob, was born Sept. 18, 1849, in Lykens township, Dauphin county, and was reared to farm life. When he left home he engaged in the cotton lapping and feed business in Mifflin township, following that line for eleven years in all - the cotton business for seven years, adding the feed business the last four years. Coming to Lower Mahanoy township in 1881 he purchased a 124-acre farm, a Grim homestead, which he bought from the Harris estate. It is located one mile southeast of Hickory END OF PAGE 677 Corners, and here he has ever since been engaged in farming. While living in Dauphin county Mr. Bohner took considerable interest in public affairs and held local offices, serving Uniontown borough, where he lived for eleven and a half years before he moved to his present farm, as member of the town council. He is a Democrat in political opinion. He and his family are Reformed members of Stone Valley (Zion's) Church, where he served a number of years as an officer, being deacon, elder and trustee. In 1870 Mr. Bohner married Harriet Latsha, daughter of Henry Latsha, and they have had four children: Henry M. is a farmer in Lower Mahanoy; Mary J. married David G. Bohner; Salome married Charles M. Masser; Laura R. married C.O. Schaffer. (IV) EDWIN D. BOHNER, son of Jacob, was born Oct. 10, 1867. He received his education in the public schools and was reared to farming, working for his parents until he reached the age of twenty-three years. He then found employment working around a coal breaker, and for five years fired at a breaker in Northumberland county, in the spring of 1899 moving to his present place, a tract of ninety-two acres in Upper Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, on the south side of Line Mountain near the Schuylkill county line. This farm was formerly owned by Rev. H. Weicksel, and in the earlier days was a Yoder homestead. Mr. Bohner moved to this place March 28, 1899, and has been farming there ever since, selling his products at Shamokin. He is a butcher, and follows that trade in connection with his agricultural work. On Oct. 15, 1892, Mr. Bohner married Annie Reed, daughter of Daniel and Susan (Heckert) Reed, and they have had three children, Goldie, Kimber and Emerson. Mr. Bohner and his family worship at Jacob's Church, belonging to the Reformed congregation, which he served as deacon. He is a Democrat in politics. (II) Frederick Bohner, son of Nicholaus, born June 20, 1790, died March 12, 1831. He settled near Uniontown, in Jordan township, and was a substantial and prosperous citizen, owning and cultivating a large farm, a part of the homestead. He has descendants living in Jordan and Lower Mahanoy townships; one of his grandsons, Rev Benjamin Bohner, of Allentown, Pa., is a foremost minister of the Evangelical Association, having served as presiding elder. Frederick Bohner was held in the highest repute. He was one of the founders of the Evangelical Church in Uniontown. He married Eve Brosius, born July 2, 1792, died May 27, 1872, and they are buried in Bohner's (Union) cemetery, near Uniontown. They were the parents of five children: Daniel married Julianna Mease (Measy); Lydia married Rev. Mr. Anspach; Sallie married a Wildermuth; Rebecca married Moses Troutman; Phoebe married a Mr. Mease. (III) Daniel Bohner, son of Frederick, lived near Uniontown, on the hill to the north, part of his homestead being the farm of Daniel K. Schlegel. He acquired a substantial property, but lost heavily in the U. B. graveyard insurance venture. A man of strong intelligence and remarkable foresight, he was a leader in his community in many ways. Converted at his home during the thirties, under Bishop Seibert, then a presiding elder of the Evangelical Association, he was one of the founders of the church of that denomination at Uniontown and one of the most zealous and effective advocates of the doctrines of that sect in his vicinity, doing much for its advancement. He helped to erect the first Evangelical church at Uniontown, giving liberally not only of money, but of lumber and other material, doing considerable hauling, boarding the help, etc. He held many offices in the church and to the end of his days was an ardent Christian, a truly spiritual man. The camp meetings were held in his grove, and through his zealous efforts many members were brought into the church. He served as lay delegate to many church conferences, and to the general conference. He was a devout student of the Bible. Mr. Bohner died March 29, 1904, at the advanced age of ninety-one years, ten months, seven days. He was always a strong man physically, short but broad shouldered and heavy set and had a full face. In 1874 he built a large vault in Bohner's Union cemetery, near Pillow, and about twenty years before his death had a steel coffin made for himself and wife, Julianna Measy (Mease), who passed away Dec. 8, 1898, aged eighty-one years, eight months, thirteen days. They had children as follows: Emanuel, Rev Benjamin (married and had three children, Osby, Harvey and Emma), Henry, Daniel M., Phoebe (married William Spotts, and lived in Kansas), Annie, Mary, (known as Polly, died unmarried), Sarah (married Jeremiah Weaver) and Emma (married Simon Eyer, of New Jersey). (IV) Emanuel Bohner, son of Daniel, was: born in Jackson township, Northumberland county, and died in that township, Jan. 18, 1904, aged sixty-eight years, four days. His wife, Mary Ann Matter, died Feb. 9, 1904, aged sixty-two years, nine months, fifteen days. They are buried in the Union cemetery mentioned above. Mr. Bohner owned one of the old homesteads, as well as the farm now owned by his son Elmer in Jackson township. He was active in church life, as a member of the Evangelical Association, in which he served as class-leader and exhorter. He went with the Dubb side upon the division of the church, was subsequently conference delegate, and was END OF PAGE 678 ever a beloved member of the church. He and his aged father lived together in their declining years and it is a somewhat remarkable fact that he died Jan. 18th, his wife on Feb. 9th and the aged father March 29th, all in 1904. Adam Romberger, a son-in-law of Daniel Bohner, died only four weeks before Emanuel. Emanuel Bohner's children were: Nathaniel, who is a farmer of Jackson township; Adam Elmer; Daniel W., who died in his ninth year; Benjamin; Alice, married to Jere Walborn; Annie Jane, married to James Farly; Annie, married to Frank Forney; and Katie, unmarried, who lives in Millersburg. (II) John Bohner, son of Nicholaus, was born Sept. 4, 1792, in the Mahantango Valley in upper Dauphin county, and lived in Jackson (then Mahanoy) township, being the first of the name to own the Bohner farm at Mahanoy. The tract comprises 140 acres, located a quarter of a mile south of Mahanoy, and has been in the family name for nearly one hundred years. The house is an old landmark, the old part which is built of logs, being more than a hundred years old. Mr. Bohner was a stonemason, and followed that trade most of the time, his children conducting the farm. His work as a mason took him to Phoenixville and into Berks, Lebanon and other counties toward Philadelphia, and he had large contracts in the building of the Schuylkill canal. He died June 7, 1880, and is buried at Mahanoy (St. Peter's) Church, of which he was an official member. John Bohner's wife, Maria (Delp), born Nov. 5, 1789, died Dec. 1, 1868. Their children, all born at the homestead above mentioned, were Peter, Daniel, David, Simon (born 1822), John (who lives near Snydertown, Shamokin township), Benjamin (now living in Shamokin township, Northumberland county), Elizabeth (the eldest of the family, married Daniel Hilbush), Susanna (married Peter Schlegel), Maricha (married Peter Thomas), Catharine (married Adam Ferster) and Dinah (married Daniel Shreffler). The only survivors of this large family are John and Benjamin. (III) David Bohner, son of John, lived in Jackson township, where he was engaged as a farmer, miller and shoemaker. For a number of years he owned and operated what is known as the "Holshue" mill. He is buried at Peiffers Church at Mandata, Northumberland county. He and his wife Catharine (Garman) had a family of eight children, three of whom died in infancy, the others being: Henry, Elias, Mary, John and David G. (IV) David G. Bohner, son of David, was born Nov. 10, 1873, and is at present engaged in farming with his father-in-law. He married Mary J. Bohner, daughter of (IV) David Bohner, of another branch of the family, and they have had two children, Leo F. and Ralph R. (III) Peter Bohner, Son of John, was born Oct. 28, 1817, on the homestead in what was then Mahanoy (now Jackson) township. He spent his entire life on that farm, and, as previously related, his father was away from home so much of the time following his trade that Peter looked after the farm work. Thus it came about that by the time he was seventeen he was doing the work of a mature man. Until his father retired he farmed the place on shares, and it eventually came into his possession. It is still in the Bohner name, being owned by his son John. In 1870 Peter Bohner built the present barn on the place, a structure 85 by 40 feet originally, with a 14-foot addition used as a wagon shed. He was a large, strong man, weighing over two hundred pounds, and carried his responsibilities easily. He was well known in Jackson township, where he served as supervisor (many years) and assessor, was a Democrat in political matters and in religion a Reformed member of St. Peter's Church at Mahanoy, where he is buried. He was a prominent worker in that congregation, which he served as deacon, elder and trustee, was liberal in his support of church work and consistent in his life. He was baptized by Nicholas Hembing and catechised at St. Peter's Church, Mahanoy, being confirmed by Rev. Benjamin Boyer, May 30, 1835. He died in April, 1901. Peter Bohner was twice married, the first time Aug. 23, 1842, to Catharine Rebuck, daughter of Peter Rebuck; she was born April 2, 1822, and died March 3, 1861. She is buried beside her husband at St. Peter's Church. To this union were born twelve children, namely: Noah R. is mentioned below; a daughter, twin of Noah, died in infancy; Susan married Elias Tressler, of Mahanoy; Joel is a resident of Northumberland county, near Kline's Grove; Harriet married William Terster (who is now deceased) and they lived in Washington township, Northumberland county; Cornelius lived in Lower Augusta township; Lavina married Albert Bressler and lived in Hegins, Schuylkill county; John R. is mentioned below; Peter is a resident of Jackson township; Catharine (twin of Peter), married Levi Bohner (a distant relative); George lives in Shamokin Daniel died young. For his second wife Peter Bohner married June 19, 1864, Susanna (Shaffer), daughter of Peter and Mary Magd. (Brown) Shaffer and widow of Jacob Lahr, and to this marriage was born one son, William S., who is mentioned below. Mrs. Bohner was first married, April 23, 1843, to Jacob Lahr, and they had eight children (seven sons and one daughter), viz.: Josiah, Wilhelmina, Israel, Daniel, and four who died young. Daniel is the only survivor. Mrs. Bohner's maternal grandfather, Michael Brown, born March 30, 1770, came from Berks county; he died May 9, 1851. END OF PAGE 679 His wife, born Sept. 16, 1772, died Feb. 18, 1844. They were married April 19, 1795, and had a family of nine children, Mary Magd. (Polly), mother of Mrs. Bohner, being born Jan. 19, 1798; she died May 21, 1864. (IV) NOAH R. BOHNER, son of Peter, was born May 10, 1844, on the homestead in Jackson township, and was there reared, during his boyhood attending the old fashioned pay school at Mahanoy. After working as hired man away from home one year he returned to his father, working for him and in the neighborhood until 1868. He had married the previous year, and he then removed to Lower Mahanoy township, where he farmed as a tenant for six years before settling on his present place, in that township, in 1874. He owns the old John Dockey homestead of eighty-five acres, and has prospered well, being one of the substantial citizens of his section. The barn on this place was built about 1832, and the log house is even older, having been built by Mr. Dockey in 1807; it was the second house erected on the farm. On Oct. 13, 1867, Mr. Bohner married Mary Troutman, daughter of Moses Troutman, and they have had the following children: Adam F., of Uniontown, Pa.; Harvey E., of Millersburg, Pa.; Rev. Jonathan, a minister of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church, who was first stationed at Boyertown, later at South Allentown and Palmyra, and is now at East Greenville (he married Mary Lyte, of Dauphin, on the Susquehanna river, and they have had five children, Ruth, Mabel, Emma, John and Paul); Charles G., of Lower Mahanoy township; Harry P., of Pillow, Pa.; Noah Carnie, of Millersburg, Pa.; David Lloyd, who is at home with his parents; and Mary Mabel, also at home. Mr. Bohner and his family are members of the United Evangelical Church at Uniontown, in which he has been a very prominent worker, having served as class leader, exhorter, trustee, and steward for a number of years. He was a delegate to the annual conference which met at Easton, Pa. He is an independent voter on political questions, and though not active ordinarily in public matters has served as school director. (IV) JOHN R. BOHNER, son of Peter, was born on the homestead farm in Jackson township May 14, 1854. He began his education in the old subscription schools, and then for four winters attended the free schools. He was reared to farming, and in 1881 began operating the home place, which came into his name in 1902. He continued to cultivate it successfully until 1907, when he retired from its active care, his sons succeeding him. Mr. Bohner has been quite active in the local civil administration, having served as auditor, supervisor and school director; he held the latter office six years, refusing a renomination. In political opinion he is a Democrat. He has also been active in St. Peter's Church, of which he was a Reformed member, serving as deacon for three years and as trustee nine years. On Dec. 1, 1882, Mr. Bohner married Alice Tyson, daughter of Jesse and Lydia (Greisher) Tyson, the former of whom was a soldier in the Civil war and disappeared after that struggle. Mrs. Bohner died Dec. 1, 1894, on the twelfth anniversary of her marriage, at the age of thirty- four years, six months. She was the mother of six children, two of whom died in infancy, the others being: Elijah married Amelia Lahr and they live with his father; Mary married Benjamin Neihart and lives at Trevorton, Pa.; Lydia married Henry Foster Rhoads and they live with her father; Jesiah is unmarried. (IV) WILLIAM S. BOHNER, youngest son of Peter, was born May 1, 1865, at Mahanoy, and spent his early years at farm work. When sixteen years old, in 1881, he went to learn the carpenter's trade, which he followed for fifteen years in his native district and at Shamokin, where he worked some years. He lived at Shamokin for three years during this period, and in that time built two houses which he sold. He was engaged at his trade four years as foreman. Beginning farming at Mahanoy he cultivated what is locally known at the "Bunker Hill" farm for thirteen years. On Feb. 22, 1904, he came to Lower Augusta township, where he bought what was known as the James Caldren farm, consisting of 104 acres, where he has since lived and farmed. He has prospered, and has made a number of improvements on the place, which shows many evidences of his enterprise and thrift. On Sept. 17, 1887, Mr. Bohner married, at Mahanoy, Lillie L. Bohner, daughter of Michael D. Bohner, of what was then Jackson (now Lower Mahanoy) township. Five children have been born to this union: Hannah M. married George Starr and lives at Herndon; Ida I., Lillie Agnes, Nora E. and Stella May are at home. Mr. Bohner and his family attend the Methodist Church, but he is not sectarian on religious questions. JEREMIAH PEIFER, a venerable farmer of Jordan township, located at Hebe, belongs to a family which was identified with Berks county in the early days of the State, and the branch in which we are interested has been established in Northumberland county for several generations. There was a Michael Peiffer who died in Greenwich township, Berks county, early in March, 1807, his "beloved wife Elizabeth" and son John being the executors of his will, which was made Nov. 17, 1806. It is recorded in Will Book IV, page 413. His children were: John, Michael, Daniel, Christiana and Elizabeth. It is supposed the son John was the pioneer in this region, founding the Peifer family now so numerously and credit- END OF PAGE 680 ably represented in Jordan township and vicinity. John Peifer (or Peiffer) was born in Berks county; and came from Greenwich or Marion township to what was then Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, in 1815, acquiring ownership of four hundred acres of land in the territory now embraced in Jackson township. He is buried at the Mahanoy (St. Peter's) Church. His children were: John, who settled in Lower Mahanoy township; Peter, who had no children; Michael who is mentioned below.; Henry, who is mentioned below; and Philip, who left this county, though his location is not known. Michael Peifer, son of John, was born in Berks county, and passed the greater part of his life in Northumberland county, where he died at the, age of seventy-six years. He is buried at Zartman's United Evangelical Church. A farmer by occupation, he began for himself near Herndon, in Jackson. township, where he lived for some years, after which he bought the property now owned by Daniel Brower, cultivating this land until his death. His wife Barbara also died on this farm. She was a daughter of Michael Bordner, of Berrysburg, in the Lykens Valley, and was Michael Peifer's second wife. By his first marriage he was the father of eleven children: Isaac, Benjamin, Daniel, Lydia, Sally, Harriet, Polly, and four who died young. To the second union were born five; Jeremiah; Elias, deceased; Henry, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Lovina, wife of Jacob Heim, of Swabian Valley; and Eliza, widow of Israel Carl, now living in Tower City, Pennsylvania. Jeremiah Peifer was born May 9, 1836, in Jackson township, on the farm now owned by the widow of Galen Smith, one time county treasurer. He was reared on the farm now owned by Daniel Brower, and became accustomed to farm work from big early boyhood, working for his parents until he reached the age of twenty-two years. His educational advantages were limited, for instead of attending school in the winter, as many of the boys who had to help with the work in summer did, he assisted with the threshing, which was then accomplished by riding the horses over the grain spread on the barn floor. After leaving home he hired out to do farm work for several years, and for three years devoted himself exclusively to his trade, that of carpenter. After his marriage he came to his present location at Hebe, purchasing the Solomon Schmeltz homestead, which contains forty acres of cleared land and ten acres of woodland. This is a most desirable property, and practically all the improvements have been made during Mr. Peifer's ownership, he having erected all the buildings. He is a substantial and useful citizen, highly esteemed by his neighbors, and he and his family are members of Troutman's United Evangelical Church at Uniontown (Pillow). In political belief he is a Republican. In 1872 Mr. Peifer married Ellemina Troutman, daughter of John and Harriet (Lesher) Troutman, and they have had three children: Lillie Jane married Irwin Bowman and they live at Hebe; Lizzie Alice married James Schlegel and their home is in Jordan township; John married Blanche Bush and they live with his father (they have one child, Fred). Henry Peifer, son of John, was born about 1806 in either Greenwich or Marion township, Berks county. When he was nine years old his parents moved to what is now Jackson township, and there he grew up, being trained to farming from early boyhood. After his father's death the homestead came into his possession, and he was a well known and much respected man in his locality. He had received a good German education and wrote German well. He was a prominent member of the Reformed congregation of Mahanoy (St. Peter's) Church, also known locally as Krebs Church, and held the office of elder for many years. On political questions he was a Republican. To him and his wife Sallie (Zartman), daughter of John Zartman, were born the following children: Sarah married George Witmer; Elias died at Berrysburg, Pa.; Polly married Jacob Still and they purchased part of the Peifer homestead, on which they lived; Peggy married Jacob Witmer and they moved to Iowa, where they died; Isaac lives at Milton, Iowa, a retired farmer; Benjamin is mentioned below; Mary died unmarried; Henry lives at Dalmatia, Northumberland county (he has a family of seventeen children); Catharine; Daniel is a resident of Jackson township. Benjamin Peifer, son of Henry, received his education in the subscription, schools which were the only local institutions of learning during his boyhood. In 1880 he began farming for himself as a tenant in Lower Mahanoy township, living there three years and thence moving to Jackson township. In the spring of 1887 he settled on the homestead, where he farmed for the next twenty years, and he has since rented the place to his son George. He bought the property in the fall of 1886, and found it a valuable holding. It consists of about two hundred acres of good land. In the spring of 1908 Mr. Peifer bought a nice home at Mandata to which he moved with his family, and he is now living retired from arduous labor, enjoying the rewards of his long years of activity. Though he always devoted himself for the most part to his work he found time for useful citizenship, serving five years as school director in Jackson township, and for a number of years he has been prominent as a member and official in the United Evangelical Church at Mandata called END OF PAGE 681 Peifer's Church, to which his family also belong. His father, Henry Peifer, gave the ground upon which the church stands, and also the lumber to build it. Benjamin Peifer is still serving as steward of this church, which office he has held for a number of years. Politically he is a Republican. Mr. Peifer married Hettie Wolf, daughter of Jacob and Eve (Engel) Wolf, and she died at the age of twenty two years, leaving one child, William, who now lives at Williamstown, Pa. On Dec. 26, 1874, Mr. Peifer married (second) Mary Jane Stepp, daughter of Bastian and Elizabeth (Maxwell) Stepp, of Lower Mahanoy township and granddaughter of John and Rebecca (Bordner) Stepp and (maternally) of Thomas Maxwell a native of England. Mr. and Mrs. Peifer have five sons and two daughters: Charles, married to Annie Gordon; George, married to Ida Shiffer; Jennie, married to William Michael; John; Harvey; Carrie, and Ammon. Daniel Peifer, son of Henry, is a farmer of Jackson township, where he was born on the homestead July 2, 1850. He first attended the subscription schools, later the free schools, having the advantages of two terms in the free schools in Lower Mahanoy township. Farm work has always been his vocation. In 1876 he began for himself on the homestead in Jackson township, where he continued for eleven years, in 1887 moving upon his present farm, which was the John Carl homestead. The tract contains thirty-three acres lying between Herndon, Mandata and Mahanoy, and John Carl conducted a store here for many years. Mr. Peifer is a Republican, for four years was school director of the township, and for a number of years has been active in the work of Peifer's United Evangelical Church, of which he has been a useful member. He has served as trustee and steward, and since 1902 as exhorter. His family also belong to that church. On Jan. 20, 1877, Mr. Peifer married Abbie E. Snyder, of Vera Cruz, daughter of the late David Snyder (whose wife was a Lebo), and they have had three children: Laura, who married Frank Bohner, of Sunbury, Pa.; Harry L., and Eugene D. There was a John Peifer who came from Berks county to Northumberland in his early manhood, settling near Mandata, in Jackson township, where he farmed for some years before moving to Little Mahanoy, where he was a tenant on the farm now owned by his grandson, George C. Peifer. He was born Feb. 27, 1784, and died Sept. 17, 1859, and is buried at Little Mahanoy Church. His wife, Elizabeth (Miller), born Sept. 26, 1786, died April 6, 1855. Their children were: Jonas, who died at Trevorton; George; Peter, who died at Little Mahanoy; John, who died in Iowa; Elias; Benjamin, who died at Trevorton; Sallie, Mrs. Ferster; Molly, Mrs. Jerre Wetzel; Peggy, who died unmarried; and Betsy, Mrs. James Wetzel. George Peifer, son of John, was born Dec. 12, 1812, in Jackson township, and died June 22, 1894, in Little Mahanoy township, aged eighty-one years, six months, eleven days. He had moved to that township with his parents when a young man, married there and followed farming all his life, becoming prosperous through the exercise of industry and thrift. He owned the farm now belonging to his son George C., and also had a tract of seventy-five acres in the Mahantango Valley, in Mahantango township, Schuylkill county, the old homestead of Sebastian Zimmerman, his father-in-law. Though busily engaged in looking after his own affairs he found time to serve the community, holding the offices of supervisor and treasurer of his township, and he was a deacon for many years of the Little Mahanoy Church, where be belonged to the Reformed Congregation. His wife, Catharine, was a Lutheran member of that church, and they are buried there. She was born March 1, 1819, daughter of Sebastian and Elizabeth (Klock) Zimmerman, and died Aug. 26, 1905, at the advanced age of eighty-six. The children of this union were as follows: Hettie, born in 1840, married Simon Dunkelberger; Catharine, born in 1842, married J. D. Reitz; Peter is a resident of Sunbury; Sarah married Daniel Reitz; Lovina married Isaac Swinehart; Lenah married D. M. Zartman; George C. is mentioned below; Harriet married William Hetrich; Benjamin lives in Little Mahanoy; Lizzie married Edwin Hetrich, brother of William; Tilila married Benjamin Shaffer; Miranda married William Reitz. George C. Peifer, a farmer on the south side of the Mahanoy creek, in Little Mahanoy township, was born in that township March 1, 1851, and has lived at his present home since 1854. The only schools in the neighborhood were then subscription schools, and he enjoyed the advantages they afforded. Working for his father until he reached the age of twenty-eight years, he subsequently farmed the place on shares until 1894, when he began cultivating it for himself and he has done very well. The property contains 105 acres of good level land, all on the south side of the creek. This farm belonged to one Miller, later to a Herb, afterward to Jacob Rein, from whom George Miller purchased it in 1848, since which time it has remained in the Peifer name. The present set of buildings were constructed by the Peifers, the barn being built by George Peifer in 1855. In 1854 he built a substantial brick house, which was destroyed by lightning July 17, 1902, the present owner rebuilding the same year. Mr. Peifer has taken some part in local public affairs, having served as supervisor and treasurer of his township. On Nov. 5, 1879; he married Mary J. Zartman, END OF PAGE 682 daughter of Abraham Zartman, and they became the parents of eight children: Stella, wife of Elsworth Leader; Amanda, Mrs. H. H. Hoffman; Irwin, who married Ada Deppen; Emma, Mrs. Elias E. Peifer; Agnes, who died aged ten years; Landis, who died aged three years; Daniel and Calvin. Mr. Peifer and his family are Reformed members of the Little Mahanoy Church. He is a Democrat on political questions. Elias Peifer, another son of John and Elizabeth (Miller) Peifer, was born July 20, 1820, in Little Mahanoy township, where he died March 15, 1905. He was a farmer, living at what is now the home of his son Joseph R. Peifer, and on that property he built the present barn in about 1850 and the house in 1860. This farm, which was formerly the Michael Wagner place, contains forty-eight acres of cleared land. Mr. Peifer was a Democrat and served some years as township supervisor. He married Molly Raker, who was born July 11, 1819, daughter of Conrad Raker, and died Jan. 13, 1883, and seven children were born to them, two dying in infancy. The others were: Harriet married Henry Dunkelberger; Isaac is a resident of Sunbury; Lucinda married Albert Faswold; Alice married Wash, Zimmerman; Joseph R. is a resident of Little Mahanoy township. Mr. Peifer and his family were Lutherans, holding membership in the church at Little Mahanoy, where they are buried. EDWARD CLAYBERGER, of Lower Augusta township, has been engaged in farming there since 1906, having returned to the vocation of his early life after many years spent in mining. He was born June 4, 1855, at Aristes (Montana), near Centralia, Pa., son of Adam Clayberger. Adam Clayberger was born Oct. 8, 1817, in Hamburg, Germany, and was twelve years old when he came to America, landing at Baltimore, Md. He lived with a Myers family, at York, Pa., to which place he had proceeded from Baltimore, and there he married the daughter, Juliann Myers, who came to America with her parents when thirteen years old. Their first child, William, was born at York. Thence the family moved to Bainbridge, Pa., where they lived for some years, next moving to a place called Stewardsville; near Mount Carmel, Northumberland county, where Mr. Clayberger found work driving a team. He was engaged on the construction of Bell's tunnel. After driving for several years he moved to Aristes (Montana), near Centralia, where he was engaged in contracting for a year, on the building of a railroad from Centralia to Mount Carmel, and he then bought a farm at Roaring Creek, in Columbia county, where he passed the remainder of his days. By trade he was a butcher, and he followed the business for some years in his later life. His farm originally consisted of sixty-three acres, to which he added as prosperity enabled him. He died there July 18, 1890, aged seventy-two years, nine months, ten days, and is buried at the United Brethren Church at Rhodestown, Columbia Co., Pa., where his wife is also interred. He was a member of the United Brethren denomination and active in church life. Mrs. Clayberger died July 16, 1883, aged sixty- seven years, eleven months. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Clayberger: William, a carpenter, who lives at Renovo Pa.; Charles, of Allentown, Pa.; Samuel, of Shamokin, Pa.; Benjamin, of Lumberton, N. J.; Sarah, Mrs. Benjamin Tyson; Edward; Hannah, who has never married and lives with her brother Charles; and Adam and Isaac, both deceased. Edward Clayberger was reared on the farm and lived them until he reached the age of twenty-five years. At that time he began working in the coal mines at Shamokin; and for thirty-two years continued at that work, throughout this time making his home in the borough of Shamokin. In June, 1906, he purchased his present farm in Lower Augusta township, consisting of 117 acres, which was the original Shipman homestead and remained in that family for over one hundred years. John Elsworth Shipman was the last of his family to possess it. With the assistance of his son, Mr. Clayberger has made many improvements on the property since it came into his possession, and in the spring of 1910 he built the present barn. He markets his truck and produce at Shamokin and he has made a decided success of his work in spite of the fact that he had not engaged in farming for so many years. Enterprising and progressive, he has become one of the valuable citizens of his community during his comparatively brief residence there. On. Aug. 23, 1878, Mr. Clayberger married Alice S. Pressler, daughter of Cyrus and Annie S. (Heiser) Pressler, of Snyder county, where Mr. Pressler still lives. Mr. and Mrs. Clayberger have had children as follows: Harry W., now of Oakland, Cal., who is married to Alice Garbet; John F., of Philadelphia, who married Marie Straley; Florence M., who married Francis M. Ney and lives in Shamokin, Pa.; Ralph H.; Howard O.; Maud B.; Edward D.; Chester E., and Cyrus F. Mr. Clayberger and his family attend the United Brethren Church. RICHARD GLASS, late of Shamokin, was engaged in the hotel business at No. 727 East Commerce street, in that borough, for several years before his death. He was formerly a successful mine contractor, having followed mining for about thirty years. He served as councilman from the Seventh ward and at the time of his death held the office of jury commissioner of Northumberland County. END OF PAGE 683 Mr. Glass was born in 1866 in Coal township, this county, son of Samuel Glass. His father was a native of County Meath, Ireland, born in 1838, and came to America when nineteen years old, settling in Shamokin, Pa., where he made a permanent home. He worked as a miner, in the employ of the late Thomas Baumgardner, being thus engaged for thirty years, and was known to all as an industrious, upright citizen. He died April 4, 1902, and is buried at Shamokin. Samuel Glass married Maria Richards, a native of Wales, who came to America in girlhood. She now makes her home with her grandson, Samuel in Shamokin. To Mr. and Mrs. Glass were born children as follows: John (deceased), Richard, Samuel, Reese, William, John H. (county detective of Northumberland county) and George. Richard Glass received all his education in the public schools of Coal township. He was only a boy when he began work, picking slate at the Baumgardner breaker, and in time he became a full-fledged miner and eventually a contractor, employing from six to eight men. In June, 1906, he engaged in the hotel business, to which he gave all his attention, finding the new line both congenial and profitable. In his death, which occurred April 2, 1911, Shamokin lost a valuable and worthy citizen. He was buried in the Shamokin cemetery. Mr. Glass had many friends in Shamokin, both in business circles and in public life, and he was a well known member of the I.O.O.F. (belonging to Lodge No. 664), the F.O.E. (Aerie No. 534) and the Liberty Hose Company. He was an active worker in the local Republican ranks, and in 1906 was elected councilman from the Seventh ward, for a term of four years. In June, 1909, he was elected jury commissioner of the county, winning in the contest by a majority of one over his opponent, J. O. Moore, who formerly held the office. Mr. Glass married Martha J. McKelvey, daughter of William McKelvey, and they had one son, Samuel. The family are Episcopalians. SAMUEL GLASS, son of Richard, born in Shamokin Nov. 15, 1888, is a machinist by trade, but since the death of his father has taken the hotel business. He was appointed jury commissioner by Judge C. B. Savidge, to succeed his father. Mr. Glass married Mary Durkin, daughter of Bryan Durkin, and they have one son, Richard. HARVEY ALBERT TROUTMAN, who has recently removed to Sunbury, was a farmer before taking up his residence there. He was born Nov. 9, 1872, at Seven Points, Northumberland county, son of Isaac Troutman and grandson of John Troutman. Jacob Troutman, his great-grandfather, the known progenitor of many of the name now residing in Northumberland county, owned and lived upon a farm in Jordan township, near Uniontown, the property now owned by Phoebe Troutman, one of his granddaughters; the place now comprises eighty acres. He is interred in the Uniontown cemetery, the burial place of many Troutmans. He and his wife Magdalena (Brosius) were the parents of the following children: John; Polly, Mrs. John Lesher; Moses; Mrs. Nathan Brower; Peter; Samuel; and Eve, Mrs. Isaac Wolf. John Troutman, son of Jacob, was born June 10, 1817, in Jordan township, near Uniontown, and was a lifelong farmer and one of the most prosperous men in his section, of which he was a leading citizen for many years of his long life. Besides his home place of 132 acres he owned six farms: The one now owned by his son George L., another which his son Simon obtained, one given to his daughter Mrs. Jeremiah Peifer, another owned by his son Adam L., another owned by his son Henry, and another by Joel Kreitzer, son of his daughter Mary. Mr. Troutman was active in church work, the founder and leading member of Troutman's United Evangelical Church, so named in his honor. He built the meeting house of that congregation at Uniontown, was always a liberal contributor to the church and one of its pillars to the end of his life. Mr. Troutman served some years as treasurer of his township. He died upon his farm about 1900, and he is buried with his wife in the family plot in Uniontown cemetery. Mr. Troutman was twice married, his first union being with Sarah Lesher, who was born Dec. 16, 1824. After the death of his first wife he subsequently married her sister, Harriet Lesher. They were daughters of Samuel Lesher, who was from Berks county; Mr. Lesher was a large property owner. Mr. Troutman was the father of a large family, Engeline and Simon by his first wife, and the following by his second: Isaac, Magdalena (who died unmarried), Elmira (wife of Jeremiah Peifer), Henry, John, Moses, Mary (wife of Joel Kreitzer), Amos, Adam L., George L., Johannes, Phoebe, one that died in infancy, Cornelius and another that died in infancy. Isaac Troutman, son of John, was born Sept. 4, 1849, in Jordan township, and was reared on the paternal farm, working for his parents throughout his youth. When about twenty-one years old he began farming for himself in Rockefeller township, at Seven Points, where he located about 1869, from that time for many years living with and working for his father-in-law, Daniel Klinger. Mr. Troutman remained with Mr. Klinger until the latter's death, and he still continues to live on the old place in Rockefeller township. He and his family are Lutheran members of the Cross Road Church, in which he has been active, hav- END OF PAGE 684 ing held the offices of trustee, deacon and elder, in which latter he is still serving. Politically he is a Republican. Mr. Troutman married Mary Ann Klinger, daughter of Daniel and Caroline (Schadel) Klinger, and they have had children as follows: Lizzie married Theodore McKinney and they live at Gratz, Pa.; Harvey Albert married Edna Long; Elmer F. married Adella Bloom; Lillie married Elmer Zimmerman and they live in Rockefeller township; and William died young. Daniel Klinger, father of Mrs. Troutman, was born Nov. 2, 1824, and died Aug. 21, 1898. He married Caroline Schadel who was born May 22, 1827, and after their marriage they came to Rockefeller township from the vicinity of Klingerstown, Schuylkill county, settling on the farm where they passed the remainder of their lives. They are buried in that township, at Emanuel Lutheran Church. Mrs. Klinger died Oct. 22, 1907. Harvey Albert Troutman attended public school at Seven Points, and in his youth assisted his father and maternal grandfather on the home place, where he remained until his marriage, when he was twenty years old. At that time he located upon a farm in Shamokin township belonging to his father, near Seven Points, living there about seventeen years, until his removal to Sunbury, April 1, 1910. Meantime he acquired a farm of his own, a place of seventy-two acres located near Stonington, in Shamokin township, which he rents out. Since settling in Sunbury he has been in the employ of C. H. Brosious & Co., contractors. His home is at No. 133 Catawissa avenue. While a resident of Shamokin township Mr. Troutman served that community as school director. He and his family are members of the Cross Road Church, belonging to the Lutheran congregation, which Mr. Troutman has served as deacon. He is a Republican in politics. On Nov. 24, 1892, Mr. Troutman married Edna Long, daughter of Benjamin C. and Rosanna (Kelly) Long, and they have a family of three children: Benjamin E., Arville J. and Clara Edith. ANDREW J. SCHWALM, a farmer in the southern district of Jordan township, Northumberland county, is well known as one of the most successful agriculturists of his region, as a prominent worker in the local ranks of the Democratic party and as an enthusiastic member of the Odd Fellows fraternity. He is a man of substance and good standing, both of which have been won by his own efforts and a life of consistent integrity. The Schwalm family is an old one in this section, founded here by John Schwalm, one of the Hessian soldiers hired by the British government to fight in the Colonies during the Revolutionary war. He was born May 31, 1752, and came to America with the other mercenaries in 1775. Remaining in this country after the close of the war, he settled in Hubley (originally Mahantango) township, Schuylkill Co., Pa., where he took up a large amount of land and devoted himself to farming. He died there Dec. 24, 1834, aged eighty-two years. His wife Odilla (Bobb) was born in Germany Feb. 16, 1765, came to America with her parents, and died Feb. 24, 1836. She and her husband are buried side by side at Coleman's Church, in Dauphin county, near the Schuylkill county line. They were the parents of one son and two daughters: Catharine married Jacob Hoffa and they are buried at Dushore, Sullivan Co., Pa.; Elizabeth married Alexander Klinger; Frederick was the great-grandfather of Andrew J. Schwalm. Frederick Schwalm, son of John, was born in Schuylkill county May 17, 1796, and died Jan. 6, 1872. The old homestead in Hubley township became his property and he carried on farming there all his life, putting up the original set of log buildings on that place. He is buried at Coleman's Church. He was three times married, having twelve children by his first wife, Catharine (Stein), daughter of Johannes Stein; no children by his second wife, whose maiden name was Zerfink; and three children by his third wife, Harriet (Deiter), Jackson, Lillie and Elizabeth. The children of the first union were: John; Hannah, who married Samuel Schade; Caroline, who married Israel Klinger; Jacob; who lived in Hubley township, where he was supervisor for more than twenty years; Frederick, who was justice of the peace in Upper Mahantango many years (he served in the Union army during the Civil war); Daniel S., who still survives; Emanuel, who served as postmaster at Hegins, Schuylkill county; Samuel, who was a soldier during the Civil war in Company A, 50th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; William; Peter; Louisa, who married Mr. Fagner (they live in Hoopston, Ill.); and Kate, of South Bend, Ind., who married John D. Willard and for her second husband a Mr. Martin. John Schwalm, son of Frederick, was born Dec. 25, 1818, in Mahantango township, was a farmer in Hubley township for some years, and was a prominent man in his day in Schuylkill county, serving two years, 1857 and 1858, as steward of the county almshouse. He was also school director for many years. In religious faith he adhered to the Reformed Church and he is buried in the cemetery of the Church of God in Hegins township. He married Elizabeth Shade, who was born March 12, 1827, in Hubley township, Schuylkill county, daughter or John Shade, and is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Schwalm were the parents of the following named children: Hannah married John Schmeltz; Edward (deceased) married a Miss Lucus; Lydia married (first) Jesse Heint- END OF PAGE 685 zinger and (second) John Ressler; Kate married John F. Barr; Daniel E. is mentioned below; Polly married Elias Artz; Louisa married Harvey Clauser. Daniel E. Schwalm, son of John, was born and reared in Hubley township, Schuylkill county, and is still engaged in farming there, having his father's homestead, a fine farm of 120 acres. He built The dwelling-house on the property, but the barn was built by his father in 1847. Mr. Schwalm has been a useful and active citizen of his township; where he has held various offices, having been tax collector for a number of years and also supervisor. He is a Democrat in politics and has been committeeman of his township. His home is on the line of Schuylkill and Dauphin counties and he is a Reformed member of Coleman's Church in the latter county, his wife belonging to the Reformed congregation of that church, to which the family also belong. Mr. Schwalm has served as deacon and elder. Mr. Schwalm married Fietta Schlegel, daughter of Peter Schlegel (whose wife was a Snyder), and granddaughter of Peter Schlegel, who was born Oct. 12, 1786, came from Berks county, and died Oct. 1, 1864; he is buried at the Herb church. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Schwalm: Andrew J. lives at Klingerstown; Reily died young; Lizzie married J. L. Reitz and is living at Mount Carmel; Charles, who lives at Valley View, married Mattie Stiely; Katie died young; Rufus, who married Flora Adams, is living on the old homestead, at Artz; Harry married Florence Schaffer, and they live at Springville, Schuylkill county. Andrew J. Schwalm was born Oct. 13, 1871, in Hubley township, Schuylkill county, was reared to farm life, and worked on the home place until eighteen years old. For the next five years he worked in coal mines in Dauphin county, at the Williamstown colliery, in Bear Valley, after which he commenced huckstering, at which he was engaged about five years, attending the Pottsville and Minersville markets. On the evening of Sept. 26, 1899, while returning home from market, Mr. Schwalm was held up by three highwaymen on the Shermans mountain road and relieved of $140. He was huckster about two years for F. L. Kehres, of Rebuck, Northumberland county, was later at Girardville and Shenandoah, and in the spring of 1901 came to his present place in Jordan township, Northumberland county, settling there March 20th. He has 136 acres of fine land located on the road leading from Klingerstown to Urban, Hebe and Pillow. This farm was formerly the William Shartle homestead and was for many years a hotel stand, "Shartle's Hotel" being well known; Mr. Shartle built the large brick house which is 40 by 40 feet in dimensions, in 1867. Mr. Schwalm is a well known citizen of his section, has been township constable since 1905, and has long been interested in local political activities as an ardent member of the Democratic party. During his residence in Schuylkill county he was delegate to county convention, served as delegate to the county convention of 1906, in 1907 was a delegate to the State convention, and was a delegate to the last convention held in Northumberland county. Mr. Schwalm holds membership in Lodge No. 637, I.O.O.F., at Klingerstown, was representative to the meeting of the Grand Lodge held at Reading in May, 1907, and again served in that capacity in 1908, when the grand lodge convened at Philadelphia. He and his family are members of the Himmel Church at Rebuck, Mr. Schwalm belonging to the Lutheran congregation, his wife to the Reformed congregation. He served as deacon of the Coleman Church. On July 16,1898, Mr. Schwalm married Rosa Kehres, daughter of N. E. and Catharine (Hoffman) Kehres, of Rebuck, and four children have been born to this union: Katie A., born Aug. 25, 1899, in Washington township; Florence May, born Sept. 2, 1901, in Washington township; Lizzie F., born April 4, 1903, in Jordan township; and Nathan D., born July 16, 1906, in Jordan. On July 30, 1910, the first reunion of the Schwalm family was held at Valley View, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and it was a great success, about five hundred attending. Mr. Andrew J. Schwalm, who was present with his family, was elected one of the historians of the association. The second gathering was held the second Saturday in August 1911, at Valley View Park. Andrew J. Swalm, who lives at Sunbury, this county, was born Sept. 22, 1850, at Schuylkill Haven, Pa., son of Joseph M. Swalm and grandson of Andrew Swalm. Joseph M. Swalm was born at Orwigsburg, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and died at Philadelphia at the age of seventy-three years. For about twenty years he was engaged in business as a retail grocer in Philadelphia. In. earlier life he was a wheel-wright and carriage builder and lived in Schuylkill county. He was buried at Orwigsburg. In religion he was a Methodist. His wife, Angeline (Allebach), daughter of Jacob Allebach, of Middleport, Schuylkill county, still lives in Philadelphia, now (1910) eighty-four years old. They had children as follows: One son that died in infancy; Andrew J.; Charles, of Philadelphia; Hannah, who married M. Plish and lives at Holley, N. Y.; Sallie, who died in Wyoming, wife of Robert Harper; Mary, married to Thomas J. Andress, and living in Philadelphia; Ella, who died aged thirty years; and Mabel, who died aged twenty-five years. Andrew J. Swalm was educated in the public END OF PAGE 686 schools of his native town. When twelve years old he began clerking in the store and has ever since been in the grocery business. He was in business at Hazleton, Pa., for fifteen years. In 1887 he first associated himself with the Hooven Mercantile Company (which has stores in nine cities of eastern Pennsylvania), at Hazleton, remaining there about two years in that association. He then left them for three years, and since 1892 has been their manager at Sunbury, Pa., where they have a large wholesale trade. He has supervision of ten people. Mr. Swalm is owner and manager of the Sunbury Peanut Company; which does an extensive business in this part of the State, the peanut butter manufactured by this concern being known for its rich quality. Mr. Swalm is a member of the Methodist Church of Sunbury, of which he has been a trustee for a number of years. He was married Sept. 16, 1876 to Martha A. Garrett, daughter of William and Mary Garrett, of Pottsville. She died April 1, 1906, aged fifty-three years, and is buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. To Mr. and Mrs. Swalm were born these children: Gertrude L., who is now engaged as a stenographer and resides at home; Florence M., a public school teacher, who has taught ten terms in the public schools of Sunbury; and Marrion K., wife of E. K. Burlew, a government employee, residing at Washington D. C. Mr. Swalm resides at No. 1113 Market street, Sunbury. LANDIS FRY, of Sunbury, was the pioneer in the bakery business at that place, and is still engaged in that line, being now the oldest dealer in bakery goods there. He also conducts a grocery and notion store, and for over thirty years has been one of the thriving merchants of the borough, one who has taken his part in the public administration and done his duty in every capacity. He was born in Sunbury Sept. 11, 1843 and has passed all his life there. The Fry family came to Northumberland county from Berks county, this State, Jacob Fry, the grandfather of Landis Fry, hailing from the vicinity of Womelsdorf, where he was born about 1785. He came to Northumberland county before his marriage, and owned a farm on the Shamokin road, in Upper Augusta township, his old home stead being now the property of Lot Bartholomew. His grandson Landis Fry has a set of horns taken from a deer Jacob Fry shot on this farm. He was a carpenter as well as farmer. His death, which occurred in 1856, when he was about seventy years old, was the result of an accident; he was in a boat which went over the breast of the Shamokin dam and he struck his head on a rock. He is buried in an unmarked grave in the old Sunbury cemetery. Jacob Fry married a Miss Camp, who was also from the vicinity of Womelsdorf, in Berks county, and who died about 1847. They had children as follows: John, Jonas, Jacob, Henry, Mrs. Samuel Savage and Mrs. Silas Wolverton. Jacob Fry, son of Jacob, was born in 1817 in Northumberland county and was a farmer by occupation. In 1854 he moved to the borough of Sunbury, settling along the Susquehanna river, where in those days considerable fishing was done, the sport being then at its best in this region. He served as tax collector of Upper Augusta township. Mr. Fry died in 1859, below Shamokin Dam, at the age of forty-two years. He married Louisa Bowen, daughter of Jonathan and Catharine (Ermentrout) Bowen, who came from near Womelsdorf, Berks county, and they had the following family: Samuel, who died in childhood; William, who entered the Union service in the Civil war and died of starvation in the spring of 1865 at Salisbury, S. C., where he was a prisoner; David, who died in 1894; Landis; Harriet, who married Daniel Ulman and lived out West (both are deceased); Mary C., born in 1852, who died in 1866. Landis Fry attended school in Sunbury. In 1865 he began driving a bakery wagon, and in 1874 entered into partnership with his brother David in the bakery business, this association lasting four and a half years, since when Landis Fry has done business on his own account. He put up his present store building in 1879, and has the oldest bakery in the borough, as well as a well established grocery and notion business. He has three employees. Mr. Fry has gained and retained the patronage of a large number of his neighbors and fellow citizens by honest dealing, satisfactory goods and upright business methods, and he deserves the substantial rewards which have been his portion. He has the confidence of all who know him, as was shown by his election as member of the town council, in which he served three years, during which time he was instrumental in having Market street paved. He is a Republican in political affiliation. In 1866 Mr. Fry married Anna Statia Hayes, daughter of James and Sarah Ann (Harmon) Hayes, of Lewis township, Northumberland county, and they have had a family of eight children: William J., who lives in Sunbury; Edward, deceased; Joseph, at home; Howard, of Sunbury; Landis, of Sunbury; Chester, a baker, who lives at home; Walter H., who assists his father; and Morris, deceased. Walter H. Fry, who was born in Sunbury March 16, 1879, is a member of Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A.M., of Sunbury. SAMUEL BRADY (deceased) passed his latter years in retirement at Shamokin, where his widow now makes her home. He was a lifelong resident of Northumberland county, and followed farming END OF PAGE 687 near Elysburg, in Ralpho township, the principal part of his active life. Mr. Brady was born near Elysburg in 1847, son of Abraham Brady, who was a farmer and well known citizen of that locality. He died upon his farm in 1889. His children were: Katie, wife of George Leibig; Clara, Mrs. Yoder; Josephine, living at Bloomsburg, Pa.; Frain, living at Tharptown, Pa.; Samuel, deceased; Oliver, living near Elysburg; and George, of Tharptown. Samuel Brady attended the public schools, but he was a mere boy when he began work at the breaker. Later he followed railroading for several years. He began farming in Ralpho township, continuing that occupation throughout his active years, but always had his residence in Shamokin. By thrift and industry he made a success of his work, in which he acquired a competence. Sometime before his death he lived in retirement dying at Shamokin June 8, 1907. He is buried in the Odd Fellows cemetery at Shamokin. Mr. Brady was a Lutheran in religions connection, and a man who deserved the respect in which he was held by all who knew him. On Aug. 15, 1874, Mr. Brady married Sarah Lints, daughter of Daniel Lints, of Northumberland county, and she still resides at their Shamokin home. Four children were born to Mr. and Mr. Brady: Samuel, who is employed as a fireman at the Henry Clay colliery, married Miranda Dillaplain, and they have had six children, Jennie, Eva, Beatrice, Bertha, Gladys and Florence; Oliver died in infancy; Minnie died aged two years; Jennie is the wife of Irvin Kissler of Shamokin, in Northumberland county, and they have one child, Mildred. LEMUEL C. ROCKEFELLER was born Nov. 8, 1848, son of Lewis and Catherine (Campbell) Rockefeller. His boyhood was spent upon his father's farm and his first venture for himself was in the bottling business at Sunbury, Pa., where he remained for some time. He removed in 1890 to Gallitzin, twelve miles west of Altoona, Pa., where he engaged in the wholesale liquor business. He remained there about twelve years and was most successful in this undertaking. While located there, in May, 1901, he was elected justice of the peace of the borough of Gallitzin, on the Republican ticket, in spite of the fact that the town was strongly Democratic. He later moved to Wilmerding, near Pittsburgh, Pa., where he engaged in the wholesale liquor trade, also the electric light business and ice manufacturing, following this business for eight years. In 1909 he moved to Sunbury, and started the erection of a home at the corner of Amy and Front streets, but his death, Oct. 18, 1909, occurred before it was completed. He was an able and honorable business man, and was successful in all his enterprises. He was an active member of the hoard of trade while residing at Wilmerding. On Dec. 22, 1886, Mr. Rockefeller married Harriet R., daughter of Oliver and Elizabeth (Gibson) McClow, of Sunbury, Pa. They had three children: Catherine, who graduated from the Bingham School for Girls, in the class of 1907; Mary E., who graduated from the same school in 1910; and Margaret M., who graduated from the same in 1911. Mrs. Rockefeller and her daughters are members of the Episcopal Church of Sunbury. Mr. Rockefeller was a stanch Republican. Fraternally he was a member of the I.O.O.F. and the Order of Moose. Mrs. Rockefeller is descended from Cornelius McClow, who came to America before the Revolutionary war and settled in Northumberland County, Pa., in the district now embraced in Ralpho township, near Elysburg. He died March 20, 1812, and he and his wife Elizabeth (Brower) are buried at the Quaker cemetery in Ralpho township. Cornelius McClow was Scotch-Irish. Among the children of Cornelius and Elizabeth (Brower) McClow was Joseph McClow, Mrs. Rockefeller's great-grandfather, who was born Feb. 6, 1789, and died March 21, 1828. He followed farming near Elysburg. His wife, Mary (Campbell), long survived him, dying Dec. 28, 1865, and they were the parents of eight children: John, Benjamin, William, Daniel, Sarah, Margaret, Jessie and Levi. Benjamin McClow, son of Joseph, was born June 25, 1812, near Elysburg, and was brought up in that vicinity. He was a carpenter by trade. Going to Shamokin in 1835 when the borough was in its infancy, he followed his trade there for a year, later running a sawmill near that place, on Coal run. In the spring of 1838 he built the fourth house in Shamokin, at what is now the corner of Pearl and Commerce streets, bringing his family hither in June of that year. He died Dec. 22, 1897, at the advanced age of eighty-five. Mr. McClow married Rebecca Taylor, daughter of Daniel Taylor, of Shamokin township, and they became the parents of six children: Oliver, the father of Mrs. Lemuel C. Rockefeller, now living at Frederick, Md.; David, who died in Shamokin; Harriet Mrs. John Lake, of Shamokin; Joseph, of Shamokin; Robert, of Shamokin; and Adelia, Mrs. John Cooney.