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	GEARHART.  The Gearharts have been numerous and prominent in 
Northumberland county since shortly after the close of the Revolutionary 
war, and one township of the county has been named in their honor.  Two 
brothers, Jacob and William Gearhart, came to Northumberland county 
about 1790, the former settling in what is now Gearhart township, the 
latter in Rush township. As we are principally concerned with the 
posterity of Jacob Gearhart in this article, we give his record first.
	Jacob Gearhart was born in 1735 in Strasburg, then a city of 
France, now belonging to Germany, and came to the New World when a young 
man, landing at New York in 1754.  He soon crossed over into Hunterdon 
county, N. J., where he made his home for many years.  When the 
Revolution broke out he was among he first to offer his services to his 
adopted country, enlisting in 1775, in the Hunterdon county volunteers, 
with which he served as a private. A man of brave and fearless spirit, 
he was soon promoted to ensign and later to captain, and stood so high 
in the confidence of his superior officers that he was one of the two 
New Jersey men chosen by Washington to take charge of the crossing of 
the Delaware on the eventful night of Dec. 25, 1776, when the Hessian 
camp at Trenton was attacked. The other was Captain Van Tenyck. After 
the crossing had been effected the boats were placed in their charge, 
with orders to destroy them, should the expedition prove a failure.  
Captain Gearhart also took part in the battle of the Brandywine and 
spent the hard winter of 1777-78 with Washington at Valley Forge. At the 
close of the war he returned to his old home in Hunterdon county, N. J., 
but a few years later he joined the tide of emigration which took many 
westward from New Jersey into Pennsylvania and from the eastern counties 
of Pennsylvania farther out. Between 1785 and 1795 many families from 
that region settled in what are now Rush and Gearhart  townships, 
Northumberland  county, among them those of Capt. Jacob Gearhart and his 
brother William.  In 1790 the Captain and his family left Hunterdon 
county by wagon train. Late one afternoon they came to a deserted Indian 
hut close by a fine spring, on the farm now owned by Mrs. I. H. 
Torrence, a great-granddaughter of the Captain, and decided to camp for 
the night. When the land was examined in the morning it was found to be 
fertile, and the water was so abundant and of such good quality that the 
old warrior determined to found his home at that site.  He purchased 
land along the Susquehanna from Kipp's run to Boyd's run, one mile back 
from the river, all of it at that time a dense forest. With the aid of 
his sons he began to clear and till the land, and after clearing a 
portion on a small bluff overlooking the beautiful Susquehanna he 
erected a small frame house which is still standing, though more than a 
hundred years old.  It is still owned by his descendants. He set out an 
orchard which was completely destroyed by a hailstorm in 1846. In 1813, 
after an active life of seventy-eight years, Captain Gearhart died, and 
his wife, Catherine Kline, survived him a few years. They had a family 
of eleven children, namely:  Jacob, born in 1763, died in 1841; Hermon, 
born in 1765, died in 1835; George is mentioned below; William, born in 
1776, died in 1854; Charles, born in 1783, died in 1863; John, born in 
1788, died in 1858; Isaac; Benjamin; Elizabeth; Mary; and Catharine.
	Jacob Gearhart, son of Capt. Jacob and Catharine (Kline) Gearhart, 
was a farmer by occupation. He possessed intelligence and ability beyond 
the ordinary and had more than an average education for his day.  On 
Jan. 10, 1814, he was appointed associate judge of Northumberland 
county, which position he held until his resignation in 1839, after an 
incumbency longer than that of any other judge in the county. In 
politics he was an influential Democrat, and a meeting was once held at 
his house by Simon Cameron, whom Andrew Jackson (then President, had 
requested to secure the influence of Pennsylvania in favor of the 
nomination of Martin Van Buren. Judge Gearhart was a pioneer Methodist, 
and frequently entertained Rev. Francis Asbury, the first bishop of the 
Methodist Church in the United States. He died Aug. 2, 1841, and is 
buried in Mount Vernon cemetery, at Riverside, Pa.  Judge Gearhart 
married Margaret Runkell, of New Jersey, and they were the parents of 
one son, John, born in September, 1789, who married Sophia Brown, born 
June 4, 1797. They had a family of six children, born as follows: Jacob, 
1818; Sarah, Jan. 17, 1821; Margaret, April 22, 1823; Mary B., Sept. 15, 
1825; Henry, Aug. 7, 1829; Jesse B., May 17, 1833.  Of these, Margaret 
married Rev. I. H. Torrence, a prominent Methodist clergyman, now 
deceased.  Mrs. Torrence, who still resides on the homestead, is now 
past eighty-seven years old. She is the mother of three children: Mary 
Virginia married George B. O'Connor and had a daughter Mary F., wife of 
J. Calvin Peifer (they have a son, George Torrence); Sarah Ellen married 
C. M. Kyght, and has a son, Torrence; William is deceased.

	Harmon Gearhart, son of Capt. Jacob and Catharine (Kline) Gearhart, 
married Abigail Bayler, and they resided in the frame house built by his 
father. Much of his land is now included in the borough of Riverside and 
in South Danville. Mr. and Mrs. Gearhart had a family of twelve 
children, as follows:  Mary married Henry Yorks and had children, 
Clinton, Amanda and Ellen (married 
	
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David Unger); George, who removed to Ohio, had two sons and two 
daughters; Margaret married Jonas Wolfe and had children, Donald, 
Gearhart, Wellington and three daughters; Jacob died unmarried; Daniel 
is mentioned more fully below; William died unmarried; Hannah was born 
in 1821; Elizabeth, Ellen, Susan and Kate died unmarried; Peter married 
Celestia Coup and had children, George, Gertrude (married Charles 
Chalfant) and Lillian (married Dr. N. M. Smith).
	Daniel Gearhart, son of Harmon Gearhart, married Sarah Koons, 
daughter of Philip and Hannah (Haas) Koons, both of whom were members of 
old families of Northumberland county.  Mr. and Mrs. Gearhart became the 
parents, of four children, viz.:  Daniel M., who lives in Alabama, 
married and has had children, Joseph, Rush, Sarah and Maggie; Margaret 
married J. W. Philips, of Danville, Pa., and has one daughter, Caddie; 
Sarah married William Sanders; Cadwallader is mentioned presently.

	CADWALLADER W. GEARHART, who is engaged in agricultural pursuits in 
Gearhart township, Northumberland county, was born Sept. 30, 1852, in 
Rush township, this county on the farm adjoining his present home, both 
farms being part of the old Gearhart tract taken up by Capt. Jacob 
Gearhart and his brother William in 1790. He obtained his early 
education in the public schools of his native township, and remained at 
home on the farm until he reached the age of twenty-five years. Going to 
New York State, he became a fireman on the Delaware, Lackawanna & 
Western Railroad, being thus employed two years, after which he was 
promoted to engineer, in which position he continued for three years. 
From New York State he went down to Cedartown, Ga.; where he again found 
work as a railroad engineer, being engaged as such for some years.  In 
1886 he moved from Cedartown to Talladega, Ala., where he was occupied 
in the same capacity until 1892, completing a record of twenty-two years 
in all at railroad work, during all of which time he never received an 
injury nor caused injury to any other person.  In 1892 Mr. Gearhart 
moved his family back to his old home, returning alone to Alabama, where 
he stayed until May, 1899.  Having purchased the Philip Koons property 
in Gearhart township, the old home of his grandfather, he then began the 
raising of truck and small fruits. He has improved the farm in many ways 
since taking possession of the property, and in 1898 built the house 
thereon which he and his wife now occupy, a structure of concrete 
blocks, which he made himself.  He is an intelligent and enterprising 
man in the conduct of his business affairs, which have prospered 
continuously, and his ability has been recognized by his fellow 
citizens, who have chosen him to serve in local positions  of public 
trust.  He has been a school director for over fifteen years and a 
supervisor of roads for some twelve years.  In political connection he 
is a Democrat.
	While in New York State Mr. Gearhart married Martha Doman.  They 
have no children.  Mr. Gearhart is a member of the Methodist Church, 
while Mrs. Gearhart is a member of the Episcopal Church.  Fraternally he 
is a member of Talladega Lodge, F. & A.M.

	George Gearhart son of Capt. Jacob and Catharine (Kline) Gearhart, 
was born in what is now Hunterdon county, N. J., and he became a 
prosperous farmer and landowner. He had a beautiful farm one mile from 
Riverside, along the bank of the Susquehanna river one mile south of the 
bridge, now forming part of South Danville.  It was a present to him 
from his father at his majority and there he lived all his life.  He 
erected many buildings there, and as he prospered purchased more land, 
at his death owning between three hundred and four hundred acres along 
the Susquehanna.  He was twice married, his first wife being Achie 
Runyan, who died when a young woman, the mother of four children: Bonham 
R., Benjamin (who moved out West), Eliza and Rebecca (married Wilson 
Mettler). His second wife was Phoebe Lott, by whom he had three 
children: Achie, George and Harmon.
	Bonham R. Gearhart, M. D., son of George Gearhart, was born March 
18, 1811, on his father's homestead in Rush township, and there received 
his early education, later attending academy at Danville.  He read 
medicine with Dr. Harmon Gearhart, of Bloomsburg, and took a course at 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated. 
For two years Dr. Gearhart practiced in Sunbury and he was subsequently 
in Washingtonville and Turbutville (1839-1814) before settling at 
Danville, where he was in successful practice to the close of his life.  
He was one of the most popular physicians of his day, and his death, 
which occurred May 9, 1855, when he was in his early forties, was widely 
mourned. He died of pneumonia.  Dr. Gearhart married Elizabeth Boyd, 
daughter of William Boyd, of Danville, and granddaughter of William 
Boyd, the founder of the family in America. Mrs. Gearhart survived the 
Doctor many years, living to advanced age. They were the parents of a 
large family, viz. William Boyd married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 
Buttler, and they have had children, Elizabeth Boyd and Mary Alta, the 
former the wife of R. Scott Ammerman and the mother of four children, 
Robert Boyd, William Edgar, Elizabeth Catharine and Dorothy Ada; Achie 
is deceased; George M., who was for many years cashier of the Danville 
National Bank, was born March 18, 1841, on his father's birthday, in the 
same room where his father was born, and married Cordelia Clark, 
daughter of David and Eleanor (Gearhart) Clark, 
	
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their union being blessed by three children, David Clark (who died when 
three years, six months old), Charles Willitts (a graduate of Lehigh 
University) and Eleanor Clark (married Frederick C. Kirkendall and had 
one son, Charles F.); a daughter, twin of George M., died in infancy; 
Bonham R., born May 20, 1843, long connected as cashier and later as 
president with the First National Bank of Danville, married Mary Louise 
Yorks, daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann (West) Yorks, and they had two 
children, Anna M. (who married M. Grier Youngman, cashier of the 
Danville National Bank and has children Mary Louise and John Bonham) and 
Robert Y.; Jasper married (first) Florence Yorks and after her death 
Margaret Thompson, and has one daughter, Emma; James B. died unmarried; 
Alexander Montgomery, born at Danville July 26, 1846, for many years 
station agent at Danville for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railway 
Company, married Martha McCoy, daughter of Robert and Eleanor (Voris) 
McCoy, and they had one daughter, Nell Bonham, who married William L. 
McClure and had three children, Harold Russel, Donald C. and Jasper; M. 
Grier completed the family.

	William Gearhart, son of Capt. Jacob and Catharine (Kline) 
Gearhart, married Sarah, and they had a son John. John Gearhart married 
Martha Martin, and they were the parents of one son, Wilson M., and one 
daughter, Sarah, who married Alfred Sober.
	Wilson M. Gearhart, son of John and Martha (Martin) Gearhart, was 
born Jan. 23, 1846, in Northumberland county, and spent his early life 
on a farm. He received his preliminary education in the country schools, 
later attending the Danville Institute and Dickinson Seminary, at 
Williamsport, Pa., from which latter he was graduated in 1865, having 
completed the classical course. From that time until 1868 he was engaged 
in teaching, was next a bookkeeper until 1872, and then embarked in 
business on his own account, continuing thus until 1875.  That year he 
was elected prothonotary of Montour county, on the Republican ticket 
although the county was strongly Democratic, and his popularity was 
further shown in his subsequent reelection, several times.  Receiving 
the appointment of chief clerk in the State department at Harrisburg, he 
retained that position up to the time of his death, in 1898. He married 
Jane Beaver, daughter of Jesse Beaver, of Danville, and to them were 
born three children: Emeline, who is deceased; J. Beaver, mentioned 
below; and Lois, who married John R. Sharpless, of Hazleton, Pa., and 
has two children, Jane and John R., Jr.

	J. BEAVER GEARHART, D. D. S., only son of Wilson M. and Jane 
(Beaver) Gearhart, was born in Danville, and spent his boyhood days in 
his native city. He was a public school pupil until his graduation from 
the high school, after which he entered the University of Pennsylvania, 
from which he was graduated in 1892. This was followed by a course in 
dentistry, and in 1895 he opened an office in Danville, where he has 
since engaged in practice. He commands a wide patronage in this 
professional work, and personally enjoys unusual popularity.  On April 
2, 1895, he enlisted at Danville in Company F, 12th Regiment, of the 
Pennsylvania National Guard, and served as  a private until July 25, 
1897, when he was appointed sergeant major of the battalion. On April 
26, 1898, he was appointed battalion adjutant, with the rank of second 
lieutenant, and was recommissioned April 28, 1899, with the rank of 
first lieutenant.  On July 31, 1899, he was elected captain of that 
company, which he commanded continuously for about nine years, having 
been unanimously reelected upon the expiration of his first commission, 
in 1904.  He served nearly four years thereafter, when he resigned and 
was placed on the retired list of the National Guard of Pennsylvania.  
During the Spanish-American war Dr. Gearhart served as battalion 
adjutant and regular A.C.S. of the 12th Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, from May 12, 1898, to Oct. 29, 1898.

	Charles Gearhart, son of Capt. Jacob and Catharine (Kline) 
Gearhart, married Sarah Ephland, and their family consisted of two sons 
and one daughter, as follows:  (1) Charles Perry, born Jan. 18, 1818, 
died in December, 18--. He married Agnes Blue, daughter of Isaiah and 
Agnes (Childs) Blue and granddaughter of Michael Blue, a soldier of the 
Revolution. To them were born six children: Arthur Clarence, who died 
unmarried; Amanda, who married S. M. Oberdorf; Edith, who married Philip 
Mettler and had children, Charles G. (a captain in the United States 
army), Agnes (who married John Smith), Edith, Alice, John and Catharine; 
Mary Alice, wife of E. M. Eckman; Gertrude G., wife of G. H. Sonneborn, 
deceased; and Charles P., mentioned later. (2) Samantha married Thomas 
Jamison and they had children: Helen is unmarried; Charles married 
(first) a Miss Lyon, by whom he had three children, Nellie (Mrs. Harry 
Billmeyer, who has one daughter, Martha), Thomas (married Elsie 
Kardisky) and Loue (married V. V. Hidaker), and his second marriage was 
to Elizabeth Laubach; Arthur is deceased; Frank married Alice Richardson 
and had children Mary and Catharine. (3) Arthur and his wife Lucy are 
the parents of four children:  Arthur, unmarried; Anna, unmarried; 
William, who married Lena Herman; and Sarah, who married Samuel 
Detwiller and has children Lucy and Clara. 
	
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	Charles P. Gearhart, son of Charles P. and Agnes (Blue) Gearhart, 
was born in Gearhart township and there received his early education in 
the local schools.  Later he attended Danville Academy under Prof. James 
Kelso, read law with Judge Hinckley, and was admitted to the bar in 
1890, since when he has been engaged in legal practice. In 1905 he was 
elected district attorney of Montour county, Pa., and was reelected to 
that position in 1908.  Politically he is a Democrat. In 1881 Mr. 
Gearhart enlisted in the National Guard of Pennsylvania; in 1887 he was 
elected captain of Company F, 12th Regiment; and in 1897 became major of 
that regiment. He retired from the service in October, 1909, after a 
service of nearly twenty-nine years.

	John Gearhart, son of Capt. Jacob and Catharine (Kline) Gearhart, 
married Anna Cool, of New Jersey.  Their children were: Ann E., Tunis, 
William Cool, Jacob and John. Of these, Ann E. became the wife of Wilson 
Mettler, who was born in 1813, son of Philip and Susan (Carter) Mettler, 
and died Oct. 8, 1900.  To Mr. and Mrs. Mettler were born four children: 
Sarah Elizabeth, Susan M., Spencer and Anna.  Sarah Elizabeth Mettler 
married a Hoffman, and had one daughter, Anna, who married William G. 
Williams; Susan M. Mettler married Hugh Vastine and had children, Wilson 
M., Elizabeth B. and H. Spencer (who married Sarah P. Mettler and has 
had children Pauline and Rachel); Spencer Mettler married Anna Brandon 
and had children, Flora Augusta (who married C. V. Ammerman and had a 
daughter Ruth) and Spencer Wilson (who died young).

	Maclay Cool Gearhart was born Sept. 14, 1828, in Rush township 
(what is now Riverside), Northumberland county, son of William Cool and 
Mary Harris (Awl) Gearhart and a grandson of John Gearhart. He was of 
Scotch-Irish descent, for besides being a scion of the Gearhart family 
was a lineal descendant of John Harris, the founder of Harrisburg, Pa., 
and of William Maclay, one of the first two United States senators from 
Pennsylvania.  He was about two years old when his parents moved to a 
farm near Sunbury (close to what is now Seven Points), and his father 
dying Sept. 15, 1834, a few years afterward he moved with his mother to 
Sunbury. He received his education in the public schools of that place, 
attending at the time the public school building was located on Third 
street, on the present site of the old Masonic hall. At Danville, Pa., 
he served the greater part of his apprenticeship to the tailor's trade, 
which he finished learning with George C. Welker, of Sunbury, serving 
from 1848 to 1851. Afterward he served an apprenticeship and learned the 
confectioner's trade, in Philadelphia, whence he returned to Sunbury, in 
1854, and started the manufacture and sale of confectionery.  His first 
location was in the old Painter building, on Market street, between 
Second and Third streets, and later he moved to a location on the same 
street between Third and Fourth streets, where he had his place of 
business and residence as well.  He continued his establishment until 
1901, when he closed out the business, thereafter living in retirement 
until his death, which occurred Nov. 3, 1903.
	Mr. Gearhart was a prominent citizen of Sunbury for a number of 
years.  For many years he was an influential member of the school board 
of that borough, serving one year as treasurer of the board; was a 
member of the Sunbury town council one term; and served two terms as 
treasurer of the borough.  He was a member of the Presbyterian Church 
from boyhood, transferring his membership to the Lutheran Church in 
order to have his family together in one church. He served a number of 
years as member of the church council, in both churches.
	At the time of his death Mr. Gearhart was the oldest resident 
Freemason in Sunbury. He served two terms as worshipful master of 
Sunbury Lodge, No. 22, F. & A.M.; having served so faithfully during his 
first term, he was elected the second time from the floor of the lodge. 
During his second term the lodge was in straitened circumstances 
financially, and he ordered the secretary to prepare for him a list of 
the members showing all delinquents, after which he made a personal 
canvass among the members, collecting the back dues and thus placing the 
finances of the lodge on a firm basis.  During his service as worshipful 
master, in 1870, occurred the big fire which destroyed the corner where 
the Oppenheimer & Jonas clothing store now stands, burning to Court 
street.  As there was great danger of the Masonic Hall building burning 
he removed all the lodge paraphernalia to his residence, packing the 
same in chests and personally caring for the property.
	On June 28, 1854, Mr. Gearhart married Rosanna Gossler, daughter of 
Samuel and Mary (Petry) Gossler, and they had a family.

	ROBERT HARRIS GEARHART, son of Maclay Cool and Rosanna (Gossler) 
Gearhart was born Aug. 28, 1855, in Sunbury, where he grew to manhood, 
receiving his education in the public schools and academy of the 
borough. For a short time he was in the employ of the Adams Express 
Company, subsequently assisting his father for a number of years, and 
then returning to his former employers, with whom he continued for six 
years.  He had been familiar with the confectionery business from 
boyhood, and he again became his father's assistant in that line, 
continuing until his father closed out business. Mr. Gearhart has been 
prominently identified with politics from early manhood, actively 
associated with the best interests of the Republican party in city and 
county affairs for 
	
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a number of years. In 1890 and 1900 he was census enumerator of the 
Second ward of Sunbury, where he resides; in 1898 he was appointed, by 
the board of county commissioners, as mercantile appraiser, and served 
the Sunbury standing committee as secretary and treasurer for a period 
of seven years.  On May 18, 1902, he was appointed assistant postmaster 
of Sunbury, and has since been re-appointed, by F. K. Hill, the present 
postmaster. He is a capable official and a highly respected citizen.
	In 1879 Mr. Gearhart married Mary Cornman, daughter of Ephraim and 
Barbara (Schrumm) Cornman, of Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Pa., the former 
of whom was the first public printer of Pennsylvania.  Mrs. Gearhart is 
a descendant of Pocahontas through her connection with the Randolph 
family of Virginia. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Gearhart: (1) Rev. Ephraim Maclay Gearhart, pastor of Trinity Lutheran 
Church at Sunbury, married Minnie Kline, of Williamsport, Pa., who died 
in 1907, leaving a son, Ephraim Maclay, Jr.  (2) Rosanna G. married 
Prof. Lewis H. Mackiney, one of the high school teachers at Sunbury, 
where they reside, and they have one son, Arland H.  (3) Robert H. is a 
theological student at Gettysburg Seminary.  (4) Marion R. married 
Bessie Miller and they reside at Carlisle, Pa. (he is a printer).  (5) 
Mary C. graduated from Sunbury high school with the class of 1911, 
taking first honors.
	Mr. Gearhart and his family reside at No. 47 South Fifth street. 
They are members of Zion's Lutheran Church at Sunbury, to which he has 
belonged since 1872. He was made a Mason in 1876, being entered in 
October, crafted in November and raised in December, and he was one of 
the youngest men ever initiated into the fraternity at Sunbury, where he 
is associated with Lodge No. 22.

	SAMUEL GOSSLER GEARHART, son of Maclay Cool and Rosanna (Gossler) 
Gearhart, was born July 13, 1857, in Sunbury, and obtained his early 
education in the public schools of that borough. He later had a term at 
what was then Missionary Institute, now Susquehanna University, at 
Selinsgrove, Pa. Assisting his father from boyhood, he learned the candy 
business, both the work in the factory and the work in the store.  When 
about eighteen years old he was employed one year in a planing mill at 
Lock Haven, Pa., as an apprentice, to learn bench carpentering.  On June 
26, 1876, he began to learn telegraphy, entering the service of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Company as telegraph operator Aug. 1, 1877, since 
which time he has been engaged continuously on the Sunbury and Shamokin 
divisions of that company.  On March 14, 1888, he was promoted to train 
dispatcher, and to Division operator and assistant trainmaster May 1, 
1891.  He holds this position at the present time, having now over two 
hundred men under his supervision. Mr. Gearhart is one of the oldest 
men, in point of service, in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company.
	On June 18, 1879, Mr. Gearhart married Emma Lucia Schoch, daughter 
of Benjamin and Margaret (Bright) Schoch, of Selinsgrove, Pa., and they 
have a family of two sons and two daughters: Bessie S. married Prof. 
George L. Swank, a graduate of Harvard University and now superintendent 
of public schools, at Elysburg, Pa.; Heber Gossler, a graduate of State 
College, Pennsylvania, is a civil engineer, and at present engaged as 
assistant superintendent of construction with the McClintic-Marshall 
Construction Company, of Pittsburg, Pa.; Margaret A. is living at home; 
Samuel G., Jr., a graduate of Pennsylvania State College, is an 
electrical engineer in the employ of the General Electric Company, of 
Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
	Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Gearhart are members of Zion's Lutheran 
Church, Sunbury, and Mr. Gearhart has long been active in church work. 
He has served a number of years as a member of the church council, and 
as secretary of the council; was for a number of years financial 
secretary of the church, and was secretary and librarian of the Sunday 
school.  He has been a member of the Lutheran Church from boyhood, and 
Mrs. Gearhart's family have all been connected with that church.  Mr. 
Gearhart has taken special interest in the welfare of the Y.M.C.A., and 
is now serving his fourth year as president of the Railroad Y.M.C.A. at 
Sunbury; for the past three years he has filled the position of chairman 
of the district committee Y.M.C.A. work of the State of Pennsylvania.
	In 1887 Mr. Gearhart was made a Mason in Lodge No. 22, Sunbury - 
entered March 9, passed April 8, raised July 5.  On account of his 
aptness in learning the work he was elected to all the high offices of 
his lodge, serving as junior warden in 1889, as senior warden in 1890 
and as worshipful master in 1891. On Nov. 26, 1889, he exemplified the 
first degree in Freemasonry in Lodge No. 22 at a visitation of the Grand 
Lodge of Pennsylvania, over three hundred brothers and visiting brothers 
being present. At the time Mr. Gearhart was serving in the chairs the 
work of conferring the degrees had been done for a number of years by 
Past Master Jacob R. Cressinger, and Mr. Gearhart decided to do his own 
work. Accordingly he learned the work from Mr. Cressinger, and the first 
night he sat as worshipful master, Jan. 24, 1891, he raised two 
candidates. During his term of office he entered eight, passed two and 
raised seven candidates.

	William Gearhart, brother of Capt. Jacob Gearhart, was born in 
Strasburg, Germany, and came to America in 1754. He settled in Hunterdon 
coun-
	
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ty, N. J. When the Revolutionary war broke out he enlisted in the 
Hunterdon county militia and was promoted to ensign.  After the war, 
about 1790, he came to Northumberland county, Pa., and purchased a large 
tract of land to the southeast of Capt. Jacob Gearhart's tract, settling 
in Rush township.  In New Jersey he married Eleanor DeNight, and they 
were the parents of four sons and three daughters, as follows: William, 
Aaron, Tobias, Jacob, Elizabeth (Mrs. Amens), Ann (Mrs. Amens), and Mary 
(Mrs. Lamberson).
	William Gearhart son of William, was born in New Jersey, married 
Sarah Boone, and had children as follows: Maybury, born in 1813; Harriet 
1815 (married Lewis Yetter); Juliann, 1818 (married Samuel Darder); 
Eleanor, 1819 (married David Clark); Amelia, 1821 (married G. M. Shoop).

	JOHN D. HILBUSH, one of the active and energetic business men of 
Shamokin, comes of the sturdy German stock that has given Pennsylvania 
so many of her most useful citizens.
	The name, originally Hallobush (or Hallowbish), is spelled in many 
ways-Hilbush, Hillbush, Hillibish, Hilbish and Hallerbush. Christian 
Hallowbush (Hallobush), the emigrant ancestor of John D. Hilbush, was 
born in 1718 in the German Palatinate, and came to America in 1724 with 
his brother Peter and widowed mother. They landed at Philadelphia, 
locating shortly after in Salford township, Montgomery county. Peter 
Hallowbush was born in 1709, and died in 1768, leaving five children, 
Catharine, Johst, Magdalene, Margaret and Ann Maria.  Christian 
Hallowbush died in Montgomery county in 1778, the father of four 
children, Magdalena, Henry, Adam and Peter.
	Daniel Hilbush, Sr., evidently a grandson of Christian, was the 
great-grandfather of John D. Hilbush. He was born Sept. 27, 1779, in 
Longswamp township, Berks Co., Pa., and moved from his native county in 
about 1800.  In 1820 he purchased a farm of 300 acres in Mahanoy 
township, Northumberland county, upon which he settled that same year, 
passing the remainder of his life on that property, where he died March 
11, 1862. He was a stonemason by trade, and followed that calling in 
connection with farming, and he was a man who bore an active part in the 
affairs of his community. In 1823 he was commissioned justice of the 
peace, and served as such continuously until 1860; the office was out of 
the family only five years, however, his grandson, Jacob B., having been 
elected in 1865.  In 1833, when the bridge across Greenbrier creek was 
constructed, Daniel Hilbush, Sr., was served as commissioner of 
Northumberland county.  He was one of the military officers of the 
county, being a captain, and his company was second on the list to be 
called out in the war of 1812 if needed. He married Elizabeth Folk, of 
Berks county, born March 3, 1781, died Nov. 20, 1869, and to them were 
born ten children: Polly, Jacob, Henry, Daniel, Jr., Betzy, Joshua and 
Jesse (twins), Rachel, Joseph de Y. and Hettie.

	Daniel Hilbush, Jr., son of Daniel, Sr., was born Dec. 20, 1807, in 
Berks county, Pa., and came to Washington township in his young manhood. 
He was a plasterer by trade, and followed that occupation in connection 
with farming. He lived in Washington township until 1865, when he came 
to Jackson township, farming there until his retirement.  He died in 
Jackson township March 17, 1897, in his ninetieth year.  Mr. Hilbush 
married Nancy Romberger, daughter of Adam, of Lykens township, Dauphin 
county.  She died in 1891, in her eightieth year.  They are buried at 
Mahanoy Church in Jackson township.  Mr. and Mrs. Hilbush had children 
as follows: Jacob R., of Mahanoy, Jackson township; Henry Adam; and 
Elias R., of Mahanoy, Pa., who owns the homestead in Jackson township. 
Daniel Hilbush, Jr., was an active member of the Reformed Church at 
Mahanoy, serving as deacon, elder and trustee, and he was also 
interested in the affairs of his township, serving two terms as overseer 
of the poor.

	Henry Adam Hilbush, son of Daniel and Nancy, died in 1908. He 
learned the plasterer's trade, and this he followed in Little Mahanoy 
township, together with farming. He spent about five years at farming in 
old Virginia, and then came to Shamokin, where he lived retired until 
his death. He married Elizabeth Dillfield, of Dauphin county, Pa., born 
April 25, 1843, died May 10, 1907, and their children were: James, 
Clara, John D., Amanda, Abbie, Isaac, Daniel (deceased), Thama and 
Herbert.

	John D. Hilbush attended the public schools of Little Mahanoy 
township, and worked on the farm until he attained his majority. He then 
came to Shamokin and learned the carpenter's trade.  In 1903 he formed a 
partnership with A. P. Rutz, and in 1905 became treasurer of the East 
End Lumber Company, also holding the position of outside foreman for the 
company. He has other business interests, being a director of the 
Shamokin and Mount Carmel Department Store Company, and of the Shamokin 
Department Store Company, the latter being located at No. 5 Market 
street, Shamokin. He is an active member of the Merchants Association.
	Mr. Hilbush was united in marriage to Ida Raper, daughter of Conrad 
C. and Susan (Dornsife) Raper, and to this union were born three 
children, Edward O., Susan E. and Reuben H., the last named dying when 
four years old.  Mr. Hilbush has long been an active member of the 
Evangelical Church, in which he has served as class leader and trustee.  
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tious and painstaking, and he has the respect of all who know him.

	JACOB R. HILBUSH, son of Daniel and Nancy, was born March 14, 1835, 
in Lykens township, Dauphin county, and was but an infant when his 
parents settled in what is now Washington township, Northumberland 
county.  Here he was reared on the farm, and commenced to learn his 
father's trade, that of plasterer, when eight days less than fourteen 
years old.  He continued to follow it, off and on, until he reached the 
age of twenty-five. His educational advantages in his boyhood were only 
such as the old subscription schools afforded, and he gained most of his 
scholastic training after he was twenty-one years old, in the Freeburg 
Academy. But he improved his time there so well that he became competent 
to teach, and was thus engaged from 1858 to 1861, in Freeburg.  His 
salary the first term was but eighteen dollars, and his compensation was 
increased two dollars a month each term; he taught in all nine terms.  
Since twenty-eight years old he has followed surveying, being the only 
surveyor in his section of the county. In 1865 Mr. Hilbush came to his 
present home, the lot adjoining his father's old farm of 130 acres, 
which his brother Elias R. now owns.  His home is pleasant and 
comfortable.
	In 1865, as previously stated, Mr. Hilbush was elected a justice of 
the peace, and with the exception of two terms has served in that office 
ever since, holding a commission from Governor Curtin down to the 
present date. In this connection he has been a very busy man, having 
made over sixteen hundred deeds and mortgages since entering upon his 
duties, and he is a well known and popular citizen.  Mr. Hilbush has 
been active in promoting the interests of the Democratic party for many 
years, having served as delegate to several county conventions.
	In 1867 Mr. Hilbush married Amanda Zartman, daughter of John and 
Mary (Seiler) Zartman, and they have had three children, all daughters: 
Annie, who died in her seventeenth year; Mary and Lydia, both of whom 
are unmarried and live at home. All the family are members of the 
Reformed Church.

	EDWARD S. HILBUSH, a farmer of Jackson township, near Otto Station, 
was born Aug. 15, 1866, son of Elias R. and Harriet (Seiler) Hilbush, of 
Jackson township, and grandson of Daniel Hilbush, Jr. He was educated in 
the common schools of the township and reared to farm life, working for 
his parents until he reached the age of twenty-nine years. He was in the 
employ of the National Transit Company for fifteen years as fireman, 
being at the Latsha station fourteen years and at State Line, Bradford 
county.  In the spring of 1892 he commenced farming on the place where 
he still lives, a farm of 196 acres which he purchased in 1890, and 
which was formerly the Daniel Zartman place, having been in the Zartman 
name for one hundred years.  It was the old homestead of Daniel Zartman, 
who built the brick house now standing on the property in 1853. 
Zartman's U. E. Church, which stands on this farm, was built in 1854.  
Mr. Hilbush is a most progressive farmer, and he has not only been an 
intelligent business man but a wide-awake citizen, one who has served 
the community well. He was school director of the township for six years 
and township treasurer for two years.  He has long been an active worker 
in the ranks of the Democratic party, and served two years as county 
committee-man.  He has likewise been diligent in church work, having 
been deacon four years and at present a trustee of  St. Peter's Church 
at Mahanoy, where he and his family unite with the Reformed 
congregation.  Socially he is a member of Mahanoy Lodge, No. 551, 
I.O.O.F. 
	On Oct. 6, 1894, Mr. Hilbush married Mary A. Otto, daughter of 
Washington Otto, and they have had three children: Robert W., Harry A. 
and Harriet L.

	DRUMHELLER. The branch of the Drumheller family here under 
consideration has representatives in various parts of Northumberland 
County, Oliver R. Drumheller, proprietor of the "Aldine Hotel", at 
Sunbury, being a well known business man of that borough; Emanuel C.  
Drumheller,  late of Mahanoy, was a life long resident of Jackson 
township and for many years the leading undertaker in his district.
	"Members of the Drumheller family came to America in the early days 
of this Commonwealth, the Pennsylvania Archives (Vol XVII, page 447) 
showing that J. Leonhart Drumheller arrived Oct. 26, 1754, on the 
Brigatine "Mary and Sarah".  That they were for a number of years 
settled in Berks county is shown by the Federal Census Report of 1790, 
which records the names of John and Nicholas Drumheller, of Earl 
township, that county; John had one son above sixteen, three sons under 
sixteen and one daughter; Nicholas had one son above sixteen, three sons 
under sixteen, and three daughters. Rev. C. R. Drumheller, of this 
stock, served as Lutheran pastor of Vera Cruz Union Church, in Dauphin 
county, 1883-84.
	The name was well represented among the Colonial sympathizers 
during the Revolutionary war. In the Pennsylvania archives (5th Series 
Vol. IV) we find (page 318) that George Drumheller belonged to the 
Continental Line, serving as a private in the Northampton county militia 
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that war, and that George Drumheller later was a Revolutionary soldier 
from  Northampton county (page 649); that Jacob Drumheller was a soldier 
in the Continental Line from Berks county (page 212); and that Jacob 
Drumheller was a private in Capt. John Reese's company (which formed a 
part of the 2d Pennsylvania Battalion), commissioned from Jan. 5, 1776, 
to Nov. 25, 1776.
	Johann Nicholas Drumheller was born March 14, 1750, in Odenwald, 
Germany, came to America with his brother, and settled in Berks County, 
Pa. he married (first) Margaret Fischer, of that county, by whom he had 
two children, John and Nicholas, and after her death he married her 
sister, Catharine, in 1776. They had a family of eleven children: David, 
Margaret, Catharine, Abraham, Susanna (married a Hoffman), Philip, Anna 
Elizabeth, Daniel, Martin, Elizabeth and Nicholas (born Dec. 19, 1801, 
died Aug. 13, 1854, whose first wife was Elizabeth Hetrich, born March 
29, 1808, died Nov. 24, 1873). Johann Nicolas Drumheller died in Upper 
Mahanoy in March, 1825, aged seventy-five years; his wife Catharine, 
born June 14, 1759, died Dec. 18, 1832, and both of them are buried at 
Himmels Church.

	Abraham Drumheller, son of Johann Nicholas, was born Sept. 25, 
1789, and died in 1850, at the age of sixty-one.  He was a native of 
Washington township, this county, but lived for a number of years in 
Little Mahanoy township, where he was among the taxables in 1814, and 
after the death of his wife be returned to Washington township to make 
his home with his brother Martin, dying there.  He is buried at Himmel's 
Church. His wife, whose maiden name was Seitz, died a few years before 
Mr. Drumheller.  They had five children: Elizabeth married John 
Sweinhard; Isaac is mentioned below; Nicholas S. is mentioned below; 
Sarah married Abraham Dreibelbis, and they moved out to Brookville, 
Ill., where they died (their children were Adam, Eve and another 
daughter, the daughters being married to brothers by the name of Groh); 
Jesse, of Pottsville, Pa., married Amelia Martz, and they have two sons 
and one daughter.

	Isaac Drumheller, son of Abraham, was born in the vicinity of 
Mahanoy, and lived in the vicinity of St. Peter's Church in Lower 
Augusta township until his declining years, when he bought the property 
at Augustaville which he occupied until his death. He owned the tract of 
fifty-seven acres now the property of his son Emanuel and besides 
farming followed his trade of blacksmith. During the Civil war Mr. 
Drumheller served as a member of Company F; 172d Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Drafted Militia. His death occurred at Augustaville in Lower Augusta 
township, Jan. 23, 1895, when he was aged seventy-five years, eleven 
months, one day, and he is buried at the new Lutheran (St. Peter's) 
Church at Asherton, in Lower Augusta township, of which he was a member.  
He was a Democrat in politics and served his township as supervisor. Mr. 
Drumheller married Mary Conrad, daughter of John D. and Lydia Conrad, 
and she preceded him to the grave, dying Sept. 3, 1888, aged sixty-three 
years, ten months, three days.   Six children, were born to them, 
namely: Malinda married J. H. Inkrote, of Selinsgrove Junction, Pa.; 
Emanuel C. is mentioned below; Samuel, who lives in Lower Augusta 
township, served as a Union soldier during the Civil war; Hiram C. is 
mentioned below; Jemima married George Zimmerman, of Shamokin, Pa.; Mary  
L. married Oliver Hawk, of Millersburg, Pennsylvania.

	EMANUEL  C. DRUMHELLER, son of Isaac, was born March 19, 1846, in 
Lower Augusta township, where he is now engaged in farming.  He was 
trained to agricultural work from early boyhood, working for his parents 
until he reached his majority, after which he was engaged at work on the 
Northern Central railroad for ten years. On Sept. 13, 1864, he enlisted 
in Company F, 210th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, for one 
year, but served only nine months, when he was discharged by reason of 
the close of the war. After leaving the railroad work Mr. Drumheller 
began burning lime, a business which he continued for three years, 
burning between four thousand and five thousand bushels annually. In 
1896 he purchased his father's homestead, a tract of over fifty acres 
which he has since cultivated. He lives upon the Samuel Conrad 
homestead, a tract of four acres which Mrs. Drumheller inherited, and 
has erected all the buildings on that property, including the residence, 
which he put up in 1870.
	Mr. Drumheller has taken considerable part in the administration of 
local public affair, having served as constable of the township for 
twelve successive years, supervisor one year, justice of the peace for 
five years, and tax collector.  He is a Democrat in political 
affiliation and stands favorably with his party.
	In 1870 Mr. Drumheller married Sydney N. Conrad, daughter of Samuel 
and Sarah (Kauffman) Conrad, of Lower Augusta township, and they have a 
family of five children, namely: Palmer F., who conducts his father's 
farm; George A., of Ashland, Pa.; Anson B., of Sunbury, Pa.; Mamie F. 
and Emma V., both of whom are at home.

	HIRAM C. DRUMHELLER was born May 28, 1853, in Lower Augusta 
township, and received his education in the common schools.  During his 
young manhood he filled teachers places a number of times, but never 
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seventeen years old he began to learn the plasterer's trade with Milton 
Drumheller, a distant kinsman, and has continued to follow that vocation 
ever since, not only in his own district but also in Sunbury, Shamokin, 
Trevorton and other cities and towns of this section; for two years he 
worked in West Virginia. He owns a farm of forty acres in Lower Augusta 
township formerly the property of one Gross, and which was once part of 
the old Daniel Kauffman tract.  Mr. Drumheller is at present serving as 
school director of the township.  He is a Democrat in political 
sentiment but votes independently.
	Mr. Drumheller married Susan Hollenbach, daughter of Daniel 
Hollenbach and granddaughter of Michael Hollenbach, the pioneer. They 
have had a family of nine children: Lulu Mabel married Ralph Snyder and 
they live at Limestone, Pa.; Hiram Herman married Abia Reitz and they 
live near Selinsgrove Junction; a son died in infancy; Emery L. married 
Dora Herner and they live near Selinsgrove Junction; Frederick married 
Jennie Wirt and they live at Sunbury; Bertha died of typhoid fever in 
Virginia, where she was employed as an exchange girl; Olive E. married 
James Riland and they live at Limestone, Pa.; Frank and Eva live with 
their parents.  Mr. Drumheller and his family are members of the new 
Lutheran (St. Peter's) Church in Lower Augusta township, which he has 
served in various official positions.

	Nicholas S. Drumheller, son of Abraham, was born  in Northumberland 
county May 25, 1821, and died Sept. 24, 1896, aged seventy-five years, 
three mouths, twenty-nine days. He is buried at Zartman's U. E. Church.  
He led an active and useful life. In his earlier years he followed 
shoemaking, making many shoes by hand, and later became a farmer, owning 
sixty-nine acres of land which he cultivated with characteristic thrift.  
His home was in Jackson township, on the south side of Mahanoy mountain, 
and he was active in local affairs, serving as overseer of the poor and 
for many years as, supervisor of the township.  In political connection 
he was a Republican, and during the Civil war he was an ardent Union 
man, serving as a soldier in that struggle.
	Mr. Drumheller was twice married, his first wife, Rebecca Zartman, 
daughter of Jacob Zartman, dying June 15, 1853, at the age of thirty 
years, three months, one day, the mother of six children, viz.: William 
Z., born in 1842, who died Nov. 17, 1876, and is buried at Zartman's U. 
E. Church; Harriet, who married (first) Samuel Kulp and (second) Anthony 
Culton; Henry Z., born in 1847, who died Jan. 10, 1882, aged thirty-four 
years, six months, twelve days, and is buried at Zartman's Church; 
Sarah, who died aged three years; Albert Z.; and Isaac Jacob, a 
teamster, of Green Ridge, Northumberland county.  Mr. Drumheller's 
second marriage was to Abigail Kembel, by whom he also had six children: 
Mary married Samuel Werntz, of Shamokin; Lydia married Frank W. Shipe, 
of Herndon; Ellen married W. P. Boyer, of Lower Mahanoy; Wilson K., born 
Oct. 13, 1860, died April 8, 1879, aged eighteen years, five months, 
twenty-five days, and is buried at Zartman's U. E. Church; Alice married 
William E. Zartman, of Jackson township; John Packer, born in 1872, died 
Oct. 23, 1875, aged three years, fifteen days, and is buried at 
Zartman's Church.

	ALBERT Z. DRUMHELLER was born Dec. 24, 1850, in Jackson township, 
and received his education in the subscription schools there, which were 
in vogue before the establishment of the free schools. He was trained to 
farm life, working upon the farm until he reached the age of eighteen 
years, after which he learned cabinet making at Pillow, Dauphin county. 
After following that trade several years as a journeyman he established 
himself in business at Mahanoy in 1875, following cabinet making and 
undertaking at that location until his recent death, for a period of 
thirty-five years. For years after beginning the business he made 
coffins by hand, and continued to make a specialty of undertaking, in 
which line he became the leader in his section, having handled nearly 
five hundred funerals. In his earlier years at Mahanoy he made 
considerable furniture by hand, and in the course of his long business 
career gave employment to a number of men. His death, which occurred 
April 15, 1910, was quite unexpected, and was caused by a carbuncle.  It 
took away one of the most substantial and respected citizens of the 
town. He was serving as auditor at the time of his decease, and had been 
previously elected assessor of Jackson township, though he was a 
Republican in a Democratic district.
	In December, 1873, Mr. Drumheller married Mary Jane Gellinger, 
daughter of Daniel Gellinger, who died Nov. 17, 1909.  Three children 
were born to this union: Charles H., who lives in Council Bluffs, Iowa; 
John, who died when six and a half years old; and Edward A., who died 
Dec. 1, 1910.  The family home is on the street between Herndon and 
Mahanoy, a quarter of a mile from the latter place.  Mr. Drumheller 
belonged to the Reformed Church at Mahanoy, as did his family.

	Martin Drumheller, son of Johann Nicholas, was born Nov. 6, 1795, 
and died Dec. 5, 1852. He lived in Washington township where he engaged 
in farming, and in his day was also a popular auctioneer, crying most of 
the sales held in that section of his time.  His wife, Elizabeth Frey, 
born Aug. 11, 1797, died Oct. 29. 1852. They had children as follows: 
Levi, Adam, Sen-
	
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erius  (who settled out west), Mrs. Hetrich, Mrs. Heim (whose husband 
was a cabinetmaker) and Edward T. 

	Edward T. Drumheller, son of Martin, was born Oct. 22, 1830, in 
the Swabian creek valley in Washington township, and lived in that 
township until 1861, when he moved to Sunbury. There he was engaged as a 
hotel-keeper during the remainder of his active years, though he was a 
tailor by trade. His first venture was as proprietor of the "Susquehanna 
Hotel," at the corner of Fourth and Penn streets. In 1871 he built the 
"City Hotel," which he completed and opened in January, 1872, conducting 
it until his retirement, when he was succeeded by his son Oliver R. 
Drumheller and son-in-law T. H. Hutchinson.  He continued to reside at 
the hotel, however, until his death, which occurred there March 4, 1893. 
He married Mary Elizabeth Hoffman, who was born Aug. 26, 1833, daughter 
of William Hoffman, of Washington township, and died Feb. 10, 1905. They 
are buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery, where their resting place is 
marked by a large granite monument. Five children were born to their 
union: Oliver R.; Ella M., wife of T. H. Hutchinson; Seran C., who died 
unmarried March 29, 1892, aged thirty-four years, three months, eight 
days; Dr. Francis E., of Sunbury; and Harvey M., who died unmarried June 
27, 1901, aged thirty-three years, eight months, four days.  Mr. 
Drumheller was one of the most able, all-around hotel men Sunbury has 
ever known and prospered so well in the business that he enjoyed a 
substantial position at the time of his death.  The "City Hotel," which 
he built, is to this day one of the most up-to date hostelries in 
Sunbury.

	OLIVER R. DRUMHELLER, present proprietor of the "Aldine Hotel" in 
Sunbury, was born Jan. 21, 1855, in Jordan township, this county.  He 
lived there until his parents settled in Sunbury in 1861, and this has 
been his home for the most part ever since. He received his education in 
the common schools and literally grew up in the hotel business, the 
details of which have been familiar to him from early boyhood. In 1882 
he engaged in that business on his own account at the "City Hotel," 
which he and his brother-in-law, Mr. Hutchinson, conducted in 
partnership for five years, at the end of which time the latter retired. 
Mr. Drumheller and his brother Seran C. then conducted it for five 
years, after which a younger brother, Harvey M. Drumheller, carried it 
on for a few years. It has since been operated by Dr. Francis E. 
Drumheller of Sunbury.  For eight years, from 1893 to 1902 Oliver F. 
Drumheller conducted the well known "Windsor Hotel" at Shamokin, this 
county, and he was subsequently in Danville  for four years, there 
operating what was then known a the  "Oliver House" (now the "City 
Hotel").  In May  1906, he came from Danville to Sunbury to assume 
charge of the "Aldine Hotel," which he had purchased.  It is a modern, 
up-to-date house, with forty guest rooms located near the Pennsylvania 
railroad station, and under the present management is considered one of 
the leading hotels of central Pennsylvania.  Guests are accommodated 
upon either the European or the American plan, Mr. Drumheller having a 
first-class restaurant in connection with the hotel.  His wide 
experience, his natural adaptability for the business and his courteous 
treatment of his patrons, merit the success which has been his portion. 
His son, Dr. W. E. Drumheller, has been associated with him, under the 
firm name of  O. R. Drumheller & Son. Since he took charge of the 
"Aldine Hotel."  Mr. Drumheller is  naturally well known in his business 
relations, but he has a wide acquaintance outside of such associations, 
and is esteemed as a reliable and valuable citizen in his community.  
His substantial worth is attested by all who know him.  Mr. Drumheller 
has traveled considerably, and he has attended many conventions of the 
B.P.O. Elks to which fraternity he belongs.
	On Christmas Day, 1878, Mr. Drumheller married Elizabeth I. Shultz, 
daughter of Dr. B. F Shultz, of Danville, Pa.  They have had one son 
and one daughter, Walter E. and Mary F.  The daughter lives with her 
parents. Walter F. Drumheller graduated from the dental department of 
the University of Pennsylvania and practiced at Berwick, Pa., and 
Philadelphia.  He is active in the fraternities as a Mason, a member of 
the Elks and of the Knights of Malta. He married Grace McAnall.

	D. ROSSWELL ROTHROCK, M.D., has been a resident of the borough of 
Milton, Northumberland county, for twelve years and more, but though not 
one of its older citizens is well known, having during his long 
residence in the town of New Berlin, Union county, not many miles 
distant from his present home, made a reputation which preceded him 
hither. He owns a fine farm in Montour and Union counties, also the 
cottage home he lives in, located at No. 40 Centre street.
	Dr. Rothrock was born Dec. 28, 1861, at New Bethlehem, Clarion Co., 
Pa., and is the third generation of his line to follow the medical 
profession, being a son of Dr. Rosswell Rothrock and grandson of Dr. 
Isaac Rothrock.  Joseph Rothrock, his great grandfather, was born in 
what is now Lebanon county, Pa., of German parentage. In early manhood 
he removed to Mifflin county and settled near Lewistown, where he 
followed farming.  He was well known among the early pioneers and was a 
bishop in the German Baptist Church.  In politics he was a Whig.  His 
first wife. Nancy, was the mother of all his children and for his second 
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The children, eight in number, were: John, Abraham, Isaac, Lizzie, who 
married Jonathan Amich, Nancy (Mrs. Price), Mary (Mrs. Hannawalt), Mrs. 
Jacob Mohier and Mrs. Daniel Bashore.

	Dr. Isaac Rothrock, son of Joseph, was born Nov. 22, 1798, at the 
old homestead near Lewistown. He was a student from early youth, 
mathematics and grammar being his favorite studies, and he retained his 
fondness for such pursuits to his old age, enjoying the solution of a 
difficult problem to the end of his days.  He began his medical studies 
with Dr. Ezra Doty, of Mifflin, Juniata county, and continued them with 
Dr. Thomas Van Valzah, of Lewisburg, later attending three regular 
courses of lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and 
although he did not graduate he was afterward given a complimentary 
diploma by the Eclectic Medical College, Philadelphia.  He began practice 
in Middleburg with Dr. Henry Lechner, but afterward moved to Mifflintown 
and then to Adamsburg, where he purchased property, making his home 
there until 1864. His medical practice took him over a large territory, 
and he continued in it for fifty-one years, spending his last years, 
however, in retirement at Adamsburg, in the enjoyment of his books. 
living there after 1864 until he died. Though so busy with his 
professional duties, he was not too busy to be a useful man in local 
public affairs, and he served his community in a number of offices, 
including that of school director, also representing his district, 
composed of Lycoming, Union and Snyder counties, in the State 
Legislature to which he was elected in 1866.  In politics he was 
originally a Whig, later a Republican.  Like his father he was a devout 
member of the German Baptist Church.  He died June 8, 1872.
	Dr. Rothrock was married four times. His first wire, whose maiden 
name was Snyder, was a niece of Governor Snyder.  She died soon after 
marriage, and the only child of this union died in infancy.  His second 
marriage was to Susan Swenk, a native of Middleburg, daughter of David 
Swenk, a well known justice of the peace.  She died in June, 1852, the 
mother of children as follows: Rosswell is mentioned below; Mary A., 
born Dec. 28, 1832, married David Heckendorn, the first superintendent 
of public schools of Union and Snyder counties, and (second) Philip 
Derr, of Philadelphia, who is also deceased; Isaac S., born May 22, 
1835, graduated in dentistry in Chicago and Philadelphia, and now 
resides in Bannerville, Pa. (he has been an invalid for over forty years 
from spinal trouble, which also affected his eyes); Harriet C., born May 
11, 1837, is the widow of James Herlacher, of Haven, Kans.; David C., 
born May 3, 1842, is a dentist in McClure, Pa.; Allen E., born Feb. 13, 
1851, is a tanner in Lewistown. For his third wife Dr. Rothrock married 
Mrs. Lydia (Bowersox) Leonard, who died in February, 1857, leaving one 
daughter, Adda L., who was born Sept. 20, 1854, and married R. R. Long, 
of Gettysburg, Pa.  To his fourth marriage, with Angelina Wallace, a 
native of Mifflintown, no children were born.  She died March 29, 1879, 
and is interred at Adamsburg. She was an earnest Christian and a devoted 
Sabbath school worker.

	Rosswell Rothrock, M. D., son of Dr. Isaac, was born Oct. 14, 1831, 
at Adamsburg, where he was reared and received the advantages afforded 
by the common schools. He taught a few terms in a public school in the 
vicinity of Adamsburg, meantime also reading medicine, until ready to 
enter Jefferson Medical College, from which institution he was graduated 
in 1851, when barely twenty years old.  He was in active practice from 
that time until his death which occurred March 1, 1897, at which time he 
was the oldest practitioner in Snyder county.  His first location was at 
Adamsburg, where he remained until 1853, that year moving to Millville, 
Clarion county, where he was located until 1855. He was then at 
Beavertown, Snyder county, for a time, in 1860 moving to New Bethlehem, 
Clarion county.  He served over three years during the Civil war. On 
Aug. 29, 1861, he became surgeon of Company C, 78th P. V. I., was sent 
to the front, was taken prisoner at Chickamauga, and with eleven others 
of his regiment marched across Lookout Mountain to Ringgold, where they 
boarded a train for Richmond. After a month in Libby prison the Doctor 
and 125 others were marched away in the night and placed on Belle Isle 
or "Devil's Den," where he was held until Feb. 22, 1862. Again at night 
they were taken to the Pemberton buildings, where they were placed 
aboard a train for Andersonville, where they found thirty-five thousand 
other prisoners with whom they endured all the horrors of that place 
until Sept. 5th.  That date the Doctor was sent with a body of two 
thousand prisoners to Savannah.  Six weeks later he had orders from the 
Confederate authorities to gather up all the men who could stand 
transportation and board a train, for an unknown destination, which 
proved to be Millen, Ga., where a new stockade had been built.  Shortly 
afterward came the welcome news that ten thousand prisoners would be 
exchanged, and the Doctor was one of the first six hundred to be sent 
north, the journey being made via Annapolis, Md. He rejoined his family, 
who were then residing at Clarion, Pa., and on Nov. 27, 1864, received 
an honorable discharge from the service.
	In 1866 Dr. Rothrock located at Bannerville, Snyder county, and in 
the spring of 1879 established himself in practice at Middleburg, as the 
place afforded better educational advantages for his children. In 1884 
be made a permanent home 
	
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at McClure, Pa., where he lived to the end of his life, practicing until 
his last sickness interrupted his work. As a physician, as a citizen, as 
a man, there were few who equaled Dr. Rothrock.  He was the ideal 
general practitioner, not merely a prescriber of medicines, but a 
friend, adviser and comforter in every sense of the word, treating all 
his patients with exactly the same care, which was the best he could 
give.  When necessary he was nurse as well as physician, never 
considering his own health in his devotion to the welfare of others, but 
he had his reward in the affectionate esteem manifested wherever he 
went. Though a busy man he bad been active in the work of the G.A.R., 
and devoted to the interests of Capt. M. Smith Post, No. 355, which he 
served one year as commander and ten years as surgeon. At his request 
the Post took charge of his funeral (which took place at McClure) with 
the assistance of the I.O.O.F., to which he belonged as a member of 
McClure Lodge, No. 770, in which he was right supporter to the vice 
grand in 1896. Though not active in politics he was an ardent Republican 
in sentiment, but he was prominent in religious work as a member of 
Christ Evangelical Church at McClure, for a number of years before his 
death.
	On Aug. 4, 1853, Dr. Rothrock married at New Bethlehem, Pa., 
Catherine Mohney, who still continues to make her home at McClure.  She 
was born at New Bethlehem April 23, 1835, and there spent her early 
life, and is in the best of health though seventy-six years old. Her 
parents, Frederick and Mary (Caster) Mohney, were born in Northampton 
county, Pa., of Dutch ancestry. He died at the age of fifty-seven, of 
appendicitis, and she died aged eighty-four years. They are buried in 
Oak Ridge cemetery, in Clarion county. They were members of the German 
Reformed Church. Mr. Mohney was a farmer. Dr. and Mrs. Rothrock had five 
children, namely: Marand, a practicing physician at Fremont, Pa.; James 
B., a plasterer and extensive contractor of Lewistown, Pa.; Clara, 
married to Edward Knapp, who has been a carpenter on the Lewisburg & 
Sunbury railroad for years, living at Lewistown; Mary E., wife of 
Charles Decker, a farmer of McClure, Pa.; and D. Rosswell.

	D. Rosswell Rothrock was four years old when his parents moved to 
Bannerville, Pa., where he spent his youth.  He attended public school 
five months in the year, and being an independent boy earned enough to 
clothe himself from the time he was thirteen years old. On April 3, 
1879, the family moved to Middleburg, and on April 8th he and his 
brother James B. moved to the vicinity of Elkhart, Ind., where he was 
employed during the summer on a dairy farm, receiving from twelve to 
fifteen dollars a month. In October, 1879, in accordance with his 
father's wishes, he returned home to attend school during the winter, 
and in the fall of 1880 he was licensed to teach.  Meantime, during the 
summer of 1880, he had attended the Selinsgrove Normal Institute, 
conducted by Prof. William Noetling, county superintendent, and the 
following winter had a school in Franklin township, Snyder county, 
receiving twenty dollars a month. In 1881 he took a course in the 
academy at Freeburg, and the following winter taught the Winfield school 
in Hartley township, Union county, receiving thirty-five dollars a 
month.  In 1882 he again studied in the academy at Freeburg, where he 
taught a primary school the same year, meantime working during the 
summer season at any work that would bring him funds to continue his 
studies. In the spring of 1882 he passed the examination before the 
Snyder county board of medical examiners, securing a certificate of 
competency to read medicine, and he then gave all his leisure to the 
reading of medicine under his father's guidance, continuing to teach 
school in order to pay his way. The winter of 1882-83 he taught the 
first term of school held at the new brick schoolhouse in Franklin 
township, north of Middleburg, and in the fall of 1883 he entered the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Md. Returning home in 
March, 1884, he spent that summer in the harvest field and at other 
work, continuing also his medical studies, and as his father removed to 
McClure that year he also practiced for a short time with him, under his 
preceptorship. In the fall of 1884 he entered the Baltimore University 
School of Medicine, from which he was graduated the following year with 
highest honors, winning a gold medal for proficiency. By that time his 
supply of money was so low that he had to sell some textbooks to pay his 
fare to Selinsgrove Junction, and he was rowed across the Susquehanna to 
Selinsgrove early one morning before daylight, arriving penniless at 
five o'clock. With his diploma and his gold medal, but nothing with 
which to buy breakfast, he set out over the snow for Fremont, ten miles 
distant, and there his brother, Dr. Marand Rothrock, gave him money 
enough to take him home; but he decided not to spend it, and continued 
his journey, another twenty-two miles, on foot.
	When he located for practice at Three Springs, Huntingdon county, 
on April 2, 1885, he had but thirty-one cents in cash.  But he purchased 
a stock of drugs, a horse and some needful things for a doctor's office 
on a year's time, from Dr. John B. Ollig, and started on a career which 
has been one of steady success. Within a short time he had established a 
paying practice.  His brother Marand having met with an accident, he 
went to Fremont Oct. 10, 1886, to take charge of his large practice, 
remaining there until Feb. 14th following, when he established an office 
at 
	
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New Berlin, at which place he practiced for over twelve years.  In 1888 
he opened a large drug store there, conducting same in connection with 
his practice.  According to an Act of the State Legislature relating to 
pharmacists, he had to take an examination before the State 
Pharmaceutical Board in the Senate Chamber at Harrisburg, which he did 
April 11, 1888, passing and receiving his diploma as registered 
pharmacist.  He owned a home and business block in New Berlin, and five 
acres of land near the town, which he improved materially after it came 
into his possession.
	The Doctor's enterprise and energetic nature have led him into 
various fields which have proved as much of a benefit to others as to 
himself.  In September, 1897, with a view to providing congenial 
employment to the young people of the town, he and Prof. A. M. Wonder 
rented a building, bought and installed knitting machinery and equipped 
the plant completely for the manufacture of men's hose.  The idea was so 
novel to the community that people came for miles to see a stocking knit 
by machinery.  In six weeks from the time the factory started the output 
had reached sixty dozen pairs per day and employment was afforded to 
thirty-two people, a condition which meant much to the prosperity of the 
town.
	On Oct. 30, 1899, Dr. Rothrock moved to Northumberland county, 
where he has since made his home in the borough of Milton.  He purchased 
a fine farm in Montour county, upon which he has made numerous 
improvements during his ownership, and he has proved as desirable a 
citizen in this community as in the other localities with which he has 
been identified.
	On June 16 1885, Dr. Rothrock married at Centerville, Snyder 
county, Ella Walter, a native of Limestone township, Union county, born 
Feb. 3, 1863, second in the family of four daughters born to Valentine 
and Susannah (Shaffer) Walter, the former a well-to-do retired merchant. 
Mrs. Rothrock was reared in Centerville, her parents moving to Snyder 
county when she was a child. She taught school seven terms before her 
marriage.  Dr. and Mrs. Rothrock have had two children: Walter R., born 
Jan. 8, 1887; and Helen Katherine, born Aug. 4, 1894.
	Dr. and Mrs. Rothrock are Lutherans, and while at New Berlin were 
active members of the church there, the Doctor serving as deacon and 
treasurer. He has always been interested in the fortunes of the 
Republican party, and he took quite an active part in public affairs at 
New Berlin.  He was elected chief burgess of that place before he had 
resided there a year and also served as school director and as treasurer 
of the school board.  Socially he was a prominent member of the I.O.O.F. 
lodge at New Berlin, in which he filled all the important chairs, and in 
1895 he was elected district deputy of Union county, in May, 1897, going 
as representative to the Grand Lodge, which convened at Altoona, Pa.  
Since coming to Milton he has become a member of the Northumberland 
County Medical Society.  In June, 1892, the faculty of Freeburg Academy 
(which had just been chartered) presented him a diploma such as that 
institution has always given to those among its students who enter the 
learned professions.

	EDWARD B. ZIMMERMAN, of Shamokin, manager of the Shamokin Wagon 
Works, was born in that borough Sept. 18, 1876, son of John B. 
Zimmerman, and a descendant of a family which has long been identified 
with the place and for several generations with the same or similar 
business interests.  Some account of the earlier Zimmermans will be of 
interest in this connection.
	The first of this family to settle in Northumberland county was 
John Zimmerman, a native of Berks county, Pa., who was the great-great-
grandfather of Edward B. Zimmerman.  He purchased two hundred acres of 
land in Augusta township, where he lived and died.  He and his wife, 
whose maiden name was Mahrberger, were married in Berks county, and they 
had a family of five sons and two daughters.
	George H. Zimmerman, son of John, was born in Berks county.  He 
served as a soldier during the war of 1812.  He learned the trade of 
blacksmith, at which he was engaged for many years in Sunbury, 
Northumberland county, becoming well known in that line.  He married 
Mary Hall, and they had six children: Jeremiah H., Rachel (deceased, who 
was the wife of Isaac Seiler), Lucy (deceased), Mary (who married 
Solomon Stroh), Elizabeth (who married Jesse McClow, of Shamokin) and 
Emily (deceased, who married Thomas M. Purcell).

	Jeremiah H. Zimmerman, son of George H. and Mary (Hall) Zimmerman, 
was born Jan. 5, 1820, in Berks county, Pa., and was brought to 
Northumberland county by his parents when seven years old.  The public 
schools, or schools of any kind, in his day, did not offer the 
advantages enjoyed by the youth of the present generation, and his 
opportunities were limited to three months' attendance. But if he had 
little training of that kind he had ample experience of the practical 
kind from his earliest boyhood.  He learned the blacksmith's trade with 
his father, with whom he was engaged in the business for many years, at 
Sunbury. He continued at that work until elected justice of the peace, 
for Sunbury, which office he filled two years. Moving thence to the 
borough of Northumberland, he filled the position of collector for the 
Pennsylvania canal (management of which was then under State control), 
having been appointed to that incumbency, in which he served 
	
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three years, until 1856.  Meantime, in 1855, be engaged in business with 
J. P. Purcell, under the firm name of Zimmerman & Purcell, miners and 
shippers of coal, at Shamokin, but after a brief career of success the 
company met with reverses, failing in 1856.  That year Mr. Zimmerman was 
elected to the State Legislature, in which he served two terms, and on 
his return to private life he entered the employ of Stroh & Elliott, as 
superintendent of their coal business.  He was also engaged by various 
firms as bookkeeper, filling positions of trust with Haas & Fagely and 
John Dewees & Brother, in 1864 locating permanently at Shamokin, where 
in 1869 he established the business later conducted by his son, John B. 
Zimmerman, manufacturing wagons and carriages and dealing in harness.  
In 1877 he established the livery business which he carried on until his 
death, in 1893. He was president of a Shamokin banking concern.
	Mr. Zimmerman's career was a forceful example of what a man may 
accomplish by application and well directed energy. Though he had no 
advantages of means or education to aid him in his early struggles his 
intelligence and ambition carried him  over many hard places and won him 
a substantial position, not only as one who succeeded well in his 
private undertakings but who received unusual marks of confidence at the 
hands of his fellow citizens in the way of public honors. In 1870 he was 
elected chief burgess, and twice afterward was called to that office, in 
1876 and again in 1884, serving from 1884 to 1886.  He was a lifelong 
Democrat and ever active in promoting the interests of his party, in 
which he was a leader in his section. At the time of Lee's raid into 
Pennsylvania he joined Captain Bruner's Company at Sunbury. He was a 
Mason for over fifty years, belonging to Sunbury Lodge and 
Northumberland Chapter.
	In 1843 Mr. Zimmerman married Harriet M. Bright, daughter of Jacob 
Bright, a jeweler by trade, who died at Sunbury; Mr. Bright served in 
the war of 1812. Nine children were born to this marriage, two of whom 
died in infancy, the others being: Ella Lucy, who married J. B. 
Phillips, and died in Virginia; Harriet wife of Paul Roth, of Shamokin; 
John B.; George H., a painter of Shamokin, who married Sarah J. 
Drumheller and has three children, William, Ralph (former chief of the 
Shamokin fire department and now serving in the borough council) and 
Howard; Rosa, wife of Samuel Haas, of Shamokin; Milton E., born Aug. 22, 
1857, an attorney; and William Cameron, a painter, who lives in 
Philadelphia.

	John B. Zimmerman, son of Jeremiah H., was born May 22, 1851, in 
Sunbury, Northumberland county, and received his education in the public 
schools of Shamokin.  He followed the business of his father and 
grandfather, learning the trade of blacksmith, in which he met with 
unusual success. The carriage works established by his father in 1869, 
on Market street in a building 20 x 30 feet, grew steadily in size and 
importance until they occupied a commodious site at Independence and 
Market streets, the establishment including blacksmith and carriage 
shops and a large repository.  Twenty-five employees were steadily 
engaged, in the manufacture of wagons, carriages and all kinds of 
vehicles, and the patronage was drawn from a wide territory. The 
equipment and facilities for handling all branches of the business were 
added to as the demands of the trade required, being always up to 
standard, and his business was the foremost of the kind in the borough.  
In the spring of 1899 the business was moved to West Sixth street, in 
the vicinity of the high bridge, and Mr. Zimmerman died shortly after, 
on July 6, 1899. He was a very well known citizen of Shamokin, though he 
mingled little in public affairs, devoting himself almost entirely to 
the large business he had established.  He did, however, at the 
solicitation of his fellow citizens, serve as assistant burgess of the 
borough.  He was a stanch Democrat in political faith.
	On April 5, 1874, Mr. Zimmerman married Jane Newberry, of the 
borough of Northumberland, who survives him, making her home in 
Shamokin. Six children were born to this union: Ida May, Edward B., 
Harriet M., John, Clara and Grover Cleveland.

	Edward B. Zimmerman received his education in the public schools. 
After leaving school he at once joined his father at the factory, 
learning the business, and upon his father's death he became manager of 
the plant to which he devotes all of his time.  It is in a flourishing 
condition, fifteen skilled workmen being regularly employed, principally 
on custom work, turning out farm and spring wagons.  The trade is large, 
and includes general repair work as well as manufacturing. The building 
occupied is a fine, substantial structure, 44 x 100 feet in dimensions, 
and conveniently arranged. Mr. Zimmerman has shown himself to be 
possessed of both the executive ability and mechanical skill which have 
characterized the members of this family for generations, and he is also 
maintaining the family reputation for high standards of citizenship and 
personal worth.  He is well known in the ranks of the Democratic party, 
in whose interest he has been active. Fraternally, he belongs to the 
local lodge of Elks and to the Odd Fellows.
	Mr. Zimmerman married Sarah Pursley, of Union county, Pa., and they 
have had one daughter, Kathleen.

	FOLLMER. The Follmer family in Northumberland county is descended 
from Jacob Follmer, 
	
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who with his wife and one son, Michael, then a child, left Germany for 
America (Jacob's older brother, Michael, may have come with them). 
Finding the early home for the Germans in the Schoharie Valley, in New 
York, closed to them, he came in 1737 to Berks county, where he 
purchased land in the Tulpehocken settlement and built for himself a 
home.  There he reared his family and spent the remainder of his days. 
Two of his sons, Michael and George Jacob, came to Northumberland county 
in 1778 and settled in Turbut township.
	Michael Follmer, who was born in Germany Sept. 26, 1723, died near 
the Follmer Church Sept. 29, 1793, and he was interred in the old 
burying ground adjoining that church; his wife was also buried there. A 
man of intelligence and strong religious convictions, he labored 
earnestly for two things in his new home, religion and education. He and 
his sons donated the site for the Follmer Lutheran church and a farm of 
eight acres to the congregation and in his will he left £15 to the 
church then in process of construction and £10 toward building a 
schoolhouse, as well as £10 toward the teaching of poor children 
belonging to the church above mentioned. His wife Regina, whom he 
married in Berks county, was born June 18, 1730, and died Aug. 18, 1813. 
Nine children were born to their union: John (born Jan. 16, 1750), 
George (born Aug. 16, 1751), Adam, Frederick, Henry, Michael, Elizabeth, 
Magdaline and Catharine.  Their records and that of their posterity are 
given below in the order just named.

	John Follmer, eldest son of Michael, born Jan. 16, 1750, married 
Maria Elizabeth Geiger, who was born June 29, 1749, and died Oct. 3, 
1836. They were the parents of two children, John and Henry.
	John Follmer, son of John, born Oct. 12, 1775, died April 25, 1845. 
He married Elizabeth Bower, born Feb. 8, 1784, died May 13, 1853, and 
they had two children, Regina and Samuel. The latter, born March 6, 
1812, died Feb. 20, 1834. Regina Follmer, born June 23, 1804, died Aug. 
26, 1867. She married Jacob Hoffa, born May 20, 1800, died May 15, 1882, 
and they had a family of, seven children: (1) John, born May 3, 1826, 
died Dec. 20, 1894, married (first) Sarah Ann Schaeffer (born March 31, 
1829, died Dec. 7, 1864), (second) Mary G. Litchard (born Sept. 2, 1844, 
died Sept. 24, 1878) and (third) Margaret Follmer. His children were 
Catharine, Dr. Jacob P., Daniel, J. Follmer, W. Francis, Cora M. and 
Cyrus. (2) Samuel. (3) Cyrus married Margaret Auten.  (4) Reuben.  (5) 
Sarah Ann.  (6) Daniel H., born in 1830, died in 1832.  (7) A son died 
in infancy Dec. 22, 1834.

	Henry Follmer, younger son of John and Maria Elizabeth (Geiger) 
Follmer, born in 1777, died March 14, 1857.  He was the first of the 
family to settle on Limestone run, in Turbut township. He married Mary 
Elizabeth Geiger, who died Jan. 2, 1820, and for his second wife he 
married Eva Barbara Follmer, who died Feb. 23, 1857.  His six children, 
four by the first union and two by the second, were as follows: (1) 
Susan, born April 3, 1804, died Oct. 15, 1826.  (2) Daniel, born April 
13, 1806, is mentioned below.  (3) Salome, born Nov. 10, 1807, died 
Sept. 12, 1881. She married William Tobias, born Aug. 2, 1799, died Jan. 
7, 1886, and they were the parents of six children: Caroline, who 
married Franklin Grier and had children, Oliver, Daniel and Jeremiah; 
Henry, whose children were George, Harry and Mary (married Samuel 
Berkhimer); Mary, who married Jacob Stineman and had one son, William; 
William; Sarah, who married Samuel Hoy and had Calvin, Eva and Harry; 
and John. (4) William, born July 24, 1818, died Aug. 10, 1888.  He was 
an extensive farmer in Turbut, his native township, owning some three 
hundred acres, and a prominent citizen of his time, serving for many 
years as justice of the peace, and one term in the State Legislature, 
and he was well known in local business circles as president of the 
Danville Mutual Fire Insurance Company and as a stockholder and one of 
the incorporators of the Buffalo Milling Company of Lewisburg. He was a 
Democrat in politics, a Mason in fraternal connection (member of Milton 
Lodge, F. & A.M.) and a member of the Follmer Church.  He married 
Eleanor McWilliams (daughter of John), who died Dec. 27, 1876, and they 
had a family of twelve children: Mary E., born Dec. 20, 1839, died Feb. 
18, 1842; John H., born in 1841, married Jennie McLaughlin; Sarah E., 
born July 14, 1843, died Sept. 1, 1859; Margaret J., born July 14, 1843, 
married David Utt and had four children, William, Harry, Jessie and Mary 
M. (who married Rolland S. Follmer, mentioned below); Susanna A., born 
Jan. 12, 1847, married Thomas Rissel and had two children, Ella H. and 
John H.; Clara K., born Feb. 14, 1849, died Feb. 1, 1852; William L., 
born May 20, 1855, died June 5, 1855; Hannah R. was born May 3, 1857; 
Daniel G., born May 3, 1857, died Sept. 27, 1859; Mary E., born April 
17, 1859, died July 18, 1859; Martha H., born Sept. 6, 1860, died Oct. 
10, 1862; Francis M., born Feb. 16, 1867, educated in the public schools 
and at Bloomsburg Normal, married Elizabeth Hunty, and had two children.  
Mr. Follmer married (second) Mrs. Susanna M. (Follmer) Marsh.  (5) Anna, 
born March 28, 1824, died Jan. 30, 1892.  (6) Mary Magdalin, the 
youngest, was born April 22, 1826.

	DANIEL FOLLMER, son of Henry, was born April 13, 1806, on the old 
homestead in Turbut township, and there passed his entire life, buying 
about two hundred acres of the original farm taken up 
	
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by his ancestor, upon which was erected a fine stone house. He was a 
farmer throughout his active years, living retired for twenty years 
before his death, which occurred Aug. 19, 1887.  His farm, which was 
near the Follmer Church, is now owned by his son John S., of Milton. A 
prominent man in his district, he served in various township offices and 
for many years was a trustee of the Follmer Lutheran Church. In politics 
he was a Democrat up to the time of the Civil war.
	On Oct. 15, 1829, Mr. Follmer was married, by Rev. Henry Myers, to 
Sarah Lantz, born March 18, 1811, died Feb. 24, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. 
Follmer are buried at Follmer's Church. They were the parents of the 
following children: (1) Mary E., born Nov. 2, 1830, married Charles J. 
Engle and has three children: Emma, born May 14, 1853; David Franklin, 
born June 29, 1857, now of Philadelphia; and Sarah Elizabeth, born May 
28, 1860, who married Wallace Weidenhamer, son of Willington 
Weidenhamer.  (2) William G., born July 24, 1833, died in 1909, married 
Esther Hoy, who was born Sept. 4, 1837, and who survives him, residing 
in Milton. They had seven children: Newton, born June 11, 1860, a 
Lutheran minister, now located in Pittsburg, married Anna Maude Schoch 
and has three children, Ethel L., Frank S. and William H.; Daniel born 
Sept 30, 1861, is deceased; Sarah K., born March 21, 1863, married 
George M. Bucher and has three children, Harold, Esther R. and Robert 
L.; Ella P., born Nov. 4, 1865, married David C. Ditzler and has a 
family of six, Mabel E., Mary B., Nellie F., Marjory L., Leila C. and 
Frederick W.; Minnie A., born March 4, 1868, married John W. Berkhimer; 
Mary E., born Dec. 25, 1876, married David Corselt; Margaret I., born 
April 7, 1879, married Adam Yerg, and has one son, Adam Follmer. (3) 
Margaret Ann, born July 15, 1836, unmarried, is living at the homestead 
in Turbut township.  (4) Charles Franklin is mentioned below. (5) Sarah 
Elmira, born Oct. 8, 1840, married William Raup and they live in 
Chillisquaque township. (6) Daniel Henry is mentioned below. (7) Susanna 
L., born Feb. 3, 1846, unmarried, is living with her sister on the 
homestead. (8) John S., born July 18, 1851, received his early education 
in the public schools of Milton and at Limestone Academy, read medicine 
with Dr. C. H. Dougal and graduated from Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, 1876.  He had previously served an apprenticeship to the 
drug business, in which he engaged after practicing medicine one year, 
establishing himself in business at Milton, where he has a wide 
patronage and high reputation.  In 1879 he married Elizabeth B. Voris, 
daughter of Peter Voris, of Chillisquaque township, and they have two 
children, Frederick Voris and Malcolm Murray. In polities Dr. Follmer is 
a Democrat and he and his wife are members of the M. E. Church.

	CHARLES FRANKLIN FOLLMER, son of Daniel, was born Aug. 15, 1838, in 
Turbut township, on the old farm near the Follmer Church, and began his 
education in the local schools. Later he attended McEwensville Academy. 
He was reared to farming, and engaged in that calling until 1864, when 
he removed to Milton and entered the insurance business, in which he 
continued the remainder of his life, becoming very well known in his 
section in that connection. Representing the most reliable companies of 
America and England, he gained a large circle of patrons and made a 
notable success of the business. Other enterprises of the borough 
received his encouragement and substantial support, he having been a 
member of the Milton Gas Company (which he served some years as 
secretary and treasurer) and a director of the First National Bank of 
Milton. He was also a member of the Buffalo Milling Company, of 
Lewisburg. Upon the death of his father he purchased the old homestead 
where he was born, and he was the owner of that property at the time of 
his death, which occurred May 1, 1897.  Mr. Follmer is buried in the 
Upper cemetery at Milton. He was one of the most progressive citizens of 
his time in this region, and his death was regarded as a general loss, 
for he was active in many phases of the life of the community and a 
useful man in every relation of life. In early life he was a Lutheran, 
having been confirmed at the Follmer Church, but upon his removal to 
Milton he united with the Presbyterian Church. In politics he was a 
Democrat.
	In 1872 Mr. Follmer married Abbie A. Thomas, daughter of William F. 
Thomas, of Moorestown, N J, who, like his father, was a coal operator; 
the grandfather was located at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Follmer 
had two daughters: Henrietta, who married Lord Hartman Burr, a banker of 
Moorestown, N. J.; and Annie G., who lives with her mother.  Mrs. 
Follmer now makes her home at Moorestown, New Jersey.

	DANIEL HENRY FOLLMER, son of Daniel, born Aug. 19, 1843, died in 
January, 1909, and is buried at the Paradise Church. He received his 
education in the public schools and Milton Academy. He was a lifelong 
farmer, and in 1889 purchased the well known place in Turbut township 
known as the Abe Engle farm, which contains eighty-two acres of the most 
valuable land in the district In politics Mr. Follmer was a Democrat and 
he served two years as auditor of his township. With his family he 
belonged to the Follmer Lutheran Church, which he served as deacon. In 
1869 he married Rebecca C. Schaeffer, who now resides in Turbut township 
with her children, Rolland Sydney and Bertha Gertrude, the latter the 
wife of J. 
	
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Wesley Wolfe, of Turbut township, and the mother of one son, Glenn.
	Georg Schaefer, Mrs. Follmer's emigrant ancestor, was a native of 
the Rhine Valley, in southern Germany, born north of the Rhine, and 
landed at Philadelphia Aug. 13, 1750 making the voyage in the ship 
"Edinburgh."  Soon after coming to this country he settled in Richmond 
township, Berks county, where he obtained a warrant for a tract of land, 
and it is known he was a land owner in 1759.  His tract in that township 
is still in the possession of the family. The Schaeffer farms are among 
the best in the county. When the Revolution broke out he became captain 
of a company in the Colonial service. He died at an advanced age in 
1791-92.  His wife's maiden name was Reib, and they had a family of five 
children, Elizabeth (married John Bieber), Margaret (married Dewalt 
Bieber) Maria (married Michael Christman), Peter and Philip (the last 
named remaining on the homestead).

	Philip Schaefer, born in 1770 on the old homestead in Richmond 
township, became a successful agriculturist and was also an inventor of 
ability, manufacturing the first threshing machine in Berks county.  It 
was so successful that he continued to manufacture the machines the 
remainder of his life. His wife, Elizabeth (Fetherolf), was a 
granddaughter of Peter and Anna Maria (Rothermel) Feterolf, of Wachbach, 
Germany, and she died in 1849; Mr. Schaeffer surviving until January, 
1853. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, a Democrat in politics and in 
religious attachment a member of the Reformed Church.  His family of 
twelve children, all of whom were of unusually fine physique, tall and 
strong, and well proportioned, were as follows George, Peter, Isaac, 
Jonathan, Daniel, Philip, William, David, Sarah (married Jacob DeLong), 
Elizabeth (married Solomon Yoder), Anna Mara (married Isaac Merkel) and 
Esther (married Francis DeLong). Each of this family received a farm 
from the father.

	Peter Schaefer, grandfather of Mrs. Follmer, was born in 1799 in 
Maxatawny township, Berks county, and about 1824 came with his family to 
Northumberland county, making the journey by team.  He settled in Turbut 
township upon the farm now owned by Levi Stamm, a tract containing about 
175 acres, and there lived until his removal to Watsontown, where his 
death occurred in 1889 and where he is buried.  He was twice married, 
the children born to his first union being: Sarah (married John Hoffa), 
Catharine (married Benneville Leinbach), Elias, Peter, and Benneville 
(who is still living, in Kansas).  By the second marriage there were two 
children, William and Emma (married Frank Specht).

	Elias Schaefer, father of Mrs. Follmer, was born in 1821 in 
Maxatawny township, Berks county, and came with the family to 
Northumberland county when a child.  He was engaged in farming in 
Turbut township and was a well known citizen of his community.  He 
retired a few years before his death, which occurred Aug. 19, 1886.  Mr. 
Follmer married Elizabeth Glaze, daughter of Stephen Glaze, and she died 
Nov. 2, 1887; she was born in 1825.  Mr. and Mrs. Follmer are buried at 
the Paradise Church in Turbut township.  They were the parents of seven 
children Sarah married Levi Stamm and they live on the old Schaefer 
homestead in Turbut township; Rebecca C. married Daniel H. Follmer; 
Elizabeth married William Balliet; Emma married Harvey Stoudt, of 
Milton, Pa.; Stephen, Mary and Daniel all died young.

	ROLLAND SYDNEY FOLLMER, son of Daniel Henry and Rebecca C. 
(Schaefer) Follmer, was born in Turbut township July 27, 1871 and there 
began his education in the local schools. Later he was a pupil at 
McEwensville Academy and at Susquehanna University, at Selinsgrove, Pa.  
He remained at home, working with his father, until he commenced farming 
on his own responsibility, and he now has the home place of eighty-two 
acres, which under his care is in a most excellent state of cultivation.  
He is an intelligent and enterprising agriculturist, and his good 
judgment in the management of the place is everywhere in evidence.  So 
far he has devoted all his time to his own affairs, which are in a 
prosperous condition. He is a Democrat in politics, and in religion a 
member of the Follmer Lutheran Church.
	In March, 1891, Mr. Follmer married Mary M. Utt, daughter of David 
and Margaret J. (Follmer) Utt, and they have had three children, Rhea 
M., Bertha M. and Schaefer U.

	David Utt, Mrs. Follmer's father, was born Oct. 29, 1839, in 
Northampton county, Pa., son of David Utt and grandson of Adam Utt, of 
that county. The latter followed farming and hunting, and died in 
Northampton county. David Utt, son of Adam, a native of Northampton 
county, moved to Columbia county in 1840 and there followed farming the 
remainder of his life, dying in that county; he is buried there, in 
Greenwood township. He married Mary Adams, and their children were 
Jacob, Adam, William, George, David, Elias, Anna (died young) and 
Harriet (married Martin Mowery).
	David Utt, son of David, was a year old when his father settled in 
Columbia county, and remained with his father until he reached the age 
of eighteen.  In Greenwood township, Columbia county, he learned the 
trade of miller, which he followed for twenty-two years in Columbia and 
Northumberland counties, coming to the latter county in 1862 and 
settling in Turbut township, where he remained for six years.  At the 
end of that time he settled on the William Follmer farm, in the eastern 
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1878, purchasing the place, which contains 102 1/2 acres, in 1883. He 
has lived there ever since, devoting all his time to farming, in which 
he has prospered, and his property has been greatly improved during 
these years.
	Mr. Utt married Margaret J. Follmer, daughter of William and 
Eleanor (McWilliams) Follmer, and these children were born to them: 
William married Elizabeth Whomer, and has two children, Margaret and J. 
Clair; Jesse married Mamie Black, and their two children are David and 
Eleanor; Mary M. married Rolland S. Follmer.  This family attends the 
Lutheran Church.  Mr. Utt is a Democrat in politics and fraternally is a 
member of Pottsgrove Lodge, No. 623, I.O.O.F.

	George Follmer, son of Michael and grandson of Jacob, born Aug. 16, 
1751, died Nov. 9, 1830.  He married Eva Barber Moyer, and they were the 
parents of ten children, namely: John, George, Abraham, Joseph, Eve, 
Catharine, Elizabeth, Mary, Ann, and Ann Maria.  Of these,
	Abraham Follmer married Margaret Lantz and had children: Sarah; 
George; John, born Aug. 5, 1817, who died Nov. 2, 1841; Charles, born 
Dec. 29, 1815; Henry, born Aug. 28, 1822, who died Sept. 27, 1852; and 
Margaret Elizabeth.

	Charles Follmer, son of Abraham, followed farming, living on a farm 
near the paradise Church.  He died May 19, 1883, and is buried at that 
church. His wife, Theresie (Eshbach), born Aug. 15, 1815, died Nov. 16, 
1864.  They had a family of five children: Levi H., born Jan. 5, 1841, 
married Ellen Watts and lives at McEwensville, Pa.; Margaret C.,  born 
Nov. 11, 1842, married Samuel P. Lerch, who was born Oct. 23, 1839, and 
they have six children, Rev. Charles D. (born Nov. 17, 1868), Samuel E. 
(born Aug. 23, 1871), Mary T. (born Aug. 15, 1874), Amy F. (born Feb. 
23, 1878), Maggie I., and Sallie E. (born May 14, 1883); Sarah E., born 
Jan. 8, 1846, married William H. Miller (1840-1909), and had three 
children, Maggie I., Rosie T. and Carrie E.; Susan B., born Nov. 14, 
1847, married Josiah Baker, born June 17, 1856, and their children are 
Samuel, Daisy, Lucy and Maggie; Charles D., born June 3, 1857, married 
Susan M. Kerchner, who was born May 16, 1863, and they reside in 
McEwensville, Pennsylvania.

	Eve Follmer, daughter of George, married Henry Follmer, and they 
had two children: (1) Anna married Abraham S. Sypher, born Dec. 18, 
1821, died Oct. 9, 1895, and their children were Henry J. and Leah A.  
Henry J. Sypher, born May 19, 1848, married Julia Berkhimer, born Feb. 
24, 1849, and had five children: Anna M., born Oct. 18, 1869, who 
married Harvey J. Sones; William H.; George A., born May 19, 1873, who 
married Ida Kurtz,  born March 11, 1874; Veronica I., born May 21, 1876; 
and Bessie L., born Oct. 8, 1880. Leah A. Sypher, born in 1851, married 
J. W. Bricker, who was born in 1838, and had three children, Nathan, 
Anna E. and Laura M.  (2) Mary Magdalina, who married Joshua Cole, born 
July 4, 1818, had five children, born as follows: Sarah A., March 12, 
1849; Mary Eva, July 23, 1851; William W., Nov. 9, 1853; Daniel C., Oct. 
8, 1856; Calvin L., Feb. 5, 1859.

	Adam Follmer, third son of Michael, married Christian Bone, by whom 
he had nine children Adam, John, William, Jonathan, David, Simon, 
Solomon, Christian and Rosanna.
	Simon Follmer, son of Adam, born Sept. 12, 1799, died Dec. 15, 
1852. His first wife, Hannah Reinard, born Feb. 8, 1804, died Dec. 31, 
1834: his second, Rebecca Kohler, born May 1, 1813, died May 25, 1867. 
He was the father of thirteen children, five by the first marriage, 
eight by the second: (1) Rebecca, born Nov. 15, 1824, married Joseph 
Hamer, born Jan. 18, 1820, and was the mother of eleven children, Hannah 
E. (born April 18, 1845, married Thomas Mercer and had Clara L., 
Clarence, Frank Rebecca, Otis, Dora, Joseph, Hart and Zora) Simon F. 
(born July 14, 1847, married Margaret J. Schrerer, born May 2, 1855,, 
and had Mary R. Daisy E., Frank S., Fred F. and Dolly G.),  Catharine 
J., Harriet E. (born Aug 9, 1852 married William J. McHenry, born Dec. 
10 1849, and had William O., Margaret, Edward F., Joseph S., Bessie R. 
and Charles A.), James A., Joseph, Charles W., Margaret D., Lucy M., 
Anna R. (married John Ganville and had Mary R., Samuel J., Alva C. and 
Lizzie M.), and Nellie L. (2) Mary Ann died young. (3) Susanna M. 
married William Follmer, who is mentioned later in this article.  (4) 
Margaret, born June 3, 1831, married Miner Gulich Marsh, born April 9, 
1824, and they had  three children: Spencer Follmer, born May 18, 185_, 
who died June 7, 185-; Charles Newton, born June 25, 1858; and 
Harriet Clementine, born Nov. 7, 1861, who married Charles Moll.  (5) 
Catharine, born April 23, 1834, died Jan. 1, 1857, and is buried in the 
old cemetery at Milton.  (6) Daniel K.  (7) Mary Emma, born Oct. 19, 
1837, died Feb. 2, 1842, and is buried in the old cemetery at Milton.  
(8) Samuel H.  (9) Amelia C. (10) Louisa J.  (11) Barbara S.  (12) 
Martin L. died young.  (13) Clara M.

	Solomon Follmer, son of Adam, born Dec. 11, 1829, died Jan. 10, 
1880.  He married Elizabeth Swartz, born Aug. 7, 1830, and to their 
union were born four sons: (1) John S., born July 17, 1854, married Mary 
Harmon, born April 29, 1857, and they had one child, Orrell Myrtle, born 
April 10, 1881.  (2) Charles F., born May 23, 1856, married Flora 
Schuyler, who was born in 1860, and died June 24, 1882, the mother of 
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Anna (Orbits), was born Sept. 5, 1858. (3) William P., born July 16, 
1858, married Ada S. Corson, born Nov. 22, 1862, and they have one son, 
Raymond Oscar, born June 26, 1883.  (4) Foster M., born April 28, 1860, 
died Nov. 1, 1881.
	Frederick Follmer, son of Michael, married Barbara Geiger, and they 
had three children: Daniel, born March 13, 1786; Susan, who married 
Joseph Mackey; and Regina, who married James Donalson.
	Daniel Follmer, son of Frederick, married Margaret Reed, who was 
born Aug. 31, 1789, and they had a family of seven children, as follows: 
John R.; Daniel G., born Nov. 11, 1826; Sarah; Cynthia, born Dec. 20, 
1815; Jane W., born May 8, 1813; Elizabeth, born Aug. 2, 1818 (married 
Robert Caldwell); and Maria, born May 10, 1810 (married John Foresman).

	Henry Follmer, son of Michael, inherited a tract of land near 
Milton from his father. He was an active member of the Follmer Lutheran 
Church. He married Susan Stahl, who died in 1861, aged eighty-nine 
years, eleven months, nineteen days, long surviving Mr. Follmer, who had 
passed away in 1822, aged fifty-four years, nineteen days. Their 
children were: Philip, Thomas, Andrew, Mary (married Michael Brown) and 
Elizabeth.
	Philip Follmer, son of Henry, married and had children: Samuel and 
Philip Henry.
	Thomas Follmer, son of Henry, married and had children: Henry and 
William.
	Andrew Follmer, son of Henry, received a common school education, 
and lived on a sixty-eight-acre tract which he inherited. He was an 
elder of the Reformed Church at the time of his death. He married Mary 
Pool, a native of Mercer county, Pa., who died in 1863, aged sixty-seven 
years; Mr. Follmer died March 29, 1862. They had two sons, Henry Philip 
and Reuben T., the latter dying first.

	Henry Philip Follmer, son of Andrew, was born Dec. 28, 1819, on the 
farm where he always lived, and was the fourth in direct line to own 
that property. He received a good education in the schools of the day, 
and followed farming and gardening, after his father's death purchasing 
the farm, where the latter had also been born. He served his township as 
school director and in other offices; and was jury commissioner for 
three years.  He was a Republican in politics, and in religion he and 
his family adhered to the German Reformed Church, in which he served as 
elder.  On Feb. 22, 1887, he and his sons established a green grocery at 
Milton.  In 1849 Mr. Follmer married Mary Jane Crawford, who was a 
daughter of Elijah Crawford, of Northumberland county, and to them were 
born children as follows: Alfred C., Sarah (wife of Jesse Server, of 
Milton), Lewis L. (who married Cora Barber, daughter of Anthony Barber, 
of Lewis township), Harvey W. (of Milton, who married Alma Foresman, 
daughter of Thomas Foresman, of Union county, Pa.), Andrew, Elijah, 
Eleanor C. and Edward.
	Michael Follmer, son of Michael, married Elizabeth Berger.
	Elizabeth Follmer, daughter of Michael, married Adam Christ, and 
had children: Adam, George, Henry, John, Maria, Elizabeth, Eve, 
Catharine, Martha and Sarah.
	Magdaline Follmer, daughter of Michael, married Christian Van 
Gundy, and had children: John, George, Adam, Jacob, Ann. Their children 
live at and near Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
	Catharine Follmer, daughter of Michael, married George Jacob 
Follmer, who was born April 16, 1768, son of George Jacob, Sr., and 
grandson of Jacob, the emigrant ancestor of the family. They were 
cousins.

	George Jacob Follmer, son of Jacob and brother of Michael, was born 
in December, 1738, in Berks county, Pa. He was a notable man of this 
section in his time, serving five years as a soldier in the 
Revolutionary war, as member of the Pennsylvania House of 
Representatives in 1794 and again from 1798 to 1802, and in 1803 he was 
elected to the State Senate, dying Aug. 24, 1804, before the expiration 
of his term as senator. He was a Democrat in politics. He married Anna 
Catharine Walter, born Feb. 9, 1742, who died Aug. 15, 1808, and they 
had a large family, viz.: (1) Anna Margaret, born April 17, 1762, 
married William Gouger, and had children:  William, Jacob, George, 
Nicholas, Benjamin, John, Daniel, and Mary Elizabeth (died Jan. 2, 
1820).  (2) John, born Dec. 23, 1763, died Feb. 1, 1767. (3) Anna 
Catharine, born April 25, 1766, married John Gertner, and had children: 
Mary married Jacob Marsh; Susan married John Butler; John died young; 
Catharine married John Rynearson; Eliza married Adam Schaeffer; 
Christian married Peter Gertner; Jacob married Mary Swartz; George 
married Mary Shumaker.  (4) George Jacob was born April 16, 1768.  (5) 
John, born June 20, 1770, died Jan. 10, 1786.  (6) Henry, born July 16, 
1772, married Catharine Stoneman.  (7) Anna Mary, born Sept. 3, 1774, 
married Frederick Deiffenbach.  (8) Benjamin, born Dec. 7, 1776, died 
June 17, 1788.  (9) Elizabeth, born July 7, 1779, married John 
Dieffenbach.  (10) William, born Sept. 26, 1781, married Molly Machamer. 
(11) Michael; born Jan. 19, 1784, married Catharine Dieffenbacher.  (12) 
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	Col. Daniel C. Follmer, born in Northumberland county June (or 
March) 9, 1786, was colonel of a militia company for many years and 
served with that rank in the war of 1812. He was a leading citizen of 
his day, and served one term as associate judge of Montour county. 
Farming was his occupation. He was a member of the Reformed Church, 
which he served as elder. His death occurred in the seventies.  His 
first wife; Susanna Deiffenbach, a native of Columbia county, Pa., died 
in 1836, and he subsequently married. Rachel Grier.  There were eight 
children by the first union, born as follows:  Catharine, March 10, 
1810; Conrad, June 20, 1812 (went to Kansas); Elizabeth, March 3, 1815; 
Margaret Ann, March 24, 1817; Mary, April 3, 1819 (married John A. 
Eschbach and moved to Iowa); Susanna, Nov. 18, 1821; Jacob Michael, May 
3, 1825; William Henry, Dec. 1, 1828 (died July 1, 1866). By the second 
marriage there was one child, Martha Ellen, born Feb. 6, 1840, who died 
April 9, 1852.

	Jacob M. Follmer, son of Col. Daniel C., was born May 3, 1825, at 
Limestoneville, in Limestone township, Montour Co., Pa., and received 
his education in the public schools and at Danville Academy.  He 
followed farming, lumbering and stock raising, meeting with success in 
all those lines, and in his later years engaged in the insurance 
business, representing several of the strongest companies.  In 1863 he 
enlisted in Company E, 37th Militia, received the appointment of 
regimental quartermaster and served as such until honorably discharged, 
Aug. 4, 1863.  He was a charter member of Bryson Post, G.A.R., at 
Watsontown, and served as chaplain of Henry Wilson Post, at Milton.  
Fraternally Mr. Follmer was connected with the Masonic Blue Lodge for 
twelve years and with the Royal Arch Masons three years. He represented 
his district one term in the House of Representatives, to which he was 
elected in 1888. He was an active member of the German Reformed Church, 
serving several terms as elder and many years as superintendent of the 
Sunday school.
	In 1850 Mr. Follmer married Susan, daughter of John P. Hackenberg, 
of Northumberland county, and children as follows were born to them: 
Emma; Matilda, who married C. G. Wilson; Edward H., who died May 12, 
1856, when one year old; Ada L., who married J. G. Bower, of Watsontown; 
William H.; Roland B., of Philadelphia and John H., born July 23, 1868, 
who died April 10, 1900.

	WILLIAM H. FOLLMER, M. D., son of Jacob M. was born Aug. 13, 1856, 
at Milton, and there began his education in the public schools. He 
graduated from the high school at Watsontown, and then read medicine 
with Dr. J. B. Ely, at Milton, later entering Hahnemann Medical College, 
at Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated in 1882. In the 
spring of the same year he located at Milton for practice, and there he 
remained until his removal to Williamsport, in 1909.  Dr. Follmer has 
gained a wide patronage and considerable reputation in his profession, 
and he has been identified with the best homeopathic organizations, 
local and State, being a member of the Hahnemann Medical Institute, the 
State Homeopathic Medical Society (which he served as committeeman), the 
Milton Medical Society and the West Branch Homeopathic Society (covering 
Elk, Clinton, Lycoming, Union, Blair and Northumberland counties), of 
which latter he has been president.  Socially he holds membership in 
Milton Lodge, No. 256, F. & A.M.; Warrior Run Chapter, R.A.M., and 
Milton Lodge, No. 913, B.P.O. Elks.
	Dr. Follmer married Hettie L. Brown, who was born Jan. 30, 1861, 
daughter of the late Cyrus Brown, a prominent druggist of Milton.  She 
died Jan. 29, 1899, leaving one son, Cyrus Brown, born May 17, 1894. In 
1909 the Doctor married again.

	WILLIAM FOLLMER (deceased), born July 24, 1818, son of Henry and 
Mary Elizabeth (Geiger) Follmer, married (second) Susanna M. (Follmer) 
Marsh, widow of William Kase Marsh and daughter of Simon Follmer.  She 
was born Sept. 25, 1828, in Turbut township, and first married William 
Kase Marsh, who was born in 1826, and died Jan. 22, 1868. He is buried 
in the upper cemetery at Milton. Three children were born to this union: 
(1) James Ambrose Marsh married Mary Waldron, daughter of William and 
Anna (Hilgert) Waldron, granddaughter of Lafferd Waldron (who came to 
this county in 1785) and great-granddaughter of Cornelius Waldron (who 
came to America and settled in New Jersey in 1764, and served as a 
captain in the Revolutionary war). Mr. and Mrs. James Ambrose Marsh are 
the parents of three children: Annabella, who is the wife of John Epley 
and has two children, Margarite and J. A. (this family lives in 
Michigan); Uana Lorine, Mrs. Newcomer, who has one child, Mary Marsh; 
and William Edgar, who married and has one child, James.  (2) William 
Griggs Marsh, M. D., married Emma Klapp and has one daughter, Annie M., 
now the wife of M. Y. Leinbach.  (3) Burton Lincoln Marsh married 
Rebecca Sharer and has one son, Hiram W.
	Isaac Marsh, grandfather of William Kase Marsh, married Ellonana 
Griggs and lived in New Jersey. Their children were: Isaac, Daniel and 
Griggs.

	Griggs Marsh, father of William Kase Marsh, was born in New Jersey, 
and died in Milton. He was married four times, his first wife being 
Catharine Kase, by whom he had three children: Ellen, wife of Peter 
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and William Kase, who married Susanna M. Follmer.  For his second wife 
Mr. Marsh married Elizabeth Smith, and to their union were born seven 
children: John; Griggs, who married Kate Fichthorn; Isaac, who married 
Mary Baker; Joseph; Daniel, who married Eliza Fox; Annie, who married 
James Lester; and James D., who married Ella Hotz.  Mr. Marsh's third 
wife was Kate Christey, his fourth Kate Douty, by whom he had one son, 
Calvin D.

	WILLIAM H. H. OTTO (deceased) passed away before he had even 
reached his prime, yet he had attained a prominent place in the business 
life of the city of Shamokin, Northumberland county, where he had lived 
and worked from young manhood. He was a member of the firm of Seiler, 
Zimmerman, Otto & Co., one of the largest grocery jobbing houses in 
central Pennsylvania, for several years prior to his decease.
	Mr. Otto was born Oct. 31, 1863, in Snyder county, Pa., but he came 
of a Northumberland county family, his great-grandfather having come to 
this county from Berks county in an early day, and the Ottos have been 
numerously represented here ever since.  The Federal Census Report of 
1790 records Henry and George Otto as residents of Northumberland county 
then heads of families.
	Conrad Otto, great-grandfather of William H. H. Otto, was born 
about 1766, and was an early resident of Jackson township, 
Northumberland county, living in the vicinity of Mahanoy the greater 
part of his life. He is said to have lived earlier at Trevorton, this 
county.  He lived to an advanced age, and he and his wife, Barbara 
(Seiler) (born March 24, 1769, died Jan. 20, 1857), are buried at the 
Mahanoy Church known as St. Peter's.  He worked as a laborer.  Conrad 
and Barbara (Seiler) Otto had: Adam (born March 1, 1808, died Feb. 27, 
1861), John and Bevvy, Mrs. Peifer (she had one daughter, Betty, who 
married a man named Michael, and both Mrs. Peifer and her daughter, Mrs. 
Michael, died in Illinois).
	Johan C. Otto, born Jan. 22, 1770, died Nov. 5, 1854, and buried at 
St. Peter's Church, at Mahanoy, was undoubtedly a brother of Conrad.

	John Otto, son of Conrad and Barbara (Seiler) Otto, was born in 
Berks county May 7, 1804, and came  to  Jackson  township,  
Northumberland county, with his father early in the nineteenth century. 
He was a cobbler by trade, but in time gave his attention to farming, 
owning a farm in Jackson township, And he was also engaged on the 
construction of the Schuylkill canal.  He died Aug. 3, 1886, at Herndon, 
where he had lived retired for nearly twenty years.  John Otto was twice 
married, his first union being to Rebecca Groh, born Oct. 28, 1810, who 
died Dec. 20, 1845, the mother of the following children: Washington; 
Caroline, who married Gabriel Adams and now lives at Mandata, 
Northumberland county, over seventy years old; Harriet, who married 
Josiah Schaffer and lives at Hickory Corners, this county; Abbie, 
deceased, who was the wife of H. S. Byerly; and William C., deceased. By 
his second marriage, to Lydia Leader, who was born Nov. 23, 1807, and 
died March 12, 1889, John Otto had children as follows:  Rebecca married 
Isaiah Snyder, of Millersburg, Pa.; Samuel died at Verdon, Nebr., April 
18, 1907.

	Washington Otto, son of John, was born May 4, 1833, in Cameron 
township, Northumberland county, and died June 24, 1897, at Mahanoy, 
where he is buried, at St. Peter's Church.  He was a trustee of that 
church at the time of his death.  Mr. Otto was a plasterer and stone 
mason, and followed his trade in his earlier life, later devoting 
himself to farming and commercial pursuits.  He established the coal, 
bark and lumber business at Otto station, on the Herndon branch of the 
Philadelphia & Reading railroad, which grew to large and profitable 
proportions under his able management, and had a farm of 140 acres. Otto 
Station was named after him.
	On Aug. 2, 1860, Washington Otto married Harriet Bower, and to them 
were born twelve children. We have the following record of the family:  
William H. H., born Oct. 31, 1863; Abraham L., born April 22, 1865; 
Agnes, who is unmarried; George L., who died Jan. 1, 1908, aged forty 
years; Mary, wife of E. S. Hilbush, a farmer, living near Otto station; 
Lydia, wife of D. P. Russell, of Otto station, the engineer at the 
pumping station; John C., born in 1874, who died Nov. 3, 1899, on his 
twenty-fifth birthday; Edw. J., born Feb. 11, 1877; and Cora, wife of 
George S. Wilson, a resident of Barto, Pa., in the employ of the 
Standard Oil Company.

	William H. H. Otto came to Northumberland county with his parents 
when a boy and received his early education here in the public schools, 
also attending the academy at New Berlin, Union Co., Pa. He continued to 
work at farming with his father until his twenty-first year, in 1883 
coming to Shamokin, where he became a clerk in the employ of Seiler & 
Zimmerman.  He remained in that connection until his death.  By strict 
attention to business, and giving evidence of more than average ability, 
he rose in the confidence of his employers to such an extent that in 
1896 he was taken into  partnership, the firm becoming Seiler, 
Zimmerman, Otto & Co. The house did a very successful business, being 
one of the largest one of the largest jobbing establishments in the 
grocery line in central Pennsylvania, and Mr. Otto was considered a 
valuable man throughout the period of his relations with the firm.  He 
died in March, 1902, at the age of thirty-eight years, mourned by his 
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ness and personal friends, who were many, as well as by his family.  The 
firm is now Seiler, Zimmerman & Seiler.
	Mr. Otto was a member of the Reformed Church and took an active 
part in its work, serving his church as deacon, as financial secretary 
of the church board and as a teacher in the Sunday school, having a 
class of young men.
	In 1888 Mr. Otto married Katie A. Glatfelter, daughter of Peter and 
Charlotte (Arnold) Glatfelter, of Juniata county, Pa., near Richfield, 
who had a family of eleven children,, namely: Refena, Emma, Henry, 
Calvin, Elizabeth, Jacob, Phebe, Katie A. (Mrs. Otto), Ellen Daniel and 
Austin.
	Mr. and Mrs. Otto had two children: C. Alva, born July 3, 1891, 
graduated from the Shamokin high school with the class of 1909; Walso, 
born Sept. 18, 1893, is attending the high school.  The family occupy 
the fine residence at No. 133 North Eighth street, Shamokin, which Mr. 
Otto erected in 1891.  

	PHILLIPS. The Phillips (Philips) family to which Elias Philips and 
Benjamin Phillips, brothers, and farmers in Jordan and Lower Mahanoy  
township, Northumberland county, respectively, belong is of old Berks 
county stock, the progenitors of the line in this county having settled 
in that part of Burn township Berks Co., Pa., now embraced in Center 
township, that county.  From this locality came several of the name to 
Northumberland county, settling in Mahanoy township.
	The brothers named trace their descent from early Berks county 
settlers through two lines, maternal as well as paternal,  their mother, 
Susanna (Phillips), having been a daughter of Georg Phillips, the first 
of his line to come to this county. He was born in Berks county March 
24, 1774, and died April 8, 1852. His wife, Sarah (Fuchs), died Sept. 
25, 1836, aged sixty-one years, three months, twenty-six days.  They are 
buried at Zion's (Stone Valley) Church in what is now Lower Mahanoy 
township.  
	Their children were: John;  Heinrich (born Jan. 9, 1803, died Oct. 
23, 1853); Maricha, who married Peter Brosius; Elizabeth, who married 
Peter Witmer; Catharine (born April 9, 1805, died Sept. 30, 1889), who 
married Michael Witmer (born March 29, 1804, died Jan. 28, 1842); Sally, 
who married Heinrich Fox; Christine, who died unmarried; and Susanna, 
who married Jacob Phillips.

	Solomon Phillips, the progenitor of the family in America, came to 
this country in the ship "Phoenix," Capt. John Mason, which arrived at 
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 28, 1750, he being the only Phillips among the 
339 passengers. He settled in Bern (now Center) township, where many of 
the name now reside, and lived to advanced years, as did his son 
Michael.  He reared a large family, two of his sons being Michael and 
Heinrich.  Michael's son, John H., attained the age of 105 years, and 
the latter's son Jacob lived to be ninety-two years old.
	Heinrich Phillips resided near Belleman's Church, where he and 
his wife Esther (Mogel) lie buried.  They reared children as follows:  
Peter, Jacob, John, Samuel, John Adam, and several daughters.

	Jacob Phillips, father of Elias and Benjamin Phillips, was born in 
Berks county, and came to Northumberland county when eighteen years old. 
He settled in Lower Mahanoy township, where be found work among farmers, 
one of whom was Georg Phillips, whose daughter Susanna he afterward 
married. After his marriage he commenced farming on his own account in 
Lower Mahanoy, where he remained a number of years, moving thence to a 
farm he purchased in Jordan township, the property now owned by his son 
Elias.  He cultivated this place for several years, later purchasing the 
George Phillips farm in Lower Mahanoy, to which he moved, making his 
home thereon until his death, which occurred there April 20, 1862, when 
he was fifty-four years, ten months, four days old.  So well had he 
prospered by steady industry that at the time of his death he owned the 
two farms mentioned and one in Snyder county, and had several thousand 
dollars in money.  He and his wife Susanna, who died Aug. 16, 1892, at 
the age of eighty-one years, eight months, twelve days, are buried at 
the Zion's (Stone Valley) Church.  They were the parents of fourteen 
children, seven sons and seven daughters, viz.: Isaac, Elias, Benjamin, 
John, William, George, Jacob, Sarah (who died May 15, 1895, aged fifty-
eight years, nine months, six days, married William Schaffer, who died 
May 6, 1895, aged fifty-nine years, one month, twenty-four days), Ann 
(married Samuel Spotts), Catharine (married Isaac Spotts, brother of 
Samuel, who married  her sister), Malinda (married Isaac Trego), Susanna 
(married Emanuel Boyer), Lizzie (married Frank Dreibelbis) and Emma J. 
(died young).

	ELIAS PHILIPS was born Oct. 30, 1832, in the western part of Berks 
county, and was about two years old when his parents returned to 
Northumberland county. When a young child he went to live with his 
maternal grandfather, Georg Phillips, who owned a large farm on the 
banks of the Susquehanna river in Lower Mahanoy township. He remained in 
his grandfather's household until about eighteen years old, when he 
returned to his father, who was then on the farm which he himself now 
owns and occupies, Elias Philips having come into possession of it upon 
his father's death. This place, which is one mile west of Urban, in 
Jordan township, contains 162 acres of the very best land in the 
locality, and is nearly level; Mr. Philips has large fields, on one of 
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hundred bushels of wheat about 1900.  The place was originally settled 
by members of the Lesher family, and the barn still standing was erected 
by Jacob Lesher.  The old house was burned Feb. 28, l908, having taken 
fire at 2 o'clock  in the morning, and the family escaped narrowly. The 
present dwelling was put up by Mr. Philips the same year. He is a man 
respected for the useful and industrious life he has led, useful to 
others as well as promoting his own affairs. He served his township as 
supervisor and as a school director when the free school system was 
established in this region and the school houses were built during the 
late sixties.  In religious matters he and his family are Lutherans, 
belonging to St. Paul's Church at Urban, which Mr. Philips served many 
years in official capacities, being deacon, elder and trustee, giving up 
these duties only when advancing age made it advisable.  He is a 
Democrat in political opinion.
	On Aug. 29, 1854, Mr. Philips married Kate Krissinger, daughter of 
John and Esther (Bush) Krissinger, and they had children as follows: 
Sarah (married Wilson Schadel), Lewis, Kate (married Rudolph Schlegel), 
George J., Jane (married Isaac Michael), Elias K., John, Susanna 
(married Aaron Updegraft) and Agnes (married John Strohecker and a Mr. 
Troxler). Mrs. Philips died June 5, 1889, aged fifty-two years, ten 
months, two days.

	ELIAS K. PHILIPS, son of Elias, was born Oct. 19, 1862, on his 
father's farm, and was reared to farm life, working for his father until 
he became of age.  In the spring of 1890 he began farming on his 
father's property, which is considered the finest place in the Stone 
Valley, continuing there for a period of six years, four years in 
partnership with his brother George and two years alone. In the spring 
of 1896 he came to his present place in the Stone Valley, in Jordan 
township, comprising seventy-five acres which formerly belonged to 
William Shaffer and earlier to the Lesher family.  It is limestone soil 
and in excellent condition, Mr. Philips having made numerous 
improvements during his ownership, repairing and adding to the 
buildings, putting into practice the most approved ideas on modern 
agriculture, and in various ways adding materially to the value of the 
property.  Close by he owns another tract, containing thirty-nine acres 
a little south of his home place, and there is a set of buildings on 
that property also. He is known as one of the most enterprising men in 
his district and well deserves the reputation.  He is at present serving 
as supervisor of Jordan township, and has also held the offices of tax 
collector and school director. He is an active Democrat, taking 
considerable interest in the success of the party. The Lutheran Church 
at Urban, with which the Phillips family has been identified for several 
generations, also claims him and his family  among the working members, 
and he is at present acting as church treasurer and as a member of the 
cemetery committee. He has been deacon, elder and trustee of that 
congregation.
	On May 10, 1888, Mr. Phillips married Sarah Jane Geise, daughter 
of the late Daniel and Froenica (Trautman) Geise, also of Jordan, and to 
them have been born three children, Charles Jay, Edward and Katie 
Jemima.

	GEORGE J. PHILLIPS, son of Elias, was born on his father's farm in 
Jordan township March 16, 1867. He was reared to farming, working for 
his father until he reached the age of twenty-three, whence he commenced 
agricultural pursuits on his own account on the homestead. He was in 
partnership there with his brother Elias four years,  lived elsewhere 
for two years and then, returning to the home place, farmed it alone for 
three years.  During the two years mentioned he was on the Wert farm in 
the same valley.  For five years he lived in Toad Valley, on the farm of 
his father-in-law, Jacob Michael, coming to his present place, in Lower 
Augusta township, along the Susquehanna, in the spring of 1904, having 
purchased it the previous fall.  It was formerly the George Seiler 
homestead, and comprises 140 acres of fertile land, being one of the 
extra good farms in the region.  There are good building's on the place, 
the best in this section, and the large barn is comparatively new, 
having been built in 1900 by Aris Seiler, son of George.  Mr. Phillips 
has modern machinery and has prospered by up-to-date methods combined 
with industry and good management.  He keeps his place up to the mark 
all the time, and though his buildings and equipment are first-class it 
is his thrift and intelligent use of his resources which deserve special 
mention. The water supply on the place is unusually good, and most 
conveniently arranged, the barn mentioned being particularly well 
favored in this respect.  It has other sanitary arrangements, cemented 
stables, entries, etc., which commend themselves to the modern farmer. 
It is considered one of the model barns of Northumberland county.
	On Jan. 18, 1890, Mr. Phillips was married to Mary Michael, 
daughter of Jacob and Catharine (Bobb) Michael, and five children have 
been born to this union, namely  Harry E., May K., Ray G., Lee J. and 
William R.
	Mr. Phillips and his family are members of the Stone Valley Church  
(Zion's), he being a member of the Lutheran congregation, and Mrs. 
Phillips belonging to the Reformed congregation.  He has held the office 
of deacon.  He is a Democrat in polities, and is at present holding the 
office of school director of Lower Augusta township.

	Isaac Phillips, son of Jacob, began farming in partnership with his 
brother Elias, of Jordan township, on the farm where the latter still 
lives.  After a number of years residence there he moved to 
	
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the farm of his grandfather, George Phillips, in Lower Mahanoy township, 
remaining at that place for over twenty years. He was then a tenant for 
one year in the same township, and thence removed to Juniata county, 
Pa., where he owned a thirty-acre farm upon which he lived until about 
six months before his death. He died near Dalmatia Oct. 28, 1902, aged 
seventy-one years, three months, eleven days, at the home of his son 
Isaac F. Phillips. He is buried at Stone Valley (Zion's) Church, and was 
a member and officer of the Lutheran congregation of that church, to 
which his family also belonged, his wife, however, being a member of the 
Reformed congregation there. In politics he was a Republican, and he 
served many years in the office of supervisor in his township. His wife, 
Catharine (Freymoyer), daughter of Jacob Freymoyer (whose wife's maiden 
name was Klock), is also buried at the Stone Valley Church. They had 
children as follows: Emma, Mrs. Daniel Tyson; Lizzie, Mrs. Newton 
Schaffer; Jacob; John F.; Isaac F.; Senera; and William, Emanuel and 
George, all of whom died young.

	Jacob Phillips, a prosperous farmer of Lower Mahanoy township, was 
born Oct. 5, 1861, in Jordan township, and was less than a year old when 
his parents moved to Lower Mahanoy township. He was reared to farming, 
which he began on his own account in 1892 in the southwestern part of 
the township, being a tenant on the Charles Koppenhaver farm for four 
years. In the spring of 1896 he moved to the farm whereon he has since 
resided, a tract of 106 acres, fertile land, nicely located and well 
watered, which under his care has been maintained in a fine state of 
cultivation. It is between Stone Valley Church and Uniontown (Pillow), 
and was formerly the homestead of Christophel Witmer. It has been in the 
Witmer name for considerably over one hundred years, and is at present 
owned by Hon. Charles B. Witmer in partnership with Mr. Phillips. Since 
1880 Mr. Phillips has been engaged in threshing, in which line he is the 
leading man in his section, threshing as much as twenty thousand bushels 
of grain in a season. He has a fine Peerless outfit, and is prepared to 
do anything in that line that comes his way. He has been a school 
director of lower Mahanoy township since 1903.
	Mr. Phillips married Maggie Witmer, daughter of Isaac and Susanna 
(Bubb) Witmer, and a sister of Hon. C. B. Witmer, one of the foremost 
citizens of Northumberland county.  Eight children have been born to 
this union, namely: Annie, Harry, Fred, Alice, Molly, Clarence, Milton 
and Minerva.  Mr. Phillips and his family are members of the Stone 
Valley Church, and he served some years as deacon. Politically he is a 
Republican.

	BENJAMIN PHILLIPS, son of Jacob and brother of Elias, was born 
March 23, 1838, in Lower Mahanoy township, where he was reared to farm 
life. He began farming on his own account in 1858, on one of his 
father's properties near his present place, and remained there one year.  
Then, in partnership with his brother Elias, he purchased the farm in 
Jordan township where the latter now lives, and they were together on 
that place for three years, at the end of which time Elias Philips 
bought the property, Benjamin Phillips coming to his present place in 
the Stone Valley. This was the old home of Isaac Dreibelbis, who came 
from Berks county and who in his day was one of the characters of this 
region, the older settlers still recalling many pleasant memories of 
"Essack's Schlissel."  He operated a tannery on the place, and the old 
foundation is still standing. Mr. Phillips has 110 acres of the finest 
land in the township well located and under a fine state of cultivation, 
the owner possessing the thrifty and industrious habits and faculty for 
good management characteristic of his family. He built the present barn 
in 1895, part of the house in 1894, the old part being remodeled.
	On Dec. 11, 1859, Mr. Phillips married Harriet Rothermel, daughter 
of Charles Rothermel and granddaughter of Abraham Rothermel. Mr. and 
Mrs. Phillips celebrated the golden anniversary of their wedding Dec. 
11, 1909, amid a large concourse of relatives and friends who came to do 
them honor and to wish them many more years of happiness and prosperity.  
Eleven children blessed their union:  Sevilla married James Ferster; 
Chilion is a farmer in Lower Mahanoy township; Frank died in his twenty-
seventh year (he was married); Charles lives in Lykens Valley, in 
Dauphin county; George W. died young; Lizzie married John A. Spotts; 
Nettie married Jere Radel, of Dalmatia: Elias lives on and farms the 
homestead; Isaac is a resident of Lykens Valley; Katie married Conway 
Bohner; James died young. Mr. Phillips and his family are Lutheran 
members of Zion's (Stone Valley) Church, in which he was an active 
worker for many years, serving as deacon, elder and trustee.  He is a 
Democrat in politics.

	CHILION PHILLIPS,  son of Benjamin, was born Sept. 2, 1861, on one 
of the Jacob Phillips farms, and he has been interested in farm work all 
his life.  He worked for his parents until he reached his  majority, 
after which, for eleven years, he followed threshing, during the latter 
part of this period also engaging in farming in Lower Mahanoy township.  
Since 1893 he has devoted his energies to farming. During the he 
purchased the farm near Hickory Corners in the Stone Valley,  where he 
now lives,  one of the John Kiebel homesteads. which consists of fifty-
nine acres of the most fertile land in this productive belt.  Mr. 
Phillips put up his present barn in 1902 and his other buildings in 
1904.  He is a 
	
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substantial and successful farmer, believing in both up-to-date methods 
and old-fashioned industry, a combination which, in the results he has 
obtained, speaks for itself.  He is a Democrat, and has served one term 
as school director.  He and his family are Lutheran members of the 
Zion's Union Church of Stone Valley, and he has served as deacon.
	In March, 1884, Mr. Phillips married Sarah B. Ferster, daughter of 
David and Judith (Brosius) Ferster and granddaughter of Peter Ferster. 
They have had three children: Katie, wife of David Lenker, a school 
teacher and farmer; Gertie, who died aged nine years; and Charles B.

	WILLIAM PHILLIP'S, son of Jacob and brother of Elias and Benjamin, 
was born Oct. 17, 1841, on his father's farm, and received his education 
in the old-fashioned pay schools which were the rule during his boyhood.  
The instruction was in German, and the terms were only a few months 
long, so that the advantages they afforded were none too liberal.  
Working for his parents until he was of age, Mr. Phillips has since 
followed farming on his own account and has also engaged extensively in 
lime burning, owning a limestone ridge.  His annual output is about 
fifteen thousand bushels, and one year he burned twenty-four thousand, 
five hundred bushels for his brother Elias.  His farm consists of 
twenty-five acres in Jordan township about one mile west of Urban.
	In 1866 Mr. Phillips married Elizabeth Nace, daughter of Daniel and 
Magd. (Hartranft) Nace, and six children have been born to this union. 
Mintie A. married John Byerly; Maggie married Ira Held; Cora married 
John Thomas; Clara married Henry Snyder; Alice married George Baum; 
Tomson died aged fifteen years.  Mr. Phillips and his family are members 
of St. John's Church at Urban, in which he has served as deacon, elder 
and trustee.  He is a Democrat in political connection, and has acted as 
school director and in various other local offices.