York County PA Archives Biographies.....Noller, Christopher Gary June 17, 1860 - 
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Author: Prowell's History of York County Pennsylvania, Biographical, Volume II
Chicago J. H. Beers & Co. 1907 pages 933 and 934

  CHRISTOPHER GARY NOLLER was born in Shrewsbury township, York county, June 
17, 1860. He was educated in the township schools, and in the Stewartstown 
Academy, where he ended his studies at the age of nineteen. The following year 
he began teaching, and was so engaged for twenty terms, first in Hopewell 
township, then in Stewartstown, Winterstown, Felton, and the townships of East 
and North Hopewell and Windsor, in each case achieving great success as a 
teacher. During vacations he worked at farming, and finally, in the spring of 
1895, began on his present farm in Windsor township, purchased from Jacob 
Runkle. Mr. Noller has been successful in his operations and has a well-
developed farm. He is at present serving as a director in the Farmers' Canning 
Company of Red Lion. In politics he has always been a Democrat and was one of 
Cleveland's most devoted supporters in 1892. He served as assessor in the 
borough of Stewartstown, in the borough offices in Winterstown, and in the 
spring of 1904 was chosen a school director of Windsor township. He is a 
member of the Church of God, and the past five years has been an elder in 
same. Mr. Noller is intensely interested in the advancement of education, is 
active in local affairs, and being a man of much strength of character is 
highly esteemed and  has a wide influence in his community.
           Mr. Noller has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Elmira 
Elizabeth Bush, to whom he was united in 1885, by Rev. Dr. Niles. She was born 
in Hopewell township in 1865, daughter of the late Rudolph Homer and Elizabeth 
(Morrison) Bush, the latter of whom is still living, a resident of Baltimore 
county, Md. Mrs. Elmira E. Noller died in 1891, and was buried in Mt. Pleasant 
cemetery, North Hopewell. Two children were born to this union, namely: Belva 
Olivia, now married to Burtis Clinton Baker; and Annie Elmira, who died in 
infancy. In May, 1894, Mr. Noller was united in marriage to Miss Ella M. 
Runkle, by Rev. Peter Livingston. Ella M. Runkle was born in 1866, in North 
Hopewell township, daughter of the late John and Mary (Myers) Runkle. Her 
father, John Runkle, a prosperous farmer of North Hopewell township, died in 
1905, and was buried in Lebanon cemetery. Her mother, Mary (Myers) Runkle, was 
the daughter of Char1es Myers, deceased. She died in 1899, and her remains 
were laid to rest in Lebanon cemetery, near Felton.
         Mr. Noller is of German descent, and his father, John George Noller, 
was born near Heilbronn, Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1819, and lived there until 
1854, when he came to America and settled in Shrewsbury township. He was a 
stanch Democrat, and a Lutheran in religious faith. He died in 1896, and was 
buried in Mt. Pleasant cemetery, North Hopewell. John George Noller married 
Olivia Wasserman, who was born in Murrhardt, Wurternberg, Germany, in 1825, 
daughter of Gotleib Wasserman, a tinner by trade. She died in 1899, at the 
home of her daughter, Mary Waltemyer, in East. Hopewell township, and her 
remains were laid to rest in Mt. Pleasant cemetery. John George and Olivia 
(Wasserman) Noller had five children: Mary, widow of the late Benjamin 
Waltemyer; Susan, Mrs. Thomas Hannigan, deceased; Christopher Gary; Levi, of 
Hopewell, who married Miss Ella Barclay, of Lancaster county, and Tillie, 
widow of George Hannigan, of Felton.
             The grandfather, George Noller, was a wealthy farmer and had 
extensive vineyards, but from 1845 to 1850 he lost much through the failure of 
other parties, and his son, John George, started again on his own resources in 
the New World. In Germany he had been given a good education and there had 
learned the tanner's trade. The passage from his home at I Heilbronn to 
America was by way of Heidelberg and Manheim, in Baden; Rotterdam, in Holland; 
Havre, France, thence to New York. The voyage from Havre to New York was made 
in a sailing vessel and it took sixty days to complete it. On the vessel there 
was  a Miss Olivia Wasserman, his future wife, and a brother Christian Noller, 
who enlisted in the regular army of the United States soon after his arrival 
in America and later sacrificed his life on the altar of his new country in 
the Civil war. He was also accompanied by other relatives the Strobeck family. 
Mrs. Strobeck is still living and resides near New Freedom, Shrewsbury 
township. John Strobeck, then a lad of seven years, is now a resident of Red 
Lion.
Source: Prowell's History of York County Pennsylvania, Biographical, Volume II
Chicago J. H. Beers & Co. 1907  


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