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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS
OF
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
PENNSYLVANIA
CONTAINING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND REPRESENTATIVE
CITIZENS AND OF MANY OF THE EARLY
SETTLED FAMILIES.
6a\
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO:
THE GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING CO.
1005.
THE JW^'V VaRK
PUBLIC LlBRiilY
3S064511
A^10R, LENOX AND
"tilden FOCNDATIONS
g 1945 ^
PREFACE)
N presenting to their patrons The Biographical Annals of Cumberland County the
publishers feel that they are meeting what is now recognized as a necessity
in every intelligent community. Even public records now show a diversity
of statistics that would have been considered absolutely unprofitable not manj- years
ago. Until recently works of this nature have been limited to biographies of public
men and the family genealogies prepared by the appreciative few who recognized the
worth of such records. Much might be said of their present and future value; we
will only call attention to the important fact that they perpetuate information now
readily obtainable and hence lightly \alued, but easily lost, the \alue of which is not
always apparent until too late.
As the title indicates, the book is devoted to biography. But these biographies,
portraying as they do the lives of many men who were most intimately connected
with the making of history in the early days of the Cumberland Valley, contain
much historical matter and thus have a double value to the thoughtful reader. Many
of these sketches have been compiled by Mr. Jeremiah Zeamer. who has devoted
much time and study to historical research. The data have been obtained principally
from those immediately interested and the various items of historical interest are
well authenticated and possess a lasting worth enhanced by the fact that many of
them would be preserved in no other way.
We take this opportunity to express our gratitude for the help and encourage-
ment we have received in the county, and the volume is issued in the belief that it
will form a worthy addition to the private or public librarj'.
The Publishers.
INDKX
PACE
Abrahims, S. K 755
Addam?, Charles P 199
Addams Family 200
Albright, Solomon 489
Alexander, Laura E 247
Alexander, William 246
Alter Family 586
Alter, W. S : 587
Atticks Family 606
Atticks, George \V. 606
Aughinbaugh. Alfred A 693
Babble, Henry C 535
Bacastovv Family 365
Bacastow. S. P 365
Baer, David G 649
Baker, Clarence B 817
Barbour Family 370
Barbour, J. Beattie 369
Barley Family 295
Barley. Jacob 295
Barner Family 334
Barner, George S 334
Barner, Horace C 413
Barner, John L 133
Barnitz Familv 87
Barnitz, Jacob E 88
Barnitz, William 87
Barton, Joseph F., A. iM..
M. D. 230
Basehore Family 291, 782
Basehore. Frank G ...291
Basehore, Samuel E 782
Basehore, Zacharias 598
Bashore, Chester C 781
Bashore Family 781
Batchelor, ^Irs. Mary A 327
P.atcbelor, William 327
Baughnian, Capt. William . . . 332
Bauman, Mrs. Charlotte E. . . 39
Bauman Fartiily 38
Bauman, Isaac 38
Bear, Jonathan 540
Bear, Sarah 540
Beattie, John S 485
Beetem, Edward C 109
Beetem, JNIrs. Eliza A 223
Beetem Family 1 10
Beetem, Mrs Hetty 243
Beetem, John 223
Beetem, Joseph 24^^
Belmey, John C 716
PAGE
Beitzel, David J 446
Beitzel. William B 283
Bcntz, John E 636
Best Family ' 287
Best, Joseph 1 287
Biddle, Gen. Edward M.... 11, 849
Biddle, Hon. Edward W 11
Biddle Family 8
Biddle, William M 11,850
Bishop, Alexander 484
Blair, Andrew 204
Blair Family 204
Blair, Jenny 206
Blair, John D 799
Book. Aaron C 665
Borst, George C, M. D 742
Bosler, Abraham 210
Bosler Family 210
Bosler, Frank C 217
Bosler. J. Kirk 214
Bosler, James W 215
Bosler, John .\ 490
Bosler. John Herman 212
Bosler. Joseph 218
Bowen, Charles R 378
Bowen Family .378
Bowers Family 807
Bowers. Samuel 807
Bowman. Abram A 318
Bowman. D. G 505
Bowman Families
178,318,435,505,513
Bowman, 14. N 435
Bowman, jihn W., M. D 178
Bowman, a G 513
Boyer Fannly 6og
Boyer, Henry M., D. D. S. . . . 608
Bradley, A, E 406
Brandon, George B 112
Brandt, Clarence K .S97
Brandt Family ,^97
Brandt, J. S 741
Bream. H. N 469
Brechbill, Henry E ^89
Brechbill. Philip 389
Brenneman, Lemuel 230
Brenneman. Samuel E 381
Bressler, John T.»- 734
Bretz Families 353. 523
Bretz. Harry M 523
Bretz, W'illiam H 353
Bricker, Joseph 418
PAGE
Bricker, Lewis M 335
Bricker, Peter 613
Brindel. C. Egbert 414
Brindel Family 414
Brindle. David P 632
Brinton, Caleb S 187
Brinton Family 187
Brown, Hon. Harry G 191
Brownawell, Oliver J. F 732
Brubacher, George 337
Brubacher. George W 337
Brubaker, Jacob N 633
Brubaker, Reuben 259
Bucher, Jarred C 798
Burgett, E. P 316
Burgner Family 116
Burgner, Thomas R 116
Campbell. Dr. Edmond E. . . . 80
Campbell, Richard L 828
Carbaugh. William H 352
Chamberlin. Charles R 486
Chamberlin Family 464
Chamberlin, Jesse 464
Clendenin, Calvin 761
Clendenin Family 43, 758
Clendenin. John W 763
Clendenin. William 43
Clepper. James 333
Clever. George 709
Clippinger. Charles A 746
Clippinger Family 479
Clippinger, John 772
Clippinger, Nannie 747
Coburn, James P 684
Coffey, John 479
Cole, George B 231
Commings. Alfred B 646
Cooper Family 340
Cooper, James S 339
Coover, Alexander S 483
Coover Family 581
Coover, George 443
Coover. John A. '. 573
Coover, John H 588
Coover, Martin 344
Coover, Samuel R 581
Cope Family 363
Cope, William M .^63
Corman, Mrs. Eliza 613
Corman, Robert 6ir
Coulson, Calvin 127
INDEX.
PAGE
Coulson. Mrs. Rachel A 128
Cox, John 1 160
Cox, William A., Sr 159
Coyle, David 89
Coyle, David L go
Coyle Family 89
Coyle, Jame? 301
Coyle, John 8g
Coyle, Samuel ;\I 00
Coyle, W. Scott 88
Dale Family 68
Dale, Kate C 70
Dale, William W.. M D 68
Darr, Samuel ,349
Davidson Family 104
Davidson, James A [57
Davidson, Airs. Jane A ,i,^r
Davidson, John B 104
Davidson,. John S ,^30
Day, Annette 16
Day. Ira, M. D 15
Deitch, Charles 284
Deitch, John 548
Denny, Maj. Ebenezer 75
Denny Family 76
Denny, William 34, y6
Derick, Thomas A 569
Derland, Capt. Charles S. . . . 296
Derr Family 718
Derr, Thomas M 718
Dick, H. A 494
Dietz, Christian 12S
Dietz, Mrs. Elizaheth 128
Dietz Family 41 1
Dietz, Milton C 411
Dietz, Simon 354
Diller, Solomon 472
Ditlow, Hiram 447
Donnelly, John 444
Dougherty, William H 155
Drager, William C 382
Drawbaugh, Daniel 751
Drawbaugh Family 616
Drawbaugh, Jacob. H., M. D. . 61.5
Drawbaugh, William E 660
Dunbar Family 143
Duncan, James M 356
Dunkleberger Family 823
Dunkleberger. Mclvin L 82,-^
Dunlap Family 534
Dunlap, James 534
Eberl}', Edward M 746
Eberly Family 572
Eberly, Ira S 572
Eberly, JMrs. Katberine 640
Eberly. Mrs. Maggie 74^
Eberly, William H 649
Eckels Brothers 845
Eckels Families' 48, 63
Eckels, George M., M. D.... 847
Eckels. George M. D., A. M.,
Sc. D 48
Eckels, James 63
Eckels, John C T2r
Eckels, Walter L 847
Eckels, William A 127
Eckels, William P 825
PAGE
Ege, Prof. A. H., A. E., A. M. 696
Ege Families 629, 696
Eichelberger Family 544
Eichelberger, Jacob 544
Elliott, Abram 507
Elliott Family 507
Elliott, James 421
Elm, Mrs. Charlotte 550
Elm, Jacob R 549
Embick Family 141
Embick. Col. Milton A 141
Eminger Family 517
Eminger, Samuel N 517
Enck, Elmer E 564
Enck Family 314
Enck, Harper B 314
Eppley, M. L .S92
Eppley. Samuel L 275
Eppley, U. G ,391
Erford Family 312
Erford, John J 312
Eshleman, Abrah.am L 638
Eshleman Family 638
Eslinger, Elias E 567
Eslinger Family 567
Ettcr. John 320
Evans, Frysinger 307
Ewalt Family 16.5
Ewalt, Henry = 165
Ewing Family .304
Ewing. Hastings' .A 304
Eyster Family 503
Fair, Robert W 9,=;
Fegley, Rev. Henry N 256
Felty, Jacob L 730
Ferguson, Rev. Thomas J. . . 139
Fink, Jacob 447
Firestone, C. R ,360
Firestone Family ,360
Fishbnrn, Adam 426
Fisbburn, Anthony 429
Fishbnrn Family 426
Fishbnrn, Mrs. Salome .'\, . . . 429
Fishbnrn, Samuel K 427
Fisher, Henry 403
Fitting, John 658
■ Fleming, James C 183
Fletcher Family 712
Fletcher, Josiah W 713
Fletcher, William W 712
Fogelsanger, George A 493
Fogelsanger, George W 542
Fogelsanger, John R 55'
Fogelsonger. David 451
Fogelsonger Family 451
Freed. Evers- S., M. D 356
Frey. George D 580
Frey, Capt. Jesse R 580
Gamlier. George A 570
Gardner Family 273
Gardner, Harry 274
Gardner. Henry 273
Garland. Sanniel .A 454
Garman. Benjamin F 32.5
Garnian Family .325
Carver. Mrs. Elizabeth .328
Garver, Jacob 3-'~>
PAGE
Gates Family 565
Gebhard. Philip L 271
Gebhart, George VV 565
Gettel, David W 342
Geyer, David Z 336
Geyer, Mrs. Sarah A 336
Gibb Familv 324
Gibb, W. H' 324
Gill, David H 290
Gill Family 290
Gill, Mrs. Jane 290
Givler Family 468
Givler, Jeremiah 434
Givler, Joseph 469
Givler, Joseph D 472
Givler. Peter B 469
(ilatfelter Family 541
Glatfelter. Jeremiah 541
(jleim, Samuel 757
Good. Mrs'. Catharine 369
Good. John L 369
Goodhart Family 400
Goodhart. Martin A 400
Goodyear Fannly 162
Goodyear, Fisk 164
Goodyear, Jacob ]\I 163
Goodyear, Samuel M 164
Gorgas, Mrs. Elizabeth ^^
Gorgas, Solomon P 32
Gottshall. Jacob AI 529
Gottshall. Peter D 496
Gottwerth. Henry 254
Gould, Mrs. Henrietta M. . . . 61.5
(iould, Samuel H 614
Graham, Duncan M., Esq. ... 48
Graham Family 4'.
Graham, James H., LL.D 44
Graham, Robert M 467
Greason Family 40S
Greas'on, Samuel 'W 411
Greason, William D 410
Green Family 557
Green. J. Kelso 559
Green. Joseph E 557
Greenwood. Irvin E 657
Greybill Family 232
Greybill, John D 232
Grimm, Rev. Jacob L 629
Grissinger, John S 496
Gutshall. Leonard 501
Hagerty. Rev. Andrew N. . . . 693
Halbert. Luther B 270
Haldeman. Jacob M 829
Haldeman. Richard J 831
Hambleton. Conrad 16
Hambleton Family 16
Hamilton Family 644
Hamilton. John S 644
Hanlin, James 482
Harman, Christopher, J. P,.. 326
Harman Family 326
Harpst. John 296
Harris Familv 281
Harris, O. T 281
Harris, .Samuel 265
Harris, Samuel J 26.5
Hartman, Elias 38,3
Hartz, Henry 340
INDEX.
VII
PAGE
Hauck, Mrs. Alice 202
Hauck, George W 200
Hays, Edwin R /Oi
Hays Families 428, 697
Havs, James' 428
Hays, J. C 745
Heberlig Family ,351
Heberlig, J. Edwin ,350
Heberling, John 504
Hecker, Henry L 207
Hecker, Mrs. Julia 208
Heffelman Family 401
HefFelman, George \V 401
Hefflcfinger Family 343
Hffflefmger, John A 279
Hefflcfinger, William A 343
Heiser. Peter M 49i
Helfrich Family 3/2
Helfrich, George E 372
Heller. Marcus .349
Henuninger Family 120
120
536
5.36
238
6
I knimin.gcr, George. "SI. 1)
I Icmmingcr. Mary E
1 Uniniinger. Samuel
Hemphill, Joseph S
Henderson Family
Henderson, John S 146
Henderson, Richard P 2r
Henderson, Robert M 6
Hendricks. Mrs. Amanda C. . . 597
Hendricks, Peter D 597
Henry, Rev. George C 704
Herman, J. Adair 716
Herman, Martin C "14
Hertzler Family 260
Hertzler, Harry 260
Hertzler, Samuel — , 480
Hevd, Mrs. Catherine 177
Heyd, Coover VV. . ../ 177
Heyd Family i 176
Heyd, Jacob L V. 176
Highlands, Edward .,* 390
Highlands Family . . . \ ^V^,390
Highlands, Hiram H
Hildebrandt. John A
Hilton Family 257
Hilton, George W 257
Himes, Charles F., Ph. D.,
LL. D 58
Himc! Families 58,60
Himes, George W 60
Himes, J. H. . 610
Hippensteel Family 806
Hippensteel, Henry D .380
Hippensteel, William 806
Hippie, John D ,329
Hoffer Family 530
Hoffer, George M S30
Hoon, Joseph E 756
Hoover Families .338, 432
Hoover, George 432
Horner, Augustus 577
Hosfeld, John 461
Hosier, Benjamin W 266
Hosier Family 266
Hosier, J. R 568
Hostetter, Abraham 198
Hostetter Family 198
Houser, Rev. Frank S 521
P.\GE
Houston, Dalbert W 685
Hoy, Daniel 322
Hoy Fam'ilies 303, 322
Hoy, J. W 303
Hughes, James W., Ph. D. . . . 61
Hummel, Catharine D 135
Hummel Family 362
Hummel, George 135
Hummel, J. Frederick, Jr. ... 362
Humrich, Christian P I
Humrich Family I
Humrich, William A 793
Hurs't, Jacob 154
Hurst, Mrs. Julia 154
Huston, E. Rankin 688
Hus'ton Families 676, 682
Huston, James S 686
Huston, Samuel L 680
Ilgenfritz, John 747
Irwin, George G., M. D 15^
Jackson Family 244
Jackson, Samuel II 244
Jacobs, John 750
Jacoby, Christian 376
Jacoby, Mrs. Wilamina C. . . . 376
Jamison, Mrs. Emily J 27,3
Jamison, Mrs. IMary J. S 27.3
Jamison, William T. S 272
Johnston, Elizabeth . . . ., 280
Johnston, George 280
Jones, William E 661
Kapp, William H 826
Kaufman Family 532
Kaufman, Julius H 531
Kaufman, Martin N ,39.3
Kei.ser, Rev. George 652
Kelley, Mrs. Agnes 190
Kelley, Cornelius V 190
Kelley, John 547
Kelly, Rev. .Austin A 515
Kelly Family 515
Kendig Family 589
Kendig, John F 589
ndig, Levi 4T8
Ke"rf^'on Family 12,3
Ker Family .• . . . 461
Ker. William 461
Kissinger^ Samuel M 286
Kitch, Jadsb 399
Kitner, SaiWiel M 481
Kitzmiller, Airs. Mary C. ... 453
Kitzmiller, Sanuiel E 453
Kleffman Family 527
Kleffman, Rev. John E 526
Kline, James 506
Klinedinst, Edgar L 576
Klinedinst Family 576
Kling Family 385
Kling, Matthew 385
Klink, James K 546
Klugh, Prof. George P 466
Knaub, Henry 471
Knisley Family 538
Knisley, John K 538
Roller, J. H 742
Koons, Joseph 831
PAGE
Koons, Philip R., M. D 70s
Koser, Alfred C 45S
Koser, David, Sr 364
Koser, John J., M. D 659
Kost, Jacob 208
Krause, Ernst J 292
Kruger, John H 456
Kunkel, Samuel 136
Kunkle, George 733
Kuntz, John B 46.5
Kutz Family 424
Kutz, George C 424
Kutz, John L 509
Kutz, Joseph 424
Lamberton, Abraham 669
Lamberton, Miss Annie G. . . . 32
Lamberton Families 30, 66g
Lamberton, Mrs. Margaret E.
C 671
Lamberton, Major Robert ... 30
Lamberton, Robert C 672
Landis Family 44=;
Landis, John B ■] | ";
Lantz Family 31,3
Lantz, Jacob S 313
Lawton, Mrs. Elouisa R 24S
Lawton, Robert J 248
Lay, Elmer E 571
Lee, John F 624
Le Fevre Family 429
Lehman, William H., Sr 578
Lenhart, DeLance Y 388
Liggett, Clarence M 259
Lindner, John 156
Lindsay. Alexander 724
Lindsay Family 487-
Lindsay, Misses 725
Lindsay, Thomas A 487
Linds'ey, Davidson W 591
Lindsey Family 59T -
Line. .Alliert .A 224
Line, Arthur W 402
. Line. David 626
Line, Dionycious P 345
Line, Emanuel C 483
Line Families ...171,224,322,
346, 386, 403, 483, 626
Line, Luther A 174
Line, William .\ 386
Line, William H 321
Line, William R 171
Lininger Family 374
Lininger, John B 374
Lloyd Family 70
Lloyd, William P 72
Long, Christian 131
Long Family 131
Long, Oron 297
Longsdorf, Jacob M 553
Longsdorff, William H., M. D. 703
Loudon, .'Archibald 818
Loudon. Elizabeth 30
Loudon Family 27, 818
Loudon, James 821
Loudon, JMatthew 27
Loudon, William C 823
McCaleb, George 726
IXDEX.
McCarrell, Rev. \\\ A.. D. D. 71 1
McClelland. Tohn 74Q
McClellaiul, Miss M, Belle... 750
McCominon. William B 256
]\IcCrea, William H 794
McCreary, J. Bruce, M. D. . . .^41
McCreary. John F ,Ui
McCulloch, George H 44^^
McCulloch, J. Clark ,167
McCulloch, William R 4J4
AlcCullogh. Brady 550
McDowell, Mrs. Hester M. .. 2.3
McDowell, Dr. Samuel A. ... 2,3
McElhare, Harry 447
McGarv, Dr. Robert M 20,3
McGaw, Winlield .S 45«
McGuire Family _. 562
McGuire, Thomas B. B 562
McKechan Family 474
McKeehan, Samuel 474
Manuing, Hon. Edgar S 222
IMamiing Family 2ig
Manning, Hon. Harry 2t8
Markley, Charles F 181
Markley, Prof. Henry B 52.5
i\iarquette, Charles D 251
Marquette Family 251
Martin, Mrs. Anna M 309
Martin, David J\l ,387
Martin Family 387
Martin, Joab 574
iNIartin, Mary 575
Martin, Reuben ,308
Martin, William J 575
Maust, Fillmore 594
Means F-aniily 92, 227
Means, James R 92
Means. Joseph McC 227
Mechling, John 416
Meek, Charles' B 804
Meek, Jacob 804
Meek, Mrs. Sophia 805
Mentzer, Anson G 642
jNIentzer Family 728
Alentzer. Francis 404
Mentzer, Frederick B 728
Alentzer. J. -C 264
Mickey Family ,347
Mickey, Robert .347
Mifflin, Joseph 519
Mifflin, Capt. Joseph 519
Miller, C, R 848
Miller Families 82, ,317, 366
Miller, Harry S 316
iMiller, John ,A 834
^Miller, John L 366
:Miller. j. D 777
ililler. J. W 407
^filler, Samuel F 58^
Miller, Samuel N 725
Miller, Capt. William E 82
illinium. Henry .A 491
Mitten, Howard L 797
Mohler, H. S 773
Monn, C. J "'/•^
Monosmith, Jacob 346
Montgomery, jNIrs. Anna E. . 137
Morrison, John 764
M'.rrison, W. Scott
.Mnuntz. .Adam J .■
i\Iountz Family 809,
Mountz, Ira F
Mowers I'amily
j\Iowers, John
!\lowers, Peter
Mullin, Charles 11
Mullin Family
Munima, Martin
Mumma, Milton S
Mumper, Hon. George W. . . .
Mumper, John S
Murray Family
Jifurray, Harraan D
jMurray, Rev. Joseph A., D.D.
Murray, Margaret F
Alurrav, William F!
Murtoff, Albert H
^lusselman. .Alfred W
Alusselman Family
Musser Families 288. 299,
Musser, Henry D
j\Iusser, John B
Musser. Joseph F
Mycr?, Andrew
Myers Families 502,
Myers. John F
i\Iyers. Joseph i\l
Myers, Robert L
Myers. William .A
Nailor, Charles H
Nailor, Edwin E
Nailor Family
Nailor. George W
Nailor, Jacob S
Nailor. John R
Navlor, James F
Neely. Edward C, .M. D. . ..
Nell, Adam
Nell Family
Nesbit. John C
Ncvin, Joseph P
Nevin, Josephine E
Newcomer, T. J
Noble, Mrs. Elizabeth M. ...
Noble. Robert F
Noftsker Family
Nof tsker, George W
Norcross Family
Norcross, Rev. George, D. D.
P-\(;e
7'>.5
809
816
470
359
470
554
5.S4
4
812
708
440
3,3
3S
152
38
.U
.Vb
,?57
357
358
299
358
288
587
. 587
502
355
185
560
443
441
44-2
441
442
625
192
82S
8^8
516
T19
120
563
276
276
595
595
^4
24
Ocker, John B .^g.
Officer Family 846 ,'
Ogilb}', .Anna R 791
Ogilby, Charles 780
Ogilby Family 788
Ogilby, Joseph W 790
Ogilby, Mollie E 791
Ogilbv, William i\l 791
O'Neal, Lindsay P., M. D. . : 62
Orris, Abram, Esq 584
Orris Family 584
Parker, Leonard 294
Parker, Leonard C 29.5
Paulding. Mrs. Mary I^ ^,'2
Peebles Familv 608
P.\GF,
Peebles. Robert (108
Peffer Family 621
Pefifer, J. Warren 706
Peffer, lion. William .\ 2,35
Peffer, William H fur
Penrose. Hon. Charles B 802
Penrose. Col. William M 803
Peters, Earl 39^
Peters Family 184
Peters. Milton R.. M. D. ... 1S3
Pilcher I^'amily 12
PUcher, James E., Al. D..
A. ^I., Ph. D., L. H. D., 12
Pittenger, Charles R 849
Plank, Mrs. Jane M 242
Plank, Peter 241
Plough, Joseph 396
Plover, Frederick K 691
Pop'e. Miss Tena 385
Porter Family 282
Porter, James' 282
Powell, John W 656
Pratt, Brig. Gen. Richard H. 64
Preston, Thomas W., M. D. . 189
Prince Familv 78
Prince, Morris W., S. T. D. . . 78
Quigley, J, Sharp 800
Radaliaugh. John 623
Ralston. J. McCallister 549
Raudabaugh, Daniel X^^
Rea. G. Arthur 51^
Rea. J. D 5^8
Reddig. Clarence J., A. M.,
M. A g-^
Reddig Familv 95
Redding, Carvill H 3'o
Reed, George E., S. T. D..
LL. D 5f>
Reed, Rev. G. M. D. D 767
Reed, Nathan F ,182
Rees'e. .Adam 850
Reeser. J. C 74^
Reiff. Jacob H .198
Reighter. George W 412
Rice. David S 401
Rice. William B 253
Rich, Abraham C 43°
Richwine, A. Grant 455
Richwine, Jesse 737
Ridge Church 552
Riley, J. Clayton 245
Riuesmith, George W 262
Rippey Family 83a
Robbins. Jesse 499
Rohland. Abraham L 226
Rolar. Samuel O 504
Roney, John C (>3.}
Ronev, Warren P 734
Roush, John R 319
Rudolph, Thomas, J._ P 796
Rummel, Hon. J. Caivin .... [84
Rupert Family 477
Rupert, John L 477
.Rupp Fahiily 438
Rupp, Henrv M 6,35
Rupp, John M .36i_
Rupp. Jonas C 438
INDEX.
IX
PAGE
Russell, David B 37=;
Russell. Enos INI 536
Ruth, Alonzo H 4'6
Rutz, Harry P 3^.3
Rutz, William E 311
Sadler Family 169
Sadler, Joseph 647
Sadler, Hon. Willnir I'" 169
Sample, Hiram K 168
Sample, Mrs. Margaret E. . . 168
Saxton, J. 206
Schoch, Jacob L., M. D 601
Schuchman, George L 628
Schuchman, John C 285
Schwarz, J. Grant 307
Searight, John S 79.=;
Seibert, C. F 339
Seidle, Frederick 130
Seiler Family ' 810
Seller William H 810
Seitz Family 413
Seitz, Jacob B 414
Seitz, John B 413
Senseman, John F ". 240
Scnseman, William 138
Shambangh Family 195
Shambaugh, Levi J 195
Shaplev, Toel 348
Shapley, William E., M. D. . 348
Sharp Family 17
Sharp, :\Irs. Martha A 289
Sharp, Major Thomas 17
Sharp, William C 289
Sharpe, Col. Alexander B. ... 66
Sharpe, Elder W 543
Sharpe Family 66
Sharpe, Airs. Katherinc M. .. 68
Shaull, Ira E 240
Sheafer, John U 278
Shelly, John W 769
Shenk Family 702
Shenk, Levi H 701
Sheriff, William H 321
Shetron, J. A 825
Shettel Family 495
Shettel, Jacoli E 495
Shnlenberger, Dr. Ephraim . . 261
Shulenberger r'amily 478
Shnlenberger, Robert E 478
Shulenberger, Mrs. S. Belle. . 479
Shumberger, William C 778
Simmons. Jacob W 814
Singer. Davis C , 462
Singer, Mrs. Mary E 46^
,Sipe, Albert W 267
Sipe, Charles H 271
Sipe, Charley D 255
Sipe Family 267
Skinner, S. M 748
Smaling, Henry P 808
Suavely, David D 309
Suavely Family 309
Snyder Family 449
Snyder, John H 279
Snyder, Joseph H 264
Snyder, Samuel H 449
Sollenberger, George A 738
Sollenberger, John A., D.D.S. 242
PAGE
Sours F.imily 510
Sours,. John .' 510
Spahr, Cyrus \\ 639
Spahr Family 179, 639
Spahr, William 179
Spangler Family 302
Spangler, I'rancis H 827
Spangler, T. J 302
Speck, Frank R 247
Spera, George VV 293
Spong. Lemuel R 473
Sprenkel, John 39
Stammel, John 475
Stauffer Family 425
Stauffer, John G 42,5
Stauffer, Mary 425
Steele, Ephraim 149
Steele h'amily : . • 143
Steele, Margaret A 150
Steele, Martha J 150
Steese Family 599
Steese. James A 599
Stephens' Family 79
Stephens, Prof. Henry M..
A. M.. B. S 79
Sterrett. John S 224
Sterrett, Miss S. L 224
Stewart. George H 842
Stone. John 848
Stones'ifer I-'amily 406
Stonesifer, William H 406
Strickler, Abraham 331
Stricklcr, Jacob E 331
Strickler, Mary G 33^
Strock, Andrew G 550
Strock I'"amilv 559
Strock, hVank P 263
Strock, G. Lawrence 59,3
Strohm, Cieorge 583
Str(^hm, John 579
Strdiim, Wilson S 74.-
Stuart Family 150
Stuart, Hugh Silas, Est] 7S6
Stuart, J. Clark 651
Stuart, John T 787
Stuart, Walter 150
Swarncr, George W 419
Swarner, John A 476
Swartz Family 73
Swartz, G. Wilson 75
Swartz, John B 546
Swiler Family 104
Swiler. William E.. M, 1).. .. ro4
Tajdor Family 618
Taylor, John S 618
Thomas Family 40
Thomas, Col. Robert H 40
Thomas, Robert H., Jr 42
Thomman Family 39.3
Thomman, Harry S 393
Thompson, David R 797
Totton Family 298
Totton, Col. Joseph 135
Totton, Joseph J 298
Trickett, William, LL. D. . . . 129
Trilt Family 431
Tritt, Samuel J 431
Tritt, T. Grove 791
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Underwood, .\nne H 618
Underwood Family 616
Underwood, James 6x7
Vandersaal Family 770
Van Scyoc. B. F 731
Wade, Nelson A 577
Wagner, Major Isaac 56
Wagner, Mrs. Mary J 56
Walker Family 133, 648
Walker, James H 648
Walker. William M 133
Walters Family 556
Walters, (ieorge F 1.92
Walters', John H 556
Ward, Mrs. Catherine 834
Ward, Jacob M 833
Watts, Edward B 194
Watts Family 192
Weakley Family 602
Weakley, J. King 455
Weaklev, Hon. James M 721
Weakley, Willis J 603
Weary Family 488
Weary, George W 48S
Wcast, Jacob 368
Weaver, John S 509
Webb, Thomas J 635
Weber, George B 81 i
Weber, Henry 631
Weber, S. H 744
Weber, W. H 580
Weidman, Edward J 269
Weidman, Louis 269
Weigle, Rev. Elias D 722
Wertz, George 533
Wertz, Peter 561
Wertz, Solomon 48i;
Wertz, Mrs. Susan 48.5
Wetzel Family 53
Wetzel, John W., Esq 52
Whcrlv Family 395
Wherly. William R 393
Whiting, Henrv C 86
Whiting, Mrs. Mary L 87
Wilks, Edward J 519
Willis, Abner 813
Willis, Mrs. Is'mah 814
Wilt, William 805
Wise, Albert M 372
Wise, Edward J 498
Wise, Elizabeth A 359
Wis'e Families 370, 498
Wise, Frederick J 497
Wise, George 11 374
Wise, Isaac H 75a
Wise, Jacob E 370
Wise, John P 545
Wise, William 35!^
Wise, William H 459
Witmer, Abram 779
Witmer Family 3S0
Witmer, Henry 7.36
Witmer, Hervey W 380
Witmer, Jacob W 384
Witter, Edward W 814
Wonderly Family 306
Wonderly, W. Willis 306
INDEX.
PAGE
Woodbuni I'ainily 666
Woodburii, John I! 666
Wj'lie, Rev. Samuel S 604
Yeingst Family 377
Veingst, Samuel J 377
Yohe, John H 642
Yoter, Joseph L 474
Young, Dr. John H 766
Zeamer Family g8
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Zeamer. Jeremiali 103
Zeamer, John 98
Zeamer, John H . . .■ 104
Zearing Family 161
Zearing, Jacoli S 160
Zearing. Robert \V 367
Zeigler Family 643
Zeigler. Leonard W 774
Zei,gler, William S 643
Zell Family 463
Zell. Warren 463
Ziegler Family 405
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Ziegler. William A 405
Zimmerman. Bishop Benja-
min F 662
Zimmerman. Cornelius 310
Zimmerman Family 662
Zimmerman. Jonas M 417
Zimmerman. ^Irs. Sarah R. . 310
Zinn Family 30.5
Zinn, Rev. John H 426
Zinn. McClellan 305
Zinn. Peter 420
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BIOGRAPHICAL.
CHRISTIAN PHILIP HUMRICH.
The Humriclis are of German descent.
Christian Hunirich. the grandfather of the
subject of this sketch, came to America in
1793. He settled in Pennsylxania. and on
the 14th of June, 1802. before Hon. Hugh
H. Brackenridge, a Justice of the Supreme
Court, presiding in the circuit court of Lan-
caster, he "abjured all allegiance and fidelity
to Charles Theodore .\ugust Christian, Elec-
torate Prince of the Palatinate in Clermany,
of whom he was heretofore a subject." and
was duly naturalized. He was a saddler by
trade. In 1807 he removed with his family
to Carlisle, where he took possession of the
"Black Bear Inn" property, which he had
bought at sheriff's sale in Septeml^er. 1806.
This property is situated on the northwest
corner of Hanover and Louther streets, and
has been in the Hunirich name ever since,
Ijeing now owned by Christian Philip Hum-
rich. Here Christian Humrich kept hotel
and carried on the saddle and harnessmaking
business until 1824. when he retired from
the active duties of life. He died on Oct.
22. 1842, aged about ninety-four years. He
was a successful business man and owned
nuich desirable property in and about the
tow'n. He also took a live interest in the
various public enterprises of his day, and
was a meiuber of the building committee that
erected the town hall which stood on the
court house scjuare near where the soldiers'
monument now stands. For their serxices
he and the other members of the commit-
tee were awarded a vote of thanks by the
Cumberland Fire Company, as appears by
the minutes of that organization. He was
an active member of the German (now the
First) Lutheran Church of Carlisle, took a
prominent part in liquidating the debt in-
curred in 1807 by the erection of the first
brick church building, on Bedford near
Louther street, and at different times served
as vestryman and treasurer. On the 20th
of April, 1840, when over ninety years of
age, as an "inspector," he helped to conduct
the election of church officers, as appears by
the certificate of that election which is still in
existence.
Christian Hunirich was married to
Chri.stina Foltz, and, as ajjpears by the
records of the Trinity Lutheran Church of
Lancaster City, had the following children :
Anna Maria, born Dec. 24, 179 — ; Cath-
arine, born April 18, 1795; George Philip,
born August 19, 1796;, Sarah Elizabeth,
born March 11, 1798; Johannes, born Aug.
10, 1799, and John Adams, born Sept. 3,
1800.
John Adams Humrich. the youngest
child of Christian and Christina (Foltz)-
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Humrich, learned the saddler's trade, suc-
ceeded to the husiness of his father and con-
tinued it until in 1830, when he changed to
the grocery and provision trade, which he
conducted on the aforenamed corner at Han-
over and Louther streets until 1840. He
then relinquished the mercantile business and
thereafter directed his attention to farming
and the management of his properties. He
died on the i8th of February, 1880. He was
an energetic, successful business man and
like his family for generations before him,
was a member of the Lutheran Church. In
politics he was an old-line Whig and an ar-
dent supporter of William Henry Harri-
son for president. Subsequently he was a rad-
ical Republican and an "Underground Rail-
road Man," but ne\er held an elective office.
In 1830 John Adams Humrich married
Mary Ann Zeigler, of North Middleton
township, a daughter of Philip Zeigler,
whose father, Philip Zeigler, Sr., came from
W'urtemberg, Germany, in the year 1753, and
located in Upper Salford township, Phila-
delphia (now ^Montgomery) county, where
on Sept. 24. 1763, he was naturalized. He
was a land owner and a farmer and a warm
friend of the Continental cause in the Rev-
olutionary war. He and his wife Ehzabeth
had six sons, viz. : Henry, Andrew, John,
George, Mark and Philip, and two daugh-
ters. Catharine and Elizabeth, as appears by
his last will and testament, duly probated in
Montgomery county. His son, Philip
Zeigler, Jr., who was one of his executors,
married JNIary Kramer of the adjoining
county of Bucks, and by her had three sons
and two daughters born in Montgomery
county. The sons were John, Abraham and
Samuel, and the two daughters were Eliza-
beth and Mary Ann. With this family, in
iSor, when his daughter Mary Ann was yet
less than five years old, he migrated to Cum-
berland county and settled near Sterrett's
Gap, in Middleton (now Middlesex) town-
ship, where he resided until the end of his
days. In addition to the above-named chil-
dren three sons, Jesse, David and Philip,
and a daughter. Sophia, were born after the
family settled in Cumberland county. Three
daughters, not named, died in infancy, but
the rest of his children all grew to maturity,
married, and with a single exception left
families. Elizaljeth, the oldest daughter,
married Dr. Conrad Eckert, of Carlisle, and
died without issue in August, 1823, in the
thirty-fifth year of her age. Sophia, the
youngest child, became the wife of Jacob
Wise, and at the age of almost ninety-two
years is still living at her home in the village
of Springville, in this county, reasonably
active in mind and body.
Philip Zeigler, Jr., the Cumlierland coun-
ty ancestor of the Zeigler family, was also a
member of the German Lutheran Church of
Carlisle, as were all his children and many
of his grandchildren. He was a Democrat
in politics, and took interest in public af-
fairs, but never sought office. He w^as pos-
sessed of considerable property and as a
stockholder and director lost heavily in the
old Agricultural Bank of Carlisle. His chief
occupation was farming, at which he en-
gaged extensively, and the "Mansion Farm,"
which he bought in 1801, is still owned and
farmed by his grandchildren.
John Adams and Mary Ann (Zeigler)
Humrich had four children, viz. : Christian
Philip (whose name heads this sketch),
John A., Samuel K. and William A. John
A. died in 1862, leaving surviving him his
widow and three children, of whom only the
widow and one son are now living. The
other three sons are living and all are resid-
ing in Carlisle.
Christian Philip Humrich, the eldest son
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
of John Adams and Mary Ann (Z'eigler)
Humricli, and the especial snbject of tliis
sketcli, was born in Carlisle March 9, 1831.
He grew to manhood and received all his
education in the town of his birth. On Aug.
16, 1836, he entered one of the first primary
schools organized in Carlisle under the free
school law. Miss Rebecca Wightman was
his first teacher. From the primary he
passed through the different grades to the
high school, from which he graduated in the
summer of 1847. O'^ leaving the public
schools he entered the preparatory depart-
ment of Dickinson College and completed
a full course in that institution, graduating
from the college proper in July, 1852. In
the fall of 1852 he entered the office of R.
M. Henderson, Esq., as a student-at-law,
and under his instruction pursued the study
of the law until Nov. 14, 1854, on which date
he was admitted to the Cumberland County
Bar. Since then he has been practicing his
profession in this and adjoining counties.
Along with his law practice Mr. Humrich
has paid some attention to agricultural pur-
suits and given much time to the study of
history. The history of Cumberland County
and of the counties formed from "Mother
Cumberland'" has been with him a favorite
theme for many years, and upon this par-
ticular subject the members of the commu-
nity in general have long regarded him as an
authority.
In politics Mr. Humrich is a stanch Re-
publican. He helped to organize that party
in 1856 and has shared its fortunes ever
since, serving as chairman of its county com-
mittee, and as the representative of his coun-
ty in its State organization. On three dif-
ferent occasions he was a candidate for
county office, twice for District Attorney
and once for State Assembly, in each in-
stance recei\ing a creditable vote, but the
Democratic majority in the county was too
large to overcome and he was defeated with
the rest of his party ticket. In municipal
affairs he has been prominent nearly all his
life. As early as 1862 he served as a mem-
ber of the Carlisle town council, and again
since 1899. As school director he has en-
joyed an exceptionally long and honorable
career, as may be gathered from the follow-
ing extract from a Carlisle newspaper :
"On last Monday evening, Dec. 7, 1896,
C. P. Humrich, Esq., entered upon his for-
tieth year of continuous service as school
director of the borough of Carlisle, having
taken his seat as a member of the school
board on Monday, the 7th day of December,
1857. He has also served as secretary of
the school board since Feb. 6, i860, and the
minutes of the board are in his hand-
writing."
His term of service as school director
terminated on the 7th of June. 1897, he hav-
ing served continuously in that capacity for
almost thirty-nine-and-a-half years. He has
likewise figured as a fireman. On the 5th
of March, 1859, he Ijecame a member of the
Good Will Hose Company ; on April 15, 1862,
he was elected president of that organization,
in which capacity he served until June 20,
1899, when he was made president of the
board of trustees, which position he still
holds. On the 6th day of September, 1862,
he was commissioned captain of the Key-
stone Guards, a military company which was
organized by and composed principally of
members of the Good Will Hose Company.
This organization shortly afterward became
Company I, ist Regiment of the Pennsyl-
vania Militia, commanded by Col. Harry
McCormick, and served on the State border
in the Antietam campaign under the procla-
mation of President Lincoln and the orders
of Gov. Curtin. In connection with Hon.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
W. F. Sadler and others Mr. Humrich or-
ganized and put into successful operation the
Carlisle Building & Loan Association — the
first of its kind in Carlisle — and acted as its
secretary from the time of its organization
until it was voluntarily dissolved by order
of court, a period of nearly nine years. He
is now president of the Cumberland County
Bar Association ; has served as treasurer of
the Cumljerland County Law Liljrary Com-
mittee since January, 1875 ; has administered
the Hamilton Trust School Fund since
1885 : has been secretary of the Hamilton
Library Association since 1891, and is a
charter member of the Pennsylvania Ger-
man Society.
On May 12, 1859. Christian Philip Hum-
rich was married to Miss Amanda Rebecca
Zeigler, a daughter of Jesse and Mary Ann
(Peffer) Zeigler, and granddaughter of
Philip Zeigler, of North Middleton town-
ship. To their union nine children were born.
six of whom survive, these being Charles
F., who is engaged in the insurance business ;
Ellen King; Carrie Amelia, who is the wife
of Jacob W. Humer ; Blanche Zeigler, Mary
Ann and Christian Philip, Jr., all of whom
reside in Carlisle and are members of the
First Lutheran Church. On the 8th of May,
1S99, his wife, Amanda Rebecca, after a
protracted illness caused by grip and pneu-
monia, died, and her remains were laid to
rest in Ashland cemetery, at Carlisle. His
home and that of his family has been at No.
149 West Louther street since April, i860.
Mr. Pfumrich has lived in Carlisle all
his life. He well remembers the great hail
storm that struck the town in June, 1839.
by which the large willow tree standing near
the First Presbyterian church was blown
down, the attic gable end of the house of
William Leonard, corner of Hanover and
Louther streets, blown out upon the adjoin-
ing residence of Abel Keeny, and much other
damage that was done. He vividly recalls
the election campaign of 1840 and the log
cabin that was erected on Pitt street opposite
to where the Opera House now stands : the
defeat of Henry Clay in 1844 and the medals
and badges used in that campaign : the burn-
ing of the court house and town hall in
ALarch. 1845, and the building of the new
cinu't hijnse. He is one of the few surviving
witnesses of the McClintock riot, which oc-
curred in June, 1847, having been in front
of the court house when it took place : he
heard the trial of the defendants at the Au-
gust court of quarter sessions following,
and was present when the Confederate Gen-
eral Fitzhugh Lee, on the night of July i,
1863, bombardetl the town.
MARTIN :\IUMAL\, one of the repre-
sentati\'e business men and popular and re-
spected citizens of Cumberland county,
president of the First National Bank of
Mechanicsburg. was born June 14, 1834,
near Bainbridge, Lancaster county, son of
Jacob and Elizabeth (Nissley) ]Mumma,
the former of whom was born in 1808. near
High Spire, Dauphin county. The anc;s;ors
of the Munima f;unilv came from Switzer-
land to America about 1735. John ^lumma,
grandfather of Martin, was the father of the
following children: Jacob, John, Christian,
Sanniel, Elizabeth and I'rancis, all deceased.
Jacob Mumma. son of John and father
of Martin, was born in 1808 near High
Spire, Dauphin county. He married Eliza-
l.ieth Nissley, and their children were : Mar-
tin ; John, deceased; Jacob, a retired farmer
of Cumberland county: Eli, an implement
dealer at Mechanicsburg: Amos, an imple-
ment dealer in Harrisburg: Anna, wife of
Le\i ]\Iussleman. of Upper Allen township,
Cumberland county; Eliza, wife of Christian
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Heitler, a retired farmer of Mechanicslnirg;
and Emma, the wife of John Harnish, a
dealer in grain and feed at Mechanicsl)urg.
Jacob Mumma was one of the well known
citizens and leading farmers of Cumberland
county, and for many years was a minister
of the Alennonite Church, a religious body
to which the family has been attached for
generations. In 1848, he purchased the
farm now owned by our subject in Silver
Spring township, in the limits of Mechanics-
burg, one of the most valuable properties in
this part of the county. He was one of the
most substantial men of this locality, and
was one of the founders of the Mrst National
Bank of Mechanicsburg.
Martin Mumma was reared on the farm,
and obtained his education in the public
schools of Silver Spring township, and later
at Mechanicsburg. In 1859 he married
Catherine Shelly, of Lower Allen township,
daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Shelly, of
Cumberland county. A family of nine chil-
dren was born to this union, six of whom
grew to maturity, namely : Mitton S., a
farmer of Silver Spring township ; Eliza-
beth, wife of E. X. Xeiswonger, of Mechan-
icsburg; Edwin, now deceased: Jacob, an
implement dealer at Mechanicsburg; Will-
iam and Clara, at home ; and Mary, the wife
of H. A. Mumper.
In politics Mr. Mumma has been a life-
long Republican and has always taken a
sincere interest in the success of his party.
In 1866 he became a director in the First
National Bank at Mechanicsburg, and since
1895 has been its able and conservative presi-
dent. From 1875 to 1890 he was a director
of the Allen S: East Pennsboro Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, and was one of
the trustees of the celebrated H. G. Moser
estate for twenty years, and guardian for
the children. Few men are better known in
this city, and few have had larger interests
confided to their care. Coming as he does
from one of the prominent old families of
the county, he is a worthy representative of
its sterling attributes.
The First National Bank, of Me-
chanicsburg. Pa., is one of the veteran
financial institutions of this section of Penn-
sylvania. Since 1859 it has proved its stabil-
ity and has passed safely through years of
great financial stringency, all over the coun-
try, fulfilling with fidelity all promises made
to depositors. Its history, while interesting,
is brief.
The foundations of this great business
were laid in 1859. by Merkel. ]\Iumma & Co.,
who established a private banking house
under that title. In 1861 a charter was se-
cured, and the name of the Mechanicsburg
Bank was assumed, and it continued thus
until 1864, when it became a National Bank,
and was rechartered as such, in 1883, and
again in 1903.
The First National Bank is a bank of
discount and deposit, making collections,
dealing in bonds and other good securities,
and, in fact, transacting all business pertain-
ing to legitimate banking. In all lines it
has an extensive and responsible clientele,
manv of its customers being among the old
and solid business firms of this section, some
of them having confided their business in-
terests to this institution almost since its in-
ception. The last ofificial report shows in-
creasing strength. Its capital stock, paid in,
is $100,000: its surplus is $88,840, nearly
equaling its capital. This, in the eyes of in-
vestors, makes a fine showing, indicating
the careful and conservative management
which prevails. The officers are: Martin
Mumma, president: James A. Brandt,
cashier ; J. D. Landes, teller, while the board
of directors includes these prominent busi-
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
ness men : Martin Mumma, S. F. Houston,
John H. Bowman. D. R. Merkel, Simon
Eberly, A. G. Eberly, S. M. Hertzler, J. H.
Koller and Ira S. Eberly.
Martin Mumma. president oi the bank.
is a retired farmer and a man well and favor-
ably known to the citizens of this locality.
Other officers have also long been prominent
in this city. 'Sir. Brandt, the cashier, is a
banker of large experience and of thorough
training. Much of the institution's success
has been due to his efficiency.
ROBERT MILLER HENDERSON,
lawyer, soldier, judge, was born in the vicin-
ity of Carlisle. Cumberland county. Pa.,
March ii. 1827. of Scotch-Irish ancestry,
comprising on both paternal and maternal
side, men prominent in the history of the
county and State. The Henderson and
Parker families emigrated from the Province
of Ulster, Ireland, in the early part of the
Eighteenth century: Richard Parker, and
Janet, his wife, settled three miles west of
Carlisle in 1724, acquiring lands by patent
near the Presbyterian Glebe Meeting House
(now Meeting House Springs), on which he
had resided, as recited in his application "ye
ten years past." His grandson, Major Alex-
ander Parker, was a distinguished officer in
the Revolution: an original member of the
Society of the Cincinnati ; and the founder
of Parkersburg, W. \'a., at the mouth of
the Little Kanawha. His remains rest in
the Parker-Henderson plot in the "old Meet-
ing House Springs graveyard." Thomas
Henderson settled about the same date in the
Pequea \'alley, then within the confines of
Chester, now Lancaster county. His grand-
son, Mathew Henderson, in 1790, became a
citizen of Cumberland county, and resided in
Middleton township, near Carlisle, and mar-
ried Margaret \\'ilson (nee Miller), daugh-
ter of Robert Aliller, and widow of Major
James Armstrong Wilson, \\\\o was the son
of Thomas Wilson, one of the earlier pro-
vincial judges. Major Wilson was educated
at F'rinceton. and read law with Richard
Stockton. He was admitted to the Bar of
Cumberland county on motion of James
Wilson, in 1774, and died in Carlisle March
17, 1788, at the early age of thirty-six years.
a victim of mob violence. Robert Miller was
a man of prominence in the alTairs of the
Province, and a member of the Committee
on Correspondence for Cumberland county
during the period of the Revolution.
\Villiam Aliller Henderson, son of
Mathew and Margaret (Miller) Henderson,
was born Alay 28, 1795. in Cumberland
county, and died at his residence, "Oakland"
farm, a short distance east of Carlisle, Oct.
16, 1886. He spent the early part of his life
in Perry county, and with other Perry
county men, under the command of Capt.
John Creigh, served' for a short time in the
war of 181 2. He subsequently returned to
Cumberland county, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Andrew and Margaret (Will-
iams) Parker, and soon attained a position
of influence and prominence in the commun-
ity. In connection with his brother-in-law,
the late Richard Parker, under the finn name
of Henderson & Parker, he established a
successful milling and distilling business.
He was one of the original subscribers to
the Cumberland Valley Railroad, and for a
number of years a member of the Board of
Directors. He died at the advanced age of
almost ninety-two years, — quoting from an
obituary notice in the Carlisle Herald —
"running back to the days of Washington
his life increased and declined through the
stormy scenes and great conflicts which at-
tended the 'Building of the Nation.' Through-'
them all he was a representative man and'
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
an American citizen in tlie broadest meaning
of the term."
Robert Miller Henderson, his son, was
educated in the public schools of Carlisle and
at Dickinson College, graduating from the
former in 1838, and from the latter in 1845.
He pursued the study of law with the Hon.
John Reed, and on Aug. 25, 1847, was ad-
mitted to the Bar of Cumberland county.
He at once entered upon the practice of his
profession at Carlisle. His interest and
activity in the politics of that period gave
him the Whig nomination for the Legisla-
ture in 185 1, and although the party in his
district was in the minoritv, he was elected. '
and also re-elected in 1852. At the outbreak
of the war of the Rebellion, he raised a com-
pany at Carlisle, of which he was elected
captain, and was duly commissioned April
21, 1 86 1. The company proceeded to Camp
Wayne at West Chester, and formed Com-
pany A, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves. 36th P.
V. I. This regiment was attached to the 2d
Brigade, McCall's Division, of the Army of
the Potomac. Capt. Henderson, served as
judge advocate, court martial of the division
from December, 1861 to June, 1862. The
7th Pennsylvania Reserves was sent to the
front on July 25, 1861, two days after the
first battle of Bull Run. and saw the hardest
kind of service. In the summer of 1862 it
went into the memorable seven tlays fight
before Richmond, with full ranks, and when
the fighting was over scarcely 200 of the
bra^•e men were left to answer the roll call.
While leading his company at Charles City
Cross Roads, on June 30, 1862, in this series
of battles — the color guard having fallen —
Capt. Henderson (quoting from the Official
Records) "seized the standard and bore it
off the field." receiving at the same time a
wound in the left shoulder. Although
wounded he refused to leave his command,
and on July 4th, upon recommendation of
Brig. Gen. Seymore, was promoted for
"brilliant gallantry" to Lieutenant-Colonel
of the Regiment. Soon afterward the Re-
serves were transferred from the Peninsula to
the Army of Northern Virginia, then under
command of Gen. Pope, and on the 29th and
30th of August, 1862, participated in the
second battle of Bull Run. Here the Seventh
was led by Lieutenant Colonel Henderson,
and on the evening of the second .day, while
engaged in a desperate struggle for a vitally
important position, he was shot from his
horse, a minie ball passing through his body.
He was borne from the field by four of his
soldiers, all of whom feared and believed
that he had received a mortal wound. He,
however, recovered, and on the 2d of Jan-
uary following, rejoined his regiment at
Belle Plain, and was detailed by Gen. Double-
day, Inspector General of the Division. He
served in that capacity until April 18, 1863,
when President Lincoln appointed him Pro-
vost Marshal of the Fifteenth District of
Pennsylvania, in which position he served
until the close of the war. and was honorably
discharged Nov. 10, 1865. On March 13,
1865, he was brevetted colonel and brigadier
general for gallantry in the seven days fight
before Richmond, and in the second battle of
Bull Run.
After the war Gen. Henderson resumed
the practice of his profession at Carlisle. In
April, 1874, he was appointed by Gov. Hart-
ranft, additional law judge of the Harris-
burg district (12th). composed of the coun-
ties of Dauphin and Lebanon. In November
of that year he was elected to the position
by the people without opposition, and in
January, 1882, became the President Judge
of the District. He subsequently resigned
from the Bench, and resumed practice at
Carlisle, associating with him his former
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
partner, John Hays, Esq., and his son, J.
Webster Henderson, under the firm name of
Henderson & Hays. A few years later Mr.
Hays withdrew from tlie firni, and Judge
Henderson & Son continue in practice.
The degree of Doctor of Laws (LL. D.)
was conferred upon Iiim some years ago by
Dickinson College, his alma mater. He is
one of the original members and officers of
the Pennsylvania State Bar Association, and
was the first president of the Cumberland
County Bar Association. He is president of
the Carlisle Deposit Bank ; also of the Boartl
of Trustees of Metzger College : a trustee
of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School ; a
director of the Carlisle Gas & Water Com-
pany : and of the Manufacturing Company.
He is a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States ; the
Grand Army of the Republic ; and president
of the "Pennsylvania Reserves Association."
He is also a member of the Pennsylvania
Scotch-Irish Society ; Phi Beta Kappa ; and
other learned and patriotic societies. For
many years Judge Henderson has been a
trustee of the First Presbyterian Church, of
Carlisle, and a ruling elder of the congrega-
tion since 1871. He married June 7, 1833,
Margaret Ann Webster, daughter of John
Skinner and Elizabeth (Thornburgh) Web-
ster, of "Mt. Repose," Baltimore county,
Maryland.
(I) WILLIAM BIDDLE (m. Febru-
ary, 1666, to Sarah Kemp, b. 1635, d. May
8, 1709), of London, formerly of Stafford-
shire, was born about 1630 and emigrated
to the Province of West Jersey in 1681. In
early life he had joined the Society of
Friends and had undergone persecution and
imprisonment by reason of his connection
with that Society. A few years prior to
leaving England he had bought a large acre-
age of land in West Jersey under the con-
viction that persecuted Friends would there
find a safe refuge. The first purchase by
him is represented by a deed dated Jan. 23,
1676, which is believed to be the first con-
veyance that was executed by William Penn
as trustee.
The name Biddle was identical with Bid-
dulph, the difference in the letters of the two
words arising from a carelessness in spell-
ing at that time, which Macaulay refers to as
"characteristic of the age." The family had
lived in Staffordshire for many generations
and received their surname from the village
of Biddulph in that county, "of which," says
Dr. Thomas, "they have been lords since
the Conquest." Colloquially the two final
letters of Biddulph are not sounded, so that
the word has always been pronounced as if
it were written Biddle.
Shortly after William Biddle's arrival
in the Province he fixed his residence on the
bank of the Delaware river, at what is now
called Kinkora, about midway between Bur-
lington and Bordentown. Here he acquired
500 acres on the mainland and an adjacent
island containing 278 acres, still known as
Biddle's Island. By various purchases he
at length became the owner of 42,916 2-3
acres of land, the deeds for which with a
transcript of his land account are in the pos-
session of his descendants. He was a per-
sonal friend of William Penn, who was
prominent in the religious body to which
they both belonged as well as in the Provin-
cial government. He died in the early part
of 17 12, leaving a last will and testament
which is on file at Trenton, in the office of
the Secretary of State.
(II) William Biddle 2d (m. about 1695
to Lydia Wardell ) , the oldest son and resid-
uary devisee of the preceding, was born on
Dec. 4, 1669, and died intestate about 1743,
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
having; in his hfetinie distributed among his
children the principal portion of a large
landed estate.
(III) William Biddle 3d ( m. April 3,
1730. to Mary Scull, d. May 9, 1789), the
oldest son of the preceding, was born about
1697 and died in 1756. He and his youngest
brother John removed to Philadelphia prior
to 1730 and are the progenitors of a ma-
jority of the large number of Biddies now
resident in that city. His wife was the
daughter of Nicholas Scull, surveyor general
of Pennsylvania from 1748 to 1761, who,
in connection with Thomas Cookson. a dep-
uty surveyor, laid out the town of Carlisle
in the spring of 1751. In Franklin's Auto-
biography, Nicholas Scull is referred to as
one "who loved books and who sometimes
made verses." His daughter Mary inherited
his poetic faculty and a number of her metri-
cal productions are still preserved.
(IV) Lydia Biddle (m. Dec. 3, 1752,
to Capt. William Macfunn, of the British
navy, and Governor of the Island of Anti-
gua, d. about 1767), the oldest daughter of
the preceding, was born in 1734 and died
subsecjuent to 1800.
(V) William Biddle Macfunn (m. 1797
to Lydia Spencer, b. Jan. 16, 1766, d. March
28, 1858), the only son of the preceding,
was born about 1765 and died in 1809. At
the instance of his maternal relatives, he
changed his name to William Macfunn Bid-
dle. His wife was a daughter of Rev. Elihu
Spencer, D. D., of Trenton, N. J., who was
graduated from Yale College with honors
on September 3, 1746. Issue:
(VI) Lydia Macfunn Biddle (m. Oct.
17, 1 81 5, to Samuel Baird, d. July 27,
1833) was born July 4, 1797, and died
June 3, 1871. She had issue:
(1) William Macfunn Baird (m. Dec.
2, 1847, to Harriet Holmes), died Oct. 19,
1872. Issue: (a) Robert Holmes Baird. d.
Sept. 7, 1897. (b) Mary Leaming Baird
(m. June 17, 1890, to Hugh Silas Stuart, d.
June 17. 1899). Children: Joseph Alex-
ander Stuart. William Baird Stuart. Har-
riet Holmes Stuart. Christine Biddle Stu-
art.
(2) Sanmel Baird. d. Oct. 12, 1884.
(3) Spencer Fullerton Baird (m. Aug.
8, 1846, to Mary Churchill, d. Sept. 23,
1891), died Aug. 19, 1887. Issue: Lucy
Hunter Baird.
(4) Rebecca Potts Baird.
(5) Lydia Spencer Baird, d. June 3,
1871.
(6) Mary Deborah Baird (m. June i,
1854, to Henry Johnathan Biddle. d. July
20, 1862, from wounds in battle), died Dec.
3. 1900. Issue: (a) Johnathan Williams
Biddle, killed in battle Sept. 30, 1877. (b)
Lydia Macfunn Biddle (m. April 22, 1880,
to Moncure Robinson, d. Dec. 13, 1896).
Children : Lydia Spencer Moncure Robin-
son, (c) Spencer Fullerton Baird Biddle
(m. November. 1897, to Mary Davids),
(d) Christine Williams Biddle. (e) Henry
Jonathan Biddle (m. in 1887 in Germany).
Children: Rebecca Baird Biddle. Spencer
Biddle.
(7) Thomas Baird (m. Jan. 24, 1872,
to Mary Bill), died March 29, 1897. Issue:
William Macfunn Baird, Lydia Spencer
Baird, Henry Jonathan Biddle Baird, Caro-
line Richards Dey Baird.
(VI) Valeria Fullerton Biddle (m.
March 16, 1824, to Hon. Charles Bingham
Penrose, d. April 6, 1857) was born Jan-
uary, 1799, and died Nov.' 15, 1881. She
had issue :
(i) William Macfunn Penrose (m.
July, 1858, to Valeria Merchant) was born
March 29, 1825, and died Sept. 2, 1872.
Issue: (a) Sarah Merchant Penrose, (b)
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Valeria Bidclle Penrose. ( c ) Ellen Williams
Penrose, (d) Virginia Merchant Penrose.
(2) Richard Alexander Fullerton Pen-
rose, M. D. (m. Sept. 28, 1858, Sarah Han-
nah Boies, d. March 30, 1881), was born
March 24, 1827. Issue: (a) Boies Penrose.
United States Senator, (b) Charles Bing-
liam Penrose, M. D. (in. Nov. 17, 1892,
Katharine Drexel). Children: Sarah Han-
nah Boies Penrose, Charles Bingham Pen-
rose. Boies Penrose, (c) Richard Alexan-
der Fullerton Penrose, Jr. (d) Spencer
Penrose, (e) Francis Boies Penrose, (f)
Philip Thomas Penrose, d. June 8, 1901.
(3) Sarah Clementina Penrose (m.
Sept. 1854, William Sergeant Blight, d. May
9, 1903) was born Oct. 11, 1829, and died
March 24, 1897. Issue: (a) Charles Pen-
rose Blight, d. July 4, 1895. H)) William Ser-
geant Blight (ni. Dec. 6, 1890, Cornelia Tay-
lor Blight), (c) Elihu Spencer Blight, (d)
Lydia Spencer Blight (m. Dec. 7, 1886,
John F. Hageman. Esq., d. July i, 1893).
(4) Clement Biddle Penrose, Judge fm.
Sept. 30, 1857, Mary Linnard), was born
Oct. 2j, 1832. Issue: (a) Emily Linnard
Penrose, (b) Valeria Fullerton Penrose,
(c) Charles Bingham Penrose. Cd) Stephen
Beasley Linnard Penrose (m. June 17, 1896,
Mary Deming Shipman). Children: ]\Iary
Deming Penrose, Frances Shipman Pen-
rose, Nathaniel Shipman Penrose, Clem-
ent Biddle Penrose. (e) Helen Pen-
rose (m. Oct. 17, 1901, Thomas Leiper
Hodge). ( f j Elizabeth Colegate Penrose
(m. Feb. 3, 1891, Rev. Henry Evertson
Cobb). Children: Dorothy Penrose Cobb,
Oliver Ellsworth Cobb, Emily Linnard
Cobb, Clement Biddle Penrose Cobb, (g)
Lydia Baird Penrose, (h) Mary Clemen-
tina Penrose.
(5) Lydia Spencer Penrose was born
June 3, 1835.
(6) Charles Bingham Penrose, Major
( m. Dec. 29, 1870, Clara Andairese), was
born Aug. 29, 1838, and died Sept. 18, 1895.
Issue: (a) Charles Bingham Penrose (m.
Sept. 30, 1903, Gibb). (b) Clement
Andairese Penrose (m. Dec. 14., 1904, to
Helen Stowe).
(VI) William Macfunn Biddle (m.
Jan. 2-/, 1825, to Julia Montgomery, d.
Feb. 24. 1883) was born July 3, 1801, and
died Feb. 28. 1855. He had issue:
(i) Lydia Spencer Biddle (m. Feb. 7,
1850. to Lieut. W. D. Smith, U. S. A., d.
about 1863) was born Nov. 3, 1825. and
died Nov. 11, 1855.
(2) Thomas Montgomery Biddle (m.
Dec. 10, 1857, to Margaret E. Irvine) was
born July 9, 1829, and died Jan. 28. 1864.
Issue: (a) Emily Duncan Biddle (m. 1886
to Lieut. Sidney A. Stanton, U. S. N.) died
March, 1892. (b) Lydia Spencer Biddle.
(c) Sarah Duncan Biddle, died June, 1877.
(3) Edward Macfunn Biddle (m. Feb.
2, i860, to !Mary I. Leiper) v.as born Aug.
25, 1832. died April 17, 1888. Issue: (a)
William Macfunn Biddle (m. Jan. 3, 1889,
to Florence Moen Huntington, d. Jan. 20,
1897) was born Nov. 16, i860, died July
3. 1893. (b) Mary Lewis Biddle. (c)
Thomas Montgomery Biddle (m. Septem-
ber, 1893. '^o Nancy Denny Risher). Child:
Thomas Montgomery Biddle. (d) Edward
^lacfunn Biddle. (e) Sara Newbold Biddle.
(4) Mary Montgomery Biddle (m. Oct.
18, 1855, to DeGarmo J. Whiting, d. June
24, 1864; 2d m. Henry A. R. Moen, d. Octo-
ber, 1887) was born Oct. 10, 1834, and died
July, 1887.
(5) William ]\Iacfunn Biddle, born
Feb. 13. 1837, died May 14, 1877.
(6) Julia Montgomery Biddle (m. Nov.
10, 1863, to Charles Stuart Huntington, d.
Aug. 20, 1890) was born July 14, 1840.
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Issue: Florence Moen Huntington ( m. Jan.
3. 1889, to William M. Biddle, d. July 3,
1893; 2d m. to Owen A. Connor) was born
Sept. I, 1864, and died Jan. 20, 1897.
(VI) Mary Elizabeth Dagworthy Bid-
die (m. April 27, 1826, to Major George
Blaney, U. S. A., d. May 15. 1835) was born
April, 1805, and died Sept. 4, 1879. She
had issue :
(1) Valeria Biddle Blaney (m. Aug.
20, 1856, to Brig. Gen. Washington L. El-
liott, U. S. A., d. June 29. 1888) died May
6, 1900. Issue: (a) Katharine Blaney
Elliott, (b) Frances \'aughn Elliott, (c)
George Blaney Elliott, d. Jan. 7, 1894. (d)
Mary Biddle Elliott (m. June 5, 1895. to
Herbert George Pouting). Children: Mil-
dred Spencer Pouting, Arthur Elliott Pout-
ing.
(2) Katharine Mears Blaney (m. Dec.
19, 1854, to Alexander Brady Sharpe, Esq.,
d. Dec. 25, 1891).
(3) William Biddle Blaney, d. Feb. 18,
1862.
(4) Lydia Spencer Biddle Blaney (m.
May 18, 1854, to Col. William B. Lane, U.
S. A., d. June 28, 1898). Issue: (a) Mary
Biddle Lane (m. Feb. 15, 1883, to Lieut.
Col. Joseph L. Garrard, U. S. A.). Chil-
dren : Valeria LaConte Garrard, and Lucy
Lees Garrard, (b) Susan Bartlett Lane (m,
Dec. 21, 1887, to Major John Francis Guil-
foyle, U. S. A.). Children: Christine Spen-
cer Guilfoyle and Suzanne Lane Guilfoyle.
(VI) Edward M. Biddle (ni. Jan. 14,
1836, to Juliana Watts, d. Aug. 9, 1899)
was born July 27, 1808, and died May 13,
1889. He had issue :
( 1 ) David Watts Biddle, born Oct. 28,
1838, died Aug. 8, 1902.
(2) Lydia Spencer Biddle.
(3) Charles Penrose Biddle, born July
21, 1847, <^li^d March 25, 1890.
(4) Frederick \\'atts Biddle, born Oct.
5, 1849, fl's<i -"^"g- -I' 1900.
(5) Edward William Biddle. Judge (m.
Feb. 2, 1882, to Gertrude Dale Bosler), w-as
born May 3, 1852. Issue: Herman Bosler
Biddle and Edward Macfunn Biddle.
(6) William Macfunn Biddle. born
Sept. 24, 1855, died Dec. 8, 1903.
HON. EDWARD W. BIDDLE, late
President Judge of Cumberland county,'
Pa., a son of Edward M. and Juliana
(W^atts) Biddle, was born in Carlisle May
3, 1852, and has resided there all his life.
Sketches of the Biddle and Watts families,
both of which have furnished to the world
distinguished men, are given elsewhere in
this volume.
After passing through the public schools
to the high school, the subject of this sketch
entered Dickinson College and was grad-
uated from that institution with high stand-
ing in June, 1870, the youngest member of
his class. After spending several months
in civil engineering he commenced the study
of law in the office of his cousin. William
M. Penrose, Esq., and was admitted to the
Bar in April, 1873. From that time he gave
his attention almost exclusively to his chosen
profession and pursued a wide range of legal
studies. In 1877 and again in 1883 he was
unanimously nominated by the Republican
county convention for the office of district
attorney and on both occasions ran far
ahead of his ticket, but was not elected in
either instance.
These political episodes did not in any
way interfere with his professional work,
and for many years prior to his election to
the judgeship he had charge of some of the
most important cases and largest interests
in Cumberland county. In 1885 he was
selected as one of the assignees for the
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benefit of creditors of P. A. Alil and D. V.
Ahl, individually and trading as P. A. Ahl
& Bro., who had valuable landed possessions
in several States and whose affairs were
much in\'olved. In the ca])acity of assignee
and as attorney for the three estates he was
instrumental in carrying to a successful ter-
mination the most intricate equity litigation
e\-er conducted in Cumberland county, as
well as an important equity suit in Hagers-
town, Md. His minute attention to details
and the thorough grasp of the law which he
displayed in the above and other cases
brought to his office an extensive miscella-
neous practice. In the fall of 1894 he was
elected to the position of President Judge of
Cumberland county, and on the first Monday
of the following January entered on the
duties of a ten years" judicial term. In De-
cember, 1903, having other lines of work in
view, he announced in the newspapers his
intentiiin of retiring from the Bench at the
expiration of his term of office and declined
vtnder any circumstances to be a candidate
for re-election. He was an active mem-
ber of the law reform committee of the
Pennsylvania Bar Association from the or-
ganization of that body in 1895 until 1904.
On Feb. 2, 1882, he married Gertrude
D., a daughter of J. Herman and Mary J.
(Kirk) Bosler, of Carlisle, to which union
two children have been born : Herman Bos-
ler, born April 14, 1883, and Edward Mac-
funn, born May 29, 1886. In the latter part
of 1899 he and Mrs. Biddle were appointed
on the Board of Pennsylvania Commission-
ers to the Paris Exposition, and in pursu-
ance of their appointment offitially visited
the Exposition in the following summer, ac-
companied by their two boys, and then made
a tour of Europe. Since 1898 Judge Biddle
has been a trustee of Dickinson College and
a member of its executive and investment
committees. He has frequently written and
spoken (.)n histcjrical subjects, and his pub-
lished address in 1902 on Three Signers of
the Declaration of Independence who were
Members of the Cumberland Countv Bar
attracted a good deal of attention.
JAMES EVELYN PILCHER, M. D.,
A. M., Ph. D., L. H. D., editor, author,
lecturer, military surgeon, now residing in
Carlisle, Pa., has lived a life of usefulness to
his fellow men, and has won for himself
a high place in surgical and military circles.
When William the Conqueror went from
Normandy to England, he had in his com-
pany one Pylchir, who became the ancestor
of the English Pilchers. He remained in
England, and held some office at the court
of William.
The family was first planted in America
in the latter part of the seventeenth centurv,
the emigrant settling at Dumfries, Prince
William Co., Va., a town eventually washed
away by the inundations of the James river.
After the close of the war of the Revolu-
tion, James Pilcher, the great-grandfather
of James Evelyn Pilcher, became prominent
in the public affairs of the new government,
and was one of the first active Abolitionists.
Stephen Pilcher, son of James, was bom
in Prince William county, in 1772, and on
attaining mature years he crossed the moun-
tains and came to the North, finally settling
in Athens, Ohio, where he became a leading
citizen. For many years he held the office
of justice of the peace. His occupation was
that of a farmer, but he devoted a large por-
tion of his time to public affairs, and was
exceedingly interested in educational mat-
ters. With his own hands he helped lay the
foundation of the Ohio State University.
His wife was Eleanor J. Selby, a member of
a distinguished family.
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Elijah Holmes Pilcher, A. M., M. D.,
S. T. D., LL. D., son of Stephen, was born
in Athens, Ohio, in 1810. He attended die
Ohio State University for a time, but left it
at the end of his Sophomore year to prepare
for the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. For fifty years he was a well
known divine of that faith in the United
States. In 1830 he went to Michigan, and
became active in the work of progress in
that State, where he was one of the founders
of .\II>ion College. He was the founder of
the Michigan Christian Advocate, published
at Detroit, and at one time he was regent of
the University of Michigan. In Coklwater,
Mich., he married. May 24, 1842, Phoebe
Maria Fisk, daughter of James Fisk ; first
cousin of Levi Woodbury. Secretary of the
Treasury in the cabinet of Andrew Jackson;
and later United States Senator and Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States ;
great-granddaughter of Lieut. James Wood-
bury, who served with Wolfe at the storm-
ing of Quebec ; and granddaughter of Capt.
Peleg Rtmsom, of Ulster county, N. Y., a
soldier of the Revolution. To their mar-
riage were l)orn three children: Lewis
Stephen, A. M., M. D., LL. D., of New
York, editor of Annals of Snrgcry, and one
of the most distinguished surgeons in the
United States; Leander \\'illiam, D. D.. who
at his death in 1893 was president of Pekin
Jnixersity, Pekin, China; and James Eve-
lyn. The father died in New York city in
1887, and was buried in Greenwood cem-
etery. The mother passed away in Romeo,
Mich., Aug. 26, 1866.
James Evelyn Pilcher was born in
Adrian, Mich., :\Lnrch 18, 1857. Like the
other members of the family he was given
exceptionally good educational facilities. In
1879 he was graduated from the University
of Michigan with the degree of A. B. ; in
1880 he received the degree of M. D. from
the Long Island College Hospital; in 1887
the degrees A. M. and Ph. D. from the
Illinois Wesleyan University; and in 1902
L. H. D. from Allegheny College. Imme-
diately after his graduation in 1880, he be-
came managing editor of the Annals of
Anatomy and Surgery, a position he most
creditaljly filled until 1883, when he entered
the Medical Department of the United States
Army as Assistant Surgeon, with the rank
of Lieutenant. In 1888 he was advanced
to the rank of Captain. In 1898 at the
breaking out of the Spanish-American war
he was made Brigade Surgeon, with the
rank of Major ; he was Surgeon of one of
the first regiments sent Sovith, serving in
that capacity at Mobile and Tampa, and later
going to Jacksonville as Chief Surgeon of
the forces under Gen. Lawton. When the
forces of that General were formed into the
Seventh Army Corps under the command of
(jen. Fitzhugh Lee, he remained with them
in the capacity of E.xecutive and Medical
Supply Officer until the fall of 1899, when
he was detached and placed in command of
the Army Medical Supply Depot, established
at Savannah, Ga., a duty which occupied his
attention until failing health rec[uired him
to relinquish active service, and in 1900 he
was placed on the retired list. During his
army career he experienced considerable ser-
vice in the field against the Sioux, Crow and
Cheyenne Indians, and against Mexican in-
surrectos. He was the author of the first
system of drill for the L^nited States Army
Hospital Corps, published in the United
States, and his work on "First Aid in Illness
and Injury," the first edition of which was
issued in 1892, has maintained its position as
the principal text-book for the instruction of
the Hospital Corps from its publication to
the present time. In 1896 he was appointed
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Assistant Secretary of the Association of
Military Surgeons of tlie United States, be-
coming secretary and editor in 1897 — a posi-
tion whicli with an interval of two years he
has held to the present time. Under his
guidance this association has grown from a
comparatively small voluntary organization
to be an important official body incorporated
by Congress and recognized by the United
States government and by foreign powers.
He established the Journal of the Association
of Military Surgeons of the United States
as a quarterly in 1901, and as a monthly in
1902.
Besides his work in the army, Dr.
Pilcher has filled chairs of military surgeiy .
in a number of institutions of learning, being
Lecturer on Military Hygiene, Starling
Medical College, 1896; Professor of Mil-
itary Surgery, Ohio Medical University,
1896-97; Professor of Military Surgery,
Creighton Medical College, 1897-99; Pro-
fessor of Anatomy and Embryology, Dick-
inson College, 1 899- 1 900; Emeritus Pro-
fessor of Military Surgery, Ohio Medical
University, 1898; Professor of Medical
Jurisprudence, Dickinson School of Law,
1899; and Professor of Sociology, Dickin-
son College, 1900-1902.
Dr. Pilcher has spent a busy life, but has
found time to give his valuable researches
and practical ideas to the world. The articles
from his pen are numerous, among them
being: "First Aid in Illness and Lijury,"
English Edition, London, 1892 — American
Editions, New York, 1892, 1894, 1896,1897,
1898, 1899, 1901 (this work is a recognized
authority in the United States, being the
official text book of the United States Army
and Navy, and of the American Red Cross) ;
"Life and Labors of Elijah H. Pilcher,"
New York, 1893; "Columbus Book of the
Military Surgeons," Columbus, 1897; "The
Seals and Arms of Pennsylvania," Harris-
burg, 1902; "The Surgeon Generals of the
United States Army"' 1904; (in collabora-
tion with others) "Reference Handbook of
Medical Sciences," New York, 1888, 1893;
and about forty monographs on scientific and
general subjects, and several hundred con-
tributions to periodical literature, among
the latter being "A New Field of Honor,"
in Scribner's Magazine; "Transportation of
the Disaliled," published bv the Alilitarv Ser-
vice Institution and in the Reference Hand-
book of IMedical Sciences ; "Building of a
Soldier;" "Place of Physical Training in the
Military Service ;" "Annals and Achieve-
ments of American Surgery;" "Chauliac
and Mondeville;" "Mundimus and the Anat-
omy of the Middle Ages;" "Outlawry on
the Mexican Border;" "One Sioux Dance;"
etc. He is engaged in the preparation of a
book on the "Pilchers in England and Amer-
ica" for early publication.
Besides his editorial work on Annals of
Anatomy and Surgery, he was office editor,
1887-89; contributing editor, 1889; editor
Health Department, Nctv York Christian
Advocate, 1887-95; associate editor Colum-
bus Medical Jov.rnal, 1896-99; collaborator
of Janus, of Amsterdam, Holland, a Journal
of Medical History, 1897; associate editor
of the Pennsylvania Archives, fourth series ;
editor of the Proceedings of the Association
of Military Surgeons of the United States,
1897-99; editor of the Journal of the Asso-
ciation of Military Surgeons of the United
States, 1901-. He is the translator of "Til-
laux' Topographical Anatomy," from the
French; "Mundimus' Anatomy," from
Medieval Latin; and Pierre Franco's "Brief
Surgery," from Mediaeval French.
Dr. Pilcher has been honored with mem-
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bership in some of the most noted profes-
sional societies in the world — societies whose
membership is a high distinction. He is an
honorary fellow of the American Academy
of Railway Surgery, and of the Columbus
Academy of Medicine: honorary member of
the Association of Military Surgeons of the
State of Ohio, of the Ohio Medical Society,
of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and of
the Cumberland County Medical Soci-
ety: life member of the Association of
Military Surgeons of the United States;
fellow of the American Academy of
Medicine; member of the Pennsylva-
nia State Medical Society, of the Cum-
berland Valley Medical Association, of the
American Medical Association, the Amer-
ican Medical Editors Association (ist vice-
president in 1904), of the American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science, of
the American Economic Association, of the
Military Service Institution of the United
States, and of the Hamilton Library Asso-
ciation. Carlisle; compatriot of the Sons of
the American Revolution (medal for service
in the Spanish-American war) and com-
panion of the Order of Foreign Wars of the
United States. Fraternally, he also belongs
to St. John's Lodge, F. and A. M. ; and True
Friends Lodge, No. 56, K. P. He is an
honorary member of the Jr. O. U. A. M.,
and a member and vice president of the Old
Northwest Genealogical Society. He was
the organizer and secretary of the Interna-
tional Congress of ]\I'ilitary Surgeons held
at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St.
Louis in 1904.
In 1883, in Brooklyn, N. Y., Major
Pilcher was married to Mina Adela Parker,
a descendant of an old New England family
and a niece of George Edward Reed, S. T.
D., LL. D.. president of Dickinson College.
IRA DAY, M. D. Among the honored
names of the citizens of Mechanicsburg,
who, after a long life of the utmost useful-
ness, have passed out of life, that of Dr. Ira
Day will long be recalled. Dr. Day was born
near the close of the seventeenth century,
Aug. 17, 1799, and died at Mechanics-
burg, in November. 1868, son of Benjamin
Day, who was born in Connecticut, in 1755,
and died in 1829.
The Day family has been prominent in
New England since early times, it being
founded at Boston, Mass., by Robert Day,
who came from England, where he was born
in 1604, to the American shores in 1634, on
the good ship "Elizabeth." He was father
of two sons, Thomas and John, and from
the latter descended the branch of the family
in which we are most interested. In later
times the family settled in Connecticut, and
Benjamin Day later removed to Royal ton,
Vt., where he reared these children: Alfred,
Spaulding, Mary, Benjamin, Asa, Ira, Joel,
Gad and Dan.
Ira Day remained in his native place until
the age of sixteen years, and then leaving
Vermont with his brother Gad settled in
Pennsylvania, where he studied medicine,
returning to Vermont, however, to graduate
from a college at Burlington. He then re-
turned to his former home in Adams county.
Pa., and in 1828 came to Cumberland county.
Here for forty years he faithfully practiced
his profession, becoming the leading physi-
cian at Mechanicsburg and one of the most
skilled in all Cumberland county. His prac-
tice cijvered a large country territory, over
which he was respected and beloved far be-
yond that of any other citizen. In his day
there could be no more fatiguing calling than
that of a medical practitioner who faithfully
met the demands of his patients. Dr. Day
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was not only eminent in his profession, but
he was also a very prominent citizen, and
was identified with all public movements in
and around Mechanicsburg. For many years
he was one of the trustees of Dick'inson Col-
lege at Carlisle, and he was interested in all
the educational reforms in the county, giving
time and advice to further such enterprises
which promised benefit to the community.
In politics Dr. Day always supported the
principles of the old Democracy, and exerted
a wide influence in political circles. He was
a Mason, and one of the charter members of
the I. O. O. F. Lodge at ^lechanicsburg.
On Dec. 25, 1828, Dr. Day married
Elizabeth Forrey, datighter of Jacob and
Anna (Seitz) Forrey, of Columbia, Lan-
caster county. A family of ten children was
born to this union, eight of whom reached
maturity, as follows: Alfred, Annette, John,
Mary, Sitsan A., Jacob, Francis and Lizzie,
all of whom have passed away e.xcept Miss
Annette, who is one of the most highly
esteemed ladies of ]\lechanicsburg. Miss
Day occupies a handsome residence on West
Main street. Like her father, she is a con-
sistent member of the Methodist Church.
CONRAD HAMBLETON, of the firm
of Wetzel & Hambleton, attorneys-at-law,
is of Southern ancestry. His jjaternal grand-
father. Dr. Oliver E. Hambleton, was a
native of near Danville. Va., where he was
a prominent practicing physician and a lead-
ing citizen.
Dr. Hambleton had a son named John
White Hambleton, who acquired a liberal
education and selected the law as his pro-
fession. He settled at ^Memphis. Tenn.,
where the breaking out of the war between
the States found him already in possession
of a fair practice. Being a native of the
South, and in sympathy with the sentiment
of his section, he entered the Confederate
army and served continuously from the be-
ginning to the end of the war, receiving
dangerous wounds, which, along with the
fact that he rose to the rank of brigadier
general, are conclusive proofs that he was a
brave man and true to the cause which he
believed to be right. Though living at the
end of four years of hard campaigning he
was in straitened circumstances and com-
pelled to begin life anew. A short time after
the close of the war he became acquainted
with Aliss Josephine Dallas Conrad, to
whom he was married on Xov. 24, 1866.
Miss Conrad was a native of Baltimore. Md.,
and daughter of Dr. A. ]\I. H. Conrad, a
physician, who died Sept. 9, 1855, in a yel-
low fever epidemic at Vicksburg, Mi.ss.,when
in his thirty-sixth year; her mother was
Alary Elderkin, daughter of William Elder-
kin, who in 1 81 2 was one of the defenders
of Baltimore, where he was a merchant in his
earlier years, subsequently removing to
Philadelphia, where he died when past ninety
years of age.
John \\\ and Josephine D. (Conrad)
Hambleton had one child, a son named Con-
rad Hambleton, who is the subject of this
sketch. He was born at ]\Iason"s Depot,
Tipton Co., Tenn., Sept. 8, 1867. Several
years afterward 'Sirs. Hambleton removed
to Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pa., where
her mother had previously located, and there
Conrad Hambleton passed the years of his
childhood and youth. From the time he
reached the legal age he attended the public
schools of his town, and, that his hands as
well as his mind might be given proper train-
ing, when thirteen years of age he entered
a printing office and for four years schooled
himself in the art of printing. After passing
through the \\'aynesboro public schools he
entered upon a three years course in Dickin-
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son Seminary, at W'illiainsixirt, I'a., from
wliich institution he graduated in 1888.
After graduating from the seminary he for
two years taught in the public schools of
Waynesboro, employing what spare hours
he had at studying law under the instruction
of O. C. Bowers, Esq., of Chambersbnrg.
He was admitted to the l""ranklin county
Bar in April, 1891, and immediately after-
ward opened an office at Waynesboro, where
he remained until the spring of 1892, with
the experience young lawyers usually under-
go in their efforts at building up a ])ractice.
In 1892 he removed to Carlisle, where he
settled permanently, and thenceforth gave
to his ])rofession his exclusive attention. For
several vears he practiced by liimself. l)ut in
April. 1896, he entered into partnership with
J. W. Wetzel, Esq., under the firm name of
Wetzel & Hambleton, through which asso-
ciation he has become interested in much of
the most important litigation in the courts
of Cumberland county.
Mr. Hambleton is a studious and
methodical lawyer. He gives business en-
trusted to him prompt atten.tion. carefully
prepares his cases, and tries them with a
directness and force regarded as commend-
able in attorneys much older and more ex-
perienced. In politics, he is a Democrat both
by inheritance and conviction, and is some-
times discussed by the leaders of his party
for public position, but as his chief delight
lies in the practice of his profession he has
thus far uniformly declined to be a candidate
for anything.
MAJOR THOMAS SHARP. Among
the early settled families of the upper end of
Cumberland county were the Sharps, who
have been prominent in this part of the State
for at least three generations. They trace
their ancestrv back to Scotland, where at an
unknown date Thomas Sharp married Mar-
garet Elder, a daughter of a Scottish laird.
Thomas and Margaret (Elder) Sharp
were Covenanters, and removed from their
native land to the Province of Ulster in Ire-
land, where four daughters and five sons
were born to them. The daughters were:
Jane, Alartha, Mary and Agnes; and the
sons were : Robert, Andrew, John, James
and Alexander. Robert came to America
first, and afterward went back to Ireland
and brought over the rest of the family.
They first .settled in the forks of the Dela-
ware river, in the eastern part of Pennsyl-
vama, but later nearly all of them came into
the Cumberland Valley. Robert Sharp first
appears upon the records of Newton town-
ship, Cumberland county, in 1775. Andrew-
settled in that part of the State now com-
prised in Indiana county, and was killed in
what was probably the last Indian fight that
took place in Pennsylvania. Early in the
summer of 1794, he and three of his neigh-
bors and their wives started down the Kish-
kiminitas in a flat boat on their way to Ken-
tucky. Just before reaching the Allegheny
river they landed for the night. While the
men were preparing to camp they were sur-
prised by a band of Indians. Two of the
party darted into the woods, but Sharp and
the other man ran to the protection of their
families on the boat. While they were push-
ing the boat into the stream the Indians
opened fire upon them, severely wounding
Sharp and killing his comrade. There being
four rifles in the boat Sharp kept up a run-
ning fight with the Indians while his strength
held out. the women loading the guns while
he fired them. The next day what remained
of the party reached Fort Pitt, where they
recei\ed all necessary attentions. Andrew
Sharp had been shot in three different places,
but notwithstanding the serious character of
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the wounds had prospects of recovering, hut
the heavy concussions of guns, fired in cele-
bration uf the 4th of July, started hemor-
rhages from which he died. He was buried
in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian
Church of Pittsburg, with the honors of
war, he having been a soldier in the Revolu-
tion. Many of his descendants are yet liv-
inw in western Pennsylvania and the West,
and one. Capt. Alexander ?vIcCracken, is
commander of the United States cruiser
"Des j\h:)ines."
Alexander Sharp, the last named of the
Sharj) brothers, served several short enlist-
ments in the early part of the Revolutionary
war, and later was engaged in the important
service of furnishing supplies to the army.
He located in Xewton township shortly after
the close of the Revolution, on land entered
by his father, Thomas Sharp, in IMay, 1746.
He was a man of great energy, and much
of the improvement and development of his
part of the county in his day were due to his
enterprise. He engaged extensively at
farming, milling, tanning and distilling, and
ship])ed his surplus products by wagon to
Baltimore. Captain Sharp, as he was famil-
iarly called, inaugurated the custom of keep-
ing wagons continually upon the road, and
by intelligent and careful management made
the traffic pay. His practical mind saw the
advantage of having narrow tread wheels
for mud roads, and Inroad tread for turn-
pikes, and when the turnpike was completed
from Baltimore to Hanover, he kept an
extra set of wheels for each of his wagons
at Hanover, and would change from narrow
to broad tread on reaching the beginning of
the turnpike. He took a paternal interest
in the young men in his emplov. directing
their eftHrts so as to give them a good start
in life. Among the employes in his tanner-
ies was a voung man named Robert Garrett,
who showed extraordinary capacitv for busi-
ness. This young man he advised to go to
Baltimore and open a commission business,
promising him all the patronage he had, and
to use his influence to secure him that of
others. Young Garrett was then onlv about
twenty years of age and had never been to
Baltimore. He was reluctant Xo go. but
having implicit confidence in Captain
Sharp's judgment he yielded and subse-
quently became one of Baltimore's most
prominent and successful business men.
This young man Garrett was the father of
John W. Garrett, and the f(junder of the'
famous Garrett family of Baltimore.
Capt. Alexander Sharp was married to
Margaret McDowell, daughter of John Mc-
Dowell, of Kishacoquillas Valley, Mifflin
county, and by her had five sons and one
daughter : John married Jane McCune, and
engaged at farming in Newton township
south of Oakville. William M. graduated
from Dickinson College, studied medicine
and practiced his profession in Newville;
he married Jane Wilson. Andrew married
Rosanna ^McDowell, of Mifilin county, and
engaged at fanning in Ne\vton; he died
when yet in midille life. Thomas died in the
thirtieth year of his age. unmarried. Eleanor
married a ;\Ir. IMcCune, of near Shippens-
burg. The wife and mother, died Aug. 15,
1 810, in her fifty-first year, and Capt. Sharp
afterward married Isabella Oliver, a daugh-
ter of James and Mary (Buchanan) Oliver,
of the part of the county that is now included
in Silver Spring township. By his second
marriage he had no children.
Alexander Sharp, third son of Capt.
Alexander and Margaret (McDowell)
Sharp, was born in Newton township June
12, 1796. He graduated from Jefferson
College in 1820, studied theology and was
ordained a minister of the Associate Re-
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formed Presljyterian Church. On June 2g,
1824, he was installed as pastor of the
church of that denomination at Big- Spring.
About the same time he was elected Profes-
sor of Theology in the Associate Reformed
Seminar\- at Oxford, Ohio, but he declined
the i)rofe.ssorship and continued as pastor of
the Big Spring Church up to the time of his
death. The Presbytery of Big Spring in-
cluded small congregations at Shippens-
burg. Chambersburg, Concord, (Gettysburg,
Lower Chanceford, and one in Rockbridge
county, Virginia. These churches were
often without pastors, and at such times it
fell to Mr. Sharp to minister to them, and
being so widely scattered his duties required
much exposure and a great amount of horse-
back riding, which impaireil his health and
finally caused his death.
Physically Rev. Dr. Sharp was a large
and commanding person, and his character
was so rounded and balanced that it was
hard to detect in him any prominent traits
or angles. He possessed a vigorous, com-
prehensi\e mind, and a manner that was
simple, kind and courteous. He was a true
and reliable friend, much respected by his
ministerial associates, and throughout the
Synod of Pittsburg, to which the Presbytery
of Big Spring belonged, was commonly
spoken of as "Father Sharp." His home at
the head of the Green Spring was the regular
stopping place for the ministers of the Asso-
ciate Reformed Presbyterian Church when
visiting this part of the State. His neigh-
bors, regardless of religious affiliations, often
applied to him for advice and assistance in
material affairs. He had rare presence of
mind, and in case of emergency was remark-
ably quick to see what was the best thing to
be done. As an illustration of this charac-
teristic the following incident is related of
him : One evening, just before retiring, an
affrighted neighbor rushed into his house
with the information that a candle moth had
gotten into his daughter's ear, causing her
intense suffering. Instantly it flashed upon
his mind that the rye straws, with which the
children had been playing in front of the
door, might be of use in the case. He started
off with his an.xious neighbor on a run, pick-
ing up some of the straws as he went. On
reaching the patient Mr. Sharp cut a straw
to a length to suit the purpose, and, insert-
ing one end in the ear, applied his mouth to
the other and sucked out the fluttering insect
to the great relief of the young lady.
Rev. Alexander Sharp married Elizabeth
Bryson, a daughter of William and Jane
(Harkness) Bryson, of Allen township.
William Bryson w'as long a prominent citi-
zen of the lower end of Cumberland county,
and the progenitor of an honorable and dis-
tinguished family. His wife, Jane Hark-
ness/ was a daughter of William and Pris-
cilla (Lytle) Harkness. William Harkness
was born in Ireland. In 1750 he came to
America, and about the year 1765 settled in
Allen township, Cumberland county, where
he lived until the time of his death. He mar-
ried Priscilla Lytle. of Donegal, Lancaster
county, and died in May, 1822, and he and
his wife are buried in the cemetery of the
Silver Spring Church. \\'illiam Bryson died
in October, 1818, and he and many of his
descendants are also buried at Silver Spring.
William Harkness was a soldier in the war
of the Revohition. He was ensign of Capt.
John Mateer's company. Col. Chambers'
regiment, wdiich was a part of Gen. James
Potter's brigade. Potter's brigade served
with distinction in various engagements
about Philadelphia : At the battle of the
Brandywine it was on the extreme left; at
Germantown it was on the right, where in
driving in the opposing forces it advanced
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farther than tlie center of the line; at Chest-
nut Hill, under Gen. Irvine, it helped to
check the British advance, and. although
Gen. James Irvine was wounded, and his
troops driven back, Howe's attempt to sur-
prise the Americans was frustrated. When
Washington took up his march from White
Marsh to Valley Forge, he sent Potter's
brigade down the west side of the Schuyl-
kill to guard his left flank. In his reconnoi-
tering Pcjtter came upon a detachment of
British under Cornwallis, who had crossed
at Middle Ferry, and in a spirited engage-
ment which ensued between them retarded
the British sufticiently for Sullivan's brig-
ade, which had crossed the river at the
Gulph, to recross in safety, .\ day or two
afterward Washington crossed the river
higher up without interference, and after
reaching Valley Forge, he issued general
orders in which he thanked Potter's lirigade
for the splendid services it had rendered.
Rev, Alexander Sharp died Jan, 28. 1857.
in his sixty-first year. His wife, Elizabeth
(Bryson) Sharp, died Jan. 27, 1870, in the
sevent}'-third year of her age. and the re-
mains of both are buried at Xewville. They
had the following children: Alexander.
Jane Elizabeth. William H. B., John Riddle,
Thomas, Robert Elder and ^largaret Ellen.
Alexander Sharp, eldest son of Rev.
Alexander, graduated from Jefferson Medi-
cal College, and removed to St, Louis. Mo.,
\\here he married Ellen Dent, a sister of
Mrs. U. S. Grant. After practicing his pro-
fession for a while in St. Louis, he removed
to Auburn. ]Mo, This was at the beginning
of the Civil war and sentiment in that local-
ity was divided, the dominant part favoring
secession. One day, on his return from a
visit to a country patient, he found a Con-
federate flag floating from his house, which
was the highest in the village, and a crowd
standing around awaiting the outcome. In
reply to his inquiry his wife explained that
the boys wanted to put a flag upon their
house, and as it was the first they had raised
she thought it would lie nice and gave her
consent. Dr. Sharp then informed the
crowd that as the house was his he would
take the tlag down, and return it to them,
which he did in the face of threats that his
life should pay for the act. In fear and
trepidation his wife called out: "Bovs. the
hen coop is mine, you can put it on the
hen coop." This ludicrous attempt at con-
ciliation brought a shout of laughter ivom
the Union element in the crowd, and acted
like a shower bath on the Secessionists.
Their ardor was cooled, and loyalty to the
Union began to assert itself and crystalize
about Auburn.
The rebel element, however, made it un-
comfortable for him and his family at Au-
burn, and he removed to Louisiana, Pike
county, where he was permitted to practice
his profession unmolested. But the war
called for his services, and for some time he
was acting assistant surgeon in the army
hospitals at Cairo and Mound City. At the
close of the war he was made special agent
of the Post Ofirce Department, and reorga-
nized the mail ser\'ice in the States of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina. Afterward he
was postmaster of Richmond, Va., and when
General Grant was elected President he ap-
pointed him United States marshal of the
District of Columbia. At the close of
Grant's second term he was appointed pay-
master in the army, which p^isition he held
until 18S9, when he was relieved on account
of the infirmities of old age. He died at
"The Presi(li<i. " California, of ailments
caused by much horseback exercise in early
life. Marshal Sharp's oldest son. Alexander,
is a graduate of Annapolis, and has just been
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assigned to the command of tlie new cruiser
"Chattanooga." His second son, Frederick
Dent, died in the army. His other sons,
Grant and Louis, are in business in Mon-
tana, the former at Chinook, and the latter
at Great Falls. His three daughters mar-
ried respectively. Col. Petit, and Captains
Nolan and Bennett, of the army.
Jane Elizabeth Sharp, the second child
and oldest daughter of Rev. Alexander, died
unmarried.
John Riddle Sharp, the second son, mar-
ried Martha Woods, of Dickinson township,
by whom he had two sons, Alexander, who
lives at Larned, Kansas, and Richard \V.,
who lives in the State of Washington.
Robert Elder Sharp died without issue.
Margaret Ellen Sharp, the youngest
child, married Thomas Patterson, of Fulton
county, and has four sons surviving, Thomas
A., Robert S.. John and Ralph.
Thomas Sharp, the fourth child of Rev.
Alexander, and the subject of this sketch,
was born Dec. 6, 1836, at the head of the
Green Spring in Newton township. He was
reared on the farm and received an academic
education, but owing to delicate health never
engaged actively in any business or avoca-
tion. At the outbreak of the Civil war he en-
listed in Company A, 7th Pennsylvania Re-
serves. While his regiment was in camp in
Virginia, he was discharged, and shortly
afterward appointed a Captain in the 65th
Regiment of United States Colored Troops,
and served in that capacity in the
Mississippi Valley until the close of
the war. He was mustered out of
service at Baton Rouge, La.,- in the
fall of 1865. In 1866 he was ap-
pointed a Second Lieutenant in the United
States Infantry, and continued in the ser-
vice of the regular army until he reached his
retirement, serving in Texas, in the Depart-
ment of the Lakes, Dakota, Montana, Wy-
oming, and the Columbus Barracks, Ohio.
At the commencement of the Spanish-Amer-
ican War he was stationed at Pittsburg as
recruiting officer. He was retired in 1898,
with the rank of Major.
Thomas Sharp married Ellen Rice, of
Alackinac, Mich., who bore him the follow-
ing children : James, Thomas, John Mc-
Dowell and Ethel Marie. During the Span-
ish-American War his three sons were in the
army. James and Thomas belonged to the
17th United States Infantry, and par-
ticipated in the battles which took
place about Santiago, Cuba. " Both are
now members of the Society of San-
tiago. James afterward served in the
Philippines, where he contracted disease
from which he died in 1902, in Pittsburg.
After his discharge from the army Thomas,
turned his attention to civil affairs, and is
now manager of a live stock company in
Oregon. John McDowell, the third son,
was a sergeant in the First Ohio Volunteer
Cavalry, in the Spanish-American war, but
his regiment did not get out of the States,
and consequently saw no engagements. He
is a civil engineer, and at this writing is lo-
cated in Bedford county. Pa. Ethel Marie,
the daughter, married Ralph IMancill Gris-
wold. United States Navy, and is now with
her husband at Guantanamo Naval Station,
Cuba.
RICHARD PARKER HENDERSON,
son of Col. William ]\I. and Elizabeth
(Parker) Henderson, was born at "Oak-
land," the family homestead near Carlisle,
Oct. 5, 1838, and all his lifetime knew no
other home. His youth was spent upon the
farm, and his education was obtained in the
public schools of Carlisle and in Dickinson
College. Upon reaching manhood he en-
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gaged at farming and milling- with his fa-
ther and brother, and was entering upun a
successful business career when the war of
the Rebellion broke out. Upon the com-
mencement of hostilities he enlisted. April
21, iS6i. becoming a pri\-ate under his
brother, Capt. R. ~Sl. Henderson, in Com-
pany A, 36th Pennsylvania Infantry (7th
Reserves). Soon after the organization of
the company he was made corporal : sub-
sequently he was promoted to second lieu-
tenant and later to first lieutenant, which
rank he hel<l June 16, 1864, when he was
mustered out of service. On March 13,
1865, he . was bre\'etted first lieutenant,
United States Volunteers, "for gallant con-
duct at the battle of Gettysburg." On tlie
same date he was brevetted captain "for
gallant conduct at the battles of the Wilder-
ness and Spottsylvania Court House," and
major "for gallantry at Bethesda Church,
Virginia." On Jan. 11. 1882, he was elected
a member of the ^Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States, in Class i, In-
signia 2290, and his record as a companion
of that order discloses the services which
earned for him the brevets awarded to him.
The records of the 7th Regiment, Pennsyl-
vania Reserve Corps, disclose his loyal ser-
vice until promotion awarded him with a
commission, and his merit advanced him to
a position on the staff of his division com-
mander. Henceforward the battles he en-
gaged in brought him honor, marked bv pro-
motion and by bre\-ets. His commander.
Major Gen. S. H. Crawford, wrote that he
with another was "among the foremost"
when Round Top, the strategical point in
the battle line of Gettysburg, was seized for
the Union troops, and that Capt. Li\-ingston
and he were "deserving of especial com-
mendation for the prompt and fearless con-
veyance of orders entrusted to them on the
3d under the immediate fire of the enemy
battery." [See Official Records of the Re-
bellion, Series I, Vol. XXVII. Part I. page
656.1
After the war Major Henderson re-
turned to his home and quietly resumed the
business, which was interrupted four years
before by his prompt response to his coun-
try's call. He assisted his father in the mill-
ing branch of his business, then in the grain
and forwartling business, and after his fa-
ther's death, in 1886, took upon himself the
milling antl forwarding business, and man-
aged it successfully until he tlied. He was-
of a modest and retiring disposition, but
much esteemed for his integrity, good liusi-
ness qualities and excellent judgment in mat-
ters generally. For twenty years he was a
director in the Carlisle Deposit Bank, and
the confidence his neighbors had in his pro-
gressive ideas and sense of fairness carried
him into the school board of his township,
where the political party to which he be-
longed had but a meager minority of votes.
He was a member of Post No. 201, G. A. R.,
and a regular attendant at its meetings.
Major Henderson never asked for posi-
tion and those that came to him came un-
sought. He was content to walk in quiet
paths, to manage his business quietly and
carefully, and to enjoy the companionship
of his friends, his comrades and his family.
He won the respect and confidence of all
he met, and his honor and integrity in civil
life were as conspicuous and unsullied as
his courage on the field of battle. His death
occurred at "Oakland" Feb. 10, 1901, and
his remains are interred upon the Hender-
son family plat in the Aleeting House
Springs gra\'eyard, near Carlisle. Pie was
never married.
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DR. SAMUEL A. McDOWELL passed
away in Carlisle in 1887, and his widow has
since resided in that place, where she also
had her early home. Though the Doctor
lived abroad many years, returning- to his
native land hut a short time before his death,
he was well known and much esteemed in
Carlisle and Cumberland county, and as a
dentist who had the reputation of being a
leader in his profession in Europe for many
years he enjoyed considerable renown on the
Continent.
Samuel A. McDowell was born in 1828
in Cumberland county, and was a son of
John McDowell, a native of the county and
a lifelong agriculturist, who li\ed near
North Mountain in the neighborhood of
McClure's Gap. John McDowell married
Margaret Laird, who was, like himself, of
Scotch-Irish descent. Samuel A. was but
five months old when his father died, and he
remained with his mother, spending his boy-
hood and youth on a farm in Cumberland
county. He first attended the district
schools, ami later was a student at Tusca-
rora Academy, in Juniata county. Pa., after
which he took up the study of dentistry
with Dr. L C. Loomis, of Carlisle. His
first location for practice was at Toledo,
Ohio, but his health failing there he moved
South, settling at Goldsboro, N. C. When
the Civil war broke out, in 1861, he was
forced to flee to the North, and left every-
thing, household goods, office fixtures, and
all, to reach a place of safely. They were
eleven days and nights getting to their
northern destination, at Norfolk, \'a., hav-
ing been refused a pass to the North, so that
they were obliged to retrace their steps and
go through Tennessee and Kentucky, pass-
ing through Bowling Green, in the latter
State. They went to Pittsburg, Pa., and
thence to Carlisle. Dr. McDowell then went
abroad, going to Basel, Switzerland, and
practicing there five years and in London,
England, for a year. His next move was
to Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, where
he remained, in active practice, for ten years,
until his return to America. Dr. McDowell
was recognized as one of the leading dental
practitioners of Europe, and counted among
his patrcMis many scions of the English, Ger-
man and Russian nobility, as well as famous
wealthy families, the Rothschilds among
others.
Though a successful man in every sense
of the word Dr. McDowell remained to the
end an unaffected, lovable character, a Chris-
tian of the highest type, and a saintly man
in all the relations of life. While in North
Carolina he was an elder in the Presbyter-
ian Church. In politics he was originally a
Whig, but after his return to America he
allied himself with the Prohibition party.
In i860 Dr. McDowell was married, in
Carlisle to Hester M. McClellan, who sur-
vi\-es him, and makes her home in Carlisle,
one of the most respected residents of that
place. Mrs. McDowell comes from the
same family as Gen. John B. McClellan,
being a descendant of Sir Robert McClellan,
a native of Scotland who was banished
from that country because of his faith or
political views, and came to America. He
returned to Scotland, w here he died, but he
left two sons here. The McClellans orig-
inally settled in New Jersey, later in Chester
county. Pa., but John McClellan, Mrs. Mc-
Dowell's grandfather, was a farmer of York
county, owning 200 acres of land. He died
there. ^litchell McClellan, her father, was
the first of the family to come to Cumber-
land county, where he was engaged in farm-
ing, near Carlisle, to which city he removed
on retiring from active life. He died on
the homestead there in 188^. at the ad-
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vanced age uf eighty-five years, and his wife.
Airs. Susanna (Black) McClellan, survived
until 1890, reaching the age of eighty-six
years. Her father, Thomas Black, was an
officer in the Revolutionary war. Air. and
Airs. AlcClellan were the parents of eight
children, namely : John S., who is a resi-
dent of Philadelphia, Pa. ; Alartha. who mar-
ried James Stuart and is deceased: Eliza-
beth; Jane, who died young; Hester AL,
Airs. AIcDowell ; Alargaret. wdio died in
i8y8, unmarried; James AL, who died in
Alontgoniery county, Pa.; and A^irginia H.,
of Carlisle. James AL AlcClellan left three
sons and one daughter: Geijrge B.. .-Vrthur
I.. Samuel A., and Henrietta, of Philadel-
l)hia. These hoys are being educated by
Airs. AIcDowell. George B. and Arthur are
attending Dickinson College, and Samuel A.
is a student at the Grammar School.
REV. GEORGE NORCROSS, D. D.)
the eloquent and scholarly pastor of the Sec-
ond Presbyterian Cliurch of Carlisle, is of
English and Scotch-Irish ancestry. His
great-grandfather, Abraham Norcross. was
torn in New Jersey, married Xancy Flem-
ing, and afterward settled at Alilton, Pa.
After some years he removed from Alilton
to the then new county of Erie, Pa., where
he li\ed the remainder of his life. Al^rahani
and Xancy (Fleming) Norcross had a son,
John, who was born in New Jersey, but grew
to manhood on the Susquehanna in central
Pennsylvania. He preceded his parents to
Erie county, where he married Alargaret
AlcCann, who was born in the Xorth of Ire-
land about the year 1790. The eldest child
of John and Alargaret (AlcCann) Norcros<j
was born near the town of Erie. July 9, 1809,
and was named Hiram. He continued to
reside in that part of Pennsylvania until in
1S44, when he removed to Alonmouth, III.,
where he died in 1S79. He was a farmer all
his working days and for nearly forty years
a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church.
Hiram Norcross, on June i, 1837, mar-
ried Elizabeth McClelland, of Crawford
county. Pa., who was the only daughter of
Thomas and Sarah (Gibson) AlcClelland,
both of Scotch-Irish extraction. Sarah Gib-
son was the youngest daughter of Hugh
Gibson, who was captured by the Indians in
Sherman's Valley in 1756, at the same time
that his mother, the widow of David Gibson,
was shot and scalped. The scene of this
bloody tragedy was Robinson's Fort, near
the site of Center Church, Perry county.
Pa. Of Hiram and Elizabeth (AlcClelland)
Norcross's children the following lived to
maturity: Re\'. Dr. George, the subject of
this narrative; Hon. William Charles, now
a banker in Wichita, Kan. ; Hiram Fleming,
a lawyer of Los Angeles. Cal. ; Isaiah, of
Alonmouth, 111.; Thomas Rice, of Liberty,
X^eb. ; and Sarah Gibson, deceased, w'ife of
Henry Beckwith, of New London, Connec-
ticut.
Dr. George Norcross was born near
Erie, Pa., April 8, 1838. His youth and
early manhood were spent at Alonmouth,
111., where he was educated in Alonmouth
C(jllege, an institution under the care of the
United Presbyterian Church. After grad-
uating from college in 1861 he began his
theological studies in the Seminar)^ of the
Northwest, now AlcCormick, Chicago, and
continued them in the Seminary of the
L'nited Presbyterian Church, at Alonmouth.
During the latter part of this period he
served as the supply of a church at North
Henderson, and also held a professorship
in Alonmouth College. In October, 1864,
he entered the Theological Seminary at
Princeton. X. J., wdiere he spent his last year
of study in preparation for the ministry.
REV. GEORGE NORCROSS, D. D.
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Ha\ing receiveil a call from the congrega-
tion whicli he for seventeen months had al-
ready served as stated supply, he, on June
6, 1865, was orihiined and installed as pas-
tor of the Presbyterian Church of North
Henderson, Mercer county. 111. Here he
was among kind and appreciative people and
his labors were greatly blessed.
In the spring of 1866 he was called to
the Presbyterian Church (O. S.) of Gales-
burg, 111., where he labored for nearly three
vears, and then received the call which
l)rought him to the Second Presbyterian
Church of Carlisle. Here he has labored
continuously and acceptably for more than
thirtv-five years. His pastorate began in
January, 1869, at a time when the churcli
had about 230 members, and the Sabbath-
school an attendance of only 125 scholars
and teachers. Both numbers have been
greatly augmented; the roll of communi-
cants to about 500 and that of the Sabljath-
schools under his care to about 600.
A pastorate of thirty years' duration was
remarkable in Carlisle history, and when the
thirtieth anniversary in Dr. Norcross"s de-
voted service in the Second Presbyterian
Church arrived his friends gave the event
a fitting commemoration. The celebration
extended o\-er two days. Jan. ist and 2d,
1899, and ministers and laymen with like
freedom participated in the interesting
and memorable exercises. The sermons
preached, and addresses delivered, along
with many congratulatory letters received,
were published in a volume called "The
Story of a Thirtieth Anniversary,'" which
forms an important chapter in the recorded
history of this favored church.
During his first year at Carlisle the
]Manse was built, and during the second the
old church building was torn down to make
way for the present new Gothic structure,
erected at a cost of fifty thousand dollars
and dedicated on May 29, 1873. In 1887
the present edifice was renovated and im-
proved at an expenditure of ten thousand
dollars, provided largely l)y the bequest of
Mrs. Robert Givin and the generous gift
of her only daughter, Miss Amelia Steele
Gi\in, now Mrs. Walter Beall. The bene-
factions of these faithful friends, at the same
time, were supplemented by the congrega-
tion, who expended about two thousand dol-
lars upon the Lecture Room.
Dr. Norcross has represented the Pres-
bytery of Carlisle four times in the General
.Assembly, viz. : In 1871 at Chicago, in 1874
at St. Louis, in 1885 at Cincinnati, and in
1895 'It Pittsburg. In the last two Assem-
blies he was chairman of important stand-
ing committees. In 1877 he attended the
first Pan-Presbyterian Council at Edin-
burgh, Scotland, as an associate member,
and \\as present at all the deliberations of
that historic Iwdy. In October, 1899, '^^
was elected moderator of the Synod of
Pennsyhania, then assembled in the city of
Erie. This is the second largest synod in
the world, being outranked only by that of
New York. The same year he was also a
member of the Seventh Pan-Presbyterian
Council, held in ^^'ashington, D. C.
Dr. Norcross is a man of acknowledged
learning and culture, a ready and forceful
speaker, and in recognition of his literary
attainments, and faithful ministerial service,
Princeton College, in 1879, conferred upon
him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. While
he devotes himself rigorously to the work of
his own congregation he, both as a minister
and a citizen, is known as the friend of every
reform. He has given much thought and
labor to the temperance cause and when the
question of Constitutional Amendment in
interest of Prohibition was before the peo-
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pie in 1880 lie addressed many pnblic meet-
ings in its behalf, and his famous "Ox Ser-
ninn," or, "Our Responsibihty for the Drink
Traffic," preaclied before the Presbytery,
was printed and widely circulated.
After attending tlie sessions of the Pan-
Presbyterian Council in Edinburgh, in 1877,
Dr. Norcross and his wife made a tour of
the continent, visiting the famous places of
history and observing the different phases
of European life. Accompanied by his en-
tire family, he in July, 1890. again visited
Europe, remaining abroad for more than a
year. Seven months they s]ient at study in
the city of Leipsic, Germany, and six months
in traveling through Holland, Belgium,
Switzerland. Germany, Austria, Italy and
France, returning to their native land in
August. 1891.
Dr. Norcross has been twice married. On
Oct. I, 1863, he married Mary S. Tracy, of
Monmouth. 111., who died March 25, 1866.
After her death he removed to Galesburg,
111., where on April 22, 1867. he wedded
Mrs. Louise (Jackson) Gale, a daughter ot
Mr. Samuel Clinton Jackson, and widow of
Major Josiah Gale, the son of Rev. Dr. Gale,
the founder of Galesburg. By his first mar-
riage he had one child, which died in in-
fancy; and to his second union there have
been born five children, viz. : Delia Jackson;
George, who died at eight years of age;
Elizabeth; Mary Jackson; and Louise Jack-
son. Of these Delia Jackson is married to
Mr. Carl Foster. Mr. and Mrs. Foster re-
side in Bridgeport, Conn., and have the fol-
lowing children: Mary Louise, Julia M.,
Elizabeth Norcross and George Norcross.
In the year 18S6, upon the occasion of
the Centennial celebration of the Carlisle
Presbytery, Dr. Norcross became the edi-
tor of the publication called "The Centennial
Memorial of the Presbvtery of Carlisle."
The work consists of two volumes and is a
\aluable histiirical and liiographical review
of the origin and growth of Presbyterianism
in Southern Central Pennsylvania. As the
result of this and other literary work he was
made a meml)er of the American Society of
Church History, now merged into the
American Historical Association, and of the
Scotch-Irish Society of America. At the
request of the committee of arrangements,
he in 1896 prepared a paper on "The Scotch-
Irish in the Cumberland Valley," which he
read before the Eighth Scotch-Irish Con-
gress in Harrisburg. In this address he tells
of the work of this brave and hardy people,
of the early churches they established, and
the Ijlood they shed in the cause of liberty,
concluding with the following eloquent pai-
agraph :
"The War of the Revolution was begun
and maintained for principles peculiarly dear
to Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. As they were
among the first to declare themselves in
favor of separation from the mother coun-
try, so they were among the last to lay down
their arms, and that only when the great
cause was won. They were conspicuous in
almost every battle of the great struggle,
and when the conflict ended in the triumph
of their aspirations, it is not strange that the
free representative principles of their church
government should have been adopted as
the model for our Federal Constitution. The
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians at last had at-
tained their ideal; a free church in a free
State,"
In 1898 the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church celebrated the two-
hundred and fiftieth anni\-ersary of the
Westminster Assembly, which was convened
by the long Parliament of England in 1663.
Dr. Norcross was requested to prepare a
paper telling "The Story of the Westminster
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Assembly," which he did, and dehvered
same during the sessions of the General As-
seml)ly at A\'inona I.ake. Ind., in May,
1898. This i)ai)er was published in the vol-
ume "ll'i'stiiiiiislcr .■iiiiik'crsary Addresses."
MA TTHEW LOUDOX. On Dec. 4,
1751, the ])roprietaries of Pennsylvania is-
sued to John Hopkins a warrant for 150
acres of land. This warrant was transferred
to Matthew Loudon, and on it were surveyed
to him, on March 26, 1767, two adjoining^
tracts, one containing 172 acres and 67
jjcrches, and the other 48 acres and 67
perches. This land lies on the slopes of the
ridge between New Kingstown and Hoges-
town, in what is now SiK'er Spring town-
ship, but was then East Pennsboro. At the
time the warrant was issued, it was bounded
on the west by lands of Jose])h Junken, and
on the east by lands of William Walker.
Matthew Loudon was a younger brother
of James Loudon, and with him came from
Scotland in 1754. According to some ac-
counts there was also a brother John. These
three brothers settled in the Raccoon Valley,
in what is now Perry county, early in 1755.
They were soon afterwards driven away by
the Indians, and came to the south of the
Kittatinny Mountains, where they remained
for five years, waiting for the Indian hostil-
ities to subside. When peace was restored,
John and James Loudon ventured back to
their possessions in the Raccoon Valley, but
their brother ]SIatthew, having formed new
alliances, remained in the Cumberland Val-
ley. While waiting for peace he met in the
vicinity of where now is Hogestown. a
young latly named Elizabeth jMcCormick, a
daughter of Thomas McCormick. Their
acquaintance ripened into love, and they
were married, beginning life on the south-
ern slopes of the ridge where he acquired
the lands referred to, now (1903) included
in the farms owned by Albert Breen and
John C. Parker. Here Matthew Loudon's
possessions grew with the growth and de-
velopment of the country. In 1763 he was
taxed with 150 acres of land, and from year
to year this amount rose till in 1787 it
reached 350 acres. His personal property
increased in the same rapid propottion, and
according to the assessment rolls of East
Pennslxjro township, he was for a long time
in affluent circumstances, and one of the
leading citizens of the section.
Matthew Loudon and Elizal^eth McCor-
mick, his wife, had children as follows:
Mary, Archibald and Catharine ( who died
in infancy). Mary, the eldest child, was
born in May, 1761, and on March 14. 1782,
married Col. James McFarland, by whom
she had ten children, four sons and six
daughters. Archibald was born on March
I/' ^7(^3- Nine years before, as his parents
were on their way to America, his cousin,
Archibald Loudon, was born at sea. This
cousin subsequently lived and died at Car-
lisle, and their names being similar, the two
are apt to be confounded W'ith each other on
the records.
Archibald Loudon, son of Matthew,
married Margaret Bines, daughter of
Thomas and Margaret (Vance) Bines, and
began life as a farmer on the ridge a little
to the northeast of where is now New Kings-
town, and near where his father settled when
he came into the Cumberland Valley. He
prospered, and being enterprising, he and
John Walker, a neighbor, engaged at manu-
facturing iron at Mt. Holly, Cumberland
county, during the years 1800 and 1801.
The venture was a financial failure, both
partners losing heavily. He continued to
li^•e on his fami near New Kingstown until
abinit 1820, when he exchanged it for a
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farm lying on the Juniata river, opposite
Newport, Perry county, and with his family
removed to it. Here he died March 22,
1832. His wife died five days after her
husband, and the remains of b.)th lie interred
in the cemetery of the Silver .Spring Church.
Archibald Loudon and Margaret Bines, his
wife, had children as follows : ( i ) Eliza-
beth ^IcCormick. the eldest child, mar-
ried James Bell, and by him had four
children, only two of whom lived to
grow to maturity. (2) John ^IcCor-
mick, born Sept. 18, 1792, married
Nancy Giffin, who died Aug. 29. 1834.
He died Sept. 16. 1880. and both are buried
at Silver Spring. They left no children.
(3) Matthew, born in December. 1794.
married Sarah Fulton, in 1840. by whom
he had four daughters. After his marriage
he lived for some time in Perry county, but
subsequently moved \\'est and settled in the
State of Missouri. Late in life he returned
to Perry county, and died there on April 21,
1855. (4) Margaret, born Sept. 15. 1796,
married Henry Ewalt, and by him had two
sons and one daughter, viz. : William Henry,
born in March, 1827, died in February.
1875 : Loudon Bines, born April 16, 1836,
died Nov. 30, 1903; and Margaret, born
Sept. 21, 1838. Henry Ewalt died Jan. 11,
1 87 1, in the seventy-first year of his age.
and his wife died Feb. 5, 1874, in her seven-
ty-eighth year. Both are buried at Silver
Spring. (5) Thomas Bines, born in June,
1799, married Martha Irvine, in February,
1830. He died at Middlesex, Cumberland
county, Dec. 31, 1848. and his wife died
while on a visit at Hogestown Nov. 27,
1879, aged about eighty years. Their re-
mains lie buried in the Silver Spring grave-
yard. They had no children. (6) James,
born Feb. 22, 1802, married, in 1836, Mrs.
Ann Englehart. and settled in Harford
county, j\Id.. where he died leaving no chil-
dren. (7) Mary Ann. born May i, 1804.
never married. She died at Hogestown, at
the home of her sister, Mrs. Margery B.
Snowden, Oct. 26, 1848. (8) Margery
Bines, born Sept. 30, 180S, married, in
1832, Dr. Isaac Wayne Snowden, and had
the following children : Nathan Randolph,
born Oct. 7, 1833, died in August, 1900;
Archibald Loudon, born Aug. 11, 1835;
^Margaret, born Jan. 10. 1838, died March
25,1 1854; Sarah Gustine, born April y,
1 841: and Maud Loudon, born March 31,
1848. Dr. Isaac Wayne Snowden died June
4, 1850, and his wife died Jan. 25, 1888.
Both are buried in the cemetery of the Sil-
ver Spring Church, (q) William McCor-
mick, born Nov. 12, 181 2. married Eliza
Patterson, went West and settled in Mis-
souri. Three children, two daughters and
a son, were born to them. Both parents are
dead, and their remains are buried at Han-
nibal, Missouri.
Matthew Loudon's first wife, Elizabeth
McCormick, died at a date not now known,
and he afterward married .Ann Copenger,
by whom he had five children. He died
Jan. 10, 1 80 1, at the age of seventy-two
years, and his wife, Ann Copenger, died
Feb. 17, 1829. He and his two wives lie
buried in the same grave in the cemetery of
the Silver Spring church. The Carlisle
Weekly Gazette, Jan. 14, 1801, contained the
following notice of his death: "On the loth
instant at his farm in East Pennsboro, Mr.
Matthew Loudon. None who knew this
man will hesitate to say that he possessed
the moral and social virtues in an eminent
degree. As a husband, a father, a neighbor
and a member of society, both civil and re-
ligious, his actions were the testimonials of
sincerity and real friendship, and strongly
indicated the goodness of his heart. His
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remains were interred in Silver Spring
graveyard on the 12th instant, accompanied
thitlier by an uncommonly large and respec-
table number of his relations and neighbors
who were sensibly affected by the loss of
this worthy citizen."
Matthew and Ann (Copenger) Loudon
had issue as follows: (i) Elizabeth mar-
ried Tliomas Carothers and by him had five
children : John, who went to Missouri and
died there in 1855: Matthew, who died
young: William, who went to Texas, and it
is not known what became of him ; Thomas,
who went South, married and settled in
Texas; and Xancy, who married a son of
James Armstrong, of Carlisle, and had two
sons who located at Columbia, Pa. (2)
John Loudon married Polly Hoge, daughter
of John Hoge, and moved to Ohio in 1816.
(3) James. Ijorn April i, 1781, married
Mary Pinkerton, and had one son named
Matthew. James Loudon died Jan. 27, 1847,
and his wife died May 19, 1857. and both
are buried in the Silver Spring burying
ground. (4) Catharine, born Feb. 15, 1783,
married Andrew Carothers, of Carlisle, and
by him had three sons, as follows : John C,
who went to ^Missouri, and there married a
Miss Carothers, who died without children:
Matthew, who married a Miss \\'ilson,
moved to Shelbyville. 'Sin., and had a large
family of children : and James, who settled
in California. Mrs. Catharine (Loudon)
Carothers died Jan. 19. 1820, and her hus-
band afterward married ^Irs. Isabella
'Creigh) Alexander, widow of Samuel
Alexander. Andrew Carothers died July
27, 1836, antl was buried by the side of his
first wife in the cemetery of the Silver
Spring church. His second wife died June
4. 1861, in the seventy-fifth year of her age.
and is buried in the Old Graveyard at Car-
lisle. (5) Ann. born Oct. 29, 1785, was a
deaf mute, and died unmarried Jan. 18,
1845, St the home of her brother James at
Roxbury, in Monroe township, and her re-
mains are buried at Silver Spring.
Matthew Loudon made his will April
6, 1799, and left his estate, subject to certain
allowances, to his sons, John and James, to
be divided between the two by the judgment
of seven men appointed by his executors.
To his son Archibald, he, some years before,
had given what he considered his portion.
In 1822 James" land was purchased at
sheriff's sale by Thomas Carothers, his
brother-in-law, who in March. 1827, con-
veyed it to Andrew Carothers, Esq.
Matthew Loudon, James Loudon's son
and only child, was born March 7, 1812.
He married Catharine Myers, by whom he
had three children : John Myers, Elizabeth
and Alfred James. ,
Matthew Loudon never wandered far
from the place of his birth. In 1845 he pur-
chased from the Forney estate a farm near
the village of Hogestown, and upon it en-
gaged at farming while health and strength
remained to him. He was a quiet unosten-
tatious man and much respected for his in-
tegrity and modest worth. From early in
life he was a member of the Lutheran
Church at Trindle Spring, and for many
years one of its deacons,:- also a trustee, in
which capacity he was serving at the time of
his death. He died Oct. 30, 1885, and his
wife died April 18, 1893, in the seventy-
seventh year of her age. Their remains lie
buried in the cemetery of the Trindle Spring
Church.
John Myers, the oldest child of ]\Iatthew
and Catharine (Myers) Loudon, was born
May 2/. 1841. He married Lyde J. Ellis,
who is of English descent, and they became
the parents of the following children : Mar-
garet Ellis, born Dec. 12. 1875 ; Mary Cath-
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arine, born April 17. 1880; John Matthew,
born June 24. 1S82; Lilhe Bell, born April
17, 1886, died Dec. 18, 1901 ; ]\Iiriam Cris-
tobel, born Sept. 12, 1889.
John Myers Loudon was a farmer, and
up to his death engaged at farming on a
place belonging to the Loudon heirs, not far
from where he was born, in Silver Spring
township. He died Aug. 6, 1894. and since
his death his widow and children continue
the work, and maintain intact the unity of
the family. ]\Iargaret Ellis, the eldest
daughter, married Albert Clouser, li\'es in
York, Pa., and has had the following chil-
dren: Mary Elizabeth, born Aug. 9, 1893;
Charles, born May, 1894, died August, 1894;
John Horace, born May i, 1898: and Al-
bert, born Feb. 17, 1903.
Miss Elizabeth, the second child of ]\Iat-
thew and Catharine ( Myers) Loudon, was
born Sept. 16, 1843. She resides in ]\Ie-
chanicsburg.
Alfred James, the third and youngest
child of Matthew and Catharine (Alyers)
Loudon, was born Aug. 7, 1847, ^"^1 g^'^^^^
to man's estate on the farm on which he
was born, and on which he has always lived.
He was bred a farmer, and was limited in
education to the curriculum of the country
district school, but he is of a spirit that keeps
him in close touch with public affairs, and
with the most advanced ideas in his private
vocation. He has been a Knight of Pythias
since 1871 ; a Mason since 1873, and a
Patron of Husbandry since 1S82. He is a
Republican in politics, and has long been
regarded a party wheelhorse in his section
of the county. He frequently figures in
county conventions and occasionally in State
conventions as a delagate. For nine consec-
utive vears he was school director, each time
elected bv a good majority, notwithstanding
the strong anti-Republican bias of his dis-
trict, and in 1902, he was a nominee for
county commissioner but was defeated by
only a small majority. On Feb. 19, 1885,
he was married to Mary Ellen, daughter of
the late Simon Seller, of Hogestown, and
their children were : Alatthew James, born
Dec. 28, 1885, died May 21, 1888: Simon
Seller, born April 28, 1888: Archibald Pink-
erton, born Nov. 11, 1892: Charlotte Eliza-
beth, born Feb. 25, 1896 ■; Mary Marguerite,
born Feb. 26, 1897. The family are regular
attendants of the Presbyterian church at
Sih'er Spring, and are uni\ersally respected
for their high character and good neighborly
qualities.
?^L\JOR ROBERT LAMBERTOX,
whose active career in the formati\"e period
of the great commonwealth of Pennsylva-
nia, as a brave soldier, as a successful mer-
chant, as a public ofilicial, or as an honorable
gentleman of true worth, is a part of the
history of Cumberland county, comes from
a long line of useful men, who have braved
dangers, endm"ed hardships, and, in the end,
accomplished much for the good of their
country.
The name of Lamberton is of Scotch
origin, found in the Lowlands in ancient
days. The estates of the De Lambertons lay
in Berwickshire and Ayrshire, and there the
name is found frequently on the records.
Li the reign of Edgar (1097-1107). in a
charter granted by him to the monks at St.
Cuthbert. and in other grants at that early
day. the name also appears. William de
Lamberton, Bishop of St. Andrews, was
the friend of both Sir William Wallace and
Robert Bruce. The history of the famih'-
from that time until the latter part of the
se\-enteenth century is purely traditional ;
but with the anti-prelacy agitation it again
becomes distinct. Religious persecution
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dro\-e some members of tlic family to tlie
North of Ireland.
Robert Lamberton lived at Oughill, four
miles from Londonderry, Province of Ul-
ster. Ireland, where he was a prosperous
cloth merchant. He was about eighty years
of age when he died. His wife's name was
Finley. It is known that Robert Lamberton
had two brothers, James and another, whose
name is not known. Of Robert Lamberton's
children, James is mentioned below: Chris-
topher, who was educated for the ministry in
Scotland, emigrated to America, read law,
and then moved to Ohio; John settled in
Venango county. Pa., and died there; Hus-
ton and William remained in the old coun-
try.
Gen. James Lamberton, son of Robert,
was born near Londonderry in either 1751
or 1755. At this time the persecution which
drove the Scots from their own land to the
North of Ireland followed them to their sup-
posed haven of refuge, and they were
obliged to look to the New World for the
freedom 'their independent spirits craved.
Toward the close of the war of the Revo-
lution, and before the final treaty of peace
was signed, Gen. James Lamberton came
to Pennsylvania, and settled among so many
of liis countrymen in the Cumberland Val-
ley. Tradition says he crossed in the same
vessel with the father of the late President
Buchanan. At any rate he arrived at Car-
lisle in 1783, after a short stay in Phila-
delphia. For two years he was in business
with Major William Alexander, and then
began business on his own account, being
one of the most extensive, as well as suc-
cessful, merchants in the \'alley. His large
packers' trains crossed the Alleghenies car-
rying merchandise to the South and South-
west.
Gen. Lamberton was bv nature a leader
of men. His character was too strong to
rest in minor affairs, and he became a prom-
inent worker in public affairs. He Ijecame
an advocate of the Democratic-Republican
party led by Mr. Jefferson, which sympa-
thized with the French in their war with
England. With the reorganization of the
State militia, in 1793, James Lamberton was
elected major of the ist Battalion of Cum-
berland County militia, to rank as such from
July 28, 1792. In 1795 he was elected to
the \Tlh House of Representatives, and was
re-elected the following year. In all the
legislation of that time, so important in es-
tablishing the government upon a substan-
tial basis. Gen. Laml)erton took a c(jnspic-
uous part — a part that showed the lofty
principles of the man, and his unswerving
advocacy of all measures for the progress
of the republic regardless of party politics.
In January, 1804, he was commissioned
brigade inspector, and was mustered into
L'nited States service, accompanying the
soldiers to the northern frontier. On July
4, 1814, he was commissioned brigade in-
spector of the 1st Brigade, nth Division,
for seven years; in July, 1821, he was
elected major-general of the division, for a
term of seven years. For many years be-
fore his death he lived retired. Well-edu-
cated and intelligent, brave and determined,
he inherited the dauntless upright spirit of
his ancestors, the Covenanters of Scotland.
He died at his home. No. 117 High street,
Carlisle, July 28, 1846, at the patriarchal
age of more than ninety years.
On Jan. 4, 1785, Gen. James Lamberton
was married by John George Butler, of Car-
lisle, to Jane McKeehen. daughter of Alex-
ander McKeehen, also a North of Ireland
emigrant. She died Sept. i, 1812, aged
iifty-six years. Their children were: Rob-
ert, mentioned below : Alexander,' James and
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Esther, whu all died at Carlisle unmarried :
Christoi)her, who died near Baltimore; and
Jane, wlm married John N(_ible, and died at
Carlisle.
Major Robert Lamberti.m, son of Gen.
James, was l:)orn at Carlisle, March 17, 1787.
He was educated at Dickinson College, at
that time under the charge of Rev. Dr. Da-
vidson, where he formed a friendship with
a fellow student, James Buchanan, which
proved strong and true during the remainder
of their lives. Upon lea\-ing college he be-
gan reading law. when war was declared
between Great Britain and the United
States. He was appointed paymaster in the
service of the United States for the Penn-
syl\-ania forces, and accompanied them on
their march to the fnintier and into Canada.
The exposure he endured on tliis service re-
sulted in chronic rheumatism, which afflicted
him all his life. When the war was over he
returned to Carlisle, and engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits. He held the office of post-
master for many years.
On April 20, 181 5, Major Robert Lam-
berton was married, by Rev. H. R. Wilson,
to Miss Mary Harkness, who was born in
April, 1791. daughter of William and Pris-
cilla ( Lytle) Harkness, worthy pioneers of
Scotch-Irish stock, the former of whom,
born Oct. i, 1739, died May 4, 1822, and
the latter, liorn in 1751, died Oct. 31, 1831.
Of the children born to Major and Mrs.
Lamljerton four sons and two daughters sur-
vi\-ed their parents : Robert Alexander, a
memljer of the Dauphin county Bar, and
later president of Lehigh Universitv: Al-
fred John, a prominent merchant in Western
Minnesota; Charles Lytle, a member of the
Clarion county Bar, whose political career
brought him to high official position and
made him a leader of Pennsylvania Demo-
crats; Henry Wilson, a prominent merchant
lianker and f(jrmer mayor at Winona, Minn. ;•
and Mrs. Mary L. Paulding and Miss Annie
Graham Lamberton, who both reside at the
old home in Carlisle. Those dying before
the parents were James Finley, former
prothonotary of Cumberland county and fa-
ther of Rear Admiral B. P. Lamberton, of
the United States navy, who occupied the
l;)ridge with Admiral Dewey on the battle-
ship "Olympia" at the battle of Manila, and
after the death of Capt. Gridley became cap-
tain of the vessel ; Col. William Harkness, of
the Venango County Bar, who died leaving
a son, \N . R., also deceased, a member of
the New York City Bar; and Priscilla, Jane
and Robert C, who all three died young.
Major Lamberton tiled at Carlisle August 9,
1852, aged sixty-five years. His widow sur-
vived many years, and died at Carlisle Dec.
28, 1880, in the ninetieth year of her age.
For si.xty-three years she had been a consist-
ent member of the First Presbyterian
Church. Her devotion to her home, her
family, and her church, made her life an ex-
ample of Christian duty.
SOLOMON PERRY GORGAS, de-
ceased. Among the well-known and honor-
able citizens of Mechanicsburg who have
joined the congregation in the Great Beyond
was Solomon Perry Gorgas, whose death
took place at his home in the city Oct. 20,
1887. He was bom Aug. 3, 181 5, in Lower
Allen township. Cumberland county, a son
of Solomon and Catherine (Fanestock)
Gorgas. Both the Gorgas and Fanestock
families are of German extraction, and well
known in Cumberland county.
The father of Solomon P. Gorgas was
born and married in Lancaster county and
came to Cumberland county in 1803, settling
on the farm in Lower Allen township, which
is still in the possession of the family. He
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was an excellent business man, and showed
enterprise in operating a store and hotel on
his farm, one of the first in that section of
the county. He was a man of more than
usual intelligence also, and was twice chosen
a member of the State Legislature. His
death occurred Sept. 21, 1838, and that of
his widow Aug. 9, 1853, his age being sev-
enty-four years and hers seventy-nine years.
They were both worthy members of the
Seventh-Day Baptist Church. They had a
family of four sons and three daughters, the
youngest being Solomon P.. whose name
opens this sketch.
Solomon Perry Gorgas was married
May 8, 1845, to Elizabeth Eberly, who was
born March 3, 1822, in Hampden township,
Cumberland county, daughter of Benjamin
and Barbara ( Kaufifman) Eberly, who were
of German ancestry, but born in Lan-
caster county. A family of nine children
was born to this union, four of whom grew
to maturity: Kate E., who married Dr. J.
Nelson Clark, of Harrisburg: William F.,
at one time connected with the First Na-
tional Bank of Mechanicsburg. but now de-
ceased: Anna B., who married Jacob H.
Kahler, a prominent business man of Me-
chanicsburg ; and Mary E. who married
William C. Hicks, a business man of Harris-
burg.
Mr. Gorgas followed farming in Fair-
view township, York county, until 1850,
when he came to Mechanicsburg. In 1855
he purchased fifty-six acres of land, now in-
cluded in the eastern part of the borough of
Mechanicsburg, a very valuable investment.
He was a man with very clear ideas on busi-
ness matters, and in 1859, in association
with Levi Merkel, Jacob Mumma, Jacob
Levi, Frank and Samuel Eberly, Will-
iam R. Gorgas. John Nissley and
John Brandt, formed a banking com-
pany under the firm style of Merkel,
Mumma & Co., with John Brandt as presi-
dent and Levi Kauffman as cashier. This
was a strong combination of capital, and the
high standing of the incorporators imme-
diately invited confidence. In 1861 the great
volume of business made it desirable to effect
a reorganization and the bank became the
Mechanicsburg Bank, chartered under the
State law, with Levi Merkel as president.
In February, 1864, the bank was rechartered
as the First National Bank of Mechanics-
burg. with Solomon P. Gorgas as president.
In February, 1883, it was rechartered, and
Mr. Gorgas was again made president, which
honorable position he held until his death.
Mr. Gorgas was identified widi the in-
terests of Cumberland county for over
seventy years and there were few successful
enterprises in his locality in which he had
not shown an interest. He was one of the
founders and one of the most liberal dona-
tors to Irving College, giving the ground
for its site, and through life was very liberal
in his gifts. In politics Mr. Gorgas was a
stanch Democrat; he never sought political
prominence. For many years he was a lead-
ing member of the Methodist Church at Me-
chanicsburg. His memory will long be
cherished in this city as one of its most use-
ful and upright business men and as a most
highly esteemed citizen.
WILLIAM BOYD MURRAY was
born in Carlisle, Cumberland county, Penn-
sylvania, on the 4th of September, 1808.
He was the eldest son of George and Mary
(Denny) Murray.
George ^Murray, his father, was the only
child of William and Susanna (Slv) ]\Iur-
ray, and was born ]\Iarch 17, 1762, near
Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh, Pa. ; he was said
to be the first white child born west of the
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Allegheny mountains. William ^Murray,
father of (".eorge, was a Scotchman, and
came to this country in one of the vessels
hearing soldiers for Braddock's army. He
was a surveyor and surveyed a large part
of the land along the Ohio river, and through
the States of Ohio and Kentucky. He ap-
plied to the authorities for a grant or title
to the land in Kentucky which he had sur-
\-eved. This was refused him on the ground
that it was too large a territory for any one
man to claim. Mr. Murray then returned
to the old countrv for a time, and while there
sickened and died. His wife and child re-
mained in the home and in the care of her
father. George Sly-
Susanna Sly, wife of \\'illiam Murray,
was a daughter of George and Marget
Slv, who came to this country from Hol-
land. An early record of Pittsburgh fur-
nishes a list (~>f pers<ins at Fort Pitt, not be-
longing to the army, in Jnly, 1760. In the
list is the name of Susanna Sly, also the
names of her two sisters, Elizabeth and
Rachel, and the names of their parents,
GcLirge and Marget Sly. Susanna (Sly)
Murray, mother of George, died leaving the
boy an orphan. At the age of twelve years
George came to Carlisle. Pa., with Joseph
Spear, trader and commissary. He was
placed in the care of James Pollock, Thomas
Alexander and George Stevenson, all prom-
inent and leading men of the county, by
whom he was ajjprenticed to Simon Boyd,
blacksmith, of Carlisle. In the Revolution
Simon Boyd was an officer in the Second
Battalion of Associators of Cumberland
county. George Murray afterward became
the partner of Mr. Boyd, and was consid-
ered "a model artisan Qf the kind." For
ye'U's an extensi\-e and a successful business
was carried on by these two men in the art
of Vulcan. Upon tlic death of ]\Ir. Boyd,
Oct. G, 1816, Mr. Murray succeeded him
in the l)usiness. prospering in it, and
acquiring considerable property. In those
early days blacksmithing was a lucra-
tive business. There were no railroads
then between the Eastern cities and
the West. The snort of the iron horse
had not yet wakened the echoes of the
Alleghenies. Pittsburgh at that time was
the "far West." Traveling was done on
horseback — later by stage coach — while
trading was carried on by pack horse, and
by the Conestoga wagon — the latter a huge
wagon co\'ered with white canvas and drawn
by si.x or eight horses, bearing merchandise
to and from the West. At different points
on the journey these teams were halted for
rest, and to be fed, and to be shod. Carlisle
was one of their stopping places. The
blacksmith shop of Boyd & ^Murray was
located on West High street, near West
street. Opposite the .shop was the tavern,
the headquarters of the teamsters. As many
as thirty teams at one time might have been
seen drawn up on lx>th sides of the street,
near the blacksmith shop, waiting their turn
to be shod — the teamsters seated along the
sidewalk eating their lunch of bread, pork
and molasses.
On June 27, 1804, George Murray was
married, 1)y Rev. Robert Davidson, D. D.,
pastor of the First Preslwterian Church of
Carlisle, to Mary Denny, daughter of Wil-
liam and Agnes (Parker) Denny. Mary
Denny was born in Carlisle, Pa., March 5,
1778. She was a sister of Priscilla Denny,
wife of Simon Boyd, also a sister of Major
Ebenezer Denny, and a niece of Major
Alexander Parker, both of Re\-olutionary
fame.
William Denny, father of Mrs. Murray,
with bis brother Walter, came to Cumber-
land county from Chester county in 1745.
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Walter settteil two or three miles south of
Carlisle, where he owned a large tract of
land, afterward divided into several farms.
He raised a company for the Revolutionary
struggle and was killed at the battle of
Crooked Billet. William Denny lived in
Carlisle. He was the first coroner west of
the Susquehanna river, and during the
Revolution was commissary of issues. He
was the contractor for the erection of
the court house in Carlisle, in 1765,
which was destroyed by fire in 1845.
In 1760 William Denny was married
to Agnes Parker. They had nine chil-
dren, three sons and six daughters.
Agnes Parker was the daughter of John
and Margaret (McClure) Parker, who bad
seven children, three sons and four daugh-
ters, ]\Iajor -Alexander Parker, a distin-
guished ofiicer of the Revolution, being one
of their sons. John Parker, father of
Agnes (Parker) Denny, born in 1716,
was the eldest son of Richard Parker
and Janet, his wife, who emigrated to
this country from the Province of Ulster.
Ireland, in 1725, and settled three miles
west of Carlisle, acquiring land by patent
on the Conedoguinet creek in 1734. His
application at that date was for the land on
which he had resided "ye ten years past."
These lands continued for two or three gen-
erations in possession of their descendants.
Richard and Janet Parker, "among other
children" — as history tells us — had seven
children, five sons and two daughters.
The Parker farm — so-called in former
days — west of Carlisle is "beautiful for situ-
ation." The old farmhouse has passed away.
and another structure has taken its place.
Located on the top of the hill overlooking
the valley, a magnificent stretch of country
is spread out before the eye. The prospect
is a charming one. At the rear of the house,
and at the foot of the hill, flows the Cone-
doguinet creek. From the base of the hill
issues a spring of clear, cold water, which,
purling and rippling over the stones, finds its
way into the Conedoguinet creek. !Many
times in those early days, when, in the dusk
of the evening, the daughters of the house
came down to the spring for water, did they
tremble for their lives, imagining and fear-
ing that Indians were lurking behind the
trees.
William Denny died in Carlisle about
the year 1800. His wife survived him a
number of years. George Murray died in
Carlisle May 6, 1855, in his ninety-fourth
year; his wife died April 10, 1845, ""^ the
si.xtv-eighth year of her age. They are
buried side by side in the family lot in the
old graveyard at Carlisle, wdiere William
and Agnes (Parker) Denny, father and
mother of Mary (Denny) Murray, are
sleeping in one grave. George and Mary
(Denny) Murray had seven children : (Sur-
name Murray), Priscilla Boyd, William
(who died in infancy), William Boyd,
Charles Gregg, George, Joseph Alexander
and Nancy Denny (the last named died in
infancy).
William Boyd Murray, the subject of
this sketch, as a lad was quiet, unobtrusive
and self-contained. He received his educa-
tion in the schools of his native borough.
He was fond of study, was quick and apt
to learn, and possessed a fine memory, which
e\en down to old age remained true and vig-
orous, in a remarkable degree. It was a
rule with his father, George Murray, that
each one of his boys should be taught some
branch of manual art, and that of carpenter
was chosen for his son William. The re-
quirements and the labor belonging to that
particular branch of industry were too heavy
for one of his slender frame and delicate
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
constitution, and, at the end of the first year,
he was released from his apprenticeship.
He did not follijw tliis trade to any extent,
but turned his attention to the grocery busi-
ness, which he carried on successfully for
several years. It was about this time —
1837 — that the Cumberland Valley Rail-
road was opened, the tracks having been
laid through the main street of Carlisle.
Ambitious and enterprising, and quick to
see the adwantage of a move in this direction.
Mr. ]\Iurray conceived the idea of embark-
ing in the grain and forwarding business.
With this object in \"iew he and his brother-
in-law, John Fleming, in December. 1838,
purchased a property on the south side of
West High street, west of and adjoining
property of Dickinson College. On this lot
they erected a two-story frame warehouse,
entered into partnership, and in Februarys
1839, began business under the name of
Murray & Fleming. On Aug. 12th of the
same year a sad accident occurred on the
Cumberland Valle}' railroad, which resulted
in the death of Mr. Fleming. While detach-
ing one of his freight cars from the rapidly
moving train, in order that the car would
run on the siding, Mr. Fleming, in reaching
forward to replace the bolt in the car just
ahead, lost his balance, fell, and was crushed
by the wheels of his own car. He lived
seven hours after the occurrence.
After the death of Mr. Fleming, Mr.
Murray continued the Ijusiness in his own
name. He was a prominent lousiness man i;i
the communit}'. Active and energetic, he
built up and carried on successfully for
years an extensive trade in grain, flour and
other merchandise. In th(jse days shippers
owned and used their own freight cars.
They found the market fm" their produce,
etc., in the eastern cities. Pig iron brought
from furnaces adjacent to Carlisle was one
of the articles shipped to the East. In busy
seasons, when the rush of business was
great, quantities of this metal might be seen
stacked in huge piles on the street, awaiting
shipment. Some years later, lumber was
added to the stock in trade, and also anthra-
cite coal. This was the first introduction
of coal, for famih' use, in the borough of
Carlisle.
In 1859 ■^^''- ^lurray retired from the
acti\'e responsibilities of the grain and for-
warding business. Later in life, he was
engaged for a short time in importing a
choice variety of seed wheat from Florence,
Italy, for distribution among the farmers
of Cumberland county. Mr. ^Murray was a
man of strict integrity, was faithful, honest
and upright in all his business connections.
Never to violate a moral obligation was a
principle of his life.
The warehouse built in 1839. l)y ]\Iur-
ray & Fleming, is still standing on the cor-
ner of High and College streets. It bears
its age well, and in all these years has been
a good business stand. At the present time
it is occupied and used for the grain and
forwarding business.
Mr. Murray possessed strong military
tastes, and in his younger years was actively
interested in the old militia service of the
State. For nine years he served as a com-
missioned officer in the militia of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania. On April 27,
1832, he entered the service, receiving his
commission from Gov. Wolf as second lieu-
tenant of the Second Company, Second Bat-
talion. On May 14, 1833, he was appointed
by the same governor second lieutenant, anti
the next year first lieutenant, of the Carlisle
Marion Rifle Company, attached to the
First Battalion, Cumberland Volunteers.
On May i, 1837, he was appointed by Gov-
ernor Ritner adjutant of the First Battalion,
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with tlie rank of major. He continued in
the service, faithfully performing the duties
of his position, until May 8, 1841, when he
was "honorably discharged." He was also
a member of the Union Fire Company of
Carlisle, of which the Rev. Robert David-
son, D. D., was the first president. This
company numbered among its members
some of the prominent citizens of the town,
and the names of John Montgomery, James
Blaine, David Watts. James Hamilton and
others are mentioned in the records. The
company is still in existence. On Sejit. 17,
1889, Mr. Murray, at the advanced age of
eighty-one years, took part in the celebra-
tion of the centennial of this company.
]\Ir. Murray was- an intelligent and a
progressive man and kept abreast of the
times. He was a thorough patriot, a dear
lover of his country. In June, 1863, during
the Civil war, although beyond the years
for active service in the field, yet at a hasty
call for a home guard to protect Carlisle
from a threatened invasion, by night, of
Confederate troops, Mr. Murray was one
of those who responded to the call, shoul-
dered his musket and marched out with the
company. In religious belief, Air. Murray
was a stanch Presbyterian, as were his fore-
fathers, strong in the faith, clear and abid-
ing in his convictions. Eary in life he united
with the First Presbyterian Church of Car-
lisle, the church of which his parents were
members, then under the pastorate of the
Rev. George Duffield, D. D. In 1832, as
the result of disputes on doctrinal points
which created a division throughout the en-
tire church, a portion of the congregation
withdrew, and organized the Second Pres-
byterian Church of Carlisle. This new
church was established Jan. 12, 1833, with
a membership of sixty-five persons. Rev.
Daniel AIcKinley being installed pastor
.\ug. 7, 1833. Mr. Murray was one of the
charter members, as was also his father, and
he was one of the active spirits of the new
organization. For a number of years he
served on the board of trustees. He was
always in his place in the sanctuary, unless
prevented by illness, which was of rare oc-
currence. Throughout his entire life he was
actively and thoroughly interested in every-
thing pertaining to the welfare of his be-
loved Zion. At the time of his death, which
occurred Feb. 7, 1890, he was the last sur-
vivor of the charter members.
In stature Mr. Murray was five feet
eleven inches in height, broad-shouldered,
erect in carriage, with a well-knit frame, slen-
der in figure and person and with dark hair
and blue eyes. He was a high-toned Christian
man, of rare simplicity and purity of char-
acter. In disposition, reserved and reticent,
dignified and courteous in manner, with a
kindly, charitable spirit toward all — a gen-
tleman of the old school. Domestic in his
tastes and habits, he found his chief happi-
ness with his family and at his own fireside.
Strongly attached to those of his own blood
■ — his kinsfolk, loyal and generous, he was
always to the front when they needed aid
or counsel.
On Jan. 9, 1834, William Boyd Murray
was married, by Rev. Daniel McKinley,
pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of
Carlisle, to Margaret Parker Fleming,
daughter of James and Margaret (Clark)
Fleming, of North Middleton township,
Cumberland county. Margaret Parker Flem-
ing was born May 27, 1809, in the
old home situated on the banks of
the Conedoguinet creek, a few miles
north of Carlisle. In 1884 Mr. and
Mrs. Murray celebrated their golden
wedding in Carlisle, where they resided.
They were both of Scotch-Irish ancestry
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and Ijoth were descendants of Richard
Parker and Janet liis wife, whose names
have ah^eady been mentioned in tliis sketch.
Mrs. JNIurray was a beautiful woman — fea-
tures regular, clear complexiiin. with black
hair and dark Ijrown eyes. A woman of su-
perior cast of mind, intelligent, and. as one
remarked of her, "her face indicated the
noliility nf her character." she was a thor-
ough Christian, a devoted wife and mother.
^Ir. Murray died Feb. 7, 1890, in the
eightv-second year of his age; his wife died
April 6, 1886. in her seventy-seventh year.
Agreeable to the request of ^Ir. ^Murray,
both are buried in one grave in the family
lot in the old graveyard at Carlisle. They
had four children (surname ^Murray) : Alar-
garet Fleming, Harmar Denny, Mary
Denny and Mellazena. ^lellazena died Feb.
16, 1855. Mary Denny died in Allegheny
City, Pa., Sept. 26, 1903. Their remains
repose beside those of their parents in the
family lot in the old graveyard at Carlisle,
where sleep the representatives of four gen-
erations. Flarmar Denny Murray is en-
gaged in the glass business in Pittsburgh,
Pa. Margaret Fleming Murray resides in
the old home at Carlisle, Pa.
ISAAC BAUMAN, a prominent citizen,
a well-known poet, and a writer of more than
usual ability, long identified with literary
work and publishing interests in Pennsyl-
vania, was born in Ephrata, Lancaster coun-
ty, May 19, 1829, and died in Upper Allen
township, Cumberland county, Aug. 24,
1900.
The Baumans came originally from Ger-
man}- and were among the earliest settlers
of Lancaster county. Different branches of
the family, under the name of Bowman, are
living in that county to-day.
Joseph Bauman, father of Isaac Bauman,
was born in Lancaster count}, and moved to
Copper Allen township, Cumberland county,
in 1830. He bought the present homestead
and farm at that time and also established
a printing business at She])herdstown. car-
rying on both printing and farming until
186 1, when he retired on account of increas-
ing age. An interesting relic of his early
work, which is still held by the family, is an
old Franklin hand press vhich has been in
its possession for more than eighty years.
For three generations Baumans have worked
on that press, Joseph having brought it with
him to Shepherdstown. and it was previously
owned by his father.
In his early youth Joseph Bauman was
emplo}-ed in a paper-mill at Ephrata, Lan-
caster county, all his life having been asso-
ciated with the printing business in some
connection. He was a man of strong spir-
itual beliefs and conscientiously belonged to
the sect known as the Seventh-Day Baptists.
The old monastery belonging to that sect,
and known as the "Sisters and Brothers
House," still stands in Ephrata and, al-
though out of use for many years, is still an
object of interest to visitors, who are in-
terested in the locality or in historical re-
search and come long distances to view it
and learn its story.
Joseph Bauman married Mary Bitzer,
who was Ijorn in Lancaster county and died
in 1876. aged eighty-two years. His death
took place in 1862, at the age of seventy-
three years. They reared a remarkable fam-
ily, every member showing unusual talent in
some direction : ( i ) Jesse, the eldest, was an
inventor and machinist, and established the
first iron foundry in Mechanicsburg : he mar-
ried Ellen Meily, and they are sur\"ived by
one son, Joseph, who is a successful ma-
chinist at Dillsburg. Jesse Bauman died
in 1894 at Dillsburg, at the age of seventy-
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nine years. {2) Harrison, the second son,
married Racliel Herman, lived and farmed
in ^liddlesex township, and died in 1880
at the age of fifty-five years. (3) Isaac was
the next son.
Isaac Bauman was one year old when he
became a resident of Upper Allen township
and lierc learned all that the local schools
coukl teach and also the trade of printing,
accpiiring such knowledge tiniler his father's
tutelage. This trade he followed for a num-
ber of years in Harrisburg and P^hiladelphia,
and early became a contributor to the then
leading periodicals. His poems were gladly
accepted for the columns of the ]Vaverly
Magazine, Petersons Magazine and the Bal-
timore Sun and Yankee Blade. For a long
time he wrote under the nom de plume of
"Clarence May," but during his later years,
when recognition was a matter of indiffer-
ence to him, he signed the initials "I. B." In
conjunction with the late Dr. William H.
Egle, early in the fifties, he i)ublished a
magazine called the Literary Companion, a
magazine filled with choice original and se-
lected matter, which had a wide circulation.
Always unassuming, he was not prone to
claim the credit due him, and it is recalled
that upon one occasion, in 1852. when a
banquet was given to Gov. Bigler at Harris-
liurg, on Franklin's birthday, by the printers
of Pennsylvania, the then well known Frank
Clifford gave the following toast to "Clar-
ence May:" ".\ Gentleman deserving the
name; a Poet of no ordinary genius; and a
Typo who adorns the profession."
Mr. Bauman was an elder in the Presby-
terian Church. In politics, early a Whig,
he later became a Republican and still later
an adherent of the Prohibition party. His
lamented death took place as noted above.
On Dec. 25, i860, Mr. Bauman married
Charlotte E. Sprenkel. The Sprenkels are
descendants of old Virginia stock. Peter
Sprenkel. grandfather of Mrs. Bauman, was
born in Hanover, York county. Pa., and
married Lydia Hoover of the same county.
He was a farmer and large land owner in
Dover township, where his death occurred
in his seventy-third years.
John Sprenkel, father of Mrs. Bauman,
was born in Hanover and lived there until
his marriage, when he settled in Baltimore
county, Md., and engaged in the milling
business. He died in middle age. In 1840
he married Leah Ettinger, of York county,
who died in Cumberland county in 1885, at
the age of sixty-nine years, and they had
three children : Sarah married J. C. Nesbit,
Esq., of Shepherdstown, and they have two
children — Arthur E.. a prominent druggist
in Philadelphia, and Russell H., a telegra-
pher. John A., a teacher and lecturer, who
lives in New Cumberland, formerly of Vir-
ginia, married Jennie Bailetts, of Harris-
burg, and they have one son. Dr. Ward F.
Sprenkel, a practicing physician in Phila-
delphia. Charlotte E. is the widow of Isaac
Bauman. She was born in York county,
Pa., March 9, 1842, and received her school-
ing in York and Cumberland counties. Mrs.
Bauman early devoted herself to literary
work, becoming a contributor to the Dollar
Magazine, a well known Philadelphia publi-
cation in the sixties ; to the hide.v-Appeal, of
Petersburg, ~\'a., and to the IVaverly Maga-
zine, her writings always possessing the
clearness and interest which won her a wide
audience. In 1868 she joined the Presby-
terian Church at Mechanicsburg, and has al-
ways been active in its work and also in the
work of the ^^^ C. T. U., using her pen in
the same cause. She is a member of the lat-
ter organization and one of its officers, and
annually reads a paper before the yearly con-
vention. She is intimatelv asosciated and
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closely connected Avith many of the great
leaders in temperance work.
Mrs. Banman can trace her maternal
lineage far back, her great-grandfather Et-
tinger being a minister of the German Re-
formed Chnrch. He lived, ministered and
died in York county, and his son. Rev.
y\dam Ettinger, Mrs. Bauman's grandfather,
was an Evangelical minister for seventy
years, dying in 187O in York county, aged
ninety years.
Mr. and ]\lrs. Bauman had children as
follows: Norman died in 1882. aged twenty
years. Edith married J. B. Miller, a farmer
in Upper Allen township, and has two chil-
dren, Ada and Xenia. May married J. A.
Bucher, of Camp Hill, who holds a pusition
with the Harrisburg Traction Company, and
they have two children, Clarence E. and
Norman B.
COL. ROBERT H. THOMAS. Among
the prominent men who have long been lieM
in honor in Cumberland county few have
been more conspicuous than Col. Robert H.
Thomas, one of the leading citizens of Me-
chanicsburg. For forty years he has been
identified with the commercial, educational
and civic growth of that city, and still, at
the age of seventy years, directs large inter-
ests and influences great bodies. He was
born in Philadelphia, Jan. 28, 1834, of a
sturdy ancestry, Welsh-English on one side,
and Scotch-Irish on the other, a combination
which has produced some of the finest minds
of this generation.
In paternal lines (Welsh-English) his
great-great-grandmother, Ruth (Morton)
Nicholson, was a sister of John Morton, one
of the signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. In the next generatian. Col.
Thomas' great-grandmother, Ruth (Nich-
olson) Harper, lost her birthright in the
Quaker meeting because of her maniage
with Edward Harper, an officer in the Brit-
ish army, and a Church of England man.
Elisha Thomas, great-grandfather of
Col. Thomas, married Ann Wain, a sister-
in-law of Thomas Mifflin, governor of Penn-
sylvania, in 1790, through whom he (Eli-
sha) liecame connected with some of the
minor affairs of State.
Robert Thomas, son of Elisha, was born
five miles from Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777,
the day when the Continental army under
Gen. AVashington met the opposing British
f(3rce under Gen. Howe and fought the his-
toric battle of Germantown.
Rev. Edward H. Thomas, son of Robert,
and father of Col. Thomas, was born in
I'hiladelphia. Losing his father when he
was a mere boy, he was obliged to depend
upon himself for his education, the widowed
mother having all she could do to care for
the physical needs of the family, even with
the aid of the older boys. Consequently
}-oung Edwartl gained the substantial part
of his fine education by burning the midnight
oil. After his ordination he was placed in
charge of a congregation at Lancaster City.
Later he came to Mechanicsburg and took
charge of the Church of God. He married
Charlotte Ann Nelson, daughter of Andrew
Nelson, Esq., wdio belonged to a Scotch-
Irish Presbyterian f.amily in the North of
Ireland. Rev. Mr. Thomas died in i86g.
Robert H. Thomas received his educa-
tion in the public schools of Lancaster city.
When sixteen years old he decided to fit
himself for future usefulness and independ-
ence, and apprenticed himself to learn the
trade of house and sign painting, including
wall decorating. This business he followed
for some years, during the summer seasons,
teaching school during the winters, but im-
paired health interrupted his busy life and
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warned him to engage in some other pur-
suits. He then turned his attention to mer-
chandising and in 1850 took up his residence
in Meclianicsburg.
During the Civil war Col. Thomas be-
came very prominent in his active support of
the Government, and he loyally served in a
number of emergency regiments, on several
occasions, resuming his duties at home as
soon as the exigency which had called him
to the front had subsided. From 1862 until
1866 he efficiently served as deputy collector
of internal revenue for the 15th District of
Pennsylvania. On June 30, 1863. he was
appointed special aide-de-camp by Gov.
Curtin, with the rank of colonel, and was
assigned to duty in the department com-
manded by Gen. Smith, of Harrisburg.
When the Confederate forces had been
driven south of the Potomac he resigned the
position and returned to business pursuits.
Gen. George H. Thomas, of Civil war fame,
was his cousin twice removed.
In 1869 Col. Thomas entered the news-
paper field, purchasing the Valley Democrat.
changing the name to the Valley Independ-
ent, and two years later he purchased a rival
paper, the Cumberland Valley Journal, and
consolidated the papers and offices under the
new title of the Independent Journal. In the
fall of 1872 he began to espouse the cause
of the Patrons of Husbandry, an agricul-
tural order then coming into prominence in
the State, and during the following sum-
mer he organized a number of subordinate
granges. Upon the organization of the
State Grange, at Reading, in 1873, Col
Thomas was elected secretary, a position
he most capably held until 1896.
On Jan. i, 1874, Col. Thomas began the
publication of the Farmer's Friend and
Grange Advocate, as the organ of the Pa-
trons of Husbandry, an agricultural journal
of high character and great literary merit.
It has an immense circulation, which is not
by any means confined to members of the
Grange. Col. Thomas has always been a
man of progressive ideas and of philan-
thropic instincts, and he became impressed
with the feeling that there ought to be a
better understanding between the farmers
and manufacturers of the country. Accord-
ingly, in 1S74 he originated and organized
the Inter-State Picnic Exhibition, at Will-
iams' Grove, Cumberland county. This ven-
ture proved very popular and has yearly
increased in interest, becoming a very impor-
tant movement through the agricultural re-
gions of Cumberland county.
Col. Thomas has been many times hon-
ored by his editorial associates, with whom
he has always maintained the most cordial
relations. He has served as president of
the State Editorial Association and for some
years has been its secretary and treasurer.
He is also one of the officers of the Interna-
tional Editorial Association, was its presi-
dent at its convention in Galveston, Texas,
in 1897, and exerts the influence of a broad-
minded, thoughtful student of the great pub-
lic problems of the day. He was commis-
sioned from the State of Pennsylvania to the
World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial
Exposition, held at New Orleans in 1884-85,
and was likewise appointed a commissioner
to the American Exposition held in London,
England, in May, 1887. Mrs. Thomas filled
the position of lady commissioner in 1884-85
at New Orleans.
Since 1 85 1 Col. Thomas has been a
Mason. He became a member of the Grand
Lodge of Pennsylvania that year, and an
officer of the same in 1864, serving for thir-
teen consecutive years as District Deputy
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Grand Master, and as representative of his
home lodge to the Grand Lodge for fifty
years consecntively.
In 1853 ^'-'1- Tliomas married Miss An-
nette Kimmel, daughter of Henry Kimmel,
Esq., of one of the old and prominent fami-
lies of the Cumljerland Valley. Five chil-
dren were born of this union, three of whom
died young. The survivors are: Robert H.,
Jr., of the Thomas Printing House, of
Mechanicsburg ; and Estelle, wife of J. \r\m
Steele, a descendant of Gen. Irvin, of Frank-
hn county. During his long and useful ca-
reer Col. Thomas has become intimately as-
sociated with the leading men of his State,
and has enjoyed in marked degree their re-
spect and esteem.
ROBERT H. THOMAS, Jr. Con-
spicuous among the active business men of
Mechanicsburg is Robert H. Thomas, Jr., ot
the well known Thomas Printing House.
He is a son of Col. Robert H. and Annette
(Kimmel) Thomas, and was boi^n in Me-
chanicsburg Jan. 19, 1861. Fie is one of two
surviving children, the other being ;\Irs. J.
Irvin Steele, of Ashland, Pennsylvania.
Robert H. Thomas, Jr., was educated in
the ]3ublic schools of Mechanicsburg, and at
the Cumberland Valley Institute. He has
spent all his days in the place of his birth,
and it may be said that his entire career,
from early boyhood down to the present,
has been a continuous period of business
activity. Upon leaving the school room, in
1878, he entered the printing- office, and both
by study and practice learned thoroughly the
details of his father's extensive business.
With this knowledge and practical training
he became business manager of the house,
which exacting position he has successfully
filled ever since. .'\s his business has con-
stantly brought him into contact with the
aggressive minds that shape and direct mat-
ters in the \^arious spheres of life, he is gener-
ally well informed, and is possessed of a
progressive and enterprising spirit. He has
traveled much, mingling freely with the peo-
ple, is naturally quick to observe, ready and
accurate in speech, and a good judge of
human nature. He is a clear and forceful
writer, a good conversationalist, and holds
high rank among the journalists of the State.
Fie is a Republican and takes an active inter-
est in local and State politics.
Like !iis distinguished father, Mr.
Th( imas has long been prominent in Ma-
sonry, and has reached the thirtynsecond
degree of the fraternity. He also belongs
to the Knights of Pythias, the Patriotic
Order Sons of America. (Lodge No. 164, of
Mechanicsburg), and the American Me-
chanics. He is an enthusiastic fireman, and
has been chief of the Mechanicsburg Fire
Department. He is also identified with the
Grange movement, and is treasurer of the
Grangers' Picnic Association, which holds
annual exhibitions at Williams Grove, Cum-
berland county.
In January, 1891, Robert H. Thomas,
Jr., married Miss Frances Coover, only
daughter of Ira D. and Ellen (Downs)
Coover. She was born in Upper Allen
township, and on the paternal side is a de-
scendant from one of the oldest and most
respected families of that part of the county.
Her mother was a memljer of an old and
prominent family of the Eastern Shore,
Maryland. She has two brothers, Alfred
D. and David R., both of whom reside in
Arizona. To Robert H. and Frances Coover
Thomas have been born three children,
Robert H. (3), Francis Edward and Mary
Estelle, all of whom are living. Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas are members of the Methodist
Church.
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WILLIAM CLliXDLNLN. Elsewhere
it lias been shown that the first John Clen-
denin. who settled in Cumberland county,
was married to Janet Huston. John and
Janet ( Huston ) Clendenin, among other
children, liad a son John, who was a soldier
in the War of the Revolution, and rose to
the rank of cai)tain. He married Elizabeth
Caldwell, a sister of Martha Caldwell,
the nidthe.- of John Caldwell Calhoun,
the southern statesman. John and Eliza-
beth (Caldwell) Clendenin had ten chil-
dren, four sons and six daughters. Their
second child was a son named William, born
in 1785, and his genealogical line is the sub-
ject of this sketch.
During his life time tlie father of Will-
iam Clendenin became seized of a farm,
lying on the State Road in the northwestern
part of East Pennsboro, now Silver Spring
township, which afterwards was for a long
time owned by Daniel Fought and his heirs
Captain Clendenin made his will in May,
1802, which was ])rol)ateil in August, 1802.
Li it this farm stands bequeathed to his sun
William, and on it in 1814, William began
farming on his own account, his sister Eliza-
beth keeping house for him. On March 7,
1816, he was married to ALarv ^\'allace, who
was born Feb. 22, 1800. With the exception
of a period of about three years, during
which he was in poor health, this farm was
William Clendenin's home for the rest of his
lifetime. He died Jan. 22, 1835, and his re-
mains were interred in the Pine Hill grave-
yard, the earliest public graveyard in that
part of the countv. His widow remained
upon the farm until in the spring of 1837,
when she, with her family of small children,
moved to New Kingstown. William and
Mary (W^allace) Clendenin had children as
follows : Elizabeth, Robert Wallace, Isa-
bella, William and Mary A., all of whom
were born on the old farm on the State
Road in Silver Spring township. Isabella
died May 16, 1836, at the age of ten years,
and was laid to rest in Pine Hill graveyard.
Mrs. Mary Clendenin lived at New
Kingstown until in the spring of 1839, and
then moved to New Castle, Mercer, now
Lawrence, county, where she lived all the
rest of her days. She died Oct. 29, i885,
and is buried at New Castle. She was a
woman of rare qualities of head and heart,
and a genial, commanding person in what-
ever community she lived. Her memory
was remarkable, and among her kinsfolk
and neighbors mooted questions were often
referred to her as arbiter, and whatever
"Grandmother Clendenin's" recollection was
on the subject was readily acquiesced in.
Elizabeth, the olde.st child of William
and Mary (Wallace) Clendenin, married at
New Castle, Henry Falls, and early in the
fifties moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Mr.
Falls engaged in the carpet business. During
the Civil war they returned to New Castle,
where in 1873 ^I""- Falls died and was buried.
Afterward his widow returned to Cincinnati,
and died there in 1894. Her remains are in-
terred in Spring Gro\-e cemetery at Cincin-
nati. Henry and Elizabeth (Clendenin)
Falls had one daughter and two sons, viz. :
Elizabeth died when yet a child, and Will-
iam H. and John C. are living in Cincinnati,
the former a successful practicing physician,
and the latter a druggist.
When Mrs. Clendenin moved from the
farm to New Kingstown, her son, Robert
Wallace, was put with friends in Carlisle,
where he lived until in September, 1840,
when he followed the rest of the family to
New Castle. At New Castle he entered a
dry goods store while yet a boy, and ac-
quired a thorough mercantile training. Thus
equipped he, in 1848, started in business for
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himself at the corner of Washington and
IMercer streets, New Castle, and he has con-
tinued in that business on the same corner
e\'er since. In 1840 he married Belinda,
daughter of Dr. Joseph Pollock, a noted phy-
sician of his day. Their children are \\'illiam
\\'allace, Joseph Pollock, Wells Bushnell,
John McMillan and ]\[ary E. Joseph Pol-
lock died in childhood, and John Meridian
died in 1870, at the age of sixteen. William
Wallace married Marguerite Davis ; Wells
Bushnell married Mary Boyles, daughter of
George V. Boyles, of New Castle, and Mary
E. married Edward Hadnett \\''ard, of New
York, who died in 1003, leaving one (laugh-
ter, Helen C. All the survivors of the family
are li\-ing at New Castle, and are conducting
the business of R. W. Clendenin & Sons.
Robert ^\^ Clendenin and wife are still
(1904) living, he having reached the great
age of four score and one years.
]\Iary, the third child of William and
Mary (^Vallace) Clendenin, married B. B.
Pickett, attorney of New Castle. After their
marriage they located permanently at Mead-
ville, Crawford county, where Mrs. Pickett
died in 1894, leaving surviving her her
husband and five children. The children are
Lydia, Alary, Benjamin B., Jr.. Lucy and
W^illiam Clendenin. Benjamin B. Pickett,
Jr.. is an attorney at Meadville, and in 1894-
5-6 was district attorney of Crawford county,
"\Wlliam Clendenin is a physician and pro-
fessor of nervous aiid mental diseases at the
Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia.
The three daughters are living at Meadville.
^^'illiam, the youngest child of William-
and Alary (Wallace) Clendenin, studied
medicine and became a famous surgeon. In
1 86 1 he entered the army, and was given
charge of the Emory Hospital, at Washing-
ton, D. C. Later he was on the staff of Gen-
eral Rosecrans, and when the war closed was
Assistant Medical Director of the Army of
the Cumberland. After the war he helped
to organize the Miami Medical College in
Cincinnati, in which he became professor of
.\natomy and Surgery, and at the time of
his death. May 3, 1885, was Dean of the
Faculty. At one time he was appointed
Consul to St. Petersburg, but declined the
honor, preferring to remain at home and
devote himself to his profession.
Dr. William Clendenin married Sabra
Burchard and had two children, William
and Alary. Alary died while a child. \\\\-
liam married Adelaide Logan at Cambridge
Springs, Pa., who died in 1900, leaving one
child, a daughter named Alary, who is living
with Airs. Sabra^ Clendenin. her grand-
mother, at Aleadville. William lives in
Chicago.
Evidently there was a traveling streak
in this branch of the Clendenin family, for
of the fifteen descendants of A\'illiam and
Alary (Wallace) Clendenin who grew to
maturity, ten visited the different countries
of Europe, five attended the best schools of
Europe, four visited the three different con-
tinents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and one
circled the globe.
JAMES HUTCHINSON GRAHAAI,
LL. D. The subject of this sketch was of
Scotch-Irish descent. His great-grandfather
emigrated from the North of Ireland at an
early day and located in Salisbury township,
Lancaster county. Pa. There are no family
records in the possession of his descendants
which show the precise date of his coming
to this country, but the earliest documentary
evidence now in possession of his great-
great-grandchildren of the settlement of
their great-great-grandfather in Lancaster
county is a deed from Thomas and Richard
Penn, dated the 13th of Alarch, 1734. to
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Jared Graham, of Salisbury townshii), Lan-
caster county, for a tract of land in the
manor of Maska, in what is now West
Tennsboro township, Cumberland county.
Jared Graham never resided on this pur-
chase. He remained in Lancaster county
until his death. Soon after its purchase,
however, his son James, the grandfather of
James H., removed from Salisbury township
to this land and built his log caliin on the
banks of the beautiful Conedoguinet, about
thirty miles west from the Susquehanna.
This property, then deep in the backwoods,
was subsequently conveyed to him, and was
liis home and the home of his descendants
through several generations. In those days
clearings and neighbors were few and far
between and to provide a refuge against the
hostile Lidians the settlers built a fort on a
high limestone bluff within a few hundred
rods of James Graham"s dwelling. The
place of this pioneer home is yet well known,
but time has wrought a complete transfor-
mation in the locality. Instead of the dense
primitive forest there are now to be seen
only isolated clumps and fringes of trees;
the echo of the Redman's war whoop died
out more than a hundred and thirty years
ago, and only notes of peace fall upon the
traveler's ear ; the log fort on the bluff gave
way to a large stone mansion which in its
turn has fallen into decay, and where once
fled the hunted fugitive the husbandman
unmolested now pursues his daily round of
toil.
James Graham died in 1808 at the ad-
vanced age of eighty-two years, leaving five
sons, towit : Jared, Thomas, Arthur, Isaiah
and James. James Graham, the youngest
son, was educated at Dickinson College,
Carlisle. After graduating from college he
studied divinity under the learned Dr. Rob-
ert Cooper, was ordained as a Presbyterian
minister, and for thirty years was pastor of
the church at Beulah, Allegheny county. Pa.,
where he died in 1844. Jared, the eldest,
after the death of the father, moved to Ohio,
and the paternal estate was apportioned
among Thomas, Arthur and Isaiah. The
part on which stood the cabin built by their
father fell to Isaiah, the youngest of the
three, and it was his home for a long time.
Isaiah Graham received a rudimentary
English education and then learned the tan-
ning trade. Subsequently he established a
tannery on the banks of the Conedoguinet,
in the vicinity of his home, and engaged at
that avocation through most of his lifetime.
He was a man of indomitable will and more
than ordinary powers of intellect. Possessed
of an intuitive desire for knowledge
he from early youth devoted much
of his leisure to the acquisition of
useful information. He became thor-
oughly versed in the history of our
country and its affairs and ardently engaged
in the heated political struggles which
marked the early days of the republic. He
was a participant in the great contest which
resulted in the defeat of John Adams and
the election of Thomas Jefferson. He was
likewise an enthusiastic supporter of the ad-
ministrations of Madison and Monroe. Nat-
urally his activity in those exciting contests
won for him political prominence, and in
181 1 he was elected a member of the Penn-
sylvania State Senate. At the expiration
of his term he was re-elected, and a few
years after the expiration of his second term,
in 1 819, he was appointed by Gov. Findlay
associate judge of the courts of Cumberland
county, which position he occupied till his
death, in 1835. Although active in public
affairs, Isaiah Graham did not permit the
exciting subject of politics to divert his mind
from the more important considerations of
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religion. He earlv in life covinected himself
\vith the Presljyterian Church and thor-
oughly schooled himself in its tenets, which
were peculiarly adapted to his vigorous and
discriminating" mind. His lihrary contained
most of the standan.1 works of the great
Preshyterian writers of that day, and he read
them with much interest and avidity, and
few laymen could more ably discuss and de-
fend the doctrines of the Presbyterian faith.
For more than twenty years liefore his death
he was a ruling elder of the Big Spring Pres-
byterian congregation.
Isaiah Graham, in 1793, married Xancy
Lindsay, who also was of Scotch-Irish de-
scent and whose ancestors also were among
the first settlers of the Cumberland Valley.
Isaiah and Nancy (Lindsay) Graham were
the parents of the subject of this sketch,
James Hutchinson Graham. He was born
on the loth of September. 1807, on the same
domain which his great-grandfather bought
fmm the Penns in 1734, and in the same
cabin of unhewn logs which his grandfather
built on the banks of the Conedoguinet
when yet the pioneers of civilization in Cum-
lierland county had more frequent visits
from the Redman and wild animals than
from the white man. After young James
had passed the branches taught in the coun-
try schools of that day, he, at the age of
fifteen, was placed under the tuition of Dr.
David McConaughy, who then was pastor
of the Presbyterian congregations of Gettys-
burg and Hunterstown, Adams county, and
principal of the Gettysburg Academy. In
the spring of 1825 young Graham returned
to his native county and entered Dickinson
College, as a member of the Junior class,
from which institution he graduated in 1827,
sharing the honors of a class which included
in its memljership students \\ho afterward
were some of the most eminent divines.
statesmen and jurists of their generation.
Upon completing his college course James
H. Graham registered as a student at law
with Andrew Carothers. Esq., and after
reading the prescribed time was admitted to
the Bar in Xovemlier, 1829. He remained
with his preceptor until the fullowing April
and then opened an office and began the
practice of his profession. At that time the
Carlisle Bar included talented and experi-
enced laywers like Andrew Carothers, Sam-
uel Alexander, John D. ]\Iahon, Charles B.
Penrose, Frederick Watts and William M.
Biddle, who in legal attainments and profes-
sional standing compared favorably with the
foremost jurists of the land. To enter into
competition with such an array of ability
was a daring undertaking for a young law-
yer, Init by his energy, his assiduous applica-
tion, his persistent research and character-
istic accuracy, combined with a thorough
preliminary training, young Graham soon
secured a comfortable practice.
When James H. Graham began practic-
ing law the Carlisle Bar consisted mostly of
Whigs, and as he from early youth had been
an ardent Democrat this one-sided condition
frequently involved him in the political con-
tests of the day. He, however, never per-
mitted political controversy to di\-ert his
mind from professional duty, nor the allure-
ments of office to beguile "him into the ways
of the professional politician. Upon one
occasion the nomination for Congress was
tendered him unsolicited, but he declined the
honor, although the district was strongly
Democratic and a nomination was regarded
as equi\'alent to an election. He frequently
was a delegate to Democratic conventions
and his opinion and advice always had great
weight in the councils of his party. In 1839
Gov. Porter appointed I\Ir. Graham deputy
attorney general for Cumberland county.
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which position he filled for six years with
marked efficiency, but he dechned a re-ap-
pointment at the hands of Gov. Shynk, be-
cause of the demands of a lar^e and increas-
ing practice. In 1851, after the State con-
stitution was amended so as to make judges
elective. Air. Graham received the unani-
mous nomination of the Democratic party
for president judge of the district composed
of Cumberland, Perry and Juniata counties,
and was elected. Through long and earnest
study, and the practice of his profession, he
was peculiarly fitted for the duties of this
])osition, and at the age of forty-four, in die
])rime of life and vigorous intellect; he will-
inglv exchanged the drudgery of a hea\y
practice for the less arduous but not less hon-
orable duties of a judgeship. In 1861 he
was renominated and re-elected, and served
another full term, but retired in 1871 after
an honoraljle career of twenty years' con-
tinuous service upon the Bencli. On retiring
from the Bench he associated with him liis
son, Duncan M. Graham, and resumed the
practice of the law, at which he continued
till within a short time of his death, in the
fall of 1882.
Judge Graham was in many ways «
useful man in the community in which iie
li\-ed. He was one of the earliest members
of the Second Presbyterian Church of Car-
lisle, and for many years president of its
board of trustees. He was director and pres-
ident of the Carlisle Deposit Bank until his
election to the Bench, and filled many other
positions of trust and honor \\'ith scruindnus
fidelity. In 1862 Dickinson College con-
ferred on him the degree of LL. D. In his
profession he was honored and respected
bv lawvers as well as laymen. At his death
was held a meeting of the Carlisle Bar, which
formally paid respect to his memory. Hon.
Frederick Watts presided and W. F. Sadler
acted as secretary. Judge W'atts, Lemuel
Todd, A. B. Sharpe and Judge M. C. Her-
man addressed the meeting, and paid the
character and services of their deceased
brother high tribute of praise. The meet-
ing also resolvedj
"That during the fifty-three years Judge
Graham practiced at the Bar and presided in
our courts he exhibited and maintained an
unspotted character for integrity and faith-
fulness in the discharge of duty that com-
manded our highest confidence and respect.
"That the purity and consistency of his
life, in all its relations, his firm and consci-
entious performance of all personal, pro-
fessional and judicial obligations, and his
modest and unpretentious conduct and de-
])ortment were so marked and real as to chal-
lenge and possess the respect and esteem of
the bar and all who were associated with
him.
"That as a lawyer and judge he was
learned and upright, firm and decided in his
convictions, courageous and -trong in exe-
cuting them, and at all times governed by a
high moral sense of private and public duty."
In his domestic relations Judge Graham
was very fortunate, and he found much of
comfort and happiness in the quiet of his
home. He was twice married and left a
large family. His first wife was Nancy
Davidson, of West Pennsboro township, by
whom he had the following children : Isaiah
H., late captain U. S. Volunteers, who died
from the effects of wounds received in the
service ; Jane, deceased : and Laura, of Phil-
adelphia, now deceased, tlis second wife
was Mary Criswell, of Shippensburg, who
bore him the following children : John C,
who died at Evansville. Ind. ; Agnes M., of
Washington, D. C. ; Samuel L., lieutenant
L'. S. Navv now stationed at Mare Island,
California; James H., formerly of St. Louis,
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Mo., now deceased ; Mary, wlio married
C. H. Watts, of Washington, D. C. ; Alice
P., of Carlisle, Pa. ; Duncan M., of Carlisle.
Pa. ; Sarah, who married Re\-. Rodgers
Israel, D. D., of Scranton, Pa. ; Lillian, of
Scranton ; and Frank Gordon, of Utica, New-
York.
DUNCAN M. GRAHAM. Esq.. the son
of James H. Graham and Mary Criswell
Graham, received his preparatory education
in the common schools of Carlisle and the
preparatory school of Dickinson College. He
entered Dickinson and graduated after the
full four years' course in the class of 1873.
After graduation he was attached for two
years to the United States ship "Ports-
mouth" in a surveying expedition and taking
dee]i sea soundings in the Pacific ocean.
Upon his return to Carlisle he entered the
office of his father, Judge Graham, with
whom he studied law, and was admitted to
practice in August. 1876. Mr. Graham has
been engaged in the practice of his profes-
sion from tliat time to the present. He has
filled the offices of city and county solicitor
acceptably to the people, and in 1891 was
appointed assistant to Hon. W. U. Hensel,
attorney general of the State, a position he
held for four years. Pie is the author of
several statutes now in force in Pennsyl-
vania. One permitting illegitimate children
born of the same mother to inherit real and
personal property from each other remedied
wdiat was regarded as a great injustice and
has been adopted by a number of States.
Another relating to tramps and vagrants
has saved the taxpayers many thousands of
dollars. As secretary of the Board of Ex-
aminers of the Cumberland county Bar he
took a deep interest in reforming the system
of admitting law students to the Bar and
aided in the establishing of the State Board
of Examiners appointed by the Supreme
Court.
Mr. Graham married, in 1893. ^I^ry
Latimer Coble, of Carlisle, and of the chil-
dren born to this union, three daughters,
]\Iary, Elizabeth and Sarah, are now living.
Mr. Graham is president of the board of
trustees of the Second Presbyterian Church,
and interested in everything that makes for
the good of the community.
GEORGE MIFFLIN DALLAS ECK-
ELS, A. M., Sc. D. The name Eckels is
spelled in various ways. It most frecjuently
occurs on the earlier records spelled Eccles,
which is probably the original spelling, but
at the present day it is generally spelled
Eckels, which form is preferred by the
liranches of the family touched upon in this
sketch.
In the Eckels family there has long been
cherished a tradition that a child in the kin-
ship was born upon the sea, while its parents
were on the way to America. The story has
it that the elder Eckels, with his family, set
sail from Ireland in a ship that became dis-
abled, and had to return to the port from
which it started for repairs. While out the
Eckels child was born, and on the vessel's re-
turn the family disembarked, concluding to
defer migrating to America till some more
suitable time. Soon afterward the wife died,
which e\'ent, for the time being, ended the
project of finding a home in the new country
beyond the sea. In course of time Mr.
Eckels married again, and finally reached
America, settling in what was then western
Pennsylvania. This progenitor, it is said,
had six children by his first marriage, and
six by his second. Among his children by
his first marriage were a Nathaniel and a
Francis, and among his children by his sec-
ond, a James. Accounts differ as to whether
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it was Nathaniel or Francis that was born
upon the sea, bnt viewed from the stand-
point of the present, the weight of circum-
stances favors the tlieory that it was Francis.
Nathaniel, Francis and James are favor-
ite names in the Eckels family, and the first
to appear upon the records of Cumberland
county. They were sons of the first Eckels,
who came to this part of America. Finding
the section they first settled in too wild and
dangerous a locality, they came into the
lower Cumberland Valley, and cast their lot
with their Scotch-Irish kindred and ac-
quaintances. Nathaniel Eckels took up his
al)ode in East Pennsboro in 1779, and re-
mained there until in 1787. He then moved
west of Carlisle, and for about twenty years
lived in the townships of \\'est Pennsboro
and Dickinson. John Huston, a brother-
in-law, also from East Pennsboro, moved to
that locality about the same time, and it is
probable that their going there simultane-
ously was by mutual arrangement. While
living in that part of the county, it appears,
he was a member of the Big Spring Pres-
byterian Church, for in December. 1787, the
southern part of that congregation asked the
consent of the session to the appointment of
one of their nuiuber as a ruling elder, and
among the signers to the petition was Na-
thaniel Eckels. In 1810 he returned to East
Pennsboro, and for a year or two lived upon
the farm of another brother-in-law, also
named John Huston. This farm is now
( 1904) owned by Abraham Gutshall. Here
his second wife died, and he soon afterward
Ixjught a small property situated near the
North Mountain, just east from the Stony
Ridge, now owned by the estate of the late
William Jacobs. After living here a few
years he retired from active life, and for the
rest of his days made his home in the family
of his youngest son.
Nathaniel Eckels was twice married. Ir
it not now ascertainable who his first wife-
was, but it is said that by her he had chil-
dren as follows : Samuel, Charles, John,
James, Nathaniel and a daughter whose-
name is unknown. His second wife was-
Mrs. Isabella (Huston) Clendenin, a daugh-
ter of Samuel and Isabella (Sharon) Hus-
ton, whose first husband was James Clen-
denin, a son of John and Janet (Huston)
Clendenin. On the farm where Nathaniel
Eckels lived for a short time after his return
to East Pennsboro, there is a famous burying
ground, which is now almost obliterated.
It was first located deep in a pine wood, from
which circumstance it was named Pine Hill
Graveyard, and it is still so designated,
though the wood with its tall pines long ago
entirely disappeared. Nathaniel Eckels, his
two wives, and four of his children by his
first wife, are buried in that graveyard. By
his second marriage Nathaniel Eckels had
children: William, born March 3, 1787,
died Nov. 15, 1861 ; and Francis, born April
I, 1 79 1, died Feb. 6, i860.
Francis Eckels, the second son, was born
in West Pennstoro township, and grew to
manhood in that part of the country. He
was reared on the farm., but like most
farmers in those days did much wagoning on
the road, and while yet quite young drove
his father's team to Baltimore and back.
His long and useful career marks him as a
man of more than average intellect, and of
great strength of character, but it nowhere
appears that he received any education other
than what the country schools of the period
afforded. He early in life engaged at coop-
ering, which seems to have been the family
trade, as his brother William started as a
cooper, as did also some of his other near
Eckels relatives. He also did merchan-
dizing and scrivening, and gave so mucli
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attention to public affairs that while
yet comparative!}' young lie was sin-
gled out for places of trust and re-
sponsiljility. Fnmi iSiS till his death in
i860 he was justice of the peace, first by
appointment by the Governor of the State,
and afterward by election by the people.
From 1829 to 1 83 1 inclusive he was county
commissioner: in 1843 '''^ ^'^"'^^ elected a
member of the State Legislature, serving one
term. Besides filling these offices of honor
and responsiliility he for a long time was
school director, and almost continuously en-
gaged in the settlement of estates. In
church work he was equally energetic and
prominent, and from November, 1840. to
the day of his death held the position of
ruling elder in the old Silver Spring Pres-
byterian Church.
On April 3. 1S17, Francis Eckels was
married by the Rev. Henry R. Wilson, then
pastor of the Silver Spring Church, to
Isabella Clendenin, of East Pennsboro,
who was l)orn Feb. 2. 1790, daugh-
ter of John and Elizabeth (Caldwell)
Clendenin. Soon after their marriage [Mr.
Eckels jiurchased a small home in the north-
western part of East Pennsboro, and lived
there until in 1829. In the spring of that
year he moved to a large farm on the south
side of the Conedoguinet Creek, and for al-
most all the remainder of his lifetime en-
gaged at farming. In October. 1834. he
purchased a farm a short distance to the
north of Xew Kingstown, in Silver Spring
township, took possession of it in the follow-
ing spring, and, improving it, made it his
home for the rest of his working days. To
Francis and Isabella ( Clendenin ) Eckels
were born the following children : Nathaniel
Htiston ; Elizabeth ; Agnes : Isabella : John
Clendenin; William Penn ; and Catherine A.
Nathaniel Huston Eckels, eldest child of
Francis, was Ijorn Dec. 29. 1817. in the
northwestern part of what is now Silver
Spring townshi]). where his parents began
their married life. He continued at home
on the farm until almost a man grown, when
he for a short time held a clerkship in the
store of William and Thumas Loudon, in
New Kingstown. Later on he taught school,
and was the first teacher of the Mt. Pleasaitt
school in Silver Spring township, then known
as the McHoe school. That was in the winter
of 1838-39. soon after the law establishing
free schools went into operation. Twenty-
five years afterward his son. George j\I. D.
Eckels, taught his first term of school at
the same place. In 1846 he moved from
New Kingstown to the north side of the
Conedoguinet Creek in Hampden township,
to a farm which his father had bought, and
of which he afterward acquired the owner-
ship. While living here, in the winters of
1847-48 and 1848-49, he taught the school
on the State Road long known as Shaull's.
In 1870 he sold his farm in Hampden town-
ship, and bought one a short distance north
of New Kingstown, where he spent the re-
mainder of his days. He died Jan. 21, 1871,
and is buried in the Longsdorf graveyard
near New Kingstown station.
Nathaniel H. Eckels had no educational
training except what he gained in the coun-
tr_v schools of his day, but being naturally
of a bright mind he acquired much informa-
tion through persistent reading, and liv in-
tercourse with intelligent people, and was re-
garded as a leader in the community in
which he lived. He took great interest in
public affairs, was an active worker in the
Democratic party, and in 1858 was elected
county commissioner, which responsible po-
sition he filled satisfactorilv at a \-ery trying
period of the country's existence. He was a
member of the Lutheran Church at New
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Kingstown, as were nearly all of his immedi-
ate family. On Sept. 15, 1840, Nathaniel H.
Eckels married Margaret \\'illiams, daugh-
ter of George and Elizabeth (Slonaker)
Williams, by whom he had children as fol-
lows : Francis Luther, George Mifflin Dallas.
Elizabeth Jane, Isabel Catharine. John Cleii-
denin, Sarah Agnes, Margaret Alice, James
Milton and Mary Gertrude.
George Mifllin Dallas Eckels, the second
son of Nathaniel H., was born in a log house
on the old Saxton farm near New Kings-
town, Dec. 23, 1844. and spent the first eigh-
teen years of his life upon the farm, and in
attending the country district school. He
then spent three terms at the ]\Iillersville
State Normal School, preparing himself for
teaching, and in the winter of 1863-64
taught his first term at the I\It. Pleasant
school in Silver Spring township, as above
stated. He next taught in Hampden town-
ship; then again in Sih'er Spring; then for a
year was assistant i)rincipal of the Wick-
ersham Academv at Marietta, Pa. After
this he taught in New Kingstown, and then
for six years in the schools of Mechanics-
burg. In addition to the course of instruc-
tion received at the Millersville normal
school he took, while teaching, prix'ate in-
struction from competent teachers in Latin,
Greek and French. He had already made
arrangements with Dr. Brown, head of the
faculty of the Theological Seminary at
Gettysburg, to enter in the fall of 1871 upon
a theological course, when the death of his
father interrupted his plans, and he contin-
ued in the work of teaching. In this field he
has found rich opportunitv for rendering
his best services to his fellowmen. and he
has never regretted the fact that circum-
stances uniformly held him fast to the pro-
fession of teaching. In May. 1878. he was
a candidate for county superintendent of
public schools, and made a creditable show-
ing, but was not elected. In the summer of
1878 he entered into a partnership in the
general merch.andizing business at New
Kingstown with his brother-in-law, W. H.
Humer. This partnership was dissolved in
the early part of 1882. In the fall of that
year he was elected a member of the lower
branch of the Pennsylvania Legislature as
a Democrat, and reelected in 1884. In the
Legislature he serxed on the most important
committees, such as Ways and ]\Ieans. Tu-
diciary General. Constitutional Reform, Ajr-
riculture and Elections, and on all of them
was efficient and influential. In the special
session called by Governor Pattison to ap-
]xirtion the State, a duty which was neg-
lected in the regular session, he was honored
with an appointment on the Apportionment
committee, which was the sole committee of
the House for this special session. He de-
livered what was considered to be. from the
Democratic standpoint, the ablest argu-
ment for a fair apportionment presented to
the House at that session. During his sec-
ond term in the Legislature the marriage li-
cense law of the State was placed upon the
statute books largely through his influence
and efforts. He led the Democratic forces
in support of the Bullit bill, and made its
passage in the House possible, and was an
ardent friend of all legislation calculated to
promote the cause of education. He was
urged by leaders of his party at the end of
his second term to become a candidate for
Lieutenant Governor, but refused to con-
sider the matter on the ground that he
wished to retire from politics. There were
strong influences at work to have him ap-
pointed superintendent of public instruction
at the close of Dr. Waller's term of office,
but he refused to co-operate with his friends
in the matter because he believed that Dr.
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Scliaeffer's claims for tlie position were su-
perior to his own, and in a personal interview
with the Governor recommended Dr. Scliaef-
fer's appointment. Before his second term
in the Legislature was ended, he was elected
an instructor in the Cumberland Valley
State Normal School, and two years later
was promoteil to the important chair of
Pedagogics and General History. In iSSS
Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, after
a searching incjuiry into his ability and
worth, honored him with the degree of Mas-
ter of Arts, and in 1892 the same institution
conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of
Science. In 1889 he was made principal of
the Cumberland A'alley State Normal
School, which position he has held continu-
ously ever since, a period of over fifteen
years. He has worked hard in season and
out of season, and the sclniol under his care-
ful and prudent management has prospered
beyond the expectations of its most sanguine
friends. Part of his duties as principal con-
sists in lecturing at teachers' institutes and
other educational gatherings, which work he
has done so w-ell that he has long been re-
garded as one of the leading educators of
Pennsylvania, and the institution of which
he is the efficient head, as one of Pennsyl-
vania's most successful and promising nor-
mal schools.
On June 6, 1872,' Dr. Eckels was mar-
ried to Anna, daughter of Daniel and Jane
(Brownawell) Hunier, and to their union
have been born the following children : Min-
nie Gertrude, born March 7, 1873; George
Hunier, born Dec. 8, 1875: Nathaniel Ort,
born Jan. 12, 1880. Minnie Gertrude is a
graduate of the Cumberland Valley State
Normal School, and of Bucknell University.
She belonged to the first honor group in
her class at Bucknell, and is now taking
post graduate work at Pennsylvania Uni-
versity. George Hunier Eckels is a grad-
uate of the Scientific Course of the Cumber-
land Valley State Normal School, and of
the classical course of Pennsylvania Col-
lege. Gettysburg, Pa., belonging to the honor
list of his class in the latter institution; he
has also taken post graduate work in Latin
and Greek at Cornell L'niversity. and he is
at present principal of the Atlantic City High
School. He was married Dec. 20. 1900. to
Nettie Bae Roop. ilaughter of Dr. J. W.
and Sarah Elizabeth (Harp) Roop, of Har-
risburg. Pa., and they have one child, Eliza-
beth .Anna, born Dec. 21, 1901. Nathaniel
Ort Eckels is a graduate of the Cumberland
Valley State Normal, and of the Philadel-
phia College of Pharmacy, and at present is
proprietor of a drug store in Shippensburg,
Pennsylvania.
JOHN W. WETZEL, Esq. Aliout
the time Cumberland county was formed
one William Davidson took out a warrant
for 22S acres of land lying in Middleton
township, due north of Carlisle. In making
his will he directed that the first one of his
brothers or sisters, or brothers' or sisters*
children, that came to America should have
one-half of this land.
Through this peculiar bequest Samuel
Davidson, a nephew, came into possession of
one-half of this tract of land, and he on Dec.
21, 1773, conveyed it to George Wetzel,
"of Middleton township. Blacksmith." The
conveyance was dated in 1773, but it is
probable that the purchaser was in that vicin-
ity a year or two earlier, as he then already
was "of Middleton township." This is the
first appearance of the \\'etzel name on tlie
records of Cumberland county. This tract
of land lies in the vicinity of Wert's school-
house. North Aliddleton township, and is
now owned bv T- Weslev Hov,
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George Wetzel was a native of Germany
and came to America from Rotterdam in tlie
ship "Bennet Galley," landing at Philadel-
phia Aug. 13, 1750. He first settled some-
where in the eastern part of the Province,
where he married and remained until the
Indian troubles had subsided, when the op-
portunities for acquiring land and a home
induced him to migrate to the Cumberland
Valley. He lived upon this land the remain-
der of his lifetime, farming and blacksmith-
ing. He was a quiet and reserved citizen
and participated very little in iniblic affairs.
During the war of the Revolution he was
commissioned an ensign in the lodi Regi-
ment, Pennsylvania Militia, but from the
data at hand it does not appear that he was
in active service, although he may have
been. He died in 1786, leaving to survive
him his wife Mary and four sons, named
respectively : Jacob, George, John and Mar-
tin.
Jacob W'etzel, the eldest, was born March
II, 1 77 1, and had not yet reached his six-
teenth year when his father died. He grew
up on the farm, and along with farming
learned blacksmithing, all his lifetime fol-
lowing these two occupations in the same
locality in which his father purchased a
home in 1773. He was a worthy and in-
fluential citizen and a member of the German
Reformed Church of Carlisle from the time
of its first organization. He served as one
of its trustees for twelve years continuously
and following his trusteeship was an elder
up to the time of his death. For many years
he was prominently identified with all its
afifairs, and its charter, dated Dec. 23, 1811,
bears upon its face his name as one of its
original incorporators. His brother John
was also long a member of the same \-estr3%
and the family, through all its different
branches and generations, has uniformly
adhered to this church. The John Wetzel
here named was a private in the Carlisle
Light Infantry, one of the companies which
in 1814 marched from Carlisle to the Niag-
ara frontier and there participated in the
battle of Chippawa and other engagements.
Jacob Wetzel married Phoebe Moses, a
daughter of Peter Moses, of Tyrone town-
ship. Perry county. Pa., and by her had the
following children : John, Joseph, Moses,
Jacob, Phoebe, Susan, Mary and Eliza, all
of whom lived to maturity, married and set-
tled down within a short distance of their
birth place. As but few members of this large
family .sought homes elsewhere their de-
scendants have become very numerous with-
in the bounds of their native county. Jacob
Wetzel died on Oct. 15, 1828; his wife died
Oct. 14, 1825, and their remains were in-
terred in the German Reformed graveyard
on South Hanover street., Carlisle, but when
the growth of the town made it necessary to
remove that burying-place they were trans-
ferred to the Wetzel family lot in the "Old
Grave Yard" at Carlisle.
John Wetzel, the eldest child of Jacob
and Phoebe (Moses) Wetzel, was born May
3, 1805. He grew to manhood in Middleton
township and became a farmer and incident-
ally also did blacksmithing. On March 9,
1826, he married Catharine Wise, Rev.
John Ebaugh, pastor of the Reformed
Church of Carlisle and vicinity, performing
the ceremony. Catharine Wise was born Jan.
25, 1804, and was a daughter of George
Wise, who was a son of Jacob Wise, and for
a long time owned the property known upon
the records as "Mansfield," lying on the
south side of the Conedoguinet creek at
Wise's Bridge, in what is now North Mid-
dleton township. John and Catharine
(Wise) Wetzel had children as follows:
George, Jacob, Susan, Mary E., John, Cath-
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arine, Josepli, Phoebe, Moses. Henry and
Eliza. This generation also all grew to ma-
turity and, with a single exception, re-
mained in the county of their liirth, and they
and their descendants form a very respecta-
ble and influential element in the social and
business activities of the section. John W'et-
zel died on May 26, 1842: his wife died
Oct. 5, 1881, and both are buried at Car-
lisle Springs.
George Wetzel, the first child of John
and Catharine (Wise) Wetzel, was born
Dec. 25, iS26,in North Middleton township,
on the farm long 1 iwned by the late Capt.
George Braught. His parents lived on sev-
eral different properties in that vicinity until
in the spring of 1832, when they moved to
the George Wise farm, and there engaged at
farming for a period of eleven years. The
father dying when the boy George was only
a little over fifteen years of age, and there
being ten other children still younger, it be-
came necessary that they be early taught to
be self-supporting. Accordingly George
was apprenticed to the wagonmaking trade
in Carlisle with Charles Pfleager, who by
marriage was a cousin of the boy's father.
He entered upon his apprenticeship early in
the month of March, 1845. Three weeks
afterward the Carlisle courthouse and town
hall were burned, and the young man, wit-
nessing their destruction, was so worked up
by the excitement of the occasion that he
soon thereafter joined the Union Fire Com-
pany, and lias been a faithful and enthusi-
astic fireman through all his long lifetime.
There was much doing at wagonmaking in
those days, and upon completing his trade
he built himself a shop and began business
on his own account. Being a good mechanic
he commanded a patronage which afforded
steady employment both for himself and for
a force of journeymen and apprentices. In
1866 he f|uit wagonmaking to engage in the
hotel business. He kept the well-known
"Pennsylvania House" for two years and
afterward the "Franklin House" for six
years. Being an ardent Democrat and an
influential party worker he in 1861 was
elected to the borough council, and in 1869
was elected county treasurer, which was
then a two-year ofiice. Afterward, when
Carlisle was passing through a reign of ter-
ror from firebugs and other lawless char-
acters, he served a term as tr>wn constable,
anil the courage and fidelity with which he
perf(irmed the trying duties oi that position
were highly commended. In 1846 he jc:)ined
the Washington Artillery, one of Carlisle's
famous nfilitary companies, of which he was
a member iov seven years. In September,
1862, when the Confederates crossed the
Potomac and threatened to advance still
farther northward, he enlisted in the State
militia under Capt. Ephraim Cornman, Col.
Henry McCormick, and during the emer-
gency did military service on the borders of
]\Iar}dand. In religion, he followed the ex-
ample of his ancestry and early united with
the Reformed Church of Carlisle, sang in
its choir, served as deacon and trustee and
was otherwise prominent in promoting" its
interests. Since he has retired from the
active duties of life he lives in the pleasant
home of his daitghter, Mrs. H. G. Rinehart,
on North Bedford street, Carlisle, where,
with faculties unimpaired, he continues to
take a lively interest in the afYairs of the
day and composedly awaits the future.
On June 2S, 1849,' George Wetzel was
married to Sarah Ellen Shade, Rev. A. H.
Kremer, pastor of the Reformed Church of
Carlisle, performing the ceremony. Sarah
Ellen Shade was a daughter of John and
Susan Shade. John Shade, her father, was
a carpenter and builder, long of Carlisle, but
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formerly of Perry county and a descendant
of a Revolutionary ancestor. George and
Sarah Ellen (Shade) Wetzel had the fol-
lowing children: John \\'., Charles Henry,
Catharine, Sarah Adelia, Rebecca Florence,
Mary Elizabeth, George B. McClellan,
Annie Matilda. Ida May and Frank Wil-
liam Dale.
John Wise Wetzel, the eldest of these
ten children, and the especial suljject of this
sketch, was born in Carlisle April 20, 1850.
In his boylK)od he attended the i)nl)lic schools
of Carlisle, and then, after prei)aring under
Prof. Da\id Sterrett, entered Dickinson
College, from which institution he grad-
uated in 1874. While in college he read
law with C. E. ^laglaughlin, Esq., and was
admitted to the Bar of Cumberland county in
April, 1874, two months be tore his gradu-
ation. He then entered upon the practice
of his profession in the town of Carlisle and
has steadily and assiduously pursued it ever
since. Fie has made good progress and
ranks high as a lawyer and counselor, both
in the courts of his own and those of ad-
joining counties. He is extensively em-
ployed l)y leading corporations, being attor-
ney for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Company, the Crescent Pipe Line, the Lind-
ner Shoe Company, the Carlisle Carpet Mills.
the Letort Carpet Company, the Letort Axle
Works, the Carlisle Chain Works, and others
that might be mentioned. He is a member
of the Cumberland County Bar Association,
also of the Pennsylvania State Bar Associa-
tion, and for many years has been secretary
of the committee on Admissions to the State
Bar Association. He is one of the incorpo-
rators of the Dickinson School of Law at
Carlisle, and since 1884 has been a trustee
of Franklin and Marshall College, at Lan-
caster City. He works hard, gives prompt
attention to business, is liberal and progres-
sive in all things, and an inlluential factor
in the social and material development of
his town and county. He is one of the in-
corporators of the Merchants National Bank
of Carlisle, and since 1893 president of its
board of directors. He gives studious and
careful attention to the finances of his sec-
tion of the country and is a member of the
Pennsylvania State Bankers' Association.
He aids in establishing" and jiromoting busi-
ness enterprises, and was for a number of
years a director of the Carlisle Gas & Water
Company, is now a member of the Beetem
Lumber & Manufacturing Company, and
president of the Big Spring Turnpike Com-
pany.
Like nearly all of his large family Mr.
Wetzel, in politics, is a Democrat, and before
his law business absorbed so much of his
time and attention was very active and prom-
inent in ])arty management. In 1876 he was
a delegate to the Democratic State Conven-
tion and again in 1890. In 1880 he was
elected District Attorney of Cumberland
county by an unusually large majority, and
in 1882, in an exciting and memorable cam-
paign, was chairman of the Democratic ex-
ecutive committee. Fraternally, he is a
member of the order of Knights of Pythias,
also of the Cumberland Star Lodge of Free
and Accepted Masons, in which he is a past
master.
On Sept. 3, 1872, John W. Wetzel was
married to Miss Lizzie Wolf, youngest
daughter of John and Elizabeth Wolf, of
Carlisle. Both are members of the Re-
formed Church of Carlisle, in which Mr.
Wetzel has been a deacon and is now an
elder. To John W^ and Lizzie (Wolf)
Wetzel one child has been born, a son named
George Frank Wetzel, who is a graduate of
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Franklin and ^vlarshall College. He is also
a member of the Cumber-land county Bar
and is practicing his profession at Carlisle.
MAJOR IS.\AC WAGXEK, late one
of the prominent and highly esteemed citi-
zens of Newville, was born Aug. ii, 1821,
near Walnut Bottom,' Cumberland county,
son of Joseph and Hannah (Rodes) \\'ag-
ner, early settlers of the county. Joseph
Wagner, his grandfather, came of German
parentage. He married a Miss Walters.
Major Isaac \\'agner was reared a
farmer boy and was educated in the district
schools of his locality. After reaching his
majority he entered the service of his coun-
try, joining Company F, 126th P. V. I., in
which he served faithfully for three years,
being promoted from time to time for sol-
dierly gallantry. He was honorably dis-
charged in 1864, with the rank of major.
After his discharge he went to Green
Springs, Cumberland county, where he en-
gaged in general farming and stockraising,
meeting with much success. He became a
prominent man, was a director of the New-
ville Bank, was assessor and tax collector
of his township, and was frequently chosen
to administer estates. In politics he was a
strong Democrat of the Jeffersonian type.
His death occurred Oct. 24, 1886.
In 1869 ]\Iajor Wagner was united in
marriage with Mary J. Christlieb, of Green
Springs, widow of Charles Christlieb. They
had two sons born to them, AValter and
Homer J. The latter, a graduate of the
State Normal School at Shippensburg, is
principal of the High School and professor
of General History at Centralia. Wash. ;
he married Belle Over,' of Newville, and they
have one son, J. Homer.
By her former marriage. Mrs. Wagner
had two children, viz : Isaac Clark Christ-
lieb, of Hutchinson, Minn.; and Joseph
Linsay Christlieb, a skilled machinist in
Washington. She was born in 1832 in
Cumberland county, a daugiiter of Joseph
and Margaret ( Shillerbarger) Linsay. The
Linsay family is of Scotch-Irish descent.
Mrs. Wagner is a valued member of the
United Presbyterian Church at Newville.
Major Wagner belonged to Newville Post,
G. A. R'., where he was held in high esteem
by his comrades.
GEORGE EDWARD REED, S. T. D.,
LL. D., seventeenth president of Dickin-
son College, was born in Brownville,
Maine, in 1846. His father, a clergyman of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, came to
America from Devonshire, England, in
1836.
The father dying when the son was aliout
six years of age, the mother, a woman of
ereat strensfth of character, removed with
her large family to Lowell, Mass., where
George received the rudiments of his edu-
cation. The family, however, being in
straitened circumstances the boy was com-
pelled at an early age to begin the battle of
life for himself, which he did, serving for
several vears in various capacities in one of
the large manufacturing companies of the
city, first as a "runner" in the counting-
room, and later as a "bobbin boy" in the
mills. In the summer he worked on farms
adjacent to the city, gaining in this severe
school the stalwart, vigorous irame which
has stood him in such good stead in later
years. Having accumulated money enough
to warrant the continued pursuit of the
studies he had been compelled, temporarily,
to lay aside, he in January, 1865, entered
the ^^'esleyan .\cademy, ^^'iIbraham, ]Mass.,
to prepare for college. This he accom-
plished in one term and a half, doing in that
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surprisingly Ijrief period the amount of work
for wliich nine montlis are usually required.
He regards this as the greatest achievement
of his life, the record never having been sur-
passed. In September. 1865, he entered
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.,
from which he graduated in 1869, with dis-
tinction, in a class famous for the number of
its members who have attained eminence in
their various callings.
After graduating from college he spent
one year in the School of Theology of
the Boston University, and then began
the work of the ministry of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, serving two of
the most important churches of that
bodv, in Willimantic, Conn., and in
Fall River, Mass. In 1875, when but twen-
ty-nine years of ago, he was transferred to
the Hanson Place Church, Brooklyn, N. Y..
then and now the largest Methodist Church
in this country. At the end of three years
he was appointed to an influential church
in Stamford, Connecticut. In 1881 he
became pastor of the Nostrand Avenue
Church, Brooklyn, where he continued for
three years, and then again served the Han-
son Place Church. On leaving the city of
Brooklyn he was tendered a reception in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle by citizens of the city,
irrespective of denominational lines, in rec-
ognition of public services rendered.
In 1887 Dr. Reed assumed the pastorate
of Trinity Church, New Haven, and while
serving his second year there he was hon-
ored with a unanimous call to the presidency
of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., one of
the oldest colleges in the country. Here
he has assiduously labored ever since and
with eminent success. He gives careful
personal attention to all duties of his
position, and in the years of his ad-
ministration the number of students
has more than doubled and evidences
of the prosperity of the institution in all
other lines are corresponding-jy apparent.
In 1886 he received the honorary degree of
Doctor of Divinity from his Alma Mater,
the Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Conn., and in 1889 the degree of Doctor of
Laws from LaFayette College, Easton,
Pennsylvania.
In addition to the various duties of his
position as college president Dr. Reed is in
great demand as a lecturer and a preacher
in all parts of the country and with con-
stantly increasing fame. He is a careful
thinker, eloquent in diction, self-possessed,
and interesting and attractive in the mode of
presenting his subject. He distinctly enunci-
ates his propositions and convinces the minds
and wins the hearts of his hearers by clear-
ness of statement and sincerity and earnest-
ness of manner. While a clergyman by pro-
fession, and devoted to his calling, he nev-
ertheless holds pronounced opinions in re-
gard to political affairs. He has always been
a Republican, and when he deemed it neces-
sary and proper never hesitated to pulilicly
advocate his party's candidates and policies,
but just as freely and courageously has led
in independent movements when his sense
of duty called him in that direction. Not-
ably was this the case while he lived in
Brooklyn, when in his judgment it was nec-
essary to act outside of party lines. As a
political orator, no less than a preacher and
lecturer, Dr. Reed has won enviable dis-
tinction. Although in no sense a seeker
after party recognition — his well known in-
dependence being a handicap upon political
aspirations — he for four years was Pennsyl-
vania's State Librarian, a public position
which he occupied at the request of Gov.
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William :V. Stone. Init resigned before tlie
expiration of the term for which he was
appointed.
I^-esident Reed in June, 1870. was mar-
ried to Ella Frances Leffingwell. of Nor-
wich, Conn., a lineal descendant of the fam-
ous Puritan, Aliles Standish. of the Plym-
outh Colony. To them one son has been
born, George L., who is a student in Dickin-
son College.
CHARLES FRANCIS HIMES, Ph.
D., LL. D.. for more than thirty years pro-
fessor in Dickinson College, was born in
Lancaster county, Pa., in 1838.
The Himes family is of Pennsylvania-
German stock, the immigrant ancestor, Wil-
liam Heim. coming from the Palatinate to
Philadelphia in 1730, on the same vessel
with the celebrated Peter Miller, of Epbrata,
and settled in Chester cnunty. Pa. One of
his sons, Francis, born in that county in
1737, settled in York county, at Hanover,
where he engaged in keeping a tavern, farm-
ing, running an oil mill, etc. He died there
in 181 1. His youngest son, George, mar-
ried a daughter of Daniel Barnitz, of Han-
over, and for many years kept the "Oxford
Tavern," at what is now New Oxford, Pa.,
one of the noted old time hostelries on the
road from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. He
subsequently engaged in various business
enterprises, in many of these closely con-
nected with Thaddeus Stevens, and he was
also much mterested in politics. He became
a large holder of real estate, including iron
works, in Adams and adjoining counties.
William D. Himes, eldest son of George
and the father of the subject of this sketch,
was born in New Oxford, Pa., in 1812.
He married Magdalen Lanius, of York, Pa.,
a daughter of Christian and Anna (Von
Updegraff) Lanius, Her immigrant ances-
tor, Jacob Lanius, came from Meckenheim
in the Palatinate in 1731. William D. Himes
engaged in merchandising in Lancaster
county, Pa., but, shortly after the birth of
his eldest son, Charles F. Himes. called by
the business interests of his father. Col.
George Himes, he removed to New O.xford,
Adams county, where he C(5ntinued to reside
until his death, in 1896. He was well known
as a business man in the southern portion of
the State, at one time largely engaged in
iron manufacture. A younger son, Wil-
liam A. Himes, resides at the old homestead.
Charles Francis Himes enjoyed unusual
educational advantages for that time, at an
academy conducted by Dr. M. D. G. Pfeiffer,
a German physician, graduate of the Uni-
\-ersity of Berlin, and well known as a very
learned and public-spirited man. He en-
tered the Sophomore class in Dickinson Col-
lege, near the close of the college year, in
1853, and was graduated at the age of seven-
teen, in 1855, with excellent rank in his class.
Imn:ediately after his graduation he taught
Mathematics and Natural Science in an
academy in \\'ayne ci:)unty. Pa., for a year;
he then went to Missouri, where he taught
in the public schools, and read law at the
same time. During a visit to the East, in
1858, he resumed teaching, and after being
connected with Baltimore Female College
for a year he became tutor, and afterward
professor of mathematics in Troy Uni\er-
sity, Troy, N. Y. From that position he
went to the University at Giessen, Germany,
in 1863, to prosecute scientific studies. In
the falL of 1865 he returned to America to
enter upon the professorship of Natural
Science in Dickinson College. He at once
proposed, and carried out successfully, elec-
tive laboratory courses in the Junior and
Senior years, among the very first of the
kind in the country, according to the report
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of the National Commissioner of Education,
and by pen and addresses advocated the New-
Education of that date. By his persistent
advocacy of enlarged facilities for scientific
instruction in the expended department, he
contributed to the erection of the Tome Sci-
entific building, and at its opening, in 1885.
ma le the address, and assumed the Chair of
Physics. Complete lalmratory courses in
I'hvsics were at once added to the curricu-
lum of the college. In 1896 he resigned the
position, owing to the demands made upon
his time by the purely routine work of the
]irofessorship. The Board of trustees of
the college., "in recognition of his attain-
ments and great services to the College,"
conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him,
and the graduating class presented a portrait
of him to the college. The concensus of
opinion of the alumni, of the thirty-one years
of his professorship, seems to be that as a
teacher his success w-as due to the personal
rather than conventional methods employed,
not confined by the text-books, and ins])iring
to thoughtful study, whilst as a disciplina-
rian he was eminently successful by reason
of his friendly but dignified intercourse with
his students. As senior professor in service
he was acting president of the college for
months at a time and aside from his duties
as professor he was for many years treas-
urer of the corporation, and secretary of the
board of trustees up to the time of his resig-
nation.
He revisited Europe, accompanied by his
family, in 1872, 1883, and 1900, and as he
had at an early day taken great interest in
the science of Photography, and was always
abreast of the most advanced methods, the
camera was used to secure valuable notes
of travel, including the glaciers of the Zer-
matt regicjn, in Switzerland. He also gave
Practice of Photography a place in the Phy-
sical Laboratory of the College, for its edu-
cational value, and as an aid in scientific
investigation, and delivered an address be-
fore the Congress at the Columbian Exposi-
tion, in 1893, on "Photography as an Edu-
cational Means." He organized, in 1884.
at Mt. Lake Park, Md., the first Summer
School of Photography, which is still in
successful operation. He has delivered
numerous lectures and addresses on scientific
and educational topics. Among those pub-
lished, some fully illustrated, may be named :
"Actinism, or the Scientific Basis of Pho-
tography," before the International Elec-
trical Exhibition, at Philadelphia: "The
Stereoscope and its Applications" : "Ama-
teur Photography in its Educational Rela-
tions" ; "Photo Record Work"; "Photo-
graphic Permanence," before the Franklin
Institute, Philadelphia; and "The Making
of Photography," at its seventy-fifth anni-
versary ; "The Scientific Expert in Forensic
Procedure." before the Franklin Institute,
and the Dickinson School of Law; "Science
in the Common Schools,"' before the Penn-
sylvania State Teachers' Association ; "Sci-
entific Theories and Creeds," before the
American Institute of Christian Philosophy ;
address as retiring president before the
Pennsylvania-German Society. Among
numerous contributions to scientific and ed-
ucational literature are "Phenomenon of the
Horizontal Moon and Convergency of the
Optic Axes in Binocular Vision," before the
New York Academy of Sciences ; "Methods
and Results of Observations of the Total
Eclipse of the Sun," and "Report of the
Section of the U. S. Government Expedition
stationed at Ottumwa, Iowa-, to Observe and
Photograph the Total Eclipse of 1869;"
"RWiew of Professor Porter's American
College and American Public"; "Methods
of Teaching Chemistry" ; "Investigation of
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the Electric Spark by means of Stereoscopic
Pliotograpliy" ; "Preparation of Plioto-
graphic Plates by Daylight" : etc. From
1872 to 1879 Dr. Himes was associated with
Prof. S. F. Baird, of the Smithsonian Insti-
tution, in the preparation of the "Record of
Science and Industry" He published "Will's
Tables for Chemical Analysis," translated
and enlarged in three editions; "Bunsen's
Flame Reactions" : "Leaf-Prints, a Hand
Book of Photographic Printing" ; "History
of Dickinson College, more particularly of
its Scientific Departments," illustrated ; etc.
Prof. Himes is an Honorary ]\Iember
of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia;
a Member and Fell(_iw of the .Amer-
ican Association for the Advancement
of Science; member of the Amer-
ican Philosophical Society of Phila-
delphia ; of the New York Academy
of Sciences ; of the Maryland Academy of
Sciences ; of the Philadelphia Photographic
Society ; of the Pennsylvania German Soci-
ety, of Philadelphia; and of the Hamilton
Library Association of Carlisle, Pa., the
official Historical Society of Cumberland
County, in which he is actively interested,
and of which he has been president for a
number of years.
Prof. Himes married, Jan. 2, 1868, Miss
Mary E. Murray, a daughter of Rev. Joseph
A. Murray, D. D., a prominent minister of
the Presbyterian Church. Her death oc-
curred Dec. 3, 1904. They had two daugh-
ters, Mary M. Himes, and Anna M., the
wife of Rev. George V. Metzel.
GEORGE W. HIMES, secretary and
treasurer of Rummel, Himes & Co., of Ship-
pensburg, is one of the leading business men
of that city. The business was established in
1888 with a capital stock of $50,000, and
through the energy and executive ability of
Mr. Himes has been built up to its present
mammoth proportions. In addition to his
connection with this concern Mr. Himes is a
member of the People's Coal Co. ; of Rum-
mel, Himes & Co., fruit growers, and vice-
president of the People's National Bank of
Shippensburg, which financial institution
was organized in August, 1903.
George \V. Himes is a native of Cum-
berland county, born in 1869, the only son
of Rees C. and Cecilia H. (Himes) Himes.
The father died in February, 1904, at seven-
ty-five years of age, leaving a large estate.
His birth occurred in Gasconade, Mo., but
he was reared in Cumberland ciiunty, and at
sixteen went to Philadelphia where he was
educated. In young manhood he returned
to the Cumberland Valley, to take charge
of his father's business, and here remained.
He married Cecilia H. Himes, a native of
Gap, Pa., daughter of Rees C. and Sarah
(Eckert) Himes, and she still survives, at
the age of seventy years.
George \V. Himes, father of Rees C.
Himes and grandfather of our subject, was
born at Honeybrook, Chester county. Pa.,
in the old "Anthony Wayne Hotel," of
which his father, Thomas Himes, was pro-
prietor. Thomas Himes married Catherine
Clemens. George W. Himes was reared at
Honeybrook. He married Miss Johanna
Sturgis, daughter of Dr. John Sturgis, of
New Holland, Lancaster county. Pa., and
after marriage went to what is now St.
Louis, Mo., making the entire trip out and
back in a Conestoga wagon. For a time he
owned and operated a sawmill on the pres-
ent site of St. Louis, and his daughter Louisa
E. was the first white child born in that sec-
tion. Thence the family removed to Gasco-
nade, Mo., where Mr. Himes also operated
a sawmill. Later he returned to Pennsylva-
nia, settling in Southampton township. Cum-
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berland county, where he owned consid-
erable property, comprising three good
farms which are still in the possession of the
only descendant of the family, George W.
Himes, whose name introduces this sketch.
Here he spent the greater part of his re-
maining days, and here his death occurred.
However, he lived in Philadelphia for a
time in order to give his family better educa-
tional ad\-antages. Mr. Himes was always
successful in the real estate business, and
was an extensive owner of real estate in
different parts of the country.
After finishing the public school course
George W. Himes, fiur subject, entered the
Cumberland Valley State Normal, and still
later took a course at a select school in
Newark, N. j., where he completed his edu-
cation.
In 1893 ^Ir. Himes married Aliss Annie
Slaymaker, who was born at Gap, a sister
■ of Dr. J. M. Slaymaker, who is now a resi-
dent and prominent physician at Gap. To
Mr. and'i\Irs. Himes two children have been
born, Cecilia and Rees S. Mr. and Mrs.
Himes are members of the Presbyterian
Church, in which he is a member of the
board of trustees, and be is also a member
of the Y. M. C. A., and very active in all
the work of the church. Fraternally, he is a
member of the Loyal Legion of America.
The residence of the family is on North
Normal avenue, in Shippensburg, and in
addition to this valuable property Mr. Himes
owns some very desirable city property and
two good farms.
JAMES W. HUGHES. Ph. D., of
Shippensburg, professor of modern lan-
guages and higher mathematics, is a native
of Pennsylvania, born in Juniata county
upon a farm near wdiat is known as Tusca-
rora Academy, Nov. 16, 1835. His father,
Hugh G. Hughes, was born in the Tusca-
rora Valley, in 1806, son of James and
Rachel (Gray) Hughes, the former born in
Greene county, in 1780.
Hugh G. Hughes married Margaret Mc-
Donald, who was born in Juniata county,
Pa., daughter of David McDonald, a native
of Scotland. Three children were born to
these parents : James W. ; David M. was a
soldier in the Civil war, and died while in
service ; and John G. resides in Huntingdon
county, Pennsylvania.
James W. Hughes spent the first seven-
teen years of his life at Pleasant View, Ju-
niata county, where he received his primary
education. His mother died in 185 1. and
he then went to make his home with his
grandfather Hughes, who lived and died in
Fulton county. From 185 1 to 1854, he re-
mained w'ith his grandfather, and in the lat-
ter year, entered Cassville Seminary, there
continuing until 1862. At that date he went
to Martinsburg. Blair county, Pa. From
1863 to 187 1 he was made professor of
Rainsburg seminary. Li 1871 he went to
Everett, Bedford county. Pa., where he was
professor of schools for five years, but later
he became superintendent of Bedford county
schools. At the expiration of tha: period,
he became clerk in the establishment of Fair-
weather & Ladew, prominent merchants.
Following this he taught school for two
years.
In February, 1890, he came to Shippens-
burg, and became a professor in the Cumber-
land Valley State Normal School as teacher
of ancient languages. After this he accepted
the chair of mathematics, which he held
consecutively for eight years, and at the ex-
piration of that time, he became teacher of
German and general history, and later of
German, French and, finally, of higher math-
ematics.
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In i860. Prof. Hughes married ^liss
Sarah Cresswell, of Cassville, Pa., a daugh-
ter of Jacob and Alary (\\'ilson) Cresswell.
Mrs. Hughes was born in 1838, at the old
forge in Trough Creek Valley, Huntingdon
county. Pa. The children born to diis union
are : William C, a graduate of the Cumber-
land Valley State Normal School, is now em-
ployed in the railroad yards at Rutherford ;
Josephine, a graduate of the same school
and a \'er}- highly educated young lady, was
married. Aug. 17, 1904, to John F. Hughes,
a teacher in the Mannington. \\'. Va.,
schools.
Prof. Hughes is a member of Everett
Lodge No. 524, A. F. & A. AI. : of Bedford
Chapter No. 215, R. A. M. ; and of Carlisle
Commandery, No. 8, K. T. He and his
wife are consistent members of the Metho-
dist Church. Prof. Hughes has devoted his
entire life to educational matters, and is a
man of remarkable talents in this direction,
who possesses a great love for his work ana
pupils. In 1882 he was elected to the Leg-
islature from Bedford county, and served
through the sessions of 1883 and 1884, giv-
ing efficient service on a number of import-
ant committees, being chairman of that on
Vice and Immorality, and a member of that
on Education and Local Judiciary. Prof.
Hughes is serving his third term as presi-
dent of the school board of Shippensburg.
and under his administration two new school
buili lings have been erected.
LINDSAY PITTS O'NEAL. M. D.,
a prominent and successful physician of
Mechanicsburg, was born Oct. 11, 1838, on
his father's plantation in Essex county, Va.,
a son of Albert G. and Anna (Wearing)
O'Neal, both of whom were born in Essex
county.
Thomas O'Neal, the grandfather of Dr.
O'Neal, was born in Dublin, Ireland, where
he became a merchant with business stand-
ing until his sympathy with the rebellion
against England made it athisable for him
to leave his native land. He emigrated to
Virginia, and there, in Essex county, mar-
ried Elizabeth Pitts, who was of English
ancestry. To this union were born two sons
and three daughters, namely: Albert G.,
Johnson, Elizabeth, Alary and Emeline.
Albert G. O'Neal became a large planter
in Essex county, but during the Civil war
lost his possessions. He served as a captain
in the A\'ar of 1812. In 1S31 he married
Anna Wearing, and two sons were b(^rn to
them, viz : Thomas J. and Dr. Lindsay P.
Dr. O'Neal was but sixteen years old
when he left home to make a career for him-
self. At Baltimore, Aid., he engaged in
clerking, in grocery and in drug stores, re-
maining there until 1858, when he began
the study of medicine, supporting himself
by running a stitching machine in his
brother's boot and shoe factory. In the fall
of i860 he entered York Academy, and in
the spring of the following year, he entered
the Washington L'niversity of Medicine
and Surgery. In the fall of 1861, he en-
tered the medical department of the United
States Army. It was not until the fall of
1864 that he returned to the A\'ashington
Lhiiversity of Aledicine and Surgery, Balti-
more, where he studied and attended lect-
ures and clinics, until Alarch. 1865, gradu-
ating with degree of AI. D. He located in
York county that spring-. There he prac-
ticed his profession until 1870, when he set-
tled at Alechanicsburg. where he has met
with the most flattering success.
On Nov. 26, 1868. Dr. O'Neal was
united in marriage with Alargaretta W^
Eckels.' born near Alechanicsburg, daughter
of Samuel and Alary (Cooper) Eckels.
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Mrs. O'Neal is a valued member of the
Presbyterian Church. Dr. O'Neal is pro-
fessionally connected with the National
Medical Association of Pennsylvania, and is
a charter member of the Eclectic Association
of the State. He has served four terms on
the Medical Examining board of Pennsyl-
vania through the administrations of Govs.
Robert E. Pattison, Daniel Hastings, Wil-
liam Stone and Samuel Pennypacker, and
was re-appointed for the fifth term in 1904.
For many years he has been an influential
memljer of the Democratic party in Cum-
berland county. In his profession he ranks
very high, being regarded as an expert in
his successful treatment of smallpox, and up
to this time (1904) has never had a death
from this dread disease. He keeps thor-
oughly abreast of the times, and is well ac-
quainted with all modern methods and dis-
co\-eries. Personally, he is a man of high
character and enjoys universal esteem. He
is an example of the self-made man owing
but little to any fortunate circumstances of
birth, kindred or friends, having bravely
carved out his own fortune.
JAMES ECKELS. Nathaniel, Francis
and James are favorite names in the differ-
ent generations of the Eckels family. These
three were sons of the first Eckels who set-
tled in Pennsylvania. Although not proven
by documentary evidence it is reasonably cer-
tain that the father's name was Francis, and
that he was married twice. Tradition has
it that he had six children by his first wife,
and si.x by his second, but very little is
known of any of them excepting the three
here named. Nathaniel was born Oct. 2,
1744, and died on Sept. 16, 1830. He is
buried in Pine Hill graveyard, in Silver
Spring township. Francis was born in 1 75 1 ,
and died Aug. 13, 1814, and is buried in the
Old Graveyard at Carlisle. According to
tradition Francis was born at sea.
James Eckels, youngest child of Francis
Eckels, Sr., by his second marriage, was
born Oct. 15, 1772, in Cumberland county.
In 1817, he settled at or near Fair Haven,
Allegheny county, where he married Nancy,
daughter of John and Esther ( Twinen)
Cameron, who were early settlers in Wash-
ington county. Pa. By this marriage he had
the following children: James, Jr., John,
Esther Ann, Robert, Sarah, Amelia and
William. John became a Methodist Epis-
copal minister, married Caroline Leech and
settled at Cambridgeboro, Crawford county,
Pa. ; Esther Ann married Samuel Donald-
son, a farmer ; Robert married Elizabeth
Ramsey, and engaged at farming; Sarah
married Perry Donaldson, and settled in
South Dakota; Amelia married John Gib-
son, capitalist; and William died unmarried.
In 1832 James Eckels removed to
Clarksville, Mercer county, where he died
Jan. I, i860. He and his wife, Nancy Cam-
eron, were both active members of the Pres-
byterian Church, and among the first to be
interred in the new cemetery at Clarksville.
After settling in western Pennsylvania
James Eckels became effectually separated
from his relations in the Cumberland Val-
ley, and it is not known that he ever ex-
changed visits with them. He, however,
never faded from their memory, and mem-
bers of the present generation of the Cum-
berland county Eckelses recall having fre-
quently heard their fathers speak of him.
In 1854, a grand-nephew, James S. Eckels,
Esc|., now of Princeton, 111., who is a grand-
son of Nathaniel Eckels, taught school in
Mercer county, and then met him and had
several conversations with him.
James Eckels, Jr., oldest son of James
and Nancy (Cameron) Eckels, was born
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at Fair Haven, July ii, 1S19, and went
with his parents to Clarksville, Mercer coun-
ty, in 1832. In 1840 lie embarked in the
furniture and undertaking business at which
he continued until 1874. On Sept. 8, 1842.
he married Mary, daughter of James and
Mary (Gaston) Warnock, who were early
settlers of Beaver, now Lawrence county,
Pa. His children were Edwin Dowling;
Frances A., who married A. T. Brown;
John Warnock ; Helen ; Amanda Caroline ;
Emma ; Frank Cameron ; Anna ; Walter
Howard and Mabel, who married Dr. E. W.
Shields. Edwin D., Helen, Amanda C,
Anna and Emma are dead, as is also Mr.
Brown, the husband of Frances A.
In 1 88 1 James Eckels, Jr., and family
moved to Pittsburg, and in 1S92 he and his
wife celebrated their golden wedding. His
wife died June 14, 1895, and he died wdiile
visiting his daughter, Mrs. A. T. Brown,
at Gallipolis, Ohio, Jan. 31, 1899, and with
his wife and deceased children is interred at
Clarksville. His grandchildren are James
W., Mary W., Florence and Grace, children
of Edwin D. and Anna (Wilson) Eckels;
Edwin A., Mary E., Harry and Louise, chil-
dren of A. T. and Frances (Eckels) Brown;
Robert Bonner, son of John W. and Mary
(Echols) Eckels, and Margaret and Jean,
children of Frank C. and Margaret (Pais-
ley) Eckels.
BRIG. GEN. RICHARD HENRY
PRATT, who was for almost a quarter of a
century in the position of superintendent of
the United States Indian Industrial School
at Carlisle, was born Dec. 6, 1840, in Rush-
ford, Allegany Co., N. Y., and was the eld-
est of three sons born to Richard S. and
Mary (Herrick) Pratt. The father was a
contractor and builder of canals, and con-
structed a portion of the \Velland canal, in
Canada, and the canal in New York.
In the summer of 1846 the family moved
to Logansport, Ind., and there Gen. Pratt
began his education in the common schools.
Later he attended the Logansport Seminary.
In 1858 he removed to Delphi, Ind.. and on
April 16, 1 86 1, at the breaking out of the
Civil war, he enlisted for the three months'
service, and was made a corporal in Com-
pany A, 9th Indiana Infantry; he was mus-
tered out July 29th, following. On Sept.
iSth he re-enlisted, in Company A, 2(\ In-
diana Cavalry, with which he served, as ser-
geant and first sergeant, until April 19, 1864,
when he was promoted to first lieutenant in
Company C, iitli Indiana Cavalr}', of which
company he became captain on Sept. i, 1864.
He served as inspector and judge advocate
for the 5th Division Cavalry, Mil. Div.
Miss., on the staff of Gen. Hatch, through-
out the Nashville campaign, 1864 and 1865,
and until he was mustered out of the service,
May 29, 1865, with a record of active ser-
vice in the following engagements: 1861 —
Philippi, Va., June 3; Laurel Hill, Va., July
7; Bealington, Va., July 10; Carrick's Ford,
Va., July 13-14; 1862 — Shiloh, April 6-7;
Pea Ridge, Tenn., April 15; Monterey,
Tenn., April 17; engagements around Cor-
inth, Miss., April 30 to May 30 ; Tuscumbia
Creek, Miss., May 31 ; McMinnville, Tenn.,
Aug. 9; Gallatin, Aug. 13; engagements
about Murfreesboro, Tenn., Aug. 20, 25, 27,
Sept. 7; New Haven, Ky., September (in
the capture of the 3d Georgia Cavalry) ;
Perryville and Crab Orchard Oct. 6-7-8;
Stone River, Dec. 31 to Jan. 3; 1863 — Mur-
freestoro, Tenn., March 10; Shelbyville
Pike, June 6; Triune, Tenn.. June 11 ; Shel-
byville, Tenn., June 23 : Tullahoma, June
25 ; Middleton, June 24 ; Gray's Gap, June
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27 ; Elk River Bridge, July 2 ; Sparta, Aug.
9; Chickamauga, Ga., Sept. 19-20; Ander-
son's Cross Roads and pursuit of Wheeler
(in which he saw daily fighting) ; 1864 —
Huntsville, Ala., October; Shoal Creek,
Ala.. Xo\'. 9; Lawrenceburg, Tenn., Nov.
22; Campbellsville, Tenn.. Nov. 24; Nash-
ville, Tenn., Nov. 15-16; Hollow Tree Gap,
Tenn.. Dec. 17; Linnville, Tenn., Dec. 23;
I'ulaski, Tenn., Dec. 25-26.
After the clo.se of hostilities Capt. Pratt
returned to Delphi, Ind., remaining there
until September, 1865, when he went to Be-
ment. 111. After a year there he went to
IMinnt'Siita, where he stayed only a few
months, returning thence to Logansport,
Ind., where he was tendered an appointment
by Schuyler Colfax, as second lieutenant in
the United States cavalry. Accepting, he
joinetl his command at Fort Gibson, in the
Indi.-ui Territory, in June, 1867, and on
lulv 31st was promoted to first lieutenant
of his company, continuing as sucli until
Feb. 7, 1883. when he became captain. On
July I, 1898, he was made a major; on Feb.
2. 1902, Lieutenant-colonel; and on Jan. 24.
1903. colonel. He was retired from army
service on Feb. 17th of the same year, was
promoted to brigadier-general on the retired
list in April. 1904. and was relieved from the
superintendency of the Indian School July
I. 1904.
In the spring of 1879, by special .\ct of
Congress, he was detailed for Indian educa-
tional work at Hampton Institute, Virginia.
Being unwilling to remain at Hampton, Ise-
cause he did not esteem it best to combine
the work for the Indians and negroes, he
suggested the use of Carlisle Barracks and
the establishment of an Indian industrial
school. This was accepted, and he was made
superintendent and placed in charge in Sep-
teml.ier of that year. Under his management
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the school has grown to include over a thous-
and pupils, from eighty different tribes,
with about ninety employes, and has met the
substantial support of the people and Con-
gress throughout its career. Perhaps the
best commendation Gen. Pratt has for his
work at Carlisle is contained in the award
made to the school for its exhibit at the
World's Fair in Chicago :
The United States of America by act of their
Congress have authorized the World's Columbian
Commission at the International Exhibition held in
the city of Chicago, State of Illinois, in the year
1893, to decree a medal for specific merit which is
set forth below :
Indi.an Industri.\l School, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania.
Exhibit: Work, Photographs and Courses of Study.
— Award, —
For excellence of methods, objects' and results
as a part of the best plan for the industrial, intel-
lectual, patriotic, social, moral and spiritual train-
ing of the Indian to take his place as a member of
civilized society, seen first, in his separation from
savage surroundings ; second, in wise and well-fitted
plans and methods of theoretical and practical
training of boys and girls in the several years of
school life, during which they learn the conditions of
caring for health and are prepared for active
affairs, in common studies, such as reading, writing,
drawing, arithmetic, compos'ition, geography, music,
bookkeeping and morals, and in industries for girls,
such as household economy, needlework, cutting of
garments, and cooking; and for boys, farming, car-
pentering, blacksmithing, harnes's and wagon mak-
ing, the making of tinware and shoes, and printing;
third, as seen in the outing system, by which pupils,
are placed in good families, where both boys and
girls for a year or more become familiar by observa-
tion and practice with all the customs and ameni-
ties of American home life, fixing what they have
been learning in the theory and practice of the
school; fourth, as' seen in results attained (a) in the
outing sys'tem in 1892, which resulted in the earn-
ing by 404 boys of $16,698.85, and by 293 girls of
$5,170.15. or a total of $21,868.98, all of which was
placed to their individual credit, and (b) in the
usefulness and worthy lives of the great majority of
all who have returned to their Indian homes.
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The earnings of the students under the
outing for the fiscal year 1903, eleven years
later, was $31,393.02. and their combined
savings deposited and earning interest for
them amounted to (Tver $40,000.00.
In 1889 Col. Pratt was chairman of the
commission which treated with the Sioux
tribe for half of their reservation.
On April 20, 1864, Col. Pratt married
Miss .-Xuna Laura Mason, oi Jamestown. N.
y.. daughter of Eelden B. and Mercy
(Whitcoml)) Mason, and four children have
blessed this union, namely: Mason D.. born
Jan. 23. 1865: Cora Marion, Oct. 2. 1S6S';
Nana Laura, July 2y. 1871 ; and Richenda
Henrietta, Aug. 25, 1882.
COLONEL ALEXANDER BRADY
SHARPE, who passed away at his home
in Carlisle, Cumberland county, Dec. 25,
1891, was throughout his active years one of
the most prominent lawyers of that place.
The Sharpes were among the early set-
tlers of Newton township, Cumberland
county, and are still numerously represented
in that section. Our subject was a great-
grandson of Thomas and Margaret ( Elder )
Sharp (as the name was originally spelled).
Covenanters, the latter the daughter of a
Scottish kurd, who. because of their relig-
ious faith, were driven from Scotland and
took refuge in the Province of Ulster, in
the North of L-eland, living near Belfast, in
Countv Antrim, until their emigration to
the New World. Their son, Robert, had
crossed the Atlantic at a very early age. and
soon returned to Ireland to persuade his
father to bring the rest of the family over.
This could not have Ijeen later than 1746,
as two tracts of land, one of 2,000 acres and
one of twenty, are recorded in the list of
land warrants as having been taken up by
Thomas Sharp in May, 1746. The family
settled in Newton township. Cumberland
county. Pa. Thomas and Margaret (Elder)
Sharp had fi\'e sons and four daughters,
namely: Robert. Alexander, Andrew (who
was killed Ijy Indians at what is now Sharps-
burg, which was named in his honor), John,
James, Mary (Mrs. John McCune), Agnes
(Mrs. Moses Hemphill), Martha (Mrs.
Huston) and Mrs. Patton. All of this
family but Andrew owned land in Cumber-
land county, and lived and died in the neigh-
borhood of Big Spring, and there in the old
graveyard of the Lhiited Presbyterian
Church, at Newville, rest their remains, as
well as those of their children, and many of
their grandchildren. All of the sons of
Thomas Sharp except Alexander were com-
missioned ofiicers in the Indian or Revolu-
tiijnary wars, and he served as a private.
Alexander Sharpe, son of Thomas, be-
came the largest land owner in Newton
townshij), his holdings extending from near
Newville, to the turnpike above Stoughs-
town, a tract about four miles long
and several miles wide, nearly all of
which, though divided, is still in the
possession of his descendants. Its north-
ern boundary was the headwaters of
the Green Spring. Besides his extensive
realty holdings Alexander Sharpe had a tan-
nery, distillery, mills, etc. One of his ap-
prentices in the tanning business, which he
conducted on quite an extensive scale, was
Robert Garrett, whom he sent to Baltimore
after he had finished his apprenticeship, and
before he was twenty years of as'e, to e^et a
start in life. He had never been to that city,
but Mr. Sharpe secured a warehouse for
him, and turned much of the trade of the
valley, then carried to Baltimore in wagons,
in his direction, thus hndng the foundation
for the fortune he accumulated. He became
the father of John W. Garrett, and grand-
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father of Robert M. Garrett, both presidents
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.
Alexander Sharpe married (first) Mar-
garet McDowell, and they had children as
follows : Andrew, Rev. Alexander, William
M., John (father of Alexander B. Sharpe),
Col. Thomas, Elder (who died unmarried,
aged nineteen), and Eleanor (wife of Sam-
uel McCune). Of these, Rev. Alexander
Sharpe lived at the Green Spring, and was
pastor of the Church at Newville (Big
Spring) from 1824 until his death, which
occurred in Januarv, 1857. He married Eliz-
abeth Bryson, and they had seven sons and
two daughters, of whom Dr. Alexander R.
married Xellie Dent, a sister of the wife of
Gen. Grant.
Andrew Sharpe, son of Alexander and
Margaret (McDowell) Sharpe, w^as the
father of the late Hon. J. McDowell Sharpe,
a native of New^ton township. Cumberland
county, who was one of the ablest lawyers of
Pennsylvania, and one of the most promi-
nent members of the Constitutional Con-
vention of 1872-73.
John Sharpe, son of Alexander and Mar-
garet (McDowell) Sharpe, and father of
Col. Alexander B. Sharpe. was known as
"John Sharpe of the Barrens." He married
Jane McCune, granddaughter of James and
Abigail McCune, of Newton township, and
daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Brady)
McCune. The latter was a daughter of
Hugh Brady (2), whose father, Hugh
Brady, came from Enniskillen, Ireland, and
was one of the first settlers in what is now
Hopewell township, Cumberland county.
Thus it will be seen that Col. Sharpe's ances-
tors on both sides were among the first set-
tlers in the upper end of the county.
Alexander Brady Sharpe was born Aug.
12, 1827, in Newton township. In 1839 he
began to prepare for college under Joseph
Casey, the elder (father of Gen. Joseph
Casey), after his death going to Academia,
Juniata county, and completing his studies
under the direction of Vanleer Davis, at
Chambersburg. In 1843 lie entered Jeffer-
son College, at Canonsburg, Pa., as a Soph-
omore, and graduated from that institution
with the highest honors of his class, Sept.
2T,, 1846. Hon. William H. West, of Ohio,
and Hon. John M. Kirkpatrick, of Pitts-
burg, were among his classmates. After
the completion of his college course, he com-
menced the study of law with Robert M.
Bard, Esq., of Chambersburg, completing
his legal studies under Hon. Frederick
Watts, of Carlisle. The committee ap-
pointed to examine him consisted of Hugh
Caullagher, W. M. Biddle and Hon. J. H.
Graham, and on motion of the last named
he was admitted to practice Nov. 21, 1848.
He continued with his last preceptor. Judge
Watts, until the ist of the following April,
when he opened an office and commenced
independent practice, in which he continued
until his death, with the exception of the
time he served in the army.
On April 21. 1861, Alexander B. Sharpe
enlisted for service in the Union army, be-
coming a private in Company A, 7th Regi-
ment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer
Corps, which was attached to the 2d Brig-
ade, McCall's Division. He served in the
ranks until Sept. 25th, when he was com-
missioned second lieutenant of Company E,
same regiment, and appointed, adjutant. On
Dec. 4th he was relieved from duty with his
regiment and ordered to report to Brig. Gen.
Ord, commanding the 3d Brigade, who had
appointed him aide-de-camp. He joined
Gen. Ord the same day, and served on his
personal staff until the General was wounded
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and tempoiarily disabled f'or field service,
when lie resigned. After tlie General re-
covered our subject was at his instance again
commissioned captain and assigned to duty
with him, serving until his resignation, on
Jan. 28, 1865. Thus, with the exception of
the period from Dec. 27, 1862, to Aug. 28,
1863, he was in constant service, being on
field duty with the armies of the Potomac,
Rappahannock, Tennessee, West Virginia,
the Armv of the Gulf and the Army of the
James. He took active part in the battles
of Drainesville, Dec. 20, 1861 ; luka, Sept.
18 and 20, 1862 ; Big Hatchie, Oct. 5, 1862 ;
Burnside's mine explosion, July 30, 1864;
Newmarket Heights (or Chapin's Farm)
and capture of Fort Harrison, Sept. 9 and
10, 1864. He was brevetted and promoted
to the rank of captain and aide-de-camp.
United States Army, for gallant and merito-
rious conduct at the battle of Drainesville,
and on ]March 13, 1865, on the recommenda-
tion of Gens. Ord, Meade and Grant, re-
ceived the brevet ranks of major, lieutenant-
colonel and colonel. United States Volun-
teers, for gallant conduct at Petersburg,
and the various operations before Richmond,
Virginia.
On Dec. 19, 1854, Alexander B. Sharpe,
married Katherine Mears Blaney, daughter
of Major George Blaney, ot the Engineer
Corps, United States Army, now deceased.
Gen. Sharpe was a stanch member of the
Republican party, from the time of its orga-
nization, but he ne\-er held an office, or was
a candidate for official honors, political, judi-
cial or otherwise. In religion he clung to
the faith of his forefathers, holding member-
ship in the Second Presbyterian Church of
Carlisle. Socially, he was connected with
Capt. Col well Post, No. 201, G. A. R., and
with the Loyal Legion. He was missed in
many of the interests of Carlisle outside of
professional circles, f<jr he was an influential
advocate of any cause he chose to champion,
and a leader in many local enterprises.
\\TLLTA:\I WALTERS DALE, M. D.
Among the soldiers which King William, in
1690, sent into Ireland was one Charles
Dale, who. after the distiu'ljances which
called for the presence of the troops ended,
married and remained in that country. Not
much is known concerning him except that
he had a son named Samuel, who resided in
County jMonaghan, and raised a family.
According to tradition he had three sons
named, respectively, Nathaniel, Matthew
and Samuel. He also had daughters, one
of whom married a man named McCord,
came to America and afterward lived in
Pittsburg.
Samuel Dale's son Samuel was born in
1735. About the year 1766 he came to
America and settled in Chester county. Pa.,
where on Jan. 17, 1769. he married Ann,
daughter of Samuel and Ruth (Steel)
Futhey. After marrying he lived in West
Fallowfield township, Chester county, until
1774.
when he removed to White Deer
township, Northumberland, now Union
county. In 1777 the Indians drove him
and his family from their frontier home,
and they went back to Chester county where
they remained for four years. In 1781 they
advanced a second time toward the frontier,
moving as far westward as Dauphin county,
where they tarried for three years, and then
again journeyed to White Deer, where seven
vears before they had settled with the inten-
tion of permanently making their home.
Samuel Dale was a soldier in the war of
the Revolution, and on Jan. 24, 1776, was
commissioned captain of the Fourth com-
pany of the Second Battalion of the
Northumberland Countv Associators com-
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manded by Colonel James Potter, and was in
the battle of Princeton. The same year he
was elected a member of the Pennsylvania
General Assembly, and re-elected in 1777,
1778 and 1779. He helped twice to elect
Joseph Reed President of the Supreme Ex-
ecutive Council ; also helped elect John Dick-
inson, and later Benjamin Franklin, Presi-
dent of the same body. After the war (in
1795), he was elected State Senator, and
afterward regularly re-elected until 1801.
He was an undeviating Democrat, and an
ardent supporter of eciual rights. He died
in 1804. In person, Samuel Dale was very
tall, about six feet seven inches, and his
walking stick, which was long preserved by
the family, was a curiosity because of its
great length. His children were also noted
for their height, each of the sons measuring
over six feet. They were slender and
straight of form, were all well educated,
and noted for their suavity of manner. Sam-
uel and Ann (Futhey) Dale had the follow-
ing children: Ruth, Samuel Futhey, Wil-
liam, Jane, James, Ann, ^lary and Margaret.
Samuel Futhey Dale, the second child
of Samuel and Ann (Futhey) Dale, was
born in ^^'est Fallowfield township, Chester
county, his parents soon afterward settling
upon the Pennsylvania frontier. The boy
grew to manhood with A-ery meager educa-
tional opportunities. Being possessed of a
very vigorous mind he made good use of
what advantages were within his reach, and
managed to prepare himself fairly well for
the useful career upon which he entered
early in life. In 1800 he was appointed
deputy surveyor of A^enango county, and in
the following year located in Franklin, the
county seat of that county. In 1807 he was
elected to represent Venango and Mercer
counties in the State Legislature, and re-
elected everv vear thereafter until 1813. In
1812, while attending the session of the
Legislature sitting in Lancaster, he mar-
ried Eliza Gundaker, oldest daughter of
]\Iichael Gundaker, of Lancaster. In the
war of 18 1 2 he was elected a colonel, his
commission dating August, 181 1. and
among other services that he rendered, had
command of troops who afforded protection
to the workmen who prepared Commodore
Perry's fleet at Erie.
After the war was over he removed to
Lancaster and permanently made his home
there. In 1819 he was appointed an Asso-
ciate Judge for Lancaster county, which po-
sition he held during the rest of his lifetime.
He died Sept. i, 1842. Eliza Gundaker,
his wife, died July 5, 1830, and the remains
of both rest in Woodland Cemetery in Lan-
caster City. On July 29, 1834, Judge Dale
married for his second wife Leah Lightner,
who was born in March, 1789, and died in
February, 1886.
Samuel F. and Eliza (Gundaker) Dale
had issue as follows : Ann Mary, IMichael
Gundaker, William Walters, Barbara Ann
Margaret, James John, Eliza Gundaker,
Catharine Clementina, and Charles Henry.
William Walters Dale, the fourth child
and third son of the family, was born in
Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 15, 1817. He was
educated in the public schools, in the Lan-
caster County Academy, and Franklin Col-
leee ^^'ith this preliminary training he be-
gan the study of medicine with Dr. Kerfoot,
of Lancaster, and then entered Jefferson
Medical College, of Philadelphia, from
which institution he graduated in 1838.
After his graduation he located at Millers-
ville, Lancaster county, but soon left there
to come to Mechanicsburg, Cumberland
county, where he and his brother James pur-
chased a drug store. Tliere he practiced
medicine for several years, and assisted his
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brother in the management of tlie drug store.
He next moved to Turbutx'ille. Xorthumber-
land county, and for a short time practiced
there. From Turlnitviile he returned to
Cumberland county, and for several years
was located at New Kingstown, from which
place he in 1847 removed to Carlisle, where
he continued to practice until his death, Feb.
24, 1 89 1.
As a practitioner Dr. Dale was highly
successful and popular, and was the only
physician through the successive generations
of some families at Carlisle, down to the
close of his long professional career. He
had the confidence and respect of his entire
community, and his brethren of the profes-
sion entertained for him the same high re-
gard. He was one of the organizers of the
Cumberland County Medical Society, and
twice its president. He was also a mem-
ber of the Inter-State Medical Society, em-
bracing Southern Pennsylvania and North-
ern Maryland, and twice its vice-president.
During the Civil war he was assistant exam-
ining surgeon, and after the war long a
member of the pension board for Cumber-
land county, and was one of the most widely
known physicians of central Pennsylvania.
As a business man Dr. Dale likewise
ranked high. For thirty years he was a
director of the Carlisle Deposit Bank, and at
the time of his death its vice-president. He
was president of the Carlisle Gas and Water
Company; a member of the Koard of Direc-
tors of the Carlisle Manufacturing Com-
pany ; a trustee of the Metzger Female Col-
lege, and active in the promotion of all enter-
prises that promised to advance the general
good of the town. He was a Knight Tem-
plar and an Odd Fellow., and far advanced
through the chairs of both orders. In relig-
ious faith lie was a Presbyterian, having
united with that Church at Silver Spring
while yet a young man. Upon removing to
Carlisle he united with the Second Presby-
terian Church, -and was a faithful memljer
and earnest supporter of that congregation
until his death. He was a man of strong
convictions, and had a keen sense of the
right, with the courage to allign himself
with it, but was possessed of a gentle and
gracious nature that won the confidence and
respect of all with whom he came in contact.
Dr. Dale was married June i, 1841, to
Miss Sarah Martin, daughter of James and
Elizabeth (Basehore) Martin, of East
Pennsboro township, the Rev. N. D. Stook
performing the ceremony. To their union
four children were born, namely : Elizabeth
Gundaker, who married E. P. Imhoff, of
Carlisle: Annie J., who married H. P. Can-
mm, of Bridgeville. Del., and to them three
children have been born : Sara Dale. Harry
Laws, and Katherine Dale; Kate C, un-
married ; W. James, who married Annie
Rhey and is now deceased.
LLOYD. The Lloyd ancestors came
from \\'ales as a body of Welsh Quakers
who had received a grant of a large tract
of land along the Schuylkill river from Wil-
liam Penn before he came to America.
These Welsh immigrants, with a few excep-
tions, came over in the ship "Lyon," and
landed on the west bank of the Schuylkill
Aug. 13, 1682, about three months before
\\'illiam Penn landed at Lpland, now Ches-
ter, on the Delaware river. This ^^'eIsh
tract included the townships of ^lerion,
Haverford, Radnor and others, and was sit-
uated west of, and adjoining, Philadelphia.
Among the members of the Lloyd fam-
ily whose names appear earlv in the public
annals was Thomas Lloyd, third son of
Charles Lloyd, of Dolobrand, Wales. He
was a physician, and came to America with
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William Penn on the ship "Welcome." He
subsequently became deputy governor under
Penn, i)resident of the council, and keeper
of the great seal of the Commonwealth. He
filled tlie positions named for several years,
and until his Quaker principles prevented
him from taking the oath required by Eng-
land, which would have bound him to par-
ticipate in military affairs. It will be noted
that some of the subsequent descendants of
the Lloyd family seem not to have been
troubled with these conscientious scruples.
Thomas Lloyd's family consisted of his
wife and nine children. He died in Penn-
sylvania Sept. 10, 1694. His great-grand-
son and namesake, Thomas Lloyd, was lieu-
tenant-colonel in Col. James Burd's battal-
ion during the French and Lidian w-ar.
David Lloyd, a cousin of the first named
Thomas Lloyd, became a member of the
General Assembly in 1693. •I'l'l the follow-
ing year w^as Speaker of that body. Pie
was also a member of the Supreme court,
and for fourteen years Chief Justice of the
Province. He died in 1731.
Hugh Lloyd, who was prominently asso-
ciated with Anthony Wayne, Thomas Mc-
Kean and other patriots, in representative
assemblies when the storm of the Revolution
was gathering, was also colonel of the 3d
Battalion of Chester County troops during
the war, and after our independence was
achieved was twice a representative in the
Legislature, and subsequently an Associate
Judge of Delaware county for thirty-three
years, resigiiing after he had reached his
eighty-third year. He died the year follow-
ing.
It was from the gristmill on Darby creek
owned by Hugh Lloyd and his brother, Isaac,
sons of Richard Lloyd, that Washington
after the battle of Brandywine ordered the
mill-stones to be removed and hidden in the
woods, that the mill might not be of service
to the British.
During tlie century which elapsed from
the landing of these \\'elsh immigrants, in
1G82, the Lloyd name appears very fre-
Cjuently in the records of Delaware county,
showing that, while in this lapse of time the
original family had become separated into
several branches, yet the members of all of
these W'Cre the descendants of the Lloyd
Welsh Quaker immigrants of 1682.
Isaac and Rebecca Lloyd, grandparents
of William Penn Lloyd, and residents of
Delaware county, had the following chil-
dren : Elizabeth, born in 17S6; Phoebe, in
1788; Joseph, in 1790; John, in 1792 ; Isaac,
in 1793; Rebecca, in 1794; and William,
the father of William Penn Lloyd, in 1796.
]\Ir. Lloyd's grandmother being deceased,
his grandfather, Isaac, removed from Dela-
ware county to Lisburn, Cumberland Co.,
Pa., in 1799, bringing with him his daugh-
ter Rebecca and three sons, John, Isaac and
William. He died at Lisburn in 1834. John
returned to Delaware county in 18 12, and
died there in 1850. Isaac died in 1849, ^"^
William in i860, both in Lisburn.
On the maternal side, Islr. Lloyd's great-
grandfather was George Anderson, of
Scotch-Irish lineage. He came from Scot-
land early in 1700 and settled in Chester
county. Pa. In 1755 he was commissioned
by Robert H. Morris — lieutenant-governor
and commander-in-chief of the Province of
Pennsylvania — a lieutenant in Col. W'illiam
Moore's Chester County regiment, and
served in the Braddock campaign of that
year. He had five sons who grew to man-
hood. John and George served in the Con-
tinental army in the war for independence.
John returned and settled in New York
State, but George was never heard from.
The remainmg three moved west of the Sus-
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qiiehanna river in 1787. Benjamin, the
yonngest of the sons, and the grandfatlier
of Mr. Lloyd, liKated at Lisburn, Cumber-
land Co., Pa., J'inies at Martinsbnrg, and
Nathan at Wincliester, Va. Benjamin was
born in 1767, and died in 1830. at Lisburn.
He married Charity Martin in 1795, and
their daughter, Amanda, married Mr.
Lloyd's father in 1827. Their children who
grew to mature age were William Penn and
his three sisters, Mary Ellen. iNIargaret Jane
and Sarah R'ebecca. The first named mar-
ried John M. Hart, tlie second George W.
Ettele, and the third Frederick K. Ployer.
William Penn Lloyd married Anna
Helena Boyer May 23, 1865. She was a
daughter of Israel L. and Margaret Moser
Boyer, who removed from Berks to Cumber-
land county in 1841. Her paternal grand-
parents were Michael and Dorothy Helena
Luther-Boyer, who came from Germany in
1797-
Mr. Lloyd was l^orn at Lisljurn, Cum-
berland Co., Pa., Sept. I, 1837. He worked
on a farm in the summer and attended the
public school in the winter until he reached
his seventeenth year, when he was employed
as a teacher. He taught eight years, six
prior to entering the army and two after his
return, teaching winter sessions, and attend-
ing special schools and studying law tlie re-
mainder of the year. He became a private
soldier in Company G, of the ist Pennsyl-
vania Cavalry, Sept. i, 1861, and was dis-
charged with the rank of regimental adju-
tant at the expiration of the term of service
of his regiment, Sept. 9, 1864. During his
last year of service he was frequently as-
signed to duty as adjutant general of a brig-
ade. He participated in all the campaigns
of the Army of the Potomac during the
three years' service of his regiment, and was
present and engaged in tlie following bat-
tles: Drainesville, Dec. 20, 1861 ; Harris-
onburg, June 6, Cross Keys, June 8, Cedar
Mountain, Aug. 9, Gaines Mills, Aug. 28,
Bull Run, Aug. 29 and 30, and Fredericks-
burg, Dec. 13 — all in 1862; Brandy Station,
June 9, Aldie, June 21 and 22, Gettysburg,
July 2 and 3, Shepherdstown, July 16, New
Hope Church, Dec. 2-/ — all in 1863: Todd's
Tavern, the Wilderness and Spottsylvania,
May 5, 6, 7 and 8, Childs1)urg, jNIay 9, Rich-
mond Heights and Meadow Bridge, ]\Iay
12, Haws' Shop, May 28, Cold Harbor,
June I, Barker's Mill, June 2, Trevillion
Station, June 12, White House, June 21,
and St. Mary's Church, June 24 — all in
1864. He also participated in thirty-five of
the skirmishes in which his regiment and
brigade were engaged during his term of
service. He was detailed on special service at
Camp Cadwallader, Philadelphia, and at the
United States Garrison at Carlisle, Pa., to
organize and forward drafted men to the
army, from Aug. 3 to Nov. 6, 1863. These
three months, and one ten days' leave of ab-
sence, cover the period of his absence from
the front during his whole term of service.
On the reorganization of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania, after tlie close of the
war, Mr. Lloyd was commissioned division
inspector with the rank of lieutenant-colonel,
by Gov. Hartranft. He was commander of
the Grand Army Post of Mechanicsburg,
Pa., for seven consecutive years, has been
a member of the Loyal Legion since 1888,
and is author of the "History of the First
Pennsylvania Cavalry."
He read law with Col. William M. Pen-
rose, of Carlisle, for tliree years prior to his
army service, and on his return revie\\'ed his
course of study, and was admitted to the
Cumberland County Bar April 18, 1865. He
is now also a member of the York and
Dauphin County Bars, has been admitted to
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practice in tlie Supreme and Superior courts
of Pennsylvania, and in the Eastern District
court of tile United States, and has been a
member, and the treasurer of the Pennsyl-
vania Bar Association since its organiza-
tion Jan, 1 6, 1895. He represented the 32d
District, composed of the counties of Cum-
berland and Adams, in the Senate of Penn-
sylvania, from 1890 to 1894. This was the
only political office for which he has been
a candidate, and his majority was nearly
three times that of any former candi-
date in the district. In 1866 he was
appointed Internal Revenue collector for
the 15th Congressional District of Pennsyl-
vania. This office he resigned in 1869 to
accept a position in the Dauphin Deposit
Bank, of Harrisburg, where he remained for
nearly fifteen years. He quit the bank in
1884, snd has been engaged in the practice
of his profession in Mechanicsburg, Pa., and
in the management of extensive financial
and agricultural interests, to the present
date. He at once met with encouraging suc-
cess in the practice of his profession, it be-
ing largely in the Orphans' court in the
settlement and- distribution of decedents'
estates, and also as counsel for large individ-
ual and corporate interests. He is now fill-
ing a number of important positions of pub-
lic antl private trust. While in the Senate
he gave special and untiring attention to the
subjects of public roads, common schools,
fence laws, equalization of taxation, Sun-
day laws and municipal government, and
since then, as a speaker and writer, has vig-
orously advocated improvements in these
branches of our State government.
Mr. Lloyd's family now consists of his
Avife, Anna H., his daughter, Mary E., mar-
ried to Dr. H. A. Smith, and liis son, George
E., all now residents of Alechanicsburg, Pa.
His eldest son. Weir B. Lloyd, died June i,
1903, lea\-ing to survive him his widow, Eliz-
abeth A., and three children, Ruth, Anna H.,
and William Penn Lloyd, Jr., also residents
of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lloyd's maternal ancestors were
Presbyterians, and in his youth he frequently
attended the Silver Spring Church with his
Uncle George and Aunt Martha Anderson,
who were also residents of Lisburn. The
round trip was fourteen miles, and horse
back was then the means of travel. He is
an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Me-
chanicsburg, and has been a Sabbath-school
teacher for more than forty-five years.
SWAPv.TZ. The Swartz family were
residents of Copper East Pennsboro town-
ship, Cumberland county. The precise time
of their coming into that locality is not now
ascertainable, but it is reasonably certain that
it was in the early part of the last centuiy.
The county records show that a Jacob
Swartz purchased a tract of land on the
State road, a short distance west from West
Fairview, April 6, 1827. He was then a
citizen of East Pennsboro, but a family tra-
dition has it that he came from Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania.
Jacob Swartz was a carpenter, an en-
ergetic, adept mechanic, and while in his
prime built many houses and barns, and did
much other work in that part of the country
which still bears pronounced evidence of his
skill and industry as a builder. During the
active period oi his busy life farming was to
him only a secondary employment. He
married Mary Longnecker, a daughter of
Joseph Longnecker, who was one of the
early settlers in that section. Jacob Swartz
died Nov. 1 1, 1872, at the age of sixty-eight.
His wife died Jan. 20, 1893, at the age of
eighty-six. The remains of both lie buried
in the cemetery of the Brick Church, a short
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distance north-west of West Fairview. Mary
Longiiecker was a direct descendant of John
Jonas Kupp. who emigrated to America
aljout one hnndred fifty years ago. Jacob
and Alary (Lohgnecker) Swartz had the
following children : Georg-e, Abraham, Jo-
seph. Catharine, and Marv Jane. .-\l)raham
learned the carpenter trade with his father,
went West and died in St. Lonis, Missouri,
when he was alinut twenty-eight years of
age. He was never married. Joseph studied
medicine, graduated from JeiTerson Medical
College, in Philadelphia, and located at Dun-
cannon, Perry Co., Pa., where he met with
great success and practiced his professi(>n
until his death. During the Civil War he
was a surgeon in the Union Army for a per-
iod of three years. He married Susan C.
Ebert, a daughter of Dr. Ebert. of Fishing
Creek valley. Perry county, b_v whom he had
one child which died in its infancy. Dr.
Swartz died suddenly of apoplexy in 1887, at
the age of fifty-one, and is buried at Dun-
cannon. Catharine ne\'er married, and re-
mained at Iiome until after the death of both
parents. Mary Jane married Andrew Stone,
of Hampden township, by whom she bad one
child, a daughter who married David A,
Darr, a carpenter, and is now residing in
Wormleysburg,
George Swartz, the oldest member of the
family, grew to manhood on the Swartz
farm in East Pennsboro. Like his brother
Abraham, he learned the carpenter trade,
but possessing a vigorous intellect his atten-
tion naturally turned to books, and he soon
accjuired an education far beyond that of the
average young man in his neig'hborhood.
He then began teaching in a school close by
the Brick church, and not far from his home.
His success as a teacher was marked, and,
as his reputation spread, his services were
called for in other places, and wdien, in 1857,
a normal school was opened at Newville, he
was selected as one of its leading instructors.
Subse(|uently he became princiiial of the
scho(jI, which position he filled for two terms.
He rose rapidly in his profession and was
noted for his proficiency in higher mathe-
matics: firmness of discipline was one of his
strongest characteristics, and good order al-
ways pre\'ailed in schools o\-er which he pre-
sided. He graduated from the Millersville
.State X<:irmal -School, recei\'ing" a dii)loma
upon passing the examination prescribed by
the laws of the commonwealth, notwith-
standing the fact that he ne\er attended
said school as a student. In 1S60 he became
a candidate for the county superintendencv,
but the contest was close and an older man
was then elected. Three vears afterward he
was elected on the first ballot, serving
through two terms with acknowledg'ed suc-
cess and ability. In 1867 he purchased a
small farm near Boiling- Springs, and lived
upon it until the death of his father, when he
sold out and bought the old homestead in
East Pennsboro, where he spent the re-
mainder of his days. He died March 30,
1899. His remains rest in the cemetery of
the Brick church, not far from the place of
his l)irth, side 1)}- side with those of his father
and mother,
George Swartz, on Aug. 30, i860, mar-
ried Hester Eveline Fleming, of Boiling
Springs, and they had children as follows :
George Wilson, Flora Eveline and Robert
Fleming, The daughter, Flora Eveline
Swartz, born ]\Iay 3. 1866, married Austin
G. Rupp, one of the descendants of John
Jonas Rupp, above-named, and lives near
Shiremanstown, the former home of her
husband. They have five children, one boy
and four girls.
Robert Fleming Swartz, born at Boil-
ing Springs May 5, 1870, married Bessie
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S. Lenhart. of Xew Cumberland. Sept. i6.
1897, and now lives in Eniigsville. York Co.,
Pa., where he is engaged in the mercantile
business.
George Wilson SwARxz.the eldest child
of the family and the subject of this sketch,
was born in Shiremanstown. Aug. 27, 1864.
Later the family mo\-ed to Boiling Springs
where he passed through the primary stages
of his education. In 1874 his parents moved
to East Pennsboro township. He attended
the country district school known as Lantz"s.
wliere teachers changed almost as regularly
as did the seasons. Among his instructors
was the well-known Jesse Laverty, then far
advanced in years; also Stephen Magee.
Charles H. Smith and Daniel E. Burtner,
who taught the youth many valuable lessons.
In the fall of 1881 he had a protracted spell
of typhoid fever, which caused him to miss
an entire term of school. However, as soon
as he had sufficiently recovered, he took up
the studies of trigonometry and surveying at
his home, and under the instructions of his
father, who was a skillful and practical sur-
veyor, acquiring an efficiency in these
branches that has always remained with him
and served him well. Afterward he entered
the Harrisburg Academy, of which Profes-
sor Jacob F. Seller was the principal. This
institution he attended for three years, tak-
ing the honors of the school for two terms.
Under thorough instructors he paid special
attention to mathematics, Latin, Greek, and
history. Having made rapid progress in his
studies, he, in 1884, took up teaching, and
for three successive annual terms taught the
Mount A'ernon school in Hampden town-
ship ; then for one term the Wormleysburg
high school, and after that for one term was
an assistant in the Harrisburg Academy. In
1886 he registered as a student-at-Iaw with
Stuart & Stuart, Carlisle, and engaged the
greater part of his time at reading law until
1888, when he entered the law offices of his
preceptors, and gave law his entire attention
up to Sept. 9, 1889. when he was admitted
as a member of the Cumberland county Bar.
He immediately settled down to the practice
of his chosen profession, and has kept stu-
diously at it ever since. He is one of the most
careful, persistent, determined lawyers at the
Bar, and his rule is to push the business en-
trusted to him step by step without delay,
until it is finally concluded. This in<lustrious
habit has won for him favor and prominence,
and he is now rated as one of the ablest and
busiest young attorneys at the Cumberland
county bar. He has a large, valuable and
well selected law library of about seven hun-
dred volumes, to which he is constantly add-
ing new books, as they are published, and as
the need for them arises in his practice. He
also has a fine miscellaneous library at his
home, and is well-equipped for any profes-
sional or literary work that may come in his
way. In September. 1901, he was elected a
member of the faculty of the Dickinson
School of Law, as professor of practice in
the courts of common pleas, to the duties of
which he devotes much time and labor.
On June 2. 1898, Mr. Swartz was mar-
ried to Miss Margaret V. Kenyon, of Ship-
pensbtirg, who formerly was a teacher in the
public schools of that place. Tliey live in a
modest home on Walnut street, Carlisle, and
\\2l\q one child, a daughter, Helen, who was
born March 27, 1902.
MAJOR EBENEZER DENNY is one
of the most notable early contributions of
Carlisle to the present prominent families of
Pittsburg, Pa. His ancestors came to Ches-
ter county, Pa., from Ireland, but at what
time is not precisely known.
In 1745 William Denny and his wife
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Agnes came to Cuml^ierland county, from
Chester county, with three children. He
settled on a large tract of land in South '\1\<1-
dleton township, about two miles south of
Carlisle, of which the farm of Jacob Ritner
is a part, where he died in 1751. His eldest
child (i) Martha, married John McCIure,
named in his will, on record in Cumberland
county, as his son-in-law and one of his ex-
ecutors, probably a son of John McCIure
and Janet jMcKnight, who li\-ed near Letort
Spring. He removed to Pittsburg, and the
family is a prominent one in western Penn-
syhania. (2) \\ 'alter, the eldest son. 1)_\- the
will of his lather, according to the custom of
the day, inherited the "place," one half at
the decease of his father, the other half at the
decease of his mother. He commanded a
company, and was killed at the Ijattle of
Crooked Billet, in Bucks county, in May,
1778, and liis eldest son, Walter, was capt-
iu"ed at the same time, and kept for three
months on a Jersey prison-ship. His wife,
Mary, received a pension from the State of
Pennsylvania, through the commissioners
of Cumberland county. His sons Daniel
and John lived and died at the old home-
stead, south of Carlisle. William married
a Miss Crain, and settled in Crawford coun-
ty, Pa. ; David was graduated at Dickinson
College in 1788, and also studied divinity
under its distinguished "principal,"' Dr. Nis-
bet. He was licensed by the Carlisle Pres-
bytery in 1792, and remained a member of
it for thirty-eight years. He married Mar-
garet, eldest daughter of William Lyon, a
very prominent citizen of Carlisle, Pa., and
died in 1845, aged seventy-eight years.
They had seven sons and three daughters
who lived to adult age, of whom Daniel, a
lawyer, and graduate of Dickinson College,
removed to Natchez, Miss. ; John F. prac-
ticed law at Chambersburg ; Ann married
Hon. Nathaniel Ewing, of Uniontown, Pa. ;
Alice and ]Margaretta lived unmarried at
the old home in Chambersburg. Mary
Denny, daughter of Walter, son of William,
married Searight Ramsey and lived and died
in Carlisle, without issue.
(3) William Denny, father of the subject
of this sketch, born in Chester county, was
brought to Cumberland county in 1745. As
}-ounger son he was left, by his father's will,
£jo, a horse, and the cost of his schooling
and learning a trade, to be paid out of the
estate. He became cjuite a skilled cabinet-
maker and carpenter, and was the contractor
for the court house built in 1765, which
served until destroyed by fire in 1845. ^^
married Agnes Parker, born in 1741, eldest
daughter of John Parker, son of Richard
and Janet Parker, immigrants from Ulster,
Ireland, in 1725. He appears as a citizen
of Carlisle in the tax-list of 1762, and on
Armstrong's plot of Carlisle, of 1763, as the
owner of Lot No. 29, on West Main street,
on which he resided in a substantial log
cabin, which only gave way to a more mod-
ern building in 1894, and was at that time
one of the best authenticated old land-marks
of Carlisle. It was presented, together with
the lot, to Dickinson College, by Miss Ma-
tilda Denny, granddaughter of Ebenezer
Denny, and the proceeds from sale of it were
used in the erection of Denny IMemorial
Hall. In the days of pack mules it was a
prominent public house, and depot of sup-
plies in the trade with Pittsburg. In it t\-ere
born his nine children, the eldest being Eben-
ezer, the subject of this sketch. William
Denny was coroner of Cumberland county,
which then included a great part of the west-
ern portion of the State, by commission
from John Penn, 1769, and as such re-ex-
amined the important case of James Smith,
pronounced at an inquest in Bedford guilty
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of willful murder, and after three days the
jury found it impossible for him to have
committed the crime. [Loudon's Narratives
(Indian \\'ars). Vol. I, p. 256.] Reappears
as called out with the militia in 1778, and in
1780 was assistant commissary of supplies.
He died about 1800, and is buried in the old
, cemetery in Carlisle.
Major Ebenezer Denny, the son, was
born in Carlisle March 11, 1761. Although
a lad of only fifteen at the opening of the
Revolution he was employed as bearer of
important tlispatches to Fort Pitt, crossing
the Alleghenies alone, lying out at night,
chased by Indians. He is described at the
time as a "slender, fair, blue-eyed, red-
haired boy." He also assisted his father in
the store in Carlisle. Later he shipped as
a volunteer, on a vessel of marque and repri-
sal which made a daring cruise in the West
Indies, in which the intrepidity and trust-
worthiness of the youth led to his promotion
to the command of the quarter-deck. After
a short stay at his home in Carlisle, although
discouraged by his family, he shipped again,
this time as supercargo. Having invested
the proceeds of this venture in flour and
whiskey for the Philadelphia market, just
after crossing the Susquehanna he was of-
fered a commission as ensign, which he
promptly accepted, disposed of his goods,
and \\-as attached to the command of Lieut.
Col. William Butler, rendezvoused at Car-
lisle, and transferred to York in May, 1781,
in the 7th Pennsylvania Regiment, incorpo-
rated with the 4th. His journal, begun at
this time, and continued with varied inter-
missions through the Revolutionary and
subsecjuent Indian wars, until 1795, is not
only highly interesting, but filled with val-
uable information. It has been published
by the Pennsylvania Historical Society.
.\fter the forced marches and sharp fight-
ing under Gen. \\'ayne, in Virginia, he took
part in the siege and capture of Yorktown,
and was in the advanced attack on the Brit-
ish redoubts, and was designated by Col.
Richard Butler to plant the colors on the
rampart, after the surrender, but Baron
Steuben dismounted, took them from his
hand, and planted them himself, a procedure
that only the efforts of Washington and
LaFayette prevented from leading to a hos-
tile meeting between Col. Butler and the
Baron. After Yorktown he served under
St. Clair in the Carolinas, and in the subse-
quent Indian wars was adjutant to Gen.
Harmar, and aide-de-camp to Gen. St. Clair.
He was present at the disastrous defeat of
the latter, Nov. 4, 1791, and delivered the
news, in person, by express to President
Washington, in Philadelphia, who was very
much affected by it, and is said to have
broken out into a violent passion. Shortly
after, Major Denny resigned his commis-
sion, and July i, 1793, married Nancy Wil-
kins, who was born in Carlisle, youngest
daughter of John Wilkins, Sr., a noted busi-
ness man of Carlisle, who removed to Pitts-
burg, in 1783, to engage in business. Col.
E. Blaine being his partner. He had been
a captain in the Continental service, partici-
pating in the battles of Brandywine and
Germantown, was a member of the conven-
tion of 1776, and afterward one of the
associate judges of Allegheny county, chief
burgess of Pittsburg, treasurer of as many
as nine counties at one time, member of the
Supreme Executive Council, etc. He had
twenty children, and many of his descend-
ants are of national prominence as well as in
the western part of his State, among them
his son John, in the Surgeon's Department ;
his grandson, William Wilkins, judge of
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
United States District Court, United States
Senator. Minister to Russia, Secretary of
\\'ar, etc.
In 1794 Alajor Denny was appointed
cliief in command of tlie expedition to Le
Beuf, and in the war of 181 2 was commis-
sary of purchases. He was a commissioner
of Allegheny county, and its first treasurer,
and also first mayor of Pittsburg. He was
equallv pronfinent in many business enter-
prises, one of the pioneers in the manufact-
ure of glass, director in a branch of the Bank
of Pennsylvania, and of the Bank of the
United States. He was a large holder of
real estate in the vicinity of Pittsburg, which
acquired great value subsequently as part
of the city. The death of his wife, JNIay i,
1806, affected him greatly. He died at
Pittsburg, after a brief illness, July 21,
1822. His descendants are prominent and
influential in Pittsburg, Pa. Of his chil-
dren, (i) Harmar, born May 13. 1794.
named after his intimate and dear friend,
Gen. Harmar, was graduated at Dickinson
College in 1813, was a prominent lawyer
and politician, a member of the Legislature,
member of Congress, 1829- 1837, member
of the Constitutional Convention, 1838. He
married Elizabeth O'Hara, daughter of Gen.
O'Hara. of Pittsburg. They had eleven
children. (2) ^^■illiam H. became a physi-
cian. (3) St. Clair became a major in the
United States Army. (4) Agnes (Nancy)
married Edward Harding of the United
States Army.
MORRIS WATSON PRINCE, S. T.
D.. has been connected with Dickinson Col-
lege, Carlisle, since 1896, as Professor of
History and Political Science.
Dr. Prince comes from old Colonial and
Revolutionary New England stock, and the
family has been represented in every war
in which this countrv has been engaged from
the French and Indian to the Spanish-Amer-
ican. The first ancestor of whom there is
record was John Prince, of Abbey Foregate,
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, to whom
Queen Elizalieth, by her Garter King at
Arms, granted the coat of arms still borne
by the Prince family in England.
The first of the family to come to this
country was John Prince, the .son of the
rector of East Stafford, Berkshire, and he
came to escape the persecutions of Arch-
bishop Laud, emigrating to America in
1633. His son, Thomas, was born in Hull
in 1658, and in 1685 married Ruth, daughter
of John Turner, and great-granddaughter
of Elder William Brewster, who came to
America in the "Mayflower," landing Dec.
20, 1620. Sewell Prince, grandfather of
Morris W., was in the battle of Lake Cham-
plain on the Flagship "Champlain," with
McDonough.
Ammi C. Prince, father of Dr. Prince,
was born in Portland, Maine, July 16, 1818,
and died Dec. 7, 1894. in Warren, ]\Iaine.
He entered the ministry of the ^Methodist
Episcopal Church when about thirty years of
age, giving up a prosperous business, but he
felt that duty' called him. He was an able
preacher, and for forty years prominent and
influential m the councils of the church. He
was Presiding Elder for eight years, serving
a term of four years each on the Rockland
and Bangor districts. Maine. He was rec-
ognized as one of the strongest minds in
his church, and was a member of se\-eral
General Conferences. He married Miss Jane
Davis, of Kennebunk Port, ]\Iaine, who was
also of Revolutionary stock.
Morris Watson Prince was born at East
Boothbay, Maine, and received his educa-
tion at Bucksport, that State, and in the
Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn.
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In 1 8/ 1 he entered the ministry of the M.
E. Church, his first parish l^eing at Plym-
outh, N. H., and he subsequently served
pastorates at Concord, N. H., Dover, N. H.,
Haverhill, Mass., until he became president
of Bucksport (Maine) Seminary. After
three years in this incumbency he returned
to the active work of the ministry, and was
stationed at Stamford, Conn., Brooklyn, N.
Y., Meriden, Conn., again at Stamford, at
Bristol, Conn., and Trinity Church, New
Haven, Conn. During these years he re-
peatedly declined the Presidency of Educa-
tional Institutions, but in 1896 accepted an
election to the Chair of Political Science in
Dickinson College. He has won deserved
recognition as an educator, preacher and
lecturer, having frequently taken the lecture
platform, though he has never allowed such
work to interfere with his regular duties.
Dr. Prince is a member of several historical,
scientific .-uid literary societies, and is a
Knight Templar Mason. In politics, he
thinks and acts independently.
Dr. Prince married Miss Katherine
Buck, of Bucksport, Maine, which town her
family founded. Mrs. Prince also has Rev-
olutionary ancestors. Two children have
blessed this union : Leon C, who is Profes-
sor of history and International Law in
Dickinson College; and Edith, who is at
home with her parents.
Dr. Prince has written quite a number of
pamphlets on different topics, principally ad-
dresses, lectures, etc., along church lines,
which he has published. He has also done
considerable in assisting in the compilation
of various works, notable among which
might be mentioned "Simpson's Encyclo-
pedia of Methodism," etc. He has made two
trips abroad, the first, in 1885, purely for
pleasure, covering most of Europe. Again
in 1903 he and his wife traveled extensively
through the British Islands and on the con-
tinent of Europe, he at the same time making
considerable research along scientific lines.
He has traveled over the greater portion of
the L^nited States and Canada.
PROF. HENRY MATTHEW STE-
PHENS, A. M., B. S., Professor of Biology
at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Cumberland
county, has been connected with that insti-
tution as one of the instructors since 1892.
He has filled his present chair since 1899.
Mr. Stephens comes of a race which has
given Pennsylvania many of her best citi-
zens, being- a great-great-grandson of Rev.
jMatthew Stephens, a Presbyterian min-
ister, and Scotch native of the North
of Ireland, who came to America at
an early day and made his home in
Huntingdon county. Pa., where he passed
the remainder of his life. William
Stephens, son of the emigrant, was born in
Huntingdon county, and he and his wife
Hannah had a son Matthew, the Professor's
grandfather, who was likewise born in Hun-
tingdon county. He married Ann Gilliland,
of that county, whose mother was an Alex-
ander. Matthew Stephens died at the age of
ninety years, in 1893, at Neosho, Missouri.
William Alexander Stephens, D. D.,
father of Henry Matthew, was born on a
farm in Huntingdon county. Pa., in 1835,
and was reared at the place of his birth. He
received his early education in the district
schools, prepared for college in Bedford
county. Pa., and entered Dickinson College
in 1859. At the outbreak of the Ci\'il war he
left college to enter the Union service, being
a member for a time of a regiment of Penn-
sylvania volunteers. At the close of his
term of enlistment he commenced to read
law in the office of John Scott, of Hunting-
don, who was afterward attorney for the
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Pennsylvania Railroad, ami in due time he
was admitted to the Bar in Huntingdon
county. Going West to the State of Mis-
souri, he located at Neosho for practice, but
after a few years decided to enter the min-
istry of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and ci'>mpleted his preparation within a short
time. His first pastorate was at Carthage,
Mo., and he also served charges at Sedalia
and Butler, in that State. Then he was
transferred to Ennisville, Pa., in his native
county, and he subsequently was located
at various places in Pennsylvania — Jersey
Shore, Renovo, Shamokin, Clearfield, and
Bellefonte. For a term of six years he was
presiding elder of the Williamsport district.
Dr. Stephens was married, in Huntingdon,
to Miss Letitia M. Africa, daughter of Jacob
and Elizabeth (Zlimmerman) Africa, and
they are the parents of two children, Henry
Matthew and Walter C, the latter a resident
of Clearfield, Pennsylvania.
Henry Matthew Stephens was born Jan.
4, 1868, in Neosho, Mo., and came East with
the family in 1877 to Ennisville, Pa. His
preliminary training was obtained in the
public schools of the various places in which
his father was located, at the high school of
Renovo, and at Dickinson Seminary, Wil-
liamsport, Pa., from which latter institution
he graduated in 1888. Then he entered
Dickinson College, whence he graduated in
1892, and the same year he commenced his
professional work, being elected as instruc-
tor in physiology and hygiene in his Alma
Mater. He continued as such until 1895, in
which year he was made adjunct professor
in that branch, which position he filled until
1897, when he was made adjunct professor
of biology. In 1899 he became professor of
biology, and has continued to fill that chair
to the present time, having proved an ac-
ceptable addition to the Faculty. His studies
did not cease after graduation. In 1894 he
went to Leipsic, Germany, to further his
knowledge in the line of his specialties, was
subsequently a student at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Boston, and in
1897, 1898 and 1899 studied at the Marine
Biological Laljoratory at Cold Spring Har-
lx)r, on Long Island. Thus it will be seen
that he had a thorough and elaborate prepar-
ation for the work he has undertaken, and
that he has a gift for teaching is proved by
his success with the pupils who have come
under his care.
Prof. Stephens was married in Carlisle,
in 1900, to Miss Elizabeth Young Stuart, of
that city, daughter of William P. and Eliza-
beth Graham (Young) Stuart, the former
of whom is deceased. One child has come
of this union, William Stuart, born Jan. 24,
1904. The Professor and his wife attend
the M. E. Church, and fraternally he is con-
nected widi the Phi Delta Theta and the Phi
Beta Kappa, the latter being an honor fra-
ternity. In politics, he is independent, act-
ing as his conscience and principles dictate.
DR. EDMOND ERNEST CAAIP-
BELL, President of Irving College, an edu-
cator of Pennsylvania well known in many
States of the Union, was born Jan. 21, 1859,
at W'aynesboro,Pa..son of Rev. John Francis
Campbell, D. D.. for many years prominent
in the Lutheran ministry through Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland and \'irginia. The grand-
father of Dr. Campbell, Blackford Camp-
bell, was born in ?^Iaryland, where English
founders of the family settled in early days.
Rev. John Francis Campljell, D. D., was
born in 1810 and died in 1893. He was sur-
vived by his widow, who resided at Capon
Road, Va. She was fcirmerly ]\Iartha Cath-
erine Gatewood and was born at Newtown,
Va. The nine children born to them were as
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follows- Lucy W., wife of Albert Ash, of
Front Rwal, \'a. ; Rev.. \\\ G., of Wood-
stock. V-a. ; E. L., now om the old home farm
at Capo-Bi Roaa, A^a. ; J. F., of Orleans Cross
Roads, W. Va.; Eva, of 'Stras"burg, Va.; Dr.
Edmond Ernest, of this sketch ; Emma and
Annie E, 'bdth decease<1 ; and James H., a
merchanl at Cajaon Road. Va. Mrs. Martha
C. Canrpibell died Eeb. ay, 1904.
Dr. Campbell was 'eight years of age
\vhen his ipareitte removeil to tlie Sbenandoah
\'alley, Va..'his father, in 1S67. being elected
■ to the Linrfheran ChnrcTi at Strasburg, Va.
'This was verygratifyiiTg to liis mother, as it
itook her teck 'to lier girlhood home. The
-youth early exhibited mirrlced ability, and his
'Education was carefuTly attended to, first in
'excellent pTi-\-ate ■schools, -and later at Roan-
oke College, Salan, Va., which he entered
in 1875. In 1879 he -was graduated at this
not*:! institution with tlie degree of A. B.,
his father recei\ing the degree of D. D.
'from the same institution on the same day.
©r. Campbell then began teaching', filling
rpositiwns in graded and select schools contin-
aioush' until 1882, when he Avas elected a
Trkemlier of the FacultA' of the Hagerstown
!F«male Seminary, filling the chair of Latin
and IMerdtal Science. The name of this edu-
cational institution has been changed to Kee
^lar College. Dr. Campbell remained as-
sociated with it until 188S, when he was
elected to a chair in tlie Staunton Female
Seminary. Staunton, Va. In 1890 Dr.
Campbell was called to become the principal
of the educatiorial department of Tressler
Orphans' Home, at I,oysville, Pa., which was
followed in July. 1891, by his election as
president of Irving College.
Irving College was founded by the late
Solomon P. Gorgas. who through life was
liberal in his support of it. It was named in
honor of ^Vashington Irving, the father of
a
American literature, who showed his ap-
preciation of the honor by donating a com-
plete set of his works and by serving as a
trustee until his death. In 1856 Irving Hall
was built; in 1893, since Dr. Campbell be-
came president, Columbian Hall was erected,
and in 1900 the beautiful Art Studio and
Annex were completed. This does not in-
clude all the improvements which have taken
place under the wise, careful and economical
management of Dr. Campbell, additions hav-
ing been made to the music and dining halls
and general repairs on every hand which
have added to the attractiveness of an in-
stitution which was originally located among
beautiful surroundings. In the heart of tlie
Cumberland Valley, it is easily accessible by
means of the Cumberland Valley railroad
or the Harrisburg and Mechanicsburg trol-
ley. The College offers instruction in four
departments, viz. : Collegiate, Music, Art
and Elocution. Since Dr. Campbell has had
charge the annual enrollment has been con-
tinually increasing and at present there are
in attendance some 150 young ladies from
ten different States of the Union.
That Dr. Campbell should have shown
himself eminently fitted for the work in
which he has met with such success is not so
remarkable when we look back over an edu-
cated, scholarly ancestry. He is a direct de-
scendant of Rev. John Campbell, D. D., who
was distinguished during the earlv days of
the settlement of the Cumberland Vallev. as
the inspirer of religious enthusiasm and the
valued and beloved rector of the First Episco-.
pal Churches at Carlisle and York. From
his father, also, Dr. Campbell inherited
mental qualities and sterling attributes \\hich
have, in a measure, contributed to his
success.
Dr. Campbell was married (first) to Ag-
nes Zufall, daughter of W. H. Zufall. of
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Meyersclale, Pa. She died Feb. 23, 1896,
leaving four children, namely: Annie C.,
Emma X., Clara E. and William E.
On Dec. 21. 1897, Dr. Campbell was
married (second) to INIiss Grace Koser,
daughter of Rev. D. T. Koser. of Arendts-
ville. Pa., and three children have been liorn
to this union, Paul, Josephine and John
Francis.
In politics Dr. Campljell has always been
a consistent Democrat. He is a popular and
esteemed citizen. He is a memlier of the
Lutheran Church.
CAPT. WILLIA^I E. DULLER. One
of the best known and most highly esteemed
citizens of Carlisle is the practical, unassum-
ing individual whose name introduces this
biographical sketch. He is of German an-
cestry, both paternally and maternally.
Christian Miller, his paternal great-
great-great-grandfather, with his wife,
Anna Margaret, and children, Andrew,
Anlis and Anna Barbara, came from Ger-
many in 1 730, landing at Philadelphia from
the ship "Joyce" on the 30th of November
of that year. Christian Miller's son Andrew
became one of the pioneers of the part of
Lancaster county that has since been erected
int() Lelianon. receiving a warrant for land
within its bounds as early as 1743. He bore
his full share of the hardships and dangers
of his adopted land, and it is upon record
that during the French and Lidian wars he
was a lieutenant in Capt. Matthew Dill's
Company, of Col. Benjamin Cliambers'
Regiment. On Xov. 5, 1738. he married
Margaret Funk, who bore him the following
children : Aliraham, Jacol). Andrew and
Christina. He died in 1754, and his widow
afterward married Christian Burkholder.
Aliraham ^liller. the eldest son of An-
drew and Margaret ( Funk) Miller, came
into possession of the greater portion of his
father's real estate and in 1762 laid out
upon it the town now known as Annville, sit-
uated six miles west from the city of Leb-
anon. Formerly the place for many years
was known by the name of Millerstown.
Abraham INliller married Reliecca, daughter
of John Philip and Elizabeth Eprecht, of
Harrisburg, and about the year i y/y moved
from Lancaster countv to the lianks of the
Yellow Breeches, a short disUmce from Lis-
burn, in Cumberland county. He died in
1805, and his remains are interred upon the
top of a high hill on the farm on which he
lived. Abraham and Rebecca (Eprecht)
Miller had the following children : Joseph,
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Andrew, John,
Philip and Rebecca.
Abraham Miller, the second son of Abra-
ham and Rebecca Miller, married Catharine,
a daughter of Frederick Boyer, a Revolu-
tionary soldier, son of Joseph and ^lary
Boyer of York county. His first wife died
without issue, and he afterward married
Elizabeth Boyer, a sister of liis first wife.
This second Abraham Miller lived for most
of his lifetime on the Yellow Breeches creek
near the place where his father settled in
1777. By occupation he was a fuller, and he
operated a fulling-mill which Abraham
Miller, his father, built in that vicinity and
which is still ( 1904) in existence. Later in
life he moved from the Yellow Breeches to
Mechanicsburg, where he began merchan-
dising, and from Mechanicsburg he removed
to Abbottstown, Adams c(iunty, where he
continued in the mercantile business until
his death. Abraham and Elizabeth ( Boyer)
Miller had children as follows : Joseph, An-
drew G., Martin, John, Eliza, Catharine
and Dainel.
Andrew G. Miller, the second son of
Abraham and Elizabeth (Boyer) IMiller,
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was boni at the aforenamed fulling'-mill. in
Allen (now Lower Allen) township, on
June 7, 181 1. Like his father and grand-
father before him he became a fuller, starting
to learn the trade with his partner, and com-
pleting it with his cousin. Edward Millei,
who had a fulling-mill at Roseburg, near
Ickesburg, Perry county. Edward Miller
was a son of John Miller. He was married
to Polly Umberger, a daughter of David
and Dorothy (Maish) Umberger. who lived
in York county, a short distance east of Lis-
burn. Through living in the family of his
cousin Edward. Andrew G. Miller became
acquainted with Eleanor Umberger, a sister
of his cousin's wife, which acquaintance
ripened into love, and they became man and
wife. The Umbergers were also of German
origin. David Umberger, the father of
Polly and Eleanor, was a son of Adam and
Mary Gertrude (Vernon) Umberger, and a
grandson of Michael and Anna Maria
(Rambler) Umberger, and Michael Um-
berger was a son of Henry Umberger, who
was born in Germany in 1688. and landed
at Philadelphia from the ship "Hope" on
Aug. 28, 1733. An early Lancaster county
church record contains the information that
Michael Umberger was married to Anna
Maria Rambler, of Tulpehocken, on Oct.
18, 1784, at the hands of the Rev. John
Casper Stoever.
After his marriage Andrew G. Miller
started in the fulling business on his own
account, renting a fulling-mill which then
stood on the banks of the Conedoguinet
creek, near what is now known as Burgner's
Mill, in West Pennsboro township. He con-
tinued in die fulling business one year and
then he and a man named Jonathan Roberts
bought out a general store at West Hill,
which they jointly conducted for two years.
At the end of that time he sold his interest
in this mercantile venture and bought a
hotel and store at Centerville. m Penn town-
ship. Here he was in business until 1840,
when he bought from George Martin the
store property at the "Stone House," in
Dickinson township, where he conducted a
flourishing mercantile business until the
spring of 1848, when he again made a
change. Returning to Centerville he there
bought a property which included a farm,
hotel, store and blacksmith shop, and there
farmed, kept store and gave much attention
to general business for about eight years.
Along about 1850 he met with an
alfliction that cost him the loss of
one of his limbs. When making fires
he would break sticks for kindling
across his knee and in doing this inflicted
in injury which never healed, and finally
amputation had to be resorted to in order
to save his life. After a stay of about seven
years in Centerville he sold out his interests
there and bought a farm lying along the
Yellow Breeches creek^ in the same town-
ship. The loss of one of his limbs did not
seriously impair Andrew G. Miller's busi-
ness energ}'. As soon as he had recovered
from the effects of the amputation he re-
sumed his characteristic enterprise, and
reaching out beyond the limits of his imme-
diate neighborhood became one of the lead-
ing spirits in the organization of the Farmers
& Mechanics Bank at Shippensburg. Be-
coming first cashier and afterward president
of this institution, he removed to the town
of Shippensburg, where he resided till his
death. He was a potential factor in politics
as well as in the business field, and in 1868
was elected State senator from the district
then composed of Cumberland and York
counties. In religion he affiliated with the
Presbyterian Church. He died Feb. 14,
1880. His wife died Feb. 2, 1896, at Car-
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lisle, and their remains are buried in Spring
Hill cemetery, at Shippensburg.
Andrew G. and Eleanor (Umberger)
Miller had children as folohvs : William
Edward, Mary Elizabeth, John Roberts,
Sarah Eleanor, Henrietta M. and Andrew
George. Mary Elizabeth died Feb. i6,
1839. in infancy; John R. is an attorney-at-
law and was formerly burgess of Carlisle;
Sarah Eleanor married Henry Lee Snyder,
of the U. S. Navy: Henrietta M. married
George Bridges, and Andrew George is an
attorney-at-law, and formerly was District
Attorney of Cumberland county (he married
Jennie Kennedy, who a few years after their
marriage died without issue).
William Edward Miller, the eldest child
of Andrew G. and Eleanor (Umberger)
Miller, and the special subject of this sketch,
was born at West Hill, Cumberland county,
Feb. 5, 1836. Until the breaking out of the
Civil war he remained at home, receiving
such education as the district schools then
afforded and working upon the farm.
Through the stress of circumstances it early
fell to his lot to direct the farming operations
for his father, which in\'oI\cd much hard
work and careful, economical management,
but gave him a discipline which he turned
to good account in after life. At the begm-
ning of the war he enlisted, becoming a pri-
vate in Company H, 3d Pennsylvania Cav-
alry, and at the organization of the company
was made its second lieutenant. His mili-
tary career from start to finish was a hard
and dangerous one. In the winter of 1861-
62 his regiment was stationed at Camp
Marcy, Va., where it underwent a rigid
course of training conducted by Col. W. W.
Averill, a graduate of West Point Military
Academy. When the celebrated peninsular
campaign began in the following spring it
was sent to Yorktown, where it received its
baptism of fire, and then was kept well in
front as the army advanced. After the evac-
uation of the defences at Yorktown it fol-
lowed hard on the heels of the Confederates
until they were driven behind Fort Ma-
gruder, at Williamsburg, and when driven
from tliat position followed tliem in hot pur-
suit beyond the Chickahominy. During the
period of preparation for the capture of
Richmond Lieut. Miller was detailed to
hunt out and make maps of the roads which
led to the James river, and in this his duty at
times led him as much as twenty miles into
the enemy's country, which fact is a matter
of record in "Battles and Leaders of the
Civil War," Volume H, page 431. While
on the peninsular campaign he met the Count
de Paris and a friendship sprang up between
the two which lasted until the death of that
distinguished French soldier and author.
At Antietam. on Sept. 16, 1862, Lieut.
Miller's regiment led Gen. Hooker's advance
across Antietam creek, and as a detail Com-
pany H, under his command, drew the first
fire of the eneni}' in that famous and bloody
battle. For this daring action he was after-
ward promoted to the captaincy of his com-
pany over all the first lieutenants in the regi-
ment. His regiment was one of the most
active in the Army of the Potomac, and in
the campaigns of 1863 took conspicuous
part in the battles of Brandy Station, Aldie,
Middleburg, Upperville, Hay Market and
Gettysburg. At Gettysburg Capt. }vliller
was in command of a squadron of four com-
panies and won proud distinction by making
a timely cliarge and breaking the flank oi
Wade Hampton and Fitzhugh Lee's com-
mands, in their attempt to turn the extreme
right of the Union Army. The charge was
made in violation of orders, !nit the supreme
importance of making it and the Ijrilliancy
of its execution were recognized 1jv the
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government in awarding him a medal of
honor. The Secretary of War. in forward-
ing this medal, wrote :
At Gettysburg, July 3, 1S63, this officer, then
Captain, 3d Pennsylvania Cavalry, and command-
ing a squadron of four troops of his regiment, seeing
an opportunity to strike in flank an attacking col-
umn of the enemy's cavalry that was then being
charged in front, exceeded his own instructions and
without orders led a charge of his squadron upon
the flank of the enemy, checked his attack and cut
oflf and dispersed the rear of his' column.
The reverse side of the medal bears the
following inscription :
The Congress to Captain W. E. Miller. Com-
pany H, 3d Pennsylvania Cavalry, for Gallantry at
■Gettysburg, July 3d, 1863.
This extraordinary action attracted the
attention of military authorities of this and
other countries, and Arthur L. Wagner, U.
S. A., in his work on "Organization and
Tactics," pages 187 and 222, refers to it as
follows : "At Balaklava a heavy force of
Russian Cavalry ad\'ancing to attack the
British Heavy Brigade, deliberately slack-
ened its pace before contact and received a
counter charge at a halt. In this action the
flank of the Russian Cavalry was exposed
to the Light Brigade, whose commander.
Lord Cardigan, failed to avail himself of the
opportunity thus presented because his
orders did not contemplate such action ; but
he afterwards engaged in a heroic but sense-
less charge on the Russian batteries, which
furnished a theme for .poets but not a model
for a cavalry general. In the great cavalry
battle at Gettysburg, Captain Miller, of the
3d Pennsylvania Cavalry, seeing an oppor-
tunity to strike Wade Hampton's column in
flank as it was charged in front by Custer,
turned to his lieutenant with the remark :
"I have been ordered to hold this position,
but, if you will back me in case I am court-
martialed for disobedience, I will order a
charge." The charge was opportune and
effective and no mention of a court martial
was ever made. Miller's conduct on this
occasion is in striking contrast with that of
Cardigan at Balaklava."
After the war closed Capt. Miller en-
gaged in the hardware business in Carlisle
and continued at that until 1898, in which
year he was elected to the Pennsylvania
State Senate from the district composed of
Cumberland and Adams counties. He is of
a retiring disposition, but firm in his convic-
tions and purposes. Some estimate of the
man can be found in the remarks made by
his old commander. Gen. D. McM. Gregg,
at the dedication of the cavalry shaft at
Gettysburg, on Oct. 15, 1884: "Of course
everybody expects to hear from Capt. Miller,
whose name is so inseparably and honorably
connected with our shaft. Possibly, having
built so well on the very ground on which
he fought so well, he will try to escape talk-
ing, which he can do well also. How point-
edly he can write you can all attest.''
Capt. Miller has long been conspicuous
in his native county as a Democrat and a
party worker. He served twice as chairman
of the Democratic county committee, once
in 1877, when the Democratic State ticket
was given over one thousand majority, and
again in 1888, when Cleveland was given
a majority of 696 over Harrison. In 1878
he was a member of the Democratic State
Central Committee. In municipal affairs he
has always borne a conspictious part. He
was twice elected chief burgess of Carlisle,
first in 1882 and again in 1883, antl was a
member of the Carlisle board of health for
about twelve years, and president of that
body for four years. In 1898, after much
importuning from members of both political
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parties, he consented to stand as a candidate
for the State Senate and was easily nominat-
ed and also easily elected. As a legislator he
was assiduous and attentive to the interests
of his constituents, and discharged the entire
roll of his duties with conscientious fidelity.
His term included the famous session that
was dead-lockeil upon the election of United
States senator, and he was present and voted
upon all the ballots that were held. He also
had the honor of being his party's nominee
for president pro tem of the Senate. In
Girand Army circles he has always been
acti\'e and prominent and was the first Com-
mander of Capt. Colwell Post, No. 201. He
is a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States, and
while he has filled various positions of
honor and responsiliility he has ne\-er aspired
to any of the places which he has filled.
He is secretary of the Carlisle Board of
Trade and gives much of his time and labor
to the promotion of the industrial welfare of
the town. Since relinquishing the hardware
business he has turned his attention to writ-
ing fire insurance, in which he hi-; succeeded
in building up a very satisfactory line.
Capt. William E. Miller has been twice
married. His first wife was Elizabeth Ann
Hocker, daughter of John and Elizabeth
(Henry) Hocker, of Hockersville, Penn
township. Mrs. Miller died Sept. 8, 1859,
at the age of twenty-three years, leaving two
daughters, named respectively Carrie Olivia
Rankin and Elizabeth. Elizabeth died in
April, 1862. Carrie grew to womanhood
and married George K. McCormick. by
whom she has three children, ^^'illianl, Anna
and George K. Mr. McCormick is a civil
engineer and at present is located at Knox-
ville, Tennessee.
On June 25, 1868, Capt. ^filler married
for his second wife Anna DePui Bush,
daughter of J. S. Bush, of Tioga, Tioga
Co.. Pa., who tiled Aug. 4. 1894, leaving no
issue. Both wi\"es were intelligent, cultured,
amiable ladies and the loss of each was a sore
bereavement. }ilrs. Anna DePui (Bush)
Miller was :^ writer of ackno\A-ledged ability,
a contriljutor to literary periodicals and
author of a book entitled "WIio and \Miat."
Such is the record of Capt. ^^'illiam E.
Miller, a worthy citizen and a gallant soldier.
HENRY CLAY WHITING was for
over twenty years prior to his death, which
occurred Feb. i, 1901, connected with Dick-
inson College, at Carlisle, as a member of
the Faculty, and he occupied a high position
in the educational circles of the community.
]Mr. Whiting was born March 27, 1845.
in SiJeedsville, N. Y., and comes of a family
which has long been settled in America, and
which is descended from three brothei s who
came from England. His grandfather,
Samuel Whiting, was a blacksmith and car-
riage builder by occupation, and his father,
Samuel Whiting, was also a blacksmith by
trade. The latter was a native of Connecti-
cut, and settled in Speedsville, N. Y., where
he died. He was twice married, his first
wife being Mary Keeney. by whom he had
two children, Henry Clay and Josephine
(Mrs. David Smith), both now deceased.
For his second wife he married Cai-oline
Ford, who survives him, and to this union
were born six children, namely: Percy,
Frank (deceased). Randolph, Romeo,
Charles and Cora.
Henry Clay \\'hiting attended the com-
mon schools in his \'i;)uth, was prepared for
college at Ithaca, N. Y., and took a clas-
sical course at Union College, Schenectady,
N. Y., after which he entered upon his career
as an instructor. He accepted a position as
teacher in the Drew Theological Seminary
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at Madison, N. J., where he also studied for
the ministry, and he was ordained, but never
took a charge, continuing to teach all his
life. From Drew he went to Hackettstown,
N. J., and taught in the semmary there for
four years. His next experience was as vice-
principal of Pennington Seminary, at Pen-
nington, N. J-. and in the fall of 1879 he
came to Carlisle, Pa., to become professor of
Latin in Dickinson College. He remained
in that incumbency until the close of his life,
practically, although he was out on a year's
leave of absence when he died, suddenly of
heart disease, on Feb. i, 190 1. Mr. Whiting
was a gentleman of the highest standing, in-
tellectually and socially; and was greatly es-
teemed among the circle of his friends and
acquaintances in Carlisle. He was long a
prominent member of the First ^I. E.
Church of that city, and served at one time as
trustee and Sunday School superintendent.
In politics, he was a strong Republican, and
fraternally, be was associated with the F. &
A. M.
Mr. Whiting w'as married, in Schenec-
tady, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1867, to Miss Mary L.
Freeman, who was born June 16, 1847. i"
Schenectady, daughter of Jonathan R. and
Leonora (Terrell) Freeman. Her parents
were both natives of Connecticut, the father
born in Mansfield, and he settled in Schenec-
tady, N. Y., after his marriage, conducting
a mercantile business there for many years.
Six children came to Mr. and Mrs. Wliiting,
viz : ( I ) Henry F. graduated from Dickin-
son College in the class of 1889, and is now
engaged as an instructor in tliat institution.
He married Miss Grace Derland, and they
have had three children, Lawrence D., Rus-
sell F. and Gerald. (2) Leonora M., is un-
married, and is engaged in teaching. (3)
Earle F., died when he was two years old.
(4) Miss Helen is a teacher in Dowingtown,
Pa. (5) Mabel is deceased. (6) Paul is
now a student in Dickinson College. ]\Irs.
\\'hiting and the family still make their home
in Carlisle, and are among the most highly
respected residents of that city.
WILLLAM BARXITZ, for many years
president of the Farmers' Bank, now the
Farmers' Trust Company, of Carlisle, is of
old Pennsylvania-German stock. The name
is frequently spelled Bernitz in the records.
His great-grandfather, John George Karl
Barnitz, was born in Alsace, in the Hessian
Palatinate, in 1722, and came to America,
by way of Baltimore, about the year 1740,
settling in York county : he died in York
according to the record in the Lutheran
church yard in that city, Dec. 14, 1796.
z-\ccording to the records of the same church,
he was married to his wife, Anna Barbara^
Nov. II, 1750; she is also mantionea in his
will, together with their chilaren, Charles,
John, Michael, George, Daniel, Jacob. Su-
sanna and Barbara.
Daniel Barnitz, the grandfather of Wil-
liam Baniitz, was born in 1755. He served
in Capt. Rudolph Spangler's Company of
Associators in 1776. He married Susanna
Eichelberger. After his marriage Daniel
Barnitz resided in Hanover, Heidelberg
township, engaged in various occupations,
tavernkeeper, brewer, farmer, etc.. and died
there in 1827.
Martin Eichelberger, father of Mrs. Su-
sanna (Eichelberger) Barnitz, was the
oldest son of Philip Fredrich Eichelberger,
who w^as born near Sinsheim, Baden, in
1693, and m 1714 married Anna Barbara
Dorners. They emigrated to America, by
way of Rotterdam, in 1728, landing in Phil-
adelphia, and he died at Hanover, 1776. He
had nine children, six being sons, and was
the ancestor of many influential families.
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Martin Eiclielberger was bum in Germany,
and came with his father to America. He
purchased Lot No. 120. in York, when it
was laid out in 1741. and was one of the
original members of the Lutheran Church
there. He was a very influential citizen ;
was commissioned Court Justice by George
n, and also by George HI : and subsequently
justice of the peace; and the latter also by
the convention that framed the first consti-
tution of Pennsylvania. He was one of a
committee of eighteen prominent citizens,
who joined in a communication to Benjamin
Franklin, President of the Committee of
Safety, Sept. 15, 1775. relating to the form-
ing of new battalions, choosing officers, and
SO' forth. He also filled many other positions
of trust. He died in 1781.
Jacob Barnitz, the father of William,
according to the family record, neatly kept
by Daniel, was the oldest of nine children
who lived to maturity, six being sons, and
was born in Hanover, April 6, 1777. He
married Miss Mary G. Etzler. and resided
on a farm, purchased liy him near Hanover,
until 1836, when he removed to Cumberland
county, where he had purchased a mill prop-
erty on the Yellow Breeches, in Dickinson
township, at present the .station Barnitz
on the Harrisburg & Pittsburg branch of the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. This
station is now operated by U. Grant Barnitz,
son of William. Jacob Barnitz was a man
of enterprise in his day. He was one of the
originators of the Carlisle & Hanover Turn-
pike, and was interested in education. He
died in 1863, aged eighty-six. His children
were, Henry. Charles. Eliza (married to
Michael Bucher. of Hanover), Mary (mar-
ried to Michael Carl, of near Hanover),
Jacob Elder, Daniel, Susan, William, Alex-
ander, Jane, and Augustus.
William Barnitz, the subject of this
sketch, was born near Hanover, July 29,
1817. He reccix'eil his education at Penn-
sylvania College, Gettysburg, and Dickinson'
College, being a member of the class of
1840 in the latter institution. After his-
graduation he taught school in Pennsylvania
and Delaware. Since his marriage he has
resided in Carlisle, actively engaged in vari-
ous manufacturing and Ijusiness operations.
\n 185 1 William Barnitz married Miss
Caroline Wonderlic'h, daughter of John and
Susanna (Hetrick) NVonderlich, okl settlers
of Middlesex township, Cumberland county.
Plis children, all Ijorn in Carlisle, are: John
A. H., deceased, born in 1853, graduated at
Dickinson College, 1875; Jacob Edwin is.
a prominent lawyer of Carlisle; S. Marian
was educated at the Moravian Seminary, at
Bethlehem, Pa. ; U. Grant graduated at
Dickinson College in 1888, and at present is
engageil in the merchant-milling and for-
warding business at Barnitz. and is a direc-
tor in the Farmers' Trust Company, of Car-
lisle.
William Barnitz is esteemed in the com-
munity in which he has spent the greater
part of his long and useful life as one of its
leading business men, liighly intelligent, and
always thoughtful and practical in his meth-
ods, and of unquestioned integrity. Pie was
one of the original stockholders of the
Farmers' Bank, now the Farmers' Trust
Company. ;ind for seventeen years was the
president of the original corporation. He
has always been a prominent and influential
member of the Lutheran Church in Carlisle.
WILLLAM SCOTT COYLE. The
subject of this biographical sketch is a de-
scendant of James Coyle and Eliza Carson.
James Coyle is said to have been of L"ish and
Eliza Carson of Scotch-Irish ancestry. They
were married on Jan, I, 1760, and at some
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unknown date came to America and settled
in Pennsylvania. It is not definitely known
where in Pennsylvania they located, but
there is reason to believe that in their latter
years they lived in the section that is now
included within the bounds of Franklin
county. James Coyle died Nov. 1 1 , 1 798.
James and Eliza (Carson) Coyle had a
son named David, who was born on Dec. 22,
1777, in what is now Fulton county. At one
time during- his life he lived near the vil-
lasfe of Burnt Cabins, Fulton county, luit as
early as 1808 was a resident of Tyrone town-
ship, in what is now Perry county, where he
that year was assessed \\\x\\ land and per-
sonal property. Sfibsequently he lived near
Ickesburg, in Saville township. He was a
farmer all his lifetime. David Coyle mar-
ried ]\Iartha Linn, whose parents were resi-
dents of Madison township, and bv her he
had the following children : James, Betsey,
Andrew, Martha, Ann, John, Ellen, Wil-
liam, Jane, Scott, Samuel A. and Mary.
James, on Oct. 17, 1S22, married Mary Pat-
terson, of Toboyne township. Perry county.
Andrew, on Nov. 1,1827, married Eliza Mc-
Collough, of Newton township, Cumberland
county. Betsey married David McCollough.
Martha married John Fleming, of North
Middleton township, Cumberland county,
who was killed on the railroad on Main
street, Carlisle, Aug. 12, 1S39; his widmv
survived him until in January, 1873. Ann
married James Clark, a -farmer of Madison
township, Perry county. Ellen married \Y\\-
liam Blair, who was for many years one of
Carlisle's leading business men ; she died in
March, 1868, in the fifty-first year of her
age. Jane married IMcGinley Walker, and
moved to Fountain Green, 111. ^^'illiam
died when quite young. Scott went into
the mercantile business with his brother
Andrew in Newville, later was in business
by himself in Newville, and afterward pur-
chased and ran Doubling Gap Springs hotel
for several years. Subsequently he for sev-
eral years kept what is now the "Lochiel
Hotel," in Harrisburg. He then relinquished
hotel-keeping and went into the mercantile
business with his nephew, James Coyle, in
Philadelphia. On retiring, from lousiness he
removed to Newville. Samuel A. married
Eliza Linn, and Mary married Thomas Mc-
Candlish.
David Coyle died Aug. 22, 1865; his
wife, Martha Linn, died Nov. 19, 1831, and
the remains of both are buried in the grave-
yard of the Center Presbyterian Church in
Perry county. Mrs. Coyle's ending was
peaceful and singularly impressive. She
had returned home 'from church at about
half past eight o'clock in the evening. About
nine the family were called together for de-
votion, and while they engaged in singing
a hymn she leaned upon the knee of her hus-
band, who was sitting by her side, and in this
position expired without a struggle or a
groan. Her death came when all her eleven
surviving children, except a daughter of
eight years, were in full communion with
the church. Although for the greater por-
tion of his life a resident of Saville town-
ship. Perry county, Mr. Coyle died at New-
ville, Cumberland county. He was a quiet,
unobtrusive, efiicient Christian, long a mem-
lier of the Presbyterian Church and for more
than fifty years a ruling elder. He took a
warm interest in everything relating to the
spread of evangelical truth and the advance
of Godliness.
John Coyle, the sixth child of David and
Martha (Linn) Coyle, was born Nov. 16,
1806, on the parental homestead in Saville
township. He grew to manhood in that part
of the country, and on Feb. 16, 1832, mar-
ried Elizabeth T. McCord, of Madison town-
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sliip, who was born in Perrv county in Sep-
tember. 1807. Upon lieginning- life for him-
self he engag-ed in tlie mercantile Imsiness
in Ne\v\"ille with his brdther Andrew, and
continued there for five years. He then re-
turned to Perry county, where for a short
time he farmed his father-in-law's place,
which he afterward purchased. Next he and
his brother Samuel opened a store in Land-
fsburg where they continued in business
several }'ears. In search of a larger field,
they in 1842 removed to Hogestown, Cum-
berland county, where under the firm name
of J. & S. .\. Coyle they for years did a
H(5urishing' business. Finally Samuel A.
withdrew and went into business in Carlisle,
and on Oct. 15, 1855. John died, and by
reason of his death the Imsiness was chased
out. John Ci )yle's remains were first interred
in the cemetery of the Sih'er Spring Church,
but subsequently remo\'ed to the Center
Presbyterian Church, in Perry ciumtv. and
interred by the side of those of his wife, who
died in 1840.
John and Elizabeth T. (AlcCord) Covle
had the following children : Samuel McCord.
William Scott and David Linn.
Samuel M. Coyle, the eldest of these sons.
liegan his business career as a salesman in
Philadelphia. Afterward he and his bn.jther
W'. Scott, for a few years, conducted a gen-
eral store at Andersonburg, Perry county.
W. Scott sold his interest to David L. and
Samuel and David as a firm continued it for
several years more. Wishing to make a
change of locality they sold out and Samuel
came to Carlisle, and for a while clerked in a
store. (3n Dec. 16, 1858, he married Annie
M. Campbell, of Carlisle, and began house-
keeping in Andersonburg, Soon afterward
be and his Ijrother W. Scott began the
wholesale notion business at Carlisle, and he
then removed to a home on East Pomfret
street, Carlisle, where he lived until his
death, which occurred Aug. 2^. 1879.
Da\'id Linn Coyle, the youngest of the
three Coyle brothers, was Ijorn ]\Iay i, 1838,
on the old McCord farm in Perry county.
He received the principal part of his educa-
tion in the public schriols, and early in life
turned his attention to mercantile pursuits.
On the breaking out of the Civil war he en-
listed in Company E, 9th Pennsylvania Cav-
alry, and for more than three years served
his country as a soldier. After the war he
was for several vears a clerk in the commis-
sary department of the arm\- at P)altimore.
From there he went to S. A. Coyle & Co.,
wholesale grocers of Philadelphia, as a sales-
man, Ijecame a member of the firm and event-
ually the head oi the house. The name of the
firm was afterward changed to Ci\vle, Mc-
Candlish &: Co., and for a time was one of
Philaclelphia's leading business houses,
much of its prominence and success being
due to David L. Coyle's energy and good
business tact. He died July 31, 1891, at At-
lantic City, and was buried at Center Church.
The following testimonial from the Phila-
delphia Grocers' and Importers' Exchange
is an indication of the esteem in which he
was held :
"Having received the sad intelligence of
the death of our esteemed late fellow mem-
ber, Da\'id L. Coyle. the Grocers' and Im-
. porters' Exchange, in memorial meeting as-
sembled, do hereby give expression to their
appreciation of the many estimable qualities
of the deceased, notably his spotless integ-
ritv, his sense of mercantile honor, and his
genial, kindly disposition, joined to an ur-
banity of deportment that won the confidence
and respect of all who were brought in con-
tact with him. As a former director and
long time associate we shall miss him from
our number, and herewith tender our sincere
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sympatliies to his family in their affliction."
Wilham Scott Coyle, the second of these
three Coyle brothers, and the especial subject
of this biography, was born on July 20,
1836. on his father's farm in Madison town-
ship. Perry county. Piioi to his father's
ownership of the farm it belonged to a-.id was
the hunie of his McCord grandparents. His
early da_\-s were passed upon the farm. By
the time his father removed to Hogestown
he had reached the school age and became a
scholar in the Hogestown school. John
Firoved, Thomas Hampton, Mr. Senseman,
Eliza Thomson and Miss Greathead were
some of his teachers; and the Buchers, the
Boslers, the Snowdens. the Capps. the Clen-
denins, the Fircveds, the Bells, the Ketter-
ings, and other well known people of that
vicinity, were among his schoolmates and as-
sociates. On leaving the public school he
attended for a term and a half the famous
academv of Prof. R. C. Burns, located at
what was then known as Good Hope Station,
on the Cumberland \'alley Railroad, five
miles west of Carlisle. Then for a while he
attended the Cumberland Valley Institute,
conducted at Mecbanicsburg by Ixcv. Joseph
Loose. In the summer of 1855 he was sent
to his uncle, James Clark, in Perry county,
for the benefit of his health, where he re-
mained for some months. While there his
father took sick and word was sent to him
to come home. When the summons reached
him he was suffering from a severe attack of
fever and ague and was in a bad condition
to travel, but started. He went by stage by
wav of New Bloomfield to Newport, from
which point he went by train to Harrisburg
and from there by train to Mecbanicsburg.
At Mecbanicsburg he happened to meet a
friend in a con^'eyance who took him up and
landed him at Hogestown, so weak that he
could scarcely walk. After his father's
death he had his home with his uncle James
Clark in Perry county. He also for a while
attended the Mt. Dempsey Academy at
Landisburg, of which Prof. Theodore Buch-
er, whose parents resided at Hogestown, was
the principal. Next he taught a country
school in Perry county, near the home of
his uncle James Clark. He taught one term
and then he and Robert Clark, a cousin,
opened a general store in Andersonburg. In
a short time Robert Clark sold his interest
to Samuel M. Coyle and for a while the two
brothers continued the business. Then Wil-
liam Scott sold his interest to David L., and
in 1857 Samuel and David sold out their
joint interest. In 1861 W. Scott came to-
Carlisle, where he invested in a horse and
wagon and took to the road, wholesaling no-
tions to the country stores. His trade in-
creased rapidly, and at the end of the first
six months had so enlarged that he needed a
two-horse team. He and his l^rother Samuel
then formed a partnership under the name of
Coyle Brothers. At first they had their store
in a room in the basement of Samuel's resi-
dence, on East Pomfret street, but the busi-
ness grew and soon more commodious quar-
ters had to be provided, and they rented a
large room in the Inhoft' building, on South
Hanover street. Inside of two years their
business also outgrew these c|uarters and
they rented the large room in the Good Will
Hose Company's building in South Han-
over street. Here the business was contin-
ued until in 1893, when it was removed to
the building that was formerly the Methodist
Episcopal Church, at the corner of ]\Iain and
Pitt streets.
After Samuel Coyle, the senior member
of the firm, died, W. Scott Coyle associated
with him as partners W. Linn ]\IcCullough
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and James G. Linn, but retained the old
firm name until he nominally retired from
the business. About 1893 ^^^^ fi'""'' 'became
RlcCulliiugh & Linn, but 'Mr. Coyle contin-
ued to be a silent partner for several years
afterward. After retiring from the notion
business he became interested in the Letort
Carpet Company, and later also a partner
in the Indian Rug Company, of Carlisle, and
between these two manufacturing industries,
his farms, and his investment interests, he
now divides his time.
In politics Mr. Coyle is a stanch Republi-
can, and he cast his first Presidential vote for
Abraham Lincoln, but he is not a biased
partisan nor a seeker after office. Li relig-
ion he is a Presbyterian, to which church be-
longed his ancestors for generations past. He
is a member of the Second Presbyterian
Church of Carlisle, in which he holds the po-
sition of deacon. In his earlier years he was
also an active worker in the Sunday-school.
To church and charitable causes he gives lib-
erally, and in 1891 he built a parsonage and
a sexton's house at the Center Presbyterian
Church, where members of his family for
four generations lie buried. He has been a
director of the Merchants' National Bank of
Carlisle ; is the trustee for the Thorn Fund,
devised by a member of that family to the
church : is frequently selected to take charge
of responsible business trusts, and were it
not for the misfortune of defective hearing-
he would be yet more in demand for such
duties. He is a highly esteemed and viseful
member of the community in which he lives.
Through energy, good judgment, industry
and close application he has succeeded in
€very laudable purpose save in that of get-
ting a wife. At this writing he is still un-
married, for which many of his friends cen-
sure him.
JAMES RA^^ISEY MEANS. The de-
scent of the Means family of Cumberland
county is readily traced back to John Means,
of Paxtang, Dauphin county. To go back
of him the historian must rely mainly upon
traditions that necessarily are vague and
douljtful. Little is known as to when John
Means settled at Paxtang except that it was
at some date prior to the Revolution, and
when that part of the province was yet in-
cluded in Lancaster county. An Adam
Means lived in that vicinity at the same time,
as is shown by the Paxtang Church records.
According to a well founded tradition John
and Adam [Means were brothers. Their
father was probably Joseph Means, of Coun-
ty Tyrone, Ireland, who never came to
America.
In 1776 John Cleans enlisted under Cap-
tain John Murray, whose company was a
part of Col. Samuel Mile's rifle battalion,
which participated in the battles of Long
Island. AMiite Plains, Trenton and Princeton,
Subsecpiently he was in several other enlist-
ments and rendered his country valuable
service down to the end of the war. He died
Oct. 3, 1795, at the age of fifty years, and is
buried in the graveyard of the Paxtang
Presbyterian Church in Dauphin county.
His wife was [Martha Ramsey, daughter of
James and Janet (Woods) Ramsey, and
granddaughter of Robert Ramsey. She was
a brave, self-reliant. God-fearing woman,
and several years after her husband's death
removed from Paxtang to Allegheny coun-
ty, carrying on the backs of pack animals
her household effects and her children, one
of whom was a baby boy who was not yet
born when his father died. This baby boy
was named Joseph McCord [Means, and sub-
sequently became a distinguished citizen of
Cumberland countv, the head of one of its
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representative families and a most exem-
plary church worker. As soon as his years
and strength permitted, he learned the tan-
ning trade under his brother^ Nathan, in
Allegheny county, and later, in quest of em-
ployment, came to Carlisle on foot, carry-
ing in a small budget all his personal effects.
He first obtained work with Andrew Blair
in Carlisle, who then had a tannery upon the
lot on South street, where now are the Ep-
pley livery stables. Next he for some time
worked at Newville for a man named David-
son. On Feb. 15, 1820, he was married to
Jane Woods, of Dickinson township, the
Rev. George Duffield. pastor of the Presby-
terian Church of Carlisle, performing the
ceremony.
After his marriage Joseph M. Means lo-
cated at Newburg, in the northwestern
part of Cumberland county, where with no
capital save his own energy and a thorough
knowledge of the trade, he succeeded in es-
tablishing a large and profitable tanning
business, and also accjuiring several farms.
His private affairs, although extensive and
exacting, did not cause him to neglect the
duties of the citizen. He gave to public
affairs a due share of his time and attention,
which gained him prominence, and in Jan-
uary, 1827. Gov. Shulze appointed him a
justice of the peace for the district composed
of the townships of Shippensburg and Hope-
well, a position which he held for more than
forty years. He was known by the familiar
title of "Squire Means" during more than
half his long lifetime, and by it recalled to
memory for many years after his death. In
1835 he was elected county auditor, and in
1845 niember of the State Legislature, and
in each capacity rendered his constituents
efficient and satisfactory service. The train-
ing of his pious mother landed him withii?
the folds of the Presbyterian Church in his
early youth, and he continued active and
zealous in its cause all through life. In the
year 1836 he was elected an elder in the Mid-
dle Spring Presbyterian Church, and held
that honored station until 1875, when he
transferred his membership to the Second
Presbyterian Church of Carlisle. In 1867
he removed from Newburg to a property he
purchased at i\Iiddle Spring. The years were
now rapidly accumulating upon his head,
and he was gradually entering upon a well-
earned retirement. Six years later he re-
moved to Carlisle where on Jan. 8, 1878,
his wife died. After her death he had
his home with his daughter, Mrs. D. W.
Huston. As man and wife they had lived
as one for almost three score years, and in
death were not long divided. He died on
June 8, 1880, and their remains rest side by
side in Ashland cemetery at Carlisle.
Joseph M. and Jane (Woods) Means
had the following children : John, Jane
Mary, Martha Ramsey, Samuel Woods,
James Ramsey, Elizabeth, Joseph McCord,
William Davidson, Agnes Rebecca and John
Alfred. There were also three others who
died in infancy. John, the first named child,
died in his twenty-third year, and before his
brother, John Alfred, the youngest child,
was born.
James Ramsey Means, the seventh child
of this large family, was born at Newburg,
Oct. 30, 1829, where he grev/ to manhood.
His education was limited to the public
schools of his native town, and for an avo-
cation he learned the tanning trade with his
father. His brothers preferring to do the
work of the farm^ it fell to him to work
steadily in the tannery, which he did until
he was twenty-six years of age. Having
become discouraged by the losses suffered
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frequently by floods, he concluded, soon
after marriage, to relinquish tanning and
engage at farming.
On Sept. 20. 1855, James R. Means was
married, by the Rev. Alexander K. Nelson,
pastor of the Rocky Spring Presbyterian
Church, to Susan Smith McClelland, daugh-
ter of John McClelland and ]\Iartha Ann
Cummins, his wife, and granddaughter of
Thomas and Susan (Smith) McClelland.
Thomas [McClelland was a son of Thomas
McClelland, and his wife, Janet Trimble,
who was the first white child born in the
vicinity of Newburg. John McClelland died
in 1859. at the age of fifty-four years; his
wife died in 1883, at the age of sixty-nine,
and both are buried in the graveyard of the
Rocky Spring Church, Franklin county, of
which church he was an elder, and in the
vicinitv of which the Cummingses lived. The
McClellands and the Smiths lived within the
bounds of the Middle Spring Church. Mar-
tha Ann Cummins was a daughter of Wil-
liam and Catharine (Patton) Cummins, and
a granddaughter of Charles Cummins. Cath-
arine Patton, Susan McClelland"s maternal
grandmother, was a daughter of Samuel
Patton, who was a captain in Col. Joseph
Armstrong's battalion in the war of the
Revolution. Many of her Patton and Cum-
mins ancestors are buried in the graveyard of
the Rocky Spring Church, for whose main-
tenance a grand uncle, Matdiew Patton, left
a legacy. In the time of the Revolution the
congregation of this church was both large
and patriotic, and at the close of the war it
was found that all its male members, except-
ing one or two,, had been soldiers.
In April, 1856, James R. Means moved
to South Middleton township, three miles
southwest of Carlisle, to a farm then belong-
ing to his father, but of which he afterward
acquired the ownership. Here he lived and
farmed for many years. In different ways
he greatly improved his propertv, and later
bought an adji)ining farm. In 1893 he quit
the farm, and moved to a home he pur-
chased in Carlisle, where he contentedly
spent the declining vears of his life. Like
his ancestors for generations liefore him he
was a devout Presbyterian. He was a mem-
ber of the Second Presbyterian church of
Carlisle, in which he was for many years a
trustee. He died Dec. 4, 1901. and his re-
mains were interred in Ashland cemetery.
James R. and Susan ( ^IcClelland )
Means had children : Martha Jane, Mar-
garetta Anna and Joseph James. The last
named was born on Oct. 2},, 1873, and died
April 7, 1876. The daughters are both
graduates of Millersville State Normal
School. Margaretta Anna is married,
and Martha Jane and her widowed mother
comprise all of the family now living in the
pleasant home at 263 West South street,
Carlisle.
On Dec. 26, 1878. at Carlisle, :\Iarga-
retta A. Means, daughter of James R. and
Susan (McClelland) Aleans, was married
to Prof. R. Willis Fair, son of James and
Harriet (Smith) Fair, of Indiana county,
Pa., Rev. George Norcross, D. D., perform-
ing the ceremony. A hundred years ago
the Fairs, the Smiths and the McClellands
lived comparatively near each other, and it
is probable that they knew of each other,
and that they may in some way have been
related. About that many years ago there
lived in the Path Valley, which now is in-
cluded in the laounds of Franklin ciiunty. a
yottng man named Samuel Fair. With the
general westward trend of emigration he
drifted from that locality to Westmoreland
countv. where he married Ann Campbell,
who bore him sixteen children, ten of whom
were sons. The oldest son — and second
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child — of Samuel and Ann (Campbell)
Fair, was named James and married Har-
riet Smith.
At a correspondingly early date there
lived in the Cumberland Vallev, not far from
Sliippensburg, a man named Joseph Smith,
who married Jenny ]McClure, and among
nther children had a son named Daniel. This
son Daniel was a sickle and scythe maker,
and some time prior to 1 794 moved to Wash-
ington county. Pa. From Washington coun-
ty he moved to the vicinity of Blairsville,
Indiana county, where he prospered, and in
course of time became one of the wealthiest
men of that section. He died in the year
185 1, and is buried in the Bethel Presbyte-
rian graveyard in Indiana county. Daniel
Smith married, first, Elizabeth Blaine, who
died early. Afterward he married IMrs.
Jane ( Sibbet) Copley, and the only child of
this second marriage was a daughter named
Harriet, who }^Iarch 9, 1842, married James
Fair, son of the aforesaid Samuel Fair.
James and Harriet (Smith) Fair had
nine children : Jane Elizabeth, Samuel, Dan-
iel ^IcClure, Robert Willis. James Camp-
bell, Alice, Harriet Smith, George Hill and
May C.
Robert Willis Fair, the fourth of
these children, married Margaretta A.
Means. He was born on Alarch 20, 1S51,
near Blairsville, Indiana county, on a farm
which then belonged to his grandfather,
Daniel Smith. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools of his native county, and at the
Millersville State Normal School, graduat-
ing at Millersville in the elementary course
in 1875, and two years later in the scientific
course in the State Normal School at In-
diana, Pa. After his graduation he taught
in the Millersville Normal School one year,
and then was elected a member of the faculty
of the Indiana State Normal School, where
he taught for a period of twelve years. In
1888 he resigned his position at Indiana, and
with A. W. Wilson, Jr., established the Kis-
kiminitas Spring School, at Saltsburg, West-
moreland county, a private school for boys,
which they have successfully conducted for
si.xteen years. In 1892 the Western Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania conferred on Mr.
Fair the degree of Ph. D. To Robert Willis
and Margaretta (Means) Fair the following
children have been born : Ethel Marian.
James Means, Helen McClelland and Lois
JNIargaret. Ethel is a member of the Junior
class at V^assar College; James is a member
of the Freshman class in Lehigh University ;
and the other two are with their parents in
their home by the Kiskiminitas, in West-
moreland county.
CLARENCE JACOB REDDIG, A.
M.., M. A., one of the leading merchants and
substantial men of Shippensburg, was born
Nov. 4, 1855, in that city, and he has con-
tinued to make it his home. He is a son of
Jeremiah Burr Reddig. and comes of an old
and honorable family.
( I ) Henry Reddig, of German descent,
was born May i, 1779, in Meyerstown,
Berks Co., Pa., and married Julia Reinoehl,
of Lebanon, Pa., June 7, 1804. Later in life,
Henry Reddig moved to the vicinty of Mid-
dlespring, Cumberland county, Pa., and
there passed away, Jan. 22, 1855.
(II) Jeremiah Burr Reddig, son of
Henry, was born at his father's homestead,
near Middlespring, Oct. 28, 1825. When but
a boy of fourteen, on March i, 1840, he made
his way to Shippensburg, and by persistence
obtained a position in a dry goods store.
For some years the lad worked along this
line, and then in January, 1851, he with his
brother Jacob, was oft'ered a partnership in
the dry goods establishment at the north-
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east corner of Mail and Railroad streets,
owned by Joseph P. Nevin. This offer was
accepted, and the firm of Nevin & Reddig
was organized. In 1857, the brothers bought
the interest of Mr. Nevin as well as the real
estate upon which the store 'was located.
The style of the firm was changed to J. &
J. B. Reddig, and the Reddig name has been
continued in the dry goods business at the
same location for more than half a century.
In 1888 the brothers transferred their in-
terests to the four sons of J. Burr Reddig,
whose hand had safely guided the house
through many a financial storm, and the
firm name adopted was the Reddig Com-
pany.
On Jan. 30, 1849, Mr. Reddig married
Barbara Ann Heck, daughter of John and
Lydia ( Cressler) Heck, who died Jan. 29,
1890. Four sons were born of this mar-
riage : William E. ; Clarence J. ; Albert B. ;
and Charles H. Mr. Reddig was a man of
genial disposition, and was courteous and
pleasing in manner. All his life,he was indus-
trious, persevering, ambitious, and capable
of carrying out his designs. His executive
ability and keen, business judgment were
phenomenal, and yet in all his transactions
he was conservative and strictly honorable.
The house he built to such proportions, is
scarcely second to any in the Cumberland
Valley. Not only was he a shrewd business
man, but Mr. Reddig had another side to his
character. On Jan. 5, 1850, ne joined the
E\'angelical Lutheran Church at Snippens-
burg, and remained its leading support
until his death. Liberal to a fault, he con-
tributed generously toward the erection of
the handsome Memorial Lutheran Church,
and bis contributions were made in both time
and money, the former being as valuable as
the latter. He was chairman of the building
committee of the church, while his brother
Jacob was treasurer of the committee. The
four-dial tower clock was the gift of Jacob
and J. B. Reddig, while Mr. Jacob Reddig
bestowed upon the church the magnificent
pipe organ of twenty-seven pipes, built by
Odell, of New York. For thirty years this
most excellent man was a teacher in the Sun-
day School, and for many years was secre-
tary of the church council. Althousrh he
never held a public office, he was trustee of
the State Normal School of Shippensburg.
On March 31, 1899, this able and suc-
cessful business man, great financier and be-
loved and honored member of the church,
passed awav, leaving the community stricken
with sorrow and his family prostrated.
Every hono'- which loving hearts, and a com-
munity which valued him at his true worth,
could devise, was paid his remains, and his
memory is kept green in the citv where he
labored and his good works show forth.
Clarence Jacob Reddig was educated
in the public schools of Shippensburg,
being graduated as valedictorian of the high
school class of fS/i, and at the age of
eighteen years entered the Freshman class
of Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa.,
in September, 1873, ^^ith a view of prepar-
ing for a professional career. After three
years of faithful study, with extra work in
fraternity and literary societies, his health
failed, and he was compelled to relinquish
the completing of his college course, and his
cherished plans for a chosen profession.
After a year's recuperation, he decided to
enter the mercantile business and therefore
took a full course at Eastman's Business
College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., receiving the
degree of Master of Accounts in 1877. Prop-
erly equipped for business, he returned to ,
Shippensburg, and established The Peoples
Cash Store, in 1878, which he successfully
conducted until 1886, when the business
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houses of J. and J. B. Reddig and tlie Peo-
ples Cash Store were united, and conducted
luider the firm name of J. and J. B. Reddig
& Sons. \\'ith tlie different changes of the
firm since 1886, Clarence J. Reddig has re-
mained identified with it, and in 1894, he
became owner of the original Nevin-Reddig
real estate, which included the store prop-
erty, as well as the Reddig corner property,
where the post office is now located, and
which was also the Reddig mansion home.
While .It college Mr. Reddig was a char-
ter member of Pennsylvania Beta Chapter of
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and was del-
egate of the same to the national convention
held at Philadelphia in 1876; to Wooster;
Ohio, in 1878; to Indianapolis in 1880, and
to Richmond, Va., in 1882. He held the
highest offices in the gift of the fraternity,
being national president from 1878 to 1880,
and national treasurer from 1880 to 1882.
In the fields of literature, he has contributed
to three editions of the song book of his fra-
ternity, including the "Greeting" and "Part-
ing" Centennial song, written for the re-
union in Philadelphia in 1876. He is a fre-
quent contributor to the public press, and a
careful historian in collecting data of events.
His alma mater, Pennsylvania College, Get-
tysburg, gave him his honorary degree of
Master of Arts in 1896.
Mr. Reddig joined the Evangelical Luth-
eran Church, Jan. 22, 1871, and for over
thirtv vears has been a very liberal contribu-
tor, and for twenty-five years was an earnest
Sunday School worker. For ten years, from
187S to 1887, he took an active part in Coun-
ty and State Sunday school work, being an
organizer of superior ability, and was record-
ing secretary for five years ; statistical secre-
tary four years, and president one year of
the Cumberland County Sunday School As-
sociation, and for three years a member of
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the Pennsylvania State Executive Commit-
tee, being president of the Fourth District
of the State, and was one of the first advo-
cates of the Chautaucjua idea in connection
with the County Sunday School Convention,
which developed into the Cumberland Val-
ley Sunday School Assembly.
On Oct. 17, 1882, Mr. Reddig was mar-
ried to Eva Dolores Mansfield, only child of
Albert and Harriet (Munson) Mansfield,
both of English origin, the father being for
forty years superintendent of the Mt. Holly
Paper Mills at Mt. Holly Springs. On the
mother's side, Mrs. Reddig is descended
from Revolutionary stock, her great-grand-
father having served in the Revolutionary
army. Her line of ancestors is also traced
back to Thomas Munson, of English de-
scent, who was one of the first settlers of
New Haven, Conn., in 1638. Mrs. Reddig
is a lady of great refinement and takes an
active part in social affairs. She was a mem-
ber of the Ladies Auxiliary of the World's
Fair Committee from Cumberland county.
Two children have been born to Mr.
and Mrs. Reddig : Eva Pearl Mansfield, born
June 7, 1885, who now attends Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pa. ; and Clarence Mans-
field, born June 3, 1892, a student of the
Cumberland Valley State Normal School.
In politics, Mr. Reddig was a Republican,
and took an active part in the campaigns,
supporting Garfield and Blaine, and was a
friend of Harrison, from all three of whom
he has autograph letters. He joined the in-
dependent Republican movement in 1884,
engaged in the local option contest of the
same year, and in 1886 supported Hon.
Charles S. Wolf, the Prohibition candidate
for governor, and was secretary of the State
Prohibition Committee for four years, 1886
to 1889. By reason of his wide knowl-
edge of public men and his practical
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business and political ideas, he was
selected as secretary of the Pennsylva-
nia Non-Partisan amendment committee
in 1889, with headquarters in Philadelphia,
which position he tilled with great effitiency,
and he was regarded as a "most systematic
secretary comliining discretion and judg-
ment with zeal for the cause of Prohibition."
Public-spirited, aggressive and progres-
sive, Mr. Reddig is a practical citizen and
business man. and for three years he was
secretary of the Shippensburg Manufactur-
ing Company, of which he was a charter
member, a period continuing from 1889 to
1 89 1. In 1S90, he organized the Shippens-
burg Electric Light Company, and was
treasurer of the same from its organization
until 1896. Mr. Reddig is past regent of
the Shippensburg Council, No. 995, Royal
Arcanum, and has done much to make his
council one of strength and influence. Amid
a busy mercantile life, he finds time to keep
in touch with the leading events of the day,
and daily takes time for reading and study.
He is a careful, judicious reader, :i clear
thinker, a logical reasoner and a good public
speaker.
The Reddig family has been identified
with the mercantile afifairs of the city for
many years and has made an indeliljle
mark upon the trade interests of Shippens-
burg for a period of more than fifty years.
\\'ith a business experience built upon the
principles of integrity and honesty, incul-
cated l)y an honored father and uncle, Mr.
Reddig holds a high place in the favor and
confidence of the public, and with his pro-
gressi\e. energetic and systematic dealings,
he well merits the success which attends him.
JOHN ZEAMER. On Nov. 9, 1738,
there arrived at the port of Philadelphia
from Rotterdam a ship named the "Charm-
ing Nancy." She was commanded by
Charles Stedman. and among the immi-
grants she had on board was one whose
name was entered upon the ofircial records
as Jeremiah Zamer. It is not kncnvn whether
this young German immigrant settled, but
it is prolxijjle that it was in Brecknock town-
ship, Lancaster county, for it is in that part
of the country that he is next heard from.
When, in 1752, Berks county was formed,
the new county line divided Brecknock, mak-
ing two townships of that name, one for
Lancaster and one for Berks county. On
April II, 1763, this same immigrant, then a
full-grown antl mature man, was natural-
ized before Judges Allen and Coleman, at
Philadelphia, and he was then entered upon
the records as Jeremiah Zimmer, of Breck-
nock township, Berks county.
Jeremiah Zimmer remained in Breck-
nock township, Berks county, to the end of
his days, and became the progenitor of num-
erous descendants, some of whom yet live in
the vicinity in which he first settled. The
public records show that the proprietaries of
the Province in Januarv. 1765. patented
to him 218 acres of lan'd, lying in Breck-
nock township, 172 acres of which he in
November, 1787, conveyed to his son, Henry
Zimmer. A part of this same tract of land
is still in his name, being owned and oc-
cupied by Peter Ziemer, a great-grandson.
Jeremiah Zimmer made his will on Nov.
20, 1793, which was probated in the Berks
county courts on March 14, 1796, and re-
corded in German. In it his name is spelled
Ziemer. which form all of his descendants
yet living in Berks county, and some who
live in other parts of the country, still prefer.
In his will he names his son, Heinrich, whom
he made his executor, a daughter, Christina,
and a son-in-law, Andrew Bogart. The
Heinrich Ziemer of the will is the Henrv
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Zimmer to whom Jeremiah Zimmer in 1787
deeded 172 acres of land.
Henrich Ziemer married Catharine
, and had issue five children,
namel)- : John, born Feb. 5. 1773; Henry;
Catharine, born ]\Iarch 17, 1776; Jeremiah,
Jan. 25, 1778; and Peter, Nov. 21, 1778.
Heinrich Ziemer died July 9, 1822 ; his wife,
Catharine, died May 12, 1827, and both are
buried in the graveyard of the Allegheny
Union Church, in Brecknock. On his tomb-
stone the name is Johan Heinrich Ziemer.
Jeremiah Ziemer (Zimmer, Zamer) is likely
also buried in the same graveyard, as it has
been a place of interment for that section
since in 1767, at which time the first church
building was erected there. The subject of
this sketch was a grandson of Johan Hein-
rich Ziemer, and was nine years old when
his grandfather died. He cannot recall of
ever having seen him, but remembers that he
was nearly always spoken of by the name of
Henry only. He better remembers his
grandmother, who died five years later. Af-
ter her husband's death she lived with Peter,
her youngest son. and died in his home.
Johan Heinrich Ziemer was a large man, re-
markable for his physical strength and great
powers of endurance, and stories concerning
his feats linger yet among the traditions of
the locality in which his lifetime was spent.
Jeremiah, the fourth child of Johan
Heinrich Ziemer, and grandson of Jere-
miah, the immigrant, married Regina Gep-
hart, also of Brecknock township, but of
whose family history little is known. They
had issue as follows : Catharine, born in De-
cember, 1808, died in July, 1896; Isaac,
born Aug. 27, 1810, died Feb. 24, 1883;
John, born May 9, 1813; Margaret, Oct. 19,
1815, died March i, 1892: Henry, March 2,
1819, died Feb. 21, 1899; and Harriet, born
April 16, 1827. About the year 1822 Jere-
miah Ziemer moved from Berks county to
the vicinity of Churchtown, Lancaster
county, where for ten years he engaged in
farming as a renter. In 1832 he moved to
a short distance west of Lancaster city, to a
farm owned by William Jenkins, a Lancaster
lawyer. There he lived for five years. In
the spring of 1837 he removed to a farm on
Conoy creek, near Bainbridge, and the fol-
lowing spring to the vicinity of the ore banks
on Chestnut Hill, in West Hempfield town-
ship, where he lived for two years, and then
removed to Cumberland county.
When Jeremiah Ziemer moved from
Berks to Lancaster county his son John went
to live with his uncle Peter, who then was in
possession of the original Ziemer homestead,
consisting of part of the land which Jeremiah
Ziemer, the immigrant, obtained from the
Penns in 1765. He remained with his uncle
one year and then w^ent to the home of his
parents in Lancaster county. When near
fourteen years of age he was hired to a
neighboring farmer, with whom he re-
mained one year. Next he hired with a
farmer who had a team constantly on the
road doing hauling to Philadelphia and other
points. The driver of this team unexpect-
edly quit, and, as the boy John had proven
himself handy with the farm horses, he was
temporarily given charge of the road team.
He first did hauling about home, and did it so
well that his employer considered that it was
safe to send him to Philadelphia with the
team, and to Philadelphia he went. On his
first trip, a neighbor, also driving a team,
accompanied him and gave him some at-
tention, but after that the bfiy drove regu-
larly to Philadelphia and back without at*
tention or assistance from any one. He re-
mained with this employer nearly four years,
teaming on the road almost constantly. As
a result he grew up among horses, and
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horses and teaming Ijecame tCi him an in-
fatuation tliat remained with b.im through
all of his long lifetime. Wdien he quit the
services of the man who had initiated him
into the art of team dri\-ing he went home,
and through the following winter and spring
drove his father's team between Church-
town and Philadelphia. It was while the
family lived at Churchtown that the spelling
of the name was changed from Ziemer to
Zeamer.
During the five years the family lived in
Lancaster, John Zeamer drove his father's
team constantly. The railroad from Phila-
delphia to Columbia was then being built and
he hauled much material for contractors en-
gaged upon its construction. Columbia at
that time was a great stopping-place for rafts
from the upper Susquehanna river, and the
young teamster found much to do at haul-
ing lumber from Columbia to Lancas-
ter and Philadelphia, and whiskey from
Lancaster to Columbia, whence it was
shipped down the river in arks and
up the river in canal-boats. He passed
the most impressible period of his ex-
istence at Lancaster and absorbed so much of
its life and activities that he became essen-
tially a Lancasterian. In after years he in a
large measure practiced Lancasterian meth-
ods and judged men and things by the Lan-
casterian standards.
At Bainbridge the pressure of farm work
did not permit of much teaming on the road
and his time was almost entirely occupied
on the farm. On Chestnut Hill it was differ-
ent. There the ore banks, that afterward
became so famous, were being opened and
afforded hauling to all the teams for miles
around. A Zeamer team, driven by John
Zeamer, was regularly on the road hauling
ore to Columbia, whence it was shipped by
river and canal to furnaces, and the fine ap-
pearance of the team, and the heavy loads it
hauled, gave its driver a reputation that
secured him a lucrative position with one of
the wealthiest team owners on Chestnut Hill.
This employer he ser\'ed for eighteen
months, by which time the family concluded
upon another removal. For some time there
had been a general trend of population to the
westward, and while Jeremiah Zeamer and
his oldest son were on a visit to some friends
who had drifted into the Cumberland Val-
ley they bought a farm in the nurthern part
of Silver Spring township. Cumberland
county, to which they moved in the spring
of 1840.
In wagoning to Philadelphia from Lan-
caster. John Zeamer became acquainted with
two young teamsters from the vicinity of
[Marietta, named \\'illiam and Samuel Hart-
man. They became friends, and afterward,
when on a visit to Marietta in quest of some
hauling. John Zeamer met Samuel Hartman,
who. after giving him some attention, asked
him to the home of his parents for supper.
He accepted the invitation and it proved an
epoch in his histon'. for on that occasion
he met Susanna, sister of William and Sam-
,uel Hartman. who on April 12, 1838. at the
hands of Rev. H. B. Shaffner, pastor of the
Reformed Church at Marietta, became his
wife. Susanna Hartman was the daughter
of Peter Hartman and Anna Maria Voneida,
his wife, and was born June 25. 1812. near
Adamstown. Lancaster county. Peter Hart-
man in his early tlays was a cooper and later
engaged in distilling. Through bailing
friends he failed in business and to re-
cuperate his fortune he changed his calling
and location. He rented a farm on the
Chickies Creek, south of Mount Joy.
where he lived for se\-eral years, and
then moved to a farm at the edge of
Marietta, owned l)v David Rinehart. When
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his sons became young men they, too. be-
came wagoners and did hauling to and from
Philadelphia.
The farm which Jeremiah Zeamer
bought in Silver Spring township had upon
it two houses, one located at its farther edge
close by the foot of the North Mountain.
Into that house John Zeamer mo\-ed with his
wife and year-old babe early in the spring
of 1840. Coming from a thickly populated
section and settling in a secluded spot in a
new country, where neighbors were few and
all strange, was a radical transition, and
years elapsed before they became reconciled
to the changed conditions. Instead of driv-
ing a fine team on crowded turnpike roads
John Zeamer was now chopping wood, split*
ting rails, building fences, digging ditches,
quarrying stone and burning lime to fertil-
ize the barren acres which his father had im-
prudently bought. He worked under the
most discouraging circumstances, and when
the prospect was at its darkest fell sick and
came near dying. iMedical skill and the care-
ful, tender nursing of his devoted wife, how-
ever, brought him back to health and he lived
to see happier days. After four years a
neighbor whose confidence and respect he
had won offered to rent him his farm. It
was a tempting opportunity, but he hesitated,
for he had not as much as five dollars toward
buying stock and implements for the under-
taking. But a way was found and in the
spring of 1844 he began farming. Jeremiah
Zeamer had an old gray mare thiit came over
from the ore bank team on Chestnut Hill.
He also had a black mare that was blind, and
these two decrepit creatures John Zeamer
bought to begin farming with, agreeing to
pay for them $25 each. On an equally cheap
and simple scale he acquired cattle, sheep
and implements, and when once he had got
fairly started he found the undertaking
easier than he had anticipated. In four
years" time he made sufficient progress on
that little farm to rent a large farm in the
lower end of the township, where he suc-
ceeded far beyond his expectations, accumu-
lating stock and implements and reducing
his indebtedness. After another four years
he was able to rent a larger farm in the same
neighborhood, but in the adjoining township
of Hampden, where he farmed for thirteen
years, all the while making steady progress.
To his natural fondness for horses he could
now give free rein, and he at one time had a
team of six Jarge blacks, well trained and in
good condition. And so careful was he of
them that no one in his employ was per-
mitted to drive them. He always drove
them himself and considered it trifling to
haul small loads. When hauling lime from
beyond the Conedoguinet, or grain to Me-
chanicsburg, or flittings in the spring of the
year, every horse had to be groomed till he
glistened and properly hitched so the team
would pass muster before the most critical
judges. Whene\'er there were a number of
teams in the line, as in case of a flitting, his,
by general consent, was always given the
lead; and when in the neighborhood there
arose a question about horses and heavy
hauling his judgment was almost always con-
sulted and nearly always ruled.
In the spring of 1865 he made an im-
portant change. He was now fifty-two
years old and physically had seen his best
days, so to lighten his labors and cares he
reduced his stock and rented a smaller place.
He removed from Hampden to Monroe
township, in the vicinity of Locust Point.
Here he farmed four years and then had
sale and quit, after having farmed rented
farms continuously for twenty-five years.
Bv this time most of his children had reached
maturity and left home. His family had
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dwindled to a few memljers and to relieve
the growing lonesomeness he moved to the
village of Chnrchtown, and fiir a while tried
living in retirement. It was the second time
in his experience that he had met with a
Churchtown. Before another year had gone
he bought a little farm a mile west from
Churchtown, which he made his home for
the next twenty-three years.
It wMs circumstances that led John
Zeamer to leave his former moorings and
settle in Cumberland county. The change
was against his judgment, but once made he
never went back to Lancaster county, as did
the other members of his father's family. He,
however, sometimes contemplated moving
farther west or south. About the year 1846
he and a neighbor made a horseback trip into
the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, visiting-
Harper's Ferry, Charlestown, Winchester
and other points in that section. He was so
well pleased with the country that he after-
ward made a second trip on a visit. In 1855
he w'ent West, visiting Ohio, Michigan, Illi-
nois and Indiana, bringing back with him
very favoraljle impressions of the ^Vest and
its grand opportunities, but he thought it
wise to let well enough alone and remained
in the Cumberland Valley. At the close of
the Civil war he and a friend made a visit
to eastern Virginia, but what they saw there
was not sufficiently tempting to induce them
to locate or invest, and so he ended his days
in the section to which circumstances had
brought him.
In January, 1849, John Zeamer' s mother,
Regina (Gephart) Zeamer, died in the sixty-
third year of her age. She was buried in the
graveyard where now is the Stone Church
on the State road, in Silver Spring township.
After her death, her husband, Jeremiah
Zeamer, made his home with his eldest son,
Isaac. In March, 1852, Isaac Zeamer moved
back to Lancaster county, and a few days
after reaching his new home, Jeremiah
Zeamer died at the age of seventy-four years.
His remains were buried in a little private
graveyard near the banks of the Chickies
creek, in Rapho township. He was more
than six feet tall, of powerful build, and
weighed over three hundred pounds. Llis
large form, great strength and good humor
were subjects of comment wherever he went.
The little farm near Churchtown, which
John Zeamer purchased in 1870, was a place
adapted to his years and strength, and he
there spent his declining years reasonably
contented and happy until the death of his
wife, which occurred July 16, 1889, '^^ the
age of seventy-seven years. Her remains
were laid to rest in the Longsdorf graveyard
in Silver Spring township, where a daugnter
and her entire family had already been
buried. Susanna (Hartman) Zeamer was
a kind and loving wife and mother, modest
and affectionate, but the most marked of all
her admirable qualities was her piety. After
the death of his wife John Zeamer continued
(in the farm with his vonngest daughter till
in the spring of 1893, when he moved to
Carlisle, that he might be convenient to more
of his children. He had now passed four-
score years of life and while he was compar-
atively strong it was yet apparent that he
was rapidly approaching the end. Naturally
in his closing years he became indifferent to
the affairs of the world, l)ut he retained
his interest in horses until the last and owned
one as long as he could give him attention.
He died May 19, 1903, aged ninety years
and ten days, and his remains were buried
by the side of his wife in the Longsdorf
graveyard. Physically John Zeamer was a
large man, and while in his prime \t\-y
strong. He was a little over six feet tall,
straight as an arrow, and well proportioned
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both in form and weight. Never having had
tlie ad\-antages of the schools he lacked book
learning-, bnt the varied and trying experi-
ences of his early life gave him a practical
education that served him well in his inter-
course with men, and his opinions and ac-
tions always commanded respect. Integrity
was an especially strong trait in his charac-
ter, and with people who knew him his ver-
bal promise made his bond superfluous. He
was a Democrat and as firm and consistent
in his political convictions and practices as
in other respects. He belonged to the Re-
formed Church, which was the church of his
ancestors, as it was also the church of his
wife's family.
John and Susan (Hartman) Zeamer
had issue seven children, viz. : Mary, born
April 4, 1839; Jeremiah, April 5, 1842:
Sarah, Aug. 10, 1844; Harriet, 1847; Chris-
tiana, Dec. 22, 1850 (died March 5, 1852) ;
Susan, March 7, 1853; and John Henry,
Jan. 12, 1856.
Mary married Charles Miller, of Perry
county, by whom she had three children,
only one of whom is living. In October,
1873, Charles Miller was killed at :Mary-
ville while in the employ of the Pennsylvania
Railway Company. Frank H. Miller, her
surviving son, married Alta Diener, and has
issue two daughters.
Jeremiah, the second child, remained
upon the farm until his twenty-first year,
when he began teaching school, teaching his
first year in West Hempfield township, Lan-
caster county. Afterward he took a course
at the Millersville State Normal School,
where he graduated in 1868. He then
taught and read law until 1872, when he was
admitted to the Cumberland County Bar.
In the spring of 1873 he was elected cashier
of the Columbia Deposit Bank, which posi-
tion he held until December, 1878, when he
resigned to purchase the American I'ohin-
tccr, a newspaper at Carlisle which he owned
and edited for twenty-two years. Since re-
linquishing newspaper work he has been
doing special writing, principally of an his-
torical character. In August, 1871, he mar-
ried Isabella B. Benner, of North Coventry,
Chester county, who has borne him two chil-
dren, Maud and Jay. Maud is a graduate
of Dickinson College, holding the A. B. and
A. M. degrees from that institution. She
has also done post-graduate work at Colum-
bia University, and for five years past has
been engaged in teaching-, being now vice-
principal of the Carlisle high school. She
was married to John H. P. Keat, and has
one son, Harold, born Jan. 16, 1896. Jay
is a stenographer and clerk in the employ of
the Mexican National Railroad Company, in
the City of Mexico, Mexico.
Sarah, the third child, married Jacob
Barnhill, by whom she had three children.
She and her husband and all her children
are dead. They are buried in the Longsdorf
graveyard.
Harriet, the fourth child, married George
\V. Reeser, of Upper Allen township, by
whom she has three children, two daughters
and a son. The eldest, Lizzie, is married to
Robert Armstrong, and has issue one daugh-
ter, Pauline. The son, Richard, is a grad-
uate of Jefferson Medical College, and for
several years has been surgeon on the Penns-
sylvania school ship "Saratoga." The
youngest child, Susan Gertrude, is at home.
George W. Reeser and family at present live
in Mechanicsburg.
Susan, the sixth child, is unmarried and
is living with her sister, Mrs. Mary Miller,
in Boslertown, a suburb of Carlisle. Since
October, 1893, she has been an instructor
in the sewing department of the Carlisle In-
dian School.
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John Henry learned the blacksmith's
trade and followed blacksmithing for thir-
teen vears, for a number of years in the town
of Median icsliurg. He afterward went into
the livery business in Mechanicsburg which
he has l:)een conducting successfully for
twenty years.
Such is the biography of John Zeamer,
written and respectfully submitted by one of
his family.
JOHN BL,\n^ DAVIDSON, bank
cashier, and a very prominent man of New-
ville, comes of an old and honoraljle family
of this locality, his family history being re-
corded as follows :
( I) John Davidson was one of the first
to take up land in West Pennsboro township,
and his farm is still in the possession of a
descendant, James A. Davidson. John Dav-
idson was born in 1743, and died in 1823.
(II) John Da\'idson (2), son of Jnhn
(i), was born in 1772, married Elizabeth
Young, and died in 1810, his widow dying
in 1823. They had five children, — Eleanor.
John Young. Samuel. Nancv and \\^illiam.
(III) Samuel Davidson, son of John
(2), was born April 20, 1804, and after ob-
taining such education as the schools of that
day afforded went to Carlisle, and learned
the trade of tanner with Andrew Blair.
Mastering his trade, he came to Newville,
and worked in a tannery which he soon
bought, operating it for a number of years.
An upright, hard-working, generous man,
he often assisted others to his own loss.
On Oct. 19. 1830, Samuel Davidson
married Catherine Leckey, who was born
May 21, 1807, daughter of Alexander
Leckey, of West Pennsboro township. To
this union were born three children : Alex-
ander Leckey, who died in 1852 ; John Blair:
and Elizabeth A., who lives at Newville.
The father died in August, 1880, tb.e mother
in Ajjrd of the >ame year. For fiirt\-lour
years he was elder of the Big Spring Presby-
terian Church, and be was a thoruughly
good man.
John lilair Davidson was born Dec. 24,
1833, in Newville, Pa., and after attending
the common schools comi)leted his education
at Jefferson College, in ^^'ashington county.
Pa., graduating in 1852. For the following
ten years he taught school, and then entered
the Quartermaster's Department at W'ash-
ington, remaining five and nne-half vears,
and learning those methodical haliits he has
ever since found so useful. In 1869 he re-
turned to Newville and entered the First
National Bank, in 1882 receiving promotion
to the responsible position of cashier,
which he still holds, discharging his onerous
duties with faithful accuracy.
In October. 1857, Mr. Davitlson mar-
ried iMargaret Ellen, daughter of William
Burnside. of Center county. Pa. One of the
early members of the family. Thomas, a
great-uncle of Mrs. Davidson, became a
judge of the Supreme court of Pennsylvania.
The Davidson family are all members of
the Big Spring Pre.sbyterian Church. Mr.
Davidson's career has been char-acterized by
straightforward methods throughout. He is
unremitting at his work, and has many
friends among those he has served for so
many years, and, in fact, all over Cumber-
land county.
WILLIAM E. SWILER, M. D. In
October, 1751, there came to America in the
ship "Queen of Denmark," a George
Schweiler.
In September. 1752. there came in the
ship "Nancy." a Jacob Schweiler.
In October. 1753. there came in the ship
"Louisa," a Johan Christian Schweiler.
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These three immigrants shipped from
Rotterdam and diseml^arked at Pliiladelpliia,
wliere their r.ames were entered upon the offi-
cial records. As their first names have been
perpetuated tlirough several generations in
the different branches of the family, it is
probable that the three men were Ijrothers,
though they did not cross the ocean at the
same time. The third of these brothers set-
tled in Lancaster county, where he married
Susannah , and engaged in farming.
In course of time his name became adjusted
to its new environments. The name Johan
was dropped, as was generally done in Gei"-
man names after those who bore them asso-
ciated for awhile with English speaking peo-
ple. Also the German form Schweiler, in
vsdiich it stands recorded in the archives.
became Anglicised into Swiler. He lived
in Lancaster county almost forty years, by
which time he had quite a good sized family,
and realized that liy moving farther to the
westward he could more easily provide for
them.
In August. 1748, there was patented to
Edwartl Shippen, a tract of land in East
Pennsboro township, then in Lancaster coun-
ty, containing 196 acres. Edward Shippen
conveyed it to Rev. Richard Peters, whose
executor, Richard Peters, Esq., of Belmont,
Philadelphia county, on March 30, 1792, for
the sum of £467, los, conveyed it to Chris-
tian Lawerswyler, of Lancaster county. This
Christian Lawerswyler was no other than
the aforenamed Christian Swiler, the name
having been distorted probably through a
whim of the scrivener who drew up the con-
veyance. There were other Lawerswylers in
the province, some of wdiom were prominent,
but Christian Swiler never wrote his name
Lawerswyler. Once in transferring part of
the land which was conveyed to him as
Lawerswyler he signed it Christian L. Swi-
ler, but in receipting on the same deed for
the money paid him he wrote it simply Chris-
tian Swiler. This land lies to the north of
the Conedoguinet creek in the eastern part
of what is now Silver Spring township,
Cumberland county. It remained in the
Swiler name till 1859, when in the settle-
ment of the estate of the second Christian
Swiler, it was sold to Samuel Eshelnian.
Christian Swiler and his family moved from
Lancaster county to this farm in 1793, and
lived there until his death, in 1857. He had
children as follows : Jacob, Matthias, John,
Christian, Catharine and Elizabeth. All of
these six children grew • to manhood and
womanhood, married and reared families,
and some of their descendants figured prom-
inentlv in the affairs of the country, but it
is the object of this sketch to dwell princi-
pally upon the genealogical line of the son
Christian.
Christian Swiler was bora in Lancaster
county July 4, 1782, and was only a little
more than ten years old wdien the family
came to Cumberland county. He always
lived on and near the homestead which his
father purchased in 1792. Although a
farmer, and giving much attention to the
cultivation and improvement of his acres,
he had, during the active period of his life,
mucli~to do with the settling up of estates
and other business. He also took a deep in-
terest in public affairs, and was a prominent
figure socially and politically in his part of
the county. He was constable for East
Pennsboro township for nine consecutive
years, and discharged the duties of the posi-
tion with an intelligence and fidelity that
won him flattering compliments from the
court, and also from the public.
When the Swilers settled in East Penns-
boro, there was already living there a fam-
ily of English nationality named Hume.
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They were among the earliest settlers of the
sectii)!!, Wihiam Hume, tlie first of the name,
having come there prior to 1774. Wilham
Hume had a son named James, who was a
soldier in the war of the Revolution, and
served as a private in Capt. fohn McTeer's
Company of Cumberland County Militia,
called into service in Jul)', 1777. Along with
the distinction of having been a Revolution-
ary soldier. James Hume was a prominent
citizen. He owned a large amr)unt of land,
and engaged in farming, also carrying on
tanning and other enterprises, and did much
toward the development of the country.
James Hume married Frances Robinson, of
Maryland, and by her had ten children, six
sons and four daughters. The sons were
Samuel. William, James, Andrew, John and
David. The daughters were, Ann, Isabella,
Frances and Jane. James Hume died in
June, 181 1, his wife, in March, 1841, and
both were Ijuried in the graveyard of the
Silver Spring Church. Their lands descended
to their children, some of whom lived out all
their days in the immediate locality in which
their ancestors settled when they first came
to America. The settling of families in the
same neighborhood established social rela-
tions which grew and strengthened with
time. This was the case with the Swilers
of German and the Humes of English de-
scent. Christian, son of Christian and Su-
sannah Swiler, married Ann, daughter of
James and Frances Hume, and by her had
children as follows: (i) James, born Jan.
7, 1807, died Sept. 20, 1869. (2) John,
born Aug. 9, 1809, died Dec. 25, 1839. (3)
Susan, born Dec. 15, 1S13, died Nov. 7,
1866. (4) Josiah, born Jan. 22, 181 7, died
Sept. 15, 1 89 1. (5) David Hume, born July
16, 1819, died July 25, 1894.
John Swiler the second son of Christian
and Ann ( Hume) Swiler, grew to manhood
in the locality in which he was born, with
such training as fell to the lot of country
boys at that day. Being naturally of a Ijright
mind, he accjuired kno\\dedge notwithstand-
ing' the unfavorable conditions in which he
was placed, and became a teacher. It being
prior to the era of free schools, and the
school term being short, he engaged at farm-
ing, along with his intellectual pursuits. On
Feb. 9, 1832, John Swiler was married to
Isabella Eckels, the ceremony being per-
formed by Rev. James Williamson, pastor
of the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church.
Isabella Eckels was the eldest child of Wil-
liam and Rebecca (Huston) Eckels, and a
descendant of two of the oldest and most
prominent Scotch-Irish families of that part
of the country, the Eckelses having located
in East Pennsboro in 1 779, and the Hustons
some time prior to 1752. John and Isabella
(Eckels) Swiler had issue as follows: (i)
A\'illiam Eckels: (2) Josiah Huston, born
July 22, 1835, died Oct. 11, 1901 ; (3) John
Christopher, born Sept. 18, 1839.
William Eckels Swiler, the eldest of
these three children, was born Oct. 2^, 1833,
on Chestnut Hill, one and one-half miles due
south of Mechanicsburg, on a property
which then fronted on the road which leads
to Shepherdstown. The buildings of the
place have long ago disappeared, and there
now is no trace of where they once stood.
His parents lived there but a short time.
That same fall the}- moved to the north of
the Conedoguinet creek to a property which
originally had been a part of the Swiler
homestead, and which through sundry con-
veyances came into the possession of John
Swiler. Here they lived and farmed for six
years, and in the winter months ]\Ir. Swiler
taught school in a log house that the citi-
zens of the vicinity had erected for church
and school purposes, on the State Road,
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where now stands the stone church known
as St. Paul's. In the same house he also held
the Hrst Sunday school that was organized in
Jiat part of the county, and was superintend-
ent of it at the time of his death. He died at
the age of thirty years, and his death, coming
while their children were yet small, was a
heavy hlow to the wife and mother. The
little farm had been sold the previous sum-
mer, but the sum received from it was small,
considering that from its proceeds there
were four mouths to feed and fdur backs to
clothe. The bereaved woman faced a
gloomy prospect, but, relying upon that
Power whence cometh the hope and courage
for such ordeals, she bravely entered upon
it. Three months after her husband's death
slic and her children went to the hospitable
home of her father-in-law, Christian Swilcr,
where they remained until the following
fall. Then lor a period of eighteen months
she kept house at Hogestown for her brother,
Jonathan Eckels, a school teacher. Then her
brothers, Jonathan and William Huston
Eckels, jointly went to farming, and both
being single they employed their widowed
sister to keep house for them. With them
she remained three years. Next she kept
bouse for W^illiam Huston Eckels and John
Chambers Sample, who also jointly farmed,
and while with them she married for her sec-
ond husband, Isaac WcGuire. She died in
May, 1858. Isaac McGuire died in May,
1869, and she and her two husbands lie
buried in the cemetery of the Silver Spring
Church.
After his mother's marriage to Isaac Mc-
Guire, William E. Swiler made his home
with bis grandfather, Christian Swiler, and
remained with him for four years doing
farm work in the summer, and attending the
country district school in the winter. He
was not large for his years, nor strong, but
self-reliant and an all-arouTid useful boy.
Often he undertook tasks that older and
stronger hands feared to undertake, and
upon one occasion had a thrilling adventure
in which he narrowly escaped being killed.
He was preparing corn ground with a large
heavy cultivator, drawn by three frisky
horses. Being too small to follow on foot
and guide the team with a line, as a full-
grown man would ha\'e done, he rode the
nigh horse, and in that way drove the team,
leaving the cultivator to follow without any
one steering it. While going along in this
way the horses took fright and ran off. Over
the levels and down the hills they went, as
fast as thev could gallop, the big cultivator
bounding behind. In his frantic efforts to
stop the team the lad was slipping off his
horse backward, but realizing that it was
sure death to him to fall under the cultivator
he clutched the rein with renewed despera-
tion and finally stopped the team by am-
ning them against a post fence. This expe-
rience he often vi\idly recalls, but seldom
without a shudder.
From his grandfather Swiler, \\'illiam
E. went to his uncle, David H. Swiler, who
with Mr. H. H. Fells had a general store
in ;Mechanicsburg, and for two years he
clerked for them. Here he managed to get
time enough off to attend a select school,
then conducted by Frank Gillellan, and
under that noted educator made good pro-
gress in his studies. Leaving Swiler &
Fells he for a short time was clerk in a large
store in Harrisburg. Next we find him with
his uncle, William Huston Eckels, who then
had a store at Sporting Hill, and while with
him he found time to attend Prof. Denlin-
ger's academy at White Hall, and also to
take private lessons in Latin from his uncle,
James S. Eckels, who was a gradaute of
\\'ashington and Jefferson College, and had
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been an instrnctor in an academy. Along
about tliis time a man named David M.
Snavely entered upon a mercantile \-enture
at Yocumtown, York county, and having
heard of voimg Swiler's proficiency as a
clerk, he offered him good wages to come
into his employment. He went, and for
ten months very acceptably managed Mr.
Snavely's Inisiness. At Yocumtown he was
beyond the liounds of his nati\-e county,
away from his relations and the comrades of
his youth, yet in a little while he won many
new associates who afterward became long-
time friends.
From his earliest recollection William E.
Swiler felt a natural interest in the science
of physiology, and whatever pertained to
the human anatomy and its diseases attracted
his attention and engaged his leisure time.
Even the regulation medical almanac was to
him a source of instruction, and being thus
predisposed he earl_y resolved to Ijecome a
physician. Conditions favormg his purpose,
he, in the spring of 1854, entered the office
of Dr. R. G. Young, of Shiremanstown,
and liegan the customary course of medical
reading. On completing his course with
Dr. Young, he matriculated at Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia, and after two
3'ears more of close application graduated
from that institution, on March 9, 1857.
Having thus regularly prepared himself, his
next step v.'as to look up a place in which
to begin practice. His financial circumstan-
ces did not permit him to spend much time
or money on this part of the program. Dur-
ing his stay at Yocumtown he had formed
many pleasant associations, and, while in his
judgment it was not an ideal locality in
which to build up a practice, be concluded
that it was a good place to make a start, and
he accordingly began his life work in that
modest country town, with the mental reser-
vation that as soon as he had accumulated
experience and some means he would locate
in a more desirable field. His selection of
place, however, proved more satisfactory
than he had anticipated, for.his industry ana
skill soon brought him as much work as a
physician ordinarily can attend to, and he
continueil at Yocumtown for thirty-hve long
years. His practice there extended over a
wide range of country, which necessitated
much tra\-eling and made it very laborious,
especially in the winter months. He had
deferred making the contemplated change
quite a loi^g time, and the accumulating
years were beginning to remind him of the
fact. Feehng that his strength was waning
under the long continued strain, he in 1892
turned his patronage at Yocumtown over to
his son, and removed to Mechanicsburg,
with the intention of there limiting" his prac-
tice in amount, and enjoying some well-
earned ease in his declining years. But his
fame had preceded him to his new location,
and without seeking it he in a few years
again had a large practice, and was again
a very jjusy man. and he still attends to his
professional work.
Dr. William E. Swiler has lieen twice
married. On Nov. 23, 1859, he was united
in wedlock to Miss Catharine E. Pretz, by
Rev. George Morris, pastor of the Silver
Spring Presbyterian Church. Catharine
Pretz was the daughter of Abraham and
Catharine (Monosniith) Pretz, and was
born at Lewistown, Mifflin Co., Pa., but
when she was eleven years old the family
mo\'ed to the lower end of Cumlierland
county and lived there the rest of their lives.
To their union came the following children :
( i) Minnie Isabel, born April 22, 1861, mar-
ried William F. Troup, and has two chil-
dren li\ing, Catharine and Ralph, their sec-
ond child, a son, Swiler, haA'ing died in in-
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fancy. (2) Elizabeth L., bom June 2, 1864,
was married, May 13, 1882, to John H.
Troup, and has had five cliiklren : Vernie
(wlio died young), Robert D., Charles,
Edith and John. 'William F. and John H.
Troup are brothers, sons of Abraham and
Mary Troup, of Lewisberry, York county.
They have long been engaged in the sale of
pianos, organs and other musical instru-
ments, and are located at Harrisburg, from
which point their business radiates over a
large scope of territory. (3) Robert David,
born June 7. 1868, read medicine, graduated
from Jefferson College, and when his father
retired from Yocumtown assumed bis prac-
tice at that place. He remained at Yocum-
town until in 1902, when he removed to Har-
risburg, where he is now in successful prac-
•tice. He married Susan Fortenbaugh,
daughter of Henry and Julia Fortenbaugh,
of York county, and they have two children
living, Margaret and Julia, their first child,
a daughter, Ruth, having died while small.
(4) Carrie Eckels, born Sept. 19, 1873,
married William W. Conkling, formerly of
Highspire, Dauphin county, and they began
married life at Steelton, where they resided
several years, thence moving to West Fair-
view, where they are now keeping* a
boarding house and doing a prosperous
business. To them have been born two chil-
dren: Ruth and Swiler. (5I Annie Hume,
born May 9. 1876, died July 11, 1876.
Mrs. Catharine (Pretz) Swiler died
Dec. 9, 1878, and is buried in the cemetery
of St. John's church, near Shiremanstown.
Dr. Swiler afterward married INIrs. [Matilda
Groom, widow of William D. Groom, and
daughter of Hiram and Susan (Reeser)
Prowell, of York county, by whom he has
no children.
Dr. Swiler is a member of the Cumber-
land county Medical Association, and has
been its president. He is also a member of
the State Medical Association, and ranks
high as a physician and a man wherever he
is known. During his long professional
career, which is not yet ended, seven differ-
ent students have read medicine under his
instructions, all of whom graduated at Jef-
ferson Medical College, and are successful
physicians and devoted friends, of their pre-
ceptor. In religion. Dr. Swiler is a Presby-
terian ingrained, having inherited the faith
through both his paternal and maternal lines
of ancestry. Though worshiping in other
churches while residing beyond the reach of
his own he never faltered in his adherence to
the principles of piety taught him by his par-
ents and grandparents. In politics, he has
always been a Democrat, but has made it a
rule of his life to decline office and conse-
quently has never figured in public aft'airs.
He is deeply imbued with a love for his pro-
fession, labors conscientiously to elevate and
dignify it, and the honors which he prizes
most highly are such as come to him through
it. He is a true type of American manhood,
and has set before the struggling youths of
the land the inspiration of a good example.
EDWARD C. BEETEM. In April,
1802, one Samuel Beetem bought two small
tracts of land in the lower end of Frankford
township. This is the first appearance of
the Beetem name on the records of Cumber-
land countv, and the purchaser was the pro-
genitor of the large Beetem family that has
figured prominently in the affairs of this
county for over one hundred years. After
residing in Frankford township five or six
years he removed to the part of Dickinson
township which has since been erected into
Penn township. Here, in 1808, he pur-
chased from Thomas Norton a tract of land
known as "Norton's Choice," containing
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158 acres. Later he acquired other lands in
the vicinity and engaged extensively at farm-
ing and also at distilling. In April, 1814,
he bought from Daniel Smith, "innkeeper,"
a farm lying along the road to Pine Grove,
on which there was a tavern stand which he
kept for se\-eral years. He was an intelli-
gent, enterprising citizen, was in close touch
with the people, and in 181 3 Gov. Simon
Snyder, reposing especial trust and confi-
dence in his integrity, appointed him a jus-
tice of the peace for Dickinson township,
which office he filled long and satisfactorily,
and for more than forty years he was popu-
larly known as "Squire Beetem." He died
July 8. 1856, at the age of eighry-nine years.
He was a prominent member of the Lutheran
Church, and in August, 18 19, he and his
wife, Mary, for the consideration of one
dollar, deeded to the wardens of "the Ger-
man Lutheran and German Presbyterian
Church called Beetem's Church," 121
perches of land, which is the land now occu-
pied by the Lutheran Church and graveyard
at Centerville. Samuel Beetem was married
twice. His first wife was Alary , who
died Feb. 1 1, 1834. at the age of seventj'-two
years and twenty-three days. On May 28,
1835, he married Mrs. Nancy Turner, who
died ]May 2, 1862, aged eighty-six years. He
and his two wives lie buried on the ground
that he and his wife Mary donated to "Bee-
tem's Church" in 18 19, now the Lutheran
Church at Centerville. Samuel Beetem and
Mary, his wife, had issue as follows: Abra-
ham, born Aug. 28, 1789 (died Aug. 12,
1833) : George, Nov. 23, 1792 (died Jan.
3, 1852) : Jacob, Jan. 9, 1794 (died March
24, 1859) ; and Catherine. He had no chil-
dren by his second marriage.
Abraham Beetem. eldest son of Samuel,
was known as Capt. Beetem. He married
Elizabeth Smith, and began life in the same
locality in which his father settled in 1808.
He engaged in farming, first as a cropper,
but later acquired land of his own. He also
engaged in distilling and milling, and also
manufactured flax seed oil and plaster. His
distillery and mill properties were located
where the village of Huntsdale now is. He
was a man of great energy and rare business
qualities, but died in the prime of manhood,
Aug. 12, 1833. His wife died Feb. 2, 1872,
and both are buried in Ashland cemetery, at
Carlisle. Capt. Abraham and Elizabeth
(Smith) Beetem had the following children:
Samuel, born Aug. 17, 1816, (died Jan. 29,
1901); Jacob; Elizabeth; John; George
Smith, born Jan. 8, 1824 (died May 30,
1892) ; Abraham; Mary; and Joseph, born
Dec. 16, 1830 (died Feb. 8, 1894).
Jacob Beetem, the second of these eight
children, was born in Dickinson (now Penn)
township, July 20, 18 18. He grew to man-
hood in that part of the county, was educated
in the public schools and learned the carpen-
ter's trade. Afterward he went to Philadel-
phia, where he worked at his trade and
studied architecture. Upon reaching man's
estate lie took up his abode in the town of
Caflisle, where he followed the occupation
of carpenter and builder until his death,
which occurred Sept. 7, 1856. His industry
and superior workmanship brought him
much to do, and during the period of his
activity he erected some of the largest and
most important buildings in the county. He
was a man of good judgment, and his advice
in mechanical, business and social affairs
was often sought by those who knew him.
Like his parents and grandparents before
him. he was a consistent Lutheran, and took
a warm interest in the affairs of his church.
He was a good musician, led the choir of his
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church for twenty years, and purchased the
first organ that found its way into the Luth-
eran Church of Carhsle.
Jacob Beetem married Isabella Wunder-
licli, a daughter of Simon and Catherine
(Crane) Wunderlich, and granddaughter of
Benjamin Crane and Catherine, his wife.
Catherine Crane, the grandmother, was re-
markable for her great longevity. For a long
time prior to her death the venerable woman
was an invalid and much of the time confined
to her bed. She lived in the family of her
daughter, Mrs. Ann JNIatthews, in a small
house back of the Episcopal church, and on
the night of July i, 1863, when the Confed-
erates shelled Carlisle, narrowly escaped a
tragic death. Against her wishes and pro-
tests the family took her out of her bed and
away from the house, beyond the range of
the enemy's fire. This pro\ed a wise pre-
caution, for soon after her removal a shell
entered her room and completely demolished
the bed in which she had been lying. She
died in the following December, at the great
age of 103 years. Her husband died in
183 1, thirty-two years before. To Jacob
and Isabella (Wunderlich) Beteem the fol-
lowing children were born: (i) William
L., born Aug. 27. 1841, was killed under
the following circumstances : About 3
o'clock on the morning of April 23, 1861,
a mounted courier came galloping into Car-
lisle with news from Hanover that a large
body of men, — presumably Rebels — was
marching upon that town from the direction
of Maryland. Soon a second courier came
with the confirmation of the startling report.
Carlisle was aroused by the ringing of bells,
and the Carlisle Infantry, commanded by
Capt. Robert McCartney, marched at double
quick out the Baltimore turnpike to meet the
supposed invaders. Before the company
reached Mt. Hollv, the news met them that
the report was false, and after taking a rest
the soldiers turned about and came back.
^^'illiam L. Beetem and Jacob Wunderlich
out of curiosity had followed the company
in a buggy, and when the march homeward
began they proposed to some of the soldiers
that they give them their muskets to carry
back in their buggy. Several passed their
guns over to the young men, but in the hand-
ling one was discharged, the ball pasisng
through Beetem's body in the region of the
heart, killing him almost instantly. An hour
afterward his widowed mother was apprised
of the sad occurrence by the arrival of his
dead body at the door of her home in Car-
lisle. (2) Ann C, born Sept. 9, 1843, died
Feb. 15, 1887; all her lifetime she lived in
Carlisle, and died unmarried. (3) Marian,
horn May 23, 1846, died Aug. 26, 1846.
(4) Bella M. became a teacher, and taught
successfully in the schools of Carlisle for a
number of years. Afterward she married
Rev. Edward Devine, who no\s is pastor of
a Methodist Church in the Philadelphia Con-
ference, and to them three children have been
born, a son named Edmund Devine, and two
who died in infancy. (5) Emma married
Dr. C. W. Krise, a physician of Carlisle,
who died Jan 23, 1900, aged fifty-one years.
His widow and two children, Helen E. and
Raymond Worth, survive him. (6) Edward
C. is the subject of this sketch. (7) Jacob S.
born Oct. 5, 1856, is a druggist, and resides
in \\' ilmington, Del. He married Miss Belle
Ogborn. of Lancaster, Ohio, and to them
two children have been born, Catherine and
Eleanor.
Edward C. Beetem, the sixth child of the
family and the subject of this sketch, was
born Aug. 28, 1852. As soon as he reached
the legal age he was sent to the public
schools, which he attended until he was four-
teen years old. That completed his scho-
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lastic education. He then went to work in
a grocery store; afterward he clerked in dif-
ferent dry-goods stores in CarHsle, both for
the sake of employment antl as a means of
preparation for a business career. He con-
tinued to be employed in this way until Oc-
tober. 1873. when he and the late John C.
Stephens, under the firm name of Stephens &
Beetem, founded the Carlisle Carpet House,
located firsr for nine years on East IMain
and afterward for si.xteen years on South
Hanover street. This house was the leading
retail carpet store in the county from the
time it was established until 1901, when the
firm relations were terminated by ]\Ir. Ste-
phens's death.
After engaging in the retail carpet busi-
ness for four years Messrs. Stephens & Bee-
tem began the manufacture of carpets. In
1882 they erected a large building on South
Bedford street, where they continued until
their business outgrew the capacity of their
factory and it became necessary to provide
a larger plant. In July. 1901, after Mr.
Stephens's death, the old firm was succeeded
by a new one consisting of E. C. Beetem,
\Y. E. Johnson and C. G. Beetem. the last
named member being the only son of the
head of the firm. Thus organized they con-
tinued, on a more extensive scale than form-
erlv. the manufacture of linens, domestics,
finest rag ?nd yarn homemades, jutes, all-
wool and Venetian carpetings. During the
summer of 1902, they erected, at the corner
of Louther an<l Spring Garden streets, a
large new plant named the Carlisle Carpet
Mills, measuring 250 x 50 feet, the main
building three stories and the wings one
story high. Here is given constant employ-
ment to a force of fifty skilled workmen,
producing a large output of carpetings which
finds a market throughout Pennsylvania,
Xew Jersey, Xew York, Delaware, IMary- '
land, Virginia, West Virginia and the West-
ern States. The business is under the imme-
diate personal direction of the three mem-
bers of the firm, is managed with the most
commendable care and enterprise, and con-
tributes much to the general prosperity of
the community.
Edward C. Beetem was married. Sept.
16, 1880, to ^liss Celia L. Bentz, daughter
of Jacob and Celia L. (Noell) Bentz, and a
member of another large representative Car-
lisle family. To this union there have been
born the following children : ( i ) Charles
Gilbert, born Nov. 24, 1881, was educated
at Metzger College, in the public schools
of Carlisle and at Dickinson Preparatory
School. Subsequently he graduated from
the Carlisle Commercial College and as soon
as he reached his majority became associated
with his father in the carpet manufacturing
business. He is secretary and treasurer of
the new firm and is a very industrious and
promising young man. (2) Mary Isabella,
Ijorn June 14, 1886, and (3) Edith Louisa,
born Feb. 26, 1889, are at home and being-
educated at :Metzger College, one of Car-
lisle's excellent institutions of learning.
Like his paternal and maternal ances-
tors Edward C. Beetem was baptized into the
Lutheran Church. He long was a member
of the choir and was otherwise prominent in
the First Lutheran Church of Carlisle. His
wife's family were Presbyterians, and since
their marirage Mr. Beetem. out of deference
to his wife's lifelong church associations, has
united with the Second Presbyterian Church
of Carlisle, where the entire family have for
some years been worshiping.
GEORGE B. BRANDON, proprietor of
the "Hotel Wellington," Carlisle, bears an
English name but is of Irish nationality. He
was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1843, and
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his parents were Michael and Sarah (Cocli-
lan) Brandon. His father was a leather
merchant, and a man of intelligence, force
of character and literary inclinations. He
died when (jeorge was vet too young to
rememlier him, and the mother, afterward
marrying again, came to .America and set-
tled in Jersey City. Here George was sent
to the iniblic schools, until he reached his
thirteenth year. Feeling that he was old
enough to do something for himself, he then
left home and went to sea. His first position
was as cabin boy on a sailing-vessel plying
between New York and Liverpool, which
place he held for three consecutive voyages.
Emboldened by this experience, he next
\-entured upon a voj-age which took him from
home in a different direction. He managed
to become firemen's mess boy on the "Black
Warrior," to New Orleans. Tlie firemen
of an ocean steamer are not excessively
tender in their treatiuent of Ixiys over whom
the\- lia\e authority, but he reached his desti-
nation in fairly good condition and with
another chapter added to his experience.
Having a natural talent for music he
early accustomed himself to play on what-
ever instrument he came across, and at New-
Orleans this accomplishment rendered him
a good service. A man from Montgomery,
Texas, named W'alkenshaw, heard him play,
and believing that he could use him in his
business offered him $io a month to come
into his employ. The man was a merchant
and among his stock in trade had a li:it of
musical instruments which he fancied a clerk
who could play upon them cou.ld sell at big
prices. Texas was then a new land, with a
reputation for excitement that appealed as
strongly to an ambitious boy as did a $io
a month job, and thus, doubly tempted, he
accepted. In going to Montgomery they
went up the Red ri\er by boat to near the
Texas State line, and thence bv stage and
private conveyance several hundred miles
across the country. The trip was tiresome,
but a memorable experience, and one of its
pleasant incidents was the honor they had of
a short stage ride with Gen. Sam Houston
and Col. Thomas J. Rusk, two distinguished
men whose names are conspicuously and in-
delibly wo\'en into the history of the great
State of Texas.
^Montgomery was then a place of about
three hundred inhabitants, of an enterpris-
ing class, but in spite of young Brandon's
abilities as a performer was a poor market
for musical instruments. The Texan of that
period had less use for flutes and violins
than for guns and bowie-knives. Part of his
duty was to make periodical trips to Houston
over a road that was hardly more than a trail
blazed through the sparse wood. It was a
long distance and a lone w'ay. Deer would
cross his path within easy view- ; coveys of
quail would fly up from in front of his pony's
feet with startling suddenness, and as the
gloom of evening settled over the land the
howd of wolves and other wild animals could
be heard in the distance.
Three months of Te.xas experience sat-
isfied the Ijoy, and he concluded to go back
to New York. He had saved only $15 out
of his earnings, barely enough to pay his
fare to Galveston, but he had a stock of self-
reliance and audacity, not measured by dol-
lars and cents, which he felt was sufficient
for the undertaking, and he started. Among
his fellow- passengers on the stage was a man
wdio asked him many cjuestions. He an-
swered them frankly and politely, and before
they had reached Houston he had made a
friend of the stranger, and through his favor
got an opportunity to work his way on a ves-
sel to New Orleans, and also from New Or-
leans to New York. His services proved
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valualjle, and the steward placed his name
iip(in the ship's pay-roll, so that when he
reached home he had more money in his
pocket than he had when he left Mont-
gomery.
After a l)rief stay at home he a second
time liecame a caliin boy on the "Black War-
rior," plying between New York and New
Orleans. This time he remained about a year
with the vessel, antl left her at New Orleans
to take the pusition of second steward on the
steamship "Mexico," of Morgan's Gulf
Line. Morgan's Gulf Line consisted of five
or six steamships which ran from New Or-
leans to GaI\-eston and other ports on the
coast of Texas, With this company he con-
tinued until the Civil war broke out. In the
month of April. 1861, his ship was lying at
Galveston when the Confederates seized the
"Star of the West," at Indianola, and the
"Mexico's" first ofificer was detailed to go to
Indianola and take the captured vessel to
New Orleans. A week afterward, when the
"Mexico" steamed up the river to New Or-
leans, Mr. Brandon saw the "Star of the
West" anchored oft' the city with the Stars
and Bars floating from her masthead over
the Stars and Stripes. The sight was a sore
humiliation to him and decided his course
in the impending conflict. He then con-
cluded to go back to New York, and the
"Cahawba." the vessel upon wdiich he came
away, was the last the Confederate authori-
ties, permitted to leave New Orleans for
New York. This was Mr. Brandon's last
sea voyage for some years. The opening of
hostilities between the North and South
ended all commercial traffic between New
York and the Gulf, and he was compelled to
lav oft'. While waiting for something to
turn up he yielded to the promptings of pa-
triotism and joined the army. On Aug. Q,
1 86 1, he enlisted in Company C, of the 6th
New Jersey Volunteers, and soon afterward
went to the front, where, with the excep-
tion of a single furlough of ten days, he
remained until Sept. 23, 1864, when he was
mustered out of service at Trenton, N. J.,
his term of enlistment having expired. His
regiment jjarticipated in all the battles fought
by the Army of the Potomac during its term
of service, excepting South Mountain and
Antietam, and although he was in all these
\'ari(_)us engagements he was never wounded,
nor was he ever so sick as to be sent to
hospital.
After a rest from his army experience,
Mr. Brandon concluded to make a trip to the
other side of the Atlantic. He got a berth
in the steamer "Western Metropolis," which
in due time landed him at Southampton,
England. From Southampton he went to
London, and after seeing the sights of that
great city took a trip to the North of Eng-
land, where he visited an aunt he never be-
fore had seen. From there he went to Liv-
erpool, from Liverpool to Dublin, and from
Dublin to Nenagh, in the western part of
Ireland, where he visited his maternal grand-
mother, whom he also had never before
seen. After completing his visits he con-
cluded to return to America, and for that
purpose went liack to Liverpool. As he
had not the money to pay his fare it was
necessary for him to work his way. He did
not know a soul in the whole city of Liver-
pool, which, coupled with his lack of money,
left him at a disadvantage. His hopefulness
never forsook him. In sauntering along the
streets one ex-ening he was attracted by an
open air vaudeville performance and stopped
to enjoy it. While thus absorlied he was
dealt a friendly slap on the 1>ack, and on
turning round his gaze met that of an old
acquaintance, who unawares to him then
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to his surprise, found in an unfrequented
pocket four gold sovereigns, the gift of an
aunt he had visited, who, knowing they
would be declined if offeixd to him, sur-
reptitiously put them into his clothes. He
ajipreciated the kindly spirit which prompted
her act, but returned them to her with
thanks. On making known his intentions to
the friend who had so unexpectedly found
him, he advised him to apply to the port
captain of the Guion Line, which he did with
the result that he got an opportunity to work
his way back to Xew York on the steamer
"Nebraska."
After his return to Xew York ISIr. Bran-
don obtained the position of second steward
on the steamship "South America," plying
between Xew York and Rio Janeiro. This
was a round trip of ii,ooo miles, but Air.
Brandon found it an agreeable voyage and
was pleased with his work. On his sec-
ond trip, in addition to the duties of his own
position, he had much to do with the man-
agement of the entire steward's department.
and on getting back to Xew York, by the
advice of his captain, he made application for
the position of chief steward. The officials
of the company thought him too young and
inexperienced for the stewardship on such
a long voyage and offered to make him chief
steward of the steamship "San Jacinto," run-
ning from Xew York to Savannah. This
position he accepted for one year, until that
vessel went ashore on Body Island, on the
coast of Xorth Carolina. By that time he
had the required experience and without
difficulty got the position of chief steward
on the '"Xorth America," one of the steam-
ships of the Brazilian Line. He continued in
the capacity of chief steward with this line
for six years, till the company was com-
pelled to go out of business by reason of
the governments of the L^nited States and
Brazil refusing to further extend the sub-
sidy with which they had been supporting it.
He next was steward for about six years on
the Stonington Line steamers "Stonington"
and "Massachusetts," between X^ew York
and Providence. He then turned his face
landward, came to Pennsylvania, and with
a Mr. Kenshaw leased the "L'nited States
Hotel" at Easton, and there, under the firm
name of Kenshaw & Brandon, managed it
successfully for two years, ^^'hen he re-
turned to Xew York he was soon employed
by the United States and Brazil Mail
Steamship Company and ordered to the
Steamer "Advance." After being on this
ship for two years the company sent him on
the new steamer "Allianca," where he re-
mained for nearly two years, when, getting a
bit tired of the sea, he again invaded Penn-
sylvania, and leased the "Brockerhoff
House" in Bellefonte, where he remained for
six years. At this time Daniel Hastings,
afterward governor, built a large hotel for
him in the mining town of Spangler. The
town proved to be a failure, when he came
to Carlisle and leased the "Mansion House"
for six years. Thence he changed to "The
\VelIington," in the same town, where he has
been proprietor and host since the spring
of 1902.
Fraternally, Mr. Brandon is a member of
Hiram Lodge, A. F. & A. M., No. i, Jersey
City ; Enterprise Chapter, No. 2, Jersey
City: St. John's Commandery, Carlisle: and
Rajah Shrine, of Reading, Pa. He is a
member of the G. A. R.. and has been com-
mander of his post, which he has also repre-
sented at the National Encampment. He be-
longs to the Veteran Legion and was instru-
mental in organizing the Veteran Legion at
Bellefonte.
Mr. Brandon has been twice married,
first to Miss Dolly Burgen, of Jersey City,
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who bore him two children. George N. and
Mary, both of wliom are Hving and unmar-
ried. George N. Brandon is a professor of
music, and thiiugh young in years has
achieved special distinction in his art. Mrs.
Dolly (Burgen) Brandon died in February.
1882, and Mr. Brandon afterward married
Mrs. Lucy Patterson, of Bellefonte, wln.i
has borne him one child, Winnefred Lucy
Brandon. By her former marriage Mrs.
Lucy (Patterson) Brandon had one son,
Robert Patterson, who remains a menilier of
the family and is an efficient and ol)liging
hotel clerk.
Mr. Brandon from early youth has had
a must varied and interesting career. At
home and abroad, on land and at sea. he has
met and associated with the world's different
natiiinalities and studied them as a student
does a book. He has dealt with men of
high and low degree, under favorable and
unfavorable circumstances : entertained all
kinds of people, in ,'dl kinds of mocnls, and
by observation and experience gained a
knowledge of the whims of humanity which
few men possess. A glance tells him the
wants and needs of his guests, and he person-
ally sees that they are provided for, so that
the traveler who stops at his house is at
home — he who does not is not wise.
THOMAS RAUB BURGNER, one of
the prominent citizens of West Pennsboro
township, is a native of Lebanon county. Pa.
He was born in East Hanover township, that
county, July 14, 1838, and his parents were
Jacob and Anna Maria (Raub) Burgner,
who also were natives of Lebanon county.
The earliest American ancestors of both
the paternal and maternal lines of the family
first settled on the banks of the Schuvlkill
river, near the mouth of the Tulpehocken,
and from there gradually drifted westward.
Jacob Burgner was born in 181 1, and died
near the place of his birth on July 13, 1886.
He was a carpenter and contractor, a skillful
workman, and remarkable for his great en-
ergy and industry. He was long in the em-
ploy of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Co. as building foreman. Anna Maria Raub
was Ijijrn in 18 18. in Fredericksburg, Leb-
anon county, where her ancestors for several
generations had lived. She died on Dec. 26,
1899, and she and her husband are liuried
at Walmer's Church, in LInion township,
where the Burgner grandparents are also
buried.
Jacob and Anna [Maria (Raub) Burgner
had children as follows : Thomas Raub, ]Ma-
tilda, Franklin. Charles Henry, Jacob, John,
Da\-id, Ennna, Milton and Solomon.
Thomas Raub. the eldest child and the sub-
ject of this sketch, owing to the delicate
health of his mother, when \et a babe was
put with his maternal grandparents and with
them spent his childhriod and youth. When
six years old he started to the country dis-
trict school, not because of any special desire
to go, but because his grandfather, with a
switch in hand, persuaded him. His first
teacher was a man named Horace Dasher.
Following him came Daniel Uhrich, who
was a graduate of Mercersburg College.
L'hrich was his teacher for several years, and
under him he made good progress. He re-
members him as a natural instnictor and a
good disciplinarian, but as receiving a sal-
ary of only $16 a month. On reaching his
seventeenth year Thomas R. Burgner was ap-
prenticed to the milling trade with Solomon
Shaeffer. at Harpers, on Indian Town creek,
a stream which had so much fall that the
mills along its banks were all propelled by
overshot wheels. After completing his ap-
prenticeshii) he worked as a journevman for
eio"hteen months in the same mill. He next
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worked for a short time as journeyman in
a mill at Jonestown, Lel^anon county. From
Jonestown he came to Cumberland county
and rented the Eckert mill, situated at the
mouth of the Green Sprin^, on the Conedo-
guinet creek, and started in business for
himself. After two years he went from
Eckert's to the Trindle Spring, to a mill
owned by one Samuel Benson, and which
possessed a special interest for him in that
his father, when a young man, had helped
to build it.
By this time the war of the Rebellion was
on, there came a call for troops to defend
Pennsylvania from invasion by the Confed-
erates, and he enlisted for the emergency.
He joined the company of Capt. Daniel
Shelly, of Shiremanstown, which went
(never ofificially mustered) into service as
Company A of the ist Regiment Pennsylva-
nia Militia, Col. Henry McCormick, which
was a part of the body of 35,000 untrained
and patriotic men which under Gen. Johti F.
Reynolds crossed into ^Maryland and took
position to the right of Gen. McClellan's
army, while the result of the battle of Antie-
tam hung trembling in the balance. Upon
this memorable occasion Mr. Burgner was
made ciuartermaster and assigned the diffi-
cult and important duty of distributing ra-
tions to his regiment after the men had been
without food for two days, and all this time
lying in line of battle in an advanced posi-
tion.
While this army of emergency men did
not come into actual conflict with tlie enemy
the experience was a taste of war that after-
ward led many of the participants to volun-
teer for the war. Among this number was
Thomas Burgner. Immediately upon being
discharged from the militia service he en-
listed, Oct. 17, 1862, in Company C, 3d
Pennsylvania Artillery, I52d Regiment in
line, for three years or during the war. This
regiment was formed specially for the sea-
coast heavy artillery service, and with a
view of making it part of the garrison of
Fortress Monroe. Thirty-one of his com-
rades were from the vicinity of Mechanics-
burg and Shiremanstown, and his company,
almost entirely, was made up of men from
Cumberland county. The regiment was as-
signed to the Department of the Virginia,
afterward the James, and belonging to the
artillery arm of the service was divided up
and distributed to different points on the
peninsula and about Richmond, as the opera-
tions of the army required. Two companies
of it participated in the famous engagement
at Chapin"s Farm, and others were engaged
at Petersburg, Sailor's Creek, and Appo-
mattox.
Early in 1863, soon after getting to the
front, Mr. Burgner was recommended for
the position of military librarian, whose
chief duties were to take care of the
historical collections and artillery school
stores at Fortress Monroe. He passed
a regular examination before a board
of United States army officers, was ap-
pointed to the place, and faithfully dis-
charged its duties until the end of his term
of enlistment. During that time he also held
the position of recorder to general courts
martial and military commissions, and as
such recorded many secrets of the_gravest
character. He was discharged on Oct. 19,
1865, at the expiration of his term of service.
On returning home from the army Mr.
Burgner for a period of two years engaged
in the mercantile business at Shiremanstown
with Daniel Rupp, and then for two years
more sold nursery stock for Henry S. Rupp,
of Shiremanstown. He then returned to
the milling trade and for six years was head
miller for Thomas B. Bryson, at the Silver
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Spring. Next he and John G. Krall pur-
chased the Hays Mill, located on the north
side of the Conedoguinet creek, in Frank-
ford township, and for two years operated it.
After two years they dissolved their partner-
ship, and on April i, 1876, Mr. Burgner
leased what formerly was known as the
Lindsey Mill, in West Pennsboro township,
which he l.as been operating continuously
ever since.
Mr. Burgner is an intelligent, progres-
sive man. and a vigorous independent
thinker. He devotes much time to reading
and studying the current literature of this
time, also that relating to his business, and
consequently is well informed on all up-to-
date ideas and inventions. He is a member
of the Pennsylvania Millers' Association,
which covers all of the country east of the
Ohio river, and for the past seven years has
been one of its board of directors. He is
one of the active spirits of the organization
and frequently appears upon the program
of its proceedings, having in late years de-
livered a number of addresses which have
been published in the trade journals and ex-
tensively circulated throughout the country.
Chief among these productions are "Credit,
or Pay as You Go," and "Eastern Field for
Eastern Millers." In politics, he is a Repub-
lican and Lakes an active interest in public
afifairs. He is not an office-seeker, but was
elected county auditor in 1875 and again
in 1878, and through his rigid care and dis-
crimination substantial reforms were accom-
plislied.
Thomas Burgner was married, on Dec.
I, 1857, to ]\Iiss Lizzie Eckert, of Newville,
a daughter of John Eckert, of Cumberland
county, who in i860 moved to Morgan coun-
ty, Va., and died there in 1880 at the age of
eighty years. To their union the following
children have been born: Mary Agnes;
John E., who for more than twenty-five
years has been in the West and has now
charge of a large mill at North Platte, Neb. ;
Alice, who is married to Simon W'. Brehm
and lives at Uniontown, Pa. ; Francis Henry,
who died in infancy; Lizzie A., who is mar-
ried to Mervin J. Shambaugh, and lives in
York, Pa. ; Emma C. ; Ida Margery ; Re-
becca Ray: Thomas U. S. ; Carrie Lucretia;
and Arthur LeRoy. Three of the daughters,
Alice, Lizzie and Rebecca, have been success-
ful teachers in the public schools of Cumljer-
land county.
There are some incidents in the life of
Thomas R. Burgner that his biographer
thinks of sufficient importance to lay before
the reader in this connection : While the
Pennsvlvania Militia. exhausted from
marching and lack of food, were lying with-
in hearing distance of Antietam's guns,
orders came that the commissariat should
enter the neighboring houses and prepare
coffee and food for the command. This w'as
done, in some instances against the protests
and opposition of the occupants. About three
o'clock in the morning, while making great
quantities of coffee, in a Maryland farmer's
kitchen. Quartermaster Burgner was hon-
ored with a call from Gen. Reynolds and
Col. McCormick. They had been riding
around most of the night, studying the situa-
tion, and sniffing the aroma of the Quarter-
master's steaming coffee, had stopped in to
sample it. They drank of it heartily and
pronounced it the best they had ever tasted.
Coming from such judges he considered it
high praise.
In the performance of his duties at
Fortress ]\Ionroe events that have become
imbedded in our national histoiy came under
his immediate observation. For about one
year there lay in Hampton Roads three Rus-
sian ships of war, most advantageously an-
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chored in case of conflict between tliem and
some British ships of war that lay there at
the same time. The presence of these Rus-
sian battlesliips was a token of that country's
friendship for our government and a warn-
ing to England to keep hands off. This was
understood l)y the officers and men at the
Fort, and the Russian officers were highly
favored by the Americans. Upon one occa-
sion they were tendered a banquet which
lasted from 8 p. m. of one day to 4 a. m. of
the next. Of this banquet, by reason of his
official presence, Mr. Burgnier saw much that
did not appear in the newspaper reports of
the affair, and which with him will always be
an interesting reminiscence.
During the early part of the year 1865
Mr. Burgner's eyes were greeted with a
sight that seared itself into his memory for
life. It was a group of some of the most
conspicuous characters in the great conflict,
in a peace conference. Alexander H. Ste-
phens, John A. Campbell and Robert M. T.
Hunter, Confederates, had met President
Lincoln and Secretary Seward on the boat
"Sylvan Dell." anchored al)out a hundred
feet out from the union wharf. The distin-
guished party had come out upon deck and
were engaged in conversation near the stern
of the boat, in full view of those upon shore.
There stood the tall spare form of President
Lincoln, in sharp contrast with that of Mr.
Stephens, Vice-President of the Southern
Confederacy, discussing one of the weight-
iest problems of history, while those who
beheld them, knowing what was the subject
that was being considered, were awed into
silence.
After Jefferson Davis was captured he
was confined in Carroll Hall, Fortress Mon-
roe, in close proximity to the post
library in the same building. By or-
der of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Davis
was given the use of the library, and
it became a part of Mr. Burgner's duties to
carry to him such reading matter as the dis-
tinguished prisoner called for. He was a
great reader, his preference being memoirs
and auto-biography. Members of his family
frequently called to see him and Mr. Burg-
ner'w^as the ofticer charged with admitting
them, also to the post library while on their
visits. In this way he saw much of Mr.
Davis, and had good opportunity of studying
him. He was calm and dignified in his bear-
ing, and courteous and polite to all, irre-
spective of rank and authority. His appear-
ance impressed everyone who saw him with
the fact that he was a man of great power, a
mortal of more than ordinary mould. While
Mr. Burgner is not a product of the schools,
he had ten six months' terms in the common
schools during the period of his youth. The
common schools of that day were models of
discipline and attention. The training re-
ceived during his three years of army life
was varied and far-reaching, being gained
under the guidance of able men. The tokens
of high regard held by him from his supe-
riors must always remain a source of grati-
fication to him and his family.
JOSEPH PIERCE NEVIN (de-
ceased ) , who for many years was one of the
leading merchants of Shippensburg, was
born March 30, 1813, in the borough of
Shippensburg, son of David and Mary
(Pierce) Nevin.
The records of the family have not been
carefully preserved, but it is known that the
great-grandfather was one Daniel Nevin,
who married Mrs. Margaret (Williamson)
Reynolds. On the maternal side, the family
resided near Carlisle, in Cumberland county.
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David Xevin, father of Joseph P., was
a prominent merchant in this city, and was
extensively interested in real estate, the
owner of se\-eral good farms and a couple
of mills, which he operated in connection
with his other business enterprises.
The late Joseph Pierce Xe\'in was reared
in Shippensburg where he secured a good,
common school education, and assisted his
father at home until his maturity. That he
was a young man of parts and character,
may be inferred when it is known that, al-
though so young, he was entrusted h\ his
father with the task of looking after his
large lousiness interests in the South. This
mission he successfully performed, and upon
his return to Shippensburg, took the superin-
tendency of his father's business, continuing
with him as such until the latter's death,
when he settled up the extensive estate. Mr.
Nevin then entered into a dry goods business
on his own account, and built up a large
trade, also, in the meantime, superintending
several farms.
Mr. Xe\in was twice married, first to
Miranda Kellogg, of Shippensburg, former-
ly of Connecticut, who died in 1844. To
this union three children were born, the only
survivor being Miss Josephine E. The sec-
ond marriage was to another estimable lady.
Miss Jane Craig, of Welsh Run, Pa., who
died in 1902. Both wives were interred in
Spring Hill cemetery.
The late Mr. Xe\-in was a stanch Demo-
crat, and held a number of the minor town-
ship offices. For a number of years he was
trustee in the Presbyterian Church, and one
of its most liberal supporters. In business
he was honorable and upright ; in the domes-
tic circle, a kind and affectionate husband
and a careful and indulgent father. He built
the handsome family mansion known as
"\\'a\'erlv," a conunodious stone structure.
with attractive surroundings, and here he
spent his last days. His death took place
July 15, 1859.
GEORGE HEMMIXGER, ^I. D., a
prominent physician and surgeon at Car-
lisle. J 'a., comes of sturdy old German stock
and of a family that is honorably known in
a number of the States of the Union.
John Hemminger, his grandfather, emi-
grated fr(im Germany and settled in Lan-
caster county. Pa., when a young man, and
there married Barbara Rhemm. To them
were born three sons, John, Jacob and Sam-
uel, and one daughter, Xancy, who married
George Stubbs, of Cumberland countv. in
1 800.
J(jhn Hemminger, the eldest .son of John
Hemminger. Sr., married Eliza Heagy, and
they settled on the old farm two and a half
miles west of Carlisle, where the followins"
named children were born to them: Jane A.,
who became the wife of Lafayette Peffer, of
Dickinson township, and had children ; John,
Jr.. who became a farmer near Waynesboro,
Franklin county: Sarah: Samuel, deceased;
Catherine, who became the wife of J. E.
B. Graham and removed to the vicinity of
Lincoln, X^b., (they have a family) : Wil-
liam, who died in 1S73, leaving a widow;
Joseph, wlio died in 1883, leaving a widow:
Mary, who married William McCullough, of
near Shippensburg, Cumberland county
(they have a family) : Hettie, who became
the wife of Joseph Beetem, of Carlisle, and
had a family ; Jacob, of Carlisle ; Dr. George ;
and Susannah.
George Hemminger was born Sept. 8.
1840, on his father's farm near Carlisle, and
received his primary education in the district
schools. Li 1 86 1 he entered Pennsylvania
College, in the Freshman class, and one year
later successfully passed the examination for
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the Sophomore year, but the outbreak and
continuance of tlie Civil war changed his
plans at that time. In August, 1S62, in com-
pany with se\'en of his classmates, he went
to Harrisburg', and on the i6th his name was
enrolled as a member of Company B, 138th
r. \'. I. With his command he was as-
signed to duty at the Relay House, where he
remained until June 16, 1863. As a member
of the 2d Brigade, 3d Division, he was en-
gaged with the force transporting stores to
Washington, D. C. From the ist to the 5th
of July he was at Wapping Heights, \'a. ;
July 23 was at Kelly's Ford : Nov. 7 at
Brandy Station; Nov. 8 at I\Iine Run; from
Nov. 26 to Dec. 2 at Locust Grove. In
March, 1864, he was assigned to the 6th
Corps, and from May 5th to 7th took part in
the battle of the Wilderness ; was at Spottsyl-
vania from the 12th to the 19th; at Cold
Harbor June ist to 3d; in the trenches at
Bermuda Hundred, June 17; destruction of
the Weldon railroad, June 22-22, ■ '^^ ^lono-
cacy, Md., July 9; from Feb. 17, 1865, until
March 25th, when he was paroled, he was a
prisoner of war, at Danville and at Libby, in
Richmond. On April 10, 1865, the young
soldier returned to his regiment, marching
with it to Danville, where he had suffered
imprisonment, and then proudly with Gen.
Sherman's victorious army to attend the
Grand Review at Washington, June 8, 1865.
Having gallantly and faithfully served
his country, the young student returned to
his books, entering Dickinson College, at
Carlisle, for a year, and then beginning the
study of medicine under Dr. J. J. Zitzer:
later he spent one term at the University of
Michigan, at Ann Arbor. He then entered
the College of Medicine at Detroit and was
there graduated in 1 869. For the succeeding
six years he practiced his profession at New-
^■ille, removins' thence to Baltimore, Md.,
where he formed a partnership with his old
preceptor. Dr. J. J. Zitzer, with whom he
remained until the fall of 1875, when he re-
turned to Carlisle. Here Dr. Hemminger
has been actively engaged in practice ever
since, his clientele being so large at the pres-
ent time that it is almost burdensome. Both
as a physician and a citizen he is held in the
highest esteem.
Dr. Hemminger was married (tirst)
Feb. II, 1871, to Annie Powell, a native of
Maryland, daughter of Col. Samuel R. and
Mary A. (Kelly) Powell, of Baltimore. One
son, George R., was born to this union April
2^. 1872, was graduated at St. Stephen's In-
stitute, and is now located at Manchester,
N. H., where he is superintendent of the
United Gas Improvement Co., whose main
offices are in Philadelphia, at the corner of
Broad and Arch streets.
Dr. Hemminger married for his second
wife Miss Nina Oyster, daughter of D. K.
and Catherine (Drabaugh) Oyster, of Mis-
souri, a lady of charming manners and a
true Southern type. Dr. Hemminger is a
member of the Lutheran Church. He is con-
nected with the various medical organiza-
tions and is prominent fraternally in the
Masonic bodies, belonging to St. John's
Commandery, No. 361, Knights Templar, of
Carlisle.
JOHN CLENDENIN ECKELS. Else-
where in these biographical annals it is re-
lated that the first Eckels known to have set-
tled in Pennsylvania had a son named Na-
thaniel. This Nathaniel Eckels for his sec-
ond wife married Mrs. Isabella (Huston)
Clendenin, who was the widow of James
Clendenin c^nd a daughter of Samuel and
Isabella (Sharon) Huston. Nathaniel Eckels
and Isabella, his wife, had a son Francis,
who married Miss Isabella Clendenin, daugh-
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ter of John and Elizabeth (Caldwell) Clen-
denin. by whom he had seven children,
among them a s^n named John Clendenin
Eckels. [Histories of the Clendenins and
the Hustons appear in other parts of this
volume. ]
John Clendenin Eckels was born April
13, 1824, in the northwestern part of what
is now Silver Spring township, in a home
now owned by the heirs of the late William
Jacobs, \\hen five years of age his father
moved to a large farm lying in Coffman's
Point, on the south side of the Conedoguinet
creek, on the eastern border of Silver Spring
township, where he farmed as a renter for
six vears. Here began the boy's education
and preparation for the serious duties of life.
He was first sent to a school taught in a log
house which stood on the north side of the
turnpike, a little way east of where that
road crosses the Silver Spring as it courses
northward towards the Conedoguinet. The
Eberlys, the Sprouts, the Emingers and the
Cobles were some of his school and play-
mates. The turnpike was then the great
thoroughfare of the country, and from
morning until night was crowded with
traffic. Swift stages, filled with dusty pas-
sengers, came and went; large Conestoga
wagons with high bowed covers and bell
teams passed in endless procession, and in
full view of this moving panorama, among
these shifting, distracting scenes. John C.
Eckels was first taught to mind his books
and study his lessons.
The next school he attended was on the
McGuire farm, on the north side of the
Conedoguinet, taught liy his cousin Jona-
than Eckels, who, though of diminutive size
and deformed, was in his day one of the
most successful teachers in the county. The
jMcGuires, the \\'ilts, the Adamses and the
Sprouts were some of his fellow pupils in
this school. Afterward he attended for a
session or two. a school at Hogestown. which
being situated on the turnpike presented to
him much the same scenes which met his
gaze from the door-steps of his first school,
but being some years older they did not so
vividly and effectually root themselves into
his memory. In 1835 his parents moved a
mile due north rif Xew Ivingst(~iwn, to a farm
which became John C. Eckels's home for
nearly all the rest of his lifetime. Here he
attended a school located near Crider's Alill,
on the road leading to Hogestown, and
which was patronized by the Beltzhoovers,
the Irvines, the Armstrongs, the Hermans,
and other representative families of that sec-
tion. By this time he had reached boyhood's
prime and won for himself prominence in
class and on playground. He was beginning
to feel the promptings of ambition, studied
hard, and freely participated in the games
and frolics which gave to the country school
life of those days interest and zest. In his
reminiscences in after years he frecjuently
referred to his experiences at this school, and
often related how a teacher of precious mem-
ory named Ben Hippie, on being barred out
at the Christmas holidays, smilingly in-
formed the boys that in anticipation of the
event he had engaged with "Black Jack"
at Hogestown a whole bushel of cakes, and
capped the announcement by appointing a
delegation to fetch the grand treat, of which
proud and happy delegation John C. Eckels
was a member. The adoption of the free
school system wiped the school at this place
out of existence and he then for several
terms attended school at Xew Kingston.
He was naturally of a bright mind and made
good progress in the various branches that he
studied. He also attended a Sunday-school
which his father and John Herman orga-
nized and conducted in the old log school
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house near Crider's Mill, and in his leisure
hours did miscellaneous reading which
added much to his stock of general informa-
tion. Between school terms he worked upon
the farm and with hands and mind thus con-
stantly employed he steadily advanced upon
the years of young manhood.
His standing at school had attracted at-,
tention and become the subject of conversa-
tion in the neighborhood ; his conduct and
address had won him the respect and favor
of influential people, and one day a commit-
tee unexpectedly called upon him with a
formal request that he come and teach a
school which they represented. He appre-
ciated the compliment but hesitated to accept
the responsibility; besides his father feared
it might prove too much of an undertaking
and cautioned him against acting hastily in
the matter. The committee, however, were
urgent, and finally persuaded him to teach
their school. This was in the fall of 1845,
and the school in question was known as
Lambertons, in North Middleton, now Mid-
dlesex township. He boarded in the home
of Squire Abraham Lamberton, where he
found congenial associates who encouraged
and strengthened him in his labors. In Feb-
ruary of that winter his mother died, which
was a very heavy affliction, but in the Lam-
berton home he found sympathy, and he
often afterward recalled how Mrs. Lamber-
ton consoled him in his sore bereavement.
Squire Lamberton was an enthusiastic friend
of popular education, and a practical sur-
veyor, and from his example the young
teacher caught inspiration that had much to
do with shaping his course through life.
His term of teaching in North Middleton
township was the opening of John C.
Eckels' career. In the following summer a
new school house was built and a new school
created in the immediate vicinity of his
home. He did hauling and in other ways
assisted in the erection of this house, and the
school, because of its situation and associa-
tions, came to be known as the Eckels
school. He became its first teacher, teaching
it in the winter term of 1846-47 at a salary of
$16 a month. In the spring of 1847 '""^ s""
tered New Bloomfield Academy, of which
Rev. ^latthew B. Paterson was the principal,
and from Mr. Paterson received his first
instruction in the science of surveying, in
which he afterward so long and so success-
fully engaged. He spent one term in the
New Bloomfield Academy and on his return
home resumed teaching at the Eckels school,
which he taught in all four winter terms.
In the fall of 1850 he was employed
to teach in the New Kingstown school.
New Kingstown then had but one
school and that was held in an old
house which stood back of the former
Lutheran church, and so low in the ground
that in wet seasons the w'ater would run in
on the floor. This school was large and
there were frequently between eighty and
a hundred pupils in attendance. He con-
tinued to teach here until in the spring of
1852, when he started farming on the Eckels
homestead, his father removing to New
Kingstown.
On May i, 1851, John C. Eckels was
married to Mary Lee Kenyon, by Rev. O.
O. McLean, pastor of the Dickinson Presby-
terian Church. Mary L. Kenyon was a
daughter of Samuel Maxson Kenyon and
Eliza Jane (Kincaid) Kenyon. Both the
Kenyons and the Kincaids were intelligent
and progressive families, and in their day
prominent and influential in the affairs of
Cumberland county. The former were from
New England, Roger Kenyon, the father of
Samuel Maxson, being born in the State
of Rhode Island. He married Esther IMax-
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son and soon after his tliird child was born
mo\-ed to Connecticut. From Connecticut
he came by sea to Baltimore and from there
to Adams county, Pa., where he follo\ved the
a^'ocation of farming until near the end of
his life. His wife died in their home in
Adams county and is Ijuried at Round Hill,
in that county. After her death he removed
to Allegheny county, to which locality his
son had preceded him, and where he died
at an advanced age. Roger and Esther
(Maxson) Kenyon had the following chil-
dren : Esther, who married William Moor-
head, and lived near York Springs ; Denni-
son. who enlisted in the army and was lost
in the campaign against the Indians in Flor-
ida : Samuel Maxson ; Robert, who married
Eliza Halbert, of Carlisle, and removed to
Pittsburg, and later to Missouri; Phineas,
who went to California ; and William, who
died of vellow fever on board a vessel coming
from Florida, and was buried at sea.
Samuel Maxson Kenyon was born at
"\^'esterly, R. L, July 27, 1801. and was yet
very young when his parents moved to Con-
necticut, and only a youth when they lo-
cated in Pennsylvania. His boyhood days
were spent with his parents on the farm,
but it is known that he also lived several
years with "Judge" Neely. who was a farmer
near Gettysburg. When about sixteen years
of age he came to Carlisle, and attended a
select school taught by a famous teacher
named Gad Day. Stephen Culbertson and
Dr. Robert Young, late of Mechanicsburg,
were two of his schoolmates. About the
time he reached his twentieth year he began
teaching at a schoolhouse situated on the
Y'ork road, in Dickinson township, at a place
which was frequently known as Kenyon's
Cross Roads. Later the place was known
as Weakley's, and at present the schoolhouse
is known as "The Hedge." Here he taught
a long time, and after some years bought a
lot and built himself a house. Along with
his teaching he also did farming, and for
seven years farmed the farm now owned
by John Monroe. Afterward he moved to a
point on the Walnut Bottom road, where he
li\ed during the latter years of his life. He
taught for over forty years, and with the
exception of one term all his teaching was
done in Dickinson township. The Peffers,
the Weakleys. the Hustons, the Stuarts, and
other old families, wdiose names are insepa-
rably connected with that part of Cumber-
land county, were his jmtrons, and in some
instances into the second generation. He
began teaching long before the free school
system was created and his schools, though
raised by subscription, were nearly always
large, and included a winter and a summer
term. After an interruption of several years
he taught at "The Savannah," wdiich he
taught against the advice and protests of his
family. In 1849 l^^ ^^'''^s elected justice of
the peace, and afterward, at the expiration
of each term, re-elected until his death.
The religious predilections of the Ken-
yons were Baptist, but on locating in Cum-
berland county Samuel M. united with the
Presbyterian Church in Carlisle, then in
charge of Rev. George Duffield, of whom he
was a great admirer. He continued in this
church until after he became permanently
settled in Dickinson township, when he
transferred his membership to the Dickinson
Presbyterian Church because of it being
nearer and more convenient. On Nov. 15,
1827, he was married to Eliza Jane Kincaid,
the Rev. Dr. Duffield performing the cere-
mony. Eliza Jane Kincaid was born on
March 14, 1806, and was a daughter of John
Kincaid and Mary Lee, his wife. John Kin-
caid was married to Mary Lee on April 27,
1796, by Rev. Dr. Robert Davidson, and en-
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gaged at fanning in Dickinson township
until well advanced in years. He died while
visiting one of his children in Sinking Val-
ley, Huntingdon county, and is buried there.
Mary Lee Kincaid, his wife, died Sept. 12,
1866, at the age of ninety-five years, and is
buried in the graveyard of the Dickinsoa
Presbyterian Church.
Samuel M. and Eliza Jane (Kincaid)
Kenyon had the following children: Mary
Lee, Jane Ellen. Esther Elizaljeth, Anna
Grizzelle, John Roger, Charles Cummins,
James A\'oodburn and Benjaiuin Franklin.
Six of theie eight children became teachers,
several of them teaching for a long while
and with distinguished success. Samuel
Maxson Kenyon died Sept. 12, 1869; Eliza
Jane Kincaid, his wife, died Sept. 21, 1856,
and the remains of both rest in the graveyard
of the Dickinson Presbyterian Church in
Penn township. Mary Lee Kenyon. the
eldest child, was born Nov. 10, 1828. in
Dickinson township. She received her edu-
cation in the public schools of her native
district under the immediate supervision of
her father, and early began teaching. Among
the schools she taught were Shady Grove
and Savannah, of Dickinson township. Cen-
ter, of Southampton, and Green Hill, of
West Pennsboro. Her teaching career ter-
minated with her marriage, but subsequently
she several times taught as substitute for
her husband, upon occasions when he was
temporarily called away upon other business.
John C. Eckels had grown to manhood
on the home which his father bought in
1835 and circumstances being favorable he
started farming upon it in the spring follow-
ing his marriage. He farmed continuously
for twenty-seven years. After his father's
death he purchased the place and improved
it. increasing the producti\'eness of its acres
and the con\'enience and appearance of its
buildings. To him it was the most loved
spot on earth, for it had been the home of
his parents, it was his home for forty-four
years, and upon it all of his children were
born and grew to maturity. He was a sur-
veyor and along with his farming did much
surveying. His reputation as a surveyor and
draftsman spread, and in 1862 he was
elected county surveyor continuing in that
office for about twelve years. His friendship
for the cause of education led to his election
as school director in Sil\-er Spring township,
in which capacity he continued for twenty
years and did some of his most beneficent
and lasting work. Besides these trusts of a
public nature he was also frequently called
upon to act as trustee and guardian in pri-
vate estates in which line he had much to
do up to near the time of his death. In 1878
he was elected to the office of county treas-
urer and for three years discharged the
duties of that responsible position with credit
to himself and satisfaction to the public.
After his election as county treasurer he re-
linquished farming and removed to Carlisle
in order to be near his post of duty and to
give several of his sons college advantages.
After his term as county treasurer he again
became interested in the settlement of estates,
also in business enterprises, and for about
fourteen years was a director of the Farmers'
Bank of Carlisle. In the fall of 1879 he pur-
chased a home on South West street, Car-
lisle, where he lived until the end of his days.
In religion John C. Eckels was a Pres-
byterian, as were his ancestors before him.
He united with the Church at Silver Spring
when nineteen years of age, and in 1851,
the year in which he married, transferred his
membership to the Second Presbyterian
Church of Carlisle. In June. 1861, he was
elected an elder, and from that date down to
the time of his death, a period of thirty-five
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long years, discharged the duties of his elder-
ship with the most reverent and conscien-
tious fidelity. He was a delegate to the
Presbyterian General Assembly at Detroit
in 1872, also at Saratoga in 1883. He also
attended the Assembly which met in Phila-
delphia in 1870; the Centennial Assembly in
1888, and the Assembly which met in Wash-
ington, D. C, in 1893. He was an industri-
ous and zealous friend of the Sunday-school,
was teacher of a Bible class almost contin-
ually and for several years superintendent of
the school. He died May 22, 1896. and was
laid to rest in Ashland cemetery at Carlisle.
John C. and Mary L. (Kenyon) Eckels
had children as follows : Cynthia Jane,
Mervin Johnston, Francis Kenyon, John
Clendenin, Charles Edmund. William Alex-
ander, and a daughter who died in infancy.
Of the si.x children named five had the ad-
vantage of higher institutions of learning,
three became college graduates, and all of
the five in their earlier years engaged at
teaching. Cynthia J., on leaving the com-
mon school, attended a young ladies' semi-
nary at Mount Joy, Pa. She is unmarried,
and her aged mother and she comprise all
of the family that is now left in the home at
No. 156 South West street, Carlisle.
Mervin Johnston Eckels, the eldest son,
was born June 18, 1854, and prepared for
college at the Chambersburg Academy. He
then entered Lafayette College and gradu-
ated from that institution in 1877. After
his graduation from college he taught in the
A-cademy at West Xottingham, Md., until
in 1879, when he entered the Western Theo-
logical Seminary at Allegheny as a member
of the class of 1882. He was ordained a
minister of the gospel Ijy the Presbytery of
Baltimore in Octolier, 1882. The first
charge to which he was called was at Havre
de Grace, Md., where he remained three
years. Next he was called to Salisbury, Md.,
where he continued five years, after
which he served a charge at Bradford,
Pa., for three years He then received
and accepted a call to the \\'est Arch
Street Presbyterian Church, in Philadelphia,
which he has continued to fill ever since.
In 1894 Lafayette College conferred upon
h.im the degree of D. D. He is a member of
the Board of Publication of the Presbyte-
rian Church ; a trustee of the Presbytery of
Philadelphia, and a trustee of Wilson Col-
lege, Chambersburg. During the summer of
1901, and again in 1904, he took trips abroad
visiting England, .Scotland and Ireland, also
France, Switzerland, Italy, and other coun-
tries on the continent.
On Dec. 11, 1883, Rev. Mervin J. Eckels
was married to Miss Susan Tudor Kenly,
of Harford county, Md., by whom he has
had two children, both of whom died in
infancy.
Francis Kenyon Eckels, the third child,
was born on Sept. 7, 1856. On leaving the
public school he learned the printing trade
in the ofifice of the Valley Sentinel and after-
ward for a long time worked as a journey-
man in Mechanicsburg. Later he worked
in Carlisle and was foreman of the Sentinel
composing room when he died. On Dec.
25, 1879, he married Katie Sheibner, of Me-
chanicsburg, and by her had one child, a
daughter, who died at the age of six and a
half months. He died on March 25, 1887,
and afterward his wife had her home with
his parents in Carlisle imtil her death. She
passed away Jan. 7. 1904. and with her hus-
band is buried in Ashland Cemetery.
John Clendenin Eckels, the fourth child,
bears his father's name. He was born Dec.
22, 1858, and was educated in the common
school and at the Cumberland Valley State
Normal School. Before completing his
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course at the normal school he was called
home by the illness of his father to attend to
the management of the farm. With his farm
duties he found time and inclination to do
teaching and taught the Hepburn school in
Middlesex township and the Eckels school
in Silver Spring township, each one term.
When his parents moved to Carlisle he took
entire charge of the farm and farmed until
1 88 1, wlien he also came to Carlisl^ At
first he clerked in a store, but soon formed
a partnership with L. R. Brenneman, and
under the firm name of Brenneman & Eckels
conducted a retail shoe business. Mr. Bren-
neman sold his interest to W. C. Stuart, and
Eckels & Stuart continued the business until
in July, 1903, when Mr. Eckels sold out to
Mr. Stuart for the purpose of going into the
insurance and real-estate business, in which
he is now engaged. In 1897 he was elected
a director of the Merchants' National Bank
of Carlisle, and was made secretary to its
board, which place he still holds. On Feb.
19, 1 89 1, he was married to Miss Alice E.
Smiley, daughter of Rev. James W. and
]\Iaria Emma (Green) Smiley, of Carlisle,
Rev. W, A. West performing the ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Eckels belong to the Second
Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, the church
of their parents, in which ]Mr. Eckels is an
elder and clerk of the session. Formerly he
held the place of trustee. He is also presi-
dent of the Y. M. C. A. of Carlisle, and is
acti\e and influential in whatever sphere he
is called upon to act.
Charles Edmund Eckels, the fifth child.
was born Aug. 15, 1861. and graduated as
A. B. from Dickinson College in 1885. He
then taught in Cecil county, ]Md., and pri-
vately studied theology. After being thus
engaged for two years he entered the Senior
class at Princeton Theological Seminary,
from which he graduated in 1888. He then
placed himself in the hands of the Presby-
terian Board of Foreign ^Missions, who the
same year sent him as missionary to Siam, in
which field he has been devotedly laboring
ever since. He is now in charge of the sta-
tion at Nakawn-see-tamarat, Siam, on the
west coast of the Gulf of Siam. On Nov.
24, 1892, at Petchaburi, Siam, he married
Miss Margaret Gait, a missionary from the
State of Illinois, by whom he has the fol-
lowing children : Annabel, John Clendenin,
Mary Happer, and Charles Kenyon.
^\'illiam Alexander Eckels, the youngest
son, was born Nov. 4, 1863, and prepared
for college at West Nottingham Academy,
Md. He then entered Dickinson College,
from which institution he graduated as A.
B. in 1883. After graduating he taught in
academies, high schools and colleges of sev-
eral diflferent States and in 1898 received the
degree of Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity. He is now Professor of Greek in
Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio. On
June 24, 1904, at Shandon, Ohio, he mar-
ried Anna Longlej' Williams, who was born
at Kalgan, China, May 30, 1878. Her
father. Rev. Mark Williams, D. D., has been
since 1866 a missionary of the American
Board (Congregational) in China, and is
now a professor in the North China College/
at Tungcho. Her mother, Isabella (Riggs)
Williams, was a daughter of Dr. Steplien R.
Riggs, the veteran missionary to the Da-
kotah Indians, compiler of the Dakotah Dic-
tionary, who for a short time served in the
capacity of chaplain at the Carlisle Indian
School.
CALVIN COULSON, in his lifetime
an industrious farmer of South Middleton
township, was the son of William Coulson,
who located in Cumberland county about
Ihirty-five years ago.
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\\'illiam Coulson was born in Yurk coun-
t\-, Pa._, but came to Cumberland county,
and engaged in farming. He died at the
age of sixty-five years upon the same farm
in South Middleton on which he made his
first home upon coming- to the county. He
was greatly respected fi>r his many excellent
qualities, many of which were inherited by
his son, the late Calvin Coulson. He was
the father of the following children : Cahin ;
Sarah J., married; Margaret, married; Lou-
isa, married; Catherine R., married; Alex-
andria, married: Jacob C, married; Levi
S., married : Ira J.. n:arried ; and Anna May,
married.
Calvin Coulson was born in York coun-
ty. Pa., and was brought to South Middleton
township bv his father, working with him
until his marriage. On Aug. 6, 1876, he
married Rachel A. Johnson, daughter of
William and Rebecca Johnson. After their
marriage the young peo])le lived upon the
Coulson fami, and then, after six years,
they went West, settling in Kansas with the
intention of farming, but after six months
they returned to Cumberland county, and
in 1880, Mr. Calvin Coulson bought the
old SheafTer farm consisting of forty-nine
acres, in South Middleton township. Upon
this property he and his wife located, and
lived very happily until his demise at his
home in 1901. He left his widow and one
child, Mima, now attending school, a very
bright and charming girl.
Mr. Coulson was a man of great energy,
a hard worker, and a man universally re-
spected. He died in the prime of life, and is
deeplv lamented by many outside his home
circle.
CHRISTL\N DIETZ (deceased), who
for many years was one of the representative
men of Mechanicsburg, Pa., was born in
York county, this State, Oct. 3, 1832. He
was of German-American orig-in, being a son
of Daniel and Lydia (Stoner) Dietz. whose
ancestors came from Germany and were
among the early settlers of the Keystone
State.
When Christian Dietz was but fi\'e vears
of age his parents came to Cumberland
county, settling in East Pennsboro township,
in 18^7, \\\t\\ their six children: David,
Mary, Zacharias, Christian, Lizzie and
Nancy. All are now deceased except Xancy,
now Mrs. Martin Brinton.
On Jan. 24, 1856, Mr. Dietz married
Miss Elizabeth Wilt, of Cumberland county,
a daughter of John and Elizabeth Wilt, both
natives of Lancaster county and descend-
ants of German parents. The marriage oi
Mr. and Mrs. Dietz was blessed with chil-
dren as follows: George W. (deceased)
married Elizabeth Shuman, and they had
three children. Christian S., Frank and
Walter. Alice J. married Fred S. Mumma,
and had seven children, Ralph, Milton,
Edith, Frederick, Frank, Rofiert and Will-
iam. Rebecca married Frank Basehore, and
had four children, Samuel, Mary, George
and Mabel. Milton married Flora Schaef-
fer, and they had two children, Wilber and
George. Catherine married M. W. Hertz-
ler, and had one daughter, Cora E.
In politics Mr. Dietz was a Democrat,
and served in various township offices, be-'
ing a conscientious official. His religious
affiliations were with the St. John Lutheran
Church. At the time of his death he owned
four of the best farms in Cumberland coun-
ty, having been an active ancl prosperous
farmer for many years. In 1889 he re-
moved to Mechanicsburg, where he lived re-
tired in his beautiful home at No. 319 East
Main street. His death occurred in April,
1902, and the city thereby lost one of its
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solid, reliable men and excellent citizens,
while in his home his memory is ever green.
In addition to his other interests Mr. Dietz
was president of the ^lutual Fire Insurance,
Co., and in all his operations he displayed
the traits of character which gained him
success — sterling honesty, steadfastness of
purpose and unlimited capacity for hard
work.
Since her husliand's death Mrs. Dietz
has resided at her home on Main street.
where she is surrounded by the comforts
provided by his devotion, and dispenses a
gracious hospitality to her large circle of
friends, who admire her many \irtues. In
the Lutheran Church she is a very active
factor, and her charities are many, although
oftentimes unknown except to the recipients.
WILLIAM TRICKETT, LL. D., was
born June 9, 1840, in Leicester, the capital
of Leicestershire, in the heart of England.
While he was only in his second year his
parents removed to the United States, and
settled in Philadelphia, where the son was
brought up attending the primary, second-
ary and grammar schools, and finally at
thirteen, entering the Central high school,
from which he graduated in his seventeenth
year. When eighteen and a half years of
age he became attached to the Philadelphia
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, ami for five or six years preached
at various points in the States of Delaware,
Maryland and Pennsylvania. His health
failing about this time he found it necessarv'
to adopt some other avocation, and, relin-
ciuishing preaching, he entered upon a course
in Dickinson College, from which institu-
tion he graduated in 1868, remaining for
one year after his graduation as principal of
its preparatory school. In the summer of
1869 he was elected an adjunct professor of
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Philosophy in Dickinson College, a position
he held for two years. In 187 1 he went to
Europe, where he remained for sixteen
months, traveling and studying in Germany,
Switzerland and France. While thus en-
gaged in Europe he was elected Professor in
Dickinson College, which place he accepted
on his return, in 1872, and filled until the
fall of 1874, when he resigned it and took
up the study of law. He prepared for the
law at Carlisle, and was admitted to the
Cumberland County Bar in 1875, ^"d to
practice in the Supreme Court in 1877. A
few years after entering upon the practice
of his profession Mr. Trickett turned his
attention to the writing of law books, at
which he has kept assiduously ever since, and
in which line he has won great distinction.
In 1881 he produced in two volumes the
Law of Liens in Pennsylvania, and in 1891
an additional volume on the same subject;
in 1884 the Law of Limitation and the Law
of Assignments; in 1893, the Law of Bor-
oughs, to which he added a supplementary
volume in 1898; in 1894, the Law of High-
ways; in 1900 the Law of Guardians and
the Law of Partition; in 1901, the Law of
Witnesses; and in 1904, the Law of Land-
lord and Tenant, and at present he is en-
gaged on several other important works.
Mr. Trickett never sought office, but in
1 89 1 he was elected to a Constitutional Con-
vention, which convention, however, did not
meet. In 1898 he was one of the Democratic
nominees for Superior Court Judge and re-
ceived 412,580 votes, while his colleagues on
the ticket received an average of 353.117-
His favorite studies in his earlier years were
theology and philosophy ; in later years, law,
sociology and politics in the Aristotelian
sense. He is a member of the American Ear
Association ; of the Pennsylvania Bar Asso-
ciation; and of the American Academy of
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Political and Social Science; in 1S90 De-
Pauw University conferred upon him the
degree of LL. D.
In 1890 Dr. Trickett was elected dean of
the Dickinson Law School, which had then
just been incorporated to continue the work
of an earlier school originated by Hon. John
Reed, a former president judge of the Courts
of Cumberland county. He has been dean
continuously ever since, a period of thirteen
years, during which time 300 lawyers have
been trained in the school, who are now
practicing their profession in Pennsylvania,
Alaryland, New Jersey and other States.
Besides the oversight of the school he has,
during his incumbency, given lectures sev-
eral hours daily on the law of Real Property,
Contracts, E\-idence, Decedent's Estates,
Bills and Notes, Corporations and Constitu-
tional Law. During the first year of the
school under its charter he did all the teacli-
ing that was done. The school has, during
the fourteen vears, reached a maximum of
over 100 full students, besides students of
the College who have taken a practical law
course.
FREDERICK SEIDLE, one of the
leading representatives of the manufactur-
ing interests of Mechanicsburg, Pa., was
born in Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1825, son of
Frederick (Sr.) and Magdalena (Bergner)
Seidle. both nf whom were natives of Wur-
temberg, Germanv. These parents came to
Philadelphia in 1825, where the father en-
gaged in a prijduce business, both in that
city and Lancaster until 1836, when he re-
moved to Cumberland cnunty and purchased
a farm in Silver Spring township. There he
and his wife spent useful lives, and died firm
in the faith of the Mennonite Church. Their
family was as follows : Conrad, deceased ;
Frederick ; ]\Iartha : Anne ; Lizzie and Cath-
erine, the latter of whom is the wife of
Christian Brenner, of Philadelphia.
Until he ^^•as eighteen years of age, our
' subject remained ujx^n the farm, receiving
a limited common school education in Silver
Spring township. At the age of nineteen
years he came to }ilechanicsburg, and served
an apprenticeship at the trade of carpenter
and cabinetmaker. Although he started out
in life with a very small capital, by hard
work, good management and honest methods
he has made a success of his life. He at-
tended the Paris Exposition in 1878, with
exhibits of his manufactured material, and
received several gold medals. Mr. Seidle
also traveled over France, Germany, Eng-
land, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland,
\'isiting many carriage and manufacturing
establishments, and he took orders enough
to keep his business running for over a year.
Prior to the Civil war, Mr. Seidle en-
gaged in business with Samuel Eberly, for
the purpose of manufacturing wagon mate-
rial, such as spokes and other articles per-
taining to wagon making, and also hay
rakes, sash and doors, and all kinds
of building material. About this time
he took out patents on what is
known as the Seidle hay rake, and later
made large sales of it throughoui the entn-e
West. In i860, the partners closed their
business, and engaged in bridge building
for the United States government. After a
year Mr. Seidle returned to Mechanicsburg,
and engaged in the manufacture of hay rakes
until i8f)5, when he again embarked in the
spoke, hul) and wheel industry, from time to
time enlarging his plant, until he is the leader
in his line in this locality, and one of the
largest in the United States.
In November, 1850, Mr. Seidle married
Miss Elizabeth Stevenson, born in Cuml;)er-
land countv, near Harrisbiu-g, a daughter of
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David and Leah (Shriner) Stevenson, na-
tives of Pennsylvania. Three children were
born to them: Albert E., who married Miss
Mary Rodgers, and has one son, Albert ;
William D.. who assists his father in the
businss ; and one child deceased. In Feb-
ruary, 1898, Mr. Seidle lost his wife, whom
he hourly misses, she having been an unusu-
ally charming and cultivated lady. Through-
out his business career, Mr. Seidle has made
many warm friends as well as congenial bus-
iness associates, and he is verv popular as
well as ]irnminent in business and social
circles.
CHRISTIAN LONG. Few citizens of
the Cumberland Valley were more widely
known than the late Christian Long, and few-
deserve more admiration for those sterling
traits of character which enabled him, un-
aided and alone, to rise from poverty and
obscurity to where he dictated measures to
legislative bodies, ruled corporations and
owned land in a score of States.
Christian Long was born in 1814, on the
old Long farm, midway between ^lillers-
town and Liverpool, in Pfoutz's Valley,
Perry county, Pa., and he died at Shippens-
burg, Jan. 16, 1892. His parents were
Christian and Mary (Gable) Long, the lat-
ter being of German descent. His earliest
American ancestor was Isaac Long, but
prior to him the family history consists prin-
cipally of traditions more or less contradict-
ory. According to some old records the
Longs originally came from Baden, Ger-
many; others indicate that they came from
Normandy, in northern France, while still
others show that they were of Scotch-Irish
descent. All three traditions may, in some
sense, be correct, and may be reconciled on
the theory that the Longs were of Scotch
origin, and to get away from religious per-
secution migrated across the English Chan-
nel to Normandy, and thence to Baden, and
thence to Switzerland, where they espoused
the cause of the Protestants, and finally emi-
grated to America. As the Longs were
found in the Mennonite communities of
Lancaster county prior to the Revolution
this explanation seems plausible. The family
has furnished a number of names prominent
in public affairs. Henry D. Long was for
many years presiding judge of the Lancaster
courts, and presented Lancaster City with a
beautiful park bearing his name. He also
established' an asylum for women at a cost
of more than half a million dollars. Charles
D. Long was for many years a member of
the Supreme Court of Michigan, and Ches-
ter I. Long a representative in Congress
from \¥ichita, Kansas.
In 1754, six miles northeast of Lancas-
ter City, Isaac Long erected buildings that
became historical through the great meet-
ing held there in 1777, at wdiich the United
Brethren Church was organized. These old
buildings are still standing and in good re-
pair. They are of stone, and the one in
which the great mass meeting was held is a
perfect square, 108 by 108 feet in size. The
dwelling is also a large structure and built
on the old fashioned colonial style. In
Berger's "History of the United Brethren
Church," reference is made to these build-
ings and the masonry described as being "of
a high order." Their original thatched
roofs long ago gave way to more modern
coverings.
Isaac Long had a son David who was ed-
ucated for the ministry, and in 181 1 settled
near the Juniata- river in the sparsely popu-
lated region of Cumberland county, from
which Perry county was afterward formed.
There he established a church, and acquired
a farm that was afterward distributed to his
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cliildren, the mansion falling to the son
Christian who married Mary Gable.
Christian Long, son of Christian and
Mary (Gable) Long, and the subject of this
sketch, passed his boyhood and early man-
hood at his home in Pfoutz's Valley. Start-
ing out line dav with his grain cradle slung
over his shoulder, and in his hand his stock of
worldly effects bound up in a handkerchief,
he made his first break into the world and
success. Obtaining employment in a harvest
field on a neighboring farm., he earned a few
dollars with which he bought a nice fat calf.
This he killed, and, peddling out the meat,
made several dollars by the venture. En-
couraged by his success he came into the
eastern end of the Cumberland Valley, and
went into the butchering business in earnest.
He bought a horse and wagon and sold to the
farmers, delivering to them fresh meat three
and four times a week. Aljout this time he
met at a farmhouse a stranger who was sell-
ing a mantel clock, which was cheaply gotten
up, but which kept good time. After some
dickering with the stranger he accepted a
proposition to sell clocks on commission.
The clock sold readily, and he found the
business so profitable that he promptly gave
up butchering- and devoted himself exclu-
sively to tlie selling of clocks. \n this new
business of selling clocks he became ac-
quainted with many prominent citizens who
owned of the original stock of the Cumber-
land Valley Railroad, which had depreciated
so heavily that they were willing to part
with it at a mere nominal figure. Being con-
fident that the Cumberland Valley railroad
was a valuable property, and that its stock
was bound to recover, he took it in exchange
for clocks, allowing for it from ten to fifteen
cents on the dollar, and managing to receive
in addition as much cash as the clocks cost
him. In this way he quietly accumulated
enough stock to entitle him to a share in the
management of the road, and to enable him
to dictate to its directors and other ofScials.
He never sold any of his holdings, and the
subsequent rise in the value of the stock
made him a very rich man. This stock trans-
action demonstrated that be possessed nat-
ural business sagacity and foresight of a
high order. It gave him reputation and in-
fluence, and when the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company began to reach out for alliances
with other corporations they sought Mr.
Long's sen-ices, and it was he who secured
the right of way for the Philadelphia &
Erie railroad for a large part of the distance
between Harrisburg and Erie. He was a
stockholder in the Cumberland Valley, in
tl-.e Pennsylvania and in the Northern Cen-
tral railroads; and through the sale of his
interest in the Somerset railroad, became a
bondholder in the Baltimore & Ohio. Being
always faithful to the corporations in which
he held stock he was intrusted with some of
their most important business, and he suc-
cessfully negotiated and adjusted matters,
which ordinarily would have been entrusted
only to astute and experienced corporation
lawyers.
In many ways he was eccentric — a per-
missiljle conditinn with those who are able
to control great interests — and one of his
eccentricities was his pride in being able to
keep intact the confidences reposed in him.
One of the incidents related of him was,
that to perfect some secret arrangements
he, upon one occasion, traveled thousands
of miles without once stopping at a hotel,
where sus]5icious lawyers would have had
opportunities to interrogate him, and all the
food he needed upon the entire trip he car-
ried in his pocket. L^pon another occasion,
when past three score years old. he made
a trip from Harrisburg to Parker's Landing
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to settle a claim against the Allegheny Val-
ley railroad. On arriving at Parker's Land-
ing he learned that the party who held the
claim lived at a place nine miles from the
station, which he reached through the mud,
made a settlement of a twenty-five thousand
dollar claim for eight hundred dollars, se-
cured a release and in less than twenty-four
hours was on his way home. His life was
full of incidents illustrating his close calcula-
tion and wonderful business foresight. He
bought land, and it turned out to be valuable
oil fields ; he invested in small enterprises
and they developed into great corporations.
Business was his occupation and delight, but
occasionally he interested himself in politics
sufficiently to demonstrate that if he chose
he could likewise be a potent factor in that
turbulent field.
As is not always the case Mr. Long had
an entirely different side to his character.
He was devoted to the welfare of his family,
and he loveil his modest home, which with
its familiar surroundings was most comfor-
table to him, although his great wealth
would have permitted much display bad he
cared for ostentation. He made warm
friends and kept them, and by his closest kin-
dred was simply adored.
1837 Mr. Long married Hannah Ellen
Atkinson, a native of York county, who
survived him, but passed away Oct. 28,
1895. One son, Jra, died in the West, July
6, 1 88 1, but the following of his children
still survive: Mrs. Anna E. Geiger and
Mrs. Ella M. Earner, of Shippensburg ;
Mrs. Laura R. Loh, of Harrisburg; Mrs
Fannie A. Williams, of Los Angeles, Cal.,
and Christian, Jr., of Shippensburg.
Until the very last Mr. Long retained
the bodily vigor and mental strength of one
of but half his years, and had not a neglected
cold prostrated him, and finally closed his
activities, it is cjuite possible that he would
have undertaken other and still larger enter-
prises and probably have carried them to
successful completion. His associates in
business were men prominent in great af-
fairs, who were not slow to testify to the
high esteem in which they held him. For
some years his son-in-law, John L. Earner,
a prominent citizen of Shippensburg, had
been associated with Mr. Long in the man-
agement of his multitudinous interests.
WILLIAM MILLER WALKER. One
of the most familiar names upon the early
records of Cumberland county is that of
W^alker. There are, however, different
branches of the family, and whether the
search is directed backward or forward, care
is required upon the part of the historian to
keep the lines separate and distinct. As in
the case of many of the first settlers of Penn-
sylvania, the several branches of this family
came from Ireland. Some time prior to the
war of the Revolution there immigrated to
this country from the North of Ireland a
Walker, whose Christian name has become
lost in the lapse of time, but who furnishes a
worthy progenitor to the subject of this
sketch. According to tradition he settled in
the eastern part of the Province, and partic-
ipated in the struggle for American inde-
pendence. At the battle of Erandywine he
was captured by the Eritish, who to prevent
him from escaping bound him to the wheel
of one of their gun carriages. This Revolu-
tionary sire afterward had a son named
Miller Walker, who married Mary Marsh, a
native of Scotland, but of whose lineage
nothing further is known. Miller and Mary
(Marsh) Walker had children as follows:
Joseph, Miller, Olive, Mary Ann, Ezekiel,
John, Eenjamin Franklin and Thomas.
It is the object of this historical sketch
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to deal ijrincipally with the Hne of Ezekiel
Walker. He was born July 21, 1816, near
the battlefield of Brandywine, in Chester
county, where he grew to manhood, and for
his life occupation learned the shoemaking
trade. In 1839. when ready to take upon
himself the serious duties of life, he located
at Xew\-ille, Cumberland county, and there
engaged in his \ocation of shoemaking, soon
gaining for himself the reputation of being
a very capable workman. He married Har-
riet Rowe, of Green Spring, Newton town-
ship, a native of the vicinity of Reading, and
a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Kendig)
Rowe, of German ancestry. Subsecjuently
he moved to the village of Oakville, and
there continued his business of making and
mending shoes. He was an industrious,
frugal and upright man, lived a modest quiet
life, and raised his family in comfort. He
was reared in the Presbyterian Church, and
in politics was a Democrat, firm in his polit-
ical convictions, but never an active politi-
cian. In his later years he removed from
Oakville to Shippensburg, where in 1892
he closed his long and well-spent life, and
where his widow is still living, at the age of
eighty. Ezekiel and Harriet (Rowe) Wal-
ker, had the following children: William
Miller is mentioned below. Jennie H. be-
came the wife of H. J. Fosnot, of Lewis-
town, Pa., where her husband is a promi-
nent citizen, and editor and publisher of a
Democratic newspaper. Simon H. is an
employe in the Pennsylvania railroad shops
at Altoona. Samuel C. is a clerk in the
offices of the Pennsylvania Railway Com-
pany at Altoona. Sarah H. is the wife of
the Rev. H. Doner, of Shippensburg. Susan
S. is the wife of Fred Kniley, of Lykens,
Pa. Carrie E. is a teacher in the public
schools of Lewistown, Pennsylvania.
William Miller Walker, the eldest child
of the family and the sul)ject of this sketch,
was born Sept. 8, 1844. at Oakville, where
he passed the years of his youth and young
manhood. He was educated in the public
schools, but at a comparatively early age
was put to work in his father's shoemaking
shop, and taught the art of making shoes, a
training that has proved especially useful to
him in the occupation in which he is now en-
gaged. In 1879 '^^ entered upon ruitried
fields. Going t(T Philadelphia, he secured a
position as traveling salesman with B. Ayers
& Co., and was a trusted employe of that
house for seven years. He next engaged
as traveling salesman with Potter & Right-
ington, of Boston, Mass., in whose employ
he continued for seven years, traveling over
the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia and Mary-
land. In 1892 he came to Carlisle, and asso-
ciated himself with the Lindner Shoe Com-
pany, as general salesman, in which capac-
ity he has ever since been engaged. His
duties are of a responsible character, and re-
quire him to canvass systematically a large
section of the country, necessitating frequent
trips and much traveling. Of his success a^i
a salesman, and his fidelity and honesty as
a representative of large business interests,
his historian is forbidden to speak, but on
that point the long terms of service which
have passed to his credit are a testimonial
sufficient to satisfy the -most interested
reader.
Although much from home and fre-
quently at a great distance, Mr. \\'alker from
a sense of duty and a natural affection al-
ways tenderly cared for the aged parents,
who tarried there. It was his especial pleas-
ure to give to both, while they lived, the
ministrations which contributed most to
their comfort and joy, and since the father
is P'one those same filial devotions go to the
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waiting motlier in double measure. Frater-
nally, Mr. Walker is a I\Iason, belonging to
Big Spring Lodge, No. 361, Newville ; St.
John's Chapter, Xo. 171. Carlisle; St. John's
Commander)', No. 8, of Carlisle; and Zembo
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Harrisburg,
Pa. In 1900 he married Annie E. Ander-
son, daughter of David and Martlia (Don-
nelly) Anderson, of Shippensburg, and they-
live in a pleasant home of their own at No.
555 North Hanover street, Carlisle.
GEORGE HUMMEL, whose death
occurred at Mechanicsburg, March 29, 1893,
was one of the honest and upright business
men, who was held in universal esteem, and
whose death left a place not easily filled in
the ranks of business, or in the hearts of
kindred anrl friends. Mr. Hummel was born
Feb. 7, 1822, in the city of Harrisburg, son
of David and Susan (Kunkle) Hummel,
the former of whom was born Sept. 8, 1784,
at Hummelstown, and the latter May 31,
1790, in Harrisburg, Dauphin county, Pa.
Both families are of German extraction, and
old settlers of Lancaster and Dauphin coun-
ties. The children of David and Susan
Hummel were : Catherine, David, Christian,
Mary, Elizabeth, Susan, George, Albert,
Anna, Emily, and others who died in child-
hood. By trade David Hummel was a sad-
dler, and at one time was a man of property
in Harrisburg, owning a part of the land
where the "Commonwealth Hotel" now
stands.
The late George Hummel was educated
in the excellent schools of Harrisburg, com-
ing later to Mechanicsburg, Cumberland
county, to engage in the lumber and ware-
house business, in which he continued many
years, amassing a comfortable fortune. He
was one of the directors of the First National
Bank, of Mechanicsburg, and was its presi-
dent at the time of his death. In politics, he
was an active Republican, and served with
much credit as a member of the council of
Mechanicsburg, also filling odier offices of
a public nature. In religious belief and ob-
servance Mr. Hummel was a Lutheran.
In 1850 Mr.' Hummel married Sarah
Dietz, of York county, who was born Aug.
19, 1825, and five children were born to
them, as follows : Luther M., who died at
the age of twenty-seven years ; Catharine
D., of Mechanicsburg; Mary W. : Susan K. ;
and Elizabeth G., who married John L.
Shelley, an attorney at Mechanicsburg, and
has six children, Sarah E., Elizabeth G.,
John L., Jr., D. Hummel, Paul Webster
and Rachel.
i\Ir. Hummel was always very active in
church and Sunday-school work, and was
liberal in his donations to all religious affairs.
He was known as a man of high moral
character, charitable to the poor and devoted
to his home and family. His bereaved
widow survived him until March, 1898,
when she, too, met a Christian death. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Hummel were widely known,
and were considered with feelings of esteem
and affection by a large circle.
COL. JOSEPH TOTTON. Among
the well known and highly respected citizens
of Mechanicsburg, Pa., who has ser\'ed his
country in war and peace. Col. Joseph Tot-
ton is deserving of special mention. He Is
now prominent in business circles in that
city as the proprietor of the Totton livery
stables, as well as the supporter of all meas-
ures calculated to prove of benefit to his
community. Col. Totton was born at Dills-
burg, York county. Pa., July 8, 1823, son of
John and Hattie (]\IcClure) Totton.
John Totton was bom in Portadown,
Ireland. Bv trade he was a shoemaker. He
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enlisted in the English army, and served nine
years during the French war. when he was
brought to America, in 1812. He. however,
refused to fight the Americans, and became a
citizen of the United States, settling at Dills-
burg. York county, where he married. His
death occurred there in 1847. when he was
sixty vears of age. His wife, Hattie Mc-
Clure. died in 1849. ^g^d fifty-eight years,
a consistent member of the Presbyterian
Church. Their family consisted of six chil-
dren: Joseph, Margaret. David, Margery.
Rachel and Mary Ellen.
Col. Joseph Totton acquired an educa-
tion in a little school house in Dillsburg. after
which he learned the trade of shoemaker,
and remained in his native town until 1S55,
when he went to Shippensburg. In 1857
he located in ]\Iechanicsburg and embarked
in a boot and shoe l.nisiness, but at the out-
break of the Rebellion he raised the Cumber-
land Guards, which became Company H. 7th
Pennsylvania Reserves, of which he was
elected captain, and subsecpiently became a
lieutenant-colonel. He remained with the
regiment one year, when being compelled to
resign on account of impaired health, he re-
ceived an honorable discharge. He came
home, and in a year opened his present livery
stables. In 1873 he was elected sheriff of
Cumberland county, and resided in Carlisle
three years, during his term of office, since
which time he has made Mechanicsburg his
home.
On June 8, 1848, at Dillsburg, Mr. Tot-
ton was married to Miss Lydia Wagner,
born in East Berlin, Adams Co., Pa., daugh-
ter of Samuel and Lydia (Oyler) Wagner,
of whom the former, a blacksmith, was born
in Adams county, the latter in Hanover,
York county. Mr. and Mrs. Totton have
had eleven children, nine of whom grew to
maturity: David E., born in Dillsburg, Oct.
30. 1849; James M.. born in Monroe town-
ship, Sept. 25. 1851; George B., born m
Dillsburg. and now a fanuer in Silver Spring
township; Ellen, deceased, wife of Talliot
Crane, of Cumberland county ; Annie, of
Mechanicsburg; Maggie, with her parents;
Tosei)h. Jr. ; John and Frank, who both as-
sist their father; Samuel M. and Hattie. de-
ceased. ]\Irs. Totton is a member of the Pres-
byterian Church, in which she is an active
wcirker. I-'raternally. Col. Totton is a mem-
ber of Mechanicsburg Lodge No. 215, I.
O. O. F., and is the oldest member of that
organization in the town, having been con-
nected with the lodge for fifty-seven years.
He is also a member of Carlisle Post No.
201, G. A. R. Col. Totton is one of the
prosperous business men of Mechanicsburg,
and few are better or more favorably known
in this locality than he. For the past fifty
vears he has given the Democratic party his
stanch sujiport. and he is an important fac-
tor in its ranks. As a soldier and private
citizen. Col. Totton has always done what he
belie\-ed to be his duty, and has not only
made a success of his life work, but placed
himself in a \'ery enviable position in the
esteem of his fellow townsmen.
SAMUEL KUNKEL, whose death,
]\Iarch 23, 1892, at his late home in Ship-
pensburg. Cumberland county, removed one
of the oldest and most highly respected citi-
zens of that place, had lived a \ong and use-
ful life, and will ever be recalled with feel-
ings of veneration and esteem.
Mr. Kunkel was born ]\Iay 26. 181 7. at
Harrisburg. Pa., the youngest of a large
family, whose only survivor at present is
his elder sister. Airs. Ross, of Middletown.
After the death of his father, when he was
still small, he left Harrisburg and went to
Middletown. where he assisted an older
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brother in various business ways. In Feb-
ruary, 1843, lie became a resident of Ship-
pensburg, which was his home for ahnost a
half century. Here lie at once entered upon
an active business career. The energy- which
was so marked in him ah his hfe was shown
in the days of his early business career, but
the sedentary life and close application ren-
dered it necessary for him' later to make
business changes. He began business in the
room on W'est Main street now occupied by
the Shy rock grocery store, in 1849, ^"^ con-
tinued there for a few years, moving thence
to a building of his own.
Mr. Kunkel was a most devoted husband
and father and was repaid by the tender re-
gard of a loving family. As a lifelong
memher of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
he was not only a devout communicant, but
also a useful ot^cial, and for many years was
superintendent of the Sunday-school. He
contril)uted largely to the erection of two
church edifices during his residence in Ship-
pensburg — one built in 1847, ^^'^'^ t'^^ present
one, which was completed a few years prior
to his decease. In borough affairs Mr. Kun-
kel, in his younger years, took a very active
part, serving in the council and as a mem-
ber of the school board, discharging his du-
ties with a conscientious regard for the pub-
lic weal, irrespective of self-seeking.
On May 26, 1842, Mr. Kunkel married
Rachel Bomberger, who was born February
26, 1821, in Middletown, Pa., and whose
lamented death took place at her residence
on \\'est Alain street, June 14, 1898. For
some months she had been in failing health,
but the immediate cause of death was an
affection of the heart. This admirable
woman had been a resident of Shippensburg
ever since her husband had embarkeil in mer-
cantile business here, and few residents were
better known or more sincerely beloved. For
many years a de\-out member of the
Memorial Lutheran Church, her religion
was not confined within its bounds, but
overflowed to all who came within her kindly
presence. It made her devoted to the wel-
fare of her family and kind and generous to
all in need. She survived her husband but
si.x years, and is snr\-ived by the following
named children : George J. and Mrs. Anna
E. Montgomery, of Shippensburg; Charles
A., of Harrisburg; Samuel, who, with his
brother Charles, owns the Mechanics Bank
at Harrisburg: Mrs. Serena Motter, of
Frederick, Md., and Mrs. Lily Anghin-
baugh, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
We are permitted to copy the testimonial
of one who knew this most estimable woman
well :
"A gentle life has just been ended, a
consistent Christian, a loving mother, a true
friend, a kind neighbor, passed quietly on to
the beatific vision of her Lord. Mrs. Kun-
kel's piety was unobtrusive. Through the
years of childhood and maidehhood were
planted seeds that bore rich and precious
fruits. Her children can recall the songs she
sang at their cradles. Her soul ever longed
for the House of God. She was there from
love and from principle. Endowed with
more than ordinary mental gifts, she had
stored her memory with the great and pre-
cious promises which, both in public and
private prayer, she could plead effectually
before God. Shrinking and distrustful of
her own attainments in holiness, the prospect
of death, at the first symptoms of illness,
terrified her for the moment, but as the last
enemy drew nearer and nearer, her lifelong
faith asserted its supremacy, and with joy-
ful breath she passed on, more than a con-
queror through Him that loved her."
The funeral services over the body of this
righteous woman, like those above her late
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husliand. were of a simple Init impressive
character. Her pastor, Re\-. George C.
Henrv. spoke httingh' of her life and char-
acter, and her remains were laid beside those
of her husljand in the family lot in Spring
Hill cemetery. Thus passetl away two of
Shippensburg's old and honored residents.
They had lived quiet, uneventful lives, con-
lent to do good unostentatiousl)', filling the
places in whic'n fortune had placed them, and
lea\-ing the world better than they found it.
Their virtues rear for them a monument
in influence more enduring than stone or
marble.
WILLIA^I SENSEAIAX. one of the
prominent business men of Boiling Springs,
Cumlierland county, where he has long been
engaged as a coal merchant, is of German
ancestry, and was born Sept. 20, 1837, in
Cumberland county. His great-grandpar-
ents were natives of Germany, and, coming
to America, settled in Lancaster county, Pa.,
wdiere his grandfather was born. He was a
miller by trade, and followed same near
Ephrata, in his native county. His family
consisted of the following named children:
John, Joseph, William, Samuel, Daniel, Re-
becca L. and Hannah.
Samuel Senseman, father of William,
was born in 1796 in Ephrata, Lancaster
county, and in early life learned the carpen-
ter's trade. In 182S he removed to Cumber-
land county, buying a farm in Silver Spring
township, where he became well and favor-
ably known. He enjoyed the confidence of
his fellowmen to an tmusual degree, as was
shown by the number of estates he was called
upon to settle, all of which were wisely ad-
ministered, every dollar being properly ac-
counted for. He married Miss Elizabeth
Haines, like himself a native of Lancaster
county, and they became the parents of ten
children: Susan, Jeremiah. John, Harriet,
Lydia, Samuel, David, Adam, William and
Sarah. The parents of this family were
members of the Lutheran Church. The
father was a Democrat in politics.
William Senseman was reared on the
farm and educated in the common schools.
He has made his own way in the world from
t'he age of fourteen years. After attaining
his majority he went to Illinois, remaining
in that State for three years, and returning
to Cumberland county in 1863. In 1878 he
commencetl the milling business, which he
continued for two years; from 1880 to 1884
he dealt in horses in company with A. R.
I\Iay. In 1884 he again leased the mill, but
gave up that branch of his business in 1888,
and has since been engaged as a coal dealer.
In 1872 he bought the home on Second
street, in Boiling Springs, where he has
ever since lived. He has become one of the
active citizens of that place, and has been
chosen a number of times for the offices of
school director and township supervisor.
His political support is given to the Demo-
cratic party.
On Nov. 6, 1865, Mr. Senseman was
united in marriage with Miss Hettie Shuh,
daughter of Benjamin and INIary (Landis)
Shuh, of Dauphin county; the Shuh family
is of German origin. [Mrs. Senseman passed
away July 30, 1896, at the residence in Boil-
ing Springs, aged forty-nine years, ten
months and four days, and was laid to rest
in the Churchtown cemetery. She had long
been a zealous member of St. John's Luth-
eran Church of Boiling Springs, and many
were the evidences of affection shown at the
time of her death, and during the long illness
which preceded it. Having no family of her
own, Mrs. Senseman devoted herself unspar-
inglv to the welfare of others, and. Ijesides
being a great church worker, was noted for
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her benevolences and kindliness. She had a
cheerful and winning disposition which en-
deared to lier aU who knew her, and looked
at the bright side of everything, at the same
time doing all in her power to make others
do the same. She had charge of the infant
department of St. John's Sunday-school,
which passed the following resolutions at
the time of her death :
Where.'VS, It has pleased our Heavenly
Father to take from our Sundaj* school and
our church one of our most earnest and de-
voted teachers, and who as the head of the
infant class was ready to sacrifice time, labor
and money in their behalf, Therefore,
Resolved, That while we deplore the loss-
of Mrs. Senseman from our midst we yet
bow in submission to Him who doeth all
things well, knowing that she rests from her
labors and her works shall follow her.
Resolved, That offering to her bereaved
husband our earnest sympathy, we with him
will cherish her memory, as one who in all
her trials of sickness and pain never forgot
her God, her church, or her beloved infant
class.
Resolved, That a copy of the above be
entered upon the minutes and presented to
the husband and the Carlisle papers for pub-
lication.
Mr. and Mrs. Senseman adopted twc
children, namely: (i) John Cunningham
received a good education, and in his early
manhood taught Graham's school, in North
Middleton township. He is now superin-
tendent of the stores of the Iron Company,
at Sparrows Point,i\Id., with which company
he has been connected for ten years, during
which, by hard work, he has pushed his way
to the front, and become a valued employe;
he has traveled considerably through Texas
and the West, and for a time resided in Te-
cumseh, Neb. He married Miss Grace
Snyder of Sparrows Point. (2) Sadie
Dean was born in Pennsylvania, and is now
the wife of Charles Rider, a stock dealer of
Monroe township. Cumberland county; they
have the following named children : \\'il-
liam. Mary, Ethel, Meda, Bertha and Olin.
all living.
On Sept. 21, 1898, Mr. Senseman mar-
ried, for his second wife, Miss Agnes C.
Sheaffer, who was born in Dickinson town-
ship, Cumberland county, daughter of Jacob
and Elizabeth (Dick) Sheaffer, of Adams
county; Mr. Sheaffer was a miller by trade.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Senseman hold member-
ship in the Lutheran Church of Boiling
Springs, of which he is now serving as elder.
He is a most respected man in every rela-
tion of life, and holds a high place in the
esteem of his fellow citizens.
REV. THOMAS JAMES FERGU-
SON was born in Dry Run, Franklin Co.,
Pa. His grandfather, David Ferguson,
coming from the North of Ireland, located
there in his young manhood. He belonged
to the Scotch-Irish race that has given so
many noble men to the State and nation.
David Ferguson married Margaret Mc-
Kibben, and of this union James Ferguson
was born in 1809, and lived his years near
his earlv home.
James Ferguson was successful in busi-
ness, a ruling elder in the United Presbyte-
rian Church, and was held in high esteem by
all who knew him. He was for several years
Associate Judge of Franklin county, and he
discharged the duties of the office with fidel-
ity, and with credit to himself. He married
Mary A. Doyle, and Thomas James Fergu-
son was one of five children given to them.
Thomas James Ferguson was born Oct.
19, 1852, and he received his education at
Chambersburg Academy, Westminster Col-
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lege, and Western Theological Seminary.
In October. 1878, he became pastor of the
Silver Spring Presbyterian Church.
To few ministers is it given to become a
factor in the varying phases of country life,
such as i\'Ir. Ferguson has been. His intlu-
ence has been felt far beyond the confines of
his church. There has been no movement
for the betterment of the country that has
not had his support and encouragement.
He has been interested in better roads, better
schools (serving as a school director for a
number of years), and better farming. He
has labored to unite the Christian forces of
his locality, and to create closer fellowship
among Christian people, and he has bade
God speed to eveiy man who served His
Master. He holds the respect and admira-
tion of the entire community.
On June 9. 1887, the Rev. Mr. Ferguson
Avas married to Miss Grace Ewalt, whose
family history is associated with the history
of the \-alley from the beginning. Their
children are Margaret, Mary McCormick
and Virginia.
SiL\T,R Spring Presbyterian Church.
The first settlers in the Cumberland A'al-
ley were Scotch-Irish and Irish, and were
Presbyterians. Shortly after their coming
came the Minister to preach the Gospel, and
gather them together for regular worship.
At a meeting of Donegal Presbytery held at
Donegal Oct. 16, 1734, Mr. Alex. Craig-
head was licensed and appointed to preach
"over the river 2 or 3 Sabbaths in Novem-
ber." This was the beginning of the Silver
Spring Church. All this occurred before a
public road was laid out through the Valley,
and when the thoroughfares were the paths
of the Indians — forty-two years before the
Declaration of Independence. The Church
was first known as "the people over the
river;"' then "the people of the Conodoquin-
net, or beyond the Susquehanna," at that
time embracing- tw() settlements and the
churches now known as Silver Spring and
Carlisle ; then Lower Pennsboro. On Sept.
25. 1786, the church was incorporated by an
Act of Assemljlv under the name of the
Silver Spring Presbvterian Church of Cum-
berland County, Pennsyh'ania. The Church
was supplied with preaching by the Presfiy-
tery for several years. Mr. Thomson re-
ported to the Presbytery April 14, 1736, that
he "did not fulfill his appointment over the
ri\-er by reason of the severity of the season,
and the scarcity of provender in those parts."
This speaks of sacrifices, and is in marked
contrast with the abundance of all the good
things which is now enjoyed. On Nov. 14,
1739, their first pastor was installed, the
Rev. Samuel Thomson, who remained until
March 26, 1745. Mr. Thomson was born in
Ireland.
Rev. Samuel Cavon was installed Aug.
5, 1749, and died Nov. 9, 1750. His body
lies in the Church cemetery. There was a
period of ten years or more that the cluu-ch
was without a pastor. It was a period of
trouble with the Indians. The Valley was
the scene of massacres, the harvest of 1756
was left to rot in the fields, and the people
iled to safer places.
On April 13, 1764, Carlisle and East
Pennsboro churches united in a call for the
services of Rew John Steel, who had been
pastor of Conococheague, but his church was
burned, and the congregation dispersed by
the Indians. He, himself, had been commis-
sioned a captain of the Provincial Troops
March 25, 1756. On April 9, 1782, this
congregation united with Monaghan (Dills-
burg), and called the Rev. Samuel Waugh.
lie 'remained until his death in January,
1807. He was the first native American
pastor, being born in Adams county. Pa.,
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141
and it was during his pastorate, in 1783, that
the present church edifice was built.
Rev. John Hayes followed, being in
charge from 1808, to May 6, 1814: Rev.
Plenry R. \\'ilson, from Aug. 29, 1814, to
Nov. 30, 1823; Rev, James Williamson,
from 1824, until April 21, 1838. On Oct.
31, 1838, a call was made out for Rev.
George Morris, "a foreign Licentiate under
the care of the Presbytery of Philadelphia,"
who remained until i860. Mr. Morris was
from Scotland, and he was a rigid Presby-
terian, and a profound Theologian. It was
during his ministry, in 185 1, that the Manse
was built, and the work done which led to
the organization of the Presbyterian Church
in Mechanicsburg. Rev. W, H. Dinsmore
came Dec, 10, i860, and terminated his
work in April, 1865, His successor was Rev.
W. G. Hilman, who remained from April
17, 1866, to October, 1867, and he was fol-
lowed by Rev. W. B. McKee, who was pas-
tor two years, beginning October, 1868, and
Rev. R. P. Gibson, from Sept. 2~, 1872,
until October. 1875.
The present pastor. Rev. T. J. Ferguson,
began his work Oct. i, 1878, and for more
than a (piarter of a century has led this
people in their work for God and humanity.
During the present pastorate, in 1885, the
beautiful Memorial Chapel was erected by
Col. and Mrs. Henry McCormick. '
The Session of the church as at present
constituted consists of W. J. Meily, M. S.
]\Iunima, A. L. Brubaker. The trustees
are: John Parker, William Bryson, Vance
McCormick, George Mumper, Levi Bricker,
Elmer Lower, W'illiam Meily, AI. S.
i\Iumma and Samuel Lindsey.
COL. FULTON A. EMBICK is one of
the prominent citizens of Boiling Springs,
Cumberland countv, and has been a resident
of this county since 1880. He is a native
of Franklin county, having been born at
"Rose Hill," Antrim township, Frankhn
Co., Pa., March 18,, 1843, a son of John and
Sarah (Fohl) Embick.
The Embick family dates back to Chris-
topher Embick, who landed in the colonies
from the Palatinate in 1753. From this an-
cestor springs the large family of this name,
scattered all over the United States. Chris-
topher Embick had seven sons.
John Embick, father of Col. Milton A.,
lost his father while he was an infant. His
first work was hauling between Pittsburg
and Baltimore, and later he learned the trade
of blacksmithing, and shortly thereafter
purchased the "Rose Hill" homestead that
formerly belonged to his wife's father. Upon
this property he spent most of his life, dying
at the age of seventy-two, and his wife also
passed away upon the farm. Ten children
were born to them : Joanna E. married
Simon Bear, a resident of Fulton, 111. ; Susan
F. died, the wife of John Phillipy, who is
now deceased ; Sarah C. died the wife of
Capt. C. ,S. Derland, of Boiling Springs ;
Martha J. died in infancy ; Keziah M. mar-
ried E. W. Byers, of Williamsport, Md. ;
Lisle F. died the wife of James H. Speer, of
Abilene, Kan. ; Mary J. died the wife of Dr.
A. R. Long, of Mt. Morris, 111., also de-
ceased ; Col. M. A. is our subject ; Laura C.
married Antoine Tegethoff, of Washington,
D. C, who is now deceased; Emma C. mar-
ried E. W. Humphrey, of El Reno, Okla-
homa Territory.
Col. Milton A. Embick was reared on the
farm, and received a common school educa-
tion, attending during the winter months,
and later he spent some time in an academy
at Lebanon, Pa. In 1862 he began teaching.
During this time he was serving as a private
in an independent home guard of cavalry.
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but in 1S64 he enlisted in the Union service,
becoming a private in Company D, 209th
P. \'. I., and was assigned to the Hartranft
ch\'ision, serving until the close of the war.
Returning home, he again taught school,
and thus continued until the summer of
1874, when he was nominated by the Demo-
cratic party of Franklin county for the Leg-
islature. He secured the nomination upon
the first ballot, so popular was he with the
people of his party, although there were
seventeen candidates against him. He car-
ried the county by a majority of 365, and this
was in a county which had a normal Repuljli-
can majority of 500. During the session
of 1875-76, the first Legislature elected
under the constitution adopted in 1873, ^^^
served upon the committee on Ways and
JMeans, being its secretary. He was also
upon and was secretary of the committee
on Agricultural Matters. Col. Emljick was
also secretary of the Democratic Legisla-
tive Caucus ; a member of the Centennial
committee from Franklin county, and was
appointed a memlier of the special committee
to investigate the State treasury under Rob-
ert Mackey. After a most brilliant career
as a legislator Col. Embick retired to private
life, refusing to accept a re-nomination, re-
suming his teaching and also engaging in
farming. In die spring of 1880 he removed
to Boiling Springs.
In 1889 Col. Embick organized the
209th Regiment, and acted as its secretary
for four years. Having l^een appointed by
Gen. Hartranft secretary of the 3d Division,
he proceeded to organize that Division, and
at its first re-union, March 25, 1890, he was
presented with a fine gold watch by his com-
rades. He was instrumental in securing the
passage of the liill appn)priating $18,000
for the purpose of erecting an ecpiestrian
statue to the memory of Gen. Hartranft at
Harrisburg, and served ujion the monument
commission until the un\-eiling of the com-
pleted statue. May 21, 1899, by his daugh-
ter, ;\Iiss Mary Len(ire Embick. In church
matters Col. Embick is a Lutheran, as are
all his family and has represented the church
in synod, local and general ; and has been
very active in all things pertaining to the
church. He takes a great interest in G. A.
R. nratters. being a member of Capt. Colwell
Post, No. 201, Carlisle, and has gained con-
siderable fame as an orator on Decoration
Day and other national holidavs.
In 1902 Gov. Stone appointeil Col. Em-
bick a member of the State board of health
and vital statistics of Pennsylvania, and he
was reappointed by Gov. Pennypacker for
the term of six years. He has always been
one of the most energetic members of the
board. He is also a member of the Ameri-
can Public Health Association, comprising
the territory of the United States of America,
the Dominion of Canada, the Republic of
;\Ie.xico, and the Republic of Cuba, and with
Dr. Benjamin Lee represented Pennsylva-
nia as members of that Association at their
convention held in Washington, D. C, in
October. 1903. Col. Embick is adjutant of
the Southern District Association, G. A. R.,
comprising the counties of Adams, Cumber-
land, Franklin, Fulton, Juniata and Perry.
He also served as aide-de-camp on the stafif
of National Commanders Gen. Alger and
Gen. Torrance. He is also a member of the
Hamilton Historical Society of Carlisle.
On Dec. 24, 1874, Col. Embick was mar-
ried to Mary E. Dunbar, daughter of John
and Agnes W. Dunbar. Four children have
been born of this marriage: (i) J. Milton
died in infancy. (2) Stanley Dunbar is a
graduate of \\'est Point, class of February,
1899, then entered the artillery, and saw ser-
vice at Havana. In September of the same
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year he was stricken clown with yellow fever,
but recovered. On May 8, 1901, he was
promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, and
ordered to the Presidio, California. In 1902
he was ordered to Fortress Monroe to take
a post-graduate course preparatory to his
promotion to the rank of captain, and was
graduated therefrom Aug. i, 1903, at the
head of liis class, by the Secretary of War,
and made assistant instructor at Fortress
Mom'oe for the next year. He is now an
instructor in that school. He is the author
of a text-book on coast defense in war at
that school. During the summer of 1903
he was sent with his class to Maine to witness
the naval and military demonstrations and
was one of the two umpires to report on the
same. On Dec. 29, 1902, he was married
to Miss Ethel Wall, of "Walldene." Md.,an<l
they have one child, Mary Elizabeth. (3)
James Bayard, the third child, is holding a
clerical position in the office of the general
purchasing agent of the Standard Oil Co.,
at Baltimore, Md. (4) Mary Lenore is a
graduate of Irving College, class of 1904.
DuNB.\R. John Dunbar came from Scot-
land in 1730, and located in Cumberland
county, Pa., near Carlisle. He had a son,
^\'illiam, who was the grandfather of Mrs.
M. .\. Embick. \\'illiam Dunliar married
Elizabeth Forbes, who was a native of Cum-
berland county, and three children were born
to them : John ; Ellen, who died in child-
hood : and Jane, w ho married Mr. James
Lindsay, of this county. William Dunbar
was a wealthy farmer, living west of Car-
lisle, in West Pennsboro township, and he
was one of the founders of the first Presby-
terian Church of Carlisle. His death oc-
curred in 1844, when he was seventy-five
years of age. His wife died in 1843, ^^^'^ '•'^
buried in the Meeting House cemetery.
Tohn Dunbar, son of William, was born
Feb. 16, 1803, and died Aug. 7, 1868. He
married Nov. 20, 1834, Miss Agnes Waugh
Greason, of Cumberland county, who was
born May 28, 181 1, and comes of an old
and prominent family. She was a daughter
of James Douglas Greason, whose family
came in 1728 to this county, being of Scotch-
Irish descent. John Dunbar was a farmer,
but later retired to Greason, where he died.
During a long and useful life he was a con-
sistent member of the First Presbyterian
Church of Carlisle. His remains were in-
terred in the same cemetery as his mother's.
Nine children were born to himself and wife,
of whom James Alfred, a graduate of Yale
in the class of 1862, was admitted to the Bar
and was engaged very successfully in the
practice of his profession at Columbia, S. C,
when he died at Aiken, S. C, at the age of
thirty-eight years. Mary E.,^vife of Col. Em-
bick, is the only other child who grew to
maturity, the other seven having died in
infancy. Mrs. Em]:)ick was educated at
^^'ashington Seminary, \\'ashington. Pa.,
and at Dr. Nevin's Seminary, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania.
STEELE FAMILY. In 1762 there was
upon the tax list of Carlisle a John Steele
and also a Rev. John Steele. The former
was assessed annually until 1767, in which
year he is designated as "inn-holder." As
that is his last appearance it is probable that
he died about that time. At the breaking
out of the Indian hostilities in 1755 Rev.
John Steele was pastor of a charge near
Maryland State line, and in September, 1756,
was a captain in Armstrong's expedition
against Kittanning. The Indians having
driven him and his flock back from the
frontier, he came to Carlisle in 1759, and
was made pastor of the "old side" division of
the Presbyterian Church, serving them until
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his death, in August. 1779. These two John
Steeles may have been distantly related, but
the matter at hand does not show that they
were.
John Steele, the layman, was married and
left a family of three sons and one daughter.
His widow afterward married a John Jor-
dan, whom she also survived. Jordan was a
justice of the peace and otherwise prominent
in the affairs of Carlisle in the early days.
The children of John Steele and Agnes, his
wife, were John, Joseph, William, Jean. Jean
on Oct. 9, 1792, married a man named Ger-
sham Craft, a lawyer. John was born Aug.
22. 1764, and never married. While yet a
young man he enlisted in the army, and rose
to the rank of captain in the 3d Regiment.
United States Infantry. He died on Nov. 6,
1800, leaving a will in which he names his
brothers Joseph and William, his brother
\\'illiam's son John, and his cousin, "Capt."
William Steele. The executors of his will
were his mother, Agnes Jordan, Ephraim
Steele, mercliant, and Gersham Craft, of
Trenton, X. J. His remains were interred
in the Okl Graveyard at Carlisle antl their
resting-place is marked by a tombstone which
is still in good condition. Near it are other
stones, from which time has almost entirely
effaced the inscriptions and which in all prol)-
ability mark where his father, and also his
brothers are burietl.
The Ephraim Steele mentioned in this
will was an uncle of the testator. He first
appears upon the tax list of Carlisle in 1769,
but probably came while his brother John
was yet living. Ephraim Steele resided in
Carlisle for a period of forty-five years. He
was a worthy and distinguished citizen,
and this sketch is intended to deal principally
with hiiu and his genealogical line. It was
a rule with him to preserve letters, and in
the course of Iiis long career there accumu-
lated upon his hands a great mass of letters
which have descended to his children and his
children's children as an interesting heirloom.
He has been dead about ninety years, but
there yet remains in possession of his grand-
daughters, ]\Iisses ]\Iaggie and ]\Iartha
Steele, of Carlisle, a large number of these
old letters, ranging in date from shortly
after Ephraim Steele settled at Carlisle down
to the time of his death. The writers thereof
were his kin in Ireland and in the South,
members of his family, friends, politicians
and persons in high pul)lic position. These
letters are a source of valuable information
and are the chief record from which this
sketch has been compiled.
As the name indicates, the Steeles are of
Scotch-Irish nationality. There was a family
of eight sons and one daughter, whose par-
ents, as near as can be ascertained, were Sam-
uel and jMary (Stevenson) Steele. Of the
children, John, Thomas, ^^'illiam, Juseph,
Samuel and Ephraim came to America.
Two brothers, Ninian, a preacher, and James,
a farmer, remained in Ireland. "Jinny,"
the daughter, also remained in the old coun-
try. She married a man named George
Hogg, bore him four or five children, and
died while yet a young woman. Her eldest
daughter. Mary, and her eldest son, George,
afterward also came to America. The fa-
ther of this large family was probably dead
when the older sons left home to seek their
fortunes across the seas, but the mother li\'ed
to be more than eighty years of age. In her
widowhood she had her home in the family
of her daughter till after her daughter's
tleath. She then for a short time went to
her son Ninian, and after that she and her
g'randdaugliter, Alary Hogg, lived together
in Londonderry, where ]\Iary followed man-
tua-making and tenderly cared for her aged
grandparent.
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From the data at hand it is not deter-
minable how these nine children ranked in
reeard to ac'e. However, it is safe to assume
that John, William. Thomas and Joseph carne
to America soon after arriving at man's es-
tate. All of them appear to have engaged
in the affairs of their adopted land with com-
mendable energy. John — as has been ob-
served — settled in Carlisle. William and Jo-
seph, probably after spending some time in
Pennsylvania, settled in the South. Joseph
resided at Hilton Head. S. C, and judging
from his letters was a man of means and en-
gaged in importing merchandise from the
West Indies. He was married, but early in
the ye:ir 1777 his wife died, leaving him
with two small sons, Jackey and Joe. What
became of Joseph Steele -is not known, as
none of his relatives heard anything of him
after the fall of Charleston in May, 1780.
William Steele settled in Salisbury, N.
C, where he married a widow, Mrs. Eliza-
beth (Maxwell) Gillespie, whose first hus-
band, Robert Gillespie, was killed by the
Cherokee Indians in 1760. William Steele
died Nov. i, 1773, at the age of thirty-nine
years. He left one child, a son named John
Steele, who was born in 1764. This son
becime prominent in public affairs, was
elected to the North Carolina Legislature at
the age of t\\ enty-fixir. and afterward to the
convention which was called to pass upon
the l'"ederrd constitution. In 1790 he was
elected to the first United States Congress,
in which body he served two terms. He was
a warm admirer of President Washington,
who in 1796 appointed him the first Comp-
troller of the United States Treasury, a posi-
tion he held until 1802 with such acceiJtability
that President Jefferson requested him to
continue in the office. He was again a mem-
ber of the North Carolina Legislature in
1794 and in 1795. also in 1806, 181 1. 1812
10
and 1813. In 181 1 he was Speaker of the
House. On Aug. 14, 181 5, he was again
elected a member of the House, but died on
the day he was elected. He was greatly ap-
preciated by the State at large and was elected
Major General of Militia by the Legislature,
and is usually spoken of in history as Gen.
Steele.
Through the troublous times of the Rev-
olution Elizabeth Steele kept a hotel in Salis-
bury, and corresponded regularly with her
relatives in Carlisle. Her letters were always
directed to Ephraim Steele, whom she ad-
dressed as "Dear Brother." They show her
to have been a woman of deep piety, intelli-
gence and good judgment, and withal prac-
tical and patriotic. By her marriage with
Robert Gillespie she had two children, a son
and a daughter. The son, Robert Gillespie,
was a soldier in the Revolution, but died
without issue a year or two after his return
from the army. The daughter, Margaret
r;illespie, married Re\'. Samuel McCorkle,
w ho became a distinguished Presbyterian di-
\-ine and the progenitor of numerous descen-
dants now scattered over the South. When
CornwalHs's army passed through North
Carolina the British soldiers plundered her
of everything they could appropriate to their
use, but the loss only intensified her love and
devotion to the cause of liberty. One flay
during the invasion Gen. Greene, of the
.\merican army, alighted in front of her
hotel. An army physician who had charge
of the sick and wounded prisoners received
him at the door and inquired after his well
being. "Fatigued, hun,gry, alone and penni-
less," was Greene's heavy-hearted reply.
Elizabeth Steele overheard his desponding
words and a little wdiile afterward, while
the great man was sitting at her table, the
noble-henrted woman entered the room,
closed the door, and drawing from under her
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apron two bags of money placed them be-
fore liim. saying: "General, take these, yon
will want them, and I can do without them.'"
The incident is related in Irving's "Life of
Washington," but no allusion is made to it
in any of Elizabeth Steele's interesting let-
ters to Ephraim Steele.
Elizabeth Steele had a brother named
William Maxwell, who in the Colonial days
lived in Pennsyhania. When a young man
he went abroad to study me(licine and in
England purchased large portraits of King
George III and his queen, Charlotte, which
he brought \.o America. These he presented
to his sister Elizabeth, and upon the occasion
of Gen. Greene's visit they were hanging in
her parlor. The patriot General turned the
King's face to the wall and with charcoal
wrote on the back, "O, George! hide thy
face and mourn." These old portraits are
still in existence and are now owned by Will-
iam J. Andrews, of Raleigh, N. C. Gen.
Greene's handwriting, though badly rubbed,
is still legible, and to prevent it from being
entirely obliterated, Mr. Andrews has had
a glass framed over it.
A lineal descendant of William and Eliza-
beth Steele, Hon. John Steele Henderson, is
now living in Salisbury, within speaking dis-
tance of where his illustrious great-great-
grandmother, in the dark days of 1781, en-
tertained Gen. Greene. Mr. Henderson is
a lawyer, and like his hon()red great-grand-
father has seen much of public life, having
served in high State offices and also in the
XLIXth, Lth, List. Llld and Lllld Na-
tional Congresses. Through his kind as-
sistance valuable data for this family history
were obtained and others duly corroborated.
Ninian Steele, the preacher brother who
remained in Ireland, was educated at Dublin
University, and his letters indicate that he
was a learned and dignified man. He began
his ministerial career in the town of Derry,
where he lived until after his third child was
born. He then was transferred to Magher-
afelt, near Lough Neagh, where he labored
during the rest of his lifetime. He was mar-
ried to Luc}- Madden, who bore him twelve
children, eight of whom died in infancy and
early youth. Among the children who grew
to maturity was a son named William, who
obtained a lucrative position in the Dublin
custom house which he held for many vears.
He married a lady named ^^lahon, and when
his father last mentioned him, he had four
children and was in easy circumstances.
Samuel Madden, another son, while a mere
boy entered the British army, and after ten
years" hard service held the rank of lieuten-
ant-captain. Frederick, his youngest son,
also enlisted in the army while a boy, and
after fi\-e years" ser\ice also was a lieutenant-
captain. His daughter, Elizabeth, "the idol
of her father"s heart," died unmarried at the
age of twenty-four. Lucy, his youngest
daughter, married a man named Joseph Mil-
ler, and in her home the aged preacher spent
his declining years.
James Steele, the other brother who re-
mained in the land of his birth, was a farmer
and lived in County Donegal. He was not
the intelligent man his Ijrother Ninian was,
but he wrote frequently, and his letters
teemed with information concerning family
afifairs and the neighbors and friends of for-
mer days. In his later letters he expresses
deep regret that he Jiad not also come to
America. He was married to a McCrea, a
member of a well-to-do family, but in none
of his letters does he mention his wife's first
name. He had fi\'e children, four daughters
and one son. The daughters in the order of
their ages were named Catharine, Sarah,
Jean and Mary. The son was John, a name
which occurs in everv Steele familv in which
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there were male children. He was the sec-
ond child and died at the age of twenty-one.
Among the collection of letters which
Ephraim Steele left as a legacy to his de-
scendants, there are none from "Jinny," his
only sister, and as there is nowhere any refer-
ence to any that she wrote, the inference is
that she never corresponded with her rela-
ti\'es in America. Several of the family were
displeased with her selection of George Hogg
for a husband, her brother James having an
especial aversion for him because of his un-
kindness to mother ]\Iary Steele. "Jinny"
died in 1787, and three years afterward
George Hogg married a young woman
named Healy. His second wife did not take
kindly to his first wife's children and they
conse(|uently were distributed among their
mother's relatives and friends, and for this
and other conduct George Hogg was severely
condemned in some of these famous letters.
Thomas Steele came to America early,
but it can not be ascertained whether he ever
permanently located anywhere. He was of
a roving disposition, enjoyed the free wild
life of the frontier, and as late as 1786 was
living near the road to Fort Pitt. He was
unmarried, and during the Revolution en-
listed in the American army, but subsequently
regretted the step. He died about 1790.
Samuel Steele was one of the younger
members of the family. When he came to
America he left his wife and daughter in Ire-
land, intending to either go back or send for
them when he acquired the means to do so.
It does not appear that he did either. He
seems to also have been a rover and in 1786
also moved in the direction of the frontier,
going to Fort Pitt with James Parkinson
and family. Judging from their anxious
inquiries the two brothers in Ireland had
doubts about the correctness of Samuel's
habits.
Ephraim Steele came to America with his
cousin. Thomas Stephenson. It is probable
that neither was yet of age and that they
settled at Carlisle because of their relations
that had preceded them, Ephraim Steele's
brother, John, already living in Carlisle, and
Stephenson's brother, John, in the nearby
township of East Pennsboro. It can not now
be definitely ascertained what Ephraim Steele
engaged at when he came. His name first
appears on the tax list in 1769, but as a free-
man and with nothing to indicate what his
employment was. In 1772 he was taxed
with one cow, and his valuation kept on
gradually increasing. In 1777 he purchased
from the executors of Robert Callender, for
£300, the lot lying in the southwest angle
formed by Hanover street and the public
square, it being the same lot which is now
occupied by the well-known "Franklin
House." Here he had his home and business
place for many years. By 1779 he was a
prominent storekeeper, taxed with merchan-
dise and personal property and a large
amount of real estate. That year his pastor.
Rev. John Steele, the famous captain
preacher, died, and Ephraim Steele was
one of the executors of his will. By
this time Ephraim Steele was one of
the foremost citizens and business men of
the town, active and influential in all the
different walks of life. He stood well with
the authorities of the Province and in June,
1777, the Supreme Executive Council ap-
pointed him a justice of the peace. For some
reason unknown he then declined to accept
but in October of- the next year Council is-
sued to him a commission w hich he accepted
and forthwith entered upon the duties nf the
office. While not actually in the army during
the Revolution, his services were at his coun-
try's call, for he was enrolled as an Asso-
ciator, and as a private of that organization
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was one of the representatives from Cumber-
land county to a convention held at Lancaster
on July 4. 1776, for the purpose of choosing
two brigadier generals to command the forces
of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the
Committee of Inspection for Cumberland
county, and when the first British prisoners
held at Carlisle were exchanged he helpetl to
escort them by way of Reading and Trenton
to the nearest British camp in New Jersey.
After the war was over he was elected a
county commissioner, and a few years later
a member of the lower branch of the State
Legislature, and whether in or out of
authority his name is associated with many
public measures which came before the coun-
try during his period of activity. He enjoyed
an extended political accjuaintance and per-
sons in high authority consulted him on State
and National affairs. His business enter-
prises flourished and at one time he was a
wealthy man. but in after years he had re-
verses which greatly reduced his means and
made him in some respects uncomfortable.
Li February, 18 13, the Governor of the Com-
monwealth appointed him an associate judge
for Cumberland county, but this honor he
was not permitted to enjoy long, for he died
in 18 14. His wife died in March, 1825, and
both are buried in the Old Graveyard at
Carlisle.
Ephraim Steele married Esther Smith, of
Philadelphia, the ceremony taking place in
the First Presbyterian Church of that city in
the month of June, 1771. Esther Smith was
a daughter of Robert Smith, a hatter, who
for many years carried on an extensive busi-
ness at the corner of Thirtl and Market
streets, Philadelphia. Many of the old letters
from Ireland were sent in care of this
same Robert Smith. Ephraim and Esther
(Smith) Steele had five children, four sons
and one daughter. The sons were, \\'illiam.
Robert Smith. John and Ephraim. The
daughter was Mary. William was the first-
born and in some of the family correspond-
ence is referred to as "Little Billy." When
Capt. John Steele made his will he bequeathed
his cocked hat and sword knot to his cousin,
"Capt. William Steele." \\'illiam turned his
attention to medicine and in 1796 was ap-
pointed a surgeon's mate in the arm}'. Sub-
sequently he turned up in the navy, and from
April 5, 1807. to Aug. 12, 1808, served as
surgeon's mate on the United States Frigate,
"\\'asp," which afterward became so famoui
by her capture of the British ship, "Frolic."
He died at sea before the "Frolic" had
achieved her great distinction. His brother,
Robert Smith Steele, became a midshipman
in the na^•y and was on the frigate, "Ches-
apeake." when, on June 22. 1807. the British
ship. "Leopard." fired upon her off the capes
of Virginia. Fie came through the ordeal
unscathed, and although he longed for an op-
portunity to help avenge that insult to his
country, the customs then prevailing in the
navy were distasteful to him and he retired
to civil life. He afterward settled in Missis-
sippi and died in Xew Orleans. William and
Robert Smith Steele never married.
John Steele, the third son, learned the
tanning trade and settled at Bardstown, Ky..
where he married and had one son. His v.ife
died while yet a young woman, and his so'i,
when eleven years of age, died with relations
at Lancaster. Ohio. After the death of hi.->
wife, John Steele returned to Pennsylvania
and spent some time in Harrisburg. Phil-
adelphia and Carlisle. He died in Harris-
burg within the fifties.
The daughter, j\Iary, was the second
child. She married Dr. George Delap
Foulke, a member of a family which for
many years was also prominent at Carlisle.
Dr. Foulke began the practice of his profes-
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sion at Bedford, Pa., but in 1805 removed to
Carlisle, where both as a physician and a
citizen he ranked high all his days. He died
in August. 1849, at the age of sixty-nine
years. His wife died in May, 1861, in her
eightieth year.
Ephraim Steele, the fourth son and
youngest child of Ephraim and Esther
(Smith) Steele, was born Nov. 13, 1795.
He grew to manhood in Carlisle and became
a watchmaker and jeweler. After complet-
ing his trade he spent a number of years in
visiting other towns to learn of their pros-
pects and desirability as business places. In
1817 he was for a brief time in Milton,
Northumberland county. Soon after Perry
countv was formed, and while Landisburg
had hopes of becoming the county seat, he
opened up a shop in that place, but another
point became the county seat and Landis-
burg's prospects for a business point were
blasted. He next tried Berlin, Adams coun-
tv. where he remained longer than anywhere
else. In 1840 he came back to Carlisle and
there embarked upon a successful business
career which lasted the rest of his lifetime.
His store for a long while was on the east
side of South Hanover street, half way be-
tween the public square and Pomfret street.
In 1863 he removed his residence to the cor-
ner of Hanover and Pomfret streets, and his
business place next door on Hanover. He
died April 12. 1868. and the surviving mem-
bers of his family ever since have continued
to live where he last had his home; for more
than forty years it has been known as the
"Steele Corner."
In :\Iay, 1831, while living at Berlin,
Ephraim Steele married Miss x-\nn Under-
wood, a daughter of John and Sarah (Mor-
rison) Underwood. The Underwoods were
also of Scotch-Irish nationality. John Un-
derwood was born in Countv Antrim. Ire-
land. Oct. 14, 1739, and came to America
in 1775, settling in Lancaster county. Pa.
When he came the war for independence was
alreadv in progress and he was soon found
in the ranks of the patriots, battling for
x\merican libert3^ On March 15, 1776, he
was commissioned an ensign in the 5th Bat-
talion of the Lancaster County Associators,
and afterward he became a captain in the
Continental army. About the year 1786 he
removed to the banks of the Yellow Breeches
creek, in Allen township, Cumberland county,
where he lived for two years, after which he
located in Carlisle and engaged in the iner-
cantile business. He was twice married.
His first wife was Janet McCord, by whom
he had several children, only one of whom —
a son named William B. — grew to maturity.
His second wife was Sarah Tvlorrison, who
also was a native of County Antrim. By her
he had six children, among whom was Ann,
who became the wife of Ephraim Steele, the
watchmaker. John Underwood died Sept.
I, 1827, his wife, Sarah Morrison, passing
away June 24, 1837, and both are buried in
the Old Graveyard at Carlisle.
Ephraim and Ann (Underwood) Steele
had children as follows : Sarah Esther, born
May 9, 1832, who died unmarried Aug. 31,
1872; Mary Foulke, born ;\Iarch 2-j. 1834,
who died Sept. 22, 1873; Margaret Ann;
Joseph Underwood ; John Ephraim, who died
in infancy; Martha Jane; Morrison Under-
wood, and John Ephraim.
Joseph Underwood Steele was born on
Jan. 5, 1837, and like his father before him
became a watchmaker and jeweler, engaging
for some years in that business in his native
town. On Jan. 5, i860, he married Sarah
Jane Brown of Carlisle, who bore him two
children, named, respectively, \\'illiam and
Joseph Underwood. The former died in in-
fancy, but the latter grew to manhood and
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settled in Baltimore, wliere he marrietl Flur-
ence Rice, 1jy whom he has one child, James
Edgar Steele, born Jan. jo. 1886. IMoved
by patriotic iminilse Joseph Underwood
Steele, in July. 1862. enlisted as a recruit in
Company A. ( Capt. James Colwell). 7th
Pennsyh-ania Reserves (Col. R. M. Hender-
son). He joined his regiment at Harrison's
Landing and immediately entered upon hard
and dangerous service. On the e\-ening of
the r4th of the following September, near the
close of the day, while charging up the
rocky heights of South Mountain, he was
sh(]t dead, a rifle ball striking him in the
center of the forehead and splashing his life's
blood over the brave men at his side. Three
of his blood-bespattered comrades bore his
body to the rear and buried it temporarily
near the foot of the mountain. It was after-
ward brought home and laid to rest in the
Old Graveyard at Carlisle.
Morrison Underwood Steele, the third
son, was born May 13, 1843. \\'hen he
reached man's estate he went to Lancaster.
Ohio, and there was long a salesman in a
dry-goods store. In after years, while on a
visit to his friends in Carlisle, he took sick
and died July 21. 1878. During the Civil
War he rendered his State service with the
emerg'ency troops.
John Ephraim Steele, the youngest child
of the family, was born Oct. 13. 1845, several
years after the death of the brother who had
borne the same favorite family name. He
also learned the watchmaker's trade, and his
father dying about the time the boy was
budding into manhood, he inherited his fa-
ther's business and engaged at it throughout
his lifetime. He never married, and died
on June i, 1898.
The only children of Ephraim and
Ann (Underwood) Steele that remain
are Misses Margaret A. and ]\Iartha
J. Steele, residing in the well known Steele
homestead, corner of South Hanover
anil Pomfret streets. They have lived
nearly of all their days in Carlisle, are
known by its entire community, and univer-
sally loved and esteemed for their modest
worth and kindly ways. They are faithful
and prominent members of the I-'irst Pres-
byterian Church, whose edifice was built
while Rev. John Steele — of like name but
not a kno\\-n relative — was a pastor of its
congregation, and within the walls of which
have worshipped all the different generations
of this noted family since their first settle-
ment in Carlisle.
^\'ALTER STUART. S.x-.n after the
formation of Cumberland countv there came
from the North of Ireland to America one
Walter Stuart. According to tradition he
located in what is now Dickinson township,
near where afterward was the famous hotel
known as the "Stone House." Here he pre-
empted land, built his cabin and lived alone,
contentedly awaiting the development of the
country. He wrote regularly home to his
relatives, telling them of his possessions and
of the advantages and opportunities of the
new western world, but after a time his let-
ters ceased to come. For several years his
friends waited patiently and hopefully but
heard nothing. Finally his brother Samuel
came and made search for him, l)nt nnlv to
find that he had died, and that without leav-
ing data sufficient to give his heirs title to
the land which he had pre-empted.
Samuel Stuart then remained in this
country, and settled near where his brother
Walter had taken up his abode when he first
came. There he lived for five or six years,
and acquired a. considerable tract of land.
In September, 1778, he purchased a house
and lot on South Hanover street, Carlisle,
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and removing to it was for a period of alaoul
ten years a resident of the county seat, en-
gaged in keeping hotel. In the year 1780
he was burned out. which misfortune com-
pelled him to move to the opposite side of the
street and there temporarily continue his
Inisiness. While in the hotel business he at
one time boarded some of the Hessians who
were held at Carlisle as prisoners of war.
In May, 1791, he purchased a farm in what
is now Dickinson township, and moving to
it li\'ed there until the entl of his days. He
died Sept. 11, 1828, at the age of eighty-
three years, and was buried in the Old ( irave
Yard in Carlisle. Samuel Stuart married
Margaret Carson, and had children as fol-
lows : James, Mary, Margaret, Ann, Sam-
uel, Walter and Martha.
Samuel Stuart, son of Samncl and Mar-
garet, grew to manhood on his father's farm
in Dickinson township, receiving such edu-
cation as the country schools of his day af-
forded. He engaged in farming as an oc-
cupation, and was long a member of the
Dickinson Presbyterian Church, where his
remains lie interred. He died Jan.. 31. 1874,
aged eighty-five years. He married Nancy
Donaldson, whose father, William Donald-
son, son of Andrew Donaldson, was also one
of the early settlers of that part of the coun-
ty in which the Stuarts first locatetl. Wil-
liam Donaldson was a soldier in the war of
the Revolution, a captain in the 2d Battalion
of the Pennsylvania Militia that was called
in August, 1780, and served under Wash-
ington in the vicinity of New York. Capt.
Donaldson married Jane Ramsey, l)y whom
he had the following children : Robert,
Nancy, Jane and Martha. Robert Donald-
son married Jane, daughter of William and
Jane (Mackinson) Huston, and by her had
issue as follows : Montgomery, Martha, Isa-
bella, Elizabeth Sprout, and Agnes Caroline.
Samuel and Nancv (Donaldson) Stuart had
issue as follows : Samuel, Walter and Jane
Eliza.
Samuel Stuart, son of Samuel and
Nancy, was raised on the farm anti edu-
cated in the country school of the section in
which he was born. He was an energetic
and progressive citizen and much respected
for his integrity and honesty of purpose.
Being in the prime of young manhood when
yet able-bodied citizens were required to
muster and train for soldiers he became a
captain in the militia. The title fitted the
man, and it ever afterward clung to him. In
his latter years he was universally known as
Capt. Samuel Stuart. and was so remembered
for a long time after his death. He was a
member of the Dickinson Presbyterian
Church, was long one of its ruling elders,
and is buried alongside his father in the
confines of its graveyard. He died May 3,
1873, ^^ the age of fifty-five. Capt. Stuart
married Elizabeth Sprout Donaldson,
daughter of Robert and Jane (Huston)
Donaldson. Though the Donaldsons were
among the earliest citizens of Dickinson
township they did not always live there.
About the year 1806 Robert Donaldson and
his family removed to Franklin county,
across the border from Middle Spring
Church, where they lived almost thirty
years, and then moved back to Dickinson
It was while living in Franklin county that
most of Robert Donaldson's children were
born. Samuel and Elizabeth S. Stuart had
the following children : James Ale.xander,
born Nov. 9. 1849, fl'^** -"'^"8'- -6, 1862;
Robert Donaldson, Imrn July 10, 1851, died
March 12, i860: Samuel Carson, born Jan.
12, 1855, died Feb. 9. i860; Walter was
born July 2y, 1856; Huston Kennedy, born
Feb. 15, 1859, died March 8, i860; and El-
mer, born Jan. 16, 1862, died Oct. 6, 1867.
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Walter Stuart, son nf Samuel and Eliza-
beth S. Stuart, was born in Dickinson town-
ship. He was the only one of six children to
live to adult age. the others all dying in
childhood and early youth. In the spring of
1868 the Stuarts relinquished farming, and
moved to Carlisle, where the boy Walter
passed through the public schools and grew
to man's estate. He graduated from the
Carlisle high school in 1875. ^"<^1 then took a
course at one of the leading business colleges
of the country. In Jainiary, 1880. he was
appointed to a clerkship in the Farmers'
Bank of Carlisle and ever since has been
connected with that institution, tilling every
position in it from the clerkship in which he
began to the cashiership to which he suc-
ceeded on the death of J. C. Hoffer, in 1889.
On the bank becoming merged into the
Farmers' Trust Company he became a mem-
ber of its board of directors and a memljer of
its executive committee, and was also made
secretary and treasurer of the company. The
Farmers' Trust Company is the largest fin-
ancial organization in the countv, being cap-
italized at $150,000.
Though deeply absorbed in the banking
business Mr. Stuart finds time for public
duties. He has long been a member of the
Carlisle school l»ard, takes an active part in
all its affairs, antl has several times been
president of the body. He is a Republican,
but not a politician, and has convictions upon
all questions with which the citizen is obliged
to deal. His religious views he inherited
from his Scotch-Irish ancestry and conse-
quently is a Presbyterian and a communi-
cant in the Second Presbyterian Church of
Carlisle. On Dec. 21, 1882, he married
Barbara Ellen, a daughter of George Peter
and Martha (Stuart) Searight, and a de-
scendant of two of the oldest and most
prominent families of South Middleton
township. \\'alter and Barbara E. Stuart
had issue as follows : George Searight, born
Oct. 23, 1883 (died Sept. 6, 1884) : Samuel
D(inal<lson, Dec. 30, 1884; Walter Searight,
Sept. 22. 1886; and John Bruce. April 10,
1888.
Mrs. Barbara Ellen (Searight) Stuart
was born in South ^Middleton .-\pril 13, i860,
and at the time of her marriage lived in Car-
lisle. Slie died Feb. 19, 1900, and her re-
mains are interred beside those of her first
child, in the Old Grave Yard at Carlisle.
Walter Stuart, his aged mother, and his
three boys now constitute the Stuart house-
hold, and they live on South Hanover street,
Cru-lisle. just one square from where Samuel
Stuart long had his home 125 vears ago.
REV. JOSEPH ALEXANDER MUR-
RAY, D. D., was born in Carlisle, Pa., Oct.
2, 181 5. His father, George Murray, only
son of William and Susanna (Sly) Murray,
born near Fort Pitt, March 17, 1762, was the
first white child born within the limits of
Pittsburg, Pa. Early left an orphan, he
lived with his mother's parents on their farm
in Westmoreland Co., Pa. .\t about twelve
years of age, he came to Carlisle, assisting
in driving cattle over the mountains and sub-
sequently made it his residence, as an
"Orphan in care of James Pollock, Thomas
Alexander and George Stevenson." He
learned the trade of blacksmith with Capt.
Simon Boyd, whose partner and ultimate
successor in an extensive business he became,
as well as his brother-in-law. In 181 4 he
was married, by Dr. Davidson, to IMary
(Polly) Denny, daughter of \\'illiam and
Agnes (Parker) Denny, sister of Major
Ebenezer Denny, and sister-in-law of Capt.
Boyd. W'illiam Denny was a prominent cit-
izen of Carlisle, a coroner of the countv. and
his wife a woman of marked character.
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[See Ebenezer Denny.] George Murray was
a model artisan. He died in Carlisle, May
6, 1855, in his 94th year, highly esteemed for
his high-toned and upright character.
The subject of this sketch, Joseph Alex-
ander Murray, the youngest of a family of
four sons and one daughter, received his
preparatory education in Carlisle, was for
a time a student in Dickinson College and
completed his college course at the Western
Uni\-ersity of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg,
from which he was graduated in 1837, and
at once entered the Western Theological
Seminary of the Presbyterian Church at
Allegheny, from which he was graduated in
1840. During his student life, in college and
seminarv. he was a member of the family of
his cousin, Plon. Harmar Denny, a prom-
inent lawyer, mayor of Pittsburg, member of
Congress, and influential in national politics
of that day. The contact of young Murray
with many of the leading men of the Whig
school, and the associations of his home,
continued into his later years, and had much
to do with imparting breadth to his character
and information, and the courteous manners
and dignified bearing which always charac-
terized him. His pen was frequently effect-
ively employed, even as a young man, in
the political discussions of that day. He was
licensed to preach by the Presbytery of
Ohio in October. 1840, and supplied for some
time a church at Miami, Ohio, and, although
cordially urged to continue his work there,
during a visit to Carlisle in 1842, he ac-
cepted a call to the church at Dillsburg, Pa.,
where he became so attached to the church
and its people that he continued with them
until, by reason of impaired health, in 1858,
he was obliged to give up the active pastorate.
He had not only been a pastor to his charge,
but as a model citizen, was interested in
every enterprise promotive of the interests of
the borough. He was especially active in
regard to public education, and was presi-
dent, for many years, of the Board of Di-
rectors of public schools. He removed to
Carlisle, and although his health improved,
and seemed to be c|uite restored, he never
felt at liberty again to resume the responsi-
bility of a charge, but was always active in
pulpit ministrations and all kinds of church
work. He was a member of the General
Assembly in 1844, 1861, 1865 and 1875. He
was appointed, with Judge H. W. Williams,
to defend an important decision of his Synod
before the General Assembly in 1875, and
was appointed a memlier of the Judicial com-
mittee. In 1876 he was made moderator of
the Synod of Harrisburg by acclamation.
His scholarly habits and tastes led him into
many fields of literary activity. He became
especially known for his thorough, pains-
taking, intelligent research in State and Na-
tional, as well as local, history, and was re-
garded as an authority on many historical,
biographical and antiquarian questions, and
accumulated a large amount of documentary
material. He was readily accessible, and
always ready to give information. He was a
member of the Historical Society of Penn-
sylvania, of the American Philosophical So-
ciety of Philadelphia, Corresponding Mem-
ber of the Numismatic and Antiquarian So-
ciety of Philadelphia, and of other Historical
Societies. He was the active secretary of
the Hamilton Library Association, of Car-
lisle, from its organization to his decease, and
did much to direct and encourage the ac-
cunuilation of local historical literature. His
contributions to literary, historical and re-
ligious periodicals have been numerous, and
some of unique value. Many of his public
addresses have been published. The Western
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Theological Seminary conferred on him the
degree of D. D. in 1869, and in 1886 he was
elected a directiir nf that institution.
In April. 1843. Dr. Murray married Miss
Ann Hays Blair, daughter ol Andrew Blair.
a prominent citizen of Carlisle. She died in
1875, leaving a daughter, their only child,
Mary Elizabeth, married in 1868 tn Prof.
Charles F. Himes, Ph. D., of Dickinson Col-
lege. In 1879 he was married to Miss Lydia
Steele Foster, of Philadelphia, wdio siu'vives
him. He ilied in Carlisle, Nov. 2y, 1S89,
in his se\-enty-hfth vear.
JACOB HURST was for many years
numbered among the leading lousiness men
of Mechanicsburg, where he conducted what
was the leading dry goods estaljlishment in
that city. He was born in Dillsburg, York
Co.. Pa., Aug. 13, 1832, a son of Jacob B.
and Susan (Herchfeldt) Hurst, the former
of whom was also born at Dillsburg, Jan. 7,
1808, a son of John and Catherine { Cocklin )
Hurst. The grandparents were among the
early settlers of York county, and were the
parents of four sons and three daughters who
grew t(i maturity.
Jacob B. Hurst, father of Jacob, resided
upon the homestead until he was fifteen years
of age, when he began to learn the tailoring
trade with William Gilberthurp. Four years
later he went to Harrisburg and Philadel-
phia, following his trade for a number of
years. Finally, in 183 1, he returned to Dills-
burg- and established a tailoring establish-
ment wdiich he continued to carry on until
1855, when he opened a general store. In
the spring of 1866, he removed to Mechan-
icsburg and established the dry-goods house
of J. B. Hurst & Son. He was a director of
the First National Bank, and stood high in
the communitv. Both he and his wife were
earnest members of the Presbyterian Church,
of which he was an elder for a numlier of
^years. On Nov. 18, 1875, occurred the death
of this most excellent man. His widow sur-
vi\ed for some years. The follriwing chil-
dren were born to this couple: Edwin W'.. a
merchant tailor of Mechanicsburg; Jacob;
Lydia B., who married W'illiam A. Spahr;
Mary E., wife of William B. Nelson, a farm-
er near Dillsburg, F'a. ; Templeton B., an ex-
soldier of Company H, Pennsylvania Re-
serves; Kate M., \\\\o married Robert B.
Mateer, a hardware merchant of Harris-
Ijurg, Pa.; and Melizena M., wdio married
(ieorge W. Flackett, a merchant of Sun-
bury, Pa.
Jacob Hurst attended school until he was
sixteen years of age, and then assisted his
father in his merchant tailoring establishment
and the general store until 1865. He then
came to Mechanicsburg, and became the
junior member of the firm of J. B. Hurst &
Si3n. Three months after his father's death
he purchased the entire stock, and continued
to be the leading merchant of Alechanics-
Ijurg until his death.
In 1872 Mr. Hurst married Miss Julia
\\ilson, of [Mechanicsburg, daughter of Ro-
bert and Sarah (Shock) \\'ilson. members of
good Cumberland county stock. Two sons
were born of this marriage: Wilson of Me-
chanicsburg, manager of the dry-goods house
of the J. Hurst estate, married Miss Bessie
Goodyear, of Carlisle, Pa. ; Corliss is also
with the dry-goods house above mentioned.
The death of Mr. Hurst occurred Feb.
22, igo2, and he passed away firm in the
belief of the Lutheran Church, of which he
was elder. He was a man of high moral
character, successful in business as well as
prominent in church circles, and in him 'Me-
chanicsburg lost one of its best citizens.
Mrs. Hurst and her. two sons reside at the
familv home on \\'est Main street, and are
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ver\- im|)()rtant factors in the life of ^lechan-
icsljiirg, of which they are highly honored
citizens.
\MLIJA\I H. DOUGHERTY, ex-
sheritf Of Cumherlancl county. resi(hng at
Mechanicshurg. Pa., is one of tlie represen-
tative men of that city, and is a native of
Pennsylvania, having heen Ixirn in ^'ork
ci>iintv. Ang. 5, 1840, a son of George
Dougherty, whose father was born in Ire-
land.
Georg"e Dougherty was Ijorn in Adams
county, in 1799. In 1826 he married Mary
Ann Stallsmith. a native of Pennsylvania, of
Scotch-Irish extraction, who died in 189S,
at ;m acKanced age.
William H. Dougherty was brought by
his parents to Cumberland county when he
was thirteen years of age, and he attended
school at Shepherdstown. Leaving school
in his sixteenth year, he began to learn the
carpenter's trade, and upon completing his
term of apprenticeship, he traveled about,
working as journevman, and assisted in the
constructitin of many of the buildings in the
vicinity of Shiremanstown, and Mechanics-
burg, including churches, schoolhouses and
residences, and he built the' First National
Bank building and also the high school build-
ing of jNIechanicsburg. He continued build-
ing and contracting until 1901, when he was
n'ominated by the Democratic party as candi-
date for the of^ce of sheriff, and was elected
bv a handsome majority. During his term
of service, he made an excellent officer, and
justified the confidence his party placed in
him. His term expired Jan. i. 1904.
In 1865, Mr. Dougherty married Miss
Sarah Ann Maust, of Shepherdstown, a na-
tive of Cumberland county, and a daughter
of Daniel Maust, a tailor by trade. After
marriage, Mr. Dougherty located in Bow-
mansdale, residing there until 18S5. when he
remo\ed to Mechanicsburg, where he con-
tinued his business as builder and contractor.
Mr. Dougherty is a member of the Knights
of Malta. He is a prominent Democrat, and
has always taken an active part in local,
county and state politics, and often is sent as
delegate to the various conventions. He is a
man who is very popular personally, and
wields a strong influence in his party.
On Nov. 16, 1869, a son, M. M. Dough-
erty, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dougherty,
now Dr. M. M. Dougherty. After reading
medicine with J. H. Boyer, of Mechanics-
l)urg. Dr. Dougherty entered Jefferson Med-
ical College of Pennsylvania, and was grad-
uated in the class of 1891. He is now lo-
cated at Mechanicsburg, and is actively en-
gaged in a successful practice. He is a mem-
ber of the Cumberland County Medical So-
ciety, and of the American Medical Associa-
tion. In 1893, Dr. Dougherty married Miss
Gertrude Ritter, of Philadelphia, a daughter
of John H. Ritter, a prominent citizen of
Philadelphia. Two sons were born of this
marriage, William R. and Fillmore Maust.
GEORGE G. IRWIN, M. D. South
iMiddleton township, Cumberland county,
has been particularlv fortunate in the high
class of professional men who have made
their homes there. Not the least among these
is Dr. George G. Irwin, whose conscientious
devotion to his calling, and whose natural
ability and high attainments, have won him
a conspicuous place in the front rank of
successful physicians and surgeons.
Dr. Irwin comes of good Scotch-Irish
stock, and his paternal great-grandfather
passed his entire life in Ireland. Alexander
Irwin, the Doctor's grandfather, was an early
settler of Chester county. Pa., where he was
engaged in trade.
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George Irwin, son of Alexander, was
born in Ciiester county, and on reaching man-
hood foHowed in his father's footsteps as a
merchant, also carrying on farming, the lat-
ter occupation occupying his entire time dur-
ing the latter years of his life. His energy
and foresight enabled him to find success in
\vhate\-er he undertook. His death occurred
Jan. 25, igoi, when he was seventy-five years
of age. His wife, Harriet Gable, was born
in Lancaster Co., Pa., and is still living
now (1904) aged seventy-one years. Five
children were born to George and Harriet
(Gable) Irwin, namely:- J. Alexander, wlni
is deceased ; Clarence C, deceased ; George
G. ; Margaret G. ; and Mary M.. deceased.
In religious belief the family all uniterl with
the Presbyterian Church. George Irwin, the
father, was a Republican in politics, and held
a number of local offices, serving for some
years as a justice of the peace. He was a
man of sterling worth, and by his fidelitv to
duty and his hig-h ideals of right living won
the lasting esteem of his fellowmen.
George G. Irwin was born in Oxford,
Chester county, Nov. 2y. i860, and his early
years were passed in his native town. The
common schools gave him the rudiments of
his education, which was furthered in
Oxford Seminary and the broad school of
experience, and by wide reading. After his
graduation from Oxford Seminary, he re-
turned to work upon his father's farm, but
his ambitions led him to seek a professional
career, and in 1889 he began to read medi-
cine with Dr. J. W. Houston, an eminent
practitioner of Lancaster county, with whom
he continued until he matriculated in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Bal-
timore, Md. He was graduated from that
school in 1892, with the degree of M. D.,
and at once returned to Oxford, there to be-
gin an active practice among his old neigh-
bors. A few months later substantial in-
ducements led him to move to Mount Holly
Springs, Cuml.ierland county, where he has
since made his home, meeting with uncjues-
tioned success in his work. He is a close
student of the new discoveries in- medical
science, and possesses a remarkable faculty
of discernment in selecting the wheat from
the chaff. His ability in diagnosis has
brought him favorably before his brother
physicians who have frequently availed
themselves of his services in consultation.
Professionally. Dr. Irwin belongs to the
Cumlierland County and Pennsylvania State
Medical Societies, and is always interested
in the deliberations of those bodies. In his
political faith he is a Republican, and he has
given good ser\'ice as a menilier of the board
of health.
In 1895 Dr. Irwin was united in mar-
riage with Miss Emma Black, daughter of
Anthony and Sarah Black, both of whom
died in Mrs. Irwin's childhood. The Doctor
and his wife are delightfully hospitable, and
have many warm friends throughout the
county.
JOHx\ LINDNER. Some of the most
prominent and enterprising citizens of this
country come from German ancestry. Con-
spicuous among these, in Carlisle, Cumber-
land county, is John Lindner, the famous
shoe manufacturer, of whom we here give
a brief history.
Three generations ago there dwelt in
Reidenhausen, Franken, Germany, Henry
Lindner and Elizabeth, his wife. Both were
natives and lifelong residents of that town,
Mr. Lindner being employed in the govern-
ment postal service all his active years, hav-
ing charge of the postal service of the
Province. To Henry and Elizabeth Lind-
ner there was born, in 1820, a son, John,
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wlio grew to manliood in Reidenhausen. He
was educated in the private schools of his
native town, and upon completing his studies
entered the employ of his fatlier in the ca-
pacity of clerk. After considerable exper-
ience in business he rose to be treasurer in
the firm of Henry Lindner of Beikeburg, a
position he filled until 1848, when he mar-
ried Sophia M., daughter of Adolph Darni-
hurst, of Beikeburg, and came to America.
Mr. and Mrs. Lindner located in Newark,
N. J., where he engaged in the manufacture
of clothing, at which he was very successful.
To John and Sophia M. Lindner were born
the following children; Frederick William,
of Louisville, Ky. ; Elizabeth B., wife of
Frederick Heilman, of Waltham, Mass. ;
and John, the subject of these lines.
John Lindner was born in 1859, in
Newark. N. J., in the house which has been
the home of his parents ever since they set-
tled in America. He was educated in the
public schools of Newark and in the New
Jersey Business College, and on laying aside
his books he entered the employ of Banister
& Tichner, shoe manufacturers of Newark,
with whom he acquired knowledge of shoe
manufacturing, and thoroughly equipped
himself for a successful business career. In
1882 he went into the employ of Reynolds
Brothers, shoe manufacturers of Utica, N.
Y., anfl applied himself so diligently and
efficiently that he soon rose to the position
of manager. Si.x years later he became su-
perintendent of the G. W. Neidich & Co.,
of Carlisle. Pa., where he demonstrated his
superior capability by, in three years' time,
increasing the output of the factory seven-
fold and making it one of the largest and
best paying shoe plants in the country. His
pronounced success encouraged him to try
larger and more difficult undertakings, and
in 189 1 he organized and had incorporated
the Lindner Shoe Co., of Carlisle, Pr. . cap-
italized at $35,000. A suitable building was
erected a little to the north of and in easy
sight of the Cumberland Valley railroad, at
the western end of Carlisle. It was first con-
structed to accommodate 100 hands, but from
the very start business grew rapidly, and in a
surprisingly short time the force having
to be increased fivefold, it was correspond-
ingly enlarged. It now consists of a struc-
ture 430 feet long, 225 feet wide, and three
stories high, and is a veritable hive of indus-
try. In January, 1893, the capital stock of
the company was increased to $50,000, and
in 1901 it was raised to $125,000, and in
August, 1904, it was increased to $200,000,
at which figure it rests at present. The of-
ficers of the company are: John Lindner,
president; I. E. Greenwood, vice-president;
M. L. Dunkleberger, secretary and treas-
urer. The factory is a model of its kind;
two large additions just completed make it
America's largest factory making women's
fine shoes, constructed and arranged to fa-
cilitate the output and at the same time con-
serve the health and comfort of its employes.
It is equipped with the best machinery
known, complete in every department and
detail, and has a capacity to produce every
year more than three million dollars worth
of ladies' fine shoes, which are marketed to
all parts of the country. It is by far the
largest manufacturing enterprise in Carlisle,
employs the most labor, and brings from a
distance and distributes among its citizens
more money than any other agency.
But this great shoe factory is only one
of Mr. Lindner's laudable enterprises. He
has others to his credit. In 1902 he em-
barked in the cultivation of. flowers on a
scale characteristic of the man. He pur-
chased a plot of ground in the western end
of town, and upon it erected the largest and
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finest greenhouses ever Iniilt in this part of
Pennsylvania. Tliey are thoroughly mod-
ern in every part of their construction, and
of magnificent size, requiring more than 70,-
000 square feet of glass to cover them.
Fronting these greenhouses, and bordering
on W'est Louther street, he has laid out a
beautiful public park of artistic design.
Macadamized roadways surround and cross
it, granolithic pavements border its edges :
through its well-kept lawns in graceful
curves wind gravelled walks and shrubbery
and plants and flower beds of variegated
hue ornament and beautify it. In it is
planted every species of tree kno^^■n to the
Cumberland Valley, and with a few years of
growth it will be a most delightful spot for
rest and recreation. Every two weeks during
the past summer, Saturday evening band
concerts, provided by the same liberal hand
that donated the park, were here given for
the benefit of the public. The creation of
this pleasure reflects the tastes of the man,
and the fact that he throws both park and
greenhouses wide open to the children of the
public schools speaks eloquently of his gen-
erosity. Not only do the public school chil-
dren have free access, but the students of
Dickinson College and the Indian Training
School are also welcome, and such of them
as delight in the mysteries of plant life are
given the use of apparatus and standard
works on botany to assist them in their study
and analysis.
Probably no employer of labor in the
State of Pennsylvania entered more cor-
dially into association and sympathy with
his employes than does Mr. Lindner. He
takes a personal interest in all that concerns
tliem, and both contributes to and shares in
their pleasures. For a number of years he
annually gave his entire force of hands a
day's outing, providing for them means of
enjoyment, refreshments and music.
Recognizing the iiriportance and necess-
ity of higher education, Mr. Lindner fre-
quently makes contributions to the local in-
stitutions of learning, and quietly does much
to encourage science and the arts. He takes
a deep interest in the prosperity of the town
and the general welfare of its citizens,
always aiding and often leading in efforts
to promote the public good. He was one of
the organizers of the Board of Trade, and
has been its president ever since it was or-
ganized. He is a member of the National
Association of Manufacturers ; of the Shoe
Manufacturers Association of Pennsylvania;
of the National Trade Exchange; of the
National Association of Civics; of the State
Forestry Association ; of the Manufacturers
Club of Philadelphia ; of the Hamilton Li-
brary Association of Carlisle; and long a
valued member of the Philadelphia Museum.
He is a Republican in politics but not an
aspirant for political honors or preferment.
As a public-spirited citizen he is much in
favor with the people, and a few years ago
was elected a member of the borough council
of Carlisle, was elected president of that
body, and at the expiration of his term was
re-elected without opposition, and again
without opposition in 1903. In religious
belief he is a Lutheran and contributes liber-
ally to that church and to Christian charities
generally.
In 1884 Mr. Lindner was married to
Matilda B., daughter of C. W. and Matilda
B. Metz, of Utica, N. Y., and to them one
child has been born, a son, J. Austin Lind-
ner. Their home is at the corner of Louther
and College streets, in a most desirable part
of town. On the outside it is conspictious
by reason of its shrubbery and flowers and
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generally attracti\-e surroundings, and inside
it is a model of comfort, culture and refine-
ment. Here, among books and papers and
rare paintings and bric-a-brac, the busy man
finds rest and solace from the care and trials
of his intensely active life.
Lindner Park. — A public park located
in the western end of Carlisle, contain-
ing about five acres. The residence section
surrounding it is known as the Lindner Park
East and West. A beautiful residence sec-
tion, land has Ijeen set aside for that pur-
pose under restrictions, so as to give the
entire neighborhood a larger scope of park
effect.
^\■ILLL\^I A. COX. Sr. After an
acti\e Ijusiness life of over sixty years,
and crowned with the esteem of his fellow
citizens and the affection of his kindred, Wil-
liam A. Cox, Sr., passed away at his home
on East Orange street, Shippensburg, Cum-
berland Co , Pa.. Sept. 10, 1903, aged eighty-
three years, two months, twenty-two days.
IVIr. Cox was born June 19, 1820, on his
father's farm, near Middle Spring, the sec-
ond son of John and Martha Cox. His educa-
tional opportunities were confined to the local
schools. About 1840 he went West, where
he spent several years, and settled for some
years at Xew Orleans. La. After his return,
in 1846. he married, and for some vears en-
gaged in farming in the vicinity of Middle
Spring, but in the spring of 1857 he pur-
chased the shoe store of G. B. Cole, which he
conducted for a year. His next business
partnership was with the late E. J. ]\IcCune,
in the grocery, boot and shoe trade, which
they conducted in what was formerly the
Graybill room, now in the Shapley block.
About this time he also filled a clerical posi-
tion in the I-'armers and Mechanics Bank of
Shippensburg, and was afterward for some
nine months in the old Carlisle Deposit Bank.
Later he entered into partnership with
George H. Stewart in the drj'-goods trade, in
the room now occupied by J. L. Hockersmith
& Sons, grocers, several years later purchas-
ing the interest of E. J. Forney, in the hard-
ware firm of Forney & McPherson, which
business was successfully conducted under
the firm name of McPherson & Cox for more
than three years, when Air. Cox retired, dis-
posing of his interest to S. \\'. Means. In
1872 he purchased the hardware store of
Stevick & Rebuck, where he continued in
business until 1900.
Mr. Cox was essentially a man of busi-
ness, and enjoyed its pursuit. Strictly hon-
est and upright himself, he set up the same
standard for others, and was disappointed
when he discovered methods less honorable
than his own. He never sought public office
and accepted but one, that of membership on
the Shippensburg school board, to the duties
of which he devoted much attention, making
many practical improvements. Though so
busy about his own concerns, Mr. Cox was
always willing to lead an ear to those in busi-
ness complexities, and on many occasions
gave advice and counsel that brought order
out of chaos.
On Nov. 26, 1846, Mr. Cox married Jane
A. Young, of Shippensburg, who died in
1896. Mr. Cox is survived by one daughter
and three sons : Linda, Samuel P. and John
A., of Gettysburg; and William A., of Ship-
pensburg. One sister, Mrs. Sarah McClay,
of Rolla, Mo., and one brother, John I., of
Shippensburg, also survive.
For many years Mr. Cox was a member
of the Middle Spring Presbyterian church,
in which he was elder and trustee and for
vears had served as clerk of the sessions. He
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was a higlily venerated citizen, and must be
classed with tliose who contributed materially
to the upbuilding of the interests of the city
of Shippensburg.
JOHX IRW'IX COX,, a retired farmer of
Shippensburg, was born Feb. 20, 1824, in
Southampton township, Franklin Co., Pa.,
a son of John and IMartha (Paden) Cox, and
grandson of Samuel and Mary (McComb)
Cox.
Samuel Cox was Irorn in 1755, at Ship-
pensburg, Pa., and married (first) Alary
McConib and (second) Annie Peebles; he
was lier third husband. Col. Hugh Paden.
the maternal grandfather of John I. Cox, was
born near Mount Joy, Lancaster Co., Pa.,
married a Miss Boggs, and reared a family
of seven daughters and two sons. The fam-
ily is of Scotch-Irish extraction.
John Cox, father of John Irwin Cox,
was born June 17, 1781, in Franklin county.
He carried on. in connection with his farm,
the manuafcture of woolen goods at Middle
Spring, using water-power, and the same
site is now the location of the Shippensburg
electric light plant. Air. Cox died Alarch 6,
1854, in his seventy-third year, survived by
his widow until Aug. 25, 1858; she was born
Feb. 17, 1807, in Mount Joy, Lancaster Co.,
Pa. They were buried at Aliddle Spring in
what is known as the lower graveyard. Their
family consisted of the following children :
Mary L.,'wife of Charles AlcClay; Sarah
Jane, wife of Francis McClay, of another
family ; Martha Ann, wife of John J. Young :
Samuel P.. unmarried; William A., who
married Jane A. Young and is deceased;
John I., of this sketch ; and Hugh Paden,
who died at San Francisco.
John I. Co.x spent his youth on the farm
and attended the district .school. At that
time the sessions were held in an old log
structure which has given way to a handsome
brick one. Air. Cox recalls Robert Hunter
as his first teacher. Later he attended the
Shippensburg Academy, where he was pre-
pareil for entrance to Jefferson College, at
Canonsburg. Pa., where he was graduated
in 1848. After graduation he began the
study of medicine, but on account of failing
health engaged in farming in Southampton
township, Franklin county. He then formed
a partnership with Hugh Paden. and they
engaged in the manufacture of lumlier at
Lyons City, Iowa, for some time. Tiring of
this business. Air. Cox disposed of his in-
terests in that locality. The next eight
years were spent in farming in Whiteside
county. 111., and he then returned to Ship-
pensburg, where he has been connected with
several business er.terprises, conducting a
store for the sale of agricultural implements,
and later a boot and shoe store. Since 1881
he has lived retired.
Air. Cox was married, April 13, 1858, to
Keziah Al. AlcCune, of Aliddle Spring, who
was born Oct. 11, 1832, daughter of Alexan-
der and Alary (Colwell) AlcCune. There
have been no. children by this marriage.
In political sentiment Air. Cox is a Dem-
ocrat, but in late years has cast his vote with
the Prohibition party. Both he and his wife
are members of the Presbyterian Church of
Aliddle Spring, of which he has been a trustee
many years. Although in the evening of
life he is in command of all his faculties and
not only enjoys good health, but the respect
and affection of his fellow citizens.
JACOB S. ZEARIXG. The name
Zearing has appeared frequently upon the
records of Cumberland county for a hundred
years past. Henry Zearing was a citizen of
East Pennsboro as early as 1808 and con-
tinued to reside in that and the adjoining
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township down to the time of his death. He
had a brother named Lewis who long resided
in the vicinity of Mechanicsburg, and who
was a private in Capt. George Hendel's com-
pany in the War of 1812. Lewis Zearing
was prominent in business and pubhc af^'airs
and long held the office of justice of the
peace. Afterward Henry Zearing in Allen
township, and Martin Zearing in East
Pennsboro, also were justices, and the title
"Squire Zearing" for many years was a
familiar sound throughout the county.
The Henry Zearing of a hundred years
ago had a family of six children, three sons
and three daughters. The .sons were Jacob,
Henry and John ; and the daughters were
Mrs. Monosmith. Mrs. Temi)lin, and Mar-
garet, the last named dying unmarried. The
son Jacob by occupation was a cooper and a
mason and always lived in the vicinity of
Shiremanstown. He married Eliza Swiler,
daughter of John and Catherine (Kreitzer)
Swiler. and a granddaughter of Christian
Swiler and Susan, his wife, who in 1792
came from Lancaster countv and settled on
the north side of the Conedoguinet creek in
what is now Silver Spring township. The
Kreitzers were also among the early settlers
of the lower end of the county, but lived to
the south of the Conedoguinet. Eliza
Swiler's parents died while she was yet a
young girl and she for years had her home
with her Kreitzer relatives. Jacob Zearing
died Dec. 31. 1883; he and his wife are
buried in the cemetery of St. John's Church
near Shiremanstown. Jacob and Eliza
(Swiler) Zearing were the parents of the
subject of this sketch, Jacob Swiler Zearing.
They also had one other child, Henry Mono-
smith Zearing, now living at Shiremans-
town.
Jacob S. Zearing was born at Shiremans-
town, Jan. 18, 1843. He was educated in
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the public schools of that place and in Den-
linger's Academy, at Camp Hill, where he
spent two or three terms. On leaving the
academy he clerked for a short time for
Rudy White, who kept a small general store
at Camp Hill. He next secured a position
as clerk in a general store in Shiremanstow^n,
which he filled for two and a half years.
With this preliminary training as a salesman
he entered the drug store of Dr. G. W.
Reily, located at No. 10 Market Square,
Harrisburg, where he remained continuous-
ly for fifteen years. While engaged in the
drug store he read medicine with Dr. Reily;
and, altliough he never entered upon the
practice of the profession, among his friends
and accjuaintances he has ever since been
familiarly known as "Doctor Zearing."
After leaving Harrisburg he engaged for a
period of three years in the drug business
with Dr. AL B. Musser, in Mechanicsburg.
On Jan. 16, 1873, while in business in
Mechanicsburg, Jacob S. Zearing was mar-
ried to Kate Hannah Witmer, of Middle-
sex township, who was a daughter of Jacob
and Hannah (Senseman) Witmer, and a
descendant of two well known representative
families of Cumberland county. After his
marriage he quit the drug business and
began farming in Middlesex township and
has so continued ever since. Along with his
farming he has always taken an active inter-
est in political affairs. He is a Republican,
but liberal and progressive in all matters,
and has always stood well with conservative
citizens generally. Politically, the district in
which he lives is strongly Democratic, yet
notwithstanding his Republican affiliations
he has been elected school director for
twenty-one years and was never defeated for
the office. In county affairs he enjoys a
like successful prestige. In 1882 he was
elected county auditor; in 1884 county com-
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niissiuner: and in 1887 was re-elected as
county commissioner. In the performance
of his pubHc duties he has always acted con-
scientiously and without political bias or that
fear of responsibility which governs the
actions of many of our public servants. In
the fall of 1903. in a hard-fought and close
contest, he was elected director of the poor,
which office he is now filling.
Jacob S. and Kate H. (Witmer) Zear-
ing had children as follows: Robert Wit-
mer. born at Mechanicsburg, Jan. 4. 1874;
Kathrine Hannah, born in [Middlesex town-
ship. Dec. 29, 1878: and Nellie, born July
30, 1877. who died .Aug. 19, 1878. Robert
W. Zearing. the son. married Sallie Keyser,
of Aliddlesex. who died a short time after
their marriage. Kathrine H. Zearing, the
daughter, married Frank E. Brennemau, of
Middlesex, and they li\-e at Terra Alta, Pres-
ton Co., W. Va., where Mr. Brenneman is
engaged in the mercantile business as a
traveling salesman. They ha\'e two children,
Mari(jn and Pauline.
Mr. Zearing's pleasant home is situated
upnn a rise near Middlesex Station, on the
Cumberland A'alley railroad, four miles east
of Carlisle. Evergreen and other trees sur-
round and shelter the house and so mark the
place that it can easily be seen and rec-
ognized from a distance. Here he has lived
since in 1875 'I'l'^l here he expects to spend
his remaining days.
GOODYEAR BROTHERS. The
Goodyeirs in Cumlierland county are of
German extraction and probably descended
from J. Henry Gutjahr, who landed at Phil-
adelphia from the ship "St. ^Michael" in
September, 1753. The family settled first
in \\'arwick township, Lancaster county, but
niore than a hundred vears ago came to
Cuml)erland county, the first appearance of
the name ujion the records in this cnunty
being in 1799, when Peter Goodyear was as-
sessed as land holder and resident in Allen
( no\\- Alonroe) township. The next to ap-
l)ear up'm the tax list was Frederick, also in
Allen township. These two were located in
the vicinitv of the present village of Church-
town, where some of their descendants still
reside.
In December. 1803, a Ludwick Gutyear
bought at sheriff sale a tract of land lying
along the York road, in Middletown (now
South Middleton) township, adjoining lands
of James Hamilton and others. This tract
contained 200 acres and was a part of the
estate of Alexander Blaine, who was a
brother of Col. Ephraim Blaine. Xine
months after purchasing this farm Ludwick
Gutyear died, and Rudolph Krysher and
Frederick Goodyear, as administrators, set-
tled up his estate. His wife survived him
more than thirty vears. Both are buried in
an old graveyard in Churchtown and their
tombstones bear the following inscriptions :
Ludwick Goodyear, born Oct. 20, 1757; died
September 16. 1804. Regina Goodyear, born
March 15, 1756. died January 5, 1836.
Ludwick and Regina Goodyear had the
following children : John, Jacob and Lena.
At the time of their father's death none of
these children were yet twenty-one years old,
but the two sons were nearly so, and on
reaching that age took the farm at the ap-
praisement and owned it jointly for many
years afterward.
John Goodyear, the eldest of these three
children, was born in Warwick township,
Lancaster county, March 11, 1784, and was
a young man when his parents settled in
Cumberland county. On Dec. 24, 1805, he
was married to Ann Burkholder. bv Rev. W.
Helfenstine. pastor of the Reformed Church
of Carlisle. Ann Burkholder was a daughter
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of Christian and Fronica Burkholder, who
formerly' w ere of Dauphin county, and was
born ]\Iarcii 16, 1783. They began their
married Hfe on the farm in the eastern part
of South Middleton township and lived there
to the end of their days. John Goodyear
died Dec. 29, 1864: his wife on Feb. 28.
1 86 1, and their remains are buried in a grave-
yard on the Lisburn road, where once stood a
Mennonite church, three miles east of Car-
lisle. They had the following children :
David, John, Catharine, Jacob, Abraham.
Samuel, Benjamin and Regina.
Samuel Goodyear, son of John, was born
July 16, 181 8, and grew to manhood on the
farm in South Middleton township. He en-
gaged at farming in South Middleton until
1865, when he removed to Carlisle, w here he
first followed leaking and later engaged at
lime burning and dealing in coal. He mar-
ried Mary Ann Morrett, who was a daughter
of Jacob and Elizabeth (Strock) Morrett, of
Cliurchtown. Jacob Morrett was a son of
Hartman and Gertrude Morrett. both of
whom are buried in the same graveyard in
which Ludwick Goodyear and wife are
burietl. Samuel Goodyear died Dec. 15, 1891 ;
his wife died June 10, 1904, and their re-
mains rest in Mt. Zion cemetery near
Churchtown.
To Samuel and I\Iary Ann (Alorrett)
Goodyear were born the following children :
^^'illiam. Jacob IMorrett, .Anna, John, Cath-
arine and Rebecca : also Henry, Mary Jane,
Regina Alice and Samuel, who died in in-
fancy.
Jacob ]\I. Goodye.\r was bom Nov. 21,
1845 '" the eastern part of South Middleton
township, on the farm which his great-grand-
father, Ludwick Goodyear, bought in 1803.
He grew to manhood on his father's farm and
was educated in the country district school.
In September, 1864, before he had reached
the age of nineteen, he enlisted in Company
A. 209th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.
The regiment was immediately sent to the
front and two weeks after he enrolled as a
soldier he was under fire. On the night of
the 17th of November, wdiile on duty on the
picket line in front of Bermuda Hundred,
he was captured and sent to Libby prison,
wdiere be celebrated the nineteenth anniver-
sary of his birth. From Libby prison he
was transferred to Castle Thunder and
thence sent to Salisbury, N. C. where lie was
kept in prison until the latter part of the
following F^ebruary, when he was sent back
to Richmond, where he was again confined
in Libby for a short period. In March, 1865,
he was exchanged and furloughed home to
recruit his health, which had been badly im-
paired by his prison treatment. He soon
afterward returned to the front, but by the
time he reached his regiment it was dis-
charged, the war being over. The regiment
was mustered out of service at Alexandria,
Va., but he received his discharge in Har-
risburg.
On returning from the army Mr. Good-
year located in Carlisle, where for two years
he engaged in the manufacture of pumps.
He then removed to what is now South Dick-
inson township, where for a period of five
years he followed farming, after which he
returned to Carlisle and embarked in the
lime business, to which he later added a coal-
yard. He continued in the lime and coal
business until 1894. when he was elected
sherifif of Cumberland county as a Democrat,
to which party he always belonged, as did
his fathers before him. As an official he was
uniformlv courteous and efficient and dis-
charged the important duties of his high
office with genera! satisfaction. In munici-
pal matters, as well as in the larger field of
county afifairs, he has been an active factor.
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and was a member of the Carlisle town coun-
cil for seven years continuously. Fraternally,
he is a member of Carlisle Council, No. 574,
Junior Order of United American Mechan-
ics: of True I'ricnds Lndge, No. 56. Knights
of Pythias ; als(j a member and past officer of
Capt. Ciilwell Post. No. 201. Grand Army
of the Republic.
On Sept. 26, 1867, Jacob M. Goodyear
married Ellen C. Miller, a daughter of Squire
Levi Miller, of Mt. Holly Springs, and to
them the following children have been born :
Fisk, Samuel M., \Villiam H.. Annie, J.
Frank, Carrie C, John J., Charles Albert,
Norman S. and Norton Miller. Of these
Norman is dead.
Of this large family are Fisk Goodyear
and Samuel M. Goodyear, the two brothers
who comprise the firm whose name heads
this historical sketch. Both were born while
their parents lived in South Dickinson town-
ship, Fisk on June 26, 1868, and Samuel M.
on Sept. 13, 1870. After the family removed
to Carlisle, and the boys had reached the
proper age, they entered the Carlisle public
schools, and in them received the principal
part of their education, Fisk graduating from
the high school in 1886. After leaving the
high school he spent one year with a mer-
cantile house in Philadelphia as clerk and
bookkeeper. After that for five years he
was an employe in various capacities at the
Carlisle Indian Training School, resigning
to go into business with his brother.
Fisk Goodyear mingles much with the
business and social life at Carlisle and is one
of the town's substantial and most esteemed
young citizens. He is a past captain of Capt.
Beatty Camp, Sons of Veterans, of Carlisle:
a past chancellor of True Friends Lodge, No.
56, Knights of Pythias : a member of Lodge
No. 91, L O. O. F. ; past master of Cum-
berland Star Lodge, No. 197, F. & A. M.;
a member of St. John's Chapter, No. 171,
R. A. M. : past commander of St. John's
Commandery, No. 8, Kinghts Templar; a
member of the Order of Elks, and of the
Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of
Reading.
On leaving the schools of Carlisle, Sam-
uel AL Goodyear, the other brother, took a
course in the Harrisburg Business College.
He then secured a pdsition with the Gettys-
burg & Harrisburg Railroad Company, in
its office at Carlisle, which he held for four
years, after which he secured a position as
stenographer and clerk in the general office
of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Company, at Harrisburg, where he spent
another four years. By this time his father
had been elected sheriff and an opportunity
arose for him to enter business on his own
account. Like his older brother he is an
active business and social factor in the com-
munity in which he has lived since early
childhood. He is a director in the Farmers
Trust Company, the heaviest financial in-
stitution in the Cumberland Valley ; a di-
rector in the Hamilton Library Association
and Cumberland County Historical Society,
and has been a school director of Carlisle
for seven consecutive years, six of which he
has been secretary of the board. He is prom-
inent in fraternal circles, being a member
of the Knights of Pythias and the Masons.
Li the Masonic fraternity, he has for
years represented the Grand Lodge of Penn-
sylvania as deputy for District No. 3, com-
prised of the counties of Cumberland, Frank-
lin and Fulton. Because of his rank and gen-
eral good standing he is present at many of
the social functions of the fraternity, and
consequently has pleasant associations
throughout the entire State of Pennsylvania.
On Oct. 10. 1894. Samuel M. Goodyear
was married to Edna Grace Weibley, of Car-
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lisle, by Rev. W. Maslin Frysinger, D. D.,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church
of Carlisle. Edna Grace Weibley is a
daughter of Edward and Fanny (Haver-
stick) Weibley, and a granddaughter of Jo-
seph and Margaret (Shrom) Weibley. Fan-
ny Haverstick was a daughter of Benjamin
and Lydia (Mylin) Haverstick, who came
from Lancaster countv. but were long prom-
inent citizens of Silver Spring township,
Cumberland count)'. Both lived to a great
age, Mr. Haverstick dying in 1881 at the age
of eighty-nine years, and his wife in 1903, at
the age of ninety-six. ■ Samuel M. and E.
Grace (Weibley) Goodyear have two sons:
Jacob Morrett. Jr., born March 16. 1896;
and Donald Haverstick. born March 26,
1902. Mrs. Goodyear's parents and grand-
parents were Methodists, but Ixith she and
her iuisband belong to the First Futlieran
Church of Carlisle, in which Mr. G(iodyear
holds the position of vestryman.
When Jacob M. Goodyear in 1894 was
elected sheriff he transferred his lime, sand
and coal business to these two sons, who,
doing business under the firm name of Good-
year Brothers, have proved most worthy
successors. They are careful, systematic,
well-trained business men and have bright
prospects of success, for they practice the
principles which bring success.
HENRY EWALT. The records of
Cumberland county show that a John
Ewalt purchased from Edward West, on
Jan. 6, 1796, 200 acres of land lying on
the Juniata river. In the deed conveying it
it is stated that John Ewalt was "of Juniata
township." John Ewalt, then, was a citizen
of Juniata township, Cumberland county
(since 1S20 Perry county), as early as 1796.
Nothing has been ascertained from any
source to fix more definitely the time of his
coining, nor where he had previously lived.
There is a tradition that he came from the
vicinity of the Trappe, Montgomery county,
but as this is entirely without support it is
hardly safe to unqualifiedly accept it.
The name Ewalt is of German origin
and in Germany persons bearing it have long
been prominent as poets, theologians and
professional men. The first appearance of
the name in America was in 1733, when a
Ludwig Ewalt and family arrived in Phil-
adelphia. In September, 1753, a John
Ewalt came, and the Provincial records
show that on May 2, 1758, there was a John
Ewald, a soldier "in Captain John Black-
wood's company of the Pennsylvania regi-
ment." He was thirty-six years old ; born in
Germany; enlisted on May 16, 1758, and
was a laborer. Prior to enlisting in Black-
wood's cnmpan\- he l)el(inged to Clapham's
Provincials. There was also a John Ewalt
in Peters township, now Franklin county,
as early as 1763, who after a few years'
residence there removed to Bedford county,
where in the early days he was a man of in-
fluence and prominence. He died Nov. 12.
1792, leaving a family of nine children,
among them a son named John. According
to tradition the Bedford John Ewalt, to es-
cape religious persecution, fled from Ger-
many to Holland and from Holland to
America.
The land which John Ewalt purchased
from Edward West lay at the lower end of
the present town of Newport, on the south
bank of the Jvmiata. According to the best
information at hand he lived there continu-
ously from some time prior to 1 796 down to
the time of his death. While there is noth-
ing on the records to indicate that he ever
lived in the Cumberland Valley there is a
strong probability that prior to settling on
the Juniata he spent some time there. His
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first wife was Mary Sample, daughter of
a John Sample who died near where now is
Hogestown, in October, 1794. The Sam-
ples were among the first settlers of that sec-
tion and it does not appear that the family
of John Sample ever lived anywhere else.
Consequently it is a natural inference that
John Ewalt in his younger days either re-
sided in that vicinity, or that he, through
some special circumstances, was thrown into
association with the Sample family.
When John Ewalt settled on the Juniata
he was not yet thirty years of age. That
part of the State was then thinly populated,
settlements were a long way apart, but he
soon figured in public affairs, his name
standing associated with those of persons
of known influence and prominence, an indi-
cation that he was a man of intelligence and
force of character. Along about 1800 he
was a member of the board of poor directors
for Cumberland county and as early as 1807
was advocated at public meetings and in the
newspapers for county commissioner, an
office that he held in the years 1810, 181 i,
181 2 and 181 3, a period during which the
building of public bridges was agitated.
Both in the newspapers and on the records
he is frequently referreil to as "Col. Ewalt,"
a title he probably acquired through being
connected wnth the militia.
Col. Ewalt's principal business was
farming, but like many farmers in his day
he also engaged in distilling. He frequently
bought and sold real estate and during the
twenty-five years of his greatest activity was
taxed with variable amounts of farm and
mountain land, which one year reached in
the aggregate 530 acres. His business qual-
ifications and credit were of the best, and in
November, 1814, he was elected a director
of the Pennsylvania Agricultural and Manu-
facturing Bank, of Carlisle. He died at the
house of John Koch, in Juniata township,
on Saturday morning. Feb. 25, 1826. He
had been ailing l:)ut was able to move about,
and on the evening before set out frnm his
home to go to a store a few miles distant.
On the way he was suddenly attacked with a
chill so violent that it was with great diffi-
culty that he was enabled t(j reach the home
of Mr. Koch. The chill continued unabated
and was succeeded by a stupor that ended
in death. A newspaper report of the inci-
dent ends by saying: "He was lamented by
all who knew him." His remains, it is gen-
erally supposed, are buried in the Presby-
terian graveyard at Middle Ridge. His
first wife died ten or twelve years before he
did and her remains are buried at the same
place. After the death of his first wife. Col.
h^walt married ]\Irs. Catharine Fahnestock,
widow of Dr. Daniel Fahnestock, who long
was a practicing physician and prominent
business man of Juniata township. His sec-
ond wife survived him. but bv her he had
no children.
John Ewalt and ]Mary Sample, his wife,
had the following children : Jane, Sarah,
Eliza, Henry and Susan. Jane married Jo-
seph Tate, of Juniata township, where she
and her family lived all her lifetime. Some
of her descendants are still in that locality.
Sarah married Robert Marlin, of Juniata
township, and remained there for some
years. Subsequently the Marlin family went
to Oreg(jn, where Mr. jNIarlin died, after
which his widow and children drifted south-
ward and settled in Alameda county, Cal.
Eliza married Joseph Trimmer, of Perry
county, and for a long time lived in the vicin-
ity of Newport. Susan married a Mr. Cole-
man, who after several years mysteriously
disappeared.
Henry Ewalt, the only son of Col,
John and Mary (Sample) Ewalt, and sub-
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ject of this sketch, was horn May 10, 1800,
on his father's farm on tlie lianks of the
Juniata, where now is the town of Newport.
Here lie was reared and trained to the lionor-
able vocation of fanning. In 1826 he mar-
ried ^hu-garet Loudon, a daugliter of Arch-
ibald and JMargaret (Bines) Loudon. ALar-
garet Loudon was liorn Sept. 15, 1796, near
where is now the village of New Kingstown,
in Cumberland county; but in the spring of
1820 her parents moved to a farm lying on
the north bank of the Juniata river, opposite
Newport, and in easy sight of the Ewalt
home. Here this young couple met, and mar-
ried, and passed the first years of their wed-
ded life.
Mary (Sample) Ewalt had an unmarried
brother named John, who in his life acquired
title to a considerable portion of the land
which originally was included in the Sample
homestead. John Sample died in February.
1824, leaving this land by will to his nephew,
Henry Ewalt, on condition that he pay his
four sisters each a certain amount of money.
Li this way Henry Ewalt became possessed
of this land, and it remained in his possession
till his death. The land is located on the
north side of the Conedoguinet creek, in Sil-
ver Spring township. It is one of two farms
included in a deep southward bend of that
crooked stream and reaches entirely across
the base of the peninsula, from the creek on
the west to the creek on the east. Here
Henry Ewalt did his best work and here
he remained longer than anywhere else in
the seventy-one years of his life. He moved
to this place in 1832 and by years of close
application and hard work made of it a pro-
ductive farm and a pleasant home. He erect-
ed buildings on an elevated point where they
command a delightful view of the most Ijeau-
tiful section of the valley, and where they
form a conspicuous landmark to oljservers
many miles distant. In the spring of 1863
he quit his farm and retired to a home in
Hogestown, where he lived out the balance
of his days. He died Jan. 11, 1871 ; his wife
(lied Feb. 5, 1874. and their remains are
buried in the cemetery of the Silver Spring
Church.
Henry Ewalt was a man of strong per-
sonality and a central figure in the commun-
ity in which he lived. He was greatly ad-
mired for his honor and integrity, for his
word was his bond. In manner he was un-
affected, frank and cheerful. His kindness
was proverbial, and his strong sympathy and
sociability made fast friends of his neighbors,
who delighted in his companionship while he
li\ed. and fondly cherished his memory after
he was gone. He was fond of riding on
horseback, and practiced the habit till late in
life, ^\'hen his team would go to the moun-
tain for wood or rails he would mount his
riding horse and ride along and superintend
the work. When the family had an errand to
the store it generally fell to his lot to do it,
and he invariably did it on horseback. And
when time lay heavily on his hands from
nothing to do, he would ride over to where
his neighbor was plowing and with him com-
pare notes and exchange news, and wherever
he went there was life and good cheer.
Henry and Margaret (Loudon) Ewa'r
had children as follows : ^^'illiam Henry.
Loudon Bines and Margaret. \A'illiam
Henry, the eldest child, was born in March,
1827, in Perry county, and remained with
his parents on the farm during all of his
single days. In i860 he married Martha
Oliver, daughter of Dr. J. G. and Jane
( Carothers) Oliver, and a member of one of
the old representative families of Cumber-
land county. To them the following chiF'ren
were born : Jennie Oliver, Margaret Lou.lon,
Grace, Walter Buchanan, and Ailsie
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Carothers. Margaret Loudon died March
6, 1892, and Walter Buchanan died Sept. 26,
1890. On June 9. 1887, Grace Ewah mar-
ried Rev. T. J- Ferguson, pastor of the Sil-
ver Spring Presbyterian Church, and to their
union have been born the following children :
Margaret. Mary IMcCormick and A'irginia.
After marrying. \\'illiam Henry Ewalt for
several years engaged at farming, and after
that at the mercantile business in Hogestown
and Alechanicsburg. He died in Mechanics-
burg in Feljruary. 1875. and he and his two
deceased children are buried at Silver Spring.
Loudon Bines Ewalt was born April 16.
1836, in Silver Spring township. Cumberland
county, and spent nearly all of his lifetime
there. He died Nov. 2/, 1903, in IMechan-
icsburg, unmarried, and is buried at Silver
Spring.
Margaret Ewalt was born in Silver
Spring township, Cumberland county, Sept.
22. 1838. On Dec. 16. 1863. she was mar-
ried to Hiram K. Sample, of Allegheny coun-
ty. Pa.. Rev. \\'illiam H. Dinsmore perform-
ing the ceremony. After her marriage she
removed with her husband to Allegheny
county, where they always afterward lived.
Hiram K. S.\mple was born July 19,
1828, on a farm which bordered on the Alle-
gheny river opposite the city of Pittsburg,
Allegheny Co., Pa. He was the fifth son of
John and Alargaret (McCord) Sample, and
a grandson of James Sample, who was Ijorn
in Cumberland county, Pa., March 25, 1756,
on the old Sample homestead known as
Chambers Sample farm. James Sample was
a soldier in the Rex'olutionary war and in
return for his services received from the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania a tract of
land lying north and west of the AUeglieny
river, in Allegheny county, to which he
moved in 1789 or 1790, he being one of the
first settlers in that district. Hiram K. Sam-
ple recei\-ed a common school education and
worked on his father's farm until 1852. when
he learned the trade of iron roller and had
charge of the muck rolls in the mill of Stew-
art Lloyd & Co., from 1852 until 1857, when
he again resumed farming. At the breakhig
out of the war of the Rel)ellion he went with
the 139th Ivegiment. Pennsylvania Volun-
teers, and was in the commissary and mail
department for three years. In politics, he
was a stanch Republican, and he was elected
a member of the State Legislature from the
5th District, Allegheny county, in 1872 and
1873, and again represented his district in
1885 and 1887. Mr. Sample was an earn-
est Christian and a charter member of the
Millvale Presbyterian Church. He died
Feb. 25, 1898, in the house in which he
was born, having been in failing health for
a number of years. He was a kind, loving
husband and an indulgent father. His dis-
position was bright and cheery, and he al-
ways had a smile and a kind word for all
with whom he came in contact. He was
loved, respected and looked up to in the
neighborhood in which he lived, and many
were the disputes and family cjuarrels,
among the people employed in the mills, re-
ferred to him, and which he disposed of in a
manner satisfactory to all parties concerned.
In his public life he was likewise noted for
his integrity and good sound judgment. A
leading attorney at the Pittsburg Bar recent-
ly said of him, "He was the only strictly
lionest politician I ever knew."
Five children were born to Hiram K.
and Margaret (Ewalt) Sample, as follows:
Harry Ewalt, born Xov. 30, 1864, attended
Pittsburg Academy and graduated from the
Iron City College. He is now engaged in
the printing and publishing business. He
married Lillian M. Robinson, Oct. 15, 1889,
and to their union have been born the fol-
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lowing children: Hyde K., Marjorie, Ethel,
Harriet Isabel.
Margaret Alice, born Oct. 13, 1866, at-
tended ^lillvale public schools and gradu-
ated from Brook Hall Seminary, Media,
Pa. On Oct. 24, 1889, she married Dr.
Frank L. Ardary, by whom she had two
children, Robert S. and Miriam. Mr. Ar-
dary died June 2, 1894.
Mary Stewart, born Aug. 14, 1869, was
educated in the public schools and at Brook
Hall Seminary. On Nov. 27, 1895, she
married Samuel Morrow, and now resides
in Oakland, Pittsburg.
Hyde Glenn, born March 24, 1875, at-
tended the Millvale public schools and Park
Institute, and graduated from the Western
University of Pennsylvania in 1896. In
1899 he graduated from Pittsburg Law
School, and the same year was admitted to
the practice of law in Pittsburg.
Clyde W., born Feb. 7, 1878, was edu-
cated in the Millvale public schools, East
Liberty Academy and the Western Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. In 1903 he graduated
from the Hahnemann IMedical College in
Philadelphia, and is now practicing medi-
cine in the city of Pittsburg.
HON. WILBUR F. SADLER, one of
the distinguished citizens of Carlisle, Pa.,
was born in Adams county, Ibis State, Oct.
14, 1840, and the family from which he
comes is among the oldest in his natal
county.
In 1746 one Richard Sadler came from
England to Pennsylvania. He settled in
what is now Adams county, and in 1750
there pre-empted land, upon which he spent
what of life remained to him, and which is
still in possession of some of his descendants.
He died in 1764, and his remains lie interred
in the burying-ground of Christ Church, in
Huntington township. Adams county. This
Richard Sadler had a son named Isaac, who
married a Mary Hammersly, and Isaac and
Mary (Hammersly) Sadler had a son
whom they named Richard, in honor of his
grandfather.
Richard Sadler (2) was a farmer, as
were most of his ancestors. He married
Rebecca Lewis, and early in life removed to
Center county, where he lived for fifteen
years, returning then to Adams county,
where he died at the age of eighty-two. He
was a man of strong personality and rare
intellectual endowments. During his young
manhood he was an Episcopalian, and his
wife was a Presbyterian, but in after life
both joined the Methodist Church. Richard
and Rebecca (Lewis) Sadler had the follow-
ing children: John L., Joshua, William R.,
Isaac, Elizabeth, Re1>ecca and Nancy. Of
these children :
John L. Sadler, the eldest son, became a
farmer, went West and died at Galesburg,
111., leaving a family of one son and four
daughters.
William R. Sadler was also an 'enter-
prising farmer and followed that occupation
in his native county throughout life. His
interest in public affairs brought him into
political prominence early in life and he was
elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate,
where he made a creditable record. He died
near York Springs, Adams county, while
yet in the full flush of young manhood, leav-
ing two children, a son and a daughter. The
son, John Durbin Sadler, was a youth of
great promise, and was educated at Dickin-
son College. At the outlireak of the Civil
war he entered the army, was promoted to
the rank of lieutenant in the ist Regiment,
Pennsylvania Reserves, and was killed at
the Batiile of . South Mountain, Sept. 15,
1863.
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Isaac Sadler was possessed of business
qualities of a high order and became a man
of wealth and position. In his retirement he
made his home in Carlisle, and died there in
September. 1886, at the age of eighty-three.
Elizaljeth Sadler married Solomon Ben-
der, and died in Chambersburc^, leaving one
son, Re\-. H. R. Bender, who is filling a
charge as pastor in Xew York State.
Rebecca Sadler was twice married, first
to Leonard Alarsden. by whom she had one
child. After his death she married Max-
Shelley, a large land owner of York. Pa.,
but had no children by him.
Nancy Sadler married John Appleman,
of Middletnwn, Md., where both she and
her husband died and are buried.
Joshua Sadler, the second son, was born
at the ancestral home in Adams county, and
was reared to farming, which usefid occu-
pation he followed all his life. He married
Harriet Stehley, a daughter of John Steh-
ley, of Adams county, and by her had two
sons. Wilbur F. and John L. Alxnit the
}'ear 1841 Joshua Sadler moved into what
is now Penn township, Cumberland county,
and there sjient the balance of his davs. He
died in Decemlier, 1862, at the age of sixty-
one years. His wife died in January, 1868,
and the remains of both are interred in Ash-
land cemetery, at Carlisle.
\Vilbur F. Sadler, elder son of Joshua
and Harriet Sadler, was born in Adams
county Oct. 14. 1840, and grew to manhood
upon the farm in Penn township. Cumber-
land county. In his youth he attended the
public schools of his neighborhood and the
academy in the village of Centerville, and
subsequently he pursued his studies in Dick-
inson Seminary, at Williamsport, Pa., from
which institution he graduated in 1863. On
returning home from school, -in the summer
of 1863, he found southern Pennsylvania
(n-errun by the Confederate army, and imme-
diately enlisted in an emergency cavalry
company to assist in repelling the invaders.
He continued in the army until the fall of
that year, when the regiment with which he
was connected was mustered out of serxice.
He then turned his attention to the law. and
under the preceptorship of A. B. Sharpe
and J. ^I. Weakley completed the prescriljed
course of study, being admitted to the Cum-
berland county Bar in 1864. He began prac-
ticing at Carlisle, and by close attention and
hard work soon acquired a large and lucra-
tive business, which kept steadily growing
until his elevation to the Bench, in 1884.
Although deeply absorbed in his pro-
fession, Mr. Sadler found time to take an
active interest in politics, and early in his
career became an influential factor in the
affairs of the Republican party. In 1868
he was nominated for State Senator in the
district then composed of Cumberland and
York counties. He was not elected, but
made a showing that contributed very mate-
rially to his reputation as a party leader,
and ever afterward was kept at the front
politically. In 1871 he was elected district
attorney, and three years later was the Re-
publican nominee for president judge of the
Xinth Judicial District. Besides attending
tu his legal practice he engaged extensively
in business enterprises, was director in dif-
ferent corporations, director and president
of the Farmers' Bank, director of the public
schools of Carlisle, trustee of Dickinson
College, and filled other positions of trust
and responsibility. In 1884 he was elected
president judge, carrying Cumberland coun-
ty by a majority of 1.325, while the Republi-
can candidate for President lost it by a ma-
jority of over 900. After bis election as
Common Pleas judge he was twice a candi-
date for Supreme Judge, and although not
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successful he each time cauie within a few
votes of being nominated. After his retire-
ment from the Bench he devoted himself to
his practice, and, his reputation as a lawyer
and counsellor having become widespread,
his services were much called for from a dis-
tance as well as from within the confines of
his own county. He associated with him two
of his sons, who .ire both young men of ac-
knowledged ability, and have had a thorough
practical training for the law. On June 8,
1904, he was again nominated for president
judge of the Ninth Judicial District of Penn-
sylvania, and was elected Nov. 8th.
In 1 87 1 Wilbur F. Sadler married ]\Iiss
Sarah E. Sterrett, daughter of Rev. David
Sterrett, a Presbyterian minister then living
in Carlisle. To this union were born four
children : ( i ) Wilbur F. has long been en-
gaged in projecting and constructing street
railways, at which he has achieved success
and distinction. He resides at Trenton, N.
J., where he is prominently identified with
enterprises in his line. (2) Lewis S. was edu-
cated at Yale College and the Dickinson
School of Law at Carlisle, graduating from
the latter in 1895, since when he has been
actively engaged in the practice of his profes-
sion, and is regarded as one of the most in-
dustrious and competent young attorneys at
the Bar. For one term he was attorney for
the Carlisle borough council. In June, 1902,
he married Miss Mary Bosler, daughter of
the late James W. Bosler. (3) Sylvester B.
graduated from Yale in 1896 and from the
Dickinson School of Law in 1898. He and
his brother Lewis are partners with their
father in the practice of law, and through
their reputation as able, industrious and
thoroughly trained lawyers the firm com-
mands a large and constantly increasing bus-
iness. Sylvester B. is professor of Criminal
Law in the Dickinson School of Law. and
author of a book on criminal procedure pub-
lished by the Lawyers' Co-operative Publish-
ing Company, of Rochester, N. Y. He is a
member of the borough council, and takes a
live interest in everything that pertains to
the good of the community. (4) Horace T.
graduated from the Dental Department of
the University of Pennsylvania in 1901.
After completing his course he spent a year
inthe city of Philadelphia, and then located
in Carlisle, where he is now engaged in suc-
cessful practice.
Mrs. Sadler died Jan. 10, 1895. A
deeply pious and devoted wife and mother,
her death naturally was a heavy blow to her
family, but it did not disturb the sacred filial
associations of the bereaved, for the beauti-
ful residence on West College street, Car-
lisle, continues to be their home in common,
and only as new relations in life arise and
demand it do they leave it. Judge Sadler
and his sons are justly numbered among the
representative citizens of Cumberland coun-
ty. They grace the honorable professions of
which they are members, are public-spirited
and progressive, and are deservedly very
popular with the masses.
WILLIAM R. LINE. In the early days
of this State there lived in Manheim town-
ship, Lancaster county, a man named David
Line. He was born June 10, 1753, and died
Aug. 10, 1814. His wife, Ann, was born
Jan. 12, 1758, and died Feb. 15, 1823. Both
are buried in a graveyard in Manheim town-
ship. David and Ann Line had the follow-
ing children: Rachel, born Jan. 5, T777,
died Sept. 17, 1814; John, born Dec. 25,
1778, died Nov. 28, 1852; George, born Dec.
2. 1780, died March 2, 1835; Daniel, born
Jan. 12, 1782; William, born Oct. 15, 1785,
(lied Nov. 16, 1868; Ann, born Oct. 29,
1788; Jesse, born Dec. 23, 1790; Sarah,
born Feb. 16, 1793; Rebecca, born Jan. 1,
1796; Gabriel, born Aug. 10, 1798. Along
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almut 1 810, three of these ten children, John.
George and Wilham, mo\-ed to Cumberland
county. John and \\'i11iam settled in the
part of Allen township that is now Monroe,
where thev for a number of years taught
school. George settled in the part of East
Pennsboro that is now. Silver Spring. John
and George continued to live in their respec-
ti\-e localities the rest of their days, the
former dying on Nov. 28. 1852. and the
latter cm ^larch 2. 1835. Both are buried
in the cemetery of the Trindle S]5ring
Church.
When these three sons of David and Ann
Line came to Cumberland county there lived
in the vicinity of Churchtown a man named
Jacob Wise, who was a prominent citizen
and possessed of much property. Jacob Wise
and Ann, his wife, had the following chil-
dren : Mary, Elizabeth, George, David,
Nancy, Reliecca, Sally, Catherine, Jacol) and
Samuel. Into this large family \\'illiam
Line, the young school teacher, from Lan-
caster county, came for a helpmeet. On
April 2, 1812, he married Rebecca, daugh-
ter of Jacob and Ann Wise, the Rev. Alfred
Halfenstine, pastor of the Reformed Church
at Carlisle, pronouncing" them man and wife.
They took up housekeeping at Churchtown,
then one of the most prosperous and promis-
ing points in the large township of Allen.
He continued to teach school and do survey-
ing and scrivening up until 181 5. As the
country was then rapidly becoming settled
there was much surveying and conveyancing
to do, and he consequently found it advan-
tageous to reside at the county seat. He
therefore moved to Carlisle, and located on
West South street, in a brick house owned
by one Patrick Phillips, father of the late
Abram Phillips. While living here he
bought a lot on the east side of South Han-
over street, in the vicinity of the present
Manse of the Second Presbyterian Church,
and there he built himself a house and lived
for several years. In December, 1819, he
bought from Major Sterrett Ramsey at the
eastern edge of town, forty-eight acres of
land, a property that has since long been the
home of the late James W. Bosler, and is
now in the possession of his heirs. Later he
purchased on the north side of the York
Road in the same locality, a four-acre tract
afterward owned 1)v the late Carev W.
Ahl — upon which he li\-e(l for many years.
Still later he purcliased the property opposite
to where the Philadelijhia & Reading pas-
senger depot now stands, now owned by
his son Luther A., and there he spent the
rest of his clays. He died on Nov. 16, 1868,
after having lived out a long and useful
career. From earh' in life he actively par-
ticipated in public affairs, wielding great in-
fluence and winning a prominence which few
men locally attain. His true worth can best
l)e judged by the number and character of
the pul)lic trusts he filled, and to enable the
reader to judge correctly we here enumerate
the principal ones : In 1813 Governor Snyder
appointed him a justice of the peace for
Allen township; in 1814 the same governor
appointed him deputy surveyor for Cumber-
land county: in i8iS Governor Findlay ap-
pointed him Recorder of Deeds and also
Register of Wills; in 1828 Governor Shultz
aijpointed him an .\ssociate Judge, and in
Decemlier, 1833, he was again appointed
Register of Wills by Governor Ritner.
Through being so many years in the service
of the public he became thoroughly familiar
with public affairs, and a very ready and
agreeable conversationalist. He was in a
large sense a public servant, and for many
years was popularly known as "Judge"
Line. In his later years, after he had in a
measure retired, he devoted his time and at-
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tention principally to tlie culture of flowers
and ornamental plants, and found much
enjoyment in showing visitors through his
gardens, greenhouses and nursery, and many
persons called expressly to hear him talk
on flowers and relate personal remin-
iscences of which he had an inex-
haustible store. To William Line and
Rebecca, his wife, were Ix)rn children
as follows : Washington, born ]\Iarch
II, 1813; William Ramsey, born Dec. i.
1814; Augustus Asbury, born ]\Iay 17,
1819; and Amelia Ann, born June 6, 1823.
Rebecca (Wise) Line died Feb. 18, 1826, and
Oct. 12, 1830, Mr. Line married Mrs. Cath-
erine King, widow of Dr. John King,and
daughter of Dr. John Luther, of Harrisburg,
by which marriage he had the following chil-
dren : Cornelia Emily, born Sept. 13, 1831 ;
Luther Alexander, born Dec. 21, 1835.
Mrs. Catherine Line, Judge Line's second
wife, died Jan. 24, 1854. and he and his two
wives are buried on the same lot in Ashland
cemetery.
W'ashington, the oldest child by his first
marriage, went West and for several years
taught school near Dayton. Ohio, where he
died when about thirty years of age.
Augustus Asbury. the third son, lived
all his days in the town of Carlisle where he
was actively engaged in business and public
affairs until late in life. He died Aug. 24,
1903.
Amelia Ann, William and Rebecca Line's
only daughter, married John R. Elder, of
Indianapolis, Ind.. who met her while he
was a student at Dickinson College. He for
a long time was editor of a paper in Indian-
apolis. Mrs. Elder died in October, 1899,
leaving her husband and three children.
Cornelia Emily, the oldest child and only
daughter of William and Catherine Line,
died on May 26, 1899.
Luther Alexander, the only son by the
second marriage, is mentioned below.
William Ramsey, second son of Judge
William and Rebecca (Wise) Line, was
born while his parents resided on \\'^est
South street, Carlisle, and was named after
the Hon. William Ramsey, an intimate
friend of his father. He grew to manhood
in, and has always lived near, the town.
During his youth he attended the private
schools which then flourished in Carlisle,
chief among them being that conducted by
a man named Gad Day. Among his school-
mates in Gad Day's school were members
of the families of Isaac Brown Parker, An-
drew Holmes and Robert Irwin, all of whom
are now dead. Meager as were the educa-
tional advantages of the day William R.
Line made good progress in his studies, and
before he had reached manhood's years had
acquired sufficient knowledge to teach school
which he did for a number of years. His
first teaching was done at the Red School
House, now named Paradise, in South Mid-
dleton township. He next taught the Wise
School and subsequently the one located near
the head of the Letort Spring, now known
as the Bonny Brook school. He was suc-
cessful from the first, and as his reputation
as an instructor spread, patrons multiplied,
and his school grew to large size, young
men and women, some of them married,
availing themselves of his teaching. This
school was always well filled with studious
and well-behaved pupils. The venerable
William Barnitz and the late Wesley Miles
were professional cotemporaries of his, Mr.
Miles having preceded him as teacher of the
school at Bonny Brook. Besides being a nat-
ural scholar and instructor, he in his earlier
vears had a mechanical bent of mind and
worked in wood as a recreation from his
studies and school duties. \\'hile teaching
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the Wise school lie spent much of his spare
time ill the carpenter shop of Phihp Shissler
nearby, and ;unong otlier useful things made
himself a new liuggy.
On July lo, 1845, William Ramsey Line
married Mrs. Mary Simpson Campbell, the
Rev. T. V. Moore, pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church, performing the cere-
mony. Mrs. Campbell was the widow of
Adams Campbell, of Elizabethtown, Lan-
caster county, and a daughter of Samuel
Elder and granddaughter of the Rev. Ji^hn
Elder, who for fifty years was pastor of the
' Paxton Presbyterian Church, Dauphin coun-
ty, where in the early pioneer days he often
preached with his loaded rifle in his pulpit
ready for use in case of attacks from the
Lidians. Soon after his marriage he moved
to the farm lying on the Trindle Spring
Road a short distance east of Carlisle, the
ownership of which he has since accjuired.
Here he has resided continuously ever since.
His life has been quiet and uneventful, Init
full of the kind deeds which let not the
right hand know what the left hand doth.
He is a man of excellent business judgment,
and the fact that he is a director in an enter-
l^rise inspires confidence in that enterprise
in all who know the man. He was elected
a director in the Carlisle Deposit Bank in
1866, and with the e.xception of one or two
intermissions of a year each, that were re-
ciuired by a former charter, has been con-
tinued a director ever since. Among his
early associates in this institution were such
well remembered citizens and business men
as John Zug, Dr. W. W. Dale, Judge Hugh
Stuart, John Stuart, Robert C. Wood-
ward, Henry Saxton and Ju<lge R. M.
Henderson, all of whom, excepting Judge
Henderson, are now deceased. For a
period of more than twenty years he has also
been a director in the Allen and East Penns-
boro Insurance Compam-, another of Cum-
lierland county's substantial business insti-
tutions.
]\Ir. Line is a Republican in politics, but
in no sense a partisan. He has never sought
office, but in 1886 was elected Director of
the Poor, being the only Republican on a
large ticket that was elected. In religion he
may be considered a Presbyterian. He holds
a pew in the First Presbyterian Church,
where, although not a communicant, he has
alwa}'s, when physicallv alile, attended serv-
ices. He has passed through the cares and
trials of almost four score and ten years of
life, and through all of that long journey he
has performed every duty conscientiously
and borne an unblemished character. He
has been a good citizen and an honest man.
LUTHER ALEXANDER LINE. In
the biography of William R. Line it is stated
that his father, William Line, was married
a second time, his second wife being Mrs.
Catherine King, widi>w of Dr. Jnhn King,
and daughter of Dr. John Luther. \Villiam
Line and Catherine, his second wife, had
two children, Cornelia Emily and Luther
Alexander. It is the object of this particu-
lar sketch to treat principally of the latter.
Luther A. Line was born Dec. 21, 1835,
while his father lived at the eastern edge of
Carlisle, upon the property he purchased
from Major Sterrett Ramsey in 1819. There
the child grew into youth, and the youth into
manhood, and within a radius of n few hun-
dred yards has always lived, and at this
writing is still living. When the boy
reached the prescribed age he was sent to
the Carlisle schools, first to the private
schools of Miss Harper, Miss Mains and
others, and afterwards to the public schools.
His education was limited to that provided
by the common schools of the day. For em-
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pliiyment and manual training he was jnit
to work in his father's nursery and green-
houses, and there occupied he gradually
came into a thorough and practical knowl-
edge of tlowers. shrubbery and plant life
generally. Growing to manhood in this em-
ployment, it naturally became his life work
and his delight. He has engaged at it ever
since in the immediate vicinity in which he
started in it when a youth. While a young
man he at one time thought he would like
the drug business, and went to Philadelphia
, and engaged at it for a short time, but the
confinement incident to it not agreeing with
his health, he abandoned all further efforts
.to master it.
In August, 1864, Mr. Line enlisted as
a recruit in Company A, loist P. V. I..
under Capt. James Sheaffer, of Pittsburg,
Colonel Morris, commanding. Peter 3\Ion-
yer, William Lytle, Alfred Taylor and
Henry D. Comfort, also of Carlisle, were
some of his comrades in the same company.
Soon after joining his regiment it was sent
to Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and in
that section was engaged in doing scouting
duty and skirmishing until the close of the
war. It was mustered out of service June
25, 1865, at Newbern. North Carolina.
Through soldiering in the Lowlands of
North Carolina he contracted swamp fever,
with which he was ailing for a long time
after he returned to his home. After the
recovery of his health he resumed his former
occupation of florist and nurseryman at the
old place, and nothing has since then oc-
curred to seriously interrupt his labors.
Luther A. Line's career has been quiet,
and in a general sense uneventful, and yet
some of his experiences are interesting and
could be enlarged upon with entire propriety
were his biographer given permission to do
so. The natural modestv of the man re-
stricts the writer to a simple recital of the
bare facts of his life. Having always lived
in Carlisle he is well known to its people
generally, and he is greatly esteemed by all
of them. As a life-long citizen of the place
he has participated in the making of its his-
tory, and has been an interested observer of
its affairs. His home being in the part of the
town where was located the United States
military post known as the Carlisle Garri-
son, he in his earlier years, became acquaint-
ed with many young army officers who in
the Civil war rose to distinction on one side
or the other. Some of these he afterward
met under memorable circumstances. On
the evening of July i. 1863. after the Con-
federates under General Ewell had retired,
and the Union forces under General Smith
had again come into possession of Carlisle,
he was in his home quietly resting from the
anxiety and dread through which' he had
passed. His rest was disturbed by the en-
trance into his room of a young man. whom
he recognized as Samuel Weller. a former
student of Dickinson College, who informed
him that General Lee was outside and
wanted to see him. Going out he met a
Confederate officer who said he was General
Fitzhugh Lee. and asked whether he knew
him. Mr. Line replied that he knew a Lieu-
tenant Lee who some years before had been
stationed at the Carlisle Garrison. "WelP,
answered the officer, "I am he." Lee^'as
in charge of the advance of Gen, J. E. B.
Stuart's command, which had come from
Hanover by way of the York Road, with
the view of joining the body of Confeder-
ates that had come down the Cuniberland
Valley. This body of Confederates having
gone to Gettysburg, and the town being in
possession of the Union forces, the progress
of Stuart's command was halted in the road
near the Line home. Later General Stuart
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also interviewed Mr. Line, and requested
liim to convey his respects to Johnson Moore
and Major Hastings, two of Carlisle's
prominent citizens with whom Stuart had
cordial relations while in former years he
was stationed at the Carlisle Garrison. That
night the Confederates treated the town to
a vieorous bombardment and burned all the
principal buildings at the Garrison, and also
the gas house, which stood within a stone's
throw of \vhere Mr. Line lived. Among the
articles on Mr. Line's parlor table at the
time was a picture of General Lee which Lee
had presented to him while stationed at the
Carlisle Garrison as a lieutenant. After the
Confederates were gone he missed this pict-
ure, and could account for it on no other
theory than that Samuel Weller, recogniz-
ing it as the likeness of his commander, had
taken it. Weller was Sergeant of the Con-
federate Signal Corps, and it is presumed
was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg, at
any rate he was never heard of afterward.
Once, in recent years, when General Lee
was on a visit to the Carlisle Indian Train-
ing School, ]Mr. Line met him and took
occasion to mention to him the loss of the
picture. The distinguished ex-Confederate
expressed regret at its loss, and promised
to send him another, but as no picture ever
came the probability is that he forgot all
about it.
On Dec. 22, 1870, Luther A. Line was
married to Miss Caroline Goekeler, of Car-
lisle, Rev. Dr. Joel Swartz, pastor of the
First Lutheran Church, performing the
ceremony. Caroline Goekeler was the
daughter of Godfrey and Mary Magdalene
(Thudium) Goekeler, both of whom were
born in Wurtemberg, Germany, but after
immigration to America met and married
in Philadelphia, where their daughter Caro-
line was born. Suljsequently they moved
to Carlisle and lived there for some years.
Luther A. and Caroline (Goekeler) Line
became the parents of three children, two
of whom died in infancy. The surviving
child is William Ramsey Line, born at Car-
lisle May 16, 1878. and educated in the pub-
lic schools. Upon reaching early manhood
he turned his attention to mechanics and be-
came skilled in the manufacture of electrical
appliances, and he now lives in Gloversville,
X. Y., where he for some years has been
successfully engaged in the bicycle and elec-
trical business. On May 15, 1901, he mar-
ried Miss Alae Johnson, of Gloversville.
They have no children.
HEYD. For nearly a century and a
half the family of Heyd has been established
in this part of Pennsylvania. Li 1760
George Heyd emigrated from Germany and
first settled in Lancaster county, moving
thence to York county, and finally locating
in Cumberland county, where he died and
was buried.
George Heyd (2), son of George, was
born in Lancster county, and in childhood
accompanied his parents to York county.
After six years there he came to Cumberland
county, which was his home for more than
fifty years. He married Leah Grass, daugh-
ter of Jacob Grass, of Adams county. His
death occurred in Mechanicsburg in 1876,
when he was aged eighty-two years. His chil-
dren were: Jacob L. ; H. G.. of Mechanics-
burg; George W., of the Baltimore Confer-
ence; E. D., of Illinois; Elizabeth, widow of
Henry Krall ; Rebecca, wife of Michael
Myers, of Carlisle; and Mary, wife of Jacob
P. Brandt, of Mechanicsburg.
Jacob L. Heyd, son of George (2). was
born in Upper Allen township, Cumberland
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county, in 1832. He remained at liome with
his father until the time of his marriage,
wiiicli occurred when lie was twenty-three.
For three years he cuUivated his father's
farm, and tlien moved to liis father-in-law's
farm in York county, where he lived for a
like period, at the end of that time purchas-
ing a small farm in Upjier Allen township,
Cumberland county, whither he removed.
There he made his home for fifteen years,
selling it in 1877 to buy the fine loo-acre
farm on whicli he lived until his death, June
29, 1902. He spent both time and money
to make his home one of the best, as well as
one of the most attractive, in the county.
He married Catharine Coover, daughter of
Jacob Coover, of near Dillsburg, York coun-
ty, and she still resides at the home in Camp
Hill. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob L. Heyd two sons are living: Clin-
ton G., who married Emily Thompson, and
lives in Camp Hill, has three children,
Luther K., Thompson J. and Martha Cath-
erine. Coover \\. is mentioned below.
Those deceased are: Laura, Calvin and
John W'., all of whom died when quite
young in Upper Allen township. Jacob L.
Heyd served in a nuniljer of local offices,
among them being justice of the peace and
school director, and he was active in the
movement to make Camp Hill a borough,
that the children might have first-class school
facilities. Both he and his wife belonged to
the Mechanicsburg Methodist Episcopal
Church, and Mrs. Heyd is still actively in-
terested in all church work. She is a kind
and sympathetic friend to those in trouble,
and is greatly beloved by all who know
her.
CoovER W. Heyd, son of Jacob L., was
born in Upper Allen township in 1872. He
attended the district schools and was grad-
uated from the Mechanicsburg .high school
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in the class of 1886. Learning the machinist
trade, he worked at it for ten years in New
York State, and then for a short time
worked in Harrisburg. In February, 1904,
he entered the grain, coal, flour and feed
business at Camp Hill, along the Cumberland
\'alley railroad, where he is doing a fine
business with every prospect of a most suc-
cessful future. He is attentive to his work
and most obliging to his customers, and has
made many warm friends.
In 1893 Mr. Heyd was united in mar-
riage with Miss Edna May Traub, daughter
of John A. and Matilda Traub, of Camp Hill,
but formerly of Philadelphia. They have one
daughter, Catherine Matilda, born May 31,
1900. Politically, Mr. Heyd is a Republi-
can, while religiously, he and his wife belong
to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Jacob Coover, father of Mrs. Catharine
( Coover) Heyd, was born in Cumberland
county, near Carlisle, and he followed farm-
ing and distilling along the Yellow Breeches
creek, in Monaghan township, York county.
He married Elizabeth Morrett, daughter of
Hatman Morrett, of Cumberland county.
He died in York county at the age of sixty-
five years, and his wife died at the age of
sixty-two years. Their children were : Levi,
who died unmarried at Camp Hill, Cumber-
land county ; Susanna, who married Chris-
tian Bowman, and died in York county;
Michael, who, on March 14. 1904, celebrated
his ninety-first birthday in Silver Spring,
Cumberland county ; Jacob, who died in-
York county. Pa. ; Mary Ann, who died in
Camp Hill ; Eliza, who passed away in Dills-
burg, York county ; John, who died in York
county; Sarah Ann, who died in Cum-
berland county; Samuel, living with his
sister, Mrs. Heyd; Catharine, who became
Mrs. Hevd; and Daniel, who died in York
county.
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
JOHN W. BOWMAN, M. D., one of
the prominent physicians and surgeons of
Cumberland county, was born at W'ormleys-
burg, Cumberland Co., Pa.. Dec. 20, 1846,
a son of Samuel Bowman and a grandson of
'Christian Bowman.
Christian Bowman was l:iorn and reared
in Lancaster county, where he was a farmer
at the time of his marriage with ^lary ls\o\\-
ler. After his marriage he settled for a time
near Boiling Springs, Cumberland county,
and engaged in lime burning and the grain
business, but in 1827 he bought a farm in
East Pennsboro township, on which he lived
for several vears. then purchasing another on
the Jonestown roatl, near Harrisburg.
At a still later date he remo\'ed to
Miami county, Ind., where he died at
the age of ninety-two years. His wife
had died on the farm near Harris-
burg, at the age of sixty years. The children
of Christian and Mary (Mohler) Bowman
were : Mary married John Longenecker,
who was a farmer in East Pennsboro town-
nntil 1856, when they removed to Randolph
county. Ind.. where she died aged eighty-
six years: John, who married Kate Longe-
necker. died aged twenty-nine years, leaving
three sons ; Samuel became the father of Dr.
Bowman : Anna married Rev. David Bals-
baugh. and thev lived in East Pennsboro
township until 1856. then moving to [Miami
•county. Iml.. where he became a noted
preacher; Christian married Mary Brightbill.
and they Ii\-ed in Dauphin county, where he
was steward of the Dauphin County Home.
Samuel Bowman, father of Dr. Bowman,
\vas born at Boiling Springs. Cumberland
Co., Pa.. May 13. 1S20, was reared on a
farm and learned the cooper's trade, which
he followed for six years. He then engaged
in farming in East Pennsboro townsl'^ip, un-
til he retired from active life. He lived at
\\'c)rmleysburg from 1900 to IQ04, and then
went to Riverton tu make his home \\ith a
daughter.
Li 185 1 Samuel Bowman marrie<l Susan
Koons, daughter of Jacob Koons, of East
Pennsboro township, and granddaughter of
George Koons. who came from Baden, Ger-
man}-, in 1764. George Koons married a
daughter of Daniel Snyder, near relative of
Gov. Synder. Samuel Bowman was orig-
inally a Whig in political faith but became a
Republican on the furmation of the party.
The chilflren of Samuel Bijwman and his
wife were: Dr. John W. ; Mary, who died
in childhood : Susan. Mrs. David Mumma,
of Ham])den township: Jacob, who died in
infancy: Samuel, who married Rebecca
Ivreitzler, daughter of Andrew Kreitzler, of
Hampden township. ( he made the run into
(Jklahoma and receiveil 160 acres of land
near Cross) ; George, who married Lizzie
Eslinger, and resides at West Fairview ;
Katie, Mrs. Ira Bigler. of Riverton ; and
Christian, also a resident of Riverton.
John W. Bowman completed his acad-
emic studies at the White Hall Academy and
graduated at the age of nineteen years. After
some work on his father's farm he accepted
a clerkship in a store at Camp Hill and be-
gan the studv of medicine, coming under the
preceptorship of Dr. J. T. Criswell and Dr.
J. D. Bowman, at Camp Hill. After one
year's close reading- he entered Jefferson
Medical College, at Philadelphia, in the fall
of 1875, '^•'"^1 '^^"^s graduated with his class
in 1877. He immediately entered into prac-
tice and later succeeded Dr. Joseph Crone,
at Hogestown, where he remained four
years. At the solicitation of friends he re-
moved to Camp Hill and became physician
at the White Hall Soldiers Orphans School,
p position he held from 1882 until its days of
usefulness were over, in 1890. Dr. Bow-
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man has been located at Riverton since 1890.
He is surgeon for the Cumberland Valley
Railroad and served for three years in tlie
sa'TiC capacity for the Northern Central Rail-
road. His practice extends all through this
portion of the county.
Dr. Bowman is a member of all the lead-
ing medical organizations, the Cumberland
County Medical Society, of which he was
president in 1896 ;the State Medical Society;
the American Medical Association, and the
Harrisburg Academy of ' Medicine. He
keeps in close touch with all the scientific
discoveries of the day, which make this pro-
fession the most enlightened of any.
At Camp Hill, in 1871, Dr. Bowman
married Annetta Oyster, daughter of George
and Catherine (Smith) Oyster, both of
whom are deceased. They have two chil-
dren : David G., who is associated with the
United Gas Improvement Co., at Harris-
burg, married Mary Nichols, daughter of
the late Dr. Nichols; William C, a graduate
of the Shippensburg State Normal Sciiool,
who is principal of a school at Wormleys-
burg. married ]\Iiss Sartoris, daughter of
Charles Smith, of Centerville.
Dr. Bowman is one of the supporters of
the Christian Church, in which he has been
an elder since its organization, in 1894. He
is a teacher in the Sunday-school and was
formerly superintendent. In politics he is
a Republican, and be served on die school
board four years at Camp Hill and three
years at Riverton. Fraternally, he is past
master of Eureka Lodge, No. 302, A. F. &
A. M.
WILLIAM SPAHR has been a well-
known citizen of Carlisle all his life, and he
has been prominently identified with the so-
cial and church life of the community as well
as its business interests.
John Spahr, grandfather of William, was
born ALarch 17, 1782, and died in Carlisle
Nov. 19, 1844. He was a hatter by trale.
He married Elizabeth Wickart, who was
born Oct. 12, 1783, and died Jan. 19, 1858.
Their children w'ere as follows : John, the
father of William : William, a brickmaker,
who died in Carlisle ; Peter, who was en-
.gaged in brickmaking in Carlisle all his life,
and died there; and Eliza, who married
James Liggett and was the grandmother of
Clarence Liggett, of Carlisle.
John Spahr, father of William, was born
Nov. 3, 1807, in Carlisle. He learned the
hatter's trade under his father, but did not
follow it long, in early manhood commenc-
ing to work at filing under John Proctor,
who was a well-known figure in the indus-
trial world of Carlisle in the early days ;
he made bits when they were made and filed
and plated by hand, silver money being
melted to get material for the plating. Mr.
S])ahr remained Vvith Mr. Proctor for a
number of years, and was ever noted for his
industry and thrift. For many years he was
high constable in Carlisle, and he was active
in church work as a member of the Lutheran
Church, in which he served as deacon. He
was sexton for many years. After erecting
the family home on North East street, in
Carlisle, he took up gardening, which he
followed for the remainder of his days, dy-
ing Dec. II, 1876. On April 3. 1828, Mr.
Spahr married Elizabeth Stum, who was
born March 3, 1811, and died April 8, 1875.
Her parents came to this country from Ger-
manv and died in Carlisle. To Mr. and Mrs.
Spahr were born children as follows : ( i )
Lizzie, born Oct. 8, 1829, married John
Egolf in 1850, and died in Carlisle. (2)
John, born April 15, 1832, married Mary
Black, April 13, 1856, and died in Carlisle,
July 30, 1900. (3) William is mentioned
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
below. (4) Catherine. Imrn March 17.
1835. died in 1S36. ( 5 ) Mary H. born Alay
29, 1837, married Cyrus D. Arnold, Oct.
10, 1858, and is now a widow, living in
Philadelphia. (6) Peter P., born May 5,
1839, was twice married, first on March 4,
1862, to Annie Ward, and on Dec. 19, 1872,
to Emma Swigert, who survives him. (7)
Sarah, Ijorn Dec. 21. 1840. married Sam-
uel Minnich, and died in June, 1903, in Car-
lisle. (8) Barbara E., born March 17, 1843,
died IMarch 16, 1845. '9) Margaret J.,
born Dec. 21, 1844. died i\Pay 17, 1853. (10)
George R., born Oct. i, 1846, died May 10,
1853. (11) Julia Ann died in infancy.
William Spahr was born June 24. 1834,
in Carlisle, in a house which stood on the
lot next to what afterward becan:e the fam-
ily homestead, in North East street. His
first literary instructiiin was recei\'ed in the
school at the corner ol Bedford and Louther
streets, under Mary Richter, and he was
subsequently a pupil of Miss String, Mr.
Gould, Gilbert Searight, ]Mr. Tripner and
Dr. Neidig, under whom he closed his school
life. As his help was needed at home he
attended only during the winter after he was
old enougli to be of practical use. During
the summer season he was employed in the
brickyard, beginning that work at the age of
fourteen, at $4 per mrmth and board. His
first work was what was called "off bearing,"
that is, taking away, and in time he acquired
a thorough knowledge of all the details of
the business, working for many years for
his uncle Peter. In those days the work was
all done by hand. Finally our subject, with
his brothers John and Peter, formed the firm
of Spahr Bros., brick manufacturers, and
after the death of Peter, in 1891, the other
two brothers continued the business until
1897, when the firm went out of business.
Peter Spahr was a memfier of the borough
council cii Carlisle for twelve years. Will-
iam Spahr was engaged in the actual work
of brickmaking from his fourteenth year un-
til 1 89 1, with the exception of an interval
of three years din-ing which he was in the
confectionery business with John H. Rheem;
he was a molder from his twenty-first year.
Since the plant was closed down Mr. Spahr
has practically lived retired, though for the
past year and a half he has run a tea wagon.
During his active business life he enjoyed
high standing among his associates and en-
joyed a wide acciuaintance among Inisiness
men in and around Carlisle.
All the Spahr familv are musically in-
clined and gifted, and William Spahr and
all his brothers and sisters are singers, well
known in that connection throughout this
section. As was common during those days,
he had no money of his own until after he
attained his majority, his father settling his
wages up to the close of his twenty-first
year. After that he immediately commenced
to save, and before long had enough to buy
a small melodeon from Samuel Gould, which
had been the property of the old-time music
teacher, Mr. Skiles. Mr. Spahr paid ^2j
for this instrument, and afterward sold it to
be used as the old "barracks" singing class
for $50. From early manhood he sang in
the choir of the Lutheran Church, until John
Rheem, the leader, went west, after which
Mr. Spahr took charge of the choir for six-
teen years, also leading the singing in the
Sunday-school. Fi:)r manv vears he ga\"e his
services now and then to the Mission Church.
He remained with the Lutheran choir until
seventeen years ago. For many years Mr.
Spahr was the leader of the old original Car-
lisle Band, in which he played first E flat
cornet. After its reorganization it was led
by Louis C. Faber. ^\'hen he left that band
he Iiecame cornetist in \\'idner's Orchestra.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
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witli which he played for some years. His
interest in musical matters has never waned,
and although he is not now as active in mu-
sical circles as he used to be he still has the
same love for such things. As may be in-
ferred from the above, Mr. Spahr's religious
connection is with the Lutheran Church. In
politics he has been a lifelong Democrat.
On Dec. 23, i860, Mr. Spahr was mar-
ried, by Rev. J. Fry, of the Lutheran Church
to Miss Annie C. Ritter, who was torn in
Carlisle, daughter of Henry S. and Mary
(Wunderlich) Ritter. Her father, who died
in 1888 in Carlisle, was a well-known mer-
chant tailor of the town. The young couple
commenced married life in a small house on
North East street, where they lived only a
short time, however, after which they moved
to the present residence, which Mr. Spahr
rented for fifteen years from John L'nder-
wood, who was teller at the Carlisle Bank
for many years. Mr. Spahr eventually
bought the place from Mr. Underwood.
Here Mrs. Spahr passed away Nov. 15,
1878, in her forty-first year. She had grad-
uated from the Carlisle high school in the
class of 1856, being under the tuition there
of IMrs. Annie Underwood, and was well
known in Carlisle for her many endearing
and ennobling traits of character. Her kind
heart and devotion to her family and friends
made her beloved by all who knew her, and
she was sincerely mourned by a wide circle
of friends and acquaintances. She was a
working member of the Lutheran Church,
sang in the choir from girlhood until her
death, and for many years taught in the Sun-
day-school. She and her husband became
acquainted as members of the same church
choir. Mr. and Mrs. Spahr became the par-
ents of four children : Bella Arnold mar-
ried A. R. Read, of Falling Springs, Perry
county, and thev have had two children.
.\nna Elizabeth and Harriet Spahr. Harry
Ritter, who resides in Carlisle, married Har-
riet Leffier. Charles William, of Carlisle,
has been a clerk in the Bixler hardware store
for twenty-two years ; he married Belle Har-
ris, and they have one child, Charles Will-
iam, Jr. Jennie AL is deceased. Mr. Spahr
is a Democrat in political belief and has
served six years on the borough council.
CHARLES FREMONT MARKLEY,
one of the prominent and representative
citizens of Cumberland county, was born
Aug, 29, 1856, in Butler township, Adams
county, a .son of John C. and Isabella A.
(W^eaver) Markley.
John C. Markley was born in 183 1, in
Franklin county, Pa., a son of Daniel and
Anna (Cockley) Markley, of Lancaster
county. Grandfather Markley removed to
Cumberland county and engaged in farming
near Slate Hill, in Lower Allen township,
a few years afterward removing to Franklin
county, where he farmed and owned a saw-
mill. Later he moved to Idaville in Adams
county, and then retired, being advanced in
years. John C. Markley received an ex-
cellent education, as his parents were in easy
circumstances, and was reared to practical
farming. He married Isabella A. Weaver,
of Adams county, and after his marriage
settled on a farm in Adams county which he
operated until he engaged in the manufacture
of windmills, of which he was a patentee.
At a later date he resumed farming, in But-
ler township, Adams county. He became
one of the most prominent and respected
men of that locality, and for twenty-two
years served as a justice of the peace. His
father, Daniel Markley, was also a justice
of the peace for many years, and his brother,
Daniel H., served as such at York Springs,
for thirty years. John C. Markley died in
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
November, 18Q4, ami was laid ti:i rest in the
cemetery at the U. B. Church at Center
Mills, Adams county. His widow still sur-
vives. Children as folli_)ws were born to
John C. Markley and his wife: Urith died
young : IHorence married John Brame, of
Butler townshi]!, Adams county: Charles
Fremont is mentioned Ijelow ; Ruth Ann died
young- : Harry is a resident of Lemoyne ;
Georgia married Adam Hotz, of Harris-
burg : Grace married Howard Newcomer, of
Lemoyne: William, of Harrisburg, mar-
ried Kitty Yoder.
Charles F. Markley attended the district
schools in Butler township until he was fif-
teen vears of age and remained on the home
farm until he reached maturity. At the age
of fifteen he began to learn the milling busi-
ness, which he followed for fourteen years.
In 1883 he left .\dams count v and located at
Oyster"s Mill, on the Yellow Breeches creek,
near Jacksonville, Cumberland county, re-
maining there for the best part of three
years, operating the mill for Elias Oyster.
He then operated the Henry Brechbill mill,
near Mt. Holly, for one year, and then the
Craighead mill, at Craighead Station, for
four years. Mr. Markley then removed to
Harrisburg for two years and was in the
employ of the Reading Railroad Co., in the
freight department, for about six vears. In
1895 he came to Lemoyne. With Clarence
Crow, and later with Robert Byers, he
formed what was known as the Lemoyne
Cigar Box Mfg. Co., an enterprise which
was continued for three years. Since then
Mr. Markley has followed contract plaster-
ing. In 1900 he was elected to the office for
which the members of this family seem, by
nature, to be especially fitted, that of justice
of the peace. His term of office continues
until 1905, and doubtless he will fill the re-
sponsible position for manv more years.
Mr. Afarkley was married, in 1878, in
Adams county, to Alice G. Frazier, a daugh-
ter of Stephen S. Frazier, formerly a car-
l)enter at York Springs, where he was born.
Mr. Frazier followed carpenter work ami
cabinetmaking until he enlisted for service
in the Civil war. in 1802 entering Company
I. \C)^\.h P. W. I., and he died in the hospital
at Norfolk, Y'a., in 1863. .\t a later (b.te
the members of his company, by whom he
was much beloved, had his body embalmed
and reljuried at York Springs, and in a Ijody
followed the remains to their last resting
place. He was a Republican in his political
attitude, having been a Whig in earlier life,
and in religion he was a consistent member
of the Methodist Church. After an interval
of fourteen years A'Irs. Frazier was married
to Philip Beamer, who died in December,
1892. Lhe children of Mr. and Mrs. I'Ya-
zier were as follows : Ellen married Eli
LaRue, of York Springs: Florence married
Levi Smith, of Kansas City; Alice G. be-
came Mrs. Markley; Stephen, of York
Springs, married Alice ^Mengas. The Fra-
zier family was established in the L'nited
States Ijv John Frazier, the grandfather of
Mrs. iMarkley, who was probably born in
the North of Irelanc-l^of Scotch-Irish parent-
age. He came to America in young man-
hood, married (first) Pollv Proctor, and
(second) Hannah Smith, and died at York
Springs, of which he was one of the found-
ers. The children of his first marriage were :
Stephen S. ; Elizabeth, Mrs. Jacob Tanger,
of Adams county; Proctor, who died young;
and of his second union : Emily. ISIrs. Si-
mon Musselman, of Dayton ; Eliza, Mrs.
Samuel Greer, of Tadmor, Ohio; and Ellen,
Mrs. Milton Singer, of Dayton, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Markley are members of
the \5. B. Church at Wormleysburg, in which
both are active, Mr. Markley being one of
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
183.
the teacliers in the Sunday-school. Tliey
lirive two chil(h-en. Clarence and Helen. Po-
.litically, he is a Republican, and fraternally,
he belongs to the Modern Woodmen.
JAMES C. FLEMING, editor and pro-
prietor of the Shippensburg Ncn's, was born
April 30, 1 86 1, in the borough of Shippens-
burg, son of George Fleming, and grandson
of James Fleming, who was l)orn at Coates-
ville, son of John Fleming, a native of
Coatesville, Chester Co., Pa., of Scotch-Irish
descent.
George Fleming, father of James C,
was born September 3, 1 818, at Coatesville.
In early life he was associated with the iron
business, and then became connected with
the forwarding business on the Cumberland
Valley Railroad, traveling from Shippens-
burg to Philadelphia and Baltimore. After
1862 he devoted himself to farming, and
died Feb. 11, 1884. His family consisted
of four sons.
James C. Fleming completed the com-
mon school course, and then spent two years
in the Cumberland Walley State Normal
school. Entered the printing office of the
Annville Ga-citc, he remained there until
he had learned th.e business. Upon his re-
turn to Shippensburg he became foreman on
the NcTCs, a position he held for six years.
In June, 1900, he purchased the plant and
good will, and is the proprietor of one of the
leading journals in this section of the State.
It is a folio. 26x40, Republican in politics,
and has a large and constantly increasing
circulation, both in the city and country.
This newspaper was established in 1844,
and has had the following editors and pro-
prietors : John F. Weishample, from 1844
to 1846; J. L. Baker, 1846- 1848; Jacob
Bomberger, 1848-1853; Bomberger & D.
K. Wagner, 1853-1854; D. K. Wagner,
1 554-1855 ; Curriden, Aliller & Co., 1855-
1856; Edward W. Curriden, 1 856-1 864;
D. W. Thrush, 1864-1866; D. K. Wagner,
1 866- 1 867; D. K. & J. C. Wagner, 1867-
1803: and J. C. Wagner, 1893- 1900, when
Mr. Fleming took charge.
Mr. Pleming has been associated in a
business way with a number of the success-
ful enterprises of Shippensburg, had been a
member of the directing board of the Ship-
pensburg Manufacturing Company, and
was one of the seven original stockholders
of the Shippensburg Electric Light, Heating
and Power Company, which was organized
Oct. 3, 1890, but has disposed of his inter-
ests in both companies, confining his ener-
gies to the production of a first-class news-
paper.
On Jan. 14, 1886, Mr. Fleming was mar-
ried to Minnie F. Shade, second daughter
of George W. and Mary C. (Elsrode)
Shade, and they have two children, Nellie
M. and George Clark. Fraternally, Mr.
Fleming is a member of Cumberland Lodge
No. 90, I. O. O. F., Valley Encampment,
No. 34, I. O. O. F. : Hazel Rebekah Lodge,
No. 82, I. O. O. F. ; and Shippensburg Coun-
cil, No. 995, Royal Arcanum.
MILTON R. PETERS, M. D., a prom-
inent physician and surgeon of Boiling-
Springs, is a native of Adams county. Pa.,
where he was reared, and received his edu-
cation in Union Seminary, in which institu-
tion he expected to prepare for the ministry-
Later, howe\'er, he decided to take up the
study of medicine, and entered the of^ce of
J. H. Marsden, M. D., of Sulphur Springs,
Pa. In 1878 he entered Hahnemann Col-
lege of Medicine at Philadelphia, from which
he graduated March 10, 1881. After re-
ceiving his degree he located at Hanover,
Pa., and from there moved to Gettysburg,
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
where he remained a year, in 1892 locating
at Boihng Springs. Since coming here he
has established an excellent practice, and is
justly regarded as one of the leading' physi-
cians of this part rif Cumlicrland county.
Dr. Peters is a member of the Hahnemann
Institute of Thiladelphia. and he is very pop-
ular socially. He has erected a pleasant
home for himself and family. \\ here their
many friends are cordially welcomed.
In 18S2 Dr. Peters married Miss Jen-
nie A'irginia Collins, of Adams county, a
daughter of John W. Collins. Dr. and Mrs.
Peters have three children, Hale L., Lydia
and Bender. They are members of the U.
B. Church and \'ery prominent not only in
Boiling Springs, but throughout the county.
Dr. Peters comes of good German stock.
His great-grandfather, Ulrich Peters, came
from Germany and settled near Gettysburg.
where he was engaged in horticulture,
raising fruit trees. His family was a large
one, and nearly all of his sons followed in
his line of business. Some of the sons went
West and established large nurseries at Troy
and Carlisle, Ohio.
John Peters, the Doctor's grandfather,
was a nurseryman in Adams county. He
married a Miss Group, by whom he had the
following family : William, a farmer of
Adams count}'; Daniel; David, who married
and moved to New Carlisle, where he estab-
lished a large nursery ; George, a nursery-
man at Troy, Ohio; John, a nurseryman of
Uriah, Cumberland county; Eliza; Susan,
married to Rev. Mr. Schaff; Rachel, Mrs.
Haskell ; Matilda, Mrs. Eppleman ; and Cath-
erine, Mrs. Hewitt.
Daniel Peters, the father of Dr. Peters,
died in 1891, aged sixty-seven years. Dur-
ing a number of years he followed farming
and milling, and was an experienced machin-
ist. He was also a local preacher of the
Evangelical Church, and was a devout Chris-
tian man. His wife, whose maiden name
was Bender, died when alDOut forty-five years
of age. She bore him seven children : Cath-
erine, wife of C. E. Porter, a nurseryman
of Bcndersville; John, a minister of the
Presbyterian Church, stationed at Benards-
ville, Texas: Milton R. ; Fillmore, of Center-
\'ille; Clayton A., a professor of biology at
the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, N.
Y. ; Anna E., married to P. D. Richwine,
of Boston, Mass. ; and one child that died in
infancy. This family is well represented in
the several professions as well as in business
circles, and all have been successful. Drs.
William, George anil John C. Peters, of
New York City, the latter the author of sev-
eral medical works, belong to the same fam-
ily. The Rev. M. C. Peters, author and
lecturer of Philadelphia, also belongs to this
Iiranch of the Peters family.
HON. J. CALVIN RUMMEL, Burgess
of Shippensburg, Cumberland county. Pa.,
and president of Rummel, Himes & Co.,
manufacturers of clothing, is one of the
prominent and enterprising citizens of this
portion of the State.
Mr. Rummel was born March 7, 1846,
in Antrim township, Franklin county. Pa.,
son of John and Catherine (Miller) Rum-
mel, also natives of Franklin county. They
were most highly respected residents of their
locality, and lifelong members of the Re-
formed Church.
J. Calvin Rummel attended the district
school until eleven years of age, beginning
his business career at that age as a clerk in
the general store at Middleburg, Franklin
county, where he was employed five years.
He then accepted a position as clerk with
Samuel Ogliby at Flagerstown, Md., remain-
ing at Hagerstown five years. From there
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he went to Philadelphia with the firm of
Wood, Marsh, Haywood & Co., ami then
located at Mercersburg. where he entered
into a business partnership with John Kear-
ick, which continued for five years under the
firm name of Rearick & Rumniel, dealers in
dry goods, and conductors of a general store.
At the expiration of five years Mr. Rummel
sold his interest and retired from the firm.
After his marriage Mr. Rummel located
at Newville, Cumberland county. Pa., em-
barking in a mercantile business which he
successfully conducted for two years, and
then disposed of his stock to William R.
Titler, who succeeded in the Inisiness. After
a short residence in Franklin county Mr.
Rummel came to Shippensburg, Aug. i8,
1877, where he engaged in a mercantile
business from 1877 to 1888, when he dis-
posed of this business. At this time Mr.
Rummel organized the Shippensburg Man-
ufacturing Company, of which he was made
president. In 1903 the name of the firm
was changed to Rummel. Himes & Co., In-
corporated, with J. C. Rummel, president,
George W. Himes, treasurer, and Charles
L. Rummel, secretary. Their factories are
located at Shippensburg, Mongul and Fay-
etteville, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Rummel has had other business in-
terests, having been president of the Ship-
pensburg Electric Light Co., and is now
senior member of the firm controlling the
People's Coal and Ice Co. However, his
greatest interest, outside of politics, is in the
business which he established, and which
has grown to such large proportions. The
present plant at this city is of brick, and is
equipped with modern machinery, both
water and steam power being used. Em-
ployment is given to nearly two hundred.
Mr. Rummel is also interested in a company
operating an immense peach farm, probably
the largest venture of the kind in Cumber-
land county, and in the People's National
Bank of Shippensburg.
Since 1878 Mr. Rummel has been a
member of the board of trustees of the Pres-
byterian Church, and was a member of the
building committee when the church and
manse were erected, and for many years was
superintendent of the Sabbath-school and a
director in the Cumberland County Bible
Society. In 1903 Mr. Rummel was elected,
on the Prohibition ticket. Burgess of Ship-
pensburg, a position he fills with dignity and
efficiency. Since 1884 he has zealously
worked for Prohibition principles in local
as well as national issues. He has been
for years State committeeman and county
chairman, and was a candidate for his party
for State senator, receiving a large vote in
1896.
Mr. Rummel married Miss Alice Parker
Lowe, of Mercersburg, daughter of Charles
Gillespie and Mary (McFarland) Lowe.
Two children were born to this union:
Charles L., a graduate of Shippensburg high
school, who is secretary of Rummel, Himes
& Co., was married June 17, 1903, to Miss
Mary Bender, daughter of Dr. John W. Ben-
der, of Shippensburg. Mary Catherine, a
graduate of the Shippensburg high school,
and also of Wilson College, at Chambers-
burg, was married June 2, 1904, to Jeremiah
S. Omwake, of Shippensburg. She is a lady
of many accomplishments, and is gifted in
music.
ROBERT L. MYERS, of Camphill,
Cumberland county, was born Nov. 16,
1862, at Round Hill, Adams Co., Pa., where
his great-great-grandfather, Philip Nich-
olas Myers, settled in 1736. His father was
the late Adam Smyser Myers, and his
mother was Margaret Berkheimer, daughter
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of the late Samuel Bcrkheimer. of Mechan-
icsburg.
Mr. Myers was educated in the public
schools of Adams county, at Baugher's
Academy, Hanover, Pa., and graduated
from the Pennsylvania State Normal School
at Shippensburg, in the class of 1885. He
taught and supervised schools in Adams,
Cumljerland and Dauphin counties. He is
the founder ami manager of the National
Educational Bureau and senior member of
the firm of Myers, Fishel & Co., educational
publishers, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
In 1887 Mr. Myers married Miss Joanna
Bowman, daughter of the late Dr. J. D.
Bowman, of Camphill, niece of H. N. Bow-
man, Escj., of Camphill, of the late E.x-sher-
iff George B. Eyster, of Cumberland county,
antl of r^Irs. J. E. Barnitz, of Carlisle. His
family consists of his wife and five children
— Helen, Alice, John, Robert and Joanna.
The Democratic party claims Mr. Myers
as a member, and he represented Cumljer-
land county in the Legislature for three con-
secutive terms, 1899-1900, 1 901 -1902, and
1903-1904. His activity in behalf of his
constituents, his untiring loyalty to the best
interests of the Commonwealth, and his un-
yielding opposition to legislative crooked-
ness secured for him the confidence of his
constituents, and won praise from the best
journals throughout the State. Although
he gave due attention to every class of leg-
islative work, yet he gave special attention to
all educational legislation, and during his
last two sessions every educational measure
that he opposed was defeated, and every
educational measure he championed was
passed. To him the State owes the
various measures, rendering the- town-
ship high school law of 1895 effec-
tive — ( I ) By the passage of the law provid-
ing for the centralization of rural schools.
the i)o(jr man's children as well as the rich
man's children are afforded a means of
reaching the central high school ; the "little
tilts" as well as the liig boys and girls are
brought within the cherished influence of the
more cultured teacher of the high school ;
the i^atrons have a common interest : and the
whole communitv is drawn together. (2)
The prolonged struggle for the passage of
the Centralization Law won the support of
the puljlic ]iress and resulted finally in se-
curing a special appropriation of fifty thou-
sand dollars for the encouragement of town-
ship high schools, which, during the session
of 1903, was increased to one hundred thou-
sand dollars. (3) By inserting into the gen-
eral appropriation bill the proviso, "That
partici]3ation in the amount hereby appro-
priated for the encouragement and support
of township high schools shall not be made
dependent upon the teaching of any dead
or foreign language," he checked the Depart-
ment of Puljlic Instruction in its tendency to
hamper the growth of township high schools
by its insistence upon an undue amount of
Latin and German, which was required by
the courses of study issued by the Depart-
ment prior to 1901.
In the course of his legislative career he
delivered the following addresses, which
were at the time notable : A eulogy on the
death of his colleague, the Honorable Llenry
W. Manning, delivered in the Hall of the
House of Representatives, session of 1899;^
"Needed School Legislation," delivered be-
fore the Cumberland county School Direc-
tors' Association at its Midwinter meeting
in 1899, in Mechanicsburg, — of which five
thousand copies were printed and circulated ;
"What Shall Our Public Schools Teach?"
delivered before the Cumberland County
School Directors' Association at its midwin-
ter meeting in 1900, in the Shippensljurg
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State Normal School ; "Does the Community
Get the Worth of the Money It Expends on
Its Schools?" delivered before the seventh
annual convention of the Pennsylvania State
School Directors' Association. Feb. 13,1902,
in the Hall of the House of Representatives,
Harrisburg, of which six tlmusand copies
were printed and circulated ; an address in
opposition to the measure which aimed to
deprive teachers of their right to sell school
supplies during their \'acations, session of
1903, which was extensively quoted and
commented upon by the newspapers of the
State, irrespective of party. In addition to
these more formal addresses, he spoke to
large educational meetings in nearly half of
the counties of the State, including Wash-
ington, York, Clearfield and Clinton.
Mr. Myers is serving his fourth term as
a member of the Caniijhill School Board.
He is a director in the Farmers" Trust Com-
pany, Carlisle, Pa., a director in the Hamil-
ton Library Association. Carlisle, a member
of the Board of Trade of the City of Harris-
burg. a life member of the Pennsylvania
State School Directors" Association, and
chairman of the Legislative committee for
the years 1901, 1902 and 1903.
CALEB S. BRINTON. In 1854 Caleb
Brinton came to East Pennsboro. Cumber-
land county, and for a period of ten years
resided upon a farm owned by the late Rich-
ard J. Haldeman, just south from West
Fairview. For some years prior to his com-
ing to Cumberland he had resided in Dau-
phin county, near Harrisburg, but he was
bom and reared in Chester county. Pa. From
the information in hand the lineage is not
clearlv established, but it is reasonal;>])' cer-
tain, that Caleb Brinton was a descendant
of William Brinton, who in 1684, landed at
Newcastle on the* Delaware. That early
Brinton ancestor came froin Birmingham,
England, and, it is said, was already an old
man with l(jng white hair when he came.
Instead of remaining in the settlement at the
landing place, he pushed into the wilderness
and located on the Indian trail, twelve miles
back from the river, where, during the first
winter of his stay, he would have starved had
not the Indians helped him out with game.
The public records show that he subsequently
acquired a large amount of land in that lo-
cality, and was quite prominent as a citizen
and as a member of the Society of Friends.
He had a son \\'illiam. who had four sons,
from whom sprang the manv Brintons now
scattered over Chester, Lancaster and Cum-
berland counties. Ever since their first set-
tlement in America the Brintons have been
known as an intellectual, progressive family,
holding well-defined convictions upon all
pulilic questions and possessing the courage
to advocate and promote what they believed
to be right and proper. The family name of
Caleb has come down through many genera-
tions, and is one of the signs that blaze the
lineage through more than two hundred and
twenty years of descent.
The Caleb Brinton who settled in Cum-
berland county in 1S54 married Lydia Alle-
man. by whom he had children as follows :
Martin is mentioned below : John, who was
born in Dauphin county, near Harrisburg, in
1835, died in 1897, leaving a family wdio
continue to reside in that city ; Ellen, who
married P. M. Hershey, resides in Har-
risburg; Susan married Joseph DeWitt
Sprout, of Cumberland county, and both
have died, leaving two sons wdio reside in
Harrisburg; Caleb, who during the Civil
war entered the Union army from Illinois
and rose to a position on the staff of Gen.
John A. Logan, now lives at Helena. Mont. ;
George was for many years in business in
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Harrisliurg, where lie still Ii\'es, but is now
retired from active business engagements;
Elizabeth, who married Dr. B. F. Jones, of
Cornell, Illinois, died in 1894: Henry N.
is an active business man of Harrisburg.
Martin Brinton, the eldest child of the
family, was born Feli. 22. 1832, in Dauphin
county, near Harrislnirg. He spent his
youth and young manhood upon the farm,
and received his education in the country dis-
trict school. In 1862 he lu'arried Nanc}-,
daughter of 'Daniel and Lydia (Stoner)
Dietz, and granddaughter of George Dietz.
Nancy Dietz's parents were natives of York
countv, where her father and paternal grand-
father were born on the same farm. In 1837
while yet a citizen of York comity, Daniel
Dietz bought from Alice Carothers a farm
in East Pennsboro township, which her
grandfather, William Carothers, in 1762,
purchased from the proprietaries of the Prov-
ince, and moving to it there lived out the rest
of his days. He died Jan. 10, i860, at the
age of sixty-two; his wife, Lydia Stoner,
dird Aug. 31, 1866, at the age of sixty-eight,
and their remains are buried in the grave-
yard of the Brick Church near West Fair-
view.
Martin Brinton began his married life in
the lower end of Hampden township, where
he lived until 1868. when he Iiought, on the
south side of the Conedoguinet creek in
East Pennsboro, wdiat had been long known
as the Bowman farm, which he farmed crni-
tinuously for a period of thirty-four years,
and which he still owns. In 1892 he retired
from farming, and since then has been living
in Camp Hill borough.
To Martin and Nancy (Dietz) Brinton
ha\-e been born the following children : Ca-
leb S. ; John, who is a clerk in the Census
Biu-eau in Washington, D. C. ; George, who
is an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company at Harrisburg; Martin, who is a
draughtsman with the Westinghouse Elec-
trical ^Manufacturing Company at Pittsburg;
Anna, \\ho married Charles L. Bowman,
and resides in Camp Hill ; and Christian,
who is a draughtsman with a manufacturing
company in the city of Chicago.
Caleb S. Brinton was born on the farm in
East Pennsboro, Aug. 20, 1868. His youth
was passed upon the farm and in attending
the country district school known as Brin-
ton's School. He made rapid progress in his
studies, antl early became ambitious for a
thorough education. In 1884 he entered the
Cumberland Valley State Normal School,
and a year later was graduated from that
institution. He then taught in the public
schools of Cumberland county for two vears
and afterward for three years was principal
of the Second ward schools of Altoona. In
1886, in a competitive examination, he won
an appointment to the West Point Military
.\cademy, but upon reporting for entrance
failed because of defective eyesight. He
next prepared for college in Dickinson Sem-
inary, and entered Bethany College, in which
institution he completed the course to the
end of the Junior year, when he was coiu-
j^elled to withdraw because of diis health.
Subsequently, he was elected to the chair of
English Eiterature and History in the Fac-
ulty of the Cumberland Valley State Nonual
School, -which position he held for three
years. In 1893 '^^ registered as a student-
at-law at Carlisle, and at the same time en-
tered upon a course in the Dickinson School
of Law. He graduated from the Dickinson
Law School in 1805, and was admitted to
the Cumberland County Bar. He imme-
diately entered upon the practice of his pro-
fession at Carlisle, wdiere he has actively en-
gaged in it ever since. Shortly after his ad-
mission to the courts of Cumberland county
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he was also admitted to the Supreme and Su-
perior Courts of the State, and he is now in
tlie enjoyment of a hicrative and stcatHly
increasing law practice.
Mr. Brinton is a Republican in politics,
and has ever since his early manhood taken
an active interest in the affairs of his party.
In 1895 lis ^^''s elected chairman of the Re-
publican county committee, and the cam-
paign which followed resulted in the election
of Arthur R. Rupley as district attorney,
and the entire Republican ticket. In the
following year he was nominated for the
Legislature, but through a split in his party,
and an independent candidacy, he was de-
feated by a small majority. Smce then he
has applied himself assiduouslv to the pro-
motion of his law business, but has incident-
ally given sufticient attention to politics to
be considered one of the active Republicans
of the county. His regularity has never been
questioned, and in 1903 he was appointed
postmaster at Carlisle, which office he accept-
ably fills at present.
On July 10, 1896, Caleb S. Brinton mar-
ried Jean Elizabeth Gardner, daughter of
John W. and Frances (Wagner) Gardner,
of Harrisburg. The husband and wife com-
prise the family. They are members of St.
John's Episcopal Church, of Carlisle, and re-
side in a beautiful home at No. 612 South
Hanover street.
THOMAS W. PRESTON, M. D., an
able physician and graduate of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, who for the pa^t eight
years has been practicing at Middlesex, was
born in Canada, in the County of Halton,
Province of Ontario, March 6, 1856. His
father, James S. Preston, was for over thirty
years prominent in the medical profession.
He came of English stock, of a family lo-
cated near Lancaster, England, and his an-
cestors came to America in 181 7, settling in
Canada. His wife, who was a Miss Isabella
Hall, was likewise of English extraction.
Thomas W. Preston passed his boyhood
in the county of Halton, attending the public
schools there until he was twelve years
of age. Two years later the family left
Canada, and spent four years in New Gar-
den, N. C, where the }-oung man continued
his studies in the Friends College at that
place. When he was seventeen years of ag'e
his father became the head of a sanitarium
at Wernersville, Pa., remaining there one
year. The following year, however, the
family returned to Canada and remained
there five years, or until 1879, in the course
of which time Thomas W. took the collegiate
work prescribed in Woodstock College. His
first essay in the practice of medicine was
made in Canada in 1879, under Dr. Buck,
of Palermo, Out., and from then on till the
winter of 1880, he was thus occupied. Re-
turning then to Wernersville, he assisted his
father in the Sunny Side Sanitarium, till
February, 1881, when he went to Michigan,
and established himself there. In a very few
months he was called back to Wernersville
by the illness of his father, and until the
death of the latter in the spring of 1882,
took his place in conducting the sanitarium.
The following May Dr. Preston again
went to Michigan, and for more than four
years was located at Carsonville, Sanilac
county, remaining there till December, 1886.
During his residence there he also engaged
in mercantile business, but was burnt out in
1886, and lost everything. Discouraged by
this misfortune he gave up all thought of
continumg in business, went to New York
for graduate work, and was there studying
from December till the following April. In
October, 1887, Dr. Preston settled in Phila-
delphia, and remained there in practice sev-
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
eral vears. but finall\' removed to Middlesex,
Pa., on account of the health of his family,
and ha,s been there for the last nine years.
(1904).
Dr. Preston's marriage occurred in
1886, in Canada, when he was united to
Miss Louisa D. Brandreth. The Doctor, as
well as his wife, is a menilier i)f the Baptist
Church. In his political sentiments, he is
strongly Republican. He is a member of
the Masonic order and belongs to the Cum-
berland county and State Medical Societies.
Dr. Preston deserves great credit for his suc-
cessful struggle with the world. He is
strictly a self-made man who has worked his
own way to his present position in the pro-
fession. He is a most skillful physician,
thoroughly posted on eminent medical topics
and in close touch with the professional
thought of the da}-.
CORNELIUS ^^\ N D E R B I L T
KELLEY, (deceased). For many years
the honored gentleman whose name heads
this sketch, resided on a fine farm in Ship-
pensburg township, near Newville, where
his death occurred Feb. 3, 1896. He was
born in Cumberland county. Pa., on the farm
near Big Spring, Nov. 26, 1822.
Jiihn Kelley, his father, was a native of
Pittsburg, Pa. He married Drusilla Van-
derbilt. who was born at Oakville, Cumber-
land Co., in 1829, and who died in her sixty-
ninth year. Thev had the following chil-
dren : James, Mary, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Jackson, ^Margaret, Isaljel, George, and two
who died in infanc}'.
Cornelius A'anderbilt Kelley received his
primary education in the district school, and,
after preparing for college, entered Dickin-
son College at Carlisle, where he pursued
his studies for some time. Later he began
teaching-, and taught the Newville school for
a nunilier of years, and for many years there-
after was a meniber of the school board.
iVfter his marriage he settled at Quarry Hill
on a farm where he li\ed for a nun-ilier of
years. In 1879 he bought what is known as
the Robert Sharpe farni, and, mo\-ing to it
he engaged in general farming and stock-
raising. This farm crmtains 120 acres of
good land, and there are a good residence,
barn and other buildings upon it. In politics,
he always was a loyal Deniocrat, and served
very acceptably as super\-isor of Penn town-
ship ; assessor of the same township, and held
other lesser offices. For many years, he was
a consistent member of the Presbyterian
Church at Newville.
In May, i860, Mr. Kelley married Miss
Agnes Brown, a daughter of John and Mary
(Ritchey) Brown, and she w-as born in
Quarry Hill, in the vicinty of Springfield,
Penn township, Aug. 14, 1832. She was
educated in the public schools of Newville,
and graduated from the high school at that
place. At Mr. Kelley's death, his widow
and several children survived him : Joseph
Brown ; Mary Grizzilla ; Cornelius Lane ;
John Tilyer. a graduate of the Cumberland
\^alley State Normal School, class of 1S91 ;
Martha Jane; Agnes B., a teacher and a
graduate of the Cumberland Valley State
Normal School, class of 1894; Annie Rit-
chev, a teacher of music. Mrs. Kelley re-
sitles on the Kelley homestead, with her two
daughters, while two of her sons live on ad-
joining farms.
]\Irs. Kelley is one in the following fam-
ily born to her parents: \\'illiam A., of
Penn township; Mrs. E. Jane Kelso, of
Southampton township; Joseph, deceased;
Margaret Ann, deceased; Delia C. B., de-
ceased on Dec. 3, 1903, the wife of Henry
C. Beattie, of Southanipton township. Both
the Brown and Kelley families are well
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known in tliis locality, and Mrs. Kelley is
one of the most hig-hly respected ladies and
consistent members of the Presbyterian
Ciiurcli.
HON. HARRY G. BROWN, mayor of
Carlisle, was born in that city Sept. 14,
1859, a son of Samuel R. and Elizabeth
(Keck) Brown.
William Brown, grandfather of Harry
G., spent his early life in Lancaster county,
living- for a time at Lititz, and about 1840
or 1842 came to Cumberland county, set-
tling at Shepherdstown, in the lower part of
the county. For a short time he conducted
a hotel, and prior to 1845 came to Carlisle
and continued in the same business, locat-
ing- on the present site of the "Wellington
Hotel," and erecting a hotel. His death oc-
curred in the town where he was so familiar
a figure.
Samuel R. Brown, the father of Harry
G., was born in Lancaster county, and was
about eighteen when the family came to
Carlisle, and the remainder of his life was
spent here. Having learned the trade of a
cooper he pursued it until he took charge
of Lewis's lime kilns, which he operated for
a few years, but later he opened a restaurant
on East High street, where Bixler & Sons
hardware store is now located. This he
conducted successfully for several years and
then moved his establishment further east
on East High street! continuing in the same
line for fifteen or eighteen years. This es-
tablishment was always a high-class one,
and his patronage very large. Ten children
were born to himself and wife, all of whom
died in childhood but three: Samuel K.. a
resident of Columbus, Ohio, and operator of
planing-mills ; Harry G. : and Florence, wife
of Jacob Mushier, of Carlisle. The father
died March 13, 1893, aged seventy- four
years, while the mother died Ivlay 22, 1894,
aged sixty-eight.
Harry G. Brown was educated in the
public schools of Carlisle and in 1878 began
to learn the trade of a carpenter. His work
was upon the Carlisle market house, the
building in which his present office is now lo-
cated. He learned his trade with Capt. J.
P. Brindle, and after serving his apprentice-
ship went into the planing-mills and worked
until he was thirty-one years of age, or in
1890, at which time he was appointed letter
carrier and served four years, resigning to
go into business as a contractor and builder
with H. G. Rinehart, under the firm name
of Brown & Rinehart; this partnership
lasted over seven years. Mr. Brown then
embarked in business for himself and has
erected some of the leading residences in the
city and vicinity ; he does all kinds of build-
ing. Without any doubt he stands at the
head of his calling in Carlisle, and he also
does slate roofing, a distinctive branch of his
occupation.
In public affairs, Mr. Brown has always
been very active as a stanch Republican and
has served a number of times as delegate to
county and State conventions, wielding a
strong influence in his party. He has served
most efficiently as borough auditor of Car-
lisle, and March 16, 1901, was appointed to
fill an unexpired term as burgess of Car-
lisle, in the spring of 1903 being elected on
the Republican ticket to succeed himself in
the same office, by a majority of 480 votes
in a borough which is recognized as Demo-
cratic. He is a member of the Goodwill
Fire Co., in which he has also been trustee
for the past twenty years; he has also held
many other offices of trust and responsibil-
ity in the county. Fraternally, he has been
a member of the L O. O. F. for twenty-two
years, belonging to Carlisle Lodge, No. 91,
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and has for twelve years been secretary of
same ; is a member of the Encampment, No.
183. of wliich he has been treasurer for the
past fifteen years: was one of the organiz-
ers of tiie K. of G. E., of which society he
has served as first treasurer, filhng that office
for nine years (he has represented tlie lodge
for fifteen years) ; and is also a memljer of
the A. F. &:'a. M., St. John Lodge. No. 260,
St. John Chapter, No. 171, and St. John
Commandery, No. 8. His home is most
pleasant, located at No. 115 East High
street.
EDWARD CLOYD NEELY, M. D.
Although ain(}ng the youngest practitioners
of Cumljerlatid county. Pa., Dr. Neely stands
out conspicuously on account of his ability
and pleasant, genial manner. He was born
in Juniata county, Pa., July 31, 1S74, a son
of John and Margaret ( Ewing) Neely, the
former of whom was born in Juniata county
about 182S, and died Feb. 14, i , on his
old farm. The mother was born in Center,
Perry county. Pa., in 1830, and is still living,
making her home in Juniata county. Her
father was ^^'illiam Ewing.
Dr. Neely was reared like many farmers'
boys upon the farm, attending the district
school whenever occasion offered, but he
was different from some in that an ambition
burned in his breast, and he struggled to
qualify himself for the profession he had
already chosen. In order to secure the nec-
essary literary education he went to school
at Academia, Juniata county, and later at-
tended one in Path Valley, where he pre-
pared for college. He then liegan his study
of medicine under the tutelege of Dr. James
G. Hedding, of Academia, and was gradu-
ated from the Medico-Chirurgicai College
at Philadelphia in the class of i8g8. After
graduation he settled at Newville, Cumber-
land county, where he has built up an excel-
lent practice, and he is a great favorite with
all classes.
Dr. Neely is a member of the Cumber-
land County -\Iedical Society and the Amer-
ican Medical Association, and fraternally,
is a member of Big Spring Lodge, No. 361,
A. F. & A. M. ; of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No.
371 ; of the Royal Arcanum, Big Spring
Council, No. 1610, as well as of the Patriotic
Sons of America, Neni Camp. Dr. Neely is
unmarried.
WATTS. The earliest tax list of Rye
township, Cumberland county, in existence
is that of 1768. Upon it there is enrolled
the name of Frederick Watts. According to
the records this is his first appearance in that
part of the Province, but there is a strong
probability that he was there earlier than the
date named.
Frederick Watts was the progenitor of a
family who have been prominent in the his-
tory of Cumberland county through four
generations. He was born in Wales, and re-
ceived a fair English education. About the
year 1749 he married Jane Murray, niece of
David Murray, Marcjuis of Tullibardine,
and in 1760 came to America. He first set-
tled in Chester county, but on Dec. 21, 1762,
there was surveyed to him on a warrant
dated June 4, 1762, a tract of 331 acres of
bottom land, lying three miles above the
mouth of the Juniata river, then in Cum-
berland, now in Perry county. Upon this
he made his home, and here he lived until
his death. On the breaking out of the war
of the Revolution he was appointed a mem-
ber of the Cumberland county committee,
and commissioned a lieutenant-colonel of
one of the associated battalions. Upon the
organization of the Hying camp, by direction
of Congress, he was placed in command of
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the battalion that was assigned to Cumber-
land county, which was captured at the sur-
render of Fort Washington, Nov. 16, 1776.
He was soon exchanged and afterward
served in various capacities. He was com-
missioned justice of tlie peace April i, 1778;
chosen representative to the Assembly in
1779; appointed sub-lieutenant of Cumber-
land county April 18. 1780; and on May 27,
1782, commissioned brigadier general of the
Pennsvlvania militia, in which capacity he
did excellent service in protecting tlie fron-
tier counties of the State from the ravages
of the Indians and the Tories. He was a
member of the supreme executive council
from October, 1787, until the abolition of
that body l)y the State constitution of 17(30.
He died Sept. 2-/. 1795. It is not known
when his wife, Jane Murray died. Accord-
ing to general lielief and report the remains
of both are interred in a little private grave-
yar<l on the farm which they for so many
years owned, and upon which they died. The
children of Frederick and Jane (Murray)
Watts were: Margery, Catherine, Mar-
garet, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah and
David.
David \\''atts, only son of Frederick and
Jane (Murray) Watts, was born Oct. 29,
1764. He was reared on his father's farm
on the Juniata, and educated at Carlisle,
where he graduated from Dickinson College.
After leax'ing college he read law with Will-
iam Lewis, of Philadelphia, and was admit-
ted to the Bar in that city. He then returned
to Cumberland county, and practiced law at
Carlisle during the rest of his life. In per-
son Mr. Watts was a large man, possessed
of a vigorous mind, and a voice of great
volume and strength. He was a fluent, im-
passioned speaker, and in handling a case
would select merely the strong points in it
and present them to the jury with a vehem-
13
ence approaching to fury. He long ranked
as the leader of the Bar in central Pennsyl-
vania, and his practice at its flood tide ex-
tended over two-thirds of the State. As an
advocate he was able and fearless, as a man
sincere, generous and honorable, and was
greatly esteemed alike by his brethren of the
Bar and the general public.
David Watts was married to Juliana Mil-
ler, daughter of Gen. Henry Miller, who
served with distinction in the Revolutionary
war, and also the War of 181 2. To them
were born the following children : Mary,
Matilda. Frederick, Sarah Ann, Henry M.,
Edward, William M., Charles Octavius, Ju-
liana and David Murray. He died Sept. 15,
1819: his wife, Juliana, died Feb. 20, 1869,
and both are buried in the Old Graveyard
at Carlisle.
Frederick Watts, eldest son of David
Watts and Juliana Miller, and grandson of
Gen. Frederick Watts and Jane Murray, was
born at Carlisle, May 9, 1801, and always
lived there. He received his education at
Dickinson College, from which institution
he graduated in 1819, at the age of eighteen.
The two years immediately following his
graduation from college he spent with his
uncle, \\'illiam Miles, of Erie county, en-
gaged at farming, which vocation possessed
a special attraction for him throughout his
long and busy life. In 182 1 he returned to
Carlisle, entered the office of Andrew Car-
others, Esq., as a student-at-law, and was
admitted to the Bar in 1824. He became his
preceptor's partner, and by his energy and
abilitv soon won high rank as a lawyer.
From 1S29 to 1834 he was a reporter of the
decisions of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vania. The first three volumes issued bore
his name in connection with that of Hon.
C. B. Penrose; the next ten bore his name
as sole reporter; and subsequently nine vol-
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limes I)' ire his name in connectiun witli that
of Henry J. Seargeant, Esq. In 1S45 '^^
was made president oi the Cumberland Val-
ley railruad, which hy his intelligent man-
agement he raised fnnn a languishing condi-
tion to a higher degree of efficiency, making
it an imi)()rtant factor in the development
of the sectiiin through which it passes. He
retired frnm its presidency in 1S73, hut con-
tinued a director in the company until his
death. On March 9, 1849, '1^ ^^''^^ appointed
president judge of the Ninth Judicial Dis-
trict, then composed of the counties of Cum-
Ijerland, Perry and Juniata. This office he
tilled until 1852, when the elective judiciary
besfan. He was an ardent friend of higher
education, and from 1824 to 1828 was sec-
retary of the board of trustees of Dickinson
College, and from 1828 to 1832 a member
of the board, and active and influential in
all its proceedings. In 1S54 he was instru-
mental in establishing the Pennsylvania State
Agricultural College, and was elected first
president of its board of trustees. He was
in close touch with the farmers of his sec-
tion, and constantly sought to advance the
best interests of agriculture. For many years
he was president of the Cumberland County
Agricultural Society, and its most devoted
friend and patron. In 1854 he projected
the Carlisle Gas and Water Company, and
for a long time was president of it. To in-
dulge his tastes for agricultural pursuits
he, in 1865, removed to one of his farms
near Carlisle, and began gradually to relin-
quish his law practice. In 1871 he was ten-
dered the appointment of Commissioner of
Agriculture. This he declined, but the offer
being afterward renewed and urged upon
him, he accepted and held the place until
1877, when because of advancing years he
retired from all active duties of life.
Perha|)s no man left more lasting and
favorable impressions upon the community
in which his busy life was jjassed than Fred-
erick \\'atts. As a lawyer he occupied a
front rank for nearly half a century. F.x-
cepting the time he was on the Bench there
is not a report of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania in forty-two years that does
not contain his name as counsel. He was
a man of great force of character and abid-
ing self confidence. Whatever he believed he
believed implicitlv, and whatever he under-
took he did with all his might. He never
sat down to the cjiuisel table that he did not
impress the court and jury that he confident-
ly expected to win his case. His power with
the jury was great. PI is reputation for abil-
ity, integrity and unblemished honor was
known to every man in the counties in which
he practiced, and he invariably sustained
this reputation by a manner that was always
dignified, and speech that was always clear,
strong, convincing, and never tedious. He
possessed the respect of his brethren of the
Bar in an unusual degree, and as a man and
a citizen he was universally regarded as un-
selfish, pulilic-spirited and patriotic.
Frederick Watts was twice married. He
first married Eliza Cranston, of New Castle
county, Del, who bore him three children:
Marcia Ross, Laura Gold, and Eliza Crans-
ton. Mrs. Watts died in November, 1832,
and he afterward married Henrietta Ege,
daughter of Michael Ege, of Cumberland
county, wlio bore him the following chil-
dren : \\'illiam Miles, Mary, Julia Miller,
Frederick, Coleman Hall, Edward Biddle,
Sarah Campbell, Edward Biddle (2), Sarah
Campbell (2), Henrietta and Brown Par-
ker. Judge Watts died .Vug. 17, 1889. His
wife, Henrietta Ege, died March 7, 1890,
and he and his two wives are buried in the
old graveyard at Carlisle.
Edward Biddle W.vtts, son of Fred-
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erick and Henrietta (Ege) Watts, grand-
son of David and Juliana (Miller) Watts,
and great-grandson of Frederick and Jane
(Murray) \\'atts, was born Sept. 13, 1851.
in Carlisle, where he grew to manhood, and
where he has always li\ed. When fourteen
years old he entered the private school of
Dr. Lyons, at West Haverford, near Phila-
delphia, where he continued for three years.
He then entered the Episcopal Academy at
Cheshire, Conn., and pursued his studies in
it for one year. At the end of the year which
he spent in the Academy at Cheshire, Dr.
Horton, the principal of the institution, re-
quested him to take a tour with him in Eur-
ope. He accepted and spent a season in for-
eign travel. On his return from abroad he
entered Trinity College at Hartford. Conn..
from which institution he graduated in 1873.
After graduating from college he took up the
study of the law in the office of John Hays.
Esq.. at Carlisle, and was admitted to the
Cumberland County Bar in 1875. He im-
mediately began the practice of his profes-
sion at Carlisle, where he has continued to
practice ever since. From 1885 to 1888 he
served as attorney to the county commission-
ers, and during that period assisted that
board of public officials in holding down the
public expenses and reducing taxation. In
1890 he was elected burgess of Carlisle in
which capacity he served with general ac-
ceptability, being progressive and public-
spirited and a man of good business judg-
ment. He is interested in the Cumberland
Valley railroad, and a member of its board
of directors. Long connected with the Na-
tional Guard of Pennsylvania, he was cap-
tain of Company G, 8th Regiment, for eight
years, and in 1893 was promoted to major,
and held that rank for five years. When in
the spring of 1898 his regiment volunteered
for the Spanish-American war he was made
its lieutenant-colonel, and as such served un-
til mustered out of service at the close of the
war. Since then he has been giving his time
and attention to his profession and to civil
duties. In politics. Colonel Watts is a Re-
liulilican, firm in his convicitons, but liljeral
in his treatment of the views of others. In
religion, he is an Episcopalian, and holds the
position of vestryman in St. John's Epis-
copal Church, of Carlisle.
LEVI J. SHAMBAUGH. The Sham-
ijaugh name has been upon the Cumberland
county records since in 1793. That year a
Philip Shambaugh was taxed with a hun-
dred acres of land and two horses and two
cows in the part of West Pennsboro town-
ship, that is now included in Frankford. He
may have been in the county prior to this,
but this entry is the first documentary evi-
dence of him having been here. It does not
appear where he had li\-ed before coming to
Cumberland, but according to family tra-
ditions he came here from Dauphin county,
and his ancestor, named George Sham-
baugh, came from Germany in 1749, and
first settled in Montgomery county. Pa.
Philip Shambaugh died in 1844, at the age
of eighty-three. For several years prior to
his death he was totally blind. His wife
survived him. and died in the home of her
son George, in Frankford township, at the
age of eighty-nine years. Both are buried
in the graveyard of the Stone Church in
Lower Frankford. Of the history of his
wife's family not much can be ascertained.
This Philip Shambaugh had children as
follows : Peter, George, Philip, Barbara,
Stephen, Anna, Mary, Hannah and Mar-
garet. Of these children Stephen and Anna
died young; Barbara married Jac<ib Reigle,
and moved to Ohio ; Mary married Martin
Mountz, of Frankford ; Hannah married a
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Mr. J.eopard, of Perry county and Mar-
garet married a Mr. Shugart, of Perry
county.
Philip Shanibaugli's son, Philip, was
born Oct. 8, 1789, and was yet a little child
when his parents settled in Cumberland
county. On April 24. 1826, he married Anna
Margaretta Wert, who was born in Upper
Paxton township, Dauphin county, March
31, 1802, and was a daughter of Joseph and
Barbara (Kitch) Wert, among the early
pioneers of Pennsyh-ania. Joseph A\'ert was
a man of more than ordinary talent and
shrewdness, of a peaceable turn of mind
and a great favorite with the Indians, who
sh.ared his hospitality, and when in trouble
sought his counsel. They were pliable un-
der his influence, and upon one occasion,
when a Ijand of them came to his home in
war paint, determined to avenge certain
wrongs in his neighborhood, he gave them
food, spoke kindly and begged them to spare
the li\es of those they intended to destroy,
and by these means persuaded them not to
commit the depredations they contemplated.
He and his entire family, Mrs. Shambaugh
alone excepted, moved to Ohio about the
year 1825, and became pioneers of a section
which includes Bucyrus and Massillon.
Philip Shambaugh, the son, died April 15,
1846, at the age of fifty-seven years. He
was a man who was held in high esteem bv
his neighbors for his integrity, modesty and
general good character. His wife, Anna
Margaretta, died in June, 1871, and their
remains are buried in the graveyard of the
Stone Church in Lower Frankford.
Philip and Anna Margaretta (Wert)
Shambaugh had children as follows: Sarah,
John, Rebecca, Jacob, Elvina, Samuel, Philip
A. and Levi J. Sarah married Adam Finken-
binder, and lived in West Pennsboro. She
and her husband died near Elliottson. John
married Eva A. Ressler, and moved to Clin-
ton county, Iowa. Rebecca married George
B. Orris, of Frankford, where both she and
her husband lived and died. Jacob, when a
young man, went to Iowa, and there enlisted
in the army, and was killed in the battle of
luka, ]\Iiss., Sept. 19, 1862. Elvina died
at the age of sixteen. Samuel married Jane
E. Brown, of Xorth Middleton, and moved
to Missouri, but after five years' stay there
returned to Frankford township, where both
he and his wife died. Philip A. enlisted in
Company C, 158th P. V. I., and after a nine
months' service came home with impaired
health. He afterward went West and lo-
cated near Oakley, Macon Co., 111., where he
married Xannie Phillips, and is still resid-
ing.
Le\'i J. Shambaugh, the youngest child,
and subject of this sketch, was born Sept.
14, 1843, on his father's farm on the north
bank of the Conedoguinet creek, in Frank-
ford township, a short distance to the north-
west of Plainfield. His father died while
he was yet less than three years of age, and
he was left entirely to the care of his mother.
He was sent to the countrv district school
until old enough to do manual labor, and
then lived out on a farm at two dollars a
month during summers, but was brought
home and sent to school in the winters. He
was thus employed for six successive sum-
mers, at the end of which time he had accum-
ulated a bank account amounting to lifty
dollars. He then made an effort to obtain
an education, and for three terms, two win-
ters and one summer, attended Prof. Gil-
lelen's select school at Greason, by which
time his money was exhausted. Having no
one to advance the necessary cash, or to give
him ad\ice. he again hiretl on a farm. The
Civil war being in progress he enrolled his
name in a company of home guards at Plain-
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field, and acquired some rudimentary mili-
tary training. That fall he was urged to
apply for the position of teacher of the Lo-
gan school in Frankford township. He re-
luctantly entered the class for> examination,
but secured a certificate and successfully
taught that school for one term. That was'
an important period in his lifetime, and he
has often since regretted that he did not then
put his mind to hard and continuous study,
and make an efl^ort to obtam a higher edu-
cation. He felt so inclined, but the great
excitement of the war enticed him into other
channels, and he went to Harrisburg and
engaged at drixing government teams. At
this he continued until the fall of 1864, and
then enlisted in Company F, 209th P. V.
I., in which he served as sergeant to the close
of the war. He participated in all the hard
marches, skirmishes and battles that stand
to the credit of the Hartranft Division of the
9th Army Corps, the most important en-
gagements being the battles of Ft. Steadman
and Petersburg. In the battle of Petersburg
he responded from the sick call, at the re-
quest of his commanding officer. First Lieu-
tenant H. A. ■ Bigler, the captain being a
prisoner in Libby. and the Second Lieuten-
ant disabled at Ft. Steadman. In front of
Petersburg his company were in the thick
of the fight, and two of his bunk mates were
wounded, and all of his superior officers put
out of action, but he came through the or-
deal unscathed. On its way homeward his
regiment encamped at Alexandria, and tak-
ing advantage of the opportunity he visited
the celebrated Marshall House, in that town.
and viewed the staff from which Colonel
Ellsworth tore the rebel flag May 2},. 1861.
Another of his memorable experiences was
his participation in the Grand review, which
was given in \\'ashington City in celebra-
tion of the ending of the war, May 23-24,
1865. He reached Harrisburg on his way
home May 31. 1865.
After returning from the war Mr.
Shambaugh bought from J. C. Keiser a half
interest in a general store at Greason, and
formed a partnership with Mr. Keiser un-
der the firm name of Keiser & Shambaugh.
They rented the warehouse at Good Hope,
now Elliottson, and for one year conducted
a mercantile, forwarding and coal business
at that place. At the earnest request of
friends who offered him financial suppoi^t,
Mr. Shambaugh, in the spring of 1867, took
the entire lousiness upon himself, and con-
tinued in it for three years with marked
success. Prices then were extremely high.
Wheat commanded as much as $3-15 a
bushel, and other grains were proportion-
ately high. Prints sold for as much as
thirty cents a yard, and muslins for seventy-
five cents. In the spring of 1870 he bought
of John Greider a farm located in Frank-
ford township, and moved to it. This
change he has always considered a mistake,
as in purchasing the farm he contracted a
debt which the panic of 1873, with its con-
sequent decline of values, made burdensome.
In December, 1879, he exchanged his farm
and personal property, excepting his house-
hold goods, for the store house and stock of
store goods of George H. Greider, at Bloser-
ville. On taking possession he built a new
dwelling and store house, and also bought
the adjoining property and remodeled the
house upon it. He now again entered the
mercantile business and gave to it all his at-
tention until 1894, when, owing to failing
health, he transferred his business to his two
oldest sons. Mr. Shambaugh is a Democrat
in politics, but has never been a partisan.
He has never sought public position, but in
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his time has filled nearl_\- c\"ery township of-
fice there is on' the hst. He was elected jus-
tice of the peace for four times in succession,
and was often urged to become a candidate
for county treasurer and f(ir the Legislature,
but ne\'er }'et yielded, except tii serve the last
term as justice of the peace.
On Jan. 7. 1868. Le\i J. Shambaugh
married Mary E. Shuff. daughter of James
I\I. and Elizabeth (Shaeffer) Shuff. James
M. Shuff was a native of Aflams county.
His parents died wliile he was yet a child
and he was raised in the home of friends
named Gardner. He married Elizabeth
Shaeffer. who was born in Germany. After
his marriage he settled in West Pennsboro,
Cumberland county, where he lived until the
end of his days. He died Sept. 27. iSSg,
and his remains are buried at Plainfield.
His widow still survives and resides at Car-
Hsle.
To Mr. and Mrs. Shambaugh the fol-
lowing children were born; Mervin James;
John Edwin; Charles Albert; William Ira;
Clara Elizabeth, who died when two years
old; and one who died in infancy. Mervin
J., the oldest son, married Elizabeth Burg-
ner, and is in the mercantile business in
York. John E. married Flora K. Fry, and is
in business in Blosen'ille. Charles Albert
graduated from Dickinson College, anrl
from the Dickinson Law School and is a
memljer of the Cumberland countv Bar; he
is unmarried and lives at home with his
parents. William Ira is a member of the
United Evangelical Churcli, and now pastor
of a charge at Scranton ; he married Mary
M. Mundis, of York.
In the .spring of 1904 Mr. and Mrs.
Shambaugh moved from Bloserville to Car-
lisle, and now reside in a pleasant home on
North Pitt street in that town.
.\BRAHA^I HOSTETTER, one of the
venerable residents of Shippen.sburg. was
born ,\pril 27, 181 S. in Franklin county.
Pa., within eight miles of Chambersburg.
His father, .\braham Hostetter, was born in
17SS in Lancaster county.
The Hostetter family originated in
Switzerland, and the first member to esc:i])e
the religious persecutions of the time in his
nati\-e land, was one Jacob Hostetter, wdio
reached America in 171J, settling at Cones-
toga, Lancaster county, and died at Lan-
caster in 1 761. He purchased a large tract
of land, a part of which is now the site of
the [present city of Lancaster. Possessing
not onlv business aliilitv, but also a fine edu-
cation, he naturally became somewhat of a
leatler among his countrymen, and the fam-
ily has continued to be a prominent one to
the ]iresent day.
Jacob Hostetter, the grandfather of our
subject, was one of the pioneer settlers in
that part of Pennsylvania. He married ^la-
ria Kreider, who was born at Lebanon, a
daughter of Jacob Kreider, and their five
sons were: Abraham, John, Jacob, Benja-
min and David.
Abraham Hostetter, son of Jacob and fa-
ther of Abraham, was born in 1788, in Lan-
caster county. He died when his son Abra-
ham was seven years of age, and his wife
died in i860. Two sons and two daughters
had been born to them : Abraham ; Jacob,
who was a teacher, merchant and man of
large property holdings ; Anna, who married
Christian Sollenberger ; and Mary, who mar-
ried Joseph Dohner, and settled near Day-
ton. Ohio.
Abraham Hostetter \\-as reared in Frank-
lin county. He received only common-
school advantages, and for a time attended
school when the sessions were held in an
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old log church, clay being used for the
"chinking and daubing." All that was re-
quired of a teacher in those days was that he
should be able to instruct in the three "R's"
and triumphantly engineer his pupils
through the "Douljle Rule of Three." He
contitnied to attend school and work on the
farm until tiie age of sixteen years, when he
was apprenticed to learn the tailoring trade,
with a Mr. Betchtel. of Strasburg. After
completing his term of apprenticeship, ac-
cording to the practice of the time, he started
out to work as a journeyman, and finally
reached Pittsburg, where he made his home
for two years. While in Pittsburg he made
the acquaintance of Elizabeth Patchel,
whom lie married in 1847, when they re-
moved to Shippensburg, and he turned his
attention for a time to farming, but later
formed a business partnership with Samuel
Patchel, under the firm n;uue of Hostetter &
Patchel. This continued until Mr. Patchel
went into the army, but Mr. Hostetter con-
tinued the Inisiness and built up a large cloth-
ing trade. In 1864 he tlisposed of his busi-
ness, fears being entertained at that time
that Shippensburg would suiter the same
fate as did Chambersburg, which had been
burned by the Confederate troops. Business
was at a standstill. It was during this time
of business depression and public inaction
that men like Mr. Hostetter came to the
front. He had been elected burgess of Ship-
pensburg. and, with a just sense of his re-
sponsibility, he used every precaution and
planned every possible measure which he
could carry out to save the city. Suiiicient
to say that Shippensburg was not burned,
although an army of 90,000 men marched
through its streets, and one of those who
suffered a loss of hundreds of dollars worth
from their looting, was Air. Hostetter.
After the close of the war Mr. Hostetter
was elected justice of the peace for a term
of five years. While administering that
office he embarked in the dry-goods business
which he continued for three years. For
some years he was connected with a private
bank, which was known as the Farmers and
Mechanics Bank. He still owns much prop-
erty, and since the early days of Shippens-
burg, lias been more or less connected with
the city's financial institutions. His fine
farm of eighty acres is under rental, as is a
large amount of property in the city.
Mr. Hostetter has been twice married,
his first wife passing away in early married
life. On May 22, 1865, he married Eliza-
beth Reside, of Shippensburg, born in
Franklin county. No children were born
to either marriage. Mr. Hostetter has al-
ways worked with the Democratic party,
being a zealous supporter of its doctrines and
privileges, and claims that his party is the
founder of one of the best governments that
ever existed. During the past twenty-five
years he has diverged somewhat, conscien-
tiously considering the claiius of the Prohi-
bition party. Both our subject and his es-
timable wife are members of the Church of
God, of which he has been a communicant
for more than sixty years. Although the
snows of many winters rest upon his honored
head. Time has touched him gently. \\'ith
faculties all intact, and blessed with health
and strength, he is a fine example of hale
and vigorous age.
CHARLES PETER ADDAMS, of
Carlisle, is descended from mixed English
and German ancestry. One of his paternal
ancestors, Robert Adams, came from Ox-
fordshire, England, shortly after the convey-
ance of 500 acres of land to him by William
Penn, by deed dated Dec. 22, 1681, and lo-
cated in what is now the city of Philadelphia.
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William Adams, his paternal great-great-
grandfather, settled in Lancaster county,
and in 1761 founded the borough of Adams-
town. His son, Isaac, the great-grandfather
of the subject of this sketch, was a captain
of light infantry, in the Revolutionary army.
He had six sons : \Villiam, the eldest, served
in the Legislature, twice as presidential
elect(.)r, commissioner, associate judge, and
two terms in Congress. Another son, Gen-
eral John Addams, in the second war with
Great Britain, commanded one of the two
brigades of State troops furnished by Penn-
sylvania for the defense of the nation. An-
other son was the grandparent of James
Addams Beaver, Governor of this State
from 1887 to 1891. Another son, Peter, the
grandfather of the subject of this sketch,
was a presidential elector for Jackson in
1825, and for Harrison in 1840, and in 1848
ran on the Whig ticket, with Henry Clay
for President, as the candidate for Congress
from the Berks district against W^illiam
Strong, afterward Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. George E.
Addams, the father of the subject of this
sketch, was a well known clergyman of the
Reformed Church.
T!ie name Addams was originally
spelled with one d, as is customary, but
Richard Adams, in order to distinguish the
family, added a second d. and this mode of
spelling the name has been followed for
nearly a century.
On the maternal side Mr. Charles F.
Addams is of German ancestry, dating back
to 1765, when one of his lineal ancestors
came from Germany with Pastorious and
settletl at Germantown.
Charles Peter Addams was born at Car-
lisle in 1863; graduated from Dickinson
College, Carlisle, in 1884; read law with
Henderson and Havs. was admitted to the
Bar of Cumberland county in 1887, and lo-
cated at Carlisle where he now resides. He
took an active interest in politics, and served
as chairman of the Republican county com-
mittee from 1887 to 1 89 1, and again from
1901 to 1904, inclusive. He was a delegate
to the Republican State Convention of 1894,
which nominated Daniel H. Hastings for
Governor. He was chief clerk in the At-
torney General's Department, at Harrisburg.
from 1895 to 1899 and law clerk since 1899.
In December, 1888, Mr. Addams was
married to Laura, daughter of Franklin and
Sarah Jane Gardner, of Carlisle, and has
one son, Lawrence Gray.
GEORGE WASHINGTON HAUCK
was bom in Mechanicsburg, Pa., on the 6th
day of May, 1841. He was the second son
of Adam and Susannah (W'onderly) Hauck,
being one of four children. Adam Hauck
was a founder and iron manufacturer and
manufacturer of stoves. He often took his
son George, then a mere boy, with him,
when he drove through the adjoining and
more remote counties of the State, looking
after his interest in the iron trade. When
George was a boy fourteen years old, his
father died.
Mr. Hauck obtained his early education
at the Mechanicsburg public schools. When
he was eighteen, he went to the Cumberland
Valley Institute, where he remained between
one and two years, studying Latin and the
higher branches, and displaying a high and
rare order of talent. Being a natural and
able mathematician, he finished higher alge-
bra before he was twelve years old. Between
the ages of fifteen and nineteen he learned
the tinner's trade with his uncle, William
Wonderly, and afterward formed a part-
nership with his uncle, Frederick Wonderly.
Mr. Hauck worked at his trade in a number
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of cities, among which were tiie following:
Cincinnati, Rochester, Wabash (Ind.),
Washington (D. C. ), and Harrisbnrg.
In 1869 George Hauck and his brother
Samuel formed a partnership in the stove
and tin business, under the firm name of
Hauck & Co. In August, 1878, George and
Samuel Hauck and J. K. Seifert bought out
the hardware stand of George Bobb, on
West Main street, and formed the new firm
of Seifert & Hauck. The iMessrs. Hauck,
Seifert and S. H. Coover, in 1881. organized
the Huston Net Company, for the manufact-
ure and sale of a high grade of leather fly-
nets. Mr. Coover soon resigned from the
fly-net business, and several years later the
Messrs. Hauck purchased Mr. Seifert's in-
terests in both the fly-net and the hardware
business. Both of these the Haucks together
conducted until the death of Mr. George
W. Hauck, on the 15th of May, 1902. The
flv-net business continued under the old
name, and the name of the hardware busi-
ness, upon the resignation of Mr. Seifert,
was changed to Hauck Brothers. Under the
Haucks the hardware trade grew rapidly.
In seven years the business had doubled.
They became cramped for space, and they
decided to erect a new, larger and finer build-
ing. In 1889 they built the commodious and
imposing structure that now stands on West
Main street. It is four stories high. 190 feet
long and 44 feet wiile, is built of brick with
handsome Indiana limestone front; and. al-
together, it is one of the finest hardware
houses in Pennsylvania. Three of the floors,
besides several warehouses, are used for the
hardware business, and the salesroom occu-
pies the entire first floor. Hauck Brothers
did an immense wholesale and retail busi-
ness, the territory covered by their salesmen
including the Cumberland Valley, south-
eastern Pennsylvania, and portions of
Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia.
Mr. George Hauck managed the fly-
net business, and made the "Huston
net"' famous from Maine to Cali-
fornia. He found a market for his fly-net
in almost every State of the Union, and had
even shipped some of them to Australia. He
personally inspected the materials and super-
vised the workmanship ; and so successful
was he in placing a good article upon the
market that he commanded from five to fif-
teen per cent more than any other manufact-
urer and employed, in the busy season, more
than a hundred work people.
During the summer of 1892 George W.
Hauck, in company with S. F. Huston and
J. D. Landis, went to Howard, Center
county. Pa., to examine into the condition
of a manufacturing concern with a view to
its possible, or probable, removal to Mechan-
icsburg, if everything should prove satis-
factory. The results of this trip were the
location of the D. Wilcox Mfg. Co. (manu-
facturers of fifth wheels, carriage hardware,
bicycle forgings, and other kinds of drop
forgings) in Mechanicsburg and the recap-
italization and complete reorganization of
the company. To the untiring efforts of
Mr. Hauck, aided by Messrs. Huston and
Landis, is due the credit for bringing this,
Mechanicsburg's largest and foremost in-
dustry, into our midst, and securing the cap-
ital necessary to equip the plant properly.
The people of Mechanicsburg had enough
of confidence in the integrity, foresight and
business ability of Mr. Hauck to believe that,
when he said a thing was right, it was right,
and to risk their capital in any venture in
which he invested his capital, so that Mr.
Hauck had no trouble to raise the funds nec-
essary to bring the Wilcox plant to this
place. The growtli of the business of this
company was phenomenal from the start,
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ami since its organization, its success has
been tmchecked. It worked througli the last
panic with a full force of workmen. Its
business grew from a small beginning with
great rapidity, and kept doubling itself e\'ery
three or four years, until now it is the largest
carriage-hardware factory in the I'nited
States, sends its forgings to every State in
the Union and to many of the Provinces of
Canada, and employs a small army of men.
Darius Wilcox was its first president ; Mr.
Hauck was its first vice-president. When
Mr. Wilcox died in 1896, Mr. Hauck became
its president and was reelected to that ofiice
every year until his own death, in 1902.
It is the able, shrewd, trained man of
afifairs that Ijrings success to an imdertak-
ing of any kind, be it large or small, and not
the man that does the mechanical part. ]\Ir.
Hauck was just such an able and trained
business man. A lightning calctilator, an
expert mathematician, a quick, exact and
able thinker, a man of broad experience in
the iron industry, he possessed all the ref|ui-
sites for success in any business enterprise
he might undertake. The whole history of
the Wilco.x Co. is essentially a part of the
history of this man. He employed able as-
sistants and trained men to take his place in
the management of the concern when he no
longer should be here to manage it himself.
However, one of his ablest and proudest
acts as its president was his purchase of a
large quantity of steel, just before the price
rose in 1898, on which he made for the com-
pany the great sum of $30,000. Mr. Hauck
owned nearly a fourth of the capital stock
at the time of his death, and was the largest
single stockholder in the concern.
Mr. Hauck was a director of the Me-
chanicsburg Gas & Water Company, and
was its second largest shareholder. He was
also a member of the board of directors of
the Second National Bank, of the same place,
uj) to tile time of his death, and an honorary
member of the Washington Steam Fire En-
gine Company. For many years he was the
owner of a one-fourth interest in the large
general store of H. H. Lamb & Co., at Shep-
herdstown, one of the largest and Ijest
equipped "country stores" in Cumberland
county. He was also interested in many
other enterprises of the town in which he
lived, and he was sought by many of the
town's business men for advice in their busi-
ness affairs. In politics he was a stanch,
strong and consistent Republican : and he
believed thoroughly in the principles which
dominate that great party. He was also a
member of Col. H. I. Zinn Post, No. 415.
G. A. R.
George W. Hauck was of German de-
scent principally, and he possessed that qual-
ity, peculiar to the Germans, of continuing
without intermission at the severest kind of
mental labor. Mr. Hauck's great-grand-
father resided at Ephrata during the Revolu-
tionary war. and was a personal friend of
George Washington, who often visited the
Haucks at Ephrata while the .American
army was encamped at Valley Forge. Henry
Hauck, deputy superintendent of public edu-
cation for Pennsylvania, and Congressman
Hauck, of Tennessee, are relatives of this
family.
In 1869 Mr. Hauck married .Alice Starr,
daughter of Reuben L. and Elizabeth
( Lloyd) Starr, of Lewisberry, York county.
Mrs. Hauck is of Quaker descent, and is a
distant blood relative of Bayard Taylor, the
great traveler and man of letters. She is
the granddaughter of Hiram Starr, who in
the ante-bellum days took an active part in
running the "underground railwaj','" where-
bv many slaves escaped into freedom. She
is a woman of ability. She has always taken
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an active part in temperance work, having
filled a nnmber of otifices in the \V. C. T. U.
For many years she has been a member of
the Wonians Relief Corps, having filled
the oftices of department, instituting
and installing oflicer ; department patri-
otic instructor, and junior vice-pres-
ident. In 1897 she was elected to
the office of department president of
Pennsylvania. On account of her fine ex-
ecutive ability and business experience more
money was saved the department than in any
previous year. She was also a director of
the Brook\ille Memorial tor two consecu-
tive years, an institution maintained and
supported by the W. R. C. of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Hauck.is a prominent member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, having been a
steward in the church for the past eighteen
years. After the death of her husband, she
was elected a member of the board of direc-
tors of the D. Wilcox Mfg. Co., to fill the
place made vacant by his deatli. She is
prominently identified with church and char-
itable work. Mr. and ]\Irs. Hauck had
five chiklren: Syh'an S., who died in in-
fancy ; Walter Lloyd, a graduate of Dick-
inson College and Dickinson School of Law,
and an ex-secretary of the Republican stand-
ing committee of Cumberland county : Ed-
win Starr, who is a traveling salesman (he
was also a student of Dickinson College) ;
and Susanna Elizabeth and George W'ash-
ington Hauck, who are attending the "Me-
chanicsburg Normal and Classical School,"
where they are preparing themselves for en-
trance to Dickinson College. Mr. Hauck
owned a beautiful brick residence fitted up
the most modern style, where his family
now reside.
George Washington Hauck was Me-
chanicsburg's ablest business man. as well
as one of the ablest business men of the
Cumberland Valley. He did more to aid
the growth and prosperity of his native town
than any other one man has ever done. He
was the brains of every business undertak-
ing with which he ever became identified ;
and to-day Mechanicsburg feels his loss
keenly. He was a man possessed of a vast
amount of knowledge on almost all sul.ijects.
He was a great reader, an able conversation-
alist, and a keen observer of men and affairs.
Although he was unostentatious and of a
somewhat retiring disposition, he was one
of the most approachable of men. He had
a kind heart, was liberal and charitable, and
was one of the best of men and one of the
best of citizens. He was a kind and loving
father and husband, and he possessed the
highest esteem of all who knew him.
DR. ROBERT M. McGARY, one of
the leading physicians and highly esteemed
citizens of Mechanicsljurg, who is also en-
gaged in the drug business here, was born
Oct. 27, 1858, at Shiremanstown, Cumber-
land county, son of David and Elizabeth
( Mateer) McGary.
John McGary, grandfather of Dr. Robert
^L, was a resident of Shiremanstown, for
a long period, following his trade of wheel-
wright, and also engaged in farming. His
three children. Mary, Henry and David,
have long since passed away. John McGary
was a consistent member of the Presbyterian
Church.
David McGary, son of John and father
of Dr. Robert AL, was born Sept. 18, 1818.
He was a contractor in Hampden township
for many years, and he died July 5, 1874.
On reaching manhood he married Eliza-
beth Mateer, a member of one of the oldest
families of Scotch-Irish extraction, of the
Cumberland Valley. Eight children were
born to them, three of whom grew to matur-
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ity, namely: Mary R.. wife of Samuel A.
Balmer. of Harrisburg; H. W., of Harris-
burg; and Dr. Robert M.
Dr. !McGary was reared in Shiremans-
town. and was educated in the public schools.
Not caring to follow an agricultural life, he
took the direction of his career into his own
hands, and came to Mechanicsburg. enter-
ing the drug store of Dr. ]\I. B.
Mosser, and in the meantime studying
medicine. His efiforts at securing a
medical education met with success, and ni
1884 he was graduated at Jefferson 3iledical
College at Philadelphia, immediately enter-
ing into practice at ^lechanicsburg. In 1889
he opened a drug store in this borough, and
carries a large and varied stock of goods
usually found in first-class establishments of
this kind, in connection with a large selec-
tion of pure drugs.
In politics. Dr. !McGary is a stanch Re-
publican. He is a Mason of high degree,
having been made a 32nd degree Mason in
1892. He is also one of the oldest members
of the Singer Band of Mechanicsburg. Dr.
McGary has won his own way in the world
through perseverance and industry, and
stands today as one of the leading and most
respected citizens of Mechanicsburg.
ANDREW BLAIR. The name of Blair
signifies "a cleared field," and the New Eng-
land branch of the family has a tradition
that the Blair coat of arms was granted by
King Malcolm, of Scotland, for signal
bravery in battle, for clearing the field of the
enemy. Many of the name were among
those who resented the attempt to supplant
the Presbyterian form of worship by that
of the English Church early in the sixteenth
century. When in 1612 King James divided
millions of acres into small holdings and
offered them to the British, Sir William
Brereton was visiting James Blair at Irvine,
Scotland, and wrote that crowds of discon-
tented people were passing through Irvine.
A band of young men, of whom several bore
the name of Blair, from Argyllshire, passed
over to Londonderry, and other parts of
Ulster, Ireland. These were the fathers of
a Scotch-Irish generation, Covenanters, who
were indomitable fighters for their religion,
their homes and their adopted country.
Lieut. -Col. Blair, Capt. James Blair and
Lieut. David Blair were conspicuous for
their bravery during these religious perse-
cutions.
Blair Castle, at Blair Atholl, in Perth-
shire, the ancestral country seat of His Grace
of Atholl, is a spacious and splendid resi-
dence. Part of the castle dates back to the
thirteenth century. King James V of Scot-
land came there to hunt the red deer, and
Mary Queen of Scots was royally enter-
tained beneath its roof. The castle has never
been deprived of the features which recall
its ancient traditions, as a place of arms, and
as the guardian fortress of the approaches
to the main chain of the Grampians. It un-
derwent several sieges, notably during the
Cromwellian wars and the Jacobite rebel-
lion, mementoes of which exist to this day.
One of the turrets of the castle is adorned
with the copper plated finial that surmounted
the dome of the Mabdi's tomb at Omdur-
man. Blair Castle is precisely the kind of
ancestral home that one would expect of a
Scottish duke who maintains a bodyguard
of his own. The Duke of Atholl has a pri-
vate guard of five hundred men, to whom its
colors were presented by Queen Victoria in
person. Every man stands over six feet.
The corps is recruited from among the
Duke's retainers and tenants, clad, accou-
tered and armed at his expense, and officered
bv his eldest son and kinsman. "The Atholl
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Regiment" presents a magnificent appear-
ance when marching with the long swinging
Highland stride, to the strains of the regi-
mental band of sixteen pieces.
Andrew Blair, the subject of this sketch,
■ lived and died at the corner of Hanover and
South streets, Carlisle. He was a son of
William Blair and Sarah Holmes, his wife,
and was born July 10. 1789. William Blair,
the father of Andrew, was a son of William
Blair, of Carlisle, and Mary Cowen. his wife,
who was from Lancaster county. Sarah
Holmes, his mother, was a daughter of An-
drew Holmes, of Bonny Brook. \Mlliam
Blair, father of Andrew, died March 21,
1792, at the age of thirty-two years ; his wife
survived him about thirty-five years and
reared their four children to honor the mem-
ory of herself and consort.
\\'illiam Blair, the grandfather of An-
drew, was a trustee of the Carlisle Academy
as early as 1781. He was also a trustee of
the Associated Presbyterian Church of Car-
lisle, and with two others, in 1796, pur-
chased from the Penns the ground upon
which to erect that church, a stone structure
which is still standing on South West street,
for £6. Afterward this was long known as
the "Seceder Church." This William Blair
died at Carlisle on Dec. 7, 1802, at the age
of seventy-three years, and is buried in the
family plot in the "Old Graveyard," sacred
ground, given by the Penns to Carlisle for
a place of burial. It is not known when his
wife, Mary Cowen, died. She may be
buried by the side of her husband, but there
is no tombstone indicating that she is. Wil-
liam Blair's son. Dr. Isaac Blair, was a mem-
ber of the first class that graduated from
Dickinson College. He located in Wash-
ington, Pa., where he practiced his profes-
sion until his death. His son, Dr. Alexan-
der Blair, succeeded him.
Jane, the only daughter of William and
Sarah (Holmes) Blair, died Aug. 13, 1864,
at the age of seventy-nine years. She was
the wife of John McClure, Esq., who lived
at Willow Grove on the Letort Spring, on
the southern outskirt of Carlisle, where their
old stone mansion, built by the pioneer Mc-
Clures, is still standing and in good condi-
tion. The McClures were an army family,
and their mansion at "The Willows" long
was a rendezvous for social culture. At one
time all the land extending from Carlisle
south as far as the toll-gate on the Balti-
more turnpike was in the McClure name.
William, the eldest son of William and
Sarah (Holmes) Blair, died unmarried on
Sept. 29, 1 86 1, in his seventy-fifth year.
Henry Cowen, their youngest son, died
in 1 814, unmarried, at the age of twenty-
two years. The remains of all of the family
rest in the Old Grave Yard at Carlisle.
Andrew Blair, the second son, was or-
dained as a ruling elder in the First Presby-
terian Church, Carlisle, Dec. 25, 1825. He
was one of the originators of the movement
which resulted in the organization of the
Second Presbyterian Church in 1832, and
was one of the first elders of that church.
One of his pastors, the Rev. Dr. A. T. ]\Ic-
Gill, a late president of Princeton College,
New Jersey, said of him : "Andrew Blair
was always a prince among the elders of the
church." One of our clergic historians
wrote of him : "His fellow worshippers
confided in him as a practical follower of
Christ ; they trusted his leadership and were
devoted to him as a friend in joy or sorrow.
They revered him as an oracle amongst
them." By the poor of the community he
was termed "the pastor of the town." He
was an enthusiastic supporter of the free
school system, and for twenty-five years was
president of the board of school directors of
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Carlisle. Both in school and in church af-
fairs he was associated with the late James
Hamilton, Esq. He was a soldier in the war
of 1812 and was granted lands Ijy the gov-
ernment for his services.
Andrew Blair was of stately form and
commanding presence ; a hulwark within
himself and a natural leader of men. He
possessed a clear-cut individuality; was
nohle-hearted and open-handed, and his dig-
nity of person always dissoh'ed into the kind
Christian friend in the presence of physical
or mental suffering. He was of stanch
Presbyterian people whom intolerance and
persecution drove from Scotl:ind to Ireland
and early in the eighteenth century from
Ireland to America. Whe;i the ancestor
of Andrew Blair came to Pennsylvania he
brought with him, among otiier household
goods, their grandfather clock, later named
"Old Billy," and that old clock is still chim-
ing the hours in the home of William Blair,
the fifth of America. Many years ago "Old
Billy" was used for a gun cupboard and an
accidental discharge made a bullet hole in
his l)ody. If animate the clock might relate
some soul-stirring tales of Indian savagery
in Cumberland county. The Cowen ances-
trv alsci brought their grandfather clock
across the ocean, and it now is in the home
of one of their name living in Chester coun-
ty. Pa. Those were the days of sailing ves-
sels, and the ancestors wrapped their clock
in a feather bed, to make it se.i proof, that it
might tick to Young America.
Andrew Blair on March 31, 181 2, was
married to Elizaljeth Hays, the Rev. Dr.
Davidson performing the ceremony. Eliza-
beth Hays was a daughter of Joseph Hays,
of Carlisle, and had a brother, Adam Hays,
who graduated from the medical department
of Pennsylvania University, was an assist-
ant surgeon in the American army in the war
of 1812, and afterward for some time prac-
ticed his profession in Carlisle, living where
the Second Presbyterian church now stands.
To the unir)n of .\ndrew Blair and Eliza-
beth Hays there was born a large family.
Andrew Blair, "the grand old man," peace-
fully passed away July 21, 1861, after
months of intense ])hvsical suffering which
he bore with true Christian fortitude. His
memory lingers and the goodness of his life
will long perpetuate his memory. — [\\ ith
highest esteem, a granddaughter, Jenny
Bl.\ir, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
J. O. SAXTON (deceased) was long
one of the most prominent and highly valued
citizens of Mechanicsburg, a man whose
sterling traits of character won the respect
iif all with whom he came in contact. Mr.
Saxton belonged to one of the oldest fam-
ilies of Cumberland county, and was born
July 3, 1833, on the homestead farm in Sil-
ver Spring townshi]), near the town of New
Kingstown, while his death occurred at his
home on W'est Main street, in September,
1903.
His parents John and Nancy (Saxton)
Saxton were people of substance and were
held in high esteem by all who knew them.
John Saxton was also born in Silver Spring
township, Cumberland county, and early in
life engaged in farming, which occupation
he continued until his death in 1843, when
he was thirty-six years of age. His
widow died some years later in Mechanics-
burg. Mr. and Mrs. Saxton were the par-
ents of three children: John O., Josephine,
and Mary.
The late John O. Saxton was reared
upon the homestead. He received his pre-
liniinarv education in the local schools, and
later graduated from Dickinson college,
after which he taught school for four years
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in Harrisburg. He then resumed farming
in Silver Spring township.
On Nov. 18. 1856, Mr. Saxton was hap-
])ily marriedi to Miss Ellen Dunlap, born
April 14, 1830, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and
a daughter of James and Margaret (Mateer)
13unlap, members of one of the oldest
families in Cumberland county. After their
marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Saxton moved to
Mechanicsburg, where Mr. Saxton soon Ije-
came prominent. Six children were born to
them: Caroline S., born Oct. 3, 1872 ; Lynn,
born Dec. 4, 1874; Margaret D., born Oct.
4, 1878; and three who died in chilillioiHl.
Mr. Saxton was one of the most active
Democrats of his locality, and held many
positions of trust and responsibility. He
served as school director; in the town coun-
cil for a number of years, and also occu])ied
various offices of less importance. In 1880
he was Democratic elector from the iQtli
Congressional district of Pennsylvania. For
some time he served as a burgess of Me-
chanicsburg, and in all the positions he oc-
cupied, displayed the same calm, judicious
ability which characterized his general ac-
tions. He was on the board of managers
of the Mechanicsburg Agricultural Society.
Fraternally, he was a Mason, and was past
high priest of Mechanicsburg Chapter, R. A.
M. ; past officer of the I. O. O. F. lodge and
Encampment, and served as district deputy
Grand Master for Cumberland county two
terms. In the Presbyterian Church he held
many offices, and was treasurer for the Me-
chanicsburg Bible and Tract Society for
thirty years. In August, 1886, he was hon-
oreil by appointment from Governor Pat-
tison as delegate from the 19th Congres-
sional district to the Farmers National Con-
gress held at St. Paul, Minnesota.
At the time of his death, Mr. Saxton
owned two large farms in Cumberland
county, and was one of the wealthy men of
that locality as well as one of the most popu-
lar. Mr. Saxton was identified with many
public movements, and was always inter-
ested in what would improve or beautify his
city. For a number of years he was presi-
dent of Chestnut Hill Cemetery Association,
as well as director, and ne\'er hesitated to
contribute freely of his time and money
\vhene\'er he thought that either were re-
quired.
Mrs. Saxton passed away in 1900, and
was deeply mourned by the devoted husband
who so soon followed her. She had but
one sister, Mrs. James McCallister Ralston,
a widow.
The death of Mr. Saxton is of so recent
date that the people of Mechanicsburg have
not yet adjusted themselves to the sad fact.
For so many years he has been so import-
ant a factor in both business and political
life, that it is difficult for his associates to
realize that the energetic, capable, broad-
minded man of affairs is no longer among
them to act, advise and execute. In the
record of his blameless and useful life, Mr.
Saxton has left to his children a monument
more lasting than granite, and has written
his name broadly across the page of his city's
history.
HENRY LEWIS HECKER (de-
ceased) was a lifelong resident of Carlisle,
where as a successful business man and hon-
ored public servant he was long prominent.
He was born Feb. 16, 1831, on South Han-
over street, in the south end of the town,
and was a son of Andrew and Charlotte
(Wahl) Hecker, natives of Germany, who
came to the L'nited States when young, and
were married in this country. Mr. Hecker
learned the trade of locksmith in the Father-
land, and followed it there and in the United
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States. He and his wife had a large family
of twelve or fourteen children.
Henry L. Hecker attended the Carlisle
schools in his youth, but his educational op-
portunities were none too plentiful, for he
began life a poor boy. He early learned the
trade of shoemaker, which he followed wdien
a young man. and in iS6i he enlisted for
service in the Union army, becoming a pri-
vate in Company A, 7th Pa. Inf., Volunteer
Reserves, which went out under Capt. Rob-
ert M. Henderson, who had raised the com-
pany and was commissioned captain April
2 1 St. He was with his command up to the
night of the fourth day of the Seven Days
fight before Richmond, when he lost his
right arm and was taken prisoner. After
three months' confinement in Libby prison,
he was exchanged and returned home to
recuperate, having 'experienced hardships
and suffering which would have meant death
to many a man. He was given no water to
bathe his wounded arm, and was so weak
that he had to crawl on his stomach to a
small stream. During his active service he
served through the Peninsular Campaign,
was in the battle of Mechanicsville, Gaines
Mills, Charles City Cross Roads and Mal-
vern Hill, after which the regiment was at
Harrison's Landing for a time. After the
Reserves joined the army of Northern Vir-
ginia, under Gen. Pope, they took part in
the Second battle of Bull Run. In 1865,
Mr. Hecker was made captain, and put in
charge of 300 men who were guarding the
railroad at Alexandria, Va., and he re-
mained in the service for another vear, when
his command was called in. After his re-
turn home he engaged in the bakery and
confectionery business on the site of his
widow's present home, in South Hanover
street, and continued the same successfully
until his death, which occurred in 1882.
Capt. Hecker took a prominent part in the
public affairs of his city, and served as
mayor of Carlisle after the war. In 1864
he was doorkeeper to the National House
of Representatives in Washington. His
political sympathies were with the Demo-
cratic party.
Capt. Hecker was married in Carlisle,
to Miss Julia Sites, of that place, daughter
of Joseph and j\Iary (Thompson) Sites,
the former a nati\'e of Frankford township,
Cumberland county, and a member of an
old family, the latter a native of Baltimore,
Md. Three children were born to Capt.
and Mrs. Hecker, ]\Iary A., Fanny G., and
Florence Bertram. Mrs. Hecker and her
children are members of St. Patrick's
Church, of Carlisle, but Mr. Hecker was a
Presbyterian. Socially, he united with the
I. O. O. F. and the G. A. R. post at Carlisle.
He was a man esteemed in every walk of
life, in the domestic circle and among his
friends as well as in business and public
life, and was ever ranked among the most
substantial and reliable citizens of Carlisle
where he is well remembered e\en to this
date.
JACOB KOST. Among the early set-
tlers of what is now North Middleton town-
ship. Cumberland county, was a George
Kost. In 1764 he was taxed in Middleton,
which then included North Middleton, with
a warrant calling for 200 acres of land, and
from that date to 1793 his name a])pears
on the record of every assessment. From
1766 to 1793 he is taxed with both
land and personal property, showing that he
was a resident as well as a land holder. The
exact locality of his home was in the vicinity
of Grissinger's, in the northwest part of
North Middleton. There were other Kosts
in Cumberland countv very early, and their
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number and the different forms of spelling
the name are confusing to the genealogist.
The history of the George Kost who settled
"six miles west of Carlisle," however, is
pretty definitely settled. He was born in
Saxony and came to America in the ship
"Edinburgh," James Russell, master, land-
ing at Philadelphia Sept. 16, 1751. On the
ship's list he stands recorded as "Hans Georg
Kast." There is nothing to show where he
was between the date of his landing in the
country and the date of his first appearance
upon the records of Middleton township,
but it is probable that he spent some time
in the eastern counties of the Province, as
did many of the early settlers of Cumber-
land county. It is said that he was employed
as a messenger between Conrad Weisher
the famous Indian interpreter, and Gov.
Hamilton, also that he served as a quarter-
master in the Colonial army. This George
Kost died in 1798, leaving a will in which
his name is written "Cosht," and from which
it. appears that his w'ife's name was Mary
Ann, and that he had four sons : Jacob,
Philip, ]\Iichael and Leonard. The son
Michael died in May, 1804, leaving among
other children a son named George, as well
as John, Mary and Elizabeth.
George Kost w'as born in Middleton
township, and learned the tanning trade with
Leonard Minnich, in Frankford township.
When he reached man's estate he settled
upon a property in Frankford township
which formerly belonged to his father. Here
he farmed and also worked at tanning for
Leonard Minnich, the man \\\{\\ whom he
learned his trade. In 1828 he built a tan-
nery upon his own property, and founded
a tanning business- which is yet in existence
and which has been in the Kost name con-
tinuously ever since.
George Kost was married first to Eliza-
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beth Snyder, by whom he had the following
children: Michael (deceased), John, Solo-
mon, William (deceased), Samuel (de-
ceased), George (deceased), Mary, and
Margaret. His first wife dying, he married
(second) Mary Nickey, a daughter of David
and Anna (Wax) Nickey, of Frankford
township. David Nickey was born near
Womelsdorf, Berks county, and his wife,
Anna Wax, was born in Perry county.
George and Mary (Nickey) Kost had the
following children : Jacob, mentioned be-
low ; Elizabeth, living in North Middleton
township; Sarah Ann, who died in 1850;
David and James, in Illinois ; Elias, in Kan-
sas; Simon, in Oklahoma; Alfred, in York
county. Pa. ; Amanda, in Perry county. Pa. ;
and Qiarles who died at the age of five.
George Kost died in 1889 on the old home-
stead, and his wife died there Nov. 12, 1900.
Jacob Kost, the subject of this sketch,
was the eldest child of George and Maiy
(Nickey) Kost. He was born Dec. 21,
1838, in Frankford township, Cumberland
county, in the home in which he has always
li\ed. In his boyhood he attended the coun-
try district school, and being apt and studi-
ous readily accjuired suflicient education to
obtain a certificate certifying that he was
qualified to teach in the public schools. He
first taught the Stone Church school in
Frankford township, and after teaching sev-
eral terms in Frankford and in the adjoin-
ing township of North Middleton he spent
two terms at the Newville Normal School,.
in which he was under the instruction of such
able teachers as George Swartz, D. E. Kast,
S. B. Heiges- and William R. Linn. Sub-
sequently, he taught the ]Mt. Zion school in
Frankford township for five successive
terms, and then relinquished teaching and
turned his attention to the tanning business,
which he had learned under his father.
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About the year iS^o he [turchased the tan-
nery his fatlier I.iuilt in 1S28, went into busi-
ness on his own account and has continued
at it steadfastly ever since, a period of over
forty years. Tlie old Kost tannery he has
■enlarged to four times its original capacity,
introduced new machinery and new pro-
cesses as rapidly as their usefulness became
knoA\-n. and, by keeping in touch with the
spirit of progress and giving to his business
-all his time and attention, has succeeded in
spLte of the trusts and combinations that
, have so unmercifully been crushing out the
individual enterprises of the country. He is
.a farmer as well as a tanner and gives to his
farming interests the same intelligent care
and direction that he does to his leather
manufacturing. He has erected new build-
ings, improved his old ones, and drained
:and fertilized his lands, making two blades
'of grass grow where one grew before. Nor
lias he been the exclusive beneficiary of his
enterprise. It affords employment to many
persons around him. and he finds special
pleasure in long retaining in his service faith-
ful employes. One man who at this writing
is one of his trusted employes has been con-
tinuously in his service for twenty-eight
years, another for twenty-four years, and
another for eighteen years.
Mr. Kost is a Democrat in politics, but
liberal in his views and independent in his
actions, and when his party makes bad nomi-
nations considers it a duty as well as a priv-
ilege to withhold his vote or vote against
them if there be better ones to vote for. He
takes a live interest in the affairs of his dis-
trict, has several times served as school di-
rector and often been urged to be a candi-
date for other offices but positively declined.
He has never married, but is domestic in his
liabits, and even without a wife his home is
a place of such solid comfort, pleasure and
contentment, that he never finds it necessary
to go to the sea shore.
THE BOSLER FAMILY. Abr.^ham
BosLER. Johan Wilhelm Bossier was the
earliest American ancestor of the Bosler
family of Cumberland county. He came
from Hano\-er, Germany, and landed at
Philadelphia, Oct. 2S. 1738, from the ship
"Bilander Thistle," and was the only person
of his name on the vessel. In fact, he is the
only Bosler that appears anywhere upon the
immigrant records of Pennsylvania. He was
yet quite young when he arrived in this
country and it is not definitely known where
he first settled and what occupation he fol-
lowed. By 1 761 he was living in Lancaster
county, between Elizabethtown and May-
town, where he married a Miss Longenecker,
by whom he had a large family. Among
their children was a son John, born Nov. 14,
1765, who married Catharine Gish, of Lan-
caster county, and engaged at farming. In
1794 he came to Cumberland county, and
settled on the north side of the Conedoguinet
Creek, in what is now Silver Spring town-
ship. He purchased from John and James
Buchanan the farm that is now owned by
David R. \'ogelsong, and made it his home
during the rest of his days. He also after-
ward acquired the ownership of two other
farms, adjoining this one on the north, and
for thirty years was a prominent and influen-
tial citizen of that part of the county. He
died Nov. 21, 1824, his wife, Catharine
(Gish) Bosler, died Feb. 15, 1829, aged
fifty-seven years, and the remains of both are
buried in the cemetery of the Sih'er Spring
Presbyterian Church.
John and Catharine (Gish) Bosler had
five children, three sons and two daughters.
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The sons were Jacob D., John and Abra-
ham : and the daughters were Nancy and
CatTiarine. Jacob was a physician and for a
time had a drug store and practiced his pro-
fession in Meclianicsburg. He married Ann
D. Herman, daughter of Martin and Ehza-
beth (Bowers) Herman, and removed to
Dayton, Ohio, where lie lived to a great age
and where some of his descendants are still
living. John was married twice. His first
wife was a daughter of Rev. Jacob Keller,
and his second a daughter of George Web-
htxt. Nancy was also married twice; her
first husband was John Rife, and her second
Melchoir Webbert. Catharine married Dr.
John Fahnestock on Oct. 23, 1827.
Abraham Bosler was the youngest child.
He was born Aug. 19, 1806, on the farm
which his father purchased from the Buch-
anans in the part of East Pennsboro town-
ship that is now included in Silver Spring.
Here he grew to manhood and received such
education as the district schools of that sec-
tion afforded. Although reared on the farm
and trained to that vocation he had scarcely
reached the years of maturity when he
turned his attention to merchandising. He
engaged at merchandising in the village of
Hogestown for several years and then
formed a partnership with Francis Porter in
the produce and forwarding business, ship-
ping by arks and boats to Baltimore by way
of the Susquehanna river, and by canal to
Philadelphia. He also was a large dealer in
cattle, which he purchased in Ohio and west-
ern Pennsylvania and then drove them to the
Eastern markets. His business ventures
were quite successful, but he still retained his
interest in farming. For some years he
farmed a farm which adjoins Hogestown on
the northwest, now owned by the McCor-
mick estate, and in March, 1838, bought a
fine farm from Martha Cunningham. This
farm lies next to the place on which he was
born, in a peninsula on the north side of the
Conedoguinet, due niorth of Hogestown, and
since Mr. Bosler has parted with it it has
been owned by the IMussers. Here he
farmed, manufactured brick, erected new
buildings and made other improvements, and
lived twelve of the most strenuous years of
his entire career. In April, 1850, he sold his
possessions in Silver Spring township,
moved his family to his wife's brother,
Christian Herman, near New Kingston, and
went West. He made an extended trip and
purchased a large tract of land near what is
now Monmouth, 111., and then returned to
Pennsylvania for his family. His wife,
however, was averse to going West, so in
the spring of 1852 he moved to South Mid-
dleton township, a short distance south from
Carlisle, where the fall previous he had pur-
chased a farm, a mill and a distillery. He
engaged in these various branches of indus-
try in that locality until 1863, when the
revenue taxes became exorbitant and he
closed his distillery. Later he sold his inter-
ests at this place to his son, J. Herman Bos-
ler, and in 1872 moved to Carlisle, where,
under the firm name of A. Bosler & Dale, he
engaged in the grain and coal business for
seven or eight years and then retired.
On Feb. 25. 1830, Mr. Abraham Bosler
was married to Miss Eliza Herman, by Rev.
James Williamson, pastor of the Silver
Spring Presbyterian Church. Eliza Her-
man was a daughter of Martin and Elizabeth
(Bowers) Herman, and a member of a
prominent Silver Spring family whose his-
tory appears in another part of these annals.
Soon after their marriage they connected
with the Presbyterian Church at Silver
Spring, where they continued faithful at-
tendants until they removed to South Mid-
dleton, w'hen by certificate they transferred
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tlieir meml;>ership to tlie Second Presby-
terian Church of Carhsle, of which cliurch
tliey were devout memliers and hberal sup-
porters until tlie end of Hfe. Mr. Bosler died
Dec. 21, 1883; his wife died Dec. 7, 1885,
aged seventy-five years, and tlieir remains
rest in the family plot in Ashland cemetery
in Carlisle. They had eight children, name-
ly : John Herman, James Williamson, Ben-
jamin C, Joseph, Elizabeth Bowers, Mary
Catharine, George ]Morris and Charles A.
The last-named died in infancy, but the
rest all grew to maturity. Elizabeth B. is
unmarried and a resident of Carlisle. Mary
C. married Joseph R. Stonebraker and re-
sides in Baltimore, and George AI. resides in
Carlisle, where he has extensive business in-
terests. Benjamin C. was reared upon the
farm and in 1857 went to Illinois, where he
resided until the early 'sixties, when he re-
moved to California and died in a mining
camp in 1862. He was unmarried.
Abraham Bosler was a strong character
in the business and social life of Cumberland
county, and his activity, honesty of purpose
and integrity won for him an honorable place
in its history.
JOHN HERMAN BOSLER was the
oldest child of Abraham and Eliza (Her-
man) Bosler. He \yas born Dec. 14, 1830,
near Hogestown, in Silver Spring township.
His childhood and youth were spent upon
the farm and at the Hogestown district
school. When seventeen years of age he en-
tered Cumberland Academy, a preparatory
school then in existence at New Kingston,
from which be entered Dickinson College,
where he pursued his studies through the
years of 1850 and 1851. Being predisposed
to business rather than books, he then with-
drew from college and entered into partner-
ship with his father in the milling and dis-
tilling business, in which he ciintinued for
fi\-e years. He next engaged at the manu-
facture of iron in Huntingdon county for a
period of two years, after which he returned
to Cumljerland county and again engaged at
milling, and also at buying and shipping
grain.
On Oct. I, 1856, J. Herman Bosler was
married to Miss Mary J. Kirk, of Mifflin-
town, Juniata county. ?^Iary J. Kirk was a
daughter of James and ^Martha (Sager)
Kirk, and a descendant (if an old and promi-
nent family of central Pennsylvania. Will-
iam Kirk, Sr., was born in the North of Ire-
land. He immigrated to America at an early
date, married Mary McConnel, and settled
near East Waterford, Lack township, in
what is now Juniata county, at the same time
that other members of his family settled in
what is now Fulton county. He died in
1781. His son, William Kirk (2), was
married twice, first to Mary Elliott and sec-
ond to Jane Clark. He died on the old home-
stead in La(:k township in 1843.
James Kirk, a son of William Kirk (2),
by Mary Elliott, was born in Lack township
and grew to manhood in that locality. He
w;is educated in the common schools and
under the private tuition of a Mr. White, an
old Scotch teacher who had his home in the
Kirk family for many years. When sixteen
years old he left home to fight life's battles
for himself, going first to Churchtown, Cum-
berland county, where he taught school a
term. He next went to Mifilintown, and
there for a while clerked in the store of Rob-
ert Gallagher. From Mifflintown he went
to Fulton county, where he and a cousin, also
named James Kirk, for a short time jointly
engaged in the mercantile business. He then
returned to Mifflintown, and on June 9,
1835, was married to Martha Sager. .Vfter
his marriage he went back to Fulton county
and there spent two years more in the mer-
cantile business, after which he for the third
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time went to Mifflintown, and there — first
with Joseph Patterson and afterward by
himself — conducted a general store until his
death. He died in Mifilintown in September.
1870: his wife. Martha (Sager) Kirk, died
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bosler, in
Carlisle, March 16, 1884. Mr. Kirk was a
Democrat, was active and prominent in poli-
tics, and was treasurer of Juniata county one
term.
J. Herman Bosler continued in Inisiness
in the vicinity of Carlisle for fifteen years
with marked success. In 1869 he l)ecame in-
terested in stock ranching in Nebraska and
Wyoming with his brother, James W., in-
vesting heavily in the cattle business. They
were the pioneer representatives of the west-
ern cattle business in Cumberland county
and were very successful. Afterward J.
Herman and George M. Bosler, with others,
purchased a large body of land near the
growing city of Omaha. This land subse-
quently was transferred to the South Omaha
Land Company, of which J. Herman Bosler
became vice-president and one of the heaviest
stockholders. This proved to be a most for-
tunate purchase, for upon it was founded the
town of South Omaha, which at first was
three miles from the center of Omaha prop-
er, but since has become a corporate part of
the city itself. It today stands as a testi-
monial to the judgment and foresight of its
founders. Mr. Bosler also interested him-
self in business enterprises as far away as
the Pacific coast. In 1891 he and others,
under the corporate designation of South
San Francisco Land and Improvement Com-
pany, bought a large tract of land in San
Mateo county, Cal., near the city of San
Francisco. Subsequently this company made
a second and much larger purchase of lands,
w'ith the view of developing its natural re-
sources and establishing upon it, on an ex-
tensive scale, such industries as the rapid
growth of that section calls for. This com-
pany has a capital of $2,000,000.
In his search for business opportunities
Mr. Bosler flid not overlook those which his
own locality afforded. He assisted in organ-
izing the Carlisle Manufacturing Company,
which for many years provided steady em-
ployment to a large force of hands and was
the means of bringing much needed money
to the town. He was also president of the
Carlisle Shoe Factory, a director of the
Carlisle Deposit Bank; of the Merchants'
National Bank ; of the Carlisle Gas & Water
Company; of the Cumberland Valley Rail-
road Company, and president of the Carlisle
Land & Improvement Company, an enter-
prise which built up a large addition to the
town of Carlisle and established some impor-
tant manufacturing industries. He owned
a number of valuable farms in different parts
of the county, in the management of which
he found great pleasure, chiefly because it
afforded him a restful diversion from busi-
ness. Through his farming interests, and
his close association with others similarly in-
terested, he was induced to join the Cumber-
land County Agricultural Society and
proved himself a most influential friend and
patron of that useful organization.
Although a man constantly vexed with a
great load of business cares and responsibili-
ties, Mr. Bosler was possessed of most agree-
able social qualities. He was genial, affable
and kind. He had a pleasant word for
everybody and few people were more gener-
ally known or more highly esteemed and
popular. He was a man of excellent habits
and character, took a deep interest in re-
ligious affairs, was a member of the Second
Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, and gave
liberally to its support and the support of
all its charities. In politics he was a stanch
Democrat and supported his party and its
policies zealously, but never sought office.
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In 1888 he was the Democratic Presidential
elector from the Nineteenth Congressional
district and was frequently urged to stand
for higher office, hut always declined because
of the pressure of his many business inter-
ests. He died on Nov. 18, 1897, and his
remains are interred in Ashland cemetery.
He was one of the most honored and most
conspicuous citizens of his section of the
State, and few men in this country have won
the measure of business success that he
achie\e(l.
As a lasting memorial to Mr. Bosler. his
widow and five children erected a handsome
public library building in Carlisle, known as
"The J. Herman Bosler Memorial Library."
Entirely completed and equipped with furni-
ture and books, it was formally transferred
to trustees on Jan. 30, 1900, together with
an endowment fund of $20,000. The pre-
sentation address was made by Herman E.
Bosler. son of the deceased, at a large and
representative assemblage in the building
which was presided over by Hon. Edward
W. Biddle, President Judge of the county.
Addresses were made by the chairman and
by Rev. George Xorcross, pastor of the Sec-
ond Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, and by
Rev. Dr. George Edward Reed, president of
Dickinson College and State Librarian. The
building has a frontage on West High street
of 57 feet and a depth of 88 feet, standing on
a lot 63 by 1 10 feet. It is a handsome >peci-
men of classic architecture,, the front being-
constructed of Avondale marble with a mas-
sive columned entrance. About 4,400 books
are now upon its shelves under the care of the
efficient and popular librarian, W. Homer
Ames. The trustees are: Rev. Dr. George
Norcross, president ; Hon. Edward W. Bid-
die, vice-president; John ^I. Rhev, secre-
tary; Edward B. \\'atts, treasurer: J. Kirk
Bosler; Mrs. Edward W. Biddle; Charles F.
Himes : Joseph Bosler; Mrs. Ellen A. Park-
er; John B. Landis ; I\Irs. Florence P.
Mclntire.
To John Herman and ^Mary J. (Kirk>
Bosler the following children were born :
Gertrude D. ; Herman E. ; Lila ]\IcClellan ;
Jean ]\I. ; Fleta K., and J. Kirk. There were
also four others who died in infancy. Ger-
trude D. is the wife of Judge Edward W.
Biddle, whose biography appears in anothe:'
part of this volume. Herman E. was secre •
tary and treasurer of the Fidelity «& Deposit
Company of Baltimore until ill health com-
pelled him to give up the position four years
ago. He married Carolyn Dickey Dulany
and resides in Baltimore. Lila McClellan
married Edward Hooker, of Omaha. She
died April 3, 1896, without issue. Jean M.
is the wife of James I. Chamberlain, Esq.,
attorney at law, of Harrisburg, and Fleta K.
is the wife of Chester C. Basehore, Esq.,
attorney at law of Carlisle.
JAMES KIRK BOSLER. youngest
child of J. Herman and Mary J. (Kirk)
Bosler, was born Oct. 11, 1876, in Carlisle,
and has always resided there. He was edu-
cated at Dickinson College, entering the
preparatory department in 1890, and grad-
uating from the college proper in 1897. He
then took a course in the Dickinson Law
School, from which he graduated in 1899,
and was admitted to practice in the Cumber-
land coimty courts on June 3, 1899. He is
president of the Carlisle Paper Bo.x Com-
pany, and secretary of the Carlisle Shoe
Company; also a director in the Farmers'
Trust Company, of Carlisle, and his time is
occupied chiefly in attending tO' his various
manufacturing and business interests. He
W'as married on Nov. 19, 1903, to Miss
Alary A. Mullin. daughter of Hon. Charles
H. Mullin. of Mt. Holly Springs.
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JAMES WILLIAMSON BOSLER was
the third son of Abraliam and Eliza (Her-
man) Bosler, and was born on April 4, 1833,
near Hogestown, in Silver Spring township,
Cumberland county. He was a grandson of
John and Catharine (Gish) Bosler, who in
1794 came from Lancaster county and set-
tled in what is now Silver Spring township.
He grew up on the farm and received the
rudiments of his eilucation in the public
school of the neighborhood. Later he at-
tended the Cumberland Academv at New
Kingston, and still later took a partial
course at Dickinson College. In 1852 he left
college and went to Moultrie, Columbiana
Co., Ohio, where during the winter of 1853-
54 he taught school. From Moultrie he went
to Wheeling, Va. (now West Virginia),
where he read law and was admitted to the
Bar. Although prepared for it, he did not
naturally incline toward the practice of the
law and instead of entering upon a profes-
sional career he for a while- clerked in a
store in Wheeling, which, coming at the
time it did, was a valuable bit of experience,
for it taught him self-reliance and encour-
aged him to venture into business on his owri
account. He bought a store in Columbiana
county, Ohio, near where he had taught
school, laid in a stock of goods and bid for
trade. He gave to his mercantile enterprise
all his time and attention, but before suc-
cess had time to wait upon him a disastrous
fire wiped out his business and ended his
career as a merchant. With the hope
of changing his luck he now decided to
change his location, and removed to Sioux
City, Iowa. The change was advantageous,
for it proved to be the beginning of his re-
markably successful business career. He
formed a partnership with Charles E.
Hedges in the real estate business, and later
the two established the "Sioux City Bank,"
under the firm name of Bosler & Hedges.
They did a general banking business, and
also furnished supplies for the Interior and
War Departments of the Government on
the North Missouri river. Sioux City was
then on the frontier and much of the busi-
ness of its citizens had connection with gov-
ernment operations. Large numbers of In-
dians were confined to near-by reservations
and these were fed by the Government under
treaty, and to do so vast amounts of sup-
plies were necessary, and Bosler & Hedges,,
and afterward Mr. Bosler alone, provided a
large share of these supplies by contract.
The boundless plams just beyoufl the Mis-
souri river, where erstwhile roamed myriads
of buffalo, were blooming into national
pasture fields and upon them it was easy and
very profitable to raise and fatten cattle.
Here was an exceptional opportunity, and'
James W. Bosler was among the first to
recognize and take advantage of it. He be-
came one of the pioneer spirits in the new
industry of raising cattle on the \Vestem
ranges, invested in it heavily and reaped:
golden profits by it. Besides being active in
real estate, banking and cattle raising, he at
times engaged in building operations and by
contract erected both the public school build-
ing and the jail of Sioux City. He also in-
terested himself in politics and one year was
the Democratic nominee for state treasurer
of Iowa. He was not elected to this office,,
but at another time was elected a member of
the Iowa State Legislature, and in i860 was
a delegate to the National Democratic Con-
vention, held at Charleston, S. C, where "a
distempered individual broke down one of
the great parties of the country and made
civil war inevitable." Having accumulated
a large fortune, he carefully organized his.
various interests, and in 1866 returned to his
native county in Pennsylvania and made ar-
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rangenients for the domestic jieace and cijm-
fort of his later years. He built himself a
beautiful residence in the suburbs of Car-
lisle, where, although still continuing his
extensive business in the West, he resided
until his death. After becoming permanent-
ly settled at Carlisle, he became one of the
most active and efficient promoters of busi-
ness enterprises about his home. He helped
to organize the Carlisle Manufacturing Com-
pany, and was its first president ; he was a
director in the Carlisle Deposit Bank, a di-
rector of the Carlisle Gas & Water Company,
and also owned extensive farm interests in
dififerent parts of the county. He also was
one of the incorporators of the Independent
National Bank, of Philadelphia, and a di-
rector of it until his death. His active, gen-
erous spirit promoted business directly and
indirectly, for he not only invested person-
ally but freely and cheerfully extended finan-
cial aid to persons who engaged in business,
or bought property about him, and never dis-
tressed them when adversity came. And
when he gave it was with a liberal hand. At
the centenary anni\'ersary of Dickinson Col-
lege, in 1883, at a meeting of the trustees, he
subscribed ten thousand dollars for the en-
dowment of a Prof. McClintock chair. He
died before this bequest was carried into
execution, but after his death his widow,
emphasizing her husband's generous motives
seven-fold, gave to the institution the splen-
did "James W. Bosler Memorial Hall,"
which now stands upon the college campus
as a monument to his memorv.
Early in his career James W. Bosler
was a Democrat, but his associations and
business relations during and immediately
after the Civil war being largely with influ-
ential Republicans, he about that time allied
himself with the Republican party. Pos-
sessed of wonderful resource and tact, and
Ijeing a good judge of men, he was very use-
ful to the organization and for years was
much sought after in close and doubtful cam-
paigns. He was in close touch with a large
number of the most distinguished members
of the party and was frequently entrusted
with their most important political secrets.
He was a warm personal friend of Hon.
James G. Blaine, and at the Republican Na-
tional Convention in 1880 was one of a com-
mittee of three — the other two being John
Roach, the shipbuilder, and Senator Chaffee,
of Colorado — who had charge of Mr.
Blaine's interests as a candidate for the
Presidency. Mr. Blaine did not upon this
occasion receive the nomination, but every
time he made a campaign for the Presi-
dency James W. Bosler was his unswerving
friend, and not only contributed heavily
himself, but made others give up to his
measure. For this substantial friendship Mr.
Blaine showed due appreciation all through
life and when Mr. Bosler's remains were
borne to the tomb he was a mourner at the
side of his bier. Several years afterward, in
writing to Mrs. Bosler, he said : "As the
years go by I realize more and more how
great was iny own loss in the death of your
husband, and from that I can realize in
some faint degree how inestimable was your
affection. He was the dearest and most un-
selfish of friends, and I keep his memory
green in my heart." Although the friend
he so loyally championed at the National
Convention of 1880 was defeated, Mr. Bos-
ler did not sulk or withhold his support from
the nominee. He promptly went to the front
and gave proof of the sincerity of his ac-
quiescence by giving liberally to the cause.
Through his example other men became
equally generous, and to him, as much as to
any man in the United States, the election of
Gen. Garfield was due. One of the great
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public men in Pennsylvania that James W.
Bosler was on intimate terms with was Ben-
jamin Harris Brewster. He ranked high as
a lawyer, had held important public positions
and aspired to a cabinet position. In Decem-
ber, 1 88 1, President Arthur appointed Mr.
Brewster Attorney-General of the United
States, and since his death extracts from let-
ters written by him have been made public
showing that he relied princijxdly upon* Mr.
Bosler's influence to obtain the appointment
to this high office.
In 1882 Mr. Bosler was nominated by
the Republicans of the 32d District, com-
posed of the counties of Cumberland and
Adams, for State senator. The district then
was Democratic by about 1,800, and al-
though he was not elected, Mr. Bosler re-
duced this large majority to 136. His whole
career shows that he cared more for the
political success of his friends than he did
for his own, and in public affairs he pre-
ferred to act through others, yet, had he
been elected State senator, there is reason
to believe, that, with his great influence and
extensive acquaintance with public men and
public affairs, the public interests would
have been well served.
In i860 James W. Bosler married Helen
Beltzhoover, daughter of Michael G. and
Mary (Herman) Beltzhoover, of near Boil-
ing Springs, Cumberland county. Going to
the far west they began their married life in
Sioux City and lived there for six years. On
the completion of their new home at Carlisle
they removed to it and there li\-ed the rest of
their days. Mr. Bosler's end came suddenly
on Monday, Dec. 17, 1883. He a few days
l^efore had returned from an exhausting
business trip and on the afternoon of the day
named was in his office, on the beautiful
grounds of his residence, when he was
stricken down with apoplexy and died before
he could be removed to his house. He was
in the prime of life, in the floodtide of use-
fulness, and his unexpected death was a
shock to the entire community, and drew the
warmest expressions of sympathy from far
and near. Messages of regret and condolence
came to the bereaved family from Charles
B. Lore. James G. Blaine, Stephen B. El-
kins, Thomas Beaver, Jacob Tome, Enoch
Pratt and others of the same class, and in the
immense throng at his funeral a few days
afterward were .some of the most distin-
guished men of the land. His wife, Helen
(Beltzhoover) Bosler, died on Oct. 5, 1890,
and their remains rest side by side in
the family plat in Ashland cemetery.
To James W. and Helen (Beltzhoover)
Bosler five children were born, viz. : Charles,
Frank C, Mary Eliza, DeWitt Clinton and
Helen Louisa. Charles died in December,
1870, in the seventh year of his age. D.
Clinton was born April 25, 1873, graduated
from Harvard College in 1897, and died
Dec. 22, 1903.
Frank C. Bosler was born May i, 1869,
and graduated from Harvard College in the
class of 1894, and, being the only son living,
it is upon him that chiefly rests the responsi-
bility of caring for the large estate that de-
scended to him and his sisters from his
father. He is largely interested in business
enterprises and is a director in the Carlisle
Deposit Bank, and the Farmers' Trust Com-
pany of Carlisle, and is the principal owner
in the Iron Mountain Ranch Company of
Wyoming. Mary Eliza is the wife of Lewis
S. Sadler, Esq., a member of the law firm
of Sadler & Sadler, of Carlisle. Frank C.
and Helen L. are unmarried, and all of them
reside at "Cottage Hill," the beautiful home
their father built in the suburbs of Carlisle
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in 1866. Like tlie family for generations
past they adhere to the Presbyterian faith
and are all members of the Second Presby-
terian Church of Carlisle.
JOSEPH BOSLER was born March 23,
1838, and like many farmer boys alternated
working upon the farm with attendance at
the district school, and later was given the
advantage of a course in the preparatory de-
partment of Dickinson College. \\'hen he
was fourteen he went to Columbiana county,
Ohio, where he assisted his brother in a store,
but after a few years returned home, and
remained upon the farm until the outbreak
of the Civil war, when he went West and
located at Sioux City, Iowa. Later he was
at Omaha, Neb., with his brother . James,
filling contracts for Indian supplies for the
Government. Again his heart turned toward
Pennsylvania, and he settled in Carlisle,
where he formed a partnership with his
brother, J. Herman, in a grain, coal and
flour business, which lasted eight years,
when the young men sold out to their father
and Mr. Dale. In the meanwhile Mr. Bosler
was making annual trips to the West to look
after his interests there, and when he dis-
posed of his grain business he and his
brother James established a cattle ranch at
Big Bend on the Missouri river, in South
Dakota, and conducted it for several years.
Joseph Bosler then retired, and has so lived
for the past fifteen years, but he has large
realty holdings in Nebraska, the Dakotas and
Virginia, and he is a director of the Car-
lisle Deposit bank and of the Allen & East
Pennsboro Fire Insurance Co. Politically,
he is a Democrat, and he is very influential
in the city.
On Nov. 4. 1868, Mr. Bosler married
Miss Sarah E. Lemen, of Berkeley countv,
W. Va., a daughter of Thomas Newton and
Margaret ( Billmyer) Lemen, both natives of
Jefferson county, W. Va., the family being
an old one in the State. Mrs. Bosler was
reared in her nati\-e State, and was married
there. Mr. and Mrs. Px^sler have six living
children : Margaret, widow of John H. Mur-
rav, of Milton, Pa., who was a native of
Berlin, Germany, has one son, Samuel Wil-
son Murray ; Joseph, Jr., who has lived in
Nebraska since 1899, engaged in a real-
estate and insurance business, graduated
from Dickinson College and filled the ofifice
of clerk in the revenue office at Lancaster,
Pa., for five years before going W'est. where
he is proving a very successful and enterpris-
ing young man; E. Herman, an art student,
graduated from the Art Students' League,
of New York, and has also studied in Paris ;
Mary is a graduate of the S. Weir Mitchell
Hospital; Susan L. is at h(.inie; Newton L.,
a very promising j'oung fellow, is also at
home. Two other children of this family
died in childhood, Bessie L. and Catherine N.
The family are all members of the Pres-
byterian Church, with which they have been
prominently connected for many years, and
Mr. Bosler has well sustained the honor and
prestige of his family. Needless to say that
Mr. and Mrs. Bosler are among the most
highly esteemed people of Carlisle, or that
they are leaders in the best circle of social
life.
HON. HARRY MANNING. The
^Mannings are of English descent and came
to America at various times, some at a very
early date. Capt. John Manning, a sol-
dier in the British army, was at Boston as
early as 1650. In 1664 he came to New-
York, where later his government granted
him the island in the East river that is now
known as Blackwell's island. Formerly it
was known as Manning's island.
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A Robert Manning, who was born at
Salem, Mass., and died there in 1842,
achieved great distinction as a poinologist.
He had a sister EHzaljeth who became the
mother of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was
educated at the expense of Mr. Manning.
A William Manning who was born in
England settled at Cambridge, Mass., in
1692. He descended from an ancient fam-
ily who had their origin in Saxony, Ger-
many, and settled in England in tlie fourth
century. This member of the family was
extensively interested in navigation, was
prominent in the church and became the
founder of a large American posterity. He
was one of the selectmen of Cambridge and
by appointment of the Colonial government
he and Deacon John Cooper directed the
erection of Harvard hall, and collected and
disbursed the moneys that were raised for
its construction.
A James Manning, who was born at
Elizabeth, N. J., in 1738, graduated
from Princeton with the second honors of
his class, became a Baptist minister and
figured prominently as a preacher and edu-
cator in the colony of Rhode Island during
the Revolutionary period. He represented
Rhode Island in the Congress of the Con-
federation after the Revolution and it was
largely through his influence that Rhode
Island eventually came into the Union.
Randolph Manning, who was born in
Plainfield, N. J., became a lawyer in New
York City. He afterward settled in Pon-
tiac, Mich., and was a delegate to the first
Constitutional Convention of that State;
also served as State senator, as secretary of
State, as chancellor of the State and as
associate justice of the Supreme court of
the State. He was a descendant of Jeffrey
Manning, who settled in New Jersey as
early as 1676.
Richard Irving Manning, who was born
in Clarendon, S. C, in 1789, served as a
captain in the war of 1812, as a member of
the Legislature, and afterward became gov-
ernor of South Carolina. While governor
he entertained at his house Gen. LaFayette
on the occasion of his second visit to this
country. He afterward was elected Con-
gressman and while holding that position
died in Philadelphia in 1836. His wife tore
the unusual distinction of being the wife of
a governor, the sister of a governor, the niece
of a governor, the mother of a governor, and
the aunt and foster mother of a governor.
Their oldest son married a daughter of Gen.
Wade Hampton, served several years in the
Assembly and Senate of South Carolina, and
was elected governor in 1852. He was 3
delegate to the convention that nominated
Buchanan for the Presidency and a member
of the committee that notified him of his
nomination. Mr. Buchanan tendered him
the mission to St. Petersburg, which he
declined. In the Civil war he served on
Gen. Beauregard's staff. In 1865 he was
chosen United States senator, but was not
permitted to take his seat. Lawrence Man-
ning, the father of Richard Irving Man-
ning, served in the Revolution under "Light
Horse Harry" Lee, who mentions him in his
"Memoirs."
Thomas Courtland Manning, born in
North Carolina, in 1831, became a lawyer
and removed to Louisiana, where he had
a distinguished and honorable career. In
the Civil war he rose to the rank of lieu-
tenant-colonel in the Confederate service,
and later was appointed adjutant-general of
the State with the rank of brigadier-general.
In 1864 he was appointed an associate
justice of the Supreme court of the State
and served till the close of the war. In
1876 he was vice president of the National
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convention that nominated Samuel J. Til-
den; in 1877 he was appointed chief justice
of the Supreme court, serving until in 1880.
In 1882 he was a third time placed on the
Supreme Bench and served until in 1886,
when President Cleveland appointed him
United States minister to Mexico, which
post he held until his death, in 1887.
A Jacob Alerrill Manning, born at
Greenwood, N. Y.. in 1824, graduated at
Amherst, became a distinguished clerg)-man
in the Congregational church, and for a
long time was pastor of Old South Church
in Boston. He was chaplain to the Massa-
chusetts State Senate, chaplain to the 43d
Massachusetts Regiment in 1862-63, for six-
years an overseer of Harvard, for seventeen
years a trustee of the State library and for
six years a lecturer at Andover Theological
Seminary. He died in Portland, Maine,
in 1882.
Daniel Manning, born at Albany, N. Y.,
was educated in the public schools until in
his twelfth year, when he entered the office
of an Albany newspaper and rose step by
step until he reached the position of presi-
dent of the company that owned it. He also
became director of several banks; president
of the National Commercial Bank of Al-
bany, and interested in a railroad. Becom-
ing a leader in Democratic politics he rose
to great prominence and influence and in
1885 was appointed secretary of the treas-
ury by President Cleveland.
It is not the purpose of this article to
show the relationship of these different
branches of this distinguished family; but
as it may l)e within the range of possibility
to do so reference is made to them with the
view of lending assistance to the genealo-
gist of the future. Besides, it may also add
interest to what the writer hereof has to
relate about the Pennsyh-ania family that
is the special subject of this sketch.
The American progenitor of the Penn-
sylvania Mannings settled in Lancaster
county some time prior to the war of the
Revolution. He married a lady of German
ancestry and both lived in that part of the
State to the end of their days. Among his
children was a son George who was born in
Manor township, Lancaster county, some-
time between the years 1788 and 1790.
He married Mary Kendig, a member of a
representative Lancaster county family, and
subsequently moved to the vicinity of Mid-
dletown, Dauphin county. George and
Mary (Kendig) ^Manning had the follow-
ing children : John. Christian, Martin and
Elizabeth. John, the oldest of these four
children, was born in 1813. in Dauphin
county. In 1832 he married Lydia Gulp,
of Lancaster county, whose mother was a
Boughter, and the member of a family who
rendered valiant service in the war of the
Revolution. Soon after his marriage he
began farming and farmed upon his father's
farm near Middletown until in 1837, when
he moved to Silver Spring township, Cum-
berland county, and followed farming there.
In his latter years he engaged at milling
with his son. He died on July 16, 1892;
his wife, Lydia (Gulp) Manning, died June
26, 1864, in the fifty-second year of her
age, and the remains of both are buried in
the graveyard of the Silver Spring Church.
John and Lydia (Culp) Manning had seven
children, viz.: Henry, born Oct. 29, 1834;
Samuel, March 25, 1837 (died Jan. 20,
1841) ; Abraham, in 1839 (married Emma
Leeds, of Carlisle) ; John, in 1842 (married
Emma Sanderson, of Newville) ; Sarah, in
1846 (married William Hauck, of Silver
Spring township; died in January, 1904) ;
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Lillie, in 1852 (married Levi Baer, of Silver
Spring township), and J. Anderson, wlio
married Lucy Clapper. With a single ex-
ception all of their children were lx)rn in
Silver Spring township, Cuml)crland county.
Henry, the oldest child, was born near Mid-
dletown, Dauphin county, and nearly all
his life was popularly known as Harry
Manning. His childhood and youth were
spent with his parents upon the farm, do-
ing such work as usually falls to the lot of
farmer lx)ys and attending the country dis-
trict school. When sixteen years of age
he went to the milling trade, at which he
served a two j-ears' apprenticeship. He then
went to Ohio and there worked at milling
a year. Returning to Cumlierland county,
he worked a year in the mill of Thomas B.
Bryson of Hampden township, and then
began business on his own account at the
Silver Spring Mill, located on the turn-
pike a short distance east of Hogestovvn.
He then was not yet twenty-ojie years old,
but he applied himself so diligently and tried
so hard to please that he from the very start
made good progress. In 1862 he formed a
partnership with J. H. Singiseo, of Me-
chanicsburg, and bought the mill at the head
of the Big Spring and jointly carried on a
milling business there until in 1867, when
Mr. ]\Ianning sold his interest to his partner
and purchased the warehouse property at
Oakdale. Here he engaged extensively in
the grain and forwarding business, also
handled coal and lumber, and achieved a
wide reputation as an honorable and suc-
cessful dealer. In 1891 he sold out at
Oakville and a year afterward, with his
son, entered upon the same line of business
at Newville, where he continued until his
death.
Mr. Manning was essentially a busi-
ness man, delighted in business, directed all
his attention and energies upon his business
enterprises and in every sense of the word
was a successful business man. He was a
Democrat both by inheritance and convic-
tion, but up until in his latter years figured
in politics only to serve his party and his
friends. In the summer of 1896, after much
pressure, he consented to stand as a candi-
date for the Legislature. He was nomin-
ated and elected and his official course was
so satisfactory that two years afterward
he was renominated and re-elected by a
large vote. With the experience of his
former term he returned to his post more
zealous than ever to render to his con-
stituency acceptable service, but just as the
avenue was widening before him, beckon-
ing him onward to greater usefulness and
higher honors, an unseen hand stretched
forth and removed him from earthly scenes
fore\-er. He died at his home in Newville
on Jan. 27, 1899, of pneumonia, after an
illness of less than a week. His remains
were interred on Jan. 30th in the cemetery
of the Big Spring Presbyterian Church, the
church with which he and his family affil-
iated. Among the large concourse present
to pay their last respects were special com-
mittees from the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives at Harrisburg. besides many
other members of both branches of the
Legislature. The House subsequently held
special memorial services, at which ad-
dresses were made and resolutions passed
expressive of the high esteem held regard-
ing the deceased. The Democratic Stand-
ing Committee of Cumberland county, at
the first meeting it held after his death, also
gave formal expression of the deceased's
public services and high personal character.
In person Mr. Manning was tall and
spare, and in manner modest and reserved.
He was not a product of the schools, but
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liis l(ing Inisiness experience and free inter-
course with all classes of people gave him a
training which served him well in whatever
si)here he was called upon to act. He was
not a man of many words, l)ut when he
spoke he expressed himself with a dignity
and deliberation that gave his words peculiar
weight and secured respectful attention.
On Feb. iS, 1862, ]\Ir. Manning was
married to Margaret Beistline. at the hands
of Rev. William H. Dinsmore. pastor of
the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church.
Margaret Beistline was a daughter of
George and Sarah (Wynkoop) Beistline
and a member of an old representative Sil-
ver Spring family. To their union two chil-
dren were born, both sons : George, born
Nov. 20. 1862, who died Oct. 20, 1865 ; and
Edgar S., who survives and with his mother
comprises all that remains of the family of
the late Hon. Harry Manning.
HON. EDGAR STUART MAN-
NING, son of Harry and Margaret (Beist-
line) Manning, was born at Oakville, Cum-
berland county, on Oct. 8, 1865. He grew
to manhood in his native village and was
educated in its public schools and in the
Cumberland Valley State Normal School at
Shippenslnu-g. Besides these scholastic ad-
vantages he at the same time received a busi-
ness training of a most practical kind. As
soon as it was safe for him to go outside the
front yard gate he was given the range of
his father's office and warehouse, where he
whiled away the leisure hours of his early
years as in a iilayhouse, drinking in a
knowdedge of his father's business in the
way of entertainment and recreation. By
the same natural and easy gradation came
the practice, and by the time he reached the
years of young manhood he, by taste, habit,
education and inheritance, was a grain and
forwarding merchant, and in every sense
qualified Jo share the cares and responsibil-
ities of his father. He was given an interest
in the business, the firm becoming H. ]Man-
ning & Son. Manning & Son remained at
Oakville until 1891, when they sold out with
a view of finding a field in wdiich they could
operate upon a more extensive scale. In
1S92 they located at Newville, where they
purchased property and erected a large
warehouse and elevator and the business
has continued in successful operation ever
since. Although the senior member of the
firm died in 1900 the firm name is still H.
Manning & Son, and has earned a perma-
nent and honorable place in the business his-
tory of the Cumberland Valley.
In politics as in case of business the son
followed in the footsteps of the father. He
early espoused the cause of Democracy,
promptly took rank with its most zealous
young workers and when his father died
was nominated for the vacancy in the lower
house of the State Legislature caused by
his death. Owing to the peculiar condition
of State politics at the time extraordinary
efforts were made to elect a Republican, yet
Mr. Manning won by the phenomenal ma-
jority of 1998 votes, the largest any candi-
date of either party received in the county
in many years. His public services began
immediately and under exacting circum-
stances. During his first term he served
upon the committees on Elections, Corpora-
tions. Law and Order and Judiciary Local,
and was one of the most conspicuous young
members of the House, notwithstanding
the fact that it was his first term in the
body. The following year he was re-nomin-
ated and re-elected and in his second term
served upon the following committees : Cor-
porations, Education. Iron and Coal, Rail-
roads and Judiciary Local. He was a mem-
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ber of the Pennsylvania Commission of the
Louisiana Piircliase Exposition at St.
L<niis : he also acted as a substitute for Com-
missioner George R. Dixon, at the Charles-
ton Exposition in 1901. He frequently
takes extensive excursions during summer
and has visitetl Colorado, California, Ore-
gon, the Puget Sound country, Canada and
other scenic sections. Fraternally he be-
longs to the Masonic order, being a member
of Cumberland Star Lodge, No. 197, F.
& A. M., St. John's Chapter, No. 171, R.
A. M., and St. John's Commandery, No. 8,
K. T., of which he is a Past Commander,
serving in the year 1902; Harrisburg Con-
sistory, A. A. S. R., and Zembo Temple,
Mystic Shrine. Harrisburg, Pa. ; he has at-
tained to the thirty-second degree. He is
also a member of Lodge No. 163, L O. O.
F., of Newville, Pa.; Camp No. 413, P.
O. S. of A., and Big Spring Council, No.
1910, Royal Arcanum, and is District
Deputy Grand Regent of the 32d district.
Royal Arcanum, of Pennsylvania.
JOHN BEETEM (deceased), a well-
known resident of Centerville. Cumberland
county, whose family still reside at that place,
was born May 12, 1820, at Huntsdale, this
county and was a son of Capt. Abram and
Elizabeth (Smith) Beetem. Of their chil-
dren we have record of Joseph, deceased,
formerly of Carlisle ; Abram, of Carlisle ;
Samuel, of North Middleton ; Miss Mary, of
Carlisle, and Mrs. Daniel Sellers, of North
^liddleton.
John Beetem received only a common
school education, and as he was but nine
years of age when his father died he felt
the responsibilities of life at an early age.
When fifteen he entered upon an apprentice-
ship to the carpenter's trade, which he fol-
lowed for a number of years, becoming quite
noted as a builder and contractor throughout
Cumberland county and all this section.
During that period he erected many of the
finest barns in the county. For a time he
was engaged in the grain business at Carlisle,
and during the Civil war he did quite a lucra-
tive business furnishing hay to the Govern-
ment by contract. In his later years he fol-
lowed the occupation of farming, settling on
the farm at Centerville, where his widow and
several of his children now make their home,
and there he died April 2, 1898. The place
comprises 148 acres of valuable land, and
the dwelling is admirably situated, com-
manding a beautiful view of South Moun-
tain. The Philadelphia & Reading railroad
skirts the farm.
Mr. Beetem was twice married, his first
union being with Elizabeth Ann Crebs, by
whom he had the following named children :
Catherine, now the wife of Charles L. Hal-
bert, of Carlisle ; Abram Luther, of Car-
lisle; William Elder, formerly of Philadel-
phia, deceased ; and Laura, widow of Harry
Evans, living in Carlisle. The mother of
this family passed away Oct. 4, 1867, and
on April 6, 1879, Mr. Beetem was united in
marriage w'ith Miss Eliza Ann Fickel,
daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Hurd)
Fickel, who lived at York Springs, Adams
county, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Fickel are
now deceased. Both were devout Chris-
tians, holding to the doctrines of the Ger-
man Reformed Church. Besides Mrs.
Beetem they had the following named chil-
dren : James Oliver, who is a resident of
Adams county ; Silas Gilbert, of Adams
county; Daniel Webster, of Adams county;
John Conrad, who lives in Texas; Martha
Jane, deceased, wife of Samuel Baker;
Emma Catherine, wife of Charles Webb ; Ed-
win Francis, living in Adams county ; and
George Calvin, of York county. To John
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and Elizabeth Ann (Mckel) Beetem were
born children as follows : Sarah May, who
is a trained nurse in Philadelphia ; and Sam-
uel, Charles Keller, Emma Jane, George
Franklin and Harry Smith, all at home.
Mrs. Beetem continues to worship in the
Lutheran Cliurch at Centerville, of which her
husband was long a prominent member, and
it was he who gave the land upon which the
present edifice of that congregation stands,
same being a portion of the Beetem farm.
He was well and favorably known all over
this and adjoining counties, and was noted
everywhere for honor and integrity in all
his dealings. He was unselfish and kind-
hearted, always ready to help his fellow men,
and was sincerely mourned in many places
outside of his home circle. He was laid to
rest in Centerville cemetery.
JOHN SCOTT STERRETT, who
passed away Feb. lo, 1868, is still remem-
bered among the older business men of Car-
lisle and Cumberland county. Fie was born
June 4, 1803, in Lancaster county, and there
grew to manhood. His first business venture
was merchandising in Mt. Joy. that county,
and he was a man of thirty-five when he
came to Cumberland county, wdiere he re-
sided on the farm in Dickinson township
now occupied by his children. This place
came into the possession of its present own-
ers (heirs and children of John Scott Ster-
rett) through the mother, to whom it had
been presented by her father, Capt. Samuel
Woods, who was known as "the poor man's
friend." Capt. Woods earned his title
through service in the war of 1812. He
was a prosperous, generous and kind-hearted
man, and his death was sincerely mourned
by scores of people, the friends wdio admired
him and the numerous recipients of his be-
nevolence. He married Lillias Ker.
John S. Sterrett married Mary Jane
Woods, daughter of Capt. Samuel and Lil-
lias CKer) \Voods, and to this union were
born the following named children : Lillias,
who is living at the old home; Martha E.,
wife of A. booster ^Mullen, of Mt. Holly
Springs, this county; Samuel Woods, of
Rochester, N. Y., a lumber merchant; Mary
E., at the old home; William Ker, who died
in childhood; J. Thomas, deceased; J. Cal-
vin, living retired at the old home; and Alice
Irene, who died in childhood. The mother,
who was a devout Christian woman, passed
away Dec. 26, 1880. Mr. Sterrett was an
earnest member of the First Presbyterian
Church of Carlisle and a Christian who
lived up to the principles he professed. He
was well A-ersed in the Scriptures and made
a practice of holding family worship in his
home.
Mr. Sterrett was well known in financial
circles in Carlisle as a bank officer and organ-
izer, and his ability and integrity in such
matters were never questioned.
ALBERT ALLEN LINE, a successful
photographer at No. 18 West Main street,
Carlisle, was born Jan. 20, 1850, in Dickin-
son township, a son of Emanuel Line, Jr.,
and Catherine Ann (Myers) Line, the lat-
ter a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Hile-
man) Myers.
Peter Myers came from Germany and
settled in Rossville, York Co., Pa., and there
spent the remainder of his life, engaged at
cabinetmaking ; he lived to an advanced age.
He was a good citizen, a Christian man,
and died full of years and the honor of a
well-spent life. He was a consistent mem-
ber of the Lutheran Church.
Emanuel Line, Jr., was the son of
Emanuel Line, Sr., who was born Dec. 5,
1 78 1. He was regarded as a most worthy
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citizen, a kind and affectionate parent, an
obliging and prudent neighbor, and, in his
dealings with men, just and fair. He be-
came a member of the church in early life,
and ever remained a consistent and faithful
Christian. He died in his seventieth year.
Elizabeth Myers, born Jan. 12, 1786, was
married to Emanuel Line March 20, 1806,
and this union was blessed with three sons,
Abraham M., William and Emanuel, Jr.,
and two daughters, Maria and Jnliann.
Emanuel Line, Jr., was born in Dickin-
son township, on what is known as the
Savannah farm, April 15, 1S18, and spent
his life there until the spring of 1868, when
he came to Carlisle; he died in this town
Oct. 20, 1 87 1. During his active j-ears he
was a farmer. He obtained his education
in the local schools. This most excellent
man lived a good, honest life and set an ex-
ample to his son and those who came after
him. In politics he was a Democrat and re-
vered the memory of Andrew -Jackson. In
1845 he married Catherine Ann Myers, who
was born in Rossville. York county, Pa.,
April 15, 1820, and died Aug. 13, 1869.
She was a member of the First Lutheran
Church of Carlisle. Three children were
born of this union, namely : Elizabeth, who
died young; Catherine, who died young;
and Albert Allen, our subject. Mrs. Line
was one of the good Samaritans in her com-
munity, always willing to assist in alleviat-
ing the sufferings of humanity, spending
much of her time in the sickroom of her
neighbors, with that helpfulness that
brought many safely through the most criti-
cal periods of sickness. Her Christian
benevolence entered into many lives, which
were always gladdened by coming to the
door of her home.
Albert Allen Line was educated in the
district schools and Dickinson Commercial
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College, at Carlisle, and prepared for Dick-
inson College, but on account of poof
health he gave up this project. However,
he is a graduate of the Chautauqua Literary
and Scientific Circle, Vincent class, 1883.
In 1869 he took up the study and practice
of photography with Dr. C. L. Lochman,
who was one of the leading photographers
of that day, and has made it his life work,
although he also superintends his farming
and fruit growing on the old homestead. In
his photographic work he includes a num-
ber of its many branches, but takes greatest
delight in outdoor pliotography, seeking the
beauties of nature, and loving to catch her
choicest vistas and enchanting scenes in
the midst of her solitude. In 1884, i" com-
pany with Prof. Charles F. Himes, Ph. D..
he assisted in establishing a Summer School
of Amateur Photography at Mountain Lake
Park, Md., and after two years he was
called to assume sole charge, and has con-
tinued it ever since. Mr. Line has been
connected with the Y. M. C. A. at Carlisle
since 1868 and has served faithfully as sec-
retary and president for a portion of the
time, and he is also on the board of man-
agers. In church work he is connected with
the First Lutheran Church, and has been
since i86q, and he has served for many
years in the council of that body, acting as
president for a number of years, as well as
superintendent of the Sunday-school: he
was assistant superintendent for years, and
superintendent for a period of twenty-one
years. Mr. Line was one of the organizers
of the Cumberland Valley Sabbath School
Assembly, serving as secretary of the organ-
ization for fifteen years. In 1885, when
Hon. W. F. Sadler was elected President
Judge of Cumberland county, Mr. Line was
called to fill the unexpired term of Judge
Sadler on the school board of Carlisle and
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■was afterward elected, and re-elected, serv-
ing for a period of thirteen years; for a
great part of the time he acted as financial
secretary to the board. In 1878 Mr. Line
was chosen as a member of the board of
directors in the Farmers Bank of Carlisle,
and served in that capacity for more than
twenty-one years, when he resigned. He
was also one of the organizers of the Cum-
berland County Temperance Alliance and
served as secretary to this organization for a
number of years.
On Oct. 12, 1876, Mr. Line was united
in marriage with i\Iiss ALary L. Johnson, a
daughter of Samuel A. Johnson, of Phila-
delphia, Pa. iNIrs. Line was a consecrated
Christian lady, always ready to assist in
missions of mercy, caring for the needy,
and living for the Christian welfare of hu-
manity, and her beautiful Christian spirit
drew many to her assistance in the work
for the Master's kingdom. At the age of
twenty-three years, on Christmas Day, 1877,
she passed away, deeply mourned by her
family and large circle of friends.
Mr. Line is one of the progressive, pub-
lic-spirited business men of Carlisle, whose
time is not so occupied, however, that he
cannot assist in good works, or show forth
in his life the faith he supports so stren-
uously and liberally.
ABRAHAM L. ROHLAND. For over
twenty-two years Silver Spring township has
had a farmer dwelling in its midst, a man
highly respected by a wide circle of friends,
and a man who for a decade after a happy
marriage, followed his trade of a carpenter
before settling down to the life of a farmer.
A life-long Republican, he has helped to
elect many of the candidates of its party, but
has never accepted offite himself. The farm
owned and operated by the gentleman of
whom we write. Al)raham L. Rohland, con-
sists of 150 acres of land, ninety of which has
been brought to a hig'h state of cultivation,
and the remaining acres are in valuable
timber. The buildings upon it are new, and
the entire place is in the excellent condition
which bespeaks good management.
Abraham L. Rohland was born in Lon-
donderry, Lebanon Co., Pa., Xov. 22, 1843.
His paternal grandfather, Jacob Rohland,
was born and reared in Lebanon county, and
there followed farming. His maternal grand-
father was Joseph ^\'alters who was also a
farmer of Lebanon county. Jacob Rohland
married Catherine Boltz, daughter of J. C.
Boltz of Lebanon county. Six children were
born of this marriage: Henry; Abraham
married Mary Jane Miller, of Dauphin
county, and had no children; Jacob married
a !Miss Linsley, had three sons and four
daughters : ]\Iary married William Bealey,
of Dauphin county, and had one child, Cur-
tis ; Miss Jane ; Kate married Paul Linnell,
of Dauphin county, and had no children.
Henry Rohland. father of our subject,
was born in Lebanon county and was there
educated in the common schools, and at the
same time learned the trade of carpenter and
cabinetmaker. He followed these callings
for about twenty years, and then began
farming. In 1838, he married Lydia Wal-
ters, daughter of Joseph and Polly Walters,
of Lebanon county, and the following chil-
dren were born of this marriage : John, now
residing at Harrisburg, married Caroline
Shuey, of Lebanon county, and has one child,
Edward, unmarried and living at home ; Ab-
raham L. ; Alelinda married Henry Beaver,
of Dauphin county, and has one child,
Emma; Alfred, unmarried, is a resident of
Lebanon county.
Abraham L. Rohland received his edu-
cation in the common schools of his native
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county, which he attended until he was
tweh'e years of age, when he moved to
Daupliin county, and there went to scliool
until he was seventeen, at which time he
learned to be a carpenter and painter with his
father, and continued along these lines for
twenty years.
On March 13, 1873, ]\Ir. Rohland was
married to Miss Barbara Stouffer, daughter
of Jacob and Barbara (Ebersole) Stouffer,
of Dauphin county. Children as follows were
born to them: Clarence died in childhood;
Anna married David Shearer, of Mechanics-
burg, and has two children ; Walter died in
infancy; Miss Grace is at home; Walter is a
saddler located at Bridgeport, Conn., and is
unmarried; Ida married Edward Richmond,
of Perry county, and has two children, Anna
and Daisy, both at home ; Alice married Jo-
seph Entzmere, of Perry county; Elmer is
unmarried and at home ; John died in child-
hood; and Misses Agnes and Mary are at
home. The family are all members of the
Lutheran Church.
JOSEPH McCORD MEANS, known
as "McCord Means," the tenth child of a
family of thirteen born to Joseph McCord
Means, known as "Squire Means," and Jane
Woods, his wife, was born at Newburg,
Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, May 22,
1834, being the third child of this name in
this family. The first of this name was
drowned in his third year and the second
lived but three months. John, his eldest
brother, died in early manhood unmarried.
Three brothers died in infancy. The nine
remaining children, five boys and four girls,
lived to maturity, married and raised fami-
lies, and remained within the limits of Cum-
berland and Franklin counties, Pennsyl-
vania.
The tradition that has passed from one
generation to the next among the descend-
ants of John Means, who is said to have set-
tled in Bucks county. Pa., about the year
1720, that three Means brothers came to
this country from Ireland together and set-
tled in what was then one of the three coun-
ties that William Penn organized in 1682,
seems to be confirmed by the records of
Bucks and Dauphin counties. Pa. It is
probable that they were of the second colony
of Scotch-Irish that landed at Boston in the
year 17 18 — the first, known as the London-
derry colony of 319 families, which sailed in
five vessels from Londonderry, Ireland, in
March of that year ; the second colony
landed at Boston Oct. 14, 1 718. It is known
that some of these colonists settled in Penn-
sylvania after having wintered at Boston
and it seems probable that the Means broth-
ers were among the latter colony. George
Means, of Clarion county. Pa., wrote in ,
1853 that John Means and family of chil-
dren came from County Fermanagh, Ireland,
It is now known that John Means died near
Makefield, Bucks Co., Pa., in 1739, and
Hugh Means died near Bensalem, in same
county, in 1745, and Samuel Means died in
Dauphin Co., Pa., in 1746. Robert Means,
who also came over in 171 8 and wintered at
Falmouth, now Portland, Maine, and died
at Old Orchard, Maine, Dec. 29, 1769, in
his eightieth year, may have been another
brother, but the relationship cannot now be
ascertained.
The will of Samuel Means was probated
in Harrisburg, Pa., March 9, 1746. It men-
tions his wife Grizzle, who is made one of
the executors, his daughters Nellie, Marga-
ret, Jane and Isabella, and his sons Andrew,
Samuel, Adam and John. There is a tradi-
tion in this family that two girls, Martha
and Mary Means, were captured by the In-
dians. The men of the family were all away
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at the time; the home was burned and an
infant child of one of the sisters was dashed
to pieces before their eyes. The mother
could not travel fast enough and she was
cruelly put to death. The sisters were com-
pelled to marry Indians who entertained
themselves and their friends by hearing the
sisters sing. They often sang the 137th
Psalm, which is very applicable to their case.
One task imposed upon them was the gath-
ering of wood, which enabled them to leave
camp for some time. They finally conceived
the idea of escaping by means of this absence.
They built a rude shelter of branches, and
every time they went out carried something
along, staying away a little longer than
usual and making some excuse on their re-
turn until at last they escaped and in time
came back to their own people. These
names are not mentioned in Samuers will.
Samuel Means died Feb. 26, 1746, and his
wife Grizzle in November of the same year.
John Means, the youngest child of this
couple, and the grandfather of the subject
of this sketch, was born in 1745. He mar-
ried Martha Ramsav, one of the first mem-
bers of Donegal Church, lived in Dauphin
county, Pa., and died Oct. 3, 1795, and is
buried in the church-yard at Paxton, near
Harrisburg, and his grave is marked with a
tombstone. In 1798 his widow moved to a
farm near Library, Allegheny county. Pa.,
and died Sept. 13, 1849, aged nearly ninety-
eight years.
The will of John Means is on record in
Dauphin county, Pa. He was one of the
subscribers to the first church built at Pax-
ton (Peixtan, Peshtank) or Paxtang). He
was known as "John Means of Swatara."
He was a private in Capt. Joseph Sherer's
Company, of Col. James Burd's Battalion
of the organized "Associators" of Lancaster
county, Pa., which company was in active
service during the whole of the spring and
summer campaign of 1776, and a number of
the men were wounded in a skirmish with a
party of British cavalry near Ambov, N. J.
[Pa. Archives, 2d Series, Vol. XIII, 309-
10.] He was a private in the company of
Capt. John Murray of Paxtang township, of
the Second Battalion — Lieutenant Col. Dan-
iel Broadhead's — of the Pennsylvania Rifle
Regiment, which took part in the battle of
Long Island, Aug. 27, 1776. [Pa. Archives,
2d Series, Vol. X, 193-219.] He was at
home in 1778 and took and signed the oath
of allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania,
prescribed by the Act of Assembly of June
^3i ^777- [P'"^- Archives, 2d Series, Vol.
XIII, 395-6.] Subsequently he was a mem-
ber of Capt. Samuel Cochran's Company of
the Tenth — Col. Robert Elder's — Battalion
of Lancaster county. Pa. Militia. [Pa. Ar-
chives, 2(1 Series, Vol. XIII, 387-9.] In
1 78 1 he enlisted in Capt. Campbell's Com-
pany of the Pennsylvania Line, and formed
part of Col. Thijmas Craig's detachment,
which marched for Yorktown, Va., in the
fall of 1 78 1, and thence to Georgia and
North Carolina, taking part in Gen. Greene's
southern campaign of 1782, and returning
by sea to Pennsylvania in 1783. [Pa. Ar-
chives, 2d Series, Vol. X, 382-390.]
Joseph McCord Means, the youngest
child of "John Means of Swatara," and the
father of the subject of this sketch, was born
Feb. 10, 1796. His history is related in the
sketch in this publication entitled James
Ramsey Means. Such were the antecedents
of the Means family of Cumberland county.
Pa. — men and women of Scotch-Irish lin-
eage and Presbyterian faith.
Tlie early education of McCord IMeans
was such as could be obtained in the Dublic
school of his native village. Born in the
year the "Common School" Act was passed.
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it is not strange that at his arrival at school
age such an institution should be found in a
Scotch-Irish Presbyterian community. The
building — octagonal in shape — is still stand-
ing in Newburg. Originally the pupils sat
facing the outer wall, but later this was.
changed and the pupils sat facing inward
with a writing desk in front — the smaller
children being seated on low benches within.
Here, when not
engaged
in grinding
took
his
The
bark in his father's tanyard, Mr. Means
gained some knowledge and the rudiments
of an education. The school generation of
to-day can form little correct idea of the
conditions surrounding village life even
so limited a ' number of years ago.
The shoemaker came to the home,
his measures, and made the shoes,
liench being placed in the kitchen,
clothing was made from what
they called "thick cloth." The wool, after
being carded at the mill into rolls, was spun
into yarn and woven into cloth by his mother
and sisters. Four miles away, at Middle
Spring, was the church. In good weather
he and his brothers walked to church. He
says, "It was not safe not to listen to the
sermon when there, as father always exam-
ined us on where the text was and how many
heads Rev. John Moodey divided his sermon
into and what he said on firstly, secondly,
etc., until he got through." The father's
training, the pastor's teaching and the pious
mother's example, with the blessing of the
Spirit, led Mr. Means to unite with this
church at an early age and he has remained
a member of this denomination to this day.
That with these early settlers, the fact that
their religion, although perhaps stern and in
keeping with the difficulties of their sur-
roundings, was to them real and worthy of
the Divine source they recognized, is too
well attested to need weak words here. One
of the writer's earliest recollections is of
standing in the family pew in this same Mid-
dle Spring Church and hearing this sainted
grandmother raise her thin and quavering
voice in praise to one she knew would hear,
receive and answer. In 1856 he moved with
his brother James to South Middleton town-
ship, and worked on a farm, remaining until
1861, when he moved to his father's farm
near Shippensburg. In 1863 he built the
new buildings on land purchased in Frank-
lin county, just across the Middle Spring
from this property. It was customary when
possible, as in this case, to cut the timber
for these large bank-barns in the vicinity,
haul it to the spot and frame it on the
ground. This remained the homestead until
1 899, when he moved into Shippensburg, and
later built a house on the west side of Nor-
mal avenue. From 1856 to 1899 Mr. Means
carried on practically the work of farming.
In the earlier portion of this period but little
improved farm machinery was in use. Nor
would it have been possible to use much of
it in the then broken condition of the ground.
By untiring effort] the land was brought
under cultivation and the rocks, stumps and
stones removed, making it possible to intro-
duce much new farm machinery as brought
into general use.
On Dec. 9, 1858, Joseph McCord Means
and Catherine Eliza McClelland were united
in marriage at the McClelland homestead,
near Upper Strasburgh, Franklin county.
Pa., this being the second union between
members of the Means and McClelland
families. To them were born the following
five sons and two daughters : John McClel-
land, Joseph Chalmers, Jane Agnes, Thomas
Cummins, Charles McCord, James Smith
and Martha Isabella, all of whom ^re living
except Thomas Cummins, who died in in-
fancy. For almost forty-three years.
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through the joys and trials incident to the
times and circumstances, this couple lived
and labored together. On Sept. 3, 1901,
the union was sundered by death and the
earnest, unselfish, truly Christian wife and
mother passed to her reward and was laid to
rest in Spring Hill cemetery at Shippens-
burg.
Beyond that which attends the quiet
efforts of the upright citizen Mr. Means's
best work lias been in behalf of education.
For a number of years he was school direc-
tor in Southampton township, Franklin
Co., Pa., ani.l during his incumltency by his
interest and example, both with his fellow
directors and with the patrons, did much to
raise the standard of work and attainment
in this section. In May, 1873, he was ap-
pointed a State trustee of Cumberland Val-
ley State Normal School and served on
the Committee of House, Buildings and
Grounds, and from 1874 to 1895 on the
Discipline and Instruction Committee. Fol-
lowing a most successful and auspicious
early career there came to this institution a
period requiring effort and wise determina-
tion of a high order to pilot it through finan-
cial and other shoals. Mr. Means gave with-
out any financial return his time and best
efforts to the upbuilding upon a stable finan-
cial, and a practical educational, basis of this
institution. When, as here, strong-minded
men are pitted against each other, differ-
ences of opinion must exist. The unbiased
historian summing up this period will with-
out question give Mr. Means credit for hon-
esty of intention, firmness of conviction and
strength of character to stand for his opin-
ions. The subsequent success of the institu-
tion seems to speak for the correctness of
the views for which he and those with him
stood. Since 1895 Mr. Means has been the
institution's treasurer. But it was not only
in this public capacity that he exhibited his
strong desire to impress the need of an edu-
cation. At no little sacrifice of time and
money each child was sent to school and
kept in school. Feeling the lack of this early
training himself, recognizing its value and
availability, he left no suitable oppurtunitv
pass to impress these needs upon his chil-
dren, and to give them every opportunity
within his power. As elsewhere stated Mr.
Means has been a lifelong member of the
Presbyterian Church, first at ]\Iiddle Spring
and later at Shippensburg. In both churches
he served at different periods as trustee.
On March 5, .1903, Mr. Means took to
wife in a second marriage umon Miss Danna
McCullough, of near Newville. She is the
daughter of James McCullough and his wife
Jane Hays, and was born Oct. 15. 1846.
Such, briefly, is the life of Joseph Mc-
Cord Means. For over the allotted three
score years and ten he has lived virtually in
this one community ; a stern man of strong
convictions and high ideals ; a man not easily
known nor always understood ; a faithful
and loving husband and father ; a Christian
citizen.
JOSEPH F. BARTON, A. M., Sc. D..
Vice-Principal and Professor of Natural
Sciences of the Cumberland Valley State
Normal School, at Shippensburg, is one of
the leading educators of the State. He was
born Oct. 11, 1851, at Derry Station, West-
moreland county. Pa., the eldest of the ten
children of Baltzer E. and Nancy (Chilcote)
Barton. The other children were : Dr.
George C, who is Dean of the Medical De-
partment of Hamline University and Pro-
fessor of Gynecology of the same institu-
tion, Gynecologist to the Minneapolis City
Hospital, to the St. Barnabas and Swedish
Hospitals; Elijah, a prominent attorney of
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Minneapolis, Minn. ; Humphrey, one of the
leading attorneys of St. Paul ; John C,
household decorator and furnisher at Seat-
tle, Wasli. ; \\\ P. Barton, Secretary Board of
Charities and Corrections and Superintend-
ent of the Poor, Minneapolis; Rebecca, wife
of William Bohn, of North Yakima, Wash. ;
Malinda, wife of W. B. Watt, of North
Yakima ; C. Albert, assistant manager
Northland Pine Co. and Mississippi and
Rum Riyer Boom Co., at Minneapolis;
and Adeline, who married W. B. Dudley, of
North Yakima, Wash. Baltzer E. Barton,
the father, died in August, 1895, but the
mother still survives.
While young Dr. Barton accompanied
his parents when they removed to Fulton
county, Pa., and there was educated in a
private school until he became a student at
Rainsburg, Bedford county. For two years
after leaving school he engaged in teaching
in both Fulton and Bedford counties, and
was principal of the Hopewell -public schools.
In 1 88 1 he had so gained the confidence of
the public that he was elected county super-
intendent of Fulton county for a term of
three years, and a merited re-election caused
him to fill that responsible position for six
consecutive years. At the expiration of this
time, in 1887, he was elected a professor in
the Cumberland Valley Normal School, in
his second year being given the chair of
Natural Science.
Dr. Barton was well equipped for such
honor, having graduated in 1874 from this
institution, later taking the degree of A. M.
at Mercersburg College, and the honorary
degree of Doctor of Science in 1894, at
Franklin & Marshall College, at Lancaster.
Pa. He has long been classed with the
State's scholarly men, and was one of a com-
mittee of three appointed to examine and
pass upon school work from Pennsylvania
sent to the World's Fair at Chicago, in
1893.
Dr. Barton has been identified with the
Democratic party, has served as chairman
of the Democratic County Committee of
Fulton county, and as a member of
the Democratic State Central Committee.
He fills many lecture engagements at the
various county institutes in the State, in
which work he is particularly happy and suc-
cessful. However, a part of his vacation is
always devoted to his relatives in Minneap-
olis, where he is a very much loved mem-
ber of the home circle. There he has mem-
bership with the First Presbyterian Church.
Fraternally, Dr. Barton is a Mason of high
degree, being affiliated with Lodge No. 315,
Shippensburg ; George Washington Chapter,
No. 176, R. A. M. ; Continental Command-
ery. No. 56, K. T. ; and is a member of
Zembo Temple, A'. A. O. N. M. S., of Har-
risburg. Pa. He also belongs to Cumberland
Valley Lodge, L O. O. F. it
GEORGE B. COLE, of Shippensburg,
was born Nov. 6, 1835, at Freemansburg,
Pa., a son of Jacob B. and Mary Ann (Mes-
senkop) Kohl. The Kohl family is of Ger-
man-Holland extraction and the grandpar-
ents of our subject were Jacob and Eliza-
beth (Buck) Kohl, of Nockaniixon, Bucks
Co., Pa. Jacob B. Kohl was a coachmaker
by trade. He died in Bucksville,Pa., July 18,
1838, in his thirty- fourth year, and is buried
in the grave yard attached to St. John's
Church, Haycock, Pa. The mother of our
subject was a daughter of George Messen-
kop, a prominent citizen of Lancaster, who
for a long time was city treasurer. She died
in 1888.
George B. Cole, while living in Baltimore,
in 1857, changed the spelling of his name
from Kohl to Cole, on account of mail com-
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plications. He was educated in the public
schools of Lancaster and then came to Ship-
pensburg, where he attended the academy.
In 1852 he entered the employ of Arnold &
Co., dry-goods merchants, as a clerk, later
pttrchasing an interest in the establishment,
and the name became D. W. Totten & Co.
Later he sold his interest to Dr. Alexander
Stewart, and, in i860, embarked in the ])oot,
shoe and hat business^ which he continued
for over thirty years, doing a most success-
ful business, having the leading establish-
ment in this line of trade.
In 1895 Mr. Cole, with Col. J. A. Knn-
kel, of New York, organized the Shippens-
burg Odorless Cold Storage Egg Case
Filler Alanufactnrnig Co., associating with
them prominent business men. Mr. Cole is
secretary, treasurer and general manager of
this company. The business is in a flourish-
ing condition, a large force being employed^
and they have a large trade in this and
foreign countries. Besides his interest in
this company, Mr. Cole is a stockholder
and one of the directors of the People's Na-
tional Bank of Shippensburg ; vice-president
of the Shippensburg Gas & Electric Co. : a
member of the board of trustees of the Cum-
berland Valley State Normal School; a di-
rector in the Baltimore & Cumberland Val-
ley Railroad Company, a branch of the
Wabash System ; a member and president of
the city council ; and was at one time a mem-
ber of the school board.
In 1856 Mr. Cole married Miss Eliza-
beth Trone, of Shippensburg, daughter of
George Trone. At her early death she left
one daughter, Anna, who married Dr. Clark
Cramer, of Newburg, Pa. Mr. Cole mar-
ried (second) Miss Mary E. Gish, also of
Shippensburg, daughter of John and Lydia
Gish, and six children were born to the
union, two of whom are deceased; Katie is
the wife of S. \V. Means, of St. Paul,
Minn. ; Lou M. is the wife of Jacob H.
Stoner, cashier of the People's Bank of
\Vayiiesbor,i, Pa. ; Edith is at home; George
is in the employ of the Bell Telephone Com-
pany.
Fraternally Mr. Cole is a member of
Cumberland Valley Masonic Lodge, No.
315; St. John's Chapter; and St. John's
Commandery, Knights Templar ; and is also
a member of the Scottish Rite branch in
Philadelphia. He is one of the leading cit-
izens of .Shippensburg and the owner of
property in the town and vicinity, and is
considered a man of progressive ideas and
much public spirit.
JOHN DEPPEN GREYBILL. Con-
spicuous among Carlisle's energetic and en-
terprising business men is the merchant
miller whose name introduces this sketch.
He was born at Abbeville, on the Little
Conestoga creek, one mile west from Lan-
caster city, on Sept. 27, 185 1.
According to tradition there came from
Switzerland at an early date six Greybill
brothers, who settled in different parts of
Lancaster county. All of them were Men-
nonites and brought with them the habits of
industry and frugality characteristic of that
sect. One of these six brothers, John Grey-
bill, settled in Heidelberg township, Lan-
caster (now Lebanon) county, where he
purchased 600 acres of land. Here, on April
25, 1748, was born John D. Greybill's great-
grandfather, Michael Greybill, who married
Anna Brubaker, born Jan. 29, 1 756. Michael
and Anna (Brubaker) Greybill had seven
daughters and one son. The son was born
on Dec. 18, 1789, in Heidelberg township,
and was named John. This John Grevbill,
on reaching manhood, married Susanna
Brubaker, who was born June 20, 1791.
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John and Susanna fBrubaker) GrcylMll
lived all their days in Heidelberg township,
and among their other children had a son
named Henry Brnbaker Greybill, who was
born Oct. 15, 1825, grew to manhood in
Heidelberg township, and learned the mill-
ing trade. He married Elizabeth Royer
Deppen, who was born Dec. 8, 1826, a
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Royer)
Deppen, of near Wernersville, Berks county.
Samuel Deppen's family was among the
early settlers of Berks county. Mary Royer's
parents were from the vicinity of Ephrata,
Lancaster county, and belonged to the Ger-
man Baptist Church. By occupation both
the Deppens and Royers were farmers.
About the year 1849 Henry B. Greybill
bought of Mrs. Livergood a gristmill located
on the Little Conestoga creek, one mile west
of Lancaster city. The mill stands where
the Columbia Turnpike crosses that stream,
and is an historical landmark, as it was built
in 1 71 7 by John Brubaker, the great-grand-
father of Susanna Brubaker, who married
John Greybill. Here he lived and engaged at
milling for three years, and then sold out and
bought a mill situated on the Conestoga, in
West Earl township. The West Earl mill
was another historical landmark, having
been built as early as 1767. On moving to
his West Earl purchase Mr. Greybill en-
gaged in various enterprises, including mill-
ing, farming and merchandising. He was
a business man in the fullest sense of the
term, centered all his energies upon his busi-
ness enterprises, and naturally was success-
ful and prosperous. He died in October,
1894, but his wife, at this writing, is still
living.
Henry B. and Elizabeth R. (Deppen)
Greybill had children as follows : Emma,
who died at three years of age ; John Dep-
pen, the subject of this sketch ; Samuel D.,
who is farming the homestead farm in West
Earl township, and Rufus D., who is a miller
and is operating the old mill which his father
purchased in West Earl in 1852.
John D. Greybill, the eldest son, was
educated in the common schools, and at the
Millersville State Normal School, where he
spent one term. He inherited business en-
terprise and early directed his attention into
business channels. In 1873 he rented his
father's mill and began milling on his own
account. He was making fair progress, but
was anxious to do better. Early in the year
1875, in the banking house of Blair & Shenk,
in Lancaster city, he saw an advertisement of
a large mill property for sale at Middlesex,
Cumberland county. He looked it over, be-
came interested and called his father's atten-
tion to it. After some consideration they
came to Middlesex and investigated, and on
April 6, 1875, bought the property. That
same spring John D. Greybill took charge
of the new mill, which he operated for seven
years. Like the two mills with which he
previously was associated the Middlesex mill
was a famous historical landmark. It was
built long before the war of the Revolution
by John Chambers, from whom it descended
to his sons, who conveyed it to Robert Cal-
lendar. Callendar was an Indian trader in
this section prior to the formation of Cum-
berland county, and rich and prominent.
Robert Callendar died in 1776 and in the
hands of his executors the property was sold
at sheriff's sale, being purchased by Ephraim
Blaine, who was the great-grandfather of the
late James G. Blaine. Ephraim Blaine de-
vised it to his grandson, Ephraim L. Blaine,
who in 1 818 sold it to Judge James Hamil-
ton, whose executors sold it to Charles B.
Penrose, grandfather of present United
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States Senator Boies Penrose, whose ex-
ecutrix sold it to Jacob Stouffer, whose as-
signs sold it to the Greybills.
In 1879 John D. Greybill visited the Mil-
lers' Expositirm lield in Cincinnati, and new
processes there exhibiterl convinced him that
a new epoch in milling had arrived and that
to succeed millers would have to adopt these
new inventions. He acted promptly. In
1882 he and the late Charles R. Woodward
formed a partnership, and in Carlisle built
the first roller mill that was erected in the
Cumberland Valley. It is of one hundred
and fifty barrel capacity and besides being
the first roller mill also enjoys the distinctiot.
of being the largest merchant mill in the val-
ley. The firm at first w^as composed of
Charles R. \\'oodward. John D. Greybill and
John G. Robb, all of Carlisle, and known by
the name of Woodward, Greybill & Co. In
about a year and a half after its formation
Major Robb withdrew, and the firm became
Woodward & Greybill, which was further
simplified in 1 890 by Mr. Woodward sell-
ing his entire interest in the property and the
business to Mr. Greybill. In 1892 Mr. Grey-
bill associated with him Mr. J. A. Davis,
who for some time had been milling at the
head of the Big Spring, Cumberland county,
but was formerly of Ohio. Mr. David con-
tinued a partner in the business until in 1899,
when he withdrew, and since then Mr. Grey-
bill has been the sole owner and operator.
He is a miller in every acceptation of the
term, manufacturer and merchant as well.
He inherited the handicraft and principles
of the business from his father and has per-
sistently practiced them from early manhood
down to the present day. The improve-
ments and new milling processes which have
come up in the progress of time he adopted
as their usefulness and advantages were
proven, and his present large establishment
is an all around up-to-date mill, owned and
personally managed l)y a man who is master
of all the details of the milling business. He
is also interested in enterprises aside from
his milling business. In 1887 he helped to
organize the Millers' ]\Iutual Fire Insurance
Company, the home office of which is at
Wilkesbarre, Pa., and has been a director in
it ever since it was begun. Although a com-
paratively new organization, this company
carries risks amounting in the aggregate to
over three millions of dollars, and its fin-
ancial credit is of the best. He was long a
director in the Farmers' Bank of Carlisle,
and when it was merged into the Farmers'
Trust Company became a director and vice-
president of the new organization, the heav-
iest financial institution in the Cumberland
Valley.
John D. Greybill married, first, Salinda
Rupp Grabill, a daughter of Isaac H. and
Phianna (Rupp) Grabill, of West Earl town-
ship, Lancaster county. By this marriage
he had one child, a daughter named Salinda
May, who was born Feb. 27, 1875. She
married Monroe P. Haverstick, and has a
daughter named May. Mr. and Mrs. Hav-
erstick reside in Manheim township, Lan-
caster county. Mrs. Salinda R. Greybill
died March 8, 1875, in Lancaster county,
and on Jan. 16, 1877, John D. Grey-
bill married for his second wife ^liss
Barbara Hertzler, daughter of John and
Fanny (Erb) Hertzler, of South Middleton
township, Cumberland count3% by whom he
has had children as follows : Deppen Hertz-
ler, born Jan. 18, 1881, who died in infancy;
Harry Hertzler, born July 22, 1882; John
Roscoe, born Sept. 5, 1885, and Florence
Elizabeth, born April 2, 1892. Harry
Hertzler Greybill, the eldest son, at this
writing is a student in the .Senior class at
Dickinson College; the next son, John Ros-
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coe, is a member of the Sophomore class at
Dickinson, and the daughter, Florence Eliza-
beth, is attending public school in Carlisle.
Mr. and I\Irs. Greybill are both of Men-
nonite ancestry, but circumstances making it
inconvenient for them to keep up their re-
lations with that denomination the family
now worship in the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Carlisle, where they are members
and regular attendants. In the matter of
politics Mr. Greybill follows his convictions
rather than party bias and it is a little diffi-
cult to classify him. He is of Repulilican
antecedents, but by profession and practice
a Prohibitionist, and reserves to himself the
privilege to vote for honest men and honest
measures, no matter under what party Hag
he finds them.
HON. WILLIAM ALFRED PEFFER
was born on the Peffer ancestral homestead
in Dickinson township, Cumberland Co.,
Pa., on Sept. 10, 1831. He was the young-
est child of John and Elizabeth (Souder)
Peffer, and a grandson of the Philip Peffer,
who settled upon the Yellow Breeches in
Cumberland county in 1773. He received
no educational training beyond that afforded
by the country district school, but he natur-
ally inclined to reading and study, and by
the time he reached his twentieth year he
had accumulated a considerable library of
miscellaneous books. At fifteen he taught
his first school, at McAllister's, on the turn-
pike a few miles west of Carlisle. After-
ward he taught for two years among the
Quakers of Lancaster county. Pa., where he
acquired habits of thought and expression,
and imbibed principles, which remained with
him all through life. When seventeen years
of age he was offered a course in Dickinson
College, to be followed by two years at the
law school, tuition to be payable out of earn-
ings in the profession after graduation. The
offer was declined because of a belief that a
successful lawyer could not be honest with
himself. In company with a few other
young Cumberland countians, he in 1850
went to the California gold mines, and in
the autumn of the following year was slated
for election to the first Legislature of that
State, but refused to stand because of his
age. In 1852 he returned to Pennsylvania,
and in December of that year married Sarah
Jane Barber, daughter of William Barber,
the founder nf Papertown, now Mount
Holly Springs. In 1853 he moved to north-
ern Indiana and began opening a farm in the
thick woods of that section. There he be-
came acquainted with Schuyler Colfax and
was a delegate to a convention that named
that gentleman for Congress. Mr. Peffer
was born a Democrat, and cast his first vote
for Franklin Pierce for President, but like
many others of his party was opposed to
the repeal of the IMissouri Compromise, and
in the campaign of 1856 took an active part
for Fremont and Dayton. From 1857 to
1859 times were hard in Indiana, and with
the hope of bettering his condition he re-
moved to southwestern Missouri, where he
bought land and continued farming, and,
during the fall and winter months, taught
school. Here on July 4, i860, he delivered
an address in which he advocated the Union
cause. War coming on the next year he re-
moved his family to Illinois, where, after
securing them against want, he enlisted in
Company F, 83d Illinois Regiment, and was
made fifth sergeant. Because of his knowl-
edge of military tactics he was detailed to
drill the company and instruct the men in
handling arms. In March, 1863, he was ap-
pointed to a lieutenancy, and from that time
on was on detailed duty almost continuously
until mustered out at the close of the war.
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He acted as quartermaster, adjutant, post
adjutant, Judge Advocate of a military com-
mission, and depot quartermaster of the en-
gineering department at Nashville, Tenn.,
in which last named capacity he had charge
of all engineer supplies for the military di-
vision of the Mississippi. He was in two
engagements, tlie second battle of Donelson,
in February, 1863, and the battle of Nash-
ville, in Decemljer, 1S64.
While on post duty he at odd hours read
law and concluded to enter that profession,
and after the war made his home in Tennes-
see. Shortly after leaving the army he was
admitted to the Bar at Clarksville, began
practice there, and was soon retained in some
import.'uit cases involving questions of con-
stitutional law growing out of the war. He
was conservative and disposed to assist the
people in restoring peace and good will, and
witii that end in view opposed the radicalism
of Gov. Brownlow and avoided all occa-
sions for needless irritation. By special re-
quests of citizens he delivered a series of
public addresses in the counties of middle
Tennessee, counseling good-natured acqui-
escence in the new regime. Mr. Peffer was
making satisfactory progress in the prac-
tice of the law in Tennessee, but social con-
ditions there then were not agreeable to
northern people, and so early in 1870 he
moved his family to Wilson county, Kans.
Taking up a claim near the covinty seat, he
opened a law office, and later established the
Fredonia Journal, putting two of his chil-
dren to work at setting type for the paper.
That country was then new and he interested
himself in agriculture and politics, as well
as literature and the law. He organized the
Republicans of the county, held several fairs
at his own expense, and personally collected
material for Wilson county's exhibit at the
Centennial Exposition. His activity gave
him prominence and public preferment fol-
lowed. Fie was elected to the Kansas State
Senate for the term covering the years 1875
and 1876, and in that body was chairman of
the committee on Corporations, was third on
the Judiciary committee and managed the
bill appropriating money for the State's dis-
play at the Centennial fair. His district
comprised two counties, Wilson and Mont-
gomery, and in 1875 he sold out and moved
into Montgomery, where he established the
Coffeyville Journal, and continued his ef-
forts at promoting the best interests of his
adopted State. In 1880 he was presidential
elector of the Garfield ticket, and while his
prospects in general were encouraging his
field was circumscribed and far away from
political centers, so he quit the law and in
1 88 1 accepted the editorship of the Kansas
Farmer, an agricultural paper of wide cir-
culation, published at Topeka, the capital of
the State. This position he retained ten
years, during most of which time he was also
an editorial writer on the Daily Capital, the
leading Republican paper in Kansas.
The Farmers Alliance movement reached
its greatest development in Kansas in 1890,
and Mr. Peffer being in sympathy with it,
he was in constant demand as speaker at
Alliance meetings. In response to these
calls he that year delivered more than a
hundred speeches, and did his editorial work
"on the wing," writing on his knees, on
benches in waiting rooms, on wagon seats,
on the open prairies, wherever, during the
day or the night, a moment could be devoted
to writing. There was no system about the
Alliance meetings. They were scattered
over the State at random, with no direction
from any organized head, except that each
county chose the time for its own meetings
and without reference to the others. The
Alliance, however, worked a revolution in
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Kansas politics. A large majority of the
members of the Legislature chosen that year
were members of the organization, and
when the time came they all voted for Mr.
Peffer to represent the State in the United
States Senate. This was the beginning of
the People's or Populist party. In May,
1 89 1, there was held at Cincinnati, Ohio,
a national conference comprised of about
fourteen hundred delegates, representing
the Alliance and other various farm and la-
bor organizations. Of this large conference
Mr. Peffer was made permanent chairman,
and by it arrangements were made for the
formation of the National People's party,
which held its first nominating convention
at Omaha, Neb., July 4, 1892.
Mr. Peffer's election to the Senate was
wholly without his seeking, and did not cost
him one cent. His career in the Senate was
marked chiefly by advocacy of doctrines he
had taught in editorial writings and public
addresses. He believed in organization
among farmers, in public warehouses, and
in use of warehouse receipts for grain and
cotton as temporary currency. He believed
in public banks and that the government
should lend money to needy people on good
security at an interest rate that would pay
for the attendant expenses; in government
ownership, or control, of all means of public
transportation, and that coal mines ought to
be owned by State or national government
and operated in the interest of consumers.
He believed that public utilities, such as
water works and lighting plants, like school-
houses, ought to belong to the people and be
subject to tlieir control. He favored the use
of paper money for all sums of one dollar
and its multiples, making the precious metals
commodities to be bought and sold by
weight ; and also favored the submission of
all great public questions to the people for
ratification before being enacted into laws.
The first rrteasure he introduced proposed an
investigation into the necessary expense of
the business of lending money, outside
the value of the money lent, with the view
of ascertaining what public banking would
cost, and his last bill provided for a system
of government banking. One of his bills
provided for the construction of govern-
ment freight railroads; another for organiz-
ing the present railway system under one
management, subject to national supervis-
ion. He urged the investigation of the
management of banks during the panic of
1893, and secured passage of a resolution to
investigate the bond sales to syndicates in
1894, 1895 and 1896. He also proposed a
measure to abolish the present practice of
conducting funeral, obsequies and proces-
sions on the death of Senators and Con-
gressmen.
Mr. Peffer's tastes from boyhood ran in
literary and political lines, and the labors of
the after years of his life, in the main, have
been confined to the same channel. In 1869
he published a national story in blank verse
called "Myriorama" ; and another in prose
entitled "The Carpetbagger in Tennessee."
Prior to his election to the United States
Senate he found sufficient time from his
pressing edito'rial duties to do much literary
work. In 1883 he published a story called
"Geraldine," or "What May Happen." in
which he reproduced on paper many of the
social customs of the good people of old
Cumberland, apple butter boilings, spelling
schools, rope making, etc. This he followed
up with sketclies of the settlement of Kan-
sas, leading into the great war of 1861, and
concluding with a description of the growth ■
and development of the State he had chosen
for his home. In 1888 he published his
"Tariff Manual"; in 1889 he contrib-
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uted an article to the Foniiii, entitled
" The Farmers' Defensive Movement,"
and in 1890 his pamphlet, "The Way
Out." appeared, followed in 1891 by
"The Farmers' Side." \VhiIe in the Senate,
he. at tlie request of magazine publishers,
wrote several articles for them^ and since his
retirement he has devoted his time entirely
to literary work. Some of his later pro-
ductions have attracted much attention, nota-
bly "The Passing of the People's Party,"
"The United States Senate," "Republic in
the Philippines," "Imperialism, America's
Historic Policy," and "Americanism and
the Philippines." This last named work, at
the request of the Republican National Com-
mittee, in 1900, he condensed into a cam-
paign document, of which the first edition
printed consisted of a million copies. In
1902 he began the preparation of an index,
by subjects, to the discussions which have
taken place in Congress from the beginning
in 1789 down to date. He was engaged on
that work when this sketch was written and
estimated that four years more would be
required to complete it.
]\Ir. Peffer's theories were so new and
in some respects so startling, and his coming
into national prominence so sudden, that,
naturally he was much talked about and
belabored on all sides. His long and heavy
beard, besides being good matter for car-
toonists, furnished a descriptive symbol to
the party to which he belonged. It is doubt-
ful whether, during the time that he was in
the public eye, any other man was more fre-
quently held up in pictures. While his theo-
ries were new, Senators soon discovered that
he was honest and sincere. His manner was
diffident rather than aggressive, he respected
the great body of which he was a member
and the body respected him. He was tem-
perate in his habits, modest in demeanor,
was never absent without leave, was never
paired, antl answered to every roll call.
^Ir. Peffer is a firm believer in the Chris-
tian religion, is a Master Mason, and a
member of the Episcopal Church. He is
the father of ten children : Winnie Alice,
William Barber, }ilay Keller, Charles Theo-
dore, Douglas Marmion, William Alfred,
Emma Milburn, John Sherman, Nellie Mc-
Mullen and Ellwood Souder, William Bar-
ber being deceased.
JOSEPH SHARPS HEAIPHILL, one
of the successful farmers and stock raisers
of Newton township, and a prominent rep-
resentative of one of the old and honored
families of Cumberland county, was born
Nov. 5, 1847, ''"^ Southampton township,
on a farm four miles east of Shippensburg,
son of Moses and Margery (Clarke) Hemp-
hill.
James Hemphill, the paternal grand-
father of our subject, was born in North-
ampton county, Pa., and he died and was
buried at Middle Spring. He was one of the
leading members of the Presbyterian Church
in that locality. He married Cynthia Jane
Jack, of Newton township.
Moses Hemphill, father of our subject,
was born in 1799, in Hopewell township.
Cumberland county. On March 25, 1830,
he married Margery Clarke, born in 181 1,
daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Fulton)
Clarke, early settlers of Cumberland county,
of Irish extraction. Moses Hemphill died
in March, 1865, survived by his widow until
1872. They were the parents of ten chil-
dren, all of whom survived to maturity,
namely : Elizabeth, wife of James Ouigley,
of Hopewell township; Cynthia J., widow of
David Ouigley, of Hopewell township;
Mary, who married the late Judge David
McCulloch, of Peoria, III, and died in
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1903: Caroline, deceased; James, a resident
of Kansas; Robert, a farmer of Page Co.,
Neb. ; William Jack, who died in 1865 ;
Charles, wiio removed to Illinois and died
there ; Joseph S. ; and Margaret Belle, who
is matron of the ladies dormitory, C. V.
S. N. S., at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Sharpe Hemphill received a com-
mon school education, and attended the
school at Thorn Grove,, in Southampton
township, and later took a course at Acade-
mia Academy in Juniata county, where he
remained one year. After this he returned
to Southampton township and engaged in
farming with his brother, until the spring
of 1870. In 1871 he located on a part of the
McCulloch homestead, where he is found
to-day. Mr. Hemphill is recognized as one
of the first-class farmers of the county, mak-
ing use of modern methods and improved
machinery, and keeping his stock up to the
highest grade. He has an especial liking for
Jersey cattle. Since his marriage Mr.
Hemphill has resided on a part of what is
known as the old McCulloch homestead.
This farm contains loi acres, and is well-
improved, with fine home and substantial
bank barn,, which was erected by the late
James McCulloch. In addition to that farm
he owns another, containing 104 acres, the
latter being known locally as the Thomas
McCulloch farm.
In the autumn of 1870, Mr. Hemphill
married Belle McC\illoch. daughter of James
and Martha (Brown) McCulloch, both of
Avhom are deceased. They have a family of
five children, namely : Margery Clarke, wife
of Oliver Myers, of West Pennsboro town-
ship ; James McCulloch, a farmer in Newton
township ; William Jack, at home ; Thomas,
engaged in teaching; and Joseph Sharpe, Jr.,
a student. In politics Mr. Hemphill is in
sympathy with the Republican party, his an-
cestors havmg been Old Line Whigs. Both
he and wife are members of the Big Spring
Presbyterian Church, of which he has been
a trustee for many years. Mr. Hemphill
stands as one of the responsible and repre-
sentative men of the township, the kind of
man who is sure to be mentioned by those
who wish to point out its wealth, intelligence
and good citizenship.
LEMUEL BRENNEMAN, a promi-
nent farmer and dairyman of Middlesex
township, was born on the family homestead
in that township, May 26, 1859.
The paternal grandfather, Melchor
Brenneman, was born in Lebanon county,
Pa., married a Miss Killinger, and in 1824,
when their son Henry was seven years old,
removed with his family to Cumberland
county, where he settled on a farm in Mid-
dlesex township, and lived there till his
death. Henry, the father of Lemuel, born
Jan. 24. 1 81 7, was brought up to farm life,
and was so occupied during all his active
years, though at one time he also kept a
hotel on his farm. This place, known as
the Black Horse Inn, was a favorite stop-
ping place for travelers between Pittsburg
and Philadelphia. In 1855 he married Miss
Henrietta Cassel, born in Dauphin county,
Pa., the daughter of Henry and Eva (Bock-
enstoe) Cassel. Three children were the
issue of this union, namely : Annie, who
died aged seventeen; Lemuel; and Newton,
who died at Mt. Holly, Pa., in 1900. Henry
Brenneman's life was brought to its close
in 1900. Religiously he was for over twen-
ty-five years a member of the Lutheran
Church, politically he w^as a Repul)lican
and a good citizen, but not an active poli-
tician.
Lemuel Brenneman grew up on his
father's farm and from early boyhood was
accustomed to assist in the farm work.
From the age of six he was sent to the
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public schools of the locality, and later spent
one year in a Normal school. In 1880 he
undertook the management of the home
farm, and has ever since operated it for
himself. For many years he ran the largest
dairy in that section of the county, but in
October, 1903, sold the entire business. Mr.
Brenneman was married in 1879 to Miss
Florence Hertzler, daughter of Christian
and Rebecca (Eterly) Hertzler. both of
whom are deceased. Five children were
born to this union : Harriet, Anna, Ro-
mayne, Lester and Mary, all of whom are
musical and proficient players on the piano.
Mr. Brenneman is not only a success-
ful and prosperous farmer, but a man of
wide interests. Socially he is a member of
the Modern Woodmen, on religious ques-
tions is a Lutheran, and politically is an
adherent of the Republican part}-. Li all
directions he is intelligent, wide-awake and
forceful, and is well known throughout the
locality.
IRA E. SHALTLL, an energetic young
business man of Carlisle, where he carries
on a real estate and contracting business, is
native to Cumberland county, born at the
old family homestead at West Fairview.
His father passed away Dec. 6, 1890.
Mr. ShauU received his literary edu-
cation in the public schools, attending until
he was nineteen years old. During vaca-
tions he assisted his father, who was a con-
tractor, and when twenty years old he be-
came pressman's apprentice in the Evangeli-
cal Publishing House at Harrisburg, where
he remained altogether ten years. He then
took up his father's work, contracting on
his own account, and has also engaged suc-
cessfully in the real estate business, in this
connection having been agent for the past
two years, of the Rupley estate. Mr.
Shaull is a selfmade man in every respect
of the word. He began with nothing, but
by enterprise and industry has gained a good
standing in the business world and enjoys
the confidence of all his associates. His
ambitious spirit displayed itself early in life,
when he commenced working in Harris-
burg; he recei\ed only three dollars a week,
and he made the trip to and from his work
daily on foot. For one year Mr. Shaull was
engaged at butchering, but he seems to have
his place in his present line of work, and is
improving his opportunities to the utmost.
On July 18, 1 90 1, Mr. Shaull was mar-
ried to Miss Clara Mann, daughter of
George S. and Sarah Mann. Mr. and Mrs.
Shaull hold membership in the United
Brethren Church at West Fairview. In
political sentiment he is a strong Republi-
can, active in the local councils of his party,
and is at present serving as county com-
mitteeman.
JOHN F. SENSEMAN, a retired sales-
man and farmer, who now resides at Me-
chanicsburg, was born Feb. 21, 1822, near
Ephrata. Lancaster Co., Pa., a son of Sam-
uel and Elizabeth (Haines) Senseman. His
grandfather, John Senseman, was a mill-
wright by trade. His children were: John,
William, Samuel, Daniel, Rebecca, Lydia
and Hannah.
Samuel Senseman, the father of John F.,
was born July 25, 1796, and died in Me-
chanicsburg April 7, 1877. He married
Elizabeth Haines, daughter of William
Haines, a native of Lancaster countv, of
Irish descent, and they had the following
children : John F. ; Susan, deceased ; Jere-
miah, deceased; Harriet, deceased; Lydia, a
widow with three children ; Adam, of Phila-
delphia ; William, of Boiling Springs ; and
David, who was a soldier in the Civil war
and was killed at the battle of Chattanooga,
in 1863, while serving as sergeant major of
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the 271)1 111. \'ol. Inf. After their marriage
Sanuiel Sensenian and his wife settled near
Ei)hrata, where he followed the carpenter's
trade nntil 1826, at that time moxiiig to
Cumherland county and settling on a farm
of 100 acres in Silver Spring township.
Here lie resided a numljer of years, engaged
in farming and stockraising. anil tlien bought
propertx- in ]\leclianicsl)urg to which he
mo\'ed antl wliereon he resided until the
close of his life. He was a Jcffer.sonian
Democrat in pnliiics and held a number of
the minor oliices in liis township, such as
assessor and su])cr\-isor, also acting as ad-
mmistrator and executor of manv estates.
His wife died Feb. 2\. 1879.
John F. Senseman spent his boyhood
on liis father's farm and during the winter
nil tilths attended llic district schools of Sil-
ver Spring township until his seventeenth
year, when he settled down to assist his
father, with whom he remained until his
twenty-second \ear. Then he went to Ohio,
taking a boat at I'ittsburg for Cincinnati,
and went from there to Dayton, where he
found his uncle, William Senseman. This
gentleman had a large farm and gladly
accepted his nephew's ser\ices for two years.
Then he returned to Cumberland county and
for a time did farm work, recei\-ing" $45 per
annum, but two years later he entered the
em]jlov of George W . Rathliurn, a manu-
facturer of stoves. His duties of traveling
salesman lirouglit him ,$15 a nunith and e.x-
penses, and a commission of $1 a stove. Mr.
Senseman found himself well cpialified for
this work and made a success of it, and after
three years with this company he was em-
]3loyed by the .\merican Sto\-e Co. on a
liigber s;ilar\-, continuing in this business
for a number of vears.
In 1S54 Mr. Senseman married Mary
Landis. second daughter of Jacob and Mary
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(Mohler) Landis, and a member of a promi-
nent old family of Lancaster county, al-
though Jacob Landis was born in York
county. ^Irs. Senseman was born Feb. 10,
1 83 1, and was educated in the district school
in Allen township. Mr. and Mrs. Sensenian
have had the following children : Charles,
deceased: George W.. of Erie, Pa.; Harry
H., who is deceased; Anna, deceased; and
David, a machinist in York.
After marriage Mr. Senseman settled on
100 acres in Monroe township and success-
fully engaged in general farming and stock
raising. This property cost him ,$18,600, and
is imjiroved with excellent buildings, which
he has under rental. He is a stockholder in
the First National Bank of Mechanicsburg.
Politically Mr. Senseman is a Jeffersonian
Democrat, but has never consented to accept
political office. He is a man well versed on
general subjects and has improved his op-
portunities when traveling. His last trip
was taken in 1878, with his friend, b'rank
Sjdel. Together they went abroad and en-
joyed the r^aris Exposition for ten days,
and then \isited London, Manchester, Liver-
])ool and other points. Mr. .Senseman has
many friends, who find in him a pleasant,
genial gentleman. His wife is a consistent
member of the Bethel Church.
PETER i'LANK (deceased) was for a
number of years engaged in the nursery busi-
ness at Trindle Spring, near Mechanicsburg,
in Cumberlaiul county, and was one of the
successful men of the locality in his day. His
widow has made lier home in Carlisle since
his decease, and is one of the most highly
esteemed residents of that place.
Air. Plank was born in 1828 in South
Micldleton t<iwnshi]i, this couiit\', and was
a son of Jaci ib and .\iina Marv ( Keifsnyder )
Plank, who were natives of Lancaster coun-
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ty, Pa., and Xewxille, Cumljerland Co., Pa.,
respectively, and were married in Cumber-
land county. Jaciib Plank was a farmer by
occupation, and followed that calling in
South Middleton and Mom"oe townships,
this county. When he retired from agricul-
tural pursuits he took up his home in
Churchtown, this county, where he died, and
his wife passed away at the home of a daugli-
ter, in McKnightstown, Adams Co., Pa.
'Jliev were the parents of nine children,
namely : Samuel is deceased. Dr. Jacob
died in York Springs. AJjraham is a resi-
dent of Churchtown, Cumberland county.
Daniel !i\cs in York Springs. David,
M. D., died in Bedford county, Pa. Peter is
mentioned below. Anna married Rev.
Aimer Kramer, and lives in Bedford county.
Mary E., ]Mrs. Gressinger, has her home in
North Middleton township. Sarah C. is
the wife of John C. Lawer, and resides in
Hagerstown, Maryland.
Peter Plank attended the district schools
in Monroe township, whither his parents
removed when he was a small boy, and dur-
ing his voung' manhood he taught school for
a short time. He grew up on the farm, and
was reared to agricultural pursuits. Shortly
before his marriage he located near Lynch-
burg, Campbell Co., Va., where he engaged
in the nursery business. Returning to Cum-
berland county in 1855 he luarried and took
his bride back to Virginia with him, the
young couple remaining near Lynchburg
until ,the Ci\'il war broke out, when Mr.
Plank sold his business interests to his
brother .\braham, who had married a South-
ern woman. Coming back to Cumberland
county, he embarked in the nursery business
at Trindle Spring, near Mechanicsburg, and
■did a very successful business until his death,
which occurred at his home there Oct.
.20, 1865. Though still a young man he had
gained fine standing as a substantial citizen
and influential resident of his section of the
county, and he was esteemed by all his asso-
ciates, whether in business or private life.
He was a stanch Republican in political faith,
and he attended the Presbyterian Church
with his wife. On October 16, 1855, Mr.
Plank married Miss Jane ]\I. Mcllhenny,
and three children blessed this union : Two
died in infancy, and Williams died when
fourteen years old.
John Mcllhenny, father of Mrs. Plank,
was a native of Adams county. Pa., and was
married at I'ine Grove, Pa., to Jane (Ege)
Cox, of Pine Grove, after that event settling
near Greenville, Darke Co., Ohio, where his
daughter, Mrs. Plank, was born. He died
at that place, and his wife, who survived
him, died at Newark, Licking Co., Ohio.
Mrs. Plank was a young child when her
father died, anil she grew to womanhood
in Cumberland county. Pa., where during
young womanhood she engaged in teaching,
keeping a private school for two terms. She
is a member of the First Presbyterian
Church of Carlisle, in whose work she has
taken an active part, and is well known for
her kindness of heart and charitable dispo-
sition.
JOHN A. SOLLENBERGER, D.D.S.,
who is located at No. 105 North Hanover
street, in Carlisle, was born in York county.
Pa., Dec. 26, 1847, son of Joseph M. and
Mary Ann (Helsel) Sollenl:)erger, natives of
Cumberland and York counties, respectively.
Dr. Sollenberger was reared to farm life
and received his early education in the com-
mon schools, later going to normal school,
and in the fall of 1869 he removed to Fulton
county. 111., where he taught school at first.
In the following August he entered a g'eneral
store at Astoria, where he was employed for
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two and one-half years. He again turned to
scliool teaching, but after a term resumed
clerking, and was employed in various ca-
])acities until 1874, when he entered the office
<if Dr. T. W. Atkinson, at Astoria, 111., where
he took up the study of dentistry, continuing
liis association, with Dr. Atkinson for eight
years. In the fall of 1883 he returned to
Pennsylvania, and took a course of lectures
at the University of Pennsylvania, and in
1884 he located in Mt. Holly and began the
jjractice of his profession. After seven
months he removed to Mooredale, and re-
mained two years, at which time he settled
in Carlisle, and has since been engaged in
luiilding up a large and \-ery prosperous
practice.
In 1872 Dr. Sollenberger was married
to Miss Fannie Brubaker, daughter of Jacob
Brubaker, who was born in Lancaster coun-
ty, but was brought to Cumberland county
when a child. They have a family of seven
children : Guy A. married Clara Hartzel,
and they reside in Carlisle, where he is a
silk and carpet weaver ; Clarence R. is prop-
erty man for the King Dramatic Opera Co. :
Charles M., who resides at Steelton, Pa., in
the employ of the Steelton Co., married Sa-
rah Bolinger, and has three children, Roy,
Lawrence and an infant ; Grace E. is at home ;
Harry resides at Steelton, where he is book-
keeper; Annie V. is at home; Maud E. is at
home. Dr. Sollenberger is one of the suc-
cessful, substantial men of Carlisle, and both
as a professional man and a private citizen
he is honored and respected by a large circle
of acquaintances and friends.
JOSEPH BEETEM, who throughout
the greater part of his active life was en-
gaged in business in Carlisle, Cumberland'
county, was a native of Centerville (now
Huntsdale), this county, born Dec. 16, 1830.
His parents, Abraham and Elizabeth
(Smith) Beetem, are more fully mentioned
elsewhere.
Mr. Beetem received all his education in
his native place, attending school until he
was fifteen. His father died when he was
only two years old, leaving a family of eight
children, the oldest but fourteen, who were
([uite naturally thrown early on their own
resources. After leaving school Joseph com-
menced to learn the carpenter's trade with
his brothers, Samuel, Jacob, George and
Abraham, though the first named worked
principally as a millwright. Prior to his
marriage he followed his trade in the coun-
try around his native place, and later came
to Carlisle, engaging in contracting and
building in company with his brothers, going
into business on his own account two years
before he married. He continued in that '
line for a few years following his marriage,
and he and his brother Abraham then went
into the grain business, their grain house
being on the site of the present home of
Judge Biddle. They met with continued
success in that enterprise, carrying it on until
the death of Joseph Beetem, in 1894. Mr.
Beetem was a man of marked business
ability, as his career would indicate, and he
was ever a public-spirited and valuable citi-
zen, giving his influence toward every move-
ment for the general welfare. But his dis-
position was quiet, and he was kind and
charitable in his dealings with all, whether in
business or in pri\-ate life.
Mr. Beetem was married in Carlisle, in
1869, to Miss Hetty Hemminger. who was .
bom in South Middleton township, Cum-
berland county, daughter of John and Eliza
Hemminger, and received her education in
the district schools of that locality. She was
a young woman when her parents removed
to Carlisle. Mr. and Mrs. Beetem settled in
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the home at Xf>. 112 South West street,
where she still resides, and two children
came ti_) their union: Samuel Harvey is a
business man of Omaha. Xeh. ; Frank H..
who is engaged as a hank clerk in Carlisle,
married Miss Sarah Kimmel. of ]\Iechanics-
burg. Pa. Mr. Beetem in religious connec-
tion was a meml:>er of the h'irst Lutheran
Church of Carlisle, in the work of which
congregation he was (juite acti\-e, holding
rifhce tor man\- \x'ars. His pc.ilitical svnipa-
th\' was always with the Heniocratic party,
SAMUEL H. JACKSOX. of the firm of
James Jackson &• Son. dealers in agriculttu'al
implements at Xo. 46 West Louther street,
Carlisle, traces his lineage hack to his grand-
father. Samuel Jackson, who for a number
of years was a resident of Shermans Dale,
Perry Co.. V;\. He was a cooper bv trade.
In middle life he remoxed to Cumberland
County, and settled on what is known as the
LIap]j\" Retreat, where he died at the age of
alxnit fifty-five or sixty years. He married a
]Miss Abirtan. of Perrv countv. and thev had
four daughters and three sons: fames:
.\ancy. marrieil to John Cu.se. of Fairview :
I'lichard. deceased: Annie, deceased: Rose.
of Scranton : Samuel Parker, a stock
dealer of Carlisle: Emaline, widow of Sam-
uel Shearer, of Carlisle.
James Jackson was born in Perr\- county
in 1838. and was brought up to work upon
the larni in the sumiuer and attended sch':>ol
in the winter. and learned the coopering trade
with his father. When about twenty-one
years ukl he married, and he followed farm-
ing until 1901. when he retired from active
business life. 'l"he homestead farm is pleas-
antly located two and one-half miles north-
west of Carlisle, and has l)een held bv four
different owners since 1863, but since it
passed into the possession of Mr. fackson.
in 1882. it has been much improved, \bout
that time he also began to sell farm imple-
ments, and until 1892 he transacted his busi-
ness at home, then moving liis office to Car-
lisle. He enjoys the distinction of selling
the largest number of binders in Cumberland
county, as well as other farm machinery, his
sales sometimes reaching as many as sixty-
four in a season.
Janies Jackson married Sarah Ann
Snyder, of .\orth Middleton. a daughter of
Henrv Snvder. an alderman and leading
undertaker in his day, and she died in May,
1884, aged forty years, leaving five children :
Samuel LL : Sinum P... a nuller of Carlisle:
Annie, who married John Raudabaugh. of
Xorth Middlet(^n township, this county;
Mary Ellen, who married William Bry-
messer. of Xorth Middleton t(}wnship: and
Emma J., unmarried, a teacher in the pul>-
lic schools of this county.
Samuel H. Jackson was born Sept. 12.
1 86 1, and was educated in the pulilic schools.
His bo)-hood was spent upon the farm, but
he early learned to sell machinerv, and w hen
the business was moved to Carlisle, in 1892.
he assumed full charge, it having been con-
ducted under the name of James Jackson
& Son from the time he was twentv-one years
of age. rile business is a \'erv hirge one.
and is constant!}' increasing, while the stock
carried is large and C(implete.
In 1882 Mr. Jackson was married to
Miss .\nnie Wise, a daughter of Isaac Wise,
a farmer of Middleton township, and they
had one child. Clarence E. ]\Irs. Jacksin
died in the spring- of 1884. On Dec. 31.
1885. he married Miss Ida Sutton, a ilaugh-
ter of Jonathan D. Sutton, of Tidioute, W'iw-
ren Co., Pa., and they reside at X"o. 134
Xorth Pitt street. ]\Ir. Jackson is one of
the most progressive men of Carlisle, and is
\ery highly esteemed. His son graduated
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at tlie Villa Nova College in the class of
HJ03. in the commercial course, taking
honors of the class, and is a \ery promising
young fellow.
j. CLAVTOX RILEV. of the tirni of
Morris & Riley, tin and stove merchants,
Carlisle, is well-known throughout the coun-
ty, where he has made his home since his
I'elurn from the Civil war. wiiere he made
a most honorahle record as a patriotic soldier
of his country. He was born near Cham-
1)er.';hurg. Franklin Co., Pa.. Sept. 5, 1845,
a ilescendant of the sturdy stock of North
of Ireland Presbyterians.
John Riley, father of J. Clayton, was
born in Pennsylvania, but was reared partly
in Oldtown, Md.,with his grandfather Riley.
wild attained the remarkable age of one
hundred and four years, and died at Old-
town. He had been a soldier in the war of
181 2. J<ihn Riley in early life followed
farming, but his last years were spent as a
hotel keeper in Hagerstown, Md., where he
died at the age of seventy-four. He mar-
ried Sarah Stone, a native of New Jersey,
who bore him nine .children, and who died
in Hagerstown, Md.. aged sixty-eight years.
The early training of J. Clayton Riley
was in the line of farm work. His educa-
tion was all acquired in the common schools
of Franklin county, and he was early placed
under the instruction of Jacob B. Miller
to learn the tinner's trade. In this he suc-
ceeded admirably, and long before most
boys of today would think of leaving the
sch(3ol room he had mastered the trade that
was to be his life work. Before he was
eighteen years of age the fires of patriotism
had burned in him with unquenchable flame,
and he ran away from home to enlist in the
Union army. In August, 1864, he became a
private in Company G, 8th Pa. Vet. Vol.
Cav., under Capt. John S. Howard, who
was killed at Dinwiddie Court House, in
the campaign in front of Petersburg. In that
battle, March 5. 1865. Company G entered
with thirty-two men, and after the fight and
subsequent siege lasting until April 9th fol-
lowing, the Company was able to show six
privates and two sergeants at roll call. Lieut.
Col. Corry was in command of the regiment.
Col. Hughey at that time being a prisoner
of war. Among the Ijattles and skirmishes
in which Mr. Riley participated with his
company may be mentioned Black Swamp
or Jerusalem Plank Road (his first fight),
Wyatt House. 1st Hatcher's Run. Dinwiddie
Court House, 2d Hatcher's Run, 2d Din-
widdie Court House. Five Forks, Sailor's
Creek, Amelia Springs, Farmville, and the
surrender of Lee at .Vppomattox Court
House. After the close of war the regiment
was discharged at Lynchburg, Va., June 17,
1865. The men were paid off in Richmond,
and while waiting for their pay, they
boarded at Libby Prison. During the time
he was in the army, the Rebels had attacked
Chambersburg, Pa., and had burned his pa-
rents' home. They moved to Carlisle then,
and there the soldier-son joined them.
Mr. Riley at once sought work at his
trade, finding employment with Rhinesmith
& Rupp, and later with G. W. Rhinesmith,
remaining with the latter for twenty-five
years. Having by this time acquired suffi-
cient capital t(j enter the business world for
himself, he in partnership with Peter W.
Morris, under the firm name of Morris &
Riley, started a tin and stove business, in
which they have met with pronounced suc-
cess. The business is conducted on the
lines of strict integrity and unfailing prompt-
ness, and easily ranks as one of the most
important in its line in the city. The pro-
prietors are thorough business men, fully
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conversant witli the goods handled, and botli
are pleasant, genial men, with whom it is
a pleasure to do Inisiness.
Mr. Riley is. like his parents before him,
a member of the Iveformed Church, and is
active in all the good work undertaken by
his Church. Fraternally, he belongs to Post
No. 201, G. A. R., and to Lodge Xo. 56,
K. of P. PI is political faith is that of the
party of Lincoln, and he is one of its stanch
supporters.
In Carlisle, in i86q. "Six. Riley was
united in marriage with F.llen H. Harris,
who was born in that city, daughter of
Robert and Ellen (Cornman) Harris, the
former now deceased, but the latter still
living, having attained tn more than four
score years. Mrs. Riley died April ji. igoo.
in the faith of the Reformed Church. Six
children blessed their union : Josephine
Clare, who married William Harper, and
Hves near Pittsliurg: Morris T.. who li\-es
near Pittsburg; Mollie E., wife of William
G. Mahon. of Carlisle ; and John C. Xora
L. and Sarah Kathleen, all at home.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER (deceased)
was, in his day, one of the prosperous farm-
ers and business men of Carlisle, wliere he
died in 1865. He was of the third genera-
tion of the family in Cumberland county.
his grandfather having settled here on his
emigration from the Xorth of Ireland, where
he was born. He was one of five brothers,
four of whom came to America, the oth^r
remaining' in Ireland to care for the widowed
mother. The Alexanders came to this cou.n-
try about the same time as the Eges. who
were also from Ireland, but the latter fam-
ily settled in the mountains, where they en-
gaged in burning charcoal, while the Alex-
anders devoted their time to tilling the soil.
John Alexander, father of William, was
born Aug. 14. 1753. and was a soldier in
the Revolutionary war. On May 8, 1781,
he married Jane Byers. who was born April
27, 1758, and they became the parents of ten
children, of whom we have the following-
record: I i) John, born ,\pril 21. 1782. be-
came a distinguished attorney of Greens-
burg. Pa. He married a Miss Smith. (2)
James, born ]\Iay 22. 1783. died unmar-
ried. (3) Thomas, born Oct. 9. 1784, died
unmarried. (4) Isabella, born Sept. 2.
17B6, married Andrew Carruthers, of Car-
lisle, who was known as the "honest lawyer."
She died in Carlisle. (5) Rebecca, born
May 9. 1788. married Eli Coulter, of
Cireensburg, Pa., and dietl there. (6) \\'ill-
iam is mentioned below. (7.) Samuel, burn
Sept. 20. 1792. married Ann Susan Blaine.
a descendant of Col. Ephraim Blaine, and
cousin of James G. Blaine. Samuel Alex-
ander was a noted attorney in Carlisle, was
in command of the In luie militia, and became
known as Gen. Alexander. (8) Robert,
born Aug. 13. 1794. died the next day.
(9) Jane Mary, born Oct. 11. 1795, mar-
ried Rev. \Villiam Anderson, a Presbvterian
minister, and died in the West. Their son.
John, was also a Presbyterian minister.
(10) Margaret Elizabeth, born Dec. 8,
1800, married Joseph Kuhns. an attorney
of Greensburg, where she died.
William Alexander was born May 7,
1790. in Dickinson township, on the Spring
road, on what is known as the old Byers
home farm. He was reared to farming, and
received only a limited education, for he was
obliged to begin wnrk earlv. being a mere
boy when his father died. Learning the
saddler's trade, he followed same for some
years, and after his marriage bought the
home in which his daughters now live, at
the corner of East and Louther streets, a
strongly built house of stone, and gave up
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his trade to engage in farming witli liis
brother-in-law, George W. Sliaffer. They
bouglit land in South Middleton township,
which they cultivated, and ]\Ir. Alexander
also had a brewery on North East street,
which he carried on for a number of years,
continuing thus until his death, which oc-
curred at the old home just mentioned in
June, 1865. He was a successful business
man. and one of the most respected citizens
of his day, and a faithful supporter of the
Whig and Republican parties in politics.
On Dec. 5, 1803, j\Ir. Alexander married
Mary Aughinbaugh, who preceded him to
the grave, her death occurring June 30,
1850, at the old home. Their family con-
sisted of six children, viz: Jane Alary, John
B.. William G.. Samuel. Annie I. and Laura
K.. all deceased but the two last named,
who now occupy the old home. Miss Annie
1. Alexander is a member of the First Pres-
byterian Church of Carlisle. Both ladies are
among the most highly respected residents
of that place, sharing the esteem in which all
the members of this family have been held.
FRANK R. SPECK, the well-known
superintendent of the Goodyear Department
of the Lindner Shoe Company, Carlisle, is
a native-born son of Cumberland county.
ha\ing been born in North East street. Car-
lisle, May 13, 1861, son of Daniel and Maria
(Kuhn) Speck, of Franklin county. Pa.,
and Germany, respectively.
Daniel Speck was born in the town of
Roxbury, Franklin county, in 1824, and
from his early boyhood was trained to the
arduous duties of a farmer's life. In young
manhood he settled at Carlisle, where he
carried on farming, but for the last nineteen
years of his life he was engaged in the bot-
tling business. He was a soldier in the
Mexican war, and during his service came
near dying with the dread yellow fever, an
enemy to the soldier as much to be dreaded
as the bullet of a foe. During the Civil war
he served as a private, being given the re-
sponsible position of wagon master. He
was married in Carlisle to Maria Kuhn, who
was born in Germany in 1826, and was
brought by her parents to America, when she
was but six years of age. Daniel Speck
died in 1898, preceded by his wife, who
passed away in 1891. They were the ]3a-
rents of ten children, namely: Christian;
Miss Mary; ALaj. William, of Carlisle;
John, who went to .\rizona when he was
seventeen, and has since remained there;
George, who died in Texas in 1902; Adelia,
deceased ; Frank R. ; Sarah, wife of Charles
W. Kaufman, of Carlisle; Charles, of Car-
lisle; and Fullerton. of the same city.
Frank R. Speck has made his home in
Carlisle all his life. He received his educa-
tion in the public schools, attending until
he had reached the age of fifteen, when he
began to assist in his own support by doing
whatever he could find to do. He continued
in this way until be was twenty-two, when
he entered the lasting department of the
shoe factory of G. \Y. Neidich & Co.. where
he applied himself industriously to master-
ing that trade. He remained with that firm
(which is now known as the Carlisle Shoe
Company) until July, 1891. For the last
two years he was in the employ of that firm
he was superintendent of the lasting depart-
ment. Fie then became superintendent of
tile Lindner Shoe Company, a position he
continues to fill to the present time to the
very great satisfaction of the members of
the firm. From a small beginning Mr.
Speck has. by his own industry and fidelity,
risen to the top round in the profession he
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lias clioscn. His success is due to no one
l>ut liimself. and is the natural reward of
honest worth.
Fraternally .Mr. Speck is a Mason, be-
longing- to Cumberland Star Lodge, Xo.
IQ/, and is a jjast (.)fl"icer in all the Masonic
bodies. He also ijelongs to the Mystic
Shrine. He is past chancellor of the K. of
P.: past grand of the I. O. O. F. ; first ex-
alted ruler of Lodge Xo. 578, B. P. O. E.,
Carlisle: and is a member of the P. O. S. of
A., and of the Maccabees. His religious con-
nection is with the Reformed Church. In
his i)olitical views he is a stanch Republi-
can. His first \ote was cast for James G.
Blaine for President, and he has never
swerved in his allegiance to the part}-. He
is verv jiatriotic, and believes it to be tlie
duty of every good citizen of the country to
take an active interest in the various move-
ments that alYect, or seem to af¥ect, the
nation's welfare. He is thoroughly posted
on all public questions, and w^hile rather re-
ticent about expressing his opinions, is able
to maintain them w-ith logical arguments
when once expressed. For seventeen years
he served in the Eighth Regiment, P. N. G.,
and rose to the rank of battalion sergeant-
major. His life has been an upright one,
and in the city w-here it has been passed and
his every deed known he is held in high
esteem.
ROBERT J. LAWTOX, who was
known throughout the Cumberland \''alley as
;i grain merchant, died at his home July 2\,
]88o. He was born near Orrstown, Franklin
county, and for a number of years was en-
gaged in mercantile business in that borough.
For twenty-five years he was engaged in busi-
ness in Shippensburg as a grain merchant,
for some time, in partnership with his father-
in-law, Hon. Henry Ruby, dealing in both
grain and produce. Later the firm became
Lawton & Stewart, the latter member being
Georg-e H. Stewart. They were the largest
grain shippers in the \'alley, and the result
of their ventures was niost gratifying.
.\t the time of bis death 'Sir. Lawton was
a du'ector in the b'irst Xational Bank of
Shippensburg. He was very progressive
and public-spirited, and from time t(i time
held offices of honi.ir and trust in the com-
u-iunity. for a long time being an active
an.d efficient member of the school board.
He w-as a member of the Presbyterian
Church, and took a keen interest in the w-el-
fare of the Sunday-school. Genial and pleas-
ant ii-i disposition, Mr. I^aw-ton was a w-el-
come addition to any social gathering. He
w-as kind and charitable to the poor and
needy, who in his death lost a valued friend.
Flis honor was without stain, and in every
walk of life, in business or in society or at
home, he was the same simple, straightfor-
ward man, true to every trust.
On Dec. 18, 1855, Mr. Lawton wedded
Elouisa Ruby, daughter of Hon. Henry
Ruby, and their marriage was blessed by a
daughter, Alice Jane, who died in 1884; she
was the wife of William Adams, of Shippens-
burg.
We append herewith the eulogy of one
who knew Robert J. Lawton w-ell. and wdiich
appeared in a local paper at the time of bis
death :
Robert J. Lawton, the trusted business
man, the honored citizen, the true friend, the
devoted husband and father, the consistent
Christian, has passed away. As you truly
said in your last issue, this community w-as
never more profoundly stirred than when it
was announced that IMr. Lawton was dead.
.-\ pM of sadness seemed to fall upon the
town, and I saw- many shedding tears who
rarely do such a thing. X^o man in all this
ROBERT J. LAWTON.
THE XEW YOR*
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region was more universally respected and
beloved than was Mr. Lawton. He was
the friend of everybody and e\'erybody's
friend. The principal facts and dates of his
business career have already been made pnl)-
lic. It is my desire, therefore, simply to
pay a slight tribute to the worth of one
who was "a man among a tlnnisand."
As a business man Mr. Lawton was "the
soul of hoiK>r."' His word was as good as
his bond. Whatever he said might be de-
pended on. He never tried to take the ad-
vantage of anyone. The firm of Law-ton &
Stewart was the most widely known of any
firm in the Cmnberland \'alley, and did the
largest business. Farmers came from far
and near to sell and buy. Many letters of
symi)athy and regret were recei\'ed by the
familv and Mr. Lawton's partnei', from l)usi-
ness houses in Philadelphia, Xew York,
Baltimore, etc. Mr. Law-ton was thus widely
known and everywhere esteemed as a man
of the strictest integrity in business. Be-
sides this he was a gentleman in the highest
sense of that word. He was courteous,
aflfable and kind. No matter how badly he
may have felt (and there is little doubt now^
that he often did feel badly, his disease be-
ing of longer standing than anyone thought)
he was always the same. He had a smile
and pleasant word for everyone. It was a
pleasure to meet him on the street, for his
cheery face and active step did one good.
I can hardlv realize that I shall never see
him again as he briskly walked from his
house to his place of business. As a citizen
lie was interested in the welfare of the town
in which he lived. He never stood in the
way of public progress. .\t the time of his
death he was bank director, school director
and president of the Gas Light Company of
this place. He was a warm and steadfast
friend. He was faithful at all times. You
could trust him implicitly. In the social
circles his company was always sought. He
was exceedingly kind to the poor. What
he did he ditl unostentatiously not to be seen
of men. \\'hat he did in this way will not be
known, in many instances, until the judg-
ment of the last day. In his quiet, unas-
suming way he went about continually doing
good. His home life, too, was just as
beautiful as his life before the world. He
was not the affable gentleman away from
home and the churl at home as so many men
are. Wife and tlaughter had never a more
loving, devoted and indulgent husband and
father than was he. WHiile his home was
filled with every temporal comfort w hich one
could desire, yet he was preeminently its
light and joy. His evenings were always
spent at home, so far as possible. His con-
stant thought was for the comfort and happi-
ness of his wife and daughter. Self was
forgotten in his care and love for them. But
after all the chief charm of Mr. Lawton's
character was in his deep-toned piety. Mr.
Lawton was pre-eminently a Christian. No
one who knew him intimately could for a
moment doubt this fact. After his conver-
sion a great change came over him. While
outwardly he was the same honest, upright
man he had been before, yet, from this on
there was a new spirit within him: he was
actuated in all he did with new motives and
desires. His one aim was to glorify his
Divine T^Iaster. He was a true type of the
business man, in that he was "diligent in
business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."
He was honest, not merely because it was
the best policy, but because it was right in
itself and well-pleasing to God. Like his
Saviour in whom he trusted and whom he
followed, he "did all things to please Him."
There was not one shred of self righteous-
ness about Mr. Lawton, although he might
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have pointed to his moral Hfe, and trusted
in that, as so many do. yet his whi.ile trust
was in a Saviour crucified. He felt that
his righteousness was but filthy rags. He
was as humble, unassuming and as teachable
in his Christian life as a little child. It seems
to me he came up as nearly to the standard
set by Christ, as any man I ever knew :
"Excejit \e be converted and become as
little children. }e shall not enter into the
kingdom of hea\-en." He was converted
and had become as a little child. The char-
acter of the man is well illustrated by a little
])oem which was found in his pocket after
his death, and which he had carried for
years until it was almost worn out with use.
He would often read it to his wife and say
that it expressed his feelings. It is based
(in a declaration and invitation of Christ:
"I am the door;" "Him that cometh to me
I will in no wise cast out." It is as follows:
The mistakes of my life are many.
The sins of my heart are more.
.\nd I scarce can see for weeping.
But I come to tlic open door.
1 am lowest of thos'e who love Hini,
I am weakest of those who pray.
But I'm coming as He has bidden,
And He will not say me "nay."
My mistakes His love will cover,
My sins He will wash away.
And the feet that shrink and falter.
.Shall walk throngh the gates of day.
If I tnrn not from His whisper,
H I let not go His hand.
I shall see Him in His beauty
The King in the far-off land.
The mistakes of my life are many.
And my soul is sick with sin.
And I scarce can see for weeping.
But the Lord will let me in.
Think of a man like Robert J- Lawton
saying, "I am lozccst of those that love Him ;
and weakest of them that pray," yet this
man! Who can d<]ul)t that
Those feet which shrank and faltered
Have walked thr<jugh the gates of day?
Another favorite hymn of Mr. Lawton
was Bliss' Last Hymn. This expressed the
same filial, childlike, trustful spirit. He was
ever anxious to learn more of Christ. His
Bible was his constant companion. He was
never absent, unless sick or away from
home, from church, the prayer-meeting and
the Bible class. He literally 'adorned his pro-
fession by a godly walk and con\-ersation.
His business partner told me that in the
many years they were associated together,
he had never heard an impure c>r improper
word pass his lips. This is remarkable testi-
mony. He was pure in heart. Every one
who came in contact with him was impressed
with his goodness. It seemed as though he
was too pin-e for earth. He "walked with
God," and he was not, for God took him.
He was a man of prayer. His wife told
me he rarelv. if ever, left his house at noon
to go to his place of business, without re-
tiring to his room and spending a short
time in prayer. Thus regularly, three times
a day, morning, noon and night, like Daniel
of old, he prayed to his God, This was the
man wdiose loss every one mourns. He will
be missed in the community, in the business
circles, in the church, by his partner in
business who loved him as a brother, and
especially in his home. But no one can doubt
that our loss is his eternal gain. He is to-
dav in the Paradise of Gofl, one of the
blood-bought and blootl-washed throng. He
bears that new name which none Iiut they
who receive it know. He rejoices in the
presence of Christ, and his body awaits the
resurrection of the just.
I have thus written fullv of Air. Lawton,
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not for the sake of praising him, for 1 know
that he would tleprecate sucli a tiling, hut
hecanse I feel that such a life as his should
be held up for an example. Such lives are
\ery rare in this world. If one sinner de-
stroys much good, the value of one hoh-,
consecrated life, in inestimable. "The
righteous shall be held in everl;isting remem-
brance." W'c ba\'e a rich legacv in bis
memory.
CHARLES D. M.VRQUETTE, one of
the patriotic soldiers of the Civil war, who
when peace was declared, laid down his
arms and resumed the work he abandoned
when his cnunlry called, is one of the suc-
cessful tailors of Carlisle, where he has
lieen engaged in business for many years,
conducting his establishment in such a man-
ner as to win the high praise of the business
men of the town. He is of Erencb Huguenot
stock, his grandfather. Henry, or his great-
grandfather being a native of France.
Henry I\Iar((uette was a dry goods merchant
in Lebanon, Pa., where he died. His fam-
ily consisted of five children.
Henry Marquette (2), son of Henry,
was born in Lebanon, Pa., and he received
his education in the schools there. By trade
he was a blacksmith, and for forty-five years
])ursued that calling in Campbellstown. His
fame as a workman spread all over that sec-
tion of the State, and be was called upon to
jjerform work for those who came many
miles to profit by his skill. When he re-
tired he went to Churchtown. and made his
home with a daughter, Mrs. Dunkle. He
married Elizabeth Douglas, a descendant of
the historic Douglas clan in Sc itland. She
was born in Dauphin county, on the Horse-
shoe Pike between Campbellstown and Hum-
melstown. and died in 1872, aged about
sixty-five years. Henry Marquette ( 2 ) died
about 1869. He and bis wife attended the
Lutheran and Methodist Churches, but they
themselves were Presbyterians. He was a
Democrat in politics, and served one term as
poor director. They were the parents of
fourteen children : ( i ) John died young.
(2) Mary died in infancy. (3) William
died at Harrisburg. (4) Henry lives in
Callaway county, Mo. ( 5 ) Daniel died at
his home in Shamokin, Pa., in 1904. (6)
Kate married Peter Dunkle, and died in
Churchtown. Pa. (7) Caroline is Mrs.
Christian Herman, of Harrisburg. (8)
John (2) was a soldier in the Civil war.
He enlisted first for three months, and
served as cor[)oral and sergeant; then re-
enlisted in the nine months' service, and in
1863 enlisted for three years or during the
war in Company V. 93d P. V. L In the
first day's fight in the Wilderness he was
wounded five times in the left leg, and was
first cared for in the field hospital, then in
the general hospital, and was finally sent to
hospitals in Fredericksburg, Washington.
D. C. ;md I'hiladelphia. After the close
of the war he located in Chicago, moving-
thence to Fort Dodge, low^a. He married
Ella Boyer. (9) Joseph died in the fall of
1862. ■ (10) Charles D. was next in the
order of h'wih. (11) Mary married John
Hornung. and died in 1902 in Harrisburg.
(12) Sally became Mrs. Lewis Raber, and
lives in Omaha, Neb. (13) Samuel resides
in Philadelphia. (14) James is a postal
railway clerk.
Charles D. Marquette was born in Camp-
bellstown. Pa., Feb. 9, 1845. His literary
training was all recei\ed in the public schools
of Lebanon county, which, bow'ever, were
exceptionally good for the times. One of
his first teachers was Henry Hough, a w^ell
known educator of that day. At the age of
thirteen he began to learn the tailor's trade
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with Edward Kinimel. of Leljaiioii, but at
the end of his first year he was stricken with
tvphoid fever, and after a somewhat lengthy
convalescence, lie again took up the same
trade, this time under Raber & Bro., where
he worked about two years. The outbreak
iif the Civil war changed all his plans. On
lulv 4. 1861. he enlisted in Company F. 93d
P. y. [.. under Capt. Lung and Col. J. M.
McCarter. Tie was luustered into service at
Lebanon Se])t. 23. iSfM. The regiment was
known as the Lebanim infantry. They were
first sent to \\'ashington. D. C. and after
a brief sta\' at Soldier's Rest went to
Camp Fort Good Hope. Their first arms
were Belgian rifles, but in tlie Peninsular
canipaigTi the}' were given Springfield rifles.
In the beginning they were assigned tn
Peck's Brigade. Couch's Command. 4th
Corps, all under the command of Gen. E. D.
Keyes. On ]\Iarch 10. 1862. the regiment
started on the Manassas campaign, and then
on March 20th on the Peninsular campaign.
In the battle of Williamsburg the regiment
k)St six killed, and twent\- wounded, Capt.
George B. Shro\e being among the killed,
while Lieut. Col. Johnston had his horse
shot under him. At Fair Oaks the regiment
distinguished itself and suffered twenty
killed, one htmdred and eight wounded and
eight missing. At Chantilly it supported a
I)attery. At Fredericksburg, the regiment,
now^ in the 6th Corps, under Gen. Smith,
of Franklin's Grand Division, crossed the
river and was held in reserve during the en-
gagement. At Salem Heights the 93d, to-
gether with the I02d P. V. I., was under a
terrible fire the whole time. The 93d par-
ticipated in all the skirmishes and battles in
the campaign following Lee into Pennsyl-
\ania. At Gettysburg it was stationed at
the Stone Fence and Peach Orchard, then
lieing muler ib.e cnmmand uf Gen. Wheaton.
.Vfter the fight at Aline Run. the men were
sent into camp at Brandy Station. In
the fight at Sailiir's Creek, Mr. Alar-
i|uette was wounded Ijv a musket ball. In
1862 he was made sergeant, and at lirandy
Station he w'as detailed as orderly sergeant
and pro\'Ost guard at Gen. Wheatcm's head-
([uarters. one of his duties being the carry-
ing oi Division Headrinarters' flag on march
and in battle. On Feb. 7. 18O4. ^^^ Harper's
Ferry, Mr. Mar(|uette, with three- fourths of
the regiment re-enlisted, and then weiU home
on furlough. recei\'ing a great o\at;on at
Lebanon. On Alarch loth following the
regiment asseml:)led at Caiup Curtin, and
eight days later rejoined the Brigade at Hall-
town, eight hundred strong. They took part
in the fight at Todd's Ta\-ern. Spott-
sylvania Court House, and in the
campaigns from the Rappahannock to
the James, later playing a conspicuous part
in the Chickahominy and Petersburg battles.
They were also at Weldon railroad. Hatch-
er's Run, and supported Sheridan at Five
Forks. From May 4, 1864, to June 2d,
they marched 350 miles in 26 marches, and
\vere fifteen days without regular rations.
In this time they dug thirty rifle pits, fought
eight distinct battles, and for only five days
of the time were they free from the shots of
the emeny. The officers did not take off
their clothes or lay aside their accoutrements.
When clothes and shoes were worn out they
were replaced liy those of the dead.
This was followed bv Winchester. At
Cedar Creek Mr. Marquette as orderly had
his horse shot under him. In Bates' "His-
tory of Pennsylvania Regiments." appears
an account from in front of Petersl)nrg, at
daybreak, April 2, 1865 : "Jn the first charge
upon the enemy's breastworks. Sergeant
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Charles Marquette distinguished himself hy
capturing a rebel flag, for which he received
a medal of honor."
Mr. Marquette had just returned fnjm
headquarters and rejoined his company and
regiment, to be lieutenant of his company,
but on March 1. 1865, he entered the fight
with his regiment and his promotion was
overlooked. On June 27, 1865, he was
mustered out at Ariington Heights, Virginia.
Returning to liis home in Lebanon, he
enjoyed a short rest, and then entered the
Xormal School at Palmyra, where he closely
ajiplied himself fur a year and a half. He
next went to Caird. 111., where bis friend,
John O. Harmon, then mayor of Cairo,
found work for him at bis trade. In 1868
bis health failed, .and be returned to his
home in PcnnsvKania. Bv recommendation
of Superintendent Nichols, he secured a posi-
tion as brakeman on the Reading Railroad,
which position he tilled two years. Upon
bis recoverv be hrst located at \\'rights\ille,
\'ork county, and there be remained seven-
teen years engaged in the tailoring business
for himself. In 1883 he moved to Carlisle
succeeding to the establisbiuent of John C.
Haas, on East High street. In 1888 he
]nu"chased his present building from the as-
signees of J. D. Leidicb, and mo\ed his
business into its more modern and commo-
dious quarters. I'rom 1883 to 1900 be had
as a partner P". C. Schindel. Mr. Marquette
is a man of the highest integrit\\ and con-
ducts his affairs in a most business like man-
ner. He is a natural artist, and having a
thorough knowledge of his calling, is able
to please his customers to the greatest de-
gree. .
In the spring of 1870. at \\'rights\'ille,
Mr. Marquette was married to Emma M.
W'eller. a native of Baltimore, l\Id. Two
children came to brighten their bonie, but
one, Herbert, passed away in infancy : the
other, Miss Mary E., is at home. Mr. Mar-
(luette and his family are active in the work
of the Presbyterian Church, to which they
all belong. Though born in the ranks of the
Democratic party, he has had a change of
heart, and now gives hearty support to the
]>rinciples of the Republican party. He is a
man who finds his greatest pleasure in bis
home, where he delights to greet bis friends.
His fraternal orders are the Grand Army of
the Republic, of which be is an honored
member, being enrolled in Post No, 201, at
Carlisle, and the Masons, he being a mem-
ber and past master of St. John's Lodge. No.
260, I*". & A. M. ; past high priest, St. John's
Cba]5ter. No. 171 ; member of St. John's
Comm;in(ler\-, No. 8; and Lulu Shrine, at
Philadcl])bia. He also belongs to True
Friend Lodge, No. 56, K. P. In all the
relations of life Mr. Mar(|uette has endeav-
ored to do bis whole duty as he saw it. and
he has not been found wanting in the field, in
l)usiness or in bis home.
\\ILLL\M B. RICE, who conducts a
shoe store at Xo. 420 North West street,
Carlisle, is one of the most respected resi-
dents of that place. He has been identified
with its Inisiness interests for many years
and has always borne the highest reputation
for honor and integrity, whether in commer-
cial transactions, or in any of the other re-
lations of life.
Mr. Rice was born Aprrl 27, 1834, in
Sa\ille township. Perry Co.. Pa., and comes
of an I lid family of that count\'. He is a
grandson of Adam and Betsey Rice, the
former of whom settled in Perry county
at an early day, and both li\ed to advanced
age. He was a wagonmaker by occupation.
Joseph Rice, father of William B., was also
a wagonmaker. He married Elizabeth Bird,
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and botli died in Perry county, about five
miles aljove Xew Bloomfield. Tliey were
n^embers of tlie Reformed Church. Their
family consisted of ten children, all but three
of whom still survi\e.
William B. Rice remained at the place
of his birth until grown to manhood, and
(luring boyhood attended the district schools,
receiving a good practical education. When
Init thirteen years old he commenced to
learn the shoemaker's trade, and in time
started in the business for himself, at Linn's
Mills. Perry county, where he remained un-
til 1856. He then followed carpentering
for a time, and later put up post fences, do-
ing the boring by hand. In 1863 he entered
the L'nion armv for service in the Civil
war, enlisting for ninety days in Company
B, 202d P. V. I., in which he served one
year. On his return from the army Mr.
Rice located in Carlisle, Cumberland county,
and bought a tract of land which he farmed
for a time, finally embarking again in the
shoe business. For three years he was lo-
cated on South Pitt street, thence moving
to Main street, where he continued to do
business for twenty-five years. At the end
of that period he sold out and moved to
Washington, D. C, where he bought a home
and resided for several years, until after the
death of his wife, which occurred in Wash-
ington in 1899. Mr. Rice then returned
to Carlisle, where he has since carried on
his present store, in which he has met with
the success which attended all his business
ventures. However, he has deserved all his
l)rosperity, for he is hard-working, and an
excellent manager, and he neglects nothing
which might contribute to the good of his
business or the accommodation of his
patrons.
Mr. Rice was married in Perry county,
about 1856, to Ahina Keck, who was bom
there, daughter of Daniel and Lydia (Dick)
Keck, and two children blessed this union :
Elmira Jane is the wife of William Wagner,
of Carlisle; Kieft'er E. married Aliss Cathe-
rine Masonhamer, and also resides in Car-
lisle. ]\Irs. Rice was a member of the Re-
formed Church, to which her husband also
belongs. He is a Republican in political
sentiment, but not active in party matters
or public affairs of any kind.
HEXRY GOTTWERTH. one of the
most substantial residents of Carlisle, where
he has been engaged in business for many
years, is a native of the Fatherland, from
which a number of the best citizens of that
place have come. He was born May 18,
1845. in Rauschenberg, Hessen-Cassel, son
of Louis Gottwerth, who was also a resi-
dent of Carlisle for many years.
Louis Gottwerth was born in Lehrbavtgh,
Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, learned the
trade of dyer, and in connection with that
pursuit owned and conducted a hotel. Hav-
ing joined the Revolutionary movement of
the latter "forties he was obliged to flee the
country, and he came to America in 1847,
making his permanent home in Carlisle,
Cumberland Co., Pa. Here he followed the
work of gardener and remained until his
death, which occurred in 1872. ^Ir. Gott-
werth married for his first wife ]\Iary
Klingenhoffer, who died when her son
Henry, our subject, was born, and after
coming to America he married, in Carlisle,
Miss ]\Iary Slape (now deceased). To this
union also came one child, George L., who
is a resident of Carlisle.
As Henry Gottwerth was but two years
old when his father left Germanv for the
L'nited States, he went to live with his ma-
ternal grandparents, Johannes and Margaret
(Kratz) Klingenhoffer. The grandfather
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was a baker by trade, had a stillhouse and
brewery, and also kept a hotel. He and
his wife both died in (jermany. Henry at-
tended the public schools until he was four-
teen years old, after which, for three years,
he served at the tailor's trade, the expense
of his apprenticeship being borne by his
grandfather. Continuing at his trade as a
journeyman, he followed it in Germany until
1866, in which year he decided to join his
father in .America. Leaving Hamburg in
tlie sailing vessel "Electric," he landed in
New York Cit}' after a tedious voyage of
eight weeks and four days, and came direct
to his father at Carlisle, Pa., where he at
once went to work at his trade. Before
long he had opened a tailor shop of his own,
on Main street, which he carried on for a
number of years, becoming one of the suc-
cessful business men of the city. To his
credit be it said, he is a self-made man, for
he had no capital to begin on, and what he
has accumulated has been acquired by
earnest effort and unceasing diligence. He
now owns several good properties, and is in
comfortable circumstances, and throughout
his career he has maintained a high reputa-
tion, commanding the respect of all who have
had dealings with him. In 1892 Mr. Gott-
werth rented the "Farmers & Drovers
Hotel," which he subsequently purchased ; in
1899 he leased the place, and in 1903 sold
it to Harry Beetem.
On Feb. 15, 1870, Mr. Gottwerth was
married, in Carlisle, to Miss Anna Margaret
Shubert, a native of Chambersburg, Pa.,
who was a daughter of Bruno and Elizabeth
(J^Iiller) Shubert. Air. Shubert passed away
in 1870, but Airs. Shubert still survives.
Mrs. Gottwerth died Alay 13, 1903, at the
age of fifty-fi\e years, the mother of two
children : ( i ) Charles E., born Nov. 20,
1870, received an excellent education in the
public schools, and was also thoroughly
trained in music. During the Spanish-
American war he was clarinet player in the
band of the 201st New York Volunteers,
and died Nov. 13, 1899, as the result of ex-
posure, etc., during his service. (2) Alary,
born Alarch 15, 1872, is the wife of Grant
Weller, and resides in Philadelphia.
Socially Air. Gottwerth holds member-
ship in the I. O. R. AI., with which he has
been affiliated since 1868, having joined in
Harrisburg. He was a charter member of
the local lodge, No. 108. His political sup-
port is given to the Democratic party, and in
religion he clings to the faith of his fore-
fathers, being a member of the Second Lu-
theran Church. His wife was a member of
St. Patrick's Catholic Church.
CFIARLEY D. SIPE, a prominent shoe
dealer located at No. 18 North Hanover
street, Carlisle, established this business in
1899, and now has one of the finest houses
of the kind in the county. His birth oc-
curred Sept. 28, 1872, in Carlisle, and he
is a son of Robert F. and Alamie A. ( Heck-
indorn) Sipe, both of whom are living in
Carlisle. Robert F. Sipe was born and
reared in Carlisle, where he learned the trade
of cabinet-maker with his father, David Sipe.
After completing his trade he and his brother
Albert succeeded the father in the business,
and since that time they have worked along
these lines, although Robert Sipe is now
living practically retired. He married Alamie
Heckindorn, a daughter of Leonard Heckin-
dorn, and they had the following family :
Charles D. ; William F., a finisher at the
Carlisle Shoe Co. ; and Robert, who died at
the age of four years. Air. and Airs. Robert
F. Sipe attend the First Lutheran Church,
of which she is a member.
Charley D. Sipe attended the city schools
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until he was thirteen, when he entered tlie
shoe store of C. W". Strohni as a clerk, and
spent five years there. He then entered the
drug store of John Sipe. After two years
he clerked for H. W. Lare. shoe dealer, and
then opened his own lousiness, as above
stated. He is one of the live, progressive
young Inisiness men of the city. Fraternally
he is a member of the A. F. & A. AI.. St.
John Lodge, No. 260, and of the I. O. O. F.
Lodge. Xii. ()]. and is very popular in l)oth
organizations.
In Xi)\-eniber. 1897, Mr. Sipe married
Sarah E. Beetem. daughter of George
Beetem, of Carlisle, and to them has been
liorn line child, Robert B. They are con-
sistent memliers of the First Lutheran
Church I if Carlisle. Their residence is at
Xo. 234 South Hanover street, Carlisle.
Air. and Mrs. Sipe have made many friends
and are important factors in the social life
cif the ciimmunitv.
RE\'. HENRY XEIDIG FEGLEV,
pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, and
Professor of Mental and Abiral Science, Ger-
man and Literature at Irving College, Me-
chanicsburg, Pa., is (lue of the distinguished
citizens of his communitx'. He was Imrn
Xov. [S, 1S48, in Boyertown, Berks county,
a son of Stephen and Lavina ( Neidig) Feg-
ley, the former of whom was born in Berks
county and the latter in Montgomery countv,
near the Berks line. After their marriage
Mr. and Mrs. Fegley located in Berks, where
the father carried on farming for .some time,
and then mined to Alontgomerx- countv.
when their son Henry had reached school
age.
Completing the common schi.iol course,
Henry N. Fegley, a bright student, attended
1^'rederick Institute and Boyertown .\cademy.
and later entered the Sopliomore class at the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
where he remained from 1866 to 1869, grad-
uating in the latter year. After his gradua-
tion he entered the Theological Seminary
at Mt. Airy, in the vicinity of Philadelphia,
where he was graduated in 1872, and soon
afterward was ordained. Shortly after the
young clergyman came to Cumberland coun-
ty and located at Mechanicsburg, where he
became pastor of St. ALark's Lutheran
Churcii, a congregation \\ bich has increased
under his pastorate to 215 meiubers. Since
1892 he has also filled the position of Pro-
fessor of Mental and Moral Science at Irving
College, anil since 1895. 'I'^s (.iccupied, in
addition, the chair of German rmcl Litera-
ture. He is ciue of the able and scholarly
men of his chiuxii.
In 1875 Dr. Fegley married Miss Belinda
C. Reichard. of Allentown, a daughter of
Jonathan and Rebecca Reichard, and the two
children of this union are: Charles, a grad-
uate of Muhlenberg College, at Allentown ;
and Edith Elizaljeth, a graduate of Irving-
College, ;it Mechanicsljurg, and a teacher
in the city schools.
Re\'. Dr. Fegley has been honored on
more than one occasion by the various edu-
cational institutions with which he has been
more or less connected. For a long period
he has held the degree of A. M.. and in 1903
the Roanoke College, of Virginia, conferred
that of 1). D. His reputation as an educator
extends beyond the State and he is no less
noted as a pastor. Few citizens of Mechan-
icsburg are lietter known, and few are more
closely identified with its religious and educa-
tional life.
WILLIAM BL.MR McCOMMON.
late member of the real estate and in.sur-
ance firm of Stock & McCommon. and for a
number of years one of the leading business
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men of the city of Carlisle. Cumberland ,
county, was born in 1836, a son of James
and Annie (Cornman) ]\[cComnion. His
father died when our subject was a lad of
cis'lit years, in 1844. he being then forty-
three. By occupation he was a farmer, and
spent his life in Cumberland county. The
mother died in 1852. aged about forty-eight
or fifty years. Both were members of the
Co\-enant Church. The cliildren born to
them were thirteen in number, but only nine
grew lo maturity: John, a school teacher,
died in 1852; Ann C. died unmarried; Len-
nox Hogue is a retired farmer of Missouri :
Sarah married A. B. Bcisel. of Carlisle;
William Blair is mentioned below: James
S. (deceased), was a resident of Mt. Holly,
and was a carpenter: Mary E. (deceased),
married George Brougher, of Cumberland
county; Margaret J. married a ^Ir. Rambo.
of Philadelphia: Amos (j. is ;i wood worker
of Mt. Holly.
\\'illiam Blair McConimon was reared
on the farm and received but a limited edu-
cation in tlie common schools, continuing
thus until seventeen, when he settled in Car-
lisle and api)renticed himself to the carpen-
ter's trade. He afterward worked as a
journeyman for some time, and then began
l)usiness for himself as a contractor and
builder, following this branch ni commercial
industry for thirty-five years in Cumberland
county. In 1887 he was elected to the of-
fice of register of Cumberland county, and
filled that fiffice very acceptably for three
years, as the Democratic incumbent. He
aivvaj'S took a deep interest in politics, was
a memljer of the Democratic county com-
mittee and ser\-ed as a nicmber nf the bo:u"d
of council of Carlisle. He was known far
and wide as a public-spirited citizen, always
willing ti_) assist in everxthing tending
toward the Ijeltermenl of hum;inity. I'ra-
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ternally he was a Mason, belonging to St.
John Lodge, No. 260, St. John Chapter,
Xo. 171. St. John Commandery. Xo. 8. and
Rajah Temple, of Reading, and he repre-
se!ited his lodge to the Grand Lodge. His
death, which occurred March 9, 1904. left
a \'oid in many circles.
On Oct. 28, 1858, Mr. McCommon mar-
ried Miss Martha Baker, who was born in
Cumberland county Feb. 2, 1839. daughter
of Daniel and Elizabeth (Glenn) Baker,
and six children were born of this union,
three now living : Ella F. married Charles
H. Sipe. of Carlisle, who is with the Cum-
berland \'alley Railroad Co. ; Anna S. is at
home: Harry C. who lives at .\ltO(jna. mar-
ried Mame Weibley, and is a machinist in
the Pennsylvania railroad shops. The fam-
ily all affiliate with the Lutheran Church.
They reside at Xo. 133 East Main street.
Carlisle, where they show a gracious and
pleasing hospit.'dity to their many friends.
GEORGE W. PHLTON, who is en-
gaged in a confectionery business at Xo.
T,^ \\'est IMain street, Carlisle, belongs to
one of the leading families of the city. He
is a son of (jeorge W. and Emeline
(Gibbs) Hilton, the former of whom was
born in 18 18. at Hull, England, and was.
brought to Manchester, ALaine. by his pa-
rents. George W. and Mercy (Fuller) Hil-
ton, the latter a cousin of Chief Justice
Fuller. Grandfather Hilton was a native
of the Isle of Wight and there followed
the vocation of ship blacksmith until he
emigrated to America with his family, set-
tling on a M:tine farm in tlie \'icinity of
^Manchester. There he remained, dving at
the age of ninety-nine years, his widow-
passing the century mark. Both were mem-
bers of the Episcopal Church. They were
people of eflucation, and gax'e their thirteen
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cliildrcn all advantages possible, and all were
taught some self-supporting trade and en-
couraged to spent! their e\-enings in study.
George W . Hilton {_>), son of George,
and the father of uiw suljject, was placed
with a Boston firm of oil-cloth manufac-
lurers. He soi^n \v(jn his way inti.i the con-
fidence of the firm and was entrusted with
a large stock of giiods to dispose of. travel-
ing by wagon, accortling to the custom of
the times, o\-er the country. His journey-
ings brought him to Carlisle, and the loca-
tion and jiriispects of the city, as well as the
encouragement given him by Cleiuent Mc-
Farland, then the host of the old "Mansion
House," induced him to consider favorably
a proposition to make his home here. .Ac-
cepting I\Ir. [Md'arland's offer of a positicin
in the hotel, he made his wagon and team the
nucleus of a liverv, and met with so much
success that he continued to increase his
transportation facilities until he owned a
fine stable and plenty of coaches to meet the
demands of trade. He then had the fore-
sight to establish a stage line to Harrisburg
and to Baltimore. \ia Hanover and Gettys-
burg, and operated the same most pros-
perously until the Iniilding of the railroads.
In the meantime, Air. Hilton purchased
a tract of timber land just east of the city,
which he cleareil, selling the wood and tim-
l)er. and adding to his acreage until the
amount reached 128 acres of some of the
finest land in the county. Here he made an
ideal country home. His Inisiness instincts
had led him to in\'est in property in and
around Carlisle, all of which advanced in
value. He was of i)rogressive spirit and
worked hard for the development of Car-
lisle and her commercial interests. Mr. Hil-
ton was the first resident of the city to erect
a modern residence here anil introduce
plumbing, bath and heating ajjparatus. He
, was one of the first stockholders in the Cum-
berland \'alley railroad and supplied the ties
at this place. .\t the age of about si.xty
\-e:irs he removed to his farm, decitling to
spend his last years among congenial rural
scenes. He delighted in agriculture and
operated his farm with the greatest enjoy-
ment and most satisfactory results. Prior
to this time he had erected a four-story
building in Carlisle with the itlea of using
it for manufacturing purposes and he util-
ized it for the manufacture of a wagon
slide seat, under a patent of his own, the
btisiness assuming large proportions. The
distributing point was in Kansas and large
shipments were made to that point for many
years. Mr. Hilton died in i8gi. In 1847
he married Emeline Gibbs, a daughter of
Henry Gibbs, an old and prominent citizen
of Lancaster. She died at the age of seven-
ty-three years, in iSqq. Thev reared a fam-
ily of four children, naiuely : Miss Mary, a
resident of Carlisle; Nannie, wife of J. S.
Orrick, of Baltimore, Md. ; George \\'., of
this sketch; and Sarah, wife of Samuel C.
Boyer, of Port Clinton, Pennsylvania.
George \\'. Hilton, bearing the family
name, was born Jan. 14, iS6g. at Carlisle,
and was educated in the public schools of
the city, later taking an academic course
and a business course at Peirce Business
College, Philadelphia, Pa. While attending
the latter he spent his evenings as a window
draper for the millionaire merchant. John
W'anamaker. The few hours intervening
between his daily studies and evening duties
were ne\-er wasted, as he acted then as col-
lector, being employed by such business con-
cerns as J. B. Lippincott & Co., Stephen
Whitman, Benjamin Teller and W. O. Wil-
ber & Sons. After completing his business
course he continued for seven years the oc-
cupations referred to, making Philadelphia
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tlie scene of liis operations. For three sum-
mers he was also employed as a window-
draper, by Lord & Taylor, of New York, his
taste and ingenuity making; him very de-
siral>le in this position, which reciuircd much
artistic ability. For the past half dozen
years he has had charge of this department
of many of the leading houses in the Cum-
berland Valle}'.
I'pon the death of his father Mr. Hil-
son was called home to take charge of tlie
estate and act as executor and he gave his
niothcr filial care until the close of her life.
On May i, 1902, lie embarked in the con-
fectionery business, operating the only first-
class establishment of its kind in the city,
which he has fitted u]) to ser\-e all the deli-
cacies demanded by a most desiral)le trade,
carrying creams of all kinds. Fluyler's and
Whitman's productions, and manufactur-
ing- mai-iy dainties and sweetmeats himself.
He is very popular in Carlisle, his pleasant
manner and obliging disposition making
iiim many friends. He remains unmarried,
and resides in a pleasaiit home at Xo. 14
South Hanover street.
CLARENCE AL LIGGETT, a pros-
perous real estate dealer and insurance agent,
with offices at No. 8 Court House avenue,
Carlisle, is a native of the city, where he was
born July 13, 1871, a son of Jacob L. and
Emma L. (Leidig) Liggett. The father is
now deceased, but the mother resides in
Carlisle.
Mr. Liggett's life has been spent in Car-
lisle, where he was reared and attended
school until he was seventeen years old,
when he accepted a clerkship in the store of
J. W. I'lank. remaining there for eighteen
months. He then removed to Philadelphia
and took a clerkship in the office of a whole-
sale iron, steel and tin plate importing firm,
with which he remained two years. Re-
turning to Carlisle, he opened an office at
his present address and established hin-iself
in a real-estate and insurance business, meet-
ing with remarkable success. He represents
the leading fire insurance companies. and also
conducts a large realtv business, attending to
conveyancing and kindred business, and is
most justly regarded as one of the leading
young business n-ien of Carlisle. Politically
he is a Democrat, and has served as treasurer
of the l)oard of poor directors, and secretary
of the York & Gettysburg railroad, of which
he was one of the incorporators.
On Oct. 25, 1900, Mr. Liggett was mar-
ried to Miss Annie L. Robertson, of Phila-
delphia, daughter of Henry E. and Oelia Z.
(Dunn) Robertson. Two children have been
born of this union, namely, Oella Isabel and
Clare Robertson. Religiously, they affiliate
with the Evangelical Lutheran Church and
are \'ery prominent in that body. Their
pleasant home is located at No. 654 North
Hanover street, Carlisle.
REUBEN BRUBAKER. president of
the Beetem Lumber & Mfg. Co., of Car-
lisle, Pa., was born in Lancaster county, Pa.,
near Ephrata, May 24, 1844, a son of John
and Mariah (Kemper) Brubaker,and grand-
son of Daniel Brubaker, who was a well
known man of his day. The father of our
subject died in 1854, aged thirty-two years,
and the mother, died in Cumberland county
aged sixty-two years. Mr. Brubaker was a
farmer by occu])ati(in. The following chil-
dren were born to this couple : Reuben ; Levi,
a carpenter of Carlisle ; Jesse, a carpenter,
living at Jennings, La. ; Henry, a carpenter
of Decatur, 111. ; Fannie, deceased; and Mar-
tin, a farmer of Brown county, Kansas.
When only a lad of thirteen Reuben
Brubaker was brought to Cumberland conn-
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ty. where lie lias since made his home. His
eckication was ohtaincd in the puljhc schools,
which Ik- atlemleil nntil he was seventeen
years old wlien lie learned the trade of car-
penter. After a few years he hegan con-
tracting and Iniilding, and has followed this
calling e\er since upon an extensive scale
throughout Cumherland county, having had
the contract for the erection of many of the
most ])retentious huildings in Carlisle. Since
his election I'l the presidency of the Beetem
Lumber Co. he has concentrated liis energies
upiin the development of that business.
The Ijeetem Lumber & Mfg. Co. of Car-
lisle, Pa., with office and mill at Xns. 428 to
442 East Xorth street, yards corner Louther
and Spring Garden streets, manufacturers of
sash, (1(11 irs. lilinds and hunlier of all kinds,
has the f( illciwing officers: Reuben Bru-
baker. president: Newt(>n C. Wert, secre-
tary and treasurer. The company was in-
corpdrated in i8()5 with a cajiital stock (^f
$40,000. The business was originated liy
(jeorge S. Beetem, in 1880, and at his death,
in 1892. the tirni name changed to H. (j.
P)eetem (& Cn.. thus remaining until the in-
corporation, as given above. The board of
directors is composed of men of prominence
in the commercial world of Carlisle; H. G.
IJeeteni. John F. Kerr. ). W. Wetzel, Calvin
Wagner and R. Brubaker.
In politics Air. Bruliaker is a stanch Re-
publican, and one of the most acti\'e sup-
porters of his party. I"or some rears he
served as president of the board of health
and has always borne his part in all public
impr()\eiuents.
Mr. Brubaker was married in 1866 to
Miss Mary Wert, daughter of Joseph Wert.
Mr. and i\Irs. Brubaker arc members of the
Lutheran Church and fur the ]):ist twenty-
five years Ah-. Brubaker has been a member
of the official board, and was chairman o?
the building committee when the present
handsome edifice was put up in Carlisle, The
pleasant hoiue of the family is at No. 137
East Xorth street, where both Mr. and Mrs.
Brubaker welcome their numerous friends
with genial hospitality.
H-\RRY HERTZLER. clerk of Cum-
berland countv, and (jiie of the prominent
residents of Carlisle, was born one and a
(piarter miles e:ist of Carlisle Nov. 8. 1S61.
a son of John and I'annie ( Erb ) Hertzler.
The father (if oiu" subject was born and
reared on what is known as the Strickler
farm, and received a public school educa-
tion. After his marriage he locatetl on the
Erb farm, east of Carlisle, and later pur-
chased this ])roi)ertv of his father-in-law.
consisting oi 13(1 acres, whereon he fol-
lowed farming until liis retirement, in 1873,
after an unbroken record of fifty years as an
agriculturist. Cpon his retirement he mo\ed
to Carlisle. In ach.lition to farming he was
a large h(jrse dealer, and was successful in
all of his \entures. Mr. Hertzler was a
kind-hearted, public-spirited man, jjrompt to
assist the unfortunate and to further any
measure calculated to pro\-e of Ijenelit to
the community in general. Both he and
his excellent wife were memlx'rs of the Men-
nonite Church. Both are now deceased, Mr.
Hertzler passing away in December. 1896.
aged seventy-se\en \ears, and the mother
May 13, i8()(), aged se\'enty-six years. She
was a nati\-e (.)f Lancaster countv, daughter
of John Erb. wIkt resided near Mavtown,
but was buried on the old farm in Cumber-
Irmd countv.
Xine children were bom to this worthy
couple: Mary married J(iseph Ruhl, of Mid-
dlesex townshii), Cumljerland countv; Abra-
ham is a resident of Indianola, low-a. a
farmer and cattle dealer: John E., residing
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1)11 the (lid honifstead. is a farmer; Samuel,
was until rccentl}', proprietor of the "Frank-
lin House" at Carlisle, Pa. ; Annie married
Rev. J. M. Herr. of Monroe township ; Bar-
bara married John D. Cireybill, of Carlisle;
Daniel is a dealer of Carlisle; Harr\- is men-
tioned below; Catherine died in infancy.
Harry Hertzler was reared upon the
farm, and like his fatlier was educated in the
l)ublic schools. In iS/f) he came to Car-
lisle witli bis parents and kiter was assistant
to his brother-in-law J. 1). Creybill. at the
Middlesex mills, and at the Carlisle mills.
In 1884 he engaged in a 1i\ery business in
Carlisle which he conducted until 1894. and
he was also interested in handling luirses
in company witli his brother Daniel, ship-
ping from the West to Eastern markets.
This branch of the business is still continued,
but he retired from the livery business in
1894. At th;it time he took charge of the
"Franklin House" at Carlisle, which he con-
ducted for five years, or .until i8(j9, when
he assumed management uf the bottling
works. These he operated until Dec. 23,
1902, when he sold the plant in order to
give all bis attention to liis official duties
as clerk of the court and recorder of deeds,
having been elected to the olifice in the fall
of 1902, upon the Republican ticket. He has
also served as a member of the council for
two years. He has been auditor and assist-
ant burgess, being elected to the latter office
by a majority of seventy-two, and council-
man from the Third ward by a majority of
forty-nine. At the November election in
1902 he carried e\ery ward in the city, thus
demonstrating his wonderful personal popu-
larity. He has represented bis party in coun-
ty and State conventions and is a very im-
portant factor in its ranks.
Fraternally, Mr. Hertzler is a member of
the Masonic order, Cumberland Star Lodge,
Xo. i()y: St. John L'liapter. Xo. 191; St.
John Commandery, No. 8 (of which he is
trustee) ; Harrisburg Consistory. S. P. R. S.,
32d degree; and Lulu Temple, Xobles of the
Mystic Shrine, of Philadelphia. He is a
member and treasurer of Two F'riends
Lodge, No. 56, K.. of P. ; treasurer of the
K. of G. E., No. 1 10; member and trustee
of the B. P. O.' E. ; and a member of the
Carlisle Club.
In addition to his other interests Mr.
Hertzler acts as secretary of the Star Street
Railroad Company and the Steelton, New
Cumberland & Mechanicsburg Street Rail-
way Comiiany ; is treasurer of the Carlisle
Horse Protecti\'e As,sociati(jn, and is active
in all of the leading enterprises of the city.
There lia\-e been few movements success-
fully carried out within the past decade or
two in Carlisle \\ hich have not directly or in-
directly owed their consummation in some
measure at least to the influence and enter-
prise of Mr. Hertzler, and the city certainly
owes much to this eminentlv enterprising
and broad-gauged man.
On Dec. 24. 1885, Mr. Hertzler was
united in marriage to Miss Katie Foreman,
a daughter of ex-Sherif¥ James K. Foreman.
Mr. and Mrs. Hertzler have a beautiful home
at No. 560 South Llanover street, where
they show to their many friends a most
gracious and la\-ish hospitality.
DR. EPHRAIM SHULENBERGER,
who lias offices at No. 150 West High
street, Carlisle, is a nati\-e of Mifflin town-
shii), Cunfljerland County, born Nov. 2,
i860, and is a son of John Beatty Sliulen-
berger, a resident of Shipjiensburg.
After receiving a common-school edu-
cation Dr. Shulenberger graduated from the
academy at Newville, taught school for two
terms, and then commenced the study of
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dentistry with Dr. D. S. McCoy, of New-
ville. In i88j he wns enaljled to enter the
Pennsylvania Cnhege of Dental Snrg'ery,
Philadelphia, fmni which he was graduated
in March, 1885, witli the degree of
D. D. S., and cm April 7, 1885, he
located in Carlisle, where he has since
l)uilt up a practice which is constant-
ly increasing. Dr. Shnlenherger kee]is
in touch with the latest discoveries and im-
provements in his pn)fession, and is a \'alned
contrihutor in numerous dental journals
throughout the country. He is a member
of the State Dental Associaticm and alsD the
Alumni Association nf his Alma Mater.
In 1897 the Doctor erected his beautiful
home on West High street, where he re-
sides. He married in 1886 Miss Lillie,
daughter of Rew J. Marion Mickley, of the
Reformed Church of Xewbru'g, now of Mc-
Knightstown, Adams county. Both the
Doctor and his wife affiliate with the Re-
formed Church, in which he has served for
a number of years as deacon, and for thir-
teen years has been an elder. He is a Dem-
ocrat in political belief.
GEORGE \V. RINESMITH, one of
the leading and successful business men of
Carlisle, was born in Perry county, this
State, Aug. 28. 1840. a .son of Henry Rine-
smith. The father was a weaver Iiy trade,
but later in life liecame a farmer, and died
in 1845, ^^^^ mother passing away the Mav
of the same year. They had nine children,
namely: John, who ilied in I'erry countv,
was a farmer and merchant; David (de-
ceased), was a cariienter, but became a
farmer, and still later a hotelkeeper : Samuel,
of Blaine, I'a.. is retired (he served in the
Civil war) ; William, a resident of Carlisle,
served for three years in the Civil war;
Henry, who died in r>l;nne, w.as a farmer:
George W. is mentioned below ; Mary ( de-
ceased) married Solomon Gutshall ; Susan
is the widow of Frederick Gutshall, of
Blaine, Pa. ; Elizal:)eth died unmarried, in
Carlisle.
George W. Rinesmith was onl\- five
years of age when he lost his parents, and
he was bound out to Isaac Buttorff of Perry
ctiunty, who two years later moved into
Cumberland c<iunty. The lad remained
with his master until after he was eighteen,
and only recei\'ed a \-ery limited education.
In the spring of 1859 he went to IMechanics-
burg and entered as an apprentice in a tin
shop, as he desired to le:n'n the trade of tin-
smith. There he remained until July, i8fii,
when he went t(_i Washington, D. C, and
joined the Quartermaster's Department as
assistant wagonmaster, soon afterward l)e-
coming wagonmaster, and remaining in the
department until July. 1864, when he was
honorably discharged. He located in Car-
lisle, purchasing the tin and stove business
of Mrs. Monroe Mijrris, next door to his
present location, and carried on the business
at the original location until 1870, when he
built the structure he now occupies. His
business de\'eloped yearly until it reached
its present magnitude, and he now carries
the heaviest stock in the city, handling al-
most everything in his line from a sto\-e to
the smallest kitchen contrivance. Owing to
his close application to aft'airs he has been
enabled to raise himself from poverty to
wealth, and during these years has also
managed to exert his influence for good in
the community, .\lthough he still super-
vises the business, the acti\e work has been
done by his sons since 1888. In addition to
other interests Mr. Rinesmith is a director
of the Farmers' Trust Co. He has also
done a great amount of building, having
erected fifteen residences, in addition to some
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business blocks, whlie his nwn residence, at
No. 48 East Louther street, is especially
comfortable and commodious. He has been
a ])ublic benefactor and o;iven lilierally to-
ward objects of worth. For some years he
has been a worthy member of the council,
as a representative of the Democratic party.
Fraternally, he is a member of the I. O. O.
F., Carlisle Lodge, No. qi.
On March 24, 18^)4, Mr. Rinesmith
married Miss Alice Plater, daughter of
(jeorge Mater, and six children have been
born of the marriage: Harry ¥.. a tinner,
married Lillian Moucly, and has one child.
Fay ; Clayton R., who with Harry, conducts
the father's business, married Minnie Leop-
ard : Adaline ni.nrricd Roliert Rupp, of Co-
lumbia, Pa.; Charles li\es at home: Her-
man, a cutter at the Lindner shoe factory,
is at home; William W'., who is in the poul-
try and egg business in Carlisle, married
Mary Ritner, and they ha\-e had three chil-
dren, Mildred, Lester and an infant.
FRANK P. STROCK is senior mem-
ber of the firm of F. P. Strock & Co.,
dealers in furniture, located at No. 27 South
Hano\-er street, Carlisle, a house of relia-
bility and business enterprise, one of the
leading ones in the city. It was established
March 2, 1901. and occupies three floors
of the present Iniilding, the dimensions of
which are 120 x 28 fet, with two additional
storage buildings used as warehouses. A
full line of first-class reliable furniture of
all kinds is carried, as well as pictin-es and
frames of all kinds. The firm is composed
of F. P. Strock and E. R. Hutton. both old
"knights of the grip."'
Frank P. Strock is a native of Cumber-
land county. Pa., born March 5, 1864. and
was reared in Carlisle. His parents, Jacob
H. and Angeline (Fissel) Strock. were both
residents of Carlisle. ]\[r. Strock was edu-
cated in the puljlic schools and in \Sj(>
entered the mercantile establishment of John
E. Burkholder, as a clerk, and remained
some four years, going then in the same ca-
pacity to Niles M. Fissel, with whom he
continued two years. He then spent three
years learning the trade of carriage trim-
ming, after which he engaged as a clerk in
the dry-goods establishment of Leidigh &
Birnie, going later to J. \V. Plank. About
one year- afterward he left Carlisle and en-
gaged with the dry-goods house of Lyter
& Fahnestock, at Harrisburg, as manager,
continuing with that firm five years. Mr.
Strock then went out as a tra\-eling sales-
man for three years, at the end of that period
locating at Sacramento. Cal., where he had
charge of the silk and dress goods depart-
ment of the house of Wienstock, Lul)in &
Co.. for one year. Upon his return to Car-
lisle he was again employed with Mr. Plank
for some two years, and then embarked in
his present business. His long experience
in dealing with the public has given him con-
fidence and thorough comprehension of
what best pleases the buyer, and with this
knowledge and a plea.sant, accommodating
manner, and honest, first-class goods, he
has made his personal venture a complete
success.
In politics ]\Ir. Strock is an ardent Dem-
ocrat and a very useful member of his party.
He belongs to a number of fraternal organi-
zations, the Masons, the Royal Arcanum,
the P. O. S. of A., and the B. P. O. E., No.
578, being a charter member of the latter.
In 1859 the Empire Hook 'and Ladder Co.
of Carlisle was formed, and although but a
lad of eleven years he joined the organiza-
tion, in which he has ever since been active,
has served as trustee and secretary, and ii>
November, 1902, was elected president.
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In 18S5 ^Ir. Strock was married to
Alaud Josephine Reese, a daughter of John
M. Reese, of Harrislaurg, and they have one
son, Leroy, still a student. Mr. and ■Mrs.
Strock belong to the Lutheran Cnurch, lib-
erally contributing to its support. He is
one of the progressive and public-spirited
men of the city and is justly held in esteem.
J. C. AlEXTZER, one of the extensive
land owners of I'rankford township. Cum-
berland county, and a man widely and favor-
ably known, is a son of John J. Mentzer,
and grandson of Henry IMentzer. The fam-
ily is of German descent, Init the exact lime
of its establishment upon American soil is
not definitely known.
John J. ^lentzer was born in C\imber-
land county, Feb. 21, 1830, and located in
North Middleton township. He followed
the blacksmith trade all his life. In 1852
he married .\nnie B. Beistline, daughter of
Michael and Catharine (Zimmerman) Beist-
line, and in 1853 he removed to Frankford
township, where he purchased a farm. He
met his death by falling off a wagon, Tan.
21. 1885. His widow is living with her
son, in Frankford township. Children as fol-
lows were born to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. i\Ient-
zer : J. C. is mentioned below : Anna C. died
in Illinois : Laura J. married W. W. Thum-
ma, and lives in Frankford township ; !\Iaggie
M. married Charles Bowiuan and li\es in
North Aliddleton township; John H. died
in Frankford township.
J. C. Mentzer was born in 1852, in North
Middleton township, this county, and as he
grew up attended the schools of Frankford
township until he was nineteen years of age.
Then he devoted himself to farming, and
remained at home until he was twentv-two
years old, when he went to Illinois. He re-
mained there for two years, engaged in farm-
ing, and returning home at the expiration of
that time worked for two years for his father.
He then w ent to work for Jacob Kost, in his
tannery, where he is still employed, being
varcl Ijoss of the plant and engineer. iMr.
Mentzer owns three line farms in Frankford
townshil). but does not farm them for him-
self, his time being entirely occupied by his
duties at the tannery'.
On Feb. 17, 1887, Mr. Mentzer married
Annie S. Erford, daughter of J. J. Erford,
an extended sketch of whom appears else-
where, and one child, Olivia Blanch, was
born to them Feb. 12, 1888.
In politics Mr. Mentzer is a Democrat,
although he does not confine himself strictly
to party lines, preferring to vote for the man
he deems best suited to the position in tpies-
tion. He is a man of probity, uprightness
and integrity, well (jualified for his position
of trust, and one capable of maintaining his
own uniler any circumstances.
JOSEPH H. SNYDER, junior mem-
ber of the mercantile firm of Behney & Sny-
der, of Carlisle, was born Jan. 8, 1866, at
Reading, Pa., a son of John B. and Rebecca
CHildebrandt) Snyder. Grandfather Sny-
der married a Miss Bertolet, a member of
one of the old Huguenot fainilies of Berks
county, and he was long a popular hotel
keeper in Reading, in which city the family
is an old one. It was supposedly founded
by Huguenot refugees.
John B. Snyder was also born at Read-
ing, Pa., and was mainly educated at the
Norristown Academy. By trade he was
a mechanic, but his interest in and talent
for music gave him other occupation. For
a number of years he was leader of the Ring-
gold band, and for some twenty-five years
led the orchestra in the Reading Opera
House. His proficiency in Iiand music gave
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him a wide reputation, and lie had liis hands
full instructing all through his own and
neighboring counties, sometimes composing
music. He was well known in Reading,
where for years he was tax collector and
held other civic otSces, on more than one
cccasion being a useful member of the city
council. In politics he was a Repul)lican
and acli\e in work for the party. He died
No\-. I, lyoo, aged sixty-three years.
Mr. Snyder married Rebecca Hildebrandt,
(laughter of Joseph Hildeljrandt. a well-
known hat manufacturer, and the ])ioncer
"in that business at Reading. Mr. and
Mrs. Snyder had a family of seven chil-
dren, of whom six siu'vive: George II., a
tax collector of Reading; Bertolet H., who
died aged thirty-two years (he was a master
of the cornet and traveled all o\-er the coun-
try with his inslnnnent) : ?\linnic K., wife
of J. C. Behney, of the firm of Behney &
Snyder; Joseph H. ; Laura, wife of George
C. Straub, of Reading: John II., a manu-
facturer of jewelry, of Reading; and Ar-
thur G., manager and part owner of the
King Dramatic Co.
Joseph H. Snyder sjient his boyhood
and earlv life in Reading and obtained his
education in the Reading schools. At the
age of twenty he went West and worked
at the machinist's trade for se\'eral years at
St, Paul, Minn., and for three years was
identified with the Chicago & Great West-
ern Railroad. Later he accepted a profit-
able mercantile clerkship in which he re-
mained until i8<y). when he returned to
Reading, and in the same year became asso-
ciated with J. C. Behney, the present part-
nership Ijeing formed. Mr. Snyder is a
young man full of business enterprise, a
member of the Carlisle Board of Trade,
and one of tlie busy and public-spirited citi-
zens of that place.
In 1889, in Reading, he \vas married to
Maggie, daughter of Jacob Doughty, and
the two children of this union are : Arthur
B., fifteen years old, and Jennie M., eleven
years old, both bright students in the local
schools. Religiously, the family is asso-
ciated with the Reformed Church.
SAMUEL J. H.\RRIS, ex-sherii¥ of
Cumberland county, and a very prominent
man of Carlisle, w-as born at Sbippensburg
Xov. 20, 1843, son of Samuel and Eliza
(Line) Harris.
Samuel Harris was born Sept. 10, 181 1.
and died Nov, 12, 1877. \\'hen a boy he
came to Cumberland count)- and here passed
the rest of his life. He was a blacksmith
and followed that trade successfully all his
life, being a thorough mechanic and pos-
sessed of considerable inventive genius.
About 1867 he invented the Harris double
harpoon hay fork. Lie was a hard-working
industrious man, and no doubt hastened his
death liy overwork. He was one of the pro-
gressive men of his county, always ready
to assist in anything for the public good, was
a devout Christian and an earnest worker
in the Church of God, and a close student
of the Bible, with wdiich he was very famil-
iar being able to quote from almost any part
of the Scriptures. In politics he affiliated
with the Democratic jiarty. He served five
years as justice of the peace at .Shippens-
burg.
Samuel Harris married Eliza Line, and
th.eir family consisted of eleven children, as
follows: Daniel, who died at Oakville,
Cumberland county, in 1885, when about
fifty-three, was a blacksmith, althnugh be
had retired at the time of his demise ( dur-
ing the Civil war be served in the Union
cause, enlisting in August, 1862, and after
serving three months, assisted in raising
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Company D, 130th P. ^^ I.) : Martha is the
widmv of John C. Martin ; W'ilHam chetl
young: Elizabeth died young; [Miss Sarah
is a resident of Shipijensburg; Samuel J. is
mentioned below ; Elizal.ieth became the
wife of Horace A. Tolhelm. of Philadel-
phia; Jdlin W. li\es in Creston. Iowa, and
is a blacksmith; IMary died young; Jennie
married F. X. Christman, of Harrisburg;
\\'illiam (J), w Iim died in Williamsport,
was a blacksmith.
Samuel J. Harris was reared to' the
work of a blacksmith, and received but a
limited education, but owing to close ob-
servation and natiu'al intelligence he is never
the less a very well posted man. His busi-
ness career liegan when he was fourteen,
when he went into the shop with his father.
In 1862. when he was only nineteen, he en-
listed in Company D. 130th P. V. I., for
nine months, and ser\'ed as corporal, par-
ticipatir.g in the battles of .\ntietam and
Chancellorsville ; at the former battle he
was wounded in the groin with a shell.
.\fter the close of his term of ser\-ice he
returned to his farm and assisted his father
under the firm name of Harris & Sons.
After his father died the business was con-
ilucted b}- Harris «S: Bro., and still later by
Samuel J. Harris. He continued in busi-
ness until 1897. when he was elected sherit^
of Cumberland county, serving a term of
three years. He has always been a stanch
Democrat, and when he was elected he had
the handsome majority of goo, thus prov-
ing his personal popularity. Mr. Harris is
a member of Capt. Colwell Post. fj. .\. R..
No. 201; and of the T. O. O. P., Cumber-
land Lodge, No. 90. and Encampment Xo.
34. He has represented his lodge t(j the
(Irand Lodge, and has been a member of
the order since he was twenty-one years of
age. Since 1878 he has been a trustee of
the Shippensburg Xormal School, and he is
very jjopular in all the relations of life.
On October 31. 1868, ^Ir. Harris was
married to Laura B. Haller, daughter of
Henry Haller, of Shippensburg, who died
January 16, 1875, leaving one child, Carrie
A., now the wife of Frank Gates, of Ship-
pensburg. On Jan. 11. 1880. ^Ir. Harris
was married to Sallie Diflenderfer. daugh-
ter of John and Rel)ecca Dift'enderfer. and
they ha\-e three children. Roy D.. Rebecca
and Samuel. Jr. The family affiliate with
the Church of God.
BEXJA:MIN W. HOSLER. one of the
li\'e. active business men of Carlisle, was
born in Xorth Middleton township. Cum-
berland county. Jan. 13, i860, a son of Ben-
jamin and Elizabeth ( Alordorf) Hosier.
The Hosier family is of German de-
scent, and was founded in America at an
early day. Benjamin Hosier, the father,
was a native of Lancaster county. Pa., came
to Ctnnberland county with his mother
when a young man. and here learned the
trade of a carpenter and builder, and for
years was one of the leading contractors of
Cumberland county. His home was about
one and one-half miles north of Carlisle,
where he owned a small farm on which
many of the buildings standing to-day are
evidences of his enterprise and thrift.
About 1849 f*'' 1850 he went to California,
and engaged in gold mining for some eigh-
teen months. In 1873 he went to the east-
ern part of Xorth Carolina. locating near
Xewbern. and manufactured lumber for
seventeen years. Returning to Carlisle, he
associated his son Benjamin \\'. with him
in a creamery business. ]\lr. Hosier died
Jan. 20, 1902. aged eighty years, and his
excellent wife, who was a native of Cumber-
land county, died in 1876, aged fifty-eight
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years. Both were members (it the German
Reformed Church. Their children were as
follows: John T., deceased; Amanda, wife
of Adam Egolf, of Harrisburg: Sarah, who
married Jerome Kantfman of Carlisle; and
Benjamin W.
Benjamin \\". Hosier, the youngest of
the family, was re;n-ed on the farm and edu-
cated in the public schools. Like many an-
other farmer's boy, ui)on ending his public
school career he began to teach school him-
self, continuing thus for nine years in Cum-
berland cciuntv, after which he s]ient three
years in North Carolina with his father.
Returning to Carlisle, in i8yo, he engaged
in the creamery business, and since about
1893 'i'^ 'i'^'' 'i'^'^ charge of the entire Inisi-
ness, operating several creameries, includ-
ing one in Carlisle which he fi.iunded upon
locating in the city in i8y_^. He manufact-
ures butter, the jiroduct being marketed to
Philadelphia and Camden, and also oper-
ates a milk department which is one of the
best in the city. In 1899 '^^ l)egan the man-
ufacture of ice cream, which enterprise has
grown to considerable proportions. JNIr.
Hosier selling at wholesale in different por-
tions of the country, as well as to the retail
trade. In the spring of 1903 he estal)lished
a wholesale and retail milk and ice cream
depot at Harrisburg ( the ice cream being-
manufactured in Carlisle), and he also has
an extensive creamery at or near Cain-
bridge, in Lancaster county.
Mr. Hosier has taken considerable in-
terest in politics as a Republican, and rejire-
sents the First ward in the council, although
that ward is strongly Democratic : he
carried it by a majority of 13^. ]-"rater-
nally he is a member of the A. F. & A. M..
Cumberland Star Lodge, No. 197, and St.
John Chapter; of the I. O. O. F., Lodge
No. 91 ; of the K. of P., No. 56; of the I.
O. R. M., Letort Lodge; of the Royal Ar-
canum, and the Fraternal Mystic Circle.
In 1883 Mr. Hosier was married to JMiss
Lizzie Gutshall, a daughter of Jacob Gut-
slwll, of Cumberland county, and four chil-
dren have been born to them : Edith, Edna.
Harold, and Norman, deceased. They are
all members of the Reformed Church, in
the work of which they take an active part,
and their pleasant home is at No. 535 North
Bedford street, where they welcome their
many friends.
ALBERT W. SIPE. The Sipe Family
is one of the oldest in Cumberland county.
Pa., its representatives having lived here
for over a century. The grandfather of
.\. W. Sipe, Peter Sipe, was born in 1771
at Lancaster, Pa., came to this county with
his parents when a lad, antl located \\\th
them near Mt. Holly Springs. Peter Sipe
was a farmer, and a carpenter by trade. He
and his wife Mary were Dunkards in re-
ligious faith. He died of old age when he
was ninety-one, and his wife was aijout
eighty-six, when she passed away ; they were
buried in the liurying-ground of Baker's
Church. The following children were born
to them: Sarah, born in 1816, married
William Kinard, of Cumberland county, and
both are buried at Mechanicsburg ; Eliza-
beth, born in 1806, married Levi How'e, of
Cumberland county, and both are buried at
Moler's Church: Mary, Ijorn in 18 15, mar-
ried Jacob Shaffer, and died at York Springs.
Adams Co.. Pa.; Susannah, born in 1807,
married Jacob Steinhaur, and they are buried
at Mechanicsburg, in Chestnut Hill ceme-
tery; John, born in 1809, went to Illinois
and lived to advanced age upon a farm near
Monmouth ; Daniel was a farmer in Adams
county, where he died in early life; Samuel,
])crn in 181 3. was a tanner, and died in
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Carlisle; David, was tlic frilbcr of Albert
\\^ Sipe.
David Sipe. horn in jS](S, was reare<l
upon a farm, and he received a very limited
education, onlv attending- school two terms.
When he was a young- n-ian he learned the
Inide of a cabinet-maker, which he follnwed
until he retired, a few years ])rior to his
dea.th. In conjunction with his business in
this line, which was a l.-n-gc one. en-iployment
being given to fifteen to t\\ent_\- men. Mr.
Sipe conducted an undertaking business, and
for some rears carried on a carpet and wall-
paper estalilishn-ient. lie also dealt largely
in real estate, and to-day there are a number
of substantial houses standing in Carlisle
wdiich he erected. In all of his ventures
he was eminentlv successful. Xot only was he
an excellent business man, hut he managed
the affairs of the town intrnstcd to him in
the same successful n-ianner. It was he who
adx'ocated and carried tlu-ough the proposi-
tion to put in brick walks in Carlisle, and
n-iany other equally important improvements
owed their conception and fulfillment to
him. In religion he was a consistent
Lutheran and for years was a member
of the advisory board, flei-ierous and char-
itable to a fault, he not onlv ga\-e liberally,
but reared in his own home several destitute
ch.il clren.
David Sipe married Ann Catherine
^\^eibIy, a daughter of Peter and Elizalicth
( Bowers) Weibly, and she sur\'ived until
May, 1888, Mr. Sipe dyii-ig in December,
1883, Five children were born to them:
]\Iary, who died in childhood ; Rol)ert, a cabi-
net-maker of Carli.sle; Albert W. : Charles
H., a conductor on the Cumberland Valley
railroad; and \\'illian-i. who died in child-
hood.
Albert W. Sipe w-as born Julv 2. 1S52,
and was educated in the public schools of
Carlisle. When he was fonrteen he began
to earn his lixing at farm work, and at
se\-enteen he began to learn the carpenter
trade with San-iuel and Ephraim Wetzel,
serving an apprenticeship of three years. Six
months thereafter he began working with his
father, and for hxe vears was engaged in
cabinet-making, after which he went back
to the carpenter's trade. L'ntil iQor he w-as
one of the successful carpei-iters of Carlisle,
hut since then he has lived retired. He has
also dealt largelv in real estate, and is one
of the solid, substantial men of the county.
Fraternally he is a member of the I. O.
O. F.. Carlisle Lodge. No. 91. and Fncanip-
ment, Xo. 25(1. and is \cr\ ])opular in the
order.
In iSjC) 'Wr. Si lie ^vas married to Miss
Harriet Brenneman. a daughter of Isaac and
Mary Brenneman, and one child has Ijeen
Ixirn to them, Harry B.. wIki resides in
Carlisle. This voung man was married to
Miss Leo ]\Iyers, a most charming lady of
Carlisle. He is a tailor, conveniently located
on \\'est Main street. 'Die men-ibers of the
family are all connected with the Lutheran
Church, and uphold the customs of the fam-
ily in taking an active part in its good w-ork.
Albert \\'. Si])e is justlv numliered as one of
the leading men of the community. In poli-
tics, like his father, he is a Democrat ; the
father w-as formerlv a \\ big. The Sipe fam-
ily is one which stands well in Cumberland
conntv, and its representatives have been
men of good business ability, integrity of
l>urpose and possessed of marked aptitude
in son-ie direction or other.
JOHN A. HILDEBRANDT. one of the
leading residents r)f Carlisle. Cumberland
Co., Pa., was born in that city July 24, 1866,
a son of Henry and Elmira ( Adan-is ) Hildc-
brandt.
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The father was born in I lesse-Darni-
stadt. Clermany. Aug. 9, 1835, and when a
lad of eighteen years came to America and
located in Xew York City, where for three
years he worked in a confectionery store.
In 1858 he enhsted in the United States
regular army, in which lie continued until
■1868, being a musician in the cavalr}- de-
partment. His term of service included the
entire period of the Civil war. After his
discharge he located in Carlisle and engaged
in a grocery business on East Main street for
ten years. He then purchased a lot on the
ncjrtheast corner of Bedford and North
streets, and there he erected a busi-
ness block and residence combined and
continued his grocery establishment un-
til 1886, when he was succeeded by
his son John A. and retired. During a long
and useful life he had amassed considerable
IMTiperty through his own efforts. Like so
many df his countrymen he was a
tine nuisician. ;md from earliest childhood
was carefuly trained in music. He passed
away .\ug. 23, 1895. ^ consistent member of
the Lutheran Church. His wife, who was
born in Perry county. Pa.. Oct. 15, 1847,
.still survives. A family of f\\<^ children
was born to them: John A., our subject;
Mary, unmarried, who is at home; Harrv,
unmarried, at home, anfl two deceased.
John A. Hildebrandt was reared in Car-
lisle and educated in the public schools, and
when he was fourteen years of age began
to learn the carpenter's trade, continuing
to work at same for five years. When only
nineteen years of age he succeeded his
father and for nine years carried on the
business successfully, retiring at the end
of that time. He is one of the broad-gauged,
public-sjiirited men of the city, and wields
considerable inlluence among his fellow citi-
zens. In additiiin ti > other interests he owns I
seven excellent properties in Carlisle, and
has a life interest in thirteen others, .\fter
retiring from his grocery business Air.
Hildebrandt embarked in a poultr}- enter-
prise which has been very successful, es-
tablishing the Carlisle Poultry Farm, lo-
cated two and one-half miles northeast of
the city. This farm drntains no acres
of land well adapted for the purpose. In
politics Mr. Hildebrandt is a Democrat, and
he represents the First ward in the city coun-
cil, having been \ery acti\c in public affairs.
Fraternally he is a member of the K. of G.
E., Xo. no; I. O. O. F., Xo. 91. and Royal
Arcanum, X'o. 502.
On Sept. 18, 1890, ]\Ir. Hildebrandt was
married to Aliss Elizabeth Jane McFeaters,
daughter of P. W. and Rosa CReeder) Mc-
I^'eaters, who was born in Juniata countv,
Pa., May 16, 1869, and two children have
been bom of this union. Harry W. and
John R. The family reside in a beautiful
home at Xo. 207 X'orth Bedford street.
They are consistent members of the First
Lutheran Church of the cit_\-.
EDWARD J. WEI DM AX. one of the
successful business men of Carlisle. Cum-
l)erland Co.. Pa., is a native of that town,
born July 6, 1858, and is a son of Louis
rmd Catherine (Barrack) XN'eidman, both of
whom are now deceased.
The father was born March 25. 1827, in
Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany where he grew
to manhood and adopted the calling of an
engineer, to which he gave his life. After
coming to America, in 1857, before his
marriage, he located in Carlisle on account
of having friends here, finding employment
in the foundry on East Main street where
he remained for forty-two years. At first
he was in the blacksmith shop, but after-
ward took charge of the engine room, and,
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Ijeing a mechanical genius, especially in the
line of wood work, his spare time was spent
in making furniture, and the turning of
balusters and articles <if a similar nature.
His son Edward J. has several pieces of
furniture made liy his father which he prizes
\erv highly.
Louis W'eidman married Catherine Bar-
rack, wild was 1)1 >rn on a farm thiee and
one-half miles east of Carlisle, daughter of
Henry and Catherine Barrack, and died in
Aia\', 1897. Thev had five children: Ed-
wa.rd J.; Charles S., a resident of Jeannette,
Pa., a glass packer; Katie, who married
Edward Rensler of Carlisle; Louis, de-
ceased in infancy ; and Carrie, who died at
the age of three years. The father was a
member of the Lutheran Church, while the
mother belonged to the Albright Church.
Edward J. Weidman was born and
reared in Carlisle and attended the public
schools until be was f(iurteen, when he be-
gan to learn the trade of barber in Pitts-
burg with his uncle. On Nov. 2^, 1875,
he started in business on East Main street,
opposite the county jail, and has since con-
tinued in this line in Carlisle. He has al-
ways taken a deep interest in public affairs,
especially in educati()nal matters, and when,
in Februar}', 1900, he was elected to the
city council, the people felt that the right
man was in the place, and so satisfied were
they with his work that thev returned him in
1903. During his term of office he has held
the important position of chairman of the
Finance committee, and has also served upon
several of the other leading committees.
Mr. W'eidman is a stanch Democrat, but
has many warm friends in the ranks of both
parties, and he is representing the Second
ward in the city council.
On Sept. 8, 1881, Mr. Weidman was
married to Miss Lulu M. Groam, daughter
of Thomas and Rachel ( Eply ) Groam, who
are now of Carlisle, liut formerly were of
York county. Mr. and Mrs. Weidman have
two children ; Ivachel G. ( a pupil in the high
school ) and Louis E. They all reside at No.
76 East Pomfret street, where he owns six
\'ery valuable houses which he erected. Mr.
\\'eidman owns some very desiraljle resi-
dence and business ])roperty, antl is justly
regarded as one ni Carlisle's substantial and
highly respected residents.
LUTHER B. HALBERT, proprietor of
the cigar store and billiard and pool rooms at
No. 29 Main street. Carlisle, has been es-
tablished in that business since 1898. He is
a native of Carlisle, born March 20, 1869,
son of Charles and Catherine ( Beetum)
Halbert. and grandson of Joseph Halbert.
B(.ith his parents were natives of Cumber-
land county, the father ha\-ing l)een born in
Carlisle, and the mother near Centerville.
The father died in 1872, a young man, as
he was only born in 1845. During his busi-
ness life he was a furniture dealer and was
quite successful. He was a prominent mem-
Ijer of the First Presliyterian Church and
for years leader of the choir. His family
consisted of three children, namelv: Fannie
E.. wife of C^lviii Neilson, of Washington,
D. C. ; Luther B. ; and Charles, a grocer and
liutcher of West street. The mother, wdio
is still li\ing. is a daughter of John Beetum.
Luther B. Halbert was reared in Carlisle
and recei\'ed his education in the pulilic
schools. He learned the printer's trade,
which he later followed for fourteen years
in Carlisle and elsewhere. However, in
1898 he embarked in his present business
which he has continued \-ery successfully
ever since. Li September. 1904. he built
a bowding alley in the rear of his establish-
ment, with double alleys. He is a member
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of the A. F. & A. M., belonging to Cumljer-
land Star Lodge of tlie Knights of Pythias.
No. 56, and of the B. P. O. E.. No. 578.
In 1900 Mr. Hailiert was married to Miss
M. Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Richard
and Martha Jones, and their pleasant home
is located at No. 12 West Main street, where
the friends of the family are warmly wel-
comed. They are all consistent members
of the First Presbyterian Church.
PHILIP L. GEBHARD. the proficient
barber at No. 7 Market House a\-enue, Car-
lisle, is a native of this place, born Aug. 10,
1866. His parents,'; Jacob and Annie
(Smith) Gebhard, were Imth born in Ger-
many, and the mother is still living in Car-
lisle. She came to this country when a
young girl. The father died in May, 1867.
He was reared in Germany, and on coming
to .\merica located in Chambersburg, w^here
he was engaged in brewing ale. Later he
came to Carlisle and operated his own plant
on the corner of Pomfret and East street,
following the brewing of_ ale until his
death. He was successful, and died verv
well off, the owner of valuable propertv.
Politically he was a Democrat. Fraternally
he was a Mason and a member of the Odd
Fellows (lodge and encampment), and al-
ways took an active part in the latter order.
At his death he left a family of five children :
Amanda (deceased) married John A.
Floyd, of Carlisle; George H. is a steam-
fitter of Carlisle: Margaret married James
M. Bixler, of Carlisle; William B., at Har-
risburg, is employed in the Pennsylvania
railroad shops; Philip L. is the subject
proper of these lines.
Lentil he was thirteen years of age Pliilip
L. Gebhard attended the public schools in
his native town, and then he began to earn
his li\-ing by working in a brickyard. He
was next employed in learning the trade of
a machinist, and thus continued for two
years. The energetic young mrm then
learned the trade of barber with Jacob
Spath, of Carlisle, beginning in 1880. By
1892 he was sufficiently known politically
to be given a position as private messenger
to the clerk of the House of Representatives
at Washington, D. C. and served in that
position for four years. After his return
to Carlisle he opened the shop where he may
l)e found to-day, and it is generally recog-
nized that he has the best equippeil shaving
parlors in Carlisle.
Ever since attaining his majoritv Mr.
(iebliard has been active along political lines,
being a strong Democratic worker, although
not an office-seeker. Fraternally he is very
well known, belonging to Cumberland Star
Lodge, No. 197, A. F. & A. M. : the L O.
O. F. Lodge, No. 91 ; and the K. of P.
Lodge, No. 56, Carlisle, having passed all
the chairs in the latter order.
On December 21, 1887, Mr. Gebhard
was married to Miss Ida Elmer, daugh-
ter of \A'illiam Elmer, of Carlisle, and
one child has Ijeen born to them,
Vena. The family affiliates with St.
Paul Lutheran Church. Their pleas-
ant home is located at No. 55 South
East street, which Mr. Gebhard erected in
1887. Since January, 1902, Mr. Gebhard
has been serving as treasurer of the county
almshouse, and as usual acquitting himself
creditably. He has an unusually large num-
ber of warm personal friends by wdiom he
is highly esteemed, as he is by all who have
the pleasure of his acquaintance.
CHARLES H. SIPE, one of the pros-
perous business men of Carlisle, Pa., was
born Aug. 14, 1859, in the house he now
occupies. His education was obtained in
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the local schools of Ca!ii^le, and while still
a vouiig man he succeeded to his father's
large carpet and wall-paper business, carry-
ing it on for se\-eral years, until failing
health compelled him to seek a warmer cli-
mate. Fcu' three \e;u's he lived in Florida.
Returning to Carlisle, he engaged in the
confectioner}" business for three }ears. and
then entei'cd the employ of the Cumberland
\'alley Railroad Company as conductor.
In Januar)', 1884, ]\Ir. Sipe was mar-
ried to Miss Ella F., daughter of W. B. and
Martha McComniim. and one child has
been born to this union, Anna Catherine.
Both Mr. and ^Irs. Sipe are members of the
Lutheran Church, in the work of wdiich
the}' take an active part. They both ha\e
man}- friends throughout the city and are
deserxedly popular.
\\'ILLL\M T. S. JAMISON. \\'hen
the sad news of the d6ath of William T. S.
Jamison was recei\-ed, April 14. 1894, e\er\-
citizen of the town felt a sense of personal
loss. The entire Cumberland \'alley lost a
familiar figure in the commercial world, and
those who knew him best were bereft of a
firm friend and wise counselor. He was a
courteous, considerate gentleman, generous
and charitable to all. In his busine.ss he was
aggressive and enterprising-, yet strictlv
honest in his methods. His word w-as as
good as his bond, and his honor was un-
tarnished. Mv. Jamison was born in Indian-
apolis. Ind., July 3, 1843, son of John and
Mary Jane (Snodgrass) Jamison.
John Jan-ii.son was one of the twelve
men who located on and cleared the land
where now- stands Indianapolis, Ind., and he
felled the first tree. He owned seven and
one-half acres, where the- Blind Asvlum is
now located. In 1841 he married 'Sla.ry
Jane Snodgrass. who was born in Chanibers-
l)urg Dec. (>. 18 15. daughter of William T.
and Jane ( Alorrow ) Snodgrass. He died
in 1843, before the birth of their only child,
William T. S.. and the widow-ed young
mother returned ti > her father's home in
Shippensburg.
Willian-i T. S, Jamison was only a few
months old when his mother brought him to
Shippensburg, which was his home for the
rest of his life. His school days past, he at
once began to learn the rudiments of mer-
cantile Ijusiness as a clerk for J. & J. B.
Reddig. b^roni his mother he inherited a
n;itiu-al talent for business, and in a very
sliort time had n-iastered the general methods
of business transactions. During the Civil
war he was a clerk in the office of the iirovost
niarshal at Harrisburg, and for a short time
clerked in a drv-goods store ii-i the same
city. His time had so far Ijeen spent in
preparation for the career he had determined
u]ion. His earnings had been saved, and in
18O7 he o])ened up a dry-goods store for
himself, in the old Rankin property in Ship-
pensburg. now occupied by Cofifey Bros.
This was succeeded by a room fitted up in
his own hon-ie, a few doors east. Business
came to him rajjidh-, and soon he found him-
self cramped for mom. In 1884 he pur-
chased the Cri swell property, on the south-
east corner of ]\Iain and Railroad streets,
and erected the present handsome and coni-
modious" building, whither his stock was re-
moved the sanie }ear. Jamison's Bazaar be-
came a household word to people in the
Cumberland N'alley. Mr. J;unison was es-
sentially a merchant. He left nothing hon-
orable undone to increase and extend his
business, and he was a liberal advertiser,
alwavs, howe\-er. ad\ei-tising his wares as
they reallv were. He ne\-er permitted his
clerks to misreiM-esent any thing. Courtesy
to patrons and honest representation w^ere
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two of his fixed rules. His place in the es-
timation of husiness rivals and associates was
shown in the closing of all places of busi-
ness in the cit_\' during his funeral. W hen
the time came to pay the last tribute of
respect to William T. S. Jamison a large con-
course of friends as.sembled. I'Jev'. W. A.
McCarrell, of the Presbyterian Church, as-
sisted by other ministers of the borough,
spoke words of comfort to the sorrowing
widow ami the many friends, and amid a
wealth of J^lowers the mortal remains of the
beloxed husband, successful merchant, up-
right citizen and noble Christian gentleman
were laid to rest in Spring Hill cemetery.
■ On Jan. 23. 1883. by Rev. J. M. Carvel! ,
Mr. Jamison was married to Emily J. Daley,
of Shippensburg. who survives him. Rev.
R. L. jamis')n i>f the Methodist Church of
Kidder, Mo., a half brother, survived him
for one year. In his religious belief Mr.
Jamison was a consistent Presbyterian. l"ra-
ternall}- he was a ]\Iason and an Odd
Fellow.
Mrs. i\I.\RY J.vxE (Snodcras-s) J.vmi-
SON entered into rest at midnight, Aug. 23,
1898. in the eighty-third year nf her age.
Thus passed another familiar figure from the
busy daily life of Shippensburg. Mrs. Jami-
son was born in Chambersburg. Dec. 6, 181 5,
a daughter of William T. and Jane ('Mor-
row) Snodgrass, worthy pioneers of Scotch-
Irish descent, who were married Dec. 20,
1809, bv Re\-. Dr. John Moodey. She was
but a few weeks old when her parents re-
moved to Sbippensl)urg. where her father
conducted a mercantile business, and wa-s
lirominent in the welfare and advancement
of the Presbyterian Church. In 184 1 she
married John Jamison, of Indiana))olis. Ind..
where they resided until Mr. Jamison's
death, which occurred in 1843. when -he re-
turned to Shippensburg with her infant son,
William T. S.
Mrs. Jamison was a woman of remark-
able business ability, and was one of the
first, if not the first, ladies to become a sales-
woman, as she entered her father's store in
early life, subsequently her brother's, and
finally her son's. The latter became one of
the leading merchants in the Cumberland
Valley, and with him .she remained until his
death, when she retired. Her pleasant,
heart}' welcome was sadly missed bv the
shoppers, and when death came they spoke
feelingly of her efiforts in their behalf, of
her kindly guidance and counsel, which
helped to mold their lives in safer and surer
ways. Her last years were made pleasant
through the loving care of her daughter-in-
law, ^'^r;. Emily J. Jamison, who w-as most
devoted to her. Her brother, Robert Snod-
grass. of Philadelphia, is the onlv surviving
member of the famil}-.
In early life Mrs. Jamison united with
the Presbyterian Church, and was always
faithful in the discharge of her Christian
duties. She was very charitable, her great
wonianly heart symjiathizing with every cry
of distress. Her remains rest in Spring Hill
cemetery.
HEXRY GARDNER, one of the well
known and much esteemed residents of the
city of Carlisle, comes of one of the old and
honorable early families of York county,
where he was Ijorn Aug. 26, 1827, a son of
]\Iartin and ]\Iary (Thomas) Gardner.
]\Iartin Gardner, his grandfather, prob-
ably came from Germany, but he certainly
was a very early settler in York county,
and owned farming land in the low er part.
His son Martin was one of several children,
and was born aljout 1775 in York county,
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dying in 1S37 in the city of York. He was
a man of i)r(imiiience in his community, and
for eight years ])rior to his death had been
steward at the Yori< county ahushouse. For
manv years lie conducted a farm situated
between York and Wrightsville. Mr.
Gardner was noted for the commendable
spirit he displayed in all public enterprises
and he was active in his promotion of all
movements looking to the improving of the
pulilic highways and the furthering of re-
ligious and educational matters. He mar-
ried Mary Thomas, and they had a family
of eight cliildren born to them, as follows:
Franklin (deceased) was a manufacturer
at Carlisle: Israel, who was a blacksmith,
died at Carlisle: Martin died at .Vltoona,
where he worked as a nn >lder in a foundry ;
Henry is mentioned below; Albert is a ma-
chinist living at .Mtoona ; Lucy (deceased)
was the wife of Danford Edmonds; two
died in childhood.
Henry Gardner was a lad in his teens
Avhen the family removed from York to
Cumlierland ci:)unty and he was educated in
the schools at Carlisle. When he was eigh-
teen years old he entered a foundry at Car-
lisle and remained there until he had learned
the trade of molder, to which occupation he
gave some fifty }-ears of bis life. During
this time he was connected with various
large shops and accumulated a competency.
Since 1899 '^*^ 'i'*^ lived retired from activ-
ity, in the enjoyment of the ease won by
past industry.
On July \2. 1849, J^Ii'- Gardner was
united in marriage with Miss Leah Kreider,
who was born Oct. 7, 1827, in Warwick
township, Lancaster Co., Pa., and died Feb.
4, 1901. She was a daughter of Benjamin
and Elnora (McColm) Kreider, of Lititz,
Pa., the former of whom was appointed
prothonotary of Lancaster county by Gov.
Wolf; he and his wife were interred in the
old, ^Moravian graveyard at Lititz. Mrs.
Gardner was a consistent member of the
Lutheran Church, with which her husband
is also connected. A family of ten children
was born to them, as follows : Wilhelmina.
who resides in Philadelphia, is the widow
of Franklin Hutter, who died at Harris-
burg /\pril 7, 1879, and whom she married
Alay 14, 1872; Mary was married July 14,
1874, to Robert Mclvor, of Carlisle, who
died Sept. 23, 1876; Benjamin, a resident
of Harrisburg, married Emma Longsdorf
Feb. 20, 1883: Harry is mentioned later;
Catherine died March 13, 1863 unmarried;
James Monroe died July 14, 1856; Ella N.
was married March 20, 1897, to William
\Vooster, of Harrisburg, who was a casket
maker, and died Feb, 7, 1901, his widow
now residing with her father; Anna M. died
Aug. 13, 1864; George, who is a book-
keeper for a Xew York business firm, on
April 25, 1899, married America Glanville,
and they reside at East Orange, N. J. ; Rena
is a saleslady in the Bowman mercantile es-
tablishment at Carlisle.
Harry Gardner, son of Henry and
Leah (Kreider) Gardner, is one of the city's
representati\'e citizens. He was born Dec.
6, 1853, and was educated in the public
schools of Carlisle, after leaving which
he engaged for a time in clerking and then
learned the trade of carpenter and builder,
following the same very profitably for some
years. In 1881 he made a trip to Mexico,
wliere he remained .some eighteen months,
employed at car building, in 1882 return-
ing to Carlisle and resuming work in the
city. On Aug. 11, 1884. he entered the
carpentry department at the Indian School
at Carlisle, and some two years later was
made foreman of that department of this
great industrial institution. Not all men
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possess the qualifications necessary to suc-
ceed in such a position, but these Mr. Gard-
ner evidently possesses, as he is held in the
highest esteem 1)0th by employers and em-
ployes.
On Dec. 30, 1879, Mr. Gardner married
Miss Ellen Longsdorf, daughter of Eman-
uel A. and Catherine (Wanderly) Longs-
dorf, who removed from Cumberland coun-
ty in 1SS5 to Kansas, and Mr. Longsdorf
.died at Wichita, that State, Dec. 21, 1898,
aged fifty-seven years. The mother of i\Irs.
Gardner resides at Columbia, Lancaster
county. By trade ]\Ir. Longsdorf was a
shoemaker, and he followed same the greater
l>art of his life. For se\'eral years he served
as disciplinarian at the \\'hite Hall Orphan
School. Mr. and Mrs. Longsdorf had the
following children born to them : Sherman,
a resident of Mt. Pleasant, Utah ; Ellen,
Mrs. Gardner; Michael H. (named for his
grandfather), a resident of Kansas City,
Mo.; Emma J., who married B. F. Gardner,
of Harrisburg; Flora, who married Warren
Stiker, of Grottoes, Va. ; Bertie, who mar-
ried Dr. Levi Coak, of Nevada, Mo. ;
George, deceased; Lizzie, who married
George Wageck, of Ponca City, Okla. ; Wil-
liam, residing at Wichita, Kan. ; and Alice,
deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Gardner have one son,
\\'alter Monroe, a machinist, engaged at
Pittsburg. They are consistent members
of the Lutheran Church. Li politics Mr.
Gardner is identified with the Democratic
party, and fraternally he belongs to the
Knights of the Mystic Circle. He has taken
an active interest in civic affairs and has
ably served on the borough council. The
hands(^me and hospitable family residence
is situated at No. 601 North Hanover
street, in Carlisle.
SAMUEL L. EPPLEY, proprietor of
the livery, feed and sales stables located at
No. 21 \\'est South street, Carlisle, was
Ijorn in ^\'est Pennsboro townshi]), Cum-
berland county, four miles west of Carlisle,
Sept. 5, 1852, a son of Samuel and Amanda
(Hoon) Eppley. His grandfather, Jacob
Eppley, died in York county, and was a
man prominent for his day. The father
was a native of York county, and when a
young man of about twenty years came to
Cumberland county, becoming a farmer.
He was a public-spirited man and became
very prominent in the county, serving as a
useful member of the school board, and fill-
ing the various minor township offices, as
well as that of county commissioner. \n
politics he was a strong Republican, and in-
fluential in his party. He died May 8, 1901,
aged eighty-two years. His wife was born
in Mifffin township, this county, about 1826,
and is still living, residing in North Mid-
dleton, Pa. The following chi 
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