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THE CATASAUQUA BREWERY SALOON.
This place, No. 110 Second Street, is named the Catasauqua Brewery Saloon since it serves the public like a stream flowing directly from the spring. It was founded in 1869 by Matthew Millhaupt. In 1872 it passed into the control of Christian Stockberger; 1884, Mr. Hill; 1888, Felix Keller. There were a number
IMPERIAL HOTEL
of proprietors during the nineties: John Dold, Simon Butler, Charles Albert, Mr. Werkheiser, William McKeever, Ernest Ritter, Mr. Freeman, Jacob Lutz, Christian Walker, Harvey Gilbert. The present proprietor is Joseph Wirth. His house has accommodations for twelve guests. It is heated by steam and illum- inated by electricity.
THE UNION HOTEL.
Angust Richter built the Union Hotel at the five points of Second and Union Streets and Howertown Avenue during 1871. After a long tenure Mr. Richter sold out to Samuel Wint who was succeeded by Benjamin Whitehall. M. Mark-
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ward followed Mr. Whitehall and in 1903 transferred the business to William Walker. On October 9, 1911, Mr. Walker sold out to Paul JJ. Ambrose, the present proprietor. The house affords quarters for eight guests.
THE ORIENTAL, HOTEL.
The building on the south east corner of Mulberry Street and Howertown Avenue was erected by Samuel J. Koehler as a general store and dwelling. Dur- ing 1898 Mr. Koehler converted the store into a bar-room and arranged the building generally for hotel accommodations. After holding license for four years, Mr. Koehler sold out to M. Markward, the present proprietor. The house contains twelve rooms and is well illuminated and heated.
THE MANSION HOUSE.
The Mansion House on Front Street below Bridge was erected by Captain IFenry Harte during the sixties. After a tenure of some years his son, Lewis K., popularly known as "Kos," succeeded him. Other landlords were Albert Fry, Frank Medlar and Hopkins and Harteg. Harteg sold out to Hopkins, who, January 24, 1889, conveyed the property to HI. R. Blocker, the present incumbent. The house contains twenty rooms, and is equipped with hot and cold water, steam heat, electric light and telephone service.
THE HOTEL FAIRMOUNT.
License for this hotel, located at Race and Eleventh Streets, was first lifted by Theodore Geiger in 1897. After one year, Conrad A. Steitz acquired it and continmed as its genial proprietor until his death July 1, 1907. Since then, Mrs. Frances Steitz and her son, Frank C. Steitz, as manager, are enoducting the business. The house is a three story frame building, well lighted by electricity and heated by steam. There are two rooms devoted to the accommodations of the public. The hotel stable has stalls for ten horses.
THE HORSE SHOE HOUSE.
It is said that Mrs. Malone started in business on North Front Street some years ago and continued until Stephen Czapp secured the place in 1900. In 1905 John Smajda bought it and is still its genial proprietor. The house contains fifteen rooms heated by steam.
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THE HOTEL WALKER.
Gottlieb Schramm reconstrueted and equipped a building as a saloon on Raee Street in the Third ward, some time during the eighties. In 1896 Edward, L. Walker took the property and improved it a great deal. He also erected a stable large enough to accommodate eight horses. He called the place THE HOTEL WALKER. In 1905, Arthur Walker acquired the stand and continued until C. H. Bellner relieved him by purchasing it in 1913. The hotel accommo- dates twelve guests.
LIQUOR STORE.
Messrs. R. Frank Stine and A. C. Kramlich established the wholesale liquor business on Church Street, above Front, in 1872.
In 1900, Mr. Oscar J. Stine came to Catasauqua and was employed by Stine and Kramlich as salesman.
In 1898 he bought the copartnership share of Mr. Kramlich and the firm name was changed to Stine & Bro.
When Mr. R. Frank Stine's health failed, his brother bought the entire busi- ness, September, 1912, and now the sign reads, "Oscar J. Stine, Wholesale Liquor Dealer."
By his genial personality and clean business principles, Mr. Stine has de- veloped a very fine trade.
BOTTLING PLANT.
August Hohl purchased the old Biery homestead on the north-west corner of Second and Race Streets in the spring of 1888, and converted the basement of the stately stone mansion into a bottling plant. In the spring of 1901, Mr. Hohl also began the wholesale liquor trade. The business increased to such propor- tions as to warrant the search for new quarters. In 1906, he bought from Mr. Mckeever the large three story building on Front and Race Streets. The old store was converted into a well equipped and most sanitary bottling house, and wholesale liquor store. During 1907, a cold storage plant was built at Race Street and the tracks of the C. R. R. of N. J., where a large supply of beers, ales and porter is constantly laid up. Mr. Hohl also manufactures all kinds of car- bonated beverages. His trade radiates around Catasauqua to the extent of fully twenty miles.
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CHAPTER IX. - PROFESSIONAL MEN.
DR. FREDERICK W. QUIG. Dr. Frederick W. Quig came to this coun- try in 1847 and for a time worked about the furnaces. An accident ocenrring at the works brought about the discovery that Dr. Quig had been educated at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, for a physician. He did no more manual labor, but opened an office in the McAllister home and continued to hold a very successful practice while he lived.
When the "black cholera" was epidemic in the town, Dr. Quig proved him- self a hero. He was never known to neglect a patient and lived an exemplary life. In 1849 he married Ann Elizabeth Leslie of Mauch Chunk, whose death is of recent occurrence.
DR. GEORGE MCINTYRE. Dr. George MeIntyre. son of John MeIntyre, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1842. He went through our Borough schools, entered Claverack Institute on the Hudson, and two years later, was admitted to Lafayette College. Ile graduated from this institution with honor in 1866. and three years later was granted a diploma from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania.
Returning to Catasanqua, he opened an office and for a time practiced his profession ; but in 1870 he left for Quincy, Illinois, where he died about three years later. His was the first college diploma brought to the Borough by one who had gone through its common schools. Dr. George MeIntyre was of hand- some, dignified appearance, a general favorite, and his manners were the per- fection of courtesy. His early death was much deplored.
DR. H. H. RIEGEL. Henry Harrison Riegel, M. D., the son of former sheriff of Northampton County. Daniel Riegel and his wife Hannah, nee Weaver, was born in Allentown, Pa., November 12, 1836.
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While his father was proprietor of the Nazareth Inn from 1840, Henry at- tended the Moravian school at Nazareth Hall. At the age of eighteen years. he began the study of medicine under Dr. W. E. Barnes of Bath, Pa., and in the fall of 1855 he entered the medical department of the University of Penn- sylvania, where he remained for one year. In the fall of 1856. he entered the Jefferson Medical College from which he was graduated the following spring.
Dr. H. H. Riegel opened his office at Cherryville, May 5, 1857, where he continued until June, 1861, when the "Westward Ho!" fever lured him to Saegerstown in Crawford County, six miles beyond Meadville. IIe remained until the following February, when, upon the impor- tunity of his father, he returned and located at Weaversville, Pa., where he succeeded the late Dr. Walter F. Martin.
In the fall of 1869, he located at No. 27 Front Street, Catasauqua, where he enjoys the implicit confidence of a large constitu- ency.
Dr. Riegel is the only survivor of eight of Dr. Barnes' students. In May, 1889, President Harrison appointed him a Pension Examiner to serve with Dr. P. L. Reichert, and Dr. H. H. Herbst. His commission ran out during Grover Cleveland's term. The doctor is a director of the National Bank of DR. H. H. RIEGEL Catasauqua since 1879 and serves as Vice President of the Board. Ile partiei- pated in the organization of the Slatington Bank in 1875. He served three terms as school director, and was President of the Board during the time the Lincoln Building was erected.
He is a member of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church since 1870. As Burgess, he served the Borough from 1909 to 1914.
Socially, he belongs to the Masonic Fraternity-the Porter Lodge at Cata-
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sauqua, the Knights Templar at Allentown and the Rajah Temple at Reading.
The Doctor was married to Ellen J., daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (nee Hummel) Gish. July 3, 1858. Their children are: Clifford II., Dr. Wil- liam A., Emma L., the wife of S. B. Harte, and Mattie G., the wife of Thomas W. Keen, all of Catasauqua.
Ile is a member of the Lehigh County Medieal Society (an Ex-President ) . the Lehigh Valley Medieal Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Association and the American Medical Association.
Although past seventy-seven years of age, the doctor follows up his daily practice with the zeal and buoyaney of a man in the prime of life.
William A. Riegel, M. D., son of Dr. H. Il. Riegel and his wife Ellen J .. nee Gish, was born at Weaversville, Pa., May 17, 1864.
He was graduated from the Catasanqua Schools in the Spring of 1880, and, after attending the Weaversville Academy for two years, he entered the tutelage of G. J. Ben- ner in the preparation for college. Ile en- tered Pennsylvania College in the fall of 1881, from which institution he was graduat- ed in June, 1885.
In the fall of the same year, he entered the Medical department of the University of Pennsylvania from which he was graduated in 1889.
On the 15th of May in the year of his graduation, he began the general practice of DR. WILLIAM A. RIEGEL medicine with his father, and shares his noble reputation for conscientious attention to duty and landable success in the treat- ment of his cases.
The Doctor married Miss Cora, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Stein- hilber, July 20, 1892. There were born to them three children: Henry H., Dorothy I., and William A., Jr.
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He is a member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council of the Masonic Order. He has also affiliated with the Elks, Moose, Buffalo, and Woodmen of the World. Like his father he is medical examiner for a number of Life Insurance companies.
DR. DANIEL YODER. Dr. Daniel Yoder was born in Maxatawny Town. ship, Berks County, September 30, 1833. He was the oldest of eleven children and is now the only surviving member of his family. He was edneated at Beth- lehem and the Vandeveer Academy of Easton. At the age of twenty he directed his attention to teaching and for a time had charge of the Levan school at Sieg- fried's. In 1855 he began the study of medicine under Drs. Edward Martin and son Walter of Weaversville, and the following year entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he took a course of lec- tures.
Later he conducted his studies in the Pennsylvania Medical College at Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in June, 1858. Hle then entered into partner- ship at Catasauqua with Dr. F. B. Martin, after whose death he continued for himself. He opened an office on Front Street above Bridge and carried on a very successful prac- tiee for fifty years. He is the oldest surviv- ing Homeopathie physician in the Lehigh Valley.
As a loyal member of the Masonic Fra- ternity, the Doctor served as treasurer of the Porter Lodge for forty-four years. He is also distinguished for holding the longest continuous membership of any Brother of the local I. O. O. F.
Dr. Yoder is a member of the following DR. DANIEL YODER Medical societies: The American Institute of Homeopathy, the Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh Valley Medi- cal Society. Of the last named he is a charter member and was elected its first President.
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In 1863, when Lee invaded Pennsylvania, Dr. Yoder volunteered as a sur- geon in the 38th Emergency Militia and served as Hospital Steward until the war was ended.
In 1861 he was married to Amanda E. Glace, daughter of Samuel Glace, who was prominently identified for a number of years with the Lehigh Canal and the Crane Iron Works in their early history. They recently celebrated their fifty- third anniversary. In 1873 he purchased a desirable lot at Third and Bridge Streets, Catasauqua, and erected a large brick residence and office where he still resides. Since his retirement, the Doctor has devoted much of his time in helping to organize and promote the Lehigh National Bank and in directing the erection of a fine Bank Building. He acted as chairman of the building com- mittee. He is a director of the bank since its organization.
DOCTOR M. E. HORNBECK. The late Doctor Molton Edward Hornbeck was born at Allentown, January 27, 1842. His father was John Westbrook Hornbeck, a snecessful law- ver who practiced before the Lehigh County Bar. He was elected to the House of Repre- sentatives as a member of the 13th Congress, and was a cotemporary of Abraham Lincoln of Hlinois, J. Q. Adams of Massachusetts, H. Cobb of Georgia, and A. Johnson of Ten- nessee. Ilis mother was Maria Martin Horn- beek, and was the first post mistress appointed in Allentown. She held this position for six- teen years. On his maternal side Dr. Horn- beck traees a long line of medieal men. He was the 35th in a direet line of the Martins to graduate from the Medical department of the University of Pennsylvania.
DR. M. E. HORNBECK
He received his early education in the publie schools of Allentown. Later he attended the private school of Gregory in Allentown, after which he entered the Philadelphia School of Pharmacy from which he was graduated in 1862. After
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having served as druggist in the Martin Pharmacy at Hall and Hamilton Streets for a few months, he was mustered into the 128th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, September 4, 1862, as a Hospital Steward. He passed through the battle of Antietam, Burnside's Second Campaign, the battle of Chan- cellorsville, besides some minor engagements. He was honorably discharged and mustered out of service May 19, 1863.
He now took up the study of medicine with his unele, the late Dr. Tilghman Martin of Allentown. After a course in the University of Pennsylvania. he was graduated in 1865. He came to Catasauqua to assist his uncle, Dr. F. B. Martin, who departed this life but three years later. He assumed full control of his uncle's practice and continued a most successful physician until he retired in the fall of 1901. He was surgeon for the Lehigh Valley R. R. Company for ten years.
Dr. Hornbeck was married to Miss Mary Laubach, daughter of Judge Joseph Laubach and his wife, a member of the Swartz family, in 1868. The Judge held office in Northampton County for twelve years and was a member of the U. S. Senate in 1855. Three children were born to them : Dr. J. L. Hornbeck, Catasauqua ; Westbrook Hornbeck, deceased; and Helen, Mrs. R. A. Carter of Audenried, Pa.
Dr. Hornbeek died October 5, 1905. in the sixty-fourth year of his age. His body lies buried in the Fairview Cemetery.
DR. JAMES L. HORNBECK. Our present Doctor Hornbeek has an emi- nent right to his degree and station as a physician, being the thirty-sixth lineal descendant of the house of the Martins, the clan of doctors. He was born May 10, 1873, and received his preliminary education in the public schools of Town, from which he was graduated, in June 1889. He then matrienlated in the Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., where he graduated in the Biological Course in 1891. Until the fall of 1892 he assisted his father, Dr. M. E. Hornbeck, in his office work. At this time he entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1895. Since his graduation he practiced medi- cine in Catasauqua, first as assistant to his father, and since 1901 as his father's successor.
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Dr. Hornbeck entered into matrimony with Miss Helen Thomas, daughter of the late James Thomas and his wife, Mary Davies Thomas, in 1901. Their children are : Thomas Molton, James Laubach, Jr., and Dorothy Hornbeck.
The Doctor is a member of the State, County, Lehigh Valley and American Medical Associations. Ile belongs to the Philadelphia Medical ('Inb, the Elks Club, and is a Chapter Mason. He is also a member of the Williston College Fraternity founded in 1844 and bearing the initials "F. (."
DR. C. J. KEIM. Charles J. Keim, M. D., the son of Leopold Keim and his wife Mary, nee Stahr, was born near Bethlehem, Pa., March 19, 1843. The land of the Keim family was purchased by an ancestor of this clan from the Propri- etary of this State, William Penn. At the age of thirteen the subject of this sketch left the old farm for a career at school. He attended the Wyoming Seminary for a season, after which he took a course in Lasher's School, Easton, Pa. School days having ended, he became a clerk in a general store at Butztown, Pa. Later he drifted into a store in Allentown. In 1862 he was mustered in as a member of Company F., of the Fifth Penna. Home Guards, of Bethle- hem. Upon his honorable discharge he opened a general store at Eighth and Hamilton Streets, Allentown, Pa.
After several years of business experi- ence he sold ont, came to Catasauqua and be- gan to read medicine with Dr. M. E. Horn- beek. In the fall of 1873, he entered the Medi- cal Department of the University of Pennsyl- vania from which he was graduated in March, DR. C. J. KEIM 1873. Dr. Keim immediately opened his office in Catasauqua and developed a large practice at Number 742 Front Street, which he bestowed npon his son, Dr. II. J. S. Keim after his graduation from the Medico-Chirurgical College in Philadelphia.
Dr. C. J. Keim has always taken an active and intelligent interest in
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municipal affairs. In 1878 he was elected a member of the School Board in which he served the community for three years. He served three terms in Town Conneil of which he was president for some years. He was elected Burgess in the fall of 1905, and, when the election of 1913 eame on, the memory of his able and faithful services during his former term polled sufficient votes to eleet him again to this high office.
Dr. Keim is a member of the Lehigh County Medieal Society, of which he served as president for one year. He also belongs to the Lehigh Valley Medical Society, and the State and American Medical Associations. The Doctor is a Democrat in polities. In religion he is a consistent member of Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church.
DR. H. J. S. KEIM. Dr. Harry J. S. Keim of Catasauqua. Pa., was born in the City of Allentown, and reared in Catasauqua, he being the son of Dr. Charles J. Keim, and his wife Eliza C., nee Seider. His father has been a medical prac- titioner in this Borough since 1875, and at present Burgess of this Borough, having served the Borough in this same capacity from 1906 to 1909.
Dr. Keim attended the public schools of this Borough until the year 1887, when he entered Muhlenberg College, attending there for two years. He then entered the Agthe Pharmacy in this Borough. In the year 1890, he entered the University of Pennsylvania for the study of Medicine, at which institu- tion he studied for three years, after which he completed his medical course in 1894 at the Medico-Chirurgieal College, Philadelphia.
In this same year (1894) he entered the practice of Medicine in this borough, affiliat- DR. H. J. S. KEIM ing with his father until 1905, when his father relinquished the practice of medicine entirely, Dr. H. Keim assuming the entire practice.
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In 1895 he was married to Fannie H. Heller of Allentown, unto them were born two daughters, Emma E. and A. Florence. In 1906, his wife died after a short illness of typhoid fever.
In 1910 Dr. H. Keim was again married to Mabel A. Richardson of Allen- town, and unto them was born a son. Charles R.
THOMAS A. SCHERER, M. D. Dr. Thomas A. Scherer was a physician of exceptional ability, especially along pathological lines. His grandfather was Samuel Scherer, a native of Lehigh County. His father was born in Upper Mil- ford Township, Lehigh County, Pa., and in early life learnt the trade of carpen- ter. He was a boss carpenter at the Hokendauqua furnaces for twenty years, and, when he came to Catasauqua, he held a similar position at the Crane furnaces. He retired in 1887. The Doctor's mother, Maria, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Steinberger, also was a native of Lehigh County. His older brother, Wil- liam H. Scherer, is a member of the firm of Frederick and Scherer, the Under- takers.
Dr. Scherer was born at Petersville, Pa., October 23, 1856, and at the age of twelve years entered the Franklin High School in Bethlehem. Upon his gradu- ation he became an apprentice with Barber and Company at Allentown as a machinist. Subsequently he found employment in the Davies and Thomas shops. Not satisfied with his present station, he began to read medicine in 1880 under the direction of Dr. H. H. Riegel, who still is a gifted teacher as well as an able physician. He entered the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and was graduated in the spring of 1883. He opened an office in Slatington in May of the same year. The following year he returned to Catasauqua, the West Side, and enjoyed a large and growing practice until his death, March 9, 1912.
He entered into Matrimony with Emma J., a daughter of Ferdinand and Dorothy E. (nee Frederick) Briser, June 21, 1888. He took great delight in agriculture and the nursery. His truck farm was a model of beauty and pro- duetiveness.
DR. CHIARLES E. MILSON. Dr. Charles E. Milson, the second son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Davis) Milson, was born in Catasauqua Angust 10, 1863. His general education was acquired in the public schools of Catasauqua and the
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Weaversville Academy. After spending a short time in the office of Dr. Aaron Beeker of Bethlehem, Pa., he entered the Hahneman Medical College, Phila- delphia, Pa. On March 10, 1884, he was graduated from that institution with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
On October 21, 1884, he was married to Camilla Eleanor Deily, the daughter of Francis S. and Sarah A. (Dieh) Deily. To them four children were born : Gertrude, Helen, Ruth and Marie (deceased) .
Dr. Milson's fraternal affiliations are : Past Master of Porter Lodge No. 284, F. and A. M .; Past High Priest of Royal Arch Chapter, No. 278; Allen Command- ary No. 20, Knight Templar, Allentown. Pa .; Allen Council No. 23, R. and S. M., Allentown, Pa. He is a member of the Catasangna Board of Health.
He is an earnest member of the First Presbyterian Church and politically he is a staunch Republican.
DR. CHARLES E. MILSON
In the early days of Catasauqua many of her best citizens came from Wales, among whom was Daniel Milson. Dr. Charles Milson is endowed with many of the characteristics of those pioneer Catasanquans. He is an honored member of the medical profession, a loyal member of his fraternal organizations, and a highly respected citizen of his native town.
DR. ALFRED J. BECKER. Dr. Alfred J. Becker, the son of the Rev. Jacob and Mary Becker, was born at Siegfried, Northampton County, March 18, 1861. His father was a minister of the German Reformed Church, serving as pastor of the congregation at Towamensing ten years, and Shoenersville and Howertown forty-three years, where he preached with great acceptance to the people. The
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paternal great grandfather of this subject, Rev. Chris- tian Ludwig, D. D., one of the fathers of the Reformed Church, was born in Germany Nov. 17, 1756. He re- sided in Bremen till 1793, when he embarked for America, arriving safely at Baltimore in August, 1793, and bearing with him the most flattering tes'i- monials of his learning and piety.
The grandfather, Rev. Jacob Becker, was born in Baltimore and became a minister in the Reformed Church, preaching in Northampton and Lehigh Counties. He was also a Homeopathie physician, . ing one of the first graduates of the Homeopathie Medical College of Allentown, Pa.
Dr. Becker was reared in Catasauqua, his educa- tion being obtained in the common schools in Weavers- DR. ALFRED BECKER ville Academy under Professor Kuma's instruction. He commenced the study of medicine with his uncle, Dr. Aaron Becker, a grad- uate of the University of Pennsylvania and Assistant Surgeon of the One Hun- dred Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War. After leaving his uncle's office he went to Philadelphia and entered the Hahneman Medical College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he attended the clinics and lectures of the three year course, graduating in 1885.
Dr. Becker began the practice of medicine in Catasauqua, where he has prac ticed for twenty-nine years. During this time he has built up an excellent busi- ness and made for himself a host of friends. In the practice of medicine he has given evidence of the possession of professional qualifications and ability such as are won only through close application. earnest study and diligent research ; and, is therefore accounted one of the leading Homeopathic physicians of Lehigh County.
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