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In the public schools John Williamson secured an ample academic education, and at the age of fifteen years went to work in his father's grocery store, at Olyphant. Ever after to the present time (1929) he has been iden- tified with the grocery business, and in point of service is one of the oldest grocers and wholesale grocers in the Wilkes-Barre area. In 1888, when he was but nineteen years of age, he began his experience as wholesale grocer, at the address now occupied by his establishment. From comparatively small beginnings this business has ex- panded, until, as noted, it is among the most considerable in Northeastern Pennsylvania, entirely due to Mr. Wil- liamson's personal direction. Like his father before him he is interested in general affairs, Formerly he was a director of the Wilkes-Barre Light and Heating Con- pany, and is now a director of the Miners' Bank, Wilkes- Barre, the largest banking house in the Wyoming Val- ley. In political adherence he is a Republican, and attends the Presbyterian Church. During the period of America's participation in the World War, though beyond the proper age for service in the military, Mr. Williamson did serve, and tirelessly, being of valued assistance in the cam- paigns of the liberty Loan and Red Cross especially. In local movements designed for the common welfare he is
most relied upon, perhaps, of all wholesalesmen in the city. Never has he refused endorsement, and in the majority of cases active personal support, to worthy enterprises so construed. Mr. Williamson is a member of the Westmoreland and the Franklin clubs.
On his mother's side Mr. Williamson for many years had close contact with the mining interests of the Wyo- ming Valley. Her three brothers, Thomas, James and David Waddell, dealt in coal operations, quite extensively, in Luzerne County. They owned and operated the old Luzerne Mines and Mill Creek Mines, having been finan- cially successful in all undertakings of this category.
WILLIAM J. STROH-Numbered prominently among leading citizens of Forty Fort, William J. Stroh is a native of this community. He was born April 1, 1864, son of Henry Stroh, who, a native of Pennsylvania, lived long in Forty Fort and was superintendent of the Forty Fort Cemetery eighteen years, and died in 1890, and of Martha ( Wolfinger ) Stroh, a native of North- ampton County, who died in July, 1921.
Mr. Stroh attended the public schools of Forty Fort, tock a course in Wyoming Seminary, and went to work in a local general store, where he continued in employ- ment three and a half years. For six years thereafter, he engaged in a retail meat business under his own name, and after the death of his father, in January, 1890, he became superintendent of the cemetery. Of this he has been in charge during the nearly two-score years suc- ceeding, but has participated in diversified endeavors aside from the charge. Skilled in the growing of flowers, in 1895 Mr. Stroh founded a small greenhouse, which he caused to be built in the cemetery property. Here he carried on business profitably as a retail florist. In 1905, results having been of the best, he started to build greenhouses on the site now occupied by these houses, at No. 1282 Wyoming Avenue. In 1921 he purchased five acres of land on Dennison Street in Swoyersville, and there maintains three greenhouses, with a lucrative trade at retail, comprising 17,000 square feet of glass. The Wyoming Avenue establishment is covered with 15,000 square feet of glass. In 1927 Mr. Stroh erected on the Wyoming Avenue site a showroom of brick construc- tion, and this is one of the finest horticultural showrooms in the State of Pennsylvania. Mr. Stroh specializes in the growing of flowers, which he cuts, and in potted plants. He employs eight men steadily during the entire year. His business has become large with the years, and he is today a foremost business figure in the Forty Fort and Swoyersville areas, well known through- out Greater Wilkes-Barre.
Aside from the business career as outlined above, Mr. Stroh has engaged extensively in general affairs of interest to citizens of public spirit. He is independent in politics, supporting those movements and candidates which and who appeal to him most as deserving and fraught with the fullest gains to the people-at-large. In Forty Fort he was a member of the Town Council for many years, having been its secretary for years. Also, he served as burgess, having been the third burgess elected in the borough, and the first tax collector. He is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Forty Fort. During the World War he was a valued aid in the several campaigns of the Liberty Loan, War Savings Stamps, and Red Cross.
Mr. Stroh married, in 1802, Helen Keeler, of Forty Fort, daughter of Stern Keeler. Of this union were born sons : 1. Henry, deceased, his death having occurred in his infancy. 2. William, now in business with his father. 3. Robert H., graduate of the Hahnemann Medical School, class of 1926, Doctor of Medicine, interned ( 1928) in the Women's Hospital, West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, now (1929) practicing in Wyoming : mar- ried Elizabeth Mahorter, of Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Stroh have one grandson, Robert W., son of William, who married Maude Phinney. The family residence is at No. 71 River Street, Forty Fort.
CHARLES BUCKALEW WALLER, prominent and popular member of the Luzerne County Bar, traces his ancestry back to Joseph Waller, who in 1669 was living at Boston, Massachusetts, removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, founded by Roger Fairfield, in 1639, and died in 1672. After her second marriage the two children of Joseph Waller accompanied their mother to Woodbury, where Joseph, Jr., who had been born at Boston Feb- ruary 3, 1669, grew to manhood, had a family of five sons and seven daughters and accumulated much land. He became in 1719 an original proprietor of Litchfield, a beautiful New England village, where were located as
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pioneer institutions Judge Reeves' Law School and Miss Pierce's School for Girls, while his youngest son, Phineas, born October 31, 1717, was identified in 1738 with Corn- wall in the Housatonic Valley.
Phineas Waller married Rhoda Taylor, and was promi- nent in business and church work in Cornwall. The descent from him proceeds through Nathan Waller (1753- 1831), a captain in the American Revolution, was wounded at Horse Neck in 1779 at the time General Putnam made his famous escape; he was a man of great strength and it was told how he killed a bear single- handed by breaking its back with a pine knot. After the Revolution he removed with his family to Wyoming, where they had lived before, it seems. Early in the nine- teenth century he removed to Windsor, Broome County, New York, where he built a fine home, but later exchanged it with his brother Phineas for land near Wilkes-Barre, and returned to this city. He married at Wilkes-Barre May 4, 1773, Elizabeth Weeks, daughter of Jonathan Weeks, a pioneer from Fairfield, Connecticut, who made his first journey into the Wyoming Valley in 1763, and from whose house in July, 1778, seven men, including his three sons and son-in-law, Benedict, went into the massacre of Wyoming and were all slain by hostile Indians. The next in line, Phineas Waller ( 1774- 1860), acquired land and built a home at Wilkes-Barre, married (first), in 1800, Hannah Bradley, daughter of Abraham and Hannah ( Baldwin) Bradley, and sister of Abraham and Dr. Phineas Bradley, who served as first and second assistant postmaster generals until the acces- sion of President Andrew Jackson. He married (second) Elizabeth Jewett, daughter of Dr. David Hibbard and Patience (Bulkley) Jewett, of New London, Connecticut. They resided at Windsor for a time but presently returned to Wilkes-Barre, where his wife died February 21, 1859; he died at Bloomsburg the next year.
David Jewett Waller, eldest of four children of Phineas and Elizabeth (Jewett) Waller, born January 16, 1815, at Wilkes-Barre, was educated at Wilkes-Barre Academy, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, graduat- ing thence in 1834, and at the Princeton Theological Seminary, whence he graduated three years later. In 1838 Mr. Waller became pastor of the Bloomsburg Pres- byterian Church, on the river forty miles below Wilkes- Barre. He had an extensive dependent territory, since divided into many pastorates, and he took great interest in educational matters as well. In the year of his acces- sion he opened a classical school with his brother Charles as principal, having been a law student. This became in 1867 the Bloomsburg Literary Institute, and was merged in 1872 with the State Normal School of the Sixth Dis- strict, of which latter institutions Mr. Waller was an enthusiastic supporter as well. The General Assembly in 1865 elected him a member of the Board of Foreign Mis- sions. In 1849 he had been elected by the Synod of Pennsylvania a trustee of Lafayette College, and served for thirty years. Although he was often sought in other fields, he declined and continued in his pastorate until 1871, about which time he met with an accident while driving, so that he was forced to use crutches the balance of his life, and resigned his post, but continued to support the work of finishing the construction of the present attractive stone church, which was near his heart, as the chief contributor. At this time he drew a charter for a railroad from Wilkes-Barre to Bloomsburg along the south bank of the Susquehanna, and thence by the val- lcys of Big and Little Fishing Creeks and Muncy Creek to Williamsport, the road having been named the North and West Branch Railroad Company. Former United States Senator Charles R. Buckalew, his fellow-towns- man, who was again a member of the State Senate, obtained the passage of necessary legislation allowing construction of the road, Mr. Waller became president and put through the construction in 1881-82 from a june- tion with the S. H. & W. Railroad at Catawissa to Wilkes-Barre. This road was later purchased by the Pennsylvania and merged into its system; Mr. Waller remained president until his death. He had been a most useful citizen, with his ability as an organizer and execu- tor : he planted trees, graded streets, erected buildings, built a railroad, things much needed in the community, so he was greatly missed when he died December 7, 1893, four and a half years after his golden wedding. He married, May 23, 1839, at Philadelphia, Julia EIl- maker, born October 11, 1817, youngest daughter of Levi and Hannah ( Hopkins ) Ellmaker, he for many years a prominent Philadelphia merchant engaged in the West India Trade, a director of the Bank of the United States under appointment from President Andrew Jackson; he died February 9, 1835, in consequence of having been
thrown from his carriage. His father, Nathaniel Ell- maker, of Lancaster, was a Senator when the Federal seat of Government was Philadelphia, and on the mater- nal side was of French Huguenot descent. The chil- dren of David J. and Julia (Ellmaker) Waller were six : 1. Hannah Ellmaker, born August 30, 1840, married Colonel M. Whitmoyer. 2. David Jewett, born June 7, 1846, graduated at Lafayette and Union Theological Semi- vary, former superintendent of public instruction and principal of the Bloomsburg and Indiana State Normal schools. 3. Levi Ellmaker, of whom further. 4. George Phillips, born April 2, 1854, educated at Andover, Frank- lin and Marshall College and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, for many years physician for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in Nebraska, and later a resident of Los Angeles, California. 5. Julia Ellmaker, born December 12, 1855, married Charles W. Hand, of Brooklyn, New York, treasurer of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. 6. Laura Pettit, born Sep- tember 2, 1858.
Levi Ellmaker Waller was born July 16, 1851, grad- uated from Lafayette College in 1873, attended Colum- bia Law School at New York, and from the office of United States Senator Charles R. Buckalew, as stated above, was admitted to practice law. He attained dis- tinction as counsel of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany, the Pennsylvania Canal Company, and the Blooms- burg & Sullivan Railroad Company ; of which he was a director ; and he was a director of the North and West Branch Railway Company; and a trustee of the State Normal School of the Sixth District. He was actively engaged in many constructive enterprises in Wilkes-Barre, having resided here since 1900. He is a member of the Society Mayflower Descendants; the Sons of the Revolution; the University Club; and the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. He married at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1881, Alice M. Buckalew, daughter of Hon. Charles Rollin and Permelia (Wadsworth) Buckalew, and they have two children : Jean Buckalew, born October 22, 1884, and Charles Buckalew Waller, of whom further.
Charles Buckalew Waller was born at Bloomsburg, Columbia County, February 14, 1890, and was ten when his parents brought him to Wilkes-Barre. He attended Harry Hillman Academy and then the Taft School at Watertown, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale Uni- versity in 1912 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and from Harvard Law School in 1913 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the fall of that year he was admitted to the Luzerne County Bar, and has since been admitted to practice in all the State and Federal courts, and is a member of the law firm of Bedford, Jones, McGuigan and Waller. He has been uniformly success- ful and has won high place among his fellow-members of the bar and his neighbors. He is a director in the Union Savings Bank and Trust Company ; and a member of the Luzerne County and Pennsylvania State Bar asso- ciations ; the Republican party; the First Presbyterian Church; the Westmoreland Club: the Wyoming Valley Country Club; the North Mountain Club; the Wyoming Valley Historical and Geological Society; the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity ; and the Yale Club of New York. He was (1929) chairman of the Community Wel- fare Federation.
A few line's concerning details of Mr. Waller's World War service may be added here as showing the sacrifices he made for the cause of the country. Hc joined the Officers' Training Camp at Madison Barracks, New York, soon after the outbreak of the war for the United States in 1917, presently was made captain and assigned to duty at Camp Dix, New Jersey, with the 307th Field Artillery of the 78th Division; he went to France on a transport in May, 1918, and served as regimental operations officer in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. In November, 1918, he was transferred to command of the Ist Battalion of the 307th Field Artillery. He returned to the United States in 1919 and took up the profession of law again. Later he became executive officer of the 53d Field Artillery Brigade, with the rank of major, but this he resigned in 1921.
Mr. Waller married, December 15, 1917, Frances A. Phelps, daughter of Francis A. and Margaretta ( Drown ) Phelps, of Wilkes-Barre, before going to France, and their union has been blessed with a daughter, Margaretta Phelps Waller.
ROYAL SPENCER TOWNSEND-President and manager of the Wilkes-Barre Chevrolet Sales Company, Royal S. Townsend is an example of how a man can apply his pluck and stick-to-it-ive-ness to his business
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affairs and although beginning without a dollar for capital can make a financial success of his activities. There are hundreds who enter such a race, but not all win the prize. The room at the top of the ladder shows easily how few reach it. Mr. Townsend has only lived in Wilkes- Barre since 1922, but in that time, he has become one of the noticeably progressive citizens adding his quota to the general business prosperity in no small portion.
He was born at Dallas Center, Iowa, April 13, 1882, the son of Nathan and Victoria (Darling ) Townsend, both of whom were members of old American families. They are now deceased. To Nathan and Victoria (Dar- ling) Townsend were born three children: 1. Nellie, lived to maturity, is now deceased. 2. Royal S., of whom further. 3. Arthur A., of Omaha, Nebraska.
Royal Spencer Townsend was educated in the schools of Hastings, Nebraska, where his family moved when he was only twelve years of age. He attended the public school and then finished his work at Hastings College. At the age of twenty years, he entered the retail grocery business at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and after three years in this business he closed it out and took a position with the Moline Plow Company at Moline, Illinois. He re- mained with this company for twelve years and during that time served in various capacities. From this experi- ence he went into the automobile business. In 1917, he made a connection with the Chevrolet Motor Company as manager of different places for that organization. In 1922, he came to Wilkes-Barre and became distributor for the Chevrolet Car, and carries on the business under the name of the Wilkes-Barre Chevrolet Sales Company of which he is president and manager, associated with Edward Morganstern, treasurer. This concern is one of the most active in the automobile line in this vicinity and in the short time of this partnership, the business has grown and is now in a flourishing condition. He is a director of the Dime Bank Title and Trust Company. In his political affiliations, Mr. Townsend is independent and his religious faith is that of a Protestant. He is a man of genial disposition, making friends readily and keeping them.
Mr. Townsend is a member of the Wilkes-Barre- Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce ; the Wyoming Valley Motor Club; the Franklin Club; the Westmore- land Club; the Wyoming Valley Country Club ; the Fox Hill Country Club; and the Automobile Dealers' Asso- ciation of Wilkes-Barre.
On October 27, 1908, Royal Spencer Townsend married Elizabeth Hickey of Council Bluffs, Iowa, daughter of John and Anne ( Carroll) Hickey. Mr. and Mrs. Town- send have one son, John Spencer Townsend.
LOUIS WEBSTER GERHARDT-Since his ad- mission to the bar in 1912, Louis Webster Gerhardt has been engaged in legal practice in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, first as a partner of Fred L. Smith, later in association with Attorney Abner Smith, and finally, alone, under his own name. His offices are located at No. 700 in the Markle Bank Building, where he is taking care of the practice he has been building up for nearly a quarter of a century. He is a graduate of the law department of Dickinson College, and has also studied in George Washington University, where he gave special attention to jurisprudence and diplomacy.
Mondel Gerhardt, father of Mr. Gerhardt, was a native of Buda-Pesth, Hungary, who came to this country as a young man and located in New York City, where for many years he was at the head of the designing depart- ment for ladies' tailoring in Altman's well known de- partment store. About 1905 his health failed and he removed from New York City to Hazleton, hoping that the better climate and the greater freedom would bring improvement. Eight years later, in 1913, he died in Hazleton, at the ripe age of ninety years. He married Louisa Heller, who was born in Leipsic, Germany, and who survived him for two years, her death occurring in 1915, at the age of fifty-three years. They were the parents of four children: Harry A., who lives on North Pine Street, in Hazleton; Charles A., also a resident of Hazleton; Tillie Lillian, who is unmarried; and Louis Webster, of further mention.
Louis Webster Gerhardt, son of Mondel and Louisa (Heller) Gerhardt, was born in New York City, October 23, 1891, and as a boy attended the public schools of that city, where he also was a newsboy and did other work to help finance his own education. After the removal of his parents to Hazleton in 1905 he became a student in the Hazleton High School, from which he was graduated with the class of 1908, and the following fall he entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pennsyl-
vania, where he finished his course with graduation in 1912, receiving at that time the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He had also made a special study of jurisprudence and diplomacy in George Washington University, at Washington, District of Columbia, and was now ready for the experience of professional life. In 1912, soon after his graduation, he became associated with Fred L. Smith in the general practice of law, having been ad- mitted to the Pennsylvania bar shortly after graduation, and later he was associated with attorney Abner Smith, who is now (1928) deceased. Since the death of Mr. Smith Mr. Gerhardt has practiced alone, under his own name, and during the sixteen years which have passed since he began practice he has built up a very large clientele. He is a member of the Luzerne County Bar Association, and is well known among his professional colleagues.
During the World War Mr. Gerhardt served as one of the United States Four Minute Men, known as "word workers," and he was secretary of the Welcome Home Entertainment Committee, appointed to provide for the reception of the returning service men. He has always been actively interested in the civic and political affairs of Hazleton, and has taken part in practically all of the public welfare movements for the past quarter of a cen- tury. Politically, he is a Republican, and for many years he has served as county committeeman. He has also served as assistant district chairman and later he was chairman of the First Legislative District, and in 1928 was reelected unanimously to the same office. In January, 1922, he was appointed deputy collector of internal rev- enue for the Twelfth District of Pennsylvania, and in that office he gives excellent service. Fraternally, Mr. Gerhardt is identified with Delta Theta Phi law frater- nity, also with Delta Nu Epsilon Fraternity of Dickin- son College, and he is also a member of Hazleton Lodge, No. 327, Free and Accepted Masons; of Caldwell Con- sistory ; and of Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; also a member of Cald- well Country Club and of Irem Temple Club. He is a member of Power City Lodge, No. 202, Loyal Order of Moose, of which he is a Past Dictator, and which he is now (1928) serving as Dictator ; and he is an honorary member of Henry J. Reilley Post, No. 2, World War Veterans, of Chicago, Illinois; and a member of Moose Heart Legion, of Moose Heart, Illinois. He is an inter- ested member of the Craftsmen's Club, and is identified with several other organizations. In religion, Mr. Ger- hardt is a liberal, though he was reared in the Jewish faith.
Louis Webster Gerhardt was married, March 19, 1920, by Judge John M. Garman, to Altheda R. Smith, the mar- riage being one of the first civil marriages performed in Luzerne County, solemnized according to the laws of the State of Pennsylvania and of the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Gerhardt have three children : 1. Charles John. 2. Robert Louis. 3. Nancy Louise. Mrs. Gerhardt has been for some years, and still is (1928) active in the work of Christ Lutheran Church, of Hazleton. The family home is located at No. 562 North Church Street, in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
GEORGE P. STEINHAUER-Luzerne County numbers among its honorable and substantial citizens George P. Steinhauer, whose achievements in a busi- ness way have been beyond the ordinary. Mr. Stein- hauer, who as a breaker boy had to start earning his own living at a very early age, attained, as a result of his own natural talents and hard work, the position which he holds today as head of the George P. Steinhauer Com- pany, of Luzerne, dealers in all sorts of store fixtures and cabinet and mill work. Both for his unusual ability as a business man and for his excellent traits of char- acter and personality, Mr. Steinhauer is held in high esteem by the residents of Wyoming Valley, and, his acquaintance extends farther than that of the average business executive.
He was born in Wilkes-Barre August 31, 1869, a son of Henry W. and Elizabeth ( Stuebner) Steinhauer, both of whom are now deceased; and a grandson of Philip W. and Sophia ( Beech) Steinhauer. Philip W. Stein- hauer operated a woodworking plant, and was a skilled wood workman. He came to Wilkes-Barre before the days of the railroad, when what is now a large city was but a small town, possessing only a few thousand inhabit- ants. He was the father of twelve children.
Henry W. Steinhauer, the father of George P. Stein- hauer, was a native of Wilkes-Barre. He and Elizabeth (Stuebner ) Steinhauer were the parents of five children : 1. George P., of further mention. 2. William F. 3.
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Henry J., who is with the Hazard Manufacturing Com- pany, of Wilkes-Barre. 4. Anna, the widow of Oscar Kantner. 5. Emma, the widow of George Vogt.
George P. Steinhauer was reared in Wilkes-Barre. While still a boy he went to work to earn a living for himself; for, although he attended the public schools in Wilkes-Barre, he was forced to complete his schooling when he was only twelve years old. Then he became breaker boy for the Delaware and Hudson Coal Com- pany, after which he went to work in the Tucks Drug Store, in Wilkes-Barre. Then, in 1885, he began work in the establishment known as Conrad Lee's Planing Mills, on North Pennsylvania Avenue, where he remained for three years. His next position was with. George D. Silvius, building contractor. After seven years with Mr. Silvius, he took a position in the Morgan Planing Mill, now known as the Goff Lumber Company, of Wilkes- Barre. For fourteen years he stayed with this organiza- tion; then he became associated with Ambrose West, of Plymouth, who conducted the West Lumber and Manu- facturing Company. In 1911, Mr. Steinhauer, having obtained many years of useful experience with these different companies, engaged in business for himself, going into partnership with G. R. Anderson, in King- ston, in the manufacture of store fixtures and woodwork. Mr. Anderson and Mr. Steinhauer traded under the name of the Steinhauer Company. Then, in 1913, Mr. Ander- son died; and from that year until 1917, the business was conducted under the same name. In 1925, the name was changed to The George P. Steinhauer Company, in which year, the mill and factory was destroyed totally by firc. Soon afterward, however, not to be hindered by adverse circumstances, Mr. Steinhauer bought the old Garraghen canning plant, which he converted into the present mill and factory. Since that time, the business of the George P. Steinhauer Company has shown a steady growth, and Mr. Steinhauer has come more and more to be regarded as one of the real leaders in the business life of the 'community in Wyoming Valley, his product being shipped all over the United States.
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