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On May 6, 1902, Mr. Tyburski was united in marriage with Theresa Fojutoski; and their children are three 1. Casimere Estella, graduate of Delaware University, now teacher of high school. 2. Wanda C., personnel direc- tor of the Dorrance Mills, at Kingston. 3. Leo Thaddeus, student of Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute, Troy, New York.
HARRY FREDERICK GOERINGER-Be it ever so often repeated, the story of an individual who attains to that elusive thing known as success is never devoid of inter- est, for in each individuality achieving to that attainment is a new set of interlock- ing causes making his progress possible. Harry F. Goeringer's career has inspired numbers of men through the living. What he has done has been of himself, largely. Given good blood, a good home and the encouragement given to sons by their par- ents, he has builded a high commercial structure, being today a member of the firm of Goeringer and Hoffman, operators in real estate, insurance and allied lines, with offices in the Liberty State Bank and Trust Com- pany Building, North Main Street, Wilkes- Barre.
Mr. Goeringer is a native of Wilkes-Barre. He was born July 6, 1894, and is a son of Frederick and Catherine (Banks) Goeringer. His father is a contract painter, long a resi- dent of this city. In the family are four children: 1. Frederick, Jr., who is engaged in the real estate business, in Wilkes-Barre. 2. Harry F., of whom follows. 3. Wilbur, who is in the gasoline and oil business, Wilkes-Barre. 4. Howard, a student in Wilkes-Barre High School.
In the public schools of Wilkes-Barre Mr. Goeringer secured a sound elementary and secondary course of instruction, graduating from high school in 1912, at the age of seventeen years. Thereafter, while working in the real estate business, he improved his education through study in the local branch of the Wharton Extension School, University of Pennsylvania, whence he was graduated in 1917, in only one year's less time than if he had not been engaged in business simultaneously and parallel. In April of the
year in which he received his degree the United States entered the World War, and as quickly as he could arrange for it, Mr. Goeringer joined the colors, as a private in the 118th Field Ordnance Depot, stationed at Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina. He was mustered out of the service, in February, 1919. Resuming the thread of his career at real estate where it had heen dropped for the greater cause, Mr. Goeringer has since applied himself diligently to commercial af- fairs. The firm of which he is a member is one of the largest dealing in real estate and insurance in Luzerne County; and this is due in no small part to Mr. Goeringer's own individual responsibility.
Honors accorded to Mr. Goeringer have been many and of varied kinds and degrees, but one outstanding, perhaps, was the chair- manship of Division C of the Community Welfare Drive to raise more than half a million dollars. This important post was tendered him in full realization of his proven executive and financial ability. His division, it may be noted here, collected one hundred and fifty-eight per cent. of the quota ascribed to it, the largest percentage collected by any competing team. The award, made to the division, was a silver cup. But it was not only in March, 1928, when the division functioned under his direction, that Mr. Goe- ringer has assisted the people of the com- munity to greater welfare; that is his con- stant direction of public-spirited purpose, and he effects that end in all ways open to good citizens, through support of all worthy movements for the common weal.
His interests are diversfied. He is a direc- tor of the Liberty State Bank and Trust Company of Wilkes-Barre and the Wilkes- Barre Thrift and Loan Company, and main- tains besides several business connections not here cited. A Republican, he owns no small influence in matters political. He is a communicant of the First Reformed Church, of Wilkes-Barre; and fraternally is identi- fied as follows: with the Knights of Pythias, as member of Wilkes-Barre Lodge; and with the Free and Accepted Masons, as member of Landmark Lodge, No. 442; Shekinah Chap- ter, No. 182, Royal Arch Masons; Dieu le Veut Commandery, No. 45, Knights Templar; Arabic Order and lrem Temple, Ancient
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to Irem Country Club, Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce, and is a past presi- dent of the Wilkes-Barre Real Estate Board, and past president of the Wilkes-Barre Ex- change Club. During the Chamber of Com- merce Drive of 1929, he was major of one of the divisions. There were four honorary rewards, the division headed by Mr. Goe- ringer having the signal honor of winning all four of the rewards. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Community Welfare Federation of Wyoming Valley.
Mr. Goeringer married, October 17, 1919, Mary C. Malkemes, of Wilkes-Barre, daugh- ter of Conrad and Christina (Smith) Malke- mes; and their children are: Christina Cath- erine; Eleanor Mary; Harry F., Jr .; Lois Jane; and Carl Frederick.
J. STANLEY RINEHIMER-The success which has come to J. Stanley Rinehimer, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, through his high ability and untiring effort places him among the leaders of his community. He is general agent for the Metropolitan Casualty Insur- ance Company of New York, with an office at No. 54 West Market Street, in the Anthra- cite Building. His share in all the construc- tive civic and social activities of his com- munity is large and interested.
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J. Stanley Rinehimer was born In Wilkes- Barre, January 3, 1881, son of John and Alma E. (Blotgett) Rinehimer, and grandson of John Rinehimer, of an old Luzerne County family. The parents, themselves natives of Wilkes-Barre, had the following children: Mrs. Fred H. Gates, residing in Wilkes-Barre; C. G. Rinehimer; Ernest D., associated with the Wilmot Engineering Company, of Hazle- ton: J. Stanley, subject of this record; and Harry C., a salesman, residing in Kingston. In this city J. Stanley Rinehimer grew to manhood, receiving his education in the pub- lic schools and graduating from the Wilkes- Barre High School in 1899.
His business career began with the Vulcan Iron Works, where he remained over seven years. He then spent two years in South America as a construction engineer. On his return to the United States in 1909, he began his congenial and profitable connection with the profession of insurance. He was an agent for the Aetna Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, and their representa- tive in Wilkes-Barre for eighteen years. On December 1, 1926, he engaged in the insurance business for himself at the head of the gen- eral agency for the Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company of New York City. Out- standing success has attended this venture. Well-known, heartily liked and trusted by his fellow-townsmen, and broadly experienced, Mr. Rinehimer has been able to build up a large clientele to whom he gives the best of service. He is a member of Landmark Lodge, No. 442, Free and Accepted Masons, of Wilkes- Barre; Shekinah Chapter, No. 182, Royal Arch Masons; Dieu le Veut Commandery, No. 45, Knights Templar; and Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Wilkes-Barre. Membership also he holds in the Shrine Country Club, the Franklin Club, the Wyoming Valley Motor Club, of which he is treasurer; Executive Council Boy Scouts of America, of which he is also treasurer; the Rotary Club, and the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, Lodge No. 109. He belongs to the Greater Wilkes-Barre Cham- ber of Commerce and the Presbyterian Church of Kingston, where he resides. He was ap- pointed Poor Director of the Central Poor District of Luzerne County. His political sympathies are with the Republican party.
On March 23, 1907, J. Stanley Rinehimer married Leona M. Biehl, daughter of a promi- nent Luzerne County physician, Dr. Biehl. Children: Robert C., a student at Penn State College; John Stanley, Jr., and Carol Virginia, students at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pennsylvania.
ERNEST WOODBURN HOGG, V. M. D .- One of the best known veterinarians of Wilkes-Barre is Dr. Ernest Woodburn Hogg, whose offices and hospital are located at No. 20 Darling Street, in Wilkes-Barre. Dr. Hogg is a graduate of the Veterinary Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and he has been engaged in practice here since 1914, in association with an uncle. He was captain of the 'Varsity wrestling team and member of the football squad.
Forrest Woodburn Hogg, father of Dr. Hogg, was a son of William Hogg, of Scotch- Irish ancestry. Forrest W. Hogg died as a result of a fall in October, 1928. He married Emma Fawkes, who is living in Cochranville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and they be- came the parents of nine children: Robert, died in childhood; Wilmot; David, died at the age of thirteen years; Dr. Ernest Woodburn, of further mention; Martha R., who died at the age of nineteen; Pauline, married Ralph
Reynolds, of Chester County, Pennsylvania; Helen, married Edward Windle, of Chester County, Pennsylvania; Dr. James, graduate of the Veterinary School, University of Penn- sylvania, who is also a veterinary surgeon and associated with his brother, Dr. Ernest Woodburn; and Dr. Harold Kent, who Is a. graduate of the Medical Department of Temple College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is now (1929) a practicing physician in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Ernest Woodburn Hogg, son of For- rest Woodburn and Emma (Fawkes) Hogg, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1890, and was reared on the old homestead farm in Chester County. As a boy he worked on the farm and attended the local public schools, graduating from the high school with the class of 1908. After graduation he went out West and was located for a time in Wyoming and also in Montana, where he worked on a ranch for a period, then as clerk in a drug store, and finally as a railroad mail clerk. After three years of experience in the West he returned to Penn- sylvania and entered the Veterinary Depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated with the class of 1914, receiving the degree of Doctor of Vet- erinary Medicine. After his graduation he came to Wilkes-Barre and associated him- self with his uncle, Dr. Edwin Hogg, a well- known veterinary surgeon of this city, who passed away October 28, 1925. Since that time he has been continuously engaged in practice, and now has associated with him his brother, Dr. James S., who is also a veterinarian.
Upon the entrance of the United States into the World War, Dr. Hogg was commis- sioned a second lieutenant in the Veterinary Corps of the Pennsylvania National Guard, June 9, 1917, and was assigned to the 109th Field Artillery. On November 22, 1917, he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in the Veterinary Corps of the United States Army, and in March, 1918, was promoted to the rank of captain and was transferred to the 79th Division at Camp Meade, as division veterinarian. On July 4, 1918, he sailed for France with his division and served in all the campaigns in which that division took part. On February 22, 1919, he was promoted to the rank of major in the Veterinary Corps of the United States Army. In May. 1919, he returned with the division to the United States, having received a splendid letter of commendation from the commanding general of the 79th Division, General Joseph E. Kuhn. This letter was published by G. H. Q. (Gen- eral Headquarters) and was mailed to all veterinary officers in the American Expedi- tionary Forces, being the only letter of the kind published concerning veterinary officers in France. Upon his return to the United States, Dr. Hogg was detailed to the surgeon- general's office at Washington, District of Columbia, to give information as to the exact functioning of the new Veterinary Corps in actual warfare, and here he was urged to remain in the Regular Army, with promise of promotion in rank in a few months. This offer he declined and on July 25, 1919, received his honorable discharge from the United States Army, then returning to Wilkes- Barre, where, on February 1, 1920, he was commissioned a major of the Veterinary Corps of the Pennsylvania National Guard as Division Veterinarian, where he reorganized the veterinary corps. Politically, Dr. Hogg gives his support to the Democratic party. Fraternally he is identified with Landmark Lodge, No. 442, Free and Accepted Masons; with all the bodies of the Scottish Rite; and
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with Caldwell Consistory of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, in which he holds the thirty- second degree; also with Irem Temple. Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Wilkes-Barre. He is a member of Irem Country Club, a charter member of Wilkes-Barre Post No. 132, American Legion, the Rotary Club, and professionally is identi- fied with the Luzerne Veterinary Society, the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Society, and the American Veterinary Medical Association. His religions affiliation is with the Memorial Presbyterian Church, of Wilkes-Barre. Dur- ing his college years Dr. Hogg took an active interest in athletics, and he has the distinc- tion of being the second student from the Veterinary Department to be elected captain of a 'Varsity team of the University of Penn- sylvania. He was a member of the college football team, 1912-13, and in 1914 came to Wilkes-Barre and associated himself with his uncle, the late Dr. Ernest Hogg.
Dr. Ernest Woodburn Hogg was married, November 22, 1916, to Hilda Gladys Mann, who was born in Nottingham, England, danghter of Samuel and Eliza (Hewitt) Mann, both deceased. Samuel Mann and his wife came from Nottingham, England, to the United States, he being sent over to install the lace machinery in the Wilkes-Barre Lace Manufacturing Company, now one of the largest lace mills in the world. He remained with his company until his death. Dr. and Mrs. Hogg are the parents of one daughter, Hilda Mann Hogg.
ALLEN M. SHARP-Educated in three pro- fessions, Allen M. Sharp, of Freeland, elected the baking industry as his final choice and has built up a very successful business in this district. Keen of intellect and possessed of unusual business ability, he has brought to bear in his work a native industry and perseverance rarely exceeded in com- mercial life and has so conducted his enter- prise that he has won and merited the respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens. A native of the Lebanon Valley of Pennsyl- vania, he has made a multitude of friends by the attractions of a pleasing personality, coupled with absolute rectitude and reliabil- ity in all his dealings, his operations continu- ing to grow as the fame of his product extends. He is one of our most progressive business men and a distinctly useful and estimable public-spirited citizen.
He was born in Lebanon County, Pennsyl- vania, January 3, 1891, a son of Frank and Maggie (Dunoyer) Sharp, and acquired his education there and through correspondence schools, in which last-named institutions he studied baking and also took the course for school teaching. About this time and be- fore he began teaching, Mr. Sharp took a government civil service examination, with a large class, in which he passed first class and receiving nearly the highest rating, a fact of which he may be well prond. For two years he tanght in the public schools of Lebanon County. He had also learned the trade of cigar making and, in 1919, came to Freeland and became foreman of the Bressler cigar factory, a position which he held until his purchase of the bakery of Christ Schaller, at No. 719 Front Street, in 1922, when he gave to the new industry his entire attention. His business has now grown to cover an area some fifteen miles in radins from Freeland, wherein he sup- plies his products by motor trucks, of which he operates four, and employs eight bakers in his plant. Mr. Sharp is a member of Arbutus Lodge, No. 611, Free and Accepted
Masons; Lehigh Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masons; Irem Temple Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Lodge No. 1145, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Mt. Horeb Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Patriotic Order Sons of America. His religious faith is the Lutheran.
Allen M. Sharp married, in 1913, Mabel Bressler, of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Their children are: Lucetta, Edward and James. Mrs. Sharp is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.
DELL ROY TREDINNICK - Numbered among the younger and progressive men of Wilkes-Barre community is Dell Roy Tre- dinnick, who since 1925 has occupied the important position of cashier in the Hanover Bank & Trust Company, and is looked upon with favor by his associates in banking, with admiration by those who are aware of the fine progress he has made in the world of commerce, and with respect by all who know him. Mr. Tredinnick is a native of Wilkes- Barre, born January 23, 1896, a son of Thomas and Emma (Weaver) Tredinnick.
Thomas Tredinnick has for many years been a resident of this community. He is a Republican, a staunch adherent to party prin- ciples, and possessed of a considerable influ- ence in matters politic, which he exercises quietly and with effect among those with whom he is associated. He is a communicant of the Parrish Street Methodist Episcopal Church, is devout in its service, and within his means generous toward all charitable and kindred canses of a worthy character, whether or not sponsored by the church of his denomination a man of large heart and temperate nature, esteemed by the majority of persons with whom he comes in contact. By his wife, Emma (Weaver) Tredinnick, he is the father of six children, all of whom have reached maturity and are well estab- lished: 1. Thomas, foreman of the Vulcan Iron Works, Wilkes-Barre. 2. Frederick, fore- man in the pressrooms of the Philadelphia "Public Ledgar," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 3. John, foreman in the pressrooms of the "Times-Leader," Wilkes-Barre. 4. James, foreman in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, "Republican." 5. Anna, wife of George Nor- ton, Wilkes-Barre. 6. Dell Roy, of whom follows.
Dell Roy Tredinnick attended the public schools of Wilkes-Barre, and graduated from high school with the class of 1913, in the course of which year he became messenger boy for the Hanover Bank & Trust Company, in whose employ he has been through the years succeeding. Meanwhile, in 1918, he graduated from the American Institute of Banking, and in 1921 from the Wharton Ex- tension School, of Wilkes-Barre. In the lat- ter institution he specialized in accounting and finance, having ever in mind advance- ment in the banking house. Accordingly he was advanced from the place of messenger boy to stenographer, from stenographer to bookkeeper, from bookkeeper to teller, from teller to assistant cashier, and, in 1925, from assistant cashier to cashier.
Mr. Tredinnick, like his father, is a Repub- licen, and also like him exercises quietly an extensive influence in matters political. He is a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church and contributor to charity regardless of the race or creed whence comes the ap- peal. In fraternal affiliations his membership is large, including active participation in affairs of Landmark Lodge, No. 442 of the
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Free and Accepted Masons, Shekinah Chapter No. 182 of Royal Arch Masons, Dieu le Veut Commandery No. 45 of Knights Templar, and Irem Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Irem Country Club; Wyoming Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Wilkes-Barre Coun- cil, No. 161, of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics; John Knox Commandery No. 12, of the Knights of Malta; Lions' Club, and the college fraternity Pi Delta Epsilon.
Dell Roy Tredinnick married Magdaline Smith, in the month of July, 1921. Mrs. Tredinnick is a daughter of George Adam Smith of Wilkes-Barre. This union has re- sulted in the birth of two children: Dell Roy, Jr., and George Donald.
FRED J. E. SPERLING, M. D .- A physician in Wilkes-Barre since 1907, Dr. Fred J. E. Sperling follows the profession of his father before him, Dr. John G. Sperling, who died at the age of eighty-nine years, in 1920, hav- ing practiced medicine in Wyoming Valley for fifty-five years, beloved of the greater number of families in Luzerne County, where he was a familiar figure and the last of the "old school" of family doctors.
Fred J. E. Sperling was born October 20, 1883, son of Dr. John G. Sperling and Mar- garet (Swartz) Sperling. John G. Sperling was a native of Germany, born in 1831, and came to the United States in 1866. While a young man he made a trip around the world in a sailing craft, an adventurous version of the German Wanderjahr still practiced in the more well to do families of Germany. Dr. and Mrs. Sperling, of Pittston, Pennsyl- vania, were the parents of six children: Annah, wife of W. W. Helfrich, of Wilkes- Barre; Clara, wife of Ira Allen, of Bingham- ton, New York; Grace, wife of Linn Tiffany, of Kingston, Pennsylvania; Edith, unmar- ried; Minnie, deceased, unmarried; and Fred J. E. Mrs. Sperling now (1927) is eighty- nine years of age.
Dr. Fred J. E. Sperling received his early education in the public schools of Wilkes- Barre and graduated from the high school at Kingston, Luzerne County, from the Wyo- ming Seminary at Kingston, and the Lehigh College, whence he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1903; then entered the Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia and graduated with the class of 1907 holding the degree of Doc- tor of Medicine. He returned to Luzerne County and has followed the practice of medicine during the years that have suc- ceeded. Dr. Sperling is a member of the Luzerne County Medical Society, the Penn- sylvania State Medical Society, and the American Institute of Homeopathy; he is a member of the Royal Arch Masons, Knights Templar, Keystone Consistory of thirty-sec- cnd degree Masons, Irem Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Patriotic Order Sons of America, Junior Order United American Mechanics, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Owls' Club, the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Com- merce; he is a member of the national Greek letter college fraternity Alpha Sigma, the Concordia Club, the Wilkes-Barre Automo- bile Club, the Amphictyon Society of Phila- delphia, the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, and the Presbyterian Church. He fur- ther belongs to the Craftsmen's Club of Penn- sylvania and the Sportsmen's Association. Dr. Sperling has contributed articles to the
medical journals and has written a book on the tapeworm.
Dr. Fred J. E. Sperling married Lillian Robinson, of Wilkes-Barre, and with her has made long journeys in the United States and abroad. They made a trip to the Bahama Islands in 1927, visiting the Panama Canal Zone and South America, and during the year 1929 Dr. Sperling and his wife made a tour of Canada and Europe. They maintain a beautiful home in Kingston, and the doctor has his offices in No. 601, the Meyer Build- ing, Wilkes-Barre.
FRED J. BANTA-Born in the town of Stockholm, New Jersey, Fred J. Banta held various positions in that State until 1905, in which year he came to Luzerne County and learned the trade of moulder. After working in that line for several years, Mr. Banta became associated with Haddock Mining Company of Luzerne, with which concern he now fills the offices of shipping clerk and weighmaster. Mr. Banta is a prominent fig- ure in his community, having served two ternis as burgess.
Mr. Banta was born in Stockholm, August 24, 1883, the son of Joseph and Kathryn Banta, both natives of Newfoundland, Morris County, New Jersey, where the former was a blacksmith, employed with the Franklin Iron Company for sixteen years. He died on May 15, 1926, his wife, the mother of Fred J. Banta, having predeceased him on October 3, 1921. Mr. Banta obtained his early education in the public schools of Franklin, graduating from the high school there with the class of 1900. For about a year he was employed by the American Express Company at Weehawken, New Jer- sey, after which he worked in the paper mills at Hamburg, New Jersey, for three years. He was with the New Jersey Zinc Company, at Franklin for the next two years, at the end of which time he came to Wyoming and learned the moulder's trade. He was engaged in that line of work for seven years and in June, 1912, he became connected with the Haddock Mining Company, of Luzerne. He was first employed as a carpenter and later as an inspector of coal and in 1924 he took his present position in the offices of the corporation as shipping clerk and weigh- master.
For two years Mr. Banta was secretary of the borough council, and was later ap- pointed to serve the unexpired term of Daniel Llewellyn as burgess. This was in March, 1922 and in 1926 he was elected burgess, to serve a term of four years. He was connected with the Luzerne Fire Depart- ment No. 1, and served as president for two years. He is an active member of Walnut Lodge, No. 953, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was Past Grand and Past Deputy grand of District No. 1, and was a member of Wyoming Valley Encampment No. 25. His religious affiliations are with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was a member of the official board for several years.
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