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(V) Victoria E. Marie Dougherty, daughter of John and Cath- erinc (McElhenney ) Dougherty, was born May 6, 1843, at Hollidays- burg, Blair county, Pennsylvania. She was educated in the public school of Mt. Union, where the family lived after it had been plotted by Jolin Dougherty. Quitting school in Mt. Union Miss Dougherty was a student at the famous St. Joseph's Academy, in Maryland.
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Leaving school she returned home and was her mother's comfort and assistant until the death of both parents. She remained unmarried, and now makes her home in Mt. Union, where she is highly esteemed for her many sterling qualities, gentle manner and kindness of heart. She is one of the best known figures in Mt. Union, where she has virtually passed her life.
James McElhenney, the maternal grandparent of Miss Victoria E. Marie Dougherty, was born in Ireland and came to this country while yet a lad in search of the golden opportunity that eluded him in his native land. He was successful almost immediately on reaching Penn- sylvania, where he located in the Juniata valley. He married Jane Bevins, who was born in Maryland. He was appointed esquire by the government, which position he filled for many years acceptably to his neighbors. They were both Catholics and reared their children in that faith. Children : 1. James. 2. Jane. 3. Anne. 4. Ellen. 5. Mar- garet. 6. William. 7. John. S. Mary. 9. Catherine, married John Dougherty (see Dougherty IV). 10. Matilda. II. Melinda. 12. Died in infancy. 13. Died in infancy. 14. Died in infancy.
The grandfather of John D. Shull, was Simon Shull, a
SHULL farmer, residing near New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania. where he died leaving issue, including a son, David.
(II) David, son of Simon Shull was born at the paternal farm, located four miles west of New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, February I, 1835, died in Marysville, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1911. IIe at- tended the public schools of that district and worked on the farm, later learning the carpenter's trade. After his marriage he settled on a farmi in Fishing Creek Valley, later moving to Marysville, where he followed his trade. Some years later he again engaged in farming at Allen's Cove, returning to Marysville in August, 1900. He there established a bakery, which he successfully conducted until his death. He was a man of industry, ambition and thrift; his frequent removals always being in the line of better opportunities for himself and family. He was an ardent Democrat and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married, May 15, 1860, Leah Yohey, born October 13, 1839, at Rosstown, York county, Pennsylvania, daughter of George L. and Nancy (Brown) Yohey, who settled in Perry county when Leah
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was yet a child. She resided there until her marriage, May 15, 1860, at Marklesville, Pennsylvania, by Rev. Samuel Kuhn of the Reformed church, of which she also was a member. Children of David and Leah Shull: 1. Clara Parmelia, married Harry E. Keel and resides in Marysville. 2. Emma Lydoma, married Charles W. Glass and resides in Duncannon, Pennsylvania. 3. Omia Elizabeth, died in infancy. 4. Annie Laurie, died in infancy. 5. Carrie Eleanora, married Joseph Fenicle and resides near Duncannon. 6. Grace Minerva, married Roy Mutzabaugh and resides at Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. 7. Elsie Eva- lina, married Charles Fenstermacher and resides at Duncannon. 8. Brinton McClellan, married Carrie Fenstermacher and resides in Le- highton, Pennsylvania. 9. Matilda Mary, married Weston J. Ellenber- ger and resides in Hollidaysburg. 10. Sarah Catherine, married Charles F. Yingst and resides in Pembroke, Pennsylvania. II. Nancy Alberta. married George F. Albright and resides in Marysville. 12. John D., of whom further.
(III) John Dolan, youngest child of David and Leah (Yohey) Shull, was born at Marysville, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1885. He was educated in the public school at Allen's Cove and after the return to Marysville worked in the bakery established by his father and, under the direction of a skilled baker, was taught that trade. He gained both knowledge and experience in the art of baking, also in the method of conducting business, being able at his father's death to succeed him and continue to carry on the business already established and profit- able.
Ile purchased the interests of the other heirs and after becoming sole owner, made improvements and extended his operations until now he covers with his wagons the town and country as far as Allen's Cove. Mr. Shull is an enterprising, progressive business man and citizen, held in high esteem in his town. He is treasurer of the board of trade and in 1911 was elected member of the town council on the Democratic ticket. He is a member of the Masonic order. the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Patriotic Order Sons of America. He married, October 18, 1910, Mabel May White, born in Marysville, daughter of Samuel T. and Sarah Ellen (Brighton) White.
The Whites came from Berks to Perry county, Pennsylvania, later
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to Marysville, Pennsylvania, where the parents of Samuel T. White died. His father was an iron worker and left Berks county at the time Cove Forge was established in Perry county.
Samuel T. White was born in Berks county, came to Perry county. when a boy and there grew to manhood, an iron worker. Later he moved to Marysville where he entered the employ of Seidel Brothers and so continues. He married Sarah Ellen Brighton in Duncannon, settled at Cove Forge, which was their home until the removal to Marysville. Children : 1. James Edward, of whom further. 2. Naomi, married Howard Seitz and moved to Baltimore, Maryland. 3. Mary, married Milton Arnold and resides in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania. 4. Ma- bel M., married John D. Shull, of previous mention. 5. Austin A. 6. Anna R. 7. Esther. 8. Percy.
James Edward White was born at Cove Forge, Perry county, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1879. He was educated in Marysville pub- lic school, but at the age of twelve became clerk in the grocery of J. S. Bitner, continuing with him twelve years, gaining a practical edu- cation and valuable business experience. In 1903, being then twenty- four years of age, he purchased the Adams general store in the Morley Building, Marysville, and for five years conducted a successful business at that location. He then purchased the E. W. Wise property opposite the Pennsylvania railroad station, including a store room, lodge room and dwelling. To this location he moved his business and there he con- tinues, one of the substantial, successful business men of his town. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and in politics Mr. White is a Republican. He married, April 6, 1907, Sarah Hipple, born in Dry township, daughter of John and Mary (Freed) Hipple, he born in Perry, his wife in York county, Pennsyl- vania.
After their marriage John and Mary Hipple settled on a farm in Dry township, where he died in 1903, his wife in 1912. He was a veteran of the civil war and both belonged to the Evangelical church. Mary Freed Hipple was a daughter of Joseph and Jane Freed of York county, Pennsylvania. Children : Cora May ; Arbie E., deceased; Sarah, wife of James Edward White: Nettie Jane; Walter J .; and Richard B. Children of James E. and Sarah White: Paul Edward, born June 9, 1908; Josephine Lillian, December 1, 191I.
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The paternal grandparents of Milton WV. Derrick, pro- DERRICK prietor of the Laird Hotel at Duncannon, Pennsylvania, were Gustav and Katherine (Johnson) Derrick, resi- dents of Columbia, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Gustav Derrick, of German parentage, was a farmer of Lancaster county all his active life, but after his retirement, moved to Columbia, where both he and his wife died. He was a Whig, later a Republican, and both were members of the German Lutheran church. Their only son was Rich- ard J., of further mention.
(II) Richard J., only son of Gustav and Katherine (Johnson) Der- rick, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and there grew to manhood. He was a farmer during his early life, but later became a hotel proprietor, having managed hotels in Herrville and Lancaster for the past eighteen years. Since 1911 he has kept the hotel at Herrville, Lancaster county. He is a Republican in politics and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Knights of Pythias ; Knights of Malta; Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Improved Order of Red Men. He married Anna Gochenaur, daughter of a Ger- man farmer of Province township, Lancaster county. She had brothers, Alonzo and Abner, the latter deceased; also two sisters, Ada and Lottie.
(III) Milton W., only son of Richard J. and Anna (Gochenaur) Derrick, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1881. He was educated in the public schools of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and has spent his entire adult life in the hotel business. In 1903 he rented the Laird Hotel at Duncannon and in 1905 purchased the same property and continues in its management. He is a Republican in politics and be- longs to the Knights of Pythias; Knights of Malta; Improved Order of Red Men and the Patriotic Order Sons of America.
He married, in 1902, Luta, daughter of Jolin Mylin, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Children: Catherine, John, Anna, Richard.
LOY The first record of the Loy family in the Juniata Valley is found in Tyrone township, Perry county, where, in 1788, Michael Loy, a German emigrant, purchased one hundred and twenty acres taken up by Jolin Sharp two years previous. On this tract the village of Loysville is built, named in 1842 in honor of
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Michael Loy. In the same year, 1788, Michael Loy built the dwelling house and lived on his property until his death in 1815. He left eleven children : George; Nicholas, of whom further ; John, moved to Ohio; Michael, purchased the homestead and resided thereon until his death; Mary, married Abram Ritter and settled near Elliotts Run; Catherine, married John Bernheisel and settled near Green Park; Eve, married Adam Bernheisel and moved west; Margaret, married a Lippert and settled in Cumberland county ; Susan, married Nicholas Ickes and lived in Ickesburg; Elizabeth, married John Kepner of Juniata county; Bar- bara, married a Lupfer of Bloomfield.
(II) Nicholas, son of Michael Loy, settled first in Saville town- ship on two hundred acres of land which he sold, with a saw mill, to George Loy, April 25, 1826. Nicholas Loy in 1820 was assessed on three hundred acres in Toboyne township, but does not appear to have lived there. After 1826 he moved to Centre township, where he resided until his death. He had by a first wife seven children-four sons, three daughters: John, one of the owners of Hench's tannery ; Samuel, moved to Kansas; Jacob, settled in the west; William, settled in Clear- field county ; his three daughters married William West, Jacob Stroop and John Titzel. By a second wife Nicholas Loy has two sons : Captain Andrew, and George M., a landowner of Madison town- ship.
(III) Captain Andrew Loy, son of Nicholas Loy and his second wife, was born in Loysville. Tyrone township, Perry county, Pennsyl- vania. Later he became a landowner of Madison township. He mar- ried (first ) a daughter of John Wormley, (second) Ann Eliza Linn, who died in 1911, a granddaughter of Rev. John Linn. identified with the early church history of Centre township, Perry county. After his marriage he bought out the heirs and became owner of the homestead, a farm of two hundred acres. He remodeled the brick house that stood thereon, which is still in use as a residence. He erected a new barn and generally put the old farm in good condition. Both he and his wife were members of the Centre Presbyterian Church, which Cap- tain Andrew served as trustee for thirty years. He was an Independent in politics, voting for the man rather than the party. He served as school director and road supervisor, but devoted himself largely to his private affairs. Children of Andrew Loy, by his second wife: I. An- drew Linn, now residing at St. Paul, Minnesota, a representative of
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the Armour Company. 2. William Gettys, of whom further. 3 James, now living in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, one of the proprietors of the Indian Rug Company. 4. May, married James R. Wilson, cashier of the bank of Landisburg. 5. Edwin R., now residing on the old homestead.
(IV) William Gettys, son of Captain Andrew and Ann Eliza (Linn) Loy, was born near Centre Church in Madison township, Perry county, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1863. He was educated in the public schools and grew to youthful manhood on the home farm, his father's assistant.
In 1880 Mr. Loy entered the office of the Bloomfield Ad- vocate, as printer's "devil," remaining two years, gaining a good knowl- edge of the printer's craft. He then went west and finished his ap- prenticeship in the office of the Transcript Publication Company, Spring- field, Ohio. In accordance with printer's traditions he then went "on the road" and during the next eighteen years worked on about every metropolitan newspaper in the United States published between Bos- ton, Massachusetts, and Portland, Oregon, north or south. About the year 1900 he returned to the Juniata valley and in partnership with his brother, Edwin R. Loy, engaged in the lumber business, with headquarters at Loysville until 1905 when they transferred to New- port, their present office headquarters. The firm manufacture ties and lumber used in railroad construction, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany being one of the largest customers; they also handle building lumber and supplies. They keep about twenty men constantly em- ployed, operating two saw mills in Perry county, also handling the product of several other mills. The firm is a prosperous one, both brothers being men of fine business ability and experience. William G. Loy is a Democrat in polities ; since 1911 has been a member of New- port school board and in 1913 was chosen president of the board. He is a member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle: the Knights of Pythias and the Patriotic Order Sons of America. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church.
He married Olive Zimmerman, born in Ickesburg, Perry county, daughter of Thaddeus and Lucinda (Baker) Zimmerman, of an old valley family. Children : Anna Lucinda, Andrew Zimmerman, Thomas Linn. The family residence is also at Newport.
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The Wentzells came to Perry from Northumberland WVENTZELL county, Pennsylvania, where both the father and grandfather of Clinton Hill Wentzell were born. The rise of Mr. Wentzell from the bound boy of six years, to the suc- cessful lumberman of to-day is a striking example of what an ambi- tious boy and a resolute man can accomplish.
(I) Daniel, son of - Wentzell, was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and there grew to manhood. About 1855 he settled in Perry county at Elliottsburg, where for a time he followed his trade of stonemason. He then engaged in farming at Duncannon and Blain, in the same county, continuing until the death of his wife, whom he survived two years, making his home with his daughter, Mrs. Lucinda Garber. Both Daniel Wentzell and his wife were men- bers of the Lutheran church. He married Catherine Campbell. Chil- dren : Harriet, died aged twenty-six years; David, of whom further ; Lucinda, married George Garber and resides in Blain; Caroline, died aged twenty-one years; Sinary, a veteran of the Sth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, now a farmer of the state of Iowa; Mary, married Abraham Bristline, both deceased; Ira, died in Bellewood, Pennsylvania, a merchant ; Dennis, now a farmer; Sarah, married Jacob Loy and re- sides in Andersonburg; Luther, now living retired in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ; Martha Matilda, married George Barclay and resides in Center, Perry county, Pennsylvania ; Anna, married Elmer Lighter and resides at Oakdale, Pennsylvania.
(II) David, son of Daniel Wentzell, was born in Northumber- land county, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1839. He was a lad of about sixteen years when his parents moved to Perry county, where his after life was spent engaged in farming and merchandising. He set- tled at Blain, where for two years he cultivated a farm nearby, then establishing in general merchandise business in Blain. He was a suc- cessful merchant, remaining in active business until his death in 1876. He was a Republican; a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and both he and his wife belonged to the Lutheran church. He married (first) Susan Loy, who bore him: Luther Melancthon, now living in Blain: Ida, married John Bristline, residing in Blain and Orlando, a farmer near Duncannon. He married (second) Catherine, daughter of Benjamin and Alice (Stewart) Rice, and granddaughter of George and Catherine Rice. The maternal grandparents of Catherine
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Rice were William (3) and Margaret (Copeland) Stewart. The Stewarts came from Scotland in early Colonial days-three brothers, William, James and John, being the emigrants. This first William had a son William (2) Stewart, who settled on a tract of land in the Tuscarora valley, where he met his death at the hands of the Indians. His son, Hiram P. Stewart, married in the Tuscarora valley, in 1778, Alice Graham, who bore him ten children, the eldest being William (3) Stewart who married Margaret Copeland.
Benjamin Rice was born in Juniata county, Pennsylvania, as was his wife, Alice Stewart. After his marriage he moved to Perry county, settling in Madison township, where he owned and cultivated a farm of one hundred and fifty acres. In his old age he returned to Juniata. county, where he died. He was an elder of the Lutheran church ; his wife also being a member of that church. Children: Margaret, mar- ried John Briner; George, a farmer; William, a farmer and a soldier of the civil war, running away from home to enlist when but sixteen years of age; Benjamin; Emeretta, married William B. Gutshall, a former commissioner of Perry, now residing in Blain; Catherine, mar- ried David Wentzell, of previous mention ; David, a hotel proprietor at Ickesburg ; Ellen, never married.
Children of David and Catherine Wentzell: Clinton Hill, of whom further; Nellie, married Howard Kline and resides in Lewistown, Pennsylvania : Capitola, residing in Blain.
(III) Clinton Hill, only son of David Wentzell and his second wife Catherine Rice, was born in Blain, Perry county, Pennsylvania, Febru- ary 12, 1872. At the age of six years he was indentured, serving until fifteen years of age, when he started life for himself. From fifteen to eighteen years of age he worked on a farm, receiving as wages his board and seven dollars cash monthly. At the age of eigh- teen years he associated in the lumber business with his half-brother, Luther M. Wentzell. The brothers operated a single mill, two miles southeast of Blain, continuing one year when they sold their plant to an uncle, Abraham Bristline. The partners continued in the same busi- ness at another point, but at the end of two years Clinton H. sold his interest to Luther M. Wentzell and for the next eight years engaged in farming in Perry county. He then formed a partnership with E. K. Weaver and for two years again engaged in lumbering, operating mills
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in Jackson and Madison townships. He then purchased Mr. Weaver's interests and operated alone for one year. He then admitted his pres- ent partner, W. Frank Stambaugh, forming the firm of Wentzell & Stambaugh. They are successful lumber manufacturers and dealers, owning two saw mills in Madison township and a planing mill at Blain. They manufacture from the log and handle all kinds and sizes of pine and oak lumber, using the product of four other mills in addi- tion to their own. At the planing mill a line of carpenters' supplies is manufactured and a general planing mill business transacted. Their products go by Pennsylvania railroad to many distant points. a large share being consumed by the Pennsylvania Steel Company ( 1913). Mr. Wentzell is an energetic, modern business man and reviews with satisfaction his rise from the humble boy to a successful man of busi- ness. He is a director of the local cemetery company and has other business interests. He is a Republican in politics and has served as school director and borough councilman. He belongs to the Junior Order of American Mechanics; The Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and both he and his wife are members of the Lutheran church.
Mr. Wentzell married, December 23, 1893, Mary Ellen McKee, daughter of David and Eve (Smith) McKee, of Blain.
The Taylors of this record are of Scotch descent, their TAYLOR earliest known ancestor, Matthew Taylor, being burned at the stake in Scotland for his religious beliefs, which he would not surrender nor deny. He left a son Matthew (2) Taylor, who fled from Scotland to Ireland, where he fought under the flag of William of Orange at the battle of the Boyne. He died in England. He left a son Matthew (3) Taylor, born in England, who is the founder of this branch of the Taylor family of Pennsylvania. He settled near Coatesville, Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he died, leaving a son. Matthew (4).
(IV) Matthew (4) Taylor was born in Chester county, Pennsyl- vania, learned the trade of blacksmith and after the year 1812 settled in Dublin township, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. He there erected a home and shop in which he followed his trade. He also owned a farm which he cultivated. He married Elizabeth Rebecca Ander-
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son and reared a large family. Both were members of the Presby- terian church.
(V) George, son of Matthew (4) and Elizabeth ( Anderson) Tay- lor, was born in Oxford, Chester county, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1812. He attended the district schools until he was thirteen years of age, but only during the winter months. He never studied grammar while in school-in fact, after he was thirteen never was a student in any school. Nevertheless, by self study he became a well educated man. He was expecting to follow his father's trade of blacksmith, but while at work in the shop one day a flying piece of iron struck him in the eye, resulting in a complete loss of sight of that eye. He then began his course of self study in order to have a means of livelihood other than so dangerous a trade. During his earlier life he taught school for many years in Dublin township and in Trough Creek valley in Huntingdon county. During these years he availed himself of every means of study or improvement possible and added greatly to his stock of knowledge. He was thirteen years of age when his parents moved to Dublin township in 1825, and nine years later he had so improved the time between his hours of toil on the farm and in the school room that a profession seemed within his reach. He decided upon law as that profession, an ambition developed during his em- ployment in the office of David R. Porter, then prothonotary of Hunt- ingdon county, later governor of Pennsylvania. In 1834, being then twenty-two years of age, he began the study of law in the office of Gen. A. P. Wilson, then one of the leading lawyers of the Huntingdon bar. After two years of hard study Mr. Taylor passed the required exam- ination and was admitted to practice at the Huntingdon county bar, April 12, 1836. He at once began practice in Huntingdon, forming a partnership with John G. Miles and practicing as junior member of the law firm. Miles & Taylor. In 1840 he was chosen by the state to assist in the prosecution of Robert Mcconahay, on trial for the murder of six of his relatives. Mr. Taylor threw his whole vigor into this case ; traced it through all its windings ; gathered and presented his facts in so clear, logical and forcible a manner that, although the evidence was purely circumstantial, it was so convincing that the jury rendered a verdict of "guilty." The argument of this case before the jury brought Mr. Taylor deserved reputation, and later, in a three-hours'
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speech in the prosecution of the Flanagan murder case in Cambria county, in behalf of the state, that was considered as powerful as his argument in the Mcconahay case. He had indeed won an enviable reputation as a lawyer and, in 1849, when the act of that year was passed increasing the number of judicial districts of the state, he was recommended almost unanimously by the bar of Huntingdon, Cambria and Blair counties for the president judgeship of the newly created twenty-fourth district. In April, 1849, Governor Johnson conferred upon him the appointment, which was unanimously confirmed by the senate. He served under this appointment until 1851, when he was nominated for the same position by the Whig party. He was elected the following October and served the full term of ten years. In 1861 he had so firmly intrenched himself in the good will and respect of the bar of the district that, irrespective of party, they asked him to be a candidate for reelection. He was again elected and on October 24, 1871, while charging a jury in Blair county, he was stricken with paraly- sis. and died two weeks later, November 14, 1871. He was aged fifty- eight years; had been a member of the bar thirty-five years and for twenty-two years president judge of the twenty-fourth judicial dis- trict. No more able exponent of the law, nor a more just judge ever graced the bench of the district. When his early disadvantages are con- sidered, the fact becomes plain that his success in life was entirely due to his own courage, ambition and determination to make a name for himself. Few men accomplish more, even with the advantages of a college education and influential friends.
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