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(III) Henry Clay, son of George and Matilda ( Spicer ) Snyder, was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania. He was educated in the public school, and for several years was associated with his father in the tannery, and later conducted the same business for himself. He de- veloped considerable talent as a musician and was locally famed as a teacher as well as a performer. He enlisted in the United States signal corps during the civil war, rose to the rank of captain, and served until the war closed. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and his funeral services were conducted by U. S. Grant Post, of Chicago. He married (first) Emma Huggins, (second) Laura Jane, sister of his first wife; they were daughters of John Huggins, of Liver- pool, Pennsylvania, who also had sons: Charles, now living in Chicago, and Thomas, who settled further west. His third daughter, Kate, mar- ried John Dietrick, a blacksmith, of Liverpool, and a civil war veteran. Laura Jane ( Huggins) Snyder survived her husband and was for many years postmistress at Liverpool. Children of second wife: Charles H .. of whom further : George, now a railroad employce, living in Philadel- phia. By his first wife he had a daughter Annie, who died young.
(IV) Charles H., son of Henry Clay and Laura Jane (Huggins) Snyder, was born in Liverpool, Perry county, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1877. He was educated in the public schools, and for several years was in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad. In the year 1900 he built and equipped a shirt factory at Liverpool, beginning with a few machines and employees. He prospered from the first and has contin- ually added to his equipment and force of workers until he now employs about sixty-five persons. His goods are well established in the market, the demand therefor at times exceeding the supply. His plant is modern and well conducted. Mr. Snyder giving his entire time and energy to its operation and to the two farms he owns nearby. He is a member of
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Lock Haven Lodge, No. 199, Free and Accepted Masons; Corinthian Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; the Commandery, Knights Templar ; Lulu Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ( Philadelphia), and Lock Haven Lodge, No. 182. Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In political faith he is a Republican, and in religion is a Methodist.
He married, June 12, 1902, Mary E., daughter of O. D. and Frances Wingert-he a merchant of Millerstown, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have one child, Frances Louise, born April 16, 1905.
Robert Bruce Zimmerman, of Mifflintown, Mif-
ZIMMERMAN flin county, Pennsylvania, typifies a successful American of the best type. Of good old stock, that has been planted in Pennsylvania for many generations, he is a part of the state, as well as county life. The original immigrant ancestor was from Germany, but the family records do not give his name. Like so many of his countrymen, he located in Pennsylvania, lived and died there, a tiller of the soil.
(I) Jacob Zimmerman, a descendant of the above mentioned immi- grant, was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania. He married Jane Pratt Irwin, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. He came with his family to Juniata county in the early fifties, and was a post fence maker for a railroad company, and later moved to Perry county. now Newport, about 1881, where he died. His wife died in Juniata county in 1850. Among his children was Nathan H., of whom further.
(II) Nathan H., son of Jacob and Jane Pratt (Irwin) Zimmerman, was born in Perry county in 1821. He was educated in Perry county and came to Juniata county with his parents. Leaving school, he was apprenticed to a tanner and learned the trade thoroughly with Robert Moore, following that occupation until within a few years of his death, which occurred in March, 1886. He married Caroline Sample, born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, in 1821, near Greenwood, died July 4, 1892. They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Children: 1. Robert Bruce, of whom further. 2. Thomas Irwin, of Altoona, Pennsylvania. 3. Rebecca Jane, married William E. Brown, of Milroy. 4. Rachel Elizabeth, died at the age of eighteen. 5. Lydia Ann, married Isaac Frymoyer, of Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pennsyl- vania. 6. Sarah Catherine, married John Parker, of Montana.
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(III) Robert Bruce, son of Nathan H. and Caroline (Sample) Zimmerman, was born May 19, 1850, at Oakland, Fayette township, Juniata county, Pennsylvania. He was reared on the farm and was educated in the public schools of the township and in a private seminary. He farmed many years, and purchased one hundred and twelve aeres which he brought up to a high state of fertility and productiveness. He is an ardent Republican, and was elected on that ticket in 1909 as sheriff of Juniata county. During his incumbency of the office lie has given universal satisfaction to his constituency. He moved, January I, 1910, to Mifflintown, Juniata county, where he now resides. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, January 23, 1878, Ada J. Ranck, born in Walker township, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, in 1859, a daughter of Phillip and Nancy ( Hawk) Ranck, of Juniata county. They have one son, Banks A., who was educated in the public schools, and on leaving took up the occupation of farming. He married Katherine Calhoun, daughter of ex-Sheriff James P. Calhoun, of Juniata county, of one of the prominent families of that section of the state; children: Mildred, James D., Gladys, Ira Brown, Robert Banks, Paul, and Samuel Franklin.
The Moses family is very widely distributed throughout
MOSES the United States, there scarcely being a state in the Union that has not one or more of the name within its borders. It has also furnished a number of bright men to the country, among whom may be mentioned Governor Moses, of South Carolina, who made history for that state during the reconstruction period soon after the civil war. Also, Bernard Moses, an educator, writer and ripe scholar, who is the author, among other works, of "The Federal Government of Switzerland," which is generally accepted as a guide book by political students.
It is a matter of actual record that as far back as 1647 there were three New England colonists bearing the name of John Moses: one lived at Plymouth, one at Portsmouth, and the third at Windsor. From these three came the numerous families of the same name in this coun- try. In 1660 John Moses was a juryman in Portsmouth, and Benoni Moses, his son, was a soldier, his name appearing in the Lexington Alarm list. The name is to be found frequently in the rosters of the
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companies furnished to the Continental army by the various colonies, both north and south. It is more than probable that the Moses family in Pennsylvania descended from John Moses, of Windsor, as he is thought to have come to America from Switzerland by way of England. A descendant of his settled in Philadelphia in 1750, and later located near Landisburg, Perry county, Pennsylvania. Here he warranted a tract of land, which he cleared and improved, and erected a house for his family. He was also an iron worker, and helped cast some of the cannon that were used so effectively against the British during the revo- lutionary war. He lived to an advanced age, highly respected for his many sterling qualities by his neighbors and friends. Among his chil- dren was Simeon, of whom further.
(II) Simeon, son of John Moses, and great-great-great-grandson of John Moses, was born near Landisburg, Perry county, Pennsylvania. It is supposed that he was afforded the best facilities for obtaining an education to be had in that day, as it is proverbial that the Swiss seek, even under the most adverse circumstances, to give their children educa- tions. He is known to have been a farmer, and most probably pur- chased a part of the land warranted by his father. He married Miss Heckendorn, like himself of Swiss extraction, and they were both mem- bers of the Lutheran church. Children: 1. Joseph. 2. Andrew. 3. Samuel H., of whom further. 4. Daniel. 5. A son who moved to Louisiana, and there founded the Moses family, among the best known in the state. 6. Fannie, married Mr. Ronsh. 7. Julia, married William Isenberg. 8. Mrs. Miller.
(III) Samuel H .. son of Simeon and - (Heckendorn) Moses, was born near Landisburg. Perry county, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and died February 17, 1906. He married Mary A. Wade, born in 1832, died May 13, 1908, daughter of ----- and Annie ( Foulk ) Wade : the for- mer died when Mary A. was one year old and his widow married a Mr. Goss. Mr. Wade was a shoemaker in Wheatfield township, Perry county, Pennsylvania, where he died. Children by first marriage: 1. Catherine Wade, married John Depew, a shoemaker, of Duncannon. 2. Mary A .. married Samuel H. Moses. Children by second marriage: 1. William Goss. 2. Lawrence Goss. 3. Mrs. Joseph Fleming, of Altoona, Penn- sylvania. 4. Mrs. John Parson, of Duncannon. 5. Mrs. David Rice, of Duncannon. 6. Mrs. John Phillips, of Wooster, Ohio.
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Mr. Moses was educated in the common country schools. As a youth he learned the cabinetmaker's trade, and on reaching man's estate he engaged in that vocation, making many of the handsomest pieces of furniture found in the homes of that day and section. With cabinet- making he combined undertaking, and by the dual occupation succeed- ed in accumulating a nice estate. He lived and died at Duncannon. He was a Republican in politics, working for the party at every election. Both he and his wife were members of the Lutheran church, and he belonged to the Lutheran company, was a generous supporter of the church, and one of its trustees. Children: 1. Name unknown. 2. El- mira, married A. P. Nickel, of New Bloomfield. 3. Carrie E., married R. M. Coy, ticket agent at Lewistown Junction. 4. Charles Grant, of whom further. 5. Minnie, married Professor J. L. Bucke, living in Duncannon. Several children died in infancy.
(IV) Charles Grant Moses, son of Samuel H. and Mary A. (Wade) Moses, was born August 22, 1868, in Duncannon, Pennsylvania. He attended the public school in Duncannon, and later entered the Eastman Business College, gradnating therefrom in 1887. He at once became associated with his father in his business. Since the death of his father he has introduced a line of furniture, and has one of the handsomest establishments in Duncannon. In politics he follows the family ten- dency, and is a Republican; and attends the Lutheran church. Mr. Moses ranks as one of the most progressive and up-to-date business men of his native town.
KAUFFMAN The Kauffmans of the Juniata Valley are a very prominent and widely distributed family, who have intermarried among themselves and the best fami- lies of the surrounding country until the connection is one of the widest in this portion of the state. They are probably all descended from the immigrant, Michael Kauffman, who with his family came from the vicinity of Greenstad, Hesse, on the Upper Rhine, some time between the years 1710 and 1719, and settled in this region. Michael died a few years after his arrival, leaving a widow who survived but a compara- tively short time. Two children, a son John and a daughter Elizabeth, remained, whose guardian bought of William Penn's commissioner a considerable tract of land in the locality now known as Landisville,
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Lancaster county, where John Kauffman took up his abode. All that is known of Elizabeth is that she was married to Christian Stoneman, December 12, 1734. John Kauffman had three sons: Christian, Michael and John. This last John Kauffman lived on the farm now owned by Samuel Nissley, about a mile from Landisville, where he died March 24, 1776. His widow died December 22, 1806. They had nine children who reached maturity and married: Mary, Anna, Christian, Barbara, John. Michael, Elizabeth, David, Isaac; two, Anna and Susanna, died in youth. Michael, the third son, who was born in 1767, near Landis- ville, became a physician after removing to Manheim, where he was first engaged with his brother John in the hardware business. He was a man of considerable prominence, and in 1831 was elected to the house of representatives. being re-elected the following year ; he died in 1839, at Manheim.
(I) Christian Kauffman, from whom the branch of the family now under consideration was descended, was a farmer and land owner, being an early settler in Walker township.
(II) John. son of Christian Kauffman, was born in Juniata county, where he grew to maturity, becoming a farmer like his father. He owned over a hundred acres of land to which he devoted his attention, and passed a quiet and industrious life, respected by all who knew him. He was a Republican in politics, and a member, as was also his wife, of the Lutheran church; he died at the age of seventy-six years. His wife, who was a Miss Sarah Cargill before her marriage, was also a native of Juniata county, dying at the age of fifty-five years: her husband survived her but never married again. Children: Harry, died on the homestead; Margaret, widow of Watson Crimmel, a soldier of the civil war, lives in Mifflin; James, of further mention; Christian, a farmer, died in Walker township; Alton, resides at Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, unmarried ; Frank, lives in Illinois: Clara, married Albert Otto, and lives in Indianapolis, Indiana: Joseph. lives in Los Angeles, Cali- fornia ; Mary, married John Dobbs, and died; three remaining children died in infancy.
(III) James, son of John and Sarah (Cargill) Kauffman, was born in Walker township, December 14, 1848. He passed his carlier years in Walker, and upon attaining manhood resided for a while at Fermaugh ; he however returned to Walker township, where he purchased a farm
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of thirty acres in extent, and here passed the remainder of his life, dying October 28, 1908. As a youth of nineteen he made an attempt to enlist as a soldier in the civil war, but his father objected on account of his immaturity, and prevailed upon him to relinquish the idea. Mr. Kauff- man was a Democrat in his political convictions, but was never a promi- nent politician or an officeholder. He was at one time a member of the I. O. O. F. On January 5, 1875, he was married in Walker town- ship to Miss Mary Clack, who was born February 4, 1857, in the town- ship. She survived her husband, and is still living on the old home- stead. She was a daughter of William and Annie ( Kauffman) Clack, both natives of Juniata county. William Clack, who was a shoemaker all his life, was born in Fermaugh township, settling after his marriage, in 1851, in Walker township. He was a Republican in politics, and belonged, as did also his wife, to the River Brethren church. He died about the year 1901. Mrs. Clack, who was born in Walker township, died in April, 1900, but a short time prior to the death of her husband. She was the daughter of Jonathan and Nancy (Runk) Kauffman, who were early settlers of Fermaugh township, where they grew to maturity and were married, living many years subsequently in the place. Mr. Jonathan Kauffman owned land in Walker township and was a pros- perous farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Clack had in all eight children: Mary, who became Mrs. James Kauffman ; Susanna, widow of Winfield Suloff, living at Denholm, Pennsylvania; Sarah, married (first) James Depew, (second) David Zimmerman, and now lives in Milford township; Anna, married Albert Miller, and lives in Union county; John, lives in Walker township; Clara, married Fred Lauffer and died; William, a railroad man in Mifflintown; Minnie, married Earl Leyder and lives in Walker township. William Clack was a son of David and Susanna (Walter) Clack, who were natives of Lancaster and Chester counties respectively. They married and removed to Juniata county, settling in Fermangh township, where he followed the trade of shoemaker until he removed finally to McAllisterville, where he died ; his wife died in Walker town- ship. Mr. and Mrs. James Kauffman had nine children: Sarah, mar- ried William Ellis, a blacksmith, and resides in Fermaugh township; Theorous, of further mention; Milton, went west; Annie, died in in- fancy; Eleanor, lives with her mother; Rena, died in infancy; Ella, unmarried ; Mabel, resides at home ; Clara, resides at home.
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(IV) Theorous Kauffman, son of James and Mary (Clack) Kauff- man, was born in Walker township, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, on February 18, 1877. He received his education in the county schools and grew to maturity on his father's farm. On September 14, 1900, when he was twenty-three years of age, he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and has remained with them ever since, having been promoted to the position of engineer, the position which he now holds, on August, 1907. His work for the company has been eminently satisfactory in every respect, and by his industry and economy he has succeeded in accumulating considerable means, so that in May, 1906, he invested his savings in a farm of one hundred and five acres in extent in Walker. He erected new buildings on his prop- perty and conducts a stock and chicken farm, breeding full-blooded Holstein cattle. Poland China hogs, and Buff Orphington chickens. All of the stock raised by Mr. Kauffman is of the best breeds and full- blooded. and he has won for himself a name in the surrounding country for the excellence of his farm products.
In politics Mr. Kauffman is a Republican. He has never desired public office, contenting himself to lend his voice to the selection of those officials whom he deems will best serve the country's needs. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America. and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. On May 15, 1911, Mr. Kauffman was married to Miss Annie Gertrude Sieber, a native of Juniata county, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. She is the daughter of Gideon and Rebecca (Trego) Sieber, both parents also having been born in Juniata county, where they made their home. and where her mother died October 19, 1891. Her father, who has been a farmer. now lives in Fermaugh township ; he is a Republican and a member of the Dunkard church, his wife having been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. They had four children: Grace Mary. residing at home: Annie Gertrude, now Mrs. Kauffman: Thaddeus Banks. and Oscar Lee. both at home. Mrs. Kauffman's paternal grand- parents were Jonas and Barbara Sieber. her grandfather having removed to Fermaugh township from Berkshire county, settling later in Walker. where he owned two farms and where he ultimately died. Mrs. Kauff- man's mother was a daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Trego, Mr. Trego having removed from Chester county to Juniata county, making
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his residence in Fayette township. He was a farmer, and lived a quiet and useful life, dying in Fayette township.
Mr. and Mrs. Theorous Kauffman have one son, Maxwell Sieber, born December 18, 1912.
The Marshalls of Newport, Pennsylvania, descend
MARSHALL from an illustrious English family that were long seated in Derbyshire, England. A member of this family was Abraham Marshall, the distinguished botanist and horticul- turist, who came from Gratton parish, Derbyshire, in 1700, and settled in West Bradford, Chester county, Pennsylvania. John Marshall, the celebrated chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, was also related to this family.
Jolin Marshall, the American emigrant, was born in Derbyshire, England, Elton parish, from whence he came to Pennsylvania in 1686. He first located and lived for a year in Blockley township, Philadelphia county, then moved to a farm in Darby township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania (then Chester county). He was a member of Darby meeting, Society of Friends, and his marriage, 10 mo. 19, 1688, to Sarah, daughter of Thomas Smith, was the first solemnized in that meeting. John Marshall died 9 mo. 13, 1729; his widow 5 mo. 16, 1749. Children: 1. John, born 6 mo. 16, 1690, died 8 mo. 4, 1749, married (first) Joanna Paschall, (second) a widow, Eleanor Shenton. 2. William, born 2 mo. II, 1692, died 1727, married Mary Sellers. 3. Thomas (of whom further).
(11) Thomas, youngest son of John and Sarah ( Smith) Marshall, was born in Darby township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, 12 mo. 10, 1694. He was a farmer, and settled in Concord township, Delaware county, but then Chester county. He married Hannah, daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Pennell) Mendenhall. He died in 1741, and his widow married (second) Peter Grubb. Thomas and Hannah Marshall had nine children, of whom John (2) was the eighth.
(III) John (2), son of Thomas and Hannah ( Mendenhall) Mar- shall, was born in Concord township, then Chester county, Pennsyl- vania, 11 mo. 22, 1734. In 1765 he moved to Kennett township, Ches- ter county, where he became an extensive land owner and proprietor of a grist and saw mill. He and his family were members of Hockesin
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meeting, and of Kennett monthly meeting; he died II mo. 30, 1815. He married (first) Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Hannalt ( Hiek- man) James, of Westtown. Until the death of his wife in 1764, John Marshall lived in Birmingham township. He married (second), 4 mo. 27, 1768, Susanna Lamborn, born 4 mo. 7, 1749, died 3 mo. 3, 1839, daughter of Robert and Ann (Bourne) Lamborn. Children of first wife: Mary, married William Phillips; Martha, died unmarried. Chil- dren of second wife: Thomas, born 4 1110. 22, 1769, died 2 mo. 2, 1851, married Sarah Gregg; Robert, of whom further; William, born 5 mo. 26, 1773, died young ; Hannah, born I mo. 7, 1775, died I mo. 21, 1857, married John Yeaman; Ann, born 8 mo. 22, 1778, died 5 in0. 26. 1862, married John Searlett; Martha, born 8 mo. 20, 1780, died I mo. 3, ISII, unmarried; William, born 7 mo. 30, 1784, died 1859, married Margaret MeCammon.
(IV) Robert, son of John (2) Marshall and his second wife, Su- sanna Lamborn, was born in Kennett township, Chester county, 9 mo. 15, 1771, died there in 1869. He inherited the paternal homestead farm in Kennett, and also operated the first grist mill there. He mar- ried, II mo. 22, 1804, Mary Hoopes, born 3 mo. 16, 1781, died 7 mo. 30, 1847, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Bane) Hoopes, of Goshen, Chester county ; children: Caleb H., of whom further; John, born 10 mo. 7, 1808, died 5 mo. 23, 1885, married (first) Sarah Phillips, (sec- ond) Mary Harlan ; Martha, born 8 mo. 1, 1810, married Thomas Han- num: Åbner, born 8 mo. 27, 1814, married Ann Eliza Pyle; Thomas, born 3 mo. 18, 1818, died 3 mo. 6. 1887, married Mary Way. Thomas was a miller and successfully operated the mill at Kennett for many years. In 1856 he began the manufacture of paper, establishing the large plant later operated by his sons, T. Elwood and Israel W. Marshall.
(V) Caleb H., eldest son of Robert and Mary ( lloopes) Marshall, was born on the old homestead in Kennett, Chester county, Pennsyl- vania, 9 mo. 11, 1806, died 12 mo. 16, 1888. He operated the grist mill in Kennett until his removal to Mill Creek hundred, New Castle county. Delaware. There in partnership with his brother John he en- gaged in the iron business at the present site of Marshalltown, Dela- ware, named in their honor. The brothers conducted a large business until 1863, when Caleb H. moved to Philadelphia, where they had pre- viously established a plant, known as the Penn Treaty Iron Works,
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erected on the land where William Penn held his deliberations with the Indians and where the famous treaty was signed. In 1878 he sold his interest in the business to his sons, Wilmer W., Alfred and J. Howard Marshall, whom he had previously admitted as partners. Caleb H. was a member of the Society of Friends, and a wise, capable man of affairs. He married Jane Thompson, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Reed) Thompson, of Mill Creek hundred, Delaware; children: 1. Wilmer W., of whom further. 2. Alfred, born October 29, 1848; member of the firm of Marshall Brothers & Company, and a prominent man of affairs, now living in Langhorne Manor, Bucks county, Pennsylvania ; he mar- ried Florence Virginia Mather. 3. Sarah, died young. 4. J. Howard, junior member of the firm of Marshall Brothers & Company; died in Philadelphia, 5 mo. 23, 1885.
Jane (Thompson) Marshall, the mother of these children, was a descendant of Thomas and Elizabeth Thompson, of Yorkshire, Eng- land, where Thomas was born, in Kirkfenton parish. In 1658 he moved to Ireland with his wife and two sons, John and Andrew, locat- ing in the parish of Donard, county Wicklow, where both died; chil- dren: John, of whom further; Andrew, married in county Wicklow, in 1664, Isabel Marshall, and had Elizabeth, William and Andrew, all born in Ireland.
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