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He married, May 13, 1856, Mary Ann Whitmer, born in Northum- berland county, Pennsylvania, December 26, 1836, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia ( Michael) Whitmer, of that county, who came to Juniata county about 1848. They settled first in Walker township, later in Fermanagh, both dying at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Daniel Pannebaker, in Mifflintown. On May 13, 1906, Mr. and Mrs. Panne- baker celebrated the golden anniversary of their wedding and besides the felicitations of their many friends, were also remembered with many substantial tokens of the love and esteem in which they are held. Seven years have elapsed since the celebration and both are yet in good health. with many years of useful life before them, should such be the Divine
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Will. Children of Daniel and Mary Ann ( Whitmer) Pannebaker: I. Juniata Mabel. married James WV. Wagner of Mifflintown, who was killed in a railroad wreck at Clover Creek May 5, 1906. 2. Harry, edu- cated in Mifflintown high school, now living in Pueblo, Colorado, a telegraph operator. He married Jennie Graham; children: Ralph, de- ceased ; Mary, deceased; Roy, Ethel and Daniel. 3. Cloyd P., educated in the public schools ; married Harriet Lingenfelter ; children : Whitmer, deceased; Mildred, deceased; Mary and Juniata. 4. Ella May, residing with her parents. 5. Lydia Elizabeth, married H. P. Kelley of New- port, Pennsylvania, and has a son, Whitmer Henry. 6. Charles A .. edu- cated in the public schools; married Effie Gilbert and has a son. George Gilbert. 7. Myrven D., educated in public schools; married Jessie Mc- Gregor ; children : Charles, Myrven and Frederick M.
BERGEY This name, originally Berge, was brought to Pennsylvania about the year 1717 and belongs to an exceedingly large and prominent family. They carry on their roll five thou- sand names of Bergeys and Bergey descendants, scattered over many states, while the annual reunions of the family are largely attended.
The emigrant ancestor, John Ulrich Berge, came from Saxony, Germany, about the year 1717, settling in Salford township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, where he purchased a farm of two hundred and fifty acres, March 16, 1726. In 1760 he was road supervisor of the township. In 1738 he was one of the charter members organizing Salford Mennonite Church, as was his wife, Anna Mary Berge, who bore him eleven children. Children: John; Michael, never married; Isaac: Samuel; Elizabeth; Mary, never married: Christian, of whom further ; Abraham: Anna; Fronca; Salome (or Sarah). John Ulrich Berge made his will November 9. 1762, and it was probated December II, 1762. His descendants spell the name Berky, Bergey. Bergy and Berge.
(II) Christian Bergey, the fifth son of John Ulrich Berge, canie into the possession of his father's farm, after several years, and there died. He was a soldier of the revolution, his name being found on the "depreciation pay-roll". His wife was named Mary, and among their children was Samuel.
(III) Samuel, son of Christian Bergey (as this branch spells the
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name), was born in Franconia township, Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania, where he grew to manhood. About 1833 he moved to Juniata county, purchasing a farm in Fayette township, containing one hun- dred and fifty acres and there resided until death. He married and had issue : Jacob, died in Philadelphia; Enos, of whom further; Samuel, died in Mifflintown; Maria, married Jacob Shelley, a Mennonite minister ; Susan, married Jacob Tretz; Lizzie, married a Mr. Rickenbaugh; Cath- erine, married Jacob Shafer, and now resides on North Second street, Philadelphia, aged eighty-six years; Sarah, married (first) Jacob Stine. (second ) Porter Fink and died in Philadelphia; Phianna, married Michael Shirk, lived and died in Fayette township.
(IV) Enos, son of Samuel Bergey, was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1821, coming to Juniata county when a boy of about twelve years, with his parents. He grew to manhood at the home farm and after his marriage purchased a farm in Fayette township. Later he lived on his own farm in Fermanagh township, then purchased the Jericho Mills property, including a farm of two hundred acres, where he resided until his death in 1880. His widow, now a woman of ninety years, never remarried and still resides at the old home in very good health. Mr. Bergey was a Republican in politics, and both he and his wife were members of the Mennonite church.
He married Nancy Seiber, born in or near Mifflin, Pennsylvania, in 1822. Children: I. William, at Richfield, Pennsylvania, in 1911; a farmer and a Mennonite minister. 2. Mary, married Abraham Kurtz and resides in Thompsontown, Pennsylvania. 3. Lizzie, married Martin Mamma. of Dauphin, but lived near Williams Grove, in Cumberland county, where she died leaving two children. 4. John, of whom further. 5. Samuel, now a ranchman living at Los Angeles, California. 6. Sarah, died in infancy. 7. David, died aged twenty years. 8. Annie, married Frank Metrick and resides in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Nancy (Seiber) Bergey, the mother of these children, is a daughter of John and Mary (Sausman) Seiber, and a granddaughter of Christian Seiber, who settled in Juniata county in 1792, near Mif- flintown, on a farm of two hundred acres, which is still owned by his descendants. He there erected the brick house now standing on the farm. Mary Sausman was a daughter of John Sausman, an early settler of Juniata county, whose pack of mastiffs often ran at night with their
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master to drive wolves away. John and Mary Seiber were both Men- nonites, living quiet, honorable lives, he dying comparatively young, she living to the extreme age of ninety-three years. Children: I. Nancy, widow of Enos Bergey (of previous mention). 2. Christian, died in In- diana, aged eighty years. 3. Elizabeth, married Samuel Funk, whom she survives, a resident of Van Dyke, Pennsylvania, aged eighty-eight years. Their son, David Funk, M. D., resides in Harrisburg. 4. Solo- mon, lived and died, aged seventy years, at his farm near Mifflintown. 5. Barbara. married Rev. John Price and died near Yeagertown in Fergu- son Valley. 6. Mary, married John Bashore and died in Fayette town- ship, near McAlisterville. 7. Sarah, married Daniel Mertz and resides in White county, Indiana. 8. John, resides in Mifflintown, aged seventy- four years. 9. Joseph, now residing near McAlisterville. 10. Enoch. died in Indiana. II. David, resides in Mifflin county, aged about sixty- eight years. Two other children, Samuel and Catherine, both died in infancy.
(V) John, son of Enos and Nancy (Seiber) Bergey, was born in Monroe township. Juniata county, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1852. He was educated in the public school and grew to manhood at the home farm. He followed farming and milling, but his principal business until 1883 was live stock dealing, shipping from Mifflintown to distant mar- kets. He continued in this business until October, 1883, when he estab- lished in the livery business in Mifflintown, and in 1900 purchased the large storehouse of the Suloff Warehouse Company, remodeling and converting it into a modern livery barn. He established the "bus" line in 1889 and still continues that branch of his business. His business demands a constantly ready stable of about twenty horses to meet daily demands, and has a well patronized successful livery. Mr. Bergey is a Republican in politics and has served on the borough council.
He married, in 1879, Sarah Haldeman, born in Juniata county, Penn- sylvania, daughter of Abraham and Catherine Haldeman. Children: I. Boyd, now a successful druggist, of Reading, Pennsylvania ; married Ethel Gephart, of Iowa, and has sons. Taylor and John. 2. Carl, edu- cated at Dickinson College; was a clerk in a trust company at Reading for three years, then for a time a traveling salesman, now at home, his father's assistant. 3. Roy, married Mary Haller and resides at Mifflin- town, a civil engineer in the employ of the state; child, Robert. 4. Paul,
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married Ruth Taylor and resides in Mifflintown; a clerk in the office of the Standard Steel Works at Burnham; child, Paul (2).
The genealogy of the North family of the Juniata Valley
NORTH is traced in this country to Roger (2) North, born in Ire- land, a son of Caleb North, lord lieutenant of Ireland, married Jane Eckerly, and grandson of Roger ( I) North, of New Castle, West Heath, Ireland.
(III) Roger (2) North was born in Ireland; married Ann Rambo and, prior to the year 1753, was a resident of the city of Philadelphia. He had a son Caleb (2).
(IV) Colonel Caleb (2) North, son of Roger (2) and Ann ( Rambo) North, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. in 1753, died in Coven- try, Pennsylvania, in 1840. He was a brave officer of the revolution. He was with Washington at the "crossing of the Delaware"; fought throughout the war. rising to the rank of colonel in the Pennsylvania line. He was president of the Society of the Cincinnati, and in 1819 sheriff of Philadelphia county. He married Lydia North and left issue.
(V) William, son of Colonel Caleb (2) North, was born in Phila- delphia. He married and had issue: James, of whom further : Caleb, a tanner of Millerstown, Perry county, Pennsylvania ; Joshua, a soldier of the war of 1812, and a tanner of Millerstown; Rebecca, married Dr. Ezra Doty, of Juniata county.
(VI) James, son of William North, with his brothers, Caleb and Joshua, established a tannery at Millerstown, Perry county, Pennsyl- vania, continuing there until about the year 1800, when James with- drew and located at Thompsontown, in Juniata (then Cumberland ) county. Pennsylvania. He there established a tannery which he operated for many years. He was a justice of the peace, then an office of great importance (practically a judgeship), served for many years, and was prominent in local affairs, being a man of intelligence above the average. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and a man of strictly re- ligious life. He died in February, 1828.
He married Rachel, daughter of Francis Jordan, of Millerstown, who died in 1872. Children : Thomas, died at Richfield, Juniata county, a tannery owner: Lewis, died in Hamilton county, Ohio, a carpenter and undertaker; Caleb, died at Atchison, Kansas, moving west at an
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early day, a school teacher; Sarah, married a Mr. Postlethwaite, of Mifflin county ; Euphenia, married Philip Strouse, of Mexico, Juniata county ; Hannah W .; James (2), of whom further ; Amos J., died at Atchison, Kansas, a miller; Rebecca, married Colonel John Bryner, of Peoria, Illinois; Eliza B., married David Witherow, also of Peoria.
(VII) James (2), son of James (I) and Rachel (Jordan) North, was born at Thompsontown, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1819. He was educated in subscription schools, earning the money himself to pay for his tuition. He was employed by Robert Thompson at light work on the farm and so well was Mr. Thompson pleased with his work as a boy that he gave him work on his canal boats, paying him five dollars monthly. As boy and young man he was frugal and ere long was himself owner and captain of a boat, plying the waters of the canal. In January, 1836. the Thompsons placed him in charge of a branch store at Newton Hamilton, where he worked for his board and clothing, but gaining a valuable business experience ; then for a few years received a salary of one hundred dollars yearly, finally was admitted as a partner. He continued in business until 1844, when his partner died and the business was closed up. Mr. North then moved to a tract of one hundred and twenty acres of wild land in Juniata county, the patri- mony of his wife. This he partly cleared and worked until 1847, when he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad, connected with the engineering corps. When the road was opened he was appointed agent at Millerstown, remaining one year. He was then transferred to Mif- flin Station (Patterson), where he was freight and ticket agent. also agent for the Adams Express Company. When the telegraph line was extended west of Harrisburg, he was the assistant of H. Jones Brooks and was the first telegraph operator on the line. During the early ex- istence of the railroad, in order to win business, he established a store and purchased all products of the region brought to him, including poles, grain, etc., dealing also in coal and lumber. He was the instructor in telegraphy of many young men, some of whom later became well known and prominent operators. Among his pupils were: David Strouse, who became superintendent of the military telegraph lines of the United States government under Colonel Thomas A. Scott, and D. Homer Bates, later vice-president of the Tradesman's National Bank of New York. Mr. North remained in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad thirty-five
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years, then resigned and was succeeded by his son, Washington S. He was a prominent factor in the development of the region that was opened up by the coming of the railroad. He was one of the founders of the town of Patterson and its first burgess, served on the borough school board, and when the postoffice was established in 1853 was appointed postmaster, holding until 1861. Until the year 1860, Mr. North was an active Whig, but with the passing of that party he became a Democrat and ever afterward supported that party. In 1884 he was elected a member of the lower house of the state legislature, and later was a clerk in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth, resigning in 1895. He was also one of the early bank organizers of the Juniata Valley, assisting in 1852 in organizing the Lewistown Bank as a state bank, also serving as director. He was associated with R. M. Spear in the Union Bank of Huntingdon; was for a time president of the Juniata Valley Bank of Mifflintown, and an organizer, also director, of the Farmer's Bank of Harrisburg. He was also a large owner of real estate, his holdings at one time totaling sixteen hundred acres. He was a member and trustee of the Presbyterian church for many years, and at one time was active in the Masonic order. He died in 1898, aged seventy- nine years. He was a strong character and an important factor in the development and progress of the Juniata Valley.
He married. November 12, 1840, Susanna Matilda Strouse, who died in 1896, daughter of David Strouse. Children: Caleb C., cashier of the Columbia National Bank of Washington, D. C .; Washington S., of whom further : Rebecca, married P. W. Crider, of the firm of Crider & Jackson, bankers and merchants of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania; Herman H., attorney-at-law and ex-member of the legislature, of Bradford, Penn- sylvania : Mary M., married George Jacobs, whom she survives, a resi- dent of Philadelphia.
(VIII) Washington Strouse, second son of James (2) and Susanna Matilda (Strouse) North, was born in Turbett township, Juniata county, October 29, 1847. He was educated in the public schools, Port Royal Academy and Eastman's Business College, a graduate of the latter in 1865. During his school years he was his father's assistant in the ware- house at Patterson, and after graduation returned, and until 1884 was so employed. In the latter year he succeeded his father as station agent at Patterson, for the Pennsylvania railroad, continuing until the year
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1900-a period of service as boy and man, with the railroad, covering thirty-six years, thirty of which he was his father's assistant, but vir- tually carrying for many of these years the full burden of responsibility of the agency. He had kept the coal and lumber business, begun in early years by James North, in operation and so largely had the business increased that in 1900 lie was compelled to resign his railroad position. He has since devoted himself exclusively to this and his other private affairs. His coal and lumber business is a retail one, well established and prosperous. He is president of the Juniata Company, a corporation formed to furnish light and power (electric) to the towns of Mifflin and Mifflintown. He also has a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres. which he operates. a part of the estate of his father, who prior to his death had disposed of all of his sixteen hundred acres, except two farms. Mr. North is a Democrat in politics and has held every borough office except that of poor director. In 1893 he was elected treasurer of Juniata county, serving three years. In religious faith he is a Presby- terian, as is his wife.
He married, January 19, 1869, Olivia Jacobs, born in Juniata county, died December 24. 1907, daughter of George and Sarah (Christy) Jacobs, both of old Juniata Valley families. Children: 1. James Cloyd, now his father's assistant in business; he married Elizabeth C. Grubb and has Olivia, Elizabeth and James. 2. Nellie Olivia, married John J. (2) Patterson, an attorney-at-law and resides at Mifflintown; children : John J. (3), Lucretia and Olivia. 3. Mary Edith, resides at the family home in Mifflin.
The Kauffinans of Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, de-
KAUFFMAN scend from Jacob Kauffman, of Germany, born 1737. whose birth date is found written in a "Book of Martyrs", yet treasured as an heirloom in the family. Among his seven children was a son Jacob, of whom further.
(II) Jacob (2). son of Jacob (1) Kauffman, born October 28, 1766. married and had a son Jacob, of whom further.
(III) Jacob (3), son of Jacob (2) Kauffman, was born in Juniata county. Pennsylvania, in 1798, there grew to manhood, lived and died. After his marriage he purchased a partly cleared tract of one hundred acres in Walker township which he finished clearing and cultivated until
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his death. He built a good residence of brick, which yet stands in good condition, and a large barn which was destroyed by fire in the fall of 1888 and rebuilt in 1889. He married Sarah Anna Kurtz, also born in Juniata county, a Mennonite. Children: Jonas, of whom further; Phoebe, married David Hertzler, and lived at Port Royal, Pennsyl- vania, both deceased; Isaac, a lifelong farmer of Walker township, his farm lying along the "pike", married and both deceased; Sarah, married John Arnold, and moved to Michigan, where both died; Kurtz, deceased, was a farmer near Mifflintown; Mary and Jacob, died in infancy.
(IV) Jonas, son of Jacob (3) and Sarah Anna (Kurtz) Kauffman, was born in Walker township, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, in 1826, died in 1898. He grew to manhood at the home farm and obtained an education in the public schools. After reaching man's estate he engaged in mercantile business in his native neighborhood, later moving to Logansport, Indiana, where he engaged as a merchant. After the death of his father he bought the interest of the other heirs and became the owner of the homestead farm upon which he resided until his death. He was a prosperous farmer and a man of high character, a member of the Mennonite church and in all things upright and conscientious. He was a Republican in politics and served as collector of taxes for Walker township. He married, in 1853, Eliza, daughter of David and Anna (Shellenberger ) Moist. David Moist owned a fine farin in his native township of Fermanagh, a plain, unassuming and good man ; a member of the River Brethren. His wife Anna, born near McAlisterville, bore him eight children and died at the great age of ninety-six years. Chil- dren of Jonas and Eliza (Moist) Kauffman: 1. Harvey, now a farmer of Colorado, unmarried. 2. Banks W., born in Walker township, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, August 22, 1857; educated in the public schools, and until 1887 a farmer ; he then became a salesman of agricultural im- plements, later of musical instruments and sewing machines, continuing until 1895, when he organized the firm of Kauffman & Harley and be- gan the manufacture of carpets in Mifflintown, where he is now success- fully established; he married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mary (Graybill) Shelley, of Fayette township, and has children : Rosie May, Jonas Boyd, Ray Shelley and Mary ; Banks W. Kauffman is a Republi- can, and both he and his wife are members of the Lutheran church. 3. Sarah A., married Dr. Frank Books and has: Blanche, married Charles
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Alberti, and resides in Colorado; Edwin, married Flossie Bramble, and also lives in Colorado. 4. Eliza Jennie, married William Harley, asso- ciate judge of Juniata county, living in Mifflintown; children : Lola. Edna, Harold. 5. Lincoln, manager of the homestead farm where he also maintains and operates a dairy ; he married Annie Kurtz, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Bergy) Kurtz, of Kurtz Valley; children : Ethel. deceased : Lincoln, Rosco, Mary, Kurtz, Grace, Nora, George. 6. Mary E., deceased; married Samuel Hetrick and lived in Lancaster. Pennsylvania ; two children: Hazel and Grace. 7. Isabella, married David Seiber, farmer, and resides at Locust Run ; six children : Mildred. Edwin, Banks, Beulah, Catherine, Stanley.
This branch of the Kyle family came to the Juniata Valley
KYLE from Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, Moses Kyle being the first settler. He was one of a family of eleven born in Ly- coming county, where he grew to manhood. He settled in Juniata county where he purchased a tract of three hundred acres, which he cleared and cultivated. On his farm he built a stone house in which his chil- dren were born. His wife Sarah bore him three children : John Thomp- son, deceased, a lawyer of Princeton, Illinois; Watson, died in infancy ; James, of whom further.
(II) James, son of Moses and Sarah Kyle, was born in Walker township, Juniata county, Pennsylvania. He purchased his brother's share of the homestead and there lived his entire life. He sold a part of the original tract of three hundred acres, retaining one hundred and sixty acres, which he cultivated successfully. During the civil war he was drafted into the military service of the United States, but furnished a substitute. He was a Democrat in politics, and both he and his wife were members of the Lutheran church. He married Mary E. Wike. of Walker township, her father a farmer and land owner. She had two sisters : Elizabeth, who married Joseph Barker, of Altoona, Pennsyl- vania ; and Rebecca, who married Henry Diven. of Harrisburg. Chil- dren of James Kyle: I. Rebecca, deceased ; married G. M. Diven ; chil- dren : William, David Kyle, Mary. 2. Clara Belle, died aged sixteen years. 3. John Thompson, died aged eighteen years. 4. Annie, deceased : married David Sieber; left no issue. 5. Watson, died in infancy. 6. James William, of whom further.
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(III) James William, son of James and Mary E. (Wike) Kyle, was born on the farm he now owns in Walker township, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1875. He was educated in the public schools and Airy View Academy. Later he spent two years in Muncie, Indiana, working in the Malleable Iron Works. Returning home he purchased the homestead in Walker township, where he yet resides. He is one of the successful farmers of his town; has remodeled the house; added new building and greatly improved the property in many ways. He conducts general farming operations in connection with stock raising. In poli- tics Mr. Kyle is a Democrat and in 1909 was elected collector of taxes for Walker township and is yet in office. He is a member of the Patriotic Order Sons of America, and both he and his wife belong to the Presby- terian church.
He married, January 20, 1897, Mary Elizabeth Sieber, born Novem- ber 16, 1865, in Fayette township, Pennsylvania, daughter of David and Anna Elizabeth (Witmer) Sieber, both old Juniata Valley families. Children : James; William, and Doyle Sieber Kyle.
(The Sieber Line).
Mary Elizabeth (Sieber) Kyle was born November 16, 1865, in Fayette township, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, a descendant of Chris- tian Sieber, born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1801, came to Far- managh township, Juniata county, in 1813, where he became a prosper- ous farmer.
(II) David, eighth of the thirteen children of Christian Sieber, was born in Fermanagh township, January 13, 1824. and there grew to manhood. He married, in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1848, Anna Elizabeth Witmer and settled in Fayette township, where he owned the John Y. Shelley farm near McAlisterville. This he sold, again bought and sold finally, owning a farm of two hundred acres one- half mile below Mexico, where he died October 8, 1891. His wife died May 22, 1889. Both were members of the Mennonite church. Children : I. Addison R., born March 10, 1850; now resides in Harrisburg. 2. Louisa F., born November 9, 1852; resides in Mexico, Pennsylvania, unmarried. 3. Clara Belle, born August 16, 1855; married Tunis Vos- burg and resides in Mexico. 4. Henry O., born May 1, 1858; now re- siding in Mexico. 5. Daughter, born in April, 1860, died unnamed. 6.
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