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Andrew Banks, grandfather of the William Banks of this sketch, was born in York county, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Lint- ner, and had four sons: James; John, an attorney who practiced his profession in Indiana, Pennsylvania; William, and David. All of these attained prominence.
David, son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Lintner) Banks, was born in Fermanagh township, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1798, and died at an advanced age. He followed farming as an occupation, and served as associate judge of the courts of Juniata county, Pennsylvania. He married, April 10, 1827, Jane Thompson, born in Fayette township, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, in 1803, and died at the age of seventy- six years, a daughter of Judge William McAlister. They had children : James A., who went to California during the gold excitement of 1849, was a member of the legislature four years, a member of the senate two years, removed to Nevada, was a member of the legislature of that state, was murdered by the Indians at the age of thirty-seven years, and was a member of the Presbyterian church; William, the subject of this sketch; David Stewart, the third son, was a minister of the Presbyterian church, and died in California; the fourth son died in infancy ; the fifth son, Robert E., died of typhoid fever while a student at Jefferson Col- lege; the sixth son, John M., is successfully engaged in the practice of the law in Indiana, Pennsylvania ; the seventh son, Dr. Lucian, is a well known physician in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania.
William, son of David and Jane Thompson ( McAlister) Banks, was born on the homestead farm in Fermanagh township, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, March 12, 1830. The common schools of the district furnished his early education and this was supplemented by at- tendance at Tuscarora Academy. In 1886 he undertook the responsi- bility of cultivating the farm, which consists of two hundred and forty acres, and has been remarkably successful in all his efforts. He has planted many acres in fruit trees, and is now considered to have one of the most productive farms in the county. He is too ambitious a man, however, to be content with one enterprise. He is one of the organizers and original stockholders of the Juniata Valley Bank, 1864, this being now known as the Second National Bank. In 1862 he volunteered for military service, was mustered in, and sent to Harrisburg, his regiment being known as the Third Pennsylvania. From there they were sent to
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take part in the battle of Antietam, but reached the battlefield too late to be of actual assistance, much to their regret. He joined the Presby- terian church in his early youth, and served it as an elder for many years. He was also connected with the Sunday school for more than half a century. His six children and twelve grandchildren are likewise members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Banks married, near Mifflin- town, October 1, 1861, Jane E., born in Mifflintown, October 25, 1837, a daughter of Dr. Philo and Elizabeth (North) Hamlin, the former one of the leading physicians of his time. They have had children: I. William H., a well known physician and financier of Juniata county, was born November 16, 1862. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and has practiced in Mifflintown since that time. Under the second administration of President Cleveland he filled the office of examining surgeon for United States pensions. He was one of the or- ganizers and is a director of the Mifflintown and Patterson Electric Light Company, is a director in the Fermanagh Building and Loan Association, and a stockholder in the Mifflintown and Patterson Water Company. He married Bess Jacobs Parker, and has five children : 2. James A., born in October, 1864; was educated in the public schools and Mifflintown Academy. For a time he was in the drug store of Dr. W. H. Banks, then went to Mifflintown in 1889, and was with his uncle, Dr. Lucian Banks, until his death in 1907. Since 1907 he has conducted the store at No. 109 Main street. He was one of the or- ganizers of the Juniata Farmers' Telephone and Telegraph Company, and is treasurer of the corporation at the present time, and a director in the Lost Creek Valley Telephone Company. He is a supporter of Democratic principles in political matters, and a member of the Presby- terian church. He is unmarried, and resides with his father. 3. An- drew, was born March 14, 1866. He was graduated from Princeton College in 1889, read law with Patterson & Neely, and was admitted to practice at the bar in 1891. He commenced his legal practice in Mif- flintown, removed to Greensburg, Pennsylvania. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he enlisted in Company I, Tenth Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, and was in the Philippines about one and a half years. Returning to Mifflintown, he again engaged in the practice of law, and has served as district attorney two terms. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and he has served as chairman of the Demo-
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cratic county committee. He is a director of the Juniata Valley Na- tional Bank, is unmarried, and resides with his father. 4. Ella K., married J. Howard Neely, of Mifflintown. 5. Philo Hamlin, was edu- cated in the Mifflintown Academy and the Jefferson Medical College, from which he was graduated in June, 1901. He passed successfully the examination of the state board of examiners, and was a surgeon in South Africa, with the rank of captain, during the Boer war. Upon the return trip to this country he died at New Orleans, November 23, 1901. 6. Rebecca Jane, married Ezra D. Parker, of Milford township, and has two children: Southard E. and Ilelen W. 7. Anna May, died in infancy.
Mr. Banks has always taken a deep interest in whatever concerned the welfare of the community in which he lived, and has filled at various times all the public offices within the gift of the township. He has served as a school director for several years, and is held in the highest esteem by all who know him. His counsel is often in demand by those who have the best means of judging correctly of his shrewd and far- seeing mind.
THOMPSON The Thompsons of this sketch descend from John Thompson, who with his brother James came from the North of Ireland, 1730-1735, and located first in 1735 at New London Cross Roads, Chester county, Pennsylvania. Later they moved to Hanover township, Lancaster county, where John Thompson married his second wife. From Hanover he moved to the Juniata valley, settling at a point three miles distant from the present borough of Thompsontown. James, his brother, settled in the Cum- berland valley.
(I) John Thompson came up the Juniata with his family in 1768 or 1769 and purchased a tract of two hundred acres (previously war- ranted) near Thompsontown. He is not mentioned on the tax lists of Fermanagh township until 1768, when he is assessed on two hundred acres, and Robert, his oldest son, on two hundred acres adjoining and below at Lockport. John Thompson died about 1779, as his name then disappears from the tax rolls. He is buried in the old Thompson grave- yard, where a simple stone with the letters "J. T.," without date, marks his resting place. He married (first) a Miss Greenlee, daughter of
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James Greenlee, of Hanover township. He married (second) a Miss Slocum; (third) Sarah, daughter of James Patterson. Children by first wife: I. Margaret, married a Greenleaf. 2. Sarah, married John McAllister. 3. Elizabeth, married Robert McAllister. 4. William, born 1754, died January 3, 1813, married Jane Mitchell. 5. Robert, married Sarah Mitchell. 6. Susan, married Captain David Boal, and lived in Perry county. 7. Jane, married Robert Wiley, of Washington, Pennsylvania. 8. Isaac, died 1823, married, and had a son James. Children of second wife: 9. John, who moved from the Juniata Valley to Butler county, Pennsylvania. Children by third wife: 10. Andrew, married Jane Stewart, and about 1816 moved to near Chillicothe, Ohio. II. Peter, of whom further. 12. Thomas, lived with his brother, died a bachelor, and the old farm, which then contained four hundred and thirty-three acres, passed to his brother, Peter.
(II) Peter, son of John Thompson and his third wife, Sarah Pat- terson, inherited with his brother Thomas the homestead of their father, and February 28, 1807, purchased eighty-four acres additional. Peter and Thomas worked the farm together, prospered, and enlarged its borders, and when Thomas died without heirs, Peter inherited his in- terest. Peter Thompson married Mary Patterson, and had issue: John, Samuel, Silas, Thomas, John, Patterson, Mary, Margaret, Susanna and Ellen.
(III) Samuel, son of Peter and Mary (Patterson) Thompson, was born on the old homestead farm on which his grandfather settled, and later lived in Center county and in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. He was a merchant tailor, and had a place of business in Petersburg, Hunt- ingdon county. He served in the war of 1812, was a Whig in politics and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His second wife was Mary Griffins; children: Peter, John, Henry, Samuel S., and William.
(IV) Samuel Simpson, son of Samuel and Mary (Griffins) Thomp- son, was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, May 24, 1819, died in Logan township, Huntingdon county, October 7, 1889. He learned the tailor's trade with his father, established later in business for him- self in Petersburg, continuing until about 1860, when he sold out and purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres in Oneida town- ship, which he cultivated for a few years only. He then returned to
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Petersburg and again began tailoring, but later purchased a farm on which he lived until his death. He was a justice of the peace for many years; a Republican in politics, and both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He held many local of- fices and was a man held in high esteem. He married Margaret Nelson, who died June 10, 1890, daughter of John and Margaret (Steele) Nel- son-he born in Huntingdon county, she in Ireland. John and Mar- garet Nelson owned a small farm in Logan township; both were mem- bers of the Presbyterian church; he was a Democrat and local office- holder; children: Margaret, married Samuel Simpson Thompson, of previous mention; Ellen, married Jolin Nelson, and died in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania ; John, yet a resident of Petersburg. Children of Samuel S. Thompson: 1. William, a farmer of Logan township. 2. Andrew Gibson, now residing near Denver, Colorado, a painter. 3. Mary, married James Gahagan, and lives at Blackstone, Virginia. 4. John Nelson, of whom further. 5. Nannie, married George Beeler, and lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. 6. Martha Washington, married Daniel M. Wagner, and lives at Colonial Beach, Virginia. 7. Alonzo, resides at Mount Union, Pennsylvania. 8. Jennie, married George Ar- mitage, and resides in Oakland, California.
(V) John Nelson, son of Samuel Simpson and Margaret ( Nelson) Thompson, was born at Petersburg, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, August 27, 1858. He was educated in the township schools, and spent his boyhood on the farm. He then entered mercantile life, and April I, 1882, engaged with the Petersburg Cooperative Store as a clerk. He remained there seventeen years until October 1, 1899, when in part- nership with John H. Hoffman, purchased the business. They trade under the firm name of Hoffman & Thompson, and are well established, prosperous and well known merchants. In 1902 Mr. Thompson assisted in organizing the Shaver's Creek Bank, and a year later was elected vice-president, a position he now holds, the bank now being known as the First National Bank. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the town council, and president of the board of health. He is a mem- ber of Mount Moriah Lodge No. 300, Free and Accepted Masons, of Huntingdon, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married, March 15, 1882, Mary C., daughter of Clark and
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Susan Walker of Petersburg; children: I. Martha, born May 24, 1883; married Dr. J. M. Kerchline, a practicing physician of Petersburg; children : Sarah Margaret ; Mary Louise; Samuel Edward. 2. Samuel, born January 8, 1886; now a bookkeeper in Philadelphia ; married Mary Magraw.
The Fouse family, which is of German descent, have been
FOUSE residents in the state of Pennsylvania for a number of generations, greatly to the benefit of the sections in which the various members of the family have resided.
(I) Nicholas Fouse was the first of the family to come to America and resided at Morrisons Cove, Pennsylvania. He had a family of thirteen children, among them being Theobald, of whom further.
(II) Rev. Theobald Fouse, son of Nicholas Fouse, was born in Mor- risons Cove, Pennsylvania. He was a minister of the Reformed church, and among the pastorates he held were the following: Marklesburg, Beavertown, Hickory Bottom, Millerstown Grove, Sharpsburg and Rus- sellville. He married Nancy Shontz, and had children: Adam, of whom further ; Christian, who was a soldier in the civil war, serving at Nash- ville; John, who holds the same record as his brother; Elizabeth, de- ceased, married Anthony Shultz; Catherine, married Samuel Grove; Mary, deceased, married Benjamin Hoover; Benjamin, a soldier in the civil war; Rev. Dewalt, a minister of the Reformed church, now deceased; Reuben, was a soldier in the civil war, fought at the battle of Fair Oaks, and died from the effects of that conflict; Frederick, same record as Reuben; Samuel, fought at Nashville, and is still living ; and several children who died in infancy. Six brothers devoting their lives to the cause of patriotism is a record of which one may well feel proud.
(III) Adam, son of Rev. Theobald and Nancy (Shontz) Fouse, was born in Blairs Cove, near Beavertown, Blair county, Pennsylvania, died in September, 1884, aged sixty years. He was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, at which he worked in his native county. Re- moving to Huntingdon county, he purchased a tannery in Lincoln town- ship which he operated successfully for many years. Subsequently he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty-five acres in the same town- ship, cultivated and improved this in every possible manner, and also
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raised fine breeds of cattle until a few years prior to his death. Active in the interests of the community as he was in his private affairs, Mr. Fouse exerted considerable influence in the local commeils of the Repub- lican party, and was elected county commissioner for Huntingdon county. He was a lifelong member of the Reformed church, in which he was an elder, and an ardent worker in the Sunday school as a teacher and superintendent. He was always a total abstainer from tobacco and liquor in any form.
Mr. Fouse married, in Lincoln township, Margaret Jane, daughter of Jefferson Simonton, a farmer and tanner of that section. She was born June 6, 1832, and had brothers and sisters as follows: Mary Ann, married Joseph Hathaway; Rebecca, married David Hatha- way; Martha, married Jacob Hoover ; Catherine, married Isaac Latchall ; Rachel, married John MeGlochlan; George Taylor, a promoter of gold mines in California; Jackson, draftsman in Altoona; and five who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Fouse had children: Mary Anne, born May 6, 1849, now deceased; Benjamin S., of whom further : William S., born June 6, 1853, married Martha J. Shell, and now lives in Entriken. Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania; Nancy, born July 7. 1855, married Jolın Greaser, a farmer of Iowa, and has four daughters; Naomi, re- sides with her mother.
(IV) Benjamin S., son of Adam and Margaret Jane (Simonton) Fonse, was born in Marklesburg, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1851. He received his education in the public schools of Marklesburg, and upon its completion he was engaged in farming operations at Huntingdon, and on his own homestead until 1900. In 1902 he opened a meat market in partnership with Walter Decker, and this has been increased in extent from time to time until at the present time ( 1913) the annual amount of business transacted is approximately twenty-five thousand dollars. Only the choicest wares of all kinds are handled, and their patronage extends over a large area. Mr. Fonse is an ardent Progressive Re- publican and has filled a number of local offices. His religious affilia- tions are with the Reformed church.
Mr. Fouse married, October 24, 1876, Mary, daughter of Joseph and Martha (Grove) Knode. Having no children of their own, they de- voted their time and attention to the rearing and educating of two chil- dren, whom they took into their home, but did not adopt, namely: Ross
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Wicks, who after graduating from Juniata College studied for the min- istry of the Reformed church at Dayton, Ohio, and Norwalk, Connecti- cut, and is now preaching in the Congregational church, he married Florence Williamson and has one daughter, Catherine; Susan Starr, who graduated from the high school at the age of sixteen years.
Angus Campbell, a member of the powerful Clan CAMPBELL Campbell, in the Highlands of Scotland, despairing of the cessation of the clan feuds so prevalent in Scotland among the different clans, left his native heath about 1640, by way of London, for the New World of America. He most probably landed in Virginia, as an Angus Campbell was among the emigrants who came to that colony in that year. Later, he, his son or grandson, as some authorities say that Angus Campbell lived and died in Virginia, moved to Pennsylvania. The Campbells were a brave, energetic, fiery and chivalrous race. In war they neither asked for nor gave quarter ; but a fallen or helpless foe was immune from their wrath or vengeance. They were loyal, patriotic, just and generous. Their name was synony- mous with honor. From such ancestry descends the Campbell family of Pennsylvania.
(I) John Campbell was born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, but early in life came to Center county as one of its first settlers. He descended from Angus Campbell, whose posterity came from Virginia to Philadelphia and there located. John Campbell had all of the reso- lute traits of his family. He took up wild land, cleared it of its enor- mous forest growth, which he burned, to secure enough land on which to sow grain. He succeeded in his venture and died a wealthy and influential man. Among his children was James Watson, of whom further.
(II) James Watson Campbell, son of John Campbell, the pio- neer of Center county, was born in Center county, and there grew to manhood. When a young man he learned surveying and did all of the surveying for the farmers in that part of the state for years. He finally located on a farm, where he prospered. At the time of his death he was the owner of three large tracts of land, all of them under cultiva- tion. With the rest of his generation he was a member of the Presby- terian church, an inheritance from their Scotch ancestry. He married
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Mary Pennington, descended from English forbears, born in Center county, at Potter's Mill. Children: 1. Henry Clay, of whom further. 2. John, a soldier in the civil war, enlisted from Pennsylvania ; killed in the battle of the Wilderness. 3. Isaac, deceased ; an attorney of Wichita, Kansas. 4. Robert, deceased, a Methodist Episcopal minister. 5. Washington, a farmer in Harper county, Kansas. 6. Margaret, mar- ried J. B. Williams, of Tyrone, Pennsylvania. 7. Mary, married H. J. Proffit, resides in Tyrone, Pennsylvania. 8. Eliza, deceased.
(III) Henry Clay Campbell, son of James Watson and Mary ( Pen- nington) Campbell, was born in Center county, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1842, and died in 1904. He arrived at man's estate in the county of his nativity. He was reared on the farm and educated in the public schools. He early entered into the business of tilling the soil, and through energy and acute judgment was immediately successful. After a busy life de- voted to his farms he retired in his later years from active participation in the affairs of life and moved to State College, Pennsylvania. He was a Republican and served as county commissioner. He was a director in the Center Hall Fire Insurance Company and took an active part in its management. He enlisted in Company C, 48th Pennsylvania ' Volunteer Infantry, and served three years during the civil war. He was wounded twice, at the battles of Spottsylvania and Chancellors- ville. At the latter place he was shot in the small of the back, and the wound gave him trouble the rest of his life. He was an exceedingly stout man for his height, which was medium, but was persistently in- dustrious despite this handicap. Ile was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, giving it his support, financially and morally. He was a patriotic and loyal citizen, a fine example to the youth of his county, and a good neighbor. He married Jane Anne Bailey, born in 1842, in Center county, died in 1907, daughter of John and Nancy (Go- heen) Bailey, he of English-Scotch extraction, and a well-to-do farmer in Center county. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Bailey: Armstrong and Joseph, who both served in the 45th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in civil war: John; William; Scott; Samuel; Warren; Washington; Jane Anne, married Henry Clay Campbell; Esther, married Ross Gregory, a wealthy farmer of West township, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania ; Mary, now Mrs. Huitt, of Kansas City, Kansas. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell: 1. John Bailey, of whom further. 2. Milo, resides
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on old homestead in Center county. 3. Nannie, married H. D. Meek, of State College, Pennsylvania. 4. Mary, married J. H. Musser, of State College, Pennsylvania. 5. Henry C., a physician in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania. 6. Robert, owner of Penn's Cave in Center county. 7. Esther, married Don Devor, of Lansing, Michigan. 8. Margaret, mar- ried Harry Koch, an undertaker in State College, Pennsylvania.
(IV) John Bailey Campbell, son of Henry Clay and Jane Anne (Bailey) Campbell, was born November 25, 1868, in Ferguson township, Center county, Pennsylvania. He grew up on the farm, attended the common schools, and then took an agricultural course at State College. Leaving school he taught for two years, after which he entered the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, and took a business course. For a couple of years thereafter he was bookkeeper for A. G. Morse at Tyrone, Pennsylvania, after which time he was bookkeeper for four or five years in Pittsburgh. In 1904 he purchased three hundred acres in Warriors Mark township, Huntingdon county, one mile from the city of Tyrone, and since that time has successfully devoted himself to farming and dairying. He has a handsome, com- modious and comfortable home in Tyrone, where he dwells in the winter in order to afford his children the best educational advantages possible. He has built for himself a picturesque bungalow on the apex of a hill overlooking his estate, known as "Highland Farm," and here resides in the summer, where his children may have pure air to breathe and lead a free and untrammelled life in the open. His is one of the model farms in the county, and in it he takes the greatest interest and pride, managing it to the best advantage. He conducts the best equipped dairy that daily supplies Tyrone with the greater part of its milk. To furnish the milk a large herd of cows, of a superior stock, is kept, as well as other cattle and farm animals. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Tyrone. In politics he is a Progressive Republican, works for and uses his influence for the party, and has been on the board of health of Tyrone. He is a man of superior intelligence, with a liberal education, is broadminded and generous. He leads a strenuous life, partly because of his live-wire energy, and partly because his large interests demand it. He is a devoted and judicious father, a true friend and an untiring worker for the principles he deems right.
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He married, October 25, 1899, Drucie Waite, born in Huntingdon county, a member of an old family in Pennsylvania, and a sister of Mrs. Frank Leon Peck, mentioned elsewhere. Children: Richard, born November 19, 1900; Fred, December 27, 1905; Margaret, Decem- ber 26, 1908.
This branch of the Smith family is of German ancestry and
SMITH early settled in Huntingdon county. The first record is of Levi Smith. He married Mary Pheasant, daughter of Samuel Pheasant, of German descent, who came from Maryland, set- tling on a farm of sixty acres in Trough Creek Valley, Cass township, Huntingdon county, and he married ( first) Annie Saylor, and their first child, Mary, became the wife of Levi Smith. They settled in Union township, Huntingdon county, where he became a prosperous farmer and prominent in township public life, holding several public offices, including that of school director. He was a Whig in politics, later a Re- publican. He was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church, was a class leader and superintendent of the Sunday-school, and a man of most excellent standing in the community. He died in Union town- ship in 1873, the result of an accident. Mary ( Pheasant) Smith, his wife, survived him for several years. Children: Samuel P., of further mention ; George; Annie; Rosa E .; John P .; Mary ; Isaac ; James ; Eliza- beth; Abraham, a soldier in the Union army, killed at the battle of the Wilderness; David, Miles and Leonard.
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