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Volunteer Infantry and the 78th Pennsyl- vania Volunteer Infantry. He was acquainted with many of the leading men of his day, and a personal friend and associate of Gov. An- drew G. Curtin. He was engaged in business as a contractor, doing most of the building in Kittanning after settling there, and was also very successful as a hotel-keeper in the bor- ough. His death occurred at Kittanning in 1878. He married Margaret Rebecca Lem- mon, who died in 1904, a daughter of Col. Daniel Lemmon, who served in the Black Hawk war. A longer account of the Nulton and Lemmon families appears elsewhere in this work.
ried Susanna Linweaver, who like himself passed all her life in Germany, and died in 1855, when her son Christian was twelve years old. They had the following children: Vic- tor, who took the old homestead in Germany and was drowned in the river Lahn; Henry, who was the first of the family to come to America; Christian Jacob; Louisa, who is deceased; Margaret, who lives in Germany ; Christina, born in 1841, who died from in- juries received by falling on an icy sidewalk in Pittsburgh, in February, 1908, when aged sixty-seven years; and Susanna.
HENRY BAUER, second son of Conrad Bauer, was born Jan. 7, 1837, in Laurenberg, which is on the river Rhine, in the province of Nassau. He came to the United States in 1864, and settled in Armstrong county, Pa., Furnace. He died May 25, 1897, in Kittan- ning. His wife, Rosina Morman, died May
Daniel Lemmon Nulton was born May 20, 1853, at Kittanning, and attended common school until his nineteenth year, later study- ing at Lambeth College, and at St. John's for a time, working as a miner at Pine Creek University, Haddonfield, N. J. Afterward he took up the study of law, and was admitted to the bar at Kittanning, Pa., in 1883. In 21, 1890, aged forty years, eleven months, five 1885 he was appointed post office inspector, which office he resigned in 1888. From then married in Kittanning, Pa. They had the fol- much of his time was devoted to promoting the interests of the Democratic party, in which he has long been active and influential, and on seventeen different occasions he has days. She was born in Germany. They were lowing children: John, who is president of the Wickboro Mirror Company and is also engaged in the insurance business at Vander- grift, Pa .; Henry; Christian; Catherine, who attended State conventions of the party as a married Turney B. Richardson, of Wickboro, delegate. In I911 he resumed the practice of law at Freeport, where he now makes his home. and has had children, Mildred (born Feb. 16, 1902), Ruth (born Aug. 10, 1903), Thelma (born March 17, 1905, deceased), On Jan. 23, 1875, Mr. Nulton was married at Pittsburgh, Pa., to Laura Galbraith, daugh- ter of Rev. William Galbraith. Dorothy (born Feb. 19, 1907), Velma (born Oct. 22, 1908), and Merl Christian (born June 19, 19II) ; Louisa, who married William Semmens, of Wickboro, and has children, BAUER. For the last several years the Robert (born June 6, 1909), and Clifford (born Jan. 6, 19II).
name of Bauer in Kittanning has been asso- ciated with one of the most prosperous bor- JOHN BAUER, son of Henry and Rosina (Morman) Bauer, was born Sept. 17, 1874, in Fairmont City, Clarion Co., Pa. In 1891, he came to Kittanning, Pa., and worked at the pottery trade. In 1897, he started to work as agent for the Prudential Life In- surance Company at Kittanning, in 1899 was promoted to the office of assistant superin- tendent of that company, and was transferred to New Kensington, Pa., from there back to Kittanning, and then to Vandergrift. Resign- ing his position as assistant superintendent of the Prudential Insurance Company at Vander- grift in the year 1903, he came back to Kit- tanning, Pa., joining his brothers Henry and Christian in the mirror business, becoming He was the representative and bookkeeper of the Wickboro Mirror Company up to April 30, 1909, when he resigned his position with ough industries, the Wickboro Mirror Com- pany when established having been composed mainly of members of this family, and all its officers have been Bauers since the formation of the present organization, in 1901. There are few enterprises in Kittanning or anywhere in Armstrong county which show better de- velopment. The business ability and princi- ples of the owners entitle them to a place among the most valuable factors in the local industrial situation, and all the representa- tives of the family here have been creditable citizens. They are of German extraction. Conrad Bauer, their grandfather, was born in Germany and passed all his life in that country, dying at the age of fifty-three years. president of the Wickboro Mirror Company. He was a silver miner, working in mines which were opened in 1785 and are still run- ning. He was one of five brothers. He mar-
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that company in order to accept a position of James and Margaret (Gibson) Hooks. as agent for the Prudential Insurance They have a family of four children: Henry Paul, born Dec. 25, 1902; Ralph Hooks, born June 24, 1904; Mary Elizabeth, born May 12, 19II; and Fred Le Roy, born Nov. 8, 1912. They live at No. 903 Orr avenue.
Company at Kittanning, but still retains his stock in the Wickboro Mirror Company. Working as agent up to 1912, he was then promoted again to the office of assistant super- intendent of the Prudential Insurance Com- CHRISTIAN BAUER, son of Henry and Rosina (Morman) Bauer, was born April 13, 1880, in Fairmount City, Clarion Co., Pa., where he attended school until November, 1891, when he came to Kittanning. At the age of four- teen he entered the employ of the Wickboro China Company as an apprentice, remaining with that concern until 1898, when he became engaged at the Crystal Mirror Works, being there for the next three years. He then acted as agent of the Prudential Life Insurance Company for six months, in 1901 organizing the Wickboro Mirror Company, to which he has since given his principal attention. He started this establishment in association with his brother Henry and a Mr. Wolford, and pany, but transferred to Vandergrift, Pa., where he is still at present time, April, 1914. Mr. Bauer has taken considerable interest in the public affairs of Wickboro, has served three years as member of the borough coun- cil, resigning from this office on account of moving to Vandergrift, in August, 1912, and he has done his share toward the promo- tion of the general welfare. In political con- nection he is a Republican. On March 6, 1893, Mr. Bauer married Cora Irene Camp- bell, who was born in North Buffalo, June 21, 1874, daughter of Alexander Finley and Mary E. (Claypoole) Campbell. They have a family of eight children: Grace Irene, born April 7, 1894; Leona May, born Jan. 22, they began business in a small building in
1897; Thomas, born May 30, 1899 (died July 7, 1899) ; Alonza Alfred, born July 21, 1900; Marie C., born June 6, 1903; Evelin M., born March 27, 1906; Imogene R., born Nov. 8, 1909; and Eunice M., born July 16, 1912.
HENRY BAUER, son of Henry and Rosina (Morman) Bauer, was born April 4, 1876, in Clarion county, Pa. His first work was at coal mining, at Fairmount City, Clarion county. In 1891, he came to Kittanning and Bauer, vice president ; Henry Bauer, treasurer ; worked at the pottery trade. In 1898, he was and Christian Bauer, secretary. The business assistant superintendent of the Prudential Life has shown steady progress. The plant has Insurance Company at Kittanning, being thus been enlarged to meet the increasing demands engaged until he and his brother Christian of the trade, and is now splendidly equipped, and the volume of business has grown so that fifteen men are constantly employed. The establishment is therefore a public bene- fit to the town, affording as it does regular employment to a number of men and sup- port to their families. Personally the broth- 'ers are all citizens of the highest standing. organized the Wickboro Mirror Company in company with Mr. Wolford. He has been treasurer of that company since the reorgan- ization, in 1902, and by his judicious man- agement and devotion to its interests, and the application of his practical ideas, has con- tributed materially to the steady growth of its business. Mr. Bauer has taken consider- On June II, 1900, Christian O. Bauer was married to Nettie May Clark, who was born April 10, 1883, at Kittanning, daughter of Robert B. and Katharine Susanna (Ream) Clark, of New Kensington, Pa. They have had four children, born as follows: Clar- ence Robert, March 22, 1901 ; Verna Rosina, June 3, 1904; Kenneth Christian, Dec. 9, 1907 ; able interest in the public affairs of Wick- boro, has served two terms as tax collector (first from 1901 to 1902, when he resigned, in 1909 being re-elected to serve five years), and served one year as member of the bor- ough council. He has done his share toward the promotion of the general welfare. In political connection he is a Republican. He Katharine May, Aug. 10, 1913. Mr. Bauer is a member and officer of St. Luke's Re- formed Church, being one of the elders.
In 1901, Mr. Bauer married Fannie O. Hooks, who was born in Franklin township, Armstrong county, Feb. 29, 1876, daughter
the Wickboro district of Kittanning, employ- ing but three men. In 1902, Mr. Wolford's interests were purchased by the Bauers and the company was reorganized and capitalized at $30,000. At this time the older brother, John Bauer, and William F. Bauer, cousin of John, Christian and Henry, entered the firm, John Bauer becoming president, and the other officers being as follows : William F.
is a prominent member of St. Luke's Re- formed Church, in which he serves as deacon. On political questions he is a Republican. His home is at 426 Highland avenue.
CHRISTIAN JACOB BAUER, son of Conrad
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and Susanna (Linweaver) Bauer, was born speech in praise of his home across the sea. Sept. 6, 1843, in Laurenburg, Nassau, Ger- The occasion was highly enjoyable, and its many, and there passed his early life. He memory will long live in the minds and hearts of those who were present. Mr. Bauer and his daughter spent a month at his old home, and then returned to America as they had gone out, by way of the Isle of Man, where they spent another month with Charles Bauer.
served three years in the army. He was married in Germany when twenty-six years old to Sophia Smith, and three weeks later set sail with his bride for America, joining his brother Henry, who was then working as a miner at Pine Creek Furnace, Armstrong Co., Pa. There Christian Jacob Bauer found work also, being for six years with John Painter, after which he moved to Red Bank Furnace, where he was employed for one year. Thence he removed to Fairmount City, Clarion county, where he established a home, building a house in which he lived for many years and where his children were reared. While living at Fairmount City, Mr. Bauer followed mining. The family home was there for a period of thirty-five years and there Mrs. Bauer died in 1896, at the age of fifty. She was the mother of the following children : Charles, who lives on the Isle of Man, Great Britain; William F., vice president of the Wickboro Mirror Company, born Aug. 19, 1880, who is a prominent worker in the Re- publican party, acting as committeeman for Wickboro, and is well known fraternally as a member of the Odd Fellows and Eagles at Kittanning; Susanna, unmarried, who lives with her father; Christina, Mrs. Ed. Beck; and Anna, Mrs. Herbert Moore.
Mr. Bauer continued to reside at Fairmount City for sixteen years after the death of his wife, his daughter Susanna keeping house for him, and in 19II they came to Kittanning, where most of his children are located. Af- ter leaving the place which had been his home for so many years his heart turned to the Fatherland, and wishing to see once more the scenes of his birth and early life he set out with his daughter Susanna for the Old World. They first went to the Isle of Man, England, where his son Charles (who like his father had settled far from his early home) resides, and there was an affectionate meeting between the long separated members of the family. After a two months' sojourn there the trav- elers proceeded to Germany by way of Bel- gium, going to the old home in Nassau, Ger- many, where Mr. Bauer's sister Margaret lives. There he celebrated the sixty-eighth anniversary of his birth, practically the whole town of Laurenburg uniting to do him honor. The village schoolmaster and his pupils formed a choir to give him greeting in song, and Mr. Bauer acknowledged his appreciation of the good will shown on all sides in a
Since his return Mr. Bauer has acted as night watchman at the plant of the Kittan- ning Plate Glass Company. He and his fam- ily belong to St. Luke's Reformed Church, which has many Bauers in its membership. Mr. Bauer, his daughter and son William F., reside at No. 420 Fair street.
JOHN A. HILL, member of the firm of Stull-Hill-Coulter Company, general mer- chants at Leechburg, was born in Butler county, Pa., March 5, 1863, son of Shiloh and Mary E. (Weaver) Hill.
Shiloh Hill was born Oct. 18, 1825, on the old family homestead in what is now Gilpin township, Armstrong county. He learned the milling business, and afterward bought a farm in Butler county which he operated for a few years. Then he ran the Hill gristmill in Al- legheny township, Westmoreland county, liv- ing at Bagdad most of the time and he spent one summer in the oil fields where he was interested to some extent in oil production, but devoted the larger part of his time to mill- ing. From 1870 until 1872 he operated the Elwood mill at Leechburg. For several years before his death he was retired, his death oc- curring June 27, 1888; he was buried in the Freeport cemetery. He married Mary E. Weaver, daughter of Peter and Mary (Roney) Weaver, and they had a family of ten children, as follows: Mary and Sarah, twins, who died young; Laura, widow of An- drew J. Stull; John A .; Jessie, wife of S. J. Swank; James R .; Grant, a member of the Stull-Hill-Coulter Company ; Frederick and Charles S., both also members of that firm; and Hattie C., wife of Robert P. Elwood.
John A. Hill attended school in both Gil- pin and Allegheny townships and was trained practically from boyhood in his father's mill, of which he took charge in 1877, operating it for some years. In 1887 he came to Leech- burg to conduct a mill, which he ran for four years, when he entered the firm of Smail, Stull & Hill, who had the establishment now carried on by the Stull-Hill-Coulter Company, dealers in groceries and general supplies. They have enlarged the scope of their trade con- siderably since, now also handling grain, feed
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and hay. The different members of the firm have charge of different departments, all working together as a whole, and John A. Hill takes care of the hardware, plumbing and roofing business. He has additional busi- ness interests, being a director of the Leech- burg Realty Company, and secretary and treasurer of the Philadelphia Milling & Min- ing Company. In politics a Republican, the success of his party is always gratifying to him. He has served one term as a council- man and two terms as a member of the school board, has been secretary for the borough since 1901, and is secretary and a director of the Leechburg Board of Trade.
On May 30, 1888, Mr. Hill was married D., widow of Dr. J. G. Cunningham; John to Mary Coulter, daughter of S. L. Coulter, D .; and Ellen, who married Capt. W. R. May.
and they have seven daughters: Edna C., L. Maude, Ruth E., Jessie E., Jeane E., Ida E., born Oct. 12, 1840, in Kittanning, in the old
and Ada E. Mr. Hill and his family belong to the Hebron Lutheran Church at Leechburg, of which he has been an official for twenty years. Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to Leechburg Lodge, No. 377, F. & A. M., of which he is a past master; and to Orient Chapter, R. A. M., at Kittanning.
DAVID REYNOLDS, now living retired at Ford City, Armstrong county, is a mem- ber of a family which has been known in Kittanning, this county, for many years, his grandfather, David Reynolds, having founded about thirty-six years in all, he and his broth- the hotel there which bore his name, and its modern successor, the "Hotel Reynolds," con- tinues to be one of the well-known places of public entertainment in this region.
David Reynolds, the grandfather, was for many years engaged in the hotel business, be- ing proprietor of the old frame hotel at Kit- tanning, the first "Reynolds House." He also had other interests, being a man of wealth and influence, and owned large tracts of land, farming on an extensive scale. He was a Whig in politics, and served several years as postmaster at Kittanning. He was twice mar- ried, his first wife being a Woodward, his second a Ross, and his children were as fol- lows: Harriet, wife of John Leech, of Leechburg, Pa .; Margaret, wife of Peter Weaver, of Freeport, Pa .; Mary, wife of John Watson; Absalom Woodward; Washington; Alexander ; Frank; Ross; Jane, widow of Joseph Graff, now residing at Graff station, in Manor township; Judith, wife of A. J. Dull, of Harrisburg, Pa .; and Sallie, who died unmarried.
that connection building a furnace in Arm- strong county and one in Clarion county, be- ing one of the pioneers in this industry in this section of Pennsylvania. He was a man of recognized business ability, accumulated con- siderable means, and retained the respect and esteem of his fellow men throughout his long and active life. He was a Whig in politics, subsequently a Republican. He was a member of the Episcopal Church, and belonged to the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Reynolds died in 1880, at the age of seventy-three years. His wife, Martha (Dennison), died about 1887, at the age of sixty-seven. They were the par- ents of the following children: David; Sarah
David Reynolds, son of Alexander, was frame hotel known as the "Reynolds House," which occupied the same site as the present brick "Hotel Reynolds." He began his edu- cation in the public schools of Kittanning, and for three years attended the Turtle Creek Academy, after which he entered the Sewick- ley Academy, where he was also a pupil for about three years. He then went to Red Bank Furnace, where he became identified with his father in the iron business, in which line they had a large and profitable patronage for many years. He was in this business for er John D. continuing it for several years after the death of their father. About 1888 David Reynolds withdrew and located at Ford City, which at that time was a settlement of only a few houses. The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, who have the largest works of the kind in the world, having established a plant at Ford City. Mr. Reynolds became watchman for that concern, continuing to hold that position about one year. In 1890 he was elected burgess of the new town of Ford City, and a little later was elected assessor, holding the former office for three years and the latter for five years. During the Roose- velt administration he was appointed postmas- ter at Ford City, and served as such four years, since which time he has been living re- tired from active pursuits. He is a highly respected citizen, having served his commun- ity well in every office to which he was chosen. He is a Mason, belonging to Blue Lodge No. 244, F. & A. M., and to Orient Chapter, No. 247, R. A. M., both of Kittanning.
In 1867 Mr. Reynolds married Margaret Alexander Reynolds, son of David, was for Deitrick, and they are the parents of four chil- many years engaged in the iron business, in dren :
Sarah D., deceased, wife of W. E.
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Noble; Harry A., who is prominently identi- fied with the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company ; David, Jr .; and Kissie, widow of Dr. W. D. Jessop, dentist (they had two children, Dorothy R. and Clair).
JOHN SAMUEL ARTMAN, merchant and manufacturer of Ford City, Armstrong county, is one of the all around active citizens of his section, interested in business and pub- lic life, well known in social circles and thor- oughly respected in all the relations of life. He was born Oct. 3, 1856, in Westmoreland county, Pa., son of Michael and Rachel (Hill) Artman, of that county, the Artman family being of German stock, the Hills of Scotch- Irish extraction.
Michael Artman grew up in Westmoreland tified with the Democratic party. Fraternally county and attended the common schools. He he holds membership in the Elks at Kittanning, learned the trade of blacksmith, which he and the Eagles and Knights of Pythias at followed throughout his active years, and he Ford City.
and his wife are still living in Westmoreland county (1912), he at the age of eighty-four years, she aged eighty-two. They are mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church. They had a family of six children, namely: John Samuel; Miller, a blacksmith and wagon- maker by trade, who was a merchant and post- master at Milligantown, Westmoreland county ; Emma, who married M. Portner, M. D., of Bevan, Pa .; Martha, who married David Guthrie, a carpenter, of New Kensing- ton, Pa .; James ; and G. H.
John Samuel Artman was given a common school education. At the age of fifteen years he commenced to learn to make grain cradles, with Matthew Miller, of Westmoreland county, for whom he worked three years with- out wages, and another year for which he was paid. He was twenty when he started settling in the Eastern States.
a fine stock and a thoroughly up-to-date store, conducted along the most modern lines, and the business is one of the most prosperous in this region. For several years Mr. Artman was interested in the gas business, drilling, leasing and selling, and met with success in that line as he has in all his ventures. He also owns a valuable tract of land, 225 acres of the old William Heilman homestead in Bethel township, this county, and is kept busy with the management of his numerous con- cerns, though he has found time to do his share in the work of local government. He has held the offices of school director, tax col- lector, overseer of the poor and constable, filling their duties with his customary ability and fidelity, and on political questions is iden-
In the fall of 1878 Mr. Artman married Margaret Heilman, of Kittanning township, who was born in that township, daughter of William Heilman, and they have had two chil- dren : Edna B. received her education at Kit- tanning, Pa., and Canton, Ohio, and is now the wife of Walter Bowser, of Ford City (they have two children, Margaret and Dick) ; Earl D. has always worked with his father. Mrs. Artman is a member of the Lutheran Church.
ALBERT LEE ISEMAN, business man of Freeport, was born Sept. 11, 1868, in Arm- strong county, a son of Andrew and Mary Ann (Grinder) Iseman. The founders of the Iseman and Grinder families came from Germany to the United States at an early day,
out on his own account, in 1876 coming to Andrew Iseman was born July 14, 1818, and his wife was born April 4, 1825. He was a highly respected man during his use- ful life, which was terminated in 1906, his wife following him to the grave, Nov. 30, 191I. There were seven children in their family, five of whom are still living, and Albert Lee Iseman is the youngest of them all. The father was a consistent member of the Luth- eran Church and for two different terms rep- Armstrong county and settling in Manor town- ship, where Ford City now stands. For the next eighteen years he was in the employ of T. Montgomery, making cradles, and Mr. Montgomery retiring at the end of that period Mr. Artman continued the business at the old stand for a number of years. In 1907 he located at his present place in Ford City, and he is still engaged in the manufacture of grain cradles, selling his product entirely to the resented the local denomination in the assem- wholesale trade. However, this one interest bly. Politically he was a, Democrat.
has by no means claimed all his attention. In Albert Lee Iseman attended school until 1900, in company with H. H. Heilman, he he was sixteen years old, and has since re- started a shoe store in Ford City under the gretted that his father's financial affairs ne- name of Artman & Heilman, and their estab- cessitated his leaving at that time. But he has lishment is not only the leading one in the added to his store of knowledge by reading borough but in all this section. They have and observation. Until he was twenty years
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old he remained at home, but being ambitious he felt that he could accomplish more away from the family circle. He secured a posi- tion as tool dresser in the oil fields of Pennsyl- vania, at one dollar per day. Because of his fidelity he was promoted to be a driller, work- ing in this capacity for four years. Having saved money enough to buy himself a drill- ing outfit he undertook the drilling of oil and gas wells by contract, which he found diffi- cult to obtain on account of having no friends or acquaintances in that line of business to whom he could apply for help, having to rely solely on himself. By years of determina- tion and hard work, and after numerous dis- appointments, he worked himself up to be in touch with some of the largest gas companies of the Pittsburgh district. After following this line for a few years he became one of the organizers of the Cumberland Gas Company, which was organized in 1899, and has been and continues to be a success. Then in the year 1903 he was also one of the promoters of the Beckett, Iseman Oil & Gas Company, and also the heaviest stockholder, the com- pany still doing an active business at the pres- ent time in different states. In 1908 the de- mands on his time and energy were so heavy that he was either compelled to dispose of his drilling or contracting end of the work, or take. a partner, and he chose the latter course, forming an association with his broth- er, J. H. Iseman, the drilling business being done under the name of A. L. & J. H. Ise- man, which firm continues to exist at the pres- ent time. Mr. Iseman became a stockholder of the Freeport Telephone Company when it was organized, later becoming a director, and he is still an active member of the board. This company, in addition to local wires, has long distance connections and has lines all over the country. The same natural ability that enabled the poor lad of twenty to develop into the prosperous business man of today makes it possible for Mr. Iseman to promote and carry to successful completion undertakings of great magnitude. A number of enterprises of Freeport and contiguous territory which have been successful may be credited to his example and assistance. He has always been progressive relative to home improvements. In October, 1907, Mr. Iseman organized and had chartered the Ben Franklin Coal Com- pany, chartered in Pennsylvania, capitalized at $200,000; this company is now operating two mines, and after adding proper equipment will have a daily tonnage of from 1,000 to 1,500 tons. Mr. Iseman owns fifty per cent
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