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In 1849 Mr. Hill married Maria Hill, of Armstrong county, Pa., who died in July, 1871, the mother of seven children : (I) George Harry, born Sept. 28, 1850, died when two years old. (2) Margaret Jane, born Jan. 31, 1852, married O. E. Smith, of Verona, Pa., and they have five children, Ira, George, On July 18, 1860, Mr. Shoup was married to Eliza Klingensmith, daughter of Jacob Klingensmith, who was one of the well known early settlers of Armstrong county. Of the two children born to this union one survives, Roy, Stella and Hyatt. (3) Hamilton and (4) Nancy, twins, were born Feb. 24, 1854. Hamilton was drowned in Elk river, in Kan- sas, in 1886. Nancy married Thomas A. Rife, of Allegheny, Pa., and their children are Emma, who is now Mrs. Rupert. After the Maria, Mary, Lida and Florence. (5) David F. is mentioned below. (6) Anna Maria, born March 1, 1861, now living in Allegheny, Pa., is the widow of John K. Miller, and has one born Jan. 1, 1878; Anna A., born Nov. 8, child, Florence. (7) Thomas G., born May 12, 1864, married Carrie Weaver. He runs the "Central Hotel" at Freeport, Pennsylvania.
DAVID F. HILL, son of James Hill. was born Aug. 25, 1857, and has always lived on the old homestead, engaged in farming. He mar- ried Dec. 30, 1891, Maude Iseman, of South Buffalo township, daughter of James and Sarah (McClellan) Iseman, both of Arm- strong county. Mr. Iseman was a farmer in South Buffalo township. He died in Febru- ary, 1901, and his widow is living in Seattle, Wash. They were the parents of nine chil- dren, Maude (Mrs. Hill), Charles. Martha, Ida, Florence, Josephine, James (deceased), Grace and Paul. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have six children, namely: Charles, Julia, Ward, Rich- ard, Hugh and Robert.
death of his first wife Mr. Shoup was mar- ried (second) to Margaret Walter, and they have had the following children: Robert M., 1879; Marillia S., born Nov. 29, 1881 ; Harry W., born July 25, 1884; James M., born March 3, 1887. Mr. Shoup is a member of the Re- formed Church, and in politics is a Democrat. He is well known in his section of Armstrong county and is held in the highest regard by his neighbors.
REV. ROBERT C. BOWLING, pastor of the Reformed Church of Kittanning, Arm- strong county, was born Dec. 4, 1851, near Gettysburg, Pa., son of William and Susan (Fisher) Bowling. He attended public school in his native county, and subsequently taught school at Irwin, Pa., for four years. He then took an academic course of study at the Irwin Academy, after which he taught in that insti- tution four or five years. In 1872 he entered Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancaster,
JACOB SHOUP, retired farmer, living in Pa., was graduated in 1876, and the same South Bend township, Armstrong Co., Pa., year entered the Lancaster Theological Col-
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lege, at Lancaster, from which he was gradu- ated in 1879. He then accepted a call as Sup- ply to the Mission in Allegheny City, Pa., where he was stationed for three months, his next work being as pastor at Emlenton, Pa., where he remained six years. This was a mis- sion when he became pastor, but the work so prospered under his charge that during that time two churches were built from this humble start. He became pastor at Kittanning in 1885 and has been there ever since (now 1912), over twenty-six years. His church when he arrived here consisted of about 160 mem- bers, and now numbers over 350 regular com- municants. There is also a flourishing Sunday school. Dr. Bowling has been a sincere worker in his efforts to assist young people in their educational ambitions, and many young men have received their academic training prepara- tory for college under his instructions. In 1908 he was made a member of the Phi Beta Kappa by Franklin and Marshall College. The degree of Doctor of Divinity has been conferred on him by two different colleges.
For twenty years Dr. Bowling served as president of Clarion Collegiate Institute, and for sixteen years as member of the board of officials of St. Paul's Orphans' Home at Greenville, Pa. He has served as president of the board of home missions of the Pitts- burgh Synod of the Reformed Church; was three times delegate to the General Synod of the Reformed Church. He is a man well in- formed and thoroughly equipped for his great work, endowed with many talents which he uses in behalf of the church and community, and is much beloved in the church and in the wide circle of his acquaintance.
In 1881 Dr. Bowling married Kate Heeter, of Monroe, Clarion Co., Pa. They have one son, Frederick F. Dr. Bowling is a Mason, belonging to Blue Lodge No. 244, F. & A. M., and Orient Chapter, No. 241, R. A. M., of Kit- tanning.
ALFRED HARRINGTON, a member of the firm of Harrington & Beecher, contractors for all kinds of gas and oil well supplies, at Apollo, Armstrong Co., Pa., was born June six hundred acres. He died here when a very 25, 1869, in Butler county, this State, son of James J. and Mary Elizabeth (Ryan) Har- rington.
James J. Harrington was born in County Cork, Ireland, and his wife in County Tipper- ary, and when they came to America they located at Philadelphia, in 1847. James J. Harrington was an educated and scholarly man a graduate of the University of Dublin, Ire-
land, and for some years was a member of the faculty of the Polytechnic Institute of Phila- delphia. From Philadelphia James J. Har- rington moved to El Paso, Texas., where he accepted a college professorship, and his death occurred there in middle age. He was at one time manager of the Philadelphia Oil & Pe- troleum Company. His widow still survives, being now in her seventy-fifth year. They had nine children.
Alfred Harrington attended the public schools with regularity until he was fifteen years of age and then went to the oil fields in Pennsylvania and worked for some time as a laborer in the oil regions of McKean and Washington counties, and also in West Vir- ginia. Afterward he formed a partnership with a brother, under the firm name of Har- rington & Bro., which was dissolved in 1898, and in the same year he entered into business relations with C. N. Beecher, under the style of Harrington & Beecher, which continues. This firm has worked extensively in Crawford county, Ill., and in the McDonald oil field in Washington county, Pa. In 1892 Mr. Har- rington moved to Armstrong county, Pa., where similar operations have been carried on, and since 191I he has been drilling for gas at Apollo, where he maintains his home. He is a valued and public-spirited citizen, and takes pride in his town and section. Politi- cally he is a Republican, and fraternally a Mason. He was reared in the Presbyterian Church.
JOHN H. SCHAEFFER, a resident of Burrell township, Armstrong county, was born there July 9, 1863, son of Michael and Susanna (Hartman) Schaeffer.
Anthony Schaeffer, a native of Germany, settled in Heidelberg township, Berks Co., Pa., in 1733, was married in Northampton county, Pa., to Maria Catherine Reeg, and came to Armstrong county among the very early settlers, making his home on the land in what was then Kittanning (now Burrell) township now owned by Elmer E. Schaeffer. The original tract he owned contained over old man, and is buried in the old Schaeffer graveyard in Bethel township, where the first Lutheran Church, organized in 1806, was established. He was one of its founders and charter members and was a most respected man in his section, where his high Christian character and nobility of disposition won him the loving esteem of all who knew him. To him and his wife were born five children : Eva
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Catharine, born Nov. 15, 1766; George P., Clark, born Feb. 23, 1904; Leona Rebecca, March 27, 1769; Elizabeth Christina, Feb. 21, born March 6, 1909; and Jesse Emmet, born 1771 ; Susanna Margaret, April 13, 1774 (all June 2, 1912. The family are Lutherans in born in Heidelberg township) ; and John Philip, Nov. 18 or Dec. 20, 1778. religious connection, attending at the St. Mi- chael's, the Brick Church. Mr. Schaeffer is a Republican in his political views, has been judge of election, and is at present road super- visor.
John Philip Schaeffer, Sr., born Nov. 18 or Dec. 20, 1778, on the old Schaeffer homestead in what is now Burrell township, Armstrong county, died July 9, 1848. His wife, Cather- ine Elizabeth (Zerfoss) ; died Nov. 27, 1830. Her father, John Zerfoss, was a soldier in the Revolution, and received a severe saber wound in the face in an encounter with a British colonel whom he shot. The British officer, who was captured, and lost a leg, compli- mented him on his bravery as both lay in the hospital.
Schaeffer, was born in 1815, and died Dec. 23, 1897. He married Susanna Hartman, a na- tive of Armstrong county, and they became the parents of eight children, six sons and two daughters : Samuel died when 'a young man ; Stephen, who lives in Plum Creek township, this county, has been twice married and had six children by his first wife; Edward, who lives in Kittanning township, this county, mar- ried Sarah Borts (sister of Edward Borts), and had seven children; Maria, now living in Poland, Ohio, married David Kirkwood, a farmer, and had ten children; Catherine is de- ceased; Milton, who lives in Parks township, this county, married Maggie Taylor, and has three children; John H., who is mentioned below ; Manuel, who makes his home in Flor- ida, has been married twice and has one child by the first marriage. The mother of this fam- ily died in February, 1907, when nearly eighty- three years old.
CHARLES H. SHIPMAN, general farmer, residing in Gilpin township, Arm- strong Co., Pa., near the Forks Church, was born on this farm July 21, 1856, son of Wil- liam and Elizabeth (Linhart) Shipman.
William Shipman was born in New Jersey, in which State the Shipman family has long been one of importance. Served in the war
Michael Schaeffer, father of John H. of 1812, and was afterward married to a girl
by the name of Wray, by which union there were two sons: James, the eldest, served in the Civil war ; William went to the West in the fifties and has never been heard from since. By his second marriage, to Elizabeth Linhart, there were eight children: Margaret E. mar- ried James Dowling; Jacob, who served in the Civil war, now resides in Braddock, Pa., Solo- mon died July 7, 1911, in Westmoreland coun- ty, Pa .; Isaac G., who served as a soldier in the Civil war, a member of Company K, IIth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, died of fever, May 4, 1865, and was buried at the Forks Church; Theresa, who married William J. Stitt; John M. lived in Los Angeles, Cal., where he died Aug. 11, 1912; Abraham L. resides at Los Angeles, Cal. ; Alice married A. G. Humm; Charles H. is still on the home- stead. The father, William Shipman, came to Armstrong county, Pa., in 1852, and followed the shoemaking trade until 1868, when he pur- chased the farm in Gilpin township on which his son, Charles H., now resides. His death occurred in the following year, April 8, 1869, and he was buried at the Forks Church. He married Elizabeth Linhart, a daughter of Jacob Linhart, who came to America from Germany and settled in Allegheny county, Pa., where he acquired 500 acres of valuable coal land, which he sold to the firm of Briggs & Hayes, and they operated extensively there in coal. Mrs. Shipman died Aug. 21, 1887, and was buried by the side of her husband.
John H. Schaeffer was brought up in Burrell township and obtained his early education there in the common schools, also attending the Elderton Academy. He learned the black- smith's trade, serving an apprenticeship of three years at Saltsburg, but had followed farming and clay mining, being at present pit boss at the Kittanning clay mine. He is one of the respected residents of his part of the county. On April 16, 1890, he married Eva McNett, who was born June 1, 1870, in Alle- . gheny, Pa., and is of Scotch-Irish extraction. Eight children have been born to this union, Charles H. Shipman attended school in Gil- pin township during boyhood and remained on the home farm giving assistance until he was twenty-nine years of age, when he went to Kansas and from there with his brother Abraham, pushed on to Seattle, Wash., driving namely : Charlotte, who died when three years old ; George Michael, born April 17, 1892, now working on the railroad tunnel at Red Bank; Joseph Manuel, born Feb. 14, 1894, who is on the farm; Anna Elizabeth, born Dec. 10, 1895; Florence Bertha, born Jan. 16, 1898; Howard a team all the way. He had previously learned
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the carpenter's trade and during his stay at the battle of Brandywine. He married a Miss Seattle engaged in building, carpentry and con- Smith, by whom he had three sons: William, who settled in Armstrong county; John, who became a farmer in Butler county, and Smith. tracting, his two years there being prosperous ones from a business standpoint. In 1890 he returned to Armstrong county and purchased the homestead farm of 120 acres in Gilpin township. This land is valuable, the soil being well adapted to farming, while there is also a gas well on one portion of the property, mak- ing it possible to use gas for his heating and lighting and as motive power where needed.
On June 25, 1890, Mr. Shipman was mar- ried to Sarah C. Klingensmith, a daughter of Peter Klingensmith, who formerly was a man of considerable prominence in Gilpin township. He was born March 15, 1814, and died Nov. IO, 1893. He was a farmer for many years and later was a merchant at White Rock. His wife, Sarah A. Klingensmith, was born Feb. 21, 1825, and died Jan. 20, 1889. They were buried at Forks Church. The following chil- dren were born to Peter Klingensmith and wife: Ellen J., who married A. J. Allshouse ; Lydia A., who married J. L. George; Jeffer- son W., who is deceased; Alice, deceased, who was the wife of Aaron Elenberger; Jackson, who lives at New Kensington, Pa .; Barkley J., who lives at Verona, Pa .; Sarah C., who is the wife of Charles H. Shipman ; and Cham- bers, who lives in Gilpin township.
Mr. and Mrs. Shipman have two children, Abraham and Helen, both of whom have been students in Grove City College, and are now finishing their education at the University of Wooster, Ohio. The family belongs to the Forks Lutheran Church. Politically Mr. Shipman is a Republican, and fraternally he is identified with the Odd Fellows and the Wood- men of the World.
ALDEN NEAL, farmer and general mer- chant of Cowanshannock township, belongs to a prominent and old settled family of this part of Armstrong county and is himself one of its representative citizens. He has been thrifty and successful in the management of his own affairs, and has several times been chosen to fill township offices, the duties of which he has performed faithfully and satis- factorily. His father, the late Smith Neal, was one of the largest landowners in the east- ern part of the county, and a leading man in public and church matters for many years.
The Neal family is of German descent, and the ancestor of this branch, Henry Neal, was a farmer in the Cumberland valley. He had three brothers who served in the Colonial army in the Revolution, and were all killed in 5T
Smith Neal, son of Henry, was born March 5, 1764, in the Cumberland valley, in Cumber- land county, and thence removed to Butler county, Pa., where he settled in 1796, among its early pioneers. He enlisted in the Colo- nial army during the Revolution, and served one day. He was also a soldier during the War of 1812, and afterward served as a sur- veyor for the government. The gun that he carried has been preserved in the family, and is now in the possession of his great-grand- son, Alden Neal. In 1833 Smith Neal re- moved to Armstrong county, where he pur- chased the farm which he cultivated until his death, Aug. 5, 1863, when he was in the one hundredth year of his age. He was a mill- wright by trade. He was a Whig in politics and a member of the Seceder Church. He married Sarah Cochran, and they had one son, Robert.
Robert Neal, born in Butler county July 5. 1798, was a farmer of Butler county until 1834, when he bought a farm in Armstrong county. He was a member of the Seceder Church until his death, Dec. 24. 1862. In politics he was a Whig and afterward a Re- publican, and served as the first inspector of elections in his township. He married Sarah Love, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1797 and died in December. 1857. and they had five children, three sons and two daughters: Wil- liam H. married Eliza Stuchel, and settled near Marion; Rosetta P. married Thomas H. Marshall, a merchant and farmer of Dayton ; Alexander went to California ; Smith is men- tioned below; Mary J. (deceased) married James Hanagan, and after his death married James Temple, of Iowa.
Smith Neal was born in Butler county, Pa., Jan. 25. 1822, and was reared on his father's farm. He attended the subscription schools of the neighborhood, and engaged in farming from the time he left school, in Cowanshan- nock township and elsewhere. Besides his Cowanshannock township farm of two hun- dred acres he also owned the home farm of five hundred acres. Until his death, which oc- curred June 7, 1899, he was a well-known resident of the township, holding various local offices and taking an influential part in the activities of the United Presbyterian Church at Dayton, to which he and all his family be- longed. He served as elder for many years. and represented the Brookville Presbytery
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in the general assembly of the United Presby- terian Church held at Philadelphia in 1887. Politically he was a Republican.
On May 25, 184-, Mr. Neal married Mar- garet Sloan, who was born in 1823, a daugh- ter of Samuel and Nancy Sloan, old settlers of Plum Creek township. To Mr. and Mrs. Neal were born five children, one son and four daughters: Nancy Jane, now living in Los
win, a carpenter, of Pomona, Cal .; Sarah C., wife of Samuel Burns, formerly a farmer of Eleanor (Monks) Bowser.
Cowanshannock township, now in Dayton, Pa .; and Margaret and Alexander, who are deceased. Mrs. Neal passed away March 17, 1861, when thirty-nine years of age. On April 10, 1862, Mr. Neal married (second) Caroline Jewert, a native of Plum Creek, born Nov. 22, 1834, daughter of Alexander and Jane (Hick- enlooper) Jewert, of Plum Creek township. To this second union were born six children, two sons and four daughters: Loella R., who married John P. Beyer, and after his death became the wife of A. M. Hines, a resident of Harrisburg and a conductor on the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad; L. Adda, wife of John Downey, of New Brighton, the inventor of the "Keystone Driller" and a steam-pump; Alden; Robert E., who lives on the farm adjoining the homestead; and Mat- tie V., who married William Elder, and Alice L., who married L. M. Lukehart, both now living in Los Angeles, California.
Alden Neal was born June 25, 1876, in Cowanshannock township, where he received his early education in the common schools, later attending Dayton Union Academy. He began life as a farmer, but in 1902 went to work at the carpenter's trade, following same until 1907. He then commenced the general merchandise business he has carried on, and he has built up a profitable trade, showing a steady increase. He also engages in farming in Cowanshannock township, and is regarded as one of the substantial men of his locality. He has been chosen to various local offices, having served as assistant assessor, auditor and supervisor in his township, in every capac- ity proving his fitness and ability. He is a member of the U. P. Church at Dayton, be- longs to the I. O. O. F., Jr. O. U. A. M. and F. A. M., and is a Republican in his political views.
Alexander A., Alice M., Sarah C. and Jennie Elizabeth and Charles M. (twins), all at home but Smith and John G., who are in Los Angeles, California.
THOMAS H. BOWSER, of Parkers Landing, Armstrong county, now living re- tired, is one of the oldest residents of that place, where he has made his home since 1870. Angeles, Cal .; Amanda, wife of Johnson Ir- He was born Feb. 14, 1841, near Curllsville,
Clarion county, Pa., son of James S. and
James S. Bowser was a native of Bedford county, Pa., and was of German parentage. He was reared in that county, and became a collier, following that occupation the greater part of his mature life, in Clarion, Indiana, Cambria, Armstrong and Lawrence counties, Pa. He finally settled in Parker township, Butler county, Pa., in 1870, and there passed the remainder of his life, dying May 23, 1884,
at that location, in his eighty-first year. He married Eleanor Monks, daughter of William and Rachel (Benn) Monks, the former of whom was a native of Dublin, Ireland, the latter of London, England. William Monks served as an American soldier in the war of the Revolution. He and his wife were pio- neers in what is now Clarion county, Pa., where they cleared and improved a farm near Curllsville upon which they lived and died. They were farming people throughout their residence there. Mr. Monks, who was born in February, 1759, died March 10, 1841; his wife, born Feb. 14, 1760, died May 8, 1852. Their family consisted of thirteen children : Elizabeth, Mrs. Andrew Bunker; Mary, Mrs. Mckinley ; Andrew; Ann, Mrs. James Fox; Rebecca, Mrs. Meredith; John W .; Margaret, Mrs. McLeary; William, a minister of the M. E. Church; Henry B .; Lydia, Mrs. Dillon ; Rachel, Mrs. West; Eleanor, who married James S. Bowser; and Jane, Mrs. Robert: Reynolds.
Mrs. James S. Bowser survived her hus- band a number of years, passing away Oct. 7, 1897, in her eighty-fourth year. She was the mother of the following children : Thomas H .; John H., deceased; Mary C., married to Lewis Delph; Jeremiah W., deceased; Anna E., deceased, who was the wife of Jacob Hear- kenrather; James S., deceased; Rachel M., married to Stephen McLafferty ; Margaret M., deceased ; and Commodore C.
On Oct. 23, 1889, Mr. Neal married Mar- garet Jane Rankin, daughter of Matthew and Thomas H. Bowser was reared in western Margaret (McCord) Rankin, of Cowanshan- Pennsylvania, received his education in the nock township, and they have had eight chil- public schools, and under his father's instruc- dren, namely: Smith, John G., Erastus J., tion became a competent collier. He was en-
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gaged as such until the breaking out of the longs to a family of German descent which Civil war, in April, 1861, enlisting for the was founded here by two brothers, one of defense of the Union, in Company C, 62d whom was his great-grandfather. They came Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was from a county east of the mountains, possibly Bedford, and settled near Kittanning, in Arm- strong county. mustered into the service July 4th of that year, and served three years, receiving his honor- able discharge at Pittsburgh July 13, 1864. He participated in the battles of Fredericks- burg, Chancellorsville, Harrison's Landing and all the engagements of the Army of the Potomac in which his command took part, and was promoted to corporal Oct. 4, 1863. At
John Wolfe, the grandfather, was born Jan. 27, 1791, and died Jan. 29, 1856. Settling in Washington township, where he had secured about two hundred acres of wild land, he put up log buildings and there made a permanent home, remaining at that location until his Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, he received a bay- death. He was one of the founders of the onet wound through his right side, and was taken prisoner by the enemy, being sent to Belle Isle, where he remained until paroled Sept. 30th of that year. He was not ex- changed however, until March, 1864, after
Lutheran Church at Limestone, in Washing- ton township. He married Ann Margaret Sontel, who was born March 4, 1796, and died Oct. 17, 1885, and they had a large family, viz .; Michel, born Dec. 12, 1813, died June which he rejoined his regiment at Harrison's 20, 1883; Mathias is mentioned below; Eve, born Jan. 6, 1819, died in 1863; Christena, born July 5, 1821, died Nov. 17, 1907 ; Jacob, born April 17, 1824, died March 17, 1893; John, born Oct. 24. 1826, died April 1, 1901; Valentine, born March 17, 1829, died July 18, 1908; Diana was born Oct. 9, 1831 ; George King, born Oct. 21, 1836, died Aug. 30, 1907 ; Ann Margaret was born July 12, 1838.
Landing, Va. After leaving the army Mr. Bowser located at Mahoning Furnace, Arm- strong Co., Pa., where he was employed in the mines for one year. Moving to Sligo, Clarion county, he was engaged in the colliery business there until 1868. From that time until 1870 he was employed in the same line in Law- rence county, Pa., in the latter year settling in Parker City, where he has continued to re- side up to the present time. For sixteen years of this time he operated a coal mine of his own. Then he entered the employ of George B. Cooper, oil operator, with whom he re- mained, in the capacity of pumper, for a period of eight years, and later he was employed as such by O. J. Thomas for sixteen years, until his retirement, in 1910. He is a citizen of the highest standing, and is well known in local fraternal circles, being a member of Lawrence- burg Lodge, No. 782, I. O. O. F., and of Col. C. A. Craig Post, G. A. R., of Parker City, of which he is the present commander. the Union army during the early part of the Mr. Bowser believes in the principles of the Republican party, but he is an independent voter.
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