USA > Pennsylvania > Cumberland County > Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of the Nineteenth Congressional District, Pennsylvania > Part 35
USA > Pennsylvania > Adams County > Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of the Nineteenth Congressional District, Pennsylvania > Part 35
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70
Judge Advocate, Court Martial, Decem- ber, 1861, June 1862.
Lieut. Colonel July 4, 1862, upon the recommendation of Brig. General Seymour for "brilliant gallantry," &c.
Inspector General, staff of General Dou- bleday, commanding Penn'a Reserves- January to February, 1863.
With Burnside's 2nd campaign January 20-24, 1863.
May I, 1863, appointed under an Act of Congress, Provost Marshal, 15th District of Pennsylvania (now 19th), and held this position until the close of the war.
Brevetted Colonel U. S. Volunteers March 13, 1865-"for gallant and meritor- ious conduct during the action at Charles City Crossroads, Virginia, when he was wounded, and for good conduct through- out the campaign."
Brevetted Brig-General U. S. Vol., "for gallant and meritorious conduct at the Bat- tle of Bull Run (second), Virginia."
General Henderson upon the close of his career as a soldier resumed the practice of law at Carlisle, and assumed in connection therewith the Presidency of the Carlisle De- posit Bank. In April, 1874, he was ap- pointed by Governor Hartranft additional law judge of the 12th Judicial District of Pennsylvania, composed of Dauphin and Lebanon counties, and was nominated and elected to the same office without opposi- tion in November of the same year. Janu- ary 1, 1882, he became President Judge of the district, and in March, 1882 resigned from the bench, and returned to Carlisle and resumed the practice of his profession.
In addition to the public positions in the army and State so acceptably filled by Judge Henderson, he is honored by many other positions of public and private trust. Among these may be mentioned: The Pres- idency of the Carlisle Deposit Bank, Chair- man Group 5, Pennsylvania Bankers' Asso-
雞:
Charles Y. Plinces
253
NINETEENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
ciation; President of the Board of Trustees of Metzger College; Trustee Carlisle Indian Training School; a Director of the Penn- sylvania Scotch-Irish Society, &c., &c. He is also a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and of the Grand Army of the Republic.
C HARLES FRANCIS HIMES, PH. D., LL. D. This widely known edu- cator and scientist was born in Lancaster county, Pa., in 1838. The family, however, came from Adams county. His father, William D. Himes, and his grandfather, Colonel George Himes, were both well known. His ancestry was of the German immigration of about 1730. When only seventeen years of age he was graduated at Dickinson College as A. B. with high rank. Immediately after graduation he taught Mathematics and Natural Science in a seminary of the Wyoming Conference for a year, then went to Missouri, where he taught in the public schools and read law at the same time. During a visit to the East he was persuaded to resume teaching and after being connected with Baltimore Female College for a year, he became pro- fessor of Mathematics in Troy University. In 1863 he went to Germany, and prose- cuted scientific studies at the University at Giessen. In the fall of 1865 he returned to America to assume the professorship of Natural Science in Dickinson College, which he had accepted upon the ur- gent request of the faculty and trustees of the college. He at once proposed and car- ried out successfully elective Laboratory Courses of study in the Junior and Senior years, according to the report of the Na- tional Commissioner of Education among the very first of the kind in the country,and by pen and addresses he advocated the New Education of that day. In 1885, at the opening of the Jacob Tome Scientific Build-
ing, Dr. Himes selected the chair of Phy- sics. He had contributed much to the erec- tion of this building by his persistent advo- cacy of enlarged facilities for the expanded department, and he added complete Physi- cal Laboratory courses at once to the curri- culum of the college. At the commence- ment, in June 1896, Professor Himes pre- sented his resignation to the Trustees be- cause of the serious demand made upon his time by the purely routine work of a profes- sorship. Aside from his duties as a Profes- sor, he was for many years Treasurer of the corporation and was Secretary of the Board of Trustees up to the recent meeting. As senior professor in service, he was act- ing President of the college for months at a time. In each of these relations to the college, as well as professor, his term of service exceeded that of any other in the long history of the college. In accepting the resignation of Professor Himes, the Board of Trustees coupled, with expressions of regret, the conferment of the degree of LL. D., in recognition of his attainments and his great service to the college. The graduating class made a prominent feature of Class-day exercises the unveiling of a portrait of Dr. Himes, hung in Bosler Hall, presented by the class to the college, with remarks expressive of the high place held by him in the affections of his students. The consensus of opinion of the alumni of the thirty-one years of his professorship seems to be, that as a teacher he never con- fined his instruction to the text book, and that his methods were personal rather than mechanical, and effective in inspiring to thoughtful study rather than to sporadic cram, whilst his acknowledged success as a disciplinarian, without the use of a demerit mark throughout his long professorship, seemed to be due to the universal respect of his classes resulting from a dignified and friendly intercourse, Naturally a man of
.
17
254
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA.
fine feeling and noble instincts, he has en- deared himself to every class, and he will be remembered with great respect by every one familiar with his work. Dr. Himes has seen much of life in the old world. He was a student there from 1863 to 1865, and in 1872, 1883, and again in 1890 visited the old world, accompanied by his family. He was one of the earliest amateur photographers, and always abreast of the most advanced methods, and his camera has always been a valnable companion in these trips, furnish- ing valuable notes of science and travel, in- cluding the glaciers of the Zermatt region of Switzerland. Instruction in Photography, as an educational means, and as an aid in scientic investigation, has had a place in the Physical Laboratory of the college for years. Dr. Himes also organized and conducted successfully the first Summer School of Photography, in 1884 and 1885, at Mt. Lake Park, Md., which is still in successful opera- tion. Besides his regular workin the college he has delivered numerous lectures and ad- dresses of a scientific, educational and pop- ular character. Among those published, some fully illustrated, may be mentioned those on "Actinism or the Scientific Basis of Photography," delivered at the Interna- tional Electrical Exhibition in Philadelphia; on "The Stereoscope and its Applications;" on "Amateur Photography in its Educa- tional Relations," before the Franklin In- stitute, Philadelphia: on "The Scientific Ex- pert in Forensic Procedure," before the Franklin Institute and the Dickinson School of Law; "Science in the Common Schools," before the Pennsylvania State Teachers' As sociation; "Phenomenon of the Horizontal Moon and Convergency of the Optic Axis in Binocular Vision," before the New York Academy of Sciences; "Scientific Theories and Creeds," before the American Institute of Christian Philosophy; "Photography as an Educational Means," before the Con-
gress at the Columbian Exposition 1893; "Address at the opening of The Jacob Tome Scientific Building."
His contributions to scientific and educa- tional literature are numerous and valuable, among them "Preparation of Photographic Plates by Day-light," "Methods and Re- sults of Observations of Total Eclipse of the Sun," "Review of Professor Porter's Amer- ican Colleges and American Public," "Methods of Teaching Chemistry," "Photo- graphy Among the Glaciers," "Investigation of the Electric Spark by means of Stereo- scopic Photography," &c., &c.
From 1872 to 1879 Dr. Himes was asso- ciated with Professor S. F. Baird in the preparation of the "Record of Science and Industry," and of the scientific columns of Harper's publications, and other period- icals. He has also published three editions of "Will's Tables for Chemical Analysis," translated and enlarged; "Leaf-Prints, a text-book of Photographic Printing;" "the Stereoscope, Its History, Theory, and Con- struction;" "Report of the Section of the United States Government Expedition, Sta- tioned at Ottumwa, Iowa, to Observe and Photograph the Total Eclipse of the Sun, in 1869;" "History of Dickinson College, more particularly of the Scientific Depart- ment, and of Scientific Education in Amer- ica." Illustrated.
Professor Himes is a Member and Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Science; the American Philosophical So- ciety of Philadelphia; the New York Acad- emy of Sciences; the Philadelphia Photo- graphic Society; the Maryland Academy of Sciences; American Institute of Christian Philosophy; The Pennsylvania German So- ciety, &c.
Professor Himes married Miss Mary E. Murray, a daughter of Rev. Joseph A. Mur- ray, D. D., a prominent Presbyterian min- ister of Carlisle, Pa. They have two chil- dren Mary M. and Anna M.
255
NINETEENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
H ON. W. F. BAY STEWART. The subject of this sketch, Judge W. F. Bay Stewart, was born in Chanceford town- ship, York county, Pa., on the 25th of Feb- ruary, 1849. His father was Thomas R. Stewart, and his mother a Miss Bay, a daughter of Thomas Bay, of Cooptown, Harford county, Md., who for many years was Judge of the Orphan's Court of Har- ford county, and who commanded an Ar- tillery Company at the battle of North Point. He is full Scotch-Irish on both sides, his great grandfather on his father's side having been an Irishman, and his great-grandmother on the same side a Scotchwoman, married before they came to this country. On his mother's side his grandfather was of Scotch descent, and his grandmother of Irish descent.
He attended the public schools until sev- enteen years of age and then learned the blacksmith trade. Very shortly after fin- ishing his trade his health failed, and upon the advice of his physician he abandoned it and devoted himself to study. He attended school at the Pleasant Grove Academy in Lower Chanceford, and later at the historic old York County Academy in the city of York. He taught in the public schools two years, and afterwards in the York County Academy, the same in which Thaddeus Stevens once taught. After leaving this in- stitution Judge Stewart studied law with Col. Levi Maish, who was afterwards a member of Congress from the York-Adams and Cumberland district, and was admitted to the bar on November 3, 1873. A year later he formed a partnership with John Blackford, then district attorney of the county, and a leading lawyer of the York bar, which continued until Mr. Blackford's death in 1884. On October 1, 1884, he formed another law partnership with Henry C. Niles and George E. Neff, which contin-
ued until the election of Mr. Stewart to the judgeship in 1895.
In the meantime, from 1883 to April I, 1894, Judge Stewart had been engaged in the foundry, machine and tanning business as a partner of the firm of Baugher, Kurtz & Stewart, composed of William H. Kurtz, a local capitalist, and himself. Mr. Kurtz had no practical knowledge of the business, and Mr. Stewart, at the time of entering upon it, still less, but he soon mastered its details, and it became one of the largest and most prosperous industries of the city, em- ploying over three hundred workmen. An- other industry with which he was connected was the York Card and Paper Company, manufacturers of wall paper. This he took hold of when torn by dissensions among its officers, became its president, and has made it the largest plant of its kind in the world.
Judge Stewart early took a leading posi- tion at the bar, and easily maintained it. He and the members of his firm appeared on one side or the other of nearly every im- portant case, and with such uniform suc- cess that it became a subject of comment.
In 1895 he received, unsolicited, the unanimous nomination of his party for the judgeship, and, although declining to make any personal effort to secure his election, was elected by a large majority over his competitor, who was just completing a ten years' term on the bench.
Judge Stewart received a good English, classical and scientific education, and has always been a close student, particularly in the realm of abstruse thought and specula- tive philosophy, and has received the hon- orary degree of A. M. from Ursinus Col- lege. He has always taken great interest in economics and financial questions, and at the time of his election was president of the Security Title and Trust Company, which he was largely instrumental in or- ganizing, and which is now one of the
256
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA.
leading financial institutions of the city.
At the time of his election to the judge- ship, and many years before, he was largely interested in many corporations, in nearly all of which he was one of the chief pro- motors. All of these have been prosperous. The stock and only argument used against his election was that he was a corporation lawyer, but his corporations had been so generally successful that they secured him friends, rather than the contrary.
Judge Stewart is married to a daughter of the late Edward Danner, who was one of York's most respected and wealthy citi- zens. His wife and one daughter consti- tute his family, with whom he lives in their handsome home on Market street in the city of York.
Judge Stewart was raised a strict Pres- byterian, but is now a member and elder of Heidelberg Reformed Church. Although coming to York in 1871 without a dollar, he is a man of independent fortune, the fruits of his own industry and economy. He is a member of the Reform Club, of New York, and the American Academy of Po- litical and Social Science of Philadelphia.
M AJOR JOSEPH ADDISON MOORE, of Camp Hill, Cumber- land county, Pennsylvania, is a descendant of Robert and Margaret Moore, who emi- grated from Derry County, Ireland, early in the eighteenth century, or about 1720, to the State of Maryland, then under a pro- visional government. Robert was inter- marriet with Margaret Ramsey before emi- grating. and of their issue, James, married Jane Caughran and settled at a place now known as Bendersville, Adams county, Penna. In the struggle for Independence he joined the patriot cause and gave his life for his country in the battle of Brandywine, September II, 1777. John, grandfather of our subject, was born in 1764, was also a
Revolutionary soldier near its close, and intermarried with Rebecca Curran, late of Mifflin, now Juniata county, Pennsylvania, and there settled in the vicinity of Van Wert postoffice. He died in 1856, ninety-two years old. Janies Moore, his oldest son, in- termarried with Harriet Barton, daughter of Kimber A. and Mary Barton, of Shirleys- burg, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The latter was of English descent. Dr. James Moore was born December 14, 1789, in the territory now known as Juniata county, Pennsylvania, and was the father of our present subject. In 1813 he began the practice of medicine in Shirleysburg, Hun- tingdon county, Pennsylvania, where he continued over thirty years at his profes- sion, having a large practice and acquir- ing the reputation of a very skilfull and suc- cessful physician. In 1841 he removed to Wells Valley, Fulton county, Pennsylvania, where he continued to practice his profes- sion until within eight years of his death, which occurred March 27, 1872. His wife died in September, 1864, while all of her sons were in the Union army.
Joseph Addison Moore, the subject of our sketch, was born in Shirleysburg, Pennsyl- vania, August 26, 1833, and was one of eight sons who were all in the Union army at one time, he and his brother, James M., being both seriously wounded. Their rec- ord is not surpassed by that of any other family in this country, and is one of which they and their children may feel justly proud. This remarkable family was rep- sented in nearly all the great battles of the war. Immediately after the firing on Fort Sumpter, our subject enlisted in Company D., Fifth Pennsylvania Infantry for three months, and was made first sergeant. At the expiration of his term he was instru- mental in raising Company O, 28th Penn- sylvania Infantry, and August 17, 1861, was mustered in and took the field again as
257
NINETEENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
first lieutenant under Colonel (afterward General and Governor) John W. Geary, under whom he served all through the war, at one time on his staff as division com- missary of subsistance for seven months. He participated, besides numerous smaller engagements, in the battles of Cedar Moun- tain, and second Bull Run, and at Antietam, &c. While first lieutenant in command of his company, two Rebel flags were captured by his company. Here his company had one third killed and wounded in action. Four color bearers belonging to the color guard, his being the center company, were shot while bearing the flag. His company was, after the Antietam battle, transferred, and became company B., 147th Pennsylvania Infantry, and in February, 1863, he was commissioned captain, commanding at Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, in the East; and Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Taylor's Ridge, Cassville, Rocky Face Ridge, Dug Gap, Resacca and New Hope church, Georgia, in the southwest. He was severely wounded at New Hope church,and in consequence, was incapacitated for further active service, and was consequently transferred to the Barracks at Madison, Wis- consin, on light duty until the end of his term of service, October 28, 1864, when he was honorably discharged. He was later Brevetted Major for gallant and meritorious service. At the close of the war he resum- ed mercantile pursuits at Pittsburg, Penn- sylvania, but in November, 1867, was called by his old commander, then Governor of the State, to take charge of the White Hall Soldiers Orphan School at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, which, under his manage- ment, became the leading school of that system in the State, reflecting great credit on his ability as manager and proprietor. He continued in charge of the school until September Ist, 1886, when, having leased the same, he retired from the responsible
position, which he had so long and faith- fully filled. In 1869 he was married to Miss Lizzie C., daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Longsdorf Kline, of Mechanicsburg, Penn- sylvania. He has but one child living, Joy Leslie Moore, born January 6, 1877, who is now a Sophomore in the class of 1900 at Yale University.
Major Moore enjoys the unbounded re- spect of every one who knows him, and in his large acquaintance throughout his na- tive State no man stands higher in char- acter or is more deservedly respected. He is a member of the Baptist church and a stanch Republican. He also holds mem- bership in a number of fraternal organiza- tions, being a member of Post 58, Grand Army of the Republic, Harrisburg, Pa., since 1868; a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; a member of Robert Burns Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Harrisburg ; Samnel C. Perkin's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Mechanicsburg; Har- risburg Council, No. 7, Royal and Select Masters, and of Pilgrim Commandery, No. II, Knights Templar, of Harrisburg. He received the degree of Master of Arts from the Lewisburg (Bucknell) University. Of late years he has been successfully engaged in buying and selling real estate, and has taken a live interest in the progress and de- velopment of the beautiful borough of Camp Hill, in which he has resided for the past thirty years; having held various offices since its incorporation in 1885. He was one of the prime movers in the erection of the People's Iron Bridge across the Susque- hanna river at Harrisburg, and has been one of that company's directors since its in- ception and completion. He has taken a lively interest in the progress of building the Harrisburg and Mechanicsburg Electric road, which now indicates an early comple- tion through the lower end of Cumberland
258
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA.
county, connecting with Mechanicsburg and Carlisle.
D' R. J. H. BITTINGER, a physician and surgeon, bank president and one of the leading citizens of Hanover, Pennsylvania, was born in Berwick town- ship, Adams county, a few miles from his present place of residence, Feb. 3, 1852, the son of Henry and Amanda Bittinger. The Bittingers are of German origin and their connection with this section of Pennsyl- vania is early and prominent. Adam Bit- tinger, the doctor's first paternal ancestor in this country, emigrated from Alsace, Ger- many, in 1736, and soon after settled in the rich agricultural section a few miles from the present town of Hanover. The land upon which he located has remained in possession of succeeding generations ever since.
Nicholas Bittinger, the son of Adam Bit- tinger, and great-grandfather of the doctor, was an ardent patriot in the Revolutionary war, was one of the first members of the committee of safety from York county and for three years commanded a company of soldiers in active service. In addition to this distinguished patriot and ancestor, other members of the family took part in the struggle for American independence.
Dr. Bittinger's father, Henry Bittinger, was a prosperous farmer in Berwick town- ship, Adams county, while other members of the family, uncles of our subject, have been professionally identified with the Pres- byterian church and have won distinction as able pulpit orators and theologians. Henry Bittinger married Amanda, a daugh- ter of Solomon and Barbara Allewelt by whom he had four children: Ruhamah E. John R., present member of State Legisla- ture, Joseph H. and Mary A.
In politics he was a Republican and in religion a member of the Lutheran church.
Dr. Bittinger secured his preliminary ed- ucation in the public schools and completed it with a course in Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg. He then taught school in Illi- nois and Pennsylvania for five years. For some time during his residence in Illinois he was associated with his uncles in the foreign and domestic fruit business in Chicago and was located in that city at the time of the memorable fire which nearly destroyed it in 1871. After that he returned to his native State and began the study of medicine with Dr. A. J. Snively, at that time a leading physician of Hanover. After reading for some time under this pre- ceptor he entered Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia and pursued a course of study which terminated with his graduation in 1878. The class of that year has become one of the most distinguished ever gradu- ated from the institution, and a not incon- siderable part of the lustre which its achievements have reflected upon it has been contributed by Dr. Bittinger. The doctor began the active practice of medi- cine in Hanover and two years after his graduation returned to Philadelphia on ac- count of the superior advantages which the city could offer to an ambitious and ener- getic practitioner. He continued his prac- tice in that city until 1883, when he returned to Hanover, resumed his old practice and has since resided there. He is one of the most skillful physicians in the county and is one of the leaders of his profession in sur- gery. Since 1887, he has been physician and surgeon for the Pennsylvania railroad at Hanover and holds a similar position with the Western Maryland Company. Be- sides this he has been connected with the leading life insurance companies as their local surgeon and examiner. He is a mem- ber of the York County Medical Society and takes an active part in its deliberations. He was a member of the Ninth Internation-
259
NINETEENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
al Medical Congress which met in Wash- ington in 1891 and is one of the censors of the Medico-Chirurgical college of Philadel- phia. He is one of the Vice Presidents of the State Medical Society of Pennsylvania and has been a member of the American Medical Association since 1881. He has al- ways been an active citizen and greatly in- terested in local affairs. In 1893 he was one of the organizers of the People's bank at Hanover, an institution which, though its existence has been recent, has had a very successful career. In 1887 he assisted in organizing the Hanover and Littlestown Turnpike Company and has been its treas- urer since 1889. He is a Republican in po- litics and for three years served as school director. He is also a director in the Penn Flouring Company, of Hanover, and Vice President of the Consumers Water Com- pany, which he and others organized in 1896. Fraternally he is a member of these orders: of Patmos Lodge, No. 348, Free and Accepted Masons; Good Samaritan Chapter, No. 266, Royal Arch Masons; York Commandery, No. 21, Knights Temp- lar; Hanover Lodge, No. 327, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of Washington Council, No. 328, Patriotic Order Sons of America. With his extensive professional knowledge and his deep interest in public affairs, Dr. Bittinger combines a charming and intelligent personality that has made him many friends in and out of the profes- sion. He stands today in the sight of every fellow townsmen, a type of the progressive, intelligent, and popular citizen.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.