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Mr. Birch is a member of St. John Lodge, No. 267, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, Carlisle.
L ILIAN R. SAFFORD, M. D., of
York, who enjoys the distinction of being one of the first women to practice medicine in Southern Pennsylvania, is a daughter of Rev. Dr. Jefferson P., and Cornelia M. (Ray) Safford, and was born in Ohio. She received her literary educa- tion at Putnam Seminary, Zanesville, O., from which she was graduated in 1881. After leaving the Seminary and surveying the different avenues of life open to human effort, Miss Safford made selection of med- icine, then a field in which woman had but barely established her right to an equal footing with man. Consequently, she en- tered the Women's Medical College of New York city, from which she was graduated in the class of 1885. Immediately after graduation, Dr. Safford took a post-gradu- ate course in gynecology, pathology and diseases of the throat and chest. At the close of her post-graduate studies she be- came physician in charge of her uncle's, Dr. Strong's sanitarium at Saratoga Springs, New York, where slie remained from 1885 to 1889. During this period, however, she inade two visits to Europe, where she stud- ied the treatment of various diseases in dif- ferent continental hospitals. Leaving the sanatarium in 1889, Dr. Safford came to York, where she opened an office and has since continued to practice. She is a gen- eral practitioner, but makes a specialty, to some extent, of gynecology and diseases of children. Dr. Safford is broad minded and liberal, and studies her profession out- side of the prescribed standard of any par- ticular school, being well acquainted with the Allopathic, Homeopathic, Eclectic and other systems of medicine.
The Saffords are of Puritan stock and New England descent, many members of the family having been prominent and in- fluential in the communities where they re- sided. Tracing Dr. Safford's genealogy
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back three generations we find that her grandfather, Henry Safford, was a native of Vermont, and in the early history of Ohio settled at Zanesville, in that State, where he was engaged as a jeweler for a number of years. He married Patience Van Horn, a native of New England, and a relative of Major Van Horn, of Revolu- tionary fame, by whom he had seven chil- dren: Professor James, State Geologist, and a member of the faculty of Vander- bilt University, Tennessee; Isaac Van Horn, a mine owner and civil engineer, of California, now deceased; Mary, deceased; Mrs. Annie Triplet, Rev. Dr. Jefferson P., Mrs. Bessie Barney.
Rev. Dr. Jefferson P. Safford was born at Putman, Ohio, September 22, 1823, and ended his labors of life on July 10, 1881. He was graduated from the University of Ohio, at Athens, in 1843, and served suc- cessively as principal of Dry Creek Acad- emy, Covington, Kentucky; superinten- dent of the Indianapolis Academy, and pro- fessor of mathematics in the Theological Institute of Covington, Kentucky. In 1848 he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated four years later. He then accepted the chair of mathematics in Richmond Acad- emy, Virginia, and on September 1, 1855. was ordained to the ministry of the Pres- byterian Church by the Presbytery of Lex- ington, Kentucky. His pastorates were at Frankfort, Kentucky; Piqua, Ohio, and New Albany, Indiana. In 1867 he retired from active service in the ministry to be- come Secretary for the States of Ohio and Indiana, which position he held until his death in 1889. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him in 1877 by Washington and Jefferson College, Penn- sylvania.
On August 31, 1852, Rev. Safford wedded, at Indianapolis, Cornelia M. Ray,
a daughter of James M. Ray, who was of Scotch descent. Rev. Doctor and Mrs. Safford had five children: Cornelia M., in- termarried with T. A. Mills, Ph. D., of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania; Harry P., M. D., now deceased; Dr. Lilian R., J. Ray, of New York city, and Anna T.
J OHN R. BAKER, a builder of fine car- riages and buggies at Shiremanstown, is a native of Upper Allen township, having been born at Shepherdstown, Octo- ber 25, 1845, the son of John S. and Mary (Rinderknecht) Baker. The Bakers are of German extraction. Jacob Baker, grandfather of our subject, was a black- smith near Dillsburg, York county. His son, John S., father of our subject, was born in Chanceford township, in the lower end of York county, June 8, 1814, and came to Cumberland county when his father moved into Upper Allen about 1820. The elder Baker died aged 70 years. The son became a farmer and also engaged to some extent in butchering. He was an old line Whig and naturally became identi- fied with the new Republican party at its inception. He lived on his farm near Shepherdstown for fifty-four years and having removed to near Shiremanstown, he lived about two years, dying December 7, 1896. His wife was Mary, daugliter of Henry Rinderknecht, a native of Germany, who came to America about 1816, and lo- cated in Lancaster county, later com- ing into Cumberland, where he lo- cated in Upper Allen and followed farming. There were three sons and two daughters born to Mr. and Mrs. Baker: Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Bell, of near Eberly's Mills; Henry R., carriage maker of Harrisburg; John R .; William, a York county farmer.
Our subject was reared on his father's farm and educated at Mt. Allen school. At the age of nineteen he was apprenticed to
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John Palmer, of Mechanicsburg, to learn carriage making. That trade acquired he started to build carriages with his brother, Henry R., a business they conducted seven years, down to 1881, when Mr. Baker came to Shiremanstown and suc- ceeded Daniel Rupp in the carriage build- ing business. This business he expanded and enlarged and now manufactures a large full line of vehicles. The plant is one of very respectable proportions and well- equipped; being a two story brick, 35x40 with two frame buildings in the rear 30x35 and two stories high. There is an ample blacksmith shop attached and from six to ten mechanics are constantly employed. Mr. Baker has a commendable war record and was a member of the famous 87th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He enlisted April 2, 1862, in Company E., First Regiment, and participated in the heavy fighting during Grant's advance be- yond the Rapidan and in Sheridan's brief but brilliant campaign through the She- nandoah Valley. Returning home at the expiration of his term of enlistment, he ap- plied himself to his trade. Mr. Baker is a member of the Reformed Mennonite church.
May 30, 1868, he was married to Annie, daughter of Simon Dean, a citizen of Me- chanicsburg. They had twelve children, of whom nine are living: Noreen L., wife of Harry Wingert; Minnie, wife of A. A. Mumma; Grace, wife of Elmer Stone; James, a carriage painter; Samuel, a car- riage painter; Mary, Romaine, Dean and Ralph, all at home. The family all reside in Shiremanstown.
PROFESSOR MARTIN S. TAYLOR, a well-known educator of Shiremans- town, Pennsylvania, is the son of George M. and Martha (Hammond) Taylor, and was born at Spring Run, Franklin county,
this State, on April 1, 1847. The family is of German origin. John Taylor, the great- grandfather, and his son Casper, the grand- father of the subject, were farmers, and kept a summer resort in Amberson's Valley, in the northern part of Franklin county. He died at his home November 30th, 1848. He married Isabel Matthews April 30th, 1776. by whom he had five sons and two daugh- ters; John, dead, late a farmer near Spring- field, Ohio; Isabel, widow of Elias Grover, now residing at New Bloomfield, Penn- sylvania; George H .; Nancy, dead, who was twice married, first to - Carothers, and next to Samuel Shearer; Andrew Jack- son, dead, who was a saddler by trade and passed most of his life at Fort Littleton, Fulton county, Pennsylvania; William, dead, late a millwright, near Spring- field, Ohio; Samuel, dead, late a farmer of Mowersville, Franklin county, Pennsylvania. George M. Taylor, father of subject, was born at the first home- stead in Amberson Valley, May 16, 1811, and died on March 24, 1896, at his home near the scene of his birth. He was a farmer and woolen manufacturer, own- ing and operating a woolen mill near his home at Amberson Valley. He was quite an active business man and was eminently successful. He was a Christian man and a member of the Presbyterian church. In politics he was a Republican and held the position of school director for several terms. He married Martha Hammond, a daughter of Laurence Hammond, who was of Ger- man descent and a farmer and stock dealer of Spring Run, Franklin county. There resulted from this union six daughters and three sons: Mary B., wife of Noah M. Laughlin, a farmer and stock dealer of near Newburg, Cumberland county ; Frank- lin, a farmer near Spring Run, who was a gallant soldier in the late war. He enlisted in August 1862, in Company F, 13th Regi-
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ment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, served in the Army of the Potomac, partic- ipated in the last day's fight at the battle of Gettysburg, and was taken prisoner at Jefferson, Virginia, October 13, 1863. He was confined eighteen months in Libby and the Pemberton prisons and Belle Isle, and for thirteen months endured the hor- rors of Andersonville, being liberated only at the close of the war. Margaret A., of Path Valley, Franklin county; Martin S., the subject of this sketch; Emma, the wife of David A. Nonsbaum, a farmer of near Newburg, Cumberland county; Ida M., wife of Wilbur W. Skinner, from near Dry Run, Franklin county; Hannah F., wife of George Rine, a farmer of Amberson, on the old homestead, and another sister who died in infancy.
Martin S. Taylor, of whom we write, was brought up on the farm and received his education in the public schools, Shippens- burg Normal school and Spring Run and Dry River Academies. When the war of the Rebellion broke out, he was a mere lad, attending the public schools and work- ing about the farm. In August 1864, he enlisted in Company I, 198th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry and served in the Army of the Potomac in the first brigade, third division, fifth army corps. He parti- cipated in the engagement of Peeble's farm, near Richmond, on October 2nd, 1864, where he received a bullet wound in the left hand that cost him that member, it having been amputated the same day near the place of engagement. He was sent to Lincoln hospital, Washington, D. C., where he was discharged from service on January 20, 1865. When he returned home he entered the academy at Spring Run and Dry Run, and in 1868 com- menced teaching school, which profession he has followed continuously during the winter. In 1880 he entered Shippensburg
Normal School which he attended during summer and from which he graduated in 1884. He taught in country schools until 1880. He then taught the grammar de- partment in Shippensburg for nine years, and for six years of that time was assistant principal of the High school, and in 1895 became the principal of the Shiremanstown High school. He is a member of Corporal McClain Post, No. 423, Grand Army of the Republic, of Shippensburg, and has served as adjutant and treasurer of that post. He belongs to Lodge No. 207, Ancient Order United American Mechanics and is a past officer. He is a member of the Royal Ar- canum of Shippensburg, a member of the Church of God and belongs to its council. In politics he is a Republican and has filled several of the minor local offices. On June 16, 1870, he married Mary M. Hoch, daughter of Abraham Hoch, a Pennsyl- vania German and a farmer of Mowers- ville, Franklin county. The subject is the father of six children living and three dead, Phoebe E., wife of A. L. Stevick, of Har- risburg, Pennsylvania; Lena A., wife of A. S. Fitz, a teacher living in Waynesboro, Franklin county; Hulda G., who resides at home; Martha E. (dead); Jessie A., (dead); Raub, at home; Bayard, at home; Annie B., at home, and Georgia (dead).
R EV. IRA FRANKLIN BRAME, pastor of Plainfield, Lower Frank- ford and Carlisle Springs Lutheran churches is a son of Daniel and Mary (Arnold) Brame, and was born five miles west of York Springs, Adams county, Pennsyl- vania, November 12, 1859. His great- grandfather, - Brame, came from Germany to Adams county, where his son, Daniel Brame, Sr., was born and lived, a devout Lutheran and an honest man. Dan- iel Brame, Sr., married and reared a family and his son, Daniel Brame, was born Sep-
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tember 1803. This Daniel Brame, the younger, was a successful farmer, a pro- nounced Lutheran and a strong Republi- can. He held various local offices and died on the Brame homestead, August 12, 1877, at the advanced age of seventy-five years. His wife Mary (Arnold) Brame, was a daughter of Peter Arnold Brame, and passed away June 12, 1890, aged 77 years. Their family consisted of seven sons and three daughters: Jacob and Ephraim, far- mers of Adams county; Edwin, who served two years. in Company G, 138th Pennsyl- vania Volunteers and was killed at Cold Harbor; Amelia, wife of Simon B. Laban, of Indiana; Daniel, of Dayton, Ohio; Ezra, Emma, Mary and Howard, of Adams county; and Rev. Ira F., whose name heads this sketch.
Rev. Ira F. Brame was reared on the farm and after attending common school and select schools, taught for three years. He then entered Pennsylvania College of Gettysburg and was graduated in the class of 1887. Leaving college he became a stu- dent in the Gettysburg Theological Semin- ary from which he was graduated in 1890, and in July of that year received and ac- cepted a call from the West End charge in Bedford and Somerset counties. He was ordained in Berlin, Somerset county, Sep- tember 7th, 1890, and served on the West End charge until October, 1891, when he accepted a call from the Lower Frankford charge of Cumberland county, consisting of the Plainfield, Lower Frankford and Carlisle Springs Lutheran churches, which he has served acceptably ever since. Rev. Brame is a theologian of note, a clear rea- soner and an interesting speaker, and ranks as an able and successful minister.
On July 30, 1889, Rev. Brame wedded Nannie E. Meals, whose father, the late William Meals was a marble cutter, and had served as a Union soldier in the late
civil war. Their union has been blessed with four children: Edna, Grace, Emma Lucile, Luther Franklin and Edward Grant.
H ENRY N. BOWMAN, justice of the peace of Camp Hill, Cumberland county, is a son of John and Elizabeth (Davis) Bowman and was born in his pres- ent hoine August 4, 1840. The Bowmans are of German nativity. John Bowman, great-great-grandfather of our subject, was a native of Northern Germany, who came to America and located at Ephrata, Lan- caster county, Pennsylvania, where he be- came one of the prominent farmers of Lower Manor township. He was a mem- ber of the Dunkard church and lived to be ninety-five years of age. Samuel Bowman, great-grandfather of our subject, was born in that township but removed to East Pennsboro, Cumberland county, where he became an extensive land owner and far- mer. Our subject has in his possession the will in which he disposed of his property among his children. Part of this property is located in a part of what is now Perry county. He had two sons, John and Henry. John, the grandfather of our sub- ject, in the division of the property, re- ceived some farming lands in Pennsboro township. This ancestor was a native of Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa., where he was born in 1768. In 1780 he came to Camp Hill where he accumulated consider- able wealth and property, owning as much as eleven hundred acres of land in Perry county and also a large distillery, beside which he held several hundred acres in East Pennsboro township and kept the Bowman hotel at Camp Hill. He was a member of the Dunkard church. By his wife Regina Wolf, who was also a Dunk- ard, he had a family of five children: Sam- uel, a minister of the Dunkard church; John, father of our subject; George, farmer
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of this township, who died in Mount Car- roll, Illinois, where he moved later in life; Fannie, who married Rev. Simon Dries- baugh; Susan, who married George W. Criswell. John Bowman was born Sep- tember 5, 1805, and followed farming all his life. He was a member of the Church of God and a co-worker with John Wine- brenner, the founder of this body. His death occurred December 4, 1893. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Zacheus Davis, a native of Lancaster county, who came to Shippensburg when a young man and became a carpenter and builder. The Davises were Welsh Presbyterians. The maternal grandmother of our subject was Catherine (Hyer) Davis, a daughter of Lewis Hyer, a veteran of the Revolutionary war. John Bowman had four sons and two daughters: Dr. John D., deceased, late a physician of Harrisburg and a mem- ber of the legislature from Cumberland county in the '60's; Zacheus, a retired far- mer of Camp Hill; Henry, our subject; George, dentist of Mechanicsburg; Ann E. wife of Dr. A. W. Nicholas, of Camp Hill; and Alice, who died single.
Our subject was brought up on a farm and received his education at White Hall Academy, after finishing which, he engaged in mercantile pursuits at Harrisburg until 1862, when he entered the First City Troop, of Harrisburg, and took part in the battle of Antietam and minor engagements until mustered out of the service in September 1862. He then came to Camp Hill and conducted a general store until 1878, when he became part owner of the White Hall Soldiers' Orphan school, with Cap- tain Moore, his brother-in-law. In 1888 Captain Moore retired and Professor S. B. Heiges and the present subject conduct- ed the school for two years, at the expira- tion of which time the State took charge of the institution and our subject became
manager, a position he held until the con- solidation of the schools in 1890. Since that time he has been devoting his atten- tion to his farming interests. In politics Mr. Bowman is a stanch Democrat but popular enough, despite his pronounced Democracy, to be elected justice of the peace in a strong Republican district in 1880, and to be re-elected at the expiration of each term ever since. In 1896 he was a Democratic candidate for Clerk of the Courts and Recorder, and though McKin- ley carried the county by eleven hundred plurality, Mr. Bowman was defeated by but two hundred and eighty-three votes. He is a member of Harrisburg Council, No. 7. Free and Accepted Masons; of Pilgrim Commandery No. II, Knights Templar; Samuel C. Perkins' Chapter, No. 209, Royal Arch Masons, of Mechanicsburg; past master of Eureka Lodge, No. 302, Master Mason, of Mechanicsburg; of Corn Planter Tribe, No. 61, Improved Order of Red Men, of Harrisburg; Robert Kippit Coun- cil, Junior Order United American Me- chanics, of Harrisburg, and of Post No. 58, Grand Army of the Republic, of Har- risburg. He is an active member and elder in the Church of God.
June 14, 1866, he married Jennie M., daughter of Jacob Kline, a merchant of Lower Allen township, by whom he has had three sons and three daughters: Harry J., at home; Allie, wife of E. N. Cooper, of Camp Hill; Jesse, shipping clerk at Harris- burg; Addison M., attending Shippensburg State Normal school, and Lizzie and Rose, both dead.
Mrs. Bowman's mother was Elizabeth, a daughter of Michael Longsdorf, a farmer of New Kingston, and a soldier of the war of 1812.
R EV. WILLIAM HENRY WEAVER is the son of John and Hannah
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(Kinter) Weaver, and was born in Frank- lin township, York county, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1861. His ancestry on the maternal side traces back to his great- great-grandfather, John Kinter, and his wife, Mrs. - (Prince) Kinter, who emi- grated to Pennsylvania no later than 1760. They purchased nearly four hundred acres of land from James Graham, who owned an extensive tract of forest country, that was granted by the commonwealth, to the said Graham, August the 20th, 1747, at Philadelphia, at that time a portion of Monaghan township, Lancaster county.
The tract of land sold to John Kinter is located in Franklin township, York county, a portion of which is still owned by des- cendants of this pioneer settler. In 1766 or in 1769, soon after the family located on their newly purchased property, John Kin- ter was killed by the falling of a tree and his body was the first interred in the Frank- lin churchyard.
There survived him two sons and one daughter, viz: John, Valentine, and Eliza- beth. John was married to Christiana Hoff- man; Valentine to John's wife's sister, Mary Hoffman; and Elizabeth to a Mr. Kimmel
There were born to Valentine, and Mary Kinter, eight children as follows: Jacob, John, David, Michael, Daniel, Elizabetlı, Sarah and Mary. Mary is still living with her son in Dillsburg, at the age of eighty- three years.
Michael Kinter and Elizabeth Miller were married about 1834. To this union there were eight children, viz .: Harriet, Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, and four died in childhood. Michael Kinter and wife were intensely religious, both were mem- bers of the Lutheran church. For many years he was a prominent officer in the Franklin congregation. In 1849 when the United Brethren missionary from Littles- town, Adams county, travelled as far as
Franklin township, in York county, this family were the first to receive him. This was a home for him; here he preached and unfolded a simple gospel, and at least par- tially through the influence and aid of this family, the missionary lay the foundations of the U. B. church in these parts. Michael Kinter gave his influence early in favor of the public schools, and was one of the first directors in his district. He was always regarded as a useful and highly respected citizen. He died in 1879.
On the paternal side our subject traces his ancestry back to the great-great-grand- father, David Weaver, who likely emi- grated to Pennsylvania, probably more than one hundred and thirty years ago, and finally located in Reading township, Adams county.
David, a son was born in 1767, and gained a livelihood at tailoring and became a prominent citizen of the county. John, another son located at Burlington, New Jersey, where he acquired considerable wealth. David married Mary Overholt- zer, about 1789, by whom he had ten chil- dren: Elizabeth, John, Mary, Catharine, Samuel, Benjamin, Sallie, Leah, David and Margaret.
David, next to the youngest of the fam- ily, was born April the 3rd, 1806, married Hannah Kriner in 1834, by whom he had ten children: Sarah, John, George, Wil- liam, Cornelius, Mariah, Henry, Jeremiah, and two that died in infancy. He followed farming for nearly a quarter of a century near Dillsburg, and afterward near Table Rock, until 1872, when his companion died.
He still resides at Table Rock, at the venerable age of ninety-one years. Fifty years ago they both united with the Ger- man Baptist church and were always re- garded as plain, unassuming, conscientious, upright Christians.
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John, the oldest son was born in 1836, and learned the wheelwright trade, which he followed for thirty-five years in Frank- lin township where he now resides on liis farm. He married Hannah Kinter, in 1860, by whom he had four children, Wil- liam H., Elmer David, a wheelwright of Carroll township, Cleasen John, a shoe mer- chant of Dillsburg, died November 9th, 1894, and Cora E., at home.
Our subject, William H., was brought up on the farm, and secured his education, in the public schools, in the Franklintown lo- cal normal, and at the Keystone State Nor- mal, at Kutztown, Pa. He taught six years in the public and select schools of his county. In March, 1886, he entered the itinerant ministry of the "United Brethren in Christ Church." His first charge was in Baltimore county, where he officiated successfully for three years, after which he was assigned to Littlestown, Adams county for two years. He then was sent to Mont Alto, Franklin county, where his labors were crowned with rich success during three years. From Mont Alto, he was as- signed to Dillsburg, in 1894, where his ministerial labors continue at present.
Rev. Weaver was married on the tenth day of June, 1884, to Ida E. Heiges, a na- tive of Clearfield county, and daughter of Abram and Henrietta (Rishel) Heiges. They have two children, a son and daugh- ter. Alvin LaVerne, was born at Littles- town, Adams county, Sunday, August 24th, 1890. Elta Marie, was born at Dillsburg, York county, Thursday, September 20th, 1894.
B ENJAMIN PLANK, a lineal repre- sentative of an old and respectable Pennsylvania family, is a son of Samuel and Sarah (Bechtold) Plank, and was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, Octo- ber 17th, 1827.
Nicholas Plank, great grandfather of Benjamin, was a native of one of the Ger- man Swiss provinces and in company with some of his brothers came to America sonie time prior to the War of the Revolu- tion, locating in Cocalico township, Lan- caster county, this State. Here he obtained possession of a tract of land, engaged in agricultural pursuits and rose to a degree of considerable prominence among the far- mers of that county. He died and is bur- ied in the township of his adoption. He reared a large family of children who grad- ually diffused throughout Berks, Chester and Lancaster counties, one son, Nicholas, being an exception. This latter son re- mained on the old homestead in Lancaster county where he passed his life amid very similar scenes and pursuits that had en- grossed his father. Two of his sons, Sam - uel and Jacob, after attaining their major- ities removed to Cumberland county and located in South Middleton township, where Jacob carried on an establishment for the manufacture of wagons and plows. Here he became the inventor of the Plank Plow Wheel, which, with a few slight changes, has been in constant and success- ful use for a period of sixty years. Sam- uel learned the trade of blacksmithing, which trade he pursued for some time prior to his removal to Cumberland county in 1830. Subsequently, for a period of ten years, he followed his trade in South Mid- dleton township, after which he engaged in farming and so continued until the year 1860. In 1865 he retired from active busi- ness pursuits and removed to Carlisle where he died. He was married to Sarah Bechtold, of Dauphin county, by whom he had
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