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Harrison and Sarah A. (Maust) Dough- erty. He was born at Shepherdstown, Cumberland county, November 18, 1869. The Doughertys are of Scotch-Irish origin. George Dougherty, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of this county and the family is among the oldest. One of its members, Matthew Dougherty, served in the Continental army from 1777 to 1779. The doctor's grand- father was a tenant farmer. He died in 1852 while comparatively a young man. He was married to Annie Stallsmith, by whom he reared a family of nine children. William H. Dougherty, the father of Dr. Dougherty, was the next to the youngest son. He was born in York county, near the town of An- derson, on August 5, 1840, and is by occu- pation a carpenter, contractor and builder, in Mechanicsburg, this State, where he has resided for twelve years. He is a success- ful business man and has in an eminent de -- gree the confidence of the community. He erected the two highest buildings in the town, the High school and First National Bank, and has built many of the better pri- vate dwellings there. In politics he is an ardent Democrat and a member of the school board, having been elected in a largely Republican ward. He is a Knight of St. John's and of Malta and of the Star of Bethlehem. During the war of the Re- bellion he was in the employ of the gov- ernment.
Sarah (dead) was the oldest of his fath- er's sisters. She was married to William Cline. John B. was a soldier during the late war and was wounded on the eighth of Au- gust, 1862, in one of the engagements of the Peninsular campaign. Mariah, another sister, was the wife of John Bear. The other members of the family are Annie, the widow of John B. Floyd; George, a stone mason, of Bowmansdale, a soldier of the late war,
wounded at the battle of Antietam; Wil- liam H., the venerable father of the subject; Emily Jean, wife of Adam Beelman, of Chicago Junction, Ohio; Rachel, wife of Jerry Marret, a hotel-keeper of this place; and Thomas Latimer, a farmer of the State of Kansas. The father of Dr. Dougherty married Sarah, a daughter of Daniel Manst, who was originally of Lancaster county and a tailor by trade. The Mausts were an old and respected Lancaster German family. To that union there were born but one son, the subject. He received his primary education in the common schools and graduated from the High schoool in 1886. He then studied pharmacy and became a registered phar- macist, which profession he pursued for several years in Mechanicsburg. In the year 1888 he commenced the study of med- icine with Dr. J. H. Boyer, of Mechanics- burg. He graduated at the Jefferson medi- cal college, of Philadelphia, in 1891. Re- turning to Mechanicsburg he established himself in the practice of his profession which he has pursued ever since. He has built up a good and lucrative practice and has established an enviable professional reputation. He is a prominent member of the National, State and of the Cumberland County Medical Society, being vice presi- dent of the latter. He is an esteemed mem- ber of the Patriotic Sons of America, a past officer of the Knights of St. John and Mal- ta, of the Star of Bethlehem, the American Mechanics and an F. & A. Mason. In poli- tics he is a Democrat, and was secretary of the Cumberland county committee in 1891- 1892. He was a member of the Board of Health in 1895, which position he resigned to accept the office of council- man of the city of his residence in 1896. On June 6, 1893, Dr. Dougherty was married to Gertrude M. Ritter, daughter of John H. Ritter, a merchant tailor, of Philadelphia.
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H OWELL WILLIAMS, a member of the Welsh colony at West Bangor, is a son of William Richard and Mary (El- lis) Williams, and was born August 27, 1825, in Talyllyn parish, North Wales. He came to America in 1849. In his native country he had already acquired a thor- ough knowledge of every detail of the slate business and soon after his arrival in the United States he united himself with the Welsh colony at West Bangor and engaged in that business. He was first, however, located at Cincinnati. Shortly after his arrival at Delta he entered the employ of John Williams, a countryman who owned a slate quarry at West Bangor. Remain- ing in his service for a few years, he severed his connection with Mr. Williams, and with a number of other miners operated a quarry under contract for five years. With eight others he then formed a partnership under the firm name of John Humphrey and Company and engaged largely in the manu- facture of the slate of commerce. This business was continued 25 years and part of the product was regularly furnished to the Pennsylvania railroad company under contract, to whom they sold the quarry. All of the members of the firm are now dead except Mr. Williams. In a few years he and John Humphreys and Hugh C. Roberts bought the quarry back which they afterward sold to William C. Parry, when Mr. Williams retired from business, twelve years ago. Mr. Williams owns an interest in the Harford county quarry known as the Peach Bottom and Harford slate quarry.
In politics our subject is a Republican and has served several terms as burgess of Delta. Besides holding that important of- fice he has filled several terms as council- man. Like most of the Welsh people of the Delta district, he is of a Presbyterian faith and is a member of the Welsh Calvin- istic Methodist church in which he is an
elder. Mr. Williams is a fair type of his race, intelligent, industrious, prosperous and devoted to the cause of morals and Christianity.
December 8, 1869, he married Eleanor, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Thomas, natives of North Wales who came to the United States in 1849 and settled in Wau- kesha county, Wisconsin, where both died. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have two daughters living, Mary and Jennie, both at home.
S AMUEL GOTWALT, a representative of two old families of York county, was born in York, January 10, 1825, the son of Daniel and Susan (Rupp) Gotwalt. By both his paternal and maternal ancestry he is of German origin. His grandfather, Felix Gotwalt, was born in Conewago township, but died in Spring Garden town- ship, near York in 1819, aged 55 years. He was a farmer all his life. His wife was Christiana Wilt, who survived her husband forty years and died in Spring Garden township at the venerable age of ninety- five. They had a family of four sons and one daughter.
One of these sons was Daniel Gotwalt, the father of our subject. He was born in Manchester township, near York, Septem- ber 24, 1796, and died on the Plank Road farm in Spring Garden township, in August 1886, aged nearly ninety years. At the age of eighteen he began learning the carpenter trade with Peter Small, of York. This oc- cupation he followed until thirty-five years of age, when he began farming in Spring Garden township and continued that calling until old age compelled him to cease hard labor. He was a Lutheran in religion and for many years was elder of Christ Luther- an church. In politics he was a Whig as long as that party existed; and when it dis- solved he became a Republican. In Decem- ber, 1819, he married Susanna, a daughter
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of Christian and Christiana Rupp, a native of York county, by whom he had thirteen children: George F., Samuel, Daniel, David R., Benjamin, John J., Mary, and Susan- nah, eight of whom survived him.
Samuel Gotwalt, the subject of this sketch, was reared on his father's farm and educated in the common schools. Leaving school, he farmed for a few years and in 1842 took up carpentering and followed that occupation as a journeyman until 1872, when he became a contractor and builder and erected quite a number of houses while he pursued that business. He retired in 1893. Mr. Gotwalt is a director in the York County bank and has been connected with that institution in that capacity for over twenty years. In politics he is a Re- publican. He served one term of two years in the York Common Council, to which he was elected to represent the Fourth ward, a strong Democratic bailiwick. He is a member of Zion's Lutheran church and has served terms as deacon and warden. He has been a member of Mt. Zion Lodge, No. 74, I. O. O. F., since 1846. He is also a member of Mt. Vernon Encampment, No. 18, of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, and is now one of the oldest members of that organization in York.
November 3, 1851, he married Mary D., a daughter of Charles and Sarah Shultz Spangler, of York, by whom he had three sons and one daughter: Ida K., at home; Milton Spangler, a compositor in the Daily office; S. Horace, a druggist in the employ of Dr. Shearer; and Arthur C., a painter and paper hanger of Baltimore, Maryland.
J OHN McCOY, vice president of the York Card & Paper Company, is the son of Robert and Elizabeth (Wentz) McCoy, and was born in Philadelphia, Sep- tember 15, 1856. The McCoys are of Scotch-Irish ancestry and came from the
north of Ireland. John McCoy, grand- father of our subject, emigrated to America from that section in 1830 and located in Philadelpha, where he died December 12, 1874, aged 75 years. He was a gardener and florist by occupation all his life. He took an active interest in both politics and religion-as a Whig and then a Republican in the former sphere and as a member and trustee of the First Presbyterian church in the latter. He married Miss Margaret Mc- Cay, and reared a family of 3 sons and a daughter.
Robert McCoy, father of our subject, was born in Philadelphia, December 3, 1838, and has always lived in that city, a plumber by occupation, a Republican in politics and a Presbyterian in religion. He married Elizabeth Wentz in May, 1855, and reared a family of four sons and four daughters. Two other daughters died young.
John McCoy obtained a good education in the public schools of Philadelphia, and then entered the mill of Howellin Brothers, Philadelphia, wall paper manufacturers, where he learned the business and remained twelve years. From this place he entered the employ of Janeway & Company, New Brunswick, New Jersey, as foreman and remained with that firm five years. Return- ing to Philadelphia he assumed charge of a similar business for A. A. Yerkes. Two or three years afterward he was transferred to York by Mr. Yerkes to take charge of his mill here, which he did in 1889. When Mr. Yerkes removed his business from York, Mr. McCoy remained and organized the York Card & Paper Company, becoming vice president and manager,-positions which he has held ever since in connection with the flourishing business which has been built up. The plant of the company has become one of the largest in the coun- try. It employs 220 workmen, many of them skilled, and turns out about 14,000,-
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000 rolls of wall paper yearly. The capital stock is $100,000. Its product is shipped to all parts of the United States. Besides his connection with this business, Mr. Mc- Coy is interested in a clay mine operated by the York clay company, of which corpora- tion he has been secretary since its organi- zation in 1895. Mr. McCoy has followed in the footsteps of his fathers in politics and religion, being a Republican in one- faith and a Presbyterian, in the other.
In February, 1878, he married Miss Catharine Wallace Smith, a native of Scot- land, who came to America and became a resident of Philadelphia. They have three children: John Smith, attending Mercers- burg college in preparation for the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania classical and law courses; Elizabeth Wallace and Robert Douglas, students at the York Collegiate Institute. Mr. McCoy is distinguished for his thorough knowledge of the wall pa- per business and for the mastery of its details. In his home life he is social and genial and in his adopted town, in the few years he has lived there, he has made a most favorable impression upon the people who have come in contact with him.
M ARTIN LUTHER EBERT, a re- L tired business man of York, Pennsyl- vania, is a son of Henry and Sarah (Smy- ser) Ebert, and was born in the city in which he now resides on April 4, 1848.
The Ebert family is of German descent, Michael Ebert the original ancestor of the family in the United States, having emigra- ted from Wurtemburg, Germany, about the year 1742. Shortly after his arrival he came to York county and took up between six and seven hundred acres of land along the Codorus creek, starting from, or near what is known as the High Rock. The farms of Charles Smyser, Allen Ebert, Mar- tin Ebert, Martin Hoke and Albert Light-
ner all were originally incorporated in that tract. Michael Ebert had six sons and three daughters, whose names are as follows: Michael, Jacob, Jonas, Philip, Martin, Su- sanna, Anna Maria and Eve. Upon the death of Michael Ebert, senior, his eldest son, Michael, purchased two tracts of land at the appraised value of twelve thousand dollars, which a few years later he sold to his youngest brother Martin and with his family removed to Chambersburg, Frank- lin county, Pa. Philip lived on the farm now owned by Charles Smyser and at his death Martin bought the farm and became the owner of the whole tract. John moved up the river but subsequent history reveals nothing of his future movements. Jacob or Jonas, their is an uncertainty which, was accidentally killed while cutting timber. Martin married Anna Maria Smyser, a daughter of Mathias Smyser, by whom he had five sons and three daughters: George Martin, Daniel, Adam, Michael, Susanna, Anna Maria, and Helena. Adam, the grand- father of our subject, married Elizabeth Eyster and had two sons and two daugh- ters: Henry, Martin, Elizabeth and Sarah, the first born of whom is the father of Martin Luther.
Henry Ebert was born in the vicinity of York February 12, 1809, and died on March 28, 1884. He was a large farmer by occu- pation, a Republican in politics and a mem- ber of the Lutheran church. On February 12, 1835, he was joined in marriage with Sarah Smyser, a daughter of Jacob Smyser, by whom he had five children: Charles, Anna Maria, Henry A., Martin Luther and Sarah Jane. Charles A., married on No- vember 16, 1864, Laura Hoffman, of Bucyras, Ohio, and at present resides in Kansas City, Kansas. Anna Maria lives in York; Sarah Jane, the youngest, married Rev. Charles C. Lanius March 19, 1874, who died January 3, 1897. Henry A. mar-
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ried Mary A. Sceller, of Mount Joy, Pa., on June 17, 1870, and resides in York.
Martin Luther Ebert was reared in the vicinity of York on his father's farm and re- ceived his education in the York County Academy and at the Pennsylvania State College. At the age of twenty-two years he engaged in merchandising and remained in that business until 1884, at the end of which time he practically retired from ac- tive business. He now gives his attention to his real estate and other interests in the city of York and its immediate vicinity. He is president of the Standard Building and Loan Association, a director of the Central Market house and is connected with a num- ber of other minor projects. He is a Re- publican in politics, a member of the Luth- eran church and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which latter or- ganization he has been variously honored.
1 OHN H. YEAGLEY, M. D., who has been a successful practitioner in York for over nineteen years, is a son of Dr. Henry and Sarah Dibert Yeagley and was born in Johnstown, Cambria county, Pa., October 13, 1852. He completed his liter- ary education in Victoria College, Coburg, Ontario. He was engaged in the drug busi- ness for five years, read medicine with his father, and entered Hahnneman Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1876 from which he was graduated in the class of 1878. Shortly after graduation he came to York, rapidly acquired a good practice, and has since continued to reside in that city. He is a practitioner of general medicine, has reached a creditable degree of prominence in his profession, and at the present writing is one of the leading physicians of the homeopathic school in York county. He holds membership in the Beaver Street Methodist Episcopal church, with which he has been connected for many years. On
April 29, 1891, Dr. Yeagley was joined in marriage with R. Elizabeth Buckingham, a daughter of John W. and Rebecca Buck- ingham, descendents of some of the oldest families of York and Adams counties.
Henry Yeagley, the grandfather of John H., was an early settler and farmer near Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He afterward moved to Connellsville, where he died. His son, Dr. Henry Yeagley, was born on the farm near Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, his parents having moved there from New Jersey a short time before his birth. He inherited the German element from his father's side of the house, while on his mother's side the line of des- cent was English. His maternal grand- father bore the honored name of Lincoln, a descendant from the same stock from which the lamented President sprung. He practiced medicine for many years at Johnstown, and there associated with him- self in practice his two brothers, Benjamin and Andrew.
The following characterization of Dr. Henry Yeagley is taken from a well known medical journal: "Among the honored names of early and successful eclectic medi- cal men of recent times, that of Dr. Henry Yeagley is worthy of a conspicuous place. The popularity of eclecticism now in the section of the country where he labored in its interests, is an evidence of the success- ful manner in which he discharged the du- ties of a reformer. Thus it will be seen he was one of the pioneers in disseminating the principles of liberal ideas in the medical world. It must be remembered when he began to practice in 1848 the dominant school was using calomel and bloodletting, ad libitum, with results familiar to all with memories dating back that far. This irra- tional treatment has long since been aband- oned, and the credit of this and many other reforms is largely due to the leavening in-
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fluences of the homeopathic and eclectic schools of medicine." In 1876 he became a resident of Lancaster city, where he still continues the practice of his profession. He was appointed member of the State Eclectic Medical Examining Board by Governor Pattison, and reappointed by Governor Hastings. He is a Methodist religiously, and wedded Sarah Dibert, a daughter of John Dibert, of Johnstown, Pa. To Dr. and Mrs. Yeagley were born five children, John H., subject, Elizabeth, wife of John Shaub, shoe merchant of Lancaster, Pa .; Dibert Lincoln, farmer, of Kansas; Rella, who was married to Finley H. Torrens, of Pittsburg, Pa., and Dr. James M., now practicing with his father in Lancaster.
D R. JOHN W. DEHOFF, one of the most skillful and prominent physi- cians of York, is a son of John and Susan (Shamberger) DeHoff. He was born near Manchester, Carroll county, Maryland, on June 20, 1848. The Maryland branch of the DeHoff family is of French Huguenot des- cent, but for four generations its descend- ents have been identified with the history of York county. John DeHoff came from France prior to the Revolutionary war, in which latter he served as a brave and faith- ful soldier, and in the year 1800 built the house still standing on the old homestead farm in Carroll county, Maryland. Here he passed the waning years of his life. His son, Samuel, was the father of John De- Hoff, whose son, Dr. John W., is the sub- ject of this sketch. John DeHoff, like his father and grandfather before him, was a practical and successful farmer. He took unusual pride in educating his son, was a man of fine public spirit, and died at the age of 45 years. His wife survived him.
Dr. John W. DeHoff spent his boyhood days on the farm, received his education in Manchester Academy and Irving College,
and afterward pursued a business course at the Bryant and Stratton Business College, Baltimore, Maryland, from which he was graduated at the close of his course in the year 1867. Subsequently, he taught in the public schools of his native county for five years, and at the end of that period com- menced the study of medicine with Dr. Charles A. Geiger, of Baltimore. After completing the required course of reading he entered Hahnnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia, graduating in the year 1876. He first located, after re- ceiving his degree, at Union Bridge, Carroll county, Maryland, where he re- mained 14 years in the enjoyment of a lu- crative practice, and rose to a commanding position in his profession. In 1890 he de- cided to leave Union Bridge in order to secure better educational advantages for his children than were afforded at that place, and consequently came to York, whose in- stitutions of learning offered the advantages he sought. His success in York as a prac- titioner was equally pronounced and last- ing, and at the present time he is accounted one of its best citizens and most successful practitioners.
On May 26, 1870, Dr. DeHoff married Charlotte E. Shower, a daughter of Hon. Adam Shower, formerly judge of the or- phan's court of Carroll county for many years. Dr. and Mrs. DeHoff have four children: Dr. John Edmund, a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College, of Lancas- ter, Pennsylvania,and also a graduate of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College, Baltimore, Maryland, Mary Helen, (de- ceased), Leonora Kate, and George Wil- liam.
Dr. DeHoff is independent in politics, an elder in Grace Reformed church, of whose Sunday school he is superintendent, a mem- ber of the Masonic fraternity, and exhibits a marked degree of interest in all educa-
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tional, moral and religious affairs. He is a member of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, has given special attention to the subject of gynecology, and is a thorough student of medical literature. He is a man of unusual courtesy and gentleness of manner, commanding personality and unblemished character.
C APTAIN A. W. EICHELBERGER, one of the public-spirited citizens of Hanover, is a worthy representative of the old and honored Eichelberger family that has been resident in Pennsylvania for near- ly one hundred and fifty years. He is a son of Jacob and Maria (Wirt) Eichelberger, and was born at Hanover, York county, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1819. Captain Eichelberger is a descendant in the fourth generation from Philip Frederick Eichel- berger, who was a son of John and Maria Barbara Eichelberger, and was born April 17, 1693, at Itlingen near Sinsheim in the Grand Duchy of Baden afterward a state in the Confederation of the Rhine, and now a part of the German empire. He was mar- ried on November 11, 1714, to Anna Bar- bara Dorners, and upon preparing to leave Germany received from the au- thorities of Itlingen a testimonial of his good character and honorable standing which is dated May II, 1728, and has been for several years in the possession of Edwin S. Eichelberger, a great-great grandson and resident of Frederick, Maryland. Philip Frederick Eichelberger with his wife and four children and thirty Palatinate families, amounting in all to one hundred persons, on June 22, 1728, embarked at Rotterdam in the good ship "Albany" whose captain or shipmaster was Lazarus Oxham, and landed at Philadelphia, September 4, of the same year. For the next fifteen years there is no record to be found of Mr. Eichelber- ger but it is to be presumed that he was
working at various places to procure the money with which on September 13, 1743, he purchased a land warrant from the Penns for 175 acres of land in Manheim township, Lancaster county, on which he settled, built a house and cleared out a good farm. Two years later he purchased 140 acres additional, and on April 28, 1761, pur- chased of Leonard Low, a land warrant for 220 acres in Manheim township, York county, on which he lived for a number of years. He died September 19, 1776, at Hanover aged 83 years, five months and two days. His remains now slumber in the old historic burying ground about one mile north of Hanover. Philip Frederick Eich- elberger was twice married, and the chil- dren by his first marriage were: Martin; Frederick; Anna Margaret, married to Vin- cent Keiffer; Barbara, wife of Andrew Hoke; and Elizabeth who wedded Jacob Smyser. Martin, the eldest son, was prom- inently identified with the early history of York, being present when it was laid out and commissioned a court justice in 1760 under George III, in the first year of his long reign, and a justice of the peace under the State Constitution of 1776. He held lot No. 120, was an original member of the First Lutheran church at York, married, and died in 1781, leaving seven children: George, who was a high sheriff of York county from 1768 to 1771, served as a quar- ter master of the York Militia, was a mem- ber of the Provincial Convention of 1776, and died about 1781 ; Frederick was a large land holder, who died in 1824, at 84 years of age, leaving eight children: John, Thomas, Daniel, George, Bernard, William, Charles and Sarah; he served in the Revolu- tionary war, and was elected sheriff of York county in 1804, and afterward removed to Reisterstown, Maryland, where he died in 1832, aged eighty-nine years; Bernard of whom we have no account; Martin, served
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