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He takes a conspicuous part in whatever legislation is brought before the House and upon several occasions has very ably de- fended the interests of his constituents when they were threatened by inimical leg- islation. This was notably the case during the session of '95 when the representatives of the cities attempted to secure an undue advantage in the provisions of a bill de- signed to furnish a disability fund for the use of the various Firemen's Relief Asso- ciations of the State. Upon that occasion Mr. Long not only made a defense but a fight for the rights of the country asso- ciations and the so-called country element of the House unanimously rallied to the support of his contention, regardless of politics. Mr. Long is serving with even greater distinction in the present legisla- ture, as indicated by his defense of the anti- trust bill, a measure intended to preserve the rights of the people against the mono- poly and trust-power.
Prior to his recent election Mr. Long also served for some time as one of Sheriff Brodbeck's deputies. He has also been a member of the town council of Hanover, having served three terms. At one time he was treasurer and assistant burgess. Sev- eral years ago when the Hanover Advance was founded, he became one of the proprie- tors and editors. The paper had a success- ful career and was absorbed by the Han- over Record when the latter became a daily paper. Mr. Long is a prominent member of the Hanover fire department and an ex- president of the company. He has been its representative in several State Firemen's Conventions. At present he holds the po- sition of chief of the company. He is also a prominent secret society man, holding membership in Hanover Lodge, No. 327, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Eagle Encampment, No. 158, of the same order; of Minnewauke Tribe, No. 250, Improved
Order of Red Men; of Susanna Lodge, No. 247, Daughters of Rebekah; of Warrior Eagle Council, No. 63, Degree of Poco- hontas; of Washington Camp, No. 328, Patriotic Order Sons of America, and of Constantine Castle, No. 142, Ancient Or- der Knights of the Mystic Chain. He has been an active and valued member of St. Matthew's Lutheran church, of Hanover, for about thirty-five years and has uniform- ly placed himself upon the side of all health- ful religious, social and educational re- forms.
In 1877 Mr. Long united in marriage with Mary Jane Warner, a daughter of John and Sarah Warner. To that union have been born four children: Harry War- ner, John Edward, Sarah Irene and Helen Alma, the latter deceased.
D R. MATTHEW J. McKINNON, one of York county's successful physi- cians, besides having placed to his credit a useful professional career, has also found time and pleasure in valued service. He was born in Chanceford township, York county, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1832, and is the son of Michael Whiteford Mc- Kinnon. The latter was a native of the State of Maryland and settled in York county during the early years of his career. He died in the county of his adoption on the 2nd day of March, 1863, at the age of 59 years.
Dr. Mckinnon received his preliminary education in public and private schools, and after a thorough preparation, entered Franklin College at New Athens, Ohio. Subsequently, he read medicine with Dr. A. S. Baldwin, of Maryland, and then en- tered the medical department of the Uni- versity of Maryland, from which he was graduated in the class of 1853. In the same year he opened an office and commenced the practice of his profession in Shirleys-
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burg, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until October 1861. On this latter date he enlisted in the Union service, and was assigned to duty at Camp Curtin as a surgeon with rank of Major. He remained there until the following Feb- ruary, when he was sent to Camp Califor- nia, near Alexandria, Virginia, where he became surgeon of the 53d Pennsylvania Volunteers. He served with this regiment through the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac until February 1863, when he was honorably discharged from military service, at Falmouth, Va., on account of physical disability. After leaving the army he lo- cated at Hagerstown, Maryland, where he was appointed surgeon in the hospital, a position he filled with credit until it was removed and abandoned. In this latter year he removed to his father's farm in Chanceford township where he practiced for three years. In 1873 he removed to the city of York, where he has been in active and continuous practice ever since.
On March 7, 1857, Dr. Mckinnon wed- ded Amelia J. Schindel, a daughter of Dan- iel Schindel, of Hagerstown, Maryland. To this union six children have been born: Carrie, wife of I. N. Faust, a merchant and miller, of Mill Creek, Pennsylvania; Annie, deceased, married to William F. Ramsay, of York; Robert Bruce, a civil engineer; John W., a dentist, located in Baltimore, Maryland; Walter Scott; and Margaret H., now of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
Dr. McKinnon is a Democrat in politics. He served as a member of the school board for a number of years. and in 1884 was elected to the Legislature from York county, serving on the Ways and Means Committee of the House, during the ses- sion of 1885. In 1888 he was re-elected to the Legislature, and again served the cause
of legislation in a manner entirely accept- able to his constituents.
Dr. McKinnon is a member of Zarada- tha Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; John Sedgwick Post, No 37, Grand Army of the Republic and Continental Assembly No. 24, Artisans Order of Mutual Protec- tion. He served for a period of six years as physician to the County Home and has been surgeon to the York City Hospital since its establishment. At the present writing he is also surgeon of the Northern Central railway, and has served in the same capacity for the York Southern railroad since its construction. Dr. Mckinnon has an enviable military record and as evidence of the character of his services in the field and the esteem in which he was held for his professional skill, we quote the follow- ing letter from the medical inspector of the Army of the Potomac:
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, MEDICAL DIRECTOR'S OFFICE, MAY 2Ist, 1863.
DOCTOR:
It affords me great pleasure to bear testi- mony of your efficiency as a medical officer. Our relations have been intimate for some time and my opportunities for observation extensive.
I can therefore say with truth that I al- ways considered you one of the most re- liable surgeons in the 2nd Army Corps. No better testimonial of your kindness, zeal, ability, energy and efficiency is required, than the grateful remembrance of the offi- cers and men of the 53rd Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteers.
I know the estimation in which you are held by the old regiment, and the knowl- edge that you contemplated returning to the field would be hailed with pleasure by them as well as by your numerous friends in the service.
With much respect, Your Obedient Servant, J. H. TAYLOR, Medical Inspector, Army of the Potomac.
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In the various positions of trust which he has held in civil, political, military and professional life, Dr. Mckinnon has always served with unusual faithfulness, in- tegrity and efficiency. He is a communi- cant of the Presbyterian church and has al- ways manifested a pronounced zeal for the moral and intellectual progress of his com- munity.
The Mckinnon family is noted for the large stature and longevity of its members due, no doubt, to the physical prowess and sturdiness of its ancestral stock. The pa- ternal grandfather came to America from Scotland soon after the close of the Revo- lutionary war. He was a sea captain by profession, but upon coming to America adapted himself to agricultural pursuits and settled on a farm in Harford county, Md. He reared two sons and a daughter.
The maternal grandfather was a Matthew McCall, a farmer by occupation, a native of the North of Ireland, who settled in Ameri- ca at a time antedating the Revolutionary war. He settled on the Susquehanna river in Pennsylvania, and at a place now known as McCall's Ferry, where he reared quite a family.
R EV. FRANCIS WILLIAM Mc- GUIRE, of Shiremanstown, Cum- berland county, Pennsylvania, is the son of Robert and Harriet (Greenabaum) Mc- Guire and was born near Duncannon, Perry county, this State, on October II, 1863. The McGuires are of Scotch-Irish extraction, Robert McGuire, father of the subject of this sketch, having been born in county Limerick, near Sligo, Ireland, Feb- ruary 2, 1812. He died near Duncannon, February 6, 1888. He was reared on a farm and at the age of twenty-one came to America in the year 1833. He spent a brief time at Norristown and then for sev- eral years traveled through the States
working at different kinds of labor. In the year 1842 he located on a farm near Dun- cannon, where he remained the most of his life. He married Harriet Greenabaum, daughter of Jonas Greenabaum, a German Jew, whose wife was a German Lutheran. She (Mrs. McGuire) was born on the ocean while her mother was coming to America in September, 1833. Mr. Greenabaum lived first at Hanover and then at Starner's Sta- tion, Cumberland county. He was a mer- chant. The subject's father was twice mar- ried. His first wife was Mary Jane Elliot, of Perry county. By her he had two chil- dren, all of whom are dead. By his second wife he had six sons and one daughter: Margaret, wife of Jacob Burger, of Harris- burg; Robert, who is farming on the old homestead; Thomas, a wood-worker, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania; John, a rail- road man of Harrisburg; George, a farmer of Perry county; Charles Andrew, a rail- road employee of Harrisburg, and the sub- ject of this biography.
Rev. F. W. McGuire received his rudi- mentary education in the common schools and then went to Bloomfield Academy. Subsequently he was for a short time a stu- dent at Washington and Jefferson College. Having thus prepared himself, he taught school for two winters and then, at the age of twenty-three entered the ministry of the Church of God. His first pastorate was the East Lancaster circuit, of which he took charge in April 1887, and in October of the same year he was licensed to preach the gospel at Washington borough and re- turned to the same appointment for one year. The next year he was sent to Ma- tamdos circuit August 22, 1889.
He was married to Alice E. Clark at Smithville, Lancaster county. She lived with her grandfather, Jacob Kepperling, who belonged to the Mennonite church. Her parents live near Safe Harbor, Lan-
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caster county. They went to housekeeping ject. By his second wife, Elizabeth Sands, in Elizabethtown in October 1889; in 1891 he had three children: Edward, Samuel and John. By his third wife he had three children: Elmer, William and Annie, all living. they went to Churchtown; in 1892 to New- ville, and in 1894 to Shiremanstown. He has charge of the Shiremanstown, Bow- mansdale and Churchtown churches.
Besides preaching he writes considerable for the Church Advocate and for three years edited the Sabbath School Lesson notes for that paper. He also writes for the Herald of the Coming One and other pa- pers.
H ENRY McELROY, who is connect- ed with the iron industry of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, is the son of Edward F. and Elizabeth (Roeth) McElroy, and was born in Lancaster county Pennsyl- vania, December 24, 1837. He is of Scotch- Irish ancestry. His grandfather came from Ireland to America prior to the Revolu- tionary war and located in York county, where he followed the occupation of con- tractor. While engaged in that calling he constructed the turnpike between Harris- burg and Carlisle. For a time he kept ferry boats opposite Harrisburg. He married and had six children: John, William, Henry, Emery, Elizabeth, who married Samuel Heiner; and Susan, deceased.
Edward McElroy, the father of our sub- ject, was born in York county in 1805 and died at the age of ninety-one years. He was engaged in carpentering and cabinet making at Marietta, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, all his life and was very suc- cessful in that business. In politics he was a Democrat and in religion a member of the Lutheran church, taking an active part up to the time of his death. He married three times. His first wife was Elizabeth Roeth, by whom he had four children. Susan, wife of John Dickover; Catharine, wife of Emanuel Longenecker; Emiline, wife of George W. Trump; and Henry, our sub-
Henry McElroy obtained his education in the common schools of Marietta and subsequently farmed two years in Cumber- land county., He then was employed with the construction of the State Insane Asy- lum at Harrisburg for one year. Afterward he was employed nine years for E. Halde- man & Company in Lancaster county and seven years at Donegal furnace in the same county. He then located in Wrightsville where he has resided for thirty years. Dur- ing these years he has been connected with the Wrightsville Iron Co. as assistant man- ager, and the Wrightsville Hardware Com- pany as treasurer and manager. He helped to establish the Columbia Embroidery works and the Cemetery Association. In politics Mr. McElroy is an active Republi- can. He has served two terms as burgess, ten terms as councilman, two terms as school director and one term as president of the school board. He is a Mason,
January 2, 1869, he married Mary E., daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Lock- ard, of Lancaster county. To that union have been born seven children: Annie and Mary E., deceased; Harry, a machinist; Ellen, wife of Reuben Kline; Catharine, wife of Howard Keller; Edith, wife of Charles Birnstock; and Hayes, a pattern- maker.
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OSEPH MILLEISEN, a prominent and highly respected citizen of Mechanics- burg, is the son of George Adam and Mary Elizabeth (Fritchey) Milleison, and was born three miles east of Harris- burg, in Dauphin county, September 19, 1813. The Milleisens are of Dutch ances- try and located in this county in the per-
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sons of John Jacob and Christopher Mil- leisen, two brothers, who emigrated from Holland and settled near Philadelphia upon their arrival in America. John Jacob, Jr., was born at his home, from which he after- ward moved to Dauphin county soon after marrying. He first located at Middletown, but later moved to near Harrisburg where he bought a tract of land early in the 18th century and became a man of affluence, owning, at the time of his death, three farms, a mill, distillery and blacksmith shop. He lived to be eighty-three years of age and died in the Reformed faith. His wife was Miss Gearhart, of Phil- adelphia county. They had five children: John, a farmer and blacksmith of Dauphin county, who lived to be seventy years of age; John Jacob, who lived on the old homestead and reached the age of seventy years; George Adams, father of our sub- ject; William, a soldier of the war of 1812, who lived to be seventy years of age; Eliz- abeth and Catharine, who lived to a good old age.
George Adam, the father of our subject, was born on the homestead in Dauphin county 1779, and died on a farm in 1861, aged eighty-two years. He was a farmer all his life and for thirty years engaged in distilling. In religion he was of the Re- formed faith. He married Mary Eliza- beth, daughter of John Godfrey Fritchey. Mr. Fritchey was a farmer and merchant and by nativity a German. To that union were born three sons and three daughters: John Jacob, late a farmer on the old home- stead, who died in 1895, aged eighty-three years; Joseph, our subject; Alfred William, a retired farmer at Mechanicsburg, aged sixty-five years; Maria Catharine, wife of Samuel Zacharias, who died at the age of fifty years; Elizabeth, wife of John G. Rupp, deceased; Margaret, widow of Simon Hos- tech.
Our subject was brought up on the farm and received his education in the county schools of his day. He remained on the farm until thirty years of age, when he en- gaged in the coal and lumber business at Mechanicsburg and in 1866 took his son into partnership. They carry a full line of rough and finished lumber and all kinds of coal; and do a large business.
Mr. Milleisen became a voter in the campaign of 1840 and cast his vote for Wil- liam Henry Harrison for President. Since the dissolution of the Whig party he has affiliated with the Republican party. He is a member of the Reformed church.
February 22, 1844, he married Miss Bar- bara, daughter of Christian Martin, a far- mer of near Mechanicsburg. They had four sons: George C., partner of his father in the coal and lumber business; John Jacob, of Quincy, Illinois, a railroad man and now general freight agent of the Hoosic Tunnel fast freight line; Alfred Wil- liam, hardware merchant and State Senator of the district, elected in 1894; Martin C., banker of Rudiville, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. Eighty-four years is quite a span of life and of itself would inspire re- spect. But Mr. Milleisen deserves the cor- dial esteem with which his fellow citizens honor him for more worthy and substantial reasons than merely his venerable age. His career has been long and successful and the history of the whole family is full of striking traits showing the same sturdi- ness, integrity and good sense which this latter day patriarch has exhibited.
D. A. BOLLINGER, President of the Hanover Milling Company, is a son of Harry and Mary (Baker) Bollinger, and was born near Hanover, May 7, 1856. The Bollingers are of German origin.
Jacob Bollinger, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was a farmer in West Man-
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heim township, York county, all his life. He was a member of the Reformed church and in politics was a Democrat.
Harry Bollinger, the father of our sub- ject, obtained a common school education in West Manheim township and then learn- ed the trade of milling, which he followed near Hanover for a time and then engaged in farming near Littlestown,Adams county. After farming for some time Mr. Bollinger retired from that occupation and embarked in hotel keeping by becoming landlord of the famous White Hall hostelry in Adams county. After conducting this well known inn for four years he went back to farming in Union township, Adams county, and the remaining years of his life were devoted to the quiet and peaceful pursuits of hus- bandry. He died in 1883. In politics Mr. Bollinger was a Democrat of the Jackson school and took an active and intelligent part in the affairs of his party. In religion he was of the Reformed faith and worshiped at the various churches in the neighbor- hoods where he lived. His remains are buried in the old grave yard adjoining the family church. Mr. Bollinger married Mary Baker. To that union were born six children: Jacob, Addison, Henry, Eliza, who became Mrs. John Stewart; D. A., and Franklin. Mrs. Bollinger died in 1878 and was buried by the side of her husband in the old church burying ground.
D. A. Bollinger, the subject of this sketch, received his rudimentary education in the public schools of Adams county, and then attended a normal school at Get- tysburg. With the object of preparing thoroughly for teaching school he attended a professional school at New Windsor, Lancaster county, and then took a com- mercial course in a Baltimore business college. For eight years after completing the latter course he taught in the schools of Maryland, six years in Adams county
and one term in the Littlestown school. School teaching, especially in the rural districts, is notoriously unprofitable, and with a view to bettering his condition Mr. Bollinger set about to learn the trade of milling. Having acquired that he came to Hanover and happening to find a position, kept books for a while and then became sec- retary, treasurer and finally manager of the Hanover Milling company, June 13, 1888. Since that time Mr. Bollinger has labored assiduously in the interests of the com- pany and possibly no element has exerted such influence upon its affairs as the suc- cess which he has brought about. In politics Mr. Bollinger is a Democrat, and at present he is a member and president of the Hanover town council. In religion he is of the Reformed faith. He is also a member of the McAllister council, Royal Arcanum.
December 22, 1882, he married Emma, a daughter of Henry Dysart. To that union have been born two children, H. Ellsworth and Carl D.
R EV. ELMER W. MOYER, pastor of the First Church of God, of Car- lisle, is the eldest son of William F. and Carolina (Seigfried) Moyer, and was born at Orwigsburg, Schuylkill county, Pennsyl- vania, August 1, 1865. The Moyer fam- ily is one of the oldest German families of Schuylkill county, where William F. Moyer was born in February, 1844, and has al- ways resided. He is a son of Daniel Moyer and a grandson of Rev. Philip Moyer, who were life long residents and useful citizens of Schuylkill county. William F. Moyer is a substantial farmer and an active member of the Church of God. He married Caro- line Siegfried, who is a daughter of Israel and Maria Seigfried. To their union have been born ten children, three sons and seven daughters.
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Rev. Elmer W. Moyer was reared on his father's farm and received his education in the Keystone State Normal school, Kutz- town, Berks county, and Findlay College, of Findlay, Ohio, from which latter insti- tution he was graduated in class of 1896. . He taught four terms in the public schools of Schuylkill county, and on October 13, 1891, was ordained in Altoona, Blair county, Pa., as a minister of the Church of God. He then served the congregations at Newville and Green Springs, Cumberland county, for one year and while at college preached to differentadjacent charges. After graduation, in June, 1896, at Findlay col- lege, he came to Carlisle and on November Ist, 1896, took charge of the First Church of God, for which he has labored continu- ously and profitably ever since. The Car- lisle congregation dates back to 1864, when it numbered but eighteen members. It now has a membership of about ninety and is in the East Pennsylvania annual eldership.
On July 11, 1894, Rev. Elmer W. Moyer was united in marriage with Cora M. Kep- ford, a daughter of John Kepford, of Bran- don, Iowa. Rev. and Mrs. Moyer have one child, a daughter, named Esther.
W TILLIAM A. HIMES, a prominent and favorably known business man of New Oxford, Adams county, Pennsyl- vania, is a son of William D. and Magda- len (Lanius) Himes, and was born 1851. He is a descendant of an old and substan- tial family which has been resident in Southern Pennsylvania for a number of generations.
He received his elementary education in the public schools, subsequently attend- ed Nazareth Hall at Nazareth, Pa., for one year and then entered the Freshman class of Moravian College, Bethlehem, Penna., remaining during Freshman and Sopho- more years, then entered the Junior class of
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1871. Shortly after graduation he went to Minne- apolis, Minnesota, where he connected him- self with a real estate, abstract and title of- fice, with which he was identified for a short time. Afterward he taught school and be- came manager of his father's important business interests at New Oxford. In 1878 he embarked in the retail lumber and coal business at the latter place and has been actively identified with it down to the present time, in conjunction with which he conducts several farms in the vicinity of New Oxford. In addition to these busi- ness activities he is a director of the York Trust, Real Estate and Deposit company, director of the Adams County Telephone company, was formerly president of the New Oxford Building and Loan Associa- tion and lias been variously identified with other business enterprises and projects. During the construction of the system of water works in New Oxford, Mr. Himes was a member and president of the council and contributed much to the success and efficiency of that project. He has been president of the school board of his native borough for a number of years, takes an intelligent interest in the intellectual and moral progress of the community and manifests unusual spirit in all progressive movenients. Aside from these rather com- plex business relations he has been ap- pointed frequently as executor in several large estates. In politics he is a stanch ad- herent of the Republican party and has uni- formily taken an intelligent and commend- able interest in the success of his party in all recent county, State and national con- tests. Fraternally he is a member of the Masons in high standing.
On April, 19, 1877, William A. Himes was united in marriage with Katharine W. Gitt, a daughter of A. F. Gitt, of New
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