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William E. Webb passed his early years of life on the farm, received his literary education in the public schools and the West Chester State Normal school, and then selected the medical profession as his
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life vocation. He read medicine with Dr. H. W. Pownall, and matriculated in Jeffer- son Medical College, of Philadelphia, from which well known institution he was gradu- ated in the class of 1887. After graduation he located at Collamer, in Chester county, where he practiced up to April 8, 1890, when he accepted the position of assistant examiner for the Pennsylvania Railroad company, at Williamsport, Lycoming county. From Williamsport, on February I, 1893, he was transferred to Derry Sta- tion, Westmoreland county, and remained there as assistant medical examiner until June 1, 1895, when he was appointed to his present position as medical examiner at York. Dr. Webb has been successful as a physician, and stands well with his fellow- members of the medical profession. He is a member of the York County and the Pennsylvania State Medical Societies. His advancement to his present and responsible position has been the reward of merit, and hard and assiduous labor. Dr. Webb is a Republican in politics, but takes no active or prominent part in the great contests be- tween the two leading political parties of the country. He is a member of London Grove Friends meeting and follows reli- giously in the foot-steps of his ancestors who were faithful followers of George Fox.
On April 7, 1890, Dr. William E. Webb, at Furniss, Lancaster county, married Emma Grace Evans, a member of Chest- nut Level Presbyterian church, and a daughter of J. Leiper and Grace A. (Col- lins) Evans, of Furniss. Dr. and Mrs. Webb, have two children, a son and a daughter: William and Grace E.
J. C. TANGER, hardware merchant of Hanover, York county, is a son of David S. and Susanna Cecilia (Rupp) Tanger, and was born at Hanover June 28, 1857. The Tangers are of Scotch ori-
gin. David Tanger was the son of Jacob Tanger, who was born in Lancaster county, Pa. David Tanger was born in Lancaster city, Pa., and after receiving a common school education, learned wagon making at York Springs, Adams county, after which he engaged in mercantile business for three years. He came to Hanover in I854 and began the manufacture of car- riages in 1856. He was also a member of the firm of Loncks, Michael & Tanger, hardware dealers, organized in 1862. In 1865 Loucks withdrew and in 1877 the firm became Tanger & Etzlor. The hardware and carriage business was carried on by this firm until 1880, when our subject bought Mr. Etzler's interest and the firm became D. S. Tanger & Son. Since 1887, when the elder Tanger died, the business has been conducted by our subject under the firm of J. C. Tanger & Co. David S. Tanger was a Republican and as such took an ac- tive part in politics. He was twice elected burgess of Hanover and also served in the town's council and school board. In reli- gion he was a member of the Menonite church. He was twice married, his first wife being Susanna Cecilia, a daughter of John and Mary Rupp, by whom he had three children: John C., our subject; Fan- nie E., who married Samuel Hostetter; and a child who died in infancy. His second wife was Elizabeth Harnish, daughter of Jacob and Susanna Harnish. To that un- ion were born seven children: Grant S., deceased; Frank T .; Eva L., who married Alvin Menges; David A .; Catharine; Viola G., and Anna, the latter deceased.
John C. Tanger received his education in the public schools of Hanover and then engaged in clerking in his father's hard- ware store until 1876, when he went to Philadelphia and clerked in the wholesale carriage and saddlery hardware store of George De B. Keim & Co. In May 1880
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he returned to Hanover and as before men- tioned, bought an interest in his father's hardware business. He has remained a resident and business man of Hanover ever since. Mr. Tanger is one of Hanover's most substantial citizens and has taken a promi- nent part in the development of the town's interests. He assisted in organizing the People's bank at Hanover and is at present secretary of the institution. He also as- sisted in organizing the Hanover & Mc- Sherrystown Street Railway company and was its first president. Mr. Tanger also de- votes considerable attention to the affairs of the Reformed church of which he is a member and a communicant in Emanuel's congregation. He is superintendent of the infant Sunday school.
June 24, 1885, he married Ida S., a daughter of Charles and Susan Young. That union has been blessed with four chil- dren: Charles Y., John C., Susan Y., and David S., the latter deceased.
H ON. E. Z. STRINE, an ex-member of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, and a prominent lawyer, was born in the village of Strinestown, Cone- wago township, York county, Pa., on June IIth, 1842. His parents were Peter S. Strine and Margaret Zeigler Strine. Peter S. Strine was born in Conewago township in 1815, and Margaret Zeigler Strine was born in Codorus township in 1817. The father of Mr. Strine died in 1854 and is buried in Union cemetery, Manchester borough. His mother is still living and resides on the old homestead, at Strines- town, and is now in her 80th year. Both are Dunkards and gave to their son a re- ligious training from his childhood. The great-grandfather, Peter Strine, was a na- tive of Germany and settled in America during the middle of the 18th century. The
latter served under Gen. Washington in the war of the Revolution.
Margaret Zeigler Strine's parents were of German descent, her father, Daniel Zeig- ler, serving as a soldier in the defence of Baltimore in the war of 1812-14.
Capt. E. Z. Strine was employed on a farm during his youth. He was educated in the common schools and ranked high as a scholar. He came to York in March, 1862, and entered into the mercantile busi- ness and continued that pursuit until 1872 when he registered as a law student in the office of E. D. Ziegler, Esq. On Febru- ary 24, 1873, he was admitted to the prac- tice of law in the several courts of York county. Since that time he has been en- gaged in successful practice. Mr. Strine was elected a member of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania in 1886 and represented his county with ability. He has been prominent in politics for a period of 30 years, being a Democrat. He has taken great interest in military affairs. He left York for Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, marched with the Fifth Corps, Union Army and Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, from Hanover to Gettysburg during the night of the first of July, arriving on the Gettys- burg battlefield on the morning of the 2nd of July. He was present with the troops and
saw the second day's battle between the Union and Confederate forces. On the morning of the third of July he was taken prisoner by the Federal forces as a Con- federate spy, but after a hearing by the military authorities of evidence offered and proof of identification, was released. These stirring war scenes, and actual ser- vice in battle on the 2nd day of July, 1863, thereafter shaped Capt. Strine's love for military service. The following is a brief account of service rendered his native State, and in which he showed great abil- ity as an officer and tactician. On July 12,
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1866, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of the Ziegle Guards, of York; May 12, 1868, Ist Lieutenant of the Worth Infantry, of York; July 12, 1869, Captain of the Worth Infantry; Captain of the York Con- tinental Rifles, late Co. C, 8th Regiment, N. G. P., 10th day of Oct., 1870; organized the York Grays on the 4th day of July, 1875; commissioned Captain of the York Grays, Co. A, 8th Regiment, N. G. P .; was re-commissioned a number of times and served until July 12, 1893, when he re- signed and his name was placed on the roll of honor by order of Gov. Robt. E. Patti- son. He was present with his company and assisted in suppressing the Homestead riot.
Mr. Strine was married in 1865 to Ada- line Elizabeth Dehoff, a daughter of Amos M. Dehoff and Emaline (Stambaugh) De- hoff. Mrs. Strine was born in West Man- heim township, York county, on January 4, 1846. The great-grandfather of Mrs. Strine was George Philip Dehoff, who was a Frenchman and settled in America dur- in the 18th century. The latter served in the Revolutionary Army under the com- mand of Gen. Washington, participating in a number of battles, among them being Brandywine and Trenton; and also was at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78.
Mr. and Mrs. Strine have two children, Emma A. Strine and Ulysses S. Grant Strine. The former intermarried with Rev. Wm. H. Ehrhart, pastor of the Lutheran church at Silver Run, Carroll county, Md. Rev. Ehrhart is a York countian by birth and a graduate of Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg of the class of 1893, as well as a graduate of the Theological Lutheran Sem- inary of the class of 1896, at Gettysburg. Mrs. Ehrhart is a highly accomplished and educated woman and one of the leading spirits of her husband's congregation. Ulys- ses S. Grant Strine is married to Amanda
Waring, daughter of George W. and Maria Grim Waring. He was a student at the York County Academy and graduated from the York Collegiate Institute, class of '87. He was Ist Sergeant of Co. A, 8th Regi- ment, N. G. P., for a number of years, hav- ing been connected with said company from May 1884 to 1894. Was present with his company at the Homestead riot of 1892. He is now engaged in mercantile business. The father of Mrs. U. S. G. Strine was born in Franklinville, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., and her mother in Dallastown, York county, Pa. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. U. S. G. Strine, Janet Waring Strine and Frances Lois Strine.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Z. Strine are members of Trinity Reformed church, of York, Pa., J. O. Miller, D. D., pastor. 1
R EV. JOSEPH DAVIS SMITH, the venerable and retired pastor of Slate Ridge Presbyterian church, who is a resi- dent of Delta, York county, Pa., is a son of David and Jane (Davis) Smith and was born in the county of Londonderry, Parish Bally Kelly, Ireland, May 30, 1828. In 1847, when he was nineteen years of age, the family consisting of the mother, father and four children, emigrated to America and located in Philadelphia in July of that year. Besides our subject, the children who came over with the family were William, David and Martha. After remaining in Philadelphia for some years our subject drifted away from his family and began seeking his fortune for himself. He had acquired a good education in Ireland in English and mathematics. He also had a knowledge of the art of printing which he had acquired during his residence in Phila- delphia and its neighborhood, but instead of following this calling he began prepar- ing himself for professional life and entered upon a course of training in Centre College,
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Danville, Kentucky, where he finished his Freshman year and then went to Cannons- burg, Pa., where he spent three years in Jefferson College, now merged into Wash- ington and Jefferson College, graduating in 1856. After receiving his diploma he entered Princeton Theological Seminary and for three years was engaged in pre- paring for the Presbyterian ministry. In 1859 he graduated from this institution and preached temporarily for a year without any charge. In 1860 he was ordained and installed as pastor of the Slate Ridge Pres- byterian church, where he officiated for thirty years, greatly to the satisfaction and well-being of the community. During this active ministry he prepared and preached a number of special discourses which were much commented upon and two of which were published-an historical discourse on his church and another on the duties of ruling elders. The prevailing characteris- tics of Rev. Smith's disposition are kindli- ness, benevolence and a deep devotion to the interests of his church and his com- munity. He has generously indulged these, as many young men whom he has assisted to gain an education can testify. Some ofthe beneficiaries of his kindliness, have through his influence and assistance been led to dis- tinguish themselves in the callings which they elected to follow. Privately Mr. Smith has taught and made a specialty of Greek and other languages. He is now living a quiet retired life among those people to whom his years of faithful and arduous la- bor for their spiritual and moral welfare have endeared him.
B. F. HUBLEY, M. D., one of the young and active physicians of York, is the eldest son of Henry and Sarah (Spangler) Hubley, and was born in Jack- son township, York county, Pennsylvania, March 18, 1869. The settlement of the
Hubley family in the province of Pennsyl- vania dates back some time prior to the Revolutionary war. In 1732 George or Joseph Hubley landed in Philadelphia and five years later he was followed by Jacob Hubley, a supposed brother, who was ac- companied by Catrina and Eve Hubley. The records from which these names have been obtained throw no light upon their relationship but it is conjectured that the one was the wife and the other the daughter of the immigrant; and it is supposed that this ancestor was thefounder ofthe York and Lancaster county branches of the Hubley family. According to book F., page 119, Guardian accounts at York, Jacob Hubly was an orphan son of Jacob Hubley, aged fourteen years, and Jacob Funk was ap- pointed his guardian in 1787. Another theory which in the absence of definite rec- ords, has been built up concerning the an- cestry of the York county Hubleys, is that they are a branch of the Lancaster county family and that the latter is descended from John Hubley who landed in Philadelphia in 1743 and later pushed westward into Lancaster county, where he died in 1769. This theory derives weight and probability from the fact that the Hubleys on this side of the Susquehanna trace their lineage back to John Hubley, Jr., whose father came from Lancaster county and located in York county and who is regarded as a descend- ant of the John Hubley of 1743. John Hubley, Jr., followed farming, married and became the father of Henry Hubley, who in turn became the father of Dr. Hubley. Henry Hubley followed the profession of teaching for thirty-four years. He married Sarah, a daughter of John Spangler, of Alpine, York county, and became the father of five sons and three daughters.
Dr. B. F. Hubley grew to manhood in his native county and received his literary education in the public schools of his lo-
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cality and the York County Academy. Leaving the Academy at nineteen years of age, he made the choice of medicine as his life profession. He read under the pre- ceptorship of Dr. John Wiest, of York, and was graduated with honors from the Medi- co-Chirurgical College, of Philadelphia, in the class of 1891, and immediately com- menced the practice of his profession in York, where he has since remained. In addition to a large general practice, Dr. Hubley is an eye specialist of note and subsequent to his graduation, pursued a spe- cial course in preparation for that branch of medical science. He is a close student of all advances in professional literature and keeps well in the front rank of his profession, both in point of experience and theory. He is a member of the York County and the Pennsylvania State Medi- cal societies and the American Medical As- sociation. During the last of his three years' attendance at the Medico-Chirurgi- cal College, 1890-91, he was appointed and served as demonstrator in the Philadelphia School of Anatomy. Dr. Hubley is an ar- dent Republican in political opinion and in the summer of 1896, was made the can- didate of his party for coroner of York county. In the face of a stubborn majority, however, he and his ticket were defeated by a very slender margin. The doctor is chairman of the Republican City Commit- tee of York and for a number of years prior to his election to this position mani- fested an intelligent and zealous interest in all political and municipal issues.
April 7, 1897, he was united in marriage with Tilly A., daughter of Abraham White- head, of Norristown, Pennsylvania.
D. THOMPSON, alderman from
A. 1 the 9th ward of the city of York, is the son of Archibald and Rosanna (Mor- rison) Thompson, and was born in Hope-
well township, York county, Pennsylvania, April 30, 1842. Archibald Thompson, the progenitor of the York county branch of the Thompson family, was a Scotch Co- venanter, who came about 1730 to Chance- ford township, where he was one ofthe early settlers. He was a native of the North of Ireland, and wedded Margaret Wallace, daughter of Alexander Wallace, who also came to York county, in 1730. They had four children: Alexander, Mrs. Agnes Col- lins, James and Joseph. Alexander Thomp- son was a man of good education. and a cooper by trade, who lent his abilities on many occasions to the public of Chanceford and adjoining townships, and resided dur- ing the greater portion of his life in Hope- well township. He was a man of good business habits and highly respected in his neighborhood. He was a Presbyterian in religious faith, and so zealous was he in the interests of that denomination that he hewed all the logs necessary for the erec- tion of the first church of his denomination (near Cross Roads) in Hopewell township. He served in the Revolutionary war when but a mere lad, and in the war of 1812, in which latter he was wounded at the de- fense of Baltimore. His marriage with Elizabeth Duncan resulted in the birth of one surviving child, Archibald Thompson, the father of the subject of this sketch. The latter was a man of character and influence, like his father, and served for a period of 15 years as justice of the peace in his town- ship, besides holding a number of other offices at various times. He too was a Presbyterian in faith and a warm advo- cate of the public school system, which at that time was brought prominently before the public in Pennsylvania. The date of his death was 1891, at the age of 87 years, having been born 1804.
He married Hanna Meads, who was a daughter of Benjamin Meads, and died,
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leaving no children. Mr. Thompson after- ward married Rosanna Morrison, a daugh- ter of John Morrison. By his second mar- riage he had ten children, eight sons and two daughters.
A. Duncan Thompson was the oldest child of his father's family and received a good education in the common schools and Stewartstown Academy, in which latter institution he subsequently taught for two years. At the end of that time he aband- oned teaching for farming, which he fol- lowed until 1881, when he was elected clerk to the county commissioners. In 1883 he was re-elected, and shortly thereaf- ter was appointed to index all the mort- gages and judgments of York county, from the year 1880 to 1885. In the last named year he was elected justice of the peace for th 9th ward. city of York, and at the close of his term was elected alderman, which latter office he has ever since held, being re-elected in 1896.
Alderman Thompson has always been a strong Democrat, and has been in active support of the municipal, county, State and National policy of his party. His record as a public official is one of integrity, faith- fulness and efficiency. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church, in which his wife also holds membership, and is also connected with the Improved Order of Heptasophs, in which he has passed all the chairs.
In 1866 Mr. Thompson married Annie E. Trout, a daughter of Samuel and Cath- arine (Douglass) Trout, of Hopewell town- ship. To their union have been born four children: Mary Alzetta, now married to Peter Rebman; Margaret Alice, a graduate of the York High school; James Samuel, who lost his life by accident on July 14, 1894, and Earl, a lad of ten years, now at- tending school.
PROFESSOR E. E. TAYLOR, Littles-
town, Pa., son of Peter and Elizabeth Taylor, was born December 31, 1856, near Bendersville, Adams county, Pennsylvania. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His pater- nal great-grandfather, Robert Taylor, was born in Ireland and was the only son when his parents came across the ocean, but he had three brothers, who were born after they came to America; their names being Joseph, George and Douglas.
Robert married Ruth Hunter and they had five sons: first, Joseph, the paternal grandfather of our subject, who married Barbara Arendt, and whose children were Jacob, Levi, Leonard, Peter, Joshua, Cath- arine and Leah; second, James, with only one son, James, of Bowlder, Pa .; third, John, whose sons are Shannan, John and David; fourth, Robert, whose sons were Isaiah and Elijah; fifth, Shannan, with only one son, Coe.
Joseph had five sons also: William D., whose children were Samnel, Lewis, Alex- ander and Joseph. John, whose sons were Brown and Howard. Alexander, whose sons were Solomon and Reuben. Thomas, who had three boys, John, Allen and Meade. James, the only one living, whose two sons are Walter and Hanson. Dou- glas had no sons, but a daughter, who mar- ried her cousin James. George had five sons, who settled along the Juniata river, their names were: Samson, Columbus, Samuel, Solomon and George, now of Mil- lerstown, Pa.
Peter, the father of our subject, was born in Butler township, near Biglerville, and having received a common school educa- tion, followed farming, except for a few years, when he operated a grist mill. He is now retired and lives in Arendtsville, Adams county, Pa. He, like his father, is a Republican in politics, has served as school director, and has been a member of
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the council of the Lutheran church for many years. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias. He married Elizabeth Knouss,with whom he had eleven children: Ezra, William, Ira, Joseph, Lena, John, Isaiah, Kate, Harry, Irvin and George. The mother died February 15, 1895.
The subject of our sketch received his rudimentary education in the common schools, then attended select schools at Arendtsville, Bendersville, and East Berlin, and finally at the State Normal school at Shippensburg. He subsequently began teaching, which profession he has followed for twenty-three years. He taught in the rural districts for seven years, one term in the State of Iowa, one year at the Loys- ville Orphans' Home, then served as prin- cipal of the borough schools of Arendts- ville six years, of East Berlin four years, and has been elected for the fifth time prin- cipal of the Littlestown schools. He is a member of the Lutheran church, superin- tendent of the Sunday school, a deacon in the church council, and an active mem- ber of the Y. P. S. C. E. He was a candi- date for the office of superintendent of com- mon schools of Adams county at the last election in 1896. He is at this time presi- dent of Washington Camp, No. 386, Pa- triotic Order Sons of America at Littles- town.
On the ninth of June, 1877, he married Mary Ellen Postlethwait, of Newport, Pa., and has two children, David Bayard and Grace Elizabeth.
S AMUEL LAMB DIVEN, M. D., a prominent and leading physician of Carlisle, is a son of Samuel Nelson and Sarah Ann (Clark) Diven, and was born at Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1855. The Divens are of Scotch-Irish origin and Wil- liam Diven, the great-grandfather of Dr.
Diven, with his two brothers, came to the vicinity of Carlisle prior to 1775. He was a stone mason and built and lived in a stone building located on the Cumberland county shore just near where the Cumber- land Valley railroad bridge now stands. From this point he operated the first ferry across the Susquehanna river. He also helped to do the mason work of the First Presbyterian church of Carlisle, Pa. Wil- liam Diven served as a soldier in the Rev olutionary war, and his son, Hon. William Diven, who died near Pittsburg in 1868, aged seventy years,lived in York county, Pa., and was a farmer and school teacher. He served in the Pennsylvania legislature and married Mary Nelson, by whom he had three children: Samuel Nelson, Mary, married to John Mateer; and Jane, who wedded Robert McCune.
Samuel Nelson Diven, was born Decem- ber 13th, 1813, in York county, and died in Harrisburg, March 25, 1886. He fol- lowed his trade of tanner for some time at Churchtown, then went to Mount Holly Springs, Pa., where he engaged in mer- chandizing and introduced the first steam saw mill used in that section. He finally in 1868, removed to Harrisburg, in which city he became a leading brick manufac- turer and builder. He started a poor boy and died a man of means, all of which he had acquired honestly, and honorably. He was a strict Presbyterian, a hard-worker, and a staunch Republican. He married Sarah Ann Clark, who was a daughter of William Clark, of Cumberland county, and passed away in 1847 at the age of 76 years. Mr. and Mrs. Diven had eight children: William C., who was a shoe merchant; Sarah Rebecca, married Robert C. Lam- berton, and is now deceased; Robert Nel- son, deceased; Hannah Jane, who is de- ceased; James Ritchey, of Harrisburg, Pa .; De Witt Quay, now in the grocery busi-
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