Biographical and historical cyclopedia of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, Part 45

Author: Gresham, John M. cn; Wiley, Samuel T. cn
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Philadelphia [Dunlap & Clarke]
Number of Pages: 1422

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ARTIN GOEHRING, JR., an ener- getic business man and a prosperous merchant of Manor station, was born near, Stuttgart the capital of the kingdom of Wurtemburg, southwestern Germany, December 16, 1865. Hle is a son of Martin, Sr. and Mary (Hunter) Goehring, both natives of the Fatherland. Martin Goehring left the land of his nativity in August, 1869, and came to the United States. HIe located at West Newton where he still resides.

Hle is a democrat and a local officer in the Evangelical Lutheran church. Mr. and Mrs. Goehring have seven children : Martin, Jr., Christian G., John G., druggist at West New- ton ; Mary, Frederick, who is a painter; Wil- liam L., a clerk with C. C. Price, and Anna.

Martin Gochring, Jr. was reared at West Newton, and received his education in the public schools of that place.

lle afterwards became a elerk in the mercan- tile establishment of S. C. Weimer at West Newton, and served in that capacity for three years. He was then employed to take charge of the company store of R. II. Latimer & Co. and in 1883 became a member of the firm. In 1884 the company combined with another company under the firm name of Patterson & Co., limited, and he became manager of their com- bined stores. This position he held until No- vember, 1888, when he resigned on account of ill health and took a long-needed vacation. In

February, 1889, he formed a co-partnership with Hirman Aultman of Adamsburg, and they engaged in the mercantile business at Manor station. Their store is in the new Odd Fellow building and they carry a full line of dry goods, staple and fancy groceries, notions, boots and shoes, glassware and everything which is called for in their line of business. They are rapidly building up a substantial trade, are already doing a business at the rate of $25,000 per year.

Mr. Goehring lost all his household effects by the fire at Manor on Wednesday, December +, 1889.

On May 19, 1887, he united in marriage with Lucy A. Shrader, daughter of William Shrader. They have one child, named Mary Elizabeth.

Martin Goehring, Jr. is a member of West- moreland Lodge, No. 518, A. Y. M., of Greens- burg, and the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. He is energetic and persevering in what- ever he undertakes and has been remarkably successful in the mercantile business for so young a man in years. He is a democrat in politics. He and his wife are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church.

P AUL GOOD, SR., one of Penn township's inost industrious and thoroughgoing citi- zens and a practical and successful mar- ket gardener, was born in Frankhn township (now Penn), Westmoreland county, Pa., Janu- ary 24, 1827, and is the eldest son of Henry and Margaret (Naly) Good. His paternal grandfather, Lawrence Good, was a native of Northampton county, Pa., where he married Margaret Iluffman and some years after his marriage emigrated to Hempfield township, Westmoreland county, Pa. He purchased and lived on a farm now owned by Mr. Isaac Kling- elsmith, the farm upon which the subject of this sketch resides. Mr. and Mrs. Good were the parents of twelve children : Christian, Henry,

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Isaac, Daniel, David, John, Mary, Catherine Sarah, Hannah, Lydia and Martha. Henry Good (father) was born in Northampton county and accompanied his parents to this county. Ile was a cabinet maker by trade, a member of the Reformed church of Manor and died August 21, 1863. He was an earnest Christian, honest in all his business transactions and noted for his uprightness and integrity. He married Mar- garet Naly, who is a daughter of Philip and Sarah (Smith) Naly and resides now in Peun township. To Henry and Margaret Good were born twelve children, of whom eleven are living : Paul, Sr., Jesse (dead), Caroline, who is mar- ried to John Hosack ; Maria R. (dead), wife of William R. Moore ; Hannah, who is married to ; Josiah Wagner ; Aaron M., Henry P., Ben- jamin F. (dead), James J., George W., and Sophia MI., who is the wife of Henry Buskhayger.

Paul Good, Sr. was reared on a farm and at- tended the subscription schools until he was sixteen years of age. For the next four years he worked as a laborer and then learned the trade of carpenter. Soon after learning his trade he engaged in butchering which he fol- lowed continuously and successfully for twenty- five years. He then embarked in his present occupation of market gardening.

On August 6, 1849, he married Julia Ann Peterson, who bore him eight children : George P., l'aul, James L., John N., Sophia, wife of Samuel Walthour; Sarah, who is married to Seth Gossart ; Anna, wife of William Ank and Emma, who is married to William Gossart. Mrs. Good was a daughter of John and Anna Peterson, who came from Germany in 1840. She died in 1880 and on November 29, 1883, Mr. Good united in marriage with Anna Martha Ank. To this second union have been born two children : Jennie Grace and Samuel Ira.

Paul Good, Sr. is a member of the Reformed church at Manor. In politics he is a democrat. He thoroughly understands the science and art of successful gardening.

a NDREW JACKSON GOOD was born April 10, 1845, in Pen township, West- moreland county, Pa., and is a son of Henry and Margaret (Naly) Good. His grand- father was Lawrence Good, a native of Germany, who immigrated to America at an early day, settling in Lancaster county, Pa. Henry Good (father) was born February 5, 1808, in Lancas- ter county, Pa., whence he removed to Pen township, this county, when a young man. By trade he was a cabinet-maker, but purchased a farm in Penn township and followed agricultural pursuits in connection with his trade. He was a democrat of Jacksonian type and named one of his sons in honor of "Old Hickory." He died August 21, 1863. He was married April 6, 1826, to Margaret, a daughter of Philip Naly : of Penn township, and to them were born ten children, of whom seven are living.

Andrew Jackson Good in his earlier life fol- lowed farming, but later became a member of the distillery firm operating under the name of Fry & Mathias. He is an estimable gentleman, a loving husband and father, a true friend and a good citizen. Mr. Good is an "Andrew Jack- son " democrat and a valiant worker for his party. He is a member of Westmoreland Lodge, No. 518, A. Y. M. ; Urania Chapter, No. 192, II. R. A. M. ; and Kedron Commandery, No. 18, Knights Templar ; also of St. Clair Lodge, No. 53, A. O. C. W.

A. J. Good was married December 15, 1874, to Sophia J., a sister of Joseph Mathias, whose sketch appears in this work. They have one child, Jacob Mathias, born June 1, 1876.

COLLINS GREER, one of Penn town- ship's foremost merchants and successful businesss men and the present postmaster at Claridge, was born in Indiana county, Pa., August 19, 1863, and is a son of Rev. J. C. and Jennie (Shryock) Greer. His grandfather, 'Squire William Greer, was born in Westmore-

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land county, Pa., February 6, 1802, and served for many years as justice of the peace in Penn township. He married Abigail Collins, daughter of Col. Joseph and Abigail (Byram) Collins of Penn township, by whom he had ten children : .

iam S., Caroline K., wife of Matthew Wilson; Mary J., Sarah B., wife of J. B. Bratten; Eunice E., who married Rev. James McElroy ; and Abigail, wife of James Patterson. Rev. J. C. Greer (father) was born February 18, 1827, and was reared on a farm. He was graduated at Jefferson college, Cannonsburg, Pa., in the class of 1852. He then entered the ministry and preached for six years at Lumber City, Clear- field county, Pa., where he founded the Lumber City academy. In April, 1864, he entered the Union army as captain of Co. II, 206th reg., Pa. Vols .. participated in the siege and capture of Richmond and is entitled to the proud distinction of being the first Union minister to preach in į that city after its fall. He was mustered out of the United States service June 26, 1865, re- sumed his ministerial labors in western Pennsyl- vania and is now pastor of the First United Presbyterian church of Johnstown, Pa. In 1857 he married Jennie S. Shryock. Rev. J. C. Greer's grandmother was captured at eight years of age by Indians, who held her as a cap- tive at Niagara, New York, for six years. Rev. and Mrs. Greer have six children : William S., David N., Jennie M., wife of Dr. J. M. Cooper ; Harry L., George C. W. and J. Collins.

J. Collins Greer at nine years of age removed to Lumber City, Pa., where he attended the academy founded by his father for several years and then came to the old Greer homestead in this county, which he farined for six years. At the end of this time he removed to Murrysville, where he followed teaming for one year, then was in the livery businss for two years, after which he removed to Claridge and purchased a half-interest in a store at that place. In nine

months he purchased his partner's interest and since then has conducted a very successful mer- cantile business at Claridge.

He was married September 23, 1885, to Sarah J. Cooper, daughter of Joshua and Sarah Rev. J. C., Agnes, who married Rev. John M. : (MeWilliams) Cooper, by whom he has two MeElroy, D. D. ; James M., Elizabeth J., Will- | children : Sarah Effa and Joseph W.

J. Collins Greer is a member and trustee of the Murrysville United Presbyterian church. He is a republican and has been postmaster at Claridge since March 1, 1889. Mr. Greer is energetic and enterprising and is a man of varied business experience.

ARTIN E. GRIFFITHI, M. D., an in- telligent gentleman and a well-read and skillful young physician of Manor, is the eldest son of E. C. and Martha (Stephens) Griffith, and was born near Fayette City, Fayette county, Pa .. July 14, 1861.

Ilis parents reside in Fayette county. They reared a family of three children : Dr. Martin E., Samuel A., engaged in farming and Ada, who is a telegraph operator. His father is a republican, a successful farmer and a man of decided convictions. His mother is a daughter of Thomas Stephens, who was a member of the very numerous and highly respectable Stephens family of Fayette county, l'a. Ilis paternal grandfather, Hon. Samuel C. Griffith, was born at Brownsville, Pa., and died at Fayette City, Pa., in 1873. He was a man of more than ordinary ability. Ile was an excellent mathe- matician, a fine penman, a good surveyor and a successful teacher. He taught for over forty winters, was principal of the Fayette City school for many years, did surveying in all parts of his native county, was a whig and afterwards a republican, and served one term as a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature. He was reared a Quaker, but by marrying outside the pale of the Friends' church cancelled his connection with that religious denomination. He married Esther

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Farquhar, who still survives him and who is a daughter of Thomas Farquhar, who was of Scotch descent. They had six children, all of whom are living. His father was William Griffith, who was a son of immigrant William Griffith, Sr., who was a native of Wales and the founder of the Griffith family in northern Fayette county, Pa. Dr. Martin E. Griffith was reared at Fayette City, Pa., attended the public school and the " Southwestern Pennsyl- vania State Normal school " at California, and after leaving school made election of medicine as his life profession. From 1879 to 1881 he read medicine with Dr. J. V. Porter, and in the latter year went to Charity Hospital in the city of New Orleans, La., where he spent the winter in the study of diseases and surgery. Ile next entered " Ohio Medical College " at Cincinnati, and spent one winter, and in 1883 matriculated in Jefferson Medical college at Philadelphia, and was graduated from that time- honored institution in 1885. In the same year of his graduation he opened an office at Fayette City, Pa., where he soon came into and held a large practice, which was rather remarkable, as young physicians generally grow slowly into public favor and extended practice. In May, 1

1889, he removed to Manor, this county, and formed a partnership with Dr. I. N. Leyda. They have a large and extensive practice.

Politically Dr. Griffith follows in the foot- steps of his father and grandfather and is an active republican. He is a skilled physician who has every prospect of a long and successful career before him. He is at present a general practitioner of medicine, but took several special courses while attending lectures.

OIIN W. HEINTZLEMAN was born De- cember 21, 1854, at Larimer, Westmoreland county, Pa., and is a son of Andrew H. and Mary (Wilson) Heintzleman. His great-grand- father was born in the Empire of Germany but

came to. America and settled in Adams county, Pa. Christian HI. Heintzleman (grandfather) was a native of Adams county but removed to Penn township, this county, at the beginning of the present century. He was a cooper by trade and married Mary Lauffer, by whom he had ten children. IIe was a full cousin of Gen. Samuel P. Heintzleman, one of the famous corps com- manders of the civil war. Andrew II. Heint- zleman (father) was born in Penn township February 14, 1825. He learned the carpenter's trade, which he still follows and at which he has been quite successful. His wife was Mary Wilson, daughter of William Wilson, who was also a carpenter, and who emigrated from Ire- land to America in early days, settling in West- moreland county. Andrew HI. Heintzleman is the father of ten children, seven of whom are living. IIe is a republican and takes an active interest in his party's welfare; he has held various offices in his native township.

John W. Heintzleman was educated in the common schools, attended St. Vincent's college, and in 1870 was graduated from Duff's Business college at Pittsburg. He was then employed for seven years by the Penn Gas Coal Co. as a mechanic and in 1883 was made superintendent of the car shops of that company at Penn station, which position he still retains, having been in the employ of this company continuously for more than thirteen years. Being industrious, careful and economic, he has acquired a goodly amount of real estate and has more than a fair start in life. Ile is a member of Royal Ar- canum, Ancient Order United Workmen and of the Sons of Temperance and Order of Solon. Ile is identified with the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he has filled all the various offices and has served his borough as a school director.

Jolin W. Heintzleman was married January 25, 1875, to Anna, a daughter of Dunlevey Smith, of Coultersville, Allegheny county, Pa., and their union has been blessed with six children,

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all of whom are living: Bert, born March 27, 1876; Roy, born October 3, 1878; Andrew, born September 13, 1880; Ross, born May 12, 1882; ladu, born February 21, 1884; and Earl, born November 25, 1886.

UGHI HIENRY, of Jeannette, is a physi- cian who has well qualified himself in the medical colleges and hospitals of the United States and England for the successful practice of his profession. He was born in Sewickley township, Westmoreland county, Pa., January 20, 1854, and is a son of Edward and Susan (Coughenour) Henry. The Henrys are of Scotch-Irish descent. Edward Henry, Sr., lived to be one hundred and five years of age and was the father of Edward Henry, Jr., who was the father of Edward Henry whose son is the subject of this sketch. Edward Henry Jr., was born in Westmoreland county, where he engaged in farming as his life-pursuit. Edward Henry was born in 1809 on the homestead farm near Madison. He has always been a farmer and stock-raiser. He is a republican in politics and united in marriage with Susan Coughenour, by whom he had seven sons and three daughters. She is a native of the Shenandoah Valley, Vir- ginia, where the Coughenours, who were of German extraction, settled at an early day in its colonization by the English cavaliers.

Dr. Hugh Henry received his elementary edu- cation in the common schools, fitted for college at Greensburg academy and attended " Waynes- burg college " in Greene county, Pa. He taught for about eight years in the common schools of his native county before entering upon the study of medicine. In May, 1880, he commenced read- ing with Dr. Loughery of Manor station, who is now located in Pittsburg. In September, 1880, he entered Cleveland Medical college and received private instruction from Professor J. Bennett. In June, 1883, he studied surgery in the college hospital and in the ensuing August

was made assistant resident hospital physician. He also practiced with Drs. Bennett and Scott and devoted his time especially to the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear and throat. In Oc- tober, 1885, he opened an office at Arroyo, Elk county, Pa., where he practiced successfully for nearly two years, but determining on qualifying himself for a wider field of practice he went in July, 1887, to London, England, where he spent one year in the " London Hospital," on White Chapel row, under the instructions of the noted English physician, Dr. Stephen MeKenzie. He received and holds a highly commendatory letter from Prof. II. N. Lewis, assistant physician of the hospital. Returning home from London he located in May, 1889, at Jeannette as a favorable field for the practice of his profession and the increase of his practice has been com- mensurate with the growth of the place. In medicine, law, theology or teaching, principles and practice are the "wedded words" which constitute the sum total of each profession, and Dr. Henry, while diligently studying theory also qualified himself for practice by extensive and successful hospital work.

a LBERT M. HOEY, a prominent young business man and a successful druggist of Harrison City, was born in Franklin township, Westmoreland county, Pa., March 15, 1857, and is a son of Samuel and Susanna (Dewalt) Hoey.

Samuel Hoey was born in Franklin township, June 29, 1814. He is a farmer by occupation, a republican in politics and was elected jury commissioner of Westmoreland county in 1883. In 1870 he was a census enumerator for Frank- lin, Washington and Bell townships. In 1841 he married Susanna Dewalt. To their union have been born nine children : Margaret J., wife of David Allshouse; James, who was a soldier in the war and died in Andersonville prison ; William HI., Ellen, who is married to T. II.

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Verner; Samuel K., Joseph L., David E., Albert M. and George W. B.

Albert M. Hoey received his education in the common schools and Laird Institute at Muriys- ville. At nineteen years of age he left school to work with his brother at the tinning trade. In 1877 he went to Missouri where he remained two years and nine months and then returned to Pennsylvania. He next served as a clerk in a store at Mckeesport, Pa., for thirteen months. At the end of that time he engaged in the drug business at Murrysville, which he quit after one year in order to make a trip to California. He remained in the "Golden State " until 1886, when he returned to his native county and opened his present drug store at Harrison City. His stock is well-selected and embraces a full line of drugs, medicines, toilet articles and perfumery.

Mr. Ilvey is experienced as well as careful in handling drugs and has the prospect of a long and prosperous business career before him.

On February 22, 1887, he united in marriage with Anna M. Shuster, daughter of William G. and Sophia Shuster of Harrison City. Mr. and Mrs. Hoey have one child, Harris O.

In religion Mr. Hoey is a member of the Presbyterian church. He was appointed post- master of Harrison City in May, 1889. He is a member of the Junior O. U. A. M. and the Royal Arcanum.

.f. F. JACKSON, of Jeannette, was born April 26, 1856, in Allegheny City, Pa., and is a son of George W. and Mary (Hannan) Jackson. The Jackson family were among the carliest settlers of Virginia and Ohio. Robert Jackson (grandfather) was born in that part of Virginia now known as West Virginia, and he together with his uncle killed the first Indian ever killed on Black's Island. He was the first man that ever piloted a raft down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers

and was one of the pioneers in pumpmaking, some of the first made in Allegheny City having been manufactured by him. He served in some of the early Indian wars of the country and was in many respects one of the leading men of his day. George W. Jackson (father) was also born in West Virginia and is now a sawyer and a member of the firm of Shulty & Co., planing mill, of Pittsburg. Ile has been with this firm thirteen years and has been very successful in business. He was a private in the late war, having enlisted for three years, but became in a short time the foreman of a company of men whose business it was to manufacture soldiers' supplies, such as knap- sacks, lint, etc., which position he filled until the close of the war. He married Mary Hannan, a daughter of Lawrence Ilannan, who was for forty-nine years a ship captain on the Atlantic ocean. Mrs. Jackson is an eminent physician and a skillful surgeon of the South Side, l'itts- burg, and is now about fifty-four years of age. She is the manufacturer of salves that are used in every State of the Union, and is consulted professionally by many of the best physicians of Pittsburg. She is a remarkable woman, talented in her profession and successful in business, owning the finest residence on the South Side, Pittsburg. Both she and her husband are de- voted members of the Catholic church, and Mr. Jackson is an active democrat, who has been twice elected a member of the Common Council of his city.

J. F. Jackson is the eldest of ten children, and was educated at St. Peters and St. Paul's schools in Allegheny. Ile learned the trade of sawyer with his father, remaining with the same firm for nineteen years. He then went into the hotel business at No. 1401 Carson street, but after a year went west where he was employed in the lumber business for several years in Michi- gan. July 16, 1888, he located at Jeannette and has grown up with the town, for when he arrived there were but three houses in the place.

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Mr. Jackson is president of the Anchor Hunt- ing and Fishing Club of the now large and thriving borough. Ile is an active, aggressive republican but broad minded and liberal ; he is a pleasant and courteous gentleman and a jovial companion.

J. F. Jackson was married to Matilda Boden- hagen, whose father is Theodore Bodenhagen, one of the oldest merchant tailors of the South Side, Pittsburg.

ILLIAM S. JONES, the present as well as the first burgess of Jeannette and bookkeeper for the great flint glass firm of McKee Bros., is a son of Evan E. and Mary A. (Davis) Jones and was born in Pittsburg (south side), Pa., April 24. 1860. His father, Evan E. Jones, was born and reared in Wales, where he learned the trade of farnace builder | and soon became a thorough and expert work- man in that particular line of business. In 1837 he crossed the Atlantic, landed in the United States and settled in the western part of this State. He did not have long to wait for paying employment. His work was sufficient recommendation to secure him large and impor- tant furnace contracts. He created the first furnaces for the well-known firm of Oliver Bros. & Phillips, of Pittsburg, and kept them in re- pair for twenty-two years. He built the United States Tin Plate Company's furnaces at Me- Keesport, Allegheny county, Pa., and a number of other mills and was engaged in the construc- tion and repair of furnaces until a few years ago, when he retired from all active pursuits of life and became a resident of the " Glass City." In polities he is a republican and in religion he is a Disciple, often called Campbellite. His wife is a daughter of Evan Davis, and was born in Wales, Cardiganshire. Of the twelve chil- dren born unto them five are now living. 1

William S. Jones was reared in his native city, attended the public schools and was gradu-

ated from the " Pittsburg high school " in the class of 1878. He then was employed in a rolling mill and then was engaged as a clerk for the firm of MeKee Bros. In 1882 he was pro- moted to bookkeeper and when the firm erected their fireproof flint glass factory in 1888 at Jeannette, this county, Mr. Jones became a resi- dent of the " Glass City." This great factory consists of three fifteen-pot furnaces and one tank furnace, together with all shops and build- ings necessary to the prosecution of the business and all the latest improvements. The factory runs day and night, employs a large force of men and sends its glass not only throughout the United States and Canada but even to foreign ports, where foreign factories formerly monopo- lized the glass trade. Mr. Jones is a republican in his political opinions, was elected burgess of Jeannette in 1889 and is very popular as a pub- lic official. Mr. Jones is an unassuming and modest gentleman, and is kind, obliging and popular with all whom he meets.

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Biographical and historical cyclopedia of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, Part 45

Author: Gresham, John M. cn; Wiley, Samuel T. cn Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Philadelphia [Dunlap & Clarke] Number of Pages: 1422

Author: Gresham, John M. cn; Wiley, Samuel T. cn
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Philadelphia [Dunlap & Clarke]
Number of Pages: 1422