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William C. Whiteside was reared upon his father's farm, and received his education first in the district schools and later in the excellent academy of Colerain township. In 1889, he embarked in a gen- eral merchandise business at Tayloria, and has con- tinued in this line with marked success, ever since. He served also as postmaster, until his election as justice of the peace in 1804 necessitated his resigna- tion. He discharged the duties of that office to the entire satisfaction of all. In 1894 he was first ap-
pointed justice of the peace, and having been re- elected, still holds that important office. In politica he is a stanch Democrat in his views. In addition to his other interests, Mr. Whiteside owns one- quarter interest in a fine farm of 183 acres, and is regarded as one of the substantial men of the town- ship. The stock carried in his store is thoroughly modern, well selected, and offered at very low prices, while the service is excellent. Knowing the needs of his customers, Mr. Whiteside is able to cater to them, and as a result enjoys a very large patronage.
On Aug. 29, 1888. Mr. Whiteside was married to Miss Jennie R. Taylor, of Little Britain township. a daughter of B. F. and Ruth ( Kirk) Taylor, of Britain township, old settlers of this locality. Her grandfather, Joseph C. Taylor, was a farmer and merchant at Tayloria for many years, and the place was named for this estimable gentleman. Mr. and Mrs. Whiteside have had eight children : Violette Ruth, born April 27. 1889 ; Joseph Taylor, born July 9, 1891; William Clymer, Jr., born Dec. 10. 1893; Edward Craig, born Feb. 6. 1895; Benjamin Frank- lin, born Nov. 14. 1896; Susanna Jane, born July 20. 1899 : Frances Elizabeth, born March 21, 1901, died Sept. 17, 1901 : and David Malcolm, born Sept. 6, 1902. Although a young man, Mr. Whiteside has firmly established himself in the confidence of the community, and is regarded as one of the leaders in local affairs. Genial. open-hearted, generous, be- loved in his home and esteemed in the community, his success in life is something of which he may well be proud, although it is but the just reward of his honest efforts.
HIRAM L. DETWILER, general farmer and proprietor of a valuable sand pit in West Hempfield township, Lancaster county, was born in York county, Pa., Oct. 6. 1834. and is a son of Christian and Elizabeth ( Landis) Detwiler, natives of Lan- caster and Chester counties, respectively. In 1837 the parents returned with their children to Lancaster county, settling near Columbia, in West Hemp- field township, where the father followed farming the remainder of his life, dying in 1851, when seven- ty-three years old. The mother survived him until 1800, passing away at the remarkable age of ninety years, a member of the United Brethren Church. Her remains were interred in the Mountville ceme- tery. To the marriage of Christian and Elizabeth Detwiler were born seven children, namely: Elias. Joseph, Levi, Henry, Jeremiah, Hiram L. and Zach- ariah, all of whom are deceased with the exception of Hiram L., whose name opens this sketch.
In the city of Lancaster, Pa., in 1859, Hiram L. Detwiler married Elizabeth Kauffman, and to this union were born twelve children, namely : David K., who died at the age of five years, two months, three days; Abraham K., married, and em- ployed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Columbia : Mary K., wife of Tobias Shupp, of East
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Hempfield township; Samuel L., married, who is with the railroad company in Lancaster : Elizabeth K., who died young : Daniel K., a machinist in Co- lumbia, married : Isaiah K., at home ; Solomon K., married and at home: Horace K., married and at home; Emma K., who died at the age of fourteen years ; and Harry K. and Wilson K., at home.
Mrs. Elizabeth ( Kauffman) Detwiler was born in West Hempfield township May 28, 1840, daugh- ter of Jacob and Mary ( Roop) Kauffman, of the same township, where he was an extensive farmer and tanner, and a very influential citizen, being a director of the Farmers' National Bank of Lan- caster, and a leader in the Mennonite Church. Jacob Kauffman died in 1865, at the age of eighty-one years, and his widow died at the same age, in 1881 ; their remains are buried in the Silver Spring ceme- tery. To Jacob Kauffman and his wife were born seventeen children, of whom seven reached, or nearly reached, mature age : Susannah, widow of Thomas Carter; David, now deceased ; Leah, of Mountville, unmarried ; Mary, wife of John Piffer, a farmer at Millersville ; Elizabeth, Mrs. Detwiler ; Samuel, who died in 1900; and Catherine, who died when a young woman. The remaining ten died in infancy.
Hiram L. Detwiler was only in his seventeenth year when his father died, and from that time has taken care of himself, first working four years on a farm for his brother Joseph, and then working for his brother Henry, until 1859, the year of his mar- riage. He then rented a farmi for two years, after which he purchased his present farm of sixty-eight acres, on which he has a valuable sand pit, as has been intimated. He has recently made some changes in the operation of his sand pit, a corporation having been formed, which continued operations under the name of the Detwiler Sand Company. Mr. Detwiler is also interested to a limited extent in sundry gold and silver mines at Breckenridge, Summit Co., Colo., in partnership with his nephews, but it will require some little time as vet to develop them. In politics Mr. Detwiler is a Democrat.
MICHAEL F. BOWERS is a citizen of Lan- caster who has risen from comparative obscurity to a high place in the public esteem. He is extensive- ly engaged in general house painting and decorating, and is identified with some of the most ambitious undertaking's in that line in his part of the county.
Mr. Bowers was born in East Lampeter, this county, April 6. 1857, of stanch Teutonic ancestry. His parents, John and Maria M. (Arnold) Bowers, were born in Germany, and emigrated to the United States in 1847. Jolin Bowers settled in Lampeter township, where he engaged in farming for some years, afterward working in the cotton mills of Lan- caster. For ten years he was employed by the city, and in 1895, he retired from active life, taking up his residence with his son, Michael F., in 1900. He was born in 1820, and is therefore eighty-two years of age, yet he possesses unimpaired many of his best
faculties. He is a Catholic in religious belief, and a member of St. Peter's Society. Mrs. Bowers died in 1874, at the age of forty-nine, and is buried in the cemetery of Zion Lutheran Church, of which she was a member. Mr. and Mrs. Bowers were the par- ents of the following children: John C., deceased ; Margaret, deceased; Frederick, an ice merchant of Lancaster: Conrad A., engineer of the Lancaster city water works; Michael F .; Elizabeth, deceased ; Ernest C., a cigar manufacturer of East Petersburg, Pa .; Jacob A. : William, deceased ; and Albert, de- ceased.
Michael F. Bowers was reared on the paternal farm, attending the district schools of his neighbor- hood. When eighteen years of age he left the home place and lived for a year in Lancaster, where he found employment in a furniture factory and learned the trade of painter. This peaceful occupation was interrupted by his enlistment in the regular United States army for five years, during which service he was stationed on Davids Island, New York harbor, for two years, was assigned later to Co. D, 20th In- fantry, Col. E. S. Otis commanding, at Fort Brown, Texas, where he remained for a year, and was then at Fort Dodge, Kans., for six months. At Fort Reno, Indian Territory. Mr. Bowers was discharged in October, 1883. He rose to the rank of first sergeant, an office maintained during the last two years of his service. This military experience was augmented by his service from 1884 to 1887 as captain of Co. C, 8th regiment, P. N. G., from which he resigned to engage in painting for the railroad. He also com- manded Lancaster Commandery No. 77, M. B. K. G. E., during the years intervening between 1892 and 1900.
After his five years of service with the United States army Mr. Bowers returned to Lancaster and resumed his association with the furniture company for a couple of years, and for the following seven years was employed as painter by the Pennsylvania Railway Company. In 189i he started in business for himself as a painter and decorator, and the wis- dom of this departure has been repeatedly denion- strated in the meantime, for he has a large patronage. and thoroughly understands the highest tenets of his interesting and constantly improving occupation.
Mr. Bowers married Cecelia M. Dinkleberg, a » native of Lancaster, born in August, 1861, daughter of Philip Dinkleberg. Mr. Dinkleberg was born in Germany, as was also his wife, and both came to America when children. He was a prominent con- tractor in Lancaster, and erected some of the most pretentious buildings there, including the Farmers' National Bank, the Fulton National Bank, Zion Lutheran Church, Trinity chapel, and the steeple of the Presbyterian Church, besides other structures of equal importance in the growth of the city.
To Mr. and Mrs. Bowers have been born three children : Albert G. and Florence C., both attending high school ; and Maria M., in the grammar school. Mr. Powers is associated with the F. & A. M., Lodge
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No. 43 : the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 68; and the K. of G. E., Castle No. 202. In October, 1899, he became a member of the Master House Painters and Decorators Association of Pennsylvania, and is a member of the executive board. In September, 1902, he organized the prominent master painters of his city into a local association, of which he was elected first secretary. He is a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, and politically is an independent Republican.
JOHN H. GAMBER was, like many other old residents of Manor township, Lancaster county, born at the homestead which has been the residence of his family for many generations, and in which both his grandfather and his father first saw the light of day. He is a son of John L. and Fannie D. (Herr) Gamber, and a grandson of Rudolph and Mary (Landis) Gamber. The family are Mennonites in religious faith, and in politics both John H. Gamber and his father have been stanch Republicans.
John L. Gamber was a farmer, as is also his son, John H. His wife, who is a daughter of David S. and Elizabeth (Dentlinger) Herr. survives him, making her home with her son, John. Four children were born to them, of whom John H. is the third : of the others. Alice is the wife of Benjamin Stauffer, of Manor township ; Fannie married John S. Heller, a farmer of East Hempfield township ; David H. died in boyhood.
John H. Gamber was born Sept. 5, 1866, received a good common-school education. and upon the death of his father succeeded to the management of the home farm. In 1803, in company with John D. Herr, he began buying and packing tobacco, having the same packed near Mountville, and the business has steadily grown and prospered. In 1899 the partner- ship was dissolved, Mr. Gamber now carrying on the business on his own account. During three years, also, he and Mr. Herr were interested in operating a mill and grain warehouse near Mountville. Mr. Gamber's present tobacco warehouse covers a site of 80 by 36 feet, and is three and a half stories in height. He also has other interests there, being a stockholder and director in the Mountville National Bank, as well as a stockholder in several of the Lan- caster banks. His farm embraces nearly ninety acres, and is one of the best managed in the county.
Mr. Gamber has been largely the architect of his own fortune. He is a young man of broad, pro- gressive ideas, keen intelligence, quick perception and tireless energy, and for such men there is no such word as fail.
EMANUEL SHELLY, a general farmer of Rapho township, was born in the same township, Aug. 1, 1844, son of Samuel and Mariah (Ager) Shelly, of Rapho township.
Samuel Shelly, the father, died in 1890, at the age of sixty-seven years, and is buried on his old farm ; his widow still resides in the township, where she
was born in 1810. Mrs. Shelly is a member of the Brethren in Christ Church, of which denomination Mr. Shelly was also a member during his lifetime. There were born to them the following children : Isaac, a retired farmer living in Rapho township : Samuel A .. a farmer of Rapho township; Aaron ; Anna : Mariah ; and Emanuel.
In October. 1866. at Mt. Joy. Emanuel Shelly was married to Miss Anna Shearer. There have been born to this couple the following children : Samuel S .. of Rapho township; Anna S., wife of Aaron Peters, a farmer of Rapho township; Nathan S., at home : Amos S. : Emma S. : Mariah S. ; Eman- uel S .. deceased : Ephraim S. ; Harvey S .; Lizzie S .; Minnie S. : and Emma S., deceased.
Mrs. Anna (Shearer) Shelly was born Aug. 7, 1849. in Mt. Joy township, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth ( Witmer) Shearer, of Mt. Joy township. Her mother died in 1857. at the age of thirty-nine years, while her father still resides on the family farm retired from the active duties of life. There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Shearer the following children : Barbara. deceased wife of Henry Ginder ; John W., a farmer of Mt. Jov township; Anna W .. wife of Emanuel Shelly: Michael W., a Donegal township farmer; and Lizzie W., wife of Amos Heisey. of Mt. Joy township. Samuel Shearer mar- ried Miss Anna Herr for his second wife, and this union resulted in the following named children : Sammuel H., a farmer of Mt. Joy: Amos H., a Mt. Joy farmer : Katie H., wife of George Hossler, a farmer at Bellaire. Pa. Mrs. Shelly's paternal grandfather's name was John Shearer, of Lancas- ter county.
Emanuel Shelly remained at home with his par- ents, gaining. in the meanwhile, an education in the common schools, until the time of his marriage, when he moved to his present home. He and his family are members of the Brethren in Christ Church, and are prominent in the social circles of the vicinity. Mr. Shelly has been frugal and careful in his habits and business transactions. and as a result has ac- quired a fine competency. Respected by all who know him. life has many pleasant phases for his contemplation.
THOMAS EVANS SIGLE was born in Upper Leacock township. July 6. 1848. and died Feb. 5. 1808. His remains rest in the cemetery connected with the Leacock Church. He was a son of John and Elizabeth (Evans) Sigle, of Lancaster county.
John Sigle was an undertaker in Upper Leacock township, and is now living in Bird-in-Hand, Pa., where he leads a retired life. He was born in November, 1822, and his second wife is still living. Mr. Sigle is the father of the following children : Thomas E. and George, both of whom are deceased ; Robert C., a plumber and tinsmith in Camden, N. J .; John, deccaseel : Miss Celesta, who makes her home with her parents; Agnes, who married John Bohn, of Philadelphia ; Anna, who married George Han-
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bright, a ticket agent in the employ of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad at Lancaster; and Elizabeth, who died young.
Thomas E. Sigle was married Nov. 23, 1871, in New Holland, Pa., to Darbara Ranck. To this union were born: Mary E., who married Elmer Groff, a carpenter of Upper Leacock township, and is the mother of three children: Miss Anna R .; Celesta : Robert : and John R .. at home. Mrs. Bar- bara (Ranck) Sigle was born in Leacock township, Dec. 28, 1843, and is a sister of Adam M. Ranck, whose sketch appears elsewhere.
Mr. Sigle came to the farm occupied by his fam- ily in February, 1877, moving from a farm in Para- dise township. Until his marriage his home was with his parents. After his marriage he worked in a mill near Willowstreet two years, and was at work on a farm in Paradise township two years. At the expiration of that period he settled on the farm where his family is found today, and where his life was spent. Mr. Sigle belonged to the Presbyterian Church. In his politics he was a Democrat. For some three years before his death he bought tobacco in connection with his farming, and was a popular and successful tradesman.
WALTER SCOTT BRENHOLTZ, M. D. · Among the well-known citizens of Lancaster is Dr. Walter Scott Brenholtz, a physician and surgeon who, for the past five years, has been established in his comfortable offices at No. 36 East Walnut street, that city.
Dr. Brenholtz requires no ancestral stock to sup- port his claims to eminence, nevertheless he has it. His great-great-grandfather, Frederick Brenholtz, although born in Germany, was an American patriot in the war of the Revolution, giving up his life for his adopted country at the battle of Brandywine.
Great-grandfather John Brenholtz was born in Chester county, where the family had been located, and Henry Brenholtz, the Doctor's grandfather, was a resident of and died in Hughesville. Lycoming county. Isaac John Brenholtz, son of Henry, and father of Dr. Brenholtz, was a native of Hughes- ville, Pa., where for many years he has been a hard- ware merchant. He married Miss Fanny Springer, daughter of Christian Springer, of Muncy Valley, in Lycoming county, and two children were born to this union: Miss Anna, at home; and Dr. Walter S., of Lancaster.
Walter Scott Brenholtz was born in Hughes- ville Nov. 20, 1867. and acquired his preparatory education in the public schools of his district, going then to Gettysburg College. and later to the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, from which great institution he graduated in 1892. Dr. Brenholtz began the prac- tice of his profession in Columbia, where he remained five years, and then took a post-graduate course in the Ear, Nose and Throat, at the Polyclinic Hos- pital, in Philadelphia.
Dr. Brenholtz located in Lancaster Feb. 1, 1898.
He is a member of the Lancaster City and County Medical Societies, of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Columbia, the Lancaster City Patho- logical Society, and also of the State and American, or National. Medical Societies. In 1803 he was a delegate to the State Medical Society, and in 1897 to the National Medical Society. Dr. Brenholtz enjoys also the distinction of being a member of the medical staff of the General Hospital in Lancaster.
Dr. Brenholtz was married in 1893, to Miss Mary Alta Metzger, a daughter of Dr. G. W. Metzger, of Hughesville, brother of the late distinguished Judge Metzger, of Lycoming county. Three chil- dren have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Brenholtz, Fanny Rebecca. Anna and Mary Metzger, all bright and unusually attractive little ones.
Religiously Dr. Brenholtz is a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, where he is a deacon, and where he is the teacher of the Young Men's Bible class. Socially and professionally he enjoys the es- teem and confidence of his fellow-citizens.
SAMUEL CAMPBELL. It is but natural that Samuel Campbell should choose an active vocation. for he comes of an ancestry who were prominent men and women, and whose lives were filled with public and business achievements. Mr. Campbell is en- gaged in the livery and feed stable business. operates a mail route, and has engaged extensively in de- tective work. He is a native of Columbia, where he was born Aug. 25. 1851, son of George K. and Julia (Lloyd) Campbell.
James Campbell, his paternal great-grandfather. was a native of the south of Ireland, emigrated to America, and located in Lancaster county. He mar- ried Emma Boggs, of Columbia, and both are buried at Lancaster.
William Campbell, the grandtather of Samuel. was born in 1809. He married Sarah Krumloff, of Norristown. Pa., and in 1836 settled at Columbia, where he followed the business of a merchant tailor until his death. in 1840, at the age of thirty-one years. His wife died in 1848. Their children were: George K. : John, who died young ; Mary, who married Sam- tel Bennett, a railroad engineer, and died in Phila- delphia, in 1878; Cyrus, who died young ; Reuben, who died young; Emma, wife of Henry Fisher, re- tired, of Lancaster; and David, a farmer of Lan- caster.
George K. Campbell, father of Samuel, was born in Norristown, Pa., Sept. 15, 1828. When eight years of age he came to Columbia with his parents, and remained a resident of that borough until his death. When a youth he acquired a knowledge of the tanner's and currier's trade, and was a little later connected with shipbuilding. But the activity of railroad work attracted him. He was yard engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for forty- seven years, and spent the last year of his life in deserved retirement from active duties. In religious faith he was a member of the United Brethren
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Church, and in politics a Republican. In November, Ada McCann, and to them have been born two ·laughters. Caroline and Mabel. 1850, Mr. Campbell married Julia Anna Lloyd, who was born at Penn's Grove, near Philadelphia, March Samuel Campbell is a man of much force of char- i acter. a good business man, and his integrity is i unimpeachable. He has strict regard for his word, and accordingly is very popular and is heid in high respect by all who know him, enjoy- For the past eighten years he has served as con- i stable. Prominent in fraternal and social orders, he is a member of the I. O. O. F., the Home Circle Lodge, the National A. I. Co., of New York, etc. In politics he is a Republican, and in religious prefer- ence has been a constant attendant of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is remarkably well informed, and has a most excellent library. 20, 1833, daughter of Capt. John B. and Julia ( Ben- nett) Lloyd. Capt. John B. Lloyd was a sea captain, the son of John and Charlotte (Church) Lloyd, Quakers, of Churchtown, Pa., where they remained through life. Julia Bennett, wife of Capt. John B. I ing the complete confidence of his fellow citizens. Lloyd, was the daughter of John and Rachel ( Kel- ler) Bennett, natives of England and Ireland, respect- ively, who were married in Berks county, Pa. They had emigrated to America at the ages of eighteen and fifteen years, respectively, and John Bennett served in the Revolutionary army under LaFayette. John B. and Julia ( Bennett) Lloyd were married in Columbia in 1824, and three months later returned to Philadelphia, the wife's former home. He died in 1877, aged seventy-five years, and she passed away DAVID LINCOLN HARNISH, the pioneer paint manufacturer of Lancaster, and one of the pioneer paint dealers of the city, belongs to one of the old and reputable families of Lancaster county. The old sandstone house in which his mother was born, in West Lampeter township, was the home of many generations of his maternal progenitors, and is one of the old and historic buildings of the county, hav- ing been frequently selected for illustrations in his- torical publications. in February, 1857, aged fifty-one years. The chil- dren of Capt. John B. and Julia ( Bennett) Lloyd were as follows: Elizabeth, wife of David Bird, of Philadelphia : Isaac; Nathan; John ; Julia A., Mrs. Campbell; Thomas: James; Charlotte; Rachel; Jacob G .; Mary C .; Charles : and Jane A. All are deceased except Elizabeth, Julia A., James and Jane A. Janies, who served in the army, is now a carpen- ter at Philadelphia. Charles was a bugler during the Civil war, and was among the missing.
To George K. and Julia Anna (Lloyd) Campbell were born nine children, namely: Samuel, whose sketch appears below ; Melvina, wife of Joseph Cooper, a railroad engineer of Columbia, Pa. ; Lloyd James, who died at the age of ten years; Sarah A., who married Dr. Samuel Roberts, a veteran of the Civil war, and who died in 1895; Elizabeth, wife of Tyson Simpson, a railroad conductor of Columbia; Minnie, who married Thomas Bennett, a seaman of Tampa, Fla .; Emma and Maggie, twins, the latter the wife of John F. McGee, a furniture merchant of Columbia, the former the wife of Stephen Baker, a railroad engineer of Columbia ; and Ida M., who died young. George K. Campbell, the father, died Dec. 12, 1898, aged seventy years ; his widow survives, a resident of Columbia.
Samuel Campbell has always made Columbia his home. Of an active temperament, he has traveled greatly as a dealer in horses, wagons, etc., and also in his extensive detective work, which he has fol- lowed for the past twenty years. In 1879 he em- barked in the livery business, which he has contin- ued uninterruptedly ever since.
Mr. Campbell married at Columbia, in August, 1870, Caroline Glosser, who was born in Columbia in February, 1852, daughter of Andrew and Sarah Glosser, natives of Germany, who emigrated to America and settled at Columbia. Andrew Glosser was a railroad engineer and was killed while on duty on his engine. To Samuel and Caroline Campbell were born two children : Charles and William. The latter died at the age of one year. Charles married
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