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Maris B. Weaver was the oldest of the children and lie was reared on the farm. After he had re- ceived his education in the public schools of his dis- trict, he entered his father's shop and soon became a very capable workman. When twenty-six years old, he embarked in the business for himself, open- ing a shop at Stonersville, where he remained for y four years, purchasing his present excellent loca- tion in IS78, where he has, by close attention to business and a complete understanding of the farrier trade, built up a large and increasing business and has gained the confidence of the public. In 1899 he purchased a farm of forty-two acres, in West Lam- peter township, where he is making valuable im- provements, and he is also the owner of other real estate, consisting of a seven-acre tract at Lampeter, and his residence property. His rank is with the substantial men of the locality, and he is one of the stockholders of the People's Bank, at Lancaster City.
Being a representative Republican, he has taken an active interest in the public affairs of his district. and he has been called upon to serve as a delegate to the State conventions. In 1897 he was honored by the appointment as prison superintendent of Lan-
caster county. and served as president of the Prison Board in 18go, and has also filled all the local offices most efficientiv.
Maris B. Weaver was married, in 1874, to Hettie A. Little, a daughter of Elijalı Zittle: of West Lam- peter township, and three children have been born of this union : Effie B., who remains at home; A. Mylin, a blacksmith by trade; and Esther, also at home. This family possesses the respect and es- teem of the community and well represents the old and honored families from which it has descended.
HENRY B. HAINES. Among the prosperous business men of Maytown, who, by energy and abil- ity. have done much to piace this locality favorably before the public, is Heury B. Haines, the well- known cigar manufacturer.
Mr. Haines comes of worthy ancestry. His great- grandfather, Henry Haines, was born near Colum- bia, Pa., Dec. 8, 1759, and at an early age was ap- prenticed to a tailor, according to the custom of the times, his desultory education being acquired at a German night school. His eighteenth birthday came in a trying period of our country's history, and at that time he was one of the brave young men who came forward to help to uphold the banner of his country. Song and story have told the world the tale of the brave deeds done by the youth of the land dar- ing the Revolution, and in some of the most stirring events Henry Haines bore weil his part. On ac- count of his reliability he was one of the guards chosen to assist in the removal of the Hessian pris- oners to Lancaster county, after the battle of Tren- ton, and later he was attached to Col. Bole's com- mand, in the expedition up the Susquehanna, against the Indians. After the close of the war, Henry Haines settled down in the village of Maytown, where he became a prominent man. An ardent up- holder of Deniocratic principles, he took a leading part in the politics of the day, and in TSto and ISIl was a member of the General Assembly, being re- elected in 1825, and again in 1828, but failing health prevented any more public service. In this connec- tion it is interesting to record that he was approached by members of the Anti-Masonic party, which was then agitating public matters in the country, with a proposition to become their Senatorial candidate, on account of his known popularity. This sugges- tion was met with scorn and contempt by the stern old Jeffersonian, his Democracy being so pronounced that at the age of eighty-three, feeble and blind, hie still insisted upon casting his vote in favor of the party in whose principles he had so much faith. In 1797 he had been appointed a justice of the peace, and some time afterward was commissioned a captain of militia, by Gov. Simon Snyder. His death took place Feb. 1, 18.12, and he left a mark upon his day and generation. Henry Haines' wife aiso bore the name of Haines, and to this union were born : Hen- ry, Jr. ; Thomas ; Anthony : Catherine, who married Reuben Welschance ; Elizabeth, who married George
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Terry; Charlotte, who married Philip Shaffner ; and Rosetta, who married Michael Miller.
Major Henry Haines, Jr., grandfather of our subject, married for his first wife, Elizabeth Barr, and their children were as follows: Ann, who mar- ried A. C. Reynolds, of Elmira, N. Y. ; and Eliza- beth, who died in infancy. His second marriage was to Anna Barr, a sister of his first wife. Their chil- dren were, Henry A., and George B. For his third wife Major Haines married Mrs. Jacob Barr, and to this marriage there were no children.
Capt. Henry A. Haines was born Nov. 8, 1835, and died in Maytown April 7, 1896, at the age of sixty, his remains being reverently interred in the Union Cemetery of Maytown. In his death Lancas- ter county lost a popular veteran and one of its most prominent citizens. Early in life Capt. Haines had followed the trade of a shoemaker but in the course of time became manager of a large tobacco farm be- longing to Hon. Simon Cameron. Having inherited from his father a talent and desire for public life he naturally entered therein, and for many years was more or less in the service of the public. For some time he was captain of the militia company known as the Maytown Fencibles, and at the out- break of the Civil war he offered the service of him- self and his company to the government. Their offer was accepted, and as Co. A, they were assigned to the roth P. V. I. for the term of three months, Capt. Haines being the company's commanding offi- cer. At the expiration of the three months for which they had enlisted, the company was mustered out of service, and Capt. Haines at once raised a com- pany which became Co. B, 45th P. V. I. under Col. Welsh, which was raised in Lancaster and adjoining counties, and in which Capt. Haines was the rank- ing captain. When the battle of Antietam was fought, Capt. Haines, who was then in recruiting service, was commissioned major of the regiment, he being entitled to the vacant position as he was then ranking captain. The General commanding the brigade, with whom the Captain had had some dif- ferences, refused to indorse the appointment, and Capt. Haines at once resigned his commission as captain, although he was urged by men of promi- nence not to do so. Soon afterward he was made captain of Co. C. 184th P. V. I., and served with that regiment until his discharge at Annapolis, Md., in 1865. He took part in the battles of Fredericks- burg and Cold Harbor, and was taken prisoner at Petersburg and was in rebel prisons eleven months. Until the Gubernatorial campaign in which Gen. Beaver was defeated for Governor of Pennsylvania, Capt. Haines was a Democrat. In that campaign the Captain took an active part in the interest of his beloved commander, and from that time until the close of his active life he was an ardent Republican, as a man of his positive character would naturally be. Under Collector A. J. Kauffinann he served as storekeeper and ganger in the revenue service. During the administration of Gen. Arthur, his serv-
ices to his party were recognized, and he was made postmaster of Maytown, holding the position until the election of Grover Cleveland in 1892 made a change in the office in favor of a Democrat. Fra- ternally the Captain was connected with Lieut. Will- iam A. Childs Post, No. 226. G. A. R., Department of Pennsylvania, and located in Marietta.
On Oct. 13, 1857, in Elizabethtown. Capt. Haines was married by Rev. Latzel. to Catherine A. Brown. who was born in Maytown, May 5, 1840. To this minion were born: Anna L., who married Rev. T. F. Mackley, a minister of the Reformed Church, of Fairfield, Adams Co., Pa. ; and Henry B .. the sub- ject of this sketch. Catherine .A. ( Brown) Haines was a daughter of John and Catherine ( Murray ) Brown, of Chester county, and of Maytown. respec- tively. John Brown had come to Maxtown at an carly day, in pursuit of his trades of wheelwright and chairmaker, remaining here until his death in 1852, at the age of sixty-one, his wife surviving until 1875, and dying at the age of sixty-nine. Both were interred in the Lutheran cemetery at Maytown ; they had been devout church members, he of the Lutheran, she of the Reformed Church. Their chil- dren were Charles, Elizabeth and William, all three deceased : Fanny, of Stockton, Cal. ; Henry, a shoe merchant of West Milton, Ohio : Rebecca, the widow of Abraham Geltmacker, of Maytown: John, who died in Andersonville prison, during the Civil war; George, a soldier. of Parkersburg, Va. : Mary, de- ceased: and the youngest. Catherine A., Mrs. Haines, who now resides in Maytown.
Henry B. Haines was born in Maytown, May 3, IS57, and was educated in the public schools. He assisted his father in the management of the to- bacco farm until the age of fifteen, when he received an appointment as assistant express messenger, be- tween Philadelphia and Pottsville, retaining this run for five months ; at the end of this time, through the kindness of Gen. Cameron. he was appointed to a position in the Electric Light department of the Philadelphia postoffice, where he remained for eight years, leaving there as superintendent. At this time Mr. Haines is manufacturing cigars in Maytown. his output of cigars annually amounting to great numbers.
On Nov. 22, 1893. Henry B. Haines and Miriam L. Longenecker, a daughter of Christian Longe- necker, of Maytown, were united in marriage, and to this union has been born one son, Henry L. Soci- ally Mr. Haines is connected with the A. O. U. M. and the Sons of Veterans, is an active member of the Republican party, and is a valued and consistent member of the Reformed Church.
COL. WILLIAM COLEMAN HENDER- SON. This gallant veteran of the Civil war, and retired farmer with his residence in Salisbury town- ship, Lancaster county, on the old Lancaster & Phil- adelphia Road near White Horse, was born in Salis- bury township June 22, 1827, a son of Thomas Gil-
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fillan and Mary Ann ( Jacobs) Henderson, of Salis- bury and Colebrook Furnace, respectively, and the parents of nine children, namely: James S., who died in infancy ; Maj. Samuel J., a retired farmer and ex-justice of the peace; Col. William C .: Mary S., who died when twelve years old; Anna W., unmar- ried and living with Col. William C .; James, de- ceased; Thomas G., who died aged twenty; and Rachel and Eliza, who died young.
Thomas Gilfillan Henderson, the father of this family, was extensively engaged in farming and was familiarly known as "King Tommy." from his own- ing an immense amount of land. He was a justice of the peace, and he died honored and esteemed in 1870, at the advanced age of eighty-two years; his wife was called away in 1863, and their remains were buried in St. John's Episcopal Churchyard at Compass. Chester county.
Col. William C. Henderson remained with his parents until seventeen years of age, when he went to New York City and clerked four years, when, ou account of impaired health he returned to his home and farmed until 1860, when he sold his property and went to Whiteside county, Ill., where he was engaged in farming when the Civil war broke out. He at once offered himself in the defense of the in- tegrity of his country's flag. enlisting in Co. B, 13th Ill. V. I., having himself raised the company ; he was appointed quartermaster by Gov. Richard Yates, served at the front for three years, and bore a brave and gallant part throughout, and was finally honor- ably discharged for disability, his avoirdupois having been reduced from 235 at the time of enlistment to 104 at the date of his discharge at Vicksburg- rheumatism and diarrhoea having wasted his frame.
Prior to his enlistment Col. Henderson had been twice married : first, in 1852, at Fairfield. Conn., to Emma A. Phelps, who bore him one child, George P., now in the fruit business at Philadelphia, but residing at Parkesburg, Pa., and married to Lucy Essick. Mrs. Emma (Phelps) Henderson was born in Fairfield, Conn., a daughter of George A. and Eliza (Avers) Phelps, and died in New York, in 1855, at the age of twenty-four years, her remains being sent to Fairfield for interment. The second marriage of Col. Henderson took place Oct. 17, 1856, in Chester county, Pa., to Jane B. Jacobs, and to this union has been born one son, Richard J., now a machinist in Newark, N. J., and who first married Anna Cross, and second Celestia Shaffer. Mrs. Jane B. (Jacobs) Henderson was born in Chester county, Pa., a daughter of Joseph B. and Anna (Bowen) Jacobs, of the same county, and died in Bellefonte, Pa., while on a visit in 1867, when thirty-seven years old.
To resume the record of Col. Henderson's life career from the point where the above digression was made: on his discharge from the army in 1864 he returned to Whiteside county, Ill., with the in- tention of recuperating bis health, but found that his wife's health had become impaired ; he therefore sold
his farm and returned to Pennsylvania and lived in retirement in Chester county until the death of his second wife (in 186;), when he returned to the old homestead, where he remained until ISTI, when he went to Colorado Springs, El Paso Co .. Colo., and dealt in horses, etc., for five years. Col. Henderson then came back to the old homestead in Salisbury township, lived there a few years, when he retired to his present farm.
In politics Col. Henderson is a Republican, and for twenty-five years served as township auditor off and on, finally declining further service : in religion he is an Episcopalian. His military title was not ac- quired through his service in the army. but from his having been appointed an aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov. William F. Johnson in 1852, on which he served his full time. Fraternally he is a Master Mason, and a member of Thompson Lodge, No. 340, and also a member of Post No. 31, G. A. R., West- chester.
Col. Henderson, a brother, a sister and a grand- daughter all reside together in domestic felicity. The Colonel is still compelled to use crutches on ac- count of rheumatism contracted while in the army.
Thomas Henderson, great-great-grandfather of the Colonel, came from the north of Ireland to Lan- caster county, Pa .. in 1727, and settled in Salisbury township on the old Lancaster & Philadelphia Road, seventeen miles from Lancaster, forty-nine miles from Philadelphia, one-ciglith of a mile from White Horse, and there engaged in farming and mercantile business, besides conducting a hotel. He had a famn- ily of nine children, to-wit: Matthew (born in 1733), Archibald, William, Thomas, Mary (who married John Skiles), Rebecca ( who married John Griffith), Catherine (who wedded Robert Darling- ton), Margaret (wife of John Graham), and John.
The paternal grandparents of the Colonel. James and Mary ( Skidmore) Henderson, were natives, re- spectively, of Salisbury township, Lancaster county, Pa., and Long Island, N. Y. The grandfather was a prominent merchant and farmer, and died in 1822, at the age of sixty-six, but the grandmother was comparatively young at her death. They were mem- bers of the Episcopal Church and were interred in St. John's cemetery. They were the parents of three children, viz .: Thomas G., father of the Coloncl : Rachel, who was married to Richard Suydam, of New York : and Abigail, who died young. The pa- ternal great-grandparents, Matthew and Rachel (Clemson) Henderson, were natives of Lancaster county, and of whom the great-grandfather was a farmer and hotel keeper, being landlord of the "Three Crowns" Hotel ( England, Ireland and Scot- land), in Salisbury township. He was also a wealthy landowner. He had born to him ten children in the following order: James (grandfather of the Col- onel), Sept. 12, 1756; Sarah H., Jan. 19, 1758; Thomas, Aug. 30. 1759; Mary. Dec. 17, 1761 : Clem- son, March 8, 1766: Archibald, Jan. 31. 1767: Mat- thew. Sept. 10, 1768; John, July 4, 1770; Barton,
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Dec. 4, 1775 : and Mary Ann. July 17, 1778. Of these children, James served in the war for American in- dependence on the British side, as he had had six fine horses stolen by the Colonial troops ; he fought all through the conflict, and for his services was granted land in Nova Scotia by the British govern- ment, but after a short residence there he settled on the Col. Atley farm, which he purchased in Salisbury township, Lancaster county.
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MAJ. SAMUEL JACOB HENDERSON, brother of Col. William C. Henderson, was born in Salisbury township, Nov. S. 1824, and is now living retired. He was formerly a farmer and a justice of the peace. He never married, but lived with his parents until the breaking out of the Civil war, when he was one of the first to enlist in Co. F, 25th P. V. I., in the ninety-day service, having assisted in raising the company. He was appointed on Gen. B. A. Shaffer's staff as major and quartermaster, and in time of peace has served in various civic offices for the past fifty years. In ISTI he went to Colorado and was engaged in prospecting for gold until 1875, when he returned to his home, a panic having occurred. He ; is a member of the Episcopal church, and politically is a Republican, and both brothers are greatly re- spected as among the most substantial and most pub- lic spirited citizens of Salisbury township.
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AMOS RUTTER, who died Ang. 15, 1002, was a prominent coal and grain dealer in New Holland, where he also had an extensive feed and salt busi- ness. He was born in Leacock township. this coun- ty, May 24, 1830, son of Amos ( Sr.) and Esther (Royer) Rutter.
The first representative of the Rutter family in Lancaster county of whom anything definite is known was Conrad Rutter, who left Rhenish Prussia in 1682, going to England to escape the French war, and came to America the following year, making his home in Philadelphia. He was one of a colony of thirteen families who under the leadership of Francis Danielson Pastorius took up the land which is now the site of the city of Germantown. There he re- mained until 16So, when he removed to Montgom- ery county, where he took up land and made his home until 1700, in that year going into Lancaster county with some English families by the name of Douglass, and settling in Salisbury township. Conrad Rutter still later moved into Leacock township, where he secured 3So acres of land in one piece. He had two neighbors, Peter and Henry Skiles. From this an- cestor the line is through his son Andrew, who had a son Henry : Henry became the father of Joseph, whose son, Amos, Sr., was the father of Amos.
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Conrad Rutter was instrumental in founding the first Episcopal Church in Lancaster county, one hun- dred and seventy-one years ago. In 1730 Sebastian Royer donated ground for a Lutheran and Reformned Church in northern Lancaster, which church was lo- cated in Brickerville, and became a hospital during the Revolution ; in ISOS it was rebuilt. The German
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Reformed Church built in It4; was known as the Rover Church, and was also used as a hospital dur- ing the Revolution ; it was rebuilt in 1813. Some of the soldiers who died in the church were interred in the church burying ground.
Joseph Rutter, the grandfather of Amos. was born and reared in Lancaster county. On Aug. 29, 1786. he was married, by Re :. J. Frederick Illings, to Margaret Besore, who bore him the following chil- dren : John, Joseph, Amos, Sr., Daniel. Henry, Mary (who married a Mr. Foltz), and Baltzer.
Amos Rutter, Sr., was born in iyor, and died in 1868. His entire life was passed in Leacock town- ship, where he was first engaged in shoemaking. but later followed farming. For the last fifteen years : of his life he lived retired. A man of unusually sound judgment, he was often called upon to settle estales and to fill other positions of trust. He mar- ried Esther Rover, who was born in 1795. daughter of Jonathan and Anna ( Frick) Rover, farming peo- The first ple of Lancaster county, and died in 1859.
of the Rover family in America was Sebastin Rover, who left two sons in Montgomery county, Pa., from whom sprang a numerous progeny in Chester and Montgomery counties. Sebastin Rover first io- cated in Montgomery county in 1720, and the same year came to Lancaster. 2Irs. Esther ( Rover) Rut- ter was in the fifth generation from him. To Amos Rutter, Sr., and his wife were born the following children : Jolin, who married Caroline Snader : Anne, who werde Levi Good : Mary, who became the wife of Rudy Evans : Joseph, who married Hen- rietta Hartman: Catherine, who married Roland Wenger; Jeremiah H .. who married Christiana Bear ; and Amos, all these now deceased. The sur- vivors are Jonathan, a retired farmer of Leacock township; and Esther, widow of Isaac Miller, of Paradise township.
Through his maternal grandmother, Anna (Frick) Rover, Mr. Rutter's ancestral line is traced to Jacob Frick, who was born in 1620 in Switzerland, where he heid an official position in one of the Can- tons. He suffered terribly in the persecution of the Protestants, being a convert of Menno Simon, the Mennonite reformer. He had one son, born in 1650. who had one daughter, Barbara, and two sons, Jacob and John.
Amos Rutter was reared on the farm, remain- ing there until he reached the age of twenty-three, when he entered a dry goods store in New Holland. There he continued until 1855, in which year he be- came a partner with D. Richwine and his brother, in a dry-goods and notions store in New Holland. Seven years later Amos and his brother, Jeremiah H., purchased the interest of the Richwines. Together they operated the store a few years. and then dis- posed of it at a good figure, buying the J. F. Seldom- ridge store, at Intercourse, where they remained eleven years, Amos Rutter being postmaster there during the time. In 1874 he came back to New Hol- land, and, building a warehouse, engaged in the
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grain, coal and feed business, in connection therewith handling second-class freight and tickets for the Pennsylvania Company, doing also an express busi- ness until 1892. Mr. Rutter was prison inspector of Lancaster county for three years, a position thrust upon him against his will, as he disclaimed all politi- cal ambitions. He had been a vestryman in the Lutheran Church from :862, had been deacon and elder, and was a trustee in that body up to the time of his death. Ile belonged to the Lancaster County Historical Society and the Pennsylvania German So- ciety.
On Sept. 2, 1856, in New Holland, Amos Rutter was married, by Rev. John Kohler, to Catherine E. Mentzer, and there were born to this union : Eugene M., of New Holland, who married Annie Geahr, and has four children, Lillian M., Mary E., Pauline K. and Emily G. : and Lillian, at home.
Mrs. Catherine E. ( Mentzer) Rutter was born in New Holland in 1835, daughter of Paul and Sarah (Kurtz) Mentzer, who were born in New Holland and Lancaster, respectively. Paul Mentzer, who was a blacksmith by trade, died in New Holland in 1892, at the age of eighty-seven ; his wife died Nov. 25, 1864, at the age of sixty years. Both were buried in the cemetery at New Holland, which is connected with the Lutheran Church. They had the following children : Catherine E., Mrs. Rutter, is the eldest : Jacob K., now a grocer of Lancaster, married (first ) Margaret Schafer, and (second ) Annie M. Leight- ner; Annie L. died at the age of twenty-four : Sam- uel J. died when a year and a half old : William H .. a retired farmer of New Holland, married Jane Wil- son. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Rutter were Jacob and Elizabeth (Johns) Mentzer ; her maternal grandparents were Christopher and Magdelina (Martin) Kurtz. Mrs. Rutter has been a member of the Lutheran Church of New Holland for the last fifty years, and for many years has been a teacher in the Sunday-school. She is a woman of much character and ability, and was a worthy companion for Mr. Rutter.
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JOHN W. KINARD, M. D. Among the suc- cessful physicians of Lancaster is Dr. John W. Kin- ard, who is recognized as a man of ability, wide and comprehensive study and large experience. Dr. Kinard is a son of Simon and Elizabeth ( Olewiler) Kinard, natives of York county, Pennsylvania.
The great-grandfather of Dr. Kinard was a na- tive of Scotland, who emigrated to this country at an early date, and settled in York county, Pa., engaging in farming to the time of his death. His son, the grandfather, as well as Simon Kinard, the father. were born in this prosperous region of the Keystone State, and became well known in that locality ..
Simon Kinard owned and operated a fine farm of 120 acres near Wrightsville, Pa., residing upon it until the time of his death, which occurred in 1886, when he was fifty-six years of age. His wife sur- vived him until September, 1896, when she, too, 45
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