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and moved to Selins Grove, Pa. : Elizabeth married Conrad Mentzer.
Wendel Hibshman became the owner of the farm upon the death of his father. He married Hannah. daughter of John and Elizabeth Heffley, who were also among the early settlers of Ephrata township. The farm owned by John Heffley passed to his daugli- ter, Mrs. Hibshman, and from her to her son Jacob, through whose son John it descended to George. To Wendel and Hannah Hibshman were borne five chil- dren, viz. : Jacob, Henry. John, Hannah and Mary Wendel Hibshman was a man of marked ability, and naturally became a leader among the people of east- ern Pennsylvania. On the breaking out of the Revo- lutionary war he espoused the cause of the Colonies, and as major of the 3d Battalion of Pennsylvania troops did good service in the war which ended in the formation of the Republic. After his marriage he be- came the owner of the farm which had belonged to his wife's family, but on the farm he first bought he passed the remainder of his days, an honored and in- fluential citizen of the commonwealth whose soldiers he had commanded in the struggle for independence. He and his wife were both interred in the family burying-ground on the home farm.
Jacob Hibshuman, eldest son of Wendel, became a man of prominence, and added luster to the family name. At an early age he entered the field of politics as a Jeffersonian Democrat, and for years wielded an influence second to none in his part of the State. He was a scrivener, and for many years a justice of the peace. He was a distinguished member of the XVIth Congress, having defeated James Buchanan, afterward President of the United States, in the Con- gressional election of 1820. At one period he was surveyor general of his district, which was composed of the counties of Lancaster, York and Dauphin, and was twelve years associate judge of the Lancaster county court. In 1824, when Gen. LaFayette visited the United States, Mr. Hibshman, then a member of Congress, was chairman of the committee appointed by the citizens of Lancaster county to receive and en- tertain him, and had the honor of introducing the distinguished Frenchman to the people who met to do him honor. Mr. Hibshman was also prominent in the military affairs of his State, and reached the rank of brigadier general. He married Miss Elizabeth At- kinson. daughter of Thomas and Saloma Atkinson, who bore him the following children : Polly, Lydia, Edward, Jacob, Elizabeth, Amelia and John. Jacob Hibshman inherited the home farm which is now owned by his grandson, George Hibsliman, and on which he died May 19. 1852. He was a man of noble qualities and upright character, and passed away honored and esteemed by a wide circle of friends and fellow citizens. His wife's death took place May 4, 18II, and both sleep their last sleep in the Hibshman family burying-ground.
Henry Hibshman, a younger son of Wendel Hibshman, was also a man of prominence in his day
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and generation, and held offices of honor and trust in his native State, the most important of which was that of member of the State Legislature. Like his brother, Jacob, he took an active interest in the State militia for many years, and retired from its service with the rank of general. He married Miss Catha- rina Miller, who bore him two children: Wendel and Elmira. For his second wife he married Hanna Sweitzer, and their children were Lewis Harrison and Mary.
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John Hibshiman, son of Gen. Jacob, and father of George, was born on the home farm March 7, too;, and grew to manhood there. His education, like that of all farmers' sons of the time, was obtained in the district school of his neighborhood, and was deemed sufficient to fit him for the avocation marked out for him, that of tiller of the soil, which he followed and honored through a long and well spent life. In time he became the owner of the Hibshman homestead, which he successfully managed, and which at his death. Oct. 14. 1871, became by purchase the property of his son George. In early life he was a Whig in political belief, and when the Republican party sprang into dife under the oaks near the city of Jackson, Mich., he became, and until his death remained, a stanchi member thereof. But although he was al- ways active in the support of his party and its prin- ciples, he was not an office seeker, but was content to be a private in its ranks. In March, 1838, Mr. Hibsh- man was joined in marriage to Miss Magdalena Shirk, who was born Aug. 4. 1813, daughter of John and Annie ( Eberly) Shirk, residents of West Co- calico township, where they were weil-to-do and prominent agriculturists. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Shirk were Magdalena, Leah and Michael. Mrs. Hibshaman passed from earth June IS, ISOS, at the ripe old age of eighty-five years. To Mr. and Mrs. John Hibshman were born eight children, as follows: Annie, deceased : Elizabeth, wife of Dr. D. Rhine Hertz, of Ephrata : Jacob, deceased ; John (dc- ceased ), who married Hannah Dover, and had five children, all of whom died in infancy except Harry, the present cashier of the Ephrata National Bank; Henry, deceased : Isaac, deceased; George, men- tioned below ; and Amelia, who married f. Craig, of Chester, Pa. In the family cemetery on the farm where he was born, and where all his life was spent, John Hibshman and his wife Magdalena are sleeping the sleep that knows no waking until the dawn of the resurrection morning.
George Hibsliman, like his father and grandfather before him, was born on the farm of his ancestors, which is now his own. Like them, he grew to man- hood thereon, and obtained his education in the dis- trict schools, and lie too selected as his vocation the life of a farmer, having been content to till in an in- telligent and successful way the beautiful farm any man might be proud to own. Year by year he adds to his wealth, and the beauty and comforts of his surroundings, thus setting an example some of the sons of his farmer neighbors will surely follow. In . Elizabethtown Water Company, having served as
politics he is a Republican, and one as to whose posi- tion there is never any questioning, and who sees no shame in being called stalwart. He is active in the interests of his party, but has no time to seek and no desire to hold public office. He is a member of the Republican township committee, and was a delegate to the Republican State convention Held in Harris- burg in june, 1902.
On Dec. 3, 18;4, Mr. Hibshman married Miss Mary Kratz, who was born Oct. 18, 1852, daughter of David and Mary ( Bear) Kratz. Their union has been blessed with two children: Alice, born Sep :. 16, ISS, who died June 27, 1897 ; and Edward, bor: Sept. 9, 18S7.
David and Mary (Bear) Kratz were natives ci Bucks county and Bareville, Leacock township, Lan- caster county, respectively. Mr. Kratz was born -lug. 12, 1824, and died June 27, 1892. Mrs. Kratz was born July 27. 1820, and resides in Ephrata, in the home which has been hers for thirty-five years.
HON. HENRY K. BLOUGH, M. D., prominent in the professional, political and social circles of Elizabethtown, is a native of South Hanover town- ship, Dauphin Co., Pa., born Dec. 20, 1844, son of George and Mary (Keller) Clough, natives of New York State and Dauphin county, respectively.
George Blough accompanied his parents to Dauphin county. Pa., shortly before his marriage. He was a bricklayer and stenemason by trade, and followed these calling's all his lite. He married Mary Keller, who was born in 1823, a daughter of Michae! Keller, a farmer of Lancaster county, Pa., who died in Dauphin county at the age of seventy-four. Of the children born to this union, Sarah is unmarried and at home : David H. is a stock dealer and farmer of Dauphin county ; Hon. Henry K. is mentioned be- low. The parents were both faithful members of the United Brethren Church.
Henry K. Blough was educated in the public schools and at Palmyra Academy. In carly man- hood he learned the miller's trade, and followed it from the age of fifteen years-the time of his leav- ing home. At the age of twenty-three he began reading medicine under the direction of an uncle, Dr. D. C. Keller, of Union Deposit. By ISzo he had finished his medical studies, graduating from the University of Philadelphia, and began the active practice of that profession in Dachmanville, where he remained until 1872, at which time he located in Elizabethtown. his present home. He has been emi- nently successful in practice, and by his careful treatment of the afflicted, his kindly, sympathetic na- ture, and his ever bright and cheery manner. has won hosts of friends. He has found success not only in the professional world, but has taken an active part in the advancement of the material welfare of his town. In 1887 he helped to organize the Elizabet ?- town Exchange Bank, and has since continued as one of its directors. He is also president of the
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such since its organization in 1897, and president of the Elizabethtown branch of the Lebanon Building & Loan Association, he having been one of the first to offer inducements for the establishment of such a branch.
In municipal affairs the Doctor has played a prominent part. For twenty-four years he has been a school director, and in 1801 and 1892 he served as a representative from his district to the State Legisla- ture, of which he is also a member at present, having been again elected in 1902. Politically he has for years been an enthusiastic worker in the ranks of the Republican party. Socially he belongs to the Tr. O. U. A. M., while professionally he is identified with the city and county medical societies. He has also served on the staff of the Lancaster County Hospital. The Doctor is a great lover of fine horses, and is the owner of several, whose pedigrees entitle them to great consideration.
On Sept. 14, 1869. Dr. Blough was united in marriage with Elizabeth Shank, of Annville, Leba- non county, who was born in 1850, a daughter of Abraham and Leah (Moyer) Shank, both now de- ceased. Two children blessed their union : Albert S., a graduate of the Philadelphia Medico Chirurgi- cal Institute ; and Jennie. wife of Dr. D. Frank Kline, a prominent physician of Lancaster. Dr. Blough is an extremely popular man, and is held in high esti- mation for his upright life.
JACOB B. BRUBAKER, a general farmer in East Donegal township, was born in Rapho town- ship Mav 7, 1857, son of Andrew and Mary (Bru- baker) Brubaker, of the same township.
Andrew Brubaker was born Sept. 20, 1832, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Strickler) Brubaker, resi- dents of Rapho township, where the former was en- gaged in farming all his life. Andrew Brubaker was a farmer and a man of considerable importance in the community in which his industrious and well or- dered life was passed. and where he served six years as school director. He died June 17, 1892, in East Donegal township, and was buried in the Cross Roads cemetery, a well known burial place in that township. He married Mary Brubaker, who was born June 6. 1836, daughter of Benjamin and Maria (Lehman) Brubaker, farming people of Rapho township. She is now living in Mt. Joy, Pa. To Andrew and Mary Brubaker were born: Elizabeth, who married Peter Graybill, supervisor of Mt. Joy township, and a resident of Florin : Mary, who is at home with her mother ; Jacob B. : William B., a pro- fessor in a polytechnic college in Brooklyn, N. Y .; and Harvey B., in the United States Postal Service, at Florin. Benjamin Brubaker, father of Mrs. Mary Brubaker, married for his second wife Mary Landis, of York county.
On Nov. 13, 1884, Jacob B. Brubaker and Bar- bara Felker were married in East Donegal township, and to this union were born: Frances K., now de- ceased; Simon, deceased ; and William, Amos, Ja-
cob B. and Mary, all of whom are at home. Mrs. Barbara (Felker) Brubaker was born in Rapho township, Nov. 6. 1863, daughter of Philip and Fanny (Kaufman) Felker, who were born in Rapho and Manor townships, respectively. Philip Felker was a farmer in East Donegal township, where he died Feb. 12, 1899. and his remains were buried in the Graybills Cemetery. Fanny ( Kaufman) Felker, who was born in 18440, is now residing in Rapho, a faithful member of the Mennonite Church. They had the following children: John and Amos. both of whom died young; Barbara; Amanda, who mar- ried J. K. Layman, a drover in Mt. Joy township ; Abraham, a . farmer in East Donegal township, Elizabeth, who married Christ Rohrer, a farmer in Rapho: Mary, of Lancaster: Philip, a school teacher in Mt. Joy; Frances, deceased ; Anna, who is living in Elizabethtown: Samuel, a day laborer in Mt. Joy township ; and Catherine, who is living with her mother. Both the Felkers and the Kaufmans were all residents of Lancaster county.
Jacob B. Brubaker remained at home with his parents until his marriage, when he worked for the neighboring farmers until 1804. That year he pur- chased the farm on which he is now residing, where he has achieved a decided success in his agriculturai labors. He is a thrifty and energetic farmer, with a good place and a reputation for thorough and care- ful work. In his politics he is a stanch Republican.
WILLIAM B. BRUBAKER, who is mentioned above as a professor in a polytechnic school in Brooklyn, was born in the township of Rapho, March 14, 1866, where he spent his early life on the farm, and began his education in the district school. At the age of sixteen years he began a course in Millersville Acad- emy, from which he was graduated in both branches in 1887. During this time he also attended the old Frankiin and Marshall Academies. For four years he taught district school, and for eight years was a teacher in the Millersville Academy, achieving such a reputation as an instructor and a valuable all- around teacher that in September, 1809, he was taken on the teaching force of the Polytechnical Institute in Brooklyn, where he is now engaged. Prof. Bru- baker thoroughly understands the work he has in hand, and is an earnest and inspiring teacher.
CHRISTIAN KINDIG, JR. The baptismal name of Mr. Kindig's father was Christian, and his mother's maiden name was Alice Milan. He was one of the substantial and influential citizens of Lan- caster county in his day, and first saw the light in Conestoga township, on Dec. 29, 1815. His long and useful life of eighty-three years came to an end at Millersville on July 21, 1898. While he died at Mil- lersville, his life was passed in Conestoga and Manor townships, chiefly in Conestoga. He was a success- ful farmer, owning 120 acres of his own, and was a prominent and influential citizen, a man of broad and enlightened public spirit, and he filled various local offices. One of the early Whigs, be cast his first
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presidential vote for General William Henry Harri- son, and his last for Benjamin Harrison in 1888. He was a member of the Mennonite Church. Mary Frantz, his wife. died in 1881, at the age of sixty- eight years. A family of nine children was born to
1 them: E. J., Mary, Barbara, Elizabeth, Annie, Christian, Adeline, Maggie and Amanda. E. T. oc- cupied the old homestead, and became a man of influ- ence in public affairs. Mary married Abraham Eslileman, of Millersville. Barbara became the wife of Jacob Herr, of New Danville, in Pequea township. Elizabeth married Amos Harnish, of Lancaster. Annie married Jacob Miller, of New Danville, and is deceased. Adeline married Abraham Nissley, of South Hempfield. Maggie became the wife of the Rev. Daniel Lehman, of Manor. Amanda, the youngest of the family, is unmarried, and lives at Millersville. Christian, Jr., lives in Manor township.
Christian Kindig. fr., was born May 15, 1848. He grew up on the old homestead in Conestoga and attended the common schools of his native town. On Dec. 12. 1871, he married Mattie L., daughter of John Hess and Elizabeth Landis, his wife, of Man- heim township, who was born Oct. 2, 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Kindig are the parents of six children, one of whom died in infancy. The others-Ivan H., Minnie H., Mary H .. Lizzie H. and Annie H .-- live at home with their parents.
After his marriage Mr. Kindig settled upon a farm of 138 acres, bought by his father in 1863, and situated one mile west of Millersville. There he still lives, although he has added to his original holdings by the purchase of seventy-five acres adjoining on the north. The land is under high cultivation, and the improvements, nearly all of which have been made by Mir. Kindig, are extensive and modern in character, such as might be made by a farmer of progressive ideas and keen, close observation. As a citizen he is broad minded and public spirited, es- teemed and influential. As a husband and father he shows estimable virtue, and as a Christian his life is without reproach.
Mrs. Kindig's paternal grandparents were Christian and Barbara ( Hoover) Hess. Her father, John Hess, was born May 31, 1815, and died Jan. 20, ISOT. He was a man of substantial means, and a devout member of the Mennonite Church. In early life he was a farmer, but later owned and operated the Oregon mill in Manheim for nearly a quarter of a century. His marriage to Elizabeth Landis oc- curred Oct. 18, 1838. She was born Oct. 7, 1820, daughter of Benjamin L. Landis and Anna Lang. Mrs. Kindig was one of a large family of children : Annie, the eldest, married Peter G. Hershey, of Lan- caster : Benjamin L. lives in Manheim : Barbara dicd while a child of four years ; David L. is a resident of Manheim : Lizzie L. died in childhood ; Mattie L. is Mrs. Christian Kindig. Maria L. is unmarried and lives with her mother. Fannie died in childhood, as did also an infant son. Isaac L. is a missionary in China, laboring under the direction and care of the
Christian Alliance, in the province of Quangsai, where he has been stationed since 1896. Amcla L. is a practicing physician in Philadelphia. Mrs. Hess, the mother of Mrs. Kindig, is yet living, a lovable okd lady, hale and well preserved, despite her four score years of active, patient toil; her father, Benjamin Landis, died in his fifty-ninth year, while her mother | lived to be nearly eighty-five.
DAVID FRANCIS MAGEE, a prominent mem- ber of the Lancaster Bar, enjoys the somewhat unique distinction of having practically built in Lancaster county an enterprising village-White Rock, where, he still retains extensive business interests.
James Vincent Magee, father of David Francis, was born at Kennett Square, Chester county, where he was a farmer and. following in the footsteps of his father. James Magee, a cattle dealer. Later for a few years James V. Magee kept a hotel in Wilming- ton. Del., afterward moving to Lynchburg, Va., where he died. He married Mary Ann Bradley, a daughter of John Bradley, who came from Ireland in 1806, settling in Phoenixville, where he became a well-known farmer and cattle dealer, and where he died in 1860. To James V. and Mary Ann (Brad- | ley) Magee came eleven children, two of whom died in infancy and three after reaching maturity. The survivors arc: Margaret, Ann, Kate and Mary. all living in Philadelphia ; Laura, the wife of John Frer- ron, a farmer by occupation, and at present a mem- ber of the board of county commissioners of Ches- ter county ; and David Francis, of Lancaster.
David Francis Magee, familiarly known as Squire Magee, by reason of his having been justice of the peace so many years, was born in Wilmington. Del., in December, 1854, his parents removing to Vii- ginia during his infancy. There they remained until 1868, when they came back to this State, settling in Hopewell, Chester county. Mr. Magee remained with his parents until 1880, when he removed to White Rock, Lancaster county, at that time a mere country cross roads, with one dwelling house and a small store. Mr. Magee completed his schooling in Georgetown College, but he has always been a student, and has followed out the study of political economy to such an extent that he is one of the best posted men on that subject in the State. For five years he was a school teacher, but on his removal to White Rock became an active business man, building a warehouse, a creamery, a smithy, a wagon-maker's shop and six dwelling houses. His enterprise has opened the way, and White Rock is to-day a hustling and energetic village. Mr. Magee still owns consid- erable property there, though living in Lancaster. For thirteen years he served as a justice of the peace, and was three times elected in a Republican district, though he was and is an uncompromising Democrat. During his long service as a justice of the peace he had fully seven hundred cases before him, and every case stood as he decided it. In 1894 Mr. Magce was nominated by the Democrats for Auditor General of
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the State, and made a handsome run, speaking in almost every county in the State. Mr. Magee began reading law with Theodore K. Stubbs, but stopped only to begin reading again with J. A. Coyle, and was admitted to the Bar in 1888. Before he was ' eligible, on account of the time limit. he argued a case in the Supreme Court, to which he was formally admitted just as soon as the two years had expired.
Mr. Magee is a ready and fluent speaker, and challenged the prominent Republicans of the State for a discussion of the tariff question. This discus- sion was with many of the best-posted Republicans of the State, and extended over some twelve years. It attracted much attention and demonstrated the fact that Mr. Magee was thoroughly informed as to all matters under consideration. After being ad- mitted to the Bar Mr. Magee retained for several. years a silent partnership in all his business enter- prises, including that of the White Rock Warehouse property, which he had greatly improved, and a store of considerable magnitude. He was an organizer, a director and the first counsel for the Octoraro Tele- phone Co., which proved a great local success.
Mr. Magee was married in 1878 to Miss Lew- rainer Twaddell, a daughter of John Twaddell, a farmer of Chester county. From this union were born: Lewrainer T. and Mary T., both graduates at Emmitsburg, and now at home with their parents : D. Frank, a graduate of the Lancaster high school, and now a clerk with Reilly Brothers & Raub; James F., Helen A. and Charles Albert, all three at school.
Mr. Magee is a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church of this city, and is grand president of the Pennsylvania Catholic Beneficial League, whose headquarters are in Lancaster, and of which he was one of the principal organizers. Mr. Magee is quite an enthusiast in cycling, and is president of the Lan- caster Cycling Club, entertaining the members annu- ally at his country home, and going along with the "boys" when they make the run to his elegant man- sion at White Rock. Although Mr. Magee tips the scales at 220 pounds he rides the wheel with more exercise that he has taken up the matter of good roads, writing a series of articles on the subject for the Lancaster press, which have since been brought together and published in book form.
than ordinary ease, and is so much interested in the ; and religiously he and his wife and daughter are n:embers of the Church of God : socially they stand very high in the esteem of their neighbors.
ABRAHAM H. MECKLEY, a trusted and popular engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad and a resident of Columbia, was born on a farm in Conoy township, Lancaster county, Jan. 21, 1851, the sev- enth of ten children born to Benjamin and Barbara (Halderman) Meckley, the former of whom was first a farmer and then sawmill proprietor, but his latter years were passed in retired ease. He lost his wife ! in 1859, when she was forty-five years old, and his own death took place in 1895, at the age of seventy- five. They were members respectively of the Menno- nite and United Brethren churches and the remains
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of both were interred in Conoy cemetery. Their ten children were born in the following order: Jacob, who is a lumber merchant in Bainbridge. Pa. : Anna, wife of Benjamin Fink. a carpenter in Conoy ; Chris- tian. a cigarmaker in Lock Haven : Elizabeth. wife of Andrew Shenk, of Bainbridge; Barbara. with ber brother in Bainbridge: Mary, who died young; Abraham H .: Benjamin and Samuel, deceased ; and Martin, of Conoy.
Abraham H. Meckley assisted his father on the home farm until eighteen years old, and then learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked until ISSo. He then made two trips on the railroad as brakeman, spent six years, nine months and nineteen days as fireman, and was then promoted in 1887 to engineer.
On April 13, 1884, Mr. Meckley was married, in Elizabethtown, Pa., to Miss Elizabeth Goss. and to this union has been born one child. Cora. Mrs. Elizabeth Meckley was born in West Donegal town- ship, Lancaster county, April 29, 1855, a daughter of Josephi and Mary ( Erb) Goss, natives respectively of Hanover, York Co .. Pa., and Conoy township, Lancaster county. Their family comprised nine chil- dren, viz .: Amos, who died young: Elizabeth ; Christian, school-teacher, farmer and justice of the peace in Conoy township ; Joseph, in Elizabethtown ; Mary, who died in infancy ; Anna M., wife of David F. Gable, of Mt. Jov; Ella married to John Shire- man, a fariner in Conoy ; Emily, married to Harrison Brenzer, a school-teacher in Bainbridge ; and Myra, wife of Joseph B. Martin, a school-teacher in Middle- town. Pa. Joseph Goss, the father, was a farmer by vocation and died in Conoy township in May, 1899, aged seventy-four; and his wife, who was born in November, 1831, now resides in Elizabethtown. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Meckley were John Goss, a farmer, and Elizabeth ( Haldeman) Goss, both of Lancaster county : her maternal grand- parents were Christian and Elizabeth ( Grable) Erb, who moved to Ridgeville, Conoy township. when they retired from business. Mr. Erb was a justice of the peace.
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