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On Oct. 5, 1898, Jay Bachman was married to Edith MInsser, daughter of Dr. Harry Musser, of Lanipeter, and one little son, Harry M., was born, Nov. 3. 1899. In his political affiliations Mr. Bach- man is a Republican, and he is one of the most esteemed citizens of Strasburg township. His re- spected mother resides in Strasburg, enjoying a peaceful old age, beloved and esteemed by all who know her.
HENRY S. IMMEL, an extensive cigar manu- facturer at Mountville, Lancaster county, employing forty-three men, began business here in 1800, and has made an unequivocal success of it. He was born in Millersville. this county. Feb. 25, 1860. a son of Henry B. and Catherine ( Stauffer ) Immel. of Manor township, where the parents resided until iBot, when they came to Mountville. Of their ien children. El- vina died young : Henry S. is our subject ; Emeline is married to Joseph Froelich, a carpenter of Mount- ville : Calvin. John. Edwin, Franklin and Ida all died young : and two others died in infancy.
Henry B. Immel, father of Henry S., was born in Millersville. July 12, 1831, was a blacksmith and car- riage builder. and after 1891 carried on his calling in Mountville. Henry B. was a son of John and Elizabeth ( Berk) Immel, who were born and who lived and died in Manor township, the latter event occurring in Millersville. John Immel was a black- smith by trade, and was a very popular citizen, hold- ing many township offices in the early days. His death occurred in 1851. when he was fifty-seven years old, but the wife survived until 1873, when she died at the age of seventy years. They were members of the Reformed church and their mortal remains were interred at Millersville. They were the par- ents of eight children, born in the following order : Levi. now of Reading, Pa .: Henry D .: Martin, a merchant in Nebraska: Adeline, wife of Emanuel Lehr, of Millersville, Pa .: Jacob, deceased : Mary. deceased. was first married to Jacob Brenner, and next to Sebasten Nestile : Rebecca, deceased wife of Christ Keller : and Catherine, deceased wife of Christ Hartman.
On Feb. 14. 1856. Henry B. Immel married Cath- erine Stauffer, who was born in Manor township in October, 1833, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Wit-
mer) Stauffer. John Stauffer was a distiller in his younger days, then became a farmer, and finally re- tired from active life. Henry B. Immel is a consist- cnt member of the German Reformed Church, and in politics is a Republican.
Henry S. Immel worked in his father's blacksmith shop, off and on, until he had attained his majority. but in the meantime, when but seventeen years of age, had begun learning cigar making and tobacco rais- ing, and finally engaged in business for himself in that line in Millersville, where he had resided for thirty years. After five years' experience in the cigar trade in that town. he came to Mountville, and es- tablished his present extensive business. He has since erected a large factory where he manufactures his cigars.
On Sept. 16, 1884. Henry S. Immel was joined marriage. in Mountville, to Anna Shookers, and to this union have been born two children. Elizabeth May and Luella. Mrs. Anna ( Shookers) Immel is a native of Mountville, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Shookers, well known residents of the town. Mr. and Mrs. Immel are members of the U. B. Church, and fraternally Mr. Immel is a Knight Templar Mason, belonging to Commandery No. 4.3. Lancaster : a Knight of Malta ; and a member of the O. U. A. M. Politically he is a Republican. In 1800 he purchased his residence property in Mountville, and has one of the pleasant homes of that village.
SAMUEL D. KOSER, M. D., a rising young physician and surgeon at Mountville. Lancaster county, was born at Function, Penn township, Lan- caster Co., Pa .. April 28. 1866, and is a son of Will- iam and Mary A. fBehn) Koser, natives. respect- ively, of Lancaster and Dauphin counties.
William Koser was born in 1836, and was reared a farmer. The family lived in Lancaster township. where Mrs. Koser died June 4, 1807, at the age of sixty-four years, and in 1899 the father retired to Lancaster, where he lives at case and free from care. To the marriage of William and Mary A. Koser were born seven children, in the following order : Eliza- beth, wife of Timlow Long, a shoe merchant of Lan- caster : Samuel D. : John B .. deceased ; William, a farmer on the old homestead in Manheim township : Jonas, a cigar manufacturer in Lancaster : Mary, re- siding with her sister. Mrs. Long; and Martin, also a cigarmaker in Lancaster.
The paternal grandparents of Dr. Koser were Frederick and Rebecca ( Young) Koser, of Lancaster county, the former of whom, a farmer, died in Man- heim in 1872. and the latter still resides there. Frederick was a son of Frederick, a native of Switz- erland, who settled near White Oak, Lancaster coun- ty. The Doctor's maternal grandparents were John and Elizabeth Behn, of Campbelltown, Lebanon Co., Pa., where they lived on a farm for more than forty years.
Samuel B. Koser lived on the home farm until sixteen years old, and then attended Millersville Nor-
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mal School two seasons. He was then employed in the drug business in Columbia, Pa .. for five years, and was later engaged in the same business for two years in Baltimore, Md. In the meantime he had been assiduously studying medical works, and had prepared himself for entrance to Baltimore Medical College, in which he took a full course, and was graduated with the class of April 15, 1891.
Dr. Koser began the practice of his profession in Columbia, where for six months he met with grati- fying success, but there was a more inviting field opened up to him: in Mountville, of which he at once availed himself, and has there since enjoyed a large remunerative and constantly increasing patronage. The Doctor is a member of the Lancaster City and County Medical Societies, the State Medical Society, the National Medical Association, and the College of Physicians & Surgeons, of Columbia, Pa., and keeps well abreast of the progress made in the art and sci- ence of medicine.
Fraternally Dr. Koser is a Freemason of the seventh degree (Royal Arch) ; is a member of the K. of M., and likewise of the I. O. O. F. Re- : ligiously he is a member of Trinity Reformed Church. In politics a Republican, the Doctor has been a school director for the past eight years, now serving his third term. Socially he mingles with the ! highest classes in Mountville, by whom he is highly esteemed as a gentleman and as a physician.
REUBEN J. MYERS, Superintendent, and a member of the firm, of the Grey Iron Casting Co., of Mt. Joy, Pa., one of the most important industrial institutions in this part of Lancaster county, belongs to an old and prominent family of Pennsylvania.
Jacob and Esther ( Strickler ) Myers, the paternal grandparents of Reuben J. Myers, were well-known and highly regarded residents of Lancaster county, where the former taught school and also followed the trade of stone-mason, residing in the house in Mt. Jov which is now occupied by the beloved mother of our subject. These good people reared a large and estimable family, but nearly all have passed away. These were: Eliza, who died unmarried ; Mary, de- ceased wife of David Stoner : Henry, deceased : Ja- cob, deceased : Anna, deceased wife of Augustus Walton : Esther, deceased wife of Henry Zell ; and Catherine, widow of Thomas McFalls, who resided in Quincy, Ill., until her death in July. root.
The maternal grandparents of Reuben J. Mvers were no less prominent in Lancaster county, and were Isaac and Anna (Martin) Hershey, of Penn and Rapho townships, respectively, who died in Mt. Joy borough and East Donegal township. Their children were: Fanny, who married Jacob Myers ; John, living retired: Eliza, deccased. who mar- ried Daniel Lehman: Andrew, living retired : Ephraim. deceased : Christian, deceased : Anna. the widow of Frederick Stettler, of Jersey City. N. J. : George, a retired farmer of Iowa : Reuben, a resident of Illinois : Sarah, who married Reuben Risser, who
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conducts a steam laundry in Mt. Joy ; and Naomi, who married Ely Fletcher, a retired Illinois fariner. The maternal great-grandparents were Christian and Elizabeth ( Snyder) Hershey, the former a son of Christian Hershey, an old settler of Lancaster county.
Reuben J. Alvers was born in Mt. Joy Aug. 9, 1854, son of Jacob and Fanny ( Hershey ) Myers, the former of whom followed the business of cabinet- making in this locality until his death in 1869, at the age of fifty-one. During life he was prominently identified with the temperance movement and was a consistent member of the Church of God. known as the Bethel. Mrs. Fanny ( Hershey) Myers, who resides in Mt. Joy, was born July 30, 1821, and be- came the mother of these children: Regina, a suc- cessful educator in the Mt. Joy schools : Emma, the widow of John Singer of Mt. Joy: Hershey, who died in 1871 : Mary, the wife of J. D. Boyce, a wagon- maker of this place : Reuben J. ; Ezra M .. yardmaster for the Pennsylvania railroad, in Philadelphia ; Al- len, a contractor and builder, in Lincoln. Neb. ; and Harvey, a baggage master on the Pennsylvania rail- road. and located in Philadelphia.
Reuben J. Myers, whose name in Mt. Joy stands for great business sagacity as well as financial re- sponsibility, was reared and educated in that town, finishing his school days at the age of fourteen. With inclinations in the direction of machinery and iron work, he entered a foundry where he remained some time, and then made his way to Harrisburg, in 1870 completing his instruction in one of the great foun- dries of this city, and remaining engaged in work un- til the spring of 1871. Thoroughly proficient and well aware that this proficiency would always secure him lucrative employment, Mr. Mvers left home. in- tending to see something of the country, and traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific, working at his trade, and learning much which in later years benefited him in many ways. In 1874 he returned to Mt. Joy, and there remained during the succeeding two years, thence going to New York city, where for five years he was connected with business firms in his line. Upon his second return to his old home. he opened up a foundry and galvanizing plant, which he suc- cessfully operated until 1802. when he became a member of the great firm of the Grey Iron Casting Co. This business was established in 1882 by Stauf- fer & Eby, for the manufacture of novelties and cast- ings, also shelf hardware, and, as now conducted, employs 120 men, and is one of the most important industries of this locality. The present firm which is composed of the well-known solid and responsible business men, T. B. Himes, president : T. W. Eshle- man, secretary and treasurer : and R. T. Myers. st- perintendent. They purchased this business in Feb- ruarv, I891, and have conducted it ever since with signal success.
In December. 1879, Reuben J. Myers was mar- ried to Miss Helen Brennesholtz. and to this union have been born : Edith, Ralph and Ethel. Mrs. Myers was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1859, a daughter of
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Peter P. and Helen (Johnson) Brennesholtz, who were residents of New York, where he conducted a business as newsdealer. The political affiliations of Mr. Myers are with the Republican party, although his busy life leaves him no time for office-holding. Fraternally he is a valued member of the Masonic or- der, and is connected with the F. & A. M., No. 147. Cope Stone, N. J. ; and he also belongs to the I. O. O. F., No. 277, of Mt. Joy. For many years he has been a consistent member of the Bethel Church, where he is active in all benevolent and charitable enterprises. Mr. Myers is a self-made man, and one who has won his prominence and the respect and esteem of the community through his own efforts.
HARRY K. RUBY, one of the best known and most highly respected railroad conductors residing in Columbia, Pa., was born in York. this State, March I, 1858, a son of Joseph and Sarah ( Barnhart ) Ruby, natives of Somerset and York, respectively.
Joseph Ruby, a cabinetmaker by trade, who served as constable for several years, was born Jan. 20, 1809, and died in York, Dec. 11, 1871. His wife. Sarah Barnhart, was born April 19. 18II, and died Nov. 23, 1895, the remains of both being interred in the York cemetery. She was a loving wife and de- voted mother. and for seventy long years was a con- sistent member of the Presbyterian Church. At the time of her death her eldest child was sixty-five years of age, and the youngest thirty-seven. During her girihood she was one of several young ladies, who, dressed in white, received General LaFayette on his last visit to this country. and had the honor of shak- ing hands with that distinguished gentleman when he passed through York.
Harry K. Ruby is the youngest in a family of nine children. The others in order of birth are as fol- lows: William, editor of the Maryland Journal at Towson, Md. ; Susan, who married Henry R. Ruby, a cousin, and is now a widow living in Chambers- burg, Pa. : Adeline, widow of J. S. Boyer and a res- ident of York : Frank, a conductor on the Pennsyl- vania railroad and a resident of Columbia ; Walter, who is now conducting a restaurant in York : Emma. wife of a Mr. Gingrick, a railroad engineer of Phila- delphia : Emerson, a railroad engineer of Chicago, Ill. : and Kate, wife of Harry Flayhart of Towson, Maryland.
Until he attained his majority Harry K. Ruby re- mained a resident of York, Pa., and in the meantime worked at anything which he could find to do. He then went to Philadelphia, where he clerked in a grocery store for six months, and during the fol- lowing two years worked in the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad freight house at Chicago, after which he returned to Pennsylvania and spent one year in Harrisburg. Since then he has made his home in Columbia, and has been in the employ of the Penn- sylvania Railroad Co., first as brakeman eight years, as flagman fourteen years, and as conductor since that time.
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In Chicago Mr. Ruby was married. Nov. 16, 1879, to Miss Catherine Westhaffer. a native of York county, Pa., where her parents, Emanuel and Sarah ( Strine) Westhaffer, were also born, their early home being in Strinestown. The father, a farmer by occu- pation, is now sixty-five years of age, while the mother is fifty-nine. Mrs. Ruby is the oldest of their children, the others being Emma, wife of Will- iam Wise. of York ; Daniel, deceased : and Minnie. wife of Frank Deamer of Lebanon, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Ruby have four children, namely: Maud, now the wife of Clarence E. Lloyd of Columbia ; Joseph, Harry and Addic. all at home.
Fraternally Mr. Ruby is a member of the Brother- hood of Railroad Trainmen ; the Pennsylvania Re- lief Department : and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and religiously he is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. By his bal- lot hie supports the men and measures of the Demo- cratic party, and never withholds his aid from any enterprise which he believes will prove of public benefit.
JOHN H. HOOK, who is a prominent citizen of Lancaster, Pa., and one who has long been identified with the material improvement and growth of the city, was born April 5, 1858, in Lancaster, a son of John and Catherine (Klaus) Hook, natives of Greiss. Gross-Gerau, Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, although they met and were married in Lancaster, Pa. John Hook emigrated to America in 1831, while the date of his wife's emigration was one year later. They have their pleasant home in Lancaster, where he is employed as a stone-mason and stone- cutter. He was born in October, 1823. a son of Ja- cob and Christiana Hook, natives of Hessen Darm- stadt, Germany, the former of whom was born on April 14, 1804, came to America in 183!, and died March 2. 1871. Mrs. Christiana Hook died in Ger- many, in 1850. aged fifty-six years, four months and twenty days. Mrs. Catherine ( Klaus ) Hook was a daughter of Ernest and Margaret Klaus, of Drei- burg. Hessen Darmstadt. Germany, who came to Lancaster county, in 1834. where he died, and was buried at Strasburg. Pa. John and Catherine ( Klaus) Hook are members of the German Lutheran Church. ; In politics he is a supporter of the Democratic party. They had born to them these children: John H .: Elizabeth. who married Frank Witmer, of Lancaster ; Henry, who resides at home. unmarried ; Adam P., who died of yellow fever in Havana : Catherine, who married William Zercher, a tobacco merchant of Lan- caster ; Frederick, who is a barber ; and William F., unmarried, who lives at home.
John H. Hook was reared in a home where he was early taught the value of industry. Until he was thirteen years of age, he attended school and then be- came water bov on the railroad, retaining his con- nection with railroad work. from IS71. when he made this humble beginning. until 1898, when he quit the road. From 1881 to 1889 he was master stone-
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mason for the Frederick Division of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Co. In October, 1889. he made his beginning in contracting with J. F. Kellar and until his health failed, in june, 1898. he continued at that work. During that time Mr. Hook was engaged in building and contracting on a large scale, in Lancas- ter City, and in 1898, in association with Dr. M. L. Davis, began the building of garbage crematories, and in 1898 built a 10o-ton crematory for the United States Government at Havana, Cuba. It would be a task to name all the work which has been completed by Mr. Hook in the building line, but a few of the notable constructions are: No. 13 bridge over the Juniata River, near Altoona. Pa., containing 10,700 cubic yards of masonry, built at a cost of $107,000, on the Middle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. and for the same, a bridge over Stone Creek, at Huntingdon, Pa., containing 4,000 cubic yards of masonry ; also a bridge for the same over Shaver's Creek, at Petersburg, Huntingdon Co., Pa., contain- ing 3.500 yards of masonry. It was at this point that Mr. Hook was stricken with paralysis, the heavy demands made upon his physical strength being more that he could endure. His present business includes contracting and grading, and probably there is no more competent man in his line in Lancaster county.
In September. 1884. Mr. Hook was united in marriage with Mary E. Boud, who was born at Bar- ren Hill, Montgomery Co., Pa .. a daughter of James and Sarah ( Fisher) Boud, natives of that county. The former was a son of James and Elizabeth Boud, natives of New Jersey. Mrs. Hook's father was a contractor and builder, and he died in 1879, at the age of sixty-seven years. Her grandfather was a cooper. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Hook were George and Elizabeth Fisher, farming people of Montgomery county. Mrs. Hook's mother was born in January, 1821, and now resides at Audubon, Pa. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Boud were: William H., who keeps a hotel at Audubon: Kate F., who married Clinton Custer, and lives at Audubon. where he is engaged in brick manufacturing; Mary E .. who became Mrs. Hook: and Margaret, who died unmarried. The children born to Mr. Hook and wife were: Adam, deceased : Henry B. : Irene M .; Josephine ; Mary E. L. : John F. ; and Paul R.
Mr. Hook has led too busy a life to have taken a very active part in politics. although no citizen of this locality is better qualified. For six years he consented to be judge of elections, but finally re- signed the office. Until the silver question agitated the Democratic party, he had always, adhered to its principles, but since that time. has been identified with the Republican party. For the past twenty- three years he has been an Odd Fellow, and also be- longs to the order of Seven Wise Men .. Mr. Hook was reared in the Lutheran Church. and is a most liberal contributor to its support, his family being regular attendants on its services and active in its work.
Although somewhat hampered by ill-health, Mr.
Hook has retained in a very remarkable degree his energy, and still is the active and intelligent head of his business. It is to Mr. Hook that the city is indebt- ed for the very satisfactory electric plant, erected at Slack Water, which supplies Lancaster with its light. He is also president of the South Mountain Kaolin Co., capitalized at $250.000. and president of the Cline Stock Car Co., capitalized at $100.000. Mr. Hook is one of the reliable, energetic and progressive citizens, who leave worthy monuments behind them, when called from life, and who can be but illy spared. He enjoys the esteem and confidence of his fellow- citizens, and also has a large circle of personal friends.
HENRY W. GIBSON, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., at Lancaster, has done such a noble work for the uplifting of the men and boys of his native city, that his name is entitled to most honorable mention on these pages devoted to the notable men of this community. He comes from an old family in this county, and is in direct descent from the Gibsons who were early settlers in Lancaster county. so carly that Gibson's Corners has a history that runs back farther than the establishment and naming of the city of Lancaster. The Gibsons came from Irciand, and the great-grandfather of Henry W., with two brothers made his appearance here at a very early dlav. His wife died when our subject was about ten years old. Their son, Michael Gibson, married Mary Shertz, who died a few years ago.
John Gibson, the father of Henry W .. was a car- penter in Lancaster, and he married Rebecca J. Mic- Cann. of York county. Pa. From this union three children were born : Henry W., of Lancaster ; Sadie J., the wife of David J. Dailey, cigar manufacturer ; and John, who died in infancy.
Henry W. Gibson was born in Lancaster. Oct. 21. 1867. and obtained his education in the city schools. Leaving school at the age of twelve years he entered a shoe store, where he remained four years. and then secured another engagement with a second shoe store. where he was employed three years. His next move was to Harrisburg, where he began work as an assistant secretary of the Harrisburg Y. M. C. A. ; after a year he went to Chambersburg, where he was called to fill the office of secretary of the local association. There he spent a year and a half. and on Sept. I. ISO1. came to Lancaster, to assume the office of secretary of the Lancaster Association, and to be- come the organist of the First Presbyterian Church: He remained in charge of the organ until 1807, when the increasing duties of the Association work de- manded all his time. Mr. Gibson is still singing in the choir, and is noted as one of the finest tenors in this city; he is also director of the Amphion male quartette, whose work is confined to classical music, and whose services are in much demand abroad. This organization, which took shape as late as 1898. large- ly through the work of Mr. Gibson, has already won an enviable reputation. The church, the Sunday
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School and the Association are his world, and music is his recreation and delight. When only twelve years old he was given charge of the organ at the Memorial Presbyterian Church, and for eight years officiated there.
Mr. Gibson may be said to have two hobbies, boys and music. When he began his work in Lancaster, there were only five young men who were paid-up members of the Association ; now there are 667. The library has been largely increased ; the old building was enlarged and remodeled, and the new and mag- nificent building at North Queen and Orange streets erected, at a cost of $200,000, by the tireless worker and enthusiastic Secretary, whom the people have learned to love. Mr. Gibson effected the organiza- tion of the Junior branch, and this may be said to be a pioneer in the field. Secretary Gibson is in de- mand in other cities to speak on various phases of his successful work, and he has managed and accompa- nied six camps of Juniors and Seniors at Sheibley's Grove, and at Mt. Gretna, with never an accident to mar the joy of these gatherings. In the summer of 1900 at Mt. Gretna, Mr. Gibson presided over a tri- state camp, which was named "Camp Shand," after the beloved president of the Y. M. C. A., with 114 representatives present from Philadelphia, New Jer- sey and New York. In addition to all this Mr. Gib- son is the assistant to the Chancellor, and a director, of the Pennsylvania Chautauqua, whose summer school is held at Mt. Gretna, Pennsylvania.
FREELAND L. DENLINGER, who occupies the old home farm of his father in East Lampeter township, was born there March 23, 1865, son of John L ... Denlinger.
Jacob Denlinger, the grandfather of our subject, was also a native of Lancaster county. He was a carpenter and builder by trade, but in the latter part of his life followed farming in East Lampeter. In his religious connection he was a member of the Re- formed Mennonite Church. He married Miss Mary Landis, by whom he became the father of seven chil- dren, namely : Anna, deceased wife of David Weav- er ; Martha, wife of Joseph Swartley, of Ohio; John L., deceased, mentioned below : Benjamin L., de- ceased, of East Lampeter ; Jacob, of Ohio: David, of Salunga, Pa. ; and Mary, deceased wife of George Wisler.
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