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The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Musselman made up a family of nine, as follows: Magdelina, who married Samuel O. Martin, a farmer of Earl township, and has ten children; Anna, who married John C. Nolt, a farmer of Earl township, and has a family of nine children ; Jacob, of Lancaster, an in- valid ; Mary and Henry, who died young : Amanda, who is a talented lady and a teacher in the Men- nonite Mission school, in Philadelphia ; Eli, who re- sides on the old homestead, married Anna Berghart and has three children; Amos, who married Laura Good, resides on a part of the old homestead and has two children; and Katie, who married Elmer E. Meyers, of Earl township, and is the mother of three children.
For many years Mr. Musselman has been a resi- dent of West Earl township and is well known to almost every citizen : among these old acquaintances he is ranked as a man of strict integrity, a man whose word is as good as his bond, and as one who well represents the good citizen. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and is one of the leading mem- bers of the Mennonite Church.
SAMUEL WARFEL was born in Conestoga township, Lancaster county, Pa., Feb. 7, 1822. He was educated in the common schools of the county, and remained at home until he was twenty-one years of age. He then branched out in life for himself and followed the canal between Lancaster and Phila- delphia for a number of years. Since leaving the canal he has been engaged in various lines of oc- cupation.
Adam Warfel, father of. Samuel, born in Cones- toga township in rSoo, was drowned there in 1869. He married Miss Sarah Graver. of Ephrata. This couple were the parents of ten children, one of whom (lied in infancy : Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Cross- man : Samuel : Polly, wife of Reuben Brady, of Conestoga; Delila, wife of John Fry, of Manor township; Levi, of Conestoga township: Eurias, of Conestoga township : Catherine, never married ; An- nie, who died in childhood; and Annie. deceased. The father of Adam Warfel was also named Adam and was born and reared in Conestoga township.
Samuel Warfel married Barbara, daughter of Martin Good, of Conestoga township. They have had seven children, as follows: Sarah, who died in infancy : Lizzie, who died in childhood ; Delila, wife of Fred. Shoff, of Colemanville: Lidia A., wife of Aaron Elmire : Leah, wife of Christian Shoof ; An-
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nie, who is the widow of John Stauffer; and Will- iam, who died in childhood. Mr. Warfel is a mem- ber of the Old Mennonite Church and takes a great interest in church work. He is still active and vig- orous and doubtless has many days yet to live. He is universally respected by his friends and neigh- bors.
JEREMIAH SELDOMRIDGE, a retired farm- er of Leacock township, Lancaster county, where he is spending the closing years of a long and useful life, was born in Salisbury township, this county, Jan. 4, 1827, son of Isaac and Rachel (Glauser) Seldomridge. His parents were born in Leacock and East Earl townships, respectively, and both died in Earl township.
Isaac Seldomridge was a farmer and an indus- trious man, but for fifteen years prior to his death he lived retired. He passed away in 1884, at the age of eighty-four, and his wife died in 1878, when seventy-six years old. Both were buried in Ro- land's cemetery, in Earl township. They were members of the Lutheran Church. The following
named children were born to them : George, who died when about sixty-six years old ; Jeremiah, men- tioned below ; Elizabeth, the widow of A:nos Skiles, of Springville, Lancaster county; Isaac, who died at the age of fifty-eight ; Catherine, the wife of Peter Dague, of Earl township; Jacob, a farmer of Earl township ; Benjamin, a saddler living in Upper Lea- cock township; Rachel, deceased wife of Isaac Bru- baker; Mary Ann, the wife of Jonathan Hilder- brand, of Manheim township; Andrew, deceased ; Amos, a retired farmer of Earl township.
George Seldomridge, the grandfather of Jere- miah, was born in Lancaster county, married there and there reared his family. His father was also George. He was a son of George and a grandson of Andrew. who, with his wife, came from Switzer- land. The name was originally spelled Zeltenreich. This Andrew owned the tract of one and a quarter acres in Earl township now known as Rolands ceme- tery, which he gave to the church for the nominal sum of five shillings. He was also one of the found- ers of the church there.
Jeremiah Seldomridge was married in Lancaster Sept 2, 1852, to Susanna C. Eckert, by whom he has had the following children: Jemimah, deceased wife of John Fenninger, a farmer of Leacock town- ship, by whom she had six children ; Eckert G., de- ceased : Mary Ann, who married George Knobb, of Leacock township, and who has two children.
Mrs. Susanna C. (Eckert) Seldomridge was born in Leacock township Feb. 14, 1828, daughter of Jacob K. and Hannah (Varnes) Eckert, farming people of Leacock township, who are now numbered with the "great majority," he having died in 1864, at the age of sixty-four years, and Mrs. Eckert in 1871, at the age of sixty-eight years. Their ashes rest in Roland's cemetery. During his last years Mr. Eckert lived retired. To them were born the
following children: Evaline, late wife of Josiah Zook; John V., deceased ; George, a retired farmer in Lancaster ; Susanna C .. Mrs. Seldomridge ; Mary Ann, deceased wife of Robert Hoar ; Rebecca, mar- ried to Moses Hess, and now living retired in Perry county, Pa. ; Elizabeth, married to Henry Rutter, and now living retired in Intercourse ; Henry, deceased ; C. Ludwig, in Philadelphia ; Jemima, the widow of Henry Horst, living in Lancaster. George and Su- san Eckert, the paternal grandparents of Mrs. Sel- domridge, were farming people of Lancaster county.
Jeremiah Seldomridge remained with his parents on the farm until about the time of his marriage, when he set up for himself on a neighboring farm, in 1851 commencing farming in Upper Leacock township. There he remained until 1864, when he established himself and family on a place in Lea- cock township, in the cultivation of which he was engaged until 1893. That year he removed to his present home, and he has since lived retired. For
nine years he has been school director, and he takes the side of the Republican party in all political ques- tions. For the past thirty-nine years Mr. Seldom- ridge has been an elder in the Reformed Church, and still holds the office, and his clean and wholesome life, his industrious habits and his kindly «lisposition have given much strength and force to his religious labors, The family of seven sons, of which he is one, has the remarkable distinction that all are abso- iutely temperate in all things, not one of them having ever used tobacco, in any form, and all abstaining from intoxicants.
JOHN S. HARNER, one of the leading and successful farmer-citizens of Martic township, is a native of Montgomery county, and was born in De- cember, 1823. His parents were Joseph and Mary (Slingluff) Harner, of Montgomery county, Pa., who came to Martic township in 1838, when their son, John, was about fifteen years of age. Joseph Harner had a family of seven children, five sons and two daughters: John S .; George, deceased ; Samuel, of Martic township; Joseph, of Martic township; Mary Ann, the wife of Thomas Cully ; Elizabeth, deceased wife of J. Harrison Long, of Drumore; Jesse, a retired farmer of Drumore, all of these having extended mention made in another place.
Jolın S. Harner grew through childhood and un- til he was fifteen years of age, in the old home in Montgomery county, accompanying his parents to Lancaster county when they removed to this part of the state, in 1838. His education was obtained in the public schools and he carly began the agricul- tural life he has successfully followed ever since. His beginnings were small and he has worked hard, but he has now one of the finest and most valuable farms in this part of the county, well improved and most desirable. It contains 200 acres and shows that Mr. Harner has thoroughly understood his bus- iness.
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Not only has John S. Harner been a good farmer, but he has faithfully served his township in various official positions, and is widely known as an honest and upright citizen. His political views make him a Democrat, and for many years he has been a leader in the ranks of the Democratic party. In the Chest- nut Level Presbyterian Church Mr. Harner has for many years been not only a constant attendant, but a liberal supporter and active and useful member, · serving a number of years as trustee.
The marriage of John S. Harner was on Feb. 3, 1859, to Miss Lucinda L. Long, of Drumore town- ship, a daughter of James B. and Catherine (Jeffer- son) Long, one of the old and honorable families of southern Lancaster county. Mrs. Harner was born Jan. 26, 1839, and she was one in a family of nine children, five of these growing to maturity: Mar- garet, who married Robert Rutter, of Ohio ; J. Har- rison, a retired farmer of Drumore township; Lu- cinda ; George, deceased ; and Robert L., a prominent citizen of Phoenix, Arizona.
A family of three children was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harner : Mary C., born in 1860, wife of James Kilgore, of York county, Pa .; J. Wilmer, born in 1865 and married to Belle Wivel, of Dru- more township : Charles L., born on April 20, 1872, married to Elizabeth Bayd, of Drumore township, and serving as the competent manager of his father's farm, in Martic township. The family is one well known and most highly esteemed in this locality, being especially noted for those sterling qualities which belong to a community's best citizens.
JOHN GEIST. Among the retired farmers of Lancaster county John Geist takes a leading posi- tion, being a man of large means and much public spirit. Mr. Geist was born in West Lampeter township Sept. 4, 1829, and he was a son of John and Eliza (Powell) Geist, natives, respectively, of Strasburg and East Lampeter townships. By trade the elder John Geist was a wagon maker, which bus- iness he carried on in connection with his farming operations. Some time prior to his death he gave up active work. Father Geist was born July 29, 1804, and died May 21, 1866. His first wife was born March 19, 1809, and died March 9, 1844, both be- ing buried in Mellinger's cemetery. These worthy people had been devoted members of the Reformed Mennonite Church.
The children of these parents were: Anna, who died young : Daniel, who died in Ohio and was twice married, the first time to Mary Kreider : John ; Marv J., Amos. Barbara, Elizabeth and Emma, who all died young ; and Susanna R., who married Henry Rudy. The second marriage of Mr. Geist was to Susanna Burkholder, and to this union one daugh- ter was born, Martha, who married Rev. Abraham Kurtz and died in 1898. The paternal grandparents · of John Geist were Philip and Barbara Geist, natives of Baden, Germany, the former of whom came to America at the age of eighteen in order to avoid
service in the German army. Philip Geist was a son of George Geist, a native of Wittenberg, Germany, who came to America in 1763. locating in Strasburg, Lancaster county, where his two brothers, Simon and Leonard, already resided.
John Geist received a good common school edu- cation and made his home with his parents until he was about twenty-five years old, although at the age of seventeen he began to learn the carpenter trade, which kept him from home a part of the time. Later he engaged in farming in East Lampeter town- ship, moving to his present farm in Upper Leacock township, six miles east of Lancaster, in 1875, where he remained actively engaged in general farming until July 14, 1896; then he removed to his present residence on the same farm, while his son took the old home and relieved his father of the work. This is one of the fine farms in this part of Lancaster county, comprising 100 acres of well improved, finely cultivated and productive land.
John Geist was married Nov. 9. 1854, in Lan- caster, to Miss Charlotte Harnish, and the children born to this union were: Martin, who died at the age of fourteen years; Lizzie Ann, who married Kinder Bender, of Leacock township, and has a fan- ily of eight children; Mary J., who married O. S. Eckert, a farmer of West Earl township, and has four children ; Ida A., a young lady, at home : Willis, the farmer on the old homestead, who married Laura Stoner, has two children, and is one of the school directors : Lotta, a young girl at home; Morten, Emma and John, who died in infancy.
Mrs. Charlotte Harnish Geist was born in East Lampeter township Oct. 4, 1832, and was a daughter of Martin and Anna ( Weidler) Harnish, the former a farmer of West Lampeter township, where he died in 1840, at the age of thirty-eight years, and the latter a native of Leacock township. The mother survived until she was eighty-two years old, dying in 1876, and she was buried in the private burying grounds on the old farm. Both parents of Mrs. Geist were worthy Christian people, devout members of the Reformed Mennonite Church. Their chil- dren were: Benjamin W., who operated a foundry and died in 1890: Elizabeth, who was the wife of Edwin Betzer and died in 1860; Charlotte, the wife of Mr. Geist ; and Sammel, a moulder of Lancaster. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Geist was Martin Harnish, a farmer and distiller who became a resi- dent of Ohio, but died while visiting in Lancaster county.
Mr. Geist has been identified with a number of leading business interests of Lancaster county and for ten years has been a director in the Farmer's National Bank of Lancaster. In politics he is a Republican, and socially he is respected and esteemed by all who know him.
CHRIST S. HOFFMAN. of Elizabethtown, Lancaster county, was born April 22, 1824. in Caer- narvon township, that county, son of Christ and
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Magdalina (Schieder) Hoffman, both natives of Lancaster county. The father was a general mer- chant, and ‹lied at Vogansville, Lancaster county, in 1868, when seventy-two years old. His widow passed away the following year, at the age of seven- ty-five. In his earlier years he was a tailor, then became a farmer, and later followed a mercantile career for many years. Both parents were members of the Reformed Church. They had the following family: Amos, who died in infancy; Christ S .; Sarah, who married Daniel Bushong and ( second) Cyrus McQuaid, and is now deceased; Magdalena A., late wife of Ezra Burkholder ; Catherine, living in Erie county, Pa., the widow of Graybill Myers ; and Herman, an auctioneer at Vogansville.
Christ S. Hoffman was married in Vogansville, in 1852, to Frances Groff, and they became the par- ents of two children, Mary and Emma. Mary is the wife of A. E. Jacoby, a school teacher, and is living in Elizabethtown; they have two children, Christ H. and Ella F. Emma is unmarried, and is at home. Mrs. Frances ( Groff) Hoffman was born in Earl township Feb. 6. 1833, daughter of Mark S. and Nancy ( Good) Groff. both natives of Lancaster county. Her father began life as a farmer, but spent the latter part of his active years in the lumber business in Vogansville.
Mr. Hoffman worked on the tailor's bench until he was thirteen years old, under his father. When he was thirteen he began working on a farm, where he remained until seventeen years of age, and then entered a mercantile establishment where he spent ten years. From 1852 to 1872 he followed survey- ing and conveyancing, at Vogansville, and then moved to Lancaster, continuing the same business. Eleven years later he removed to Elizabethtown, where he continues as conveyancer at this writing. At Vogansville he was justice of the peace for five years. He is a Democrat in his political views. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman are members of the Re- formed Church and are prominent and much re- spected members of the community.
JACOB H. BOMBERGER, who has been in the leaf tobacco business in Warwick for a number of years, comes of an old and always respected fam- ily of Lancaster county, his ancestors having set- tled here early in the eighteenth century.
Mr. Bomberger is a grandson of John Bom- berger, who is mentioned elsewhere, and a son of Jacob Bomberger, who was born on the old home- stead farm, near Lititz, Oct. I, 1824. He was a farmer, and followed farming on an extensive scale until his death, which occurred May 14, 1885. He was a member of the Old Mennonite Church. Jacob Bomberger married Miss Barbara, daughter of Christian Hess, and they became the parents of three children, viz .: Anna, wife of Henry G. Sny- der : Maria, wife of H. Reist Landis ; and Jacob H.
Jacob H. Bomberger was born on the old home- stead Oct. 10, 1860, and lived at home with his fa-
ther until he was twenty-three years of age. He was educated in the common schools of the county and attended through one term at the Lititz Acad- emy, after which he began life for himself, farm- ing on the old homestead for five years. He then moved to Warwick, where he has been engaged in the leaf tobacco business. In politics Mr. Bom- berger has always affiliated with the Republican party, but he never sought office.
On Oct. 16, 1883, Mr. Bomberger wedded Miss Anna B. Bollinger, daughter of Hiram Bollinger, of Lincoln, Pa., and to this union have been born four children, namely : Hiram B., Barbara B., Jacob B. and Clayton B., all of whom are at home.
Mr: Bomberger is one of the best-known resi- dents of this section of Lancaster county, and he has attained high standing among the substantial citizens as an honorable, public spirited and reli- able business man. He is fully alive to the best interests of his section, and is a worthy representa- tive of Warwick township.
SAMUEL HARTMAN belongs to a family which has taken a prominent and honorable part in the history of East Lampeter township and Lancas -. ter county for two centuries. He is a great-grandson of Jacob Hartman, a Mennonite preacher, who was born in East Lampeter township in 1714 and fol- lowed farming all his life. In 1755 he built the house vet standing on the family farm still in good repair. He was the father of three sons and three daughters. The daughters were: Ester, who mar- ried David Huber: Fannie, wife of ITenry Hess ; and Annie, who died at home. unmarried.
Henry Hartman, the grandfather of our subject, was born on the same old farm and spent his entire life there, engaged at farming. In religion he was one of the Old Mennonites. He married Miss Cath- erine Hildebrand, and they were the parents of six children : Henry, the father of Samuel ; Catherine, wife of Daniel Stauffer : Nancy, wife of Jacob Buck- walter: Elizabeth, wife of John Stauffer; Fannie, wife of Joseph Hershey: and Hettie, wife of Jacob Rife.
Henry Hartman was also born on the old farm, Nov. 27. 1808, inherited the place from his father and continued to farm until his death, which oc- curred Feb. 28, 1870. Mr. Hartman was a member of the Old Mennonite Church. On Nov. 5. 1833. he married Miss Elizabeth Eby, daughter of Samuel Eby, and they had a family of six children: Sam- Liel ; Anna, born March 21, 1836, the widow of Sam- uel Landis; Elizabeth:, born March 12. 1837, de- ceased wife of John Esbenshade: Catherine, born June 14, 1840 : Henry, born Feb. 6. 1853, who mar- ried Nettie Hostetter and lives at Ephrata ; Aaron, born Oct. 20, 1856. who married Frances Diefen- baugh and is a resident of East Lampeter.
Samuel Hartman was born Aug. 22, 1834, on the old Hartman farm, being of the fourth or fifth generation who have been born and lived all their
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lives there. Samuel Hartman, however, moved to Chester county for twelve years, after which he re- turned to the old place, and there he has remained ever since. He was educated in the common schools. of the county. "The farm which Mr. Hartman so successfully cultivates, comprising about eighty- three acres. is one of the oldest in Lancaster county and is the original farm owned by his ancestors sev- cral generations back, and which has always re- mained in the family. He is deeply interested in the moral and material welfare of Lancaster county, and is ranked among its substantial, highly respected citi- zens. Politically he is a Republican. Like his ancestors, he is a member of the Old Mennonite Church.
On Nov. 1, 1860, Mr. Hartman wedded Miss Catherine Price, daughter of Andrew Price, of West Lampeter township, and this union has been blessedl with eight children : Andrew P., born Aug. 3, 1861, now of Philadelphia; Elizabeth, born Sept. 5, 1862, wife of John Huber ; Henry, born Nov. 13, 1863, still at home; Ellanora, born Sept. 12, 1866, who died in childhood; Milton, born Sept. 1, 1868, who died in infancy ; Susan, born Jan. 30, 1871, wife of John Shurtz, of Lancaster ; Amanda, born Aug. 27, 1873, still at home ; and Samuel, born July 3, 1878, who died in infancy. Mrs. Hartman died Feb. 23, 1898, aged sixty-four years, nine months and thirteen days.
ISAAC MECKLEY. Among the prominent, substantial and representative citizens of MIt. Joy township who have done much for the advancement und perfection of agriculture in Lancaster county is Isaac Meckley, a retired farmer, residing near Eliz- abethtown.
Mr. Meckley was born in Mt. Joy township on a farm adjoining his present property March 21, 1819, a son of Melchor and Elizabeth ( Hoffer ) Meckley, both of whom were natives of Germany. They came to America in their young married life, settling first in Dauphin, but later removing to Lan- caster county and locating in Mt. Joy township. The first marriage of Melchor Meckley was to a Miss Grubb, and their children, John, Christian, Jacob and Elizabeth, are all dead. He then married a Miss Newcomer, the children of this union being: Joseph and Susan. Then he married the mother of our subject, who died Dec. 1. 1875, at the age of eighty-three years, and their children were: Sam- uel, deceased, who married Mary Bristol ; Benjamin, deceased, who married Barbara Halderman ; Henry, deceased, who married Eliza Henry; and Isaac.
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Although Mr. Meckley of this record began life as a poor boy, dependent entirely upon his own re- sources from an early age, through energy and per- severance he in time became possessed of more means than were the farmers for whom he so faith- fully worked in his boyhood. Hle learned the car- penter trade and was kept busy and made money for a number of years, but in 1861 he decided to
engage in farming. At first this was no very easy matter, for at that time much of the labor-saving machinery now in use was not even invented, all that the horses could not do being necessarily performed by hand, the few machines then on the market being far beyond his reach. However, Mr. Meckley was regarded as an excellent farmer and by hard work obtained good crops and accumulated money. In 1880 he retired from active labor, owning two fine farms, one in Dauphin county and another in Lan- caster county. In politics he is a Republican.
In January, 1859, Mr. Meckley was married, in Lancaster, to Miss Barbara Coble, and the family born to this union consisted of two children, David C. and Anna. David C .. who is a farmer in Mt. Joy township, married, in 1883. Miss Emma Garber, born in Dauphin county, daughter of John and Sarah (Peck) Garber, of that county. Mr. and Mrs. David Meckley have three children, Walter, Ralph E. and John. Anna, deceased. married Solomon Espen- shade and had two children, Harvey and Estella. Mrs. Meckley was born in Dauphin county Sept. 7, 1825, and died Dec. 1, 1869, aged forty-four years. She was buried in Dauphin county. Her parents were Christian and Elizabeth ( Hoffer) Coble, of Dauphin county.
Both Isaac Meckley and his son are held in high esteem in Mt. Joy township as reliable, upright and honorable men. In every public matter that comes up in the community they give an influence in the direction that will prove of benefit to the township, while in private life they are known as excellent neighbors and kind and helpful friends, men of char- actor and standing.
SIDWELL T. WILSON. For many years the late Sidwell T. Wilson was a prominent and suc- cessful farmer, as well as a highly esteemed citizen of Little Britain township, identified with its best agricultural and religious progress. He was born in this township on Oct. 25, 1828, on the same farm where his useful and valued life ended on April 16, 1892. His parents were Needham and Jane (Patter- son) Wilson, the ancestors of the family having originated in Scotland and Ireland.
The Wilson family settled in early days in Lan- caster county and were members of the Society of Friends. Grandfather Benjamin Wilson married Anna Sidwell, the former being English and the latter bringing in the Scotch-Irish strain. Need- ham Wilson, the son of Benjamin, and the father of the late Sidwell, was born May 15, 1797, and died Sept. 22, 1872. His widow survived until Sept. 7, [Noo, dying at the age of ninety-four years. Their children were: Dorestuis, a coal dealer in Chester county : Sidwell T .: Silvia A., who married George Bockius, deceased: Dr. Needham, a physician in Philadelphia ; and J. M., of Fairmount.
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