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In 1888 Mr. Fisher married Clara Frances, daughter of James P. and Margaret (Wana- maker) Jones, of Newark, New Jersey. After his marriage he settled in the city of Philadel- phia for a time, but soon made his home at Briar Hill. Their children : Clarence Wilson, born July 18, 1889; Gertrude Rosamonde, born February 12, 1896. Clarence W. Fisher is a student at the DeLancy School in Philadelphia. The Fisher family are members of St. Thomas' Episcopal church, in Whitemarsh township, in which Mr. Fisher had served for several years as a vestry- man.
In politics Mr. Fisher is a Republican, and, although he has never taken an active interest in party affairs beyond depositing his ballot, he is an earnest advocate of what Republicanism stands for in the policy of the national administration. Mr. Fisher's principal occupation, aside from the supervision of his estate, is the pleasure and profit he derives from the study of the sciences, partic- ularly that of astronomy. He has no inclination
I. Wilow Fisher
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to enter public life, preferring the leisure and quiet enjoyment of his home.
Coleman Fisher, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born February 21, 1824, and died July 21, 1876. He was the son of William Whar- ton Fisher and Mary Fox. He attended private schools in Philadelphia, and also the University of Pennsylvania. He married, October 7, 1851, Mary, daughter of Samuel Wilson, M. D., and Elizabeth Paul, of Philadelphia. Their children : S. Wilson Fisher ; Coleman Sidney, born October 22, 1855, died in 1887; Elizabeth Wilson, who resides at Briar Hill, and is unmarried.
HARRY F. HALLMAN, one of the success- ful farmers of Plymouth township, resides near the borough of Conshohocken, in which he was born May 1, 1858. At the age of seven years he went with his parents, William A. and Margaret A. (Freas) Hallman, to reside on the homestead on which he now lives and which has been in the possession of the family for several generations. . tin Luther, born June 17, 1899.
William A. Hallman ( father) was a farmer, residing on the homestead already mentioned the greater part of his life. He was a Democrat in politics and served as school director and assessor for a number of years. He married Margaret A. Freas who is now also deceased. William A. Hallman died August 27, 1890, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. Their children are: Harry F., Joseph (deceased), Ruth Anna (deceased), and Allen.
John Hallman (grandfather) resided on the same property, was a farmer and married Annie Lenabough. They had several children.
John Hallman (great-grandfather) resided on a property in the same vicinity now owned and occupied by William Sheppard. His wife was Elizabeth. The family is of German origin, the Hallmans having settled in the vicinity before the middle of the eighteenth century.
Harry F. Hallman attended the Eight-Square School in Plymouth township, not far from where he resides and also Treemount Seminary in Nor- ristown. The farm, which contains thirty-nine acres, is rich in mineral products. When Mr. Hallman was about twenty-one years of age he
went into the iron ore business, digging ore from the farm a short distance below the surface, and hauling it to nearby furnaces at Conshohocken. He continued that business for about twenty years in connection with farming, when, owing to the furnaces being abandoned, the demand for ore no longer existed. About fifteen years ago Mr. Hallman opened a vein of valuable fire clay close to the Conshohocken road from which he has taken great quantities of clay of a very su- perior quality, for which he has found a ready demand in Norristown and Conshohocken, for the purposes to which it is usually applied. .
Mr. Hallman married, June 30, 1888, Miss Ella N. Young, born May 26, 1867. She was a daughter of William J. (deceased) and Anna (Thomas) Young. The children of Harry F. and Ella N. Hallman are: Anna Margaret, born July 22, 1889; Ruth E., born March 16, 1891 ; Myrtle M., born April 20, 1893; William H., born June 13, 1897, and died June 30, same year ; and Mar-
William J. Young (father of Mrs. Hallman) was born in 1826 and died in 1897 in his seventy- first year. He married Anna Thomas, daughter of Jacob and Esther (Snyder) Thomas. Will- iam J. Young's father was Samuel Young, who was born in Lower Merion township, lived for a number of years at Centre Square in Whitpain township, removed to Norristown soon after the close of the Rebellion and died there twenty-five years later at a very advanced age, beyond ninety years. The Youngs were an old family in Lower Merion, having settled there at an early date, and were quite prominent in colonial and Revolution- ary times.
Jacob Thomas (maternal grandfather of Mrs. H. F. Hallman), had eleven children as follows : Anna, born October 17, 1834, and residing with her daughter, Mrs. H. F. Hallman ; Rev. Joseph Thomas (deceased), a Baptist minister; Cath- arine (deceased) ; Jacob, residing at Kohn and Marshall streets, Norristown; John R., a drover at Jeffersonville ; Hannah, who married James Trego and resides in Conshohocken ; Clarion (de- ceased) ; Samuel, who lived in the western part of Pennsylvania and died there; Mary, who died
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young ; Alice, who married George Hallman of Plymouth township; Valeria, who married John Clark and resides in Lower Providence township, Montgomery county. Jacob Thomas' father, Richard Thomas, came from England and settled in Worcester. He married Kate Johnson.
Esther (Snyder) Thomas' mother was a Shultz, a member of the Schwenkfelder denom- ination.
Mr. H. F. Hallman was elected a justice of the peace at the February election in 1897 on the Republican ticket, polling a majority of seventy votes in a township usually Democratic. He held the position five years and declined a re-election. He was again, however, nominated on the Re- publican ticket for justice of the peace, without his consent, and was the only one elected on the ticket even defeating his opponent, a Republican, by a few votes at the February election of 1904. He takes an active interest in public affairs and is well informed on all topics of current interest. He and his family are members of St. Mark's Luth- eran church, Conshohocken.
MRS. CAROLINE K. HARTRANFT, widow of Jacob Hartranft, was born March 25, 1840. Her husband was born March 9, 1824. and died April 3, 1885. The Custer family, to which Mrs. Hartranft belongs, she being a daughter of Aaron L. Custer, is one of the oldest in Montgomery county. Jacob Custer (Kishter) having emigrated from Holland at an early date and purchased a large tract of land in Worcester township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He had four sons and four daughters, from whom have descended a very numerous progeny.
Jacob Hartranft, was the son of John and Sarah (Antrim) Hartranft. John Hartranft (father) was a second cousin of Governor John Frederic Hartranft, and was born July 4, 1800. John and Sarah Hartranft resided for twenty-five years of their life in Pottstown, where he died. He was a hotel man, but had retired many years before his death. He removed from New Han- over township, the home of the Hartranfts, to Pottstown, where he was the proprietor of the hotel bearing his name for a time, now the Shuler
House. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hartranft were buried in Pottstown Cemetery, his being the first interment in that beautiful burial ground. He died November 13, 1854, in his fifty-fifth year. She died December II, 1870, in her seventy-fifth year. Their children were : Valeria, wife of Will- iam Jacoby ; Margaret, wife of William D. Rudy ; Ephraim; Jacob (husband) ; and Hiram A.
The following letter from Governor Hartranft to Ephraim Hartranft explains itself :
Harrisburg, Sept. 7, 1874.
Dear Ephraim :
There are several of Leonard Hartranft's children, whose dates of birth are not in his Bible record. Among them is Jacob, your grand- father, also Leonard, my greadfather. Can you not find it out for me?
The Schwenkfelders are about to print a record of the families and intend to have Leon- ard's family in it. I am sorry I did not have time to call on you yesterday, for I could tell you some matters of interest in relation to our family. The name, for instance comes from Hart Ragenfrid. The first was the given name, and the latter the family name, and becoming too cumbersome when set together, the name was abbreviated to Ranft, Ranf, and Ranfd, and Ranph.
Yours Truly, J. F. Hartranft.
John Hartranft (father) was sponser to Governor Hartranft when he was christened. The name and family descend from Tobias Hart- ranft, who emigrated from Germany with the Schwenfelders in 1734, being a refugee from in- tolerance in the fatherland.
Jacob Hartranft (grandfather), born in May, 1780, married Maria Geiger. He died in Ohio, in 1862, at the age of eighty-two years.
Leonard Hartranft (great-grandfather) mar- ried Christiana Moyer, and had a large family of children, of whom Jacob was the oldest. An- other of his sons was Leonard, born about 1782. who was the grandfather of General Hartranft.
Abraham Hartranft (great-great-grand- father), son of Tobias, the immigrant, married November 3, 1747, Susanna, daughter of Chris- topher Shuler. Their children : Christopher, born in 1748; Abraham, 1750; Barbara, 1751; John, 1753; William, 1754; Leonard, born in 1757, and
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died in 1758; Leonard (great-grandfather), born November 6, 1759; Maria, born December 23, 1761 ; Susanna, wife of Abraham Hartranft, and died April 12, 1762. Abraham Hartranft died December 12, 1766.
Jacob Hartranft attended school until the age of fourteen years. He then entered a country store where he remained for several years. His native place was Exeter township, Bucks county. From the store he went to Pottstown, in 1841, and entered as a salesman in the establishment of A. Smith & Sons, remaining there four years. He left that position to assist in opening a store for the late Tobias G. Haenge, in Hatfield town- ship, and was there six months. Returning to Pottstown, he took a position in the store of J. & W. H. Smith, in 1847. He purchased a one- third interest in the business, the firm name be- ing changed to Smiths & Hartranft. In 1855 his brother Ephraim purchased the Smiths' interest. In 1860 William Smith withdrew from the com- pany, which was conducted by the brothers from that time. Jacob Hartranft was a Democrat in politics. He was a director of the Pottstown Gas Company, and a trustee and treasurer of the Pottstown Cemetery Company.
Mr. Hartranft was twice married. His first wife was Esther, daughter of Jonas Smith. She died in 1864 or 1865, leaving four children, as follows: Sarah A., wife of William Missimer ; Jonas S .; Mary S., deceased ; and John W. His second wife, Caroline, daughter of Aaron Custer, is the subject of this sketch. They were mar- ried June 14, 1870. They had but one child, William .C., born December 21, 1871. He is at present district manager of the Delaware & At- lantic Telephone and Telegraph Company, with offices at Norristown. He is a Democrat in politics.
Mrs. Hartranft is a member of Trinity Re- formed church, at Pottstown. She is an active member of several of the ladies' societies of that borough.
MRS. ANNA JULIA KRAUSE, widow of Richard H. Krause, was born April 4, 1839, the only child of Albert and Sarah Harberger Lesher.
There is a family tradition that John Harberger, ancestor of Mrs. Krause, came to America in the Mayflower, in 1620. Her father was a farmer near Pottstown. Both parents are buried in the old Pottstown cemetery. He died first, at the age of thirty-two years, and she survived many years, dying August 3, 1893, at the age of sev- enty-four years.
Jacob Lesher (grandfather) married Cath- arine Miller and they lived in Philadelphia, where he was engaged in business. Both were members of the Reformed church. They have been dead many years and were buried in Philadelphia.
The maternal grandparents were John and Elizabeth (Root) Harberger. They resided in Pottstown, where he was a dealer in marble and stone. Both died many years ago, and were buried in Pottstown cemetery. They had two children.
Richard H. Krause, (deceased) husband of Mrs. Krause, was born December 25, 1835. He died Marsh 12, 1891, and was buried in Potts- town cemetery. In youth he attended school for a number of years, and then learned the carpenter trade which he followed through life, being a con- tractor the latter part of his time. Pottstown was the scene of his entire business career and he erected many of the substantial buildings which are seen there to-day. In 1883 he purchased the homestead now occupied by his widow. He was regarded as a reliable business man and a valued citizen of his community. He was a Democrat in politics, and served as a school director for sev- eral years, filling also a number of minor posi- tions.
Mr. Krause married Anna Julia Lesher. They had two children, of whom one, William, born December 7, 1861, died in 1862. The other child is George Albert, born September 24, 1863. He resides in Pottstown. On reaching manhood, he married Emma, daugh- ter of Jacob and Catharine (Bechtel) Miller, the latter deceased. and the former a resident of Pottstown.
George, son of Mrs. Krause, is a contractor, engaged in business in Pottstown. He has three children, as follows: Annie Catharine, born in
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August, 1882; Cora Emily, born in 1890; and Mary Elizabeth, born in 1892. All reside with their father.
The parents of Richard H. Krause were George and Elizabeth (Christman) Krause, who resided in Pottsgrove township, where the father was a farmer. He died there, and the widow re- moved to Pottstown where she resided until her death, which occurred many years ago. Both were buried in the Pottstown cemetery. George Krause was a Democrat in politics, and both he and his wife were members of Trinity Reformed church.
Mrs. Anna J. Krause is a useful woman in the community. She is active in the work of Trinity church, of which she is a member.
RALPH KNAPP KIBBLEHOUSE, son of George B. and Hannah (Shrawder) Kibblehouse, is one of the most enterprising farmers and busi- ness men of his section of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He was born August 28, 1871, on the homestead farm in Lower Gwynedd town- ship, located on the Swedes' Ford Road, and now owned by Henry G. Keasbey, of the Ambler Keas- bey-Mattison Company.
Ralph K. Kibblehouse attended the public school at Gwynedd until he was seventeen years of age, when he became an apprentice to Jacob C. Rile, to learn the carpenter trade, Mr. Rile being a contractor and builder of the vicinity, residing near Gwynedd station. He was thus employed for two years, when he went to Yardleyville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, to work in a cream- ery, remaining at that place one year. He then became an employe of George Amberg, a car- penter and builder of Blue Bell, in Whitpain township, with whom he was employed for two years.
Mr. Kibblehouse married, July 19, 1894, Sarah, daughter of Henry Baker and Mary Ann (Fry) Reyner, farmers, of Penllyn. Their chil- dren : Mary Henrietta, born February 28, 1895; Henry Baker, born March 1, 1896; Helen Mel- cina, born March 29, 1897; Hannah Valeria, born April 16, 1898; Ralph Knapp, born July 4, 1900;
Levi, born April 12, 1901, died August 29, 1903 ; Agnes Dorothy, born April 13, 1903.
After his marriage Mr. Kibblehouse spent the first year in Gwynedd, working at his trade of carpenter, and performing the duties of one of the road supervisors of the township, to which posi- tion he had been elected in February, 1895. He has continued to hold the position ever since, with the exception of one year, 1902. In 1892 he re- moved to a farm of Henry G. Keasbey, located near Penllyn, on the North Pennsylvania Rail- road, containing thirty acres of land, operating it as a dairy. He remained there for seven years. In 1902 he removed to a farm of thirty-two acres, on which he now resides, having purchased it from the estate of Mordecai Jones, where he oper- ates a stone crusher and grist mill, employing twelve or fifteen men, and supplying the local de- mand for crushed stone, and furnishing the town- ship with the material needed for macadamizing the highways.
Politically Mr. Kibblehouse is a Republican, having always been actively interested in sup- porting the principles and candidates of the party ever since attaining the rights of a voter. He has been county committeeman for his district, and a member of the election board, several times a dele- gate to county conventions, and on one occasion a delegate to the state convention of the party, a very unusual honor for so young a man.
George B. Kibblehouse (father) is a son of John and Ann (Fetzer) Kibblehouse. He was born in February, 1837, in Whitpain township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, attended the schools at Shandy Grove and Sandy Hill in that township, in the meantime assisting in farm du- ties as opportunity offered, and on leaving school was employed with his brother-in-law, Joseph Stackhouse, for seven years. In 1866, he married Hannah Custer Shrawder, daughter of Joseph Shrawder, of Lower Providence township. Their children : Joseph, born April 1, 1867, married, April 3, 1890, Mary Emma, daughter of Isaac and Catharine (Booz) Custer, of Upper Gwynedd township; Ralph Knapp, subject of this sketch ; John Raymond, born November 15, 1873, married
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October 31, 1896, Margaret, daughter of Alvin Williamson and Mary Catharine (Harp) White; George B., born February 28, 1876, married, April 3, 1901, Martha Brendlinger, daughter of Nathan Fox, of Pennsburg, Pennsylvania; Mary Hen- rietta, born May 20, 1878, married, in 1897, Reuben Michael, son of Reuben and Mary (Zear- foss) Rodenbaugh, of Whitpain township; Levi Shrawder, born August 7, 1880, is unmarried, and resides with his brother Ralph.
John Kibblehouse, grandfather, born in 1800, married Ann Fetzer, his children being Evan, born in 1825; William, 1826; Lavina, 1828; John Antrim, 1830; Ann Catherine, 1831 ; Eliza Jane, 1833; George W., 1834, died in infancy ; Clement Jones, 1835; George B., father, 1837; Albert Werstner, 1840; Susanna Amanda, 1846. (For further particulars of the Kibblehouse family, see sketch of George B. Kibblehouse, elsewhere in this work.)
HENRY W. SCHNEIDER, bookkeeper for the Pottstown Cold Storage & Warehouse Com- pany, of Pottstown, was born in New Hanover township, June 8, 1852. He is the son of Will- iam H. and Mary Ann (Knabb) Schneider.
William H. Schneider ( father) was a native of Montgomery county. He was a tanner and farmer, and for many years was extensively en- gaged in that business. He followed that occu- pation to within a few years of his death. He was a justice of the peace for twenty-five con- secutive years. He was also a school director and held other township offices, being much es- teemed in the community in which he lived. His age at the time of his death was eighty-six years. His wife survives at a similarly advanced age. Both were members of the German Reformed church. He had a son and seven daughters, five of whom are now living: Louisa, widow of Dr. F. M. Knipe; Henry W .; Rosa A., wife of A. F. Saylor of Pottsgrove township; Ellen, wife of Henry L. Ritter, residing on the old home- stead in New Hanover ; and Susan, wife of Jacob Stauffer also of New Hanover.
Henry Schneider (grandfather) was born in New Hanover township, in the same house in
which his children were born. He was also a tanner by trade, but retired from that pursuit in early life. He was a colonel in the war of 1812. He was a member of the legislature, and was ap- pointed county treasurer in 1831, serving one year. His wife was Mary Ann Nyce. He died at the age of ninety-one years. His wife died a little past middle life. They had six children, Benjamin, William, Alfred, Eli, Simon and Maria, all deceased except Alfred Schneider who is living at Loyal Oak, Ohio, at the advanced age of ninety-one years. Benjamin Schneider, eldest son of Henry Schneider, was the first foreign missionary sent by the Reformed church from this country. His field of work was in Tur- key. Rev. Dr. Schneider had three sons and two daughters, who all came to this country from Turkey to be educated. Two sons were drafted during the Rebellion and died during their term of service.
Jacob Schneider (great-grandfather) and also the great-grandfather of Judge Aaron S. Swartz, was born in New Hanover township and was also a tanner. His wife was a Miss Reifsnyder. His father was the founder of the family in Mont- gomery county, he coming from Germany at an early date.
Samuel B. Knabb (maternal grandfather) was born in Oley township, Berks county. He was a farmer by occupation. His wife was Mary Adams, and died at the age of seventy-five years. Mr. Knabb died in his eightieth year. They had two children, both daughters.
Henry W. Schneider, the subject of this sketch, spent his early boyhood days in New Hanover township, attending the neighborhood schools, acquiring the rudiments of an education in this way. Later he attended Freeland Semin- ary, now Ursinus College, Collegeville, and Mt. Pleasant Seminary at Boyertown. He engaged in teaching school, but only for a short time. He at- tended a preparatory school at Easthampton, Massachusetts, and then entered a commercial col- lege in Philadelphia. He was engaged in the tan- ning business with his father, and operating the establishment himself for a time, having previ- ously learned the trade. There have been five
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generations of tanners in the Schneider family. Mr. Schneider helped to organize the Colebrook- dale Iron Company, and was with that organiza- tion seven years, being secretary for a time. He removed to No. 217 Chestnut street, Pottstown, in the fall of 1892, and located there permanently.
On December 28, 1876, Mr. Schneider mar- ried Miss Mary J. Sabold, daughter of John and Hannah (Weidner) Sabold. They had two chil- dren both of whom died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Schneider are members of the German Reformed church. Mr. Schneider has served several times as a school director. He is one of the directors of the Security Company, of Pottstown; is also a director of the Pottstown Cold Storage & Ware- house Company ; and is also connected in a similar capacity with the Colebrookdale Iron Company. He was one of the organizers of the Citizens' Bank of Pottstown, one of its leading moneyed institutions.
Mrs. Schneider's father was born in Mont- gomery county and her mother in Chester county. They had two sons and two daughters. Her father died in 1900, aged sixty-nine years. Her mother still survives.
MARY M. WELLS, daughter of Herman and Amelia Louisa (Mauger) Wells, carries on the business formerly conducted by her father and brother in Pottstown.
Herman Wells (father), born November I, 1821, died January 26, 1891. His wife was born December 4, 1828 and died April 14, 1895. Mr. and Mrs. Wells always resided in Pottstown. He was born in Chester county, and she in Pottstown. He was engaged as a merchant, and was also paymaster of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company for thirty-five years. He was a very popular citizen, having many friends. In politics he was a Republican. His business, that of a coal commission merchant, was conducted by himself and son. He was for many years president of the Electric Light, Heat & Power Company, of Pottstown. Mr. and Mrs. Wells were members of the Lutheran Church of the Transfiguration of Pottstown.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wells were married
May 27, 1847. Their children: Martha, born April 1I, 1848, married Abner Evans, Jr., and they resided in Pottstown, where he was a fur- nace expert. Both are now deceased and he was buried in Mexico and she in the Pottstown ceme- tery. They had five children, of whom two are living : Florence, married Dr. F. B. Swartzlander, of Doylestown, and they have two children- Mary and Ellen, the latter born January 24, 1904. The other child of Mr. and Mrs. Evans is Mary Louise, who is studying medicine at the Women's Medical College, entering in September, 1902. John M., the second child of Mr. and Mrs. Her- man Wells, born March 24, 1850, married Hen- rietta Phillippi, and both are now deceased. He assisted his father during his life. John M. and Henrietta Wells had two children, of whom one is living, Donald, who married Florence Louise Dobbs, and they reside with Miss Mary Wells. The other child of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wells is Mary M. Wells. Mary M. Wells is carrying on the business established by her father and con- ducted under the name of H. Wells & Son. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Potts- town Hospital. The house which she occupies was erected by her father in 1888.
Donald Wells, the son of John M. and Hen- rietta (Phillippi) Wells, married Florence Dobbs, daughter of Henry and Charlotte (Nottingham) Dobbs, who reside in Philadelphia, having come from England when their daughter Florence was four years old. The children of Donald and Flor- ence Wells are Eleanor, born August 14, 1902, and Florence, January 13, 1904. Mr. Wells is a draughtsman with McClintic-Marshall Construc- tion Company, of Pottstown. He is a Republican in politics. Mr. Dobbs (father of Mrs. Donald Wells) is a draughtsman in Philadelphia. He came to this country in 1888.
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