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1780-Identified with those of Schuyl- kill Township.
Branch. 1836-From Cass and Frailey.
1750-The Adams', Phillip and George
Clouser, Peter Starr, Fausts,
Thomas Reed, John and Peter Zerbe, Andrew Steitzel, Fox.
Butler. 1848-From Barry.
1800-1795-Nicholas Seitzinger, the Brobsts, Prestons and Kunkels. Cass. 1848-From Branch
1810-Phillip Alspach, on Primrose Hill; Krause, Abraham Hoch, Kant- ner, Peter Yokam.
East Brunswick, 1834-from Bruns- wick.
1770-John Kinear, Phillip Schwartz. Later-Ulrich Heiser, Daniel, Jacob and Frederick Bensinger, Bernard Kepner, Christian Koch, John Bo- lich, Abram Seltzer.
East Norwegian. 1847-From Nor- wegian.
1780-Peter Neuschwander, George, Jacob and Peter Reed, John and Conrad Heim, the Bechtels, Thomas and William Gottschall, John Mau- rer and Henry Gilbert.
East Union. 1867-From Union. 1802.
Eldred. 1848-From Up- per Mahantongo.
1805-Caspar Hepler, Jacob Reinert, Peter Klock, Samuel Drecksler.
Frailey. 1847-From Barry, Branch and Mah- antongo.
1818 -- Black Charlie, Negro Hermit; Samuel Gaskins, David Lomison, Adam Etien, Jacob Crone. Foster. 1855-From Cass, Butler and Barry.
1831-Widow Levan kept log tav- ern near Mt. Pleasant.
Hegins. 1853-1858-From Lower Mahanton- go.
1801-1780-George Klinger, James Osman, Peter Kuhns, Jacob Heber- ling, John Dietrich.
A half breed Indian, Hager, here in 1775.
Hubley. 1853-From Lower
Mahantongo.
1804-Phillip and Michael Artz, George Dietrich, John Haldeman, John Schmitz, John and Henry Stahle.
Kline. 1873.
1815-John Stackhouse, prior to this included in Rush.
Mahanoy. 1849-From Rush.
1791-One
Reisch, others,
John
Eisenhuth, Samuel May, Daniel Brobst, Erastes Williams, Henry Stauffer.
New Castle. 1848-From Norwe- wegian.
3 families in 1800-1790-Nicho Allen, who was the reputed first discov- erer of coal in Schuylkill County, Jacob Yoh and John Boyer.
North Manheim. 1845-From Man- heim, from Bruns- wick.
1752-Conrad Minnich came in 1752. Others, Henry Strauch, Michael and Wm. Deibert, Henry Dreibel- beis, George Zerbe. Ellis Hughes had a saw mill near the "Five Locks."
North Union. 1867-From Union. 1806-Conrad Faust, Alburtis Miller, Fred. Lebenberg.
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Norwegian. 1811-From orig- inal thrce town- ships.
1780-1790-Bright, Jacob Yohe, John Boyer, William Yohe.
Pine Grove. 1771-1811-1750- Original.
The Schnokes, Rebers, Hetricks, Haberlings, Schwalms, Zerbes, Boy- ers, Schaeffers, Bressler, Feltys, Minnichs, Eberts, Steins, and oth- ers.
Porter. 1840-1847-From Lower Mahanton- go.
1774-Daniel and Ennicr Williams, Cox, Lengle, Kline and Scull. James Wilson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, owned large tracts of land here. In 1803 Daniel Green built a log cabin on top of Broad Mountain. Rahn. 1860-From West Penn.
1752-Identified with West Penn. Burkhardt Moser came 1799 and John Kershner.
Reilly. 1857-From Branch.
1790-Jacob Fox and family, two of their daughters married Peter Starr and George Haeffer. The original patent of land, dated 1803, was granted Michacl Kunkle.
Rush.
1811-1752-From
Northampton.
1780-1800-Jacob Neifert, the Gott- schalls, Thomas Linder, John
Faust.
Ryan. 1868-From Rush and Mahanoy.
1784-David Dresh, Heasing, Kregler, George Focht, John Faust.
Schuylkill. 1799-1811.
1780-1802-Solomon, Joseph and Phillip Merkle, Yosts, Gilberts.
South Manheim. 1845-From Man- heim.
Matthew Heim.
Tremont. 1848-From Pine-
grove.
1818-The Hipples, Pinkertons, Clarks, Zimmermans. Others includ- ed in Pine Grove Township. Tre- mont means three mountains. Union. 1867-1818.
Embraced in North and East Union, taken from Columbia and Lu- zerne. Frederick Lavenburg built log house, 1801.
Upper Mahantongo. 1799-1811-From
Mahantongo.
1780-Identified with Mahantongo and Eldred. Peter Klock and Al- cxander Klinger, the former in 1775.
Washington. 1856-From Pine-
grove and Wayne. 1760-Phillip Zerbe, Peter Weaver, Peter IIetzel, George Kremer, Michael Bressler and others iden- tified with Pine Grove Twp. Wayne. 1827-From Man- heim and Pine-
grove. 1775-Egidione Moyer, Millers, Kaer- chers, John Apple, Schwartz, Jacob Merkle. Embraced in Manheim and Pine Grove.
Walker. 1878-From Schuylkill 1802-Identificd with Rush and Schuylkill.
West Brunswick. 1769-1811-,34-1742 From Brunswick.
Paul Heim, Gottfried Orwig and Heinrich Miller and others. (See Brunswick Twp.
West Mahanoy. 1863. From Maha- noy.
Identificd with Mahanoy Twp. West Penn. 1811-From North- ampton.
1752-Is the largest township in Schuylkill County. The early set- tlers have been previously men- tioned. Tobias Wehr opened a store here, 1780. Scene of Indian massacres of first settlers after purchase of Indian lands in 1768.
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POPULATION IN 1810
Brunswick Township, 1770; Pine Grove Township, 1290; Manheim Township, 1354; Lower Mahantongo Township, 637 ; Upper Mahantongo Township, 489; Schuylkill Township, 353; Norwegian Township, -.
The first census of Pennsylvania was taken September 7, 1791, and nine hundred and ninety-three, in these townships, were reported as "unorganized," or as a floating population, many brought here, no doubt, by the discovery of coal, 1770.
Martin Dreibelbeis settled at a point on the Schuylkill River, 1775, (tlie site of Schuylkill Haven) where he erected a stone grist mill, ran a farm, store and distillery. The store was a strongly built log building with double plank doors. It was called the block house and was a refuge for the settlers in the Indian troubles. The family lived in the block house. His daughter, Christina Dreibelbeis, married Benjamin Pott, son of John Pott.
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First Settlers of Schuylkill County
NEUFERTS, WHETSTONES, POTTS
HERE were other settlers on the site of Pottsville before John Pott's advent. He was an iron master and estab- lished the forge and furnaces, in 1806, before removing here, in what was known as the orchard, near the Schuylkill River. He was a prominent citizen and did much toward the early establishment of the borough.
John Lesher, father of Maria Lesher, operated a furnace on Pine Creek and also a forge in Oley Township. John Lesher was a Deputy Wagon Master in the French and Indian War and a representative from Berks County to the Constitutional Convention, 1776, and a member of the Gen- eral Assembly from 1776 to 1782. The Pott and Whitney families, of Pottsville, are descendants of Maria, daughter of John Lesher, and wife of John Pott.
Wilhelm Pott came to America, from Germany, 1734. He first settled in Germantown, Philadelphia, but removed early to Oley Township, Berks County. He died in 1767, leaving two children, John Wilhelm and John Pott. John2 Pott married Maria Hoch. 1755. Jolin3 Pott was born January 16, 1759. He married Maria Lesher, July 9, 1765, and came to Pottsville from Oley, 1810. He laid out the borough, 1816, in the original plot, which included only the lots on each side of Centre Street, between Union and Race Streets, and the lots on both sides of Mahantongo as far as Sixth Street. He presented the lot to the borough, upon which the Grammar School building, North Centre Street, now stands, and the park in the rear, which was used as a
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cemetery and upon which a log school house was built, and also the lot, to the church authorities, upon which St. Patrick's church is built.
William Thompson, great grandfather of Lewis C. and William and Heber S. Thompson, deceased, of Pottsville, was in the war of the Revolution. He was a farmer and lived near Thompsontown, Dauphin County, now Juniata, which was named for him. Two brothers, James and John, came from County Antrim, Ireland, and settled, in 1730, near what is now Lebanon, then Lancaster County, and before that Chester County, removing from there to Dauphin County. At Thompsontown, Juniata County, there stands an old mill, established in 1780. In the rear of it on a knoll is a stone house of the Revolutionary period. Here Samnel Thompson, of Pottsville, father of Lewis C., Heber and William Thompson, was born. A great nephew and a great grandson of the originator of this branch of the family live in the old homestead and bear the family name.
KLOCKS, CHRISTS, BRESSLERS
John Peter Klock came to America, in 1750, with his parents, being then seven years old. They settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania, John coming to Eldred Township, in 1793. Six generations are represented in Schuylkill County. Dr. H. A. Klock, of Mahanoy City, and William J., of the Pitman farm, are descendants. 'Squire Klock, who was one of the early school teachers, of Pottsville, belonged to this family.
One of the early pioneers of Eldred Township, when it was included in Pinegrove, was John Kehler, who came here before 1800. Peter and Felix, of successive generations, lived on the same farm cleared by their grandfather John. They have been a prominent and well to do family for five generations in Schuylkill County.
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George Werner, of Reilly Township, who died 1840, was a Revolutionary veteran. He was the father of Christopher Werner.
Edwin Schlicher was born in Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County. He was of the fifth generation of Stoefel Schlicher, who came from the Palatinate, Germany, about 1740. His great grandfather, Henry Schlicher, served in the Revolutionary army. His grandfather, John, and his father. George, were farmers. Dr. J. H. Swaving's children are lineal descendants of Stoefel Schlicher.
George Simon Bressler, born in Manheim, Germany, February 22, 1722, came to Pennsylvania and the Tulpehock- en, 1749. He died, 1802, and was buried at Hetzel's church, near Pinegrove. He was one of the first settlers in Pinegrove Township.
Emanuel Christ came to Berks County about 1750. He was a Captain in the Revolutionary War, Continental Line. He had a son Emanuel, whose son Isaac came to Mahantongo Valley, about 1780, when it was included in Pinegrove Town- ship. He died 1837. The Christs were prominent in the Civil War. George M. Christ, of Ashland, and Colonel Ben- jamin Christ, of Minersville, were descendants of Emanuel Christ.
POTTS, HELMS, HESSERS
Peter1 Helm came from the Rhine Palatinate, sailing. from London, 1709, with the one hundred and fifty families for New York, who settled in Livingstone Manor. He was among the seventeen hundred who died shortly after landing. He left a son, Simon, who was the head of the Helm family in New York and Pennsylvania. Peter7 D. Helms, of Potts- ville, is a lineal descendant of Peter1 Helm (Peter6, Peter5, Samuel+, Peter3, Simon2, Peter1.) Samuel4 Helm removed from Sullivan County, New York, where the Helm home-
(Note-The figures 1, 2, 3 denote the number of the generation.
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stead, erected 1715, is still in possession of one of the family, to Berks County, Pa., and from there migrated to Pike County, Pa., where Peter5 was born. The latter settled near Mc- Keansburg, removing subsequently to Womelsdorf and thence to Myerstown, Pa., where Peter6 was born. Peter Helms, with his son, Peter D. Helms, of Pottsville, removed to Schuylkill Haven, 1852. Peter D. Helms married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Richard Edwards, a pioneer Welsh preach- er, by whom he had seven children. Samuel+ Helm was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.1
The descendants of Simon and other children of Peter1 Helm are settled in Kentucky, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsyl- vania, New York and other states. The Helms of the fourth generation were numerous in the War of the Revolution.
The Heplers, of Schuylkill County, are represented by five generations, in Eldred Township. They were of the earliest pioneers and came from Berks County, about 1780.
A. A. Hesser, deceased, station agent at Schuylkill Haven, was a son of Henry Hesser, and a direct descendant of Fred- erick Hesser, a drummer boy in the Revolutionary War, buried in St. John's cemetery, Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania.
The Potts family came to Philadelphia, about 1682, emi- grating from England with William Penn. John Potts was born there. His son Thomas married Elizabeth Luken, 1750. He was a member of the Continental Congress, 1775. His son, Hugh H. Potts, was born in New Jersey, 1773. He was the father of George H. Potts and an officer in the first United States Army. In 1800 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Captain John Hughes, who was in the Revolutionary War during the entire struggle. George H. Potts was born in Delaware, 1811, and removed to Pottsville, 1829, where he engaged in mining operations. He married a daughter of George M. Cumming, a sister of Attorney Benjamin Cum-
(Note 1-Pension Certificate and army record, Bureau of Pensions.)
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ming, Sr., and of Mrs. G. W. Snyder. He removed to New York, 1853, where he died. Joseph Harris, deceased, Presi- dent of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, a former resident, was married to two of his daughters. George Potts, of Pottsville, now of New York, was a son of George H. Potts.
William Audenried, son of Lewis Audenried, who emi- grated from Switzerland, 1789, to Kutztown, Berks County, about 1810, was elected to the State Senate, 1824, having served as a Justice of the Peace for Brunswick Township for five years and as a member of the Legislature for two terms. To him is accredited having said, in that body, that "Schuyl- kil County had no coal, only a lot of black stone in its soil."
John Macomb Wetherill removed to Pottsville, from Philadelphia, 1846, at the age of eighteen years, engaging in the management of coal lands for the Wetherill family, who were large owners. His great grandfather, Samuel Wetherill, was a Quaker but discarded his religious tenets at the break- ing out of the Revolutionary War and was at the head of the sect known as the Free or Fighting Quakers. He was never married and died in Pottsville, 1884.
Francis Wade Hughes, Attorney at Law, was born in Montgomery County, 1817. His father, John Hughes, was one of the family of that name who came over with the Penns. His mother was the daughter of Benjamin Bartholomew, who was a Captain of Cavalry during the Revolutionary War.
John Hoffman came from the vicinity of Heidelberg, Germany, about 1740 and settled in Lancaster County, after- ward Dauphin, 1785. His wife was of Huguenot stock and six generations inter-married with the descendants of those who had left Alsace and Lorraine after the edict of Nantes was revoked. Peter, of the second generation, was a Revolutionary soldier. The paternal names of John and Pe- ter have alternated all along the line to the present bearer
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of the name, John R. Hoffman, formerly Assistant Manager of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, whose maternal ancestor was named Boyer, (Beyer). Other Hoffmans of the same family were in the War of the Revo- lution.
Henry Kuhl Nichols, d., late chief engineer of the Read- ing Railway, was born in Pottsville, August 24, 1830; wife, Sarah C. Donaldson. They had one daughter, Clara, d., wife of R. E. Tucker. Henry Nichols' great grandfather was Michael Hillegas, Colonial Secretary and first Treasurer of the United States. Both of his grandfathers were officers in the Revolutionary War. Gen. Francis Nichols, his grand- father, was presented with a sword by General Washington, the sword is now in possession of a nephew. His father, Lieut. F. B. Nichols of the U. S. Navy, was active in the war of 1812, and died from the effects of wounds received on board the Chesapeake, commanded by Captain Lawrence at the time he was killed. Mr. Nichols' brother, Gen. W. A. Nichols, served with distinction in the Mexican and Civil Wars, and a nephew, Major Nichols, was in the Spanish War and sta- tioned at Manila. Mr. Nichols resided in Pottsville until 1883 when he removed to Philadelphia, where he died.
THE MORRIS ANCESTRY
The Morris' are descended from Richard Morris, who came from England and settled in Westchester County, New York. He obtained a land grant of three thousand acres from Governor Fletcher, with manorial rights. He died 1673, leaving a son, Lewis, who became Chief Justice of New York, and subsequently Governor of New Jersey. From him is descended a representative of the Colonial Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Henry Morris, of Philadelphia, prominent in Schuylkill County's early coal business, and after whom Morris Addition, Potts- ville, was named; and Richard, John and Samuel Morris,
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deceased, of Pottsville, claimed descent from Richard Mor- ris. Robert Morris, Mrs. G. W. Kennedy, Mrs. George Hoffman and others, of Pottsville, are descendants. Mrs. John Morris, Mrs. Samuel Thompson and Mrs. Morri- son, mother of N. C. Morrison, were sisters, their family name being Cunningham. They were from Juniata County.
Henry Aurand, of Huguenot ancestry, left Alsace, France when Louis XIV issued the revocation of the edict of Nantes and went to Holland, 1685, from where he removed to Heidelberg, Germany. At Dillenberg, a son, John, was born, September 2, 1725. In 1753 John came to Pennsylvania, settling at Maiden Creek, Berks County, October 2. He was married three times and was the father of seven children, Henry, Daniel and Jacob were born in Germany; Peter, George, Dietrich and Elizabeth, in America. Peter was the great grandfather of Aquilla Aurand, of Tamaqua. Mrs. Mary Heilner and Mrs. Caroline Carter, of Tamaqua, were among the daughters. Henry K. Aurand was born in Sunbury, 1833. Daniel Aurand, cabinet maker, deceased, of Pottsville, belong- ed to the family.
Prof. Livingstone Seltzer, County Superintendent of Public Schools in Schuylkill County is a lineal descendant of Balthasar Bock, of Brunswick Township, in the Revolution- ary War. On the paternal side he is descended from a sol- dier for the British Crown in that war.
MAHLON BOYER, GULDIN, COLEMAN
The Heebners, of Port Carbon, are descendants of George Heebner, of Montgomery County, a Revolutionary War soldier. He came to this county in 1816 and lived on a farm near the site of the County Home, where he conducted a mill. His son, Abraham Heebner, came to Port Carbon, in 1829, and was regarded as the founder of that place, being prominently identified with all its early affairs.
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Peter Brown was a native of Alsace, France. He came to America and settled in Virginia before the Revolutionary War, in which he was engaged from the beginning to the end as a teamster, hauling supplies from Philadelphia to Vir- ginia. He settled in Berks County, where his son, grandfather of P. J. Brown, of Reiner City, Schuylkill County, was born.
Cal. Brower, of Tremont, was a native of Berks County. The old Brower homestead, near Douglassville, was in pos- session of the Browers, in 1750.
Mahlon Boyer, of Pinegrove, was born near Reading. His great great grandfather removed there from near Phila- delphia about 1750. His grandfather, when seven years old, was captured by the Indians and then taken up the Susque- hanna River. He was retained in captivity until sixteen years of age when he escaped. His son William was born in Reading, in 1800. (Indian Forts, Vol. I.)
Dr. B. C. Guldin, of Minersville, was the great great grandson of Daniel Guldin, of Oley Township, Berks County, who came to that region about 1760, from Switzerland. His grandfather was Benjamin C., who lived near Womelsdorf, where his father, Benjamin II., was born.
The great grandfather of Samuel and William Mortimer, the former a Borough Treasurer of Pottsville, settled in Robeson Township, Berks County, prior to 1770, where he and his wife died. The family removed to the vicinity of Port Clinton, from where they went to different points.
The children were: William, George, unmarried ; John, d. St. Louis; Andrew and three daughters, Lydia, m. - - Scull and settled at Johnstown; one da., m., - Pullman ; Asbury Mortimer, of Pottsville, was a descendant of the above family. Andrew Mortimer was Chief Burgess of Pottsville and a member of Council. His children were : Nelson, Samuel, Borough Treasurer; Asher, Mrs. Hannah Stevens, Port Car- bon ; Mrs. Mary Kantner, and Andrew, Jr., who settled in Salt
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Lake City and became a Mormon. William Mortimer, Sr., was a member of the Legislature, 1838, and County Commis- sioner, 1833.
William Mortimer-Sons: William, Michael, Washing- ton, Morgan. William kept the White Horse Hotel. His sons later conducted the old Mortimer House, corner of Centre and West Norwegian Streets, William and Washing- ton both engaging in the mercantile business for many years after their retirement from the hotel. The children of Wil- liam Mortimer were: Charles, George Wesley, both deceased, Horace, jeweler; Frank, dry goods merchant, and Gilmour. The daughters were: Mrs. Tillie Engle, Mrs. Fannie Robin- son, deceased, Mrs. Emma Muir, deceased, and Mrs. Susan Palmer.
Mrs. Heber S. Zerbey, a daughter of Samuel Mortimer, has in her possession the Mortimer family coat of arms, an original armorial (bearing) of the date of 1001 A. D., which was brought to America by the first Mortimer, who came from England, 1685, and settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where he died and is buried. He is said to have been the grandfather of the only Mortimer who settled in Berks County.
Cornelius Coleman, of Llewellyn, is the great great great grandson of Carl Coleman, who settled in Louisiana, in 1704, then a French Province. His grandfather was born in Berks County, where the family removed and later to Dauphin County. His great grandfather, John, was a Revolutionary soldier under Lafayette. He died in Lykens, 1839.
Daniel DeFrelin was born near where Tuscarora stands, 1791. His parents were Huguenots and came to America and settled in Berks County, from where they removed to near what is now New Philadelphia, Schuylkill County, in 1790. He removed to Orwigsburg where he settled and raised a large family, working at his trade of carpenter and con-
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tractor. Of his five sons, Joseph and Daniel, father of George DeFrehn, cashier of the Miners' National Bank, of Pottsville, both were prominent and well known citizens.
William Koch was born in Philadelphia, 1747, but settled in Oley Township and in Womelsdorf, Berks County. He removed to Brunswick Township, where he operated what is since known as Kunkle's saw mill. His son, Henry, was the father of Mrs. Charles T. Bowen, deceased. He was married to a daughter of Balthaser Bock. His son, Daniel, father of Richard, was a member of the State Legislature, 1860.
Balthaser Bock was born, in 1746, in Alde Hassan Graf- schaft, Hanan, Germany. He came to this country, 1754, with his father, the latter engaging in the French and Indian War, 1755. The family settled in Windsor Township, Berks County. Balthasar was sold to a farmer near Pinegrove to pay his passage. Serving his time he rejoined the family on the other side of the Blue Mountains. Although a lame man, he served in the Revolutionary War. He settled in McKeans- burg, where he died, 1827, and is buried there. He was a man of remarkable energy and has many descendants in Schuyl- kill County. Baltzer Bock bought a tract of land, 1791, from Peter Orwig for eight hundred and fifty pounds. It was part of the original John Webb tract, patented 1750, situated near what is now McKeansburg.
Franklin P. Weiser, of Ashland, and James Weiser, of Minersville, also the Weiser's formerly of Orwigsburg, now of Ohio, are lineal descendants of Conrad Weiser.
William Donaldson, grandfather of William Donaldson, of Pottsville, served in the Revolutionary War from North- umberland County. He is buried in the Baber cemetery, Pottsville, his remains having been removed here from Dan- ville.
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Isaac DeTurck settled on the Quassick Creek, Duchess County, New York, emigrating from the Rhine with the twelve hundred Palatines, 1709-1710, as a husbandman at the age of twenty-three and unmarried. He left New York, 1711, and settled with the little band of Huguenots in Oley Town- ship, Berks County, 1712. The Hocks and Yoders took up land here, in the Penn Grants, about the same time. De- scendants of the Hoy family, in Berks and Schuylkill, are from this branch of the Hochs, the name in the original having frequently been spelled "Hoy" and this spelling has been retained by some of the family. Samuel DeTurck, d., of Friedensburg, was a direct descendant of Isaac DeTurck.
Ulrich Heiser lived at Focht's Forge, near McKeansburg, about 1780. He was the son of Ulrich Heiser, of Oley Town- ship. He removed to Manheim Township, near the site of Schuylkill Haven, where George, the father of Veterinary Surgeon Edward Heiser, deceased, 87 years of age, was born, as was also his father.
Christian Luther settled in Lancaster County, 1751. Diller Luther, with two brothers, all doctors, came from there to Orwigsburg but returned to Reading, where the former practised from 1832 to 1838. Diller Luther entered the coal business, in which he was engaged for a quarter of a century. His brothers, John and Martin Luther, practised medicine and were prominent in their profession. John died at Harrisburg, 1811. Martin Luther, of Reading, was a very successful surgeon. Roland Luther, deceased, of Potts- ville, General Manager of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, who married Theresa Yuengling, was of this family, a son of Peter Luther.
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