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Mr. Zerbey engaged in the manufacture of Venetian blinds, then a paying business, 1852, opening a house-fur- nishing, window blind, carpet and stationery store on Mar- ket, between Second and Centre streets, removing to 203 N. Centre street, which property he purchased and remodeled, 1868-'71, the family residing there continuously for forty-six years and the business being carried on for sixty-two years. W. M. Zerbey died May 30, 1891. He was confirmed in the Lutheran church, but after his marriage united with the Evangelical church in which he was prominent as a trustee, assisting largely with his means to build the handsome church on West Arch Street. After the split in that body, he united with his family with the First Methodist Episcopal church, of Pottsville, where he also served in an official capacity and was actively interested in the spiritual and financial welfare of the church. He was first a Democrat in politics, but in 1856 voted for Stephen A. Douglas, and in the stirring days of 1860 was an ardent supporter of Abraham Lincoln and there-
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after voted the Republican ticket. He did not desire office of any kind, but was frequently approached to allow the use of his name in the local government of the town. During the Civil War he was the main support of a large family whose head was in the three years' service and who was killed, as Mr. Zerbey frequently said, "while fighting for mic at the front." He was one of a committee appointed to create a Patriotic Fund and distribute it to families whose support- ers were at the front, he having in charge the care of the fami- lies in the Middle Ward, Pottsville. He was a liberal giver to the church and to any cause he espoused.
William M. Zerbey m. Sarah L. Schwalm, da. of Andrew and Hannah Miller Schwalm (Schwalm history), December 21, 1847, at Orwigsburg. Sarah Schwalm, b. September 3, 1830, d. August 11, 1914. Their children were: William, d .: John Franklin, Heber Swalm, Joseph Henry, Robert An- derson, Frederic E., Ella A., wf. of C. D. Elliott, d .; Adelia E., twice married ; Sara Frances, wf. of Walter B. Hill.
John F. Zerbey, clerk and subsequently cashier of the Government National Bank, of Pottsville; clerk to the Schuylkill County Commissioners, and for nine years U. S. National Bank Examiner, now retired and living in York- ville, a section of Pottsville, married Laura E. Esterly, July 23, 1883, da. of Daniel Esterly, deceased, of Pottsville, and a direct descendant of Jacob Esterly, who qualified at Phila- delphia September 20, 1738, from the ship Nancy, and of Daniel Esterly, his son (Rev. War record). They have one son, John F. Zerbey, Jr., b. June 3, 1884, m. Florence, da. of Benjamin J. Smith, County Commissioner of Schuylkill ; children, Florence M. and Margaret. John F. Zerbey, Jr., electrician, in business Fourth and Arch Streets, Pottsville.
(Note-Jacob Easterly, 22, qualified at Philadelphia, September 20, 1738. He was a taxpayer in Berks County, 1754, died 1758; wf. Eliza- beth. Died intestate. Daniel2, the youngest of three children under 21. Married Susanna Heckler. Both buried one mile west of Oley Town- ship line, in private burying ground. Revolutionary War Record, Part 1.
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Daniel3, eldest son of Daniel?, Sheriff of Berks County, 1841-'44. George son of Daniel2, was the father of Daniel Esterly, of Pottsville. Daniel? Esterly, b. August 27, 1758, d. September 27, 1822.)
Heber Swalm Zerbey, wf. Hannah, da. of Samuel and Elizabeth Mortimer, the former for many years borough treasurer of Pottsville, (see Mortimer), married April 28, 1887. They had one daughter, Elizabeth, b. August 19, 1888. (1. February 26, 1895. Heber Zerbey was by profession a school teacher, in which occupation he was successfully en- gaged in Pottsville, when he retired to carry on the business of his father, W. M. Zerbey, at 203 N. Centre St., Pottsville, and to which he succeeded on the death of his parents.
FOUNDER OF THE POTTSVILLE DAILY REPUBLICAN
Joseph Henry Zerbey, editor and proprietor of the "Pottsville Daily Republican," established October 28, 1884, (and owner of the Weekly "Schuylkill Republican" from 1879). has in the "Pottsville Republican" plant, one of the most progressive, successful bindery, newspaper and job printing houses in Eastern Pennsylvania, and is one of the foremost and most enterprising citizens of his section of the State. He learned the art preservative in all its branches very thoroughly, and this early rudimentary insight into the fundamental rules of printing enabled him to take advantage of every improve- ment in the business as it advanced in newer inventions, all of which he has installed in his plant, and to which early knowledge he ascribes the keynote of his ultimate success.
J. II. Zerbey married Cora E. Sigfried, June 16, 1880, daughter of General Joshua K. Sigfried, Colonel of the 48th Regt., Penna. Vols., and Brigadier General at the fall of Pe- tersburg, in the Civil War, and Major General in the National Guard of Pennsylvania for many years. Jonas Sigfried, father of Joshua K., was a son of Jonathan3 Sigfried, (Jacob2, Joseph1) born October 28, 1790, in Maxatawny Township, Berks Coun-
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ty, d. June, 1853, near Rebersburg, Schuylkill County, and is buried at the Bethel Church. He owned a farm and kept a hotel across the Blue Mountains from Rebersburg. He married Barbara Fiegol, and their children, of whom they had fifteen, and their descendants are settled in Harrisburg, Annville and throughout lower Schuylkill County.
(Note-Jacob Sigfried .- Revolutionary War Record, Part 1.)
The children of J. H. Zerbey and wf. Cora E. are: Ida Frances, wf. of Robert Braun, owner of the Braun School of Music, and a Piano Virtuoso; Edith, b. June 28, 1884. d. Au- gust 8, 1886; Joseph Henry, Jr. ; Mildred and Cora Elizabeth, the latter being Pottsville High School pupils.
J. H. Zerbey is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a Republican in politics. The family home is lo- cated corner of Howard Avenue and Fifteenth Street, Potts- ville. He is for years president of the Pottsville Board of Trade, also president of the Schuylkill County Centennial Ass'n., president of the Pottsville Mutual Fire Insurance Co., and member of the Penna. Society of New York, the Manu- facturers' and Pen and Pencil Clubs, of Phila., the Pottsville Motor, the Outdoor, and the Pottsville Clubs; president of the State Editorial Association, and the acting presi- dent of the Penna. Associated Dailies, and member of the Penna. German Society. He was one of the leading con- tributors and building committee of the magnificent Potts- ville Methodist Church edifice at Market and Fourth Streets. He is president of the Penn Land Co., a very extensive opera- tion to secure homes for the people; also director in the Greater Pottsville B. & L. Association. He has been promi- nently identified with the movements that have done so much to improve Pottsville and enlarge the business of the com- munity. He especially labored zealously for the city form of government. He has a very wide acquaintanceship with
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prominent men of the nation, and has traveled extensively to learn how others live and do, so as to apply new ideas to his home locality.
The "Republican" building on Mahantongo St., erected in 1895, was the first modern iron, brick, stone, cement, fire- proof business structure in Pottsville. The equipment of the "Republican's" plant is very unusually extensive and uptodate for an inland city, and is equal to some prominent offices in large cities. The plant has dual motor power, steam and electric; the newspapers are printed on a three deck stereotyping press, and this was one of the first offices in the world to use linotypes.
Mr. Zerbey was the originator of the present extensive electric railway system in and around Pottsville. It was the sixth electric line to be started in the U. S., and Mrs. Frances Zerbey Braun, in 1890, pulled the switch that put the current into the operation of the first electric street car in Pottsville.
Mrs. Braun was the first woman to be admitted to the Schuylkill County Bar and to practise before the Supreme Court. She is also a talented violinist, and concertmeister of the Gerhard Symphony Orchestra.
Joseph Henry Zerbey, Jr., assistant to his father in the "Daily Republican" office, and associate editor of that news- paper, wf. Catharine, daughter of John and Catharine Ban- nan. He is a graduate of Lafayette College, and is con- nected with the leading public and social movements. Also during the threatening European war days of 1915, he be- came associated with the First Officers Training Regiment of the United States Army, inaugurated by the War Depart- ment at Plattsburgh, N. Y., as the foundation of the U. S. A. Citizen Soldier Reserves. He is also a member of the execu- tive committee of the National Editorial Association, a Ro- tarian and "Big Brother" to hundreds of boys and girls whose condition in life he is trying to improve.
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Robert Anderson Zerbey, b. September 20, 1860, d. De- cember 9, 1893, married April 29, 1886; wf., Annie L. Kaercher, da. of Henry Kaercher; children: William Henry and Margaret Adelia, Schenectady, N. Y. Robert A. Zerbey learned the printing trade in all its branches in the "Repub- lican" office. He was employed in the freight department of the Reading Railway Company, at Philadelphia, for several years, and also in a large wholesale carpet establishment. Returning to Pottsville he assumed the duties of business manager of the "Daily Republican," which position he held at the time of his death, which occurred in the prime of manhood under particularly distressing circumstances, the disease being typhoid, cerebro spinal meningitis.
William Henry Zerbey (Robert) employed in Schenec- tady, N. Y., in the General Electric Company power plant in that city as Cost Accountant in the main office; Margaret resides in Schenectady with her mother.
Frederic Edgar Zerbey began his career early on the surveying corps of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at Lost Creek, under Col. D. P. Brown. He was promoted to the district superintendency of the company's collieries at Hazleton and subsequently to the district superintendency of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company's collieries at Wilkes- Barre. He is at present the efficient manager and superin- tendent of the Kingston Coal Company, with offices at Wilkes-Barre. He married Bertha, da. of Conrad Seltzer, of Pottsville, July 30, 1883. Their children are: Dorothy, Frederic Edgar, d., and Arthur, a student at Yale College. Their home is at the corner of Union and River Streets, Wilkes-Barre. Fred. E. Zerbey is a member of the Episcopal Church, a mason and a Republican in politics.
Conrad Seltzer was b. September 17, 1818, in Marburg, Kurhessen, Germany. He came to America and located at Pottsville, Penna., 1835. He married Dorothea E. Roehrig, December 10, 1839. They had ten chil- dren living. They first settled in Fishbach, then removed to Minersville
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and thence to Bull's Head, and finally built the handsome home on North Centre Street, Pottsville, fronting the Seltzer Packing House, founded by Conrad Seltzer and now carried on by his sons, Albert and William Seltzer.
FOUNDER OF THE WEEKLY SCHUYLKILL REPUBLICAN
Ella A. Zerbey, m. Charles Doty Elliott, of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, January 20, 1870; born November 25, 1842, d. July 19, 1899, and the son of Hon. George W. and Julianna Crofoot Elliott. G. W. Elliott, born in Lewis County, New York, February 13, 1804, d. June 30, 1898. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Wisconsin, locating at Detroit, Mich- igan, 1834, and at Green Bay, Wisconsin, when they were but trading posts and military stations. He was a surveyor and located thousands of acres of land in those territories for eastern settlers and capitalists, and was private secretary to territorial Governor of Wisconsin, James D. Doty. The family lived in Taycheedah, near Fond du Lac, in the first frame house in Wisconsin, brought in parts, by packet boat, over the Great Lakes, from New York, for Governor Doty. The children of the two families, who resided in this house together, for several years were educated, in part, by a pri- vate tutor brought from New York for the purpose. Mr. Elliott located, with Governor Doty, the lands for the capitol at Madison, the grounds for the penitentiary at Waupun ; he filled many offices of trust in that state and was a member of the Legislature, 1861-4.
Losing his mother at an early age, C. D. Elliott became a member of the family of Hon. Sam. W. Ryan, Appleton, Wis., (Editor of the "Appleton Crescent" and subsequently U. S. Minister to New Brunswick), and here learned the art of printing. When sixteen, with two other apprentices of the "Crescent" office, he went to Calumet County, where they published a small weekly newspaper, the official printing of that county being guaranteed them. When the war broke
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out they closed their office and were among the first to arrive in Madison and enlist in the Civil War. C. D. Elliott was a member of Co. E, 6th Wisconsin Regiment, and participated in 67 engagements with the enemy, and in the vigorous war- fare engaged in by the famous Iron Brigade, under General Edward Bragg, the first captain of Co. E, (afterward Minis- ter to Mexico and who placed Grover Cleveland in nomina- tion for the Presidency, the first time, at Chicago, when Bragg was U. S. Senator, in the words since made famous, "I love Cleveland for the enemies he has made.") He was wounded twice and was sent to Washington with a severe attack of typhoid fever brought on by lying in the trenches (in mud and water) when wounded. He was made Color Sergeant of Co. E, but was remanded to Co. A, 14th Regt. V. R. C., in which he served the remainder of his time, in the redoubts at Washington, D. C., and in enforcing the draft in Pennsylvania. He served three years and three months and of his family was one of four sons, two of whom lost their lives in the service; and three brothers-in-law, all of the family, except the aged father, being engaged in the war for the Union.
At the close of the war, C. D. Elliott settled in Reading, Pa., where he with three other practical printers, established the Reading "Daily Record" under the firm name of Mast, Schultz, Buckwalter and Elliott. The "Record" was short- lived and was succeeded by the "Evening Dispatch," pub- lished by Buckwalter, Elliott and Schultz. James D. Laciar, subsequently of the Wilkes-Barre "Record" and later post- master of that city, was for a time included in the firm. The "Dispatch" ran for about two and a half years when it was merged with the "Times" and he retired. Mr. Elliott came to Pottsville, Pa., 1870, where he acted as city editor of the Daily "Miners' Journal," Bannan and Ramsey, proprietors. Decem- ber 14, 1872, he founded the "Schuylkill Weekly Republican," at Minersville, taking in as a working partner, John O. Beck,
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the latter retiring after two years. Mr. Elliott assumed the work of the growing plant until 1879, when he sold the busi- ness to his brother-in-law, Joseph Henry Zerbey, who was already engaged in the office and identified with the "Repub- lican." Mr. Elliott purchased a half interest in the "Fond du Lac Commonwealth," established 1832, and removed to that city, Wisconsin, where he remained three years, return- ing to Pottsville, 1882. Later, with Burd Patterson and oth- ers he started "The Independent Republican," a weekly that had a brief career. October 28, 1884, J. H. Zerbey originated and started the "Pottsville Daily Republican," and about a year thereafter C. D. Elliott was engaged as associate editor with editor J. H. Zerbey in the latter's new enterprise. After his death, 1899, his wife, Ella Zerbey Elliott, the author of this work, occupied the position of assistant to the editor and proprietor of the "Republican" for six years, when she retired. Mrs. Elliott has done acceptable work as correspondent to a leading metropolitan newspaper in which her articles on the mining of coal and the industries connected with it, received favorable notice and comment from the leading authorities on the subject. Her short stories and other articles, too, find a ready acceptance with the syndicates and other me- diums of light and practical literature. Her book, "Old Schuylkill Tales," had a larger sale than any other local book published in Schuylkill County and she is frequently being urged to revise the same and bring out another edition.
THE ELLIOTT LINE OF DESCENT
1540-1899
Henry Elliott, b .-; d .-; m. Alice ----; b .---; d .--; buried December 15, 1590; c., Henry, William; residence, East Coker, Somerset- shire, England.
William Elliott, b .-; bap. June 23, 1527; d. March 29, 1642; m .--; b .----; d .-; c., Margaret, John, William, Henry; residence, East Coker, England.
William Elliott, b .-; bap. February, 1603; d .-; m. Emma -; b .-; d .-; c., Edith, Judith, Marie, Andrew, John, Grace (1), Grace (2). Residence, East Coker, England.
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Andrew Elliott, b. -; bap. April 24, 1627; d. (will) 1704; m. Grace Woodier, (2) Mary -; b .-; (2) b .-; d. February 9, 1652, (2) d. (will) 1720; c., (1) Andrew, Emma, (2) Mary, William; residence, East Coker, England; Salem, Beverly, Massachusetts. (Was one of the twelve jurymen who heard the witchcraft trials at Salem, 1692.)
William Elliott, b .--; bap. 1655; d. (will) January, 1721-2; m. Mary Parker, widow, nee Browne; b. April 15, 1657; d. -; c., Andrew (1), Andrew (2), William, John, Judith, Mary, Emma, Elizabeth; residence, Beverly, Massachusetts.
John Elliott, b. September 10, 1693; d. April 8, 1751; m. April 20, 1715, Elizabeth Balch, b. 1696; d. May 1, 1718; m. April 20, 1720, Hannah Wal- dron, b .-; d .-; c. (1) Skipper, John; (2) Nathaniel, William, Fran- cis, Elizabeth, Abigail, Hannah; residence, Beverly, Mass.
Nathaniel Elliot, b. March 26, 1721; d .-; m. Abigail Edwards, b .-; d .-; (2) Elizabeth -; b .-; d .-; c., Nathaniel, John, Francis. residence, Beverly, Mass .; Woodstock, Conn .; Northampton, Chester, Mass. (Served in French-Indian Colonial Wars.)
John Elliott, b .--; d. between 1832 and 1841; m. Rebecca Parker; b .-; d. after 1841; c., Chester, David, George Washington, Zylphia and perhaps others; residence, Chester, Easthampton, Mass., Bowman's Creek, N. Y., Cayuga County, Ohio, and perhaps other places. (John Elliott served in the Revolutionary War from Massachusetts; was a pensioner as was his wife after his death.)
Chester Elliott, b. about 1776; d. after 1832; m. July 6, 1797, Betsey Benjamin, da. of Jesse Benjamin, who served in the Revolutionary War; b. March 31, 1784; d. November, 1848; c., Susan, Joseph, George Washing- ton, Pamelia, Electa, Jesse, Elizabeth, Marietta, Jane, Thomas; residence, Easthampton, Mass., Martinsburg, N. Y. (Served in Capt. Adam Conkey's Company, 101st N. Y., War of 1812-15.)
George Washington Elliott, b. February 13, 1804; d. July 1, 1897; m. October 11, 1832, Juliana Crofoot, b. April 8, 1810, d. June 26, 1850; (2) Lottie M. Torrey; (1) Mary Elizabeth, David, Frances E., Charles Doty, Parke Benjamin, Irving Washington, Ella Louise, (2) Caroline.
Adelia E. Zerbey, first husband, Frank A. Harper, b. at Bear Gap, Dauphin County, September 12, 1849; d. January 12, 1890. He was the eldest son of John C. Harper and wf. Margaret, an individual coal operator and superintendent of mines, of Ashland, Pa., and who later was identified with his son, the above, with the Wm. Milnes coal operations, as clerk and timekeeper. Frank Harper was timekeeper at the Read- ing Co. Coal and Iron shops at the time of his death, to which position he was succeeded by Edward L. Keane, of Garfield Square. The children of Frank and Adelia Harper, who
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were married May 8, 1884, were : an infant, deceased, and Sara Adelia Harper, who resides with her mother at Reading. Adelia E. Harper m. Horace Silliman Kirk, July 30, 1896. He was the son of Wister A. and Lydia A. Kirk. His father was a coach builder with a shop where the Penna. R. R. depot, Pottsville, now stands. They live in Reading, Pa.
Sara Frances Zerbey, married Walter B. Hill, of New York, December II, 1903. Their children are: George Samp- son, Emma Louise and Walter B., Jr. Mr. Hill, piano expert, is engaged in the musical instrument business at 205 N. Centre Street, (Zerbey building), where the family reside. Mr. Hill enjoyed the advantages of a good musical education under the best instructors in New York City, and having exceptional talent was intended for the musical profession. He preferred the musical business, however, which line he is successfully following. He served several years in the manufacture of instruments to perfect himself in their construction which knowledge is invaluable to him in his business.
RIETHS OR REEDS
Leonard' Rieth, of the Tulpehocken, was one of three brothers, original settlers from the Schoharie, N. Y. He was the man about whom the "Tulpehocken Confusion," at Zi- on's or Rieth's church (Stouchsburg, Berks County), cen- tered. (Map of Pioneer Homesteads, Part I. Transactions of the Moravians.)
Leonard Rieth, b. 1691, d. 1747, wf. Anna Eliza Caterina ; c., Johan Nicholas, b. 1716, d 1788; Johan George, b. 1717, d. 1791; Johannes Friderich, b. 1718, d. 1794: Leonard, b. 1723, d. 1803; Peter, -, Maria Margaretha. Peter Rieth had a son, Leonard, b. 1772, who was confirmed at Zion's Lutheran church, 1788. Hermanus Zerbe married Maria Rieth, 1799. Anna Maria, da. of Samuel and Christina Rieth,
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bap. October 9, 1782. Sponsors, Michael Rieth and Anna Maria Schwarzen. Samuel, son of Caspar Rieth. Solomon, son of Jacob Rieth. (Zion's church records.)
Leonard1 Rieth died from injuries received in his mill, on the Tulpehocken creek, next to the site of the old church, where he was caught in the cog wheel. His death was attributed, by his enemies, to a direct visitation of Provi- dence. He, however, had forsaken the Moravians before his death and was buried from Zion's Lutheran church (Stouchs- burg) and interred in that cemetery. It is related of his wife, that, when the church was locked, she crept in from an opening in the rear and opened a window admitting the opposing faction and that when the matter was to be arbi- trated, she stood up in the church and bitterly denounced its opponents (the Orthodox Lutherans), when the so-called "Tulpehocken Confusion" ensued. (Part I, Tulpehocken Con- fusion.)
Johan2 George Rieth, (Leonard1), b. 1717, d. 1791 ; son, Leonard3, b. in the Tulpehocken, April 10, 1739; d. in Pine- grove Township, Berks County, August 26, 1805. Rev. John Caspar Stoever's Records give the baptisms of three children, of George Riedt, of "Summer Mountain," Berks County. It is probable that George Rieth came from the Tulpehocken about 1748 and that he already had several chil- dren before he came to Pinegrove Township. He is not mentioned on the tax lists and may have only been a so- journer and the title to the Rieth tract may have been vested in his sons, Leonard and Johannes. The baptisms were: August 20, 1749, Eva Margaretha, da. of George Riedt; No- vember 20, 1751, Christina Barbara and on September 22, 1754, John Jacob, (Stoever's records). Johannes, b. Octo- ber 15, 1755, d. December 26, 1827, (Jacob's church records). There was also a church called the "Summer Mountain," south of the Blue Mountains, Berks County. These were
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the children of Johan2 George Rieth (Leonard1), born in the Schoharie Valley, New York, and reared in the Tulpehocken.
Leonard3 Rieth, married Anna Maria Zerbe, (George2 Peter, Martin1), b. April 25, 1748; d. May 24, 1827. They were married at Reading, December 20, 1768, (Trinity Luth- eran church records.)
After Leonard Rieth's marriage to Anna Maria Zerbe, 1768, he took up a tract of land in Pinegrove Township, Berks County, where his brother, Johannes also settled. This land is located around and on the present site of Reeds- ville, Wayne Township, Schuylkill County, and on these two tracts, since divided and subdivided, live numerous Reeds, all descendants of John and Leonard Rieth, who have been in possession of these same fertile tracts for almost two hun- dred years and many of their scions have removed to the West. The village has a German Baptist (Dunkard's), and a flourishing Evangelical church, the latter being the de- nomination most of the Reeds are affiliated with. The carly Rieths were Lutherans and their nearest church, St. Jacob's, two miles west of Pinegrove, near Exmoor and almost ten miles from their settlement. There were at that time but two churches north of the Blue Mountain: Zion's or Red church, and St. Jacob's. The latter and Frieden's church, on the "Little Schuylkill," between McKeansburg and New Ringgold, organized 1798, both, according to tradition, had small log buildings on the sites where the log churches were afterward built and the congregations organized.
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