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On the 13th of January, 1807, Mr. Findlay was elected State treasurer, whereupon he re- signed his seat in the House. From that date until the 2d of December, 1817, when lie resigned to assume the duties of chief magistrate, a period of nearly eleven years, he was annually re-elected by the Legislature to that office, in several instances unani- mously, and always by a strong majority, not uncommonly being supported by members politically opposed to him. During nearly four years of this time the United States were at war with England, and the resources of the country were severely taxed.
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In 1817, Mr. Findlay was nominated by the Republicans as their candidate for gover- 110r. Gen. Joseph Hiester was selected by a disaffected branch of the Republican party, styled Old School men, to oppose him, who was supported also by the Federalists. The result was a triumph for Findlay, who was elected by a majority of over seven thousand votes.
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In 1820, Governor Findlay again received the unanimous nomination of the Republi- cans for re-election, and Joseph Hiester was nominated, as before, by the Republicans of the Old School, and was supported by the Federalists en masse. Under the Constitution of 1790 the patronage of the Executive was immense. To him was given the power of appointing, with few exceptions, every State and county officer. This power, considered so dangerous that by the Constitution of 1838 and subsequent amendments the Ex- ecutive has been stripped of it almost entirely, was, in fact, dangerous only to the governor himself. For while he might attach one per- son to him by making an appointment, the score or two who were disappointed became, if not active political opponents, at least lukewarm friends. Many trained and skill- ful politicians had been alienated from the support of Governor Findlay by their in- ability to share or control patronage. The result was the clection of his opponant.
At the general election of 1821 the Repub- licans regained ascendancy in the Legisla- ture. At the session of 1821-22, while Gov- ernor Findlay was quietly spending the winter with a friend and relative in Franklin county, he received notice that he had been elected to the Senate of the United States for the full term of six years from the preceding 4th of March. He immediately set out for the capi- tal, where he took his seat and served the en- tire term with distinguished ability. While he was in the Senate two of his brothers, Col. John Findlay, of Chambersburg, and Gen. James Findlay, of Cincinnati, Ohio, were mem- bers of the national House of Representatives. After the expiration of his senatorial term he was appointed by President Jackson treasurer of the United States Mint at Philadelphia. This office he held until the accession of Gen. Harrison to the Presidency, when, unwilling, at his advanced age, to be longer burdened with its cares and responsibilities, he resigned. The remainder of his life was spent in retire- ment with the family of his son-in-law, Gov- ernor Shunk, at whose residence, in IIarris-
burg, he died on the 12th of November, 1846' in the seventy-ninth year of his age.
In person Governor Findlay was tall, with fair complexion and dark-brown hair. He had a vigorous constitution and a cheerful disposition. He was affable and courteous in his address, fond of conversation, but did not monopolize it. He understood and practiced the habits of a good listener. He exhibited great tact in drawing out the reserved and taciturn, and enabling them to figure well in conversation by giving rein to their hob- bies. He possessed a remarkably tenacious memory of names and faces. After a long separation he could recognize and call by name a person with whom he had had but a short and casual interview. Ilis acquaintance was probably more extensive and his perso- nal friends more numerous than those of almost any other public man of his day.
- ZIEGLER, COL. GEORGE, the son of George Ziegler, a native of the Palatinate, was born in Lancaster county, Pa., July 3, 1768. He was brought up to mercantile pursuits, came to Harrisburg in 1795, and began merchan- dising, in which he was quite successful. In his early life he took an important part in public affairs. He was frequently a member of the borough council, was lieutenant colonel of the Sixty-sixth regiment, Pennsyl- vania militia, in 1807, and coroner from January 12, 1809, to December 18, 1811. Colonel Ziegler died at Harrisburg, August 28, 1845, aged seventy-seven years. His wife, Elizabeth, born December 6, 1777, died January 2, 1853. They left three daughters, Catharine, married George Kunkel ; Mary, married Rev. John P. Hecht; and Elizabeth, married Rev. Frederick Rothrock. Colonel Ziegler was an estimable citizen, a gentleman of sterling integrity and worth.
-ALRICKS, JAMES, was fourth in descent from Pieter Alricks, who became very prom- inent in the early settlement of the Dutch on the Delaware, was a member of the first Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, and from 1685 to 1689 served as one of William Penn's counselors. James Alricks was born December 2, 1769, at Carlisle, Pa., and died October 28, 1833, at Harrisburg, Pa. He received a good education in the schools of the day, and was brought up to a mercantile life. In 1791-92, he was engaged in business in May Town, Lancaster county, and in 1814 he removed with his family
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from Lost Crock Valley to Harrisburg. He was a man of extensive reading, passionately fond of books, and he regarded an honest man, of fine education and refined manners, as the most remarkable objeet on the face of the earth. After his father's death, he was raised on a farm in Donegal, Lancaster county, and used to say at that period no one could get an education for want of teachers. While lamenting his own lack of education, he was remarkably well ac- quainted with history, ancient and modern, and with geography. He was likewise quite familiar with the writings of Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Burns, Campbell, etc. While living in the prime of life on the Juniata, he was delighted to meet and converse with such men as the Rev. Matthew Brown, the first Dr. Watson, of Bedford, Judge Jonathan Walker (the father of Robert J. Walker), William R. Smith, ete. On March 10, 1821, he was appointed elerk of the orphans' court and quarter sessions, serving until January 17, 1824. He subsequently served as one of the magistrates of the borough. Mr. Alricks, married, July 21, 1796, at Harrisburg, by Rev. N. R. Snowden, Martha Hamilton, born August 5, 1776; died March 16, 1830; daughter of John Hamilton and Margaret Alexander.
- BOMBAUGH, ABRAHAM, son of Conrad Boni- baugh and Esther Zell, was born in 1770 in Paxtang township, Laneaster (now Dauphin) county, Pa. Hc reecived a fair German cdu- cation and entered mereantile life, subse- quently, however, turning his attention to farming. JIis father, being a man of con- siderable influence in the young town, gave Abraham prominence, and being a gentle- man of energy and activity, apart from his business tact, he was not long in winning his way to popular favor. As early as 1808 he was a member of the town couneil, and for a period of twenty-five years thercafter held a position therein. . In 1809 he was chief bur- gess of the borough, and later on in life, from 1828 to 1831, eleeted to the same offiee. He was one of the county commissioners from 1832 to 1835, and for one or two terms was a director of the poor. Mr. Bombaugli died April 23, 1844, at Harrisburg. He mar- ried, March 1S, 1802, Catharine Reehn, born July 14, 1770; died March 22, 1855. They had Aaron, married Mira Lloyd, of Phila- delphia ; Catharine, d. s. p., and Sarah, mar- ried David Hummel.
BOWMAN, JOHN F., was born in Laneaster county, Pa., May 10, 1771. His father was a farmer, residing on Pequea ereek, not far from Strasburg. John F. was brought np as a millwright, but subsequently entered inercantile pursuits. In 1809 he removed to Halifax, where he was a merchant from that period to 1830, when, believing a larger sphere of trade was opened for him, he went to Millersburg, where he successfully con- tinued in business until his death, which oe- curred on the 6th of November, 1835. Mr. Bowman first married, in 1794, a daughter of Isaac Ferree, whose farm adjoined that of his father. By this marriage they had the following children : Eliza, Maria, George, and Josiah, married Elizabeth Rutter. Mr. Bow- man married, secondly, in 1805, Frances Crossen, daughter of John Crossen. They had issue as follows: John J., married Mar- garet Sallade, Levi, Louisa, Isaac, Mary E., married Rev. C. W. Jackson, Lueinda, mar- ried Dr. Hiram Rutherford, Jacob, Emeline, and Benjamin.
Jolin F. Bowman was one of the repre- sentative men of the "Upper End," enjoyed a reputation for uprightness and honesty, and highly estecmed by those who knew him. Genial, yet quiet and unobtrusive, he never sought or would accept any local or public offiec. His second wife, Franecs Crossen, was born August 13, 1786; died September 30, 1846, and lies interred beside her husband in the old Methodist grave- yard at Millersburg.
-BRUA, PETER, the son of John Peter Brua, was a native of Berks county, Pa., where he was born in 1771. He learned the trade of a carpenter, and came to Harrisburg about 1792. He served as director of the poor from 1818 to 1821; was a member of the borough council in 1824, 1826 and 1829; eommis- sioned county treasurer January 7, 1824, and was one of the county commissioners from 1827 to 1829. While in the latter offiee he was a prime mover in establishing the Lan- casterian system of education, which pre- ceded that of the common schools. Mr. Brua was a gentleman of sound practical sense, honest and upright, and highly honored in the community. He died at Harrisburg on the Ist of January, 1842, in his seventy-first year. He married Catharine Rupley, of Cumberland county, Pa., who died on the 19th of January, 1833, aged sixty years. They had six children: Margaret,
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married Hon. Simon Cameron ; Lucetta, married Jacob Hoyer ; Mary, married Isaac McCord; Catharine, married Andrew Keefer ; Jacob, who went as a private in the Cameron Guards to Mexico, and died at Tampico, a few hours after receiving his commission as a lieutenant in the United States army ; and John Peter, who was a paymaster during the late Civil war and now on the retired list of the United States army.
-WENRICK, PETER, son of Francis and Eliza- beth (Greiger) Wenrick, was born in 1773, near Linglestown, Dauphin county, Pa. His father's family came from Germany and settled in what is now Lebanon county, Francis Wenrick subsequently removing to near Linglestown, where most of his family were born. Francis Wenrick was a soldier of the Revolution, had been at Brandywine and Germantown, and on the frontiers against the Indians subsequent to the massacre of Wyoming. He died about 1785, and with his wife was buried in Wenrich's church graveyard. He had, besides his sons Peter and Phillip, several daughters. Peter Wen- rick received a comparatively limited educa- tion, brought up on his father's farm, which he continued to occupy until his election to the sheriffalty, when he removed to Harris- burg. He served in that office from October 19, 1818, to October 16, 1821, and was always considered a faithful and efficient officer. He died at Harrisburg, February 27, 1825, in the fifty-second year of his age. Mr. Wen- rick married, February 2, 1796, Susannah, daughter of John Umberger, and their children were: John, Peter, Samuel, Francis, David, Joseph, Mary, who married a Mr. Shcafer; Elizabeth, who married a Mr. Min- shall ; Susannah, who married a Mr. Sloan; Sarah, who married a Mr. Scott; and Re- becca, who married a Mr. Umberger.
- ORTHI, CHRISTIAN HENRY, son of Adam Orth, was born March 24, 1773, in Lebanon township, Lancaster, now Lebanon county, Pa .; died 1816 in the city of Baltimore, Md .; in life went by the name of Henry, dropping Christian. He received a good English edu- cation, and was brought up in the iron busi- ness. Upon the death of his father he be- came the owner of New Market forge, but being elected sheriff' of the county of Dauphin, commissioned October 17, 1797, like the vast majority who have followed
him in that office, he became financially shipwrecked. In 1801 he was elected State senator, serving until 1804, when he posi- tively declined further continuance in office. Governor Snyder appointed him flour in- spector of the port of Philadelphia in Janu- ary, 1809, but he resigned this office in April following, when he entered mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia. He remained in that city until about the commencement of the last war with England, when he re- moved to Baltimore, and had there estab- lished a successful business as a merchant, when he suddenly died, at the age of forty- threc. Mr. Orth married, in 1794, Rebecca Rahm, born November 22, 1773; died Decem- ber 31, 1843, at Harrisburg, Pa .; daughter of Conrad Rahn and Catharine Weiser.
-STEWART, ROBERT TEMPLETON, was born June 15, 1773, in Hanover, and died Octo- ber, 1835, at Hollidaysburg, Pa., while en route to Pittsburgh; buried at Saltsburg, Indiana county, P'a. He settled in Belle- fonte in the year 1800, and was admitted to the bar of Centre county at the November term. He was retained in the famous slander suit of MeKec vs. Gallagher, August term, 1801, in which there were fourteen lawyers for the plaintiff and twenty-two for defend- ant. In 1810 he was appointed postmaster, and continued in office until 1819. In 1810 engaged in mercantile pursuits with his brother, William C., and in 1819 entered into partnership with John Lyon in the manufacture of iron ; residence at Coleraine Forges, Huntingdon county. In 1828 Lyon and Stewart sold Coleraine Forges to Joseph and James Barnett and Anthony Shorb. He moved to Pittsburgh in 1823, and built Sligo Rolling Mill. Represented Allegheny county in Pennsylvania Legislature in 1831- 32. Disposing of his interests in the iron business, Mr. Stewart went to manufactur- ing salt on the Kiskiminetas. Ile was a man of genial disposition and social habits, and of great practical humor. In person, above the ordinary size, and of very dark complexion, which he inherited from his grandmother Stewart. He mar- ried, in 1809, by Rev. Henry Wilson, Mary Dunlop, daughter of James Dunlop, and Jean, daughter of Andrew Boggs, of Done- gal township, Lancaster county, Pa., who, in connection with James Harris, in 1795, laid out the town of Bellefonte. Mary Dunk p Stewart died in 1827, aged forty-five years,
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and was buried in the First Presbyterian churchyard, Pittsburgh. Robert T. Stewart married, secondly, in 1831, Mrs. Mary E. Hamilton, of Middlesex, Cumberland county, Pa., who died in Pittsburgh in 1S42.
MCCAMMON, JOHN, of Middletown, was born in the county of Down, Ireland, about the year 1774, and emigrated to the United States when about seventeen years of age. He re- sided a short time in Chester county, from whence he came to Middletown, where he followed his trade of stone-mason. He mar- ried there and afterwards kept the principal hotel and stage office on Main street, near Center square. When General Lafayette, on his visit to America, in 1824-25, passed through Middletown on his way to Harris- burg, he and his escort dined at the house of Mr. MeCammon. Mr. McCammon was ap- pointed postmaster early in 1803, and con- tinucd to hold the office until December 24, 1829, a period of nearly twenty-seven years. He died July 24, 1838, aged sixty-four years, and was buried in the old Presbyterian grave- yard in Middletown. Two of Mr. McCam- mon's daughters served lengthened terms as postmistresses, Mrs. Catharine A. Stouch and Mrs. Rachel C. MeKibbin, making in all a period of about forty-seven years for the family as postmasters. Mr. McCammon was a consistent member of the Paxtang Presby- terian church.
GREEN, INNIS, the eldest son of Col. Tim- othy Green and Mary Innis, was born in Hanover township, Dauphin county, Pa., March 25, 1776. His early years were spent on his father's farm, but he received a toler- ably fair English education, an essential in the Seotch-Irish settlements. His father, who built a mill at the mouth of Stony creek about 1790, dying in 1812, Innis took charge of it. He was appointed one of the associate judges of Dauphin county by Governor Findlay, August 10, 1818, resigning October 23, 1827, having been elected to the National House of Representatives. He served dur- ing the Twentieth and Twenty-first Con- gresses. Governor Wolf, January 26, 1832, re-appointed him associate judge, a position he held at the time of his death, which oc- curred on the 4th of August, 1839. ITis remains lie interred in the cemetery at Dauphin. Judge Green laid out the town (which for many years went by the names of
Port Lyon and Greensburg) about the year 1826. He married, in 1804, Rebecca Mur- ray, daughter of Col. John Murray, of the Revolution.
KELKER, JOHN, fourth son of Anthony Kelker and Mary Magdalena Meister, was born at Annville, Pa., June 12, 1776. He re- ceived a good education, or rather such as the country afforded during the Revolution- ary cra, and was brought up to mercantile pursuits, and learned the trade of a hatter. In 1812 he was elected sheriff of Dauphin county, and permanently removed to Harris- burg April 29, 1813. He was appointed deputy marshal for the county, and took the census thereof in 1830, and served as county treasurer from 1829 to 1832. Mr. Kelker was an officer of the Reformed church, Harris- burg, and one of the building committee when the present church was erected. He died at Harrisburg April 29, 1859, at the age of ciglity-three. " In social life," wrote a contemporary, "he was an example of ur- bane manners, of warm and genial friendship, of generous hospitality, and was everywhere welcomed as a man of courteous and kind disposition." Mr. Kelker married, in 179S, Sabina, daughter of Henry Shantz and Sabina Meily, of Lebanon, who died at Harrisburg, December 26, 1853, and had issue.
-JEFFERSON, JOSEPH, was a native of Eng- land, born in 1776. He was the son of a distinguished actor, who was the contem- porary of Garrick. It is well authenticated that the English Jeffersons, from whom Thomas Jefferson, the third President, claimed descent, and the ancestry of Joseph Jefferson the elder, were of the same county of England. It is a fact, also, that Mr. Jef- ferson, when President, sent for the come- dian, then in Washington, and the interview satisfied both parties that they were of the same stock, and that conclusion was strength - ened by a strong family resemblance. The latter was asked to dine at the executive mansion, Ile very courteously but firmly declined, saying that his gratification and pride in their possible connection was so great, that it would be marred if the matter were known to the world, as any avowal of it would be misconstrued. He was educated for the stage, and in 1795 came to Bos- ton, where and in New York he performed until about 1803, when he located in Phila-
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delphia. Here he was quite a favorite, especially at the Chestnut street theater. From 1825 to 1832 he made Harrisburg his home, having a suite of apartments in the old Shakspeare building. He died here on the 4th of August, 1832, greatly lamented. His remains were interred in the burying ground attached to St. Stephen's Episcopal church, and from thence removed to the Harrisburg cemetery. The inscription on his tomb was written by Chief Justice Gib- son, and has often been quoted and admired for its diction.
Of him the late John P. Kennedy wrote: "He played everything that was comic, and always made people laugh until the tears came in their eyes. Laugh! Why I don't believe he ever saw the world doing any- thing else. Whomsoever he looked at laughed. Before he came through the side seenes, when he was about to enter he would produce the first words of his part to herald his appearance, and instantly the whole audience set up a shout. It was only the sound of his voice. He had a patent right to shake the world's diaphragm which seemed to be infallible. When he aeted, families all went together, young and old. Smiles were on every face; the town was happy. The chief actors were invited into the best company, and I believe their per- sonal merits entitled them to all the esteem that was feit for them."
Mr. Jefferson possessed great taste and skill in the construction of intricate stage machinery, and was unrivalled in his pecu- liar personations. His favorite characters were Kit Cosey, Old D'Oiley and Admiral Cop. He is known as the elder Jefferson. His son and grandson were alike great actors -the father of the second Joseph bequeath- ing to him his genius and his aspirations, with all that polish which rendered each so popular in his day. And now comes a third Joseph Jefferson, who, since the days of Hackett, has made the character of Rip Van Winkle his own.
-BUENILER, GEORGE, the son of Henry Buehler, a soldier of the Revolution, and Jane Trotter, was born near the town of Lebanon, Pa., in July, 1776. His parents were Moravians; they lic buried in Mount IIcbron burying ground, and were life-long members of the old Hebron church. George received a good English and German educa- tion at the celebrated Moravian school at
Lititz, and was subsequently brought up to mercantile pursuits. He was commissioned by Governor Mifflin justice of the peace for Lebanon township December 3, 1799. The year following, under the auspices of the Harrisburg and Presqu' Isle Land Com- pany, he removed to Erie, and was appointed in Angust, 1801, by President Jefferson, col- lector of the Eighteenth Collection District of Pennsylvania. Mr. Buehler took a prom- inent part in the affairs connected with the early organization of Erie county. At his residence, on the 2d of April, 1803, that county was organized for judicial purposes. He was a member of the first council of the town of Erie in 1806, and in 1808 and 1809 was borough burgess. He was one of the first to aid in developing the Lake Erie trade, foreseeing at that early day the advantages of that magnificent port of the lakes. In 1811-12 he was a member of the Erie Light Infantry, Captain Forster, which was in active service during a portion of that period. In 1812, owing probably to the war troubles on the frontiers, he came to Harrisburg and took charge of the "Golden Eagle." He died at Harrisburg on the 5th of August, 1816, aged forty years. Mr. Buehler married previous to removing to Eric, Maria, daughter of Peter Nagle, of Reading. She was born Dceember 25, 1779, and dicd at Harrisburg July 27, 1843; a lady of great amiability of character. Mr. Buchler was a man of sterling integrity, and his brief life was one of activity, enterprise and industry. At Erie he stood high in the esteem of its citizens, and at Harrisburg his appreciation was none the less.
KELLER, JOHN PETER, son of Charles An- drew Keller and Judith Barbara Bigler, was born at Lancaster, Pa., September 28, 1776. Ilis ancestor belonged to one of the oldest families in Switzerland, and emigrated to America in 1735. John Peter learned the trade of a brass founder, coming to Harris- burg in 1796. In 1801 he established him- self in business as " brass founder and rope- . maker," which proved successful, and after- wards in general merchandising. He was a member of the borough council almost con- tinuously from 1810 to 1824, and was quite prominent and influential in the public affairs of his day. Ile was identified with nearly all the early enterprises of the town, such as the Harrisburg Bridge Company. Harrisburg and Middletown Turnpike Com-
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pany, and at his death was the last survivor of the original board of directors of the Har- risburg Bank. He was a gentleman of thrift, industry and indomitable energy, up- right, honored and respected by his fellow- citizens. He was no less decided and influ- ential as a Christian, being one of the found- ers of the Lutheran church in Harrisburg. He died at Harrisburg October 1, 1859, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. Mr. Kel- ler was twice married. His first wife was Catharine Schaeffer, daughter of Rev. Fred- erick Schaeffer, D. D., of Lancaster, born November 6, 1774, died December 19, 1842, and by whom he had the following children : Frederick, George, Rev. Emanuel, Eliza, m. James R. Bovd, Maria, mn. Lewis L. Plitt, Catharine, m. James Gilliard, John Peter, Sophia, m. Thomas Montgomery, William, Frederick, George, Benjamin, Peter, Charles and Charles Andrew. His second wife was Mrs. Rachel Cochran, widow of William Cochran, formerly sheriff of the county, who survived him thirteen years.
KERR, WILLIAM, was born in Bart town- ship, Lancaster county, Pa., October 13, 1776. His father dying early, he was left to the tender care of a pious mother. After some years spent in the schools of the neighbor- hood, he was sent to Jefferson College, Can- nonsburg, where he was graduated. For some years thereafter he was principal of an academy at Wilmington, Del. He subse- quently placed himself under the care of the Presbytery of New Castle, and was shortly after ordained by that body. He preached in Harrisburg about the years 1805-6, and upon the resignation of the Rev. Mr. MeFar- quhar was sent to supply the pulpit of the old Donegal church. In the fall of 180S the congregation at Columbia made application to Mr. Kerr for part of his time. It was not, however, until the year following that he assented to give them a portion of his min- isterial labors. Ile continued to be the stated supply there until the first Sunday in January, 1814, when he preached his fare- well sermon. Mr. Kerr also preached at Marietta in addition to his charge at Donegal. He died September 22, 1821, aged forty- five years, and is interred in old Donegal church graveyard. The Rev. Mr. Kerr mar- ried Mary Elder, daughter of James Wilson and Mary Elder, of Derry, born 1788 ; died February 22, 1850, at Harrisburg ; and their children were : Mary E., married Hermanus
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