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-HAYS, WILLIAM WALLACE, was born Octo- ber 23, 1836 ; died March 31, 1870, at Har- risburg, Pa. Ile received his prepara ory education in the public schools and Harris- burg Academy; entered the sophomore class of Jefferson College, Canonsburg, in
1853, graduating in 1856. He then went to Texas, where he remained two years, teach- ing in Victoria and Goliad. After returning North, he began the study of law with Robert A. Lamberton, Esq., and was ad- mitted to the Dauphin county bar December 6, 1859. He began the practice of his pro- fession at Harrisburg, continuing until his appointment by Governor Curtin, in 1861, as chief clerk in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth. On May 1, 1866, he was appointed deputy secretary of the Com- monwealth, discharging the duties of that offiee until the elose of Governor Curtin's administration. He then resumed his pro- fession of the law, and in connection with it served as elerk to the Board of Claims from January to June 1, 1868. In October fol- lowing, having been nominated by the Re- publicans of the city of Harrisburg, he was elected mayor thereof, the duties of which office he entered upon January 11, 1869. His health, however, soon began to fail him, and he died while in office, in his thirty- fourth year. "Mr. Hays was a truly Chris- tian gentleman, he thought more of right than he did of life. His nature was of that intensity which inspires men to die for the truth, while his convictions on all subjects relating to the ordinary and extraordinary affairs of life, here and hereafter, were gov- erned by the strongest principles of religion and justice." Mr. Hays married, March 5, 1861, Mary Straughan Day, born September 13, 1837 ; daughter of Dr. Stephen F. Day and Eliza Floyd Straughan, of Wooster, O.
-AWL, FRANCIS ASBURY, son of John Mi- chael Awl, was born at Harrisburg, April S, 1837, where he resides. At the beginning of the Civil war in 1861 served in the three months' service as adjutant of the Eleventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers. In 1862 raised for the nine months' service company A of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, and par- ticipated in the Fredericksburg campaign. In 1864 he assisted in organizing the Two Hundred and First regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, of which he was commissioned colonel and served in that capacity until mustered out at the close of the war. He was a clerk in the Harrisburg National Bank prior to the war; subsequently cashier of the banking house of Jay Cooke & Co., in New York, for a period of seven years ; was a trus- tee for twelve years of the Pennsylvania State
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Lunatic Hospital and secretary of the board; and from 1891 to 1896 deputy superintend- ent of banking. Colonel Awl married, June 5, 1872, Mary Elizabeth Thompson, born August 9, 1847, in New York City. They have two sons, Jay Wesley and Francis As- bury.
-MALONEY, THOMAS FRANCIS, Son of Daniel and Mary (Hlouran) Maloney, was born August 19, 1843, in county Tipperary, Ire- land. His parents emigrated to America, in 1847, and settled at Harrisburg. Thomas F. was educated in the public schools of Harrisburg, afterwards at St. Michael's Sem- inary, near Pittsburgh, at St. Vincent's Col- lege, at Latrobe, Pa. He learned the trade of a machinist with W. O. Hickok, at the Eagle Works, Harrisburg. During the Re- bellion he enlisted as a private in company A, One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh regi- ment, Pennsylvania volunteers, July 22, 1862; appointed corporal of the company July 26, 1862; promoted sergeant August 1, 1862; promoted first sergeant August 6, 1862, and to adjutant of the independent battalion November 4, 1862, and mustered out with the regiment `May 8, 1863. He was ap- pointed conditionally by Governor Curtin second licutenant and mustering officer United States volunteers August 4, 1861, and upon the organization of the Two Hundred and First regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, was commissioned captain of company F, August 27, 1864, serving with the command of the Army of the Potomac until his muster out by reason of General Order No. 94, A. G. O. War Department series, June 21, 1865. Upon the reorganization of the First City Zouaves of Harrisburg, Captain Maloney, in 1869, was elected first lieutenant, and De- cember 16,. 1870, commissioned captain of company A of the Zouave battalion. When the National Guard of Pennsylvania was established the company became known as the City Grays. of Harrisburg, and on the organization of the Eighth regiment, Penn- sylvania National Guard, was attached to that command and mustered in as company D. He was re-commissioned December 14, 1875, and December 16, 1SS0; was one of the senior members in the service, and re- peatedly refused a field office, preferring to remain with his company, which has no superior in the National Guard. On the first of February, 1883, he was appointed
arsenel keeper of the State arsenal at Harris- burg. Captain Maloney married, in 1863, Ellen, daughter of John Casey, of Harrisburg. It may be stated in this connection that Cap- tain Maloncy was the author of a military manual on " Guard Duty " which is consid- ered an authority on the subject.
-MCCREATHI, ANDREW S., son of William McCreath (died 1878, aged seventy-five) and Margaret Chrichton (died 1870, aged sixty- three), was born March 8, 1849, in Ayr, Scotland. He was educated at Ayr Acad- emy and Glasgow Umversity for classical course. He took special chemical courses at Andersonian University, Glasgow, under Professors Penny and Dr. Clark, and subse- quently at Gottingen, under Professors Wochler and Filtig. He came to America in 1870, and assumed charge of the chemi- cal laboratory at the Pennsylvania steel works, where he remained till August, 1874, when he was appointed by the State geolo- gist, chemist to the Second Geological Sur- vey of Pennsylvania, which position he still holds. Ile has prepared three reports for the State geologist. and special reports on the mineral resources along the lines of the Shenandoah Valley, Norfolk and Western, and New River railroads. He is actively engaged in his profession. He was married February 4, 1875, to Eliza, daughter of Charles L. and Mary W. Hummel Berghaus.
-AWL, JOHN WESLEY, was born at Harris- burg, on the 21st of November, 1852, and died there on the 2d of March, 1894; was educated at Dickinson College, read law with F. K. Boas, Esq., and admitted to the bar in 1856. During the war for the Union he entered the service in 1862 as captain in the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh regi- ment, Pennsylvania volunteers. Upon the organization of the Two Hundred and First, Pennsylvania volunteers, he was com . missioned lieutenant colonel ; in May, 1865, was appointed commandant of the "Soldier's Rest" at Alexandria, Va .; mustered out with his regiment June 21, 1865. Upon the or- ganization of the National Guard of Penn- sylvania he was adjutant of the Fifth di- vision, and subsequently adjutant of the Third brigade; as an attorney he was care- ful, methodical and trustworthy; as a mili- tary officer he was highly regarded by his
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fellow-officers and greatly loved by his men; a life-long member of the church of his father, he was a faithful official. He was unmarried.
ANDERSON, REV. JAMES, was a native of Scotland, born November 17, 1678, was edu- cated under Principal Stirling, of Glasgow, and ordained by Irvine Presbytery, Novem- ber 17, 1708, with a view to his settlement in Virginia. He sailed March 6, 1709, and ar- rived in the Rappahannock on the 22d: of April following, but the state of things there not warranting his stay, he came northward, and was received by the Presbytery September 20. He settled at New Castle. In 1714, out of regard to the desolate condition of the people in Kent county, he was directed to supply them monthly on a Sabbath, and also to spend a Sabbath at Cedar creek, in Sussex. Hle subsequently ministered in New York, but owing to some difficulties in the congregation there he desired a removal. He was called September 24, 1726, to Done- gal, on the Susquehanna, and accepted it. He was installed the last Wednesday in August, 1727. In September, 1729, he gave every fifth Sabbath to the people on Swatara, and joined the congregation of Derry, thus becoming the first settled pastor over that church, until the call of Rev. William Ber- tram, 1732. He died July 16, 1740. In the language of the Presbytery, "he was high in esteem for circumspection, diligence and faithfulness as a Christian minister." The Rev. Mr. Anderson married, February, 1712- 13, Suit Garland, daughter of Sylvester Gar- land, of the Head of Apoquinimy. She died December 24, 1736. HIe then married Rachel Wilson, December 27, 1737. His son Garland Anderson, married Jane, daughter of Peter Chevalier, of Philadelphia, but died early. His daughter Elizabeth married Sam- uel Breeze, resided in New York, and was a woman of great excellence. A brother of the Rev. Mr. Anderson was John Anderson, of Perth Amboy, who in 1712 was made one of the council of the Province of New Jersey. He died in March, 1736, aged seventy-three, being then president of the council.
-BLACK, REV. SAMUEL, was a native of the north of Ireland, born about 1700. Ile studied theology prior to his emigrating to America, and was subsequently licensed by New Castle Presbytery. The forks of Brandy- wine in Chester county was formed into a
separate congregation in 1735, and in Sep- tember same year, Donegal Presbytery gave them leave to invite Black to preach as a candidate for settlement. He was called October 7, and ordained November 18, 1735. A portion of his people preferred complaints against him September 2, 1740. This was just at the time of the extraordinary effects produced by the preaching of Whitfield. Most of the allegations were sustained, but after a rebuke and suspension for a season, he was restored, and afterwards released from the pastoral relation. The new con- gregation of Conewago between Middletown and Mount Joy called him in October, 1741. and he was installed the second Wednesday in May following. Ile made occasional visits to Virginia as a missionary, and was sent to Potomac in 1743. Difficulties arose in his flock at Conewago and they asked to have the Rev. Jolm Steel, who was supply- ing Conestoga, sent to them. North and South Mountain in Virginia (the former six miles west of Staunton) asked for him, March 6, 1745. He was dismissed from Conewago in April, but in the fall they sought to regain him. A division took place. Those who left him obtained one- fifth of the time of the Rev. John Roan, pastor of the New Side churches of Paxtang and Derry. In 1747, he, with Revs. Thom- son and Craig, was directed to take the over- sight of the vacancies in Virginia. In 1751 he was directed to supply Buffalo settlement and the adjacent places four Sabbaths. He took charge of the congregations of Rock- port and Mountain Plain before 1752. He died August 9, 1770.
~ROAN, REV. JOHN, was born April 30, 1717 (O. S.), in Grenshaw, Ireland, died October 3, 1775, in Derry township, Lancas- ter, now Dauphin county, Pa. He received a good education, and emigrated to Penn- sylvania about 1740. He entered the "Log College," and taught school on the Nesha- miny and in Chester county while pursuing his theological studies. He was licensed by the " New Side" Presbytery of New Castle, and, in the winter of 1741, sent to Hanover, Va. The following year (1745), he was set- tled over the united congregations of Derry, Paxtang and Conewago, the latter having one-fifth of his time. The minutes of the Synod placed Roan in Donegal Presbytery, and "points of difficulty," says Webster, " continually arose." Toward the latter
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days of his ministry Mr. Roan missionated frequently on the south branch of the Poto- mac. He lies interred in Derry church graveyard. On his tombstone is this in- scription :
Beneath this stone are deposited the Remains of an able, faithful courageous & successful minister of Jesus Christ The Rev'd John Roan Pastor of Paxton, Derry & Mount Joy Congrega- tions from the year 1745 till Oct. 3, 1775 when he exchanged a Militant for a triumphant Life in the 59 year of his Age. -
The Rev. John Roan married, August 2], 1750, Mrs. Anne (Cochran) Leckey, born March 25, 1724; died April 22, 17SS, in Chester county, Pa .; daughter of James Cochran and Anne Rowan.
- SANCKEY, REV. RICHARD, a native of the north of Ireland, was born about 1712. Ile studied theology at Glasgow under Principal Stirling, and came to America in the sum- mer of 1735. He was taken on trial by Donegal Presbytery the 7th of October same year, licensed October 13, 1736, and sent to the church on Manada creek. This congre- gation is first mentioned in October, 1735, Lazarus Stewart appearing to supplicate in its behalf the next year. The Rev. William Bertram, of Derry, moderated the call which was brought to the Presbytery for Mr. Sanckey by John Cunningham and Robert Green, June 22, 1737. From that time on- ward the congregation is styled Hanover. Mr. Sanckey accepted August 31, 1737, but it appearing that his trial sermon was tran- scribed out of books to give a false idea of his ministerial powers, and contained most dangerous errors, the Presbytery rebuked him and delayed his ordination. The Rev. George Gillespie remonstrated with the Synod not to countenance such levity es- pecially as Mr. Sanckey had sent the notes to Henry Hunter, " who had preached them to his own overthrow." Hunter had passed himself off as an ordained minister of the New Light Presbytery of Antrim in the bounds of Lewes Presbytery, and the Synod finding his credentials of license genuine, but that he had not been ordained, that he had been guilty of prevarication, and also that money had been given him to go to the Bishop of London for orders, resolved, nem. con., not to countenance him, especially as there was " ground to suspect his principles,"
until he had gone through the ordinary course of trials in some of their Presbyteries. He acquiesed ; and coming before Newcastle Presbytery with notes stolen from heretical divines, he was rejected. The Synod blamed the Presbytery of Donegal for not taking notice in their minutes of Rev. Sanckey's plagiarism, or censuring him on that ac- count, but as he had been sharply rebuked, and his ordination delayed a considerable time, they declined to lay any other burden on him. He was ordained August 31, 173S. For a period of twenty-one years Mr. Sancker continued in the pastoral care of Hanover church. On June 6, 1758, having . received a call to the congregation of Buffalo, in Virginia, and designing to remove there, he applied for and received his credentials from the Presbytery. Accompanied by many of the Hanover people, he removed in 1760, where he joined the Hanover Presbytery, and served his congregation faithfully and well. He presided at the opening of the Synod of Virginia in 1785; lived to a good old age, respected by his people and his brethren in the ministry. We have Pen- deavored to secure additional information in regard to him, date of his death, etc., but have failed.
LOCHMAN, REV. JOHN GEORGE, D. D., son of Nicholas and Maria (Schneider) Lochman, was born at Philadelphia, Pa., December 2. 1773. After proper preparation he entered the University of Pennsylvania, at which he graduated, and from which institution he subsequently received the doctorate. He studied theology under the direction of the celebrated Dr. Helmuth, a graduate of the University of Halle, and for many years professor of German and Oriental languages in the University of Pennsylvania. He was licensed to preach in 1794, and soon after ac- cepted a call to Lebanon, where he remained twenty-one years. In 1815 he was elected pastor of the United Evangelical Lutheran churches at Harrisburg. Middletown and Shupp's, where he labored with great fidelity and the most satisfactory results. In 1817 he was president of the German Lutheran Synod of the United States. Dr. Lochman's useful life terminated at Harrisburg, July 10, 1825. The congregations in their appre- ciation of his services erected a handsome monument over his remains, which are in- terred on the southeast side of the church.
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His wife, Susan Hoffman, died June 27, 1830, and is buried by his side. Their son, the Rev. Augustus Lochman, D. D., who succeeded his father at Harrisburg, is now a venerable minister at York. Dr. Lochman was an able and popular preacher, was held in high estimation by the church, and exer- cised an unbounded influence. He was the author of "The History, Doctrine and Disei- pline of the Evangelical Lutheran Church," published in 1817, and several other works. Their children were: Rev. Dr. Augustus H., William H., Louisa, who married Rev. Roth- rauff, Susan, Camilla B., who married Will- iam Keller, Emma, who married John Ileis, of Illinois, and Annie, who married Fred- erick V. Beisel.
- MITCHELL, ANDREW DINSMORE, was born in York county, Pa., February 2, 1824. He graduated at Jefferson College in 1841, and afterwards spent some time in teaching. In 1844 he matriculated at Princeton Theolog- ical Seminary, where he prepared for the ministry. Hle came under the care of the Carlisle Presbytery in 1849 as a licentiate from the Donegal Presbytery, and at the same time calls were placed at his hands from the united charges of Paxtang and Derry. These be accepted, and in 1850 was ordained and installed pastor of that people, whom he acceptably served until 1874, when at his own request the pastoral relation was dissolved. Subsequently he declined certain positions that were offered him, but in 1876 he accepted the appointment of chaplain in the United States army by his friend, Hon. J. D. Canieron, then Secretary of War. He spent five years at the military prison of Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and was transferred in the fall of 1881 to Fort Grant, Ari., where he died on the 26th of March, 1882, aged fifty-eight years. Mr. Mitchell had also been the very acceptable stated clerk of the Carlisle Presbytery from 1857 to the year of his appointment as chaplain, 1876, when he resigned and received the special commenda- tion of the Presbytery for his faithful ser- vices. He had been repeatedly sent as a commissioner to the General Assembly, and in 1868 he was elected moderator of the Bal- timore Synod, when the Carlisle Presbytery formed a part of that body. He was very decided in his convictions, yet tolerant of the opinions of others and was a warm friend of the union between the two branches of
the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Mitchell mar- ried a daughter of Dr. Benjamin J. Wiest- ling, of Middletown, Pa.
DEWITT, WILLIAM RADCLIFF, the son of John De Witt and Katharine Van Vliet, was born at Paulding's Manor, Dutchess county, N. Y., on the 25th of February, 1792. His ancestors were among the first immigrants from Holland to New Nethelands, in 1623. His early years were spent in commercial pursuits, but about 1810 he turned his atten- tion to the sacred ministry. He studied with Dr. Alexander Proudfit, of Salem, N. Y., and entered Washington Academy. The war of 1812 interrupting his studies, he volunteered in the regiment of Colonel Rice, and was in service at Lake Champlain at the time of McDonough's victory, September 11, 1814. After the close of the war, in 1815, he entered Nassau Hall, Princeton, as a sophomore, but subsequently entered the senior class of Union College, Schenectady, where he grad- uated with distinction, completing his theolog- ical studies under Rev. Dr. John M. Mason, of New York. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New York April 23, 1S18. In the fall of that year he came to Harris- burg by invitation, and was called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church October 5, 1818. He was received by the Presbytery of Carlisle April 13, 1819, but not ordained until the 26th of October, that year. Dr. De- Witt received the degree of A. M. in course from Union College, and in 1838 the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania conferred on him the title of Doctor of Divinity. From 1854 to 1860 he held the office of State librarian, appointed by Governors Bigler and Pollock. In 1854 felt the necessity of taking a colleague, Rev. T. H. Robinson, D. D .. He died at Ilar- risburg, December 23, 1867, in his seventy- sixth year. Dr. De Witt was twice married, his first wife being Julia Woodhull, danhgter of Rev. Nathan Woodhull, of Newton, L. 1. His second wife was Mary Elizabeth Wal- lace, daughter of William Wallace, of Har- risburg, who survived-her husband. During a ministry of nearly fifty years in Harris- burg, Dr. De Witt enjoyed the confidence of all his ministerial brethren. In the com- munity he was greatly appreciated and re- spected by all classes. As a theologian he had few equals in the ministry, and although firm and decided in his views, he was liberal and catholic in spirit. His published writ- ings were limited to twelve or thirteen pam-
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phlets, the most popular of which was a thirce. Over his remains, in the Harrisburg small volume entitled " Iler Price above cemetery, the denomination have erected a handsome monument. Rubies." He preached many powerful dis- courses, a volume of which should certainly be preserved in permanent form.
-WINEBRENNER, REV. JOHN, was born in Frederick county, Md., March 24, 1797. He was partly educated at the Glades school in Frederick, and partly at Dickinson College, Carlisle. He studied for the ministry under the Rev. Mr. Helfenstein, in Philadelphia, and was ordained by the Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church in September, 1820, at Hagerstown. That year he was called to the Salem church at Harrisburg, at the same time ministering to Shoop's, Wenrick's and the Freiden's churches in the neighbor- hood. It was during his pastorate that the present church edifice, Third and Chestnut streets, was erected. Mr. Winebrenner min- istered here from October 22, 1820, to March 23, 1823, when, owing to his religious views 011 revivals, Sunday-schools, anti-slavery and the temperance movement, with the allow- ing of non-ordained persons to preach in his pulpit, becoming obnoxious to his congrega- tion, a separation took place. In a number of pamphlets he issued Mr. Winebrenner vigorously defended his principles from the attacks made right and left by his oppo- nents; and he did not cease therefore "to preach the word." Subsequently his ener- gies were devoted to the establishment of a new denomination, called by him the Church of God, but known in early years as Winebrennarians. He met with remarkable success, and although but fifty years have passed since the Rev. John Winebrenner promulgated the doctrines of baptism by immersion and the washing of feet, the min- isters of that church number probably five hundred, and the membership well on to sixty thousand. Mr. Winebrenner was the anthor of a number of religious and contro- versial works, those on "Regeneration," "Brief Views of the Church of God," and a volume of "Practical and Doctrinal Ser- mons" being the more important. He edited for several years the Gospel Publisher, now the Church Advocate. In the early years of his ministry he was an uncompromising opponent of human slavery. The Rev. Mr. Winebrenner died at Harrisburg, on the 12th of September, 1860, at the age of sixty-
Ross, JOSEPH, was born July 14, 1798, at Elizabethtown, Pa .; died January 26, 1863, at Middletown, Pa. At a proper age he went to llarrisburg, Pa., to learn the mer- cantile business. Afterwards he engaged in said occupation in that place, and then moved to Middletown, where he continued keeping store till near the close of his life. In the year 1824 he became acquainted with Rev. John Winebrenner, who visited Mid- dletown to preach the gospel, and under him became converted. At the first oppor- tunity he identified himself with the Church of God, being one of the original members of that denomination in Middletown, where he continued to be among its most active workers until his death. His name appears as a ruling elder in the journal of the Fourth Annual Eldership, heid at Middletown, De- cember 25, 1833. He was licensed to preach at the Seventh Annual Eldership which convened at Churchtown, Cumberland county, November 5, 1836. At the time of his death he was a member of the board of publication and treasurer of the General Eldership as well as treasurer of the East Pennsylvania Eldership. He traveled and labored in the ministry, at protracted and other meetings, " without money and with- out price," and was an eminently successful revival preacher. His liberality and benev- olence were all well known at home, and in all the churches. His warmth of heart and affection made him beloved by all his ac- quaintances. He was a strict disciplinarian, and a great lover of order. Besides, he car- ried his religion into his business, being scrapulously truthful and honest in all his dealings, loving justice and hating sin in every form. He was devotedly attached to the doctrines of the Church of God, fearlessly defended them, and worked actively to estab- lish them. Mr. Ross married, in 1822. Cath- arine Kunkel, daughter of Christian Kun- kel, of Harrisburg. She was born December 22, 1803, and died in 1896 in the ninety- third year of her age.
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