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- YOUNG, COL. JAMES, was a grandson of Peter Young, gentleman, who resided near Sinking Springs, Berks county, Pa., during the Revolutionary war, who performed active service during that trying struggle, and whose patriotism was evidenced by the pub- lic recognition of the Continental authori-
ties. On December 14, 1776, he was com- missioned by the Council of Safety of Phila- delphia second lieutenant of the Third bat- talion of Berks county militia. The com- mission is signed by David Rittenhouse, vice-president. On May 17, 1777, he was commissioned by the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania second lieutenant of a company of foot in the Fourth battalion of militia, Berks county, and on May 10, 1780, he was commissioned by the same au- thority lieutenant of a company in the Sixth battalion of militia of the same county. Those were the days in which militiamen fought the battles of their country.
James Young's maternal grandfather was David Ettla, a native of Germany, who emi- grated to this country about 1756 and settled at Middletown, Pa., where he pursued the occupation of a tailor the greater part of his life. He was an important man in the his- tory of the early settlement of that now prosperous borough, and was one of the three commissioners appointed by the King of England to raise the necessary funds for the building of the old St. Peter's church, of Middletown. While in performance of the duties incumbent upon him in that position he on one occasion walked from Middletown to Philadelphia, through what was then a desolate and almost impassable section of the State. He married Magdalena Oldweiler, also a native of Germany, and their children were : David, who married Elizabeth Croll, of Middletown ; Philip, who married Sarah Radenbaugh; Conrad, a shoemaker, who married Annie Smuller, of Middletown, and who died in 1836; Jacob, who married Miss Hertz, of Harrisburg, and Sophia, who mar- ried Peter Young.
James Young, son of Peter and Sophia Young, was born at Swatara Hill, Pa., July 25, 1820. His father was born November 13, 1781, emigrated from Berks county, and passed the greater part of his life in the busi- ness of hotel keeping. From 1820 to 1834 he was the proprietor of the stage house on Swatara Hill, and on February 1, 1835, took charge of the Washington House, Middle- town, and kept it until his demise on Sep- tember 29, 1844. He enjoyed a common school education, and passed his earliest years of usefulness in assisting his father in the hotel business. At this early period he evinced a remarkable degree of activity and ambition, and willingly performed the most menial labor if it conduced to his pecuniary
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advantage. By close economy and a care- ful and absteminous course of living he had accumulated in 1839 a sum of money suffi- cient for him to purchase a canal boat, which he run for one year between Hollidaysburg and Philadelphia. In 1840 he established a lumber yard at Middletown, to which he subsequently added the coal business, and for twenty-six years engaged in successful trade in these lines, at the same time fur- nishing supplies to the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company under contract. He was also the purchasing agent for the Northern Cen- tral and Pennsylvania Railroad Company for a number of years, and during the late war engaged in laying a portion of the second track for that company under contract. About 1859 he purchased a valuable lime- stone quarry at Leaman Place, Lancaster county, which the manager of his estate operates, and from which has been furnished large amounts of stone for building the bridges and abutments for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. James Young was em- phatically a self-made man. Though spring- ing from good stock, he started out in life a poor boy, and won a proud place among the representative men of his State by faithful, earnest work and the exercise of indomi- table pluck and resolution. He owned a large amount of real estate in Middletown and elsewhere, including the Washington Hotel, in which he began his business life, the opera house, and divers stores and dwell- ing houses. He took an active interest in local affairs, and was identified with various local institutions and enterprises. He was president of the American Tube and Iron Company, of Middletown, president of the Cameron Furnace, of the same place, and a director of the Commonwealth Guarantee, Trust and Safe Deposit Company of Harris- burg, of the Farmers' Bank of Middletown, of the First National Bank of Lebanon, Pa., of the Lochiel Rolling Mill Company, and was a director offthe Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad Company for over twenty years. He was also a mem- ber of the State Board of Agriculture of Pennsylvania, by appointment of the Gov- ernor, and vice-president of the State Agri- cultural Society. Though politically a Re- publican he always declined public position, feeling at the same time a warm interest in State and National politics. He was a regu- lar attendant and supporter of St. Peter's Lutheran church, of Middletown. He mar-
ried, June 8, 1843, Ann, daughter of Isaac and Catherine Redsecker, and their children were : R. I., residing in Baltimore, Md .; De- lanson J., deceased ; Catherine S., who mar- ried H. P. Dunbar, of Harrisburg ; Sarah H., deceased ; James S., who was engaged in business with his father; Simon Cameron, who was formerly a civil engineer in the ser- vice of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and is now administrator of his father's estate, and Henry P., who resides at Colum- bia, Pa.
-YOUNG, SIMON CAMERON, was born in Middletown, Pa., February 20, 1859. He is a son of Col. James Young, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. He was educated in the Friends' Central School of Philadelphia and the Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania, and was graduated as a civil engineer. He at once became connected in that capacity with the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company, and had charge of the construction on the West Pennsylvania division. He was assistant supervisor at Blairsville, New Florence and Gallitzin, and supervisor at Jonesbury, N. J., and Reading, Pa. He retired from the road May 15, 1895, and with his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Young, was made administrator of his father's estate. As representing the estate, he succeeded his father in the management of the numerous and varied enterprises in which he was interested at the time of his death. He is president of the Cameron Furnace Company ; was made a director and vice-president of the American Tube and Iron Company in February, 1896 ; is a director in the Farmers' Bank of Middletown, and the Steelton Na- tional Bank ; and also a director of the Steel- ton, Highspire and Middletown Electric Rail- way Company. He is a member of Prince Edward Lodge, No. 486, F. & A. M. ; of Mount Pine Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Reading, and of the Middletown Lodge, Royal Arcanum. He is Republican in politics. In 1881 he married Miss Mary Cleaver, who died in 1886, leav- ing two children : Eliza A. and James. He was married again, in 1889, to Miss Emma Sutton, of Perth Amboy, N. J. Mr. Young and his wife are members of St. Peter's Lutheran church.
- YOUNG, HARRY P., was born June 17, 1862. He is a son of Col. James Young, of whom a sketch is given elsewhere. He was educated at the Friends' Central School,
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Philadelphia, and is a machinist by trade. He married Miss Lillian Maher, of Colum- bia, Pa.
PEASE, CHARLES E., M. D., Middletown, was born in Brook Haven, L. I., May 9, 1857. He is a son of E. H. and Sarepta (Hulse) Pease. He obtained his literary education at Claverack College. He read medicine with Dr. Thomas Shaw, of Pittsburgh, and gradu- ated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1882. He began practice at Irvington, N. J. In November, 1882, he came to Middletown, where he has since enjoyed an extensive prac- tice. He is surgeon for the American Tube and Iron Company and Pennsylvania Rail- road Company. He is a member of the Dau- phin County Medical Society. He belongs to Triune Lodge, I. O. O. F., to the Patriarch Encampment and the Royal Arcanum. He is a stockholder and director in the Middle- town Drainage Company. In politics Dr. Pease is an active Republican. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church, in which he holds the office of trustee. He was married, in|December, 1882, to Miss Mary A. Hedden, daughter of Morris Hedden, of Orange, N. J. They have two children: Nor- man D. and Ada Scott.
-BOWERS, CHARLES E., M. D., Middletown, was born in Middletown, January 13, 1868. He is a son of Christian and Mary (Yose) Bowers, natives of Germany, who came to America in 1852, located in Philadelphia, and in 1853 came to Middletown, where the father engaged in business as a sawyer. He managed a mill for Etter, Carmany & Siple for about thirty years. He was also for some years with Kendig & Lauman. Since then he has retired from active busi- ness. His family consists of four children : Frederick, Charles E., Catherine, and Rose. He served as secretary of the school board for nine years. He and his family are mem- bers of the Lutheran church, and he be- longs to the Masonic fraternity. Charles E. was educated in the public schools of Mid- dletown. He engaged in the drug business with Dr. J. W. Rewalt, after which he took a course in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated in 1889. He studied medicine under Dr. Will- iam A. Burns, of Philadelphia, and gradu- ated from the Medico-Chirurgical College in 1893. He began practice in Columbia, Pa., and in 1895 located in Middletown, where
he has since resided. Dr. Bowers has also established and conducts a drug store. In politics the Doctor is a Democrat. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran church. He was married in 1893 to Miss Catherine Cox, daughter of Thomas L. Cox, of Ephrata, Pa., by whom he has three chil- dren : Karl, and Dorothy and Florine, who are twins.
- KENDIG, WALTER HENRY, was born in Middletown, P.a., June 3, 1830. He is a son of Martin and Rebecca (McFarland) Kendig.
Martin Kendig, paternal great-grandfather of Walter Henry, was a descendant of one of · the earliest Swiss settlers in Lancaster county, Pa. At the close-of the Revolutionary war he located on Senaca Lake, near Waterloo, N. Y., where he died. He married Mary Brenneman, and they had eight children : John, Martin, Joseph, Daniel, Elizabeth, Christian, Mary, and Nancy.
John Kendig, oldest child of Martin, and paternal grandfather of Walter Henry, was born October 4, 1770, and died October 12, 1831, at Middletown, Pa. He married Eliza- beth Hill, born September 17, 1770, died March 20, 1845, at Middletown. Their chil- dren are: Martin, Sarah, and Daniel.
Martin Kendig, oldest son of John, and father of Walter H., was born December 31, 1797, in Sunbury, Northumberland county, Pa., died August 28, 1850, near Middletown, Pa. After completing his education he learned the trade of harness making at Har- risburg, and established himself in the busi- ness at Middletown, being at the same time interested with his brother Daniel in the lum- ber trade; with whom and with Judge Murry he joined and erected a sawmill at the mouth of the Swatara, where they carried on a large business. Mr. Kendig was an enterprising and successful business man, and a gentle- man of probity, highly honored and of con- manding influence in public affairs. He served as one of the auditors of the county from 1826 to 1828, and represented Dauphin county in the Legislature from 1837 to 1839. He was thrice married, being first united, June 15, 1820, to Rebecca McFarland, of Lower Paxton township, Dauphin county, Pa., born June 28, 1800, died April 1, 1831. The children born to this marriage are: Rev. Daniel and Walter Henry. Mr. Kendig mar- ried, secondly, Sarah Sebaugh, daughter of Conrad Sebaugh, of Middletown, by whom he had five children: John Allen, James,
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Rebecca, William, and Elizabeth. Mr. Ken- dig married, thirdly, September 1, 1842, Mrs. Rachel (Shelly) Croll, widow of Abner Croll, no surviving issue.
Walter Henry's grandfather on his moth- er's side was John McFarland, a native of Scotland. He died January 17, 1787, aged fifty-four years. He married Mary Ireland, who died August 20, 1790, aged forty-eight years. They are both buried at Derry Church. Their son, Walter McFarland, died in 1820. He married Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Thomas Mitchell, and settled on the Swatara. Their children were: John, Rebecca, wife of Martin Kendig and mother of Walter Henry, and Mary, wife of Mr. Wilson. The McFarland and the Ireland families first settled in Cecil county, Md.
Walter H. was educated in the public schools of his native town. He was early trained in the mercantile business, and afterwards became a contractor on public works. He was interested in several exten- sive contracts on the New York and Erie railroad in connection with Philip Irwin and Stephen Atherton. He returned to Middle- town and engaged in the lumber business with Daniel Kendig & Co. He is still in that business, under the firm name of Ken- dig & Lauman. He served as postmaster of Middletown by the appointment of President Lincoln, and was removed from that office by President Johnson. He was married, December 25, 1856, to Jane E., daughter of , William McMurtrie, of Huntingdon, Pa. They had one son, Martin, born January 5, 1858; educated in public schools; learned the printing trade in Washington, D. C .; spent a portion of his life in his father's office, subsequently employed with the American Tube and Iron Company, of Middletown; he died May 3, 1894. Mr. and Mrs. Kendig have an adopted daughter named Edith, widow of the late Frank Croll, who now resides in Middletown.
Rev. Daniel Kendig, brother of Walter H., was born in September, 1824. He is a chaplain in the United States army and was stationed at the posts of Fort Stallacoom, in Washington, and the Presidio, San Fran- cisco, from December 19, 1859, to May 27, 1867; post chaplain April 31, 1867 ; on the retired list of the United States army, 1891.
-BORLAND, JOHN A., Middletown, was born in Andersontown, York county, Pa., in Janu- ary, 1847. He is a son of William and Jane
(Anderson) Borland, natives of York county. They were prominent members of the Bethel church. He was educated in the public schools. Leaving home at the age of four- teen he engaged as clerk at Eberly's Mills, Cumberland county, Pa. In 1861 he went to Washington, D. C., to learn the drug busi-' ness with . his uncle, who was a prominent physician of that city. The business did not prove congenial, and he remained there only six months. In 1864 he went to Har- risburg, and for several years was clerk in some of the largest dry goods houses. For seventeen months Mr. Borland served as secretary of the Y. M. C. A., of Harrisburg. Through the urgent solicitation of Rev. Mr. Pattison, father of Governor Pattison, he was induced to fill the appointment of junior local preacher at Gilbertson, Mahanoy Plain and Frackville. As a result of his labors at the two latter places two church organiza- tions were effected, which have since grown to be prosperous congregations of the Metho- dist Episcopal denomination. In 1880 he engaged in the mercantile business for him- self in Middletown, and has since continued there. On March 20, 1895, he established a branch store at Carlisle, Pa. He was a di- rector in the Middletown National Bank. On January 10, 1896, the store occupied by Mr. Borland at Carlisle was destroyed by fire. On April 30, 1896, Mr. Borland pur- chased the grocery store and good will of the business adjoining his former premises in Middletown, formerly conducted by W. W. Reitzel, and in connection with his large dry goods business he is now also conduct- ing one of the most extensive and well equipped grocery stores in Middletown, un- der the name of Borland's Apartment Store.
Mr. Borland is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Malta and the Junior Order of American Mechanics. Po- litically he is a Republican. He is a promi- nent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and fills the office of steward. He takes an active interest in all church work and all matters pertaining to the Y. M. C. A. Ile was married in 1877 to Miss Kate M. Young, daughter of Amos W. Young, by whom he has had three children : Bertha, died December 8, 1894; Herbert A., and Edgar S.
LINGLE, JOHN C., M. D., of Middletown, Pa., was born in Harrisburg, September 17, 1859. He is a son of Joseph and Sarah
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(Steel) Lingle, and a brother to Lockwood J. Lingle, of Philipsburg, Centre county, Pa., now engaged as a foreman at the firebrick works of Wigton & Co., of that place. The Doctor's early life was spent in Harrisburg, where he received a common school educa- tion, graduating from the high school of that place in 1876, being a member of the second class that held their commencement exercises in the then new opera house. After leaving school he entered the drug business, serving as clerk with Drs. Markley and Nunemacher for a period of one year and six months. Being inclined from early boy- hood to become a physician, and showing many traits characteristic of his love for the profession, his parents, though in ordinary circumstances, concluded to grant him his desire, and in the spring of 1878 he began the study of medicine with Dr. M. Friese, of Harrisburg. After studying one year he entered the New York Homoeopathic Medi- cal College with the intention of completing a three year course there, but after taking one year his preceptor became seriously ill and was taken to the Homoeopathic Hospital of Philadelphia for treatment, and requested him to finish the remaining two years of the course in the Hahnemann Medical Col- lege, of Philadelphia, which he did, graduat- ing in 1881 with high honors. He took the prize of his class for superior scholarship, the class numbering about one hundred. In a competitive examination for hospital ap- pointments he was the first one chosen for Ward's Island, but declined, and going home began the practice of his profession in Har- risburg in the spring of 1881. In the fall of 1882 he removed to Middletown, where he has since been engaged in practice. He is a member of Triune Lodge, No. 307, I. O. O. F., Middletown, Pa., a past officer of the lodge, and was the acting past grand at the time of the dedication of their new hall, now situated on Emaus street. He was also one of the building committee entrusted with the responsibility in the erection of their new hall which to-day is considered not only a credit to the lodge, but also to the town. In the cornerstone of the build- ing, among other things, will be found a piece of copper plate upon which is inscribed the names of the acting officers, and among which will be found the name of Dr. J. C. Lingle, P. G. H. He is also a member of K. G. E., K. of P., and the Masonic fraternity. Hle was married, December 20, 1883, to
Miss Alice May, daughter of Alexander and Elcinda McCrone, natives of Maryland, but for the last twenty years residents of Harris- burg. They have four children: Charlie Percival, Yula May, Frances Estell, and John C., Jr. Dr. Lingle has taken an active part in politics, being a staunch, stalwart Repub- lican, and unswerving in his conviction as to the necessity of a protective tariff. He and his family attend the Methodist Episco- pal church.
REIDER, ABRAHAM H., cashier of the Far- mers' Bank, of Middletown, was born in Mt. Joy township, Lancaster county, Pa., June 14, 1848. He is a son of George and Eliza- beth (Shearer) Reider. He belongs to a family of German descent, one of the oldest in the State, and one with a most honorable history. His great-greatgrandfather be- longed to the provisional army under Wash- ington and Braddock, in the war of 1754- 1756, and was killed in that war. The Reider family has numerous representatives among the residents of Dauphin, Lancaster and Franklin counties, occupying promi- nent places in business and professional life. Prof. John A. Ryder, who filled a chair in the University of Pennsylvania, and who died in 1895, was of this family. Mr. Reider's father is a local minister in the United Brethren church, and also a retired farmer. While he appreciates the honor of a noble ancestry, Mr. Reider has always rec- ognized the obligation imposed upon him to be worthy of that ancestry, and realized that he could do this only by earnest and faithful efforts to be useful and honorable in his own day and generation. He was reared in Lancaster county, and received his education in the public schools, the Lebanon Valley College and the State Nor- mal School at Millersville. This course prepared him for the profession of teaching. He holds a certificate from the State and county superintendents of schools, which permanently and perpetually entitles him to teach in any county of the State without being examined. He taught school in Lan- caster and Dauphin counties for a number of years. At the organization of the Farm- ers' Bank of Middletown in 1882 Mr. Reider was elected teller of the bank, and filled this position for twelve years. In 1894 he was elected cashier, which office he now fills. IIe is also engaged in farming in Lon- donderry township. On September 1, 1895,
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he was elected treasurer of the Cameron Furnace Company. He served as treasurer of the Middletown borough from 1894 to 1895, and declined re-election. He is Re- publican in politics. He is a member of the United Brethren church and superin- tendent of the Sunday-school. He takes an active interest in all church work. He is much interested in historical and genealogi- cal matters, and is an active member of the Pennsylvania German Society.
BRANDT, B. F., Middletown, was born in Lancaster county, Pa., April 5, 1839. He is a son of Jacob and Catherine (McClenigan) Brandt, natives of that county. They moved to Dauphin county in 1854, and located on a farm in Londonderry township. The father died in Middletown in 1868, and the mother died in Middletown in 1872. They were members of the United Zion's Children church. They reared a family of nine chil- dren, seven of whom are now living. Their children are: Abraham, of Middletown, who died February 14, 1896; Samuel, of Middle- town; John, married Lucetta Rife, daughter of Abraham Rife, and died in 1860; Jacob, married Anna Houser, daughter of Peter Houser, of Middletown, and died in 1875, leaving one child, Kate, who married John Young, of Delta, Md .; B. F .; Mary Jane, wife of Jacob S. Keyser, of Middletown; Henry, of Royalton; David C., of Middletown, born January 10, 1847, married Maggie Platt, and have five children : Jacob, Anna, Clarence, Laura, and Catherine; Elizabeth, widow of Henry Schaffer, of Lancaster county, Pa.
B. F. was educated in the public schools. In 1857 he began business on the Pennsyl- vania canal, and followed the occupation until 1870. During the latter years of this period he owned and commanded his boat. In 1870 he and his brother Jacob engaged in the wholesale liquor business. After the death of Jacob his brother Abraham became a member of the firm, and continued in it up to 1890. He then retired, and his son, John A Brandt, took his interest. Mr. Brandt is one of the charter members and a director of the Farmers' Bank of Middletown. He is a charter member and president of the Mid- dletown Market Company. In 1862 he en- listed in company H, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania vol- unteers, and served until 1863, participating in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellors- ville, etc. He is a member of Triune Lodge,
No. 307, I. O. O. F. He is a Democrat in politics. He was married, in 1882, to Miss Clara Willman, daughter of Albert Willman, of Londonderry township. His wife is a member of the Lutheran church.
-KLUGH, O. R., M. D., Harrisburg, Pa., offices Nos. 103 and 105 North Second street, residence No. 1628 North Third street, was born in Maytown, Lancaster county, Novem- ber 28, 1866. He is a son of Jacob Frederick and Mary C. (Hambright) Klugh, natives of Lancaster county, Pa. His father was born in 1838. In 1857 he taught school. He came to Dauphin county in 1864 and became principal of the high school at Highspire, which position he held for two years. He then became manager of the Wilson Lumber and Manufacturing Company, and after- wards of the Wilson Distillery Company until 1870, when he resigned and engaged in the lumber business. He has served as justice of the peace at Highspire for about twenty-five years. Politically he is identi- fied as a Democratic leader. Under Presi- dent Cleveland's first administration he was appointed U. S. pension examiner. He was one of the promoters of the Harrisburg, Highspire and Middletown Electric Railway Company. At the present time he is devel- oping the addition of Highspire known as Klughton. His family consists of five chil- dren : Dr. O. R., Aaron D., Ida N., Mary C., and Jacob Hancock.
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