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Eugene H., in the mail service at Philadel- phia. Mr. Yetter is a member of St. Peter's Lutheran church, and was trustee of the organization for many years.
- BEARD, CHARLES F., merchant, Middle- town, was born at Royalton, Londonderry township, Dauphin county, Pa., November 23, 1865; son of Ammon W. and Mary (Knerr) Beard. He received his education in the public school of his neighborhood and entered the employment of the American Tube and Iron Company, where he remained for nearly nine years. In April, 1893, he embarked in the grocery business, at Mid- dletown, which he has since conducted. His political views and associations are with the Republican party, to the principles and men of which he gives the support of his suffrage. In fraternity circles he is promi- nent in the membership of the Knights of Malta, the Red Men and the Junior Order American Mechanics. Mr. Beard was mar- ried, in 1889, to Miss Mary Peters, daughter of Joseph A. Peters, of Middletown, to whom have been born two children : Florence M. and Harry C.
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UMBERGER, JOHN ROBERTS, M. D., Dau- phin, Pa., born at Linglestown, Dauphin county, Pa., December 9, 1829. The Um- berger family forms a part of that German element, full of sturdy vitality alike in physique and in intellect, which goes so far to make up the bone and sinew of the State of Pennsylvania. The family records on this side of the Atlantic embraces six gen- erations, and run back to that Heinrich Umberger, who, with his wife and two boys Michael and John, crossed the ocean in a vessel significantly named the Hope. Land- ing at Philadelphia, August 28, 1733, they soon made their way to that part of Lan- caster county now included in Lebanon county, where they took up a square mile of land, near the present site of the city of Lebanon. From that time the family his- tory is frequently interwoven with that of the country, and presents in each genera- tion some notable point. The sons of Michael Umberger, Heinrich's elder son, were four in number: John, Henry, Adam, and Philip. John and Henry were both captains in the Continental Army under
" Mad Anthony " Wayne. In the battle of Long Island John must have been either killed or captured by the British, for from that day he was nevermore seen or heard of by his family. Henry, on the contrary, served throughout the Revolution, and lived afterward to the remarkable age of one hun- dred and three. He left a large family of sons and daughters. The third son, Adam, had four children : John, David, Susanna H., and Elizabeth. This generation, the fourth, is noticeable for a double alliance with the Weinrich family; the elder son, John, marrying Elizabeth Weinrich, and the elder daughter, Susanna H., becoming the wife of Miss Weinrich's brother, Peter Weinrich, afterwards sheriff of Dauphin county. The younger sister married Peter Heckert, of Linglestown, and died near that place at the age of ninety-two. John Um- berger was an extensive cattle dealer, operat- ing principally in Chester and Delaware counties. His sons were David, John, Jr., William, and Benjamin ; his daughters, Eliz- abeth and Mary. As his uncles had aided in the Revolutionary war, so John Umber- ger served his country in the war of 1812. He was in command of a regiment of militia, whose colonel he continued to be until his death, in 1813, at Paoli, Chester county.
During part of Colonel Umberger's early married life he resided in Lower Paxton township, at a house known as the " Running Pump Hotel." His eldest son, David Um- berger, was born in that township, December 26, 1796. His first business engagements were mercantile, and at Harrisburg, Pa., where he began, a little later, the study of medicine. His preceptor was Dr. Martin Luther. Dr. David Umberger was a gradu- ate of the medical department, University of Pennsylvania, class of 1823. From this date until 1827 he practiced at Elizabethtown, Lancaster county ; 1827 to 1837 in Dauphin county ; 1837 to 1845 at Jonestown, Lebanon county. In 1845 he returned to his native county and practiced at Linglestown, in full enjoyment of the confidence and regard of his many patients, until the arduous duties of the profession became too severe for his de- clining strength. The characteristic public spirit of the family was manifested by Dr. David Umberger in his earnest and effective advocacy of the public school system during his residence in Jonestown. It is well known that the system met with very determined opposition, on various grounds, in different
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parts of the State. It was largely due to the influence of Dr. Umberger that the prejudice against it was overcome and the public schools established in that part of Lebanon county. In later years his fellow-citizens showed their appreciation of his worth and sound judg- ment by giving him a vote as Democratic candidate for Congress from the district com- prising Dauphin, Lebanon and Schuylkill counties, which, though insufficient to elect him, was still flatteringly large.
In March, 1823, Dr. David Umberger married Miss Juliet, daughter of John Rob- erts, of Washington county, Pa., a sister of Drs. James and Edmund Roberts, of Harris- burg, Pa. Dr. and Mrs. Umberger had twelve children : James and Emily, twins, who died in early infancy ; Emily, Margaret, Dr. John R., Juliet, Mary, Dr. Edmund R., Jane, Caroline, David, Jr., and Harriet. True in the sixth generation to the tradition of the family, two sons, Edmund and David, served in war for their country. Both en- listed in the war of the Rebellion, Dr. Ed- mund R. as surgeon in the Ninety-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and David in the Two Hundred and First regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry. Both were mustered out at Harrisburg, Pa., in June, 1865. Mrs. Umberger was born in 1804, and died December 6, 1862; Dr. Um- berger died at the residence of his son, Dau- phin, Pa., July 29, 1874.
The education of Dr. John R. Umberger was begun in a log school house in Lower Paxton township. His parents removing to Lebanon county when he was nine years old, he continued his studies, entering the public schools which his father had done so much to establish. At sixteen the family again removed, and to Dauphin county. John had already pursued medical studies under his father's direction, for two years; they were continued until he attained his twentieth year when he matriculated at the Philadelphia College of Medicine. He was graduated in 1852, and has also an honorary diploma from the University of Pennsyl- vania. He began practice in West Hanover township, but in 1855 removed to Dauphin, Pa., where he continued to practice until he retired from active professional duties in 1890. Dr. Umberger is a member of the State Medical Association, of the Dauphin County Medical Society, of the Harrisburg Pathological Society, and a charter member of the Harrisburg Academy of Medicine.
He belongs to Paxton Lodge, No. 621, I. O. O. F. He is a Democrat. On August 24, 1852, he was appointed aid-de-camp on Gov- ernor Bigler's staff with the rank of lieu- tenant colonel.
Dr. John R. Umberger was married, Novem- ber 20, 1855, to Mary, daughter of Robert and Mary Moody, of South Hanover town- ship. They have three children: Lillie J., wife of A. T. Poffenberger, medical ex- aminer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany, at Sunbury, Pa., born in January, 1857, died December 26, 1893; Emily, born in December, 1858, wife of Joseph M. Cum- mings; and Mary, born in 1864. The family attended the Presbyterian church.
Dr. James Roberts, elder brother of Mrs. David Umberger, was born in 1780, at Wash- ington, Pa. He began practice at Ilarrisburg Pa., but removed to Peoria, Ill., where he died about 1834. During his residence at Harrisburg, his younger brother Edmund W. Roberts came there to study medicine under his preceptorship. Edmund W. was born about 1806, at Washington, Pa .; was a grad- uate of Yale College, and of the medical department of the University of Pennsylva- nia. He practiced successfully in Harrisburg until his death, which occurred in that city, November 10, 1865, in his fifty-ninth year. Dr. Edmund W. Roberts married Miss Caro- line, daughter of Andrew and Hannah (Templin) Ross, of Washington, D. C., and sister of Dr. Robert J. Ross, of Harrisburg, Pa. Her death took place at Newburg, N. Y., January 23, 1877; she is buried at Harris- burg. Dr. and Mrs. Roberts had two chil- dren. Their daughter Mary, wife of Rev. B. B. Leacock, D. D., of the Episcopal church, died at Harrisburg in 1867.
Dr. Robert J. Ross, although he died in his early prime, at the age of thirty-seven, was already eminent in his profession. Ile married Mary E., daughter of Judge Foot. of the State of New York. They had two children. Dr. Ross' death took place April 4, 1875.
-COBLE, AARON C., M. D., was born in Derry township, Dauphin county, Pa., near Hoek- ersville, at the old Coble homestead, July 6. 1859. He is a son of Henry and Mary (Riser) Coble. Henry Coble died October 9. 1875, aged about forty-five years. He was a farmer in the earlier part of his life, and later engaged in mercantile business. Still later he was in hotel business. IIe had
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also studied surveying. On November 18, 1862, he enlisted at Harrisburg in company C, One Hundred and Seventy-third regi- ment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Col. David Nagle. He was fifth sergeant of his company. He was discharged August 17, 1863, at Harrisburg. He was in a number of battles. His wife Mary, daughter of Christian Riser, survives him. They had eight children, of whom two are deceased : Ida, who died at the age of twelve, and Dr. Addison B., who died aged thirty-nine years, having lost his life by an accident. Their living children are: Sarah, wife of J. A. Schoener. of Harrisburg; Emma, wife of William H. Wagner, Camden, N. J .; Ellen, wife of Joseph Henning, of Harrisburg ; Fanny, wife of Harrison Hoover, Derry township; Harry, and Dr. Aaron C. Mr. Coble was an active, industrious man, of ex- cellent character and popular with his neigh- bors.
Aaron C. Coble received his early educa- tion in the public schools of Linglestown, Pa., to which place his parents removed when he was nine years old. In 1882 he went to Dauphin, Pa., and read medicine with his brother, Dr. A. B. Coble. At the age of twenty-three he entered the Univer- sity of Maryland, at Baltimore, and studied there three years, being graduated from that institution in 1885. He then returned to Dauphin, and continued studying with Dr. A. B. Coble for about five years. In 1888 he received a diploma from the Pharmaceutical Examining Board of Pennsylvania. He succeeded his brother, Dr. A. B. Coble, who died in November, 1890. He has conducted a drug store since 1888, and has established a large and lucrative practice.
Dr. Coble was married, March 26, 1891, to Mary C., daughter of Elias and Ann Mary (Schaeffer) Fertig. Mrs. Fertig died August 17, 1895, aged about seventy-one years. Mr. Fertig is still living. They had five chil- dren : Milton, Maria, Elizabeth, Mary C., and Laura. Dr. Coble has served as borough school director. He was a delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1891. He is a member of Perry Lodge, No. 458, F. & A. M., at Marysville, and of Patton Lodge, No. 621, 1. O. O. F., at Dauphin. He is a Republican. He and his family attend the Lutheran church.
MILLIKEN, THOMAS, justice of the peace, was born at Petersburg, now Duncannon,
Perry county, Pa., December 24, 1830. His father was born in Tuscarora Valley, Juniata county, Pa., August 4, 1794, and died De- cember 28, 1860. His mother died June 9, 1855, aged about forty-four. The first wife of the elder Mr. Milliken was Rachel Bran- yon, by whom he had two children, John and James. His second wife was Susanna Parker. They had nine children : Isaac, Thomas, Joseph E., William Parker, Susanna Parker, Francis Bonner, Jackson McFadden, Alexander Jackson, and Charles Parker. The boys all volunteered in the army. Isaac was in a cavalry company, under Captain Sanno, of Carlisle; Joseph, in company D, One Hundred and Seventh regiment, Penn- sylvania volunteers; William, in the old Eleventh infantry regiment, Colonel Colter ; Francis B., in company B, Eighty-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers ; and A. Jackson, in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth regiments, United States regulars.
Thomas Milliken attended the public schools of his native town. The family re- moved first to Bloomfield, afterwards to Liverpool, both in Perry county. When Thomas was six years of age they went to Harrisburg, where he attended the city schools. Later, having removed to Coxes- town, he attended a school there which was taught by Charles Huston in an old log school house, near where the Methodist Epis- copal church now stands. The next removal was to the premises known as the old Burnt Tavern ; the next to the old Clark's Ferry Tavern, where he went to the old log school house on Duncan's Island. Once more he removed with his parents to the place then known as Greensburg and Port Lyon, now Dauphin, where Thomas attended school under J. Wilson Parks.
At the age of seventeen Mr. Milliken be- gan work on his own account, being em- ployed as driver on the canal. Later he kept store for J. G. Updegrove, at Coxestown, and afterwards attended store at Matamoras, Powell's Valley, for James Reed. He returned to his job on the canal at Dauphin, receiving as wages eight dollars per month. His parents at this time removed to Clark's Ferry and kept tavern. On April 26, 1849, he engaged with his uncle, A. R. Kincade, in mercantile business on Duncan's Island. After carry- ing on this business for a year he sold his interest and engaged in section boating on the canal, and shipped between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. He was thus occupied for
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about sixteen years, being at the same time engaged with George G. Neuer in butcher- ing at Dauphin. In March, 1865, Mr. Milli- ken enlisted at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, in company I, Capt. John Bell, Seventy-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, Col. Thomas E. Rose. His regiment was sent as far south as Texas. He was discharged at Victoria, Texas, December 6, 1865, and re- turned to Dauphin. In 1866 he engaged in keeping hotel and boating at Dauphin locks. In March, 1892, he removed to the home- stead, where he now resides. He was elected justice of the peace in 1887 and re-elected in 1892, and has served in that office up to the present time. His political views are Demo- cratic. The family are Presbyterians, and are of Scotch-Irish descent.
Mr. Milliken was married, at the old Stees Hotel, December 7, 1852, to Mary J., daugh- ter of Frederick and Catherine (Hassinger) Stees. Of their four children all are deceased but one, Augustus Bell, born October 1, 1856. He is at present general superintendent of the erection department of the Phoenix Bridge Company, Phoenixville, Pa. Their deceased children are : Susanna Parker, born September 18, 1853, died April 12, 1872; Esther Graydon, born November 30, 1859, died January 29, 1862; Thomas, born July 7, 1862, died February 2, 1877; and Daniel Stees, born August 25, 1868, died September 27, 1868.
... BELL, WILLIAM A., was born in Stony Creek, formerly known as Bell's Valley, near Dauphin, Dauphin county, Pa., June 11, 1826. He is a son of William and Clarissa (Armstrong) Bell. He was one of nine chil- dren : Jane E., Theodore J., Mary W., Cla- rissa A., two who died in infancy, Alfred, Armstrong, and Sarah Ellen. He was edu- cated in his native township and at Dauphin, and learned carpentry with Isaac Updegrove, at Coxestown. IIe worked at his trade in the employ of Messrs. Stone & Quigley, contractors and builders, until 1865 or '66. Having thus obtained a full knowledge of the busi- ness he became a contractor and builder on his own account, and continued in this occu- pation until his death, December 24, 1880. He was a man of enterprise and integrity and possessed the esteem and confidence of his neighbors.
Mr. Bell was married, February 10, 1852, to Miss Sabra M., daughter of Frederick and Catherine (Hassinger) Stees, born at Millers-
burg, then Union, now Snyder county, Pa., August 17, 1827; afterwards her parents re- moving first to Chapman township, Snyder county, and then to Rockville, she attended the district schools of both places. Removing in 1838 to Dauphin, she completed her edu- cation there, and has ever since resided there. Mr. and Mrs Bell had four children : two are deceased : Charles Lovell, born April 4, 1854, died July 21, 1854, and Bertha Burton, born August 6, 1858, died October 8, 1858. Their living children are : Katherine S., born April 24, 1860, married to W. P. Clark, May 12, 1888; and Anna C., born August 12, 1867.
Mr. Stees, the father of Mrs. Bell, was born in April, 1796, and died January 24, 1864. Her mother was born March 28, 1799, and died August 19, 1876. They had nine chil- dren : Reuben H., Julia Ann, Josiah, Aaron, Sabra M., Mary Jane, Elizabeth, Alfred F., and one who died in infancy. Mr. Bell was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Marys- ville. After 1857 he was a Republican. The family attend the Presbyterian church.
GAYMAN, JOHN P., was born in Stony Creek Valley, Dauphin county, Pa., February 22. 1825. He is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Etiein) Gayman. His grandfather, Isaac Gayman, was a soldier in Washington's army. His father, Jacob Gayman, was born May 11, 1789. It was in 1794 or 1795 that Isaac Gayman and his wife settled in Stony Creek Valley on the homestead which bas been in possession of the family from that time to the present. Jacob Gayman was colonel of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania militia in 1812. His wife, Elizabeth Ettein, was born July 8, 1795. They had twelve children, seven of whom are deceased: Wil !- iam, born October 9, 1829, died May 15, 1832; Sarah, wife of Philip Miller, born July 9, 1816; Isaac, born June 1, 1823 : Elizabeth, born January 1, 1815, wife of John Stuesley ; Ellen, born October 1, 1831. wife of James Reed; Jacob, born May 9, 1827; Mary, born June 6, 1821, wife of Joel Ney. The surviving children are: Charles, born October 16, 1817; Leah, born Septem- ber 29, 1819, widow of Jacob Chubb ; John P .; Catherine, born November 25, 1833, wife of William Kline; Samuel W., born March 3, 1836. The father died September 17, 1845, and the mother November 23, 1863.
John P. Gayman attended a private school taught by a Mr. Neill and Walter Bell, in a small structure about sixteen by eighteen
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feet, built of logs and mud mortar. When he was about fourteen, the public schools having been established, he attended them. School was then held for three months in the winter season. During the spring and summer months John worked on his father's . farm. At the age of twenty he began to teach during the winter, receiving a salary of twenty dollars per month. He continued farming and teaching for about ten years.
When Mr. Gayman was twenty-one he en- gaged in farming on his own account, having bought the old homestead after his father's death. He still taught school during the winter. When he was twenty-six years old he traveled through the Western States. In the following summer he repeated his West- ern trip. While at Chicago, Ill., in 1848, ten acres of ground were offered to him atten dollars per acre, in what is now the central part of the city. Owing to the marshy con- dition of the ground he refused to invest. It was land which had been granted by the Government to the school board. Mr. Gayman returned from the West to the old homestead, and continued farming until 1883, when he retired from active business and removed to his present residence in Dauphin.
He was married, December 22, 1854, to Lucy A., daughter of Henry and Lucy Hyde, born November 29, 1833. They had six children : John Cloyde, born October 23, 1876, died October 27, 1881 ; Elizabeth, born October 23, 1854, widow of Thomas Wertz ; Jenny Ellen, born November 9, 1856; Margaret Lucy, born June 1, 1858; Ida Catherine, born October 12, 1868, wife of Louis Stager ; Bertha Louisa, born February 6, 1874. Mrs. Gayman died August 11, 1893. Mr. Gayman has served in several township offices for a number of terms each. He is a Democrat. He and his family at- tend the Presbyterian church.
-- POFFENBERGER, LEONARD, blacksmith, Dauphin, Dauphin county, Pa., was born De- cember 15, 1823, in Middle Paxton township, within half a mile of his present home, where he has lived forty-five years. He was a son of William and Catharine (Noll) Poffenber- ger.
The first record in the possession of the family is of the arrival of the ship Pink Mary, of Dublin, September 29, 1733, when George Pfaffenberger, George Pfaffenberger, Jr., Eliza- beth, aged eleven, Christina, six, and Adam,
four years of age, landed. The next is of the grandfather of Leonard Poffenberger, Daniel, who died July 29, 1845, and is buried at St. John's church, near Ellerton, Md. He was a farmer and a resident of Frederick county, Md., where he died, aged about ninety-five years. His wife died September 28, 1831. They left a large family of sons and daugh- ters. One of their sons, William Poffenber- ger, was born July 22, 1783, and died Feb- ruary 22, 1842. His wife, Catherine Noll, was born August 19, 1779, and died Feb- ruary 9, 1841. They were residents of Mid- dle Paxton township. They were married February 28, 1804, and had ten children, whose biographies are briefly as follows :
(1) Daniel, born February 7, 1805, mar- ried Margaret Heckert, March 15, 1832, died March 6, 1872; (2) Elizabeth Sarah, born August 25, 1806, married Daniel McAllister, May 12, 1831, died March 5, 1848; (3) Will- iam, born March 22, 1810, married Henrietta McConnell, March 12, 1840, died May 2, 1860; (4) Mary Magdalena, born March 22. 1812, married Joseph Buchanan in Novem- ber, 1843, died November 24, 1881: (5) George, born March 28, 1813, married Rachel Poffenberger, a distant relative, died March 6, 1872; (6) Catherine, born February 24, 1815, married George Singer, January 31, 1839, died December 10, 1839; (7) Susanna, born January 20, 1817, resided with her brother Leonard for about thirty years be- fore her death, September 24, 18S1 ; (S) John, born May 21, 1819, married Elizabeth Rut- ter in 1842, died June 10, 1861 ; (9) Andrew, born July 29, 1821, died September 1, 1823: (10) Leonard.
Three nephews of Leonard Poffenberger served in the Union army in the war of the Rebellion. William L., son of John Poffen- berger, enlisted February 24, 1865, in com- pany H, One Hundred and Ninety-second regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, and was discharged at Harper's Ferry in August, 1865; Joseph, son of Daniel Poffenberger, enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy- third regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, under Capt. C. A. Harper. He was after- terwards in the commissary department at Chambersburg, Pa .; William II., son of George Poffenberger, having served for three years, and going home re-enlisted in the regular United States army.
Miss Margaret S. Poffenberger, who has for four years resided with her uncle, is the daughter of his eldest brother, Daniel.
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Leonard Poffenberger received his educa- tion in the public and private schools of his native township. At the age of eighteen he entered upon an apprenticeship with his brother Daniel, and served two years at the blacksmith trade. After working five years as a journeyman at various places, Mr. Pof- fenberger engaged in business for himself in Dauphin county in 1850, which he con- ducted almost continuously for forty-five years, having associated with himself, since 1881, bis nephew, William L. Poffenberger. Being very talented, ingenious and a skilled mechanic, his fame as a workman spread for miles around, and he was able for many years to carry on a very profitable business. Honest, generous, and trustworthy, heenjoyed universal confidence, and was chosen for various positions of responsibility. He served for twenty-five years on the school board, part of the time as its treasurer. He was for several terms a member of the bor- ough council and its treasurer, besides being treasurer of the Lutheran church for thirty- nine years.
Formerly an "Old Line Whig," Mr. Poffen- berger has long been an ardent Republican.
On September 19, 1850, Leonard Poffen- berger was married, by Rev. C. F. Stoever. to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Miller) Kinter. Their children were: Jane Elizabeth, born July 6, 1851, died September 15, 1852; Anna Maria, born November 8, 1856, died August 6, 1859, and Albert Theo- dore, born November 9, 1853. Mrs. Eliza- beth Poffenberger was born November 11, 1828 and died July 4, 1858. In April, 1861, Mr. 'Poffenberger married his second wife, Ann E., daughter of Christian and Ann Gross, who was his companion and helpmate in life until July 4, 1892, when she, too, passed away.
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