Commemorative biographical encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania : containing sketches of prominent and representative citizens and many of the early Scotch-Irish and German settlers. Pt. 2, Part 54

Author: Egle, William Henry, 1830-1901. cn; Dudley, Adolphus S. 4n; Huber, Harry I. 4n; Schively, Rebecca H. 4n; J.M. Runk & Company. 4n
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Chambersburg, Pa. : J.M. Runk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1180


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The children by Mrs. Hoyer's first marriage to Mr. Kuntzelman are: Aaron I., born April 27, 1867, miner, at Williamstown; John B., born October 7, 1868, farmer in Upper Pax- ton township.


Since the death of his wife Mr. Hoyer has had as housekeeper Miss Emma J. Gessner, an excellent young lady. The first vote Mr. Hoyer cast, in November, 1864, in Philadel- phia, was a Democratic ticket; he is now a Republican. He was a member of Kissinger Post, No. 376, G. A. R., Gratz, Pa., and of P. O. S. of A., Washington Camp, No. 307, Ber- rysburg, Pa. He is a member of the Reformed church, Berrysburg, Pa.


Mr. Hoyer is among the maimed patriots, suffering much from the loss of his leg sacri- ficed in the service of his country, but secure in the reward bestowed by a consciousness of duty faithfully performed, and in the grati- tude which all good citizens render to those who redeemed the life of the Nation. He has cheerfully accepted his limitations and pa- tiently worked on. Declining years bring him no regrets, and the future is spanned with the bow of hope.


-STRAUB, WILLIAM, farmer and stockman, Berrysburg, Pa., was born in Schuylkill county, Pa., September 21, 1831; son of John and Christian (Hime) Straub. John Straub was also born in Schuylkill county, and was a son of John Straub, farmer and mill owner of that county, where he died. John Straub, Jr., was also a farmer, and cul- tivated several rented farms in his native


county, where he died in 1845. His wife. Christiana Hime, was born in Northumber- land county. Their children were: John, resides in Northumberland county ; Ange- line, deceased, wife of Jere Matter, engineer; William; Elizabeth, deceased, wife of Da- vid Seal; Samuel, Lykens township, Dau- phin county ; Amos, farmer, Mifflin town- ship; Sarah, died young; Mary, wife of John Wetmore, Seven Points, Northumber- land county. Mr. Straub was a Democrat. He was a member of the Lutheran church. The second husband of Mrs. Straub was Val- entine Savage ; they had a daughter, Alice, wife of Henry Hamhulse, of Schuylkill county. Mrs. Savage died at the home of her son, William Straub, in 1880.


William Straub attended subscription schools for a short time cach year, during the winter season, but his school advantages were very limited, as he went to work on the farm when he was six years of age. He worked for his father until he was fourteen, when his father died, after which be hired out to do farm work, receiving as wages $4 per month. He worked in this way for three or four years and then learned shoemaking, and worked for four years at that trade. He then came to. Mifflin town- ship, Dauphin county, and for three years was a teamster for Mr. Martin Curtin, a storekeeper; then drove the mail stage from Millersburg to Fremont, Schuylkill county. He then rented and cultivated for sixteen years a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres in Mifflin township. Having by this time saved some money, Mr. Straub bought, in 1873, his present farm of thirty acres from Daniel Matter, on which there was an old house. In 1875 he bought thirty addi- tional acres near the homestead, built a fine house as a dwelling, and one of the best barns in the township, costing over $5,000. He afterwards bought of G. J. Miller a farm of eighty acres. He cultivated all this land and engaged extensively in stock-breeding. He has been and is still a very industrious man. In his younger days it was his cus- tom to work on the farm in the day time and drive a huekster wagon at night. He has been very successfully engaged in huck- stering for forty-five years.


William Straub was married, in MifHin township, in December, 1853, to Elizabeth Hultzman, born in Mifflin township, in 1837 ; daughter of Jonathan Hultzman, farmer, Mifflin township. Their children


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are: John N., Harrisburg, Pa .; Mary, wife of John Dockey, who farms the homestead ; Charles, deceased ; Norman, farmer, Mifflin township; Emma, wife of Henry Howe, farmer, Mifflin township; Harry, farmer, on homestead; Katie, wife of Jacob U. Hart- man, farmer, Mifflin township. Mrs. Straub died in 1890, since when Mrs. Mary Dockey has been her father's housekeeper. Mr. Straub is a Democrat. He is a member of the Lutheran church, new school, and for a number of years has been a trustee of the church, to which he gives liberally. He contributed over $600 for building the house of worship. He is a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Grange. Mr. Straub is a man of good common sense, en- terprising and active, and is a very success- ful business man. He began farming with $50 and a horse and buggy ; planted an orchard of five acres, worked hard, and was rewarded with the most gratifying success.


DUBENDORF, SAMUEL D., blacksmith, was born in Upper Paxton township, Dauphin county, Pa., January 31, 1857.


His grandfather, Samuel Dubendorf, was a Pennsylvanian of German extraction and a farmer, owning and cultivating a farm of one hundred acres in Lykens township, Dau- phin county, on which he raised fine stock. He was a famous hunter in his day. He married in Lykens township. His children were: David, William, Samuel, Levina, Hat- tie, Matilda, Susan, and Sarah. He was an old line Whig. Both he and his wife died in Lykens township. They were mem- bers of the German Reformed church.


Samuel Dubendorf (2), father of Samuel D., was born at Gratz, Lykens township, in 1828. He was a farmer and blacksmith. He removed to Upper Paxton township, where he built a shop and worked as a smith for over fifty years, at the same time farming twenty-one acres, on which he built a house and barn and made other valuable improve- ments. He was full of energy and enterprise and his business was proportionately suc- cessful. His first wife was a native of Mifflin township, Lydia, daughter of John Radel, farmer. Their children were: John, black- smith, Elizabethville, Pa .; Amanda, wife of John Bechtel, Elizabethville; Susan, wife of John Seal, Upper Paxton township ; Samuel; Daniel, and Charles, both deceased. Mrs. Lydia Dubendorf died in 1862. Mr. Duben-


dorf's second wife was Christiana Markle, of Northumberland county. They had three children: William, carpenter, Millersburg, Pa .; Mary, and Henry G., who reside at home. Mr. Dubendorf was a Republican. He was a member of the Reformed church. He died in 1893; his wife survives him and resides in Upper Paxton township.


Samuel D. Dubendorf attended school in carly boyhood in Upper Paxton township, and at the age of fourteen went to work in the blacksmith shop with his father. He continued working with his father until he was twenty, and then worked one year at his trade for Henry Wise, at Gratz. Then for one year he was employed to shoe the min- ing team at Dayton, Pa. At the end of that year he returned to work in his father's shop. A year later, in 1881, he bought his father's shop and trade and has ever since conducted a general blacksmithing business on his own account. He has prospered and during this time has built a fine dwelling cost- ing $1,000, making all the improvements re- quisite for a most convenient and comfortable home. Mr. Dubendorf was married, on the homestead, in November, 1881, to Mary J., daughter of John N. Deibler, of MiiHlin town- ship, born in Centre county, Pa., in June, 1855. They have three children: John, born November 20, 1882, attending school ; Gertrude, born in June, 1886, attended Berrysburg Seminary in 1893; and Pearl, born August 29, 1889. Mr. Dubendorf is a Republican and takes an active interest in politics; he has served as inspector of elec- tions. He is deeply interested in all school matters and is in favor of compulsory edu- cation. In church interests he is no less active and devoted. He serves the United Brethren Sunday-school as secretary and librarian and has for the last ten years officiated as sexton of the church. Mr. Du- bendorf displays tireless industry in all that he undertakes, is progressive and full of en- terprise. IIe is a most useful member of society, and is highly esteemed by all his neighbors.


ULSH, JACOB M., is among the prominent and prosperous farmers and stockmen of Mifflin township. He is a native of Green- wood township, Perry county, Pa., and was born January 8, 1855. He bears the name of his grandfather, Jacob Ulsh, also a native of Perry county and a farmer. His father, Josiah Ulsh, was likewise born in Green


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wood township, Perry county, where he was reared, and where he owned and cultivated one hundred acres of land, and was an ex- tensive stock raiser. Josiah Ulsh married Sarah Arbogast, born in Snyder county, Pa., in 1827. They had six children : Jacob M .; Maggie, unmarried, residing in Perry county, Pa .; John, farmer, Greenwood township, Perry county; Amelia, wife of Solomon Weaver, Topeka, Kan .; Sarah, died young; Albert, unmarried, lives in Topeka, Kan. Mrs. Ulsh died in 1882. Mr. Ulsh survives her and resides on the homestead inf Perry county. He is a Republican, is well known and universally esteemed.


Jacob M. UIsh attended the schools of his native township, and began business early by working on the home farm, where he continued until he was twenty years old. He then came to Lykens Valley, Dauphin county, and worked four years as a farm hand for Jonathan Reigle, then went to Benjamin Reigle's and worked for four years on his farm, after which he cultivated the farm of D. D. Elder, Washington township, for eleven years. In 1894 he moved on the farm of one hundred and twenty-eight acres, on which he now resides, in Mifflin town- ship, and is engaged in farming and raising live stock.


Jacob M. Ulsh was married, in Mifflin township, in 1879, to Mary Lehman, born in Mifflin township, daughter of Samuel Leh- man, a merchant of Upper Paxton township, and his wife, Catherine (Deibler) Lehman. Mr. and Mrs. Ulsh have had two children : Sallie C., born in 1880, and Jacob H., in 1886.


Mr. Ulsh is a Republican. He served as school director of Washington township for two years. In 1882 he was constable of the township. Mr. Ulsh has always been a hard-working man and a good man of busi- ness, and has succeeded in acquiring a com- fortable competency. He is well known and liked by every one, and is one of the solid citizens of the community.


MILLER, MAJOR J. FRANK, was born in Annville, Lebanon county, June 13, 1830. His grandfather, John Miller, spelled his name Muller; he was a native of Switzer- land, and came to this country with his par- ents, who settled in Dauphin county, then included in Lancaster county. He owned a large tract of land, then covered with tim- ber, on which he cleared several farms, and


was extensively engaged in agriculture. Ho married in Lancaster, the name of his wife cannot now be given with certainty, but it was probably Snavely. The names of his children, so far as known, are: John, Isaac, Abraham, Jacob, Christian, Magdalena; but there were others whose names cannot be ascertained. He died in Hanover, Lebanon county. He was a Whig and a member of the Mennonite denomination.


Isaac Miller, father of the Major, received a good education in subscription schools. He spent his younger days with his father on the farm, and became a competent busi- ness man. When he became of age he bought a farm of one hundred and forty acre's in South Annville township, Lebanon county, which he occupied and improved and continued to cultivate until 1847. He then retired from active work, bought prop- erty in Annville and resided there until his death. Besides farming, he did a large busi- ness in live stock, buying in the West and shipping to the eastern markets. His busi- ness in horses was very successful.


Isaac Miller was married at the place of his birth, Hanover township, Lebanon county, to Mollie Frensler, a native of that place ; they had eight children : Henry, deceased, a farmer; Sarah, widow of John Frensler, Annville, Lebanon county ; Christiana, widow of Jacob Bachman, Annville; Magdalena, deceased, wife of Philip Wolfenberger, of Illinois; Elizabeth, second wife of the same Philip Wolfenberger, Princeton, Ill .; J. Frank; Jacob, in real estate business, Princeton, Ill .; Mollie, died in infancy. Mr. Miller died at Annville in 1878. He was originally a Whig, and afterwards a Re- publican, and took an active part in political movements. He possessed great business ability and was always successful in his en- terprises. He and his wife became members of the United Brethren church at Annville, and attended the services there up to the time of their death.


J. Frank Miller was educated at subserip- tion schools taught in German, and learned his first lessons in that tongue; in that course he went as far as the psalter. He also attended the Meyerstown Academy for one year, and attended the Annville Acad- ciny, Lebanon county, for two years. He worked on the farm with his father until 1848 and then went to lowa; remained a short time, and returned as far as Mansfield, Ohio, near which place he had charge of a


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grist mill for just six months, when he was taken ill, and returned to his home at Ann- ville, Pa., and taught winter school for three terms. After this Mr. Miller was for two years in the shoe and hat factory business at Meyerstown, and was reasonably successful. During this time he received his first com- mission from Governor Bigler, as lieutenant of State militia.


In 1854 Mr. Miller went to Princeton, Ill., and engaged in the grain business, which yielded him very satisfactory profits antil the panic of 1858 prostrated all business. He did not, however, abandon the busi- ness there until 1860, when he returned to Dauphin county, Pa. During his stay at Princeton he became identified with the "underground railroad." In 1853 he received from Governor Bissell, of Illinois, a commis- sion as first lieutenant in the Illinois State militia. After his return to Pennsylvania he resided at Berrysburg until the war broke out in 1861.


In June of that year Mr. Miller enlisted in company B, Ninth regiment, Pennsylva- nia cavalry, as second lieutenant, under Colonel Williams and Capt. E. G. Savage. He served with the regiment in this rank until August 2, 1862, when he was promoted and mustered in as first lieutenant, company C; May 23, 1863, he was again promoted and mus- tered in as captain of company K. He was promoted to major of the regiment June 23, 1865. During his time of service Major Miller was in the following engagements : Paris, Ky., July 9, 1862; Richmond, Ky., September 2, 1862; Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862; Carter's raid into East Tennessee, December, 1862; commanded by General Carter, 1,104 men in the saddle; marched twenty-one days, often continuously day and night, two hundred and seventy-three miles into the enemy's lines; Franklin, Tenn., March 4, 1863; Spring Hill, Tenn., March 10, 1863; Triune, Tenn., June 11, 1863 ; Shelbyville, Tenn., June 28, 1863; La- fayette, Ga., September 13, 1863; Chicka- maugua, Ga., September 19, 20, 21, 1863; New Market, Ala., October 6, 1863; Dandridge, Tenn., December 24, 1863; Mossy Creek, Tonn., December 26, 27, 29, 1863; Dan- dridge, Tenn., January 16, 1864; Lovejoy Station, Ga., November 16, 1864; Macon, Ga .; November 20, 1864; Waynesboro, Ga., November 28, 1864; Savannah, Ga., Decem- ber 21, 1864; Columbia, S. C., February 18, 1865; Averysboro, N. C., March 16, 1865;


Bentonville, N. C., March 19, 20, 1865; Raleigh, N. C., April 12, 1865; Morrisville, N. C., April 13, 1865, and at the surrender of Johnson and his army at Benton's house, N. C., April 26, 1865. Major Miller was dis- charged from the service at Harrisburg in September, 1865.


For the first year after his return from the army he was engaged in mercantile business at Berrysburg. He then became agent for several companies manufacturing agricul- tural implements, and was thus occupied for a number of years. He has now practically retired from active business.


Maj. J. Frank Miller was married, at Ber- rysburg, July 4, 1855, to Emma J., daughter of Dr. H. C. and Mary (Boyer) Beshler, born at Freeburg, Union county, now Snyder county, March 6, 1835. Their children are : Henry I., born February 24, 1857, educated in Berrysburg Seminary, taught school, and became a music dealer, he married Addie Moyer, of Georgetown, Northumberland county, and they have four children : Frank, Ralph, Albert, and George, deceased ; Anna Laura, born August 24, 1859, educated in Berrysburg Seminary, married George D. Romberger, insurance agent, at Berrysburg, and they have ten children, of whom eight are living.


Major Miller was for four years postmaster at Berrysburg, commissioned under Presi- dent Harrison. He was also justice of the peace for five years, and was a careful, im- partial and popular official. He was school director for two terms, and is an ardent ad- vocate of compulsory education. He has served as both State and county tax collec- tor, and was census taker for Lykens Valley in 1870 and 1880. He was a candidate for sheriff on the Republican ticket in 1866, but was defeated. He is a member of Princeton Lodge, No. 112, F. & A. M., Princeton, Ill., and of the Knights of Honor, Princeton; he is also a member of Kilpatrick Post, G. A. R., at Millersburg, Pa. Major Miller is a member of the Lutheran church, new school.


- Dr. H. C. Beshler, father of Mrs. Miller, was a well-known physician at Berrysburg. He was a native of Northumberland county, and of German descent. His wife was born in Snyder county, also of German ancestry. They had three children : Emma J., Mrs. Miller ; Annie E., deceased, wife of D. K. MeClure ; John B., deceased, a prominent physician, of Berrysburg.


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-BUNTZ, REV. STEPHEN, pastor of the United Evangelical church, Berrysburg, was born in Schuylkill county, Pa., October 22, 1854 ;. son of John and Charlotta (Keler) Buntz, both natives of Germany. The father was a carpenter by occupation and in 1854 came to this country, locating in Schuylkill county, where he spent the remainder of his life. His children are: Henry, Elizabeth, Her- man, Mary, John, deceased, Stephen, John, deceased, and two children, who died in in- fancy. The father died in Schuylkill county in 1868, and his wife died in Ashland; same county, in 1891, and both were members of the Evangelical church. Stephen attended the schools at Tamaqua and began his busi- ness life by working several years in the coal mines. Later he learned the trade of cigar making and followed that business for fifteen years. He then took up the study of theology and other branches in preparation for the work of the ministry, and was ordained a deacon by the Evangelical Association in 1888 at Norristown, Pa. Since his ordina- tion he has had charge of the churches at Ringtown, Hackney, Bridston, Meyerstown and Kuntstown, and in March, 1896, was in- stalled pastor of the church at Berrysburg. Rev. Buntz was married, at Ashland, Pa., in October, 1873, to Mary E. Tuckenbill, a na- tive of Schuylkill county. Their children are: Edwin S., attending school, and Robert D., died young. Mr. Buntz is a Prohibitionist in his political views.


BOWMAN, WILLIAM H., furniture manufac- turer and undertaker, Uniontown, Pa., was born near Berrysburg, Pa., January 13, 1856. He attended the schools of the township in the winter and worked on his grandfather's farm until he was sixteen years of age. He then attended the Berrysburg Seminary under Prof. Bergstresser for two years; after which he spent three years as an apprentice at the trade of cabinet making, and then worked three years as a journeyman. In 1880 he started a small shop of his own in Uniontown, having only $20 in cash to be- gin with, and has continued in the business since that time. Eight years later he erected a factory 22x56 feet, and equipped it with the most improved machinery. "Ilis business has increased and has been profitable. He has built a fine residence, and is a prominent and prosperous business man. Mr. Bowman was married, at Uniontown in 1877, to Miss Kate Underkoffer, born in Northumberland


county in 1856; daughter of John. Under- koffer, a farmer and miller. They have six children : Emory I., Elura M., Clayton V., Bertha C., Paul J., and Florence E. In po- litical views Mr. Bowman is a Democrat and served as burgess of Uniontown three years, school director nine years, and also as audi- tor, judge of elections and clerk. He is a member of the Lutheran church, in which he holds the office of deacon and is the super- intendent and a teacher of the Sunday-school. He is master of forms in the Patriotic Order Sons of America.


-DEIBLER, DANIEL J., farmer and stock- man, Berrysburg, Pa., was born on the old homestead in Mifflin township, Dauphin county, Pa., August 7, 1849; son of George and Hannah (Deibler) Deibler. He attended the township school, taught in the Deibler school house for three months each winter, and worked on the farm in the other months, until he was twenty-one years old. IIe then went to Illinois, and for sixteen months was engaged in farming, after which he returned and worked on the homestead until his father's death. since which he has had charge of the farm, which consists of one hundred and fifty-nine acres, of which fifty acres are timbered land on which there is a saw mill. He was married, at Annville, Lebanon county, March 13, 1873, to Sarah L. Stine, born April 8, 1854; daughter of Peter L. Stine and Elizabeth (Buffington) Stine .. The former resides at Elizabethville, and is a farmer and miller; the latter died at Eliza- bethville in 1892. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Deibler are : Clara E., Katie E., Polly 1., Daniel D., Carrie M., Abbie R., Sadie I., Lulie E., Mark L., John C., and one child died young. Mr. Deibler is a Republican in politics, served as school director nine years, and supervisor of roads three years, assistant assessor one term, and judge of elections one year. He is a member of the German Re- formed church.


DEIBLER, GEORGE A., farmer and dairy- man, Berrysburg, Pa., was born in Mifflin township, Dauphin county, Pa., June 13, 1848; son of George and Hannah (Deibler), Deibler, and brother of John W. Deibler, of Berrysburg. He attended the school taught during the winter months at the Deibler school house and during the summer months worked on the farm. Ile remained on the old homestead until he was twenty-four


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years old, and then began farming for him- self. He bought one hundred and twenty- five acres of farming land and fifty acres of mountain land, which he has been engaged in cultivating and developing. In 1874 he built a fine residence of brick made on the place, costing $2,500, and erected a barn and other buildings, costing $2,000 additional. He was married, in Washington township, in 1872, to Ellen Stine, born in Lykens township, September 30, 1851, a daughter of Peter L. Stine. Their children are: Peter F., Charles E., Sallie T., George W., Emma D., Elmer S., Henry H., Isaac N., and Cora E.


Mr. Deibler was school director two terms, supervisor one term, and assessor and tax collector one term. In his political views he is a Republican. He is a member of the German Reformed church and a Sunday- school teacher.


DETTER, DAVID F., principal of Berrys- burg Seminary, was born in York county, Pa., August 6, 1865. The great-grandfather came from Germany in his youth, settled in York county, engaged in farming and died in that county. John Detter, the grand- father, was also a farmer in York county. He married Sarah Jacobs, and they had six children. He was a Democrat and a mem- ber of the Lutheran church. James Detter, the father, was born in 1826 and brought up in York county. He attended subscription schools, and also the Oxford College in Adams county, where he received his higher education. He became a professional teacher, and was engaged in the work for seventeen years, teaching in both subscription and in public schools. While teaching he con- ducted a business of contracting and build- ing. Subsequently he took up farming on the homestead, and became an extensive farmer and stockman, retiring from the business in 1882. He rented his farm and took up his residence at Bermudian, in Adams county.


He was married, in York county, to Cathe- rine Roth, born in Jackson township, York county, in 1830; daughter of John Roth, farmer. Their children are: Franklin, Wal- ter, David F., Howard, Mary J., Latimer, Reuben, and John, who died in infancy. The father was originally a Democrat, and changed his views and became a Republican in 1861. IIe was much interested and very active in all church matters in his younger


days. He is a member of the Evangelical church.


David F. attended the public schools in Washington township, York county, and was reared on the farm. At cigh- teen years of age he entered East Berlin Academy, in Adams county, and after two years study was graduated in 1882. He taught school in Washington township, York county, one term, was sent to the prin- cipal of the Franklintown school one year, and then taught in Lancaster county until 1887, when he took an elementary course and was graduated from the Millersville State Normal School in 1889. He then be- came principal of the New Holland public school, in which position he remained until 1892, when he was elected principal of the Berrysburg high school, and has filled the place for four years with great acceptance. Mr. Detter is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a teacher in the Sun- day-school. In political views he is a Re- publican, and is a member of Washington Camp, P. O. S. of A.




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