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PETERS, JACOB M., M. D., Steelton, Pa., was born at Mountville, Lancaster county, Pa., December 1, 1862. His grandfather, Michael Peters, was one of the pioneers of Lancaster county, and lived to a good old age. Rev. Lewis Peters, father of Jacob M., was born July 12, 1836, and died March 8, 1893. He was a member of the United Brethren Con- ference of Pennsylvania. IIe officiated as pastor in the United Brethren church for over forty years. He married Miss Cassa- della Rank, of Lancaster county, by whom he had three children, namely : Jacob M .; Augustus, a prominent druggist of Steelton,
and Minnie, wife of John P. Knisely, of Steelton.
Jacob M. attended the common schools of Lancaster county until he was about fifteen years old. In 1877 he entered the grammar school of Mrs. Johnson, after which he was promoted to Professor Hoofnagle's class. In 1879 he entered the freshman class in the classical course at Lebanon Valley College. In 1883 he passed examination before Dr. William L. Atlee, Sr., Dr. J. Carpenter, of Lancaster, and Dr. Ziegler. He then on- tered the office of Dr. Henry B. Stehman as a student of medicine, where he remained for about six months, when Dr. Stehman re- moved to Chicago, Ill. He then entered the office of Dr. Frank M. Musser, of Lancaster, where he remained until 1885. He was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in May, 1886. After one month's vacation, he located in Steelton, and began the practice of his profession. He has met with gratifying success, and enjoys an extensive practice. He has been surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company since 1889. Ile was county physician from 1887 to 1891. He has been health officer of Steel- ton Board of Health since March, 1895. He has also been secretary of the Board of Health since its organization in 1892. He is a mem- ber of Robert Burns Lodge, No. 464, F. & A. M .; Pilgrim Commandery, No. 11, K. T .; Harrisburg Consistory, 32ยบ, and Lulu Tem- ple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Philadelphia. IIe has been a member of the Dauphin County Medical Society since 1887. He was mar- ried, December 15, 1886, to Miss Margaret McCausland Sample, daughter of Dr. Samuel R. Sample, of Lancaster county, Pa.
MISSEMER, J. R., editor and publisher of the Steelton Advocate, was born on the banks of the Little Chickies creek, in Mount Joy township, Lancaster county, Pa., March 24, 1851. Ilis father died when he was only three years old. IIe spent the first twenty- five years of his life on the farm on which he was born. He received the education which the country schools afforded and the important practical training which indus- trious employment in farming gave him. At the age of seventeen a teacher's certificate was granted him by County Superintendent Evans. He taught school three terms in his native township. When he was twenty- one years of age he was elected justice of the peace for five years, and at the expira-
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tion of this term he was re-elected to the same office, but soon removed from the dis- trict. During that time he also carried on surveying and conveyancing, besides doing an extensive business as a scrivener. He first embarked in the newspaper business in 1875, when he became the local editor of the Milton Grove News, which at that time was published by the Lancaster County News- paper Alliance. The following year he es- tablished the paper as an independent jour- nal and became its sole editor and pub- lisher. At the same time he established and conducted a job printing office.
In 1878 he purchased the Mount Joy Star and consolidated the two papers as the Mount Joy Star and News. He published this paper for nine years and enlarged and improved it. For a number of years it was the largest of the eighteen papers published in the county outside of Lancaster city. For several years he conducted a newspaper syndicate, during which time he edited and published the Florin Independent, Milton Grove Progress, Bainbridge Bonner, Sporting Hill Messenger, Salunga Siftings and Landis- ville Vigil.
In 1888 he purchased the Steelton Advo- cate, which he has published since that time. At present he issues only a weekly edition of the paper, but for some time before the de- pression of business two years ago he pub- lished the Daily Advocate. In 1892 he asso- ciated his son George W. with himself in the publishing of the Advocate. The junior member of the firm was only fifteen years of age at the time he assumed the responsible position of proprietor, and was then the youngest editor and newpaper publisher in the United States. In 1893 Mr. Missemer again purchased the Mt. Joy Star and News, which he had sold six years before. Since that time he publishes both papers, but both offices and papers are kept as distinct and separate as if they belonged to different pro- prietors. He continues to reside with his family at Steelton and gives the Advocate his personal attention for several days of each week. The rest of his time he devotes to his Mt. Joy office. In his absence the Steelton office is in charge of his son and is in safe and able hands. By this feature of his busi- ness Mr. Missemer is demonstrating by prac- tical operation the advantages of having more than one newspaper and printing office under one management. This plan has been successfully carried out in many branches of
business, but has not before been attempted in the publishing business. The result is so eminently satisfactory that he contemplates starting a third paper and printing office.
While Mr. Missemer has had his bands so full at home he has not failed to look abroad. He has made a notable record as a traveler. having visited the Pacific Coast and Canada as well as the Southern States. He recently made a trip to the Cotton States Exposition, at Atlanta, Ga., and at the same time went to Florida, visiting Jacksonville, St. Au- gustine and Tampa. Mr. Missemer has been serving as administrator, executor and as- signee for a number of estates. His family consists of his wife, four sons and two daugh- ters.
-WICKERSHAM, FRANK B., attorney, Steel- ton, Pa., was born in Newberry township, York county, Pa., April 7, 1863. His father, Joseph Wickersham, was a native of York county, Pa. He was born April 1, 1809, and died February 28, 1892. He was a far- mer, and also taught school for a period of ten years. He took a deep interest in cdu- cational affairs, and was an ardent temper- ance reformer. He belonged to the Society of Friends. He married Hannah C. Squibb. They had twelve children, eight of whom are living, namely: John, who married Miss Ada Bryan, and has six children ; Susan, wife of John M. Freeburn, of Dauphin county, who has four children ; Matilda, living in Steelton ; Marianna, widow of John A. Sponsler, of Dauphin county ; Clara, wife of Dr. Geo. C. Garretson, of Cincinnati, Ohio ; M. S., married to Lizzie Elden, by whom he has two children ; Emma, wife of john H. Wacker, of Wooster, Ohio, who has one child, and Frank B. William and Rebecca were scalded to death at the ages of four and two years respectively. Ellen, Annie and Lizzie died of diphtheria when quite young.
Frank B. acquired his primary education in the public schools of his native township. In 1881 he began teaching school, and taught two terms in his native township. one term in the model school of the Normal School at Shippensburg, Cumberland county, one term in the Hanover high school and three terms in Steelton, Pa. In 1854 he graduated from the Cumberland Valley State Normal School, and in 1885 registered as law student under Senator McCarrell. January 19, '1SSS, he was admitted to the Dauphin county bar. Since that time he
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has been engaged in the practice of his pro- fession in Steelton. Ile has acted as solicitor of the borough of Steelton since 1889. He is director and attorney for the Steelton Home Water Company, and director and so- licitor for the People's Building and Loan Association. He has been a member of the school board for a period of six years. He is a Republican, and is active in party matters. He is an active member of St. John's Lu- theran church, and is one of its trustees. He is a director of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association of Steelton. In f889 he married Miss Mary, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Roe) Fencil, of Steelton, by whom he has two children, Frank Brewster, born June 22, 1893, and Robert Cadwallader, born February 2, 1895.
HUMMELL, LEVI, Steelton, Pa., was born July 19, 1820. Christian Hummell, his grandfather, was a native of Dauphin county, his father's family being among its earliest settlers. He lived and died in Hummels- town. He was a carpenter by trade. He married, and reared seven children : John, Jacob, Christian, Jr., Frederick, Joseph, David, and Polly. He died at the age of eighty-five years. Jacob Hummell, son of Christian and father of Levi, was born March 13, 1791. He learned the trade of carpenter, and followed that occupation through life. He married Miss Justina Bowers, of Hum- melstown, who was born in Germany. Their children were: Susanna, born January 6, 1816, died September 1, 1822; Caroline, who died February 21, 1852; Levi ; Justina, born December 8, 1822, widow of Benjamin Fes- ter, of Mansfield, Ohio; Sarah, born October 4, 1825; Abner," born"!October 2, 1827, died leaving a widow and six children; Harriet, deceased, born February 3. 1830, married Christian Laley, had two children; Theo- dore, born October 16, 1833, married Miss Hoy, and had three children, two of whom are living ; Mary, born July 20, 1836, living in the West.
Levi Hummell acquired his education in the common schools of his locality. At the age of eleven years he began learning the trade of a carpenter, as apprentice to his father. He followed this occupation until 1871, when he erected the first grocery store in Steelton, where he had carried on that business for fifteen years, after which he re- tired. He !takes 'an !active part in politics in connection with the Republican party.
He has held the office of borough supervisor for a term of three years. He and his fam- ily attend the United Brethren church. Hle was married, February 20, 1845, to Miss Julia M. Brestle. daughter of Charles Brestle, of Middletown. Their children are: Elmer C., clerk in the commissioner's office, at Harris- burg; Charlos, a carpenter at the Steel Works ; Clara W., living at home, and five who have died : John Boyd, Henry, and Robert, died in infancy ; Harriet Rebecca, in 1864, at the age of sixteen years, and Joseph Abner, May 14, 1891, aged forty years.
CULP, JOHN F., M. D., Steelton, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 6, 1864. His father, John Culp, is a native of the same county, and was born in 1832. He was a contractor and builder in the carly part of his life, and later engaged in the produce business. He retired from business in 18SS. He married Miss Alice Onell, of Philadelphia. They had six children : William, deceased ; Margaret, died in infancy ; Emma, wife of William Spencer; John F .; Lea, living at home ; and Raymond, who died in infancy. Mr. Culp has always taken a deep interest in educa- tional matters, and has especially sought to give his children the advantages of a thor- ough and liberal education. John F. com- pleted his preliminary education in the Philadelphia high school, from which he was graduated in 1882. He pursued the regular course in the University of Pennsylvania, entering in 1883, and receiving his diploma in 1886. He came at once to Harrisburg, and began the practice of his profession as resident physician in the Harrisburg Hos- pital, where he remained one year. He next entered the" office of Dr. Thomas J. Dunott, where he remained one year; after this he located in Steelton, where he has since con- ducted a general practice, and has enjoyed a gratifying success. He is surgeon and resi- dent physician for the Pennsylvania Steel Company, of Steelton. He is a member of the Harrisburg Academy of Medicine, the Dauphin County Medical Society, the Penn- sylvania State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association.
COUFFER, SAMUEL, proprietor of the Couffer House, Steelton, Pa., was born near Harris- burg, in what is now a part of the city March 9, 1838. His father, William Couffer, was a" native of Berks county, Pa. He was born in 1808. He was a carpenter by trade.
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He married Miss Catherine Sunnon ; and of their five children two are living : William, engaged in mining zinc and lead, at Joplin, Miss., married and has a family ; and Sam- uel. The father died December 24, 1883.
Samuel acquired his education in the schools of Dauphin county and the city schools of Harrisburg. At the age of cleven he became a boatman on the Pennsylvania canal, and followed this occupation up to 1864. From that time until 1876 he had charge of the Bombaugh stone quarry. He was next engaged in the ice and coal busi- ness, which he carried on for fourteen years. In 1880 he turned his attention to hotel keeping and opened the Couffer House in Steelton, and has since continued to be its proprietor. He has met with success in this undertaking, and has demonstrated his busi- ness ability. He is also interested in other business ventures. He was the instigator of the Steelton Light, Heat and Power Com- pany, which was organized with a capital of $40,000, since increased to $60,000 and the company made a stock company. He acted as burgess of Steelton for one year. He is a member of Perseverance Lodge, No. 21, of Harrisburg, and of the I. O. R. M., No. 243, of Steelton. He is a Democrat in politics. In 1860 he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Martin, of Hummelstown, who died in the West. Their children are three : Charles M., who married Amanda Mumma, and has four children ; Samuel S., lineman for the Steelton Light, Heat and Power Com- pany, married Miss Bowman, and has one child ; Carrie, living at home. Mr. Couffer was one of the earliest settlers in what is now Steelton. When he came there, in 1865, the borough was not yet organized.
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-SIEG, WILLIAM H. H., editor and pub- lisher, Steelton, Pa., was born in Lykens Valley, near Millersburg, Dauphin county, Pa., May 17, 1837. He is a son of William P. and Catharine (Young) Sieg. The father was born near Hummelstown, Pa., January 31, 1803, and died in Harrisburg, March 12, 1879. He was a tailor by trade and was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for thirty years. He was married to Miss Catharine Young, who was born in Youngstown, Pa., February 21, 1804, and died in Harrisburg, March 24, 1885. They have had these children : Louisa; Catha- rine ; Samuel H., died in Chicago, in 1892;
William H. H .; Elizabeth, died in Harris- burg, in 1856; and Lydia A.
William H. H. received his education in the public schools of Harrisburg. In early life he felt inclined toward newspaper work. and in 1852 began to learn printing with Rev. John Winebrenner, on the Church Ad- vocate, remaining there two years. During the war he was engaged part of the time as clerk in the Harrisburg postoffice, and was also in the secret service under Governor Curtin, rendering valuable and efficient ser- vice to the Government when the Southern troops were in the Cumberland Valley, be- fore the battle of Gettysburg. In 1869 he embarked in the printing business in Har- risburg, and in 1882 moved to Steelton and established the Steelton Reporter, an enter- prise which has proven very successful, and of which he is still the head. From 1866 to 1876 Mr. Sieg was a member of the common council of Harrisburg, being president of the same from 1873 to 1875. He was secretary of Steelton borough council from 1883 to 1885, resigning to accept the position of postmaster, to which he was appointed in February, 1885. After serving three years and a half he was re-appointed by President Harrison, September, 1891, and continued four years and a half longer in the same position. All the positions of public trust which Mr. Sieg has occupied have been held with that same fidelity and strict honesty which has always characterized his private affairs, and which has been the keynote of his success. He is a member of Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was married. in Harrisburg, November 27, 1858, to Miss Annie A. Black, born September 10, 1837, daughter of Thomas Black, born in Dauphin county, in 1806, and Catharine (Hemperly) Black, born in Middletown, Pa., in 1808. Their children are : Katie, Mary, William P . Annie, deceased, and James Young Sieg. In politics Mr. Sieg is a Republican, and is a member of the Presbyterian church.
NERON, D. W., Steelton, Pa., was born in - Cumberland county, Pa., November 10, 1841. John Neron, his grandfather, was of Scotch- Irish descent, and was among the first set- tlers of Cumberland county. According to well-authenticated records, he lived to be over one hundred years old. He married Miss Tarman, of Adams county, Pa., by whom he had five children : John, Benja-
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min, Joseph, Robert, and Rachel, who mar- ried John Hutchinson. Benjamin Neron, father of D. W., was born in 1810, in Cum- berland county, Pa., where he spent the greater part of his life. He was a horse- shoer by trade. For many years he was en- gaged on the Mississippi river in navigation. He married Miss Mary Moore, daughter of Anthony Moore. They had three children : D. W .; Anne, wife of William Vanasblin, of Harrisburg, and John R., died in 1868, at the age of twenty-four years.
D. W. received his education in the com- mon schools of his native place. When a young man he worked with his father at the trade of horseshoeing. He was also engaged for about one year with a Mr. Redding, who was a coach painter. In 1861 he was em- ployed by the Government in the three months' service as a teamster. In 1864 he enlisted in the army in defense of his coun- try in the Two Hundred and Seventh regi- ment, Pennsylvania volunteers, under Col. R. C. Cox, and served until the close of the war, participating in many noted battles. After his discharge from the army he was engaged in the Cumberland Valley as a house painter. He followed this occupation until 1889, when he removed to Steelton, where he has since lived. He is engaged in house painting and has a real estate business. He is also agent for an insurance company. He is identified with the Democratic party, and is always actively interested in the wel- fare of the party. In 1894 he was elected to the office of justice of the peace. In 1863 he married Miss Mary. A., daughter of John Filey. They have three children : Elmer E., John F., and Mary E., telegraph opera- tor at the Commonwealth Hotel, in Harris- burg.
HITE, JEROME, Steelton, Pa., was born in Susquehanna township, Dauphin county, Pa., December 31, 1836. His grandfather, Jacob Hite, was born near the Round Top, Dau- phin county. . He was married and reared five children. He died at the age of sixty- three years, and his wife at the age of sixty- eight. Their children are: Jacob, Henry, John, and Barbara, all deceased, and Cathe- rine, wife of Mr. Bricker, of Londonderry township. Jacob Hite, father of Jerome, was born in Dauphin county in 1811. He was a farmer and gardener. His wife was Miss Sarah Foreman, daughter of John Foreman, who lived to the age of ninety-four years, and
Sally Foreman, who lived to be ninety-seven years old. They had five children : Jerome; Mary; Susan, died at the age of sixteen years; Sarah, deceased, and Jacob F. Mary is the widow of A. Iloopes, who was killed on the railroad at Phoenixville, leaving three chil- dren ; Sarah, deceased, was the wife of Max- well Stanton. Jacob Hite, the father, died in 1874, at the age of sixty-three. His wife Sarah is still living at Washington, Iowa, with her son Jacob F., who married Kittie Harper, of Dauphin county.
Jerome acquired his education in the com- mon school of Coxestown. In early years he was engaged in farming and gardening; he was well known in the Harrisburg markets. In 1862 he went as a volunteer with H. W. Hoffman to the battle of Antietam. In 1870 he changed his occupation and began hotel keeping. His first venture was the Holsbach IIotel, in which he remained three years. At the end of this time he rented the hotel near the Bolton House, in Harrisburg, then called Mechanic's Hall, where he remained eight years. In 1881 he went to Steelton, where he has ever since conducted the Steelton Hotel. He was instrumental in the organi- zation of the Steelton Light, Heat and Power Company, of which he has served as director since its organization. He was an organizer of the Paxtang Hook and Ladder Company in 1888. He is a Republican in politics and has always taken an active part in the meas- ures of his party. He has held the office of mercantile appraiser for one year, and has been assessor of the Fourth ward since 1885.
He is a member of Paxtang Tribe, No. 243, I. O. R. M .; Paxtang Council, No. 2, de- gree of Pocahontas; Steelton Lodge, No. 411, K. of P .; Baldwin Commandery, No. 108, A. & I. O. K. of M., Steelton ; Moro Castle, No. 163, K. G. E .; Crusade Castle, No. 73, A. O. K. of M. C., Steelton. He is past chancellor commander of No. 411, K. of P .; past sachem of the Independent Order of Red Men; representative of the Great Council of Pennsylvania for six terms, and in appreciation of his valuable services received the appointment of Great Guard of Wigwam. In his active and varied career Mr. Hite has used his abilities for the upbuilding of many fraternities, but his greater interests have always been enlisted in behalf of Redmanship and its principles. Ile was adopted into Octorara Tribe, No. 91, at Harrisburg, in 1867. After serving: his tribe and the order for a number of years,
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he moved to Steelton, withdrawing from No. 91. He deposited his card in Paxtang Tribe, No. 243, and became as active there as he had been in No. 91.
After being admitted into the Great Coun- cil his effective work in advancing the inter- ests of the brotherhood gained for him a wide and deserving reputation. He was appointed for three great suns Deputy Great Sachem. While in the latter position he was instru- mental in organizing Susquehanna Tribe, No. 298, at Steelton ; Poketo Tribe, No. 315, at Middletown; Canonicus Tribe, No. 94, at Mechanicsburg; Te-ton Tribe, No. 311, at Harrisburg; Arrapahoe Tribe, No. 68, at Huntingdon ; also Paxtang Council, No. 2, D. of P., at Steelton. He was elected Great Junior Sagamore by the largest vote ever polled for this office, and raised at Great Sun Council at Columbia, May 23, 1896.
In 1857 he married Miss Sarah J. Lynn, daughter of Michael Lynn, a native of Ire- land. They have four children : Jacob L., married, and living at Syracuse, N. Y .; Sadie V., wife of M. Cronan, of Steelton ; Clara L., wife of J. C. Whitmoyer. of Steelton ; and Bertie L., wife of John Sutton, of Altoona, Pa.
McGINNES, LEMUEL E., was born in Perry county, Pa., May 15, 1853. James McGin- nes, his paternal great-grandfather, was a native of the north of Ireland. He came to America in 1790 and settled in Greenwood township, now Buffalo township, Perry county. John Ditty, his maternal great- great-grandfather, settled in the Lykens Valley, three miles northeast of Millersburg, in 1770. John Cochran McGinnes, father of Lemuel E., was a native of Perry county and was born in 1812. He was well edu- cated, and his vocation was that of a teacher. He died in 1887. He married Sarah Ann Ditty, who survives him.
Their son, Lemuel E. McGinnes, enjoyed usual educational advantages. His parents were intelligent and well educated people. The influences of his home were such as to stimulate him to mental effort from the very dawning of his intellectual life. He passed through the course of study in the public schools, and, as supplementary to this, he enjoyed tuition in good private schools and the instructions of the most competent private teachers. The aim of his parents was to qualify him for the pro- fession of teaching. Ile was inspired with lofty aims and equipped with all the in-
tellectual furnishings he had the capacity to receive. When nineteen years of age he was ready to begin the business of life. Ile followed his ancestral bent and entered the ranks of the teachers. He began on the lower plane of the ungraded country school, and his first three terms were spent in get- ting hold of the practical elements of his art by the experience of actual relationship and contact between teacher and pupil. The lowest primary grade is as favorable a field for getting this experience as the high- est grade in the course. Promotion comes in due time to the patient toiler in the lower grades. It came to Mr. McGinnes in 1875. and the steps of his promotion were rapid and substantial. First came the principal- ship of the Lower Duncannon high school ; three years later the principalship of the Duncannon borough high school, and three years later, or in 1881, the principalship of the Steelton schools. Much was expected of him, and great demands were made on his ability and professional skill in this new position. The most substantial business elements of the community, and especially the Pennsylvania Steel Company, had adopted the wise and beneficial policy of giving substantial aid to the educational interests of the rapidly developing indus- trial town. The most liberal provisions were made, in buildings and funds, for the best system of schools. Mr. McGinnes was placed at the head of this great enterprise. His native tastes and aspirations, his thor- ough education and his nine years of ex perience combined to qualify him for his work. His success is phenomenal. At the end of seven years the system was perfected. From 1881 to 1888 he was principal of the high school and supervisor of all the de- partments, and in 1888 he was unanimously elected to the office of superintendent of the schools. This system of schools, so largely the creation of his hand, is the demonstra- tion of his ability, fidelity and professional devotion. Mr. MeGinnes is interested in the community as a professional teacher. But his influence has a broader and deeper sweep and flow. Ile is deeply interested in morals and religion, and is an active force in the Christian and benevolent work of the town. He is an elder in the First Pres- byterian church, and his character and life show him to be a worthy incumbent of the high' office. He was married, in 1879. to Miss Ida Clark, daughter of Hugh K. and
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