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 65

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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Ellen S. Wilson, of Perry county, in whom he finds a wife in full and cordial sympathy with him in his aims and efforts to advance society. They have one child, Ellen S.


-LANDIS, A. C., Steelton, was born in Cum- berland county, Pa., February 11, 1837. He is a son of Henry Landis. He obtained his education in Cumberland county. When a young man he learned the trade of tailor, and followed this occupation until 1861. At the breaking out of the war of the Rebel- lion, in 1861, he answered the first call for volunteers, and enlisted in the three months' service under C lonel Stumbaugh. At the end of the three months' service he enlisted for three years, in company K, One Hun- dred and Seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, under Colonel Ziegler, of York, Pa. On August 28, 1864, was commissioned as captain of his company. He served on the staff of Gen. John P .. Slough, military governor of Alexandria, Va. He partici- pated in the following battles : Cedar Moun- tain, August 9, 1862; Rappahannock, Au- gust 18 and 25; Thorough Gap, August 28; Bull Run, August 30; South Mountain, Sep- tember 14; Antietam, September 16 and 17; Sharpsburg, October 30; Bristow Station, December 12; Frederick, Va., December 13- 15; Chancellorsville, January 21, 1861 ; Fitz- hugh's Crossing, April 28-30; Chancellors- ville, May 1-3; Gettysburg, July 1-3. At the close of the war Captain Landis came to Harrisburg and resumed work at his trade. He served as cutter for J. R. Croft for five years. After this he came to Steel- ton and took charge of the dry goods and clothing department of the Company's store, in which capacity he remained for fifteen years, when he resigned. He was instru- mental in organizing the Steelton Light, Heat and Power Company, and was elected secre- tary and treasurer of the company. He filled the office for two years, and then resigned. He has served in the borough council. Hle was the candidate of his party for the State Legislature. Heisa Democrat, and is active in the movements of his party. He is a member of the Masonic order, Lodge No. 351, Shippensburg. He has been president of the Steelton Board of Trade since its or- ganization, in 1888. In 1849 he married Miss Rebecca Allison, daughter of J. B. Alli- son, of Franklin county, by whom he had eight children. Mrs. Landis died in 1891. Their children are : Alfred M., born June 10,


1859, married Miss Emma Steel, and lives at Landisburg ; Calvin D., born July 30, 1860, married Miss Nellie Galligan, who died in 1895, leaving four children ; Annie M., born October 16, 1861, wife of George Brinser, of Steelton ; Florence B., born November 4, 1864, wife of William Greist, of Steelton ; Harry J., born February 11, 1867, married to Miss Lizzie Franklin, of Steelton : E. Maud, born November 11, 1871, wife of James D. Banford, of Steelton; William R., born February 25, 1869, died February 1, 1870; Charles A., born December 27, 1874, married Mary Weisman, of Harrisburg.


FLETCHER, JOSEPH A., Steelton, was born in Manchester, England, December 14, 1835. His father, William Fletcher, of Manchester, married Maria Whitaker, by whom he had five children : Sabina ; Edward ; Elizabeth, deceased ; William, who came to this country in 1867, and now resides in Middletown, Pa., and Joseph A. Mr. Fletcher died in 1872 and his wife in 1873.


Joseph A. received his education in the schools of England. Having learned the moulder's trade when a young man, he fol- lowed this occupation for seven years. In March, 1854, he came to this country, sailing on the sailing vessel Henry Clay. He lo- cated at Cold Springs, N. Y. Here he found employment at his trade and was busily en- gaged for three years. In 1857 the home feeling prevailed and he turned his face toward his English home and friends. Two years were sufficient to enable him to realize that this country offered him more oppor- tunities for rising in the world than he could find in his own country. In March, 1859, he returned to the United States, and again found a place to work at Cold Springs for one year. He was now complete master of the trade of moulder and iron worker. After leaving Cold Springs he was employed in steel mills in several different States. He finally, in 1867, settled in Steelton, which has since that date been his permanent place of residence. He engaged with the Penn- sylvania Steel Company, first as overseer of the Bessemer melting department; for the next five years he had charge of the foundry for the same works. In 1874 he resigned his place with the Steel Company and went to Philadelphia, Pa., where he conducted a dry goods business until 1876. At this time he returned to Steelton and engaged in the hotel business. He demonstrated his ability


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in this line by keeping a good house and making this business profitable. In 1880 he built the large hotel known as the Fletcher House, which he has since man- aged. Mr. Fletcher is one of the original stockholders and one of the largest investors in the Steelton Light, Heat and Power Com . pany. He has also been one of its directors since it was organized. He is also a stock- holder in the Harrisburg Trust Company, and in the Harrisburg Electric Light Com- pany.


In 1861 he married Miss Margaret Arthur, of Troy, N. Y. They had eight children : Joseph A., Jr., married, and living at Spar- row's Point, Md., has five children ; Minnie; Bella, deceased; William Arthur; infant daughter, deceased ; Alfred ; Bella, deceased ; Charles deceased. His wife, Margaret (Ar- thur) Fletcher, died in March, 1885. He was married again in August, 1885, to Miss Martha Booser, daughter of Jacob Booser, of Hummelstown, by whom he has three chil- dren, Nellie E., Mary L., and Ambrose L. Mr. Fletcher is a member of the Masonic Lodge, No. 486, of Middletown, Pa., and joined Oriental Chapter and Kadosh Com- mandery, of Philadelphia, in 1875.


DUNKLE, J. A., Steelton, Pa., was born in Dauphin county, Pa., September 11, 1834. His father, George Dunkle, was born in Lan- caster county in 1791; moved to Dauphin county with his father and family. He was the son of one of the pioneer settlers of Dau- phin county. He followed farming in the early part of his life, but was also a mer- chant and a wood worker. He was in the war of 1812, under General Foster. He died in 1847. He married Miss Susan Grei- ner, daughter of Andrew Greiner, of Dau- phin county. They had these children : George, Jacob, John, Washington, and Susan, deceased ; the surviving ones are: Henry, J. A., and Peter, residing in Steelton. His wife, Susan, died in 1860.


J. A. took the regular course in the schools of his time and place. He learned the car- penter's trade, and was a contractor and builder for twenty-one years. He built the first complete house ever erected in Steel- ton, then known as Baldwin, in the fall of 1866. He has been interested in a business way in Steelton since 1866, and has had his residence here since 1880. In 1865 he be- came engaged more particularly in the real estate business. He laid out a large por-


tion of Steelton, Highland, now Enhaut, Benton, and parts of Oberlin, being asso- ciated with a Mr. Ewing in laying out East- mere. For several years he was a resident of Oberlin. He was also interested in other branches of business. For a time he dealt in coal and lumber. He and Mr. J. B. Ewing organized the Harrisburg Boiler and Manufacturing Company in 1880, and he has served as director in the company since its organization. He was one of the organ- izers of the Steelton Light, Heat and Power Company, and served as director in the company from 1890 to 1894. He is a mem- ber of the Board of Trade of Harrisburg. He is connected with the furniture store of Dunkle & Co.


In 1857 he married Miss Mary Bishop, daughter of William Bishop, near Oberlin, Pa., by whom he had these children : Ellen, wife of Dr. J. H. Snavely, Steelton, has five children; Catherine, wife of Abraham Dunkle, Steelton, has five children ; Samuel F., married Miss Jessie Sefton, of Carlisle, Pa., is engaged with his father as manager of the sales department of the Harrisburg Boiler Company ; Elizabeth, wife of F. H. Alleman, of Steelton, has four children ; Amos W., married Miss Barnett, of Steelton, has one child ; Maggie, living at home. Mr. Dunkle was the originator of the Citizens' Passenger Railway Company from Oberlin to Harrisburg. He was president of the company for the first few years of its exist- ence and is at present one of its directors. He was also for several years interested in the hardware and stove business.


SULTZABERGER, D. O., Steelton, Pa., was born in York county, Pa., August 25, 1854. His father, Israel Sultzaberger, was born in York county, August 2, 1823, and died Au- gust 24, 1893. He married Miss Juliana Binneman, daughter of Henry Binneman ; she died August 1, 1859. They had six children: Peter, deceased ; Mary Jane, wife of Peter Snyder, of York county ; Eliza Ann, deceased ; D. O .; W. H., married and living in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland county, Pa .; Elizabeth, deceased. In 1860 he married, for his second wife, Miss Julianna Stouffer, of York county, who died August 10. 1893, aged seventy years, ten months and twenty- four days.


D. O. was educated in the common schools of York county. In early life he was em- ployed in farming. At nineteen years of age


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he went to learn the carpenter trade, and followed this occupation until he was thirty years of age. In 1885 he engaged in the coal business, which he has carried on since that time. In the fall of 1875 he came to Steelton, where he first worked for ten years as a carpenter, and then embarked in the coal business, under the firm name of Couffer & Sultzaberger. He has an interest in the Steelton Light, Heat and Power Company. In the spring of 1885 he was elected to the borough council of Steelton for a term of three years. In 1886 he married Miss Lillie Rank, born March 1, 1860; daughter of Sam- uel Rank, of Harrisburg. They have one child, Clarence I., born November 4, 1892. Mr. Sultzaberger is a Republican and en- gages actively and with much interest in all the undertakings of his party.


SHOPE, A. L., M. D., Oberlin, Pa., was born in Oberlin, October 16, 1868. He is a son of A. H. Shope. His great-grandfather, Jacob Shope, was a native of Germany. He came to Dauphin county, married, and reared a family of children, all of whom are dead. His son, Abraham Shope, grandfather of Dr. Shope, was a weaver. Early in life he en- gaged in mercantile business, and later in farming. His first wife was a Miss Wasser, daughter of Dr. Wasser, who came from Eu- rope. They had five children : Elizabeth, born September 8, 1811, deceased ; John, born March 27, 1815; Abram, born July 24, 1817, deceased; Jacob, born September 6, 1819; David, born April 1, 1826. Ilis sec- ond wife was Elizabeth McFadden. Their children were as follows: Cornelius, born May 18, 1831 ; Elias P., born November 25, 1833, deceased ; Mary Ann, born April 17, 1836; George W., born August 13, 1838; Priscilla, born March 30, 1841; Adam H., born December 27, 1844; Susan, born Feb- ruary 28, 1848.


C. B. Shope, uncle of Dr. Shope, was edu- cated in the common schools of Dauphin county. When a young man he was occu- pied in farming, and later he learned car- pentry. In 1863 he engaged in the butch- ering business, in Churchville, now known as Oberlin, in which he continued until 1883. Since that year he has been unable, on ac- count of failing health, to attend to busi- ness. He was married, February 8, 1852, to Matilda Lose, born July 18, 1824, in Lan- caster county, a daughter of Abraham Lose. They had two children : William W., born


January 25, 1853, at Harrisburg ; and C. B., Jr., born March 22, 1866, at Harrisburg. His wife died in September, 1866. His second wife was Mary A., daughter of John Bals- bach, born June 11, 1828. He is much in- terested in church work. He is connected with the United Brethren church, and has been superintendent of the Sunday-school for about fifteen years.


A. H. Shope, son of Abram Shope, was born December 27, 1844. His father was born November 16, 1788, and died Septem- ber 16, 1854. His mother, Elizabeth Shope, was born October 30, 1806, and died Jan- uary 11, 1879. He was educated in the com- mon schools of Dauphin county. He was engaged in farm work until he was sixteen years old, when he entered the drug store of Shope & Orth, in Hummelstown, as clerk, and remained there until 1863. At that date he enlisted in the Thirty-sixth regiment, Pennsylvania militia, for three months. He was afterwards in the butchering business, in Harrisburg and at Oberlin. From 1879 to 1882 he was in mercantile business. In 1884 he was elected director of the poor, in which office he served for three years, and was re-elected for a second term, serving until 1890. He has ever since been engaged in general mercantile business, to the time of this writing, October, 1895. He married Miss Jane Reighart, daughter of John Reig- hart, of Dauphin county, who died Decem- ber 23, 1890, leaving him one child. He married, on May 16, 1893, Ida V., daughter of Jacob Heckert. He is a stockholder in the Hummelstown Bank.


Dr. A. L. Shope took the usual course of study in the schools, but with some varia- tions. When a very young man he was a news agent in Oberlin for four years. He picked up the trade of painting, and carried it on during the summer months. In winter he continued his studies. He acquired his preliminary education at the Academy in Steelton. In 1886 he put himself under the instruction of Dr. Putt, of Oberlin, and began reading medicine with that gentle- man as his preceptor. In 1887 he entered the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadel- phia, and was graduated in 1890. In the spring of that year he located in Oberlin, where he has since enjoyed an extensive practice. He was married, in October, 1895, to Miss Emma, daughter of Daniel and Mary Wagner, of Dauphin county.


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home in 1854, at the age of sixteen years. He went to Marion county, Iowa, and re- mained two years; then to Strong county, Iowa, where he engaged in farming. He married, in Iowa, a Miss Ellen Sesson, by whom he has four sons: Edwin, Charles, William, and Albert. He removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where he has since resided. He was married, a second time, to Mrs. Post ; they have one son, George W., Jr. He has served as city treasurer for two terms. He was cashier of the Grand Avenue Savings Bank until October, 1895, when he retired. He takes an active part in politics in con- nection with the Republican party.


- SCHAFFNER, D. W., M. D., Enhaut, Pa., was born at Berryburg, Dauphin county, February 17, 1857. He is a son of Daniel Schaffner, a sketch of whom appears else- where in this volume. His early education he received in the common schools of Dau- phin county. He also studied at Palatinate College, Meyerstown, Lebanon county. His first employment was teaching school; he taught in West and South Hanover town- ships. In 1882 he began reading medicine with Dr. W. C. Baker, of Hummelstown. In 1883 he entered the University of Maryland, and graduated in 1887. In the same year he located in Highland, now known as En- haut. This name was given to the place by Dr. Schaffner. He began the practice of medicine here, and has continued it since that time. He has been successful, and now enjoys an extensive practice. Dr. Schaffner is a member of the Dauphin County Medi- cal Society, and also of the State Medical Society. He is interested as a stockholder in the Harrisburg Traction Company. In 1888 he married Miss Frances H., daughter of Isaac Beinhower, of Oberlin, Pa. They have one child, Meade D., born April 24, 1895. The Doctor is identified with the Democratic party. He is town committee- man. He was the organizer of the band, and is the treasurer of the Industrial Sav- ings and Loan Company, the main office of which is in Syracuse, N. Y.


MIDDLETON, WILLIAM JOHN, M. D., was born in Philadelphia, Pa., January 9, 1858. He is the eldest son of John A. Middleton and Margaret Ann Gamble. He is descended from one of three brothers who came to New Jersey before the days of William Penn .; two of them remained in New Jersey, while


one removed to South Carolina. The fam- ily removed early to Philadelphia. The name of Aaron Middleton, mariner, the great-great-grandfather of Dr. Middleton, appears in the first directory of the city. Margaret A. Gamble was the second daugh- ter of Wiliiam Gamble, who grew to man- hood in Leacock township, Lancaster county, Pa., and belonged to a company among the troops from that county which served at Baltimore in the war of 1812. He became Captain Gamble in 1814. He afterwards married Elizabeth Richardson, a daughter of the famous family of linen manufacturers of Belfast, Ireland.


The parents of Dr. Middleton removed to Harrisburg in 1869. He received a common school education in that city. In 1876 he began the study of medicine with Dr. George R. Hursh, then a busy practitioner, residing on North Second street. He received the de- gree of M. D. from Jefferson Medical College in March, 1879, returned to Harrisburg, and at once began to practice his profession there. He was elected assistant dispensary physi- cian to the Harrisburg Hospital, and served in that capacity for several months. Upon his retirement from the place the Board of Managers voted him their thanks. In Janu- ary, 1881, Dr. Middleton formed a partner- ship with Dr. W. J. Kline, of Greensburg, Pa., where he remained a little over a year. In the spring of 1882 he received the ap- pointment of surgeon to the Juragua Iron Company, of Santiago de Cuba, and served the company at their mines, cast of Santiago, for fifteen months. In November, 1884, he came to Steelton as surgeon to the Pennsyl- vania Steel Company, which office he re- signed in 1888 to devote himself to the prac- tice of his profession in Steelton. In April, 1888, he married Lavinia Sterling Towson, of Baltimore. They have three sons: Wil- liam Towson, born in 1889; Albert Gamble, in 1890; and Leonard Reynolds, in 1892. Dr. Middleton still resides in Steelton, and con- ducts a general practice. He enjoys the confidence and esteem of the best people in the community, and is justly regarded as one of the leading men in his profession.


ยท ESHIENAUR, II. G., Oberlin, Pa., was born in Lower Swatara township, Dauphin county, Pa., October, 1843. His grandfather, Christian Eshenaur, was a native of Ger- many, and was one of the pioneer settlers of the county. IIe was a farmer. He married


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and reared a family of children, six sons and one daughter: John, Andrew, Jacob, Chris- tian, Leonard, Youckle, and Catherine, all of whom are dead. Frederick Eshenaur, son of Christian, and father of H. G .; was born in 1807. He spent his life on the farm, and died in 1857. He married Miss Mary, daugh- ter of Henry Gayman. Mr. Gayman died in 1885, on his ninety-ninth birthday. To this marriage were born four children : Nancy, wife of Isaac Coble; Christiana, wife of John Zell, of Franklin county ; H. G .; and Jacob, deceased, married Anne Booser; two children survive him, Henry and Katie. George Eshenaur was a son of Christian Eshenaur, of Dauphin county.


H. G. Eshenaur was educated in the com- mon schools of Dauphin county. He began early in life as a farmer, and made farming his life occupation. In 1893, at fifty years of age, he removed from the farm to Oberlin, where he has since lived retired from active business. He is a director of the Citizens' Passenger Railway Company and a stock- holder in his company. He has been one of the board of directors since the organiza- tion of the company. He was instrumental in the laying out of the town of Benton. He is public spirited, taking an interest in all that promotes the growth and prosperity of the community. He was married, in 1868, to Miss Eshenaur, daughter of George Eshe- naur, by whom he has seven children : Har- vey, married Miss Smelcher, daughter of William Smelcher, of Swatara township, and is engaged in farming on the old homestead in that township; William J., living at Car- lisle, Pa., editor of the Carlisle Leader, a weekly paper; Mamie, living at home; Emma, living at home; Ernest Earl, and Vernie Pearl, twins.


- HOUCK, ISAAC, Enhaut, Pa., was born in Northampton county, Pa., December 6, 1839. He is a son of Adam Houck, a native of Northampton county, born in 1813. He was a collier, and was also to some extent engaged in farming. He came in 1840 to Dauphin county, where he lived until his death in 1880. He married and reared a family of five children : John, deceased, married Susan Smith, who with several children survives him; Charles, deceased, died shortly after three years' service in the defense of his . country, married Sarah Jane Herman, who with one child survives him; Rebecca, wife of IIenry Zimmerman, living in Iowa : Juli-


ana, widow of Jacob Laudermilch, has five children, lives at Oberlin ; and Isaac.


Isaac Houck, when about one year old, came with his parents to Dauphin county. He acquired his education in the common schools. When he was fourteen years old he went to the West, settled in Indiana and en- gaged in farming, remaining five years. In 1858 he returned to Dauphin county, and was there occupied with farming until 1870. He then found employment with the Penn- sylvania Steel Company in the Bessemer de- partment. From this department he was transferred to the forge mill, and from this to the rail department, where he has since remained. During the late war he was in the service of the Government as a teamster. In the spring of 1865 he was in Lycoming county, near Pine Creek, during the flood which occurred that year. In 1860 he mar- ried Miss Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Mef- fort, of Dauphin county. Mr. Meffort died September 24, 1884; his wife in March, 1879. They have had twelve children, ten of whom are living: John A., born September 27. 1861, engaged with the Pennsylvania Steel Company, married Emma Keller; Mary E., born August 8, 1863, wife of Emery E. Holmes ; Margaret E., born February 2, 1866, wife of Jacob Pathamore, of Enhaut ; Charles O., born February 15, 1868, married Mattie Morrison, of Huntingdon county ; Christiana, born April 7, 1870, wife of H. T. Hoy; William B., born April 14, 1872, mar- ried Martha Prowl, of York county; Susan J., born May 8, 1874, living at home ; Ed- ward, born March 1, 1877; Rebecca, born March 2, 1879; J. Sylvester and Perly Esther, twins, born December 29, 1880; the former died January 6, 1881, the latter February 24, 1881; Bertha May, born January 10, 1883.


SNAVELY, M. N., Enhaut, Pa., was born in Swatara township, Dauphin county, January 20, 1840. His father, Jacob Snavely, was a farmer. IIe was an active member of the United Brethren church, and served it for many yearsas pastor. IIe died, March, 1891, at the age of eighty-three. He married Miss Barbara Nissley, by whom he had seven children: John, of Steelton ; Anna, wife of Solomon Landis, of Union Deposit; Jacob, deceased, shot while serving in the defense of his country in 1862; Solomon, living in Michigan ; M. N .; Susan, wife of Franklin Balsbach, living near Hummelstown ; Bar-


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bara, widow of Jacob Eberly, whose first hus- band was Harry Graybill. The second wife of Jacob Snavely was Elizabeth, daughter of John Walters, of Dauphin county. They had six children, five of whom are living : Michael, retired merchant, residing in Har- risburg; Mary, wife of Christian Knupp, of Oberlin, Pa .; Emma, died in youth ; Ellen, living in Steelton, and Samuel Ed- ward, living in Harrisburg, are twins; Maggie, wife of S. C. Lehman, of Steelton.


M. N. Snavely has resided all his life in his native township. He received his edu- cation in the schools of Dauphin county, and afterwards learned carpentry, which was his occupation for a number of years. He also made contracting a part of his busi- ness, and was to some extent employed in house painting. In 1861 he enlisted for the defense of his country in the nine months' service. He served under Capt. John J. Ball and Col. W. W. Jennings. He partici- pated in the battle of Fredericksburg. At the end of the term he was honorably discharged. He then resumed his business as carpenter and contractor, which he followed until 1889. He then succeeded James Shimmel in the general mercantile establishment, which he has since conducted. He was married, November 11, 1873, to Miss Eme- line, daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Bein- lauer) Boyer, who was born January 27, 1853. Mrs. Catherine Boyer died April, 1894, aged seventy-five years and six months. Mr. Jacob Boyer was born in 1814, and is still living. Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Snavely have eight children : Naomi Jane, born Sep- tember 16, 1874; Jacob Boyer, July 7, 1876; Agnes A., December 19, 1877; Harry Gar- field, April 9, 1881; James Blaine, Novem- ber 14, 1883; Charles Edward, July 14, 1885; Franklin Harison, May 21, 1888; George Edward, February 2, 1891.




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