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STILL, SAMUEL G., Enhaut, Pa., was born in Cumberland county, Pa., January 30, 1865. His father, Thomas M. Still, was born in Adams county, in 1829. Hc had limited educational advantages, and worked as a laborer until he was twenty-five years of age. Ile was a man of sincere picty and felt called to preach the gospel. His brethren recognized the genuineness of his conviction of duty and formally set him apart and ordained him to the ministry. Mr. Still, feeling his lack of early training, set about preparing himself for his work.
He had strong natural gifts, which by obser- vation and study he developed and strength- ened. He pursued his work with tireless industry, ardent devotion and unquenchable zeal. He was warm-hearted and attractive and drew about him devoted friends. He preached in many counties of this State and was engaged in this work until the close of his life. Few men in the eldership have accomplished better results for the church than were secured by this consecrated man in the thirty-three years of his ministry. He died suddenly, of neuralgia of the heart, at his home in Woodbury, Bedford county, Pa., July 27, 1883, and was buried at High- land, near Harrisburg. He is remembered with esteem and gratitude by thousands who heard the gospel through his persuasive voice. He was married to Miss Anna Leah Besecker, of Adams county, by whom he had seven children: Charles, deceased ; Ruhama C., wife of Amos Byrum, of Steel- ton; Duffield, deceased; Levi H., living in Perry county, Pa .; John, deceased; Samuel G .; Anna M., wife of Stewart Barnes.
Samuel G. Still received his education in the schools of Dauphin county. He was en- gaged in farm work until he was fourteen years old, and from that time until he was eighteen was employed in mining ore in Lancaster county. For the past thirteen years he has been in the employment of the Pennsylvania Steel Works. He was married, in 1887, to Miss Anna, daughter of William P. and Hannah (Downing) McNew, of Balti- more, Md. They have five children : Thomas Williams, born February 27, 1888; Hannah L., October 28, 1889; Samuel G., Jr., May 25, 1892; Anna Cora, February 11, 1894, died July 22, 1894; Ruby Catherine, March 25, 1895, died August 22, 1895. Mr. Still is a Republican. He and his wife are active members of the Church of God, in Enhaut.
-- GARVERICH, JAMES W., Enhaut, Pa., was born in Lebanon county, Pa., January 29, 1854. His father, John Adam Garverich, was a native of the same county, and married Sybilla Weaver, of Bethel township, Lebanon county. They had one child, James W. The second husband of Mrs. Garverich was John Kindt, a native of Germany ; by this marriage she had twelve children : Mary C., deceased ; Elizabeth ; S. Sophia, deceased ; Nanilla K., deceased ; Gedaliah H., Caroline, Magdalena, Annie R., Ida, Jacob, and Sam-
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uel and Amanda H., deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Kindt are living in Lebanon county.
James W. received his education in the schools of Lebanon county. He began when a young man to work on the farm, and was so engaged until 1881. At this date he came to Highland, Dauphin county, and found employment with the Pennsylvania Steel Company, in which he remained until 1892; he was employed in the Bessemer department. Since 1892 he has been in the cigar, tobacco and confectionery business in Enhaut. He belongs to the Republican party, and is active in all party movements. He has served on the county committee for nine years, and also as a delegate to the county convention. In 1893 he was appointed tax collector for Swatara township, and served for one year. In 1892 he was elected assessor of Swatara township for a three years' term, and after- wards re-elected for a second term. He was a charter member of the Citizens' Passenger Railway Company formed in 1893. In 1870 he was married to Miss Lucetta Moyer, of Lebanon county. They have had two chil- dren : John H., born in 1870, died August 13, 1892, aged twenty-two; and Lizzie O., born in 1876, living at home. Mr. Garver- ich and his family are members of the United Brethren church, in whose work he takes an active interest; he is an official member. Mr. Garverich was president of the Citizens' Band of Highland for a number of years.
John B. Moyer, the father of Mrs. J. W. Garverich, is a farmer in Lebanon county, and a prominent man in his neighborhood. He married Miss Lydia Kriser, by whom he has three children : Grant, Emma, and John. His first wife was Miss Wagner; her children were two in number: Sarah, and Lucetta, married to Mr. Garverich.
ESPENSHADE, CHRISTIAN, Oberlin, Pa., was born in Dauphin county in 1849. His father, Jacob Espenshade, was a native of the same county, where he spent his life. He was a farmer. He married Margaret Ebens. They had eight children : Mary, wife of Peter Bow- man; Valentine, Susanna, Christian, and Jacob, living; and Solomon, Elizabeth, and Henry, deceased. He died in 1878, aged seventy-two years; his wife in 1888, at the age of seventy-seven.
Christian Espenshade acquired his educa- tion in the common schools of Dauphin county. He began life as a farmer ; for some time he worked as a miner in the Lykens
Valley, but afterwards resumed farming and continued in that occupation for several years. Since 1880 he has been engaged in the Besse- mer department of the works of the Pennsyl- vania Steel Company, at Steelton. He has always been a resident of Dauphin county. In politics he is a Republican. In 1870 he married Miss Hoffman, daughter of Jacob and Eliza (Musser) Hoffman; they have five children : Charles F., Harry E., Jacob W., Laura F., and Christian C. Jacob Hoffman, the father of Mrs. Christian Espenshade, mar- ried Eliza Musser, by whom he had six chil- dren ; three are living: Maggie, Mrs. Espen- shade, and John; the three deceased were : Jacob, Sarah and Harry.
THE LIVINGSTON FAMILY-John Living- ston, a native of York county, Pa., was the first of the family to settle in Dauphin county, having come in 1804, or 1805. IIe purchased the tract of land on which the town of Enhaut is located, and lived upon it until his death. He was a farmer and a prominent citizen. He belonged to the Old River Brethren. His wife was Catherine Brinser, daughter of a Mr. Brinser who was an early settler of Londonderry township. They had five children : John, born in 1804, died 1865; Abraham, 1806-1864; Matthias, 1811-1846 ; Jacob, 1808-1885; and Catherine, 1817-1893.
His son, Abraham Livingston, was born in 1806 in Dauphin county, where he spent his life. He was educated in the common schools of the county. He was a post and fence maker, and also carried on farming to some extent. He was a member of the Dunkard denomination and took an active interest in all church matters. He married Elizabeth Eshelman, daughter of Peter Eshelman, of Londonderry township. They had six children : Jacob, of Enhaut; John; Peter, died at the age of nineteen years; Abraham, died at the age of two years; Benjamin, died in infancy ; Mary, wife of John Shoffer, of Benton, Pa.
Jacob · Livingston, eldest son of Abraham Livingston, was born in Dauphin county in 1833, and received his education in the pub- lic schools of the county. When a young man he was occupied with farming, in con- nection with his father. After marriage he began farming on his own account, con- tinuing it until 1871. For four years from that date he was engaged in lime burning. In 1876 he was employed by the Pennsyl-
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vania Steel Company and continued for eight years. Since 1884 he has carried on a general mercantile business in Enhaut. He is Republican in politics. Mr. Living- ston was married, in 1853, to Miss Rebecca, daughter of John Livingston. Their chil- dren are: Catherine, born 1855, died 1859; John W., born 1859, living at Enhaut, mar- ried Nancy Rengle; Ephraim G., born 1867, died 1869; Harry Jacob, born 1871, mar- ried to Florence, daughter of George Keim.
John Livingston, second son of Abra- ham Livingston, was born in Dauphin county, in 1837. His educational advan- tages were such as the schools of his native county afforded. His first business was farming, but his occupations were varied. He was at different times engaged in boating, stone quarrying and lime burning. From 1872 to 1884 he was employed by the Penn- sylvania Steel Company. Since the latter date he has lived retired from business. He has resided on the present location of Enhaut since 1846, a constant resident of Swatara township. He has served as school director of Enhaut since 1880. He is a Re- publican and is interested and active in politics. He has served as delegate for many years. He and his family are mem- bers of the United Brethren church, in which he has for the past fifteen years been steward and trustce. In 1880 he married
Catherine, daughter of John Livingston. They have one son, Morris, of Steelton, em- ployed by the Pennsylvania Steel Company.
John Livingston, the father of Mrs. Jacob and Mrs. John Livingston, married Sarah Ludwig. He was a weaver. Their children are: Catherine, wife of John Livingston ; Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas Hanger; Re- becca, wife of Jacob Livingston ; Mary, wife of William Davis; Leah, widow of Charles Pazey.
Jacob Livingston, son of John Livingston, Sr., was born in 1808, and married Mary Sheets, by whom he had two children : Lydia, wife of Christ. Gorman; and Susanna, wife of Michael Gross. His second wife was Susan Martin; they had two sons: Jacob, died at the age of nineteen years; and Joseph, married a Miss Straw, and has a family.
Matthias Livingston, son of John Livings- ion, Sr., was born in 1811, and married Elizabeth Eshelman ; their children were : Mary, wife of George Killheifer; Catherine, wife of a Mr. Smith, living in the West;
Elizabeth, wife of Harrison Stroup, both de- ceased; Joseph, enlisted in the defense of his country in 1861, served until the close of the war, was honorably discharged, and died on his way home; Catherine, wife of Jacob Beinhauer, deceased, by whom she had three children : Jacob, Adam, and Cath- erinc.
GARDNER, ADAM HENRY, treasurer of Steelton, was born January 6, 1835; son of Barnhart and Mary (Trostle) Gardner. His great-grandfather, Barnhart Gardner, with his wife, whose maiden name was Barbara Weidman, emigrated from Bremen, Ger- many, and settled in Lancaster county, Pa., prior to the American Revolutionary war. Their children, all of whom settled along the Conewago and Berunding creeks, in the western part of York county, before the year 1800, were named as follows: Adam, Will- iam, Barnhart, Martin, Jacob, John, Christo- pher, George, and Margaret. William, the second of these children, was married and lived on the bank of Conewago creek, where he had a family of six children : John, Barn- hart, William, Adam, Sarah, and Margaret. Barnhart, the second of these, was born in 1794, died April 5, 1859, and is buried in Bender's Church cemetery, Adams county. He married Mary Trostle, daughter of George and Catherine Trostle, of near Gettysburg. Adams county. She was born June 27, 1805, died May 4, 1886, and was buried in Filey's Church cemetery, York county. Barnhart was a member of the Reformed church, and his wife Mary belonged to the Lutheran church. Their children were named : Frank- lin, born April 6, 1827, died January 6, 1833; William, born April 25, 1829, a farmer, mar- ried Margaretta Wilson, January 18, 1855, and resides near Satank, Garfield county, Colo., with his wife and children, Ella, Flor- ence, and Emma; George Washington, a wheelwright by occupation, born September 11, 1831, died July 13, 1861, married Sarah Wilson, of Illinois, and settled in Kansas, where he died, leaving one child, Emma; John T., born March 27, 1833, a farmer, near Toulon, Ill, married Philura Bliss, and had three children, Edith, Alice, and George ; Adam Henry ; Mary Jane, born January 2, 1837, married Michael W. Coover, a farmer of York county, Pa., January 18, 1855, and has eight children : William, Annie, Ella, Laura, Daniel, Sallie, Carrie, and Emma ; Lydia Ann, born: March 2, 1839, married
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Edward Arnold, of Dillsburg, York county, September 18, 1857, and have three children, Alice, Kate, and Emma; Sarah Elizabeth, born February 5, 1841, married John H. Gluck, of Lehmasters, Franklin county, Pa., and have two children deceased, Leila and Charles Nisley ; Daniel Barnhart, born July 20, 1850, died September 13, 1880, married Emma Davis, of Ashtabula, Ohio, and settled in Greenleaf, Kan., where his widow subse- quently married W. P. Mudgett.
Adam Henry Gardner was married, May 23, 1867, by the Rev. William Raber, at Me- chanicsburg, Cumberland county, Pa., to Fannie C. Smith, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Campbell) Smith. He resided for some time at Eberly's Mills, and on Novem- ber 12, 1875, removed to Steelton, Dauphin county, where he accepted employment with the Pennsylvania Steel Company as store- house clerk, which position he still holds. When the borough of Steelton was incor- porated in 1880 Mr. Gardner was elected bor- ough treasurer, and has continued to fill this important and responsible position ever since. He cast his first presidential vote for John C. Fremont, and has ever since been an ardent Republican. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, Steelton Council, No. 933, and Past Regents Association of Penn- sylvania. He has been a member of the United Brethren church since 1860. His children are: John Comfort, who died when seventeen months old; Emma Elizabeth, George Smith, Harry Daniel, Annie Laurie. and Percival Jacob.
DIFFENDERFER, JONAH G., burgess of Steel- ton and superintendent of the finishing and shipping department of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, was born in Marietta, Lan- caster county, Pa., October 24, 1859. He is a son of William and Annie (Gelsbaugh) Diffenderfer, now of Highspire, Dauphin county. His youth was spent in York county, where he received a common school education. He learned carpentry, and worked at it for five years. In 1880 he came to Steelton, and entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, in the rail de- partment, and in 1890 he was appointed to his present position. Mr. Diffenderfer is a Republican; in 1894 he was elected burgess of Steelton. He is a member of Steelton Lodge, No. 184, I. O. O. F .; of P. O. S. of A .; of Royal Arcanum, and of Steelton Com-
mandery, No. 393. He was married, in 1883, to Miss Carrie Mcclellan, daughter of John Snavely, of Steelton. They have two children, Eva May and Russell H. Mr. Dif- fenderfer and his family are members of the United Brethren church.
KNISELY, JOHN P., grocer, was born in Shepherdstown, Cumberland county, Pa., August 14, 1866. He is a son of A. Y. and Annie B. (Grable) Knisely. Mr. A. Y. Knisely was born in York county, Pa., March 23, 1843. His parents were Peter and Matilda (Seitz) Knisely. He was reared in York and Cumberland counties, and was a farmer. He married Miss Annie B. Grable in 1865. He located in Maryland, and removed to Mechanicsburg, Cumberland county, and afterwards to Steelton. He was in mercan- tile business, but relinquished it in 1895, and has since been in the fire insurance and the building and loan business. He served for two terms in the borough council of Steel- ton, having been elected on the People's ticket. In 1861 he enlisted, and served three years and nine months. He is past commander of Lascomb Post, No. 351, G. A. R. He also belongs to the Knights of Malta, the I. O. O. F., and the Royal Arcanum. He has five children : John P .; Elsie M., wife of Isaac Lehman, of Virginia; Annie U., wife of Thomas Keim, of Steelton ; Edith L., wife of Melvin C. Conklin, of Steelton ; and Jen- nie S. Mr. Knisely is a member of the United Brethren church, and secretary of its board of trustees.
John P. Knisely attended the Steelton public schools, and was graduated from them in 1884. In the same year he engaged with his father in the clothing and gentlemen's furnishing business, in which he continued until 1892, when he purchased his present grocery business, established by his father in 1890. Mr. Knisely is a Republican. He belongs to the Knights of Malta. Ile was married, in 1888, to Miss Minnie, daughter of Rev. Lewis Peters, deceased, of Steelton. They have three children: Edna M., H. Lloyd, and Lester P. He and his wife are members of the United Brethren church, in which he is prominent. He is superintend- ent of the Sunday-school, church organist, and president of the Christian Endeavor Union. Mr. Knisely is chairman of the " Good Citizenship Association," of Steelton.
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--. MORRIS, MILTON K., master mechanic, Pennsylvania Steel Company, was born in Chester county, Pa., November 19, 1842. He is a son of William and Eleanor (Fletcher) Morris, natives of Chester county. William Morris was a locomotive engineer and after- wards road supervisor of the Harrisburg and Lancaster railroad. Heremoved to Harrisburg in 1853, and commenced hotel keeping. He was proprietor of the " White Swan," " Will- iam Tell," "Red Lion," and " Pennsylvania Avenue " hotels, at different periods. He died in Pittsburgh in 1875 while a delegate to the State convention of the A. O. U. W.
Milton K. Morris was eleven years old when his parents removed to Harrisburg. He was educated there in the public schools and the Harrisburg Academy. He learned the machinist's trade with W. O. Hickok. He was employed by P. A. Moltz, of Will- iamsport, Pa., and afterwards purchased the business of Jacob Moltz, in Harrisburg, and conducted it for two years. In 1861 he en- listed in the three months' service, but was too young to be mustered in. In 1863 he en- listed in Capt. Asbury Awl's company. In 1864 the Government sent him to Alexandria, Va., where he was employed for eighteen months as a machinist and locomotive engi- neer. He then worked in the navy yard at Washington, D. C., until the close of the war. He was in the audience at Ford's Theater, in Washington, when President Lincoln was as- sassinated. After the close of the war Mr. Morris worked in the Altoona shops of the Pennsylvania railroad for several years. In 1870 he came to Steelton and entered the em- ploy of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, in which he has ever since continued, with the exception of a short time spent in the Paxton Rolling Mills. He served as foreman of the machine shops until April, 1892, when he was made master mechanic of the works. He is a member of Carthage Lodge, No. 104, K. of P .; Baldwin Commandery, No. 108, K. of M .; and of Steelton Conclave, I. O. H. Mr. Morris is independent in politics. He was the Democratic nominee for burgess of Steel- ton in 1893, but was defeated. He was mar- ried, in 1865, to Miss Sallie A., daughter of John C. Linn, of Chester county, Pa. They have four children : John Finley, foreman for Pennsylvania Steel Company, married Fannie Norris, they have one child, Grace; M. Dewitt, Howard D., and Bessie. Mr. Morris and his family are members of the Presbyterian church.
-GOOD, JACOB, foreman of the boiler depart- ment of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, was born in Cumberland county, Pa., Octo- ber 22, 1842. His father died when he was quite young, and he removed with his mother to Dauphin county and located in Harrisburg, where he attended the public schools. He learned boiler making in the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany, and was employed by that company for nine years. He was afterwards several years with Robert Tippett. In 1876 he was employed at Steelton by the Pennsylvania Steel Company as journeyman. In 1877 he was made foreman of the boiler department, which position he has held continuously since that time. In 1862 he enlisted in company D, One Hundred and Twenty- seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, and served nine months. He took part in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancel- lorsville. He re-enlisted in August, 1864, in company D, Two Hundred and First regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, and served for five months as orderly to Gen. J. P. Slough. Mr. Good is a member of State Capital Lodge, No. 70, and Olivet Encamp- ment, No. 56, I. O. O. F .; of Phoenix Lodge, No. 59, K. of P., and of Baldwin Command- ery, No. 108, K. of M. In 1890 he helped to organize the Mechanics' and Helpers' Re- lief Association, and has since been its treas- urer. He has served as a member of the Good Will Fire Company, No. 7, of Harris- burg, for a number of years, and is now pres- ident of the Citizen Fire Company, of Steel- ton. He is past commander of Sergt. Sam- uel W. Lascomb Post, No. 351, G. A. R .: is an active Republican, and at present a borough councilman.
Mr. Good was married, in 1864, to Miss Maggie E., daughter of George Pipes, of Har- risburg. They have four children: George E., roll-turner, of Steelton ; Mary Lizzie, wife of George H. Yestadt, of Sparrow's Point. Md .; Glenzora, wife of Oliver Weigle, of Steel- ton, and Lawrence J. Mr. and Mrs. Good are members of St. Paul's Baptist church, in which he is trustee, and superintendent of the Sunday-school. Mr. Good is also a member of the Y. M. C. A.
- DOUGHERTY, JOHN W., superintendent of the blast furnace department, Pennsylvania Steel Company, was born in Worcester. Mass., August 17, 1867. He is a son el James and Margaret (Geinham) Dougherty
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His parents removed to Pittsburgh in 1870, and in 1875 came to Steelton. After gradu- ating from the Steelton high school he took a course at Ulrich's preparatory school and graduated from the mining and engineering department of Lehigh University in 1889. He learned the open hearth business, and in January, 1890, was made foreman of the open hearth department of the Pennsylva- nia Steel Company. In January, 1892, he became superintendent of the blast furnace department, which position he has since filled. He is a stockholder in the Harris- burg Trust Company. He is independent in politics. Mr. Dougherty was married, in 1893, to Miss Caroline, daughter of Patrick McNiff, of Harrisburg.
- DOWNS, JOHN B., superintendent of the rail and blooming mills, Nos. 1 and 2, Penn- sylvania Steel Company, was born in Leeds, England, June 21, 1849. He is a son of Thomas and Sarah Downs. His youth was passed in England. In July, 1867, he came to America, intending to visit California for the benefit of his health. Ile stopped in Philadelphia, and worked one year at the Milldale Steel Works. In 1869 he came to Steelton, and was for eighteen months employed by the Pennsylvania Steel Com- pany as helper at the forge hammer. He then returned to England, where he was con- nected with the Seaman & Martin furnace as heater. Coming again to America he had charge of the Seaman & Martin furnace at Joliet, Ill., for about one year, after which he returned to Steelton, and took charge of No. 1 forging hammer. He was gradually pro- moted to the superintendency of different de- partments. He has held his present respon- sible position for the past ten years. Mr. Downs is a Republican, and is treasurer of the Fourth Ward Republican Club. He is a member of Perseverance Lodge, No. 21, F. & A. M., of Harrisburg. He was married, De- cember 25, 1883, to Miss Amelia G., daugh- ter of Rev. Jacob Miller, of Wilmington, Del. They have two children, Nelson Mil- ler and Thomas Watson. Mr. and Mrs. Downs are members of St. Stephen's Episco- pal church, Harrisburg.
- REYNDERS, J. V. W., superintendent of the bridge and construction department, Penn- sylvania Steel Company, was born in Ho- boken, N. J., December 17, 1866. He is a son of John and Louise (Sellers) Reynders,
and was educated at the Gymnasium at Wesel, Germany, and at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., where he was graduated in civil engineering. In 1886 he engaged with the Pittsburgh Bridge Company as designer and remained with the company two years. He was next employed at the Snead & Co. Iron Works, Louisville, Ky., and later by the Penn Bridge Company, Beaver Falls, Pa. After this he engaged as assistant on the con- struction of the Cairo bridge across the Ohio river, the St. Louis merchants' bridge across the Mississippi, and other important structures; being stationed at this period at the Union Bridge Company's Works, Buffalo, N. Y., and Athens, Pa., and at the Edgemoor Bridge Works, Wilmington, Del. In December, 1890, at the organization of the bridge and construction department of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, Steelton, he was appointed to the position of engineer and in the spring of 1891 was placed in charge of the department. Some of the notable structures erected by the Pennsyl- vania Steel Company under his supervision include the steel arch span across the Ni- agara, replacing the old railway suspension bridge ; a double track bridge across the har- bor of Duluth, Minn., including one of the heaviest draw spans in existence ; the Lake Roland elevated railway, running through the heart of Baltimore, and a bridge across the Norwalk river at South Norwalk, Conn., including the first four track draw span built in this country.
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