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- ALLEMAN, MICHAEL R., was born near Middletown, Dauphin county, June 25, 1825; son of Michael and Catharine (Rudy) Alleman. The father, Michael Alleman, was born January 28, 1794, on the old homestead in Swatara township, near High- spire, Dauphin county. His first occupation was school teaching, and subsequently he became a farmer, and was engaged from that on solely in agricultural pursuits until his death, May 24, 1868; he is buried in Middletown cemetery. His wife died March 30, 1889, aged eighty-five years. They had six children, all of whom grew to maturity : Susan, wife of John Kope; Elizabeth, wife of John Foltz; Henry; Mariah, wife of Michael Connelly, of Middletown ; Michael R., deceased ; and Joseph W., deceased. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran church, in which he held the offices of elder, deacon and trustec at the time of his death.
Michael R. received his carlier instruc- tions in the subscription schools of that day,
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and afterwards attended the public schools, supplementing his education by an academic course under Professor Saddler, at Middle- town, upon the completion of which he commenced teaching school. In 1853 he began farming and devoted his time to agri- cultural pursuits for about eight years, when in 1861 he removed to Middletown and re- sumed teaching and surveying, in which occupation he was employed until his death, August 13, 1870.
Michael R. Alleman was married, August, 1852, by the Rev. Ditzler, of Schaefferstown, Lebanon county, Pa., to Miss Leah Royer, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Mil- ler) Royer. They have these children living : Mary A., born November 14, 1854, a school teacher and at present engaged in teaching at the Home of the Friendless at Harrisburg; George R., born January 17, 1857, married Anna M. Koons, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Bealer) Koons, and is a contractor residing at Steelton; Frederick H. and M. Rudy, twins, born September 29, 1860; these twins attended the public schools and completed an academic educa- tion under Professor Seiler at Harrisburg, after which Frederick H. was engaged in teaching school one term. In 1879 these brothers formed a partnership under the firm name of Alleman Brothers and engaged in the mercantile business on Front street, in Steelton, where they continued until 1886, when they disposed of their entire stock and relinquished the business. In 188S the brothers formed another partner- ship under the old firm name of the Alle- man Brothers and embarked in the real estate and insurance business, in which they are still engaged. Frederick H. is, also the superintendent of the Harrisburg and Me- chanicsburg Railway Company. Frederick HI. was married, August 4, 1887, to Miss Lizzie Dunkel, daughter of Josiah and Mary (Bishop) Dunkle. Their children are : Margaret, born. June 24, 1889; Mary D., born December 15, 1890; Frederick R., born February 18, 1893; Ruth E., born January 29, 1895. Michael Rudy Alleman was mar- ried, April 30, 1895, to Miss Lillian A. Moyer, daughter of George D. and Sarah (Hoffman) Moyer, of Uniontown, Pa. They have one daughter, born April 14, 1896.
The deceased children of Michael R. and Leah (Royer) Alleman are: Catharine E., born November 14, 1853, died November 25, 1854; Monroe J., born December 12,
1858, died August 27, 1873, and one who died in infancy. Michael R. Alleman was a prominent man and filled various county and township offices. He was appointed county surveyor in 1867 and served in the office until his death in 1870. He was an active member of the Lutheran church, in which he filled the various offices, being an elder and trustce at the time of his death. Mrs. Alleman is still living in good health at the age of seventy-two years. She resides with her sons in Steelton.
. MILLHOUSE, AUGUSTUS S., superintendent of the foundry department of the Pennsyl- vania Steel Works, was born in York county, Pa., March 13, 1843 ; son of Amos and Sc- linda (Stoughton) Millhouse. The paternal grandfather of Augustus S. Millhouse mar- ried a Miss Monroe, and they were the par- ents of a large family. Amos Millhouse, father of Augustus S., was born in Chester county, Pa. He learned wagon making, and worked at that trade for a number of years, after which he came to Harrisburg, and was employed in the Car Factory, then just opened. His engagement there lasted until his death, which occurred July 9, 1883, in the seventy-third year of his age. His wife, Se- linda Stoughton, was born in Chester county, Pa. Their children are : Augustus S .; Owen; Lydia, wife of Joseph McClintic, of Perry county, Pa .; Elwood ; Anna, deceased; Eliza- beth, deceased ; Mary and Clara, died in in- fancy ; Oliver, deceased. Both parents are members of the Church of God.
Augustus S. Millhouse was very young when his parents removed to Dauphin county, where he attended the public schools until he was ten years old. He was then employed for about four years in the pattern factory in Harrisburg, after which he entered the Car Factory as an apprentice. In 1861, be- fore this engagement was over, he enlisted in company G, Fifty-fifth regiment, Pennsylva- nia volunteers, and served four years, receiv- ing his discharge September 1, 1865. He then returned to the Car Factory and com- pleted the term of his apprenticeship, after which he was employed for five years as a journeyman. When the new foundry was built, on Allison Hill, Mr. Millhouse was made foreman, and served in that position for six years. In 1876 he worked five months in the foundry at Reading, Pa. Returning to Harrisburg, he became foreman in the foundry department of the Pennsylvania
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Steel Works at Steelton in June of the same year. Later he was made superintendent of the same department, and has for the past twenty years filled that responsible position with the utmost success and acceptance. Mr. Millhouse was married to Miss Catherine, daughter of William and Catherine (Tate) Bohl. Their children are: James W., book- keeper for the Kelley Coal Company ; Mabel, died June 2, 1894, aged twenty-three. Mr. Millhouse is a good Republican. He and his family are members of the Fourth Street Church of God.
William Bohl, father of Mrs. Millhouse, was a native of Cumberland county, and a. cabinet maker. For a number of years he kept a hotel in Harrisburg. He was also justice of the peace. His wife, Catherine Tate, was a native of Cumberland county. Their children are: Catherine, Mrs. Millhouse ; Mary, Benjamin, Charles, and James, de- ceased. Mr. Bohl is deceased, while Mrs. Bohl resides with her daughter, Mrs. Mill- house, and is in good health, at the advanced age of seventy-seven years. She is a consist- ent member of the Church of God.
- TENNEY, FRANK, assistant superintendent of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, was born in Boston, Mass., February 4, 1861. He is the son of Benjamin F. Tenney and Mary (Viles) Tenney. B. F. Tenney was born in Sutton, Worcester county, Mass., October 27, 1813, and was for many years a mer- chant in Boston, but subsequently became a member of the Boston Stock Exchange with which he is still connected. Mr. Tenney was married, in January, 1861, to Mary Bowman Viles, daughter of John and Sally (Dudley) Viles, of Lexington, Mass. Their children are: Frank; Maud, wife of F. F. Sherburn, and Arthur, who died in 1866.
Frank Tenney was educated in the public schools of Boston, finishing his course in the English high school in 1879. He then took a four years' course in metallurgical and mining engineering in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving the degree of S. B. in 1883. Shortly after graduating Mr. Tenney came to Steelton and was ap- pointed assistant superintendent of the blast furnaces and served in this position until the fall of 1885 when he was transferred to Ashland, Baltimore county, Md., to take charge of some blast furnaces which the Pennsylvania Steel Company had Jeased. In 1886 he returned to Steelton and was
made purchasing agent of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, which be held until 1890. From this year until 1893 Mr. Tenney was assistant to the general manager, when he was promoted to be assistant superintendent, which position he has since that time filled. Mr. Tenney was married, in Hull, Mass., June 4, 1889, to Miss Edith C., daughter of George F. and A. F. (Cutler) Bouve, of Bos- ton. Their children are: John B., born June 26, 1890 ; Margaret, April 1, 1892, and Katharine, October 5, 1894. Mr. Tenney's politics are Republican. He is a member of the school board of Steelton.
SHAFFNER, FRANCIS W., superintendent of the supply department, Pennsylvania Steel Works, Steelton, Pa., was born in Dauphin county, Pa., February 22, 1845; son of George and Christina (Book) Shaffner. The Shaff- ner family are of Swiss descent. Frederick Shaffner, grandfather of Francis W., was a farmer. He married Miss Catherine Deibler. Mr. Shaffner died aged ninety-four years.
George Shaffner, father of F. W., died aged sixty-two. He was married to Miss Christina Book. They had nine children : Frederick ; Francis W .; John; Samuel ; Mary, wife of Jacob Lantz; Jacob; Emma, wife of Jacob Spangler ; Rosa, wife of Stewart Groninger ; William, who died in 1865, aged four years. Mrs. Shaffner died in 1867, aged nearly fifty years. She was a member of the Evangelical church, of Harrisburg. Both parents died in Harrisburg.
Francis W. Shaffner attended the public schools of Dauphin and Lebanon counties, and at the same time assisted his father in farm work. He was afterwards, for two sea- sons, employed as a general laborer on the Pennsylvania canal and in boating. In 1859 he began an apprenticeship of one year and a half at coach making, after which he worked at his trade and at house carpentry until the breaking out of the war. In 1864 Mr. Shaffner enlisted in company F, Two Hundred and First regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, served histime and was honorably discharged. While in army service Mr. Shaff- ner contracted a chronic disease, which in- capacitated him for manual labor, and lead to a decision to prepare himself for different pursuits. He took a course of eight months at the Iron City Commercial College, Piits- burgh, Pa., and in 1867 secured a position as clerk with the Pittsburgh and Monongahela Coal Company, in which he continued eight
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months. He was next employed for a year and a half as clerk in the drug store of H. Meyers. He then returned to Harrisburg, and to his trade of house building until 1876, at which time he was appointed super- intendent of the supply department of the Pennsylvania Steel Works. He has served in this position with credit to himself and the utmost satisfaction to the company up to the present time. Mr. Shaffner is identi- fied with the Odd Fellows fraternity, having been a member of Lodge No. 70 since July 23, 1867. His politics are Democratic. Mr. Shaffner was married, in Reading, Pa., May 28, 1868, to Miss Sarah, daughter of David and Martha (Mc- Fadden) Bachstoss. Their children are : Clyde, born December 5, 1869; Gertrude, December 2, 1871, wife of Howell Bentecon ; Cora, born September 1, 1873. Mrs. Shaffner was born September 7, 1845. Her father, David Bachstoss, was for many years a tan- ner. He was married to Martha McFadden. Their children are: Eliza ; Rebecca; Sarah, Mrs. Shaffner ; Kate, wife of John Clyde; Edward; Alexander, was killed on the Reading railroad, in February, 1893. Mr. Bachstoss died in 1891, aged seventy-four years.
-MCENTEE, PETER J., foreman of the open hearth department of the Pennsylvania Steel Works, was born in Lancaster county, Pa., January 8, 1871; son of Peter and Catherine (Lynch) McEntee. He attended the Dauphin county public schools until he was sixteen, when his school days were ended by his getting regular employment as door boy at the steel works. He served in this capacity for three years, and then, at the age of nineteen, began a three years' apprenticeship at steel working. He was at once recognized as a master mechanic in his line and was made foreman of the open hearth department. So satisfactory to his employers is his direction of the workmen in his department that he has been retained in that position to the present time. Mr. McEntee has a combination of qualities which render his services valuable. He is not only a first-class steel maker, but is able to make such assignments of place and work as to insure the best results, both for the men and the company. Mr. MeEntee was married, at Steelton, June 24, 1891, to Miss Catherine, daughter of John and Mary
(McGinn) McGeehan. They have had four children : Mary, born April 5, 1893; Anas- tasia, March 15, 1895; Joseph and John, twins, died in infancy. Mr. McEntee is a Democrat. He is a member of the Catholic church. Mrs. McEntee was born June 13, 1866. Her father, John McGeehan, was born in Lancaster caunty, in December, 1834, and is a bricklayer and contractor. He was married, in January, 1862, to Miss Mary McGinn, daughter of Patrick and Catharine McGinn. They have had nine children : Edward ; Catherine, Mrs. McEn- tee ; Anthon, John, Ambrose, Thomas, Mary and Anastasia ; James died aged two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. McGeehan reside at Steelton. They are worthy members of the Catholic church.
GROSS, HENRY S., superintendent of the merchant mill department, Pennsylvania Steel Works, was born in Harrisburg, Pa., February 6, 1854; son of Daniel W. and Elizabeth Kunkel Gross. Henry S. Gross attended private schools in Harrisburg, completing his course there in the Harris- burg Academy. At the age of seventeen he entered upon a course at the Pennsylvania Polytechnic College, Philadelphia, which he completed in three years, and was graduated in June, 1874. For the ensuing eleven months Mr. Gross was not regularly occu- pied. On the third day of May, 1875, he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Steel Company as learner in the Bessemer department. After his first year he was re- tained in this department as assistant fore- man for a period of three years when he was placed in charge of the steam hammers, and the manufacture of special steel billets. Af- ter serving two years in this capacity, he again entered the Bessemer department as foreman, remaining there until October, 1884, when he assumed the duties of super- intendent of the merchant mill department, which position he has since held. He was married, in Harrisburg, December 7, 1881, to Miss Laura B., daughter of the late Robert and Elizabeth (Bailey) Corman, of Trindle Spring, Cumberland county, Pa. They have no children. Mr. Gross removed from Har- risburg to Steelton, January 6, 1885, and has since resided in that borough. He is a member of the Salem Reformed church, Harrisburg, and in politics has always been Republican.
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MILLER, D. W., superintendent of the pat- tern department, Pennsylvania Steel Works, was born in Dauphin county, Pa., August 8, 1840; son of David and Sarah (Woods) Mil- ler. David Miller was born in Lancaster county, Pa. He was a farmer from his youth until a few years before his death, when he retired from business. He was married to Sarah Woods, a native of Dauphin county. They had eight children : D. W .; J. C .; Jane, wife of Moses Zimmerman, deceased ; Mary, wife of Henry Smith; Samuel B., deceased ; Harriet, deceased; William W., deccased ; Sarah, died in infancy. Mr. Miller, now eighty-two years of age, resides with his daughter, Mrs. Zimmerman.
D. W. Miller attended the common schools of Dauphin county for a part of each year until he reached the age of nineteen, when he became an apprentice to the trade of pat- tern making with the Harrisburg Car Man- ufacturing Company, and served four years, at the end of which time he entered the em- ploy of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, and worked at his trade for about two and a half years. In 1879 Mr. Miller returned to Harrisburg, and had charge of the pattern department of the Car Manufacturing Com- pany for eleven or twelve years. At the ex- piration of that time, in 1890, he accepted a similar position with the Pennsylvania Steel Works, which he still holds. Mr. Miller's mechanical skill and excellent business ability are proved by the long terms of his service with the companies employing him.
Mr. Miller was married, in Harrisburg, April 4, 1861, to Miss Harriet, daughter of Frederick Duey. Their children are: Eliz- abeth, wife C. F. Gramm; Susan, wife of H. R. Dasher; Mary, Henrietta, Sarah, Robert, Henry R .; the last four are deceased. Mr. Miller is a Republican; he was for three years assessor of the Ninth ward, Harrisburg. The family are members of the Reformed church.
Mrs. D. W. Miller was born March 12, 1842. Her father was Frederick Duey, and for many years was a weaver. Their living children are: Caroline, wife of Paul Barn- hard, deceased ; Simon D .; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Stober; Catherine, wife of Jesse Long; Henrietta, Mrs. Miller. Both parents died in Dauphin county. They were mem- bers of the Reformed church. Samuel Duey, paternal grandfather of Mrs. Miller, died at au advanced age.
LEFEVRE, JAMES HASBROUCK, superin- tendent of the slabbing mill department of the Pennsylvania Steel Works, was born February 28, 1868, in Somerset county, N. J. His father, Rev. James LeFevre, D. D., a native of Ulster county, N. Y., has been for thirty-nine years an able and honored min- ister of the Dutch Reformed church, and his mother, whose maiden name was Cor- nelia B. Hasbrouck, was also a native of Ulster county. His parents had the follow- ing children : Egbert, Cornelia B., Laura II., Esther Dew, James H., and Joseph H.
James H. received the usual primary instructions, and took a college preparatory course of four years in the grammar school of Rutger's College, after which he pursued the four years' course of study in Rutger's College, from which he was graduated in chemistry with the class of 1889. In the same year he was engaged in chemical work in the laboratory of Dr. Peter T. Austen for a few months. On November 1, 1889, he came to Steelton, where he was given his present position, which he has ever since ably and acceptably filled.
Mr. LeFevre was married, April 7, 1896, to Miss Florence G. Howard, daughter of George C. and Georgiana (Smith) Howard. Her father is a prominent and successful physician at Lawrence, Mass. Mr. LeFevre is a Democrat in politics.
RUTHERFORD, SAMUEL H., was born in Swatara township, Dauphin County, Pa., March 3, 1843; son of Samuel S. and Mary A. Rutherford, both natives of Dauphin county. Samuel H. attended the public schools of his native township, and after- wards took a course of three years in the Academy. He was then engaged with his father in farming until he was twenty-seven years of age. In 1870 he took up the dairy and farming business on his own account, and has been continuously employed in them up to the present time. In addition to his farm and dairy operations, Mr. Ruth- erford became, in 1891, the agent of the Rutherford Ice Company, with an office on Court avenue, Harrisburg. Mr. Rutherford's political opinions are Republican. On Feb- ruary 9, 1871, he was married to Fannie E., daughter of J. D. and Margaret S. (Bargtis) Sholl, natives of Frederick City, Md. Their
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children are: Samuel S., in the poultry business at Paxtang station ; and Jesse S., who died an infant, in 1875. Mrs. Rutherford died December 14, 1884, aged forty years. Mr. Rutherford wasagain married, November 28, 1894, to Edith M., daughter of Benjamin and Matilda (Miichell) Snively, natives of Greencastle, Pa. To this marriage there is no issue. Mr. Rutherford now resides on the farm bought by his ancestor, Thomas Rutherford, in 1755, shortly after his emi- gration from Ireland, which has been handed down in the family from one generation to another.
NELSON, ARTHUR F., was born in Glouces- ter, Essex county, Mass., May 19, 1864; his parents are John Edward and Alice (Warner) Nelson.
Mr. Nelson's education was carried on in the public schools of Gloucester, Mass., until he reached the age of seventeen ; afterwards, for two terms, he attended a private draw- ing school. This excellent foundation for further attainments being laid, Mr. Nelson came to Steelton, Dauphin county, and served an apprenticeship of two and a half years in the machine shop. He then went into the roll turning department, superin- tended by Mr. William George, and served under that gentleman for about two years. So well had the young man improved his time and opportunities that upon Mr. George's resignation he was placed in charge of the roll turning department as Mr. George's successor. At the time when Mr. Nelson became superintendent, the company had all new work finished outside. In 1889 part of the present roll turning shop was erected, and from time to time it has re- ceived additions, until now this department is one of the most important in the plant. Its growth and present prosperity are largely due to the diligence, skill and sagacity of its superintendent, Mr. Nelson. After having been for years a zealous and influential mem- ber of the Harrisburg Wheel Club, Mr. Nel- son is now its president. He has for five years been the representative from this State to the National Assembly of the League of American Wheelmen ; also representative of the Pennsylvania division of the League of American Wheelmen. Mr. Nelson is an adherent of the Republican party. He was married to Miss Mary E., daughter of Abner
and Elizabeth Hummel, of Hummelstown, Pa. They had one daughter, Alice Eliza- beth. Mrs. Nelson died on the 12th of August, 1887.
- BAKER, CHARLES P., was born in Dauphin county, September 18, 1843. He is a son of Samuel and Anna Maria (Haamann) Baker, the former a native of York county and the latter of Dauphin county. Mr. Samuel Baker had as his intellectual preparation for his life work little beyond his native intelli- gence, he having received no more than three months of school training and instruc- tion. He was a farmer, and increased his revenues by speculations in land. His wife was the daughter of Philip and Maria Haa- mann. They had eight children, five of whom are now living: Samuel, Jr., John, George W., Charles P., and William. Their daughters all died; Mary on December 3, 1857; Sarah E., August 6, 1889, and Eliza- beth, March 23, 1842. Both parents died in Mercer county ; Mr. Baker on May 10, 1866, at the age of fifty-eight, and Mrs. Baker on January 26, 1887, aged seventy-five. They were active members of the Reformed church.
Charles P. Baker was educated in the pub- lic schools in Dauphin county until he was eleven years old, then in Mercer county, completing his course by studying for two years at Mercersburg College, Franklin county, Pa., which he entered at the age of twenty-one. He afterwards taught school in Mercer county for five terms. Then ex- changing literary for mercantile work he became a clerk in the store of Achre & Bright. He was afterwards employed in the same capacity by William Simmons, at Fredonia, Mercer county, entering this es- tablishment in 1868, and remaining for seven years. After the third year of this time the firm name changed to that of Simmons & Swab. In 1876 Mr. Baker spent a few months as a visitor in Harrisburg, Pa., and in 1876 entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Steel Company as timekeeper. Having faithfully performed the duties devolving upon him for four years and six months, he was made time recorder and still continues to hold the same position. Charles P. Baker was married, January 17, 1871, to Miss Kate, daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Lauder- milch) Fetterhoff, of Halifax, Dauphin county, l'a. He was in early life a member
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of the Reformed church, but since his twenty- eighth year he has been a Presbyterian. His political views are those of the Prohibition party.
- WHITNEY, EVERETT E., Steelton, Pa., was born in Hingham, Plymouth county, Mass., May 3, 1861. He is a son of Jason W. and Lydia A. (Davis) Whitney. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Hingham and at Comer's Commercial College, of Boston, Mass., completing his course by the time he was nineteen years of age. He then engaged with his father in the lumber and hardware business; but during 1882-83 he had a busi- ness in Boston. In the fall of 1883 Mr. Whit- ney went to Tucson, Arizona Territory, and remained there until July, 1886; he then re- turned for a few months to Massachusetts. On September 10 of the same year he came to Steelton, and entered upon an engage- ment in the auditor's office of the Pennsyl- vania Steel Company, serving in that capa- city until 1890. In that year Mr. Whitney was made auditor and cashier of the com- pany, and still occupies the same responsible position with undiminished faithfulness and credit. He was married, October 2, 1890, to Miss Katharine J. McCammon, of Middle- town, Pa., daughter of Elisha G. and Cathe- rine (Faber) McCammon. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney have one child, Jason McC., born February 8, 1894.
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