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Peter H. Clemens was married, November 24, 1874, to Rebecca, daughter of Sanders and Hannah J. (Hewit) Daniels. They had six children : Bessie L., Rosa, Gertrude, An- nette H., Charles W., Peter H. and Law- rence B.
After his marriage Mr. Clemens went to Houtzdale, Clearfield county, where he en- gaged in contracting for one year. He pur- chased a lot and built a house, but sold his property the next year. His wife went to her parents and he returned to his old home, where he lived inactive for a year. The next winter he was employed to make ties for the railroad at Newton Hamilton. In the following spring he went to Havana, N. Y., where he worked at his trade for two years. In the next year he went to Trenton
Junction, where his brother gave him a lot on which he built a house for himself and carried on his business for a year. He was next employed for a year in the car shops at Harrisburg, and then for four years engaged in house building on his own account. Ile then removed his family to Philadelphia where he was in business for himself for three years. Having secured a building contract at St. Louis, Mo., he was there for a year, then returned to Philadelphia, and worked at his trade there for two years longer. He then went to Harrisburg, bought the property at the corner of Six-and-a-half and Park streets, and began 'a cigar and to- bacco business which he has conducted up to the present time in addition to working as a carpenter. Mr. Clemens has for twelve years been a member of Lamberton Lodge. No. 708, I. O. O. F. His politics are Deno- cratic. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mrs. Peter H. Clemens was born February 2, 1853. Her parents, Sanders and Hannah J. Daniels, were both natives of Mifflin county where they were engaged in farming. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Daniels are : Annette, Charles, Annie, wife of Frederick Kreitzer, Sadie, Mollie, and Rebecca, Mrs. Clemens, all living. Their deceased chil- dren are : Ida, wife of John C. Norton ; Ke- tura, Andrew J., Mamie, and two that died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Daniels now re- side in Altoona, Pa., where Mr. Daniels is em- ployed in the railroad shops, and they con- duct a boarding house. Mr. Daniels is a Democrat. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mrs. Clemens had previously been mar- ried to Matthew Gaff, who was killed on the railroad, October 30, 1873. To this mar- riage there was one child born, Melinda B., wife of Thomas Boehm, residing in Phila- delphia.
- HOOPES, JACOB B., cigar manufacturer, was born near Goldsboro, York county, Pa., May 30, 1854; son of Jacob B. and Mary (Hum- bers) Hoopes. His parents were both na- tives of York county. They were engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1861, when they removed to Harrisburg where the father died, November 7, 1891, and the mother, August 5, 1875. Of their five chil- dren, one died in childhood, and the sur- vivors are : Harry A., Joseph M., Daniel B .. and Jacob B. Jacob B. was seven years old
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when he came with his parents to Harris- burg. Heattended the public schools of the city and afterwards learned the trade of cigar manufacturer, which has been his oc- cupation since his boyhood. He embarked in business for himself in 1882, and by his able business management and commercial integrity has taken his place among the most enterprising and successful business men of Harrisburg. Mr. Hoopes was mar- ried, in Harrisburg, February 7, 1874, to Ida Albright, by whom he has three children : Bessie, Nellie D. and Bertha. In politics he is a Republican. IIe attends the Lutheran church.
COOPER, ALFORD L., tobacconist, was born in Harrisburg, November 11, 1865; son of Charles and Margaret (Stansbury) Cooper, the former a native of New Jersey, the lat- ter of Baltimore, Md. The father came to Harrisburg with his parents when he was about three years old, and has since been a continuous resident of the city. In his earlier life he was a market gardener, but later has been employed in the mills as a machinist. His parents had six children, of whom five are living: Mary Catherine, wife of Joseph Hurst, Harrisburg; Charles L., Harrisburg; John Wesley, residence not known; Alford L .; Margaret S., and one child who died in infancy. Alford L. was educated in the schools of Harrisburg, and learned the trade of coach trimming, at which he worked for three years; subse- quently he was in the employment of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as brake- man until November, 1894, when he en- gaged in his present business. Mr. Cooper is a member of America Council, No. 3, O. U. A. M. The family attend the Pine Street Presbyterian church.
~ HOLTZMAN, GEORGE M., was born in Mil- lersburg, Dauphin county, Pa., August 16, 1870. He is a son of Frank J. and Ellen A. (Kline) Holtzman. His grandfather Holtzman was born in Berks county, in 1825, and is one of the oldest residents of Millersburg. For many years he dealt ex- tensively in cattle, and was well and favor- ably known throughout the State. Frank J. Holtzman, the father of George M., was born in Millersburg, and his mother in Hamburg, Berks county; she died in De- cember, 1874; the father is still living. They had three children: William F., of
Harrisburg; George M., and Agnes, wife of Dr. Batdorf, of Millersburg.
George M. Holtzman came with his par- ents to Dauphin county. They located in West Hanover township, where he was edu- cated in the public schools. Ile was first employed as a salesman, and engaged in business for himself May 2, 1894.
Mr. Holtzman was married in Harrisburg. March 27, 1894, to Bertha M., daughter of Benjamin Atkinson. They have no chil- dren. He is a member of the Board of Trade. He belongs to John Harris Council, No. 174, Jr. O. U. A. M .; to Warrior Eagle Tribe, I. O. R. M .; and to the Fraternal Mystic Circle. He is a Republican. He attends the Salem Reformed church, of which Mrs. Holtzman is a member.
- HOLCOMBE, HENRY W., cigar manufac- turer and tobacco jobber, Harrisburg, was born July 25, 1872. He is a son of Lewis P. and Valeria (Gregory) Holcombe. Rich- ard and Thankful (Shrope) Holcombe, the grandparents of Henry W., were natives of New Jersey, where the grandfather spent his life. He was a prominent and success- ful business man, a miller. He was killed. March 3, 1860, by the explosion of the boiler of a steamboat of which he was a part owner. The grandmother died at Easton, Pa. They had but two children : Mary E., wife of John P. Bennett, of Hackettstown, N. J., and Lewis P., father of Henry W.
Lewis P. Holcombe was born in Fleming- ton, Huntingdon county, N. J., September 10, 1852. While he was a child, his parents removed, first to Asbury, N. J., thence to Lambertsville, N. J., and subsequently to Belvidere, Warren county, N. J., where his father was killed, as above described. The widow and her son, Lewis, removed to Jersey City, N.J. Here he attended a private school for about five years. He then became sales- man in a retail dry goods store in New York, where he remained about three years. After this he attended the Excelsior Normal In- stitute, Carversville, Bucks county, Pa., for two years. He was then engaged for a short time as bookkeeper in Philadelphia. In 1869 he removed to Harrisburg, and for the ensuing three years was employed by Dr. A. Patterson in the carpet business. In 1872 he entered the employ of Henry Gregory, and was with him for eleven years. He has since been employed as accountant and as
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traveling salesman, principally for New Jer- sey and Philadelphia firms.
He was married, in Harrisburg, in July, 1871, to Miss Valeria, daughter of Henry and Matilda Gregory. They have had four children, of whom three are living: Henry W .; Louis R., born November 13, 1877; and Zephaniah, born March 20, 1872. Mrs. Holcombe died December 16, 1891.
Mr. L. P. Holcombe is Republican in pol- itics. He attends the Presbyterian church.
Henry W. Holcombe has lived all his life in Harrisburg, and was educated in the city schools. He was graduated from the high school in 1893, from which date until 1895 he was employed by his grandfather, Henry Gregory, as traveling salesman. Since Sep- tember, 1895, he has been a cigar manufac- turer. He was married, in Camden, N. J., February 26, 1894, to Miss Laura J., daughter of John and Sarah A. Rider, of Harrisburg, but both natives of East Hanover township, Dauphin county, and both deceased. H. W. and Laura Holcombe have one son, Henry Gregory, born November 10, 1895. Mr. Holcombe is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Reformed church.
WIRSTLING, SAMUEL C., grocer, was born in Harrisburg, Pa., January 26, 1825. He is a son of Samuel C. and Henrietta (Doll) Wiestling, both deceased. They were Penn- sylvanians, and of German ancestry. For many years they were honored residents of Harrisburg. Of their five children, three are living : Caroline, of Lebanon, Pa., widow of the late Thomas Bibighaus, a member of Congress; Joseph C., and Samuel C., resid- ing in Harrisburg.
Samuel C. Wiestling was educated in the private and public schools of Harrisburg. With the exception of ten months' ser- vice in the United States army, during the late Rebellion, and two years' resi- dence in Philadelphia, his entire life has been spent in his native city. He learned carpentry, and has been extensively engaged in contracting and building. He built the Grand Opera House, remodeled the Re- formed church edifice on Chestnut street, and constructed many of the finest resi- dences in the city of Harrisburg. Aban- doning building and contracting in 1877, he established himself in the grocery busi- ness, to which he has devoted all his atten- tion since that time. His ten months of
army service was as private in company H, Two Hundred and First Pennsylvania vol- unteers, and as hospital steward.
Mr. Wiestling was married in Harrisburg, January 8, 1857, to Eliza, daughter of Levi and Eliza (Amey) Weaver, born in Phila- delphia, May 17, 1835. They had two chil- dren ; both died young.
He is an active member of Central Lodge, No. 19, A. O. U. W. His political views are Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Wiestling are members of Salem Reformed church.
BURKHOLDER, WILLIAM, merchant, was born in Franklin county, Pa., July 13, 1827. He is a son of the late Jacob and Mary (Shoemaker) Burkholder. His maternal grandparents, David and Magdalena Shoe- maker, were both natives of Franklin county, Pa. They were farmers. They lived to an advanced age. Their children were three in number: John, Elizabeth, wife of Chris- tian Burkholder, and Mary, wife of Jacob Burkholder. The parents of William Burk- holder were both born in Franklin county. His father, Jacob Burkholder, was born July 24, 1788, and died April 14, 1865. He was a farmer. His wife, Mary Shoemaker, was born August 10, 1794, and died October 20, 1871. They had nine children, three of whom are living : David, William and Mary, wife of Jacob Kohr, residing in Franklin county near the old homestead. Their de- ceased children were Catherine. Adam. Daniel, Jacob, Elizabeth, wife of Abraham Wenger, and John.
William Burkholder received a limited education in the public schools of Franklin county. As is usual with boys on the farm he attended school in the winter and assisted on the farm during the summer. At the age of eighteen he began an apprenticeship of two and a half years at shoemaking. He followed this occupation for about twenty- five years. A few years before the war he removed from Franklin to Cumberland county. October 16, 1862, he enlisted for the nine months' service in company A, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania volunteers. After his discharge from the army he worked two years in mercantile business, after which he removed to Harris- burg and . was employed one year in a shoe store on State street. On account of the business panic he lost his place and while waiting for financial prospects to brighten he and his sons worked at shoemaking ; but
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this business he was obliged to abandon on account of failing health. When the panic was over his former employer gave him work for one year, after which he engaged in broommaking on Boyd avenue, Harrisburg. He next removed to Broad street where he and his two sons carried on a factory and store for four years. His next removal was to 1316 Margaret street, where for a short time he had a broom factory. Then, having erected at this place a large and convenient building, he opened a grocery store and for the past ten years has done a large and suc- cessful business in this line. He is well-es- tablished and generally known, having been a resident of Harrisburg for twenty-five years.
While living in Cumberland county he served one year as supervisor, and also as school director of Silvers Spring township.
He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen and Catherine Laush, both of Cumberland county. Mr. Laush was a pumpmaker. Their children were Elizabeth, Andrew and Mary. Mr. Burkholder had but one child by his first wife, Annie E., who died in in- fancy. Mrs. Burkholder died, aged about twenty-four years. Mr. Burkholder's second marriage was with Miss Annie, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth Snell. Her father was born in York county, Pa. He was for a number of years a weaver and was after- wards engaged in farming. Her mother was born. in Lancaster county, Pa. They had eight children; the only one now living is Catherine, wife of Benjamin Hoover. Those deceased are : Lena, married first to Philip Keaner and afterwards to Lawrence New- gard ; Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Hurst; George; Mary, wife of Joseph Newcomer; Fannie, sec- ond wife of Joseph Newcomer; Annie E., and Christian. Philip Snell died at the age of nearly eighty years. Both he and his wife were members of the Lutheran church, in Cumberland county, Mr. Burkholder had three children by his second wife, two of whom are living: Jacob and William H. Joseph N: died March 30, 1889, aged thirty- two years. Mrs. Annie Burkholder died November 29, 1893, aged seventy-one. Mr. Burkholder is Democratic in politics. He belongs to the United Brethren in Christ ; both of his wives were members of the same church.
Jacob Burkholder, eldest son of William, was born May 6, 1854, and was educated in the
public schools of Cumberland county. He started in business as an attendant in an asylum where he was employed for two years. He afterwards worked one year for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as helper on the gravel train. At the age of twenty-one he was employed by the Jackson Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of inter- locking switches, as traveling agent. He then removed to Allentown, Pa., still being in the same business. He was married De- cember 26, 1873, to Miss Rebecca J., daughter of Joseph Feeman. They had one daughter, who died in infancy. His wife died Sep- tember 29, 1881. Mr. Jacob Burkholder is now ån undertaker in Allentown. He is a member of several lodges.
William Burkholder, Jr., youngest son of William, was born September 23, 1857. He also was educated in Cumberland county. At the age of sixteen he learned broom- making and followed this occupation for twenty-three years. He was married, Sep- tember 28, 1880, to Miss Clara, daughter of Adam and Catherine (Brenner) Stauffer. They had two sons, Charles A. and Arthur J.
Mr. William Burkholder, Jr., is engaged with his father in the grocery business. Ile is a member of the American Mechanics, No. 106, and of Washington Camp, No. S, P. O. S. of A. He isa Democrat and a mem- ber of the United Brethren church.
-POTTEIGER, JACOB, grocer, was born in Lower Paxton township, Dauphin county, Pa., December 24, 1833; son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Feeser) Potteiger. Jacob Pottei- ger, the grandfather, came from Berks county, and settled in Lower Paxton town- ship. He married Mary Deck. The father was the oldest of seven children, the only survivors of whom are: Jonathan, of Lower Paxton township; Daniel, of Fort Hunter, Dauphin county ; Elizabeth, (Mrs. Jonathan Crum), of Illinois. He was born in Berks or Dauphin county, and reared on the farm. He learned the black- smith trade, and followed it, having a shop near Linglestown, where he worked until his death, in 1853. In politics he was a Democrat. He was a member of the Lu- theran church, in which he held the office of deacon. His wife died in 1870. She was a daughter of Poter Feeser. They raised eleven children, ten of whom are living: Jacob; Elizabeth (Mrs. Reuben Conrad), of Seneca county, Ohio; Alert, of Fishing
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Creek Valley, Middle Paxton township; Sarah, deceased; Jonathan, of Halifax ; Matilda (Mrs. Samuel Hepford), of Harris- burg: David, of Lock Haven, Pa .; George, of West Hanover township, blacksmith; James, of Ohio, merchant; Levi, of Iowa, laundry, etc .; William, of Ohio, painter and paper hanger.
Jacob was reared and educated in Lower Paxton township. "He also attended school in Linglestown, and subsequently taught school five terms in the township, after which he was engaged in farming four years. In 1867 he settled at Progress, in Dauphin county, where he conducted a general mer- cantile business until 1871, when he pur- chased his present property in Harrisburg, and has since continued in the same line of trade. Mr. Potteiger is a director of the East Harrisburg Building and Loan Asso- ciation. In his politics he is a Republican, and has served as a school director one term from the Ninth ward, and also as assessor of the same ward. He is also a member of the Improved Order of Heptasophs.
Mr. Potteiger was married, in 185S, to Miss Rebecca Allbright, daughter of Henry All- bright, in Lower Paxton township, who died June 14, 1893, leaving only one child, Emma C., wife of Wesley Hoover, of Harrisburg. He is a member of the Thirteenth Street Lu- theran church, of which he has also served as treasurer. He also served as an elder and secretary of the council of the Memorial Lutheran church, and was one of the organ- izers of that congregation.
-ETTER, CALVIN, was born in Newport, Perry county, Pa., in December, 1835. He is a son of the late Henry H. and Mary (Shaffner) Etter. Henry H. Etter was born in Lancaster county, Pa. He was for a long time engaged in boating on the canal. For many years he was proprietor of the Warm Springs Hotel, Warm Springs, Perry county. lle was for a time employed under the United States Government, in the Agricul- tural Department at Washington, D. C. After an active and useful life, he died in Philadelphia in 1890. His wife, Mary Shaffner, was born in Harrisburg, and died in that city in 1865. Their children are: Ellen, wife of Jesse S. Butts, of Newport, Perry county ; Calvin ; Sarah, wife of Francis Wilcox, of San Diego, Cal., and Mary, wife of Ritzel Shattick, of Philadelphia.
Calvin Etter was reared on the farm in
Perry county. He had the opportunities which the common schools afford the busy farmer's boy, and his subsequent life shows that he made good use of them. The close of school days found him well-informed, disciplined and prepared for practical work. His natural tastes led him to prefer agri- cultural pursuits in early life, but at the age of twenty he forsook the farm and be- came clerk in a general store. Here he spent several years, becoming in that time thoroughly familiar with mercantile busi- ness.
In 1864 he began business on his own ac- count in Harrisburg. He opened a grocery store, and has since been in the business since that date. With perhaps one excep- tion, he is now the oldest grocer in the city. Mr. Etter has a combination of the qualities which make a successful merchant. He is systematic and methodical, able to lay out his plans and to give assiduous attention to the minutest details in their execution. He is alert and enterprising, and always abreast of the times. Always having his own business well in hand, he has time, as well as inclination, to interest himself in so- cial and general movements intended to promote the development and growth of the city. In social life he is a model gentleman, modest and always approachable. His suc- cess, the result of his accurate judgment, keen insight and absolute adherence to prin- ciple, is as honorable as it is large and envi- able.
Mr. Etter was married in Harrisburg, in April, 1865, to Helen Marshall, of Perry county. They have had four children, one of whom died in infancy. Their living children are: Carrie, wife of Harry S. Kelly, wood and coal dealer, a sketch of whom ap- pears elsewhere in this volume; Charlie Ross, a salesman in his father's store, and Mary Grace.
Mr. Etter is a Republican. He has repre- sented the Fifth ward of Harrisburg in common council for two terms, and in se- lect council one term.
-MAY, JOHN K., grocer, was born in York county, Pa., December 18, 1837. He is a son of Jacob and Mary Ann (Kirk) May, natives of York county, and farmers. He was reared in York county and educated in the public schools. Ile learned bricklaying, and coming to Harrisburg in 1862 worked as a journeyman until 1872. At this date
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he and Thomas Stephenson entered into partnership as contractors; this partnership continued one year. In 1873 he formed a partnership with George E. Reed, which lasted until Mr. Reed's death, in 1893. They erected many fine public and private build- ings in the city. In 1877 they engaged in the grocery business on Market street, near Third. In 1886 they began the manufac- ture of pressed and hand-made brick, and do an extensive business in that line. In 1878 Mr. May went into the retail coal business, in which he has since continued. He was also, from 1872 to 1890, in the retail cigar and tobacco trade.
He is a stockholder in the Harrisburg Foundry and Machine Works, the East Har- risburg Passenger Railway Company, the Harrisburg Trust Company, the Harrisburg Shoe Company, and the Capital City Shoe Company, of Harrisburg. He is active in the Republican party. He served six con- secutive years on the school board, repre- senting the Ninth ward.
He was married in 1865 to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of William Mahon, of Harrisburg. They have five children : Margaret, Mrs. Cornelius Shope, of Harrisburg; Nora, Mrs. William Stroup, of Reading, Pa .; Charles, Theodore, and Queenie. Mr. May and his family attend the Lutheran church.
" UMBERGER, HENRY L., was born in East Hanover township, Dauphin county, Pa., February 16, 1842. He is a son of John and Margaret (Lingle) Umberger, both deceased. His father was a native of Dauphin county ; his mother of Berks. The greater part of their lives was passed in Dauphin county. Of their ten children, six are living: Obadiah, of Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa .; John, of HIocrnerstown, Pa .; Margaret, wife of Wil- liam S. Hettrick, of Harrisburg; Hannah, wife of Daniel Bennewitz, of East Hanover township; Henry L., and Michael, residing near Taylorsville, Ili.
Henry L. Umberger attended the public schools of his native township, but his school days were cut short by the necessity of an early beginning of efforts to earn a livelihood. He was engaged in various occupations be- fore he reached manhood. He learned the milling business and was occupied in it for eight years; four years of this time he operated his own mill in East Hanover town- ship. About 1877 he removed to Harris-
burg, and in 1879 established his present business.
In February, 1862, he enlisted in company K, Ninety-third regiment, Pennsylvania vol- unteers, and served eighteen months. Dur- ing this time he, with his regiment, partici- pated in the battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House. In the latter engagement he was wounded in the left leg and conveyed to the hospital. At the close of the war he was discharged from the hos- pital and returned to East Hanover.
He was married at the Union Water Works, Lebanon county, to Miss Catherine, daughter of Joseph and Polly Sheffley, the former deceased, the latter still living at the advanced age of eighty and residing in Leba- non. Of their three children, one died an infant; the others are: Ellen and Katie. In political views Mr. Umberger is a staunch Republican. He and his family attend the Reformed church.
MILLER, WILLIAM F., was born in York. Pa., October 25, 1842. He is a son of Daniel and Sarah (Beck) Miller, who were both na- tives of York county. His father was a well- known stock dealer in York county, where he spent the greater part of his life. The family consisted of eight children, four of whom still survive, namely : Henry C., a stock dealer, residing in Pittsburgh, Pa .: William F., Robert, and Sarah. William F. was educated in the public schools of his native place, and after completing his edu- cation he learned the trade of a printer. In 1861 he removed to Harrisburg, where he worked at his trade for the following twenty years. He subsequently held a position in the Harrisburg postoffice for six years, and in 1887 he engaged in the grocery business. He was married, in Harrisburg, November 2, 1871, to Cavilla Stroh, daughter of Benjamin and Priscilla Stroh, who were among the early settlers of Dauphin county. There have been born to them four children, one of whom died in infancy. The children living are : Irene C., Bradford, and Mabel. Mr. Miller is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and Artisans. In po- litical views he is a Republican. He and his family attend the Lutheran church. He is a liberal and publie-spirited citizen.
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