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Miss Alexandra was married, at Mead- ville, Pa., August 2, 1875, to Dr. Allerton Aldrich, son of Judge Thomas Aldrich, of Meadville, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. They settled at San Fran- cisco, Cal., where Dr. Aldrich had previously practiced medicine for four years, and where he died in 1887, eighteen months after their marriage. She was left a widow, with a babe six months old, and with no means of support for herself and child, the Doctor having used the profits of his large practice in discharging debts contracted in securing his education. Six weeks after the death of her husband Mrs. Aldrich started for An- dover, Ohio, where her sister, Mrs. Hampton Johnson, now deceased, was then residing. The expense of this trip consumed all the money she had, and as she did not wish to return to her father's home, she naturally returned to her old occupation of teaching
to procure a support. A new brick academy was then just completed at Andover, and she accepted a situation offered her as teacher in the new building; she retained the position for twelve years. During this time she graduated from the University at Ada, Ohio, where she taught two years. While at Andover she was married to Dr. Stroup, August 29, 1889.
Mrs. Stroup's daughter by her first mar- riage, Effie Zaletta Aldrich, was born in San Francisco, December 1, 1876; she graduated in the teacher's course of the State Normal School, at Millersville, Pa., in 1895, with first honors, and in June, 1896, graduated in the scientific course of the same institution. She is studying German, French, Latin and Greek; is receiving thorough training in music and elocution, and will enter Harvard College in the fall of 1897.
Thomas Alexandra, father of Mrs. Dr. Stroup, was born at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1808, and was there educated and grew to man- hood. He was married, in Pittsburgh, in 1832, after which he located at Meadville, Pa. He was a large speculator in farming lands, and was engaged in raising fine blooded stock. He died at Meadville, No- vember 10, 1874. His wife died May 18, 1873. Their children are: Elizabeth, Mrs. Hampton Johnson, of Andover, Ohio; Mar- tha, Mrs. Reason Bates, State Line, Craw- ford county, Pa .; May, deceased; Mrs. Ben- jamin Miller, Jamestown, Mercer county, Pa .; Jennie, Mrs. Nelson Gallagher, Mercer county, Pa .; Sarah, died when three years old ; William J., died in infancy ; John B., farmer, near Meadville; Samuel, died aged three years; William James, died when one year old; Susie, Mrs. Dr. Stroup .; Florence Adela, died aged four years.
Mrs. John Alexandra, grandmother of Mrs. Dr. Stroup, was born in Berlin, Ger- many, and belonged to the aristocracy, be- ing a daughter of one of the wealthy noble- men of that city. Martha Brewer, for that was her name, fell in love with John Alex- andra, a native of Dublin, Ireland. He was a young man of excellent principles, but was not one of the wealthy nobility. His devo- tion to the beautiful and wealthy daughter being bitterly opposed, the lovers only waited for an opportunity to sail to America. One morning at 4 o'clock a beautiful white steed drew up in. front of the mansion, and, after mounting, Barbara bid farewell to mother and home, and, after being married, set sail
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with her lover for America. They settled at Pittsburgh, Pa., where they lived for twenty years and amassed a great fortune. They sold their possessions then, and moved to Meadville, Pa. Their children were : Thomas, father of Mrs. Stroup; Mary, Mrs. James White, Jamestown, Pa .; Richard, died aged twenty-one; Deborah, Mrs. Williams, de- ceased ; William, deceased; Martha, Mrs. William Betts, resides near Jamestown, Pa .; John, farmer at Espenville, Pa.
Thomas Alexandra, great-grandfather of Mrs. Stroup, located at Pittsburgh, Pa., and was a noted criminal lawyer of that day. He died at an advanced age, about the year 1854.
-ROMBERGER, SAMUEL B., was born in Ly- kens township, Dauphin county, Pa., August 9, 1845. He is a son of Daniel and Hannah (Bergstresser) Romberger. His grandfather, Adam Romberger, was twice married, and had twenty-three children, of whom seven- teen, three sons and fourteen daughters, grew to maturity and were married. Adam Rom- berger died at Uniontown, Pa., in 1868, aged ninety-three, leaving an estate valued at $10,000. His second wife preceded him a few years in death. His descendants are numerous, numbering at the time of his death 542, and are scattered over Dauphin county.
Daniel Romberger, father of Samuel B., was born in Lykens township, Dauphin county, Pa., February 19, 1816. IIe was brought up as a farmer, and was married in his native place. He settled on a farm in Washington township in 1854, and later located on a farm in Berrysburg, where he died July 29, 1882. His wife died in Eliza- bethville in 1889. Their children were : Adam, born August 21, 1839, farmer, North- umberland county, Pa .; Edward, born July 30, 1841, farmer on the old homestead in Washington township; Cyrus, born July 14, 1843, retired farmer and merchant, Elizabeth- ville; Samuel B .; Josiah, born October 9, 1847, with the Reading Railroad Company at Sha- mokin, Pa .; John A., born April 21, 1850, grain, coal and lumber dealer, Elizabeth- ville; H. Howard, born July 12, 1853, mer- chant, Gratz; formerly an Evangelical preacher ; Alfred D., born October 9, 1854, died September 15, 1857.
Samuel B. Romberger was of German de- scent on his father's side, and on his mother's Scotch-Irish. He attended school in his
native place until he was nine years old, when the family removing to Washington township his education was finished in the common schools there. In his seventeenth year he began an apprenticeship at tanning with Isaiah Matters, at Uniontown, Pa. He served three years, during which time he re- ceived $175, which was $40 in excess of the original contract. He worked at his trade a year and a half in Schuylkill county, Pa. He then formed a partnership with Reuben Weiser, and established a tanyard at Green Briar, Northumberland county, and con- tinued in business there two and a half years; at the end of this time he bought the tanyard known as Stine's plant, above Gratz, Dau- phin county, Pa. He operated this plant for fourteen years, having sold the one at Green Briar.
In the spring of 1883 Mr. Romberger dis- posed of his property in Lykens township and located at Elizabethville, where he at first operated a tannery, but later relinquished the business of tanning and dealt in hides and tallow. In 1892 he took into partner- ship his two sons, Daniel W. and Penrose C. This is the pioneer firm in their business in this county; there are but two larger dealers in the State. They are operating branches at Wilkes-Barre, and Tyrone, Pa.
Samuel B. Romberger was married at Green Briar, Pa., March 12, 1867, to Miss Sarah Jane Brower, born in Northumber- land county, Pa., October 29, 1847 ; daughter of Nathan and Caroline (Troutman) Brower. Their children are: Daniel W., born in Ly- kens township, February 23, 1870, was cdu- cated in the common schools of Gratz and Elizabethville, married Sadie Gotshall, has three boys, Melvin C., Harold L., and Law- rence ; Penrose C., born in Lykens township, in 1872, first attended the common schools of his native township and of Elizabethville, at seventeen years of age he entered the West Chester State Normal School, and took a commercial course, and then became trav- eler for the firm in Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Virginia ; Elba A., born July 18, 1874, married Feb- ruary 11, 1896, to Ammon W. Krebs, resides with her father; Ira P., born in 1875, car- ries on a branch of his father's business at Wilkes-Barre, Pa .; Ella J., born in 1878, at home.
Mr. Romberger is a Republican. He is president of Lykens Valley Fire Insurance Company, director of Lykens Valley Tele-
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graph and Telephone Company, and of the Elizabethville Water Company. Ile is a member and a steward of the Evangelical church, and a director of the Maple Grove Cemetery Association, of Elizabethville, Pa.
SWAB, JONAS, manufacturer of wagons, Elizabethville, Pa., was born in Washington township, Dauphin county, Pa., March 18, 1843. He is a son of Daniel and Sally (IIeller) Swab.
Daniel Swab, father of Jonas Swab, was a native of Washington township, Lykens Valley, and a farmer, born 1814. He died on the homestead farm, in Washington town- ship, in 1871. He was a staunch Democrat and a member of the Lutheran church, and was widely and favorably known. His wife still survives him and resides in Elizabeth- ville. Their children are: Catherine, widow of Samuel Snyder ; Thomas, merchant, Valley Falls, Kan .; Mary, died aged thirteen ; Jonas ; Isaac, foundryman, at Elizabethville, Pa .; Sarah, wife of F. L. Koppenheffer, Mifflin township, Dauphin county, Pa .; John, on the old farm, Washington township; David, wagon maker, Marshalltown, Iowa ; Daniel, died at age of fourteen, and Aaron, coach- maker, Elizabethville, Pa.
Jonas Swab attended the common schools of his township until he was eighteen. For several years in succession before that time be assisted his father in clearing six or seven acres of new land. He was employed and trained as farmer boys usually are. At the age of eighteen he began to learn the tan- nery business, at Uniontown, Pa., but find- ing after a short time that the business did not suit him, he abandoned it. He took up carpentry and worked at that for a year, and then for two years found employment in the factory of Riegel & Emerich, manufacturers of implements, at Uniontown, Dauphin county.
On September 8, 1864, Mr. Swab enlisted at Harrisburg, Pa., in company H, Two Hundred and Tenth regiment, Pennsylva- nia volunteers, Captain Miller, and went at once to the front. The regiment went out one thousand strong. When mustered out at Arlington Heights, Va., June 7, 1865, there were only three hundred and sixty-five men on the roll. They had been at the front but five days when they took part in the battle of Petersburg, and were placed in the second line of breastworks. They assisted in tearing up the Weldon railroad. Mr.
Swab, with his regiment, took part in the battles of Hatch's Run, Va., October 27, 1864; second battle at Hatch's Run, Febru- ary 5, 1865; Dabney's Mills, Va., February 6, 1865; Gravelly Run, Va., March 3, 1865 ; Five Forks, April 1, 1865; and in the sur- render of Lee at Claver Hill, Va., April 9, 1865. At Gravelly Run, in a charge made by the regiment in an open field upon what was supposed to be a rebel picket, but which proved to be the full force of the enemy, many of the regiments were shot down and many made prisoners. Mr. Swab barely es- caped capture.
Coming home at the close of the war, Mr. Swab was employed for five months in the implement factory at Uniontown. In the spring of 1867 he took a trip westward, as far as Omaha, Neb., working for a time at several points. In the following December he returned home, and in the spring of 186S built the works and began the manufacture of wagons and implements on his own ac- account. After a time he found it advan- tageous to drop the implement branch and confine his attention to the manufacture of wagons. With money saved from his pre- vious earnings he built and equipped a large plant, which be conducted with growing success. He is widely known as a reliable and enterprising manufacturer, and the pro- ducts of his factory are sold throughout the entire State.
He manufactures extensively farm and spring wagons which are classed second to none made in the State. His factory is equipped with all the most modern machin- ery, and he manufactures every portion of wood work and nearly every portion of iron work used in the construction of his wagons. He employs a large number of hands and his factory has not been closed down three days in twenty-eight years of business, which speaks well for his excellent management.
Jonas Swab was married, at Elizabethville, December 4, 1869, to Miss Ellen S. Mattis. Their children are: Bertha L., born in 1876, died when four years old; Etta M., born June 5, 1878, attended Millersville State Normal School one year, and is now at Irving College, in Mechanicsburg, Pa .; Ralph M., born in 1883, died when three years old.
Mr. Swab is a Democrat, but is liberal in his views. Ile is a member of Heilner Post, No. 232, G. A. R., at Lykens, Pa. The family are connected with the Lutheran church.
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SWAB, AARON, coach manufacturer, Eliza- bethville, Pa., was born on the old home farm in Washington township, Dauphin county, Pa., October 26, 1859. He is a son of Daniel and Sarah (Heller) Swab. A sketch of his father appears in this volume in connection with that of Jonas Swab.
Aaron Swab was educated in the common schools of his native township. He was set to work on the farm when quite young, and was a very industrious and willing assistant. He was eleven years old when his father died. From the age of fourteen until he was twenty-two, he was employed in the wagon factory of his brother, Jonas Swab. During his twenty-third year he worked at the axle factory, at Millersburg, Pa., after which he returned to the employ of his brother, and remained with him until 1889. During those years of industry, he was fru- gal and economical, and had accumulated some money. With these savings and a little assistance, Mr. Swab ventured to begin for himself the manufacture of coaches and other vehicles. At his beginning, in 1889, his plant was not large, but he has from time to time made substantial additions which have greatly increased its capacity. In 1892 he built two large additions to the factory. He now employs eight workmen. The products of his factory are known as be- ing first-class in material, workmanship and finish, and find a wide market in the State.
Aaron Swab was married, April 20, 1884, to Miss Mary J. Uhler. Their children are: William A., who died aged nine years; and Galen A., in his second year. Mr. Swab is a Democrat. He is now in his second term as town assessor. He is a member and an elder of the Reformed church.
MILLER, NATHANIEL, distiller, was born in Washington township, Dauphin county, l'a., November 19, 1837. He is a son of Daniel and Catherine (Snyder) Miller. His grand- father, John Miller, was born in Northum- berland county, Pa. He came to Dauphin county and owned and cultivated a farm in Jackson township, where he died in the early sixties. His wife was a Miss Sauler. Their children are: Michael, farmer and blacksmith, died aged fifty-five years, in Jackson township; Philip, wagon maker, died aged eighty-two, in Jackson township; Daniel; John, farmer, residing in Jackson township; Elizabeth, Mrs. John Letich, re- siding in Jackson township ; Christian B.,
removed from Dauphin county, in 1886, to Kansas, where he now lives, and several chil- dren who died in infancy.
Daniel Miller, father of Nathaniel Miller, was born in Lower Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, Pa., July 10, 1811. He was a blacksmith, and followed that trade in connection with farming. He also conducted a distillery in Washington town- ship until the time of his death, which oc- curred July 4, 1872. His wife, Catherine Snyder, was born June 18, 1808, and died December 15, 1884. Their children are : Susan, born July 25, 1833, married John Frank, resides in Elizabethville, Pa .; James, born February 16, 1835, Elizabethville ; Nathaniel ; Adam, born July 14, 1841, went to Mercer county, and was never heard from ; Mary C., born August 17, 1846, married G. Hoke, Elizabethville. Mr. Daniel Miller was. for many years justice of the peace in Jackson township.
Nathaniel Miller was educated in the common schools of his native place. He was put to work on the farm as soon as he was able to do anything, and assisted at home until he was twenty-two, when he hired out for two years. He then spent about four months in learning the business of distilling whiskey. After his marriage he worked for two years in his father's distillery. Then on account of the high whiskey tax the dis- tillery was closed for four years. At the end of that time Mr. Miller rented his father's property for three years. His father died about 1872, when he bought the dis- tillery and has ever since conducted the business. Mr. Miller owns a farm in Wash- ington township, in connection with a partner. It includes one hundred and thirty- fiveacres, with a grist mill, formerly known as Stine's mill. He also owns a farm in the eastern part of Washington township, con- taining one hundred and twenty-five acres, another of one hundred and thirty-five acres in Halifax township, and still another of one hundred and sixty-three acres near Millersburg.
Nathaniel Miller was married, January 13, 1867, to Miss Leah, daughter of John M. and Elizabeth Novinger Holtzman, born September 17, 1835. She died in Washing- ton township, January 12, 1883. Their chil- dren are: Jane Alice, born March 13, 1868, died March 27, 1869; Stephen Allan, born September 22, 1870, baggagemaster on the Summit Branch railroad, married Anna
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Beadle; Helen Catherine Elizabeth, born December 15, 1876, resides at home. In his second marriage, which occurred in Perry county, Pa., September 11, 1883, Nathaniel Miller was united to Elmira Bealor, widow of William Smith, born in Juniata township, Perry county, Pa., April 28, 1849 ; daughter of David and Margaret (Smith) Bealor. They have one child, Ida Mary, born Sep- tember 18, 1884. Mr. Miller is a Democrat. He is one of the borough council, and has been school director for one term. He is a member of the Reformed church, and has served as deacon.
--. Max Bealor; grandfather of Mrs. Miller, was a native of Berks county, where he was educated and grew to manhood. He mar- ried and removed to Perry county, Pa., in the carly part of this century. He settled at Markelsville, where he died about 1850. His wife, Catherine Keiser, survived him fifteen years. Both were members of the Reformed church. Their children are: Mrs. Susan McDowell, deceased; John, deceased, aged fifty-five years; David, deceased; Mar- garet, deceased, wife of James G. Blaine; Sallie and Catherine, died in girlhood ; Joseph, deceased ; Mary, maiden lady, died in 1892; Benjamin F., died at Markelsville, Pa., June 22, 1896, at an advanced age.
". David Bealor, Mrs. Miller's father, was born in Brecknock township, Berks county, Pa. He came with his parents to Perry county at the age of twelve, where they settled on a farm at Markelsville, where he was brought up. He received two weeks' schooling, and had to walk twelve miles to school when he did go. At the age of six- teen he began to learn masonry, and fol- lowed that trade until his marriage. At that time he bought a farm on which he lived during the remainder of his life. He died in 1876, in his eighty-third year. His wife, Margaret Smith, was a native of Perry county. She died in 1888, aged eighty-one. Their children were: Sarah, died in 1895; her first husband was George W. Titzel; her second, John Christ ; John C .; farmer, Blaine, Perry county, Pa .; Catherine, Mrs. William Sausaman, Harrisburg, Pa .; Elizabeth, Mrs. George Ernst, Washington township ; Lydia, maiden lady, Harrisburg; Elmira, Mrs. Miller; and Martha, maiden lady, Harris- burg, Pa.
Margaret Smith, the mother of Mrs. Miller, is descended from English stock. The chil- dren of her parents, Daniel and Catherine
(Ketner) Smith, are : John, died in Missouri, in 1884; William, died in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the spring of 1895; Daniel, farmer, near Millerstown, Perry county, Pa .; Elizabeth C., Mrs. Seabold, died at Duncannon, Pa., spring of 1893 ; Samuel, died about a year after his mother, in 1852; Benjamin, died in 1853, unmarried ; Margaret, mother of Mrs. Mil- ler; Sarah, Mrs. Moses, died at Johnstown, Pa., in 1888; Lydia and Catherine, died young ; Charles K., farmer, Newport, Perry county, Pa.
Mrs. Miller resided at home until her first marriage at Markelsville, Pa. They then located at Newport, Pa., where Mr. Smith died. He was born in Juniata township, Perry county. He was a carpenter, and worked at-that trade until his death in 1877. Their children are: Martha Calista, wife of Harry C. Swab, and George B., a farmer, in Illinois.
MILLER, JAMES, justice of the peace, Eliza- bethville, Pa., secretary and treasurer of the Lykens Valley Mutual Insurance Company, was born February 16, 1835. He is a son of Daniel and Catherine (Snyder) Miller, re- ferred to in this volume in connection with the sketch of his brother, Nathaniel Miller.
John Miller, great-grandfather of James and Nathaniel Miller, came from Wurtem- berg, Germany, leaving at home an elder brother, Casper Miller, and settled in Ma- hantango Valley, below County Line, Pa., where he died and is buried. IIe married a Miss Karstetter. Among the children are: Peter, Daniel, John, grandfather of James, and Nathaniel. With these three sons Mr. Miller's widow came to Armstrong Valley. She died at Daniel Miller's, where Michael H. Miller now resides. Her remains are buried at Fetterhoff's church, below Fisherville, Pa. Her son, John Miller, lived where Centre View postoffice now is. He died there, and is buried at Miller's church, near his home. His wife Catherine and many relatives are buried there. William and Elizabeth Snyder, maternal grandpar- ents of James Miller, with some of their children, lie buried in the same churchyard.
James Miller was educated in the old log school house of his native place, in Jackson township. He was early put to work on the farm, and was reared as a farmer's boy. In March, 1857, he went West, and spent the summer in Ogle county, Ill., working at anything at which he could find employ-
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ment. In the fall of that year he returned home. James Miller was married, in Jack- son township, July 4, 1858, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Hoffman) Hoffman, born in Halifax township, Dau- phin county, P'a., December 6, 1835.
Their children were : Milton A., born June 30, 1859, in Jackson township, train dis- patcher at Olean, N. Y., on the Western New York and Pennsylvania for ten years, mar- ried Susan Hoke Leopold, and has one child, Ruth; Ellen Victoria, born April 11, 1863, died September 17, 1863; Agnes Amanda, born in Jackson township, July 24, 1865, wife of L. U. Bolton, Harrisburg, Pa., has three boys, Leroy, Winfred, and Stanley ; James Melvin ; Elmira Salina, born in Eliza- bethville, August 19, 1869, at home; and Harvey Monroe, born in Elizabethville, Sep- tember 27, 1871. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Miller went to housekeeping in Jackson township. During the summer he farmed as tenant farmer, and in the winter for several terms taught school in Jackson town- ship. During the year of the Susquehanna floods, 1865, Mr. Miller repaired fences on Haldeman's Island, and worked on the re- pair train of the Summit Branch railroad, teaching school again in the winter. In April, 1866, he located in Elizabethville, and followed carpentry and farming as a hired hand until fall, when he received a certifi- cate to teach the town school. He taught for that term ; in the following summer he acted as clerk for F. Weaver in a general store. He taught for a half term afterwards in Elizabethville. On March 29. 1869, Mr. Miller was elected secretary and treasurer of the Lykens Valley Mutual Insurance Com- pany, and has continuously held both posi- tions since that date. In 1870 he was elected justice of the peace, and held that office until July, 1885, when he was made postmaster of Elizabethville, under President Cleveland. He built the postoffice building, and held the office until 1889. He was re-elected jus- tice of the peace and commissioner for the term beginning May 1, 1891, and ending May 1, 1896. Mr. Miller is a Democrat, but has never sought political preferment. Ile was reared in the Reformed church.
SWAB, JACOB, retired farmer, was born in Mifflin township, Dauphin county, Pa., April 7, 1822. He is a son of Jacob and Catherine (Metz) Swab.
Jacob Swab was educated in private schools before the free school system was adopted. He had to pay fifty cents per month for his tuition. When a mere boy he was set at work helping to clear and cul- tivate land. He worked at home until he was twenty-one, and then started out to make a living for himself. He worked on rented farms for five years, beginning with one in Mifflin township. He then removed to Donaldson, Schuylkill county, Pa., where he hauled timber to the mines with a two-horse team. He also used his team to draw cars laden with coal from the mines to the Union canal, where it was loaded on boats. At the end of five years he bought a farm in Porter township, Schuylkill county, which he cultivated for thirteen years. Sell- ing his farm, he returned to Dauphin county and bought another in Washington town- ship containing sixty-three acres of land and having a good house on it. Here be made his home until the spring of 1882, when he retired from active business and purchased a house and lot in Elizabethville, where he has lived since that time.
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