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KUNTZELMAN, AMos, sewing machine agent, Lykens, Pa., was born in Lykens Valley, March 20, 1833. Henry Kuntzel- man, his father, was born in Pine Valley, Schuylkill county, Pa., in 1779, and was a son of Henry Kuntzelman, a native of Penn- sylvania, and a farmer. Henry Kuntzel- man, Jr., was also a farmer, both in Pine Valley and also in Washington township. Dauphin county. He married Elizabeth McLean, of Irish descent, born in Millers- burg, Pa. They had four children : Josiah,
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died in the army ; Elisha, residing in Illi- nois; Amos; Moses, resides in Nebraska. The father died in Lykens, January 19, 1880. He was a Republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His wife died in Lykeus Valley in 1859.
Amos Kuntzelman attended the Valley pub- lic schools and worked on the farm until he was fourteen years old. He then left home, learned tailoring in Lykens, and worked four years at that trade. In 1854 he began business for himself as a merchant tailor, first for three years at Fisherville, afterwards at Lykens, continuing until the breaking out of the war.
Mr. Kuntzelman enlisted at Pottsville, Pa., September 23, 1861, in company G, Ninety-sixth regiment, Pennsylvania volun- teers, Capt. J. B. Haas and Colonel Cake. He took part in the battles of West Point and Cumberland Landing. He was taken sick from the effects of cold and exposure, and was confined in the hospital for two months. He was discharged from the ser- vice at Philadelphia in June, 1862, returned to Lykens, and for a time took up the sewing machine business He re-enlisted at, Harris- burg September 6, 1864, in company B, Ninth Pennsylvania cavalry. He was in the Atlanta campaign, and went with Sherman to the sea, under General Kilpatrick, who appointed him division tailor. He was dis- charged at Lexington, N. C., May 29, 1865. Returning to Lykens he resumed the sewing machine business. He handled the Singer machine for twenty-seven years, has sold the Standard for the past three, and has inan- aged the business successfully.
Amos Kuntzelman was married, in 1851, to Sarah Hoffman, born in Lykens Valley. They have four children : William H., miner, of Lykens; Isaiah, tailor, Bainbridge, Lancaster county, Pa .; Mary E., wife of H. E. Rumlinger, manufacturer, Philadelphia, and Clara, wife of Charles Foster, railroad man, of Bradford county, Pa. Mrs. Kunt- zelman died January 13, 1865. Mr. Kunt- zelman was married again October 23, 1865, to Sarah C. Ersenhower, native of Halifax, Pa., by whom he had one child, Robert A., a miner, of Lykens Valley. His second wife died May 5, 1882.
Mr. Kuntzelman is a Republican. He is a member of Heilner Post, No. 232, G. A. R., at Lykens, and of Wiconisco Lodge, No. 533, I. O. O. F., Lykens. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, and is a teacher
in the Sunday-school. He is a diligent worker and an upright man, genial and popular, has a good family, and enjoys the respect and good will of all his neighbors.
WALLACE, JOHN J., retired railroad man, Lykens, Pa., was born near Campbellstown, Lebanon county, Pa., October 20, 1824 ; son of William Wallace, a Pennsylvanian of Scotch- Irish descent, and a farmer. His earlier oc- cupation was charcoal burning. He married Elizabeth Christomer, a native of Lebanon county. Their children were: Thomas, de- ceased ; Legrand, deceased; John J .; Eliza- beth ; Harriet, wife of James Shaw ; Mary, deceased; William, miner at Lykens. Mr. William Wallace died at Harrisburg; his wife died near Dauphin, Pa. He was a Democrat.
John J. Wallace attended school both in Lebanon and Dauphin counties, for the most part subscription schools. In his younger days he worked both on the farm and on the railroad. In 1847 he removed to Lykens Valley, and for three years worked on the railroad and taught school. He owned a boat, which he used on the canal. In 1867 he and Mr. Frederick Weaver owned and operated a line of cars on the Summit Branch railroad to Philadelphia. They built warehouses at Lykens at much expense, and operated the line until 1877. Mr. Wallace then took a farm of one hundred and thirty acres, eighty acres of which were cleared. For eight years he farmed this tract and then retired from active work and located in Lykens, where he built two houses and bought two more. He and his wife are liv- ing in their own home, quietly enjoying the fruits of their early labors, having done much to increase the prosperity of the place of their adoption. They are worthy people, and highly respected.
Mr. Wallace was married, at Halifax, Pa., in 1849, to Elizabeth Snavely, born in Corn- wall township, Lebanon county, Pa., April 8, 1831; daughter of Mary A. (Lemon) and Thomas Snavely, a shoemaker. Their chil- dren are : William L .; John G., of Philadel- phia; Alfred, of Philadelphia; Samuel ; Anna, wife of Henry Harter ; Jennie, Ellen, and Alice, all died young. Mr. Wallace is a Democrat of the old school. He is a member of the Lutheran church, and of the O. U. A. M.
Mr. Wallace has seen many changes wrought in the valley. He has seen the town grow up where the wilderness was, and
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all wild life giving place to culture and civilization. Of these changes he has been an important part, and can look back with satisfaction to the career of industry and pub- lic service which he has pursued.
WALLACE, WILLIAM L., chief clerk of Sum- mit Branch Railroad Company, Lykens, Pa., was born at Lykens, November 22, 1856; son of John J. and Elizabeth (Snavely) Wal- lace. He attended the public schools of Ly- kens and spent three months at an academy away from home. When he was eleven years old he was employed by his father in the railroad office at Lykens, where he re- mained until 1872; he was then transferred to Williamstown and made station agent at that point for one year. At the expiration of the year he resumed his clerkship at Lykens, and held the place until 1887. For nine months Mr. Wallace tried the tea busi- ness at Williamsport. Since January, 1888, he has been chief clerk in the office of the Northern Central Railroad Company at Ly- kens, a position which he has filled with satisfaction to the company and with credit to himself. He is popular among railroad men and much respected by all.
William L. Wallace was married, at Hughes- ville, Lycoming county, Pa., in April, 1883, to Emma Snyder, born at Port Carbon, Schuylkill county, Pa., May 12, 1856. They have five children : Verdilla, Clara, Cloyd, Mary, and Herbert, all fine, healthy chil- dren. Mr. Wallace is a member of the Lu- theran church. He is a Democrat, but having been content to follow out his own business plans, has never sought political preferment.
WALLACE, SAMUEL T., boot and shoe dealer, Lykens, Pa., was born at Lykens, September 13, 1862; son of John J. and Elizabeth Wallace, and brother of William L. He attended the schools of Lykens un- til he was nineteen, receiving a thorough education. He was graduated with honors in the spring of 1881.
Mr. S. T. Wallace began his business life as brakeman on the Northern Central rail- way, between Renovo and Harrisburg, and was thus employed for seven years. Then returning to Lykens, he became proprietor of the Glenn House, a well-known hotel of that place. Two years later he went to Philadelphia, where for five years he was conductor on an electric street railway. He
resigned this place in December, 1895, and embarked in the boot and shoe trade at Lykens. His recognized business ability, agrecable manners and accommodating spirit have made him both popular and suc- cessful.
Samuel T. Wallace was married, at Lykens, February 2, 1883, to Emma Klinger, born at Lykens in July, 1864. They have one child, C. Lee, born March 7, 1884. Both are men- bers of the Lutheran church. Mr. Wallace is a Democrat. He belongs to Wiconiseo Lodge, No. 533, I. O. O. F., of Lykens. He stands high in business and social circles, is a good citizen and a first-class neighbor.
MILLER, SAMUEL, senior partner of the firm of Miller & Heilner, general merchants, Wicenisco, Pa., was born in Sunbury, Pa., December 3, 1833. His father, Charles H. Miller, was born in York county, Pa. In his younger days he was a contractor for canal and railroad work. He also kept a hotel in Harrisburg for a number of years. Later he removed to Lykens, where he died in 1872. He married Mary Boucher, a native of Sunbury, who died in Lykens. They had seven children: Edward, deceased ; Sophia J., wife of J. H. Foster, of Lykens; Samuel ; Henry C., of Danville; Barbara, widow of Hiram Bueck ; William P., deceased ; B. F., of Wiconisco. Mr. Miller was a Republican. He was a member of the Lutheran church.
Samuel Miller is a self-educated man. He attended the public schools for only a short time when he was a small boy. He worked among the farmers, carning from twenty-five to fifty cents a day. When he was fourteen years old he was clerk in a store in Lykens, receiving $2.75 per week, and paying his own board. He was for two years in this position, after which he took a contract for making a road in the upper part of the county, in connection with his father. After some months' work on this contract he worked one year at railroading in New Jer- sey. He then returned to Lykens and worked two years as a blacksmith for the Lykens Valley Railroad Company. Then he was clerk in a store at Lykens for four years, and spent four years more with Bar- rett & Bloom, and for twenty-seven years he has conducted a general mercantile business at Wiconisco. Ile has built up a large trade and has the most extensive mercantile estab- lishment in Lykens Valley. Associated with him as a silent partner is Rev. S. A. Ileilner,
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of Philadelphia, minister of the Methodist church. Mr. Miller opened a branch store in 1881 in Lykens and conducted the busi- ness there until 1SSS, when he sold it to his sons, Charles H. and Jacob M. Miller.
In 1856 Samuel Miller was married, at Lykens, to Rebecca Mann, born in Chester county, Pa., in 1836, of Welsh descent. They have had nine children : Annie L., wife of W. J. Simpson; W. Howard, who died at the age of four years; Jennie; Charles H., merchant at Lykens; Jacob M., bicycle dealer; Rebecca E .; Carrie L., died in in- fancy ; Samuel II., attending Dickinson Col- lege; and Mary M.
Mr. Miller is a Republican. . IIe was a school director for two terms, during part of which time he was president of the board. He is an advocate of compulsory education. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a Sunday-school teacher and super- intendent, and has been trustee of the church from early manhood. He was for about five years a director of the Miners' Deposit Bank. Few men are more widely or favor- ably known in the town or valley, and none are more highly esteemed. He is genial and popular.
Mr. Miller enlisted for three months at Harrisburg, in March, 1863, in company D, Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania volunteers, un- der Colonel Jennings. IIe is a member of Ashler Lodge, No. 570, F. & A. M., Wico- nisco, and has been a member of the Odd Fellows.
Charles H. Miller, son of Samuel Miller, is a general merchant at Lykens, where he was born February 18, 1865. He was edu- cated in the public schools. At sixteen years of age he entered his father's store as clerk and remained with the firm until . 1888; when he and his brother Jacob M. bought out the firm of Miller & Heilner, and carried on the business under the firm name of Miller Bros. for seven years. In 1895 Charles H. Miller purchased his brother's interest and has since conducted the business in his own name. Mr. Charles H. Miller is a Republican. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias at Lykens. He is a promising and popular young business man with a bright future before him.
Jacob M., second living son of Samuel Miller, was born at Lykens, November 18, 1868. The removal of the family to Wico- nisco took place when he was one year old His entire education was acquired in the
public schools of that place. After leaving school he was clerk in his father's store for a year, and for two years after in a branch store at Lykens. In 1888 he and his brother Charles H. purchased the above mentioned business at Lykens and conducted it under the firm name of Miller Bros. until October 16, 1895, at which date Jacob M. Miller sold his interest to his brother, who now con- ducts the business. From 1892 until June 29, 1896, Jacob M. Miller also conducted the Lykens Marble Works, and then sold out this business also. He is now dealing in bi- cycles at Lykens. - Mr. Miller is a Republi- can. He is a member of Ashler Lodge, No. 570, F. & A. M., of Wiconisco, and of Lodge No. 533, of Lykens.
Jacob M. Miller was married, June 4, 1895, at Lykens, to Emma, daughter of Sam- uel and Addie Fenn .- Mr. Fenn is the late editor of the Lykens Register. Mr. Miller attends the Methodist Episcopal church.
LAMEY, PHILIP H., hardware and tinware merchant, Wiconisco, Pa., was born in Clin- ton county, Pa., March 2, 1836. His father, John Lamey, was born in Scotland, and came to this country when a young man. IIe settled in Clinton county and en- gaged in farming and stock raising. He married Elizabeth Kaler, born in Ger- many, and brought to this country in early youth. They had twelve children : Susan, Christian, John, Michael, Philip H., William, Elizabeth, Delilah, and four infants that died. Mr. Lamey was a Republican. The family were members of the United Brethren church. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lamey died in Clinton county.
Philip H. Lamey received his early edu- cation in the district schools of his native county. He worked on the farm until he was sixteen years old, after which he learned the trade of millwright, and followed that occupation eleven years. After this he worked two years on the Central railroad in Centre county, and then six years in the coal regions as clerk for George Moulton & Co. He came to Wiconisco in 1871 and was employed for sixteen years by the Ly- kens Valley Coal Company as outside fore- man. In 1889 Mr. Lamey purchased the business of J. H. Meyers, hardware and tin- ware merchant. He has conducted the busi- ness since that date, meeting with good suc- cess and building up a large trade.
Philip H. Lamey was married, at Free-
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burg, Snyder county, Pa., in 1862, to Eliza- beth Boyer, born in Liverpool, Perry county, Pa. They have three children : Mary, un- married; Edward, attending school ; and Jacob, deceased. Jacob was in the tin- ware business for his father. In 1891 he went to a medical college at Philadelphia, and five days before his graduation day he died from the effects of a cold, April 13, 1893. He belonged to the Knights of the Golden Eagle.
Mr. Lamey is a Republican, for a year he was a school director. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a Sunday- school superintendent and teacher. Mr. Lamey is a well-known citizen of Wiconisco. He is enterprising and prosperous in busi- ness, and in social circles is genial and pop- ular.
- Mossor, ISAAC, junior partner and business manager of Kimmel & Mossop, hosiery man- ufacturers, Wiconisco, Pa., was born at Raven- glass, England, October 28,1860. His father, Henry Mossop, was a native of England, and was a butcher. He married Jane Sharp, of Scotch descent. They had nine children : William, residing in Salt Lake City, Utah; Mary, deceased, wife of John Shaw, of Eng- land; Elizabeth, wife of J. Studholme, Tower City, Pa .; Isaac; Fanny, wife of Will- iam Dewfall, England; Annie J., Henry, John, and Thomas, died young. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mossop died in England.
Isaac Mossop received a common school education in his native country. He began his business life by working as a farmer's boy, receiving sixpence a day and his board. After six months of this employment he worked four years as a carpenter and joiner. Ile was next employed by a railroad com- pany as a shipping clerk. In 1881 he came to the United States on the steamship City of Montreal, landed at New York, and came to Philadelphia. IIe spent a week there, then went to . Tower City, and worked four and a half years as a laborer in the mines. Hle afterwards went into the confectionery business in Tower City, and continued in this business three years, meeting with suc- cess. In 1889 he came to Wiconisco, and in connection with the late A. F. Kimmel, built a large factory, and equipped it with ma- chines for the manufacture of seamless hose, expending $5,000 in furnishing the plant and making it one of the most complete and
convenient establishments in that line of work. The firm employs 120 hands, and pays $1,500 per month in wages, producing goods which find a ready market in all parts of the country. Since Mr. Kimmel's death, Mr. Mossop is the general manager and su- perintendent of every department of the business.
Isaac Mossop was married, in Tower City. January 16, 1883, to Violet Jenkins, born in Tamaqua, Pa., May 19, 1858; daughter of John and Matilda Jenkins, the former was killed during the Civil war. They have no children.
Mr. Mossop is a Republican. He is a member of Ashler Lodge, No. 570, F. & A. M., and of Lodge No. 755, I. O. O. F., Tower City. In the planning and operating of his magnificent factory, and in the successful management of the establishment, Mr. Mossop has displayed great business ability. His enterprising spirit and progressive methods are recognized and admired, while his genial nature and kindly manners make him most agreeable in social life. Mr. Mos- sop is a director of the Miners' Deposit Bank of Lykens; a director of the Williams Valley Railroad Company and treasurer of the Wico- nisco Dye and Manufacturing Company.
CHRISTMAN, CHARLES D., M. D., physician and surgeon, Wiconisco, Pa., was born in Kutztown, Berks county, Pa., January 29, 1857. His grandfather, Daniel D. Christ- man, was of Scotch-Irish descent, and was a merchant of Montgomery county, Pa. Silas Christman, father of Dr. Christman, was born in Montgomery county. In his younger days he was a stone cutter and was engaged in contract work. He was one of the builders of the Dauphin bridge. In later years he was a music teacher. He had great musical talent; was a leader in church singing and an organist. For thirty years he filled the office of justice of the peace in Montgomery and Berks counties Mr. Christman mar- ried Telima Jordan, of English descent. They had six children : Percival, deceased ; Sarah, wife of John Gerhart, farmer, Mont- gomery county ; James, carriage maker, Bucks county; Dr. Charles D .; Annie, wife of T. Shaw, shoe dealer, Philadelphia ; Mary, wife of A. F. Styer, manager of Boltz & Clyman's cigar factory, Philadelphia. The father died in 1889, the mother in ISS.4.
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They were members of the Reformed church. Mr. Christman was a Democrat.
Charles D. Christman attended the public schools of Kutztown, Berks county. At fourteen years of age he entered Perkiomen Seminary, at Pennsburg, Pa., and at the close of a five years' course was graduated with honors. He then taught school for one term. Mr. Christman then spent one year in the drug store of Dr. Bobb, of East Green- ville, at the same time reading medicine under Dr. Bobb. After a course of two years of study at the College of Pharmacy, in Phila- delphia, during which time he was engaged in the pharmacy of Dr. David T. Brown, 29 Ridge avenue, Philadelphia, he was grad- uated with the class of 1880. Dr. Christman then came to Wiconisco and was in the drug store of Kneiffer & Diefenderfer for three years, at the same time reading medicine. He was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., in 1885, and returned to Wiconisco and took up the practice of medicine. In 1886 the Doctor returned to Baltimore and took a special course on the treatment of the dis- cases of women, and of the eye, ear and throat, and similar complaints ; also in gen- eral surgical operations. He also, in Phila- delphia in 1892, took the special course for the treatment of catarrh. In 1893 he took the appliances of the O. E. Miller hernia treatment, and has made a specialty of this cure. The Doctor has built up a practice extending throughout the State, and is visited by hundreds of patients from places near and far. Dr. Christman is also inter- ested in other branches of business. He is a partner with W. H. Clay Keen in a drug store, with which is connected a hardware department.
Dr. Christman has the diplomas of eight schools and colleges, and is well versed in professional knowledge. He is a man of sound judgment, wide information and great enterprise and industry. He is also de- servedly popular as a gentleman of genial manner.
IIe was married, in Reading, Pa., Decem- ber 31, 1885, to Lizzie Krum, of Missouri. They have three children; Florence M., Harry, and Charles. Dr. Christman is a Re- publican. He is a charter member of Ashler Lodge, No. 755, F. & A. M., and is always open-handed in works of benevolence. He helped many of his fellow-students at college who had need of financial assistance.
- LENKER, JOHN N., physician and surgeon, Wiconisco, Pa., was born in Northumberland county, Pa., July 31, 1865. Jacob Lenker, father of John N. Lenker, and son of John Lenker, was also born in Northumberland county, in 1833. He married Sarah Bona- witz, who died in 1869. Mr. Jacob Lenker died in the same year as his wife.
John N. Lenker lived with his uncle for a few years. At the age of fourteen he went to live with Dr. Kautz, of Berrysburg, where he attended school. He taught school for two years in Northumberland county and at Carsonville, Dauphin county. He read medicine under Dr. Kautz, and was gradu- ated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., in 1886, with honors. He spent nine months as an "interne " at Bay View Hospital, Baltimore. In 1887 Dr. Lenker returned to Berrysburg, and practiced there in partnership with his former preceptor, Dr. Kautz, for three years. Since 1890 he has been in practice at Wico- nisco, and has been in every way successful.
Dr. John N. Lenker was married, at Se- linsgrove, Snyder county, Pa., October 7, 1889, to a native of that county, Sallie E., daughter of Isaac Burns, of Scotch and Ger- man descent, a contractor and builder. Dr. and Mrs. Lenker have no children. Dr. Lenker is a Republican. He is a member of the Lutheran church, general council, at Lykens, and is a trustee of that church. The Doctor is well established in his practice and is doing his share of work not only in healing the diseases of the people, but in guiding them into better knowledge and more perfect observance of the laws of health.
: JONES, COL. WILLIAM W., train dispatcher and yardmaster, Summit Branch railroad, Lykens, Pa., was born at Llandilo, Caermar- thenshire, Wales, August 22, 1827. His father, John J. Jones, was also born in Wales, where he spent his younger days as keeper for the estate of Lord De Never. In 1829 he embarked at Swansea on a sailing vessel for the United States. After a long voyage he landed at Millsvillage, Nova Scotia, where he spent one year. From there he came to Philadelphia, and after a year's stay in that city removed to Pottsville and worked for a time at shoemaking. He was also employed five years by the Brooks Coal Company. He taught school in Potts- ville and died there in 1860. He was mar- ried, in Wales, to Mary Jenkins. They had
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nine children : John, died in Wales; Ann, William W., Jane, Eliza, Amelia, Benja- min Franklin, John (2), deceased, and two children that died in infancy. Mrs. Jones died in 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Jones were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Ile was an old line Whig; he was a good citizen and an industrious and worthy man.
William W. Jones attended the common schools at Pottsville and worked as a gar- dener in his boyhood. When he was eleven years old he left home with all he owned tied up in a bandanna handkerchief. He found employment on the Schuylkill canal as a hand on a canal boat for three years. He then returned to Pottsville and obtained the position of "printer's devil " with R. M. Palmer, editor of the Pottsville Emporium, and remained in that position until 1847. Ile learned carpentry in Schuylkill county and was employed for two years in building coal breakers.
Mr. Jones was next employed by the Lykens Valley Coal Company at Lykens, in the capacity of carpenter and foreman in the car building and repair shops, for seven years. In 1852 he became brakeman on the Lykens Valley railroad and was promoted first to fireman and then to engineer on that road. In 1869 he was made a commissioner to construct a State road in Schuylkill and Dauphin counties, from Tower City to Koffers; and in 1872 was given the position of yardmaster and train dispatcher. He has since held that position, giving the utmost satisfaction to the company and gaining great credit for himself. In his long service of forty-four years with the company Colonel Jones has filled many positions, from the lowest to the highest and most responsible, and in all of them he has displayed the same excellencies and virtues-intelligence, fidel- ity, industry and probity. His employers value his services and esteem the man, and his fellow-workmen recognize his worth and render him due esteem. All regard him as an upright man and a valuable citizen.
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