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in 1832, is now the wife of Jacob Persbacker, fore- man on the Erie railroad and a resident of Shohola township, Pike county, where he owns a large farm : Josephine, born December 6, 1840, is the mother of Mrs. Eckhart: Barbara, born February 13, 1842. is the widow of Charles Classe, and a resident of Alle- gleny, Penn. ; John enlisted in the Union army dur- ing the Civil war, and was killed in South Carolina, being murdered on the battlefield, and Elizabeth ( deceased ) was born September 29, 1845, and was the first wife of Valentine Hipsman.
WILLIAM SHOTWELL WINTERMUTE, deceased. Among the men whose enterprise and foresight helped to develop the resources of this section the subject of this sketch, formerly a leading resident of Stroudsburg, is especially deserving of honorable mention. As the pioneer brick manufac- turer of Monroe county his connection with business interests was notably helpful, while in non-com- mercial lines his influence was no less potent, every movement for the welfare of the community receiv- ing from him sympathy and support. For nearly half a century he made his home in Stroudsburg, and so closely was he identified with the best interests of the place that his death, on October 10, 1879, caused profound grief among all classes of people, to whom his name had become a synonym for manly endeavor.
Mr. Wintermute derived his sterling qualities of character from good Colonial ancestry, his family having resided in New Jersey for several genera- tions. Peter Wintermute, the grandfather of our subject, married Esther Rhodes, and they had sev- eral children, among whom was a son Charles.
Charles Wintermute, our subject's father, was born August 16, 1784, and made his home in Still- water township, Sussex Co., N. J. He married Susannah Shotwell, who was born in the same local- ity on January 6, 1789. and went to Fayette county, Penn., when only five years old, her father, Hugh . Shotwell, taking his family across the mountains in a wagon drawn by a team of oxen. In 1800 Charles Wintermute went to Fayette county, and he and Miss Shotwell were married after a brief acquaintance, the ceremony being performed No- vember 20. of that year. He immediately returned to New Jersey with his young bride. the entire journey being accomplished on horseback. His death occurred February 21. 1868, and his wife died March 15, 1874. Our subject was the eldest of thirteen children. (2) Joseph R., born . October 25. 1811. was married March 21, 1840, to Judith .\. Wolfinger, and died December 19, 1864. (3) Ro- setta .A., born September 19, 1813, was married, March 24. 1853. to George S. Smith. (4) Ilugh S .. born April 18, 1816, was married. November 8. 1840. to Merey Luce and died April 2, 1860. (5) Esther. born April 20, 1818, was married, January 3: 1843. to Aaron Mitchel and died July 13. 1888; her hius- band's death occurred July 15, 1888. (6) John S ..
William S. Wintermute
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9, 1847, and died March 13, 1885. (7) George, born May 1, 1821, was married, April 18, 1850, to Sarah Middlesworth. (8) Caroline, born February 6, 1823, died May 9, 1898, was married, February 26, 1845, to John Mitchel. (9) Charlotta, born No- vember 26, 1824, married Reuben Randolph No- vember 15, 1847. (10) Abigail R., born June 6, 1826, married Cummins O. Harris March 4, 1847, and died April 28, 1892. ( 11) Howel G., born Feb- ruary 26, 1828, died September 20, 1831. (12) Alice A., born September 5, 1829, married William Willetts December 27, 1855. ( 13) Oliver B., born March 15, 1832, married Alice Tunison March 24, 1855.
William S. Wintermute was born September 30, 1810, near Stillwater, N. J., where his youth was imainly spent. He learned the brick maker's trade during a brief residence in Cleveland, Ohio, and on March 4, 1836; located in this section. For a few years he leased the Peter Hollinshead farm, west of Stroudsburg ( later owned by Henry Kantz), where with his sister Esther as his housekeeper he followed farming and brick making, having one kiln on the place. About 1843 he removed to town and began the manufacture of brick, which he successfully con- tinued as a permanent occupation. For a number of years he was extensively engaged in that business both in Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg, and all of the first brick buildings there, including the old courthouse, county office and many others, were made of bricks of his manufacture. During the second remarkable freshet from which Stroudsburg suffered, on October 4, 1869, his home, in common with several others, was undermined and destroyed, his residence being one-half of the edifice erected by him on the site of old Fort Penn, of Revolution- ary fame. He soon afterward rebuilt it. enlarging it to more than double its former size, and it is per- haps one of the best and most substantially built edifices in town. having the foundation laid from the bottom of the wash-out, twenty-three feet below the "level of the pavement.
Mr. Wintermute became a Republican when that party was formed, and in his day was one of the influential workers in the local organization. being entrusted with many borough offices, including those of chief burgess ( four years). town councilman and school director, which he held at different times for a number of years, as his eminently practical judgment and good sense made his services of value. He loved peace, and consistently avoided contention and strife, often enduring wrong rather than resent it. He was one of the oldest living members of Fort Penn Lodge No. 134. 1. O. O. F .. and his funeral was largely attended by the members. In his youth he united with the Christian Church of Johnsons- burg. N. J., and throughout his life ne manifested by his conduct the reality of his faith. On October 30, 1841, he married Eliza Fowler, by whom he had four children, viz .: Susan, Esther, Charles and Mary.
(I) Susan was married, December 15, 1880, to
Henry T. Van Iderstine, of Passaic, N. J., and had one daughter, Lida W., born August 15, 1884. Henry T. Van Iderstine, son of Tunis and Sallie Van Iderstine, was born in Saddle River township, Bergen Co., N. J., September 29, 1827. He was one of the organizers of the First Reformed (Dutch ) Church of Broadway, Paterson, N. J., and remained an active member, holding the office of deacon. By trade he was a coachmaker, and he conducted this business many years in Paterson, N. J., retiring about middle age, owing to declining health. His death occurred in Stroudsburg. Penn., February 15, 1893, and his remains were taken to Passaic, N. J., for interment in the cemetery attached to the First Reformed Church of that place.
(2) Esther was married. January 22, 1880, to Dr. William James Gulick, of North Lansing, N. Y., who was born at Lacon, Marshall Co., Ill., January 22, 1844, son of Williamson and Charlotte ( Van Buskirk) Gulick. His father died in 1846, and his motlier afterward married Charles Henry. who was several times sheriff of Monroe county, Penn. Losing his father at the age of two years. Dr. Gu- lick became the ward of his grandfather, William Van Buskirk, of Stroud township, Monroe Co., Penn., who educated him. In 1862 he began the study of medicine, under the direction of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson, of Stroudsburg, and on graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. March II, 1865, he located at Nanticoke, Luzerne Co., Penn., where he practiced his profession for three years. He then removed to Venice Centre. Cayuga Co., N. Y., and later to North Lansing, Tompkins Co .. N. Y., where he continued successfully for thirteen years. In 1881 he removed to Stroudsburg, where he enjoyed a large practice up to the beginning of his last illness, caused by lobar pneumonia. He died September 20. 1891, aged forty-seven years, seven months, and twenty-eight days, deeply mourned bv a large circle of friends, and among the many ex- pressions of sorrow called forth by the event was the following obituary in the Jeffersonian. "MIr. Editor :- I desire to pay a small tribute to the mem- ory of Dr. William J. Gulick. I was personally acquainted with him through all the years of his life, and never has it been my experience to know a more honorable man. He was a skillful physician. giving all his leisure hours to the careful study of the profession he had chosen and loved so well, mak- ing him a safe counselor. As a friend he was stanch and true in the fullest sense, and so kindly disposed and high-souled that he would not stoop to retaliate upon an enemy. Gradually he arose above the petty circumstances of life. coming out of the crucilne tried, with a soul purified and elevated. In his home he was a tender loving husband, appreciating wife and friends, and finding his great happiness at his own fireside. In a practice of twenty-six years. when called upon he never stopped to consider whether rich or poor. but gave the same earnest attention to all alike. The life of Dr. William J. Gulick fully merits the lines of Robert Burns :
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An honest man has gone to rest As e'er God with his image blest;
The friend of man, the friend of truth, The friend of age, the guide of youth:
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd, Few heads with knowledge so inform'd,
If there's another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this. A FRIEND."
Esther W. Gulick, after the death of her hus- band, took up the study of medicine, and on May 6, 1896, she graduated with honor from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. In that year, for the first time, the law required a State examination also before graduates could practice medicine, and she took the required examination at Harrisburg, Penn., receiving a diploma. On De- cember 1, 1896, she accepted a position as resident physician in the Lying-in Charity Hospital at Eleventh and Cherry streets, Philadelphia, where she served acceptably one year.
(3) Charles, only son of William S. Winter- mute, learned the brick making trade, and was en- gaged in business with his father for many years. Like his father he is a stanch Republican and an excellent citizen.
(4) Mary was married, March 11, 1886, in San Francisco, Cal., to William E. Hogan, of Lynch- burg, Va., and now resides in New York City.
Mrs. Eliza ( Fowler ) Wintermute was born September 3, 1813, and died September 29, 1872, aged fifty-nine years. She was a devout Christian, and throughout her life was a consistent member of the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends, to which her three daughters also belonged. Her father, William Fowler, was born August 27, 1767, and died July 21. 1852. He was married first, Feb- ruary 10, 1799, to Elizabeth Sands, who was born September 24, 1776, and died November 21, 1813, at 6:30 A. M. By this marriage there were five chil- dren : Daniel S., born September 22, 1799, was married December 5, 1830, to Hannah Carey, and died March 27, 1879: Tane B., born December 7, 1801, married John Yerkes, of Spring Mills, Penn., and died January 21, 1862; William, Jr., born Au- gust 16, 1806, was married October 13, 1844. to Amanda Queer, and died November 27, 1897; Ma- riann. born August 8. 1808, was married September 20, 1838, to John HI. Ware, and died January 7, 1892; and Eliza became Mrs. Wintermute. Of these Daniel S .. William. Jr., and Mariann removed in 1836 from Stroudsburg to Stark county, Ohio, then known as "the far West." the journey being made by wagon and lasting two weeks. By his second marriage, to Mrs. Phebe Adams. William Fowler, Sr., had three children .: Susan S .. born February 28, 1817, was married June 7, 1849. to William Smiley, and died November 3. 1806: Alexander A., born January 13. 1810. was married November 19. 1845. to Maria Rafferty: Sally Ann P., born No- vember 13. 1821, was married November 30. 1851, to Jesse B. Sharp. and died April 2. 1887. at Clarks- ton, Michigan.
Elizabeth Sands, first wife of William Fowler, Sr., was a daughter of - and Cornelia ( Carpent- er) Sands, and one of her sisters, Mrs. Caleb Tunis, resided near White Hall, N. Y. Mrs. Fowler's ma- ternal grandfather, Timothy Carpenter, had three children : Zeno, Zoroaster and Cornelia.
GEORGE HOLBERT, one of the most pro- gressive and successful agriculturists of Pike county, is the owner of a beautiful farm in Lacka- waxen township. His methods of farm manage- ment show deep scientific knowledge combined with sound practical judgment, and the results show that high-class farming as an occupation can be made profitable as well as pleasant.
Mr. Holbert is a representative of one of the oldest and most highly respected families of this sec- tion of the State, his great-grandfather Holbert hav- ing come to Wayne county prior to the Revolution- ary war. Learning that the Indians had planned a raid on his locality, he started for a settlement far- ther south, driving his cattle before him, while his wife paddled down the Delaware in a canoe. He was overtaken by the Red men, however, and cap- tured, but was released when peace was restored:
Benjamin Holbert, our subject's grandfather, was born in Lackawaxen township, Pike county, December 25, 1782. and died May 24, 1856. Dur- ing his lifetime he followed farming and lumbering in that county, rafting the logs down the Delaware river to market. He wedded Mary Rider. also a native of Pike county, and to them were born ten children, all now deceased, namely: Elizabeth. wife of John Barnes, of Wayne county : William, also a resident of Wayne county ; Joseph G., father of our subject : Catherine, wife of John Grey; Martha J .. wife of William G. Stanton : Stephen Decatur and Benjamin F .. both of whom died when young men; Mary, wife of Benjamin H. Rose, of Milford, Penn .; Frederick R. and Albert J.
Joseph G. Holbert. our subject's father. was born at Westcolang, Lackawaxen township. Pike county. March 2, 1803, and in that township spent his entire life as a farmer and .lumberman. dying there May 14. 1848. The old homestead stood at an eddy in the Delaware river. commonly spoken of as Holbert's Bend, and after his marriage the father built a home of his own about two miles far- ther down the river. of which the huge fireplace and a considerable portion of the log sides still stand. In Pike county he married Miss Sabra Brown, who was born in Damascus township, Wayne county, March 22, 1803. a daughter of George and Eleanor ( Decker) Brown, and died April 13, 1882. The children born to this worthy couple were as follows : Elizabeth is now the widow of Moses Cole, and a resident of Sussex county, N. J. Josephine is the wife of C. B. Lishey, of Damascus township. Wayne county. William. a tanner, farmer and lumberman, first married Emma Pool, and for his second wife wedded Elizabeth Hornbeck ; he died at the age of Sfty-nine years. Benjamin D. married Miranda
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Haggarty; when a young man he was for seven years an engineer at Kimble, Pike county, and died in that county, March 6, 1898, at the age of sixty- five. George, the subject of this sketch, is next in the family. John, a resident of Buckingham town- ship, Wayne county, married Catherine Lassley, and is engaged in farming. dairying, lumbering and the flag-stone business. Franklin is a resident of Lack- awaxen township, Pike county, and is represented elsewhere. Thomas Jefferson. who died at the age of forty-seven years, married Mary Stewart, and they lived at Big Equinunk, Wayne county; he was for some years engaged in the hotel business at Beach Lake, Berlin township, Wayne county. and was fore- man of a tannery for many years. Mary, born March 7, 1843, was married, January 8, 1873. to Randall W. Kelley, who was born in Lackawaxen township, Pike county, December 29, 1835, and by him she has had three children-Wilbert. Edith ( deceased ) and Lana ; Mr. Kelley served in the Union army during the Civil war, was engaged in mercantile business at Kimble. Pike county. for some years, but now devotes his entire time to farming. Lana, the youngest of the Holbert family, died at the age of thirteen years.
In the above mentioned log house in Lacka- waxen township, Pike county. George Holbert ivas born March 25, 1834, and in the common schools of the neighborhood he acquired the greater part of his education, attending school at Milford, Penn., for one winter. He now owns 370 acres of the old homestead, sixty of which are under a high state of cultivation and well improved. Here he success- fully engaged in general farming, and still de- votes some attention to lumbering. His political support is always given the Republican party, and he has most acceptably filled the offices of auditor and assessor. Religiously both he and his wife are earnest and faithful members of the Baptist Church, in which he has served as deacon and trustee.
In 1882 Mr. Holbert married Miss Phoebe Adelza Brown, daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Sherwood) Brown; she died September 3, 1888, leaving one daughter, Phoebe, who was born August 16, 1888. On April 27. 1802, Mr. Holbert married Miss Ella Remsen, by whom he has one daughter, Effie Mildred. born September 13, 1895. and one son, Walter E .. born October 10, 1898. Rev. James R. Remsen, Mrs. Holbert's father, was born January 19, 1827. in New York City, where he grew to manhood and was educated for the Bap- tist ministry. He engaged in preaching in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, but for some years prior to his death was unable to attend to act- ive Church work. He was widely and favorably known both in Wayne and Pike counties, where he had had several charges, and his death occurred at Honesdale, in 1808. In New York City he married Miss A. A. Hunt. daughter of Elisha and Eliza (Low) Hunt, and granddaughter of Benjamin Low, who was a graduate of Princeton College. and one of the founders of New Brunswick College.
The children born to Rev. Remsen and wife were: Maria, now the wife of Aaron Fowler, a gristmill superintendent at Carbondale, Penn .; Ella, wite of our subject ; John E., a physician of Brooklyn, N. Y., who married Rena Gaylord, a native of Aldenville. Clinton township, Wayne Co., Penn .; Fred C., an engineer at Brooklyn; Mary, wife of Ward Hall, of Honesdale, Penn. ; Grace, who lives with her sis- ter, Mrs. Holbert ; Anna, a school teacher of Pike county, and Harrietta, a school teacher of Wayne county.
HARRY PETERS is one of the proprietors of the "Peters House," a first-class hotel in all its ap- pointments, pleasantly situated at Bushkill, Pike county, only a half mile from the Delaware river, two miles from Bushkill Falls, where the water falls ninety feet into a beautiful glen, and about the same distance from Pond Run Falls.
The business was commenced here in 1861 by the father of our subject, who erected a hotel con- taining about ten sleeping rooms ; but it has been en- larged and improved from time to time until it is now a handsome structure containing seventy-five rooms, supplied with water and all the accessories of a model hotel. It is only twelve miles from Stroudsburg, Penn., on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, also the New York & Susque- hanna railroad, and thirty miles from Port Jervis, N. Y., and is now most successfully conducted by our subject, his brother Edward and their mother. They also have an excellent farm of 100 acres under cultivation, from which they supply their table with fresh vegetables which are much better than the markets afford.
Harry Peters was born at his present home April 12, 1859, a son of Charles R. and Elizabeth (Coolbaugh) Peters, the former of whom was also born and reared at the old home. The mother was born in Monroe county. May 26, 1819. In addition to his hotel business the father also followed agri- cultural pursuits, and at the polls he always support- ed the men and measures of the Democratic party. Upright and honorable in all things, he gained the confidence and good will of all who knew him. He died December 2. 1867. at the age of forty-five. and was buried in Bushkill cemetery. The mother makes her home with her sons. In the family were five children : Edwin, who is engaged in the hotel business with our subject : Elizabeth and John. de- ceased : Harry. of this review, and Van C .. who mar- ried Eva Knighton. and is engaged in the tannery business in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
The first of the Peters family to come to Amer- ica was the great-great-grandmother of our subject, who sailed from Holland. her native land, with her three sons. Peter, John and Henry, and located in Philadelphia where they were sold to pay their pas- sage. Peter Peters became the father of five children, namely: John. George, Henry. Betsy and Polly. Of these, Henry Peters, our subject's grand- father, was married in Middle Smithfield township,
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Monroe county, to Sarah Gonzales, then eighteen years of age, and shortly afterward they removed to Bushkill, the present home of the family, where he served as postmaster many years, and was engaged in lumbering and farming. He died March 27. 1857, at the age of seventy-two years, his wife in 1890, at the extreme age of ninety-six, and both were buried in Bushkill cemetery. Both were men- bers of the German Reformed Church, and the grandfather was a Democrat in politics. Their chil- dren were: Elizabeth, who died in March, 1857, aged fifty-five years; Elsa, deceased wife of Hon. Henry H. La Bar, associate judge; Charles R., father of our subject ; Delinda P., deceased wife of Hon. Henry S. Mott ; Maria L., who died August 2, 1899; Catherine, widow of Frank Eilenberg, and a resident of Bushkill; Samuel G., who is repre- sented elsewhere, and William N .. a retired mer- chant of Easton, Penn., who married Lena Mackey.
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Harry Peters grew to manhood at his parents home, and in January, 1881, at Bushkill, married Miss Adelaide Quick, a native of that place, and a daughter of Webb and Sarah E. ( Heller ) Quick. Three children bless this union: Charles E., Wal- ter G. and Adelaide L. !
DAVID C. TRACH, M. D. The study of biography yields in point of interest and profit to no other study, for it is here that we learn how success has been achieved, the plans that have been followed, the methods that have been pursued. In the life record of Dr. Trach are contained many valuable les- sons, showing what may be accomplished by young men in this free country, though they have no capital with which to start out on life's journey. Through his own efforts he has risen to a position of prom- inence among his professional brethren. and now enjoys a large and lucrative practice in Kresgeville, Monroe county, and surrounding country.
The Doctor was born May 9, 1867, at Gilberts, Chestnut Hill township, Monroe county, where his father, Elias Trach, who is represented elsewhere, still resides. Reared upon the home farm, our sub- ject obtained his primary education in the public schools of the neighborhood, and at the age of seven- teen entered the Fairview Academy, at Brodheads- ville, where he pursued his studies at intervals for three years. in the meantime teaching school at Middle Creek and Gilberts, Monroe county, to earn the money to defray the expenses of his own educa- tion. He also clerked in a mercantile store at Weissport for one year, and learned the blacksmith's trade of his father. It was his father's desire that he should remain at home, but he had determined to adopt the medical profession as his life work, and for one and one-half years studied under the direc- tion of Dr. E. A. Gearhart. at Kresgeville. Ile then attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., where he was graduated in I891, and since that time he has been successfully engaged in active practice at Kresgeville. Ile not only paid for his own education, which cost about
$1,800, but purchased his present comfortable home at the same price, and now has money out at interest. He has that true love for his work, without which there can be no success, and has always been a pro- gressive physician, constantly improving on his own and others' methods and gaining further encourage- ment and inspiration from the performance of each day's duties. The Doctor has served as school di- rector and gives support to the Democratic party. Religiously he is a member of the Reformed Church, and socially he affiliates with the Patriotic Order Sons of America and the Knights of the Golden Eagle.
At Kresgeville, May 27, 1891, Dr. Trach mar- ried Miss Edna E. Kunkle, a native of that place, and to them have been born three children: Miriam F., who died at the age of two years and three months : Ruth C. : and Thomas Latimer K.
William Kunkle, Mrs. Trach's father, was born on the old family homestead in Polk township, Mon- roe county, August 8. 1841, a son of Jolin and Sallie ( Kresge) Kunkle. He was reared to agricultural pursuits, and on leaving the parental roof, in 1861, located upon his present farm in Polk township. He has met with success in his life work and is now quite well-to-do. He is identified with the Demo- cratic party, and is a member of the Lutheran Church. In Polk township he was married. Febru- ary 28. 1859, to Eleanor Keller, who was born in Northampton county, Penn., February 13, 1838. a daughter of Peter and Lucy A. Keller, also natives of that county, whence they came to Polk township, Monroe county, in 1848. Her father, who was a miller by trade, died here in 1888, aged seventy- three years, the mother in 1898, aged eighty-three. and both were buried in the Trachsville cemetery. They were members of the Reformed and Lutheran Churches, respectively. Their children were La- vine. a blacksmith of Polk township; Eleanor, mother of MIrs. Trach : Maria, wife of George Detot, of Kansas City, Mo. : Edwin, a farmer of Polk town- ship. Monroe county: Susannah, wife of Henry Roth. of Slatington, Penn. : Jane, wife of Samuel Wolfe, of Kresgeville: and Henry, Lewis and Oliver, all deceased. Children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kunkle as follows: Emeline, deceased : Cath- erine. wife of Jacob Sebring. a farmer of Carbon county, Penn. : Elmira. deceased : James. a farmer of Minnesota : Alvin, who married Clara Christian. and resides in Coplay, Penn. ; Sarah, deceased wife of Alvin Sant e ; Lillian, wife of John Fletcher, who conducts a bakery in Savre. Penn .: William, at home: Edna E., wife of our subject : Frances, de- ceased : Sulie, a resident of Nazareth, Penn. : Jennie, deceased ; and Cora and Clinton, both at home.
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