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Powell Evans possesses a mind not only well grounded in broad academic and technical education, but disciplined in the hard school of daily practical con- tact with living problems in the varied fields of activity in which he has long labored with steadfast industry, optimism and high purpose. His mental opera- tions, while essentially practical, are al- ways illumined by that imaginative qual- ity which gives broad prospective and foresight. Of quick perception and accur- ate judgment of men and affairs, with dynamic, sometimes volcanic energy, a mental attitude assured but aggressive, and a strong will, he unites those char- acteristics which mark the modern man of affairs. His deep interest in the pub- lic welfare and civic reforms coupled with a rugged honesty and complete fear- lessness of action have made him one of the strong influences toward decency and righteousness in municipal government in Philadelphia during the past decade.
On November 28, 1898, Mr. Evans married Julia Estelle, daughter of the late Clarke Merchant (former lieutenant- commander, U. S. Navy) and Sarah S. (Watts) Merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Evans have one daughter, Anita Merchant Evans. Their country residence is "Er- rollton," Devon, Pennsylvania.
Dr. James Evans (father of Powell Evans) was born at Marion Court House, South Carolina, 1831, the son of Honor-
Evans. He was educated as a civil engi- neer at the South Carolina Military Acad- emy, the "Citadel," Charleston, South Carolina, class of 1852, and was employed many years in railway and levee con- struction along the Mississippi river. Abandoning his career as an engineer he entered the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1858, from which he received his degree in 1861 just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. Volunteering in a hospital unit he was commissioned regimental surgeon after the battle of Bull Run and served continuously throughout the war with the rank of major in the Army of Northern Virginia. Dr. Evans was a member of the American Society of Arts and Letters and was awarded a decora- tion by the French government as a rec- ognition of "eminence attained in his pro- fession."
The branch of the Evans family from which Powell Evans is descended springs from Rhydwilim, Caermarthan- shire, Wales. John and Thomas Evans came in 1711 to the Welsh colony of Iron Hill, near Newark (then Pennsylvania, now Delaware), whence Nathaniel Evans, the son of John, and Thomas Evans, emi- grated to South Carolina. Nathaniel Evans settled on Cat Fish creek, on lands which now constitute a portion of the site of Marion Court House, named for the partisan chief, Francis Marion. His son Nathan, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a soldier of Marion's brigade and fought three years for Amer- ican Independence. Jane Beverly (Dan- iel) Evans (Powell Evans' grandmother) was a member of the old Virginia family which appeared first in Middlesex county, Virginia, in 1684, descended from the ancient family of Daniel of Wigon, County Lancaster, England.
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Dr. James Evans married, in January, 1865, the daughter of William Alexander and Lucy Peachy (Lee) Powell, of Lees- burg, Virginia.
Mrs. James (Powell) Evans was de- scended from Thomas Powell, who appeared in Virginia with Captain John Smith, the founder, in 1607 and 1609. Other collateral connections of the Pow- ell family in Mr. Evans' immediate line of descent were the well-known Virginia colonial families of Peyton, Harrison, Grayson, Orr, Nicholson, Hay and Lee. His great-grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel Levin Powell, belonged to the Virginia "Minute-Men" in 1774, and was commis- sioned by Congress in 1777 to the Con- tinental army, with which he saw service at Valley Forge. Later he was a mem- ber of the Virginia Convention that rati- fied the Federal Constitution, and served terms in Congress.
CONVERSE, JOHN H., Captain of Industry.
Among the captains of industry whose achievements made memorable the clos- ing decades of the nineteenth century and the opening years of the twentieth, there was one who in his own day towered above many of his fellows, and who now in retrospect looms larger than most of his contemporaries, the late John H. Converse, president of the Baldwin Lo- comotive Works, and in all respects one of Philadelphia's foremost citizens. In the cause of reform and good government Mr. Converse was conspicuously a leader ; in philanthropic work he took a peculiarly active interest, being identified with all that made for a broader culture; and in religious enterprises he was especially earnest and influential.
John H. Converse was born December 2, 1840, in Burlington, Vermont, a son of
the Rev. John Kendrick and Sarah (Al- len) Converse. Mr. Converse, who was pastor of the Congregational church in Burlington, was afterward principal of the Burlington Female Seminary. Mrs. Converse was a daughter of the Hon. Heman Allen, of Milton, member of Con- gress from Vermont from 1832 to 1840.
In the case of John H. Converse, the truth of the poet's words, "The child is father of the man," was strikingly illus- trated. Almost from his infancy he was interested in railroads. One of his first toys was a miniature wooden locomotive which he made himself and which ran on wooden rails in the backyard. About the same time he printed a small newspaper. As he grew older he sought the compan- ionship of locomotive engineers and train- men, and spent his leisure hours about the railroad. In his "teens" he learned telegraphy, and at the age of fourteen took charge of the telegraph office at Essex Junction for a month, during the vacation of the regular operator. It is a fact worthy of note that he was the first tele- graph operator in Vermont to read by sound.
Meanwhile, the literary education of Mr. Converse went steadily forward. He was fitted for college at the Burlington High School, and in 1861 received from the University of Vermont the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His rank in scholar- ship was high, and he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Lambda Iota fraternities. During the time spent at the university, Mr. Converse, assiduous as he was at his studies, found leisure to become proficient in stenography, at that time a comparatively rare accomplish- ment. He largely paid the expenses of his course by vacation work as telegra- pher at Troy, New York, Burlington, and elsewhere, and as station agent at Water- bury, Vermont. He also served for three
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successive sessions as official reporter of the Vermont Legislature, and during the sophomore winter vacation was teacher of a public school at Winooski.
After graduating Mr. Converse was connected for three years with the "Bur- lington Daily and Weekly Times," pub- lished by George and Lucius Bigelow. The position filled by Mr. Converse was that of business manager, but his versa- tility enabled him to render valuable service in every branch of the work, re- porting, taking by telegraph night press reports from the seat of war, setting type, running the press or writing editorials. Even while thus multifariously occupied his zeal as a citizen led him to engage in other activities, and he served as secre- tary of the Young Men's Lecture Asso- ciation and also as a member of the Ethan Allen Fire Company.
But causes which were to divert the current of his life into other channels were at work in a portion of the Con- tinent which was then remote from Ver- mont. It was, however, by a son of the Green Mountain State that these causes were primarily set in motion. Dr. Ed- ward H. Williams, of a well-known family of Woodstock, Vermont, was su- perintendent in Chicago of the Galena division of the Chicago & Northwestern railway, and was almost in despair be- cause he could not find a clerk such as he needed, clever, educated, responsible and resourceful. A law student who had re- cently graduated from the University of Vermont told Dr. Williams that he knew a young man named John H. Converse who answered that description. So it came to pass that in 1864, Mr. Converse removed to Chicago, assumed the vacant clerkship and proved himself more than equal to all its requirements, also served there as a reporter. He filled in clerical position until Dr. Williams was made
general superintendent of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company, and then accom- panied his chief to Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he took charge of his office. Among the business associates of Mr. Converse at that time were a number of men who later rose into prominence, in- cluding Andrew Carnegie, George West- inghouse, and A. J. Cassatt, afterward president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
In 1870 Dr. Williams left the service of the company and removed to Philadel- phia, where he became a member of the firm of Burnham, Parry, Williams & Company, proprietors of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. Amid these new responsibilities he felt the need of the able, upright young man on whom he had been so long accustomed to lean, and it was but a short time before he secured for Mr. Converse a desirable position in the establishment. Almost from the out- set he was a factor of importance in the business, and in 1873 he became a mem- ber of the firm. It was in his association with this famous concern that Mr. Con- verse found himself in his true element, and that his rare executive and admin- istrative abilities attained their fullest development. The promise of his boy- hood was more than fulfilled. A great railroad system was indeed the field of action for which nature had intended him. He was entrusted with the general busi- ness and financial management of the immense plant, as distinguished from the mechanical departments. The marvel- ous growth of the plant testifies to his efficiency. In 1866 the output of the works was one hundred and eighteen locomotives annually. This capacity in- creased to the production of more than twenty-six hundred locomotives yearly, all of a greatly improved and enlarged design. In 1909, when the business was
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incorporated, Mr. Converse became the president of the company and this posi- tion he held to the close of his life.
For many years Mr. Converse held directorships in numerous financial and commercial institutions, to the manage- ment of which he gave close and constant attention. Among these organizations were the Philadelphia National Bank, the Franklin National Bank, the Real Estate Trust Company, the Philadelphia Trust Safe Deposit and Insurance Company, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, the Pennsylvania Warehousing and Safe Deposit Company, the Philadelphia Man- ufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany, the Pennsylvania and Northwest- ern Railway Company and the Winifrede Railroad and Coal Company.
While always faithful to the principles of the Republican party, Mr. Converse never mingled actively in politics except in times of crisis when every citizen was called to bear his part in the promotion of the public welfare and in the exposure and defeat of fraud and misgovernment. During the free silver agitation he was president of the Sound Money League, and in 1893 he served as chairman of the Mckinley and Hobart Business Men's National Campaign Committee. In 1901 he was a leader in the movement against alleged bribery and corruption in the State Legislature. In 1905, at the time of the contention in regard to the gas lease in Philadelphia, he came to the front, lending his name and influence to a public protest.
But this aggressive man of business, this fearless, disinterested citizen, was also a lover of music and a connoisseur in art. He was an amateur violinist, and from 1883 to 1885 held the office of vice- president of the Philadelphia Music Fes- tival Association, and from 1901 to the close of his life he was a director of the
Philadelphia Orchestra Association. For many years Mr. Converse was one of the directors and also vice-president of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, one of the advisory committee of the Art Association of the Union League, mem- ber of the Art Club, and president of the Parkway Association and the Fairmount Park Art Association. Most of these so- cieties are possessors of valuable paint- ings which he presented to them. In his country residence was a gallery which contained oil paintings of Corot, Dau- bigny, Diaz, Rousseau, Dupré, Richards, Meissonier and others. In 1899 Mr. Con- verse presided over the exercises at the unveiling of the Grant monument in Fair- mount Park. On this occasion the assem- blage included President Mckinley and cabinet and foreign ambassadors. The State of Vermont was represented by General Theodore S. Peck.
Among Mr. Converse's municipal re- sponsibilities was a directorship in the City Trusts, to which he was elected in 1899 and which he retained during the remainder of his life. As such he was one of the trustees of Girard College. He was also a trustee of Princeton Theologi- cal Seminary, the Moody Institute and the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, and a vice-president of the department of archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania. He occu- pied a scat on the Philadelphia Board of Education.
The other organizations to which Mr. Converse belonged included the Ameri- can Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, the Vermont Society of Sons of the Amer- ican Revolution and the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution. In
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1902 he became a member of the Society of Colonial Wars by right of descent from Deacon Edward Converse, Captain Stephen Prentis and some eighteen other prominent Colonial ancestors. In 1905, 1906 and 1907 he was Lieutenant-Governor, and in 1908 Governor of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Vermont. For sev- eral years he was president of the New England Society of Pennsylvania. His clubs were the Union League, Contem- porary, University, Engineers' and Man- ufacturers'. Of the last named he was president from 1896 to 1898.
To his native State and his alma mater Mr. Converse was always deeply at- tached, and among his greatest pleasures he counted his annual visits to Burling- ton and his attendance at the commence- ments of the University of Vermont. He was a constant and liberal benefactor of the university, and from 1885 to the close of his life was a member of its board of trustees. In 1895 he built and presented to the university the large and handsome dormitory known as Converse Hall, and he also donated two residences for pro- fessors. In 1899 he founded and endowed the department of economics and com- merce. For several years he was presi- dent of the Alumni Association, and vice- president of the Phi Beta Kappa. In 1898 he delivered the oration before the Associate Alumni, and in 1904 he pre- sented one of the centennial addresses. In 1897 the board of control conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws.
From his youth up Mr. Converse was steadfastly devoted to works of philan- thropy and religion. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and president of the board of trustees of Calvary Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. For fifty years he continuously taught a Sunday school class. He was a member of the Citizens'
Permanent Relief Committee of Philadel- phia, treasurer of the Christian League of Philadelphia, and also of the Playgrounds Association, president of the Presbyter- ian Social Union, one of the vice- presidents of the American Sunday School Union, a trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association, and a mem- ber of the Presbyterian Board of Publica- tion. During the Spanish-American War he was president of the National Relief Commission, organized in Philadelphia in aid of the soldiers and sailors called into service at that crisis in our history.
At the time of his death it was said of Mr. Converse that among Presbyterians he had long been regarded as a "prince of laymen," not only by reason of his liberal contributions to church enterprises, but also for the personal service rendered by him to the church and its institutions. For many years he was secretary and trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia, and the large central build- ing known as the administration building was his gift to the institution. In con- nection with the missionary work of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church he built and presented a hospital at Miraj, India, and it was largely as a result of his efforts that that church and the Calvary Pres- byterian for years supported missionaries in Japan, Korea, Alaska, the far western States and elsewhere. Among the many other generous gifts of Mr. Converse were a dormitory for Westminster Col- lege, Salt Lake City, Utah, and a dormi- tory marked "Converse Hall" for the Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary at Coyoacan, Mexico. During the last ten years of his life his contribu- tions to church and philanthropic work amounted to a very large part of his in- come, and for a number of years he did much toward financing evangelistic en- terprises.
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In 1901 Mr. Converse was vice- moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, and at the time of his death he held the offices of president of the board of trustees and chairman of the evangelistic committee and the world's evangelistic committee. During the last years of his life he bestowed special atten- tion on the Presbyterian tent and open air work in Philadelphia, and its success was mainly due to his efforts in its behalf, imparting to it such an impetus that the movement spread to other cities. In consequence of this Mr. Converse gave a three hundred thousand dollar endow- ment for the promotion of a world-wide evangelistic movement under the leader- ship of the Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman.
Mr. Converse married, July 9, 1873, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, Eliz- abeth Perkins, born December 16, 1838, in Utica, New York, daughter of Profes- sor James and Mary Johnson (Bishop) Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. Converse were the parents of the following children : Mary Eleanor ; and Helen Prentis, mar- ried, June 8, 1905, Warren Parsons Thorpe. An adopted daughter, Alice Page Converse, a cousin of Mrs. Con- verse, and adopted as a daughter by Mr. Converse and his wife completed the family circle. In his marriage to a woman of culture and charm and withal a true homemaker, Mr. Converse found the crowning happiness of his life. Devotion to wife and children was the mainspring of all his actions, and no other place equalled for him the attractions of his own fireside where he delighted to gather about him his close and chosen friends. On January 19, 1906, Mrs. Converse passed away, leaving the memory of a lovely character and a beautiful life.
On May 3, 1910, in his summer home at Rosemont, the president of the mighty
Baldwin Locomotive Works was gath- ered to his fathers. The shock, not only to his own city, but to the entire indus- trial world, was inexpressible. All felt that a strong and beneficent presence had "ceased from earth" and tributes showing how enduring was his hold upon the public heart were offered to his char- acter and work. The following extract from an editorial which appeared in a Philadelphia paper expresses, with pecu- liar felicity, the feeling of the time :
It is seldom the men who make the most stir, the self-assertive or the combative men, who gain the first place in the universal regard of their fellow citizens. In any community like ours there is nearly always some one man to whom we learn to look for counsel and example, whether in peaceful times or in times of stress, and whose character and forceful energy and whose unselfish public spirit win for him, without his seeking it, a silent recognition as the "first citizen." Such was the recognition accorded in late years to John H. Converse. Though he had somewhat passed the summit of his activity there is no one who will not feel to-day that the city has lost immeas- ureably by his death.
It was something that he had come to be the head of the greatest industrial establishment in Philadelphia, one of the greatest in the world, which has carried the fame of the city and of its industries everywhere, and in itself represents the best and highest traditions of this industrial community. But it was not as a representative manufacturer or employer that Mr. Converse was generally known; it was rather in the broad range of his interest in whatever made for the progress of Philadelphia for social, educational and aesthetic advancement, for philanthropic en- deavor, for commercial and civic integrity, for the generous up-building of the city. He was always on the side of the builders, never of those who would tear down. He gave more freely of his time and energy to the public service than to his own great business, but always with a self- abnegation, a modest deference and quiet help- fulness that, while never shirking any responsi- bility, seemed to leave all the credit of achieve- ment to some one else.
Only those who have been associated with Mr.
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Converse in one or another manifestation of his . varied usefulness can know the full beauty of a character that was superficially simple almost to austerity. Strong in his religious convictions, he made no public exhibition of them, save as his helpfulness found expression in its fruits. Un- stinted in his generosity, his own right hand scarcely knew what his left hand did. He gave his aid in countless efforts of public betterment with the same invincible modesty with which he directed vast enterprises. Yet in spite of him- self the community learned to recognize and to honor him, and to honor itself in the recognition
of a type of citizenship so worthy to be held in reverent memory.
The perpetuation of the name of John H. Converse is assured. He gave not to Philadelphia alone, but to the country-at- large the benefits of a great industry, the products of which have facilitated trans- portation of men and merchandise from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Dominion of Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Adler, Charles, 66
Baldwin, Annie, 96 Benjamin, 266 Charles B., 93, 95 Clarence, 96 Daniel, 266 Ebenezer, 266
Harry J., 96
Henry, 266 Jared R., 93, 95
John, 94, 95 William C., 93, 95
Ball, Abel, 47 David I., 47, 48 Lucy M., 49 Moses, 47
Ballinger, Bessie M., 171
Jacob H., 169 Robert I., 171 Walter F., 169
Barney, Charles, 191
Charles D., 191, 192 Laura E., 192
Barrett, Elizabeth A., 146 S. E., 146
Bauersmith, George F., 237
Samuel M., 237 Sarah A., 237 William, 236, 237 William R., 237
Bement, Caroline, 268
Clarence S., 267 Emily, 266 Frank, 266 John, 263
Martha S., 268
Samuel, 264 William, 264 William B., 263, 264 William P., 268
Blair, James F., 138 James M., 136 Jane B., 138 John, 135 John K., 135, 138
Julia A., 136 Raymond A., 138 Reed F., 137
Blakeley, Ada, 222 Archibald, Col., 217 Archibald M., 219 Frederick J., 22I Joseph, 217 Lewis, 217 Susan D., 219 William A., 223 William J., 225
Blatch, Francis H., 153
James, 152 Lizzie, 153 Thomas G., 152
Bookmyer, Anna H., 123 Edwin A., 122 Edwin A., Jr., 123 Harvey A., 122 Roy P., 123
Bowman, Franklin M., 23
Ida C., 23
Isaac L., 23
Boyle, Frank P., 204 Hugh J., 204 James A., 204 Patrick, 202
Patrick F., 202, 203
Rose, 204
Brown, Abraham, 34 Bessie K., 206 Charles C., 34 Franklin J., 34 Haidee, 206 John W., 204
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Leah, 36 Mary E., 21 Millard D., 206 Mortimer H., 21 Percy A., 34, 35 Wilson H., 204 Browne, Alice E., 262 Emily A., 262 John C., 258, 259, 260 Peter, 258, 259 Bryan, Agnes, 175 James, 174 Joseph, 174 Buckman, Alice, 130 Bertha M., 130 Elmer E., 129, 130
Henry T., 130
Micajah S., 129 Stacy C., 129 Burnham, Anna, 180 Charles, 179 George, 179 George, Jr., 180 Mary A., 180 Thomas, 179
Campbell, James J., 237 Kate B., 237 Casselberry, Harry B., Dr., 79, 80 Jesse R., Dr., 79, 80 Marie L., 81 Chambers, Alexander, 227, 232 James, 227 James A., 229, 230 Maria, 232 Martha J., 229
Champion, Harry W., 119 John, 119 John B., 119 Matilda G., 120 Chickering, Jabez, Rev., 251 Joseph, 251 Nathaniel, 251 Thomas B., 251 Collord, Anna, 216 George L., 216
James, Col., 215 James, Rev., 215 Sarah, 216 Conlon, Gertrude, 87 John, 86, 87 Joseph, 87 Mary, 87 Margaret, 87
Myles, 86 William, 87
Converse, Elizabeth P., 293 John H., 289 John K., Rev., 289 Mary E., 293 Cooke (Cook) Asaph, 185 Clara A., 191
Dorothea E., 189
Eleutheros, 185
Henry, 184
Henry E., 189
Jay, 184, 185
Jay (2), 191
Jay (3), 191
Jay (4), Lieut., 19I
Samuel, 185
DeGolier, Abel, 144 Albert, 144 Charles F., 146
Eleanor, 145 Spencer M., 146 Devlin, Helen A., 112 Thomas, 110 William, 110 Diehl, Ambrose N., 36 Andrew K., 36 Dinkey, Alva C., 214 Margaret, 214 Dodson, Elias, 114 John, 113 Martha W., 115 Nathan L., 114 Thomas, 113, 114 Victor L., 113, 114 William E., 114 Dunham, George H., 93
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Mary M., 93 Minor B., 90, 92 Richard, 91 Thomas, 91
Eckfeldt, Adam, 256 John J., 255 Elliott, Frederick B., Dr., 242, 243 James, 243 Laughlin, 243
Mary, 244
Samuel, 242
William, 242
Evans, James, Dr., 286, 288 Julia E., 288 Powell, 286 Thomas, 288 Ewalt, Jacob, 166 John, 166
Fagan, Charles A., 40 Mary, 40 Thomas J., 40
Fairman, James, 137 Julia, 137 Thomas, 137 Falk, Charles, 84 Sigmund, 84 Farrow, John, 27I Patillo, 271 Thomas, 271 Fee, Carrie, 135 Mary F., 135 Terrence, 134 Thomas, 134 Ferenbach, Carl, 198, 199 Evelyn, 200 Gregory, 199 Ferree, Clifford B., 232, 234 Isaac, 233 Jacob, 233 Jacob F., 235 John, 232 Nell B., 234
Philip, 233 Robert B., Dr., 234, 235
Robert B., Jr., 236 Sadie, 236 Sanford H., 234 William P., 233 Fisher, Chester G., 26, 27 Edwin H., 27 Gottlieb, 25
Jacob, 25
John C., 25
John F., 27 Mary, 27
Flick, Casper, 59 Gerlach P., 58 Henrietta R., 61
John, 59
R. Jay, 58, 60
Reuben J., 59
Flowers, George, 28
Jacob, 28 Foster, Charles H., 38, 39
Mary J., 39
Oscar, 40
Reuben, 39
William L., 40
French, Anne L., 210 Harry L., 210 Fuller, Amzi, 104 Henry A., 104
Henry M., 104
Revilo, Capt., 104
Ruth H., 105
Gaertner, Edward L., 284 Frederick, 281 Frederick, Dr., 280, 281 Margaret, 284 Gardner, Artemas, 245 Charlotte, 246 Emmons J., 245 Thomas S., 245 Gilpin, Edward, 13 Joseph, 12, 13 Thomas, 12 Vincent, 13 Glennon, Agnes A., 126 Allen, 127 299 .
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Joseph H., 125, 126 Patrick F., 125 Griffith, Andrew J., 211 Jacob K., 210, 21 I William, 210 Winifred, 212 Grubb, John, 14, 15 Samuel, 16
Hughes, Guy R., 107 Hannah C., 107 Hugh R., 106 Maxwell C., 107 Richard M., 106 Hutchinson, Amy, 179 Pemberton S., 178 S. Pemberton, 178
Hardtmayer, Emma, 134 Francis, Dr., 133 Frank, 133 Hansr R., Dr., 133 Roy, 134 Healey, Julia A., 89 Martin J., 88 Patrick, 88
Heinemann, Anna B., 129 Christopher, 128 Nicholas W., 128
Heyer, Edward G., Dr., 77 Harriet C., 78 John G., 77
Hildrup, Emma J., 276 Florence N., 277
Harriet E., 276
Jesse, 274 William T., 274
William T., Jr., 276
Hires, Charles E., 207, 208 Clara, 208 Emma, 209 John, 208 John D., 208
Hollister, Amos G., 102
Claire B., 103
Ella, 103 Glenn W., 103
William H., 102, 103 Hook, James H., 98 Matthias, 98 Sophronia, 99 Virgil A., Dr., 98, 99 Hooker, Grace C., 216 Howard M., 216
James, Benjamin, 272 John, 272 Johnston, Alexander, 241 Emma, 242 George W. C., 240, 241
Jones, Daniel, 124 Ruth, 125 Thomas D., 123, 124
Junker, J. A. Herman, 246 William B., 246
Kane, John E., 167 Mary, 167 Patrick, 167
Kaufmann, Abraham, 44
Belle C., 47
Emma, 47 Isaac, 44
Kennedy, James, II William, II Kistler, Douglas S., Dr., 100, 102
Estelle M., 102
George, IOI
John, 10I
Robert B., 102
Sallie, 102
Samuel, 101
Walter W., 102
William B., 101
Kress, Frederick J., 115, 116
Joseph A., 115
Mary, 117
Paul C., 117
Lanahan, Frank J., 38 J. Stevenson, 38 James, 37
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James K., 37 Mary A., 38 Lauck, Edwin, 68 John E., 68 Katherine, 69 Laughlin, James, 244 William B., 244
Leaf, Edmund, Rev., 177
Edward B. (E. Bowman), 177
Elizabeth, 177 Frances T., 177
Mechling, Jacob, 220 Miller, George, 121 George E., 122
Lehman, Albert C., 65 Moses, 65 Seidie, 66
George J., 121
Jacob M., 121
John G., 121
Mary H., 122
Richard, 122
Loomis, Bruce E., 44 Earl, 44 Frances E., 44
John, 42
Joseph, 42
Sherman, 43
Thomas, 42, 43
William D., 42, 43
William W., 43
Luther, Carrie I., 155 David J., 154 James, 154 John M., Dr., 153, 155 Joseph G., 154
Lyman, Asa, 267 Ezekiel, 267 Henry, 267 Jabez, 267
Richard, 267 Samuel, 267
McBride, Emma M. B., 31 John, 30 William, 30, 31 McCalmont, James P., 193 John E., 193 Sidney A., 193 McClintock, Andrew H., 49, 52 Andrew T., 50, 53 Eleanor, 53 Gilbert S., 53
James, 49, 50 Samuel, 50 McGregor, Arthur F., 127 Elizabeth, 128 Nicholas, 127 Marshall, Emma, 152 George V., 151 John, 151 Lee H., 152
Milne, Caleb J., 194 David, 194, 197 Margaret L., 198 Sarah M., 197
Moorhead, Elizabeth, 9 Joel B. (J. Barlow), 7, 8 William, 7 Morris, Anthony, 157, 158, 160 Isaac P., 162 Isaac W., 162
John T., 157, 163
Lydia T., 163 Samuel, Capt., 160
Morrison, Helen S., 18 Hugh, 16 Thomas A., 16, 17 Thomas H., 18 William, 16 Muench, George, 131 Louis, 13I Marie T., 132
Neale, Ada, 151 Henry M., Dr., 149 Jeremiah A., 149 Martin H., 149 Niemann, Adolphus E., 29 Charles F., 29, 30 Herman H., 27
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Irene M., 29 Martha, 28 Mildred, 30 Rudolph, 27 Norstedt, Anna, 86 J. Albert, 85 J. Albert, Dr., 85, 86 Peter, 85
Parrish, Archippus, 61 Charles, 61, 62 Isaac, 61 James, Dr., 61 John, 61 Mary, 63
Patterson, Bertha, 240 Frank P., 239 James W., 239
Payne, Bruce B., 57 Edward, 56 Edward F., 56 Elsie, 57 Robert, 56
Perrin, Anna L., 34 Calvin, 32 Gurden, 32
John, 32 Morgan L., 32, 33 Timothy, 32
Perrot, Agnes A., 173 August M., 171 Emile G., 171 Emile R., 171
Peterson, Arthur, 183 George, 18I Georgiana, 184 Henry, 180, 182 Lawrence, 180 Sarah, 182 Powell, Anna, 174 John R., 173, 174 Roger, 174 Price, James S., 118 John B., 117 John B., Jr., 118 Mary, 118
Robert M., 118 Samuel B., 117 Sarah A., 21 William H., 20 William S., 20 Prichard, Abraham P., 226 Florence N., 227 Frank P., 226
Quin, Augustus, 69 Herbert T., 70 Margaret C., 70 Minnie E., 70
Robert A., 69
Robert D., 71
Ramsey, Robert, 236 Rees, Caradoc, 138 Morgan, 138 Olwen, 139 Ricketson, Benjamin T., 139 Clementine, 14I John H., 139, 14I Oliver G., 14I Sarah G., 14I
Ritchie, Charlotte, 254 Craig, 247
Craig, Jr., 249
Craig D., 252, 253
Henrietta G., 250
Mary, 248
Mary A., 250
William, 253 William H. S., 250
Russell, Thomas, Rev., 266 Thomas B., 266
Schappert, Anthony, 97 Clare L., 98 N. Louis, Dr., 96, 97 Peter, 97 Schmid, Bertha, 169 Gottlob C., 169 Harry D., 168, 169 Schneider, A. Andrew, 72 Anthony, 71
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Edwin J., 72 Francis R., 71 Josephine, 72 Lawrence E., 72 Schooley, Arthur B., 65
Jedediah, 63 Jesse B., 63, 64 John, 63 Joseph P., 63 Minnie E., 65 Olive C., 65
Schreiner,Elizabeth J., 100
George F., 99 John, 99 John W., 99, 100
Scouton, Frank J., 89, 90 Jacob, 89 Kathryn S., 90 William W., 89 Wirt W., 90
Sheeder, Benjamin F., 82
Frederick, 82
George V., 83
Henry, 81
Magdalene G., 83
Vincent B., 81, 82 Vincent B., Jr., 83
Shoemaker, Archie C., Dr., 79
Isaac, 78
Isaac C., 78
Jacob I., 78 Jennie, 79
John M., 215
Miller, Dr., 109
Robert, 108, 109
Robert E., 213, 214
Walter S., Dr., 108, 109
Stobo, Archibald, Rev., 273 Richard P., 273 Stull, Adam, 83 Arthur A., 84 Arthur L., 83, 84
Josephine E., 84 Lewis, 83
Lewis P., 194 William, 268
Smith, Enos F., 24
Homer D., 239
Lloyd W., 239
Mary A., 239 Robert S., 237, 238
Sophia, 25
Stanley, Dr., 24
Thomas, 237, 238
Stark, Aaron, 74 Christopher, 74 Elizabeth A., 77
Henry, 75
James, 75
John, 75
John R., 76
Joseph M., 74, 76 William, 74
Starkey, Daniel, 278 Gertrude C., 280
Jacob, 278
Samuel C., 279
Thomas, 278 William P., 278, 279
Sterrett, David, 175 Emma C., 176
Timothy G., 175
Stewart Caroline M., 214
Harry M., 215 James S., 215 John, 213
Michael, 78
Samuel R., 78
Siebert, Albert, 22 John, 22 Mary, 22 William, 21, 22,
Simpson, Charlotte E., 194 Frank F., Dr., 268, 270 G. Wallace, 194 John, 269 John W., 269
Mary, 84 Robert A., 84
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Sunstein, A. Cass, 96 Abraham J., 96 Cass, 96 Nora, 96 Swift, David, 252 Jireh, 252 Jonathan, 252 William, 251
Taylor, Anita M., 142 I. J., 14I
Roland L., 141
Thomas, Ada E., 6
George C., 3, 4
George C., Jr., 6
John, 3
John W., 3
Leonard M., 6
Torrance, Ann J., 147 Francis, 146 Francis J., 147 Jane, 147
Mary R., 149 Tracy, David E., 273 Gertrude B., 274 James, 273
Van Dermark, Benjamin, 66, 67 Jacob, 67 Mary E., 68 Moses, 67 Welbon W., 66, 67
Vauclain, Andrew C., 285 Annie, 286 Samuel M., 284, 285
Wainwright, Abigail E., 164 Edwy, 164 John E., 166 Joseph, 164 Mary F., 165 Samuel J., 164, 165
Washington, Augustine, 272 George, 273 John, 272
Lawrence, 272 Robert, 272 Waters, Edward, 271 Philemon, 272 Thomas, 271 William, 271
Watson, James, 73 Jean H., 74 Mary D., 74
William, 72 William L., 72, 73 Weaver, Frances, 202 Frank J., 202
George, 201
George P., 202
John, 201 W. Walter, 202
Whitman, Benjamin, 54 George F., 54 Mary E., 56
Wiegand, Charlotte M., 257 Hannah, 255
John, 254, 255
Samuel L. (S. Lloyd), 256
Sarah, 255 William T., 257
Williams, Esther, 174 James, 174 John H., 174 Wolf, Augustus F., 142, 143 Bessie, 42 Frances M., 143
Jacob, 40, 41
John E., 143
John F., 144
Samuel, 41
Samuel M., Dr., 40, 41 Stephen R., 41 Worden, Anne S., 210 Darwin B., 209 Thomas D., Dr., 209
Young, Charles, 156 Charles E., 156 Lazarus R., 155, 156 Pauline A., 157
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