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HON. WILTON MONROE LINDSEY.
Hon. Wilton Monroe Lindsey, one of the prominent men in Warren county. Pennsylvania, a brilliant and hard-working lawyer, and now incumbent of the office of president judge for the thirty-seventh judicial district, was born in Pine Grove township. Warren county. Pennsylvania. June 8, 1841. and was one of the eleven children of Joseph and Catherine
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Lindsey. His father was of Irish descent and his mother of German and Welsh.
Judge Lindsey's boyhood days were spent on the farm, and he owes much of his present success to the severe lessons he learned while at work there. He followed the usual routine, a district school in the winter months, and manual labor in the summer, but in the former he was so energetic in his studies that he soon outgrew its opportunities. and he resolved to seek broader pastures of learning. Like many of the world's successful, he had to mainly make his own way, and so he earned money for his next course by working on his father's farm and at whatever employment came in his way. At the age of seventeen he entered Randolph Academy at Randolph, New York, where he remained a number of terms, applying himself so that he advanced rapidly, and during vacations earning the means to continue his studies the following winter.
He had not yet completed his course in the academy when the Civil war broke out and called him into a new and sterner field of action. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Volun- teers, Colonel H. L. Brown. of Erie, commanding. In 1863. however. his health began to fail. and he was soon discharged on account of dis- ability. He returned home and after a few months of careful treatment was so far restored that he could take up his studies again, and in the fall of 1863 entered the State Normal School at Edinboro. Here he pursued the same course of alternate study and working for the wherewithal, and he showed himself so persevering and capable that on October 1, 1865. he was appointed superintendent of the common schools of Warren county, succeeding Hon. Charles W. Stone in this office. He filled the vacancy so satisfactorily that at the election, which was held
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June 1. 1866. he was voted into the office for a three years' term, and was re elected at the expiration of that time.
While engaged in the work of education Mr. Lindsey turned his attention to the law as his permanent profession. Ile had already made some progress in his reading when he resigned his superintendency on December 1, 1871, and gave himself entirely to the study He entered the office of Hon. S. P. Johnson, who at that time had just completed a term on the bench as president judge. On his admission to the bar, March 1, 1872, he became Mr. Johnson's partner, which relation existed until Judge Johnson's death in 1893. Mr. Lindsey was very fortunate in this connection, for the senior partner had some of the most important legal cases in the county, and he thus had all the opportunity for ad- vancement that could have been desired. Judge Lindsey has covered a wide range in his practice, in his own county and the adjoining counties. and in the circuit and district courts of the United States.
In 1876 Mr. Lndsey was elected to the state legislature from his district. His record as a law-maker was an excellent one. He was on numerous committees, and was made chairman of the committee to in- vestigate the railroad riots of 1877, involving a great amount of labor and taking of testimony. Mr. Lindsey examined the witnesses, and the report of one thousand pages which was given to the state was an ex- cellent piece of work and reflected credit upon Mr. Lindsey. He had made a thorough study of the newly adopted state constitution just before taking his seat, and during the term he was often called upon as an authority on matters relating to the statutes, in this way, too, help- ing much in gaining constitutionai legislation. Another act which was highly commended by his constituents was the securing of necessary ap- propriations for the erection of the state hospital at North Warren, and
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deserving of the more credit because at that time it was more difficult to procure large expenditures of public money, even for the best of purposes.
During his term in the legislature Mr. James O. Parmlee was admitted to the firm, under the name of Johnson. Lindsey & Parmlec, and much of the legal business of this section has been committed to their care. On the death of President Judge Noyes, Mr. Lindsey was one of the three candidates for the vacancy, and at the primaries was named by a large majority. He served the unexpired term to January 1, 1899, and in the preceding November election was chosen to the office for the term of ten years, and he has administered its functions with (lignity and impartiality to the present time. His thorough knowledge of the law is, of course, one factor in his success, but his strong and well balanced character and reliable judgment are the elements to which he owes the outcome of his praiseworthy career.
On December 26, 1866, Judge Lindsey was married to Miss Emma Sherman, of Thetford, Vermont, and four children were born to them. The only one living at present is Edward, who, after receiving his edu- cation at Phillips-Exeter Academy and Dartmouth College, studied law and is now a prominent member of the Warren county bar. Judge Lindsey has taken an active interest in public and religious institutions. For years he has been a member of the Presbyterian church of Warren. and during 1896-97 was a member of the building committee which erected the beautiful new church edifice of that denomination, and is one of its elders. He contributes liberally, according to his means, to the charities and public enterprises of the city. He is one of the trustees of the Struthers Public Library, which was erected by Hon. Thomas Struth- ers at a cost of about one hundred thousand dollars and donated to the town of Warren; he is vice president of the County Historical Society, and takes a deep interest in the welfare of both.
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With such a career of public and private activity before us, it is no wonder that Judge Lindsey has such a large following, and is so popu- lar with all classes. To look back over the years to the time when he was one of the many who directed the plough during the long summer day, with probably only some sweet day dreams of what the future might bring to him, and then to consider the important position he holds among the people of his community at present, is one of the pardonable reveries which are the privilege of successful men, and no one could envy Judge Lindsey's doing so.
ADOLPH M. FOERSTER.
It gives us great pleasure to be able to present to our readers a sketch of the life of one of the leading musical directors and composers in Pennsylvania and one of whom the commonwealth may well be proud. A native son of the city of Pittsburg, he was born on the 2d of February, 1854, and is a son of Emil and Elise ( Noll) Foerster. The paternal grandfather was a native of the university town of Giessen, Germany, and in his native city and in Heidelberg he received his excel- lent educational training. In 1832, when his son Emil was but a lad, he left his native land and came to the United States, taking up his abode in Chambersburg. Pennsylvania, but in 1838 came to Pittsburg, where for many years he was a leading physician. In 1847 the pro- fession of an artist was selected for Emil Foerster, and he was accord- ingly sent abroad to study in Duesseldorf and Frankfort, Germany, where he remained until 1849, but in that year was summarily obliged to abandon his studies on account of the revolution in that country, as the German soldiers took possession of his studio. After his return to America he again opened a studio, and continued in his profession of a
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portrait painter for over fifty years, on the expiration of which period he retired from active pursuits on account of failing health. He painted portraits for many of the leading families in the cast, including those of Captain Schenley: Herman Foster, one of the first editors of the Pitts- burg Dispatch; and Bishop O'Connor,-having completed during his active career over six hundred portraits.
Emil Foerster was married in the year 18449, but in 1899 the union was separated by the hand of death, the wife being called to her home beyond, just after celebrating their golden wedding. They became the parents of five children, only two of whom still survive, Adolph M .. and Julius, a resident of Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Emil Foerster is a man of charming personality, of cheerful disposition and of remark- able memory, and has always at hand a fund of interesting reminiscences to relate. He was a close friend of the late Stephen C. Foster, they having many times in their younger days played ducts on the flute, and at Mr. Foster's funeral he was selected as one of the pall-bearers ; he relates very feelingly the time when Mr. Foster came to him with his then new quartet "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming." He had an ex- cellent baritone voice, and for many years sang in church choirs.
Adolph Martin Foerster obtained his elementary education in the public schools of his native city, and immediately thereafter began the study of music, his first teacher being his mother, but later he studied under the able guidance of Jean Manns. In order to further perfect himself in his chosen profession he went to Europe in 1872. spending three years as a student at Leipsic, and while there studied theory under E. F. Richter and R. Papperitz: voice under Leo Grill and Adolph Schimon ; piano under E. F. Wenzel and Theodore Coccins. Return- ing to his native land in 1875, he taught for one year in the Fort Wayne. Indiana, Conservatory of Music, and thence returned to Pittsburg.
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which has since continued to be the field of his activities. In 1879 and 1880 he conducted the Symphonic Society and was also a director of the Choral Society-Musical Union-in 1883, but in 1800 he withdrew from public work and has since devoted himself to teaching and compos- ing. For a long period he has been interested in national musical affairs, being an active member of both the National and Pennsylvania State Associations, where many of his compositions have held a prom- inent place in the programmes of both societies. Many of Mr. Foers- ter's works have been played under the direction of Theodore Thomas, Anton Seidl, Walter Damrosch and other distinguished conductors. At the Pittsburg May Musical Festivals several of his works were given their baptismal hearing. Among the leading selections which he has composed may be mentioned the following : For orchestra : Thusnelda, Two Suites. Festival March, Prelude to Goethe's Faust, etc., and the Dedication March founded on the notes A-C ( Andrew Carnegie) and utilizing Foster's famous "Old Folks at Home." This work was writ- ten for the inauguration of Carnegie Music Hall and played by the New York Symphony Orchestra. under the direction of Walter Damrosch. Among his compositions are various chamber-music works, three arias for soprano and orchestra, church music, and about eighty songs, of which the op. 12, 25. 28, 30, 49. 55 and 57 contain the most successful ones. Among his compositions for the piano the most successful are: Nocturne, op. 7, three Sonatinas, op. 14, Eros, op. 27, Exultation op. 37, the Twelve Fantasy pieces, op. 38, and the Suite, op. 46, consisting of four movements.
Mr. Foerster was united in marriage to Miss Henrietta M. Reine- man, a daughter of Adam Reineman, a jeweler of Pittsburg, and four children have been born to this union, three of whom are still living, Elsa, Robert and Norman. Robert is now attending Harvard Col-
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lege. The Foerster family are held in high esteem, and the kindly social qualities with which they are endowed by nature win for them the friendship and good will of all.
ANDREW J. BARCHFELD, M. D.
In the great competitive struggle of life, when each man must enter the field and fight his way to the front or else be overtaken by disaster of circumstances or place, there is ever particular interest attaching to the life of one who has turned the tide of success, has surmounted obstacles and has shown his ability to cope with others in their rush for the coveted goal. The record of such a life must ever prove fecund in lesson and incentive. Dr. Barchfeld, who has gained enviable prestige as one of the most able and successful of the younger practitioners of medicine and surgery in the city of Pittsburg. well merits consideration in a work of this nature, and in the connection it will be aimed to present the more salient points in his life work, the while avoiding all that smacks of undue adulation and notoriety and yet giving due attention to the genealogy of distinguished order and a personal accomplishment which involves definite and worthy success in one of the most exacting of all fields of human endeavor. In con- nection with the practice of the healing art a most scrupulous prelim- inary training is demanded and also a nicety of judgment little under- stood by the laity. Then again the profession brings one of its devotees into almost constant association with the sadder side of life .- that of pain and suffering .- so that a mind capable of great self-control and a heart responsive and sympathetic are essential attributes of him who would thus devote his life to the alleviation of human suffering. It is
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certain. then, that when professional success is attained in any instance it has been thoroughly merited.
Andrew Jackson Barchfell is a native son of the city of Pittsburg. in the southern division of which he was born on the 18th of May. 1863. being of stanch German lineage. His paternal grandfather was a prominent manufacturer of yarns and woolen goods in the father- land, where he commanded unequivocal confidence and esteem by reason of his sterling character and his marked pragmatic ability. Andrew J. received his preliminary educational discipline in the public schools of the south side, and thereafter continued his studies under a private tutor until he became eligible for admission to the high school, where he completed the prescribed course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1881. In the meanwhile he had formulated his plans for his life work, having determined to prepare himself for the medical pro- fession, and with this end in view he began his technical reading under the direction of an able preceptor, the late Dr. E. A. Wood, a' dis- tinguished physician and surgeon of Pittsburg, and eventually he was matriculated in the Jefferson Medical College. in the city of Phila- delphia, where he was graduated in 1884 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, having shown his ambitious spirit and professional enthusiasm by taking his hospital course between the second and third years of his collegiate work, so that he was amply fortified for the active practice of his profession at the time of receiving his degree. He began his professional career by engaging in general practice on the south side of his native city, and here he has since continued, having built up a large and representative business and gained precedence as an able and discriminating physician and surgeon. lle has shown marked judgment and discernment in the diagnosing of disease, and has been peculiarly successtul in anticipating the issue of complications, seldom
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making mistakes and never exaggerating or minifying the disease in rendering his decisions in regard thereto. He has ever shown great fraternal delicacy, and no man has ever observed more closely the ethics of the unwritten professionai code or shown more careful and punctilious courtesy to his fellow practitioners. The Doctor is a man of strong physical constitution and marked intellectuality, standing in exemplifying possession of that great human desideratum, "mens sana in corpore sano," a sound mind in a sound body .- while he is thoroughly en rapport with his profession: his heart is in his work, and he has gained not only the respect and confidence but also the appreciative affection of those to whom he has ministered, being watchful and sympa- thetic and his humanity being ever paramount to his professional or scientific interest. Dr. Barchfeld holds membership in the American Medical Association, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, the Alle- gheny County Medical Society, and is a director in the South Side Hospital, while he has been for many years physician to the county coroners and has also been incumbent in the office of city physician. He is a close and devoted student of his profession, keeping constantly in touch with the advances made in the science of medicine and surgery and holding his profession as worthy of his best efforts and utmost devotion. Fraternally the Doctor is identified with Peter Fritz Lodge No. 486, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand.
According an unqualified allegiance to the Republican party, Dr. Barchfeld has taken an active part in local political affairs for the past eighteen years, and has been prominent in the councils of his party. In 1885 he was elected a member of the board of education, in which capacity he served for three years, while in 1886 he held member- ship in the city council, as a representative of the twenty-sixth ward.
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serving on the committee on railroads and proving an able member of the municipal governing body. At the expiration of his second term he declined renomination. The Doctor has done yeoman service as an exponent of the cause of his party, having taken an active part in campaign work and being known as a forceful and logical public speaker. During the last presidential campaign his services in this line were in requisition on many occasions, and he proved a valuable advocate of the Republican cause, being an ardent admirer of the lamented President Mckinley. In 1886 he was a delegate to the state convention which nominated General Beaver for governor, and in 1894 of that which nominated Governor Hastings. At the time of this writing the Doctor has the distinction of being the nominee of his party for representative of the thirty-second district of Pennsylvania in the halls of Congress.
On the 21st of May, 1885. Dr. Barchfeld was united in marriage to Miss Anna Pfeiffer, a daughter of Philip Pfeiffer, of Pittsburg, and they have one son. Elmer A. Mrs. Barchfeld died on April 14, 1903.
A. J. HAZELTINE.
A. J. Hazeltine, president of the Warren Savings Bank, of War- ren. Pennsylvania, and connected with numerous other financial and public enterprises of western Pennsylvania, has a direct line of descent from one of the earliest settlers on American soil. John Hazeltine, of Devonshire, England. married Joan Auter, of Biddeford, England, and with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers' colony landed at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1637. He died December 23, 1690, at the age of seventy years. The line of descent from this immigrant is traced through Sammuel; John ; Abner, who married the granddaughter of Edward Rayson, for many
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years the distinguished secretary of the colony of Massachusetts Bay : Abner : Daniel. the grandfather of A. J. Hazeltine and who married Susanna Jones, of Milford, Massachusetts, and settled at Wardsboro. Vermont, where Abraham Hazeltine was born on January 10. 1797.
Abraham Hazeltine received his degree of M. D. from Dartmonth College in 1820, and about a year later came to Warren, Pennsylvania. where he opened an office as the first regular allopathic physician of that town. He was married twice, first to Sarah Walkup, and his second wife was Jane Morrison, of Jersey Shore. Lycoming county. Pennsylvania. Dr. Hazeltine was the first school treasurer of Warren. In 1840 he removed to Busti. Chautauqua county. New York. and his death occurred at Jamestown, that state, April 25. 1847. Jane ( Morrison ) Hazeltine died in Warren. March 21, 1894, leaving three sons: Dr. William Vincent Hazeltine, of Warren, who died April 23, 1902: Lewis Morrison Hazeltine, a farmer of Warren; and Abra- ham Jones Hazeltine.
The last named and youngest of these sons was born after his father's death, August 30, 1847, on the Hazeltine homestead in Chau- tauqua county. New York, and was educated in the public schools and worked on the farm until he was fourteen years old. At this rather early age he obtained his first acquaintance with mercantile life in the general store of J. R. Robertson, and was employed there from 1861 until 1865, attending school in the winter time. In the latter year, and at the age of cighteen, he was admitted as a partner .- so far had he progressed in the confidence of his employer and in business experience. -the firm being Robertson & Hazeltine, with an annual business of about one hundred thousand dollars in butter, cheese, wool, etc. This partnership was dissolved in 1869. and Mr. Hazeltine was deputy clerk of the board of supervisors of Chautauqua county that year. and on
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November 10, 1860, came to Warren, Pennsylvania, as bookkeeper for E. T. Hazeltine, proprietor of Piso's Cure for Consumption. In this city his advancement has been steady. On March 1. 1870. he became bookkeeper for the First National Bank, was elected teller in the following September, and on February 3, 1872, became cashier of the Warren Savings Bank, of which he was chosen president in Novem- ber, 1889, and which office he still holds.
For over thirty years he has thus been closely identified with this institution, directing its policy and having the practical management of its affairs. To it he has given constant, zealous and faithful service, and its exceptional growth and prosperity afford striking evidence of the efficiency of his service and the wisdom of his management. Com- ing to it in its infancy, in the second year of its existence. he has grad- ually built it up in the confidence of the community and in financial strength until it ranks high among the best and strongest banks in the state outside of the large cities. The standing of the bank on the honor roll is number six of Pennsylvania State Banks, and number twenty-two in the United States. The capital and surplus is over four hundred thousand dollars and deposits average two million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Naturally he has taken a pride in this institu- tion, its history and high standing among financial institutions, and justly so. for to it he has given his life's best service. What it is is largely the result of his years of close and careful supervision, efficient organization and wise and tactful management.
While Mr. Hazeltine stands pre-eminent as a banker, he is more than that. He is a progressive and public-spirited citizen, active in promoting the good of the community in which he lives and contribut- ing his full share to all movements for the advancement of the public interests. Public and corporate positions of various kinds have sought
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him rather than been sought by him. and the requirements of all he has met faithfully and efficiently, demonstrating alike his own ability and the appreciation in which he is held by his fellow citizens. He was a member of the city council for six years, school director for a like period and school treasurer for about fifteen years; was elected to the office of borough treasurer March 5. 1888, while a member of the council, and still holds that office: was for several years on the board of control of the Warren public library and at the same time treasurer : is president of the Red Star Brick Company. of Warren; a director of the Conewango Furniture Company: president of the East Warren Real Estate Company and of the Cornplanter Refining Company, the latter doing a business of over a million dollars annually, much of their product being exported to Germany and other foreign countries: is treasurer of the Union Lumber Company, treasurer and director of the Washington Improvement Company and of the Enterprise Lumber Company. these three lumber companies owning large tracts of the best fir, cedar and spruce timber in the State of Washington, and Mr. Hazeltine is one of the largest stockholders: a director of the Warren Electric Light Company, of the Security Savings & Trust Company, of Erie, of the Sheffield National Bank, of Sheffieldl.
Mr. Hazettine became a member of the Young Men's Christian As- sociation November 19. 1869, ten days after his arrival in the city, was the second president of the association and is still a member of the board of directors. Ile is a Baptist, and has been a deacon in the First Baptist church since 1872. Hle was a member of the United States Assay Commission for the year 1899, and was treasurer of the Penn- sylvania Bankers' Association in 1898, and in 1900 delivered an address before the association at Cambridge Springs on the "Unification of Commercial and Banking Law." As president of the Warren Social
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