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was notary public, a member of the school board and of the town council. and he was frequently made the executor. administrator and trustce of some of the largest and most important estates. He was treasurer and vestryman of Christ church and St. Paul's church. For many years he took an active interest in military affairs. He was a member of the Citizens' Volunteers for six years, and in 1851 was captain of the Na- tional Guards. During the Civil war he aided the governor in every possible way in the formation of companies for the service of the national government and for the defense of the state. and was among the most diligent and liberal in providing for the wants of soldiers' families while their protectors were in the field. He died at Easton. January 6. 1883.
Mr. Eyerman married, October 15, 1844. at Easton, Anna M. Black, daughter of James Black and Mary Kachlein *. She was born in Easton, August 17, 1820, and died October 28. 1891.
Of this marriage was born one son. Edward Hester Eyerman, at Easton. August 5. 1845, and died March 7. 1874. He was baptized in
*Mary Kachlein was a descendant of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Kachlein, born in Kirchheim, Bulanden, November 8, 1722. son of John Peter Kachiein, who with his three sons, Peter, Andrew and Charles, arrived at Philadelphia on the Francis and Elizabeth, and qualified September 21, 1742. They settled in Bedminster township. Bucks county, and Peter subsequently removed to Easton. lle was for several years a student in the Heidelberg University. He became a leading citizen of Easton, closely identified with its interests. lle was a ruling eider in the German Reformed church : in 1755 a trustee of the School for the Education of Protestant Youth; in 1759 a com- missioner ; and in 1762 he was colonel of militia, and rendered useful service in the outbreaks of 1763. In 1762 and 1772 he was high sheriff of Northampton, before its division into six counties. In 1771 he commanded the expedition to Fort Wyoming. and in 1774 was deputy to the provisional convention. March 9, 1774. He was justice of Northampton county. He was made a member of the standing committee of safety. and in 1775 a member of the colonial assembly and the provisional assembly at Phila- delphia. May 22 he was captain of the Easton company : July 17 colonel of the first battalion. In 1776 he was lieutenant colonel of the Northampton county battalion. which he commanded at the battle of Long Island, in which he bore a splendid part lle was captured in the battle and released on parole. General Howe said that General Grant was killed by his men, who inflicted the greatest loss upon that division. In 1780 he was lieutenant of the county under the supreme council of Pennsylvania: in 1787 judge of the court of common pleas; in 1780 the first chief magistrate of Easton. and a member of the first constitutional convention of the state. In 1762 he erected a grist and saw mill near Easton. His son Jacob was first corporal in Captain Arndt's first battalion, and took part in the battle of Long Island.
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Christ church. He was educated at the Easton Academy and the Penn- sylvania Military Academy at Chester. Ellis says: "Growing to man- hood, influence and usefulness, his cheerful and social disposition ren- dered his companionship genial and attractive, and surrounded him with an extended circle of warmly attached friends." At the age of twenty- two he founded the firm of Eyerman & Company, as agents for the Delaware Rolling Mills Company, and for the manufacture of iron. He married, at Allentown, February to. 1865. Miss Alice Sabila Heller. born October 2. 1846, daughter of Christian B. Heller and Henrietta Detwiller .*
Of this union was born one child, John Eyerman, born at Easton, January 15, 1867. baptized July 11, same year. He was married. April 21, 1888, by the Rev. G. M. S. Blauvelt, to Lucy Evelyn Max- well, born in Easton, August 28. 1864. Their children are Marguerite, born at Oakhurst, Easton, March 28, 1895, and John, born April 5. 1899.
Through his distinguished ancestry. three of whom served in the Colonial and Revolutionary wars, Mr. Eyerman is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the state of New Jersey, of which he is secretary; of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, of the Sons of the Revolution, and of the Pennsylvania German Society. He is deeply interested in scientific, historical and genealogical lines, and is a mem- ber of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, a fellow of the Zoological
*Christopher Heller, with his son Johann Simon, embarked at Rotterdam in the Winter Galley, and arrived at Philadelphia on September 5. 1738. Ile received a land patent in Lower Saucon township, September 8. 1742, and settled at what came to be known as Hellertown. His son Simon was a prominent man, and was frequently ap- pointed to view and lay out roads in Salisbury and elsewhere. Jacob, son of Simon (Johann Simon Heller) was in 1777 commissioned lieutenant of the Seventh Company, Fifth Battalion, Northampton County Militia.
Henrietta Detwiller was descended from Dr. Henry Detwiller (a native of Switz- erland and a descendant of George Dätwyler, 1580), who came to America in the ship John of Baltimore, and arrived at Philadelphia in July. 1817. Ile was the pioncer of the Hahnemann School of Medicine in the United States.
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Society of London, a fellow of the Geological Society of America, of the American Geographical Society, of the, London Geologists' .Associa- tion. a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. fellow of the New York Academy of Science, a life member of the British Association. fellow of the American Association, member of the National Geographical Society, member of the A. C. A. Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists, warden and treasurer of Trinity Parish. and one of the managers of the Easton-Delaware Bridge Company. He possesses excellent literary tastes and talents, and is a pleasing writer on topics which have engrossed his attention. He was for some time lecturer on Determinative Mineralogy in Lafayette College, and is associate editor of the American Geologist. He has written numerous memoirs and papers on geology, paleontology and mineralogy, published in the American scientific journals, notably on "The Genus Temnocyon." "The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania." "Contributions to Mineralogy." "The Mineralogy and Vertebrate Paleontology at the Columbian Ex- position." "The Mineralogy of the French Creek Mines." "A Catalogue of the Pakentological Publications of Joseph Leedy. M. D., LL. D." Shufeklt in his "Fossil Bones of Birds and Mammals from Grotto Pietro Tamponi and Grive-St .. Alban," naming Puffinus eyermani n. spi., says: "The species is extinct, and it gives me pleasure to name it in honor of the well-known paleontologist. John Eyerman, Esq., of Easton, Pennsylvania, in whose collection the specimens at the present writing belong." He has prepared and printed for family use three sumptuous volumes, models of typographical and illustrative art: "The ' Ancestors of Marguerite Eyerman." a beautiful quarto volume. printed in 1898, the edition limited to forty-five numbered copies, bearing the following dedication : "To my dear little daughter Marguerite Eyer- man, this book is inscribed as her very own, by her father." In 1902.
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after the birth of his son, Mr. Eyerman printed a supplementary volume. in a limited edition of fifty-six numbered copies, dedicated "To my dear children, Marguerite and John Eyerman," and a third and com- plete edition in 1903 entitled "Genealogical Studies." Also "Some Let- ters and Documents," and "The Old Grave Yards of Northampton."
WILLIAM PATTERSON.
Among the men of prominence whose enterprise and diligence are in harmony with the spirit of progress in the cast is William Patterson, who is prominently connected with many important industries and busi- ness interests in Lawrence county, and as the president of the Nationa! Bank of Lawrence County he will be especially known to the readers of this volume. A native son of this county, his birth occurred on the 20th of October. 1824. his parents being Samuel and Esther Patterson, both now deceased. He is descended from good old Scotch ancestry, and his paternal grandfather was a farmer and fruit grower on a large scale, and at the same time also carried on a manufacturing industry unusually extensive for those days. On the maternal side his grand- father, William Dickson, was one of the early pioneers of Lawrence county, having emigrated to this section of country in 1806, at a time when this locality was still an unbroken wilderness, and in its develop- ment and improvement he took an active part and eventually became one of the leading business men of this part of the Keystone state. The father of William Patterson was born in 1802, in Beaver, now a part of Lawrence county, and the mother in Westmoreland county, this state. she having come to this section with her parents in 1806.
William Patterson was deprived of a father's care and protection when very young, and was reared in the home of his maternal grand-
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father, remaining at the old homestead until he was fourteen years of age, during which time he pursued his studies in the winter months and worked in a tannery in the summer. Ilis attendance at the district school of the neighborhood was supplemented by a two years' course in the New Castle Academy, which completed his education, and in 1840 he entered the store of John B. Pearson, of New Castle, in the capacity of a clerk, thus continuing for about two years, after which. in 1845, he became assistant to Daniel Euwer, of Pittsburg, Pennsyl- vania, in the management of his large dry-goods establishment. Three years later. however, Mr. Patterson returned to New Castle and pur- chased an interest in a wholesale and retail drug store, but in 1852 he sold his interest therein and invested the proceeds in coal property and improvements in Ohio. the product of which was shipped to Cleveland and the furnaces at Lowell, that state, and New Castle, Pennsylvania. He continued to give his personal attention to this enterprise until 1885. In that year, in company with Mr. Watson, he opened a banking and exchange business in New Castle, and among their employes was James McKinley, a brother of William McKinley, afterward president of the United States, and the former continued to manage their coal enter- prise until the mine was exhausted. About 1854 Mr. Patterson sold an interest in his mining property in Ohio and Illinois to John M. Maris, of Philadelphia, with whom he carried on business relations until the mines were exhausted. In 1858 Mr. Watson retired from the banking business of Watson & Patterson, after which Mr. Patterson continued the business under the name of the Patterson Bank, and in 1864 he became associated with A. L. Crawford and others in the enterprise of opening a block coal field in Mercer county, which they operated for eleven years, and during that time they built a railroad, sunk shafts and organized all the necessary provisions for a thorough mining indus-
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try, the produce of the mine being shipped to the Erie docks and the fur- naces in New Castle. With Mr. Crawford and others, Mr. Patterson was also interested in building the Missouri, Salem & Little Rock Rail- road and in opening and operating the iron ore mines in Missouri. Dur- ing the years of 1868 and 1869 he organized and was a member of the Etna Iron Company, for which Mr. Crawford built the furnaces, which they continued to operate until 1873. during which time they enjoyed a prosperous and increasing business, but in that year they soll the en- terprise to Mr. Kimberly, of Sharon, Pennsylvania. About this time he was also a director and one of a corporation organized by .\. L. Crawford which built the Vigo furnaces at Terre Haute, Indiana, and also the Wabash Iron Company rolling mill at the same place, one of the furnaces being subsequently taken to Gadsden, Alabama, where it is still in operation.
Concluding to concentrate all his capital nearer home, Mr. Pat- terson accordingly in 1885 severed his connections with all outside inter- ests with the exception of a block coal mine in Brazil, Indiana. In 1863, in connection with A. R. Lee, he had purchased large tracts of coal land in the southwest corner of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, which is still being worked under the name of the Beaver Coal & Coke Company, producing a fine gas coal, which is sold largely to the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company to be used on their locomotives, and to gas companies throughout the country. In 1873 Mr. Patterson bought a large portion of the stock of the National Bank of Lawrence County, remaining, however, with his old bank until 1880, since which time he has given the new enterprise his personal attention and supervision. This bank is capitalized at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with surplus and earnings amounting to eight hundred and sixty-two thou- sand dollars, while the deposits reach three hundred and fifty thousand
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dollars. This is one of the most solid financial institutions in this part of the state. In the same year the Penn Coal Company was or- ganized and the sheet-iron rolling mill built at New Castle, with both of which he was connected, and in 1883. with Mr. Crawford and others, he purchased what is known as the Neshannock Furnace property at New Castle, which has since been successfully operated by them under the corporate name of the Crawford Iron & Steel Company, having a capacity of one hundred and twenty thousand tons of Bessemer pig iron annually. In 1885-6, with associates, he built the wire mill and wire nail works which are operated under the name of the New Castle Wire Nail Company, and also organized a company which constructed a large rod mill. this being one of the largest plants of the kind in the country. With associates he also built and operated the Bessemer Steel Works and the Billet Mili, a continuous mill for rolling bars for tin plate. business being carried on under the name of the Shenango Valley Steel Company: with associates he also organized the Shenango Tin Plate Company, which built the largest mill in the world for the manufacture of tin plate : and was also connected with the Pennsylvania Engineering Works, the Vulcan Foundry Company. the Shenango Glass Company, the New Castle Stamping and Enameling Works, the New Castle Forge & Bolt Works ard other enterprises. The works of the Shenango Steel Company, the New Castle Wire Nail Company, and the Shenango Tin Plate Company were sold to and absorbed by the Na- tional Steel Company and later by the United States Steel Company, the stock of that company being taken in payment.
Mr. Patterson is still connected with many of the most prominent industries in this section of the Keystone state, being president of the National Bank of Lawrence county, at New Castle, president of the New Castle Steel Company, vice-president of the Crawford Iron & Steel
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Company, president of the New Castle Wire Nail Company and the New Castle Wire Mill, president of the Beaver Coal & Coke Company, chair- man of the Penn Coal Company ( limited), director of the New Castle & Beaver Valley Railroad Company for thirty-seven years, chairman of the Shenango Valley Steel Company, a director in the Knoxville & Nashville Railroad, of Tennessee, and president of the Shenango Valley Hospital, which institution he was active in establishing and supporting. His labor and expenditure in increasing the manufacturing industries of New Castle have been extensive, and he made one of the largest cash subscriptions to promote the building of the first railroad that ran into this city, was one of the principal factors in bringing the Baldwin Stove Works to the city and was also the means of inducing the owners of the Withrow and Gordon plants to locate in New Castle.
On the 26th of January, 1852, Mr. Patterson was united in mar- riage to Anna M., daughter of Richard Mills, a gentleman largely con- nected with iron interests. Mrs. Patterson died in March, 1863. leav- ing two daughters, Mary L., now the wife of Edward King, and Anna M .. also one son, Rufus O., formerly connected with the nail works and rod mill of this city. On January 17. 1866, Mr. Patterson married Har- riet W., daughter of Solomon Woodward, of Taunton, Massachusetts, by whom he has had one daughter and two sons,-Julia H., William Lee and George Lewis.
Mr. Patterson possesses a fine library of well selected works in the choicest literature, and his collection of works of art is significant of a refined taste and knowledge of the best modern masters. In his home he gives himself up to rest, quiet and social culture and enjoyment. al- ways hospitable and possessing qualifications which render association with him most agreeable and satisfactory. He has been one of the sure foundations upon which the great progress of New Castle has rested as
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upon a rock ; no business enterprise could be suggested which would benefit the city but he was first and last in devoting his best judgment, his time and his means to forwarding it, but, although always on the alert to discover and apply measures to benefit the locality and tireless in promoting its welfare, he has never sought or accepted public posi- tions or official rank, believing that he could prove a more useful and serviceable citizen by aiding the promotion of industrial and financial enterprises which would advance local condtions. Endowed with an active nature, he has been one of the busiest men of the city, keeping himself closely informed concerning every detail of the affairs of his bank and of his large coal, iron and steel interests, and it is a remark- able fact that in the history of his long business career he has never been engaged in a personal lawsuit. No contract into which he has ever entered could possibly be misconstrued, and no one with whom he has ever entered into business relations has ever thought of questioning his honesty or purpose or action.
TRAILL GREEN, A. M., M. D., LL. D.
Dr. Traill Green, of Easton, Pennsylvania, was born May 25, 1813. in the city named. At an early period in the colonization of the new. world, the Green family, of which he was a representative, was estab- lished in the western part of New Jersey by William Green, a native of England, who established his home on Long Island, and during his brief residence there became acquainted with and married Joanna Reeder. who was a native of Norfolk county, England, belonging to the old Reeder family of that locality. It was not long after his marriage that William Green and his wife removed to Hunterdon county, New Jersey, settling in Ewing township abont 1700. He was influential in
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community affairs, occupying various positions under the English crown. including that of judge of the court of common pleas. His death occurred in 1722.
His eldest son, Richard Green, married Mary Ely, of Trenton, New Jersey, who was also of English lineage. a daughter of George and Jane ( Pettit) Ely, who were members of the Society of Friends and belonged to a family whose representatives were found in Penn- sylvania as well as New Jersey. Richard Green died in 1741.
Richard Green, Jr .. the eldest son of Richard and Mary ( Ely) Green, died in 1797, and was the grandfather of Dr. Traill Green. He married Phebe Moore, a daughter of Nathaniel Moore ( 1687-1759). who removed from Long Island to Hopewell, New Jersey, in 1708. He was a son of Captain Samuel Moore, a prominent advocate of religious liberty in 1690, and a grandson of Rev. John Moore, of Newtown, Long Island, who died in 1657, and whose active participation in affairs began as early as 1641. He is spoken of as "one of the most interesting char- acters of that early period."
Rev. John Moore was an "independent." Benjamin Moore. rector of Trinity church, New York, second bishop of New York, and presi- dent of King's College. Nathaniel F. Moore, president of Columbia College, Clement C. Moore, professor of Hebrew in the General Theological Seminary (and the author among other poems of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"). were among his descendants. The mother of Phebe ( Moore) Green was Joanna Prudden, a grand- (laughter of Rev. Peter Prudden, who was a minister of Her- fordshire. England. but by persecution was driven from that country and arrived in America in 1637 in company with John Davenport, John Howard, Samuel Eaton and others. He was one of the founders of the colony of New Haven, and the founder of the
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Church of Christ. Milford, Connecticut, was one of the "seven pillars," and died there in 1656. She was a daughter of Rev. John Prudden. who was the first regular pastor of the first regularly organized Pres- byterian church in America, at Jamaica, Long Island, in 1672. He was also the third pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Newark, New Jersey.
Benjamin Green, a son of Richard and Phebe ( Moore) Green, was born in 1770 and died in 1852. About the close of the Revolutionary war a little colony of English people made their way to what is now Easton, Pennsylvania, and Benjamin Green was among the number who in 1793 established his home in the village. His sister. Sarah Green Moore, had arrived in 1782. Benjamin Green was married to Elizabeth Traill, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Grotz) Traill, who were married in 1774. The latter was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Shaffbuch) Grotz. In the maternal line the ancestry of Dr. Green is traced back to Robert Traill, a son of Rev. Thomas Traill. of Sanday, Orkney islands, off the north coast of Scotland. In 1764 Robert Traill arrived in Easton. He very soon became an active citizen, and in the Revolution which later broke upon the people he took a con- spicuous part. On the 21st of December, 1777. he was elected a mem- ber of the committee of observation of Northampton county. He was immediately chosen one of the standing committee of correspondence and clerk of the same. May 21, 1777. he was elected major of the Fifth Battalion of Northampton county. In 1779 he was assistant deputy quartermaster general. Ile was a member of the assembly, sheriff in 1782, and clerk of the court. He was a member of the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania, and was appointed associate judge by Governor Mifflin in 1796. Sabilla Grant, the mother of
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Robert Traill, was the daughter of Rev. Alexander Grant, of South Ronaldsay.
The ancestry of Dr. Green shows that he is descended from the Scotch. the English and the German races, and he who analytically studies character can find in his life work certain strong traits of each nationality. In speaking of his own nativity. Dr. Green said that "he was born when the beautiful season of flowers was just opening" and that expression is indicative of one of his strong characteristics, his love of nature. In his youth he found great pleasure in wandering through the country surrounding his native city, intent on observing the birds. insects and minerals, the glories of the sky. the fields and the rivers. Moreover, he possessed a very studious nature, and early displayed special aptitude in the mastery of the branches of learning which con- stituted the curriculum of the Easton Union Academy, in which his youth was largely passed. He afterward attended Minerva Academy, of Easton, coming under the teaching of Rev. John Van Derveer, D. D .. who was one of the most scholarly gentlemen and prominent educators of that time. His interest in nature was heightened by his perusal of Buffon's "Natural History," a copy of which came into his possession about that time. He resolved then to make the study of natural sciences one of his chief pursuits in life, and never did he abandon this inten- tion. He became convinced that the study of medicine would afford him special advantages in this direction, and he determined to pursue it. Ile attended two full courses of lectures in the University of Pennsyl- vania, and then entered the office of his preceptor, enrolling himself as a student under Dr. J. K. Mitchell, professor of medicine in Chap- man's Institute. Following the completion of three full courses in the University and in the Institute, he won his Doctor of Medicine degree upon graduation in 1835. Realizing the necessity of careful and
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thorough preparation for the responsible duties that devolve upon the physician, he would never receive a student without a pledge that he would pursue three full courses of study before he applied for a degree. He seemed in advance of the times in this particular. for long years after that the college required only two courses and demanded no special preparation for matriculation.
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