Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 106

Author: Floyd, J.L., & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Chicago, J. L. Floyd & Co.
Number of Pages: 1090

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Amandus Fries attended school in Lynn town- trueking successfully for about seventeen years in ship, Lehigh eounty, and in his youth was em- all, attending the local markets. In 1894 he ployed by Dr. Shade, at Steinsville. In the fall bought the hotel at Montandon from Stephen Dreisbach, and in 1895 held a sale of his farm stoek, after which he took up his residenee at since devoted most of his time and attention. He remodeled the hotel, which is equipped with all modern improvements, and all of the nine- of 1867 he came to Northumberland eountv. of which he has since been a citizen. He did farm work, and in 1890 bought his father-in-law's home- the hotel, to the management of which he has stead, the tract of forty-eight acres about two miles east of Montandon, in West Chillisquaque town- ship, which he has since occupied and cultivated. Mr. Fries is an industrious and efficient worker,

John Wenzel, son of John L. Wenzel, was born Jan. 12, 1826, in Northumberland county, and died April 13, 1893. For many years he was a well known contractor and builder, erecting many of the most substantial houses and barns in his dis- triet, and he owned a tract of sixteen aeres in Delaware township, where he resided. His wife, Catharine (Meixel), was born Jan. 30, 1833, in Northampton eounty, and died Sept. 12, 1908, at the home of her son Harvey, with whom she had made her home from the time of her husband's death. Mr. and Mrs. John Wenzel were married July 4, 1858, in Union eounty, Pa., and to them were born the following children: Mary E., born Mareh 12, 1859, married John Yerich : John C. Reformed faith. was born July 1, 1860; Agnes, born Aug. 17, 1861, married Albert Hoffman; Harvey is mentioned below ; W. H. was killed on the Pennsylvania rail- road at the marsh erossing. near Montandon, in 1900 (there were four inen in the party, and the only one to escape with his life was Harvey Wen- zel, who received only a few bruises) ; Coy O. died in infaney: Elmer J. was born April 15, 1872; . Ida, horn Feb. 1, 1874, married Forrest Harner ; Clarenee D., born Feb. 15, 1879, is an express agent in the employ of the Adams Company, run- ning from Philadelphia to Buffalo and Harrisburg t › Buffalo.

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and has made a success of his agricultural oper- ations. He is a respected resident of his com- munity.

In 1869 Mr. Fries married Margaret A. Cum- mings, daughter of William and Hannah (Irwin) JOHN W. LUPOLD, train dispatcher at Sun- Cummings, and to them have been born six chil- bury for the Pennsylvania railroad, has held that dren : Elizabeth; Robert C., deceased; Emma, position since 1893-the longest period on record deceased ; Walter G .; Herman B., at home; and in Sunbury that any one man has served in that Harry A., at home.

WILLIAM L. BRAUN, a practical and success- ful miller, at present the proprietor of Braun's mill, near Milton, in Turbut township, this county, is a native of Lyeoming county, Pa., born at Nes- bit, a small town above Williamsport, in 1861, son of G. F. Braun.

Christian Braun, grandfather of William L., gaged in farming. There he died in 1878, at the age of about eiglity-one years. He is buried in that county. His children were: Samuel, fa- ther of John W. Lupold; William, who lived near

lived at Spielberg, in the Kingdom of Wurtem- berg, Germany, and there died at the age of forty- eight years. He married his cousin, Magdalena Braun, and they had several children, two of Lock Haven, Pa .; Henry, who lived at Loganton, whom, Jacob and G. F., came to America, the Pa. ; John, who moved to Nebraska about 1873-74; others dying young. Jacob settled near Buffalo, and Solomon, who passed all his life at Eastville, where he died leaving a large family, who still a small village across the valley from Carroll, make their home in that vicinity.

Clinton county (the post office was made Loganton

G. F. Braun was born at Spielberg, a little town after rural free delivery was instituted, and the of about four hundred population, Dec. 3, 1831, place was most commonly called Winter Side, ly-

and was twenty-two years of age when he came to this country. He had learned the miller's and baker's trades in his native land, and was thus well equipped, to make his way to prosperity in Samuel Lupold was born in 1824 in the vieinity America. He had married in Germany, and he of Sunbury. In his earlier years he was engaged and his wife made the voyage to America in a sail- in farmning in Clinton county, Pa., and later con- ducted a sawmill there, near Eastville, subsequent- ly moving to Union county, where he kept books for a lumber concern until his death, which oc- curred in 1874, at Cooper's Mill, Union county. ing on the north side of the mountain, where winter snows always remained longest), where he died in 1905.

now a very busy part of that city. In 1863 he lo- He was buried at Watsontown, Northumberland

county. Mr. Lupold was an ambitious inan, and by application became a well informed man. At

John and William L., bought the Milton mill, and the time of his marriage he could neither read nor conducted it under the name of G. F. Braun & write, and he was self instructed, his practical Sons until the death of John, in 1902. The fa- attainments being best indicated by the position tlier still resides at Nesbit, where he has become very well known, and where he is highly respected. To him and his wife, Annie, were born children as follows : Louisa, Emma, Jolin, Mary, Charles, nel and Hannah (Barner) Kerstetter, of Clinton Tillie, William L. and Flora. he filled during the latter years of his life. He was a member of the Reformed Church. Mr. Lu- pold married Susan Kerstetter, daughter of Sam- county, the latter of whom was a daughter of children. Mrs. Susan ( Kerstetter) Lupold died in 1886, in her fifty-ninth year. She was the mother of the following children: Catharine died when sixteen years old; William H. is a resident of Cameron county, Pa .; Supera married Eli F. Garner and lives near Eastville, Pa. ; Fayette mar- ried Hiram Lefever, of Aurora, Nebr .: Sarah married William H. Lesher; Harriet died when four years old, of poisoning: Minerva married Daniel JJ. Huntington and died at Williamsport, Pa., in 1887; Mary died in infancy; Samuel A.,

William L. Braun attended the local schools, George Barner and one of a family of twenty-two and under, his father's careful instruction learned the miller's trade. In 1907 he purchased his pres- ent property. This was a good mill, built in 1874 by William Kemmerer, a native of Berks county. . The roller process was installed when Mr. Braun, his father and his brother John bought it. It has four sets of rolls, and is modern throughout in its equipment. Mr. Braun has a special brand of flour known as the "Streight," which has a very wide reputation, and all his goods, in fact, find a ready sale.

ing vessel, being on the water forty days before they landed at New York City. Their first settle- ment was made at Buffalo, N. Y., where Mr. Braun worked as a miller. He built a home in what is cated at Nesbit, in Lycoming county, where lie worked at milling. In 189? he and his two sons.

Fraternally Mr. Braun is a member of Lodge No. 84, I. O. O. F., and Aerie No. 1208, F. O. E., of Milton.

capacity. He was born Feb. 3, 1867, at White Deer, Union Co., Pa., son of Samuel Lupold and grandson of John Lupold.

John Lupold was a native of central Pennsyl- vania. After his marriage to Sarah Yoxtheimer he lived in the vicinity of Sunbury, Northumber- land county, for a time, and before the Civil war went to Clinton county, this State, where he en-

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formerly of Montgomery, Pa .. is now a resident of her son David in Bergen, Genesee Co., N. Y., of West Milton, Pa., where he is in the bakery May 14, 1857, and they had children as follows: business ; Jolin W. lives in Sunbury. John Pearson, David W., Stephen and Arnold A.

David W. Howell, father of John J. Howell,

Jolin W. Lupold obtained his education in the public schools of White Deer township, Union was born July 8, 1808, near Morristown, N. J., county. In 188? he learned cigarmaking, which and moved West in 1835, settling at what is now he followed for several years, and when eighteen the site of Battle Creek, Mich. When a young years old he learned telegraphy at White Deer. man he began teaching there, but later engaged He has since been engaged in railroad work. He in farming, upon his own land, which is now was employed at different points on the Philadel- known as Morgan park; it was then three miles phia & Reading road until 1889, when he changed from the town. His wife, whose maiden name to the Sunbury division of the Pennsylvania road, was Delia . Ehner, was born July 19, 1811, and in the fall of 1890 being transferred to Sunbury died Dec. 20, 1842, at Battle Creek, and was bur- and given a position in the superintendent's office. ied there. Mr. Howell subsequently returned He was engaged as message operator and copier East with his children, settling at Bergen, N. Y., in the train dispatcher's office until promoted to where he remained until his death, May 2, 1877. train dispatcher in 1893. He has since filled this The children were all born at Battle Creek, viz. : responsible position, in which he has the longest Elmer, who is deceased; Phebe A., deceased ; Wil- record of any incumbent at Sunbury. Mr. Lu- liam H., who is still living at Bergen, N. Y .; and John J.

pold has been thoroughly identified with local interests since he became a resident of the borough, and in 1908 lie was elected a member of the board

John J. Howell was only four years old when his father settled at Bergen, N. Y., where he of education, from the Seventh ward: lie was a grew to manhood. He attended public school and member of the building committee which had in when old enough began to do farm work, later

charge the erection of the Francis E. Drumheller school, erected in 1910, one of the finest school buildings in this section and a great source of pride in the borough. In political matters Mr. Lupold is a Republican, with independent inclina- by both the Western Union and New York Central tions.

supplementing his early education by a course in commercial work and telegraphy at the business university of Rochester, N. Y., graduating in 1865. He began work at Bergen, where he was employed Companies before his removal to Williamsport, berland, Northumberland Co., Pa., in May, 1872,

In 1890 Mr. Lupold married Grace M. Bly, Pa., in 1869. He was there engaged upon the daughter of James Bly. and they have three chil- P. & E. division until he changed to Northum- dren : Merrill, who was a member of the class of 1911 of the Sunbury high school : Martha Esther ; where he has since remained in the employ of the and Ruth Elizabeth. In 1899 Mr. Lupold built Pennsylvania Company. He has a record of fidel- the comfortable home at No. 307 Catawissa avenue ity and good work of which he may be proud and which he has since occupied with his family. They is a trusted and competent employee. Mr. How- are members of the First Reformed Church of ell is a Democrat in political sentiment, but he Sunbury, which he served as an official for some has never taken any active part in politics or pub- years. Fraternally he unites with the Royal Ar- lic matters. He and his family attend the Episco- canum.

pal Church.

On Nov. 28, 1873, Mr. Howell married Mary JOHN J. HOWELL, ticket agent at Northum- E. Shuman, daughter of Jacob L. Shuman, of berland for the 'Pennsylvania Railway Company, Catawissa, Pa. Her two brothers are living in has held his present position since May, 1872, and Shamokin. Mr. and Mrs. Howell have had one is one of the respected residents of that borough. daughter, Lucille, now the wife of Arthur Jame- He was born Sept. 26, 1842, at Battle Creek, son. Mr. and Mrs. Jameson, who reside at Roch- Mich., son of David W. Howell and grandson of ester, N. Y., have four children, John J., Philip David W. Howell, and belongs to a family of Eng- H., Charles D. and Cecelia M. (born Dec. 29, lish origin which has been settled in America 1910).

from Colonial times. The first. ancestor on this side of the Atlantic was Edward Howell, who was

DANIEL E. SMITH, of Rebuck, in Washing- born in England, baptized July 22, 1580, came to ton township, has been engaged at his trade of America about 1639-40 and first settled at Lynn, blacksmith at that point for the past twenty-five Mass. Later he moved to Long Island, settling years, and lie also owns a farm in the township. at Southampton, where he died. . John J. Howell Mr. Smith was born May 19, 1852. in Upper Ma- is directly descended from him.

lianoy township, Northumberland county, son of David W. Howell, grandfather of Jolin J. How- John Smith and grandson of Michael Smith.

Michael Smith was born in Oley township,

ell, lived and died near Morristown, N. J. He married Kezialı Pearson, who died at the home Berks Co., Pa., whence he came to the Swabian

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Creek Valley, in the eastern end of this county, county before 1810. After some years' residence in 1818. Among his children were: John ; George, there he and his family moved to Lykens Valley, who settled in Berrien county, Mich. ; Peter, who in Dauphin county, where he continued to live until his death, May 30, 1835, when he was past settled in Indiana or Illinois; Mrs. Joshua Fetter and Mrs. Neidlinger, both of whom settled in fifty-five years of age. He is buried in the Lykens Michigan ; and Mrs. Peter Rowe.

Valley. Mr. Schineltzer is described as a short- John Smith, son of Michael, was born in Oct- set man, and he was a carpenter by trade. His ober, 1810, in Oley township, Berks county, and wife, Grace (Shutt), died in May, 1851, when came with his parents to Northumberland county, past sixty years of age, in Lower Augusta town- settling on the farm in Upper Mahanoy township ship, Northumberland county, and is buried there. Eight children were born to this pioneer couple : Sarah married John Wolfgang; Daniel is men- tioned below ; Elizabeth married Jacob Fox ; Katie married George Wolfgang; Peggy married Jesse Ummel ; John died unmarried; Annie married John Wolfgang, who was a brother of George Wolfgang. now owned by Jefferson Snyder. He was a black- smith, and followed his trade for thirty-six years at Rough and Ready, Schuylkill county, and he was also a farmer for many years, following that occupation in Upper Mahanoy township. He died Aug. 28, 1901, in his ninety-second year, at Rough and Ready, where he is buried. Mr. Smith was a Lutheran in religion, a Democrat in politics. His

Daniel Schmeltzer or Smeltzer was born Nov. 10, wife, Rachel (Erdman), daughter of George Erd- 1805, in Washington township, Northumberland man, died April 27, 1860, in middle life. Their children were born as follows: Mary, March 6, 1834; William, July 13, 1835; Lydia, Dec. 29, 1836; Elias, Dec. 24, 1837; John, Oct. 27, 1839; Catharine, March 17, 1842; Nathan, Oct. 16, 1843; Elizabeth, Oct. 15, 1846; George, Nov. 29, 1849; Daniel E., May 19, 1852; Henry, March 15, 1858. county, was a laborer, and owned a small farm. He died March 16, 1888, at Sunbury, where he was visiting, and is buried at the old Lutheran Church in Lower Augusta township, to which district he had removed in 1841. He held various church offices, serving many years as elder. His wife, Catharine, born in September, 1807, was a daughter of Jonas Wolfgang, of Deep Creek Valley, Schuylkill county, and died in June, 1881,

Daniel E. Smith went to learn the trade of blacksmith in 1871 and worked six years at this in her seventy-fourth year. She is buried by the side of her husband. They had eight children, namely : Sarah married James M. Young; Eliza-

trade. Then he married Hannah Smeltzer and moved to Hollowing Run, where he remained for two years, at the end of that time moving on his beth died in her eighteenth year; Dinah married father's farm in Upper Mahanoy township for one year. He then moved to Leckkill and worked at his trade for three years, next moving to Klingers-

George Leitzel; Elias and John died in infancy ; Catharine married George Leitzel after the death of her sister Dinah; Lovina married William town, Schuylkill. county, where he worked at Buchner and after his death Jacob Haupt, who his trade for four years. In 1886 he settled at Re- is also deceased; Hannah is the wife of Daniel buck, where he has since had his home. Mr. Smith E. Smith.

has continued to do general blacksmithing through- out this period, and he has made an excellent liv- ing. He also owns a farm of sixty-three acres in Washington township, at what is known as Cher-

Mrs. Hannah (Smeltzer) Sınith has a number of relics which belonged to her immediate ances- tors, some old dishes, a large German Bible which belonged to her grandfather, John Schmeltzer, and rytown. Mr. Smith has taken an active inter- which bears the date 1785, and an old grandfather est in public affairs, having held local offices, is clock that was made in 1809 by Josiah Smith, a Democrat on political questions. and a Luth- eran in religion, he and his family being mem- bers at the Himmel Church, where he has served as elder.

On Jan. 28, 1877, Mr. Smith married Hannah Smeltzer, daughter of Daniel Smeltzer, and they have had one daughter, Sallie Bixler, now the wife of Joseph Fetterman. Mr. and Mrs. Fet- terman live on Mr. Smith's farin in Washington township. They are the parents of eleven chil- dren : John E., Daniel L., William E .. Howard C., Charles R., Joseph R., Ella B., Sarah I .. Ger- tic V., George S. and David C.

the case being made by John Schmeltzer, to whom it belonged. It is still a good timekeeper, and shows the date and movements of the moon. It descended from John Schmeltzer to his son Dan- iel, after whose death it came into the possession of Mrs. Smith.

JOSEPH LEWIS, a retired farmer living at Shamokin, was born in Shamokin township Aug. 15, 1829, son of Mathias Lewis and grandson of Mathias Lewis, a native of Switzerland. The grandfather came to America when a young man and settled in New Jersey. Later he came to Irish Valley, in Shamokin township, this county,

John Schmeltzer, grandfather of Mrs. Daniel E. Smith, was a native of Bethel township, Berks where he diedl, and he is buried at the Summit Co., Pa., and came thence to Northumberland Church. His wife, Margaret Mutzler, is buried

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at the same place. They had children: Henry, 26, 1851, aged nine years, one month, ten days; John, Ellis and Mathias.

Mathias Lewis, son of Mathias, was born in months, seven days; John D. died March 2, 1847, 1794 near Belvidere, N. J. He was a cooper, and followed his trade in Shamokin township, George O. Furman was born in Shamokin township, Northumberland county, and has fol- lowed farming. He at one time owned the old homestead, but is now located at Stonington, in Shamokin township. He married Hulda Jane Willour, daughter of Peter Willour, who was a veteran of the Civil war, and they had the fol- where he was also engaged in farming. He died Jan. 19, 1890, aged ninety-five years, and is buried at the Summit Church. His wife, Elizabeth Mutchler, daughter of John, is also buried there. Their children were: Margaret died young; John died at the old home; Jeremiah is living in Sha- mokin township; Joseph is living in Shamokin lowing children : John W .; Rosa A., now the wife township; Catharine married a Moody ; Amnos is deceased ; William is deceased ; Reuben is deceased ; Susanah married Henry Richie.

Joseph Lewis attended the old pay schools in Shamokin township and was reared upon the farm. He learned the stonemason's trade with Frank Teitsworth, and followed this work till about 1908, being employed about the collieries and his own district. He resides at his homestead in Shamo- kin township.

In 1857 Mr. Lewis married Susanna Wikel, who was born in 1833 in Cameron township, daughter of John and Rebeca (Derr) Wikel. They had a large family : George F. died when five years old ; Alfred D. is living in Shamokin ; Einma married Cameron Bendel; Elmer is living in Shamokin : Charles K. lives in Shamokin township; Fraetta married Pierce Leiby ; Knibly W. lives in Shamo- kin township : Elizabeth married C. P. Gass ; Rosie B. married Harry Clark and (second) Freeman Lewis ; Josephine, twin of Rosie, died. in infancy ; Amanda E. married C. B. Malick.

JOHN W. FURMAN, of Stonington, is senior member of the firm of J. W. Furman & Brother. truck . farmers who occupy a leading place among the business men in their line in Northumberland county. Their place is known as the Hollis Dale Market Garden. Mr. Furman was born Aug. 4, 1876, in Shamokin township, where he has always resided.

Mary died Sept. 26, 1851, aged one year, four aged one year, five months, three days.

of Michael H. Mowery and living at Gosstown, Northumberland county; Freeman W., member of the firm of J. W. Furman & Brother; Lewis S., living at Stonington; and Theora Maude, who lives in Sunbury.

John W. Furman, born Aug. 4, 1876, in Sha- mokin township, was reared there and has fol- lowed agricultural pursuits all his life. In 1900 he located at Stonington, in Shamokin township, where he bought the old Henry Klase farm, later owned by Peter Willour, this tract comprising twenty-one acres of very fertile truck land. He has made vast improvements on the property since it came into his possession. In association with his brother, Freeman W. Furman, he does an ex- tensive business in the raising and inarketing of truck, and the name of this firm stands for all that is progressive and up-to-date in that line. J. W. Furman & Brother attend the Shamokin markets, where there is a steady demand for their garden stuff. Their work is carried on in the most intelligent manner. Their land is irrigated, they have erected a fine greenhouse, and everything about the place betokens the enterprise and ad- vanced ideas of these young farmers, who have won high standing among agriculturists in their section.

On Dec. 4, 1900, J. W. Furman married Emma Eister, daughter of Jacob Eister, of Shamokin township, a veteran of the Civil war. They have three children, Andrew O., Mary E. and Franklin F. Mr. Furman is a member of the Miller's Cross Roads Methodist Church, which he is serving as trustee and secretary of the board. He is a mem- ber of the I. O. O. F., and is in every respect one of the leading young men of his township.

Samuel Furman, his grandfather, was born July 6, 1810, lived in Shamokin township, where he followed farming throughout his active years, and he died upon his farm there Feb. 24, 1875. His brother William lived in that part of Augusta township now known as Rockefeller, and was the FREEMAN W. FURMAN was born Feb. 14, 188 ?. grandfather of David A. Furman, of Rockefeller in Shamokin township, and was reared upon the township. Samuel Furman married Margaret farm. In 1906 he joined his brother in the truck- Weeks, who was born in 1814 and died Dec. 6, ing business. He is a member of the Miller's 1897, aged eighty-three years, four months, three Cross Roads Methodist Church and of the I. O. days. They had children as follows: Jane married O. F.

William Conrad; Mahala married Cornelins Re- buek; Kate married Charles Chapman and (sec- . WILLIAM H. KUEBLER, a business man of ond) H. M. Yordy; Rebecca died April 17, 1859, Sunbury, has been engaged in his present line, aged eighteen years, eleven months, thirteen days: plumbing and heating, ever since he commenced George O. was the father of John W. Furman; work. and is proficient in all its branches. He Ida married Isaac Kroeger ; Harriet died Sept. carries a general line of stoves and boilers and

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does contracting in plumbing and similar work, as overseer of the poor in Rockefeller township. finding an excellent field in the borough and sur- rounding territory. Mr. Kuebler was born July 16, 1877, in North Manheim township, Schuyl- kill Co., Pa., son of George E. Kuebler and grand- son of William Kuebler.

He has been active in the administration of public affairs and an efficient worker in the Democratic party, which he supports with his vote and influ- ence. Mr. Kuebler joined the Masonic fraternity at Schuylkill Haven, Pa., being made a Mason in Page Lodge, No. 270, F. & A. M .; later he became a charter member of Cressona Lodge, No.

William Kuebler was a native of Wittenberg, Germany, born in August, 1805, and served as an officer in the German army, his honorable dis- 426, at Cressona, of which he was worshipful mas- charge papers being still in the family. Coming ter in 1879, and from which he transferred to Sunbury Lodge, No. 22. He is a member of the to the United States in 1831, he first located at Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa., where he fol- Grand Lodge at Philadelphia. Formerly he was lowed butchering for some time. His, next loca- an active member of both the Odd Fellows and tion was at Shamokin, where he also worked at the Red Men, in which he passed all the chairs, that trade some years, and in February, 1844, and he was interested in the work, but he has drop- he settled at Pottsville, Schuylkill county, where he was engaged in butchering in partnership with John Moser, under the firm name of Moser & Plum Creek Lutheran Church, which he served Kuebler. This association lasted for many years. for a number of years in the church council. ped all connections of this sort except his Masonic affiliations. He and his family worship at the Later, his health having become impaired by ill- In November, 1871, Mr. Kucbler married Sarah ness, Mr. Kuebler bought a farm to which he Fasold, daughter of Henry and Catharine (Weis- moved, a place of fifty-three acres in North Man- er) Fasold, of Rockefeller township, and grand- daughter of Philip Weiser, throughi whom she traces her descent from Conrad Weiser, the cele- brated pioneer and Indian interpreter. Mr. and Mrs. Kuebler have a family of five children : Ger- trude E., wife of Dr. Horatio Warren Gass, a prominent physician of Sunbury ; R. Ellen, wife of George F. Keefer, a civil engineer of Sunbury ; William H .; Emma F., unmarried and living at home; and Margaret, who lives in Sunbury with her sister, Mrs. Gass. heim township, Schuylkill county, which he culti- vated until his death. However, he also contin- ued the business of butchering, in which he was succeeded by his son Jacob. Mr. Kuebler was a devout Lutheran in religious faith, a man true to all his obligations in life, possessed of a rugged honesty which won him the respect of all who knew him. He married Mary Gass, daughter of Jacob Gass, and she survived him many years, dying at the age of seventy-nine. He died in June, 1871. They are buried at Pottsville. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kuebler attended public school in Kuebler had children as follows: John died in . Rockefeller township and worked for his parents infancy ; John Jacob lived at Pottsville; Amanda until he was twenty-one years old. Meantime, in died when fourteen years old; Sophia married 1892, he had come to Sunbury to learn the trade Daniel Mertz and both are deceased; George E. of tinsmith, which he followed for three years, is mentioned below ; Harry, who was engaged as after which he learned plumbing and heating in wholesale agent for a hardware firm, died at Sha- mokin in the winter of 1909; John (?) died at 1903 and 1904 he attended the New York Trade Snydertown in Shamokin township, after his mar- riage; Sarah is unmarried and resides at Potts- ville.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 106

Author: Floyd, J.L., & Co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1911 Publisher: Chicago, J. L. Floyd & Co. Number of Pages: 1090

Author: Floyd, J.L., & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Chicago, J. L. Floyd & Co.
Number of Pages: 1090