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On Sept. 4, 1885, Mr. Herring married Emma Jones, of Bloomsburg, daughter of John C. Jones : she died Nov. 8, 1910, at the age of forty-nine years, the mother of three children, viz. : (1) Don- ald Grant Herring, born Sept. 25. 1886. attended Bloomsburg high school, was graduated at Law- renceville in 1903, and then entered Princeton. from which university he was graduated with the degree of A. B., in 1907. He won the Rhodes scholarship for the State of New Jersey. which en- titled him to a three years' course at Oxford Eni- versity, England, where he was graduated with honors in June, 1910. While there he played Rugby football on the Oxford side in the inter- . varsity match between Oxford and Cambridge ( the only American who enjoys that distinction ). He is now an instructor at Princeton in Woodrow Wilson's department of History, Politics and Economics. (?) Laura Douglas Herring, born Dec. 24, 1887, graduated from the Bloomsburg State normal school and from Rve Semiuary, N. Y., entered Vassar College, and subsequently took a course at the Damrosch School of Musical Art. New York City, studying vocal music. She is now preparing to sing in grand opera under the famous Madam Milka Ternina. (3) Mildred Herring,
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born Sept. 24, 1893, graduated from the Blooms- ( wife of Jesse ('leaver) and Ella ( Mrs. Sanders) ; burg State normal school, attended Susquehanna Mary married George Bassett and had six chil- University, at Selinsgrove, Pa., and is now at dren, Iney, Alda, Ruth, Maggie, Elizabeth and Rye Seminary, preparing for Vassar College.
George: Hetester married Isaac Eckman and had children, Col. Charles ( married Sophia Gearhart) and David ( married Ella Wolfe and had chil- dren, Franklin, Alfred, Dyer and Ethel). Eliz-
ROCKEFELLER. The Rockefeller family has long been well represented among the best class of citizens in Northumberland county, and one of abeth (married first Oscar Heller and second the townships of the county bears the name. The Joseph Bonner ) ; Harriet ( married George Mettler family was founded here by Godfrey Rockefeller, and had two children, Ella and Susan ) and Lewis. from whom the brothers to whom this artiele Lewis Rockefeller, born Sept. 12, 1823. died in chiefly refers are descended in the fifth generation. October, 1898. He married Catherine Campbell, . All the surviving sons of the family of the late Lewis Rockefeller are prosperous and substantial family of the late Lemuel C. Rockefeller. His brothers, Isaac and Charles G. Rockefeller, are as- sociated in business under the firm name of C. G. Rockefeller & Brother, and are proprietors of tlie Sunbury Market Honse and of the Sunbury San- itary Dairy Company, both of which are well pat- ronized by the people of the borough. who survives him and they became the parents of a large family: Lemmel C., born Nov. 8, 1848, business men of Sunbury, and there resides the is mentioned elsewhere in this publication : Sarah married H. Clay Seasholtz and has had one son, David; Isabella died in 1888, at the age of twen- ty-five; Hattie married H. C. Lyons: Charles G. is mentioned below; Isaae is mentioned below ; Joseph, born in 1859, died in 1870; David P. mar- ried Agnes Cummings; Oliver. P. married Jennie A. Haupt; Emery was united in marriage with Minnie Gonser.
The Rockefeller family traces its beginning in Ameriea to one Peter Rockefeller, who was born Mrs. Catherine (Campbell) Rockefeller, though. in Europe in 1710 and on emigrating to America now (1910) in her eighty-first year, is active and settled at Amwell, Hunterdon Co., N. J. He died there about 1740, leaving to his son, who was also named Peter, 763 acres of land in the county · mentioned.
retains all her faculties, and to her excellent men- ory we are indebted for much of the data in this article. She enjoys good health, and her kind and unselfish disposition keeps her interested in the welfare of her numerous deseendants and endears
Godfrey Rockefeller, born in 1747, was a son of Peter Rockefeller (?). He eame to Northumber- her to a wide eirele of relatives and friends. She land county, Pa .. in 1789, and took up land in the now makes her home with her daughter Mrs. Sea- vicinity of Snydertown. He . married Margaret . sholtz. Her cheerful temperament and fine Chris- . Lewis, and they had a family of eleven children, tian eharaeter have won for her the esteem and
three sons and eight daughters. One of the sons love of all fortunate enough to know her. She was the grandfather of John D. Rockefeller, of was one of a family of nine children born to Chris- Standard Oil tame. The other two were John and. topher and Sarah ( Kline) Campbell, the former William, the former the great-grandfather of of whom was the son of Christopher Campbell, the the Rockefeller brothers of Sunbury just referred latter. the daughter of Isaac Kline. Isaac Kline to, the latter the father of David (born Sept. 6, and his wife Catharine had the following sons: 1802) and grandfather of Judge William M. Harmon, Henry. Isaae and Christopher. The ehil- Rockefeller (born Aug. 18, 1830), who married dren of Christopher and Sarah ( Kline) Campbell were as follows: (1) Isaae married Hannah Camp- bell. Children : Dr. John, who died in Philadel-
Emily Jones, danghter of Thomas and Maria Honsel Jones, of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania ..
John Rockefeller, son of Godfrey, was the great- phia, Pa. ; Lemmel, who married Sally Kersuge; grandfather .of Lemuel C., Charles G. and Isaae. James, who married Alice Van Zant: Rebeeea. Rockefeller.
John Rockefeller, the grandfather, was killed on his way home from Reading, at a time when much of the country was still. a wilderness. He married Elizabeth Moore. and they were the par- ents of Lewis Rockefeller, mentioned below, their other children being as follows: Henry married Elizabeth Morgan and had five children, John, James, Jacob, Franklin and Harriet ( Mrs. John Gulick) : Michael never married ; David was twiee married, his first wife 'being Isabella Campbell; John married Harriet Kneiss and had five children, Alice (wife of Rev. John Bowman), Caroline (Mrs. Woods), Anne (wife of Jacob Frye), Elizabeth
who married Joseph Eckman : and Flora, who died young. (?) Lemmel married Emma Smith. Chil- dren : Dr. Charles, who married Lizzie Enos : Wil- liam, who died young: Eli, who died young: and Mary, who lives in Sunbury. (3) Abraham died young: (4) Herman married Elizabeth Reed, and their son. Edmund, married Mary Haupt. (5) Sarah married Charles Eckman, and had two children, Frank and Ellard (who married Ella Snyder). (6) Ella married ( first) Kelso Sav- idge, by whom she had three children. Clinton (who married Louise Essie and has six children, Harry W., Albert C., Ralph W. E., Preston M., Lonise and Queile). Harrison C. and Lizzie A.
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(married Willard Robinson). Her second mar- riage was to George Forrester, by whom she has had two children, Isabella ( Mrs. Clark) and Ellen, the latter dying young. (7) Rhoda married Sam- nel Oberdorf, and they have had eleven children, Oliver (deccased), Isaac (deceased). Hamilton (deceased), Isabella (deceased ), Chalmers (de- ceased), Mary, Peter, G. Donald (a grad- nate of Princeton and now principal of the Mount Carmel high school, who married Olive A. Ruch), Maurer (married to Amanda Gear- hart), William (who married Ollie Wolverton and has two children, Calvin and Robert, the for- mer a graduate of Bucknell University) and Susan (Mrs. Lorenza Eckman, who has two children, James and Chalmers). (S) Elizabeth married (first) Bloomfield Carr, by whom she had two. sons, James and William, and (second) Charles Houghout, by whom she has two daughters, Vir- ginia and Roda, the latter the wife of William Clark and the mother of three children, Bessie, on) was George and Morris. (9) Catherine married Lew- is Rockefeller.
ISAAC ROCKEFELLER was born Dec. 18, 1858, in Upper Augusta township, at Klinesgrove, and lived in that township until his removal to Sun- bury. He formed a partnership with his brother Charles and they were engaged in general farming and dairying. Their Pasteurized milk has always had a ready sale in and around Sunbury, and their market house, of which Isaac Rockefeller is the manager, is one of the standard supply depots of the borough. These brothers have made and main- tained the highest reputation for reliable table commodities, and their trade is one of the largest in Sunbury, with a steady increase which speaks well for its future.
In December, 1907, Mr. Isaac Rockefeller mar- ried Emma Specht, daughter of Adam and Agnes Specht. They are members of . the Methodist Church.
DR. FREDERICK TREON (also spelled Try-
CHARLES G. ROCKEFELLER was born Aug. 5, practiced medicine until his death, being a physi- . 1856, on one of the Rockefeller homesteads in Upper Augusta township, near Klinesgrove, and he and his brother Isaac lived on the farm there until they came to Sunbury in 1906. They are
a native of Berks county, Pa .. and coming to Northumberland county settled in what is now Washington township, where he cian of wide acquaintance. He traveled around on horseback, being a typical "saddle-bag doctor." He is buried at the Himmel Church, of which he was a member. He had a large field of now associated in business as C. G. Rockefeller & operation-and in his time rode thousands Brother, and own and conduct the Sunbury Mar- ket House and the Sunbury Sanitary Dairy Com- pany, Charles G. Rockefeller looking after the san- itary milk and cream depot, where four people are constantly employed. This plant supplies about eight hundred quarts of Pasteurized milk and eream daily to the local market. The Sunbury Market House, which is 100 by 280 feet in dimen- sions, was built by them in 1901, several years be- fore they removed to Sunbury to manage their in- terests from that point, and has been well patron- ized by the farmers of this district and by the people of the borough ever since its establishment. The brothers own considerable valuable land, hav- ing one farm of 187 acres. another of fifty-seven acres, and a wood tract of twenty acres, and they keep help on these tracts all the year around. They stock their own farms, and have thirty-five' head of dairy cattle, also buying considerable inilk, for which, handled by their excellent meth- ods, they find a ready market. of miles. His wife, whose maiden name was Gougler, is also buried at the Himmel Church, in Washington township, located near Rebuck. They had these children : Michael. born Nov. 8, 1790, died Jan. 2, 1871 (he married a Miss Reitz and they had two children when she died, Isaac and Maricha) ; Dr. George located at Mancy. Pa., and was a prominent doctor; Dr. Frederick is mentioned later; Benjamin, who was a laborer and lived in Washington township, had a large family. Joseph, William, Henry, Emanuel, Matilda, Sarah, Polly and Abbie: Peter married Sarah Glace and they lived in Little Mahanoy (children, Henry, William, and some daughters) ; Barbara married Henry Moyer and they lived near Lewistown, Pa. : Julia married Dr. Smith ; Susan- na married (first) Abraham Reitz and (second) Amos Reed; Ann married Peter Kobel and they lived in Stone Valley (he was a tanner) : Elizabeth married Martin Drumheller : Sarah married Phil- ip Moyer, of Snyder county, Pa .; Polly married John Bobb and they moved to Centre county, Pennsylvania.
In February, 1886, Charles G. Rockefeller mar- .. ried Mattie Minnier, of Upper Augusta township. and they have had two children, Harrison L. and Helen P. The son is agent in Northumberland
Dr. Frederick Treon was born Oct. 16. 1803, and died June 27, 1870. His wife, Maria ( Polly)
and Snyder counties, Pa., for the Velie Motor Car Reith, daughter of George Reith, was born Feb. 'Company of Moline, Ill., and is an able machinist, - 9, 1809, and died May 7, 1859. They are buried thoroughly familiar with the machinery he handles. Mr. Rockefeller and his family reside on East Chestnut street, near Seventh street, Sun- bnry.
at the Himmel Church. He was reared in Wash- ington township and received his early education in the schools in vogue there in his day. He read medicine with his father who was a learned man
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for his time, and was about twenty-four years old er's Ferry, Pa .; Wesley, of Asherton. Pa .; Alice when he engaged in practice, in Lower Mahanoy died young. and Jackson townships. He had a large field, and went as far as Buffalo Valley and Snyder county. He was specially skilled in treating gangrene, and people came to him for many miles. He, too, like his father was widely known, and his life was a useful one, his existence a benefit to the afflicted and to his fellowinen generally. He lived near Rebuck, in Washington township. Like his father before him he was a Lutheran in religion. He
The Rhoads family is one of the oldest in Berks county, where it was planted in the early days was once voted in for township clerk for a joke, of the eighteenth century-some accounts give the as he never cared for office. His children were: Adam R., Jacob, who died at Ashland, Pa .; Peter, who died at Shamokin ; and Lovina, who married George B. Kiehl (they live in Philadelphia).
ADAM R. TREON, an old and respected cit- izen of Lower Augusta township, was born July 23, 1837, son of Dr. Frederick Treon. He is a native of Washington (then Jackson) township, was reared on the farm, and received such ad- vantages as the local schools afforded, learning to read English and "cipher." He began farming at the tender age of thirteen years, and in 1858-59 began farming for himself in Washington town- ship, as a tenant. There he lived and farmed until the spring of 1885, when he crossed the mountains and came into Lower Augusta town- ship, where he has a farm of seventy-three acres located on the Hollowing Run Road between Fish- er's Ferry and Trevorton. This tract was a Hum- mel homestead many years ago, and the property originally was much larger. Here Mr. Treon has since farmed. He has owned the tract since 1894, before which he farmed it on shares. Mr. Treon is a Democrat and was School Director many years, holding the office for twelve years in succession. He was constable seven years, also in Washington township, and was also auditor of that township: in Lower Augusta township he was auditor three years. At present he is a super- visor, having been elected in 1906. He is a prom- inent and useful citizen. In religions conviction he and family are New Lutherans.
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In 1858 Mr. Treon married Susanna Hoffman, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth ( Hetrich ) Hoff- man, of Washington township. She died April 15, 1894, aged fifty-six years, and is buried at St. Peter's Church. To Mr. and Mrs. Treon were born the following children: Edward HI. married Sarah J. Miller, daughter of Andrew Miller, and they reside with his father and follow farming (their children are Mabel Ruth, Dennis D., George A., and Jessie Susanna) ; Jeremiah is a farmer in Lower Augusta township; Alexander died aged twenty-one years after an illness of five years. fin- ally'becoming blind about one year before he died ; Galen, Lewis and Daniel died young: Mary mar- ried John A. Minnier: John is a resident of Fish-
WALTON F. RHOADS. cashier of the First National Bank of Sunbury, the oldest financial institution of that borough, has been identified with that community all his life, but he belongs to ' an old Berks county family, being a son of William S. Rhoads and grandson of Benneville Rhoads.
year 1710-by several brothers of the name, one of whom was John Jacob Rhoads. His nationality is uncertain, and in the early tax lists and records his name is also spelled Roth and Roads. In 1753 he was a taxable resident of Amity township. Berks county, and owned considerable land. He was a man of affairs and operated a paper mill in Amity township. Tradition has it that one of the sandstone tombstones east of Amityville church, whose inscription has become illegible by time, marks his grave. His children were: (1); Lena married Henry Baum. (2) Jacob in 1978 was a captain in the Revolutionary army. He married Susanna Yocum and their children were: Hannah, Daniel, John, Jacob, Samuel and Eliz- abeth. (3) Matthias was a lieutenant colonel in the Revolution. He married Elizabeth Gotterin and had children: Mary, Esther, Capt. Jacob, Joseph, Abraham and John. (4) Daniel married Magdalena Kerst and they had twelve children: David, Peter, Samuel, Jacob, John, Solomon, Adam, . George, Daniel, Henry. Abraham and Mary. (5) Mary married Maj. George Lorah. a Revolutionary soldier. (6) Elizabeth married Maj. George Lorah after the death of her sister Mary. (?) Samuel is mentioned below. (S) Christina inarried Jacob Griesemer. (9) John married Catharine Greiner and had children : Jacob, Hannah, John. Catharine, George, Mary, Eleanor, Elizabeth, William and Samuel.
Samuel Rhoads, son of John Jacob. married Elizabeth Auvenshine, and they became the par- ents of children as follows: William, John. Dan- iel; Samuel, Abraham, Elizabeth, and two sons that died young.
Samuel Rhoads, son of Samuel and Elizabeth, married Sarah Ludwig and they had children as follows : William L. married Lydia Hine: Jonas married Rachel Hunter: Abraham L. married Harriet Straub; Frederick lived in Dayton. Ohio: Sarah married John Nein and lived in Chester county, Pa., where she is buried : Eliza married Samuel Sands and both are buried at Bovertown; Benneville married Rebecca Lewis.
Benneville Rhoads, who married Rebecca Lewis, was born at Amityville. Berks Co., Pa., and for many years lived in Ohio. Among his children was a son William, father of Walton F. Rhoads.
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William S. Rhoads, son of Benneville, was born Thomas W .: Mary Cooper; Walton Francis Jr. : May 25, 1835, in Berks county, Pa., and came to and Martha Elizabeth. Sunbury, Northumberland county, in 1866, spending the remainder of his life at that place. He moved hither from Paxtonville (earlier known as Beaver Furnace), Snyder Co., Pa., where he had been engaged as a bookkeeper, and he followed the same work in Sunbury, where he died March 13, 1891. He is buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. He became a highly esteemed citizen of Sunbury, where for fifteen years he served as a member of the school board from what was then the Third ward, serving many years as secretary of the board. Politically he was a Republican, in religion a Lutheran, and socially he belonged to the Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows. Mr. Rhoads mar- ried Hannah Koch Francis, who was born May 25, 1835, and died Feb. 28, 1907. They were the parents of the following children: Mary C. (de- ceased) married Elwood P. MeConnell : Adelaide F. married Charles A. Sensenbach, of Sunbury : Joseph W. died when eleven years old ; Walton F. is a resident of Sunbury. .
Walton F. Rhoads was born Sept. 22, 1860, at Hecla, Schuylkill county, and received his literary training in the Sunbury schools, going to the Sun- bury high school. Later he entered the military academy at West Point, but resigned in 1881, aft- er one year's attendance, and returning to Sun- bury became employed as bookkeeper in Whitmer & Foster's general store. There he remained one year, when he became connected in the capacity of bookkeeper with the First National Bank of Sunbury, with which he has since been associated. This was in 1883. From bookkeeper he was pro- moted to the position of teller. then to assistant cashier, and on Feb. 1, 1909, he became cashier, succeeding George W. Deppen. This bank was established in 1831. and is one of the substantial 'and reliable financial concerns of Sunbury and the · adjacent territory. Mr. Rhoads' long and honor- able career in its service has given him the highest standing among business men in this section. and his personal reputation is equally enviable. Fra- ternally he is associated with Truc Cross Coin- manderi, No. 112, Knights of Malta, and Maelay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A. M., both of Sunbury, and he also belongs to the Temple Club and to Good Intent Fire Company, No. 1, of Sunbury, of which latter organization he has been treasurer since 1895. He and his family attend the Lutheran Church.
Children as follows have been born to them : Florence Edna, wife of Bruce G. Frick. who is employed in the treasury department at Washing- ton, D. C .: Bertha Irene: Alma Catharine. who died March 27. 1906. at the age of fifteen years :
THE FRANCIS FAMILY, to which Mrs. Hannah Koch ( Francis) Rhoads, mother of Walter Fran- cis Rhoads, belonged, is also a Berks county family. Her grandfather, Jacob Francis, was born Oct. 10, 1777, and lived on the farm in Amity, near the Exeter township line, now owned by his grandson. Jacob S. Francis. ' In June. 1806. he purchased five acres from one Jacob Bower and settled upon it for the remainder of his life. dying there Aug. 16, 1849. In April, 1810. he added twelve acres to the original tract and more from time to time until he had fifty-four acres. In 1819 he built the barn which is still standing on the place, and in 1843 the present dwelling house. He was a shoemaker and farmer, industrious and thrifty, and prospered. He was a Lutheran and a regular attendant of Amityville Church, and he and his wife, Susanna Rosena, are buried in the graveyard at Amityville, in Amity town- ship. She was born Oct. 8, 1777, and died Feb. 24, 1843. They had a family of nine children: John, born Dec. 31, 1801, was married Dec. 3, 1826, to Elizabeth Susan Snyder: Samuel is fully mentioned below : Daniel, born Ang. S. 1805, was married Dec. 26, 1829, and died Aug. S, 1849 ; Jacob, born Aug. 6, 1807, married Dec. 18. 1843. Lydia Yaeger (or Hunter) ; Lydia, born Aug. 10, 1809, died Nov. 27, 1824; Elizabeth was born Oct. 10, 1811; Catharine was born Jan. 21. 1814: Susanna was born Oct. 29, 1817; William is men- tioned below.
Samuel Francis, son of Jacob, was born Jan. 31, 1803, and on Nov. 25, 1827, married Cath- arine Koch, by whom he had children as follows: Jacob K. is mentioned below: Abram K. died at Pinegrove, Pa .: Rev. Samuel A. K., D. D., is a Lutheran minister located in Philadelphia ; Lay- anna married Isaac O. Bortz; Hannah K. was the wife of William S. Rhoads, late of Sunbury, Pa. : . Dr. Lesher K. lives at Bovertown, Pa .; a son, twin of Lesher, died in infancy; AAmanda married William Bruner, of Amity township. Berks county: Bertolette is a resident of Amity township, Berks county.
Jacob K. Francis, son of Samuel. was born in Berks county. and died at Harrisburg, Pa .. when past fifty years of age. He is buried at My- erstown. Pa. In his earlier life he was a teacher. later engaging in business as a merchant at Har- risburg. His wife, Elinda ( Breitenbach), died
On Nov. 4, 1883, Mr. Rhoads married Mary C. Oct. 18, 1908, at the age of eighty-four years and Cooper, daughter of Thomas G. and Mary Eliz- is buried at Colorado Springs, Colo. Their chil- abeth (Rohrbach ) Cooper, who lived in Sunbury. dreu were as follows: Elizabeth 1., deccased ; Mary JJ., who married Thomas P. Barber and re- sides at Colorado Springs. Colo. : Ida, who married T. S. Hull and lives at Colorado Springs: S. Newton, a publisher, of Denver, Colo .: Rev. . J. M. mentioned below: Alma E. wife of D. W.
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Shetzline, of Philadelphia; and William, a printer, the place coming into his possession in 1901. It of Fort Collins, Colorado.
had been successively the property of his grand-
Rev. J. M. Francis, D. D., pastor of Zion's father and father. The place now contains fifty- Lutheran Church, at Sunbury, Northumberland seven acres, valuable land, which is under a profit- Co., Pa., was born March 4, 1865, at Myerstown, able state of cultivation.
Pa., and has been in the Lutheran ministry for
On March 25, 1875, Mr. Francis married Cath- almost twenty years. He received his college edu- arine Bitting, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth cation at Gettysburg College, from which he was ( Belin) Bitting, of Exeter township, and they graduated in 1888 and took his theological course have had a large family, born as follows: William. immediately afterward, at Gettysburg Seminary, Dec. 31, 1875; Charles, Aug. 31, 1877 (he is de- graduating therefrom in 1891. His first charge ceased) ; Daniel, April 19, 1879; Jacob, Jan. 22, was at Lonisville, Ky., whence he transferred to 1882: James, Jan. 3, 1884; Henry, Sept. 8, 1885; Columbia City. Ind., and later to Springfield, Ill., Lizzie, April 7, 1887 (deceased) ; George, March becoming quite prominent in the administrative 23. 1888; Sallie, Aug. 23, 1890; Vesta, Nov. 3, work of the church in the latter State, serving as 1893 (deceased) : Pearl, June 9, 1896; and Lu- president of the Lutheran Synod of northern In- ther and Annie, twins, July 16, 1898. Mr. Fran- diana and holding the same position in central cis and his family are Lutherans in religious be- Illinois; he was chaplain of the Illinois Legis- lief, members of the Amityville Churchi.
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