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William H. Mettler, the only surviving son of Lorenzo and Permelia ( Wolverton) Mettler, was born in 1848 in Shamokin township, Northum- berland county, and was reared upon a farm and educated in the common schools. In 1874 he pur- chased a farm in Rush township. In 1873 he mar- ried Julia, daughter of Daniel Kreigbaum, and their union has been blessed with the following children : Lorenzo P. married Bertha Hartung; Elizabeth J. married Dallis G. Pensyl and has one son, J. Mettler : Willard K. married Carrie Pensyl and has one daughter, Beatrice: Sarah P. married Hugh Spencer Vastine; John D. married Verna Enterline: Rachel R. is unmarried : Charles Mark died when five months old.
Philip Mettler, son of William, married Susan Carter, and they were the parents of the following children : (1) William married Elizabeth Wolver- ton and had children, Irene Ann (deceased), Charles and Amzi. (2) Spencer married Rebecca Gearhart and had George, Susan and Jasper. (3) Charles married Miram Moore and had one child, Amy. (4) Wilson, born in 1813, died Oct. 8, 1900. He married Anna E., daugliter of John and Ann (Cool) Gearhart, and their four children were : Sara E., who married Gobin Hoffman, and has a child Anna, Mrs. William G. Williams :. Susan. who married Hugh H. Vastine: Spencer C:, who married Amanda Brandon, and they were parents of Flora A. (Mrs. C. V. Amerman, who has one child, Ruth) and Spencer W. (died young) : and Anna A .. who lives with her sister. Mrs: Vastine. (5) Kate married David Rocke- fellow and had two sons. William M .. an ex-judge. and Jordan. (6) Sarah married Isaac Kase. aud her children were Ellen. Catherine, Henrietta and Mettler. (?) Theodosia married John Eekman and had children, Philip (who married Harriet Conrad and had a danghter Esther) and Mary ( unmarried ). (S) Carter married Mary Hangha- wout and had children. Laura, Alice. Susan C., Philip. Wilson and Jonnie. (9) Jonathan mar- ried Bnlah Hoffman and had Annie and Elizabeth.
Mrs. Susan M. Vastine traces her maternal an-
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cestry to Capt. Jacob Gearhart, who was born in don, finally removing to Herndon, where he died. Strasburg, then in France, now in Germany, in He accumulated considerable property during the 1735, and in 1754 came to America and took up course of his industrious life. his residence in Hunterdon county, N. J. He mar- In 1833 Mr. Deppen married Mary Snyder, who died in 1868. They had four children: Louisa, ried Catherine Kline. They were the parents of the following children : Herman, Jacob, George, Wil- born in 1834, who married Dr. R. H. Muth ; liam, John, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Mary, Kate, Charles and Isaac.
John Gearhart, fifth son of Capt. Jacob Gear- hart, married Ann Cool, of New Jersey, and in 1790 removed with his parents to what is now Riverside, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. John Gearhart were the parents of : Anna E., Jacob, Tunis, William, John, Sara, Catherine and Elizabeth.
Anna E., daughter of John Gearhart. married Wilson Mettler, and they were the parents of Mrs. Susan Mettler Vastine.
In her beautiful home at Riverside, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, Mrs. Vastine and her sister, Miss Anna A. Mettler, live in plen- ty and comfort. Hers is a model Christian house- hold, characterized by charity and hospitality. She and her family belong to the Presbyterian Church, with which Mrs. Vastine united when a girl in her teens, and she has ever since been a faithful member.
DEPPEN. The Deppen family of Northum- berland county to which George Edward Deppen, lawyer of Sunbury, belongs is descended from John Deppen, of Berks county, Pennsylvania.
(I) John Deppen had children as follows: Da- vid, of Berks county; Peter, of Berks county, whose children were Alexander, William, Isaac, George, Andrew, Catherine, Lizzie and Rebecca; Christian, whose children were John (by first mar- riage), Washington, Harriet and Elizabeth (by second marriage) : William, great-grandfather of George Edward Deppen: Henry, whose children were Gabriel and two daughters: and George, whose children were William (father of G. W. Deppen), John, Isaac, a daughter whose name is not given, Catherine and Elizabeth.
(II) William Deppen, son of John, was born in jutant, and being at present inspector of small 1782 in Berks county. He married a Miss arms practice of his regiment with the rank of Maurer, and they were the parents of ten children, captain. He takes an active part in local politics namely: Mrs. George Snyder (born in 1811), as a member of the Democratic party, and is a Abram, Isaac, David (died unmarried), Alex- member of the Reformed Church, in which he is ander, William, Mrs. Witmer, Mrs. Boyer, Mrs. active in the Laymen's Missionary movement. Bower and John.
(III) Abram Deppen, born in 1812, died in Koons, of Collegeville, Pa. They have had one 1899. He was a sawyer and farmer by occupa- tion, and cleared the first five acres of the present site of Shamokin. Later he removed to Loenst Gap, where he followed farming. After his mar-
sequently occupied, and there his son George was born. He then moved to what was called the one terin, and a leader in founding and conduct- Deppen plantation, his father's farm, and later purchased a part of the White Island, near Hern-
George, born in 1836; Joseph, born Dec. 2, 1837, now of Mount Carmel; and Alexander, born in 1839.
(IV) George Deppen, born in 1836, spent his early life upon the farm. In 1867 he moved to Herndon and began the grain, flour and feed business, which he still carries on. During the Civil war he served as postmaster at that place, and for thirty years, with but one intermission, he served continuously as justice of the peace. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. His wife, Mary ( Mertz), born in 1847, died in 1898. They had the following children: Lizzie, born in 1820, who married H. E. Snyder; Laura, who married H. E. Engle: George Edward, born in 1873: and Harry C. (born in 1874), Charles P .. Sue, Car- rie, John E., Nettie, Raymond and Abram Earl, at home.
(V) GEORGE EDWARD DEPPEN received his pri- mary education in the local schools, and later at- tended the academy at Freeburg, Snyder county, for three years. In 1890 he entered Ursinus Col- lege, at Collegeville, Pa., and in 1893 became a student at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa., from which institution he was graduated, in the classical course, in June, 1894. He then took up the study of law with H. S. Knight, of Sunbury, and was admitted to the bar May 3, 1897, the same year opening his office in Sunbury, where he has since devoted himself to the practice of his profession. He is connected with various social bodies at Sunbury, belonging to the Temple Club, to Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A. M., Northum- berland Chapter, No. 174, R. A. M., and Mt. Her- mon Commandery, No. 85, K. T. He is a mem- ber of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, having served as regimental sergeant major, battalion ad-
On April 17, 1901, Mr. Deppen married Laura daughter, who is deceased.
EDMUND W. SAMUEL, M. D., of Mount Cannel, Northumberland Co., Pa., physician and riage he lived in the house which Pat Hester sub- druggist of long standing at that place, represen- tative of the Sixteenth Congressional district for
ing several of the most progressive business en- terprises which have assisted in the opening up and
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development of this section, was born Nov. 27, ing & Loan Association of Mount Carmel: pres- 1857, at Blanavon, England, son of Edmund and ident of the Hazleton Heights Land Company ; Mary (Bower) Samuel.
Edmund Samuel brought his family to America in 1860 and first located at Scranton. Pa. In 1861 they removed to Schuylkill county, in 1863 settling at Ashland, that county, where they re- sided continuously until 1872. They then lived in different parts of the county until 1886, when they returned to Ashland and there made a per- manent home. Mr. Samuel was a well known man' in his day in mining circles, having been super- intendent of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company for the long period of fifteen years, and in 1889 he was a member of the State board of mining examiners. His family consisted of seven children, three sons and four daughters :
president of the Penn Bond & Mortgage Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and president of the Samuel Realty Company, also of Brooklyn, N. Y. He has shown great executive skill in the management of the various interests he has acquired, to all of which he gives his personal attention.
Dr. Samuel has long been an ardent Republi- can, and as such lic was elected to Congress in 1904 as representative from the Sixteenth Dis- trict, embracing Northumberland, Montour, Co- humubia and Sullivan counties. He has always been particularly interested in the cause of pub- lic education, and has served as a member of the local school board.
On April 28, 1886, Dr. Samuel married Alice Edmund W .; Lizzie, Mrs. Samuel McConnell : Kiefer, daughter of William and Deborah Kiefer, Thomas P .; William C .; Mellie; Emma, and Gertrude.
of Mount Carmel, and they have had four chil- dren, all sons: Frank J., who is now engaged in clerking for his father ; E. Roger, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1913: E. Wil- Carmel high school; and E. Walter, who is at school.
Edmund W. Samuel received a thorough pre- paratory education, having the privilege of four years under private instructors as well as the ben- lard, who is in the class of 1911 at the Monnt efits of the public schools. He began to learn the drug business in 1874, when he entered the drug store of J. H. Pritchard & Co., at Ashland, and The Doctor is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, and has various fraternal connec- tions, belonging to the I. O. O. F., the K. of M., the Royal Arcanum and the Masons-Mount Car- inel Lodge, No. 378, F. & A. M .: the Williams- port Consistory, thirty-second degree; and Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is a member of the Schuylkill County Medical Society and of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society. meantime also pursued the study of medicine with Dr. William R. Owens, of that place. In October, 1878, he entered Jefferson Medical College, Phil- adelphia, from which institution he was graduated March 13, 1880, the following month commencing practice in Ashland. He remained there only until November, however, when he came to Mount Carmel, which has since been his field of practice. In 1887 he became a member of the drug firm of Dr. E. S. Heiser & Co., this association lasting un-
SHADE. The name Shade is well represented til July 25, 1889, when he purchased Dr. Heiser's in business circles in Shamokin, where the broth- interest, becoming sole proprietor of the business. ers Daniel E., Jacob M. and Richard A. Shade. His establishment is one of the leading drug sons of the late Andrew Shade, are established in various lines, identified with local activities and well known in Masonic organizations. stores in the borough, or anywhere in this sec- tion, and his high personal character is reflected in the management and standing of the business.
Besides making a success of his professional work and drug business Dr. Samuel has interested himself in local affairs to an unusual extent for one of his calling. Few men have had better op- portunities to acquire an insight into the greatest needs of tire community, and few would have pos- sessed the energy to try to put so many different plans into successful operation. In 1907 he was elected president of the Shamokin & Mount Car- inel Transit Company, and he is also president and general manager of the Mount Carmel & Locust
Andrew Shade, great-grandfather of these three brothers, was a native of Berks county. Pa. He was the first of the family in Schuylkill county, settling near what is now Fearnot, where he pur- chased a tract of land which he at once began to clear. He remained here all his active life and died upon his farm. His son John became owner of the homestead, but it is now in the possession of Reu- ben H. Shade, unele of Daniel, Jacob and Richard.
John Shade, son of Andrew, moved with his father by team from Berks county, Pa., to Schuyl- kill county, settling near Klingerstown. He pur- Gap Trolley Company, chartered Dec. 6. 1908, chased a tract of land containing two hundred which in 1909 built the road from Bear Dale to Lo- acres, on which he farmed, and he became a well cust Gap, about two miles long. J. G. McConnell is known man in his district. He died at the age vice-president of the latter company. R. D. Heat- of sixty-five years, and is buried at Klinger's on, secretary, and William J. Kiefer, treasurer. Church, as is also his wife. Hannah ( Hoffa). Dr. Sammuel is a director of the Union National They had children: Elizabeth: Andrew: Jacob. Bank of Mount Carmel and of the People's Build- who was killed while serving in the Civil war:
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Emanuel; Katie; Abraham; Polly; Louisa, who married John Lants and lives near Seven Points, Northumberland county; and Reuben H., who now owns the old homestead near Fearnot.
Andrew Shade was born in Schuylkill county. When a young man he learned tanning, which trade he followed successfully for several years, having a tannery about four miles from Tremont, Schuylkill county. Selling out he moved to Sny- der county, Pa., where he purchased a farm near Freeburg on which he remained for some time, in 1810 removing to Shamokin, where he remained about four years. His last days were spent in Schuylkill, county, where he died in 1895, at the himself exclusively to the oil trade, which he has age of sixty-four, and was buried at the Metho- ever since continued. He is manager of what is known as the- Merchants Oil Company, with offices in the Market Street National Bank building, Shamokin, and handles a large wholesale business dist Church near his home. He married Caroline Stein, of that county, who died at Shamokin. They were the parents of the following children : Hannah married John Shoup and they live in which has not yet by any means reached the limit Missouri : John is living in Kansas; Jacob M. is of expansion. His partners in this concern are mentioned below : Savilla died young : Daniel E. . Martin and Charles Jameson, of Warren. Pa., and is mentioned below: Alice married Emanuel these two young men are associated with W. B. Long, a merchant of Shamokin: Mary married Stewart as proprietors of the Warren Refining Daniel Snyder of Shamokin; and Richard A. is Company, of Warren, Pa., which furnishes the mentioned below.
JACOB M. SHADE was born in 1856 near Heg- ins, Schuylkill county, and received his education in the public schools. In common with inany boys of this region he began work at the mines at Sham- okin, but he eventually went to a trade, learning the carriage-making business, which he followed, being employed at different places, until 1892. He spent some time at Renovo, Clinton county, whence he came to Shamokin, on Jan. 2, 1892, establish- ing the store at No. 509 North Second street which he has since conducted. He carries a com- prehensive line of groceries, notions, shoes, etc., and ·is well known in his section of the borough as one of its most progressive business men. He has built up an excellent trade by the most lion- orable methods, and is one of the most esteemed
citizens of Shamokin. His attention has been given chiefly to the care of his business interests, but he has served as a member of the school board from his ward, the Tenth, for seven years. In politics he is a Republican, and in fraternal con- nection a member of Renovo Lodge, No. 495, F. & A. M., and of the Temple Club of Shamokin.
DANIEL E. SHADE was born in 1857 near Tre- mont, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and received his edu- cation in the public schools. For nincteen years after he began to earn his own living he was en- gaged at the mines, being employed at the Cam- eron colliery. He then embarked in the mercantile business, for many years occupying the location at Third and Spruce streets where his brother-in- law, Emanuel Long, is now doing business, and in connection with his lines of general merchandise he dealt in oils. This specialty in time attained such proportions and offered such good prospects that he gave up his original business and devoted
product disposed of by the Merchants Oil Com- pany. Mr. Shade has developed the business by the exercise of ability and good judgment, which he possesses to an unusual degree, and his success has placed him among the most enterprising men of Shamokin. His personal and social standing is equally good. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, holding membership in Shain- okin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A. M .: in Shamokin Chapter, No. 264, R. A. M., of which he is a past high priest: in Shamokin Commandery. No. 77, K. T., of which he is a past eminent commander : in Williamsport Lodge of Perfection (fourteenth degree) ; Williamsport Consistory (thirty-second degree) : and in Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Reading, Pa. He is a Republican in politics and has held the office of school director, serving from the Sixth ward. He is a member of the Re- formed Church.
Mr. Shade married Sept. 20, 1876, Frances Ross, daughter of Thomas and Anna (Kerrey) Ross, of Jersey Shore, Pa., and six children have been born to this union: Minnie married Claude Morgan and they live in Pittsburg : Gertrude mar- Mr. Shade was married three times, (first) ried Ray Kellerman and they live in Mount Car- Dec. 18, 1877. to Emma Malick, daughter of Dan -. mel; Edith is bookkeeper for her father: George iel Malick, of Seven Points, Pa. ; she died Nov. is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Phar- macy ; Mabel and Frances are at home. 12, 1880. They had one daughter who died in infancy. He married (second) Mary Rhoads. RICHARD A. SHADE was born July 21. 1871, at Shamokin. He attended public school and was reared to farming on his unele's farm in Dauphin township. Schuylkill county, continuing to fol- low this ocenpation until he reached the age of twenty-one years. In the meantime, however, he daughter of Daniel Rhoads of Elysburg, Pa., and she died Dec. 18, 1881. They had one son Charles. who assists his father. He married (third) Feb. 16, 1883, Annie C. Grav. daughter of John and Rachel (Fox) Gray, of Paxinos, Pa., and to this marriage came one son Clarence, who died aged had learned harnessmaking, at which he began to thirteen years.
work when seventeen, continuing it in connection
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with agricultural work. After reaching his ma- the will was made his wife Anna Maria was still jority he gave all his time to his trade, and in living. Their children were (no record of Daniel ) : 1894, returning to Shamokin, established himself Clemens, who obtained the plantation ; Catharine, married to Andrew Winiger; Mrs. John Beck; John; Frederick; Christopher : Elizabeth. married to Michael Deck; Philip; Sevila; Magdalena, and Dorotha. in business in that line at No. 15 South Market street. He has all the latest conveniences for car- rying on harnessmaking, and his work is first class and in large demand, his trade being exten- sive and profitable. His trade is as good as the best in the borough, where he is regarded as a sub- stantial and desirable citizen, one who holds the respect of all who know him. He is a thirty-sec- ond-degree Mason, belonging to Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A. M. ; Shamokin Chapter, No. 264, R. A. M .; and Bloomsburg Consistory, thirty-sec- ond degree. In religious connection he is a mem- ber of the Evangelical Church.
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Mr. Shade's first marriage was to Mamie Wolf- gang, who died April 6, 1891, the mother of two children : Allen, who is at home; and Normand, who died young. On April 9, 1895, Mr. Shade married (second) Miss Ida Straub, daughter of Elias and Mary (Walborn) Straub, and to. this union have been born five children : Clyde L., James A.,' Edna M., Richard W. and Leona D.
DUNKELBERGER. The Dunkelberger fam- ily is an old settled and numerously represented family of Northumberland county, and allied by marriage with many other of the foremost fami- lies of this region. The name itself, according to tradition, .originated from Dunkel Berg, a spur of the Black Forest, in Germany. Little is known of the Dunkelbergers before the time of the Refor- mation. During that period they espoused the cause of the Reformers, and their descendants to the present day have continued to adhere to Prot- estant denominations. Up to the time of their emigration to the New World they were industri- ons and patriotic citizens of what is now the King- dom of Wurtemberg, in lower Germany, but being deprived there of their religious liberty they turned to America, coming hither in 1728 by way of the Rheinfels, down the Rhine to Holland, whence they sailed in the English ship "More- house," landing at Philadelphia Aug. 28, 1728. They proceeded at once to what is now Berks coun- ty, Pa., locating in Windsor township, a little southeast of what is now the borough of Ham- burg. They were frequently molested by the In- dians. These emigrants were Clement, Daniel and Jack John Dunkelberger. Clement, who was the an- cestor of the others (the name of his son Daniel, however, does not appear in his will), at once paid taxes to the English Crown. "Clementz Doncleberger" is on the first list of taxables of Windsor township (1754). He paid six pounds tax in 1754. At the time of his death, in 1182, his home was in Windsor township. His will, made Feb. 12. 1:46. was probated April 8, 1482. and is on record in Will Book B, page 38. At the time
John Dunkelberger, grandson of Clement. was born in Windsor township, near Hamburg, in 17th He married there and had two sons by that marriage, in 1780 (at which time he was a wid- ower) moving with his son George to the northern part of the Mahanoy Valley, in Northumberland county-that part of Mahanoy now embraced in Little Mahanoy township. He received from the State a warrant for more than two hundred acres of land, located north of Line Mountain and be- tween that and Mahanoy creek. The Indians were his neighbors and were friendly to him, but dur- ing the terrible Indian disturbances his family on several occasions had to flee for safety. There he built a stone gristmill and stone dwelling house. In 1814 he is credited with a grist and saw mill on Mahanoy creek, which mill is said to have been the first in that section. He built the mill sev- eral years after locating in, that district. On the John Dunkelberger homestead still stands a large stone house, 45 by 35 feet in dimensions. and two and a half stories high, which was built in 1818, the year in which this pioneer died. Large, well- selected stones were used in its construction and the wall is exceptionally strong.
After settling here John Dunkelberger married again and had two sons by his second wife, Solomon and Jonathan. from whom most of the Dunkelber- gers are descended. These pioneers are buried on their own farm, on an elevation below a piece of pine woods, about fifty feet northeast from a public road. Their graves are marked by marble tomb- stones, inscribed as follows:
Hier ruhet Johanes Dunkelberger Gabo. den 28 Sept. 1745
Storb den 27 Novem 1818
Alt 73 yahr 2 mo - 1 Tag Text I Buch Moses 48 Capitel 21 V.
Hier ruhen die gebine von Elizabeth Dunkelberger war Eine goborne Kahwel war geboren den 20ten Marz, 1761, und starb
den 3ten September, 1827
1st alt worden 66 Yahr 5 monot und 12 tag. Text Heob. 17, Capitel den 11, ver. 5.
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John (Johannes) Dunkelberger, known as "Little Johnny," one of the sons of John by his first marriage, was born in Berks county Sept. 14, 1765. He died May 11, 1835, and was buried in the Howerter cemetery in Upper Mahanoy town- ship. He was a farmer and like his brother George settled in Mahantango Valley, in Mahanoy (now Lower Mahanoy) township, Northmnberland county. He married Susanna Zimmerman, born in April, 1785, who died Jan. 19, 1860, and their children were: Daniel (settled in Mahantango Valley), Catharine ( Mrs. Knerr), George, John, Joseph, Magdaline, Susanna ( married Abraham Howerter), Solomon and Elizabeth ( Mrs. Kloek). George is fully mentioned below. John, who mar- ried Christiana Geist, is fully mentioned elsewhere in this work. Joseph, who married Rachel Fede- rolf, is also mentioned at length elsewhere. Solo- mon, born in 1821, died in 1892, at Shamokin. He followed the tailor's trade. He married Eliza- beth Wagner, born Feb. 11. 1823, died April 6, 1861, and they had five children. William, Jere- miah, Edmond, Ellen and .Franklin, John Dun- kelberger, the father, died May 11, 1835, in terri- tory now embraced in Lower Mahanov township. He had a tract of twenty-four acres of land when he died. His will, made May 5, 1835, on record in Will Book III, page 200, was probated June 12, 1835. It was witnessed by George Haas and H. F. Heintzleman, and he names "my friends" Pete Fetterolf and John Maurer. Sr., as executors.
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