Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 38

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

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. tation on his part, he has been honored with some of the most responsible public trusts in the gift rison. of his fellow citizens, having served one term as

Jacob Clement, son of James, married Ann Har-

Samuel Clement, son of Jacob and Ann (Har- representative of the Third ward in the common rison), married Rebeeea Collins, a granddaughter council, of which he served one year as president. of Franeis Collins, who came to America in 1678, He is an ardent supporter of the principles of the locating in New Jersey, where he became a man Republican party and for many years took a lead- of distinction. He served for a time in the ca- ing part in its loeal activities. In religions mat- pacity of judge and was a member of the Provin- ters he has been identified with St. John's Re- eial Legislature of New Jersey. formed Church, of which he has long been a prom- Samuel Clement (?), son of Sanmel, married inent member, serving as chorister for many years. . Mary Foster.

In 1865 Dr. Hollenback married Dorcas Sober, Evan C. Clement, son of Samuel (?), was born daughter of 'Michael M. Sober, who lived in the in Camden county, N. J. He was associated with Irish Valley in Northumberland county. Three his father in the manufacture of glass and became children were born to this marriage, viz. : William a man of considerable means. He was a soldier in S., of Reading, Pa., a piano tuner; Hudson S., the War of 1812, serving as sergeant major. He 'a dentist, who is located at Mount Carmel, this passed all his life in his native county, where he county: and Edwin E. The mother of these died died in 1827 at the comparatively early age of Oet. 24, 1887, and on Dee. 6, 1888, Dr. Hollen- thirty-seven. He married Hannah Kay, great- baek married Savilla Fidler, daughter of William Fidler, of Shamokin. They have had two children, of the name in America, who came over in 1683, Harry Franklin and Flora Lillian.

great-granddaughter of John Kay, the first settler was .speaker of the Provincial Assembly of New

Edwin E. Hollenback was born at Shamokin Jersey for several years, and one of the council for May 25, 1871, and there received his early edu- West Jersey. John Kay, Mrs. Clement's father,

married Kesiah Thorne, daughter of Capt. Joseph

cation in the public schools. He learned the trade of carpenter, which he followed for three years, Thorne, a soldier of the Revolution.

and then entered the Pennsylvania College of Den- John Kay Clement, son of Evan C. and Hannalı tal Surgery, from which he was graduated in 1892. ( Kay) Clement, was born Jan. 1, 1820. in Phil- For several years thereafter he practiced with his adelphia. Pa., and was but seven years old when father, in 1898 opening an office of his own. Dr. his father died. As the latter had failed a short Hollenback is a general practitioner. but he makes time previously, the boy was thrown upon his own a specialty of high-grade erown. bridge and plate resources at an early age. He acquired his early work, in which line he has a high reputation. His education in the Friends' school in his native city, practice is large, and has been gained by the most and began the study of law when eighteen years honorable methods and satisfactory work, many ofdl in the office of his cousin. Richard Howell, of of his patrons having come to him ever since he Camden, N. J. In 1842, at the age of twenty-two. he was admitted to the bar in Trenton, N. J.

commenced practice.

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Soon afterward he removed to Schuylkill county, the family of Gen. John Kay and Mary S. Pa., where he first made his home at Minersville, (Zeigler) Clement, received an excellent literary later at Pottsville, practicing law there until his training in the academies at Sunbury, Pa., and removal to Sunbury, Northumberland county, in Burlington, N. J., leaving school at the age of 1854. There he continued to live the remainder of seventeen. For the next six years he was em- his days, acquiring a very extensive practice and ployed as clerk in the prothonotary's office at Sun- for many years 'holding a high place in public af- bury, and then read law with his father, being ad- fairs. His legal work was mainly in the line of mitted to the bar March 11, 1878. The January criminal law, in which special branch of the pro- following he began practice with his father, with fession he was one of the foremost lawyers of the whom he was associated in practice until the lat- State, participating in many of the most famous ter's death. This relation was of the utmost value cases tried in his section. He was not only ver- to him. His thorough study of legal principles satile in the law, but gifted with unusual powers gave him an excellent foundation for his work, of eloquence, and as a pleader had tew equals. He and his aptitude for applying it to practical, ev- practiced law to the exclusion of almost every other eryday affairs made him popular with a large interest, most of his public service being of a pro- clientage who appreciate common sense interpre- fessional nature, and he won his high rank in the tation of ordinary laws. But though he has en- legal' fraternity by unswerving devotion to the gaged in general practice, corporation work has calling of his choice. His logic and eloquence, been his main line, particularly as a trial lawyer backed by a thorough understanding of the law, in causes affecting corporate interests. From made him a powerful ally on either side of a case. April, 1891, to April, 1898, he was associated in From 1871 to 1878 he was engaged as counsel, on practice with IIon. S. P. Wolverton.

one side or the other, in every important criminal

General Clement has long been a leading mem- case tried here. "Bear" Dolan, the first "Molly ber of the Republican party. From 1879 to 1883 Maguire" convicted, was successfully prosecuted by he was secretary of the county committee, and from him in 1872, and he defended Peter McMannes, the 1883 to 1888 was chairman of that body. He has served several years as member of the council, and

last of that famous band to be tried. In 1859 General Clement was elected district attorney of one term as assistant burgess; he was borough Northumberland county, was again elected in solicitor, solicitor of the school and solicitor for 1871, and in 1877 again took the office by appoint- the overseers of the poor for several years; is now ment.

a school director : on Oct. 1. 1887, he was appointed corporation clerk of the State department by

While a resident of Schuylkill county he was made brigadier general of the State militia, and Charles W. Stone: on Nov. 28, 1890, he was ap- during the Civil war he not only aided the Union by pointed by Governor Beaver deputy secretary of the personal service as officer and private, but also Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In all these of- used his influence throughout that period in sup- fices his service was most creditable, showing the port of the Northern cause. He was captain of most intelligent citizenship and public-spirited de- the .Pottsville Light Artillery, which organization votion to the general interest. He is president of still exists as Company F, 4th Regiment, P. N. G., the trustees of the Mary M. Packer hospital at served in the first battle of Bull Run as aide to Sunbury.

Colonel Cameron, and also served as a private of

In 1877 General Clenient was one of the organ- . Company D, 4th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia. izers of the Sunbury Guards, Company E, 12th In 1862 he was made provost marshal of the 14th District of Pennsylvania and served efficiently un- til 1864. He was a Democrat in politics before the war, and subsequently a stanch Republican. He served some years as a member of the council of elected major of the 12th Regiment, in 1898 elect- Sunbury. He died at Sunbury Oct. 15, 1882.

Regiment, P. N. G., which he joined as a private. He was promoted to the rank of captain in regular order and three times elected to serve in that ca- pacity, in 1882, 1887 and 1892. In 1896 he was ed lieutenant colonel, and volunteering for service On May 18, 1854, General Clement married during the Spanish American war was commis- Mary S. Zeigler, of Sunbury, daughter of Isaac sioned lieutenant colonel of the 12th Pennsylvania Volunteers, which was mustered out Oct. 29. 1898.

and Mary ( Ever) Zeigler, the former of whom was once a prominent leather merchant of Sunbury. His eldest son, John Kay Clement, then a boy of She survived him, making her home in Sunbury seventeen, was a corporal in Company E. same regiment. On Aug. 17, 1899, Charles M. Clement was elected colonel: was reelected in 1904 and until her death, April 30, 1908. Five children were born to this union, Charles M. being the only survivor. General Clement was an Episcopalian 1909; was appointed brigadier general March 29, in religion, and was a vestryman in St. Matthew's 1910; and on Sept. 1. 1910, was assigned to the Protestant Episcopal Church at the time of his command of the 3d Brigade. Socially. Colonel death. Fraternally he was a Freemason. Clement belongs to the Sons of Veterans, the Sons

Charles M. Clement, only surviving member of of the Revolution, the Society of the War of 1812,

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the Society of Foreign Wars and the Naval and named for the Kline family. It is on the road Military Order of the Spanish American war. IIe leading from Sunbury to Danville, at the line of is a member of Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A. M., Upper Augusta and Rush townships. A number Northumberland R. A. Chapter, No. 174, Mount of the family, of the various generations, are Hermon Commandery, No. 85, K. T., Caldwell buried at the Klinesgrove M. E. Church. In this Consistory, thirty-second degree, and Zembo Tem- locality Isaac Kline bought four hundred or five ple, Mystic Shrine. He is a past master of his hundred acres of land, then nearly all forest, and lodge and past commander of the commandery. he and his family were pioneers in all that the General Clement is rector's warden of St. name implies. Their nearest neighbors were five miles distant. Wild beasts howled at night around comfortable shelter. There the family made a permanent home. Isaac Kline was accompanied into the wilderness by his wife, Margaret, and their two sons. Herman and Isaac, with their Matthew's Church, Sunbury, secretary of the ves- try, secretary of the diocesan convention, and has the log cabin, rudely constructed, but affording a been a deputy to the general convention since 1898, serving therein on the committees on Admission of New Dioceses, on the Prayer Book, and on the Commission to Revise the Lectionary.

On Nov. 19, 1879, General Clement was married at Northumberland to Alice V. Withington, daughter of Martin J. D. Withington. Four sons have been born to them: John Kay, Martin W., Charles Francis and Theron Ball. John Kay There he died in 1818, at the advanced age of Clement married Isabel Colvin, and has one son, ninety years, a year or two after the death of his Charles MI. Clement, 2d ; he is captain of Company wife. They are interred in the M. E. Church cem- E, 18th Regiment, N. G. P., and is physicist in the etery at Klinesgrove.

wives and families. He settled his oldest son, Herman. on the farm now owned by Charles Rockefeller, and made his own home with his son Isaac, on the farm now owned by John F. Derr.

Bureau of Mines, stationed at Pittsburg. Martin . Herman Kline, eldest son of Isaac Kline, settled W. Clement married Irene H. Higbee, and they in what was then Augusta township. He had a have one son, Martin W. Clement, Jr. : he is super- family of four sons and four daughters: Elisha, visor on the Pennsylvania railroad, stationed at Philadelphia, and is a captain in the quarter- master's department, N. G. P. Charles Francis is tenant of Company E, 12th Regiment, N. G. P. who lived on the farm later owned by Charles Moore, died in 1875, aged eighty-eight years ; John, who lived on the farm now in the posses- practicing law with his father, and is first lieu- sion of A. D. Moore, died in 1861, aged sixty-nine years; Isaac, who lived on the farm now owned These three sons are graduates of Trinity College, by S. G. Kase, died in 1878, aged eighty-four Hartford, Conn. : John K. is also a graduate of the years: David went West while young: Margaret became Mrs. Campbell: Jemima, Mrs. Stroh : Polly. Mrs. Campbell: Susan died unmarried.

University of Gottingen, and Charles F. of the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. Theron B. is in the local high school.

Isaac Kline, Jr., the younger son of Isaac Kline, lived with his father until his death, in 1804, at,

WILLIAM F. KLINE, a leading citizen of the the early age of thirty-three years. He followed borough of Snydertown, Northumberland county, farming. His widow, Catharine ( Barton), lived was born Sept. 9, 1833, at Klinesgrove, which with her children until her death, in the year 1856, place is so known in honor of his family. He is at the advanced age of eighty-seven. After the the last surviving member of his generation of death of their grandfather the children of Isaac the family, which was settled in this region by (Jr.) and Catharine ( Barton) Kline inherited Isaac Kline, his great-grandfather.

One Herman Kline emigrated. to America in the ter, namely: (1) Henry, the eldest, born in 1491 early part of the eighteenth century and settled in Hunterdon county, N. J., obtained the farm on in Hunterdon county, N. J., where he bought which his son Francis A. now lives in Upper considerable land. It is said he was rich, and Augusta township, and died in 1828, aged eighty- generous to his less fortunate fellowmen. He seven years. His wife, Elizabeth ( Forrester). reared a large family of sons and daughters. The died in 1859. Their children were: John F. (born date of his death is unknown.

his estate, there being three sons and one daugh- Dec. 25, 1814, in Augusta township), Sarah Ann

. In 1799 three of the sons of Herman Kline ( Mrs. Weaver). Jane ( Mrs. Mettler, living in came to Pennsylvania, two of them ( Abraham and the West, and the only surviving daughter). Eliz- another) settling on Fishing ereek, in Colombia abeth ( Mrs. Gilger), Isaac F., Mary ( Mrs. Bas- county. Isaac Kline, one of these three brothers, sett), and Francis A. (?) Herman inherited the was the progenitor of the family with which farm now owned by John F. Derr, and spent some this article deals. He settled in what is now years of his earlier manhood farming on the Upper Augusta ( then Angusta) township, North- homestead. later living at Klinesgrove, where he umberland county, at or near the site of what is operated the Klinesgrove gristmill. He died there now known as Klinesgrove, which village was in 1865, aged seventy-one years. He married

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Nancy Mettler. They left no descendants. (3) cession, and later was elected for another two Isaac is mentioned below. (4) Sarah, Mrs. Camp- years. The mere record of the positions to which bell, lived on the farm now occupied by her son, he has been chosen is sufficient evidence of the Isaac Campbell, and died there in 1841, at the age esteem and popularity he enjoys among his fellow- of about forty-four. She reared a family of ten men. He has been one of the most prominent eit- children.

izens of Snydertown since its organization. It is

Isaac Kline, son of Isaae (Jr.) and Catharine the largest borough in area in the State, though (Barton) Kline, was born Nov. 2. 1803, and died the population is bnt four hundred. Politically Oct. 10, 1876. He inherited the farm near the Mr. Kline is a Republican. Kliniesgrove Church. a traet of 105 acres, upon which he followed farming, and resided there until liis death. In 1834 he built the stone residence still standing upon that farm. In politics he was

In Jannary, 1860, Mr. Kline married Mary Margaret Wolverton, who was born March 13, 1838, and died July 2, 1886, the mother of three children : One that died in infancy : Charles H., originally an old-line Whig, later becoming a Re- also deceased in infancy ; and George W .. who is publican, and he was particularly active in the re- located at Eleventh and Wolverton streets, Sun- ligions life of the community, being one of the bury. On Feb. 19, 1890, Mr. Kline married ( sec- pillars of the Klinesgrove Methodist Episcopal ond) Margaret E. Moore, daughter of James R. Church, of which he was an organizer, and he and Priscilla ( Martin) Moore, of Snydertown. donated five hundred dollars when the church was ereeted, in 1867. His family were also Metho- who had the following children : James A., John M., Jane E., Rebecca M., Perry M. and Margaret dists. Mr. Kline married Lney Ann Forrester, E. Mr. and Mrs. Kline have no children. Mr. who was born Feb. 16, 1804, and died Jan. 8, 1886. Kline and his family are Methodists, prominent They had three children : (1) Josiah F., born Ang. members of the church at Klinesgrove, which Mr. 29, 1831, married Elizabeth Condon, of Philadel- Kline served on the board of trustees contin- phia, and they lived in that city. They had chil- uously front 1866 to 1908, being also secretary dren : Edmund James, William R., Josiah F. and of that board. He has long been regarded as one Henry B., the last named dying young. (?) Wil- of the pillars of the ehnrch, and is highly respect- liam F. is mentioned below. (3) James F., born ed among its membership. Oct. 20, 1837, died June 5, 1888, at Newark, N. J., and .is buried at Danville, Pa. He was a lienten-

JAMES R. MOORE, the father of Mrs. William ant in the 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery dur- F. Kline, was the son of John Moore, who came ing the Civil war, stationed at Fortress Monroe, from New Jersey at an early date and settled in He and his wife Mary ( McGill) had one child, that what is now Rush township, where he purchased a died in. infaney.

William F. Kline attended the schools of the years and is buried in a grave yard near Deiblers honte locality in his early boyhood, and later went station in Shamokin township. He married Rebec- to Dickinson Seminary, at Williamsport. He ca, daughter of James Moore, and they had these taught school for one term in Upper Angusta town- children: John, James R., Rebecca, Mary, Anna, ship, at what is now known as Mount Pleasant Miriam, Sammel and Hannah.

farm. He died upon his farm at the age of fifty

(then Texas) schoolhouse. From early life he was James R. Moore, father of Mrs. Kline. was trained to farming, in which he is still interested, born in Rush township Feb. 2, 1805, and died at having a valuable tract of 150 acres all included Olathe, Johnson Co., Kans., July 2, 1885. He within the limits of the borongh of Snydertown. was reared upon the home farm and in the year of He has made various improvements upon this es- 1846 went to Morrow county, Ohio, where he fol- tate sinee it came into his possession, and has twice lowed farming, and remained until 1872, when he remodeled the house during his ownership. In went to Olathe, Kans., and there he continued to 1867 Mr. Kline began tanning at Snydertown, in farm. He married Priseilla, danghter of Atchin- 1868 putting up the present tannery buildings son Martin, who died in Kansas. They had these there, replacing the original buildings of an early children : James A., John M., Jane E .. Rebecca He continued in this business for a M., Perry M. and Margaret E., now the wife of

. tannery.

period of six years, until the end of 1873. Mr. William F. Kline.

Kline's substantial success entitles him to a fore- most place among the business men of his section, KLASE. The family history in this article on the Klases was contributed by Mr. John Hower Klase, of Snydertown, who intends to amplify it and complete the records as time and opportunity permit. Early records in his possession show where he is regarded as a man of excellent jndg- ment and ability. In the conduct of borough.af- fairs he has for years been a well known figure. He has been a member of the board of school direct- ors, and served some years as secretary of that considerable variation in the spelling of the name. hody. he was the first chief burgess clected in The German forms are Kloss, Klesz, Kloesz. The Snydertown, hold the office for six years in sue- Anglicized spelling John Klase (Johannes

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Kloess) appears in the tax record of 1773 for others of Northampton county and came to Fort Bethlehem township, Northampton Co., Pa., and Augusta, or what is now known as Sunbury, Pa., the forms Clase, Glase, Glos, Glosz and Kleiss are and entered into the purchasing of lands. About all found.

On Nov. 22, 1752, one "Johonas Kloss" landed in Philadelphia from the ship "Phoenix," Reuben Houer, captain, front Rotterdam and Cowes. The emigration records of Philadelphia show Klosses here inuch earlier, as early as 1732, who evidently were of the same family, as they all settled to the north of Philadelphia, where they had land grants surveyed. But this Johanas Kloss is the earliest ar- rival to whom the family here under consideration can be traced. His family can be very easily traced from the records appearing at Easton, Pa. He was known as the Hanover Manor. Saine was lived and died near Bethlehem, and his will, on record at Easton. makes grants to the following nine children (who were to receive £5.000 in mon- ev besides lands ) : Valentine, Philip, John, Jr., Jacob, Catharine, Michael, Elizabeth (married Michael Young), Annie Marie and Christiana. The dates of birth and death of "Johon" Klase are deed of Valentine Kloss]. The date of this pur- at present not known, but he was still living in the year 1804, when he and his wife Catharine appear as witnesses at the christening of one of Valen- tine's daughters, Mary Eva, who later married Solomon Fegley, father of George K. Fegley.

eight miles east of Sunbury he purchased 950 aeres. with an allowance of $10 per cent for roads, mak- ing 1,000 acres all told. This land lay north of the old Reading road, at what is known as Ston- ington, comprising a strip nearly one mile wide running north to the northern boundary of Sny- dertown borough, including what are now the lands of John Klase, William Garrow, Jesse Gonsar, Jacob Gonsar, H. A. Pensyl, Charles Snyder, and Jake Klase's farm, and part of the Fox farm. This tract had been surveyed at an earlier date and sold to Lewis Dewart and Jacob Snyder, from whom Valentine. Klase purchased. Jacob Snyder erected the first burr inill and saw mill at Snyder- town, located on the site of the present mill owned by Grant Gonsar. The said Jacob Snyder was also the . founder of Snydertown. Pa. [for above see

chase by Valentine Klase was 1811, as recorded in the recorder's office at Sunbury, Pa. After buy- ing this land he returned to Bethlehem, with the intention of moving here, but meeting with an ac- cident he died. His will bequeathed this land. to his widow and children to be held by them as tenants in common, and he appointed his widow. Mary Eva. Jacob, Henry. Abraham, children, and .John Smith, brother-in-law, as administrators of his estate. both in Northampton county and North- umberland county. He also stipulated in his will not be sold before six years after his death. Some

Valentine Klase, the eldest son of Johonas and the head of the family located in Northumberland county, Pa., was a resident of Northampton coun- ty, near Bethlehem, where he owned a farm of two hundred acres on what is known as the Dry Land. This farm appears on the tax list of Bethlehem township in 1788, and its location is known to the that . the land in Northumberland county should family, the Klase burying ground being on this farm. Valentine Klase married Mary Eva Smit- of the family were not suited with the land and ten, who was born Oct. 1, 1766, and died at Sny-

requested the sale of same, so on March 19, 1816, dertown, Northumberland Co., Pa., on the old four years after the purchase of the land, the Leg- homestead, Aug. ? , 1838; she is buried in St. islature of Pennsylvania passed an act for its spe- John's Lutheran cemetery near Snydertown. The cial disposal. After this, having been advertised children of Valentine and Mary Eva were: Jacob, for four weeks in a paper published at Easton. Pa., Abraham, Michael, Valentine, Jr., Henry, Mary it was sold to John Smith, one of the adminis- trators. for $11,067.67. The tract was now par- celed ont to the following: Jacob, who took the sonthern part. about 200 acres: Valentine. JF .. central part, 200 acres: John Smith. 200 acres of northern part: Abraham, one half of the western pait (joining John. Smith). consisting of 200 aeres : the balance being sold to different parties. The part that Abraham owned consisted princi- pally of the land bought of Jacob Snwler. Michael. Henry, Eva and Catharine received their share in money. Of this family we have the fol- lowing record : Eva and Catharine, all born in Bethlehem town- ship, Northampton county. In the year 1153 Valentine took out a warrant for fifty acres of land in Northampton county. In the year 1778 he entered the service of the Continental army, in Captain Reeser's 4th Company of Militia, from Forks township, Northampton county, Pa., 5th Battalion ; ordered to march July 30, 1728 ( Penn- sylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol. 14, Page 591) ; for which service he was given a grant of land, which he never took up. Valentine Klase was a fariner up to the time of his death, which oc- curred some time between April 12th-when he made his will-and May 18th, 1812, when his will was probated at Easton, Pa. After the Indian

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 38

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