Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 58

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

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In 1876 Mr. Deitrich married Margaret Jane Manney, daughter of Dennis Manney, and to them have been born six children : Mary married Claude Savage, and they live at Northumberland: Della was a cooper by trade. After leaving Philadelphia is a school teacher at Mount Carmel; Maud mar- he had lived in Longswamp township, Berks Co., ried John Noadhecker and they live in Sunbury : for a time, and there he was married to a Miss Dr. George A. graduated from Mount Carmel high Seasholtz. Thence they moved to Schuylkill coun- school and from Pennsylvania College, at Gettys- ty. He was tall, raw-boned and of dauntless burg, later attending four years and graduating courage, and possessed a roving and adventurous from the University of Pennsylvania (1910) ; wla disposition, taking part in several wars. His ten died in infancy : Margaret is at home.

children, five sons and five daughters, were: Con-

LEVI DEITRICH ( DIETRICH ), justice of the peace rad never married : Jacob never married; Philip and prominent citizen of Mount Carmel, Northum- was killed in the coal mines at Mount Carmel, berland county, was born at Llewellyn. Schuylkill Pa .; John was married and some of his family now Co., Pa., in 1857. He began work at the coal live at Mount Carmel ; George is mentioned later : mines as a slate picker when a mere boy, and fol- Polly married George St. Clair: Betsy married lowed the occupation of mining many years. In Daniel St. Clair, brother of George; Hannah mar- ried Adam Snyder: Susan: Sally married Jacob Derr. .

1871 he came with his parents to Mount Carmel. where he has since made his home. Mr. Deitrich is a Republican and has been active in promoting the welfare of his party. In 1897 he was elected constable of the borough of Mount Carmel. serv- ing in this office nine years, until, in the spring of 1906, he was elected a justice of the peace. which

George Deitrich, son of John Michael, was born in 1809, at Pottsville, Schuylkill county. In 1871 he moved to Mount Carmel, Northumberland coun- ty, where he died Nov. 3, 1895. He was a laborer, and for a number of years was employed in a brick- office he now fills with merit. Mr. Deitrich was

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also overseer of the poor of his district for some in addition to his original line. He became post- years.

Mr. Deitrich is popular socially. He is a mem-

master at Asherton in 1886, wlien the office was established, and continued to serve as such until he

ber of the I. Q. O. F., the P. O. S. of A. and the came to Sunbury. One of the oldest business men Improved Order of Red Men. In 1882, when the in his section, he enjoyed a large patronage Anthracite Fire Company of Mount Carmel bor- ough was organized, Mr. Deitrich was a charter member, and for many years was its efficient treas- ntrer ; for twenty-one consecutive years he rang the fire bell. throughout his location there, and his place was long a business center, his full line of merchandise attracting the custom of a wide territory, and his accommodating methods holding customers from year to year. As his business throve he acquired

In May, 1878, Mr. Deitrich was united in mar- other interests and accumulated considerable real riage with Susan Stutznian, daughter of Adam estate, still owning about three hundred acres in and Susan C. Stutzman. To this union were Lower Augusta township. Since he settled in born seven children, as follows: Elmer, George W., Sunbury he has been one of the shrewdest invest- Clarence, Levi, Jr., John, William, and Annie ors in that borough, and by his foresight and sa- ( who died when three and a half years old). Mrs. gacity has made a place for himself in the front Deitrich died May 7, 1899, aged forty-four years, rank of its intelligent business men. He is a di- six months, twelve days.

rector of the Sunbury Trust & Safe Deposit Com- pany, and has been such since the organization of that concern, which he is also serving as a member of the finance committee. He is a director of the Pennsburg Manufacturing Company, of Penns- burg, Pa., and was connected with the Kauffman & Sons Planing Mill Company of Sunbury until the plant was removed to Pennsburg. For some years he was connected as director with the Blue Wing Copper Company of North Carolina, with the Sunbury Nail, Bar and Guide Iron Manufac- turing Company and with the Buffalo Lumber Company of West Virginia. During his carlier years Mr. Kauffman was quite active in the local Democratic organization, was auditor of Lower Augusta township for a number of years, and also his retirement from the mercantile business, he served as assessor. In 1861 he was drafted for the

JOHN R. KAUFFMAN, of Sunbury, is a man of large financial affairs and real estate interests, principally active at present in the latter connec- tion. His property holdings in the borough and, in fact, all over Northumberland county, are ex- tensive and valuable. and their management now occupies the greater part of his time. For forty years Mr. Kauffman was engaged in mercantile . business at Asherton. Lower Augusta township, his establishment being the business center of that locality for years. He was the first postmaster at that point, serving until his removal to Sunbury in 1889, and there was no better known citizen in that section. Since he settled in Sunbury, upon has continued to give his numerous interests his Civil war, and paid $300 for a substitute, being un- personal attention, although he is now in his able to give personal service on account of home eighty-third year: his zeal and ability, however, responsibilities. are unabated and his intellect as keen as ever.

Mr. Kauffman was born Oct. 19, 1828, in Up- per Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, wick, Pa., and they celebrated their golden wed- son of Daniel and Mary ( Ressler) Kauffman. His education was begun in the old German subscrip- tion school held in Upper Mahanoy, which he at- tended until 1838, when his parents moved into Lower Augusta township. He there continued his studies in the English language, attending school. though not regularly. until he was about twenty years of age. Meantime he had worked on his father's farm, and was thus engaged until the age of twenty-two years, at which time, in 1830, he em- barked in the mercantile business at what is now Asherton, in Lower Augusta township. He re- mained there until 1889. with the exception of six years during which he had a mercantile establish- mient at what is now Meiserville, in Snyder coun- ty, at the end of that period moving back to Low- er Augusta township. In 1889 he removed to Sun- bury. Prospering in everything he undertook, as his interests expanded he found himself extensive- ly engaged in farming and the real estate business

- On March 28, 1852, Mr. Kauffman. married Boann Shaffer, daughter of John Shaffer, of Ber- ding March 28, 1902. Mrs. Kauffman died April 15, 1907, aged seventy-five years, seven months, thirteen days. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kauffman, as follows: Abia died April 27. 1873, aged twenty years, eight months, fifteen days: Dora A., who is unmarried, lives with her father; Frank S., born in 1857, now of Newton, N. J., who has for many years been secretary and treasurer of the Hart & Iliff Coal, Lumber & Sup- ply Company, married Minnie Smink, daughter of Isaac Smink, of Shamokin, Pa., and they have two children, Elizabeth and John ; Daniel S., who was a merchant at Millheim, Center Co., Pa., died April 26, 1903, aged forty-two years, one month, twelve days, unmarried: Alfretta married E. H. Long, of Lower Angusta township, Northumber- land county, and died Aug. 11, 1892, aged thirty- four years, twenty days (she was the mother of three children, Elroy and Stanley, both deceased, and Flossie V .. who has made her home with her

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grandfather from childhood, and who graduated in 1904 from the Woman's College, Frederick, Md. ) ; Clara died unmarried March 11, 1889, aged twenty-six years, seven months, eleven days; John R., Jr., who has been highly educated, hav- ing graduated from Selinsgrove Academy and from Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancaster, Pa., later having a year's study in Leipsic, Ger- many, was admitted to practice before the North- umberland county bar Sept. 2, 1889, when but twenty-two years old, was formerly secretary of the Buffalo Lumber Company, of Bayard, W. Va., and is now proprietor of the planing mill at Penns- burg, Pa. (he is married, and has one daughter, Ruth) ; Annie died Sept. 15, 1894, aged twenty- two years, eleven months. thirteen days.

Mr. Kauffman and his family occupy a fine res- idence at No. 1103 Market street, Sunbury. He is a member of the Reformed Church, and during his residence in Lower Augusta township was a very active worker in St. Elias Church, which he served many years as elder and member of the council ; he was also superintendent of the Sunday school for many years. In 1880, when the pres- ent brick building of the St. Elias Lutheran and Reformed Church was erected, he served as chair- man of the building committee, giving most ef- ficient service in that capacity. His wife was a member of the Lutheran congregation of that churcli.

HIRAM DREISBACH was born in Buffalo Valley, Union Co., Pa., Aug. 9, 1831. IIis orig- inal progenitor in America, Martin Dreisbach, em- igrated from Witgenstein. Germany, arriving at Philadelphia Oct. 4. 1751, in the ship "Queen of Denmark," and located in Cocalico township, Lan- caster Co., Pa. In 1:13 he bought from Dr. Wil- liam Plunkett a large tract of land in Buffalo Val- ley, in what is now Union county, Pa. This was on the frontier of the Province, and during the

a business course at Crittenden Business College, Philadelphia. He came to Sunbury shortly after the flood of 1865, and in company with his brother Solomon engaged in the grocery and queensware business, which they successfully conducted until the year 1892. This business, however, did not oc- cupy all his attention, as he found time to carry on the retail lumber business, and later formed a part- nership with the late William Whitmer, under the firm name of the Sunbury Lumber Company ; they engaged in a general lumber business, operating both sawmills and planing mills for a number of years. Mr. Whitmer later retiring from the busi- ness, Mr. Dreisbach conducted it alone until the year 1904, when he sold it to the Mantz Brothers by whom it is still conducted. From that time un- til within a few months of his demise, which oc- curred Feb. 19, 1910, he gave his attention to the interests he had acquired during his more active years, retaining his business aeumen to the last. His operations in the lumber business were carried on at a time when the lumber traffic on the Sus- quehanna was at its height, and he accumulated an excellent competence in that line alone, increasing his means by good investments and judicious man- agement until he was accounted one of Sunbury's most substantial citizens. At the time of his death, he was one of the oldest business men of the community, and had the unlimited respect of all who knew him.

On July 28, 1864, Mr. Dreisbach married Re- becca Houghton, who was born Dec. 19, 1844, at Lewisburg, Pa., daughter of James and Margaret Houghton, formerly Margaret Bowman, of Hali- fax, Dauphin Co., Pa. She died Feb. 22, 1881.

Three children of this union survive: Frank M., a lumber merchant. of East Oakland, Cal .: and Nellie M., wife of Charles L. Benson, and Edith M., both of Sunbury.

MICHAEL J. HAILE, of Shamokin, senior Revolutionary war, which followed soon after his member of the firm of M. J. Haile & Bros., mer- removal thither, the family endured great hard- chants, began business on a small scale there in ships and dangers.

1887 and has built up a trade which is a credit to his good management and honesty. He and his two brothers have an establishment at No. 110 North Hunter street so well stocked and patron- ized that they are justly classed among the most enterprising dealers of the borough.

The subject of this sketch was one of a family of six sons and one daughter, born to the marriage of Martin Dreisbach, one of the early judges of Union county, and Elizabeth Kleckner, both of Buffalo Valley. The history of both families is closely interwoven with the early development of the Mr. HIaile's father. Lawrence Haile, was born Aug. 10, 1830, in Wurtemberg. Germany, son of Matthias Haile, who lived and died in Wurtem- berg. Lawrence Haile came to America in 1854. landing at New York City. whence he proceeded to Minersville. Schuylkill Co., Pa., and from that time until his retirement, in 1897. a period of for- tv-three years, he was in the employ of the Phil- adelphia & Reading Railway Company. He was country, the Dreisbach family being especially ae- tive in early religious work, as attested by the his- tory of the Dreisbach Church, which forms so con- spicuous a part in the religious annals of the com- munity. Mr. Dreisbach received his early educa- tion in an old log schoolhouse under private tu- telage, this training being accompanied with all the hardships and inconveniences common to the early days. Later he attended the Union College section boss for some time, and baggage master at at New Berlin, Pa., completing his education with Shamokin-to which borough he moved in 1874-

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many years, and in one stretch of thirty-five years Reck, and a native of Wurtemberg. Germany. Five lost but thirty-six days, all on account of sickness. children have been born to this union : Cecelia E., Such a record of industry is not often equalled. Elizabeth, - Clement, Michael, Jr., and Edward. Mr. Haile took a trip to Germany in 1903 to visit his sisters. All this family are members of St. Edward's Cath- olie Church and Mr. Haile is a member of the Knights of Columbus.

On Sept. 30, 1857, Mr. Haile married Cathar- ine Maringer, who was born Dec. 17, 1833, daugh- ter of Peter Maringer, a native of Prizen, Ger- many, who died in his native land : he was a cab- inetmaker by trade, and had the reputation of be- ing a skilled workman. Mrs. Haile came to Amer- ica in 1857 and was married shortly afterward. Mr. and Mrs. Haile celebrated the golden anni- versary of their wedding Sept. 30, 1907. Though both have reached advanced years they enjoy good health, and their long and industrious lives are re- warded with the peace due in old age. They had a family of seven children : Peter. a clerk, of Sham- okin, married Mary Gribbins; Michael J. is men- tioned more fully below ; Lawrence, a boss carpen- ter at Scranton, Pa., married Annie Brennen ; Francis J., a member of the firm of M. J. Haile & Bros., married Mary Burk, of Locust Gap, Pa .; 1 2 widow of Joseph McLanghlin : Charles A., men- ber of the firm of M. J. Haile & Bros., married George F. is mentioned below. Elizabeth Callaghan, of Locust Gap. The family home is at Race and Hunter streets.

Joseph T. resides with his parents; Katie is the Trevorton, was the father of Herman, Christian.

Michael J. Haile was born Oct. 12, 1862, in Schuylkill county, Pa., eight miles northeast of Pottsville, and there received what little schooling lie was allowed, attending but ten months. Before he was eight years old he began picking slate at the mines, and at that time he could speak only German. He continued at this work about eight years, doing outside duty at the mines. where he re- mained until eighteen years old. He then took Henry Julius Crone, son of Gotthilf C., was born in Germany April 13, 1830, and came with his parents to America. He followed mining, act- ing for many years as boss for Douty & Baumgard- ner, at Shamokin. He served a term in the Union army during the Civil war, enlisting Oct. 17. 1862, in Company D, 172d Regiment, Pennsylvania Vol- unteer Infantry, and receiving his discharge Aug. up the butcher's trade, with Nicholas Timmes, and learned the business thoroughly. In 1887 he en- gaged in business in that line for himself, and three years later formed a partnership with his brother Francis J., under the firm name of M. J. Haile & Bro, In 1906 their younger brother, Charles A., became a member of the firm, which has since been known as M. J. Haile & Bros. Meantime 1, 1863, at Harrisburg. Mr. Crone married Mary various. lines have been added to the original one, M. Kopp, who was born March 8, 1831, and who the stock now including meats, groceries, dry goods survives him, making her home at Shamokin. Mr. and notions, confectionery etc., for all of which Crone died Jan. 1, 1899, and was buried at Sham- they find a steady demand. The business has had okin. Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs. a slow but sure growth, and it has expanded until Crone: (1) Francis G., born Nov. 26, 1854. mar- the attention of all three brothers is well taken up ried Hannah Hepler, and they have had children : with its conduct and management. Michael J. Henry, Mamie, Millie, Ida. Cyrus, Dora, Clara.

Haile is a director of the Shamokin and Coal Township Building and Loan Association, which was born Feb. 23, 1856. (3) Theodore II .. born he helped to organize July 1, 1904. He was one of the organizers and is a member of the original ma Schweitzer and they had three children, Maude. board of directors of the Dime Trust & Safe De- Minnie and Bessie. (4) Gotthilf C. is mentioned posit Company of Shamokin. below. (5) Christiana Fredericka, born Aug. 28.

On Jan. 6, 1890, Mr. Haile married Elizabeth 1860, married Joseph Kerstetter, and they have Reck, daughter of Clemens and Genevieve ( Reiber) had children : Alvin, Lena, Della, Samuel, Agnes.

CRONE. The Crone family has been repre- sented in Northumberland connty from the time of Gotthilf C. Crone, a native of Westphalia, Ger- many, who bronght his family here in the middle of the last century. He came to the United States in 1848, and first located at Reading. Pa .. subse- quently removing to Lehigh county (where he was engaged in the mining of slate);, and one year later settling at Middleport, Schuylkill county. In 1855 he located at Trevorton. Northumberland coun- ty, where he died in 1868. He was a mine boss in Germany. In that country he married J. W. L. Stollen, who died while they were living in Middle- port, and they were the parents of the following named children: Carl died in Germany: Henry Julius is mentioned below : Franklin, who died at Lena and Emma ; Herman T. is mentioned below :

Though a resident of Trevorton for only a few years, comparatively, Gotthilf C. Crone was recog- nized as an intelligent and valuable citizen, and he was chosen to the offices of supervisor, tax col- lector and director of the poor. He took an active part in politics as a supporter of the Democratic party, and in church work as a member of the Lutheran Church, which he served many years as elder and also as superintendent of the Sunday school.

Alma, Ethel, Victor and Francis. (?) Mary M. May 9, 1857, died at Shamokin ; he married Em-

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Edward, Mildred, Joseph and Herbert. (6) Lewis

GEORGE E. CRONE, son of Gotthilf C., was born is mentioned below. (7) Mary Sophia, born Jan. Aug. 27, 1879, in Dontyville, Northumberland 31, 1864, married Samuel Crist, and they live at county, and learned the butchering business with his father at Shamokin, where he began business on his own account March 21, 1907. His location is at No. 13? South Market street, and he has established a profitable trade. His good business methods and honesty show him to be a typcial rep- resentative of the name he bears. Shamokin; their children are Hazel, Violet, Mal- colm, Elsie and Elva. (8) Julius H., born March 1, 1866, married Minerva Rhine, and their chil- dren are Grace, Lena, Retta, Leah and John. (9) John Jacob, born Oct. 26, 1867, married Mary Romberger and has one daughter, Emma. (10) Henry John, born July 22, 1873. died young.

On Dec. 22, 1899, Mr. Crone married Nettie GOTTHILF C. CRONE, fourth child in the family of Henry Julius Crone, was born Nov. 2, 1858, in Trevorton, Northumberland county. He followed mining until he was twenty-nine years old, mean- time, in 1884, moving to Shamokin, where he was A. Goodling, daughter of Isaac Goodling and granddaughter of Charles Goodling, who was born near York, Pa., and later moved to Snyder county, where he followed farming near Meiserville. He married Lucy Diehl, of York county, and their employed in the mines for about two months. He children were: Isaac, George, Lewis, Henry, Jon- then engaged in the butchering business with his athan, and Lucy (deceased).

brothers Francis and Jacob, later carrying on bus- iness on his own account. He now does an exten- sive business at Second and Chestnut streets. Mr. Crone is a member of Lodge No. 664, I. O. O. F., and of the Sr. O. U. A. M. In religious connec- tion he is a member of Grace Evangelical Luther- an Church.

. On Nov. 4, 1878, Mr. Crone married Diana Long, and ten children have blessed this union : Theodore H. married Kate Treon, of Shamokin ; George E. is mentioned below : Cora is the wife of Josepli W. Mause and they have one daughter, Josephine ; Charles married Ida Mattern and they have three children, Herbert, Elline and Florence : Frances, a graduate of the Shamokin high school, taught three years in Cameron township and two years in Shamokin before her marriage to Grover Shipman, and they reside at Danville, Pa. (they have a daughter, Marion E.) : Oscar married May Swift and (second) Helen Boch and they have one child, Maude Helen : Arthur married Pearl Boyd, and has one child, Harriet F. : Grover is at home, assisting his father ; Madeline and Dorothy M. are still in school.

Isaac Goodling, father of Mrs. Crone, is a farm- er near Freeburg, Snyder county. He married Catharine Gehnett, daughter of George Gehnett, and three children were born to them: John W.,. who died Dec. 28, 1899, in the Philippines, while serving in the United States army; William ; and Nettie A., Mrs. George E. Crone. No children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Crone.

LEWIS CRONE, sixth child in the family of Henry Julius Crone, was born April 6, 1862, at Trev- orton, Northumberland county, and received his education in the public schools. When but nine years old he commenced work as a slate picker at Brady, this county, and he was employed at the mines for about fourteen years, as engineer and ma- chinist. For two years after that he was in the hotel business at Helfenstein, Pa., returning thenee to Shamokin, where he was engaged as an engi- neer for some time and also followed the hotel bus- iness for eight years. He has since been in the ci- gar manufacturing business, which he started May 1, 1905, having factory No. 296, in the 12th dis- trict, at Nos. 556-558 North Third street. Mr. Crone disposes of the greater part of his product

George Long, grandfather of Mrs. Gotthilf C. in Northumberland county, where his five-cent Crone, was a farmer and the largest landowner in brands "Crone Special," "Graino," "Honest Cameron township, 'Northumberland county, and Value," "American Leader." "John Trumbull" served upon the first school board of that township." and "American Bond," and his "William Windom" He was twice married, and by his first wife, whose ten-cent brand, are well and favorably known, be- name was Leah Bracher, had the following chil-

ing popular because of their proved excellence. dren : Samuel, Daniel, John. Peter, Jacob. Wil- He gives employment to six men, and by turning liam, Kate and Hannah. By his second wife, Eliz- out goods of high grade has established a constant abeth (Sclileich ), he also had a large family, viz. : demand for the output of his factory. Elias, Ellen, Kate, Polly, Elijah, Joseph, Jessie and Sallie.

Mr. Crone is very well known beyond the limits of his business acquaintanceship, having numer- ous other interests which bring him into contact with his fellow citizens. He plays in the Onr Band, is a member of the Rescue Fire Company,

Elias Long, eldest son of George by his second marriage, was the father of Mrs. Crone. He was a lifelong farmer in Cameron township. and the fam- ily have a burial plot there, at the Union church, and socially holds membership in the Knights of at Gowen City. He married Angeline Houpt, and Pythias, in Taghneghdoarus Tribe, No. 225, 1. O. their children were: William, Benneville, Diana R. M .. and in Shamokin Lodge No. 664. I. O. O. (Mrs. Crone), Joel, Alice, Hettie, who survive, and. F. His religions connection is with Grace Lnth- Lydia A., Francis, Ella and Rosie, all deceased. eran Church. Though a Democrat in a strongly 17

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Republican ward he has been assessor of the Tenth T. Crone & Brother. He died at Trevorton. Mr. ward sinee 1893.

Crone was long regarded as one of the most sub-

On June 11, 1881, Mr. Crone married Chris- stantial and progressive citizens of that place, tak- ing great interest in publie matters, encouraging the establislunent of various public utilities, and serving as school director and tax collector. He was a Democrat in politics and in religion a mem- ber of the Lutheran Church. Socially he held membership in the Knights of Pythias and the I. O. O. F.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 58

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