Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 62

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

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Capt. Israel Seitzinger was born Aug. 17, 1823, in Berks county, and came to Schuylkill county in young manhood, settling at Pottsville. He fol- lowed the livery business there for some years, and for many years was a railroad employee. Through- out the Civil war he served as captain of Company E, 116th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Captain Seit- zinger was married at Pottsville to Margaret Heub- ner, of Schuylkill Haven, who survived him, dy- ing Oct. 31. 1909, at the advanced age of eighty- four years. He died in 1889, al the age of sixty- They are buried at Fountain Springs.

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Schuylkill county. Ten children were born to where he followed agricultural pursuits, owning this couple, namely : John L., Mary Elizabeth, the farm which is now the property of one John James, Jacob, Charles, Isabella ( Mrs. Charles Snyder. His wife was Elizabeth Lantz, and he is Rice), Sarah, Harry, Franklin and Willian.

Fred Rice spent his youth at Gordon, Schuylkill county, and was seventeen years old when he gradu- ated from the high school of that borough. Mean- time, between school terms and after school hours, he had begun to work as clerk in the general store at Selinsgrove (his wife was of foreign birth, and. of Rice & Brother, there. He was a substitute teacher in the Gordon schools until 1896, when he

they had two children, the mother and one daugh- ter dying : the other daughter, Elizabeth, married . matriculated at the medical department of the and moved to Nebraska) : Samuel, a farmer, who University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1900. died at Shamokin (he had sons Oscar and Thco- While taking his medical course he further in- dore) ; Eliza, wife of Samuel Zimmerman; Han- proved liis time by spending his summers 'at the nah, wife of Charles Conrad: Catharine, wife of Fountain Springs State Hospital, at Ashland, and George Kramer; and Mrs. Haupt.

one year he was at the Williamsport Hospital. Daniel Hollenback, son of Michael. was born Aug. 3, 1803, and died in 1883, aged eighty years. He married Elizabeth Sherri, and of their chil- dren we have record of D. S., the eldest son : Sam- After his graduation he was assistant to Dr. Daniel Rice, at Hastings, Cambria Co., Pa,, for some months, on Oct. 21, 1901, establishing his office at Sunbury, where he has since practiced on his uel; and Reuben, born Sept. 1, 1841. mentioned own account. He is located at No. 256 Arch street. elsewhere in this work.

Dr. Rice has met with gratifying success in his profession, and has a large and profitable general practice which is a tribute to his personal worth as well as to his medical skill. His efficient serv- ices and conscientious attention to patients have won the appreciation of all who know him. He has taken no part in public affairs, his time being well occupied with his work.

: On June 30, 1903, Dr. Rice married Emma B. Van Allman, daughter of William and Sue (Wall) Van Allman, of Blair county, Pa., both being from Frankstown, and two children have been born to this union, Carl F. and Paul V. The Doctor and his family are members of the Lutheran Church.

HOLLENBACK. The Hollenback family is represented in various parts of Northumberland county, its members being specially well known in ship, and they have had one child, William W. Politically Dr. Hollenback is a Republican. Hc served as director of the poor in 1876, and was elected treasurer of Northumberland county in 1893, with a majority of 2,300 votes, serving until 1896. He is a prominent member of St. John's Reformed Church at Shamokin.

professional circles. Dr. D. S. Hollenback, a prominent physician and surgeon of Shamokin, is one of the best known medical practitioners in that section, and one of the oldest still actively engaged in that calling there. His brother Dr. Reuben H. Hollenback, and two of the latter's sons. are prac- ticing dentistry; his brother Samuel Hollenback,

a retired railroad man, is a respected resident of abeth (Sherri) Hollenback, was born in Upper Fisher's Ferry, this county.

John George Hollenback, the first ancestor of the family in America, came from Germany with his two sons, Michael and George, arriving at Phil- adelphia, Pa., Sept. 24, 1754, on the ship "Nep- tune."

SAMUEL HOLLENBACK, son of Daniel and Eliz-

Augusta township, April 5, 1839. He was reared in Lower Augusta, being trained to farm work, which he followed from early boyhood until he took a position, at the age of twenty-six, as laborer on the Northern Central railroad. He was then en- gineer for three years, from 1865 until 1868. and meantime, in 1867, had become track foreman.

Michael Hollenback, son of John George and grandfather of Dr. D. S. and Samuel Hollenback, He remained in the employ of the same company was the founder of the family in Northumberland continuously for a period of forty-three and a half years, until November, 1908, when he was honor- county. He was born in Germany, in Briesen, and was but five years of age when brought to this ably retired with a pension and pass. He has al- country. He lived in Upper Augusta township, ways been thrifty, and is now in comfortable cir-

buried at Lantz's Church in Upper Augusta town- ship. Their children were as follows: Daniel; Charles, who lived in Upper Angusta township, and had a son Noah and daughter Mary ( this fam- ily has died out) ; Henry, a shoemaker, who died

D. S. HOLLENBACK, M. D., was born May 26, 1836, in Lower Augusta township, Northumber- land county. He received his early education there, in the local public schools, later attended the academy at Freeburg, and began his medical studies with Dr. Eyster, who afterward practiced at Sunbury. He was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in April, 1864. and soon after entered upon the practice of medicine and surgery in Shamokin, where he has since resid- ed. His standing as one of the leading practition- ers of Northumberland county has been gained by conscientious devotion to the duties of his profes- sion, of which he is a foremost member in his lo- cality.

On Oct. 2, 1878, Dr. Hollenback married Clara Sober, daughter of Isaac Sober, of Shamokin town-

Sollenback

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cunstanees, owning his own home at Fisher's Fer- teen children : Mary ( Polly), Mrs. William Tay- ry and a small farm in Lower Augusta township, lor, of Shamokin township. this eounty; Julian, which latter property he rents out. He and his family are Reformed members of the Elias Union Church in Lower Augusta township. Politically he is a Republican.

Mrs. John Strasse; Auna Eliza, who married Wil- liam Conrath and (second) Michael Smith, of Shamokin township; Amanda, Mrs. Nathan Eister; Hester, Mrs. Ambrose Taylor, of Shamo- kin township; Elizabeth, who died young : Henry, born Nov. 3, 1821, who married Mary M. Shipe;

On May 16, 1867, Mr. Hollenbaek married Har- riet Reitz, daughter of Abraham and Susan (Tre- on) Reitz, of Swabian Creek, this county, and William; Charles; Joel, of Shamokin township; granddaughter of Michael Reitz, who lived to the Valentine; Harvey H., who lived at Kendall age of ninety-five years. Eight children were born Creek, Mckean Co., Pa .; and Rev. Edward. F., to Mr. and Mrs. Hollenback, two of whom died in of Illinois.

infancy. The others are: S. Elizabeth married A. . Jacob Bartholomew, son of William and Eliza- W. Baer and they live in Sunbury: Sallie married beth (Miller) Bartholomew, was the first of their Fred Seaman, who was from Snyder county, Pa., family born in Northumberland county. He was and they live at Sunbury ; John H. lives in Lower Augusta township; George E. is a resident of Sun- bury; Katie married Francis Gamberling, and they live at Selinsgrove, Pa .; Lottie is the wife of Wil- liam Engely, of Sunbury. a wheelwright and farmer, settling on his farm in the Plum Creek district in 1831, from which time until his death he farmed and worked at his trade. He was born Sept. 19, 1803, and died Feb. 11, 1877, and is buried at the Plum Creek church- the Eden Evangelieal Lutheran Church. He mar- BARTHOLOMEW. The Bartholomew family has been settled in what is now Rockefeller town- ship, this county, since the early days, the brothers James W. and John L. Bartholomew being mein- resident in Northumberland eounty. James W., senior member of the firm of Bartholomew & Jar- rett, coal dealers of Sunbury, is also engaged in the marble and granite business at that point. John L. Bartholomew is in the stone cutting busi- ness and operates a quarry. ried Catharine Bloom, of the same township, born May 7, 1807, died April 7, 1870, and they were the parents of twelve children, viz .: Mary, born Nov. 7, 1826, who married Samuel Zimmerman ; bers of the fourth generation of Bartholomews Peter, born Oct. 20, 1828, who died March 20, 1902 (he lived in Rockefeller township) : Maggie, Mrs. Henry Zimmerman; Jacob B .; Elizabeth, Mrs. Daniel Fasold; John, who died at Sunbury; Lot, who lives in Upper Augusta township ; Sarah, who died young; Hulda, who has never married; William ; Daniel; and one who died young. Four of this family survive, Mrs. Mary Zimmerman, Mrs. Elizabeth Fasold, Lot and Hulda. Miss Hulda Bartholomew attened to the wants of her parents faithfully in their declining years, nurs- ing them both in their last illness, and she also nursed her sister Maggie, who was paralyzed.

William Bartholomew, great-grandfather of James W. Bartholomew, was born in Chester eoun- ty, Pa., and married Elizabeth Miller, who was from the same section. Some of their children were born before their removal to Northumberland county. They settled in what is now Rockefeller township, Mr. Bartholomew owning a farm in the Plum Creek district (the place later owned by Solomon S. Snyder), and he also followed his trade of wheelwright. He and his wife are buried at Augustaville. They had the following chil- dren : William; Jacob : John M .: Mary, who mar- ried Daniel Bloom; Elizabeth, who married Wil- liam Bloom, brother of Daniel : Hannah, who mar- ried John Kreeger ; Catharine, who married Jona- than Fasold; and Sarah, who married Dr. John Raker.

John M. Bartholomew, son of William and Eliz- abeth (Miller) Bartholomew, lived in the Plum Creek section of Rockefeller township, in his early life working on the farm and teaching school. He then moved to Sunbury, where for some years he conducted a livery, later working in the railroad shops, where he met with an accident, losing part of his hand. He married Eve Bennett. and they had four children : Emma is a school teacher in North Carolina; Harry, unmarried, lives in Sim- bury ; Rebecca married Harry Heil; Cora taught school in Sunbury for a number of years.

William Bartholomew, son of William and Eliza- beth (Miller) Bartholomew, was born in 1997 .in Jacob B. Bartholomew, son of Jacob and grand- son of William, was born in 1833 in Angusta (now Rockefeller) township, and lived in Rockefeller township until a few years after the Civil war. He was drafted for service in that conflict three times. Removing to Sunbury, he there passed the remain- der of his life, dying on the evening of April 16, 1902, when sixty-nine years old. He is buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. Mr. Bartholomew Berks county, Pa., came to Northumberland eoun- ty with his parents, and followed farming through- out his aetive years. He lived in Rockefeller town- ship, after his marriage settling near Emanuel church, in the Plum Creek section, where he died in 1860. He and his wife were Lutherans in reli- gion, and he is buried at Lantz's church there. His wife, who survived him many years, was Susan Elizabeth Wolf, and they were the parents of thir- learned the trade of stonemason, and also followed

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stone cutting, and after his removal to Sunbury established hinself in business there, laying pave- ments, etc. He gave employment to a number of men, and there are quite a few who learned the trade from him. A man who took an interest in affairs generally, he served as school director and tax collector in Rockefeller township, and while living there was an active member of the Lutheran Church at Plum Creek (where he was confirmed) which he served as deacon. later holding the same office in the church at Sunbury. Politically he was a Democrat.

On Jan. 17, 1856, Mr. Bartholomew married Charlotte H. Lyon, daughter of George and Mary (Leonard) Lyon, of Sunbury, the latter formerly of Lancaster, Pa. Four children were born to this union : James W. is mentioned below : Mary C. having facilities for raising and depositing in bins married Albert J. Spinner and they live at St. Louis, Mo. ; Hattie married Ira D. Hanna and they live at Philadelphia ; Jolin L. is a resident of Sun- bury.

Lot Bartholomew, son of Jacob and Catharine (Bloom) Bartholomew, was born on the homestead in Rockefeller township Sept. 12, 1844. He was educated in the local schools and learned the trade of stonemason, serving his full apprenticeship when twenty-one years of age. He followed his trade un- til 1895, for two years in partnership with Solomon Klase, and worked all through the coal regions at Williansport and eastern Pennsylvania employing from three to twelve men. He bought his- farm Nov. 29, 1899. It contains 100 acres and at one time was the Yost fann, later the Jonas Fry home- stead. Before moving to his farm he resided in East Sunbury and was one of the first councilmen of the Eighth ward. He is a Democrat in politics and overseer of the poor, also fills the office of tax collector.

Lot Bartholomew was married in 1867 to Ben- lalı Fahrensworth, daughter of Robert Fahrens- worth of Shamokin township. Their children were: Elsie married Edward M. Noble and they live in Upper Augusta township; Minnie E. died young ; Sarah C. died in infancy: and Rose M. married J. P. Van Dyke, a druggist of Sunbury. Mrs. Bartholomew died Jan. 13, 1887, aged forty- one years, and she is buried in the old Sunbury cemetery.

JAMES W. BARTHOLOMEW was born Jan. 11, his father he became the owner of a flagstone 1857, in Lower Angusta (now Rockefeller) town- ship, and there began his education in the local public schools. He was ten years old when his parents moved to Sunbury, settling in the East End, and he attended for several years the private school of Professor Brown, who then had four as sistants. In April, 1823, he commenced to learn the trade of marble cutting, which he followed for . a time as journeyman, and assisting his father, who was then doing an extensive building stone business. In 1881 he engaged in the marble and

tombstone business on his own account, continuing same until 1892, when he gave it up because he found the marble dust injurious to his health. Meantime, from 1883 to 1888, he also ran a suc- cessful livery stable in Sunbury, and in 1889 he opened a first-class restaurant at No. 34 South Third street, having a hotel license. He carried this on for thirteen years, during which period, in 1900, he resumed his old line of business, estab- lishing the marble and granite yard which he still conducts. In 190%, in partnership with his nephew, Charles F. Jarrett, he founded the firm of Bartholomew & Jarrett, dealers in anthracite coal, who are located at Third and Court streets. They are among the leading coal dealers in the city, and own the only coal elevator in Sunbury,

forty tons of coal an hour. Their equipment is up- to-date and complete in every respect, their meth- ods of doing business equally enterprising, and their standards gain and hold trade. . Mr. Barthol- omew has made a high reputation by a career of consistent integrity and fair dealing, and he oc- cupies an enviable position among his business associates. He has not been particularly active in public affairs, though he served as a member of the borough council during the eighties. He is a Democrat in politics, a prominent member of No. 1 Fire Company and of the Americus Club, of which latter he is an official : he was a member of the governing board of the club for 1892, and is the only member of that organization who has twice been honored with election to the presidency.

In 1883 Mr. Bartholomew married Margaret L. Garinger, daughter of Charles and Deborah ( Haas) Garinger. They have no children of their own, but have reared two nephews, Charles F. and Clarence W. Jarrett, sons of W. W. and Mary (Garinger) Jarrett of Sunbury, both Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett being deceased.

JOHN L. BARTHOLOMEW. son of Jacob B., was born May 8. 1867. He came to Sunbury when a babe and has lived here all his life. He ob- tained his education in the Sunbury public schools and at the age of fifteen learned his trade of stone- mason from his father with whom he worked until the latter's retirement from business, and then worked with others in Sunbury. At the death of quarry and other interests and now quarries flag- stone from the quarry located in Upper Angusta township. employing eight men. This quarry is located on the S. H. & W. railroad. a branch of the Pennsylvania line. Mr. Bartholomew owns his home where he resides, No. 989 North Eighth street, Sunbury, and also has other real estate. In politics he is a Socialist. He and his family are Lutherans. He is a member of the Friend- ship Hose Company. of Sunbury. of which he was the organizer on Feb. 11, 1895, and he became

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its first president, later foreman of the company Pa .; Joel lived and died near Hepler: Adam and and afterward secretary for two terms. The Jared died on the homestead : Polly married Abra- company has a membership of two hundred and ham Blasser; Catharine married Benjamin Rub- is located at the corner of Tenth and Court streets, endall; Lydia married Levi Drumheller. where it has fine quarters.

John Daniel, son of John Adam, owned the On Jan. 17, 1901, Mr. Bartholomew married old homestead on which he was born April 10, Aliee Marks, daughter of Cyrus Marks, of Center township, Snyder Co., Pa. They have three chil- dren, Mary Irene, Charlotte Florence and Mar- garet Rose.

JOHN DANIEL. a farmer of Jackson town- ship, Northumberland county, belongs to a family which was established in this county by his great- grandfather, Heinrich Daniel. The Daniel family first settled in Berks county, Pa., upon eoming to America, the emigrant ancestor settling there, in Bethel township. prior to 1:54. He was a farmer and landowner. In 1790 Jacob Daniel (a brother of Heinrich, who came to Northumber- land eounty) was living with his wife and seven daughters ; in Heidelberg township, Berks county, to the east of Bethel, lived . Godfrey Daniel, an- other brother. To this day there are representa- tives of the family in the locality where they first settled after their arrival in this country.

Heinrich Daniel. great-grandfather of John Daniel, was born July 6, 1755, in Bethel township, Berks Co., Pa., and coming to Washington (then Jackson ) township, Northumberland county, lo- cated on a tract of 110 acres upon which Ire erected the original set of buildings. A log house he built in the year 1800 is still standing. On this place Heinrich Daniel lived from 1774 until his death, which occurred Nov. 7, 1841. His wife, Maria Magd., died in 1823, aged sixty-five years. Their home stood near the mountain. They had a number of children, among whom were Heinrich and John Adam, the latter sue- ceeding to the ownership of the farni.

1815. He died there Sept. 3, 1897, after a life- time spent principally in farming, though he had learned the trade of shoemaker and followed it in his earlier manhood. In politics he was a Democrat, and he was a publie-spirited eitizen, taking a hand in public affairs and filling a num- ber of local offices; he was supervisor of Wash- ington and Jordan townships for a number of years. He also held various church offices, serv- ing many years as elder. Mr. Daniel married Catharine Swartz, who was born Oct. 10, 1817, and died Nov. 13, 1897, and they are buried at St. Peter's church, at Mahanoy, in Jackson town- ship. They had the following children: Elias, who died when twelve years old; Sarah, Mrs. Elias Crissinger : Emma, Mrs. Henry Crissinger : Adam, who owned the homestead until 1907 and now lives near Herndon, Pa .: John: and Cath- arine, who married Nathan Latsha.

John Daniel was born April 10, 1850, in Jordan township, son of John and Catharine (Swartz) Daniel, and obtained his education in the subscription schools of the home district, which afforded rather limited opportunities, however. He was reared as a farmer and continued to work for his father until his forty-eighth vear. After his father's death he began farming for himself in 1898, in Jordan township, where he was lo- cated for five years, in 1903 coming to the place in Jackson township which he purchased that year and which has since been his home. He has a farm of eighty-eight acres, originally an old Lat- sha homestead and later known as the Henry Roger farm. Mr. Daniel is a substantial and re- spected citizen, and his affairs are in prosperous condition.

. John Adam Daniel, son of Heinrich, was born June 8, 1795, was a lifelong farmer, and suc- ceeded to the home place, retaining the owner- In November, 1885, Mr. Daniel married Louisa Kobel, who was born Jan. 16, 1858, in Cameron township, this county, daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Kerstetter) Kobel, and died April 17. 1909. She was the mother of one child. Charles Wilson, who was born Feb. 17, 1887, and is still at home with his father. Mr. Daniel is a Democrat in politics and of the Reformed faith in religion, ship until a few years before his death, when, becoming lame, he sold it to his son Jared. After the latter's death it was purchased by his brother Jolin, whose son Adam Daniel owned it subse- quently, until 1007, in which year H. J. Don- moyer purchased it. John Adam Daniel died June 1. 1878, and he is buried at St. Peter's church, Mahanoy, where all the Daniels siuee the time of he and his family worshiping at St. Peter's Church, Heinrich, the pioncer, have been interred. He at Mahanoy.

was a Reformed member of that church, and being a good singer was chorister there for some CAMPBELL. There is a numerous Campbell family in Northumberland county descended from Obadiah Campbell, a native of New Jersey who removed to this section in 1:29 and located in Ralpho township. He purchased a tract of 400 acres of what became valable land (the south years. He was married three times. his first wife being Rosanna Wagner. his second Polly Ruben- dall and liis third Esther Freymover, who was born Feh. 22, 1804, and died March 30, - 1881. All his children were by the first union, namely : John is mentioned below: Elias died at Hepler, part of the village of Elysburg being built on

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part of the tract) and built his own log cabin May 9, 1816, in Rush township, and died Dec. 26, upon what later became the site of the residence 1896, on his farm in Upper Augusta township. of Davis Huff. This place continued to be the He received a common school education. In his homestead of the Campbells for several genera- early life he was employed on the construction tions. Obadiah Campbell was a tailor by trade, of the Pennsylvania canal, and later became a but never followed that vocation after settling in this county. He was a Presbyterian in religious faith and one of the organizers of the church of that denomination in his settlement, helping to build the old church between Snydertown and Elysburg ; he served as elder in same many years. Politically he was a strong Democrat, the leader of the party in his locality. His children were: Benjamin, John, James, Robert, Obadiah, Albert, Jane (who married Caleb Ely), Joanna (wife of George Ely) and Elizabeth. All were good sing- ers and sang at the memorial service held at Sunbury at the time of Washington's death.

boatman on that canal, later engaging in farming and for many years in merchandising at Klines- grove. He was the silent partner in the store there for many years, and was afterward exten- sively engaged in the milling business, at both Klinesgrove and Sunbury, conducting two mills, and giving employment to a number of men in his milling and agricultural operations. Able and energetic in his business affairs, he was also a use- ful man in the general affairs of the community, was one of the organizers and builders of the Klinesgrove Methodist Church and took some part in public matters. Possessed of force and charac- ter, he was the man chiefly instrumental in the

Robert Campbell, evidently son of Obadiah, above, born in New Jersey, was the first of the construction of the church and the collection of family to come to this county. He settled in funds for that purpose. He and his brothers, Rush township and became one of the prominent Lemuel and Harmon K., gave the ground upon citizens of that locality. His children were: which the fine edifice was erected, and he burned Christopher; Abraham, who lived in Rush town- the brick and gave time and effort to the snc- ship and died in 1861 (he and his wife Jane had cessful completion of the building. in which he Robert, Duncan and David) : Robert, who died took innch pride. During the Civil war he ren- young ; James, who lived in Upper Augusta town- dered service to the government: he was public- ship (he married Polly Kline and had children spirited in local matters: served on road views Harmon and Robert) : Elenor, Mrs. John Kline; and often as juryman : and was a candidate for Jane, Mrs. John ; and Maria, Mrs. Sanders, who the nomination for sheriff of the county, but was defeated. He was a Republican in his political views. moved with her husband to New York State about 1830.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 62

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