Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 65

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

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Mrs. Caroline ( Montgomery ) Vincent traces her ancestry back to Robert Montgomery, who emi- grated to this country from County Armagh, Ire- land, when thirty-two years old, and settled in Dauphin county, Pa. He located on the site of the present city of Harrisburg and was one of the first grand jurors of Dauphin county. He died in 1776, aged seventy-one years. To him and his wife Sar- widow of John H. Vincent; and Sarah E .. wife of ah were born five children : William, Thomas, Hugh, David and John.

John Montgomery, son of Robert, was born in Ireland, and was four years old when he came to this country with his parents. He grew to man- hood in Dauphin county, became a farmer by oc-

six years, and his wife, Rachel (Simpson), died in 1806, at the early age of twenty-six years. They were the parents of three children: Nancy, who married Robert Van Valzah, M. D .; John T., who

William Montgomery, son of William, was born March 7, 1805, on the old homestead, and early in life settled at Limestone Ridge, but later bought

fine estate at the time of his death, which was caused by smallpox, in February, 1875. He mar- ried Molly Caldwell, daughter of John Caldwell. and they had children as follows : William C., who married Hadassa G. Dearmond: Mary Jane, who resides with her sister Mrs. Vincent, and who is the widow of John M. Thatcher, a hot water fur- nace manufacturer of New York; Caroline M .. Valentine S. Truckermiller, of Truckermiller's Mills.

PHILIP ECKMAN, late of Sunbury. was for a number of years engaged in business in that bor- ough as a merchant and later as agent for farming cupation, and in 1773 exchanged an improved implements, in which lines he did a thriving trade. tract in that county for a wild tract in Turbut His widow, Mrs. Harriet (Conrad) Eekman. still township, Northumberland county, making a trade continues to make her home there.

Mr. Eckman was born in 1843 in Ruhtown.

with William Patterson. The deal proved advan- tagcons for Mr. Montgomery, who started his life Northumberland county, and was a great-grandson in the new region under better conditions than of Charles Eckman, the founder of the family in

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this county. Charles Eckman was a native of New of peaches, which he took to market in such quan- Jersey, and coming to Northumberland county set- tities that he used a six-horse team. Nine children tled in Upper Augusta township, many of his de- were born to John and Julia (Cooper.) Conrad: seendants now living in this section. His wife's maiden name was DeWitt.

(1) Daniel married a Miss Wolfe. (?) William married Susan Huey and (second ) a Bartholomew. (3) George married Esther Reiser. (4) Julia

Philip Eckman, son of Charles, had five sons : Charles, Isaac, John, Jacob and Abram. Of these, Ann married Henry Gass and had children, Wil- Charles married Elizabeth J. Kline and they had liam, Jacob, George, Maria, Susan, Lonise and Harriet. (5) Sarah married a Mr. Gehrunger. (6) Elias, born June 20, 1819, died Jan. 27, 1849. His wife was a Gehrlinger. (?) Kate married a Mr. Cooper. (S) Ann Maria married Decaton Herb and had five children, Julia, Maria, Daniel. children : John Edgar, who married Theodosia Forrester, and died in 1868; Elisha M., who mar- ried Mrs. Mary E. ( Reed) Campbell, widow of Harmon K. Campbell ; Margaret, deceased : Clar- issa Ann, deceased, who was the wife of H. C. Say- idge and had children Grace and Edgar : and Decaton and Samuel. (9) Susan married Samuel James D. Isaac, son of Philip, had children Col. Herb. Charles Eckman and David Eckman.

John Eckman, son of Philip, was born in 1817 and died in 1906, beloved by all who knew him. He was a conscientious Christian gentleman, for many years an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and the weather was never so severe that he could not be found in his pew. He married Theressa Mettler.

GEORGE CONRAD, son of John and Julia (Coop- er) Conrad, was the father of Mrs. Eckman. He was born Ang. 26, 1808, in Upper Augusta town- ship, and died May 17, 1877. His wife, Esther ( Reiser), born July 26, 1811, died Nov. 11, 1886. They were the parents of the following children : (1) Catharine married Albert Beckley, and their children were Florine ( married Charles Zerbe),

Philip Eckman, son of John and Theressa ( Met- Clara (married John Evert). Alice (died young) tler) Eckman, was engaged as a merchant in Sun- bury for many years, and later became a general agent for agricultural implements, in which line he was also suecessful. He died in 1904. He was a substantial citizen and highly esteemed by the many who knew him in both business and social relations.

and Hattie. (?) William died young. (3) Harriet is the widow of Philip Eckman, of Sunbury. (4) Henry married Sophia Fasold and they had a family of seven, George M. (who married Della Burns and had a daughter Ruth), Cora (wife of W. P. G. Hoffman), Esther ( died young), Charles (who married a Miss Lawrence and subsequently a Miss Evster), Ida (wife of J. B. Gould ), Emily (Mrs. William Seott, whose children are Thomas and Henry) and William. (5) Amandus A. mar- ried Mary Wise. (6) Gideon. (?) Silas mar- ried Ellen Clark.

WILLIAM B. LEWIS. general manager of the W. F. Tauble hosiery mills at Shamokin. North- minberland connty, has risen to his present posi- tion of responsibility by faithful attention to duty and executive ability which has proved valuable to the large concern with which he is identified. He entered the business when twenty-one years old in an humble capacity and has made his way by in- telligent service and unremitting application to his work. The concern ocenpies an important place in the industrial life of Shamekin and vicinity, giving employment to about five hundred and sev- enty-five hands at the mills in the city as well as

Mr. Lewis was born in March, 1869. at Camden, N. J., son of Enoch Lewis and grandson of Ben- jamin Lewis. The grandfather lived and died in New Jersey. Enoch Lewis was an engineer in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railway Company. on the ferryboats taking freight from Philadelphia to

John Conrad, Mrs. Eckman's grandfather, was born March 18, 1972, and died June 11, 1839. He married Julia Cooper, who was born June 1. 1678. and died Dec. 22. 1841. They lived on the hill near Sunbury, and Mr. Conrad gave his attention Camden. He died when only thirty-three years principally to the raising of fruit, having the larg- old. He married Rebecca Bishoff, who now makes est orchard in the vicinity. He made a specialty her home at Riverside, N. J., and they had four

On Oct. 1, 1868, Mr. Eckman married Harriet Conrad, who was born in what was then Upper Augusta township, now included in the borongh of Sunbury. One child was born to them, . Esther, who is a graduate of the Sunbury high school. Mr. and Mrs. Eckman also reared Gertrude Fausold Eckman, who is now the wife of Ammon Geise and has had the following children: Panl, Harriet, Charles W. (deceased ), Henry Lee, Stanley Eck- man, Esther, Gertrude and Philip Eckman. Since the death of Mr. Eckman Mr. Geise has assisted Mrs. Eckman in her business affairs. After the death of her father she erected a fine brick house upon the property her father left her. It is a pleasant. residence, surrounded by a beautiful and well kept lawn, and she and her daughter have a comfortable home there. She has divided her farm into borough lots, most of which she has sold. and Mr. Geise has helped her in the division of the property and the sale of the lots. She is held in to two hundred in the mill at Mount Carmel.

the highest respect by her neighbors and friends, who are numerous in the community.

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children : Wesley, Nettie, William B. and Eliza- beth. The family came from Germany to this country. and first settled in Berks county, later moving to William B. Lewis received a common school edu- cation. He was first employed at firing on a steain- boat for the J. W. Paxton Company of Philadel- phia, at Pier No. 45, continuing at this work for five years. When twenty-one he began work in the hosiery business at Riverside, N. J., in the em- ploy of William F. Tauble, as a stoeking knitter, and by industry was advanced steadily until he at- tained the position he now holds. The company the Mahantango Valley, in Northumberland coun- ty. Peter Mowery, grandfather of the three broth- ers named, was born in the Mahantango Valley, and later settled near Edgewood Park, at Bear Val- . ley (Shamokin), where he was among the first settlers. Subsequently he removed to Locust township, Columbia county, where he followed farming until his death. His wife was Magda- lena Loudelsleger, and both are buried in Colum- was incorporated at Shamokin Jan. 1, 1901, and bia county. They were the parents of a large fam- on March 17th following located in a small build- ily : Michael, who died in Columbia county ; John, who died in Jefferson county. Pa .: Solomon, George and Peter, all three of whom died in Columbia county; Daniel ; Sarah; Sophia : Fronie ; Elizabeth ; Leah; Sabina, and Catharine. The mother of this family had an experience typical of the time in which she lived. While they were living near Bear Valley she was attracted by a noise in the pig pen, and going to investigate ing on Lincoln street. In October of the same vear a one-story building was erected for the ae- commodation of the business, which was promising from the start, and the following year a two-story building was put up. In 1903 a large four-story building was constructed, and all of these build- ings, which oeeupy an advantageous location on West Walnut street, Shamokin, are now used for manufacturing the output of seamless hosiery for found a bear trying to steal a pig. The men be- which the Tauble mills have become famous. In ing all away from the house, elearing the land, she construction and equipment they are first-class in attacked the animal with a long-handled fire shov- every particular and a credit to the city as well as el and killed it. to the owners. About five hundred and seventy- Daniel Mowery, son of Peter, was born at Bear Valley. In his earlier years he followed farming, five hands find employment in the mill at Sham- okin. Several other mills are operated by the but he later became engaged at mining, and he was same coneern, one at Mount Carmel, one at Phil- killed in the mines in 1855, when forty-five years adelphia, one at Riverside, N. J., and one at Tam- old. He was interred in a small burial ground on the Mount Carmel road out from Shamokin. His wife, Mary ( Yeager), daughter of John Yeager and his wife Sarah ( McClow), of Columbia county, Pa .. is buried in the Shamokin cemetery. They had the following children: John is de- ceased ; Mary is the widow of John B. Snyder, of Shamokin : Caroline is deceased: Peter. Daniel W. and Harvey are mentioned below : Susan is the widow of Daniel Zimmerman: William died young ; Lney (deceased ) married Washington Leiby and (second) Washington Fahringer. aqua, Pa., the combined output plaeing it among the most extensive manufacturers of seamless hosi- ery in the United States. Mr. Lewis, the general manager at Shamokin. is a busy man, well liked among those with whom he has dealings in any of the relations of life, and has earned the esteem and respect of his fellow citizens in Shamokin since tak- ing up his residence in that eity. He was one of the organizers and original directors of the new Dime Trust & Safe Deposit Company of Sham- okin.

On March 31, 1891. Mr. Lewis married Laura Pike, and they have one daughter, Elizabeth, now the wife of Jaeob Neihoff, of Shamokin .. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis live at No. 1020 West Chestnut street, Shamokin. The family are Methodists in religious faith. Fraternally he holds membership in the B. P. O. Elks and the Jr. O. U. A. M.

PETER MOURY. eldest surviving son of Daniel, was born Nov. 14, 1842, in Shamokin. He re- ceived his edueation in the schools of Columbia county, was reared upon the farm, and in his young manhood learned the carpenter's trade. which he followed for some time at Shamokin and elsewhere in Northumberland county. In all he was engaged at his trade for about thirty years. being at the Big Mountain colliery about eleven years, and also at the Henry Clay. Nelson. Peun- sylvania and Green Ridge collieries. Upon gir- ing up his trade he was elected janitor of the Me-

MOWERY. This name is found in various forms here in Northumberland county, Mourer, Maurer, Mowery and Moury being common forms. This article pertains particularly to the three sur- viving sons of Daniel Mowery, Peter, Daniel W. Kinley school building, in Coal township. in 1996. and Harvey, the first and last named being resi- and has since filled that position, which occupies denfs of the borough of Shamokin, and Daniel W. all his time. He has long made his home in Sham- living in Shamokin township, where he owns the okin, having built his present heme. at No. 1111 valuable Brookside farm. All are worthy repre- Walnut street. in 1886. He is a respected eirizen. sentatives of a name long and favorably known in well known in Shamokin and throughont Coal this region. township. In politics he is a Democrat, in religion

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a Lutheran. Socially he holds membership in the bert died at the age of thirteen; Lottie died when I. O. O. F. ten years old : Ellis died at the age of eight years ;

On Jan. 5, 1868, Mr. Moury married Mary A. Clarence D. is at home.

HARVEY MOWERY, son of Daniel, now living re-

Moyer, who was boru March 10, 1852, daughter of David and Catharine M. (Cherry) Mover, and fif- tired in the borough of Shamokin, was born No ... teen children have been born to their union, name- 9, 1847, at Shamokin. He followed mining for a ly : Mary C., born Nov. 9, 1868, married John A. considerable period, being in the employ of the Mengel : David died when seventeen years old; El- Philadelphia & Reading Company for about twen- la R., born March 17, 1822, married William H. ty years, retiring in the year 1910. Mr. Mowery Ritche; Daniel H. was born Aug. 29, 1873; John owns a farm in Shamokin township, which he W. was born Jan. 15, 1815: Ida S., born Nov. 19, rents out, and has some valuable holdings of real 1876, married Wilson G. Yoder; Stella C. died estate in Coal township, at the limits of Sham- in infancy ; Clara E., born July 10, 1880, married okin borough. His home is at No. 826 West Pine Edward Hess; Alice W., born March 13, 1883, street. married Absalom Davis ; Bertha E., born July 18, Mr. Mowery married Amelia Hartline. daugh- ter of Joseph and Lydia ( Rebuck) Hartline, and 1884, married Bert Goodman : Sarah . M. died when five years old ; Fannie A., born Nov. 6, 1888, died to them has been born a large family: Minerva, now the wife of Lewis Reed: William, who mar-

when eight years old; Florence M., born March died in infancy. 17, 1891, is at home; Carrie M. and Arthur E. ried Laura Hains and (second) Katie Noll: Dan- iel, who lives in New Jersey ; Mary, wife. of.Harry Lake; Michael C., living at home ; Edna, at home; Lucy, married to William Thomas: Malchom,

DANIEL W. MOWERY, son of Daniel, was born Jan. 31, 1845, in Columbia county, Pa., and re- ceived his education in the public schools. When who married Edna Persing; Ellis; Ruth; Clinton; nine years old he began to pick slate at the break- Annie, deceased; Rosie, deceased; Edith and Eth- er, working thus one year. He then went to live el, twins; and a son that died in infancy. with Daniel Keller, at Bear Gap, and while there Fraternally Mr. Mowery is an Odd Fellow, be- enlisted for service in the Civil war, joining Com- longing to Black Diamond Lodge, No. 1092, and pany D, 95th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, to the Encampment : and he is a member of Wash- under Capt. Charles Grosh, of Lancaster, Pa., the ington Camp No. 149, P. O. S. of A. In religious company being recruited from Lancaster county. connection he is a member of the Reformed He served one hundred days. In 1866 Mr. Mow- Church.

ery located at his present home in Shamokin town- ship, which formed part of the old Persing prop-

CHARLES WOLVERTON CLEMENT, attor- erty. He has erected all new buildings upon his ney at law, of Sunbury, Northumberland county, land, and his property, known as the Brookside is a native of that place and a member of one of farm, is in up-to-date condition in every respect. its most prominent families. His grandfather, He follows general farming and trucking, and has Ira T. Clement, long the most influential man in prospered steadily by dint of hard work and good management. Mr. Mowery is a good neighbor and well liked in his community, has served three years as township treasurer, is a very active mem- ber of the U. B. Church, which he has served as Joseph Clement, Mr. Clement's great-grand- father, served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He died on Staten Island, New York. In 1805 he married, in Sussex county. N. J .. Hannah Hazen, 'and they had three children: Augustus, this section, was a man who not only acquired means and position by his own efforts, but also brought advantageous industrial enterprises into the region which benefited the entire community. treasurer, trustee, class leader and Sunday school superintendent. and politically is a Prohibitionist. He is a man who possesses the courage of his con- victions, and he has been influential in promoting the best interests of his locality. He is one of those who married Caroline Lyons and died in Sunbury ; interested in the Irish Valley Rural Bell Telephone Company, which has seven miles of wire, put up in 1909. and 1910 by fourteen enterprising men of the valley.

Sarah, who first married a Mr. Hazen and later became the wife of Dr. Woodbridge. and raised a large family ; and Ira T. Mrs. Joseph Clement married for her second husband Solomon Smith.

Mr. Mowery married Mary C. Zimmerman, Ira T. Clement, born Jan. 11, 1813. in New Jersey, was a young child when brought by his mother to Northumberland county, Pa .: where he spent the remainder of his life, dying Oct. 28, 1898. A more complete account of his life appears daughter of Michael and Clarissa (Snyder) Zim- merman, of Columbia county. and they have be- come the parents of ten children : Laura, John and Ida all died young: Michael married Rosie Fur- man, and their children are Daniel, Ruth and Paul: elsewhere in this work. In 1834 he married Sarah Eva married Lewis S. Tharp, and they have had Martz, of Shamokin township, daughter of David! children, Mary, Beulah, Ida, Elva, Donald and and Magdalena ( Shissler) Martz, and to them Howard; Adam died when fifteen years old; Al- were born twelve children: Amelia, who died un-

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married ; Henry; Catharine A., who died young; LL. B., and supplementing his course with special David; a child that died in infancy; Mary Jane, work which won him the degree of Master of who married John W. Bucher; Louisa, widow of Patent Law in 1903. He was admitted to the Henry E. Moore; Sarah Frances, who married Northumberland county bar June 23, 1902. While taking his law course he was associated with his brother-in-law, Mr. Watson, gaining practical ex- David C. Dissinger and survived him; Laura I., · who married Dietrich James; Maria W., who died unmarried ; and Grace and Emma, who died young. perience in patent law, of which he too makes a Only two of this family, Henry and Mrs. Moore, specialty. He also studied for a time with Gen. C. survived the father.

David Clement, son of Ira T., was born in ington a short time after completing his work in August, 1810, in Sunbury, and was interested with. the law school, Mr. Clement returned to Sunbury his father and brother in the lumber business and has since devoted himself to practice in this throughout his active career, continuing thus until locality. His office is in Room 322, in the First his death, April 7, 1876, at a comparatively early

M. Clement, of Sunbury. Remaining in Wash- a creditable one from the beginning, and has shown a steady increase, his standing being irreproach- able, whether from the professional or the personal standpoint. He is a member of the Sunbury Board of Trade.

National Bank building, at which location he has age. On Nov. 2, 1866, he married Sarah Wolver- done business since 1904. His patronage has been ton, a member of a prominent family of this local- ity, born Nov. 22, 1844, on the Wolverton home- stead some miles below Sunbury, daughter of Den- nis Wolverton, in his day a prominent resident of Upper Augusta township. Mrs. Clement con- tinued to live at the home at Second and Arch Mr. Clement is a Republican in politics and is at present serving in the borough council as repre- sentative of the First Ward. His social connec- tions are numerous. he being a member of Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A. M., of which he is at pres- ent senior warden (1911) ; Northumberland Chap- ter, No. 174, R. A. M .; Mount Hermon Com- mandery, No. 85, K. T .: the Royal Arcanum; the Sons of Veterans ; the Temple Club : the Coun- try Club, of which he is president ; the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity ; and the Bucknell Alumni Association. He is an attendant of the Baptist Church. streets, Sunbury, until her death, May 30, 1910, after an illness of over six months, and she is buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. The funeral was conducted by Rev. R. R. Thompson, pastor of the Baptist Church, of which she was a lifelong member, faithful and conscientious in her Chris- tian duties and in all other relations of life. She was also an active member of the board of direc- tors of the Y. W. C. A. and of the Ladies' Aux- iliary of the Mary M. Packer hospital. Her many excellent traits of character and useful life en- deared her to a wide circle of friends and acquaint- ances. She was the last survivor of her family, her brothers and sisters having all predeceased her. They were as follows: Horatio J. Wolverton, at one time a .well known lawyer of Sunbury; Wil- liam J. Wolverton, also a lawyer, and at one time county superintendent of schools; Mrs. Peter .Snyder ; Mrs. James Riland ; Mrs. Thomas Snyder, and Mrs. William Kline.

DR. A. T. DEWITT was born in 1837, in Augusta township, Northumberland county, and is a member of the DeWitt family here. In the early part of the seventeenth century, when the emigrant ancestors came to this country from Holland, they settled on Manhattan island. namn- ing it New Amsterdam.

The records show that there were two brothers, one remaining in New York, while the other moved to New Jersey. About 1807 Paul DeWitt,

Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. David Clement: Mary, who is the wife of James A. Wat- son, a patent attorney, of Washington, D. C., and has three children, Robert C., J. Angus and C. a member of the New Jersey branch of the fam- Harold; John W., who died in infancy ; and Charles Wolverton. ily, and grandfather of Dr. DeWitt, came with a number of other New Jersey families to Pennsyl- berland county. He married Margaret Persing, and to them were born three children: Abraham, who moved to Philadelphia, Pa .; William, and Elizabeth, Mrs. Reppard.

Charles Wolverton Clement. born Feb. 1, 1875, vania, settling in Augusta township. Northum- at Sunbury, there received most of his preparatory education, in the local schools, graduating from the high school in 1892. He spent one year of his high school life at Washington, D. C. Entering Bueknell College, he graduated from that institu- William De Witt, son of Paul, married Elizabeth Tressler, and to them were born seven chikiren: Jacob, who married Mary Clark and had three children : Isaac, who married Elizabeth Cressiger and had seven children, two sons and five daugh- ters: Paul, who married Abigal Shipman, and had five children, three sons and two daughters: tion in 1898, with the degree of B. S., receiving his master's degree from that institution in 1904. Meantime, however, he had completed his prepara- tion for the legal profession. He attended what was then known as Columbian University. at Washington. D. C., now George Washington Uni- -

versity, graduating in 1902 with the degree of William, who married Mary Latsha and han sight

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children, two sons and six daughters: Matthew, On April 1, 1866, Dr. De Witt resumed the prac- who married Elizabeth Shipman and had two tice of his profession, at Snydertown, Pa., in 1878 moving to the borough of Riverside, where he has

children, one son and one daughter: Moses, who married Lavina Strausser and had four children, since been located. He has won a place among one son and three daughters; and Abraham T., who married Sarah Renn and had four children, three sons and one daughter.

Dr. Abraham T. De Witt, the youngest son, was reared upon a farm until he reached the age of sixteen years. . He next spent two years at work in the mill of his brother William, and then took the opportunity to improve his early education, attending the academy at Boalsburg, in Center county, Pa. After that he began his experience as teacher, being thus engaged for one term in Snyder county, Pa., at the close of which he be- came a student at what then was known as the Freeburg Academy, in Snyder county. The fol- lowing winter he taught school in Schuylkill coun- ty, and then again resumed his studies, at the Missionary Institute, now Susquehanna Univer- sity, located at Selinsgrove, Pa. He began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Caslow, of Halifax, Dauphin county, and in 1861 entered the University of Vermont. from which institution he was graduated June 9, 1862. Dr. De Witt at once settled at Snydertown, Northum- berland county, where he continued private prac- tice . until he took the examination for army ser- vice in June, 1863, and passing was soon appointed assistant surgeon, 54th Pennsylvania Volun- teers, Emergency Men. for one hundred days' ser- vice. The command was sent out of the State, and Dr. DeWitt assisted in the capture of Gen. years is remarkably well preserved.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 65

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