Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 67

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

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"His election to this body raised him upon a higher plane of political activity, but con- tact with the Federal chiefs of the Senate on- ly strengthened his political convictions, which, part of the Revolutionary period. He "assisted in formed by long intercourse with the people equipping and forwarding troops to the Conti- of middle Pennsylvania, were intensely Denio- nental army, and marched with the Associators" to cratic. He began to differ with the opinions the seat of war, participating in the battles of of President Washington very early in the ses- Trenton and Princeton. After his return to Sun- bury he served as issuing commissary, and he fled with his family to Paxtang in 1218, his letter to the Council, written July 12th of that year, urg- ing that reinforcements be sent to Colonel Hunter.

sion ; he did not approve of the state and ceremony attendant upon the intercourse of the President with Congress : he flatly objected to the presence of the President in the Senate while business was he- ing transacted, and in the Senate boldly spoke

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against his policy in the immediate presence of children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Maclay, of President Washington. The New England histor- whom Mary, fourth child and second daughter, ians, Hildreth and Goodrich, repute Thomas Jef- married Samuel Awl, a prominent resident of Up- ferson as the 'efficient promoter at the beginning per Augusta township, Northumberland county. and father and founder of the Democratic party. Contemporary records, however, show beyond the MOESCHLIN. The firm of J. & A. Moesch- lin, incorporated, owners of the Cold Spring Brewery at Sunbury, was established in 1873 and has been in continuous existence since that time, doing a large business in the borough and sur- rounding territory. It was incorporated under the present name Jan. 11, 1911. The brothers Julius and August Moeschlin, originally composing this firin, were born in Baden, Germany, sons of Jacob Moeschlin, who was also a brewer by occupation. shadow of a doubt that this responsibility or honor, in whatever light it may be regarded, cannot be shifted from the shoulders or taken from the laurels of Pennsylvania statesmanship. Before Mr. Jefferson's return from Europe, William Ma- clay assumed an independent position, and in his short career of two years in the Senate propounded ideas and gathered about him elements to form the opposition which developed, with the meeting of Congress at Philadelphia on the 24th of October, Jacob Moeschlin was born in 1820 in Wittlingen, Baden, Germany, and learned the trade of brewer in his native land, where he was proprietor of breweries. Coming to America in 1866 he started a brewery at Norristown, Pa., where he remained three years, thence moving to St. Clair, Schuyl- kill county, where he was located for a short tinie before coming to Sunbury, Northumberland county. After a year and a half at this point he returned to the Fatherland to settle up his busi- ness affairs, in 1874 returning to America, where in the meantime his sons Julius and August had become engaged in the brewery business, at Sun- bury. He started the Star Brewery at Williams- port, Pa., but after one year there came to live with his sons at Sunbury, where he passed the rest of his days, dying May 6, 1890, aged sixty- nine years, six months, two days. He is buried at Sunbury. His wife, Anna Maria ( Noll), who was born in Baden in 1817, died Nov. 4, 1890, aged seventy-two years, eleven months, eighteen days (six months later than her husband), and is buried by his side in Pomfret Manor cemetery. They had two children, Julius and August. 1791, in a division of the people into two great parties, the Federalists and Democrats, when for the first time appeared an open and organized op- position to the administration. The funding of the public debt, chartering the United States Bank. and other measures championed necessarily by the administration, whose duty it was to put the wheels of government in motion, engendered opposition. Mr. Maclay, to use his own language, 'no one else presenting himself,' fearlessly took the initiative, and with his blunt common sense ( for he was not much of a speaker) and democratic ideas, took issue with the ablest advocates of the administra- tion. Notwithstanding the prestige of General Washington and the ability of the defenders of the administration on the floor of the Senate, such was the tact and resolution of Mr. Maclay that when, after his short service, he was retired from the Senate and succeeded by Jamies Ross, a pro- nounced Federalist, their impress was left in the distinctive lines of an opposition party-a party which, taking advantage of the warm feeling of our people toward the French upon the occasion of Jay's treaty with Great Britain in 1:94, and of the unpopularity of the Alien and Sedition laws. Loerrach, Baden, Germany, and there received his

. passed under the administration of President John Adams, in 1798, compassed the final overthrow of the Federal party in 1800."

From the close of his senatorial career until his death Mr. Maclay resided upon his farm. at Har- risburg, erecting the substantial stone building subsequently occupied by the academy of that city. His services to his community did not end with his retirement from the Senate. In 1795 and 1803 he was again elected to the State Legislature: in 1796 he was a Presidential elector and in 1801-03 he served as associate judge of Dauphin county. He died April 16, 1804, and was buried at Paxtang Church. In 1269 he married Mary McClure Har- ris, daughter of John Harris, the founder of the city of Harrisburg, and granddaughter of the re- nowned John Harris, who was rescued from being burned to death by the Indians on the river bank where the State Capitol is now located. Nine

JULIUS MOESCHILIN was born June 12, 1851, in education in the public schools, which he attended from the time he was seven years old until he reached the age of fifteen. At an early age he be- gan to learn the brewing business in all its branches, so that he was familiar with the commercial side of the work as well as the trade practically from boyhood. In September, 1867, when in his seventeenth year, he came to America, landing at New York City. His father, who had come to this country the previous year, had a brewery at Norristown, Pa., and the son went there to assist him, spending his first few years in the United States at that point. In 1870 the father came to Sunbury, and Julius Moeschlin arrived there on Thanksgiving Day of that year, again to become his father's assistant. He became brewmaster for Joseph Bacher, who had . established what is now the Cold Spring Brewery in Sunbury in 1865, and remained with him until 1873, when he and his

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brother bought out Mr. Bacher and continued the phia College of Pharmacy as a druggist; Harriet business on their own account. During the thir- E., who graduated from high school in 1908 and ty-seven years of their ownership the plant was im- is now at home; and Annie L., at home. proved and enlarged until there is little of the orig- AUGUST MOESCHLIN was born June 10, 1853, inal establishment left to recognize. The site was in Loerrach, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Ger- chosen for its convenience, the first buildings-all many, and received a good education in the pub- of which have been replaced by modern structures lic schools of lis native land, attending between the ages of six and fourteen continuously. For two -having been erected over a fine spring, from which the plant derives its name. The location is years he attended night school. He learned the at Seventh and Packer streets, and the large and

trade of butcher, but he did not follow it long, well equipped buildings are the best evidence of having given his principal attention to the brew- the prosperity . the concern enjoys and of the ing business. Coming to America in July, 1823, he was in Philadelphia for about two months, ar- riving in Sunbury Sept. 21st of that year. He and his brother purchased the brewery from Mr. Bach- er, as previously related, soon after his arrival, and from that time conducted it together, August Moeschlin taking charge of all the outside work, looking after the horses, attending to collections and managing the farm-a most important branch of the work, the firm owning a tract of 170 acres in Upper Augusta township, this county, which they cultivate in connection with their brewing business. He is an able business man, and though

intelligent manner in which the business has been built up. The output is large, and a good mar- ket is found in the home community and in sur- rounding counties. A considerable amount is sold at Northumberland. Employment is now given to thirty men, and fifteen horses and two motor trucks are required for the distribution of the pro- duct. On Jan. 11, 1911, after the death of Mr. Julius Moeschlin, the concern became incorporated under the firm name of J. & A. Moeschlin, and began business as such on Feb. 1st with August Moeschlin as president ; Edward A. Moeschlin, vice president ; Reinhart J. Moeschlin, treasurer; not himself a brewer has thorough familiarity with John H. Otto, secretary and manager; Sophia C. all the needs of the work, doing his share toward Moeschlin and C. E. Sautters, directors.

the maintenance and upbuilding of the trade, which has shown a gratifying increase through-

Mr. Julins Moeschlin became one of the sub- stantial business men of his adopted town, and he out the existence of the firm.

was interested in the Sunbury National Bank, of which he was a director from 1907. From 1901 he served continuously as a member of the school board, representing the Sixth ward. He died Dec. 14, 1910, aged fifty-nine years, six months, two days. Like his brother, Mr. Moeschlin is well known socially, holding membership in the Elks, Knights of Pythias, Order of Moose, Odd Fellows, and Owls, all of Sunbury, and in No. 1 Fire Com- pany. He belongs to the Lutheran Church. He is a director of the North Branch Fire Insurance Company, of Sunbury, and succeeded his brother cial relations, belonging to Lodge No. 22, F. & A. as director of the Sunbury National Bank.

Mr. Moeschlin had numerous fraternal and so- M., of Sunbury ; Lodge No. 143, Knights of Pyth- ias, of .Sunbury ; Lodge No. 89, I. O. R. M .; Aerie No. 503, Fraternal Order of Eagles ; Conclave No. 11, S. P. K .; the Order of Moose; the Temple Club; the Lewisburg Club; the Concordia Saen- gerverein ; and Washington Fire Company, which he served ten years as treasurer. He was a mem- ber of the First Reformed Church.

On Nov. 23, 1884, Mr. Moeschlin married An- nie Fenstermacher, daughter of Isaae Fenster- macher, of Dalmatia, in Lower Mahanov town- ship. Eight children have been born to this union, two of whom are deceased, the survivors being: Gussie, who is now the wife of C. E. Sautters, collector and a director of J. & A. Moeschlin, Inc. : Elena M .; Frank F .; M. Ralph; Rachel V., and

On Dec. 28, 1880, Mr. Moeschlin married John K.

Sophia C. Mulfinger, of Danville, Pa., and they had eight children, of whom two are deceased, the

MARR FAMILY, genealogy of the Pennsyl- six survivors being as follows: Edward A., who vania branch. Joseph Marr was one of the pi- graduated from the Sunbury high school in 1901, oneers of Turbut township, Northumberland Co., and from Wyatt's Business Academy, of New Pa. He was born in Northampton county, Pa .. York City, in 1907, and who is now brewmaster in June 15, 1750, the son of Lawrence Marr, sup- the employ of J. & A. Moeschlin: Mary II., a posed to have come to America from Scotland in trained nurse of Sunbury, who graduated from the early part of the year 1700. who settled in Upper Mount Bethel township. Northampton Co., Pa., died (aged ninety years) and was buried there. On July 2, 1792, Joseph Marr purchased the Philadelphia Women's Homeopathic Hospital in 1906; Catharine M. (who graduated from high school in 1903), who married Melvin G. Fahr- inger, of Elysburg, now the bookkeeper of J. & A. from the widow of Turbut Francis a tract of land. Moeschlin, Inc. ; Reinhart J., who graduated from one mile square, a part of the tract known as the high school in 1906 and in 1909 from the Philadel- "Colonel's Reward," lying on the east bank of the

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west branch of the Susquehanna river. embracing adelphia and adjacent country out to the Susque .. the northern part of what is now Milton, includ- hanna, was made in the year 1685 by Thomas ing the three farms north of that place. For this land he paid."four pounds per acre lawful money Holme, as president of the Governor's Council, and was signed by William Frampton and seven of Pennsylvania and a negro girl at the price of other white inen and eleven Indians. It is recorded thirty pounds." He settled on the property in in the Book of Charters and Indian Deed. Page 62, in the office of the secretary of State at Harris- burg.

1793 and immediately built a stone house beauti- fully situated on the banks of the river. It is still standing. In later years it was purchased from the family of Alem Marr, his son, by Moses Cham- berlin. Joseph Marr died Sept. 18, 1796, aged forty-six years, and was buried in what was then the Marr burying ground, where the Lincoln street schoolhonse stands. Later his remains were re- moved to the upper cemetery, where they now rest. Mr. Marr was an earnest and consistent member of the Episcopal Church, in his day called the Church of England. On Aug. 18, 1794, he and his wife Susanna gave a tract of land, in Church lane, adjoining Upper Milton, to the trustees of

The children of Joseph and Susanna ( Price) Marr, all born at Upper Mount Bethel, North- ampton Co., Pa., were: (1) Mary, born April 20, 1775, died Jan. 27, 1830. On Dec. 25, 1795, she married Robert Martin, lawyer, and they had four children, Jane, Susanna, Joseph Marr and James. Left no descendants. (?) Hannah, born April 20, 1776, died Feb. 24, 1857. (3) David, born March 14, 1779, died Feb. 14, 1819, unmarried. (4) William, born March 26, 1782, died Dec. 18, 1823. (3) Joseph died Oct. 5, 1804. (6) Alem.

Hannah Marr, daughter of Joseph, born April the Episcopal congregation for burial and church 20, 1776, died in Milton Feb. 24, 1857. On Jan.

purposes. He was one of the founders of the 12, 1797, she married William Hull, who was born in Sussex county, N. J., July 17, 1771, and set- church of that denomination and the prime mover in the erection of the first church of that faith in tled in Turbut township, Northumberland Co., Northumberland county. The church as an or- ganized body dates back to 1793.

Mr. Marr married Susanna Price, who was born April 27, 1254, and died Dec. 27, 1826. Mrs. fourteen children, those who lived to maturity be- Marr, who was of Quaker ancestry, was the daugh- ter of David Price and Hannah Frampton. Through her mother she was descended from Wil- liam Frampton, of England, who was appointed by William Penn, Feb. 23, 1685, a member of his of one of the big floods of the Susquehanna river. Council held at Philadelphia, commissioner of (3) William Price, born in 1813, died in 1876, unmarried. (4) Thomas Ryerson, born in 1815, Kent and Sussex counties, 1685-86, was registrar general for the Provinces of Pennsylvania and Del- died in 1886. (5) Sarah A., born in 1817. died in aware at the time of his death, in 1686, and one 1859. She married John H. Brown, and had chil- of the signers of Penn's "Actual Treaty with the dren, Sarah, Emma and Frampton. (6) Hannah Maria, born in 1821, died in 1864. She married

Indians in 1685 for the land of the present city of Philadelphia and the adjacent country out to the Robert M. Slater. No descendants.

Susquehanna." Penn returned from New York the end of 168 ?. To this period belongs the "Great Treaty" which took place at Shakamaxon. Thomas Wescott, whose researches have exceeded perhaps any other, says there is no evidence that a "Treaty of Peace" or of purchase of lands ever was held under the great elm tree at Shakamaxon in 168? by William Penn, and yet tradition is very positive on the subject. This pleasing transac- tion has been so fully engrafted on Pennsylvania history we hesitate to dispel it. The site of the elm tree is marked by a monument erected in 1827.

It is strange that for so important a matter as the Deed and Title to the lands which as Philadel- phiaus and even as Pennsylvanians we occupy, we have no original treaty to show, but the fact is, as the records at Harrisburg show, that the Ac- tual Treaty made for the lands. the present Phil-

Pa., in 1792 or 1793. He died April 28, 1828, up- on the homestead farm, which was a part of the original Marr farm. They were the parents of ing: (1) David, born in 1806, died in 1886. He married Emily Rittenhouse and (second) Jane Welch, and had several sons. (2) Alem, born in 1808, died in 1842. He was drowned at the time

Thomas Ryerson Hull, born in 1815, died in 1886. He read medicine and practiced his pro- fession until his death in Milton. He married Elizabeth J. MeCormick, and their children were : Margaret; Alem, a physician, living at Montgoin- ery, Pa .; William, who married and has a family ; Thomas; Elmer, a physician. living at Montgom- ery, Pa., who married Mary Weimer, of Lebanon, Pa .. and has a family of three sons, Elmer, Alen! and Weimer.

William Marr, fourth child of Joseph and Su- sanna Marr, married Mary Barber, and they had nine children, all born on the farm near Milton : Joseph, Phineas Barber, Susanna. Ann, James Barber. David Price, William II., Margaret and Alem Kennedy.

About 1826 William Marr erected the large stone mansion which is still standing on what was his portion of the estate. Later this became the prop-

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eity of Edmund H. Heaton, who married Janette is married and has three sons). The children of Dales, one of his granddaughters, the youngest the third wife of Joseph Marr, Mrs. Catherine child of David P. Marr.

Mrs. Mary ( Barber) Marr was descended from the Maxwells and Kennedys of Scotland. Her an- - cestor, Thomas Maxwell, was of the Kirkoonel line, which had its home in the valley of the Nith, Scot- land. Her great-grandfather, John Maxwell, with his wife and four children came from County Ty- rone, Ireland, to America in 1742. Their eldest son, William, became Brig. Gen. William Maxwell of the Continental Line on General Washington's staff. Jane Maxwell married James Kennedy and they were the grandparents of Mary Barber. Her father and mother were Phineas Barber (born .about 1747, died July 24, 1812) and Ann Ken- nedy (born about 1762, died Aug. 5, 1834), who married in 1979. The Kennedys were very prom- inent in the civil and religious life of Scotland, and men of position and influence in this country.

(Low) Van Slyke Marr, were: (1) James mar- ried Katie Knight, of Philadelphia, Pa., and had children, James, Emily and Josephine. (2) M. Elizabeth married Frank Kellerman, of Kansas City, and had a large family. (3) J. Josephine married Julius Cornelius Donovan, of Philadel- phia, Pa., and (second) Gustav A. Breaux, of New Orleans. Both her husbands were members of the Legislature of their respective States. Colonel Breaux was an officer in the Confederate service. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Cornelius Donovan had one child, Julia Cornelia, who was first married to An- drew Simonds, a banker of Charleston, S. C .; her second husband was also a banker, of Tren- ton, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Simonds had one child, a daughter. (4) Angeline married Harry Knight, of Philadelphia, Pa., and lived for many years in Harrisburg, Pa. Mr. Knight died in Sedalia, Mo. They had four children, Joseph, Josephine, Hor- ace and Harry.

Alem Marr, son of Joseph and Susanna ( Price) Marr, inherited the portion of the land adjoining to, and also that on which Upper Milton is built, Phineas Barber Marr, son of William and Mary (Barber) Marr, born Jan. 20, 1808, died Jan. 28, 1844. He was graduated at Jefferson College in 1830, and ordained to preach by the Presbytery of Northumberland county Nov. 13, 1834. He was stated supply at Williamsport, Pa., from 1833 to 1834 ; pastor at Lewisburg, Pa., 1834 to 1852. He was stated supply until his death, in 1874, at Lew- isburg, Pa. He married Mary Graham, daugh- ter of Alexander Graham and M. Margaret ( Spy- ker), of Lewisburg, and they had eleven children : (1) Mary Jane married Dr. John E. Barber: no and lived in the stone house built by his father. He was a lawyer of prominence and served two terms as a member of the United States Congress. He married Margaret Hunter. Their children were : 1) Isabel married Edward Shippen Thompson, who was descended from Edward Ship- pen, first mayor of Philadelphia. (2) Joseph, un- married, was a farmer. (3) William, a physician, married Anna L. Ross, and had four children, three sons and one daughter. One son, who is a physician, survives, and the daughter. (+) Charles became a physician. (5) Margaret W. descendants. (?) William A., a graduate of Buck- (6) Augustus is deceased.

nell University, at Lewisburg, was a prominent attorney and judge at Ashland, Pa. He was un- married. (3) Henry S., an attorney, married

Joseph Marr, eldest child of Williamn and Mary B. Marr, born March 14, 1806, entered Princeton Seminary in 1832, and was ordained by the Pres- Caroline Gould; no descendants. (4) James H. bytery of Northumberland April 22, 1835. After graduated from the Lewisburg University in 1860, forty years of service as a minister and teacher, at Princeton College in 1862, Princeton Theo- becoming infirm, he was honorably retired, and logical Seminary, 1865, and was ordained by the died at the home of his daughter Harriet, wife of Presbytery of San Francisco, Cal., March 21, Gen. Irvin Gregg. He was married three times, 1868. He was stated supply for five years ; pastor his first wife being a Miss Smith, of Milton. His at East Orange, 1870-78 : pastor at Beacon Church,

. second marriage, in 1835. was to Harriet Candor, Philadelphia, Pa., 1881-93; died at Point Pleas- sister of Joseph Candor, of White Deer, Union Co., ant, N. J., June 1, 1895. He married Mary Gra-

Pa., his third to Mrs. Catherine (Low ) Van Slyke,

liam, and they had two children, Mary ( deceased)

.of New York. The children of the first wife were: and Phineas. (5) Addison Graham, born Jan. Catherine, born in 1825, who married David. Me- 24, 1844, married Jan. 24, 1871, Margaret Wini- Cormick, lived in Harrisburg, and had children, fred Sheriff, daughter of John W. Sheriff, of Lew- iston. They had four children: William Price, born Dec. '31, 1871, attended the public schools of Shamokin, Pa., entered Lehigh University in Sep- tember, 1889, and graduated in 1893: "Little Brother," born Sept. 5, 1875, died in 1876; Ad- dison Graham, Jr., born June 5, 1877, attended

Julia, Lizzie (married Mr. Phillips, of Philadel- phia, had one child Catherine), Agnes (married and living in California), Nellie (deceased) and David (married and living in Harrisburg) : John, who married and had a family: Joseph, who mar- ried and had two children : and William, unmar- ried. The second wife, Harriet (Candor) Marr, publie school in Shamokin, Pa., entered Prince- had one child, Harriet, who married Gen. Irvin ton University in September, 1897, graduated in Gregg, and had two sons, Irvin and Robert ( Irvin June, 1901; Phineas Barber, born Sept. 14, died

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in 1880. (6) Margaret W. married Phineas M. er. Later he engaged extensively in railroad and Barber, lumber merchant and manufacturer and bridge building for the Catawissa, Northern Cen- builder; no descendants. Mrs. Barber in carrying tral, Philadelphia & Eric and other roads. At the ont the wishes of her husband built the "Barber time of his death he was associated with his cousin, Memorial Institute" at Anniston, Ala., for the edu- J. B. Moorhead, of Philadelphia, president of the Philadelphia & Erje Road, in carrying on railroad construction in the State of New York. He was also interested in manufacturing, having built and owned the White Deer Woolen Mills, later taking Benjamin Griffey in as a partner. After his death this property was bought by Ario Pardee, of Hazle- ton : the mills were destroyed by fire in 188. The Presbyterian church in Milton which was de- stroyed in the great fire, which occurred May 14, 1880, was built by him. His industries were many and varied. cation of colored girls of the South, at a cost of $50,000. It was burned down, but was rebuilt by Mrs. Barber. (?) Helen married Joseph W. Crawford, Inmber merehant and manufacturer ; no family. (8) George Augustus graduated from Bucknell University, at Lewisburg, and the Theo- logical Seminary of Princeton, was ordained for the ministry, and is living at Swarthmore, Pa. He married Helen Montgomery and they had three children, Montgomery (a mechanical engineer, a very bright and promising young man, of excep- tionally fine character, who accidentally lost his life while testing some machinery), Helen, and a second son. (9) Caroline is deceased. (10) Hen-

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 67

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