Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 68

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

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rietta married William Lister. (11) Walter is de- 1850, (second) Harriet J. Matchin, born Sept. 11, ceased.

Susanna Marr, daughter of William and Mary Matehin, of London, England, died March 30, B. Marr, born Nov. 16, 1809, married Phineas 1896. The children of David Priee and Hetty L. Marr were: (1) Anna Eliza, born Oct. 30, Barber, of Fingal, Canada, July 1, 1834. They liad five children: (1) Hannah married and is 1840, inarried Sept. 24, 1861, John A. Grier, who deceased ; no descendants. (?) William. (3) was born at Brandywine Manor, Chester Co., Pa., Jolın. (4) James. (5) David married twice, Jan. 9, 1834, and died at Chicago, Ill., Nov. 18, and had one daughter, Susanna.

Ann Marr, daughter of William and Mary B. in the University at Lewisburg. He received his

Marr, born Dec. 1. 1811, died Jan. 20, 1874. She married Sammel Bowman, of Canada, and they had six children: (1) Josepha married Dr. James Gun, of Durham, Canada, Sept. 24, 1861. They had one danghter, Josepha Bowman, born June 29, 1862. Mrs. Gun died in July, 1862. (2) Al- bert. (3) James. (4) Jonas. (5) Henrietta married Feb. 13, 1878, N. A. Hughs, of Williams- port, Pennsylvania.

James Barber Marr, son of William and Mary B. Philadelphia, and a companion of the Military Marr, born Feb. 26, 1814, died June 11, 1841. He Order of the Loyal Legion. Mr. and Mrs. Grier read law in the office of James B. Linn, of Lewis- burg, Pa., was admitted to the bar at that place, and became a member of the Clearfield county har abont 1839. He died a young man, leaving no family. Ilis obituary was written by his friend William Bigler, afterward governor of the State.

David. Price Marr. son of William Marr and grandson of Joseph Marr. was born Feb. 12, 1816, in the homestead near Milton. and died Sept. ? , 1864, aged forty-eight years. Though he died at a comparatively carly age, he had made a signal suc- . vess of his business life, his great industry, per- severance and good practical sense having won him notable standing among his fellow men. Pos- . ressed of fine executive ability, he was engaged in assisting to complete the system of internal im- provements which had been so successfully com- . meneed in his State. It would be difficult to men- tion another whose death was so generally felt and 8, 1837. was educated at the old Milton Academy so sincerely lamented. In early life he was a farm-

On Dee. 17, 1839, David Price Marr married his first wife, Hetty L. Davis, who was born in 1814 and died July 2, 1848. He married Jan. 22,

1820, daughter of Joseph and Janette ( Hiatt) 1902. Mr. Grier was a member of the first class commission as chief engineer, U. S. Navy. from Abraham Lincoln, remaining in the service for ten years, and taking part in many of the naval battles in the Gulf and on the Atlantic coast. He also took part in the first attempt to lay the first At- lantic cable in 1857, between England and mer- ica. In later years he was engaged in manufae- turing and different lines of electrical work. Mr. Grier was a member of the Franklin Institute of

had children : Margaret Graham, Thomas Grahanı, and Edward Robie. Of these, Thomas Graham, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in mechanical and electrical engineering, is now in business in Chicago. Edward Robie, born at Mount Joy, Lancaster Co., Pa., is sales manager and vice president of the Arrow Electrie Company, of Hartford, Conn., where he now lives. He mar- ried April 16, 1895, Iney Parthenia Bosworth. of Lee, Mass., and their son, Edward Bosworth Grier, was born Dee. 9, 1897, at Chicago, Ill. (?) Wil- liam Price, second child of David Price and Hetty L. Marr, born Nov. 20, 1842, died Aug. 30. 1850. (3) Mary Helen, third child, born Nov. 9. 1841. married June 6, 1864. Col. John McCleery, a prominent attorney of Milton, and a leading ulem- ber of the Northumberland county bar. He was a son of Dr. William MeCleery, born in Milton April and at the Tuscarora Academy, and graduated

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from Princeton in the class of 1858. Studying law the most prominent. When a young man Mr. with his unele, ex-Governor Pollock, he was ad- Heaton removed with his parents to Ashland. He mitted to the bar just before the breaking out of attended Canandaigua Academy, graduated from the Civil war. He did not hesitate to subordinate college as a mining engineer, and resided in Phil- adelphia from 1870 to 1873, when he engaged in coal operations at Raven Run, Schuylkill Co., Pa., being thus interested until 1885. He was associ- ated with his brothers in the coal mining business in that county. From the time he took up his res- idence in Milton he took an active interest in the business development of the vicinity, and always displayed rare executive ability and sterling char- acter, proving himself a most capable man in ev- ery respect and becoming one of the most prom- inent and influential citizens of the borough. He was a charter member of the Milton Trust & Sate Deposit Company, served as a director from the time of its incorporation until his death, and from 1901 to 1908 was president, retiring because of de- clining health. He succeeded his brother-in-law, John McCleery, in that position. He was presi- dent of the Pleasant Valley Cream Company, which under his management became one of the best in the State, and was interested in other cor- porations, always a leader in any movement de- signed to advance the interests of Milton. He died at his home on North Front and First streets, Mil- ton, July 24, 1911, aged sixty years, and was in- terred in the Milton cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Heaton resided at "Maple Bank," the Marr home- stead (which he bought from the heirs), from 1887 until a few years ago, when they purchased his personal interests to the needs of his country. The beginning of June, 1861, found him at Har- risburg, as captain of Company H, 34th Pennsyl- vania Reserves. Twice he was severely wounded and June 30, 1862, fell into the hands of the en- emy, and for a brief period was an inmate of Libby prison. He became lieutenant colonel of the 28th Pennsylvania Militia, but disability from his wounds made it necessary for him to retire from the army. Resuming the practice of law, he also interested himself in local business enterprises, be- ing one of the founders of the Milton Car Works, in 1864, and later of the Milton Iron Works. He was president of the Milton Trust & Safe Deposit Company, which he had helped to establish. He was finally compelled by physical suffering to with- draw from all business and professional activities. As a soldier he measured np to a rare standard of efficiency. In private life he was an educated, cul- tured gentleman. For a number of years, he was a companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Leg- ion. The children of John and Mary Helen ( Marr) McCleery were: Edward Heber, a graduate of Princeton University, 1888, who read medicine with his uncle, Dr. James P. McClcery, graduated · from Jefferson Medical College, and is engaged in the practice of his profession in Kane, Pa .; and Margaret Pollock, who married Hasell Wilson Baldwin, of Pittsburg, son of William A. Baldwin, the fine property which has since been the family formerly general superintendent of the P. & E. and home.

Northern Central Railway (Mary Shaw is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin). (4) Re- to this country with the Priestleys in 1811 and becca L., fourth child of David and Hetty L. lived in Northumberland, Pa. Her aunt, Maria Marr, born. Feb. 11, 1847, died Aug. 4, 1850.

The children of David Price and Harriet J. (Matchin) Marr were: (1) William Price was killed on the Pennsylvania railroad, while crossing the track near his home. He was in his nineteenth

Mrs. Harriet J. (Matchin ) Marr's parents came

Hiatt, married James Hepburn, afterward Judge Hepburn of Philadelphia, a brother of Samuel Hepburn, of Milton. Her maternal grandfather was Captain Hiatt, of the English navy.

William H. Marr, son of William and Mary B. year, 'and a student in his sophomore year at Princeton College, New Jersey. (?) Alem K. married Jan. 16, 1878, Ella L. Schofield, of Ad- Marr, born July 25, 1818, died May 24, 1894. He received his early education at the old Milion Academy, with James Pollock and Andrew Curtin dison, N. Y., and lives in Prince George county, ( future governors of Pennsylvania), and later en-

Md. (3) David Brainard lives in Prince George county, Md. The property on which he lives is tered and graduated from Lafayette College. By profession he was a physician. When the Civil war a part of the estate that belonged originally to broke out he entered the Union army as a surgeon. Lord Baltimore (the Calverts) and is called Mount He also was interested in other lines and financi- Calvert. (4) Alfred Hiatt, who lives at Eagles ally was very successful. He married Eliza Davis Baldwin, daughter of William and Mary Shaw

Mere, is married and has two children. David and Harriet. (5) Janette Dales married Edmund Davis, of Limestoneville, Pa .. and they had six Hunter Heaton, of Philadelphia. Pa., Jan. 14, children. of whom two died in infancy, the others 1885, and resides in Milton. Their children : Har- being: (3) Mary Frances. (+) Alem died young. riet Marr (died in infancy). Mary and Emily. (5) James married Sarah Evre, of Lewisburg, and Mr. Heaton was born April 18, 1851, at Tamaqua, had five children. Mary Frances, Ilolen, Edith. Pa., son of the late Reuben A. and Mary Heaton, Carlton and William. James Marr is a farmer the former of whom was a pioneer coal operator of. of Prince George county, Md. His winter home is the Schuylkill region, in which he became one of in Washington. D. C. (6) Frank S. married Eliz-

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abeth Buckingham, of Lewisburg, Pa., and they teen years, and earned the money necessary to con- have children, Winifred and Judith. Frank S. tinue his education besides supporting himself. Marr is a graduate of Bucknell University, was He attended the country public schools up to that admitted to the bar and practiced law in Sunbury, age, and then entered Freeburg Academy, from Pa .; later formed an electric construction com- pany, and has continued in different lines of elec- trical work, with headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Margaret Marr, daughter of William and Mary B. Marr, born July 15, 1820, married Dr. John McCollnm, of Tiffin City, Ohio. Both are deceased. They had two sons, of whom one died young. Le- on married, but had no children. By profession he is a physician.

Aleni Kennedy Marr, youngest child of William and Mary B. Marr, born June 15, 1823, died Sept. 19, 1847. He was reading medicine with his brother, Dr. William H. Marr, at the time of his death, at Washingtonville, Pa. He died suddenly, of a congestive chill, cutting short a life that prom- ised much.

History of the land bought by Joseph Marr from Turbut Francis .- The localities of the Indian tribes prior to William Penn's arrival (Oct. 24, 1682) have been identified as follows. The Six Nations occupied the territory north of the sources of the Susquehanna and the Delaware rivers. Land was purchased from them in 1754 and the New Apple entered upon his new line fully demonstrated Purchase advertised by the land office Feb. 23, 1769. In 1764 officers who served under Colonel Bouquet made an agreement in writing with each other that they would apply to the Proprietors (the Penns) for a tract of land for their services, to be divided among themselves. One Col. Turbut Fran- cis's tract was 2, 775 acres, surveyed to him in one tract, adjoining the tract bought by him in Mon- tour, embracing what is called Turbut township. It was called the "Colonel's Reward." Joseph Marr bought part of this land from the widow of Turbut Francis in 1792.

BENJAMIN APPLE, editor and proprietor of the Sunbury Daily Item, and of The Sunbury American, a weekly paper, and present postmaster of Sunbury, has been engaged in the newspaper business since 1904, previons to which time he had for a number of years been prominently identified with the educational interests of the community.

which he was graduated in 1884. For four years he taught public school at Freeburg; graduated from the State Normal school at Bloomsburg in 1889 and was elected assistant principal of the East Sunbury public schools, the duties of which position he assumed in the fall of that year. In 1894 he was elected principal of the East Sunbury schools. in which capacity he served two years. Upon the consolidation of the boroughs of Sun- bury and East Sunbury, in 1896, he was promoted to the Central high school, where he had charge of the mathematical department until the spring of 1899, when he was elected to the office of county superintendent of schools for Northumberland county. When reelected to that position, in 1902, he received a flattering support, only seven votes being polled against him.

Mr. Apple began his career as a newspaper man in 1904, when he purchased the Sunbury Daily Itom and American, which he has since continued to publishi, as editor and proprietor. The plant is located at No. 42 South Second street, Sunbury. The printing department also makes a specialty of high grade job work. The manner in which Mr. his ability. Under his management the Daily Item has become one of the leading newspapers in this section of the State, and the circulation has more than doubled. During the same time it has grown from a seven-column, four-page paper to an eight-page issue, and the advertising business has kept pace with modern ideas in that line. the pat- ronage which the paper receives from business peo- ple showing conclusively its standing in conserva- tive but progressive circles. As an editor, Mr. Ap- ple deserves the prestige he enjoys, being influen- tial and trusted by the best element in the com- munity. During the year 1910 he was appointed supervisor of the census of the Sixteenth Congres- sional district of Pennsylvania, comprising the connties of Northumberland, Sullivan, Montour and Columbia. On April 13. 1911, he was appoint- ed postmaster of Sunbury for a period of four years.

On June 2, 1892. Mr. Apple married Lillie E. Moyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George K. Moy- er, and they have one son, John. Mr. Apple is a member of Zion Lutheran Church of Sunbury, of which he has been a deacon for fifteen years.

Mr. Apple was born June 28, 1868, one mile west of Freeburg, Snyder Co., Pa., son of Benja- min and Martha ( Graybill) Apple, and grandson of George Apple and of Rev. Christian Graybill. His paternal ancestors in this region came from Montgomery county. He was the youngest child P. H. FUHRMANN was born at Frankenthal, and only son of his parents, who had also three Rhenish Bavaria, June 16, 1863. He received his daughters. Mr. Apple was only a year old when early education in the public schools in his native his father died. Living and working upon the town and afterward graduated with honors from a farm in his boyhood and early youth, he was Real-gymnasium. He then held a responsible po- thrown upon his own resources at the age of four- sition with Klein, Schanzlin & Becker, proprietors

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of one of the largest German machine factories, to Caroline B. Hahn, of Philadelphia, and to who designed and constructed the then most mod- them was born a son Harry, on Oct. 3, 1897, and ern sugar refineries, chemical factories and brew- a daughter Mary Anna, on Feb. 2, 1911. Mr. eries in Europe. He became private secretary to Fuhrmann is a member of the Cresco Club, the the general manager, which position enabled him Motor Club, the Order of Elks and the Order of to gain a thorough business education and acquire Eagles.

an excellent knowledge of machinery, and it was but natural that soon after arriving in America he CAREY E. BURNS, at present serving as one found a position where he could make use of his of the auditors of Northumberland county, is a executive and technical abilities. In 1883 he ac- native-born citizen of Lower Augusta township. cepted a position as assistant manager with Charles He is a son of John Burns and grandson of Peter D. Kaier, of Mahanoy City, brewer and rectifier, Burns. whose business he increased in a few years to enor- mous proportions, when he was advanced to the po- sition of general manager, and as such built the present large brewing and rectifying plant. As a reward in 1891 he was made a partner of the Charles D. Kaier Company.

Looking for a field to satisfy his ambition of building up a large business of which he could own the controlling interest himself, he dissolved his connections with the Kaier Company in the year 1895, and bought from Martin Markle a small frame brewery in Coal township (on the outskirts of Shamokin), with an annual output of about eight thousand barrels. While he was trying hard to establish a trade, and devoting all his time to that purpose, both building and refrigerating ma- chines of the old plant collapsed during the first summer, a calamity which ordinarily would have meant ruin, especially at that particular time of the year.' But not so in this case. On the con- trary, having been used to hard knocks and bumps all his lifetime, Mr. Fuhrmann was equal to the situation, and by clever management not only kept the plant going, even if badly crippled. but built a complete new brewery around the old one and within one year from the time he first took hold of the plant had erected a modern brewery and al- so acquired trade enough to keep it going to its full capacity. This has been kept up ever since, with a steady increase, so that the brewery to-day is one of the best equipped in the whole country and has an annual output of fifty thousand barrels.

In 1896 Mr. Max Schuinidt became a partner with Mr. Fuhrmann in the firm of Fuhrmann & Schmidt, which in 1906 was incorporated under the style of The Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Company, of which Mr. Fuhrmann is president. The brewery enjoys the reputation of having a pure, wholesome product, the quality of which .cannot be excelled by any brewery in the country, a fact which is recognized by the people of Sham- okin and immediate vicinity, as well as by the great number of travelers and societies visiting Shamokin on many occasions, aud especially dur- Carey E. Burns was born Feb. 5, 1868, on the ing the many conventions through which Sham- Burns homestead in Hollowing Run which he still okin has gained an enviable reputation all over the State for her hospitality.

On June 3, 1896. Mr. Fuhrmann was married

The Burns family is of Scotch-Irish descent. Peter Burns was born March 8, 1786, and came in an early day to Lower Augusta township, Northumberland county, where he became a pros- perous farmer. He died April 27, 1849. and is buried with his wife, Elizabeth (Oxenreider), at the Augusta Baptist Church in Lower Augusta township. She hailed from Berks county. and was a typical German woman, so that the Burns fam- ily unites the qualities of the two races that have made Pennsylvania especially famous. She was born in 1789, and died Dec. 13, 1856. Among the children of this couple were : Peter, who settled out West: Christian, who lived at Winfield, Pa .; Leah, Mrs. Campbell; Mary, Mrs. Jacob Freder- ick; and Susan, Mrs. Behler.

John Burns, son of Peter, was born in 1810 in Lower Augusta township, and farmed on the place in Hollowing Run still occupied by his widow, Mary, and son Carey E. Burns. He died there Aug. 27, 1879, and is buried at the Augusta Bap- tist Church. By his first marriage he had the following family: Sarah, Mrs. Daniel Kauffman : Silas, of Shamokin, Pa .: Andrew J., who lived and died in Lower Augusta township, passing away Nov. 4, 1875, aged thirty-five years, two montlis, sixteen days: Malinda, who died unmar- ried : Dennis, who died in Lower Augusta when twenty years old : Elizabeth, who married William Letfler and (second ) Jacob McKeloy: Horatio, who died young : and another, whose name is not recalled. Jolin Burns married for his second wife Mary Leffler, who was born June 7, 1828, daughter of William Letller, and who is now liv- ing with her son Carey, tenderly cared for by him and his wife. Though past eighty she is well preserved. Nine children were born to the second marriage : Malinda, who died young : Horatio, who died young ; Alfred, of Idaho: Ellis, of Nebraska : Mary, who married James A. Barrett, who died in 1898 and is buried at Selinsgrove, Pa .; Erwin, who died young: Harvey, of Kansas: Carey E .; and Frauk, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

occupies. He received an excellent education in the public schools of the township, and in the sum- mer of 1893 was licensed to teach public school,

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his paper being signed by Prof. W. E. Bloom, then of the country, in 1882, Mr. James T. Reber, of county superintendent of schools. Mr. Burns was Reading. Pa., found recorded in the old church trained to farm work from early boyhood, and at book of the Evangelical Church ( Rev. Frederick an early age took charge of the farm for his moth -. Hufnagle, pastor) the names of four brothers, (1) er, his father having died when he was a boy of Johan Bernhard, (?) Hans, (3) Johan Conrad eleven. This property of 110 acres is well located and (4) Michael Reber.

in the Hollowing Run in Lower Angusta township, and was at one time a Shipe homestead, as was al- so the adjacent tract. It is a valuable farin, and has been well kept up under the management of the present occupant.

Mr. Burns has been active in the work of the Republican party in Northumberland county ev- brothers, is recorded in this same book as having one son, (5) Johannes, who was married Feb. 8. 1736, to Johanna Magdalena. daughter of Con- rad Hahn. From this union two sons were born : (6) Johannes, Dec. 16, 1736, and (7) Ludwig Friedrich August, Sept. 11, 1740.

er since he attained his majority, served as con- mitteeman of his district for a number of years, has been delegate to a number of county conven- tions, and has done excellent work for the organ- ization in every capacity. He served three years as auditor of his township, and in the fall of 1908 was elected county anditor, a position he is filling with the efficiency his constituents expected of him. He is a man of high personal standing, enjoying the confidence of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.

On Feb. 11, 1897, Mr. Burns married Jessie E. Snyder, daughter of the late Silas R. Snyder, life after his arrival in this country. The pass- who married Lydia Shipman. Mr. and Mrs. * Burns have no children. He is a member of the Augusta Baptist Church. which he is at present serving as deacon, and is also superintendent of the Sunday school, a position he has held for some years.

FRANK M. REBER, attorney of Milton, Northumberland county, is a native of that bor- ough, born Nov. 21. 1867. He is a son of William H. Reber, grandson of Jolm Reber, and great- grandson of John Reber, who married Magdalina Rathmaclı.

The Reber family is one of the very old families of Berks county, Pa., and on account of its prom- inence, and because of its numbers and wide dis- tribution, some of its members have taken a justi- fiable pride in looking up its early records. A well known citizen of Reading and a member of this family, Morris B. Reber, a prominent real estate dealer of that city, has with careful re- search compiled a volume which bears the title "Genealogy of the Reber Family, descended from Johan Bernhard Reber, 1738." From this inter- esting work we quote as follows:

"The idea of preparing a genealogy of the Reber family was probably suggested by the finding of the original passport of Johannes Reber, still pre- served, who was, for a long time, believed to be the first one of the large family of Rebers who emi- three sons, who were named Thomas, Valentine and Peter.

grated to this country. This passport shows that he came from Langenselbold, Germany, which is John or Johannes Reber, mentioned above. eld- to live in Pennsylvania after his father's death. situated in Kreiz Hanau, Regierungsbezirk Cassel, est son of Johan who emigrated in 1742. continued Koenigreich Prussia. While visiting in that part

"This church book dates back to the year 1563, so that it might be possible to obtain the ancestors of these four brothers since the sixteenth century. However, we have been satisfied to make a record only from the earliest emigrant to this country.

"(1) Johan Bernhard Reber, the first of these

"The Pennsylvania archives, containing the names of 30,000 early emigrants, mention the ar- rival of John Bernhart Reber, from Rotterdam, Holland, on the snow Two Sisters, landing in Philadelphia and qualifying Sept. 9, 1238, by swearing allegiance to Great Britain. We can learn of nothing pertaining to his whereabouts or port, however, of the son is still intact. * %

"(5) Johannes Reber, whose date of birth is un- known, was married Feb. 8, 1736, to Johanna Magdalena Hahn. They had two sons born in Germany, Johannes and Ludwig Friedrich Aug- ust. According to his passport, he left his native country for America April 23. 1742, bringing his family with him, although it is known that the second son, Ludwig, died on board the ship. Be- ing a member of William Penn's colony, his first object was to find a desirable location. Having selected some acres of land about six miles west of Reading, in Lower Heidelberg township, at the big bend of the Tulpehocken, in a beautiful thoughi isolated valley known afterward as the Blue Marsh, he moved thither with his wife and son, built him- self a home which served the double purpose of shelter and protection against the Indians and wild animals, his only neighbors. This quaint old building, with its large, square fireplace in the center, is still standing on the farm occupied by Mr. Henry Shafer, Reading, Pa.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 68

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