Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 71

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

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dren as follows: Samuel, born in 1796, died in of the founders of the Pottsgrove Academy. He 1798; James, born in 1798, died in 1827; Samuel was executor or administrator of a great many (2), born in 1800, died in 1826; Nathaniel, born estates. In politics he was a Democrat, in religion . in 1802, died in 1834: William, born in 1805, died a Presbyterian, for many years a member of and in 1826; Mary, born in 1808, died in 1854; Daniel elder in the old Chillisquaque Church. His fa- W., born in 1811, died in 1866; Andrew, born in ther was one of the founders of that church. Hugh R. Montgomery is buried in the family plot in the upper cemetery at Milton. 1814, died in 1838; Robert G., born in 1817, died in 1875; Hugh R., born in 1819, died in 1881; Anne, born in 18 ?? , died in 1829. For his second wife James Montgomery married Mrs. Catherine . (Harvey) Burns, and they had three children : Jolin C., born in 1828, died in 1859; David H., born in 1831, died in 1902; Margaret J., born in 1835, died in 184 ?.

On June 25, 1857, at Danville, Pa., Mr. Mont- gomery married Sarah S. Moll, who was born March 30, 1837, in Berks county, Pa., daughter of Daniel F. and Mary (Seidel) Moll, granddaugh- ter of John and Mary Elizabeth (Foust) Moll, and great-granddaughter of Henry Moll. Little is the name) in this country, but it is supposed they came from Germany. Children as follows were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh R. Montgomery : James R., May 15; 1858; John S., Aug. 21, 1859; Mary E., Nov. 20, 1860: Sarah A., Sept. 20, 1863;

Hugh R. Montgomery, father of John. S. and known of the first Molls (or Mulls, as they spelled William A. Montgomery, was born May 26, 1819, on the old Montgomery homestead, where he lived until he reached his majority. Although never physically robust, lie early became accustomed to hard work, helping to clear and till his father's land, while during the long winters he taught the Daniel M., Sept. 27, 1865; William A., Sept. ? , district school. The latter occupation he followed 1867; Hugh Bryson, Aug. 27, 1868; Clara B., Nov. 29, 1870 (died July 23, 1900) ; Alice J., for many years, the former throughout his life. The lady who afterward became his wife was for Dec. 17, 1873.

. some time a pupil of his. In 1842 he bought a JOHN S. MONTGOMERY, born Aug. 21, 1859, on tract of land to which he moved and to which he the Harvey farm in Liberty township, Montour subsequently made additions (this is now known Co., Pa., received his education in the public as the "Lindrew" farm), and improved the prop- schools and in the academy at Pottsgrove, whither erty by building a substantial brick house and the family had moved in 1869. After his school large bank barn. There he lived till 1865, when he days were over he learned telegraphy, which he followed for several years, being employed by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company from 1883 to 1888. He spent some time at Danville and Beaver Valley. In August, 1888, he pur- alone for a time, but in the fall of 1889 lie took his brother Daniel M. into partnership, which other brother, William A., entered the firm, which continued to do a large retail business in the pros- perous community in which the store was located.

sold it and moved to the Auten farm, where he lived one year, when he bought and moved. to the Mor- gan farm in the village of Mexico. Here he lived for three years, when he sold the place and pur- chased a large tract of land along the banks of the' chased a store in Pottsgrove, which he conducted Chillisquaque, near Pottsgrove. This was known as the Bennage farm and was the tract originally known as "The True Point," which in considera- lasted until 1901. Then Daniel withdrew and an- tion of the sum of twelve pounds, two shillings, sixpence sterling was granted, released and con- firmed unto John Morrow (progenitor of the pres- ent Murray family) on the 16th day of June in In 1894 the brothers purchased a lot on which they the year of our Lord 1774, and the 14th year of the erected a large and substantial store building and reign of King George III. over Great Britain, etc., residence. John S. Montgomery, the senior mem- ber of the firm, which was known as J. S. Mont- gomery &, Co., withdrew from the business in 1905. and has since lived retired. He continues fine residence. Mr. Montgomery is looked upon as one of the enterprising men of his town, taking by Thomas Penn and John Penn, Esq's., etc., etc. He moved on this farm during the month of April, 1869, and soon improved it by the erection of an excellent brick house, which he occupied until his to make his home in Pottsgrove, where he has a death, which occurred after an extended illness, July 28, 1881. He was a man of sterling honor and integrity and a person of much more than an active part in all that concerns its welfare, ordinary intelligence. Although naturally rather though of late not so intimately associated with backward and unassuming, his life was an active its business life. He sold his business and stock in 1905 to Mr. C. I. Rumnage, and his brother Wil- liam disposing of his interest in 1906 Mr. Rum- nage now carries on the business alone. The

and useful one. He was first commissioned jus- tice of the peace by Governor Johnston in 1850, an office he held continuously until his removal from the county, in 1869. In Chillisquaque town- stand is one of the most important in this region, ship he served as overseer of the poor. He took and during his active connection with the busi- much interest in educational matters, was a mem- ness Mr. John S. Montgomery served eight years ber of the school board for many years and was one as postmaster of Pottsgrove. Since 1903 he has

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been assessor of East Chillisquaque township. He the parents of eight children, of whom we have the is a Democrat in politics, and fraternally belongs following record: (1) John married Agnes Grier, to Pottsgrove Lodge, I. O. O. F., and to Milton Lodge, No. 913, B. P. O. Elks. Few citizens of Pottsgrove have been more thoroughly identified with its best interests.

On March 14, 1902, Mr. Montgomery married Jane S. McWilliams, daughter of John Cruser McWilliams. Like the family generally, he is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

WILLIAM A. MONTGOMERY, born Sept. 2, 1867, on the Morgan farm in Liberty township, received ] his education in the Pottsgrove schools. After the death of his father, in 1881, he took charge of the old home and farmed the place, thus making a home for his mother and his younger brothers and sisters. In 1895 he bought the farm, and occupied it for some years. Unfortunately he sus- tained a severe sunstroke, the results of which compelled him to forego the hard work and ex- posure to the heat of the sun incident to the life of the agriculturist. He rented his farm and re- moved to Pottsgrove, where he led a retired life until 1901, when he joined his brother, John S., in the mercantile business, from which he with- drew in 1906, shortly after his brother's retire- ment. He has since devoted his time to looking after his farm properties, having two fine tracts in East Chillisquaque township, one of seventy-seven acres, the other of 150 acres.

Mr. Montgomery has always been fond of trav- el, and on Jan. 22, 1909, he left for a pleasure tour of the Western coast, going by way of Harris- burg, Pittsburg, Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City and Sacramento to Los Angeles, returning via Sacramento and Seattle, where he visited the fair then in progress. After a trip to Vancouver, B. C., he returned to Seattle, and thence East by way of Spokane, Yellowstone Park, St. Paul, Chi- cago, Niagara Falls and Buffalo, home to Potts- grove, where he arrived Sept. 9th.

Mr. Montgomery is a member of the Odd Fel- lows fraternity and of the B. P. O. Elks, holding membership in the Milton Lodge of the latter or- ganization. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and at present serving as a member of the board of trustees of his church. He is unmarried.

THOMAS H. GUFFY, who lives retired at Mil- ton, has been a lifelong resident of that place, where he was born Feb. 10, 1859, son of Robert F. Guffy.

and died May 6, 1854, aged seventy-two; his wife Agnes died July 4, 1833, aged forty-eight. His children were: Mary married Aaron Miser; Alex- ander married Margaret Riddells: John married Eliza Crawford : Margaret married Charles W. Potts; Jane married Thomas Jones; Sarah mar- ried Alexander Koons; Emily married Jacob Crawford. (2) Eliza married Anthony (Arm- strong, and they had six children: Jane married E. W. Derickson ; Matilda married Judge John

F. Dentler and had children, Mary E. (married Peter Melich), Henry Clay, Walter W., Jane E. (married J. W. Sloan), John M., James D., Jes- sie (married Alfred Bagney), Maggie (married Leidy Monloch), . Sallie M. (Mrs. Gifford) and Julia (married William Withers) ; Mar- garet married John Sloan; Andrew mar- ried Angeline Watson; James P. married A. Guffy; G. W. married Elizabeth With- ers. (3) Jane died young. (4) Andrew, born Aug. 13, 1792, died June 28, 1879. He mar- ried Eleanor Armstrong, who died Feb. 7, 1857, aged sixty-four years, six months. They had seven children : Margaret, born Dec. 28, 1821, married James P. Armstrong: Andrew Jackson, born near. Turbutville May 31, 1823, married Mary M. Falls (he was well known as a surveyor and lawyer) ; James, born April 13, 1826, married Elizabeth Shannon, and died Oct. 3, 1891; Harriet, born Jan. 24, 1828, married Samuel Frymever, and died Feb. 6, 1875; Clarissa C., born in 1831. died April 12, 1884, aged fifty-one years, four months, twenty days; Richard A., born in 1336 (died Dec. 31, 1871, aged thirty-five years, three months, eighteen days), married Hester McKee (who died Dec. 21, 1871, aged thirty-two years. eight months, twenty-seven days) ; Eleanor S., born May 29, 1829, died in 1888. (5) Samuel married Mary Pollock and they had children: Alexander, Rich- ard, Emanuel. Samuel Scott, Sheriff and Mary Ellen. (6) Alexander married Catharine Kerch- ner and they had seven children, Angeline, Susan- na (married Joseph Money), Theodore, Ellen, Catharine, Elizabeth and John Andrew. (7) Em- ily married Jacob Crawford, and died July 27, 1894. Their children were Mary ( married John Moyer), Ellen (married James Shell), Alfred (married Margaret Sheep), Ambrose (married Georgie Taggart), Margaret (married George Reeser ), William, and Louisa { married Alfred Cadwallader). (S) Robert F. is the father of

The Guffy family is of Scotch extraction. Al- exander Guffy, grandfather of Thomas H. Guffy, Thomas H. Guffy.

was born in Scotland in 1750 and came to Amer- Robert F. Guffy was born in 1831 and died Oct. 25, 1900, at Milton, Pa. He came to that town when quite a young man, and followed his trade. blacksmithing, for many years, also boating on ica in 1470, settling in Northumberland county, Pa., upon the site of McEwensville. He died July 15, 1816, at the age of sixty-five. He married Margaret Scott, daughter of James Scott. and she the canal for many years. He was a well known died Jan. 3, 1822, also aged sixty-five. They were man and very popular in his district. His wife,

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Matilda (Overpeck), daughter of Andrew and Deb- Charles, born in 1932, who married Agnes Teel, orah ( Housekeeper) Overpeck, born in 1829, died and died in 1795; Jane, Mrs. McClean, who died in 1905, the mother of children as follows: Laura, in 1797; Eliza, who married John Sheriff: Mary; who died in 1859; Thomas H .; Milton F., born a daughter who married (first) a Mr. Caldwell in 1862, who died in 1863; and Annie Lee, born and (second) a Mr. Allison; Mrs. David Barber, in 1863, who married Wilson Werly (now de- of Northumberland, Pa. ; and Elizabeth, who died ceased) and had three children, Ralph, Robert and in Ireland. Of this family,

Helen, she and her family residing at No. 511 Shakespeare avenue, Milton. John Pollock, born in 1724, died in 1794. He was twice married, his first wife being Catherine Thomas H. Guffy received his education in the Campbell, his second Eleanor Snell, who was a Milton schools. For a period of fourteen years niece of Benjamin Franklin. They had four chil- he was employed in the nail mill there, and later dren : Elcanor, born in 1760, married James Arm- was with the J. B. Kester & Son Company for strong, and died in 1823; Thomas, born in 1762, five years and with the Milton Manufacturing died in 1812: Alexander, born in 1764, married Company four years. He then took charge of the Jane Sheriff, daughter of John and Eliza (Gnffy). estate of his uncle, Milton Overpeck, which he Sheriff, and died in 1801; John, born in 1765, looked after until it was closed, and in 1907 he re- died in 1772.

James Pollock, son of Dr. Thomas Pollock, born citizen of Milton, a member of the local camp in 1728, died in 1812. He moved to the Ligonier (No. 188) of the P. O. S. of A. and, in religion, \Valley, in Westmoreland county, Pa. He married of Christ Lutheran Church.

tired from active labor. Mr. Guffy is an esteemed

Mary Heron, and they had children as follows: On April 11, 1906, Mr. Guffy married Mrs. Adam, born in 1767, married Elizabeth Gilen, and. Catharine (Dreisbach) Berlin, widow of George died in 1815; James, born in 1769, married Mary Berlin, by whom she has one son, Harlos H. To Steel, died in 1857; Thomas, born in 1772, mar- her marriage with Mr. Guffy was also boru one ried Mary Fruit, and died in 1844; William, son, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Guffy born in 1773, married Sallie Fruit; Thomas, born reside at the old Guffy homestead in Milton, No. in 1777, married Rachel Hendricks and ( second) 501 Shakespeare avenne.

S. Henderson, and died in 1847; Charles, born in

Isaac Dreisbach, grandfather of Mrs. Guffy, 1780, died in 1798; John, born in 1783, married lived principally in Luzerne county, Pa., though Elizabeth Hamill, and died in 1862; David, born he died in Columbia county, where he made his in 1784, died in 1807; Jane was born in 1784; home with his daughter, Mrs. Sherman. His Robert, born in 1785, married Mary Anderson, children were Stephen, Catharine, Sophia, Chris- and died in 1844; Nancy, born in 1789, married William Lytle, and died in 1845; Elizabeth mar- tine, Rachel and Maria.

Stephen Dreisbach, father of Mrs. Guffy, mar- ricd John McCoy.

ried Mary Bittenbender, and they had a family of James Armstrong came to America in 1286, and six children : Levi, Alice, Frances, Rosania, Cath- died in 1829, at the age of seventy-five years. His arine, and Julia (who died young).

James Scott, father of Mrs. Alexander Guffy, died in 1823. They were the parents of ten chil- had.children : Samuel : John : Andrew, who moved dren: (1) Anthony, born in 1788, married Eliz- to Ohio in 1791: Margaret, who married Alex- abeth Guffy, and died in 1866. (2) Elizabeth, ander Guffy : Rebecca. who married Peter Jones; horn in 1789, married George Blain, and died in and Eliza, who married James Boon. Of this fam- 1861. Their children were Ellen ( married Jacob ily;

wife Eleanor (Pollock), daughter of John. Pol- lock and granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Pollock, Mansteller), Prudence (married Jolin D. Brit-

Peter and Rebecca (Scott) Jones had children: ton), James (married Elizabeth Emaus), Mary John, Samuel, Isaac, Matthew. Matilda and Sar- (married Hiram Artman) and. Eleanor ( married ah, of whom Isaac Jones married Jane Wilson and Andrew Guffy). (3) Eleanor, born in 1791, died had Wilson, Samuel Scott, Joseph B., John J., in 1791. (4) Eleanor, born in 1792, married An- Reuben J., Andrew, Matilda and Margaret. Mat- drew Guffy, and died in 1857. (5) Catharine, tie Jones, daughter of Peter, married Peter Clive born in 1793, died in 1863. (6) John, born in in 1844. (8) James Thomas, born in 1800, was and had four children : Philip, Hiram, Henry and 1195. died in 1863. (7) Jane, born in 1798. died Rebecca.

Dr. Thomas Pollock, great-grandfather of El- a surveyor, and died in 18:1. He married Mary eanor Armstrong, who married Andrew Guffy, son Reeder and their children were Dr. Richard, Mary of Alexander, was married in Ireland to a Miss Ellen, George B., William W. and Mary ( who mar- Cochran and lived at Coleraine, where his children ried Frank B. McGee). (9) Mary, born in 1803. were born, viz. : John : Thomas, M. D., who died in died in 1871. (10) Richard, born in 1805. was a Ireland, where he returned after studying medi- missionary to the Sandwich Islands and died in cine in America; Robert; James, born in 1728; 1860. Hle married Clarissa Chatman and they had

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six children : Caroline; Carrie (married Ed. Bech- grove, Pa., now Susquehanna University, also a urtle) ; Samuel (Gen.), founder of the Hampdon director of the Loysville ( Pa. ) Orphans' Home. schools : William Nevins, who was attorney for the Politically he was a Republican, and during the king of the Sandwich Islands; Ellen J .; and Civil war was a strong Unionist. Clara A.

In 1846 Mr. Haas married Mary A. Geen, of Jersey Shore, Pa., who died in 1855. To this nn-

JOHN HAAS, late of Sunbury, Pa., long an ion were born four children: Jennie Clemetine, influential and representative business man of that who married L. T. Rohrbach, of Sunbury; John borough, was a son of Daniel Haas, whose father Black Packer; Mary Alice, widow of Dr. C. M. participated in the war of the Revolution. Martin, and Louisa, who died in infancy. Later Daniel Haas married Eve Reed; both were of Mr. Haas married Merey Ann Martin, daughter Shamokin township, Northumberland Co., Pa. of Jacob and Henritta Martin. Thongh past He engaged in farming there for some years, but eighty-three years of age Mrs. Haas is a remark- in 1854 sold his farm and removed to Indiana, set- ably well preserved woman, a pleasing conversa- tling in Newtown, Fountain eonnty, where he and tionalist, with an excellent memory. The resi- his wife passed the remainder of their lives. dence at the corner of Chestnut street and River

They had a family of eleven children, seven sons avenue where she resides was built by Mr. Haas · and four daughters. Their son John spent his in 1868. Mr. Haas was a Mason, holding member- younger days on his father's farm, but left home ship in Lodge No. 22, F. and A. M., of Sunbury ; at an early age to engage in mercantile business. Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R. A. M., and In 1857 he was clerk for Fagely, Seasoltz and Co., Crusade Commandery, K. T., the latter organiza- coal merchants at Sunbury, Pa., and in the fall tion of Bloomsburg. He was also a member of the of 1857 became a member of that firm, being asso- I. O. O. F. at Sunbury. He died March 10, 1899, ciated for a time with William and Reuben Fagely, in his seventy-seventh year, after a lite of all- under the firm name of Fagely & Haas. the firm around usefulness such as falls to the lot of few name later changing to John Haas & Co. They men. His son,

were most successful, conducting extensive eoal John Black Packer Haas was born in Sunbnry operations until 1872, in which year they sold their Sept. 30, 1849, and there began his education. He personal property to the Mineral Mining Com- was a student at Susquehanna University, Selins- pany, Mr. Haas continning, however, to deal in grove, Pa., and later at Pennsylvania College, coal until his retirement, some years before his Gettysburg, Pa. Upon leaving school he was em- death. During the Civil war period the firm ployed by his father at Sunbury. In 1875 he moved to Baltimore to engage extensively in the wholesale and retail coal business there. While residing in that city he purchased "The Knox Hat Store": also was appointed cashier of the Balti-

shipped considerable coal to Baltimore and Phil- adelphia. While in partnership with Mr. Fagely Mr. Haas purchased four thousand acres of wood- land in Lycoming county, Pa. They had large quantities of lumber eut and manufactured from more post office, May 16, 1881. Upon the expir- that tract, selling it at a comparatively small ation of his term in 1885 he returned to Sunbury, profit. In 1883, when the Sunbury Nail. Bar and where he engaged in the iron business. He then Guide Iron Manufacturing Company was organ- accepted a position with the Pottstown Iron Com- ized, Mr. Haas became president, remaining as the pany, with offices located at Syracuse, N. Y., and executive head of that concern until he retired efficiently served in that capacity until the com- from the active management. in 1890, continuing pany elosed the works. after which he returned to to serve as president until 1894. To the upbuild- Sunbury and gave his time to his father's exten- ing of this, one of the most important industrial sive private interests. His exceptional business establishments of the borough, he gave his princi- ability and high sense of honor were recognized pal attention and best energies, and much of its by all who had dealings with him in any of the success was due to his efforts. Numerous other relations of life. He was trusted implicitly, re- local concerns of considerable importance also ceiving many marks of the high confidence in counted him among their most effective promoters. which he was universally held. He was a thirty- He was one of the first directors of the Sunbury, second-degree Mason. being a member of Beauseant Shamokin & Lewisburg railroad, now the Philadel- Commandery, No. 8, at Baltimore : an Odd Fel- phia & Reading road : a director of the First Na- low: and member of the B. P. O. Elks. Though tional Bank of Sunbury ; and president of the Sun- a stanch Republican in polities, he deelined the bury Water Company. Mr. Haas was a member nomination as candidate for representative from of the Lutheran Church, serving as elder thirty- the Seventeenth Congressional district, though five years, being an important member of the unanimously nominated from his county.

church council, and as Sunday school superintend- On Nov. 4, 1872, Mr. Haas married Sarah ent thirty years. He was president of the board of Schaffle. of Lewisburg. Pa .. eldest danghter of directors of the Missionary Institute at Selins- Charles William Schaffte, and to them were born

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three children, Mary Gheen, Gertrude and Jenny, burgh," qualified Sept. 14, 1733; Johan Georg the last named dying when seven months old. In Goss, snow "Good Intent," qualified Oct. 23, 1754. 1897 Mary Gheen married Alonza J. Carter, of The Gasses of Northumberland county are de- scended from one Frederick Goss, who was a tax- Waynesburg, Pa., now of Jeannette, Pa., where he is engaged in the furniture business and as fun- able resident of Colebrookdale township, Berks eral director; they have two children, John Pack- er Haas and Sarah Schaftle.

Co., Pa., in 1754. He had among other descend- ants-these being probably sons-Jacob, Martin

Charles William Schatile, father of Mrs. Haas, and Ludwig Goss, all of whom were living in was born in Lewisburg, Pa., in 1820. He was Northumberland county when the Federal Census of 1790 was taken. At that time all were heads of families except Ludwig, who was married but had then no family. Jacob had wife, two sons and one daughter, all the children under sixteen years of age: Martin had wife and three sons, all under married in 1845 to Mary Wykoff, who was born in 1823, daughter of Peter Wykoff and Sarah Nevins, and a descendant of the Chamberlin family, well known in Union county, which was represented in the service during the Revolutionary war. To this union were born four sons and four daughters. sixteen years of age.

Charles Frederick Schaffle, grandfather of Mrs. Haas, was born in 1296 at Durmenz, Oberamt Maulbrum, in the kingdom. of Wurtemberg, Ger- many, son of Simon F. Sehafifle and Mary Magda- lene Kliner, who had a family of seven children, Charles Frederick being the youngest of five sons. Simon F. Schaffle was a man of influence and po- sition, for eight years burgomaster of Durinenz. Charles Frederick Schaffle, his son, sailed for America Aug. 29, 1818, his twenty-second birth- day, and the following year he settled in Lewis- burg, Union Co., Pa., where he passed the remain- der of his life, dying March 7, 1881. He had a

Jacob Goss (or Gass) came from Berks county and as mentioned was settled in Northumberland county at the time of the census of 1290, living in Lower Augusta (now Rockefeller ) township, about one mile east of Sunbury. He was a farmer and owned a large tract ( now the property of Horace Lenker). He was a member of the Reformed Church, and he and his wife spoke German. Mr. Goss died when about sixty-eight years old, and is buried in the old cemetery at Sunbury. His wife, Sarah (Lantz), sister of the venerable Samuel Lantz, late of Rockefeller township, survived him several years. They were the parents of the fol- superior knowledge of chemistry, and became a lowing named children : The sons, Henry, Joseph, noted apothecary in that section, founding the William and Martin are all mentioned in turn druggist and chemistry establishment which he, below: Mary married William Kuebler: Sarah his sons and grandsons conducted in turn for married Reeder Campbell and they moved to Red many years. He had a family of ten children, Bank, Pa. ; Eliza married Jacob Thompson ; Susan two of whom died in infancy. Two fought in the married Westley Bastian ; Lydia married D. O. E. Maize. Civil war and died on the battlefield. He mar- ried March 12, 1820, Marie Caroline Dickes, daughter of Jean Guillaume Dickes and Marie Elizabeth Felme. She was born April 29, 1800, at One Mine, Alsace, France, and left her home on the German border the year her future husband settled at Lewisburg. April 29, 1819, with her parents and only brother, Joseph, who was Secre- tary to Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, and held that position for fifteen years, until the mon- arch's death.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 71

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