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1904 : is a member of the national council (United New York City, and died in New York City) ; States) of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, and Isabella, Feb. 21, 1853 (who was a public school president of the Local Assembly of the same of teacher in Pottsville, Pa., where she died Aug. 27, the Archdeaconry of Williamsport. Other organ- 1876) ; Amelia Rebecca, March 29, 1857 (of izations in which he holds membership are the 23
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Pennsylvania Forestry Association, the Schuyl- er) Heffelfinger, and they have one son, William kill County Historical Society, the American Red Kirk Heffelfinger, Jr., born at Shamokin, Pa., Cross, the National Geographical Society, the Art March 22, 1907. (4) Mary Bloomfield Huber, born Collectors' Club and the Shamokin Fire Depart- Feb. 10, 1878, at Shamokin, Pa., was educated ment. In politics Mr. Huber is a Democrat. In in the public schools, leaving the high school be- 1863, when the Confederate army under Lee in- fore the completion of the course. (5) Gertrude vaded the State, he enlisted in Company A, 27th Stees Huber, born at Shamokin, Pa., July 29, Pennsylvania Volunteer Emergency Men, and 1885, graduated from the high school, class of
served during the crisis.
1904. She was married June 17, 1909, to Thomas
On Sept. 8, 1869, Mr. Huber was married at Francis Downing, JJr., son of Thomas F. and Columbia, Lancaster Co., Pa., to Mary Bloomfield Sarah (Forrest) Downing, and they have one Houston, daughter of John W .. and Mary Bloom- daughter, Annette Huber Downing, born March
field (Martin) Houston, of Columbia. She was born Jan. 10, 1845, and was educated in the pub- lic and other schools of Columbia, Pa., taught a select school in Mahanoy City for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Huber are the parents of five chil-
16, 1910.
In the maternal line Mr. Huber is descended from James Stackpole, a native of Ireland, who school in Lancaster county, and later conducted married Dorcas Holt, a native of England, and they had the following. children: James, Mar -- garct, Thomas and John. All this family were dren : (1) Levi Houston Huber, born at Potts- Presbyterians but Margaret, who was a Methodist.
ville, Pa., Jan. 20, 1871, was educated in the pub- lic schools of Shamokin, leaving the high school in 1888 to enter the employ of the Shamokin Thomas Stackpole, son of James, born Oct. 3, 1997, one mile below Waynesburg (now McVey -. town), Mifflin Co., Pa., was a contractor. He Banking Company, where he remained until May and John Stees (his brother-in-law) were the 1, 1896. He enlisted June 14, 1898, in Company contractors who built the Union railroad, and E, 12th Regiment P. V. I., and served during the it was in the trial trip that he met his death. Hc Spanish-American war. In 1899 he was with the was a jolly fellow, a great huntsman, and a mem- United Gas Improvement Company, Philadel- ber of the military company. In politics he was phiia, and was drug clerk at various places until a Whig. He married June 10, 1824, Elizabeth 1903, when he was appointed to the Government. Stces, and their children, all born in Waynesburg Printing office, Washington, D. C. He attended (now McVeytown), Wayne township, were: Mar- Georgetown University, Medical Department, garet, born April 4, 1826; Doreas, born Dec. 25, 1902-1903, and entered George Washington Uni-
1828; Frederick (no record of birth or death) ; versity, Medical Department, Washington, D. C., and Amelia Elizabeth, born Nov. 1, 1831. Marg- 1903, and graduated therefrom June 6, 1906. aret, Dorcas and Amelia were Lutherans condition- He was appointed Feb. 29, 1908, physician, in the ally at Pine Grove, the two former afterward be- U. S. Indian Service, Fort Peck Agency, sta- coming Presbyterians. Thomas Stackpole died Nov. tioned at Wolf Point, Mont. He married at Cul- 6, 1833. His death was caused by a train of cars bertson, Mont., July 6, 1910, Beulah Ethel Green- on the Union railroad between Lorberry and Pine wald, daughter of the Rev. Daniel J. Greenwald, Grove, Pa. (at a point two to two and a half
D. D., and Judith (Bleiler) Greenwald. (2) miles above Pine Grove), running over his right John Houston Huber, born at Shamokin, Pa., leg at the knee joint, death ensuing alnost instant- Feb. 2, 1873, graduated from the Shamokin high ly. The cars were drawn by horses and he was in school with the class of 1891. He was for some the act of getting on or off the cars when he met time in the service of the Philadelphia & Reading his death. His remains were interred in the Pine . Railroad Company, and then served for ten years Grove burial ground of St. Peter's Lutheran and as night shipper for the Philadelphia & Reading German Reformed Church, Pine Grove, Schuylkill Coal & Iron Company, at Shamokin. In 1906 he Co., Pa., on Nov. 8, 1833, and were accompanied had a position at Seattle, Washington, and the to the grave by the military and a large concourse same year was appointed to the United States of the citizens. His wife, Elizabeth, died April Arsenal, at Pittsburg, Pa., which place he resigned 26, 1852, at 12 o'clock at night, at Pine Grove, in 1909 on account of ill health and came back to Pa. Her remains were deposited in St. John's Shamokin, where he died May 19, 1911. He was Lutheran burial ground, Pine Grove, April 29. a member of the Laymen's Club, Brotherhood of 1852. Mrs. Thomas Stackpole's parents, Fred- St. Andrew and Liberty Hose . Company. (3) erick and Barbara (Moor) Stees, lived in Union Margaret Elizabeth Huber, born Dec. 17, 1874, connty, Pa., where their children were born, as in Shamokin, Pa .. graduated from the Shamokin follows: Jacob. Jan. 25, 1790; John, Jan. 31, high school, class of 1893, and attended the Aead- 1792; Frederick, April 28, 1794; Maria, April 9. emy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, in 1897 and 1796: Benjamin, July 16, 1798; Catherine. Sept. 1898. She was married Oet. 18, 1905, to William 4, 1800: Elizabeth, June 5, 1803 (at Middleburg. Kirk Heffelfinger, son of Elmer and Kate (Cleav- Pa.). All of the Stces family were Lutherans.
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John Houston, the first ancestor of Mrs. Ivan- and buried at Paradise Church. To this union were `hoe S. Huber of whom we have record, was of born two children: William A., mentioned be- Scotch-Irish deseent, came to the United States low ; and George M., who died unmarried. After in 1740 from County Tyrone, Ireland, and settled Mr. Deeter's death his widow married Daniel in the Pequea Valley, in Lancaster county, Pa. He had eight children, among them Dr. John Houston, born in 1742, who was a surgeon in the American army during the Revolutionary war.
Dr. John Houston married May 6, 17:3, Su- sanna Wright, born Aug. 24, 1752. They had a son, James Houston, born May 24, 1479.
James Houston married Jan. 7. 1805, Anna Rhoda Wright, and they had two children, John Wright Houston (born at Columbia, Pa., Aug. 12, 1807) and Susan Eleanor.
John Wright Houston on Sept. 26, 1833, mar- ried Mary Bloomfield Martin, who was born at Muncy, Pa., Feb. 2, 1809, and they were the par- ents of these children : Anna Rhoda, who mar- ried Gen. Lewis Merrill, U. S. A. ; James Wright, who died in infancy : George Martin, who married Mary May: Eliza Brown, who married Capt. Charles N. Warner, U. S. A. : Emily Wright, who married Col. Richard H. Alexander, U. S. A .; Susan Eleanor ; Sarah Wright; Mary Bloomfield, who married Ivanhoe S. Huber: Raehel Vincent; James, who died in infancy; William Augusta, who married Laura Detweiler; and Eleanor Wright, who married Dr. Carl L. Spethmann. John Wright Houston in early life was a drug- . gist, and later on a civil engineer, having helped to lay out and construet the Broad Top railroad near Huntingdon, Pa. During the Civil war, he was connected with the quartermaster's depart- ment of the "Merrill Horse," a noted cavalry com- mand. Mr. Honston died July 24, 1869. and Mrs. Houston, Aug. 31, 1878. Her grandfather, Rob- ert Martin, married Mary Bloomfield. They had a son, William Augusta Martin, who about 1806 married Eliza Brown, born Feb. 13. 1786. and they were the parents of these children: George. Mary Bloomfield, Thomas Williamson, Edward, Robert Davidson. Courtland Yardley, Elizabeth Brown, Sarah Wright, Rachel Vincent, William Augusta and Franklin Wright.
HARRY R. DEETER, superintendent of the Lewisburg, Milton and Watsontown Passenger Railway Company, at Milton, was born in Para- dise, this county, April 11, 1872. The Deeter family has lived in Pennsylvania for several gen- erations.
Jacob Deeter, the grandfather, was born in Montour county, Pa., and on reaching manhood took up farming in Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, where he died in 1850. He was a deaeon and elder in the Methodist Epis- copal church, to which his wife also belonged. He married Eliza Ann Barr, a native of Lycoming county, Pa., born April 3, 1821, died June 16, 1859,
Karchner, born March 26, 1814, died April 27, 1889, and buried at Paradise Church. To her second marriage were born Russell K., vice presi- dent of the Reid Tobacco Company, and residing at Milton ; Martha J .: Anna R .; Nora, deceased.
William A. Deeter, son of Jaeob and father of Harry R., was born in Chillisquaque township, Jan. 19, 1846, and followed farming all his active life. In politics he was a Democrat, and he al- ways took a great interest in the welfare of his party. He was twiee a candidate for county. com- missioner, being the nominee of his party both times, but was both times defeated by small ma- jorities at the polls. He served as tax collector in his distriet. Mr. Deeter was a deacon in the Lutheran church many years. In 1892 he came to Milton where his death occurred July 18, 1894, and his remains were interred in Paradise ceme- tery. In 1871 he married Margaret Gouger, daughter of John R. Gouger of Montour county. She now makes her home in Milton. This union was blessed with two children, Harry R. and May N.
Harry R. Deeter received his education in the local schools in Paradise, and for one term attend- ed the Milton schools. For five years he was em- ployed by the Reid Tobacco Company, at Milton, and for one year was traveling salesman for a Philadelphia house. On June 1, 1899, he entered the service of the L. M. & W. Passenger Railway Co., as chief clerk, and was advaneed to superin- tendent on Jan. 1, 1911.
Politically Mr. Deeter is a Republican, and he has served on the election board of the Second ward of Milton. He is a member of the Intheran church. His fraternal connections are with Mil- ton Lodge, No. 256, F. & A. M .: Warrior Run Chapter, No. 246, R. A. M. ; and the Improved Or der of Heptasophs.
Mr. Deeter married Ida M. Lowe, daughter of Thomas J. Lowe, of Watsontown, and they have . one daughter, Margaret R.
MENGEL. The Mengel family with which this article deals is a Schuylkill county family and many of its members still reside in that region, where the founder. Adam Mengel, settled 'upow coming to this country. Dr. John S. Mengel, ot Trevorton, Northumberland county, is descended from this pioneer tlirough liis son Conrad, and Frank J. Mengel. of Sunbury. Northumber- land county, is descended through his son John. The family hold reunions, which are well attended. and the officers of the association are: Dr. J. S. Mengel, of Trevorton, Pa., president; M. D. Men- gel, vice president : H. S. Mengel, secretary : W. R.
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Felir, treasurer ; J. M. Hoffman, of Reading, Pa., G. Smith, a teacher in the high school at Trevor- historian. The second reunion was held on ton, and they have children, Carolyn, William, Labor Day, Sept. 6, 1909, at Bowen's Park, Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania.
Adam Mengel, the first of the family in this country, came from Germany, and settled in Schuylkill county, Pa., where Port Clinton is now located. He was one of the promoters and or- ganizers of the old Pine Dale church there, being one of its original members, and he is buried at that church. His children were: George (who lived to the age of ninety years), Conrad, Adam, Philip, John, Jacob, Barney and Catharine (mar- ried Michael Hartman).
Conrad Mengel, son of Adamn, was born upon the Mengel homestead in Schuylkill county and followed farining. For some time he taught pri- vate school. His wife was Susan Rishel, and both died when about seventy-seven years old. They are buried at Auburn, Schuylkill county. They had children as follows: Esther married Dewalt Paff; William R. died in Nebraska, at the age of ninety years ; Sophia married Joseph Debinder ; Kate married George Matz, (second) Adam Gabey and (third) Abraham Loose; Benjamin married Dorothy Fink; Peter married Mary Faust; Manasses is mentioned below : Lucy mar- ried Francis Hoffman and has children, Rosie (wife of William Affleck), Jeremiah M. (who married Laura A. Kantner), Lillie (married Lewis A. Mengel) and John (of San Francisco).
Manasses Mengel, son of Conrad, was born in 1828 at Auburn, Schuylkill county, and died Sept. 6, 1908. He was employed upon the canal for a time, but farming was his principal occupation through life, and he purchased a farm in Bruns- wick township, Schuylkill county, upon which he settled, cultivating that place until his death, which occurred there. He married Angeline Seltzer, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Faust) Seltzer. Mr. and Mrs. Mengel are buried in the cemetery of the Church of God, at Auburn. They had a large family, as follows: Francis S. (born in 1856, died in 1907) married Rebecca Hehn and had children, Robert, Oscar, John, Francis, Howard, Walter and Edith : John S. is mentioned below; Manasses, who resides in Reading, Pa., married Ida Fahl, by whom he had two children, Harvey and Eva, and (second) Isabella Schwartz, by whom he had one son, Clarence: Ellen married William Fehr, now of Easton, Pa., and they have children, Howard, Bertha, Williamn, Charles and Lester ; George, who is living upon the homestead in Wayne township, Schuylkill county, married Lucy Jamison, and they have children, Charles, Amy, Foster, Minnie, Elsie, Jennic, Abner, Lucy and Dorothy : Howard, now living at Friedens- burg, Schuylkill county, married Sallie Reed, and their children are William, Lester, Ellen, Amelia and Elizabeth. and Irwin ; Minnie J. is the wife of Prof. Samuel
Howard, Herman and Esther; Ida (deceased) married Reuben Mengel, her second cousin; Al- len married Jennic Nagel and their children are Miriam and Delina; Bertha married Milton Patchett and is living in Schuylkill county ; Bessie married George Sheaffer and has children, Lillie, Edith, Effie and Herman (they live in Schuylkill county).
JOHN S. MENGEL, M. D .. of Trevorton, Northumberland county, was born March 7, 1860, at Auburn, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and there re- ceived his preliminary education in the public schools. Later he attended the State Nor- mal at Kutztown, Pa., and he received his medical training at Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia, from which institution lie was graduated in 1887. Locating at Greenbrier, Northumberland county, he practiced there until his removal to Trevorton in 1902. Here he has since continued in general practice, having a large cir- cle of patrons in the town and surrounding ter- ritory, and he also has the only drug store in the placc. Dr. Mengel has, by his useful citizenship and participation in the affairs of the community, become one of its respected and influential mem- bers. He is well known among the fraternal or- ders, belonging to the I. O. O. F. (he is president of the Odd Fellows Hall Association at Trevor- ton), the P. O. S. of A., the K. G. E., the F. O. E. and the Woodmen of the World. The Doc- tor has been very active in the Mengel Family Association ever since its organization, and was its first president. Its first reunion was held at Friedensburg, Schuylkill county, in 1908: the sec- ond at Schuylkill Haven, in 1909; and the third at Landingville, Schuylkill county, in 1910.
On Feb. 16, 1892, Dr. Mengel married Mary E. Geist, daughter of Andrew and Abbie ( Hepler) Geist, and tlicy have three children: Willard G., John G. and Annie G. The family attend the United Evangelical church.
John Mengel, son of the Adam Mengel who came to this country from Germany and settled in Schuylkill county as above related, was a farmer, and lived in the vicinity of Red Church, in West Brunswick township, that county, and he is buried at that church. He and his wife, Elizabeth. were advanced in ycars when they died. Among their children were: John, Adam, Peter, Joseph, Seth and Jacob.
Mengel records at the Red Church show the following: Johann Phillip, born Nov. 9. 1971: parents Conrad and Catharinc. Johanes, born March 15, 1993; parents Adam and Elizabeth. John Edwin, born April 2, 1799; parents John
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born April 2, 1799, and lived and died in Wayne trustworthiness in the discharge of all his duties. township, Schuylkill county, where he followed Since becoming a resident of Sunbury Mr. Men- farming. He had a farm of 150 acres. He was gel has traveled very extensively in North America. a member of the Church of Christ, and served In 1901 he crossed the continent and spent some as one of the officers of that church. His wife, Rebecca (Moyer), daughter of Jacob and Cather- ine Moyer, was born Dec. 28, 1809, and died Feb. 8, 1897. Mr: Mengel died in 1876, and they are buried side by side in the cemetery of the Evan- gelical church at Reedsville, in Wayne township, Schuylkill county. They were the parents of thir- teen children, namely : Sarah, who married Jos- eph Moyer; Dianah, who married Henry Ger- liard ; Priscilla, who died in youth ; Rebecca, wife of J. B. Reber ; Emma, wife of Seth Lenhart; Louisa, Mrs. Daniel Moyer; Thomas ; Frank ; Ed- ward; John; Daniel ; and one son and one daugh- ter, who died young.
Rev. Edward Mengel, son of John, was born May 6, 1837, and dicd April 25, 1897. He is buried in the cemetery of the Reformed Church at Orwigsburg, Schuylkill county. Mr. Mengel was a farmer by occupation, owning and operating a farm of ninety acres, but he devoted much time to religious work, being noted for his pious and Godly life. He was a leading member and local minister of the Church of Christ, frequently preaching sermons, held various offices in the church and was also an enthusiastic Sunday school worker, serving as superintendent of the Sunday school. Mr. Mengel married Priscilla Ger- hard, who was born May 4, 1831. daughter of Henry and Salome Gerhard, hier people coming from the Tulpehocken Valley, in Berks county. Mrs. Mengel died Aug. 9, 18:4. Her funeral serv- ices were conducted by Rev. Mr. Leise. Eight children were born to their union : Esther V. mar- ried John Werner; James A. is a resident of Mount Pulaski, Ill .; Annie P. died in 1907. un- married ; Sallie married William H. Blackton ; Thomas E. lives in San Francisco, Cal .: Albert M. died July 6, 1906, at Orwigsburg, Pa. ; Emma L. (deceased), was the wife of Harry Charles ; Frank J. is a resident of Sunbury.
FRANK J. MENGEL, son of Rev. Edward, was born Dec. 27, 1871, in Wayne township, Schuylkill county, and there received his educa- tion in the public schools. He spent his early life in his native place, and was reared on the farm. When seventeen years old Mr. Mengel learned the art of telegraphy in the service of the Reading Railway Company, at Auburn, Schuylkill county, working for that company about four years. In 1892 he changed to the Pennsylvania Railway Company, in whose employ he has since remained, and he has been located at Sunbury since 1894. In 1902 he was promoted to his present position, that of train dispatcher at that point. Mr. Men- gel is a reliable worker, and has the confidence of his superiors, gained by conscientious service and
time on the Pacific coast, visiting the Catalina is- lands and the old historic bay of Monterey, scal- ing Mount Lowe in California, and on his return trip ascending Pike's Peak in a snowstorm on Aug. Tth. In 1906, with his wife and daughter Esther, he made a trip to Canada. In 1907 they took a trip along the New England coast, visiting Bunk- er Hill and other places of historic interest. In 1908 they made a trip to the Gulf of Mexico and as far west as Salt Lake City, on July 1st of that year scaling Pike's Peak, where Mr. Mengel had his second experience of a snowstorm in summer. In 1909 they traveled through the Middle Western States. In 1910 business matters prevented them taking their annual trip. It has been Mr. Men- gel's aim to visit and study the marvels of North America rather than go abroad, yet he would very much like to make a journey to Prussia, the land from which his ancestors were exiled for their religions activities during and following Luther's reformation.
On Dec. 11, 1902, Mr. Mengel married Laura Shipe, daughter of Freeman and Mary (Hallman) . Shipe and granddaughter of Solomon Shipe, of Rockefeller township, this county. Freeman Shipe is a carpenter and lives in Sunbury. Mr. and Mrs. Mengel have one child, Esther Luella. Mr. Mengel is a leading member of the Catawissa Av- enue Methodist church, in whose life he has been most active. He was chairman of the building committee that had in charge the rebuilding of the present edifice, in 1910, is a member of the board of trustees, and teacher of the men's Bible class. Socially he is a member of the Royal Ar- canum and in political connection he is a Repub- lican, though independent in his support of can- didates.
KLOCK. The first ancestor of this old family in America was Peter Klock, a German by birth, who came to this country about 1750. His first location was somewhere in Berks county, in the Province of Pennsylvania, according to some in Bern township, according to others near Womels- dorf, and again in Oley township. It is probable that the last named location is more nearly the cor- rect one. At any rate, Oley township was the home of one Peter Kluck in 1756, on March 24th of which year the house of Peter Kluck, about four- tecn miles from Reading, was set on fire by the savages, and the whole family killed. (Berks County History, 1909, says Peter Kluck and fam- ily, of Albany, were killed by the Indians in March, 1756.) While the flames were still ascending the Indians made an assault upon the house of one Linderman, in which there were two men and
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one woman, all of whom ran upstairs, where the at St. Peter's Church, at Mahanoy, of which he woman was killed by a shot which went through the roof.
John Peter Klock, the ancestor of the Klocks in Northumberland county of whom we write, was born Jan. 1, 1743, and as tradition has it that he came to America when seven years old this sub- stantiates the date of 1750 for the emigration of Peter Kluck, whom the Indians killed. Rupp's History makes the statement that the "whole family was killed," which is probably inaccurate, as John Peter Klock is said to have been and un- doubtedly was a son of Peter Kluck. He died Dec. 9, 1817. aged seventy-five years, less twenty- four days. His wife, Margareda, born April 10, 1747, died April 4, 1832. They had the follow- ing children: John Peter, Jr., was the grand- father of Dr. Henry A. Klock, who died at Maha- noy City, Pa., in 1908, aged fifty-nine years; George had a son Abraham, who is buried at St. Peter's church, Mahanoy, and whose son Noah was county commissioner of Northumberland county; Henry located in Indiana, where his descendants still live: Jacob settled in Virginia before 1790; Valentine is mentioned below : Mrs. Peter Starr lived near Rough and Ready, in Schuylkill county, Pa. According to another account there was also a son David. who lived in Pike township, Berks county, where on Aug. 13, 1818, his son David K. was born. On Feb. 25, 1793, David Klock received a warranty deed for a tract of 343 acres of land, called "Beauty," located on the Little Mahantango creek, near the line of Northumberland and Berks counties. The name in the deed is written Peter Kluck, but in the body of the document it appears as Cluck. It is now pronounced as if written Clock, from which we obtain the spelling Klock, in the German style. The name has been spelled Kluck, Cluck, Clock and Klock, the latter being the commonest and probably the correct form. The descendants of David Klock reside in the northwestern part of Schuylkill county and in Washington and Jack- son townships, Northumberland county. The late Dr. Henry A. Klock. of Mahanoy, devoted consid- erable attention during 1907 to tracing the fami- ly history, but he died during 1908 before the completion of his landable undertaking:
In the foregoing account Valentine Klock, the ancestor of the Klocks to which this article is specially devoted, is given as a son of John Peter Klock. According to another account he was probably a son of David Klock, Sr. He was born March 27, 1786. lived in Jackson township, and was a blacksmith and farmer, owning a tract of many acres, which has since been divided into different farms. Felix Klock, one of his grand- sons, owns forty acres of this old homestead. Val- entine Klock was engaged in blacksmithing near Mahanoy. He died Sept. 11, 1870, and is buried
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