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was a Lutheran member. His wife, Maria Zerbe, was born Oct. 17, 1788, and died May 30, 1866. They had children as follows: Felix died unmar- ried; Peter lived near Mahanoy Church on the . farm now owned by Felix Klock (he married Esther Schlegel and their children were John, Daniel, Frank, Joseplı, David, Harriet, Clinton and Andrew) ; John is mentioned below; Daniel settled in Illinois; Rebecca married a Mr. Krebs and they also located in Illinois; Catharine mar- ried Jacob Zerfing and they lived in Washington township, this county; . Sallie married John Schlegel : Judith died unmarried.
John Klock, son of Valentine, was born Aug. 11, 1818, in Upper Mahanoy township, and died Aug. 3, 1863. He is buried at St. Peter's Church, Mahanoy, of which he was an official member. Mr. Klock owned a. tract of twenty-seven acres in Jackson township, and he was a carpenter by trade, during the winter time working in his shop. He built a number of houses and barns, and had a thriving business, teaching the trade to a number of apprentices and employing as many as five men during his busy seasons. He had an excellent reputation as a mechanic, and was known to all as a useful citizen, worthy of the esteem which he enjoyed among his fellowmen. On Oct. 19, 1862, Mr. Klock enlisted in Company D (Capt. George Ship, Jr.), 1:2d Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, for nine months' service, and he is de- scribed as being five feet, ten inches in height, of dark complexion, and with gray hair. He was discharged from the service Aug: 1, 1863, at Harrisburg, where he died two days later, Aug. 3, 1863, while marching with his regiment; he is buried at St. Peter's church in Mahanoy.
Mr. Klock married Elizabeth Rebuck, who was born June 8, 1826, daughter of Peter Rebuck; his mother's maiden name was Stepp. Mrs. Klock died Aug. 31, 1871, the mother of the following named children : Felix is mentioned below ; Frank R. is mentioned below; Sarah Webster Leffler ; Galen R. is mentioned below; Clinton is deceased ; Wilhelmina, unmarried, lives at Ber- rysburg, Pa .; Miranda, unmarried, who lives at Sunbury, has been an invalid since 1874; Samuel is a resident of Washington township.
FRANK R. KLOCK, a retired farmer, now living in the borough of Sunbury, Northumber- . land county, was born Oct. 30, 1849, in Jackson township. He attended the schools at Mahanoy, in that township, and from his earliest years was trained to farm work, which he continued to fol- low throughout his active years. Living for a time in Jackson township, and then for three years in Little Malianoy township, in 1882 he settled in Lower Augusta township, where he has a tract of seventy acres, his son Calvin now renting and operating this place. Upon his retirement, in
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1908, he moved to Sunbury, where his home is at Red Cross, in Washington township, was born Jan. No. 809 East Market street, owning that place 16, 1847, on the farm of his grandfather, Val- and another piece. of property in the borough. entine Klock, in Jackson township. He was reared Mr. Klock has always taken an interest in the to farm life, and in his twenty-first year went public affairs of the community, and while a resi- dent of Lower Augusta township he served three years as school director. In Little Mahanoy town- ship he was constable for one year. Politically lie is a Democrat, and in religion he is a Luther- an, his family also belonging to that church. Dur- ing his residence in Lower Augusta township he served the church in an official capacity.
On Feb. 29, 1882, Mr. Klock married Harriet Dunkelberger, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Malick) Dunkelberger and granddaughter of Christophel Dunkelberger, of Little Mahanoy town- ship. They have two children: Howard D., of Lower Augusta township; and Calvin D., who farmns his father's old place in Lower Augusta township.
GALEN R. KLOCK, a farmer near Mahanoy, in Jackson township, was born in that township April 18, 1853, and when nineteen years old com-, menced to learn the trade of miller. After follow- ing it about three years, he went to Ogle county, Ill., in 1824, and there remained for three months. Proceeding farther west, he lived at Milton June- tion, Iowa, for three years. Returning to his home in Pennsylvania Christmas day, 1877, he soon went to Shamokin, where he was in the hotel busi- ness for one year, and then for two years he re- turned to the occupation of his youth. farming, in Jackson township. For six months he was
plovee of the National Transit Company. In July,
In 1880 Mr. Klock married Amanda Agnes Kulp, who was born in Berks county, Pa .. daughter of John and Caroline ( Rhoad) Kulp, of Jackson township, and they have had children as follows: Thola M., who married Frank Selgrath, of Maha- noy City; Dora J., John H., Mary E., George L., Katie E. and Anna M., all of whom reside at home. Mr. Klock and his family are members of the Lutheran congregation of St. Peter's church, at Mahanoy, and he has served as deacon of that organization.
FELIX KLOCK, a farmer near Mahanov, now
to learn shoemaking, which trade he followed for twenty-three years, in Jordan and Jackson town- ships. In 1890 he began farming at his present home in Washington township, a farm of 145 acres formerly owned by one of his uncles. It is good land, and under the management of the pres- ent owner has yielded an excellent income. Mr. Klock built a large frame dwelling house there in 1903. He has always been energetic and ambi- tions, and for sixteen years he followed threshing as well as farming, being regarded as one of the best threshers in his end of Northumberland coun- ty. He operated an up-to-date outfit, and has threshed as much as 47,000 bushels of grain in one season. In this connection he became par- ticularly well known. Mr. Klock is a Democrat and served one term as school director of Wash- ington township. He is a Lutheran member of St. Peter's church, where many generations of the Klock family have worshipped, and many of the name are buried in the cemetery there.
On May 16, 1869, Mr. Klock married Sarah Adelia Bordner, and they have had twelve chil- dren : Alice, wife of Jerre Spotts; Lizzie M., who died young; Jonathan E., of the State of Wash- ington : George F., who died when twenty-five years old, leaving three children, Charles H., Wil- liam E. and George F .; Susan B., wife of Francis W. Hoffman ; Dorsey L., of Washington township ; United States mail driver between Dornsife and Charlena J .. who died in infancy : Carrie A., who Pitman, and after his marriage, which took place married George Schaffer; J. Cleveland, of Hern- in 1880, he worked on the railroad for about don, Pa .: Francis M .; Minnie A., who has been six years. The next three years he was an em- an invalid all her life, and William A. .
BORDNER. The Bordner family, to which 1895, Mr. Klock purchased the J. H. Hoffman Mrs. Felix Klock belongs, is descended from Bal- homestead, near Mahanoy, where he has since made thaser (Baltser) Bordner, who at the age of thir- his home, having moved to this place soon after it came into his possession. This farm consists of seventy-five acres located along the State road from Herndon to Mahanoy. Mr. Klock has inter- ested himself in local affairs to some extent, has Rotterdam on the ship "Adventurer." and landed served six years as supervisor, was roadmaster for three years, and is at present overseer of the poor. He is a Democrat in political faith. ty-four years, together with his wife Marilles, aged thirty-seven years, and three children- Jacob, Hanna and Mcla, aged ten, eight and seven years, respectively, sailed from at Philadelphia Sept. 22, 1732. Balthaser Bord- ner settled in Tulpehocken township, Lancaster (now Berks) county. immediately after landing. and died there in 1747.
Jacob Bordner, son of Balthaser, was born in 1722. He was executor of his father's estate, and on April 10, 1761, was naturalized as a citizen of Tulpehocken township, Berks county, at the Su- preme court of Philadelphia. On June 20, 1761, he purchased from Thomas and Richard Penn the present Bordner homestead, which had been leased to Jacob Hoffman, who was unable to pay his rental. Since that day the homestead has been owned by a son of each successive generation. Jacob Bordner married Sarah Balt, and they
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reared a family of seven children : Jacob (2), John, Packard (a cooper) and died several years ago William, Daniel, Peter, Anna Maria and Barbara. (no children) ; Emma, unmarried, who lives with The father died in 1792, and by his will the home- her father; and Ida, who married Alex. Hall, a stead passed to his eldest son, Jacob (2).
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painter, of Three Rivers, Mich. (they have no children ). (5) William, born June 6, 1833, died April 18, 1857. (6) Elias, born May 21, 1836, died April 10, 1848, and is buried at Williams- ville, N. Y. (7) Henry is a farmer at Onawa,
Jacob Bordner (2), son of Jacob, was born in 1754, and spent his whole life upon the home- stead. He was married to Anna. Maria Brosz, seven years his junior. They had a family of six children : Jacob (3), John, Catharine, Elizabeth, Monona Co., Iowa. (8) Benjamin F., born Aug. Julian and Susanna. Jacob Bordner (?) died 2, 1841, is a farmer by occupation. During the in 1837, willing the homestead to his eldest son Civil war he served in Company K, 11th Michigan Jacob (3). The widowed mother survived her husband two years.
Infantry. He married Mary Dunlap, who was born Oct. 28, 1842, and they had children : Ralph, born Nov. 14, 1870, a farmer, married Viola Everet, who was born July 19, 1879, and they have three children, Clare (born Nov. 30, 1897), Zada (born April 2, 1903) and Irene (born Oct.
Balthaser Bordner, grandfather of Mrs. Felix Klock, was of this stock. He was born in the Tul- pehocken Valley, in Berks county, and at an early date settled in Lower Mahanoy township, North- umberland county, acquiring a large tract of land, 24, 1909) : Guy D., born May 4, 1876. cashier of which has now been divided into four farms. The original homestead now belongs to the Hain estate. Mr. Bordner was a lifelong farmer. He was born Feb. 21, 1778, and died Jan. 13, 1853, and is bur- ied at Zion's Stone Valley church. His wife, Mary the First National Bank of Burr Oak, Mich., mar- ried Vinnie Woodman, born Sept. 25, 1876, and they have three children, Howard (born July 23, 1903), Dorothy (born Aug. 25, 1907) and John Benjamin (born Nov. 18, 1909) ; Mark, Magdelena Emerich, daughter of Jacob Emerich, born July 19, 1879, a carpenter, married Mamie a pioneer of the Tulpehocken Valley, was also of McKee, born Dec. 30, 1877, and they have two children, Isabel (born Jan. 20. 1903) and Rea (born Mareh 7, 1906). (9) Martha, horn July Burr Oak, Mich., and they have three daughters, in Coldwater, Mich .; Mrs. Sarah Plant lives on a farm at Burr Oak, Mich .; Mrs. Mina Stewart lives in Sturgis, Michigan. . - old Berks county stock. She was born April 22, 1782, and died Nov. 1, 1870. Their children were: Jacob, John, Jonathan (born Nov. 23, 19. 1843, married Hiram Pyle, a blacksmith, of 1806, died Oct. 27, 1887; wife Leah Keihl, born May 28, 1809, died May 10, 1877), Peter, Molly, all married: Mrs. Mary Watson, the eldest, lives Elizabeth, Lucy, Catharine, Joseph, Isaac, Philip (died unmarried at the age of sixty-one and is buried at Stone Valley church) and .George.
Jacob Bordner, one of the sons of Balthaser George Bordner. eldest son of Jacob, was born Feb. 28, 1825, in Erie county, Pa., and died May 20, 1903. He lived at Burr Oak, Mich., and fol- lowed the trade of mason. Fraternally he was a Freemason. He was married Sept. 29, 1850, and and Mary Magd. (Emerich) Bordner, died Nov. 23, 1845, aged forty-one years, one month, four days. He was a butcher by occupation. His wife, Magdalena (Wolf), died June 29, 1844, aged thirty-six years, two months, twenty-nine days. his wife. Catharine ( Phillips), died July 19,
1896. They had children as follows: Lucius A., buried at Williamsville, N. Y .: William H., born Dec. 10, 1853, is mentioned below; Charles A., engaged at manual labor (he married Audra Mor-
They were the parents of nine children, as follows : (1) George is inentioned below. (2) Lucian, born Aug. 10, 1851, died June 1, 1852, and is born Jan. 20, 1827, died May 7, 1831, and is buried at Williamsville, Erie Co., N. Y., from the cemetery at which place many of the dates born June 7, 1855, lives at Pasadena. Cal., and is in this article have been obtained. (3) Augustus, born Jan. 9, 1829, lived at Burr Oak, Mich., was gan) : Hattie C., born March 7, 1859, still lives on the place at Burr Oak, Mieh., where she was born.
a cooper and mason by trade, and during the lat- ter part of his active life was occupied as a dray- man. He died April 13, 1909. On June 8, 1858, William H. Bordner, son of George, was born Dec. 10, 1853, at Williamsville, Erie Co., N. Y., and is a blacksmith and machinist of Burr Oak, Mich. He is the patentee and manufacturer of the "Hold-Fast" marsh or mud shoe for horses, and follows blacksmithing in all its branches, wood working, and machinists' work of all kinds, he married Catharine Lavin, born Sept. 20, 1839, died Jan. 11, 1905. They had children: George E., born Aug. 15, 1859, a jeweler of Mason, Mich., married Nettie Breed and they have one daughter, Lenigene ; Benjamin F., born April 18, 1861, mar- ried Carrie Betcher and they have one daughter, Hazel. (4) Sarah, born April 2. 1832, in Erie also dealing in junk. Mr. Bordner married Ad- county, was married July 8, 1850, to A. N. die S. Gregg, who was born Nov. 27, 1854, and Hill, a cooper, who lived at Three Rivers, Mich. they have three children: (1) Mabel C., horn She died Feb. 13, 1907. Three daughters were Nov. 29, 1879, married Harry Van Etta, a drug- born to this union: Martha, who married John gist, born July 21, 1869, and their home is at
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Orland, Ind. They have two children: Maxon, married and has always made her home with her born July 29, 1904, and Richard, born June 22, brother John; and Henrietta, born Feb. 10, 1857, 1908. (2) Elmer Lloyd, born Dec. 21, 1883, is a who married Joseph Kauffman in 1873 and died Feb. 23, 1875. All these children were born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania. machinist and is now in Chicago, Ill. (3) Gela B., born Aug. 7, 1888, married Alpheus J. Miller, a farmer, who was born March 1, 1887, and they live at Sturgis, Michigan.
John Bordner, born Oct. 28, 1849, was a farmer throughout his active years, on the place now cultivated by his sons John S. and William H. Bordner, and he and his wife, sister Amelia and two daughters now live just a half mile from that place. In 1876 he married Catherine Ann Doh- mer, and they have five children : (1) John S., born Feb. 23, 1877, was married June 10, 1908, to Stanta Dora Ling. (2) William H., born Sept. 12, 1879, is in business in partnership with his brother John. (3) George E., born June 7, 1881, married Nov. 26, 1902, Edna May Stuts- man, and their children are Russell ( born Aug. +, 1903) and Kenneth (born Dec. 15, 1906). (4) Ida Elizabeth, born Sept. 21, 1883, and (5) Ma- bel Bernice, born July 5, 1899, reside with their parents. All the children and grandchildren of John Bordner have been born in Elkhart county, Ind. John S. and William H. Bordner are now on
Jonathan Bordner, son of Baltlaser, and his wife Leah (Keihl) had nine children, as follows: Katie married Isaae Duttry ; Lizzie married Moses Heckert and died Sept. 15, 1910; Sarah died un- married ; Louise married George Lahr; Corlina married Adam Daniel: John married Lovina Weary (buried at Shamokin) ; Emanuel inarried Mary Dreigo and is buried at Miser's Church in Snyder county: William married Polly Derrick and died in May, 1908 (he is buried at Zion's Stone Valley Church ; his widow lives in George- town) ; Leah, born Sept. 4, 1839, married John Tressler (who is serving as justice of the peace in Washington township, an office he has held for the past fifty years) and they have had eleven children, David (born Oct. 12, 1858, died aged four months. seven days), Mary Ann (born March 17, 1860, died Nov. 12, 1863, buried at St. Peter's their father's old farin at Bristol. that connty, Church), Sarah Alice (born July 12, 1861, died engaged in scientific agriculture. specializing in the scientific raising of farm crops and also of stock. Their place is known as The Bordner Plant and Animal Breeding Station. Both Nov. 23, 1863, buried at St. Peter's Church), Minnie Minerva .(married Daniel Schlegel and has one . son, Jay), Adam B. (married Amelia Stepp, died Oct. 6, 1908, and is buried at St. Peter's Church, Mahanoy ; they had two children, Curtis C., of Trevorton, and Gertrude M., who lives with her mother at Mahanoy-now Red Cross), Henry (born Oct. 11, 1864, married Katie Harris and has two children, Carrie E. and Ann), Jacob F. (born Dec. 19, 1866, married Nora Byerly and has five children, Charles I., Daisy N., Mary E., John Jacob and Goldie; of these, Charles I. married Mary A. Spotts, granddaughter of Felix and Sarah A. Klock, and they have three sons, Norman L., Luther I. and an infant), Anna
brothers are college men, John S. of Indiana and Michigan Universities, and William H. of Purdue. While the former was a student at Indiana Uni- versity he formed the acquaintance of several fam- ilies. of Bordners of Brookston, Ind., who knew considerable about the early history of the family. They claimed the Bordners were Swiss Germans, and said their brother, a professor in some eastern Pennsylvania College, had in his possession the original deed received by the first ancestor on this continent and his bachelor brother (the latter never married ). The land was located in one of (born Nov. 4, 1870, married Maurice Bower), Al- the counties south of Northumberland.
meretta (born May 9, 1871, married John Kris- singer and had four children, of whom Katie died Joseph Bordner, son of Balthaser, married Su- sanna Michael and had seven children. four of June 18, 1911, Bertha is at home and Edgar is whom died in infancy. The others were: Henry, deceased). Katie S. (born in 1872, died May 21, a sailor, who died at Harrisburg, unmarried ; 1893, and is buried at St. Peter's: she married Catharine, wife of Josephi Klock, son of Peter Samuel Diehl and bad three children, Harvey E., Klock (lived at Urban) ; and Susan, who married Gertie and Mabel) and Charlie J. (born July 15, Daniel Shappell, died at Shamokin, and is buried 1873, graduated from the Kutztown school and at St. Peter's Church, Mahanoy.
taught many years, and is now cashier of the Sunbury Trust & Safe Deposit Company : he mar- Paul Lahr, of Lewisburg. Pennsylvania. ried Louise Geise ).
Molly Bordner, daughter of Balthaser, married
Elizabeth Bordner, daughter of Balthaser. mar- ried John Dockey, of Stone Valley, and had seven children, five of whom died in infancy: Lucetta married John Michael, and died in 1903: John died ummarried in 1863.
Isaac Bordner, son of Balthaser and Mary Magd. ( Emerich) Bordner, was born May ?, 1822. and died Aug. 15, 1899, In 1849 he married Mary Magdelena Eyster, who died in 1871. Their children were: John, mentioned below; Amelia Lucy Bordner, daughter of Balthaser, married Catherine, born Sept. 26, 1853, who has never Daniel Michael, a blacksmith, and is buried at
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Zion's Church, Stone Valley. She had eight chil- Spokane; Clarence, of Spokane ; and Nettie, living dren : Isaae, John, Daniel, Emanuel, Franklin, at home, in Spokane. (5) A son, born in 1857, died Henry, Harriet and Elizabethi.
in infancy. (6) Jeremiah J., born in 1859, a resi- that place. (7) Isaac E., born in 1861, married An- na Enderson, and lives at Riverside, Pa. (8) Lu-
Catharine Bordner, daughter of Balthaser, dent of Greene, l'a., married Matilda Snyder, of married Eliah Enderson, lived in Snyder county, and is buried at Chapman, that county. She had eight children, James B., Mary P., Sarah A., Cor- cian O. was born in 1863. (9) Lizzie C., born in nelia J., Josephine B., Eveline C., Mahala N. and 1865, married John Phillips and lives at Plum Benton.
Creek; where he is engaged in farming and dairy- Peter Bordner, son of Balthaser, born Feb. 3, ing. He also owns a farm at Hickory Corners, this 1811, in Lower . Mahanov township, died in 1904 county. (10) George Franklin, born in 1870, and is buried at Zion's Stone Valley Church. He lives in Nebraska, where he is engaged in agricul- was a blacksmith. His wife, Polly ( Hepner), tural pursuits, owning a large farin. He married born in 1813, died in July, 1876, and is buried at Mary Heckerd, ot Dalmatia. Stone Valley Church. They had twelve children : Sarah married Henry Kemble: Polly married JOHN J. SMITH, present street commissioner of Sunbury, has been a popular official of that bor- ough for many years, having served his fellow Hiram Brown; Rebecca married Jonathan Bobb : Catharine married Jonathan Hoffman : Elizabeth died in infancy: Jane married Daniel Engle; citizens in various important capacities. He is Mary married John Richenbach; Isaac married widely and favorably known, and his duties of a public nature have brought him into contact with so inany residents of the place that few citizens, at any rate of his own generation, do not count himn among their acquaintances. He has lived in Sun- bury since the close of his service in the army dur- ing the Civil war. Harriet Richenbach : Benjamin married Sarah Rose; Samuel married Rose Leckel; Henry died in infancy; Frederick married Tillie McCurty. Of this family, Jonathan and Rebecca ( Bordner) Bobb had the following children : Lewis, a farmer and plasterer, who lives at. Red Cross ( formerly known as Mahanoy), married Alice Rebuck and
Mr. Smith's grandfather, James Smith, was has four children. Calvin E. (married Katie born and reared in Bucks county, this State. He served as a soldier in the Revolution, in what was
Ferster), Annie E. (a student at the Lancaster business college ), Edgar E. and George E. : Mecla- known as the Pennsylvania Provisionals, and the ta married Galen Lahr, lives near Dalmatia, and has seven children : Frank, who lives at Herndon, married Lizzie Long and they have five children ; John, who lives at Philadelphia, married Mary Rietz, and they have had four children, only one of whom survives.
George Bordner. youngest son of Balthaser and Mary Magd. ( Emerich) Bordner, was a tailor by . trade, and also had a small farm. He moved West twice, but came back to Pennsylvania to live, mak- ing his home in Lower Mahanoy township, North- umberland Co., Pa. He died Sept. 21, 1897, aged seventy-five years. four months, twenty-three days. His wife, Susanna ( Phillips), died July 3, 1892, aged sixty-three years, three months, thirteen days. Ten children were born to their union, namely: (1) A son, born in 1847. died in in- fancy. (?) Sarah Adelia, born in 1849, married Felix Klock. (3) Henry M., born in 1853, died in 1887. He married Sarah E. Seiler, of near Dalmatia, and had six children, Lennie ( married James Bogar ), Charles N. ( married a Miss Haas, of near Sunbury), William E., Susan E., George N. and one that died in infancy. All of this fam- ily are now deceased. (+) Mary E., born in 1855, married J. W. Kline. and is living at Spokane, Waslı. They had eight children: Daisy L., de- ceased ; George F. ; Susan B., wife of Dr. Mitchell, . Selinsgrove, Pa. : James : Jolin, a farmer of Upper of Oregon; Cora, wife of Henry Himmel, of Angusta township, who after his retirement lived Waterville. Wash .: John, deceased ; Frank, of in Sunbury, where he died; Catharine, wife of
musket he used in the Colonial service is now in the possession of one of his grandsons-a Inghly prized heirloom. In 1787 he came from Bueks county to Northumberland, being a pioneer at Sunbury, where in 1796 he built a hotel on the present site of the residence of Mrs. Louisa A. Moore (daughter of the late Ira T. Clement), con- ducting same for many years. His grandson John J. Smith, of Sunbury, has the board upon which the year the hotel was erected, 1796, ap- pears. James Smith served some years as clerk in the office of the county prothonotary. In his later life he made his home for several years with his son James, at Reading, Pa., but he returned to Sunbury, where he lived with his daughter Catharine ( Mrs. Withington ) until his death. He is buried in the old South Fourth street cemeterv. He was a member of the Lutheran Church. His wife. Barbara Ann ( Vanholdt), was from Bucks county, her people living in the city of Philadel- phia and in Bucks county. An oil portrait of her now in the possession of her grandson, John J. Smith, is in a fine state of preservation and highly vahied by the owner. James and Barbara Ann ( Vanholdt) Smith had quite a large family, but a number of their children died when small. We have record of: Jacob, who lived and died at
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