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N. JACOB MENGES was born Oct. 26, 1853, on born June 16, 1852, died May 28, 1893) ; Mary, who married William Ernst and (second) Levi
On Jan. 1, 1861, Mr. Menges married Mary D. Smith ; Reuben, of Pittsburg, Pa .; and N. Jacob. Bieber, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Deisher) Bieber, of Rockland township, Berks Co., Pa., the original Menges homestead in Lewis town- who came to Lewis township, Northumberland ship, where he has spent all his life, being now county, Mr. Bieber purchasing a farm of almost three hundred acres upon which he lived until
engaged in farming there. He was educated in the public schools of the locality, and worked for his death. Ten children were born to Mr. and his father until twenty-five years old, after which Mrs. Bieber, namely: Gideon ; Reuben ; Samuel; Benneville, of Iowa; Levi and Joel, twins ; Amos, of Watson, Pa .; Annie, who never married ; Mary D., Mrs. Peter R. Menges; and Sarah, who has never married. Benneville, Amos, Mrs. Menges and Sarah are now the only survivors. he carried on the farm work on his own account. The place is now known as Hillside Farm. The land is fertile, well located in what is known as Paradise Valley, and is an ideal farm property, which under the management of its present own- er is kept in first-class condition, its appearance To Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Menges was born one child, that died in infancy. being excellent evidence of his thrift and care. He is one of the substantial residents of his town- ship, and highly respected.
Jacob Menges, son of Peter and Anna Elizabeth (Bausch) Menges, was born Feb. 15, 1802, and lived to the advanced age of eighty-eight years, dying Aug. 30, 1890. He and his wife Susanna (Rovenolt), who died April 21, 1888, aged sev- On Oct. 3, 1880, Mr. Menges married Sevilla Heffelfinger. daughter of John and Mary (Pool) Heffelfinger, who were born in Montgomery county, Pa. Mrs. Menges was born in Reading, Berks county, and came to Northumberland enty-two years, ten months, nineteen days, are county with her parents when cleven years old. buried in the cemetery at Turbutville. He lived Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. on the homestead farm in Lewis township (the Menges: Susan, who is the wife of Augustus Rey- tract is now an area of 105 acres), a part of the nolds: Francis H., of Lewis township: Hattie R. : old Menges holdings, which comprised nearly one Roy J .: Elsie S .; Nora P .; and Paul and Earl, thousand acres, and the land is of the best found twins, who died when four weeks old. Mr. Men- within the limits of Northumberland county. He ges and his family belong to St. James Lutheran was actively engaged in farming on this tract un- Church at Turbutville, and he has been a trustee til seventy-five years old, after which he built a of his congregation from 1902 to the present house near by his old residence and there lived tinc., Politically he is a Democrat.
ANTHONY E. GAUGER, late of Lewis town- ship, resided upon the fine farm near McEwens- ville now carried on by his widow and daughter. He was born Sept. 2, 1834, at the family home- stead in Limestone township, Mountour Co., Pa., son of Jacob Gouger and grandson of John Wil-
until two weeks before his death, when he asked to be taken back to the homestead, and there he passed away. He was a carpenter as well as farm- er, and handy with all kinds of tools, and in his very last days showed his children and grandchil- dren how to cut grain with a siekle. The old stone house still standing on his farm is over 125 years old, and was originally used by the pioneer set- liam Gouger.
tlers as a fort to protect them from the Indians.
John William Gouger, the grandfather, mar- The masonry work is very strong, and had an old- ried Margaret Follmer, and they reared a family
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of seven sons and two daughters, of whom we After becoming lame in his shoulder he had to have the following record: (1) John William abandon his trade, and from that time made his Gouger, the eldest, moved with his brother George home with his sons. He married Catharine Eseb- to Seneca county, N. Y. Soon John William bach, daughter of David Eselibaeh, and she died Gouger moved out to Joliet, Ill., where he and his
when quite a young woman. They were the par- wife made their permanent home and reared a ents of nine children, two sons and seven daugh- large family. He settled upon a large planta- ters: (1) Jolin William Gouger, born March 8, tion, which he improved by arduous labor, and as 1827, who lives in the vieinity of Milton, North-
the Indians were likely to appear at any time in those days he and his neighbors often worked with
their rifles at the end of the furrow. The nearest
flour mill was sixty miles distant. William Gouger was the first postmaster in the vicinity, and he used a store box supplied with pigeon holes for the few papers and letters which went through the mail at that early day. The postage on a letter was twenty-five cents. (2) George Gouger had at least two sons, Daniel and Lewis,
and one daughter, Jane, who married Benjamin
umberland county, married Esther Haag, and they have had four sons and four daughters: John A., a lumber manufacturer of Chicago, Ill., had one daughter, now the wife of William Easton ; O. J., of Sullivan, Ill., also engaged in the manu- facture of lumber, married Minnie Seidel, of Dan- ville, Pa., and had one son and one daughter : W. L., of Danville, Pa., postmaster there, married Isabel Derr, of White Hall ( they have no family) ; E. L., of Maee, Idaho, engaged in mining, married a lady of that place and has one daughter, Esther ; Mary C. married Frank Irvin, and died at Wil- liamsport, Pa .; Sarah married Daniel Lereh, of Warrior Run, Pa. : Cora A. married Calvin Derr. of California ; Gertie H. married Tiee Feinour, and died in 1896, leaving one son, John. (2) Anthony E. is mentioned below. (3) Eliza married Na- thaniel Wagner and (second) William Shires, and she had two daughters: Mary died when about
Lerch. (3) Nicholas Gouger settled on the old homestead farm near Limestoneville. He mar- ried Elizabeth Bower and they reared one son and . four daughters, John B. (who married Sarah Billmyer), Margaret ( Mrs. Daniel Dildine), Nancy (Mrs. John Dildine), Sallie ( Mrs. Heits- man) and Moriah (Mrs. William MeKee), all de- ceased but Naney, who is now (1910) eighty-seven years old ; she lives at Horseheads, N. Y. (4) Ja- eighteen ; Kittie married D. W. Smith and reared cob Gouger and his family are mentioned below.
one son, Harry. Mrs. Shires died in her eighty- (5) Benjamin Gouger died unmarried. (6) John Gouger, Sr., married Mary Bower and Karehner and had one daughter, Kate, who mar- they raised a family of four children, two sons and two daughters: Elizabeth married Jacob Seidel, of Danville, Pa., and had two sons and two daughters (Lizzie married seventh year. (4) Barbara married Daniel ried Mr. Emmons. (5) Margaret married Aaron Heckman and had four children, Sallie (wife of Rey. Mr. Bower), Ida, Harry and Luthier. (6) Catharine died unmarried. (7) Sarah (de- Frank Smith) : Susan married William A. Dean, eeased) married William Fox and had two chil- Esquire, and had one child, Ada MeFarland : D. dren, one son and one daughter. Rosa Fox mar- ried Sam. Hagenbuch, of Constantine,. Mieh .; Clara Fox also married. (8) Martha ( Mattie) married William A. Wagner, of Des Moines. Iowa. and has sons Allie (superintendent of the Des Moines . railway) and Willie, both of whom are married and have families. (9) Susan (deceased) married A. Miller Waugh, and they raised one daughter and one son, both lawyers of Chicago, Ill., one being the famous Catharine Waugh Mc- Culloeli, justice of the peace at Evanston. Mr. and Mrs. McCulloch had a family of four ehil- F. married Colonel Dean's daughter Ursula (no family) ; John W. died when about eighteen years of age. (7) Daniel Gouger married Susan Bower, sister of Elizabeth and Mary Bower, his brothers' wives, and they had a family of eight children, three - sons and five daughters : Nicholas, a carpenter, died at Watsontown, Pa. (he reared a family) ; Jacob, a tailor, of Milton, also reared a family ; Frank mar- ried a Gudikunst in Virginia: Rebecca married a Mr. Glaec in Danville, Pa. : Kate married a Lowry, of Dewart, Pa .: Emma married Joseph Seidel, of Washingtonville, Pa., and has a family; Ann and dren.
Anthony E. Gauger was a lifelong farmer. He John William and Margaret .( Follmer) Gouger settled in Lewis township, Northumberland coun- married Henry Follmer. Daniel Follmer and Wil- ty, where he owned a traet of fifty-eight aeres, a liam Follmer, Esq .. were her sons. (9) The other daughter, Mrs. William Tobias, also had a family.
valuable farm and now under excellent cultiva- tion. There he died April 16, 1901. He was a Jacob Gouger, son of John William and Mar- Republican, served his township three years as garet ( Follmer) Gouger, died at the home of his school director, and was also interested in the work son Anthony E., near MeEwensville. He lived in of the Lutheran church, of which he was a member, Montour county, on the farm now owned. by his and which he served some years in the capacity of son, John William, his sons conducting the farm, elder. while he followed his trade, that of blacksmith.
On Feb. 15, 1857, Mr. Gauger married Mary
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Elizabeth: Klapp, and to them were born three Susan E., Angeline, Emeline and Caroline, twins, children : (1) Ella D. resides with her mother on Jolin D. and Maria (died in infancy). the home farm, which they now carry on. She re- ceived her carly education in the local sehools, N. THOMPSON MARSH, a prosperous busi- later attending McEwensville Academy, and has ness man of Milton, Northumberland county, was born in that borough in 1862, youngest of the family of Daniel Griggs Marsh. He is a great- grandson of Isaac Marsh, the founder of the fam- ily in this county. . developed considerable ability as an artist, having painted a number of successful portraits and landseapes which evidence her talent in this line. (2) Curtis C., who lives at MeEwensville, married Hannalı Seibert and has children, George A., Wil-
Isaac Marsh, the great-grandfather, was a na- liam C. and Helen E. (3) William A., who died tive of New Jersey, and there married Ellonanna Sept. 21, 1900, aged thirty-six years, married Nel- Griggs. He resided in New Jersey until 1807, lie Rogers. He left no children.
The Klapp (Klopp or Clapp) family, to which Mrs. Gauger belongs, is one of the oldest and most numerous in Berks county, Pa., and each gener- ation has produced men and women who have lived honorably and usefully in their communities. The Klapp family had its origin near Bingen on
when he moved to Pennsylvania with a number of his neighbors, settling in Rush township, North- umberland county, where Mr. Marsh bought a farnı.
Isaac Marslı, one of the three sons of Isaac and Ellonanna (Griggs) Marsh, was born in New Jersey Jan. 24, 1798, and came to Northumber- to Turbut township, where he passed the remain- Milton. To them were born five children: Min- ner G., born April 9, 1824, who died in January, 1911; Mary, born in 1825, who married Reuben
the Rhine, Germany, and there in 1906 still stood land county with his parents. In 1841 he moved a castle known as "Schlossklopp."
Peter Klopp (Klop or Klopf) was a Reformed der of his days, dying Jan. 31, 1874. He married, member of the Tulpehocken church in 1735. in Rush township, Sarah Gulick, who was born Later he, with Rev. Peter Miller, Godfried Fidler, in Huntingdon county, Pa., in 1796, and died in Conrad Weiser, and others, joined a church at 1867. They are buried in the upper cemetery at Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa., and at the home of Mr. Fidler, who had first taken up land in Tul- pehocken township, burned the Psalms, eatechisms
and other good books. Before the house of the Klapp; Daniel Griggs, born in 1830; William- Tulpehocken brethren (German Seventh Day son, born Feb. 12, 1832, who died April 18, 1883; Baptists) was finished, Conrad Weiser, Hans and Ellen, who married Emanuel Haus.
Michael Miller; Peter Klopf, Godfried Fidler and
Daniel Griggs Marsh, born in 1830, was reared several single men and women went to the settle- on a farm and in his young manhood learned ment at Ephrata. Of these, Weiser, Miller and harnessmaking. In 1850 he opened a harness Klopf later withdrew from the Ephrata settlement, store in Milton, on Broadway, where Bound av- but not so the daughter of Peter Klopf, who re- mained steadfast. Her monastic naine was "The- cla" and is so listed on the roster of the Sister- hood. She died Oet. 6. 1748, probably at Ephrata. Peter Klop died in 1753. enue now intersects that thoroughfare, and he con- tinued in that line for twenty years. From that time until his retirement, in 1888, he was in the shoe business, establishing a store which his son still conducts and which is one of the most sub- industrious and intelligent worker, and by close attention made his business prosper, accumulat- ing a competence in its pursuit, and winning for himself a high place in the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens.
Of this same family was undoubtedly John stantial enterprises in the borough. He was an Klapp, grandfather of Mrs. Gauger. He was a native of Berks county and came to Northumber- land in the early days, farming near Turbutville. He married Elizabeth Kline, and their children were: Thomas, of Muncy, Pa. : Daniel, of Muncy, Pa. ; Benneville, who died in Kansas: Adam, who lived at White Deer, Pa. ; John : Molly, who mar- ried John Raup; Maria, who married John Lein- bach; Sarah, who married Philip Raup : and Cath- arine, Mrs. Hoy (she and her husband went west).
During the Civil war, on July 1, 1863, Mr. Marsh enlisted, as emergency man, for service in the Union army, becoming a member of Company I, 37th Regiment. He was discharged Aug. 4, 1863. He was a Whig in his earlier manhood, later becoming a member of the Republican party.
John Klapp, son of John and Elizabeth ( Kline) Klapp, was a farmer in Lewis township, North- Mr. Marsh married Lydia A. Myerly, who was born Nov. 3, 1833, at Mooresburg, Pa., and was a resident of Milton tor fifty-eight years, dying at her home on Broadway, in that borough, Aug. 20, 1909. She was a lifelong member of the M. E. umberland county, living near Turbutville, and died in 1880, aged sixty-nine years. He married Maria Glase, who died June 15, 1848, aged thirty- eight years, the mother of the following children : William S., Mary Elizabeth (widow of Anthony Church and a woman well known and highly es- E. Ganger), Saralı J., Margaret C., Thomas L., teemed in the community. She was buried in the
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Upper cemetery at Milton, where Mr. Marsh, who master's family. This family emigrating to passed away Aug. 30, 1905, also rests. They were America in 1747, Joseph and his sister Elizabeth the parents of three children: (1) Russell, now accompanied them, and they settled in New Jer- a resident of Watsontown, married Martha Bellas, sey, where the sister died shortly afterward. Jo- and they have three children, May Bellas (wife of sephi Fisher remained in West Jersey and com- pleted his apprenticeship, and on June 5, 1764, he married Catharine Minegar, who was born in Hol- land Aug. 24, 1:46. After their marriage the young couple located in what is now Warren county, N. J., and during the Revolutionary war Dr. Charles Cooner, of Picture Rocks, Pa. ), Curtis M., a dentist (who lives in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) and Margarette. (?) Curtis, who married Frances Waugh, now lives in San Diego, Cal. (3) N. Thompson.
N. Thompson Marsh received his education in he enlisted in the service of his adopted country,
the public schools of Milton, and was only a boy from Morris county, that State. The Fisher home was destroyed, the lands being laid waste by the armies, and after the close of the conflict Mr. Fisher determined to try his fortune in a new field. Accordingly he moved with his family to Northumberland county, Pa., in 1788, on April tth of which year he purchased from Samuel Reeder a tract of 100 acres along the Little Roar- ing creek. Mrs. Fisher died in 1809, and was interred in the old burial ground attached to the Lutheran Church at Catawissa, Pa. Mr. Fisher when he began clerking in his father's shoe store. was in the midst of the scene of hostilities and In 1879, he became a member of the firm, and when his father retired, in 1888, he took charge of the store, which he has since carried on. That the business has continued to expand under his able management is best shown in the fact that. it has twice outgrown its quarters. In 1908 Mr. Marsh refitted the large and handsome store room which he now occupies, one of the finest in the borough, commodious and convenient, and well adapted to the needs of his extensive trade. He has been untiring in his efforts to keep his busi- died Dec. 29, 1819, after a short illness, and was ness and the store itself up-to-date in every re- buried Jan. 1, 1820, beside his wife at Catawissa. spect, and his standards in dealing with his pa- They were the parents of the following children : trons are as high as his ambitions to have a cred- Catharine, born June 29, 1765, married Nicholas Shipman; Henry, born July 23, 1167, married Magdalene Farley : Mary, born Dec. 18, 1769, mar- ried Samuel Mutchler; Hannah, born Jan. 27, 1772, married Caleb Farley; Elizabeth, born July itable store and stock-creditable not only to him- self but to the community in which it is situated. He is one of the successful men of Milton, and one of the best known, though he has confined lfis activities strictly to business, having no ambition 21, 1774, married John Reeder; John, born June to enter politics or hold public office.
Socially Mr. Marsh holds membership in the Sons of Veterans, Royal Arcanum, Loyal Addi- tion and Masonic fraternity, in the latter connec- tion belonging to Milton Lodge, No. 256, F. & A. M. ; Warrior Run Chapter, No. 146, R. A. M., of Watsontown ; Mount Hermon Commandery, No. 85, K. T., of Sunbury ; Williamsport Consist- ory, A. A. R. S., thirty-second degree ; and Irem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Wilkes-Barre.
On July 3, 1900, Mr. Marsh married Mary John married Lydia Lazarus; Catharine, born June 13, 1801, married Thomas Shane: William was born Oct. 19, 1806; Elizabeth, born Sept. 19, 1809, married John Ritter.
Topley, of Philadelphia, Pa., and they have had two chiklren, Elizabeth Ann and Thompson, the latter deceased. Mr. Marsh and his family attend the Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a Re- publican.
EDWARD D. FISHER, who has been engaged in business at Watsontown since 1892, was born June 16, 1869, at Milton, Northumberland eoun- ty, son of William Augustus Fisher. The family has been settled in America since the middle of the eighteenth century, having been founded here by one Joseph Fisher.
Joseph Fisher was born in Saxony in April, 1734. At the age of thirteen years, it is said, he was apprenticed to learn a trade, and according to the custom of the times went to live in his
19, 1776, is mentioned below; Moses, born Sept. 23, 1778, married Elizabeth Bear; David was born March 6, 1781: Jacob, born Dec. 18, 1783, married Margaret Kimbpel; Joseph, born May 20, 1786, married Mary Kimbpel.
John Fisher, son of Joseph, was born June 19, 1776, in Sussex county, N. J. His wife, Eliza- beth ( Mauser), was born in 1775 in Bucks county, Pa., and died in 1844 in Noble township, Branch Co., Mich. They had a family of four children :
William Fisher, son of John, was married Dec. 25, 1827, to Eleanor Blue, who was born Nov. 22, 1810, in Mahoning township, then in Columbia county, Pa., and died Jan. 28, 1878, in Milton, Pa. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Fisher lived for a time at Danville, Pa., where Mr. Fisher was ein- ployed in the store of Peter Baldy, thence remos- ing to Milton and later to Lock Haven, Pa., where they remained for seven years. From there they went to Philadelphia, where they resided for three years, during which time they were burned out in the big fire of 1849, losing everything. Later they returned to Milton, wlicre Mrs. Fisher died in 1878, after which Mr. Fisher made his home with
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his daughter Margaret, Mrs. Glover. Mr. and Mrs. as a merchant at Watsontown, dealing in sporting Fisher were the parents of nine children: B. goods and cigars, but making a specialty of the Frank, born June 15, 1829, died Oct. 12, 1867; former line, in which he lias built up a wide Samuel J. was born April 8, 1831; William A., patronage. He gives all his time to business, and born Oct. 21, 1832, was the father of Edward D. is well known and highly respected for his up- right methods and ability to hold trade by effcc- tive efforts to pleasc. Fisher ; John K. B., born Sept. 2, 1834, died April 12, 1848; Mary E. was born Oct. 8, 1836; Charlotte J. was born March 25, 1840; Margaret On Dec. 2, 1892, Mr. Fisher married Fannie M. Miller, daughter of William H. Miller, of Wat- sontown. They have had two children, Edna M. and Florence E. The family are Lutherans in religious connection. Socially Mr. Fisher holds membership in Watsontown Lodge, No. 401, F. & A. M., Warrior Run Chapter, No. 246, R. A. M., Williamsport Consistory (thirty-second degree), and in the Royal Arcanum. He votes independ- E., born April 24, 1842, married Thomas Glover : Dudley R., born Jan. 8, 1848, died Sept. 21, 1850; Dudley R. (2), born Sept. 25, 1850, married Sept. 25, 1884, Catharine Ebright. Of this family the eldest son, B. Frank Fisher, was engaged in busi- ness at Reading, Pa. On Jan. 28, 1858, he mar- ried Mary B. Gift, who died Feb. 24, 1878, and they had these children: William W., born Feb. 13, 1860, of Sunbury, Pa .; Flora E., born Feb. ently. 26, 1863; Harry B., who died in 1865; and B. Frank, born Sept. 16, 1866. GEORGE ROESLER, a retired farmer now
William Augustus Fisher, son of William, was making his home at Pottsgrove, Northumberland born Oct. 21, 1832, was a well known butcher, county, has made his home in this eounty for over which business he followed several years, and was half a century. He is a native of Wittenberg, also a stone eutter. On Aug. 14, 1862, he enlisted Germany, born in 1830, son of Wendell and Bar- in Company E, 131st Pennsylvania Volunteer In- bara Roesler. fantry, Capt. Isaiah B. Davis, and was ordered to
Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Roesler came to America Virginia, being assigned to the 3d Provisional with their family in the year 1844. The voyage Brigade, Casey's Division, engaged in the defense was tedious, oeeupying cleven weeks, and soon aft- of Washington. The command was afterward er landing they settled in Virginia, where Mr. transferred to the Army of the Potomac, in the Roesler followed his trade, that of blacksmith, his 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 5th Army Corps. On sons tilling the soil. The mother did not survive Sept. 18, 1862, Mr. Fisher was engaged in the many years after the family eame to this country, battle of Antietam, was in the Rappahannock dying in 1855. Their family consisted of four campaign, and on Dec. 13, 1862; at Frederieks- sons and one daughter, namely : George, Wendell, burg, was severely wounded in the right hip by a shell at the action on Marye's Hill. From April John, Frederick and Kate, all the sons except . George living and dying in Virginia. The daugh- 28 to May 6, 1863, he was in the Chaneellorsville ter married a Mr. Frymutte, and her family live campaign, and he was mustered out May 23, 1863. in Baltimore, Md. The father, who was born in He became a member of G. A. R. Post No. 225, Wittenberg in 1802, died in 1889, at the advanced of Watsontown, Pa. Returning to Pennsylvania at the close of his army service Mr. Fisher settled at age of eighty-seven years, in Northumberland county, Pa. His father was of such small stature
Milton, whence in 1872 he moved to Watsontown, that he was known as "The Little Man."
George Rocsler has led an eventful life. He was followed this until his death. which occurred in in his fifteenth year when he came to America, and
where he engaged in the restaurant business. Hc Watsontown Sept. 8, 1885. He is buried at Mil- ton.
On Dec. 5, 1853, Mr. Fisher married Christiana Varts, who was born Nov. 8, 1832, and died Oct. 13, 1902. They. had a family of seven children, namely: William C., born Aug. 31, 1854, died
he passed the next fifteen years of his life in Vir- ginia, tilling his father's land. In 1860 he moved to Pennsylvania, settling at Milton, Northumber- land county, where he worked fifteen years for Mr. Gottlieb Brown, in 1875 purebasing a farm in Chillisquaque township to which he moved.
May 19, 1855 : Clarence A., born June 29, 1857, There he followed farming until the year 1890, died Feb. 3, 1859 ; Fred B., born Nov. 28, 1859, when he sold his stock and rented the land for
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