Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 99

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

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George H. Hoffman resides with his foster par- ents, and is engaged as a dealer in live stock, poul- try, etc. He married Florence S. Wertman, daugh- ter of Wesley Wertman, of near Turbutville. Mr. Hoffman is a member of the Artisans Order of Mutual Protection and of the Knights of the Gold- en Eagle, and he is a Democrat in political senti- ment. He owns an old left-handed sickle of a by-

HARVEY M. STAHL, superintendent ,of the Pomfret Manor cemetery at Sunbury, Northum- berland county, has filled his present position since 1899. He has previously been engaged in similar work at Lewisburg, Union county, and his experi- ence fits him well for his responsibilities. He is an excellent manager, showing good judgment and taste in all the details of his duties at Pomfret Manor, and the various improvements which have originated with or been carried out by him have proved that he has marked ability in his line.

Mr. Stahl was born Dec. 12, 1863, in Snyder county, Pa., and comes of an old family of that section of the State, his great-great-grandfather coming from Switzerland and settling in one of the lower counties of Pennsylvania. His great-grand- father, Adam Stahl, was a farmer in Union town- ship. Snyder county. He was a Mennonite in re- . ligious faith, and he and his wife are buried at Witmer's Evangelical Church in Snyder county.

in Union township in 1881, but is buried at Win- field, Pa. Like most of the early members of the Stahl family, he was a Mennonite in religious faith. His wife, Susanna (Shottsberger), of Un- ion township, Snyder county, was born in 1803 and died in 1884. Their children were as follows: Peter, Jacob, John and William all lived in Union township; Elias is mentioned below; Katie mar- ried John Sholly; Mary married Joseph Herald; Susan married Peter Sholly, brother of John.

Elias Stahl, son of Frederick, was born in 1843 in Union township, Snyder county, and engaged in farming at Lewisburg, Union Co., Pa., where he is buried. He died July 1, 1903. His wife, Anna ( Miller), still makes her home at Lewis- burg, where several of their children also reside. Mr. and Mrs. Elias Stahl had children as follows : Alfred, who is a resident of Lewisburg; Mcclellan,

Charles Miller, father of Mrs. Anna ( Miller) Stahl, was born in 1801 and died in 1880. He came from Montgomery county, Pa., not far from Philadelphia, and settled in the vicinity of Keiser's Church, in Union township, Snyder county, about 1824. Previous to his removal to this section he married Eva Reiter, and they had one child born in Montgomery county. Mr. Miller was a carpen- ter by trade. He and his wife are buried at Keiser's Church. Their children were: Levi, of

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Shreiner's Church, in Snyder county ; Sophia, de- Ireland, and came to America in 1845, settling at ceased ; Anna, Mrs. Stahl; and Matilda.

Pottsville, Pa. He became an employee in the Harvey M. Stahl was educated in the public mines and was superintendent of mines for a schools of his home locality and at Freeburg Acad- while. He later went to what is now Brockville, emy. He began work as clerk in a general store, Schuylkill county, and in company with George being thus employed for six years, atter which he Clark and a Mr. Raisbeck opened up a mine there. was in the employ of the Philadelphia & Reading Then they went to Locust Dale and opened up the Railway Company for a time, as foreman in the old Potts colliery, and later the Marion colliery, freight department at Shamokin. In 1897 which is about three miles west of the Potts col- he moved from Shamokin to Lewisburg, where he liery. He was employed at different collieries was engaged by the Lewisburg Cemetery until 1880, when he accepted a position with the Company until his removal to Sunbury, in Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, being

1899. He arrived at Sunbury Aug. 20th, located at Tremont till 1883. At this time he went and has since been superintendent of the to East Franklin, working there until December, Pomfret Manor cemetery, where, at that time, 1885, and on Jan. 1, 1886, he became superintend- 605 interments had been made. Up to Oct. 4, ent of the Enterprise colliery for the late Thomas 1910, the number was 1,756. From twelve to Baumgardner, continuing there the remainder of twenty men are employed in the cemetery work, his life. He was killed Nov. 24, 1886, near Ex- according to the season, and the work is thought- celsior, by the Empire freight train of the North- fully planned and systematically executed, as the ern Central railroad, and was buried at Ashland, first-class condition of the grounds shows. Mr. Pa. He was an energetic and industrious man, Stahl has inaugurated a number of improvements whose strict integrity and indefatigable devotion in the manner of handling the care of the ceme- to business made him a valued employee.

tery, and he is at present contemplating a syste-

Mr. Holland married Margaret Monaghan, who

matic record of burials, etc., which would be val- died at Frackville, Pa. They had thirteen children, uable to all interested. His energetic and me- viz. : Edward, John, Michael, Mary, Stephen, thodical performance of all the work at Pomfret Richard (assistant superintendent of the Susque- Manor has won the appreciation of all.concerned. hanna. Coal Co.), Ellen, James J., Ann, Lawrence, On Oct. 27, 1887, Mr. Stahl married Ella and three who died young. Heintzleman, daughter of Elias and Deborah James J. Holland attended the public schools (Reichenbach) Heintzlenian, of Union township, of Locust Dale, Pa., and when fourteen years of Snyder county, and granddaughter of Jolin Heint- age entered the office of the Potts colliery as a mes- zleman and his wife (who was a Reigel), also farm- senger boy. Here he remained for some time and ing people of Snyder county. Mrs. Stahl is one of then went to Tremont to work in the mines, fromn a family of eight children : Laura married S. A. 1881 to 1886, when he entered the office of the Dinger, of Shamokin ; Ella is Mrs. Stahl : Harvey Enterprise colliery for Thomas Baumgardner, tak- married Miss Monday, of South Fork, Pa .; Katie ing charge of the pay department. When this col- married Joseph Shaffer, of Snyder county ; John liery was sold in 1891 to Hon. W. L. Connell and A. married Annie Foltz, and is a farmer of Sny- others, he remained with them. In 1893 he took der county ; Annie C. married Charles Seachrist, charge of the Anthracite Store Company, at Ex- and they are farming people of Snyder county ; celsior, as manager, and in July, 1909, he was also Charles married Miss Hopewell, of Northumber- made manager of the Bernice Store Company, in land, Pa .; Jennie married Clayton Steffen, and Sullivan county, Pa. He still retains these posi- they are farming people in Snyder county. tions.

To Mr. and Mrs. Stahl have been born three children, two sons and one daughter, namely: Wean, daughter of Percival and Sarah (Hen- ninger) Wean. Mr. and Mrs. Wean have lived at

Mr. Holland married Feb. 26, 1889, Clara E.

Stella M. is a graduate of the Sunbury high school and of the commercial department of Susquehanna Donaldson, Schuylkill county, for sixty-five years. University, at Selinsgrove, Pa. ; Roy E. is a mem- Mr. and Mrs. Holland, have had children as fol- ber of the class of 1911, Sunbury high school (he lows : Estelle, nurse at the State Hospital at Seran- has considerable local fame as an athlete) : Nor- ton. Pa .; Margaret, died young : Hilda, graduated man W. is a member of the class of 1913, local high in the class of 1910 from the Shamokin high school. Mr. Stahl and his family worship at the school; Richard, a student at the high school ; Lutheran Church. Socially he is a member of the Edith, deccased : and Percival, deceased. Mr. Royal Arcanum.

JAMES J. HOLLAND, a well known business man of Shamokin, Pa., was born at Locust Dale, Pa., March 19, 1866, son of Richard Holland.

Holland is an independent voter. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, and of St. Edward's Catholic Church of Shamokin.

HARRISON RINGLER, of Milton, has been

Richard Holland was born in County Kilkenny, engaged as an insurance man for over twenty-five

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years and has established a fine business in the bor- which has been settled in this region since before or ough and surrounding region, his territory cov- about the period of the Revolution. The Malicks ering about five counties. Mr. Ringler was born are of German extraction, and the carly spelling in Milton Nov. 14, 1842, son of Eli and Margaret . of the name was Malick or Mehlig, but it is now (Tobias) Ringler.

found in various forms, Malick, Malich, Mellick, Eli Ringler was born in Berks county, Pa., where etc. One Jacob Malick and five brothers came to the Ringlers have been settled since the early days. He became a school teacher there, later removed

this country from Germany, four of the brothers, among whom was Jacob, settling along the Sus- to Muncy, Lycoming Co., Pa., where he lived for a quehanna river in what is now Lower Augusta time, and thence came to Milton. In his later years he did day's work. He died at an advanced age, at Cogan station, Lycoming Co., Pa., and is buried in that county. His family consisted of eight children, namely : Rudolph ; Elizabeth, mar- ried to John Humphreys; Mary, married to Sam Irvin ; Amanda, who died unmarried : William, of Philadelphia; Henry, of Philadelphia : Har- rison ; and Ella, married to Milton Potts, of Har- risburg.

Harrison Ringler attended .school in Chillisqua- que township, this county. In his earlier years he worked among the farmers, later drove a canal team, and in 1859 went to New York State, where he engaged as canal boatman upon the Erie canal. During the Civil war he served in the Union army for three years as a member of Company D, 164tl

According to one account, the Malicks eame to Pennsylvania from New Jersey, settling in the woods in what was then Northumberland (now New York Regiment, Irish Brigade, enlisting Aug. Columbia) county, at the present location of Light- 27, 1862; was wounded May 18, 1864, at Spottsyl- vania courthouse, Va., and was discharged on ac- count of his injuries Jan. 2, 1865. After the war he located . at Milton and was employed by the American Car & Foundry Company (then Murray, Dougal & Co.) there . for _ nine years, after which he clerked for B. K. Haag, continuing with him also nine years. In 1885 he began the insurance business, in which he has established a large and constantly growing trade, doing business over about five counties in Pennsyl- vania. His office is in the Buoy block. His. busi- ness has prospered through systematic care and in- telligent management, and he enjoys excellent standing among those who have had dealings with him.

Mr. Ringler's first marriage was to Lydia Strine, who died in Milton, Pa., Aug. 3, 1891, the mother of three children : Harry, who died July 6, 1893, and was buried at Mifflinburg, Pa. ; Grace, Blanche. For his second wife Mr. Ringler married Lillian MeCollin. He is a member of the Methodist Church. Socially he belongs to the G. A. R. and the Union Veteran Legion.

township, in the region of Sunbury. They were among the pioneers in that section, where their descendants are now very numerous, several branches of the family being well represented. There is record of three brothers, Peter, Henry and another who died soon after his marriage, leaving a widow and one daughter. This does not quite agree, however, with the Federal Census Report of 1790, which records Peter, Henry and a Widow Melich as heads of families in Northumberland county : Peter Malich had one son and six daugh- ters; Henry had one daughter ; the widow had two daughters. Among the taxables of, Angusta town- ship, in 1768, were David and John Malick.

street. At any rate, the pioneer Peter Malick lived there until the time of the Indian scare in 1773. The family were panic-stricken at the report that the Indians were approaching, on the warpath, and the men hastily got the horses together, the women collecting clothing, etc., which they tied to a young mare. The animal took fright at its unusual bur- den and ran away, and was shot by the Indians. Eventually men, women and children had to make their way on foot to Fort Augusta, at Sunbury, which had been built in 1756, and there the family remained until the immediate danger was over. - It appears that Jacob Maliek, son of Peter Malick, Jr., obtained his land in that region through the family's escape to the fort for safety. Peter Mel- ick, Sr., made a will, but we have not found it on record at Sunbury. Peter Melick, Jr., made his will March 6, 1789; it was probated June 5, 1789. He bequeathes to his wife Mary "Mellick," and to children : Son John (double daughter Christiana shall have) : son Peter (double of daughter Char- itv) ; son Mickel (double of daughter Margaret) ; son Henry ; son David ; and daughters Cristana, Charity, Margaret and Elizabeth. Some ehildren died young.

MALICK. Among the representatives of the One David Malick, born Oct. 4. 1759, died in 1834. His old family Bible is now in the posses- tant relative of the Malicks, her mother having been a Maliek. Malick family in Sunbury, Northumberland county, are Charles A. and Solomon E. Malick, sion of Mrs. William F. Keefer, of Sunbury, a dis- both of whom are employees of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, hokling responsible positions at that point. They are sons of Solomon Maliek Jacob Malick, son of Peter, Jr. (he is not men- and grandsons of David Malick, and belong to one tioned in will among children of Peter, Jr.), had of the earliest families of Northumberland county, a number of brothers and sisters, among them

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Peter, David and Maria (who died Sept. 2, 1822, ter of Joseph and Mary ( Kase) Hummer, farming aged nineteen years, eleven months; buried at people of Rush township, seven children have Augustaville Union Church). Jacob lived near been born: Effa, Alma, Preston (who died in Seven Points, in Rockefeller township, in territory infancy), Ruth, Sadie, Greta and Alton W. formerly embraced in Lower Augusta township, This family belong to the First United Evan- and had a large acreage of fine, level land, the gelical Church of Sunbury, of which Mr. Malick is farm now owned by Levi Shipe. He also owned one of the most prominent members and workers. the land on Shikellimy Hill, on the west side of the' He was one of the organizers of the congregation, Susquehanna river. He was a Lutheran, a member and when the present church edifice was erected was · of the Augustaville Stone Church, where he was a member of the building committee. When it was remodeled he was again a member of the committee, serving as its foreman. For seven years he was a member of the board of trustees. Politically he is a Democrat. He belongs to the Carpenters' Brotherhood.

buried, and in the construction of which he bore his part, helping to get out the timber. He hewed the main girder on New Year's Day, the weather being clear and favorable for the work. His first wife, whose maiden name was Epler, bore him chil- dren : John, Jacob, Henry and Daniel. By his sec- ond wife he had children as follows: Jeremiah set- tled in Iowa; Mary married Jacob Martz; Char- lotte married William Raker, a merchant of Trev- orton, Pa. ; Sarah married a Mr. Dottery, of Mount Carmel, Pa .; Hannah died unmarried, at Hern- don, this county.

Daniel Malick ( Melick according to tombstone . records) was born March 20, 1819, in Lower Augusta (now Rockefeller) township, and died Feb. 8, 1891. He was a saddler by occupation, and lived about a mile above Seven Points, where he owned a farm of about one hundred acres. He is buried at the Stone Church before mentioned, and was long an active member of the Lutheran congre- gation there, serving as deacon, elder and trustee, which latter position he held at the time of his death. His wife Lovina ( Raker), daughter of Ja- ` cob Raker, was born Dec. 1, 1824, and died Sept. 23, 1884. Their children were as follows: Alice, who is unmarried, lives at No. 603 Catawissa av- enue, Sunbury ; Emma (deceased ) married Jacob Shade, who lived at Paxinos, this county ; Darius is mentioned below ; Wilson died aged four years.

David Malick, grandfather of the brothers Charles A. and Solomon E. Malick, of Sunbury, was undoubtedly of this stock. He was born in Rockefeller township, Northumberland county, lived in the vicinity of Augustaville, on the farni later occupied by Harry Wolf, and was a lifelong farmer. He was a foremost member of Mt. Zion United Brethren Church, in Lower Augusta town- ship, which was also called Malick's Church, so named after him, and he and his wife are buried at that church. Their children were: Sarah, who married George B. Conrad ; and Solomon.

Solomou Malick was born in Rockefeller town- ship, Northumberland county, in 1832, and died March 20, 1882, aged fifty years. He is buried in the Pomfret Manor cemetery at Suubury, which was formerly a part of the old South Fourth street cemetery. During his early boyhood Mr. Malick went to school only a few months each year, spend- ing the rest of the time at farm work, at home or with neighboring farmers. Later he became a pu- pil at the academy at Freeburg, Snyder county, where he met his wife, Mary Ann Roush, daughter Darius Malick, carpenter, of Sunbury, was born Jan. 16, 1857, iu Lower Augusta (now Rockefel- ler) township, and there attended the public schools. When twenty-one years old he went to learn the trade of carpenter, at Seven Points, and he has been engaged at carpentry and other wood work ever since. For nine years he was employed in the Pennsylvania railroad shops. His home lias been in Sunbury since 1887. and in 1891 he built the large home now occupied by the family, at No. 601 Catawissa avenue. of Andrew and Susan ( Adams) Roush, and mem- ber of a pioneer family of that county. Mr. Roush taught school, and Mr. Malick taught music and singing, conducting singing schools in Selinsgrove, Sunbury, and other places in the adjacent terri- tory. Later he read law in the office of George C. Hill, of Sunbury, was admitted to the bar in Northumberland county and became associated in legal practice with George W. Ziegler. He was in time admitted to practice in the Supreme court and became a prominent attorney. His death, which Mr. Malick's first marriage was to Susan Con- rad, daughter of William and Ann ( Bartholomew) Conrad, and to this union were born children as follows: Nelson C., who married Olive McClow ; occurred very suddenly, was caused by the burst- ing of a blood vessel while he was running for a train at Freeburg. His home was for the most "part in Sunbury, where he lived many years in the Cordella, who died in her third year ; Emmery C., of house immediately back of the jail, on Arch street. Philadelphia ; Laura E. ; Annie M., wife of William Ile was a prominent citizen of the borough and Gross, foreman of silk mills at Littlestown. Pa .; filled the office of chief burgess for two terms. A and Cora, who was adopted by Rev. A. J. Stokes; Democrat in politics, he was well and favorably a United Evangelical minister, who had no family. known in the party. was a member of Lodge No. By his second marriage, to Lizzie Hummer. daugh- 22, F. & A. M .. of Sunbary, and with his family

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was identified with the Lutheran Church. He and and Shenandoah branch. On July 8, 1905, he was his wife had children as follows: William W. was killed in a collision at Weigh Scales, this county, June 24, 1884; E. Laura married Gilbert H. Cobb, who is division freight agent for Pennsylvania for the Pennsylvania Railway Company, and they live in New York City ; Charles A. is mentioned below : Solomon .E. is mentioned below : John F., a loco- motive engineer, resides at Pottsville, Pennsyl- vania.

CHARLES A. MALICK was born Feb. 24, 1864, at Sunbury, and there received his education in the common schools. In 1879, at the age of fifteen, Temple Club. he learned telegraphy, and has ever since been 6, 1880, he became extra operator, being engaged as telegrapher until he was made train dispatcher, in 1887. He filled that position until promoted to trainmaster, in 1901, at Sunbury, on the Sun- bury & Shamokin division of the Pennsylvania road. He has a number of men in his charge, and has proved a trustworthy man in every capacity, . winning his promotions by efficient and consci- entious discharge of all his duties. He is a well known eitizen of the borough and has several so- cial connections, belonging to Lewistown Lodge, No. 203, F. & A. M., to the Royal Arcanum, and to the Temple Club of Sunbury.

In.1890 Mr. Malick married Ida Weiser, daugh- ter of Jacob and Martha (Potts) Weiser, and they have one child, Helen, who graduated from the Sunbury high school with the class of 1909. The family home is at No. 24 North Second street, Sunbury. They attend Zion's Lutheran Church.

assigned jurisdiction over the passenger trains in this territory, this being his present responsibility. His position is one of the higliest importance, and he has proved himself equal to its demands in emergencies as well as in his regular line of duties. His continued promotions are the best evidence of his fidelity and its appreciation. He is a Mason, belonging to Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A. M., of Sunbury, and is a member of the Veterans As- sociation of the Sunbury division of the Pennsyl- vania road. Ile also holds membership in the

On Feb. 26, 1890, Mr. Malick married Mary employed by the Pennsylvania Company. On Jan. Alberta Sarvis, daughter of Charles and Barbara

(Wynn) Sarvis, of Lower Augusta township, and they have one daughter, Florence Louise, who grad- uated front the Sunbury high school in 1909. The family home is at No. 330 Chestnut street, Sun- bury.

JOHN K. ERDMAN, though now retired from active agricultural pursuits, still makes his home on his farm in the Irish Valley, in Rockefeller township, where he owns a large and valuable tract. He has made his home there since 1885. Mr. Erdman was born March 26, 1841, in Upper Maliantango township, Schuylkill Co., Pa., son of George Erdman and grandson of Johan Georg Erdman.

The emigrant ancestor of this family, Johannes Erdman, of Pfungstadt, Hessen-Darmstadt, came to America in 1734. Where he first settled has not been learned, but in 1750 he was on the property now known as the old Erdman farm, near Center Valley, in Lehigh county, P.a. His wife's name was Anna Catharine. He died Oct. 30, 1760, at the age of seventy-eight years. He seems to have

SOLOMON E. MALICK was born Dec. 27, 1865, at Sunbury, and there received his education in the public schools. He began to assist in the support of the family when he was fifteen years old, work- ing in a sawmill for about a year, and on Dec. 13, had a number of children, but the lineage of only 1882, taking a position with the Pennsylvania Rail-

one son, Andrew, has so far been ascertained with way Company, as night call boy. In September, certainty. This Andrew (Andraes) married Anna 1883, he was appointed night telegraph operator at Mainville, on the Pennsylvania road, later was transferred to Catawissa as night operator, and on July 1, 1884, was transferred to the. D. Y. yard at Sunbury, on account of the vacancy caused by the death of his brother, William R. Malick. In the fall of 1885 he became telegraph operator in the superintendent's of- fice at Sunbury and was promoted until he Bitz and removed to Lower Mount Bethel, North- attained the responsible position of train dis- patcher. In May, 1888, he was appointed extra train dispatcher, afterward night dispatcher, which

Maria Frederick, and they had nine children, namely : Jacob, George, Abraham, Andrew, John, Yost, Catharine, Sybilla and Anna Margaret. Of these,. Catharine (who married Jacob Barnhart), Anna Margaret (who married George Sober) and Abraham removed to Armstrong, Westmoreland Co., Pa., at an early day, and their descendants have been lost track of. Sybilla married Henry ampton Co., Pa. Andrew and Yost settled in Hill- town, Bucks Co., Pa., and George in Upper Sau- con. Lehigh Co., Pa. ; he had two sons, John and position he filled about one year, on Aug. 1, 1890, Jacob. The Northumberland eounty branch of becoming train dispatcher on the afternoon trip. the family is descended from Andrew. On April 1, 1903, Mr. Malick was made assistant Georg Erdinan, grandfather of Jolin K. Erd- man, was a native of Lehigh county, born Feb. 24, 1787, and was one of three brothers, Abrahanı, Andrew and Georg, to move from that locality into trainmaster on the Sunbury & Shamokin division, with jurisdiction between Sunbury and Lewis- town Junction, Sunbury and Mount Carmel, Sun- bury and Wilkes-Barre. Wilkes-Barre, Pottsville the Mahantango Valley, all settling near Klingers-

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 99

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