Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 32

Author: Floyd, J.L., & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Chicago, J. L. Floyd & Co.
Number of Pages: 1024

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John Cherry lived at Hollowing Run, near Fislier's Ferry, in Lower Augusta township, North- umberland county, and there followed his trade, that of blacksmith, throughout his active years. He died there when comparatively a young man, and is buried along the river hank near Fisher's Ferry. His wife, Elizabeth (Persing), died Feb. thirteen days, and is buried at the Blue church in Ralpho township. Her father, Philip Persing, Lorenzo D. Cherry attended the public schools of his native township and subsequently learned took charge of the business, which he has since lived to be 101 years old. The Persing family is an old and prominent one in Northumberland the butcher's trade with his father. In 1890 he county. Mr. and Mrs. John Cherry had the fol-

LORENZO D. CHERRY, who has a butcher business and farm at the Weigh Scales, in Sham- okin township, is a son of the late Alba B. Cher- ry, who founded the butcher business and carried it on for twenty years. Mr. Cherry was born in Shamokin township Feb. 2, 1873. His great- grandfather came to America in the early days of the development of this region and settled in the lower part of Northumberland county, Pa., passing the remainder of his life here, Beyond the fact that lie died when a young man little is known concern- ing him. His son, John Cherry, was the grandfa- ther of Lorenzo D. Cherry. There was also a. sonl James, who settled in Center county, Pa., besides two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth.

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continued, having a general wholesale and retail in Schuylkill county, daughter of Rev. John and trade which has shown a steady inerease under his Elizabeth (Dinger) Hepler, and a descendant of efficient management. In 1909 he bought the Isaac Herb farm, upon which his shop is located, at Weigh Scales along the Paxinos road (his post · office is Paxinos). All the buildings upon the property, including the butcher shop, are up-to- date and a credit to the owner. Mr. Cherry is an able business man, and he has worked hard to achieve his success, which is well deserved.

On Oct. 11, 1892, Mr. Cherry married Clarissa M. Zinnerman. daughter of Michael and Clar- issa (Snyder) Zimmerman, and they have three children : Franeis E., Mary E. and Dewey A. Mr. Cherry votes independently, giving his support to member of the United Brethren Church.

the inen and measures he likes best. He is a years old ; Rev. Jaines M. is the father of Levi M.

LEVI M. SHOOP, groeer and dry goods mer- chant of Shamokin, is a native of that city and has spent almost all of his business years there. He has had his present establishment since 1897, and is now the leading merchant in the west end, where his honorable and progressive methods have gained him favorable standing.

Mr. Shoop is a great-grandson of Michael Shoop, who was born in the Mahantango Valley, in Dauphin county, Pa., and there followed farming. He died at Berrysburg, in Dauphin county. Michael Shoop married Elizabeth Kanarr, daugh- ter of Rev. George Kanarr, an Evangelieal min- ister who had two sons, Isaiah and Josiah, who were also ministers. To Mr. and Mrs. Shoop were born children as follows: Eli died at Berrysburg, Pa. : Caroline married Israel Reed and resides in Nebraska ; Levi was the grandfather of Levi M. Shoop.

Levi Shoop, son of Michael, was born Sept. 13, 1830, in Dauphin county, Pa., and died in December, 1891, in Shamokin, Pa., where he is buried. He came to Shamokin in 1859 and fol- lowed the plastering business as a contractor, build- ing up a steady patronage in that line, in which he was long successfully engaged. He was well known among the older residents of Shamokin, where he had many friends. In 1884 lie ereeted a hand- some home, now occupied by his grandson, Levi M. Shoop, a fine three-story building at the eor- ner of Pine and Market streets. For a time he was engaged in mercantile pursuits in connection with his other business. In politics he was a Re- publiean and interested in local affairs, serving as assistant burgess of Shamokin and also as a mem- ber of the council. He was a liberal contributor to the support of the Evangelical Church, and fraternally was a Mason, belonging to Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A. M., and also a member of the I. O. O. F.

Casper Hepler, who came to America from Ger- many and settled in Schuylkill county. Casper Hepler's children were: Henry, George, Stoffel and John. John Hepler, son of Casper, had the following children: John, Jacob, George, Peter, Sarah, Lydia, Eliza and Mary. Rev. John Hep- ler, son of John and grandson of Casper, married Elizabeth Dinger. and they had children as fol- lows: Emanuel, John, Madelinc, Susan, Eliza- beth, Rebecca, Catherine, Lydia (Mrs. Levi Shoop) and Rachel.

To Levi and Lydia (Hepler) Shoop were born eight children, viz .: Emma Jane died when eight

Shoop; Saralı A. married David Zaring, and died at Philadelphia; Elizabeth E. (twin of Sarah A.) died when three years old : George O., who lives with his mother, is engaged in the fire insurance and real estate business at Shamokin ; Charles O. is engaged as a plasterer at Shamokin; William E. died at the age of thirty-one years; Robert C. is engaged in the insurance business at Shamokin. As intimated, the mother of this family is still living, at the age of seventy-six years, making her home with her son George O. in Shamokin.

Rev. James M. Shoop was born Aug. 14, 1854, in Dauphin county, Pa., at Valley View. He began to attend public school before he came to Sham- okin with his parents, when nine years old, and here continued his education, later studying at the New Berlin Seminary, from which he was gradu- ated. The Evangelical Board sent him to Marshall- town, Iowa, on his first charge, and he returned East after a year there. He has since been located at different stations of the church in Dauphin, Schuylkill and Berks counties, being now at Dau- phin. Dauphin county, about eight miles from Harrisburg. He still has interests in Shamokin, being a large property holder in that city.

Mr. Shoop married Lillie A. Werntz, of Sehuyl- kill county, and they have had five children: Levi MI., of Shamokin : Catharine, wife of Rev. Wal- ter Wogelmuth, a Lutheran minister of Fairfield, Iowa; John E., a mining engineer of Shamokin, one of the rising young men of that eity (he is a member of Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A. M.) : Effie, who died in 1891. aged ten years; and Frederick, who is engaged in the piano business in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

Levi M. Shoop was born at Shamokin Nov. 19, 1875. He attended publie school at the different places in which his father was stationed. His first work was in a squire's office in Shamokin, where he was employed as stenographer, and after nine months in that position he engaged in the insur- ance business. Only six months later he received promotion, becoming assistant superintendent for

On Jan. 4, 1854, Mr. Shoop married Lydia Hepler, who was born in the Mahantango Valley, the Prudential Company, in which capacity he was

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located at Sunbury for a period of fourteen months. met an accidental death April 21, 1878, falling He has since been in the grocery and dry goods through the Shamokin bridge, below Sunbury, on business, which he began in 1897, and which in his way home from council meeting at Sunbury. (2) Charles is mentioned below. (3) John lived in Rockefeller township. (4) Samuel. (5) Mrs. George McCarthy. (6) Hettie married John Shipe, of Rockefeller township. (7) Susan mar- ried Lafayette Haas, of Danville.

the intervening years he has built to profitable pro- portions, his trade being constantly on the in- crease. He is now the leading merchant in his line in the west end of the city, and is very well known. Still a young man, he has made a repu- tation which should pave the way for continued snecess.

Mr. Shoop married Gertrude Seitz, daughter of William A. and Eliza M. Seitz, and they have a family of three children: Walter A., Holden B. and Russel $.

Fraternally Mr. Shoop is a prominent Mason, being a past master of Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A. M .; past high priest of Shamokin Chap- ter, No. - 264. R. A. M .: past eminent commander of Shamokin Commandery, No. 77, K. T. : a mem- ber of Williamsport Consistory ( thirty-second de- gree) ; a member of Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S .; and a member of the Temple Club, of Shamokin, and of the Acacia Club, of Williams- port, Pa. Mr. Shoop had the unusual honor of making his father, an uncle and a brother Masons. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F., the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Red Men.

SAMUEL L. GARINGER, deceased, contractor of Sunbury, had a number of contracts for public works in that borough, and served as street com- missioner, a position for which his special ex- perience well qualified him. He was a native of Upper Augusta township, this county, born Oct. 1, 1852, son of Charles Garinger and grandson of Samuel Garinger. He died in Sunbury, Pa., Jan. 3, 1911.

Samuel Garinger was born July 3, 1799, in Al- bany township. Berks Co., Pa., and in an early day came to Northumberland county with one Michael Arnold. He lived in what is now Upper Augusta township, having a farin of over one hundred acres at the end of the Narrows, where he canght many shad, which were plentiful there in his day. He died Oct. 22, 1876, on his farm near Lantz's Church, in what is now . Rockefeller township. Mr. Garinger was a Democrat in poli- tics, served as supervisor of his township, and was a popular man in his district: he was a Lutheran, and an official member of Lantz's Union Church. His wife, Sarah (Conrad), born Sept. 22, 1801. tied Nov. 20, 1855. They had children as follows : (1) Reuben, born Dec. 23, 1822, lived in Upper Augusta township, where he developed and im- proved the farm he owned, putting up the build- ings on that property, which is now owned by Elias Boyer. He married a Miss Malick, and their children were Thomas (who was drowned). Ira, Jane, Julia and Frank. Reuben Garinger

Charles . Garinger was born in June, 1822, in Rockefeller township. Locating in Upper Augusta township, he followed milling for a time, and later became a contractor, making a great success of his business, which reached important proportions. He was given many large contracts, doing considerable railroad work and muel pub- lic construction work, including the Northern Central double track from Sunbury to Selinsgrove, the Pine Grove bridge, bridges in Connecticut and other large undertakings. In 1857 he was engaged in railroad building. He gave employment to a large number of men, and while at work in Con- necticut kept fifty-six horses for the work in hand, besides four or five yoke of oxen; it cost him thirty thousand dollars to start his work there. Mr. Garinger was a man of forceful character and energy, and he continued in active business until his death, which occurred in December, 1880. He made his home in Sunbury for a number of years. served as a member of the borough council, and was at one time a nominee for county sheriff, but withdrew his name. In politics originally a Dem- ocrat, he eventually became a Republican, and he was a Lutheran in religious faith. Mr. Garinger married Deborah Haas, daughter of Frederick Haas, and she survived him but two weeks, her death occurring in the year 1881. They had chil- dren as follows: George F .: Emma Alice, who married R. A. Gass, of Purdytown, this county; Samuel L .; Mary Catharine. deceased, who was the wife of Wesley W. Jarrett, of Sunbury; two who are deceased ; Charles A., of Sunbury; Mar- garet L., married to J. William Bartholomew : Adelia Flora, wife of Dr. R. H. Savidge, dentist. of Sunbury: and Sarah J., deceased, who married Ammon Aurand.

George F. Garinger, M. D., was born March 5, 1850. in Upper Augusta township, and received his literary education in the Sunbury schools. He began reading medicine there with Dr. D. W. Shindel, and later attended Jefferson Medical Col- lege, Philadelphia. graduating in 1873, since when he has practiced his profession with continuous success. He first located for a short time in Sny- der and Lebanon counties, settling in Lower Augusta township, Northumberland county, in 1876. In 1873 he married Sadie Smith, daughter of George Smith, of Troxelville, Snyder county, and they have had one child, Mary Adia. The Doctor and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church, and he is a Republican in politics.

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Samuel L. Garinger attended the public schools near MeEwensville: Anna ( deceased), Mrs. Ham- and Sunbury Academy, spending his boyhood and mond MeKee; Mrs. Scott, whose husband and youth in Sunbury, where the family settled when family live in Ohio: and Hugh Wilson. he was very young. In young manhood he learned the butcher's trade, which he followed for about ten years in Sunbury, but in 1881 he took up contracting, which he has followed successfully ever since. The substantial qualities of his work have been well proved in the numerous public contracts he has filled in his home locality. In 1892 he built the River Bank in Sunbury, an im- mense undertaking, over nine thousand perches of stone having been used in the construction work. He built the Sunbury reservoir, in which work he employed eighty-five men, twenty-six horses and carts and a six-horse plow. Most of the streets in

Hugli Wilson Kriner was born in 1834 in the Warrior Run district, near Muncy Hill, and is jokingly called by his children the "Muncy Hill scout." With the exception of two years, he has lived in Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., since 1869. Learning the trade of carpenter in his early life, he lias continued to follow it, from 1869 to 1877 being foreman at the William Buechley planing inills at Pottsville. He then moved to Williams- port, where he was connected with the old Otto mills in the same capacity two years, at the end of that period returning to Pottsville to start up. the inachinery of the Saylor planing mill. Later Sunbury have been improved by him; he built two in the same year he set up the machinery of the streets for the borough by contract, and has done the rest of that kind of the publie work by the day. At Riverside he was given the large contract for cutting away the hillside, in which he employed as many as seventy-five men. Besides, he has had many lesser jobs, has built two double houses and one single residence for himself, and has left many creditable evidences of his ability and reliability in construction work all over this vicinity. The nature of the contracts intrusted to him shows the confidence he has won in his honorable fulfillment of every enterprise he undertakes. He is a Re- publican in politics and has served as street com- missioner in Sunbury. car building department of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company's Pottsville shops and assumed charge of same, and has been thus engaged continuously since. Mr. Kriner makes his home on Eighth street, Pottsville. He is a man of the highest personal standing, a good. citizen, and held in universal esteem. At one. time he held membership in the Lutheran Church. Mr. Kriner married Susan Wise, who was born Jan. 22, 1834, daughter of Daniel and Elizabethi (Ott) Wise, of Williamsport, and died Nov. ? , 1895. She is buried at Pottsville. Mr. and Mrs. Kriner had a family of three children: Jennie .. married to John R. Mortimer, who has charge of the job printing department of the Eagle, at Reading, Pa .; Byron W .; and Henry, who died when eighteen months old.

Mr. Garinger married Mary Louisa Miller, daughter of John C. Miller, of Sunbury. They had no children. Mrs. Garinger died in 1891, at the age of forty-two years, and is buried in Pom- fret Manor cemetery. He died Jan. 3, 1911, and is buried beside his wife.

BYRON W. KRINER, of Mount Carmel, Northumberland county, is one of the most. prom- inent members of the Masonic fraternity in een- tral Pennsylvania and engaged in the business world as private secretary to William R. Reinhardt, superintendent of the Mineral Railroad & Min- ing Company, whose offices are at Shamokin. Mr. Kriner was born Sept. 9, 1860, at Williamsport, Pa., and is a son of Hugh Wilson Kriner and grandson of Henry Kriner.

Henry Kriner came to this country from Eng- land and located in the Warrior Run Valley, in Delaware township, Northumberland Co., Pa., where he followed farming. He died in 1878, aged eighty-two years, and is buried at the historic Warrior Run Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member. His wife died when yet a young woman, and Byron W. Kriner has two silver spoons of the board for two years.

which he treasures as mementoes of his grand- mother, both bearing the letter "C," one of the has made him widely known in central Pennsyl- initials of her name. Fonr children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kriner: Richard, who lives Carmel Lodge, No. 378, F. & A. M., was secretary

Byron W. Kriner was educated in the public schools of Pottsville and at Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, after which he began work as ship- per at Pottsville for the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company. He was then private secretary to E. F. C. Davis, mechanical engineer of the same company, for some years, and when the management changed, in 1891. he continued in the same capacity with John Wood, the present superintendent of the company's shop, until 1893. In that year he was appointed purchasing agent of the Union Coal Company, being thus engaged nutil that company was absorbed by the Susque- hanna Coal Company, in 1904, when he became private secretary to Mr. Reinhardt. He has served in that capacity since, his long experience and effi- ciency making him a valuable assistant. The office- of the company is at Shamokin, but Mr. Kriner makes his home at Mount Carmel. He served in the capacity of School Director of his town for a period of twelve years from 1897, being president

Mr. Kriner's activity in the Masonic fraternity vania. He is a member and past master of Mount

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of that lodge for six years and from 1904 to 1911, Werntz preparatory school at Annapolis, where when he resigned, was secretary of the Fraternity he had six weeks of preparatory work, and on Club, in which he has held membership since 1904. He is also president of the Masonic Hall Associ- ation, holding that position from the first meet- ing held to talk over the building project. He is a June 21, 22, 23 and 24 underwent a most rigid mental examination, on July 3d finishing with his physical examinations, both of which he passed successfully and entered the Naval Academy July member, past high priest, and member of the board 5, 1911, as a midshipman. He is a fine specimen of trustees of Shamokin Chapter, No. 264. R. A. of manhood, six feet, one inch in height and weigh- ing 170 pounds.

M .; member, past eminent commander and mem- ber of the board of trustees of Shamokin Com- mandery, No. 77, K. T .; a member of Adoniram FRANK ZIMMERMAN, a representative young business man of Shamokin, was born Oct. 30, 1868, in Wayne township, Schuylkill Co., Pa. He is the son of Abraham Zimmerman, Jr., and grandson of Abraham Zimmerman, Sr., both de- ceased. Council, No. 26, R. & S. M., of Williamsport, Pa .; a member of Williamsport Consistory, No. 4, thir- ty-second degree; a member of Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Reading ; and a charter men- ber of the Temple Club of Shamokin. He was appointed to office in the consistory, but could not Among those who emigrated to America from serve because of the inconvenient location. In Germany in the Colonial period was one Michael Zimmerman, tlre present Mr. Zimmerman's great- 1909, at Lancaster, he received appointment as sylvania from R. W. Grand Commander John F. grand marshal of the Grand Commandery of Penn- grandfather. He settled in the upper part of Berks county, Pa., and lived in that section until Laedlein. He has also been active in the Elks and his death. There Abraham Zimmerman, Sr., son of Michael, was born. Later he removed fromn Berks county to Schuylkill county, locating at what is known as Sculp's Hill, this locality being

the Odd Fellows, being a past grand of Miners Lodge, No. 20, I. O. O. F., of Pottsville, and past chief patriarch of Franklin Encampment, No. 4, of Pottsville, and he was elected exalted ruler of about one and a half miles southeast of Landing- Lodge No. 355, B. P. O. Elks, of Mount Carmel, ville. In later years the Zuber family came into at its institution. possession of the Zinnnerman farm. Both Abra-

The Presbyterian Church at Mount Carmel ham Zimmerman and his wife, who before mar- counts Mr. Kriner among its active workers, he riage was Maria Greenawalt, are buried in the being secretary of the board of trustees at the Red Church cemetery, situated in East Brunswick present time. The ceremonies at the laying of the township, Schuylkill county. Seven children corner stone of this church, which were public, blessed the home of this couple, viz .: Polly, who were held Oct. 27, 1907, and were largely attended, became Mrs. Daniel Dewalt; Fiaetta, who became the affair being one long to be remembered : the corner stone was laid by Lodge No. 378, F. & A. M., of Mount Carmel, Hon. Frederick A. God- charles acting as R. W. Grand Master on this oc- casion, and Mr. Kriner as deputy. Mrs. Daniel Freeman; Caroline, the wife of Charles Warmkessel : Sarah, wife of Hiram Mov- er ; Isaac, who died in Schuylkill county; Daniel, whose death occurred in Upper Bern township, Berks county; and Abraham, Jr.

In 1884 Mr. Kriner married Kate Geier, daugh- ter of Thomas and Lavina Geier, of Pottsville, Pa., and they had one child, Thomas, who died in

The last named was born Feb. 3, 1818, and died May 28, 1897. His vocation was that of cobbler, at which occupation he worked during his 1886. Mrs. Kriner died Jan. 3, 1890, at the age entire active life. Eliza Weaver, whom he mar- of twenty-nine years, and she and her son are ried, was born July 5, 1838, and died Feb. 6. buried in the Charles Baber cemetery at Potts- ville. In 1893 Mr. Kriner married (second ) Mar- garet S. Cascaden, danghter of John J. and Eliz- abethi (Sproul) Cascaden, of Phoenixville, Pa. They have had three children, George C., Eleanor W. and Margaret E.

GEORGE CASCADEN KRINER, born at Mount Car- mel May 25, 1894, received his education in the public schools of that place and was a member of the 1911 graduating class-the first class under News. a four years' term.

On April 20th a competitive examination was held at Bloomsburg for candidates for the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and George won the ap- pointment of principal. His parents sent him to

1897. They are buried at Auburn, Schuylkill county. They were the parents of the following children : Frank, referred to in the following para- graphs; Charles, of Shamokin, married to Susan Berger and father of two children, Vesta and Lottie; and Susana, wife of William H. Ketner, of Shamokin, and mother of two sons. John H. Ketner, city editor of the Shamokin Dispatch, and Clyde F. Ketner, a reporter on the Shamokin

Frank Zimmerman, referred to at the begin- ning of this article, came to Shamokin in 1887, from Landingville, Schuylkill county, and entered the employ of W. J. Feldhoff, wholesale liquor dealer, as a clerk and bookkeeper, serving his en-

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ployer always faithfully, conscientiously and to the largest of Shamokin's business structures, is one best of his ability. He occupied his spare time of the handsomest. and evenings studying business methods in the Mr. Ziminerman is also a member of the board of directors of the Dime Trust and Safe Deposit Company, one of Shamokin's solid banking insti- tutions, and is an active worker in the interests favor and confidence of his employer through his of this company. Shamokin business college. This time, which was so valuably passed, yielded an ample reward in later years. The young bookkeeper soon won the progressive tactics, and by dint of hard toil, faithi- He married Katie, daughter of Simon Dunkel- berger, and has five bright children, Helen, Lee, George, Ralph and Catharine. The family attend the Lutheran Church. ful and diligent application, and business acumen, a combination of qualities destined to make itself felt in the Shamokin business world within a few short years. This constant attention to business Fraternally Mr. Zimmerman is affiliated with Shamokin Lodge; No. 255, F. & A. M .; Shamo- kin Chapter, No. 264, R. A. M. ; the Temple Club; Lodge . No. 355, B. P. O. E .; Tahgahjute Tribe, No. 415, Improved O. R. M .; and Camp No. 30, P. O. S. of A. warranted the young man's employer in placing sufficient confidence in him to make it his last re- quest that his business should be continued under Mr. Zimmerman's management, making him the responsible manager of the business. In 1895 Mr. Feldhoff died and his interests have since been retained by his widow, who at present resides at Allentown. Mr. Zimmerman was then admitted as a partner, the duties of the management de- volving upon him. The firm is known as Feld- hoff & Zimmerman.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 32

Author: Floyd, J.L., & Co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1911 Publisher: Chicago, J. L. Floyd & Co. Number of Pages: 1024

Author: Floyd, J.L., & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Chicago, J. L. Floyd & Co.
Number of Pages: 1024