Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 37

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

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H. James Riland married Mariah Woolverton, who was born in 1834, daughter of Dennis Wool- verton, of Northumberland county, and died in 1894. Eight children were born to them: Em- ma, wife of Peter Weiser, of Lower Augusta town- ship; H. B., of Selinsgrove Junction, this county ; Laura, who is unmarried ; William A. ; Samuel D., of Upper Augusta, this county; Charles S., of Herndon, this county; Jordan W., of Sunbury; and Mary, wife of John Miller, of Sunbury.

1884 he purchased the livery business in Sunbury which has since been his main interest. He has an excellent location at No. 246 Woodlawn avenue, only a half square from the Pennsylvania passen-

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He was also prominent in the political life of the prosperous business man at Santa Cruz, and one city, in 1712 being made an alderman, which office of the clerks in his counting-house was Alexander he held for twenty-two consecutive years. Five Hamilton. Nicholas Cruger took a friendly in- years after his retirement from this office, in 1739, terest in the boy, aiding him with adviee and cn- he became mayor, serving as such until his death, in 1744. He is spoken of as a man of tact and dis- cretion, and such must have been his eharaeter, for he succeeded in keeping peace between the people on one side, jealous of their rights, and the gov- ernor on the other side, guarding the King's rights.

In 1702 John Cruger married Maria, daughter .of Hendrick Cuyler, of Albany, and they had a large family, three sons and five daughters, Tile- man, Henry, John, Anna, Maria (who died of smallpox when young), Saralı, Maria (2) and Ra- chel. Of the sons, Tileman went to Curaeao, and returned home to die when he was twenty-five. Henry was the son through whom this line is con- tinued, and John died unmarried. Both the sons who lived to mature years were like their father active in. public life and able in many ways. John Cruger showed unusual ability even as a child. From 1754 to 1735 he was alderman, and from 1756 to 1765 he served as mayor. He was the first speaker and president of the first Colonial Assembly, of which body he was a member for -seventeen years, 1759 to 1775, He wrote the fa- mous "Declaration of Rights and Grievances" adopted by the Stamp Act Congress in 1765, the first notable piece of political writing in the his- tory of this country, and said to be the model upon which Jefferson based the Deelaration of Independ- .ence. He also started the movement which led to the establishment. in 1768, of the New York Chamber of Commerce, modeled on the English Board of Trade, and the first mereantile society established in America. He died in 1791.

Henry Cruger, through whom this line is con- tinued, was twice married and had six children. Like his father, he was interested in politics in New York, but he died in England, at the home of one of his children, and was buried there, at the Cathedral of Bristol. In the next generation,

John Harris Cruger, who like his uncle John left. no descendants, had a brilliant military rec- ord. He commanded Fort Ninety-six in South Carolina when it was attacked, and it was he who forced General Greene to raise the siege. After the war he went to England, where he died. He married Anne. daughter of Brig. Gen. Oliver De- Lancey, of New York, an officer in the British army, who when war was threatened raised a bri- gade known as "DeLancey's Battalions," for the "defense of Long Island and other exigencies"; and he commissioned his son-in-law, who was strongly in sympathy with his mother country, lieutenant colonel.

eouragement. This Nieholas Cruger was also a great friend of Washington, and his sympathies during the Revolution were with the Colonies, but he never took any active part in the struggle. It is said that on one oceasion he was glad to rely on the renown of his brother John as a loyal British subject. He was with one of his boats on the way to Santa Cruz when captured by a British man-of- war. The Captain asked his name, and on hearing it asked if he might by any chance be related to Lieutenant Colonel Cruger. Learning that the two men were brothers, the Captain informed Mr. Cruger that he was bearing messages to the Brit- ish government reporting on John Cruger's good work, and he let Nicholas Cruger go. He was captured again, however, this time with an in- criminating picture of Washington in his pos- session, and was recommended for severe punish- ment, but he was freed on parole, and lived with relatives in New York until after the war.

Henry Cruger, brother of John, Tileman and Nicholas, was sent by his father to England to work in a counting-house. There he married twiee, his first wife being named Peach, and their son changed his name from Samuel Peach Cruger to Samuel Peach Peach; his daughter married Lord Jolm Murray of Aynsley. By his second wife Henry had six children, who eventually re- turned with him to this country. He stayed in England until 1790, and had a prosperous career there. In 1774 he and the famous Edinund Burke ran for Parliament, and were elected after a heated campaign. A sample of the eampaign literature of those days runs:

You good Bristol folk, an election's no joke, But serious indeed is the work;

Let none represent ye, that do not content ye, Vote, therefore for Cruger and Burke.

In 1790 Cruger refused reelection to Parliament and retured home. He was a member of the New York State Senate in 1792.

The arms of the family are: Argent, a bend azure charged with three martlets or, between two greyhounds courant, proper. Motto: Deo, non Fortuna. Crest: A demi greyhound salient, gorged or. Beneath the wreath, Fides.

Daniel Krieger ( father of Wilson Krieger) was born in 1805 in Lower Augusta township, North- umberland Co., Pa., son of John Krieger. He came to Shamokin at an early day, erecting the third house in the town, at what is now Sunbury and Pearl streets, and here he passed the remainder

Tileman and Nicholas Cruger, brothers of John, of his life, dying Feb. 9, 1864. He was a car- were West Indian merchants. Nicholas became a penter by trade. He married Mary Ann Fasold,

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born June 20, 1820, died Sept. 6, 1891, who was the cause of the Colonists, believing that they the youngest of the seventeen children of Valen- should depend upon themselves and not upon the mother country. lle was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation, of which all his family were members and under which all received catechetical instructions. He was buried with his wife at Zion Lutheran church near Augustaville, Northumberland county, on Nov. 19, 1824.

tine Fasold. To Mr. and Mrs. Krieger were born ten children, namely: Angeline (deceased), who married James Lippiatt ; Louisa, who died unmar- ried ; Sebella, wife of Enoch Jones, of Shamokin; Sarah J., wife of Clinton Thomas, of Shamokin ; Emma F., wife of Elmer E. Felix, of Shamokin ; Ida (deceased), who married William Woolcock; Freeman, deceased; Valentine, deceased; Wilson ; and Oliver, of Shamokin.

WILSON KRIEGER was born Feb. 22, 1849, in Shamokin, and when a young man learned the Valentine Fasokl, father of Mrs. Mary Ann (Fasold) Krieger, was born Dec. 6, 1765, in Ba- den, Germany, son of Valentine Nieman Fasold, a tanner, who had a family of five children, two sons ( Valentine and Casper) and three daughters. These five children came to America in 1781, landing at Philadelphia after a voyage of eleven weeks. Valentine remained in Philadelphia with one of his sisters for two years, the other three going to Whitehall township, Lehigh Co., Pa., near Allentown. Valentine followed his brother and carpenter's trade, which he has always followed. For many years he has been boss carpenter at Locust Gap for the Philadelphia Coal & Iron Company. He is the oldest native-born resident of Shamokin at the present writing, and has been a member of the Presbyterian Church there for over forty years, having joined it Mareh 2, 1869. His father served on the building committee of this church in 1846. Mr. Krieger is a member of Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A. M., of Sha- mokin Chapter, No. 264, of Commandery No. 77, sisters thither, the other sister remaining in Phila- K. T., and of the Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, He married Annie Neely, daughter of Adam and Anne (Gott) Neely, and to this union were born four children, A. Maude (who died young), A. Ralph, Mary E. and Bessie B.

delphia, where she had married. He had started school in Germany when six years old, attending until he was twelve, after which he served an apprenticeship to the trade of weaver. Then he served the required time in the German army. In Lehigh county he followed the weaver's trade for thirty-five years. While living there he was twice married, his first wife being Sara Sanders, by whom he had six children, three of whom died in childhood, those who reached maturity being Susan, Elizabeth and John. After the death of his first wife he married Catharine Barbara Schri- ber, daughter of Herman Schriber, and to them. were born six sons and five daughters, Jonathan, Peter, George, Joseph, Charles, Henry, Katharine (married Jonathan Kreigbaum), Lydia (married Samnel Haupt, of Frackville, Schuylkill county). Polly (married William Dacheubach, of Allens- ville, Mifflin county), Sarah (married George Zim- merman) and Mary Ann (married Daniel Krieg- er). Only two survived Mrs. Krieger, Mrs. Haupt, of Frackville, and Charles, of Mckeesport.

In 1816 Mr. Fasold removed from Lehigh eoun- ty to Northumberland county with his family and settled on the "John Reed" farm in Plum Creek, where he lived the balance of his life, There he kin Lodge, No. 664, I. O. O. F., Camp No. 30, followed farming and weaving. In the middle P. O. S. of A., the Royal Areanum and the Ma- of November, 1824, a dose of quicksilver was given sonic' fraternity; in the latter connection he is a

. him for medicine by an ignorant servant of a doctor, and he died Nov. 16th. at the age of fifty- nine years. He lived an honest, exemplary Chris- tian life, and brought up his family according to the instruction of Holy Writ, being a firm believer in the proverb, "Bring up a child in the way he should go. and when he is old he will not depart from it." He was a strong advocate of

A. RALPH KRIEGER, son of Wilson, was born April 11, 1881, at Shamokin, and there received the principal part of his education. graduating from the high school in 1899. He also attended the local business college, after which he entered the Pierce Business College, at Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1901. For the two years following he was in the employ of the Philadel- phia & Reading Railway Company, at Tamaqua, Pa., under Supt. A. T. Dice, and then with the Shamokin Water Company, at Shamokin. later taking the position of private secretary with Sen- ator W. C. McConnell, with whom he remained for six years. In 1907 he commenced business on his own account, as a shoe merchant at Sha- mokin, having the store at No, 3 East Indepen- dence street which he has since conducted. His trade is good and is increasing steadily, and his methods are such as to make him deserving of success. - Outside of business he is particularly active in fraternal circles, belonging to Shamo-

member of Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A. M .; Shamokin Chapter, No. 264. R. A. M. : Shamo- kin Commandery, No. 17, K. T .: Williamsport Consistory, thirty-second degree; Rajah Temple. A. A. O. N. M. S., of Reading, and the Temple Club at Shamokin. He also belongs to the Triple Links Club at Shamokin. the Acacia Club at Williamsport, and Rescue Fire Company. He

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holds membership in the Presbyterian Church and

remainder of his long life. He became the owner is a member of the Brotherhood of that congre- of the homestead, where he made his home for gation.

DR. KENNEDY ROBINSON (deceased), father of Mrs. Annie G. ( Robinson) Llewellyn, of Shamokin, was of Irish descent, his ancestors coming from Ireland and settling at Myerstown, Lebanon Co., this State. He became a prominent citizen of Schuylkill county, serving two terms in the State Legislature from that section, and he died in 1887. His wife, whose maiden name was Frances McConnell, was a native of Womelsdorf, Berks county, and a descendant of the famous

eighty-nine years, dying early in 1876, at the ripe old age of ninety-four years. IIc is buried at the Friends meetinghouse mentioned, as are also his two sisters. When the Williams family, who hailed from Virginia, settled in this section they took part of Ins father's 600-acre tract, but John Lee, Jr .. retained his father's homestead place. He married Mary Williams, who came to Columbia county with her parents, when only six weeks old, the journey being made on horseback. She lived to be eighty-eight, dying in 1874. In her eighty-fifth year she published a poem which is Conrad Weiser. She died at Pine Grove, Schuyl- treasured by her descendants. Five children were kiH county, in 1909, at the great age of ninety- six years, five months. Dr. and Mrs. Robinson had two children, Frances and Annie G., the lat- ter the widow of David Llewellyn.

born to John Lee, Jr., and his wife Mary (Wil- liams), as follows: Sarah married a Mr. . Oliver and (second) David Hauck and died aged ninety- one years; Lewis, who lived in Locust township, Columbia county, died aged eighty-three years (he married Hannah Hughes, daughter of John Hughes, and also member of a family of Friends) ;" Mary E., who lived to be eighty-eight years old. married John Levan, a leading business man of Locust township, Columbia county; William and Susan were twins, the latter dying in infancy.

WILLIAM HAROLD LEE, architect, is a young business man of Shamokin who has al- ready established an excellent reputation and pat- ronage in his chosen profession. He is a native of the borough, but his family has long been iden- tified with Columbia county, Pa., where it was established during the eighteenth century by John William Lee, son of John Lee, Jr., was born in January, 1823, at the homestead, and obtained his father's farm, being of the third generation to possess that place. Besides farming he fol- lowed his trade of stonemason. He died in De- cember, 1909, at LeMars, Iowa, at the age of eighty-six years, and is buried at Dixon, Ill. He Lee, Sr., from whom he is a descendant in the fifth generation. It is almost impossible to ob- tain an accurate account of the ancestry back of the Revolutionary period, for though the John Lee mentioned was a member of the Society of Friends there were many Lees engaged in the Revolutionary war. many also bearing the same attended the. Friends' meetings, and entertained Christian names. Tradition states that John Lec, Sr., was a relative of General Lee of Revolution- ary fame, and the Pennsylvania Archives, 5th Series, record twenty-four different Lees as hay- ing rendered service in the cause of independence. Besides General Lee there was a Colonel Lee, a Major Lee and a Captain Lee in the war; and there was a Fort Lee.

many Quaker ministers from Philadelphia. His wife. Mary Ann (Wintersteen), daughter of Jef- ferson Wintersteen, died in 1890, aged fifty-nine years. They were the parents of ten children : Beulah .1., who married Josiah Rhoads, of a Berks county family; Kimber C .: Sarah E., who mar- ried F. P. Llewellyn ; Horace G .; Martha M. (de- ceased ), who married Walter Merriman and lived

John Lee, Sr., was born in Berks county, Pa., out West; Mahala, who married Ellis Mason and and came thence to Columbia county, settling in lives near Dixon, IN. : Elizabeth, who married Car- Locust township, where a colony of Friends (to son Herring, of LeMars, Iowa; Ida A., who mar- ried Walter Monroe, of LeMars, Iowa; and John and Lydia, both of whom died young. whose society he belonged ) from Berks county be- came established. To this day may be seen the old log meetinghouse and burial ground of the Society of Friends in that locality. John Lee, Sr., had a large tract of six hundred acres, on which he built a log house, which gave shelter to four generations. He also cleared some of the land, and the following year, 1787, brought his family to their new home. His wife was like himself from Berks county, where their son was born. They had three children: John, Jr., Martha and Nelly. Neither of the daughters married.

Kimber C. Lee, of Shamokin, was born in No- vember, 1852, on the Lee homestead, and was reared to agricultural pursuits, which he followed until his removal to Shamokin. in 1880. He has since made his home at that borough, where he is interested in the Shamokin Lumber Company. In 1877 he married Clara R. Creasy, daughter of Elias and Elizabeth ( Hower) Creasy, of Briar Creek township, Columbia county, and they have had five children : C. Atwood, who married Natalie Robbins Haas: Clarence C., of Harrisburg, Pa. : William II .; Florence E., who married Conrad

John Lee, Jr., was born in 1782 in Berks coun- ty, and was five years old when brought by his parents to Columbia county, where he passed the R. Graeber ; and Ella M. Mr. Lee and his family

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are members of the Methodist Church, which he farm in Oley township, Berks county, and was has served as trustee since the year 1895.

William Harold Lee was born Dec. 9, 1884, in Shamokin, and there obtained his preliminary education in the public schools, attending high school. Later he became a student at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, after which he followed his profession for a time in Phila- delphia before settling in Shamokin, in March, 1910. He has a business suite in the building of the Dime Trust & Safe Deposit Company. Mr. Lee designed and supervised the erection of the Masonic Temple, Elks Home and Dime Trust & Safe Deposit Company's buildings in Shamokin; the schoolhouse for the Odd Fellows' Orphanage near Sunbury ; the new Majestic theatre at Potts- ville; and numerous other buildings in Shamokin and the surrounding territory. He has attained considerable reputation in the comparatively brief period of his business career.

Socially Mr. Lee holds membership in the Cres- co Club of Shamokin ; the Phi Gamma Delta fra- ternity ; Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A. M .; the Temple Club; and Shamokin Lodge, No. 355, B. P. O. Elks.

Amos Lee, an early settler in Oley township, Berks Co., Pa., owned a large tract of land on the Manatawny creek. In 1797 he built a barn on his' land which is still standing. The Lee farm was in the family name until 1904. Amos Lee and his family were members of the Society of Friends, and he is buried at the Quaker meet- inghouse in Exeter township. To him and his wife Saralı were born the following children : Rachel, Mrs. Geigus; Nellie, who died unmarried ; Sallie, who married John Lee, of Exeter township, near the Friends' meetinghouse ; Fannie, who died unmarried; Thomas Pinc; and Amos, of Norris- town, Montgomery Co., Pa., who was engaged in the manufacture of brick (his wife Sarah bore him one child, Sarah, who married a Mr. Alber- son, of Norristown).

brought up there. In 1888 he moved to Friedens- burg, Pa., where he is now living in retirement. He married Mary B. Levan, daughter of Joel and Esther Levan, and they have had three children : Annie, of Germantown, Pa .; Hettie, unmarried, who lives at home; and Sallie, born Feb. 4, 1885, who died Feb. 18, 1904.

SCHLEGEL. John Christian Schlegel, the American ancestor and progenitor of this family, was a native of Germany, and undoubtedly was the Johanis Schlegel who emigrated on the ship "Bilander Townsend," which landed (qualified) at Philadelphia Oct. 5, 1737. On Aug. 16, 1738, and Nov. 7, 1754, he obtained proprietary warrants for land situated in Berks county, Pa. In 1759 he paid six pounds tax in Richmond township, where he had lived since coming to the New World. He was a farmer and owned more than three hundred acres of land, and in 1797 built a stone house which is still standing and in good condition, and is owned and used by his great- grandson, Abraham, and his children and grand- children. To John Christian Schlegel and his wife Esther were born a number of children, among whom were: Peter; Wilhelm; Christian, born March 25, 1765; Elizabeth, born April 9, 1767; Johannes, born Sept. 7, 1768, and Heinrich, born July 15, 1779. Peter and Wilhelm left this sec- tion, traveling on horseback across the Blue Moun- tains, and settled in the Mahantango Valley (in Schuylkill), then a part of old Berks county. They visited their brother Heinrich at the old home every two, three or four years, coming on horse- back and remaining for a week or two. One of the sons of John Christian Schlegel lived with the Indians, liking their manner of life. He was greatly admired by then, because of his courage, strength and marksmanship, and when he was quite an aged inan he and some of his adopted brethren of the forest came to visit his old home ncar Fleetwood. Because of the great journey on which they came, and the effects of his strenuous life with the red men, he became exhausted at Dreibelbis Spring, and he died soon thereafter,. and fills an unknown grave. This account is based on tradition, and the old family papers give brief accounts of it.

Thomas Pine Lee was born in 1795 and was engaged throughout his active years as a farmer on the homestead. He lived to his eighty-seventh year, and is buried at the Quaker meetinghouse in Exeter township. His wife Rachel was also a born Lee, of Maiden-creek township, Berks There were two brothers, Wilhelm and Peter Schlegel, of Berks county, who settled in North- umberland county at an early date and who, ac- cording to the inscription on Peter's tombstone, in the graveyard of St. Peter's Church, Mahanoy, were sons of Johann Christian and Anna Bar- bara Schlegel. county, and died when less than fifty years old. Their children, four sons and one daughter, were as follows: Ebenezer, who lived in Ohio, enlisted from that State for service in the Civil war, and died of starvation in Andersonville prison, after taking part in many battles; Deborah married Solomon Ely and (second) E. F. Miller ; Thomas P. is a merchant of Philadelphia, Pa .; Amos is ship, Berks county, near Fleetwood, on the ori- mentioned below ; George W. lives in Ohio.

Wilhelm Schlegel was born in Richmond town- ginal Schlegel homestead, May 26, 1782. He

Amos Lee was born June 30, 1842, on the Lee came to Northumberland county after he was mar-

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ried, and settled on the farm now owned by Sam- trade, which he has followed off and on ever since. uel Zartman. Later he bought the farm now He also operated a portable sawmill and thrasher owned by Henry Rebuck, in Washington township, for five years. He is a member of the Lutheran Congregation at Urban. In 1884 Mr. Schlegel married Susanna Bower, daughter of Elias Phil- ips, and they have had children: John A., who married Amy Deppen; Sallie; and Lizzie. and there he died Jan. 14, 1856. This was a large farnı and he was a farmer until his death. The house he built is still standing. He went to visit his parents every two years, going horseback or walking. He and his children had to go to mill at Reading until a gristmill was established by John Dunkelberger on the Little Mahanoy creek. His wife, Elizabeth (Wentzel), born June 24, 1785, died April 9, 1871, and they are buried

Daniel Schlegel, son of William, was born in Washington township, on the Schlegel homestead, which consisted of about eighty acres. He was a farmer. A leading member of St. Peter's church at Mahanoy, he was a member of the building com- at St. Peter's Church in Jackson township. Mr. mittee when the present brick church was erected. and Mrs. Schlegel were Lutherans in religion. He died July 16, 1893. His wife, Amanda, was They had fourteen children, all of whom grew to a daughter of Marks and Sarah (Wolf) Leader. They had these six children: Orella, who died un- married ; Samuel, of Lykens Valley ; Oscar ; Agnes, who is unmarried and has her home with her brothers Oscar and John; Elmer, of California; and John A., who with his brother Oscar owns a large farm in Lower Mahanoy township. maturity and all survived the parents: Peter; Samuel ; Benjamin ; William, born April 6, 1817, who died March 27, 1903 (his wife, Sarah Ann Mill, born July 25, 1837, died Jan. 31, 1903) ; Abraham, who died July 25, 1903, aged eighty-three years, four months, nine days (his wife was Emilie Mill, 1826-1870) ; Dan- iel ; David; John; Jacob; Polly, Mrs. Israel Zart- man; Mrs. Adam Herb; Mrs. Peter Fegley; Es- Pa. He was born Jan. 3, 1868, in Washington ther, Mrs. Peter Klock; and Harriet, Mrs. Nich- olas Hetrich.

Oscar Schlegel, son of Daniel, is a farmer along the Susquehanna river one mile above Dalmatia, township. In 1902 he and his brother John came to Lower Mahanoy township, where they own and farm a tract of 186 acres, formerly belonging to Martin Bachman.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 37

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