Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 40

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

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The Federal Census Report of 1790 records three Lepleys as heads of families: Adam, of Bradford county, Pa., who had a wife, four sons and later worked for others until able to begin on his own account, which he did in 1892. In the spring of that year he settled on what was under sixteen years old, and one daughter: Jacob, formerly the Emerich farin in Rockefeller town- of Northumberland eonnty, Pa., who had a wife, ship, which he had purchased shortly before, ands seven sons under sixteen years of age and four which contained 110 acres. After living there daughters ; and Lawrence Leply, of Berks county, for ten years he sold the place to Edw. Campbell, Pa., residing in Ruscombmanor township, who had and for several years lived in the Irish Valley, one son above sixteen years of age. Of these, until he moved to his present traet in Lower Au- Jacob Lepley was probably the aneestor of the gusta township, a place of sixty-seven acres which

family here under consideration. The Lepleys he purchased from Franklin Gonsor. He is a have long been prominent among the most re- reliable and valuable citizen, and universally re- spected residents of Union county. Several mem- spected. bers of the Union county branch of the family In December, 1894, Mr. Lepley married Dora Van Horn, daughter of Pierce Van Horn, of Irish Valley, in Shamokin township, and they have two entered the ministry, and the family was also rep- resented in other professions.

In the courthouse at Sunbury was found the sons, William P. and Edwin O. Mr. Lepley and following record regarding Michael "Leapley," de- his, family are Lutherans. In politics he is a ceased : Papers of administration were given to Demoerat.

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JESSE CABEL, farmer of Ralpho township. of Jesse Cabel, and Cabel post office, at Weigh belongs to a respected family of that section of Scales, was also named for the family. Northumberland county. The Cabels are of Ger- man extraction. Joseph Cabel, his grandfather, A. MILTON DELCAMP is proprietor of the was extensively engaged in farming in Jackson "Locust Mountain House" at Mount Carmel, hav- township, this county, and in his later years went ing one of the oldest and best established hotel stands in that vieimty. He took charge of this

West, where he died about 1865. His children were : Daniel, Abraham, Christian, Eliza, Wilhel- place in June, 1906, and has done a thriving busi- mina and Elizabeth.

ness, his management having proved a success from

Christian Cabel, son of Joseph, first followed the start. Mr. Delcamp has passed all his life farming, but he was a man of mechanical ability at Monnt Carmel, having been born there Nov. and learned the trades of shoemaker, stonemason 9. 1870. son of Daniel Delcamp. and clockmaker, at all of which he worked. Com-

The Delcamp family is of French origin and the ing to Ralpho township he took up about twelve name was formerly spelled De La Camp. Mr. hundred acres of land, making his home near Deleamp's great-great-grandfather came to this Weigh Scales, and following farming and clock- country from France in 1753, settling in Phila- making. He sold one tract to Charles Snyder. delphia. His son Peter, the great-grandfather of He met his death in 1860, when about forty-nine A. Milton Delcamp, settled at Minersville, Schuyl- years old, along the pike between Schuylkill Haven kill Co., Pa., where he died at an advanced age. and Orwigsburg Landing, and is buried at the He was a farmer by occupation. His children were William, Philip, Peter, John, and one son

Blue church in Ralpho township. His wife, Sarah (Hensyl), was a daughter of George Hensyl, who who settled in Ohio. lived in Malianoy township, this county. They Willian Delcamp, son of Peter, was born in 1803 at Minersville, and died in 1869 at Llewellyn, Schuylkill county. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that calling for many years, also engaging in farming. He married Rebecca Faust. who died at Mount Carmel and is buried in Alaska had a large family. namely : Harriet is unmar- . ried ; Caroline married Isaac Haas and (second) George Hartline: Eliza married Isaac Hill; Kate married John Hoffman : Sarah married Hugh . Campbell; Mary married James Adams: Susan married Adolph Walbridge: Annie married Joseph cemetery, and they had a family of six children : Eli, Matilda, Anetta, Joseph, Daniel and William.

Dunkelberger; John died in Mifflin county, Pa .; Albert is a resident of Pottsville, Pa., where he Three of the sons served in the Civil war. namely : is engaged in business as a druggist ; Jesse com- William was a member of Company 1, 50th Penn- sylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the

pletes the family.

Jesse Cabel was born in Ralpho township April battle of the Wilderness. Joseph also served as 1, 1848, and was reared to agricultural pursuits on the home place, working out among farmers for a time after commencing on his own account. a member of the same company and regiment. Daniel enlisted in the same command (Company A, 50th Regiment ) in February, 1864, from Potts- He then found employment doing repair work for ville. and served seventeen months, until after the the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and spent close .of the war; he was wounded in the left five years in the shops at Shamokin. In 1870 he cheek and still carries the mark.

Daniel Delcamp, son of William, was born Nov.

located at Weigl Scales, buying a small. tract . of

land there from Mrs. Mary J. Snyder, and there 2, 1837, in Branch township, Schuylkill Co., Pa., he has since followed farming, also doing con- and has lived in Mount Carmel since 1867. He siderable work for the township. He is an hon- followed mining for a period of fifty-one years, orable man, and highly respected in his neigh-

retiring in 1910. By his first wife, Bella Klinger, borhood for his straightforward, industrious life. who died in 1872, Mr. Delcamp had two children,

Mr. Cabel married Lucinda Adams, daughter William and A. Milton. His second marriage was of Benjamin and Mary M. ( Pensyl) Adams, and to Sarah Eisenbach, daughter of George Eisen- they have had children as follows: Franklin E. bach, and eleven children have been born to this and Edward E., twins, both deceased : William, union: Charles, Matilda (married Jolin Morgan), who was accidentally killed at Irish Valley when Edward, Elmer, Maude (deceased), George. Ida. fifteen years old, while hunting; Millard, a barber Irene (deceased), Robert. Raymond and Flossie. by trade, who lives at home: John, at home; and A. Milton Delcamp received his education in the Caroline, who is engaged as a stenographer in public schools of Mount Carmel. He began work Philadelphia. Mr. Cabel is a member of the Blue as a slate picker, being thus employed for two Church, and he formerly belonged to the I. O. years, after which he was engaged at selling milk. O. F. He votes independently, supporting the for five years. He then attended school again for one term. following which he was employed

best candidates, regardless of party.

Cabel station, on the Philadelphia & Reading by William Klees. in the butcher business. for railroad, was named after Christian Cabel, father three years, and later became a bar clerk. In

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February, 1900, he entered the employ of I. K. delphia, traveling from Boston to Winston Salem, Wetzel, and in June, 1906, took charge of the N. C., where there is a thriving Moravian settle- "Locust Mountain House" as proprietor. The ment; he had the novel experience of visiting a hotel has twenty-seven rooms, and is conveniently community where people never lock their doors equipped. Mr. Delcamp is well fitted for the at night, where there is no jail, no courthouse, lrotel business, having the faculty of making his no postoffice, and no need for any of the precau- guests comfortable and well satisfied with the serv- ice they receive and an obliging disposition which not only meets but anticipates the demands of his patrons. He does a profitable business and cleserves the success he has won. tions ordinarily takeu in well settled places. In May, 1907, Mr. Hume came to Sunbury, where. he formed his present partnership with Harry P. Shipe. Their establishment is at No. 13? South Front street. where they occupy a new two-story

Mr. Delcamp is well known in the local social building, 40 by 60 feet in dimensions. They han- organizations, belonging to the P. O. S. of A., dle the Buick, Maxwell and Matheson cars, and the Sons of Veterans, the Elks, the Fraternal do an extensive repair business, employing six men Order of Eagles and the Anthracite Fire Com- regularly. Mr. Hume is a member of Lodge No. pany. Politically he does not adhere to the prin- 4, Knights of Pythias, at Columbus, Ohio; of ciples of any one party, voting independently, and B. P. O. Elks Lodge, No. 267, Sunbury : and of his hotel is the voting place of the 1st precinct of the Sunbury Automobile Club. the Third ward.

On Aug. 7, 1904, Mr. Delcamp married Hetty Grove, daughter of John and Elizabeth Grove, of Mount Carmel, and they have had two children, passed all his life in that borough. He belongs Dorothy and Sarah. to the family of Shipes numerous in Upper and Lower Augusta townships, in Northumberland county, being a grandson of Moses Shipe, who resides at No. 907 East Market street. Sunbury.

EDGAR B. HUME, senior member of the firm of Hume & Shipe, who are engaged in business at Sunbury as dealers in automobiles, and also conduct an automobile repair establishment, is a thoroughly enterprising business man, and well

HARRY P. SHIPE, junior member of the firm of Hume & Shipe, is a native of Sunbury and has

Isaac P. Shipe, son of Moses, was born in North- umberland county, and died at Sunbury July 8, 1893, at the early age of twenty-eight years. He

fitted by his familiarity with modern machinery passed all his life in Sunbury, and at the time for the line in which he is at present interested. of his death was engaged as a fireman on the

Mr. Humne was born Aug. 19, 1876, in Cin- Northern Central railroad: he was a member of cinnati, Ohio, of which city his father, G. W. the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. He mar- ried Catharine Greenaugh Bright, daughter of S. P. Bright, of Sunbury, and to this union were born four children: Mabel V., now the wife of Charles E. Dalzell, of Sunbury: Harry P .: Annie Isabelle, married to Edward Roberts, of Sunbury ; and Earl H., of Sunbury. Mrs. Shipe married for her second husband J. L. Golden, and they make their home in Sunbury. Hume, is also a native. He received his early education in the public schools of his native city and later attended the Ohio Wesleyan University, of Delaware, Ohio, after which he took up me- chanical work. He learned the machinist's trade at Columbus, Ohio, with the Jeffrey Manufactur- ing Company, remaining at the plant of that corporation for five years and during that time working in every department except the drafting Harry. P. Shipe was born in Sunbury July 9, 1885, and there received his education in the pub- lie schools, graduating from the high school in the class of 1903. For the next two years he was employed as clerk by the Pennsylvania Rail- way Company, and then for three years was in the employ of the United Telephone Company at Sunbury. At the end of that time he became associated with Mr. Hume in their present busi- department. His next employment was at Ports- mouth, Ohio, where he was engaged in the Ports- mouth Foundry & Machine Works a short time. For the next three years he was with the Fried- man Brothers Shoe Company, at St. Louis, Mo .. having charge of the mechanical end of their large establishincut, and at the end of that time re- turned to his native city, where he gained his first experience in the automobile business. He ness, to which he gives all his time. He is well known to be industrious and ambitious, and has done his share toward making a success of the ven- ture. Mr. Shipe is well known socially, holding membership in Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A. M., Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R. A. M., Mount Hermon Commandery, No. 85, K. T., and in the Temple and Americus Clubs, both of Sun- bury. He belongs to the Lutheran Church. and a partner opened an auto repair shop, which they conducted successfully for two years, follow- ing which Mr. Hume accepted a position as travel- ing salesman with the Union Special Machine Company, of No. 731 Arch street, Philadelphia, being thus engaged for six years. He afterward held a similar position with the United Shoe Ma- chinery Company, of No. 415 Arch street, Phila-

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BOHNER. The Bohner family has long been a numerous and prosperous race in the lower part of Northumberland county, where Nicholaus Bohner, its founder here, settled in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was one of the Hessian soldiers who came to America during the Revolutionary war and remained here after the

(I) Nicholaus Bohner was born Jan. 18, 1754. He first located in Pennsylvania near Womelsdorf, in Heidelberg township, Berks county. Thence he moved to Lebanon county, near Fredericks- burg, and from there to the Lykens Valley, in Dauphin county, near Gratz. He lived there some years on a tract of land in Lykens township later owned by a Klinger, and then removed to what is now Jordan township, in Northumberland .county, when he bought a tract of land which re- mained in the family name to the third genera- tion, until it passed into the possession of one Samuel Bower; part of it is now owned by Eman- uel Shoop, and part by Daniel K. Schlegel. Nicholaus Bohner followed farming to the end of his days. He was a tall, erect and handsome man. the ideal of a soldier. He died Feb. 5, 1824, and is buried at Zion's Church, in Stone Valley, where his wife also rests. He was a member of the Re- formed Church.

While living in Lebanon county Nicholaus Bohner married Margaret. Stahr, born Feb. 26, he voted and where his children went to school.

1754, who died Aug. 13, 1831. To them were born four sons and one daughter, the sons being Jacob, Henry, Frederick and John. The daughter was married to a Stump in Northumberland coun- ty, but she and her husband left Pennsylvania, settling in Ohio.

(II) Jacob Bohner, son of Nicholaus, was born Nov. 8, 1783, in the Lykens Valley. He fol- lowed farming and became very successful, owning three good farms. For some years he lived on a farm about two miles west of Hebe, and he was a

Jacob Bohner married Salome Reitz, who was Reformed member of the Hebe Church, where he born April 10, 1822, daughter of Peter Reitz. is bnried. He died Dec. 20. 1863. His wife, Cath- arine {Deibler), daughter of Mathias Deibler, was born May 16, 1789, and died Sept. 22, 1855. They were the parents of twelve children : Jacob, Jona- than, John, Abraham, Daniel, David, George, Matthias, Michael D., Elizabeth, Eve and Polly.

(III) Michael D. Bohner, son of Jacob, was born in Jordan township Nov. 15, 1833. He was reared to farming and also learned the saddler's trade, commencing his apprenticeship when he was fit- teen and following that calling for forty years in all. He now lives on a tract of twenty-nine acres in Lower Mahanoy township.

Mr. Bohmer has taken some interest and part in local affairs as an adherent of the Democratic party, and has served the party as precinct officer and his township as school director and supervisor. In religion he is

a member of the Reformed Church. Mr. Bohner married Catharine Rubendall, daughter of Abra- ham and Molly (Carl) Rubendall, and they have had the following children : Amelia J., Jacob M., Sivilla, Polly Q., Franklin, Lizzie and Catharine.

(II) Henry Bohner, son of Nicholas. remained struggle for independence was over. We give the on the homestead and followed farming. He was record of his posterity in chronological order.

twice married, and by his first wife, whose maiden name was Brosius, had children: Peter, Jacob, Henry, Nicholas, Catharine (married Michael Spotts), Elizabeth (married Isaac Heim), Re- becca (married Michael Schaffer) and Mrs. Jacob Miller (who had three sons and one daughter, Mary). Henry Bohner's second wife was Rebecca Troutman, who bore him two children, William and Sarah. (Among the Bohners in the Pillow cemetery is Mary, wife of Henry Bohner, born Nov. 17, 1790, died June 3, 1830.)

(III) Jacob Bohner, son of Henry and grand- son of Nicholaus, was born in the Mahantango Valley, in Jordan township, Northumberland county, Dec. 3, 1815, and died on his birthday, Dec. 3, 1896, aged eighty-one years. He and his wife are buried in the Pillow cemetery, Uniontown. He lived two miles south of his father's home- stead, on the line of Mifflin and Lykens townships. in Danphin county, the township line passing through his house. When he built a new house, however, he located it in Mifflin township, where In addition to farming he operated a sawmill, run- ning what was known as Bohner's sawmill in Mifflin township for nearly forty years. His first inill, an old-fashioned structure, he replaced with a new one, which was washed away by the flood. His farm comprised 130 acres. He was a man not only well known but highly respected, and was an active member of the Reformed congregation of the church at Uniontown, serving as deacon and elder.

and died Nov. 9, 1890. Twelve children were born to theni, viz .: Henry, Lonisa, Elias (died young ), Joel (died young), David, John, Corneli- us (died young), Sarah, Mary J. (died young). Jacob M., Peter Morris (died young) and Ed- win D.

(IV) DAVID BOHNER, son of Jacob. was born Sept. 18, 1849, in Lykens township. Dauphin county, and was reared to farm life. When he left home he engaged in the cotton lapping and feed business in Mifflin township, following that line for eleven years in all-the cotton business for seven years, adding the feed business the last four years. Coming to Lower Mahanov township in 1881 he purchased a 124-acre farm, a Grim homestead, which he bought from the Harris es- tate. It is located one mile southeast of Hickory

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Corners, and here he has ever since been engaged in farming.

While living in Dauphin county Mr. Bohner took considerable interest in public affairs and held local offices, serving Uniontown borough, where he lived for eleven and a half years before he moved to his present farm, as member of the town couneil. He is a Demoerat in political opinion. He and his family are Reformed mem- bers of Stone Valley (Zion's) Church, where he served a number of years as an officer, being deacon, elder and trustee.

In 1870 Mr. Bohner married Harriet Latsha, daughter of Henry Latsha, and they have had four children : Henry M. is a farmer in Lower Ma- hanoy ; Mary J. married David G. Bohner ; Salome married Charles M. Masser; Laura R. married C. O. Sehaffer.

(IV) EDWIN D. BOHNER, son of Jacob, was born Oet. 10, 1867. He received his education in the publie schools and was reared to farming, working for his parents until he reached the age of twenty-three years. He then found employ- ment working around a coal breaker, and for five years fired at a breaker in Northumberland eoun- ty, in the spring of 1899 moving to his present place, a traet of ninety-two acres in Upper Maha- noy township. Northumberland county, on the south side of Line Mountain near the Schuylkill county line. This farm was formerly owned by Rev. H. Weieksel, and in the earlier days was a Yoder homestead. Mr. Bohner moved to this place March 28, 1899, and has been farming there ever since, selling his products at Shamokin. He is a butcher, and follows that trade in connection with his ag- ricultural work.

On Oet. 15, 1892. Mr. Bohner married Annie Reed, daughter of Daniel and Susan ( Heckert) Reed, and they have had three children, Goldic, Kimber and Emerson. Mr. Bohner and his fam- ily worship at Jacob's Church, belonging to the Reformed congregation, which he served as deacon. He is a Democrat in polities.

(II) Frederick Bohner, son of Nieholaus, born June 20, 1790, died March 12, 1831. He settled near Uniontown, in Jordan township, and was a cultivating a large farm, a part of the homestead. He has descendants living in Jordan and Lower

substantial and prosperous eitizen, owning and born in Jackson township, Northumberland coull-

'Mahanoy townships; one of his grandsons, Rev. Matter, died Feb. 9, 1904, aged sixty-two years,

. Benjamin Bohner, of Allentown, Pa., is a fore- most minister of the Evangelieal Association, hav- ing served as presiding elder. Froderick Bohner was held in the highest repute. He was one of the founders of the Evangelical Church in Union- town. He married Eve Brosius, born July 2, 1792, died May 27, 1872, and they are buried in Bohner's (Union) cemetery, near Uniontown. They were the parents of five children : Daniel

married Julianna Mease ( Measy ) ; Lydia married Rev. Mr. Anspach : Sallie married a Wildermuth ; Rebecca married Moses Troutman; Phoebe mar- ried a Mr. Mease.

(III) Daniel Bohner, son of Frederick, lived near Uniontown, on the hill to the north, part of his homestead being the farm of Daniel K. Sehlegel. He acquired a substantial property, but lost heavily in the U. B. graveyard insurance ven- ture. A man of strong intelligence and remark- able foresight, he was a leader in his community in many ways. Converted at his home during the thirties, under Bishop Seibert, then a presiding elder of the Evangelieal Association, he was one of the founders of the church of that denomina- tion at Uniontown. and one of the most zealous and effective advocates of the doctrines of that seet in his vieinity, doing much for its advance- ment. He helped to ereet the first Evangelical church at Uniontown, giving liberally not only of money but of lumber and other material, doing considerable hauling, boarding the help, ete. He held many offices in the church and to the end of his days was an ardent Christian, a truly spiritual man. The eamp meetings were held in his grove, and through his zealous efforts many members were brought into the church. He served as lay delegate to many church conferences, and to the general conference. He was a devout student of the Bible. Mr. Bohner died March 29, 1904, at the advaneed age of ninety-one years, ten months, seven days. He was always a strong man physically, short but broad shouldered and heavy set, and had a full face. In 1874 he built a large vault in Bohner's Union cemetery, near Pillow, and about twenty years before his death had a steel coffin made for himself and wife, Julianna Measy ( Mease), who passed away Dee. 8, 1898, aged eighty-one years, eight months, thirteen days. They had children as follows: Emanuel, Rev. Benjamin (married and had three children, Osby, Harvey and Emma), Henry, Daniel M., Phoebe (married William Spotts, and lived in Kansas), Annie, Mary (known as Polly, died unmarried). Sarah (married Jeremiah Weaver) and Emma (married Simon Eyer, of New Jersey).

(IV) Emanuel Bohner, son of Daniel. was ty, and died in that township, Jan. 18, 1904, aged sixty-eight years, four days. His wife, Mary Ann nine months, fifteen days. They are buried in the Union cemetery mentioned above. Mr. Bohner owned one of the old homesteads, as well as the. farm now owned by his son Elmer in Jackson township. He was active in church life, as a mem- ber of the Evangelical Association, in which he served as elassleader and exhorter. He went with the Dubb side upon the division of the church. was subsequently conference delegate. and was

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ever a beloved member of the church. He and his aged father lived together in their deelining years and it is a somewhat remarkable faet that he died Jan. 18th, his wife on Feb. 9th and the aged father March 29th, all in 1904. Adam Rom- berger, a son-in-law of Daniel Bohner, died only four weeks before Emanuel. Emanuel Bohner's children were: Nathaniel, who is a farmer of Jaekson township; Adam Elmer; Daniel W., who died in his ninth year; Benjamin; Alice, married to Jere Walborn; Annie Jane, married to James Farly; Annie, married to Frank Forney; and Katie, unmarried, who lives in Millersburg. .

(II) John Bohner, son of Nicholaus, was born Sept. 4, 1792, in the Mahantango Valley in upper Dauphin county, and lived in Jackson (then Ma- hanoy) township, being the first of the name to own the Bohner farm at Mahanoy. The tract comprises 140 acres, located a quarter of a mile south of Mahanoy, and has been in the family name for nearly one hundred years. The house is an old landmark, the old part, which is built of logs, being more than a hundred years old. Mr. Bohner was a stonemason, and followed that trade most of the time, his children conducting the farm. His work as a mason took him to Phoenixville and into Berks, Lebanon and other counties toward Philadelphia, and he had large contracts in the building of the Schuylkill canal. He died June 7, 1880, and is buried at Mahanoy (St. Peter's) Church, of which he was an official member.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 40

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