Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 47

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

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Mr. Markle was a native of Germany, born Feb. 12, 1835, in Werlhim Ober Balingen, Wurtem- berg, son of George and Barbara (Souter) Markle. and grandson, on the maternal side, of Jacob and. Katharine Souter. George Markle, who died in Germany about 1890, held a civil office under the

On May 21, 1890, Mr. Conrad married Della A. Burns, daughter of Dennis and Kate ( Kramer) Burns, of Boise City, Idaho, and to this union has been born one daughter, Ruth, who is still attending school. The family occupy a handsome government for forty years. He had the following

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children: George Jacob, who came to America 1861, died March 29, 1906 ; Sarah A. married two years after his brother Martin and settled in ( first) Charles Tretter and (second) William Philippi, and resides in Shamokin: Cecelia mar- ried Francis O. Rankey. a paper box manufacturer of Sonth Bethlehem, Pa. : Henry died in infancy. The mother of this family died Nov. 9. 1898, and in 1900 Mr. Markle married (second) Mrs. Emily Allen, daughter of Isaac May, of Shamokin. Mr. Markle's death occurred Jan. 18, 1905. Greenfield, Mass., where he condueted the "Ger- mania Hotel" for twenty years ( he died Sept. 22, 1898) ; Casper, who came to the United States in 1857 and settled in Greenfield, Mass., in 1866 (he learned the cutler's trade, following same through- out his residence in this country) : John: George and Christina, who remained in Germany: and Martin. .

WILLIAM M. MARKLE. son of Martin and Hel- ena ( Eith) Markle, was born Ang. 18, 1854, at Lockport. Northampton Co., Pa. During the greater part of his life he was in his father's em- ploy, but during his last years, for about three years before his death, he was in the hotel business, conducting the "Central House" of Shamokin. He died at Shamokin Aug. 18. 1898. Mr. Markle was a good business man and had all the qualities of a substantial eitizen. He married Catharine Snyder, daughter of Simon and Mary ( Burgner.) Snyder, and they became the parents of eleven children, viz .: Sarah C., who is deceased; Wil- liam P., deceased ; Mary M., deceased : Sarah J., wife of Joseph Sockolwski and mother of two chil- dren. Joseph and Catharine (Mr. Sockolwski is A .: Albert M., deceased : Evelyn A .: George S .; Charles D .: Catharine A., who is still in school : and Annie, deceased. The family reside at No. 601 Franklin street. Mrs. Markle and her chil- dren are members of St. Edward's Catholie Church.

Martin Markle received a common school eduea- tion in his native land and remained there, on the home farm, until he was seventeen years old. In April, 1852, he came to the United States, arriving at New York April 23d. and after a short time in that city came on to Pennsylvania, where he ever afterward made his home. His first location was at Slatington, where he entered the employ of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company as loek- tender, holding that position for nineteen years. Having decided to enter business life he engaged in the general mereantile business at the loek (which is still known at Markle's loek) in 1862, continuing at that point for several years. On . Dee. 1, 1871, he settled in Shamokin, where he was in business until his death. He purchased proprietor of a eigar store in Shamokin ) : Amandus the John B. Douty Brewery, in Coal township, which for many years was well known under his management as the Eagle Run Brewery, operating it until 1895, when he sold his interests therein to P. H. Furmann and relinquished the more ex- acting duties of active business. But he by no means gave up his participation in the life of the Simon Snyder, father of Mrs. Markle, lived and died at Pottsville, Pa. In early life he learned shoemaking, but did not follow that trade long, being employed as a tanner for many years. He married Mary Burgner, and their children were : John. Elizabeth, Mary M., Catharine ( Mrs. Markle ), and Theodore, all living: and three de- ceased, Sophia, Philomena and Frank. city. . In 1896, in connection with Mr. George C. Graeber, of Shamokin, he built the popular "Hotel Graemar" (the name being made up of the first syllables of both proprietors' names) in Shamokin. which has the reputation of being one of the best hostelries in the State of Pennsylvania ; Mr. Markle laid the first brick himself. and he always took great pride in the hotel and its management. He was a director of the First National Bank of Sham- okin (now the National Bank of Shamokin), which lie also served as treasurer : a director of the Sham- okin Powder Manufacturing Company; a director of the Shamokin & Mount Carmel Street Railway Company (which he helped to organize ) ; and a di- rector of the Shamokin Street Railway Company. In politics he was a Democrat, in religion a Luth- eran.

AMANDUS A. MARKLE. son of William M. and Catharine (Snyder) Markle, was born May 5. 1885, in Shamokin, where he has passed all his life. He received his education in the publie schools of his native eity and at Tharptown, and during the first five years he worked was employed at the silk mill. He then changed to the Reitz & Hilbush planing mill, where he remained until 1905, since when he has been engaged as carpenter at the Big Mountain Colliery.

On June 17, 1852, Mr. Markle married Helena In 1905 Mr. Markle married Sallie Jordan, daughter of James Jordan, and they have had two children : James William, born Dec: 9, 1902. and Dorothy K., born Sept. 3. 1909. The family home is at No. $19 East Sunbury street. The Markles are members of St. Edward's Catholic Church. Eith, daughter of Casper Eith, a native of Germany, and to them were born eight children. namely: Anna is the wife of Pius Sehweibenz. proprietor of a brewery at East Mauch Chunk. Pa. : William M., born Ang. 18. 1854, died Aug. 18, 1898; Amandns S. was born Aug. 20, 1856. GEORGE F. MARKLE, son of Martin and Helena (Eith) Markle, was born Aug. 14, 1861, and after and died May 5. 1910: Helen married Daniel Stahl, foreman in the Eagle Run Brewery, and . receiving his education became interested. like his died Feb. 11, 1905: George F., born Aug. 14. brothers, in his father's business affairs, working

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for him practically all his life. For about one year

ROBERT B. TULE, M. D., of Milton, North- he was a dairyman in Uniontown, this county. umberland county, has been engaged in practice in. Like the members of the family generally, he liad excellent business ability and was a good manager, being highly esteemed wherever known. He died March 29, 1906, and is buried in the Shamokin cemetery.

On May 24, 1885, Mr. Markle inarried Miss Catherine F. Batman, daughter of Augustus and Mary (Messner) Batman, and to this union were born two daughters: Lena N., now the wife of Charles Rogers and residing at Tamaqua; and Lillie M. Mrs. Catharine E. Markle continues to make her home at Shamokin.

Augustus Batman, father of Mrs. Markle, was a farmer in Shamokin township, Northumberland county, where he died. He married Mary Mess- ner, and they had a family of seven children : Ed- ward, a farmer in Rush Valley, Northumberland county, inarried Mary Witmer; Ellen married Daniel Zartinan; Sallie married Monroe Bitter- man ; Mary married George Radle ; Elizabeth mar- ried Daniel Smith ; Catharine E. married George F. Markle: Polly married Gideon Kremer. .

WILLIAM PENN KEMBLE, of Mount Car- mel, Northumberland county, editor of the Mount Carmel Item, was born in Tower City. Schuylkill county, April 5, 1876, son of Isaac and Matilda (Bickel) Kemble. When he was four years old his family removed to Ashland, the subject of this sketch becoming a resident of Mount Carmel at the age of six. His paternal ancestors were identi- fied with the early history of Northumberland county, the old Kemble homestead being located

Robert B. Tule was born July 8, 1866, and at- tended the public schools of his home district in Lycoming county and the Muncy Normal School. Like many other professional men, he preceded his in Jackson township. His maternal ancestors were preparation for the medical profession by teaching, prominent in Dauphin county. Mr. Kemble is of long American lineage, having ancestors who fought in all the wars of the Republic and in the Colonial and Indian wars.

Educated primarily in the public schools of Mount Carmel and in the Shamokin Business Col- lege, Mr. Kemble studied civil engineering under his father, the late Isaac Kemble, C. E. Later he studied law. but abandoned that to take up newspaper work in 1896, when he entered the employ of William B. Wilson, editor of the Mount Carmel Item. On Feb. 1. 1897, he and his father purchased the paper. Later his brother, Edward B. Kemble, joined the publishing firm. On Nov. 1, 1902, their newspaper became a daily.

.Mr. Kemble enlisted in Company F, 4th Penn- sylvania Infantry, May 8, 1898. He participated in the first invasion of Porto Rico, where his com- mand was engaged in skirinishes and outpost duty. He was honorably discharged at the end of the Spanish-American War.

On Dee. 31, 1902, he was married to Bertha E. Doty Miller, of Shamokin. He has two children, tist Church.

Robert Penn and Frances Elizabeth.

Northumberland county ever since his graduation from medical college, but he is a comparatively re- cent comer to the borough, having settled there in 1907. He had considerable patronage in this lo- cality before his removal hither, and he has estab- lished himself thoroughly in the confidence of his fellow citizens during his residence in the neigh- borhood.

Dr. Tule is a native of Lycoming county, and a member of a prominent old family of that section, his grandfather, John Tule, having been a well known farmer at Montoursville, where he followed agricultural pursuits until his death. John Tule married Mary Bubb, and they are buried in the lower cemetery at Montoursville. Their children were: Abraham, Charles, George, William, Kate, Elizabeth and Maggie.

Abraham Tule, son of John, was born at the old homestead in Lycoming county in 1831, and there he still resides, having now a fine farm of eighty acres, near Muncy, one of the finest places in the valley. He has engaged in farming all his life, and is still active and able to look after his own affairs, thongh his long life has been one of constant indus- try. Mr. Tule married Ann Diggan. daughter of Edward Diggan, and to them were born five chil- dren, viz. : Kempton, who is a resident of Muncy; Edward ; Robert B .; Bella ; and Virgie, who mar- ried Frank Gortner.

being thus engaged for three terms in his native county. Entering Jefferson Medical College, he was graduated in 1891, and immediately after- ward settled in Northumberland county, which has since been the field of his work. His first location was at Montandon, where he built up a large prac- tice, his personality and success combining to cre- ate a demand for his services which was most gratifying, for he has been painstaking and thor- ough in his work, and his skill has been demon- strated in numerous cases. Conscientions devotion to his patients, regardless of any consideration but the fact that they needed attention, has won him the good will of the community to a marked de- gree. In 1902, when he came to Milton, he pur- chased a fine home on Elm street, where he also has his office. Dr. Tule is a member of the Ly- coming Medical Society, the State Medical Asso- ciation and the American Medical Association ; so- cially he holds membership in Milton Lodge. No. 256, F. & A. M. He is a Republican in politics. and in religious matters is identified with the Bap-

Dr. Tule married Annie Warn. daughter of

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James Warn, of Lycoming county. They have two ing. They conducted a general store for nearly two .children, James O. and Hazel I.

ISAAC C. BURD, president of the Burd & Rodgers Company, Incorporated, vice president of the American Filter & Cooler Company, and one of the most prominent and influential citizens of the borough of Shamokin, was born in Union county, Pa., July 9, 1863, son of Isaac P. and Susannah (Collier) Burd.

The early home of the Burd family was in Scot- land, where Edward Burd, gentleman, lived on. his estate of Ormiston, near Edinburgh. His wife was Jean Haliburton, daughter of George Haliburton, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

Col. James Burd, third son of Edward Burd, was born at Ormiston in 1726, and came to Ameri- .ca long before the Revolutionary war. For many years he was in the military service of the Province of Pennsylvania, being one of the noted military men during the French and Indian war, in which he commanded the 2d Battalion of a Pennsylvania regiment of Provincial troops. He completed the building of Fort Augusta (now Sunbury), North- umberland county, in 1756-57. He was with the Forbes expedition, and was in command at Fort Pitt. In 1748 Colonel Burd was married at Phil- adelphia to Sarah Shippen, daughter of Edward Shippen, and sister of Chief Justice Edward Ship- pen.

Isaac P. Burd, father of Isaac C., was born in Union county, and always lived in the vicinity of Swengel. He was but a boy when his father died, and he grew up in the care of strangers. He had one brother, John, and two sisters, Mary and Mar- garet. He was a carpenter by trade. During the Civil war he gave nine months of service to his country. . His death occurred March 20, 1900, when he was nearing his eightieth birthday. He married Susannah Collier, born Jan. 28, 1822, .died Jan. 10, 1903, daughter of Aaron Collier, a shoemaker and early settler of Union county, and his wife, Catherine Catheman, one of the large family of children born to David Catheman, a wealthy farmer, Aaron Collier and wife were the parents of George. Joseph, Sophia, Susannah and Lizzie. To Isaac P. Burd and wife were born sey- en children: George, of Ohio: Isabella, married to John Fry, of near Allenwood, Pa .: Catherine, who married Adam Diehl, of Swengel. Pa .; Wil- liam, who conducts a general store at Swengel ; Samuel, manager of the Winfield & New Berlin Railroad at New Berlin ; John C., who died Dec. 4, 1902, at Shamokin : and Isaac C., of Shamokin.

Isaac C. Burd attended the common schools in Union county, and at the age of fifteen began clerking at Swengel, where he remained four years. He then came to Shamokin, and for two years was engaged as a clerk. at the end of that time forming a partnership with Mr. W. H. Zar-

years, and then Mr. Burd sold his interest to his partner and started a small store of his own at No. 233 Spruce street. He has been very success- ful in his work, and has branched out until he has one of the finest stores of its kind in Shamokin. In August, 1902, the business was incorporated as the Burd & Rodgers Company, with Mr. Burd as president; the other members being some of his reliable employces.

Mr. Burd was united in marriage to Ida Rogers, daughter of H. L. and Susan (Reitz) Rogers. Two children have come to brighten their home, Walter H. and Catharine R. Mr. Burd is one of the original directors of the Market Street Na- tional Bank, and is vice president of the Ameri- can Filter & Cooler Company. Fraternally he is a member of the P. O. S. of A., and his religious connection is with the Evangelical Church. He belongs to the Shamokin Auto Club.

BLOOM. The Bloom family now numerous in Northumberland and Clearfield counties, Pa., is descended from two brothers who came into Penn- sylvania from New Jersey. In the archives of that State are recorded the names of five Bloom broth- ers who served in Backster's Brigade of New Jer- sey Volunteers. One was killed in action. After the war one remained in New Jersey, the other three coming to Pennsylvania. Of these, Stephen Bloom, the ancestor of Urias Bloom, of Sunbury. settled in Lower Augusta (now Rockefeller) township, in Northumberland county; William. the ancestor of Amos Bloom, now also of Sunbury, took up a- large tract of land in Clearfield county : the third settled in a valley near Bellefonte in Center county, where a large number of his descendants have since lived.

Stephen Bloom settled in Northumberland county prior to 1795, as shown by his will, and was therefore a pioneer in this part of the country. The name has since appeared frequently in the county archives.

Samuel Bloom, son of Stephen, was born March 21. 1772, and died in what is now Rockefeller town- ship, this county, July 8, 1837. He lived on the old Bloom homestead in Lower Augusta (now Rockefeller) township now owned by Urias Bloom, his great-grandson, a property which consisted of nearly two hundred acres and which he purchased in 1797 from Martin Raker and wife. Samuel Bloom was a prominent man of his day. taking an active part in the work of the Democratic party and holding various important offices with honor and credit. On Feb. 28, 1809, he was commis- sioned justice of the peace and served many years : from 1813 to 1815 he was county commissioner : and he was county treasurer in 1834-36. He served as postmaster at what was then known as Au- gusta, but which office has since been abandoned.

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Hle and his wife were Lutherans, and he was par -. ing, also operating a custom sawmill. A promi- ticularly prominent in the organization of the Nent man in this township for many years, he held Zion Lutheran and Reformed Church at Augusta- ville, toward the erection of which he contributed generously ; he was a charter , member of this church and was serving as its treasurer at the time of his death. He and his wife are buried there.

Samuel Bloom married Magdalene Dunkel- berger, who was born in Northumberland county July 20, 1773, and died Aug. 19, 1843. Their children were: John; Daniel, born Jan. 20, 1198, who died June 4, 1895 (wife Maria, born Sept. 8, 1798, died July 7, 1841 ; his second wife, Mary, died Jan. 1, 1903, aged eighty-four years, eleven months, eleven days) ; William, born Nov. 24, 1802, who died May 17, 1856 ; Samuel, who moved to Akron, Ohio, and died there aged about eighty years ; Jacob, who is mentioned below ; Henry, who died Nov. 22, 1880, aged sixty-four years, ten months, eight days (wife Maria, born Jan. 2, 1826, died April 16, 1904) ; Catharine, who mar- ried Jacob Bartholomew; Magdalene, who was married to George Keiser; and Elizabeth (1813- 1901), who married George Keiser, after the death of his first wife, Magdalene.

Jacob Bloom, son of Samuel. was born on the farm later occupied by his son Hiram. He became a prominent farmer in his native township, where he settled after his marriage, in 1836 making his home permanently on the farmn where he was born. Like his father he was a Democrat and a Lutheran and prominent in political and religious matters in the locality, serving ten years as justice of the peace and also holding the office of school director. He served his church as deacon, elder and treasurer. He married Julia Ann Bartholo- mew, who survived him, his death occurring in 1876. Nine children were born to them, viz .: (1) Deborah married D. D. Conrad of Rockefeller township. (2) Sarah married Samuel Sober, of Shamokin township. (3) Mary died unmarried. (4) Julia Ann married S. P. Malick, of Sunbury. (5) Hiram is mentioned below. (6) William set- tled in Lincoln county, Nebr. (7) Peter also set- tled in Lincoln county, Nebr. William and Peter are both living. (8) Magdalena married Harry Wolf and is deceased. (9) Martin L. enlisted in the service of the United States during the Re- bellion, serving about three years, and died at the home of his father Dec. 7, 1864, from disease contracted in the army, at the age of about twenty- five years. He was unmarried. He was mustered in Oct. 8, 1861, in Company I, 58th Regiment, Pa. Vols., Capt. Jolin Byers, Col. J. Richter Jones. This company was the first to enter Richmond after the surrender.

Hiram Bloom, son of Jacob, was born Oct. ??. .1831, in what is now Rockefeller township, and died Dec. 10, 1892. He learned the trade of car- penter, which he followed in connection with farm-

various positions of public trust with honor and to the full satisfaction of his fellow citizens, serv- ing as township auditor (over twenty years) and as school director, and was elected a justice of the peace but did not serve. He was a leading member of the Lutheran Church, which he served as deacon, elder and treasurer. In 1852 he married Maria Hileman, daughter of Daniel Hileman, of Rocke- feller township, and nine children were born to them, namely : Urias, of Sunbury : Mary Cathar- ine, who died when about three years of age : John F., of Purdytown, who learned the trade of car- penter, was a teacher in the public schools and is now employed in the First National Bank of Sun- bury; William E., who served as county superin- tendent of schools from 1886 to 1892 and is now engaged in the practice of law: Laura, wife of Daniel Long, of Rockefeller township; Daniel E., of Sunbury, assistant cashier in the First National Bank there; Frances, the wife of C. E. Dagle; Adella, wife of Elmer F. Troutman ; and Florence Gertrude, who married Norman Sheetz and resides near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

URIAS BLOOM, president of the Sunbury Trust & Safe Deposit Company, one of the most impor- tant financial institutions of the borough of Sun- bury, has a record as a public official and business man which entitles him to place among the lead- ing citizens of this section of the county. He was born April 1, 1854, in Lower Augusta (now Rock- efeller) township, son of Hiram and Maria ( Hile- man) ' Bloom, and received his education in the common schools. He made such good use of his time that at the age of sixteen he was able to begin teaching. When a young man of about twenty he became a clerk in the office of the county recorder, Lemuel Shipman, remaining with him to the close of his service, in 1880, after which he was engaged by his successor, George D. Bucher, under whom he served until 1886, when he assumed the duties of the office himself. He was elected in 1885, run- ning about two hundred and fifty votes ahead of his ticket, and upon his reelection, in 1888, he ran over twelve hundred votes ahead of his ticket. In Northumberland county the duties of register of wills, recorder of deeds and clerk of the Orphans' court are performed by one official. Mr. Bloom held the office for six years, giving the highest sat- isfaction in every respect. For many years he has been associated with the Sunbury Trust & Sate Deposit Company, having been secretary and treasurer of that institution for a number of years before assuming the duties of president. which of- fice he now fills. As such he is one of the foremost figures in financial circles in the borough, and he is a man of irreproachable business and personal standing.

On Nov. 25, 1879, Mr. Bloom was married in

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Lower Augusta township to Anna M. Winters- Lottie married Dr. John H. Snyder; Mabel mar- teen, and four children have been born to their ried Leroy L. Fegley. union : Essie Uarda; Grace Imogene; Goldie Ed- na, who married J. Landis Strickler, of Hummels- town, Pa. ; and Charles Eugene.

William Bloom, brother of Steplien (ancestor of the foregoing Bloonis), took up a large tract of

In religious connection Mr. Bloom is a member land in Clearfield county, Pa., at what is known of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Socially he as the "Peewee's Nest." He was born in New belongs to the I. O. O. F., Conclave No 11, Sov- Jersey in 1752, and lived to the age of 104 years : ereign Patriotic Knights (having served a term as he is buried at Curwensville, Clearfield connty. Grand Master of the State of Pennsylvania), the He followed farming on land which he himself Royal Arcanum and the Masonic fraternity. He cleared, and where he erected a log house and . is a Democrat in politics.

barn. His wife, like himself a native of New Jer- sey, also attained an advanced age, living to be William Bloom, son of Samnel, was born Nov. ninety-eight. They were the parents of eleven 24, 1802, and died May or Nov. 17, 1856. His children, seven sons and four daughters: Abra- wife, Elizabeth ( Bartholomew) was born May 26, ham, James, Isaac, John, William, Benjamin,

From the above source there is a large posterity, and we quote the following from the Philadelphia Peter, Mary (married Matthew Caldwell) and three daughters whose names are not recalled.

1806, and died Nov. 13, 1886. They were farming people, living on the place now owned by George Rebuck, which adjoins the old Bloom homestead in Rockefeller township. Mr. Bloom was a pros- perous man, owning four farms, and was quite North American of Ang. 18, 1909, as being of in- prominent in the township's public affairs, serving terest in this connection :

as eonstable (many years) and overseer of the .

"The Bloom reunion was held at the 'Peewee's poor. In politieal faith he was a Democrat, and Nest,' on the bank of the Susquehanna river, near he and his family were Lutheran members of the Curwensville, Pa. The Bloom clan is one of the Augustaville Church ; he was one of the pillars of largest in Clearfield county. They are descendants the congregation, and served many years in the of William Bloom, a native of New Jersey. and church council. His children were: Diana mar- a Revolutionary war veteran, who came to Clear- ried Isaae Wolf; Julian married Martin Heim ; field eounty with his wife in 1796. They came up Lydia married Moses Reitz: John is mentioned the west branch of the Susquehanna river in a below ; Peter lived at various places ; Maria mar- canoe and settled on the spot where the family ried Lemuel Shipman.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 47

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