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On Aug. 28, 1900, Mr. Clark married Ida Schwalm, daughter of Fred and Sarah ( Ruben- thal) Sehwalm, and granddaughter of Frederiek of two giant chestnut trees that stood in front Schwalm. Five children have been born to them, Sadie E. (who died in infancy), Carrie S., Edgar A., Della L. and Calvin A. Mr. Clark and his family are members of the Reformed congregation at the Salem Church, which he has served as deaeon.
JACOB WARNER MIFFLIN, of Paxinos, Northumberland county, senior member of the him. firm of Mifflin & Miller, manufacturers of briek and dealers in lumber and other commodities, is also extensively engaged as a eontraetor and build- er, his work in that line taking him all over the county. His interests in this region are varied, and he is recognized as one of its most progres- sive eitizens, exercising a wholesome influenee upon its industrial welfare and aetive in its best development. He is a native of the county, born Jan. 28, 1871, at Bear Gap, and eomes of a fam- ily of English origin which has been settled in Aineriea sinee early Colonial times. The gen- erations of the family are numbered beginning with the first ancestor in this eountry.
sailed in one of the five ships containing colonists who were members of the Society of Friends, who disembarked at what is now Burlington, N. J., in 1677 or 1678, They were prominent in the early history of Philadelphia, where they eventu- ally settled. After working some time among the Swedes, upon the banks of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, until they could fix upon a place to settle, they chose a tract lying on the east side of the Schuylkill, which they took up on the Duke of York's patent. The title, dated from the court of Upland or Chester ( then held at Kings- ess), 8th month, 13, 1680, named the area as 300 acres, but it was resurveyed in '168? and patent taken under Willianı Penn, the original title be- ing confirmed by Penn 5th month, 18, 1684; the- tract was then designated as containing 270 acres. The Mifflins settled there on the 13th of the 8th month, 1680, living in a small house. near the riv- erside. John Mifflin named the place "Fountain Green" and it is now ineluded in Fairmount park. in Philadelphia. The dwelling which stood until comparatively recent times was situated in the ra- vine below and to the west of the site of the Smith Memorial Children's Playhouse, and to the east of the Benedict Arnold house. A guard who was employed in the park for over twenty-five years remembered seeing the house in 1871 and described it as a large dwelling, with pillars sup- porting the front porel. All that now remains to mark the site is the spring which is known to have been at the rear of the house and the stumps of the house. The wife of John Mifflin, the elder, followed him to America, coming from England soon after the marriage of the son Jolin, but she died soon after her arrival. He subsequently re- moved to Merion, Pa., where he married his sec- ond wife, Eleanora, about 1685. He died in Phil- adelphia on the 4th of the 7th month. 1716, when over seventy years old, his second wife surviving
(II) Jolin Mifflin, son of John, came to Amer- iea with his father. He was born in 1661 in Wilt- shire, England, and married Elizabeth Hardy, who was about twenty-one when she came over with William Penn on his first voyage, in 1682, from Derbyshire, England, with a shipload of Derbyshire people who settled on Darby creek, and called the place Darby Town, Soon afterward John Mifflin, who lived four or five miles dis- tant, became acquainted with her, and their mar- riage was solemnized at a Meeting of Friends held at Chester or near it on the 6th of 12th month, 1683 or 1684. Upon his father's removal to Mer- ion, as above related, John Mifflin purchased the
(I) John Mifflin was born in 1638 in War- whole of the property and resided there until his minster, Wiltshire, England. whence he eame to death, which occurred the 4th of the 4th month, America with his son John in the year 1676, or be- 1:14, in his fifty-fourth year. His wife, who was
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born a. ,at 1663, survived him, dying in Philadel- bearing the following inscription placed on the phia 21.t of 6th month, 1736. They had children lot: as follows: (1) Edward, born in 1685, is the next Motherkill Burying Ground Within This Enclosure Are Interred The Remains of Warner Mifflin Friend, Philanthropist, Patriot Born Aug. 21, 1745 Died October 16, 1798 in line to Jacob Warner Mifflin. (2) George, born in 1688, lived in Philadelphia, and was admitted a freeman of that city in April, 1717. He was a merchant, 1736; member of council, 1730; mem- ber of governor's council, 1730; owner, 1731; and interested in the Colebrookdale Furnace, the oldest in Pennsylvania, erected in 1720. He was His plantation, an extensive one, was near Frank- lin City, and. commanded a fine view of Chinco- teague Bay and Island. "Pharsalis," the resi- dence, is still standing, and was described by a visitor in 1903 as a house which gave evidence of 10th of 4th month, 1758. By his father's will he having been a fine place in its day. married in Philadelphia to Esther Codery, daugli- ter of Hugh and Deborah Codery. and they were the grandparents of Thomas Mifflin, governor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Mifflin died at Philadelphia received a house and lot on the south side of High Warner Mifflin's first marriage, which took place in Philadelphia, was to Elizabeth Johns, and to them were born nine children: (1) Mary, born 21st of 4th month, 1768, died 23d of 2d month, 1783. (2) Elizabeth, born 14th of 2d month, 1770, died 29th of 2d month, 1770. (3) Eliza- beth (2), born 26th of 1st month, 1771, married Clayton Cowgill in 1792. (4) Sarah, born 4th of 4th month, 1773, died 7th month, 1773. (5) Ann, born 20th of 9th month, 1774, married Warner Rasin, of Maryland, in 1795. (6) War- of 7th (or 8th) month, 1779, married John Cow- gill, of Little Creek. (8) Hannah, born 30th of 10th month, 1781, died 11th of 5th month, 1785. (9) Sarah, born 9th of 12th month, 1784, mar- ried Daniel Neall, of Philadelphia, in 1810, and died 5th of 2d month, 1837. street. (3) John, born in 1690, was admitted a freeman of Philadelphia in April, 1717, and lived there and in Kent county, Del., dying in the latter place about 1733. His wife's name was Elizabeth. (4) Elizabeth, born in 1692, married Benjamin Oram about 1714, and died about 1732. (5) Pa- tience, born in 1694, died unmarried in 1717. (6) Jane, born in 1696, was married in Philadelphia in 1717 to John Waller. (7) Samuel, born in 1698, died in Philadelphia in 1724. His wife's name was Elizabeth. (8) Jonathan, born in 1699, ner is mentioned below. (7) Susanna, born 24th died in 1700. (9) Jonathan (2), born at "Foun- tain Green" 12th of 4th month, 1704, died 15th of 10th month, 1781. He lived on a plantation near the Germantown road. In 1776 he wrote a history of the Mifflin family. In. 1723 he married in Philadelphia Sarah Robinson ; in 1752 he mar- ried (second) Rebecca Evans, and in 1758 he mar- ried (third) Sarah Powell.
(III) Edward Mifflin, eldest son of John, was born in 1685, and removed to Accomac county, Va. He married Mary Eyre, daughter of Daniel and Ann (Neech) Eyre, of Northampton coun- ty, Va., and they had children : John, Daniel, Ann, Samuel and Southey. Edward Mifflin died in 1743, his widow in 1775. Most of their descend- ants reside in Camden, Delaware.
By his second marriage, which also took place in Philadelphia, to Ann Emlen, Mr. Mifflin had three children: Samuel E., born in 1790; Lem- uel, born in 1792; and Mary Ann, born in 1795, who died the same year.
(VI) Warner Mifflin, son of Warner, was born the 6th of 4th month, 1777, and died in 1840. On 8th of 3d month, 1810, he was married to Sarah Ann Newlin, daughter of Thomas Newlin, of Chester county, Pa., and his second marriage, on 18thi of 10th month, 1825, was to Elizabeth Laws,
(IV) Daniel Mifflin, of Accomac county, Va., son of Edward, was born in 1722, and died in of Philadelphia, daughter of Samuel and Eliza- 1795. He was the father of fourteen children, beth (John) Laws. five by his first marriage, to Mary Warner: War- ner, mentioned below ; Edward, born in 1747, who died in infancy ; Anna, born in 1748 ; Sarah, born
(VII) DR. GEORGE W. MIFFLIN, son of Warner, was born Dec. 30, 1834, and when a young man prepared himself for the dental profession at Phil- in 1751; and Daniel, born 7th of 4th month. adelphia. He followed it for some time, at Cat- 1754, who marricd Deborah Howell in 1778 and awissa and at Bear Gap, Pa., and finally settled
died 31st of 12th month, 1812.
By his second . at Paxinos, Northumberland county, where he wife, Ann, he had nine children, namely: Walk- built the well known "Paxinos Hotel." He con- er, Mary, Ann, Elizabeth, Sarah, Eyre, Rebecca, ducted that hostelry successfully for about twen- Patience and Elizabeth (2).
ty-six years, and meantime was the main factor one of the houses in the village. Retiring from the
(V) Warner Mifflin, son of Daniel, born in in the development of the place, building all but 1745, died in 1798. Through the interest and ef- forts of his descendants the fence surrounding. hotel business he removed to Bloomsburg. Column- the now abandoned Murtherkill or Motherkill bia Co., Pa., where he died March 23, 1901. Dur- burying ground was replaced (1904) and a stone ing the Civil war he enlisted in the Union serv- 48
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ice, from Erie, Pa. He was one of the best known master at Mahanoy, and the best known man in residents of his district, a man of many friends, Jackson township and that part of Northumber- and well liked by all who knew him. On May 27, land county ; Cornelius M. Tressler, an intelligent 1869, Dr. Mifflin married Mary E. Leisenring, who citizen of Lower Mahanoy township-these men and their families all represent a type of citizen- ship which has made the name respected wherever known. was born in 1840, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Bucher) Leisenring, and granddaughter of Henry Bucher, of Sunbury, this county. Jacob Leisenring was born July 14, 1794, and died May 11, 1878; his wife Mary ( Bucher) died in 1873, aged seventy-three years, six months. Mrs. Mifflin died June 2, 1909, and was buried at the Blue church. Two children were born to her and her
Four Dressler brothers came to America during the middle half of the eighteenth century, John, Joseph David, Peter and Michael, the first named, who settled in Greenwich township, Berks Co., P'a., where he was a farmer, being the ancestor of husband : Jacob Warner and Elizabeth, the latter the line we are tracing. He emigrated to this coun- dying at the age of thirteen years.
try in 1749. His son Michael was a soldier under
(VIII) Jacob Warner Mifflin attended public Washington in the Revolutionary war. Of the sehool in Shamokin township and later was a stu- other three, Joseph David came to America in dent at the Bloomsburg normal school and the 1738; Peter came in 1739, when twenty-five years Shamokin Business College. From that time on old; and Michael came in 1771. he was engaged in mercantile business until he entered his present line, in 1908, at which time he formed a partnership with E. J. Miller, to en- gage in the manufacture of brick. The firm of .Mifflin & Miller conducts the- brickyard founded by Daniel Swank, one of the first operated in this district, and does a large business, giving em- ployment to about twenty-five men. They are also dealers in coal, sand, lime, cement and lum- ber. Mr. Mifflin has also been engaged in con- tracting and building for some years, doing a large business in that line all over Northumberland county. As a live, enterprising business man, one who possesses the qualities of leadership in the in- dustrial world, he is regarded as second to none in his town and district, and his well directed energy has not only brought prosperity to him but to the community in which he resides.
Andrew Dressler, son of John, was born May 28, 1746, in Germany, near a "dort" called "Yakst," near the "Schwabeland." He was three years old when brought to America by his father in 1749, to Goshenhoppen, Berks Co., Pa. The Federal Census of 1790 records Andrew and Mich'l Dressler ; George Tressler; Philip Tressler (one son above sixteen and three daughters) ; Andrew Dressler, of Greenwich township, with two sons and three daughters: and David Dress- ler, of Greenwich township, with two sons and one daughter. However, the Andrew Dressler (son of John) who was the ancestor of the Northum- berland county Tresslers settled in early life at Loysville, in Perry county, Pa., where he married (first) Mary Loy, who bore him seven or eight children. All of these died but Jolin Jacob Dress- ler, who is mentioned more fully below. For his second wife Andrew Dressler married Catharine Homan, of Germantown, near Philadelphia, and they had an only son, John. Andrew Dressler died Oct. 21, 1828, aged eighty-two years, at Loys-
On June 24, 1897, Mr. Mifflin married Mary Moore, daughter of Capt. Jolin and Emma ( Bar- ton) Moore, the former of whom was captain of Company I, 13th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, during the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Mitllin have ville, Perry county, where he is buried. His sec- had two children: John Warner, born May 4, ond wife died May 12, 1850.
1899; and Elizabeth, born Feb. 28, 1902. MIr. Mifflin is a member of St. Peter's Lutheran Dressler, was born July 22, 1803, and lived and Church, while his wife is an Episcopalian. So- died at Loysville. He donated the land upon which cially he holds membership in the B. P. O. Elks Dressler's Seminary was located (as well as the (Shamokin Lodge), Knights of the Golden Eagle and Royal Arcanum. He. is a Democrat in his political views.
John Dressler, half-brother of John Jacob
seminary building) to the Lutheran denomination for an orphans' home. . In May, 1826, he married Elizabeth Lov, and they reared a family of thirteen children: John Andrew, Sarah Ann, Mary Cath- arine, Victor George, John William, Eliza Jane, Daniel Loy. Josiah Erva, Mary Ellen, Martin Luther, Matilda Emaline, Lovetta Elizabeth and Anna Margaretta. All but one of John's descend- ants who survive are scattered in the West, the exception being his daughter Lovetta Elizabeth, who was born Feb. 14, 1848, at Loysville, Perry Co., Pa., and was married Sept. 16, 1874 (by her brother, D. L. Dressler), to Henry Lewis Lark, of
TRESSLER. The Tresslers of Northumber- land county are a family of German origin which has been settled in Pennsylvania since 1749. The name is properly Dressler, but all save one of Jacob Tressler's children and their descendants have spelled it Tressler since 1854. Squire John Tressler, for fifty years a justice of the peace of Washington township, Northumberland county- the oldest justice as regards length of service in that county; his brother Isaac B. Tressler, post- Berrysburg, Dauphin Co., Pa., who now resides in
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Millersburg, Dauphin county ; Mr. Lark is a prom- retired merchant at Herndon, who married Emma inent attorney at'law of Harrisburg. Pennsylvania. Wert; Henry, who died unmarried when about
for the church property by special act of Legis- Jature. Mr. Dressler was married in Perry county to Susanna Homan, who was born March 15, 1723, and died Jan. 31, 1845 : he died April 5, 1852, and they are buried at the Salem Church, in Upper Mahantango township, Schuylkill county. They were the parents of ten children,. as follows: Sol- omon, a farmer, lived and died in Washington township, Northumberland county : Elizabeth mar- ried William Dewitt and they lived in Lower Au- gusta township, Northumberland county; Cath- arine married George Lalur and lived in Jackson township. this county, where both died; Jacob is mentioned below ; Lydia married a Mr. Smith and they moved to Venango county, Pa. ; Rebecca mar- ried David Zartman and lived in Washington township; . Jonathan settled near Center Hall, in Center county, l'a. ; Hannah married Godfried Thomas and lived in Jackson township; Henry . settled with his brother-in-law. Mr. Smith, in Venango county, Pa .; Peter remained on the homestead in Upper Mahantango township, Schuyl- kill county.
John Jacob Dressler, son of Andrew, was born twenty years old; Jane, unmarried; Katie, who Dec. 25, 1770, and was reared near Loysville, married William Deppen ( who died leaving two sons, Irvin and William ) and (second) Charles H. Raudenbush (she is now deceased ) ; and Alice, who married George Ziegler, of Herndon. (2) Perry county, being trained to farming, which he followed all his lite. Soon after his marriage he moved from Perry county to Northumberland county, locating in Mahanoy township, and con- Sarah, born Aug. 6, 1827, married Adam Daniel, and they lived in Washington township. Their family consisted of two sons and one daughter. Her husband dying, she married David Weary, of Schuylkill county, and died March 6, 1869. Her tinued to live in this county for fifteen or twenty years. But before 1832 he had settled in Schuyl- kill county. While in Northumberland county he was a Lutheran member of St. Peter's Church at Mahanoy, and succeeded in obtaining a clear title son John Daniel had died a few days previously, and her son Samuel Daniel a few days later. Mr. Weary died about the same time-the four deaths taking place in less than two weeks. All died of spotted fever. Malinda Daniel, the only daughter, survives; she was married to Isaac Schreffler, a farmer of Upper Mabanoy township, North- umberland county, now deceased. (3) Har- riet. . born March 29, 1829, married Ben- jamin Stepp, and died May 8, 1852, leav- ing one son, who died in infancy, and one daugh- ter, Sarah, who married Benjamin Lenker. Mr. and Mrs. Lenker are both deceased, as is also Mr. Stepp; he and his wife are buried at Mahanoy. (4) Daniel, born Sept. 9, 1830. settled at Story City, Iowa, and died in 190 -. He married Mag- gie Moser, who is still living in Story City, in the enjoyment of excellent health. Three sons were born to this union, Robert, Daniel and Charles, of whom Daniel is deceased ; Robert and Charles are prosperous farmers, cach having a farnt in Iowa. (5) Hannah, born Jan. 20, 1832, was married Jan. 25, 1855, to Michael Emerick, who was born Nov. 27, 1832, and died Dec. 26, 1899. They lived in Jordan township. Mrs. Emerick now makes her home at Mandata. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Emerick: Sarah Minerva, born Jan. 29, 1856. is married to J. F. Blasser and resides near Millersburg, Pa. ; Theodore, born July 22, 1857, married Rose Latsha and resides at Mahanoy, Pa. ( they have no children ) ; Louisa C., born Aug. 31, 1859, married Jonathan M. Byerly, who lives in Jordan township, and they reared nine children, Beecher N., Josephine, Claud Alvaretta, Hannah E., Elias Michael, Saloma E., Isaac T., Maude H., and Mark Jonathan : G. J. M., born Aug. 10, 1865, married Adeline Witmer: Dr. M. L., horn Nov. 10, 1872, a resident of Hickory Comers. one of the leading physicians in his section of Northumber- land county, married Katie E. Lenker, and they have had three children, their only son. John Paul Luther, dying May 18, 1902, aged two years, four months, two days; Ellen Miranda, born June 15, 1874, married Isaac R. Phillips, and they had one (7) Jacob B., born in Jackson township Sept. 25, 1841, died at Mahanoy Sept. 19, 1881, and is bur- ied in St. Peter's graveyard in Jackson township.
Jacob Dressler, son of John Jacob, was born in Northumberland county in October, 1802, and died in October, 1850. He is interred in a private burial ground on his farin in Jackson township, Northumberland county. He was a stonemason 1 and farmer, and prospered in his work, owning a farm of about 240 acres. Taking an active part in the public affairs of his community, he served as supervisor and in other local offices, and was a Democrat in political opinion. He was a most esteemed member of the Lutheran denomination, he and his family belonging to St. Peter's Church at Mahanoy, which he served officially as deacon, elder and trustee, being one of the zealous workers of the congregation. He married Mary ( Polly) Billman, and they had a family of nine children, six sons and three daughters, namely: (1) Jo- seph, born in Schuylkill county Nov. 17, 1825, lived at the homestead of his father in Jackson township, later moving to Herndon, where he died Feb. 24, 1909. He is buried in St. Peter's cem- child, Hannah H. (6) John is mentioned below. etery at Mahanoy. He married Polly Peiffer, daughter of Michael Peiffer. and they had six chil- dren: William P., who is a farmer; John P., a
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He was a Intheran member of St. Peter's Church, his mother on the place where he still lives, in at Mahanoy. By trade he was a plasterer, and for Washington township, which he purchased at that several years associated with his brother John in time. With the exception of three years during a general store business at Herndon. On Jan. 5, which he was engaged in merchandising at Hern- 1865, he married Susanna Havs, who survived don he has lived there continuously since. The hint with eight children, Mary Sylvia (who died property comprises between three hundred and four Jan. 7, 1882), Osmar Monitor, Eliza Frene, Edna hundred acres, eighty-five of which are cleared land. Estie, Laura H., Isaac Jolin, Kirby Jacob and He has been a prosperous farmer, and since the Thomas Tilden. (8) Elias B. lives at Mahanoy. fall of 1885 has also been engaged in the lumber (9) Isaac B. is mentioned below. With the ex- ception of the oldest son, Joseph, all of this family wrote the name Tressler, changing from "D" to "T" in 1854. business. running a steam sawmill. In 1876, in association with other citizens of his township, he organized the Stone Valley Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which obtained a charter from the State
JOHN TRESSLER, son of Jacob and Mary (Bill- department during Governor Hartranft's adminis- man) Dressler, was born in October, 1835, on a tration, Feb. 15, 1877, and which has enjoyed an farm in Jackson township two miles southeast unbroken career of prosperity. Mr. Tressler has of what is now Herndon, and there received his held the office of secretary ever since the organi- early education in the old subscription schools. He zation. It is, however, in his capacity of justice of was only fourteen when his father died, so his the peace that Mr. Tressler is best known to his youthful advantages were somewhat limited, but fellow citizens and has been of the greatest service nevertheless, by industry and perseverance, he man- to his community. At the spring election of 1860, aged to secure a good education. His first work on when he was but twenty-four years old, he was his own account was on the farm of his brother-in- chosen justice of the peace for Washington town- law, Adam Daniel, who paid-him $35 a year. When ship, and received his commission from Governor sixteen years old he started to learn the trade Packer, April 10th. He has been reelected to suc- of plasterer, with Jared Daniel, for whom he ceed himself at the end of each term since, hav- worked two summers, earning $40 besides learning ing held the office now for fifty consecutive years the business. Part of this time he was employed -a record of long-continued confidence which he at Mount Carmel, and at that time there was not has well merited. He has tried many civil cases, but few of which have been appealed : has tried a a house standing that is there now. Mr. Tressler followed the plasterer's trade for about twenty-five number of criminal cases, the majority of which years altogether, receiving. a dollar a day and his have been settled in his court; and, with all this, board after he had completed his apprenticeship. lias always made it a rule, whenever possible. to But in those days little or no plastering was done settle cases out of court, not only because of the in the winter season, and he took advantage of this financial saving to those interested, but because it to improve himself mentally, during the winter of gives him more satisfaction to be able to adjust 1855-56 attending the academy at Berrysburg, in difficulties of any kind in that way. In hundreds Dauphin county, of which Keneda Carlile was then of cases he has been successful in persuading peo- principal. Remaining there until October, 1856, ple to settle their differences without resorting to he returned to his old home and followed his trade, the law, and he has saved his neighbors many dol- the following January going to Loysville, Perry lars in legal costs in this way alone. Snch is their county, where he also attended school, on the site confidence in him that he is constantly called upon of what is now the orphans' home at that point : to draw up deeds, and he has settled a large nun- the academy and a large tract of land about it were ber of estates, either as administrator, executor or owned by his uncle, John Dressler, who, as above assignee, his services in this connection having proved most reliable in every instance. He has the patronage in matters of this kind of the residents of surrounding townships as well as those in his own neighborhood, his reputation for integrity, for intelligent counsel and as a disinterested adviser making him an authority consulted and respected by a very wide circle. His own modest and un- assuming ways, excellent habits and prudent liv- ing have won him the esteem of the many who know and admire him. recorded, donated same for the orphans' home. At that time transportation facilities were so limited that Joseph Tressler, his older brother, took him to Loysville by team. Having prepared himself for teaching Mr. Tressler followed that profession for a number of years during the winter season, his first year's work being in Lower Mahanoy township, where he had a subscription school. For the next two terms he was at Urban, in Jordan township, later for four terms in Jackson town- ship, and the last two terms in Schuylkill county.
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