Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 63

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

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triet. He was born Feb. 4, 1857, in Upper Ma- Mr. Snyder was a very active worker in the Dem- hantango township, Schuylkill county, received ocratic party in his locality, having served fifteen his education in the common schools, and was consecutive years as township committeeman, and reared to farm life, working for his parents until he was thirty-three years old. He was paid wages from the time he was twenty-one. In the spring

for twelve years was delegate to the county con- ventions. He was one of the confreres of Con- gressman Simon P. Wolverton who nominated of 1890 he began farming for himself on the him for the district on the occasion of his latest place where he now lives, in Upper Mahanoy nomination, which was followed by his election. He was an ardent Democrat until 1896, when he joined the Gold Standard wing of the party. In 1901 Mr. Snyder was elected a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, which then had a membership of 1,800 in the United States. Mr. Snyder has been a correspond- ent for four county papers since 1898, and he was the principal contributor to an elaborate article published in the Philadelphia Record and other metropolitan papers in October, 1898, en- titled "Homage in Cannon Roars." He is one of the stockholders in the Sunbury National Bank, and his judgment in financial matters is highly prized. township, located on the road from Line Mountain to Pitman, and about three-quarters of a mile from the Schuylkill county line. His farm con- tains 218 acres of the best land in the vicinity, and is in excellent condition in every respect, giv- ing evidence of intelligent care and first-class. management. He takes his produce to Shamokin. Mr. Snyder has won success by hard work, and he is deservedly one of the most respected men in his neighborhood. He has been a school director of his township since 1904, has served as over- seer of the poor, and has proved his worth in many capacities. In political connection he is a Democrat. He and his family are members of the United Evangelical Church (the Union Church) in Eldred township, Schuylkill county. On June 9. 1879, Mr. Snyder married Mary Ann Herb, daughter of Henry and Catharine (Fetherolf) Herb and granddaughter of Adam and Magdalena (Schwartz) Herb. Ten children have been born to this union : Clara J., Sadie (married Sylvester Fetter), Henry S. (married Mary Ker- steller), D. Edwin (married Mamie Leitzel), Bessie L. (married Henry Wehry), Victor C., Lloyd E., Allen H., Gehret H. and Ora E.

On March 21, 1875, Mr. Snyder was married to Esther R. Zartman, daughter of Daniel and Hettie (Raker) Zartman, and they have had a family of six children : Daniel J., who is at pres- ent principal of the Mifflinville high school in Columbia county, Pa .; Harlan R. C., also a public school teacher, now supervising principal of the West Berwick schools in Columbia county; and four who died young-Halmer. B., Wilson, Susanna and Esther. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder and their family are Lutheran members of the Zion's (Stone Val- ley) Church; Mr. Snyder served two years as deacon and was secretary of the Sunday school for a number of years.

(VII) HENRY M. SNYDER, postmaster at Hick- ory Corners, Northumberland county, was born Sept. 27, 1851, in Upper Mahanoy township, on the old homestead. He received but ineager edu- cational advantages, his whole attendance at school covering only seven months, but by appli- cation and intelligent use of his time he has won the reputation of being the best read citizen of his section, and he is well up on current events, having an active mind and a taste for reading which has made many of his leisure hours enjoy- able. With the exception of the ministers he has the largest and most comprehensive library in his district, and his fondness for history is apparent in his selections. Mr. Snyder has led an active and progressive life. Reared on the farm, he passed his early years in agricultural work. and when eighteen began to learn shoemaking and har- nessmaking, following same for thirty years. From 1871 to 1875 he was with his brother Gehret, in 1875 settling in Hickory Corners, where he has made his home ever since. In addition to his business he has found many duties in the public affairs of the place, where since 1893 he has Mr. Snyder married Susanna Schreffler. born April 9, 1826, died June 28, 1902 (daughter of Godfried Schreffler),and both are buried at St. held the office of postmaster, having been first appointed that year and reappointed every font years up to the present. During his earlier years John's Church, in Upper Mahanoy township.

(VI) John S. Snyder, son of Abraham, was born in Upper Mahanoy township Dec. 16, 1824, and died Nov 3, 1901, on his farm in that town- ship. Mr. Snyder was a well known man in his day. He followed shoemaking for fifteen years or more, and also operated a farm, owning a place of 120 acres, now the property of his son Elias Snyder. He was active in the public affairs of the community, serving many years in various offices, as constable, school director, supervisor and auditor, and was also prominent in church work, being a chorister of Himmel's Church for many years ; then St. John's churchi was built, and he became chorister there, serving until a few years before his death. He was a useful and popular man in the locality, a stanchi member of the Demo- cratie party, and identified with the progress of his day in many ways.

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Fourteen children were born to their union : Sarah Church, in Upper Mahanoy township. They were married Andrew Dunkelberger, and they made Lutheran members of that church. They had the their home in Michigan, where she still lives ( Mr. following family : Harriet, who married ( first) Ed. Dunkelberger is deceased) ; Edward is a resident Erdman and (seeond) David Hepler: Martin, a of Sunbury, Pa .; Mary is the widow of Jerry fariner of Washington township, Northumberland Beissel, of South Bend, Ind .; Rudolph is inen- tioned below ; Luzetta is the widow of Joel Haning and lives at Pitman, Pa. ; Elias lives on the old homestead ; Emma ; Sevilla married Daniel Herb, of Allentown, Pa. : Milton, born April 13, 1861, county : Wesley, a farmer of the same township; Malinda, deceased, who married Dr. H. II. Malick; Ellen, who married William Houghton : Daniel, of Mount Carmel, Pa .; John has been lost track of by his family: Vesta married Robert Maurer, of Mahantango, Pa. ; four died young. who died of diphtheria June 23, 1863; Samuel I., born Jan. 15, 1869, who died Aug. ? , 1873; Savira (or Sovira), born Oct. 21, 1856, who died of diphtheria May 30, 1863; Charles E., of Allen- town, Pa .; A. Morris; and Daisy, who married Howard Geist, of Girardville, Pennsylvania.

(VII) RUDOLPH SNYDER, son of Jolm S., was born Feb. 3, 1852, in Upper Mahanoy township, and received a common school education. He was reared to farining, working for his parents until he attained his majority, after which he engaged in huckstering for seven years, inaking weekly trips to Shenandoah and Mahanoy City. During this tinie he continued to live at home. Then, in the spring of 1881, he came to the place where he has ever since lived, following general farm- ing, in which he has been very successful. He has an eighty-five-aere farnı, formerly a Ressler homestead, and the property has been improved considerably during his ownership. In 1903 he built the present barn, and in 1909 he made an addition to the house.

In 1881 Mr. Snyder married Sarah Alice Geist, daughter of Daniel and Ceeilia (Updegraff) Geist, and nine children have been born to them, namely : Irwin (married Carrie Heim), Casper (married Minnie Bentzinger ). Sadie (married Charles Mat- date farm stoek, and markets his produce at Ash- tern), Walter, Gurney, Alverta, Carrie, Willard land and Girardville, sometimes making as many and Millard. Mr. Snyder and his family are Re- as four trips a week. formed members of Himmel's Church. He is a Democrat in political opinion, and he has served six years as school director of Upper Mahanoy ( Dunkelberger) Hetrick and granddaughter of township. 1

(VI). Daniel S. Snyder, son of Abraham, was born Jan. 6, 1827, in Upper Mahanoy township, and died March 18, 1903. He was a lifelong far- mer, owning and living upon the place until re- eently occupied by his son, A. Morris Snyder, ing as township auditor and supervisor.

which comprises over two hundred aeres in all : there are 148 acres of cleared land, besides the woodland. Mr. Snyder prospered, and he built the present barn in 1857; he also built part of the dwelling. ' Mr. Snyder was quite active' in his locality, was a Republican in politics, and served some years as supervisor and also as sehool director of his township: he held the former office at the time the Mountain road, aeross Line Moun- tain to Shamokin, was built.

(VII). A. MORRIS SNYDER, son of Daniel S., is a prosperous farmer. He was born on the home- stead in Upper Mahanoy township March 19, 1873, and received his education in the local schools and in the academy at Berrysburg, Dauphin coun- ty. Farming has been his life work, and in the spring of 1890 he began farmning on his own ae- eount at the homestead, where he continued to live until he sold the place, in 1910. He and his brother Charles purchased the farm from their brother Daniel in 1890, and owned it in partner- ship for nine years, at the end of which period A. Morris Snyder purchased his brother's inter- est. In 1910 he bought the niee level place in Rockefeller township where he moved Nov. 24th of that year, and where he now lives. He is a successful agriculturist, owns a full line of up-to-

On July 8, 1899, Mr. Snyder married Bella Jane Hetriek, daughter of Samuel and Hosanna John Hetrick and of Joseph Dunkelberger. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Snyder: Willard D. (who died in infancy), Henry Alvin and Esther Pauline. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder are Lutheran members of St. John's Church. He is a Republican in politics, and at present is serv-

SNYDER (SCHNEIDER). Gabriel Schnei- der, a native of Berks county, Pa., located in the Lvkens Valley, in Dauphin county, at what is now known as Uniontown, formerly Snydertown. He - was known as "Gab." Schneider. A miller by occupation, he built a stone gristmill on the Ma- hantango ereek which is still (1910) standing, and which after his day was owned by a Bover. Ac- cording to tradition this pioneer Schneider was buried at Uniontown. He had, among other chil- dren, a son David.

Mr. Snyder married Sarah A. Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith, and she survived him, dying May 9, 1905, aged seventy-three years, seven David Schneider, son of Gabriel, succeeded his months, nineteen davs. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder and father in the milling business, conducting the mill some of their children are buried at St. John's for some years, until he sold it to Boyer: the lat-

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Peter Snyder, son of David, learned milling at the Uniontown mill, operated the Haas mill near Sunbury, in Rockefeller township, two years, and then came to Washington township, where he ope- rated what is now known as the Latsha mill for two years. . He died in April, 1849, when less than thirty years old. and is buried at Himmel's Church. Peter Snyder married Elizabeth Hepner, daughter of Henry Hepner ( married a Schaeffer), and two children were born to them, Sarah and Israel. The daughter is the wife of Isaac Brown, now a retired miller, and they live at Winfield, Union Co., Pa. : they had children : Elsworth, Ir- win, Charles and Emma.

ISRAEL SNYDER, son of Peter, was born Nov. 22, 1847, in Rockefeller township, Northumber- land county, and in 1867 commenced to learn the carpenter's trade, which he has ever since followed. After five years at the trade he began to work as boss carpenter, and he has been engaged all over the lower end of Northumberland county as well as in Allentown and other cities in the eastern part of the State. He worked sixteen years for Acker, Slavman & Co., of Shamokin, and has long been in business on his own account, employing from two to nineteen men, as the needs of his work demand: He built the large store and resi- dence of A. G. Sleich at Gowen City, Northum- berland county; two of the largest public school- houses in Shamokin ; the three-story 119-foot knob factory at Shamokin ; the Lutheran and Reformed church at Gowen City ; the U. B. church at Union- town; and many houses and barns in different sections of the county. His high-grade work and success have brought him a large patronage, which he holds by the same methods through which it was won.

In 1870 Mr. Snyder married Elizabeth Maurer, daughter of David Maurer, of Upper Mahantango township, Schuylkill county, and children as fol- lows have been born to this union: a son that died in infancy : Alvin, who died aged two years, two months. eighteen. days: Mary E., who mar- ried Edgar Romberger, of Schuylkill county, and has had Mazic, Willie. Annie, Howard (deceased) and Katie; and Annie E., who married Elmer Smith, of Shamokin, and has three children, George Israel, Emma E. and Allen.

Mr. Snyder and his family are Lutheran mem- bers of St. John's Church. He is an independent voter. and has served his township three years as auditor.

FRED C. LINDERMAN, one of the proprie-

ter was succeeded by his son, Levi Boyer. After selling the mill David Schneider moved to Wash- tors of the well known Antlers Cafe, in Shamokin, ington township, Northumberland county, where Pa., is of German origin, his ancestors first set- he operated what is now known as the Latsha tling in Bucks county, Pa., upon coming to Amer- mill. Continuing thus for some years, he moved ica. to Tower City, Schuylkill county, where he died at an advanced age. His children were Henry (who lived at Sacramento, Schuylkill county) and Peter.

John Linderman, the great-grandfather of Fred C., was born in Bucks county, Pa., and removed to Berks county, near Douglassville, where he pur- chased a farm. In addition to farming he was a charcoal burner and also did weaving. He died upon his farmi in Berks county. His children were: Conrad; William; Jacob; John; Martha, and Frederick.

Frederick Linderman, grandfather of Fred C., was born in Berks county, near Douglassville, and also followed charcoal burning. He also learned the trade of ship carpenter, which he followed for some time. In 1861 he removed to Schuylkill county, Pa., and in 1868 came to Shamokin, where he was employed in and around the nines. His death occurred in ~Shamokin. Mr. Linderman married Anna Rhoads, also of Berks county, and they had issue: Mary, who married Eli Mengel; Valina, who married Daniel Christ; William R .; John, of Shamokin : Martha A., who died young ; George, deceased : Margaret, who died young; and Isaac, of Shamokin, Pennsylvania.

William R. Linderman, father of Fred C., was born at Pine Grove, Schuylkill Co., Pa., Sept. 16, 1845. At the early age of twelve he began to work as a boatman on the canal and he followed this work until he enlisted in the Civil war, in the spring of 1862. in Company F, 52d Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He saw active service in the Army of the Potomac, was twice wounded, was taken prisoner at Charleston, S. C., and was taken to Andersonville prison, where he was held for seven months : he was exchanged in February, 1864, at which time he returned home on a fur- lough. Later he joined his company and regi- ment and remained in service until the close of the war, returning home in July, 1865, to Schuyl- kill Haven. Pa. He followed boating till the fall of 1868. at which time he came to Shamokin, and was employed for three years in the mines. He then spent twenty years with the Pennsyl- vania Railway Company, in different positions. He is now employed at the Hickory Swamp col- liery, at outside work. Mr. Linderman was com- mander of Lincoln Post, G. A. R., in 1895. He married Phoebe Reed, daughter of Moses and Maria ( Kantner) Reed, and they had children as follows: Minnie R., who married John Schmick; Martha A., who is at home: Fred C .; Clarence H. and Herbert W., twins; Frank: Leona, who married Ray Vought, of Shamokin : and Harry B.

Fred C. Linderman, son of William R., was born in Shamokin May 22, 1873. He attended the local schools of Shamokin and when quite young began work as a slate picker at the Green Ridge colliery. This he followed until he was

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fifteen years of age, at which time he became em- was born July 14, 1769, and died Oct. 7, 1852, ployed at other work around the collieries, con- when over eighty-three years of age. He lived tinuing in various positions until he reached the on Greenbrier creek, in Washington township, and was an extensive farmer, following agricultural pursuits all his life. He had a tract of 162 acres which is still in the family name, being now owned by his grandson, John Rebuck. He built the barn still standing on that property, and also a small dwellinghonse. He was a Reformed member of the Himmel Church. His wife, Catharine (Reis), born Ang. 21, 1775, died Nov. 7, 1858. Their children were: Bevvy, who married Peter Ferster ; and Godfried, called "Big Godfried." age of twenty-two .- He then became a lincman for the Pennsylvania Valley Telephone Company (now the Pennsylvania Telephone Company), by whom he was employed for about four years. He next worked for the Bell Telephone Company for one year, when he became a clerk for Lafayette Trometter. in the hotel business, remaining with . him six and a half years. In 1906, in company with Joseph P. Schmidt, he bought out Mr. Trometter's business, which is located at the cor- ner of Washington and Independence streets, in the Elks building, and the place is now known as the Antlers Cafe. It is up-to-date in all things, being among the leading places of its kind in the community.

On March 20, 1901, Mr. Linderman married Maggie R. Thompson, of Danville, Pa., daugh- ter of John Thompson, and they have one son, John H. Socially he is a member of the local lodge of Elks (No. 355), the Order of Eagles and the Sons of Veterans.

JOHN H. RABUCK, stonemason and farmer of Upper Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, was born Sept. 27, 1862, in Washington township, this county, son of Harrison W. and Eliza (Paul) Rabuck. The family name, usually spelled Rebuck, has been perpetuated in this re- gion in the post office Rebuck, named after a member of this well known family, which is es- pecially numerous in Washington township and the surrounding territory.

According to tradition the first inember of the family in this country was from the German Pal- atinate and came to America to avoid service in the war then being waged in his native land. The older members of the family say that his name was Schaffer, but that he assumed the name Re- buck to prevent his being traced and taken back to the Fatherland, where punishment for such an offense as his was severe. This pioneer ancestor was known in the New World by the name John Adam Rebnek .. He first located in Berks county, Pa., whence he came to Northumberland county, settling in Jaekson township, in that part now embraced in Washington township. There is the old-established business stand, now for many years conducted and owned by the Kehres family, where the post office and hamlet of Rebuck are located. The hamlet contains about a dozen dwellings. "The pioneer was a farmer. Among his children were Valentine. John Adam, Jr .. and Michael. Of these, Valentine Rebuck in 1778 was among the taxables of Mahanoy township, which then includ- ed considerable territory in the lower end of the county.

Michael Rebuck, son of John Adam, the pioneer,

Godfried Rebuck, son of Michael, was born July 28, 1798, and died May 29, 1875. He was a tall, heavy man, with dark hair, was a farmer by occu- pation, and owned much land, living on the Green- brier homestead of the Rebuck family. He and his family worshipped with the Reformned congre- gation at the Himmel Church, and they are buried there. His wife, Catharine (Wagner), born March 26, 1801, died June 30, 1860. They had children as follows : Salome married John Schref- fler; Daniel W. married Lydia Delp; Catharine married Harry Rebuck; Hannah married John Wentzel; Polly married Peter Snyder and (see- ond) Henry Herb; Lydia married Philip Reitz : Harrison W. is mentioned below; Jacob, born in 1837, died unmarried; John, born in 1839, died unmarried, in 1861 ; Sarah married John Kieffer and (second) Jacob Reber. There were three Godfried Rebucks, known as "Big Godfried," "Little Godfried" and "Red Godfried." The lat- ter, Godfried B. Rebuck, kept the store and post office at Rebuck.

Harrison W. Rebuck, son of Godfried, was born July 12, 1834, and was a farmer during his active years. He moved from Washington township to Eldred township, Schuylkill county, thence to Jor- dan township, this county, and then to Mifflin township, Dauphin Co., Pa., in 1881 returning thence to Northumberland county and locating in Jordan township again. From there he returned to Dauphin county, settling near Gratztown, in Lykens township. He now lives at Herndon, Pa., with his son J. Wilson Rebuck. During the Civil war he was in the Union service as a member of Company K, 172dl Regiment, for nine months. He married Elizabeth Paul, who died in September, 1904, in her seventy-second year, and they had children : John H., James, Elmira L., Augustus, J. Wilson and Reilly.

John H. Rabuck attended the common schools of Jordan township and later those of Mifflin town- ship, Dauphin county. But he was obliged to begin work early, leaving school during the panic of 1873 and beginning to learn the trade of stone- mason. As the hard times did not seem to lessen in severity he left Dauphin county, where his par- ents were then living, for a time.

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In 1888 he first came to the farm where he caring an education in the subscription schools now lives, in Upper Mahanoy township, a traet of sixty-six acres which formerly belonged to An- drew Snyder, who built the present house there. In the earlier days it was owned by Heinrich Schadel, whose son William succeeded him, and during William Schadel's ownership of the place all the buildings on the premises were destroyed by fire. Mr. Rabuek and his father built the condueted in the vicinity of his carly home. He was reared to farm life, and began farining for himself in the spring of 1877 at the place where he has since continued to reside, a farm of 114 aeres in Upper Mahanoy township, originally an Orendorf homestead, later owned by John Eisen- hart, Heinrich Fetter and Samuel Rebuck, suc- cessively, before it passed into the present owner- barn. John H. Rabuck has owned this farm since ship. A fine frame dwelling Mr. Rebuck ereeted 1904. He is a thrifty and successful farmer, and in 1906 replaced an old log house which had stood for over one hundred years. he has become one of the substantial and respected citizens of his neighborhood, where he is very In 1879 Mr. Rebuck married Sarah Snyder, daughter of Levi Snyder, now the oldest resident. of Upper Mahanoy township, and they have had children as follows: Meda C. (Mrs. John Baum), Mary A., Samuel Henry, Rosa C., Katie C., Charles Elias and Lulu E. Mr. Rebuck is a mem- ber of the Salem (Herb) Church, of which he was an elder for six years; his wife belongs to the Lutheran congregation of that chureh. Po- litically Mr. Rebuck is a Democrat. popular, being a man of intelligence and well read, with an interesting personality which draws many friends to him. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., belonging to Lodge No. 637, of Klingerstown, and in religion is a Lutheran, holding membership in the Hebe Church. Politically he is identified with the Republican party. Mr. Rabuck's travels and varied experiences have given him a broad out- look on affairs affecting the general welfare, in which he is much interested. He retains many traits developed during his roving life, and he is one of the best elimbers anywhere in his seetion.

Elias F. Rebuck, a farmer in Upper Mahanoy township, was born there Feb. 23, 1842, son of Samuel Rebuck and grandson of John Rebuck. The latter was a farmer in the same township, owning what is now the property of David Paul. He is buried at the Himmel Church. By his first wife, Catharine Brosius, he had seven children : Samuel, David, Catharine, Godlieb, Gabriel, Polly and John. His second marriage was to Cathar- ine Thomas, by whom he had three children, Elias, Daniel and Anna. By his third wife, Eliz- abeth (Druckenmiller), there were no children. His three wives are buried at the Himmel Church.

Samuel Rebuek, son of John, was born June 17, 1810, and died March 30, 1882, where his son Elias now lives. He is buried at the Salem Church, of which he was a Reformed member, and served as deacon and elder of his eongrega- tion. He followed farming during his active years where David S. Paul now lives, in Upper Mahanoy township, and in his earlier life also engaged in shoemaking. He owned a tract of land at Seven, Points. He was a publie-spirited man, . and served his township as school director and supervisor. His wife, whose maiden name was Brosius, was born March 5, 1809, and died Feb. 23, 1894. To them were born children as follows: Rosina married William Heim: Lydia married Elias Oehs ; Mary died unmarried : John married Elizabeth Ossman; Samuel married Lovina Keh- res ; Elias F. is mentioned below : Polly married Daniel Schlegel: Kate married Nathan Steely ; Amelia married William Kutz.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 63

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