Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 73

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

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Christian Unger emigrated to America in the

19, 1752. In 1756 he was a taxable resident of Greenwich township, Berks county. His children were: Michael, a taxable in Greenwich township

FREDERICK W. WOLF, proprietor of Wolf's in 1759; John, who went to Shamokin, Pa. ; Her- man, who married Elizabeth Keim, and rearcd a family; one son (name unknown) who settled in Maryland ; Susanna, who married John Schappel ; Elizabeth, who married George Heffley; and a daughter who married Christian Reeser.

John Unger, son of Christian, was born in Berks county, and first followed farming near Hamburg. He came to Northumberland county in 1812, by wagon, and settled in Shamokin town- ship, three miles west of Paxinos. Here he took up about 300 acres of land in the woods, and built a house and hotel. The stage stopped at his hotel to feed the horses and spend the night, and the hostelry became known throughout the coun- try. Mr. Unger died in 1847, and was buried at the Blue Church, in Ralpho township. He was twice married, and his children were: Solomon; Jacob: George; John: Annie, who married An- drew Knerr; Elizabeth, who married Jolin Fegley; Catharine, who married Joseph Hill; and Sallie, who married Charles Foy.

Jacob Unger, son of John, was born in 1802 in Berks county, and came to this county with He followed farming in Shamokin religious connection was with the German Luth- township, and there owned a farin. He died in eran Church. His children were: Frederick W .; 1881, and is buried at the Blue church. He mar- Lulu, born in Milton June 10, 1870, who married ried Catharine Rose, who died in 18:7. Their

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children were: John : Maria, who married William est in 1908. He is a director of the Market Street Mattres; Margaret, who married Bastian Artley; National Bank. Fraternally he belongs to the Elks Harriet and Elizabeth, who both died unmarried; and the P. O. S. of A., and is a direetor in the Catharine, who married Solomon Rockefeller ; and latter. Daniel.

Daniel Unger, son of Jacob, was born in Sha- mokin township Dec. 25, 1838, and followed farm work until he was eighteen. He then went to Sunbury and learned the tinner's trade, which he followed for several years, and at different times while engaged in farming. He sold out in 1897 to his sons, and retired from active life. He is the only one of his generation living. Mr. Unger served in the Union army. during the Civil war. He married Huldah Raker, daughter of George and Mary ( Oxheimer) Raker, and their children were: (1) William H., born June 24, 1864, was edueated in the common schools, Elysburg Acad-

emy, and Central Pennsylvania College, at New Fegley, lived in the Mahanoy Valley in this eoun-

Berlin, Union county, graduating from the lat- ter in 1887. He read law with W. H. M. Oram, of Shamokin, was admitted to the bar in Septem- ber, 1890, and has since been engaged in the prac- tiee of his profession. In politics he is a Repub- lican, and from 1885 to 1889 was a member of

- the eounty committee. He was formerly vice- president and is now president of the Market Street National Bank, Shamokin. In 1890, he was elected to the borough council. On April 16, 1890, he mar- ried Ella Malick, daughter of Emanuel and Han- nah Malick, of Shamokin. (2). George C., born Oet. 13, 1865, was educated in the common schools. In 1883 he entered the employ of A. Raker, and learned the tinner's trade, and now is in the hard- ware business at Lebanon, Pa. He is a member of the P. O. S. of A. and the S. of V. In 1887 he married Clara E. Smink, and they have nine children, of whom are mentioned Edith L., Clar- ence and one deeeased. In polities Mr. Unger is a Republican. (3) Warren is mentioned below. (4) Della married Leonard H. Adams, and lives at Shamokin. (5) Henry H. is a druggist at Shamokin. (6) U. Grant is an attorney.

Warren Unger attended the publie. schools and Central Pennsylvania College in 1888. He learned the tinner's trade, and became a member of the firm of W. H. Unger & Co. In 1898 he purchased his brother's interests. and has since branched out, doubling the stoek and increasing the facilities, adding a sanitary plumbing and steanı fitting de- partment, and doing electrical work. In 1905 he built a large warehouse at Arch and Fifth streets for his reserve stock, and for storing stoves and household goods. It is one of the best equipped . stores of the kind in the county. He employs six- teen to eigliteen men. .

Mr. Unger is interested in other enterprises, and is agent for the Reo automobiles. He was a director of the Shamokin and Coal township Light, Heat & Power Company, but sold his inter-

Mr. Unger married Eliza Walters, daughter of Samuel Walters, of Shamokin, and they have four children : Blanch, Foster, Ruth and Edna. The family attend the United Evangelical Church.

DAVID A. FEGLEY, of Sunbury, who eon- ducts a plumbing and heating business, is a young man of substantial qualities who has made a posi- tion for himself in the commercial eireles of the borough by application and energy, and he deserves the good standing he enjoys. He was born May 23, 1873, in Rockefeller township, Northumber- land county, and has lived in Sunbury since 1891.

Jonathan Fegley, great-grandfather of David A. ty. His children were: Jacob, John, Samuel, Moses, Polly and Sarah.

Jacob Fegley, son of Jonathan, was born in Stone Valley, Northumberland county, and was one of the well-to-do and well known inen of his district. He followed milling, and owned three farms in Rockefeller township, dying upon one of his farms. He is buried at Lantz's Church. In religion he was a member of the Reformed Church, in politics a Democrat. To him and his wife Catharine (Schlegel), daughter of Daniel Schle- gel, were born the following children: Louisa, William, Peter, David (living in Sunbury), Mary, Sevilla and Simon.

William Fegley, son of Jacob, was born Oct. 1, 1843, in the Mahanoy Valley, and followed farming in Rockefeller township, where he passed the greater part of his life. In 1896 he came to Sunbury, where he lived in retirement until his death, June 14, 1902. He is buried at Lantz's Chureh. Like his father he belonged to the Re- formed denomination, and he took an active part in church affairs. Politieally he was a Demoerat. On Dee. 25, 1866, he married Catharine Keefer, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Weiser) Keef- er, and she survives him, making her home in Sunbury. Six children were born to this union : Laura, who is the wife of Eben Martz; George. of Perry, Iowa : David A. ; Elizabeth, wife of William Fetter : Peter, of Lower Augusta township; and Turabell, wife of Charles Fahrensworth.

David A. Fegley obtained his education in the public schools of his native township, and was eni- ployed there, upon his father's farm, until he came to Sunbury in 1891. Entering the employ of I. . J. Reitz, he remained with him for thirteen years, learning the plumbing business thoroughly, and since leaving Mr. Reitz's employ has been in business on his own account. Ile is located at No. 25 South Seventh street, Sunbury. Mr. Feg- ley has one rule from which he never departs, to

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do his best to please his customers, and the large SIEGFRIED WASHINGTON ZIMMERMAN, trade he has built up has been founded principal- of Little Mahanoy township, Northumberland ly upon that basis. He is thorough in his work, county, comes of a family which for many years and honorable in his financial transactions, and has been identified with Berks and Schuylkill is highly respected among his business associates. counties.

On Nov. 8, 1891, Mr. Fegley married Annie A.

Sebastian Zimmerman, his grandfather, was Ellenberger, daughter of John H. and Mary Jane born in Berks county, whence when a boy he (Geib) Ellenberger. They have no children. Mr. moved with his father, who, it would appear, had Fegley is an Odd Fellow, belonging to Lodge No. a farm.at the upper end of the Deep creek, where 620, of Sunbury, and in politics is a Democrat. He is a member of the Lutheran Church.

Sebastian was rearcd. He was a weaver by trade, and owned a loom, but he was likewise a pros- perous farmer, owning several farms in Upper Ma- hantango township, Schuylkill county. The one

FRANK X. KLAUS, of Locust Gap, in Mount Carmel township, is proprietor of the "American. there on which he lived was formerly owned by House" at that place and in that and other associations well known in his section of North- umberland county, being one of the local leaders of the Democratic party. His hotel stand is the leading place of the kind at Locust Gap. Benjamin Peifer and is now owned by a Hepler ; another was owned by Jacob and Abraham Blas- ser, of Herndon, until 1907. Removing to Cam- eron township, Northumberland county, lie lived there some years, moving to the Mahantango val- Mr. Klaus was born at St. Clair, Schuylkill Co., ley, where he farmed until his death. He was Pa., June 4, 1867, son of Frank Klaus. The a foremost member of the Lutheran congregation

father was born in Germany, and came to America when a. young man, settling in Schuylkill county, where he lived at Minersville and St. Clair. In 1873 he came to Locust Gap, Northumberland county, where he followed his trade, that of black- smith, and where he died in 1889; he is buried at Locust Gap. His wife, whose maiden name was Matilda Hipp, is still living at Locust Gap, now (1910) aged seventy-six years. They were the parents of a large family, namely: Catherine (deceased), Stephen (deceased), Edward (de- ceased), Frank X., Joseph (deceased), Michael, Martha, Theresa, Rossie, Matilda and Mary.

Frank X. Klaus worked at the mines for a num- ber of years before entering his present line of business. He began as a slate picker when but eight years old, afterward worked as door tender and was employed in different capacities inside, in time becoming boss loader inside. After two years at that he left the mines to engage in the hotel business, in 1896, and since 1900 he has been at his present location. The "American House" is on the Helfenstein road, across the bridge, and is well patronized, Mr. Klaus having the custom of a substantial element in his com- munity.

As a leading worker in the local ranks of the Democratic party Mr. Klaus is well known in the township and county, having served as county committeeman and as delegate to the State conven- tion. IIe has served two terms (six years) as school director of Mount Carmel township, and during that time was president of the board one year and treasurer two years. Socially he belongs to the Eagles (at Mount Carmel) and the For- esters. He is a member of the Catholic Churchi and also of the Holy Name Society.

By his first marriage Mr. Klaus has a son, Francis Joseph. His second marriage was to Mar- garet T. Melody.

of Salem Church, known as Herb Church, located near Rough and Ready, serving as elder and trus- tee, and he and his wife are buried at that church. During the war of 1812 he was a soldier, and he was one of the pensioners of that war. Sebastian Zimmerman married Elizabeth Klock, daughter of Peter Klock, and they had children as follows: Joseph, a farmer, who settled at Red Bank, Jef- ferson Co., Pa., was twice married and had chil- dren ; Elizabeth married a Bliss; Catharine mar- ried George C. Peifer ; Salome married Mr. Kline, and they moved to Jefferson county; Lydia mar- ried a Snyder; Sebastian, born in 1829, lives at Sunbury, this county; George is mentioned be- low; Esther married Joel Daniel.

George Zimmerman, son of Sebastian, was born in Schuylkill county, and learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed until he entered the army. During the Civil war he was drafted for nine months' service, and at the expiration of this term enlisted for three years, from the Mahantango Val- ley. He was shot while on picket duty and re- moved to the hospital on Long Island, where he died six weeks after being wounded; he is buried on Long Island.

Mr. Zimmerman married Elizabeth Harter, daughter of Matthias Harter, whose wife's name was Eister. Mrs. Zimmerman is buried at Lit- tle Mahanov. Five children were born to them : S. Washington ; Fietta, who died young: Joel, of Eldred township, Schuylkill county ; Jonathan, of Cass county, Mo .; and Monroc, of Snyder county, Pennsylvania.

Siegfried Washington Zimmerman, son of George, was born Sept. 18, 1855, in the Mahan- tango valley, Schnylkill county. He received his education in the common schools and when cigh- teen years old took up the carpenter's trade, which he has followed ever since. In 1872 he had come to Little Malianoy township, Northumberland

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county, living at Dornsife, in that township, until at Williamsport, Pa. They had the following his marriage. He became boss carpenter, and for children : George, William, Dora, Polly, Amelia, some years was busy erecting houses and barns Charles F., and three who died in infancy. in Shamokin, Sunbury and the surrounding dis- tricts. Since April, 1909, he has been engaged as carpenter for the Trevorton Coal Land Com- pany. He has prospered at his trade, and owns real estate at Sunbury, where he built a house in 1908 at the corner of State and Broad streets.

Charles F. Reick received his education in the public schools of Trevorton. He was only a boy when he commenced work in the mines, being employed at the North Franklin and Red Ash col- lieries. He followed this work until he was twen- ty years old, when he went to Ashland with Wil- His large frame residence near Hunter Station liam Lauderfield, with whom he learned the car- (on the Reading railroad), in Little Mahanoy penter's trade. Going to Williamsport, he was township, he erected in the fall of 1889, and has engaged by the Williamsport Furniture Company occupied it ever since. Mr. Zimmerman has served for one year, after which he commenced carpen- the township as assessor for twelve years, and as school director for three years. He is a Demo- crat in political affiliation.

On June 7, 1878, Mr. Zimmerman married Alice Peifer, daughter of Elias Peifer, and they have had two children, George Elmer and Harvey Clayton. George Elmer Zimmerman is a lumber merchant at Shamokin; he married Carrie Dun- kelberger and has one child, C. Myrtle. Harvey Clayton Zimmerman, a student at the institution at New Berlin, Pa., taught music before taking up his classical course. Mr. Zimmerman and his family are Lutheran members of Emanuel Evan- gelical Lutheran Church at Little Mahanoy, of which he was deacon eight years and elder two years. They have also been active in the work of the Sunday school, in which he has been a teacher from boyhood, was at one time treasurer, secretary for some years and superintendent for a number of years. Thus it will be seen that his usefulness has carried him into several fields of general interest, in all of which he has done his share as a good member of society.

CHARLES F. REICK, of the Monarch Steam Laundry, Shamokin, has established a standard for excellence in his line which would make him a .successful competitor for the patronage of any community. The support his enterprise has rc- ceived shows how well his up-to-date methods and high-class work are appreciated. Mr. Reick's ex- perience in the matter of laundry equipment prior to his entering the business on his own account gave him a distinct advantage at the start, but his continued success should be credited to his own efforts.

Mr. Reick was born at Trevorton, Northumber- land county, Sept. 2, 1858, son of George Reick, a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, who came to America in 1840. In his native land George Reick was engaged as foreman in a silk mill. On coming to America he landed at New York, but came on to Schuylkill county, Pa., where he began mining, an occupation which he continued to fol- low until his death. In 1849 he moved to Trev- orton, making a permanent home there. He died Jan. 5, 1869. His wife, Catherine (Fisher), died

tering and building on his own account at that place, continuing it for some time. He next en- tered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railway Company as a bridge builder. Returning to Wil- liamsport, he became foreman for A. A. Artley, a well known contractor, with whom he was as- sociated for five years, since when he has been identified with the laundry business. Entering the service of the Lloyd Laundry and Shirt Man- ufacturing Company, at Williamsport, he contin- ued with that concern for the long period of twen- ty-two years, during which time his work took him into twenty-seven States, principally in the South. For six years he was at Charleston, S. C. Mr. Reick's specialty was the equipment and establishment of laundries, in which he was very successful, his judgment in the requirements of such plants being found most reliable by all who trusted to it. He has, in all, fitted up twenty-eight laundries, the success of which has demonstrated the practical value of his ideas in this field of industry. In 1902 he located on his father-in- law's farm at Catawissa, Pa., but after three years he returned to his old line, in 1905 settling in Shamokin, where he has since run the Monarch Steam Laundry, having leased it from F. A. Schrcadley in April, 1905. Under his management the equipment of this plant is naturally the most convenient known to the trade. With his wide knowledge of laundry machinery he was able to select the most reliable and economical devices in- vented for turning out the finest grade of work, with the result that Shamokin has exceptional laundry facilities, such as arc enjoyed by few places of its size, and which can be excelled nowhere. The Monarch Steam Laundry is the best equipped plant of its size in the State. Mr. Reick having built and fitted every part of it himself, from the dry room to the laying of the steam pipes, the setting of the boiler and the installing of the machinery, no expense having been spared in any department. He had had the task of establishing it, two years before lie became the lessee, so that he knew exactly what he was doing when it came into liis lands. The equipment includes two 250- shirt washers, an extractor, Bishop starcher, thirty- gallon starch kettle, body ironer, neckband and

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wristband ironer, collar shaper, economic collar cigarmaker. He was quite young when he went and cuff starcher, forty-inch five-roll Hagan man- to Sunbury, in 1824, living there in a house which gle and cuff machine, Hagan bosom ironer and a stood near the present site of the residence of 100-inch five-roll Hagan mangle with a capacity of ten thousand pieces a day. A Hercules dry room, built after Mr. Reick's own plans, will dry 1,500 collars or 100 shirts in twelve minutes. The upper floors of the plant are devoted to the clean- ing of woolen blankets and lace curtains. Em- ployment is given to eleven people. The best supplies arc used and the utmost care is taken in the handling of all pieces, with the result that the laundry enjoys high popularity and corre- sponding prosperity.

Mr. Reick married Mary Bude, daughter of Au- gustus Bude, of Catawissa, Pa., and they have had three children, Martha, Edna and George. ership. The eldest danghter, Martha, is the wife of Thomas

Benjamin Hendricks married Ann Maria Shin- Nolan, and has had three children, William (de- del, who was born in Sunbury, Pa., daughter of ceased ), Herbert T. and Rosie. Mr. Reick and his family live upon his stock farm of fifty-eight acres at Paxinos. He is a member of the United Brethren Church.

MARTIN LUTHER HENDRICKS, deceased, who until his death had been engaged in business in Sunbury from 1880 as a wholesale dealer in wines and liquors, was also well known as the owner of one of the largest and finest collections of Indian relics in his section of Pennsylvania. The house in which he lived has been remodeled and improved, but it is the oldest dwelling in Sunbury, having been built in 1775. He was of the fourth or fifth generation of his family to reside in this region, his great-grandfather, Tobias Hendrick, having come to Snyder county from York county, Pa., in an early day, and Fort Hen- drick, at. Kreamer, Snyder county, was named aft- er his father.

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Samuel Hendrick, son of Tobias, was born in Penn township, Northumberland (now Snyder) Co., Pa., and is buried at Row's church, in Sny- der county, to which he gave twenty acres of ground with the provision that "no Hendrick should be refused burial in the cemetery of Row's Church." The transfer of the deed is recorded in the courthouse at Sunbury. Samuel Hendrick was a prosperous farmer, owning a large tract which is now divided into three farms, all lying around Row's church. He married Elizabeth De- Wees, who long survived him, and who upon her second marriage, to George Boger, sold the home- stead (to a man named Look) and moved to Sun- bury. Samuel and Elizabeth Hendrick had one . son, Benjamin, the father of Martin Luther Hen- dricks. The members of the Hendricks family generally have been tall and of athletic build.

John Haas. His active years were spent princi- pally at farming, merchandising and the manufac- ture of lime, and he prospered, at one time own- ing what is known as the Hunter farm, on which Fort Augusta was located, and also owning a good plantation in Caroline county, Va., which he bonght after the Civil war. After his wife's death he lived on that property with his son, dying there in 1883. He was a director of the Sunbury, Haz- leton & Wilkes-Barre Railroad Company during the construction of its road, which is now owned by the Pennsylvania Company, retaining that con- nection until the road came under the new own-

Rev. John Peter Shindel, and she died Dec. 9, 1877, aged sixty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Hen- dricks are buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery, at Sunbury. They were members of the Lutheran Church. To them were born twelve children, six sons and six daughters, viz. : Samuel S. is deceased ; William M. is deceased ; Jacob S. is a resident of Virginia ; Elizabeth D. married Hon. S. P. Wol- verton, one of the foremost citizens of Northum- berland county ; Martin Luther is mentioned be- low; Susan Ann died at Allentown, of spotted fever; Louisa married M. R. Hemperly, a pho- tographer, of Philadelphia; Mary S. (deceased) married Samuel Faust, of Sunbury; Catharine Y. died young; Isaac N. is a resident of Sunbury; Jolin Peter S. is deceased ; Ann Maria makes her home with her sister Mrs. Wolverton.

Martin Luther Hendricks was born June 4, 1843, in Sunbury, and there began his education in the pay schools which were common in his boyhood. Later he went to what is now Susque- hanna University, at Selinsgrove, and to Witten- berg College, at Springfield, Clark Co., Ohio, grad- uating from the latter institution in 1872. Since then he had been a resident of Sunbury, and in 1880 became engaged in the wholesale liquor busi- ness, being the first dealer of the kind in the bor- ough. In that year he and his brother-in-law. B. F. Bright. became associated under the business name of B. F. Bright, and were in business to- gether until Mr. Bright's death. in July, 1907, after which Mr. Hendricks carried on the business alone until his death. He carried a large and well assorted stock of wines and liquors, and had a large trade, built up by straight dealing and hon- orable business methods. Mr. Hendricks' death oc- curred June 21, 1911, at his home in Sunbury.

As previously mentioned, Mr. Hendricks was the possessor of one of the largest and finest col-

Benjamini Hendricks, son of Samuel, was born in Snyder county Sept. 25, 1811, received a com- lections of Indian relies possessed by any one in mon school education, and learned the trade of his section, about twenty thousand specimens in

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all, and his eolleetions of beads, bracelets and the first in the district. The business has been similar articles is the largest owned by any one enlarged and the service improved under Mr. person in Pennsylvania. Northumberland county Neary's proprietorship, and he has a profitable patronage, which he has gained and held by his accommodating and business-like methods. He is a well known and respected eitizen, and oe- cupies an honorable place among the substantial residents of his community. was the home of Shikellimy, the most famous In- dian chief of his day, and Mr. Hendrieks was always deeply interested in his story and in local history generally, especially of the early days, when the red men were still in this section. In 1858 he dug up the remains of the famons ,chief,

Mr. Neary married Bridget Golden, daughter of who had been interred above Fort Augusta, the James Golden, and to them were born two chil-

public road now passing over the site of his grave; he had been given a Christian burial by one of the noted Moravian ministers of the day. When Mr. Hendricks disinterred his body he also found many Indian relies, pipes, beads, tomahawks, paint and paint eups, bracelets, a horse pistol, etc., all of which have been carefully preserved.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 73

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