Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 9

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

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mines. He served in the war of 1812. Jacob is now owned by Isaac Latshaw, and part of what Eirichi died in an old log house near Shamokin in is now the John Schreffler farm was also included 1861, when ninety-two years old. He married in the ancestor's possessions. The late Frederick Elizabeth Haag, whose father was, drowned at Latsha owned several fields which were also in- Columbia, Pa., while erossing the Susquehanna eluded in the land taken up by Johannes. Johan river. Their children were: John; Mary Ann, Friederich Latsha, grandfather of William M .. built the house, barn and eider house now standing Mrs. Latsha; Margaret, Mrs. Enoeh Cole: Eliza- beth, Mrs. Isaae Latsha; Susan, Mrs. Martin; on the latter's farm ; the weaver's shop, where all Jacob, who served in Company K (Captain Strauss), 48th Regiment, during the Civil war; Henry, who served in the same company and regi- ment and was killed in the mines in 1863 shortly , after his return from the service; and Hester, who married Ignatius Ditman, a eoal operator.

kinds of weaving could be done, and which has four rooms, was built by the pioneer Latsha. Wil- liam M. Latsha owns his grandfather's cloek. He is a modern farmer, progressive, using the most approved implements and methods, attends the Shamokin markets weekly, and is a substantial eit- izen. Like his forefathers he is a Democrat in pol-

ADAM LATSHA, son of John Henry Latsha, was born in December, 1844, in Jackson township, itics, and belongs to the Reformed Church.

On Ang. 16, 1903, Mr. Latsha married Laura

Northumberland Co., Pa., and makes his home with his brother Abraham at Shamokin. He has M. Kehres, daughter of Henry and Mary Ann (Drumheller) Kehres, and they have had three children: Goldie M .: Guy L., who died in in- fancy ; and Raymond A.

been engaged about the mines for many years. For fifteen years he followed mining, and sinee 188? has been a carpenter in the employ of the Ship- man Coal Company. He is a highly respected cit- izen, and one of the well known residents of the borough. Mr. Latsha was made a Mason in 1882 in Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A. M., in which he still holds membership.

JOHN F. LATSHA, farmer of Washington town- ship, was born Inne 24, 1875, on the homestead farm in that township, attended the local schools and passed his boyhood in the usual manner of

ABRAHAM LATSHA, son of John Henry Latsha, farmers' sons, remaining at home until he attained was born in Washington township May 27, 1854, the age of twenty-four. Since the spring of 1901 he has been farming at his present place. owning what was formerly the Michael Smith farm, of ninety-five acres, advantageonsly located on the road between Mahanoy and Rebuck. The barn was built in 1883, the buildings are all substan- and has long made his home at Shamokin. When a youth he commenced picking slate at the break- ers, and later followed mining for many years. In 1903 he engaged in business for himself, making eandies, in which line he has built up a remark-

ably good trade, his goods, all homemade and pure, tial, and the land is in good condition. Mr. Lat- finding popular sale in the borough. His store sha is local agent for a fertilizer company. Polit- ically he is a Democrat, and he has served as in- spector of his district.

is at No. 943 West Arch street. Mr. Latsha has proved himself an admirable manager and a man of good executive ability, and the extensive trade In 1900 Mr. Latsha married Agnes Smith, daughter of Samuel and Seville ( Hetrich) Smith, and they have had five children : Beulah (de- ceased in infancy), Sammel, Frederick. Gertie, and he now enjoys has come as the result of honorable methods, honest dealing and a sineere effort to please his patrons, who are numerous. He is deeply interested in the family history and the Anna (who died in infancy ). Mr. Latsha and his early history of Mahanoy and surrounding town- family are members of the Reformed Church, ships, npon which he has informed himself thor- which he served four years as deacon. onghly.

MOSES H. TROUTMAN, general merchant of WILLIAM M. LATSHIA, a farmer of Washington Shamokin, was born July 1, 1869, in Jordan town- township, was born April 30, 1878, son of Adam ship, Northumberland county, and has been a resi- W. and Wilhelmina ( Fegley) Latsha and grand- dent of Shamokin sinee he left the farm upon at- son of Johan Friederich and Magdalena ( Wagner) taining his majority. He has a well established business at No, ?? South Second street, where he has been located since 1901. Latsha. He was educated in the township schools and brought up to farming, working for his par- ents until 1905. in which year he purchased the Jaeob Troutman, his great-grandfather. was old homestead, which had been in the Latsha name born in the Tulpehoeken Valley in Berks county, for three generations previously, having been and we give some general early history of the owned by his great-grandfather, Johannes. by his Troutmans of that seetion. The Troutman family grandfather and by his father. His great-grand- of western Berks county had settled prior to the or- father originally took up over three hundred acres, ganization of the county, in 1752. in Thipehocken hnt the 133-acre tract owned by William M. Lat- township, where Hieronimus Troutman on Oct. 13. sha was the homestead place. Part of the balance 1252, obtained two warrants. each for twenty-five

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acres of land located in that part of Lancaster cestor Hieronimus Troutman, and the mother of county now embraced in Lebanon county. On the sons before mentioned.

Johannes Troutman, son of the ancestor, was

March 23, 1802, he and Abraham Troutman (a relative) jointly obtained a warrant for 152.80 born in 1755 and died in 1823. He was married ( first) May 13, 1787, to Maria Elizabeth Hoff- man, and (second) to Sybilla Himmelberger, who was born Jan. 7, 1674, and died Nov. 29, 1858. Among his children were: Michael, born Aug. ? , 1488, died July 19, 1840; John Jacob, born May 18, 1491, died March 6, 1862; Elizabeth, born in 1796, died in 1866.

acres of land in Northumberland county. The records show that at this time he was a taxable in Tulpehocken township, Berks county, the Penn- sylvania Archives recording the following in 1768: "Peter Trontman. eighty acres of land in Tulpe- hocken ; Philip Troutman, 100 acres: Valentine Troutman, six acres ; and Michael Troutman, 2163 acres." Previously, in 1959, one John Troutman paid 'eleven pounds tax in Tulpehocken township. In 1779 the tax lists show: "Valentine, single- man : John, singleman and tailor, and Peter, weaver." In 1429 Michael Troutman owned 275 acres of land, six horses, six cattle, and paid seven pounds, thirteen shillings tax, showing that he was a large property owner. It is traditional, and rec- ords confirm it, that Hieronimus Troutman had these sons: Michael, born Nov. 8, 1746, died Nov. monument in Bohner's cemetery, and from the 1, 1804; Valentine, born June 17, 1752, died April 19, 1823 : Johannes, born Feb. 4, 1755, died Feb. 2, 1823; Johann Philip, born Ang. 2, 1758, died Feb. 23, 1830.

Michael Troutman, the eldest of this family, made his will Aug. 3, 1804, and died about three months later. In the will he mentions his wife Susanna, who was to receive the property in Tul- pehocken township on which they lived, besides other items. Ample provision was made for her. They had no issue. After leaving a bequest to Host Church of twenty pounds, to care for his grave, Michael Troutman divided the rest of his estate among his brothers, whom he mentioned thus: Valentine, John who had a son Michael, and Philip.

rer's company. and was sent to Long Island. He.

married, and among his children was a daughter, 25, 1846, and died in 1891 in Schuylkill county; Eva Elizabeth. who was born in 1785 and died being buried at Leib. that county. While a resi- unmarried in 1804.

Philip Troutman married Magdalena, a born was a well known and respected citizen of his com- Troutman, possibly a descendant of Abraham, who . munity, moving thence to Schuylkill county. where was a relative of Hieronimus. She was born Feb. he continued to farm the rest of his days. He mar- 16, 1753. and died. Dec. 29, 1834, aged eighty-one. ried Sarah Lesher, who died in 1893, and both

All of the above Troutmans are buried at Host were members of the Evangelical Church. They were the parents of the following children: Ellen. wife of William Masser : Moses H. : Jane, who mar- ried Lonis Herring and (second ) . John Peard : William: Amanda, wife of Cyrus Knerr: Jacob : church, in the old graveyard adjoining it on the southwest. Many `of the gravestones are brown sandstones, and the inscriptions on them were de- ciphered with some difficulty by William J. Diet- riel, of Reading, and Squire Frank W. Trout- Emma. who died aged twenty-two years: Clayton. man, of Stouchsburg, Berks county. Immediately of Shamokin; Agnes, wife of John Beyler: and back of the church is an old sandstone on which appears the following inscription :

the farm until he reached the age of twenty-one, since which time he has made his home in Sham- Harry, who lives at Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania.

Moses H. Trontman attended the schools in the "Eva Elizabeth Trontman Sei ist gaboren den neighborhood of his early home and worked upon 6 .Januar, im vahr 1716, und starb am 1 Januar in vahr 1294. Bracht ehr alter zu 28 yahr. 4 monat, und 3 tag." This possibly was the wife of the an- okin. His first position in the borough was with

Jacob Troutman, who was born in the Tulpe- hocken Valley in Berks county, had children, Moses, John, Peter and Cornelius. (From the St. David's Church records and Bohner's Union cemetery, in .Lower Mahanoy, we find that a Ja- cob Troutman, born Jan. 13, 1792, died Aug. 15, 1854; his wife Magdalene, born May 21, 1794, . died Sept. 28, 1877. This is on a large marble

same source we find that Cornelins, son of Jacob and Magdalena, born March 12, 1828. died June 4, 1887 ; his wife Esther, born Sept. 14, 1830, died Feb. 21, 1877. These records may pertain to Ja- cob and his children. The ones we have just given seem to be without doubt their records of birth and death. The following may pertain to the sons John and Peter. John, born June 11, 1812, died March 22, 1901: wife Sarah, born Oct. 19, 1817. died April 4, 1841. Peter, born Jan. 12. 1831, died Dee. 31, 1891.)

Moses Troutman, son of Jacob. followed farin -- ing in the Mahanoy Valley, living in Jordan township, Northumberland county, and he and his wife Elizabeth ( Bohner) are buried at the Union church near Pillow. Their children were: Sol-

Valentine Troutman served during the Revo- omon ; Gilbert, living at Millersburg: and Jacob, lution in September, 1776, in Capt. Michael Fur- also a resident of Millersburg.

Solomon Troutman, son of Moses, was born Dec.

. dent of Jordan township he followed farming and

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Burd & Rogers, for whom he clerked eleven years, port that the Indians were approaching on the war- remaining with this well known firm until he com- path, and the men hastily got the horses together, menced business on his own account, in 1901. He the women collecting clothing. etc., which they has a fine store at No. 22 South Second street, tied to a young mare. The animal took fright at stocked with a good line of general merchandise, and has done a steadily growing business, ranking with the prosperous men in his line in the bor- ough. He is a member of the Business Men's As- sociation, and in that connection and other ways has shown his public spirit and loyalty to the gen- eral interest and welfare. Outside of business his particular interest is in the Evangelieal Church, of 'which he is an earnest member: he is at present serving as member of the board of trustees, and he

its unusual burden, ran away and was shot by the Indians. Eventually, men, women and children had to make their way on foot to Fort Augusta, at Sunbury, which had been built in 1756, and there the family remained until the immediate danger was over. It appears that Jacob Malick. son of Peter Malick, Jr., obtained his land in that region through the family's escape to the fort for safety. Peter Melick, Sr., made a will, but we have not found it on record at Sunbury. Peter Melick, Jr., .was long active in the Sunday school, being a of Wyoming township, inade his will March 6, teacher for twelve years. Fraternally he holds 1789; it was probated June 5, 1789. He be- queaths to his wife Mary "Mellick," and to chil-

membership in the Knights of Pythias.

On Dec. 11. 1892, Mr. Troutman married Nora dren: son John (donble daughter Christiana Wasser, daughter of Jacob and Catharine (Wag- shall have) ; son Peter (double of daughter Char- ner) Wasser, of Mahantango Valley, and they have ity) ; son Mickel (double of daughter Margaret) ; eight children, namely : Catharine, Roy, Russel, son Henry; son David: and daughters Cristana, Merrile, Beulah, Leonard, Elizabeth and Leon Ed- "ward. The older children are assisting their fa- died young.

Charity, Margaret and Elizabeth. Some children ther in the store.

One David Malick, born Oct. 4, 1:59, died in 1834. His old family Bible is now in the posses-

MALICK. The Malick family, which was one sion of Mrs. William F. Keefer, of Sunbury, a dis- of the earliest families in Northumberland county, tant relative of the Malicks.

having been settled in this region since before or about the period of the Revolution, is of German extraetion. The early spelling of the name was Melick, or Mehlig, but it is now found in various forms, Malick, Malich, Mellick, etc. One Jacob Maliek, with whose deseendants we are concerned in this article, and five brothers came to this coun- hundred acres. He died in 1871. at the age of ser- try from Germany, four of the brothers. among whom was Jacob. settling along the Sus- quehanna river in what is now Lower Ang- usta township, Northumberland county, in the region of Sunbury. They were among the pioneers in that section, where their descendants are now very numerous, several branches of the family being well represented. There is reeord of three brothers, Peter, Henry and The Jacob Malick above mentioned as one of the pioneers in what is now Lower Augusta town- ship, Northumberland county, passed the re- mainder of his life and died there. His son Peter, born in that township, was a well known man of his day and a large land owner, having about five enty-five years, and is buried at a church in Low- er Augusta township. Ilis wife, whose maiden name was Reeser, was a native of Northumberland county. They had children as follows: William ; John R .; David; Peter; Jeremiah, who died in 1872, at the age of thirty-six years ; Samuel ; Dan- iel; Esther, born Aug. 28, 1828, who died in 1909 (she was the wife of Adam Renn and lived in Sunbury ) ; Harriet, who married Alexander Zort- another who died soon after his marriage, leav, man : Mary A., who married Jere. Renn, brother of ing a widow and one daughter. This does not AAdam, and settled in Iowa.

quite agree, however, with the Federal Census Re- Widow Melich as heads of families in Northum- berland county. Peter Melich had one son and six daughters : Henry had one daughter: the widow had tiro daughters. Among the taxables of Au- gusta township. in 1788, were David and John Meliek. William Malick, son of Peter, was born in the port of 1790, which records Peter, Henry and a old home in Lower Augusta township. He became an early eontractor and builder in his district. he- ginning that business when he had to do all the work, from the hewing of the timber in the woods to the very completion of the houses and barns he constructed. Many buildings in the neighborhood and in adjoining localities were of his eonstruc- tion. He died in 1888, and is buried at the Stone Church in Lower Augusta township. His wife, Hannah (Heilman), daughter of Daniel Heilman.

According to one account, the Malicks came to Pennsylvania from New Jersey, settling in the woods in what was then Northumberland (now Columbia ) county, at the present location of Light- bore him children as follows: Dr. Hiram died in street. At any rate, the pioneer Peter Malick 1889: Harriet married a Keifer and has children, Peter, Frank, Harry and Jennie: Maria is the lived there until the time of the Wyoming mas- sacre. The family were, panie-stricken. at the re- widow of Jaeob Wolf (they had a son Clement) :

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Simon P. is mentioned below ; William married ity and upright methods, and has succeeded in a Waid (they have Arthur and Melvin). holding his patronage by honorable dealing. He

SIMON P. MALICK, a well known general eon-' owns his own home, a large and comfortable resi- tractor and builder, was born Aug. 1, 1848, in dence at No. 303 Catawissa avenue. Socially Mr. Lower Augusta township, son of William Maliek. Malick belongs to the Modern Woodmen of Amer- ica. He received his education in the district schools, and when a young man learned the carpenter's On June 19, 1900, Mr. Maliek married Clara M. Messimer, daughter of J. T. Messimer, of _Sun- bury. They have no children. trade under . his father's instruction, remaining with him nintil he reached the age of eighteen years. After that he found employment in sur- Jaeob Messimer, grandfather of Mrs. Malick, was a native of Center township, Perry Co., Pa., was a farmer by oceupation, and died when his son John T. was two years old ; he is buried in an old graveyard at Bloomfield. He married Margar- rounding towns until he came to Sunbury in 1871, engaging in business for himself. From 1873 to 1878 he was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, as a carpenter, and he then re- turned to eontracting and building on his own ae-, et Marshall, who died in 1883, at the age of ser- enty-seven years. They had a family of five chil- dren, all deceased ; Robert, Wilson, James, Mag- gie and John T.

count. Many of the buildings in Sunbury have been ereeted by him, and he has a mill on Tenth street where he gives employment to from forty to fifty mechanies. He is one of the most prom- inent eitizens of Sunbury, not only as a business man but also in the conduct of publie affairs, for he has served as couneilman and served as chief burgess of East Sunbury borough. He was one of the organizers and is viee president of the Sun- bury Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and was also one of the organizers of the Sunbury Trust and Safe Deposit Company, of which he is still serving as a director. He is a Demoerat in poli- tics and a Lutheran in religion, belonging to Zion's Church, which he served many years as deacon and elder. .

Mr. Malick married Julia Bloom, daughter of Jaeob and Julia ( Bartholow ) Bloom, and they have had three children: Bessie married Robert Messimer and has three children, Hazel, Julia and Robert W. ; Elmer V. is mentioned below ; Emma, who lives with her parents, is a graduate of, the Williamsport Academy, class of 1906. The fam- ily oceupy a handsome residence on Catawissa av- enue, Sunbury.

Jolın T. Messimer, son of Jacob, was born in November, 1846, and died in 1902. He was a shoemaker by trade, but for the last thirty years of his life was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railway Company as gang boss. While in Perry county he served as tax collector, and he removed thenee to Sunbury in 1881, passing the remainder of his life in the borough. His wife, Emma Wet- zel, daughter of George Wetzel, of Perry county, died in 1905, at the age of fifty-seven years. They had children as follows: Robert, William, Mary (Mrs. Samuel Willits), Clara M. (Mrs. Elmer V. Malick), Rebeeea ( unmarried), Seymour, Wil- son and Charles.

Henry Maliek, the grandfather of Emanuel Maliek, of Shamokin, came from Germany and settled in Lower Augusta township, Northumber- land county, on a farm about two and a half miles from the Susquehanna river. He had a large traet of land, which later was divided into two farms. When the Miles Run United Brethren Church was organized, at the schoolhouse of that name, in the winter of 1835, it was through the efforts of Henry and his brother, Peter Malick. Henry Malick is buried at Maliek Church, in Lower Augusta township. His children were : John W., David, Henry, Harriet (married Peter Zimmerman), Hettie (married Peter Sheaffer). Luey (married Joseph Arnold) and Elizabeth (married John Henninger).

ELMER V. MALICK has passed praetieally all his life in Sunbury, where he was born April 12, 1871. He received his education there, being a member of the first class which graduated from the high school in East Sunbury, in 1889. That spring he received a license to teach publie sehool from Prof. William Bloom, and he had his first experience in Ralpho township, this county, at the Pocahontas school. After assisting his father for some time in his planing mill and building oper- John W. Malick, son of Henry, was born in 1812, and died in 1860. He was a lifelong farmer, owning part of the original homestead, and also owned and conducted a sawmill. He sold this farm before his death and removed to Limestone Valley, about half a mile from the old home place. where he died. He married Susan Heim, dangh- ter of Jonathan Heim, and they had children as ations, he took the civil service examination for letter earrier in Sanbury, in a class of forty-two, and was the second carrier appointed in the bor- ongh. He served in that capacity for seven years, until, in 1908, he began his present general mer- cantile business at No. 256 Catawissa avenue. He opened his store Feb. 17th. Mr. Malick carries a large stoek and has had a profitable trade from follows: Samuel, deeeased : Emanuel : Hiram, liv- the start. He is a man of excellent business abil- ing at Williamstown, Dauphin county; Isaiah, liv-

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ing in Shamokin, Pa .; John L., also of Shamokin ; William, deceased ; and Emma J., wife of John Linderman, of Shamokin. Aug. 31, 1908, at the age of sixty-nine years, and is buried in the Odd Fellows cemetery at Sham- okin. His death, which occurred at the Miners' EMANUEL MALICK, son of John W .. was born May 7, 1849, and obtained his education in the sehools of his native township. His early life was spent in farm work at home, and in 1864 he came to Shamokin, where he began work in the mines, following this line for about nineteen years. He then engaged in the general store business in part- nership with W. H. Malick and Flora Shuman, after six years buying out the interest of his part- hospital, was caused by gangrene of the foot, brought on by cutting a troublesome eorn. Mr. Malick was a well known man of his day, having held several township offices, and was originally a Democrat, later a Republican, in polities. He married Caroline Heppler, daughter of Joseph Heppler, of Hepler, Pa. They had a family of six children: Jane married George L. Snyder; Lizzie married Lewis Heim; Kate (deeeased) ners and taking over the business entirely on his married John Lyon and (second) Daniel Schleif; own aceonnt. He continued it until 1900, when he Carrie married E. C. Fouil: Francis died at the age of seven years, of diphtheria, at Girardville; George W. is mentioned below.

engaged in the restaurant business, which he has sinee followed, and in eonnection with which he is a cigar jobber and confectioner. He has two George W. Malick was born May 19, 1880, at Herndon, and was seven years old when his par- ents moved thenee to Shamokin, where he received the greater part of his education. When old enough he took up dentistry with U. S. G. Moore, of Shamokin, but after two years he gave up the idea of following that profession and entered the employ of I. W. Forry & Son, hosiery manufac- turers. He was with them for three years, after which he was employed by Ressler & Co., hosiery places of business, one on Spruce street and an- other at Shamokin and Commerce streets, in Sham- okin, and he is making a success of both establish- ments. Mr. Malick married Hannah Diliplain, daughter of Ezekiel Diliplain, and five children have been born to them: Katie is married to C. C. Malick and has a son Robert; Andrew died in 1909, at the age of thir- ty-six years, leaving two children, Leon and Chester; William died when twenty-two years manufacturers, until that firm discontinued busi- old; Frederick, a graduate of Dickinson Col- lege, Carlisle, Pa., is now vice principal of the Dover (Del.) Academy ; Flora O. is unmarried and resides at home. The family reside at No. 508 Market street.

Mr. Malick is a member of the Methodist Church, and in fraternal connection he holds membership in the I. O. O. F. and Encampment and also in the P. O. S. of A. He is a Republican in politics, and for a number of years took an ac- tive part in local affairs, having served many years as assessor of Coal township, six years as school director, and for six years as member of the poor board of Coal township, giving exeellent satisfac- tion in every eapaeity.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 9

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