Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 93

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

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owned by John Kahler. In 1868 he came to the Weirick, and they live near Wiconisco, Pa. : Polly

farm where he now lives, a tract of 101 acres married Wesley Erdman and they live in Upper which was formerly owned by John Beissel, later by Isaac Kieffer and after him by Adam Arnold.

Mahanoy township; Jennie married Albert Zieg- ler and they live at Dalmatia. . The son Daniel Schuylkill Co., Pa. ; Mary P. married Willis S.

whom Mr. Leitzel succeeded, acquiring it at an S. and daughter Jennie were both born on Nov. assignees' salc. The log house which Mr. Leitzel 18, he in 1859, she in 1881. In 1909 Mr. George .still occupies was built by Mr. Beissel in 1807 B. Leitzel had thirty-nine grandchildren and six- (the date was discovered in the west gable end teen great-grandchildren.

when the house was being repainted. in 1909), and DANIEL S. LEITZEL, son of George B. Leitzel, is one of the prominent citizens of Upper Mahanoy township, merchant and present postmaster at Leck Kill. He was born Nov. 18, 1859, in Jordan township, and received his education in the public schools of the home neighborhood. He was reared he also built the barn. The new house on the place, occupied by Mr. Leitzel's son Elmer, was built by Mr. Leitzel in 1902. He was always successful in his farm work, and at one time engaged in the sale of various farm implements. All his life he has taken an active interest in local events, and. to farm life. When twenty-two years old he went he enjoys a clear recollection of many phases of to Bellevue, Ohio, where he lived for two years. life in the early days in this locality. His is an returning to his native county. After working

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on the farm one year he engaged in the hotel busi- Shamokin, and of Eureka Lodge, No. 260, I. O. ness' at Shenandoah, where he conducted the O. F., of Leck Kill. He is a past grand of Eu- "Farmers' Hotel" for three years. In 1883 he went reka Lodge, and a member of the Grand Lodge, to St. Clair, Pa., where he successfully carried

having been elected at Scranton, and having on what was then known as the "Marshall House" served as delegate to the State conventions held (now the "Exchange Hotel") for one year. Mr. at Scranton, Pittsburg and Harrisburg. For Leitzel spent the year 1891 traveling with his many years he has been treasurer of his home lodge. · wife and son through the West, visiting many places of interest and journeying out to the Pacific coast. Upon his return he again engaged in the hotel business at St. Clair, continuing there for five years longer, after which they moved to Up-

On Dec. 25, 1883, Mr. Leitzel married. Annie M. Geise, daughter of John B. and Lilie ( Boyer) Geise, of Gratz, Dauphin Co., Pa., and they have had one son, Ray G. Mr. Leitzel and his family per Mahaney township, Northumberland county, are members of the Lutheran congregation of St. John's Church, of Upper Mahanoy township.

and operated a farm for two years. In the fall of 1900 Mr. Leitzel purchased the old established

RAY G. LEITZEL, son of Daniel S. Leitzel, was store and hotel stand at what is known as Leck born Nov. 27, 1889. He received a liberal edu-

Kill, having the only licensed place in the town- ship of Upper Mahanoy. The first part of this name is derived from a German word meaning to lick ; the early settlers in the region would put salt in a glen or ravine in the forest near by for the deer, who would come to lick it and could time to assisting his father in the hotel and mer- thus be more conveniently shot than if they had cantile business. On Nov. 23, 1908, he married to be hunted-lience the name Leck Kill. a Edna Acaley, daughter of Jeremiah and Rebecca (Wagner) Aealey, of Williamstown, Pa., the for- iner of whom was a mine foreman in Dauphin county, Pa. Two children have been born to this marriage, Lester L. and Pauline M.

place where they came to "leck" and be killed. The hotel was established by Peter Beissel (1801- 1873) in 1825, and has been a licensed place ever since. The building is 26 by 15 feet in dimensions, and the western part, which is of stone, has stood Emanuel Leitzel, son of George B. Leitzel, was born in Upper Mahanoy township Oct. 28, 1869. and was there reared to agricultural pursuits, working for his parents until he reached his ser- enteenth year. At that time he became a clerk for fully one hundred years. The eastern part was constructed some years later. The post office was established here by Emanuel Geist. The place is the business center of the township, and for many years it has been the local polling place. in his father's hotel at Shenandoah and was thus

Mr. Leitzel has been hotel-keeper, storekeeper and postmaster since the spring of 1901. and he has St. Clair for his elder brother. Daniel S. Leitzel, made a thorough success of the business. His one year, and one year for his brother-in-law, John Mullen, and on March 1. 1892, he went out to

tle range for four months. July 4. 1892, found him at Hot Springs, Ark. Returning to Penn- engaged for fifteen months. Later he clerked at

hotel is well patronized by the traveling public and residents of the locality, all of whoin have Stella, Cowlitz Co., Wash., where he was on a cat- a good word for Mr. and Mrs. Leitzel. The building is now heated with steam. and every- thing is conducted along modern lines. The store sylvania he followed railroading as brakeman on the Reading road until 190;, since which year he wife . lived at Frackville, where he still owns his Leitzel does an extensive business, drawing his has followed mining. For some years he and his trade from a large arca in this section, where he is not only well known but highly respected. home, in the spring of 1909 moving to Leck Kill. He was instrumental in the establishment of the On April 20, 1905, he married Rosa Mover, daugli- Mahanoy & Mahantango Telephone Company, and ter of Wilson and Mira ( Harring) Mover. They was the moving spirit in the organization of the have no children. Mr. and Mrs. Leitzel are mem-

is well stocked with general merchandise and Mr. company, of which he is now a director.

Like his father Mr. Leitzel has been identified with the Democratic party for a number of years and wields considerable influence in its councils. He has been Democratic committeeman of his township since 1906, and has held the office of treasurer of the township since 1903. Such a record implies ability and satisfactory service to all concerned. Socially he is well known in the

bers of the Lutheran Church. and socially he holds. `membership in Frackville Lodge, No. 823, I. O. O. F.

DAVID B. LEITZEL, son of Benjamin and Eliza- beth ( Byerly) Leitzel, was born in Jordan town- ship Feb. 26. 1839. He was reared there, be- coming accustomed to farm work from boyhood. and though he never learned the trade also be- came a proficient blacksmith, and was employed Masonic and Odd Fellows bodies, being a mem- in a blacksmith's shop one winter. He worked ber of Shamokin Lodge, No. 255. F. & A. M., of for his parents until he was twenty-four years

cation. attending the local schools and later the Keystone State normal school, at Kutztown. and he was licensed to teach public school in this county by Prof. W. W. Fetzer. He taught two terms in Upper Mahanoy, but he now gives all his .

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old, and then spent a year in cattle droving, buy- was born Nov. 19, 1866, in Upper Mahantango ing and selling cattle, this business taking him township, Schuylkill Co,, Pa., and was reared at as far as Berks county. Before the Civil war period he had been farming on the paternal place, and he was there for some years afterward. until he bought a farm of seventy-seven acres near Klingerstown. After cultivating that place for seven years he sold it, and afterward lived there again for a time. In 1904 he came to his present home, which is a quarter of a mile west of Hebe. the tract containing forty-tour acres. Mr. Leitzel has owned several farms at different times. and he has done well in his agricultural work, to which he has devoted practically all of his time. He has been a useful citizen, and his exeentive ability has received substantial recognition from his fel- low citizens, who have chosen him to serve as township treasurer, supervisor and overseer of the expiration of which period he has been interested poor. Politically he is a Democrat.

Mr. Leitzel married Mary Troutman, daugh- ter of George and Jestina (Clark) Troutman, who lived in Jordan township. They have had a fan- ily of eight children : William, of Uniontown, Pa .. at present engaged as stage driver: Frank. de- ceased : Emma, wife of David Strohecker : Oscar, of Jordan township: Adam, of Jordan township: Jane, who married Elsworth Shaffer and lives at Shamokin ; James, of Jordan township: and Jes- tina, who married Oscar Bohner, and died in 1908. Mr. Leitzel and his family are members of the church at Hebe.

BENJAMIN B. LEITZEL, twin brother of David B. Leitzel. was born Feb. 26, 1839, in Jordan township, and was reared like the ordinary farm boy of his time. His total attendance at school amounted to ninety-six days, for he not only had to help with the farm work in the summertime but in the winter helped thresh, riding the horses around on the threshing floor to beat out the grain. During the greater part of his independent business eareer he was engaged in hotel-keeping. in which line he was very well known in his day, keeping the hotel at Klingerstown for fully thirty years. He still lives at Klingerstown, where he now conducts a restaurant. Mr. Leitzel owns a thirty-acre tract in Lykens township, Dauphin county, upon which he lived for one year. He is a highly respected citizen of his community. and served some years as assessor of Upper Mahan- tango township. Politically he is a Democrat, in religion a Intheran, his family also attending that elureh.

Klingerstown. There he received his education in the public schools, and he worked for his par- ents, assisting his father in his agricultural opera- tions and in the conduct of the hotel. until he attained his majority. After his marriage he en- gaged in farming on land belonging to his father- in-law, Moses M. Wiest, at Klingerstown, where he was located for six years. Meantime he began the implement business, and for two years after leaving that farm was principally engaged in sell- ing farm machinery, later entering the general merchandise business at Klingerstown, where he was in partnership with Victor Wiest for ten months. When he gave up the store business he returned to the farm for five years, since the in his present mercantile business at Klingers- town, having the largest general store in the west- ern end of Schuylkill county. In addition to gen- eral merchandise he carries a large line of furni- ture, in which he has built up a profitable trade : he still deals in farm implements, and has the agency for the well known "Swab" wagons, his territory lying east of the Susquehanna as far as Ashland and south along the Schuylkill and Dau- phin county line, including Deep Creek valley. Mr. Leitzel is considered the leading representa- tive of the company which makes these wagons. as he sells from eighty to one hundred annually. and has sold thousands in his time. He employs from two to six clerks in his general store, and his large business has been built upon a founda- tion of fair dealing and honorable methods that make him one of the most esteemed as well as one of the most prosperous men of his community. He is a public-spirited citizen, and has been will- ing to give time and influence to promote the best interests of the neighborhood, being especially anxious to further the educational facilities in his township. When less than twenty-two years old Mr. Leitzel was elected justice of the peace. and he served fifteen years in that office, refusing a fourth terni.

On Sept. 5, 1886, Mr. Leitzel married Emma S. Wiest, daughter of Moses M. and Mary ( Scha- del) Wiest. and four children were born to them. Richard, Dell, John and Frank. Mrs. Leitzel died in July, 1896. aged twenty-eight years. and is buried at Klingerstown. In February, 1892. Mr. Leitzel married (second) Cora Hollenbach, daugh-

Mr. Leitzel married Eve Elizabeth Tobias, ter of George and Elizabeth (Schaffer) Hollen- danghter of Joseph and Mary (Wiest) Tobias, and bach, and they have had three children : Paul. Eve and Fred. Mr. Leitzel and his family wor- ship with the Lutheran congregation of St. Mi- she died Sept. 26, 1889, at the age of forty-seven years, the mother of nine children, five of whom died before reaching the age of two years. The ehael's Church at Klingerstown, and he has been survivors are: W. Oscar, Cyrus, Mary and John. very active in the work of church and Sunday W. OSCAR LEITZEL, son of Benjamin B. Leitzel, school, serving as deaeon and elder, and at present

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as treasurer of the church: he has been identified he conducted a shoe store and also did custom with the Sunday school as teacher and superin-' shocmaking. tendent for fifteen consecutive years.

Henry H. Schrawder, father of E. F., learned Cyrus Leitzel, son of Benjamin B. Leitzel, is the trade of stonemason and plasterer, which he the proprietor of the "Franklin House" at Man- followed for many years, now living retired, at data, Northumberland county. He was born Sept. Port Treverton, Snyder county. He served in the 15, 1871, at Klingerstown, where he was reared Civil war. His wife, Mary (Weaver), daughter and educated, and worked for his father until he of David Weaver, bore him four children : David, reached the age of sixteen. For six years he was E. F., William, and Jennie (married Clarence Hershey).

E. F. Schrawder attended public school at Port Treverton and Mckees Falls. When fifteen years old he began clerking for N. T. Dundore in Snyder county, near Port Treverton, remaining with that employer eight years, after which he clerked two years in the First National Bank at Selinsgrove. In 1895 he came to Shamokin, where he engaged as traveling salesman with D. G. Snyder & Co., continuing with the same house after it passed into the hands of English & Henry. He was with that concern for seven years in all, and has since been in business on his own account, handling ladies' furnishings, children's goods and fancy, goods. His first venture in this line was at Phil- lipsburg, Pa., where he remained four and a half years, and since 1904 he has been established at his present location in Shamokin. Mr. Schrawder carries complete stocks of his special lines, and enjoys an excellent trade, which has increased steadily from the beginning.

Mr. Schrawder is a high Mason, holding mem- bership in the following bodies: Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A. M .; Shamokin Chapter, No. 264, R. A. M., of which he is past high priest, having held the office in 1909: Shamokin Com- mandery, No. 77, K. T. (in which he is an officer ) : Williamsport Lodge of Perfection. fourteenth de- gree: Williamsport Consistory, thirty-second de- gree : and Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. In religious connection he is a Lutheran.

E. F. SCHRAWDER, of Shamokin, dealer in ladies' furnishings and fancy goods, at No. 108 West Independence street, has been established at his present place of business since 1904, and he ter of Edw. (deceased) and Joanna (Kulp) Shu- man, the former of whom was a inerchant at Shamokin. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Schrawder, J. Merrill and Thelma.

Mr. Schrawder married Mamie Shuman, daugh-

had previous experience in practically the same line as traveling salesman for a number of years in the employ of the well known firm of English & Henry. He has made a success and has a well stocked store.

LEVI B. BARBER, who is engaged in farming Mr. Schrawder was born Nov. 2, 1874, at Mc- about three miles east of Milton, in Turbut town- Kees Falls, Snyder county, son of Henry H. ship, was born Oct. 28, 18:3, in Delaware town- Schrawder and grandson of Jacob Schrawder. The ship. Northumberland county, son of Anthony A. Barber and grandson of David Barber. family is of German origin, the first of the name in this country having come from Germany and settled in 1774 in Berks county, Pa. He took part in , the Revolutionary war and members of the family have been represented in nearly every war in which this country has been engaged since his time.

David Barber was bound out when a boy to Anthony Armstrong, of Turbut township, to live with him until he reached the age of twenty-one. He afterward continued to live in that township, and did day's work among farmers, being an in- dustrious, respected man. He died in that part .Jacob Schrawder, the grandfather of E. F., was of Turbut township now included in the borough . a native of Berks county, whence he moved to of Milton, when sixty-eight years old. His wife Snyder county, settling at McKces Falls, where was Mary Jones, daughter of William Jones, and

employed in the lumber districts in the State of Washington, in 1896 returning to Pennsylvania and settling at Klingerstown, where he was en- gaged in horse dealing and in the wholesale whisky business, selling whisky for .Detweiler & Co., of Lebanon. He still continues both lines of busi- ness, being a well known horse dealer in lower Northumberland county, where he handles many head of horses yearly, and he has represented Det- weiler & Co. continuously since 1896, selling their goods in Northumberland, Schuylkill, Perry, Juni- ata, Snyder and Dauphin counties. He continued to live at Klingerstown for a number of years before moving to Mandata, where he has been proprietor of the "Franklin House" since 1906. He has a farm of 100 acres between Mandata and Mahanoy in Jackson township (part of which was formerly the Abraham Klock homestead, the rest the Jacob Sinith place), which he farms with the aid of hired help, and he has prospered in his various undertakings, being an excellent manager.

In March, 1895, Mr. Leitzel married Carrie E. Boyer, daughter of John and Polly (Shartle) Boyer, and they have one daughter, Bessie J. Mr. Leitzel and his family are members of the Luth- eran congregation of the Klingerstown Church. For ten years he held membership in the Kling- erstown lodge of Odd Fellows.

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they are buried in Harmony cemetery. Milton. native of Bushkill township, Northampton Co .. Children as follows were born to them: Jane, who l'a., born about 1805, and died about 1878, aged married William Falls; William, who died in Mil- seventy-three years. In the spring of 1841 he ton ; Anthony A. ;. Margaret, Mrs. Robert Seiler ; came to Northumberland county, locating at Mc- Isaac .J. : Catharine, a resident of Milton ; and Ewensville, where he built the Gold gristmill, now Washington, who died in Milton. Of these, Isaac owned and operated by Oliver Gold. He bought J. Barber, born in 1835, learned the boat build- a tract of fifty acres, upon which he erected his ing business and has resided in Milton for the mill and later three of his sons built homes upon past fifty years. By his first wife, Lucy A. Hester, the property; the McEwensville high school also he had a son Harry, and his second marriage was stands upon land he owned. Both the cemeteries to Sarah J. Krisher.

of McEwensville were laid out from his land, and

Anthony A. Barber, son of David, was born In all but thirty-seven acres of his holdings have been Delaware township in 1833, and there followed cut up into building lots or turned to public use. farming, retiring about four years before his death, During the fifties he was one of the organizers of which occurred March 18, 1892. He is buried in the borough of MeEwensville. In politics he was Harmony cemetery, at Milton. In politics Mr. a Whig, and he served as school director and for Barber was a Democrat, and he took quite an active many years as overseer of the poor in Delaware part in local affairs, serving as tax collector and township. In his earlier life Mr. Gold was a school director. He was a member of Messiah Moravian in religious connection, as were all his Lutheran Church at McEwensville, and took an ac- family in Northampton county, but he later be- tive part in its work. His widow, Maria (Bender came a Lutheran. His wife, Maria ( Rissmiller), or Binder), daughter of Jacob Bender, of Dela- was the daughter of Daniel Rissmiller, who was earlier a resident of Berks county, Pa., and his first ancestor in America came hither as one of the Hessian army sent over to fight the Colonists in .children as follows: Rosanna married Charles ware township, is living with her daughter Mrs. Greinly at Berwick, Pa. They had the following children : Anna is the widow of William C. Thom- as and resides in Berwick : Cora married Lewis L. the . Revolution. David Gold and his wife had Follmer ; Ida B. married William Tobias: Min- nie M. married H. Greinly, of Berwick; Frances' Sensenbaugh, and they lived at Sunbury : Henry E. E. married David R. Eves and is living in Ber- D., who was a merchant, died at Charlestown, Pa. : wick ; Charles A .. married Mary Summers and is George Thomas settled in McEwensville: Edwin engaged in farming in Montour county; Levi B. F. is mentioned below; Joseph died at Watson- is mentioned below : David F. married Emma town ; Mary married Reuben Derr : Maria married Kreisher and is farming in White Deer township. Ellis Irwin: Charles was killed while serving in Union county; Maude M. married John E. Kurtz. the Union army during the Civil war: David died

Levi B. Barber attended the public schools of in New Brighton, Pa .: Margaret, widow of E. Delaware township, and later worked with his fa- Lewis Painter, lives at Lewisburg; Susan married ther until he began farming for himself, in 1896. Abram Redcay and they live in Milton; John L. is He was in Delaware township for three years, and a resident of Newcastle, Pa. Of these, Rosanna. in Lycoming county for two years, returning to Henry D., Joseph, Mary, Maria, Charles and David Northumberland county, where he farmed one year are deceased.

in Turbut township, when he decided to remove to Edwin F. Gold, born July 29. 1832, near Naz- Jerseytown. Selling out his farm stock he made areth. Northampton Co., Pa., attended the Mc- the change, but after six months he returned to Ewensville Academy in his boyhood. On April this county and in 1902 bought the Lantz farm of 26, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil war sixty-six acres in Turbut township where he has from Northumberland county. in Company B. 11th since resided. This was at one time Abraham Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Col. Pharon Follmer's farm. it having belonged to him for Jarett's regiment. which was assigned to the 6th

fifty years, after which it passed into the possession Brigade. 2d Division. Army of the Potomac. They proceeded through Westchester. Hagerstown and Williamstown, and were discharged at Harrisburg July 25. 1861. Mr. Gold again enlisted June 18. 1863. becoming a sergeant in Company I, 28th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia, under of the Kase family and from them to the Lantzes. It is about three miles east of Milton. Mr. Bar- ber has all the modern improvements on his place. and is one of the enterprising farmers of his lo- cality. He was formerly a member of the Grange. In politics he is a Democrat, in religion a Luth- Lieut. Col. Chamberlain. He was discharged at eran.

Mr. Barber married Rachel Gold, daughter of George Thomas Gold, of MeEwensville, Pa., and they have two children, Helen May and George Anthony.

Harrisburg July 27. 1863. and in the meantime took part in the battle of Gettysburg and did val- iant duty as a scout. being arrested three times. He wore a Southern uniform, and with two com- panions performed notable service. On Feb. 28.

David Gold, Mrs. Barber's grandfather, was a 1865. he again enlisted, in Company E, 74th Regi-

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ment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, with tive county and one term in Northumberland. In which he served to the close of the war. One of his the spring of 1887 he engaged in farming in Lewis township, Northumberland county, where he and his brother now live. He has a tract of 161 acres. formerly the James Blaine homestead, the Blaines having been the original owners of this land. The old patent deed, written on parchment, is in Mr. Gold's possession. Mr. James Blaine built the large stone house which is still standing in 1810. Mr. Gold is a general farmer. He is a member of the Reformed Church and a Republican in polities. On Dec. 25, 1890, Mr. Gold married Julia Ann Steiner, daughter of William H. and Caroline. ( Desher) Steiner, whose parents came from North- ampton county, Pa. Five children have been bornt to this union : William H., Edith Ellen, Margaret J., John S. and Florence E. discharges is upon sheepskin. Returning to Mc- Ewensville after the war he cultivated some land which he owned, and meantime continued to fol- low teaching, which he had begun when only fifteen years old and followed in all for thirty-three terms. He has a certificate bearing the date Nov. 18. 1857, issued by County Superintendent John J. Reimen- snyder. He taught principally in and around Me- Ewensville, and was one of the old-time school- masters of that vicinity, thorough and efficient in all his work and bearing a high reputation. Mr. Gold is an independent voter and at one time took an influential part in county politics. For a quar- ter of a century he was constable of MeEwensville, and has been justice of the peace for a number of years.

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 93

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