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married E. W. Phillis, of New Brighton; Andrew W., of further mention; John J., who is still attending the public schools. -
Mrs. Jackson is a daughter of William M. and Elizabeth Y. (Hipple) Keyser, the former a native of Germany, the latter born in Butler county, Pennsylvania. William M. Keyser emigrated to America when a young man, and located in Pittsburgh, where his death occurred. He removed to New Brighton in 1870, where he was established in business as a contractor, in which occupation he was very successful. He built the Presbyterian Church at New Brighton, the Court House at Beaver, and many of the fine residences in the Valley. His fraternal affiliations were with the Masonic Order. His children were: Olive, mentioned above as the wife of Mr. Jackson; Emerson W .; Amanda Minerva; William John; May Elizabeth; Ida May. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Jackson was John Hipple, a farmer of Butler county, Pennsylvania, who married Jemima McCandless. One of their sons changed his name to Mitchell, and is now Senator Mitchell, of Oregon.
(III) Andrew W. Jackson, son of John A. and Olive (Keyser) Jack- son, was born in New Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, June 3, 1891, and received his elementary education in the public schools of New Brighton. This was supplemented by training at the Pennsylvania Military Academy. He had inherited the financial and general business ability of his father, and at the time of the death of the latter he had held the responsible posi- tion of teller in the Union National Bank for a period of two and a half years. Although very young to assume the responsibility of carrying on a business of large proportions, this duty devolved upon him when his father died, and he has shown himself equal to shoulder the duties which this en- tailed. He has already made a name for himself in the business world by the progressive ideas he has introduced, yet these are tempered with a cer- tain amount of conservatism which renders them perfectly safe forward movements. Mr. Jackson is a member of Union Lodge, No. 259, Free and Accepted Masons, of New Brighton; New Castle Lodge of Perfection, Fourteenth Degree; Pennsylvania Consistory, Thirty-second Degree, of Pittsburgh; New Brighton Castle, No. 35, Knights of Pythias.
Daniel Haas, the first of the Haas family of whom we have HAAS record, spent his entire life in Germany. He was a carpenter and contractor. He married Margareta Pfeffer, and had chil- dren: Jacob, see forward; Christoph, Conrad, and two daughters who died young.
(II) Jacob Haas, son of Daniel and Margareta (Pfeffer) Haas, was born in Germany, and was sent to Grünberg, Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, to learn the trade of tanning, and he followed that and farming until the end of his days. After his return to his native town he married Bertha Yöeckel, daughter of Frederick and Margareta (Pfeffer) Yöeckel. Fred-
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erick Yoeckel was very successfully engaged as a tanner and farmer all his life. By a first marriage he had a daughter Catherine, and by his second marriage he had: Bertha, mentioned above; Eliza, Christiana, Anna, the latter deceased. All remained in Germany. Jacob and Bertha (Yoeckel) Haas had children: 1. August, who is paymaster in chief of the German army in Offenbach-on-the-Main, and who completed the necessary course of study for this important position in nine months less time than it has ever before been accomplished. 2. Daniel, a farmer and butcher in Hopewell township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. 3. Eliza, married Henry Ellerman, a carpenter of Darmstadt, Germany. 4. Gustav, a tanner and farmer of Grünberg, Germany. 5. Conrad, see forward. 6. Ernest, was a law clerk and an acrobat, and was killed in an accident in 1897, when he was twenty- seven years of age. 7. Herman, engaged in the grocery business in Alle- gheny City, Pennsylvania. 8. Anna, married Henry Schmidt, a marble cutter. 9. Bertha, twin of Anna, married Richard Ludewig, now deceased, who was an instructor in the German army. 10. Christiana, married Fritz Fisher, also an instructor in the German army, at Strassburg. 11. Otto, has a bakery and a farm at Niederbessungen, Hessen, Germany. 12. Emil, a clerk in the post office at Frankfort-on-the-Main.
(III) Conrad Haas, son of Jacob and Bertha (Yoeckel) Haas, was born in Germany, October 11, 1868, At the age of fourteen years he was apprenticed to learn the butcher's trade, which he followed for some years in his native country. Deciding that there were better and more oppor- tunities in the United States than in Germany, he came to America, and arrived at Baltimore, Maryland, January 3, 1892. For a time he followed his trade in that city, then went to West Virginia where he found employ- ment in a slaughter house. Later he removed to Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where he followed the same occupation, and was engaged in the meat bus- iness for a period of about twelve years. In 1911 he purchased the hotel in South Heights, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, which he has managed very successfully since that time. He and his family are members of the Ger- man Lutheran Church of St. John in Allegheny.
Mr. Haas married, September 7, 1899, Louisa Margareta Finke, born in Lübbecke, Germany, who came to America with a woman friend, and made her home in Pittsburgh. They had children; Bertha, Anna, Edward, Matilda and Emilie, died young. Ernst Finke, father of Mrs. Haas, is now (1914) about sixty-five years of age, and has been in the coal business in Lübbecke, Germany; he married Louisa Thomas, and has had children: Louisa Margareta, mentioned above; Wilhelmina, married Frederick Stein- meyer, a carpenter and farmer at Nettelstädt, in Westfahlen, Germany; Caroline, married Carl Grote, a farmer and cigar manufacturer in Nettel- städt, Westfahlen, Germany; Sophia, married Henry Meyer, a farmer and carpenter of Gehlenbeck, Westfahlen, Germany. Henry Finke, the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Haas, who was a grocer and farmer, married Margaret
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Hagemeyer, and had children: Margaret, who married a Mr. Shlippsich, and remained in Germany; Louisa, married, came to America, where she lived and died in Pittsburgh; Frederick, Carl and Christian, deceased; Ernst, the father of Mrs. Haas. Ernst Thomas, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Haas, was a carpenter and farmer in Germany, and never came to this country. He married Louisa -, and had twelve children, among whom were: Carl, Ernst and Marie.
DOUDS This chronicle of the Douds family begins with the American ancestor, who was likewise the Revolutionary representative of the line, Robert Douds, who came to this country in the pre- Revolutionary period. He had, however, styled himself American, and de- spite his recent loyalty to the land of his birth, England, defended the Colonial cause with true patriotic ardor, enlisting in the Continental forces, and taking up arms against the invading British forces. Nor were his struggles vain, for it was his privilege to offer his life upon the same altar that has been wet with the blood of countless heroes, the shrine of liberty, his death occurring as the result of wounds received in active service. He married Elizabeth Dawson, of Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, of German descent, who after his death married a Mr. Gahey, one child, Anna, resulting from this union,
(II) John Douds, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Dawson) Douds, was born on Yellow Beeches Creek, about six miles from Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1778. The care of her family weighing heavily upon his mother, he was adopted by James Braden, retaining, how- ever, his own name, with whom he lived until he attained man's estate. Their home was for a time in Pittsburgh, but they later left that place to live the lives of pioneers in Beaver county, their first home, a low log hut, being on Raccoon Creek in that county. After the first crops had been started and there was more time in which to provide for personal comforts and convenience, the neighboring settlers were invited to a "house-raising," and the setting sun saw the entire skeleton of a frame house towering, by comparison, above the humble hut in which they had previously lived. Here, in an atmosphere well-calculated to bring out the strongest instincts of self-reliant manhood, John Douds grew to maturity, well acquainted with all the suffering and hardship of pioneer life and inured to the frightful horrors committed by the hostile tribes of Indians surrounding them. With the Indians of more friendly nature he consorted much, and by this asso- ciation gained a knowledge of their tongue that not only enabled him to understand their conversation, but even to speak to them in an intelligible manner. When he was twenty-one years of age he received from his foster- parent the gift of a horse, saddle, bridle, and a suit of clothes, and was freed from all obligations to Mr. Braden. In the same year, on October 18, he was married to Mary, daughter of James and Elizabeth Hutchinson,
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the Rev. Reno, of Beaver, performing the marriage ceremony. They were given one hundred acres of land by James Hutchinson, to which he added until they were the possessors of several hundred acres. On his land, besides doing general farming, he conducted extensive stock-raising operations. He was skilled in the care and breeding of horses and raised many of the best animals produced in that section of the state. Toward the end of the War of 1812 he managed to arrange his domestic and business affairs so that he felt free to enlist in the American army, and journey to Erie, Pennsylvania, with that intention, but before he was assigned to a company the conflict was over. With his wife he was a member of the White Oak Flats Presbyterian church, and was a Republican in political belief. Mary Hutchinson was born at Kilrea, county Derry, Ireland, and came to the United States with her parents in June, 1789. James and Elizabeth Hutchinson located first at Brandywine, later at Middletown, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and finally in Moon township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. John Douds was an elder of the White Oak Flats church after its name was changed to Mount Carmel, holding that honorable position for fifty-two years, and had the pleasure of having four sons who succeeded him in the session of the same church. His death occurred when he was in his eighty- ninth year.
Children of John and Mary (Hutchinson) Douds: 1. Agnes, born July 25, 1800; married, August 28, 1817, Mahlon T. Stokes. 2. Robert, died in infancy. 3. James H., born January 15, 1805; married, August 16, 1827, Margaret Caldwell, died September 7, 1856. 4. John, born March 17, 1807; married, in December, 1832, Mary McDonald. 5. Benoni D., born August 23, 1809; married, in March, 1833, Mary Irons. 6. Eliza, born January 30, 1813; married, November 7, 1833, James Moore. 7. Mary Ann, born November 6, 1815. 8. William McC., born February 19, 1818; married, May 6, 1841, Rebecca Wyant. 9. Edward Hill, of whom further. 10. Margaret H., born October 11, 1822; married, April 8, 1841, Joseph Irons. II. Mahlon S., born December 9, 1824; married, April 23, 1850, Rebecca Brotherton.
(III) Edward Hill Douds, son of John and Mary (Hutchinson) Douds, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1820. He was educated in the public schools of Moon township, and has spent his after life on the home farm. Besides being the proprietor of that land, he owned property in other parts of the locality, one of his farms of one hundred and eighteen acres now belonging to his son, George. At the time of the Civil War home duties and the care of his numerous family prohibited his presence at the front, but he gladly paid the price of a substitute. He has all his life been a member of the Mount Carmel Presbyterian church and in its service has surpassed the wonderful record of his father, having been a member of its session for over sixty years.
He married, April 29, 1845, Maria Fronk, of Beaver county, Penn-
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sylvania, born August 15, 1824, died January 20, 1892, daughter of George and Liza (Metz) Fronk, both natives of Pennsylvania, of German descent. Children of Edward Hill and Maria (Fronk) Douds: I. Rebecca M., born February 1, 1846, died in Ohio. 2. John M., born December 17, 1847; married Sarah E. Jackson; died March 17, 1903. 3. Mary H., born De- cember 3, 1850; married William Holmes; lives in Beaver. 4. Elmira E., born March 17, 1854, died December 19, 1910; married, February 15, 1881, James D. Irons. 5. George F., of whom further. 6. Minnie M., born March 10, 1859. 7. Agnes A., born July 15, 1861, deceased. 8. A daughter, died in infancy. The great age of Edward Hill Douds is a subject worthy of mention, he having attained his ninety-fourth year.
(IV) George F. Douds, son of Edward Hill and Maria (Fronk) Douds, was born in Moon township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1857. He obtained the major part of his education in the Braker Hill school, finish- ing with one year at the academy at North Sheffield. At the completion of his studies he taught school for a period of three years, forsaking this pro- fession to engage in farming, which has since been his occupation. About 1890 he purchased a farm of one hundred and thirteen acres in what is now Moon township, and has there resided until the present time. He does not specialize in any branch of agricultural employment, but conducts general operations. With his wife he is a member of the New Sheffield United Presbyterian Church, and in political faith is a Republican, having been for twenty-one years auditor of Moon township, and for two years secretary of the board of education. Mr. Douds is a prosperous farmer, well regarded in the county, and fulfills all the duties of good citizenship. His farm is improved with modern buildings, all of which he has erected, with the ex- ception of his dwelling.
Mr. Douds married (first) March 21, 1882, Nancy Weygandt, born August 7, 1857, died August, 1903, daughter of Colonel and Jane (Reed) Weygandt. Colonel Weygandt was a descendant of Raccoon township ancestors, and was born April 28, 1815, died July 7, 1902; married, Decem- ber 15, 1846, Jane, daughter of James and Betsey Reed, born November 30, 1822, died January 13, 1891. Children of Colonel and Jane (Reed) Wey- gandt: 1. Washington R., born September 10, 1847, died February 2, 1853. 2. Lewis Henry, born July 21, 1849, died May 12, 1851. 3. A son, born February 13, 1854, died in infancy. 4. Nancy, of previous mention, mar- ried George F. Douds. 5. John A., born in April, 1859, died August 10, 1859. 6. Barbara Alice, born August 31, 1860, died May 9, 1871. Children of George F. Douds and his first wife: 1. Minnie Pearl, born August 30, 1885; lives in Hopewell township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, wife of John Walace. 2. A son, born January 11, 1889, died April 5, 1889. 3. Edward C., born September 2, 1893; a school teacher, lives at home. Mr. Douds married (second) Laura Christler, of Shippingport, daughter of Michael Christler.
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This family is of Dutch origin, the emigrant ancestors MYTINGER having come to America a number of generations ago, and their numerous descendants are now to be found in many sections of the United States.
(I) John Calker Mytinger, the first of whom we have record, was born in the United States. He married, and among his children were: Robert Emmet, of further mention; John, who lost an arm while in active service during the Civil War; Wallace, who was also an active participant in that struggle; a sister, whose name is not on record. All of the sons were members of the Volunteer Fire Department in Harrisburg, Pennsyl- vania.
(II) Robert Emmet Mytinger, son of John Calker Mytinger, was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from the Williamsport Seminary, Pennsylvania. He was a prominent business man throughout his life, being engaged in the oil and lumber business, and operated a saw mill. About 1865 he removed to Columbiana county, Ohio. He was a member of the Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserves, serving three years and eleven days. During the progress of the battle of Gettysburg, he was serving with the Seventeenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer In- fantry, and was in the thick of this momentous struggle. His fraternal affiliations are with the Free and Accepted Masons, and with the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Mytinger married Barbara Jane Trippy, born in the state of Ohio, where her family had long been resident. They became the parents of eight daughters and two sons.
(III) George A. Mytinger, son of Robert Emmet and Barbara Jane (Trippy) Mytinger, was born six miles from Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio, July 10, 1878. He was a regular attendant at the public schools of his native county until he had reached the age of fifteen years, when he was apprenticed to learn the trade of tinning at Rogers, Ohio. When he had finished his apprenticeship he worked as a journeyman at the following places : East Palestine, Niles, in Ohio; Girard, New Castle, Butler and Ambridge, Pennsylvania. In March, 1904, Mr. Mytinger established himself in the tinning business independently in Ambridge, Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, and so successful was he in this undertaking that in 1910 he opened a building material supply business, conducting it under the name of The Ambridge Supply Company, and this is in a very flourishing condition. His business methods are thorough, practical and up-to-date in every par- ticular, and his stock in trade is one of the most complete of its kind. He is connected as a member with a number of organizations, among them being: Clover Lodge, No. 348, Ambridge Encampment, No. 259, and Agnes Fern Rebekah Lodge, No. 397, all of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows; and Beaver Valley Canton, No. 50.
Mr. Mytinger married, April 28, 1903, Sarah Amanda Dunbar, of But- ler, Butler county, Pennsylvania. They have children: Ruthetta, Thelma Elizabeth, Edith Roberta, Robert Emmet. Mr. Mytinger is considered one
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of the most progressive and enterprising young business men of the town, and his business is constantly increasing.
The Hoopes family, for many years identified with the
HOOPES interests of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, came from Eng- land in the latter half of the seventeenth century.
(I) Joshua Hoopes, the immigrant ancestor of this family, came to America with his wife Isabel and children in the year 1683. His children were Daniel, Margaret and one other whose name is not known.
(II) Daniel Hoopes, son of Joshua and Isabel Hoopes, was born in England, 1669, and came to America with his parents in 1683. He married Jane Worrilow and had seventeen children.
(III) Thomas Hoopes, son of Daniel and Jane (Worrilow) Hoopes, born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, 1714; married Susannah Davis.
(IV) David Hoopes, son of Thomas and Susannah (Davis) Hoopes, was drowned in Beaver river, 1811. He married Esther Townsend, of Chester county, Pennsylvania.
(V) Joseph Hoopes, son of David and Esther (Townsend) Hoopes, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1770. He married Eleanor Hamilton and had children : Frances, died at the age of three years ; Edward; Francis; Charles, died at the age of six years; William; May; Charles; Hamilton.
(VI) Edward Hoopes, son of Joseph and Eleanor (Hamilton) Hoopes, was born in Wilmington, Delaware, December 18, 1800. He was but two years of age when he was brought to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, by his parents, and the remainder of his life was identified with that locality. He was engaged in business as a banker and broker, and for a period of twenty- six years served as cashier of the old National Bank at New Brighton, Penn- sylvania. He married Cynthia, born in Brownville, Pennsylvania, 1797, daughter of Benjamin Townsend, of Chester county, Pennsylvania. Chil- dren: William Penn, born in September, 1826; Henry, died at the age of sixteen days; Robert Emmet, see forward; Henry, born December 18, 1831 ; Ellen, born October 3, 1834, unmarried, and lives in New Brighton, Penn- sylvania; Pamela T., born August 29, 1837, unmarried, and lives with her sister Ellen; Edward Joseph, born November 4, 1841, killed at the battle of Fredericksburg.
(VII) Robert Emmet Hoopes, son of Edward and Cynthia (Townsend) Hoopes, was born at Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1829. He was engaged in business as a private banker at Brighton, operating under the firm name of R. E. & H. Hoopes. He married Eliza Sargent, and had one child.
(VIII) John Sargent Hoopes, only child of Robert Emmet and Eliza (Sargent) Hoopes, was born in Brighton, Pennsylvania, died in 1886. He was a publisher of note in his native town. His political affiliations were
John J. Hopes
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with the Republican party, and he was a member of the New Brighton Epis- copal church, and of the order of Free and Accepted Masons. He married Elizabeth Rogers, who died in 1892, daughter of Colonel Daniel Rogers and Margaret (Clark) Davidson.
(IX) Eugene Sargent Hoopes, son of John Sargent and Elizabeth Rogers (Davidson) Hoopes, was born in New Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, November 2, 1879. His preparatory education was acquired in the public schools of Beaver county. He then entered the Pennsylvania Military College, from which he was graduated June 19, 1901, with the degree of Civil Engineer. He engaged in the manufacturing business, his chief products being steel and its by-products, at Beaver Falls, Pennsyl- vania. He is connected in an official capacity and otherwise with a number of other business enterprises, among them being: The Union Drawn Steel Corporation; the Beaver Clay Manufacturing Company of Beaver County ; the brickmaking business; First National Bank of Beaver Falls, and the Beaver Trust Company of Beaver. In political matters he is a member of the Progressive party. He is past master of St. James Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Hoopes married, November 3, 1903, Caroline May, daughter of James H. and Nellie (Reno) Cunningham. They have one child: Eugene Sargent Jr., born April 18, 1906. Mrs. Hoopes was graduated from Beaver College; was graduated in music from Geneva College; and was also graduated from the National Park Seminary, at Washington, District of Columbia. She is a member of the Chiopi Sorority in college. The home of Mr. Hoopes in Beaver is one of the most beautiful in that section, called "Nuk-Wud."
McANLIS That none but the closing chapter of the most thrilling of Scottish history can be cited to give authentic information of the lives and actions of those of the name of McAnlis or McAnliss, the latter the early spelling of the name, deprives the family of a record of which it might well be proud, for naught but a noble begin- ning could have given birth to a descendant of the valor of him with whom this record opens. When Prince Charles, of the house of Stuart, rallied a force round about him to do battle with the English hosts to, as he phrased it, "make Scotland once more a free and happy people," there were in his ranks many Highlanders whose ancestors had participated in the frays and conflicts that were even then history, and who were about to spill their life's blood in the swan song of that nation as such. When the defeat of that army on the moor of Culloden put to earth the final efforts of the Stuart line to regain power and marked the final surrender of the turbulent Scots, James McAnliss, who had nobly supported "Bonnie Prince Charlie" to the bitter end, was forced to flee the country with his family, for his sympathy with the Pretender was well known, as was his service in the army. For this reason the Scotch history of the line ends April 16, 1746, with the triumph of the forces of England, and county Fermanagh, Ireland, near
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Enniskillen, becomes the scene of the family life. James McAnliss was born in Southern Scotland, near Loch Fyne, about 1710, and in Ireland adopted agricultural pursuits, a decided contrast to the stirring scenes and actions into which he had been plunged in his native land. He married, and at his death, which occurred in middle age, he had a family of about seven chil- dren. Among these was Robert, of whom further.
(II) Robert McAnliss, son of James McAnliss, was born in Scotland, and was brought to Ireland when he was a small lad, there growing to vigorous manhood. He became the owner of a farm, and his home con- tained many of the possessions of the family that had been used in Scot- land, kept as precious relics and heirlooms, reminders of the homeland, their very love for which had caused their exile. Robert McAnliss was the pos- sessor of a powerful physique and excelled in athletic sports, being particu- larly fond of wrestling. Contests of strength were the usual thing at local fairs or to decide neighborhood supremacy, and for many years his supple and sinewy muscles gave him a champion's title to regnance in such sports, and whenever the sport of such meetings heightened into more serious com- bat, his virile strength was the nucleus about which his friends centered their attack or defense. He was not prodigal with the vigor of his stalwart frame, nor did he abuse its sturdy power, but lived a simple and natural life, attaining an old age and retaining much of his youthful activity until the end of his days. He was an unyielding Protestant all of his life, which was also the faith of his family. He married a member of the Mccullough family, and had two sons, William and James, and numerous daughters.
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