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JOBE Thomas F. Jobe, a prominent citizen of New Brighton, Penn- sylvania, is a member of a family which for a number of gen- erations has resided in that state. His paternal grandfather was Christian Jobe, a pioneer in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, where he owned a tract of land and a tavern, at which the old stage coaches used to stop, and where he was instrumental in settling and developing the country. His wife was Miss McNeese, who was descended from Irish parents, and she was born and passed her childhood in Ireland; she bore him four sons; Henry, John, Hill, Christian.
(II) Christian (2) Jobe, son of Christian (1) Jobe, was born in Bed- ford county, Pennsylvania. He was educated in the local schools, but spent a portion of his boyhood in the south with an uncle who resided in that part of the country. He began at a very early age to earn his own livelihood, and shortly established a reputation as a hard worker, which he maintained through life. He removed as a young man to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, becoming there a boatman, and ever keeping before his mind's eyes his ambition to rise to the rank of mate. A little later, however, he accepted a position with W. P. Townsend, a manufacturer of wire and rivets, with whom he remained for a period of thirty-six years, or until a paralytic stroke cut short his active life, although his death did not actually occur until two years later. At the opening of the Civil War, Mr. Jobe enlisted in the Union army, but upon the representations of his employer, that his first duty was to his family, he was released and did not serve. He married Annetta Judson, a native of New York state and a daughter of Virna and Anna (Bennett) Judson, natives of New England but of Scotch and Eng- lish ancestry. Mr. Judson was a cabinetmaker of skill, who made in his day many coffins. He moved from his native state, Connecticut, first to New York and later to Clarion county, Pennsylvania, where he settled on a farm and engaged in the lumber business. He finally removed to New Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, making the trip in a boat down the Ohio and up the Beaver river. His death occurred while on a fishing trip which
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he had undertaken alone. When he did not return therefrom, his family and friends, becoming alarmed, instituted a searching party, which some time after found him dead. To Mr. and Mrs. Jobe Sr. were born ten chil- dren; William, Byron, John, Lizzie, Emma, Charles, Thomas F., Ada, Hiram, Daniel.
(III) Thomas F. Jobe, son of Christian (z) Jobe, was born June 4, 1862, in Fallston, Pennsylvania. He was educated in the local schools there. While still a boy at school, he worked during the summers in a washboard factory at the wages of twenty-five cents a day. Upon complet- ing his studies, he found employment as a proofreader in a printing office, but remained in this position only a year. He next went to Beaver Falls and there spent four years in the car works learning the machinist's trade; Upon the completion of this apprenticeship, he secured a position with the Keystone Driller Works, and later with Pierce & Merrick, with whom he remained for two years or until the burning of their factory. Mr. Jobe's next move was to Salem, Ohio, where he worked for about six months on the construction of new machinery for the Standard Horse Nail Works. He soon returned to Pennsylvania, however, and made his home in New Brighton and entered the employ of the Standard Horse Nail Company, Incorporated. With this firm he remained twenty years, having charge of the finishing department during the sixteen years of that period. Later Mr. Jobe entered an entirely new field, and operated for the period of a year the pool room, bowling alley and restaurant known as "The Club" in Beaver Falls. For a few years thereafter he engaged in mining and oil operations and owns much oil stock in various companies. He was at one time a director in the Pierce Machine Company and the Standard Horse Nail Company. In 1911 he entered the calendar business in which he is now engaged, being a salesman for that commodity.
Mr. Jobe married, July 16, 1889, Maude Amelia Welch, by whom he has had four children: Mildred Opal, Mont Thayer, George Powell, Catherine Edith. Mr. Jobe is a staunch member of the Republican party, whose aim has constantly been to make right predominate in the party rather than to submit to compromise. He has been very active in local politics and in pub- lic affairs generally. He is a member of Lodge No. 351, Knights of Pythias, the Junior Order of American Mechanics, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Commercial Travelers Association. Mrs. Jobe is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Jobe is an attendant.
Of the many different nations that yearly send their quota of BRUHN men to the United States, there is none whose citizens, in this transplanting process, take firmer root and blossom more pro- lifically than Germany's. In times numerous beyond mention this has been proved, and to claim that country as one's birthplace is assurance more than ordinary that achievements of worth and merit will follow.
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It is of this descent that the Bruhns of this chronicle hold membership, John M., born in Germany, being the emigrant ancestor of the line.
The early life of John M. Bruhn was spent in the fatherland and there his education was obtained, in the scholastic institutions that have made that country one of the most renowned centers of culture in the world. Upon his arrival in the United States he resided for a time in New York City, and was there married, his wife, Adelaide, having come to that place from a town in Germany near Hamburg, his birthplace, the ancestors of both having lived in Germany for generations unknown. John M. Bruhn moved from New York City to Potter county, Pennsylvania, and for a time was employed in a store owned by the company that operated the tannery in the same place. His next residence was Chicago, Illinois, and there he worked in a carriage shop until his death. That city is the home of his widow, who survives him to the present day. They were the parents of eight children, of whom six were daughters and two sons, one of the latter being John D., of whom further.
John D. Bruhn, son of John M. and Adelaide Bruhn, was born in Coudersport, Potter county, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1877. After attend- ing the public schools throughout the days of his youth he obtained em- ployment in a bakery and in the course of his service there became master of the baker's trade, in which his instruction had begun when he was thir- teen years of age. Leaving his home, he was employed at his trade in New York City until 1893, and two years later moved to Southern Pines, South Carolina, whence he returned, after one year's stay, to New York City. Still in the pursuit of the same business, in 1898, he went to Chicago, Illi- nois, but on January 1, 1899, left the baker's business permanently and entered upon a business relation with the Thomas Thorkildsen Company that has continued for fourteen years, during which time the name of the company has been changed and the branch of which he is the present man- ager established. The name of the parent concern, engaged in the manu- facture of borax, is the Thorkildsen-Mather Company, and under its former name Mr. Bruhn entered its employ in the capacity of fireman, his subsequent promotions carrying him through the grades of engineer and foreman of the refining department. In 1908 a branch of this corporation was established at New Brighton, and the choice of a manager for that department of the business fell upon him, an action reasonable and war- ranted because of his excellent record and service in the company's em- ploy, which, in his appointment to that position, received well-deserved recognition. The branch of the business situated at New Brighton operates and transacts business under the name of Brighton Chemical Company, and as its manager and active director Mr. Bruhn has enjoyed a prosperous and successful administration, success probably engendered by his minute knowledge of the operations of the entire plant, gained through a term of service in the factory of the organization that begot that of which he is the head. His policy is not one solely of office strategy, but has a foundation
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based upon actual experience, tempered by a sympathetic understanding of the mainstay of his works, his employees. He holds membership in the National Association of Stationary Engineers, with which he became asso- ciated upon his entrance into his present field of endeavor.
Mr. Bruhn married, in 1901, Clara E. Hengel, of New York City, and has two children, Henry H. and Carrie E. Mr. Bruhn is a Republican in political belief but outside of casting his vote takes no interest in politics. He attends the Presbyterian Church Bible Class.
The Shallenberger family flourished in Canton SHALLENBERGER Uri, Switzerland, where its descent is traceable to the fourteenth century. They took their name from the mountain on which they lived, Shallenberger or Echo Mountain.
(I) Ulrich Shallenberger emigrated to America in 1770, and settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.
(II) John Shallenberger, son of Ulrich Shallenberger, was born in Canton Uri, Switzerland, and was a very young infant when he was brought to this country by his parents. He married and had children.
(III) Abraham Shallenberger, youngest child of John Shallenberger, removed with his family to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1790.
(IV) Abraham (2) Shallenberger, son of Abraham (1) Shallenberger, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, August 22, 1797, died in Roch- ester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1868. After his marriage he re- moved to Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in business as a maker of harness, saddles, whips, etc. In April, 1856, he removed to Rochester, Beaver county, and there became associated in business with his son, Dr. Aaron T. Shallenberger, in the manufacture of Dr. Shallenberger's Fever and Ague Antidote, and was thus occupied until his death. In his earlier years he affiliated with the Whig party and later joined the ranks of the Republicans. He and his family were members of the Baptist Church.
Mr. Shallenberger married, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in February, 1822, Rachel Newmyer, who died in 1870. They had children : I. Harriet, born October 29, 1822; she married Dr. James McConaughey, of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania; her last days were spent in York, Ne- braska. Children: Laura, Ida, John deceased; Dr. Robert McConaughey, of York, Nebraska. 2. Laura, born April 1, 1824, died in infancy. 3. Dr. Aaron T., of further mention. 4. George A., born April 27, 1827; after being educated in the public schools of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, he entered upon a business career; for a time he was in the dry goods bus- iness in Munntown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, then came to Rochester, Beaver county, about 1853, and there became interested in the manufacture of Dr. Shallenberger's Fever and Ague Antidote; for some years he was superintendent of the Morganza Reform School, and warden in the Western Penitentiary; at the time of the Civil War he enlisted in Company I, One
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Hundred and Fortieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, holding the rank of second lieutenant, and was advanced to brigade quartermaster ; later he became quartermaster of the Second Corps under General Han- cock; at the close of the war he was appointed warden of the Reform School at Washington, District of Columbia, and was still in office there at the time of his death in 1903 or 1904; Mr. Shallenberger married Arti- lissa Hull and had children: Ella, Georgia James. 5. John Lloyd, born April 12, 1829; was a merchant in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and followed the same line of business in Clarion county, where he was living at the time of his death; he married and had children : Cora, who married - Rave, a druggist of Philadelphia; Maggie, mar- ried William Hineman, who later became a judge in Clarion county ; Frank, deceased; Stella, who never married. 6. Smith, twin of John Lloyd, was connected with the manufacturing interests of his brother, Dr. Aaron T., he never married, and died in the sixties. 7. Elizabeth C., born August 13, 1831 ; she married George Bonbright, who was for many years a member of the firm of Bhuler, Bonbright & Company, of Philadelphia; he died in that city in 1888, and his widow is now living with her sister, Mrs. E. M. Power; children: James, Walter, Edwin Stanton. 8. James, born January 23, 1833, died in infancy. 9. Susan, born March 6, 1837; married Edward M. Power, of Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and they have chil- dren: William, Rachel, Howard, Mary, Edward, George, Elizabeth. 10. General William S., born November 24, 1839; studious from his earliest years, he engaged in teaching after the completion of his education, and was also interested in the wholesale drug business at the time of the out- break of the Civil War; he offered his services to his country, was adjutant in the One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment, and was wounded three times; he was a member of the staff of Colonel Roberts, and was actively engaged at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, battle of the Wilderness, and numerous minor skirmishes; at the close of the war he became cashier of the First National Bank of Rochester, a position he held for some years; he served as chairman of the county committee, and was elected to congress from his district for three consecutive terms; he was appointed second assistant postmaster general under Mckinley, and served for ten consecutive years, after which he resigned; he is now assistant to Dr. Green, in the Baptist Church, of Washington, District of Columbia, superintendent of the Sun- day school, and leader and teacher of the Vaughn Bible Class of the Calvary Baptist Church, one of the most noted Bible classes in the United States ; General Shallenberger married Josephine, daughter of George Thomas J. Powers, a pioneer settler of Beaver county, Pennsylvania; they have had children: Elizabeth, married Frederick M. Smith, of Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia; Mary, married Harper McClerg, of Washington, District of Columbia; William, a photographer in Akron, Ohio; Josephine, married Rev. Paul Sperry and lives in a suburb of Boston. 11. Cyrus Vance, was educated in the public schools and came to Rochester, Beaver county, Penn-
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sylvania, at the age of thirteen years; he then became a student at the Beaver Academy, and entered the sophomore class of the University of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, now Bucknell College; he became interested with his brother, Dr. Aaron T., in the Fever and Ague Antidote, manufactured by the latter, and after the death of Dr. Shallenberger became general man- ager of the business on Ohio avenue, Rochester; in politics he is a Re- publican, and served as school director eighteen years; he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church, in which he is a deacon, and of which he has been treasurer for the past fifteen years; Mr. Shallenberger married (first) in 1867, Emma Seeley, of Rochester, who died in 1869, leaving one son, Charles S., who has now been for a number of years with the H. C. Fry Glass Company; Mr. Shallenberger married (second) Mary Pittman, of Rochester, Pennsylvania, in 1875, and has one daughter, Lillian C., who married Dr. J. S. Darragh, of Woodlawn, Pennsylvania, and has one child, Marian A., now a junior at the Woodlawn High School.
(V) Dr. Aaron T. Shallenberger, son of Abraham (2) and Rachel (Newmyer) Shallenberger, was born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1825, died in 1901. He received his early education in the public schools of his native county and at the Greens- burg Academy, and then took up the study of medicine with Dr. W. C. Reiter. Matriculating at the Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, he was graduated from this institution with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the class of 1846. He came to Rochester the following year, and later engaged in the manufacture of his celebrated Fever and Ague Antidote, with which he was actively identified until his death. Dr. Shallenberger married, September 1, 1846, Mary S. Bonbright, born in Youngstown, Penn- sylvania, July 12, 1828, and the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding was celebrated in 1896. He and his wife were members of the Baptist Church. Prior to engaging in the manufacture of his medicine, Dr. Shallenberger was engaged in medical practice for a number of years, and later acted as consulting physician with his son, Dr. Horace M. Shallenberger.
Mrs. Shallenberger was a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Smith) Bonbright, the former an early settler of Youngstown, Pennsylvania, where he was a merchant, They had children: 1. Eliza. 2. Catherine. 3. John, came to Rochester in 1840, where he was a dry goods merchant, and erected a number of houses ; he later removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where he died. 4. William, came to Rochester at the same time as John, and was a manu- facturer of starch; later he removed to Philadelphia, where he died. 5 George. 6. James. 7. Mary S., mentioned above. 8. Daniel, who died in 1912 at the age of eighty-one years. Following are extracts from an article by Prof. Amos W. Patten, this appearing in the New York Christian Ad- vocate :
On December 15, 1912, there assembled in Evanston, Ill., the seat of the Northwestern University, a great audience to do honor to the memory of the oldest and most distinguished member of the faculty. Professor Daniel Bon-
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bright, LL.D., dean emeritus and professor of the Latin language and literature, had entered into the larger life. A graduate of Yale in the class of 1850, he was in 1856 elected to the chair of Latin in the Northwestern University. After two years of preparatory study in Germany he assumed his duties, bringing to his work a personality and a professional equipment which marked him for a teacher of unusual ability. For many years he served as dean of the college of liberal arts and was also president ad interim. On three different occasions he was offered the presidency which he declined, preferring his work as teacher. Attractive offers from outside failed to lure him, and he chose to remain with the university, enriching it with the wealth of his culture, his serene and beauti- ful life, and his pre-eminent powers as a teacher. No one who was privileged to work under him will ever forget the tonic of his presence, and the peculiar force and elegance with which he interpreted the classic authors. Dr. Bonbright's departure marks the last of the elect company who had to do with the founding of the university and the early days of Evanston.
Dr. and Mrs. Shallenberger had children: 1. 2. 3. Charles, Alice and Laura, deceased. 4. Dr. Horace M. Shallenberger, born October 4, 1853; he was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, and was a member of the staff of the Beaver Valley General Hospital; he was also a lecturer in the Training School for Nurses; Dr. Shallenberger married, November II, 1897, Mrs. Carrie B. Wack. 5. Alethe, married, March 18, 1875, Albert Aretus Atterholt, born at Guilford, Ohio, February 23, 1852, a son of Reazin Bell and Julia Ann (Hill) Atterholt; he came to Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1874, and served as postmaster from 1900 to 1905, and is at present a traveling salesman for the McKee Glass Company ; he is a Republican and has served as a member of the common council; he has also been president of the Business Men's Association; children : Oliver S., manager of the Luzerne Cut Glass Company, of Pittston; Albert Ward, a civil engineer, has charge of a government dam at New Cumber- land, West Virginia; Frederick, died in infancy. 6. Oliver B., born May 7, 1860; in 1877 he entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and was graduated as cadet engineer, and took the two years' cruise; re- tired from the service in 1883, and devoted himself to electrical research; chief electrician of the Westinghouse Electric Company; elected an asso- ciate member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers on Septem- ber 7, 1888, and a member, December 4, of the same year; in 1891 retained as consulting engineer; he was one of the organizers, and at the time of his death president of the Colorado Electric Power Company; he married, November 27, 1889, Mary W. Woolstair, of Beaver, and died January 23, 1898; he was the inventor of numerous electrical improvements which will perpetuate his name. 7. Herbert B., born January 19, 1869, died in Florida, March 11, 1899; he excelled in designing and photography, and in the latter field made many experiments and discoveries; he was the patentee of a number of valuable improvements for cameras, and the results he obtained from the use of Roentgen rays were recognized as superior by specialists in this line of experimentation ; he married, September 2, 1893, Mary W., a daughter of William Moulds, of Rochester. 8. William,
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The family bearing this name at the present time in New Brigh- LINT ton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, is among the representative ones of that section of the state. They have borne their share bravely in all the troubles which have come to the state and to the country at large, and have been particularly active in industrial and commercial lines. Just when the family came to Pennsylvania is not a matter of record, but it is certain that they have been there for a number of generations.
(I) Henry Lint, the first of whom we have record, was one of the early settlers in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where he was twice mar- ried. By his first wife, Nancy -, he had: Abraham N., of further mention ; William, Henry, Peter, Aaron. By the second marriage there were: Abraham, John, Elizabeth.
(II) Abraham N. Lint, son of Henry and Nancy Lint, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, March 28, 1847. He was educated in the public schools, and having been raised in the coke region, he was thoroughly familiar with all the details which were in use in producing this most neces- sary supply. He assisted in building the first coke ovens ever constructed in the United States, and has been connected with work of this nature all his life. The Beehive ovens, built for Cochran Brothers, were also built with his assistance. He gives his consistent support to the Democratic party, and is a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Lint married Susan Moon, born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1849, one of the daughters of Jacob and - (Rittenhour) Moon, both born in the United States, of German parents, and they had children: Aby, Mary, Harrison, Sarah, Susan. Mrs. Moon died, and he married a second time, and has one child, Ella. Mr. and Mrs. Lint have had children: George A., of further mention; Frank J., killed on the Lake Erie Railroad in 1898; Cassinda; Elizabeth; Emerson; Angie, died in 1912; Norman; Jacob Henry, de- ceased ; Elma; Walter.
(III) George A. Lint, son of Abraham N. and Susan (Moon) Lint, was born near Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1868. Like his father he was educated in the public schools, and soon became familiar with the workings of the coke industry. For some years he was employed at the coke works, but at the age of twenty years entered the service of the Lake Erie Railroad Company, with which he has been con- nected since that time with the exception of a period of seven years and eight months when he was with the Norfolk & Western and the Pennsyl- vania Railroad companies. He has now filled the responsible office of con- ductor for twenty-two years. He has lived in New Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, since 1907, and owns the house in which he resides at No. 1227 Penn avenue. Mr. Lint is a Socialist in his political views, and a member of the Order of Railroad Conductors since 1893. He is also a mem- ber of the Knights of Malta and the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Lint married, in 1892, Charlotte Couch, born in Pennsylvania, De- cember 9, 1859. They have one child : Claire G., born December 14, 1894,
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at Roanoke, Virginia, who has been educated in the public schools and was graduated from the New Brighton high school. Mrs. Lint is a daughter of Orlando and Charlotte (Dunbar) Couch, he born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and she born in Philadelphia in 1830; he died July 15, 1908, and she died July 22, 1911. They had children: Esther Emily, born December 9, 1850; John S., January 14, 1853; Nathan A., January 19, 1855, died December 27, 1911; David D., July 10, 1857, died June 24, 1895; Charlotte, mentioned above as the wife of Mr. Lint; Eliza S., May 2, 1862, died March 29, 1909; Mary A., October 11, 1864, died February 20, 1894; Orlando R., March 25, 1867. Nathan Couch, grandfather of Mrs. Lint, was a pioneer settler of Beaver county, and died September 2, 1878. He married Emily and had these children: Orlando, mentioned as the father of Mrs. Lint; William, Addison, Edward, Sophia, Catherine. David Dunbar, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Lint, was born in England, was a pioneer settler of New Brighton, Pennsylvania, and died in Phila- delphia. He married Esther Dewey, who died March 9, 1884, at the age of eighty years. She married (second) John Squires, who died in New Brighton, August 15, 1859. Esther Dewey was a daughter of Jacob Dewey, who settled at Darby, near Philadelphia, and died at the age of one hundred and four years. He married Anna Myers, who worked for British officers, and they had children : William, Albert, Adam, Richard, Eliza, Anna, Maria, Esther, who married David Dunbar, mentioned above; Charlotte.
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