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and then the Hobo Glass Company, of New Brighton, For a time he worked in the Speyerer Hotel, and was the proprietor and manager of a wholesale liquor business in Rochester for three years. In April, 1913, he became the proprietor of the Speyerer Hotel in Rochester, which he is conducting on the most modern ideas. The service is of the highest grade, the cuisine excellent, and the comfort of the numerous guests is looked after in the most capable and thorough manner. Mr. Chaffee is Republican in his politi- cal adherence, and is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the United Order of American Mechanics. He married, December 18, 1902, Blanche, daughter of William and Martha Johnston, of Monaca, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. They have no children.
TRUMPETER Philadelphia was the first home of this branch of the Trumpeter family, of Germany, although the emigrant ancestor, John Trumpeter, later proceeded further in- land, residing in Harmony, Pennsylvania. He was a carpenter by trade and in following his occupation settled in Monaca, where he died in 1871. He married (first) Miss Wolfram, who died in 1841, (second) Dorothy Fisher. By each of his marriages he became the father of one son, of the first, Gilbert, of whom further, of the second, William.
(II) Gilbert Trumpeter, son of John and - (Wolfram) Trumpeter, was born in Monaca, died March 19, 1890. He spent his boyhood in Monaca, there attended the public schools. His own education completed, for a time he taught in Monaca, later abandoning the profession to follow an occupation for which he had more liking and which was immeasurably more beneficial to him physically, that of gardener. With no competition worthy of the name, he prospered and became the owner of a great deal of real estate, owning about one-third of the town and laying out the first addition to Monaca. In the latter venture he was particularly successful and acquired a wide-spread reputation as a shrewd real estate dealer. He was a Democrat in political faith, although in later years he became an ardent champion of the Republican party. Both he and his wife were mem- bers of the German Lutheran Church. He married Elizabeth Mechan, who died in 1907, daughter of Henry and Barbara Mechan, natives of Germany and early settlers of Monaca, Pennsylvania. Children of Henry and Bar- bara Mechan: John, a soldier in the Union army during the Civil war, killed at the battle of Fredericksburg; Philip; Martin; Elizabeth, of previ- ous mention, married Gilbert Trumpeter; Mary; all of whom are deceased. Children of Gilbert and Elizabeth (Mechan) Trumpeter: Nelson Horatio, of whom further; Helena; Clara; John, of whom further; Alice, died in infancy; Gilbert of whom further; Mary; Emma; William; Florence; Laura; Sophia, twin of Laura.
(III) Nelson Horatio Trumpeter, eldest son of Gilbert (1) and Eliza- beth (Mechan) Trumpeter, was born in Monaca, Beaver county, Pennsyl-
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vania, October 20, 1857. He attended the public schools of his native town, and until he was twenty-four years of age remained at home as his father's assistant. His business career is peculiar in that it has embraced employment with but one firm, the Phoenix Glass Company, of Monaca. As an employee of this corporation he has been engaged in all grades of service, from laborer, his original position, to order clerk, his present station. He has held the latter position for twenty-six years of faithful service, fruitful as well. He has, moreover, found time to devote to political, religious and financial duties outside of his business and is active in all three. He was one of the organizers of the Cammar Building and Loan Association and at the present time holds the office of secretary. His political faith is strongly Republican and as a member of that organization he has been secretary of the Monaca council, member of the school board, and for nine years was auditor of the borough. He holds membership in the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and the Daughters of Liberty. He is a charter mem- ber of the English Lutheran Church, and has ever devoted himself to its various institutions with unselfish enthusiasm, having been secretary of the church council for twenty-one years, treasurer for five years and su- perintendent of the Sunday school for a period of twenty-six years. The latter, if one is familiar with Sunday school work, shows loyalty to and love for his church in the highest degree, the office requiring constant self- sacrifice and as constant attention.
Mr. Trumpeter married (first) in May, 1883, Emma Vollhardt, died February 1, 1887, daughter of Henry Vollhardt; (second) in September, 1889, Fannie Scott, born in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1859, daughter of Albert and Maria (Branch) Wentworth. Albert Wentworth was a native of New York, came with his wife to Newcastle and later to Monaca, where he died in February, 1911, his wife dying in the same place in 1906. Child of Nelson Horatio Trumpeter by his first marriage: Charles, died in infancy. Children of Nelson Horatio Trumpeter by his second marriage: 1. George Harbison, born July 6, 1890; a graduate of Monaca high school and Butcher's Business College, of Beaver Falls; a stenographer in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad; married, Decem- ber 25, 1912, Hazel Byerle, of New Brighton, Pennsylvania, and resides at Monaca, Pennsylvania. 2. Albert Wentworth, born September 23, 1892; a graduate of Monaca high school, now a student of Thiel College, of Greenville, Pennsylvania, where he is preparing for the ministry. 3. Ida Belle, born December 3, 1894; a student in Monaca high school, class of 1914. 4. Luella Valentine, born February 14, 1897; a student in Monaca high school, class of 1915.
(III) John (2), son of Gilbert (1) and Elizabeth (Mechan) Trum- peter, was born in Monaca, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, December 11, 1863. He obtained his education in the public schools, and until 1901, when the Phoenix Steel Company purchased their farm, was engaged in ex- tensive and successful gardening operations with his brothers Gilbert and
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William. In 1903 he established in the grocery business at 1299 Pennsyl- vania avenue and has since continued there in the same line. He is the owner of the building in which his store is located and has built a large and profitable trade, his establishment being held in great favor among the townspeople, excellent and courteous service the keynote of its pros- perity. Mr. Trumpeter is a strict Prohibitionist in politics, observing all the principles of that party in his daily life, and belongs to the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and the Daughters of Liberty. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He married, November 28, 1889, Louisa Emma Preece, born in Eng- land, May 29, 1871, daughter of Elam and Louisa Emma (Roberts) Preece. Her mother and father were both natives of England and came to the United States in 1881, settling first in Allegheny county, Pennsyl- vania, later coming to Beaver county, settling first in Freedom and later in Monaca, where he died in 1896. He was a quarryman, and is survived by his wife, who lives in Monaca, Pennsylvania. Children of Elam and Louisa Emma (Roberts) Preece: Louisa Emma, of previous mention, married John Trumpeter; Henry, Sidney John, George Joseph, William Richard, Fannie, Mary Ann, Alice Grace, Florence, and a son, twin of Florence, died in infancy. Children of John and Louisa Emma (Preece) Trumpeter: I. Elizabeth Eva, born December 30, 1890; a graduate of Monaca high school, valedictorian of the class of 1906, and of Slippery Rock State Normal School, class of 1908; for one year she was a teacher in the Monaca public school; she married Charles T. Weidner, of Monaca; child, Willis Harold. 2. Louisa Emma, born March 12, 1892; a graduate of Monaca high school, class of 1907; married, June 16, 1908, Albert Elliot Carver, of Monaca; child, Roslyn Doris. 3. Verna Hazel, born July 21, 1895; a graduate of Rochester high school, class of 1912, now a school teacher in Patterson township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. 4. John (2), born July 16, 1907; attends the Monaca public schools.
(III) Gilbert (2) Trumpeter, son of Gilbert (1) and Elizabeth (Mechan) Trumpeter, was born in Monaca, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1869. He spent his early life in Monaca and there attended the public schools, beginning business life as a market gardener. This he con- tinued until he was twenty-one years of age when he and his brothers, John and William, formed a partnership, and began gardening operations on a much more pretentious scale than had ever been attempted in that locality prior to that time. One of their farms is now the site of the Colonial Steel Works, and the other the main part of Monaca is situated on, and here they raised garden truck of the choicest varieties, keeping five wagons constantly on the road disposing of their produce and conduct- ing the most extensive operations of their kind in that part of Pennsyl- vania. Mr. Trumpeter continued in this line with great profit until the erection of the steel works in 1901, since which time he has engaged in real estate dealing, also fire insurance selling, his office located at Nos.
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1216-18 Pennsylvania avenue. He has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since he was twenty-one years of age and was the youngest elder in the Pittsburgh Presbytery, holding membership in his church session when he was but twenty-two years of age, Much of his time has been given to the advancement of church interests and influences, the generous spirit in which his services are rendered giving them unusual value. His wife is a member of the same denomination. He is a Republican in politics; his activity in the political world being confined to giving his support to the best qualified candidate. He affiliates with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, the Daughters of Liberty and the Order of Golden Eagles. Mr. Trumpeter married, March 7, 1892, Lydia, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Sands) Barton. Her parents are both deceased, and were among the earliest settlers of Raccoon township, Beaver county, Penn- sylvania.
The American ancestor of this line of Rihns was in his native RIHN land and in this country a follower of agricultural pursuits. This was Michael Rihn, born in Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, who on coming to the United States settled first in Deer Creek, later in Hoboken, Pennsylvania, his death and that of his wife occurring in the latter place. Among his children were two sons, one of whom, Andrew, was a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, serving through the entire conflict. The other was Joseph, of whom further.
(II) Joseph Rihn, son of Michael Rihn, was born in Hoboken, Alle- gheny county, Pennsylvania, and in his youth was a student in the schools of that place. Mercantile business was the field that claimed his earlier efforts, and in that he steadily progressed until he became proprietor of an establishment of his own, still continuing in that line in Pittsburgh. His dili- gent application to his business has been rewarded by material prosperity, due him for his earnest, well-applied labors. He married Caroline P., daugh- ter of Charles Lauer, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, her father having for many years been a merchant of Pittsburgh, spending nearly his entire life in that pursuit. Joseph and Caroline P. Rihn are the parents of four mature children, two having died as minors.
(III) Charles Michael Rihn, son of Joseph and Caroline P. (Lauer) Rihn, was born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1880, died June 3, 1914. In the public schools of that city, Duquesne Uni- versity and finally in the Iron City College, he obtained his education, grad- uating from the latter institution in the class of 1897. His first business experience was received under the kindly instruction of his father, in whose dry goods store Mr. Rihn was employed for two years, and he was imme- diately afterward employed by the Standard Scale and Supply Company for the same length of time. The American Bridge Company claimed his services for the five following years, and after a short association with the Ambridge Trust Company he entered the service of the Economy Realty
Im T. Farr.
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Company, and from 1905 to his death was engaged in the real estate business in Ambridge, Beaver county. His business experience was wide and varied for one whose years were as few as his, and the training he received in other lines aided him in quickly accustoming himself to the manner of procedure in his new undertaking, at which, in the nine years that he was connected with the Economy Realty Company, he amply proved his worth.
The name of Farr is borne by families in various sections of FARR the United States. It would appear that they came to this coun-
try originally from England, settled in New England, and from there spread to other regions, in some instances being among the pioneer settlers of districts.
(I) William Farr was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, where he was a farmer and stock raiser. About the year 1861 he removed to Columbiana county, Ohio, where he followed the same occupation, and there his death occurred. He was a staunch Whig in politics. He married Rachel Hum- phrey, and had children: Levan S., see forward; Jonas H., see forward; Elijah, Letitia, Theresa, Maria.
(II) Levan S. Farr, son of William and Rachel (Humphrey) Farr, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, died in Jennings county, Indiana, about the year 1862. Like his father he was a farmer and stock raiser, and successful in both enterprises. He married Eleanor Lyon, and had children : William T., see forward; Martha, deceased; Lena M., deceased.
(III) William T. Farr, son of Levan S. and Eleanor (Lyon) Farr, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, and from the age of seven years was reared by his grandparents. He was educated in the public schools of Indiana and Ohio, and until the age of twenty years taught school in Meigs and Gallia counties, Ohio. He then learned the carpenter's trade, with which he was occupied at the time he came to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, 1884, and there continued it. He was one of the organizers of the Tallon- Farr Lumber Company, the other member of the firm being R. E. Tallon, his father-in-law. This company does a general contracting and retail lumber business, and it is one of the important enterprises of this section of the county. In political matters Mr. Farr was formerly a Republican, but since the formation of the Washington party, he has affiliated with that. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. His fraternal relations are with the following named organizations, in all of which he has held official position: Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Woodmen of the World; Knights of Pythias. He is now in office as vice-president of the Knights of Pythias Home of the State of Pennsylvania, and a member of the committee to the Grand Lodge. Mr. Farr married, December 4, 1890, Effie Tallon, and they have: Martha, now Mrs. E. H. Brooks, of Crestline, Ohio; they have one child, Gyla Elizabeth.
(II) Jonas H. Farr, son of William and Rachel (Humphrey) Farr, was
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born in Elk Run township, Columbiana county, Ohio, December 26, 1825, died June 30, 1896. He was engaged in farming. In politics he was a Republican and served as township trustee. His religious affiliation was with the Christian church. He married Christine A., born in Elk Run township, Columbiana county, Ohio, October 24, 1827, died November I, 1884, daughter of Michael and Letitia (Longshore) Gardner, both Ameri- cans. They had children: William A., born November 14, 1847, died Sep- tember 20, 1907; Letitia, July 26, 1850; Michael E., July 3, 1853; Elijah E., November 18, 1858; Louis T., see forward.
(III) Louis T. Farr, son of Jonas H. and Christine A. (Gardner) Farr was born in Middleton township, Columbiana county, Ohio, July 24, 1865. The record of his education is as follows: District school at East Carmel, Columbiana county, Ohio; was graduated in the classical course from Mount Hope Academy, Rogers, Ohio, June 11, 1889; received the degree of Master of Arts from Volant College, Volant, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, June, 1892; received the degree of Master of Arts at Bethany College, West Virginia, June, 1910. For some years he taught school, in the meantime pursuing the study of law and in due time became a practicing attorney. He has served as judge of the probate and juvenile courts of Columbiana county, Ohio. For a considerable length of time he was a member of the board of directors of the Firestone Bank, Lisbon, Ohio, until his resigna- tion in 1913. His political opinions are those of the Republican party, and he has served as mayor of the village of Rogers, Ohio, and as a member of the school board. He is a member of the Christian church, and his fraternal connections are: Vice-councilor, councilor and past councilor of Rogers Council, Junior Order of United American Mechanics; chancellor, com- mander and past chancellor of Pleasant Valley Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Rogers, Ohio; Negley Lodge, No. 565, Free and Accepted Masons; New Lisbon Chapter, No. 92, Royal Arch Masons; Pilgrim Commandery, No. 55, Knights Templar, of East Liverpool, Ohio.
Mr. Farr married, at Rogers, Ohio, December 24, 1891, Pearle A. Byers, born in Colfax, Indiana, March 24, 1875, daughter of Marion and Almarine Byers, the former a farmer, whose other children are: Josie E. and Harry E. Mr. and Mrs. Farr have no children.
ECKERT Once more, in the case of the Eckerts, do the records of a Beaver county family trace to Germany, that country, the prolific supplier of this country with immigrants, having been the place of birth of John Henry Eckert, born in 1790, who in 1843 came with his wife to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he became a farmer. In his native land he had been a builder, but he speedily adapted himself to his new business, and through his characteristic habits of application and industry he directed a successful career in that line. He died in Economy township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1862, his wife's death taking place two years later. He married, in Germany, Margaret Reichert, and had
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children, all born in that land, all subsequently coming to the United States : I. William George, killed in a railroad accident on the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne Railroad two years after that road was completed. 2. Peter George, deceased. 3. Katherine, deceased. 4. Jacob, deceased. 5. John Henry (2), of whom further. 6. Clark, deceased. 7. Ozena. 8. John Adam.
(II) John Henry (2) Eckert, son of John Henry (1) and Margaret (Reichert) Eckert, was born in Germany, January 28, 1828. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native land. After the family's immigration to the United States he was employed on his father's farm, later located in Pittsburgh, remaining until 1868, but in 1863 purchased one hundred and seventy acres of land in Moon township. In 1901 he disposed of all of his property with the exception of the acre surrounding his home. Here, in the house built at his direction, he now (1914) resides, aged eighty-six years. During his residence in the United States the Democratic party has received his undivided support and allegiance, the only offices he has held being those of school director and member of the election board. He be- longs to the United Evangelical Protestant church, of which his wife was also a member.
Mr. Eckert married, August 1, 1853, Charlotta Koerner, born in Ger- many, in 1834, daughter of Jacob Koerner, who came from Germany in 1840 and died in Moon township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in the home of John Henry (2) Eckert. Children of John Henry (2) and Charlotta (Koerner) Eckert: 1. Henry Ludwig, born May 18, 1854, died in infancy. 2. August, born October 5, 1855, died in infancy. 3. Albert Henry, born March 1, 1857; a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, secretary and treas- urer of the German Insurance Company. 4. Emma Margaret, born Novem- ber 9, 1858; lives with her father in Moon township, Beaver county, Penn- sylvania. 5. Ferdinand Carl, born April 4, 1860; a butcher of McKee's Rocks, Pennsylvania. 6. Henry John, of whom further. 7. William George, born December 10, 1864; a resident of Grafton, Pennsylvania, proprietor of a grocery business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 8. Ernest Frederick, born March 11, 1866; a grocer of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he resides. 9. Charles Richard, of whom further. 10. Theodore Walter, born September 25, 1871 ; proprietor of a restaurant in Niles, Ohio.
(III) Henry John Eckert, son of John Henry (2) and Charlotta (Koerner) Eckert, was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1862. He was reared on the home farm, obtaining his education in the neighborhood schools." Until 1902 he was a farmer, in that year purchasing the flouring mills at Monaca, where he now owns the Monaca Rolling Mills, which have been operated under his direction since 1902. This business is in a prosperous condition, is capably managed by Mr. Eckert and con- tinues one of the foremost industries of Monaca. Mr. Eckert's only other business relation is as stockholder in the Monaca National Bank. He is a Democrat in politics, a firm believer in the advisability and practicability of the single tax.
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(III) Charles R. Eckert, son of John Henry (2) and Charlotta (Koer- ner) Eckert, was born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, Jan- uary 20, 1868. He grew to maturity on the home farm in Moon township, obtaining an excellent education in the public schools of Moon township, Peirsol's Academy, and Geneva College. Completing his studies in the latter institution he began the study of law in the office of the firm of Thomson & Martin, being admitted to the bar, December 4, 1894, when he immediately established in practice in Beaver county. His residence is in Monaca Heights, where he owns and operates a farm, putting in practice some scientific theories in which he is interested. Although he has met with success as an advocate and possesses a worthy clientele, he prefers his agricultural pur- suits to the legal profession and derives therefrom infinitely more of pleasure and of benefit. He affiliates with the Democratic party in politics, in which field he has been active, and is a hearty supporter of the single tax principle, of which Henry George was so sturdy a champion. He believes that a man's connections or associations are not indications of worth or merit, but that one's manner of life, his attitude toward his fellow-men and his deep and sincere feelings are the only true criterions regardless of superficial embellishments. Mr. Eckert's only business relation is as a stockholder and director of the People's National Bank, of Rochester, Pennsylvania. He married, January 1, 1908, Clara H., daughter of Christian and Phillipena (Wagner) Erbeck, her maternal grandfather, Jacob Wagner, having been a member of the Harmony Society.
PEIRSOL This name, spelled Piersoll, Peirsoll and Peusell, was anciently borne by a Protestant family of France, who fled that country to escape religious persecution, finding asylum in the mountains of Wales. This was during the seventeenth century, and in 1717 three of the family came to America, settling in Chester county, Pennsylvania, where Sampson Peirsol, the founder of the Beaver county family, was born. Another branch, headed by William and Grace (Cope) Piersol, settled in Perry township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where he died aged one hundred years, his wife aged ninety-four years.
(I) Sampson Peirsol was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1765. married, and settled in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where his son, Jacob Scudder, was born October 16, 1785.
(II) Jacob Scudder Piersol all his life followed the occupation of a farmer, a skillful and successful husbandman, tilling his acres with profit- able results. He married Rachel Stilley; children, all born in Sewickley township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania: Ruth, born 1813, died the following year ; Susan, 1815: Ruth, 1816; Sampson, 1818; Tobias, 1820; Rachel, 1821 ; Eliza, 1823; Rebecca, 1824; Jacob, 1825; Jeremiah, 1827; Scudder H., of whom further; David, 1830; Samuel, 1832; Joseph, 1835; Benjamin, 1836; Anna, 1838.
(III) Scudder H. Peirsol, son of Jacob Scudder and Rachel (Stilley)
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Peirsol, was born in North Sewickley township, Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, January 1, 1828, died December 29, 1903. He attended the public schools and in 1843 was graduated from Beaver Academy, after which he devoted his entire time to educational pursuits, becoming one of the most widely known educators of Western Pennsylvania. His first position was in his old school in North Sewickley township, while he later taught near Parkersburg, West Virginia, serving for one term in the early fifties as superintendent of public instruction of Beaver county. He was afterward principal of the schools in Vanport, Beaver and Rochester, and after leaving the latter place he came under the employ of the government as the organi- zer and teacher of a school for the Wyandot Indians in Kansas, in 1856. Soon after the close of the Civil War he returned east to become principal of the newly founded Soldiers' Orphans' School at Monaca, an institution presided over by Dr. W. G. Taylor, and here remained until the school was destroyed by fire in 1876. He then established Peirsol's Academy in West Bridgewater, and conducted the same until just prior to his death in 1903. This was an excellent institution, the moral atmosphere and environment of the most uplifting nature and the students offered instruction of a high order by the best pedagogical talent obtainable. Professor Peirsol was an adherent to the Baptist faith, and a Democrat in political beliefs. He af- filiated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being one of the first members of that fraternity in Beaver county.
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