Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania Vol. I, Part 15

Author: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921; Green, Edgar Moore. mn; Ettinger, George Taylor, 1860- mn
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: New York ; Chicago : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 742


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3. Anna Knecht was born April 18, 1818, and died near Freemansburg, Pennsylvania, Janu- ary 18, 1868. She was married to Jacob Stauffer, who survived her about six years. They left five sons : I. William Henry, who married Catharine, a daughter of Samuel Messinger, of Tatamy, near Easton ; he died in 1897, without issue. 2. David, who was engaged in a bank in Milwaukee, Wis- consin, now deceased ; he left a widow and sev-


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eral children. 3. Jacob Knecht, who married Emma Fehr, she died, leaving one son ; he has again married to Clara Hildebrand. 4. Abraham, who married a Miss Bruch, and to whom was born a son. 5. Isaac, who went to the far west ; he survives his widow and several children.


4. William Shimer Knecht was born September 27, 1820, and died March 9, 1897, from injuries received by a fall. He was married, January 11, 1853, to Mary Lawall, born December 15, 1827, daughter of the late Peter Lawall, of Butztown, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Knecht is a sister of the late William H. Lawall and Cyrus Lawall, late of Easton, Pennsylvania, both deceased. Two sons were born to this marriage; both reside at Parvin, Clinton county, Pennsylvania, eight miles from Lock Haven: I. Peter, born August 16, 1855, married December 22, 1883, Miss Anna Stitzer, of Clinton county, and to them were born five sons. 2. William Thomas, born June 19, 1859, was married December 22, 1884, to Mary Mar- garet, daughter of B. F. Schaeffer, and to them were born three sons. They conduct large roller grist mills and two farms.


5. Mary Catharine was born April 30, 1823. She married Stout Stover ; she died from typhoid fever at Coffeetown, Williams township, North- ampton county, Pennsylvania, April 12, 1852, and her remains were buried in St. John's ceme- tery ; her husband died December 12, 1898, and was buried at Allentown. They left three sons : I. Cyrus, who was a miller at Stockton, New Jersey, and died about 1888 ; he had married Emma Stover, and left one child, above named. 2. Asher T., born December 25, 1850, who lived in Allentown, Pennsylvania, now deceased ; he married - - Snyder, at Tiffin, Ohio, and to them were born four sons and one daughter ; he is now deceased. 3. Isaac S., who is a grain commission merchant in Philadelphia. He mar- ried Miss Stockton, of Stockton, New Jersey.


6. Fredericka Amelia was born February 7, 1826. She married Darius Dreher, a brother of the late Judge Samuel Dreher. She died July 5, 1885, her husband died the following year, and both are buried at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. They left two children : I. Mary, born February


13, 1859, married a Mr. Snyder, a merchant at Hawley, Pennsylvania; they became the parents of several children. 2. Stewart Dreher, born August 30, 1861, a printer living at Stroudsburg ; he married a Miss Shafer.


Abraham Shimer Knecht was born August 12, 1828. Until he was fourteen years of age he worked on the homestead farm and in the grist mill in the summer months, and attended public school in the winter. He then left home and worked for over two years in grist mills and during this time he attended night school. He was industrious and ambitious. After this he attended the celebrated academy of Dr. John Vanderveer, at Easton, Pennsylvania. After having taken an academical course he studied law under the late Hon. Judge McCartney, at Easton, and was admitted to the bar in January, 1855. For two years he was in the law office of the late E. J. Fox, Esq., of Easton. He then opened an office of his own. He has been en- gaged in his profession for nearly fifty years, de- voting his efforts almost entirely to civil prac- tice. The larger portion of his business has been in orphans' court practice. In these useful lines his ability brought to him early in his career a large influential clientage, whose interests he guarded with fidelity. For many years his office was at the north-west corner of Centre Square, whence he removed into his own building, No. 464 Northampton street. Several years ago he took with himself in practice William Malcolm McKeen, his stepson. Mr. Knecht has never been ambitious for public distinction nor a seeker after office, yet he has been called to important po- sitions, as auditor for the borough of Easton for two terms, attorney for the county commis- sioners, and as commissioner for the construction of borough water-works. During all these years he has been among those who tried to promote the material well-being of the city and the county, giving his influence and support to laudable enter- prises. Having lived a life of regularity, avoiding all imprudences, Mr. Knecht is now, in his sev- enty-sixth year, a well preserved man, and is still engaged actively in the practice of his profession, and takes great interest in all public affairs.


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Mr. Knecht was married, July 12, 1875, to Annie Louise (Adler) McKeen, widow of the late Wm. M. McKeen, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Colonel George S. Adler and Rebecca A. (Moffett) Adler. Her father was a native of Philadelphia, where he was in his younger days engaged extensively in the manufacture of morrocco leather. Her mother was born at Gloucester, N. J. Both are deceased, and buried at the Laurel Hill cemetery, Phila- delphia. Mr. Knecht's wife had four children with her first husband-Jessie L., now wife of Jacob W. Peters, of Germantown, Pennsylvania ; Annie L., now wife of Clarence E. Seitz, of Phil- adelphia, Pennsylvania ; Wm. M. McKeen, and Henry B. McKeen. By her marriage with Mr. Knecht she had three children-Ellen Elisa Knecht, who died in infancy ; Florence Elsie, now wife of J. McKeen Young ; and Perla M. Knecht.


8. Isaac Stout Knecht was a twin brother of Abraham S. Knecht. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Christian Gernet, of near Shimers- ville, Northampton county, Pennsylvania. He died in 1903, leaving to survive him his widow and two children-Jacob Gernet Knecht, and Annie, wife of Albert Koplin, a son of Isaac Koplin.


GENERAL FRANK REEDER. The pen- ning of the narrative which follows comes to the writer as a pleasant task, for he was a comrade- in-arms with General Frank Reeder in the Civil war operations on the Mississippi river, and was intimately acquainted with the history of the il- lustrious sire of General Reeder, Governor An -. drew H. Reeder.


The Reeder family was of early appearance in America, and was planted by John Reeder, who came from England previous to 1656, and settled in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1636, and in Newtown, Long Island, in 1652. His son, John, located in Ewing, New Jersey, and married Han- nah, daughter of Jeremiah Burroughs. Their son, Isaac, purchased a farm upon which he lived and which is yet in the possession of his descendants. By his second marriage, with Joanna Hunt, Isaac Reeder became the father of John, who married


Hannah Mershon (Marchand) afterwards cor- rupted in spelling to its present form. Of the latter marriage was born Absalom Reeder, who made his home in Easton, Pennsylvania, where (October 16, 1788) he married Christiana Smith, and they became the parents of Governor Andrew H. Reeder, who bore so mighty a part in the pres- ervation of Kansas to freedom.


Andrew Horatio Reeder was born at Easton, Pennsylvania, July 12, 1807. Beginning his education in the public schools of his native place, he graduated with honor from the Lawrenceville (New Jersey) Academy. He read law under the preceptorship of Hon. Peter Ihrie, a distinguished attorney of Easton, and on attaining his majority was admitted to the bar of Northampton county, Pennsylvania. He took high rank in his pro- fession, and was for some years associated in practice with Henry Green (afterwards chief- justice of Pennsylvania) in the law firm of Reeder & Green.


Governor Reeder's fame, however, rests upon his splendid services in behalf of free soil and free speech in the crucial days preceding the Civil war. From his early days a Democrat of the Jef- fersonian school, he took a deep interest in political affairs, and his masterly oratory soon brought him into favorable notice. In 1854 President Pierce appointed him the first governor of Kansas, then a territory, and he at once sprang into world-wide notice. The conflict for the possession of Kansas, between the two conflicting classes of emigrants, the free-soilers from the east and the siavery ex- tensionists from the south, is a thrilling chapter in itself. There is only space here to epitomize the part taken by Governor Reeder. At the first election, the free-soilers were driven from the polls by the pro-slaveryites, who went through the farce of electing a legislature. A demand was made upon Governor Reeder to sign the certificate of the ·members so chosen, and, on his declining so to do, he was informed : "We will give you fifteen minutes to sign, resign or be hanged." His stern integrity and unflinching courage was shown in his instant reply: "Gentlemen, I need no fifteen minutes. My mind is made up. I shall hang." His boldness saved him for the time. Soon after-


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wards came a congressional committee of inves- tigation, to whom Governor Reeder fearlessly ex- posed the acts and plans of the border-ruffians. The president removed Governor Reeder, ap- pointing in his stead ex-Governor Shannon, of Ohio, who at once avowed himself an ally of the slavery party. Thereupon the free-soilers pro- tested against Whitfield, fradulently elected as a delegate in congress, and elected Reeder. This would necessitate a contest before that body, to determine between the two, and the broder-ruf- fians determined to solve the difficutly by putting Reeder out of the way. He evaded an armed regiment of border-ruffians, and made his way by night to Kansas City, where friends concealed him for two weeks, feeding him secretly, while his enemies picketed every road and guarded the steamboat landing in order to effect his capture. Finally, in the disguise of an Irish laborer, he made his way to a point down river where (by prearrangement, he was taken aboard a steamboat and ultimately reached Alton, Illinois. On his way home he stopped in Chicago, Detroit and other cities, in each of which he made eloquent appeals to the lovers of freedom, who in response flocked to Kansas by thousands as actual home- makers, and who at the first fair election adopted a free-state constitution and created a free-state. Among those who were thus influenced by Gov- ernor Reeder were many Philadelphia and Ches- ter county people, among them Colonel Kersey Coates. Colonel Coates became one of those who made Kansas City, Missouri, a great mercantile center, and he placed in his palatial hotel there, the Coates House, in tribute to his friend, a splen- did oil portrait of Governor Reeder, after a photograph made after his reaching Chicago, representing him in the disguise in which he had made his escape, a hickory shirt, blue overalls, heavy brogans and slouch hat, with pick and axe, and smoking a short clay pipe.


At Easton, Governor Reeder resumed the practice of law, and continued therein until his death, July 5, 1864. In 1860, in the National Republican Convention which nominated Lin- coln, Governor Reeder was third in the list of candidates for the vice-presidential nomination.


At the outbreak of the Civil war President Lin- coln tendered him a commission as brigadier- general, but he declined, feeling his inability to undergo the rigors of campaigning. He was married, September 13, 1831, to Miss Fredericka Amelia Hutter, a daughter of Colonel Christian Jacob Hutter. She was a woman of as marked character as himself, and with Spartan courage endured awful mental anguish while her husband was imperiled in Kansas. During the Civil war period she labored incessantly and efficiently as president of the Easton Sanitary Aid Society. She was the mother of five children :


I. Ida Titus, born May 27, 1837, who became the wife of William Wallace Marsh, a lawyer of Schooley's Mountain, New Jersey.


2. George Marchand Reeder, born October 26, 1839, who during the Civil war was captain in the First Regiment Kansas Infantry Volunteers, was afterwards editor and publisher of the Easton Daily Express, and died December 12, 1884.


3. Emma Hutter, born March 25, 1841, and died May 12, 1865, who married ( May 14, 1861) J. Charles Ferriday, of Concordia Farish, Louisiana.


4. Howard James Reeder, born December 1I, 1843, who graduated from Princeton College in 1863, and subsequently from the Harvard Law School. During the Civil war he was a lieutenant in the First Regiment United States Infantry and captain in the One Hundred and Fifty-Third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was judge of the court of common pleas, third judicial district of Pennsylvania, in 1881, 1882, and from 1884 to 1894 and judge of the superior court of Pennsylvania from 1895 until his death, Decem- ber 28, 1898. He was married, May 26, 1867, to Helen Burke, of Easton.


5. Frank Reeeder, youngest son of Governor Andrew H. and Fredericka (Hutter) Reeder, was born in Easton, May 22, 1845. He was edu- cated in the Lawrenceville (New Jersey) Acad- emy, Edgehill school, at Princeton, New Jersey, and at Princeton College, which he entered in 1860 in the sophomore class. In 1862, at the age of seventeen years, he patriotically responded to Lincoln's call for troops, and enlisted as a private


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in the Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. In October of the same year he re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was soon promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and adjutant, and subsequently served as acting assistant adjutant- general to General Peck and General Vogdes, and participated with the Tenth and Eighteenth Army Corps in the campaigns in Eastern Vir- ginia and North Carolina, and in the operations against Charleston, South Carolina. On the ex- piration of his term of service he recruited a com- pany for the Nineteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry, of which he was commissioned captain, in October, 1863. During a portion of his serv- ice he served as judge-advocate on the staff of General Grierson, and as acting assistant adju- tant-general of the Seventh Division, Wilson's Cavalry Corps. He participated in numerous stirring cmpaigns and noted battles, and with conspicuous gallantry. His command was en- gaged in the operations in the vicinity of Vicks- burg, Mississippi, and then moved west of the Mississippi river, where it fought the army of General Sterling Price at Marion, Greens- boro, Pilot Knob, Osage and Big Blue River. It followed the rebel General Hood into Tennessee, and made repeated charges upon his flank while he was reaching toward Nashville; and in the desperate two days' battle at that place, in which General Hood's army was hopelessly disorganized, he had three horses shot under him. In the battle of Hollow Tree Gap, near Franklin, he was wounded. For his gallant conduct on the field and in these affairs he was brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel by authority of the Secre- tary of War, his commissions bearing the presi- dential signature. January 26, 1865, he was re- lieved from staff duty, having been commissioned lieutenant-colonel, and by virtue of his rank he assumed command of his regiment. In February, 1865, he embarked his regiment at Eastport, Tennessee, and participated in the siege of Mo- bile. After the surrender of General Dick Tay- lor, he was ordered to the Red River, to operate against General Kirby Smith. Following the sur- render of the Confederate forces in Texas, the


Civil war now being ended, Colonel Reeder was stationed on the line of the Rio Grande, with the army of observation placed there to aid in the defeat of the French purpose to establish in Mexico a monarchy under Maximilian. This crisis was soon passed, and Colonel Reeder brought his regiment to Philadelphia, where it was mustered out of service, June 13, 1866.


With this brilliant military record, and being risen from the ranks to the command of a regi- ment, Colonel Reeder was now but a month be- yond the legal age of manhood. To complete his military record, although out of chronological sequence, it may be here noted that his soldierly qualities led to his appointment, in 1874, as brigadier-general in the Pennsylvania National Guard, and he was assigned to the command of the Fifth Brigade, Second Division. In 1877 he performed excellent service in quelling the riots in Reading, and he was singularly efficient at Har- risburg in the following year.


On his return to Civil life at the close of the rebellion, General Reeder entered upon the study of law at Albany, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1868, and was engaged in his pro- fession in New York City until 1869, when he returned to Easton and became the law partner of his brother, Hon. Howard J. Reeder, and has since been busily occupied in his profession, in which he has gained an honorable distinction. He has been called to various important positions, and was secretary of the commonwealth of Penn- sylvania from 1895 to 1898, a member of Gen- eral Hastings' cabinet from 1895 to 1897. a dele- gate at large to the American National Republi- can convention in 1896, chairman of the Republi- can state committee during the years 1899-1900- 1901, and in 1900 was appointed a commissioner of banking, resigning from that position in May, 1903. A Republican in politics, he is an acknowl- edged leader in party affairs and wields a potent influence.


General Reeder was married, at Boston, Massachusetts, October 21, 1868, to Miss Grace E. Thompson, a native of that city, born June 17, 1848. Three children have been born to this union : I. Andrew Horatio, born September 9,


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1869, a graduate of Lafayette College, class of 1890, who for several years was engaged in civil engineering in West Virginia, but is now em- ployed in the fuel and mine department of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in British Columbia ; he married Esther Eckard, a daughter of Dr. Leighton Eckard, and they are the parents of two children-Andrew H., and Elizabeth Bavard Reeder. 2. Frank, born May 4, 1880, who grad- uated from Lafayette College in the class of 1901. 3. Douglass Wyman, born August 25, 1883, who is a student in Lafayette College, class of 1905.


WILLIAM LAUBACH. A well merited success has crowned the capably-directed busi- ness efforts of William Laubach, whose advance- ment financially is due entirely to his own re- sources and ability. He was born in Plainfield township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1833, a descendant of Christian Laubach, who, accompanied by his wife, Susan Laubach, and six children sailed in August, 1738, from the Palatna, Germany, and landed in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1738, on the ship "Queen Elizabeth." They settled on a small stream in Saucon township, Northampton county, on the banks of which he shortly afterward erected a saw and grist mill. Christian Laubach : was a blacksmith and iron dealer, and furnished large quantities of material to the Durham fur- naces. Subsequently he became the owner of five tracts of land which are still in the possession of his descendants.


John George Laubach, son of Christian and Susan Laubachı, was born November 4, 1723, married, and reared a family of eleven children, as follows: Susan, born November 7, 1757; Michael, born November 28, 1759; John, born August 25, 1761 ; John Christian, born June 30, 1762 ; Anna Mary, born October 21. 1764 ; Adam, born December 23, 1766; John Conrad, born March 3. 1768; Ann Margaret, born January 19, 1770; Catherine, born February 26, 1772: John George, Jr., born March 5, 1774, and Walter, born February 15, 1776. John G. Laubach, father of these children, received one hundred pounds for his share in the estate of his father, Christian


Laubach, the progenitor of the family in Amer- ica.


Adam Laubach, fourth son of John George Laubach, was born December 23, 1766, settled in Saucon township, and was a farmer and black- smith by trade. He married and reared a family of the following named children: 1. Jacob, died aged eighty-five years ; 2. John, born October 2, 1789, and died aged eighty-two years; 3. Chris- tian, died aged eighty-three years; 4. George, born November 14, 1794, died aged seventy-five years ; 5. Samuel, born May 24, 1796, died aged thirty-eight years; 6. Joseph, died aged sixty- four years ; 7. Daniel, born August 12, 1801, died aged thirty-five years; 8. Elizabeth, died aged eighty-three years ; 9. Isaac, born March 8, 1806, died aged sixty-six years; 10. Abraham, further mentioned below.


Abraham Laubach, youngest son of Adam Laubach, was born in Williams township, North- ampton county, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1808. In early life he served an apprenticeship to the trade of harness maker, which he pursued in the township of Plainfield for about fifteen years, after which he returned to Williams town- ship and engaged in farming and milling. Be- ing successful in both these enterprises, Mr. Lau- bach acquired a sufficient competence to enable him to retire from active business pursuits and he located in the city of Easton, where he spent his declining years in the enjoyment of ease and luxury. He married Lydia Beidleman, who was born in Forks township, Pennsylvania, April 12, 1808, a daughter of Abraham Beidle- man. Their children were: William, born Feb- ruary 18, 1833 ; Peggy Ann, born July 12, 1835. wife of Richard Deemer ; Robert, born April 27. 1837 ; Stephen, M. D., born June 9, 1839 ; Susan, born February 19, 1842 ; Abraham A., born May 3, 1844, and Owen, born July 16, 1846, died in September, 1888. Abraham Laubach was a dea- con and elder in the Reformed church of Easton, Pennsylvania. He died September 15, 1890, aged eighty-two years : his wife passed away April 30, 1895.


Abraham Beidleman, father of Mrs. Lydia (Beidleman) Laubach, was born November 26,


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1772, a son of Samuel Beidleman, who was born in 1748, and he in turn was a son of Elias Beidle- man, who married Catherine Kiss, of Lower Saucon township, and later removed from that locality to Monroe county. He was a son of Elias Beidleman, who was born in the Palatna, Germany, September 27, 1707, and arrived in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Septem- ber, 1730. He remained in Philadelphia county several years, and in 1748 removed to Springfield township, now Pleasant Valley township, Bucks county. He there built the first mill in the north- ern part of Bucks county, and resided in this vicinity until his death, which occurred October 25, 1781. Samuel Beidleman, grandson of Elias Beidleman, was residing in Chestnut Hill town- ship during the French and Indian war, and joined Sullivan's army when that command went against the Six Nations. He subsequently settled in the Chemung Valley, New York, where he re- sided until his decease in the year 1836. Abra- ham Beidleman, son of Samuel Beidleman, when a lad in his teens returned to Pennsylvania and first settled in Plainfield township; later he re- moved to Williams township, where he became the possessor of a large tract of land in the vicinity of Raubsville, where his death occurred April II, 1857.


William Laubach, eldest son of Abraham and Lydia (Beidleman) Laubach, was a student in the public schools of Plainfield township until his sixteenth year, when he accepted a clerkship in a country store in which he served for five years and later came to Easton, where he followed the same occupation. During this period he was familiarizing himself with the principles and de- tails of business life, and in 1860 he established a business in Easton, in a small building with a front of twelve feet on the location now occupied by his department store. The business increased so rapidly that he was obliged from time to time to add additional space for the display of his goods, and at the present time (1903) he occu- pies what was formerly five separate stores, the dimensions of which are one hundred and seven by two hundred and twenty feet. The business is conducted under the firm name of William Lau-


bach & Son. Mr. Laubach is a Republican in politics, a member of the Reformed church, and he also holds membership in the Ancient, Free and Acecpted Masons, Masonic fraternity-in the lodge, chapter and commandery, and in the An- cient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.


Mr. Laubach was united in marriage, August 19, 1860, to Mary Frances Horn, who was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1839, daughter of George and Annie Horn. Their chil- dren are: I. George A., born October 10, 1862, now engaged in business with his father ; he mar- ried Laura Louisa Grim, born September 30, 1865, and their children are: George A., Jr., born May 9, 1892 ; Frances Louisa, born January 18, 1894; and Donald Grim, born September I, 1898. 2. Annie B., born April 29, 1864, wife of John Westley Nute, and they are the parents of three children-George H., born October 7, 1889; William Laubach, born December 29, 1890; and Harold Nute, born June 2, 1894. 3. Jennie, born February 1, 1866, wife of Captain Edgar Jad- win, U. S. Army, and their children are : Char- lotte Frances, born in August, 1894, and Cor- nelius C., born in March, 1896. 4. Sarah, born August 20, 1867, wife of Harry A. McFadden ; their children are : Harriet Elizabeth, born April 8, 1895 ; Harry A., Jr., born September 19, 1896; Mary Frances, born in November, 1902. 5. Mary, born January 10, 1870, wife of Samuel K. Green. 6. William H., born May 8, 1871, mar- ried Lydia Gano, and they are the parents of two children-John Westley, deceased, and Richard G., born January 10, 1903. 7. Ella, born Febru- ary 14, 1874. 8. Charles Madison, born March 27, 1878, who married Sallie Leyrer, of Easton. 9. Fred H., born June 29, 1880. 10. Henry B., born November 29, 1881.




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