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Helen, who was born January 13, 1878, and is the wife of Fred McCain.
William Luckenbach, by his second wife, Sarah Ann Zahm, had one daughter, Elizabeth R., born June 28, 1856. His third wife, Anna Maria Kraeder, still survives him. There were no chil- dren by that marriage.
HON. JACOB B. KEMERER was a man who exerted strong and beneficial influence in local public affairs, and his labors as state sena- tor also proved of value to the commonwealth. Born in Upper Saucon township, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1844, he died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1901. His grandfather, Jacob Kemerer, was one of the early settlers of Northampton county. Benjamin Kemerer, the father, was born in that county in 1823, and during many years of an active business career was engaged in the wholesale dry-goods business in Philadelphia as a member of the firm of Rex, Kemerer & Company. At the outbreak of the Civil war the firm retired from business, and following the close of hostilities between the two sections of the country Mr. Kemerer became associated with H. B. Claflin & Company, of New York, as general salesman, remaining with that firm for twelve years. His death occurred Feb- ruary 20, 1889. To him and his wife, Mary (Bachman) Kemerer, were born three children. Sarah, the eldest, born in 1838, died December 16, 1888; she married William Kohler, and their children were Jennie, Howard, William and Sally. Albert Kemerer, the third member of the family of Benjamin Kemerer, was born in 1848, and died June 10, 1895. His wife bore the maiden name of Aravesta Schwitzer.
Jacob B. Kemerer, the second of the family, acquired his education in the public schools of Philadelphia, and then entered mercantile life, but not finding that vocation congenial he began reading law in the office of Hon. U. J. Wenner, of Bethlehem, and in 1876 was admitted to the bar of Northampton county. Not long after this he became an active factor in political circle's, his close study of the questions and issues of the day, combined with his loyal interest in the, wel-
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fare of the county, state and nation, well fitting him for leadership. He held various local offices, including those of chief burgess and member of the council, acting in the former capacity in Beth- lehem for four terms, although a Democratic can- didate in a Republican district. In 1898 he was a candidate for state senator, to which position he was triumphantly elected, running far ahead of his ticket in his home city, and carrying the dis- trict by a large majority, a fact which indicated his personal popularity among the people by whom he was best known, as well as the confi- dence resposed in his ability to faithfully repre- sent the interests of his section of the state. He was a solicitor to the borough of Bethlehem for one year and then declined a re-election. He served for two years as chairman of the Demo- cratic county central committee of Northampton county, and for years was a delegate to nearly all the county and state conventions. On the 24th of March, 1899, he was unanimously re-elected chairman of the Northampton county Democratic committee and a delegate to the Democratic con- vention, and was ex-officio a member of the Dem- ocratic state central committee. In 1887 he formed a partnership with Clarence A. Wolle in the real-estate and fire-insurance business, which was continued until 1899.
Mr. Kemerer was married, in 1866, to Amanda J. Seem, a daughter of Joseph and Le- vina M. (Dech) Seem. Her father was born in Allen township, Northampton county, June 2, 1817, and died July 24, 1893, in Bethlehem. His parents were Conrad and Katherine (Schwatze) Seem, and his grandfather was George Seem, who came from Europe with a brother and settled in Kreidersville, Northampton county, Pennsyl- vania. Conrad and Katherine Seem has thirteen children: 1. Conrad, who married Annie Dech ; 2. Joseph, who married Lavine Dech ; 3. Samuel who married (first) Mary Burger, (second) Fretta Klecker, and (third) Mary Ruhe; 4. John, who married Eliza Bowman ; 5. David, who wedded Sarah Sieger, and afterward Mary Gier- ing ; 6. Reuben, who died in infancy : 7. Polly, the wife of Abraham Rahn ; 8. Judith, who mar- ried John Trumbauer ; 9. Lucy, wife of Joseph
Heinly ; 10. Leah, wife of Jacob Newhart; II. Mary, the wife of James Tool ; 12. Elizabeth, wife of William Klippinger ; 13. Katherine, who died in childhood.
Mr. and Mrs. Kemerer were the parents of one son, Albert G., who was born March 14, 1867, and married Annie S. Grim, a daughter of Jacob L. Grim. They also have a son, Jacob Grim, born July 31, 1897.
GEORGE WILLIAM RHOAD, superin- tendent of a mercantile enterprise owned by a stock company at South Bethlehem and at a former period proprietor of this establishment, was born near Bath, Northampton county, Penn- sylvania September 3, 1841, his parents being Stephen and Lucinda (Schmidt) Rhoad. His paternal grandfather was John Rhoad. The father was born at Santes Mill near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1810, and died in 1889. By his marriage to Lucinda Schmidt, he had twelve chil- dren : Amanda, Charles, John, Elizabeth, Tilgh- man, George William, Lucy, Rebecca, Mary, Robert D., Stephen A. and Harriet. Of these Amanda Rhoad married James Young and had two sons, Robert and Allen ; Charles Rhoad mar- ried Elizabeth Bower and had three children, Lucy, who married A. L. Cope, and Alice and Herbert, who are deceased; John married Amanda Seibold and had a family ; Tilghman married Anna Michel; Lucy married Allen R. Schall and had three children, William, Frank Catharine : Rebecca married Edward Hess ; Mary married Samuel Danner and has had four chil- dren, Harry, Wesley, Minnie and Lillian; Stephen A. Rhoad married Ellen Funk and has had a family ; Harriet married Oliver A. Clewell.
George W. Rhoad, the sixth member of the family of Stephen and Lucinda Rhoad, was reared at Bath, Pennsylvania, and pursued his education in the public schools there. He entered upon his business career at the age of eighteen years, be- coming proprietor of a small store in his native town. During the Civil war he enlisted in' the' Union Army and served for nine months in the One Hundred and Fifty-third Pennsylvania In- fantry, being attached to the Army of the Po-
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tomac. This regiment took part in the great battle of Gettysburg, out of which he came unscathed. After the expiration of his term of service he settled in Bath, where he was engaged in busi- ness for a year. He then re-enlisted, becoming a member of the One Hundred and Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, with which he continued for a year.
After being honorably discharged a second time, Mr. Rhoad went to South Bethlehem, where he opened a grocery store on Birch street. In 1867 he increased his stock and opened a general store at Birch and Third streets, and in 1883 he pur- chased the store of the Bethlehem Iron Company, conducting that enterprise until 1892, when a stock company was formed and since then he has been superintendent of the establishment. He is likewise president of the Mineral Spring Ice Company, and of the South Bethlehem Building and Loan Company. He is the president of the Commercial League of South Bethlehem, and is commander of J. K. Taylor Post, G. A. R. He belongs to the Church of the Nativity, and is in- terested in the material, social and intellectual as well as moral development of his city, and has given active co-operation to many movements in its behalf.
Mr. Rhoad married October 20, 1891, Olivia M. Folker, a daughter of Rev. A. C. and Mary Catherine (Orth) Folker, the latter of Hugue- not descent. Mr. Rhoad has one son, Kenneth Andrew.
REV. AUGUSTUS SCHULTZE, D. D., L. H. D., who for a third of century has been a pro- fessor and since 1885 president of the Moravian College and Theological Seminary at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is a leader in educational circles in the Lehigh Valley. He was born in Nowawes, Brandenburg, Germany, February 3, 1840, a son of C. Louis and D. Frederica ( Haeseler ) Schultze. His father, C. Louis Schultze, was born Novem- ber 4, 18II, owned a farm and a store, and for a number of years served as steward of the Mor- avian church and the Boys' Academy at Gnad- enberg, Silesia ; he died in Bethlehem, Pennsyl- vania, in 1887, aged seventy-six years, and the
death of his wife occurred in the same place, in 1872, at the age of fifty-seven years. Rev. Au- gustus Schultze is a descendant of a family of farmers who owned the same estate for two centuries on the banks of the Havel, between Berlin and Potsdam, Germany.
Rev. Augustus Schultze was reared in Ger- many and received his early education in the Mor- avian schools of that country. In 1858 he was a graduate of the Moravian College at Niesky, Germany, and in 1861 he completed the course of the Theological Seminary, at Gnadenfeld, Silesia. He obtained the degree of D. D. from Lafayette College, and that of L. H. D. from the Columbian University in Washington. From 1861 to 1862 he was an instructor in the French Academy in Lausanne, Switzerland, and from 1862 to 1870 a professor of the classic languages and of history in the Moravian College at Niesky. He then ac- cepted a call to become a professor of theology and of classic literature in the Moravian College and Theological Seminary at Bethlehem, Pennsyl- vania, and since 1885 has served in the capacity of president. The Moravian Theological Semi- nary has been in existence for nearly a century. The project for the establishment of such an in- stitution was first discussed at a conference of Moravian ministers which convened in Bethle- hem, Pennsylvania, during the month of October, 1802, but the actual execution of the plan was de- ferred until the arrival of Charles de Forrestier and Christian Renatus Verbeek, who were com- missioned by the governing Board of the Mora- vian Unity to make a visitation in 1806. On Oc- tober 3, 1807, they inducted Ernest L. Hazelius and John C. Bechler as professors in the new Theological Seminary which was organized in connection with the church school for boys at Nazareth, Pennsylvania, known as "Nazareth Hall". There the seminary remained until 1838, when various reasons of expedinecy induced its removal to Bethlehem, and a regular four years' college course preparatory to the study of theol- ogy was arranged. In 1851 it was again trans- ferred to Nazareth, and continued there until 1858. In that year, however, the Provincial Synod ordered the final removal of the seminary
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and its preparatory classical department to Beth- lehem, and ordered it to be known as "The Mor- avian College and Theological Seminary". On April 3, 1863, the institution was incorporated under this title by an act of the legislature of Pennsylvania, whereby the acting board of trus- tees was at the same time invested with the legal rights belonging to such bodies. In 1867 the Rt. Rev. Edmund de Schweinitz, S. T. D., became president, and during his incumbency the curri- culum in the collegiate as well as in the theolog- ical department was considerably enlarged in its scope. Under the regime of Dr. Augustus Schultze the courses of study provided have un- dergone various modifications and additions so as to bring them into line with the highest and broad- est requirements of a liberal cducation. A new group of college buildings has been erected, and the endowment of the institution has been more than doubled.
Dr. Schultze is a gentleman of scholarly at- tainments, and he has left the impress of his per- sonality upon the mental and social development of the many students who have been under his in- stuction and care, and his influence in behalf of morality has also been effective and far-reaching. He served as one of the three members of the governing board of the Moravian Church in America from 1881 to 1893, was many years edi- tor of Der Bruder Botschafter, compiled the new Liturgy and Hymns of the German Moravian Hymn Book, and wrote the English and German catechisms now in use in the Moravian church. He is the author of a "History of the Widows' Society of Bethlehem", 1880; "Aarlig Dagbog" (the first Moravian textboox in the Danish lan- guage), 1888; "Die Missionsfelder der Erneuer- ten Bruderkirche," 1890; Grammar and Vocab- ulary of the Eskimo Language of North Western Alaska", 1894; "The Theology of Pcter and Paul," 1896; "Guide to the Old Moravian Ceme- tery at Bethlehem," 1898; "The Books of the Bible Analyzed," 1902.
Rev. Augustus Schultze was married to Julia Reck, who was born in 1853 and died in 1874. He had one son by that marriage, William A. Reck, who was born March 29, 1873, and was
educated in Moravian schools, taking the classical course in the Moravian College in Bethlehem, and a law course in the University of Pennsylvania. He is now practicing his chosen profession in the city of Philadelphia. Rev. Dr. Schultze married in 1876, for his second wife, Adelaide Peter, of Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who was born in 1849, and prior to her marriage was a teacher in the semi- nary at Hope, Indiana. The children of this marriage are as follows : Clara, born in 1877, was educated in Wellesley College, where she pursued a classical course ; later she became a teacher of modern languages in the Elizabeth College, at Charlotte, North Carolina ; she became the wife of Herbert Wright, a civil engineer, who is a grad- uate of Lehigh University, and they are now liv- ing in Phoenixville, Chester county, Pennsyl- vania. Frederick, born in 1879, is a graduate of the Moravian College at Bethlehem, in which he completed the classical course; he was first engaged as a mechanical engineer in Cleveland, Ohio, and later followed the same occupation in St. Louis, Missouri. Emily, born in 1881, is as- sociated with her sister, Agnes W., born in 1883, in the conduct of a private school at Catasaqua, Pennsylvania.
CHARLES P. HOFFMAN, actively con- nected with mercantile circles in South Bethle- hem, was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, August II, 1855.
A student of the early history of this state will find that the family name is upon the records of the early settlers of Philadelphia. Michael Hoff- man, a resident of that city, emigrated from Ger- many and established his home in Philadelphia on the IIth of October, 1732. Subsequently he removed to a farming district, settling in the lo- cality which afterward became Whitehill, in Le- high county. He located on a tract of land of two hundred and fifty acres bordering Indian or Coplay creek, securing the land warrants on the 16th of November, 1744. Michael Hoffman mar- ried and had two children, John and Michael. The elder of these married and had four children, Peter, Joel, Caroline, the wife of Henry Guth ; and Lydia, the wife of Joseph Long. The chil-
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dren of Peter Hoffman were five in number, of whom a daughter died in infancy. Of the others, Eli was married to a Miss Troxel, and afterward to a Miss Guth, by whom he had a family. James W., the second, was the father of Charles F. Hoff- man. Solomon was the third in order of birth. Amelia, the only daughter who reached woman- hood, became the wife of a Mr. Helfrich, and their children were Daniel, who married a Miss Hoff- man ; James, deceased ; and Dr. Helfrich, who is married, and is practicing medicine in New York city.
James W. Hoffman was born in South White- hall, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, about 1812, and became a well known agriculturist, conduct- ing an extensive farm in connection with his brother, Eli Hoffman. He married Amanda Goebel and their only child is Charles P. Hoffman.
Although born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, Charles P. Hoffman was reared in Lehigh county, where he acquired a common school education. He began an independent business career at the age of twenty-one years in a general store at East Texas in Lehigh county. In 1878 he was appointed postmaster of that town, and occupied the position until he removed to Hanoverville in 1883. There he conducted a general store for four months, when he became a resident of South Bethlehem, and established a general mercantile enterprise at the corner of Third and Birch streets. He has since been identified in this man- ner with the business interests of the town, and his trade nas constantly grown in extent and im- portance, until it is one of the largest in the place, employing eleven clerks. This large enterprise is entirely the fruit of his own efforts, he having come to the town an entire stranger. He has been active in various important enterprises. He was one of the organizers of the Pennsylvania Coal Mining Company, and of the South Bethlehem Electric Light Company, and is president of the last named : and has long been interested in the slate business, having been founder of the Her- cules establishment. He is a director of the South Bethlehem National Bank. He is quite prom- inent locally in various fraternal circles, and in Masonry has attained to the thirty-second de-
gree. He belongs to Bethlehem Lodge, No. 283, F. and A. M., to Caldwell Sovereign Consistory, and likewise to Rajah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, and the Imperial Order of Heptasophs.
Mr. Hoffman was married to Miss Laura M. Shankweiler, and their children are Elmer, born January 1, 1881, Sadie, Helen and Mabel.
J. SAMUEL KRAUSE, who is a represen- tative of business interests of Bethlehem, where he is engaged in conducting a hardware store, was born February 22, 1848, in the city which is yet his home. The founder of the family in America was John Samuel Krause, who was born at Chris- tiansbrunn, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, in 1782, and was a son of Matthew. In 1796 he took up his residence in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and became a watchmaker and silversmith. His death occurred in 1815. He had married Maria Louisa Schropp, who was born in 1814.
Matthew Krause, the father of J. Samuel Krause, was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in August, 1814, and became a prominent dry-goods merchant of his native city. He carried on an ex- tensive and profitable business, and was num- bered among the leading representatives of trade interests there. He was also influential in move- ments pertaining to the moral development of his community, and held the office of treasurer of the Moravian congregation and of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. His education was acquired in the Moravian school, and from his boyhood days his efforts were effective in pro- moting the cause of his denomination. He mar- ried Adeline Eggert, who was born July 23, 1821, and was a daughter of Benjamin and Maria Eliza- beth (Freytag) Eggert. Matthew Krause de- parted this life November 20, 1865, and his wife June 13, 1867. They had but two children : Mary Elizabeth, born April 4, 1844, and J. Sam- uel. The former became the wife of Granville Henry, and had one daughter, Mary Adeline.
J. Samuel Krause was reared in Bethlehem, and his educational privileges were those af- forded by the parochial school of the Moravian church. He started out in business life at an
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early age, and has since been dependent upon his own resources for all that he has possessed and enjoyed. He became a partner in the hardware business with Owen A. Luckenbach, whom he finally succeeded in 1889. He is a director of the First National Bank of Bethlehem, and of the Thomas Iron Company. In church work he is quite prominent, and is a member of the board of trustees of the Moravian congregation at Beth- lehem, and is manager of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He is likewise a member of the Widow's Society, an insurance organization which is founded and conducted by the Moravian church for the benefit of the widows in that denomination. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, but the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him.
J. Samuel Krause was married to Miss Fran- ces Luckenbach, a daughter of William and Eliza- beth (Rice) Luckenbach. Their children are Ade- line, Eliza, who is the wife of Francis Hammann, and has three children : Elizabeth Olivia, John Samuel Krause and Henry Philip ; Margaret, the wife of Henry P. Morris, by whom she had a son, John Samuel; Matthew, who died in in- fancy ; and Helen Louise, who is the wife of Fred McCain.
HENRY H. DASH was born December 30, 1834, at Hellertown, Pennsylvania, and died in Bethlehem, October I, 1902. He was a son of Henry and Margaret (Heisler) Dash. The father was born in Millerstown, Lehigh county, and was reared and educated there, afterward following the trades of a butcher, drover and tanner. He also conducted a hotel for a time, and he reared his family in Millerstown. His children were ten in number. Daniel, married Antoinette Clemen- tine Bishop, and their children are Orlando, Am- brose, William, Edward, Eugene, deceased, and Harrison. Maria Dash, the second member of the family, is the wife of James Behm, and they have nine children-Wilson, Lucy, Henry, Will- iam, James, Peter, Ellen, George and Allen. Susan, the third child, born in Saucon, is the wife of Joseph Landis, and their children are
Henry, Emma, Alice, Susan Hannah, David, and William. Caleb, born in Saucon, married and his children are Victor, Caroline, William, Edward, Dolly, Lillian and Walter, the last named now de- ceased. Eliza never married. Aaron, born in Saucon, married and his children are Martha, George, Rose, Anna, Clara and Kate. Diana, born in Saucon, now deceased, married Martin Leidic, and has four children, Anna, Henry, Ca- junta and Elizabeth. Owen, born in Saucon and now deceased, married Elizabeth Morgul, and had a son, Henry, born October 24, 1851. Henry. born December 30, 1834, married Annie E. James and had two children, William and Laura, the former now deceased ..
Henry H. Dash spent his youth in Hellertown, and acquired his education in its public schools. He afterward went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he learned the tanner's trade. He later en- gaged in the restaurant business on Second street, and still later in the hotel business on Ninth street. At the time of the Civil war he enlisted in re- sponse to the call of Governor Curtin, on the 10th of September, 1862, and was one of the volun- teers who repelled the invasion of the Confederate troops into Maryland and Pennsylvania. He was a member of Company H, Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania State Militia, under Colonel Day, and participated in the defense of Antietam, where he was stationed for seven weeks. When the regiment was discharged he returned to his business interests in Philadelphia.
During his business career in Philadelphia he prospered. In 1872 he located in Bethlehem, and purchased a cigar business which he conducted to the time of his death. While living in Bethlehem he became the owner of much valuable property. He was a director of the First National Bank, be- ing thus identified with the institution for a num- ber of years ; also a director of the Citizens' Ku- tual Fire Insurance Company, a director of the Times Publishing Company, and for a number of years treasurer of the Driving Association. In politics he was a stanch Republican, unfaltering in his support of the party and its principles. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity.
Henry H. Dash was married to Ann James,
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who was born October 12, 1840, a daughter of They had four children : Edwin F., Elmer, John T. and Mary Ann (Howell) James, the mar- 'Emma S. and Sarah. riage ceremony being performed by Rev. G. A. Wenzel, on the 19th of July, 1863. Mr. and Mrs. Dash were the parents of two children : William M. S., who was born July 10, 1864, and died August 21, 1884; and Laura V., who was born December 7, 1865, and married Frank Klinker, of Bethlehem.
EDWIN F. WARNER is one of the progres- sive business men of Weatherly, whose furniture and undertaking establishment is a leading factor in commercial circles of that borough. He was born in Tannersville, Monroe county, Pennsyl- vania, January II, 1857. For more than a cen- tury his ancestral history has been interwoven with that of the state. His paternal grandfather, George Warner, was born in Northampton county in 1790, and was a cooper by trade. He served as a surgeon in the war of 1812, and it is very probable that research in the the Revolutionary war records would reveal the fact that the family was represented in the struggle for independence. George Warner married Miss Elizabeth Angle- moyer, who was of German lineage, and they were members of the Lutheran church in good standing.
Peter Warner, the father of Edwin F. War- ner, was born in Pocono township, Monroe coun- ty, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1835, and in early life learned the carpenter's trade. Later he be- came familiar with the cabinet-maker's trade, and followed the dual pursuit for a number of years. Subsequently he turned his attention to contract- ing and building, and many of the houses which he erected stand today as monuments to his labor and genius. In 1872 he took up the undertaking business, which he has followed success- fully up to the present time. He is yet num- bered among the substantial citizens of Tanners- ville, where he has served as justice of the peace for thirty-five years. He and his wife make their home amid many warm friends who entertain for them high regard. In early manhood he was married to Miss Lovina Sittler, who was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, in December, 1832.
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