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Mr. Pearsall was married, in Englewood, New Jersey, June 21, 1886, to Olive Knight Ostler, who died in 1889. On the 22d of November, 1892, in Mauch Chunk, he married M. Louise Struthers, a daughter of William Orr and Maria Louise Struthers. By his first marriage he had
one son, Charles Henry Cummings Pearsall, born in Mauch Chunk, December 26, 1887. . There were three children of the second marriage : David Jarvis, who was born February 15, 1894, and died on the 2d of October of that year ; Janet, born June 6, 1895 ; and David Jarvis, the second of the name, born May 6, 1897.
THE SCHINDEL FAMILY has been traced in Germany, Austria, and Denmark, as far back as the second half of the thirteenth century. The name was first written "Von Schindel," but later on the "Von" was omitted, just as in this coun- try, many of the family omit the "c" and write Shindel, Shindle, and even Shingle. At times the name has appeared as Schindell. The Schindel
COAT-OF-ARMS, SCHINDEL FAMILY.
coat-of-arms is a red shield, with three shingles. of silver set in the form of a triangle; the crest is a gold crown in the midst of red open wings, and the three silver shingles are surrounded by a green wreath. See "Ledler's Grosses Lexikon," vol. 34, p. 1593, published in 1742, and also "Kneschke Deutches Adels-Lexikon," vol. 8, p- 175, (Leipzig, 1878).
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In 1241 members of the Schindel family took part in the battles against the Tartars. In 1317 Frantzko Von Schindel is cited in an old docu- ment as an important witness. Martin Von Schindel died in 1446, when a student at the Uni- versity of Leipzig. Heinrich Von Schindel was in 1518 a counsellor of Prince Munsterberg and captain in Steinan. Casper Von Schindel, im- perial major, was in 1546, commander of the aux- iliary troops sent to Emperor Charles V by the Silesian deputies to fight against the Turks in Hungary. On 1574 Heinrich Von Schindel, in consideration of a certain sum of money, gained possession of the castle and estate of Bernstadt, together with the crown lands belonging to it, and subsequently converted these into a feoff in trust. In the middle of the seventeenth century a branch of the family possessed the strong fort- ress of Kriebelstein, near Waldheim, Saxony. Hans Frederick Von Schindel, of Colunkaw, was chamberlain in 1653 to Sylvinus, Duke of Wurtemberg and Oells. Under King Christian V, Viglas Von Schindel came to Denmark in the second half of the seventeenth century, where he became lord chamberlain in waiting and principal master of the cavalry, and by his advice the king . founded a Knight's Academy for Cadets in Co- penhagen, 1691. In consideration of this the Frizian House was presented to him. In 1735 Baron Carl Otto Von Schindel was appointed a Royal Danish admiral. In 1742 Frederich Wil- helm Von Schindel was appointed a royal Danish colonel of cavalry and commandant at Hald and Fladstrand. Of that branch of the family of which Viglas Von Schindel was the head and who settled in Denmark, Charlotte Helene was made a countess, April 19, 1710, for services rendered the Queen.
The branch of the Schindel family found in this country, especially in Lebanon, Northumber- land, Montour, Lehigh, Northampton, Lancaster, York. Franklin and Cumberland counties, Penn- sylvania, as well as those found in Maryland in the vicinity of Hagerstown; in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio, comes direct from the prov- ince of Erbach, in the Odenwald, Germany. The
province was originally independent, but since 1806 is incorporated with Hessia. Records au- thenticated with the seal of the parish church, of Beerfelden, where for over three hundred years the Schindel family worshipped and where their dead are buried, are in the possession of one of the Lehigh county families. These records show that in 1678 there lived in Gemmelsbach, province of Erbach, Conrad Schindel and his wife Bar- bara. To them was born on October 18, 1685, a son to whom they gave the name of Hans Con- rad. This Hans Conrad was married January IO, 1710, to Susanna Trexler, of Euerlebach, in the same province. After marriage they lived in Euerlebach, the home of the bride. There were born to them ten children, six sons and four daughters. The youngest of these children was Johann Peter, who was born February 28, 1732. When nineteen years old, in 1751, he came to Pennsylvania, landing in Philadelphia September 24, 1751, and having been a passenger on board the ship "Neptune," Captain John Mason, from Rotterdam, by way of Cowes, with 284 passen- gers. He settled at what is now Lebanon, being then yet included in Dauphin county. He fought in the Revolutionary war and had his home in Lebanon until May 29, 1784, when he died and is buried in the graveyard of Salem Lutheran church of Lebanon. He was married to Anna Margretta Gebhart, who survived him many years. They had two sons and six daughters. The one son, Johann Adam, died in infancy, and the other son was called, after his father, Johann Peter, or John Peter. This second John Peter was born in Lebanon, August 21, 1766, and died there September 17, 1829, being buried near his father and infant brother John Adam. He was married to Anna Maria Menges, of Union, now
Snyder county. He took part in the war of the Revolution, served in the legislature of Pennsyl- vania, was a justice of the peace for many years and chief burgess of the borough of Lebanon from 1823 to 1826. There were born to them eleven children, six sons and five daughters. The oldest son was again named after his father, John Peter. This third John Peter was born in Leb-
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anon, October 3, 1787. When of proper age he studied theology under the direction of the well known Lutheran clergyman, the Rev. George Lochman, D. D. He was married to Susanna McCollough, and in 1812, the year in which he was ordained to the ministry, they moved to Sun- bury, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, where he served in the work of the Lutheran church until October 26, 1853, when he died. They had twelve children, eight sons and four daughters. Of the sons three were Lutheran clergymen-Jeremiah, John Peter, and Martin Luther, D. D., who is still living and is pastor of Pine Street Lutheran Church of Danville, Penn- sylvania. He is also now the oldest living mem- ber of the Lebanon Schindel family. There are also three grandsons of John Peter Schindel, the third in the Lutheran ministry, viz .; Rev. J. D. Schindel, D. D., of Allentown ; Rev. Edwin Hut- ter Leisenring, of Chambersburg ; and Rev. J. C. Schindel, of Newark, Ohio.
The oldest child of Rev. John Peter and Su- sanna Schindel was the Rev. Jeremiah Schindel. He was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1807. He was baptized in infancy by Rev. George Lochman, D. D., his father's preceptor, and moved when five years old with his parents to Sunbury, and when seventeen years old went to Harrisburg to become a printer and newspaper man. He served as usual his apprenticeship and had for his fellow workmen the Hon. Simon Cameron and the Hons. John and William Bigler, respectively the governors of California and Pennsylvania in later years. During his employ- ment in this capacity his mind was directed to the ministry by the Rev. Dr. Lochman, who had by this time moved from Lebanon to Harrisburg. He completed his studies under his father at Sun- bury, was licensed to preach, June 10, 1830, and the following year, June 1, 1831, was ordained by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg, the Rev. C. R. Demme, D. D., being president, and his father, Rev. J. P. Schindel, secretary. On May 13, 1828, he was married to Elizabeth A. Masser, of Sunbury, who departed this life in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on January 22, 1892,
nearly eighty-seven years old. The first charge of Rev. Jeremiah Schindel consisted of congre- gations at Bloomsburg, Danville, Catawisa, Mif- flinsburg, Roaring Creek, Berwick, Conyngham, and other places. In 1837 he was called to Le- high county as the successor of Revs. Doering and Wartman. He and his family lived at the old Jordan parsonage until 1861. The congrega- tions he served in Lehigh county were Jordan, Union, Heidelberg, Lowhill, Weisenberg, Trex- lertown, Lehigh, Ziegel, Fogelsville, Macungie, Tripoli, Long Swamp, Friedens, near Slating- ton, Mickley's, Catasauqua, Morgenland and Cedar Creek. Of the last four he was the first pastor and organized them. Some of these congrega- tions he served but a short time, and had the as- sistance of the young men who prepared under him for the ministry. From 1859 to 1861 the charge consisted of Jordan, Weisenberg, Morgen- land and Cedar Creek. During this time he served as state senator, representing Lehigh and Northampton counties at Harrisburg. In 1861 he resigned his charge and moved with his fam- ily to Allentown. In the fall of the same year he entered the United States army as chaplain of the One Hundred and Tenth Regiment Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, and served until 1864, when he returned home. In 1865 he again took charge of congregations in Lykens Valley, Pennsylvania, and served them until March, 1870, when sick- ness from asthma and dropsy compelled him to lay down his work and return to his home in Allentown, where he died July 2, 1870. His family consisted of nine children, four sons and five daughters. They are: Mary M., married to Joseph M. Eisenhart, who had no children ; Susan H., married to John Snyder, both dead. Their children are J. George, married to Josephine Schrader ; William P., Esq., a graduate of Muhl- enberg College in 1872, married to Louise Haus- man; Jeremiah S., died in infancy; Maud E., married to Harry F. Longnecker, deceased, late register of wills; Joseph P., late county commis- sioner, married to Mary A. Kutz: Susan Ann, married to James Frankenfield : Annie R., mar- ried to William Person and (second) to Frank
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Keiser; Abraham Lincoln married to Carrie Woodring ; Martin Luther married to Minnie S. Deshler. The third daughter was Sarah H., married to Sylvester Weiler. Both are dead and their children are, Albert S., married to Mary A. Walt, Eugene S., married to Emma Gies- mer, Lizzie, died unmarried, Emma, died in in- fancy, Hon. Jeremiah Nathan, married to Mary Fegley. The fourth daughter is Martha M., married to George J. Snyder, deceased. Their children are Alice, married to Silas Hawk, and (second) to Alfred Boas; Emma, married to Matthew Sieger, Martha D., married to Elwood Newhard, Annie and George both died in in- fancy, John Jeremiah, Esq., a graduate of Muhl- enberg College of 1886, Charles W., married to Mary A. Bortz, and Dr. Harry S., a graduate of Muhlenberg College of 1890, and Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1893. The fifth daughter is Emma E., married to Peter S. Beary. Their children are Captain Frank D., married to Annie Wolfram ; J. E. Schindel, mar- ried to Mulvina Wolfram; and Harry M., who died in infancy. The sons of Rev. Jeremiah Schindel are Martin Luther, who died in in- fancy; Captain Jeremiah P., married to Mattie P. Bayard, a relative of the well known Bayard family of Delaware and a sister of the brilliant young cavalry officer, General George Dashiel Bayard, who was killed in the battle of Fred- ericksburg in 1862. Captain Schindel served in the United States army for thirty-three years, died suddenly at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, No- vember 9, 1894, and is buried on the family lot in Union Cemetery, Allentown. He fought in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac, except Antietam, when he was home and wounded. Their children are Captain S. J. Bayard, a graduate of West Point in 1893, mar- ried to Isa U. Glenn; George Dashiel, who died in infancy, John Randolph, Esq., of Cincinnati, and First Lieutenant Louis P. The captain and the lieutenant are both in the Sixth United States Infantry, the same regiment in which their la- mented father served his thirty-three years. They were both in service in Cuba and the Philippines
and are now at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The second son is Rev. Jacob D., D. D., married to Ella C. Schmoyer, of Allentown. He has been in the Lutheran ministry for thirty-seven years, twenty-one years pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church at Catasauqua, thirty-seven at Mickley's thirty-one at Coplay and seventeen at Egypt, Laury's and Cementon. He graduated from Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, in 1864, and from the Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, in 1867, in which year he was ordained by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, on whose roll the name Schindel appears continuously since 1812. In 1898 the honorary degree of D. D. was con- ferred on him by Muhlenberg College, in whose board he has been a trustee since 1874. They have two children, Mary E., married to Reuben J. Butz, Esq., a graduate of Muhlenberg Col- lege of 1887, and one of the prominent young members of the Lehigh county bar; and Rev. Jeremiah Jacob, assistant to his father, a graduate of Muhlenberg College of 1896 and of the Lutheran Seminary, at Mount Airy, Philadel- phia, in 1899, when he was ordained by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania at Reading. He is married to Jessie A. Hausman. They have two children, Isabel Hausman and Mary Haus- man, who are of the ninth generation of this genealogy. The fourth son is Edward M., now of Sunbury, Pennsylvania. He is a war veteran of Company K, Fifty-fourth Regiment Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, an Allentown company of which Captain (now Major), E. R. Newhard had charge and with whom he had a full experience in the vicissitudes of war. He has been in the constant employment of the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company for over thirty-five years. He is married to Alice Bright and they have an only son, Luther Bright.
The Schindel family of Lehigh county well sustained the family's military reputation during the Civil war. Rev. Jeremiah Schindel, the father, served as chaplain of the One Hundred and Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, from 1861 to 1864: the oldest son. Captain Jere- miah P., served in the United States army, Sixth
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Infantry, from 1861 to 1894; the youngest son, Edward M., served from 1862 to 1865 in Com- pany K, Fifty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was the buglar for the regiment ; the second son, Jacob D., D. D., served in 1863 in Company A, Twenty-sixth Regiment, known as the "Emergency Regiment," and at this time also two of the sons-in-law, John Snyder and Sylvester Weiler, were serving with the militia. The Lebanon Evening Post, of July 24, 1901, has the following on the same subject: "The Third Brigade of the National Guard of Penn- sylvania is the only brigade that has five officers who are all descendants of the same ancestor, John Peter Schindel, who served in the Revolu- tionary war, and from whom they have all in- herited their military spirit. The five officers are : General J. P. S. Gobin, commander of the brigade; Captain Frank D. Beary, adjutant on Colonel O'Neill's staff, Fourth Regiment ; Cap- tain Marshall L. Case, commander of Company H, Fourth Regiment ; First Lieutenant J. M. Schindel, of Company H, Fourth Regiment, and Lieutenant C. Fry Schindel, of Company B, Eight Regiment. Another remarkable feature of the family is that in the United States at present there are six gentlemen known as Lieu- tenant Schindel, three being in the United States army and three in the National Guard. Those in the regular army are Lieutenant S. J. Bayard Schindel and Lieutenant Louis P. Schindel, of the Sixth United States Infantry, sons of the late Captain Jeremiah P. Schindel, of the same regiment, and Lieutenant Franklin Schindel Leisenring, Eleventh United States Infantry, at present in the Philippines. Those in the National Guard are Lieutenant J. M. Schindel, Lieutenant C. Fry Schindel, and Lieutenant Fred Schindel, Third Regiment National Guard of Maryland. Lieutenant Edwin Hutter Webber, Twentieth Infantry, United States Army, now retired, is also a descendant. One of the representatives of the family in the navy is Colonel James W. Forney, U. S. M. C., stationed in the Navy Yard, Philadelphia. Another was the late Lieutenant James E. Schindel, who died about three years
ago, from injuries received while on duty on the battleship "Oregon." During the Civil war the family was largely represented, several also participated in the war of 1812, others in the Mexican war, and as many served in the war with Spain."
Three grand-daughters of John Peter Schin- del ( II) with their families have also been identi- fied with the history of the Lehigh Valley. They are Elizabeth E. Schindel, married to Rev. Ed- win Wilson Hutter, D. D., of Allentown, who died in Philadelphia in 1873; Elmina Schindel, married to Di. Lesher Trexler, of Long Swamp, who for a number of years lived with his family and practiced medicine in Allentown. These two sisters are the daughters of Colonel Jacob Schin- del and wife, Elizabeth Leisenring, of Lebanon, sisters of Colonel Jacob A. Schindel and aunts of Lieutenant Jay M. Schindel, of Lebanon. The other grand-daughter is Virginia Marlin, married to Harry Wind, both now living in Easton, Pennsylvania. Their children are Alice, married to Harry Cooley, and Lilly, married to James Hauck.
The children of Elmina Schindel and Dr. Lesher Trexler are: (1) Annie, married to Dr. J. Frank Wertz, deceased, and their children are Lizzie Hutter, Richard Frederick and John Ralph; (2) Alice, married (first) Rev. Alfred Croll and their children are Kate, Ellie and Luther (second) Henry Boyer, and their chil- dren are Florence and Paul; (3) Amelia, mar- ried (first) James Trexler and had one daugh- ter, Florence (second) to Joseph Renno, of Allen- town and their children are Claude, Fred, and Harvey; (4) Jennie, married Frank Lentz, of Allentown.
Mrs. Elizabeth E. (Schindel) Hutter was a remarkable woman and well deserved the state and even national reputation she enjoyed in her life time. She was the daughter of Colonel Jacob Schindel of Lebanon, a veteran of the war of 1812, and his wife. Elizabeth Leisenring, of Sunbury, who was a grand-daughter of Johann Conrad Leisenring, the Lehigh county ancestor of all the Leisenrings in the state, who died Au-
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gust 14, 1781, and is buried in the old graveyard of Egypt church. Mrs. Hutter was born in Lebanon, November 18, 1822, and was married to Mr. Edwin Wilson Hutter, of Allentown, April 26, 1838. They had two children, Chris- tian Jacob, named after Mr. Hutter's father, and James Buchanan, whose sponsor and Godfather was President James Buchanan, after whom he was named. Their sons both died in infancy. The first few years of their married life they resided at Allentown, where Mr. Hutter was 'editor and proprietor of the Unabhaengiger Re- publikaner and Lehigh Herald, and at the same time served as prothontary of the county. They moved later to Harrisburg, where Mr. Hutter was state printer for two terins, and during Gov- ernor Porter's administration was appointed deputy secretary of the commonwealth. They also lived in Lancaster, when Mr. Hutter was editor of the Lancaster Intelligencer and Journal.
In 1845 Hon. James Buchanan, then secre- tary of state in President Polk's cabinet, called Mr. Hutter into his service as assistant secretary of state, necessitating the family to remove to Washington. Whilst living in Washington the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hutter was frequently honored with the presence of such well known personages as Webster, Calhoun, Clay, Jefferson Davis, Generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Tay- lor, Chief Justice Taney, Harriet Lane Johnson, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others well known at the national capital. Whilst living at Washington both their children were called from them by death. After this sad be- reavement Mr. Hutter felt constrained to enter the ministry ; earlier convictions and inclinations had now culminated in this resolution. As an inducement, however, to retain him in political life, President Polk offered him the position of minister to Italy, but he declined the honor of- fered and entered the Lutheran ministry. In 1850 he became pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran church, Third and New streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and remained so until his end. In later years Pennsylvania College, at Gettys- burg, conferred the honorary degree of Doctor
of Divinity on him, and he about the same time became one of the editors of The Lutheran Ob- server. Dr. Ilutter frequently expressed his in- tended wish of spending his last days in his na- tive place, Allentown, and had a fondness for the last home of his aged mother, which stood where now the "Commonwealth" building has been erected, but his cherished wish was never realized.
After their removel to Philadelphia, Mrs. Hutter became deeply interested and actively en- gaged in philanthropic work. She was the lead- ing spirit in the establishment of the Northern Home for Friendless Children, in Philadelphia, to which was added later the Soldiers' and Sail- ors' Orphan Institute. She was chosen the first president of the board of managers of the Home and served in this position forty-five years, or to the end of her life. She was also the president and one of the founders of the Newsboy's Aid Association, established in 1879.
Dr. and Mrs. Hutter were very patriotic peo- ple and did a great deal for the sick and wounded in hospitals and on battlefields. After the first battle of Bull Run, President Lincoln telegraphed for Dr. Hutter, and he and his wife were the first civilians to pass through the Union lines. One of the war mementoes, highly prized by Mrs. Hutter, was a visiting card addressed by Presi- dent Lincoln to his secretary of war, Mr. Stanton, which read: "I really wish Mrs. Hutter to be obliged in this case, Hon. Sec. of War, please see her. Nov. 4, 1864. A. Lincoln." When the memorable Sanitary Fair was held in 1864, Mrs. Hutter was placed at the head of the labor, income and revenue department, and raised $247,500. In 1867 she was appointed inspector and examiner of the state department of Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphan Schools, which position sne resigned in 1883, having enjoyed the distinction of being the only woman in the history of Penn- sylvania to whom a governor's commission had been granted. She was at the head of the execu- tive committee that had charge of the State Educational Department of Pennsylvania, during the Centennial Exposition, in 1876, and was pre-
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sented with a beautiful gold medal as a token of her services. On May 14, 1878, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Northern Home for Friend- less Children and of Mrs. Hutter's presidency, was celebrated in the Academy of Music, and on this occasion she was presented by the citizens of Philadelphia with an elegant massive silver service in recognition of her labors in the cause of humanity.
After the death of her husband, the Rev. Dr. Hutter, she became very much attached to and lived much of her time with her nieces, Ida Hutter Webber, married to Harvey A. Snyder, Esq., now of Chicago, and Anna Grove Ely, married to Emil W. Maass, now of Vienna, Austria, a son of Honorable Otto Maass, United State vice-consul general at that place, and her nephews, Lieutenant Edwin Hutter Webber, United States Army, and Lieutenant Jay M. Schindel, of Lebanon, to whom she was not only an aunt but also a kind hearted mother, and to whose deep interest in and indefatigable work for the history of the Schindel family we owe mainly this sketch of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Hutter.
John Peter Schindel ( II) had also two great- grandchildren in the Lehigh Valley. They are Dr. Peter Schindel Leisenring and his sister, Lydia Louise. They are the children of Gideon Leisenring, a grandson of Johann Conrad Leisen- ring, the Lehigh ancestor of that family, and Louisa, the daughter of John Peter Schindel (III). Dr. Leisenring practiced medicine for many years at Macungie, and was one of the physicians to the county alms-house. He was later president of the Medical College of Omaha, Nebraska, and lives at present in San Diego, California. He was married to Emma Sigmund, of Hampton Furnace, near Macungie, which furnace was owned and superintended by her father, Frederick Sigmund. Their children are Louise, Fred, Harry, Elizabeth Hutter, Albert, Matilda, Bertha, Frank, Luther and Sarah. Lydia Louise was married (first) to Dr. Albert M. Sigmund, of Hampton Furnace (second) to Rev. H. B. Belmar, D. D., now of Osborn, Ohio. By her first marriage she had three children, Rev.
Frederick L., D. D., president of Carthage Col- lege, Illinois, Rev. William S., of Columbus, Indiana, and Emma S. Both sons are graduates of Wittenberg College, of Springfield, Ohio.
It is much to be regretted that the collateral branch of the Schindel family, the descendants of John Michael, who came to Pennsylvania in 1755, and is a brother of John Peter (1), of Lebanon, has never been genealogically arranged. 'The same holds true of the descendants of John George and John Conrad, the nephews of John Michael, who came to Pennsylvania in 1771, and, like their uncle John Michael, settled in Lan- caster county.
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