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Joseph Gaston Durham, son of James and Charlotte (Gaston) Durham, was born November 20, 1813, died January 26, 1883. On January 9. 1840, he married Margaret Laird Lowry, born April 12, 1818 died January 26, 1896, and their children were: Sarah L., unmarried, resides at Watsontown, Pennsylvania. James L. D., who
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was a corporal in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, at the age of nineteen, and was fatally wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Anna, who died in infancy. William A., a resident of Watsontown, Pennsylvania; he married Mary Giffen. Joseph Edward, mentioned hereinafter. Mr. Durham had a brother Judge Robert Gaston Durham.
James McLenahan Lowry, father of Margaret Laird (Lowry) Durham, was born June 15, 1792, was a soldier in the War of 1812, married Febru- ary 24, 1814, Sarah Laird, born April 1, 1790, died December 15 1866, and his death occurred March 17, 1871. His father was Samuel Lowry, and he in turn was a son of Hugh Lowry, who left Scotland in 1760, died in Ireland in 1761, and his wife Margaret Lowry (maiden name also Lowry) who came with her children to this country in 1774 from the northern part of Ireland and settled in northwestern Pennsylvania, where they purchased a tract of land above ten thousand acres from the state, which they afterwards lost by suit with the Holland Land Company. Of the Lowrys may be mentioned Dr. William, brother of Samuel, physician, about 1800; and Judge Thomas Jefferson Lowry, of Crawford county ; Senator Morrow B. Lowry, and the Rev. Andrew M. Lowry. The line of Sarah Laird, grand- mother of Joseph E. Durham, goes back to Mat- thew Laird as the original settler coming to Penn- sylvania about 1750, and both through the wives of Samuel Lowry, Elizabeth McLenahan, and Matthew Laird, Margaret McLenahan, back to James McLenahan, the original settler in that line, who was prominent in Northumberland county, then embracing a large portion of Pennsylvania ; in the Revolutionary days as a soldier, member of the committee of safety, member of the assembly and in other ways.
Joseph Edward Durham, son of Joseph Gaston and Margaret (Lowry) Durham, was born at Watsontown, Northumberland county, Pennsyl- vania, October 22, 1857. He was educated at Dewart Academy and Watsontown Academy, both under the principalship of Allen D. Albert, whose painstaking and effective instruction is
worthy of fitting acknowledgment by his many pupils. He completed his college preparatory course at Bloomsburg State Normal School, 1873- 74, under the principalship of Dr. Griswold. He then entered Lafayette College, classical course, 1874, and graduated therefrom in 1878. He was the class day presentation crator; was a member of Franklin Hall, of which he was president one term ; a member of D. K. E. and other college organizations. He studied law under Hon. Franklin Bound, of Milton, Pennsylvania, and then under Bentley & Parker, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the Lycoming county bar, October, 1882, but in the meantime was a member of the firm of J. E. Durham & Co., later Hogue, Dur- ham & Co., merchants, and for several years he continued to retain his interest in merchandising and manufacturing enterprises. At the time of his admission to the bar the sickness of his fa- ther, who was then president of the Watsontown National Bank, prevented his taking up the prac- tice of law.
After his father's death Mr. Durham became connected with the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Philadelphia. In May, 1883, he came to Allentown as general agent for the Lehigh Valley, remaining there one year. In April, 1884, he returned to Williamsport as gen- eral agent for the same company for northern central Pennsylvania, remaining there until Feb- ruary, 1887, when he again removed to Allen- town as a member of the firm of Bourne & Dur- ham, general managers of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company for northeastern and central Pennsylvania, with territory also in New York and New Jersey. The central office of this firm remained in Allentown until toward the close of 1897, when it was removed to Nos. 405-414 Stephen Girard Building, Philadelphia, where it has since remained, with territory enlarged by the addition of the city of Philadelphia. In 1900 Mr. Bourne retired from active work (died Sep- tember 17, 1904), and the firm business has been carried on since that time under Mr. Durham's sole direction. This has grown to be one of the largest of any of the departments of the Penn
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Mutual Life Insurance Company, and is among the largest agencies of the United States. Mr. Durham is also interested in the line of public utilities, having aided in organizing among others the Flint Light and Power Company, of Fiint, Michigan, of which corporation he is president. He is connected with the Presbyterian church of Allentown. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Livingstone Club, of Allen- town, of which he was president for two years during its early history ; Watsontown Lodge, No. 401, Free and Accepted Masons ; the Manufact- urers' Club of Philadelphia ; the Philadelphia Life Underwriters Association, of which he is presi- dent, and other organizations.
Mr. Durham was married by the Rev. Henry S. Getz, June 29, 1881, to Nellie R. Stranahan, of Warren, Pennsylvania, who was born March 2, 1859. Their children are: Joseph Edward, Jr., born August 23, 1882; Fred Stranahan, born July 2, 1884 ; Lowry Stranahan, born October II, 1888, died May 20, 1890; and Eleanor Lewis, born June 3, 1892. Both Joseph Edward and Fred Stranahan are now studying in the academic course at Princeton University, class of 1906.
Daniel V. Stranahan, father of Nellie R. (Stranahan) Durham, was born August 24, 1810, and died May 19, 1874 ; he was a noted physician of his day. He married, March 2, 1841, Rebecca Jackson, born August 3, 1821, died September 17, 1887, daughter of David Jackson, of Warren, Pennsylvania and their children were: Jane E., who became the wife of William Brecht ; Chester W., a leading physician of northwestern Pennsyl- vania, residing at Erie ; Daniel V., deceased, was a physician ; Fred, deceased, was also a physician ; Frank, who died in youth ; and Nellie R., afore- mentioned as the wife of Joseph Edward Dur- ham. The ancestry of the Stranahan family is traced back to James Stranahan, born 1699, died 1782, an original settler who came to Scituate, Rhode Island, from the north of Ireland in 1725. His son John was born in 1737, died March 23, 1798, and was united in marriage to Lucy Buck, September, 1763. Their son Gibson J. was born in 1786, married Dolly Devendorf in 1807, and they were the : arents of Daniel V. Stranahan,
father of Mrs. Durham. Farrand Stranahan, a brother of Gibson J., was United States senator from New York, and was one of the seventeen senators who voted against giving the electoral college direct to the people. Other near relatives were Colonel William Stranahan, who partici- pated in the War of 1812, and James S. T. Stran- ahan, deceased, who was "The First Citizen of Brooklyn." For many years Mr. Durham has resided at No. 427 Hamilton street, Allentown, his winter home being at The Bartram, Thirty-third and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia.
PROFESSOR ALVIN RUPP, Superintend- ent of the Public Schools of Lehigh county, is descended from an ancient and honorable family of Pennsylvania, tracing his ancestry back to George Rupp, who was born in the village of Wimmeran, in Lower Alsace, Germany, on August II, 1721. His parents were Ulrich and Margareta (Holtzin) Rupp. Before his emigra- tion to America, George Rupp was married, Jan- uary 23, 1750, to Ursula Von Peterholtz, who was born August 17, 1722, in the town of Rab- schwiern, in the duchy of Zweibrucken, Upper Alsace. They emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1750 and settled near the present village of Chapmans, in Upper Macungie, on a farm containing several hundred acres of land. George and Ursula Rupp had nine children: Mrs. Maria Clara Faringer, Mrs. Margareta Meitzler, Anna Ger- trude, Adam Herman, John, George, Andrew, Maria Susanna and Mrs. Anna Maria Schu- macher.
Adam Herman Rupp, the eldest son of George Rupp, was born in Upper Macungie, November 7, 1756, and served for four years as a soldier of the Revolutionary war. He was also actively interested in the militia organization of the coun- ty, and held the rank of brigadier-general. In- heriting the old family homestead, he resided thereon until his death. He married a daughter of a Mr. Berer.
Jacob Rupp, the only child of Adam Herman Rupp, came into possession of the old family homestead through inheritance, and there car- ried on agricultural pursuits throughout his en-
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tire life. He married Maria Fogel, and they be- came the parents of six children: Sarah, who married John S. Gibbons, at one time a leading attorney of Allentown; Mary, who became the wife of David Schall, of Trexlertown, Penn- sylvania ; Eliza, the wife of Victor Blumer, who published the Friedens Bote, of Allentown ; Her- man, who resided on the home farm in Upper Macungie township, and was at one time a mem- ber of the state legislature, while for many years he served as justice of the peace, acting in that capacity up to the time of his death; Benjamin, who was engaged in farming near Chapman's Station, in Upper Macungie; and Tilghman Rupp, who was engaged in the jewelry business in Philadelphia.
John George Rupp, son of George Rupp, was born February 28, 1758, in Upper Macungie and married a daughter of a Mr. Guth.
John Rupp, the youngest son of George Rupp, was born in Upper Macungie, July 2, 1762. He married A. Fleckser, and removed to another part of the country.
Andrew Rupp was the third son of George Rupp, the founder of the family in America, and a direct ancestor of Professor Alvin Rupp. He was born in Upper Macungie, March 26, 1760, and served with distinction for four years in the Revolutionary war. By trade he was a carpenter, and after residing for some time at Chapman's Station, in Upper Macungie township, he re- moved to Weisenberg, where he lived for twenty- one years, his home being on the site of the pre- sent village of Seipstown. He married Anna Maria Hoffman, and their children were seven in number, namely : Andrew ; John; Solomon ; Emanuel; Catherine, who became the wife of Daniel Christman ; Mrs. Hettie Wieder ; and Mrs. Kelchner.
John Rupp, the second son of Andrew Rupp, married Elizabeth Hartman, and they had two children : Anna, the wife of Joseph Kuhns; and Judith, who married Israel Benner. After the death of his first wife, John Rupp married Cath- erine Wieand, and they had one son, Daniel.
Solomon Rupp, the third son of Andrew Rupp, Sr., lived in Weisenberg township and was
a carpenter by trade. He never married, and made his home with George Barner, by whom he was found one morning lying on the threshing floor at the point of death. A few bundles of straw lying close to him which had slipped from. the loft above suggested the idea that he had fal- len, but on examination it was discovered that his watch and pocketbook were missing, an in- dication that he had been robbed.
Emanuel Rupp, the youngest son of Andrew Rupp, Sr., lived in Lynn township, Lehigh county. He married Maria Danner, of Weisen- berg Pennsylvania, and had four children : Solo- mon, John, Catherine and Maria.
Andrew Rupp, Jr., the eldest son of Andrew Rupp, Sr., and grandfather of Professor Rupp, was born in Upper Macungie township, April 4, 1784, and also followed the carpenter's trade. He- was married to Magdalena Muthard, and their children were three in number, Catherine, Solo- mon and Maria.
Solomon Rupp, son of Andrew Rupp, Jr., was born in Lowhill township, Lehigh county, Feb- ruary 15, 1813, and resided in Weisenberg town- ship for many years. In his youth he learned and. followed the carpenter's trade, but subsequently turned his attention to farming. His death re- sulted from an accident which occurred when he was loading coal at Allentown, February 5, 1854. He married Maria Frey, a daughter of Peter and Maria Barbara (Moser) Frey. Solomon and Maria (Frey) Rupp had eight children : William, John, Benjamin, Louisa E., Solomon F., Sallie- Anna, Henry F. and Alvin.
William Rupp, the eldest son of Solomon Rupp after his graduation at Franklin and Mar- shall College, took up the study of theology in. the Mercersburg Theological Seminary, and was ordained as a minister of the Reformed church. He married Emma E. Hambright, and they had ten children : Lillie, deceased ; Mary ; Emma, who married Rev. Barnhardt, and has two children : William ; Viola, who married Rev. D. E. Master ; Fred, who is a practicing physician ; Harry, who is a minister of the gospel ; Charles, Theodore and Paul, all graduates of Franklin and Marshall College. William Rupp died April 3, 1904.
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John Rupp, second son of Solomon Rupp, was a student in Franklin and Marshall College, and afterward entered the Allentown Seminary. Later he studied law in the office of Hon. Adam Woolever, of Allentown, and is now engaged in the practice of his profession in that city. He married Ellen Zellner.
Benjamin Rupp, the third son of Solomon Rupp, was a student in Allentown Seminary, and pursued academic courses at Quakertown and Carversville, Pennsylvania. He then took up the study of law, but died of typhoid fever soon after his admission to the bar.
Louisa E. Rupp, a daughter of Solomon Rupp, became the wife of Benjamin Fries, and lives in Weisenberg township. Their children are as fol- lows: Katie, who married Charles Sechler, and has five children : Ada L .; Lillie, who became the wife of Irving M. Herring ; Minnie ; and Charles.
Sallie Anna, a daughter of Solomon Rupp, died in infancy.
Solomon F. Rupp, a son of Solomon Rupp, was a farmer and school teacher, and is now a justice of the peace in Weisenberg township. He married Jane Rauch ; they have three children : William, Ada J. and Ellen.
Henry F. Rupp, son of solomon Rupp, was a student in Kulpsville Academy, has followed farming and school teaching in Weisenberg, Pennsylvania; he married Alice Sell, and they have four children : Lille; Mary, who married ; Althena ; and Robert.
Alvin Rupp, the youngest son of Solomon Rupp, pursued his early education in the public schools and afterward took an academic course at the Palatinate College. On putting aside his text books he went to Lowhill township, where he engaged in teaching for five terms. He was afterward a teacher in Weisenberg township for one term, and for three terms in Lynn township, and on the expiration of that period he removed to the borough of Macungie, where for two terms he was principal of the high school. He next accepted the principalship of the high school at Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, remaining in charge there for nine terms, and in 1893 he was elected superintendent of schools of Lehigh county, and
has occupied the position continuously since, hav- ing at the present writing three hundred and twenty-seven schools under his supervision. He is one of the prominent representatives of the system of public education in Pennsylvania, and under his guidance the standard of the schools of Lehigh county has been greatly raised. He has also been elected a trustee of the Kutztown Normal School. He is a member of the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America, and belongs to the Reformed church, while his political allegiance is given to the Democracy.
Prof. Rupp married Miss Ellen M. Miller, a daughter of Nathan and M ria (Sittler) Miller, and a granddaughter of Jonas Miller, and a great-granddaughter of Peter Miller. Her mater- nal grandfather was George Sittler. The children of Nathan and Maria (Sittler) Miller were as follows: Caroline, who married Alfred S. Peters, and has two children, Lewis and George; Rev. Joseph Miller, who married Emma Deibert, by whom he has three children ; Mrs. Rupp; Thomas E., who married Isabella Keck, and has one child, Roy; Mentana died in 1894, was the wife of Frank Fehr, and had one child, Adam ; George, who has won the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and is professor of mathematics in Stanford Uni- versity, of California ; and Sarah, who became the wife of L. K. Grim, and with their three children lives at Sylvan Grove, Kansas.
To Prof. and Mrs. Rupp have been born two children : John and Lawrence, the latter a law student. The former married Florence Ott, and has two children, George and Pauline R. -
HENRY AUGUSTUS KLINE, of Allen- town, Pennsylvania, who holds a high and prom- inent position in the musical circles of that city and throughout the entire county, and who is held in high esteem on account of the success he has attained as a result of diligence, ability and enterprise, was born in Lehigh county, Pennsyl- vania, June 6, 1844, a son of Joseph and Anna (Wetherhold) Kline, a grandson of Jacob and Susanna (Gross) Kline, the former named being a native of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and a miller by occupation, and a great-grandson of
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Peter Kline, the first of the family to settle in Lehigh county.
Joseph Kline ( father) was born in Lowhill township, Lehigh county, attended the public schools adjacent to his home, and completed his education at a private school in New Jersey. He learned the trade of miller with his father, and devoted his energies to that line of business for a number of years. He was an inventor of some note, and various articles patented by him are in use today, such as a machine for cleaning grain and a washing machine. He built and planned the first threshing machine made in Lehigh county, and he was also an adept at wood carving, several pieces of his work being still in existence. During the latter years of his life he removed to Allentown, and in that city his death occurred. His wife was Anna (Wether- hold) Kline, a daughter of Joseph Wetherhold, who was of French-German stock, a native of Lehigh county, a tanner by trade, and whose death occurred in 1859; she bore him three chil- dren, as follows : Emeline, wife of John Bowen ; Maria, wife of Henry Faust ; and Henry A. Kline mentioned hereinafter.
Henry A. Kline pursued his preliminary studies at the public schools in the neighborhood of his home, and completed his education by a course at Franklin and Marshall College at Lan- caster, Pennsylvania. The knowledge thus ac- uired thoroughly qualified him for the position of teacher, in which capacity he served in the pub- lic schools of Lehigh, Carbon and Luzerne coun- ties for the long period of twenty-two years, and since his resignation from that position he has been a teacher of music. From 1881 to 1898 he was a resident of Wilkes-Barre, and from the lat- ter year to the present time (1904) he has made his home in Allentown. Politicall, he is an adher- ent of the principles of the Republican party, and fraternally, he is affiliated with the following named orders: Free and Accepted Masons, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows Knights of Fythias, Junior Order of United American Me- chanics, Patriotic Order Sons of America, Knights of Malta, serving in 1891 as deputy supreme com-
mander for the latter in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl- vania, the Royal Arcanum and others.
Mr. Kline was married December 2, 1869, to Amanda Isabella Kuntz, who was born December 3, 1849, daughter of Henry and Violetta (Kern) Kuntz, of Slatington, Pennsylvania, mentioned hereinafter. Mr. and Mrs. Kline are the parents of six children; three of whom are deceased : Herbert Spencer, William Clayton, and Bessie Kuntz. Those living are: Henry J., a graduate from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1892; he married Margaret Eloise Berdan, of Paterson, New Jersey, and one child, Margaret Eloise, has been born to them. Mabel, who mar- ried Walter J. Groves, of Bethlehem, Pennsyl- vania, and they have two children, Margaret Isa- bella and Eleanor Kline. Anna Violet. Mr. Kline and his family are attendants at the Episcopal church.
Henry Kuntz, a forementioned as the father of Mrs. Henry A. Kline, was born in South Whitehall, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, Octo- ber 10, 1830, a son of Jacob D. Kuntz, a native of Northampton county, who in turn was a son of Jacob Kuntz, also a native of Northampton county, and a descendant of ancestors who orig- inally came from Leipsic, Germany, and settled in Pennsylvania in 1723. When Henry Kuntz was two years of age his father moved to Heidelberg township, now Washington, where he was reared on a farm. His education was very limited, but being of a naturally studious disposition he ap- plied his spare time to private study until he was seventeen years of age, when his father died, and he hired out at farm labor, receiving therefor six dollars per month and board. Subsequently, he hired out as clerk in a general store, his remunera- tion therefor being five dollars per month and board, and by careful attention to the details of the business he gained the confidence of his em- ployer, who promoted him to the position of man- ager in 1849, he being then only nineteen years of age. Shortly afterward he made a journey to. the city of Philadelphia, this being his first visit to any city, and while there he purchased a full line of goods for a general store. Upon his return
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from Philadelphia he embarked in business on his own account at Odenwelder's, Northampton county, but this did not prove successful, owing to the undesirability of the location. In 1850, after disposing of his stock at a sacrifice, he re- moved to Slatington, where he conducted a hotel for two years, and at the expiration of this period of time he started out prospecting and opened the first slate quarry. Two other quarries were soon opened and a company organized, consisting of five members under the firm name of Kuntz, Kern & Co., Mr. Kern being a brother-in-law of Mr. Kuntz. Owing to the failure of two of these quarries, and just prior to the panic of 1854, Mr. Kuntz urged a dissolution of partnership, and after this was carried out Mr. Kuntz kept the remaining quarry and assumed a part of the lia- bilities. The affairs of the company were speedily straightened out, and in a few years business was resumed. After these quarries were ex- hausted, the lease of another quarry was pur- chased near Slatington, on land owned by Peter Wert. This was operated until 1864, when the slate business became very extensive, and in that year Mr. Kuntz became connected with Philip Wotring in opening up a quarry called the "Eagle." In 1865 he disposed of the Slatedale quarry for the large sum of eleven thousand dol- lars, and eight years later he purchased his part- ner's interest for ten thousand dollars. In the year 1880 he effected a lease of the Big Franklin Quarry for twenty-five years, and successfully operated it for ten years. Four years later he took another lease, the American No. 5, and there developed a successful quarry, and three years later he purchased the old Washington Quarry. In 1889 he effected a lease of an extensive quarry from Joseph Scheffler, and a year later a lease was made of the property of Isaac Brobst, where there is a promising quarry, with a slate factory fully equipped. His business, which has been trans- acted since 1884 under the title of the Slatington Slate Company, is one of the leading industries of that section of the state, and this has been brough about through the excellent management and able financiering of Mr. Kuntz, who is a
thorough business man. For twenty-six suc- cessive years he served as justice of the peace. and then declined re-election; in 1892 was elected burgess of the borough of Slatington ; and also served in several other minor offices. He was a Republican until the election of General Grant for a second term of office, and since then he has supported the principles of the Democratic party. He is a charter member of the Knights of Honor ; and a consistent member of the Evangel- ical Lutheran church, having served in the capac- ity of superintendent of the Sunday school of that body for fifteen years.
Mr. Kuntz was united in marriage, in 1849, to Violetta Kern, daughter of Jonas Kern, who passey away in 1892. About three miles from the Lehigh "Gap," at a point where the famous Warrior's "Path" crossed the stream, and where is now the thriving town of Slatington, Nicholas Kern, as early as 1737, took up about five hundred acres of land ; he died in 1748, leaving six sons and one daughter. One of the sons, William, bought a considerable portion of this land, where- on he reared a large family of children, among them being John Kern, who was born in 1777 and lived to the good old age of seventy-three years. His eldest son, Jonas Kern, settled at the old homestead and conducted the mill, the property being located in what is now the town of Slating- ton ; he was the father of two children, namely : Benjamin, and Violetta, aforementioned as the wife of Henry Kuntz. Mrs. Kuntz died July 20, 1863, in the thirty-first year of her age, leav- ing six daughters: 1. Amanda Isabella, afore- mentioned as the wife of Henry A. Kline; 2. Cenia F., wife of W. W. Bowman; 3. Damietta, wife of the Rev. William H. Kuntz; 4. Cath- erine, wife of Walter B. Grosh ; 5. Caroline V., wife of Thomas H. Drake; and after his death, she married the Rev. Charles Sandt; 6. Martha, wife of the Rev. George W. Sandt. In 1865 Henry Kuntz chose for his second wife Elizabeth Boyer, and they became the parents of two daughters: Irene A., the wife of Dr. F. O. Ritter; and Lilly M., the wife of S. Ben- jamin Kostenbader.
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