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William Kerchner of this family was born on the old homestead in Lower Macungie township, Lehigh county, March 6, 1832, where he resided for a few years and prospered in his farming pur- suits. He married Levina Laros, and they be- came the parents of nine children: Oscar mar- ried Maria Schankweiler ; John is deceased ; Will- iam wedded Louise Conrad and they had five chil- dren-Amelia, William J., Lillie, and Louise E. and Ellen L., twins ; Jacob married Emma Derr and has three children, Irwin, Levina, and Verna ; Edwin married Emma Reppert and their children are Harold and Miriam; Mary is the wife of J. P. Mabery, and they have ten children, Mrs. Kate Kercher, Mrs. Annie Bien, William, Edwin, EI- len, Clara, Charles, Harry, Elsie and Paul ; Mrs. Ellen Phillips has three children, Augustus, Ed- na and Walter ; Mrs. Maggie Kern has one child, Marie.
George F. Kerchner, the other member of the
family of William and Levina Kerchner, was born in Lower Macungie township on the old family homestead April 21, 1868, was reared to farm life, and by close application to his studies fitted himself for a career of usefulness. He taught school for four terms with much satisfaction to his patrons, afterward engaged in clerking for three years and then became a partner of his brother, Oscar Kerchner, in the coal and lumber business, in which they continued for six years. In 1902 George F. Kerchner purchased his pres- ent farm, on which he is actively engaged in gen- eral agricultural pursuits. He has held the office of auditor of the borough of Macungie.
Mr. Kerchner was married March 13, 1890, to Miss Dora Miller, who was born April 19, 1871, a daughter of Henry Miller. They have seven children, Serene, Annie, William H., Es- ther, George, John and Lillian. Mr. and Mrs. Kerchner are members of the Reformed church, in the work of which they take an active and helpful interest and he is serving as deacon.
THE ALLENTOWN NATIONAL BANK was organized August 1, 1865, under the National Currency Act of 1864, with a capital of $200,000. The institution, however, is the direct outgrowth and continuation of the old Allentown Bank, which dates its history from August 27, 1855, and was organized in pursuance of a charter granted by the Pennsylvania Legislature, with an author- izer capital of $100,000. The first officers of the bank under the state charter were Hon. Jacob Dillinger, president ; Charles W. Cooper, cashier : William J. Hoxworth, teller and general clerk ; Tilghman H. Good, general assistant, messenger and watchman; James S. Reese, solicitor ; and George Fry, notary public. The first directors were Jacob Dillinger, John Appel, Stephen Bar- ber, Stephen Graff, Solomon Keck, Charles Kra- mer, Jesse M. Line, Welcome B. Powell, George Probst, Aaron G. Renninger, Joshua Beiberling, Hiram J. Schantz and Dr. William Wilson.
The Allentown Bank, although organized at a time when the financial world was subject to con- vulsions growing out of the political agitation which preceded the war of 1861-65, was a suc-
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cessful institution. It then was a state bank, so- called, subject to all the elements of antagonism which were brought to bear against institutions of its class during that period, but it steadily pros- pered and increased its business chiefly because its officers and directors were men of high character in business circles and possessed the confidence of business men in general. In 1856 the capital was increased to $140,000, and in 1857 was further in- creased to $160,000, remaining at that total until the reorganization of 1865.
On August 1, 1865, the directors surrendered their charter, and on that day reorganized the Al- tentown Bank under the provisions of the several acts of congress, and became known as the Allen- town National Bank. There was no radical change in the personnel of the board of directors, but the character of the institution was neverthe- less materially changed, for then it had assumed a higher position in business circles than it had pre- viously occupied. At that time the officers and immediate employees were as follows: William Saeger, president; Charles W. Cooper, cashier ; Joseph E. Balliet, teller ; Henry J. Pretz, general bookkeeper; Tobias Kessler, individual book- keeper; D. W. Lehr, watchman; Robert E. Wright, senior solicitor. The directors were Will- iam Saeger, Jacob Correll, Daniel Clader, C. F. Dickensheid, John H. Fogel, Stephen Graff, Boas Hausman, James K. Moser, J. H. Martin, C. Pretz, J. G. Schimpf, Henry Schnuman and William Wilson.
Throughout the subsequent period of forty years of its history the Allentown National Bank has been in all respects a successful institution. and has held a high standing in the financial world. In 1870 its capital was increased to $500,- 000, and in 1902 a further increase was made to $1,000,000.
ARIO PARDEE. The Pardee family, of which Ario Pardee, deceased, was a representa- tive member, was founded in this country by George Pardee, who was born in 1629, of French Huguenot ancestry. He was the first principal of the Hopkins Grammar School at New Haven, Connecticut, was a man of note, and exerted a
powerful influence for good in the community. In 1650 he married Martha Miles, who died in 1660, and two years later he chose for his second wife Rebekah Love, who bore him four children. George Pardee died in 1700.
Joseph Pardee, son of George and Rebekah (Love) Pardee, was born April 27, 1664. He married, July 31, 1688, Elizabeth Yale, a daugh- ter of the first Thomas Yale, and ten children were the issue of this marriage. John Pardee, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Yale) Pardee, was born February 6, 1698, and died April 9, 1766. He was united in marriage to Betsey Horne, and they reared a family of six children. Thomas Par- dee, son of John and Betsey (Horne) Pardee, was born October 31, 1722, and died August I, 1806. He married Wealthien White, who bore him ten children. They settled in Sharon, Con- necticut, where they made their home for many years. Caivin Pardee, son of Thomas and Weal- thien Pardee, was born July 26, 1757, and died October 27, 1795, at Stephentown, New York. His wife, Rachel (Johnson) Pardee, who was born at Oblong, New York, November 15, 1759, died June 28, 1847, bore him a family of twelve children.
Ario Pardee, son of Calvin and Rachel (John- son) Pardee, was born October 14, 1778, died August 14, 1853. He was a farmer by occupa- tion, conducting his operations in the town of Chatham, New York. He was united in mar- riage to Eliza Platt, daughter of Israel Platt, who. served as captain in the Revolutionary army. Their family consisted of five daughters and one son. Mr. Pardee and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church.
Ariovistus Pardee, only son of Ario and Eliza (Platt) Pardee, was born in Chatham, New York, November 19, 1810. He was a student at the district school at Stephentown, Rensselaer county, New York, until he was fifteen years of age, but his education did not end then, for, be- ing of a studious nature and fond of reading, he continued gaining knowledge in this way, becom- ing well informed on a variety of subjects. His first work was on the engineer corps building the Delaware and Raritan Canal, under George Ty-
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ler Olmstead, at Princeton, New Jersey. In 1831 he went as assistant to Ashbel Welch, Esq., Lam- bertville, New Jersey, remaining in that capacity until 1833, when he went to Beaver Meadow, Pennsylvania, to make survey and location of the Beaver Meadow Railroad from the mines of that company to the Lehigh Canal at Mauch Chunk. Shortly afterwards he was given entire charge of the road, and in 1836 completed it and commenced shipping coal. The following year, 1837, he lo- cated a railroad from the Hazleton coal mines to the Beaver Meadow Railroad at Penn Haven, and commenced shipping coal in the spring of 1838. He remained in the employ of the Hazleton Rail- road and Coal Company as their manager until 1840, in which year he commenced business as a coal operator, and at the time of his death, March 26, 1892, was the most extensive individual an- thracite operator in the country. He served in the capacity of president and director of a large number of manufacturing corporations and sev- eral National Banks, being thus honored by reason of his endowment of business ability and acrumen, which was of a high order. He was a director of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the North Penn Railroad. He was president of the board of trus- tees of Lafayette College, to which institution he generously donated over half a million of dollars. He also served as president of the State Geologi- cal Board. His religious views were in accord with the tenets of the Presbyterian church, and his political affiliations were in line with the Re- publican party. He held the office of presidential elector in 1876.
Mr. Pardee was married twice. His first wife; whose maiden name was Eliza Jacobs, bore him three children, namely: Ario, who was brevet brigadier-general of United States Volunteers ; at the beginning of the Civil war he raised a com- pany which was equipped and fitted out at his fa- ther's expense; he died in 1900. Calvin, who served as captain of United States Volunteers during the Civil war ; he is now a coal operator. Alice, who became the wife of James M. Earle, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The second wife of Mr. Pardee was Anna Maria Robison, daughter of William and Betsey (Barton) Robison, of
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Their children are: Israel Platt. Anne, who became the wife of L. S. Allison. Barton, Frank, Bessie, who became the wife of W. L. McKee. Edith, Gertrude, who became the wife of Dr. H. M. Keller.
ALEXANDER S. SHIMER, whose business interests are represented by his identification with some of the leading industrial and financial insti- tutions of the city of Allentown, represents one of the oldest families of the Lehigh Valley. His paternal grandfather was John Shimer, who mar- ried Miss Van Buskirk, and among their children was Charles B. Shimer, who married Hannah Schantz, who bore to him several children, to each of whom was given for his middle name the family name of the mother, Schantz. The chil- dren living are Hiram S., Alexander S. and Llew- ellyn S. Shimer. Other sons, who are deceased, were: Franklin S., who was a general merchant in Reading, Pennsylvania ; Edward S., who was also a general merchant in Allentown, and mayor of that city ; Charles S., who was a farmer, and who passed his latter years in retirement in Allen- town ; Jacob S., who was a practicing physician, first in Shimersville, and afterward in Philadel- phia, where he died. There were two daughters in the family-Elevina, who became the wife of Henry Rigel, and died leaving two children, Ed- win and Sebilla ; and Sarah Ann, who became the wife of Gideon Egner, and died leaving one daughter, Annie, who is the wife of George Hart- zell.
Alexander Schantz Shimer was born in Shim- ersville in 1840. In his early youth he was a stu- dent in the public schools of his native village, and afterward had training in a business college. He entered upon the practical work of life as a salesman in a store in Macungie, where he re- mained for eight years. His experience thus gained qualified him for entrance into mercantile life on his own account, and he established a store of his own which he conducted in Shimers- ville for a year. On the expiration of that period he removed to Macungie, where he remained un- til 1866, when he came to Allentown, and in com- pany with his brother established the firm of
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Shimer Brothers, dealers in dry-goods, carpets, draperies and groceries. They conducted their store with good success until 1876, when Alex- ander S. Shimer sold his interest to his brother and A. G. Reninger, and began the manufacture of gas and water pipe as superintendent of Fisher's Foundry. He occupied that position for a year, with the prospect of becoming a partner at the ·end of that time, but then manifested his prefer- ence to remain as superintendent, and continued to manage the active working of the plant until 1890, when he became a stockholder in the Don- aldson Iron Company at Emaus. In that enter- prise he has since maintained his interest, and is one of the directors of the company. He is also a director in the Lehigh Portland Cement Com- pany. His business interests in former years were capably conducted, with the result that he acquired a handsome competence that now, judi- ciously invested, returns to him a good annual income. He is a Republican in his political affil- iations, and a Lutheran in religious belief.
Mr. Shimer was married in 1865 to Lizzie E. Bieber, and their only child, a daughter, Laura B., died at the age of seventeen years.
GEORGE T. OPLINGER, one of the leading and influential citizens of Slatington, was born in Lehigh township, Northampton county, October 28, 1848. The family history records the arrival in America of three brothers, Nicholas, Samuel and Isaac Oplinger, about the middle of the eight- eenth century. They came from Germany, their native land, and were pioneer settlers of North- ampton county. The name of Nicholas Oplinger appears in the court records as early as 1732 in connection with an appointment to the position of constable. Isaac Oplinger was the great-grand- father of George T. Oplinger, and the grandfather was Daniel Oplinger, who was born December 9, 1790, and died January 2, 1851. His wife was Susanna Walp, who was born April 15, 1793, and died April 5, 1865. Both lie buried in the church- vard at Indian Land, Lehigh township, North- ampton county.
In the maternal line George T. Oplinger is a descendant of George and Kate (Dreisbach)
Fenstermacher, his mother's parents. George Fenstermacher was born July 7, 1787, and died May 19, 1853. His wife was born September I, 1793, and died March 31, 1846, their remains be- ing interred in the cemetery of the Stone church at Kreidersville, Northampton county.
Thomas Oplinger, the father of George T. Oplinger, was born November 15, 1824, and died August 12, 1901. Early in life he learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed as a regular occupation for fifty-five years. He also conducted a farm upon which he spent the greater part of his life. His educational privileges were limited to the opportunities afforded by the common schools of that day, but he utilized his time to the best advantage and lived a life of industry, hon- esty and sobriety. He abstained from the use of liquor and tobacco, was a regular attendant at the Lutheran church, and took an active part in religious work. His wife, Sarah Lena Fenster- macher, was born March 22, 1827, and departed this life August 26, 1890.
George T. Oplinger was born on the old fam- ily homestead in Lehigh township, and there spent his boyhood and youth, his preliminary education being received in the schools of the neighborhood. When but fourteen years of age he assisted his father in working at the shoemaker's trade. In 1865, however, being desirous of obtaining a bet- ter education, he attended successively the fol- lowing schools: Syke's school, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania ; Weaversville Academy, of Weav- ersville, Pennsylvania; Dickinson Seminary, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania; and the Business College of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where he completed a course of study in December, 1869. He then took up the study of mechanical and architectural drafting and civil engineering under J. B. Otto of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In 1871 he accepted the proposition of his former in- structor, Professor J. F. Davis, principal of the Williamsport Business College, to join him in the management of the institution, which was then conducted under the firm name of Davis & Op- linger. In December, 1873, he severed his part- nership with Professor Davis in order that he might personally superintend his real estate inter-
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ests in Slatington, to which city he removed. In the designing and execution of freehand pen work Mr. Oplinger probably has no superiors and few equals. During his early manhood he paid much attention to designing, and has prescrvcd many specimens of his handiwork in this line, a number of which show the existence of rare talent. Dur- ing his residence in Slatington he has given his attention to various business and public interests, and is now the president of the Citizens' National Bank. He is one of the organizers of the Key- stone and the Excelsior Building and Loan Asso- ciation of Slatington, and in 1898 became one of the principal organizers of the Home Building and Loan Association of this borough, of which he is now the secretary. In 1890 he was elected bor- ough engineer, which position he has faithfully and honorably filled to the present writing in 1904. He has been chosen to represent the peo- ple of his locality in various official capacities. In 188I he was elected school director, and was chosen secretary of the board, serving in that capacity for three years, after which he was re- elected in 1884. In 1885 he became treasurer of the board, filling that position for two years, or until the expiration of his second term as director. On the 3d of August, 1893, he was appointed no- tary public, and served until 1901, or up to the time of the organization of the Citizens' National Bank.
Socially, Mr. Oplinger is identified with the Masonic fraternity. He was raised to the degree of master mason in Manoquesy Lodge, No. 413, F. & A. M., at Bath, Northampton county, Feb- ruary 2, 1871, and demitted to Slatington Lodge, No. 440, F & A. M., February 14, 1889. He be- came a member of Allen Chapter, No. 203, R. A. M., June 20, 1892; of Allen Commandery, No. 20, K. T., January 12, 1893 ; of Irem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Wilkesbarre, April 20, 1898; and Caldwell Consistory, S. P. R. S., at Blooms- burg, Pennsylvania, and is now a thirty-second degree Mason. He is also a member and past chief of Slatington Castle, No. 206, Knights of the Golden Eagle, with which he united Novem- ber 23, 1887.
Mr. Oplinger was married August 14, 1871,
to Ellen A. Remaly, a daughter of John and Lavina (West) Remaly, of Slatington. In 1850 John Remaly purchased from his father, Jacob George Remaly, fifty acres of land on what is now upper Slatington and erected the first hotel build- ing in that section of the town. In the following year he secured the first liquor license granted in that section of the borough. The remainder of his land was laid out in town lots, and thus he became the founder of the section of the city which stands on the hill. He died January 3, 1862, and his wife died January 15, 1889.
JAMES KISTLER MOSSER, of Allentown, was born in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania, in 1830, his parents being Jacob and Salome (Kistler) Mosser. The paternal grandfather was David Mosser, while the maternal grandfather was John Kistler. To Jacob and Salome Mosser were born five children: William K., the eldest, married Lucy Fisher, and had two children : William F., who married Emily Guiley, and Mary, wife of Coloncl H. C. Trexler. Catherine married Sam- uel E. Allbright, and their five children are Jchn, Rose, George, Peter, and Mary. Charles K. mar- ried Annie Mink, and they had eight children : Albert, Charles, Frank, Ellen, Emma, Alice, An- nie and Eva. Elizabeth married Peter K. Grim, and their children are Kate, David Albert, Jacob, Ellen, Anna and Amanda. James K. completes the family.
James Kistler Mosser acquired his early edu- cation in the public schools of his native town, and afterward began working in a tannery with his father, under whose direction he learned the trade of tanning sole leather. His father had re- moved to Trexlertown in 1829 and taken charge of a tannery which had been built a number of years previous. As his sons attained early man- hood he instructed them in the business, and the family has been connected with this enterprise for many years. In 1849 he removed to Allentown, and in 1854 the father turned over the tannery business to his two sons. W. K. and J. K., and the firm name became W. K. & J. K. Mosser. This continued until 1859, when James K. withdrew. and with Thomas Keck and Alfred G. Saeger
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formed a company at East Allentown, styled Mosser, Keck & Company. In 1863 they estab- lished a commission house in New York city, styled Keck, Mosser & Company. They are the same people, but took different positions in the firm at different places. In 1873 Keck, Mosser & Company established a branch house in Boston. In 1875 Mr. Saeger withdrew from the firm. In 1876 J. K. Mosser and Thomas Keck built a tan- nery at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and the firm name became J. K. Mosser & Company, which is the present style. In 1884 Mr. Mosser's three sons were taken into the firm. At the age of seventy-three years Mr. Mosser is still active and energetic. Each of his sons has charge of a de- partment, and the house is one of the largest pro- ducers in this line in the country.
Mr. Mosser was for twenty years a director in the Allentown National Bank. He has also been a member of the board of directors of the Lehigh Valley Trust Company since its inception. In re- ligious faith Mr. Mosser is a Lutheran, and in his political belief is a Republican.
He was married to Miss Marie E. Keck, and they have four children: Henry, Jacob, George, and Lucy. Henry Mosser married Mary Grim, and they have five children : Helen, James, Henry, Miriam, and Louie. Jacob Mosser, the second son of James K. and Marie (Keck) Mosser, mar- ried Miss Seiberling, and they have eight chil- dren : Annie, Paul, Carl, Harris, John, Cather- ine, Philip, and Charles Richard. George Mosser married Ida Hausman and has three children : Fred, Robert, and Mary. Lucy, the fourth child of James K. and Marie (Keck) Mosser, married Dr. Irving Huebner, and they have two children, James K., and Richard.
HARRY YOHE HORN, M. D., who is en- gaged in the practice of medicine in Coplay, where he is also conducting a drug store, was born in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, in 1859, and comes of a family of German extraction. The first ances- tor of whom there is authentic record was Abram Horn, a resident of Pennsylvania. During the war of the Revolution he served his country as a captain, and during the war of 1812 was colonel
of the First Pennsylvania Regiment. He had eight sons, including Abram Horn, Jr., who was postmaster of Easton, Pennsylvania, during Presi- dent Jackson's administration. He was also state surveyor for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. He married Susan Hay, and they became the par- ents of eight sons and two daughters, of which number Melchoir Horn was born in Easton in 1783, and married Isabel Trail. Their children were Sybilla, Robina, Robert T., John J., Isa- bella R., Melchoir H., Enoch C., Philip H., Sarah and Maria L. The father was married (second) to Mrs. Stedinger, and they had one son, William Penn.
Melchoir Hay Horn, son of Melchoir and Isa- bella (Trail) Horn, was born in Easton, Pennsyl- vania, April 9, 1822, and died February 28, 1890. He served his country as colonel of the Twenty- eighth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil war. He possessed considerable busi- ness ability, was cashier of the Catasauqua Na- tional Bank, and filled many public positions of trust and responsibility. On the 12th of October, 1845, he married Matilda L. Heller, who was born March 1, 1823, and is a daughter of Jacob Heller. She was descended from Christopher Heller, who embarked with his son, Johan Simon, at Rot- terdam, on the' ship "Winter Galley," Edward Paynter, master, and arrived at Philadelphia, Sep- tember 5, 1736. Christopher Heller was born in 1688, and died in Lower Saucon township, North- ampton county. His son, Johan Simon Heller, was born in Peltersheim, in the Pfaltz, Germany, June 18, 1721, and died in Plainfield township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1783. He was married in 1749 to Lowii Dietz, whose birth occurred June 12, 1726, and who died April 13, 1768. Their children were: Jacob, Elizabeth, John, Daniel, Anthony, Margaret, Abraham, Michael, Simon, Veronica, Sarah, Catherine, Mary and Lovis.
Captain Jacob Heller, son of Johan Simon and Lowii (Dietz) Heller, was born in Lower Saucon township, Northampton county, March 6, 1750, and died in Plainfield township, of the same coun- ty, October 8, 1822. He married Susanna - who was born June 21, 1752, and died December
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28, 1797. Their children were Jacob, Charles, Susanna and Elizabeth.
Jacob Heller, son of Captain Jacob Heller, was born in Plainfield township, Northampton county, April 23, 1782, and died in Easton, Octo- ber 14, 1834. He was married March 18, 1804, to Susanna Butz, whose birth occurred June 8, 1783, and her death December 20, 1853. Their children were Maria, Susanna, Christian, Charles, William, Jacob, Matilda and Daniel. Of these Maria Hel- ler, born November 9, 1805, died June 28, 1862. She became the wife of Samuel Yohe, who was born April 15, 1805, and died July 5, 1886. Su- anna Heller, born March 14, 1810, died April II, 1883. She was married April 11, 1833, to John A. Innes. Christian B. Heller, born December 16, 1812, died May 13, 1873. He was married June 25, 1839, to Henrietta Detwiller, who was born June 13, 1819, and their children were Maria, Elizabeth, Alice and Henry. Charles Heller, who died in Philadelphia, April 14, 1896, married Louisa Tindall, and they had two daughters, Sue and Mary. William Heller, who was born De- cember 20, 1815, died January 15, 1888. He married Annie E. Mixsell. Jacob B. Heller, born January 22, 1819, died February 26, 1890. He married Maria Martha Gray, who was born Oc- tober 23, 1823, and died December 15, 1896. Their children were Samuel, Jacob B., William G., Mary, Matilda and Laura.
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