Historical and biographical annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, embracing a concise history of the county and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families, Volume I, Part 128

Author: Montgomery, Morton L. (Morton Luther), b. 1846; J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: Chicago : J. H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1018

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(III) George Dreibelbies, son of Martin, married Mary Magdalena Weber (or Weaver), who lived to the age of eighty-eight years. He is thought to have died in young manhood, and it is probable that both are buried at Friedens Reformed Church, on the banks of the Little Schuylkill, where many of their descendants are also buried. Among their children was a son George.

(IV) George Dreibelbies, son of George and Mary Mag- dalena, was born June 1, 1808. He married Anna Heisler (also spelled Heysler), a sister of Rev. Daniel Yost Heis- ler, D. D. (the latter an intimate friend of Dr. Henry Harbangh). Mrs. Dreibelbies was born March 20, 1810, and she became the mother of fifteen children: The eldest died at birth Jan. 10, 1829; the second, born Oct. 7, 1830, lived but three hours; George Washington, born Oct. 6, 1831; Maria Carolina, Aug. 28, 1833 ; Sarah, May 2, 1835; Daniel, Feb. 10, 1837 (lived in Kansas) ; Rebecca, Aug. 1, 1838 (m. Daniel Freeman, of New Ringgold) ; Jacob Ed- ward, Feb. 15, 1840; Lewis Martin, Sept. 7, 1841; Catha- rine Maria, Oct. 7, 1843; William H., Oct. 1; 1844; Ben- jamin F., March 25, 1846; Joseph, April 17, 1848; Alfred H., July 12, 1850; and Sarah Louise, Oct. 24, 1851.

(V) George Washington Dreibelbies, son of George and Anna, born Oct. 6, 1831, married Rebecca Sassaman, of East Brunswick township, Schuylkill county. They had three children: Henry, of New Ringgold, Pa .; Cor- dilia (Nester), of Geneva, N. Y .; and Mary (Bachman). (V) Jacob Edward Dreibelbies, son of George and Anna, born .Feb. 15, 1840, now lives at Lehighton, Pa., to which place he removed after the death of his wife, March 7, 1872. He is a tanner by trade, and his appren- ticeship was served at New Ringgold. When the Rebellion broke out he enlisted from or near there. On his re- turn from the service he married, and settled at Tama- qua, Pa., working in what is known as the Anderline tannery. His wife was Catherine Bankes, daughter of Andrew and Katharine (Paul) Bankes, of what was popu- larly called "Es Rothe Thal"-the Red Valley-below New Ringgold. The branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad leading from Lizard Creek Junction to Pottsville goes through the old home. They had children as follows: Rev. George A .; Ambrose Eldrid, of Lehighton, Pa .; Carrie Joanna, a foreign missionary; Lewis Daniel, of Perth Amboy, N. J .; and Mary Elizabeth, who married Thomas C. Catelle, of Wilmington, Delaware.

(VI) REV. GEORGE A. DREIBELBIES, son of Jacob Edward and Catherine, was born at Tamaqua, Pa., Oct. 14, 1862, and is now located at Shanesville, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio. His early boyhood was passed in his native place, and there he received his first schooling. He was but nine when his mother died and was buried at New Ringgold, and his father removed to Lehighton. Young George was placed with the David Wertman family for board and clothing, and they sent him to a neighboring school taught by teachers Greenawald, Reedy, Steiger- wald, the first two coming from the south side of Blue Mountains, Heidelberg and Stein's Corner. He remem-

always "Father" and "Mother." Mr. Dreibelbies worked for the Lehigh Valley Railroad three years, and then returned to the Wertman home and began teaching school and preparing for college. His first select school was Myerstown Academy, during the presidency of Dr. Will- iam C. Schaeffer, and he then entered Franklin and Mar-

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shall College, Lancaster, graduating in June, 1890. The fol- lowing year he entered the Theological Seminary at Lan- caster, and was graduated therefrom in May, 1893. That spring he was licensed and examined by the Lehigh Classis, which convened in Lehighton. Immediately after he was licensed he received a call to the Caroline Charge, Heidel- berg Classis, Central Synod of the Reformed Church. He served this charge with great satisfaction twenty- three months when the Board of Home Missions com- missioned him to go to the Paulding Mission in Paulding county, Ohio. In June, 1895, he moved there, and on Sept. 9, 1896, his wife Amanda died. She was a daughter of Thomas Wehr, of Sittlers, Schuylkill Co., Pa. About two years later he married (second) Orpha Arwilda Klingler, daughter of Adam F. Klingler, of South Whitley, Ind., and they have had children: Louisa Henrietta, Adam Jacob, Helen Matilda, and George Mi- chael (born Nov. 16, 1906, died March 23, 1908). Since 1899 the Rev. Mr. Dreibelbies has been pastor of the Shanesville, Ohio, charge, of St. John's Classis, Central Synod. He is a broad minded, Christian gentleman, and is kindly and benevolent.

(VI) AMBROSE ELDRID DREIBELBIES, second son of Jacob E. and Catherine (Bänkes) Dreibelbies, was born in New Ringgold, Schuylkill county, July 16, 1864. His boyhood days were spent at Tamaqua and Lehighton. When but a lad of ten years he left home, and secured employment with Thomas Wehr, a farmer in West Penn township, Schuylkill county, where he attended the township school, and this with the public schools of Tama- qua and Lehighton afforded him his educational priv- ileges. In September, 1880, he left the farm and se- cured a position as clerk with William Kemerer, in the general store business at Lehighton, which position he held for eight years, at the end of that time being com- pelled to leave on account of failing health. Next he secured a position with the Lehigh Valley Railroad com- pany in their coal forwarding offices at Packerton, where he held a responsible position for a period of twelve years, again leaving on account of ill health. In September, 1900, he accepted a position as traveling salesman for the wholesale fruit and produce house of O. J. Saeger, Lehighton, and this position he holds at present writing. Politically Mr. Dreibelbies is a Prohibitionist, and has been nominated by his party for sheriff, member of the State Legislature and of Congress. He is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lehighton, which he joined when a young man seventeen years of age, and has been a zealous member ever since. He is a popu- lar local preacher, and has served his church in official capacity for many years, on the board of trustees, of which he was Secretary and Treasurer; and has served on the board of stewards for twenty-one years consecu- tively and is the recording steward. He is serving his eighth year as superintendent of the Sunday school. On March 14, 1885, Mr. Dreibelbies married Miss Emma Ame- lia Kemerer, daughter of Nathan and Lucinda Kemerer of Lehighton. Six children have been born to them, two sons and four daughters. Wilmer Clayton, a student at Jeffer- son Medical College, Philadelphia; Warren Hilbert, a salesman in the large dry goods store of C. A. Rex at Mauch Chunk, Pa .; May Ethel. deceased; Martin Lo- raine : Bertha Katherine and Carrie Evelyn.

(VI) CARRIE J. DREIBELDIES, daughter of Jacob Ed- ward and Catherine (Bankes), was born in New Ring- gold, Schuylkill county. After the removal of the family to Lehighton, Carbon Co., Pa., she there attended public school. In 1890 she entered upon home mission work in Philadelphia and other cities; and in 1895 entered the Union Missionary Training Institute, in Brooklyn, N. Y., where she took a four years course, and graduated in the spring of 1899. In the autumn of the same year she sailed for China to enter the foreign missionary work, being appointed by the Womans Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church to go to Kiukiang. China. In the summer of 1900 with other missionaries she was driven out by the Boxer uprising, and went to Nagasaki

for seven months, at the end of that time returning to Kiu- kiang. In 1902 she adopted a Chinese baby girl, eight days old, according to Chinese laws. In the spring of 1905, she returned to America on furlough and brought the little girl with her, and the next year (1906) secured papers of adoption for her in the court of common pleas of Carbon county, Pa., naming her Mary Elizabeth Dreibel- bies. In August, 1906, Miss Dreibelbies was appointed by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in the United States to return to China, and take up work at Yochow, in the Province of Hunan. She sailed in the autumn and lived there one year, when fail- ing health obliged her to return to America.

(VI) LEWIS DANIEL DREIBELBIES, son of Jacob Edward and Catherine, was born at Tamaqua, Pa., July 6, 1868. He married Florence Koons, of Lehighton, Pa., and they had one son, Edward Thomas, born at Lehighton. Pa., Sept. 28, 1894. Mr. Dreibelbies moved to Perth Amboy, N. J., Nov. 1, 1898. His wife died April 29, 1907.

(V) WILLIAM H. DREIBELBIES, son of George Dreibelbies and Anna (Heisler), was born at New Ringgold, Pa., Oct. 1, 1844. His youthful years were spent around his native place. When the Rebellion broke out he enlisted in 1861 in Company H, 48th Pa. V. I., and came home in 1865 at the close of the war. He worked in New Ringgold until 1869, when he went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he obtained work with the Standard Oil Company, continuing with that company twenty-eight years. He is now living retired in Cleveland. On Oct. 29, 1870 he married Mary McNannie. Five children were born to them : William, July 29, 1871 (deceased) ; Mabel, June 26. 1874; Emma, July 21, 1876 (deceased) ; Isabell, Jan. 22, 1879: George, Dec. 3. 1880 (deceased). Mabel m. George Stebner ; and Isabell m. Sylvester Hubbell.

(V) ALFRED H. DREIBELBIES, son of George and Anna (Heisler), was born at Ringgold, Schuylkill Co., Pa., July 12. 1850. He received his education in the common schools at that place. His first work was carrying water for the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Co. at Ringgold. He then learned the blacksmith's trade with the same com- pany, and this trade he followed for twelve years. For four years he was engaged in bridge building for the same company, and one and one-half years was brakeman. For a period of thirty-five years he was employed by this same company, part of the time as- special police. In 1871 he came to Reading, and in 1876 was followed by his family. In 1894 he became an employe of the United Traction Company, as motorman, on the Perkiomen divis- ion, and this position he continues to hold. In 1871 he married Molly A. Slouch. daughter of Thomas and Caro- line (Boyer) Slouch, of Ringgold. She died Aug. 27, 1900, and is buried in the family lot in the Charles Evans ceme- tery, Reading. Their children were: Esther, born Nov. 15, 1872, died young; Louis M. C., born Jan. 11, 1874, died young ; Annie L. E., born March 2, 1876, keeps house for her father; Bessie M., born June 15, 1879, died young ; Barbara R., born July 31, 1880, died young ; and Amos A .. born July 19, 1882. Harry S. Brobst, a nephew of Mr. Dreibelbies, also makes his home with this family; he. too. is an employe of the United Traction Company. Mr. Drei- belbies is a member of the Salome Lodge, No. 105, I. O. O. F., of Reading; Encampment No. 52, of the same order : Castle No. 63, K. G. E .; Lodge No. 301, Red Men; and the Relief Association of the United Traction Company. His religious connection is with St. Luke's Lutheran Church of Reading.

(II) Jacob Dreibelbis, son of John Jacob, was born in Richmond township, on the original Dreibelbis home- stead, May 9, 1754, and died April 19, 1831. He was reared to manhood on the farm near Fleetwood, and lived there until his marriage. On Oct. 2, 1778, he bought a farm from his father-in-law. George Merkel, located at Virginville, on the east bank of the Ontelaunee, which Mr. Merkel had purchased because of the heavy timber upon it. This tract then consisted of 247 acres of land, and it is now owned by his grandson, Joel Dreibelbis.

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Here in 1787 he built a log house, and this served three 1841, m. Elizabeth Fegley, and had a son-Samuel; Simon, generations of the family. It was torn down in 1868, born May 1, 1819, died May 30, 1890, is mentioned be- and its site is now occupied by the large brick residence low; Peter, born March 14, 1821, died April 28, 1889, m. Elizabeth Lesher (still living), and had children-Sarah and Rev. Emanuel L. (a Lutheran minister at Melrose, N. Y.) ; Elizabeth, born Aug. 8, 1824, died aged forty-five years, m. Henry Sunday, of Tilden township, and had children-John, William and Henry; Joel is mentioned below; Esther, born Nov. 24. 1829, died Oct. 29, 1871, m. Joseph Raubenhold, of Hamburg, and had children- Peter, Amanda, Amelia, George, Mary. Alice and Wil- liam; Salome, born 1832, died 1907, m. Charles Levan, of Maxatawny township, and had children-Susan, Jacob, Salome, Nicholas and Henry; and Hannah, born July 6, 1834, died Sept. 9, 1855, m. William Heinly, of Green- wich township, and had one son-Jefferson. built in that year by Joel Dreibelbis. In 1809 the barn was destroyed by lightning, and the one that was erected in its stead stood until 1884, when it was replaced by a modern barn. This new barn was destroyed by fire Aug. 3, 1908, with all the year's crops, causing a heavy loss. A modern barn was rebuilt the same year. The heavy timber was bought along the southern Atlantic coast. The land that George Merkel sold in 1778 to his son-in-law Jacob Dreibelbis, he bought in 1760 from William, Joshua, Jeremiah and Hezekiah Boone, sons and executors of George Boone. George Boone on Jan. 4, 1734, obtained from the lawful heirs of William Penn-John, Thomas and Richard Penn-a tract of 800} acres on the Ontelaunee, and the land purchased by Jacob Dreibelbis from George (IV) Simon Dreibelbis, son of Jacob and Elizabeth, was born in Richmond township May 1, 1819, and died May 30, 1890. He married Leah Strasser, daughter of Conrad and Rosina (Hummel) Strasser, and they had four children: Alfred, born Sept. 25, 1843; Cleophas S .; Rolandus, born June 16, 1849, m. (first) Elizabeth Dietrich, and (second) Nora Luckenbill; and Simon P., born March 9, 1856, m. Rosa Kramer. Simon Dreibelbis the father worked for his father for a number of years, and later from 1840 until 1890, kept a hotel in Virgin- ville, Perry township, continuing to conduct his 136-acre farm in conjunction therewith. Merkel was a part of this tract. In 1809 Jacob Dreibel- bis built the large stone store building in Virginville. This building is 35 x 45 feet, two and one-half stories high. The land on which Virginville is built was all embraced in the Dreibelbis acreage, which included also part of the land now owned by the Aug. Dreibelbis estate, Jacob Dreibelbis (of the Fifth generation) and part of the land of Orlando Driebelbis. The Virginville store building is the only building built by Jacob that is still standing, and it has always been used as a mercantile house, and it has never been out of the family name, being now owned by George A. Dreibelbis, son of Joel. In 1777 Jacob Dreibelbis married Mary Magdalena Merkel, born Nov. 22, 1759, daughter of George and Christina Merkel, and died July 3, 1832, after a married life of fifty-four year's. They had eleven children, forty-five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Their children were: Hannah, born Aug. 23, 1778, m. Jacob Dunkel, and died March 27, 1845; Esther, born Dec. 24, 1779 m. Michael Dunkel, brother of Jacob, and died Jan. 21, 1875; Jacob, born Feb. 23, 1785, died May 6, 1857; John, born July 22, 1787, died Oct. 8, 1847; Molly, born Sept. 27, 1789, m. John Berned, and died Sept. 17, 1873; Samuel, born 1792, died 1876; William, born Nov. 14, 1793, died Sept. 18, 1869; Elizabeth, born Nov. 7, 1797, died May 3, 1861; David, born March 14, 1802, died Nov. 9,. 1886; and two died young. Jacob Dreibelbis and his children were mem- bers of the German Reformed congregation of Richmond township, and he is buried in the cemetery adjoining St. Peter's Church. He was a foremost member of this church, and served as an official. In 1809 he was a member of the building committee that erected the third building at that place. In 1815 he served in the General Assembly from Berks county, and in 1780 he was a soldier in the Revolution. He was one of the early residents along the Ontelaunee, purchasing his land for the ex- cellent timber and very fine water there.

(III) Jacob Dreibelbis, son of Jacob, was born in Rich- mond township, on the old homestead, Feb. 23, 1785, and died May 6, 1857. He was a life long farmer, and was a very prominent man. He was tall, well built and very strong. When but eighteen years old he was elected a captain in the State Militia, an office he filled very ef- ficiently for twenty-seven years, when he became disquali- fied by age. He was a member of St. Peter's German Re- formed congregation, and did substantial service in the erection of the church in 1809. The remains of both himself and wife rest in the cemetery adjoining this church. For many years he served as township super- visor, and during the war of 1812 rendered valuable ser- vice to his government. On Jan. 31, 1813, he married Elizabeth Heffner, born July 7, 1792, daughter of George and Magdalena (Hummel) Heffner, of Greenwich town- ship, and she died March 11, 1873. To this union were born five sons and five daughters: Mary, born in 1813, died June 12, 1886, m. Samuel Heinly, and had children- Marie E., Florenda, Catharine, Esther, Amelia, Theresa and Enoch J .; George, born July 20, 1815, died Jan. 13, 1835, unmarried; Jacob, born May 1, 1817, died Jan. 8,

(V) CLEOPHAS S. DREIBELBIS, a successful business man of Berks Co., Pa., who is engaged in milling and farming near Shoemakersville, in Perry township, was born March 2, 1846, in Richmond township, on one of the Dreibelbis homesteads, son of Simon and Leah (Strasser) Dreibel- bis. His educational advantages were rather limited, being confined to the public schools of his district, and but a few terms there. At the age of seventeen years he commenced to help his father on the home farm, and this he faithfully continued until thirty years old. For a number of years he hauled mine ore in dull seasons, and in the winter months would go butchering among the farmers. His territory covered a large radius of miles and his services were always at a premium. In 1884 Mr. Dreibelbis began farming for himself on his father's farm consisting of 141 acres of land near Shoemakersville, Pa. This farm he purchased from his father, and some years later added twenty adjoining acres, and this large property he has greatly improved by fertilizing the soil and by rebuilding the large Swiss barn, which was struck by lightning and damaged in 1897; by renovating and en- larging the house, and by enlarging the mill and supply- ing it with improved machinery. He is the manufacturer of the "Straight Winter" and "Blended 30 per cent Spring" flour, which are superior brands and are sold in all the large cities in the eastern part of the country. He also manufactures a superior brand of corn meal and buckwheat flour, which he sends into all of the populous places of the East and to Canada. Mr. Dreibelbis is an ideal farmer and has made his business a paying industry. He has applied in practice the valuable hints and advice of that great agriculturist, the Rev. J. D. Dietrich of Montgomery Co., Pa., and has been materially benefited by the latter's lectures. Mr. Dreibelbis has a fine dairy of thirty-five cows. He understands cattle and the feed- ing of them, having two silos which he fills annually with cut corn with the stalks. His milk is shipped daily to Pottsville, Schuylkill county, and his milk receipts amount annually to more than $2,500; before he had silos the re- ceipts were only about $800 annually. Mr. Dreibelbis is an enthusiast on the modern methods and principles of farm- ing. Since 1873 he has been a member of the Industrial Grange No. 29, of Shoemakersville, and has been delegate to many State conventions of that body. In politics Mr. Dreibelbis is a Jeffersonian Democrat. He was elected school director of his township for twelve successive terms and eleven years was secretary of the board, materially benefit- ing the schools of his district by faithful and efficient ser- vice, but refused re-election, feeling that he had done his

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full duty in that line. He was county committeeman for one year in his township, and has attended a number of con- ventions in the capacity of delegate. He is a thoroughly honest man, who by hard, incessant labor has accumulated a comfortable fortune, and his many acts of neighborly kindness have made him esteemed by all who know him. He is a member of Zion's Union Church of Perry town- ship, belonging to the Reformed denomination, and has served as deacon and trustee thereof. Mr. Dreibelbis has been twice married. On Dec. 21, 1867, he m. Catherine Anna Wartzenluft, by whom he had children : J. Carolus, born Feb. 28, 1869, m. Mary Egolf; Samuel M., born May 30, 1870, died in infancy; Ellen S., born Feb. 22, 1872, m. Henry Miller; Simon D., born March 1, 1874, died an ac- cidental death aged eighteen years, eight months, three days; Catherine R., born Sept. 26, 1876, m. Chester Bauer ; and Daniel C., born Dec. 11, 1877, m. in St. Louis, Mo., after returning from the Cuban and Philippine wars. Mrs. Dreibelbis died of typhoid fever Aug. 31, 1878, aged thirty- one years. Mr. Dreibelbis m. (second) March 16, 1880, Martha Anna Noll, daughter of Henry Noll, and they have these children; William H., born Dec. 2, 1880, m. Dina Rothermel; Israel W., born May 14, 1883, died in infancy; and Charles B., born Oct. 14, 1884, Sarah A., born Feb. 7, 1887, and John J., born June 14, 1889, are at home.

(IV) JOEL DREIBELBIS, son of Jacob, was born Dec. 22, 1826, at Virginville, and is one of the representative men of northern Berks county, and despite his advanced years is still active in mind and body. He is well posted on relig- ion, politics and public events. He has given a great deal of attention to archaeological studies, and has one of the finest complete collections of Indian relics in the county, consisting of arrow heads, spear heads, drills, axes, toma- hawks, jasper blades, knives, beads, pestles, spades, badges, turtlebacks and all kinds of working implements for sowing, boring, cutting, etc. This valuable collection consists of about 15,000 specimens, of which 800 are hammers. This collection is especially interesting to its owner because he and other members of his own family collected them all on his own property. The country about Virginville was a densely populated Indian settlement and the home of the chief of the Sacunk tribe. Since Mr. Dreibelbis became interested in the relics more than 40.000 have been gathered on his farm. The more valuable specimens in his collection his daughter, Miss Hannah Blandina, has neatly arranged in drawers and cabinets, while the small ones repose in frames which decorate Mr. Dreibelbis's study. During 1907 and 1908 the local and metropolitan press wrote and published descriptions and photographs of the collection. Mr. Dreibelbis was reared upon his father's farm, obtain- ing his early education in the German and English pay schools of his vicinity. In 1847 his father sent him to, near Lewisburg, in Union county, to become proficient in the English language. There he remained for two and one- half years, living with a relative of his mother. Returning then to Berks county he worked on his father's farm in the summer, and taught school. In 1850 when the public school system was established in Greenwich township, he was one of its first teachers, serving there three years with high efficiency. In 1853 when his own township adopted the free school system, he became a teacher at Kerchner's where he taught two terms. In 1855 Mr. Dreibelbis began farming on his father's farm, continuing it two years as a tenant when his father died. At the ap- praisement of his father's estate he took the homestead, and continued farming successfully until 1890. He has been one of the first farmers to adopt new machinery, and his mower and reaper were among the first seen in this locality. His farm is located one-quarter mile south of Virginville, and consists of 180 acres. His premises are supplied with an abundance of fruit and grapes, excellent spring and well water, twelve substantial buildings, etc. The farm forms almost a perfect square, the western side of which is bounded by the Ontelaunee. Thirty-two acres of the original tract lie on the west side of the Ontelaunee. This tract is now owned by John Schucker, a son-in-law

of Joel Dreibelbis. On this farm is "Dreibelbis Cave" which was discovered in 1873, and in 1907 was explored to the depth of 340 feet, by William J. Dietrich, who re- corded a full description of it in a paper read before the Berks County Historical Society in 1907. The 100-foot Swiss barn built in 1884, was destroyed by fire Aug. 3, 1908, with all its contents, and was rebuilt the same year. One of Mr. Dreibelbis's, favorite pastimes is fishing, and he spends many hours during the season along the On- telaunee and Maiden creek. His daughter, Miss Hannah Blandina, has saved the jaws of 1000 chubs and suckers, and by a process cleaned them, and has tastefully ar- ranged them in various designs on velvet, making frames of different sizes, and these have been much admired by the many visitors to her home. Mr. Dreibelbis and his family are members of St. Peter's German Reformed Con- gregation of Richmond township, and the family burial lot is in the cemetery adjoining. During the erection of the present church edifice in 1890, no one contributed more liberally of time and means than Mr. Dreibelbis. He was deacon and trustee of the church, and served on the building committee. For more than a quarter of a cen- tury he was an elder. The large bell in the steeple of the church bears the following inscription : "Donated by Joel Dreibelbis to the German Reformed Congregation of St. Peter's Church in Richmond township, in 1904." Mr. Dreibelbis has also been liberal in his contributions to the United Evangelical Church in Virginville.

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Historical and biographical annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, embracing a concise history of the county and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families, Volume I, Part 128

Author: Montgomery, Morton L. (Morton Luther), b. 1846; J.H. Beers & Co Publication date: 1909 Publisher: Chicago : J. H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1018

Author: Montgomery, Morton L. (Morton Luther), b. 1846; J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: Chicago : J. H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1018