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In 1906 he entered the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, from which institution he was gradu- ated in 1910. In August, 1911, after having served for a year as interne at St. Luke's Hospital, South Beth- lehem, he opened an office at Lansford, where he is rapidly building up a good practise. He has already established a reputation for skill and ability in his pro- fession.
Drumheller, Wallace, a representative of the busi- ness and industrial interests of Lansford, and a mem- ber of the board of county commissioners, was born at Summit Hill on April 1, 1860. He is the son of Nathan and Elizabeth (Heister) Drumheller. His grandfather, George Drumheller, was the first blacksmith employed by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, while his father was for years the master machinist of the same corporation at Lansford.
Wallace Drumheller was educated in the common schools and at the Bloomsburg State Normal School. Learning the trade of a machinist under the direction of his father, he later became the foreman of the shop where he served his apprenticeship. In 1891, upon the death of his father, he was appointed as superintend- ent of the various shops of the Lehigh Coal and Navi- gation Company, situated in Lansford. He continued in this position until 1908.
In 1906, in association with Charles K. Walton, Mr. Drumheller established the Lansford Shirt Factory, which now employs about one hundred operatives. Formerly he also conducted a large hardware, heating
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and plumbing establishment, which, in 1909, he turned over to his sons, Nathan and George.
He has been the manager of the Panther Valley Elec- tric Light, Heat and Power Company since its incep- tion, and is a director of the First National Bank of Lansford. For about fifteen years he was a member of the town council of Lansford, of which he was the president.
As the candidate of the Republican party, Mr. Drum- heller was elected to membership on the board of coun- ty commissioners, in 1911. He was married in 1883 to Johanna, daughter of John Griffiths, of Lansford.
Ebbert, David, who was a foremost citizen of Le- highton, was born in Heidelberg township, Lehigh county, on December 17, 1842. He was the son of Jacob and Mary (Straub) Ebbert. Educated in the public schools, he was early compelled to make his own way in life.
During the spring of 1863 he came to Lehighton. serving in the employ of Thomas Kemerer for several months. At the expiration of this period he estab- lished himself as a dealer in flour, grain and feed, later also entering the livery business, which he successfully carried on until his death.
In 1867 he was married to Hannah Hartz, a grand- daughter of Colonel Jacob Hartz, one of Carbon coun- ty's heroes in the war of the Revolution. Two dangh- ters, Mary S. and Ellen J., were born to them. The former become the wife of Edward H. Brannix, of Philadelphia, while the latter married M. S. Jordan, of Scranton, Pa., residing at Lehighton.
Mr. Ebbert was connected with various local indus- tries and enterprises. For years he was director of the First National Bank of Lehighton. His death occurred on April 1, 1905.
DAVID EBBERT.
Julie Edestin
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Edelstein, Julius, a well-known resident of Lansford, is the son of Francis Edelstein, who was the proprietor of a large landed estate in Hungary, where the subject of this sketch was born on July 15, 1857. His mother bore the maiden name of Bertha Weiss. The family is noted for longevity. Mr. Edelstein's father lived to be eighty-four, while his paternal grandfather reached the age of 104 years.
Julius was educated at the University of Budapest, later pursuing a course in agriculture. Upon the com- pletion of his studies he managed his father's estate, which consisted of 8,000 acres of land and eight vil- lages.
Emigrating to America at the age of twenty-three, he spent some months in travel and then settled in Lans- ford. For seven years he was in the employ of the Le- high Coal and Navigation Company, while subsequent- ly he conducted a clothing store for a period of nine years. In 1897 he entered the hotel business, which is his present pursuit. He has also acquired considera- ble real estate.
Taking an interest in civic affairs, he lost no time in being naturalized; he has been a staunch member of the Republican party ever since he became a voter.
In 1880 he was married to Annie Loch, whom he had known in his native land. Their children are: Michael, a member of the town council of Lansford; Helen, formerly a school teacher, and now the wife of John Davis, of Lansford; Eugene, a graduate of Dickinson College and now a law student at the University of Pennsylvania, and Bertha, Francis, and Gizzela, who remain at home.
Edwards, Philip, a veteran educator and miner, now living at Beaver Meadow, was born in Cornwall, Eng- land, July 19, 1839. At the age of nine, having spent
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a few years in the Ludgvan parish school, he already began to earn his own way as a worker about the tin mines of his native country.
When twenty years of age, he emigrated to the United States, locating in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where he became a copper miner. Having a thirst for knowledge, he saved enough from his earnings to enable him to pursue a course at Union Seminary, Ypsilanti, Mich.
Coming to Pennsylvania in 1866, he taught school for thirteen years in Carbon and Luzerne counties. For a time he was also employed in a clerical capacity in the general offices of Coxe Brothers and Company, at Drifton, Luzerne county. While so engaged, he did a useful work in fitting many of the foremen and other employes of this large concern to meet the educational requirements prescribed by the more stringent mining laws which had then been recently enacted. This was accomplished through the agency of a night school which he conducted.
Mr. Edwards has held various positions in connec- tion with the mining industry since relinquishing his work as an instructor, but he still takes a lively interest in educational matters. He has held the offices of school director and street commissioner in Beaver Meadow, while he has been the tax collector of the borough since 1906.
For more than fifty-six years he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and has been a prominent Sunday school worker. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
In 1873 Mr. Edwards was united in marriage to S. Ellen, daughter of Daniel McClain, of Beaver Meadow. They are the parents of five surviving children.
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Ehle, William H., a tunnel contractor of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company at Lansford, was born there on August 18, 1883. He is the son of Frederick and Katherine (Miller) Ehle, both natives of Germany, but residents of Lansford during the past thirty-five years. The father is on the retired list of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, having formerly been a stable boss in its employ.
William became a worker at the age of nine, picking slate on the breaker. Two years later he entered the mines, and was successively a mule driver, a laborer, and a miner, being certified in the latter capacity at the age of eighteen.
During the past half dozen years Mr. Ehle has been engaged in driving tunnels, gangways, rock chutes, etc., for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, having from thirty-five to fifty men in his employ.
He was married on February 26, 1906, to Miss Mary Schaefer, of Mauch Chunk. The pair have lived in Lansford since their marriage.
Mrs. Ehle is noted for her marksmanship, being the only woman wing shooter in Carbon county. She fre- quently makes good scores at shooting tournaments in competition with men, being accompanied by her hus- band on such occasions. They hunt wild game together in the woods, too. She is a member of the Nemours Trap Shooting Club, of Wilmington, Del.
Enbody, Hon. Edwin R., who was one of Carbon county's best known and most public spirited citizens, was a descendant of Henry Enbody, his great-grand- father, a native of France, who settled in the Mohawk Valley about the middle of the eighteenth century.
His grandfather, David Enbody, who was a pioneer resident of Mauch Chunk, first devoted himself to agri- cultural pursuits near Berwick, on the Susquehanna.
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He married Rebecca Turnbach, of Sugarloaf Valley, Luzerne county. Their son, Josiah, the father of E. R. Enbody, was born near Berwick, in 1818, being quite young when his parents removed to Mauch Chunk. On reaching man's estate, he became a boat builder on the Lehigh Canal. He served for several years as the chief burgess of Mauch Chunk.
His wife bore the maiden name of Tabitha Bayne, being the daughter of John Bayne, an early settler of Mauch Chunk, and an ark runner on the Lehigh.
E. R. Enbody was born at Mauch Chunk on October 11, 1844. After mastering the elementary branches of English learning in the public schools, he pursued a course of study at Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport. Pa. At the age of seventeen he entered the employ of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company as a clerk, continuing so for several years.
In 1868 he became the chief bookkeeper for W. T. Carter and Company, miners and shippers of coal, at Beaver Meadows. In association with John Martyn and a number of New York capitalists, he had an in- terest in the opening and development of the mines now operated by Coxe Brothers and Company, near Beaver Meadows.
For eleven years Mr. Enbody lived at Weatherly. where he was in the service of the Lehigh Valley Rail- road. Returning to Mauch Chunk in 1884, he assumed the superintendency to the Mauch Chunk Water Com- pany and the Mauch Chunk Gas Company, occupying the former position the remainder of his life.
For years he was active as a labor leader, and asso- ciated with such men as T. V. Powderly and Henry George. During this phase of his career, he had a hand in bringing about the adoption of the Australian ballot system in Pennsylvania.
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Mr. Enbody was elected to the office of associate judge of Carbon county by the Democrats in 1899, serving for the term of five years. In 1910 he was chosen to membership in the state legislature.
Always interested in religious work, he was an elder of the Presbyterian church of Manch Chunk for more than twenty years.
His marriage to Cornelia D. Brodhead, daughter of the late Hon. A. G. Brodhead, a prominent official of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Mauch Chunk, was sol- emnized in 1867. She died on September 15, 1903, leav- ing three children: Albert B., Richard M. and Josiah W. Enbody. The first named is road foreman of loco- motives for the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Mauch Chunk, while his brothers are located in New York.
Edwin R. Enbody died suddenly at his home on May 21, 1912, having but a short time previously been re- nominated without opposition for his seat in the legis- lature.
Eshleman, Dr. Edwin F., a physician and surgeon of Parryville, and treasurer of Carbon county, was born at Seiberlingsville, Lehigh county, on July 30, 1865.
Jacob Eshleman, his father, a farmer and black- smith, was a native of Bucks county, while his mother before her marriage, was Sophia Werley.
Edwin was one of a family of six children and in early life labored on his father's farm and at the forge. Having prepared himself as a teacher at the Kutztown State Normal School, he taught school for six terms.
Entering Jefferson Medical College, he graduated with the class of 1893. During the same year he lo- cated at Parryville, where he has practised his pro-
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fession since that time. He is the only physician in the town, having also built up a large practice in the surrounding country.
Doctor Eshleman has been a warm friend of educa- tion, and his previous service as a teacher has well fitted him for the discharge of the duties of a school director, which position he has filled continuously al- most since becoming a resident of Parryville. He has also been the overseer of the poor in the borough for a like period.
As the candidate of the Republican party, he was elected to the office of county treasurer by a handsome majority in 1911.
Fraternally he is allied to the Knights of Malta and to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, while being a mem- ber of the Lutheran church.
On October 31, 1891 he was married to Lizzie, daugh- ter of Charles Scheirer, of Mickleys, Lehigh county. Their two children are Gerald and Grace Eshleman.
Evans, Thomas E., postmaster of Audenried, is the son of Owen R. and Margaret Rosser Evans, the form- er a native of Wales, and the latter from Schuykill county.
The father emigrated to America, unattended and alone at the age of thirteen years. He first located at Cumbola, Schuylkill county, later becoming a mine foreman at New Philadelphia, in the same district. Coming to Tresckow, Carbon county, he held the posi- tion of a mine foreman for the German-Pennsylvania Coal Company for over twenty years. The closing years of his life were spent at Nanticoke, Luzerne county, where he died in 1890, aged 64 years.
Thomas Evans was born at Cumbola on March 27, 1864. Four years later his parents removed to Tresc- kow, where he attended school. At the age of fifteen he
Percy 8. Faurh
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was given employment in the offices of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company. Subsequently he be- came a stationary engineer, in which capacity he is still employed by this company.
He had served both as an auditor and as tax col- lector of Banks township. His appointment as post- master of Audenried was made on March 30, 1899.
On June 10, 1884, he was married to Sarah, daughter of Evan Cann and his wife Rebecca, of Yorktown. Their children are Olive V., Harry, Roy, Lillian and Gordon. Olive is a trained nurse, Harry a machinist, and Roy a plumber. Lillian and Gordon remain at home.
Farrar, John K., an Audenried physician and sur- geon, was born at Montreal, Canada, on November 1, 1867. His father, Rev. John Farrar, a minister of the Episcopal church, was a native of England, and grad- uated at Oxford. He was married to Mary King, of Sheffield, England, emigrating to Canada about 1860. The father died in 1905 at the age of sixty-six years.
John King Farrar was educated at Geneva College and at the University of Virginia. Entering Jefferson Medical College, he was graduated from that institu- tion in 1891.
In September of that year he located at Audenried, becoming the assistant of Dr. W. R. Longshore, to whose practise he succeeded. He is the local physician and surgeon of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company and of C. M. Dodson and Company, miners and shippers of coal, and has a large practise.
Faust, Percy E., editor and owner of the Weatherly Herald, the only newspaper published in the upper end of Carbon county, was born on the old Faust home- stead, now the property of John Bittner, in Packer township, March 28, 1868.
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His grandfather, John Faust, who came from Schuylkill county in 1829, was one of the early settlers of Packer township. He was born in 1797, and lived to a ripe old age, being endearingly referred to for many years as "Old Daddy" Faust.
His wife died in 1864, having borne him thirteen children. One of his sons, Edward, who was born in 1839, was the father of the subject of this sketch. He spent his boyhood in Quakake Valley, and on reach- ing man's estate, was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Ephraim Balliet, of Packer township. The family made their home in Weatherly, where Mr. Faust was for twenty-five years employed as a blacksmith by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. He died in 1897.
The future owner of the Herald attended the public schools until his fifteenth year, when the desire to do something practical seized him. Accordingly, he for- sook the founts of learning and worked as a laborer for two years. He then entered the office of the Herald as an apprentice, learning to set type. One year later, being then scarcely eighteen years of age, he attained, through purchase, the ownership of the paper and the job printing business that went with it, beginning his career as a full-fledged newspaper man at an age when most boys are still attending the public schools.
The Herald was started in 1880, by H. V. Morthimer. and its early career was one of many changes and vicissitudes. Mr. Faust became its owner in 1886. succeeding Harvey B. Smith, now a Philadelphia news- paper man. Under his direction the Herald has pros- pered and has grown in circulation and in influence from year to year.
It is now issued every Friday, and is always a wel- come visitor in the many homes that it reaches. Clean, newsy and reliable, it always reflects a spirit of op-
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timism and good cheer. It has never invaded the pri- vacy of the home, while filth and scandal are carefully excluded from its columns.
In 1890 Mr. Faust was married to Eva, daughter of John and Abigail Hoover, of Weatherly. Their do- mestic life has been ideal and happy. Their children are : Robert, Ruth, Ray, Edward, Grace, Burdell, Eliza- beth and Theodore. Two others died in infancy.
Mr. Faust has filled various offices of trust in the borough, among the number those of councilman and of school director. For fifteen years he served as bor- ough treasurer, while he has also been secretary of the board of trade since its organization in 1898, and he is the treasurer of the Anthracite Building and Loan Association.
He is active in the councils of the Democratic party in the county, while he and his family are members of the Methodist church.
Freyman, Ira E., a Weatherly physician, was born at Tannersville, Monroe county, Pa., February 17, 1880. His grandfather, Edward Freyman, whose birth occurred in 1828, is a native of East Penn township, Carbon county, where, for many years, he conducted a farm. He was married to Rebecca Ruch, and their only child was Lafayette Freyman, who was born De- cember 26, 1851.
Lafayette Freyman was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Steigerwalt, of West Penn township, Schuyl- kill county. He was a carpenter, and at the age of eighteen entered the employ of the Lehigh Valley Rail- road Company at Packerton. Subsequently he re- moved to Tannersville, where he found employment at his trade. In 1882 the family came to Weatherly, and Mr. Freyman spent all but a few of his remaining years in the service of the Lehigh Valley company.
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For a short period he had charge of his father's farm in East Penn township. He died on October 26, 190S.
The children of Lafayette Freyman and his wife were Harvey, Lillian, Ira and Calvin. The two first- named died on the same day of diphtheria; Calvin was for some years a machinist at the Washington Navy Yard, and is now a veterinary surgeon at Washington.
Ira Freyman received his early training in the schools of Weatherly and Lehighton, graduating from the high school of the last named place in 1896. In 1897 he completed the course of study offered by the American Business College, of Allentown, after which he taught school for a number of years. He was em- ployed as a clerk by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com- pany at South Bethlehem for a year, and then entered the Medico-Chirurgical College at Philadelphia. While there he was president of the athletic association and of the Phi-Rho Sigma Fraternity. He graduated with the class of 1907.
Doctor Freyman served for a year as the assistant of Dr. R. Truckemmiller, of Freeland, after his gradua- tion, and then opened an office in Weatherly. He has disproved the old adage that a prophet has no honor in his own country, because his already large practice is steadily growing.
Mr. Freyman was married to Elva S. Hunter, a daughter of the late J. W. Hunter, of Weatherly, on November 24, 1905. Their only child, Gordon C., was born March 10, 1907.
Mr. Freyman is a member of the Reformed church, and belongs to the Knights of Malta and to the Pa- triotic Order Sons of America.
Freyman, William G., senior member of the law firm of Freyman, Thomas and Branch, of Mauch Chunk, is frequently referred to as the Nestor of the Carbon
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county bar. He is the son of George and Catherine (Kistler) Freyman, both natives of Pennsylvania. His father was a farmer and carpenter, also conducting a general store. He spent his declining years in Mahon- ing township where he died in 1849.
Both Jacob Freyman and John Kistler, the grand- parents of W. G. Freyman, were natives of Northamp- ton county, being descended from German immigrants who came to Pennsylvania at a very early day.
W. G. Freyman was born in Mahoning township on July 4, 1838. He received a high school education, and taught school for five terms. During the war of the Rebellion he served as orderly sergeant of Company G, One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteer Infantry. At the expiration of his term of service he recruited a company of which he was commissioned lieutenant; but before it was mustered into service, the war closed, and he returned home.
Becoming a civil engineer, Mr. Freyman followed that calling for a dozen years, also engaging in mer- chandising.
Entering the office of General Charles Albright at Mauch Chunk, in 1871, he began the study of law, being admitted to the bar in 1873. Under the firm name of Albright and Freyman, he became the partner of his former preceptor, which relation was severed by the death of the General, in 1880. This firm participated in the celebrated Mollie Maguire trials.
After practising alone for several years, Mr. Frey- man formed a partnership with James Kiefer, now a prominent attorney of Seattle, who had been a student in his office. Upon the retirement of Mr. Kiefer from the firm, at the expiration of five years, Mr. Freyman became associated with Horace Heydt, also a former student of his, under the name of Freyman and Heydt.
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Later, Eugene O. Nothstein, a nephew of the senior member of the firm was taken into partnership, alter- ing the title to Freyman, Heydt and Nothstein. Mr. Freyman had also been his preceptor.
In September, 1901, Mr. Heydt was elevated to the bench of Carbon county. From this time forth until the spring of 1912, when Mr. Nothistein died, the prac- tise of the firm was conducted under the name of Frey- man and Nothstein. Since then, Mr. Freyman has taken William G. Thomas and Benjamin Branch into partnership with himself. The practise of the firm, general in character, has embraced a wide range of important cases, and has been more extensive, perhaps, than that of any other in the county. Special attention has been given to questions involving original land titles both in Carbon and adjoining counties.
Speaking of Mr. Freyman individually, he has es- tablished a well deserved reputation as a safe and sa- gacious counsellor, and his long experience has made him one of the most reliable lawyers of the Lehigh Valley.
In addition to his legal business, he is interested in a number of industrial and other enterprises. He is the vice-president of the Mauch Chunk Trust Company. while being a director of the Prince Manufacturing Company and president of the Carbon Metallic Paint Company. A supporter of the principles advocated by the Republican party, he has never sought nor held a political office.
In 1865 he was married to Matilda, daughter of George Gilbert, of Mahoning township. They have no surviving children.
Gallagher, Thomas, chief burgess of Lansford, a leader in labor circles, and a veteran of the Spanish- American War, is one of the eight children of Thomas
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and Mary (Morgan) Gallagher, both natives of Ire- land. The father emigrated to this country before the Civil War, settling in Newkirk, Schuylkill county, where he was a hoisting engineer. He was acciden- tally killed in the mines in 1906, having attained the age of fifty years.
Thomas was born at Newkirk on November 17, 1877. When he was eight years of age the family moved to Lansford. When he was eleven he became a slate picker on the breaker, later becoming a miner, as he is still engaged. He has been active in the councils of the United Mine Workers of America since 1900, serving for a time as the chairman of the mine committee of his local. He has been a delegate to all the national conventions of the organization since its establishment in the anthracite regions.
Mr. Gallagher enlisted as a soldier in Company B, Eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, at the breaking out of the war with Spain, being mustered out after ten months of service. He has been a mem- ber of the school board of the borough; in 1913 he was elected to the office of chief burgess for the four-year term.
On April 12, 1910, he was united in marriage to Cath- erine, daughter of Neil and Mary Boyle, of Summit Hill. They have two children, Thomas and Mary.
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