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Mr. Leslie has displayed his public spirit in many ways since locating in Palmerton. He was a charter member and the first vice president of the Palmerton Co-operative Society ; took an active part in the organ- ization of the fire company of the town, did much to- ward securing the erection of the handsome new high school building of the place, and was the first president of the Palmerton Athletic Association.
As one of the Roosevelt delegates to the Republican state convention of 1912, he assisted in the overthrow of the political dynasty of United States Senator Boies Penrose. One of the cherished momentos that he re- tains of that gathering is the leg of a chair, which was used as a gavel by the chairman of the convention. He is one of the leaders of the Progressive movement in the county.
On June 14, 1904, he was married to Stella, daugh- ter of Luther La Barre, of East Mauch Chunk. Anna and John are their two children.
Mr. Leslie is a member of the Patriotic Order of Sons of America and of the Sons of Veterans.
Levengood, Prof. Harvey D., supervisory principal of the schools of Summit Hill, is the son of Mathias and Elizabeth (Davidheiser) Levengood, natives of
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Berks county, where the family has lived for genera- tions.
The first of his ancestors to come to America was Ulrich Leibenguth, who was born in the Palatinate, Germany. In 1733 he took passage in the ship Charm- ing Betsy, John Ball, master, landing in Philadelphia. Later he went to Montgomery county, where he fol- lowed the calling of a farmer, as many of his descend- ants have done.
Harvey Levengood was born at Earlville, Berks county, October 1, 1880. He grew up on his father's farm, and was educated at Amityville Academy, Kutz- town State Normal School, and Ursinus College. While holding a civil service position in the New York post office he took a special course in pedagogy at Co- lumbia University.
Before coming to Carbon county, Professor Leven- good had six years' experience as a teacher in the schools of Berks county and one year at Mt. Hope, N. J. In 1907 he was appointed principal of the Mauch Chunk township high school at Nesquehoning, where he remained for six years. He took up the duties of his present position as supervisory principal of the schools of Summit Hill in 1913. The schools of this borough have in recent years become among the best and most efficient in the county. The high school, which is housed in a magnificent building, costing over $90,000, is rated as first class, having a four years' course. Its equipment is second to none in the county at this time.
Mr. Levengood was married, November 23, 1909, to Lucy Ross Morrison, of Summit Hill. She was for- merly a teacher in the Nesquehoning high school. They have two children : Mary and George.
Lienhard, Edward, a progressive farmer of Beaver Run, near Lehighton, is the son of Bernhard and Ma-
TION. WILLIAM LILLY.
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tilda (Haupt) Lienhard. Born in Germany, the father came to America in 1858, being then eighteen years of age. He settled in Lehighton, where he followed the occupation of a plasterer and bricklayer. He died in 1910. The mother was born in the Mahoning Valley and still lives.
Edward was born at Lehighton on March 9, 1875. He grew up on a farm owned by his father, being edu- cated in the public schools and at the Normal Institute, a school devoted to higher education, formerly main- tained in the Mahoning Valley.
In 1903 Mr. Lienhard took charge of a large farm owned by W. O. Lentz at Beaver Run, engaging in dairying and general farming. More recently fruit has been the principal product of the farm. The orchard consists of thirty acres, producing thousands of baskets of peaches and many tons of apples annually. Mr. Lienhard also operates an adjoining farm of which he is the owner. He has served as county chairman of the farmer's institutes since 1910, being also a member of the State Board of Agriculture and the vice-president of the Carbon County Farm Bureau, in the organiza- tion of which he took a leading part. He is a member of Big Creek Grange and is affiliated with the Knights of Malta and the Eagles.
On December 25, 1895, Mr. Lienhard was married to Mary A., daughter of James Schoch and his wife, Susannah, of Mahoning township. Their children are: Ruth E., a public school teacher, and Edna Mae Lien- hard.
Lilly, General William, who was one of Carbon county's foremost public men, as well as a man of large affairs in the industrial and financial world, was born at Penn Yan, New York, June 3, 1821. He was descended from Revolutionary stock, his forefathers
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having participated in the struggle by which Amer- ican independence was achieved. His father, Colonel William Lilly, left New York in 1838 and, with his family, settled in Mauch Chunk. General Lilly was but seventeen years of age at this time, but he imme- diately entered upon a life of industry and responsi- bility, being entrusted with the duties of a conductor on the Beaver Meadow Railroad. He also served as the coal shipping agent of this company at Penn Haven, which was then the head of the Lehigh Canal. His life henceforth was one of active business enter- prise. He soon entered into coal mining operations, being associated with Ario Pardee, J. Gillingham Fell and George B. Markle at Jeddo, and becoming a mem- ber of the firms of Lentz, Lilly & Company, and of L. A. Reilly & Company in the Schuylkill region. He was a director in the East Broad Top Railroad Com- pany, in the Highland Coal Company, in the Union Improvement Company, and in the Andover Iron Com- pany. General Lilly was also president of the Lehigh Emery Wheel Company and of the Carbon Metallic Paint Company, besides holding a seat as a director in the First and Second National Banks of Mauch Chunk and of the First National Bank of Shenandoah. He was also one of the board of commissioners to lo- cate and build a state hospital for injured persons in the anthracite region. This institution, called the Miners' Hospital, is situated near Ashland, Schuyl- kill county, and was opened in 1884. He was one of the original trustees of this hospital and later became pres- ident of the board.
While General Lilly thus bore a prominent part in industrial and commercial affairs, he was more widely known for his services in public life. He first came into prominence in connection with the military estab-
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lishment of the state. At the age of twenty-one he enlisted in the ranks of the militia, and through suc- cessive promotions, arrived at the rank of colonel, and was finally appointed a brigadier general.
General Lilly early affiliated with the Democratic party, and was elected to the state legislature of 1850 and 1851, bearing such a conspicuous part in the work of the first session that at the beginning of the next, he became a prominent candidate for Speaker of the House, but was defeated by a few votes. Urgent business demands compelled him to decline a re-elec- tion to that body.
It is related that while on a visit to Washington in 1862, General Lilly met some of the leading Democrats of the country and became very much dissatisfied with their views on the war. Visiting the house of repre- sentatives, he found fifty-five Democratic congressmen voting against a war measure of vital importance to the cause of the Union. It was at this point that the General parted company with his party, going over to the fold of the Republican party, to which he gave his loyal allegiance during the remainder of his life. He served as a delegate at every important Republican convention held in the state and was also a delegate or alternate to every national Republican convention for twenty-five years.
In 1868 General Lilly was a candidate for the guber- natorial nomination, receiving next to the highest vote on the last ballot. It was partly through his instru- mentality that the Pennsylvania state constitutional convention of 1872-73 was called, to which he was elect- ed as a delegate at large. At this convention which was composed of many of the most eminent men of the state, he bore a part equal to that of any of the mem- bers of that famous assemblage.
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General Lilly was elected as one of the congressmen at large for Pennsylvania for the Fifty-third Congress. As a member of that body he acquitted himself use- fully and honorably. A forceful speaker, he cherished no oratorical ambitions and spoke but seldom. He was reckoned, however, among the most industrious members of the House, and his services in the commit- tee room were of much value.
As indicating his varied tastes and activities, it may be mentioned that he was a life member of the Acad- emy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, and also of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, besides being a member of the Society of American Mining Engineers.
During the war he was a loyal friend of the Union soldiers, and supported a number of the families of his workmen who had volunteered.
He was an active member of the Masonic fraternity for more than half a century, and held the position of Grand Master of Pennsylvania.
He died suddenly at his residence in Mauch Chunk on December 1, 1893, in the seventy-second year of his age. He was preparing to go to Washington to take his seat at the beginning of the session of congress of that year when the final summons came.
The usual tokens of respect were paid to his mem- ory in both branches of the national legislature, and his demise was sincerely mourned in the community in which he lived.
Lindemuth, Theodore, postmaster of East Mauch Chunk, and an insurance man of that place, is the son of Jonathan and Catharine (Faust) Lindemuth, na- tives of Schuylkill county, Pa.
His maternal grandfather, Jacob Faust, was the founder of the village of Barnesville, Schuylkill county,
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while his father, who was a contractor and lumberman, was the first postmaster of Mahanoy City. At that time the town was without railroads and the mail was carried to and from the place on horseback.
Theodore Lindemuth was born at Barnesville, Jan- uary 2, 1855.
Leaving school at the age of fifteen, he began life as a brakeman for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Be- coming a locomotive engineer, he remained in the service of this company until the strike of 1893. Dur- ing the ensuing year he embarked in the business of life insurance, which he has since successfully followed.
Mr. Lindemuth has lived in East Mauch Chunk since 1882.
On January 24, 1883, he was united in marriage to Louisa, a daughter of Charles Zellner, of that town.
His appointment as postmaster of the borough came on February 23, 1911.
He has taken an active part in municipal affairs, having held most of the offices in the gift of the people of the community in which he lives. His political al- legiance is given to the Republican party, while he is identified with the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Long, Dr. Wilson P., a Weatherly physician and surgeon was born in Longswamp township, Berks county, Pa., in 1861.
Frederick Long, his great-grandfather was a Palat- inate immigrant. He fled from his native country to escape from the religious persecutions of the time, settling in Berks county on land which was deeded to him by the descendants of William Penn, the same be- ing now included in the township of Longswamp.
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In this freer and more hospitable environment he spent the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits, being a man of influence in the community where he lived.
His son, Daniel Long, who was also a farmer, be- came possessed of the homestead acquired by the fath- er. He married Rachel Snyder, a native of Montgom- ery county, Pa.
David Long, one of their ten children, and the father of the subject of this notice, was born in Berks county in 1830. By his marriage to Floranda, daughter of John P. Fegley, of Shamrock, Berks county, five children were born: Mary, Celia, Amanda, Wilson, and Malazina Long. The father of this family was stricken with typhoid fever, of which he died in his thirty-fourth year. Subsequently his widow became the wife of William Butz, of Alburtis, Pa. Two of their four children survive: Rev. Charles Butz, a min- ister of the Reformed church, and William Butz, a farmer, of Mertztown, Pa.
Dr. W. P. Long was less than three years of age when the death of his father occurred, and he was early thrown largely upon his own resources.
When he was nine years of age he was taken into the family of his uncle, Samuel Long, of Mertztown, upon whose farm he labored and grew to maturity.
Having gained a fair common school education, he later attended the Keystone State Normal School. During a period of three years he was engaged as a teacher.
Choosing the profession of medicine, he was matric- ulated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he was gradu- ated in 1886. Immediately thereafter he located at Weatherly, establishing himself in the practice of his
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profession, and soon gaining liberal recognition as a result of his ability and skill in diagnosing and treat- ing disease. He early discovered that a cheery pres- ence in the sick room is an important factor in the realm of therapeutics, and this has been one of the secrets of his success.
In addition to his general practise, Dr. Long is the local medical examiner for several old line insurance companies, and is the official physician of the alms- house of the Middle Coal Field Poor District, which position he has filled for more than a decade.
As an aid to keeping abreast of the times in matters affecting his profession, he has affiliated himself with the Carbon County Medical Society, the Lehigh Valley Medical Society, the State Medical Association, and the American Medical Society.
Aside from his calling as a physician, Dr. Long fig- ures actively in various phases of the life of the bor- ough in which he lives. He was one of the organiz- ers of the Weatherly Foundry and Machine Company, of which he is a principal stockholder, being also a di- rector of the company and serving as its secretary. He is similarly identified with the First National Bank of Weatherly. Besides this he has an interest in a mining enterprise at Hancock, Pa., which supplies the C. K. Williams Paint Mills at Easton with ochre, and he is a director and stockholder of the Allen Candy Manufacturing Company, of Weatherly.
In 1892 he was elected to the office of coroner of Carbon county on the Republican ticket, serving for a single term.
Being a warm friend of the public school system, he has repeatedly been chosen to serve as a member of the board of education of the borough, of which he has been the president. He was chairman of the build-
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ing committee in the erection of the Schwab school building.
For some years he was the musical director of the Reformed church of the town, of which he is now an elder. Fraternally he is identified with the Patriotic Order of Sons of America, the Grand Commandery of Pennsylvania, the order of Modern Woodmen, and the Free and Accepted Masons.
Dr. Long was married on August 2, 1886, to Clara Boyer, of Reading, Pa. She died May 1, 1901, leaving two sons, William S. and Albert F. Long. Both are graduates of Ursinus College, from which the former received the degree of A. B. and the latter that of B. S. William is now a student in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, while Albert is a teacher at Kyle Military Institute, Flushing, Long Is- land.
Loose, Jacob C., a leading member of the Carbon county bar, was born at Myerstown, Lebanon county, Pa., on July 6, 1866.
He is the son of Jacob A. and Emma E. (Spangler) Loose, his father having followed the mercantile busi- ness at Palmyra, Pa., for many years. Attending the Palmyra Academy he subsequently entered Dickinson College, where he pursued a classical course, gradu- ating from that institution in 1887.
Choosing the law as his profession, he studied in the offices of the well-known firm of Craig and Loose, at Mauch Chunk, comprised of the late Judge Allen Craig and the late James S. Loose, an uncle of the subject of this sketch.
Upon his admission to the bar in January, 1890, he opened an office at Mauch Chunk, where he prac- tised his profession for about eighteen months.
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Removing to Shenandoah, Va., he built up a practise there and was elected mayor of the town. In 1897 he returned to Mauch Chunk to become a member of the firm of Loose, Craig and Loose. Upon the death of his uncle, in July, 1898, the firm became Craig and Loose, the other partner being Douglas Craig, a son of the late Judge Allen Craig.
On November 17, 1892, during his stay in the South, Mr. Loose was united in marriage with Alice M., daugh- ter of Henry A. Bear and his wife, Betty, of Bear Lithia Springs, Va. Their only son is Alan S. Loose, born March 16, 1899. Another son, James B., died in infancy.
Mr. Loose is identified with the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and the Common Law League of America. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Dim- mick Memorial Library, and of the Odd Fellows' Hall Association, of Mauch Chunk, and is one of the war- dens of St. John's Episcopal church, of East Mauch Chunk, which is his place of residence. He also holds the position of borough solicitor in the latter place. Mr. Loose is a Republican. The success which has come to him in his calling has been achieved by clean and honorable methods.
Luckenbach, Edwin F., who for many years served as postmaster of Mauch Chunk, where he was a rep- resentative business man, was born near Bethlehem, Northampton county, Pa., on October 11, 1842.
He was the son of Renautus and Catherine (Boyer) Luckenbach. His father, who in early life had been a blacksmith, later became a boat builder and followed the mercantile career. His mother was a descendant of Isaac Boyer, one of the pioneer settlers of Northamp- ton county. Both father and mother died during the
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seventies in Kansas, where they spent their declining years.
At the age of seventeen E. F. Luckenbach was ap- prenticed to a house, sign and decorative painter, named Anton Goth, of Bethlehem. His apprenticeship expired on August 3, 1862. On the same day he en- listed in the service of the Union, being enrolled as a private in Company C., One Hundred and Twenty- ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. This regi- ment was commanded by Colonel Jacob G. Frick, and was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, becoming a part of E. B. Tyler's First Brigade of Humphrey's Third Division, Fifth Army Corps. Mr. Luckenbach participated in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and on May 18, 1863, at the expira- tion of his term of service, was honorably discharged.
In 1864 he located permanently in Mauch Chunk, at first devoting his energies to the trade he had learned. On January 1, 1871, he established a stationery, wall paper and paint store at No. 61 Broadway; this he successfully managed in connection with his other in- terests during the remainder of his life.
In 1865 he was married to Miss Mary A. DeRemer, a daughter of Peter and Mary M. (Quick) DeRemer. Four children were born to them: Albert H., Hattie L., wife of A. W. Hooke; William F. and Charles E.
Mr. Luckenbach was one of the prime movers in the organization of the Upper Mauch Chunk Water Com- pany in 1872. Being elected as its secretary, he con- tinued in that capacity for forty years. In March, 1899, President Mckinley appointed him as postmast- er of Mauch Chunk, the duties of which position he discharged with energy and ability until his death, which occurred on March 3, 1912.
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Mr. Luckenbach was at one time a member of the town council of Mauch Chunk and served as its secre- tary. He was also a charter member of L. F. Chapman Post, No. 61, Grand Army of the Republic, twice serving as its commander, while being identified with the Royal Arcanum and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
As a citizen he was public spirited and progressive, always actively co-operating in any movement calcu- lated to promote the welfare of the town of his adop- tion.
As a mark of respect to his memory, all business was suspended in Mauch Chunk on the day of his funeral.
Luther, Dr. John W., who is at the head of the Palmerton Hospital, the only institution of its kind situated in Carbon county, is a native of Berks county, having been born in the city of Reading, May 21, 1875. His family originally came from Lancaster county. Peter Luther, a Lancaster county druggist was his paternal grandfather, while William Behm, a Reading hotel man, was his maternal grandfather. Martin and Diller Luther, brothers of Peter Luther, were promi- nent medical practitioners in Berks county.
Thomas M., the father of John W. Luther, was a native of Reading, while his brother, R. C. Luther, de- ceased, of Pottsville, was the superintendent of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company and was first vice president of that corporation.
Doctor Luther is a graduate of the Reading high school, class of 1894. After spending a year at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, he entered the medical de- partment of the University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he graduated in 1899. He then served as interne at the Reading Hospital for nine months, later holding the same position at the Univer-
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sity Hospital for eighteen months. For one year he was the chief resident physician in the same institution, after which he practiced his profession on his own account in Philadelphia. He was appointed instructor in gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania and was assistant gynecologist at the University Hospital, as well as obstetrician at the Maternity Hospital.
In January, 1908, Doctor Luther took charge of the Palmerton Hospital, having since been appointed as a surgeon of the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
When Palmerton was organized as a borough, in 1912, he was honored in being chosen as the first chief burgess of the town. He is also the president of the Palmerton Co-operative Association, president of the Carbon County Medical Society, secretary of the Le- high Valley Medical Association, and holds member- ship in the Pennsylvania Medical Society and in the American Medical Association.
He belongs to Slatington Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and attends the Lutheran church. His wife was Aletta A. Artley, of Savannah, Ga., whom he mar- ried in July, 1903.
Mack, William B., who was one of the pioneer resi- dents of East Mauch Chunk, and a railroad man of many years' experience, was born in Ulster county, New York, September 15, 1825. His parents were George and Margaret (Boggs) Mack, the father being a well-known contractor.
Coming to Mauch Chunk when a boy, the subject of this memoir began life as a printer in the newspaper offices of that place.
His long career as a railroad man began in 1845, when he entered the service of the Beaver Meadow Railroad, being appointed as its road master about five years later. When this company was absorbed by
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the Lehigh Valley he continued in the service of the latter, and in 1869 his authority as road master was extended to include the Mahanoy Division. He retired about 1893, after a continuous service of nearly half a century.
When Mr. Mack built his residence in East Mauch Chunk there were but four or five other houses in the place. His connection with the financial interests of Mauch Chunk antedated the establishment of the na- tional banking system. He was a director of the old Mauch Chunk Bank, which was organized in 1855, and was similarly identified with the First National Bank of Mauch Chunk and the Mauch Chunk National Bank, of which the first named institution was the prede- cessor. He was also associated with the Mauch Chunk Water Company for many years, serving as its presi- dent.
In 1859 Mr. Mack was united in marriage to Jean, daughter of James R. and Ellen B. (Tolan) Struthers, of Mauch Chunk. Her father was a prominent lawyer, and was the first district attorney of Carbon county. They became the parents of eight children, three of whom survive.
Mr. Mack departed this life on February 16, 1911, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.
Markley, Elmer S., a dealer in shoes and foot wear at Lehighton, was born in Franklin township, Carbon county, March 20, 1871.
His grandfather, Jonah Markley, was a native of Bucks county, where he was born about the year 1800. While still very young, he went to Philadelphia, where he was employed as a clerk in an apothecary shop. At the age of fifteen he came to Carbon county, settling in Franklin township, near Walksville. He became a cloth and carpet weaver, residing in the township dur-
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