History of Cumberland and Adams counties, Pennsylvania. Containing history of the counties, their townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc.; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; biographies; history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, etc., etc, Part 159

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JACOB J. COLE, a resident of Buchanan Valley, Franklin Township, P. O. Trust, was born in Buchanan Valley, this county, March 2, 1845, and is a son of George and Nancy (Strasbaugh) Cole. He attended school during the winter season up to the age of twenty- two, and at fourteen he commenced to learn the business of a lumberman and sawyer, which he still follows. At the age of twenty six he married Miss Josephine Rider, a daughter of John Rider, of Taneytown. They have eight children: Edward J., Frances I., Mary J., Ellen C., Fleming C., Joseph K., Thomas J., Sara M. (Pearl). Mr. Cole is a Dem- oerat. He takes a prominent part and interest in the public enterprises and affairs of his vicinity, and kindly furnished many articles for the history of Buchanan Valley, in this volume, and also of the Church of St. Ignatius.

JOHN H. DIEIIL, teacher. Cashtown. The great-grandfather of this gentleman, Fred- erick Diehl, is the first one of the family of whom any information can be gleaned. His son, Jacob, was born in 1768, and married Christina Bosserman, who was born the same year. They resided near Gettysburg during life, and reared a family of eight children: John, Jacob, Daniel and Frederick (twins), Mary, Sarah, Susan and Eliza, who were all born on the farm, now the property of John Trostle, on Rock Creek. The Diehls were residents of Adams before it was created a county, and Frederick, the father of our sub- jeet and a farmer, was born in 1807. He married, in 1836, Matilda Black, a daughter of James (who was born in 1781) and Jane (Hamilton) Black, and granddaugher of Capt. Ilenry Blaek, of the Revolutionary war. William Hamilton, grandfather of Mrs. Diehl, married Mary M. Bittinger, whose father, Nicholas Bittinger, was taken prisoner during the Revolutionary war. These parents had twelve children: Margaret, their first daugh- ter, was born while her father was a prisoner in the hands of the British, September 21, 1776: John's birth, in 1778, was followed by the births of Florence and Jane (twins), Will- iam, Joseph, Enoch, James, Robert, George (who was born in 1792, and is still living), David and Jesse. The Hamiltons and Blacks both lived near Gettysburg, and were among the first white residents of what is now this connty. After marriage, Frederick Dielil and wife moved to a farm near Cashtown, which is still in his name, and there their six children were born and reared: Cleopatra, Van Buren, Jane A., James, John H. and Oscar D. All are married except John II., subjeet, who has for several years been at teacher in this county. His brothers, Van Buren and James, also bis eldest sister, were teachers. The death of the father occurred April 1, 1883, at which time he and his wife were living in retirement in Cashtown. During the occupation of this neighborhood by the Confederates, their farm was guarded, and very little damage was done. Mrs. Diehl and her daughter were active in furnishing provisions for the soldiers, and thereby secured protection until the fight, when considerable property was taken by the Rebels. A com- petency has been secured the widow, and all the children are engaged in farming.

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JOHN H. DULL was born January 26, 1841. His grandfather. Jacob Dull, resided for many years in the Pigeon Hills, York County, Penn. He married a Miss Heihnan and reared a family of five sons and four daughters, and Joseph, one of the sons (the father of our subject) was born in York County, married Eliza Quickel, a daughter of John and Eliza Quiekel, and moved to a small farm near Biglerville, where John Il. was born. Our subject was reared by his uncle from a mere Ind to manhood, and early in the civil war, about October, 1862. he enlisted in Company F. One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Regi- ment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served faithfully until his term of service had expired, when he returned home. September 4, 1869, he married Susan, daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth (Toner) Myers. Her parents reared the following children: Sarah, Susan, Anna. Elizabeth, John, Jacob, Levi J. (a miller in Ohio), and Mary, in Franklin Town- ship, this county. John and Jacob are business men of Adams County, and the entire family are people of unquestionable reputation. Mr. Dull's only sister, Rebecca J., became the wife of Jacob Klipper. To Mr. and Mrs. Dull two daughters have been born: Katy E. and Mary A. and a more courteous, social family can not be found in Franklin Township; Mr. Dull was elected constable in 1883, and re-elected in 1884, filling the office with ability. In 1885 he took the contract for carrying the United States mail between Arendtsville and Gettysburg, which position he still holds. Not an act of dishonesty has ever been at- tached to his public or private record, and all that he has was honestly earned by himself and his faithful wife. Honesty, sobriety and energy have brought with them legitimate results, and in a home of their own resides this family, who are worthy to rank among the best in Franklin Township. After the death of his wife, Joseph, father of our subject, went west, where he married again and hecame the father of two daughters and one son, but whose names and location are unknown.

EDWARD F. HARTMAN, farmer, P. O. Arendtsville, was born on the old Man- sion farm January 19, 1849, a son of Eli and Elizabeth (Bear) Hartman, who were parents of three children: Edward F., Leah E., wife of Amos A. Rebert, and Lydia A., wife of Henry Little, a buggy-builder of this township. The early history of the llartman family is an interesting one, and may be read in the sketch of Noah Hartman. Eli was a farmer, and lived on the Mansion farm, now owned by his son, which has been in possession of the Hartmans since 1740, and where five generations were born. The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Hartman occurred March 5. 1886, she being aged sixty-six years. Eli Hartman

leads a retired life in Gettysburg. The Hartmans have been noted agriculutrists, and have devoted special attention to such pursuits. February 11, 1873, Edward F. Hartman married Miss Elcanora, daughter of Cornelius and Elizabeth Spahr, the former of Adams County, where Mrs. Hartman was born. Mr. Spahr now resides near Mummasburg with his daughter. Mrs. John Staley, Mrs. Spahr having died in 1876. To Mr. and Mrs. Hart- man four children have been born: Willis M., Ada E., Lydia J. and Edna E. Mr. Ilart- man has filled with great credit several important offices in his township, and has been for six years one of the directors of the school board of Franklin Township. Both he and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church at Arendtsville, and he was one of the charter members of Arendtsville Lodge, No. 325, K. P.

NOAH W. HARTMAN, nurserymau, P. O. Arendtsville, was born in Franklin Township, this county, in 1838. The first of this family to come to America was John Hartman, who emigrated from Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, about 1700, and settled with his young wife in Northumberland County, near the Tulpchocken Church. He reared a family, among whom was a son, George, and a daughter, Regina. One day, the mother, accompanied by her son George, started to the mill ten miles distant, leaving the father and the other children at home. During her absence the Indians made an attack. burned the house and killed the entire family, except Regina, whom they carried off. together with Susan Swartz, the daughter of a neighbor. They were taken west of the Alleghenies and remained in captivity twelve years before they were reclaimed. When peace was declared a general exchange of captives was made at Carlisle. Regina's mother and her brother. George, crossed the Susquehanna on horseback and brought her long- lost daughter to her Northumberland home.

George subsequently married Susan Swartz, who was captured at the same time as his sister, and became the father of twelve stalwart sons. John Hartman, one of the sons, emigrated from Northumberland County to Northampton County, where he enlisted in the Revolutionary Army, and served to the end of the war. Ile came to Adams County in 1786, and became the father of John Hartman, grandfather of our subject. He lived where Isaac Starner now resides, married Annie Blocher and reared a family of seven children, one or whom, Henry, was the father of Noah W .. our subject. Henry was born in 1803, in this county, and in 1831 married Sally A. Raffensperger. During their married life they resided in Franklin Township. He died in 1869. Ilis widow still survives, nearly seventy-four years of age. They were the parents of thirteen children, eight of whom are living: Ephraim, Catharine, Mar- garet. Noah W., John F., Annie E., Sarah and Solomon. Noah W. (our subject) was married in 1863, to Rebecca, a daughter of Peter and Annie Ketterman. Ile was at that time engaged in the nursery business, and they began life on the farm where they now re- side. They have six children: Clement A., Mary E., Milton E., Edgar W., Calvin and Annie

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S., all of whom still reside with their parents. Mr. Hartman has fifteen acres in fine cultiva- tion with every variety of tree and plant indigenous to our soil. The nursery returns a fine revenue and is the only one in the township. He was a charter member of the Arendstville Lodge, No. 325, K. of P., of Arendtsville, and was nominee of the Democratic party, in 1884, for representative. Clement A. has been engaged in teaching and will complete his education in the near future. The maternal grandmother Heintzleman, was a relative of Gen. Heintzleman, and her father owned 'a large tract of land in this township; the spot where the original cabin was built when the land was pre-empted is marked by a large stone on the Jonas Orner farm, where there was an Indian shot by Mr. Heintzleman off of a grapevine, and was buried near by. Our subject's great-grandmother received a State pension as the widow of a Revolutionary soldier, the act authorizing the payment being passed in the Pennsylvania Legislature in the year 1855. His great-grandfather Hartman was married in 1775, in Northampton County, Penn., to a Miss Ritter. The Indians were numerous and used to congregate around their cabin. The Heintzlemans all lived to a ripe old age and were a noted family in this and Franklin County.

THEODORE KIMPLE, farmer, P. O. Graeffenburg, was born in Coden, Bavaria, Germany, November 17, 1831, and is the only child of John and Elizabeth (Iile) Kim- ple, who immigrated to America in 1837, and settled near Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Penn., where they remained three years; then removed to Adams County, and to the farm upon which their son now resides. The father also purchased a saw and grist-mill, which was re-built by his son in 1885. He was a man of the strictest integrity, and during his life his business affairs were such that regrets were many when his death occurred in 1877. His widow survived until 1884, when she died at the age of seventy-seven years. Theodore was married July 7, 1856, to Miss Helena Miltenbarger, who has borne him twelve children, of whom John, Henry. James, Theodore, Francis, Catherine, Margaret, Elizabeth and Jennie are living. John married Annie McKendrick, Henry married Mary Brady, James married Annie Dillon, and all are residents of the near neighborhood. The parents are members of the Catholic Church. Mr. Kimple is now completing a term as school director, in which he takes great interest. During their residence in this township he and his wife have been devoted members of St. Ignatius Church, and rank highly as people of worth and piety. Mr. Kimple owns valuable property, and is one of the en- terprising men of his section. His sons manage the mill and farm, which return a fine revenue, under the supervision of their father.

DR. ISRAEL P. LECRONE, Arendtsville, was born in Dover Township, York County, Penn .. in 1849, a son of John P. and Annie M. (Upp) Lecrone, who were parents of eleven children, five now living: George E., Mrs. Annie Holtzapple, Mrs. Mary Simon. Mrs. Clara Bowersox and our subject. The Lecrone family came from Switzerland, three brothers arriving here from that country about 1697; one settled in Franklin County; one in the Shenandoah Valley, and one in York County, the doctor being a descendant of the last referred to. The father of our subject is still living at the age of eighty-three years. He has in his possession a silver medal given to his grandfather for bravery during the Revolution, and which was the only compensation he received for eighteen months' ser- vice in that struggle. This family were among the early settlers of York County and have been noted agriculturists. Dr. Lecrone received his classical education at York Ac- ademy; was a student of Dr. John Ahl, and matriculated at Jefferson Medical College in October. 1869. He was an office student of the renowned Dr. W. H. Pancoast, and graduated in March, 1871. He remained with his preceptor several months, and then located at Ber- mudian, where he married Miss Rebecca J. Pence, and remained there five years. He then removed to the pleasant village of Arendtsville, where he has a practice equaling that of any physician in the western part of the county. He has gained an enviable posi- tion among the faculty aud is a man of note in the community. His only daughter, Florence, died in childhood. The Doctor is a consistent member of the Lutheran, and his wife of the German Baptist Church.

HANSON P. MARK, undertaker. Arendtsville, was born in Baltimore, in 1853, a son of Nicholas and Christian (Beamer) Mark, both of whom were born in Adams County. The father kept the first general store in Arendtsville when there were but two houses in the place. During the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Mark, in Adams County, three children were born and two in Maryland. Our subject is the only survivor on both sides of a family who were among the early settlers. His grandfather, Mark, donated the site for Mark's German Reformed Church on the Baltimore Pike near Gettysburg, where he owned a farm and kept a hotel, known as " Mark's Tavern." When Hanson P. was fif- teen years of age he was employed as a clerk hy Daniel Miller & Co .. of Baltimore, whole- sale dry goods merchants, with whom he remained five years, and obtained a practical idea of business. Close application, however, impaired his health, and he took a trip to Europe to recuperate. Six months later he returned to his former position and remained one year, when his physicians advised him to reside in the country. Twelve years ago he came to Arendtsville, and in 1882 purchased the good-will of the undertaking establish- ment of ex-Sheriff Jacob HI. Plank. Mr. Mark is a graduate of the Cincinnati School of Embalming, and was also a matriculant in other schools of a like character. He was the

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first professional embalmer in Adams County, and does a general practice in the county, frequently assisting elsewhere. He is still unmarried and is heir to the patrimony which was left by his parents. Nicholas, his father, was a man widely known, not only in Adams County, but throughout this State and Maryland, and was one of the wholesale firm of Stonebumer. Mark & Miller, grocers, of Baltimore. Our subject is a charter member of Good Samaritan Chapter, No. 266, R. A. M .. of Gettysburg, and is also one of the deputy postmasters of his village. In connection with the undertaking business he carries on the furniture and upholstering trade, the only place of its kind in Arendtsville. He was one of the first members of the Funeral Directors' Association, of Pennsylvania, organized May 23. 1883.

REV. MILTON II. SANGREE, P. O. Arendtsville, Penn .. was born in 1832, near Smithsburg. Washington Co., Md. Of his ancestors little is known. It is supposed they were originally Huguenots from the south of France and spelled the name Saint- gries, forced to flee from that country to America on account of religious persecution. Michael, the grandfather of Rev. Mr. Sangree, was born in 1759, and located in York County. on the banks of the Susquehanna, twenty miles below Columbia, His wife, nie Miss Burkholder, bore him the following named children: Jacob, Christian, Jane, Esther. Abraham, Elizabeth. Joseph and Benjamin. The last named died young. Elizabeth married a Mr. Mandorff and had one child, Mary. During boyhood the sons were fishermen and thus helped to support the family. Later they all learned the milling business and fol- lowed it for many years. Abraham was the father of our subject, and was engaged in milling near Hagerstown. Washington Co., Md. In 1830 he married in Smithsburg. Washington Co .. Md., Miss Margaret Tritle, and five years later moved to Huntingdon County Penn. Our subject and Arietta were born near Smithsburg, Md .; Amanda, Luther and Linda M. in Pennsylvania. Mr. Abraham Sangree was one of the kindest of men. and was rendered comparatively poor by reason of his charitable nature. Ile had an ex- tensive library and gave his children a practical education. His death occurred March 28. 1868, and that of his widow, December 20, 1885. Milton H., for ten years prior to his marriage, was engaged in teaching. merchandising and farming. October 6, 1856, he mar- ried Miss Jane E. Hudson, a daughter of George and Rebecca (IIubbel) Hudson, of Three Springs, Huntingdon Co .. Penn. After marriage he engaged in various occupations until his enlistment in February, 1865, in Company K, Seventy-eighth Regiment Pennsyl- vania Volunteer Infantry, of which company he was commissioned second lieutenant, and served until honorably discharged. In June, 1871, he completed a theological course at Mercersburg, and the same mouth was licensed to preach. The following year he raised 817.000 for the endowment of Mercersburg College. His first charge was in Everett, Bed- ford Co., Penn., from 1873 to 1878, and the following spring he removed to Alexandria and remained until 1884, when he was called to assume the pastorate of the Reformed Church at Arendtsville. To his efforts is mainly due the erection of the handsome brick church which was completed and dedicated May 9, 1886. As a pastor of earnestness and zeal, Mr. Sangrée has few peers; his congregation respect and love him and are a unit in speaking of his satisfactory ministration. Ilis children are rapidly completing their ed- ucation. Rev. Henry H., the eldest, was married, in 1885, to Miss Helen Hoke, of Hanover. Penn .; he is a graduate of Mercersburg College and Union Theological Seminary, New York, and is now pastor of the Fairfield charge, Reformed Church, in Adams County; Ernest B. graduated at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, and is a teacher of elo- cution and oratory at the military academy of Michigan; T. Chalmers is a druggist in Philadelphia; Frances N. is the wife of E. C. Falirney, M. D. of Hagerstown : Margaret com- pleted 'her classical education at Birmingham, Penn., and her musical education at the Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass .; Hope, Allen and George still attend school. The family is a most pleasant and interesting one. The circle is unbroken and harmony dwells therein.

GEORGE W. SCHWARTZ, farmer. P. O. Cashitown. The great-grandfather of this gentleman came from Germany, and settled in York County, where he married and reared a family. He had three sons: Jacob. Philip and John. The first named, the grandfather of our subject, was born in 1783. Ile married Mary M. Geiselman, of East Berlin, and. about 1808, settled near Abbottstown, in Berwick Township, upon the farm now owned by John Mummert. After residing there several years, during which time his children Michael. Ruphena. Jacob, Mary M., Daniel, Elias, Moses, Elizabeth. Lydia and John were born, they moved to a farm near Gettysburg, upon which two more children were born-Margaret and Ilenry. There the father remained until he discontinued farming, when he and his wife moved to Gettysburg, and later to a small farm near Lit- tlestown, where they remained until their death, he being about eighty and she seventy- seven years of age. They died within a few weeks of each other, but both lived to see the country well developed, but the close of the war had not come. Eli and Margaret are the only members of this large family who do not reside in Adams County, and seven are yet living. Eli is a minister of the Lutheran faith, at DeSoto. IIl. Moses Schwartz, the father of George W. Schwartz, was born in 1817, received a practical education at the common schools, and chose the vocation of farming. In 1832 he married Mary E. Duttera,

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of Union Township, this county, and began married life on the farm now owned by Samuel Schwartz; five years later he purchased the farm; then, nine years afterward, purchased a farm near Littlestown; nine years after that he purchased a large farm near Cashtown, to which he removed, and in 1871 he purchased his present farm and a resi- dence in Cashtown. To him and his wife seven children were born, three now living: George W., Elizabeth (wife of McLean Miller) and Emma J. (who resides with her parents). Our subject was born October 10, 1847, and is from choice a farmer. March 2, 1876, he married Harriet E. Loahr, and their domestic life was begun upon the farm ad- joining the village of Cashtown, the last farm purchased by his father. One daughter, Mary E., died in infancy. Mrs. Schwartz's father, Samuel Loahr, was born in Gettysburg, son of Jacob and Catherine (Zeigler) Loahr, who afterward lived on a farm from which the first cannon was fired, in front of their house, at the beginning of the battle of Gettys- burg.

NOAH SHEELY, farmer, P. O. Cashtown, was born in 1838. His grandfather, Andrew Sheely was born in this county and married a Miss Diehl, of York County, whose family history appears in sketches of the Diehls. Jacob, their eldest son, a farmer, was born in 1812, in Mountjoy Township, on the Mansion farm, now owned by John Hartman. He married Mary Hartman, about 1832, who bore him ten children: Andrew, Agnes, Aaron (the present county superintendent of schools, and who wrote the chapters on Natural History and Education for this volume), Noah (subject), Catharine, Ephraim, Jacob, Daniel, Eli and Mary. Jacob kept a hotel on the Baltimore Pike, near Newman's tavern, for a number of years, in company with his brother-in-law. Jacob Hartman. He after- ward purchased a farm in Mountjoy Township, and later moved to another purchase near by; thence came to Franklin Township, and purchased a large tract of land, most of which he improved, and on which he remained during his life. Two of his sons have been for many years practical teachers of Adams County, and all of them have a prac- tical business education. In 1866 Noah married Rebecca MeElwone, of Union Township. In their present home they began housekeeping, and in the stone mansion their eight children were born. Our subject has accumulated a large property, and is one of the representative farmers of Franklin Township. His children inherit a name that has been familiar for more than a century in Adams County, and one which has been associated with enterprise and education continually. Mr. Sheely is the largest fruit grower in Adams County, having 2,000 fruit-bearing trees, 700 York stripe, 1,000 York imperial, 300 of varieties-all winter apples.

IION. EDMAN W. STAHLE, P. O., Mummasburg, was born in the borough of York, Penn,. July 28. 1819, to John and Sarah (Small) Stahle, who reared a family of twelve children: Jacob S., Edman W., Catharine. Sarah, Henry J., James A., Barbara, William, Ellen, Isabel, Virginia and Agnes. The sons have all been men of distinction. Jacob S. was a graduate in law, a prominent lawyer of York; at eighteen years of age captain in the Pennsylvania militia. and died a bachelor, with the rank of major-general; Henry J. has been the editor and publisher of the Gettysburg Compiler for forty-three years; James A. was a merchant tailor, of York, and when the war broke out formed Company A, Eighty- seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and returned after his term of service a colo- nel by brevet, and for twenty years was deputy collector of internal revenue for York County; William was a druggist of York, and was noted as an orator in both English and German; was also a prominent Mason; Edman W., who is a finished printer, learned the trade in the office of the York Republican. He was at the same time editor of the Democratic Press, of York, and afterwards of the Columbia Spy, at which time he was clerk, along with Thomas A. Scott, in the collection office on the main line of public improvements at Co- lumbia. In 1843 he came to Gettyshurg and took charge of the Compiler for three years, when he was appointed deputy sheriff; in 1850 he went to Washington, and, in company with A. Boyd Hamilton, took the contract for printing the proceedings of the Thirty-sec- ond Congress and the government printing, and two years later assumed the superintend- ency of the State printing office at Harrisburg. In 1854, tired of public life and desiring to live at ease, he purchased his present farm and settled into an easy-going existence, but the people were not yet ready to allow him to retire, and, in 1871, he was appointed a com- missioner to help adjust the claims of the people of Adams County for damages received during the war. In 1874 he was elected a member of the Legislature, serving in 1875-76. He was chairman of the printing committee and is the originator of the present laws regu- lating the public printing of the State, conceded to be the best of any State in the Union. Previous to and succeeding his election as representative, Mr. Stahle was elected to and has filled nearly every office in the township, elected alike by Republicans and Democrats. In 1842 he married Margaret Haughey, of Columbia, who bore him five children: John H., married to Sarah J. Spabr; Francis R. S., killed February 9. 1865, while on picket duty at Hatcher's Run: Sarah C., a prominent school-teacher. of Franklin Township, and Mary, the wife of Henry J. Brinkerhoff, Jr. ; Edman died during childhood. Mrs. Stahle died in 1871, and in 1873 Mr. Stable married Mary McGrew, a teacher in the High School of Get- tysburg, who bore him three daughters: Teena W., Louisa B, and Jane McGrew-the last deceased. As a public man Mr. Stahle has been one of the most prominent in Adams

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