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The Evangelical Association .- This association,
or, as it is known in some localities, "The Albrights," built their first church in Conestoga township, on the road leading from Conestoga Centre to Safe Harbor, in the Year 1846, at which time the church was organ- ized. The building was frame, and was used as a place of worship until the year 1873, when they built a new house of brick at a cost of about two thousand dollars. The first trustees were Jacob Mc Allister, Jacob Hack- man, and Benjamin Kneis-ley. The following are the names of the ministers: Revs. Fred. Danner, Ilull, Cole, Shulty, Francis Lare, James Lare, Jacob Adda- mey, Samuel flambright, Moses Dissinger, C. Becker, M. Henry, Joseph Specht, Widner, S. Harper, W. Black, Shoemaker, A. Stirk, Samuel J. Homberger, Jesse Lawrence, A. De Long, Markley, Knerr, Jacob Zern, Cautner, and F. A. Hess, the present minister. Benjamin Kneisley is a local preacher in this church, and has been such for a number of years. The num- preseut fifty members. The present trustees are Peter Snavely, Benjamin Knei-sley, John Lynes, Benjamin Warfel, and Amos MeAlli-ter.
Colemanville Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in, 1849 by members of the church at Mount Nebo, Martic township. The original members were Morris Clark, James A. Ewing, George MeCombs, Ben- jamin Stoner, Daniel Keller, and a number of others. These same person> constituted the first board of trustees, and also the building committee. The build- ing, a neat brick, wa- finished early in the fall of 1849, and was dedicated at that time by Rev. J. Sanderson, who was the preacher in charge at that time and for two succeeding years. The first class-leader was Morris Clark. The land upon which the church was built was donated by Mrs. Coleman. The following are the other pastors who had charge : Revs. Joseph Cook, two years; H. B. Mauger, three years; -- Edwards, two years; J. N. Magee, two years; - Cumins, two
During the continuance of the operation of the iron-works regular stated meetings were hekl, that is
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up to the summer of 1865, after that only at long in- tervals until the fall of 1880, from then to the fall of 1882 meetings were held every four weeks. There are at present residing at Safe Harbor less than a dozen members, and no meetings have been held for nearly a year.
Conestoga Centre Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in August, 1856. An informal meeting was held in the house of Dr. B. S. Kendig early in August, at which time the matter of organizing a church here was spoken of, and a meeting for the purpose of organizing was called for August 13th, at which the following board of trustees were elected : Rev. William Major, Christian B. Herr, James Bones, John Perkins, Joseph R. Urban, Frederick M. Brady, Daniel Rhineer, and John Campbell; Rev. William | Contains about twenty. Major, president ; Joseph R. Urban, secretary ; and F. M. Brady, treasurer. At the same time the follow- ing building committee was appointed : Rev. William Major, A. M. Warfel, Frances B. Groff, John II. Lori- mer, and Dr. B. S. Kendig. Shortly after this the building was begun, and in the fall the corner-stone was laid, Rev. Mr. Major conducting the services. The following spring (1857) the church was dedicated to the service of God by Revs. Curtis F. Turner and William Major. The original members were Joseph R. Urban, Elizabeth Urban, Abraham M. Warfel, Elizabeth Warfel, Henry B. Shenk, Matilda Shenk, Frances B. Groff, John II. Lorimer, F. M. Brady, : Esther Mehaffey, Daniel Rhineer, Hugh Mehaffey, Esq., Dr. B. S. Kendig, Susan Kendig, John Jones, Susan Jones, Christian Hupper, Mary Hupper, Henry Flinchbaugh, C. K. Henry, John Henry, and Leah Brady. Their first meetings were held in the dwell- ing-house of Joseph R. Urban.
Following is a list of the pastors of the church and the length of time each served: William Major, two years, assisted by T. J. Martin, three months; C. Jast. Walters, one year, assisted by --- Formosa, one year ; II. B. Manger, two years, assisted by A. Fisher, two years; William B. Gregg, two years, assisted by George B. Shaffer, two years; William M. Dalrymple, two years; John Watson, two years; John Kessler, three years; David Shields, two years; H. B. Mauger, two years; F. M. Collins, one year; J. G. Hare, two years ; F. M. Brady, two years ;J. W. Harkins, three years; A. J. Amthor, the present pastor.
There are at present forty members. The church property is valued at two thousand five hundred dol- lars.
Connected with the church there is a Sunday- school, with an average of sixty pupils, under the present superintendeney of B. F. Hookey.
Burial-Grounds .- In giving these the oldest dates as recorded upon the gravestones can only be given. Nearly all of them were set apart for this purpose many years before, but we have no means at our command of ascertaining the length of time they have been established.
On Valentine Wartel's farm, near Safe Harbor, the oldest grave marked is that of F. Menart, 1774.
On George J. Fehl's farm, near Slackwater, are stones marked Andreas Fehl, died in 1783; Andreas Fehl, Jr., died 1795; the latest burial, Catharine Lenhardt, Sept. 28, 1880. This lot contains about fifty burials.
The German Reformed Cemetery, connected with the church in Conestoga Centre, contains the follow- ing marked stones: Andreas Martin and Peter Kline, 1784; Jacob Metzgar, July 8, 1790. This ground contains about six hundred bodies.
On Christian E. Miller's farm burying-ground, on road from Conestoga Centre to Shenk's Ferry, first marked burial was made in 1797, name illegible.
On Jacob Bausman's farm, near Colemanville, the oldest marked grave is that of Barbara Stehman, Jan. 17, 1793; Henry Steman, April 16, 1793, aged forty- four years; Peter Warfel, March 27, 1802; Peter Warfel, Jr., Feb. 6, 1803; George Wartel, Sept. 14, 1804. Latest burial, Adam Warfel, October, 1869. Contains about one hundred and fifty bodies.
On Samuel Harnish's farm graveyard at Shenk's Ferry. This ground contains no stones to mark the graves, except members of the Shenk family who have died lately.
On Elizabeth Kendig's farm, on the road from Conestoga Centre to Slackwater, the oldest marked grave is that of Henry Hackman, who died in 1776, aged fifty-one years; the cemetery contains about seventy-five graves.
On Jacob Stehman's farm, on the road from Cones- toga Centre to Slackwater. This burial-ground was established in 1806 by the Stehman family, John Stehuman being the first person buried.there in that year; Elizabeth Keller, who died in 1850, being the
The Colemanville Methodist Episcopal Church burial ground was established in 1849.
The Colored or African Methodist Episcopal Church burying-ground was established in 1846; first burial was Nancy Richardson, who died at that time. In it are about fitty burials.
The Evangelical Association's burying-ground was first established in 1846 at their church near Safe Harbor, but at the time of the building of their new church all the bodies were removed to these grounds.
The Methodist Episcopal burying-ground was es- tablished at the time of building the church in 1856, and now contains upwards of one hundred and fifty graves.
On Benjamin flood's (now Frank Warfel's) farm near Colemanville; this ground contains about twenty burials.
On the Abraham Buckwalter (deceased) farm, near Conestoga Centre; contains about fifty burials.
The Catholic burying-ground connected with the church at Safe Harbor contains about fifty.
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On Jolin Hess' farm, on the road from Conestoga Centre to Marticville, a graveyard was established in 1841, and contains twenty graves.
On Jacob Harnish's farm, on the road from Cones- toga Centre to Lancaster, a graveyard was. established about the year 1790, and contains about fifty graves.
Conestoga Lodge, No. 334, I. O. O. F., was insti- tuted at Safe Harbor in 1848, and had a successful existence until the breaking out of the great civil war, when the greater part of its members enlisted. After the elose of the war its prospects brightened, and it is at this period in a flourishing condition. Its charter was granted by the Grand Lodge of Pennsyl- vania on the 20th day of October, A.D. 1848. The charter members were Benjamin Middleton, James II. Collins, Alexander 11. Carpenter, Adna S. Gillet, and Jacob K. Habecker.
The position of Noble Grand has been filled by Rev. George A. Tripple. Urias Warfel, William W. Bones, William W. Tripple, Samuel Crossen, L. D. Douglass, B. F. Hookey, Rev. Ephraim Potts, Sam- uel Z. Tripple, S. M. Wright, Joseph B. Wright, J. J. Watson, Thomas C. Wright, John Clark, Jacob B. Urban, and others, some of which we have been un- able to learn.
The membership at present is sixty. The meetings are held every Saturday evening in the Odd-Fellows' Ilall at Safe Harbor. The room is finely furnished, at a cost of about one thousand dollars. The build- ing is now the property of the Safe Harbor Iron Company.
Present officers : Thomas C. Wright, N. G. ; Daniel R. Shenk, V. G .; W. W. Bones, See. ; Urias Warfel, Treas.
Kishacaquillas Tribe, I. O. R. M., No. 65, was instituted at Conestoga Centre in November, 1865, and had a successful existence until the year 1877, when it dwindled almost out of existence, but has since revived, and is at present increasing rapidly in membership.
In February, 1876, the buikling in which the lodge met was burned, which entailed a loss of several hun- dred dollars upon the lodge, which was the cause of its crippled condition. In 1877 they built a frame building, twenty-six by thirty-six feet, two stories, at a cost of two thousand one hundred dollars, and at present their meeting-room is tastefully furnished, at an additional cost of eight hundred dollars.
The original number of members was fifteen. The charter members were Dr. Peter S. Clinger, Jacob Henry, Benjamin F. Hookey, John J. Watson, Jacob B. Urban, Rev. Ephraim Potts, John Clark, B. Frank Watson, Dr. J. C. Gatchell, John T. Henry, and John M. Kendig.
First officers : John J. Watson, Sachem ; John R. Witmer, S. Sag. ; B. Frank Watson, J. Sag. ; Jacob B. Urban, K. of Wamp .; Res. E. Potts, C. of Rec. ; J. M. Kendig, Prophet.
Charles M. Howell Lodge, No. 496, F. and
A. M., was instituted Aug. 17, 1871, with the follow- ing charter members: Thomas J. Davis, of No. 43; William J. Fordney, of No. 43; Charles J. Rhoads, of No. 43 ; William W. Bones, of No. 43; David Davis, of No. 190 ; George A. Taylor, of No. 43; and David F. Young, W. W. Tripple, Urias Warfel, and John J. Tripple, of No. 156. The first officers were T. J. Davis, W. M .; William J. Fordney, S. W .; C. J. Rhoads, J. W. ; W. W. Bones, Sec. ; and David Davis, Treas. The lodge had in July, 1883, forty members, but the aggregate membership has been about fifty. Its meetings are held in Odd-Fellows' Hall at Safe Harbor, which has accommodations for two hundred persons, on the Friday evening on or before full moon. The present officers are W. W. Bones, W. M .; E. T. Kauffinan, S. W .; Theodore F. Seiple, J. W .; W. W. Tripple, Sec. ; David O. Herr, Treas. ; Dr. E. B. Herr, Chaplain.
Myers' Tannery was started in operation in Oc- tober, 1812, owned by Samuel Myers, and operated by Socrates Myer-, afterwards operated by Samuel Myers & Son ( Rudolph) to 1839, then by Rudolph Myers from 1839 to 1876, and by Abraham Myers (Rudolph's son) from 1876 to the present time. He tans from eight hundred to one thousand hides, and from five hundred to six hundred calf-skins per annum. lle uses horse-power for grinding the bark.
Pequea Iron Company was first organized under the name of the Pequea Magnetic Iron Mining Com- pany, on the 23d of January, 1881, for the purpose of concentrating magnetic iron ore, being the first cor- poration attempting to concentrate magnetic ore in the United States. The first officers were John J. Zeigler, president ; William Hart Carr, secretary ; and John F. Kelly, treasurer. Present officers are Jolm J. Zeigler, president ; Samuel Wilson, secretary ; and F. F. Bernadon, treasurer, all of Philadelphia. The company owns large and extensive magnetic mines of a low grade, running from sixteen to fifty per cent., which is concentrated up to a seventy per cent. grade, making it fit for all uses of a high grade magnetic ore.
The main building is thirty-five feet by one hun- dred and fifty feet, with an L thirty-five feet by fifty feet, containing a Fontaine & Abbott engine of eighty horse power, three Foster crushers, with a capacity of one hundred and fifty tous per day of twenty- four hours, and three concentrating tables. There is connected with the mines a steam-pump capable of throwing 14,800 gallons per hour, and a reservoir with a capacity of 135,000 gallons. Mr. Charles Douglass is the superintendent.
There are at present thirty-one members in good standing. The officers are William W. Aument, Sachem; Al. Flick, S. Sag. ; William Smith, J. Sag. ; B. F. lookey, C. of Rec .; Jacob Henry, K. of W .; Philip Fralich, Prophet.
The Safe Harbor Iron-Works .- These works con- sist of a blast-furnace, foundry, and rolling-mill.
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They were built in 1846 by David Reeves, Samuel J. Reeves, Dr. Pancoast, and Charles and George Abbott, all of Philadelphia. The building of these works was brought about by the discovery of vast amounts of iron ore in the immediate vicinity. The principal product was railroad iron, great quantities of which were used by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company when the railroad came into possession of the present company. These works continued run- ning steadily from the completion of their building until 1865, when the dam across the Susquehanna River, which connected the Conestoga Canal with the Tide- Water Canal, was destroyed, thus cutting off the means of transportation. They remained inactive until the fall of 1879. The works finally came into possession of David and Samuel J. Reeves, whose heirs are the present owners. The works were all built under the supervision of Mr. John Griffen, the present general superintendent of the Phoenix Iron Company, and it was here that Mr. Griffin first made his wrought-iron cannon, many of which were used during the late civil war by the Union army.
In the fall of 1879 the mill was again put in opera- tion for the purpose of manufacturing puddle iron for the use of Phoenix Iron Company at Phoenixville, and also for working the Du Puy direct process. During the winter of 1879 and 1880 the company built a branch railroad one mile in length for the purpose of connecting their works with the Columbia and l'ort Deposit Railroad, which runs along the Susquehanna River. The blast-furnace has not been in operation since 1865.
The following gentlemen have been the superin- tendents in the order named: John Griffen, Wyatt W. Miller, Sammuel M. Wright, Isaac Reeves, and Theodore F. Patterson, the latter gentleman being there at present. The product of the mills under his management in the year 1882 was ten thousand net tons of puddled iron.
The Slackwater Paper-Mills .- These mills are owned and operated by John A. Shober, of Lancas- fer. They are located in the north end of the town- ship, on the Conestoga River, from which it re- ceives its supply of water. The mill is used for the manufacture of book and news paper from rags, under the management of the proprietor. Up to the spring of 1866 part of the buildings were used as a grist- mill, at which time it was purchased by Emanuel Shober, father of the present owner, and converted into a paper-mill; extensive extensions were made to accommodate the business, and in November of the same year the mill was put in operation. The build- ings are in the form of a hollow square, the open face toward- the public road leading from Slackwater to Millersville. The front building is three stories high. Upon entering the building we come into the finishing-room, where the paper is made ready for shipment, to the left of which are two twenty horse- power steam-boilers, used for generating the steam
used in drying the paper and cooking the rags and paper stock, heating the buildings, etc .; passing from this room we next enter the paper-making machine- rooms, which is one hundred and forty feet long by thirty feet wide, wherein is asixty-six-inch Fourdrinier paper-machine, having a capacity of five tons of paper per day of twenty-four hours, and is driven by a twenty-three-inch Leffell turbine water-wheel; turn- ing to the left, we next enter the pulping-room, which is forty by eighty feet, in which are four beating-rag engines and one Jordan pulping-engine, which are used to reduce the half-stuff into pulp preparatory to going on to the paper-machine; then turning again to the left, we enter the rag-boiling room, in which are one large rotary rag-boiler, twenty feet long and six feet in diameter, in which the rags are boiled in alkali under a pressure of sixty pounds, with a ca- pacity of boiling five tons in twenty-four hours, and also iron vats used in boiling, sizing, etc. The second floor front is used for millwright and machine-shops, rag-assorting, rag-cutting, dusting, etc. The third floor front is used for storing rags and all kinds of paper stock. Passing from the pulping-room to the right, we enter a room wherein are three washing- engines, used in washing the rags and reducing them to half stuff preparatory to using them on the pulp- ing-engines, to the right of which is another rotary boiler, twenty feet long and five feet in diameter, used in boiling stock, also several large iron tanks used for dissolving chloride of lime (bleaching salts) for the purpose of bleaching the rags and other stock used in the manufacture of paper. The second floor of this part of the building is used for storing and assorting. From this part of the building we next enter a room parallel to the face of the main building, one hundred and twenty feet long and thirty feet wide, which is intended for a machine-room, in which another sixty-six inch Fourdrinier paper-machine will be placed during the year. The whole machinery of the mill is driven by five Letfell turbine water-wheels. There are forty persons employed by Mr. Shober. The product during last year ( 1882) was four tons of paper per day, and will for this year (1883) be six tons per day. All the stock used at this mill in the manufacture of paper is gathered in Lancaster and adjoining counties.
Cigar Manufactories .-- The leading cigar manu- facturer of, Conestoga township is J. R. Yentzer, who resides in Conestoga Centre. The business was first started by Mr. Yentzer's father in 1830, and by him carried on until 1862, when J. R. began and still con- tinues. Mr. Yentzer employs an average of fifteen persons, and makes upwards of one million cigars annually, which he sells at wholesale and retail. He ships many of his cigars to nearly all of the Western and Middle States.
Maris Good began in May, 1882, with one hand, and increased during the year to live. There was manufactured at his factory during the year over two
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hundred and fifty thousand cigars. At present he is manufacturing over fifty thousand per month, and has in his employ at present (July, 1883) twelve per- sons.
Some of the Prominent Families of Conestoga. -The Miller family originally came from Zurich, Switzerland. The earliest one of the family of which we were able to learn was Jacob Miller. Ile received a patent for a tract of land in Conestoga township, containing one hundred aeres and the usual allowance, from Thomas and Richard Penn. bearing date April 1, 1748.
Jacob had a son named Abraham, to whom he willed the farm, who devised the same to his son John. John, having no sons, devised the farm to his nephew, Amos Miller. At present the farm is owned by David H., the second son of Amos.
Amos Miller was one of the school directors of the i of the oldest in the township, but is among its weal- township from 1850 to 1854. Ile died in 1864, leav- ing the following children: Henry II., married to Barbara Warfel, residing on one of the Postlethwait farms (the one upon which the children of J. Postle- thwhait are buried); David H., unmarried, residing on the old homestead; Fanny, married to John Becker, of Lancaster township; and John, unmarried. . school, and continued until 1849. In the latter year
Andrew Fehl came from Wurtemberg in September, 1749, and first settled in Manor township. He moved into Conestoga township in 1764, and purchased the property that still remains in the Fehl family. He had two sons, Jacob and Andrew. Jacob became the next owner of the farm, and after him his son Jacob, who was the father of Jacob Fehl, Esq., who was a justice of the peace for Conestoga township for over thirty years. This same property is now in pos- session of George J. Fehl, one of Jacob, Esq.'s, sons, . the year 1865. He was a delegate to the Lancaster his other sons, Samuel L. and Albert, residing elo-e by the old homestead. It was on this farm that the first Court of General Quarter Sessions was held while owned by John Postiewhait, and has now been in the Fehl family over one hundred and twenty years.
The Warfel family came originally from one of the German states. There were three brothers; two of them settled in Conestoga township, one in the north- ern and the other in the southern part.
Peter Warfel lived on the farm belonging at pres- ent to William Rice, his son, Adam, next owning the | Martie township.
same. Adam had several children, of whom John became a member of the Legislature in 1842, prior to which time he held several prominent positions in his native township. He died in 1865, leaving a | widow and five sons and three daughters. The sons and one daughter are yet living.
in 1761, and by him to Rudy Miller in 1763, and by him to Andreas Fehl in 1764, and by him to Jacob Miller in 1772, and by him devised unto his eight children, and in Orphans' Court, held at Lancaster, it was deereed that John Miller have and hold the same, etc., in 1782, and by him sold to Daniel Bren- neman in 1784, and in the same year soll by him to Henry Lighty, and by him to Daniel Sterneman in 1792. Hle has held the offices of inspector and judge of elections for three successive years.
In addition to this family, there are other Warfels in the township, prominent among whom are Chris- tian Warfel, who has been school director and audi- tor a number of years; George W., also a school director ; Henry, a very extensive tobacco-raiser and general farmer; George B., farmer; and Valentine, a retired farmer. The Warfel family is not only one thiest and most respected inhabitants.
Casper Hiller was born in Manor township in 1817, and removed to Conestoga township in 1828, since which time he has resided in the latter township. In 1837, one year after the adoption of the common- school system by the township, he began teaching he began a small nursery, growing fruit, shade, and | ornamental trees for the accommodation of those wanting them in the immediate neighborhood, and a few years after began growing fruit for profit. In the fall of 1869 he took into partnership with him his son, Peter C., and is yet engaged in the same business on a small scale in connection with a small farm of about thirty-five acres. He was elected a school di- rector in 1852, and re-elected to fill the position until
County conventions for nominations of county off- cers for many years, but since the adoption of the Crawford County system of nominating officers, has retired from politics. His children are Peter C., John, Emma, and Clara. Peter C. began teaching in 1866, and has been engaged in teaching ever since, with the exception of three years, and is at present one of the justices of the peace for the township; John, a house-carpenter, now employed at the Pequen Iron Company's mine. Both live in Conestoga Centre. Emma and Clara, both married, are residing in
Casper Hiller has been prominently connected with the State Horticultural Association of Pennsylvania and the Lancaster County Agricultural and Horti- cultural Society for many years, and has produced Fand read many valuable papers on fruit-growing and farm products before these organizations. He has also been h surveyor and conveyancer for the last forty years.
Amos is in Conestoga township. He was one of the auditors of the township for three years, and is at present serving his second term of three years Martin Kendig emigrated from Berne, Switzerland, lle had two sons, Martin and Jacob. Martin had three sons and two daughters. John, one of his sons, as a school director. Jacob, residing in Millersville. John M., now residing 'on a farm originally granted by Thomas and Richard Penn to Michael Quickel | married Fanny Witmer, and lived in Conestoga town-
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ship, keeping hotel in Conestoga Centre as early as 1804, on what was then known as the road from Lan- caster to Burkholder's Ferry. They had three sons and one daughter, -- John, Martin, Daniel, and Mar- tha. John married Elizabeth Kline, and from her had three sons and three daughters. After Elizabeth's death he married Esther Sangree, from whom he had one son and two daughters, -Benjamin S., Sarah, and Catherine. Benjamin S, became a practicing physi- eian in 1844, and continued practicing medicine until 1878. In 1863 he began purchasing and packing to- baceo, packing that year about two hundred cases, employing a capital of about five thousand dollars, and increasing the business to such an extent that in 1869 he had to build a warehouse twenty-eight by thirty-four feet, and in 1872 added to it another, twenty-eight by sixty feet, and he is at present u-ing it and three large ones in Lancaster, packing this year (1883) four thousand five hundred cases, and employing a capital of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, employing during the season from sixty to seventy hands. The doctor's father died when he was six years of age, and left him without any pecuniary assistance. All his success in life he owes to his determination in early life to succeed. His children are D. G. (associated with him in pack- ing tobacco, the name of the firm being Kendig & Son), C. Walter, William, Clara, and Esther.
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