History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, Vol. I, Part 41

Author: Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer, 1878- joint comp; Krick, Thomas H., 1868- joint comp; Dietrich, William Joseph, 1875- joint comp; Lehigh County Historical Society
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1158

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2 This was what is now the Hotel Allen, then a two-story stone structure, about and above which the present large hotel has slowly grown.

were to be opened, the Judges of the said Courts appeared at the house of George Savitz, in the Borough of Northampton, that being the House designated by law for holding the Courts, when the Honorable Robert Porter, Esquire, produced a Commission under the great Seal of the State, appointing him President Judge of the said Courts.

"Peter Rhoads, Esquire, produced a commis- - sion under the great seal of the State dated the 13th of October A. D. 1812, appointing him Senior Associate Judge of the said Courts, and Jonas Hartzell, Esquire, produced a Commis- sion under the great seal of the State, dated the 13th of October, A. D. 1812, appointing him an Associate Judge of the said Courts."

"John Mulhallon produced a commission from the State appointing him Prothonotary of Court of Common Pleas, Clerk of Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Term Delivery, Clerk of Court of Quarter Sessions and Orphans' Court, bearing date July 23d, A. D. 1812."

The grand inquest was composed as follows : George Rhoads, Esq., Allentown.

Daniel Saeger, Esq., Lynn.

Frederick Jordan, Esq., Saucon.

Daniel Cooper, Esq., Saucon. John Schuler, Esq., Upper Milford.

Peter Moyer, Sr., farmer, South Whitehall. Adam Dorney, farmer, South Whitehall.

George Ebenreiter, farmer, Hanover.

Solomon Graff, distiller, North Whitehall.

Christian Smith, farmer, Heidelberg.

Andrew Strassburger, tanner, Upper Mil- ford.

David Biery, farmer, South Whitehall.

John Keck, farmer, Heidelberg.

John Baer, hatter, Upper Milford.

Joseph Kidd, farmer, Hanover.

Godfrey Roth, farmer, Heidelberg. Abraham Gruenewalt, miller, Weissenberg. John Engleman, farmer, Upper Milford. Jacob Grim, farmer, Macungie. George Smoll, farmer, North Whitehall.

George Eisenhard, surveyor, Macungie. Joseph Larosh, farmer, Heidelberg.

John Keiper, tobacconist, Allentown. Christian Smith, farmer, Lowhill.

The first business of court was the admis- sion of attorneys. In the first thirteen cases that were called confessions of judgment were entered. There were altogether nineteen civil causes for trial. Eight cases were made return- able at the February term, 1813. Three petitions for roads were received, and one praying for the appointment of a commissioner to examine a person of alleged unsound mind. Three persons

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made declaration of their intention to become cit- izens.

On Nov. 30, 1813, court was opened at the house of George Savitz, but adjourned to meet in the upper story of the prison building ( which was completed a short time before, and stood on lot No. 122, at the southeast corner of Margaret and Andrew Streets,-Fifth and Linden.

The court record reads: "At half past ten o'- clock A. M., the Court met at the house of George Savitz, and adjourned from thence to meet in the room in the upper story of the county prison prepared by the Commissioners for hold- ing the Courts of the County of Lehigh until the court house be erected."

The courts were held at this place until the summer of 1817, when the court-house was fin- ished, since which time they have been held in that building (hereafter to be described), down to the present, with the exception of two terms in 1864, when the court-house was being re- modeled.

The first record of the Orphans' Court of Lehigh County is dated Dec. 7, 1812, at which time a term of court was held by the associate justices, the Hon. Peter Rhoads and the Hon. Jonas Hartzel. But one case was brought before them,-the appointment of a guardian of a min- or child.

The records in the register's office show that wills were recorded from the 13th day of Septem- ber, 1812. Those of the following persons were recorded in that year: Daniel Schmeier, of Ma- cungie township, dated July 28, 1812; John Newcomer, of Upper Saucon township, dated August 22, 1805; Matthias Brobst, of Lyon township, dated August 12, 1811; Christiana Wiederstein, of Macungie township, dated June II, 1812, and Barbara Jenser, of Weissenberg, township dated October 3, 1812.

Letters of administration were granted in 1812 upon the estates of Nicholas Stahler and Daniel Smith, of Upper Milford township, Christian Stump, of Salisbury township, Adam Reber, of Hanover township, Andrew Schnable, Adam Wetzel and Regina Rice.

Among the first persons who declared their in- tentions to become citizens were, Charles Moore, on May 1, 1816, born in 1785, in County Done- gal, Ireland; Gideon Ibach and Gustavus Ibach, on Sept. 7, 1816, born in 1785 and 1791, re- spectively, in the Dukedom of Berg, Westphalia, who emigrated to America in 1796; Henry Det- weiler, born in Langenbrick, Canton Basel, Switzerland, Dec. 18, 1795, who left there April 2, 1817, and arrived at Philadelphia July 20, 1817, and Daniel Zacharias, born in Witgen- stein, Darmstadt, April 22, 1783, who left there

May 22, 1805, and arrived at Philadelphia Nov. 28, 1805, of which the two latter declared their intentions on May 6, 1818. Henry Heimer, a native of East Friesland, was naturalized Dec. 7, 1815.

Licenses were granted as follows: May, 1813, George Rhoads, Casper Kleckner, Eve Gross, Abraham Rinker and John F. Ruhe, Northamp- ton; Michael Sieger and John More, North Whitehall; Henry Guth and Abraham Griese- mer, South Whitehall; Philip Giess, Salisbury, and George Wagner, Upper Milford. August, 1813, Christian Draxel and Peter Rumbel, North Whitehall; Jacob Hartman, Peter Dorney and George Wagner, South Whitehall; Martin Rit- ter, Rudolph Smith and George Giess, Salisbury ; John Syder, Upper Saucon; George Savitz, John Miller and Abraham Gangewere, Northampton and George Grim, Weisenberg. November, 1813, Jacob Steckel and Daniel Siegfried, North Whitehall and John Billig and Joseph Levan, South Whitehall.

January, 1814, Peter Butz, South Whitehall. August, 1814, Abraham Diehl, North White- hall.

Early Financial Affairs of the County .- At the time of the formation of the county, William Tilghman, one of the proprietors of Northamp- ton (Allentown), pledged himself to pay one thousand dollars annually for three successive years into the treasury of the county. He made the first payment Nov. 28, 1812, and it served an important part in meeting the expenses which the commissioners were obliged to incur. The total expenses of the county up to Jan. 1, 1813, were three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eighty-two cents, leaving six hundred and thirty- one dollars and eighteen cents in the treasury. The expenditures were as follows:

G. Stahler, for election expenses at Millerstown ... $34.80 J. Mummy, for election expenses at Grim's District. 37.20 'A. Shifferstein, for election expenses at Saeger's District 44.20

F. B. Shaw, for election expenses at Allentown Dis- trict 49.50

G. Kramer, commissioner on seat of justice 50.00

George Savitz, rent of rooms for court 50.00 Commissioner's salary, November 20 to January I 55.91

Quarry stone for prison 67.21

$368.82

The county accounts were audited by John Wagner, Frederick Hyneman, and George S. Eisenhard.

In 1813 the receipts of the county from all sources were $15,448.30. Of this sum, $1,- 558.66 represented the balance at the previous settlement, and the amount paid in by Judge Tilghman on his promised donation. The sum of $13,254.56 was collected in taxes out of $16,- 772.60 assessed on the inhabitants and estates, and $3.90 was paid in by Peter Hauck as sher-

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iff's fees. At the close of the year there was a balance in the county treasury of $6,693.80. The auditors were John Weiss, John Spangenberg, and George S. Eisenhard.

In 1814 the total receipts were $18,325.91, and in 1815, $15,050.89. The auditors in those years were William Eckert, Henry Haas, and Henry Mohr.

In 1816 the total receipts were $17,214.05. This year, for the first time, bank loans were made for county purposes, the first being. one of $2,176.53 from the Easton Bank.

COURT HOUSE AND JAIL.

As we have heretofore related, the first courts were held in George Savitz's hotel, a small build- ing, which was the nucleus of the Hotel Allen, and the succeeding ones for several years in the jail or county prison building. The first action in ref- erence to the erection of the court-house of which any record has been preserved was the insertion in the German newspapers of Allentown of an ad- vertisement, bearing date of Jan. 7, 1814, calling for proposals for furnishing stone, lumber, shin- gles, and other material for the erection of the proposed building. The commissioners whose names were affixed to this card were William Fenstermacher, Philip Kleckner, and John Yeakel. In addition to the funds provided by taxation, a number of the inhabitants of Allen- town had subscribed various sums for assisting in the work of erecting the public buildings. The treasurer's account for 1815 shows that three hundred dollars was received from William Tilghman for James Greenleaf for that purpose, and also a balance of money subscribed by the proprietors of the borough amounting to $141.34.

John Yeakel having visited Lycoming county and secured a plan of the court-house there, it was made the basis of design for the Lehigh county building. Work was immediately begun on the court-house, and it appears that during the year 1814 the money expended amounted to $6,911.98. During the next year the aggregate of the itemized account was $8,989.85, and in 1816 it was $1,852.68, thus making, with the cost of the bell, $775.80, incurred in 1817, a total of $18,530.31. Other improvements were made about the building and grounds which, as is shown by the commissioners' account for April, 1819, increased the grand total to $24,937.08. Court was held in the new building for the first time in August, 1817.

The court-house remained in its original con- dition, with occasional repairs, until 1864. At the November term of court in the preceding year the grand jury reported the "court-room

entirely too small and inconvenient for the ad- ministration of justice, and are of opinion that by building an addition of about thirty feet to the north side thereof in proportion with the old building would make the court-room large enough, and would therefore recommend that the commissioners of the county would enlarge said court-room by making said addition to the same as aforesaid, the cost of which not to exceed the sum of three thousand dollars; or in case the cost of said attachment should exceed said sum of three thousand dollars, that such excess will be made up by private subscription.

"Approved Nov. 6, 1863. "REUBEN STAHLER, "Foreman."

Publication of the above recommendation was made in the newspapers, and no exception being taken, the report of the grand jury was approved by the court Jan. 14, 1864, and the commission- ers were advised to immediately commence im- provements. Accordingly, they advertised for proposals for furnishing stone with which to build. On the last of February, E. Culver, architect, of Williamsport, met the commissioners, and pre- sented drafts and specifications, which were ac- cepted, and on the same date an agreement was entered into with Henry Smith for the mason- work. Work was commenced April 17th, and prosecuted as expeditiously as was consistent with thoroughness. On the 10th of November the court was held in the enlarged room, which, however, was not finished, and the trial of Wil- liam Keck for murder was conducted at that term.

The cost of the enlargement and improvement of the building, and the proper furnishing of the court-room and offices, which alone was four thousand dollars, amounted to $57,235.86. In 1914 work was begun on an addition to the court-house, to be erected at a cost of $199,000, which will give the public much-needed room.

The erection of the first jail antedated by near- ly four years the building of the court-house. Active work was commenced upon it in the spring of 1813, and by fall had progressed so far that the commissioners ordered the upper room to be prepared for occupation by the courts, which was done, so that the November term of Quarter Sessions was held there. The room was used for this purpose until the completion of the court- house, in 1817. This building, which cost only a little over eight thousand four hundred and twenty dollars, was used as a jail until the present elaborate and imposing structure was in readi- ness, in 1869.

The first action was taken in reference to the

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new jail in 1865, the grand jury at the September term of court reporting :

"That in accordance with the suggestions of the court they have examined the county prison, and are unanimously of the opinion that the true in- terest of the county, and the duty of those who rep- resent the people of the county, requires that a new jail should be erected as soon as consistent with our financial condition. We therefore recommend and direct the county commissioners to commence the erection of a county prison some time in the year 1867, having a due regard to the wants of the county and the interests of the people.

"By order of the Grand Inquest. "LEVI LINE, Foreman."

The grand inquest at the October term, the same year (1865), reported, "That in accordance with suggestions of the court they have visited and examined the jail of said county, and find the same, in their opinion, quite inadequate to answer the purpose for which it is designed, it being too small and too badly arranged, and also too insecurely built to accommodate and keep safe the number of prisoners generally confined therein, and having examined a report on the same subject made by the grand inquest at the last preceding session, and having duly consid- ered the premises, we beg leave to state that we fully concur therewith, and recommend the building of a new jail under the conditions set forth in said report."

After the publication of the recommendations given above and no exceptions being taken, the court approved of the report of the grand jury, and recommended the commissioners to proceed to the selection of a site and the erection of a new jail. On the 14th of March, 1866, the present site, two hundred and thirty feet on Fourth Street and four hundred and twenty feet on Linden, bounded by the streets named and Court and Penn streets, was purchased of Christian Pretz and others for ten thousand dollars.

At a meeting of the commissioners, held Dec. 3, 1866, it was resolved that the commissioners, the clerk, and Mr. G. A. Aschbach visit Schuyl- kill and other counties to examine their prisons. On the 10th of December they reported that they had visited the prisons of Schuylkill and Berks counties, and Mr. Aschbach was instructed to draw plans embodying the most desirable features in the structures they had seen.

On the 3d of April, 1867, it was resolved that a jail or penitentiary should be erected on the ground already purchased, "in accordance with the plans of Messrs. Aschbach and Nauman, who are appointed architects and engineers, and which plans have been approved by the secretary of the commonwealth."

Work was then immediately commenced. No

contracts were made, but all of the labor was performed by the day, that upon the wood-work being under the superintendency of Stephen Dorn- blazer and James Focht. The stone used in the building, with the exception of that in the front, was from the quarry of Nathan Benner, in Salis- bury township.

On April 16, 1868, the commissioners resolved to sell the old jail lot at public sale on June 6th following, possession to be given on April I, 1869, or as soon thereafter as the new jail was ready for occupancy. Early in April, 1869, the new jail having approached completion, a bill was passed by the Legislature authorizing the trans- fer of prisoners to it from the old one. The transfer was made April 14, 1869.

The building was not entirely finished until 1870. The last report of Mr. Aschbach, bear- ing date of Dec. 12th in that year, contained a statement of the amounts expended upon the work each year, as follows: 1867, $68,653.78; 1868, $63,627.42 ; 1869, $38,963.62; 1870, $9,- 800.89; 1871, $8,349. If to the aggregate of these amounts the sum of $10,000 expended in 1866 for the lots and $9,094.25 in 1869 for a heavy iron fence be added, it will be seen that the total cost of the prison was $200,222.95.

The jail is a model one in all respects. It is a massive and substantial-appearing structure in the Tudor style of architecture, and the sombre brown or dark-red sandstone of its front gives, in combination with its outlines, an impression of gloomy grandeur. A square tower rises from the centre of the front to a height of one hundred feet. It is embattled at the top with heavy em- brasures. The building is two stories in height, and the long structure extending back from the front, in which is the prison-keeper's residence, gives the building the form of a letter T. The length of the side walls is one hundred and sev- enty-eight feet, and they are built of the Lehigh mountain stone.

The original building contains forty cells, be- sides seven large rooms used for working pur- poses, storage, etc., the warden's and clerk's of- fices and the living rooms of the warden. On March 17, 1908, work was begun on an addition to the jail by the Van Dorn Iron Company, to whom the contract for the entire work, includ- ing the cement block building and steel cells, was awarded at $148,000. The addition con- tains ninety steel cells, in three tiers. In the base- ment are the boilers and the laundry and on the first floor, used as a workshop, are fourteen large rooms and the kitchen. An "L" to the building contains sixteen rooms or cells used for female prisoners. The addition was completed July 1, 1909.

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Sheriff Miller had charge of the prisoners from April 14, 1869 to April 1, 1870, when the first warden was elected. The wardens and the dates of their incumbency are as follows:

Thomas Jacoby, from April 1, 1870, to April 1, 1876. David Schaadt, from April 1, 1876, to April I, 1879. J. H. Lichtenwalner, from April 1, 1879, to April I, 1882.

John Jacoby, from April I, 1882, to April 1, 1885. W. R. Henninger, from April 1, 1885, to April I, I890.

Daniel Wisser, from April 1, 1890, to April 1, 1892. Daniel H. Creitz, from April 1, 1892, to April 1, 1893.

Edwin Osenbach, from April 1, 1893, to April I, I894.

Tilghman J. Deshler, from April 1, 1894, to April I, 1897.

Tilghman D. Frey, from April 1, 1897, to April I, I903.

Harvey J. Wieand, from April 1, 1903, to the pres- ent time.

The deputy warden is J. A. Anderson; fore- man, Dept. of Labor, J. H. Bossard; under- keeper, C. F. Allender ; night watchman, Edgar Guikinger, and clerk, Elmer E. Edinger. The Board of Prison Inspectors consists of James L. Foote, President; Geo. T. Ettinger, Secretary ; W. H. Biery, F. G. Werley, and S. K. Fetter- man. The cost of maintaining prisoners for 1913 was $11, 192.4I, for 1,260 inmates.

FEDERAL AND STATE OFFICIALS.

List of Civil Officials of Lehigh County and Representatives in National and State Legis- lative Bodies.

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. Elected.

Daniel Hiester, Ist, 2nd and 3rd Congresses, 1789-1795. [ 1788 Represented Northampton, Berks and Luzerne < 1790 Countics. L 1792

Samuel Sitgreaves, 4th and 5th Congresses, 1795-1799. Represented Northampton, Bucks and Montgom- S 1794

ery Counties. 11796

John Richards, 4th Congress, 1795-1797. 1794

Election contested by James Morris.

1798

1800

1802

Gen. Robert Brown, 6th to 13th Congresses, 1799-1815.

1804

Declined re-election in 1814. 1806

1808

11810

[1812

Peter Muhlenberg, 7th Congress, 1801-1803. 1800

Represented Northampton, Bucks, Montgomery and Wayne Counties.

1801

Isaac Van Horne, 7th and 8th Congresses, 1801-1805. Elected October, 1801, to succeed Muhlenberg, who resigned. From 1804 to 1812 the counties of Northampton, Bucks, Montgom- ery, Wayne and Luzerne elected three members.

John Pugh, 9th and 10th Congresses, 1805-1809. 5 1804 2 1806

Frederick Conrad, 9th Congress, 1805-1807. 1804

William Milnor, rothi and IIth Congresses, 1807-1811. $ 1806

2 1808 John Ross, 11th Congress, 1809-1811. 1808

Jonathan Roberts, 12th Congress, 1811-1813.

1810

William Rodman, 12th Congress, 1811-1813. 1810

In 1812 Bucks, Northampton, Wayne and Le- high counties elected two members.

Samuel D. Ingham, 13th, 14th and 15th Congresses, 1813-1818.

John Ross, 14th and 15th Congresses, 1815-1818. $1814 2 1816 Thomas J. Rogers, 15th, 16th and 17th Congresses, 1818-1823.

S 1818 ¿1820

Special election, March 3, 1818, Rogers elected to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of John Ross. appointed President Judge of the Seventh Judicial district.

Dr. Samuel Moore, 15th, 16th and 17th Congresses, 1818-1822. 1818

Special election, Oct. 13, 1818. Samuel D. Ing- ham resigned and Moore elected. L1820 Samuel D. Ingham, 17th Congress, 1822-1823. 1822

Elected to fill vacancy, Samuel Moore resigned.

SEVENTH DISTRICT, LEHIGH, SCHUYLKILL AND BERKS

COUNTIES.

Henry Wilson, 18th and 19th Congresses, 1823-1826. [ 1822

Died in office, August 14, 1826. 2 1824

Daniel Udree, 18th Congress, 1823-1825. 1822

William Addams, 19th and 20th Congresses, 1825- 1829.

S1824 21826

John Krebs, 19th and 20th Congresses, 1826-1827. Elected to fill vacancy caused by Wilson's death. Joseph Frey, Jr., 20th and 21st Congresses, 1827- 1831.

Henry A. Mulilenberg, 21st and 22nd Congresses, 1829-1833.

S 1826 2 1828 1828 2 1830 $1830 7 1832

Henry King, 22nd and 23rd Congresses, 1831-1835. Edward B. Hubley, 24th and 25th Congresses, 1835- 1839.

1834 7 1836 1838

Michael H. Jenks, 28th Congress, 1843-1845. 1842

SIXTH DISTRICT, BUCKS AND LEHIGH COUNTIES.

Jacob Erdman, 29th Congress, 1845-1847. 1844

John W. Hornbeck, 30th Congress, 1847-1849. 1846

Samuel A. Bridges, 30th Congress, 1848-1849. 1848

Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of John W. Hornbeck.

Thomas Ross, 31st and 32nd Congresses, 1849-1853. £ 1848

Samuel A. Bridges, 33rd Congress, 1853-1855. 1852

Samuel C. Bradshaw, 34th Congress, 1855-1857. 1854

Henry Chapman, 35th Congress, 1857-1859. 1856

Henry C. Longnecker, 36th Congress, 1859-1861. 1858

Thomas B. Cooper, 37th Congress, 1861-1863. 1860

SIXTH DISTRICT, MONTGOMERY AND LEHIGH COUNTIES.

John D. Stiles, 37th and 38th Congresses, 1862-1865. 1862 Elected to fill unexpired term of Thos. B. Cooper, deceased.

Benjamin M. Boyer, 39th and 40th Congresses, 1865- S 1864

1869. 2 1866

John D. Stiles, 4Ist Congress, 1869-1871. 1868

Ephraim L. Acker, 42nd Congress, 1871-1873. 1870

James S. Biery, 43rd Congress, 1873-1875. 1872

TENTH DISTRICT, LEHIGH, NORTHAMPTON AND PART OF

BUCKS COUNTIES.

William Mutchler, 44th Congress, 1875-1877. 1874

Samuel A. Bridges, 45th Congress, 1877-1879. 1876

Reuben K. Bachman, 46th Congress, 1879-1881. 1878

SI880

William H. Sowden, 49th and 50th Congresses, 1885- 1889.

5 1884

2 1886

NINTH DISTRICT, BERKS AND LEHIGH COUNTIES.

David B. Brunner, 51st and 52nd Congresses, 1889- S 1888

2 1890

Constantine J. Erdman, 53rd and 54th Congresses, S 1892

1893-1897. 1894

SI896

Daniel Ermentrout, 55th and 56th Congresses, 1897- 1901.

₹ 1898

Henry D. Green, 56th and 57th Congresses, 1899- 1.903. Elected Nov. 7, 1899, vice Daniel Ermen- trout, deceased.

S 1899

Marcus C. L. Kline, 58th and 59th Congresses, 1903- 1907.

S 1902 1 1904

John H. Rothermel, 60th, 61st, 62nd and 63rd Con- gresses, 1907-1915.

1906 1908 IQIO 1912

1826

Peter Newhard, 26th and 27th Congresses, 1839- 1843.

21840

[1812 3 1814 11816

2 1900

1893.

William Mutchler, 47th and 48th Congresses, 1881- 1885. 21882

2 1850

ORGANIZATION OF LEHIGH COUNTY IN 1812.

STATE SENATORS.

Elected

James Wilson, ... Oct., 1809 (Represented Northamp- ton County)

Henry Jarrett, .... Oct., 1813

Joseph Frey, Jr., Oct., 1817

Joseph Frey, Jr., Oct., 1821

Henry King, .... Oct., 1825

Henry King, .. . Oct., 1829 ninger,

Walter C. Living-

ston, . . Oct., 1831 ninger, . . Nov., 1885

Peter Newhard, .. Oct., 1833

Peter Newhard, .. Oct., 1837

John S. Gibbons,. . Oct., 1840

John S. Gibbons, .. Oct., 1842

Jacob D. Boas, .... Oct., 1846

Conrad Shimer, .. Oct., 1849

William Fry, .... Oct., 1852

Arthur G. Dewalt, Nov., 1902

Arthur G. Dewalt, Nov., 1906

Joseph Laubach, . . Oct., 1855 Jeremiah Schindel, Oct., 1858

George W. Stein, .. Oct., 1861

MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Philip Sellers, . ... Oct., 1812 Elected

Benjamin Fogel, .Oct., 1840 Jacob Stein, ..... Oct., 1812 Peter Haas, .. Oct., 1840 Abraham Rinker,

Sr., Oct., 1813

Jacob Stein, . Oct., 1813 Abraham Rinker, Sr., . Oct., 1814

Philip Wint, ...... Oct., 1814

Abraham Rinker,

Sr .. . Oct., 1815

Philip Wint, ..... Oct., 1815

Joseph Frey, Jr., Oct., 1816

Ilenry Mertz, Jr., Oct., 1816

Peter Newhard, ... Oct., 1817 William Fenster-

macher, . ... . Oct., 1817 Peter Newhard, . . Oct., 1818 William Fenster-

macher, Oct., 1818 Peter Newhard, .. Oct., 1819 William Fenster-

macher, Oct., 1819 John J. Krause, .. Oct., 1820 William Fenster-

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History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, Vol. I, Part 41

Author: Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer, 1878- joint comp; Krick, Thomas H., 1868- joint comp; Dietrich, William Joseph, 1875- joint comp; Lehigh County Historical Society Publication date: 1914 Publisher: Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 1158

Author: Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer, 1878- joint comp; Krick, Thomas H., 1868- joint comp; Dietrich, William Joseph, 1875- joint comp; Lehigh County Historical Society
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1158