History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, Vol. II, Part 132

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: 948


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Henry D. Kistler married, Oct. 28, 1860, Caroline Swoyer, daughter of Ephraim and Cath- erine (Schmidt) Swoyer. They celebrated their golden wedding in 1910. Issue: Emma; Ellen ;


Richard; Eugene; Annie; Katie; Carrie ; George W. ; and Sallie.


Emma married Alfred S. Wessner, of West Penn township, Schuylkill county, and had chil- dren: George and Anna; Ellen, married Albert Hartman; Eugene S., married Mame Wagner ; Annie B., is a teacher in Allentown; Katie, mar- ried Thaddeus Rex; Carrie, married Samuel Hartman; George W., is a farmer in Lynn; and Sallie, married Rev. John Schofer, of Stuarts- ville, Ohio.


RICHARD S. KISTLER, son of Henry D., was born in Lynn township, Jan. 25, 1865, and edu- cated in the local schools. He taught school for two years in the township, and in 1888 removed to Allentown, where he became clerk in A. D. Kistler's store at Ninth and Gordon streets. In 1890, he opened a grocery store at Fifth and Gordon streets, and in 1894 removed to Sixth and Liberty streets, where he has been unusually successful. He served a term as school director in the Tenth ward and assisted in the upbuilding of this section by the erection of houses on Sixth, Seventh and Law streets. He is a member of St. Luke's Lutheran church, of which he has been treasurer for 15 years, and a deacon for a like period. He is a member of Greenleaf Lodge, No. 561, F. & A. M .; Allen R. A. Chapter, No. 203 ; Allen Council, No. 23, R. & S. M .; Allen Commandery, No. 20, K. T .; Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S .; Lehigh Lodge, No. 83, I. O. O. F .; Allentown Lodge of Elks; and Allentown Castle, No. 55, K. G. E. Mr. Kistler has one daughter, Helen M., a graduate of the Allen- town high school, class of 1906; of Irving Col- lege, of Mechanicsburg, Pa .; and of Miss Hart's Training School for Kintergarten, who is at present kintergarten teacher at St. Luke's Lu- theran church.


ABRAHAM D. KISTLER, retired citizen of Al- lentown, Pa., was born in Lynn township, Dec. 19, 1848. He was reared to the pursuit of a farmer, but later was employed as a clerk at Saegersville by his uncle, Samuel J. Kistler, and served in this position for ten years. In April, 1874, he located in Allentown and engaged in the general mercantile business and was located at Ninth and Gordan streets for twenty-five years. Since 1899 he has been engaged as a builder and up to the present time has erected nearly one hundred residences in Allentown.


Mr. Kistler resides at 330 North Ninth street. He and his family are members of St. Michael's Lutheran church, which church Mr. Kistler served as an elder for many years and fills the office of trustee since 1900. He was married to Ellen Moser, daughter of William Moser, a mil-


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ler of near Steinsville, Pa. Their children are: Clara E., Robert A., of Albuquerque, N. M. He is engaged in mercantile business in that city, and in the summer of 1913, his father and sister paid him a visit.


Charles Kistler, son of Jacob, was a native of Lynn township, and conducted farming opera- tions on the old homestead for many years. He was married to Elizabeth Ettinger, who died in February, 1911. They had four children: Ida A., married to Dr. D. R. Brobst, at Reading ; Mabel J., married to Charles F. Moser; Dr. A. J. Kistler; and a girl, who died in infancy.


DR. ALVIN JACOB KISTLER, a distinguished specialist in the practice of medicine at Philadel- phia, was born in "Kistler Thal" on the old homestead in Lynn township, Lehigh county, on Feb. 21, 1876, son of Charles and grandson of Jacob. He received his early education in the local schools and became one of the first graduates of the district from the public high school. He then attended the East Stroudsburg Normal School and other preparatory schools, for the pur- pose of qualifying himself as a teacher, and upon receiving a teacher's certificate, he taught public schools at Lynnville and Stein's Corner for two terms.


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While teaching he pursued a course of reading medicine, and in the fall of 1898 entered the Jef- ferson Medical College. He pursued his studies there for four years and was graduated in 1902, and upon passing a successful examination before the Board of Examiners at Philadelphia, he lo- cated at Reading and opened an office in August of that year, and there carried on a preliminary practice for four years. For the next two years he was located at Lehighton. Then he took a post-graduate course of two years at the Polyclinic Hospital and the Jefferson Hospital for the pur- pose of qualifying himself particularly as a spe- cialist, and with this preparation he located at Philadelphia, where he has since carried on an active and successful practice in the treatment of particular diseases, his office being at 668 North Eleventh street.


In 1902 he was married to Ida L. Moser, of Lynnville, Lehigh county, daughter of William F. Moser and his wife Mary, nee Bachman. They have two children: Charles William, born in 1905; and Mark Moser, born in 1908.


Charles Kistler, son of Daniel and Catherine (Everett) Kistler, was born Feb. 5, 1857, at Weissport, Pa. He was educated in the public schools of Lehigh county, and subsequently lo- cated in Schuylkill county, where he followed various occupations until 1883, when he returned to Lehigh county, locating first in Slatington, and


subsequently in Allentown. Mr. Kistler, many years ago, became interested in mental suggestion and prayer, as remedial agencies in the treatment of the afflicted. He has devoted his services to this cause for a considerable period. He mar- ried, June 4, 1877, Miss Catherine Ann Miller. Issue: Rose Ann, deceased ; Ella Amanda; Lil- lian Irene; Howard E .; Mary Rebecca; Stella M .; and Henry E., deceased. Ella A., married to Martin M. Ritter, of Lancaster, Pa .; Lillian I., married to Irvin Snyder ; Howard E., married Ida Kunkel; and Mary R., married to Elmer Schoenly.


Conrad Kistler was born Oct. 1, 1786, died Sept. 21, 1859. He was a farmer in Lynn and his homestead is now the property of N. H. Snyder. He was a Lutheran member of the Ebenezer church, and is buried on the graveyard of that church. His children were: Abraham; Josiah ; David; Katie; Elizabeth ; Lydia, married Eli Dengler; and Sallie, who with Katie and Elizabeth, were never married.


Abraham Kistler, son of Conrad, succeeded his father to the homestead upon which is a house over 100 years old. His wife was Regina Sittler, and they had two children : Madina, married Phaon Bachman ; and Levi.


Josiah Kistler, son of Conrad, was a farmer and after his death in 1861, his widow, Caroline, with the assistance of her children, continued to conduct the farm. There was a large family, of whom five survive, viz: Charles H .; Wilson, of Allentown; Lewis H., who lives in Kansas ; Mary, married Daniel Tyson, and Henry H., also of Kansas.


Levi Kistler, son of Abraham, was a farmer in Lynn township and succeeded to the home- stead where Nathan H. Snyder now lives. The farm contained upwards of 115 acres. He was a Lutheran member of the Ebenezer church and served it officially. His wife was Violetta Wehr, daughter of David Wehr. Their children were: Elmira, married John Mosser; James W., mar- ried Ida Peter; George A. G., married Mary A. Snyder ; Oscar D., married a Mr. Oswald, now deceased; Laura, deceased; Estella, married James Peter; Howard, married Emma Leiby; Gertie, married Charles Snyder ; and Arthur.


CHARLES H. KISTLER, son of Josiah and Caro- line Kistler, was born Nov. 23, 1850, in Lynn township. His boyhood and youth were spent in assisting his father, and in acquiring an educa- tion in the public schools of that period. At the age of twenty years he learned in detail, the trade of wagon-maker, at Claussville, and subsequently entered the employ of P. A. Semmel, of Slating- ton. In 1877, he settled on a farm of 90 acres


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located along the base of the Blue mountains, in Washington township. Here he built a commodi- ous and modern wagon shop, and has followed the combined occupations of farmer and wagon-maker. Mr. Kistler has served as a member of the school board for six years. On Oct. 13, 1908, fire de- stroyed his barn, burning the entire year's crops, four horses, five cows, and a lot of poultry, which was a severe financial loss to him. The barn was rebuilt in 1909.


Charles H. Kistler married Mary C. Anthony, daughter of Stephen and Nancy (Mummey) Anthony, of Berlinsville, Pa. Issue: Howard, George, Florence, Mabel, Sallie, and William W. Kistler. Howard married Ida Cochran. No


he began farming as a tenant farmer where he now lives and continued doing so for twelve years, when he purchased the farm, containing 58 acres. It was formerly the John Oswald homestead. He is a Republican in politics and served as a registry assessor for three years, besides filling other local offices. He is a Reformed member of the Ebenezer church and since 1900 has officiated as the treasurer, taking an active interest in the welfare of the church during this time.


Mr. Kistler was married on Jan. 10, 1891, to Mary A. Snyder, daughter of Daniel and Cath- arine (Heintzelman) Snyder, and they have one child, a son, Marvin S., who is married to Edna Lauchnor and they have a son, William G.


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issue. Residence in Carbon county. George, married Laura Bittner. Issue: Earl, Arline, and Grace. Residence at Slatedale. Mabel, mar- ried Frank P. Bechtel, of Neffsville. No issue. Sallie, married Elmer Kern. Issue: Charles F. and Norine. Residence at Slatedale. William M., married Lillie Rehrig, who reside with his parents.


GEORGE A. G. KISTLER, son of Levi, is a farmer near New Tripoli, in Lynn township. He was born Sept. 27, 1868, and was reared upon the farm. He learned the carpenter trade and fol- lowed it for four years while a single man; then


DAVID J. KISTLER was born in Lynn town- ship and there carried on farming. He lived in the Kistler Valley, where he owned a farm of 117 acres ; and later he purchased a farm of 140 acres situated southwest of Wanamaker, which is now owned and operated by his son, Lloyd, and on this latter place he died. After his decease, his widow continued farming until 1890 on the former place, when their son, Henry, became the owner. He was a Republican and served as township supervisor for a time.


His wife was Maria Fetherolf, daughter of Philip, and they had seven children: Ellen, mar-


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ried to C. A. K. Grim; Rosa, married to J. B. Levan; Lloyd P .; Jennie, married (first) to Weidelich, and then to Edwin Griesemer; Cath- arine, married to Charles K. Griesemer ; Henry F .; and Dr. Chester K., medical practitioner at Reading. He and the family were members of the New Jerusalem church, of which he was an elder at the time of his death.


HENRY F. KISTLER, proprietor of the Kistler Roller Mill, potato farmer, and representative citizen at Wanamaker, was born in Lynn town- ship, Aug. 12, 1866. He received his education in the public school of the township, but he after- ward extended it a great deal by his own personal efforts whilst being reared on the farm at home, and this naturally developed him to become a broad-minded and well-read man and fitted him to carry on business enterprises successfully, which he afterward came to establish. After his father's death, he remained at home assisting his mother in the farming operations until he was of age, then he went to Reading and was employed there for six years. In 1890, he purchased his father's 117-acre farm and then carried it for himself. In 1892 he erected on the place a substantial barn, 42x90 feet, with an addition 30x30 feet, and he remained there until April, 1899, when he moved to Wanamaker, where he had purchased the Dan- iel Wanamaker homestead of 116 acres; and later he enlarged this farm by adding 36 more acres. This farm was in the Wanamaker family for four generations.


In the meantime, Mr. Kistler sold the place in the Kistler Valley, and bought the Martin Donat homestead, situated near Wanamaker, which Martin's son, Eli, then owned, the tract embrac- ing 275 acres, 175 acres of it woodland; and in 1909 he erected a modern, substantial barn, 80x80 feet, with an addition making it L-shape, costing upwards of $3,000. All of the lands owned by him are well adapted for the successful cultivation of potatoes and for some years past he has raised annually upwards of 9,000 bushels ; and this great quantity being the high mark among the many potato raisers of Lynn and the surrounding town- ships, he is frequently referred to as the "Potato King" of eastern Pennsylvania.


In 1903, Mr. Kistler purchased the Wana- maker mill property, including 36 acres of land and a large three-story building equipped with improved roller-process. This mill was built in 1860 and is probably the third erected at this stand. Being situated conveniently along the Schuylkill and Lehigh Railroad, Mr. Kistler also deals extensively in fertilizers, coal, lime, sand, cement, potatoes, grain, flour and feed, selling an- nually in the fertilizer alone upwards of one


hundred tons. Six men, besides the assistance af- forded by his own family, are employed constantly in the various departments of his large business.


Notwithstanding his busy life, Mr. Kistler is public spirited and ever ready to serve the best interests of his community, and education matters receiving his earnest encouragement, he was elected in 1905 as a director of the township school board and since then has filled this position.


Mr. Kistler was married February 7, 1889, to Missouri I. Donat, daughter of David and Han- nah (Leaser) Donat, and they have the following children : Hannah M .; Ida J .; Howard D .; H. Wellington; Hattie M., who died in infancy ; Mary M .; Carrie I .; Beulah E .; Helen E .; Ralph F .; and Edna C. He and the family are members of the Lutheran congregation of the Jacob's church at Jacksonville, and he has offici- ated as a deacon, elder and trustee.


JONAS J. KISTLER, son of Jacob S., lived in the Kistler Valley, where his son, Samuel J., now re- sides, and there he carried on farming. In 1861 he built the eastern part of the stone house on the place. He was buried at the New Jerusalem church, of which he was a member connected with the Lutheran congregation and he filled the church offices. He also served as a school direc- tor of the township.


His wife was Lovina Brobst, daughter of Jacob Brobst, and they had the following children : Polly, Owen J., Isaac, Matilda, Jonas, Lydia, Samuel J., Elvin, and Louisa.


SAMUEL J. KISTLER, son of Jonas J., and farmer on the homestead in the Kistler Valley, was born there Nov. 26, 1861, educated in the local schools and farmed all his life. He obtained title to the place in 1907, having been his father's from 1857 until that time. Before 1857 it was owned by Jacob Brobst.


In 1909 he built the large barn on the place, 40x90 feet, and an addition, L-shaped, 26x28 feet, for a straw shed.


Mr. Kistler is a Republican and served as a supervisor of the township for six years. He is a member of the Lutheran congregation at the New Jerusalem church, having filled the offices of deacon and elder. He was married, Oct. 2, 1886, to Louisa Krause, daughter of Phaon and Mary (Smith) Krause, and they had eleven chil- dren: George, married Kate Correll ; Frederick, Robert, Addie, Joseph, Phaon, Mary, Henry, William, Morris, and Stella.


Owen J. Kistler, son of Jonas J. Kistler and his wife, Lovina, nee Brobst. He married Hen- rietta Steigerwalt. They had these children :


George J., who died in infancy.


Calvin J., who was married to Margaret


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Mooney and has these children : Henrietta, Jason, Theodore, and David. They reside at Weatherly, Carbon county.


Mary E., who married Julius Oliver and has these children: Ester, Russell, Calvin, John, and Ira.


Kate H., who married Erasmus Druckenmiller and has these children: Clark, Reid and Allen.


Lizzie L., a teacher at Weatherly.


Barbara L., a bookkeeper at Mahanoy City.


Gertrude L., a nurse.


Unia A., of Weatherly.


Bertha I., a teacher ; and


Wilbur J., residing near Buck mountain.


Charles J. Kistler, son of Jacob and Catharine Kistler, was a clerk in a store in Albany town- ship in "Dem Eck." During the Civil War he drove a mail coach to Hamburg and the remainder of his active life he was a farmer in the Kistler Valley. His homestead is now owned and occu- pied by his son, Anson C.


He married Mary A., a daughter of Solomon Donat. They had two children : Anson C., and Edwin J.


WILSON P. KISTLER, M.D.


F. Hall at Steinsville, he read medicine with Dr. Shade, of that place. In 1863 he enlisted in Company E; 149th Regiment, P. V., Col. Nagle, of Schuylkill county, commanding, a body assigned to the Army of the Potomac. . During a considerable part of his service he served as clerk to Brig. Gen. H. H. Lockwood. While in the army he sustained an injury to his eyes, resulting eventually in the loss of sight in one of them.


Honorably discharged from the army in 1864, he entered Bellevue Medical College, New York, graduating from it in 1867. His first location as practicing physician was at Germansville. After three years failing sight induced him to enter, as a patient of Dr. Noyes, the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. On recovery he re- sumed practice, settling at Schnecksville. After a residence there of twelve years he removed to Allentown, locating at 313 North Seventh street, where he maintained an office until his death, Jan. 8, 1912.


Dr. Wilson P. Kistler was eminent in his pro- fession, noted not only among the laity, but also among his colleagues for his attainments, medical and surgical knowledge and skill, and for his good judgment and unusual energy. His prac- tice was, consequently, most extensive. He was an expert obstetrician and a famed specialist on disorders of the skin. With his son, Dr. Eugene M. Kistler (q. v.) he established the first pri- vate hospital in Allentown, in which, by the two physicians, many surgical operations were skill- fully performed. His many duties left him little leisure for literary work, yet a volume from his pen, "Practical Medical and Surgical Family Guide in Emergencies," is a vade mecum highly prized in numerous Lehigh county households.


Dr. Wilson P. Kistler, eminent physician of Allentown, lately deceased (Jan. 8, 1912), was a son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Peter) Kistler. He was born in Kistler's Valley, Lynn township, Oct. 12, 1843. He came of a notable ancestry, being a descendant of John George Kistler, the pioneer, through Samuel, born 1754; John S., born 1783, father of Benjamin. The latter, re- maining on the old homestead, became a manu- facturer of fine beaver hats. His son, Benjamin, father of the subject of our sketch, moved to West Penn township, Schuylkill county, where His interests were not confined to his pro- fession. He was an active business man. He made successful ventures in real estate. Over one hundred dwellings in Allentown and vicinity were erected by him. He was also an enthusias- tic agriculturist, acquiring a number of farms on which he had flourishing peach and apple or- chards. It was as a medical man, however, that he deserves best to be remembered. He was noted as a preceptor, a trainer of young doctors. As preceptor he instructed more young men than did any other physician in Eastern Pennsylvania, and many physicians to-day have achieved success in their life work attribute the beginning of that success to the splendid training they received in the office of this master of medicine. he was the proprietor of a leading hotel, and he became one of the prominent men of that sec- tion. He finally removed to Allentown after the birth of Wilson, where he subsequently lived and where the young Wilson attended the local schools and then learned the trade of harness- making from his father. The boy, ambitious for greater things, became, at the early age of fif- teen, a school teacher at Kepnersville, Schuylkill county. A year later he was a pupil in Schnecks- ville Academy and thence went to the Bucks County Normal and Classical Institute, of which Rev. Dr. A. R. Horne was principal. After further preparation in the Allentown Seminary and the Allentown Academy, he became instruc- tor in Dr. Harris' Institute. Later, he again He was one of the founders of the Kistler Family Association, taking unusual pride in the history of his family and of his native township taught in Schuylkill county and also at Lynn- ville, Mechanicsville, and New Tripoli. Then, while conducting a select school in the I. O. O. of Lynn. He was a member of E. B. Young


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Post, G. A. R., the Red Men, Knights of the Golden Eagle, American Mechanics, Knights of the Mystic Chain, and Daughters of Liberty. He was a Lutheran member of St. Michael's Church. In 1865 he married Jane A. Clauss, of Pleasant Corner. With her he had three children, two daughters preceding him in death. and one surviving son, Dr. Eugene M. Kistler. Dr. W. P. Kistler's death, which occurred at his residence, 1517 Turner street, was due to pneumonia.


EUGENE M. KISTLER, M.D.


Dr. Eugene M. Kistler, physician and sur -. geon, of Allentown, the only son of the late emi- nent specialist, Dr. Wilson P. Kistler, was born at Schnecksville, Lehigh county, April 12, 1873. He attended the academy there until, at the age of ten, he accompanied his parents to their new home in Allentown, where he attended the pub- lic schools until his graduation from the high school in 1890. Determining to follow in his father's footsteps, he first studied under his fa- ther, assisting him in his extensive practice, and later took a course in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, attending Bellevue Hospital, New York City, three terms, and graduating with honors in 1893.


His formal entry upon practice of his profes- sion was appointment, after a successful exam- ination, to a position on the staff of Bellevue Hospital (Fourth Division). Then, after an- other competitive examination, out of which he emerged first among fifty-two applicants, he be- came house surgeon of St. Vincent Hospital, New York City (one of the largest hospitals of the metropolis), and served in this position success- fully and to the utmost satisfaction of his su- periors, all noted doctors, Prof. Joseph D. Bry- ant, Prof. Stephen Smith, Prof. J. W. S. Gouley, Prof. Charles Philips, Prof. Frederick S. Dennis, and others. After graduation from Bellevue Hospital, he took a course in obstetrics in the Broome Street Lying-in Hospital, under such in- structors as J. Clifton Edgar, Dr. W. J. Markoe, Dr. D. F. W. Markoe, Edw. W. Lambert, Paul W. Lambert, William T. Lusk, W. M. Polk, H. M. M. Painter, and Antrim Flint, Jr. This course he followed with service in the Hackensack Hospital, under the eminent physician, Dr. David St. John. For nine months he served as a member of the house staff in the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital. While he was serving here, information of the illness of his father led him to relinquish his plans for further service in metropolitan hospitals, and to decline a proferred and attractive association with one of the foremost surgeons of the country, Dr.


David Webster, of New York City. Immediate- ly he returned to Allentown to relieve his father by taking from his shoulders a part of the lat- ter's large and burdensome practice. Under fa- ther and son this practice continued to increase covering the eastern section of the state, requir- ing the use, first, of nine horses, and later, of three automobiles. To this practice the son suc- ceeded on the death of the father. Success has attended the younger physician's efforts to the ex- tent that he has been compelled to associate with himself an assistant, Dr. Leroy S. Howard.


Following the example of his father, Dr. Eu- gene M. Kistler has taken an active interest in social organizations, affiliating himself with the Sons of Veterans, the Independent Order of Americans, the Knights of Friendship, Jordan Lodge, No. 673, F. & A. M., Allen R. A. Chap- ter, No. 203, Allen Commandery, No. 20, K. T., and B. P. O. E., No. 130. He is very fond of athletics and gymnastics and has been an enthu- siast in college sports. He is a member of the Lehigh Country Club, and is active in the Allen- . town Young Men's Christian Association.


On Feb. 25, 1901, he was united in marriage with Miss Lina S. Neuweiler, daughter of Louis Neuweiler, of Allentown.


As a result of native ability and the exhaustive and extended preparation previously referred to, the surgical work of Dr. Kistler has been extraor- dinarily successful. In operations for appen- dicitis he has reputation for remarkable skill, justified by the fact that till now every operation has resulted favorably. He is also a specialist in affections of the eye, ear, nose, and throat. The equipment of his office is unexcelled through- out the entire Lehigh Valley, and his laboratory is one of the finest possible.




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