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In addition to his practice, Dr. Klotz entered the real estate field, becoming one of the pro- moters of Dixon Park, at Rittersville, and per- sonally sold those lots, which are now practically ·all built upon. . Later he purchased a number of other tracts, which he divided into lots which he readily sold. Through purchase he procured the Frank Texter : farm, consisting of fifty-two acres, adjoining the Manhattan Hotel. This property he divided into lots, attended in per- son 'to the grading of the streets, and gave lots free to people who agreed to build upon them. Upon this farm was situated an old barn, which .Dr. Klotz transferred to the firm of Klotz & Bregenzer, silk ribbon manufacturers, also six lots were made out in their name. This firm, of which Dr. Klotz is the senior member, com- menced business with two looms, which number has now been increased to nineteen, and they give employment to thirty-two people. After the in- stallation of seven more looms to the original .two, the barn became too small for their use, and the firm built upon-,the south side of the pike, adjoining .Central Park. " In '1906, Dr. -Klotz erected his' residence; along ;the pike, and the residence of his partner is situated two doors .west. While. Dr. Klotz was engaged in dispos- ing of the fifty-two acre tract, he purchased dif- ferent tracts of the Jacob Saeger farm in East Allentown, from time to time. " This property he also cut into lots, disposing of them at a later date. The dividing of these tracts' into lots was always followed by the building of a number of houses. After the lapse of a short time, Dr. Klotz and Herman Hildebrand, of East Allen- town, purchased a thirty-two acre tract of land from Jacob Saeger. The land was located in East Allentown, and was also cut into building lots. In 1912 sixty houses were erected on this tract, and it was entirely through the efforts of Dr. Klotz that the silk mill at East Allentown was erected, which 'at the present time is the largest narrow ribbon mill in the world, and the pay roll of its employees amount to $17,000 semi- monthly. Dr: Klotz also has the Abbott Fuller farm of eighty acres, situated in Hanover town- ship. In 1911-the - firm of Klotz & Bregenzer purchased the Lewis Koch farm, of fifty-three acres; situated on Bath Road, through the center .of which the: Allentown & Bethlehem Boulevard has been opened.
In 1912 Dr. Klotz purchased the William Fenchel farm at Rittersville, containing thirty- four acres, which lies. adjacent to a tract of land consisting of forty-one acres, which the firm of Klotz & Bregenzer, purchased in 1914, which two farms have likewise been cut up into build- ing lots. The Allentown and Bethlehem Boule-
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vard passes through the middle of both farms. Early in the spring of 1914, Dr. Klotz sold five acres of the above land to Legh Meyer, of Beth- lehem.
On account of failing health, and owing to his vast real estate transactions, Dr. Klotz disposed of his medical practice to Dr. V. J. Gangewere in August, 1907.
In politics Dr. Klotz is a Democrat. He was a school director and supervisor of Hanover township. During his term of office as a school director and largely through his efforts, the pres- ent modern four-room school building was erect- ed at Rittersville, in 1907. He also succeeded in getting the Bethlehem City Water Company extended to Rittersville, and in three days he had secured subscriptions to the amount of $720.00, a sufficient amount of subscribers to warrant the company to make the extension. Late the fol- lowing year the people of East Allentown re- quested him to secure water service for them and he succeeded in doing so. The improvements at Rittersville and East Allentown are due, in a large measure, to the extension of the Bethlehem water company mains. Dr. Klotz served as chairman of the organization and later as presi- dent of the first fire company at Rittersville, in all five years. The company was organized largely through the efforts of Dr. Klotz after the fire in 1905 when six houses were destroyed. The company now has a membership of one hun- dred and twenty-five. They purchased a chemi- cal engine at a cost of $1,500, and erected an engine house. Dr. Klotz was a director of the Bethlehem Trust Company from its organization up to 1910, when he resigned to accept a similar position in the Citizens' Deposit and Trust Com- pany of Allentown. He is a member of St. Peter's Lutheran church.
Dr. Klotz has been most active in church and Sabbath school work since 1909, at which time he was elected to the office of deacon in the church and superintendent of the Sunday school. He has filled both offices with humbleness and great efficiency ever since. He was a member of the building committee of St. Peter's Lutheran church, Rittersville, which was erected in 1913 and completed in 1914 at a total cost of approx- imately $35,000. Dr. Klotz and family con- tributed the large bell and altar in this beautiful edifice. Mrs. Klotz likewise is most active in religious work and has been the esteemed presi- dent of the Willing Workers' Society since its organization in 1906, which has raised since its organization nearly $3,500.
Dr. Klotz married in 1895 Elizabeth C. Rauch, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Schnei- der) Rauch, of Marysville, Ohio. Children: Ei-
leen, died in infancy; Paul R., in whose honor his father named a street, in the Fourteenth ward, Allentown.
Christian Klotz, son of John and Franconia (Krouse) Klotz, was born in 1789, and about the year 1814, left his native township, Lowhill, and scon after settled in Mahoning township, now Carbon county, Pennsylvania. Here, in 1816, he married Elizabeth MacDaniel, daughter of Robert MacDaniel, and Elizabeth ( Hicks) Mac- Daniel, a Quakeress. Among their children was Robert, of whom further.
Robert Klotz, second son of Christian Klotz, was born in Northampton, now Carbon county, Pa., October 27, 1819. He received a limited education, attending only during the winter months, and later spent six months at a private school in Easton. At the age of twenty-four he was elected the first register and recorder of Carbon county. In 1846 he enlisted for the Mexican War as lieutenant of Company K, Second Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was after- wards made adjutant of same regiment, under Colonel John W. Geary, serving at Vera Cruz, first and second battles of Cerro Gordo, at the National Bridge, Huamantla, and at Puebla, also in other engagements. In the engagement at the second battle of Cerro Gordo he is honorably mentioned in the war department records, No. 4II, by the commanding officer in the affair, and to his experience and enthusiasm is due mainly the success, as is alleged by the officers and men, in the engagement of the National Bridge, in August, 1847.
On his return home, in 1848, he was elected to the Pennsylvania Legislature, and re-elected in 1849. In 1854 he removed to Kansas by spe- cial invitation of Governor Reeder, located the town of Pawnee, and was elected president of its building association. He helped to build the first hotel in Leavenworth, the old Shawnee Ho- tel, in the fall of 1854, and in the following year built the first hotel in Western Kansas, at Paw- nee. This house was the stopping place of both. parties to the celebrated Free State discussion in Kansas in those early days . He was a mem- ber of the Topeka Constitutional Convention, being the first signer of that constitution, and after its adoption was appointed, as a Democrat, secretary of state, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the absence of Hon. Philip C. Schuyler, under Governor Robinson's administration. In 1856 he was one of the celebrated committee of safety to protect the state from invasion, and was ap- pointed brigadier-general of the state troops at Lawrence, where he was associated with Major G. W. Dietzler, Gaius Jenkins, Governor Charles
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Robinson and others. He was one of the impor- Frank Klotz, son of George, a farmer, and tant factors in the selection of Topeka as the lived on an adjoining tract to his father's home- stead. His farm' is now owned by Edgar J. Klotz, his son, who resides at Guthsville since 1911. He sang in the choir, held various offices in the Morganland church, of which he was a Lutheran member and is buried."
capital of the state, having by his personal, influ- ence carried the entire western portion of Kan- sas in favor of that place, and other important measures then pending. He returned to his na- tive state in 1857, and in 1859 was elected treas- urer of Carbon county.
At the breaking out of the Rebellion, in 1861, Mr. Klotz engaged in the United States service for three months under General Patterson. In 1862 he was made colonel of the Nineteenth Pennsylvania Regiment, organized September 15, and discharged September 27, of the same year, serving among other places at Chambersburg, in the emergency. One of the Mexican veterans himself, and one of the vice-presidents for Penn- sylvania of the National Association of Mexi- can Veterans ever since its organization, he has evidenced his interest in the welfare of his old comrades by his ceaseless activity in their behalf in and out of congress. During the extra ses- sion of the forty-sixth congress he prepared and introduced a bill for pensioning surviving sol- diers of the families of deceased soldiers of the Mexican War.
Mr. Klotz was ever a staunch Democrat. He was elected to the forty-sixth congress from the eleventh Pennsylvania district, and re-elected for the succeeding term. " As a congressman he was bold, practical and industrious, more of a worker than a speaker, and respected for his sound, prac- tical views. , He was on the committee of mines and mining, also for four years. on the committee of District of Columbia, one of the most impor- tant, and hence most laborious, committees in congress, his well known characteristics of indus- try, practicability, and unswerving fidelity being the inducements to his appointment-thereon. He. was one of the trustees of the Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, and one of the board of managers of the Laflin & Rand Powder Company, of New York.
Mr. Klotz married, in 1849, Sallie A. Lentz, daughter of Colonel John and Mary ( Loeser) Lentz, of Carbon county, Pennsylvania. One child, L'entz Edmund, married Emma E. Lau- bach, daughter of Hon. Joseph Laubach, of Beth- lehem, Pennsylvania, and resides in Mauch Chunk. One child, Robert Klotz.
George Klotz, a farmer, lived near the "Mor- ganland church ,in Lowhill township. ^In con- nection with farming he carried on his trade of carpentering.
He had the following children: Amanda, married to Reuben Helfrich; Frank; Mary, a maiden lady ; Ellemina; Anna ; George; Frank ; and Montgomery, who went West.
He was married to Lucy Landis and they had these children: Edgar J .; Isador J., deceased ; William; Elmer .; Hattie, widow of Benjamin Grim; Cora, married to Charles Oswald; and Laura, deceased.
EDGAR J. KLOTZ, of Guthsville, was born Dec. 4, 1862, on the homestead in Lowhill, where he lived and farmed for forty-eight years. The farm is 137 acres and Mr. Klotz made a num- ber of improvements upon it. The present house and barn were built by Frank Klotz. ; In 1911, he moved to Guthsville, where he bought the Henry Kern house, in which he now resides and is retired. He is a Democrat and was a school director in Lowhill for three years." He and family are Lutherans and the entire family sang in the church choir. Mr. and Mrs. Klotz sang upon the choir for more than a quarter of a century. Mrs. Klotz sings upon the choir con- tinuously since 1872. She was one of the very first organists of the Morganland church.'
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On Dec. 4, 1883, he married Helena A. Bear, a daughter of Phaon and Mary A. (Buchman) Bear. They have these children: (1) Mamie L., married to R. Kemmerer, merchant of Lyon Valley. They have a daughter, Lizzie H. (2) Howard F., unmarried. (3) Thompson P., married to Helen Betz. They live in Weisen- berg township.
DANIEL 'MILTON KNABB. .
Knabb Family of Oley Township, of Berks County, Pa.
The Knabb family of Oley township, Berks county, Pa., was planted in Berks county by three brothers, Michael, John and Peter Knabb, who were born in Pfeldersheim, in the Pfalz Dis- trict,' Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany (which formerly belonged to France, but was restored to Bavaria in 1813). They emigrated to this country about 1737, and so far as is known are the only members of the family to have emigrat- ed from the eastern to the western hemisphere. Michael (born April 17, 1717) settled in Oley township, on the farm now occupied by Samuel B. Knabb, near the Exeter line. The old house was destroyed by fire in the winter of 1816-1817, and the present house was erected the following summer. A family graveyard near the dwell- ing contains the remains of the three brothers
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and a number of the descendants. John died unmarried in the forty-eighth year of his age; Peter died in the seventy-fourth year of his age, and most of his descendants live in Berks county ; and Michael.
Peter Knabb, son of Peter, the emigrant (and great grand-father of Peter H., who in 1907 was a poor director of Berks County), was a farmer in Oley township, and built his home in 1806. He was a member of Spies's Church. The rec- ords show he must have been prominent in pub- lic affairs, and he was a county commissioner from 1819 to 1822. He married Sarah Herbein, and their children were: William; Nathan, of Oley township, whose children were: Susan, Rebecca, Jacob, Emma (Beidler) and Amanda ; and Sarah, who married Daniel Zacharias, of Muhlenberg township.
Michael Knabb married Eva Magdelena Selt- zer, the only child of Jacob and Elizabeth Selt- zer, on March 15, 1755. He died June 17, 1778, aged sixty-one years and two months, and is buried in the family graveyard in Oley township. They had eleven children, of whom three died in early childhood. The remaining eight all had families and their names follow: Nicholas, Peter, Jacob, Daniel, Susan, Sarah, Catharine and Mary.
Daniel Knabb (son of Nicholas), had the homestead of his father, who in 1800 built a stone house on the farm now owned by Daniel A. Knabb, his grandson. Nicholas Knabb also owned the adjoining farm which was the original stand. The old homestead house was destroyed by fire in the winter of 1816-17, when snow covered the ground to a depth of eighteen inches. The fire occurred at night and the two daughters, Susan and Maria, in their night clothes and bare feet, went to the house of their uncle Daniel who lived away about three city blocks. Daniel Knabb was married to Eleanora Weaver. They had three children, namely: Levi, who died single; Ephraim, and Lucy Ann (m. Isaac Kauff- man ).
Ephraim Knabb was born in 1828 and died in 1887. He was a farmer and had the homestead of his father, Daniel. He and his wife were members of the Oley Reformed Church. His wife was Deborah, daughter of Daniel and grand- daughter of Abraham Knabb. Their children were: Daniel A., and Hannah (m. Mahlon Hoffmaster ), who lives on an adjoining farm of Daniel A. Knabb.
Daniel A. Knabb is a retired farmer, residing at Jacksonwald, in Berks county, Pa. He was born in Oley township May 17, 1852. He owns a 117 acre farm that has been in the Knabb family for many generations. The present barn
on this farm was built during the late thirties by his grandfather, Daniel Knabb. Our sub- ject lives retired since 1902, at Jacksonwald, where he owns the residence of the late Benja- min DeTurk, a drover.
Mr. Knabb and wife are members of the Re- formed congregation at Oley Church which he served as a deacon.
On October 26, 1878, he married Amanda Herbein, daughter of Benneville and Amelia (Yoder) Herbein of Oley township. They have three children, namely: Daniel Milton; Deborah (m. Nathan Sailor, who farms the homestead of his father-in-law) ; and Amelia, who is at home.
DANIEL MILTON KNABB, druggist, at Allen- town, was born in Oley township, Berks county, Pa., September 7, 1879. He was edu- cated in the public schools; graduated in 1896 from Brunner's Business College, Reading, Pa., became an apprentice in 1897 in Reeser's drug store, at Reading; while being employed in this position he passed the State Board in 1899, at Harrisburg as a qualified assistant pharmacist. He afterwards matriculated in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, graduating with first hon- ors in 1902, winning the William Webb gold medal "For excellence in the science and the art of pharmacy." The medal is beautifully de- signed and is about the size of a double eagle. It bears the name of the owner and the date "April 11, 1902." Mr. Knabb had charge of the drug store of E. M. Boring, at Tenth and Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, for a period of two years. He engaged in the same business at Allentown, in 1905. In 1911 he erected a four-story building 34 x 80 in dimensions, at the corner of Hamilton and Third streets, having one of the most modern drug stores in Allen- town.
His wife, Katharine Tyson, born Oct. 21, 1881, is a daughter of William H., and Caro- line (Huff) Tyson of Jacksonwald, Berks Co., Pa. They have these children: William, born July 18, 1905, who died Mch. 6, 1908, in his third year; Daniel M., born Jan. 23, 1907; and George T., born Dec. 20, 1908.
KNAUSS FAMILY.
Ludwig Knauss, the progenitor of the Knauss family in Lehigh county, emigrated to America in 1723 from Titelsheim, Wetteravia, in the Palatinate, and settled at Whitemarsh, Mont- gomery county. He married Anna Margaret Goerlach and had a number of children, among whom were: John Henry; Sebastian Henry; Maria Catharine, born at Whitemarsh, Feb. 16, 1734, married Andrew Giering; and Sophia,
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born at Whitemarsh, Nov. 28, 1737, died April 9, 1813. She married, in 1756, Ludwig Andres. John George and Gottfried Knauss, of White- hall township, were probably also sons of Lud- wig, and also Ludwig Knauss, of Easton.
John Henry Knauss, eldest son of Ludwig, was born June 15, 1712, and died June 6, 1761. He married, Dec. 31, 1737, Maria Catharine Roeder, born March 24, 1720. They had four children: John, born 1738, died 1847; Adam, born 1741, died the same year; Michael; and Martin, born 1745, died 1747. Michael Knauss was born July 26, 1743, and died Feb. 3, 1820. He married (first) Sept. 10, 1765, Anna Eliza- beth Romig, born March 18, 1743, died March 16, 1777, and (second), June 12, 1780, Hanna Margaret Frank, of Schoeneck, born July 10, 1740, died March 26, 1817. He had seven chil- dren in his first marriage: Catharine, born July 4, 1766, died Dec. 19, 1838, married John Adam Romig; Frederick, born 1768; John Henry, born 1769; Anna Elizabeth, born 1771; Michael, born 1773; Magdalena, born 1775; and John, born 1776. In his second marriage he had a son, Abraham, born in 1781.
Sebastian Henry Knauss, second son of Lud- wig, was born in Titelsheim, Wetteravia, near Manheim, Germany, on Oct. 6, 1714, and was about nine years old when he accompanied his parents to America in 1723. On New Year's Day, 1741, he was married to Miss Anna C. Transue, who had emigrated from the same dis- trict in 1730. Soon after 1741, when the Mora- vian missionaries were branching out in every di- rection and making converts to their faith in various parts of the country, Sebastian Knauss became deeply impressed with the teachings of Count Zinzendorf. Later he left the Reformed faith and joined what was then known as the Society of Brethren. He was one of the num- ber who organized a congregation in 1747 and founded a village which was named Emmaus, but which name was later corrupted to Emaus. With others he had walked to Bethlehem over the Indian path and there assisted in the organization of a separate church. He became steward and served in that capacity until his death in 1777. His remains were interred in the old cemetery at Emaus. He and Jacob Ehrenhard jointly donated 102 acres of land for the building there- on of a Moravian hamlet, including a site for the church and school, in adjacent grounds. The village was surveyed and laid out in 1757 and in 1761 officially received its name.
Sebastian Henry Knauss was a farmer and wheelwright. He learned the trade under the direction of Henry Antes, the pioneer layman of Frederick township, Montgomery county, through whose instrumentality he also became acquainted
with the Moravian brethren and their work. Thirteen children were born to him and his wife, five of whom were daughters, and of them it is recorded that "they were of small stature, beautiful of form and exceedingly entertaining." His wife was the daughter of Abraham Trauseau and his wife Elizabeth Munster, of Mutterstadt, where she was born March 6, 1722. She died at Emaus June 26, 1799. Mr. Knauss died Feb. 26, 1777.
The children of Sebastian H. and Anna Cath- arine Knauss were: 1. Heinrich, born Nov. 22, 1741 ; married, April 22, 1766, Anna Maria Ehrenhard; they had thirteen children, of whom Jacob, born Nov. 20, 1777, and his son, Henry, born July 12, 1812, resided on the farm of his grandfather. 2. Catharine, born April 10, 1743; married Conrad Ernst, who emigrated from Wold Angelloch, in the Palatinate; in 1769 they were in possession of the first farm on the south bank of the Lehigh, leased by the Moravians; later they moved to Nazareth. 3. Anna Maria, born April 15, 1744; married Tobias Moyer, of Heidelberg township. 4. Johannes, born Nov. 6, 1748; married Catharine Romig, and settled on the home farm, near Emaus, later owned by Edwin Kline, of Allentown; J. Owen and William H. Knauss are grandsons of Johannes. 5. Joseph, born Oct. 11, 1750; was a wheel- wright by occupation; married Magdalena Boe- kel, of Heidelberg, and emigrated to North Car- olina. 6. Elizabeth, born Jan. 29, 1753 ; married John Frederick Romig, who was a miller near Emaus. 7. Abraham, born March 1, 1755; he was a blacksmith, and settled four miles from Bethlehem, on the Drylands. 8. Jacob, born June 26, 1757 ; he was a farmer; married Rosina Corr. . 9. John Ludwig, born May 19, 1759; he was a blacksmith; settled first at Schoeneck, and later emigrated to Ohio; married Maria Magdalena Klein. 10. Philip, born in October, 1767, died in 1789. 11. Magdalena, born Sept. 3, 1761 ; married Joseph Clewell, who lived at Emaus. 12. Anna Johanna, born March 13, 1765; married George Clewell, a shoemaker, who resided at Schoeneck. 13. Leonard, born Jan. 8, 1745, died May 14, 1823, married, Dec. 15, 1769, Johanna Salome Miller. The de- scendants of these children are so numerous that it is impossible to follow them. It is sufficient to say that in every township and borough in the county the name is found, and in most cases the line of descent can be traced to this branch. At the time of the death of Anna Catharine (Tran- sue) Knauss, on June 26, 1799, besides their thirteen children, there were ninety-one grand- children, thirty-six great-grandchildren, seventy- three of the former and thirty-two of the latter were living at the time of her death.
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John Knauss, son of John, was born May 22, 1775, and died March 14, 1861, and in his time was extensively engaged in farming, owning large tracts of land. He was also active and promi- nent in community interests and was elected to the office of county commissioner of his native county, when he discharged his duties with promptness and fidelity that won him high com- mendation and favorable regard. He married, in 1804, Maria Theresa Tool, and to them were born five sons and three daughters: Paul, Wil- liam; Charles; John; Aquila; Hannah, married to Frederick T. Iobst; Anna Maria, married to Franz Philip Iobst; and Catharine, married to John W. Seip.
John Knauss, the third son of Sebastian, was born Nov. 6, 1748, near Emaus, where he was reared and carried on farming until his death, May 23, 1822. He- married, March 31, 1772, Catharine, daughter of Frederick Romig, a mil- ler near Emaus. She was born Oct. 18, 1748, and died July 3, 1816. They had eight children : John; Magdalena, married Thomas Everett ; Catharine, married Henry Leibert; Anna Maria, married Henry Christ; Jacob, married Lydia Leibert; John Philip, married Magdalena Wuench ; Abraham, died young; and a daughter who died in infancy.
Aquila Knauss was born in Emaus on March 6, 1819, and spent most of his life in that pioneer village, being one of its faithful and valued citi- zens. He was engaged in various enterprises in his time, having been justice of the peace, post- master, station agent, the first town clerk and church organist, was a merchant, and for a time conducted the Eagle Hotel. In 1863, he became agent and weighmaster of the Allen- town Iron Company, and moved to East Ma- cungie. This position he held until the com- pany abandoned its business. He conducted a small farm in connection and lived retired there in his declining years. He was married to Mar- gretta Weiler, daughter of George Weiler and his wife, a born Schaeffer, members of prominent families in Berks county. Eleven children were born to them, of whom these survive: Mrs. H. J. Balliet, George F., Oliver J., Mrs. Harry Jarrett, Oscar P., and Albert W. The father died in 1896 and the mother in 1907.
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