History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, Vol. II, Part 42

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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EDWARD J. DANOWSKY.

Edward J. Danowsky was for many years a druggist of Allentown, Pa. The Danowsky family is of Polish extraction, but for many gen- erations the family resided in Germany, fleeing there from Poland during some political upheav- el. Dr. William Frederick Danowsky, the founder of the Pennsylvania family, was born

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at Woltin, Prussia, June 16, 1803. His father was a captain in the German army, stationed at Berlin. He was the father of 21 children, the offspring of two marriages. Dr. Danowsky was left at an early age with his grandmother at Woltin where his chances of acquiring an edu- cation were small. He therefore ran away and tramped some 300 miles to his father who died a year later. The captain's close friend, the Burgomaster of Berlin, agreed to care for the lad who desired a professional life. He became a ship surgeon, voyaging to Brazil, Greenland, etc.

He married May 9, 1830, in Brunswick, Ger- many, Caroline E. Behrens, born May 30, 1811, in Brunswick. Dr. Danowsky, in 1835, came alone to Philadelphia, from thence to Lehigh county and began to practice medicine in the Saucon Valley, thence going to Emaus, Pa., where he settled. Unknown to him, his friends made up a purse to enable his wife to come to him, and he met her in Philadelphia and he con- tinued his practice at Emaus until about 1840, when he removed to Allentown, where he con- tinued his practice, establishing also a drug store. In 1848, his home was destroyed by fire. In 1853 he invented a process for making illuminating gas, erecting for that purpose a plant at the rear of his home on Hamilton street, which was the founda- tion of the gas works in Allentown. He con- structed gas works in Williamsport, Danville and Tamauqua, Pa. In 1860 he located on a farm in Union Co., Pa., at Whitedeer, and there began the manufacture of pottery ware, then returned to Allentown, Pa., where he resided until his death March 1, 1875. He reared a family of five children, one of whom was Edward Julius Danowsky, who was educated in the pub- lic schools of Allentown. He studied pharmacy under his father. He was for some time employ- ed in drug stores in Pottstown and Stroudsburg, Pa., then returned to Allentown and bought his father's drug business on Hamilton street, where he continued for many years, when he sold out to T. S. Nagle, who had been his assistant for 30 years. He was a great lover of fine horses. He was also interested in real estate and owned a double house on So. 7th street, where he re- sided, which is now occupied by his daughter. In politics he was a Republican, and he was a member of St. John's Reformed church. He died March 3, 1909, and was interred in Union cemetery, Allentown. He married Mary Jane Shriner, born at Jersey Shore, Pa. She was a lady of domestic tastes and devoted to home and family ; also a member of the St. John's Reform- ed Church. She died April 3, 1893, and was in-

terred in Union cemetery. Their children were Elizabeth C. and Nina Alverna. Elizabeth C. married Ralph A. Guth, and their children are five, viz: Edward Danowsky; Edna E .; Mary C .; Nina R .; and Leah Rose Guth.

Nina A. Danowsky was educated at Allentown College for Women, from which she graduated and is a member of the College Alumni Asso- ciation, and is its treasurer. She is a member of St. John's Reformed Church; of the Kings Daughters and of the various church societies, as well as a Sunday scoool teacher.

DAUBENSPECK FAMILY.

John Jacob Daubenspeck, of the Palatinate, Germany, emigrated to America, on the ship Harle, which arrived at Philadelphia, Sept. I, 1736. He was one of 388 persons on board and his age was recorded as 22 years. He was born in 1714 and died in Heidelberg township, now Lehigh county, during the Revolutionary period. On Sept. 16, 1747, he took out a war- rant for 197 acres of land, located in Heidel- berg township. It is current tradition that the pioneers of the township held religious services in the house of Jacob Daubenspeck prior to the erection of the Heidelberg church, in 1744. Jacob reared a family of children among whom were: Jacob, Jr .; George and Philip. These three sons served in the War of the Revolution, from Northampton county. George, in 1790, re- sided in Luzerne county, Pa., and had three sons over 16 years; one under 16 years, a wife and two daughters.

Jacob Daubenspeck, a descendant of the pi- oneer, John Jacob, was a farmer in Schuylkill county. In 1832 his widow had attained the great age of ninety-four years. This couple had a son, Jacob.

Jacob Daubenspeck, born in 1815, and died in 1852, was also a farmer. He married Hester Shoemaker, of Schuylkill county, who died in 1893. Issue: (1) Mary, married John Gild- ner, and resides in Kansas; (2) David, of Chi- cago, a builder; (3) Rebecca, married Henry Kistler (deceased ) and resides in Allentown; (4) John, died in 1905; (5) Jacob; (6) Wil- liam, of Los Angeles, Cal .; (7) Samuel, died in 19II; (8) Susan, a widow, of Allentown; (9) Hester, married Aaron Sherman, of Allentown.

JACOB DAUBENSPECK, son of Jacob and Hes- ter (Shoemaker) Daubenspeck, was born March 6, 1844, in West Penn township, Schuylkill county. He attended the schools of the day and assisted on his father's farm until 1865, when he came to Allentown and learned the trade of

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carpenter and followed this vocation until 1870, when he became an undertaker's assistant. In 1881, he associated himself as a partner with Benjamin F. Heimbach in the undertaking bus- iness. He was engaged in this business and also manufactured caskets.

In politics he is a Republican, a member of the Evangelical church, P. O. S. of A., Ameri- can Mechanics, Knights of Malta, F. & A. M., K. of F. He has traveled through the Holy Land, Spain, Italy, Turkey and Africa.

Jacob Daubenspeck married (first) Miss Sarah A. Heimbach, born April 10, 1847, died May 1, 1902. Issue: (1) Ellen, married Fred- erick Binder, of Emaus; (2) Mary, married Al- len Seip (deceased) ; (3) Charles B .; (4) Jen- nie; (5) Catharine; (6) William, married Anna Fried. He is a foreman in an Allentown Silk factory ; (7) Florence, married Claude Himmel- right, of Allentown. There are nine grandchil- dren and four great grandchildren.

Jacob Daubenspeck married (second) in Sep- tember, 1903, Eliza Krum, of Carbon county, born April 2, 1852. She married (first) Dan- iel Graver, who died in 1893. Issue: (1) Harry Graver, an electrician, of Allentown; (2) Mamie A. Graver (single) at home.

CHARLES BENJAMIN DAUBENSPECK, son of Jacob, was born Oct. 20, 1870, in Allentown. He was educated in the public schools and at Blackman's Business College, also took the course of instruction in Mechanical Contract- ing, of the International Correspondence School of Scranton, Pa. He was in the employ of an architect as a draughtsman, for a year, then learned the trade of carpenter, with his uncle, John Daubenspeck, continuing with him about eight years. He then worked for others as a journeyman for three years. He then formed a partnership with Adam A. Herzog, as contrac- tors and builders, under the name of Herzog and Daubenspeck, continuing together for about ten years. Since 1906, Mr. Daubenspeck has car- ried on his trade alone. He has been engaged in this line in Allentown for upwards of sev- enteen years. His extensive work includes the Jewish Synagogue on Sixth Street and the renovation of Dubbs Memorial church. He was confirmed by Rev. George Richards, at Salem Reformed church, of which he is now a member. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, Knights of Malta. In politics, he is a Republican.

Charles Benjamin Daubenspeck married in 1890, in Allentown, Emma Wenner, daughter of Milo and Marietta (Nagle) Wenner. Is- sue : a son who died young.

THOMAS DAUGHERTY.

Thomas Daugherty, of Allentown, was born Dec. 20, 1836, at Beaver Meadow, then North- ampton (now Carbon county), Pennsylvania. The founders of the family were the parents of William Daugherty, who settled in Bucks county, Pa. William Daugherty afterward removed to the West Branch of the Susquehanna river, locat- ing a few miles above Milton, where he followed farming on Muddy Run. In connection with his son-in-law, Marcus Hulings, he built and op- erated the first keel-bottom boat ever taken on the Susquehanna river to tidewater. The boat was built at Muddy Run.

Marcus Hulings was the great great grand- father of General W. J. Hulings, of Oil City, Pa., and who is prominently identified with the Pennsylvania National Guard, and is a member of the State Senate.

William Daugherty fought for a time in the French and Indian war, and became a member of the Warrior Run Presbyterian church. He married a Miss Means, a representative of one of the pioneer families of Kentucky, and the Means house in Towanda, Pa., was founded by a representative of this family. Their sons were John, Samuel, James, Abel, Robert, and prob- ably Henry. Of the daughters, one married Marcus Hulings, one William McGrady, and one John Campbell. The sons and the sons-in- law of William Daugherty were prominent in the early history of Pennsylvania, and made splendid records as patriots. John Daugherty was a warm personal friend and a compatriot of Van Campen, and of the noted Brady boys, and the former in his narrative says: "No braver man than John Daugherty ever lived." Captain Samuel Daugherty, another brother, was de- tailed from Washington's army to protect the frontier, and was killed with Boone's company at Freeland's Fort, his scalp being recognized by a man named Robinson, who was lying in am- bush behind a log. The scalp was being carried in the hand of a passing Indian, and the light- colored long, curly hair attracted the attention of Robinson. Both Captain Samuel Daugherty and his elder brother, Captain John Daugherty, were members of Captain Hawkins Boone's com- mand. Samuel Daugherty advised against the attack on Fort Freeland, and his brother taunted him with cowardice, but he replied : "No Daugh- erty was ever a coward. I shall fight as bravely as yourself, but we shall be defeated," and the result was as he had foretold. Both Hawkins Boone and Samuel Daugherty were killed in the attack. During the fight Captain John Daugherty was accosted by an old Tory who

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was suspected of having betrayed the fort to the British, and who said, "Give it to them, Daugh- erty." "Yes," was the reply, "and I will give it to a d-d traitor." The story goes that he loaded his gun, turned, and shot the Tory down as cooly as if shooting a squirrel. John Daugh- erty was a noted small swordsman, and while the patriot army was in New Jersey he fought and killed a British officer who was also noted for his skill with the sword, for speaking contemptu- ously of the "so-called" rebels. The seven sons of William Daugherty all fought under Wash- ington at one time or another during the Revo- lutionary war. After the war Captain John Daugherty returned to his farm on Muncy Creek, and was fatally stabbed by a knife in the hand of a bond boy whom he was correcting for some negligence. His lamentations when dying was that after fighting Indians, the British, and Hessians for so many years, he should be killed by a boy. James Daugherty, another brother, was taken prisoner by the British and the In- dians, was sent to Canada, successfully passing the trying ordeal known as "running the gaunt- let," and when peace was declared returned to Boston and made his way on foot to the west branch of the Susquehanna river. James Daugh- erty married Ann Hammond, whose brothers were George, James, William, Joseph, and Dav- id Hammond. Of these David Hammond was the father of General Robert H. Hammond, of the Mexican war, formerly a lieutenant of the Fifth United States Infantry. The brothers were all officers in the Revolutionary War, or mem- bers of the councils of safety. James Daugherty and Ann Hammond became the parents of the following named: George Hammond; Grace, who married Joseph Hogue; Susan, who mar- ried Henry Van Dyke; and Sarah, who mar- ried Daniel Bowman. The Bowmans and Van Dykes resided at or near Towanda, Bradford county, Pa. After the war for independence was terminated, the daughters of William Daugherty and their husbands removed to Ohio.

George Hammond Daugherty, born April 1, 1794, near Milton, Pa., learned the saddle-mak- ing trade and followed it until the Dearborn wagon was put on the market, and he said any shoemaker could then make harness and quit the business. After Hull surrendered in the war of 1812, he enlisted in the American army, but did not see any active service. Later he followed contracting, and was superintendent of the col- lieries at Beaver Meadow and Summit Hill. The last years of his life were devoted to farm- ing on the Laird homestead in Madison town- ship, Columbia county, Pa. His religious faith was that of the Presbyterian church. His first

presidential votes were cast for Democratic can- didates up to General Jackson, later he became a Whig, and at the dissolution of that party was known as an ardent advocate of the American party, and from the time of Lincoln's nomina- tion for the presidency he was a stalwart Re- publican. A warm friend of the cause of edu- cation, he did everything in his power to promote the free school system, and it is said that he rode two horses nearly to death in the fight against the large landed proprietors who were bitterly opposed to be taxed in order to support the free school system. His electioneering was done at night, and quietly among the classes of people who were not property holders, and who out- voted their aristocratic neighbors, who had ex- pected no opposition of any kind. Mr. Daugh- erty always favored progress and improvement, and his was an active, useful, and honorable career. He married Miss Mary Laird, who was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1794. He died at the age of eighty years, and was laid to rest by the side of his wife in the family burying ground of the Lairds at the Derry meeting-house in Columbia county, Pa. There were seven children in the family, four sons and three daughters, but all are now deceased, with the exception of Thomas Daugherty. The eld- est, James, was killed when with William Walker, the fiilibuster, in Nicaragua, Central America. Another son, George Hammond, lived to be seventy-five years of age, while Oscar died in young manhood. One of the sisters, Sarah Daugherty, died at the age of twenty-two years. Caroline became Mrs. Faris, and died at the age of sixty-eight years. Ada, who became Mrs. Tenbrook, died at the age of sixty years.

In the maternal line the ancestry of Thomas Daugherty can be traced back to his great-grand- father, William Laird, who was born in Ire- land, Oct. 27, 1727, and was brought to Amer- ica at the age of six years, and died April II, 1820. In early manhood he had resided near Carlisle, Pa. He served as a member of the committee of correspondence in 1774 as delegate from the Fourth Battallion to the Lancaster County Association of Battalions in 1776, was captain of the Seventh Company of the Sixth Battalion in 1777, captain of the Eighth Com- pany of the Ninth Battalion in 1780, and thus rendered efficient service to the cause of inde- pendence. His death occurred in what is now Madison township, Columbia county, and his remains were interred in the Derry churchyard. He was married to Martha Wilson, and they be- came the parents of eight children, including James Laird, the grandfather, who was born May II, 1761.

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James Laird was a very prominent man in his community, served in the Revolutionary War, participated in the battle of Brandywine, and by his numerous friends and acquaintances was al- ways accosted as Captain Laird. He was a member of the Pennsylvania state senate from 1806 until 1812, representing the district com- prising Northumberland and Luzerne counties. He and his father sold their lands in what was then Lancaster county and removed to North- umberland (now Columbia) county, about 1797 or 1798. James Laird wedded Mary McFar- lane, and their children were William, Mary, and John. His second wife was a Miss Watson, and their children were Thomas, Samuel and Jane. When James Laird was serving as state senator his daughter, Mary, the mother of Thomas Daugherty, would ride on the pillion of his saddle to Harrisburg, where she was left to attend school, while her father attended the sessions of the legislature at the state capitol in Lancaster. Her death occurred when she was seventy-nine years of age and she, too, was laid to rest in Derry churchyard in Columbia county.

Thomas Daugherty, after attending the public schools until twelve years of age, entered upon his business career as a clerk in a general store at Summit Hill, Pa., where he remained until he was engaged in the location and construction of the Lehigh Valley Railroad as a member of the engineer corps from 1853 until the completion of the road in 1856. During the three suc- ceeding years he was bookkeeper for Packer, Douglass and Co., at Nesquehoning, Pa. Early in the year 1859 he went to the west, crossing the plains from Leavenworth to Denver, Col., with an ox team. In the latter state he was engaged in prospecting and mining until the early part of 1861, and during the winter of 1859-60 he served as assistant clerk of the Colorado legislature un- der the provisional government, while, follow- ing the adjournment of the assembly, he taught the first school in the territory, at Golden City, Col. In the spring of 1860 he was with the prospecting party that discovered the California Gulch diggings at the headwaters of the Arkan- sas river, where twenty years later the Leadville diggings were opened. When he went West in 1859 he travelled for two hundred miles through the Buffalo range. The prairie at intervals was covered for miles with herds of buffalo, so that the district appeared to be one vast buffalo robe, thousands of the animals being on their way to the northern feeding grounds. Large numbers of them were slaughtered by the Pike's Peak em- igrants, who generally only made use of the hump and tongue, the balance of the carcasses being

devoured by the great packs of wolves that fol- lowed in the path of the emigrant trains.

Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Thomas Daugherty was mustered into the Unit- ed States service on the 18th of April, 1861, and served for three months under the President's first call for 75,000 men, as a member of Com- pany A, First Regiment of Pennsylvania Vol- unteers, commanded by Captain James L. Sel- fridge. He became a member of Captain Wil- liam J. Palmer's independent company, the An- derson Troop, on the 12th of October, 1861, at Carlisle, Pa. The company was raised under an order of the Secretary of War, and acted as bodyguard for Major General Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, then commanding in Kentucky, and Mr. Daugherty became a fourth sergeant of the company. He participated in the battle of Shiloh, of Pittsburg Landing, Perryville, Mur- freesboro, or Stone River, and was at Fort Donelson the day after the surrender, where he saw General Grant for the first time. He was also in the siege of Corinth, Miss., and in num- erous smaller engagements. For a time he was on duty in the Gault House in Louisville, Ken- tucky, and witnessed the shooting of General Nelson by Jefferson C. Davis. On the 26th of March, 1863, Mr. Daugherty was mustered out of service with the entire company.

In the following year Mr. Daugherty became bookkeeper at the Yorktown Colliery in Carbon county, Pa., and continued in that position for thirty years, during the last eight years of which he was also a member of the firm, the business being conducted under the name of George H. Myers & Co. In November, 1894, he removed from Yorktown Colliery to Allentown, and became interested in the independent telephone business. He was one of the organizers and the president of the Lehigh Telephone Company, and remained at its head until the business was emerged into that of the Consolidated Companies of Pennsylvania, of which he is now a direc- tor. He is also a member of the directorate of the Inter-State Telephone Company of New Jersey.

Mr. Daugherty cast his first presidential vote for Bell in 1860, but since that time has been a stalwart Republican. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the Pennsyl- vania Society of Sons of the Revolution, and is a thirty-second degree mason. Major Daugher- ty has a large and valuable library, and is ex- ceptionally conversant with the history of the State.

Mr. Daugherty was married Jan. 15, 1859, to Miss Jane Hewitt. She was a school girl of Brooklyn Center, Susquehanna county, Pa, until

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twelve years of age, at which time the family re- moved to Nesquehoning, Carbon county, and there she afterward gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Daugherty. She is a descendant of Jedidiah Hewitt, who removed about 1800 from Rhode Island to Susquehanna county, Pa, and there her father, Abel Hewitt, was born in 1804. He was a man of much ability, was an uncompromis- ing Democrat through his entire life, and for many years served as a justice of the peace in his native county, and also for a term in Car- bon county. He was school director for many years, and took an active and helpful interest in all matters pertaining to the public schools and their substantial development. He died at the advanced age of eighty-eight years, and was buried in Fairview cemetery, Allentown, Pa. He married Julia Fish, a daughter of Anthony Fish, who was born at Mystic, Conn., whence he emigrated to Brooklyn, Susquehanna, Pa. The Fish family is a large and influential one in this state, and has furnished many soldiers and states- men to Pennsylvania.

The children of Thomas Daugherty and Jane ( Hewitt) Daugherty are as follows: Oscar Hammond, born in 1860, died at the age of nine years; William Hewitt, born in 1862, died at the age of twenty-two years; Mary Laird, born in 1865, died at the age of twenty years; George Hammond, born in 1868, is living in Allentown ; Nellie Andrews, born in 1872, is the wife of Charles F. Huber, superintendent of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., Pa; Abel Hewitt, born in 1869, is married and lives in Bethlehem ; Lillian Jane, born in 1874, is at home; and Julia Estelle, born in 1877, married W. A. Pol- lock, son of the Rev. Dr. J. F. Pollock, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of Allentown.

George Hammond Daugherty, son of Thomas Daugherty, was born in Audenried, Pa., attend- ed the public schools, and afterward became a student in the Bloomsburg State Normal School, but because of ill health he put aside his text books before graduation. He then went to Col- orado, and after his health was improved he re- turned to Pennsylvania, and attended the Short- ledge Academy at Media. When his course of study there was completed, he entered Pierce's Business College in Philadelphia, where he pur- sued a complete commercial course and was grad- uated with the class of 1887. Thus well equip- ped for business life he entered the office of George H. Myers & Co., coal operators, his father being interested in the business. Later he went to Birmingham, Alabama, where he es- tablished a foundry for the casting of hardware specialties. He conducted that enterprise for eight years, but m'sfortune overtook him, his

entire plant being destroyed by fire. After this disaster he returned to Allentown, where he started the Daugherty Iron Foundry for the manufacture of general castings made to order. He also makes a specialty of grate bars. This business was founded in December, 1900, and is now in a profitable condition.

Mr. Daugherty is a staunch Republican in his political views, and in religious belief is a Pres- byterian. While in the South he was married to Elouise Brooks, of Tuskegee, Ala., a daughter of Hon. A. L. Brooks, and a niece of Hon. C. W. Thompson, one of the leading politicians of the South. She has one brother, Lothair Brooks, of Ensley, Ala., who married Minnie Woods, and they have three children, Edith, Lothair, and George, the youngest son being named for George H. Daugherty. Mr. and Mrs. Daugh- erty have one child, a daughter, Jean Brooks Daugherty.

HOWARD E. DAUM.

John Daum was born in 1832 in Darmstadt, Germany. He emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1849, and located near Columbia, in Lancaster county, where he superintended the operation of a blast furnace for many years. He lived in re- tirement at Lancaster for some time, and died in 1907, his remains being buried in the ceme- tery of the church at Ironville. He was mar- ried to Mary Heineman, daughter of Isaac Heineman. She was born in 1835, and died in 1904. They had eight children: Alice, Hen- ry, William, Anna, Sherman, Howard E., and two died in infancy.

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History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, Vol. II, Part 42

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

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