History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, Vol. III, Part 104

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: 854


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In June, 1901, Mr. Stopp was ordained to the ministry of the Lutheran Church in St. Mi- chael's church, Allentown, and soon after was called to the pastorate of St. Paul's church, Doylestown, where he remained five years. He was pastor of the Church of the Ascension, Brook- lyn, New York, for a short time in 1907, and from 1907 until 1909 pastor of St. Andrew's-by- the-Sea, Atlantic City, N. J. Ill health re- quired Mr. Stopp to retire from the active pas- torate but he supplies various churches in the Allentown and Wilkes-Barre Conferences of the Lutheran Church. He is the author of various monographs, some of which were published by the Pittsburgh Liturgical Association, including "A General Survey of the Book of Common Prayer," "The Collects," and "The Apostolic Age." He has also written "The Early History of the Dreis- bach Family in America," and is historian of the Dreisbach Family Association, a charter member of the Lehigh County Historical Society, a mem- ber of the Bucks County Historical Society, and a life-member of the Pennsylvania Bible Society.


Charles Stopp, son of Jacob and Christian (Anewalt) Stopp, was a farmer in Washington township. He was born April 6, 1811, and died March 19, 1857. He is buried at the Frieden's Church at Hoffman's, P. O., having been a Re- formed member of that church. His first wife was Abbie Rinker, and his second wife Lydia Zim- merman, is buried at Unionville. To the first union were born four children, and to the second, were born the following: Dr. Assiba, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume; Charles


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P., who was born at Sheidy's, in North White- hall; he was for forty-one years a blacksmith at Schnecksville, where he also died. Both he and his wife Rebecca, a daughter of Henry and Amanda ( Mickley) Schadt, are buried at Union- ville. Mr. Stopp was prominently identified with the Democratic party, which he served as com- mitteeman from North Whitehall township for about twenty years; and it was largely through him that the township was divided into three voting precincts. They had these children : Cora, the wife of Oliver Wright; George; Asa M .; Charles ; Joseph; Frank; Sallie; Annie; and Katie.


ASA M. STOPP, the second son of Charles P., is a school teacher of North Whitehall township, residing at Schnecksville, where he was born May 20, 1871. His education was obtained in the public schools, the Schnecksville Academy, the Valparaiso University, Indiana; and at the State Normal School, Kutztown. He was li- censed to teach school in 1893 and since that time he has been teaching every term in North White- hall. He taught at the Unionville Church school house for six consecutive terms. In April, 1911, he was granted a State Teacher's Permanent Certificate.


Mr. Stopp and family worship in the Re- formed faith in the church at Unionville and he has served this congregation as a deacon. Socially he is a Past Grand of Jordan Lodge, No. 192, I. O. O. F., and for four years he was the repre- sentative to the Grand Lodge of the State. He has also served his township as auditor for two terms, having been elected as a Democrat.


In 1900 he married Sarah Roth, a daughter of Alexander Roth. Their children are: Marcus M., Lillian I., Howard H., Charles F. and Wil- liam P., twins.


JOHN A. STORM.


John A. Storm, the foreman of the Dent Hardware Company, at Fullerton, Pa., was born at Petersville, Northampton county, son of John and grandson of the late Philip Storm.


Philip Storm was born on the Rhine in Bav- aria, Germany, Sept. 12, 1829, and was a son of John and Elizabeth (Shaffer) Storm, who was a farmer; also sold wine, wheat, tobacco and hops. He died in 1832. Philip Storm attended the schools of his native country according to the German curriculum. At the age of fourteen years he learned the tailor trade and followed it until eighteen years of age. In 1848 he left Ant- werp, and after a voyage of fifty days he landed in New York. He located in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and from there walked the entire distance to Catasauqua, Pa. After loading coal


on boats along the wharf at Mauch Chunk, for 1858, and there was employed in limestone quar- ries. In October, 1862, he enlisted in Company D, 176th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, for nine months service. The regiment done provost duty at Suffolk and Norfolk, and was honorably discharged, at Philadelphia, Aug. 18, 1863.


After his return to civil life he became the foreman of the Catasauqua Manufacturing Company, in which he remained until in 1889, when he was a travelling representative of the company in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jer- sey, Delaware and New York. He was in the employ of the company twenty-six years. In 1892 he erected a large brick residence at the corner of Lehigh and Bridge streets, Catasauqua. He also erected seven other houses in his time. Mr. Storm was councilman, burgess in 1881, and re-elected the three successive years; served as health officer of Whitehall since 1893, and at the Republican county convention in 1875 he was honored with the nomination for sheriff of the county.


From 1893 up to the time of his death, on May 10, 1913, he was the superintendent of the Fairview cemetery, having been re-elected every year.


He has served the Lutheran church as an elder for about a quarter of a century. He was a prominent Free Mason, member of the Catasau- qua chapter ; the Allen Commandery K. T. No. 20; and on April 24, 1912, he was made a mem- ber of Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., being at the time the oldest Shriner ever admitted in the United States His grandson, Thomas Storm, of Pottstown, was made a Shriner at the same time with him ; member of Fuller Post, No. 378, G. A. R. In 1874 Mr. Storm paid a visit to the Fatherland.


In 1851 he married Gertrude Koch, a native of Germany, who was born in 1827, died in 1883. They had five children, namely: John, mentioned later ; William, of Pottstown; Sarah, married to A. E. Seyfried, deceased ; Mary, mar- ried to Peter Grishert; and Lavinia, married Al- len Heckman, of Catasauqua. Mr. Storm mar- ried second, Sarah A. (Trollinger ) Miller, widow of John P. Miller, of Allentown.


John Storm, son of Philip, was born at Cat- asauqua, March 17, 1857. He was an iron roller at Catasauqua, where he died on Dec. II, 1890. He had a son, John A. Storm, and the latter's mother, was Ellen Rice, a daughter of Peter Rice, of Petersville, Northampton county, who was killed in battle in the great Civil War.


John A. Storm was educated in the public schools and at the age of eighteen years learned the machinist and tool-making trades at the Al-


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lentown Iron Company, at Allentown. He work- ed as a journeyman until 1898 but since that time he has acted in various responsible capacities. Mr. Storm has been employed by the Dent Hardware Company, Fullerton, Pa., since the inception of it. He is now foreman of the ma- chine department and assistant to H. P. New- hard, secretary and superintendent of the Dent Hardware Company.


He built his own residence in 1903, located at the corner of American and Washington streets, Fullerton. Socially he is a member of the Inde- pendent Americans since he is sixteen years old ; the Allentown Aerie No. 110, F. O. E .; and in politics he is a Republican.


In 1910 he promoted the Fullerton Stone Company which manufactures a crushed stone also a building stone. The company employs as many as thirty men. Mr. Storm is the secretary and treasurer of the corporation which he also serves as a director. In 1912 he was one of the organizers of the Fullerton Fire Company and was elected its first treasurer.


He was married, June 25, 1897, to Hattie B. Dieffenderfer, daughter of Lewis A. and Anna (Mohr) Dieffenderfer. They had an only son, Earl Lewis Philip Storm, born May 22, 1899, who died after being sick only one day, July 14, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Storm are Lutherans and he helped to organize the church at Fullerton in 1902, and he has served it as deacon and trustee.


STOUDT FAMILY.


The name Staudt (Stoudt, Stout), is one of the early Palatinate family names. The seat of the family is at Rothenberg. Members of the family figured prominently in some of the Cru- sades. The family spread northward into Hol- land, where several members obtained noble rank. During the persecutions of Bloody Alba, some members of the family fled to England, one of them, Richard by name, enlisting in the English navy. Upon one of his visits to New Amsterdam he met Penelope Van Princis, who later became his wife, and they settled in Middletown, N. J., prior to 1688, becoming the progenitors of a large and honorable family.


The Staudts of Pennsylvania come directly from the Palatinate and seem to be divided into two groups, that of Berks and that of Bucks county. On Aug. 30, 1737, there landed at Phil- adelphia, John Jacob, Johannes and Hans Adam Staudt, and on September 24th of the same year, Peter Staudt. These four, it is claimed, were brothers. The following year, Peter and Daniel arrived, and in 1741 another Peter, and these were joined in 1744 by George Wilhelm. It is believed that all of the above named were re-


lated. John Jacob settled at what is now Per- kasie, and was the father of the following chil- dren : Abraham, Henry K., Jacob, Hannah, Magdalena, Annie Margaret. Abraham was a man of prominence in his day, serving during the Revolution as a member of the Committee of Safety, also of the Committee of Observation, member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and of the Convention of 1789-90. The Stouts of Lehigh and Northampton counties are chiefly descendants of the Bucks group.


At the head of the Berks group stands John Michael Staudt, who took the oath of allegiance at Philadelphia Sept. 18, 1733. Tradition says that his father died at sea, and that the headship of the family fell upon him though he was only twenty-one years of age. How large the family was is not known, but that Mathias, aged eight, and Johannes, probably still younger, were in the group is certain, and it is quite probable that the family was even larger.


John Michael Stoudt was born 1711 or 1712, and died May 13, 1776, aged 63 years, 5 months and - days. His body and that of his wife, Barbara, were buried at the Berne church, of which he is said to have been one of the founders. On Oct. 25, 1737, there was surveyed for him a tract of land consisting of 180 acres on the west bank of the Schuylkill river opposite the "flat meadows." Later this number of acres was al- most doubled. The estate is beautifully located sloping towards the south and the river. The dwelling, a substantial stone building was built over a fine spring of water, no doubt in order to have water in case of an Indian attack. The scenery along the river is romantic, a bridge now spans the river where formerly a ferry was the means of crossing. The bridge is known as Stoudt's Ferry bridge. To him and his good wife Barbara, were born ten children: Johannes, Jacob, Michael, George, William, John George, Jost, Anna Barbara, Catherine, Apolonia, and Elisabeth. John Michael Staudt frequently acted as sponsor and guardian, The first act thus re- corded is found in the baptismal record of Rev. John Casper Stoever, when he, John Michael Staudt and Elisabeth Brauer stood sponsor for Elisabeth, a daughter of Jacob Amman, of Schuyl- kill, on April 29, 1735. He was naturalized as a citizen of Berks county on April 10 or II, 1761, at which time he declared that he had taken the Sacrament on April 1, 1761.


Mathias, (1725-1795), was married to Anna Margaret Schrader, (Oct. 13, 1728-May 22, 1797). They lived in Bern township and were members of the Berne Reformed congregation, where their ashes repose. To them were born five children: John; Mathias; Jacob; Catharine


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Maria, married to Thomas Umbenhauer; and Elizabeth.


John (Johannes) Stoudt, settled in Bruns- wick township, now Schuylkill county, where he had an estate of one hundred acres. He died prior to Oct. 28, 1773, when his eldest son, John, about fourteen years of age, petitioned the court that his uncle, Michael Staudt, of Bern town- ship, be appointed his guardian. Nov. 1I, 1773, Michael Staudt was also appointed guardian for the other three children of John Staudt, of Bruns- wich ; Daniel, 13 years of age, Jacob, II years of age, and Anna Margreth, 81/2 years of age. Mi- chael Staudt died May 13, 1776, and it became necessary for the court to appoint new guardians for the children of John. On May 14, 1777, John Stoudt, of Maiden Creek, was appointed guardian for Anna Margreth and George Wil- liam Stoudt, of Maiden Creek, for Daniel and Jacob.


Jacob Staudt, son of Michael, was born in Bern township, Nov. 12, 1738, and died in Rich- mond township in Jan. 20, 1802. His remains and those of his wife lie buried at St. John's Union church, Kutztown, Pa. He is recorded as having a tract of land consisting of 95 acres in Bern township in 1768. In 1790 he removed from Bern township to Richmond township, hav- ing purchased the farm now owned by Edwin Kutz. Margretha, the wife of Jacob Staudt, died cir 1819 and was also buried at Kutztown. To them were born the following children : John Jacob, born May 17, 1776; Adam, (1777- 1853); John Henry, born May 17, 1780; Dan- iel ; Barbara, married to John Schucker ; Mary, married to Michael Knittle; Catharine, born Oct. 27, 1793, died May 28, 1804; and Eliza- beth, married to William Ebling.


Daniel, son of Jacob and grandson of John Michael, was a distiller by trade. He resided in Maiden Creek township, but his declining years were spent in and about Kutztown, where he died in 1853 and was buried in Hottenstein's private cemetery. His wife, a Miss Bowman, whose parents removed to Ohio, and lived neighbors to the Breyfogel family, is said to have been one of the best spinners of her day, both as to quality and quantity, also that she spun all her sewing thread. Their children were: Adam, moved to Logansport, Ind., where he died; George, married Hannah Borrel, and reared a family of nine children; Reuben, is mentioned below ; Frank, died unmarried ; Margaretha, mar- ried Jacob Saul, of Molltown; Polly and Han- nah died unmarried; Maria, married Joseph Hampshire and lived at Bower's Station; Hettie Esther, died young; Isaac, served in the Mexican


War, and soon after his return left again for the Western country.


Reuben, the third son of Daniel, married Han- nah Koch, daughter of John Koch and his wife Catharine (Gehret), and this union was blessed with the following children: Benjamin, who located at Pine Grove, Schuylkill county, but his descendants live chiefly in Lebanon county ; Dan- iel, who located at Circleville, Ohio; William, who located at Pottstown, Schuylkill county ; Henry; Kate, who died unmarried; Hannah, married to Mr. Lobo and living in Chicago; Reuben, who was killed in the Civil War; Sam- uel, who settled in Carlisle, Pa .; Charles, who died of disease contracted in the Civil War; James, who served in the Civil War and after- ward located in California; Melinda and Ellen, unmarried, who live at Reading; and Sarah, who married a Mr. Yingst, and lives at Carlisle.


Henry Stoudt, son of Reuben, was born March 27, 1827, and died Sept. 23, 1859. He was mar- ried to Otilla, a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Oswald) Reppert. She was born Dec. 12, 1827 and died Aug. 3, 1877. Their remains were buried at DeLong Reformed church, of which they were members. They resided at Topton, where he died of hiccough. This union was blessed with six children: John, Hannah, Fran- cis, Oliver, Daniel, and Lucius.


John R. Stoudt, son of Henry and Otilla Stoudt, was born Feb. 10, 1848. His father died when he was a mere boy and he was hired out among strangers. He was reared on the farm and received but a common school education, and later learned the art of milling. On June 10, 1876, he was married to Anna Amanda, daughter of Charles and Anna (Carl) Baer. (See Baer Family.) The following year he engaged in farming, which occupation he continued up to the time of his death, Feb. 3, 1907. He was well read, a good farmer and a fine stock man, breed- ing blooded stock. Mr. and Mrs. Stoudt were members of the Reformed Church and were con- firmed at DeLong's church, Bowers', Berks coun- ty. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Stoudt removed to Fleetwood, where she and the family reside. The ashes of Mr. Stoudt repose on the family burial plot in the Fleetwood cemetery. To Mr. and Mrs. Stoudt were born the following six children : Charles Henry, a moulder by trade, is married to Minnie Lease, has two children, Mabel and Charles, and resides in Reading; Rev. John Baer, see below; George B., a machinist, resides at Topeka, Kansas, and has four sons: Calvin, Francis, Paul, and Kenneth; Jacob, a moulder, is married to Katie Kline, resides at Fleetwood and has two daughters, Anna and Esther ; Annie L., at home, is married to John


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Herring, a bricklayer and has one son, Harold Robert; Frederick M., of the firm Stoudt & Schlegel, tin roofers and metal workers, resides with his mother.


REV. JOHN B. STAUDT.


Rev. John Baer Stoudt, pastor of Grace Re- formed congregation, was born in Maxatawny township, Berks county, Pa., Oct. 17, 1878, and later removed with his parents to Richmond township, near Fleetwood. He was reared on the farm, attended the local public schools and the Fleetwood high school. In 1896 he was li- censed to teach in the public schools, which pro- fession he followed for three years. He was graduated from the Keystone Normal School in 1900, and Franklin and Marshall College in 1905. While at the normal school and at col- lege he took an active interest in literary and oratorical work, winning a number of collegiate and inter-collegiate prizes. After graduating from college, he entered the Eastern Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church from which he was graduated with honors in 1908. During the summer of 1906 he studied theology in the University of Chicago. On June 3, 1908, he was examined and licensed to preach the Gospel by Lehigh Classis at Jacksonville, Lehigh county. On September Ist of the same year, he accepted a call from the Salisbury charge, consisting of the congregations of New Jerusalem, Western Salis- bury ; St. John's, Emaus; and St. Mark's, South Allentown, and was ordained and installed on Sunday evening, September 27th, in St. Mark's church, South Allentown. The committee were Revs. M. H. Brensinger, T. H. Krick and T. M. Reber. While pastor of the Salisbury charge, the charge was reconstructed, the congregation chartered and the congregational and benevolent offerings double. Having received a unanimous call from Grace Reformed congregation, North- ampton, Pa., he removed from Emaus to North- ampton, Feb. 9th, in which field of labor he still continues.


Though popular as a preacher and pastor, Rev. Stoudt is known to the public at large as an antiquarian and historian. His researches are confined mainly to the life, literature, manners and customs, religion and folklore of the Penn- sylvania Germans. His contributions to the his- toric lore of his own people have been many and varied and he is being recognized as an authority in this particular line of research. He is the author of a history of the Reformed con- gregation of Western Salisbury, a history of Grace Reformed congregation, Northampton, Pa .; the Life and Services of Col. John Sieg- fried; the Nursery Rhymes and Riddles of the


Pennsylvania; the Proverbs and Sayings of the Pennsylvania Germans ; House Mottoes and other inscriptions, etc., etc. He is a member of the American Society of Folklore, the Penna. German Society (executive committee) ; the Lancaster, Berks, Lehigh and Northampton Historical So- cieties.


On Oct. 15, 1908, he was united in holy wed- lock with Elizabeth A. DeLong, a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Yoder) DeLong. (See De- Long Family). This union is blessed with one son, John Joseph, born March 11, 19II. Mrs. Stoudt is a member of Liberty Chapter, Daugh- ters of American Revolution.


George Wilhelm Staudt, son of John Michael Staudt, the emigrant, was born on the old home- stead at Stoudt's Ferry, in Berne township, Berks county, Jan. 12, 1748, and died on his plan- tation in Maiden Creek township, Sept. 17, 1820. He possessed a farm of 150 acres in Berne town- ship, but cir 1785 he removed to Maiden Creek township, where he resided until the time of his death. He was married to Christina Weiden- hammer, a daughter of Johannes (1726-1804). and Margreth (1727-1812) Weidenhammer. They were members of the St. John's Reformed congregation at Kutztown, where their ashes as well as some of their descendants repose. They had the following children: George; Margaret, married to David Gross (1775-1831) ; Joseph, born 1773, died 1817; Magdalina, born Aug. II, 1778, married to John Mohr; Daniel; Maria, married to Daniel Mertz; Adam; Jacob; and Catharine, married to Daniel Meckly.


Jacob Stoudt, great-grandfather of Stanley H. Stoudt, who was a farmer near Calcium, in Maiden Creek township, married a Miss Reeser, and they had these children: Jacob, married a Miss Hill; Benneville; Daniel, married Eliza- beth Forney; Joel, married Eliza Rickenbach ; and Rebecca, married Issac Huy.


Benneville Stoudt, who was also a farmer, car- ried on operations near Molltown, in Maiden Creek township. He married Hettie Bernt, and they had nine children, as follows: John; Wil- liam, married Emma Brown and has had seven children ; Alvin; David ; Benneville ; Oneida, de- ceased ; Laura; Jennie; and Carrie; Lewis B .; Edwin B .; George B .; Racy, married Abraham Heffner and has four children: Samuel, Mary, Sallie, and Susan; Mary, married John Adams and has three children: John, Edgar, and Hettie ; Sallie, married Ezra High and has two children : Hettie and Lena; and Wilson, died when nearly twenty-one years old.


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township, Berks county, Pa., Sept. 12, 1842. He was reared on the farm and at the age of 18 be- gan contracting hauling iron ore for the Bethle- hem and Reading Coal and Iron Company. He afterward engaged in farming which he continued until 1910, when he removed to Alburtis and now makes his home with his son, Stanley H. Mr. Stoudt was married to Emma Hawkins, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Kauffman) Hawkins. She died Sept. 3, 1909. This union was blessed with seven children: Stanley H .; Benneville, an engineer and resides at Emaus, Pa .; John, a lumber dealer, residing in Huntington County, Pa .; Elizabeth, married to Thomas Mer- kel, a farmer in Longswamp township, Berks county, Pa .; Wilson, Allentown, Pa .; Calvin, a farmer in Upper Macungie ; and Victoria, mar- ried to Milton Beidler, of Longswamp. Mr. Stoudt is a member of St. Peter's Reformed con- gregation in which he served as trustee, deacon and was a member of the building committee. In politics he is a Democrat.


STANLEY H. STOUDT, the proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, at Alburtis, was born and reared on the farm and received a common school educa- tion. At the age of twenty-two he entered into the employ of the Blandon Rolling Mill as a puddler and continued for a period of eight years. After which he conducted a hotel in Blandon for two years and the Hensinger House in Alburtis for one year, when he again returned to his former occupation for one year, when he returned to Al- burtis and conducted the American House for one year. In 1904, he purchased the Eagle Hotel at Alburtis, which he has conducted ever since. The Eagle Hotel is one of the well known taverns in the county and Mr. Stoudt, who is progres- sive, enjoys the patronage of the best traveling public. Mr. and Mrs. Stoudt know how to cater to people and make the stranger feel at home. Mrs. Stoudt (Agnes Elizabeth Laub), is a daugh- ter of James and Elizabeth ( Scheid) Laub, Lyons Station. They were married June 22, 1889, and are members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Stoudt is a Democrat in politics. Fraternally he enjoys fellowship in the following orders: K. of G. E., No. 80; I. O. O. F., No. 108; and Jr. O. U. A. M.


STRASSBURGER FAMILY.


The first Straussburger who settled in Penn- sylvania was a native of Ober-Ingleheim, a vil- lage on the south of the Rhine, between Bingen and Mayence, in the midst of a rich wine pro- ducing district. There is a handsome Protestant church in Ober-Ingleheim which dates from the Thirteenth century, and among the records still


preserved there are some agreeing exactly with those in possession of the family in this country.


In the Pennsylvania Archives we find that among those who came to America on the ship "Loyal Judith," from Rotterdam, was Johann Andreas Strassburger. He qualified September 3, 1742. His age is given as twenty-five years. Again, among those who came on the ship "Minerva," from Rotterdam, via Portsmouth, was Johann Andreas Strassburger. He qualified October 13, 1769. The signatures in both cases are precisely the same. It is probable that it was the same person, and that after the first voyage he returned to Ober-Ingleheim, married, and in 1769 brought his two children to Penn- sylvania and remained there. The dates are as follows: Johann Andreas Strassburger was the eldest of the eight children of Johann Ulrich Strassburger and his wife, Maria Elizabeth, and was born January 19, 1716; he married Cath- arina Rosina Kolb, in 1751; she died at Ober- Ingelheim, March 15, 1771. Their children were Christine, born October 2, 1751 ; and Jo- hann Andreas, born January 24, 1754. Some of the family are still living in Ober-Ingleheim and the house, a very substantial stone building two and a half stories high, where the first Jo- hann Andreas was born, is still standing though it is not now owned by the family.




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