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Thomas Henry, son of Thomas Henry and Prudence (Wear) Trevena, was born in Beaver Meadows, April 23, 1876. At the age of six years he became a pupil in the public schools, which he attended until 1886. He then com- menced working as a slate picker, and attended the evening schools until 1892. His first position was with W. T. Carter, at Coleraine, Carbon county, Pennsylvania, where he picked slate at the breakers from 1886 to 1889; was office boy, 1889 to 1891 ; oil supply boy, 1891-1892, and a member of the repair gang, 1892-1895, after which he resigned his position. He next entered the employ of Coxe Brothers, having charge of the running of cars in the mines, 1895-1896. His
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next post was with W. T. Carter, at Coleraine, as handy man, inside and outside the mines, 1896-1897; section man in the mines, 1897- 1899. He then commenced working in Allen- town in the Allentown Rolling Mill, doing this from April to November, 1899, when he abandoned this position. Afterward he was em- ployed by the American Steel and Wire Works, at Allentown, from November, 1899, until Feb- ruary 6, 1904, during which time he became an expert machinist. He then had in succession the following places: L. F. Grammes & Sons, as ma- chinist ; the American Car Works, at Berwick, Pennsylvania; at West Pittstown, with the Exe- ter Machine Works; then to Elizabethport, with the Baldwin Locomotive Works; the Auto Car Works, at Philadelphia; then to Allen- town, in May, 1907, where he became machine- shop foreman of the American Steel and Wire Company, and held this position until December, 1910, when he was advanced 'to the office of master mechanic of the Allentown works. He is Republican in politics and a member of the Lin- den-Street Methodist Episcopal church. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows and of the Independent Order of America.
Mr. Trevena married, in December, 1912, Florence, a daughter of Louis Frank and Trivillia (Eisenhard) Wenner, of Allentown, and they have one child, Louis W.
TREXLER FAMILY.
Peter Trexler emigrated to America some time prior to 1720 and settled in Oley township, Berks county, where 'his name appears on a petition as early as Sept. 5, 1720." He afterward re- moved to Upper Macungie township, where he. is said to have been the first white settler. On Nov. 18, 1729, he purchased from Caspar Wistar 1383/4 acres of land west 'of where Breinigsville is now located, and the date of his deed precedes any yet found in the vicinity. On Nov. 1, 1742, he secured 100 acres by warrant, adjoining his other land on the west. He was naturalized in 1730. Peter Trexler died in 1758 and was buried on his land. He was a member of the Lutheran congregation at Ziegel church. His will, dated Dec. 17, 1744, was probated at Philadelphia, Oct. 21, 1758. The witnesses were Gittie Grim and George Schambach and in it he provided for his widow, Catharine, and bequeathed his eldest son £20, his youngest son £65, each daughter £20 and his second son, Peter, received, his land and was appointed executor. He had six chil- dren: Jeremiah; Peter; John; Anna; Cath- arine, married, Nov. 9, 1730, John George Schu- macher, and Margaret.
Peter Trexler, second son of Peter, was born
Feb. II, 1721. He received his father's land and added to it, until he owned 400 acres near Breinigsville. He was elected one of the first three county commissioners of Northampton county on Oct. 1, 1752, and in the French and Indian War was captain of a company of soldiers which garrisoned the frontier forts. In 1755 he was one of the trustees of the Wm. Parsons school at Easton, established for the purpose of teaching the English language to the Germans. He was a colonial justice of the peace from 1753 to 1776 and on June 3, 1777, was ap- pointed a justice of the peace under the new United States government. On Nov. 8, 1777, he was appointed one of the commissioners to collect clothing for the soldiers. He died Aug. 25, 1798, and is buried in the Trexler private cemetery on the John R. Gonser farm, near Breinigsville. He married Catharine Wink, daughter of Caspar and Gertrude (Kemp) Wink, who was born Aug. 7, 1728, and died Aug. 14, 1815. They had seven children: Peter; John ; Maria Christina; Rachel, married Philip Fogel ; Gertrude, married Henry Grim; Jonathan and Elizabeth, married Peter Christman. Maria Christina, born Nov. 3, 1753, died Sept. 13, 1829, married, Aug. 13, 1776, Peter Haas and had ten children.
Peter Trexler, Jr., son of Peter, second, was born Aug. 15, 1748, and died March 13, 1828. He was a captain in the Revolutionary War, promoted to major in 1781 and in 1783 was chosen lieutenant colonel of the Third Battalion of the county. He was elected county commis- sioner in October, 1782, and was elected a mem- ber of the Assembly in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788. He removed to Mertztown, Berks county, where he died March 13, 1828. He married, Dec. 15, 1772, Catharine, daughter of Henry Grim. She was born July 30, 1757, and died July 7, 1828. They are buried on a private cemetery · near Mertztown. They had eleven children: Maria, born July 13, 1774, married John Folk; John Peter, born Jan. 2, 1777, died March 19, 1828, married Rachel Fogel, born Sept. 1I, 1784, died Jan. 1, 1867, and had chil- dren: Mrs. Caroline Harlacher, Mrs. Sarah Seiberling, Mrs. Maria Fogel and Jonas; Jacob, born Sept. 7, 1779; Reuben, born Nov. 22, 1781 ; Benjamin, born Feb. 3, 1784; Catharine, born Jan. 26, 1787, married Jonathan Haas; Jonas, born June 26, 1789, had children: Jonas, Wil- loughby, Abyle, David, Peter, Mrs. Sarah Lud- wig, Mrs. Angeline Ahlum and Mrs. Eliza Mil- ler ; Anna, born Oct. 16, 1791, married, first, Philip Dresher and had two children: Nathan and Mrs. Judith Reiter, and second, John' Al- bright. She died Sept. 5, 1855 ; Judith, born April
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9, 1795, married Rev. Isaac Roeller and died in 1885; Nathan, born Aug. 1, 1797, died Dec. 29, 1864, had children: Edwin H., Mrs. Schall, Mrs. Emma Grim and Mrs. Sarah Esterly ; Daniel, born Nov. 8, 1799, died unmarried.
Jacob Trexler, second son of Peter, was born Sept. 7, 1779, and died July 27, 1829. He mar- ried Lydia, daughter of Henry and Susanna (Romig) Egner. She was born March 20, 1783, and died Dec. 13, 1863. They had children : Reuben; David; Peter; Jacob; Mrs. Jesse Breinig; Catharine, married Jacob Breinig, and Mrs. Stephen Schmoyer.
Reuben Trexler was born July 5, 1804, and died Sept. 20, 1840. He married Sarah, daughter of George and Catharine (Reiss) Mattern, who was born July 15, 1807, and died Aug. 29, 1890. They had four children: Edwin W .; Jonas, born Sept. 29, 1828, died Feb. 3, 1908, married, June 11, 1874, Christiana R. Saeger ; Willough- by, and Sallie T., married Henry Leh.
Edwin W. Trexler, son of Reuben, was born in Upper Milford township, Oct. 27, 1826, on the farm purchased by his grandfather. He at- tended the local schools and became a clerk in a general store in Emaus. He later conducted a dry goods business at Easton for some years, but the confining nature of this occupation im- paired his health and in 1856 he removed to Allentown and engaged in the lumber business with his brothers. In later years, his sons, Harry C. and Edwin G., were admitted to the firm, which became E. W. Trexler and Sons. In 1890 Mr. Trexler retired and the business was developed until the Trexler Lumber Company is to-day one of the largest concerns in the coun- try. He then devoted himself entirely to farm- ing and breeding high-grade Holstein and Jersey cattle and was a prominent member of the Hol- stein-Friesian Association of America. Mr. Trexler was struck by a fast running freight train while crossing the P. & R. R. R. tracks near Emaus, not far from his farm, and instantly killed on July 10, 1900. He married, at Easton, in 1852, Matilda Saurbeck, daughter of William and Jane ( Magee) Sauerbeck. Mrs. Trexler was born Sept. 2, 1827, and died Nov. 7, 1914, aged eighty-seven years. They had four sons: Wil- liam, who died in infancy; Col. Harry C. Trex- ler; Edwin G. Trexler, and Hon. Frank M. Trexler, judge of the Superior Court of Pennsyl- vania.
COL. HARRY C. TREXLER.
Few residents of Lehigh county have attained greater prominence throughout the state, nor achieved more deserved success in business than Colonel Harry C. Trexler, eldest son of the
late Edwin W. Trexler. His untiring energy and marked ability have placed him among the leaders of industry in his native state. He was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, spent his early boyhood days in Allentown and received his edu- cation in the public schools of Lehigh county. Thereafter he became associated with his father in the lumber business, under the firni name of E. W. Trexler & Son. After the death of his father, Col. Trexler became the principal and senior partner of the firm, now known as the Trexler Lumber Company. Under his capable and energetic management, this concern has had a remarkable growth, at present having large yards at Allentown, Pa., and Newark, N. J., a large planing mill at Allentown, and saw mills at Allen, S. C., and Prentiss, Miss.
Colonel Trexler was one of the organizers of the Lehigh Portland Cement Company in 1897. This company has grown steadily until now it is one of the largest and most successful in the United States, with mills and offices scattered over the entire United States. Colonel Trexler has been president thereof since its organization.
He has been connected with the National Guard of Pennsylvania since 1895, when Gover- nor Hastings appointed him on his staff. This appointment was continued by Governors Stone and Pennypacker. Later he was appointed De- puty Commissary General by Governor Stuart, and then Quartermaster General by Governor Tener.
Agriculture in most of its branches, fish culture and game breeding are some of his noteworthy avocations. His orchards are known far and wide ; his model dairy, game preserve and trout hatchery are delightful places of interest for the sojourner in this section. His ranch at Jackson, Wyoming, is also worthy of comment.
Colonel Trexler is a trustee of Muhlenberg College, a trustee of St. Luke's Hospital, and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Le- high Valley Transit Company. He is also presi- dent of the Board of Trustees of the Homeo- pathic State Hospital for the Insane at Ritters- ville.
He is a member of many clubs and lodges, among which are the Elks, Odd Fellows, and the various Masonic bodies, the Livingston Club of Allentown, the Union League, Art Club, and Manufacturers' Club, of Philadelphia.
In politics he is a staunch and ardent Republi- Can and a firm believer in its principles and doc- trines.
Colonel Trexler married Mary M., daughter of William K. Mosser, one of the pioneer tan- ners of the state.
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HON. FRANK M. TREXLER.
Hon. Frank M. Trexler was born in
Allentown, Jan 9, 1861. He received his preparatory training in the public schools of the city and was graduated from the Allentown high school in 1876. He entered Muhlenberg Col- lege, where he graduated in 1879, with honor. He then studied law with Thomas B. Metzger, Esq., and was admitted to practice at the Lehigh county bar on April 10, 1882. He was elected city solicitor in 1885 and re-elected in 1887 and 1889. In 1902 he was associate counsel for the city at the time of the enlargement of the water supply. On Dec. 20, 1902, Governor Stone ap- pointed him president judge of the Lehigh county courts for the unexpired term of Judge Edwin Albright, who died Dec. 13, 1902, and in 1903, Judge Trexler was elected to the office for a term of ten years. In 1914 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court to succeed former Governor Beaver and in the fall of 1914 was elected to a ten-year term on the Superior Court bench by a large majority.
Judge Trexler is president of the Pennsylvania Juvenile Court and Probation Association, one of the organizers of the Pennsylvania Conser- vation Society and a member of the executive com- mittee of the Lehigh Valley Children's Welfare Society. He has been president of the Young Men's Christian Association since 1890 and is a member of the First Presbyterian church, which he has served as an official. He is a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl- vania German Society, Lehigh County Historical Society, Barger Lodge, No. 333, F. and A. M .; Allen R. A. Chapter, No. 203; Allen Council, No. 23, R & S. M .; Lehigh Lodge, No. 83, and Unity Encampment, No. 12, I. O. O. F. He married, Nov 7, 1889, Jennie R., daughter of Emanuel R. Shelling, and has five children : Dorothy, Edwin W., Frances M., Marion S. and Robert W.
A representative of the highest type of citizen- ship, Judge Trexler is wearing the judicial ermine with distinction to his state and with honor to himself and family.
Reuben Trexler, third son of Peter, Jr., was born Nov. 22, 1781, and died April 29, 1846. He was an ironmaster in Longswamp township, Berks county, and married Anna, daughter of Jacob Lesher, who was born Nov. 30, 1791, and died May 12, 1848. They had five children: Horatio; William; Lesher; Caroline, married William Schall of Norristown and Lucinda, mar- ried James Rittenhouse. Horatio Trexler was born in 1813, and died March 19, 1900. He operated iron furnaces from 1837 to 1869; re-
moved to Reading in 1848 and in 1853 bought a fourth interest in the Reading Iron Works; was president of the National Union Bank from 1873 to 1900; president of the Reading Gas Company from 1860 to 1900 and a member of St. James' Lutheran church. He married, first, Miss Hunter and had two daughters, Mrs. George B. Eckert and Mrs. Henry M. Keim, of Reading, and second, Mary L. Bell, who died Feb. 6, 1900.
Col. William Trexler, son of Reuben, was born Sept. 2, 1816, and died in Longswamp township, Dec. 19, 1905. He was a tanner, miller and merchant and was postmaster at Longswamp for fifty-three years. He was also justice of the peace and held membership in the Lutheran church and in Barger Lodge, No. 333, F. & A. M., of Allentown. He married, first, in 1842, Mary A., daughter of John Singmaster, of Macungie, who died in 1877. They had ten children: Reuben, Alonzo, Mrs. Anna Maltz- berger, Alvin S., William, Dr. Lesher A., John L. S., Mrs. Mary Weiler, Henry C. and Myra. He married, second, Amelia Schall, who died in February, 1890. Dr. Lesher Trexler, son of Reuben, located at Fort Wayne, Ind. Mrs. Anna Wertz and Mrs. Millie Judith Reno, of Allentown, are daughters of Doctor Trexler.
Benjamin Trexler, fourth son of Peter, Jr., was born February 3, 1784, and died June 20, 1855. He settled, first, in the Catawissa Valley, but in 1825 moved to Albany, Berks county. He married, first, March 10, 1805, Maria Drescher and had eleven children: Daniel, Benjamin, Amos, Fianna, Jonas, Aaron, Jairus, Anna, Nathan and Peter. He married, second, June 13, 1823, Catharine Bolich and had a daughter, Catharine.
John Trexler, second son of Peter, second, was born Oct. 12, 1750, and died June 22, 1829. He removed to York county and had a son, Solomon, whose son, Daniel, lived in that county in 1869. John Trexler was buried on the Gonser farm.
Jonathan Trexler, youngest son of Peter, sec- ond, was born May 1, 1762, and died May II, 1846. He was a farmer near Breinigsville and served in the Revolutionary War. He married Elizabeth Harlacher, born Jan. 9, 1772, died April 3, 1854. They are buried on the Gonser farm. They had eight children: Sophia, born March 4, 1793, died Oct. 9, 1864, unmarried ; Anna, born Nov. 10, 1794, died Feb. 21, 1885, married Gen. Benjamin Fogel ; Diana, born Jan. 7, 1799, married Joseph Schmoyer; Catharine, born Oct. 22, 1801, married Joseph Miller ; Jonathan, born Nov. 25, 1803; Lydia, born
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Sept. 1, 1807, married John Metzger and Solo- mon, born May 21, 1810, died Aug. 31, 1814.
Jeremiah Trexler, the eldest son of Peter, the emigrant, secured land adjoining that of his father on the east, where he kept a tavern as early as 1732. In 1735 a road was laid out from his tavern, through Zionsville, Shimersville, Hosensack and Kraussdale to Montgomery county. About 1760 he removed to Easton, where he was tax collector in 1768 and on Nov. II, 1776, became a member of the General Com- mittee of Northampton county and at the meet- ing held the same day he was appointed a mem- ber of the standing committee. He later sold his property at Easton and returned to Macungie township, where he died in 1783. Jeremiah and Maria Catharine Trexler had children: Peter, Margaret, married to John Albright, and John. Peter, son of Jeremiah, was born in 1727. He married Maria Catharine Albright, daughter of Joseph and Katharine Albright, sold his land to George Breinig and removed to Lower Merion township, Montgomery county, where he rented, in 1780, 750 acres from Charles Thompson. He died Nov. 7, 1784, and is buried at Ardmore. Among his children was a son, Jeremiah, born in 1751.
John Trexler, son of Jeremiah, received from his father in 1760 two tracts of twenty-two and thirty-one acres and also kept a tavern located at Trexlertown. After the death of his first wife, Maria Elizabeth, he married Susanna, widow of John Hassler and daughter of Casper Bauer. The Hassler family were captured by the In- dians in the Revolutionary War, one of the children being scalped. The father escaped, but the wife and children continued in captivity for three years, when they were released, excepting Jacob and Elizabeth. John Trexler, in his will dated January 26th, and probated March 10, 1795, gives £50 to his wife, Susanna, for life, after her death to be divided among his step- children, "of which Jacob Hassler and Elizabeth are prisoners by the Indians." John Trexler's children were: Peter; Jeremiah; Emanuel, who went West; Ferdinand; Philipina Albright; Margaret Kroner; Maria Elizabeth, and Israel. His widow subsequently married John Lehr and died in 1824, aged seventy years.
Jeremiah Trexler, son of John, received the Trexlertown tavern from his father in 1786 and kept it until 1824, when he sold it to David Schall. He was many years a justice of the peace, and died Feb. 25, 1827. He married Elizabeth Reiss, and had seven children: John, born April 18, 1773; Catharine, born Sept. 5, 1775; Margaret, born Feb. 26, 1780, married Andrew Shiffert; Charles, born Dec. 3, 1782;
James, born June 11, 1790; Lucas, born March 21, 1795, and Jeremiah, born April 17, 1785, who became a tailor, and lived near the Cedar creek. James Trexler married Elizabeth Leiben- good and had children: J. Allen, W. H. H. and Mrs. Jacob Schall. J. Allen Trexler was born Oct. 2, 1831, and died Sept. 20, 1914. He served in Company F, Forty-seventh Regiment in the Civil War, and kept the Lehigh Hotel for many years. He married Margaret Sattler and had two sons, Wm. J., deceased, and Henry A., born Oct. 5, 1859, died Aug. 30, 1905, proprietor of the Trexler House from 1890 to 190I.
Ferdinand Trexler, son of John, was born June 15, 1769. He and his wife, Catharine, had children: Benjamin, Catharine and John. Benjamin was a shoemaker, constable and militia captain in Longswamp township, Berks county. He had three children in his first marriage and in his second marriage to Rachel Wetzel, born 1796, died 1876, had one son, Benjamin F. Trex- ler, born Feb. 25, 1827, who has been engaged in newspaper work for seventy years. At the age of thirteen he learned the printer's trade in the Friedensbote office and in 1848, with Reuben Guth, edited and published the Lecha Patriot. In 1854 he founded the Welt Bote, which he published over thirty-eight years, and from 1858 to 1867, published the Republikaner. In 1870 he became one of the proprietors of the Friedens- bote, which he edited for twenty-three years, when he retired. He later again became editor of the paper until the age of eighty-five, when he again retired. He married, Nov. 11, 1849, Diana, daughter of David Walter. They had two sons: Herman, born 1851, died 1899, mar- ried Jennie, daughter of Solomon Ziegler, and had children: Annie M., Florence M., Cora D., Blanche R. and Ralph B .; and Julius W., who married Katie, daughter of Lewis M. Engel- man. and had children : Helen D., Benj. F., who died in infancy, and Miriam E.
Israel Trexler, youngest son of John, was born in Macungie township and removed to Hanover township, along the Lehigh river, where he owned a tract of eighteen acres, now owned by his grandson, Theodore E. He served in the War of 1812 and had nine children: Emanuel, Jonathan, Israel, Jr., John J., Reuben A., Abra- ham R., Charles H., Polly, married James Bush, and Mrs. Solomon Wandel.
John J. Trexler, son of Israel, was elected as a Democrat to the office of county treasurer in 1878 and was also a school director in Han- over township. He conducted a lime-burning business in Hanover with his brother until his death in 1855, when his sons, Milton A., and
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Theodore E. succeeded him. He was a member of the Swedenborgian Church. He married Han- nah Miller and had four children: Martin F., Milton A., Theodore E. and Margaret E., mar- ried Marcus Krause, of West Bethlehem.
THEODORE E. TREXLER, who resides at the corner of Pike and Linden streets, East Allen. town, was born in that locality, April 15, 1851. In 1886 he succeeded his father in the lime burn ing business and in connection with that busi- ness he dealt largely in limestone, giving employ- ment to ten men. He succeeded his father in the ownership of the old homestead, but this is now cut up into building lots and a number of houses have been built upon it. He retired from ac- tive business in June, 1911, and was succeeded by his sons, John L. and Constantine M. In 1906 he erected the large residence where he re- sides. He was married, first, to Sarah A. Hop- per and they had three children: Annie F., mar- ried Clarence R. Randolph, of Allentown; John L., and Constantine M., and after her decease he married as his second wife, Emma L. Rein- hart.
CONSTANTINE M. TREXLER was born Dec. II, 1882, in East Allentown, where he attended the common schools, and was graduated from the American Business College in 1898. He as- sisted his father in business until 1911, when he and his brother, John L., became their father's successor. Trexler Brothers employ ten men and they operate the limestone quarry at the eastern end of the Lehigh bridge, which has been oper- ated by the Trexler family for many years. He married Mary E. Haney, a daughter of James Haney and they have a daughter, Eleanor A.
Benjamin Trexler, son of Nathan, was a farmer at the Iron Bridge, in South Whitehall town- ship, Lehigh county. He was born in Albany township, Berks county, and died April 10, 1883. He married Fannie I. Seidel, a daughter of Wil- liam and Susanna (Dreibelbis) Seidel, of Wind- sor township, Berks county, and had two sons, Edward and William B. After the death of Mr. Trexler, his widow became the second wife of W. A. Fraunfelder, a farmer near Lenharts- ville, Pa.
WILLIAM B. TREXLER, M.D., of Fullerton, was born at the Iron Bridge, this county, April 5, 1883. He was educated in the common schools and at the Kutztown State Normal School, and in the fall of 1902 entered the Medico Chirurgical Col- lege, Philadelphia, from which he was gradu- ated June 2, 1906. He located at Fullerton, where he became the second physician, and has been the only one to remain permanently to this time. In 1907 he purchased the residence at the corner of Second and Chestnut streets, which
he remodeled. He is one of the busy and suc- cessful practitioners of the county. In 1911 he was elected the physician to the County Alms- house, and he still serves this position. He is a member of the Lehigh County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania Medical Society, and the Amer- ican Medical Association ; also of Porter Lodge, No. 284, F. & A. M., and Catasauqua Chapter, No. 278, R. A. M., both of Catasauqua; of Camp, No. 278, P. O. S. of A., at Virginsville, Pa., of Fullerton Beneficial Association, and of the Modern Woodmen of the World, for whom he is the medical examiner.
He was married in November, 1906, to Min- nie I. Mengel, daughter of James and Harriet (Strausser) Mengel, of Windsor township, Berks county, and they have a daughter, Rachel H.
David Trexler, who was a farmer in Lower Saucon township, was the father of Daniel Trex- ler, who was in early life a farmer in that town- ship and later became a resident of Allentown, where he was superintendent of the carpenter shop of the Allentown Rolling Mills for eighteen years, and for ten years had charge of the city water works. He married Hannah Sallada and had five children : Ellen, married Thomas Leiser ; Eudia; Emma, married Wm. Mack; Daniel D., and Hester M., married George H. Bear.
Daniel D. Trexler, son of Daniel, was born in Allentown, April 24, 1861, and learned the trades of carpenter and machinist. He oc- cupied a position as head machinist in the employ of the Rapid Transit Company and later in the employ of the Lehigh Valley Traction Company, continuing in their service for ten years.
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