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George E. Weida, youngest son of Owen, is the third generation of his family who have re- sided on the Weida homestead near the Lynn- ville church in Lynn township. He was born on the place in 1886. After his father's death he purchased the property and he now carries on the farm. He is a member and deacon of the Lutheran congregation of the Lynnville church. He was married on October 13, 1908,
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to Hattie, daughter of William A. Reinert, of New Tripoli and they have a daughter, Marian.
Daniel Weida, of Long Swamp township, was married to Eliza Weiler, and their chil- dren were: (1) John W .; (2) James; (3) Pe- ter; (4) Daniel; (5) Elizabeth (Mrs. Wil- liam Smith) ; (6) Louisa, (Mrs. William Big- ony) ; and (7) Sarah, ( Mrs. Charles Hammon).
John W. Weida, the eldest son of Daniel was born in Long Swamp township, Berks county, and was educated in the public schools. He married Sarah J. Butz. Issue : (1) Jerome, mar- ried to Emily Hamsher, and is a practicing phy- sician in Philadelphia.
James Weida, son of Daniel and Eliza (Weil- er) Weida, (1835-1907) married Angelina Walbert (1839-1912), a daughter of Peter and Mary A. Walbert. Issue: (1) Sylvester, mar- ried Union Wilson, Philadelphia ; (2) John R., married Mary Bortz, Allentown; (3) Eliza J .; (4) Ella ( Mrs. Walter Jackson) ; (5) Clara V. and Bright R. Weida.
BRIGHT R. WEIDA, son of James, was born Feb. 26, 1883, and educated in the public schools, after which he worked at the silk mill at Al- burtis, for 5 years. He entered upon railroad work in 1903, becoming an operator relief agent, and in 1912 was appointed station agent at Emaus, Pa. He is a member of the Evangelical church.
Jonathan Weida, a miller, of Emaus, married Catherine Zimmer, and they had children: (1) Louisa (Mrs. Horace Shutz) ; (2) Amos; (3) James, Allentown ; (4) Carrie (Mrs. Lafayette Brown) ; (5) Daniel, of Reading; (6) Judith, (Mrs. Edward Hafer) ; (7) George; (8) Mary at home.
George Weida, the fourth son of Jonathan, was educated in the public schools and at an early age learned the trade of miller, in his fa- ther's mill and also that of carpenter. In 1910 he purchased W. H. Seem's milk route, at Emaus. He is a member of the Lutheran church at Emaus and has served it for 6 years, as a deacon. He married Mamie Miller, a daughter of Henry and Emma (Shantz) Miller. Issue: Clarence, Francis and Emily.
ISADORE J. WEIDA, M. D., was born Oct. 17, 1866, in Longswamp township, Berks county, and was educated in the public schools, Wyoming Seminary and the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1890. He also took a post-grad- uate course at the Phiadelphia Polyclinic. He became the physician for the Clearfield Bitumi- nous Coal Company, and the Beech Creek R. R. Co. He was for a time at Patton, Pa. Then in 1892 removed to Emaus, Pa., having pur-
chased the Hammond property, on Main street. He is president of the board of health, and a member of the board of trade of Emaus borough.
Dr. Weida married Jennie A. Long, a daugh- ter of Marcus and Eliza (Trexler) Long. Is- sue : Emily and Esther Weida.
WETHERHOLD FAMILY.
On Oct. 22, 1754, there arrived at Philadel- phia two brothers named John Nicholas and John Jacob Wetherholt. They had probably both seen military service in Germany, as they entered the army of the province soon after their arrival. John Nicholas was born in 1724 and on Dec. 21, 1755, was commissioned captain in the First Battalion of the Second Pennsylvania Regiment. He was in command of Fort Everett during the French and Indian War and the muster roll of his company is given in the chap- ter relating to that war. In 1762 he resided in Heidelberg township, where he was taxed in 1764 on seventy acres of land.
John Jacob Wetherhold was commissioned lieutenant in Major Parson's town guard on Dec. 21, 1755, and in April, 1756, was stationed at Dietz Blockhouse. On Sept. 21, 1756, he was commissioned captain, and on Sept. 2, 1757, was paid £88 6s. 6d. for enlisting fifty-three men in the provincial service. He was a man of un- daunted courage and believed that he was in- vulnerable to bullets. He remained in the provincial service and on Oct. 7, 1763, left Beth- lehem with Lieut. Jonathan Dodge, Sergeant Laurence McGuire and a small party of soldiers on the way to Fort Allen. The party stopped for the night at the tavern of John Stenton, about a mile north of Howertown, in the Irish settle- ment. Early next morning, October 8th, Cap- tain Wetherhold ordered one of the men to get his horse ready and as he opened the door he was shot and instantly killed by a party of Indians who had surrounded the tavern. Cap- tain Wetherhold then went to the door and was mortally wounded. The sergeant then attempted to pull in the captain and shut the door, but was dangerously wounded. The lieutenant suc- ceeded in closing the door, but meanwhile other Indians shot Stenton, the landlord, through a window, who ran a mile and then dropped dead.
Captain Wetherhold crawled to a window and shot an Indian dead, who was about to set fire to the house. The other Indians then took their comrade's body and left, going toward the Le- high. On the way they killed several persons and crossing the river into Whitehall township, killed and wounded fifteen or twenty persons, a full account of which is given in the chapter on the massacre of 1763. A few hours later the
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news reached Bethlehem and a small armed force was sent to bring the wounded men for surgical treatment. Captain Wetherhold died the next day, Oct. 9, 1763, at the Crown Inn and was buried on the tenth in the graveyard that was located near Second and Ottawa streets, South Bethlehem. Captain Wetherhold resided in Lynn township, where his widow, Susanna, and his three children, Jacob, Susanna and Cath- arine, resided in 1764, on a tract of 150 acres, which he owned. In 1766 his widow married Michael Kern.
Jacob Wetherhold, the son, had a son, John Wetherhold, of whom tradition says that on a certain occasion he rode away from home on a white horse and never returned, having doubt- less been killed by Indians. His widow later sold the land and removed from the township. They had three sons: Joseph, William and George. William settled in Illinois, married a Miss Boyer and had a daughter named Ella.
Joseph Wetherhold became a farmer and tan- ner and the owner of the homestead. He later removed to Allentown, where he resided at the southeast corner of Eleventh and Hamilton streets, and died in 1859. He married Sarah Acker and had four children: Nathan; Elias; Anna, born Oct. 5, 1819, died Feb. 16, 1906, married Joseph Kline, and Lydia, married Joel Haas. They were members of the Reformed Church.
Nathan Wetherhold, son of Joseph, was a farmer and tanner at Lyon Valley. He married Polly, daughter of John and Sophia (Ebert) Mosser, of Mosserville. They had eight children : Araminta, married Peter Werlev; Helena, mar- ried D. Frank Knerr; Sarah S., married John A. Knerr; Aquila, married Francis A. Peter ; John W., of Ballietsville, who married Amelia Bachman; Ida, married Charles Boger; James A., married Alice Peter, and George A.
GEORGE A. WETHERHOLD, shoe merchant of Allentown, a member of the firm of Wetherhold & Metzgar, located at No. 714 Hamilton street, was born at Lyon Valley, in Lowhill township, Lehigh county, Jan. 17, 1866. He attended the township schools and later pursued a course of advanced study at the Allentown Business Col- lege, after which he was employed for a year as a clerk in a general store at Danville, Mon- tour county, Pa., and then at Allentown as a clerk in the shoe department of H. Leh & Co. for some time. There he was promoted to the head of this department and filled this position for ten years, his service with this firm cover- ing a period of twenty-one years. In 1908 Mr. Wetherhold and Owen W. Metzgar organized the present firm of Wetherhold & Metzgar, and
they have conducted a successful business until the present time. He and his family are mem- bers of St. John's Lutheran church, in which he served as a member of the vestry for one term.
On Oct. 3, 1894, Mr. Wetherhold was mar- ried to Mary M. Daeufer, daughter of Francis and Mary (Schmucker) Daeufer, of Allentown. Their children are: Marie D. and Leila D.
Elias Wetherhold, son of Joseph, was born Feb. 12, 1826, in Lowhill township. He was reared on his father's farm and became a mer- chant at Hynemansville, where he successfully carried on business for forty years and was post- master for over thirty years. He married Amelia E., daughter of David and Magdalena (Neff) Stein, who now resides in Allentown. Mr. Wetherhold was a member of the Reformed Church and died May 4, 1889. He had seven children: Chester D., Charles A., Annie, Syl- vester, Edward H., Ella S. and William F.
CHARLES A. WETHERHOLD, merchant of Al- lentown, son of Elias, was born June 23, 1862, on his father's farm at Hynemansville, in Weisen- berg township, and there he was brought up and employed until he became twenty years of age, having in the meantime received his education in the township school, and in business colleges, at Allentown and Easton. He was then em- ployed at farming and storekeeping at Wads- worth, O., and Kempton, Pa., for three years, when he secured a position as clerk in a large hotel at Milford, Del., and remained there four years. His father having died, he then conducted the farming operations until 1906, when the stock was sold and he removed to Allentown, where he became a member of the Wetherhold Grocery Company, located at Nos. 212-14 North Fifth street, and he has continued in the business until the present time. While at Hynemansville he filled the office of postmaster for ten years and was a member of the Reformed congregation at the Seiberling Union church, which he served as a deacon.
In 1881 Mr. Wetherhold was married to Sallie A. Leiby, daughter of Daniel Leiby, of Mosserville, in Lynn township, and they have three children: Ralph V., Mark A. and Ange- line, a school teacher of Allentown.
EDWARD H. WETHERHOLD, jeweler of Allen- town, son of Elias, was born July 2, 1867, at Hynemansville, in Weisenberg township, and there attended the public school. He then en- tered his father's general store at that place and served as a clerk until he became seventeen years old, when he learned the trade of jeweler at Hamburg, in Berks county. After working at his trade for several years at different places, he embarked in the jewelry business for himself at
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Allentown in 1890 and has carried it on there with increasing success until the present time. He was first located on North Seventh street and in 1895 removed to 738 Hamilton street. In 1906 he purchased the premises at No. 723 Hamilton street and since then has been located at that stand. He has become affiliated with Greenleaf Lodge, No. 561, F. & A. M .; Allen R. A. Chapter, No. 203; and Allen Lodge, No. 71, I. O. O. F.
In 1900 Mr. Wetherhold was married to Annie C Lawfer, daughter of Wm. R. and Hannah (Kleppinger) Lawfer, of Allentown, and they had two sons, William E. and John, the latter having died in his boyhood. They are members of Salem Reformed church. He served as a member of the choir for seven years and of the consistory for six years.
George Wetherhold, the third son of John, was born Feb. 17, 1801, in Lynn township and learned the trade of tailor, which he carried on for a time. He removed to Allentown and con- ducted a hotel business for upward of thirty years, at the northwest corner of Seventh and Hamilton street, for six years, (known as the Eagle Hotel), and then on the southeast corner of Seventh and Walnut streets for twenty-five years. His prominence led to his election as sheriff of the county in 1841, and his re-election in 1844. During his service of six years, his residence was in the county prison, the office of prison warden not yet having been created. He died Oct. 4, 1869. He was married to Eliza- beth Rinker, daughter of Abraham Rinker. She was born Dec. 28, 1803, and died Nov. II, 1881. They had twelve children: Charles; William; George; Henry H., 1836-38; Allen J., 1842-62; Moulten; Matilda, married Al- bert Biehl; Eliza, died young; Sarah, married Levi Martin and died April 28, 1911, aged seventy-nine years ; Ann, married Jonathan Bar- rell; Emma, married William Beck, and Mary, 1830-55.
George Wetherhold, the third son of George, was born in Lynn township. He learned the trade of cigarmaker, which he followed for a time at Rahway, N. J., until 1861, when he re- moved to Allentown. He was married to Cath- arine Swartz, and they had seven children : George; Winfield; Richard; Sydney ; Wharton ; Ida, who was accidentally burned to death while still young, and Minerva, who died in infancy. His wife died in 1909 at the age of eighty-five years. His remains were interred in the Union cemetery at Allentown, but hers in Fairview cemetery.
GEORGE M. WETHERHOLD, the eldest son of George, Jr., was born at Rahway, N. J., July
1, 1861, and in his infancy accompanied his parents to Allentown, where he received his edu- cation in the public schools, and then learned the trade of barber. He, however, followed his trade only a year when he removed to Chicago, Ill., and learned the trade of pretzel baker, which he carried on for seven years. He then (1888) returned to Allentown and embarked in the local express business which he has since con- ducted in a very successful manner. To meet the demands of his business he employs nine men and twelve horses. In politics he is a Republi- can. On July 30, 1881, he was married to Mary Newhard, daughter of David and Martha (Heimbach) Newhard. She died Aug. 6, 1898, aged thirty-seven years, and on Dec. 24, 1907, he married as his second wife, Elizabeth M. Lafey, daughter of Jeremiah and Emma (Gil- bert) Lafey, of Klinesville, in Berks county.
WAIDELICH FAMILY.
Michael Frederick Waidelich was born Aug. 2, 1831, in Besenfeld, Wurtemberg, Germany. He was a son of Jacob Frederick and Mary Ann (Kirn) Waidelich, who had seven children; and by his second wife, Catharine Hartman, he had two sons. All the sons by his two wives except two, emigrated to America. The two sisters with their families also remained in the Father- land.
Michael F. Waidelich came to this country in 1846, at the age of 15, and at once settled with his eldest brother, Christian, at Steinsville, Lehigh county, Pa., but Christian and the other brothers afterward left for Ohio, where they lived until they died.
Charles Waidelich, the only surviving son of Jacob Frederick, learned the wheelwright trade with his brother, Michael F., at Steinsville. He now resides in Fort Scott, Kansas.
Michael F., learned the wheelwright business from his brother, Christian. He and Penrose Ely formed a partnership and continued as partners in the carriage business for thirty-nine years. One was a Democrat in politics and the other a Republican; both went to elections in one carriage but each voted his own ticket. They amicably dissolved partnership in 1890, dividing their personal and real property with entire sat- isfaction and continued friends until death.
Michael F. Waidelich died Aug. 27, 1910, at Steinsville, where he is buried. His widow, Sal- lie, a daughter of David and Catharine (Wan- namaker) Follweiler, is living at Steinsville. They were married May 31, 1857, and had five sons and a daughter, Mary, who died, aged nine years. The sons are: Dexter, Milton, Rev. John Henry, Jacob Burnside, and Charles Dav-
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id (the youngest being employed as a machinist by a large firm at Columbus, Ohio).
Dexter, a coachmaker, has the homestead of thirty acres, situated at the base of the Blue mountains. He was born Sept. 27, 1857, and at an early age learned his trade from Waide- lich & Ely, for whom he worked many years. In 1892 he came into possession of his farm; but he continues working at his trade besides farm- ing
On Aug. 17, 1879 he married Janetta Lutz, daughter of Abraham and Catharine (Bailey) Lutz. She died March 31, 1890, aged 30 years, 7 months, and 25 days. Their children were: George F., Samuel T., Robert A., and John A. On March 17, 1893 he married, as his second wife, Lena C., daughter of Levi Graver, and their children are: Minnie, Paul, Ralph, Charles, and Joseph.
Milton, the second son of Michael F., was also a woodworker, but later was engaged as a telephone operator by the P. & R. Ry. Co. at Lynnport, where he also had charge of a general store for his brother, Jacob. He is now located at Lansford, Pa., and is employed by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., as manager in charge of the company's store and delivery department.
Rev. John Henry, a Lutheran minister, is pas- tor of St. Michael's congregation at Sellersville, Pa., since 1889, and secretary of the Bucks county pastoral association since 1889. He was elected delegate by his synod to the general council for three conferences. Two Union churches have separately amicably and virtually built new churches during his pastorate. He organized Trinity church at Perkasie in the year 1892; and separated his large parish into two congregations. He served as president of the Sellersville borough school board for 12 years, and declined a re-nomination for a six-year term in 1911, which was tendered without opposition.
He was married to Alice Keller and they have one son, Luther F., who graduated with the class of 1912 at Muhlenberg College, from which his father graduated in 1886.
JACOB B. WAIDELICH, of Allentown, was born in 1861. At the age of fifteen years he became the foreman of his father's wheelwright shop and served that position until he was twen- ty-one. In 1882 he established a blacksmith shop at Lynnport which he conducted in connection with a general store which he established later, and after 1885 he devoted his entire time to the mercantile business until in 1888, when he and five associates formed the Enterprise Slate Com- pany which he served as superintendent from 1889 to 1899. The company employed from
thirty-five to fifty men. In 1900 he sold his store business and in 1902 he disposed of his interests in the slate company. In 1901 he won the nomination for high sheriff of Lehigh county over five candidates and was elected by a large majority. His administration as sheriff was a commendable one. He had been jury commis- sioner from 1895 to 1898. In 1912 he was a presidential elector for President Wilson and he attended the famous Baltimore convention. He is one of the Democratic leaders of Lehigh county.
In 1912 he and his brother, Rev. John H., paid a visit to the homestead of their forebears in Germany.
In 1906 he engaged in the drug business at No. 643 Hamilton street, and in 1910 he opened up a retail store at 618 Penn street, Reading, and in 1913 he opened up his third store, at Slat- ington. All of these stores have an extensive patronage, and are conducted under the name of the American Medicine Company.
He and family are members of the Lutheran Church. Socially Mr. Waidelich is an Odd Fellow; Knight of the Golden Eagles; Junior United American Mechanics and of St. Mary's Commandery. In 1901 he was appointed the Grand Deputy Commander of Lehigh county.
He married Mary, the only child of Jonathan and Sarah (Henry) Muthard. Their children are: Clara C., m. John Dauefer ; Jennie S., m. Samuel Handwerk; Beulah M., a school teach- er in Allentown since 1904; Minnie E., a grad- uate of the Allentown high school, class of 1907, is now studying medicine; Mary; Frederic; No- ble O. and Harold R., are twins.
GEORGE FREDERICK WAIDELICH, son of Dex- ter, was born near Mountain P. O., Pa., Oct. 20, 1879. He was a member of the first gradu- ating class from Lynn township public schools in 1895. He then took the teachers' examina- tion though only sixteen years old and was granted a certificate but was not allowed to teach. In the fall of 1895 he entered the Sel- lersville high school, from which he was gradu- ated in 1896 with first honor; taught school in his native township the following two terms, and deciding then upon a commercial life he entered the Peirce Business College at Philadelphia, in the spring of 1898 and graduated in February, 1899, when he accepted a position in the office of Whiteall Tatonic Co., No. 410 Race street. Philadelphia, and he has continued there to this time.
In 1906 he was married to H. Irene Smith, daughter of A. B. Smith, of Sellersville, Pa. They have two children, Alfred and James. He
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is a Democrat but has affiliated himself with the reform movement in Philadelphia.
SAMUEL T. WAIDELICH, second son of Dexter, was born at Steinsville, Nov. 30, 1881. He was educated in the public schools of Lynn township, graduating there in 1898, and of Peirce Busi- ness College at Philadelphia, Feb. 12, 1902. He then accepted a position as stenographer with the H. C. Biddle & Co. in Philadelphia, and continuing there three years when he returned to his native township and purchased a 45-acre farm from the David Hartman estate, situated near New Tripoli. The modern scientific meth- ods applied by Mr. Waidelich in its cultivation have proven most successful and profitable. He took a complete correspondence course in agri- culture with the State College of Pennsylvania. Mr. Waidelich's library contains upwards of 700 volumes. He is a scholar and one of the in- telligent and progressive citizens of his town- ship.
He taught school two terms, in 1899 and 1900, in the Wannamaker School, near Lynn- port. Politically he is a staunch Democrat and in 1911 was elected for a term of four years as a school director of the township, receiving the highest vote on the whole ticket. He was hon- ored with an election as one of six delegates of Lehigh county to the state school directors con- vention held in Harrisburg on Feb. 7 and 8, 1913. He was honored with the presidency of the first board under the new school code.
Socially, Mr. Waidelich, is past grand of Steinsville Lodge, No. 249, I. O. O. F., since 1902, and in 1908 was elected representative to the Grand Lodge, which met in Philadelphia ; charter member and Past Patriarch of the En- campment, No. 54, I. O. O. F., of Pleasant Cor- ner, Pa.
On Nov. 9, 1904, he was wedded to Flora L. Moyer, daughter of J. D. O. Moyer, (whose full history appears in this publication). They wor- ship in Ebenezer church at New Tripoli, being members of the Lutheran faith. They have three children : Harry T., Archie J., and Sadie I. J.
ROBERT A. WAIDELICH was born at Steins- ville, March 23, 1884. At an early age he grad- uated from the Lynn township public schools, and for three years was a teacher in that district. He was also graduated from the Peirce Business College at Philadelphia in 1905, and after his graduation he accepted a position as bookkeeper with a large Philadelphia firm, which he served for two years. He then resigned to become a drug clerk in the Allentown stores of the Amer- ican Medicine Co., of which his uncle, Jacob B. Waidelich, is the proprietor, and in May, 1910, he was selected to be the business man-
ager of the Reading store of the company, where he has shown much tact and efficiency, and the large business of that store is attributable to his successful management. He is a member of the Odd Fellows, the Rebekahs, the Encampment, and the Patriarchs; also a charter member of the Buffaloes at Reading.
JOHN A. WAIDELICH, the youngest son of Dexter Waidelich, by his first marriage, was born at Steinsville, May 3, 1887, and he grad- uated from the public schools there in 1902. The following year he was licensed to teach school, and has taught three terms in Lynn township in a successful manner. He was grad- uated from Peirce Business College at Philadel- phia in 1900, after which he accepted a position as bookkeeper with the New York Belting and Packing Co. at Philadelphia, which he filled un- til 1910, when he became the assistant store manager for the American Medicine Co., at Allentown.
Mr. Waidelich is a member of Greenleaf Lodge No. 561, F. & A. M., Allentown; and Caldwell Consistory, 32° A. A. S. R., of Blooms- burg, Pa .; the I. O. O. F., at Steinsville; Jack- sonville Lodge, No. 343, K. G. E., of which he passed through the chairs twice, and is also a Past Chief. In 1906 he was a delegate to the state convention of the K. G. E., which met at Harrisburg, Pa.
WEIDNER FAMILY.
The ancestor of the Weidner family was Adam Weidner, who settled in Oley township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, prior to 1744, in which year he purchased a considerable tract of land from Benjamin Lee, a part of which was located in the vicinity of Pleasantville, now the property of Philip D. Hoch. He had three sons : Tychicus, Lazarus and David, who, tradition says, were born in Wurtemberg, Germany, and came to Pennsylvania.
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