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Sylvanus Wittman, son of Peter, was born Feb. 4, 1850. He worked upon the farm until in 1882, then came to Allentown and lived there six years; then he went to Manasses, Virginia, and after living there until 1899, he returned to Allentown, where he now makes his home. He served as postmaster at Lanark, and is a Repub- lican in politics. He was married and has two children: Charles H. and Mary, married to Warren Yheulon.
CHARLES H. WITTMAN, the proprietor of the East Allentown Bottling Works, was born at Lanark, June 1, 1875, and followed the paper hanging trade at Allentown for over fourteen years. In 1905 he engaged in the present busi- ness and employs seven men. He and family are members of the Lutheran Church, and he has served the Sunday school as librarian for some years. He was elected on the Democratic ticket, as an auditor of Hanover township. So- cially he holds membership in the Independent Order of America; the Owls, and the F. O. E. In 1901 he was married to Annie L. Schade, a daughter of George and Annie C. (Boas) Schade. Their children are: Winifred, Henry, Francis, and Louisa.
ANTON WOLST.
Anton Wolst, real estate agent and notary, was born at Baud, in Hungary, on Feb. 20, 1876. He attended the public school and after- ward the Merchants' school, until he became sixteen years old; then he went to Budapest and afterward to Kronstat, where he acted as a clerk in a shoe store until 1897, when he enlisted in the army and served for three years and two months, but half of the time officiating as a cap- tain in the 19th regiment of infantry. Upon his
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discharge he worked for nearly two years in the designing department of the Raub Steel Works, after which he carried on a shoe store for him- self at Raub for three years. In 1905, he emi- grated to America and proceeded to South Beth- lehem, but remained there working only several months when he removed to Allentown, opened a shoe repairing shop and carried it on four years. In 1910 he engaged in the real estate and insurance business. During this time until 1914 he also conducted a cigar and confectionery business at No. 223 Hamilton street, when he sold out and removed his office to No. 537 Gor- don street, and here he has been devoting his time altogether to real estate and insurance. Since Feb. 26, 1913 he has also acted as a notary public. He is a member of the First Hungarian Society of South Bethlehem, and of the Catholic Church (Fourth street ), of Allentown.
In 1901 Mr. Wolst was married to Christina Csoka, of Komarom, in Hungary, and they had six children : Lillian Maria, and five died in in- fancy.
Adam Wolst, his father, is also a native of Baud, in Hungary, born in 1850. He carried on farming there until 1911, when he emigrated to America and located at Bethlehem. He has since been employed at the power house of the Steel Company's plant. He was married to Maria Staub, also a native of the same place. They had ten children: Elizabeth, m. Michael Hock; Anto; Theresa, m. Anton Trexler; and seven died young.
WOODRING FAMILY.
The Wotring family settled and promoted that part of territory in North Whitehall township known as the Wotring's Mill and surroundings. The parentage and date of birth of Samuel Wot- ring, Sr., has not been established, some claim- ing that he was a brother, others a son of Abra- ham Wotring, who was born in 1700 and came to this country in 1733.
The earliest mention that we have found as yet of Samuel Wotring, Senior, is in a warrant for 66 acres and 98 perches of land, dated July 4, 1754, which Samuel Wotring sold on Decem- ber 9, 1760, to Peter Troxell.
In the Egypt Reformed Church records oc- curs the name of Samuel Wotring and wife as sponsors to a daughter of Peter and Eva Elisa- betha Frantz on August 15, 1756.
In his notes, David Schultze, a noted surveyor, records that on October 21 and 22, he surveyed land for Adam Schneck, Samuel Woodringer and John Berrit, all residents of Whitehall township.
In the tax lists of Whitehall township, North- ampton county, in 1761, Samuel Wotring is
taxed four pounds: 1762, 10 pounds; in 1763, 4 pounds ; in 1764, Samuel Wotring is taxed three pounds for 75 acres, and among the names of the single men occurs the name Samuel Wotring, with a line drawn through it, which may perhaps indicate that the son, Samuel, had married.
From old documents recently discovered we find that Samuel Wotring, Sr., died between August 25, 1766, and June 19, 1767.
In the tax list for 1768, Samuel Wotring (the son), is taxed two pounds, eight shillings, for 100 acres of land, of which 13 acres were culti- vated and 87 acres uncultivated land, and also for two horses and two cows, making a total of four pounds and eight shillings tax.
Samuel Wotring, Junior, and his wife, Mary Barbara, nee Hoffman, had eleven children, whose baptism is recorded in the records of the Reformed Church at Unionville, or "Schlosser's Church," as it was formerly called. Their names are as follows:
Eva Voitrin, baptized March 3, 1771, at the age of about four weeks. Sponsors, Melchoir Behr, the wife of Peter Behr, and Anna Eliza- betha Wolf.
Mary Elizabetha Voiturin, born Aug. 27, bap- tized Sept. 19, 1773. Sponsors, Stephen Balliet and Mary Elizabetha Hoffman.
Samuel Wotring, Junior's, wife was a daughter of Michael Hoffman. Michael Hoffman arrived at Philadelphia, October 17, 1732. He died in 1786, and with his wife, Eva Catharina, had the following children: John, Michael, Maria Magdalena, wife of Theobald Kennel, Catherina Elizabetha, wife of Peter Bear, of Heidelberg township, Juliana, wife of Henry Smith, and Maria Barbara, wife of Samuel Wotring, Jr.
Theobald Kennel was born January II, 1737, and died September 26, 1808. He married, first, Maria Magdalena Hoffman, who died be- tween 1775 and 1782, and second, Elizabeth Erd- man.
Mary Barbara Voiturin, born March 5, bap- tized March 19, 1775. Sponsors, Theobald Ken- del and wife, Magdalena, John Baer and Susanna Balliet.
Mary Margareth Voiturin, born April I, baptized April 10, 1777. Sponsors, Jacob Baer and Mary Margareth Wolf.
John Michael Voiturin, born May 31, bap- tized June 13, 1779, by Rev. Abraham Blumer. Sponsors, Michael Hoffman and Elisabetha, wife of Jacob Wolff. John Michael Wotring was married August 13, 1805, to Sara Kennel, daugh- ter of Theobald and Elizabeth Kennel, nee Erd- man, and had six sons and two daughters: Dan- iel, Abraham, Michael, Jacob, David, Elias, Mrs. Polly Ringer, and Mrs. Leh. He died June 16,
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1862. His wife, Sara, was born Oct. 7, 1782, and died Nov. 19, 1862. They are buried in the old cemetery at Unionville Church. Fifty grand- children and 12 great-grandchildren suvived them.
Samuel Voiturin, born December 27, 1780, baptized Jan. 7, 1781. Sponsors, Peter Baer and Magdalena Balliet.
Juliana Catharina Wotering, born Sept. 24, baptized Oct. 13, 1782. Sponsors, John Hoff- man and wife.
John Wotring, born Sept 24, baptized Oct. 17, 1874. Sponsors, John Wolf and Catharina Hoffman.
Mary Susanna Wotering, born Aug. 18, baptized Sept. 17, 1786. Sponsors, Nicholaus Wotring and wife, Margareth. She was married April 30, 1809, to John Jacob Baer. They had nine children : Michael, Jacob, Elias, Catharina, Jonathan, Juliana, Susanna, Lucianna, and Sa- lome. She died March 9, 1860. John Jacob Baer was born Nov. 8, 1786, and died Feb. 24, 1860.
Appollonia Wotring, born Sept. 3, baptized Sept. 28, 1788. Sponsors, Michael Hoffman and wife, Appollonia.
John Nicholaus Wotring, born Aug. 5, baptized Aug. 9, 1790. Sponsors, Nicolaus Wot- ring and wife, Margreth.
Samuel Wotring died in the early part of the year 1805. His will, dated July 24, 1801, was probated April 16, 1805. In it he gives his occu- pation as a miller, of Whitehall township, and states that his wife, Maria Barbara, is to have the new house beyond the race for her home, and that his son, Michael, is to build for her a stable with a feed entry (Futtergang). He also bequeaths his wife a bed and bedding, with all that pertains thereto, a thick quilt, her chest, with all that it contains, a table, two chairs and two benches, the house-clock, the bookcase, the wall-cupboard, the pipe stove with the pipe, her spinningwheel and reel and copper and iron utensils, two iron pots, one saucepan, and one lard pan, one skimming and one pot ladle, one meat fork, waffle irons, buckwheat griddle, three pewter dishes, one pewter platter, one-half dozen pewter dishes, one dozen pewter spoons, one pewter pot, one watering pot, one pepper mill and pepper box, one bottle, one bucking-tub (Bauchzuber), with the small bucket (Schoepf- kuebelchen), two buckets, butterchurn, baking trough, scraper (milder scharra), and eight bak- ing baskets, the hatchel (Flachshachsel), the wheelbarrows, an axe, a hatchet, a spade, a dung fork and dung hook, a fire shovel and tongs, five five good sacks, two baskets, a water-bench, two vinegar casks, two barrels, one rum cask, with
iron hoops, her saddle and bridle, the large Bible and Zollickofers Prayer and Hymn Book.
His wife is to be supplied by his son Michael with wheat, corn, buckwheat, etc., and every year with one-half bushel salt, one pair shoes, ten pounds in money, three pounds of coffee, six pounds of sugar, one-half lb. of tea, one-half pound of pepper, one-half pound of allspice, one- half of the honey in the hives, every spring a milch cow, etc., and to have the interest of one hundred pounds yearly, as long as she lives.
He bequeaths to his son Samuel as his whole share, three hundred pounds, Pennsylvania cur- rency, he having received from him during his lifetime, one hundred and sixty-two pounds.
He bequeaths to his son, John, in addition to a piece of land of 218 acres, which he had deeded to him in his lifetime, sixty-three pounds in money, and to his son Nicholas, to whom he had deeded a tract of 244 acres, he bequeaths thirty- seven pounds in money.
He directs that his sons, Samuel, John, and Nicholas are to share equally with his daughters in the patent right of a tract of land in North- umberland and Luzerne, and that if his young- est daughters, Juliana and Susanna, have not re- ceived their dowry (Austeur) in his lifetime they are to receive from his executors the same amount as the other daughters received. He also directs that as long as any of the children are single, they are to receive lodging in the home, and requests that his youngest sons learn trades. If his wife marries again, his son Michael is to pay her sixty pounds, Pennsylvania currency, in three install- ments. The son Michael is to have the large Bible after his wife's death.
He appoints his friends and cousins, Paul Bal- liet and Samuel Wotring, as his only executors. The will was signed, July 24, 1801, Samuel Wotring, his (x) mark and witnessed by Jacob Strein and Michael Kennel. It was dated April 16, 1805. Receipts at hand show that Mary Barbara, widow of Samuel, Jr., was still living in 1815.
Recently discovered documents throw much light on the early history of the Wotring family.
The earliest document found is a deed dated June 2, 1762, in which John Troxell, of White- hall township, yeoman, for £150, deeded a tract of land granted by a proprietary warrant dated Aug. 10, 1748, to John Troxel, containing 50 acres, adjoining land of Nicholas Saeger and Peter Kocher, described in the warrant as being "on the little Lehigh near Trucker run," in Bucks county. In this deed the tract is described, however, as containing 100 acres. The deed was witnessed by Paul Balliet, Jacob Wolf and Henry Geiger, and contains this endorsement:
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"We, Samuel Woodring, Senior, and my wife Barbara, do hereby sign over all our rights, title and interest whatsoever is maintained in the agreement to Samuel Woodring, Jr., for him to have and to hold from the day of the date hereof forever to him his heirs and assigns. Witness our hands and seals this twenty-fifth day of August, 1766. Signed, Samuel Wotring, his (x) mark, Barbara Wotring, her (x) mark. Witnesses, Peter Kohler and Jacob Wirth."
There is also an agreement dated Dec. 30, 1763, between Jacob Wolf and Samuel Wutt- ring, which states that Jacob Wolf has granted to Samuel Wuttring a piece of land along his line to dig out the under race, and has given lib- erty to let the back water run through to the old creek, without hindrance. Samuel Wuttring promises Jacob to allow the water to run un- hindered from his land upon Jacob Wolf's land and to open the Sluice Gates when he has noth- ing to grind, and both parties agree to make a bridge over the under race to drive over, and Jacob Wolf promises to give the lumber. This agreement was acknowledged before George Taylor, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace.
Accompanying this is a poor translation of the above agreement translated, no doubt, for record- ing. An officer of the courts wrote on this paper as follows: "This translation can not be record- ed unless the translator can swear to the true translation thereof from the original, the above being defective." On the back of the paper are written the following words, "A true copy of a Dutch agreement between Jacob Wolf and Sam- uel Wuttring." This, undoubtedly, was the sa- tiric expression of some English court officer.
On August 25, 1766, Samuel Woodring, Sr., executed a deed to Samuel Woodring, Jr., for 20 acres of land, which is stated he possessed by virtue of a warrant dated Oct. 27, 1748, for 25 acres adjoining his other land. The considera- tion is 250 pounds.
On the same day, Aug. 25, 1766, Samuel Woodring, Sr., conveys to Samuel, Jr., the tract of land which he purchased from John Troxell for 250 pounds paid by Samuel Woodring, Jr., with all the buildings, improvements and grist mills thereon.
These papers prove that as early as 1766 there was a grist mill erected by Samuel Wotring, Sr. He had started to dig the race in 1763. Second mill built by Samuel, Jr., 1773, third on the Coplay creek.
Samuel, Jr., also built the first saw mill on the Coplay creek.
Michael Wotring owned the Wotring mill property in North Whitehall and carried on both
the grist mill and farm for a number of years. He was born Jan. 31, 1812 and died Dec. 30, 1873, and was the son of Michael and Sara (Kennel) Wotring. He was married to Esther Hausman, born Aug. 14, 1815 died Dec. 18, 1895, daughter of John Hausman, and they had eleven children : William ; Amanda, married Elias Hen- ninger; John; Jane, married Peter Knecht; Wil- loughby ; Sarah A., who died young; Catharine, married Daniel Brobst; Lewis; Mary, married Albert Newhard; Joseph, and Amelia, married Charles Gackenbach. They were members of the Reformed church at Unionville.
David Wotring, son of Michael, Sr., was born on the mill property April 5, 1850. He was edu- cated in the local school and reared on the farm. He learned the trade of sawyer in the saw-mill attached to the grist-mill and followed it five years; then he went to Indiana and worked as a sawyer for twelve years. Upon his return to Pennsylvania he secured employment in the car shop at Fullerton. He was married to Rosa Kemmerer Wotring and they have eight chil- dren: James N., Josiah E., Lewis A., Thomas I., Charles M., Emma, Harry and Robert.
David Wotring, son of Michael, Sr., was born Sept. 19, 1821, in North Whitehall township. After attending the local school, he entered the general store at Unionville as a clerk in 1839, and he filled this position in a satisfactory man- ner for thirty years. With this long experience he was qualified to engage in business for him- self; so he purchased the building including the stock of the store and hotel, and carried on the business jointly until 1893, when he was suc- ceeded by his son, Milton. The building was erected in 1810, and is still occupied in a good state of preservation. He was the collector of county taxes in the township during the Civil War. He also served as a county auditor and school director. He was married to Susanna Heilman, and they had five children: Alphina, married Wm. Ritter; Jennie, single, who owns the property; Oscar A., superintendent of the Lehigh Portland Cement Company farms; Os- ville P., and Milton D.
MILTON D. WOTRING, merchant at North Catasauqua, was born May 4, 1862, and was reared at Unionville. He there assisted his father in the store and hotel business at Unionville until 1893, when he purchased the business and carried it on until 1901, when he sold the hotel stock and removed the store stock to Ormrod, where he had put up a store building, and he conducted the store business there for six years. He then sold the building and stock and removed to Allentown, where he carried on business for five years; first, wholesale wood and willow-
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ware, and afterward, wholesale notions. In 1912 he removed to North Catasauqua and opened a notion and hosiery store at No. 1021-23 North Fourth street, which he has conducted until now. When twenty-one years old, he was elected township auditor on the Democratic ticket by a large majority, and he served this office for a term. He has also officiated as treasurer of the Reformed church at Unionville.
In 1892, Mr. Wotring was married to Cora Riedy, daughter of Owen G. and Leanna (Lo- bach) Riedy, of Heidelberg township, and they have three children: Nellie G., Russell J. and Harold E.
Elias Wotring, son of Michael, Sr., was born in 1824, in North Whitehall, where he was brought up on a farm and educated. When a young man he engaged in the butcher business with his brother, Jacob, and continued a partner for eight years. In 1850 he embarked in the lumber business and carried it quite extensively until his decease in 1896, having had his son, Amandus, as a partner since 1870. In 1850 he purchased a farm of 79 acres and afterward car- ried it on in connection with lumbering. He died in 1896, aged 72 years, 9 months and 2 days. He was married to Matilda Hartman, daughter of Jacob, farmer and huckster, of Lowhill town- ship, and they had ten children : Francis (m. Ist, Amanda Helfrich, 2d, Mary Leibenguth ) ; Mes- sina (m. Peter Kohler), Amandus (above) ; El- len (m. George Peifley) ; Richard (m. Alice Krause) ; Emma (m. John Peter) ; Alice (m. Owen Handwerk) ; Wallace (m. Delia Trum- bauer) ; Wesley (m. Alice Ritter), and Harvey (m. Eda Clauss).
AMANDUS W. WOTRING, son of Elias, retired lumber dealer at Schnecksville, was born at the Wotring Grist Mill in North Whitehall town- ship, on Dec. 8, 1849. He attended the Sand Spring public school and was reared on the farm until he became of age, when he began farming, and also associated with his father and brother, Francis, in the sawing and selling lumber, which they carried on as Elias Wotring & Sons, and continued until 1897. He then directed his at- tention to farming his plantation, situated near the Wotring Mill, and conducted operations there until 1909. During this time he was also engaged in the sale of fertilizer. He then re- tired from farming, removing to his fine home at Schnecksville, which he had erected in 1908, and his son, Herbert, taking possession of the farm. He continues the sale of large quantities of fertilizer in that section of the country, having started in 1887.
In 1867, Mr. Wotring was married to Mari- etta M. Kennel, daughter of Hilarius and
Judith ( Hausman) Kennel, and they have eight children : Celeste, married Richard Scheirer ; Or- ville A .; Rosa, married Harvey Ritter, now de- ceased; Minnie M., married Wilson Semmel; Herbert M .; George F .; Homer E., and Erma. They are members of the Reformed church at Unionville, which he has served as deacon and elder.
ORVILLE A. WOTRING, farmer near Bittner's Corner in Lowhill, was born Oct. 20, 1871, at Schnecksville in Upper Whitehall and there he was brought up and educated till he became twenty years of age. Then he married and lo- cated upon the 62-acre farm of his father-in-law, and this farm he has carried on in a successful manner until the present time. He served as a school director for ten years, and as deacon of the Lowhill church-also as treasurer of the Sunday school there since. 1899, in which he and his family have taken great interest by their per- sonal attendance for many years.
In 1891, Mr. Wotring was married to Cora George, only child of Peter J. George, and they have two children : Pearl C. (m. Oliver Shuler), and Clayton W. The daughter graduated from the township schools in 1905, and was a teacher in the Claussville school building two terms. The son graduated in 1906, when only eleven years old, but he continued a post graduate course for five years when he secured a teacher's certificate and taught one term in the Morgenland school. He then took a preparatory course at Muhlen- berg College, and also at the Lancaster Academy. In 1912 he entered the Franklin and Marshall College, and since then has taken the regular course of collegiate education.
RICHARD D. WOTRING, son of Elias, dealer in real estate, at Allentown, was born Jan. 18, 1860, at the "Wotring Grist Mill" in North White- hall. He was reared on a farm and attended the township school at the Sand Spring. He became qualified as a teacher at the age of six- teen years, and he taught public schools in Heid- elberg and Washington townships for a con- tinuous period of twenty-seven years. He was licensed to teach by Prof. J. O. Knauss, and Prof. Alvin Rupp granted him a permanent certificate. In 1881 he purchased the Frederick Knauss homestead of seventy acres, near the village of Newside, and he conducted the farm- ing operations there until 1909, when he located at Allentown and engaged in the sale of real estate, which he has continued in a successful manner until now. During his occupancy of the plantation, he made fine improvements by the erection of new buildings. The old two-story log dwelling-house had been erected during the Revolution. He is a member of Camp 391, P.
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In 1879 Mr. Wotring was married to Alice M., daughter of Tilghman and Polly ( Miller) Krause, and they had six children; Cenda, mar- ried George C. Fullagar; Stella P., married Geo. M. Hoffman; Mamie M., married Warren Weber and died in 1912, aged twenty-five years ; Mattie M., who died in infancy; Retta M., and Linda. They are members of the Reformed Church, which he has served as deacon and elder.
WESLEY J. WOTRING, son of Elias, farmer and lumberman of North Whitehall at the Sand Spring, was born Oct. 9, 1866, at the Wotring Mill. He attended the township school and was reared on the farm. During this time he also assisted his father in the lumber business. In 1895 he purchased the farm of Hilarius Kennel, containing seventy-eight acres, which adjoins the Sand Spring; and afterward also be- came the owner of the tract which includes the spring, and other lands in that vicinity, which together embrace 156 acres. He maintains im- provements at the spring and every summer, during the season, picnics, campmeetings and family reunions are held there, which are largely attended.
In 1886 he married Alice J., daughter of Henry and Sarah (Rabert) Ritter, and they have fourteen children: Sydney, married Ella Sny- der; Mabel; Welcome; Anna, married Albert George; Minnie; Helen; Ernest; Frederick ; Vincent; Lawrence; John; Lena; Warren, and Arline.
Daniel Wotring, a son of Michael and Sarah (Kennel) Wotring, was born July 17, 1806, in Whitehall township. His wife was Elizabeth Beyer, daughter of Johannes and Elizabeth (Reber) Beyer. She was born March 28, 1811, in Heidelberg township. Mr. and Mrs. Wotring were married on June 14, 1829. Their children are: Sarah, wife of Willo. Koch; Frank; M. Henry, and Charles.
M. Henry Wotring was born Dec. 5, 1835, and died Sept. 12, 1873, aged thirty-seven years, nine months and seven days. His wife was Mary Ann (Kern) Wotring and was born Jan. 21, 1842, and died Oct. 18, 1875, aged thirty-three years, eight months and twenty-seven days. He was a merchant and conducted a hotel at Rock- dale for several years. Later he located on the farm now occupied by Uriah Rebert. He was a member of the Reformed church at Unionville, where he is buried. To Mr. and Mrs. Wotring were born these children: Anna M. P., born Sept. 29, 1864; Elizabeth T., born Sept 21, 1866; Mary Ann S., born April 9, 1868, and Robert Franklin, born March 16, 1870.
ROBERT F. WOTRING, a blacksmith of North
Whitehall township, was born in that district, March 16, 1870. He learned the trade of a blacksmith at the age of twenty years and has followed it ever since. He was associated with Lewis Frantz and on Dec. 11, 1898, erected his present shop, which is situated on the main road from Neffs to Ballietsville and where he is lo- cated for twenty-two years. He resides near Neffs. He is a Democrat in politics and served as constable for nine years. He is a member of the Reformed church at Unionville, where he holds the office of deacon and since 1912 holds the office of treasurer. He is also a member of I. O. O. F. and Jordan Lodge No. 192, and passed through all the chairs.
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