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Mr. Newhard is a member of Jordan Lodge, No. 673, F. & A. M., Allentown Lodge of Elks, Knights of Malta, Knights of Pythias, Knights of the Golden Eagle, Knights of the Mystic Chain, Jr. O. U. A. M., and of Salem Reformed church. He has been, in politics, a life-long Democrat. He married, in 1871, Eliza A., daughter of William Bachman, and has three
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children: Dr. Irwin C., of Ashland, who mar- ried Jennie Price; Annie, widow of William H. Sherer, and Lillian, wife of Jacob Reiff.
Henry Newhard, son of Frederick, Jr., was born Sept. 18, 1774. He married Salome Yund, born March 20, 1778, and removed to Monroe county. He had children: Hannah, born Oct. 21, 1803, who married (first) Mr. Buskerck, (second) Jacob Storm; Jonas, born 1806, died 1885, who married Sarah Metzgar, born 1815, died 1891, and had children : Thomas, of Stroudsburg; George H., of Bartonsville ; Caspar, of Stroudsburg; and Abraham, deceased, who had a son, Owen, of Snydersville, all of whom spell their name Neyhart; Sarah, married Jacob Shoemaker; Lydia, married Abraham Metzgar; and Henry, deceased, of Ithaca, N. Y.
Peter Newhard, third son of Frederick, Jr., was born Aug. 11, 1776. He removed to Mon- roe county.
Catharine, eldest daughter of Frederick, Jr., born Jan. 23, 1781, married Jacob Strauss, and removed to Monroe county. George Adam New- hard, fourth son of Frederick, Jr., was born March 2, 1783, and died June 21, 1846. He married, in 1805, Juliana Margaret Yund, born Jan. 21, 1786, died Feb. 21, 1852. They had five children: Judith, born 1806, died 1825; Esther, born 1809, married George Albright; Elizabeth, born 1811, married Michael Min- nich; Appolonia, born 1815, married Solomon George; and Lydia, born 1817, married Daniel George. The two latter removed to Indiana. Elizabeth Newhard, second daughter of Fred- erick, Jr., was born March 12, 1787, and died, unmarried, Sept. 6, 1834. She was buried at Friedensville.
Abraham Newhard, born 1789, and John Frederick, born Sept. 14, 1792, sons of Frederick, Jr., removed to Ohio.
John Newhard, youngest son of Frederick, Jr., was born March 12, 1794. He was a tobacconist and served in the War of 1812. He removed to Milton, Montour county, where he died in 1858. He married, April 23, 1818, Eva Reber, who died at the age of 94 years. They had eight children: Charles, who had a son, Wil- liam G., of Milton; Isabella, Edwin, Cyrus, William, Rebecca, Alavesta, and Katharine.
IV. Lawrence, or Lorentz Newhard, third son of Frederick, the first, was born in 1740 and baptized John Michael Lorentz, on Sept. 23, 1740, named after two of his sponsors, Lorentz Guth and Michael Newhard. In the division of his father's land with his brother Frederick, Lawrence secured the southeastern portion of 168 acres, which he subsequently added to by purchasing 130 acres. In 1790, he built a stone
grist-mill on the tract, which is still in use, called Strauss' mill, and which he operated about twen- ty-five years. He was a member of Zion Re- formed church, Allentown, and at his death be- queathed £50 to the congregation and £50 to the poor of the township. His land was divided among his children, John and Daniel receiving the mill and nine acres. He died Aug. 1, 1817, and was buried at Allentown. His wife, Mary Magdalena, whose surname is said to have been Eckert, was born in 1746 and died Nov. 1, 1815. They had eleven children, ten of whom grew to maturity :
I. Frederick Newhard, born March 13, 1768, married, Aug. 11, 1795, Eva Catharine Yund, who was born Dec. 22, 1771. He remained in the vicinity until shortly after his father's death, when he sold his portion and removed to the West. He had five children: George, born April 18, 1796; Sarah, born Oct. 25, 1798, died Dec. 26, 1881, married Peter Roth; Jonas, born Nov. 7, 1802; Leah, born Aug. 8, 1807; and Charles, born Oct. 4, 1816.
2. Christian Newhard, second son of Laurence, was born Oct. 5, 1769. He removed to Centre township, Columbia county, where he farmed a tract of land until his death, May 18, 1847. He married, Sept. 2, 1798, Elizabeth Saeger, born Sept. 2, 1773, died Aug. 1, 1823. They had nine children : Solomon ; Lydia, born Aug. 9, 1800, died Oct. 8, 1867, married John Defrehn, of Ogell county, Ill .; Anna Maria, born Oct. 22, 1802, married Samuel Drescher, and had a son, Stephen, of Stillwater, Columbia county; Esther, born March 22, 1804; Susanna, born Feb. 2, 1806, died June 27, 1854; Veronica, born Aug. I, 1807, married Benjamin Haman, and had a son, James P. Haman, of Berwick; David, born June 15, 1809, married Sarah Siegfried, and had children : Agnes, Susan and Amanda; Daniel, born Feb. 8, 1811, married Mary Shellhammer, and had a son, John, who married Priscilla Her- ring and had children: Charles, William, and Emma; Hannah, married David Herring; John, married (first) Lavinia Evans, and (second) Hester Fleckenstein, and had children: Mary, Agnes, Amos, William, Isaiah, and Salome, born in 1817, died in 1831.
Solomon Neyhard, son of Christian (which branch spell the name Neyhard), was born May 8, 1799, and died Jan. 10, 1879. He married Sarah Achenbach and had a son, Samuel, born June 24, 1833, a surveyor, of Bloomsburg, who married Henrietta, daughter of Reuben New- hard, and had nine children: Solomon D., born Dec. 30, 1857; Reuben F., born March 13, 1859, married Keturah J. Yohe; Mary M., born Feb. 25, 1861, married B. I. Price, of Denver, Col .;
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Sarah E., born Feb. 21, 1864, married Mr. Sterl- ing; Emma A., born May 30, 1867, married F. MI. Everitt; John R., born Aug. 29, 1869; Christian F., born Aug. 13, 1872; Cora B., born Nov. 18, 1874, married B. R. Henrie, of Pitts- burgh ; and B. Waller, born Feb. 26, 1881, mar- ried Carrie Scott.
3. Elizabeth Newhard, eldest daughter of Laurence, born Aug. 27, 1771, married John Moll, and had children: John, born 1796, died 1883, married Elizabeth Ueberroth, born 1802, died 1897; Peter, born 1799; and Jacob, born 1803.
4. Mary Margaret, born April 19, 1774, died young.
5. John Jacob Newhard, born Nov. 21, 1776, married, April 12, 1801, Susanna Burger. He removed to Indiana with his eleven children: Hannah, William, Mary Anna, Moses, Edward, Magdalena, Elizabeth, Aaron, Euphemia, Owen, and Matilda.
6. Anna Maria, born Oct. 20, 1778, married Daniel Yundt, born Feb. 1, 1776, died Oct. 5, 1851. They had no children.
7. Peter Newhard, fourth son of Laurence, was born Feb. 7, 1781. He was a blacksmith and had his shop in the stone building still stand- ing on Sumner avenue, Allentown, and in later years at the southwest corner of Seventh and Liberty streets. He was a member of Zion Re- formed church, deeply religious, but stern in character. He died March 13, 1844, at 318 North Seventh street, and is buried in Union cemetery. He married Anna Margaretha, daughter of John and Charlotta Elizabeth (Shankweiler) Diefenderfer. She was born June 9, 1783, and died Aug. 29, 1859. They had ten children:
I. Louisa Newhard, born Feb. 9, 1805, died June 4, 1862, married Joseph Lehr, born March 29, 1807, died Jan. 12, 1864, and had five chil- dren: Charles, who married Eliza Paul, and had two children: Harry, deceased, and Grace L., wife of Howard W. Dennis; Colonel Sam- uel D. Lehr, who married Elizabeth S. Engel- man, and had one daughter, Cora, wife of Arnon P. Miller; Horace, who married Mary S. Knap- penberger and had children: William C. and Sarah E .; Christiana M., who married Ephraim Roth and had children: Rosa, Walter, Charles, Maggie, Jennie, and Ida, and Henry Lehr, mar- ried Sarah Whetstone and had sons: John, of Easton; and William, of Stockville, Ind.
2. Apollonia Newhard, born June 6, 1806, married Joseph Fatzinger, who was born Nov. 16, 1805, and died in 1887, at Bethel, Missouri, where he had removed. They had ten children : Mary Ann, wife of John Geiger; Susanna, wife
of Henry Mest, whose children are: Charles F .; Andrew F .; Jerusha, wife of Victor Heiberger ; Ellen, wife of Wm. Spohn; Mary, wife of Geo. Kiefer ; and Sarah, wife of Daniel Shur; Aaron, whose sons are John and James; Esther D., wife of Jonas Mest; Andrew; Peter S .; Isabella; Lewis; Charles; and Mrs. Lucretia Hoxworth.
3. Reuben Newhard, eldest son of Peter, was born Oct. 19, 1807, and died in 1893 in Colum- bia county. He married Mariana Gross and had nine children: Daniel, born 1823, died 1897, a Mexican War soldier, who married and had children : Mary, Susanna L., Lucinda A., Emeline J., wife of Abraham Fretz, Margaret E., Wm. E. H. H., and Sarah A. E .; Charles Tilghman, who married Sarah Bernhard; Wil- liam P .; Ellenora M .; George M. D., of Milton, who married Mary Dotts, and had children: Margaret, Samuel, Cyrus, and Charles H .; Amanda, wife of Allen Brader ; Rebecca, wife of John Richard, of Los Angeles, Cal .; and Hen- rietta, wife of Samuel Neyhard.
4. Keren H. Newhard, daughter of Peter, was born July 25, 1810, and died Oct. 7, 1880. She married, April 3, 1831, Stephen Rhoads, of Allentown, and had ten children: Emmeline M .; Emmanuel P .; Mary A. B., wife of Jonas Mest; Sarah C., wife of Wilson Lightcap; El- len L., wife of Wm. F. Hendricks; Augustus G .; Lavinia J., wife of Rev. Tobias Kessler ; Senia S., wife of Charles Richter ; Edwin A., and Alice S., wife of Moses Roberts, whose son, Charles R. Roberts, is the writer of this history.
5. Charlotte Newhard, born Feb. 6, 1812, died July 1, 1837, married William Miller. They had one child, Susanna L., born 1837, died 1860, who married Noah Trumbor, born 1832, died 1872, and had two sons: William and Morris.
6. Melitha Newhard, born July 27, 1815, married John Fatzinger, and had children: Eli, Walter, Maggie, and George.
7. Laurence Newhard, born Sept. 11, 1816, died young.
8. Thomas Newhard, born June 20, 1818, died April 28, 1894. He was a blacksmith and re- sided many years at South Bethlehem. He mar- ried, first, Lydia Fetzer, born April 7, 1820, died Nov. 20, 1855, and had five children : Sarah M., who married Henry Moritz and had children : Lila L., wife of Thomas B. Binns, Minnie, wife of E. J. Rasbridge, and George; Emmeline ; Rosa A. M .; Maine D. I., born 1851, died 1853; and Druses, born 1855, died 1891, who had one daughter. He married, second, March 25, 1856, Mrs. Mary A. Kerschner, nee Snyder, and had four children : Maine, deceased ; Oscar L .; New- ton G .; and Montgomery.
9. Emmanuel Newhard, youngest son of Peter,
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was born March 1, 1821, and died Aug. 4, 1893. He married Eliza Swartz, who died in 1909, aged 88 years. They had nine children: Allen P. J .; Mary, married Willard Ruger; William ; Stephen H., born 1857, died 1882; John; Ella, deceased; Clara, wife of James T. Cooley; Ida L., married Charles W. C. Forstler, born 1869, died 1898, and had children: Emma S., Mary E., Florence I., and Harry G. Newhard.
10. Henrietta Newhard, born March 18, 1824, died July 31, 1826.
8. John Newhard, fifth son of Laurence, was born May 1, 1783, and died Aug. 5, 1850. With his brother, Daniel, he recieved the grist-mill built by his father and in 1834, Daniel sold to him his interest, and he conducted the mill until his death. He married, first, Margaret Shoener, who died March 9, 1830, and had two sons : Paul and Joseph. He married, second, Mrs. Lydia Yundt, nee Biery, born Oct. 28, 1799, died April 28, 1875, and had four daughters: Caroline, born Dec. 28, 1833, died Jan. 28, 1884, mar- ried Jonas George; Elenora, married William Miller ; Deborah, born Feb. 7, 1812, married Thomas Clark; and Eliza, born May 8, 1822, married Tilghman Butz.
Paul Newhard, son of John, was born Feb. 2, 1808, and died Jan. 21, 1858. He married Deborah Burkhalter, born Dec. 24, 1811, died Jan. 19, 1887, and had two children: Franklin J., and Lewis P., born Sept. 10, 1838.
Franklin J. Newhard was born July 24, 1837, and died Feb. 20, 1891. He was a farmer and owned a farm near Helfrich's Springs, now owned by Wilson Butz. He was a Democrat and served as justice of the peace of Whitehall township for many years; was clerk of Quarter Sessions of Lehigh county, secretary of the Lehigh Mutual Fire Insurance Company and was actively and prominently identified with a number of organi- zations. He was married to Christianna Schaadt, a daughter of Henry and Magdalena (Knauss) Schaadt, and they had children as follows: Pres- ton, who died in infancy; Annie M. D., who married Osville Sterner; Henry P .; Edward J., of Fullerton, and Ella M., who married George P. Diefenderfer.
HENRY P. NEWHARD, superintendent and sec- retary of the Dent Hardware Company, of Fuller- ton, son of Franklin J. Newhard, was born in Whitehall township, Nov. 29, 1862. He re- ceived his early education in the public schools of his native township, and in 1883 graduated from the Allentown Business College. Later he learned the machinist trade and was employed in the Lehigh Car Wheel and Axle Works, the Bethlehem Steel Company and the Allentown Hardware Company Works. Through his skill
as a machinist and his superior ability in dealing with workingmen he was promoted to the posi- tion of foreman of the. Allentown Hardware Works, which position he filled two years, In 1894 he formed a partnership with Charles W. Kaiser, Henry P. Dent, George Brightbill and Charles Wackernagel, under the firm name of Dent Hardware Company, for the purpose of manufacturing hardware specialties and refrig- erator trimmings. They began business on a small scale, employing only thirty men. The company prospered from the beginning and now employs about 500 men. In 1895 the company was incorporated under the laws of Pennsyl- vania, with a capital of $25,000. Mr. Bright- bill and Mr. Wackernagel retired from the firm in 1898. The Dent Hardware Company is one of the principal industries of Lehigh county. They manufacture about ninety per cent of the cold storage and refrigerator trimmings of the country, and their product is sent to all parts of the globe. The plans for the large brass and iron foundries, machine shop and boilerhouse were prepared by him and the buildings were constructed under his supervision. He has charge of the manufacturing end of the works.
In politics Mr. Newhard is a Democrat. In 1905 he was elected commissioner of Whitehall township and this office he filled very satis- factorily for six years. He is an active member of St. John's Reformed church of Fullerton, hav- ing served as trustee for a number of years. He took a very active interest when the chapel was erected in 1886, and when improved in 1911. He is a member of the Fullerton Beneficial Asso- ciation and the B. P. O. E. Lodge, No. 130, of Allentown.
In 1886, Mr. Newhard was married to Agnes A. Rhoads, a daughter of Robert and Mary (Henninger) Rhoads. In the same year he built his present place of residence at Third and Chestnut streets. They have one son, Miles R.
Miles R. Newhard, son of Henry P. New- hard, was born in Fullerton, where he received his early education. In 1904 he graduated from the township high school and the following year from the American Business College of Allen- town. He is the bookkeeper of the Dent Hard- ware Company. He is a member of St. John's Reformed church, at Fullerton, and has been a member of the choir for a number of years; also a member of the Masonic fraternity. He was married to Blanche Hartman, a daughter of Thomas H. and Sarah C. ( Radeline) Hartman. They have one son, Henry Thomas.
Joseph Newhard, son of John, was born Feb. 12, 1810, and died Aug. 27, 1868. He carried on the mill for some years, with his brother-in-
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law, Tilghman Butz, and then sold it to Peter Roth. He married Elizabeth Burkhalter in 1836. She was born Jan. 21, 1819, and died Jan. 8, 1900. They had two children: Susan E., and William, who was born Oct. 3, 1840, and died April 22, 1858. Susan E. was born Nov. 10, 1837, and died Dec. 21, 1898. She married Franklin Koehler, who owns a large portion of the original Newhard tract. They had six children: Joseph H., Wm. A., Emma J., Mrs. Lyman H. Howe, of Wilkes-Barre, Robert A., and Mrs. J. Thomas Schantz.
9. David Newhard, sixth son of Laurence, was born Aug. 3, 1785, and died in 1816, at Hamburg. He married, first, Catharine Lehr, and second, Christina Hauser, and had children: Magdalena, born 1809; Enoch, born 1811, died 1889, married, Dec. 2, 1833, Deborah Steckel, born 1814, died 1889, and had a son, David, whose children are: William Newhard, Emma D., wife of Harry S. Jacoby, and one deceased, Mary A., born 1861, died 1899, wife of George Wetherhold ; Mrs. Esther Siegfried ; Eliza, born 1820, died 1904, married Daniel Guth; and Mrs. Catharine Butz.
IO. Salome, daughter of Laurence, was born Jan. 19, 1789, and died Feb. 3, 1860. She mar- ried George Yundt and had seven children: David, born April 5, 1807; Paul, married Anna Maria Helfrich; Francis; Magdalena, married Reuben Helfrich; Rebecca, married Reuben Wenner; Thomas, married Eliza Marcks; and Elizabeth, married Nathan Eberhard.
II. Daniel Newhard, youngest son of Lau- rence, was born May 7, 1791, and died June 13, 1851. He married, Aug. 2, 1811, Elizabeth Bischoff. It was he who first erected clapboard fences around his house, near the mill, from which the place, inhabited mainly by Newhards, became called "Clapboardtown." He had seven children : Manasses; Mrs. Lucinda Beers, born 1815, died 1895; Edwin C. D., who married Elvina Hartzell and had sons: Franklin H. D., and Charles E .; Menoni; Ervin, born April 19, 1823; Mrs. Daniel Bachman ; and Laurence J., born Nov. 4, 1841, who married Matilda Kahler, and had children: L. Edwin, J. F. Allen, and Harry D. Newhard.
V. Salome Newhard, second daughter of Fred- erick, the emigrant, married John Mathias Al- bert. She died about 1774, leaving six children : Margaret, born 1766; Susanna, born 1767; Mag- dalena, born 1769; Catharine, born 1770; Abra- ham, born 1771; and Elizabeth Barbara, born 1772.
VI. Daniel Newhard, fourth son of Frederick, the emigrant, was never married and lived upon a tract of 125 acres situated south of Mickley's,
bounded by the Knauss, Eberhard, Roth, and Kolb tracts. He died in 1801, and his estate, valued at £937, was accepted at its valuation by George Shick, in right of his wife, Elizabeth, only daughter of Christopher Newhard, eldest brother of Daniel.
VII. Peter Newhard, fifth son of Frederick, was born May 26, 1750. He purchased jointly with Abraham Sterner a tract of land along the Lehigh on Jan. 1, 1776, and on Jan. 20, 1785, sold his interest to Sterner and removed to Salis- bury township, where he resided in 1790. He subsequently removed to Monroe county. He married Elizabeth Sterner and had children: Salome, born April 17, 1778; John George, born April 29, 1780; John, born Sept. 5, 1784; Dan- iel, born March 12, 1787, died March 12, 1869, near Stroudsburg; and Henry, born Aug. 9, 1795.
VIII. Sophia Margaret Newhard, daughter of Frederick, married, Aug. 18, 1772, Caspar Haus- er, who died in 1800, leaving nine children : Henry, Elizabeth, Susanna, John, Margaret, Veronica, Maria, Daniel, and Frederick.
IX. Elizabeth Barbara, youngest daughter of Frederick, was born. April 3, 1753, and died July 24, 1838. She married John Adam Romig, born 1741, died 1798, and had nine children: Elizabeth, married John Henry Wint; Jacob, born 1782, died 1801 ; Susanna, married John J. Mory; Magdalena; Anna Eva, married Jacob Newhard; Daniel; Sarah, married Peter New- hard; Samuel; and Thomas.
Michael Newhard, the second of the three brothers who came to America, was born in Zweibruecken, Feb. 9, 1713, and died March 10, 1793. He secured by warrant of June 11, 1738, a tract of 83 acres along the Lehigh river, near what is now Laury's, North Whitehall township, and added to this so that in 1768 he owned 200 acres, 70 acres of which were cultivated. He was naturalized April 10, 1759, and was a mem- ber of the Egypt Reformed church, where he and his wife were buried and their ancient tombstones of brown-stone can still be seen. His wife, Bar- bara, was born April 1, 1716, and died Sept. 12, 1792. At the time of his death it was re- corded that he was the father of fifteen children, and had 124 grandchildren, and 71 great-grand- children. Records have been found of nine chil- dren, viz:
I. Elizabeth Margaret, who married John George Kuntz. He died in Oley in 1766, leav- ing five children: George Jacob, Barbara, Mar- garet, David, and Frederick.
II. Maria Barbara, married Jacob Kohler (1739-1830). She died in 1780, leaving six children: John, born 1766, died 1790; John Peter, born 1768, died 1848; Susanna, born 1772;
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Anna Margaret, born 1774; John Jacob, born 1778, died 1817; and Maria Elizabeth, born 1779.
III. Catharine Newhard, born July 25, 1740, died May 3, 1803, married George Schall, of Oley, born 1735, died 1802. They had nine children: Magdalena, wife of Andrew Buch- man; Catharine, wife of Jacob Hertzog; Mar- garet, wife of Charles Wagonhurst; George, born 1768, died 1831, married Catherine Eyster; Elizabeth, wife of Andrew Knerr; Tobias, born 1771, died 1849, married Elizabeth Eyster; Sa- lome, wife of Nicholas Keyser; and Jacob, who died young.
IV. Michael Newhard, eldest son of Michael, was born May 7, 1742, and died in 1814. He was a weaver and farmer and owned 200 acres in North Whitehall, and in the War of the Revo- lution served as a private. He was a deacon of the Egypt Reformed congregation, where his father had been elder and deacon. He and his wife, Mary Barbara, had twelve children :
1. Michael Newhard, born in 1764, married Elizabeth, and had children: Magdalena, born July 16, 1792; Salome, born Jan. 19, 1794; John, born Aug. 26, 1796; Peter, born April 19, 1799; and Elizabeth, born Nov. 13, 1801.
2. John Peter Newhard, born Nov. 16, 1765.
3. Maria Magdalena, born Feb. 3, 1767, died Aug. 11, 1823, married John Steckel, and had four children : Salome, wife of Jacob Biery; Daniel, born 1789, died 1877, married (first) Salome Keck, (second) Elizabeth Frantz, and had twelve children; Peter, born 1792, died 1849, married (first) Elizabeth Hartman, (sec- ond) Esther Burkhalter; and Joseph, born 1802, died 1880, married Sarah Troxell.
4. Margaret Newhard, born Dec. 1, 1769, died April 9, 1846, married Adam Laubach.
5. Mary Barbara, born July 3, 1771.
6. Frederick Newhard, born Dec. 19, 1772, married, June 24, 1794, Elizabeth Newhard and had eight children: Catharine, born Feb. I, 1795; Jonas, born Sept. 1, 1797; Michael, born Oct. 2, 1799, died Aug. 1, 1865, married, in 1825, Magdalena Buchman, born Dec. 2, 1806, died June 18, 1871, and had six children : Edwin, married Sarah Schnerr, whose daughter, Polly A., married O. P. Leh, John Hiram, born 1834, died 1900, Benjamin F., born 1837, Henry, born 1840, Aaron P., born 1844, married Chris- tianna Bachman and had children: Harvey E., Robert A., John N., and Wm. E., and Eliza; Joseph; Mrs. Hettie Hoch; Mrs. Elizabeth Kreidler; Mollie, wife of Jonas Bachman ; Mrs. Ross; and Charles.
Charles Newhard, son of Frederick, was born Feb. 10, 1807, and died July 10, 1882. He was
employed on the Lehigh Valley Railroad and lived at Hokendauqua. He married Eliza Koch, who was born May 26, 1805, and died Nov. 25, 1892. They had four children: Jacob, William, Charles, and Mary, wife of Dennis Fry.
Charles Newhard, son of Charles, was born in 1846 and died in 1909. He was a railroader and manufacturer of cough syrup. He married Fianna Roth and had eight children: Emma, wife of John Miller; John H .; Maggie J., wife of Frank T. Merkle; Elizabeth; Francis C .; Harry D .; Benjamin S .; and Estella, wife of John Hawk, of Freemansburg.
FRANCIS C. NEWHARD, son of Charles, Jr., farmer at Seiple's Station, was born at Slating- ton, Feb. 13, 1873. He was reared upon the farm of Francis J. Newhard, with whom he had lived seventeen years. In 1897 he went to Al- lentown, where he drove a milk team and later for two years was a trolley car conductor. In 1907 he began farming at Seiple's Station, where he purchased the Alfred Seiple farm of 54 acres, and in 1910 erected his present residence. He has a valuable herd of cattle and conducts a dairy farm. He and family are members of Sa- lem Reformed church, Allentown.
Mr. Newhard married, Nov. 28, 1896, Sarah A., daughter of John and Catharine (Scheirer) Helfrich, and grand-daughter of George Hel- frich. They have three children: Walter G., William F., and Albert H.
7. John Newhard, son of Michael, Jr., was born Sept. 29, 1774, and died May 28, 1848. He married, June 27, 1797, Sarah Koch, who was born Dec. 17, 1774, and died Dec. 29, 1851. They had nine children: Jonas, born May 21, 1798, died Dec. 15, 1855, married Catharine Miller and had children : Jacob ; Thomas; David, of Lincoln, Neb .; and Ezra, of Lehighton, born 1833, died 1902, who had a son, George, and four daughters; Peter, born Jan. 20, 1800, died Aug. 21, 1801 ; Elizabeth, born March 17, 1802, married David Eberhard; Michael, born June 1, 1804, died Aug. 2, 1873, married Regina Lerch, and had six children; Joseph, born Nov. 20, 1806, died May 13, 1879; Maria, born March 23, 1809, died May 15, 1867, married Joseph Newhard, born 1805, died 1894; Abraham, born March 12, 1812, died Nov. 5, 1868, who had a son, David F., born July 29, 1842; Lydia, born Sept. 27, 1814, died Dec. 12, 1897, married Peter E. Strauss, and had a son, James; and Owen Newhard, born Jan. 20, 1818, died Dec. 14, 1890, who married Hannah Bear, born 1820, died 1895, and had children: Henry A., John, Alfred J., Silas, and Joseph.
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