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Moses Ohl, farmer, lives along the base of the Blue mountain in Lynn township, but he was born on the other side of the mountain in West Penn township, Schuylkill county, in August, 1854. In 1877 he settled on the farm where he has since lived, which comprises 90 acres of level and fertile land. Jacob Mantz had bought this farm in 1849 and lived there until 1852, when Jeremiah Fenstermacher purchased it and carried it on until 1888, when it passed to his son-in-law, Mr. Ohl. He was married January 28, 1877, to. Sarah A. Fenstermacher, and they have one child, George L., born May 8, 1855, and married to Carrie I. Boger, on May 12, 1907, daughter of Daniel and Annie (Fink) Boger, and they have a daughter, Dorothy Sarah. They are members of the Re- formed congregation at New Tripoli.
GEORGE ORMROD.
George Ormrod, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, has been a promoter of several important enter- prises in coal, iron and cement, that have con- tributed to the development and substantial up- building of the Schuylkill and Lehigh Valleys, and is to-day progressive and active in the man- agement of his business affairs, and may well be called one of the captains of industry.
He was born July 13, 1839, at Preston, Lan- cashire, England, and when nineteen years of age left Manchester, England, May 17, 1859, for the United States, to visit his uncle, William Donaldson (his mother's brother), who was then proprietor of a large anthracite colliery in Tama- qua, Schuylkill county, Pa.
A couple of weeks later, after Mr. Ormrod's arrival in Tamaqua, June 18, 1859, his uncle, William Donaldson, met with an accident at about five hundred feet below the surface in his own colliery at Tamaqua, and was burned about his head by an explosion of fire-damp. This re- sulted in his death, July 20, 1859, aged fifty-six and a half years. Mr. Ormrod was then pre- vailed upon by his cousins to remain in Tamaqua, and was soon after put to work as outside as-
sistant superintendent at his uncle's colliery, called "The Shaft Colliery," at Tamaqua.
Owing to the death of his father, George Orm- rod, when less than two years of age, was taken by an uncle and aunt, from Preston to Man- chester, England, and in his early boyhood days attended the Quaker schools, and later was edu- cated in the private schools of that city. He also attended the School of Design and Engineering in Manchester, later working nearly two years in a railway locomotive shop at Gorton, near Manchester, just previous to his leaving Liver- pool, England, for the United States, May 17, 1859.
Mr. Ormrod married, in 1861, Permilla John- son, the oldest daughter of John H. and Cather- ine H. Johnson, of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, and soon after joined his father-in-law, Mr. Johnson (formerly of the firm of Radcliff & Johnson, col- liery proprietors at Tamaqua and Beaver Mead- ows), in the operation of an anthracite colliery at the upper mines on the northeast side of Tama- qua, Pennsylvania, for several years. Later Mr. Ormrod, with his father-in-law, Mr. Johnson, and his cousin, John Donaldson, with several others, built in 1865 and 1866, and operated until December, 1879, the Girard Mammoth Colliery, at Raven Run, Schuylkill county. Mr. Ormrod was manager of the colliery and also a director, and lived at Raven Run about ten and a half years, from 1867 to 1877, during the trouble with the Mollie Macguires. Mr. Orm- rod was then made president of the coal com- pany, and shortly after he moved to Philadelphia, and in 1879 they sold the colliery to the Phila- delphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company.
Mr. Ormrod during these many years was also a stockholder and director in the St. Nicholas Coal Company, operating the St. Nicholas col- liery, near Mahanoy City, and was later made president of the coal company, and during this time, from 1878 to 1881, he resided in German- town, Philadelphia. They finally sold the col- liery to the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, and leased the Emaus blast fur- nace from the same party.
Early in the month of August, 1880, while re- pairs were being made to the Emaus blast furnace, at Emaus, Lehigh county, by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, Mr. Ormrod, by request of Mr. Robert Thomas, president of the Thomas Coal Company, of Philadelphia, Pa., took temporary charge of their Kehley Run col- liery at Shenandoah, Pa. Owing to an accident at this colliery, the general manager and his two inside foremen lost their lives through being over- come by the deadly mine gases a couple of days before Mr. Ormrod took charge. The mine was
George Ormood
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on fire, and while Mr. Ormrod, with the chief engineer, on September Ist, were making an ex- amination inside the mines, at a depth of over five hundred feet below the surface, an explosion of mine gas occurred, killing his inside foreman and injuring several others, while Mr. Ormrod narrowly escaped with his life. He received sev- eral severe bruises, his left foot being the most severe, which took about a month's time to re- cover.
Early in 1880, Mr. Ormrod, with his cousin, John Donaldson, and W. S. Thomas, of Phila- delphia, and H. H. Fisher, of Allentown, leased the Emaus blast furnace at Emaus, and from the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Com- pany, for the purpose of manufacturing pig iron, under the firm name of Ormrod, Fisher & Com- pany, with Mr. Ormrod as manager and treas- urer, and after two years of operation, the furnace was put out of blast. Owing to the depression in the pig iron trade the furnace lease was given up several years later. Mr. Ormrod moved from Germantown, Philadelphia, to Allentown, April 6, 1881.
In 1883, the same parties purchased land near the furnace and built the Emaus pipe foundry for manufacturing cast iron pipe and special castings for water and gas for street mains, the business being conducted as Ormrod, Fisher & Company until 1886, when the firm was changed to a cor- poration and was incorporated Aug. 9, 1886, and called "The Donaldson Iron Company," with John Donaldson as president, and Mr. Ormrod as manager and treasurer, up to the time of Mr. Donaldson's death in 1906. Then Mr. Ormrod was made president, and has been president and treasurer since, and retains that position at the present time. The first cast of pipes was made Oct. 13, 1883. The works have been enlarged several times, and now give employment to about five hundred men, and the yearly output amounts to about 50,000 tons of cast iron pipe and special castings. They own about seventy-one acres of land and thirty-six houses, also their own water supply from two reservoirs, and electric light and power plant, and have a well-equipped ma- chine shop and pattern shop with modern ma- chinery, in connection with the pipe foundry. They have been in continuous operation for the past thirty-five years, and have been very success- ful.
In 1893, Mr. Ormrod joined Thomas D. Whitaker, his son-in-law, and others, in organiz- ing the Whitaker Cement Company, with Charles A. Matcham, as manager, for manufacturing Portland cement at Whitaker Station, on the Le- high Valley Railroad, three miles east of Philips- burg, New Jersey, now called Alpha. This was
the first Portland cement plant in New Jersey, and the second plant in the United States to make Portland cement by the rotary kiln method. Mr. Whitaker, while on a hunting trip up in the Pocono mountains, above Delaware Gap, in No- vember, 1895, contracted a severe cold, which caused his death, March 7, 1896, aged thirty-six years, and soon after the name of the company was changed to the Alpha Portland Cement Com- pany, Alpha, New Jersey, in which Mr. Ormrod and his daughter, Mrs. Whitaker, still retain a large interest.
In the latter part of 1897, Mr. Ormrod, in company with Colonel H. C. Trexler, as presi- dent; E. M. Young, Charles A. Matcham, James K. Mosser, and others, organized the Lehigh Portland Cement Company, with Mr. Matcham, as manager, of Allentown; of which Mr. Orm- rod is second vice-president. The company com- menced making cement at Mill "A," at Ormrod, in August, 1898. They have been very progres- sive, and now have three cement plants at Orm- rod, one at West Coplay, one at Fogelsville, Le- high county, and also have seven cement plants out West.
Mr. Ormrod was president of the Whitehall Street Railway Company for a couple of years, a trolley line about five miles long, running from Egypt to Levans, on the Slatington line.
Mr. Ormrod has been actively engaged in busi- ness for about fifty-five years-first in anthracite coal, and pig iron, and afterward cast iron pipe, and then in the cement business; about Schuylkill county, until 1880, then about two years making pig iron at Emaus Furnace, Penn- sylvania, and in the fall of 1883, commenced making cast iron pipe at the same place, and kept in continuous operation for about thirty years, up to the present time. Mr. Ormrod has been in the cement business since 1893, and is largely interested at the present time.
Mr. Ormrod is a charter member and was also for three years prior to March, 1904, president of the Livingstone Club, of Allentown, Pennsyl- vania, the leading club organization in the city, with a membership of about one hundred and fifty of the prominent business men of the town. Mr. Ormrod is a director of the Lehigh Valley Trust Company, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, and is also a trustee of the Allentown Hospital. He is a member of the Lehigh Country Club, of Allen- town; also a member of the Union League, and the Manufacturers' Club, of Philadelphia; and of the Pomfret Club, of Easton, Pennsylvania. He has also been a member of the Franklin In- situte of Philadelphia, and a member of the Amer- ican Institute of Mining Engineers of New York
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City since 1881. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Society, of New York City.
Mr. Ormrod had one brother and two sisters, children of George and Margaret Ormrod. His elder sister died in 1859, and the younger sister in 1912. His elder brother, John Ormrod, is still living in Preston, England, and was mayor of Preston in 1905 and 1906. He is in the leath- er business, and has resided in Preston all his life, and takes an active part in select council and town affairs generally. He is chairman of the Tramway's Corporation of Preston.
Mr. Ormrod is a Republican in politics. He and his family are members of Grace Episcopal church, of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Mr. Orm- rod has had continuous good health, with a couple of exceptions, and has been active all his life.
Mr. Ormrod's father died in Preston in 1841. His mother died Dec. 1, 1895, at Preston, England, in her ninetieth year. Her maiden name was Margaret Donaldson. She was a twin, and was born Oct. 5, 1806, at Middleton-in-Teesdale, county of Durham, in the north of England. She visited the United States, arriving at New York, Sept. 12, 1871, remaining here about ten months.
Mr. Ormrod's wife, Permilla, died suddenly, Oct. 4, 1911, at Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania, aged sixty-eight years. They were married nearly fifty-one years at the time of Mrs. Ormrod's death. Her maiden name was Permilla Johnson.
Mr. Ormrod has five children, all living: Mar- garet, the oldest, who married Charles A. Match- am, formerly manager of the Alpha Portland Cement Company, and later in 1897 was one of the organizers of the Lehigh Portland Cement Company, and manager until December, 1906. Mr. Matcham died Sept. 22, 1911, at Allentown, aged forty-nine and one-half years. He left three children.
Catherine, widow of the late Thomas D. Whitaker, formerly a member of the firm of Wm. Whitaker & Sons, manufacturers of cotton and woolen goods at Cedar Grove and Frankford, near Philadelphia, and later was president of the Whitaker Cement Company; has one child, a son, Francis. He is a member of the Union League, of Philadelphia; and Livingston Club, of Allentown ; also a member of the Lehigh Coun- try Club, of Allentown; and the Northampton Country Club.
John Donaldson Ormrod married Mary J. Rose, daughter of Henry T. Rose, iron fence manufacturer of Allentown, and has two children. He is vice-president and superintendent of the Donaldson Iron Works, at Emaus ; also a director in the Emaus National Bank, and a member of the Union League and the Manufacturers Club,
of Philadelphia ; and the Livingston Club, of Al- lentown. All are members of the Lehigh Coun- try Club, of Allentown. He is also a member of the American Institute of Mining Enginneers, of New York City.
Mary A. is married to Captain H. S. McLaine, formerly captain in the Royal Irish Rifles, of Bel- fast, Ireland, and lives in Allentown. He is a . graduate of Foyle College, Londonderry, Ire- land, and son of Mr. and Mrs. George Langtry MacLane, of Wadsworth House, Belfast, Ire- land. Both are members of the Lehigh Country Club.
Fannie Markland, the wife of John F. Saeger, of the Saeger Milling Company, living at Allen- town, also members of the Lehigh Country Club, of Allentown. Mr. Saeger is also a member of the Livingston Club, of Allentown. They have one child, a son, John O.
In 1897, Mr. Ormrod built a handsome resi- dence at No. 1227 Hamilton street, Allentown. where he now resides.
OPLINGER FAMILY.
The Oplinger family were natives of Schwart- zena, in Germany, and emigrated to America long before the middle of the Eighteenth century, and the first representatives were Nicholas, Samuel and Isaac, all of whom came to partici- pate in the Revolution, from Northampton county, during the years 1782 and 1783.
Nicholas Uplinger secured a warrant for 60 acres of land on August 31, 17:34, which was sit- uated in Philadelphia county, (now included in Montgomery ) ; and under the name of Nicholas Opplinger he became the owner of two tracts of land, which are now included in Carbon county, one having been at the Lehigh Gap, and the other above Millport, for 29 acres, the war- rant for the latter having been issued on June 21, 1751.
At the October Term of Court in Northamp- ton county in 1752, Nicholas Oplinger was ap- pointed first constable of Northampton county. He is mentioned by Benjamin Franklin to Gov- ernor Morris in a letter dated at Fort Allen, on January 25, 1756: "We reached, however, that night to Uplinger's where we got into good Quarters." The next day, (on a Saturday) Franklin's party marched about two miles farther but they were obliged to return on account of rain which dampened the fire-locks of their mus- kets; and the following day they marched on and arrived about two o'clock in the afternoon at the sight chosen for Fort Allen, which was erected on land where Weissport is now situated. In Franklin's official report, he says :
"We left Bethlehem the 10th, inst. with Foulk's company, 46 men, the detachment of Laughlin's, 20,
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and 7 waggons laden with stores and provisions. We got that night to Way's Quarters where Wayne's company from Nazareth joined us. The next day we marched cautiously thro' the gap of the moun- tain, a very dangerous Pass, and got to Uplinger's but twenty-one miles from Bethlehem, the Roads being bad and the waggons moving slowly."
Conrad Wleiser also stopped at Uplinger's place with Teedyuseung, Pompshire, Moses Tetany and other Indians, accompanied by sol- dier, on his way to Fort Allen, in November, 1756; for, in his Journal, he says :
"Nov. 19th, We arrived that night at one Nich- olas Opplinger. The 20th, after I had settled with the Landlord, the Indian account, which amounted to fi, IOS. IId. chiefly for sider, left it unpaid, this being the last place where they, could get it, we set off and arrived at Fort Allen by 10 o'clock.
Anna Oplinger was born in Schwartzena, in 1724. She became the wife of Bernhard Kuntz and died on December 28, 1804. Isaac Oplinger was born in 1741, and died in 1813, aged 72 years.
In the assessment list of Lehigh township for the year 1780, Samuel Oplinger and Isaac Op- linger, both farmers, were assessed at £120.
Isaac Oplinger and his wife, Susanna, were the parents of two sons, John and Daniel. The latter was born on Dec. 9, 1790, and died Jan. 2, 1851. His wife was Susanna Walp, born April 15, 1793, and died April 5, 1865. Both were buried at Indian-land church in Northamp- ton county : and there Isaac Oplinger was also buried.
Daniel Oplinger lived in Lehigh township, about one mile south from Danielsville and had twelve children: Sarah (died in 1813, aged one year) ; Samuel (died at the age of 84 years) ; Elizabeth ; James; Elias (married Hannah An- thony ) ; Paul (of Wilkes-Barre, who married Catharine Biechy, and had two sons, Mifflin and Francis) ; Thomas; Joseph (married Phoebe March, lived in Lehigh township and had four children: Milton, Jane, Susanna and Louise) ; Catharine (married Jonas Snyder) ; Charles (married Lena Rothlein and had four children, George A. Wilson, James and Amanda) ; Julia (married David Rothlein) ; and David (who died in childhood ).
Thomas Oplinger, the fourth son of Daniel, and father of George T. Oplinger, was born Nov. 15, 1824, and died August 12, 1901. Early in life, he learned the shoemaker trade and fol- lowed it as a regular occupation for fifty-five years. He also conducted a farm where he resided the greater part of his life. He was an active member of the Lutheran church. He was married to Sarah Lena Fenstermacher, born March 22, 1827, and died Aug. 26, 1890, daugh- ter of George Fenstermacher (son of John),
born July 7, 1787 died May 19, 1853, and his wife, Catharine Driesbach, born Sept., 1793, died March 31, 1846.
GEORGE T. OPLINGER, who was surveyor of Slatington for twenty-two years and president of the Citizen's National Bank, was born on the family homestead in Lehigh township and there he spent his boyhood and youth. His preliminary education was received in the schools of the vicinity and when he reached the age of fourteen years assisted his father at shoe-making until in the year 1865. The desire to secure a better education then asserted itself and in that behalf he accordingly attended Sykes's School at Beth- lehem, Weaversville Academy, and Dickinson Seminary; also the Williamsport Business Col- lege, from which he was graduated in December, 1869. He then took up the study of mechanical and architectural drafting, together with civil engineering, under the instruction of John B. Otto, a distinguished civil engineer at William- port, and he pursued his studied there with great industry for two years.
In 1871 Mr. Oplinger became associated with Prof. J. T. Davis, the principal of the Business College, and under the name of Davis and Oplinger they carried on the institution success- fully for two years, when he decided to return to Slatington, and look after his private affairs and to establish a business location for himself at Slatington. While at Williamsport he de- veloped great skill in penmanship and designed and executed pen-work of a superior and most remarkable character, having in his early man- hood shown an inclination to writing and draw- ing with the pen and the numerous specimens of his handiwork display in a high degree the char- acter of his genius and the superiority of his skill.
Some of these designs and specimens, which attest the excellence of his work, had been col- lected and arranged by him in a "Scrap-Book" for convenience of reference as samples in pro- curing orders, and this has been kindly presented by Mr. Oplinger to the Lehigh County His- torical Society for preservation among its num- erous other gifts and collections of an interesting and valuable nature. He was actively and success- fully engaged at Slatington, from 1873 until 1913, mostly in the pursuit of surveying, civil-engineer- ing, and architectural drawing, including much work for slate companies in Lehigh and North- ampton counties.
During these forty years, Mr. Oplinger manifested a strong and progressive spirit in local affairs and the general welfare of the com- munity. He identified himself with the building and loan associations of the borough, having
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been one of the organizers and served as one of the directors of the Keystone, the Excelsior, and of Home, and officiated as secretary of the Home Association from the beginning until its shares matured and the shares settled in full.
In 1881 he was elected as a school director, and in 1884 re-elected for a second term, and be- sides serving the two terms of six years, he also officiated as secretary for 3 years and as treas- urer of the Board for the last two years. In 1890 the town council selected him as the bor- ough engineer and he filled the position for twenty-two years. In 1893 he received the ap- pointment of Notary Public and he served this position until 1901; and in that year he was one of the organizers of the Citizens' National Bank and since then had not only served as a director of the Board but also filled the office of president in a most satisfactory manner, as evi- denced by the growth and substantial condition of the bank.
Mr. Oplinger had been affiliated with the Masonic fraternity since 1871, when he was first initiated into its mysteries in Manoquesy Lodge No. 413 at Bath, in Northampton county, and demitted in 1889 to Slatington Lodge No. 440; he became a Royal Arch Mason in Allen Chapter No. 203, in 1892, and a charter mem- ber of Slatington chapter No. 292, in 1909; and he was made a Knight Templar of Allen Com- mandery No. 20, in 1893, and a member of Irem Temple A. A. O. M. N. S., at Wilkes-Barre, in 1898, and of the Caldwell Consistory, S. P. R. S. at Bloomsburg ; and he has been advanced to the Thirty-second Degree.
On Aug. 14, 1871, Mr. Oplinger was united in marriage with Ellen A. Remaly, daughter of John and Lavinia (Wert) Remaly) of Slating- ton, and they had one son, Thomas R., who was born May 30, 1876, and died June 30, 1887. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran church, of which he supplied the architectural drawings and specifications, and he acted as one of the building committee in the erection of the building; he served as a deacon for a time, and when the congregation severed its connection with the St. John's Reformed congregation in the joint own- ership of the property he was one of the trustees.
He died suddenly of apoplexy on Oct. 18, 1913. His wife is a member of the St. John's Re- formed church, and treasurer of the Ladies' Aid society. Her father, John Remaly, erected the hotel on Main street (3rd ) at its intersection with Church, now known as the "Neff-House ;" and the liquor license first issued for the stand in John Remaly's name, is now in the possession of Mrs. Oplinger, which was dated on Nov. 29th, A. D. 1851.
John Oplinger, son of Isaac, was married to Nancy Hurbner, born Nov. 1, 1790, died March 31, 1890. He died about 1851, aged 65 years. Among their children were a son, Daniel, born May 10, 1817, died March 31, 1901, at Dan- ielsville, Northampton county. He married Lov- ina Seip, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Dull, Doll) Seip. She was born Sept. 19, 1820, and died Nov. 30, 1913, in her 94th year.
John Amandus Oplinger, son of Daniel, was born Nov. 18, 1839, is now living retired at Danielsville. He was a prosperous farmer and business man, was proprietor of the Oplinger Milling Company and a partner of the Oplinger- Bossard Mill Company. He married Alavesta E. Leibenguth, born March 3, 1844. She was a daughter of Reuben and Lydia (Wentz) Leib- enguth. They have a son, Harvey N., who was born June 5, 1868, on the Oplinger homestead, on Indian creek, near Lerch's store between Danielsville and Cherryville, in Northampton county. After coming to Allentown he was head book-keeper for Diehl's Furniture House for six years ; is now serving a similar position for John N. Lawfer. Earlier in life he was head miller for fourteen years for the Oplinger Mill- ing Company at Howersville. Afterward he was in the baking business at Palmerton from whence in 1905, he moved to Allentown. He married Amanda E. Fritzinger, born July 11, 1870, in Heidelberg township, a daughter of George and Matilda (Woodring) Fritzinger, born May 29, 1828, died July 3, 1896. Mrs. Fritzinger was born July 28, 1833, died April 2, 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey N. Oplinger have one son, Elwood E., whose history follows :
ELWOOD E. OPLINGER, son of Harvey N., was born at Howersville, Northampton county, Sept. II, 1892. At the age of nine years his parents moved to Palmerton where he attended the pub- lic schools, and in 1905 he came to Allentown where for two years more he continued his studies. In 1909 he entered upon his apprentice- ship of printer and in 1910 became an em- ployee of H. Ray Haas and Company and has continued there up to the present, serving now as foreman of the press-room.
Mr. Oplinger is very actively identified with Church, Sunday School and Christian Endeavor work. He is a member of Seibert United Evan- gelical church; is general secretary of the Lehigh County Christian Endeavor Union since 1912; is press superintendent of the East Pa. Conference Branch of the Keystone League of Christian Endeavor of the United Evangelical church ; is press superintendent of the Allentown Christian Endeavor Union, also of the Seibert United Evangelical church since 1908; is a former
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