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I. Elizabeth, born Nov. 18, 1768. 2. Fred- erick, born Feb. 28, 1770, died Aug. 27, 1800, married Catharine Egner. 3. Abraham, born April 1, 1772. 4. Isaac, born June 11, 1774. 5. Jacob, born May 3, 1776, died July 27, 1848, married Judith Egner. 6. John, born Feb. 22, 1779. 7. Leonhard, born April 12, 1782. 8. Magdalena, born April 28, 1784. 9. Maria Catharine, born Dec. 22, 1786, died Dec. 28, 1786. 10. Anna Maria, born April 11, 1788. II. Philip, born July 6, 1792. 12. Benjamin, born Aug. 29, 1795.
ISAAC ROMIG, the fourth son of John Chris- tian Romig, was born at 3 o'clock, p. m., June II, 1774, in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. He was married to Mary Catharine Schubert, a daughter of George Schubert, who was brought to America by his parents when two years old,
and with them settled in Weisenberg township, Lehigh county, where he died at about the age of eighty years. He was married to Christina Nungesser, who was born in Weisenberg town- ship.
Isaac Romig first lived in Lynn township, in said county, but in the year 1826 moved to near Sparta and Dansville, New York. Some of his children were born in both places of residence, it would seem from different accounts, but it is more than likely all were born in Lehigh county, Pa. His wife, Mary Catharine, and son, John, died October 5th, and himself, Oct. 6, 1840, of typhoid fever, in Springwater town- ship, Livingston county, New York. His sons, Benjamin and Isaac, Jr., being administrators of their estates. As far as known to the writer, Isaac Romig and wife, Mary Catharine, had chil- dren, as follows:
(1) Helena, married John Keihle, and had children : Viana, who died unmarried; Lydia, married Joe Sussong, had five children; Joseph, married Alzina O'Neal, had one child; Eliza- beth, married James Blake, had children; Jonas, married Mollie Greek.
(2) Elizabeth, married Nathan Fritzinger, had children; Matilda, married Augustus Kane, had children; Frances, married Mary (Bear) Mehler, a widow with three children by her first husband, namely: George, Esther, and Mary, and by last husband one son, Bert; Jonas, mar- ried Mary Thatcher, in Buchanan county, Iowa, had three girls and two boys; Daniel, married Eliza Krebs, has two children; Lucinda, mar- ried Albert Pletcher, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., where they now live, were married at Brandon, Buchanan county, Iowa, has three children, two girls and one boy.
(3) Benjamin, wife's name unknown. His baptismal certificate says: "Benjamin Romig, born Oct. 19, 1803, in Macungie township, Lehi county, Pa. Baptised by Rev. Mr. Helfrich. The witnesses thereto requested were the grand- parents, George Schubert and his wife, Christina, and gave him the name as stated. The father is Isaac Romig and his wife Catharine." Benja- min Romig and wife had children: John, born Jan. 12, 1834; Abraham, born April 14, 1836; Maria, born May 25, 1838, and died April 25, 1841 ; Benjamin, born Jan. 21, 1840; Clarissa, born Nov. 7, 1844; William Henry, born Dec. 28, 1846; Samuel, born Feb. 10, 1842.
Benjamin Romig moved with his family from Livingston county, N. Y., to a farm near Ann Arbor, Michigan, where all lived for some years, and Samuel attended the University of Michigan, and graduated in medicine, and practiced in Iona, Mich., and is now located in Chicago, Ill.
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Clarissa, married a man by name of Campbell, and lives about three miles from Ann Arbor, has several children, sons and daughters. Two of the sons of Benjamin Romig were in the Fed- eral army, in the "War Between the States," in 1861-1865.
(4) Daniel, married Elizabeth Cooter, had children: Laura, married; Aaron, unmarried ; Malvina, married in Buchanan county, Iowa.
(5) Jonas, was twice married. First wife, Rebecca Cooter, a sister of his brother Daniel's wife, who deceased, and then he married, sec- ond, Catharine (Naylor) Steinbrook, a widow. Had children by first wife: Samuel, married and lives in West; Maria, married John Jackson ; Ellen, married Frederick Reiterman, had chil- dren; Joseph, married in Oregon. By his sec- ond wife had children, sons: Ollie and Dally.
(6) Isaac Romig, Jr., the son of Isaac Romig, the 4th son of John Christian Romig and his second wife, Maria (Rothermel) Romig, was born in Lehigh county, Pa., on March 26, 1814. Moved with his parents to Springwater town- ship, Livingston county, New York, and lived in that county until after marriage. He learned the carpenter trade, built him a home in Dans- ville, N. Y., and here he was married to Eliza- beth Young, on March 13, 1842. Elizabeth Young was born in Northumberland county, Pa., Aug. 8, 1823. She was a daughter of Jacob (possibly Henry, or Jacob Henry) Young, and Catharine Strong (Williamson) Young, who was a daughter of Sarah (Richey) Williamson, and Jacob Williamson, her husband.
Isaac Romig, Jr., and wife, with a baby son, Henry H., moved from Livingston county, N. Y., about the year 1843, and settled in Richfield, Washington county, Wisconsin territory. Here he purchased land and began the work of making him a home. He proved the fore-runner for many more of his relatives and friends, for soon he was joined by his brothers, Daniel and Jonas, and sister Elizabeth and husband, Nathan Frit- zinger, as well as cousins, and later his wife's only sister, Sarah Ann. Here all his children were born, and some time afterwards with his wife and family moved to Brandon, Buchanan county, Iowa, where he farmed for a while, then engaged in the mercantile business until age and infirmity compelled his retirement from its ac- tivities. He associated with him the last few years his son, James, who later purchased all interest in the store stock, and later sold it to Edwards & McDonald, of Independence, Iowa. He deceased in May, 1889, at Brandon, Buchan- an county, Iowa, a highly respected Christian gentleman, leaving his wife and five children.
There were born to Isaac Romig, Jr., and his
wife, Elizabeth, in addition to the son, Henry H., before mentioned, Harriet, who was born July II, 1845, in Richfield township, Washing- ton county, Wisconsin territory. On Dec. 24, 1863, she was married to Hiram Smith Van Buren, a native of New York, but had taken up his residence in Waterloo, Iowa, where he was engaged in the grocery business. To this union were born: Mary E., born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1866, who married George H. Mehler, Sept. 5, 1888. One child was born to her, Hazel Mehler, who with her father lives in Galesburg, Ill. The mother, Mary E. (Van Buren) Meh- ler, deceased at Galesburg, Ill., in 1912.
Two sons were also born to Harriet E .: Charles, unmarried, and living with his mother near Brandon, Buchanan county, Iowa; Clinton, married, and living in Iowa, married to Dillie Daubaugh.
Mary Ann, born in Wisconsin on April 14, 1847, and was married to Henry Fouts, in Jef- ferson township, Buchanan county, Iowa, Jan. 1, 1867. To this union were born two children: Merritt O., who is cashier of the Commercial State Bank, of Independence, Iowa. He married Miss May Chapman, in that county, and have children : son, John; daughter, Mildred. Clara, married John Elliott, at Brandon, Iowa, and now lives on a farm near that village. She has children, sons: Elzy, Robert and Merritt.
James M., born in Wisconsin, May, 29, 1849. Married Sarah L. Newcomb at Independence, Iowa, Dec. 25, 1870. To this union were born Myron LaMont, who married Miss Grace Cur- tis, at Independence, Iowa, and have a son, Ronald, and now live in Moscow, Idaho; Frank G., married, and now lives in Seattle, Wash .; Lyman N., unmarried, living in Independence, Iowa; Etta M., married Rev. T. H. Hall, and lives in Des Moines, Iowa, has child, Rob Roy, married and lives in Moscow, Idaho, has child.
Pearl; daughter, deceased when nine years old. James M. Romig, engaged with his father in the mercantile business, in Brandon, Buchanan county, Iowa, and after building up a large general store, purchased the entire stock, and after some years sold it to Edwards & McDonald, of Independence, Iowa, a firm that had a large store in Independence, and other branch stores, the junior member of which, Alexander T. Mc- Donald, afterwards married James's sister, Clara M., who now lives in Independence, Iowa.
James M. Romig, deceased at Independence, Iowa, July 7, 1912.
Malinda, born in Wisconsin, Nov. 12, 1853, married to Wiley M. Kear, at Brandon, Bu- chanan county, Iowa, June 17, 1879. To this union were born seven children, the youngest,
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Thomas W., deceased when a few hours old. Carleton Romig Kear, when in his sixteenth year, entered the United States Naval Academy in June, 1896, and while taking his course, served on the converted yacht Hawk, during the Span- ish-American War. He graduated with his class, standing fifth, and has continued in the service since, and went with the battleship fleet around the world. He is now a lieut. commander and stationed at present on the United States Naval Station, Cavite, P. I. On March 21, 1910, at Annapolis, Md., while holding a position in the Academy, married Miss Eleanor Dent Pettit, a daughter of the late Colonel James S. Pettit, U. S. A., and a granddaughter of the late Major Alexander Sharp, U. S. A., her mother being a niece of Mrs. U. S. Grant, wife of the ex-presi- dent of the United States.
Helen L., a daughter, a graduate of O. W. U., Delaware, Ohio, and late head of the Pow- hattan Institute, Belona, Va., a school for girls. Roy Donald, in business with his father, Wash- ington, D. C. Paul Winfred, who graduated in high school of Van Wert, Ohio, took one term in Michigan University, and graduated from the University of Virginia, taking the law course, and is practicing law with the law firm of Jef- freys, Wolcott, Wolcott and Lankford, Norfolk, Va., married to Gertrude Myers, no children. Harry Alexander, unmarried, and in business with his father, Washington, D. C.
WILEY M. KEAR, husband of Malinda (Romig) Kear, is a son of Thomas Reed Kear and wife, Catharine ( Frisinger) Kear. Was born in Van Wert, Ohio, on April 22, 1851, lived in that city over fifty-five years of his life. While visiting a sister in Iowa, met his wife and was married six years after in Brandon, Buchanan county, Iowa. For more than forty years has been to some extent engaged in the real estate and loaning business, having for his mother laid out and had plotted "Kear's Addition to the Town of Van Wert," and after selling off the lots, afterwards on the first day of January, 1879, entered the recorder's office of that county as deputy recorder for his brother-in-law, Wil- liam P. Wolcott, who took the office at that time as recorder. He filled this position for four years at the same time giving his attention to the real estate and loaning business. In 1884, he entered the office of Saltzgabber & Glenn, a prominent law firm, and took over their real estate business, and remained in said office for more than twenty- five years, continuously, with Hon. H. C. Glenn, and other members of the firm, taken in from time to time. The first several years, with Hon. G. M. Saltzgabber, a former state senator, and most able lawyer, and at this time Commissioner
of Pensions, by appointment of President Wilson. In 1909, moved to Washington, D. C., and began purchasing and selling real estate, and still con- tinues in same.
Thomas Reed Kear, father of Wiley M. Kear, was born in Ann Arundel county, Maryland, April 27, 1806. He was a son of John Kear and Mary (Reed) Kear, his ancestry being English and Scotch. His father, John Kear, was a pri- vate in Captain William Holt's Company, Eighth Regt., Virginia Militia, War 1812-1815. His mother, Mary (Reed) Kear, was a native of Maryland, and had two brothers that built one of the first brick blocks in the city of Balti- more and at the time known as "Reed Block." The Reed family were among the early settlers in that city, and were engaged in shipbuilding and merchants with their own ships carrying mer- chandise to and from different countries and from Baltimore to New Orleans and return.
On April 29, 1829, in Champaign county, Ohio, Thomas Reed Kear was married to Cath- arine Frisinger (See Marriage Record "B" on page 223, Probate Judge's Office). She was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, April 12, 1912. She was a daughter of Peter Frisinger and Catharine ( Aker-German, Eker) Frisinger. Peter Frisinger, her father, served as a private in Captain Christopher Morris' company of light infantry, Fourth Regt., of Virginia Militia, com- manded by Lieut. Col. Wooding and Lieut. Col. Huston, War 1812-1815. He died in the serv- ice on Jan. 4, 1815. Her mother was Catharine Aker (German, Eker) a daughter of John Aker, who, by his descendants is called both John and Henry, from which fact it may be inferred that his name was John Henry Aker. He descended from an old family in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, many of whom served in many capacities in the Revolutionary War, and some of them living in Berks, Lancaster and York counties, Pennsylvania.
For a more extended history of the Kear fam- ily, see "The History of Van Wert and Mercer Counties, Ohio," and "Gilliland's History and Biography of Van Wert County, Ohio," printed and published by Richmond & Arnold, Chicago, Il1.
Clara Marilla, born in Wisconsin, Nov. 13, 1856. Married at Van Wert, Ohio, while on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Kear, to Alexander T. McDonald, a resident of Independence, Iowa, where they still reside, he being a retired mer- chant. No children blessed this union.
Henry H., the eldest child of Isaac, Jr., and Elizabeth (Young) Romig, was a private in Co. C, 27th Regt., Iowa Volunteers. He died from
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a gun-shot wound on May 21, 1864, at Mem- phis, Tenn.
Elizabeth (Young) Romig, wife of Isaac Romig, Jr., was born in Northumberland county, Penna., Aug. 8, 1824, and when a child but two years old, lost both her parents, the father's death preceding the mother, who left a second child, a daughter, of three months old. These two chil- dren, Elizabeth and Sarah Ann Young, had a guardian appointed for them, who was Joseph Copler, as near as can be made out from an old court order, which reads as follows:
"In Surrogate Court, Nov. 4, 1826. Supposed to be in Livingston county, N. Y. Ordered and Decreed, that Jas. H. McNain and Charles W. Rosebaugh, pay to Joseph Copler, Guardian of Elizabeth Young and Sarah Ann Young, One Hundred and Forty-one Dollars."
Some of the records give the birthplace of these children as Dansville, N. Y. A family of five sisters, two married, Polly Knetrouer and Cath- arine Hartman, took these children and brought them up to womanhood, Polly Knetrouer tak- ing Elizabeth, and Catharine Hartman Sarah Ann. The families that took these girls lived in Pennsylvania, they with other friends and rela- tives went by water from Buffalo, N. Y., to Wilwaukee, Wis., and later to Richfield, about the years 1839 or 1840. If the girls accompanied them, they must have returned to New York state, for here Elizabeth was married to Isaac Romig, Jr., on March 13, 1832, and old letters from relatives show that Sarah Ann was in Sparta, N. Y., in 1844. However, in 1847, Sarah Ann was married to Thomas Pilgrim, pre- sumably at Menominee Falls, Wis., where they resided until the death of the husband in 1848, leaving the widow and a baby boy three months old, named Thomas J., who grew to manhood and is still living in that city, though out of it for some length of time as a child. Sarah Ann married a second husband, Lewis Knebus, and moved to Richfield township, just across the road from where her sister and husband had moved. Later she and her husband moved to Batavia, Sheboyagan county, Wis., in 1859. Here she lived until her decease, May 10, 1887, leaving her husband, son by first husband, and two sons and three daughters by the second marriage. In the old Bible of Jacob Young is found the fol- lowing data:
"Sarah Richey was born Oct. 19, 1774.
"Jacob Williamson was born the 6th day of February, 1772.
"Jacob Williamson and Sarah Richey was married Dec. 11, 1796.
"James Williamson was born Oct. 5, 1797.
"William Williamson was born Sept. 26, 1799.
"Mary Anderson Williamson was born Nov. 1, 1802.
"Catharine Strong Williamson was born Jan. 30, 1805.
"Rebecca Williamson was born the 4th of May, 1807.
"John Richey Williamson was born July 6, 18II.
"Nancy Ann Williamson was born June I, 1814."
John Romig, sixth son of John Christian, was born Feb. 22, 1779. He was confirmed by Rev. Dechant and became a farmer in Lower Macun- gie, where he died May 12, 1862. He married, Nov. 22, 1810, Maria Larash, who was born Jan. 21, 1792, and died March 3, 1872. They had eight children :
I. Amos, born Aug. 14, died Oct. 22, 1811.
2. Marietta, born June 4, 1813, married Charles Erb.
3. Philip, born June 29, 1816.
4. Aaron, born Sept. 2, 1818, married Mar- garet Stopp.
5. Augustus, born April 27, 1821.
6. Susanna, born Feb. 4, 1828, died April 14, 1858, married, 1849, George Neitz.
7. Anna Maria, born May 13, 1833, married Henry Mill.
8. John Frederick, born May 13, 1833, mar- ried Susan Bear.
Augustus Romig, son of John, was born in Lower Macungie in 1821, where he was a tailor. He was a member of the Reformed congregation at Lehigh church and when in later years living in Allentown, of Zion Reformed church.
He married Lydia, daughter of Jacob and Maria (Snyder) Bear. They had eight children : I. Mary E., born 1847, died 1848; 2. Anna Maria Catharine, born July 4, 1849, died in 19II, married Charles Ziegenfus; 3. George G., born and died in 1852; 4. Franklin R., born and died in 1856; 5. Aaron J., born Feb. 1, 1858, died Dec. 26, 1885, married Josephine Seip and had a daughter, Beulah, married George Schuler ; 6. John Harvey; 7. Oscar J., born and died in 1866; 8. Eda Tabitha, born April 7, 1871, died Nov. 23, 1887.
J. HARVEY ROMIG, senior member of the firm of Romig & Bear, tombstone cutters of Allen- town, Pa., was born in Lower Macungie, June 17, 1862. He was educated in the public schools of his native township and at the age of 15 years learned the trade of stone cutting, continuing in that profession as journeyman in Macungie for one year. In 1880, he came to Allentown and entered the employ of Romig Brothers, tomb- stone cutters, located at Ninth and Linden streets, continuing with them in the position of journey-
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man for thirteen years. The firm of Romig Bros. was succeeded by R. H. Kram, and J. Harvey Romig continued in his service until 1897, when he engaged in business with William F. Romig, a member of the firm of Romig Bros., under the firm name of Romig & Romig, and lo- cating at 225 North Tenth street, where the busi- ness was conducted until 1906, when the present firm was organized and continues to the present time. Mr. Romig is a widely experienced marble and granite worker and erected thousands of tombstones in the course of his experience. The firm of Romig & Bear are members of the Cham- ber of Commerce.
Mr. Romig is a member of Constantine Lodge, No. 1113, I. O. O. F., of Allentown ; Camp No. 406, P. O. S. of A .; Knights of the Mystic Chain, No. 149; and Jordan Lodge, No. 673, F. & A. M.
Mr. Romig and his family are members of Zion Reformed church of Allentown, and for nine years Mr. Romig served as a member of the consistory, having been a teacher and active worker in the Sunday school for many years.
On Nov. 11, 1882, he was married to Ida Butz, daughter of Manasses and Eliza (Wen- ner) Butz. Their children are: William H., who married Margaret Hayd; Eliza L., who married Stanley Ziegenfus, of Palmerton; Harry E., who died at an early age; Edgar F., a gradu- ate of Allentown high school, a student of Muh- lenberg College for three years, a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, class of 1911, and a member of A. T. O. Fraternity; Stanley B., who died in his 7th year; Harold J .; Edith, who died in her 4th year; and Iva B. Edgar F. Romig attended Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University and is now a teacher at the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, Syria.
Joseph Romig, second son of Frederick and Catharine (Siegfried) Romig, was born March 27, 1740. He resided in Macungie township upon his father's land until about 1778. He and his wife, Anna, had several children, among them Joseph, born Feb. 10, 1771; and Maria Cath- arine, born 1774. The following document, found among the Romig family papers, shows Joseph Romig's situation in the Revolutionary period :
MEMORANDUM.
Concerning the Case of Joseph Romig.
Joseph Romig, before and at the Beginning of the late War, lived reputably with his Family upon a Tract of Land in Macungie Township in the County of Northampton, which Land belonged to his Father Frederick Romig, who had permitted him to live upon and cultivate the same, in the same Manner as he had given other Parts of his Lands to other of his sons, but the Property always remained
in him the father, which he never conveyed or alienated or intended to convey during his life.
In the years of 1778 and 1779 Joseph Romig hav- ing many Enemies in his Neighborhood, was accused of being inimical to the War again Britain, and charged with Sundry Crimes, and although his In- nocence was clearly proved, John Wetzel, then Lieutenant of the County of Northampton perse- cuted him with unrelenting Perseverance, so that he was obliged to leave home and retire behind the Blue mountains, where he led a miserable Life for some time, but returning home and it being known, Mr. Wetzel sent a Guard to bring him dead or alive, which order has been proved before Magistrates. Joseph hearing of it and wishing to retire, had the Misfortune to meet with his Pursuers and to wound one of the Guards so sent after him (who was after- wards cured) and this made it necessary for him to abscond. In going towards the Army he was with some others taken Prisoner by a Party of the Eng- lish near the Billet and brought to Philadelphia. There he was frequently importuned to inlist in a Volunteer or other Corps but constantly refused, declaring it as his Resolution not to fight for either Party.
This stay in Philadelphia, as the only time, he was with the British was six weeks, after which time he returned homeward, but knowing that his death was determined upon he was obliged to lead a very wretched life in the Woods, only seeing his wife and children now and then in the night time and during two Years following earned a precarious subsistence among his Acquaintances in Bucks, Berks, and Philadelphia Counties, by making plows, etc. In the following Years lived openly and un- molested with his Brother Adam Romig, and find- ing no other Possibility of Subsisting his Family, in the Spring of 1788 removed to Niagara, from whence he returned in December, 1789.
During his stay in Philadelphia in 1779, Joseph Romig was informed that his Property would be confiscated which was done accordingly. But when Stephen Balliet, then Commissioner of the confis- cated Estates proceeded to sell the Plantation where- on Joseph had lived, he was forewarned that it was not the property of Joseph, but the absolute Property of Frederick the Father, and was never alienated nor intended to be so, and that the said Frederick then lived in the county, upon his other Lands, unimpeached and as a peaceable citizen; yet by the order, Suggestion and Oath of John Wetzel, (as Joseph has been told) the Land was sold to one Patterson and others and the wife and Family of Joseph were driven out and took refuge by his Brother John Romig, where they remained two years and afterward removed to Adam Romig as aforesaid.
(I) After the Decease of the Said Frederick Romig the Father, it appeared by his Last will and Testament dated April 19, 1783, that the same Lands which were so confiscated as the Property of Joseph were by the Father devised, as his Property, to his said Son Joseph Romig his Heirs and Assigns for ever. This will has been proved in the Register's Office and letters of Administration granted to the Executor, who finding the Land so devised to Joseph to be only Warranted Land, applied for Patents for the same for and in the name of the said Joseph Romig.
(2) The Executors did not get the patents, but they paid for the Land and have since paid the Taxes.
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(3) It appears that the Executors have commenced a Suit in the Supreme Court of Philadelphia for the Recovery of the Property and to obtain possession of it, and have employed Mr. Lewis as their at- torney, but it seems that is yet pending.
(4) Joseph Romig wishes to be advised in what manner he may proceed with Probability of Success. Macungie, July 15, 1790.
John Adam Romig, third son of Frederick and Catharina (Siegfried ) Romig, was born Nov. 27, 1741. He was a miller and farmer and re- moved from Macungie township to Upper Sau- con about 1770. He died Sept. 27, 1798, and is buried at Friedensville church. In his will, dated April 17, 1797, he bequeathed his wife the in- terest of £300, the eldest son 114 shares, each of the other sons, 11/8 shares, and each daughter, one share, of his estate. The mill in Upper Saucon, with 53 acres of land, was to be offered to his son, John, another tract to his son, Samuel, the tan-yard, dwelling house and one-half of the Kneppley place to his son, John Adam, the other half to Daniel and the mill and tract in White- hall to his son, Peter. The Upper Saucon mill was located at what is now Centre Valley. John Adam Romig married, first, Catharine, daugh- ter of Peter and Barbara Butz. She died about 1779. They had six children :
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