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able composition and attractive, glistening dark- blue color. Innumerable roofs of dwelling- houses and churches in that section of Penn- sylvania for many miles are evidence of the ex- cellence and popularity of the "Hazel-Dell" slate. Notwithstanding Mr. Roper's death in 1904, this slate operation is still carried on by the estate for the benefit of his heirs under the executors of his last will.
In 1876, Mr. Roper was married to Amy C. Kernahen, daughter of Thomas C. Kernahan, a prominent and successful merchant at Allentown for many years, and they had five children: Vida A., Jennie B., Winfield H., Minnie M., and Mayme Alice; all born at Slatington. They were members of the Presbyterian Church. He died June 27, 1904.
Vida Amy Roper was born Feb. 1, 1877. Her preliminary education was acquired in the pub- lic schools, and upon her graduation from the high school in 1891, with first honor as the vale- dictorian, she subsequently attended the Female College and American Business College, at Al- lentown, and also the College of Music at Cin- cinnati, Ohio, and the Conservatory of Music, at Philadelphia, Pa., having received at this last institution in 1902 a certificate as a Supervisor of public school music. She then embarked in the profession of teaching music at Slatington, and has since followed it successfully; and in June, 1911, the School Board selected her as the supervisor of music in the public schools of Slatington in which she is recognized for her proficiency.
Jennie Belle Roper was born Oct. 5, 1878. She received her education in the local schools and also in the West Chester Normal School, from which she was graduated in 1896, then she taught public school at Slatington for six years. She married Alfred S. Morgan and they have two children, Evelyn A., and May Roper.
Winfield Hancock Roper was born Sept. 6, 1880. He received his education in the local school, also in Lafayette College, Easton, but illness prevented his graduation though he had nearly completed his course of four years. He was first engaged as a road and bridge surveyor then entered the employ of the Hazel-Dell Slate Co., where he continued until he became the superintendent of the Slatington Gas Co., in January, 1911. He was married to Viola Rob- erts, and they have three children, Donald D., Dorothy E., and Winfield E.
Minnie May Roper was born June 30, 1882. She received her education in the schools of Slatington; also in West Chester State Nor- mal School from which she was graduated in 1901. She then taught school at Green Lane
for two terms and at Slatington for five terms. She married Dr. Charles H. Muschlitz, of Slatington, and they have a son named, Rob- ert Roper.
Mayme Alice Roper was born April 17, 1887, and educated in the schools of Slatington and the Wilson College at Chambersburg; then she directed her attention to the study of music in the Conservatory of Music, at Philadelphia, from which she was graduated in 1906, and since then she has followed the profession of music as a teacher at Slatington, and filled the position of organist of the Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Amy C. Roper was born in Monterey, July 14, 1850. She received her education in the Allentown Public Schools. In 1865-66, at the Pennsylvania Collegiate. At the Allentown Academy in 1866-67. A music course at College Hall at Collegeville, in 1867-68. Teacher of music in Allentown in 1869-70-71.
Taught school at Spring Creek in 1873-74. Taught school at Slatington, 1874-75. Married in 1876.
Received a diploma in the Chicago School of Advertising 1899.
In 1900, A Short-Story Course at the Na- tional Institute at Washington. A course in journalism under Murat Halstead, 1901-02, and received diploma. Contributed trade articles to a trade paper of Ohio "The Business Age." Re- ceived from The Designer a prize for a business article entitled: "What Women are Doing." Contributed poems to the Simmons Magazine, of New York.
January, 1911, was published the poem en- titled "Cupid's Bank." March, 1911, poem "Woman Suffrage." Short Stories contributed to Author's Magazine of Detroit, Michigan.
Became a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, February 3, 1903. In the local chapter of the Liberty Bell Chapter, at Allentown. Served as Vice-Regent and Chairman of Year-Book Com- mittee for 1910-II. Also a member of the Na- tional Society Patriotic Women of American, of New York. Later became a member of the Lehigh County Historical Society ; finally in 1904 was appointed one of the Executors of the D. D. Roper Estate.
Thomas Christie Kernahen, her father, was born May 24, 1822, in Belfast, Ireland, emi- grated to the United States in April, 1843, and located at Philadelphia where he filled for some years a position as mechanical draftsman. In 1857, he removed to Allentown and followed a mercantile life for nearly twenty years in a very successful manner. He opened the first store at Allentown exclusively for glass-ware
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and queensware opposite the Court-House, after- ward acquiring and occupying the site of the Zollinger-Harned & Co. Store. He then re- turned to Philadelphia and directed his atten- tion to the purchase and sale of real estate until 1888, when ill-health obliged him to go to Los Angeles, Cal., and later to Pomona, where he engaged in the cultivation of olive and orange groves, and established a sanitarium. He died April 18, 1898. He was married to Mary E. Shafer and they had nine children, one son and eight daughters, of whom Mrs. Roper was the eldest.
Ross FAMILY.
The ancestor, Charles Ross, took out warrant No. 38, in Heidelberg township, Lehigh county, for a tract of 103 acres of land, on Oct. 6, 1755. The federal census report of 1790, records Charles Ross, a resident of Heidelberg township and as having two sons under sixteen years of age, a wife and one daughter. One of his sons was John, the great-grandfather of George J. Ross.
John Ross, son of John., was reared in Lynn township, above Mossersville, along the Blue mountains. He had a tract of forty acres of land and was a tailor and farmer. The major part of his life was spent in Weisenberg, having resided there about sixty years. He was a member of the Lutheran Church. He was buried on Weis- enberg cemetery. He married Hannah Bach- man, daughter of Nicholas Bachman. Issue : Phaon and Violet, who died unmarried at the age of sixty.
Phaon J. Ross, son of John and Hannah (Bachman) Ross, was born Sept. 15, 1840, in Weisenberg township. He acquired his educa- tion in the common schools, and at an early age learned the trade of tailor with his father, which vocation he followed all his life, He succeeded to his father's homestead upon which he built a house in 1888, which replaced a log dwelling which was destroyed by fire March 5, 1888. The barn was built by John Ross in his early life. In politics Mr. Ross is a Democrat; was school di- rector for three terms, serving very efficiently. He was a deacon and elder in the Weisenberg Lutheran church, and there he was buried. He died Feb. 14, 1913.
He married Mary Snyder, daughter of John Snyder. Issue: George J .; Emma ; Ella ; James, of Allentown; and William, who died in in- fancy.
GEORGE J. Ross, the eldest son of Phaon J., was born in Weisenberg township, Feb. 14, 1875. He was reared on the homestead farm and ob- tained his early education in local schools and at
the Keystone State Normal School. He was li- censed to teach in 1890 by Prof. J. O. Knauss, and has taught almost continuously since that time. He taught three terms in Lynn and seven- teen in Weisenberg. The old homestead passed to Mr. Ross in 1913 upon his father's death. In politics he is a Democrat and has been active in party affairs since he became of age. He was a committeeman many years and is an influential man in county politics. He was justice of the peace by election for five years; is a member of the Weisenberg Lutheran church, and its pres- ent treasurer. He holds membership in the In- dependent Order of Americans, at New Smith- ville.
He was married, Dec. 25, 1898, to Emma Bit- ner, daughter of Joel and Messina (Fink) Bitt- ner. They had one daughter, Edna, who died in infancy.
R. F. Ross.
H. William Ross, one of Allentown's most aged residents, was born in Neukirchen, Hesse Nassau, Germany, July 22, 1822. His father, Conrad Ross "the first citizen" of Neukirchen, was a merchant and brewer. He was a man of large holdings and great influence and resided in the most imposing residence of his native town. When he died he was upwards of 80 years old. His wife, Eliza Stumpf, a relative of Henry Stumpf, of Hesse, Nassau, who was the father of Jacob Stumpf, the millionaire tanner, of New- ark, N. J., died, aged 50 years. To Conrad Ross and his wife, Eliza, were born nine chil- dren: Jacob, Henry, William, Valentine, Eliza- beth, Catharine, Maria, Minnie, and Rosa. All of whom are deceased, except William. Jacob, the eldest son of Conrad Ross, was, like his fa- ther, a large real estate holder in and about his native town of Neukirchen and served as its burgomaster. Henry was also rich and promi- nent but died quite young. H. William learned the art of dyeing in his native land. In October 1853, he came to New York City and proceeded to Paterson, N. J., where he was employed by a large manufacturer as a dyer for a period of eleven years. In 1857 he resolved to locate in St. Paul, Minn., where a former friend of his had settled and had apprised him of the excellent op- portunities of St. Paul. Upon reaching St. Paul a serious business depression had set in, his friend had removed from the city. After experi- encing various hardships, among which was a boat wreck on the Mississippi river, he returned again to Paterson, where he remained until in 1864, when he came to Allentown and engaged in the dyeing business. His place of business was located at 345 North Seventh street, until in
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1888, when he removed it to 417 Summer ave- nue, and continued until in 1895, when the plant was absorbed by the Allentown Silk Dyeing Works. Mr. Ross is physically well preserved, has clear faculties, and is full of entertaining ex- periences and anecdotes. In 1852 he was mar- ried to Rosa Schmidt, a farmer's daughter. She died Aug. 27, 1897, aged 64 years. Mr. and Mrs. Ross were members of the Reformed faith. They had children: Sophia, Henry, died 1910, aged 54 years; William, a mine prospector in the northwest; Jacob, who died single in Nevada in 1909, aged 42 years; Rosa; Richard F .; and Wendell. Wendell was married to a Miss Campbell, who died some time ago. They had three children: William, Ellwood, and Marjorie. Sophia, Rosa, Richard F., and Wendell reside with their aged father at 1639 Turner street. Richard F. Ross, the proprietor of the Al- lentown Silk Dyeing Works, was born Jan. 27, 1873, in Allentown. He learned the art of dyeing in his father's plant and subsequently worked as a silk dyer in Philadelphia and in Paterson, N. J. Having gained a complete knowledge of silk dyeing and seeing a business opening at Allentown, which was becoming quite a silk center, he, in 1895, came to his native city and established the Allentown Silk Dyeing Works, whose excellent work has given it a wide reputation. His plant is located on a lot that has a frontage on Summer avenue, of 400 feet, and extends back to Jordan creek.
He is a member of the Order of Red Men, and the Lehigh Sangerbund.
DANIEL ROTH FAMILY, OF WHITEHALL.
This family, one of the first to settle in White- hall township, is of Swiss origin. The family re- sided for hundreds of years in the city of Basel, where in 1372, Hartman Roth was Burgomeister and in 1444, Johannes Roth, also Burgomeister, both Knights, rescued the citizens of Basel from a dangerous position in the battle of St. Jacob, and in 1446 was the envoy of Count Ludwig of the Palatinate to the city of Constance. Peter Roth, Burgomeister of Basel in 1456 was a knight of Jerusalem and was captain in com- mand of 800 citizens of Basel in the battle of Grandson, and over 2,000 foot soldiers and 100 horsemen at the battle of Murten in 1746. In the same year he was envoy to the meeting be- tween the Count of Savoy and the citizens of Genff. Jacob Roth, born in 1638, and died in 1703, was a famous physician and author of Basel and was rector of the high school in 1691.
Daniel Roth, of this family, born in 1703, sailed from Rotterdam, Holland, in the ship Hope, with his wife and two children and his
sister, Anna Magdalene, and her husband, John Jacob Schreiber, having left Niederbronn on May 4, 1773, where his sister had been mar- ried on April 28th. The ship carried 389 pas- sengers and arrived at Philadelphia on Aug. 28, 1733, where all male passengers over sixteen took the oath of allegiance to the King of Eng- land.
The Roth and Schreiber families lived for some time in Skippack township, Montgomery county, but in 1737 removed to Whitehall town- ship, where Daniel Roth applied for a warrant for a tract of 150 acres of land, on which he had located, situated on the Jordan creek, where the village of Sherersville is now located. Before the warrant was granted to him he was taken sick and died in April, 1737, in the same hour in which his son, Peter, was born. The warrant, dated May 25th, 1737, was then granted to his widow, who did not remain long upon the land but with her youngest son removed further south and resided among the Quakers. She died Feb. 25, 1757, aged about fifty-four years. The land warranted to Daniel Roth was subsequent- ly granted to John Reinhard Benny, on Aug. IO, 1748, who died in September, 1758. His widow, Regina Louisa Benny, married Gottfried Knauss, who received the land and on June 25, 1761, Daniel Roth and Peter Rhoads, only sur- viving issue of Daniel Roth, released to Gott- fried Knauss, all their right, title and interest in the above rtact of land.
Daniel Roth and his wife, Anna Margaret, had three children: Daniel; Jacob, confirmed at Egypt in 1753, and died prior to 1761; and Peter, who, having been educated among the Quakers, spelled his name Rhoads, became a prominent Revolutionary patriot and judge and died at Allentown in 1814. A descendant of this line, Chas. R. Roberts, is the writer of the several Roth family histories. Daniel Roth, eldest son of Daniel Roth, was born in Switzerland in 1724. Afer the death of his father he re- sided with Peter Troxell and subsequently se- cured by warrants of June 12, 1750 and Aug. 5, 1757, 237 acres of land adjoining his father's former tract on the west. He was naturalized April 10, 1761, ad became an active citizen of the township. In 1762 he was taxed £8; in 1768 he owned thirty acres of cultivated and seventy acres of uncultivated land, two horses and two cows and in 1785 owned 170 acres of land. He was a farmer and was noted as an expert well and cistern digger. On April 25, 1789, he pur- chased a tract of ninety-two acres from the estate of John Miller, situated in the vicinity of what is now Thirteenth and Washington streets. He built a log house on his land and in 1793 built
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a stone house, which still stands, near where the Jordan makes a sharp bend in its course east. He removed to the tract of land near Allentown, which he purchased and died Feb. 22, 1817, in his ninety-third year. He was a member of Zion Reformed congregation at Allentown and was buried in Allentown. He married Catharine Margaret Miller, who was born in 1739, and died in August, 1813. They had eleven children :
I. Daniel Roth, was induced as a boy of seventeen, during his father's absence from home to become a soldier and was killed in the battle of Germantown.
2. Peter Roth, born Oct. 21, 1760, died May 24, 1834. He was a farmer and lived in the small stone house standing on the right hand side of the Mauch Chunk road, at Seiple's Sta- tion. He married, Oct. 14, 1786, Juliana Mar- garet Musgenung, who was born Feb. 1, 1758, and died Sept. 17, 1841. He was a large man, physically, possessed of considerable strength and served in the War of 1812. He had only one son, who attained maturity ; his second son, John Jacob Roth, born March 28, 1788, died in his youth.
John Roth, only son of Peter Roth, was born Feb. 23, 1787, and died Feb. 28, 1826, at the age of thirty-nine years. He married Catharine Sieg- fried, daughter of Andrew, born Jan. 25, 1786, died Aug. 15, 1876. They had five children : John, born Sept. 17, 1818, died young ; Paul, born Sept. 28, 1820, died Nov. 8, 1846, who married Anna Paul, who later married Henry Stein- berger, and had one son, John Roth, born Sept. 10, 1845, who resided on North Seventh street and is now deceased ; Magdalena, born Oct. 4, 1822, died Jan. 6, 1874, married Jonathan Sem- mel and had two children; Maria, born Oct. 8, 1823, died March 18, 1876, married Abraham Worman and had nine children and Salome, who died in infancy.
3. Catharine Roth, eldest daughter of Daniel Roth, married George Jacob Roth and had chil- dren: Catharine, Eva, Hanna, Elizabeth and Sarah.
4. John Jacob Roth, third son of Daniel, was born March 26, 1765. He purchased March 10, 1813, the greater part of the Michael Kolb farm, lying between the Jordan creek and Mickley's, which he farmed. He was a member of Zion Reformed church, Allentown. He died Dec. 20, 1833, and was buried in the old Allentown ceme- tery. He married, Nov. 23, 1790, Eve Cath- arine, daughter of Michael Kolb. She was born April 13, 1767, and died May 5, 1833.
They had eight children: John, Peter, John Jacob, Daniel, Jeremiah, John Henry, Magda- lena and Catharine.
John Roth, born Feb. 23, 1791, died March 2, 1856. He married Elizabeth Resh, born Nov. 1, 1806, died March 30, 1835, and had one daughter, Adeline, born Nov. 14, 1831, died July 8, 1898, who married Charles Henninger. Their children were: Frank P., Oscar E. and Edgar Henninger ; Rebecca A., widow of R. Peter Steckel ; Mrs. J. J. Kemmerer and Mrs. W. J. Knerr
Peter Roth, born Nov. 15, 1792, died Feb. 28, 1864. He purchased portions of the Kolb and Blank farms, where he resided some years and later bought the hotel and mill property at Clap- boardtown. He married, first, Lydia Helfrich, who was born in 1800, and died July 24, 1835, and, second, Magdalena Strauss, born April, 1813, died March 29, 1904. He was one of the founders and first elders of Mickley's church, to which he contributed $150.00 at its organiza- tion in 1849.
He had children: Christina, born 1820, died 1905, married Charles Ringer ; Maria, married (1) Henry Bankhart; (2) Abraham Worman; Sarah, married Jacob Long; Eva Catharine, born 1826, married David Wisser; William, born 1828, died 1855; Lydia, married Solomon Roth ; Edmund D., born 1839, died 1888; Justina, mar- ried Israel Frey; Tilera, born 1844, died 1859; Mary P., married Hiram Sell; Henry A., born 1851 ; Amanda J., born 1853, and Alfred J. P., born 1858.
John Jacob Roth, son of John Jacob, was born May 8, 1795, and died Sept. 29, 1875. He was a farmer and resided near Mickley's church. He married, Jan. 5, 1823, Anna, daughter of Jacob Schreiber. She was born Jan. 24, 1804, and died July 16, 1883. They had ten children: Josiah Roth, born Nov. 21, 1825, died Jan. 31, 1899, married Salome Leisenring and had two sons, Jacob P., born 1858, died Feb. 16, 1899, and Alfred; Eliza Malvina, born May 17, 1828, married, first, a Mr. Frankenfield, and, second, George Weitzel. Charlotte Maria, born Jan. 15, 1831, died Oct. 3, 1859, married Jacob Young. Jane married, first, Lewis Biery, and second, Mathias Kolb; Anna Maria, born March 28, 1835; Catharine, married Thomas Kessler and had two sons, Frank and Harvey W., of Bethle- hem ; Celia, married Reuben Snyder ; Sarah, mar- ried James Beers; and Franklin and Edward J., died young.
Daniel Roth, fourth son of John Jacob, was born Jan. 14, 1797, and died Feb. 23, 1864. He was a farmer near Mickley's and donated a part of the land on which the church is built, of which he was a member and where he was buried. He married Regina Helfrich, who was born March 15, 1798, and died March 10, 1874.
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They had seven children: Edwin; Catharine, born July 10, 1833, died April 7, 1876, mar- ried Walter F. Biery; Caroline, born Jan. II, 1835, died Aug. 11, 1883, married Joel Lauden- slager; Thomas, born June 14, 1836, died July II, 1905, married Anna Rebecca Albright; David, married Sarah A. Albright; Esrom, mar- ried Ella Scheetz and Lucinda, married Edwin Minnich.
Edwin Roth, son of Daniel and Regina Roth, was born in Whitehall township, April 3, 1831, and died Sept. 4, 1888. He became the owner of his father's homestead and lived near Mick- ley's church. He married, April 8, 1856, Mary Eberhard, born July 12, 1829, died July 6, 1904, and they had an only son, Thomas N.
THOMAS N. ROTH, a contractor and builder of Allentown, was born on the homestead of his grandfather, David Eberhard, Aug. 3, 1856. At the age of fourteen years he engaged in the carriage building trade and later engaged in busi- ness for himself at Emaus. Later he removed to Wilkes-Barre and was there employed as a journeyman for four years and then returned to Allentown and became a member of the firm of Christ, Peter & Co. He continued as a mem- ber of this firm for about six years and in 1896 engaged in the general contracting and build- ing business, erecting a number of dwellings in different sections of the city. Mr. Roth is a member of the Independent Order of Ameri- cans, Order of Maccabees and Order of Moose.
He was married three times. His first wife was Sarah Knecht and they had two children: Anna L., wife of James Larosh and Mark E., deceased. His second wife was Amanda Koch, and by this wife he had a son, Edwin H., who married Jennie V. Schaffer. His third wife is Clara, nee Seip, Fehr, widow of Anthony Fehr. The two former wives of Mr. Roth and his son, Mark E., are buried at Mickleys.
David Roth, son of Daniel, was born Sept. 10, 1839, and died April 15, 1892. He farmed a twenty-two-acre tract near Mickley's and was a member and deacon of the Reformed congre- gation there. He married, in 1861, Sarah Ann, daughter of John and Lucinda ( Henninger) Albright. She was born Aug. 16, 1841. They had five children: Edwin D .; Rev. John W .; Alfred P., of Allentown, married Ida V. Trex- ler; Anna, married Abner Roth and Clinton, married Stella Shuman.
EDWIN D. ROTH, son of David and Sarah (Albright) Roth, and grandson of Daniel and Regina (Helffrich) Roth, was born in South Whitehall township, Dec. 20, 1861. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and the Muhlenberg Preparatory School. At the age of eighteen years
he began teaching school in Whitehall township, where he taught for two terms. He was elected as a Democrat to the office of assessor of White- hall township for four consecutive terms of three years each was elected registration assessor for three years was elected school director for three years was elected clerk to the township commis- sioners for three years and was road foreman and police officer for nine years. The term of his office expired in April, 1914. On April, 1914, he became the proprietor of the Fountain House, at 1249 Laurence street, Allentown.
Mr. Roth owns an 18-acre farm located along the Mickley pike, in Whitehall township. This property he occupied from 1881, until his removal to Allentown. It was the John Rinker home- stead. He and family are members of the Re- formed congregation of Mickley's church, which Mr. Roth has served as a deacon.
On Dec. 10, 1881, he married Annie Rinker, daughter of John and Sarah (Schwander) Rin- ker. They had seven children, four of whom died while young. The living are: D. Minnie, married to Charles A. Heckler, former police ser- geant of Allentown; Harry J., history follows; Laura E. M.
REV. JOHN W. ROTH, a minister of the Evan- gelical Association and residing at Emerald, is a native of Whitehall township, and was born Aug. 11, 1863. He was educated in the public schools of Lehigh county and then through appli- cation and perseverance he succeeded in becom- ing ordained to the ministry of the church. His first charge was at Shamokin, where he was stationed three years, and he served one year at Coplay, three years as assistant pastor at Slating- ton and later took charge of the Parryville Cir- cuit, which consisted of a number of churches, among which was the Bowmanstown church, where he conducted a successful revival, con- verting upward of twenty. He resides at Emerald since 1896, where he is actively identified with the Evangelical Church and Sunday school.
Being reared to the pursuit of an agriculturist, he began farming at Emerald in Washington township, at the age of twenty-one years and was employed with his father-in-law for three years, after which he engaged in the grocery business at Slatington about one year. It was at this time that he accepted the call at Sha- mokin. Since 1896, Reverend Roth followed farming uninterruptedly on the old Kern home- stead. The stone dwelling situated on this farm was erected by Nicholas Kern in 1786 and the present barn was built by Kern in 1845. Both buildings are in excellent state of preservation.
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