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Reverend Roth married in 1885, Ida J. Kern and had seven children: Morton M., who mar-
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ried Minnie Andrews, resides at Brooklyn and has two children; William A. and Douglas A .; Sylvia J., who married Thomas Lewis; Robert D., who died in his third year ; Ralph W., who married Sylvia Reppert and resides at Emerald and has children: Robert C. and Emily M .; Elizabeth H .; Beatrice O., and Arline G.
HARRY J. ROTH, son of Edwin D. Roth and grandson of David Roth, was born Jan. 21, 1887, in Whitehall township. As a lad, he was reared on the farm and educated in the public schools. When only sixteen years of age, he became en- gaged in the dairy business and for six years he made daily trips into Fullerton, never missing a day for two years of this period. He sold on an average about 160 quarts of milk daily. On April 1, 1911, Mr. Roth became the proprietor of Hotel Jordan, on Hamilton street, Allen- town. He is a member of the Allen Fire Com- pany and the Order of Lions. The family is affiliated with Mickley's Reformed church.
He married, in 1906, Helen Graffin, daugh- ter of James and Sarah ( Diefenderfer) Graffin, of Fullerton. Issue: (1) Milton, (2) Evelyn, (3) Charles and (4) Mabel Roth.
The other children of John Jacob and Eva Catharine (Kolb) Roth were: Jeremiah, born Dec. 19, 1798, died March 22, 1828; John Henry, born March 2, 1801, died young; Mag- dalena, born Jan. 16, 1803, died Dec. 17, 1842, married Solomon Kemmerer and Catharine, born March 15, 1805, died in 1884, who married, in 1825, Jonathan Marks and had sons, Reuben, deceased, who was many years an invalid, and Francis J., who had a son, Milton H.
5. Maria Magdalena, born April 23, 1767, died young.
6. Maria Elizabeth, born April 1, 1769, died young.
7. Anna Barbara, born Aug. 16, 1771, died June 8, 1850, in Towamensing township, Carbon county. She married Abraham Hartman, who died in 1822. They had children: Abraham, Daniel, Joseph, Samuel, Catharine, Hannah, Eva and Elizabeth.
8. John Roth, fourth son of Daniel, was born Dec. 13, 1773, and died suddenly after a day's labor, near Lockport, in 1845. He was a farmer and married, July 4, 1797, Elizabeth Welder. They had ten children: Salome, born Jan. 25, 1798, died single; John; Elizabeth, married Peter Fisher ; Jonathan; Charles, born Dec. 23, 1805, married Elizabeth Eisenhard; Hannah ; Rebecca; Magdalena; Aaron, born July 21, 1814, died Oct. 5, 1849, and James, born Aug. 30, 1821, died May 24, 1895.
John Roth, Jr., son of John and Elizabeth (Welder) Roth, was born Sept. 23, 1799, in
Salisbury township. He was reared upon the farm and when he had arrived at manhood, be- came a farmer on the tract of land upon which the coal chutes are now located, along the East Penn R. R., which cut his land in twain. He was a member of the Reformed Church. He died Jan. 12, 1863, and both he and his wife were buried in Union cemetery, Allentown.
John Roth, Jr., married Elizabeth Yundt, daughter of John Yundt, born Sept. 12, 1803, died June 22, 1883. Issue: (1) Charles, born Dec. 5, 1824. He lived and died at Waterloo, N. Y. (2) William Roth.
Willlam Roth, youngest son of John and Elizabeth (Yundt) Roth, was born July 12, 1829, in Salisbury township. He was reared upon the farm and at an early age he became a blacksmith, following this vocation in the Al- lentown and Jordan Rolling Mills. He was subsequently in the employ of W. F. Mosser & Co. for twenty-five years. He was a member of Zion Reformed church. He died Aug. 1I, 1907, and was interred in Union cemetery. He married Catherine Straub, daughter of John Straub, born June 20, 1833, died Feb. 20, 1904. Issue : (1) Alice, married Alexander J. Zellner ; (2) Sarah, married Edward Remmel; (3) Henry H., of Iola, Kan .; (4) Annie, married Henry G. Smith; (5) Ellen, married James W. Guth; (6) George E., of Pennsburg, Pa .; Mary, Charles, John and Fred died in childhood ; (II) Thomas J. Roth.
THOMAS J. ROTH, son of William and Cath- arine (Straub) Roth, was born April 1, 1874. He was educated in the public schools of Allen- town and the American Business College. At the age of sixteen years he became an apprentice to the trade of wood turning following this voca- tion until 1899, when he entered the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad as a freight brakeman, becoming later, a freight con- ductor. He was subsequently promoted to the passenger service, as trainman and baggage mas- ter. He remained with the company for over six years. In 1905 he resumed his trade of wood turning, which he has since followed. Mr. Roth resides in Allentown and is one of the nine school directors which comprise the board of education. He is deeply interested in educational matters in general and especially of his city. In 1911 he was elected to the school board for a term of four years, by the largest vote accorded to any candi- date of the group at the primary and general election. In February, 1905, he was elected from the Second ward as a school director; three years later he was re-elected ; in 1909 he was elected to the board of control. He was secretary of the school board of his section for five years. He
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was the first chairman of the local grievance committee for the P. & R. R. R., and has been president of Just-in-Time Lodge, No. 346, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, since 1908.
Mr. Roth is actively identified with Demo- cratic politics and is a well read and well posted man on current events. He married, Sept. 25, 1908, Ida S. A. Kern, daughter of Owen and Lydia (Zerfass) Kern, of Slatington, Pa.
Henry Roth, fifth son of Daniel, was born Jan. 22, 1776, and died May 19, 1830. He lived in South Whitehall and married, Feb. 27, 1798, Barbara Musick. They had children : Nathan, married Catharine Hauser; Jonas; Enoch; Thomas; Sophia, married Elias Hein- rich; Moses; Drusilla and Ann. Moses Roth was the father of Joel Roth, born 1804, died 1859. Maria Eve Roth, daughter of Daniel, was born Oct. 23, 1778, and died Feb. 28, 1854. She married, April 22, 1798, Christopher Frey- man, born Nov. 27, 1772, died Dec. 30, 1862. Their children were: Joseph, born March 19, 1802, died May 10, 1876, married Salome Brown; Maria, married, first, Cain Woodring, and, second, Frederick Bader ; Charles, born Oct. 6, 1807, died April 4, 1884; Stephen, born Jan. 19, 1810, died June 9, 1905, married Catharine Stauffer ; Catharine, married Joseph Miller; Lydia, born Jan. 1I, 1817, died Dec. 13, 1884, married Hamilton Patterson and Tilghman, born July 7, 1819, died April 3, 1899, who lived at Seiple's Station. He had a remarkable memory and many of the facts in the Roth family history were supplied by him.
Abraham Roth, youngest son of Daniel, was born Oct. 14, 1780. He farmed in South White- hall and Upper Macungie and was accidentally burned to death while boiling varnish. He mar- ried Barbara Kolb and had sons, Elias, born May 24, 1805, died Jan. 25, 1883, who married Anna Dutt and Daniel, born June 15, 1809, who died unmarried.
JOHN ROTH FAMILY, OF WHITEHALL.
John Roth, the ancestor of this family, lived in Whitehall township, as early as 1753, when his eldest daughter was born. The land he lived on he bought about this time from Daniel Troxel, who removed to York county. It was situated along the Jordan creek, in what is now South Whitehall township, between Sherersville and the Iron Bridge. Here he built in 1775, a large stone house, which still stands. This land he patented on March 30, 1773, and on March 10, 1778, deeded sixty acres and fifty perches to his son, John. John Roth, Sr., was a farmer and member of the Jordan Lutheran church and later the Lutheran church at Allentown. In
1794 he was a trustee of the Lutheran congre- gation at Allentown and subscribed £2 to the new church building.
John Roth died in the year 1802, upward of seventy years of age. He was twice married. His first wife was named Sophia Dorothea, and his second wife, who survived him, Mary Eva. John and Sophia Dorothea Roth had six children. The eldest of these was Eva Catharine Roth. She was born Feb. 25, 1753, and married, June 8, 1773, Andreas Foller. Among their chil- dren were: Eva Catharine, born Oct. 25, 1778, and John Frederick, born Dec. 16, 1779. The second child of John Roth, Sr., was John Roth, Jr., who was born in Whitehall township in 1755 and died Feb. 7, 1822. He married Eve Cath arine Heberly. He was a farmer and secured his father's land on which he resided all his life. He was a member of the jury in the famous John Fries trial.
He had eight children: I. Eva Catharine Roth, born Feb. 25, 1786, and died Dec. 24, 1858. She married John Shoenebruch, a prosperous farmer of South Whitehall, who owned the pres- ent Eckert farm. He was born June 12, 1772, and died Aug. 27, 1851. They had no children.
II. John Henry Roth, second child of John and Eva Catharine Roth, was born Oct. 25, 1783, and died June 27, 1863. He was a farmer and lived on the old homestead now owned by F. G. W. Runk. He was a member of the Lu- theran Church, and is buried at Mickley's He married, Oct. 6, 1816, Maria Rhoads, daughter of John Rhoads, and his wife, Magdalena Graff. She was born July 21, 1796, and died March 2, 1874. Their children were: Lydia, wife of Simon Frederick, of near Freemansburg; Daniel H .; Reuben; Solomon and Owen T.
Daniel Roth was born in 1822 and died Nov. 19, 1898. He served in the Civil War, in Com- pany B, of the 176th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, under Col. S. D. Lehr for seven months. He was a farmer and in 1874 sold the homestead and moved to North Whitehall township, near Rising Sun, where he bought a farm. He was a member and served several years as deacon of the Mickley's Lutheran con- gregation. He married Sarah A. Hopper,. daughter of Charles Hopper. She died at Stiles, Pa., on Aug. 12, 1909, aged eighty years. They had four sons: Alexander R. and Jacob, of Stiles, Pa .; Hiram, of Kellogg, Ia., and Charles R., of Egypt, and one daughter, Emma, died March 3, 1902, the wife of David Stephen.
ALEXANDER R. ROTH, merchant and post- master of Stiles, Whitehall township, was born Dec. 23, 1850. He spent his earlier years upon the farm and was later employed on the Cata-
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sauqua and Fogelsville Railroad for fifteen years. He engaged in the general store business at Me- chanicsville on Nov. 6, 1888, where he remained twelve years, and where he was instrumental in having a postoffice, called Minnich's, established in 1890. In 1900, he erected his present store building and residence at Stiles, where he con- ducts a general merchandise business. On the establishment of a postoffice, May 16, 1901, he was made postmaster. Mr. Roth is a member of the Mickley's Lutheran congregation and has been active in Sunday school work, having as- sisted in establishing a Sunday school at Jordan Bridge in 1874, and also the Stiles Union School and served both as superintendent, president and treasurer. He was commissioner of Whitehall township in 1910 and 1911 as a Republican, and is a member of Washington Chamber, No. 18, Knights of Friendship. He married, in 1870, Elizabeth, daughter of Aaron Olewine and his wife, a daughter of Joseph Oberholtzer. They had eight children: Gertrude, married Osville Raber ; Sarah, married Asa Stopp; Elmira, died aged eight years; Maggie, married Warren Ward; Harvey H., who assists his father ; Lillian, married Joseph Steckel, Jr .; Mamie, married Robert Steckel ; Hattie L., married Ed- ward Steckel.
CHARLES R. ROTH, of North Whitehall town- ship, was born Feb. 10, 1865. He was edu- cated in the common schools of the county and in the Slatington high school, after which he taught for five terms in Lehigh county. Later he engaged in farming upon the Samuel Leh farm and there he has continued to the present time.
He is married to Laura, a daughter of Samuel and Flora ( Peter) Leh. They have two chil- dren: Carrie E. and Ida E.
Mr. Roth is a Lutheran member of the Egypt church, which he served as a deacon and elder, and he has served as the superintendent of Scheidy's Union Sunday school for ten years. In politics he is a Republican and he was the com- mitteeman of the district for seven years, and in 1910 was a census enumerator.
Reuben Roth, second son of John Henry, was born May 22, 1826. He served in the Civil War and had a son, William Francis, who was drowned near Sherersville, June 28, 1866, aged ten years.
Solomon Roth, third son of John Henry, was born July 16, 1829, and died Nov. 6, 1874. He married Lydia, daughter of Peter and Lydia Roth, and had five daughters. Among them were: Mrs. Sylvester Minnich, Mrs. Samuel Koehler and Caroline, born 1864, died 1891.
Owen T. Roth, born 1834, died Jan. 24, 1911,
the fourth son of John Henry, was for twenty- five years a section boss on the Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad and tax collector of White- hall township for ten years. He was a member of the Mickley's Lutheran congregation. He married Feyetta Minnich, born May 1, 1835, died Sept. 25, 1884. Their children were: C. F. Roth, Esq., of Catasauqua; Mrs. Charles Herman; Mrs. Milton Kerschner ; Abner M., of Allentown; Mary, wife of Wm. N. Eber hard, of Allentown; Mrs. Frank Walker; Mil- ton H. and Peter O. Roth.
III. Gottfried Roth, second son of John Roth, Jr., was born Dec. 26, 1785, and died July 8, 1862. He married Hanna Glick, born July 4, 1790, died April 2, 1852. Their children were : Hanna, born July 4, 1810, died Sept. 1, 1884, married Daniel Weiss, (1810-1886) ; Luciana, born May 27, 1815, married, June 14, 1840, Jesse Yohe, and George B. Roth, born Nov. 17, 1833, in South Whitehall township, died Feb. 20, 1900. He was a painter by occupation, and was a member of Allentown council and jury com- missioner in 1896. Captain Roth enlisted as a corporal in Company. C, Fifth Pennsylvania Militia, and was in the reserve force at the battle of Antietam. He was invalided home, but later enlisted in the emergency regiment. For eight- een years he was in the Pennsylvania National Guard, and was a lieutenant in Company D, Fourth Regiment, then the Allen Continentals, from 1869 to 1888, when he became captain, when Colonel Lehr was chosen colonel. He was a past grand of Lehigh Lodge, No. 83, I. O. O. F. and an active member of E. B. Young Post, No. 187, G. A. R. He married, first, Mary Saeger, and second, Louisa E. Issermoyer, born in 1838, died Nov. 11, 1902. His children were: Harvey C., letter carrier, of Allentown, mar- ried, first, Emma S. Hillegass, second, Annie E. Butz; Frank G., married Emma Hollenbach ; Edwin L., married Ella Snyder; Lavina, mar- ried, Dec. 25, 1873, John A. Wieder, born Sept. 25, 1854, died June 6, 1900; Hattie, married C. H. Braden, and George B. Roth, Jr., who married Adelle S. Danner.
IV. Catharine Roth, second daughter of John, Jr., was born Jan. 13, 1788, and died Feb. 7, 1859. She married Henry Schwander, born Sept. 3, 1778, died May 3, 1848.
V. Anna Mary Roth, third daughter, born Feb. 1, 1793, died June 8, 1866, married George Kershner. They had a son, George, and a daughter, Hanna, married a Mr. Faust. George Kershner, Jr.'s, daughter, Ellen Kershner, mar- ried Alfred J. Roth. Rev. Chas. A. Kershner, of Allentown, and Rev. George Kerschner, of Sheppton, are descendants.
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VI. Peter Roth, third son of John, Jr., was born Oct. 25, 1791. He was a farmer and teamster, called "Fuhrman Peter Roth," and lived east of Wennersville. He died June 27. 1862. He married Sarah Newhard, daughter of Frederick Newhard and wife, Eva Catharine Yund. She was born Oct. 25, 1798, and died Dec. 26, 1881. They had fourteen children, of whom five died young. The nine children who attained their maturity were:
I. Gideon Roth, of Limeport, born June I, 1826, and died Sept. 26, 1904. He married, July 25, 1852, Matilda Ludwig, died in February, 1902. They had the following children : Isabella ; Oscar, of Steinsburg; Milton; Wilson ; Mantana, and Victoria, wife of Henry Hildebeitel, of Cedarville.
2. Tilghman Roth, born Sept. 4, 1831, and died Oct. 31, 1857, in Logan county, Ohio, un- married.
3. Henry Roth, born 1834, died Nov. 23, 1901, married Hannah Sherer. One daughter, Clara V., married Wm. C. Weaver.
4. Sarah, married William Litzenberger, of Lower Macungie.
5. Peter Roth, of New Jersey, married Cath- arine Butz, and had a daughter, Margaret, and a son, Irwin.
6. George W. Roth, born July 5, 1835, died Aug. 1, 1890, married Sarah Herbster, born 1886. He had children: Theo. G. P., married, Sept. 11, 1886, Susan Diefenderfer, and had two children: Beulah, wife of Victor B. Schultz, and Harvey E .; Robert; Clement, deceased ; John ; Frank, and Alice, Rosa and Helen, deceased.
7. Paul Roth, of Cedarville, married Maria Greenawald and had three children: Anna, mar- ried Edwin Hartman, of Wittmans; Laura, mar- ried Morris Bitting, of Mountainville, and Mrs. Jennie Heimbach, of Emaus.
8. Mary, born Sept. 22, 1845, married Jonas Wertman, of North Whitehall.
9. Eliza, married John R. Eidell, of Allen- town.
VII. Magdalena Roth, fourth daugltter of John, Jr., married Abraham Moyer. They re- moved to Mercer county and had one son and four daughters.
VIII. Daniel Roth, youngest son of John, Jr., was born in 1803, and died June 12, 1850. He married, Jan. 1, 1825, Catharine Geisser and had children: Daniel, William, Ephraim, John, Mary and Emmeline.
Ephraim Roth was born Aug. 7, 1830, and died Oct. 2, 1900, at Mulberry, Ind. He married, April 10, 1859, Christianna M., daughter of Joseph and Louisa (Newhard) Lehr. She died July 31, 1889. His children were: Charles,
Walter, Rosa, Maggie, Jennie and Ida. Mary Roth married a Mr. Haring.
William Roth, son of Daniel, was born near Sherersville, where he conducted a farm and was interested in ore mines. He married Mary A., daughter of John and Catharine (Kemmerer ) Scheirer. They had ten children: Wm. H., of Catasauqua; Sarah, of Seiple's Station; James P., deceased; Franklin L .; Mantana, died aged fourteen years; Alfred G., of Allentown, and Sabina, John, Elmer and Levi, died in infancy.
FRANKLIN L. ROTH, real estate dealer, of Allentown, was born in Whitehall township, April 17, 1865. He was educated in the public schools of the township, Prof. Jas. F. Guth's select school at Ruppsville and Prof. A. F. Krout's school at Coplay. He began farm work at the age of fifteen and later continued his studies whiles employed in iron ore mines and stone quarries. For two years he represented various publishing houses and the Smith Nursery Company, of Rochester, N. Y. In 1893, he was elected to a three-year term as county auditor. He was justice of the peace in the township, from 1894 to 1899, notary public for five years and assessor and tax collector of the township. In 1901, he opened a real estate and insurance business at Eagle Point and in 1913 enlarged his business by establishing the F. L. Roth Real Estate Company, at 816 Hamilton street, Allen- town, where the main office is located. Mr. Roth acts as the manager and deals in real estate, life, fire, sick and accident insurance. Mr. Roth has taken an active interest in church and Sunday school work. He is a member of the Mickley's Lutheran congregation, where he was secretary of the Sunday school and a member of the church choir. He was also superintendent of the Me- chanicsville Sunday school for three years.
Mr. Roth married, April 28, 1894, Maggie A., daughter of Daniel and Mary (Roth) Scheirer. Mrs. Roth died March 28, 1898. They had three children: Hilda M. A., saleswoman in H. Leh & Co.'s millinery department ; Minnie M. M., a silk weaver, and William, died in in- fancy. Mr. Roth married, second, Lillie E., daughter of Hiram P. and Martha (Shank- weiler) Roth, of Allentown, and had one daugh- ter, Edna M. J.
Godfrey Roth, second son of John Roth, Sr., was born in 1759, and was baptized Sept. 24, 1759, at Jordan church. He married Mary Margaret Traxel and settled on a farm along the Jordan, near Guth's Station, later the Kocher place. In 1792, he removed to Heidelberg town- ship, where he operated a large farm and was also a weaver and a distiller. He kept a tavern for a time, and in 1803 was overseer of the poor in
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Heidelberg township. He died in Heidelberg, Jan. 10, 1829. He had nine children.
John Peter Roth, the eldest son of Godfrey, was born Oct. 7, 1785, and died Feb. 17, 1861. He married Maria Eva Miller, born Jan. 22, 1787, died April 14, 1861. John Peter Roth lived in Washington township, where he owned four large farms, now owned by Thomas Rohr, Thomas Kern, Benjamin Krause and a Mr. Schaeffer. He was an overseer of the poor and held other local offices and was prominent in civil and political matters. He was a )member of the Unionville Lutheran congregation, where he was buried. He had ten children: John; Joseph; Henry; Elizabeth, married Joseph Kist- ler, of West Penn, Schuylkill county ; Margaret, married Daniel Dorward, of Millport; Susan, married Nicholas Peter; Hannah, married, first, a Mr. Smith, of Lowhill, and had sons, Levi and Augustus; and, second, Frank Fritzinger; Rebecca, married, first, Mr. Schreiber and had two sons, and, second, Dr. Jonas Saul, of Kutz- town; Lydia, married Peter Strauss and Cath- arine, married Emanuel Krause.
John Roth, son of John Peter, became the owner of one of his father's farms, now owned by Thomas Rohr. He was a farmer and a cloth and carpet weaver. He married Catharine Deibert and had six children: Hettie, married Samuel Schaeffer ; Sallie, married Thomas Casey, former county commissioner; Mary, married Herman Keiser; Edmund; William, of near Best's and Fianna, widow of Charles Newhard, of Allentown.
William Roth, son of John and Catharine (Deibert) Roth, was born in 1840, in Washing- ton township. He was reared upon the farm and educated in the public schools. He became the owner of a 130-acre farm in his native township, now owned by his son, Lewis W. Roth. He was a member of the Lutheran congregation of the Heidelberg church. He married Carolina Mil- ler in 1867. Issue: (1) Lewis W .; (2) Clara, married Oscar J. Leibold; (3) Lillie, married Albert Benner.
LEWIS W. ROTH, son of William and Caro- lina (Miller) Roth, was born Jan. 20, 1870, in Washington township. He grew to manhood upon his father's farm, attending the public schools of the neighborhood. He has always been an agriculturist. He began as a tenant in 1891 upon a farm at Best Station, where he continued five years. He then operated the Joseph Hun- sicker farm for six years, in Washington town- ship. He then purchased his father's 130-acre farm, where he has since lived. In 1908 he bought another farm of 149 acres. Both these farms are in the potato belt. Mr. Roth plants
a large acreage of potatoes and has been very successful in this line. In politics he is a Re- publican ; in religion a Lutheran and a deacon in the Heidelberg church.
Lewis W. Roth, married, Sept. 23, 1888, Aquilla Hoffman, daughter of Alfred Hoffman. Issue : (1) Elmer H., (2) Norman A., (3) Hattie M., (4) Bertha A., (5) Stella L., (6) Lulu M., and (7) Blasius L. Roth.
Joseph Roth, son of Peter and Maria E. (Miller) Roth, was born in Washington town- ship, where he owned a farm now owned by Thomas Kern. He was a life-long farmer and was a member of the Lutheran Church. He mar- ried Caroline Fritzinger, daughter, of Martin Fritzinger. They had four children: (1) Jane A., married Peter Ford; (2) Josiah P .; (3) Caroline, married Alvin Butz; (4) Paul Frank Roth.
Paul Frank Roth, son of Joseph and Caroline (Fritzinger) Roth, was born June 4, 1856, at Newhards, Washington township. He was reared on the farm and acquired his education in the public schools. He followed farming from 1876 to 1879, then for fifteen years was engaged in brick laying and plastering. He sub- sequently became a hotelkeeper at various places. Since 1908 he has been a farmer on thirty-eight acres at Newhards, where in 1909, he built a home on his property. He and family are mem- bers of the Reformed congregation of Frieden's church.
Paul Frank Roth married, in 1876, Fianna Andrews, daughter of Stephen and Caroline (Jacobs) Andrews. Issue: Lizzie, George and Stanley, died young; (4) Lillie, married Pres- ton Lentz, and has a son, Clarence Lentz, They live at Newhards.
Josiah P. Roth, son of Joseph and Caroline (Fritzinger) Roth, was born Oct. 9, 1851, in Washington township. He was reared upon the farm and was educated in the public schools. After attaining his majority he learned the trade of carpet weaving, which he followed for thirteen years. In 1887, he became a painter and paper- hanger, which he has since followed. He usually has quite a force of men employed. He has been a member of the United Evangelical Church since 1880; was a class leader, exhorter and trustee and active in church work.
Josiah P. Roth married, in 1873, Mary Kern, daughter of Nathan Kern. Issue: (1) William, died in infancy; (2) Minnie, married Orville Snyder ; (3) Charles, of Slatington.
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