History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, Vol. III, Part 71

Author: Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer, 1878- joint comp; Krick, Thomas H., 1868- joint comp; Dietrich, William Joseph, 1875- joint comp; Lehigh County Historical Society
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 854

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family are Lutheran members of the Egypt congregation. Socially he is a member of the I. O. of O. F. and the Red Hawk Tribe, No. 55, I. O. R. M., both of Allentown.

He was married to Amanda Pfeifly, a daugh- ter of Michael Pfeifly, whose full history ap- pears elsewhere in this volume. Their children are: Paul M., Annie W., Allen H., William G., and Freeman W.

SCHALL FAMILY.

This was originally an old patrician family of Cologne, Germany, later spreading into Ber- gen and Juliers. At first the name was von Schall, but in the Fourteenth Century, Bell was added to it, that being the name of their manor in Gladbach. Later the family spread into Ba- varia.

Tobias Schall and his wife, Magdalena, left their home on the French border and emigrated to America, arriving there Sept. 7, 1784. Tobias Schall was then forty-two years of age and set- tled in Pike township, Berks county, where he was a farmer.

George Schall, his son, was born in Middle Shefflentz, in the Palatinate, Aug. 24, 1735. He was baptized in Under Shefflentz Evangelical church, but was confirmed in the Reformed church of Middle Shefflentz. He came to Amer- ica with his parents and became a farmer and blacksmith in Pike and Earl townships, Berks county. He served as a lieutenant in Col. Daniel Hunter's regiment in the Revolution. He died Dec. 6, 1802, and with his wife is buried at the Hill church. He married, in 1757, Cath- arine Newhard, daughter of Michael Newhard, of Whitehall township. She was born July 25, 1740, and died May 3, 1803. They had nine children : Magdalena, born May 4, 1760, mar- ried Andrew Buchman; Margaret, born Feb. 24, 1762, died Oct. 29, 1851, married John Weiler ; Elizabeth, born March 4, 1764, died April 30, 1850, married, in 1781, Andrew Knerr; Cath- arine, married Jacob Hertzog; George, born Dec. 26, 1768; Tobias, born Dec. 15, 1771; Maria, married Charles Wagonhorst; Salome, married Nicholas Keyser, and Jacob, born Aug. 29, 1779, died young.

George Schall, born Dec. 26, 1768, the eldest son, was a farmer and blacksmith and also operated a saw and grist mill. He served as a member of the State Senate as a Democrat, from 1825 to 1828. He married, Nov. 10, 1789, Catharine Eyster, who was born Aug. 7, 1768, and died July 10, 1846. They had nine children : Davd, born 1790, died 1792; George, born July 2, 1792, died Sept. 11, 1820; John, born July 24, 1794, died Aug. 7, 1860; Hannah, born

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March 23, 1797, died at Sumneytown, Dec. 9, 1864, married Daniel Jacoby; Catharine, born May 16, 1799, died Feb. 26, 1875, married Dr. William Herbst; David, born May 25, 1801, died Jan. 22, 1877; Mary, born 1803, died 1815; William, born and died in 1805, and William, born Aug. 7, 1810.

David Schall, third son of George and Cath- arine (Eyster) Schall, was born May 25, 1801. He engaged in the iron business as a young man and in 1825 began to operate Dale Forge. He manufactured bar iron and blooms for over fifty years, besides running a large farm. He served as associate judge of Berks county from 1856 to 1866, and as county auditor from 1842 to 1845, while in the old state militia he was a captain. He died Jan. 22, 1877. He married Catharine Eudy, born May 9, 1805, died Aug. 24, 1873. They had nine children: George, who was steward of the Montgomery county prison for twelve years; Amelia, married Col. William Trexler; Emeline, of Philadelphia; Gen. John W., colonel of the Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania Regiment in the Civil War, general in the Na- tional Guard, who was postmaster one term at Norristown, and seven years recorder of Mont- gomery county; Hannah, who died in 1896; William A .; D. Horace, of Philadelphia; Al- fred and Mary L., of Philadelphia.

Capt William A. Schall served in the 167th Pennsylvania Regiment in the Civil War and married Mary B. High. They had one daugh- ter, Emily M.

John Schall, born July 24, 1794, married Re- becca Rausch, born March 4, 1799, died Nov. 13, 1880, at Philadelphia. John Schall died at Orwigsburg, Aug. 7, 1860. William Schall, born Aug. 7, 1810, died at Norristown, April 19, 1883. He married, Jan. 3, 1832, Caroline Trexler, who was born May 10, 1811, and died March 7, 1870.

D. Horace Schall, for many years bond clerk in the United States Custom House at Phladel- phia, married Mary A., daughter of Hon. John H. Fogel, of Lehigh county, and had two sons, Dr. David H., of Berlin, Neb., who married Hannah Hasfelt, and John.

Tobias Schall, second son of George Schall, Sr., and grandson of Tobias, the emigrant, was born Dec. 15, 1771, and died April 10, 1849. He married, Feb. 13, 1796, Elizabeth Eyster, born Dec. 31, 1774, died March 2, 1854. They are buried at Oley church, Berks county. They had six children: Catharine, married Henry Landis; David; Mary, born Dec. 20, 1801, died Sept. 7, 1883, married a Mr. Kerst; Eliza- beth, born July 4, 1804, died Oct. 12, 1834, married Isaac Yoder ; Daniel, born 1807, died

1810, and Lydia, born Sept. 14, 1809, died Feb. 29, 1893, married, first, Nicholas Hunter, and second, Isaac Yoder.

David Schall, son of Tobias, was born April 20, 1799. In 1822 he settled at Trexlertown, where he kept a store in a log building that occupied the site of the Herbst residence. He also kept a hotel there about twenty years and was justice of the peace for the same period. He owned about 200 acres of land, which he purchased from Jeremiah Trexler and Michael Snyder. He died Nov. 15 1882, and was buried at Trexlertown. He married Mary Ann, daugh- ter of Jacob Rupp, and had eight children: Wil- liam, who died young; John R .; James, who resided in Bethlehem; George B., State Senator from 1864 to 1867, who died in 1875; Caro- line, married Hiram J. Schantz; Eliza, married Moses Albright; Mary A., married Dr. T. K. Spang, and Ellenora Barbara, married Dr. Wil- liam Herbst.

John R. Schall, son of David, was a wholesale dealer in coal and lumber and also conducted a mill at Laury's. He removed to Allentown in 1870 and died there in 1887. He married, April 23, 1850, Rosina, daughter of Benjamin and Anna (Trexler) Fogel. She was born July 25. 1828, and died Aug. 8, 1904. Mrs. Schall was a graduate of the Moravian Seminary and a member of St. John's Reformed church. They had four children: Mary S., married Hon. C. J. Erdman; Charles D .; Rosina S., married Tilghman H. Diehl, and Harry B.

HARRY B. SCHALL was born at Trexlertown, July 22, 1861. He was educated in the Allen- town schools, high school and Muhlenberg Col- lege and after being for a time in the employ of Wm. F. Mosser & Co., became a salesman in the milling line for his father. In 1893 he began the manufacture of cigars at 531 Hamilton street and continued there for eighteen years in the wholesale and retail business until 1911, when he sold the business. In 1900 he was elected secretary of the Lehigh County Agricultural So- ciety, which position he has held continuously and since 1911 has devoted his entire time to the duties of the office. On Aug. 10, 1893, he was married to Jennie E., daughter of Edwin H. and Eliza (George) Blank. They are members of St. John's Reformed church. Mr. Schall is a member of Greenleaf Lodge, No. 561, F. and A. M., Allen R. A. Chapter, No. 203; Allen Council, No. 23, R. and S. M .; Allen Com- mandery, No. 20, K. T .; Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S .; Allentown Lodge, No. 130, B. P. O. E .; Livingston Club and Clover Club. He is a Democrat in politics and served a term as a member of Common Council from the Sec-

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ond ward, of which body he was chairman in 1898.

SCHANTZ FAMILY.

John Schantz, the ancestor of this family, emi- grated to America in the ship Minerva, arriving at Philadelphia with his four sons: Jacob, Philip, John, and Henry, on Oct. 1, 1770. Jacob, the eldest son, made his home with Jacob Kohler, at Egypt, where he learned the trade of miller. In the Revolutionary War he was a private in 1781, in Captain Zerfass' company of the Ist Battalion of Northampton County Militia, commanded by Lt. Col. Balliet. He became a miller at the Bortz mill, at the head of Cedar creek in later years, and in 1788, he married Mary Bortz, daughter of the proprietor. He then became the owner of the mill property, which he con- ducted until his death, at which time he owned seven tracts of land in Macungie and South Whitehall townships. He was born April 26, 1761, died Sept. 11, 1816, and was buried at the Jordan Lutheran church. He had nine children : Catharine, Elizabeth, Jacob, Mary, Peter, Sarah, John, Lydia, and Anna.

Catharine, the eldest daughter of Jacob, was born March 9, 1789, and died July 3, 1853. She married Jacob Henninger and had eight chil- dren.

Elizabeth, the second daughter, married a Mr. Mohr.

Jacob, the eldest son of Jacob, was born Nov. 28, 1791. He became the owner of the mill property, and operated it until his death in June, 1843. He married Sarah, daughter of John and Catharine (Stettler) Fogel. She was born July 25, 1799, and died April 25, 1871. They had six children : Hiram J., born 1820, died 1892, married Carolina, daughter of David and Mary (Rupp) Schall, and had two sons: Clement and Tilghman D .; Llewellyn R. A., who was killed June 27, 1852, at the age of eleven years by a stage coach, in which he was riding, falling over the steep embankment near the city water works; Dr. Tilghman, deceased; Elemina C., died Aug. 6, 1896, married Dr. Thomas B. Cooper, of Coopersburg, who represented this district in Congress in 1861 and 1862, and had seven chil- dren ; Amanda, married Rev. Dr. Aaron Lein- bach, of Reading; and Rev. Dr. Franklin J. F. Schantz.

Mary, the third daughter of Jacob, was born June 15, 1796, and married Jacob Fisher. Their daughter, Lucy A. Fisher, born Jan. 1, 1825, died Nov. 11, 1905, married William K. Mos- ser.

Peter, the second son of Jacob, was born July

15, 1798, and died Oct. 1, 1839. He married Deborah Deshler.

Sarah, the fourth daughter of Jacob, born Sept. 1, 1800, married, April 19, 1818, Rev. John Helffrich, father of Rev. William A. Helffrich.

John, the third son of Jacob, became a mer- chant in Philadelphia. He married Lydia Smith and had a son, John.

Lydia, the fifth daughter of Jacob, married John Shimer. Anna, the youngest daughter of Jacob, born Feb. 25, 1807, died Sept. 8, 1886, became the second wife of John Shimer.

Rev. F. J. F. Schantz, D.D., son of Jacob (2), was born Jan. 8, 1836, studied for the min- istry and was graduated from the Gettysburg Seminary in 1857; served as pastor of Lutheran congregations at Reading (1857-61), Catasau- qua (1861-66), and Myerstown (1867, until his death, Jan. 19, 1907). He was president of the Lutheran Ministerium from 1901 to 1903, and of the Pennsylvania German Society in 1900. He took interest in historical research and pre- pared many valuable papers. In 1858, he mar- ried Cordelia S., daughter of Charles and Eliza (Eckert) Saeger, of Allentown, and left three children: Dr. Henry F., of Reading; Mrs. John P. Spangler, of Philadelphia; and Mrs. W. Stanton Haak, of Lebanon.

Philip Schantz, the second son of John, the emigrant, was born in 1765 and died Aug. 3, 1834, after a short illness from dropsy in the chest. He was a farmer and lived in Macungie township. His wife, Elizabeth, was born in 1768, and died March 31, 1833, of asthmatic fever. They are buried at Jordan Lutheran church. Their children were: John; Henry; Philip, born Jan. 7, 1796; Sarah, born Feb. 19, 1799; two daughters, married men named Keck ; one daughter, married a Mr. Snyder; and the name of one other child is not recorded.

John Schantz, son of Philip, was born Aug. 21, 1790, and died April 30, 1861. On April 2, 1814, he married Mary Magdalena, daughter of John and Barbara (Schnerr) Mohr, of Allen- town. She was born Nov. 16, 1793, and died Dec. 5, 1862. They are buried at Unionville church.

John Schantz, son of John and Maria Magda- lena, was born March 9, 1819, died Dec. 3, 1865, and was buried at Unionville church. In 1846, he married Eliza, daughter of Peter Meyer and his wife, Catharine Gangawere. She was born in Whitehall township, Oct. 6, 1815, and died at Allentown, Feb. 18, 1899. She was one of the four organizers on Aug. 10, 1868, of the Free Methodist congregation in Allentown, of which church she was an active and loyal mem- ber. They had eight children, four sons and

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four daughters: Mary, married William Moyer and had two children; John Benjamin Franklin, married Cornelia Pearson, and had ten children ; (William, who died in childhood; Frank P .; Mattie; Howard; Fred ; Lee ; Mary ; Harry, who died in infancy; Lillian; and Evelyn, who died nine years old); Paul, deceased, who married Esther Searle, also deceased, and had two chil- dren: George and Paul; Charles O .; Martha, who resides with her brother, Milton P .; Cath- arine, married Lewis Seifert and had six chil- dren: Mary, Sarah, John, Charles, Helen, and Anna; Sarah, married George Eberhardt and had six children : Raymond, Ralph, Augustus, Mamie, Martha, and Harold; and Milton P.

Charles Oscar Schantz, son of John and Eliza- beth (Meyer) Schantz, was born May 31, 1853, at Ballietsville. He was educated in the public schools and the military school of Allentown. After his books were laid aside, he commenced his business career as a clerk in a mercantile house, remaining there but a brief period. He next entered the employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company as a messenger, where by faithful application to his duties he was promoted . to the position of head clerk. He continued here for a period of nearly eight years. He then entered the employ of the Allentown National Bank, on Feb. 3, 1874, as individual ledger book- keeper, later was made assistant teller, and sub- sequently chief clerk, which responsible position he filled with ability and to the satisfaction of all concerned, until 1903. In this year the Mer- chants National Bank was organized, the pro- moters of that institution selected Mr. Schantz to serve as cashier, on account of experience and fitness, as well as for his wide knowledge of the national banking business. He proved a very popular and efficient official, and enjoyed the fullest confidence of both the officials and patrons of the institution. His connection with bank- ing interests in Allentown covered a period of over thirty-seven years. He was one of the pioneers in the building association movement in Allentown. He assisted in founding the Mutual Loan and Building Association, became its first secretary, retiring in November, 1910, on account of his failing health. He was a member of the city's Board of Charities, and was its secretary. He was the receiver of the Keystone Mutual Benefit Association, and successfully filled other fiduciary positions. His services were in fre- quent demand as an expert accountant. He was one of the trustees of the Allentown College for Women ; also a faithful and active trustee of the Y. M. C. A., and served on its finance com- mittee. He was first an active member of the Free Methodist church. He was a delegate to

General Conference, and audited the accounts of that body. After his removal to his new resi- dence at Seventeenth and Walnut streets, he al- lied himself with Grace U. E. church at Fif- teenth and Turner streets, and was active in promoting its welfare. For some time he was the Sunday school superintendent of the latter named church, and was a regular attendant of all. services. On account of failing health, he made a lengthy tour of the South, spending several months in St. Augustine, Fla., hoping that the balmy air of that locality might prove of bene- fit, but the improvement was only temporary, and he returned home, where his long career of usefulness closed on July 26, 1911, and interment was made in Fairview cemetery. . Charles O. Schantz married, in 1872, Miss Amanda Kline, a daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Dornblaser) Kline. Issue : John T; Alice E .; Charles O., Jr .; William D .; Hattie E .; Edgar J .; Robert and Dorothy, died young.

JOHN THOMAS SCHANTZ, eldest son of Charles O., was born Dec. 16, 1873. He was educated in the public schools of Allentown, and was in the employ of the Allentown National Bank from 1889 to 1902. During this time he registered as a law student in the office of R. E. Wright's Sons in 1893, and after pursuing a regular course of study, was admitted to Lehigh county bar April 11, 1898. In 1902, he began the practice of law, and in February, 1903, be- came private secretary of Col. Harry C. Trexler, which position he has continued to fill until the present time. He has been treasurer of Zion Re- formed Church since 1907. On April 19, 1897, he was married to Susan Gertrude, youngest daughter of Franklin and Susan (Newhard) Koehler, of Whitehall.

Edgar J. Schantz, fourth son of Charles O., was born at Allentown, Aug. 30, 1883. He was educated in the public schools of Allentown, and attended the Cheseborough Seminary at Chili, N. Y., for two years. He was in the em- ploy of the Buehler Furniture Company for two years, after which he took a business course in American Commercial School. Then he had charge of the office of William H. Gangewere, building contractor, for a time, and in June, 1903, became the messenger in the Merchants National Bank, later advanced to bookkeeper, and then promoted to paying teller, which responsible posi- tion he has filled successfully since 1910. He is a member of Jordan Lodge, No. 673, F. & A. M., and the Y. M. C. A. In 1908, he was mar- ried to Mary E., daughter of Mathias and Cath- arine (Geisel) Beiter, formerly of Phillipsburg, N. J., now of Allentown, and they have one child, Richard Geisel Schantz.

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MILTON P. SCHANTZ, youngest son of John, received his education in the public schools, in the meantime carrying morning newspapers, and in the business college where he earned off his tuition by services in the college. He became a clerk in the book-store of Brobst, Diehl & Co., later in that of Trexler & Hartzel, after which he served a clerkship in the Adelaide Silk Mills. He and his sister, Miss Mattie Schantz, then purchased the millinery store of Mrs. M. A. G. Guldin, at No. 602 Hamilton, which they con- ducted for some years. On March 23, 1898, he was appointed postmaster of Allentown, and served by re-appointment in 1902 and 1906, until 1910, having given entire satisfaction to the public. The new and attractive post-office build- ing was erected at Sixth and Turner streets by the national government during his incumbency, and was first occupied Feb. 1, 1907. During this time he read law in the office of R. E. Wright, Esq., and was admitted to the bar Dec. 22, 1902, since which time he has practiced his profession in a successful manner. He served the office of county auditor from 1890 to 1893. He was a member of common council in 1887 and 1888; in 1893 he became a member of select council from the Third ward, and officiated as the presi- dent of that body from 1895 to 1898, when he was appointed pastmaster. Besides his legal prac- tice he has been engaged in the real estate busi- ness, having been prominently identified with the North Allentown Improvement Company, Le- high Improvement Company, Highland Realty Company, and West Allentown Land Company ; also the Lehigh and Schantz Nurseries. He is a member and past master of Barger Lodge, No. 333, F. & A. M., and served as a trustee for some years ; Allen R. A. Chapter, No. 203 ; Livingston Castle, No. 258, K. G. E., of which he is past chief, and he is also past grand chief of Pennsyl- vania, and has been many years on the state fin- ance committee; Jordan Council, No. 746, Jr. O. U. A. M .; Allentown Lodge, No. 130, B. P. O. E .; Modern Woodmen of America ; and Hep- tasophs.

Mr. Schantz was married to Catharine O. Dotts, daughter of Charles and Judith (Roeder) Dotts, and they had six children: Harold A .; Catharine S .; Milton P., who died in infancy ; Earle; Lewis M .; and Marcus P., who also died in infancy.

John and Henry Schantz, the two younger sons of John, the emigrant, settled at the Trappe, in Montgomery county, and their descendants were in that vicinity in recent years.

WM. F. SCHANERBERGER.

William F. Schanerberger, son of Peter

Schanerberger and his wife, Esther Mertz, was born in Moore township, Northampton county, June 16, 1836. His father died at the age of seventy-seven years and had five children: Mary Ann; Samuel; George, a veteran of the Forty- seventh Regiment in the Civil War; Matilda and William F.

William F. attended school as a boy, in the winter, when the terms lasted only three months. He was employed in splitting rails and cutting wood, and later as a driver in the Lehigh canal. He owned a boat, which he ran for some time, but sold it in 1861. In February, 1864, he en- listed in Company D, Seventy-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He joined his regiment in Philadelphia and served until the close of the war, having been mustered out at Murfreesboro, Tenn. After the war he became a car inspector at Easton and was later employed at the Roberts furnace and with the Allentown Gas Company. He is a member of St. Luke's Lutheran church, and a Republican in politics. He had the follow- ing children: Rosa, deceased ; John A .; Charles, deceased ; Hattie and Annabella.

SCHEETZ (SCHUTZ) FAMILY.

Mathias Shutz, emigrated from Preusen, Ger- many on the ship "Rowand," which landed at Philadelphia, Sept. 29, 1753. He located ir. Lynn township, Lehigh county. His homestead is now the William H. Reitz farm.

Jacob Zink on March 6, 1748, obtained a pro- prietary warrant for a tract in Lynn, bounded by lands of Mathias Schiitz, and others; and he, on September 25, 1752, sold this tract to John Ger- lach Moyer, who sold it on September 9, 1760, to Nicholas Lynn. The latter sold it to Henry Brednig on January 15, 1763, and Brednig sold 14 acres of it on January 10, 1767, to Mathias Schiitz, whose farm then had come to embrace a total area of 148 acres.

In 1765, Mathias Schutz built a log barn and this was replaced in 1888 by the present one. A singular co-incidence in the three generations of this family is that Mathias Schutz was an only son ; he had an only son, Heinrich, and the latter also had an only son, David.

William H. Reitz, whose wife was Brigitta, a daughter of David Schütz, has a document which explains an early legal transaction, connecting the Schmitt and the Schütz families, and reads as follows:

"Lynn Township, November 12, 1753. I do assign and set over all my right, title and interests in this bill of sale, unto my brother-in-law, Matthias Schutz, as witness my hand."

(Signed) Christian Schmitt.

Witness :

John Everett, Andres Everett.

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Ancestor Schütz and his wife Anna Mary, had an only son, Heinrich, and tradition tells us they had eight daughters, among whom were: Mrs. Frederick Sechler ; Mrs. Ferdinand Ennis, (Enos), whose husband was a noted Indian fighter ), and Catharine Elizabeth (married to P. Philip Wannamacher 1760-1839, born August 4, 1758, and died December 3, 1835).

The name Schutz has been corrupted into Schitz, by David Schitz. Some of the later gen- erations anglicized it into Scheetz.

Heinrich Schitz, was born January 21, 1770, and died April 19, 1849, on the homestead which he inherited and occupied. In 1825 he built the present large stone house. (See illustration.) His wife Elizabeth Sechler was born March 15, 1774, and died July 27, 1848, in her 75th year. They are buried at New Tripoli. Their children are :

Name.

Born.

Died.

Age.

Catharine,

Tune 18, 1794,

Jan.

15, 1879, 76-6-27.

Anna Maria,

July 18, 1796, Feb. 26, 1886, 89-7-7.

Rebecca,

July 28, 1798,

April 11, 1883, 84-8-13.

Elizabeth,

Oct. 4, 1800,

July 8, 1849, 48 -- 8-4.

David,

Oct. 14, 1802,

April 13, 1877, 74-5-29.

Magdalena,

Nov. 14, 1904, was married to

Feb. 4, 1869, 64-2-10.

Catharine

Johannes Reinhart.

Anna Maria

Jacob Koenig.

Rebecca

Peter Snyder.

Elizabeth

Jacob Brobst.

David and

Magdalena

" Jonas Miller.

David Schitz, succeeded his father to the home- stead. He was identified with the State Militia. During the Civil War he was actively identified with the Knights of the Golden Circle which met in his house when the organization was dissolved He was elected supervisor of his township as a Democrat, serving this office some vears.

His wife was Elizabeth, a daughter of Michael Brobst. She was born May 27, 1805, and died April 2, 1865. Both are buried at New Tripoli. Their children were: Mary, (died young) ; Wilhelmina, (m. to David Stein) ; Elizabeth, (m. to Benjamin Oswald) ; Sarah, (m. first to David Reitz and second to Benjamin Reitz) ; Edwin, David, James, and Levi.

Edwin Schitz, was born March 25, 1833. He farmed on the homestead nineteen years ; then bought a 91-acre farm near Lynnport, Pa., which he cultivated until his retirement. This tract was the Ferdinand Follweiler farm. A tavern was conducted at this place many years. He is a Democrat. He was a school director and asistant assessor of Lynn township, where he has always lived. He and his family were for a time Reformed members of Ebenezer church at New Tripoli, which he served as deacon, elder and trustee, but later united with the church at Jack- sonville, Pa.

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History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, Vol. III, Part 71

Author: Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer, 1878- joint comp; Krick, Thomas H., 1868- joint comp; Dietrich, William Joseph, 1875- joint comp; Lehigh County Historical Society Publication date: 1914 Publisher: Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 854

Author: Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer, 1878- joint comp; Krick, Thomas H., 1868- joint comp; Dietrich, William Joseph, 1875- joint comp; Lehigh County Historical Society
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 854