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SCHNECK FAMILY.
Along the Slatington trolley line, situated in North Whitehall township, is the town of Schnecksville, which perpetuates the name of Schneck. The family homestead which was built by the progenitor, Adam Schneck, in 1773, is still standing and a cut of it is herewith pro- duced. It is situated about one mile northwest from Meyersville, in North Whitehall, on the fine farm now owned and occupied by Franklin Henninger. In the year 1766, Adam Schneck took up this land and it remained in possession of the family for more than 100 years. Among his children were: Peter, Henry, and Yost G. Schneck, who were assessed as property owners in 1781, presumably in North Whitehall township.
John Schneck, a grandson of the pioneer, was
born Sept. 15, 1783, and died Dec. 9, 1845. He owned and occupied a large farm situated east of Schnecksville and he also conducted a distil- lery.
He was married for thirty-seven years, Ito Maria Bahr, and they had fifteen children, viz: Joseph, James, Gideon, John, who obtained the homestead, and died from smallpox; Samuel, Thomas, David, Abraham, Lydia, m. M. Hand- werk; Sallie, m. Jonas Peter; Elizabeth, m. Stephen Hunsicker, and Catharine ( 1824-1845) died in her first confinement. Three children died small.
Joseph Schneck, son of John and Maria, was born in 1808, died Feb. 19, 1892, aged 82 years, 8 months, and 5 days. He was a shoemaker and later a carpet-weaver, and he wove all kinds of linseywoolsey.
His wife, Maria Hunsicker, inherited a farm situated in Lowhill township, and this tract they occupied until a terrible tragedy occurred, in
SCHNECK HOMESTEAD, BUILT 1773.
November of 1875, when Mrs. Schneck was murdered, apparently, while her husband was away attending a public sale. The fiend, who committed the deed was never fully apprehended.
Joseph and Maria Schneck had an only son, Nathan H., who was born Feb. 7, 1838, and he was educated in the country pay schools for four months in a winter and later in 1857 and 1858 he attended the Allentown Seminary and the Freeland Seminary. He taught school for three winters and also two summer terms of select school. His compensation for teaching school was two and one-half cents per day from each pupil. but for the last two terms he was paid three cents per pupil, but the last year, because of the increase of pay, he had to find his own wood. Later he clerked in the store in the Mahoning Valley, in Carbon county. He was married, in 1861, to Sarah Ann Peter, and they farmed in
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Lowhill until their removal to North White- hall where they continued until on Thanksgiving Day, of 1884, when they moved to Allentown, locating in the residence at the southeast corner of Eighth and Chew streets, and there he since re- sides. Mr. Schneck served as a school director in North Whitehall for several terms, also was a tax collector in the Fourth ward, Allentown.
He is an able mathematician and an exceptional fine penman. He and his wife are Lutherans. They had an only daughter, Elmira R., who mar- ried Dr. Daniel Hiestand, of Allentown. They have one daughter, Elmira R., who is a trained nurse and she has her home with her grandfather Schneck.
James Schneck, son of John and Maria (Bahr) Schneck, was a farmer at Ironton, in North Whitehall. He was married to Lydia DeLong, of Lowhill, and they had three children, namely : Eliza, married to W. B. Kern; Ella, married to Elias Best ; and Tilghman F.
Tilghman F. Schneck was born in 1853, in Lowhill, and in 1858 his parents moved to Iron- ton where he attended the local schools. During the eighties he engaged in farming in North Whitehall and he continued to farm there until in 1911, when he sold his property and retired to Neffs. He served North Whitehall township on the school board for six years.
He was married; had four children, namely : Clara A., married to L. E. Smith; Samuel J., married to Minnie Oswald; Magdalena E., who died in 1906, aged 31 years; and George F. Schneck, whose history follows.
GEORGE F. SCHNECK, a salesman of Allentown, was born at Ironton, April 12, 1871. He was educated in the public schools, the Schnecksville Academy, and the Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown; taught school two terms (in 1888 and 1889), in North Whitehall township. In 1890 he became a salesman of stationery and school supplies for C. H. Schmid, Allentown, and continued in his employ for nine years. After- wards for five years he represented the Butler, Sheldon & Co., publishers of school and college text-books. He resigned this position to accept a salesmanship with Hunsicker & Co., wholesale tobacco dealers, Allentown.
He had served the Eighth ward, Allentown, as a school director ; is a past master of Green- leaf Lodge, No. 561, F. & A. M .; and a past grand Allen Lodge No. 71, I. O. O. F.
He was married in 1894 to Nettie A. Hen- ninger, a daughter of Simon Henninger, a far- mer of South Whitehall township. They have an only daughter, Helen E. Schneck, a student in the Allentown high school. They reside at No. 416 North Ninth street.
Henry Schneck was a farmer near Schnecks- ville. His wife, Elizabeth Schlosser, bore him these children: Jonas; Abraham, who died at Berlinsville; and Solomon, who died in Ohio.
Jonas Schneck, son of Henry and Elizabeth, was born July 3, 1808, and his sponsors were John and Maria Schneck. He married Magda- lena Frey, who was born in Heidelberg town- ship, Aug. 21, 1806. He was a carpet weaver until his removal to Crawford county, Pa., and there he farmed until he was killed in a runaway in 1842. The accident occurred while he was driving to the barn from the field. He was buried at the Saegerstown church, in Crawford county. His wife died, aged 65 years, and she was buried at Allentown. Their children were: Sarah Ann, m. Eli Shirey; Levi, of Berlinsville ; Paul, died in 1911, in Great Bend, Kansas; and Samuel H., who was born Aug. 26, 1840, in Crawford county, Pa. He was one of the First Defenders, having enlisted on April 18, 1861, in Co. G, 25th Penna. Regiment Vol. Infantry, for three months; re-enlisted Sept. 31, 1861, in Co. A, 9th Penna. Cavalry; was discharged Dec. 31, 1861 ; re-enlisted Jan. 1, 1864, in Co. A, 9th Regiment Pa. Vol. Infantry, and was dis- charged at the end of the war.
After the war he settled at Slatington and there is engaged in the furniture business to this time. He was burgess of Slatington for two terms, also a councilman and a school director. He married, in 1867, Maria, a daughter of Charles Crossley, of Pleasant Corner. They have seven children, viz: Ella, Clinton, Frede- rick, Winifred, Lula, Frank, and Lawrence.
John Schneck, who had a brother, Daniel, was born on the homestead, near Meyersville, in 1790. He was first located in Lowhill, but later moved upon a farm situated about two miles northwest of Egypt in the direction of Schnecks- ville and farmed until his death on June 28, 1874, in his 84th year. His farm was a Ritter homestead, but after his death it was divided into two tracts which were owned by his sons, John and Jeremiah. John, Jr., was succeeded by his son, Joseph Schneck. John Schneck was mar. ried to Elizabeth Ebert and they had twelve children, viz: John, m. Carolina Frey ; Jere- miah, m. Sally Ann Deibert ; Sally Ann, m. Wil- liam Kern; Susan, m. Stephen Wright; Mary, m. Paul Troxell; Lovina, m. Menno Deibert ; David, remained single; Henry, died small; Elias; Rebecca, m. Josiah Kohler; Jonas, died single; and one whose name is not remembered.
John Schneck, the oldest son of his father, John, Sr., was born Oct. 17, 1827, in North Whitehall. He was a blacksmith, farmer, and road supervisor, for a number of terms. He died
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Nov. 13, 1896, aged 69 years, and 26 days. His death was due to a stroke of apoplexy which oc- curred while on his way home from Egypt with a load of coal. He was found dead on the road.
He was married to Carolina Frey, born April 22, 1827, and died on Sept. 20, 1896, in his 70th year. She was a daughter of Michael and Susanna (Scheirer) Frey. They had nine chil- dren and thirty-one grandchildren. The chil- dren follow :
James, born Nov. 12, 1852, m. Mary Kern. Joseph, born Jan. 4, 1855, m. Jane McQuade. Agnes, born Aug. 16, 1857, m. Oscar Clauser. John W., born Sept. 9, 1859, not married.
Elizabeth, born Oct. 18, 1861, m. Frank Cole- man.
Francis, born Oct. 28, 1863, m. Savannah Wotring.
Emma, born May 24, 1866, m. Jeremiah Keiser.
Frank born June 25, 1868, m. Laura Stab- ley.
Ella, born June 25, 1868, married Frank Sourwein.
James Schneck was born on his father's farm in North Whitehall, Nov. 12, 1852. He resided at Egypt, and follows the carpenter trade, having however worked in the orebeds, stone quarries, and cement mills for a number of years.
He and his family are members of the Lu- theran congregation of the Egypt church. So- cially he is a member of the Whitehall Beneficial Association.
In 1873 he married Mary Ann Kern, a daugh- ter of Reuben and Rachel (Kern) Kern. They have two children: Wilson H. and Minnie I., who died on Dec. 3, 1887.
WILSON H. SCHNECK, a merchant at Egypt, was born in North Whitehall township, Oct. 25, 1873. He was educated in the common schools and in the American Business College. After- ward he was employed by the E. E. Long & Co., at Egypt, for a period of five years, and later for two years he worked in the Egypt bakery. Later he became a clerk and afterward a partner with J. W. Peter, an Egypt merchant, under the present firm name of J. W. Peter & Co.
Mr. Schneck is a Lutheran member of the Egypt church, having served it as a deacon and trustee and is now the financial secretary of the church council. He has also served the Sun- day school as librarian, teacher, president, and superintendent. He is the present president of the school, also a teacher. Socially he is a mem- ber of the P. O. S. of A. at Egypt, and the K. G. E. at Allentown.
He is married to Katie Huber, a daughter of Adam and Amelia ( Hess) Huber, and they have
these children: Elsie V., Amelia S., and Mary C.
Jeremiah Schneck, the second son of John, was born Oct. 5, 1824, died April 6, 1898, and is buried at Unionville. He owned and occupied a 47-acre farm near Scheidys, which is now occu- pied by his son, Wilson. He served his district as a supervisor. He was a deacon of the Lu- theran congregation of the Unionville church. He married, in 1853, Sally Ann Deibert, a daughter of Peter and Susanna (Newhard) Dei- bert. She still lives and is a well-preserved old lady. Their children are: William Peter, who died from diphtheria, aged six years; Alice J., m. James Folk; Jeremiah, is a blacksmith, and he lives on a lot which is a part of the home- stead; Milton; Annie, died from diphtheria, aged six years; Elmer F .; and Mary, m. Ben- jamin Wieder.
ELMER F. SCHNECK, a blacksmith at Ironton, was born in North Whitehall, March 16, 1869. He was reared upon the farm and at the age of twenty-two years, learned the blacksmith trade from his brother, Jeremiah D. In 1894 he lo- cated at Ironton, being the first blacksmith to locate in that village, except a shop which was conducted by the Ironton railroad and one which stood near Ironton, which one Deibert conduct- ed and later Samuel Lobach worked in it.
During 1899 and 1900 Mr. Schneck built his residence at Ironton; and in 1904 he built an- other dwelling in Ironton.
He is a Lutheran member of the Unionville Lutheran congregation and he served it as a dea- con.
He is a Democrat and in 1909 was elected one of the school directors of North Whitehall, and in 1911 he was re-elected for the four years' term under the new school code.
In 1895 he married Minnie A. Ritter, a daughter of William and Alphena (Wotring) Ritter. They have no issue.
David Schneck, son of John, died upon his 58- acre farm in North Whitehall. He also owned an 85-acre farm in Washington township. He was a deacon and an elder of the Lutheran con- gregation of the Unionville church. His widow, Fianna Handwerk, continues to live in North Whitehall. Their children are: Didama; Jane; Franklin D .; Senator; Mantana; Idella, and Edwin, of North Whitehall.
Abraham Schneck, son of John, was an ex- tensive agriculturist, in North Whitehall. He was a Lutheran member of the Egypt church. His wife, Elizabeth Handwerk, bore him these children: Manasses; Rosa, deceased, was the wife of Elias Hantz, and they lived in Indiana; Fianna, m. H. Leibenguth; Rebecca, m. James
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Kauffman, of Indiana; Mary, m. Calvin Peter, (and they occupy the Abraham Schneck home- stead) ; Robert, of Catasauqua; Benjamin, of North Whitehall, and Harvey A., a cigar manu- facturer, of Allentown.
Franklin D. Schneck, a farmer in North Whitehall, was born April 29, 1861. In 1885 he married and the following spring he began farming on a 30-acre tract which he bought from his father. In 1904 he bought eighteen acres of land lying adjacent to his farm. In 1885 he married Ellen Newhard, and they have these children: Henry; Morris; Etha; William; Helen ; and Mamie.
Jonas Schneck, who died in 1856, is buried on the Unionville cemetery. He was a farmer in North Whitehall, owning part of the homestead of his father. His wife was Elizabeth Peter, a daughter of John Peter. They had these chil- dren : David and Fietta, who died young; Car- olina, m. Reuben Deibert; Eli J .; and Israel.
ELI J. SCHNECK, a furniture manufacturer and successful business man of Allentown, was born on the family homestead, near Schnecksville, May 9, 1840. At the age of fifteen years he learned the cabinet making trade, which he pursued as a journeyman until 1881, at which time he became a member of the firm of Schlegel, Ziegenfuss and Co., manufacturers of parlor frames and marble top tables. In 1884, after a disastrous fire the firm went out of business. Mr. Schneck formed a partnership with G. H. Baer, under the firm name of E. J. Schneck & Co. They continued until in 1887 when Mr. Baer withdrew from the firm and Mr. Schneck admitted his sons: H. G. and C. J., under the present firm name of E. J. Schneck & Sons. Their factory is located at 1025 and 1027 North street, and the firm employs upwards of thirty people.
Mr. Schneck and family are actively identified with the Trinity United Evangelical church, of Allentown. He was married in 1860 to Susanna C. Baer, a daughter of Charles Baer. The fol- lowing children are born to them: Harry G., Charles J., m. to Lizzie Kutz, and they have Florence and Myrtle; George U., m. to Annie Kohl, and they have a son, Charles; and Ida, who died in 1862.
Moses Schneck was born at Schnecksville, in 1828. He was a son of Daniel Schneck, who was a grandson of the pioneer. Moses Schneck manufactured buggies and wagons at Schnecks- ville until his removal to Allentown where he was the proprietor of the old Eagle Hotel, at Seventh and Hamilton streets for many years. In 1868 he moved to Philadelphia, and rented the St. Charles Hotel, on Third, near Arch street, conducting the same for twenty-five years.
He sold out there and rented the Davis Hotel at Delaware avenue and Market streets, and this hostelry he conducted until his death on March 28, 1903, aged 75 years. He was one of the oldest hotel men in Eastern Pennsylvania. His family, including his father and son, Oliver J., have been continuously in the hotel business in 1800, a period of 114 years.
He was married, first, to Elizabeth Gross, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Peter) Gross. She died in 1857. They had four children of whom Margaret, Richard, and Joseph died in infancy; and Oliver James, whose history fol- lows. Moses Schneck was married to his sec- ond wife, Mrs. Leanna (Kern) Kleppinger, the widow of Tilghman Kleppinger. They had Jos- eph, who died, aged three years; and George, who died, aged 42 years, unmarried, and was a hotel-keeper in Philadelphia.
OLIVER JAMES SCHNECK, a retired citizen of Allentown, was born at Schnecksville, this county, Aug. 15, 1851. After the completion of his edu- cation in the common schools he entered the hotel business with his father at Allentown, and later at Philadelphia. In the year 1887 he located in Oklahoma where he was engaged in the cattle business for five years when his father died and he removed to Philadelphia, to assume charge of his father's business and he continues to conduct that hotel up to the present time. Mr. Schneck also deals in real estate in Eastern Pennsylvania. He owns the old Kline farm of ninety-four acres, situated on the Little Lehigh river, and there he carries on the poultry business in connection with general farming. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, the B. P. O. E., and in poli- tics is a Republican.
In his extensive travels over the county he ac- quired large real estate holdings. In Coke county, Texas, he owns a section one mile square, com- prising 640 acres; in Lee county, Texas, he owned 225 acres, up to 1913, when he sold it. In Cawley county, Kansas, he owns a section of land, comprising 640 acres. At one time he had leased 60,000 acres of land from the Chero- kee Indians, located in the Cherokee strip, now embraced in Oklahoma. He paid a rental three and one-half cents per acre, and the lease was pro- tected by the federal government. At one time he had the care of 20,000 head of sheep for Swift & Company, Chicago. They paid him 50 cents per head.
In the year 1887 he was married, at Philadel- phia, to Mary A. Goldin, nee Stettler, of Al- lentown. She was the widow of Dr. Charles Goldin, and they had two children: Charles, m. Annie Brobst. They live at Allentown ; and Gussie C., married to G. H. Wartman, deceased.
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They have one son, George H. Wartman, Jr., who is the manager of Mr. Schneck's hotel at Philadelphia. Mrs. Wartman married, as her second husband, John H. Hartman, a real-estate dealer in Philadelphia.
Thomas Schneck, was a mail carrier between Allentown and Slatington. Later he engaged in the hotel business, conducting a hotel at Walnut- port, Berks county, Pa., for many years. From there he removed private to Chapmans Station, where he lived about six months. In 1885 he bought the Sherersville hotel in South White- hall township and this stand he conducted only four weeks when he died. He was succeeded to the ownership of the property and the business by his oldest son, Walter S.
The following were his children: Bella; An- nie, m. Daniel Limebach; Walter S .; Laura, m. George Heist; Richard, of Hamburg, Pa .; and Ella, died unmarried, aged 23 years.
WALTER S. SCHNECK in earlier life was a clerk in a store at Slatington, after which he learned the painting trade and followed it in a number of the western states. After the death of his father in 1885, he became the owner and pro- prietor of the Sherersville hotel, which he con- ducted until his death on Sept. 5, 1891, in his 27th year of age. He is buried at the Jordan Lutheran church, and there his widow and chil- dren are still members.
On March 27, 1888, he was married to Jane A. Kuhns, a daughter of Elias and Hettie (Roth) Kuhns, of South Whitehall. Their children are Annie, a dressmaker; and Dilla, the wife of Frank Fenstermacher. They have a son, Law- rence W.
SCHNURMAN FAMILIES.
Meyer and Henry Schnurman, brothers, were natives of Schnieheim, Amt Ettenheim, Baden, Germany. Meyer was born in 1803, and died Dec. 20, 1865. He emigrated in the year 1854, and for a short time was a peddler and afterwards he sold merchandise from a wagon. He was an extensive horse dealer and had stables in New York. His salesmen operated in Canada and throughout the West. He sold horses to the government during the Civil War; and shipped many head annually to England and the dif- ferent countries of Europe for a period of years.
It is said that his word was as good as a bond. He was a national bank director and owned much real estate in Allentown, where he lived for many years at 524 Linden street. His daugh- ter, Hannah, now occupies the homestead.
He married Sarah Newberger, at Schnieheim, and there their oldest child was born. She died in 1886, aged 75 years. Their children were:
Mena, m. Morris Wertheimer; Samuel, became his father's successor and died, unmarried ; Han- nah, is a maiden; Carolina, m. George Nonne- macher, both deceased; and Barbara, widow of Frank Polaski, of Paterson, N. J.
Henry Schnurman was born July 8, 1809, and emigrated to the United States in 1830. He first located at Bunker Hill, Pa., and followed peddling of merchandise in Bucks county. There he married Clementine, daughter of Thomas and Ann Penrose, Quakers. Later he was a merchant at Bunker Hill and there two of his children died of scarlet fever of which there prevailed an epidemic in that section. The two children were buried on the Quaker cemetery at Quakertown. Early in the forties he engaged in the general store business in Allentown, at the corner of Seventh and Hamilton streets, on the site now occupied by Shankweiler & Lehr. Through the great fire of 1848, he became the originator of the famous fire sales. After the fire he purchased the property at the corner of Hall and Hamil- ton streets, a three-story brick building, which was at that time the largest mercantile house in the city. It is now - occupied by Kuhns and Kerschner, leading clothiers. He was part owner with his nephew, Joshua Schnurman, in the own- ership and operation of the well-known "Blue Jacket" flour mills, situated on the site of the horse bazarr and the Yeager Furniture Co., on Lehigh street. He also operated a gypsum mill which was situated along that creek, opposite the grist-mill. This product the farmers used ex- tensively as a fertilizer.
He was also a part owner of the Zinzendorf flour mill at South Bethlehem; had large real estate holdings in the Eighth ward, Allentown ; was a director of the Allentown National Bank, and one of the very substantial and able business men of Allentown. He died March 8, 1875, and is buried on the Union cemetery.
He was a Hebrew by faith, nevertheless very tolerant in his views. His home was frequently opened to meetings of the Friends Society, of which his wife was a member. He and his wife were pew-holders of the First Presbyterian church, where their children regularly attended the Sab- bath school. His wife, Clementine, was born in 1810, and died Feb. 13, 1890. They had issue, viz: Araminda, m. Joseph Schnurman ; Rachel, m. Bartholomew Wurtwaugh; Belle D., m. A. S. Grim; Henry F., of New York City; Anna Matilda, married Simon A. Feldman.
Joseph Schnurman, a nephew of Meyer and Henry Schnurman, came from the same place in Germany as his uncles. He was born in 1828, and emigrated to America in 1849, locating at Allentown, and there for some years followed
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peddling. Later he moved to Brooklyn, N. Y. He was an extensive horse dealer, selling thou- sands to the government during the Civil War. He had large sales stables in Brooklyn, in which city he lived twelve years. Upon his return to Allentown, after the war, he became associated with his brother, Joshua, in the conduct of the Blue Jacket and the Zinzendorf flour-mills. In 1877 he took charge of the clothing store of his father-in-law, which was conducted under the name of Schnurman, Roth & Co., and continued doing so until his death in 1893. He is buried on Fairview cemetery.
He was a successful merchant, and an exten- sive real estate operator and builder, erecting many houses during a depression in business in 1883. His laborers and the mechanics agreed to take merchandise in return for their hire. This marked the beginning of the trading system in Allentown.
His first wife was Jane Yerkes, daughter of Jonathan Yerkes, of Bethlehem, Pa., and a sister of the wife of Rev. Dr. A. R. Horne. She died about one year after their marriage, without issue.
His second wife was Araminda Schnurman, daughter of Henry Schnurman. She died in August, 1910. Their children were: Harry J .; William P .; Clementine A., m. Gerhard Meyer ; Edith M., m. Joseph Sieger ; and Carl H. They all reside in Allentown.
Harry J. Schnurman, the proprietor of the Allentown Trading Stamp Co., was born at Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 13, 1865.
In 1897 he opened up the first trading stamp company in Allentown, and conducted the oldest trading stamp company in the country. His busi- ness is located at 10-12 North Sixth street.
He is a member of the following orders: Knights of the Golden Eagle; the Woodmen ; the Heptesophs; the Maccabees, and the I. O. B. B.
He married Mary I. Laudenslager. She died on May 28, 1912, aged forty-four years. Their two children are: Harold H., of Salt Lake City, Utah; and Joseph L.
Joshua Schnurman, another nephew of Meyer and Henry Schnurman, was born at Schnieheim, Germany, Oct. 16, 1821, and he came to the United States in 1849, locating at Allentown, and the following year he married Leah Hoff- man, also of Schnieheim. He followed peddling for a short time and then started wholesale peddling by wagon, selling to the country stores. During the fifties he engaged in the wholesale and retail dry goods business at No. 710 Hamil- ton street, after being in business until about 1866 he and his uncle, Henry Schnurman, bought
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