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The evils of Sunday liquor selling and drunk- enness were reduced to a minimum, the Cen- tral fire and police station was built, engine houses were improved and modernized, a new fire engine, a combination chemical and hose truck, and a double line of hose were purchased and the fire department altogether placed on a higher basis of equipment and efficiency. The first serious movement for street paving was, inaugurated, new sewers were built, Schantz's Spring was bought, a new standpipe was erec- ed, the position of house sergeant and night ser- geant were created, so that for the first time in the history of the city the police department was open to the public at all hours of the day and night. The city was notably free from crim- inals and order was maintained on the streets by one of the best organized and most efficient force of officers the police department of the city has had before or since.
Under this administration the question of in- creasing the debt of the city for paving and sew- erage purposes was submitted to the people, and while the project was not favorably voted upon, the agitation was measurably followed by good results. Also, an ordinance, drafted by Mr. Lewis, and personally championed by him be- fore council was passed, compelling trolley com- panies to vestibule their cars, thereby protecting motormen and conductors and insuring greater safety to passengers.
Needless to say, with such a record of achieve- ments, Mr. Lewis was no longer regarded as an experiment. He had exceeded even the most sanguine expectations of his friends, as well as made himself a commanding figure in the com- munity. Indeed, his popularity was so great that his nomination for mayor in 1902 was practi- cally demanded by the mass of Republican voters and foreshadowed his triumph at the polls in perhaps the most desperately waged contest in local political history.
Mr. Lewis' second administration, if anything, surpassed the first in brilliancy and usefulness. There was snap, vigor, and progressiveness in abundance. Hamilton street was paved from Twelfth to Seventeenth and Chew street almost its entire length, the police force was doubled so as to give adequate protection during the day and night, the police patrol telegraph system was installed, the pipe line was laid from Schantz's Spring to the city, a new pump was purchased for the water department, the tax rate was reduced and altogether municipal affairs were conducted on sound and economical principles and for the best interests of all the citizens.
One of the secrets of Mr. Lewis' success was that he gave his almost undivided time and at- tention to the duties of his office, carefully studied
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the needs of the municipality, conferred freely and frankly with the people, and always sincerely sought to better their conditions and promote the general welfare. Of course, he was not infalli- ble, but his bitterest enemy could not impute to him improper motives in any plan he advocated or in any act he performed. He retired from office with the respect and confidence of the people, and it may be truly said of him without disparagement of any of his predecessors, that he was the equal of the best mayor Allentown ever had.
As a business man, Mr. Lewis has a number of notable achievements to his credit. He or- ganized the Lehigh Telephone Company, since absorbed by the Consolidated Telephone Com- panies of Pennsylvania; he established the Mer- chants National Bank of this city, and was its first president for a period extending over seven years; and as a former president of the Allen- town Board of Trade, he did much to arouse pub- lic interest and action, and so helped materially to increase the industrial and financial prosperity of the community.
Mr. Lewis was a Republican of the stalwart type, always active with his voice and influence in the interests of his party, and for years was a strong personal factor in every important cam- paign.
In the campaign of 1912 Mr. Lewis was nom- inated by the Republicans and endorsed by the Washington Party for congressman-at-large, and was elected by a large plurality. He is now serv- ing as a member of the Sixty-third Congress as a Progressive.
At a recent conference of the Washington Party, Mr. Lewis was requested to become a candidate for the office of secretary of internal affairs, and at the primary election was nom- inated for that office on the ticket of the Wash- ington Party, without opposition.
Mr. Lewis' engaging personality, generous nature, and unaffected democratic, manner have made him perhaps the best known man in Al- lentown. He is especially popular with the working classes and on several occasions was instrumental in bringing about a settlement of serious labor dissensions, notably the Lehigh Val- ley Traction Company, and Pioneer Silk Mill strikes.
An enthusiastic volunteer fireman from boy- hood, Mr. Lewis is one of the best known mem- bers of the State Firemen's Association, and was a member of the executive committee of that body which secured the state law, donating money for the relief of sick and injured firemen. He is also a member of many social organizations, as well as of a number of protective and beneficial societies.
Mr. Lewis was married, April 16, 1892, to Miss Juliet M. Hammersly, of Allentown, a daughter of Capt. James B. Hammersly. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have one son, Samuel Lewis, a cadet at the Pennsylvania Military College at Chester, Pa., and one daughter, Anna Marie, a student at the Allentown College for Women at Allentown, Pa.
JOSEPH B. LEWIS.
Joseph B. Lewis, son of Samuel Lewis and wife, Elizabeth Balliet, and grandson of Samuel Lewis, was born May 27, 1838, in Philadelphia. He was educated in New England, at Wilber- ham, Mass. In 1858, he entered the employ of the Allentown Iron Company, as an assistant su- perintendent, where he remained until 1861, when he erected the Lehigh Rolling Mills, for the manufacture of merchant iron and continued in this business until 1866, when on August 1 of that year he left for California, where he en- gaged in mining until 1870. He then returned East and became superintendent of furnaces at Port Oram, Morris county, N. J. Some time later he again went West and engaged in the cat- tle business for a New York and Western Cat- tle Company, in the Cherokee strip, south of the Kansas state line, now Oklahoma, for two years. He then returned to Allentown and as- sisted in managing the furnaces of the Allentown Iron Company until his retirement in 1892.
Mr. Lewis married Miss Ellenora G. Schmucker. Mr. Lewis is a member of Barger Lodge, No. 333, F. & A. M., Allen Chapter, No. 203, R. A. M., Allen Council, and Allen Commandery, No. 20, K. T., Livingston Club, and the Lehigh County Historical Society.
FRANCIS G. LEWIS.
Francis Garber Lewis, practicing attorney at Allentown since 1896, was born in Limerick township, Montgomery county, being of Welsh, English and German parentage. He was educated in the public schools of the township, and Wash- ington Hall Collegiate Institute at the Trappe, from which he entered the junior class at college and was graduated in two years. After follow- ing the profession of teaching for a number of years in public schools, preparatory schools, and academies in Pennsylvania, he studied law in the offices of Hon. C. J. Erdman and Thomas F. Diefenderfer, Esq., for the prescribed course and was admitted to practice in the several courts of Lehigh and Philadelphia counties in 1896, and since then he has been in active and successful practice in the city of Allentown. He has also been admitted to practice in the Superior and Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania, and the United
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States District and Circuit Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Besides his large prac- tice he has served as solicitor for the city of Al- lentown, the county of Lehigh, and the borough of Catasauqua, and also Whitehall township, the only first-class township in the county, which has given him thorough qualification in municipal law.
Mr. Lewis was married to Sallie L. Rath, daughter of Rev. William Rath, minister of the Lutheran denomination, and they had two sons, one having died, and the other, William E., being a graduate of Haverford College, and now a graduate student in the Lehigh University.
LEVAN FAMILY.
Among the members of the Huguenot Church at Amsterdam, Holland, was Daniel Levan and his wife, Maria Bean, refugees from Picardy, France. From a baptismal certificate it seems that some of their children were born at Amster- dam. About 1715 four sons of the refugee set out for Pennsylvania. They were Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, the latter, of whom died at sea. These were followed in 1727 by their brother Daniel, all of whom settled in the limits of Berks county.
(1) Abraham, son of Daniel and Maria (Bean) Levan, was born in Amsterdam in 1698, and died in 1771. He was married to Catharine Wenner, daughter of Mrs. Isaac De Turk by a former marriage. She was born in France, Feb. 22, 1706, and died Sept. 29, 1768. They had the following children: Daniel, Isaac, Esther (Bertolet), Susan ( Mowry), Elizabeth (Reeser), and Catharine.
(1) Isaac Levan, son of Daniel and Maria, emigrated from Amsterdam, Holland, and loca- ted in Exeter township, Berks county, Pa., in about 1730, being one of the first settlers there. He was engaged in farming until the latter period of his life, when in 1770, he moved to Reading, Pa., where he died in August, 1786. He and his wife, Mary Margaret, had the following chil- dren : Abraham, Isaac, Daniel, Jacob, Mary (wife of Peter Feather) and Judith (wife of Samuel Weiser).
Jacob Levan, Sr., son of Isaac the emigrant, was born at the old homestead in Exeter town- ship, Berks county, Pa., about 1736 and died there in January, 1814. He was engaged in farming all his life. He was married to Susannah Lud- wig, and had the following children: Abraham, Daniel, Jacob, Margaret [m. (first) Peter Rightmeyer, (second) John Wollison], Judith (m. Henry Leese), Susannah (m. John Stitzel), Elizabeth (m. Samuel Kurst), Mary (m. Hen- ry Werner), Hannah (m. Godfrey Kershner),
Catherine (m. Jacob Goodman), and Sarah (m. Adam Stitzel).
(1) Jacob, son of Daniel and Maria (Bean) Levan was born early in the eighteenth century, died 1768. He had the following children: Col- onel Sebastian Levan, married to Susan Snyder ; Jacob, married to Susanna Ludwig; Catharine, married Valentine Brobst; Elizabeth, married George Adam Snyder ; Susanna, married Charles Neudorf; Eva, married Peter Yoder; Maria, married Jacob Hottenstein, second to Frederick Hill.
Jacob Levan located in Maxatawny township of which he was one of the first settlers. He was an extensive land owner, the present town of Kutztown being built on a part of his former es- tate. He erected the first grist mill in this region prior to 1750.
He was one of the judges of the county court from 1751 to 1762. He bore an important part in the defense of the frontiers during the French and Indian wars and was commissioned to pro- vision. Fort Allen in 1756. His son Sebastian was a man of great prominence. At the out- break of the Revolution he represented his dis- trict in the Committee of Safety. He was a member of the State Assembly in 1779-1789, and a member of the supreme Executive Council from 1782-1784. He was also a colonel of mi- litia. He died in 1794.
Daniel Levan, a fourth son of Daniel and Maria (Bean) Levan who came to America, also settled in Maxatawny. His son Daniel was ad- mitted to the bar in Berks county in 1768 and became a lawyer of considerable prominence.
Jacob Levan, 2nd son of Jacob the immigrant, died in middle life and is buried in the old grave- yard on the David Levan farm. He had chil- dren : Jacob Daniel, John and Maria.
Benjamin Levan was born Aug. 16, 1777, died July 6, 1858, and is buried at Kutztown. He lived in Greenwich township where he owned and operated a mill. He was married to Eliza- beth Kline. They had children as follows: Jacob, lived at Reading ; Daniel ; George, married Adeline Donmoyer ; Joshua, lived in Ohio; Har- riet ; Annie, married Benjamin Antrim, of Dan- ville; Eliza, married Mr. Groff, of Harrisburg; Kate married William Fisher; Henry, married Elizabeth Bott, after his death she married Adam Scheirer, of Mickleys.
William K. Levan lived at Macungie, where he was an iron ore contractor and farmer. He also operated a grist mill in Greenwich township where he had lived earlier in life. He was born April 15, 1820, and died Sept. 15, 1902. He was married to Helena Schmoyer. To them the following children were born: Joseph, Styles,
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Sarah, married Perceval Wesco; Emma, married Charles E. Wenner ; Caroline, married Harrison Reber; Hannah, married Daniel Schaeffer ; Ala- meda, married Jacob Kutz; Rosa, married Monis Boyer.
John Levan, son of Jacob (2), was born in Berks county, where he followed farming. He was married to Margaretta Kahler and had chil- dren: Daniel, John, Charles, Peter and two daughters. Daniel was born in Berks county and later moved to Schuylkill county. He was mar- ried to Lydia Stout, with whom he had the fol- lowing children: Isaac, born March 2, 1800, lived at Hamburg; Lydia, born November 28, 1802; George, born April 10, 1803; Anna, born 1805; Benjamin S., born October 26, 1806; Elizabeth, born February 28, 1808, married Dr. Medler, of Orwigsburg; Joseph, born May 19, 1810; Joseph B., born December 20, 1811. He was married a second time to a sister of his first wife with whom he had the following children: Tryphena, Gustavus, William, Sarah, Catharine.
Benjamin S. Levan, son of Daniel and Lydia (Stout) Levan was born in Maiden Creek town- ship, at an early age moved to Kutztown. He was employed for five years as a clerk in Philadel- phia. He was superintendent of the Lehigh Fur- nace in Washington township for twenty-eight years. He then moved to Coplay, then White- hall township, and erected the furnace for the Lehigh Valley Iron Company of which he was superintendent for thirty years.
Mr. Levan was the moving spirit in the erec- tion of the Reformed church at Coplay, towards which he contributed liberally and wielded a great influence.
He was the father of the following children : Albert, Stephen, Francis, Paul, James Garret and Susan.
James B. Levan was born in Maxatawny township. For a number of years he followed the mercantile business at Schuylkill Haven, where he met with an accident which resulted in his death. He was a member of the Reformed church which he served as an elder.
He was married to Catharine Dieffenderfer, of Longswamp township, Berks county. They had the following children: Aaron B., of Cleveland, Ohio, member of the mercantile house of Kinney & Levan Company, and Walter F.
WALTER F. LEVAN, a son of James B. and Catharine Dieffenderfer Levan, was born in Schuylkill Haven, March 7, 1848. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Schuylkill Haven. At an early age he started to work in a general store and in 1872 he moved to Coplay, where he engaged in the mercantile business which he fol- lowed until 1908. When the Coplay National
Bank was organized he was one of the organizers and was elected cashier, which position he has held ever since. He was married to Leonora A. Dangler.
Mrs. Levan has been a very prominent worker in the Sunday school of Trinity Reformed church, having been the superintendent of the infant de -. partment for twenty-five years. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Levan: M. Catharine, at home; Arthur D., a bookkeeper at Palmyra, Pa .; F. Adele, married to Thomas E. Linton, a civil engineer of Kansas City, Mo.
LICHTENWALNER FAMILY.
Johannes Lichtenwalner, a pioneer ancestor, together with his wife, Barbara, and a one-year- old son, arrived on the ship "Samuel of London," at Philadelphia, on Aug. 17, 1733. His passport shows that he had been a blacksmith for four years previous to his setting sail for America, at Kreuth, province of Brandenburg, Germany. When he had arrived at Philadelphia, he pur- chased a team, loaded on his wagon what house- hold goods he had, together with his wife and son, and followed the tide of the immigrants, and by the newly-laid out road came to "Macungy." From Trexler's tavern (now Breinigsville), he followed an old Indian trail, and located in the western part of what is now North Whitehall township, where he settled on a 300-acre tract of vacant land along the Jordan creek, securing a patent for the same in 1738. Just how long he continued on this plantation is not certainly known, but it is evident that he was dissatisfied with the land, the same being rough and hilly, the top-soil shallow and gravelly. For these reasons he evidently concluded to take up other land and make a settlement elsewhere. He re- turned to what is now Upper Macungie town- ship, and settled about 1742 on a tract of land one mile west of the present village of Fogels- ville. Here he erected his log-cabin. In 1752 he obtained a patent deed for this tract. He had been an influential man, was one of the organ- izers of the Jordan Lutheran church, and to- gether with George Steininger, was the first trustee of same.
Besides the son brought with him from Ger- many, he had the following children: Marga- retta, b. Feb. 3, 1734; Maria Agatha, b. 1736, m. to Heinrich, the son of George Steininger ; Jo- hann, b. June 29, 1738; Catharine, b. Oct. 2, 1742 ; Anna Christina, b. May 12, 1745 ; Johann Tobias, b. April 23, 1747; Catharina Marga- retta, b. Oct. 30, 1749; Abraham, b. July 12, 1753, m. Eva Catharine Saeger. Barbara, wife of Johannes, died in April, / 1757.
Johannes Lichtenwalner (2), son of Johann,
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born June 29, 1738, is the common ancestor of the Pennsylvania Lichtenwalners. When 25 years of age he married Catharina Staettler, a daughter of Daniel. He resided during his whole life in the stone-house on the old homestead, having inherited 41334 acres of land from his father, about one mile west of Fogelsville. Later he bought one tract after another until he owned, all told, 952 acres. He served in the Revolution, being First Lieutenant under Capt. Peter Trex- ler, Jr. He died Oct. 30, 1794, and was buried at the Jordan Lutheran Church. By occupation, he had been a farmer and a blacksmith. Their children: Catharine, b. May 13, 1765, d. Aug. 12, 1831, m. to Matthias Leibensperger ; Johann ; Anna Maria, b. Sept. 9, 1768, d. May 25, 1852, m. to George Shaffer ; Barbara, b. Oct. 20, 1772, d. Jan. 10, 1838, m. to Philip Leibensperger, of Salisburg township; George; Peter; Margaret, b. Nov. 25, 1779, d. Dec. 16, 1871, m. to Henry Kline; Christopher, b. 1781, d. Jan. 1821, m. to Katharina Bortz; Mary Magdalena, b. Oct. 24, 1784, d. Sept. 28, 1854, m. to Jacob Vogel, of Bath ; Jacob.
Johannes Lichtenwalner (3), son of Johann, Jr., was born near Fogelsville, Pa., Dec. 1, 1766. He married Margaret Steininger, in 1791, and was a farmer by occupation. He died Dec. 12, 1834, and is buried at the Ziegel's Church.
Their children were: Jonathan, b. Aug. 20, 1794, d. single April 6, 1817; Lydia, died in in- fancy; Eliza, b. Dec. 5, 1798, died young ; Leah, married to John P. Smith (she died in 1886, aged 85 years, and had resided on a farm near Edesville, Kent county, Md.) ; John; Re- becca, b. Dec. 5, 1798, d. Dec. 16, 1889 (she had been married to John Miller) ; Samuel, b. Jan. 16, 1806. His first wife had been Maria Albright, who died and in 1884 he married Eliza Folk. He resided on farm near Mertztown, his death occurring March 24, 1876, and he is bur- ied at Mertztown. Judith, b. Jan. 13, 1810 (was married to Jonathan Trexler, she died June 20, 1887, and buried at Allentown) ; Solomon, who died in 1824 at the age of 17 years; and an in- fant, which died young.
John Lichtenwalner, son of Johann (3) was born on the old homestead west of Fogelsville, June 1, 1803. He had been a farmer by occupa- tion and a member of the Lutheran church. He married Elizabeth Schaeffer on March 30, 1828, the issue being: John H., farmer, banker, and later warden of the Lehigh county prison. He was born April 7, 1830; m. June 15, 1852, to Caroline Keck. He died June 29, 1882, and is buried at Fogelsville.
2. William C.
3. Reuben, b. Sept. 23, 1835; died June 21,
1844 and is buried at Fogelsville.
4. Caroline, b. Feb. 24, 1829. She married John H. Fogel, farmer and an ex-member of the legislature. She died Sept. 29, 1898 and is buried at Fogelsville.
John Lichtenwalner died Aug. 20, 1860, and is buried on the Fogelsville cemetery.
William C. Lichtenwalner, son of John, was born June 17, 1832. Attending the public schools he afterward engaged in farming, later as a banker. He served as a member of the legisla- ture for two terms. On Nov. 30, 1854, he mar- ried Amelia C. Fogel, and had six children: (1) W. Allen, attorney-at-law, born Sept. 4, 1855, now residing at Los Angeles, California. (2) Ellis R., attorney at law at Macungie; died March 15, 1890, aged 33 years. (3) John B., physician and surgeon at Dunbar, Neb., was born July 8, 1859, and married Mittie J. Riale, in 1884. (4) Nora Amelia Paulina, married to Edgar C. Shimer, traveling salesman, was born March 22, 1864, and died Oct. 18, 1912. (5) Irene Anna Elizabeth, married to Lewis L. Ane- walt, of the firm of L. L. Anewalt Co., of Al- lentown, was born March 28, 1867. (6) Fred H.
William C. died Feb. 24, 1873, and is buried at Fogelsville. His widow married T. Frank Butz. She was born April 23, 1834, and died Dec. 28, 1914.
FRED H. LICHTENWALNER, son of William C. and Amelia (Fogel), was born at Allentown, Pa., June 27, 1868. He attended the public schools to the age of 14 years. In 1882, he be- gan his business career by becoming messenger for the Allentown National Bank. Being faith- ful in the discharge of his duties, he was pro- moted rapidly, filling every position, and for seven years being the receiving teller. His total service with this institution numbered 23 years. Recognizing his ability and fidelity to his em- ployers, the Citizen's Deposit and Trust Com- pany Bank, in October, 1905, called him to be- come its secretary and treasurer. Mr. Lichten- walner also served as secretary and treasurer of the Mutual Loan and Building Association for 19 years, was treasurer for the Lehigh county almshouse for 12 years, and deputy county treas- urer from 1899 to 1904. In politics he is a Democrat, and a member of the Reformed church.
On Aug. 23, 1888, he was married to Jennie H., a daughter of Martin and Eliza (Erdman) Seiple, the issue being: (1) Norton L., married to Anna E. Koch; he is a member of the firm of J. M. Grimley Co., and resides at 1208 Hamil- ton street, Allentown. (2) Lillian E., who re- sides with her parents at 1535 Turner street, Allentown, Pa.
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George Lichtenwalner, or "Yarrick" as more commonly known, was the second oldest son of Johannes No. 2, and a grandson of Johannes, the immigrant. He had been born on the old homestead near Fogelsville, April 20, 1775. By occupation he had been a farmer, residing on a farm between Trexlertown and Fogelsville. He died Dec. 2, 1857, and is buried on the Trexler- town cemetery. His wife had been Maria Knauss and they had nine children: (1) Solomon. (2) Charles, born Sept. 12, 1811, died Jan. 29, 1885, and is buried in the West End cemetery, at Al- lentown; he was married to Eliza Schaadt and had 13 children. (3) Margareth, born Feb. 28, 1816, who died in infancy. (4) Eli, who was a farmer, born Nov. 25, 1819, died April 23, 1897; he had married Fafienna Glick, with whom he had two children. (5) Mary Ann, born Sept. 4, 1823 and died April 20, 1890; she was married to Daniel Henninger, with whom she had seven children. (6) Judith, mar- ried to Jonas Kuhns, was born April 2, 1801, had 14 children, died Jan. 25, 1876, and is buried in the Jordan Lutheran cemetery. (7) Lydia, wife of Samuel H. Snyder, a farmer, was born May 3, 1813; she had seven children; she died Nov. 8, 1880 and is buried at Polo, Ill. (8) Anna, wife of George F. Fegely, was born Nov. 30, 1805; died Feb. 17, 1872 and is buried at Mertztown ; she had ten children. (9) Pollie, married first to David Mohr, with whom she had four children, then married again to George Moll, from which union were born three chil- dren ; she died April 11, 1877, and is buried on the Hereford cemetery. .
Solomon Lichtenwalner, son of George, was born May 8, 1807. Receiving his education in the public school, he afterward followed farm- ing, residing on his farm near Trexlertown. He died Jan. 2, 1869, and is buried on the Trex- lertown cemetery. He had been married to Maria Ann Stettler, with whom he had seven children: (1) Jonas, born March 13, 1834; he married Adeline Haines, having two children. (2) William H., born Sept. 11, 1836, married Jan. 29, 1859 to Rebecca Schmoyer, having five children ; he died Oct. 5, 1894. (3) Joseph B., born March 2, 1839, married to Ellen Moyer, having two children. (4) Amanda, married to Solomon Kuhns, of Litzenberg, had one child; she was born Sept. 1, 1841. (5) Solomon, born Aug. 10, 1843, and had been twice married- first to Sarah Kuhns, deceased, and second to Lizzie Peter. (6) Hiram A. (7) Lafenus, de- ceased, born Dec. 20, 1849, had been miller at Cetronia and was married to Agnes Folk.
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