History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming counties, Pa.; with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers, Part 72

Author: Munsell, W.W., & Co., New York
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: New York, W.W. Munsell & co.
Number of Pages: 900

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Dorrance was taken from Newport and formed into a township in November, 1840, and named in honor of the late Benjamin Dorrance of this county.

The following are the names and dates of election of justices of the peace chosen in this township since its formation: Thomas Finn, 1841, 1850, 1862, 1872, 1877; Matthew H. Engler, 1845; Enos Seiple, 1854; Samuel I. Horlacher, 1856; Samuel Shelhammer, 1860; George D. Engler, 1873; Abraham Guldin, 1878.

DORRANCE CORNERS.

Dorrance Corners, the only village, is located near the center of the township. It was here that two of the pio- neer settlers made their "pitch," and from their humble

beginning has grown the hamlet known as Dorrance Corners. Here are a hotel, a store, a school-house, blacksmith, wagon and shoe shops, and about 75 inhabi- tants.

CHURCHES.

Stairsville Methodist Episcopal Church .- The Method- ist society in this township was organized under the ministry of Rev. Messrs. Moyster and Owen, when the country was yet a wilderness and when the townships of Dorrance, Hollenback, Slocum, Conyngham and Nes- copeck were in the old Hanover circuit. Some of the early members were John Arnold, George Stair and wife, John Hawk and wife, Stephen Lee and wife, and George Moon and wife.

In the days of the itinerants Moyster and Owen, preaching services were held in log houses and barns, and in suitable weather in the groves, until the building of the school-house in the northwest corner of the town- ship near the site of the present M. E. church, when that school-house was used until 1873. In 1873 Rev. Josiah Wagner was on this charge, and under his administration the church was built at a cost of about $1,800.

The pastors who have served this people since Mr. Wagner are Revs. J. T. Burall, Wilson, Trieble, William Ruggles, William Edgar and Rev. J. A. Transur, the present pastor. The first superintendent of the Sunday- school connected with the church was Stephen Lee, and the present superintendent is Lyman Engler. The church property is valued at $2,000.

Emanuel Church .- This church is about half a mile southwest from Dorrance Corners. It was built by the Lutheran and Reformed societies and occupied jointly by them. The corner stone was laid and the church dedicated according to the usages of the two denomina- tions. It cost about $3,000. It was dedicated by Rev. Messrs. Day and Cline.

The Reformed church was organized at the school- house at Dorrance Corners about 1850. The members at that time were Daniel Bougliman, John and Elias Keiner, Jonas and John Searfoss, Peter Erbb and Daniel, Wil- liam, Adam and Thomas Moyer. Rev. J. Shelhammer was their first pastor and remained about twelve years. He was succeeded by Rev. Messrs. Solomon, Henry Hoff- man, Cline and John McClemens in succession. The present membership is 80. The first Sunday-school su- perintendent was S. H. Holleker; there were 40 mem- bers. The Sunday-school is under the superintendence of A. Guldin, and averages 60 pupils.

The Lutheran church was organized at Schlear's store in Dorrance, with A Guldin, Henry Schenbread, Ble- man Morgan, Henry Hoffman, Solomon Spade, Nicholas Hildebrand and Samuel Snyder as members. The pres- ent membership is 60. The first Sunday-school super- intendent was George Moore, and there were 35 scholars. The present superintendent is Simon Erbb. There is an average of 60 scholars.

GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL RECORD,

BLACK CREEK, BUTLER, FOSTER, HAZLE AND SUGARLOAF TOWNSHIPS, FREELAND, HAZLETON, JEDDO AND WHITE HAVEN BOROUGHS.

SAMUEL BENNER.

Samuel Benner is a native of Coventry, Chester county, Pa., and was born October Stli, 1816. He is a surveyor, land agent and farmer. He married Miss Susannah Buff, of Butler township. Mr. Benner was tor- merly a foundryman, and was justice of the peace several years.

F. M. BRUNDAGE, M. D.

Frank M. Brundage, M. D., assistant surgeon of the 9th regiment na- tional guards Pennsylvania, was boru iu Conyngham, Pa., August 18th, 1851, and married Miss Ella M. Young, of Lebanon, Pa. He is a practic- ing physician at Conyngham.

AUGUST DONOP.

August Donop, of Freeland, was born in Bremen, Germany, August 23d, 1829. He is a bookkeeper and dealer in real estate, and lias held all the offices in Foster township. His wife was Margaretha Myers, of New York.

HON. G. W. DRUM.

Hon. George W. Drum is a native of Conyngbam, and was born March 12th, 1832. He is now a farmer. Mrs. Drum was Miss Sarali A. Wagner, of Conyngham. Mr. Drum served as justice of the peace nineteen years, and was a representative in the Legislature for 1879 and 1880.

S. D. ENGLE.

Stephen D. Engle, whose scientific and mechanical inventions have given him a national if not a world-wide fame, was born iu Sugarloaf township, Luzerne county, Pa., December 18th, 1837. When youug he enjoyed no other advantages for education than were afforded by the common schools of that day, but he has been an inveterate reader, es- pecially of scientific works, and has thus acquired rare intelligence. Since arriving at maturity he has been a resident of Hazleton, in his na- tive county, where he inarried a daughter of Joseph Grenawalt, Esq., a wealthy and public spirited citizen of that borough. When the rebels entered Pennsylvania in 1863 Mr. Engle served with the "emergency nien " until the soil of his native State was no longer pressed by hostile teet. Mr Engle's father was a watclimaker as well as a farmer, aud the subject of this sketch became the leading watebinaker and jeweler of Hazleton. He also studied and for a number of years practiced dent- istry in connection with his business as a jeweler. One of liis iuventions is "Engle's Patent for Securing Porcelain Teeth to Gold or Silver Plates." The " Association for the Protection of the Rights of Dentists" officially approved this device and hastened to secure an assignment and abandonment to the public of the patent. Auother invention of in- trinsic worth is " Engle's Dust Proof Watch Case," affording such pro- tection to the movement as would not now be dispensed with by manu- facturers of the best watches. The first astronomical, musical and apostolic clock ever built in the United States was invented and built by Mr. Engle, and it has never been equaled in automatic wonders, or in the scientific accuracy of the astronomical mechanism. So absorbed was Mr. Eugle in the planning and construction of this clock that he atter- wards wrote to a friend : " During the last year before its completion I had no night or day, but slept when I was sleepy and ate when I was hungry, without any regard to old Sol." It was perhaps fortunate for him that lie was a disciple ot Nimrod and Izaak Walton, tor without the recreation found in his hunting aud fishing excursions lie would probably have succumbed long ago to an excess of brain work and confinement to rooms filled with machinery, crucibles, metals and acids. Captain Jacob Reid has exhibited this clock to crowded houses in every part of the country and Canada. A description of this grand piece of mechanism, with its forty-eight moving figures, its movements illustrating day and night, changes of seasons, ebbing and flowing of tides and other plienomena, cannot here be given. Suffice it to say that everywhere the press was loud in its praise. While Joel Cook, Esq., one of the editors of the Public Ledger, of Philadelphia, was visiting Strasburg in 1878, lio saw the renowned Strasburg clock, and in liis book entitled " A Holiday Trip to Europe" he makes the following comparison : "The Engle clock, which has been exhibited in Philadel- phia, is not so large, and yet docs all that this clock does, and much more, and does it better." The latest invention of Mr. Eugle is " Engle's Tellurion." For illustrating celestial as well as terrestrial phenomena this is far in advance of any apparatus hitherto constructed. It is the

only apparatus yet in existence that shows the true motion of the earth around the sun in an actual ellipse. The parallelism of the axis is at all times preserved and all the plienomena of the changes of day and niglit and of the seasons, the greater length of time the sun remains nortb than south of the equator, etc., etc., are clearly shown. This instrument shows the length of the day and night at any season of the year in any latitude, as well as the heavenly constellations visible at any hour in any and every season of the year. The moon is seen in its gibbous and crescent phases as well as with a full enlightened hemisphere and in total darkness, its place being in a mask or hollow hemisphere with the convex surface thereof black. This invention has attracted the atten- tion of astronomers and teachers, and it is believed that nearly all the best institutions of learning in the land will possess themselves of it when it becomes an article of manufacture and sale. Parties have en- deavored to negotiate with Mr. Engle with a view to the manufacture of this improved tellurion, but the inventor has thus far been engaged during his leisure moments in considering further improvements in tbe machinery and has not entertained any of these propositions. Stephen D. Engle is universally recognized by his neighbors as an upright, bon- orable and kind-hearted man. No case of suffering or distress ever came to bis knowledge without enlisting bis sympathy, and to awaken his sympathy is to opeu his purse strings.

GEORGE HUGHES.

George Hughes, of Hughesville, was born in Danville, Pa., February 18th, 1811, and married Barbara Shidey, of Butler, Pa. He is a farmer, miller and lumberman.

ALFRED MCMURTRIE.

Alfred McMurtrie, a native of Sugarloaf, was born August 22nd, 1820. His wife was Saralı Atin, of Upper Mount Bethel, Pa. He was lieuten- ant in the Stockton Artillerists in 1846, bas been school director for several years, and is the present town auditor. John McMurtric came from New Jersey and settled in Sugarloaf iu 1808.

J. L. SHUMAN, M. D.

J. L. Shuman, M. D., the only physician at Wapwallopen, was born April 1ltli, 1854, in Mainville, Pa. In the spring of 1874 he commenced reading medicine with Dr. D. H. Montgomery, of Mifflinville. He grad- uated trom Jefferson College, and located at Wapwallopen, where he has an extensive practice. His father, George Sliunnan, was born Novem- ber 24th, 1806. Dr. Shuman's wife was Miss Frances E. Heller, daughter of A. Heller, Esq., who was born in 1813.

NATHAN SNYDER.

Nathan Snyder, farmer, was born October 31st, 1816. His wife was Miss Rachael Yost, of Butler.

P. V. WEAVER.

Philip V. Weaver, attorney and counsellor at law in Hazleton, was born in Black Creek township, Pa., March 11th, 1855.

S. D. YOST.

S. D. Yost, formerly a merchant and at present a farmer, was born in Sugarloaf township, December 3d, 1837. His wife was Miss Maria San- tee, of Butler township. He held the appointment of revenue store keeper of the 12th district of Pennsylvania for two years, ending Oeto- ber 234, 1878.

WILLIAM AIREY was born at Beaver Meadow. Pa., May 18th, 1842. Ilis wife was Miss Lizzie B. Simmons, of Stockton, Pa. Mr. Airey was lieu- tenant in Company A 28th Pennsylvania volunteers, and was wounded at Chancellorsville, Va. He is now superintendent of coal muiues at Stockton, Pa.

E. A. ALBEE, a resident of Lehigh Tannery, Carbon county, was born in Hunterdon county, N. J., August 30tli, 1833. Mrs. Albee is of Foster towuslip.

ROBERT C. ALBERTSON, of East Haven, Carbon county, was born in Sussex county, N. J., November 2nd, 1812, and in 1836 was married to Miss Sally Ann Bratz, of Pocono township, Monroe county, Pa. Mr. Albertsou served as a captain in the militia four years, and has been a member of the borough council of White Haven six years, and treasurer of the borough three years. He has been engaged in Iminbering.

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JOHN J. BAKER, jr., is a druggist of White Haven, and a councilman of the borough. He was born in West Philadelphia, Pa., February 25th, 1856.

J. FOSTER BARBER is a dealer in and manufacturer of all kinds of hardware, tin and copper ware, on West Broad street, Hazleton. lle was born in New Berlin, Pa., December 3d, 1842.

JOHN A. BARTON, a member of the borough council of Hazleton, and chief clerk for Pardee & Co , was born March 1st, 1834, in Espy, Columbia county, Pa.

C. M. BATES, a dealer in stoves and tinware in Hazleton, was born in Light Street, Columbia county, Pa., March 18th, 1855.

IIENRY BAUM was born in Germany, September 30th, 1846. 1Ie came to America in 1850, and located in Hazleton in May of that year. In 1874 he engaged in the manufacture and sale of boots and shoes on Main street, which occupation he still follows.

A. BEHRENS, a brick manufacturer and coal dealer in Hazleton, was born in Germany, March 23d, 1816. He married Miss Lucy Jane Lyman, of Danville, Pa.

W. II. BEISEL was born at Drum's, June 19th, 1847, and married M. S. Culp, of Conyngham, Pa. He was formerly a merchant and is now a farmer.

REUBEN BEISEL, merchant at 128 West Broad street, Hazleton, was born February 11th, 1839, in Butler township. His wife was Mary H. Lawall, of Hazleton.

DANIEL BERTSCH, superintendent of mines for the Upper Lehigh Coal Company, was born in Mauch Chunk, Pa.

THOMAS BETTERLY was born in Drum's, May 5th, 1825. His wife was Henrietta Celiax, of Butler. Mr. Betterly is a farmer.

HENRY F. BIRD is a retired miller and farmer. He was born in Columbia county, Pa., February 6th, 1818, and located in Conyngham in 1841. His first wife was Margaret Davis, and his second wife Catharine Smith.

THOMAS BIRKBECK, of Upper Lehigh, was born in Foster township, June 1st, 1846, and married Miss Margaret Snedden, of Audenreid, Pa. He is a butcher and a dealer iu real estate. He enlisted July 11th, 1864, in Company G 179th Pennsylvania volunteers, and was discharged after one hundred days.

JONAS BITTENBENDER was born in Nescopeck township, August 10th, 1818, and has been township supervisor and constable. He is a black- smith and wheelwright. His wife was Miss Caroline Lutz, of Mifflin, Pa.

CHARLES BOCK was born in East Brunswick, Pa., March 19th, 1838. His wife was Sabina S. Brobst, of Conyngham. Mr. Bock was formerly a wagon maker, and is now a farmer. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1877.

SAMUEL BOWER, of Philadelphia, Pa., was born in that city, April 7th, 1833. His wife was Harriet Etta Vaughan, also of Philadelphia. Mr. Bower enlisted iu September, 1862, in Company G Gray reserves, and was discharged in October, 1863. He is master mechanic in the bureau of engineering and construction for Coxe Brothers & Co.

THOMAS BOWMAN, of Conyngham, was born in Mifflin, Columbia county, Pa., December 18th, 1808, and married Miss Mary Dunn, of Con- yngham. He is a retired farmer.

THOMAS BROWN, of Sandy Run, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, De- cember 26th, 1845. IFc is now in the mining business. He enlisted Au- gust 11th, 1852, in the 147th Pennsylvania volunteers, and served during the war. His wife was Fanny Edwards, of Jeddo, Pa.

JAMES BRYSON, formerly district attorney of Columbia county, Pa., and now practicing law in Hazleton, was born April 8th, 1845, in Phila- delphia, Pa. IFis wife was Miss Harriet A. Harder, of Catawissa, Pa.

ROBERT CARTER, JR., is a mine mechanie in Stockton, Pa. He was born in Cornwall, England, August 16th, 1845, and married Miss Mattie Airey, of Hazleton, Pa.

J. R. CASSELBERRY, a incdical and surgical practitioner of Hazleton, was born in May, 1833, in Pottstown, Montgomery county, Pa. He mar- ried Miss Amanda Brundage, of Conyngham.

F. A. CELIAX, general grocer at 8 East Broad street, Hazleton, was born in Saxony, Germany, January 28th, 1838, and married Martha Schinauch, of Beaver Meadow, Pa.

THOMAS CHARLTON, of Sandy Run, is a native of Durham, England, and was born April 4th, 1828. He is an inside inine boss. His wife was Miss Margaret Wilson.

BRADLEY CHILDS, lumberman, was born iu Stoddardsville, Deceniber 5th, 1819, and married Miss Margary S. Wilson, of Dauville. Mr. Childs was formerly a millwright.

DAVID CLARK is master mechanic of the Lehigh valley railroad shops at llazleton. Ile was born June 8th, 1821, in Stroudsburg, Pa.

REV. J. M. CLEMENS was born in New Berlin, Union county, Pa., Jan- uary 27th, 1837, and married Miss Lizzie B. Titus, of Lancaster, Pa. He is the pastor of the Reforuied church at Conyngham.

J. T. COBURN, carpenter for G. B. Markle & Co. at Oak Dale colliery, was born in Durham, England, August 10th, 1846. He enlisted August 11th, 1862, in Co. F 147th Pennsylvania volunteers, and was in the battles of Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and others. Ife married Miss Annie Koch, of Hazleton.

BENJAMIN COCHRAN, proprietor of the Mansion House, White Haven, was born in Somerset, March 17th, 1853.

COSMAR COONS is a dealer in ready made clothing at No. 20 West Broad street, Hazleton.

M. M. COOPER, a coal operator of Hazleton, was born September 22nd, 1817, in Berwick, Pa. His wife was Miss Susanna Williams, of Strouds- burg, Pa.

ROBERT COWANS, a breaker boss for G. B. Markle & Co. at Oak Dale colliery, was born in Northumberland county, England, March 13th, 1833. He married Miss Eliza Woodring, of Butler township.

ECKLEY B. COXE, the coal operator at Drifton, is a grandson of the late Hon. Tench Coxe, the pioneer coal operator of this section.

E. D. CRAMER, superintendent of the K. 1. Company, White Haven, was born in Cumberland county, N. J., May 18th, 1830. He was formerly engaged in farming.

L. B. CRELLIN, assistant agent for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com- pany, was born in White Haven, August 8th, 1855.

JOHN CUNIUS, a native of Butler township, was born October 26th, 1840. He was formerly a carpenter and joiner and at present is a dairy farmer. Hc enlisted in Co. K 13th Pennsylvania cavalry August 19th, 1862; was appointed a sergeant; was discharged July 14th, 1865, at Ral- cigh, N. C. He married Lavina Drasher, of Butler.

JOHN CUNNINGHAM, of Drifton, assistant superintendent and boss carpenter for Coxe Brothers & Co., was born in County Derry, Ireland, May 2nd, 1828. His wife was Rebecca J. Dougherty, of Coleraine, 1re- land.

B. H. R. DAVENPORT, M. D., was born in Richmond, Va., September 27th, 1841. He graduated from a medical college in Georgia in 1864, and located at White Haven in 1875. His wife was Miss Florenee Anders, of Maryland.

WILLIAM DEISROTH was born at Seybertsville, Pa., February 28th, 1850. His wife was Miss Jennie Eisenhauer, of Nazareth, Pa. Mr. Deis- roth is engaged in the grocery business at Hazleton.

PETER DERSHUCK, publisher and proprietor of the Hazleton Volksblatt, was born January 14th, 1829, in Wendelsheim, Hesse Darmstadt, Ger- many, and married Miss Mary Schwab, of Franee.

MRS. MARGARETHA DONOP, of Freeland, was born in Bremen, Ger- many, June 13th, 1833. She was the owner of the site of Freeland.

HENRY J. DONOP, of Freeland, was born in Hoboken, N. J., December 13th, 1858. He is now station agent and telegraph operator at Jeddo.

ERASTUS S. DOUD was born in Madison, Conn., July 29th, 1849, and married Miss Ella A. Chace, of Seranton. He is eashier of the Hazleton Savings Bank.

G. F. DRIESBACH is a wholesale dealer in liquors, dry goods, groceries, flour and feed at 37 East Broad street, Hazleton. He was boru in Beach Haven, Pa., November 11th, 1840, and married Augusta H. Whitehall, of that place.

JOSIAH DRUM was born at Drum's, April 13th, 1830, and married Maria M. Balliett, of the same place. He is now a merchant.

GEORGE DRUM was born at Drum's, December 2nd, 1827. His wife was Emma Fritzinger, of Butler. IFe is a farmer and proprietor of Drumn's IFotel.

GEORGE W. DRUMHELLER, farmer, was born in Sugarloaf township, July 14th, 1834. His wife was Miss Hannah M. Knelly, of Sugarloaf town- slip. Mr. Drumheller is a constable.

HENRY DRYFOOS was born in Kudenberg, Germany, in 1833. He is a real estate broker of Hazleton.

PROF. A. B. DUNNING, JR., is the principal of the graded school at White Haven, having located there in 1878. He was born at Scranton, Pa., March 26th, 1853. Ile graduated as a civil engineer from the Starkey Seminary, Yates county, N. Y., with the highest honors of his class.

CHRISTIAN ERNST was born in Fredewalt, Germany, June 10th, 1835, and married Susan Adeline Belford, of Foundryville, Pa. Mr. Ernst is a farmer. Ile enlisted March 14th, 1864, in the 96th Pa. volunteers, and was discharged July 5th, 1865. IFe was wounded at the battle of Spot- sylvania Court-house, Va.

GEORGE C. FARRER, of Freeland, teacher of academic branchies, was born in Orwell, Pa., March 25th, 1846. His wife was Kate A. Boston, of Berwick, Pa.

O. D. FOWLER was born in Pike, Delaware county, Pa., August 19th, 1843, and married Miss Anna V. King, of Stockton, Pa. He is now super- intendent of mines at Humboldt.

LEWIS FREDERICK, farmer, a native of Rockland, Berks county, Pa., was born January 15th, 1841. He enlisted iu Company E 96th Pa. volun-

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teers, October 14th, 1861, and served through the civil war. 1fc was in the battles of Spotsylvania, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Fred- icksburg and Bull Run. His wife was Miss Rachael Driesbach, of Black Creek.

OWEN FRITZINGER, of Freeland, was born in Heidelberg, Pa., Septem- ber 11th, 1837. He is a carpenter for Coxe Brothers, of Drifton. He was eleeted in February, 1878, as one of the town councilmen for three years, and also school director in 1879. His first wife was Rebecca Woodring, of Butler, and his present wife Sarah Hess, of Hollenbaek township.

R. B. FRUIT, a physician and surgeon of Hazleton, graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in the spring of 1854. He located in Hazleton in 1852. He was born in Jersey township, Columbia county, Pa., Au- gust 12th, 1827. He married Miss Jane Longshore, of Hazleton.

JOHN GETTING, farmer, residing at Conyngham, was born in Sugar- loaf, March 15th, 1823. llis first wife was Miss Sarah leimbach. His present wife was Miss Hannah Marie Snyder, of Sugarloaf. Mr Getting has been seliool director of that township.

J. E. GILES entered the service of the United States August 1st, 1861, as a private in the 8th Pennsylvania cavalry, and was mustered out Sep- tember 28th, 1864, as Ist lieutenant, having participated in 58 battles. He was born at Cayuga Falls, Ohio, September 7th, 1841. His wife was Miss M. J. Fruit, of Jerseytown, Pa. Mr. Giles is now a jeweler.

HENRY GILMORE, a native of Butler, was born August 31st, 1823, and married Mary M. Durst, also of Butler. He was formerly a millwright and earpenter, but is now a farmer. He was elected justice of the peace March 1st, 1862, and has held every office in the township. He was eap- tain of the Butler Artillerists in 1861.

WILLIAM GOER, of Freeland, was born in Monroe county, Pa., Janu- ary 25th, 1844. He is a blacksmith and earpenter. His wife was Mary Jane MeIntosh, of Wilkes-Barre.

I. GOODMAN, groeer, Freeland, was born in Northumberland eounty, Pa., October 23d, 1823. His wife was Sarah Schurter, of Schuylkill county, Pa.

EDWARD D. GOODMAN, laborer, Freeland, was born in Schuylkill county, Pa., January 17th, 1859.

JOHN A. GORMAN was born in Hazleton, September 7th, 1854. His wife was Miss Ellen Kelly, of Hazleton. He was formerly a teacher, but is now au attorney aud eouuselor at law in Hazleton.

GEORGE D. GORMAN, general dealer in dry goods and groceries at 37 and 39 West Broad street, Hazleton, was born in that village, November 3d, 1848.

REV. G. T. GRAY, pastor of the M. E. church in Hazleton, was born in Center eounty, Pa., in 1831. His wife was Miss Aliee A. Mullin, of Cum- berland county, Pa.

W. G. GREGORY, farmer, is a native of Union township, and was born July 27th, 1847. He has been inspector, auditor and assessor. He mar- ried Miss Susan Roberts, of Black Creek township.

CHARLES GRIM was born in Roekaway, N. J., in 1844, and married Miss Josephine Good, of Jeansville, Pa. He is chief of the coal and iron police force of Hazleton.

ABRAHAM GULDIN was born August 9th, 1811, in Exeter, Pa., and is a farmer and lumberman. His first wife was Susan Weaver, of Amity, Pa., and his second Mrs. Susannah Markle, of Black Creek, Pa.

FREDERICK HAAS, proprietor of Harmony Hall at South Heberton, was born in Germany, Mareh 11th, 1830. He keeps a hardware store and shoe shop. His wife was Ann Elizabeth Noth, of New York eity.

BENTON HAVER is a foreman in the mines at Drifton. He was born in Dallas, Pa., January 4th, 1851, and married Elizabeth Miller, of Drifton.

J. C HAYDON was born in Philadelphia, in December, 1833. He is en- gaged in eoal mining at Jeansville, Pa., where he also has large machine shops.

HENRY HELD was born in Saxouy, January 30th, 1833, and married Miss Anna Link, of Germany. He is a liquor dealer at Hazleton.

MILTON HELLER, the barber at Freeland, was born in Jeddo, April 3d, 1856.

J. F. HELT was born September 11th, 1852, in Shamokin, Pa. He has been a township constable. He is a manufacturer of bootsand shoes at Falls Run. His wife was Miss Lovina Roberts, of Black Creek.

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History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming counties, Pa.; with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers, Part 72

Author: Munsell, W.W., & Co., New York Publication date: 1880 Publisher: New York, W.W. Munsell & co. Number of Pages: 900

Author: Munsell, W.W., & Co., New York
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: New York, W.W. Munsell & co.
Number of Pages: 900