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COMPANY C
(Mustered in July 3d, 1863; mustered out August 7th, 1863)
Capt .- Joseph P. Cotton.
Ist Lieut .- Charles F. Chidsey; 2d, Thos. M. Andrews.
Ist Sgt .- Joshua R. Bercaw; Sgts., Wm. T. Rundio, John H. Heckman, George G. Rambo, Jacob C. Mixsel, Silas Hulshizer (promoted to sergeant-major July 3, 1863).
Cpls .- John A. Innis, John H. Yohe, James W. Wood, William J. Biery, Nico- demus Wilson, Jacob Sandt, James A. Petrie, Benj. A. Loder.
Musician-Joseph B. Campbell.
Pvts .-- Jacob August, Henry Bercaw, Wm. Biery, James B. Brunner, George Bachman, Henry L. Bunstein, Franklin Bower, Tilghman Brish, Alfred B. Black, John W. Campbell, Erwin Eckert, James J. Edmonds, Jonathan Fly, Jacob Gary, John B. Grier, Charles D. Horn, Andrew Hoffman, Wm. Hoffman, Charles Hyde, John W. Horn, Wm. Houser, Williams Hopkins, Wm. H. Horn, David Kelso, John Kiffle, Jacob Kramer, Charles C. Keller, John W. Keller, Simon H. Kester, Alfred Lynn, David K. Messinger, James Middaugh, Isaac S. Moser, George H. Minnick, John Morghen, Isaac Pixley, Jacob Person, David M. Plumley, Charles R. Phillips, Isaac Riley, John Riley, Wm. H. Stultz, James H. Stites, Thos. J. Shield, William F. Small, Thos. F. Shipe, Frank Schlabach, Wm. H. Sigman, Francis Sigman, Samuel C. Seiple, Jacob S. Wilson, William Walton, Jacob Welser, Erwin C. Wickhoff, Jacob W. Weaver, Thomas Yelverton.
COMPANY D
Capts .- Wm. H. Thompson, promoted to Lieut .- Col. July 3, 1863; Jacob Hay. Ist Lieut .- Isaac Fine, Jr .; 2d, Howard R. Hetrick.
Ist Sgt .- Wm. H. Weaver; Sgts., Samuel D. Crawford, Adam A. Lahn, James S. Sigman, Wm. H. Unangst.
Cpls .- Charles M. Ludwig, Ernst W. Snyder, Wm. Miller, Lafayette Sox, Daniel Conklin, Augustus S. Templin, Jacob Burt, T. S. McLeod.
Musicians-Abraham Fowler, James McGowan.
Pvts .- J. F. R. Appleby, Jeremiah Anglemoyer, George H. Bender, John D. Bowers, Wm. Q. Brotzman, Wm. D. Brown, Rush H. Bixler, Wm. H. Butz, Edw. D. Bleckley, Wm. Brinker, Edw. Butz, John Bush, Robert Cottingham, Jr., Charles T. Cole, Charles Deshler, James Deshler, Lewis C. Drake, George Drinkhouse, James Donnelly, Valentine Diley, Jas. Fownfelder, Owen Garis, John A. Gerhart, Stephen Hines, Alvin Harris, Andrew J. Hay, James Hackett, Isaac P. Hand, Charles Hem- mingway, William Houch, Joseph L. Hance, C. Edward Illig, Evan Knecht, Edw. Keller, Thomas J. Kolb, Amos Kunsman, Francis King, Stephen Laubach, Charles W. Meeker, John Z. Moyer, Reuben Moyer, John Menual, Charles B. Notson, John F. Opdyke, Alfred P. Reid, Samuel Rader, Edw. Snyder, Clement Stewart, Henry B. Semple, John M. Seals, Samuel Sigman, Henry N. Schultz, Emelius S. C. Schmidt, John Shaffer, Aug. L. Steuben, Joseph Vanorman, Henry W. Wilking, Thos. J. Weaver, Theo. F. Woodering, Henry C. Wagner, George Wolf.
COMPANY E
Capt .- Edward Kelley.
Ist Lieut .- George G. Hutman; 2d, James Tarrent, discharged date unknown; Charles B. Zulick.
Ist Sgt .- John Wilson; Sgts., Patrick Shine, Eph. Stiner, Robert Arnold, Joseph Snyder.
Cpls .- Jos. Saritz, Jacob Arnold, Wm. Shick, Wm. Osmun, Daniel Black. Musicians-Wm. Major, John Schooley.
Pvts .- John Bittenbender, Anthony Brunner, Patrick Boyle, Wm. H. Cornell,
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John Cummiskey, Alexander Colbatte, Edw. Demsey, Timothy Dawes, Jacob Dean, John Donnovan, Frederick Fry, Allen Ginginger, Stephen Gross, Jacob Hartzell, Hiram Hackman, Luther Horn, George W. Horn, John Herman, George Johnson, John King, Jacob Knoblock, Peter Kelchner, Frank Ludwig, Edw. Lewis, John May, Hugh E. Major, Daniel Medler, John Noe, John Pettinger, Richard Person, Wm. Ran- dolph, George Smith, George Sweeney, Josiah Woolbach, William Wright, George Walsh, James Whitesell, Wm. Wheeler, Charles H. Wochrle.
COMPANY F
Capts .- Thomas L. MeKean, promoted to major, July 3, 1863. Henry Huber. Ist Lieut .- William H. Kline; 2d, William N. Scott.
Ist Sgt .- Samuel Laird; Sgts., John Murray, Daniel Laubach, Samuel Cortright, Alexander E. Robinson.
Cpls .- William H. Omrod, Alvin J. Hufford, John Wolfram, Herman A. Pohl, Henry W. Wilhelm, Samuel Arndt, William Elliott, Franklin L. Terry.
Musicians-Emanuel Wilhelm, Thomas A. Martin.
Pvts .-- William C. Aten, Labourn Aldridge, John Billings, Lewis Bloss, Reuben Briesh, Thomas Boyce, Hiram Buss, Thomas Buss, Henry Bachman, Henry Basset, Israel Briggs, Samuel Cosner, William Cheston, John Clark, John Cheston, Samuel Chamberlain, Andrew Dietz, James Duncan, Joseph Dodd, Jamcs Dereemer, Samuel Dull, Andrew Elliott, Henry Freyberger, Henry Foster, Augustus Goclity, Joseph Goodear, Alexander Gillian, William Galloway, George Hubbard, Thomas Hanlin, William Hampton, Job Henry, William Hyle, George Hartzell, Nicholas Hartwin, A. G. Ibach, John Koch, Peter Kleckner, John Kemery, Josiah Kohl, George F. Kimball, Wilson Lesher, John Miller, Charles Menninger, Frederick Mayer, John McKelvey, Amos McNeil, Thomas Mclaughlin, Andrew Mclaughlin, John Price, Josiah Poe, Martin Pohl, William Pendegrass, John B. Roberts, Joseph Rupell, Charles V. B. Rinker, John Rice, Chas. Saylor, Joseph Siles, Adam Styers, Emanuel R. Shilling, Oscar A. Singer, Harman F. Shuler, Thomas Shannon, Andrew Tsnir, Stephen Tag- gart, George Vanscoter, John Vogle, John Wilhelni, William Wolfram, David Weber, William Waltman, John Weiss, John R. Young, John Young.
COMPANY G
Capt .- William Otto.
Ist Lieut .- William Mutchler, promoted to Adjt., July 3, 1863, William F. Schatz; 2nd, William H. Ginnard.
Ist Sgt .- Charles Eichman; Sgts., Levine F. Leibfried, Reuben Schlabach, Obadiah Huebner, Joseph A. Ginnard.
Cpls .- John Hensler, George Arm, Rudolph Babp, Jeremiah Dietrich, George Hensler, William Steckle, George W. Wagoner, William L. Ricker.
Musician-William Barnes.
Pvts .- Stewart Altamus, George Brinker, Jacob Bower, George H. Bcam, Howard Bowers, John Berkey, Daniel Butler, Joseph Brinker, Richard Beitel, Leonard Breidinger, William A. Conahay, Richard Clewell, George Davenport, Charles W. Dickson, William Denning, Charles Dittler, John Dewalt, Christian Dittler, Joseph Flad, Tilghman Fehr, William H. Fehr, Alfred Frey, Franklin T. Grube, Albert H. Good, Jeremiah Hellick, Jacob Hensler, Christian Hartman, Reuben Hines, Lewis H. Hamman, Jacob Keiper, Jr., John L. Keiter, Henry Kciper, William F. Keller, Jonas F. Kindt, Jacob Kratzer, Henry Leidy, John Leidich, Elias B. Lynn, Jas. Mutchler, Charles Medler, Traill T. Murgesser, George B. Nace, Joseph L. Ochs, Edmund A. Oerter, John Percival, Jacob Plattenberger, John Rupp, Jonas Reeser, Robert Rollan, Samuel Reesc, William Snyder, Edward Smith, Neander D. Seigfried, John H. Santce, Edw. Siegfried, William H. Thomas, John Wolle, Clemens Wcisenbach, Reuben Willour, Edwin Werner, Wm. H. Werner, Joseph Weiner, Jonathan Nander, John P. Young, Thomas J. Zorn.
COMPANY H
Capt .- Christian Kroehl.
Ist Lieut .- David Bless; 2d, James McGloin.
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Ist Sgt .- John P. Hay; Sgts., Samuel Bruch, Edw. Troxel, Levinus Transue, Jona. J. Carry.
Cpls .- Lewis Eckert, Charles Knapp, Dan'l Hunt, Geo. W. Barrow, Frederick Takhe, Patrick Kaegan, Henry Froelich, Nicholas Lingeman.
Musicians-Franklin Leidy, Jacob Bitzer.
Pvts .- Theodore Bauer, Charles A. Barrow, Adam Bacher, Andrew J. Bunstine, Felix Bachman, Daniel S. Crawford, Samuel Dutt, Benj. Deep, Cyrus Flony, Martin Faulstich, Jacob Goether, Sith Grawford, John Garis, Daniel Hartzog, William Hel- rick, John Hensler, George H. Hare, David W. Huber, Michael Herther, Jacob L. Hay, Meisinger Kutler, Jos. Kobb, Edw. B. Leibensperger, William Lcibensperger, Charles Miller, Geo. Miller, John Miller, John Moutz, Adam Ruff, Thomas Rothrock, Joseph Reese, John Straub, Edwin Sandt, Adam Schickley, Frederick Steckley, Jacob Schickley, Edw. Smith, Charles Stump, Patrick Swany, Frederick Troxel, Richard Templin, Jesse Walter, Joseph Walter, Levi Wagner, John Woolbach, William E. Well, Solomon Walter, Charles Youson, William Yutz.
COMPANY K
Capt .- Augustus F. Heller.
Ist Lieut .- Daniel Phillips; 2d, Tilghman Brong.
Ist Sgt .- Henry L. Arndt; Sgts., Adam H. Lane, Samuel Stem, Burton Burrell, Solon Phillips.
Cpls .- John H. Richards, Valentine Vanorman, George E. Seiple, Andrew J. Knauss, Wm. Richards, Martin ikchline, Peter Campbell, Jacob Bryson.
Musicians-Philip Bruch, Edward Barnet.
Pvts .- Wm. Brady, Nelson Bishop, John I. Bell, Peter H. Barnes, Thomas Bishop, George H. Barron, John H. Bruch, Henry C. Barnet, Geo. H. Barnet, Francis Buck, Charles Barnet, Wm. Bewcaw, John Barnet, Wm. H. Drake, Alpheus Frey, Edward Frey, Joseph Green, Robert E. Godshalk, Wm. P. Gould, Peter German, John Grotz, Henry Heller, Edw. Heckman, Wm. Heckman, Alfred Hart, Charles Hillman, Westley Howell, Wm. H. Hartzell, Edw. Jones, Wm. Kresler, Peter Mulhatan, Alex- ander Reichard, Oscar Rohn, Thomas J. Roberts, Leander Roberts, Edw. Roseberry, Edw. Ricker, James Raub, Wm. Raub, Robert Roling, John H. Swab, Roseberry Seip, John H. Sciple, John Slone, Wm. B. Titus, Wm. Trin, Samuel Unangst, George Wor- man, Charles W. Weber, Robert Youlles, Joseph Young.
THIRTY-FOURTH REGIMENT-MILITIA OF 1863
One company from Northampton county. Regiment mustered in June 3, 1863; out, August 24, 1863.
COMPANY D-RAISED IN BETHLEHEM
(Mustered in June 3, 1863; discharged 24, 1863.)
Capt .- William C. Stout.
Ist Lieut .- Wm. H. M'Carty; 2d, Henry Shelly.
Ist Sgt .- David O. Luckenbach; Sgts., Wm. S. Sieger, Orlando B. Desh, Henry Hildebrandt, Wm. A. Erwin.
Cpls .- Reuben O. Luckenbach, Lewis R. Huebner, Bernard E. Lehman, Albert Kampman, Francis E. Huber, David Rau, Oliver Pearson, Herman Reihman.
Musicians-Orlando Harris, John C. Hagen.
Pvts .- George Anewalt, Isaiah Bossard, John W. Brown, Christian H. Belling, Albert Belling, Milton Beahm, John Brennan, Wilson Buss, George L. Baum, Heinrich Brinkman, Morris A. Borhek, Frank S. Bender, Clement Bealer, Wm. H. Bigler, A. Commenus Clauder, James B. Carey, Peter W. Cortwright, Lewis P. Clewell, George J. Desh, Henry E. Daster, Edmund Doster (promoted to Quartermaster July 3, 1862), Edward Erwin, Charles W. Erwin, Francis E. Fenner, Aug. R. Fickardt, Wm. Frank- enfield, Christopher Grimes, George W. Gross, Robert M. Gormley, Elias Good, Mol- ton Huth, Morris T. Hope, Wm. Heller, Ephraim Hillman, Theopilous Haman, Gran- ville Henry, Edwin G. Klose, Wm. Kleckner, Marcus Krause, Cornelius W. Krause,
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Albert M. Kern, Joseph Keiper, John Lerch, Frederick List, John Lee, John Matthews, James O. Miksch, Jas. R. McCurdy, Robert Peysert, Joseph Peters, Robert H. Parker, John Pullon, Wm. H. Rice, Henry C. Raw, Frederick J. Rice, James K. Rauch, Solo- mon B. Reinhart, Benjamin Swartz, Jas. Sieger, A. E. Stultzenbach, Osborn T. Smoy- keffer, Benjamin Steinberger, Matthew Schmidt, Manassas Seiple, Abraham S. Schropp (promoted to Adjt. July 31, 1863), Jos. H. Traeger, Thos. Taylor, Gerhart Thomas, Edward Weldon, Harrison Willmot, Nathan Weiss, John P. Wetherill, Milton F. Weaver, John F. Walp, Rufus Y. Yerkes, Hiram C. Yohe, Henry Young, Charles Ziegenfuss.
As showing the amounts paid in bounty-money to soldiers, and for substitutes during the war, the following is extracted from a local newspaper of that time :
"The amount of local bounties, paid in the various sub-districts in Northampton county for volunteers and substitutes, is as follows:
"Easton
$120,732.00
"South Easton
39,700.00
"Allen (township)
20,605.00
"Bethlehem (Borough)
81,365.00
"Freemansburg
20,335.00
"Bethlehem (township)
66,603.00
"Hanover
9,540.00
"Bushkill
23,136.00
"East Allen
36,081.00
"Bath
15,200.00
"Forks
20,936.00
"Palmer
41,080.00
"Lehigh
84,985.00
Lower Nazareth.
45,710.00
"Lower Mount Bethel.
73,088.00
"Moore
54,525.00
"Plainfield
56,027.00
"Saucon
165,172.00
"Upper Mount Bethel.
85,829.00
"Upper Nazareth
25,380.00
"Nazareth (Borough)
22,585.00
Williams
85,060.00
"Total amount paid in the county
$1,193,674.00"
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CHAPTER XIX
THE LAST HALF CENTURY
The last fifty years of development of Northampton county has been the greatest in her history ; the encouragement of infant industries have brought forth a golden fruit that have enlarged her resources and peopled her terri- tory with a busy hive of industrial workers and the results of their handiwork are scattered broadcast throughout the world. The natural resources of the county have been devoloped so that they surpass any other region of the State ; sixty per cent. of the county's production of roofing slate comes from the Bangor valley and is of the finest quality, and a recent demand for structural slate for domestic and sanitary use has greatly increased the output of the quarries.
Cement is now one of the larger industries of the United States; statistics show that Northampton county produces thirty-five per cent. of the amount manufactured in the country. In the so-called Lehigh region, which is almost entirely within the confines of Northampton county, in the year 1918 36,000,000 barrels of high-grade Portland cement, in accordance with govern- ment official report, were manufactured. Brown hemalite ore, ochres, clays and sand exist in large quantities and are important industries. The quar- ries of marble and soapstone have been developed and successfully worked. The diversified manufacturing industries producing a great variety of articles from the steel armor of the battleship to the most delicate lingerie, all aid in enhancing the wealth and prosperity of the county.
The last half century in Northampton county presents in historical value only an increase in population and wealth. The county as a unit in the affairs of the nation as well as in that of the commonwealth performed her part. At the close of the Civil War the manufacturing industries of the county were in a primitive condition ; then was inaugurated the era of greatest development of the county's natural resources and the encouragement of those busy hives of industry that peopled the manufacturing centers. These industrial developments brought wealth and prosperity to Northampton county ; if she had depended on her agricultural resources alone she would not at the present day occupy the position she now holds among her sister counties. The rapid growth of the manufacturing districts has built up the stability of the county, has enhanced her taxable property so she has been enabled to construct schools of education, to disseminate religion, to propagate appliances and inventions for the satisfaction and welfare of the community. The townships devoted to agricultural development at the time of the Civil War had reached the zenith of their population and when not reinforced by other industries than those of the soil have gradually in each decade decreased in population.
The advance in educational facilities in the county has been marked with progress and rapid growth. The popularity of Lafayette College, seated at Easton, to which institution the citizens of the county have always been lib-
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eral subscribers, is evidenced by its enrollment of seven hundred students and its equipment with departments in every branch of science and literature. Within a radius of twelve miles at Bethlehem is situated Lehigh University, a college for technical education, with an enrollment of seven hundred stu- dents. These two notable institutions of learning, supplemented by the Moravian College and Seminary at Bethlehem, Nazareth Hall at Nazareth, with a number of private, preparatory and parochial schools, makes North- ampton county a center of learning, culture and education.
The first notable national event that the people of Northampton county were called upon to take a part in was the Spanish-American War. It was on February 16, 1898, when the naval disaster at Havana, Cuba, occured, resulting in the sinking of the Battleship Maine. Throughout the length and breadth of the land the cry went forth. "Remember the Maine." The country's ultimatum was handed the Spanish government April 20, 1898, which was immediately followed by the President's call for 125,000 volunteers. Pennsylvania's assign- ment was ten regiments of infantry and four companies of heavy batteries. An enrollment office was opened in Easton, April 22, 1898, and seventy-one young men of the city enlisted, also thirty-three from South Easton.
Then came Dewey's victory at Manila Bay and an additional call by the President for 75,000 volunteers. Northampton, county readily filled her part of Pennsylvania's quota, which was dispatched to the regimental camps of the newly created army. Easton organized a military company known as Easton City Guards, having on its muster roll sixty-three men, with a reserve list of twenty-three. Dr. B. Rush Field was elected captain and on his pro- motion to major, Fred R. Drake became his successor.
The destruction of the Spanish fleet and the surrender of the Spanish army at Santiago virtually closed the war, and though the Pennsylvania regi- ments did not take an active part on the fields of warfare, their number was decimated by diseases contracted in the southern mobilization camps.
At the battle of Santiago fell a noble son of Northampton county. Charles A. Wikoff was born in Easton, March 8, 1837. At the breaking out of the Civil War he enlisted in Company H, First Pennsylvania Volunteers. Soon after this enlistment he was commissioned as first lieutenant and later pro- moted to captain. At the battle of Shiloh he suffered the loss of an eye. Captain Wikoff, at the cessation of hostilities, joined the regular army ; he was assigned to the Twenty-fourth Regiment, U. S. A., September 21, 1866, and on April 25, 1869, was transferred to the Eleventh Regiment. He received his promotion as major December 7, 1876, became a member of the Fourteenth Regiment, and was made lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-second Regiment January 29, 1897. Colonel Wikoff was assigned to the command of the Ninth, Thirteenth and Twenty-fourth Regiments of the regular army June 20, 1898. This command formed the Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army Corps of the army of invasion of Cuba.
It was on the morning of July 1, 1898, that Colonel Wikoff's command received marching orders to move forward in the direction of Santiago. The brigade's advance was exposed to incessant fire from the Spanish forces. Colonel Wikoff, in advance of his command, received a mortal wound, with out doubt from a Spanish sharpshooter. The bullet entered his right side,
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ranged downward, touched or passed just under the heart, coming out on the other side. One-half hour after he received his death wound the United States forces captured San Juan Hill.
Since the Civil War, Colonel Wikoff was on constant army duty in the West, and only a few days before his death his wife, who was Miss Susan Meixell of Easton, arrived in her native city from Fort Crooke, Nebraska.
Colonel Wikoff lies buried in the cemetery of his native city, a suitable monument marking the spot. Though but little is known of him personally in Easton, on account of his enlistment as a young man in the Civil War and his after-life in the regular army removed him from the recollections of his former associates, they, however, all revered him for his loyalty to his country and his bravery in battle.
More than a decade of years rolled away when Northampton county was again called upon to mourn the loss of another veteran of the Civil War-one who was prominently identified with the business life, the social life and the political life of the county. The sad news went forth December 7, 1912, that General Frank Reeder had thrown off the cares of this world for an abiding- place in the world beyond.
General Reeder was born in Easton, May 22, 1845, the youngest son of Governor Andrew H. Reeder. He attended school at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and while in the senior class of Princeton University in 1862 enlisted for the emergency in Pennsylvania in the Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment. He was at this time only seventeen years of age, and in October, 1862, entered the One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, and on November 20, 1862, was appointed adjutant of his regiment. He served on the staff of Generals Peck and Vogdes until August 7, 1863, participating with the Tenth and Eighteenth Army Corps in operations in eastern Virginia, North Carolina and in the movements against Charleston, South Carolina.
After being mustered out of the service he began recruiting for the Nine- teenth Pennsylvania Cavalry and was commissioned captain October 19, 1863. He served with his regiment and as judge advocate of General Grierson's Cav- alry Corps, also as assistant adjutant-general of the Seventh Division. He took part in several battles with the enemy, was slightly wounded at Cypress Swamp, April 2, 1864, and at the battle of Nashville he led a successful charge, had three horses shot under him, and was himself wounded in the side. For bravery in action he was brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel.
After the completion of the Nashville campaign his regiment was ordered to Mobile, Alabama, and being relieved from staff duty, being the senior offi- cer of the regiment, he was placed in command. He received his commission as lieutenant-colonel January 26, 1865, and after the surrender of the rebel forces in Alabama his command was ordered to the Red river. Upon the sur- render of the trans-Mississippi forces the regiment was stationed on the line of the Rio Grande river. Colonel Reeder returned with his regiment to Phila- delphia, where he was finally discharged from the United States service June 13, 1866.
With this brilliant military record Colonel Reeder was, at its expiration, only a month older than the legal age of manhood. Returning to civil life he prosecuted his law studies at Albany, New York, and was admitted to practice
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March 2, 1868. He at once located in New York City in the practice of his profession, where he remained until the autumn of 1869, when he returned to Easton, and, in connection with his brother Howard J. Reeder, formed the law firm of Reeder & Reeder. His legal duties, however, did not lessen his interest in military life. He was appointed brigadier-general in the National Guard of Pennsylvania, commanding the Fifth Brigade, Second Division, July 24, 1874. General Reeder also took an active interest in politics; he was collector of internal revenue for the eleventh district of Pennsylvania from 1873 to 1876, secretary of state 1895 to 1898, and a member of Governor Hastings' cabinet. Three sons survived him: Andrew H. Reeder, Frank Reeder and Douglass W. Reeder.
The nation again made a peremptory call to arms in the spring of 1917. The Continental War that had been raging for over two years had reached such a condition of affairs that threatened the peace and happiness of the citi- zens of the country, and it became evident that the United States must take her place in the defense of the rights of humanity. Northampton county was thus called upon again to give of her population and wealth for the upholding of those principles which are the foundation and soul of every republic. To every call made upon her citizens the responses were patriotically and bravely met. Many of her sons made the supreme sacrifice, while others were maimed for life, her citizens responding to the financial aid of the government. The war between the Allies and the Central Powers is of so recent occurrence that it does not become the part at present of local history. The statistics and facts have to be thoroughly sifted to render a comprehensive and valuable record of events. There was, however, one son of Northampton county who gained the highest distinction and honor.
Peyton Conway March was born in Easton, December 27, 1864, the second son of Francis Andrew and Mildred Stone (Conway) March. His father, the well-known philologist, was of Massachusetts parentage, a gradu- ate of Amherst College. He fitted himself for a legal life, studied law and practiced that profession for a short time, but came to Lafayette College in 1855. The following year he was appointed adjunct professor of English liter- ature, and two years later professor of the English language and comparative philology, which is claimed was the first time that the English classics in the light of modern philology was co-ordinated with that of Greek and Latin. Professor March was connected with the faculty of Lafayette College over fifty years and was made emeritus professor in 1907. He was recognized not only at home but abroad as one of the foremost philologists of the world and the finest Anglo-Saxon scholar of his day. These paternal natural character- istics were inherited by his sons. To-day they occupy prominent positions in the educational world. Francis Andrew March followed in the footsteps of his illustrious sire; he has been a member of the faculty of Lafayette College for nearly forty years and fills today the professorship of English language; Thomas Stone March, since December 1, 1911, has been state inspector of schools for the State of Pennsylvania; Alden March is editor and president of The Press, published at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; John Lewis March has been a mem- ber of the faculty of Union College, Schenectady, New York, since 1904; and
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