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Mr. Fetter married, September 29, 1868, Amanda Getz, Rev. Lewis Hubner officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Fetter had no children of their own, but the beauti- ful home at Prospect and Second avenues, which he built in 1892, well knew the voice of children, four having been therein reared and treated as the chil- dren of the owners. These children are now: Mrs. William Bender (née Getz), a cousin of Mrs. Fetter ; Fred Getz, a brother of Mrs. Bender ; Margaret Eberman, daughter of Rev. Clarence and Ida (Getz) Eberman, the latter a sister of Mrs. Fetter, the former a Moravian minister of Lancaster, Pennsyl- vania, who was left both fatherless and motherless; and Bertha Tallon, who married Norman Ludwig, who is now in the United States Army. Mrs. Ludwig again returned to Mrs. Fetter and the old home. Mrs. Fetter is a woman of womanly grace and charm, highly esteemed in the social circle in which she moves and abundant in good works. She is very active in the charitable and ladies' aid activities of the Moravian church.
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GEORGE B. GREEN-Now nearing octogenarian honors, George B. Green reviews a long and active life spent mainly in his native Easton, which is yet his home. Without early educational training he started out to make his own way, and there has been no time in his life since the age of six years when he has been dependent upon anyone. He ran errands, set up pins, kept a hotel, ran a tenpin alley, drove a huckster wagon, drove a team, bought stock, and by every honest means has fought his way. Together with four brothers he marched away in answer to President Lincoln's call, and his record as a soldier is one of honor. He comes from the old M. J. Green family, founded by William Green, who came to America from England at the age of twenty years and landed in Philadelphia. Later he was found on Long Island, New York, and there he married Joanna, daughter of John Reeder. About 1700 he moved to Ewing township, Mercer county, New Jersey, where he purchased three hundred and forty-five acres from Col. Daniel Coxe, the deed bearing date 1712. On this purchase he built the first brick house in Ewing township, and the west gable of that house yet bears in plain figures the date of erection, 1717, and the house is still owned in the family name. William Green became one of the first judges of Hunterdon county, New Jersey, and otherwise was prominent and useful. His grave- stone in Ewing church yard gives his death as in 1722. George B. is a son of Moses Green, born in New Jersey, a farmer and teamster, who settled in Easton, Pennsylvania, after his marriage to Sarah Schooley, and there died at the age of seventy-five years.
George B. Green was born in Easton, September 26, 1839, the family home being on what is now Sixth street, just in the rear of the old Mount Vernon Hotel. He was never sent to school, but ran errands from the time he was six years of age, earning a few cents, and three weeks comprises all the time he ever spent in a schoolroom. The Dutcher butcher shop was opposite his home, and there he spent a lot of his time getting his meats for his services around the shop. Later he set up pins, going on at eight o'clock and working until midnight, for a weekly wage of $1.50. He did other work and became a keen, self-reliant young man, living in Easton until his enlist- ment in the Union Army in September, 1861. He went to the front a private of Capt. Seymour's Battery C, Fifth Regiment, United States Regular Army, and served three years, winning promotion to the rank of corporal, then to that of sergeant. In the same battery were three of his brothers, and a fourth brother served in another branch of the army, making five sons of one family who wore the blue in that trying period of our country's history. When his term of enlistment expired in September, 1864, George B. Green returned to Easton.
For eleven years after the war he was proprietor of the Star Hotel, Easton, and for the last seven years of that period was owner of the property. He sold the property about 1876, and bought a bowling alley on Northampton street, the same one on which he formerly worked as pin boy. He ran those alleys for four years, then sold out and accepted a position on Easton's police force. Seven years later he resigned and bought the bowling alley under the Easton Trust Company building, running that alley for several years. He followed several plans of earning a livelihood during the next few years, then engaged in huckstering, drove a lumber wagon, and turned his hand to any- thing which promised to return a profit. About 1900 he began stock dealing, attending sales in the country and purchasing cows, horses, sheep and hogs, or anything in the live stock line for which he could later find a market.
During one of the furloughs which he spent in Easton while a soldier, Mr. Green married in Washington, New Jersey, Eliazbeth Hoffman, born in Easton in 1840, died there December 7, 1895, daughter of Henry Hoffman, then living near Belvidere, New Jersey. They established a home in Easton at once, and the young husband returned to the army. The maintenance of
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that home was always his first consideration, and in Easton they ever resided. Mr. Green is a member of Lafayette Post No. 17, Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Junior Order United American Mechanics. His political action is strictly independent. Children : Ferdinand, who died in 1898; Anne, married (first) Thomas Carr, (second) Harry Shickp; Sarah, married William Poff, of Easton; and Frank, a resident of Easton.
PAUL EDGAR SCHWARZ, M.D .- Dr. Schwarz was born in the city of Easton, July 26, 1891, fifth of the thirteen children of Paul G. and Anna (Voight) Schwarz. He was educated in the Easton public schools, finishing and graduating with the high school class of 1909. He entered Jefferson Medical College, and was graduated thence M.D., class of 1913. The same year he was appointed chief interne to Easton Hospital, and in 1914 resigned to serve as physician to the Pennsylvania State Sanitarium for Tuberculosis at Reading, there remaining eighteen months. In 1916 he returned to Easton, and has since been successfully engaged in practice in his native city. He is a member of the medical staff of Easton Hospital, and chief of the anesthetist department, also having his own private practice. He is a member of the Northampton County Medical Society, Lehigh Valley Medical Society, Penn- sylvania State Medical Society, American Medical Association, and Easton Physicians' Protective Association. Dr. Schwarz is a Republican in politics, member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Northampton Republican Club, Dallas Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, and is a patron of all healthful out-of-door sports. At college and in high school he took a leading part in athletics, and during his last two years at high school he was physical director of his class.
Dr. Schwarz married, November 24, 1915, Mary Jane Baumer, daughter of George D. and Senia K. (Butz) Baumer, of Easton, her father deceased, her mother a member of the prominent Butz family of Easton, descending from Peter Butz, who came from his native Switzerland to Pennsylvania in 1730. Mrs. Schwarz is a graduate of Easton High School, class of 1912, member of the Ladies' Auxiliary, Easton Hospital, and active in charitable work. Dr. and Mrs. Schwarz are the parents of a daughter, Jane Baumer.
EDWIN HULICK GLANZ-Of genial, lovable disposition, a delightful companion at all times, and the life of every circle in which he moved, Mr. Glanz added to these personal traits a fine business ability and a sincere desire to be of service to his fellow men. When the news of his passing was made known, regret was universally and freely expressed. Edwin H. Glanz was a son of Edwin Sherrer and Mary A. (Rinek) Glanz, and a grandson of Col. Charles and Elizabeth (Evans) Glanz, the latter the founder of the fam- ily in Easton. Col. Charles Glanz, son of Heinrich Glanz, was born in Walke- reid, Germany, in 1826, died in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1880. He was edu- cated under private tutors, and at Blankerburg College, and in 1845 came to the United States, finally settling in Easton after short experiences in Phila- delphia and Pottsville. He became prominent and popular in Easton, and in 1857 was appointed consul to Stettin, Germany, bv President Buchanan. He only remained at his post one year, then returned to Easton to care for his business interests. In 1859. Governor Packer commissioned him captain of the "Easton Jaegers," and at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 he was one of the first to respond to the president's call for men. He was commis- sioned major of the Ninth Regiment. Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, by Governor Curtin, and in August, 1862, he began organizing Northampton's famous "Own," the One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment, and in October, 1862, was commissioned its colonel. The One Hundred and Fifty-third Regi- ment was attached to the Eleventh Army Corps, under Gen. Franz Siegel, saw hard service, and at Chancellorsville, Colonel Glanz was captured by the
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enemy. He was confined in Libby prison for a time, but finally was ex- changed, although sadly broken in health and unable to continue in the serv- ice. He returned to Easton, and in 1871 was appointed chief of the fire department. He was prominent in civic and business life until his death in 1880.
Edwin Hulick Glanz was born in Easton, March 22, 1883, died at his home, No. 145 Bushkill street, in his native city, January II, 1919. His mother, Mary Alice (Rinek) Glanz, married (second) James R. Zearfoss, who died January II, 1919, she still continuing her residence in Easton. Edwin H. Glanz completed high school courses with graduation, class of 1900, then completed college preparation at Professor Lerch's School. He then entered Lafayette College, whence he was graduated C.E., class of 1904. Following graduation he entered the employ of the Zearfoss & Hilliard Lumber Com- pany of Easton, and two years later (1906) he was elected secretary of the company. He was also president of the Delaware Ice Company, and had already gained an honorable position in the business world in which he moved. He made friends easily and always held them by the charm of his personality and the uprightness of his life.
Mr. Glanz took an active and prominent part in all forms of war work and rendered efficient service in the several Liberty Loan, Red Cross, War Chest drives, and aided greatly in the campaigns to raise funds for the Easton Hospital. In politics he was a Democrat, and formerly was a member of the . city committee representing the Second Ward. He was an active member of Christ Lutheran Church, member of the church council, and chairman of the music committee. He was a member of the Easton Board of Trade, the Rotary and Pomfret clubs, and Rho Chapter, Chi Phi fraternity (Lafayette).
Mr. Glanz married, April 17, 1912, Anna M. Meeker, daughter of Charles W. and Elizabeth (Noll) Meeker, of Easton. Mrs. Glanz survives her hus- band with two children, Mary Elizabeth and Frances Louise.
REV. BERNARD J. SOMMER-From boyhood Father Sommer had a strong predilection for the priesthood, and there being no obstacles in the way, his education was begun and carried along with that end in view. He was a regularly ordained priest of the Roman Catholic church when he came to the United States, his first pastorate being the Church of the Holy Name in Dayton, Ohio, his present church being Our Lady of Hungary in North- ampton county, Pennsylvania, to which he came in 19II.
He is a son of John and Susanna Sommer, residents of Iglo, Hungary, and there Bernard J. Sommer was born May 17, 1864. He began his educa- tion in the parochial school, and later studied divinity at theological schools, finally being ordained by the bishop of the diocese a priest of the Roman Catholic church. He was in charge of churches in Hungary, and performed priestly duties in his native diocese until 1906, when he came to the United States, being then forty-two years of age, and highly recommended. He served his first church, the Holy Name, at Dayton, Ohio, as its pastor for two years, the congregation of that church being principally Hungarian in birth or parentage. His work there was highly commended, but there being need for a man of his talents and race in that great center of the anthracite coal mining industry in Pennsylvania, Schuylkill county, he was transferred by Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, to the church of Sheppton. There he min- istered to a congregation of mixed nationality for a short time, then was transferred to the church at McAdoo, a coal mining borough in Schuylkill county on the Lehigh Valley railroad. After serving the church at McAdoo for one year, Father Sommer was transferred to a parish in Reading, Penn- sylvania, there remaining until 1911, when he was appointed pastor of the parish, Our Lady of Hungary, in Northampton, Pennsylvania, a village of Northampton county, on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, thirteen miles west of Easton.
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Northampton, a busy manufacturing center, with mills, quarries and breweries, offered a fruitful field for this earnest priest, and his work in the town has been greatly blessed. His predecessor had begun the erection of a church which Father Sommer has completed, and to the church property he has added the rectory, which formerly was a rented house. He has built a large parochial school building at a cost of $50,000, containing in addition to the schoolrooms a large hall for public use. Six teachers are employed in the grades and a kindergarten teacher cares for the beginners. During the seven years he has been pastor of Our Lady of Hungary parish, he has expended about $100,000 in new buildings, while spiritual conditions in every department of the parish of two thousand souls have been most satisfactory. His is a Hungary parish largely, and upon the pastor as spiritual leader and adviser in material things a great responsibility rests. Sixteen societies or sodalities are maintained in splendid working order, including the Society of St. Peter and Paul for the men of Hungarian birth, and the Society of St. Joseph for men of German birth. Father Sommer is a man of progressive spirit and ideas, and is untiring in his zealous efforts for the uplift of his people.
TIMOTHY CLEMENTS-In faraway Manchester, England, both James Clements and his son, Timothy Clements, were born. The first named has long since gone to his reward, while the son Timothy, although past the years allotted to man, "three score and ten," is yet a resident of Easton, Pennsylvania, well known and highly esteemed. They are a long lived race, James Clements living to the age of eighty, his wife to the age of ninety-four years. Father and son were skilled mechanics, the former a machinist, the latter a moulder, a trade he followed actively for forty-two years. He is now living retired from all business, passing the evening of his life in con- tentment and ease.
James Clements was born in Manchester, England, and died in Easton, Pennsylvania, an octogenarian. He was a machinist by trade, but for many years was a stationary engineer, preferring that occupation. He married Ellen Maxwell, in England, who survived him until ninety-four years was her span of life. They were the parents of eleven children, three of whom are yet living: Timothy, of further mention; James, blacksmith of Easton'; and William, a barber of Glendon, Pennsylvania.
Timothy Clements was born in Manchester, England, April 10, 1844, and there at the age of nine years began at a boy's work in a cotton mill, wiping machinery, which was not at all suitable for so young a child. Under the English law he was obliged to attend school half of each day until twelve years of age, then it was permissible to keep children from school entirely. These half-day sessions comprised his only school opportunities, of such great account to his parents was the penny per day which he was paid when he first began these half-days as a wiper at the mill. He continued a mill worker as long as the family remained in Manchester, the removal to the United States being accomplished by the father, James Clements, in 1853, he finding a location in Easton, Pennsylvania, and at once sending for his family. They came across the Atlantic in the Black Ball liner Isaac Webb, a sailing ship, the father having crossed in the same vessel on her previous trip, only three months about intervening between the coming of the father and the arrival of his family. Seven weeks were spent in crossing, an acci- dent of the voyage yet well being remembered, a severe storm, when all passengers were kept below decks with no expectation that they would ever again see the light of day. After arriving in Easton, the lad Timothy was sent to school for a time, but soon found work in the ore mines at a wage of fifty cents daily, of which he took instant advantage. From the mines he went to the canal, driving a team of mules on the tow-path between Bucks
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Mountain and Jersey City, also driving to Philadelphia at other times. Later he left the canal and became a tender to the water-wheels at the blast fur- naces, his father being the engineer at the furnaces. He continued at that occupation until arriving at a suitable age to learn a trade, then entered the employ of the Glendon Iron Works and began learning the machinist's trade. He served one year, then was transferred to the foundry department of the works, and for three years was an apprentice to the moulder's trade. As soon as he had attained the dignity of a journeyman he left Glendon, went to Hazelton, Pennsylvania, and spent seven years there and in other parts of the anthracite coal region. He then returned to Easton, entered the employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company as a moulder in their Easton shops, but at the end of eight months returned to Hazelton, where he remained three years. In 1877 he again entered the foundry department of the Glendon Iron Works, remaining with that company until it closed its plant and went out of business. He then obtained employment with the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company as a moulder in their Easton shops, remaining there until they removed the foundry elsewhere. From that time until his retirement he was employed in various shops including the Ingersoll-Rand, Young & Slough, on Ferry street, Easton, and the Roland Firth shops at Phillipsburg. During this period he was stricken with a severe illness, and for two years was incapacitated. Upon his recovery he went to Dover, New Jersey, where he was employed as a moulder for seven years, after which he returned to Easton, where he is now living a retired life. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at the age of twenty-one, and has always con- tinued in that faith. In politics he is a Republican.
Mr. Clements married, in Hazelton, April 28, 1870, Elizabeth Griffith, of Jamesville, Pennsylvania, who died in Easton, December 1, 1909. She was a devout Methodist, a woman of strong Christian character and home making attributes, greatly beloved by all who knew her. Mr. and Mrs. Clements were the parents of eight children: I. Herbert James. 2. Mary Elizabeth, married Joseph Graff, chief engineer of telegraph and telephones, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, resides in Scranton, Pennsylvania; three children, Pauline, Joseph and Mary E. 3. Walter John, of Easton, married and has two children, Walter and Hazel. 4. Thomas Henry, deceased, mar- ried and had one daughter, Dora. 5. Wilbert Timothy, of Jersey City, married Marie Trimmer. 6. Dora Ella, married Herbert Rice, of Easton. 7. Leroy, deceased. 8. Laura, deceased.
JAMES A. MORGENSTERN, M.D .-- In 1869, Frederick Louis Morgen- stern came from Germany to the United States, aged twenty-four years. He was a skilled mechanic and became one of Easton's leading contractors and builders. He married Christina Schickley, and they are the parents of six children, James A., now a successful physician of Easton, being their fifth child.
Dr. James A. Morgenstern was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1881. He was educated in the public schools of the city and Lerch's Pre- paratory School. He then began his professional training at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Maryland, there continuing until gradu- ated M.D., class of 1907. He spent a year as interne in Baltimore City Hospital, and in 1908 began general medical practice in Easton. He is a member of the Northampton County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Medical Society, American Medical Association, of which he is a fellow, and is very popular among his professional brethren. He holds the confidence and respect of his clientele, and is well established in public regard. In his col- lege years he was fond of athletics, especially football, and in his recreations his choice is for those out-of-door sports, his particular sports being hunting and fishing. Dr. Morgenstern is a Republican in politics, a member of
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Trinity Evangelical Church, Easton Board of Trade, Phi Chi fraternity, Fra- ternal Order of Eagles, and Loyal Order of Moose.
Dr. Morgenstern married, December 26, 1912, Emily B. McCormick, daugh- ter of Thomas and Anna McCormick, of Easton. They are the parents of two children : Anna A. and Frederick Lewis.
CLEMENT STEWART-Charles Stewart, the founder of this branch of the Stewart family in America, came from Scotland in 1720 and bought a farm near Red Hill in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was a captain of Provincial troops in the French and Indian War. He died at Red Hill, May 13, 1764, his birth in Scotland bearing date of March II, 1691. Charles (2) Stewart, his son, was born in Scotland, May 9, 1716, and died at Doylestown, Pennsylvania, June II, 1789. His son, Robert Stewart, born June 9, 1733, died in Warren, then Sussex county, New Jersey, July 22, 1809. He was a man of consequence, an elector, and member of the New Jersey General Assembly. He married Sarah Johnston. His son, Thomas Stewart, born March 19, 1752, died near Stewartsville, New Jersey, December 31, 1836. He was a large land owner, a surveyor, justice of the peace, judge of common pleas, a lieutenant in the Continental army, a man widely known and everywhere respected. He married, March 19, 1778, Rachael, daughter of William Dewees, of Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania. His youngest son, John Stewart, married Elizabeth Green, and they were the parents of Clement Stewart, of Easton, who is of further mention.
John Stewart, above mentioned, was born in Stewartsville, New Jersey, September 27, 1796. After public school courses in Stewartsville, he spent a few years as a student in an Easton private school, and then entered business life. He organized the firm Stewart & Company, manufacturers of wire, and continued the head of the firm until his death. He married Elizabeth Green, born in Easton, June 28, 1800, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Traill) Green, and a granddaughter of Robert Traill, a distinguished officer of the Continental army. His wife, Elizabeth (Grotz) Traill, is mentioned in his- tory as "one of the brave women of the Revolution."
Elizabeth (Green) Stewart was a descendant of William Green, who came from England to America, a young man of twenty, landing at Philadelphia, and about 1700 settled near Trenton, New Jersey. There in 1712 he bought three hundred and twenty acres of farm land from Col. Daniel Coxe, and built the first brick house in Ewing township. He died in 1722, and is buried in Ewing churchyard. He married Joanna, daughter of John Reeder, and they were the parents of Richard Green, who married Mary, daughter of George Ely, of Trenton, New Jersey, son of Josiah Ely, who came from England, April 20, 1685, and bought four hundred acres, now the site of the city of Trenton. Richard and Mary (Ely) Green were the parents of Richard (2) Green, who married Phoebe Moore, daughter of Nathaniel and Joanna (Prudden) Moore. They were the parents of Benjamin Green, who married Elizabeth Traill, and they were the parents of Elizabeth (Green) Stewart, wife of John Stewart, and mother of Clement Stewart.
This ancestry includes many distinguished men. The Greens, being. members of the Society of Friends, did not take part in the Revolution as soldiers, yet were strongly on the Colonial side, and aided the cause of Independence by generous gifts of money and provisions for which the origi- nal receipts are in existence. When General Washington was preparing to cross the Delaware upon that fateful Christmas night he needed guides upon whose courage and fidelity he could rely. Among the three which he found to guide him from the Delaware to the British camp in Trenton was William Green, of Trenton, an nincle of Elizabeth (Green) Stewart. Rev. Peter Prudden, grandfather of Joanna (Prudden) Moore, was one of the noted men of Colonial times. He came from England with John Davenport and John
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