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January 1, 1756, died June 1, 1847, and was buried in the old Mennonite Ceme ery between Coopersburg and Center Valley, in Lehigh county, as was also his wife, Barbara (Mayer) Landis, born in October, 1759, died April 7, 1844. They were living in Lower Saucon township, Lehigh county, in 1790. David Landis, grandfather of William D. Landis, of Northampton county and borough, was a substantial farmer of Bucks county, and born about 1810. He married Susan Jacoby, and they were the parents of eleven daughters and two sons, ali of whom reached adult years, a thirteenth child dying when young. The older of the two sons was David J. Landis, who is of further mention.
David J. Landis was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in December, 1850, and there grew to manhood, later settling in Northampton county, locating at Hellertown, where he engaged in the green grocery business for several years. He then entered the employ of the government, and for several years was engaged in public work at South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, finally purchasing a farm near Hellertown, where he is living a quiet, retired life. Honesty and devotion to his family have ever been strong characteristics of the man, and he has won his place in county life in a fair and honorable man- ner. He is a Republican in politics and a member of the Evangelical church of Hellertown. He married Elemina E. Hillegass, born at Hellertown, daugh- ter of David Hillegass, a one-time commissioner of Northampton county, and one of the well known Democrats of the county. Mrs. Landis is a member of the Evangelical church, a woman of strong Christian character. Mr. and Mrs. Landis are the parents of seven children, three daughters and four sons, to whom the parents gave all the educational advantages within their power. William David, of further mention; Edgar S., who died August 10, 1918, a well known educator and school superintendent ; Carrie, married John Kress- ler, and resides near Ironville, Pennsylvania ; Florence, married Harvey Bau- der, and resides at Hellertown, Pennsylvania ; Annie, married Clayton J. Judd, and resides at Hellertown; Robert C., also an educator; Stanley B., who stands high in the same profession.
William David Landis, eldest son of David J. and Elemina E. (Hillegass) Landis, was born at Hellertown, Pennsylvania, February 24, 1876. He began his studies in the public schools and attended the Hellertown and Lower Saucon township schools until their advantages were exhausted. He then entered the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown, and continued his attendance there until graduated with the class of 1898. The following years were spent in post-graduate study at Kutztown State Normal, where he pursued a scientific course until graduation with the degree of M.S., class of 1901. In 1917 he received from Muhlenberg College the degree Ph.B. These years were not devoted solidly to acquiring his own education, but from 1891 he taught in the county schools, his first position being at Shimersville, where he taught for two school years, his compensation being thirty-two dollars monthly. His next school was at Wassergass, where his pay was increased to forty dollars; then came Leithsville, two years; Emaus, in Lehigh county, where he was principal of the high school for four years. In 1905 he was appointed supervising principal of Northampton public schools. In 1907 the Board of Education created the office of superintendent of public schools for the borough of Northampton, and to that post called Mr. Landis. For ten years he has now filled that office, and how well he has filled it the splendid Superintendent Landis has under his
efficiency of the schools must attest. jurisdiction five schools employing forty-five teachers furnishing instruction daily to 1,651 pupils. While he devotes himself unreservedly to his work, Mr. Landis is himself a student, not only of methods, theory and practice, but is a personal student, belonging to classes, and is taking the non-resident graduate course at Albright College, Myerstown, Pennsylvania, which, when completed, will confer upon him the degree Master of Arts. Broad-minded,
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progressive, public-spirited and devoted to his profession, he is the ideal edu- cator, and will go far. He is in the forefront of every movement for the public good, and his interest is deep in the borough and its institutions; with which he has been so long connected.
Professor Landis was one of the incorporators and is a director of the Allen Trust Company of Northampton; is affiliated with Chapman Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Northampton; Siegfried Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is a past high priest; Allen Commandery, Knights Tem- plar, of Allentown; and Lulu Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Patriotic Sons of America, of Northampton; both lodge and encampment of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows; of Rebekah Lodge, Order of the Eastern Star; and of the Evangelical church of Hellertown.
CHARLES JENNINGS MONTAGUE-Now located in ample quarters at Nos. 237-239 Northampton street, Easton, Mr. Montague is head of a pros- perous business, the largest of its kind in the city of Easton. He has been connected with the book and stationery business since July 10, 1876, when, as a boy of thirteen, he entered the employ of William Maxwell, whom he succeeded in business at the latter's death, twenty-six years later. Forty-three years have elapsed since the boy entered the Maxwell store, and the changes have been many, but the love of books that distinguished the boy has not changed, and the veteran bookseller preserves that boyhood interest in spite of all changes of time, method and environment.
Charles J. Montague is a descendant of Peter Montague, born in Boveny, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, who, when eighteen years of age, came from England to the American colonies, settling in Virginia, where he established a home and founded a family. He was a man of character and ability, and he expanded into a citizen of influence and usefulness. He aided in establishing the first church and the first school in the colony of Virginia, and was called to various positions of honor and responsibility.
Peter Montague, the founder, was succeeded by his son Peter (2) Mon- tague, to whom he bequeathed large tracts of Virginia land located on the Rappahannock river. He was born in Nansemond county, Virginia, in 1631 or 1632. He married Elizabeth Morris, and was succeeded by his son Peter (3) Montague in 1666, died in 1702. Peter (3) Montague was the father of Thomas J. Montague, whose second wife, Penelope, bore him a son, William. That William Montague was born June 14, 1730, and lived in Middlesex county, Virginia, married Carhune Montague, daughter of Abraham Mon- tague, and had a son, William (2).
William (2) Montague was born about 1756, served in the Revolutionary War, and was wounded in an engagement on Chesapeake bay. He married, January 14, 1790, Elizabeth Valentine, daughter of Edward Valentine, of Augusta county, Virginia, and lived near the village of Montague, Virginia. They were the parents of a son, William Valentine Montague.
William Valentine Montague, head of the seventh generation of the family, was born September 3, 1797, married, in December, 1824, Mary Ann Barrack, and in 1828 moved to Norfolk county, Virginia, thence in 1829 to the town of Norfolk. His wife died September 24, 1840, and he married (second) Esther Hatton, a widow, and moved to Princess Anne county. He died in' Norfolk, Virginia, in 1865, his wife surviving him but one year.
Robert Valentine Montague, son of William Valentine Montague, and his first wife, Mary Ann Barrack, was born at Montague, Virginia, Septem- ber 28, 1827. He was a graduate of William and Mary College, and until the failure of his health in 1855, and his enforced removal to the North, he was active and prominent, filling several public positions. In 1855 he moved with his family to New York City, and later to Easton, Pennsylvania, where
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he made his home until his death, April 4, 1866. He was assistant postmaster at Easton during most of his stay, and in that, as in other trusts, he worthily acquitted himself. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a Republican in politics, and a man of high personal character.
Mr. Montague married, in Virginia, June 28, 1847, Margaret Elizabeth Robertson, daughter of John and Ann Robertson, of Princess Anne county, Virginia. They were the parents of ten children, the first three born in Virginia, the fourth in New York City, the others in Easton, Pennsylvania : Elizabeth Virginia, born in February, 1848, married Dr. E. L. Evans; Mary Lewis, born in February, 1850, died May 14, 1894, wife of Prof. J. J. Hardy, of Lafayette College; Helen Walker, born July 4, 1851, died June 22, 1871, wife of J. Wesley Evans; William Barrack, born April 17, 1854; Robert John, born December 25, 1856; Alice Josephine, born September 4, 1858; Harry Howard, born August 6, 1860, died August 26, 1860; Frank Leslie, born October 6, 1861 ; Charles Jennings, of further mention; Lelia Virginia, born September 22, 1865, married Frank E. Crater, of Easton. Mrs. Mar- garet E. Montague was a woman of strong character and amiable disposition, who, when left with limited means and a large family of children, gave her- self without limit to their service, kept them together, gave them each an excellent education and lived to see them all well established in life and in homes of their own. She died February 14, 1894, her youngest child then twenty-nine years of age.
Charles Jennings Montague, youngest son and ninth child of Robert V. and Margaret E. (Robertson) Montague, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1863, and there yet resides, a substantial merchant. He was but three years of age when his father died, and at the age of twelve he left school to aid in the maintenance of the home. On July 10, 1876, he entered the employ of William Maxwell, and there he found not only congenial occu- pation and the means of increasing his educational equipment, but also a lifetime occupation. The Maxwell store was devoted to the sale of books and stationery, and while the work was close and confining, the lad had abundant opportunities for reading and study, his good sense leading him to improve them to the fullest extent. He formed a strong attachment for his elderly employer, and as Mr. Maxwell advanced him in rank and compensation the position was a very pleasant one. As Mr. Maxwell increased in years, he leaned more heavily upon his assistant, and in time Mr. Montague was vir- tually managing the business. On January 1, 1902, Mr. Maxwell having passed away, Mr. Montague purchased the business from the estate, and is still its able head. In 1907 he removed from the old location to more ade- quate and suitable quarters at Nos. 237-239 Northampton street, the larger store enabling him to carry larger and more varied stocks of books, stationery and kindred lines. The Montague store is the largest, best equipped and stocked bookstore in the city, and the building it occupies is owned by its proprietor. He is one of Easton's substantial, enterprising citizens, and is held in high esteem for his manly, upright character, and his pleasing personality.
Mr. Montague is a member of Easton Lodge No. 152, Free and Accepted Masons; Easton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Pomp Council, Royal and Select Masters; Hugh de Payen Commandery No. 19, Knights Templar ; Rajah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Read- ing, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Montague married, June 7, 1888, Mary A. Siegfried, and they are the parents of four children : Charles Leslie ; Lelia Virginia, married Donald A. Geiser, of Easton, now an instructor at Germantown Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of a daughter, Jane Montague Geiser ; William Maxwell, died October 6, 1906; Louise, residing with her parents.
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FRED ERASTUS WARD, M.D .- Immediately after his graduation in medicine in 1906, Dr. Ward went West and spent one year in hospital prac- tice in Wyoming. It was not until 1909, however, that he returned to his native Easton and began the general practice of his profession. During the years which have since intervened, Dr. Ward has won a high degree of public favor, and is numbered among the most skillful and successful of the younger generation of physicians. Dr. Ward is a grandson of Michael Ward, who for many years was proprietor of the historic "Bull's Head Tavern" on Third street, and one of the substantial men of his day. Michael Ward was the father of Benjamin Ward, born in Jacobsburg, Pennsylvania, who for many years was a merchant of Easton, Pennsylvania, where he took a prominent part in civic affairs, and aided in founding St. Luke's Lutheran Church of that city. He married Permilla M. Hawk, and they are the parents of Fred E., whose career is herein traced.
Dr. Fred E. Ward was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1882. He finished public school study with graduation from high school, class of 1899. He spent two years at Lafayette College, but withdrew upon the completion of his sophomore vear to begin professional study at Medico- Chirurgical Medical College of Philadelphia. He continued at Medico-Chi- rurgical College until graduated M.D. with the class of 1906, then for one year was resident physician at Wyoming General Hospital, Rock Springs, Wyoming. He returned to Pennsylvania in 1907, and located in Berwick, there remaining two years. In 1909 he took a post-graduate course at Har- vard Medical School, and the same year located permanently at Easton, the city of his birth, where he is well established in general practice. He is a member of the Northampton County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and the medical staff of Easton Hospital.
Dr. Ward is a Republican in politics, and prior to the inauguration of the commission form of government in Easton was a member of Common Coun- cil. He is the present public school medical inspector, and gives close atten- tion to the duties of that office. He is a member of Knapp Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Easton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Pomp Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Hugh De Payen Commandery, Knights Templar ; Rajah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and in Scottish Rite Masonry has attained the thirty-second degree; member of Tall Cedars of Lebanon, of which he was grand tall cedar for 1919, and a past senior and junior deputy. His religious affiliation is with St. Luke's Lutheran Church, his college fraternity, Phi Rho Sigma, his clubs the Pomfret and Northampton Republican.
On April 2, 1907, Dr. Ward married Ruth B. Williams, daughter of Dr. Cyrenius and Margaret (Barndt) Williams. Mrs. Ward was born in Easton, and is a graduate of the city high school, is a member of the Ladies' Auxiliary of Easton Hospital, and is active in Red Cross, church and charitable work. Dr. and Mrs. Ward are the parents of four children: Frederick Williams, Robert Benjamin, Ruth Katherine and Jane Louise.
RICHARD J. LIPPEY-With rented bench room and a capital of less than five dollars, Richard J. Lippey began business in Easton as an independ- ent patternmaker, a trade of which he is master. He offered his services to the trade as a maker of patterns, and to that offer there was instant response. So well has he pleased those who have availed themselves of his skill that the demand has necessitated frequent expansion, until he has today a plant invest- ment of about $20,000, and the distinction of operating the only exclusive pattern-making shop in Northampton county. He is a grandson of James Lippey, an officer in the British army, who died in England about 1857, and a son of Richard Lippey, born in 1848 on the Isle of Wight, an island and an administrative county of England in the English channel.
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trustees. His family hold membership with the South Presbyterian Church, Easton. In politics he is a Republican, serving his city at the present time (1918) as a member of the school board. He is a member of Dallas Lodge No. 396, Free and Accepted Masons; Easton Forest No. 35, Tall Cedars of Lebanon; Lehicton Lodge No. 244, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; Easton Encampment No. 138, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Canton Lafayette No. 22, Patriarchs Militant; Charity Lodge No. 3, Daughters of Rebekah, for nine years its treasurer and degree master; Heraclius Sancto- rium, Oriental Order of Humility and Perfection; Amana Lodge No. 77, Knights of Pythias; the Historical Society of Northampton county; the Rotary Club of Easton, Pennsylvania; the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion of Easton, one of the most active members of the last-named organiza- tion. He has passed the chairs of the subordinate lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the chairs of the Pennsylvania Grand Encampment of the order, and is senior ranking officer of the Department of Pennsylvania, and yet Brigade Commander, an office he will relinquish to become depart- ment commander. He was appointed to the high honor of Supreme Mon- archas of the Oriental Order, and assumed office August 16, 1919.
During the period of the United States' participation in the World War, Mr. Lippey took a leading part in various activities of the government and authorized relief organizations, his services especially valuable in the five Liberty Loan drives, and acknowledged by a gratifying letter of appreciation from the officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. His citizen- ship is progressive and disinterested, and his enthusiastic support is a depend- able factor in all enterprises for civic betterment.
Mr. Lippey married, in Easton, December 27, 1900, Katie Ferguson, of that city. They are the parents of six children: Evelyn M., a high school student ; Kenneth E .; Irene Ethel; Florence, deceased; Russell, deceased ; Grace Edith. The family home is a fine double dwelling, No. 1039 Lincoln avenue, which Mr. Lippey built in 1903.
GEORGE BELFORD SHERRY-As proprietor and manager of the Easton Brass & Machine Works, Nos. 143-151 Ferry street, Easton, Mr. Sherry is reaping the benefit of former years of experience and study. He is complete master of his business, and to the practical knowledge gained in shop, foun- dry and mill, he adds the learning of books and technical college study. The Easton Brass & Machine Works deal in wrought iron pipe, fittings, valves, injectors, brass and bronze castings, there being little in the way of mill machine supplies the works cannot supply. Mr. Sherry established his plant in 1901, and has conducted it very successfully until the present.
He is a son of George Sherry, born in Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1816, died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, May II, 1893, a general contractor. George Sherry married Susanna Wilhelm, of Easton, born there in 1826, died May 27, 1888. They were the 'parents of nine children, three of whom are living: Ira C., of Waukegan, Illinois, the oldest living Lehigh Valley con- ductor ; George Belford, of Easton; Samuel, of Bethlehem. George Sherry was a son of John Sherry, who died at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania.
George Belford Sherry was born at Hackelbernie, a small mining village near the city of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1853. His early years were passed in Hellertown, Northampton county, Pennsylvania. His first school teacher was Philip B. Lerch, a schoolmaster of the old school who spared not the rod. The school over which he ruled was held in an old brick one-room building, board benches for seats, and the equipment meagre. Later he attended a school in Bethlehem, taught by O. R. Wilt, who later became superintendent of public instruction for Northampton county. Later in life he met Mr. Wilt (now deceased) and making himself known to the old schoolmaster, he recalled old times and whippings the older man had admin- istered. He asked Mr. Wilt how he would like to take him on, and was met
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by the reply, "Nothing doing." Schooldays ended for the lad at the age of fifteen and business life began. His first position was as newsboy on the Lehigh Valley trains between Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and Waverly, New York. He next was employed in the shops of the Bethlehem Iron Com- pany, coming under the personal management of John Fritz, then superin- tendent of the plant. In 1877 he left the Bethlehem Iron Company for the shops of the Lehigh Valley railroad in Easton, then under the then master mechanic, John I. Kinsey. He remained in the Lehigh shops until 1890, then assumed the management of the machine shop and foundry of Young & Slough, on Ferry street, Easton. From 1893 until 1896 he was in the testing laboratory of Lafayette College under Prof. J. M. Porter. In 1896 he organ- ized the Easton Foundry & Machine Company, of which he was general superintendent until 1901, when he established his present business under the trade name, Easton Brass & Machine Company, of which he is sole owner and general manager. He was formerly treasurer of the Easton Merchants' Ice Company ; is a director in the Northampton Building & Loan Associa- tion; director of the Doyle & DaCosta Wire Company, of Easton; director of the Third Street Theatre Company and Northampton Amusement Com- pany, which operates the Star Theatre; director of the City Ice Company ; treasurer of the Pure Distilled Water Ice Company ; and director of Quako Bottling Company, of Easton.
In politics, Mr. Sherry is a Republican, and in 1905 was elected a member of Common Council from the Second Ward by an unusually large majority. He was baptized in 1865 by Bishop Potter, of New Jersey, in the faith of the Protestant Episcopal church, and is an attended of Trinity Episcopal Church in Easton. He is a member and past master of Dallas Lodge No. 396, Free and Accepted Masons; Easton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Pomp Council, Royal and Select Masters; Hugh De Payen Commandery, Knights Templar; Philadelphia Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; Rajah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ; Columbia Lodge No. 139, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Easton Eyrie No. III, Frater- nal Order of Eagles; Easton Council No. 984, Fraternal Patriarchs of America; Easton Board of Trade; Victor Drum Corps; and Pomfret Club.
Mr. Sherry married (first), in Easton, June 2, 1882, Harriet Beidler,
Mrs. Rev. J. F. Shepperd, pastor of the Presbyterian church, officiating. Sherry died August 28, 1889. Mr. Sherry married (second), September 18, 1901, Emma Engler, daughter of John and Nellie Engler. They are the parents of a son, Rufus G., born in Easton, July 18, 1902. He was a student at Pennsylvania Military College, Chester, Pennslvania, Phillips Exeter Academy, now at New York Military College, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Mrs. Sherry is a member of the Episcopal church, is deeply interested in Red Cross work and other movements, charitable and philanthropic.
HENRY IRVIN STAHR-Henry Irvin Stahr, pastor of the Christ Re- formed Church at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, comes of a family long associated in clerical charge with the church. At least three generations of the Stahl family have given members to the ministry. Mr. Stahr's father has been in the ministry for more than forty years, and a brother of his grandfather was pastor of a Pennsylvania church for almost three decades.
Henry Irvin Stahr was born November 6, 1880, at Lockhaven, Clinton county, Pennsylvania, and is the son of Isaac S. and Hannah Camilla (Apple- bach) Stahr. At least three generations of the Stahr family have resided in Pennsylvania ; John Star, grandfather of Henry I. Stahr, was a public school teacher in early life, and later a farmer, and a brother of his, Samuel Stahr, was for twenty-seven years pastor of the Durham Reformed Church, Durham, Pennsylvania.
Isaac S. Stahr, father of Henry I. Stahr, was born on May 23, 1845, and was a teacher in the public schools of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, for eleven
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years before he entered the Eastern Theological Seminary at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He graduated in the class of 1877, and immediately secured appointment to the Lockhaven Reformed Charge, leaving there in 1884 to become pastor of the Oley Reformed Charge, and there he has remained ever since. That he is an able minister may be inferred by the fact that for thirty- five years he has been held in one charge. His church at Oley is a prosperous one and in the richest farm section of Bucks county. He is still very active, and much beloved in the community. He married Hannah Camilla, daughter of Henry and Sarah Jane (Ely) Applebach, of Applebachsville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Her father was born November 28, 1818, and married August 29, 1848. He was an enterprising man, and with his brother Paul did much to develop the village of Applebachsville. The brothers dealt extensively in horses and cattle, and of course also farmed, purchasing in 1847 a tract of 377 acres, upon which had been built, in 1837, one of the first country seats in the upper end of Bucks county. In 1848 the brothers commenced the erec- tion of other buildings; they established a hostelry, and eventually a village grew up, chiefly owing to their enterprise and energy. When a post-office was established there, the village was given the name of Applebachsville, in honor of its founders, and Henry Applebach became the first postmaster. His daughter, Hannah Camilla Applebach, mother of the Rev. Henry I. Stahr, was reared in the village. Eventually she graduated at the Moravian schools of Nazareth and Bethlehem, and later attended the College for Women, at Allentown, from which institution of the Reformed church she in due course graduated. She died July 2, 1915, and the following excerpt from an article regarding her published in one of the newspapers of the locality following her death, indicates the esteem in which she was held in the town in which she passed so many years of her life, as the wife of the Rev. Isaac S. Stahr. The article, in part, read: "If ever a woman testified by the whole of her life and devotion to the worth and strong influence for service and blessing to Christian culture in family, church and school, the life of Mrs. Rev. Isaac S. Stahr, of Oley, Pennsylvania, was a beautiful testimony." She had been the wife of the Rev. Isaac S. Stahr for thirty-eight years, they hav- ing been married on June 16, 1879, and for more than thirty years they had lived in Oley, where all of their children were reared. Of their five children, four survive, namely: Sarah Jane, who married Charles L. Glase, of Oley, Pennsylvania; Mary Cornelia, who is unmarried, and is at present a teacher at the Reading High School, and is a graduate of Dickinson College; Camilla Belle, who is a graduate of Wilson College, and lives at home with her father , and Henry Irvin, the subject of this article. The other son, John Nevin, died in infancy. One other distinguished member of the Stahr family is the sub- ject's uncle, Dr. John S. Stahr, brother of Isaac S. He was the president of the Franklin and Marshall College from 1890 until 1912. He was a graduate of that institution, and throughout his academic life was a member of the college faculty, eventually becoming its president.
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