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a member of the school board, taking a deep interest in the growth and progress of the public schools. He is a member of the Methodist Episco- pal church, the I. O. O. F., K. of M., and R. A.
GEORGE W. HARPEL, homoeopathic physician, was born at Nazareth, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, November 12, 1849, son of Mark and Martha (Morgan) Harpel, of German and Welsh descent, respectively. Mr. Harpel was educated at the State Normal School at Millersville, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and began the study of medicine with Dr. M. H. Harpel at Shamokin, Pennsylvania. In 1879 he entered Hahnemann Med- ical College, Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1881, and began the practice of his profession at Lititz, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, the same year. In January, 1882, he located at Mt. Carmel, where he has since been in active practice. In May, 1882, he married Annie R., daughter of George and Lizzie (Kennedy) Garrett, of Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, and to this union one child has been born, Bessie E. Doctor Harpel is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and politically is a Republican.
B. F. BARTHO, physician, was born in Halifax, Dauphin county, Pennsyl- vania, July 4, 1862, son of Gabriel and Magdalena (Kessler) Bartho, natives, respectively, of Berks and Schuylkill counties, Pennsylvania, and of German origin. His father is a miller by trade, and resides in Schuylkill county. John Bartho was the father of Gabriel Bartho; the father of Magdalena Bar- tho was Michael Kessler, a pioneer of Hegins township, Schuylkill county, where he owned and improved a tract of three hundred acres of land which acquired the name of Kessler's District. It was with him that B. F. Bartho was reared, obtaining an elementary education at the public schools, after which he attended Berrysburg Academy and the Millersville State Normal School. He taught three terms of school in Schuylkill county. In 1882 he began the study of medicine with Professor H. R. Barnham, demonstrator of anatomy at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland; he entered that institution in 1884, and was graduated with honors in 1886, receiving the gold medal in gynecology. He was at once appointed resident physician to the Maryland Lying-in Asylum, Baltimore. Resigning this position in 1887 he came to Mt. Carmel, where he has since been engaged in the active duties of his profession. He is a member of the Schuylkill County and State Medical Societies, and while in Baltimore he belonged to the Med- ical Chirurgical Society. He is a member of the K. of M., and in politics is a Republican. Doctor Bartho was married, June 10, 1890, to Annie, daugh- ter of Tobias Bickel of Mt. Carmel.
WILLIAM H. LEWIS, physician and surgeon, was born in Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1860, son of David J. and Amanda (Hull) Lewis, mentioned in this chapter. He received his education in his native town, and began the study of medicine with Dr. W. T. Williams, of Mt. Carmel, in 1884. He entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania
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in 1885, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1888. He began the practice of medicine at Locust Dale, and in 1889 came to Mt. Carmel, where he has since been in active and successful practice. In politics he is Republican.
H. H. GEIGER, of the firm of Geiger, Hinkel & Company, proprietors of planing mills, was born in Port Carbon, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1851, son of Michael and Mary A. (Handwork) Geiger, natives of Berks county, Pennsylvania. Our subject was reared in Port Carbon, and served an apprenticeship of three years at the carpenter business. He worked as a journeyman up to February, 1883, when he located in Mt. Car- mel and in connection with his brother William established a planing mill under the firm name of Geiger Brothers. They operated the mill four years, and in March, 1887, William H. Hinkel and John P. Gibson were admitted into partnership, since which time the business has been conducted under the name of Geiger, Hinkel & Company. It is the only planing mill in Mt. Car- mel, and is doing quite a successful business. Mr. Geiger was married, December 18, 1888, to Lizzie, daughter of George and Catherine (Marquardt) Gwinner, of Port Carbon. He is one of the representative and well known business men of the borough.
WILLIAM H. HINKEL, of Geiger, Hinkel & Company, proprietors of a planing mill, was born in West Delaware, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1851, son of Michael and Lydia (McCord) Hinkel. His paternal grandfather, Abraham Hinkel, was a pioneer stone mason of North- umberland county. His maternal grandfather, John C. McCord, was a native of Schuylkill county and of Irish descent. He was a carpenter, wheel- wright, and cabinet maker by trade. Michael Hinkel, father of our subject, was born near Elysburg, Northumberland county, is a brickmaker by trade, but has spent most of his life working in the mines. He has been a resi- dent of Mt. Carmel since 1866, and is the father of the following children: Elizabeth, wife of John D. Frank; William H .; Daniel M .; Lydia, wife of James Gibson; Samuel; Elmer; George and Sherman, deceased, and James. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools of Schuyl- kill and Northumberland counties. After working in a machine shop six months, he learned the carpenter trade in Ashland and Shenandoah, and has ever since followed that occupation. Mr. Hinkel has been a resident of Mt. Carmel since 1866, a contractor since 1881, and a member of the firm of Geiger, Hinkel & Company, since March, 1887. On the 16th of September, 1880, he married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Henrietta (Mussina) Yar- nall, of Mt. Carmel, and to this union have been born four children: Fremont Newton; Henrietta; William, and Daniel. In politics Mr. Hinkel is a Re- publican, and is serving his second term as overseer of the poor. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., K. of M., and P. O. S. of A.
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DOMINICK OATS, contractor and builder, was born in County Roscommon, Ireland, in 1825, son of Dominick and Jane (Logan) Oats. His father came to America in 1846 and enlisted in the United States Army for the Mexican war, but whether he was killed in battle or died of disease was never known, as nothing was learned of his subsequent history. Our subject was reared in England, where his mother died. After reaching manhood he returned to Ireland and learned the carpenter trade with his uncle, and in 1869 immi- grated to this State and located at Locust Gap, where he remained about two years. He then went to Green Ridge, where he spent twelve years, coming to Mt. Carmel in 1883. He has followed contracting and building since that time, and has carried on quite a successful business. Mr. Oats married Catharine Burns, a native of Ireland, and has one daughter, Jane. The family are members of the Catholic church, and politically Mr. Oats is a stanch Democrat.
GEORGE MORSE, architect and carpenter and builder, was born in Pem- brokeshire, South Wales, December 23, 1841, son of Alexander and Jane (Llewellyn) Morse, natives of the same shire. He grew up in his native land, learned the carpenter trade, and worked there as master-builder until the spring of 1882, when he immigrated to Philadelphia. He worked there one year and then returned to Wales for his family, which he brought out in October, 1883, and located in Mt. Carmel, where he has since resided. He has followed his trade up to the present, and since September, 1887, has been foreman and architect for Bernard Harvey, the leading contractor and builder of the town. Mr. Morse has been twice married, first to Margaret Morgan, of Pembrokeshire, June 2, 1862, who bore him one son, George Arthur. She died, January 4, 1863. He was again married in April, 1867, to Mrs. Susanna Lewis, nee Thomas, of Carmarthenshire, South Wales, who had three children by her first husband: Esther J .; James J., and Henry E. By her marriage to Mr. Morse the following children have been born: Will- iam T .; Alexander; Elizabeth T .; Charles; Laura; Gertrude; Letitia; Meli- cent, deceased; Clara S., and Alfred. The family are adherents of the Meth- odist church, but originally belonged to the Church of England. Politically he is a Republican, and a member of the K. of G. E.
RUDOLPH HERB, carpenter, was born near Reading, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1842, son of John and Leah (Reddinger) Herb, natives of Berks county, Pennsylvania. His father was a farmer and spent his life in Berks county. Rudolph was reared on the homestead farm, and received his education in the common schools. He learned the carpenter trade, which he followed in Berks, Schuylkill, and Northumberland counties seventeen years. He came to Mt. Carmel in 1871, and in 1881 engaged in the dairy business, which he conducted until April 1, 1890, when he sold out and resumed carpentering. Mr. Herb was married, May 20, 1866, to Valeria, daughter of William and Susan (Shipe) Buck, of Schuylkill county. Thirteen children have been born
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of this union, six of whom are living: Alice, wife of Joseph Keiser; Matilda; Emma; Minnie; James, and Bertha. The deceased children are as follows: Willie; Valeria; Harry; Kate; Curtis; Bertha, and one who died in infancy. Mr. Herb is a Republican, and has served as constable of Mt. Carmel five . years, and in the council two terms. He is a member of the K. of M.
CHARLES E. STECKER, carpenter, was born in West Branch valley, Schuyl- kill county, Pennsylvania, in April, 1854. In 1856 he came with his father to Mt. Carmel, where he was reared and educated in the public schools. He learned the carpenter trade, but spent many years working in the mines, where he began as a slate picker, and later worked as schute boss and in the carpenter shop. Since 1887 he has followed general carpentering. He mar- ried, May 23, 1887, Susan, daughter of Nathaniel and Harriet Reader, and to this union have been born three children: Hattie; Mary A., and Florence. Mr. Stecker is a member of the P. O. S. of A., is a Republican, and has served one term in the borough council.
PETER F. KELLY, carpenter, was born at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, in 1835, son of John and Mary (McGuire) Kelly, natives of County Mona- ghan, Ireland, who came to America about 1825, and located in New Jersey. They removed from there to Harper's Ferry, Virginia, where the father worked on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. He died about 1839, leaving four children: James; John; Peter F., and Bernard. Our subject was reared in Cumberland, Maryland, and removed to St. Clair, Pennsylvania, with his mother and brothers in 1847, where he worked in the mines up to 1856. He then served an apprenticeship at the carpenter trade, which he followed up to April, 1861, when he enlisted in Company H, Ninth Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, for the three months' service, and was discharged. July 21, 1861. In September following he enlisted in Company A, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served until mustered out at Macon, Georgia, August 23. 1865. He was promoted in succession from private to corporal, then to quartermaster sergeant, and was commissioned second lieutenant at Gravelly Spring in the spring of 1865. He participated in the battles of Chickamauga, Stone River, Shelbyville, and Selma, besides many other minor engagements. At the close of the war Mr. Kelly returned to St. Clair, Schuylkill county, where he worked at his trade up to 1872, and then re- moved to Mahanoy City. In 1879 he came to Mt. Carmel, where he has since been engaged at the carpenter business in the Reliance colliery. He was married in 1867 to Mary, daughter of David and Julia Gorman of St. Clair, Pennsylvania, who is the mother of five living children: John; David; Mary; Peter, and Alice. The family are adherents of the Catholic church, and in politics Mr. Kelly is a Republican. He is a member of Burnside Post, G. A. R., and has held the office of junior vice-commander of his post.
CHARLES H. HOBSON, patentee and manufacturer of Hobson's patent lamp carriers, was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, September 27, 1845,
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son of William and Eliza (Hodgson) Hobson, also natives of England. He grew up in his native land, and there learned the house and sign painter's trade, which he followed in England until February, 1872; he then immi- grated to Minersville, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, where he continued working at his trade. In May, 1881, he came to Mt. Carmel and soon after es- tablished a business for himself which he conducted until the fall of 1889. Having in the meantime invented a miner's lamp carrier he obtained a patent for his invention, December 3, 1889, and at once began their manufacture, which business he has since prosecuted successfully. It is regarded as one of the best lamp carriers in the market, and is destined to have an extensive and permanent sale. He has also obtained patents on two improvements on the original lamp carrier that renders it still more valuable. He is also the patentee of a railroad frog-switch which dispenses with the old frog-crossing usually employed. He is now working on other inventions from which he hopes to realize good profits in the future. Mr. Hobson was married, No- vember 4, 1873, to Elizabeth Jane, daughter of George and Jane Hodges, of Minersville, Pennsylvania. Seven children have been born of this union: Effeldipha J .; Hettie H .; Charles H .; George W .; Elizabeth E .; Johanna S., deceased, and Stuart J. Politically Mr. Hobson is a stanch Democrat.
HUGH M. PHILLIPS. deceased, was a native of England and immigrated to America when a young man. He located in Schuylkill county, Pennsyl- vania, prior to 1850, and was subsequently married to Caroline Bickelman, of Pottsville. He worked in collieries at Tuscarora, Middleport, and New Phil- adelphia, all in Schuylkill county, before coming from the last named place to Shamokin, where he was boss of one of the Shamokin collieries until he removed to Mt. Carmel in 1865. He was outside foreman of the Reliance colliery from the time he located at Mt. Carmel up to his death in 1889. He was an honest, upright citizen, a member of the Episcopal church, a Repub- lican, and an Odd Fellow. He was deeply interested for many years preced- ing his death in the Building and Loan Association of Mt. Carmel. His widow, a daughter of Conrad Bickelman, resides with her son, W. H. Phil- lips. She belongs to the Methodist church. Her father was a native of Germany, a wheelwright by trade, and for many years a resident of Schuyl- kill county, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Phillips and Harriet, wife of Nathaniel Reader, of Mt. Carmel, are the only living children of Mr. Bickelman. He died in Pottsville, but for a year before his death he had spent the most of his time with his daughter, Mrs. Phillips. The children of Hugh M. and Caroline Phillips are: Martin, an engineer; Edward, a blacksmith; W. H., merchant, and Matilda, wife of Myer Kolb, an auditor of the Reading rail- road, living in Philadelphia.
W. H. PHILLIPS, hardware merchant, was born in Middleport, Pennsyl- vania, July 6, 1859, son of Hugh M. and Caroline (Bickelman) Phillips. He was educated in the public schools, and began his business life as a slate
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picker in a breaker. For several years preceding 1879 he clerked in a store, and in 1880 he was employed to manage a breaker engine at the Reliance coll- iery. This he continued until 1890, when he opened a general hardware store in Mt. Carmel, which he has since conducted with successful results. He is a member of the P. O. S. of A. and the K. of M., a Republican, and one of the progressive young business men of the community.
CLARK B. ZIMMERMAN, yard foreman for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany, was born in Shamokin township, Northumberland county, Pennsyl- vania, March 15, 1841, son of Ephraim and Priscilla (Campbell) Zimmer- man. His paternal grandfather, Michael Zimmerman, was a native of Penn- sylvania of German parentage; he removed to this county, where he engaged in farming, and died in Shamokin township. His maternal grand- father, William Campbell, was a native of Scotland, a wheelwright by trade, and quite an early settler of this county. The father of our subject was a farmer, and resided in this county up to his death at Shamokin in 1864. Two children, Clark B. and Diadem C., wife of K. T. John, are the fruits of this union. Our subject was reared in Shamokin township, was educated in the common schools and at Williamsport Academy, and commenced teaching at the age of seventeen, following that occupation eight years. At the breaking out of the Rebellion in April, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Tenth Pennsylvania Reserve, and served three months, when he was dis- charged from the service and returned to Shamokin. He re-enlisted in the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, in which he served two years and eight months, and was again discharged. He then enlisted as a veteran in Deckerd, Tennessee, and served until August, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service, and the same year located in Mt. Carmel. He clerked in the store of S. A. Bergstresser a short time, and then engaged in mining. In 1883 he was appointed assistant inside foreman at Mt. Carmel colliery, which position he held one year. In May, 1884, he entered the employ of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company as car inspector, and was appointed to his present position in October, 1888. Mr. Zimmerman was married, January 21, 1866, to Sally A., daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Keiser) Hoover, of this county. Two children have been born to them: Lorenzo B. and William H. In politics he is a Republican, has served as chief burgess of Mt. Carmel one term, and filled the unexpired term of J. B. Reed as justice of the peace. He is a member of the F. & A. M., G. A. R., K. of M., and P. O. S. of A.
WILLIAM T. BURKERT, car inspector, was born in Minersville, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, March 27, 1848, son of Thomas and Mary (Koch) Burkert, both natives of Pennsylvania and descended from two of the old- est families of the State. They located in Mt. Carmel in March, 1865, where his father leased the Mt. Carmel House and operated it three years. They were the parents of ten children, six of whom are living: Sarah; Caroline;
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Mary Jane; William T .; Emma, and Oliver C. The father died in Mt. Carmel and the mother lives in Shamokin. Our subject was seventeen years of age when he removed with his parents to Mt. Carmel. He learned the blacksmith trade in Ashland and followed that business for many years. He traveled in the western States, working at his trade, and returned to Mt. Carmel in September, 1884. For the past five years he has been employed as car inspector for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mr. Burkert was married, December 22, 1872, to Susannah, daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Simerson) Lerch, of Mt. Carmel. Politically he is a Republican; he was elected burgess of Mt. Carmel in February, 1889, and served one term. He is a member of the K. of M.
JOSEPH S. RAMSEY was born at Cornwall Furnace, Lebanon county, Penn- sylvania, April 13, 1822, son of Daniel and Nancy Ramsey. He was reared in Lebanon and Berks counties, received his education at the academy of Womelsdorf, and began life as a country school teacher, which vocation he followed twelve years in Schuylkill and Northumberland counties; he also taught a select school at Mt. Carmel, where he located in 1858, for two terms. He had charge of breakers in the vicinity of Mt. Carmel and Shamokin, and for two years had sole control of the Lancaster colliery breaker near Sha- mokin. In 1866 he was elected justice of the peace in Mt. Carmel, which office he filled to the satisfaction of the people for a term of five years. In 1841 he married Sarah, daughter of Henry and Martha Houser, of Lebanon county. They are the parents of ten children, seven of whom are living: Cyrus; Rufus; Lydia, Mrs. William Ewing; Daniel; Samuel; Catharine, Mrs. Abram Markle, and Clara, Mrs. Richard Jones. In politics Mr. Ram- sey is a Republican.
JOHN KULICK, hotel keeper, was born in the Province of Posen, Prussia, February 20, 1845, and is a son of John and Mary Kulick. He was reared in his native country and came to America in 1867, settling in Mt. Carmel, where he worked in the Mt. Carmel colliery for over sixteen years. He then embarked in the hotel business, which he has since continued with success. He erected his present brick hotel in the spring of 1889. Mr. Kulick was married, May 30, 1866, to Cassie Dix, a native of Prussia, and to this union have been born eleven children, eight of whom are living: Rosa; John; Mary; Anna; Maggie; Josie; Frank, and Florence. The deceased are: Peter; An- thony, and Katie. Mr. Kulick is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic church, the Kosciusko Guards, of which he is general, and St. Joseph's Society. He is one of the representative Polish citizens of Northumberland county, and in politics is a Republican.
ENOCH LUBESKI, proprietor of the Kosciusko Hotel, was born in the Prov- ince of Posen, Prussia, in February, 1853, and is a son of Michael and Anna Lubeski. He came to America in May, 1872, and settled in Mt. Carmel, where he worked in the mines thirteen years. He was also engaged in the
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grocery trade three years, and in 1886 embarked in the hotel business near the Lehigh Valley depot, which, with the exception of one year, he has since continued. In July, 1890, he erected the new addition to his hotel. He was married, October 4, 1874, to Rosa, a daughter of Lawrence Kornaski, of Mt. Carmel, and has the following children: Enoch; Walter; John; Bronie; Frank, and Martha. Mr. Lubeski is one of the popular Polish citizens of Mt. Carmel, is a Republican, a member of St. Joseph's Catholic church, and St. Stanis- laus and Kosciusko societies.
BEN WIRT, proprietor of the Valley House, was born in Jordan township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, June 29, 1848, son of John and Ju- dith (Wentzel) Wirt. His paternal grandfather, John Wirt, was a native of Dauphin county and an early settler of Jordan township, where he en- gaged in farming and spent the remaining years of his life. His children were as follows: John; Lydia A., who married David Campbell; Ann, who became the wife of Frederick Snyder; Kate, who married Jacob German; Elizabeth, second wife of David Campbell; Moses; Michael; Daniel, and Mary, who married Martin Horris. His maternal grandfather, Christopher Wentzel, was a farmer of Jordan township and a veteran of the war of 1812. The father of our subject, John Wirt, is a farmer and miller by occupation, and is living in Jordan township, this county, where he was born and reared and has always resided. His family consists of four sons: Ben; William; Daniel, and Michael. Our subject was reared in his native township and learned the milling trade in his father's mill, which he followed seventeen years, the first ten years in the old mill and the remaining seven years at Millersburg, Dauphin county. He then returned to Jordan township and engaged in buying cattle two years, thence removing to Herndon, where he kept hotel one year. In February, 1885, he removed to Mt. Carmel and has since been the successful landlord of the Valley House, which he purchased in October, 1888. Mr. Wirt was married, April 30, 1871, to Mary Malinda, daughter of Isaac L. and Anna (Bubb) Witmer, of Lower Mahanoy town- ship, Northumberland county. Five children have been born to them: Moses, deceased; Alice; Charles Edgar; George, deceased, and Cyrus Webster, de- ceased. The family are adherents of the Reformed church; Mr. Wirt is a member of the F. & A. M. and K. of M., and in politics is a Democrat.
JAMES HARRIS, proprietor of the Harris Hotel, corner of Second and Market streets, was born in South Wales, October 10, 1838, son of John and Eliza- beth (Banner) Harris. He was educated in his native country, and in June, 1865, immigrated to America, locating at Frostburg, Maryland. In 1869 he removed to Mt. Carmel, where he was engaged in mining until 1887. Dur. ing this period he was inside foreman at Hickory Ridge and Garfield coll- ieries five years; he also opened the latter and put it in good working order, and entered his present business in January, 1887. March 6, 1858, he mar- ried Mary, daughter of Samuel and Mary Thomas, natives of Wales. They
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are the parents of nine children: William; John; George; Lydia; Thomas; Eliza; Frederick; Helena, and Elizabeth. In politics Mr. Harris was born a Republican, and still holds the fort.
J. B. YOUNG, proprietor of the National Hotel, was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1857, a son of John and Mary Young, natives of . Germany, who came to America about the year 1850 and located in Schuyl- kill county, Pennsylvania. The subject of our sketch was reared and edu- cated in his native county, and began life for himself in the mines as breaker and slate picker. At the age of sixteen he entered a general store as clerk at Locust Dale, Pennsylvania, where he was employed twelve years. In 1882 he located at Ashland, Pennsylvania, where he conducted a store one year; in 1883 he removed to Mt. Carmel and embarked in the general mer- chandise business, which he conducted successfully until October, and for two years was also the proprietor of one of the leading drug stores of the place. In the fall of 1888 he purchased the National Hotel property, of which he has been proprietor since February 20, 1889, and has built up a successful business. In 1882 Mr. Young was married to Ella M., daughter of Patrick and Mary (Horn) Carey, of Ashland, Pennsylvania, and has three children living: Joseph; Ella, and Frank. Mr. Young is one of the live and enterprising business men of Mt. Carmel, is a member of the Catholic church, and in politics a Democrat.
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