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HOTELS.
The Line Mountain Hotel was built by Daniel Herb in 1808 and opened as a house of public entertainment in 1813. Among the landlords in the past have been Daniel Herb, Philip Maurer, Samuel Rothermel, and Isaiah Kiehl.
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The Stone Tavern, at Leck Kill postoffice, was built in 1825 by Peter Beisel, and has ever since been occupied as a hotel.
MILLS.
The mill now operated at Leck Kill postoffice by William Kehres was built by a Mr. Schenckweiler. It is furnished with three sets of buhrs.
Samuel Rothermel's mill, on Mahantango creek at the line between North- umberland and Schuylkill counties, was built in 1808 by Daniel Herb.
SECRET SOCIETY.
Eureka Lodge, No. 260, I. O. O. F., was chartered on the 16th of August, 1847.
SCHOOLS.
The public school system was adopted on the 4th of June, 1866; the first board of directors was composed of Daniel F. Geist, president; Daniel H. Geist, treasurer; David W. Paul, secretary; William Smith, Isaac Keiffer, and Jacob Klock. The present number of school buildings is six, of which three were purchased from subscription school trustees, one was built in 1867, and two in 1868.
CHURCHES.
St. Jacob's Church, Lutheran and Reformed, was organized in 1803. Among the most prominent of the early members were Michael Paul, Mich- ael Baum, Christopher Hepler, Henry Klock, John Martz, Anthony Weary, John Maurer, Benjamin Paul, Jacob Schmidt, William Roth, John Wagner, Michael Wagner, Benjamin Loescher, Leonard Kerstetter, Michael Billman, and John Hepler. Both congregations were incorporated, August 16, 1862; the officers of the Lutheran organization at that time were as follows: trus- tee, Charles Reiner; elder, Gideon W. Snyder; deacons: Edward Reiner, Frederick Schreffler. The officers of the Reformed organization were as fol- lows: trustee, George Boyer; elders: Jacob Masser, Henry Haas; deacons: Jacob - , Samuel Diehl.
St. John's Church, Lutheran and Reformed, was organized in 1853. The church edifice is a brick structure; the first trustees were Abraham Sny- der, Samuel Smith, and Peter Geist. The first officers of the Lutheran con- gregation were Abraham Snyder, Jr., and Peter Ochsenreiter, elders, and Jacob Schenckweiler, deacon; Peter Ressler was the first Reformed deacon. Among the early members were Abraham Schneider, Daniel Schneider, John Schneider, Jacob Schenckweiler, Simon Schneider, Jacob Beisel, Emanuel Ressler, Peter Geist, Edward Falk, Peter Beisel, and Daniel Beisel. Among the pastors have been Reverends Smith, Boyer, Smith, and Weicksel, Lu- theran, and Rudolph Duenger, John Wohlbach, A. S. Stauffer, A. R. Hot- tenstein, and Joseph H. Schappig, Reformed.
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CHAPTER XXIV.
LOWER MAHANOY TOWNSHIP.
ORGANIZATION-DRAINAGE-EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS OF GEORGETOWN-MALTA-INDUSTRIES-SCHOOLS-CHURCHES.
L OWER MAHANOY comprises a triangular area in the extreme south- ern part of the county, bounded on the northwest by the Susquehanna river, on the southeast by Mahantango creek, and on the northeast by Jack- son and Jordan townships. Prior to the organization of Northumberland county, this territory was embraced in Upper Paxtang township, Lancaster county; from 1772 until 1775 it formed part of Augusta township, and from 1775 until 1806 it was included in Mahanoy, the particulars regarding the division of which are given in the chapter on Upper Mahanoy. It was reduced to its present limits by the erection of Jackson township in 1836. The surface is mountainous, and ample drainage is afforded by a number of small streams flowing directly into the Susquehanna or Mahantango creek. The most fertile part of the township is Stone valley, one of the few lime- stone regions in the southern part of the county.
GEORGETOWN.
This village, the most important in the extreme southern part of the county, is situated in the western part of Lower Mahanoy on the bank of the Susquehanna river and the line of the Northern Central railway. The site is embraced in a tract of land which was patented to Thomas McKee by the colonial government in 1767. Six years later it was purchased by Will- iam Dunbar and subsequently passed into the possession of Sebastian Bro- sius; he willed it to his son, John George Brosius, by whom a store was opened and a mill was erected; the latter is said to have been the first in the southern part of the county and was situated on Stone Valley creek at the lower end of the village. The town site was surveyed in 1798 by William Gray, deputy surveyor for Northumberland county, and became within a few years a place of considerable local importance. As evidenced by the assess- ment of 1811, the improvements at that date, with the names of respective owners and occupants, were as follows: house and stable, owned by Peter Secrist and occupied by George Borell; house, owned by James White and occupied by Hugh Bruman, storekeeper; house, owned and occupied by Peter Borell, blue-dyer; house, owned and occupied by Nicholas Bubb, Jr.,
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carpenter; house and shop, owned and occupied by John Ebright, hatter; house and stable, owned and occupied by John Fenstermacher; house, owned and occupied by Peter Hoffman, inn keeper; house, owned and occupied by Daniel Lahr; house, owned and occupied by Daniel Rothermel, inn keeper; house and shop, owned by William Witman and occupied by Daniel Seasholtz, potter; house, owned and occupied by Jacob Stricker.
The town has steadily expanded in population and importance, and has always been the business center of the community naturally tributary to it. The present business and industrial interests include three general stores, one drug store, three hotels, a shingle and stave factory, and a nail mill. The postoffice designation is Dalmatia.
Colonel James Cameron Post, No. 185, G. A. R., was organized on the 9th of March, 1882.
MALTA.
The post-village of this name is situated three miles from Georgetown on the main road from that place to Lykens and at its intersection with the Mahantango Valley road. It is the location of one store, a Reformed and Lutheran church, the shops of several mechanics, and perhaps a dozen pri- vate residences. The former local name was Vera Cruz.
INDUSTRIES.
The Witmer mill, as originally built by George Brosius, was a log struct- ure; the present frame building is three stories high, equipped with three sets of buhrs. The mill now operated by Michael Spotts was built in 1845 by Michael Wert and Michael Rudel.
A distillery was once operated by John Dockey.
The Dalmatia Iron and Nail Company organized with John Bingeman, president, I. H. Ressler, treasurer, and W. O. Bingeman, secretary; the works include three frame buildings, with the necessary machinery.
SCHOOLS.
The first school house at Georgetown, a log structure, was situated at the site of Isaac Fenstermacher's residence; the names of Eisenhower, Bixler, Murray, Drake, and Brooker occur among the early teachers.
The public school system was adopted in 1865; the first school board was composed of David Seiler, B. M. Bubb, Adam Lenker, S. B. High, Franklin Markley, and Elias Wiest. Messrs. Wiest and High, being opposed to the system, resigned, and Jacob Dreibelbeis and Philip Messner were ap- pointed by the board in their places, December 16, 1865. As thus consti- tuted, the directors organized on the 29th of December, 1865, with Adam Lenker, president, B. M. Bubb, secretary, and David Seiler, treasurer. Two new buildings were erected in 1866, six in 1867, and two subsequently, making ten school houses at the present time, in which eleven schools are taught.
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CHURCHES.
Stone Valley Church, Lutheran and Reformed, was originally known under the name of Christian Unity, and it is supposed that public worship and the administration of the sacraments were begun in this locality as early as 1765. The first church building was a small log structure twenty by thirty feet; the second, which is in a good state of preservation at the pres- ent time (1890), was erected in 1796 by Jacob Thani, a carpenter by occupa- tion, who received one hundred thirty pounds as evidenced by the agree- ment, which is still extant. The trustees at that time were Nicholas Bubb, Lutheran, and Henry Bordner, Reformed. This building was remodeled some years since, and is the present place of worship. The joint congrega- tions also own a tract of land containing sixty-five acres and ninety-three perches, a patent for which was gratuitously granted by the State.
The Lutheran organization was formed by Reverend Wolf prior to 1775 and probably some years anterior to that date. He was successively followed by the Reverends Adam, Gansel, Ulrich, and Walther, whose terms of serv- ice are not known. Rev. Peter Shindel was pastor, 1822-35; John Nicho- las Hemping, 1835-51; C. F. Welden, 1851; Reverends Yeager, Bergner, and Walz, 1852-64; Jeremiah Shindel, 1864-70; J. W. Early, 1870-74; J. M. Ulrich, 1874 82; C. R. Drumheller, 1883-84, and W. H. Geiger, 1884, present incumbent. The present (1890) church council is composed of Ben- jamin Phillips, J. W. Lenker,"Adam Byerly, J. M. Byerly, J. F. Lenker, and Michael Rudel.
Georgetown Church, Lutheran and Reformed, is a frame building forty by fifty feet in dimensions, erected in 1845. The organizers were George Brosius, John Bressner, William Shaffer, Peter Witmer, Solomon Ressler, Abraham Deetry, Jacob Dreibelbeis, and George Witmer. Among the pas- tors have been Reverends Stiver, Bressler, Engle, Early, Ulrich, Drumheller, Geiger, and Brown.
Vera Cruz Church, Lutheran and Reformed, is a brick structure thirty- five by fifty-five feet in dimensions, with steeple and bell. The corner-stone was laid on the 12th of August, 1860, and the dedication occurred, June 8, 1862.
The Lutheran congregation was organized in 1856 from a membership formerly connected with the Stone Valley church, and now (1890) numbers one hundred fifteen members. The following is a list of pastors: Reverend Walz, 1856-64; Jeremiah Shindel, 1864-70; J. W. Early, 1870-74; J. M. Ulrich, 1874-82; C. R. Drumheller, 1883-84, and W. H. Geiger, 1884, present incumbent.
Bingeman Church of the Evangelical Association was organized in 1850; prominent among the early members were Nicholas Bingeman, Peter Heck- ert, Samuel Fetterhoff, Harry Weaver, Peter Kocher, and Joseph Spotts. The pastors have been Reverends Knorr, Kramer, Fry, Shultz, Leopold,
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Whitmer, Shultz, Brown, Warmcastle, Rumberger, Fair, and Fisher. The church edifice is a frame building.
The Georgetown Methodist Episcopal Church is a frame building situated on the north side of Sunbury street in the eastern part of the village. The congregation is small numerically, and has no resident pastor.
CHAPTER XXV.
POINT TOWNSHIP.
PROCEEDINGS FOR ITS ERECTION-FIRST TOWNSHIP OFFICERS -PIONEERS-INDUS- TRIES.
T THE triangular area bounded by Montour ridge, the West Branch, and the North Branch, now included in the township of Point and. the borough of Northumberland, formed part of Turbut township at the time of its erection, April 9, 1772. At February sessions, 1775, Mahoning was stricken from the southern part. of Turbut, and at the corresponding term of court eleven years later (February sessions, 1786), Point was formed from Mahoning. The record of the proceedings in this case is as follows :-
Upon the petition of divers inhabitants of the township of Mahoning, setting forth, that the extensiveness and increase of the inhabitants in the township aforesaid, together with the distance the town of Northumberland and the lower end of the said township are from a justice of the peace, renders it extremely burthensome for town- ship officers in the performance of their duty, as also expensive and inconvenient for the inhabitants to attend legal process; and prayed the court to divide the said town- ship by a line beginning at the nine-mile tree on the North Branch, and extending westwardly along the middle of Montour's mountain to the fording at William Cooke's mill on Chillisquaque; and further prayed the court to report the same unto the Executive Council as a proper district for the election of justices of the peace: where- upon the court, upon due consideration, confirmed the boundary line aforesaid, and order the division, part, including Northumberland-Town, to be called Point township; and the court further order that the same be returned to Council as a proper and fit district, etc. for the electing justices of the peace, etc.
The first township officers were Laughlin McCartney and Bernard Hub- ley, overseers of the poor; Daniel Reese and Daniel Kelly, viewers of fences; James Hepburn and James Jenkins, supervisors, and Joseph Torbett, con- stable.
PIONEERS.
The following is a list of the taxables of the township as returned for the year 1787 at the first assessment after its organization: Frederick Antes, William Antes, William Armstrong, Widow Adams, John Allen, William
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Adams, John Bachenstozs, Daniel Bardan, John Bull, John Bullion, Will- iam Bonham, John Cowden, James Conasert, William Cooke, William Clel- land, John Cruders, William Clen, James Crawford, Samuel Doyle, James Davidson, Christopher Dering, Henry Drageloos, Philip Frick, Robert Foll- mer, Frederick Feak, Thomas Gaskins, Andrew Gregg, William Gregg, Thomas Gary, Abiel Gibbons, George Hoffman, William Hoffman, James Hepburn, Joseph Harber, John Hannah, Francis Ihrewood, Widow Jenkins, Daniel Kelly, Robert King, Aaron Levy, William Lemon, Benjamin Lyon, James Logan, Philip Maus, Dennis Mclaughlin, Lughlin McCartney, Daniel Mont- gomery, William Mahy, Neal McCoy, Arthur McGill, William McKein, Robert Martin, John Niplick, John Painter, William Plunket, Archibald Ruay, Jacob Ross, Daniel Reese, Peter Steel, John Sechler, John Shuler, Joseph Sechler, Morgan Sweney, John Scott, Thomas Taggart, Joseph Torbett, James Van Campen, James Wilson, James Wagstaff, David Woodside.
John Bull, William Cooke, Widow Jenkins, and Thomas Martin were each assessed with one negro, Robert Martin with two, and Laughlin McCart- ney with one mulatto.
Thomas Lemon, one of the first justices commissioned for Northumber- land county, was one of the earliest settlers in Point township. He was born on the Atlantic ocean, two weeks before his parents landed upon Amer- ican soil; they came from 'Scotland, settled at Winchester, Virginia, and reared two sons, Robert and Thomas. The latter married Margaret Haugh, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, daughter of Matthias and Mary Haugh, who, in 1769, deeded a large tract of land in the North Branch valley to Thomas and Margaret Lemon. They settled near that river about five miles above Northumberland, and reared a family of four sons and one daughter: the latter, whose name was Elizabeth, married Joseph Engle, of Philadelphia; three of the sons removed to the Genesee valley, New York, and the parental estate in Point township thus passed into the possession of James Lemon, the only one of the family who remained in this county. He married Rachel, daughter of George and Martha Fleming; their daughter, Martha, was twice married: first, to William Cooke, whose father was the first sheriff of North- umberland county; after his death she became the wife of Jesse C. Horton, the well known stage proprietor and a prominent figure in Northumberland county politics.
INDUSTRIES.
The large stone flour mill on Lodge's run, two miles north of Northum- land, was erected in 1815 by George Grant. Two years later William A. Lloyd established a flour mill on the same stream within a short distance of Grant's; the large frame building erected by him is still standing, although the milling business was discontinued in 1887. Mr. Lloyd also operated a carding machine, one of the first in the county and an important feature of the establishment.
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There were quite a number of distilleries in operation at one time, con- sidering the limited agricultural territory of the township. Robert Morris, Joseph R. Priestley, Jacob Dentler, William A. Lloyd, James Lemon, and George Grant are remembered as the proprietors of establishments of this nature.
Chulasky Furnace is situated at the station of that name on the Dela- ware, Lackawanna and Western railroad. It was established some forty years ago, and has experienced a number of changes in ownership and man- agement.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHILLISQUAQUE TOWNSHIP. +
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AREA AND TOPOGRAPHY-ERECTION AND SUBDIVISION-PIONEERS-INDUSTRIES- POTTSGROVE -- MONTANDON-SODOM -- CHILLISQUAQUE-SCHOOLS-CHURCHES.
C HILLISQUAQUE creek drains nearly the whole of that part of North- ノ umberland county situated between Montour ridge and Limestone ridge, with a general southwesterly course from the Montour county line to its junction with the West Branch. This region, one of the most fertile and populous agricultural districts in the county, forms the township of Chillis- quaque; it is traversed by the Philadelphia and Erie and Catawissa rail- roads, and has several villages of importance in addition to its advantages as a farming section.
The present area of Chillisquaque township was originally embraced in Turbut, erected, April 9, 1772. At February sessions, 1775, Mahoning was formed from the southern part of Turbut, with Chillisquaque creek as a mutual boundary. Point was erected from Mahoning at February term, 1786, thus leaving to the latter a narrow triangular territory; and at the following May term the township of Chillisquaque was formed from the con- tiguous portions of Mahoning and Turbut, with the following boundaries :--
Beginning at the corner of Point township on the top of Montour's hill nearly opposite the nine-mile tree, and to extend from thence to Joseph Wilson's on the north side of Chillisquaque creek, from thence to the top of the Limestone ridge to the house occupied by Neal Davis on Colonel Francis's land, from thence a straight course to the West Branch of Susquehanna.
In 1813 this township was attached to Columbia county, of which it formed a part until 1815; it was then reannexed to Northumberland, but in the following year a considerable part of its territory was again attached to Columbia and now forms part of Montour.
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PIONEER.
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The following is a list of the taxable inhabitants of Chillisquaque town- ship in 1788, when it included Liberty township, Montour county, in addi- tion to its present area: John Alexander, William Anderson, William Allen, Daniel Bates, John Blair, John Blair, Jr., Samuel Blair, Joseph Biggars, David Carson, Johnston Cheney, Adam Clark, John Clark, James Carscad- don, James Carscaddon, Jr., John Carscaddon, William Carscaddon, Charles Cochran, James Cochran, John Cochran, Widow Campbell, John Curry, John Cheney, James Dunlap, John Donaldson, James Davidson, Thomas Davidson, James Donaldson, Andrew Davis, Benjamin Elliott, John Funston, Jesse Funston, William Fisher, Robert Finney, John Gillespie, Robert Giffin, Widow Gillespie, Paul Geddis, Hugh Gowan, John Galloway, John Gray, John Hunter, William Haslet, Stephen Horn, Adam Hempleman, Thomas Hewitt, Francis Huston, Thomas Hammer, John Hannah, Samuel Harper, George Irwin, Samuel Irwin, Leonard Kelley, Neal McMullen, Charles Mc- Coy, William Mulligan, Richard Mayhew, William Murray, Patrick Mc- Ninch, John Martin, George Morrison, John McMahan, John Murray, David McCartney, John McMahan, James McMahan, Robert McWilliams, Hugh McBride, Alexander Miller, James Murray, James Neal, Stephen Oliver, Samuel Oaks, Thomas Palmer, Hance Potts, Thomas Rodgers, Martin Reece, James Robinson, William Reed, David Reynolds, James Reynolds, Robert Reynolds, Archibald Sweney, John Seely, David Scott, David Stedman, William Stedman, James Stedman, Baltzer Stake, James Stadden, John Shaw, Thomas Strawbridge, Jacob Shipman, Jacob Teeple, George Teeple, John Tate, Isaac Wilson, Nathaniel Wilson, Joseph Wilson, John Wilson, Leonard Wilkins, Joseph Wilson, Samuel Wynn, Benjamin Wynn, James Woodside, David Wilkins.
John Alexander was assessed with one servant, to serve two years; Alexander Miller, with one servant, to serve one year; and Thomas Straw- bridge, with one negro, who were the only property of that description. The largest amount of property assessed to any one individual was five hun- dred seventeen pounds, in the name of Thomas Palmer; James Stedman followed, with four hundred twenty-seven pounds, and Thomas Strawbridge with three hundred one.
John Brady was born in 1733, son of Hugh and Jane (Young) Brady, who settled in the Cumberland valley near Shippensburg in 1750. His mili- tary career began in the French and Indian war. On the 19th of July, 1763, he was commissioned as captain in Colonel Clayton's battalion of the Penn- sylvania regiment, and served under Colonel Bouquet in 1764. In 1768 he settled at Standing Stone (Huntingdon), but, having obtained a tract of land on the West Branch opposite Lewisburg in consideration of his military services, he removed thither in 1769, and was thus one of the earliest as he was also one of the most prominent pioneers of Northumberland county. In
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August, 1772, he was foreman of the first jury impanelled after the organiza- tion of the county. On the 14th of October, 1776, he was commissioned as captain in the Twelfth Pennsylvania regiment, with which he served in the campaigns in New Jersey and Pennsylvania until the 1st of July, 1778, when the Twelfth was incorporated with the Third. He was then ordered home by General Washington to assist in the defense of the West Branch valley; he had previously removed his family to Muncy and fortified his house (which became a rendezvous for the inhabitants and was known as Fort Brady), and was killed by the Indians while making a reconnoissance in that vicinity, April 11, 1779. He married Mary Quigley, and they were the parents of thirteen children: Samuel, whose skill and success as a captain of rangers is celebrated in the annals of border warfare; James, who died at Sunbury from wounds received in a skirmish with the Indians; William; John, sheriff of Northumberland county, 1794-97; Mary, who married Captain William Gray, of Sunbury; William P., a pioneer and prominent citizen of Indiana county, Pennsylvania; Hugh, major general in the United States Army; Jane; Robert; Agnes; Hannah, who married Captain Robert Gray, of Sun- bury; Joseph, and Liberty, who married William Dewart, of Sunbury.
INDUSTRIES.
Three distilleries were returned by the assessment of 1788, owned, re- spectively, by William Allen, Jesse Funston, and Archibald Sweney, and assessed at the uniform rate of three pounds. Thomas Strawbridge owned a tan-yard, evidently of far greater importance than either of the distilleries, as it is returned at twenty pounds. Thomas Palmer had a grist and saw mill, to which no valuation is attached, which omission is sufficiently ex- plained by the word "useless," inclosed in parentheses after it by the assessor. This mill was probably situated on Chillisquaque creek about half a mile from its mouth, where a ripple in the stream marks the location of an old dam and the course of the mill-race is still discernible. Palmer's mill is referred to in some of the very early records of the county, and it was prob- ably the first mill on Chillisquaque creek.
Chillisquaque Mills, on the south bank of Chillisquaque creek a quarter of a mile from its mouth and about the same distance from the line of Point township, were originally erected in 1791 by William Wilson, whose partner for some years was John Boyd; the former subsequently became associate judge of Northumberland county and the latter register and recorder, while both were prominent in business and political affairs. The building was con- structed of stone, and stood immediately in the rear of the present structure, after the erection of which it was used as a plaster mill. The present mill is a five-story frame building, equipped with roller process apparatus; the present proprietor is A. F. Otlinger, and among his predecessors during the last half-century have been Messrs. Andrews, Burger, Daniel and David Heiser, Joseph and Norman Butler, Raser, and Vincent. 1
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The Pottsgrove Steam Flour Mill was removed from Limestone run, Turbut township, and rebuilt at Pottsgrove by William Follmer, Michael Rissel, and James Smith, and after being successfully operated for some time, was destroyed by fire several years since.
D. M. Nesbit's Planing Mill, on the bank of the West Branch at the crossing of the Lewisburg and Tyrone railroad, was established by Dieffen- derfer & Driesbach, and has been successfully operated by Dieffenderfer & Candor, the East Lewisburg Manufacturing Company, and the present proprietor. School furniture was manufactured to a considerable extent at one time, but the product is now confined to general planing mill work.
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