History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Part 98

Author: Bell, Herbert C. (Herbert Charles), 1868- ed; John, J. J., 1829-
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Chicago, Brown, Runk
Number of Pages: 1424


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F. A. CLARK, physician, was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1841, son of Franklin A. and Louisa (Eisely) Clark. He attended the pub- lic schools, after which he was occupied as a miner twelve years. August 20, 1861, he enlisted in Company K, Forty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until the close of the war. He participated in the battles of Cedar Mountain, second battle of Winchester, Chancellorsville, Antietam, and Gettysburg, and was with Sherman on his march from Atlanta to the sea. After the war he returned to Shamokin and resumed the occupation of miner. In the fall of 1866 he took charge of the drug department of his father's business, where he remained until 1875. He then began the study of med- icine with Dr. J. S. Hollenback; in the winter of 1876-77 he took a course of


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lectures at Jefferson Medical College, and subsequently studied with Dr. O. M. Robins, of Shamokin. In the spring of 1880 he graduated from Jeffer- son Medical College and at once began the practice of medicine in Shamokin. The Doctor is a member of Lincoln Post, No. 140, G. A. R., and of the P. O. S. of A., Camp No. 187. Politically, he is a Republican. He married, in 1866, Mary Ellen Raymond, who died in 1870, leaving two children: Louisa, deceased, and Harry. His second wife was Valeria Jacobs, who died in 1878, by whom he had two children, one of whom is living, Charles. He married for his third wife Mary Kerlin. Doctor Clark is one of the leading and respected physicians of his native town.


R. A. KENNEDY, physician, was born at Shamokin, August 12, 1853, son of William C. and Maria (Ammerman) Kennedy, natives of Lycoming and Northumberland counties, respectively. His early education was received at the public schools of his native town. In 1869 he entered Bucknell Univer- sity, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and graduated in June, 1873. He then accepted a position in Mount Pleasant Seminary, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, where he taught three years, and read medicine with Dr. S. M. Todd of the same place. He served one year in the Wilkesbarre hospital as resident physician; in 1881 he graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, and in May of the same year returned to Shamokin and commenced practice, where he has since been engaged in the active duties of his profession. He was married in 1882 to Sallie Magee, of Lycoming county, and they are the par- ents of three children, all of whom are dead. The Doctor is a member of Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A. M., and politically he is a Republican.


F. D. RAKER, physician, was born in Little Mahanoy township, North- umberland county, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1856, son of C. H. and Susannah (Dornsife) Raker. He attended the township schools and the Elys- burg and Freeburg Academies, after which he was engaged in teaching in Washington township. In 1877 he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. D. H. Dornsife, of Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in March, 1881. He located at Beaumont, Wyoming county, where he practiced medicine seven months. January 10, 1882, he removed to Shamokin, where he has since been in active practice. In 1889, in connection with Dr. David S. Hollenback, he estab- lished the drug business under the name of Hollenback & Raker. He has served as county coroner, and has also been township physician for Coal township. Doctor Raker was married in 1882 to Alvaretta Wirt, who died, June 19, 1885. On May 27, 1890, he married M. Ada, daughter of Joseph Deppen, of Mt. Carmel. He is a member of the P. O. S. of A. and of the I. O. O. F. In politics he is a Democrat, and is a member of the Lutheran church.


JOHN W. BEALOR, physician, was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1854, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Weibley) Bealor. He


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received his early education at the common schools, and later entered the New Bloomfield Academy, from which he graduated. He then commenced the study of medicine with Doctor Richardson, of Newport, Perry county, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Washington Medical College of Bal- timore, Maryland, in 1876. He first located at Elliottsburg, Pennsylvania, where he practiced four years, after which he removed to Locust Gap, this county, where he remained one year and a half. In May, 1882, he located in Shamokin, where he has since practiced his profession. He was married in 1879 to Mary, daughter of George Albert, and by this union they have three children: Benjamin F .; Florence E., and Quilla. Doctor Bealor is a member of Shamokin Lodge, No. 664, I. O. O. F., and of Camp No. 189, P. O. S. of A. Politically he is a Democrat.


KIMBER C. McWILLIAMS, physician, was born at Elysburg, Northumber- land county, Pennsylvania, October 7, 1857. He attended the public schools and Elysburg Academy, and completed his education under private instruct- ors. He began the study of medicine with Dr. S. F. Gilbert of Elysburg, and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College,"of Philadelphia, in 1884. He first located in Mainville, Columbia county, where he remained two months. He then located in Snydertown, and in January, 1886, removed to Shamokin, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. Doctor Mc Williams, while comparatively a young man, has the confidence of the public, and ranks among the leading physicians of the county. He married Lizzie J., daughter of Holden Chester, by which marriage they have two sons: Holden Chester and Kimber Cleaver. He is an elder in the Pres- byterian church, and politically a Prohibitionist.


J. M. MAURER, physician, was born in Eldred, Schuylkill county, Pennsyl- vania, June 4, 1862, son of Charles K. and Elmira (Wolfgang) Maurer, natives of Schuylkill county, who settled in Mt. Carmel in 1869, where the subject of our sketch received his early schooling. In 1877 he entered Elys- burg Academy, where he remained two years. He then entered Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, and after four years' study graduated from the classical department with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in June, 1884. He afterwards entered the medical department of the University of Pennsyl- vania and was graduated in April, 1887. In 1886, while pursuing his med- ical studies, the Doctor was connected one year with the Philadelphia Dis- pensary. In May, 1887, he commenced the practice of his profession in Shamokin; he is one of the leading physicians, and has won the respect and confidence of the citizens of his adopted home. Dr. Maurer was married, October 1, 1890, to Anna L., daughter of William R. and Anna M. Kutzner, of Shamokin.


ALFRED G. SHISSLER, physician, was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1866, son of H. A. and Rosetta (Kaseman) Shissler. He was educated in the public schools of Shamokin, graduating from the high school


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in 1883. He commenced the study of medicine with C. W. Weaver, gradu- ated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1889, and at once began the prac- tice of his profession. In connection with his practice he is engaged in the drug business with his father. He is a member of Camp No. 72, S. of V., · and Camp No. 149, P. O. S. of A., of which he is a past president, and is scribe of Anthony Wayne Commandery, No. 13. Politically, he is a Republican.


E. M. EMRICK, physician, son of George and Elizabeth (Myers) Emrick, was born in 1855, in Jordan township, Northumberland county, Pennsyl- vania. His parents removed to Uniontown, Dauphin county, where our sub- ject was reared and educated. He subsequently entered the State Normal School at Shippensburg, and completed his education under the tutorage of the county superintendent at Uniontown. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. J. J. Read of that place, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1878. Doctor Emrick then located at Augustaville, Northumberland county, where he remained in active practice eleven years, when he removed to Shamokin, where he has since continued in the active duties of his profession. He was married in 1878 to Miss A. Wiest, who is the mother of one child, Marion W. Doctor Emrick is an adherent of the Republican party, and a member of the Reformed church. Though a resi- dent of Shamokin only a short time he is building up a substantial practice.


REUBEN HOLLENBACK, D. D. S., was born in Upper Augusta township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, September 1, 1841, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Sherry) Hollenback. He was educated in the public schools, followed the occupation of farming until twenty-one years of age and taught school one year in his native township. In 1864 he located in Shamokin, and was employed as engineer at the Big Mountain colliery two years, after which he was engaged in teaching the public schools of Coal township and Shamo- kin until 1868, when he commenced the study of dentistry with Doctor Van Boskirk, of Selinsgrove, Snyder county, Pennsylvania. The same year he commenced practice in Shamokin, where he has followed his profession up to the present, and has built up a successful business. He graduated at the Dental College of Philadelphia, March 1, 1877. He was married in 1865 to Dorcas, daughter of Michael M. Sober, who died, October 24, 1887, leaving three children: William S., a piano tuner of Reading, Pennsylvania, and Hudson S. and Edwin E., dentists. He was again married, December 6, 1888, to Savilla, daughter of William Fidler, of Shamokin; by this union they have one child, Harry F. Doctor Hollenback is a member of St. John's Reformed church, of which he has been chorister since 1876. Politically he is a Republican.


DR. U. S. G. MOORE, surgeon dentist, was born in 1863, in Shamokin. Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, son of W. H. and Mary (Wolverton) Moore. His father was a native of Luzerne county, who came to Shamokin


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in 1853 and engaged in the building business, and for many years was one of the prominent builders of Shamokin, erecting most of the early coal breakers for the surrounding collieries. His family consisted of two children. The subject of this sketch was educated at the public schools of Shamokin, and at the University of Pennsylvania, commenced the study of dentistry with Dr. Edwin Darby of Philadelphia, graduated from the University of Pennsylva- nia in 1885, and commenced the practice of his profession in his native city. The Doctor is a member of the Methodist church, and politically he is a Re- publican.


IVANHOE S. HUBER, cashier of the Shamokin Banking Company, was born, October 4, 1845, at Pine Grove, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, a son of Levi and Margaret (Stackpole) Huber. In 1857, his father having been elected recorder of the county, they removed to Pottsville, where he was educated in the public schools. In 1862 he entered the law office of F. W. Hughes, where he was engaged until 1864, when he was appointed teller of the First National Bank of Mahanoy City, which position he filled until 1868, when he became secretary and superintendent of the Ringgold Coal and Iron Company, at New Ringgold, Schuylkill county. He filled this position ten months and resigned to accept the appointment of deputy pro- thonotary of Schuylkill county, which he occupied until September 4, 1871, when he was appointed cashier of the Shamokin Banking Company, which position he has since occupied. Hr. Huber was a member of the school board from 1882 to 1885, its president in 1883, and its treasurer in 1884, and has been a director and treasurer of the Building and Loan Association of Shamokin since 1883. In 1863 he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Emergency Men. He was married, September 8, 1869, to Mary B., daughter of John W. Houston, of Columbia, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of five children: Levi H .; John H .; Margaret E .; Mary B., and Gertrude S. Mr. Huber is a member of Trinity Protestant Episcopal church; politically he is a Democrat, and has been treasurer of the borough since June, 1881, and is one of the respected and substantial citizens of Shamokin.


FREDERICK W. V. LORENZ, teller of the First National Bank, was born at Burgsleinfurt, Westphalia, Germany, December 26, 1853, son of Victor and Augusta (Drost) Lorenz. He entered the University of Halle, situated on the river Saale, and prosecuted his studies until 1873. In 1877 he came to the United States and resided in Philadelphia until January, 1878, when he joined the P. and T. Collins Expedition to Brazil, where he remained until November, 1879; he then returned to the United States and entered the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company as civil engineer, and later was employed as clerk in the construction of the coal docks at Elizabethport, New Jersey, where he remained until January, 1882. He then came to Shamokin, and was in the employ of the same company, as


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civil engineer, in the construction of their various roads. In September, 1887, he was appointed teller of the First National Bank, which position he has since filled. Mr. Lorenz was married, June 26, 1884, to Clara, daughter of Christian and Nancy (Lawton) Beury, of Shamokin, and by this union .


they have four children: Helen B .; Nancy L., and Charles Christian and Frederick Victor, twins. Politically he is a Republican, and is recognized as a worthy, enterprising, and public-spirited citizen.


CURTIS Q. McWILLIAMS, of the firm of McWilliams & McConnell, was born, September 10, 1852, in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, son of J. Scott and Catharine (Fagely) Mc Williams, natives of what was then Shamokin town- ship, Northumberland county. The former is still a resident of the county, but his wife, who was a daughter of Solomon Fagely, an early settler of Sha- mokin township, is dead. Our subject spent his early boyhood days at Elys- burg, where he attended the public schools and the Elysburg Academy. At the age of fifteen he came to Shamokin to accept a clerkship in the store of Valentine Fagely, and subsequently entered the employ of Reuben and William Fagely, well known pioneers of the borough. In 1870 he took a commercial course at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie. New York, and the following year took charge of the store of William and Reuben Fagely, which position he occupied until the autumn of 1874. He then en- tered Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, where he remained two terms. In April, 1875, he left college to enter the employ of Reuben Fagely for the purpose of looking after his various interests. This position he filled up to Mr. Fagely's death, since which time he has been acting as executor of the estate. On the 1st of May, 1878, Mr. McWilliams engaged in the lumber business with Darlington R. Kulp, under the firm name of Kulp & McWill- iams. The following year the ice and brick business was added thereto. W. C. McConnell became a member of the firm, January 1, 1882, and the title was changed to Kulp, McWilliams & Company. In August, 1886, a dissolu- tion of partnership took place, McWilliams & McConnell retaining the ice and brick business, which they have since carried on. Mr. McWilliams was one of the corporators of the Roaring Creek, Anthracite, and Bear Gap water companies, and has been treasurer of all three since their organization. He has also been treasurer of the Shamokin Water Company since May, 1886. He is a stockholder and director in the Sunbury Nail Works, and is a director of the Shamokin Manufacturing Company, also a director of the Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewisburg railroad. He has been largely interested in nearly all the public enterprises of which Shamokin can boast, and is one of the most progressive and enterprising business men of his native county.


Mr. Mc Williams was married, October 7, 1879, to Louisa, daughter of John and Anna (Schmid) Geywitz, natives of Würtemberg, Germany, who came to Shamokin before marriage, where the widow still resides. Two chil- dren are the fruits of this union: Guy E., born September 23, 1882, and


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Ida Catharine, born May 20, 1885. The family are adherents of Trinity Lutheran church, and Mr. Mc Williams is a member of Elysburg Lodge, No. 414, F. & A. M., Shamokin Chapter, No. 264, and Cavalry Commandry, No. 37, of Danville. Politically he is a stalwart Republican, and since casting his first vote he has been fearless in upholding the measures and defending the principles of his party.


WILLIAM C. McCONNELL, of the firm of McWilliams & McConnell, was born in Halifax, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1860, son of George Washington and Sarah (Marsh) McConnell, natives of that county, both of whom are dead. The former was prominently identified with the Northern Central railway, running it to Baltimore, Maryland. Our subject grew to maturity in his native county, and received his primary education at the public schools. In 1877 he entered Franklin and Marshall Academy, Lan- caster, Pennsylvania, and the following year Franklin and Marshall College, and spent two years prosecuting his studies in the latter institution. In 1880 he began the study of law under Wayne Mac Veagh, then attorney general of the United States, in Garfield's cabinet, with whom he remained one year. In the spring of 1881 he came to Shamokin and on the 9th of June in that year, married Ida V., daughter of Nathan F. and Eliza (Samuel) Martz, of Shamokin township. Mrs. McConnell is a native of this county and the mother of two children: William Donald, deceased, and Katharine Martz.


On the 1st of January, 1882, Mr. McConnell entered the firm of Kulp, Mc Williams & Company, dealers in lumber, brick, and ice. In August, 1886, the firm dissolved partnership, Mr. Kulp continuing the lumber business, and Mc Williams & McConnell the ice and brick trade. Mr. McConnell was one of the corporators of the Roaring Creek, Anthracite, and Bear Gap water companies, with which he has since been officially connected, and has been president of the Shamokin Water Company since May, 1886. He is a direct- or in the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, and the Arc Light Com- pany, also in the Sunbury Nail Works. In politics he has always been a stalwart Republican, and has taken a deep and prominent interest in the suc- cess of his party. In 1890 he was a delegate to the State convention which placed in nomination George Wallace Delamater for the governorship. He is one of the most liberal contributors towards the campaign expenses of his party, and is always ready to do his full share towards every worthy object. Mr. McConnell and family are attendants of Trinity Lutheran church, and he is one of the trustees of that organization. He is a member of Elysburg Lodge, No. 414, F. & A. M., Shamokin Chapter, No. 264, and Calvary Com- mandery, No. 37, of Danville. He is a progressive and public-spirited citi- zen, and is thoroughly in harmony with our nineteenth century civilization.


GEORGE O. MARTZ, dealer in wood-burned lime, was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1842, son of Solomon Martz, a pioneer now residing at Reed station. When our subject was ten years old his parents moved to


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Shamokin township, and when seventeen he went to Locust Gap to accept the position of book-keeper for Haas & Bowen, proprietors of Locust Gap colliery. In January, 1864, he came to Shamokin and accepted the position of book-keeper and subsequently outside foreman at the Cameron colliery. In 1869 he became a member of Haas, Fagely & Company, then operating that colliery. In July, 1872, the firm of Fagely & Martz, merchants, was organized. He afterwards became a member of the firm of Patterson, Llewellyn & Company, then operating Big Mountain colliery, and was inter- ested in the coal business up to within a year of the purchase of that colliery by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. In 1872 he em- barked in the lime business, which he has since continued. Three years ago he commenced manufacturing wood-burned lime for building purposes, being the first burned in this part of the State. Mr. Martz was married, Septem- ber 2, 1865, to Emma L. Keener, of Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, who has borne him one daughter, Ada G. In politics he is a stalwart Republican and unswerving in his allegiance to the men and measures of that organiza- tion. He has taken an active interest in the material progress of the town, is a director of the Shamokin Banking Company, a director and secretary of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, a director of the Shamokin Arc Light Company, secretary and director of the Shamokin Water Company, and president of the Roaring Creek, Anthracite, and Bear Gap water com- panies. He is also a member of the Board of Trade, and one of the well known citizens of his native place.


GEORGE McELIECE, deceased, was a native of County Armagh, Ireland, and was born in 1819. At the age of eighteen he immigrated to this coun- try and located in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Ann Woodside, and in 1853 he came to Shamokin as one of the section superin- tendents of construction on the Philadelphia and Sunbury railroad, which position he filled until 1864. He then removed to Locust Gap to take the position of superintendent of the A. S. Wolf colliery, where he remained until he was elected county treasurer. At the expiration of his term of office he returned to Shamokin and engaged in the wholesale liquor business, which he conducted until his death in 1886; his wife survived him only one week. He was a charter member of Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A. M. He was one of the leading Democrats of the county, and always took a deep and active interest in the success of his party. In religions faith he was a Cath- olic. His family consisted of six daughters and one son: Elizabeth; John; Mary, Mrs. A. J. Gallagher; Jane, Mrs. John A. Keefe; Annie, Mrs. J. J. Rigney; Isabella, Mrs. Bryan Denning, and Maggie, deceased.


JOHN McELIECE, manager of the Shamokin Electric Illuminating Com- pany and the Shamokin Arc Light Company, was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1842, and is the only son of George and Mary Ann McEliece. He was educated in the common schools and was employed


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by his father until August, 1861, when he enlisted in Company K, Forty- sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the battle of Cedar Mountain he received two gun-shot wounds, in the left shoulder and hand; he was taken prisoner and sent to Staunton, Virginia, from there to Libby prison, whence he was transferred to Belle Island, where he was paroled and returned to his regi- ment. He was honorably discharged, December 6, 1862, on account of dis- ability. At the battle of Winchester he was promoted to corporal, and was discharged with the rank of sergeant. At the time of Lee's invasion he joined Company K, Thirty-sixth Pennsylvania Militia, and was a sergeant in his company. In 1862 he returned to Shamokin, and entered the employ of the Northern Central railway as a brakeman, and later as fireman and con- ductor. In 1864 he accepted the position of engineer under his father at Locust Gap, and after the election of his father as county treasurer, he suc- ceeded him in the position of superintendent, which he filled twenty years. In 1885 he removed to Shamokin. While a resident of Locust Gap he served as justice of the peace fifteen years. He organized, in 1869, the Washington Rifles, subsequently attached to the National Guard as Company A, of the Seventh Regiment, and he was its captain six years. Mr. McEliece is a member of Lincoln Post, No. 140, G. A. R., and is also a member of the U. V. U. He was married in 1866 to Ann Ellen, daughter of Michael Lukens, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and by this union they have had ten children, seven of whom are living: George; Fred .; Leo; Lloyd; Isabel; Lillian, and Maggie. Politically he is a Democrat, and is a member of St. Edward's Catholic church.


PETER E. BUCK has been for many years one of the best known and most prominent hardware and iron merchants of Schuylkill and Northumber- land counties, and is recognized as one of the most successful business men of eastern Pennsylvania. Born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1840, he came to Pottsville with his parents in 1846, and attended the public schools until the spring of 1853. He then entered the hardware store of George Bright, afterwards Bright & Lerch, and was with them until January, 1863, when he opened the beginning of his now large business located at Ashland, Schuylkill county. This he has carried on successfully to the pres- ent time, and has built it up to a mammoth wholesale and retail establish- ment; for some years his son, Frank L., has been the active manager, assisted by Harry J., a younger son. Mr. Buck, in August, 1883, purchased the extensive hardware establishment of William R. Kutzner of Shamokin, and has carried on a prosperous wholesale and retail hardware business there ever since, known as the Shamokin Hardware Company, Limited, William G. Buck, manager, Frank L. Buck, chairman, and. Peter E. Buck, treasurer. Mr. Buck is a leading Republican, and has held several positions of honor and trust; he was chosen without opposition an elector for Harrison and Mor- ton in 1888, was trustee of the Anthracite hospital, at Ft. Springs, and its




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