History of Perry County, Pennsylvania, including descriptions of Indians and pioneer life from the time of earliest settlement, sketches of its noted men and women and many professional men, Part 109

Author: Hain, Harry Harrison, 1873- [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa., Hain-Moore company
Number of Pages: 1102


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1865-67-Rev. James A. Shultz. 1901-03-Rev. G. W. Shellenberger.


1868-72-Rev. T. F. Hoffmeier. 1904-11-Rev. Roy Leinbaugli.


1872-73-Rev. D. L. Steckel.


1911-14-Rev. T. H. Materness.


1874-80-Rev. W. H. Herbert.


1915-17-Rev. A. N. Brubaker.


1880-84-Rev. H. T. Spangler.


1918-20-Rev. Seward Kresge.


1884-88-Rev. M. H. Groh.


1920- - Rev. O. W. Moyer.


1888-91-Rev. A. B. Stoner.


1894-97-S. C. Stonesifer.


1900-03-F. Y. Weidenhammer.


1903-05-J. H. Esterline.


1908-09-H. P. Aston.


It was located upon a plot of ground offered gratuitously by Henry Fetter. The local members built the first story masonry and let the con- tract for finishing the building to Henry Myers, of Carlisle, for $1,500, brick to be furnished. The lower story was divided into two parts, in one of which Mt. Dempsey Academy was conducted from 1856 to 1864, when


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it closed. The other became the Sunday school room. The building com- mittee was composed of Henry Snyder, Rev. C. H. Leinbach, George Wet- zel, George Wagner and Jeremiah Rice. The corner stone was laid at a height of ten feet from the ground. It was dedicated April 17, 1853. The first officers were George Wetzel and Jesse Hipple, elders; A. B. Albert and David Rhodes, deacons, and John Burtnett and Jeremiah Rice, trustees. St. Peter's, Landisburg and Elliottsburg constitute one charge, hence the same ministers.


M. E. Church. First services of this denomination were held in Landis- burg prior to 1831, by Rev. Sheperd, Rev. Tannehill, Rev. Finicle and others. In that year an organization was effected and the Landisburg church built. It has always been a part of the New Bloomfield charge, but the membership gradually dwindled away until 1921, when the church building was sold to the Landisburg school board for $400. The pastors will be found under the chapter relating to New Bloomfield.


LIVERPOOL BOROUGH.


The plot on which Liverpool was originally laid out was warranted by John Staily. On October 25, 1808, he and his wife (Eve) gave deed to John Huggins for 121 acres, reserving therefrom one and a half acres for a graveyard. John Huggins had it surveyed and plotted by Peter William- son. This old plot shows it as extending from Strawberry Street to North Alley. It was incorporated by an act of the legislature of May 4, 1832. The Huggins and Staily families, who were relatives, were very numerous then.


Adjoining it, in 1818, the town of Northern Liberties was laid out by Samuel Haas. When it was decided to embrace the new town with Liverpool a new plot was made by Dr. J. H. Case and William Mitchell, the latter at the time being a school teacher there. Northern Liberties began at North Alley-the northern limit of Liverpool-and extended north along the river to the property of Dr. Case. This section, until then known as Northern Liberties, was included in the Borough of Liverpool when incorporated in 1832. The limits were later on extended still further north to include an outlying section known as Perryville, and south to include the Lenhart sawmill and village surrounding it, and west to incltide the steam flouring mill. The part of the borough known as Perryville was on the George Wilt farm, which passed to Anthony Rhoades in 1812.


On the same day in which he got his deed from Staily, John Huggins sold his first lot-number 4-to Jacob Snyder. In all his deeds he re- served "to himself, his heirs, and assigns forever, all ferries and ferry rights, now made or hereafter to be made or erected, which shall remain in the undisputed possession of the said John Huggins, his heirs and as- signs, anything in this present plot, poll or plan of said town, to the con- trary, in anywise notwithstanding." John Huggins, having reserved all rights to the ferries, on March 24. 1824, sold half, or the west side of the Liverpool ferry to Richard and Robert B. Rodgers, who had leased it as early as December, 1819. They sold it in 1834 to Daniel Bogar, and he in. turn sold it to Isaac Meek, in 1838. The old tavern at the west end of the ferry was first kept by John K. Boyer.


The Calder & Wilson stage line, later the Calder, Copp & Company line, came up the east side of the river and crossed this ferry, continuing on to Selinsgrove. This was a mail route. The first mail was carried on horse- back, then with a two-horse stage, and later with a four-horse stage.


When the town of Liverpool was laid out there was in the river an island extending its entire length, with a channel about fifty feet wide be- tween it and the shore. It was then farmed and a considerable part of it


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lay above high-water mark. It was fringed with a row of willow trees, and in their shade was a favorite washing place for the housewives to do their weekly wash. No vestige of it remains, and the present population have no knowledge of its existence, except in so far as it has been handed down from one generation to the next.


Before the advent of the canal there was a long, wide "commons" lying between Front Street and the Susquehanna River, which was covered with grass during the entire summer. Here it was the custom to hold the games and sports of those early days, horse races even having taken place there. However, when the Pennsylvania Canal was cut through, it took a wide strip for its erection, but it was a good thing for Liverpool, and until the advent of the railroads Liverpool was one of, if not the principal business town of the county. Almost its entire population became boatmen, and to this day no other town in the state has exceeded its reputation as the


SECTION OF LIVERPOOL, LOOKING SOUTH.


home of so many boatmen whose craft carried the public traffic from farm and mine to sea and mart.


Thomas Gallagher owned and operated a distillery. George Tharp also operated a distillery, and afterwards a chopping mill, and later in the same building Tharp Brothers operated a mill for grinding plaster. In this same building G. Cary Tharp ran a sumac mill. The chopping business having outgrown the small mill, George Tharp erected the large steam mill which was in operation as a flour mill until 1914, when it burned down. It was then owned by Mrs. Mary Williamson.


Daniel Rohrbach operated the first foundry. Frederick and John Keagle ran the first foundry operated by water-power. Peter Oliphant built one, but it burned, and was rebuilt by A. D. Vandling & Son in 1865. He sold it to P. M. Reifsnyder, who owned it until its destruction by fire. A brick building was then erected by G. Cary Tharp in its place. There was a fourth foundry started by Bear & Reifsnyder, and finished by Reifsnyder & Holman. It was later destroyed by fire. John Keagle built one in 1876.


S. R. Deckard and Isaac Lutz ran large cabinetmaker shops during the latter part of the last century. The leading business men during this pe- riod were George C. Snyder, M. H. Grubb, Isaac Williamson, S. M. Shuler, J. Holman & Son.


A tannery was built by John Speece in 1829, and passed, respectively, to Hilbish, Montgomery, Gohn, John C. Reifsnyder, *William C. Brown and his son, Frank Brown. It was operated until 1900. Through this William C. Brown tannery runs the meridian of Washington, D. C. The Snyder steam tannery was built in 1868, by George Snyder, and operated until 1877, its owner having 'died two years previously. There was a tannery older than either of these, which was last owned by George Snyder.


*William C. Brown had a fine collection of Indian relics, which are now a part of the exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution at the National Capital.


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John Roush erected a gristmill, which was long run by Rowe and Wil- liamson. It burned .in 1912 and was never rebuilt.


Pioneer business men were Thomas Gallagher, who kept a store and later became a contractor on the canal; George Tharp, before 1820; a man named Dupes; Henry Walters, who afterwards became cashier of the Harrisburg National Bank; James Jackman and Henry W. Shuman. John Huggins erected a large house and kept the first tavern, which occu- pied the site of the hotel later kept by Robert Wallis, and now in the pos- session of Blanton Blattenberger. It burned and he then erected one on the opposite corner, where he lived until 1824. Richard Knight kept the first tavern in the stone house which was replaced by the present brick building known as Hotel Mitchell, it having been built by David Owens, who owned the property at one time and ran the hotel for some years.


Liverpool early had a fire engine, it having been purchased about 1835. It was in use until 1873, when it was destroyed in a ravaging fire, which reduced to ashes six residences, two belonging to the John Huggins' heirs, one to Jolin Reifsnyder and including the stores of G. Cary Tharp and D. Wagner. Twenty-two years later another devastating fire destroyed the Wallis Hotel, Winters' drug store, Jesse Coffman's tinshop, and dwellings belonging to Lewis Grubb, J. W. Williamson and Mrs. Cummins.


The first schoolhouse was built on the one-and-a-half-acre lot reserved by Staily when he sold to Huggins. It was a log building, afterwards being weatherboarded and was about twenty-five feet square. This house was in existence in 1810, according to the diary of Rev. George Heim, which says "that in 1810 he organized the Lutheran congregation at Liver- pool in the old schoolhouse." It will be noted that he calls it old even then, which implies that it must have been one of the first school buildings in the county. Teachers in this building were men named Mitchell, Rouse, Brink, John B. Porter and others. When this building became too crowded another was built and the town divided into two wards for school purposes, the pupils north of Race Street going to the new frame building, and those south going to the old log building. It so continued until about 1847, when a frame building with two rooms below and one above was erected, the upper floor later being divided into two rooms. This building was in use until 1878, when a new two-story, four-roomed building was erected. The first class to be graduated in the Liverpool High School was in 1884, under the principalship of Prof. E. Walt Snyder, who later became one of the county's leading physicians. The class was composed of Mattie Thompson, William Hamilton, Mary Charles, Lena Snyder, Sarah Wil- liamson and Henry Williamson.


William Wallis, an early settler, was a cooper, and the ancestor of the present Wallis families. Christian Weirick, ancestor of the Weiricks, came about 1810. He was a cabinetmaker and had a large family, all of whom located in the West, except his son Henry. Michael Shank, a ship car- penter who built the first canal boat north of Harrisburg, located here in 1820. An early family was the Shulers, Samuel, John and Joseph, the latter becoming a prominent officeholder in the county. The late S. M. Shuler was a son of Samuel. Another early settler was John George Lutz, a German tailor. Peter Musselman came from Lancaster and erected a public house. Among early hotelkeepers were Richard and Abner Knight. The Walters' store was later owned by Jackson & English, and still later by Freeds. A family named Ellmaker, cabinetmakers and millwrights, resided at Liverpool at the time of the county's organization. Rev. David Grubb, an early United Brethren minister and cabinetmaker, was one of four brothers who moved to Perry County from Chester, and settled on a farm near Liverpool.


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An act of the Pennsylvania Legislature of March 21, 1865, granted to William Inch, Sr., the right to ferry from the Borough of Liverpool to Liverpool Station.


When the canal was in course of construction, Rev. John A. Gear, from his pulpit in Liverpool, discoursed upon the evils of intemperance, with special emphasis upon drinking. In the audience was "a big Irishman," who stood up and retorted "Enough of that." George Tharp, a business man and himself from the Emerald Isle, arose and led him out. Tharp always stood for law and order, and at that period such men were price- less in a community. At that time liquor flowed pretty freely, there being nine taverns in the town. As the larger number of the workmen employed in building the canal were Irish Catholics, and as the hardships to which their employment subjected them took a heavy toll the Catholic Church purchased a plot of ground along the hillside and opened a cemetery. Tradition tells of their gay life and says there was always a frolic after a funeral.


The public square at Liverpool is sodded and occupied by rows of bean- tiful shade trees, planted there in 1876, the centenary of American Inde- pendence, commemorative of that event.


There was once a Knights of Pythias Lodge in Liverpool, its number being 386. On Odd Fellow Lodge, No. 259, was organized there in 1847. Neither are in existence.


John Staily entered the liquor business in Liverpool, and in 1865 erected a large brick building to extend accommodations to the traveling public, but in 1866, without even announcing his purpose to his family, he emptied all his liquors and closed the bar for good. It may seem strange to many that P. T. Barnum, the famous circus man, once exhibited at Liverpool, but such is the case. The circus troupe were entertained at Mr. Staily's hotel, and among them were a number of strong and rough men. A fight ensued between local roughs and these fellows, who threatened to turn loose the elephant. The town boys produced an old cannon which they loaded with scrap iron and told the management to "trot out its elephant." Mr. H. B. Staily, a son of John Staily's, establishes these facts.


When the large timber tracts in northern Pennsylvania were just starting to be cut, the logs were shipped down the river in rafts, and opposite Liver- pool were three mills under one roof, according to Newton Williamson, an octogenarian.


The postmasters at Liverpool have been as follows:


1826-33-Henry Walters. 1 866-69-William Staily.


1833-45-James J. Jackman. 1869-73-John D. Monroe.


1845-49-Henry W. Shuman. 1873-81-M. B. Holman.


1849-61-Joseph Shuler. 1881-85-Jacob E. Bonsall.


1862-63-Jacob Holman. 1885-96-Mrs. Laura J. Snyder.


1864-66-Abraham Grubb. 1896- - Geo. J. Tlarp.


The first regular physician to locate at Liverpool was Dr. John W. Arın- strong, who removed there from Petersburg (Duncannon) in 1824, having previously practiced at Duncannon. He was in Liverpool several years. He was a grandson of General Jolin Armstrong, who commanded the expedition against the Indian town of Kittanning, which ended disas- trously for the red skins, and who helped lay out the town of Carlisle, was a member of the Provincial Congress, and had command of the Pennsyl- vania troops at the Battle of the Brandywine in the Revolution. Dr. Arm- strong's successor was Dr. James H. Case, who was born in the Wyoming Valley in 1801. He located in Liverpool in 1827 and practiced there until his death in 1882. He was a public-spirited citizen and a good doctor.


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From 1828 to 1831 three different physicians located and stayed but short periods. They were Dr. Fitzpatrick, Dr. Sheedle and Dr. French.


About 1830 Dr. William Cummins, who was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1804, and educated in Edinburgh, Scotland, located in Liverpool. He was educated for the ministry, but while teaching school read medicine with Dr. Mealy, of Millerstown, and later graduated at Jefferson Medical Col- lege. He practiced here until his death in 1846. He was twice married, his son, Hugh Hart Cummins, becoming president judge of Lycoming County. In 1846 Dr. Thomas G. Morris, a native of Sunbury, located at Liverpool. He was a surgeon of a Pennsylvania regiment in the War be- tween the States, after which he practiced and conducted a drug store in New Bloomfield for two years, then resuming his Liverpool practice. He practiced there until his death in 1887. Dr. John Wright, a native of Juni- ata County, located in Liverpool in 1847, where he practiced until 1854, when he removed to Halifax. He was run down and killed by a train there in 1859. He was married to a daughter of George Blattenberger, one of the associate judges of Perry County.


Others who remained but short periods were Dr. John Rose, 1848; Dr. R. A. Simpson, 1857; Dr. A. A. Murray, 1876 to 1883; Dr. George Motter, 1866, and Dr. George Barlow, 1875. The latter sold his practice to Dr. James F. Thompson, of Centre County, who located in Liverpool in 1878. He graduated at the Jefferson Medical College in 1864. He served in the Sectional War as surgeon of a regiment of Ohio sharpshooters. He was one of the leading doctors of the county during the end of the last cen- tury. He practiced at Liverpool until his death, which occurred in 1913. His brother, Henry Adams Thompson, was once the nominee for the Vice- Presidency on the Prohibition ticket. Dr. H. F. Womer located at Liver- pool in 1884. He was a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College, 1878. Dr. E. Walt Snyder, a Liverpool native, graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1889, and located in Liverpool, where he practiced until 1899, when he located at Marysville. Dr. George Henry Bogar, Medico-Chi., 1910, and Dr. Win. G. Morris are the present physicians, Dr. Morris locat- ing here in 1899, and Dr. Bogar in 1915.


Hoover & Knisely started a shirt factory in the old U. B. church build- ing, in 1905. H. F. Zaring and Park Holman purchased it in 1907, and operated it until 1913, when they sold to Chas. H. Snyder, who had built a new factory building in 1912. In 1914, Mr. Snyder sold it to Chas. E. Deckard, Il. F. Zaring and James A. Wright, who operated it until 1917, when they sold the business and building to Jouvand & Lavigne, who had erected a silk mill here in that year. They discontinued the business and turned the building into a moving picture theater, known as the "Silk Mill Movies." The silk mill of this firm began operations in October, 1918. It employs over fifty persons.


The mercantile appraiser's report shows the following business places, the year being the date of connection with the business :


A. M. Shuler (1919), general store. This business was established in 1842 by Samuel and Joseph Shuler ; in 1865 Samuel Shuler became proprietor and later it was Samuel Shuler & Son; in 1872 S. M. Shuler, and after his deatlı S. M. Shuler estate.


J. Holman & Sons-Park and Willard Holman, proprietors, general store. Established over fifty years ago by Jacob Holman.


General stores, Wesley Coffman, H. M. Freed, J. A. Geist, A. E. Kerstetter (1907), J. W. Lutz, G. Y. Miller, F. E. Shuler, Long & Miller.


Miscellaneous : J. H. Kepner, groceries; R. F. Stailey, cigars; B. F Blattenberger, Chas. O. Mitchell, hotels; T. A. Stailey, John D. Miller, con- fectionery ; J. J. Hamilton, shoes ; John L. Ritter, baker ; John D. Snyder, coal; Thomas Weirick & Co., meat market; J. L. Erlenmeyer, fertilizers ;


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O. C. Knisely, H. G. Long, Frank Potter, A. C. Tharp, auto supplies; George C. Hoffman (1895), succeeding Samuel R. Deckard (1875), furniture and undertaking; J. N. Ritter, paper and iron in bulk; E. C. Mengle, fertilizer ; J. F. Deckard, oil.


When the county was organized in 1820, there was no church in Liver- pool, the schoolhouse answering that purpose, as well as a little log house, privately owned and standing near the site of the present Lutheran Church. In 1827 the citizens of the village cut and hewed logs for a church. It was used by the German Reformed and Presbyterian people, but there was no settled ministry for a time. A minister from New Bloomfield and another from Millersburg, Rev. Isaac Gerhart, preached occasionally, ac- cording to tradition. Rev. William Cochran, a Millerstown boy who en- tered the ministry, was the first Presbyterian pastor. Rev. James Irvin and Rev. Britton Collins were his successors in turn, according to a historical article in the Liverpool Sun of October 6, 1881, probably compiled from local information from people then living. According to the Centennial Memorial of the Presbytery of Carlisle (1889) prepared by a committee, the Liverpool congregation was organized in 1818, by Rev. Nathaniel K. Snowden, who preached until 1820, after which it became vacant until 1828, when Rev. James F. Irvine was installed. Probably both statements are correct. Rev. Cochran was then studying for the ministry under the direc- tion of Rev. Snowden, and it is probable that the young student frequently filled the pulpit at Liverpool. As most of his people had emigrated west- ward Rev. Irvine's appeal to the Presbytery to be relieved of the appoint- ment was granted. Collins may then have gone over from his station at Millerstown and held occasional services, which practically makes the two statements dovetail, while at a glance they seem widely at variance. Rev. Gerhart was a Reformed minister, and the Reformed denomination held services at Barner's Church and various other points at that time, but time has effaced any records telling of the date of organization or other facts.


Liverpool Lutheran Church. There were early settlers who were Lu- therans who had located between the two rivers, the itinerant ministers having appeared among them as early as 1764, the year after the last Indian invasion. The congregation at St. Michael's Church, in Pfoutz Valley, was organized in the early seventies, and the ministers on their way there held services at Liverpool, after the settlement there was begun. When John Huggins laid out the town he had reserved a plot for church and school purposes and a schoolhouse had been erected thereon. While on his way to Pfoutz Valley to preach at St. Michael's, Rev. Conrad Walter held services in the school building. That was between 1804 and 1809, according to Rev. Focht's "Churches Between the Mountains."


The second pastor was Rev. George Heim, whose charge included terri- tory lying in the Tuscarora Valley west of Port Royal (then Perryville), in the vicinity of Mifflintown, Lewistown, and across the country to Lewis- burg, and down to Liverpool. He had twelve places at which to preach, some of them forty to fifty miles apart. In 1810 the congregation at Liver- pool was organized by Mr. Heim. He was succedeed by his brother, Rev. John William Heim, in June, 1814. The charge was so large that the Liverpool folks only heard him five times a year for several years.


The building of a church was not begun, however, until 1828, when the log frame was put up. It then stood in an unfinished condition until 1831, when it was put under roof. It had high galleries on three sides and a high bell-shaped pulpit, mounted on a post. It was painted white and had a cupola, bell and steeple. It was 35x40 feet in size, and the men most interested in its erection were George Lutz, George Barner, George Tharp, David Stewart, Christian Weirick and John Roush.


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The Liverpool church was detached from the old charge in 1829, and with several other churches was supplied by visiting pastors. In 1833 it became a separate charge, with the following ministers since :


1833-42-Rev. Chas. G Erlenmeyer. 1870-72-Rev. Elias Studebaker. 1843 -Rev. Andrew Berg (6 mos.). 1874-81-Rev. D. S. Lentz.


Vacant until 1847. 1881-83-Rev. Herring.


1883-87-Rev. Mumma.


1847-51-Rev. Wm. Weaver. Vacant until October, 1856. 1888-91-Rev. M. S. Romig.


1856-59-Rev. Josiah Zimmerman. 1891-93-Rev. W. H. Minnemyer.


1859-61-Rev. Jacob A. Hackenberger. 1896-00-Rev. J. M. Stover.


1862-65-Rev. John H. Davidson. 1901-04-Rev. W. H. Stahl.


1865-66-Rev. J. C. Hackenberger. 1904-15-Rev. M. S. Romig.


1866 -Rev. Kerr (supply). 1916-21-Rev. Clyde W. Sheaffer.


1867-70-Rev. W. H. Diven. 1922- - Rev. E. E. Gilbert.


The charge varied with the years, but latterly has included the White Church in Perry Valley, St. Michael's in Pfoutz Valley, and the church in Hunter's Valley. In 1882 a new brick church was erected on Front Street, costing $5,000. It is known as Trinity Church, and is 40x65 feet in size.


Liverpool M. E. Church. The first services in Liverpool by the Meth- odists were those held in the schoolhouse on the hill, between 1825 and 1830. For some years the organization was not effected, but the meetings were continued. On January 17, 1858, the first church was dedicated, being located at the corner of Market and Strawberry Streets. It was in use until 1877, when it was replaced with a more commodious structure, dedi- cated in 1878. M. B. Holman was largely instrumental for the building of the new structure. Until the year 1870 it was a part of the Newport charge, under which chapter are the ministers' names. Since that time the pastors have been :


1870-71-Rev. A. H. Mench. 1894-95-Rev. T. A. Elliott.


1872-74-Rev. J. W. Feight. 1896-99-Rev. E. L. Eslinger.


1875-76-Rev. T. S. Wilcox. 1900-01-Rev. F. C. Byers.


1877-78-Rev. B. H. Crever. 1902 -Rev. H. M. Ash.




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