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nues and therefore cannot assume as yet the entire community burden. However, the Department of Public Welfare, through a cooperative scheme of organization, has brought under one central- ized control all public health, nursing and recreation functions of the entire city. These agencies are administered from its offices."
Upon Dr. Garland's retirement from the ministry on December 31, 1913, he was director of the Dayton Welfare Department from January 1, 1914, until December 31, 1920, when he became director of the Welfare Department of the National Cash Register Com- pany of Dayton. During the first three months he was sent on a mission to Europe to study international relations and the working of the League of Nations.
Dr. Garland's reputation as a speaker is country-wide. Our own Harrisburg Telegraph said of him, January 5, 1916: "There have been many speakers before the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce, including United States Senators, great architects, publicists and others, but none of these made a deeper impression upon the repre- sentatives of our business community than Dr. D. F. Garland, of Dayton, on the subject, "The New Conception of the City,' etc." Elbert Hubbard's noted magazine, July, 1914, said of him: "I do not know his denomination and I am not interested in it. The man himself is bigger than party, bigger than sect. He is a hu- manitarian. His particular work is largely social. He knows the people, knows what they are doing, and his heart is full of desire to bless and benefit."
Dr. Garland occupies a position of prominence on many chari- table and philanthropic boards, including: Dayton Tuberculosis Society, Greater Dayton Association, Federation for Charity and Philanthropy, Provident Collateral Loan Company, Community Chest Association, Barney Community Centre, Mary Scott Home, Feglitly Home for Widows, Associated Charities, and others. He was president of the Bureau of Municipal Research, 1912-16, and is a member of the Ohio State Commission on Health and Old Age Insurance. He is a trustee of the Tuberculosis Hospital of Mont- gomery and Preble Counties, and vice-president of the Lutheran Home for Aged Women. There is no doubt that Dr. Garland stands first in welfare work among those who have gone out from his home county and state, and it is to be questioned if he does not occupy the same place in the nation.
S. STANDHOPE ORRIS, PH.D., L.H.D.
S. Standhope Orris, Ph.D., L.H.D., son of Adam and Catherine (Shull) Orris, was born February 19, 1832, in Saville Township, near Ickesburg. He attended the public schools. He made a pub- lic confession of his faith in the Presbyterian Church of Lower Tuscarora, Pa., at the age of eighteen. His preparatory studies
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were pursued in the Tuscarora Academy at Academia, Pa., and he graduated with honors from Princeton College in 1862. Entering the seminary at Princeton in the fall of the same year, he took the full three years' course there, graduating in 1865. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Huntingdon, June 20, 1865. For a year after his licensure he was tutor of Latin in Princeton College. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Huntingdon, May 30, 1866, being at the same time installed pastor of the Spruce Creek ( Pa.) Church. This relation was dissolved June 8, 1869. He spent the following year in study in Germany. Returning to this country he assumed charge of a mission chapel connected with the Collegiate Reformed Church of New York City, which he served for one year. He was professor of the Greek Language and Literature in Marietta Col- lege. Ohio, from 1873, to 1877, when he was called as an associate professor to a similar chair at Princeton. In the following year he was made professor. Later this chair was named the Ewing Pro- fessorship of Greek Language and Literature, and its occupant was also called instructor in Greek Philosophy. This chair he occupied nintil 1902, when the state of his health compelled him reluctantly to resign. He was made professor emeritus. He re- ceived the degree of Ph.D. from Princeton in 1875, and that of L.H.D. from Lafayette College in 1889. Dr. Orris was director of the American Classical School at Athens, Greece, during the academic year 1889-90. He was a lifelong student of Plato, and left a manuscript on the Plantonic and Aristotelian Philosophy and its bearing on Christianity and the Christian religion, which it is expected will be published. While traveling in China in 1903, he was stricken with paralysis in the city of Hong Kong. Upon his recovery from this stroke he returned to America and took up his residence at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. There he suffered from a second stroke of paralysis in 1904. He died December 17, 1905, at Harrisburg, of paralysis, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. He had never married.
ANNA FREEHLICH, NOTED TEACHER.
At a time when practically all principals of schools were men. the Duncannon ( Pa.) school board elected Miss Anna Frohlich as principal. That was in 1885, before which time very, very few women had ever risen to that distinction, as in those days positions of that character were invariably filled by men. Miss Frohlich is a noted teacher even to-day. She is the daughter of Henry and Mary (Hecker) Frohlich, and was born in Duncannon and reared in a country home, in Penn Township, a mile west of that town. She attended the Mt. Pleasant school and the Millersville State Normal School, where she completed the elementary course in 1882, and the scientific course in 1900. She then taught in the
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public schools of Millerstown and, as stated, was elected principal of the Duncannon High School in 1885, being one of a few Perry County women who, at that time, held State Normal school diplo- mas. Miss Frohlich was not an applicant for the position, until requested to become one by the board of directors.
MISS ANNA FROEHLICH,
A Noted Woman Educator, Born in Duncannon.
Following her work in Duncannon Miss Frohlich taught thirty years in the State Normal Schools of Pennsylvania, having been at Lock Haven for twenty consecutive years. She was also con- nected with Hood College for five years. Miss Frohlich has al- ways been engaged in advanced work, having prepared herself
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further by summer courses at Columbia University and by a sum- mer tour of Europe. She is now connected with the Training De- partment of the State Normal School at Millersville.
In 1818 Miss Frælilich published "A Long Road Home," being fragments of history, genealogy and biography from among the families of her girlhood, but which in reality is a tribute to her parentage and her old home. It is to be regretted that more Perry Countians have not seen fit to issue small volumes along the same lines. The volume in possession of the writer is highly prized.
OVANDO BYRON SUPER.
Ovando Byron Super was born March 2, 1848, near Milford (later Juniata, now Wila P. O.), in Juniata Township. He was the son of Henry and Mary (Diener) Super. He attended local schools and elsewhere, but his preparation for college was mainly personal, a rare feat. He entered Dickinson College in 1871 and completed the course in two years, standing near the head of his class. He received the A.B. degree in 1873, and the A.M. degree in 1879 from his alma mater. He was granted the degree of Ph.D. by Boston University in 1883. For three years he was professor of Modern Languages in Delaware College at Newark, Delaware. Ile studied at Leipzig and Paris during the years 1876-78. He was instructor in modern languages in Williamsport Dickinson Seminary for two years, and at Denver University from 18So to 1884. He was professor of Modern Languages at Dickinson Col- lege from 1884 to 1900, and professor of Romance Languages from 1900 until his retirement on a Carnegie pension in 1913. He edited the Alumni Record of Dickinson College and also about a dozen textbooks in German and French. In July, 1880, he mar- ried Emma Murray Lefferts, of New York City. He has three daughters. He resides at San Diego, California.
HENRY W. FLICKINGER, EXPERT PENMAN.
Henry W. Flickinger, the most expert penman native of Perry County, and one of the most prominent penmen in the United States, was born near Ickesburg, Saville Township, August 30, 1845, the son of Peter and Margaret ( Ritter) Flickinger. He at- tended the public schools of his vicinity. Then came the Sectional War, with its attendant call to duty, and on July 18, 1864, he en- listed in Company D, First Battalion, to serve "100 days." He became fifer of the company and captain's clerk. He again en- listed, March 24, 1865, in Company F, 104th Regiment, Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, to serve one year. He was sent to Camp Cad- wallader, Philadelphia, and detailed as a clerk in the registering office. He was honorably discharged July 20, 1865, the war having terminated. After a brief stay at home he matriculated at Eastman
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Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York, for a course in book- keeping and penmanship. His ability as a penman was at once apparent to the faculty and he was employed by the college, Jant- ary 1, 1866, as a part of their staff, teaching practical and orna- mental penmanship. He remained there one year, then taught two years in Crittenden Commercial College at Philadelphia. In
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Expert penman. Born in Saville Township.
1870-71 he spent a year in Washington, D. C., assisting the authors in revising the Spencerian System of Penmanship.
Returning to Philadelphia, Prof. Flickinger taught in the Pierce Business College. During 1875-76 he was employed by Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company of New York City, and assigned to Washington, D. C., to assist Mr. Lyman P. Spencer-the noted penman-in preparing a large and elaborate collection of pen work which was displayed at the Centennial Exhibition at Phila- delphia in 1876, as an advertisement of the Spencerian publications. The largest exhibit, the Declaration of Independence, was illus-
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trated by drawings of the founders and others, lettering and script, surrounded by an oval border of oak and ivy leaves, executed en- tirely with the pen. It was enclosed in a frame about 5x8 feet, and was valued at $4,000. It is now the property of the American Book Company of New York. Since that time Prof. Flickinger has taught in the Pierce School, College of Commerce, Temple College, Central High School, Catholic High School, besides being the author of various copy books. The Barnes Copy Books and One Hundred Writing Lessons are his work. He also wrote a series of copy books in French, for a Montreal publisher, and a series for the B. D. Berry Company, largely used in the Middle West. At a National Convention of the Teachers' Association, Prof. Flickinger was presented with a loving cup, and when a member of the Union League of Philadelphia entertained noted penmen he was the guest of honor. For about ten years he has made his home in Glenolden, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Phila- delphia. He has written a number of sacred songs, published by the late Charles M. Alexander, the noted evangelist.
Another noted Perry County penman is J. C. Miller, born at Sandy Hill, January 15, 1849, the son of Andrew and Judith Ann (Ritter) Miller, at present living retired at New Bloomfield. He attended the local schools and Lancaster Business College, where he graduated. He also took a course at the Iron City Business College. He taught in business colleges at Lancaster, Chambers- burg, Wilmington, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Elmira and Mansfield. Mr. Miller is an expert ornamental penman and alto-relief artist. In early life he also taught in the public schools.
LELIA DROMGOLD EMIG.
Lelia Dromgold Emig is the author and compiler of the Hench and Dromgold Records, which in reality is a genealogy of the original families of Nicholas Ickes, Johannes Hench, Zachariah Rice, John Hartman, Thomas Dromgold and kindred families who had settled in Chester County prior to the Revolution, in which they fought. Through defective titles these pioneers lost their lands, and it was thus that Perry County became the haven of those goodly men and women whose impress is still felt in the commu- nity, and whose descendants have filled positions of note and trust, and are to-day a substantial part of the citizenship of Perry County.
Lelia Dromgold Emig was born near Saville, Saville Township, January 21, 1872, the daughter of Walker A. and Martha Ellen ( Shull) Dromgold. When she was nine years of age her mother died. She had attended the public schools here, but two years after her mother's death, with a brother, she went to York, Penn- sylvania, where her father, of the firm of Hench & Dromgold, was engaged in the manufacturing business. There she continued her
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studies in the public schools and in the Collegiate Institute of York. In 1894 she was married to Clayton E. Emig, an attorney-at-law of Washington, D. C., and has since resided in the National Capi- tal, their home at Dupont Circle being the mecca of a large and influential circle of friends. To them were born three daughters : Evelyn Martha, Lelia Clayton and Gladys, now Mrs. Wm. P. Doing.
LELIA DROMGOLD EMIG, Genealogist. Born in Saville Township.
Early in life Mrs. Emig became interested in philanthropic and club work and has held many positions of responsibility in the various organizations to which she belongs, the Federation of Women's Clubs, Women's Christian Temperance Union, Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, Young Women's Christian As- sociation, Rubinstein and Women's City Club. As a member of Calvary Baptist Church she is likewise interested in city mission work.
Mrs. Emig is known as an organizer and is the founder of a large chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, named in honor of her ancestress, Abigail Hartman Rice, a nurse of Revo-
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lutionary days. She also organized a Society of Children of the American Revolution, which was named by Mrs. Wm. Howard Taft, while mistress of the White House. This society from its membership produced fifty who served in the World War.
It was through the interest created by the Hench and Dromgold Reunions held in Perry County that Mrs. Emig became enthusi- astic in genealogical work, and in 1915 she compiled and published her work on the Hench, Dromgold and allied families, as stated above. Her material for her new work, "The Johannas Hench Family," is well under way. Mrs. Emig is a descendant of not only all five of the family heads which comprise her former vol- ume, and can trace her ancestry to Messrs. Hench, Hartman, Rice, Ickes, Loy, Foose, Donnally, Yohn and Shull, all Revolutionary patriots. During the World War her daughters all served the gov- ernment. Gladys and Lelia were among the first women to enroll as Yoemen of the First Class in the Navy, and Evelyn was in the office of the Adjutant General. Her husband, Capt. Emig, served for seventeen months in the Aviation Department of the Signal Corps.
INVENTOR AND MANUFACTURERS, S. NEVIN HENCH AND WALKER A. DROMGOLD.
In York, Pennsylvania, there stands a large manufacturing plant, that of the Hench-Dromgold Company, which is a monument to the ingenuity, energy and industry of two native Perry Countians, S. Nevin Hench and Walker A. Dromgold. There farm imple- ments are manufactured upon a large scale, and where farm imple- ments are used the firm name of Hench & Dromgold is known and stands for stability. George W. Hench was the father of S. Nevin Hench, whose ancestry had by purchase accumulated holdings of about seven hundred acres of land in the vicinity of Ickesburg, in Saville Township, Perry County, at the close of the Revolution. The cultivation of many of these broad acres devolved upon the boys of the family, and S. Nevin, being of an inventive turn of mind, began experimenting on implements which would lighten their labors. There, in his grandfather's old blacksmith shop, at Saville, in 1873. S. Nevin Hench, the boy in his teens, invented and made during rainy days, the first pivot-axle riding cultivator. The succeeding year he built two machines for neighbors. In 1877, he and Walker A. Dromgold formed a partnership and manufactured eight machines. In 1878, they had 125 machines manufactured under contract at York, and the following year. in a modest little factory of their own, they began manufacturing on a more extensive scale. That was the real beginning of one of York's leading industries. After twelve years' occupation of that modest plant, in 1890, they erected a large manufacturing plant in
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the west end of that city, with over 100,000 feet of floor space and covering several acres. Their production made an annual gain and they added other implements later, including harrows, corn shellers, cider mills, sawmills, engines, etc. Later the firm became the Hench & Dromgold Company, with S. Nevin Hench as president and Walker A. Dromgold, secretary and treasurer.
S. Nevin Hench, son of George W. and Frances ( Rice) Hench, was born June 27, 1854, in Saville Township. His education was secured in the country schools, but to his inventive genius was he indebted for his success. He was married January 11, 1885. to Emma Flinchbaugh. His father's ancestry was Swiss, and his
S. NEVIN HENCH
Noted Inventor and Manufacturers.
WALKER A. DROMGOLD
Both Born in Saville Township.
mother's French. When his industry and genius had made him one of York's foremost citizens, he was found among those who were working for civic betterment, good citizenship, temperance, public health and allied interests. He was on the school board of that city for fifteen years and was its president for five. He was president of the Young Men's Christian Association for five years, and served continuously as a teacher and officer of the Sunday school of Grace Reformed Church and as an elder in that church for over twenty years. For years he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Eastern Theological Seminary at Lancaster. Mr. Hench contracted a throat affection, from which he died on August 20, 1910.
Walker A. Dromgold, son of John and Bandinah (Hench) Dromgold, was one of eleven children, and was born near Saville, Saville Township, March 4, 1850. He received his education in
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the public schools and then followed the carpenter trade for a time. He was married April 23, 1871, to Martha Ellen Shull, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Rice) Shull, and spent a few years farming in Juniata County, later returning to the Dromgold homestead, where, in 1881, Mrs. Dromgold died. He had previ- ously associated himself in the business partnership with his cousin, S. Nevin Hench, and in 1882 moved to York, where they had erected a small plant. They were in partnership until the death of Mr. Hench, in 1910. Mr. Dromgold yet resides in York, Penn- sylvania, and at this time is interested in a project to build twenty dams in the Susquehanna River, between Harrisburg and the bay, thus making the river navigable and furnishing power to many great industries.
EDGAR NEWTON LUPFER, PROMINENT MANUFACTURER.
Edgar Newton Lupfer, president and general manager of the Springfield (Ohio) Metallic Casket Company, was born February 28, 1856, on the Lupfer farm, adjoining on the west the original site of New Bloomfield, and a part of it now covered by half of that borough. He is the eldest son of the late William and Han- nah M. (Billow) Lupfer, his mother being from the vicinity of Dellville, in Wheatfield Township. Jacob Lupfer came to Perry County in 1778, from Montgomery County, where he had dwelt three years, after coming from Wittenberg, Saxony. He was the ancestor of the Lupfers and purchased the lands lying next to the Barnett tract, which passed from his great-grandson, William Lup- fer, to W. A. Sponsler, in 1875. This property was later owned by John Adams, and in 1921 came into the possession of Rob- ert E. McPherson. There is a legend that this entire tract was once purchased from the Indians for a string of beads and a bull calf. Unlike so many names, the name Lupfer is spelled just as it was signed by Jacob Lupfer on the passenger list of the ship "Phoenix," which sailed from Rotterdam and landed at the port of Philadelphia, November 22, 1752. On that farm were born four generations of Lupfers,-Casper Lupfer, his son David Lup- fer, his grandson, William Lupfer, the father of Edgar Newton Lupfer, who was also born there. Casper Lupfer was a public- spirited citizen and deeded in perpetuity two tracts of land, lying side by side, to the rear of the Lutheran and Reformed Churches, as a burial ground, and in that belonging to the Reformed Church, he sleeps.
In the spring of 1861, William Lupfer, his wife and family of four children, removed from Perry County to Shelby, Ohio, and engaged in the dry goods business, a year later engaging in the same business in Shiloh, Ohio. In 1870 he sold that business and moved back to Perry County, purchasing from the heirs of his
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father, David Lupfer, who had died that spring, the Lupfer farm. In the fall of 1876, the family again removed, to Springfield, Ohio, the city in which the son, Edgar Newton Lupfer, has become so successful.
His earlier schooling was augmented by attending the High School at Shiloh, Ohio, until fourteen, and the New Bloomfield Academy from 1870 to 1873, when he entered the office of the New Bloomfield Times, of which Frank Mortimer was then editor, to learn the printing trade. Serving his three-year apprenticeship he worked but four and a half days as a journeyman printer, but is said to have "never regretted his experience in a printing office, as it stood him well in hand in after life." On removing to Ohio at the termination of his apprenticeship, his father induced him to drop the desire to follow his trade and to join him in conducting a grocery store. In 1884 he was appointed general agent of the Superior Grain Drill Company (now the American Seeding Ma- chine Company), of Springfield, having his headquarters at Har- risburg, and supervising ninety-two agencies in eastern Pennsyl- vania, Delaware and Maryland. He was inarried in the fall of 1884 to Elizabeth Ann Baker, and in the spring of 1885 returned to Springfield, which he regarded as his home, and purchased an interest in a new firm, then started only about a year, to manu- facture a new patented metallic casket. In 1886 the company was incorporated with Mr. Lupfer as secretary. The president was Ross Mitchell, who was born in Landisburg, Perry County, and who went with his parents to Springfield when quite a boy. He became very wealthy and successful, and was a member of the firm of Warder, Mitchell & Co. of Springfield, manufacturers of harvesting machinery, which firm later became the Warder, Bush- nell & Glessner Co., and then the International Harvester Co. Mr. Mitchell became one of the largest landowners in and around Springfield, Ohio. He lived to the age of ninety-three years, highly respected, a successful son of old Perry County.
Elected as its secretary at its incorporation, Mr. Lupfer two years later, in 1888, was made secretary and general manager, which position he held until October 16, 1917, when he succeeded Charles E. Patric as president, being continued as general manager as well. During his connection of thirty-five years with the Spring- field Metallic Casket Company, Mr. Lupfer has seen it grow from a small concern with a small line of goods to a large corporation with an extensive variety of funeral supplies, with a demand from coast to coast, and even in foreign lands.
Mrs. Lupfer died March 23, 1916, leaving one son, Robert Newton Lupfer, secretary of the Elwood Myers Company of Springfield. Mr. Lupfer on January 1I, 1919, married Miss Min- nie L. Bergman, of Madison, Wisconsin.
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Mr. Lupfer has, by his ambition and foresight in managing, brought his company, the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, not only to a position of leadership among the powerful corpora- tions of Springfield, itself a great manufacturing city, but, as well, to be one of the strongest, if not the strongest concern in its line in the world.
COL. GEORGE E. KEMP, POSTMASTER AT PHILADELPHIA.
Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster of Philadelphia, and the twenty-seventh is Colonel George Edward Kemp, almost all of his early life a resident of Perry County, and the first one of the' entire list of postmasters of that historic city to rise from the ranks. He assumed office January 1, 1922. As in other phases of his life, Colonel Kemp has started at the bottom rung and climbed to the top. Entering the employ of the post office department as a clerk on July 28, 1890, through a civil service examination he was assigned as a stamper, being promoted to state distributor on October 15th following. December 1, 1891, he was made dis- tributor of New York and New Jersey mails, and November 27, 1898, receiver of second-class matter. On September 1, 1905, he was appointed superintendent of the West Philadelphia Postal Station, where he remained, save while serving his state and coun- try in military duty, until his recent elevation to the postmastership -one of the big postal jobs of the country.
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