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Since the three sons of this Perry County family have achieved distinc- tion, a word of the daughters, Margaret Jennie, who married Nathan V. Chamberlain at Geneseo, a well-known teacher and business man, died in 1903. Martha Ella married E. L. Hill, of Geneseo, who taught many years in Henry County, Illinois. They now reside in Des Moines, Iowa, where Mrs. Hill is president of the Eighth Congressional District in W. C. T. U. work. She is also vice-president of the state organization. A daughter, Grace, was born of the second marriage, and is now the wife of Walter Lambert, proprietor of a leading department store of Geneseo, Illinois.
MEMINGER, REV. J. W., D.D. Rev. James W. Meminger, D.D., was born in Saville Township, November 9, 1859, the son of James and Ellen (Rice) Meminger. He was educated in the public schools, the New Bloom- field Academy, the Tuscarora Academy, and Ursinus College, where he graduated in 1884, hav- ing entered the sophomore class. He graduated from the Theologi- cal Seminary at Ursinus and from the National School of Oratory at Philadelphia in 1886, taking both courses simultaneously. His first charge was Brownback's Church, in Chester County. On July I, 1887, Dr. Meminger took charge of St. Paul's First Reformed Church at Lancaster, and under his charge the congregation be- came the largest of that denomi- nation in the United States. He remained as pastor until July 1, 1920, or for a period of thirty- three years, a very rare occur- rence in any denomination, and rarely excelled. He then resigned to take charge of the work of ministerial relief in the Reformed Church in the United States. The present objective is to raise a fund of $1,200,000, with which to pro- vide a pension of $500 a year for all ministers reaching the age of seventy years. When Dr. Memin- REV. JAMES W. MEMINGER, D.D. ger assumed charge of St. Paul's at Lancaster it had 150 members, and when he retired the number was considerably over 1,000, the largest protestant congregation in that city. Its Sunday school is also the largest in Lancaster. A handsome new edifice was erected in 1904 with a seating capacity of 2,000, at a cost of $150,000. During the pastorate of Dr. Men- inger twenty of its sons have entered the ministry, largely through his ef- forts. He has lectured in many different states and cities. Long before resigning St. Paul's he was secretary and treasurer of the General Synod Board of Relief. He was one of the committee of twenty-five in the United States to "put over" the forward movement in raising $6,000,000 to further church work in his denomination. He was also a director of Ursinus College and of the Shippen School for Girls, a member of the
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Board of Visitors of the Central Theological Seminary at Dayton, Ohio; president of the Clergymen's Beneficial Association with over 10,000 mem- bers, and of the Teachers' Protective Union, with over 13,000 members. Dr. Meminger stands in the very front rank of those Perry Countians who have attained a deserved fame in theological work.
HART, REV. B. H. Rev. Barnett H. Hart, son of Levi J. and Mary Elizabeth (Cogley) Hart, was not born in Perry County, as often stated, but was brought in so early in life that Perry Countians always speak of him as a Perry Countian, and he considers it "home." He was born in Gettysburg in the building in which Jennie Wade was shot and killed during the battle, the date of his birth having been October 25, 1864. His father died in 1871, leaving his mother with six children. From 1872 to 1878 he was an attendant at the Andersonburg Soldiers' Orphans' School, and from 1878 to 1880, at the Tressler Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Loysville. From then until 1886 he had private tutoring. During this time, in 1880 and 1881, he taught school in Jackson and Toboyne Town- ships, and then was employed for several years in the gen- eral store of J. H. Little & Brother, at Concord, Franklin REV. BARNETT H. HART. County. In 1887 he was re- ceived into the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the M. E. Church, and and 1899 into full membership. He served as assistant pastor at Cassville for one year and at Port Royal for another. He was pastor at Thomp- sontown for three years, beginning with 1888: at the Second M. E. Church, Huntingdon, for five years, beginning with 1891; at the First Church, Jersey Shore, five years, 1897-1901; at the Fifth Street M. E. Church in Harrisburg, 1901-15; at the Pine Street Church, Williamsport, 1915-20, since which time he has been pastor of the First Church at York. In 1912 he was delegate to the Methodist General Conference. In 1907 he was Grand Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Pennsylvania. Rev. Hart is one of the most noted of the many able divines of his denomination.
In a letter from the late Senator Smiley to Rev. J. D. Calhoun, himself a noted minister of the same denomination, dated February 23, 1902, among other things, is this reference to Rev. Hart, which he has never seen :
"A few Sundays ago I was in Harrisburg and was assured by a friend that I would hear a good sermon if I would go up to the Fifth Street Methodist Church. I went and heard a sermon that could have been preached acceptably before the most cultured congregation in the country. It was particularly pleasant at the close of the service to be allowed to greet the pastor as an old friend, a Perry County boy, who, from a humble birth, is rising to a big position in his church. It was the Rev. Barnett Hart, reared near New Germantown, Perry County."
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SMITH, REV. MARTIN ALBERT. Rev. Martin Albert Smith was born on a farm, three miles west of Bloomfield, November 22, 1822. He was the son of Benjamin Smith (who, with his father, Adam Smith, emi- grated from Alsace, in 1848,) and Elizabeth (Albert) Smith. His father having purchased a farm in Tyrone Township in the part that is now Spring Township, with his parents he moved there in 1829. He attended the local schools, then taught by William Power, Henry Thatcher (father of the noted Thatcher boys), and George R. Wolfe, who also married a sister of Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Thatcher. There he got his preliminary education in English, and in his home, from his parents, he learned to read German. During 1840-41 he taught Markel's school, near his home, at- tending the New Bloomfield Academy the following season. He then taught several seasons at Hogestown, Cumberland County, where the late noted A. Loudon Snowden was one of his pupils, attending summer ses- sions of the academy in the meantime. In 1843 he attended a course of catechetical lectures at the Loysville Lebanon Church, conducted by Rev. C. H. Leinbach, the Reformed pastor, which changed the future course of his life. This class numbered about seventy from the congregations of Lebanon, St. Peters' and Rudolph's. In the words of Mr. Smith, "As a catechist, Rev. Leinbach had few equals in the Reformed Church; more than once I saw tears flowing down his cheeks while expostulating." He attended Sunday school at Landisburg, as there was none then at St. Peter's Church, near his home. In the fall of 1843 he entered the fresh- man class of Marshall College, at Mercersburg. Conveyed in a covered wagon, by his brother, he and a cousin, Charles H. Albert, with their room furniture, bedding and stove, arrived at the primitive college town. Most of the students came in the same way-the custom of the period. Part of the time students would board themselves, and the cost would be as low as thirty cents a week. Corn was then thirty cents per bushel, and other products accordingly low in price. During two winters of his college career Mr. Smith taught school, as the terms were then short, and still kept up in his work. He graduated in 1847. During his senior year he had also taken some of his theological work, and in 1849 he graduated at the Theological Seminary at Mercersburg. He was licensed to preach on May 14, 1849. That summer he supplied the charge at Nittany Valley, and during the following winter taught in the York Institute. In the fall of 1850 he traveled by train and overland to Clarion, where he was installed as pastor of the Reformed Mission. Remittent fever caused him to relin- quish it, and he started to return home overland on horseback. He stopped with a friend at Boalsburg, and about that time the charge there was di- vided, and later, in 1852, he became the first pastor of the new Aarons- burg charge, with five churches, at a salary of $350 per year. He also preached for the Presbyterians at Spring Mills for two years of this pe- riod. Two churches were built during this pastorate, which lated until December, 1856. He was married March 21, 1854, to Miss Mary Jane Myers, of the Nittany Valley charge, first served by him. He assumed the Hummelstown charge in December, 1856. It consisted of five congrega- tions. Going into other congregations in eastern Pennsylvania he raised enough money to pay the considerable indebtedness of the church at Hum- melstown, where he remained until 1866. In December of that year he began his ministry at Dryland and Bath, Pennsylvania, to which Nazareth was later added. At Bath a fine church was erected during his pastorate, and it became a separate pastorate about 1885, Rev. Smith remaining with Nazareth and Dryland. During December, 1890, he resigned the charge, and on March 13, 1891, he passed away. Prior to the organization of the Potomac Synod he was president of the old Synod of the United States. During his forty years' ministry he preached almost eight thousand ser-
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mons. Of his children, one, Charles M. Smith, is a prominent retired minister, residing at Middletown, Maryland, and another, Calvin, was long an editor and publisher at Pen Argyl. A third, George, is a druggist at Patterson, N. J.
ADAMS, JACOB LINCOLN. Jacob Lincoln Adams was born in Bucks Valley, Buffalo Township, the first-born of Frank and Catherine (Buck) Adams' children. When about nine years old his father died, and with four other children he was left an orphan. His mother married again and moved to near Wichita, Kansas, where he attended the public schools. His mother died when he was about twenty, thus breaking up the family. He first worked on a cattle range. About 1885 he began teaching at Geneva, Nebraska, and continued for fifteen years in the Fillmore County schools He was then elected county superintendent, which position he held until his death. He stood high in his profession.
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. John Quincy Adams, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Adams, was born in New Bloomfield, August 27, 1892. He was educated in the local schools and graduated from the Central State Normal School, Lock Haven, in 1913, where he was teacher of physical training the next year. In 1914-16 he was principal of the Consolidated High School at Corvallis, Montana. In 1917 he was appointed deputy clerk of the District Court of Ravalli County, Montana, and in 1920 was elected as clerk of the court.
ADAMS, WILMOT J. Wilmot J. Adams was born February 7, 1889, in Toboyne Township, the son of Robert Cochran and Sarah Jane ( Yhost) Adams. He graduated at Millersville and took a course in the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches science and mathematics in the West Phila- delphia High School.
ALBERT, WM. T. Wm. T. Albert was born in Landisburg, October 14, 1842, a son of Abraham and Lydia Albert. He attended the public schools and also Mt. Dempsey Academy there. He taught several terms, and was then engaged as clerk in John A. Linn's store, later teaching again and also employed as a clerk in the store of his uncle, Henry Thatcher, at Martins- burg, Pa., from 1864 to 1867. From then until 1871 he taught in Bethany Orphans' Home, at Womelsdorf. In 1871, he located at Pueblo, Colorado, where he has since been with the Thatcher Brothers' bank, save for a period of seven or eight years when, with a brother, he was engaged in managing the business of the Pueblo Transfer Co., which they owned, and a later period of years. From his first Sunday in Pueblo, April 30, 1871, Mr. Albert has been identified with the Protestant Episcopal Church. Mr. Albert's grandfather, John Albert, was a clockmaker at Landisburg.
ALEXANDER, SAMUEL E. Samuel Edmiston Alexander, son of John and Margaret (Clark) Alexander, was born in what is now Madison Township, January 17, 1785. Later in life he was an associate judge and county commissioner of Mifflin County, where his people had located dur- ing his earlier years. Of his fifteen children, John Edmiston Alexander became the founder of Hightstown Classical Institute in New Jersey.
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM. William Alexander and his twin sister, Emily, were born in what is now Madison Township, December 25, 1777. He was a son of Hugh Alexander and his second wife, Mrs. Lettice Thompson. Early in life he removed to Centre County, where he later became sheriff. His father was a member of the Constitutional Conven- tion which adopted the first Constitution of Pennsylvania, and of the first Colonial Assembly.
ALLEN, ROY R. Roy R. Allen, son of Dr. William J. and Flora R. Allen, was born at New Germantown, February 27, 1887, where he at-
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tended the local schools. He also attended Gettysburg Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1912. He attended three summer sessions at Columbia University. He was instructor of mathematics at New Castle, Pa., and vice-principal of the Meriden (Conn.) High School, 1914-19. From 1919 he has been vice-principal of the Tourtellotte Memo- rial High School, North Grosvenordale, Conn.
ANDERSON, ALEX. A. Alexander A. Anderson, son of William and Margaret (McCord) Anderson, was born in what is now Madison Town- ship, in 1786. He graduated at Washington College, practiced law at the Mifflin County bar, and was twice a member of the Pennsylvania Legisla- ture. He died in April, 1823.
ANDERSON, DR. B. H. Dr. Benjamin Hooke Anderson was born at Andersonburg, April 19, 1867, the son of Alexander B. and Mary Ann (Lackey) Anderson. He was educated in the common schools, the Bloom- field Academy, and at the Medico-Chirurgical College at Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1899. He is located at Wilkinsburg, Pa., and is a physician of the Pennsylvania Railroad Medical Department.
ANTHONY, B. F. Rev. B. F. Anthony was born May 30, 1844, at Juniata Furnace, Perry County. His educational advantages were limited to the public schools and private study. He died at East Berlin, May 23, 1886. He was licensed to preach by the Evangelical Church in 1875, and served on the Middleburg Circuit one year as a junior pastor, and as pastor on the circuits at McClure, Hagerstown, Lewisburg, Jarettsville and Dillsburg.
ARNOLD, JOHN H. John H. Arnold was born in Perry County and was educated in the public schools. He read law with Benjamin and C. J. T. McIntire, was admitted to the bar and located at Middleburg, Snyder County, in 1860. He was district attorney of Snyder County from 1876 to 1879.
ARNOLD, DR. GEO. D. Dr. George D. Arnold was born January 1, 1847, in Tyrone Township, near Loysville, the son of Jonathan and Mary (Ernest) Arnold. He was educated in the Loysville school and at Loys- ville Academy. At the age of seventeen he entered Susquehanna University at Selinsgrove, and a year later entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Harbor, as a medical student. He later transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1869 from the medical department. In 1887 he was appointed medical examiner of the relief department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, being stationed at Tyrone, Pa. He later moved to Cleveland, Ohio, becoming chief examiner of the Pennsylvania Lines west of Pittsburgh. He remained there until 1919, when he was retired on ac- count of age. He removed to Mexico, Juniata County, to live in retirement among friends, but died June 14, 1920.
ARNOLD, DR. J. L. Dr. J. Loy Arnold, son of John S. and Ella (Mc- Kenzie) Arnold, was born at Millerstown, August 14, 1887. He attended the public schools, graduating in 1907 from the Harrisburg High School. He then entered Jefferson Medical College, from which he graduated in IQII. After serving as an interne for a year at the Allegheny Hospital he located in his home city-Harrisburg-where he has since practiced. Dur- ing the World War he was a lieutenant in the Medical Corps, and was located at Fort Oglethorpe, Camp Forest, at the hospital for returned sol- diers at Lakewood, New Jersey, and at Camp Grant, Illinois.
ARNOLD, JOSEPH M. Joseph Mitchell Arnold was born at New Buffalo, December 14, 1863, the son of Jacob L. and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Arnold. He attended the local schools and the New Bloomfield Academy. He prepared for college at Dickinson Seminary, and graduated at Lafay- ette College in 1887. He has since taken postgraduate work at the Uni-
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versity of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. He was principal of the New Bloomfield Academy 1887-93, and superintendent of the Perry County schools 1893-96. He resigned the latter position to become prin- cipal of the schools at Towanda, Pa., which he filled until 1898. He was elected supervising principal of the Princeton (N. J.) schools, serving from 1898 to 1906, since which time he has been superintendent of the schools of Mercer County, N. J. Mr. Arnold is a trustee of the Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum.
ASPER, REV. E. F. Rev. E. F. Asper, son of William H. and Mary A. Asper, was born in Miller Township, January 15, 1888. He attended the public schools and the New Bloomfield Academy, teaching in Miller and Centre Townships. In the fall of 1912 he entered the East Pennsylvania Eldership of the Church of God as a minister, and has filled appointments in Dauphin, Bedford, Huntingdon and Blair Counties. He is now serving an appointment which includes part of York and Cumberland Counties. In connection with his ministerial duties he has taken up work with the Moody Bible Institute.
AUMILLER, EMMETT U. Emmett U. Aumiller was born November 3, 1858, on the banks of the Susquehanna, at Dry Sawmill, three miles north of Liverpool, the son of Benjamin and Mary Magdalene (Deitrich) Aumiller. The youngest of the family he was thrown upon his own resources at the age of twelve, when his mother died, in 1870. In 1875 he entered the Summer Normal School of the late Silas Wright at Millers- town, where L. E. McGinnes was then a teacher, and where Ex-Judge James W. Shull was a fellow student. From 1875 to 1881, when he graduated at the head of his class, at the Central State Normal School, at Lock Haven, he taught during the winters, went to school during the spring term, and worked dur- ing the summer and fall to pay the way, as did so many other Perry Countians. In 1910 he was passed by the Millersville State Normal School, took the State Board examination and graduated in the advanced course. Susquehanna University has con- ferred upon him the A.M. de- gree. In 1884, 1887 and 1890 he EMMETT U. AUMILLER. was elected superintendent of the Perry County schools, succeeding J. R. Flickinger. He then passed the preliminary examination for admission to the bar of Perry County, but returned to teaching, being elected principal of the Wrightsville (Pa.) schools, which he resigned after serving eighteen years. He was then elected principal of the Elizabethtown (Pa.) schools, from which he was called, at the end of ten years, by Dr. Daniel Fleisher to be one of the assistant county superintendents of Lancaster County, which position he still fills.
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ARNOLD, IRA E. Ira E. Arnold was born in Madison Township, December 27, 1885, the son of James S. and Clara J. (Ernest) Arnold. He attended the public schools and the Blain Summer School, also the New Bloomfield Academy. He taught a number of years in Perry County. In 1910 he took a clerical position with the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany in Cleveland, Ohio, and while filling it for a period of three years he attended the Academy of Baldwin University, graduating in 1912. He also graduated from the Law School in 1913, in which year he was ad- mitted to the bar in the State of Ohio. He began practice at once and specializes along the lines of common carrier law.
BAILEY, JACOB. Jacob Bailey was born in Miller Township, Sep- tember 5, 1847, the son of Congressman Joseph Bailey and Mrs. Bailey. He studied law under C. J. T. McIntire and was admitted to the bar in October, 1870. After his marriage to Harriett Power, of New Bloomfield, he moved to Hastings, Nebraska, where he served four years as probate judge of Adams County. In 1905 he moved to Spokane, Washington, and became the senior member of the legal firm of Bailey & Brown. He died March 11, 1919.
BAKER, PAULINE. Pauline Baker, daughter of John D. (Jr.) and Clara M. (Baker) Baker, was born October 10, 1894, in Tuscarora Town- ship, where she attended the local schools. She graduated at the Cumber- land Valley State Normal School in 1913, at the University of Pittsburgh in 1919, and in the medical course at the same institution, in 1921, being the second woman physician from Perry County soil, and the first for many years. The other was Dr. Elizabeth Reifsnyder, of Liverpool.
BARNETT, ARTHUR E. Arthur Elliott Barnett, son of Chas. A. and Mary (McChuire) Barnett, was born in New Bloomfield, October 15, 1875. He attended the public schools and the New Bloomfield Academy. He read law in the office of his father and was admitted to the bar in 1897. He practiced in New Bloomfield for two years, and in 1899 located at Beaver, Pa., where a year later he entered into partnership with John M. Buchanan, practicing until his death, which occurred on May 13, 1911.
BARNETT, DR. R. T. Dr. Robert T. Barnett was born in New Bloom- field, September 1, 1873, the son of George Smiley and Jane Rebecca (Ram- sey) Barnett. He attended the public schools and the New Bloomfield Academy. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1895. He practiced for a time in Duncannon, Pa., after which he located in Lewistown, Pa., where he is an associate surgeon at the Lewistown Hospital.
BEACHAM, H. H. H. H. Beacham, while born near Mifflin, Juniata County, was brought to Millerstown by the removal of his parents to that town when he was six months old. He was the son of James and Phoebe Beacham, and was born Oct. 23, 1875. He attended the public schools, the Cumberland Valley State Normal School, the Susquehanna Univer- sity. He taught in Tuscarora and Greenwood Townships, Millerstown Borough, and in the boroughs of Jeannette and Juniata. For the past twelve years he has been supervising principal in the Altoona schools.
BEALOR, DR. JOHN WEIBLEY. John Weibley Bealor, M.D., was born March 18, 1853, near Markelville, the son of Benjamin Franklin and Elizabeth (Weibley) Bealor. He was educated in the local schools and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Baltimore, now the University of Maryland, on May 15, 1875. He located at Sha- mokin, Pennsylvania, where he practiced until his death, which occurred December 18, 1914.
BEALOR, G. A. Gustavus Adolphus Bealor, son of Benjamin Franklin and Elizabeth (Weibley) Bealor, was born at Markelville. He graduated
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at the National College of Law at Washington, D. C., and from the State University of Law, at Nashville, Tennessee. He practices at Huntingdon, West Virginia.
BEAVER, THOS. K. Thomas K. Beaver was born in Pfoutz Valley, in Liverpool Township, January 8, 1864, the son of Samuel L. and Mary (Kipp) Beaver. He attended the common schools of Liverpool and Greenwood Townships, Silas Wright's Summer Normal at Millerstown, and the Central State Normal School at Lock Haven. He then farmed for some years, and then, with his brother William A., entered mercantile business at Academia, Juniata County. In 1891 the latter withdrew, and since then Mr. Beaver has conducted the business. He is also the post- master there. He represented Juniata County in the General Assembly of Pennsylvania during 1901-02.
BEAVER, PETER AND THOMAS B. These brothers were born at Millerstown (1802 and 1814), the sons of Rev. Peter and Elizabeth (Gil- bert) Beaver. They were educated in the schools of the period, and in 1853-54, with several partners, erected the Union furnace, in Union County, under the firm name of Beaver, Geddes, Marsh & Co. Until about 1873 they received their ore from Millerstown. As early as 1834 Peter Beaver was in business at Millerstown. Thomas Beaver worked on a farm for $2.50 per month, then clerked in a store until 1833, when, with a partner he entered the mercantile business at Lewisburg. Two years later he re- turned to Perry County. In 1857 he moved to Danville and took charge of the Montour Iron Works, in which he had a large interest. He owned much property, his mansion at the foot of Baldhead Mountain having been one of the best homes in Montour County. In 1886 he donated to the town of Danville, as a memorial to himself and wife, a handsome gray stone library and Y. M. C. A. building, erected at a cost of $195,000. He also left an endowment of $50,000.
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