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BEITZEL, A. J. Andrew J. Beitzel was born August 15, 1852, in Spring Township, the son of Jesse and Nancy (Bear) Beitzel. He attended the public schools and Mt. Dempsey Academy at Landisburg. He then entered the Cumberland Valley State Normal School, graduating in 1877. Mr. Beitzel conducted a teachers' summer school at Boiling Springs one term, and had two assistants, having had an enrollment of ninety-two. He also. was principal at Newville, and supervisory principal at Mechanicsburg. He was once a teacher in the Cumberland Valley State Normal School. In 1887 he was elected as county superintendent of the Cumberland County schools, serving three terms, or nine years. During that time Franklin and Marshall College awarded him the A.M. degree. During the past twelve years he has been teacher of English in the Central High School at Harrisburg. Mr. Beitzel married Miss Mary S. Frownfelter, who was a fellow student in both the common schools and at Mt. Dempsey Academy. A daughter, Mildred, is the wife of Dr. Merwin G. Filler, Dean of Dickin- son College.
BENFER, HENRY A. Henry A. Benfer, D.D., was born at Marys- ville in 1861, the second son of David and Matilda (Drees) Benfer. He was educated in the public schools and in the Union Theological Seminary, completing a divinity course in Oskalooska College, lowa, from whom he received his degree, D.D. Rev. Benfer was ordained as a minister in the United Evangelical Church and has served pastorates in Williamsport, 1,ock Haven, Carlisle, York, and Baltimore. For eight years he was dis- trict superintendent, which is the highest office in the gift of the confer- ence. He represented the conference three times as delegate to the Gen- eral Conference, the highest legislative body of the church. He served for sixteen years on the Board of Examiners and served as trustee for
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the United Evangelical Church Home. He is now president of the Board of Conference Trustees, director of the Deaconess Board, and pastor of one of the largest congregations in Pennsylvania, being located at Red Lion, Pennsylvania.
BERGSTRESSER, REV. HENRY. Rev. Henry Bergstresser was born at Liverpool, January 19, 1831, and grew to manhood near New Bloom- field. In 1853 he settled in Richland County, Ohio, and two years later located at Newark, Licking County, Ohio, which he represented in the Ohio State Legislature. He subsequently joined the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church, and began preaching in October, 1860.
BERNHEISEL, AUSTIN. Austin Bernheisel was born at Green Park, November 10, 1867, the son of Martin J. and Catherine A. (Heim) Bern- heisel. He attended the country schools and learned the printing trade. For the past twenty-five years he has been editor and publisher of the Neosho V'alley Times, published at Hartford, Kansas, and is a director in the Farmers' State Bank of that town, as well as an agriculturist.
BERNHEISEL, PETER. Peter Bernheisel was born August 18, 1806. His early education was secured in the subscription schools of the period. He learned the trade of carpenter and builder at Carlisle, and in 1830 located at Harrisburg, where he conducted a contracting business until 1859. During this time he built the county jail and the Market Square Presbyterian Church.
BILLMAN, REV. A. M. Rev. A. M. Billman, while born near McCrea, Cumberland County, was brought back by his mother to her girlhood home in Spring Township, six months after his birth, in the spring of 1890, his father having died two months before he was born. He was the son of Arasman M. and Sarah Ellen (Souder) Billman, and was born November 15, 1889. He attended the public schools of Spring and Tyrone Town- ships and attended Mercersburg Academy for three years, graduating in 1908. He graduated from Ursinus College in 1912 with the degree A.B. In 1918 he graduated from the Union Theological Seminary of New York City, and received the M.A. degree from Columbia University in 1920. He taught for three years, 1912-15, in the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, Syria, traveling during the summer vacations in Egypt, Palestine, Russia, and most of Central Europe. He was a chaplain in the U. S. Army in 1918, being with the Tank Corps, and saw service in Camps Taylor, Colt and Dix. During his student days he had been assistant pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church and Madison Avenue Baptist Church, in New York City. During one year, 1919-20, he was with the Interchurch World Move- ment in New York City. In 1920 he became pastor of the First Reformed Church at Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, which is his present location.
BILLOW, REV. HARRY J. Rev. Harry Jacob Billow, son of William H. and Ellen Rebekah (Kumler) Billow, was born in Buck's Valley, Buf- falo Township, February 19, 1888. During his childhood his parents moved to Herndon, Northumberland County, where he got his early education in the public schools. He then taught school in that vicinity four years, from 1906 to 1911. In the fall of 1911 he entered Allentown Preparatory School, graduating in the spring of 1912. He then entered Muhlenberg College, graduating in 1916 with the A.B. degree. He entered the Lutheran Theo- logical School in Philadelphia, and graduated in 1919. He was ordained to the gospel ministry June 5, 1919, and in a few weeks was elected pastor of the Lutheran Church at Turbotville, Pa., where he is still located.
BISTLINE, J. B. J. B. Bistline was born April 10, 1862, the son of Ben- jamin and Jane (Nesbit) Bistline, of Andersonburg. He was educated in the public schools and in Captain G. C. Palm's Select School at Blain. He taught school in Madison Township for two years, and in 1881 left for
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Illinois, where he taught during the winter terms and worked on farms during the summer. In 1884 he went to Nebraska, bought a quarter section of raw prairie land and broke it. Selling this three years later, he started a hardware and implement store in western Kansas. In 1890 he located at Pocatello, Idaho, where he worked in the O. S. L. shops until 1900, when he started in the lumber business, which has since been enlarged to include hardware, coal, and farm implements. During 1899 he was mayor of Pocatello ; 1910-II he served as county commissioner of Bannock County.
BISTLINE, J. M. J. M. Bistline was born May 11, 1866, the son of Benjamin and Jane (Nesbit) Bistline, of Andersonburg. His education was secured in the public schools and in Captain Palm's Select School at Blain. He taught several terms in Jackson Township, and left Perry County in 1885, going to Nebraska, and later to Kansas, where he taught several years and served one term as county superintendent of the Ness County (Kansas) schools. In 1903 he left Kansas and located in Poca- tello, Idaho. Until 1913 he was associated with his brother, J. B. Bistline, in the lumber business, since which time he has been interested in real estate to some extent. He served two years as mayor of Pocatello, and is now on the board of aldermen.
BLOOM, S. S. S. S. Bloom was born at East Waterford, Juniata County, on March II, 1834, the son of George and Mary Ann (Stam- baugh) Bloom. His mother died a few days after his birth, and he was brought to Perry County and became a member of the family of his grandfather, John Stam- baugh, near Blain. In that home, in the public schools and at the New Bloomfield Academy he se- cured his education. He taught school for several terms. In 1856 he located at Shelby, Ohio, where he remained the balance of his life, save for a period of three years, when he lived at Columbus. He entered politics early in life, served in many local offices, and four two-year terms in the Ohio Legislature. He was heralded as a candidate for governor in 1884, but declined for financial reasons. He was his county's choice for Congress, but was defeated owing to the unit rule. He was an attor- ney and was also admitted to the S. S. BLOOM. Ohio Supreme and United States Courts. While in the legislature, 1878-81, he was much interested in the codification of Ohio laws, and subsequently published a "Popular Edition of the Laws of Ohio," a book of 1,000 pages. He was also author of "Why We Are Democrats" and "The American Democracy." During the term of President Cleveland Mr. Bloom wrote him an interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, at the time of the controversy between England and Venezuela, which Secretary Olney used word for word in settling the dis- pute, for which Mr. Bloom's family have President Cleveland's acknowl- edgment. He published The Pioneer, The Gasett, and later the Shelby News. He died August 1, 1902.
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BLAINE, EPHRAIM W. M. Ephraim W. M. Blaine was born in 1804, on the Anthony Black farm, in Jackson Township. The family migrated to Northeast, Erie County, many years ago. Mr. Blaine was elected sheriff of Erie County in 1840. His brother, Alexander Blaine, represented Cum- berland County in the State Legislature.
BOOK, WM. I. William I. Book was born at Blain, June 9, 1875, the son of Edmund D. and Elizabeth (Long) Book. He attended the local schools, and graduated from Juniata College in 1897, and from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1913. He was supervising principal at Stoners- town and Saxton, Bedford County, 1897-99, and at Duncannon, 1899-1900. From 1901 to 1909 he was principal of the Gettysburg schools. In 1909 he became instructor in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1920 he has been Professor of Physics at the same institution. In 1913 he was awarded the Ph.D. degree.
BOSSERMAN, REV. C. O. Rev. C. O. Bosserman was born in New- port, August 25, 1869, the son of William Henry and Mary Minerva (Mil- ler) Bosserman. He attended the Newport schools, graduating in 1885. He graduated from the New Bloomfield Academy in 1887, from Princeton College in 1891, and from the Princeton Seminary in 1894. He was pastor of the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg, 1894-1908, pastor of the Shippensburg Presbyterian Church, 1908-15, since which time he has been pastor of the Cape May, N. J., Presbyterian Church.
BOWER, DR. PETER. Dr. Peter Bower was born in Landisburg, December 4, 1825, a son of Peter and Mary (Sheibley) Bower. He was educated in the public schools and located at Thomasville, Ga., where he spent most of his life. He served as a surgeon in the Confederate Army during the War between the States, and died December 19, 1897.
BOWERS, B. J. Ben. J. Bowers was born in Saville Township, Febru- ary 3, 1864, the son of David B. and Diana (Hopple) Bowers. He attended the public schools of Saville and Tyrone Townships, Tressler Orphans' Home as a pay student, and the New Bloomfield Academy a number of terms. He graduated from the Cumberland Valley State Normal School in 1892. He taught two terms in Dauphin County, and from 1894 to 1899 taught in Mill Hall, where he organized the high school and graduated the first class. He later taught in the schools of Clearfield and Mckean Coun- ties. In 1910 he became principal of the Washington School Building in Johnstown, where he is now a supervising principal over two districts. For nine years he also taught in the night school in Johnstown. He has taken several university extension courses.
BOYER, SAMUEL J. Samuel J. Boyer, M.D., was born at Markel- ville in 1856, and educated at the New Bloomfield Academy. He read medicine with Dr. J. E. VanCamp, and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Baltimore, in 1881. Practiced with his pre- ceptor for seven years, also in Illinois and at Elliottsburg. In 1884 he located at Siglerville, Mifflin County.
BOYER, REV. HARRY. Rev. Harry Boyer was born at Duncannon, January 28, 1870, the son of John B. and Annie (DeHaven) Boyer. He attended the local schools and graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1887. He entered the ministry of the U. B. Church and served the fol- lowing charges: Dover, York County, 1897-1901; Spry, York County, 1901-07; Shermansdale, 1907-15, and since then at Oakville, Cumberland County. Rev. Boyer has been one of the examiners for the reading course of the U. B. Conference for fifteen years.
BRANDT, ANTHONY. Anthony Marion Brandt, son of Isaac and Caroline (Emerick) Brandt, was born at Millerstown, April 8, 1844. His father was a railroad contractor, and died when the boy was but five
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years old. He was educated in the public schools, was a page in the Pennsylvania Legislature as a boy, learned harness making in Philadel- phia, and located in the West, at Clinton, Iowa, in 1866. He was in the livestock business at Bellevue, Iowa, for twenty-six years, at the same time conducting a farm and livery business for ten years. He purchased the Bellevue Herald in 1887, and from then to his death was its editor. He died April 16, 1921, a leader among the editors of the country press of his adopted state.
BRETZ, F. K. F. K. Bretz was born at Newport, August 4, 1872, the son of Mahlon T. and Emma P. (Kirby) Bretz. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from Lafayette College in 1893. In 1888 he was a telegraph operator on the P. R. R., and 1888-89 was private secretary to the general manager of the W. Va. C. & P. Ry. at Cumberland, Md. During his college vacations he was with the engineering department of the same road. During 1893-94 he was secretary to the general counsel, and from 1894 to 1902 was general manager of the Dry Fork Railroad, at Hendricks, W. Va. During the period from 1902 to 1919 he was general manager of the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, being vice-president of the same from 1909 to 1919. He was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa, of Lafayette College.
BRINER, GEO. M. Geo. M. Briner was born in New Bloomfield, Janu- ary II, 1883, the son of George S. and Susan B. (Moose) Briner. He at- tended the public schools and graduated from the Shippensburg Normal in 1901, from Dickinson College in 1907. From 1907 to 1917 he was a member of the faculty of the Carlisle High School, being principal from 1910 to 1917. He now represents a publishing house, and resides in Carlisle.
BRINER, W. GRIER. William Grier Briner was born in New Bloom- field, July 21, 1885, a son of George S. and Susan B. (Moose) Briner. He attended the public schools and graduated from the Carlisle High School in 1905, and Dickinson College in 1909. He was vice-principal of the Emporium High School from 1909 until 1911, and its principal from then until 1914. During 1914-15 he was principal at Greencastle, Pa., and 1915-18, supervising principal of the State College schools, since which time he has followed other vocations, residing at Newark, N. J.
BRINER, J. FRANK. J. Frank Briner was born in Newport, October 30, 1887, the son of George S. and Susan B. (Moose) Briner. He at- tended the public schools and graduated from the Carlisle High School in 1906, since which time he has been connected with the Farmers Trust Company of Carlisle, being its assistant secretary.
BRINER, CHAS. S. Chas. S. Briner was born in Newport, December 6, 1889, the son of George S. and Susan B. (Moose) Briner. He attended the public schools and graduated from the Carlisle High School in 1907, and from Dickinson College in 1911. He was instructor in Latin and Greek in the Wilmington Conference Academy at Dover, Delaware, from 19II to 1913, and in the same branches in the Montclair (N. J.) Academy from 1913 to 1916, since which time he has followed other vocations.
BRYNER, IRA L. Ira L. Bryner, the son of George M. and Frances (Peck) Bryner, was born at Cisna Run, May 29, 1867. He was educated in the public schools, the Millersville State Normal School, and graduated from Ursinus College in 1892. He took postgraduate work at Worcester University, studied law and was admitted to the Cumberland County bar in 1902. Prior to this he was an instructor for four years in the Shippens- burg Normal School and had also taught in Perry and Lancaster Counties. He was county superintendent of the schools of Cumberland County for six years. In 1902 he located in Pasadena, California, being interested in banking and the development of the oil fields of California and Wyoming.
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While Mr. Bryner was county superintendent of the Cumberland Valley schools, his brother, Ezra H. Bryner, was county superintendent of the schools of Perry County, probably the first instance in the state where brothers were superintendents of adjoining counties at the same time.
BRYNER, E. H. E. H. Bryner, son of George M. and Frances (Peck) Bryner, was born at Elliottsburg, February 13, 1864. He attended the pub- lic schools and graduated from the Millersville State Normal School in 1890, prior to which time he had been teaching in Perry and Lancaster Counties. After his graduation he taught in Lancaster County, and prior to September, 1896, was principal of the Newport schools for three years. At that time he was appointed county superintendent of schools to suc- ceed Prof. Joseph M. Arnold, who resigned. In 1899 and 1902 Mr. Bryner was elected to the county superintendency, but resigned in October, 1905, to accept a position in New York City, where he died in November, 1909.
BRYNER, DR. J. H. Dr. J. H. Bryner was born at Andersonburg, February 18, 1864, the son of John H. and Margaret (Rice) Bryner. He attended the common schools, the New Bloomfield Academy, the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and the Columbus Medical College, graduating from the latter in 1882. Dr. Bryner began practice at New Germantown, but after a few years removed to Ickesburg, where he was long located. He is now located at Quentin, Lebanon County, Pa.
BRUNNER, DR. M. W. Dr. M. W. Brunner, son of William and Sarah (Brindle) Brunner, was born in Centre Township, on November 7, 1872. He attended the public schools and the New Bloomfield Academy. He graduated from the Cumberland Valley State Normal School in 1885, and from the Lebanon Valley College in 1901. He graduated from Philadelphia College of Osteopathy in 1904, and since that time has practiced his pro- fession at Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
BUCKE, W. FOWLER. W. Fowler Bucke was born in Hunter's Valley, Buffalo Township, September 29, 1866, the son of Samuel E. and Nancy Jane ( Fortney) Bucke. He attended the public schools and select school at Liverpool. He entered the Bloomsburg State Normal School in 1886 and passed to the senior class at the end of the spring term, graduating in 1887. He entered Dickinson College in the fall of 1892, graduating in 1895, receiving the A.M. degree in 1898. In 1895 he began tion-resident work at the University of Wooster, Ohio, and completed the course for Ph.D. in June, 1902. He was then appointed Scholar in Clark University, at Worcester, Massachusetts, and subsequently Fellow, spe- cializing in psychology and education, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Clark in June, 1904.
He taught in the schools of Huntingdon, Perry, and Juniata Counties from 1884 to 1889. In 1889 he opened a school for teachers at Thompson- town. After graduating from college he was called to head the Depart- inent of Mathematics in the Centenary Collegiate Institute at Hacketts- town, N. J. He remained here three years, leaving to become principal of the Newcastle (Pa.) High School, remaining there four years. He was the first principal of the Technical High School of Harrisburg, before go- ing to the head of the Department of Education in the State Normal School at Geneseo, N. Y., in the fall of 1905. Due to the illness of the principal of this institution, he has been acting principal since November, 1920. There he organized the training school and developed courses in observation, psychology, history of education, etc. In the fall of 1920 an act of the legislature established the Craig Colony School of Educational Therapy, in which he is a director in addition to his other duties. This institution correlates with the Normal School in the development of de- fective children. He is a noted speaker along educational lines in the
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Central Eastern States. In G. Stanley Hall's work on Adolescence he is quoted for original work in that line.
BUCKE, REV. J. E. A. Rev. J. E. A. Bucke was born in Hunter's Val- ley, Buffalo Township, November 3, 1875, the son of Samuel Elias and Nancy Jane (Fortney) Bucke. He attended the Mt. Patrick school, with the exception of one term when his family resided at Montgomery's Ferry. At the former school his father was his teacher at all times. He gradu- ated from the Lock Haven State Normal School in 1897, prior to which time he had taught school in his home township. Following his graduation he taught in Liverpool, and was principal of the Ramey (Pennsylvania) schools for two terms.
When a lad of seventeen he had gone to Harrisburg to work in a shoe factory, where he joined the Stevens Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, which later licensed him to preach, a year before his graduation at the State Normal School, the quarterly conference granting him a local preacher's license. Although he had been elected for the third term as principal of the Ramey schools, he resigned to enter Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, N. J., in September, 1900, from which he graduated in 1903. While a student, 1901-03, he served the New Germantown (N. J.) Methodist Church as pastor. As he was already married this helped sup- plement the funds needed for the support of his family and the securing of a college education at the same time. After his graduation he joined the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church at the spring session of 1903, and has since served the following charges: Buck- horn, Columbia Co., 1903-05; Sunbury, Catawissa Avenue (which he or- ganized), 1905-12; Newberry, Williamsport, 1912-20; St. Paul's, Hazleton, 1920-21. In 1921 he was elevated to the position of district superintendent of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, probably the youngest man ever selected to fill that honorable position, the most important of the conference.
BUCK, HARVEY E. Harvey E. Buck was born December 17, 1869, in Buck's Valley, Buffalo Township, the son of Jacob Resler and Esther (Albright) Buck. He attended the local schools, later becoming a teacher in his home township. In 1890 he located in Philadelphia, having a position on the street cars. In the fall of 1892 he opened a grocery there, the fol- lowing year he and his father entering into a partnership in the grocery and meat business, and later, in 1896, taking his brother, Jacob U. Buck, into the firm. This continued until 1900, when the brothers begin gradu- ally entering the cake business, and in 1902 the partnership was dissolved and they engaged entirely in the cake business, being the establishers and sole proprietors of the Enterprise Cake Company, which continued in business until the death of the younger brother, Jacob U. Buck, in 1916. The business was then conducted by Harvey E. Buck until his death on October II, 1918. This firm had become one of the leading wholesale cake firms of the City of Philadelphia, and employed a large number of delivery wagons in the distribution of their product.
BURD, W. H. W. H. Burd was born at Donally's Mills, April 8, 1873, the son of Ananias and Sarah E. (Long) Burd. He attended the local schools in which he later taught. He graduated from the Cumberland Valley State Normal School in 1892, and from Lebanon Valley College in 1901, since which time he has taken postgraduate work at Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania. At present he is principal of the Central Junior High School at Altoona, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania State Educational Association.
BURKHOLDER, A. K. A. K. Burkholder was born in Juniata Town- ship, and was educated at the Markelville Academy. He read law in the office of B. McIntire at New Bloomfield. After being admitted to the bar
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he located in Ohio, becoming a captain of volunteers in the Northern army. After his term of service expired he located in Missouri, where he later served as a president judge of the courts of a district.
BURNS, REV. CHAS. E. Rev. Charles Edward Burns was born in Duncannon, August 13, 1846, the son of Ephraim and Eleanor (Maxwell) Burns. He attended the local schools and academy and graduated from Lafayette College and the Union Seminary in New York City. He began his work in the Presbyterian ministry in October, 1876, at Beemerville, New Jersey. He was pastor of the Manayunk Church for twenty-five years, ยท later being located at Bristol, Pennsylvania, where he died in November, 1918.
CALHOUN, REV. W. SCOTT. Rev. W. Scott Calhoun was born July 16, 1846, near Cisna's Run, Madison Township, the son of John and Catha- rine (Kiner) Calhoun, one of a family which has become distinguished in the annals of Illinois, being a brother of Rev. J. D. Calhoun and Wm. F. Calhoun, once speaker of the Illinois Assembly, brief biographies of whom appear elsewhere. After the death of his father in 1858 the family re- moved to Blain, and in 1866 migrated to Illinois, locating in LaSalle County. Being refused enlistment on account of his youth he served in a civil capacity at Washington for a period during the war. Upon his re- turn for a time he attended Sherman's Valley Institute at Andersonburg. He taught for several terms in Perry County and for a time in Illinois. Learning photography he followed that occupation for several years.
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