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 86

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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EVERHART, DR. JAMES K. Dr. James K. Everhart was born at Millerstown, June 15, 1878, the son of William and Mary E. (Goodman) Everhart. He attended the public schools and Millersville State Normal School. In 1902 he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. Dur- ing 1902-03 he was an interne at Germantown Hospital, Philadelphia. He located at Millerstown in 1903, and practiced there for over a year, when he located at Pittsburgh, where he has since practiced. He is assistant professor in Diseases of Children at the University of Pittsburgh at this time.


FAHNESTOCK, S. B. S. B. Fahnestock, the ninth county superin- tendent of schools of Perry County, was born in Oliver Township, March 3, 1848, the son of Daniel and Nancy (McNaughton) Fahnestock. He was educated in the local schools, at Juniata College, and the Millersville State Normal School. He was principal of schools at Duncannon, Newport, Millerstown, and Williamstown, Dauphin County. He served as county superintendent of schools during 1878-80, inclusive. After retiring he be- came connected with the Surgeon General's office at Washington, D. C., in 1885, which position he held until his death on October 14, 1887. He was notable as a Bible student.


FERGUSON, JOHN F. Although born at Pittsburgh, February 12, 1890, John F. Ferguson was early brought, with two sisters, to New Bloom- field, where he was reared in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Baker, his uncle and aunt. His father was John Ferguson, and his mother Cecilia (Clancy) Ferguson. He attended the public schools, graduating from the New Bloomfield High School, and the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton. He is at present public accountant and treasurer, tax collector, and public administrator of Shoshone County, Idaho.


FERGUSON, JOHN F. John Frazier Ferguson was born in Centre Township, February 6, 1870, the son of Jesse Miller and Mary Ellen (Orwan) Ferguson. He attended the public schools, the New Bloomfield Academy, the Cumberland Valley State Normal School, Columbia Univer- sity, State College, and took extension courses during the last nine years from the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Pennsylvania, and Lehigh University. He is a supervisory principal of the Harrisburg public schools.


FLICKINGER, DR. W. H. Dr. William H. Flickinger was born at Loysville, May 10, 1886, the son of Newton F. and Minnie (Oxenford) Flickinger. He attended the public schools and the University of Mary- land, graduating from the Medical College of Virginia in 1917. In earlier years he had taught in the public schools of Jackson Township. He is a


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member of the medical staff of the relief department of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh. During the World War he was an acting assistant surgeon of the United States Public Health Service.


FLICKINGER, CHAS. D. Chas. D. Flickinger was born at Wila, Juniata Township, January 3, 1883, the son of William Harrison and Mar- garet Jane (Kroh) Flickinger. He attended the public schools and gradu- ated from the Newport High School in 1889, and from State College in (906, in the mechanical engineering course, being granted a degree in 1913. He has held a number of positions as assistant engineer, engineer, and superintendent of instruction on various power plants and construction jobs. At the present time he is chief draftsman with a noted New York construction company.


FLEISHER, PROF. DANIEL. Daniel Fleisher, son of Jacob and Mary (Clouser) Fleisher, was born in Oliver Township, September, 1852. He was educated in the public schools, at Bloomfield Academy, and Gettysburg College, graduat- ing from the latter in 1880. He was principal of schools of Brad- ford, Pennsylvania, and later superintendent of schools at Wrightsville. In 1911 he was appointed by Dr. N. C. Scheaf- fer, then State Superintendent of Public Instruction, as superin- tendent of the schools of Lan- caster County, and was reelected on two occasions, filling the posi- tion until his death, which oc- curred at Altoona, January 22, 1922, while attending a meeting of the State Educational Asso- ciation. The Pennsylvania School Journal, in a biographical sketch, classed him as a hard working, faithful and efficient superintend- ent-one of a type for which Perry County has long been noted. Daniel Fleisher was a member of a large family, a number of whom were among the county's substantial business men. A brother, John Fleisher, was an associate judge of the county, and was noted for his stand along moral lines. Daniel DANIEL FLEISHER. Fleisher was awarded the Ph.D. degree by Gettysburg College in 1888. He was one of Pennsylvania's lead- ing educators.


FOOSE, PROF. LEMUEL O. Prof. Lemuel O. Foose, son of James and Catherine (Boyer) Foose, was born January 16, 1838, at Markelville, Juniata Township. His parents were native Perry Countians and he spent all of his early years in Perry County. There, at Markelville, he attended the public schools and there he attended the Markelville Academy. In 1863 he finished the course at Gettysburg College. During his terms at the


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Markelville Academy and also at college he taught in the interim to help pay his way to an education. In 1864 and 1865 he was in charge of the academy at Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania. During 1866-67 he taught at Lima, Ohio, and in 1868-69 was superintendent of schools at Miamisburg, Ohio. In 1869-70 he was at the head of the Boys' High School at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and in 1870 was elected superintendent of the schools of the City of Harrisburg. His selection came through his stand for system and order in the schools. Under his supervision a course of study was adopted and the schools of the state capital forged to the front. He re- mained at the head of the city schools until his death in 1905. He was one of the founders of the public library and long chairman of the Bible Society. In 1868 he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Eleanor Kuhn, a daughter of Rev. Samuel Kuhn.


FOSSELMAN, REV. M. F. Rev. Millard F. Fosselman was born in Juniata Township, October 4, 1856, the son of John and Susan (Dum)) Fosselman. He attended the public schools and Union Seminary at New Berlin, Pennsylvania, from 1878 to 1881. He entered the ministry of the Evangelical Association, now the United Evangelical Church, in the year 1881. He served forty years in the ministry, eight of which he was pre- siding elder, the highest position within the gift of his conference. He is now located at Williamsport.


FOSSELMAN, JOHN JONES. One of four children of William and Rebecca (Jones) Fosselman, John Jones Fosselman was born in Donally's Mills, Tuscarora Township, October 18, 1879. He attended the local schools and taught at seventeen. He attended the New Bloomfield Acad- emy and Indiana State Normal School, where he graduated in 1898. Im- mediately afterwards he enlisted in the Spanish-American War. In 1900 he was appointed a clerk in the U. S. Pension Bureau at Washington. In 1901-02 he attended Lafayette College at Easton, where he took a scientific course. In 1903 he became a clerk in the U. S. Bureau of Education at Washington and matriculated at George Washington University, from which he later received his A.B. and LL.B. degrees. In 1906 he was ap- pointed fourth assistant examiner in the United States Patent Office. On January 25, 1910, he was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia. In 1912 he received the degree M.L.P. (Master of Patent Law) from the National University, having passed at the head of his class. In 1913 he was admitted to the bar of the U. S. Supreme Court. January 1, 1918, he was made first assistant examiner of the Patent Office, after having been successively promoted to second and third assistant. He was a mem- ber of the Pennsylvania Society of the District of Columbia and a student and champion of Esperanto, the universal language.


FOYE, EDWARD M. Edward M. Foye was born at New Bloomfield, January 16, 1870, the son of Charles and Zorah (Boyles) Foye. He was educated in the public schools and learned the printing trade in the office of the Duncannon (Pa.) Record. Locating in Erie County, he edited and published the Northeast Advertiser for ten years. In the meantime he studied law at Erie, was admitted to the bar and practiced many years. He is the author of several legal publications which had a large sale. Mr. Foye is now an extensive fruit grower on the shores of Lake Erie.


FRANK, REV. A. L. Rev. A. L. Frank was born in Howe Township, near Newport, November 22, 1865, the third son of Lewis and Susan (Rathfon) Frank. He attended the public schools, the night school con- ducted by Silas Wright, and the Bloomfield Academy for a number of spring terms. He began teaching in 1885, and continued until 1898, in the townships of Howe and Miller, New Buffalo High, East Newport High, Evergreen High, Marysville Grammar, and Baskinsville High Schools.


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Entering the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he served pas- torates at Thompsontown, Hustontown, Frankstown, Shawville, New Washington, Stormstown, Mahaffey, Mt. Holly Springs, Coalport, Hope- well and Weatherly, where he is now located.


FUNK, REV. J. J. Rev. James Julius Funk was born May 21, 1869, at Liverpool. At nine years of age he began to follow the life of a canal boatman on the old Pennsylvania Canal during the summer, attending the public schools in the winter. He later lived near Montgomery's Ferry, and attended school there. He taught school in Watts Township, and in 1891 was converted at a revival meeting at the Hill Church. In 1899 he en- tered the ministry of the United Brethren Church, serving the following charges in the Allegheny Conference of Western Pennsylvania: Industry, Ligonier, Woodland, Westmoreland, and the Homestead Avenue Church at Johnstown, where he has been for the past eight years. He was ordained in 1901 by Bishop Kephart. During his present pastorate his congregation has erected a handsome and expensive church and parsonage. In 1917 he served as a delegate to the General Conference of the U. B. Church in the United States, which met at Wichita, Kansas.


GABLE, J. H. J. H. Gable was born near New Germantown, the son of John and Elizabeth (Eby) Gable. His mother was a daughter of Elder John Eby, long one of western Perry's prominent citizens. Mr. Gable was the second of twelve children, all of whom are living and who were reared without ever calling a physician-a most remarkable occur- rence. When a lad he was taken West with the family. In Illinois he learned telegraphy, serving almost ten years at that occupation. For thirty years he was the traveling passenger agent of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway System, a position requiring tact and diplomacy. He was re- tired at his own request, and resides at Lincoln, Nebraska.


GANTT, T. FULTON. T. Fulton Gantt was born at New Bloomfield, January 31, 1849, the son of Daniel Gantt (later Chief Justice of Ne- braska) and Agnes T. (Fulton) Gantt. In 1857 the father moved to Nebraska and, with him went the little son. Upon the death of his mother he returned to Pennsylvania, but in 1863 again went to Nebraska. In 1867 he completed the machinist trade in the railroad shops at North Platte, Nebraska. After finishing his trade he went to Nebraska and studied law with his father. He was admitted to the bar in 1870, and located at North Platte. Later he practiced at Deadwood, S. D. From 1877 to 1888 he was connected with the U. S. Government at Washington, D. C. He then returned to North Platte, Nebraska, where he practiced law until his death in August, 1897. Like his father, he was an exemplary man.


GANTT, AMOS E. Amos E. Gantt was born October 4, 1853, in New Bloomfield, the son of Daniel Gantt (later Chief Justice of Nebraska) and Agnes T. (Fulton) Gantt. His family moved to Nebraska in 1857, where he was educated in the public schools, with several years at the State University. He read law with his father, and at the age of twenty- one was admitted to the bar. He entered the newspaper business, and from 1876 to 1879 published a paper at North Platte, Nebraska. In 1879 he settled in Falls City, Nebraska; and practiced law there until his death in March, 1914. He served as district attorney in 1891-92. Like his illus- trious father, he was held in high esteem.


GANTT, WILLIAM E. William E. Gantt, son of Joseph and Mary A. (McGowan) Gantt, was born in Centre Township, April 29, 1845. He was educated in the common schools, and when eighteen enlisted in the Signal Corps of the Union Army. After the Civil War he taught school in Perry County and then went West as a surveyor, being located at Sioux City, Iowa, for a time. He read law at Elk Point, South Dakota. On


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being admitted to the bar he opened a law office at Ponca, Nebraska, where he remained until 1899, when he removed to Sioux City. He later located at California, where he died in 1920.


GARDNER, REV. J. CHAS. Rev. J. Charles Gardner was born at Benvenue, Duncan's Island, on June 24, 1858, being the son of Ephraim Finley and Catrinah Jane (Kenee) Gardner. He was educated in the public schools and in Silas Wright's Academy, at Millerstown. He gradu- ated from the U. B. Theological Seminary at Dayton, Ohio, in 1894, since which time he has preached at Baltimore, Md .; Dayton, Ohio; Shippens- burg, Shiremanstown, Newburg, Red Lion, Gettysburg, Greencastle and Duncannon. For the last six years he has been located at Williamsport, Md. Six churches and three parsonages have been built by the congrega- tions over which he was in charge.


GARMAN, REV. SHERIDAN G. Rev. Sheridan G. Garman was born in August, 1866, before his father, Rev. John Garman, located in Perry County, but came with him as a child, and always counted Perry County his home. His mother was Margaret (Ferguson) Garman. He received his education in the public schools and taught several terms in Perry County, before entering Lebanon Valley College, where he graduated. He then entered the ministry and preached at York, Pennsylvania, for over a year, but left to enter Bonbrake Theological Seminary at Dayton, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1901. Resuming the ministry, this time in the State of Wisconsin, he preached for several years. He then transferred to the Galesburg Conference, and in 1910 was elected presiding elder and conference treasurer. He died during November, 1901, his wife living but one year longer.


GELBACH, W. H. William H. Gelbach was born in Penn Township, October 9, 1866, the son of Henry and Louisa (Bowser) Gelbach. He at- tended the public schools, the Keystone State Normal School, and Roches- ter Business University in New York. He taught in the Perry County public schools for seven years, and quit teaching to become the cashier of the Second National Bank of Mechanicsburg, Pa. For the last eighteen years he has been cashier of the Citizens National Bank of Waynesboro, which has erected one of the finest banking buildings in southern Penn- sylvania. He suggested a plan for using Liberty Bonds for circulation- bank currency, which appeared in the Congressional Record.


GIBSON, GEORGE E. George E. Gibson, son of Francis West and Tabitha (Kennedy) Gibson, was born on the Gibson homestead, near Fall- ing Springs, September 27, 1860. He attended the public schools and learned printing under the tutelage of J. L. McCaskey, in the Duncannon Record office. He located at Erie, where he was employed as a com- positor on the Erie Daily Times. He then studied law at Normal Uni- versity in Ohio, and was admitted to the Erie bar in 1884. He died Janu- ary 28, 1916. Mr. Gibson was a man of a kindly and philosophical dispo- sition and absolute integrity, and is reputed to have been a good lawyer.


GIBSON, REUBEN. Reuben Gibson, known as R. Bannister Gibson by reason of having been jokingly referred to as "Bannister" on account of his last name being Gibson, adopted that name when he began the prac- tice of law. He was born May 19, 1862, at the Gibson home, near Falling Springs. He attended the public schools and New Bloomfield Academy. He then taught a number of terms in the public schools and graduated from Dickinson Law School in 1894, being admitted to the Perry County bar the same year. After practicing a number of years he located else- where.


GRUBB, DR. I. N. Dr. Isaac Newton Grubb was born August 25, 1845, in Perry Valley, the son of Henry and Margaret (Charles) Grubb. He


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attended the public schools and the academies at Freeburg and Markel- ville. He taught school and then entered the service of the United States Army as a private and came out as a captain, being wounded at Berryville, Virginia. He then taught school again for a time and read medicine with Dr. P. L. Greenleaf, of Thompsontown. He graduated at the University of New York in 1869 and began practice at Thompsontown, forming a partnership with his preceptor, whom he later succeeded. He died in February 9, 1912.


GRUBB, REV. JOEL E. Rev. Joel Emory Grubb was born in Green- wood Township. July 18, 1880. His parents, A. R. and Sarah Catherine (Orner) Grubb, moved to Newport, where he attended school. He graduated from Gettysburg College in 1905, from the Theological Seminary in 1908. He was ordained a minister of the Pennsylvania (Central) Synod in 1908, and served as pastor of the New Kingston Lutheran Church from then until 1912. He was located at Gloversville, N. Y., for the next four years, and in 1916 became pastor of the Second Lutheran Church at Baltimore, where he is still located.


GIBSON, M. B. Milton B. Gibson was born near Landisburg, in 1860, the son of Francis F. and Catherine E. (Baker) Gibson. His father died when he was seven years of age. He attended the public schools and the New Bloomfield Academy, after which he taught for several years. In 1881 he purchased his father's property at Alinda and engaged in mercantile pursuits for several years. At the same time he be- gan selling instruments for the Weaver Organ & Piano Company, then building a factory at York, Pennsylvania. He became a stockholder and was made state representative for the company. His presence was then needed at the plant and he moved to York in 1885. In 1886 he was elected secretary of the company, and in 1890 he became treas- urei and general manager. In 1896 he was elected president, which position he held until his death in 1919. He died at Spokane, Washington, from the effects of a carbuncle, while on a pleasure trip MILTON B. GIBSON. to the Pacific coast. For twenty-five years he was superintendent of Heidel- burg Sunday school, and for twenty-nine years he was a director in the Y. M. C. A. at York. He was vice-president of Hood College at Frederick, Maryland. He was active in the Chamber of Commerce and the York Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Gibson was a Republican, and under the old form of government was a member of the York City Select Council. In 1892 he was elected mayor of York, serving the full term, until 1895. He was one of the organizers of the York Card & Paper Company, being a director and vice-president for a number of years. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Shumaker in 1882, five children being born, of whom two survive, Miss Marion Elizabeth Gibson and Mrs. W. T. Sibbett, whose husband is sales manager for the Columbia Graphophone Company, with offices in Baltimore.


HALL, DR. ROSCOE. Dr. Roscoe Hall was born in Millerstown, February 22, 1888, the son of Dr. James Calvin and Elizabeth Jane (Wil- lis) Hall. He attended the public schools, and graduated from Mercers-


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burg Academy in 1905, and from Dickinson College in 1908. He graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1912. He was connected with the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1915 to 1919. He entered the United States Medical Corps during the World War as captain and was promoted to major. He saw service with the British in various shell shock hospitals in France and in the First Army of the A. E. F. In 1919 he became senior assistant physician at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D. C.


HALL, WM. F. William F. Hall was born in Jackson Township, ad- joining Blain, on January 19, 1892, the son of Harry M. and Florence V. (Shreffler) Hall. He attended the public schools of Jackson Township and graduated from Millersville Normal School in 1913. He taught in the schools of Jackson Township and Duncannon, and was supervisory principal of the Christiana schools, 1914-15. He graduated from Pennsyl- vania State College in 1920. He served in the World War, being com- missioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Infantry, on August 20, 1918. In 1920 he was director of the Vocational High School at Newtown Square, and in 1921 he was director of the Petersburg Community Vocational School, since which time he has been associated with the rural life depart- ment of the Pennsylvania State College, as head of the farm shop work.


HAMILTON, F. A. F. A. Hamilton was born in Liverpool, February 18, 1873, the son of John J. and Susan A. (Myers) Hamilton. He was educated in the local schools, graduating from the Liverpool High School in 1888. He attended the Bryant & Stratton Business College in Philadel- phia, and graduated from the Millersville Normal School in 1898. In 1916 he attended State College, taking special work. He taught school in Liver- pool Township, was principal of the Liverpool schools for nine years, and principal of the Bellwood schools for fourteen years, still holding that position.


HARKINS, REV. JOHN F. Rev. John F. Harkins was born in Jack- son Township, February 21, 1891, the son of Simon Edward and Mary Elizabeth (Stambaugh) Harkins. He attended the Blain schools and Sus- quehanna University, from which he graduated in 1915. He finished his theological course at the same institution in 1918, since which time he has been pastor of Grace Lutheran Church at State College. During 1919-20 he was president of the Northern Conference of the Central Pennsylvania Synod.


HART, REV. L. I. Rev. L. I. Hart was born near New Germantown, October 16, 1871, the very year of his father's death, who left six small children. His father was Levi J. Hart, and his mother Mary Elizabeth (Cogley) Hart. He attended the Loysville Soldiers' Orphans' Home four years, Juniata College one year, and Williamsport Dickinson Seminary four years. On August 26, 1901, he joined the Colorado Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1903 he transferred to the Ohio Con- ference, in 1914 to the Northeast Ohio Conference, and in 1916, again to the Ohio Conference. In 1921 he retired to enter business, and is now assistant to the president of the Cleveland Discount Company, the largest first mortgage concern in the United States. During his ministry he served pastorates at Beuna Vista, Mosca and Del Norte, in Colorado, and at Crown City, Chatham, Neil Avenue in Columbus, Manly, Portsmouth and Galion, in Ohio.


HARTMAN, REV. H. H. Rev. Harry H. Hartman was born in Sa- ville Township, October 25, 1868, the son of John and Catherine Matilda (Brandt) Hartman. He was educated in the public schools and the Cum- berland Valley State Normal School. He completed the academic course at Ursinus and entered the college in 1890, graduating in 1894. He completed his theological course at Ursinus in 1897, and was ordained to the min-


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istry of the Reformed Church in May. He served as pastor at East Vin- cent, in 1897-98; of the Woodcock Valley charge in Huntingdon County, 1898-1902; of Memorial charge, Dayton, Ohio, 1902-13, and of Bethany Tabernacle charge, Philadelphia, from 1913 to 1921. He was president of Miami Classis in 1904 and served as a member of the Board of Publication of the Ohio Synod in 1904-10. He served as a member of the Board of Visitors of the Central Theological Seminary 1910-13, and was president of Philadelphia Classis in 1920.


HARTZELL, REV. C. V. Rev. Chas. V. Hartzell was born at New- port, March 9, 1856, the son of John and Angusta (Giebel) Hartzell. He attended the public schools of Newport, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, where he graduated in 1879, and Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, New Jersey, taking a postgraduate course at the latter place. For several years before entering Dickinson Seminary he was employed as a telegraph operator on the Middle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, being sta- tioned at Newport, Marysville, Mifflin, Huntingdon, Tyrone and Altoona. He resigned this position to become agent of the East Broad Top Railroad, at Robertsdale, on the opening of that road. He resigned this position in 1875 to enter Dickinson Seminary. In 1879 he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving continuously until March, 1921, when he voluntarily retired, locating at Muncy, Pennsylvania. Among the churches he served were Millerstown, Huntingdon, Hollidaysburg, Waynes- boro, Harrisburg, and York. From March, 1903, to January, 1913, he was chief clerk of State Department of Factory Inspection, and from January 6, 1913, to June 3 of the same year, he was chief factory inspector, being the last person to hold that office. During his years of employment by the state he served pastoral charges at a merely nominal salary. In 1904 the Ohio Northern University conferred the D.D. degree upon him.




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