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HEIM, REV. G. R. Rev. G. Robert Heim was born on the old Heim farm, near Loysville, April 13, 1883, the son of George W. and Mary V. (Shuman) Heim. He attended the public schools until seventeen, and graduated from the Millersville State Normal School in 1905. He gradit- ated from Gettysburg College in 1913, and from the Gettysburg Theo- logical Seminary in 1916. Prior to this he had taught school seven years in ungraded, summer normal and high schools. He organized the first Township High School in Perry County, at Lower Duncannon, in Penn Township. This school was later merged with the Duncannon High School. Entering the ministry in 1916, he was pastor of the Lutheran Church of Our Saviour at Coatesville. On March 2, 1918, he entered the U. S. Army as a chaplain, serving fifteen months, of which one year was in France. He was assigned to the Eightieth Division, and was on active duty, including participation in the great Mense-Argonne offensive. Soon after his discharge he assumed charge of the Lutheran pastorage at Blain, where he is now located.
HEISLEY, REV. L. H. Rev. L. H. Heisley was born in Rye Town- ship, near Marysville, January 3, 1894, the son of William and Annie Re- becca (Fisher) Heisley. He attended the public schools and Albright Academy at Myerstown, where he graduated in 1914. He was a student at Albright College, the Moody Bible Institute, and McCormick Theo- logical Seminary of Chicago. He was pastor of the North Ashland Ave- nte United Evangelical Church of Chicago during 1916 and 1917. He was pastor of the church at Manhattan, Illinois, during 1918, and in 1919 be- came pastor of the Cragin Congregational Church of Chicago, which posi- tion he fills at this time.
HENCH, ATKINSON I. Atkinson L. Hench, oldest son of George and Mary (Hackett) Hench, was born in Saville Township, January 24,
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1838. He attended Big Spring Academy, walking home to Centre over the week ends, one of many young men then attending academies and col- leges who did that. He then entered his father's tannery and later was the owner of an interest in it, which he resold to his father, and in 1872 located at Pleasantville, Bedford County, where he built a tannery. He became one of Bedford County's representative citizens and was twice elected to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania.
HENCH, REV. SILAS M. Another Perry Countian who carried the Christian message to distant peoples was Rev. Silas M. Hench, born in Northeast Madison Township, November 1, 1851. His parents were George WV. and Frances Rice Hench. His schooling started in the district schools, continued at Markelville Academy and at Airy View Academy at Port Royal, Pa., where he prepared for college. Was valedictorian of his class at Ursinus College in 1877, and in 1879 graduated from the Theological School of the same college. Entered the ministry at Walkersville, Mary- land, the same year and remained in that pastorate twenty-eight and one- half years, a rare record indeed. During the greater part of this period he resided in Frederick, Maryland. Served many religious offices of dis- tinction while there, the principal one being that of the presidency of Mary- land Classis of the Reformed Church. During this pastorate one new congregation was organized, the parent one became two self-supporting ones, and four new church buildings were erected. His second and last pastorate was the charge at Cavetown, Washington County, Maryland, from October 1, 1909, to November 1, 1916. He then retired from active service, and at Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, he lives in re- tirement.
HENCH, JACOB BIXLER. Jacob Bixler Hench, the son of Atcheson L. and Alice (Bixler) Hench, was born at Center, Madison Township, February 21, 1863. He attended the common schools of Perry and Bed- ford Counties, Shellsburg High School, and graduated from Lafayette College. He taught in the Freemount Seminary at Norristown, in Blair Presbyterian Academy, at Blairstown, N. J .; Dearborn-Morgan School, Orange, N. J., and at Shady Side Academy at Pittsburgh. He then be- came the founder and is the present principal and owner of the University School, Pittsburgh, Pa. He is secretary of the Pittsburgh Society of the Archæological Institute of America, the Academy of Science and Art of Pittsburgh, and of the Presbyterian Union of Pittsburgh.
HENCH, REV. C. R. Rev. C. R. Hench was born at Eshcol, Saville Township, June 12, 1875, the son of Ross and Mary (Bixler) Hench. He attended the public schools, two summer terms under Prof. W. E. Baker, at Eshcol, and the Rochester Business Institute. He graduated from the Theological Department of Temple University, Philadelphia, in 1904. Be- fore entering the ministry he was a bookkeeper at the League Island Navy Yard. His first pastorate was the Rosedale Baptist Church at Camden, N. J., 1907 to 1910. In 1910-II he was pastor of the Baptist Church at Powell, Wyoming. From 1913 to 1918 he was again pastor of Rosedale Baptist Church at Camden. During the World War, from April, 1918, to August, 1919, he was in Y. M. C. A. work in France and Belgium.
HENCH, REV. S. L. Rev. S. L. Hench was born September 29, 1885, at Kistler, Perry County, the son of William Monroe and Matilda Emaline (Ernest) Hench. He attended the public schools until seventeen, and then taught one term. He attended the New Bloomfield Academy and Albright College, where he graduated in 1910. In 1913 he graduated from the Lu- theran Seminary at Gettysburg. He has been pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, Dallastown, for the past seven years. He has been president of
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the York County Conference and a delegate to the United Lutheran Church Convention in Washington, D. C. For over two years, during war times, he was a teacher in the Dallastown High School.
HENCH, REV. THOMAS H. Rev. Thomas H. Hench was born April 5, 1840, at C'entre, Madison Township, the son of George and Mary (Hackett) Hench. He attended the public schools and prepared for col- lege at Loysville Academy, 1855-58. He graduated from Princeton College in 1861, and from the Theological Seminary in 1866. He was made a D.D. by Hanover College, Indiana, in 1894. He was a Presbyterian pastor and a noted one for over fifty years. He resides at Carthage, Missouri, in retirement.
HIPPLE, WESLEY. Wesley Hipple was born in Rye Township, and later became a successful ward principal in the city schools of Harrisburg, a position which he held until his death, in 1910.
HOBACH, DR. JOHN U. Dr. John U. Hobach was born at Green Park, Tyrone Township, the son of George and Catharine (Bernheisel) Hobach. He attended the public schools, graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1878, and the University of Pennsylvania in 1884. He has long been connected with the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia, as medical examiner.
HOLLENBAUGH, REV. J. A. Rev. J. A. Hollenbaugh was born at Blain, March 5, 1852, the son of Samuel and Mary (Rowe) Hollenbaugh. He attended the public school at Stony Point, the Select School at Blain, and entered Union Seminary at New Berlin (Now Albright College, Myerstown), in 1873. He entered the ministry of the Evangelical Church, and preached for forty-four years. He was presiding elder of the Wil- liamsport District of the Central Pennsylvania Conference for four years and of the Carlisle District for four years. He served six years in the Oregon Conference, and at the following places in Pennsylvania: Lewis- burg, Lock Haven, Williamsport (two churches), Altoona and Lewisburg, also at Baltimore, Md., always staying the limit of time. He was thrice delegate to the General Conference of his church. He was retired in March, 1921, and resides at Lewisburg.
HULINGS, DAVID W. David W. Hulings, a Perry Countian, gradu- ated at Dickinson College, read law in the offices of his uncle, David Watts, and located at Lewistown in 1818; same year appointed deputy attorney-general for Mifflin County. About 1830 became the owner of Hope furnace, which he operated for many years. Later ceased the prac- tice of law.
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HULINGS, FRED'K. WATTS. Frederick Watts Hulings, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Watts) Hulings, was born in Buffalo (now Watts) Township, March 9, 1792. He settled in Tennessee, where he became speaker of the House of Representatives. He cast his lot with the Con- federacy and became a captain in the Southern Army. While attempting to board a train during the war he was severely wounded, from the effects of which he died.
HULL, DR. G. L. Dr. G. L. Hull, principal of Banks Business Col- lege, at Philadelphia, was born at Markelville, Perry County.
ICKES, DR. JONAS. Dr. Jonas Ickes, a son of Nicholas Ickes, is spoken of in the Bloomfield Borough chapter, elsewhere in this book. He first practiced medicine several years at Ickesburg, then from the farm of Rev. Joseph Brady, one mile west of Duncannon, whose daughter he had married. In 1825 he located at Bloomfield, and in 1856 moved to Mon- mouth, Illinois, and later to other sections of the state. His wife died in
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1868. In 1879 he returned to Monmouth to reside with his daughter, Susan Ickes Harding. Later he lost his sight, and his hearing was also greatly impaired. Susan Ickes Harding had married Gen. A. C. Harding, in 1835, and resided at Monmouth. During her life she was a great friend of the Collegiate Institute at Geneseo, Illinois, and presented two buildings to that institution, one a dormitory and the other known as Harding Hall.
IRVINE, REV. J. E. Rev. J. E. Irvine was born in Saville Township, the son of John and Eleanor (Elliot) Irvine. He was educated in the public schools and the Juniata Valley Normal School of Prof. Wright, beginning teaching at the age of sixteen. He later attended the Culpepper Classical Academy, and then entered Washington and Jefferson College, at Washington, Pa., where he graduated in 1883. He then taught in Buffalo (Washington Co.) Academy for one year, after which he entered the Western Theological Seminary, at Pittsburgh, graduating in 1887. He was ordained into the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in 1888, and served as pastor at Fredonia and Cool Spring for two years. He became pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of Altoona, in 1889, and re- mained until 1917. Was awarded the Ph.D. degree by the University of Wooster in 1898. In 1917 he became the pastor of the Williamsburg (Blair Co.) Presbyterian Church. He is the stated clerk of Huntingdon Presby- tery since 1905.
IRVINE, REV. S. L. Rev. Samuel Linn Irvine, son of John and Mary (Elliott) Irvine, was born at Ickesburg, June 13, 1862. He attended the public schools, graduating from Roanoke College, located at Salem, Vir- ginia, in 1886, as valedictorian of his class. In 1889 he graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary. He entered the ministry of the Pres- byterian Church in the same year and was pastor of the Cooperstown, Sunville and Sugar Creek Memorial churches, in Venango County, Pa., from 1889 to 1894; the Lower Brandywine Presbyterian Church at Wil- mington, Delaware, from 1889 to 1903; the Hobart, Oklahoma, Church, 1903-04; Sapulpa (I. T.), Oklahoma, 1904-06, and Highland Church, located at Street, Maryland, from 1906 to the present time (1922).
JACKMAN, WM. J. William James Jackman, son of James and Eliza Louisa (Mitchell) Jackman, was born at Liverpool, September 20, 1837. He attended the public schools and William Mitchell's Select School at Dauphin, and the New Bloomfield Academy. He then learned printing, and in 1856 again attended the New Bloomfield Academy, after which he taught several terms in Perry County. He worked throughout the West as a journeyman printer, enlisted in the First Pennsylvania Cavalry, in July, 1861, and after the war purchased the Juniata True Democrat, at Mifflintown, which had been owned by Dr. E. Darwin Crawford, forming a partnership with Mr. Grier. In October, 1867, he and Amos Bonsall, owner of the Register, formed a partnership and merged the papers into the Democrat and Register. Mr. Bonsall died in 1888, and Mr. Jackman became sole proprietor, publishing the paper until his death, November 5, 1900.
JACKSON, J. ROY. J. Roy Jackson was born at New Buffalo, May 3, 1886, the son of J. Benson and Caroline (Bair) Jackson. He attended the public schools, graduated from the Cumberland Valley State Normal School in 1908, and from Dickinson College in 1914. During 1920 he did graduate work at the University of Pittsburgh, and in 1921, at State Col- lege. He was at the head of the Department of Science in the Coraopolis High School, supervising principal of the Battles Memorial School at Girard (1916-19), and principal of the New Brighton High School since 1919.
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JACKSON, W. B. William B. Jackson was born at New Buffalo, Oc- tober 3, 1880, the son of J. Benson and Caroline (Bair) Jackson. He at- tended the public schools and Dickinson Preparatory School at Carlisle. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1903, attended three summer ses- sions of the University of Pennsylvania, and traveled three months in Germany. He was the principal of the Township High School at Madeira, Pa., assistant principal of the Lewistown Schools, instructor of languages at Wenonah Military Academy (Wenonah, N. J.), instructor of languages at the Harrisburg ( Pa.) Academy, and assistant principal of the Duncannon schools. He spent ten months in France with the A. E. F. as a Y. M. C. A. secretary, since which time he has been instructor of languages in the Friends' Central School at Fifteenth and Race Streets, Philadelphia.
JACKSON, WM. STEELL. William Steell Jackson, son of Joseph E. and Isabelle (Steell) Jackson, was born at Duncannon, March II, 1871. He attended the public schools and prepared for college at Blairstown, New Jersey. He then learned the machinist's trade at Steelton. He gradu- ated in the electrical engineering course at Lehigh University and took law courses at the National University, Washington, and Columbian (now George Washington) University. He then spent five years as an assistant examiner in the Patent Office at Washington, D. C. He located at Phila- delphia, where he has since practiced law, specializing on patents
JOHNSTON, DR. R. W. Dr. Russell W. Johnston was born at New Bloomfield, December 12, 1888, the son of Alexander Russell and Laura Theresa (Willhide) Johnston. He attended the public schools and gradu- ated from the New Bloomfield Academy in 1904. He graduated from the College Preparatory Department of the Lock Haven State Normal School in 1905, attended Princeton University for one year, and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in 1910. He served as an interne in the hos- pital of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Philadelphia, from June, 1910, to November, 1912. With the exception of a period of four months of military service as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the U. S. Army, he has since practiced medicine at Selinsgrove. He is an assistant surgeon on the staff of the Mary Ann Packer Hospital at Sunbury.
JOHNSTON, REV. ROBERT. Rev. Robert Johnston was born in the Sherman's Valley about the time of the Revolutionary War. In 1792 his father removed to western Pennsylvania and settled on a farm near Canonsburg. Washington County. This enabled Robert to secure a col- legiate education and enter the ministry. The families on both sides were Presbyterians, of Scotch-Irish descent.
JOHNSTON, REV. EDWARD. Rev. Edward Johnston, a brother of Rev. Robert, named above, was born in the Sherman's Valley about the time of the Revolutionary War. His father removed to western Penn- sylvania in 1792 and settled on a farm near Canonsburg, thus enabling Edward to secure a college education and enter the ministry. He was a descendant of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians on both the paternal and mater- nal sides.
JONES, CHAS. A. Charles Alvin Jones was born at Newport, August 27, 1887, the son of Alvin and Mary Elizabeth (Sheats) Jones. He at- tended the public schools, Mercersburg Academy, and Williams College at Williamstown, Mass. He graduated from Dickinson Law School in 1910 with the LL.B. degree, since which time he has been a members of the Alle- gheny County bar, having served on the executive committee of the same for two terms.
KELL, C. J. C. J. Kell was born at Blain, May 8, 1892, the son of Reuben H. and Annie M. (Baker) Kell. He was educated in the public schools and attended Conway Hall Preparatory School at Carlisle, gradu-
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ating from State College in 1916, in the agricultural course. He was super- visor of agriculture in the Falls Township Vocational School, at Mill City, Pa., 1916-18, and director of the Vocational School at Newfoundland, Pa., 1918-19, since which time he has been county supervisor of agriculture of Westmoreland County, with headquarters at Greensburg, Pa.
KELL, REV. B. H. Rev. Benjamin Harrison Kell, son of Amos Frank and Elizabeth Jane (Kuhn) Kell, was born near' Ickesburg, in Saville Township, August 22, 1889. He attended the common schools and New Bloomfield Academy. He was graduated from Ursinus College in 1914, with a B.A. degree, and from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chi- cago, in 1917, with the degree of B.D. He also graduated from the Uni- versity of Chicago in 1917. He was licensed by the Chicago Presbytery and ordained to the gospel ministry in 1917. He was a chaplain in the United States Army during the World War, 1918. He was the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Hazleton, Idaho, 1918-20, since which time he has been pastor of the Milwaukee (Wis.) Berean Presbyterian Church.
KELL, DR. E. A. Dr. Elmer Andrew Kell was born in Loysville, Janu- ary 20, 1879, the son of Peter J. and Sarah E. (Long) Kell. He attended the public schools and the New Bloomfield Academy, graduating there in 1895. He taught school one term and then entered Baltimore Medical Col- lege, from which he graduated in 1900. He served one year as interne at the Maryland General Hospital at Baltimore. He then became medical examiner in the relief department of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Balti- more, where he remained until 1910. He was in active practice at Potts- town (Pa.) from 1910 to 1915. In November, 1915, he began practice at Rawlins, Wyoming. Taking an interest in Republican politics, he was elected mayor of Rawlins in 1921 by that party, on a law and order plat- form.
KELL, DR. RALPH C. Dr. Ralph C. Kell was born November II, 1882, at Elliottsburg, the son of Emanuel and Jemima (Foose) Keli. He attended the public schools and graduated from the New Bloomfield Acad- emy. He entered Jefferson Medical College, from which he graduated in 1905. He was resident physician of the Phoenixville Hospital for a year. From 1906 to 1900 he was at Waverly, Massachusetts, as assistant physician at the McLean Hospital, doing special work in mental diseases. In 1909 he was with the Worcester State Insane Hospital, and from 1910 to 1912 he was superintendent of the Chester County Hospital for the Insane. In 1913 he entered the services of the relief department of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a medical examiner.
KELL, PHILIP S. Philip S. Kell, son of Joseph and Margaret (Hench) Kell, was born October 22, 1850, in Saville Township. He at- tended the usual four months' school sessions of that period until he was eighteen. In February, 1869, having a desire to see the great West he went to Wilton Junction, Iowa, where he attended a Western Baptist School, affording an academic course, making his home with his sister, who lived there. He taught several years and then located at Des Moines, engaging in the newspaper business. He began at the bottom, setting type, and passed through all departments until he became general manager. In 1890 he founded the Spirit of the West, a weekly journal devoted to the promotion of country, district and state agricultural fairs, pedigreed stock, etc. He owned and controlled this for twenty-five years, but sold it in 1915 and moved to California. He was nominated for Congress by the Democrat Congressional Convention of the Seventh Iowa District in 1888, but declined the nomination.
KELL, RALPH L. Ralph L. Kell was born at Loysville, September 8, 1881, the son of Peter J. and Sarah E. (Long) Kell. He attended the
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public schools at Loysville and the New Bloomfield Academy, where he graduated in 1901. He graduated from State College in 1905 in civil en- gineering. He was assistant supervisor for the Pennsylvania Railroad, being located at Millville (N. J.), Freeport, Altoona, and Chester (Pa.). Since that time he has held positions with prominent engineering firms and with the State Water Supply Commission of Pennsylvania. He is now connected with a prominent engineering firm at Lancaster.
KELLER, REV. B. F. Rev. B. F. Keller is another of those persons generally known as Perry Countians, but who was born elsewhere. Rev. Keller was born of Perry County parents, then residing at East Prospect, York County, on March 4, 1851. Before he was six his parents moved back to the county. He was a son of Emanuel and Elizabeth (Barshinger) Keller. He attended the public schools and Union Seminary at New Berlin. He entered the ministry of the Evangelical Church, in March, 1875. He has served as pastor at Jersey Shore, Bendersville, Liverpool, Tunkhan- nock, and many others of like import.
KERN, O. B. Oliver B. Kern was born at Blain, Pa., September 29, 1871, the son of David N. and Ellen M. Kern. He attended the Blain pub- lic schools, and during the winter of 1887-88 took private lessons with the late J. C. Preisler at Landisburg. He graduated from Millersville Normal School in 1893, and from Franklin and Marshall College in 1899. He spent a year at the Teachers' College, Columbia, Missouri, 1903-04. He taught in Perry and Lancaster Counties for a number of years, and from 1900 to 1902 he was principal of the San Juan (Porto Rico) graded and high schools. He was principal of the Reynoldsville High School 1902-03, and a supervising principal in the schools of Camden, N. J., since May, 1904.
KERR, MISS AMANDA. Miss Amanda Kerr was born at Marsh Run, Tuscarora Township, Perry County, April 16, 1875, the daughter of Thompson and Margaretta (Fry) Kerr. She attended "the little red school- house" known as Kerr's, and graduated from the Cumberland Valley State Normal School in 1899. Before graduation she had taught four years in Perry County, and after that she taught six near Easton, Pa. In 1905 she entered the mission field and sailed for India, where she first taught in the schools for Mohammedans and Hindus at Saharanspur. Later she had charge of the Christian Boarding School at Jagroon. In 1915 she enjoyed a furlough, since which time she has been in charge of the Orphanage and Boarding School at Hoshiarspur, where she has more than a hundred "brownies" to mother. Miss Kerr's work in the mission field has been a notable one.
KERR, SAMUEL W. Samuel W. Kerr was born at Landisburg, the son of Lewis Barnett and Elizabeth (Postlethwaite) Kerr, December 5, 1867. He attended the public schools of Madison and Saville Townships, and graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1892. He then ac- cepted the principalship of the Clarion Collegiate Institute at Rimersburg, Pennsylvania, which he filled for several years. He taught one year in Franklin and Marshall College, and then, with Prof. Ambrose Cort, estab- lished the Reading Classical School at Reading, Pennsylvania, with which he was associated for almost ten years. He then was selected to the faculty of the Boys' High School, at Reading, Pennsylvania, and still fills that position.
KERR, REV. DAVID W. Rev. David W. Kerr, son of Lewis Barnett and Elizabeth (Postlethwaite) Kerr, was born in Tuscarora Township, February 6, 1864. In 1886 he graduated from the Cumberland Valley State Normal School and taught two years as principal at Dauphin, Pennsyl- vania, having previously taught three years in Saville Township, Perry
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County. In 1888 he entered Mercersburg College, spending two years there. He then entered the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church at Lancaster, where he graduated in 1893. He entered the ministry of the Reformed Church and has since been pastor of the churches at Worth- ville, Grove City, New Hamburg and Apollo, Pennsylvania. In 1914 he located at Fayette, New York, where he had charge of a unique work along the line of church federation, having been the pastor of the Re- formed and Lutheran congregations. There each church maintained its organization as well as its relations to its denomination, but both worship under the ministry of one pastor. The church buildings were used on alternate Sundays. In January, 1921, he assumed charge of the Reformed Church at Orangeville, Pa., where he is now located.
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