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MCKENZIE, REV. DAVID LEMUEL. Rev. David Lemuel Mckenzie, son of John and Nancy Agnes (Smiley ) Mckenzie, was born November II, 1838, in Wheatfield Township. He was a minister of the Lutheran Church from 1871 to the time of his death, in 1906. He was married to Mary Louise, a daughter of Rev. C. F. Stover, of Mechanicsburg. During the war he served in the 138th Infantry, and was later appointed a lieutenant. Among charges he served were Frostburg, Maryland; Rhinebeck, New York; Sioux City, Iowa, and Indianapolis, Indiana. He died about 1901, while serving as pastor of the Lutheran Church at Lykens, Pa.
McMILLEN, REV. HOMER GEORGE. Rev. Homer George McMil- len was born February 24, 1883, near Sandy Hill, the oldest son of Albon and Martha Jane (Milligan) McMillen. He attended the local schools, and in his teens spent two years at the New Bloomfield Academy and Smith Collegiate School, at which he graduated. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1907, and from the Western Theological Seminary in 1910. In 1909, while yet a student at the seminary, he was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of Carlisle. In 1910 he accepted the pastorate of Cove Presbyterian Church, at Holliday's Cove, W. Va., where he was ordained and installed, and where, in 1913, under his supervision was erected a fine church building at a cost of $60,000. He was later given an assistant pastor and stenographer. This church worked much among the foreign element. Rev. McMillen remained there until the end of 1921, when he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at St. Clairs- ville, Ohio, where he is now located. While in West Virginia he was moderator of the Presbytery of Wheeling, and also treasurer of the Pres- bytery for a number of years. He has attended the last six General As- sembly meetings of the Presbyterian Church, representing his Presbytery in a special way. By referring to the description of Sunday school work in Perry County, elsewhere in this book, it will be noted that Rev. Mc- Millen had a large part in the forward movement of this work.
McMORRIS, REV. JOHN W. Rev. John W. McMorris, son of John WV. and Mary J. (Bair) McMorris, was born at New Buffalo, December 15, 1886. He attended the local schools, Harrisburg Academy, and graduated at Ohio Wesleyan University. He then attended the Northwestern Univer- sity at Chicago, for a year, after which he graduated from the Boston Theological Seminary. He entered the Methodist ministry in 1920, at Hustontown, and is now located at Millerstown.
MAGEE, A. J. A. J. Magee, son of James and Matilda (Mumper) Magee, was born near New Germantown, October 24, 1856. He attended the local schools and worked on the farm until he was sixteen. He then attended the Blain Summer School several summers, teaching during the winters. He taught Shenandoah (near Ickesburg), Manassa (near Blain). and the Church Hill school at Blain. He went West in 1878 and worked upon farms and taught near Woodhull, at Alpha and New Windsor. At Port Byron, Wyanet, Cambridge and Buda he was principal, being at the latter place nine years. After locating in Illinois Mr. Magee, during his vacations, attended Heading College, Dixon College, Valparaiso (Ind.) Normal and the University of Illinois. He was regarded as one of the
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most successful teachers of western Illinois. In 1902 Mr. Magee quit teaching and moved to lowa, where he purchased a farm, later residing in Kansas and at Des Moines, Iowa, where good schools were an enticement for his children. Asthma had been the cause of his retirement from his favorite vocation, and, as it still troubled him, the family located at San- ford, in the famous San Luis Valley of Colorado, in 1909, on a quarter section of irrigated land. His wife was Annie L., daughter of G. W. Garber, of Blain.
MAGEE, HENRY C. Henry C. Magee was born in Carroll Township, February 6, 1848, the son of Richard L. and Margaret (Black) Magee. He attended the public schools and graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School in 1870. He was principal of the public schools of Plymouth, Luzerne County, from 1871 to 1875, of which town he was also mayor for two years later on. He read law in the meantime, and in All- gust, 1875, he was admitted to the Perry County bar, and later to the bar of Luzerne County, where he located for practice. He served two terms in the State Legislature as a representative from that county, 1881-82.
MANNING, DR. J. CHARLES. Dr. Charles J. Manning, although born at Little Washington, Lancaster County, was brought to Perry County by his parents so early in life that he is recognized as a Perry Countian. He was born January 9, 1860, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Kendig) Manning. He was educated in the public schools of Newport and taught five years in Perry County. In 1884 he started reading medi- cine with Dr. J. D. Shaw, of Markelville. He attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore one year, and in 1887 entered Jef- ferson Medical College at Philadelphia, where he graduated two years later. He practiced at Markelville until 1893, when he located in Harris- burg, where he now practices.
MEMINGER, REV. SAMUEL E. Rev. Samuel E. Meminger was born November 21, 1852, at Sandy Hill, Madison Township, the son of John Fell and Sidney E. (Behel) Meminger. He was educated in the public schools, and in March, 1883, was admitted to the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1889 he located in Oregon, where he followed the calling for twenty-five years. He is now retired and resides at Roseburg, Oregon.
MEMINGER, REV. WM. M. Rev. Wm. M. Meminger was born in Liberty Valley, Perry County, March 16, 1822, the son of Theodore and Susan (McKean) Meminger. He attended the subscription schools, the Academy at Academia and Dickinson College. He was licensed to preach by the Quarterly Conference of Mifflin Circuit in 1843, when but twenty- one years of age. In 1845 he was admitted to the Baltimore Annual Con- ference, being ordained as a deacon in 1847 and as an elder in 1849. Dur- ing his ministry he was a member of the Baltimore Conference, the East Baltimore Conference, and the Central Pennsylvania Conference, and served charges in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. He died Jann- ary 5, 1888.
MICHENER, A. R. Albert R. Michener was born in Marysville, De- cember 6, 1892, the son of Philip Milton and Sarah W. (Roberts) Miche- ner. He obtained his early education in the Marysville schools, and upon the death of his parents in 1913, he gave up college preparatory work and entered the circulation department of the Harrisburg Telegraph, where he had spent several vacation periods. After a few months he entered the edi- torial department as a reporter. In 1910 he was appointed circulation man- ager of the Telegraph, a position which he still holds, being the youngest Perry Countian to obtain such a responsible position in the newspaper field. and probably the youngest in the state. He is president of the Interstate
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Circulation Managers' Association, an association composed of circulation managers of the more important dailies in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary- land, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. He has also been chair- man of several committees of the International Circulation Managers' As- sociation, including the important committee on postal affairs. During the war he was selected by the Commission on Training Camp Activities to be- come a member of a committee to arrange plans for the distribution of home newspapers in training camps here and abroad, at the request of the War Department.
MILLER, CHAS. R. Chas. Reed Miller was born in Duncannon, April 14, 1864, the son of Thomas Dromgold and Sarah (Reed) Miller. He at- tended the public schools, graduated from New Bloomfield Academy, from Dickinson College in 1887, and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1885. Specializing in modern languages, he made three trips to Europe, studying in Berlin and Leipsic. For six years he was an instructor at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and for the next six years at Lehigh University. Owing to the state of his health he retired to a farm in Rye Township, later removing to Harrisburg, where he died early in 1920.
MILLER, CURT W. Curt W. Miller, son of Isaac Pfoutz and Mar- garet Ellen Miller, was born in Pfoutz Valley, October 4, 1863. When he . was four years old, his people removed to Loysville. He attended the public schools and later learned the printing trade in the office of the Perry County Times. He located in the territory of Arizona, in 1883. He served as chief clerk of the House of Representatives of the twenty-first and twenty-second sessions of the Territorial Legislature, 1901-03. He served two years as secretary of the Board of Education of the Tempe Normal School of Arizona, and one term as postmaster of Tempe. For eight years he was a captain of the National Guards of Arizona, and since February, 1916, has been chairman of the Board of Pardons and Paroles of the State of Arizona. Since 1887 he has been editor and manager of the Tempe News.
MINICH, REV. ROY L. Rev. Roy L. Minich, son of Ezekiel and Mary E. (Kell) Minich, was born at Blain, November 15, 1889. He attended the public schools, graduated from Mercersburg Academy in 1911, from Ursinus College in 1915, with the A.B. degree, and from Union Theological Seminary in 1918. He did graduate work at Columbia University during 1915, and was physical director of the Y. M. C. A. From 1916 to 1918 he was pastor of the Borough Park Church, at Brooklyn, N. Y. During that year he became a chaplain in the U. S. Army, and was assigned to Camp Upton as battalion athletic officer. Upon the termination of the war he became pastor of Christ Church at Woodhaven, Long Island. Rev. Minich married Gertrude DeWitt Talmage, August 27, 1918, who is a grand- daughter of Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, her father being the late F. DeWitt Talmage.
MITCHELL, DR. G. W. Dr. Geo. W. Mitchell was born January 4. 1834, in Greenwood Township, the son of William and Alice (McBlair) Mitchell. His parents moved to Juniata Township when he was six years old and he attended the public schools of that township. He also attended the New Bloomfield Academy and Dickinson College, intending to complete the course in the latter place, but went to Kansas in 1856, at the time of the slavery agitation. He taught school in Missouri for several terms and then returned to Perry County with the intention of studying medicine. He read medicine with Dr. Brown, of Newport, and then entered Jefferson Medical College, where he graduated in the class of 1860. He practiced at Newport until 1861, and then removed to Andersonburg, where he enjoyed a large practice until 1902, with the exception of the war period, when he
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served as surgeon of the 119th Pennsylvania Volunteers, from February 8, 1863, to the close of the war. He was at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and all the principal battles of the Army of the Potomac. In connection with his practice, he owned and supervised the cultivation of a large farm. He died February 5, 1917, at Denver, Colorado.
MITCHELL, WILLIAM. William Mitchell was born at Newport, the son of Dr. George W. and Ellen C. (Carpenter) Mitchell. His parents having located at Andersonburg, he attended the public schools there, and later the New Bloomfield Academy, and Lafayette College for three years. He located in Nebraska in 1887, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of law at Alliance, in that state.
MITCHELL, G. W. George Willis Mitchell, son of Charles and Thiana Mitchell, was born in Greenwood Township, July 26, 1870. He attended the public schools, and the Newport High School, walking five miles each way daily to attend the latter, from which he graduated before he was seventeen. He then began teaching in Greenwood and Liverpool Town- ships. In the meantime he had attended Williamsport Dickinson Seminary one spring term, and in April, 1890, he entered the Dickinson Preparatory School, graduating from Dickinson College in 1895. He was elected a member of the Phi Betta Kappa. He was then principal at Pemberton and Point Pleasant, N. J., and at Lewes, Del., for eight years. He was prin- cipal at Marionville for three years, and in 1908 became principal of the Johnsonburg (Pa.) schools, remaining for ten years, after which he located in Philadelphia, taking up the insurance business.
MOTZER, REV. DANIEL. Rev. Daniel Motzer, son of Daniel and Susan (Hench) Motzer, was born in September, 1817. He attended the subscription schools, and later graduated at the Jefferson College, at Canonsburg, Pa. He entered the M. E. ministry, and served until his death, in 1864.
MYERS, WALTER. Walter Myers was born in Rye Township, the son of George R. and Harriet (Heishley) Myers. He was educated in the public schools of Rye Township, New Bloomfield Academy (now Carson Long Institute), at Yale University, and the University of Indiana. In 1905 and 1906 he was instructor in social science and economics in the University of Indiana. In 1907, he was admitted to the bar of Indianapolis, where he has since practiced law. He was one of the counsel for the com- mittee that drafted the first presentation of what became the Federal Re- serve Act. During the last administration, he declined appointment as one of the assistant attorneys general of the United States and also to the Federal Trade Commission. During the World War, he served as an offi- cer in the Chemical Warfare Service. Mr. Myers is city attorney of In- dianapolis, as well as the attorney for several noted organizations.
MYERS, DR. CHAS. W. Dr. Charles W. Myers was born in Rye Township, December 16, 1890, the son of George R and Harriet (Heishley) Myers. He attended the public schools, the Landisburg Training School for Teachers, and the New Bloomfield Academy. He taught school in Rye Township from 1908 to 1911. He then entered the University of Mary- land and graduated from its School of Medicine in 1915. He was. an interne in the Maryland General Hospital until 1917, when he became sur- geon for the Davis Coal & Coke Co., at Thomas, W. Va. On April 18, 1918, being called into active duty in the U. S. Army, he entered the train- ing camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. On June 7th he sailed from Hoboken, and was immediately ordered to the Ninth United States Infantry of the Second Division Regular Army at Chateau Thiery. He joined this organi- zation on July Ist, and on July 2d, less than twenty-four hours after his arrival in the front lines, was awarded the distinguished service cross.
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He continued as surgeon of the Second Battalion, Ninth Infantry, through the remainder of the war, taking part in five major operations accredited to the Second Division. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm for activities in the Champagne Sector, and the Croix de Guerre with Star for later activities in the Argonne Forest. Upon the signing of the armistice he accompanied the victorious army into Germany, being stationed near Coblenz until May, 1919, at that time securing his transfer to an organi- zation which was homeward bound. He was discharged from the army at Camp Zachary Taylor, in Kentucky, July 2, 1919. He was then commis- sioned to the United States Public Health Service as past assistant sur- geon and stationed at Indianapolis with the Bureau of War Risk Insur- ance, or the United States Veteran Bureau for the care and treatment of ex-service men. He is now (December, 1921) still located there, and is an associate physician in gynecology to the Indianapolis City Hospital and a member of the staff of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital at Indianapolis.
NEILSON, REV. S. B. Rev. Samuel Black Neilson was born in New Bloomfield, August 19, 1853, the son of Robert and Sarah A. (Gallatin) Neilson. He attended the local schools and the New Bloomfield Academy. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1876, and from the Union Theo- logical Seminary in New York, in 1879. He was elected the same spring to the pastorate of the Waterloo (Nebraska) Presbyterian Church, re- maining until 1884. He had been married in 1883 to Miss Ella R. Trout, of Omaha. He spent one year in Nevada, and in 1886 became the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Falls City, Nebraska, remaining until 1891. He then spent two years as pastor of the Frankfort (Kansas) Church, returning to Perry County, where he remained four years, caring for his aged mother. From 1897 to 1900 he was pastor of the Winamac (Indiana) Presbyterian Church. Locating at Glenwood, Iowa, he expected to make his permanent home on a small fruit farm, but, on a visit to Colorado a position was offered him with the Union Pacific Railroad Company, by whom he was employed until his death, January 14, 1920.
NIPPLE, DR. D. CLARK. Dr. D. Clark Nipple was born in Green- wood Township, August 1, 1852, the son of Henry and Mary (Orner) Nipple. He attended the public schools and at sixteen became a teacher. teaching in Perry, Juniata and Snyder Counties for seven years. During the summers he attended the Freeburg Academy one term and the Millers- ville State Normal School two terms. For two years he read medicine with Dr. J. A. Leinaweaver at Millerstown, earning his living by clerking in the drug store of his tutor. He then attended Jefferson Medical Col- lege for a term and the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati for two terms, graduating from the latter in 1877. He then practiced for a short time at Fremont, Snyder County, and with his brother at Freeburg, Snyder County, tintil 1882, when he located at Newton Hamilton, succeeding to the prac- tice of Dr. J. T. Mahon.
NIPPLE, DR. H. M. Dr. Henry M. Nipple was born in Greenwood Township, the son of Henry and Mary (Orner) Nipple. He attended the public schools, later graduating from Jefferson Medical College at Phila- delphia. He located at Freeburg, Snyder County, where he practiced medicine for many years. He was one of the organizers of the Snyder County Medical Society.
NIPPLE, DR. J. O. Dr. John O. Nipple was born in Greenwood Town- ship, the son of Henry and Mary (Orner) Nipple. After attending the public schools he graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1873, and practiced at Port Trevorton for many years.
NIPLE, DR. D. M. Dr. D. M. Niple was born at Ickesburg, May 24, 1879, the son of J. C. and Fietta J. (Adams) Niple. He attended the local
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schools, the Mifflintown Academy, and the Cumberland Valley State Nor- mal School, where he graduated in 1900. In 1906 he graduated from Jef- ferson Medical College, and during 1906-07 he served as resident physician at the Williamsport Hospital. In September, 1907, he located at Turbot- ville, where he still practices.
NOEL, W. A. W. A. Noel was born at New Germantown, March 3. 1887, the son of W. A. and Elizabeth ( Hollenbaugh) Noel. He attended local schools, graduating from Conway Hall, at Carlisle, in 1910, and from the Mechanical Engineering Department of State College in 1914. For a number of years he was draftsman and was engaged in research work in Pensylvania. He was on the engineering faculty of the Kansas State Agri- cultural College at Manhattan, Kansas. Later he was an efficiency engineer with the Savage Arms Company, on the Lewis Automatic Machine Gun. He was with the imperial ministry of munitions at Ontario, Canada, as chief examiner, and during the war was in charge of the Pacific Coast district work in grain dust explosion investigations and fire prevention in flour mills and grain elevators. He was also in charge of the Middle West district investigation for the prevention of fires and explosions in threshing machines, all of which had to do with the conservation of food during the war. He is connected at present with the Department of Agri- culture at Washington.
NOLL, CHAS. F. Charles F. Noll was born at Green Park, July 22, 1878, the son of Jonas and Rosanna (Hostetter) Noll. He attended the public schools and the New Bloomfield Academy, graduating from the Cumberland Valley State Normal School in 1900, and from State College in 1906. He received the degree of M.S. from Cornell University in 1911. He is connected with the Pennsylvania State College as Professor of Ex- perimental Agronomy.
NOLL, WALTER L. Walter L. Noll was born at Green Park, Janu- ary 15, 1883, the son of Jonas and Rosanna (Hostetter) Noll. He attended the public schools and graduated from the Shippensburg Normal School in 1902, and from Bucknell University in 1908. He has also done some post- graduate work at Columbia University. He has always been a teacher, and in the last ten years has been instructor in science in the Barringer High School at Newark, N. J.
ORNER, REV. T. P. Rev. Theodore Porter Orner was born December 22, 1839, the son of Joel and Mary C. (Kepner) Orner. He attended the local schools, and the Loysville Academy, after which he entered the min- istry of the United Brethren Church. In 1884 he located in Altoona as pastor of the First United Brethren Church. After four years of that service he was assigned the duty of organizing a new congregation in Altoona, and thus became the founder of the Second United Brethren Church. He served for two years as pastor there, and then was made presiding elder of the Allegheny Conference. After that he served charges at Pitcairn, at Tyrone, and on two different occasions was returned to the First Church at Altoona, where he was retired as pastor emeritus. He died in Altoona, in October, 1920.
OWEN, REV. REUBEN. Rev. Reuben Owen was born in Wheatfield Township, the son of Benjamin and Mary (McBride) Owen. Educated in the schools of the period, he studied for the ministry and entered the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church, serving vari- ous appointments in the vicinity of Schuylkill County.
OWEN, REV. GEO. D. Rev. Geo. D. Owen was born in Centre Town- ship, in 1883, the son of George D. and Sarah (MacFarland) Owen. He attended the New Bloomfield Academy and graduated from Lebanon Val- ley College in 1905, taking graduate work in Yale University for three
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years, and graduating from the Divinity School with the degree of S.T.B. Rev. Owen was a "sky pilot" in South Dakota for two years, and since has hield pastorates in Trumbell and Thomaston, Connecticut, and is now located at Pawtucket, R. I., where he is pastor of the Smithfield Avenue Congregational Church. During the war he was an official speaker in Connecticut for the Council of Defense, as well as educational and reli- gious secretary for the Y. M. C. A. at Fort Terry. He was the state rep- resentative of the town of Thomaston and served in the legislature of Connecticut two years, 1918-20.
PATTERSON, DR. FRANK. Dr. Frank Patterson was born near Lan- disburg, December 20, 1877, the son of John S. and Ada K. (Lightner) Patterson. He attended the public schools and a private school at Landis- burg, the Millersville Normal School, and Baltimore Medical College, graduating from the latter in 1902. Dr. Patterson is medical examiner for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, with headquarters at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
PATTERSON. D. JAMES. D. James Patterson was born in Tyrone Township, August 6, 1876, the son of John S. and Ada K. (Lightner) Patterson. He attended the public schools and graduated from Millers- ville State Normal School in 1896, being an expert mathematician. He later taught at various places, among them the New Bloomfield Academy, and as a township superintendent in the Cambria County schools. During the World War he was with the 137th Engineers as an instructor. He died in 1921.
PEFFLEY, REV. W. E. Rev. W. E. Peffley was born at Marysville, March 31, 1876, the son of John and Susan B. (Kocher) Peffley. The father died when he was very young and his mother was later married to William A. Houdeshel. In early life Mr. Peffley was a clerk in Wise's store at Marysville for seven years. He attended the Marysville schools, also the schools of Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Central Pennsylvania College (now Albright College) in 1902, and from the Theo- logical Department of Temple University in 1912. He entered the ministry in 1902, serving appointments at Millmont (Union Co.), York, Scranton, Juniata, and Lewistown. He was elected associate editor of the Sunday school literature of the Evangelical Church in 1916, and has since filled that position. He was elected general secretary of Sunday School and Christian Endeavor work in 1910, and has since served in that capacity. He was also elected as one of the two members of his denomination on the board of trustees of the United Society of Christian Endeavor. He is the author of the "Evangelical Teacher Training," a book which has a wide sale and large influence.
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