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POTTER, J. W. John Wesley Potter was born in Howe Township Janu- ary 27, 1882, the son of Samuel Astor and Agnes Minerva (Bair) Potter. He attended the Miller Township schools and Newport High School, and graduated from Williamsport Dickinson Seminary in 1904. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1913, having been chosen a commencement speaker on that occasion. He was the first Pennsylvania teacher to take up the study of agriculture, which he began at State College in 1914. He taught school in Perry County for a number of years, being assistant prin- cipal of the Newport High School, 1905-06. He was principal at Millers- town, 1907-08. During the intervening year he taught the Newton Town- ship High School in Cumberland County. From 1908 to 1912 he was teacher of science and mathematics in the Carlisle High School, and from 1913 to 1918 he was teacher of science and mathematics in the Wilkes- Barre High School. He secured a leave of absence and became a curative workshop instructor in the United States Army Medical Department at
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Large, November 20, 1918, being stationed at General Hospital No. 3, later becoming head of academic work in this hospital. He became principal of the Carlisle High School on September 19, 1919, which position he now fills.
POTTER, REV. ISAIAH. Rev. Isaiah Potter was born in Buffalo Township, January 7, 1819, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Buck) Potter. He attended the subscription schools and the New Bloomfield Academy. He was one of the early ministers of the United Brethren Church and served charges at Scottdale, Mapleton, Ligonier, Liverpool, Warrior's Mark, Port Matilda and other places. Of his seven children, Miles I. Potter, the youngest, is now president judge of the Seventeenth Judicial District, composed of Snyder and Union Counties. Albert W. Potter was for years an attorney in Selinsgrove, but about fifteen years ago was in- jured in a railroad wreck which crippled him for life. N. I. Potter was an attorney, but died at Selinsgrove in his twenty-ninth year. M. G. Potter was a minister of the Methodist Church until a few years ago, when he died at Pittsburgh. Of his other children, Silas M. Potter is in the Post Office Department at Washington; Elizabeth is the wife of Ira C. McCloskey, county superintendent of the schools of Clinton County, for the past five or six terms, and Emily I died in her twenty-first year at Scottdale, Pa., where her father was then stationed as a minister.
PORTER, JOHN B. John B. Porter was born in Perry County terri- tory, near Liverpool, in 1800. He was educated in the subscription schools. He was an old-time scrivener at Liverpool and taught school several terms at Millerstown. He then removed to Juniata County, where he was elected as county superintendent in 1860. Upon the completion of his term, in 1863, he removed to Iowa, where he was soon elected as county superin- tendent of the schools of Louise County, serving two terms.
RAFFENSPERGER, REV. C. I. Rev. C. I. Raffensperger was born in Centre Township, October 12, 1872, the son of John and Catherine (Fry) Raffensperger. He attended the common schools and spent five terms at WV. E. Baker's school in Eshcol. He graduated from the Cumberland Valley Normal School, and taught school for nine terms, eight of which were in Perry County. He enrolled as a non-resident student at Oska- loosa Bible School and continued for five years, completing both the Eng- lish Bible course and the regular theological course. Four years later he was granted the D.D. degree by the institution. For twenty-one years he has been in the ministry of the gospel, having been located at Cearfoss, Md .; Newport, Hallam, and Mt. Holly Springs, Pennsylvania; Baltimore and Williamsport, Maryland, and Berwick, Pa., where he is now located. Rev. Raffensperger has served in many of the highest offces of his con- ference for terms of from seven to a dozen years ..
REAMER, CHAS. W. Chas. W. Reamer was born near Markelville, February 8, 1871, the son of Geo. W. and Susan C. (Freeburn) Reamer. He attended the public schools there, and at Marysville, where his family moved in 1883. He studied telegraphy and was employed as a telegraph operator of the Pennsylvania Railroad, from 1887 to 1890, and by the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies in Pittsburgh, New York, Chicago and other cities from 1890 to 1898. During this time he took a law course and graduated from the Western University of Pennsylvania with the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to the bar of Allegheny County in 1898 and has practiced there since then. In 1911 he was ap- pointed a member of the Board of Viewers of Allegheny County.
REEDER, DR. FRANK E. Dr. Frank E. Reeder was born at New Bloomfield, April 9, 1883, the son of Jacob B. and Jemimah C. (Fry) Reeder. He attended the public schools, the New Bloomfield Academy, Mercersburg Academy, Lafayette College, which conferred upon him the
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Ph.B. degree, and the University of Michigan, where he graduated in medicine and surgery. He is located at Flint, Michigan. During the World War he was a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps.
REEDER, GEO. W. George W. Reeder was born in Jackson Town- ship, near Blain, the son of Solomon and Hannah (Smith) Reeder. He attended the common schools and Millersville State Normal School. He entered the teaching profession and made a success in the Middle West. He was principal of the Coquillard School at South Bend for over twenty years. He enlisted in the Sectional War at the age of seventeen. He died July 26, 1914.
REEN, REV. GEO. H. Rev. George H. Reen was born near Liverpool, January 17, 1867, the son of Samuel and Sarah (Hunter) Reen. His family removed to Newport, where he was educated in the public schools. He then went to Troy (Pa.) and prepared for Gettysburg College, under the late Daniel Fleisher, Ph.D. He graduated from Gettysburg College in 1890, at the head of his class. He graduated from the seminary in 1893, and was ordained to the Lutheran ministry. He was pastor of the St. Luke's Lutheran Church at Mansfield, Ohio, 1893-98, and of the First Lu- theran Church at Columbia, Pa., 1898-1903. As a member of the Board of Home Missions he became greatly interested in St. Paul's Mission at St. Louis, Missouri, and in 1903 he became its pastor. The congregation formed there by him built a fine church building, towards which he and his wife contributed $3,600, which represented the profits of a boarding house which they themselves conducted during the St. Louis World's Fair during the year of 1904. Worn by his strenuous labors he fell a victim of disease, dying October 13, 1906, at the age of thirty-nine years. The Sun- day following his funeral had been fixed as the time he should deliver his first sermon in the new church, just completed. That day the congregation voted to change .its name to the "Reen Memorial Church of St. Louis," the name by which it is now known.
RHINESMITH, ARTHUR D. Arthur D. Rhinesmith was born near New Germantown, August 13, 1870, the son of Samuel and Adeline (Deach) Rhinesmith. He attended the Mt. Pleasant school, and later the school at Blain. In 1891 he located at Peoria, Illinois, becoming a hard- ware clerk. He later established a business in the Board of Trade build- ing which has grown into a leading cafeteria. In 1919 he organized the Peoria Cafeteria Company, of which he is secretary. As his father had served in Captain Palm's military company in the War between the States he became active in the Sons of Veterans, and in 1913 was elected State Secretary of that order in Illinois. In 1914 he was elected State Com- mander. After his term as commander he was again elected State Secre- tary for a term of three years.
RHINESMITH, B. H. Blaine H. Rhinesmith was born at Blain, June 17, 1875, the son of Henry and Mary E. (Stambaugh) Rhinesmith. He attended the public schools and the State Normal Schools at Edinburgh and Lock Haven. He was principal of the schools at Caledonia, Pa., and of the Ridgeway Township High School. At present he is superintendent of the Ridgeway Township (Elk County) schools.
RHINESMITH, CHAS. W. Chas. W. Rhinesmith, eldest son of David MI. and Sarah A. (Smith) Rhinesmith, was born at Blain, February 10, 1856. He attended the public schools, New Bloomfield Academy, and Fastman Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York. He read law with the late Judge W. N. Seibert, and was admitted to the Perry County bar in 1882, after which he served three years as clerk to the county com- missioners. He removed to Iowa in 1886, and located at Harlan, where he is engaged in the newspaper business. He served as postmaster at
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Harlan under Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt. In 1904 he located at Charles City, Iowa, where he again engaged in the newspaper business.
RICE, DR. CHAS. S. Dr. Charles S. Rice was born at Ickesburg, De- cember 23, 1865, the son of Samuel I .. and Anna E. (Rowe) Rice. Ife attended the public schools and the select school in Newport, and the New Bloomfield Academy, as well as the Cumberland Valley State Normal School. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1891, and in dentistry at Columbian University at Washington, in 1894. He is medical examiner in the Bureau of Pensions, at Washington.
RICE, REV. HARRIS G. Rev. Harris G. Rice was born at lckesburg, October 1, 1853, the son of William and Caroline (Milligan) Rice. He attended the public schools, the New Bloomfield Academy, and gradu- ated from Princeton College in 1876. He then taught school one year at Van Wert, Ohio, and in 1880 graduated from the Union Theological Seminary in New York. The same year he was ordained to the Presby- terian ministry, and has served charges at Jefferson and Albia, Iowa ; Delphi and Monticelli, Indiana, and at Seven Mile, Osborn, and De Graff, Ohio. He has been stated clerk of the Fort Dodge and Logansport Pres- byteries, and permanent clerk of Iowa and Indiana Synods. Of his six children, Rev. Chas. Herbert Rice is a missionary to India since 1911 ; another is an attorney, and one a physician.
RICE, REV. JOHN W. Rev. John W. Rice, son of George and Mag- dalena Ickes Rice, was born February 22, 1839, in Saville Township. He graduated at Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, and from the Seminary there in 1864. He went to Africa as a missionary for some years. Later, after returning, he was located in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
RICE, REV. VERNON S. Rev. Vernon Spurgeon Rice, son of Josiah and Margaret (Howell) Rice, was born near Saville. He was educated in the public schools and at Blain and the New Bloomfield Academy. He taught school for a time and graduated from Ursinus College in 1901, and from Ursinus Seminary in 1905. His pastorate began at the St. Vincent Reformed Church in Chester County. He died April 8, 1912.
ROBISON, PUERA BEATRICE. Puera Beatrice Robison was born at Liverpool, July 1, 1889, being the daughter of Samuel Alexander and Emma (Kerchner) Robison. She was educated in the Liverpool schools, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, Carnegie College, Pennsylvania State College, Pennsylvania Business College, and Temple University. She taught in the schools of Buffalo and Liverpool Townships three years, and in Liverpool Borough eight years. She was supervisor of the Junior School and Bible instructor, also had charge of Americanization work in the Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, since 1918. She is also teacher of Junior Methods in the Williamsport School of Religious Education for the second year. For eight years she was corresponding secretary of the Perry County Sabbath School Association. In 1921 she was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is, as near as the writer knows, the first Perry County woman to be ordained to the ministry of the gospel.
RODDY, H. JUSTIN. H. Justin Roddy was born at Landisburg, May 25, 1856, the son of William H. Roddy, a teacher, and Susan C. (Waggoner) Roddy. His early education he received in the Landisburg schools and at Mt. Dempsey Academy. He taught in Perry County from 1875 to 1880, and graduated from the Millersville State Normal School in 1881. He taught in Lancaster County higher grade schools from 1881 to 1887, in which year he became a teacher of geography (physical, political, and commercial) in the State Normal School. In 1896 he took charge of the Department of Geography and Geology. In 1906 he was given the Ph.D
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degree. In 1908 he was put at the head of the Department of Natural Seience. He was made a Fellow in the American Geographical Society in 1910, and of the Geographical Society of America in 1919. He was a contributor to Warren's "Birds of Pennsylvania," published by the state, and wrote a series of geographies for the public schools which has had a wide sale. He also wrote a geography of Lancaster County. He has made many original contributions of the geology of Lancaster County and as- sisted Professor Gilbert Van Ingen in a geological survey of Perry County. Professor Roddy edits the Educational Department of the New Era, a Lancaster daily.
RODDY, REV. JOSEPH STOCKTON. Rev. Joseph Stockton Roddy was born at Mt. Pleasant, Jackson Township, June 10, 1864, the son of George Black and Martha Eliza (Ege) Roddy. He attended the public schools of Jackson Township and Blain, also Capt. G. C. Palm's summer school. He then attended the George G. Meade Grammar School in Philadelphia, the New Bloomfield Academy, the Scott-Browne Phono- graphic School in New York City, and graduated from Princeton Uni- versity and Princeton Theological Seminary. Entering the ministry he served these pastorates: Dexter-Earlham Churches in Iowa, Raymond- Bradley Churches (supply) in South Dakota, Olivet Church at Harris- burg, Pennsylvania; college and community pastor of Arch Street Pres- byterian Church, Philadelphia; Olyphant, Pa .; Dutch Reformed Church at Churchville, Pa., and Gloucester City (N. J.) Presbyterian Church, where he is now stationed. Rev. Roddy is also chaplain of the First Regi- ment, Penna. National Guard.
While at Princeton Rev. Roddy was captain of the General Athletic Team, and in 1890 tied for first place in the Canadian one-half-mile cham- pionship. In 1891 he was a member of the American Athletic team which went to Europe, and there captured the world championship in the 1,500- meter run. The Manhattan Athletic Club elected him to life membership in consideration of winning these events. He has been a member of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (1902) and moderator of the Des Moines (lowa) and Carlisle (Pa.) Presbyteries. He has also taught in Dexter (Iowa) Normal College, been editor of the Pennsylvania Endeavorer and M. A. C. Chronicle, and has done much contributing to newspapers and religious journals along the line of Christian endeavor, sports, and community work.
RUPP, REV. J. C. Rev. J. C. Rupp, son of Geo. W. and Catherine (Leiter) Rupp, was born at Liverpool, January 3. 1874. He was educated in the Liverpool schools, Central State Normal School at Lock Haven, and Lebanon Valley College, from which he graduated in 1905 with the A.B. degree. He graduated from Western Theological Seminary, at Pitts- burgh, in 1921. Prior to this he had taught school seven years in Perry County, while farming, and learned the printing trade in the office of the Perry County Democrat. He entered the ministry in 1906 and has since served charges at Bigler, Coalport, Wall, and Beaverdale, being located at Wall from 1913 to 1921. His present charge is at Beaverdale. While at Coalport he was assistant principal of the Beccaria Township High School, and while at Wall he was principal of schools for two years and clerk of the borough council for six years.
SANDERSON. GEO. W. George W. Sanderson, son of John and Sarah (Rice) Sanderson, was born at Ickesburg, October 31, 1844. He attended the public schools and the New Bloomfield Academy, during the principalship of Prof. James A. Stephens, teaching three terms in the coun- try schools, and two in the Loysville Orphans' School. In the meantime Prof. Stephens had taken charge of the Huntingdon Academy, and Mr.
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Sanderson attended it two terms. He then taught nine years in the Hunt- ingdon schools and was principal at McConnellstown and Petersburg, after which he engaged in business at Huntingdon for thirty-nine years.
SANDERSON, T. C. T. C. Sanderson, son of John and Sarah (Rice) Sanderson, was born near Ickesburg. He attended the public schools and the Bloomfield Academy. He then taught for several terms, and attended Gettysburg College for a period. Entering railroad work, he was train- master of the Huntingdon and Broadtop Railroad for twenty-five years. He represented Huntingdon County in the General Assembly in 1901-02. He died in Harrisburg, February 7, 1902.
SCHOLL, T. J. T. J. Scholl, son of Alfred C. and Sarah A. (Rice) Scholl, was born in Landisburg, October 22, 1871. He attended the public schools, after which he took a course in Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He taught school three terms in Perry County, and in 1895 entered the First National Bank at Patton, Pennsylvania, as stenog- rapher, later being elected cashier, a position which he filled for several years. He resigned to take up general auditing and examination work among banks and trust companies, subsequently entering the employ of the Second National Bank at Mechanicsburg. In 1913 he was promoted to cashier. Mr. Scholl is a member of the board of trustees of the Methodist Home for Children, near Mechanicsburg, as well as treasurer of the board of managers.
SCHROEDER, G. G. George G. Schroeder was born May I, 1860, near Dry Sawmill, Liverpool Township, the son of Tillman and Kate (Kerstetter) Schroeder (sometimes spelled Schrawder). He attended the public schools of Liverpool Township and Borough, and spent four years in preparatory school and college in New York. He was an artificer in the United States Army for almost five years, testing oils and coals as fuels for the army and navy contracts. He has been assistant and chief engineer for probably fifteen large companies during the past twenty-eight years in Washington, New York, Chicago and elsewhere. Mr. Schroeder is also a patent attorney, being senior member of the firm of G. G. Schroe- der & Company. He is also senior member of Schroeder & Armstrong, engineers. He is also an inventor, some of his inventions being of consid- erable value.
SEIBERT, DR. J. L. Dr. J. L. Seibert was not born in Perry County, but near Mifflinburg, on October 16, 1851, the son of Rev. Samuel WV. and Eleanor K. (Neilson) Seibert. By reason of his parents' long residence in Perry County, where he attended school and the Bloomfield Academy, he is recognized usually as a Perry Countian. After teaching school for a number of years he graduated from the Medical Department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, in 1883. He then located at Bellefonte, where he has since practiced.
SHAEFER, DR. J. C. Dr. J. C. Shaefer was born at New Buffalo, in 1833, and was graduated at the Philadelphia Medical College. He prac- ticed medicine at Millersburg, Berrysburg and Freeburg.
SHAVER, REV. JOSEPH B. Rev. Joseph B. Shaver was born near Bixler's Mills, Madison Township, December 3, 1844, the son of Rev. David and Nancy E. (Linn) Shaver. His father was a member of a com- mission which met in Harrisburg to equalize taxation over the state, and later Member of Assembly from Perry County. Joseph B. Shaver was educated in the public schools of the period, and under the instruction of a well-read father. When less than eighteen he enlisted in the Forty- Seventh Penna. Volunteer Infantry, and served in the Red River cam- paign, where he was wounded in the arm. After his discharge from the army he attended Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, and in 1867 traveled
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Newport Circuit of the M. E. Church under the presiding elder. In 1868 he was ordained to preach, and served congregations at Gettysburg, New Cumberland, Greencastle, Thompsontown, Osceola, Bedford Circuit, Miles- burg, Hollidaysburg, Curwensville, First Church at Altoona, Hazleton, Danville, and Williamsport. He was a noted preacher of the Word from a Biblical standpoint, rather than from present day themes. He died at the home of his eldest daughter at Hazleton, November 17, 1903.
SHEAFFER, REV. W. J. Rev. W. J. Sheaffer was born in Sheaffer's Valley, near Landisburg, July 18, 1863, the son of John Baer and Emma Carrie (Spence) Sheaffer. He attended the public schools and graduated from Williamsport Dickinson Seminary in 1890, with the A.B. degree. He graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University and from Oskalooska Col- lege, postgraduate work, with A.M. and Ph.D. degree in 1914. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1890. He is now pastor at Jersey Shore, Pa., and secretary of the directors of the Methodist Home for Aged at Tyrone, Pa.
SHEAFFER, DR. J. C. Dr. J. C. Sheaffer was born at New Buffalo in 1833, attended the local schools, and was graduated at the Philadelphia Medical College. He practiced at Millersburg, Berrysburg and Freeburg.
SHOEMAKER, HARRY W. Harry Watters Shoemaker, son of Ben- jamin and Penniah Shoemaker, was born in Perry County, his father once having operated Oak Grove furnace. The son became in turn an iron man and founded the Hartman Steel Company at Beaver Falls, Pa.
SHORTESS, REV. SAMUEL IRVINE. Rev. Samuel Irvine Shortess was born June 7, 1834, near New Bloomfield, the son of Thomas and Elea- nor (Greer) Shortess. In his early years he learned carpentering. In 1864 he enlisted in Co. 3, 208th Regt., Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served in the Sectional War. He had been educated in the public schools, and in 1866 entered the ministry of the Evangelical Church, being ordained in 1867. After serving a number of congregations within the bounds of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, he retired from the active ministry in 1903, and continued to reside at Millersburg, his last charge, where he died in 1910.
SHORTESS, REV. J. D. Rev. John David Shortess was born near Markelville, March 22, 1860, the son of Rev. Samuel Irvine and Elizabeth (Kline) Shortess. He attended the public schools until his eighteenth year, when he entered the Union Seminary at New Berlin. During the winter of 1879-80 he taught school in Union County to help secure his education. In 1882 he graduated from the Theological Department of the Seminary, and during the same year was admitted to the Central Penn- sylvania Conference, where, with 1922, he is closing his fortieth year of active work. He was elected by his conference in 1917 as presiding elder, and was stationed at Carlisle for the four-year term. Upon being reelected, in IgII, he was stationed in the Lewisburg District. In 1914 the D.D. de- gree was conferred upon him by Oskaloosa College. For sixteen years he has been an active member of the board of trustees of Albright College at Myerstown, and is also a member of the board of trustees and treasurer of the Ministerial Aid Society of the Central Pennsylvania Conference. In 1015, he had a prominent part in the establishing of the United Evangelical Home for children and the aged at Lewisburg, Pa., and has since served as a trustee and on the executive board. At the last meeting of the His- torical Society of the United Evangelical Church, he was elected president, to succeed Bishop U. F. Swengel. He has also represented his conference at three quadrennial sessions of the General Conference, the highest legis- lative body of his church. Of his four children, Samuel Irvine Shortess, A.B., is professor of Biology in Girard College, Philadelphia.
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SHULL, B. M. Brinton McClellan Shull was born near Keystone, Perry County, January 17, 1873, the son of David and Leah (Yohe) Shull. He attended the Rye Township schoolst for two years, and graduated from the Marysville High School and the Cumberland Valley State Normal School. He received his A.B. degree from Milton University, Baltimore, Md., and has attended the summer sessions of other institutions. He taught in the schools of Dauphin County, and Penn Township, Perry County, also in the graded schools at Marysville, and in the Lower Dun- cannon High School. He has been grammar school principal, assistant principal, principal of schools, and supervising principal successively at Lehighton, Carbon County, having held his present position for fourteen years. The fine granite-faced high school building at Lehighton, Pennsyl- vania, is largely due to the work of Mr. Shull.
SHULL, DR. J. D. Dr. J. D. Shull was born at Markelville, Perry County, June 10, 1851, the son of Simon and Elizabeth (Fleisher ) Shull. He attended the common schools, Markelville Academy (1871-72), Juniata Valley Normal School (1874), Medical College of Physicians and Sur- geons at Baltimore (1881-82), and graduated from the University of Penn- sylvania in 1887. He practiced medicine at Markelville for about ten years, since which time he has been medical examiner of the Pennsylvania Rail- road at Baltimore, a period of over thirty-three years.
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