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 91

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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SHULTZ, REV. W. K. Rev. W. K. Shultz was born at Elliottsburg, in 1883, where his father, Rev. James F. Shultz, was pastor of the Evan- gelical Church. His mother was Mary E. Shultz. The son of a minister, his early schooling was in many different places. He spent three years at Central Pennsylvania College (now Albright College) at New Berlin, Pa., after which he entered the ministry of the United Evangelical Church. He taught in the public schools, edited the Sullivan Review, a Sullivan County weekly, and has been in the ministry for nineteen years, at present being pastor of Calvary United Evangelical Church at Newport, Perry County.


SHUMAKER, DR. L. M. Dr. Luther Melancthon Shumaker, son of Henry and Margaret (Kessler) Shumaker, was born April 6, 1856. He was educated in the public schools, the New Bloomfield Academy, and Gettysburg College. In 1882 he entered Carthage College, at Carthage, Illinois, but failing health brought him back to Perry County. He then taught school three years in Perry County and three years in the Wyom- ing Valley. In 1887 he entered Jefferson Medical College, where he gradu- ated in 1889. He established an office at Elliottsburg, where for a decade he had a good practice. Seeking a larger field he then located in Harris- burg, where he was successful, and where he gave his life through over- work during the serious influenza epidemic early in 1919.


SHUMAKER, JOHN H., PH.D. John H. Shumaker, Ph.D., was born near Sandy Hill, Madison Township, in 1828. He was educated in the free schools, just opened when his schooling started, and at the Tuscarora Academy and Marshall College, from which he graduated in 1850. An ancestor of his had been tutor to the King of Prussia, and he early de- cided upon teaching as a profession. In 1851 he began teaching at Tusca- rora Academy, where he remained as principal until 1868. From then until 1883 he was principal of the Chambersburg Academy, when he was elected as principal of Blair Presbyterial Academy at Blairstown, New Jersey. He was the first principal of this institution to receive a salary. He was so successful that it became necessary to enlarge the institution, the new girls' dormitory being added. He remained there until 1892. He returned to his home in Chambersburg, where a malignant disease cut short his life in 1894. He was a noted speaker and was frequently heard at normal,


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county and state meetings. He had pursued a course in theology and filled many vacant pulpits as an able supply.


SHUMAN, WILLIAM C. William Colhozeh Shuman was a Perry County lad from very early years, although born in Lancaster County in 1836. Orphaned in his first year, the youngest of fifteen children, he was reared among his kin here. In 1852, while a Miss Minnie Owen, of Croton Falls, New York-who later was married to Dr. David Fetter, of Landis- burg-was conducting a select school in Ickesburg, she boarded with his people, and he thus got his first lessons in grammar-private lessons, as it was not then taught in the public schools. Securing a position in Auburn, New York, in a printing office, he worked there a year, but returned to Ickesburg and spent a year at Academia Academy (Juniata County), of which Prof. John H. Shumaker, of Perry County, was then principal. In 1856 he began teaching. He attended the academy of Rev. John B. Strain one term. In 1859 he attended Millersville, but again taught in Perry for several years. In 1862 he married Rebecca Fertig, of Millerstown, and then taught in Lancaster for several terms. In 1878 he removed to Chicago, where he taught in the Cook County Normal School five years, was prin- cipal of the Chicago grammar school for five years, and in charge of the evening schools for several years. While Prof. Shuman's name will ever stand high in the educational world, yet his successful compilation of the Genealogy of the George Shuman Family, a volume of over three hundred large pages, will ever stand as a monument to the energy and persistency with which he pursued that task for a period of twenty years during the declining years of an active life, after relinquishing school work. It is of this famous family that came Lieutenant Governor Shuman, of Illinois, but he was born and reared in Lancaster County. From it also came the names of Shuman's Mill, Shuman's Church, etc. Following a slight stroke he slept peacefully away, July 7, 1917.


Prof. and Mrs. Shuman were the parents of five children: Edwin L., a noted literary writer; Roy R., expert advertising man; Jesse J., engi- neering expert on steel; Lucy Estelle (Mrs. Chester B. Masslich), and Grace Ethel (Mrs. Jolin Ernest Smiley). All are graduates of North- western University of Chicago.


Mrs. Shuman, nce Rebecca C. Fertig, of Millerstown, at the request of Miss Frances E. Willard, in 1890, undertook the mounting of the World's Polyglot Petition, a document which was to make a strong appeal to the governments of the world to abolish the manufacture of opium and alco- hol. Miss Willard's "Around the World" workers had solicited signers of this petition in every country in the world and the islands of the sea. The names came in great rolls-sometimes in sheets, sometimes singly-and were mounted on canvass half a yard wide. Counting three names to the inch the petition was eight miles in length; but including the six millions attestations from societies of various organizations, the entire length of the petition would have been forty miles. Mrs. Shuman was educated in the Millerstown schools and in the select school of S. H. Galbraith at Blain.


SHUMAN, TIMOTHY BAXTER. Timothy Baxter Shuman was a son of Samuel and Susannah (Bixler) Shuman, born August 1, 1857, at Eshcol, the father being noted as the champion wrestler of Perry County. an athletic sport of much note in that period. He was educated in the local schools. When entering young manhood he went with his parents to Huntingdon County, where he taught school, later entering the business world. He was appointed register and recorded of Mifflin County, by Governor Pattison.


SHUMAN, LEWIS WAYNE. Lewis Wayne Shuman was a son of John and Rebecca Ann (Crane) Shuman. He was born near Ickesburg, October


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4, 1855, educated in the local schools and attended the sessions of '73, '75 and '76 at the New Bloomfield Academy. He taught continuously from 1873 to 1883, three terms in Perry County, three at Earlville, Illinois, and four at Aurora, Nebraska. In the fall of 1883 he was elected clerk of the courts of Hamilton County, Nebraska, of which Aurora is the county seat. He was also a deputy in the county clerk's office, and in the fall of 1891 he was elected county clerk. In 1894 he was elected grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of the State of Nebraska. The same year he entered the real estate business, and later located at Long Beach, California, where he resides.


SHUMAN, WILLIAM CUMMINGS. William Cummings Shuman, a son of Michael and Elizabeth (Chesney) Shuman, was born in Liverpool, September 9, 1849, and there he received his early education. With his family he removed to Ohio in 1866. He has always been in business in Ohio, where, at Covington, he is known as the manufacturer of Milky Evaporated Sweet Corn, a table delicacy. One of his sons, Clinton Polleck Shuman, a graduate of the University of West Virginia, is superintendent of mails of the Philippine Islands.


SHUMAN, JOHN RUSHER. John Rusher Shuman was born Novem- ber 17, 1826, at Liverpool, the son of George and Susannah (Rusher) Shuman. He was educated at the local schools and at Tuscarora Acad- emy. He located at Covington, Ohio, in 1850, where for over fifty years he was identified with its growth. In 1871 he organized and became presi- dent of the Stillwater Valley Bank of Covington, holding that position until his death, which occurred September 14, 1906. Among his children is George George L. Shuman, head of the noted publishing firm of George L. Shuman & Company of Chicago.


SMILEY, REV. JAS. W. Rev. James W. Smiley was born near Sher- mansdale, April 12, 1824, the son of William and Anne (Wilson) Smiley. His father was a son of John Smiley, one of the original settlers of 1755. He entered the Methodist ministry and preached for a time in the South. His health failing he returned to Carlisle, and for years conducted a large clothing store in that town. He was for many years a trustee of Diekin- son College. He died March 22, 1893.


SMILEY, REV. FRANKLIN. Rev. Franklin Smiley was born near Shermansdale, April 24, 1867, the son of James and Emily (Green) Smiley. He became a Presbyterian minister. He died March 15, 1892.


SMILEY, REV. L. C. Rev. L. C. Smiley was born near Shermansdale in 1869, the son of William A. and Martha A. (Adair) Smiley. His grand- father was a son of John Smiley, an original settler in 1755. He attended the public schools and the Union Biblical Seminary at Dayton, Ohio, where he graduated in 1898. He entered the ministry of the gospel and is now a member of the Presbytery of Carlisle, being their supply pastor. He re- sides at Lemoyne, Pa.


SMILEY, REV. J. E. Rev. J. E. Smiley was born near Shermansdale, February 10, 1848, the son of Andrew B. and Frances (Lenhart) Smiley. He attended the public schools, the Millerstown Normal School of Prof. Wright, and the Millersville State Normal School. He went to Ohio in 1872 and taught for a number of years. He finally located in Paulding County, Ohio, a new territory, and entered the mercantile and timber busi- ness. While there he was postmaster, railway agent, and express agent, the post office being named Smiley. In 1908 he began teaching in the Fairmount Bible School, at the same time taking the course himself and graduating in 1911. He continues to teach there but is also a licensed minister. He is treasurer of the Indiana Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, having filled the position for the past twelve years.


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He is now assistant to the president of the Fairmount Bible School, which is developing into Marion College, at Marion, Indiana, with a prospect of becoming a noted church school.


SMILEY, REV. JOHN M. Rev. John M. Smiley was born near Sher- mansdale, in 1822, the son of William and Anne (Wilson) Smiley. He was the grandson of one of the original settlers of 1755, being a brother of Rev. James W. Smiley. He entered the ministry of the United Brethren Church and served for many years. He died at Shippensburg, Pa.


SMILEY, REV. GEO. W. Rev. George Washington Smiley, who was born near Shermansdale, was a noted preacher and lecturer. His lecture on "Origin of the North American Indian," delivered many years ago at the courthouse at New Bloomfield, is still remembered by some of the older people who heard it. He was the son of Frederick Smiley, whose father was one of the original settlers of 1755. He graduated at Dickin- son College at Carlisle. His mother was a Miss Berryhill. He preached in some of the Southern states, and died in Pottsville, Pa., but his remains were buried in the State of Kentucky.


SMILEY, DR. JAMES M. Dr. James Meredith Smiley, son of John and Sarah Eliza (MeBride) Smiley, was born at Shermansdale, February 20, 1867. He attended the public schools, the New Bloomfield Academy, and the Cumberland Valley State Normal School, where he graduated in 1891. He taught several years, and then entered Jefferson Medical College, where he was three years a student, when overtaken by illness. He later finished the course at the University of the South at Suwanee, Tennessee, in 1900. He practiced at Nashville, Tennessee, for one year, and then returned to Pennsylvania, and formed a partnership with his brother, Howard M. They are now located at Yeagerstown, Pennsylvania.


SMILEY, DR. HOWARD M. Dr. Howard Miles Smiley, son of John and Sarah Eliza (McBride) Smiley, was born at Shermansdale, February 22, 1869. He attended the public schools, the New Bloomfield Academy and the Cumberland Valley State Normal School, where he graduated in 1803. He then attended Pennsylvania State College for a year, after which he matriculated at Jefferson Medical College, graduating in 1897. He practiced at Landisburg for six years, at Cincinnati, Ohio, for three years, and at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, for a year, when an opening oc- curred at Yeagertown, Pa., where he located and where he still practices, in connection with his brother, Dr. James M. Smiley, a partnership having been formed.


SMITH, REV. JOSHUA. Rev. Joshua Smith was born December 6, 1841, near Hagerstown, Md., of a Perry County mother. He was the son of William Alexander and Elizabeth (Kiner) Smith. At a very early age his family removed to Blain, where they lived until the close of the Civil War, when they located in Illinois. He was educated in public and select schools. In the War between the States he was a member of Co. A and first lieutenant of Co. K of the Twentieth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. He was on the staff of General Fitzhugh as assistant quartermaster of the Second Brigade of the First Cavalry Division of Sheridan's Army. He was also an assistant inspector general of the First Brigade, Second Division, on the staff of General Avery. He attended dental lectures and practiced dentistry in Chicago for thirty years. He took the theological course of the Rock River Conference of Illinois and was ordained an elder of the M. E. Church in 1885. He was superintendent of Marie Chapel, and pastor of the Marie M. E. Church, 1890-1905, and pastor of the Forty- Seventh Street Church, 1905-1I, when he retired from the active ministry. In 1911 he founded the Burnside Settlement, a noted community charity of Chicago. He is the author of "From Gettysburg to Appomattox," and of


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Christmas Gems and various other Sunday school literature, as well as several songs. He is also a lecturer of note on war topics.


SMITH, C. LESTER. C. Lester Smith was born at Wila, Juniata Township, August 12, 1870, the son of William H. and Elizabeth (Crist) Smith. He was educated in the public schools, Central State Normal School, where he graduated in 1894, and through postgraduate work at both Lock Haven and Columbia Teachers' College. He was assistant prin- cipal at Mt. Carmel, and from there went to Altoona, where he has been a ward principal for twenty-seven years.


SNYDER, DR. J. W. O. Dr. John Wesley Owen Snyder was born in 1835 in Wheatfield Township, the son of Rev. John G. and Peggy (Owen) Snyder. Went with his family to Iowa when twenty years of age and prepared for college there. After the Sectional War he graduated in medicine and surgery in a New York college and practiced at Pueblo, Colorado, where he died. Of his children Almira J. married Henry Cal- vin Thatcher, a native Perry Countian who became the first chief justice of the State of Colorado, and Rev. Henry D. became a United Brethren minister.


SNYDER, REV. J. G. Rev. John George Snyder was born in Perry County, and was educated in the public schools. He entered the United Brethren ministry and served at various places, the longest being with Western U. B. College, where he was an instructor.


SNYDER, DR. GEO. GUY. Dr. George Guy Snyder, son of George C. and Mary Elizabeth (Zaring) Snyder, was born at Liverpool, August 10, 1875. He graduated in the Liverpool schools and at the Central State Normal School at Lock Haven, in 1893. He then read medicine with Dr. E. Walt Snyder, and in 1899 graduated from Jefferson Medical College. He practiced in Marietta for a year, and then located at Harrisburg, where he has since practiced. Dr. Snyder is now the county physician of Dauphin County.


SNYDER, WM. S. William S. Snyder was born in Millerstown, Octo- ber II, 1870, the son of David A. and Margaret A. (Foster) Snyder. He attended the public schools of Millerstown, graduating in the class of 1887. He then entered Millersville Normal School, graduating in the class of 1888. He entered Dickinson College and graduated from that institution in 1894. In earlier life he was a teacher and at one time principal of the public schools of Duncannon. He later entered the legal profession, and is now a member of the firm of Olmsted, Snyder & Miller, one of the leading law firms of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.


SOULE, BLANCHE. Blanche Soule was born at New Bloomfield, August 28, 1874, the daughter of John W. and Margaret (Smith) Soule. She attended the local schools and graduated at the New Bloomfield Academy and Cumberland Valley State Normal School. She taught in the public schools for five years, served as a trained nurse from six to eight years, and was head nurse at the Germantown Hospital for five years, being recognized as at the head of her profession. She has always been interested in mission work, and in 1921 set sail for the Egyptian Soudan, 1,500 miles up the Nile, several hundred by caravan. She will have charge of the dispensary in her new field, under the Presbyterian Board of For- eign Missions.


SOWERS, T. J. T. J. Sowers was born near Landisburg, December 30, 1840, the son of David and Elizabeth (Reiber) Sowers. He was educated in the common schools. He was at Gettysburg with the Thirty-Sixth Pennsylvania Home Guards, and in 1864 joined the 208th Pennsylvania Regiment, serving until the end of the war. In April, 1869, he moved to Ford County, Illinois, of which county he was elected treasurer in 1898.


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on the Republican ticket. After serving his term as county treasurer, Mr. Sowers took up his residence at Piper City, near which place he had large landed interests, and in company with his son engaged in buying and shipping grain. There, he passed away several years ago. The busi- ness is continued by the son.


SPICHER, ALBERT. Albert Spicher, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Spicher, was born in Liverpool Township. He was elected in 1920 as county commissioner of De Lacs County, North Dakota, from the Fourth District, and was made chairman of the board upon its organization.


STAMBAUGH, S. F. Samuel F. Stambaugh was born in Jackson Township, December 10, 1846, the son of John and Sarah Heim (Foust) Stambaugh. He attended the Mt. Pleasant and Blain schools, and was


one of the first Perry Countians to take a business course, immediately after his term of enlistment in the Union Army, at Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He then located at Shelby, Ohio, where he has resided ever since, save for six years, when he was the owner and publisher of the Atchison (Kan- sas) Daily Patriot. There his son Carlton learned the newspaper and printing business, and afterwards, in connection with his uncle, John B. Stambaugh, became the founder of the Daily Globe at Shelby, Ohio, which he still publishes, and which is a valuable property. Returning to Shelby Mr. Stambaugh became a pention attorney and established a real estate agency, which is to-day the leading one in Shelby. As an assistant in S. S. Bloom's law office he became familiar with legal pro- SAMUEL F. STAMBAUGH. cedure, and, according to the judge of the probate court, he drafts more wills than any man in Richland County, Ohio. He was married to Miss Mary E. Moore, of Shelby, Ohio, who passed away December 25, 1909. Three children were born, John Carlton, Mary Grace, and Luther Earl, the latter dying from the effects of having his chest crushed in at a cane rush at Kenyon College. Mr. Stambaugh was the first secretary of the Sunday school connected with the Lutheran Church at Shelby, which to-day has an edifice costing $100,000, and which organization was formed by persons, of whom eighty per cent were descendants of those who were members of "Father" Heim's churches and lived in Perry County. As commander of the Third Troop of the Ohio National Guard for five years Mr. Stambaugh personally equipped his command with Smith & Wesson carbines, sabres, and accoutrements, from his personal funds. He is the only survivor of the first board of directors of the First National Bank of Shelby.


STAMBAUGH. J. B. John B. Stambaugh was born at Blain, Pa., Oc- tober 18, 1856, the son of John and Sarah C. (Foust) Stambaugh. He at- tended the school at Mt. Pleasant, Jackson Township. He located in Ohio, where he has become one of the leading onion growers of the country. Since locating in Ohio he has served as county commissioner for six years,


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and in the House of Representatives for four years. He was on the build- ing committee which supervised the building of the new courthouse of Hardin County, Ohio.


STAHL, C. L. C. L. Stahl was born October 8, 1879, at Newport, the son of William C. and Julia Ann (Horting) Stahl. His family later (in 1885) moved to Virginia, and he became a student in agriculture, special- izing in dairying at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, at Blacksburg, Vir- ginia, in the class of 1907. He did special work at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1908. He then entered the employ of Ex-United States Treasurer Carter Glass and others, having charge of their dairy farms in Virginia, and being manager of two creameries. He is at present dairy director of the Virginia State Dairy and Food Division at Richmond.


STAHL, HORATIO S. Horatio S. Stahl was born October 19, 1868, at Newport, the son of William C. and Julia Ann (Horting) Stahl. In 1885 his family removed to Virginia, where he graduated at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, with the B.S. degree, as an honor student in various branches. He has since done research work in diseases of the peach, apple, corn, and potatoes. He is now professir of Biology in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.


STEPHENS, PROF. JAS. A. Prof. James A. Stephens was born May 14. 1831, in Juniata Township, the son of Robert G. and Martha (Jones) Stephens. He was a noted educator in the days when academies flour- ished, and was twice principal of the Bloomfield Academy, as will be noted in the chapter on that subject, in this book. He was also principal of the Huntingdon Academy, where he died April 22, 1876. He had two sons, Robert Neilson and James, the former having been an author of consid- erable note, a sketch of his life appearing earlier in this book. The Advo- cate described him as "a man of ability, fine education, and an excellent teacher."


STEWART, RICHARD HENRY. Richard Henry Stewart was born in Duncannon, May 23, 1859, his parents being William Jones Stewart and Hannah (Henry) Stewart. He was educated at the public schools and at the New Bloomfield Academy, and read law with the late Charles A. Bar- nett. He was admitted to the bar, December, 1881, and served as district attorney from 1885 to 1888. At the conclusion of his term he located at Kansas City, Missouri, where he practiced law and acted as trust officer of a large trust company. In 1901 he located in New York City, where he is engaged in corporation law practice. Mr. Stewart bears the unique distinction of being the father of one of America's leading theatrical stars, "Marie Doro," whose biography appears earlier in this book in an ex- tended form.


STINE, DR. H. A. Dr. H. A. Stine was born April 23, 1878, at Pillow, Dauphin County, but was brought to Perry by his parents' removal here, when he was a mere child, so is recognized as a Perry Countian. He is a son of Charles and Catherine (Row) Stine. He was educated in the Perry County schools and graduated at the Cumberland Valley State Normal School in 1902. He taught for a number of years, and then entered Bal- timore Medical College, where he graduated in 1912. He located at Har- risburg, where he has since practiced.


STITES, DR. GEO. M. Dr. George M. Stites was born in Millerstown, March II, 1860, the son of Dr. Samuel and Katharine ( Matter) Stites. His father was descended from a long line of medical men on both sides. His mother's name was Rush, and she was of the famous Benjamin Rush family. On the father's side the first Stites came as a surgeon to the colonists in the time of Cromwell. Dr. William Stites, who practiced in Perry County for a few years, was a brother of his father. Dr. Stites


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attended the Millerstown schools, where he got his preliminary education. In March, 1882, he graduated from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons at Baltimore. His father died about that time and he succeeded to the practice at Millerstown. In a few years he removed to Williamstown, where he assumed the practice of his uncle, Dr. George Matter. There he resided and practiced until his death in 1921. He was surgeon of the Lykens Division of the Susquehanna Colliers Company. He was in charge of the First Aid Corps of that mining district and his men were drilled so efficiently that many lives were saved. He helped organize the Williams Valley Railways Company and was long vice-president of the Williams Valley Bank, and was for fourteen years a member of the board of edu- cation, etc. He was married to Miss Hannah Durbin. They had three children, Joseph D., Mrs. Herbert T. Quinn, and Harry J.




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