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 97

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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During the past century many political parties existed in the United States, and, oddly enough, one of them, called "The Light of the World" party, held its national convention in Pfoutz Valley, April 23, 1868, and nominated Dr. Robert A. Simpson, then a practicing physician from Liverpool, for the Presidency. It was based upon religious principles, and its double motto read: "Ist, Our God; 2d, Our Country." The convention is described as having been held by "laborers, farmers, mechanics, and ex-sol- diers." H. J. Heckard presided. After leaving Liverpool Dr. Simpson located at York, where he practiced until his death, about 1904. People who knew him in York describe him as a top- notcher in the practice of medicine and a very learned and cul- tured gentleman. A daughter still resides there. Dr. Simpson's letter of acceptance is still in existence.


Probably the longest balloting contest of the old county conven- tions was that of the Republican nominating convention of August 12, 1895, when Charles L. Johnson, the youngest candidate for sheriff, won over nine other candidates. Seventeen ballots were taken, consuming over three hours.


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Like many other counties of the state, Perry County does not have a hospital with its borders, the most of its cases being cared for at the Harrisburg Hospital. According to statistics of that institution during the past decade the following number of cases from Perry County have been treated there: 1912, III cases; 1913, 114 cases ; 1914, 160 cases; 1915, 175 cases; 1916, 148 cases ; 1917, 159 cases ; 1918, 164 cases; 1919, 119 cases; 1920, 151 cases; 1921, 204 cases.


The State Health Department, however, since April, 1916, has had stationed in the county a trained nurse, who devotes her time to the public health and child welfare work. Miss Kate Bern- heisel, of near Green Park, has filled the position since its begin- ning.


Almost everybody knows that the mother of Abraham Lincoln was Nancy Hanks, yet few know that there has long resided in Perry County a family in whose veins coursed the same blood as that of the ancestry of the immortal Lincoln, probably the greatest of all Presidents. Ephraim Hanks, of Loudon County, Virginia, was the father of three daughters, Leah, Rachel, and Nancy, and two sons. Nancy Hanks married Thomas Lincoln and became the mother of the future President. Leah and Rachel Hanks married brothers by the name of Akers, who moved to Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Rachel becoming the wife of Ephraim Akers, and their daughter, Sarah, married Charles Mclaughlin, to whom was born the late Ephraim Mclaughlin, of Toboyne Township. His mother, accordingly was a first cousin of President Lincoln. Mr. McLaughlin was a resident of Toboyne Township, until the time of his death, December 23, 1907, having lived there since 1848, when he purchased 176 acres of land, then belonging to Roland Brown, but having been the property of his grandfather, James Campbell. Like his grandfather and like Abraham Lincoln, he split rails to fence the lands as they were taken from the forests. At the time of his death he was 86 years of age. His daughter, Miss Luella Mclaughlin, long a Perry County teacher, still resides there. When yet in the possession of James Campbell he gave the lands for the location of the schoolbuilding, and the one there now is the third to occupy the location.


At least one resident of Perry County was a direct descendant, though of the seventh generation, of that noble little band of Pil- grim Fathers which landed at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, in the midst of a blinding snowstorm, on a bleak December day, in 1620. It was Reuben Carver, who was employed at the Duncan- non nail factory when that industry was flourishing, and who lived for many years at Duncannon. Among the little party land- ing at Plymouth Rock, was John Carver and his family, eight in number. He was elected the first governor of this pious band, but


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died soon thereafter. It is told that as late as 1755 a grandson of Governor Carver still lived in Massachusetts, aged 102 years. Reuben Carver, the Duncannon descendant, died in 1885, and in the Lutheran cemetery at Duncannon there is a Scotch granite tombstone bearing this legend :


Reuben W. Carver, Son of Jabish Carver, Who was the son of Jabez, Son of Jonathan, son of Nathaniel, son of Eleazer, Son of Gov. John Carver, Who landed at Plymouth Rock, Dec. 21, 1620, was born at Taunton, Mass. Oct. 3, 1807, and died at Duncannon, Pa., Oct. 25, 1885, Aged 78 years and 22 days.


Susan McKean, a sister of Thomas McKean, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and second governor of Penn- sylvania, was married to a Mr. Meminger, a pioneer Perry Coun- tian who settled near the Saville-Madison Township line, whose descendants reside in Perry and adjoining counties.


Representatives of many other famous families live and have lived in Perry County. In the veins of some flows a strain of the same blood as that of General Anthony Wayne, in others (the Scotts) a strain of the same blood as coursed the veins of Francis Scott Key.


Among long pastorates of the clergy in Perry County were Rev. John Linn, 42 years; Rev. John William Heim, 35 years; Rev. Jacob Scholl, 28 years; Rev. W. D. E. Scott, 32 years, and Rev. W. R. H. Deatrich, 19 years.


The first prohibitory liquor law ever offered in the Pennsylvania Legislature was offered by a Perry Countian, Rev. David Shaver, who represented the county in the session of 1853. He was chair- man of the Committee on Vice and Immorality, and in that capac- ity reported in favor of the adoption of a bill for a prohibitory liquor law.


The Department of Labor and Industry of the State of Penn- sylvania, in its Industrial Directory for 1920, the centenary of Perry County's erection, states that the county's principal centers of population are Newport, Duncannon, New Bloomfield and Marysville," naming the towns in the order stated. There are no large manufacturing plants within the county, the Duncannon Iron & Steel Company's plant being the largest and employing the most men. The number at that time was 528 men. The Juniata Foun-


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dry and Furnace Company, of Newport, ranked second, with 80 employees. The Elk Tanning Company, of Newport, was a close third, with 77. Others following in order were the Oak Extract Company, at Newport, with 52 ; Standard Novelty Works, at Dun- cannon, with 35; Newport planing mill, with 14, and the C. A. Rippmann's Sons' tannery, at Millerstown, with 12.


In the textile lines the Romberger Hosiery Factory, at Newport, led with 32 males and 68 females, total 100. The J. Arthur Rife shirt factory, at Duncannon, was second, with I male and 53 fe- males. Others were the Page shirt factory, at Millerstown, with 7 males and 43 females; Darlington & Clouser's hosiery plant, at New Bloomfield, with 8 males and 42 females; Newport shirt factory, with 2 males and 38 females; Mexico Shirt Company, at Millerstown, with 4 males and 23 females, and the Smith hosiery mill, at Newport, with 5 males and 10 females.


POPULATION OF PERRY COUNTY.


DISTRICTS.


1820


1830


1840


1850


1860


1870


1880


1890


1900


1910


1920


Blain


270


249


326


326


310


Bloomfield


412


581


661


655


673


737


772


762


778


Buffalo


875


1,270


948


782 1,002


770


703


691


576


479


455


Carroll


1,100


1,169


1,294


1,425


1,417


1,283


1,213


1,053


997


Centre


982


944


1,070


1,121


1,120


1,283


1,213


1,053


824


Duneannon


960


1,027


1,074


1,661


1,474


1,679


Greenwood


1,660


967


725


995


957


1,080


1,109


868


802


754


673


Jaekson


885


1,058


1,103


1,004


955


981


756


623


Juniata


1,748


2,201


1,450


1,435


1,017


983


958


938


878


794


737


Landisburg


416


363


369


336


318


300


252


185


Liverpool Twp.


1,104


763


956


1,072


859


825


751


678


628


538


Madison


1,299


1,292


1,534


1,577


1,699


1,584


1,568


1,344


1,169


Miller


761


438


379


356


586


417


305


Millerstown


371


389


533


652


594


555


549


616


Newport


423


517


649


945


1,399


1,417


1,734


2,009


1,972


Oliver


796


870


787


511


811


969


955


1,015


1,029


Penn


839


1,109


1,238


1,529


1,771


1,965


1,386


996


1,053


Rye


1,704


843


451


696


702


703


849


710


680


554


506


Saville


1,154


1,319


1,283


1,501


1,644


1,693


1,743


1,542


1,496


1,405


1,194


Spring


1,965


2,310


1,442


707


940


914 899


995


762


747


595


603


Tyrone


2,236


2,758


2,391


1,069


1,180


1,287


1,486


1,562


1,447


1,397


1,262


Watts


460


413


725


451


396


407


377


320


Wheatfield


1,485


617


678


749


780


790


779


71:


661


645


Howe


410


398


383


338


322


299


Liverpool Boro.


451


606


823


838


821


653


596


586


Marysville


863


1,206


1,115


1,463


1,693


1,877


New Buffalo


259


222


220


171


135


93


69


Petersburgt


680


831


1,282


1,442


1,492


1,538


1,340


1,280


1,179


1,003


Toboyne


851


812


702


544


Tusearora


767


Totals


11,342 14,257 17,096 20, 088 22,793 25, 447 27, 525


26,276 26,263 24,130 22,875


*New Germantown's existence as a borough was of short duration. Prior to the eensus of 1850 and thereafter its population is ineluded in that of Toboyne township, within whose limits it is located.


tThe name of Petersburg Borough was changed to Duncannon Borough in 1865.


#Figures not given in United States Government reports.


When the county was established, in 1820, the center of popu- lation of the United States was in West Virginia, just west of the Maryland line. For the last three decades it has been in slightly varying positions in Indiana, being now eight miles southeast of Spencer. The trend of population is toward the great cities, or


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more especially toward means of employment, which are to be found cityward. When Perry County was formed from Cumber- land, in 1820, the population was 13,162. Its growth was slow and gradual until 1880, when it showed its largest population, 27,522. In the next ten years it dropped over a thousand. Be- tween 1890 and 1900 it practically held its own, with a population in 1900 of 26,263. Ten years later, in 1910, its population had dwindled over two thousand, and was placed at 24,136. In 1920 it was 22,875. There are several reasons for this. One reason is that families are of smaller size than in the far past. Another is that labor-saving machinery has cut the requirements of the farmer for help, and the tenant house on his farm and that of the laborer on the adjoining small place are a thing of the past, thus materially helping in the reduction of population in the townships. A third reason is the general trend cityward in search of employment, and still another reason is that the state has taken over thousands of acres for a forest resrevation, considerable of which was once populated. One of these sections, now devoted to forestry, is ITorse Valley, located between Conococheague and Tuscarora Mountains, where once dwelt fifty or more families, and where once resided such substantial families as the Beers, Cooks, Emerys, Kellys, Lacys, Naugles, Scyocs, and others. It had two schools and a church, but to-day there are only seventy residents of that part of the valley lying in Perry County. Fifty to seventy-five years ago Henry's Valley, that very narrow section between Bow- ers' Mountain and the Kittatinny or Blue Mountain, in western Perry County, contained a hundred or more houses, a store, church, schoolhouse, etc. The tanning industry was then at its height, and the tannery people there owned from four to five thousand acres of land. A neat graveyard then in use is hardly discernible, and only two persons reside in the valley, practically all the lands hav- ing been added to the state forest. In what is Sheaffer's Valley, which merges into Henry's Valley, above the Doubling Gap road, once resided probably fifty families, yet to-day, including the Forest Reserve farm, only two persons have their habitation there. The location is in Tyrone Township. Then there is Liberty Valley, in Madison Township. Its story too, is the tale of many other sec- tions of Pennsylvania. Many years ago, before manufacturing had become general, several thousand acres, now growing in pines, had been cleared and was farmed in rye, the product being sold to distilleries. There is a story that this valley was once so poor that many could not pay their taxes, but with the advent of the month- tain tannery once located there, the people became well-to-do. With the tannery gone and no means of employment the popula- tion is not a third of what it once was, numbering only about seventy-five.


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Another valley, once tilled and the site of many homes, is the Sugar Run Valley, in Tuscarora Township, now almost returned to the virgin state, the remaining houses being small, and growing less in number each year.


At every prominent crossroads and village in the county there was once a blacksmith shop, at which frequently two men found employment, and whose families resided near by. To-day they are gone, with few exceptions. Old residents recollect the time when ·there were twenty such shops from New Germantown to Sher- mansdale, including the ones in those towns. To-day there are but four.


The story of the slow decrease of rural population in Perry County applies elsewhere. In 1890, according to the United States census, the rural and urban populations were about equally divided. In 1900, fifty-five per cent of the population was urban. By 1910 sixty per cent were dwelling in cities and towns, and the last census showed over sixty-four per cent.


During the decade between 1910 and 1920 all the districts of the county lost in population save the townships of Oliver, Penn and Tuscarora, and the boroughs of Bloomfield, Duncannon, Marysville and Millerstown. In all cases the townships which gained either surround or adjoin a borough which gained, which bears out the fact that people will drift townward.


The population of 1920 places Perry as one of sixteen Pennsyl- vania counties which has neither Indian, Chinese or Japanese in- habitants. Of its population of 22,875, the number of males is II,465, and of females, 11,410. Of the total population only 156 are foreign-born. Of the total, 22,107 were born of native par- entage, 263 of mixed parentage, and 249 of foreign parentage. The negro population is 80. The percentage of native white popu- lation is 98.5; foreign-born, 1.2, and negroes, .3. The number of families in the county was 5,683, residing in 5.530 dwellings.


The number of farms is decreasing, as it is all over Pennsyl- vania. In 1900 the state had 224,248 farms; in 1910, 219,256, and in 1920, 202,256. In 1900 Perry County had 2,286 farms ; in 1910 the number had however, increased to 2,409, and in 1920 dropped to 2,105. The expanding Tuscarora State Forest is one of the reason for the decrease in Perry County farms, the higli wages of industrial plants being another. The number of auto- mobiles in Perry County during 1921 was 947, with 60 motor trucks, and 40 tractors.


A history of a number of counties in several volumes, published a few years ago, was evidently written at "long distance" and with- out much consideration for correctness. As an example of some of the statements the population of various places is quoted as follows: Andersonburg, 180; Bixler, 180; Cisna's Run, 95;


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Donnally's Mills, 104; Esheol, 95; Green Park, 178; Ickesburg, 430, and Loysville, 500. All wonderful exaggerations.


According to the last year's births and deaths as taken from the reports of the registrars of vital statistics for 1920, the births ex- ceed the deaths to a large degree. During that year there were 559 births and 321 deaths. The deaths were over twenty-six per thousand of population.


District.


Registrar.


Births. Deaths.


Bloomfield, Carroll and Centre, .. . D. C. Kell,


59


37


Duncannon, Penn and Wheatfield, . W. Walter Branyan, ;


97


59


Liverpool and Liverpool Twp., Dr. Wm. G. McMorris, 26


18


Saville Twp.,


H. A. Johnston,


25


I6


Blain, Madison, Jackson and To- boyne,


R. H. Kell,


70


40


Landisburg, Spring and Tyrone,


D. B. Dromgold,


48


25


Marysville and Rye, .


Dr. E. Walt Snyder, .


59


32


New Buffalo and Watts.


Amos A. Ober,


19


I7


Newport, Miller, Oliver, Howe, Ju-


niata,


Frank H. Zinn,


90


47


Millerstown, Greenwood and Tus-


66


30


carora,


James Rounsley,


Totals,


559


321


Pennsylvania legislation frequently deals with its various conn- ties upon a basis of population, and for that purpose passed a bill placing all the counties in eight different classes, according to popu- lation. Perry County is included in the Seventh Class, comprising counties of from 20,000 to 50,000 population.


With the four tracks of a great trunk line crossing the county, it is not strange that occasionally a great train wreck should hap- pen within its borders, even on the best managed railroad in the world. Probably the worst one that has occurred happened at two o'clock a. m., of October 24, 1895, when an axle of a car on an east-bound freight train broke and threw several cars off the track and across the westbound passenger track of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Trimmer's Rock, below Newport, where there existed at that time a considerable bend in the road, since obviated. At that moment train No. 7, a fast westbound mail and passenger train from New York to Pittsburgh, had already entered the block not many rods away and crushed into the debris. The engineer had a bare instant to reverse his lever when the crash came and his engine toppled into the waters of the adjoining canal, carrying with it a working car in which mail was being distributed. Three other mail storage cars, out of a total of six, were demolished. The imprisoned mail distributors clambered from the broken cars just in time, for in a few minutes the cars took fire and were con- sumed. Daniel Wolfkiel, the engineer, aged 51, and Joseph W. Haines, the fireman, aged 27, were killed. Mr. Haines, who had been with the railroad company for eight years, met death within sight of his birthplace, Newport. Mr. Wolfkeil, the engineer, was


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from McVeytown, and had been a soldier in the War between the States. Ten postal clerks were injured, but escaped with their lives : C. A. Chamberlain, John Zerbe, and B. I. Brand, of Harris- burg; E. L. Colville, of Pittsburgh; A. E. Woodruff, of Lewis- town ; S. Groff, of Mount Joy ; A. T. Rowan, of Trenton; George Gilmour, of Philadelphia; James Norris, of Hightstown, N. J., and John I. Campbell, of Gallitzin. Of those eight, Mr. Brand, Mr. Colville, Mr. Woodruff, Mr. Gilmour, and Mr. Campbell are yet in the service of the government, although a period of more than twenty-five years has elapsed.


From the time of the pioneers, when the Indians lurked about, ready to visit death upon the unsuspecting, there have been the usual accidental deaths by drowning in the two rivers and the canals, by grade crossing accidents on the railroads, by accidents in the manufacturing establishments, by hunting season errors, and by various other causes. Friends and those very near and dear to the writer have been left fatherless and have gone down the years mourning the demise of a loved one, lacking a father's care and support, and sometimes the home which they otherwise would have had. These things seem to be incidental to existence every- where, and Perry County has probably had far fewer than larger communities wherein are located huge industrial plants.


Twice since the creation of the county have children strayed into the mountains never to return. The first instance was during July, 1871, when an eleven-year-old girl of the Crounce family, of Penn Township, became lost. Her remains were not found until in August, 1873, when they were discovered in the fastnesses of Cove Mountain, one and a half miles from Perdix Station. The other was the case of little Alice Arnold, who wandered away from her home in Tuscarora Township, May 22, 1911, and whose re- mains were found many months later in a thicket near the top of Tuscarora Mountain, three miles east of Ickesburg.


Fashions seem to pass in cycles. Wide comment in the public press since the advent of the World War as to the abbreviated dress of females seems to be the counterpart of "the thirties" of last century. The Perry Forester, of April 1, 1834, contained the following lines :


"They've shortened their dresses a cubit or more,


Now scant in the rear, and scanter before ;


Till at length they have got them so short and so small, That, by gracious, they seem like no garments at all."


The males of the period, too, were afflicted with vanity, as their tight trousers, green eyeglasses and small headgear bears evidence.


According to records and prints of the early and middle period of the past century the men generally dressed well, first in "pigeon tail" coats, and later in "Prince Alberts." The clothing in the


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earlier period was tailor-made, and every village and town had its tailor shop.


During the first eighteen years of the existence of Perry County all the officers were Democrats. The first person, not a Democrat, to be successful at an election, was Joseph Shuler, who was elected sheriff upon the Whig ticket, in 1838.


During the first century of Perry County's existence but one Perry County woman was elected at the general elections to fill a public office. Until women were granted the franchise by the pas- sage and adoption of the suffrage amendment in 1920, the only of- fice to which they were eligible in the State of Pennsylvania was that of school director, and throughout the many counties very few were elected even to that office. When Hugh W. Bell, a school director of Rye Township, died early in 1907, the school board appointed his widow, Mrs. Effie I. Bell, to fill the vacancy, she assuming the duties in the spring of that year. Two years later Mrs. Bell was nominated by the Democrats and elected at the general election, serving a full term and being in office when the present county superintendent, Prof. Daniel L. Kline, was elected for his first term. She thus attained distinction in three different ways. She was the first and only woman in the county during its first century to hold public office by appointment ; she was the first and only one to hold it by election, and she was the first and only one to attend a county convention and vote for the election of a county superintendent. Mrs. Bell is a daughter of H. F. and Katharine (Harter) Long, and was born April 1I, 1866, at Mil- lerstown. She taught ten years in Liverpool, Greenwood and Rye townships and Millerstown Borough. She was educated at Mil- lersville State Normal School and with tutorage by Prof. Silas Wright. She was united in marriage in 1892 to Hugh W. Bell, a son of the late James Bell, of Rye Township. Left with five small children at his death, the youngest of whom was but six months old, she assumed the management of his mercantile busi- ness. Since the World War and the attendant scarcity of teach- ers, Mrs. Bell, like many other former Perry County teachers, has returned to the profession, and is teaching in the township (Rye) in which she once was a director. Two of her daughters teach- Effie O. Bell, the elder daughter, in Marysville, and Beatrice M. Bell, her second daughter, at Sandy, Utah.


It was planned to include a number of additional poems by Perry Countians in this volume, but the size to which it has grown bars their insertion, with the result that they will possibly later be issued in a separate volume. The more notable writers of verse from among the natives includes Chief Justice John Bannister Gibson, Governor Stephen Miller, G. Cary Tharpe, Dr. Zenas J. Gray, Rev. J. D. Calhoun, W. Walter Branyan, J. Albert Lutz, W. W.


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Fuller and others. Mrs. Emma F. Carpenter, of Duncan's Island, was also a well-known writer of verse. The author of this volume will appreciate any information upon this subject.


In the greatest undertaking since the World War, in May, 1919, another Perry Countian figured, for while Lieut. David McCul- loch was born in Juniata County he was brought here when a small boy and is recognized as a Perry Countian. When the attempt was made by the United States government to send three sea- planes across the Atlantic Ocean, the NC-3 had as one of its offi- cers Lieut. McCulloch, who was one of the most expert air men in the government service. He had previously been in the employ of Rodman Wanamaker in his air activities and was instructor for the Italian government in aviation. During the World War he was chief of naval operations in aviation and had charge of the Liberty motor tests.


A real king visited Perry County in 1920, when the special train containing King Albert, of Belgium, was placed on the old railroad line in Newport, for several hours, awaiting the new day before proceeding to Harrisburg, where the royal party were entertained. Ex-Member of Assembly John S. Eby greeted the visitor and in- troduced him to a small party who had gathered to see the train bearing the noted ruler.




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