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THOMAS L. PEARCE, coal operator in the firm of Wood & Co., Tamaqua, was born in England, in 1831. He came to Tamaqua in 1849.
OSCAR PETERY is a school teacher at New Ringgold.
CHARLES POWELL married Anna Evans, a native of South Wales. He was born in South Wales, February 13th, 1829. He came to Mauch Chunk August 2nd, 1861, and commenced work for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company April Ist, 1869, as outside foreman at slope No. 2, and April 23d, 1873, was transferred to colliery No. 9, and acted in the same capacity. Since May ist, 1877, he has been inside foreman at breaker No. 10, Rahn township.
THOMAS E. POWELL, merchant, Second and Water streets, Coal Dale, is a native of South Wales. He was born May 6th, 1855. Mr. Powell came to Coal Dale in 1861, and in 1869 went into the store of Mr. Charles F. Gaslee as clerk. In 1871 he was sworn in as postmaster -the first in Coal Dale. In March, 1877, he engaged in mercantile business for himself. A year later he was elected town clerk.
WILLIAM PRISER, born in Chester county, August 8th, 1817, came to Tamaqua in 1849. He was chief burgess of the borough in 1878, 1879, and 1880.
THOMAS PURCELL, proprietor of the Columbia House in Tamaqua, his native town, was born September 24th, 1850. He was an employe of a mining company until 1879, when he entered his present business.
MICHAEL RAFTER, a resident of West Penn about twenty years, was born in Middleport, in 1854. He was formerly a farmer, but commenced railroading in the fall of 1873, and is now section boss, No. 6, which posi- tion he received in the fall of 1876.
JOHN RALSTON, superintendent of Greenwood rolling mill, Tamaqua, was born in Scotland, July 29th, 1831, and married Isabella Ratcliff, of Tamaqua. He was en- gaged in the coal business in Carbon county from 1860 to 1861; from 1861 to 1864 was in the same business in Tamaqua. From that date he has been running the rolling mill.
WILLIAM H. REED was born in East Brunswick town- ship, in 1854, his parents being old residents of the county. He is a merchant at McKeansburg. He mar- ried Esther C. Koch.
MICHAEL ROONEY, merchant at New Philadelphia, was born June 20th, 1820, in Ireland, and came to America in 1845. He has held several borough offices.
JOHN C. F. SCHIRNER, M. D., of Tamaqua borough, born March 4th, 1827, is a native of Easton. He mar- ried A. M. Seip, of Berks county. He came to Tama- qua and commenced his practice in the spring of 1850. His office is at 65 Broad street.
DANIEL B. SCHOCK, a resident of Walker township since 1847, was born in Schuylkill county, March 21st. 1847. He married Melinda Sheil, of West Brunswick township. He is a farmer by occupation and was in- spector of election for the years 1876 and 1877.
JOHN B. SCHOCK was born in Walker township, Sep- tember 28th, 1836, and married Esther Markle, of Schuyl-
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kill township. He is a farmer and owns and occupies the farm in Walker that his father-in-law, William Markle, bought in 1835 and sold to Mr. Schock about 1868.
LEWIS B. SCHOCK, a resident and native of Walker township, was born February 20th, 1841. He married Elizabeth Marshteller, a native of Schuylkill county. He is a farmer and drover; was appointed constable about 1866, and auditor in 1872, which office he held for three years. In 1870 he was elected to the office of assessor, and in the spring of 1880 again elected consta- ble, and still holds the office.
WILLIAM SCHOENER, farmer and dairyman, Walker township, was born in Berks county, February 10th, 1818; he married Moriah Shultz, of the same place, and has lived in Walker township thirty-three years. In 1845 he was elected supervisor of North Manheim township. In 1856 he was supervisor of Schuylkill township, and the following year he was elected school director, holding that office for nine years. He was anditor three years, from 1870, and was also school director of Walker town- ship for two years before the township was set off from Schuylkill, and has held the position since that date. About the year 1860 he was assessor of Schuylkill for two years.
FRANCIS F. SEIBERLING, son of Peter Seiberling, was born in West Penn, September 12th, 1845. He is en- gaged in the hotel business with his father.
PETER SEIBERLING, the proprietor of Union Hotel, and postmaster since 1854, was born February 4th, 1816, and has been a resident of West Penn forty-two years. He came to the township in 1838. His father, John Seiber- ling, a native of Lehigh county, was the oldest postmas- ter in the United States, having held the office for about sixty consecutive years; he died in the ninety-third year of his age. Probably the first hotel in West Penn was built by one John Zimmerman, about the year 1820. It still stands near the hotel owned and kept by Mr. Seiber- ling, who also kept hotel in the old building, from 1838 until 1847, when he purchased a lot and put up his present building.
CONRAD F. SHINDEL, attorney and counselor at law, in practice in Tamaqua since 1858, was born in Dauphin county, March 10th, 1836. He married Mary Louise Bailey, of New York. He came to this place in 1855, and was chosen one of the presidential electors in 1876.
EDWARD F. SHINDEL, druggist, was born in Dauphin county, March 11th, 1839, and married Martha J. Cole, of Philadelphia. He came to Tamaqua in 1854. He has been borough auditor for two terms, and borough councilman for three years. His partner in the drug business is John T. Bond.
GEORGE C. SHOEMAKER, born in Berks county in 1847, came to Tamaqua in 1872, and was engaged as dry goods salesman about six years, when he accepted the position of book-keeper. He married Miss Clentine Glassmire, of Tamaqua.
T. F. SITTLER was born in Carbon county, July 19th, 1837, and resides in West Penn township, where he is engaged in the lumbering and mercantile business. He enlisted in 1864, and served as sergeant of Company H until the close of the war.
B. F. SOLLIDAY, M. D., New Ringgold, was born in Lehigh county, May 29th, 1839. He lived a few years in Ohio, and came to New Ringgold in 1860. He began the practice of medicine in 1865. He served in the late war as Ist lieutenant.
E. S. SOLLIDAY, M. D., was born in Lehigh county in 1834. He graduated at Jefferson Medical College in
1856, and since then has been practicing medicine and surgery. He came to Tamaqua in 1871. He married Emma S. Jaeger, of Berks county. His office and resi- dence is at 134 West Broad street. He has been coroner of Schuylkill county.
WILLIAM G. SOUDER was born in Lebanon county, May 21st, 1829, and married Sarah Womelsdorf, of Berks county. He came to Tamaqua in 1866, engaged in the insurance business in 1868, and in 1878 was elected justice of the peace for five years; he is also an insurance agent. He was a lieutenant in the Union army.
FRANK SOWERS, merchant tailor in Tamaqua, of Ger- man nationality, was born in 1843, and came to Tama- qua in 1866. Since 1868 he has been doing a very pros- perous business at 21 West Broad street.
FRANK P. SPIESE was born in Chester county, in 1855, and has been a resident of Tamaqua since 1872. He is one of the firm of F. P. Spiese & Co., dealers in boots and shoes. He married Emma L. Bowden, of Tamaqua.
H. A. SPIESE, of the firm of Frank P. Spiese & Co., dealers in boots and shoes at Tamaqua, settled there in April, 1863, and for a time was freight and passenger agent of the Empire and Catawissa Railroad Company. From 1872 to 1880 he was cashier of the Tamaqua Bank- ing and Trust Company. He was born in Chester coun- ty, May 5th, 1836, and married Eleanor Phillips, of Berks county.
CHARLES STEIGERWALT, carpenter and builder, was born in Northampton county, January 28th, 1822. He came to Tamaqua in 1845. He was drafted and served in the army until August 16th, 1863. In March, 1879, he was elected one of the Tamaqua city council. He married Katie Ann Haldemann, of Schuylkill county.
PHILIP STEIN, station agent of the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Tamaqua, came in 1866, and has held his present position since 1873. He was formerly a merchant. He was born in Philadelphia, October 16th, 1842, and married Helen Rice, of this place.
CHARLES STEWART, born in Ireland, in 1831, married Martha Clements, also a native of Ireland. He became a member of the Carbon Guards about 1856, and served three years. In August, 1853, Mr. Stewart commenced work for the Lehigh Company, and was appointed to his present position, engineer at breaker No. 8, Rahn town- ship, in 1864.
H. F. STIDFOLE came to Tamaqua in 1846, from New Jersey, where he was born in 1820. He married Missouri Kepner, of Schuylkill county. He has been a merchant since 1851. His place of busness is Broad street, Tama- qua.
JAMES SYMONS, coal operator, was born in England, September 3d, 1830. He came to Tamaqua in 1849, and worked in the mines, and at carpenter work. He formed a copartnership with Mr. Mitchell in the coal business in 1870.
CHARLES TANNER was born in England, in 1830, and came to America in 1852. He has been a resident of New Philadelphia for 27 years, and has followed various kinds of business. He was the first chief burgess of New Philadelphia.
MARY VAUGHAN, a native of Wales, and widow of the late Charles Vaughan, is engaged in the mercantile busi- ness at No. 49 Hunter street, Tamaqua. Her husband established the business about 1860. He died in 1877. Mrs. Vaughan came to Tamaqua about 1840.
BENJAMIN WALKER, of Geary Town, was born in Ire- land, in 1830. He married Hannah Gilmore, of Ireland. Mr. Walker came to Summit Hill in 1844, and com- menced work for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com-
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pany the same year. Since 1862 he has filled the posi- tion of engineer, and received an appointment at Green- wood in 1875. staying only a few months. After the lapse of three years he is again filling the position of engineer at Greenwood No. 2.
FRED WALLAUER, station agent at Coal Dale and tele- graph operator for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com- pany, was born in Tamaqua, October 18th, 1857. He was telegraph operator at breaker No. 10 from 1875 until October Ist, 1879, when he was appointed to his present position.
GILPIN WARRINGTON was born in South Camden, N. J., May 17th, 1851, and came to Tamaqua March 21st, 1870. He married Ida R. Eynon, of Tamaqua. For about ten years he was storekeeper and timekeeper's as- sistant; in 1880 he was promoted to the position of clerk and timekeeper of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail- road shops at Tamaqua.
DANIEL WEAVER, carpenter and builder, and senior member of the firm of Weaver & Alspach, was born in Lehigh county, in 1842, and came to Tamaqua in 1862. Mr. A. is a native of Schuylkill county, born in 1840, and has resided in Tamaqua since 1862. His place of busi- ness is on Cutler street.
J. F. WEHINGER, of Tamaqua, was born in 1846, and married Eliza Schaefer. Both came from Germany. He went to Sawandock in 1866, and commenced business in 1870. In August, 1877, he came to Tamaqua and en- gaged in manufacturing on Mauch Chunk street. He is also a dealer in candy.
CHARLES H. WELDY, book-keeper at Tamaqua, was born there August 10th, 1855, and married Henrietta Smitham, of Carbon county. He graduated at Critten- den's business college, in Philadelphia, in 1872.
JOHN WHELIN, of Tamaqua, was born in the township of Schuylkill, in 1850. He married Catharine Clark, of Tamaqua. He has been an employe of the railroad com- pany since 1870, and since 1876 has been section boss.
ABSALOM K. WHETSTONE was born in Tamaqua, Octo- ber 6th, 1833, and married Rebecca Andrews, of East Brunswick. He is a farmer, and has been a resident of Walker township forty-six years. He enlisted August 6th, 1862; two months afterwards he was promoted 5th corporal, and he received his discharge May 18th, 1863, at Harrisburg. He held the office of school direct- or of Schuylkill township before Walker was set off from it, and for the past five years has held the office of audi- tor of Walker township.
EMANUEL M. WHETSTONE, of Tamaqua, foreman of coal trains, East Mahanoy division, since 1879, was born in Schuylkill township, January Ist, 1839, and married Elmina M. Moyer, of Lehigh county. He was formerly a coal operator and foreman for the Alaska Coal Com- pany, but since 1873 has been in the railroad service.
GIDEON WHETSTONE, Walker township, was born Feb- ruary 8th, 1823, in Tamaqua, Pa. He married Catherine Boughner, of Schuylkill township. He was formerly coal operator, lumberman and merchant, and is now a farmer. Mr. Whetstone came to Schuylkill township in 1833; in 1845 he was elected constable in Tamaqua; in
1847 he was made justice of the peace in West Penn, and held the office till 1850. That year he was appointed post- master of West Penn township, which position he held until 1859. In 1874 he returned to Schuylkill township; in 1876 he was elected constable, and held that office three years. In 1880 he was appointed census enumerator for Walker, Schuylkill and Ryan townships, having held the same position in 1860.
JOHN G. WILLIAMS, of Cumberland, was born in Wales, in 1850, and came to America in 1853. He is engineer at the Eagle Hill mine.
GEORGE D. WOOD, a native of England, was born in 1816, and came to Tamaqua in 1840 and was employed in the Mauch Chunk coal mines. From 1876 he was agent for the Little Schuylkill Company until they sold out to the Reading Railroad Company. About 1877 he commenced business as a coal operator.
DANIEL J. YosT has been a resident of Walker town- ship since 1855. He was born in East Brunswick, July 22nd, 1820, and married Lydia Bretney, a native of Car- bon county. He is the proprietor of a grist-mill and saw- mill, and carries on farming. He built his grist-mill in 1867, and it was the first of any importance in Schuylkill township, and is the only one now in Walker. His son, Jonathan 1., was born in Schuylkill township, now Walk- er, September 20th, 1858, and attended the Muhlenburg College. His occupation is that of miller in his father's grist-mill.
DAVID ZEHNER was born in Lehigh county, November 5th, 1831, and has been living in West Penn since 1843. He married Esther Kistler, of Schuylkill county. He has been school director and auditor in West Penn, and is a successful farmer and mill proprietor. Mr. Zehner's grandfather, David, erected the first saw and grist-mills, which were log buildings, about the year 1780, where the present mill stands. John D. Zehner put up a build- ing on the same spot, a saw-mill in 1843 and a grist- mill in 1845, but these were burned August 2nd, 1876. The former was rebuilt by the present proprietor, in 1876, and the latter a year later. David Zehner, sen., also built a large brick house near the mill in 1816-probably the first one of the kind erected in West Penn-and the bricks were made by him from clay dug near the mill.
JOSEPH ZEHNER, of Geary Town, was born in Northum- berland county, in 1841, and married Katie Rice, of Schuylkill county. About 1872 Mr. Zehner went to Ta- maqua, and was a coal merchant for eighteen months. Four years later he was appointed to the position he now holds-that of head carpenter at breaker No. 10. He was a soldier in the Union army.
WILLIAM H. ZELLER, of the firm of Harris & Zeller, editors and publishers, born in Berks county, in 1856, came to Tamaqua in 1878, since which time he has been engaged in the publication of the Tamaqua Courier. He had previously been a printer.
Besides the foregoing the following residents of the same territory contributed their support to this publica- tion: N. Calloway, Miss M. F. Donaldson, Justin Evans, Rev. W. J. Miller, Z. T. Ratcliff, J. W. Schaffer.
NORTH MANHEIM, SOUTH MANHEIM AND WEST BRUNSWICK TOWNSHIPS, AUBURN, CRES- SONA, MT. CARBON, ORWIGSBURG, PORT CLINTON AND SCHUYLKILL HAVEN BOROUGHS.
GEORGE ADAMS was born in Berks county, in 1828, and came to Schuylkill county in 1847. He is one of the enterprising farmers of the township, and a descend- ant of one of the oldest German families of Berks county. His farm is situated near Landingville, at Adamsville, a hamlet owned by Mr. Adams.
SAMUEL ADAMS, proprietor of the brick flouring mill at Schuylkill Haven, was born in Berks county, in 1846; he has had possession of the mill, which has four runs of stones, for the past four years. Mr. Adams was married in 1878.
H. S. ALBRIGHT was born in West Brunswick town-
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ship, in 1856, and in 1860 came to Orwigsburg, where he is a member of the firm of Albright & Brown, shoe manu- facturers.
N. S. ALBRIGHT was born in West Brunswick town- ship, December 27th, 1842. In 1874 he removed to Orwigsburg. He has been a butcher for the last six years.
I. H. BRUCE AMICK, M. D., was born at St. Clairsville. Bedford county, February 12th, 1851. He married Miss I. Wile, of Philadelphia. Dr. Amick graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and has been located in Schuylkill Haven over two years.
GEORGE E. BAST, son of Gideon Bast, was born in Schuylkill Haven, May Ist, 1845. For several years he was engaged in coal operations, but at present is living retired, at Schuylkill Haven. He married Miss Phebe Deibert, of Schuylkill Haven.
JERE. G. BAST was born at Springtown, Berks county, March 19th, 1846, and has been a resident of Schuylkill county sixteen years. He married Ella Kline, of Schuyl- kill Haven, Mr. Bast has been clerk of the borough council of Schuylkill Haven twelve years. He served as a private in the Union army. He is at present in the in- surance business. His father, Ephraim Bast, has been a clergyman in the Evangelical Association.
CHARLES F. BECK, son of Frederick Beck, was born in Cressona, March 13th, 1858. He is clerk of the co- operative association store at Schuylkill Haven.
EDWARD BECK, proprietor of Beck's Hotel, was born in North Manheim township, March 11th, 1829, near where he now resides. He was married to Mary Strauch, of Cressona, daughter of Isaac Strauch.
FREDERICK T. BECK was born in Orwigsburg, Decem- ber 4th, 1849. He was married to Clara Beihl, of Tam- aqua, Schuylkill county. He has a general store in Or- wigsburg.
FREDERICK BECK, Schuylkill Haven, was born in North Manheim township, December 6th, 1824, and mar- ried Magdalene Herleman. His father was ar. early settler, and Mr. Beck has followed farming and hotel keeping. He has held many offices of trust in the town, and in 1872 was appointed steward and general superin- tendent of the alms-house.
JOHN C. BECK was born in Orwigsburg. In 1874 he became secretary of the Orwigsburg Shoe Manufacturing Company, and has held that position since. He is also treasurer of the Schuylkill County Agricultural Society, and has held several borough offices.
WILLIAM BECK was born in North Manheim township, August 5th, 1840. His father, Jacob Beck, a native of Germany, came to Schuylkill county in 1813, and settled near the present borough of Cressona. Mr. Beck is a merchant miller. He married Miss Matilda Strauch, of Cressona, in 1862. He has been school director nine years.
GEORGE H. BICKLEY was born in Chelsea, Mass., March 11th, 1851, and came to Orwigsburg in 1873. His wife's maiden name was Esther R. Schall. Her people were old residents of Schuylkill county.
JOHN H. BICKLEY, of Orwigsburg, boot and shoe manufacturer, was born in Boonton, Morris county, N. J., in 1838. He married A. M. Stine, of Pottsville. Mr. B. was formerly an iron master. He served in the Union army as private and lieutenant.
JOHN H. BINCKLEY was born in Schuylkill Haven, De- cember 19th, 1852. He married Mary E. Moyer, Octo- ber 14th, 1875. He conducts a barber establishment in the Washington Hall Hotel building, Schuylkill Haven.
ROBERT L. BITTLE was born at Cressona, where he still resides, Jannary Ist, 1853. He was married to Ab- by A. Hughes, of Wayne township. Mr. Bittle has been a butcher for eleven years.
SAMUEL S. BOSSLER was born January 10th, 1843, in Berks county, and removed to West Brunswick township in the spring of 1880. He conducts a grist-mill about one mile from Orwigsburg. Mr. B. served in the civil war eighteen months.
D. E. BOYER was born in McKeansburg, Schuylkill county, October 24th, 1842. In 1852 he came to Or- wigsburg, where he has been proprietor of the Harlem House sixteen years. Mr. B. has held several borough offices, and is also an officer of the county agricultural society.
DANIEL L. BOYER was born in Schuylkill Haven, Dec- ember 17th, 1836, and has lived on his farm between that borough and Orwigsburg nearly a quarter of a century. He married R. Salome Meyerly, of Orwigsburg. He has held several important offices, and is now county survey- or. He has held the office of justice of the peace in North Manheim fifteen years.
GODFREY BOYER was born in North Manheim town- ship, in 1826. He married Mary A. Reed in 1849. He has resided on the place where he now lives since 1827. He has held the office of school director.
DANIEL C. BOYER was born in West Brunswick town- ship, December 15th, 1829. He came to Port Clinton in 1840, and has been engaged in the mercantile business since 1858. He has held several borough offices, and has been postmaster of Port Clinton since 1868.
DAVID C. BROWN, boat builder and farmer, was born in Berks county, September 7th, 1832, and married Em- ma R. Ketner, of Schuylkill county. He has been a resi- dent of Landingville, North Manheim, for twenty-six years. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and Masonic fraternities. He served three months in the army.
JOHN E. BUBECK, SEN., a resident of Schuylkill Haven twenty-seven years, was born in Germany, January roth, 1827. He married Mary Eiler, of North Manheim. Dur- ing the last ten years he has been a weighmaster for the P. & R. Company; is a member of the Mystic Chain and the Grand Army, and served three years in the army.
DANIEL F. BURKERT was born in Berks county, in 1836, and married, for his second wife, Pauline Scheek, in 1866. His father was an early settler, and a soldier of 1812. Mr. Burkert was harbormaster of Schuylkill Haven twenty-six years, and served throughout the war, raising the first company in his borough, of which he was made captain. He was acting major two years. His son entered the army as a drummer boy when only twelve years old.
S. BURNS, M. D., was born in Northumberland county, July 8th, 1849. He came to reside in Port Clinton in 1876. Dr. Burns graduated at Long Island College, Brooklyn, N. Y., in June, 1874.
DANIEL S. BYERLY was born in Schuylkill Haven, De- cember 12th, 1854. He is one of the leading business men of that place, engaged in the hardware business, at No. 38 Main street.
D. H. CLAUSEN was born in Berks county, November 19th, 1839. In the spring of 1880 he came to Port Clin- ton, where he is proprietor of the Centre Hotel. He was in the army four years.
EZRA COCKILL, SEN. was born in Germantown, Philadel- phia county, March 20th, 1820, and has been a resident of Schuylkill county fifty years. He married Eliza C. Bacon, of Becket, Mass. He is a house carpenter and breaker builder.
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ISRAEL COLLER, hotel proprietor, was born at Reading, December 20th, 1835, and came to Landingville in 1840 with his father, who built the hotel where he now resides. He married Caroline Arnot, of Greenwich. He is a mem- ber of the I. O. of O. F. of Orwigsburg.
JOHN DAVIES was born in Philadelphia, July 4th, 1830, and came to Schuylkill Haven when 11 years of age. He married Nancy Fields, June 29th, 1851. His early life was spent as a rope maker, but since the spring of 1862 he has been proprietor of a hotel in Spring Garden, Schuylkill Haven. He has been a member of the coun- cil and school board.
A. F. DEIBERT, merchant at Cressona, was born in North Manheim township, July 11th, 1844. He married Angelina Crommes, of the same township. He has held the office of school director, and was in the late war a short time.
GEORGE F. DENGLER, dealer in stationery, wall paper, etc,, and general job printer at Schuylkill Haven, was born there January 3d, 1851. He married Kate E. Wil- trout.
PETER C. DETWEILER, dentist, was born at Kutztown, Berks county, July 23d, 1823. He located in 1856 at Schuylkill Haven, where he is now practicing. He married Rebecca Bowen. Mr. Detweiler furnished a substitute during the war for three years.
JOHN DIEFENDERFER, leader of the Orwigsburg band for the last five years, was born in Schuylkill Haven, in 1852, and removed to Orwigsburg in 1860.
EDWARD DOLAN was born in Ireland, in 1836, and came to America in 1840. He married Ann Hoolahan, of Mahanoy City, in 1862. He was appointed superin- tendent of the hospital of the alms-house in 1880. He had formerly been a colliery superintendent and engineer.
EDWARD T. EILER, barber, was born at Schuylkill Haven, November 24th, 1860. He is a member of the band of that place.
FRANKLIN B. DREHER, merchant at Orwigsburg, was born there December 25th, 1818. John Dreher, his father, was prominent among the early pioneers. He was an engineer and surveyor, and aided in developing the great coal fields of Schuylkill county, and also in settling the early land titles relative to many local estates.
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