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ELIAS DREISBACH was born in West Brunswick town- ship, July Ist, 1847. He is a farmer, and resides a short distance from Orwigsburg. His parents were among the early settlers of West Brunswick township.
GIDEON S. EBLING was born in Berks county, August 25th, 1813. He now resides in West Brunswick, and is a farmer. He has been supervisor and assessor.
JOSEPH E. EDWARDS was born in Middleport, Schuyl- kill county, in 1855, and came to Orwigsburg in 1865. He married Sarah Haeseler, of Orwigsburg. He is em- ployed in the shoe factory.
BENJAMIN EIB, brakeman, Cressona, was born at Mount Carbon, September 1st, 1861, and is a son of Joseph Eib, road-master on the Philadelphia and Reading railroad.
WILLIAM ELLIOTT was born in Philadelphia, in 1826. He has resided in Port Clinton a number of years. He is a house carpenter.
GEORGE H. FAUST was born in West Brunswick town- ship, in 1842. He at one time carried on a grist-mill, but he is now a farmer. He is auditor of West Bruns- wick township.
HENRY FAUST, of West Brunswick, was born in that township, October 27th, 1827. He is a miller and a farmer. He has held the office of auditor of the town- ship.
JACOB FAUST was born in West Brunswick township, May 5th, 1838, and still resides there. He is a farmer; married Annette Mohl, of the same township.
SOLOMON H. FAUST was born in East Brunswick town- ship, July 14th, 1834. He is employed by the Orwigs- burg Shoe Manufacturing Company. Mr. Faust's wife was Rebecca Marburger, of East Brunswick township.
FRANKLIN F. FEGLEY was born February 22nd, 1840, in West Brunswick township, where he is a farmer and huckster. He was married in 1874 to Miss Mary Ketner.
A. W. FELIX was born in Minersville, in 1850, and came to Schuylkill Haven in 1876; he married Kate E. Mice, in 1869. Mr. Felix is a merchant.
JEREMIAH FESSLER, a locomotive engineer, residing at Cressona, was born in Wayne township, Schuylkill county, January 28th, 1845.
WILLIAM A. FIELD was born at Sodus, Wayne county, N. Y., March 5th, 1827, and has been a resident of Schuylkill Haven for twenty-seven years. He married Lemira S. Mason, a native of Lima, N. Y. Mr. Field is a self-made man; his early life was spent on the farm in the summer season, and attending school in the winter. He received his education at Alfred, Allegany county, and the Franklin Academy, in Steuben county, N. Y., after which for nearly two years he was a teacher. He was principal of the school at Schuylkill Haven for about six years. During the last twenty-one years he has been employed in the collector's office of the Schuyl- kill canal, formerly as clerk, afterward as collector, which position he now holds. He has one son.
JAMES FITZPATRICK was born in Port Clinton, January 7th, 1859. He has been telegraph operator at the Port Clinton station during the past four years.
JEREMIAH D. FOCHT was born in Berks county, in 1827, and moved to Schuylkill county in 1848. He has kept the Continental Hotel at Adamsville, North Man- heim township, for some time.
J. G. FRANCIS was born in Berks county, October 24th, 1840, and came to Port Clinton in 1875. He is stable and shipping agent at Port Clinton for the railroad and canal department.
A. K. FRIDIRICI, Auburn, was born in Berks county, April 16th, 1850, and came to Auburn in 1857, living on a farm and teaching up to the age of 20, since which time he has been a merchant. He was married January ist, 1878, to Miss Ida Trivitz, granddaughter of Dr. Au- gustus Schultz. He is justice of the peace and secretary of the school board.
JOSEPH FRIDIRICI was born in February, 1841, in Lehigh county, and came to Auburn in 1857. Since 1872 he has been proprietor of one of the leading stores there. Pre- vious to 1872 he was a railroader. He married Amanda Koch, of Auburn, in 1865.
E. W. FREHAFER, chief burgess of Schuylkill Haven in 1880, was born in that borough, October 11th, 1844. Mr. Frehafer has been engaged in the lumber and grocery business, but is now retired. He married Miss Ella R. Carl, of Friedensburg. He was in the army; has held the office of chief burgess three terms; is a member of the Grand Army and Knights of Pythias.
ROBERT FROMMKNECHT, living at Cressona, was born there, December 18th, 1849. He has been a machinist ten years, and is employed by the Philadelphia and Read- ing Railroad Company.
JOHN GARBER, farmer, was born in West Penn town- ship, June Ist, 1823, and married Louisa Bouck, of West Brunswick. He has resided on his present farm, situated about three miles from Schuylkill Haven, about twenty years.
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WILLIAM A. GENSEMERE was born at Reading, Decem- ber 15th, 1852, and came to Schuylkill Haven when six years old. He married Celia A. Mackay, of Schuylkill Haven, in October, 1874. In company with his mother he carries on an extensive leather store on Railroad street, and a harness shop on Main street. His father, William Gensemere, who established the business, died March 27th, 1879. His wife was Clarinda Frank.
DAVID GERBER was born in West Penn township, Sep- tember Ist, 1821. He married Maria Buck, of West Brunswick, in 1843. He is a farmer, and has resided in North Marheim since 1844. George H., one of his sons, was formerly a teacher, but is now studying law with Judge Green, of Pottsville.
JAMES A. GRANT, superintendent of the insane depart- ment of the county almhouse since 1880, was born in East Norwegian township, May ist, 1864. He was married to Margaret Whalen, of Glen Carbon, in 1871.
JAMES C. GRAY, one of the teachers in the Cressona schools, was born in Cressona, February 13th, 1860. His father, John Gray, is an old resident of Schuylkill county, having come to the county from Scotland.
CHARLES D. GOLD was born in Quakertown, Bucks county, January 4th, 1846, and married Anna J. Toy, of Camden, N. J., November 11th, 1867. His father, James L. Gold, was born in Nazareth, and for nearly thirty years was proprietor of the Chestnut Hill Hotel. Charles D. Gold followed the theatrical business about ten years, after which for another ten years he was one of the lead- ing auctioneers of southern Pennsylvania. He became proprietor of Washington Hall, the leading hotel in Schuylkill Haven, in April, 1877.
THEODORE GORDON was born at New Castle, Dela- ware, in 1842. He has lived in Schuylkill county since 1850. He married Sarah Heiser in 1865. He was for- merly conductor on the Mine Hill Railroad; is now act- ing as coal dispatcher at the Mine Hill crossing.
C. H. HAESELER was born in Orwigsburg, March Ist, 1846. He is secretary of the Orwigsburg Shoe Manu- facturing Company. Mr. H. was married to Mary Louisa Beck, of Orwigsburg. He has held several borough offices, and was formerly a merchant; is traveling sales- man for the shoe company.
JOHN W. HAGNER was born at Schuylkill Haven, Sep- tember 30th, 1859; he was formerly engaged as a tele- graph operator, but is at present a railroad conductor, and resides at Cressona.
MRS. A. J. HANNUM, postmistress at Schuylkill Haven for the past sixteen years, is a niece of Hon. Simon Cameron. Her husband, John T. Hannum, died from the effects of the amputation of his right arm, June 7th, 1864, at Alexandria, Va. He enlisted as private at Pottsville, was promoted to adjutant, and was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor.
DARIAN J. HARNER was born in Berks county, April 19th, 1833, and married Susanna A. Garrett, of Port Car- bon, November 27th, 1877. While crossing the railroad track at Schuylkill Haven, March 30th, 1877, he was run over by by the cars and lost one arm and both legs. He survived the accident and has gained a competence as proprietor of the Harner Hotel, Schuylkill Haven. He has also taught school.
GEORGE HARTMAN, an old resident of West Brunswick, was born in that township, May 6th, 1818. He was mar- ried in 1848 to Caroline Mingel; was at one time a farmer, but for many years has been employed on the railroad.
HARRY Y. HARTMAN, M. D., was born in Dauphin county, March 31st, 1857. In the fall of 1877 he entered
the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, where he graduated in the spring of 1880. Dr. Hartman located in Orwigsburg and is fast building up a practice.
JOHN HORN, JR., Port Clinton, was born in Northamp- ton county, March 11th, 1819, and in 1848 came to Schuylkill county. Mr. Horn has been twice elected member of the Legislature from his county, and has held borough offices, including justice of the peace for two years. He is one of the representative men of the county, and a leading business man of his township.
SAMUEL HOWER, postmaster at Cressona, was born in Fredericksburg, Lebanon county, February 13th, 1834, and married Harriet Scherff, of Cressona. He served in the Union army, participating in the battles of Chancel- lorsville and Gettysburg. He is a merchant tailor, and has been a member of town council, and a school director.
IRWIN F. Hoy was born April 18th, 1858, in Orwigs- burg, where he now lives. He has been a cigar manufac- turer since May, 1880. His wife's maiden name was Emma Kimmel, and her parents have lived in Schuylkill county for many years.
JACOB Hov, a native and resident of Orwigsburg, was born December 3d, 1824. His father, Joseph Hoy, was among the early settlers of the place. He is a farmer and he has held several borough offices.
THOMAS HOY is a resident of Orwigsburg.
CAPTAIN A. C. HUCKEY, of Port Clinton, was born in that borough, February 11th, 1839. He was married to Miss Kate O. Kline, of Hamburg, Pa. Captain Huckey is now mail route agent on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. He served in the army as private, sergeant, lieutenant and captain from August 9th, 1861, to July 17th, 1865.
THOMAS B. INNESS was born in Pottsville, March 4th, 1848. He married Miss Addie Sillyman, of the same place. He now resides in West Brunswick township, and is manager of the Little Schuylkill rolling mills.
R. F. JONES was born at Schuylkill Haven, September 24th, 1861. He has been a clerk and mechanic. Post- office address, Cressona.
J. ELISHA KANTNER was born in Cressona, June 20th, 1859. He is a tinsmith on Chestnut street.
WESLEY E. KANTNER, Cressona, was born there, Sep- tember 21st, 1861. He is telegraph operator in the Phil- adelphia and Reading Railroad Company's office, at the Mine Hill crossing. He was formerly clerk in a coal agent's office at Schuylkill Haven.
ALBERT KAUFMAN was born September 28th, 1855, at Port Clinton, where he is employed in the rolling mill.
JOHN G. KAUFMAN was born in Schuylkill Haven, January 16th, 1838. He married Maggie Stover, of Philadelphia, in 1863. He died October 12th, 1880.
HENRY V. KEEVER was born at Reading, August 9th, 1849, and has resided at Schuylkill Haven for seven years. He is coal agent for the Philadelphia and Read- ing Railroad Compay, at the Mine Hill crossing; was formerly freight and ticket agent for the company at Reading. He married Leah Maitland, of Reading.
W. CLINTON KEPNER was born near New Ringgold, Schuylkill county, September 18th, 1859. He was for- merly a teacher, but he at present holds the position of clerk at the Orwigsburg shoe factory, at Orwigsburg.
HENRY S. KERN was born in Berks county, January 7th, 1816; removing to Schuylkill county about fifteen years ago. He has resided on his fine farm near Land- ingville for the last thirteen years. He married Catharine Moyer, of West Brunswick, Schuylkill county, and has seven children, two boys and five girls. Mr. Kern for
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eighteen years held the position of station and ticket agent at Hamburg.
MICHAEL KERKESLAGER was born in Dauphin county, May 15th, 1825, and came to Schuylkill Haven in 1830, with his parents, who were among the first settlers of the borough. He married Angeline Jones, March 3d, 1852. He has been a merchant and hotel keeper at Schuylkill Haven several years. Has been a mason twenty-eight years.
FRANK KETNER was born in West Brunswick township, January 9th, 1833. Mr. Ketner married Rebecca Hoy, of Orwigsburg. He is a farmer in West Brunswick.
PHILIP S. KINPORT was born in Annville, November 3d, 1856, and removed to Schuylkill Haven in 1879, where he is engaged in the drug business. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and has spent his business life in the drug business.
ERASTUS KIPP, superintendent of the Cressona powder mills, was born in Ulster county, N. Y., November 13th, 1846. He was married to Emma Dillman, of Berks county, and came to Cressona in 1866. In 1869 he lost an arm while employed in the mill.
IRA KIPP was born in Ulster county, N. Y., May 30th, 1822; he was married to Margaret Carle, of Ulster county, N. Y. He resides in North Manheim township, and is connected with the Laflin & Rand powder mills, near Cressona.
E. J. KIRLIN was born in Berks county, and came to Schuylkill county in 1846. He is a partner in the firm of E. J. Kirlin & Co., brick makers, and is chief burgess of Port Clinton. He has held several minor borough offices.
WILLIAM KLINE was born at Catawissa, in April, 1816. He married Sarah Nice, of Hamburg. He has resided in North Manheim township for twenty-eight years. For the past eleven years he has been superintendent of turn- pike roads for North Manheim township. Post-office address, Pottsville.
DR. KOEHLER was born in Lebanon, in 1816, and was the only son of John Koehler, D. D., a bishop of the Moravian church. He had a wide reputation as a physi- cian. He died September 29th, 1875, leaving a wife and family, who now reside at Schuylkill Haven.
GEORGE E. KUEBLER was born in Shamokin, Decem- ber 20th, 1843, but resides in North Manheim township, near Cressona. He married Sally Fassold, of Northum- berland county. His father, William Kuebler, was an old resident of Schuylkill county.
EDWARD LEBENGOOD, farmer, of Cressona, was born in Montgomery county, December 13th, 1824. After following boating for twenty-four years he went to sea on a whaling voyage, and was gone two years. He has been clerk for the directors of the poor for seven years. He was township auditor for twenty years. He married Caroline Hertzel, of Wayne township.
URIAH G. LEFFLER, of Landingville, North Manheim township, was born August 11th, 1850. He is a boat builder at Landingville. His brother, William H. Leff- ler, retired from the business, was born at Orwigsburg, October 29th, 1832.
ISAAC A. LOEB was born at Schuylkill Haven, June 7th, 1856. He is telegraph operator at the borough station on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Has been in the employ of the company eight years. His father is a merchant of the place. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
F. E. LYNCH was born in Cressona, October 24th, 1857, and still lives there. He is a telegraph operator for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company.
JAMES MARBURGER, of Cressona, was born in West Brunswick township, Schuylkill county, December 25th, 1839. He was married to Diana Moyer, of the same township. He is employed at the Cressona powder mills.
GEORGE W. MATCHIN was born at Northumberland, February 22nd, 18to. In early life he followed survey- ing. In 1846 he was admitted to the bar as an attorney at law. He was married to Elizabeth Shofer in 1833. Mr. Matchin is the only practicing lawyer in Schuylkill Haven.
CHARLES MATTEN was born in Hamburg, Berks county, in 1831. He is junior partner in the firm of Kirlin & Co., brick makers at Port Clinton. The firm manufactures about 700,000 bricks annually. Mr. M. has also been during twenty-seven years a locomotive en- gineer on the Little Schuylkill branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
PEARSON MECK was born at Schuylkill Haven, Octo- ber 23d, 1858. He is associated with his father in the mercantile and lumber business at Schuylkill Haven.
JONAS MEST was born in Berks county, October 15th, 1850. He resides at Cressona, and has been employed as a stationary engineer at powder mills since 1871. He was married to Emma R. Eckert, of Schuylkill county.
AARON H. MILLER, bridge builder, was born in Berks county, September 14th, 1822. He resides at Cressona, and has been employed by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company for twenty-eight years.
CHARLES B. MILLER was born July 4th, 1844, in West Brunswick township, where he has resided nearly all the time since. He is a broom maker and farmer.
CHARLES K. MOYER was born in West Brunswick township, August ist, 1823, and is a farmer in that township. He was married to Catharine Heim, also of West Brunswick.
DANIEL M. MOYER was born in Columbia county, October 11th, 1814. He was married to Miss Sarah M. Kline, of Schuylkill Haven. He has been a blacksmith in the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Com- pany thirty-four years. Post-office address, Cressona.
JACKSON MOYER, proprietor of the Delmonico House, Auburn, was born September 19th, 1846, and married Mary Leibengood, of Berks county, April 1st, 1865. Mr. Moyer is a son of Abraham Moyer, a native of Schuylkill county. His father, Isaac, was one of the early settlers of this part of the State. He took charge of the Delmonico House, one of the finest buildings in South Manheim, in the fall of 1879.
SOLOMON R. MOYER was born in Berks county, August 20th, 1834. He came to Schuylkill county in 1862. He has lived in Orwigsburg since 1867. Mr. Moyer is presi- dent of the Orwigsburg Shoe Manufacturing Company.
GEORGE W. NICE, M. D., was born in Hamburg, Berks county, February 24th, 1833, and about 1854 came to Port Clinton, where he now lives. In 1853 Mr. Nice was married to Angeline Bond, of Port Clinton. He died August 31st, 1876.
MILLARD F. NAGLE, of the firm of Meck & Nagle, merchants and lumber dealers, was born in Pottsville, May 17th, 1853, and has been a resident of Schuylkill Haven about four years. He married Jennie Meck, of Schuylkill Haven.
ISAAC ORWIG was born in Orwigsburg, September 9th, 1821, and has resided there ever since. The borough received its name from his grand-uncle. Mr. Orwig has held the office of director of the poor, and also several borough offices.
FRANK A. PALSGROVE, night telegraph operator at the
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Mine Hill crossing, was born in Schuylkill Haven, Sep- tember 22nd, 1854. His father, Reuben Palsgrove, was an old resident of the county.
ISRAEL PAXSON was born in Philadelphia, December 23d, 1831, and married Miriam I. Conard, of Washington township. He is employed as clerk by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, at their car shops at Schuylkill Haven; he served as timekeeper for 27 years. He was a soldier in the Union army. His father, John J. Paxson, came to Schuylkill county in 1849, settling on a farm one mile from Schuylkill Haven, in South Man- heim township. He took an active part in the agricul- tural interests of the county, and was for several years president of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society, and also the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company. Mr. Paxson was born June 21st, 1805, and died March 26th, 1873. His wife was Lucretia Heston, daughter of Col. Heston, of Revolutionary fame; she is still living on the old homestead.
PLINY PORTER was born at Coventry, Chenango county, N. Y., December 21st, 1819. He has followed teaching as a profession for life, and is one of the oldest teachers in the State. He was married to Mary E. Ebert, of North Manheim township, in 1848, and resides in Schuyl- kill Haven.
JAMES RAUSCH, proprietor of the St. Elmo Hotel, at Auburn, was born September 12th, 1837, in Maiden Creek township, Berks county. He has resided at Auburn for over 32 years; he married Catharine Ream, of Auburn, in 1860. Mr. Rausch was a railroad engineer for 11 years, and has been a school director for his borough.
A. H. REBER is a farmer, residing in South Manheim township, where he was born October 3d, 1849. He mar- ried Matilda Reber, of North Manheim township.
THOMAS J. REED was born January 26th, 1847, in Or- wigsburg, where he still resides. Mr. Reed was in the army two and a half years. He has been in the stove business about nine years.
FREDERICK REICK was born in Germany, April 9th, 1840. He resides at Cressona, and is employed by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. He was married to Miss Esther Reber, of Berks county.
J. N. RILAND, clerk at Cressona, was born in Wayne township, Schuylkill county, April 4th, 1851. He was married to M. Elizabeth Fritz, of Wayne township, and was formerly employed at school teaching and farming, also as telegraph operator by the Philadelphia and Read ing Railroad Company.
JOSEPH J. ROGERS was born in Robinson township, Berks county, March 29th, 1830. He was married to Julia A. Templin, of the same township He is super- visor of track on the Mine Hill railroad, and resides at Cressona. He formerly resided at Port Carbon, where be held several borough offices.
MICHAEL RUBERT was born in France, September 22nd, 1825. He married Anna Ludwig, of the same country. He came to America in 1830, and to Schuyl- kill county in 1838. He has been a farmer at Cressona for the past twenty-eight years.
PROF. CHARLES P. SAYLOR, teacher at the public school of Schuylkill Haven, was born April 28th, 1839. He has been a teacher twenty-five years, and was con- nected with the post office four years, during President Lincoln's first term. He married Miss Catharine Kremer.
DAVID L. SCHULTZ, physician, residing at Auburn, was born in Hamburg, Berks county, May 12th, 1850. He studied in the normal school at Bloomsburg, and gradu- ated in March, 1875, at Jefferson Medical College, Phil- adelphia.
J. H. SHANTZ, grocer since 1878, at Port Clinton, was born there, January 30th, 1858. He was formerly a news agent on the railroad.
JOHN SHENK was born in Berks county, June 15th, 1841, and in 1848 came to Port Clinton, where he is a carpenter. Mr. Shenk has held several borough offices, and he served in the war of the Rebellion three years.
JUSTUS SHERER was born in Berks county, December 14th, 1839. He married Mary J. Byerly, of Schuylkill Haven, in 1867. He is head clerk at the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company's coal office at Union Hill crossing. Mr. Sherer was a soldier in the Union army.
JAMES P. SIMON resides at Cressona.
DANIEL SMALL was born at York, January Ist, 1800, and married Elizabeth M. Fisher, in 1821. In 1848 he removed to Schuylkill Haven, as agent for the Reading Coal Company, which position he filled twenty-five years, when he was placed on the honorably retired list of the road; previous to that he was superintendent and dis- patcher on the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was post- master of York for a number of years, and in 1838 he was appointed deputy surveyor-general of the State, under Governor Porter. In 1814, in company with 96 com - rades, he marched from York to Baltimore and took an active part at the battle of North Point. Mr. Small cele- brated his golden wedding in 1871.
DANIEL SMITH was born in Berks county, in 1841, re- moving to Orwigsburg in 1848, where he has since lived. He was in the late war a short time.
D. M. SMITH was born in Northumberland county, April 2nd, 1858, and came to Schuylkill county in 1880, where he established a sewing-machine agency.
HENRY SORTMAN, engineer, is a citizen of Cressona.
CHARLES SPINDLER, clerk at Washington Hall, Schuyl- kill Haven, was born in that borough, June 28th, 1861. His parents reside in the borough.
JOHN A. SPRENGER was born in Wayne township, Schuylkill county, February 28th, 1848. He married S. Bell Sherts, of Springfield, Mass. He was formerly a farmer and produce dealer, but is at present a cigar manu- facturer and proprietor of Sprenger's Hotel, Cressona. He has held the office of school director and is secretary of the school board.
ALFRED F. STAGER was born in Schuylkill Haven in 1844, and has been telegraph operator there for the Phil- adelphia, Reading and Pottsville Telegraph Company since 1869. He married Mary K. Zulick, of Orwigs- burg.
DANIEL H. STAGER, hardware merchant at Schuylkill Haven, was born in Chester county, in 1816. He came to Schuylkill county in 1817. Mr. Stager has been in business for many years, and has held many offices of trust in the place. He married Elizabeth Rudy, in 1844.
BENNEVILLE STAUFFER was born at Tuscarora, April 8th, 1836, and has been a resident of Schuylkill Haven about three years. He married Mary Ann Brobst, of Ringtown. He is clerk and bookkeeper of the county alms-house; was formerly a teacher and surveyor; he has served as mercantile appraiser of the county, and as clerk in several county offices.
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J. H. STERNER, carpenter and builder, was born in Schuylkill Haven, February 11th, 1840. He married Mary Mason, also of Schuylkill Haven, in 1863. He has been a member of the common council.
ISAAC STRAUCH, a miller at Cressona for the past thirty-six years, was born in North Manheim township, February 14th, 1806. In 1828 he married Catharine Stager, who died, and he was married to Lurena Bensinger.
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WILLIAM L. STRAUSS, farmer, was born in West Bruns- wick township, June 11th, 1834. He married Catharine Grim, of the same township.
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