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EVAN J. THOMAS, farmer, of Cressona, was born in Philadelphia, December 27th, 1808. He was married to Ellen Wirshing, of Montgomery county. He held the office of county commissioner from 1859 to 1862, has served as justice of the peace for fifteen years, and has also held the office of school director.
EVAN WILKINSON THOMAS was born in Washington township, April 30th, 1848, and has resided in Schuylkill Haven since 1877. He married Susan Laubenstein, of Cressona. He was formerly engaged in the manufacture of fertilizers, but is now superintendent of the Patrons' Co-operative Association at Schuylkill Haven. He was a soldier in the Union army.
H. M. UNANGST was born in Berks county, March of the car shops for about forty years.
16th, 1837, and for fourteen years has been connected lived to see the coal business grow from its small begin-
with the Half-Way Hotel, between Orwigsburg and Schuylkill Haven, Mrs. Samuel Wessner being the owner and landlady.
HENRY VOUTE, a resident of Schuylkill Haven for over twenty-three years, was born at Amsterdam, Hol- land, March 3d, 1808, and came to America in 1818, settling at Reading. He married Miss Matilda Witman, of Reading. At the time of writing he was agent for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company at Schuyl- kill Haven. He was editor of the Voice of the People, a paper published at Orwigsburg in 1832.
GEORGE WAGNER, of North Manheim township, was born in France, August 4th, 1826. He was licensed as a local preacher of the Evangelical denomination in 1877, and preaches occasionally. He is a farmer and a sec- tion boss on the Mine Hill division of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
MARTIN WAGNER, a farmer of North Manheim town- ship, was born in France, in 1830. He was employed on the Schuylkill Canal for thirty years, the last twenty as captain of a boat. He resides a short distance from Cressona. He was married to Amelia Reader, of Berks county.
GEORGE F. WERNERT, conductor, residing at Schuyl- kill Haven, was born at Orwigsburg, August 26th, 1852. His father, George Wernert, was born in France, coming to this country when a boy. George has been in the employ of the railroad company for fourteen years. He is a member of the masonic fraternity.
HUGH R. WILSON, station agent at Landingville, was born in Liverpool, England, January 6th, 1847, his father
coming to Schuylkill Haven in 1848. He married Miss Emily Palsgrove. He filled the position of night dis- patcher at Schuylkill Haven for fourteen years.
CHARLES WILTROUT, merchant tailor, Main and St. John streets, Schuylkill Haven, has lived at that village thirty-seven years. He was born at Orwigsburg Septem- ber 27th, 1831, and married Elizabeth Wildermuth, of Schuylkill Haven. He has held borough offices.
IRVING DAVID WILTROUT, M. D., is a native and a lifelong resident of Schuykill Haven. He was born October 25th, 1855, and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, March 10th, 1878. Dr. Wiltrout mar- ried Ivah Mary Benson, of London, Ontario.
JOHN WURTS has resided at Schuylkill Haven since 1840. He was born at Roxborough, in 1808. He mar- ried Catharine Gagle, of Easton. He has been foreman Mr. Wurts has nings to its present vast proportions.
SAMUEL M. YOST, of Orwigsburg, was born in West Brunswick township, February 8th, 1830. He is a wheel- wright, but for some years past has been engaged in farming; was deputy revenue collector from 1868 to 1878.
H. B. ZULICK was born in Philadelphia, in 1832, and married Emina R. Hesser. He has been employed twenty-six years by the Philadelphia and Reading Navi- gation Company; is general shipping clerk for the com- pany at Schuylkill Haven. William R. Zulick, his son, born September 30th, 1860, is clerk for his father in the navigation office. Henry H. Zulick, another son, born August 19th, 1862, is baggage and express agent on the Mine Hill Railroad.
JAMES M. ZULICK was born in Schuylkill county, in 1834. He is a painter and resides at Orwigsburg. Mr. Z. served three years in the late war. He has held the office of town clerk at Orwigsburg for several years.
Besides the foregoing the following residents of the same territory contributed their support to this publica- tion: F. T. Beard, G. L. Binkley, N. H. Brown- miller, J. H. Butz, H. N. Coxe, John Davies, Daniel Dechert, M. D., Elwood T. Eiler, Rev. J. W. S. Eib, L. F. Galt, A. A. Heesser, Henry Hesser, George E. Hoffman, William Huntzinger, Rev. J. O. Johnson, John G. Kauffman, L. K. Keefer, W. H. Kintz, Charles H. Kline, John W. Koons, Rev. Heny Laisse, Willoughby Lutz, D. E. Miller, Charles McFadden, G. F. Nuner, D. B. Patchin, Jacob Reick, Rev. J. J. Reitz, A. Robinson, John A. Saylor, W. R. Schulz, F. J. Simon, John F. Shoener, J. A. Singmaster, R. A. Wilder, F. B. Zulick.
PINE GROVE TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH, WASHINGTON AND WAYNE TOWNSHIPS.
HENRY H. BARR, station agent at Pine Grove, was born there in 1838. He married Sallie Snyder in 1860. He has been in the employ of the railroad company since 1863, serving as station agent since 1871.
CAPTAIN JOHN WILLIAM BARR, a carpenter, is a native of Lebanon county, but he has resided in Pine Grove since 1841. His wife, to whom he was married in 1856, was Louise Lumbard, of Pottsville. He served with honor in the war for the Union. He has been chief bur- gess of Pine Grove.
THEODORE A. BARR, druggist at Pine Grove, was born at that place May Ist, 1852, and was married in 1874 to
Aggie Sutton, of Minersville. He succeeded his father in the drug business.
MAHLON H. BOYER, lumber dealer, was born in Read- ing, Pa., December 6th, 1837, and in the fall of 1872 lo- cated at Pine Grove. He is a respected citizen of the town, and a member of the school board.
NICHOLAS BRENNER, contractor and builder, is a native of Wurtemburg, Germany, born in 1829. He came to this county in 1852 and married Mary N. Weitzman, also of Wurtemburg.
MICHAEL BRETZIUS was born in Washington township, May 25th, 1830. and removed to Pine Grove in 1856,
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where he has since followed his trade as a tanner. He was married March 3d, 1856, to Catharine Harzog, of Pine Grove, who died July 20th, 1874, leaving two sons and three daughters.
LEWIS R. BULL, assistant auditor in the office of the receiver of taxes in Philadelphia, was born in Chester county, Pa., June 27th, 1843, and removed to Philadel- phia in his childhood. He has been honored with many positions of trust.
PROFESSOR GEORGE W. CHANNELL, principal of the schools of Pine Grove since 1871, was born in Chester county, Pa., in 1839. He is a self-educated man. He had charge of the schools at Llewellyn for four years, and was also a teacher at Minersville for four years; he took part in the war of the Rebellion.
DAVID CHRIST, painter, Pine Grove, was born in Leb- anon county, December 25th, 1827, and removed with his parents to Pine Grove in his infancy. He married Eliza Souser, of Pine Grove, in 1854. He was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion.
JOHN M. CHRIST, wagon maker, Pine Grove, was born in Berks county, in 1815, and came to Pine Grove in 1822. He was married in 1841 to Rebecca Haak, of Reading.
WELLINGTON H. CHRIST was born in Tremont, Octo- ber 18th, 1848, but has been a resident of Pine Grove since 1852. He is a telegraph operator; has been in the employ of the railroad company since 1871, and is now train dispatcher. He married in 1873 Isabella R. Morret, of Myerstown.
CAPT. HANS C. CHRISTESEN was born in Denmark, in 1825, and came to New York in 1859. He was married to Louisa Wier, of German birth, in 1860. He removed to Pine Grove in 1861, and to Mifflin in 1868; was a mer- chant in the former place, and merchant and hotel-keep- er in the latter. In early life he followed the sea, having command of a vessel. He died June 27th, 1878.
JOSEPH A. CROLL, proprietor of the Railroad Hotel, Pine Grove, was born in Berks county, in 1848, and came to Pine Grove in 1864. He was married to Louisa Schnock in 1874.
JAMES A. H. DARLING was born in Maine, in 1840; re- moved to Reading with his parents, and thence to Phila- delphia about 1848. He is an accountant. He was first lieutenant of an artillery company for three years during the Rebellion.
WILLIAM S. DARLING was born in Reading, July 20th, 1847, and in his childhood removed to Philadelphia, where he now resides, being engaged in the boot and shoe business. He was married in 1880 to Mary J., daughter of the late Hon. William Johnston, member of Congress from Ohio.
JOSEPH DONOUGH was born in Berks county, in 1822, and was married to Anna Bergman about 1848. In 1860 he located in Pine Grove township, where he still resides.
LEVI F. DONOUGH, teacher, was born in Winsor town- ship, Berks county, February 25th, 1859, but resided most of the time in Myerstown, Lebanon county, until ten years old, when he came to Pine Grove.
JURIAS G. DREHER, M. D., was born in Coal Castle, March Ist, 1832. He studied medicine with Dr. George W. Brown, of Port Carbon, and graduated from the Jef- ferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, in 1855, when he located at Pine Grove, his present residence. He has been postmaster since 1879. He married Mary A. Gor- gas September 19th, 1856.
FRANK J. DIEHL was born in Stouchsburg, Berks county, in 1845. He enlisted in 1863 and served until the close of the war, since which time he has resided in | mercantile business in 1865.
Pine Grove. He is in the employ of the railroad company. He married Rose A. Snyder, of Pine Grove, in 1872.
OWEN DRINE, merchant, Pine Grove, was born in Or- wigsburg, in 1822, and located at Pine Grove in 1842. He was married in 1843 to Mary Mease, of the same township. He has been elected burgess of his township several times.
WILSON M. DRUCKENMILLER, marble cutter, was born in Lehigh county, Pa., December 16th, 1847. In 1870 he came to Pine Grove, and soon after established him- self in business where he still remains. He was married November Ist, 1879, to Emma R. Fiddler, of Pine Grove township.
JOHN P. EARNEST, boot and shoe manufacturer, was born in Lebanon county, Pa., August Ist, 1844. He married Olive Lengle, of Pine Grove, in 1866, and in the following year he located at the latter place, where he has since resided. He is Ist lieutenant of Company H, 8th regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard.
JOHN W. EBY was born in Daupin county, June 7th, 1838, and was married to Mary J. Row, of the same county, in 1860. He followed farming until 1865, since which he has been engaged in coal mining. In October, 1873, he located in Tremont township, and has since been employed as contractor in the Lincoln mine. He has served in official capacities, and is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
WILLIAM S. FAUSSET was born at Myerstown, Lebanon county, Pa., September 19th, 1835. He was married to Susan Hummel, of Wayne township, where they now re- side. He is a farmer.
CHARLES FEGLEY, miller, Pine Grove, was born in West Brunswick, in 1817. He located at Pine Grove in 1852. He was married in 1851 to Catharine Baum, of Mahan- tongo.
LEVI FELTY, a farmer, and a descendant of one of the first settlers, was born December 19th, 1828, and was mar- ried November 14th, 1850, to Louisa Basshor, of Lebanon county. He still resides on a portion of the old home- stead in Pine Grove township.
JOHN E. FERTIG, farmer and lumberman, Washington township, was born in Wayne, January 25th, 1822. He was married to Caroline Reeser, of Berks county, in 1841. In 1853 he was a merchant at Summit Station, where for eight years he was postmaster. In 1863 he settled in Washington township. He has been a justice since 1873, and is a school director.
GEORGE P. FESSLER, proprietor of the American Eagle Hotel, Pine Grove, was born in Lebanon county, Pa., September 26th, 1829. He has been twice married. In 1865 he removed to Jonestown, thence to Pine Grove in 1876, where he has since followed hotel-keeping and farming.
EDWARD T. FILBERT is a native of Pine Grove, born November 25th, 1831. In 1858 he was elected justice of the peace of Pine Grove borough and he is now serving his fifth term of five years each; also acting as clerk and treasurer of the borough for the same time. He was married in 1864, to Mary J. Claydon.
MICHAEL K. FILBERT was born in Stouchsburgh, Berks county, November 13th, 1840. In 1860 he went to Womelsdorf, where he was married to Ellen Shartel, in 1862. In 1864 he removed to Pine Grove, where he has since resided.
PETER A. FILBERT, merchant at Pine Grove, was born there, November 20th, 1833. He enlisted at the out- break of the late war, as a private, and held several offices from lieutenant to colonel. He engaged in the
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PETER S. FILBERT was born in Heidelberg, Berks county, in 1851, and came to Pine Grove in 1857. He was married in 1877 to Lillie L. Helms, of Pottsville.
SAMUEL P. FILBERT, proprietor of the Pine Grove Hotel, was born in Pine Grove, May 11th, 1825. He is extensively engaged in the purchase and sale of horses. He was married November 20th, 1850, to Lovina Lamm, of Heidelberg, Berks county, where he afterwards re- sided until 1857, when he purchased of his father, Peter Filbert, the Pine Grove Hotel property.
WILLIAM H. FIL.BERT was born in Pine Grove, March Ist, 1839. He was a soldier in the Union army, receiv- ing his discharge in 1864. He was married in 1869 to Martha J. Umbenhawer, of Pine Grove, where he now lives.
WILLIAM L. FRY, painter, was born in Berks county, April 21st, 1826; came to Pine Grove township in 1836, and to the borough in 1840. He was married June 25th, 1855, to Rachel A. Schwartz, also of Berks county.
DANIEL GENSEMER was born in Reinholdsville, Lan- caster county, in 1823. In 1856 he settled at Pine Grove, where he has since carried on the business of tanning. He was married in 1857 to Catharine Loose, of Lancaster county.
JOHN GENSEMER, tanner, was born in Reinholdsville, in 1827. He came to Pine Grove with his brother, Daniel, in 1856, and has been associated with him in business en- terprises. He was married to Louise Gring, of Berks county.
ALFRED GILBERT, proprietor of the Pine Grove Herald, was born in Lebanon county, September 8th, 1849, and became a resident of Pine Grove in 1872. He commenced the publication of the Herald in 1878, previous to which time he was a photographer. He was married in 1872 to Lizzie Shanct, of Jonestown, Pa.
EZRA J. HAAK was born near Reading, December 19th, 1839, and came to Pine Grove in 1846. He has been employed continuously in the same store since July, 1858. He was married in 1860 to Emma Schartel, who died in June, 1862. In 1866 he married Sally Drine, of Pine Grove. He has held several offices,
WILLIAM I. HALDEMAN, Pine Grove, was born in Mont- gomery county, Pa., April 7th, 1854. In 1869 he came to Pine Grove. He learned the jewelers' trade, and es- tablished himself in the business about 1875. He has served as town councilman.
DANIEL HARVEY, farmer in Pine Grove, was born in Reading, November 4th, 1823, and removed to Pine Grove in his youth. He married Matilda Shreckengast, of Lebanon county, in 1849. From 1861 he was for six- teen years outside superintendent of the Rausch Creek coal mine. He is town auditor and has served in other official capacities.
PHILIP HAUG, blacksmith at the Grove, was born March 31st, 1833, in Wurtemburg, Germany. In 1853 be removed to Philadelphia, thence to Pine Grove in 1855, where he was married January 10th, 1856, to Sophia Moyer, also a native of Germany.
REV. ELIAS S. HENRY, A. M., was born near Shrews- bury, York county, November 30th, 1823. He graduated from the Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, in 1849, and the Theological Seminary of Gettysburg in 1851. He was licensed to preach, but spent the following year as traveling agent for the Gettysburg Seminary. In September, 1852, he was ordained to the ministry by the East Pennsylvania Synod, at Pottsville, and the same month accepted the pastoral charge of the Lutheran church at Pine Grove, in which capacity he still continues, having served that church faithfully and acceptably dur-
ing his entire ministerial life, a period of twenty-nine years. He was married September 12th, 1853, to Sarah A. Conrad, of Pine Grove; she died August 12th, 1869, and he was married February 6th, 1872, to Elmira L. Seidel, of Lebanon.
REV. GEORGE C. HENRY, only son of Rev. E. S. Henry, was born in Pine Grove, February 22nd, 1856. In 1873 he entered the Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, from which he was graduated with honor in June, 1876. In the fall of 1876 he entered the Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Gettysburg, and graduated in June, 1879. He became pastor of the Berrysburg charge, and on September 23d, 1879, w.is ordained. He was married in 1880 to Nellie Ulrich, in Reading. His present residence is Millersburg, Pa.
DANIEL F. HIESTER was born in Spring township, Berks county, in 1843. In 1865 he enlisted, and served in the war of the Rebellion until honorably discharged. He was married in 1866 to Mrs. Zolpha Terolf, of Wash- ington township, In 1870 he located at Pine Grove, his present home.
SINGLETON HIKES, farmer, was born in Adams county, Pa., in 1823, and removed to Pine Grove in 1846. Pre- vious to that he had resided in Perry county and at Landesburg. He married Catharine Harvey, of Pine Grove, in 1849, and soon after located at North Pine Grove, his present residence.
JACOB HUBER was born in Lebanon county, in 1803, and came to Pine Grove with his paaents in his child- hood. He married Sarah, a daughter of John Barr. He lived at Pine Grove until his death, February 28th, 1877. His son, Morris Huber, was born August 15th, 1847, and has since early manhood been connected with the mer- cantile business of the place .-
THOMAS B. HUGHES, Pine Grove, was born in Dauphin county, in 1838. He was a soldier in the war of the Re- bellion. He located at Pine Grove in 1866, and on August 24th, 1867, was married to Mrs. Sarah McCorkle, of Pine Grove.
ISAAC HUGHES was born in Dauphin county, April 6th, 1856, and in 1864 came to North Pine Grove, where he now lives, He is a merchant, and has been in the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Company since 1871. He married Ellen Burger in 1877.
BENJAMIN HUMMEL, farmer, and son of an early settler, was born in 1824, in the present township of Pine Grove, and was married to Anna Richart, soon after which he located in Washington township, where he now lives. His wife died in 1877, and he married Mrs. Cath- arine Dawald in 1879. Mr. Hummel in former years was interested in the canal; he has served as school di- rector several terms.
EDWARD HUMMEL, teacher, was born in Washington township, April 29th, 1853. He married Mary E. Span- cake in 1872. In 1873 he removed to Pine Grove, and in 1876 to North Pine Grove, where for seven years he has taught the winter school. He was elected a justice in 1874, and still holds the office.
HENRY S. KRAMER was born in Winslow township, Berks county, Pa., October 25th, 1839, and came to Wayne township in 1869. He has been a school teacher, but is at present a farmer; has been justice of the peace in Wayne township for ten years in succession.
WILLIAM F. KRECKER was born in Wayne township, December 25th, 1852. He has been engaged in the mer- cantile business for the past ten years, and at present conducts a general store at Friedensburg.
WILLIAM J. KISSICK, station agent and operator at Mifflin, was born in Scotland, in 1858, and came to Can-
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ada while a child. In 1863 he removed to Pennsylvania, and he has been in the employ of the railroad company several years. He married Clara L. Felty, of Mifflin, October Ist, 1878.
MICHAEL KITZMILLER, cabinet maker, was born in Chambersburg, Pa., in 1810. In 1832 he located at Reading, where he was married, in 1832, to Harriet Spangler, of that city. In 1844 he settled at Pine Grove, where he has since followed his trade.
DR. CYRUS V. KRATZER was born September 26th, 1854, in Palmyra, Lebanon county. In the fall of 1875 he began the study of dentistry, and graduated at the Pennsylvania college of dental surgery, Philadelphia, in the spring of 1878. He has since then practiced at his native place, visiting Pine Grove professionally.
CHARLES E. LOGAN is a native and resident of Pine Grove. He was born June 15th, 1853. Since 1877 he has been in the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. He was married June 3d, 1880, to Carrie E. Tracy, of Pine Grove.
JOHN P. MARTIN was born in Reading, November 19th, 1847, and removed to Pine Grove in 1873, where he was for several years a merchant. He was married in 1870, to Mary A. Klock, of Pine Grove. He is at present engaged in the sewing machine trade.
REV. D. A. MEDLAR, Pine Grove, was born in West Brunswick, October Ist, 1847. He graduated in June, 1869, at the Keystone State normal school, after which he was engaged in teaching three years at Ashton, Pa. In 1872 he was licensed to preach, since which he has been engaged in the ministry, having had charge of the associations at Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Cressona and Pottsville, before coming to Pine Grove. He was mar- ried August 20th, 1874, to Mary E. Butz, of Allentown, Pa., who died in Pine Grove, August 25th, 1880.
GEORGE MILLER was born in Pine Grove, July 9th, 1839, and was married April 16th, 1863, to Kate A. Mull. of Sinking Spring. He died November 18th, 1877. Mrs. Miller is still a resident of Pine Grove.
HENRY MILLER was born in Adams, Lancaster county, March 18th, 1822. He was married October 26th, 1844, to Eliza Regur, of Adams, and in 1866 removed to Pine Grove, where he is engaged in tanning.
LEVI MILLER, JR., a native and resident of Pine Grove, was born January 23d, 1853. He is a graduate of Mer- cersburg College, of the class of 1874. He was married December 25th, 1875, to Emma J. Eaton, of Perry county, Pa. He is a member of the firm of Miller, Fil- bert & Co.
SEBASTIAN R. MILLER was born in Adams, September 8th, 1847. He came with his parents to Pine Grove in 1866, where he was married to Lucinda Christ, of that place, in October, 1873. He is a tanner and is associa- ted with his father in the business.
CHARLES F. MOLLY was born in Pine Grove, June 25th, 1857. He spent two years at the schools in Nassau, Prussia. Returning in 1875 he was employed as clerk in a general store conducted by his mother, until 1879, when he became the head of the firm, the business now being under the firm name of C. F. Molly & Co. He was married September 30th, 1879, to Mary Alice Raber, of Washington township.
WILLIAM L. MOLLY, a resident and native of Pine Grove, was born November 27th, 1860. His father, Peter C. Molly, was a native of Germany, and came to New York when a young man and to Pine Grove about 1850.
DAVID S. MOYER, M. D., was born at Llewellyn, Schuylkill county, Pa., March 26th, 1852. He is a grad-
uate of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and settled at Friedensburg in 1877, where he has since practiced medicine.
SOLOMON MOVER, car inspector at North Pine Grove, was born in Pine Grove, January 22nd, 1825, and was married to Elizabeth Getz in 1864. He served three years in the war of the Rebellion, was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, and was honorably discharged.
NELSON NAPP was born in Berks county, in 1840, and removed to Pine Grove township while a child. He married Susanna Beck, of Berks county, in 1864. He is at present timber agent for the mines of Muller, Graeff & Co. Mr. Napp served in the war for the Union, and was honorably discharged for disability.
ALLEN C. PAINE, merchant, was born in Lebanon county, November 27th, 1851. He came to Pine Grove in 1872, and in 1875 embarked in his present business. He was married December 21st, 1876, to Lizzie McCor- kle, of Pine Grove.
MORGAN L. PARRY was born in Tremont township, January 9th, 1859, and removed to Alliance, Ohio, in 1865, with his father.
WILLIAM J. PARRY, a native of Wales, born November 12th, 1833, at the age of sixteen came to Schuyl- kill county, where he was married in April, 1856, to Eliza Lewis, of Tremont township. In 1878 he returned to Tremont township, and has since been engaged in mining.
JOHN PROUD is a native of New Castle on Tyne, Eng- land, born November 20th, 1835, and came to Schuylkill county with his parents in 1850, locating at Rausch Gap in 1851. In 1872 Mr. Proud became a resident of Pine Grove, where he is superintendent or foreman of the railroad company's repair shops. He was married Feb- ruary 15th, 1863, to Kate Poorman, of Chambersburg, Pa.
MICHAEL RICHTER was born in Germany, July 21st, 1834, and emigrated to this country in 1853, locating at Reading, where he was married, February 16th, 1856, to Susan Michael, of that city. In 1862 he removed to Pine Grove, where he still lives. Mr. Richter has served as town councilman of Pine Grove borough.
DR. KENNEDY ROBINSON was born in Lancaster county, January 16th, 1814, and in his youth removed to Lebanon county. About 1831 he commenced the study of medicine, and in 1835 he commenced practice in Ohio; then practiced at Pine Grove until 1847, when, owing to poor health, he abandoned his profession and was for several years engaged in hotel keeping In 1876 he was elected justice of the peace for Pine Grove, which office he still holds. He represented Schuylkill county in the Legislature in 1866 and 1867.
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