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ABRAHAM BUTTS was born June 15th, 1836, and mar- ried Charlotte Reese in 1857. Both are natives of Mon- mouthshire, South Wales. Mr. Butts is watchman for the Reading Coal Company, and came to Shenandoah in 1877. He was in the Union army three years.
DAVID CAHILL was born at Port Carbon, in this county, March 4th, 1847, and married Mary Birgin
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August 28th, 1870. He is a pump engineer, and has resided at Mahanoy Plane since 1873.
JOHN A. CAMPBELL, born in Minersville, in 1855, mar- ried Martha Black, of that place, in 1875, and came to Mahanoy City in 1877, as engineer at the Schuylkill col- liery. He has had charge of engines for the past ten years.
JOHN P. CAMPBELL was born in Ireland, August 24th, 1843, and came to America in 1850. He is superinten- dent of blacksmith shops at the William Penn colliery in West Mahanoy township, and built all the machinery used in the colliery shop. He was married to Ann Whitaker, of Yatesville. in 1867.
FREDERICK CARL, inside foreman of Shenandoah City colliery, was born in Germany, March 7th, 1842. He married Elizabeth Barnhart, of Shamokin, a native of Germany, in 1846. He was a member of the militia in 1863.
HUGH CARR came to Mahanoy City in 1865. After a residence of three years at Pottsville he opened his wholesale liquor store on Main street in Mahanoy City. He was formerly a miner.
C. I. CHILLSON, station agent of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, at Mahanoy Plane, was born in Jack- son, Miss., March 23d, 1839, and married Mary M. Smith, of Port Carbon, Schuylkill county. Mr. Chillson has held his present position for nineteen years; he re- sides at Port Carbon and Palo Alto.
B. F. CLAYBERGER, merchant at Brandonville, was born in Bainbridge, N. Y., February 16th, 1849, and married Nellie E. Sanborn, of La Porte, Ind., December 4th, 1873. He came to East Union in 1873, from Shamokin, where he had followed mining. He was formerly a sta- tion agent and telegraph operator.
ROBERT CLAYTON, born in England, January 5th, 1837, came to America in 1861, and has resided in Mahanoy City since 1865. He married Mrs. Martha Russell, of England. He has been an engineer twenty years, and is employed at the Glendon colliery.
HON. PATRICK CONRY, Greenback member of the Legislature since 1878, was born in Ireland, December 19th, 1846, and married Mary Roche, of Ashland, Janu- ary 12th, 1866. He has been a resident of Shenandoah since 1865, and is engaged in mining. He is a school director, and president of St. Patrick's beneficial society.
DENNIS J. CONNORS, miner, born in St. Clair, in 1854, married Alice Brennan, of Shenandoah, November 9th, 1873. He has resided in Shenandoah eleven years, and is a member of the council and the fire department.
FENWICK COOPER, born in Washington, county Dur- ham, England, in 1825, came to America in 1849, and in 1864 to Mahanoy City, where he now lives. He was married in 1849, to Miss Mary Bruce, of England. He commenced work for the Philadelphia and Reading Com- pany in 1880, having been in the employ of Jones & Cole for twenty-six years.
MATTHEW COOPER, born in this county in 1852, came to Mahanoy City in 1862, and married Elizabeth Temp- lin, of this county in 1875. He is an engineer at the Tunnel Ridge colliery.
WILLIAM DAVIDSON was born at Pottsville in 1841, and has been engaged in mining since eighteen years of age. In 1865 he married Mary J. Seligman, of Port Carbon. In 1879 he was appointed inside foreman of the Copley colliery, near Mahanoy City, which is his home.
the drug and hardware trade at Frackville. He married Katie J. Nice, of Frackville.
JAMES R. DEEGAN was born in New York city, De- cember 4th, 1850. He has been since 1878 proprietor of the Merchants' Hotel at Mahanoy Plane. Mr. Deegan served as quartermaster's .sergeant in the 7th regiment N. G.
GEORGE W. DENNIS, born in Schuylkill county, April IIth, 1852, came to Mahanoy City in 1861; he mar- ried Mary E. Whelstone, of Schuylkill county, September 6th, 1874. In 1877 he opened "The Little Store Around the Corner," on Main street, Mahanoy, and in the same year became an engineer at the North Mahanoy colliery.
WILLIAM DENNIS was born August 28th, 1854, and has lived in Mahanoy City since 1861. He has been an en- gineer at the North Mahanoy colliery since 1873. He is assistant engineer of Major steam fire engine.
HARRISON DERRICK, proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, was born in Reading in 1819. He married Mary Heck- erman, of Shoemakerville. He has lived in Mahanoy City since 1860; been proprietor of hotels in different parts of the borough. He was chief of police in 1871 and 1872.
J. T. DIMM has been agent of the Reading Railroad Company at Brandonville, East Union, for two years past. He was born in Muncy, Lycoming county, Pa., December 26th, 1850, and during the early part of his life was a farmer.
MICHAEL E. DOYLE, editor of the Sunday Morning News, published at Shenandoah, was born at Forestville, Schuylkill county, April 15th, 1856. He is a printer by trade. Mr. Doyle is a school director.
DAVID R. DRESS, born in Cressona, came to Mahanoy City in 1867. He worked as a miner until 1879, when he opened his store and oyster-bay on East Centre street, opposite Second alley. He married Sarah Wom- mer, of Mahanoy City, August 28th, 1879.
JOHN DUNN, of Mahanoy, is a son of James Dunn, of Cornwall, England, who settled at Yorkville, Schuylkill county, in 1845. James Dunn died at Yorkville, in 1856, leaving John an orphan at an early day. He was elected president of the Citizens' Fire Company in 1879.
PETER EICHMAN, born in Germany, came with his fa- ther, John Eichman, to this country when a child, and established business as a general merchant at 71 East Centre street, Mahanoy City, in 1869. He married Ma- tilda Noble, of that place; he has served three terms as a councilman of Mahanoy City.
FRANK D. EMACK, M. D., was born at Beltsville, Prince George's county, Maryland, April 22nd, 1850. He was educated at the Columbian College, Washington, D. C., and graduated in medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, March Ist, 1875, since which time he has been in practice.
CHARLES ESGAR was born in England, December 30th, 1833, and came to America in 1853: and since 1862 has been foreman of several collieries. He has been inside foreman of Cuyler colliery, Raven Run, since 1875. He was married in 1857 to Ellen Abbott. He is a Free Ma- son and an Odd Fellow.
D. J. EVANS, of Gilberton, was born in Ontario county, N. Y., in 1832. He married Susan Llewellyn, of Branch township, in 1855. He has held several positions of trust. Since living at Gilberton he has served as shipping clerk for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and he is now holding the same position at the Furnace colliery.
W. A. DAVIS was born at Minersville, August 26th, 1850. He is a prominent member of the Improved DANIEL T. EVANS was born in Glamorganshire, Order of Red Men, and since 1877 has been engaged in | Wales, July 21st, 1833; came to America in 1833, and
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married Mary Jenkins, of Summit Hill, October 8th, 1853; he has been inside foreman at Bear Ridge colliery, Gilberton, since 1873.
HORACE R. EVANS was born at Pottsville, June 2nd, 1850. He married Ella Welsh, of the same place. In 1879 he opened a dry goods and grocery store at Frack- ville, where he is now in business, and of which borough he is a school director.
JOHN R. EVANS was born in Wales, December 11th. 1834; he married Margaret Jones, of the same country. He is a mine carpenter at Bear Ridge colliery No. 1, Gilberton.
WILLIAM H. EVANS, of Mahanoy City, was born at Blanavon, Monmouthshire, South Wales, December 11th, 1844. He married Elizabeth Evans, of Summit Hill, Carbon county. He was for some years a contract miner, and is now inside foreman and part owner of the Eureka colliery, near Gilberton.
WILLIAM J. EVANS, miner, was born in Bethusda, North Wales, July 12th, 1858. He is stoker of Columbia Hose and S. F. E. Company, of Shenandoah, where he has resided five years.
CHARLES W. FEHR was born in Orwigsburg, March 8th, 1850, and married Inez V. Wren, of Plymouth, Lu- zerne county, September 3d, 1873. He established a re- tail store November 1st, 1877, at No. 40 Mahanoy avenue, Mahanoy City.
JOSEPH FEIST, born in Minersville, May 13th, 1841, married Emma Evans. of Ashland. He is outside fore- man of a colliery, and he has resided at Mahanoy Plane since 1872. He served one year in the war of the Rebellion.
JOHN FENSTERMACHER, born in Columbia county, Pa., January 18th, 1825, came to Ringtown in 1855. He is a hotel keeper and merchant. He married Eliza Zerr, of Columbia county, in April, 1849.
S. E. FETSER, M. D., born at Mechanicsburg, Septem- ber 9th, 1829, married a Miss Walborn, of that place. He was appointed examining surgeon for the 14th district by Governor Curtin during the war for the Union. He is a practicing physician at Mahanoy Plane.
JOHN FLYNN has been engaged in mining at Shenan- doah since 1868. He was born in Ireland, December 15th, 1849, and emigrated in 1850. He was married to Fanny F. Ryan, of Mahanoy City, Pa., in 1873. Mr. Flynn is assistant inside foreman of Indian Ridge colliery.
HON. M. P. FOWLER, dealer in lumber, flour, grain, etc., at Shenandoah, was born at Fowlersville, Columbia county, July 25th, 1826. He was member of the Legisla- ture from 1876 to 1878, and was a lieutenant in the emerg- ency service in 1863. He married Margaret C. Wilson, of Beaver Meadow, Carbon county in 1849. She died in 1875. He married Maggie I. Weir, of Wilkes-Barre, December 24th, 1879.
SAMUEL FRACK was born in Lehigh county, July 22nd, 1832. He married Miss M. H. A. Welker, of Salem, Jan- uary 3d, 1876, and for some years was an oil merchant; is now book-keeper at Frackville.
AUGUSTUS D. GABLE, a resident of Shenandoah since 1876, and outside superintendent of West Shenandoah colliery, was born November 14th, 1849. He married Josephine Staley, of Philadelphia, February 22nd, 1858.
DANIEL K. GARRETT, proprietor of the railroad restau- rant at Mahanoy Plane depot, was born in Orwigsburg, January 19th, 1848, and married Laura E. Beeson, of Salem, Ohio. He has held the position of store-keeper in the warehouse department of the Philadelphia custom house, and was census enumerator.
M. A. GERBER, born in West Brunswick, Schuylkill county, January 15th, 1847, married Amelia Drey, of Landingville. He has lived at Mahanoy Plane since 1873; served one term as borough assessor of Gilberton, and is now outside foreman of Bear Ridge colliery No. 2.
THOMAS N. GIBSON, of Mahanoy City, was born at Catawissa, in 1849, and married Jennie Williams, of Girardville, in 1871. He is a shipper on the North Mahanoy colliery, and has served eight years in the National Guards of Pennsylvania, ranking as first sergeant.
WILLIAM H. GILFERT, engineer at Cuyler colliery, Raven Run, was born at Tamaqua in 1851. He was married to Elmira Bickelman, of Tamaqua, December 28th, 1874. He is an Odd Fellow.
GEORGE GILGOUR was born in Philadelphia, October 20th, 1843, and married Mary A. Groem, of this county, April 9th, 1866. Since 1873 he has been inside foreman of the Elmwood colliery, Mahanoy City. In 1879 he won the $150 offered by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company to the foreman whose reports and workings showed the best management during the year.
WILLIAM G. GOYNE, of Branch township, was born in 1856. He came to Mahanoy City in 1873 as a colliery engineer, and is employed at the New Boston colliery.
JAMES F. GRADY was born at Westwood, Schuylkill county, in 1857, and has lived in Mahanoy City since 1865. He studied law and was admitted to practice in the courts of Philadelphia in 1878. He married a daughter of M. M. Ketnor, and has been practicing his profession in Schuylkill county since March, 1879.
FRANCIS J. GREEN, born at Middleport, Schuylkill county, June 17th, 1858, has worked his way up to the position of fan engineer at a colliery, and was at one time shipping clerk for the same establshment. He has lived at St. Nicholas since 1871.
THOMAS M. GREENWOOD, foreman of the Shenandoah Iron Works, was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, January 11th, 1846,and married Ella S. Daddow, of Potts- ville, June 6th, 1868. He has been chief engineer of Shenandoah fire department, and was a soldier in the Union army.
WILLIAM H. HABLETT was born January 28th, 1848, and married Hannah Pugh in 1873. Both are natives of Schuylkill county. He has resided in Mahanoy town- ship since 1875, and has been a colliery engineer for eleven years; he is now employed in that capacity at the Middle Lehigh mines, in New Boston.
C. A. HAINES, JR., M. D., is a son of C. H. Haines. He was born in Lehighton, Carbon county, May 18th, 1857. He married Bella Leitenberger, of Mahanoy City, January 4th, 1881. Dr. Haines is practicing at Ringtown.
C. H. HAINES, born in Lehigh county, January 6th, 1829, married Julia Buchman, of Catasaqua. He is a merchant and farmer at Ringtown. He also carries on a grist-mill, which he commenced operating in 1868.
CHARLES HALDEMAN, born at Tamaqua, May 20th, 1852, married Henrietta Hefferling, a native of Germany, December 24th, 1874; since 1874 he has been an engi- neer at the Copley colliery, and he is a member of the American Cornet Band of Mahanoy City.
ETHAN HAMPTON, born in Columbia county, October 5th, 1842, married Hannah Yoder, of Ashland, Pa. He served in the war for the Union. He is foreman of the Philadelphia and Reading car shop at Mahanoy Plane.
[JOHN G. HARRINGTON was born in England, January 23d, 1830, and married Mira Moss, October 16th, 1852.
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He came to America in 1834 with his parents, who settled in Minersville; he came to Mahanoy in 1863. He has worked as an engineer for thirty-three years, and is now employed at the Middle Lehigh colliery.
PETER HARRISON, born in Cumberland county, Eng- land, June 15th, 1844, came to America in 1873, and in 1875 to Mahanoy City. He married Elizabeth Moffat, of England, in 1865. He is a machinist by trade, and since 1856 has been an engineer, now serving at the Mahanoy City colliery.
WILLIAM B. HARRIS, a native of Wales, was born Feb- ruary 14th, 1835; he married Ann Bowen in 1859, and came to Mahanoy City in 1863. He is inside foreman of the Primrose colliery.
JOHN HAUPT was born at Pottsville in 1849, and married Emma F. Snyder. He was for years in the em- ploy of the Lehigh Valley Railroad as a civil engineer, and is now proprietor of a store at Frackville, where he has lived twenty-six years.
ROBERT HAY, born in England, December 31st, 1822, married Anna Douthwaite in 1847, and came to America two years later. He was a soldier in the Union [army for three years during the Rebellion, and has been a stationary engineer for thirty-five years; he is now at the Middle Lehigh colliery, Mahanoy.
EDWARD HAYES was born in Leicestershire, Eng., Au- gust 30th, 1840; he married Sarah Williams, of Pottsville, October 19th, 1863, and came to Shenandoah in 1874. He is engineer at the West Shenandoah colliery. He was a soldier in the Union army, and was wounded at Gaines Mills.
JAMES HEATON was born in England, in 1837, and came to Schuylkill county in 1853. He became a fore- man in 1862, and since 1874 he has been inside foreman at Packer colliery. He was married to Margaret Moore, of Hazelton, in 1862. He is a Mason, and an Odd Fel- low.
A. HECKSCHER, coal operator and general superintend- ent of Kohinoor colliery, resides on Cherry street, She- nandoah.
WILLIAM HEMINGWAY, of Shamokin, was born at Heage, Derbyshire, England, in 1827. He married Rebecca Chaundy, of Philadelphia, in 1849. From 1873 to 1878 he was State inspector of mines for Shamokin district. He is general inside superintendent of Kehley Run colliery, at Shenandoah.
PHAON HERMANY, M. D., was born in Jacksonville, Lehigh county, September 16th, 1840, and married Mary Jane Bowman, of Parryville, Carbon county. He grad- uated from the medical department of New York Uni- versity, March 3d, 1863. He has practiced in Mahanoy City since 1863.
STEPHEN DAY HESS has resided in Shenandoah seven- teen years. He was born in Mifflinville, Columbia county, March 23d, 1843, and married Charlotte Kolb, of McClure, Snyder county, October 27th, 1874. He was formerly a merchant, but is now superintendent and col- lector of the Shenandoah Water and Gas Company.
JONATHAN HETHERINGTON was born in county Dur- ham, England, April Ist, 1826, and married Charlotte Burgett, of Lycoming county, January Ist, 1861. He was formerly engaged in mining and lumbering. He came to Union township in 1864, from St. Clair, where he had resided since 1840. He is now a farmer and market gardener, and has served as school director of Union since 1874.
ANTHONY HILDEBRAND was born at Pottsville, June 24th, 1853. He married Catharine Feist, of Ashland, I
June 24th, 1875. He has resided in Frackville since 1874 and is an engineer in the employ of the Philadel- phia and Reading Railway.
THEODORE F. HOFFMAN, of Gilberton borough, was born at Reading, May 30th, 1849. He married Jennie E. Smith, of Girardville. He was formerly editor of the Girardville Gazette. He has been captain of the Girard- ville Grays, and is now superintendent at Stanton colli- ery.
CHARLES FRED HOLDERMAN, watchmaker and jeweler at Shenandoah, was born in Baden, Germany, September 7th, 1854, and was married, June 10th, 1874, to Anna Holderman, of Vienna, Austria (born June Ist, 1857). He came to America in 1876, and established his present business in 1879.
JOHN HOLLAND, district superintendent for the Phila- delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company at Maha- noy City, was born in Lancashire, England, and came to America in 1854, and to Mahanoy City in 1865. He had been a miner in England. He married Jane Grant, of England, in 1849.
WILLIAM HORNSBY, born in England, October 11th, 1845, came to America with his parents in 1848, and married Mary M. Cowley, of England, July 2nd, 1870. He has lived in Mahanoy City since 1865, and worked at mining, having been employed at the Copley colliery for five years, since 1878 as an engineer.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH H. HOSKINGS was born in England, January 24th, 1833; is outside superintendent of Plank Ridge colliery, Shenandoah, where he has resided since 1875. He was formerly a carpenter, and foreman at Beechwood colliery. He married Martha Thomas, of Port Carbon, in 1854. Mr. Hoskings was first lieutenant in the three months' service, and captain, commanding a regiment in front of Petersburg, Va., and wounded August 3d, 1864.
REV. WILLIAM P. HOWELL is pastor of the M. E. church of Shenandoah.
JOHN W. HOWELLS, of Gilberton, was born in Mon- mouthshire, Wales, March Ist, 1831, and married Eliza- beth James, of the same country, March 15th, 1856. Mr. Howells has been a mine superintendent for about twenty-five years and is now at Gilberton colliery.
WILLIAM HOWER, carpenter at Colorado colliery, West Mahanoy township, was born at Columbia, October 16th, 1825. He has resided in Schuylkill county fifty- six years, living in Pottsville, Minersville and other places. He has been at Colorado colliery five years. He married Lizzie Snyder, February 8th, 1850. He is an Odd Fellow and a Mason, and was one of the first county commissioners.
GEORGE S. HUGHES, born in Williamsport, November 21st, 1855, married Emily Barrow, of Ringtown, May 29th, 1875. He is the agent and telegraph operator of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at Ringtown; he has been in the employ of that company since 1872, and since 1875 in Ringtown.
NED IRISH, station agent of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, and agent for the express company, was born in Carlisle. He came to Schuylkill county in 1868, and entered the employ of the Reading Company, in the superintendent's office at Mahanoy Plane, and in 1875 he was appointed to his present position.
WILLIAM R. JAMES was born in Caermarthenshire, South Wales, in 1838, and came to Shenandoah in 1875. He married Elizabeth Harris, of Minersville, also a native of South Wales. He is superintendent and operator of Cambridge colliery, Shenandoah.
GEORGE JOHNS, a native of South Wales, was born Oc-
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tober 21st, 1827, and married Ann Evans, of Summit Hill, Carbon county, Pa. Mr. Johns is the superintendent of the Bear Ridge collieries, and a councilman of Gilberton borough; residing at Mahanoy Plane.
RICHARD H. JOHNSON, of Raven Run, was born at Tamaqua, February 26th, 1856; he was married to Agnes Green, of Reading, March 11th, 1876. He was formerly clerk at the Girard Mammoth colliery, but with his mother is conducting a general mercantile business.
REV. DAVID JONES is pastor of the Welsh Baptist church of Shenandoah.
REV. D. TODD JONES is pastor of the Welsh Congrega- tional church of Shenandoah.
JOSHUA D. JONES, born in Minersville, came to Maha- noy City in 1868. He has been a member of the Silli- man Guards since 1875.
THOMAS B. JONES, engineer at Turkey Run colliery, was born in Shamokin, April 22nd, 1858, and came to Shenandoah in 1874. He married Hannah Everett, of East Mahanoy township, February 17th, 1878.
WILLIAM E. JONES, born in Philadelphia, October 6th, 1852, married Jennie A. Beach, of Shenandoah, and in 1876 opened a book and stationery store in the Mansion House block, Mahanoy City, where he had resided since 1862.
WILLIAM JONES, engineer at Packer colliery No. 2, West Mahanoy township, was born in North Wales, Aug- ust 22nd, 1842. He came to America in 1873. He married Jane Hower.
WILLIAM H. KAERCHER, outside foreman of Packer colliery No. 4, West Mahanoy, was born at Pottsville, in 1852, and has been a miner since his boyhood. He was Brown, in 1878.
ROBERT B. KANE was born in Philadelphia, November 22nd, 1840, and married Sarah Clark, of this county, in 1861; he has lived in Mahanoy eleven years. He was a soldier in the Union army, serving for three years and nine months; he is now an engineer at the Glendon colliery.
HENRY KANUTE, born in Germany, February 4th, 1850, came to America in that year with his parents. He mar- ried Sophia Krause, of Schuylkill county, in 1873, and came to Mahanoy in 1878; he is inside foreman of the Middle Lehigh colliery, at New Boston.
PHILIP KECK, publisher of the Sunday News, at No. 109 South Main street, Shenandoah, was born in Hazle- ton, February 25th, 1855, and removed to Shenandoah in 1872. He married Sallie Walters, of Ashland.
O. A. KEIM, book-keeper at William Penn colliery for the past six years, was born at Pottstown, May 18th, 1854. He is a member of the masonic fraternity, and assistant postmaster at Shaft P.O.
JOSEPH KEIM, outside superintendent of the Shenan- doah City colliery, was born in Kaskawilliams, July 19th, 1841, and married Elizabeth Simmet, of St. Clair, who died May 23d, 1880. He was formerly an engineer, and was in the army in 1862 and 1863.
P. W. KIEFABER, superintendent of Bechtel's store at William Penn colliery, has been employed by the com- pany since 1870, and has held the present position since 1872. He was married to Miss A. R. Rice, in 1872.
FRANKLIN KLEES, carpenter, was born in Barry town- ship, September 4th, 1836. He married Lavina Slenker, November 19th, 1864. He served in the Union army twelve months; has lived at Mahanoy Plane since 1863.
CHRISTOPHER KLINE, born in Germany, in 1837, came to America in 1851; he married Anna Lynn, of this
county. He came to Mahanoy City in 1866, and is an engineer at Glendon colliery. He served in the United States navy about four years, and followed the sea for eleven years, rising from cabin boy to chief engineer.
DR. H. A. KLOCK, born in Eldred township, August 16th, 1848, married Elizabeth S. Seeler, of Mahanoy, Northumberland county. He was a merchant from 1870 to 1875, when he commenced studying for his profession. He graduated at Hahneman Medical College of Phila- delphia, March 11th, 1878, and has practiced in Maha- noy City since October in that year.
JOHN C. KNAPP, a native of Wittemberg, Germany, came to America in 1854, settling in Minersville. In 1862 he came to Mahanoy City, having previously worked for three years in flouring mills at Port Carbon. He opened a butcher shop on the corner of 5th and Centre streets.
ELISHA KRAMER, a carpenter, was born May 21st, 1837. He has been employed at Colorado colliery, West Mahanoy, for the past fourteen years. He married Sarah Gilbert, July 27th, 1862. Mr. Kramer is a Mason and an Odd Fellow.
DANIEL D. KRUGER, born in Berks county, July 14th, 1836, married Rebecca Madara, of Schuylkill county, in 1865. He came to Ringtown in 1877, and engaged in farming and lumbering. He served three years in the Union army.
JOHN LAMB, retired miner, and Sarah Lamb, his wife, who died in 1867, were natives of county Durham, England. He was born in 1817, and married and emigrated in 1846. He has been a resident of Shenandoah five years: was in the emergency service three months.
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