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ROLAND KLINE, of Pottsville, furniture dealer and un- dertaker, was born in Pottsville, August 30th, 1825. He married Harriet Haffey, of Pottsville. He established business in his native place in 1846.
AUGUST KNECHT is the publisher of the Pottsville Amerikanischer Republikaner, and a justice of the peace. He was chief engineer of the fire department in 188o. He was born November 24th, 1844, in Germany, and married Elizabeth Lecher, of Pottsville.
FREDERICK W. KOCH was born at Minersville, October 5th, 1853. He is senior member of the firm of Koch Bros., furniture dealers and undertakers, St. Clair.
D. W. LEWIS, of St. Clair, son of William E Lewis, of Glamorganshire, South Wales, was born in St. Clair, April 19th, 1849. He married Martha Clifford, of St. Clair, April 16th, 1870, and commenced his prosperous business as a general merchant the same year.
THOMAS B. LEWIS was born in Llywele, South Wales, August 20th, 1819; he married Phoebe Prosser, June 12th, 1847, came to America and settled in St. Clair in 1848. He has been employed as a miner, and mine boss. He served eight years as member of borough council, and has been since 1872 supervisor of St. Clair.
REV. F. W. LONGINUS, pastor of one of the Catholic churches of Pottsville, was born in Westphalia, March 25th, 1847.
GEORGE W. LOOKINGBILL, of St. Clair, car loader in Wadesville mine, was born at Friedensburg, in 1831, and married Rachel Hammer in 1850. His grandfather, Henry, came from Germany about 1800. His father, Adam, was one of the first killed at the mines in this county.
JOHN R. MADARA was born at Port Carbon Novem- ber 18th, 1835, and was married July 29th, 1859, to Han- nah Okom, who died February 23d, 1879. He is now working at Wadesville shaft, New Castle township. He has been school director five years.
CHRISTIAN MADER, of St. Clair, was born near Middle- port, 'October 16th, 1853, and was married April 7th, 1875, to Susan Guers. He is at Pottsville colliery. His father, Jacob, was born in Bavaria, Germany.
JOHN MAGUIRE, of St. Clair, was born at White Haven, England, June 26th, 1845; and came to this county in 1853, settling in St. Clair. He was married December 15th, 1866, to Sarah Lowther. He succeeded his father as inside foreman at Pine Forest shaft, in 1877. He served in the Union army during the war.
JOHN O. MAHONEY, miner, was born in Cork county, Ireland, in 1823, and came to America in 1839, settling in New Castle. He was married March 14th, 1848, to Ann Sullivan, born in Cork in 1832.
THOMAS W. MARSDEN, 1,012 Laurel street, Pottsville, was formerly a machinist and is now a job printer and cigar box manufacturer. He was born in Yorkshire, England, January 16th, 1855,and married Tillie J. Beyerle, of Pottsville.
H. H. MARSHALL, proprietor of the Marshall House, St. Clair, was born at Hamburg, Berks county, June 21st, 1842. He served in the Union army. He married Han- nah Wagner, of Friedensburg, Pa., August 28th, 1866.
SAMUEL MATEER was born in Landisburg, August 1st, 1819; he married Mary I. Marley, March 30th, 1840, and came to St. Clair in 1857. He died November 26th, 1862. Mr. Mateer was postmaster from August, 1861, and his wife, Mrs. M. I. Mateer, has occupied the position since his death.
WILLIAM MATHEWS, of St. Clair, foreman of St. Clair shaft, was born in Cumbola, August 16th, 1844. After eight years spent in North Carolina he returned to this county, worked in Luzerne and Carbon counties as col- liery engineer, and came to St. Clair in 1869. He mar- ried Ellen Brick in 1873.
WILLIAM J. MATZ is in the coal trade at Pottsville. He was born in West Brunswick, December Ist, 1838, and married Julia A. Richards, of Philadelphia. He has been sheriff and prothonotary of Schuylkill county.
WILLIAM J. MCCARTHY was born in New Castle town- ship, July 27th, 1840, and married Johanna Sullivan, of St. Clair. He served as corporal in the Union army, and was clerk in the county recorder's office three years. He has been deputy prothonotary since 1875.
JOHN MCGRATH was born at Pottsville, May 1st, 1846, and came to St. Clair in 1856. He is fireman at Beech- wood colliery, Mt. Laffee. His father, Michael McGrath, was born in Ireland.
EDWARD MILES was born in Sligo county, Ireland, February 2nd, 1844. He came to America in 1848 with his parents, and settled in St. Clair. He married Mary Duffy, of St. Clair, February 12th, 1867. He is engineer at Wadesville shaft.
JOHN M. MORRISON, son of Robert Morrison, was born June 17th, 1830, at sea, near Newfoundland. He came to St. Clair in 1839. His first wife, Matilda Hoffman, died August 7th, 1867; his second, Augusta Evans, died
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April 5th, 1879. He is outside foreman at Pine Forest shaft, East Norwegian township.
JOHN WESLEY MORRISON, of St. Clair, was born at New Castle village, September 13th, 1854. He worked at Old Pine Forest breaker, and came to Pine Forest shaft as pumping engineer in 1870, and has been hoisting engineer since 1875. He married Emily T. Hine June 26th, 1876.
F. A. MORTIMER resides on the Cressona road, near Pottsville, where he has his office as an attorney. He was born at Pottsville, May 9th, 1853, and is descended paternally from English Friends, and maternally from the Huguenots. His father's grandfather was at Valley Forge with Washington, under whom he served through the Revolution. The Mortimers were among the pioneers of the county and at Pottsville.
A. MUHL & GRAAF, of Pottsville, are wholesale and retail wine and liquor dealers. Mr. Graaf was born in Hamburg, Germany, June 7th, 1846, and married Elsie Muhl, a native of Holstein. Mr. Graaf was an en- gineer on the North German ocean steamship line prior to coming to Pottsville.
JAMES MUIR was born in Irwin, Scotland, July 5th, 1840, and married Emma J. Mortimer, of Pottsville. He represents Laflin & Rand, powder manufacturers, in Pottsville.
JESSE NEWLIN, who has been for eighteen years county superintendent of schools, was born in Chester county, March 13th, 1838, and married Ellen D. McCool, of Pottsville. After attending Franklin and Marshall Col- lege, Lancaster, he followed teaching. From 1860 to 1863 he was principal of the public schools of Port Car- bon, where he lives.
SETH ORME, dealer in boots and shoes in St. Clair, was born at Oldham, England, November 8th, 1847. He came here in 1855, and married Mary H. Styers in 1872. Their children were Asa, Maggie, Willie and Alida; Asa, born May 12th, 1873, died July Ist, 1880; Alida, born March 31st, 1879, died June 21st, 1880; both of scarlet fever.
E. L. ORWIG, storekeeper for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company at Pottsville, is a descendant of the founder of Orwigsburg, and was born at that place, January 25th, 1850. He married Lizzie H. Frailey, also of Orwigsburg. He has been deputy pro- thonotary of Schuylkill county.
WILLIAM L. OWENS, teacher at Pottsville, was born in Wales, May 31st, 1846. He married Martha Lee, of Pottsville.
CHARLES T. PALMER, M. D., oculist, aurist and optic- ian at Pottsville, was born there, September 8th, 1843. He married Sue J. Mortimer, of Pottsville. He was a medical cadet in the U. S. hospital at Philadelphia in 1862; private in the 27th Pa. in 1863; surgeon of the Wells Ophthalmic hospital, Philadelphia, in 1864 and 1865; and coroner of Schuylkill county 1872-74.
JOHN A. M. PASSMORE was born in Chester county, June 30th, 1836, and married Harriet H. Woodrow, of Lancaster county. He graduated at the Minersville normal school, taught sixteen years, was a life insurance agent ten years, was Republican candidate for auditor general in 1879, and is now Pennsylvania manager for Appleton's educational department, and lives at Potts- ville. He has been in the board of school control thir- teen years and president seven years; and is a manager of the Children's Home, which he aided to organize.
MOSES PARKIN, SEN., was born in Heage, England, Feb- ruary 28th, 1812; he married Elizabeth Hinds in 1831, came to America and settled here in 1847. He was a
miner fifty-four years, and a justice of the peace in New Castle and St. Clair twenty-one years.
PETER P. QUIRIN, of St. Clair, merchant and brass founder, was born at St. Ingbert, Germany, in 1835; he came to America in 1853, settled in St. Clair in 1854, married Catharine Stief in 1856, commenced business in 1863, and built his shop in 1875. He had charge of machinery at Wadesville shaft sixteen years.
MICHAEL QUIRK, of New Castle township, was born in Norwegian township, October 15th, 1840; he married Bridget Joyce, of Mount Laffee, August 4th, 1864; he commenced work at Beechwood colliery in 1865, as fire- man, and was promoted to engineer in February, 1880.
MATTHIAS REDINGTON, JR., of St. Clair, was born in Buckshead, England, June 4th, 1846; he came to America in 1850, and settled at Valley Forge. He married Jo- sephine Wandress, of Pottsville, May 20th, 1867. He ran the drill at Pottsville colliery, and he has been en- gineer at Wadesville since 1874.
THOMAS REESE was born in New Bridge, South Wales, in 1807. In 1878 he celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his marriage to Ann Price. He came to America in 1832, and resided at Carbondale three years, since which time he has been a resident of St. Clair. He was a min- er sixty years.
MICHAEL REILEY was born in county Cavin, Ireland, May 22nd, 1822; he came to America when very young, and lived at Albany, N. Y. He removed to St. Clair in 1838. He married Ann Kerns, from Ireland, July 3d, 1847. He worked at mining until 1867, and has since been night watchman at the railroad depot, St. Clair.
HON. JAMES B. REILLY, attorney at law, Pottsville, was district attorney of Schuylkill county from 1872 to 1875, and was a member of Congress from March 4th, 1875, to March 4th, 1879. He was born in West Bruns- wick township, August 12th, 1845, and married Mary A. Hoey, of Pottsville.
W. H. ROBINSON was born in Pottsville, where he is now living, and married Miss Mollie A. Trout, of Miners- ville. He learned the business of an apothecary in the store where he is now doing business. He studied medi- cine with Dr. A. H. Halberstadt, of Pottsville, and graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in its 100th class, March 13th, 1868. His drug store was established December 14th, 1829, and is No. 17 North Centre street.
J. W. ROSEBERRY, lawyer, Pottsville, was born at Or- wigsburg, July 20th, 1817, and inarried Elizabeth Ser- geant Douglas, also of Orwigsburg. He was in the Penn- sylvania Legislature in 1849; has been for ten years chairman of the committee for examining law students, and president of the borough council and the school board of Pottsville.
HENRY C. RUSSEL, a native and resident of Pottsville, was born July 20th, 1836. His first wife was Frances M.Washburn, of New York State, and his second Urcalla Kramm, of Pennsylvania. He is in charge of coal lands, as successor of his father, Andrew Russel, one of the pioneers of Pottsville. Mr. Russel was in the first com- pany of Union volunteers who reached Washington, and was a lieutenant in Company H, 25th Pennsylvania.
SAMUEL SCHAFFER, whose father, George Schaffer, came from Germany about 1800, was born in Jefferson township, Berks county, September 25th, 1826; he mar- ried Amanda Stares, of the same township, June 20th, 1850. He is a carpenter, and came to Beechwood col- liery, New Castle township, June 20th, 1865, where he still labors, but resides in Pottsville.
A. W. SCHALCK, attorney, Pottsville, was born in
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Wiesbaden, Germany, January 16th, 1845. He married Emma R. Haeseler, of Pottsville. He was solicitor for the county directors of the poor 1875-77, and district at- torney 1878-80.
E. A. SCHARTEL, Pottsville, was born in Pine Grove borough, December 22nd, 1840. He married Susan J. Shand, of Jonestown, Pa. He has been commissioners' clerk, and he is now deputy recorder.
J. W. SCHRADER was born in the city of Hanover, Germany, February 28th, 1828, and married Mary M. Ehlert, of Pottsville. He is editor and publisher of the Pottsville Jefferson Demokrat.
WV. SELTZER, a native and resident of Pottsville, was born July 9th, 1843. He married Emma R. Kohler, of Pottsville. Mr. Seltzer is a cattle broker.
JOHN L. SHESSLER was born within a hundred yards of his present residence at Port Carbon, February 11th, 1839. He married Annie Lilley, also of Port Carbon. He is a dealer in hardware, paints and oils. He is in his fourth term as justice. He was acting quartermaster of the Ist California regiment during the Rebellion.
CYRUS SHEETZ was formerly a confectioner and is now keeper of the Northeastern Hotel at Pottsville. He was born in Scheafferstown, Lebanon county, Pa., November 7th, 1828, and married Margaret Stratton, of Pottsville. He was one of the " first defenders " in 1861, enlisting April 18th; was subsequently a lieutinant in the 48th and cap- tain in the 173d to the end of its service.
CHARLES SHORT, plumber, tin and stove dealer, was born in New Philadelphia, January 2nd, 1844, of English parentage. He served his apprenticeship in Philadelphia, removed to Pottsville in 1863, worked until 1865, then came to St. Clair and started his present business. He married Lizzie J. Hardy, of St. Clair, in 1869.
A. J. SHORTALL is one of the hotel keepers of Potts- ville and one of the county commissioners. He was born at Pottsville, December 18th, 1848, and married Mary D. Ketner, of Mahanoy City. He was formerly a teacher.
GEORGE W. SLATER was born at Mifflinsburg, Union county, August Ist, 1816, and married Anna S. McCart- ney, of Pottsville. He is interested in real estate and proprietor of Centennial Hall, on North Center street, Pottsville. He was formerly a merchant.
REV. GEORGE W. SMILEY, pastor of the Second Pres- byterian church of Pottsville, was born in Cumberland county, Pa., in October, 1818. He married Miss S. N. Cooper, of Lexington, Ky. He was chaplain of the Ken- tucky Legislature two years and of the Kentucky peni- tentiary two years.
W. C. J. SMITH, M. D., physician at Pottsville (20 N. Second street) and deputy coroner, was born at Lebanon, Pa., July 9th, 1839. He married Sophia M. E. Hendler, of Pottsville. He was formerly internal revenue assessor for Lebanon and Schuylkill counties; captain and aid-de- camp in the United States volunteers, and captain of Company C 208th Pennsylvania.
CHRISTOPHER SPROATS was born at Kellar, England, and came to America when very young. He married Ann Moore, also of England, February 9th, 1870. He has been engineer several years, coming to Beechwood colliery, New Castle township, in 1877.
REV. JOHN P. STEIN, pastor of the Trinity Reformed church, Pottsville, was formerly a teacher in the public schools and tutor in the Annville Academy. He was born at Annville, June 11th, 1836, and married Miss C. Arabella North, of Fairfield district, S. C.
of that city. He learned the trade of a machinist. He has been superintendent of the machine shops at Palo Alto for sixteen years, and in the employ of the company thirty years. He is a member of Orwigsburg Lodge F. & A. M.
JOHN STINE was born in Dauphin county, February 27th, 1820, and married Susanna Blystone, of Orwigs- burg, Pa. He is a railroad agent at Pottsville.
GEORGE SYKES, of New Castle township, was born at Dewsbury, England, April 25th, 1844. He came with his father, George Sykes, to America in 1848, and to St. Clair in 1851, coming to Beechwood colliery in 1869, where he has been outside foreman since 1874. He married Mary J. Brown, of St. Clair, September 18th, 1864. He served nine months in the 5th Pa. cavalry, Company G.
JOHN TAGGART was born near Dublin, Ireland, Sep- tember 15th, 1838. He came to America with his father, Patrick Taggart, when fourteen years of age. He came to St. Clair in 1854, and married Barbara Betz, of St. Clair, in 1870. His business is keeping a hotel and livery stable in St. Clair.
JAMES TAYLOR, JR., was born in Wadesville, June 24th, 1857. He commenced working in mines at Saylor's col- liery in 1867. He has been engaged at Wadesville shaft, New Castle township, since 1879.
WILLIAM S. THOMAS was born in Jefferson, South Wales, April 16th, 1850; he came to America, and settled in St. Clair, in 1870, and married Elizabeth Thomas. He graduated at the Millersville State Normal School, in July 1879, and is now teaching at Wadesville.
JAMES W. THOMAS, of St. Clair, grocer, and son of David H., was born in Merthyr Tydvil, South Wales, April 2nd, 1851. He came to America in 1856, and married Jane Greenwood in 1875. He was a miner twenty years. He served as township auditor in New Castle.
L. C. THOMPSON, dealer in hardware and oils, is a native as well as a resident of Pottsville.
JOSEPH TOWNSEND, formerly a miner, was born in Lancashire, England, May 19th, 1826, came to Pottsville in 1848, and settled in St. Clair in 1850. He married Rachel Watkins, of St. Clair, in 1854. Since 1861 he has been concerned in a millinery and fancy store at that place. He served as school director fifteen years.
GEORGE B. WAGNER. of St. Clair, was born in Upper Berne township, Berks county, January 22nd, 1832. He came to St. Clair in 1854, opened a tin store in 1856, and married Mary Ann Fielding, of St. Clair, in 1858. He is now a hardware merchant.
WILLIAM J. WATKINS, of St. Clair, was born in Glamor- ganshire, South Wales, October 6th, 1843, and was mar- ried to Ellen Watkins, of South Wales, December 25th, 1863. He served as high constable, tax collector, and chief of police, at Mahanoy City, and was a lieutenant of the coal and iron police. He has been inside foreman at Wadesville shaft since 1877.
THOMAS WELLER, born March 17th, 1818, in Berks county, came to Schuylkill county in 1838. He has been outside foreman at Pine Knot colliery, New Castle town- ship, also for Lawton & Reppilier. He was married to Gabrielle Lindemuth in 1844; she died January 19th, 1856, and he married Lydia Fry, who died April 17th, 1871.
JOHN F. WHALEN is a native and life-long resident of Schuylkill county. He was born March 20th, 1853. He was for some time a teacher, but was admitted to the
WILLIAM M. STILLWAGEN, of Palo Alto, was born in bar September 7th, 1874, and is an attorney at Potts- Philadelphia, in 1831, and married Adelaide Merrit, also ville.
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ROBERT N. WILSON, of New Castle township, was born at Minersville, February 23d, 1851. He has always been a miner. He has been engaged at Mine Hill Gap col- liery since 1867. His father, Thomas Wilson, came from Ireland about 1840.
J. V. WINGERT lives at Pottsville, where he was born, April 18th, 1856. He is a druggist and pharmacist, having graduated at the Philadelphia College of Phar- macy in 1878. He started his present business in 1879.
JOSEPH WOLL, keeper of the Northeastern Hotel, Pottsville, is a native of that place, and was born Novem- ber 14th, 1853. He married Catharine Brennan, of Pottsville.
CHARLES HENRY WOLTJEN is a notary public and real estate and insurance agent at Pottsville. He has been a dealer in tobacco at Philadelphia and Pottsville. He was born at Bremen, Germany, September 13th, 1839, and married Henriette W. Lauer, of Pottsville.
JOHN WYLAM, born November 20th, 1814, at Shiney Row, Durham, England, emigrated to America in 1842, and married in 1845, settling in St. Clair. He sunk coal shafts in England, drove a tunnel at salt works in Va., mined lead in Wisconsin and gold in Australia, and has superintended collieries in several localities.
Besides the foregoing the following residents of the same territory contributed their support to this publica- tion: William L. Adams, Fr. Altstadt, O. J. Aregood, Charles Baber, B. F. Bartlett, Andrew Baumgarten, F. W. Bechtel, Charles E. Beck, Thomas Beddall, M. B. Bell, Jacob Bellville, D. D., William Brazier, Bright & Co., George W. Brown, J. J. Cake, W. H. Carey, Frank Carter, George Chambers, J. B. Church, James G. Coch- ran, Robert D. Colborn, W. R. Cole, Patrick D. Conry, H. L. Daddow, John K. Deihm, A. J. Derr, J. B. Dobbins, | liams, F. G. Yuengling, Ignatius Ziegler.
D. D., Daniel Downey, Thomas Doyle, James Ellis, D. L. Esterly, A. S. Faust, John B. Fayhey, J. K. Fernsler, F. B. Fessler, C. I. J. Fiske, George U. Fleck, Joseph L. Foster, J. G. Frick, Mrs. Mary Gafer, A. J. Gallagher, S. A. Garrett, M. J. Gately, Rev. Charles G. Gilliat, D. D., Bernard Glunz, Frank Hause, George A. Hause, J. S. Hawley, C. H. Hazzard, Jacob A. Hazen, N. Heblich, George W. Heebner, D. C. Henning, H. H. Hill, Rev. G. A. Hinterleitner, John P. Hobart, W. H. Holmes, Solo- mon Hoover, Levi Huber, H. H. Huntzinger, B. N. Hyde, George W. Johns, Samuel Johnson, John D. Joyce, Charles F. Kaadtman, George R. Kaercher, William Kennedy, Thomas F. Kerns, M. M. Ketner, Frank Knit- tle, Daniel L. Krebs, Abraham Kuhn, John Lecher, R. T. Lee, C. Little, W. K. Lineaweaver, Henry Loechel, C. H. Lyson, Joel B. McCamant, W. J. McCarthy, John McCron, D. D., D. D. McGinnes, John Maginnis, J. C. McWilliams, Henry Matten, John M. Miller, John W. Morgan, Gouverneur Morris, R. R. Morris, John A. Nash, David Neuser, D. E. Nice, H. K. Nichols, Charles H. Parker, Hiram Parker, jr., B. F. Patterson, Burd S. Patterson, John Phillips, William Pollock, John L. Pott, Isaac M. Price, Herman Robenau, Richard Rahn, John Reber, Morgan Reed, William W. Reed, Reist & Co., Charles Rettig, Charles Roehrig, M. Rohr- heimer, George Rosengarten, James Ryon, D. B. Seidel, L. W. Sharpless, D. R. Shertel, W. F. Shephem, P. W. Sheafer, C. Shumway, Miss M. Sillyman, E. D. Smith, Charles Smith, D. G. Smith, Baird Snyder, A. E. Snyder, M. Spohn, Louis Stoffregen, Alexander S. Strouse, John A. Sullivan, W. Thompson, Jacob Ulmer, John Veith, Frank R. Ward, Thomas Warnly, C. Wells, J. Price Wetherill, E. H. Wheeler, W. J. Whitehouse, A. K. Whit- ner, W. L. Whitney, Charles W. Wiedermuth, Clara Wil-
KLEIN, RUSH AND RYAN TOWNSHIPS.
LEVI ARTZ, of Delano, was born in Schuylkill county, February 9th, 1834. He married Mary Miller, a native of Schuylkill Haven. He is engineer on the L. V. R. R. He moved to Delano in March, 1871, since which time he has been in charge of trains on the Mahanoy divis- ion.
JOSEPH M. BACHERT, of Rush township, was born December 11th, 1843, in Schuylkill township, and mar- ried Catharine Halderman, a native of Tamaqua. He was formerly a farmer, but is now foreman of Weldy's tunnel mill. He came to Rush township in 1872, and on the 10th of May, 1880, he was appointed foreman of the Powder works. He enlisted in 1863, and receiv- ed his discharge in October, 1865.
WILLIAM M. BACHERT, of Rush township, was born in West Penn, March 10th, 1837, and married Susan Messerschmidt, of Rush township. He is superintend- ent of Weldy's "S" mill, and is also engaged in farming. He came to Rush' township in 1857, and was a teacher for five years. In 1861 he engaged in powder making, in which business he continued for eleven years. In 1862 he was elected justice of the peace, and appointed school director, which office he filled for fif- teen consecutive years. He is acting in the same ca- pacity at the present time (1880). He has also been treasurer of the school board from 1873 to 1878, and county tax collector in 1863, 1864, 1865 and 1869. He was also auditor of Rush about three years.
JOSEPH BANNAN, of Delano, a native of the county, was born September 9th, 1840. He married Mary A. Moyer, of White Hall. He commenced railroading in 1867 as car inspector for the Philadelphia and Reading Company, at Tamaqua, and was there till 1872, when he took the same office on the L. V. R. R., which position he still holds.
HENRY S. BARCLAY was born in the West Indies, Oc- tober 9th, 1830. He married Esther McGuigen, of Ireland. He came to Delano December 11th, 1867, and has filled the position of draughtsman and patern maker for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company since that date.
DAVID BECHTEL was born in Berks county, November 7th, 1841, and married Susan Eroh, of Schuylkill county. He commenced work for the Lehigh Valley Rail- road Company as fireman in 1866; in 1869 he was pro- moted to engineer and moved to Delano, where he has held the position since that time.
JOSEPH N. BECKER, tinsmith at Delano, was born at Pottsville, March 30th, 1850. His wife, Catharine McFadden, was born in Scotland. Mr. Becker came to Delano November 23d, 1871, and has filled the position of tinsmith for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company up to the present time.
DAVID BEYNON and his wife (who was Jannett Wil- liams) are natives of Wales. He was born in 1849. His place of residence is Honey Brook, and he has been inside foreman of No. 5 slope for the past eleven years.
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ALONZO P. BLAKSLEE, assistant superintendent of the Mahanoy division of the L. V. R. R., was born in Mauch Chunk, March 13th, 1847. He married Lizzie C. Bond, of White Haven. Mr. Blakslee came to Rush township in April, 1863; was assistant in the engineer corps, and in 1871 he moved to Delano. In 1873 he was elected school director of Rush, and in 1877 he was appointed postmaster of Delano.
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