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HIRAM E. BLODGETT, formerly a machinist, but now an engineer on the L. V. R. R., was born in Hanover, Luzerne county, August 31st, 1849, and married Jennie Bowman, of Lehigh county. He came to Delano in 1872, and commenced work for the company as a machinist; he went on the railroad as fireman in 1875; in April, 1879, he commenced running an engine, and he has continued in that capacity up to the present time.
PETER BONZ, of Rush township, was born in Philadel- phia, September 5th, 1859. In 1873 he commenced work on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and was three years on that road. April Ist, 1879, he began work on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, and on December 15th, 1879, he was promoted, and is now sec- tion boss on Barnesville section of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
JACOB L. BOOSE was born in York county, in 1847, and has lived in Honey Brook since 1865, when he com- menced running the pumping engine for the company. He was fireman two years previous to his taking his present position.
JOSEPH L. BOUGHNER, of Tamanend Junction, Rush township, was born in Tamaqua in 1850, and married Emma S. Fowler, of Columbia county. He was formerly telegraph operator, and is now an agent for the Central Railroad of New Jersey. He came to Tamanend about 1858. He is one of the directors of the Farmers' Build- ing and Loan Association and a member of the school board.
SAMUEL BOWER, agent at Quakake for the Philadel- phia and Reading Railroad Company and a resident of Tamanend Junction, was born in Lycoming county, March 30th, 1839. His wife, Sarah R. Gilbert, is a native of Montgomery county. Mr. Bower enlisted in 1862. After getting his discharge he again enlisted in 1864. He was wounded at the battle of Five Forks, and received his discharge June 4th, 1865. He came to Tamanend Junction July 4th, 1870, for the Catawissa Railroad Company, and was agent at Tamanend. July 28th, 1879, he was appointed to his present position. He is secretary of the board of school directors.
JONATHAN J. BRETZ was born at East Mahanoy Junc- tion, August 20th, 1851, and married Rosetta Bankes, of Quakake Junction, his present place of residence. He commenced railroading in 1868, and was promoted to the position of engineer in 1879.
LINCOLN E. BROWN, a resident of Catawissa, was born in Scranton, in 1860. He came to Tamanend in March, 1879, and has been telegraph operator since that date.
GEORGE BURNETT came from Wales, where he was born in 1850. His wife, Phillipine Bosch, is a native of Germany. Mr. Burnett came to Pottsville in 1869, and worked at blacksmithing about a year, when he went to Ma- hanoy Plane, and from there he went to Delano in 1871. In 1872 he commenced making springs for the Lehigh Val- ley Railroad Company, and he has since worked at that business.
N. L. CARPENTER was born in Luzerne county, No- vember 2nd, 1819; he married Harriet Drake, of Orange county, N. Y. He was formerly a lumberman, but since
his removal to Ryan township, in 1872, has filled the office of justice of the peace; he was assessor in Scranton in 1857.
WILLIAM H. CARPENTER was born in Scranton, in 1852, and married Frances Munson, of Port Ewen, N. J. He came to Tuscarora March Ist, 1875, and was appointed station agent at that time. In 1877 he went to East Ma- hanoy Junction, and was a night telegraph operator. In the spring of 1880 he came to Summit, and he has since been station agent there.
ROLANDUS CORRELL, Delano, was born in Hamburg, Berks county, May 27th, 1846, and married Catharine Hurst, of Schuylkill. He is an engineer on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Mr. Correll came to Delano in 1867. He commenced railroading in 1867, and was promoted to the position of engineer July 19th, 1880. He was a sol- dier in the Union army .
GEORGE CROSSAN, of Delano, was born in Ireland, April 22nd, 1840, and married Margaret Phelan, also of Irish parentage. He is a coppersmith by trade, and since 1869 has worked in Delano, in the employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company.
EDWARD J. DAILEY was born in England in 1856; he is a dispatcher, station agent and weighmaster for the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Silver Brook. Mr. Dailey came to Klein township in 1865. He commenced learning telegraphy in the office at Silver Brook in 1870; went to Audenried when the office at that place was first opened, and remained there until 1879, when he return- ed to Silver Brook.
JOSEHH A. DE PEW, of Delano, was born at Tamaqua, February 14th, 1858, and married Elizabeth Artz, a na .. tive of Schuylkill county. He was formerly a clerk, but since the spring of 1879 has had the charge of the store of Blakslee & Co. He came to Delano in July, 1866, and since early in 1879 has been deputy postmaster.
SAMUEL DE PEW, now residing at Delano, was born at Tamaqua in 1831, and married Christian Forreider, a native of Schuylkill county. He is car inspector and outside foreman; was formerly a carpenter; came to Delano March 4th, 1866; worked in the carpenter shop one year, when he was promoted to car inspector. About 1872 he was made outside foreman, and from that time to the present has continued to fill both offices.
THOMAS DONNELLY, of Delano, was born December 25th, 1831, and married Anna Heaffy. Both are natives of Ireland. He has been in the employ of the L. V. Railroad since 1856; came to Delano in 1864, since which time he has been foreman of repairs of the Mahanoy div- ision of the L. V. Railroad.
AUSTIN EDWARDS, who has been living in Honey Brook since 1866, was born in Coal Dale, in 1854, and married Mary L. Marshall, of Tamaqua. For eleven years Mr. Edwards carried on the business of mining, and he has been inside foreman at No. 1 slope since 1877.
ALBERT ELLIS, proprietor of the steam saw mill in Ryan, was born in New Philadelphia, February 8th, 1854. Mr. Ellis came to Ryan township in 1870 and engaged in lumbering. In the spring of 1878 he was elected town- ship clerk, and has filled that office for three successive years. In 1875 he built a steam saw-mill, which has a capacity of 5,000 feet of boards per day.
LEWIS A. FLEXER, M D., who resides at Tamanend Junction, was born in West Penn, in 1853. He married Montana Kline, of Allentown. He graduated at Ann Arbor Medical College in 1879, and during the same year settled at Tamanend Junction, where he commenced and still continues the practice of medicine and surgery.
PATRICK J. FLYNN, a native of Pottsville, married
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Nellie Tooney, of the same place. He resides in Ma- hanoy City, and his occupation is that of a machinist in the shops of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Delano.
TIMOTHY FLYNN, a resident of Rush township, and a successful farmer, was born in 1825. Both he and his wife, who was a Miss Mary Sheehan, were natives of Ire- land. He came to Pottsville in 1845, and to his present location in March, 1871. He was formerly a miner; has been auditor of Rush township three years; was collector of taxes for 1874, 1875 and 1880; held the office of a school director of Mahanoy township for three years, and was treasurer about the year 1868.
HENRY F. FRITZ, of Delano, was born at Port Carbon, January 17th, 1850. His wife was Violet J. Markle, a native of Tamaqua. He was first employed in 1869 on the Northern Central Railroad as fireman. He came to Delano in 1870; continued to serve in the same capacity until November, 1879, when he was promoted to be en- gineer.
AUGUST D. GINTHER, hotel keeper of Rush township, was born February 4th, 1850, and married Elizabeth Sommers. Both are natives of Germany. He came to Tamaqua in 1851 and to Rush township in 1865, where in 1877 he commenced his present business.
JOSEPH W. HARTZELL was born in Berks county, Feb- ruary 22nd, 1853; he married Margaret C. Reiter, a na- tive of Montgomery county, and came to Rush town- ship in the spring of 1873. In the fall of 1874 he became superintendent of the Pottsville powder works at Allison Station, and since September 23d, 1880, has been fore- man of Weldy's "S" mill. He became a member of Company G, 7th regiment N. G. P., in May, 1877, and during the riots of that year was promoted to corporal.
HENRY HAUCK, the owner of the first farm settled in Rush township, was born in Columbia county, April 27th, 1821, and married Rachel Prouse, a native of this town- ship. His farm was settled in 1793 by Anthony Guchall and brother. Besides running his farm Mr. Hauck operates a saw-mill. He has been a strong advocate in the cause of education and officiated as school director for several years.
CHARLES HEINRICH, baggage-master and car inspector, was born in Carbon county, in 1853. He came to Rush township in 1868, and settled in what is now a part of Ryan township. In 1876 he filled the office of township clerk, and has occupied his present position since January 15th, 1880.
ABRAM HENDRICKS, of Mahanoy City, was born in Montgomery county, February 26th, 1813. His wife was Hannah R. Biddle, of Chester county. He came to De- lano October 3d, 1870; took the position of engineer for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company in their Delano shops in 1872, and has continued to hold it to this time. He was employed by the Reading Railroad Company for about seven years prior to his coming to Delano.
RICHARD HOPKINS, who came to Audenried in early life, was born in Pottsville, Schuylkill county, May 9th, 1841. His wife was Moriah Williams. At sixteen he was employed at running an engine, and at eighteen was engaged in the iron works, where he continued to work until the opening of the war. Since September, 1868, he has been assistant superintendent of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, at Audenreid - He was acting superintendent from April till August, 1876. He was a soldier in the Union army.
THEODORE J. HOWELL, of Delano, is a native of Northampton county, where he was born in 1849. His wife was Mary J. Colt, of Wyalusing, Bradford county.
He came to Delano in March, 1867; was formerly a clerk, but since 1871 has been time-keeper.
JOHN R. JAMES, foreman of the blacksmithing depart - ment of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company shops at Delano, to which place he came in 1876, was born in Wales, September 13th, 1829. His wife was Ann Cook, also of Wales. He came to Schuylkill county in 1852; was employed by the old Mine Hill company and their successors, the Reading Railroad Company, from about 1853 to 1876, when he became an employe of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company.
E. F. JOSLIN, of Delano, a native of Blair county, born May 4th, 1839, married Julia A. Bacon, of Pittston. He came to Delano February Ist, 1880, and at once en- tered the service of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com- pany as foreman of the paint department in the Delan > shops. He was a soldier in the Union army.
ISAAC KENVIN was born in Schuylkill county, in 1836, and married Rebecca Jones, of Luzerne county. Mr. Kenvin came to Audenreid in 1852, and commenced work as an engineer for the Honey Brook Coal Company in 1857. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted; he was badly wounded at Cold Harbor, having his jawbone broken, and received his discharge. He re-enlisted December 23d, and after his discharge, in 1865, returned to Auden- ried, where he has been engineer at Breaker No. I since that time.
JOHN H. KEPNER, engineer and foreman of Weldy's powder works in Rush township, was born at Pottsville May 10th, 1851, and married Catharine Neifert, a native of Rush township. Mr. Kepner has been an employe of the Weldy company for about sixteen years, and en- gineer and foreman since 1870.
JAMES LEWIS and his wife (who was Amelia Davis) are natives of Wales. Mr. Lewis commenced mining in Wales in 1853, when but fifteen years of age. He came to Schuylkill county in 1855, and to Audenreid in 1872, and was appointed inside foreman of No. 4 slope, April Ist, 1880.
WILLIAM LUCKENBILL, a resident of Delano since 1864, was born in Schuylkill county, in 1836. His first wife was Caroline Fessler and his second, now living, was Nellie Delcamp. His was the third family that settled in De- lano. He was formerly a conductor on the railroad, but since his advent into Delano, in 1864, he has served the L. V. Railroad in the capacity of engineer.
MAHLON LUTZ, of Barnesville, was born November 9th, 1831, in West Penn township, and married Catharine Miller, a native of East Brunswick township. He moved to his present residence in 1870. Since the spring of 1880 he has owned and occupied the Barnesville House, and beside the hotel business has carried on that of shoe- making. He was a soldier in the Union army.
JOHN J. MACK, JR., an engineer in the service of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, first came to Delano in April, 1871. In 1875 he was made fireman, and in August, 1880, engineer. He was born in 1849, and mar- ried Catharine A. Mowrey. Both are natives of the county.
ROBERT MARSHALL and his wife are natives of Scot- land; he was born in 1825. He is outside foreman at colliery No. 1, Honey Brook. Mr. Marshall came to Schuylkill county in 1850 and to Honey Brook in 1860. He has been foreman for about eighteen years and is the oldest boss at the breaker.
THOMAS S. MAY, a resident of Delano, born January 18th, 1842, is a native of Verniont, and his wife, who was Mary E. Wade, is a native of Tioga county, N. Y. He came to Delano September 18th, 1873, and from that
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time has been train dispatcher for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Prior thereto he was a telegraph operator. He was a soldier in the Union army.
JOHN E. MCGEE, born in Scotland, December 25th, 1837, married Hannah Hughes, of Schuylkill county. He is engineer at colliery No. 1, Honey Brook. Mr. McGee came to Klein township in 1868, and his family moved there in 1869. In 1873 he was appointed school director, and was chosen secretary of the board, which office he held for six consecutive years. In 1880 he was again elected a member of the school board and became president of it; has been a resident of Schuylkill county since January, 1854.
LEWIS MENGEL, farmer, was born at Port Clinton, Oc- tober Ist, 1839. He married Valeria Perry, a native of Center township, Berks county. Mr. Mengel came to Ryan township about 1864, went into the employ of the Catawissa Railroad Company about 1862, and was car in- spector at Tamaqua. In 1875 he was appointed baggage master at East Mahanoy Junction, and held the position until 1880, when he gave up railroading.
DANIEL D. MESSERSCHMIDT, of Ryan township, was born in Rush township, July 27th, 1830. He married Elizabeth Herring. He was a member of the Tamaqua cavalry from 1856 until 1861. He has been supervisor, auditor, school director, judge of election, and treasurer and collector of the school board before Rush became a part of Ryan township. Since that time he has officiated as assessor, treasurer and collector of the school board and township, and by the appointment of the county commissioners the collector of the county tax also. Mr. Messerschmidt has a saw-mill, erected upon the place where the first one of the kind was built in the township, probably prior to 1815. He and his father built the first tavern in the township, known as the Weaver tavern.
JOHN H. MESSERSCHMIDT was born in Rush township, April 9th, 1843, and has always lived here. His wife, Clara Matilda Meckly, came from Union county. He became a brakeman in April, 1864, fireman in February, 1867, and engineer, his present position, in December, 1870. His father, Jacob Messerschmidt, was born in Berks county, July 21st, 1800, and in 1819 moved to Rush township, then a part of Northampton county. In 1825 he married his first wife, Barbara Miller, who died in 1835. His present wife was Hannah Harring, born January 10th, 1809. Both are living with their son, John H. Messerschmidt. He was a soldier in the Union army.
WILLIAM NEIFERT was born in Rush township, Sep- tember 11th, 1821. His grandfather, Jacob Neifert, set- tled in Rush about 1797. His son Jacob, born in 1798, was the father of William. His wife was Lucinda Lind- ner, from Berks county. Mr. Neifert has at various times held nearly all the township offices in Rush; has been director of the poor for Schuylkill county for some three years, and was first lieutenant of a military organ- ization for several years.
MICHAEL O'DONNELL, miner at Honey Brook, born in 1838, and his wife, who was Marcilla Dougherty, are both natives of Ireland. He came to Honey Brook from Delaware in May, 1861. In November, 1869, he was elected justice of the peace of Rush township, and occupied a similar office in Klein township for the years 1875 to 1880. He has been a member of the school board for several years; was president of it in 1878, and has filled the office of secretary of the board since 1879.
WILLIAM OPP was born in St. Clair county, Ill., August 16th, 1849; came to Delano October 23d, 1865, entered the service of the L. V. Railroad in 1868 as fireman and
brakeman, and in 1877 was appointed engineer. His wife was Lousia M. West, of Tamaqua, Pa.
ROBERT J. ORR, of Delano, was born in New York city, September 10th, 1848, and came to Delano in 1870. His wife was Missouri Derrick, of Berks county. Since 1870 he has been employed by the Lehigh Valley Rail- road Company, as machinist. He was a soldier in the Union army.
HENRY V. PERRY, station agent at East Mahanoy, was born October 2nd, 1857, in Berks county, and married Elizabeth Kleckner, of Schuylkill county. He entered the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company in May, 1875, as telegraph operator at Taman- end, and was appointed to his present position March 18th, 1877.
HENRY S. REETS, civil engineer, was born in Wilkes- Barre, Luzerne county, in 1853, and married Nellie Lees, of Maryland. Mr. Reets came to Audenreid in 1873, and took the position of civil engineer for the mining com- pany.
MICHAEL REYNOLDS, the first settler in Delano, was born in Ireland, in 1831. His first experience in railroad service was on the Richmond and Danville Railroad about 1851. He went to Philadelphia in 1854, aided in the construction of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, and laid the first rail of that road. At the completion of that road he worked in the same capacity on roads in Lebanon and Schuylkill counties, and in 1861 came to reside permanently in Delano, and from about 1863 has been assistant roadmaster of the Mahanoy division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. His wife was Margaret N. Forney, of Pottsville, Pa.
GUSTAVUS ROTH, ice dealer and hotel proprietor, was born in Germany, in 1825. He married Eliza Faust, a native of Schuylkill county. Mr. Roth came to Rush township in 1863 and engaged in the mercantile business in Barnesville, and was also interested in the lumber bus- iness here till 1870. He commenced shipping ice to Philadelphia in 1871, and was the pioneer in that branch of industry in Schuylkill county. In 1866 Mr. Roth built the hotel at East Mahanoy Junction.
JOHN W. SHEAFER, a resident of Delano, was born August 28th, 1834, in Manheim, Lancaster county; he married Fannie West, of Tamaqua, and since April Ist, 1871, has been foreman of the wood department of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. His advent into Rush township occurred February 8th, 1866, at which time he became an employe of the railroad company.
JAMES P. SHEARER was born in Ohio, October 10th, 1845, he married Mary A. Brower, of Schuylkill county. He came to Honey Brook in 1859; enlisted in February, 1864, and received his discharge August 23d, 1865, from the hospital at Macon, Georgia. He commenced running an engine at Pumping Station, Honey Brook, in 1871.
J. ALBERT SMITH, shipping clerk at Audenreid, was born in Adams county, September 27th, 1844; he mar- ried Annie E. Straub, a native of Minersville, Schuylkill county. Mr. Smith enlisted July 29th, 1862, and re- ceived his discharge June 3d, 1865. He came to Auden- reid August 14th, 1865, and was appointed to his present position in January, 1866.
ABRAHAM STAGER was born in North Manheim town- ship, July roth, 1822. He is outside foreman at breaker No. 4, and was formerly a merchant. Mr. Stager was one of the emergency soldiers at the time of the Rebel- lion. He came to Audenreid in April, 1867, and has been foreman of the shaft and of breaker No. 4 since that date.
JOSIAH SWANK, machinist in the shops of the Lehigh
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Valley Railroad Company at Delano. was born Septem- ber 11th, 1844, in Mauch Chunk. His wife was Anna Porter, of the same nativity. He commenced the work of a machinist when but nineteen years old, in Mauch Chunk. In April, 1867, he came to Delano, and from that time, except for a few months spent in the mercan- tile business, he has been employed by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company as a machinist. He was a soldier six months.
SAMUEL D. WATKINS was born in Minersville, in 1843. He has been a resident of Honey Brook since 1876. He married Mary S. Fritz, a native of Pine Grove township. He enlisted in August, 1861, and received his discharge from the Central Park Hospital, New York city, Decem- ber 20th, 1864. He was appointed to his present posi- tion-that of outside foreman of breaker No. 5-in 1876.
JOHN B. WEISE, formerly a boiler maker, but now fore- county, February 20th, 1834. His wife was Levina Rearish, of Carbon county. He enlisted in 1862, was promoted to second lieutenant, and received his dis- charge in 1863. His engagement with the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company dates from April 7th, 1868.
ist at fifteen years of age, and since his advent into De- lano, in 1868, he has worked in the Delano shops of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company.
CHARLES R. WHITEHEAD, one of Delano's oldest in- habitants, was born in Mauch Chunk, November 9th, 1847, and married Anna B. Markle, of Tamaqua, Pa. He served about three and a half months in the war of the Rebellion. He commenced his apprenticeship as machinist in Mauch Chunk, and about two years after- wards, in 1866, he came to Delano, where he completed it, and has since been employed by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company.
HOSEA B. WILLIAMS, residing at Tamanend Junction, first came to the place February Ist, 1871, and engaged in his present business-hotel-keeping. He was born September 17th, 1833, in Northampton county, and mar- ried Helen M. Eadie, of Carbon county, Pa. Prior to man in a boiler shop at Delano, was born in Schuylkill his coming to Tamanend he was in the hardware busi- ness. Since December Ist, 1873, he has been the post- master of the place; was school director for 1875, 1876 and 1877, and now holds the office of assessor for Rush township.
JAMES T. WYATT, of Delano, is a native of South Wales; he was born March 20th, 1850. He came to the place in 1870, and since 1871 has been employed as a machinist
CHARLES P. WELSH, of German nationality, was born February 23d, 1846, and married Sarah S. Markel, of Tamaqua. He commenced his apprenticeship as machin- I by the Lehigh Valley Railroad; was formerly a miner.
BLYTHE, EAST BRUNSWICK, RAHN, SCHUYLKILL, WALKER AND WEST PENN TOWNSHIPS AND TAMAQUA BOROUGH.
EMIL ALBRECHT, druggist at the corner of Mauch Chunk and Railroad streets, Tamaqua, was born in Ger- many, in 1839. His wife, also a native of Germany, was Kate Krebs. Mr. Albrecht came to Tamaqua from Phil- adelphia in 1870.
W. S. ALLEBACH, jeweler, Tamaqua, was born January 4th, 1835, in Schuylkill county. He came to Tamaqua in May, 1856, and with his brother started a jewelry store at No. 40 Broad street. In 1861 he purchased his brother's interest. Mr. Allebach now holds the office of borough treasurer. He was a lieutenant in the Union army.
L. H. ALLEN was born in Onondaga county, N. Y., in 1826. His wife was Hannah W. Hudson, of England. Since coming to Tamaqua in 1847 Mr. Allen has been engaged in the foundry business.
H. K. AURAND, merchant, No. 44 West Broad street, was born in Northumberland county, in 1830. He mar- ried Julia A. Flenner, of Philadelphia. He came to Ta- maqua about 1850, and has been engaged in the book and stationery business since 1855.
WILLIAM BARTON, Tamaqua, son of Thomas and Mary Barton, of English birth, was born in September, 1826, in Berks county, and his wife was Martha E. Jones, of England. Mr. Barton came to Tamaqua about the year 1831, and is a draughtsman, but was formerly a miner.
WILLIAM BASLER was born in Germany. He came to America in 1846, and is at present engaged in the mer- cantile business at Middleport, where he resides. Mr. B. has held several borough offices, and is at present post- master.
JOSEPH J. BAUR, the oldest physician in Tamaqua, was born in Germany, February 24th, 1811. He married Paulina Kohlor, also from Germany. Dr. Baur came to
America in 1852, and to Tamaqua in 1853; commenced the practice of medicine in 1839. His office and residence is on Pine street.
DAVID BAUSCHER was born at Jacksonville, Lehigh county, December 25th, 1855. He came to Schuylkill county in 1858, and is now principal of the school at McKeansburg, East Brunswick township. He was for- merly a farmer.
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