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MICHAEL BEARD, proprietor of the Beard House, Tamaqua, is a native of Berks county, and was born Jan- uary 13th, 1811. He commenced keeping hotel in Schuylkill Haven in 1844, and four years later came to Tamaqua. In 1869 and 1870 Mr. Beard was elected to the Legislature.
ELIAS BELTZ was born in Northampton county, June ist, 1811. He married Abbie Montz, a native of West Penn, their present home. Mr. Beltz came to West Penn township in 1833, and settled on the farm on which he now lives in March, 1834. His mother (whose maiden name was Elizabeth Boyer), after her marriage to Leon- ard Beltz, baked the first loaf of bread used by the men who opened the first coal mine. Elias Beltz worked in the mines until about 1840.
LEWIS BELTZ was born in West Penn township, Sep- tember 3d, 1833; he married Mary Ann Fridirici, of Berks county. He has been a railroad conductor for several years, but is now a farmer in West Penn. In 1868 he was elected assessor of the township.
W. B. BENSINGER, grandson of Frederick Bensinger, who settled in Schuylkill county soon after the Revolu- tionary war, was born in Schuylkill county March 12th, 1821. Mr. Bensinger came to Tamaqua in 1850 and opened a book and stationery store at No. 48 West Broad street. He has been school director six years, and has been borough treasurer two years. Frederick
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Bensinger was born in 1761, and died in 1841; his son Michael was born February 4th, 1790, and died May 13th, 1855.
H. D. BOAS was born in Lebanon county, in 1847. His wife was Matilda E. Goodason, of England. He has been a resident of Tamaqua since 1860, and commenced business as a merchant in 1876; is located at No. 9 West Broad street.
JEREMIAH BOAS, merchant at 13 West Broad street, Tamaqua, was born October 10th, 1820, in Berks county; he married Catharine Womelsdorf, of Berks county. Mr. Boas came to Tamaqua April 14th, 1861, and commenced business with his brother in 1866. Twelve years later he bought out his partner's interest.
JOSHUA BOCK, wheelwright, was born in East Bruns- wick township, in 1817, and now resides at McKeansburg. He was married to Hannah Teter in 1842. He has been vice-president of the Schuylkill county Agricultural So- ciety, and for twelve years has been secretary of the County Horse Insurance Company. He is also a director of the Farmers' Fire Insurance Company of Schuylkill county.
JOHN BOHANNAN was born at Port Carbon, in 1842. He now resides at New Philadelphia, and is engineer at Pine Dale mine.
NICHOLAS BOLAND was born in Blythe township, Sep- tember 14th, 1848. He is a miner, and resides at New Philadelphia.
GEORGE BOND, blacksmith, was born in England, in 1826, and married Miranda Boughner, of Rush township. He came to Tamaqua in 1847, and started in the black smithing business. His shop is on Cedar street; residence on Hunter street.
THOMAS D. BOONE, bookkeeper, was born in Berks county, in 1840, and has been a resident of Tamaqua since 1864. He married Mary E. Lightcapp, of Phila- delphia. He was elected member of the common coun- cil in 1879. He served three years in the Union army as a non-commissioned officer.
A. J. BOSSLER was born in Berks connty, November Ioth, 1836, and came to East Brunswick township in 1869. He has followed milling for twenty-six years. He was married to Lenah Unger, in 1860.
JESSE BOWER, proprietor of a broom factory at Tam- aqua, was born in Northumberland county, in 1821, and married Leah Bicksler, of Schuylkill county. He com- menced the manufacture of brooms in Lycoming county in April, 1877, and three years later opened a factory at 96 West Broad street, Tamaqua. He was justice of the peace in Limestone, Lycoming county, for twenty-five years, and postmaster ten years.
D. R. BOYER, train dispatcher at Tamaqua for the last four years for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, was born at Port Clinton, in 1843; he married Mary M. Kaup, of the same county. Mr. Boyer came to Tama- qua in 1862, and commenced work on the railroad. In 1872 he was appointed night dispatcher.
EDWARD A. BOYER, born January 18th, 1850, in Or- wigsburg, has been a resident of Tamaqua since 1857. In 1879 he formed a copartnership with his brother Frank J. Boyer, as merchants, at No. 42 West Broad street. His brother was born at Orwigsburg, in March, 1852.
REV. JOSEPH BRIDGMAN, pastor of St. Jerome's church, Tamaqua, was born in Ireland, in 1833. He came to this country in August, 1857, and to Tamaqua 20 years later. Mr. Bridgman attends the church at Tuscarora, and also the churches at Bull Run, Gearytown and Bugtown, al- ternating.
LOUIS BUEHLER and his wife (who was Sarah Wagner) are Germans by birth. He came to Tamaqua about the year 1840, and in 1867 built his flouring mill, which he has since carried on.
THOMAS H. CARTER, cashier of the First National Bank of Tamaqua, was born in England, May 20th, 1847, and married Annie Cubberly, of Philadelphia. Mr. Car- ter came to Tamaqua in April, 1880, and took the posi- tion he now occupies.
THOMAS S. CARTER, Tamaqua, an Englishman by birth, married Moriah M. Eveland, of Schuylkill county. He is agent for sewing machines and dealer in confec- tionery, notions, etc., on Broad street. He came to Ta- maqua in 1846. In 1865 he was captain of the Conti- nental Company.
JOHN C. CONRAD was born in France, in 1825. He came to Tamaqua in 1849; in 1852 he carried on a banking business. In 1852 he entered the regular army, and was commissioned major; he filled the position of justice of the peace five years, and was clerk of the House of Representatives during the 4Ist Congress.
FREDERICK DANNER was born in Germany, July 29th, 1843, and married Catherine Schweizer, of Philadelphia. In 1873 he built a lime kiln at Tamaqua, and a side track from the Tamaqua railroad, also two cars for his own use. He has owned lime kilns at Minersville, Gir- ardville and St. Clair.
GEORGE W. DAY, photographer at No. 7 West Broad street, Tamaqua, was born in Philadelphia, in 1853. He came to Tamaqua in 1874, and purchased the business of Mr. Grier after a few months.
GEORGE W. DENNISTON, Tamaqua, was born February 22nd, 1829, in Lehigh Gap, Carbon county, and married Mary Landerbum, of Allegheny county. Mr. Denniston came to Tamaqua in 1830, and in 1850 was appointed weighmaster for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company.
EDWARD DILLON is a native of Middleport. He was born August 6th, 1848. He is a miner, working at the Pinedale mine.
CHARLES B. DREHER, physician and surgeon, was born in Schuylkill county in 1845. He married Sallie Brode, of Tamaqua. Dr. Dreher is a graduate of the Homeopa- thic Medical College of Pennsylvania, and came to Tama- qua in June, 1867, and commenced the practice of medi- cine. His office is at the corner of Hunter street and College avenue.
W. A. DREHER, teacher, was born at Drehersville, June 27th, 1857. He married Anna Hay, of Orwigsburg.
REV. CHARLES H. EGGE, pastor of the Evangelical church at Tamaqua since 1878, was born November 22nd, 1844, in Lehigh county. He commenced studying for the ministry at the age of twenty-one, in the State of Iowa, where he preached ten years. He then removed to Schuylkill Haven, and preached for three years more.
LAWRENCE ENNIS, a carpenter of New Philadelphia, was born in Ireland, and came to America in 1850. In the late war he was a lieutenant and captain.
JOHN FARRELL was born in New York State, and came to Middleport, where he now resides, in 1850. He is a miner.
WILLIAM FARRELL was born in Middleport, December 23d, 1849. He is foreman at the Pine Dale mine.
WILLOUGHBY C. FELTHOFF, miller, a resident of Tama- qua for twenty years, was born November 22nd, 1840, in Berks county, and married Caroline Buehler, of the same place. He was elected a member of the State Legislature in 1877 and 1878, by the Democratic party.
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REV. JOHN J. FISHER, pastor of the Trinity Reformed Church, Tamaqua, was born in Pottsville, August 30th, 1855. He married Elmira K. Wagner, of Berks county. Mr. Fisher came to Tamaqua in February, 188c.
M. F. FLANIGAN was born in Scotland, February 27th, 1848. He now resides at New Philadelphia, and is in- side boss at the Alliance mine.
AUGUST FLIGGE was born in Germania, in 1848. He went to Baltimore, Md., in 1854, and in 1869 was mar- ried to Christina Stolzenbach. He now resides at Hecla, East Brunswick township, and is engaged in brush mak- ing.
HENRY FOCHT, liveryman, Tamaqua, was born in 1833, in Lehigh county. He married Rebecca Haldeman, of Carbon county. Mr. Focht came to Tamaqua in 1867, and commenced the livery business a year later.
JEREMIAH M. FOLEY, of Coal Dale, was born in Ireland. in 1820. He moved to Westchester, Chester county, and engaged in teaching for seven years. Since 1871 he has taught in this place. He was elected justice of the peace for a regular term of five years in 1876. He was a soldier in the Union army.
LAFAYETTE F. FRITSCH, county and school collector for Tamaqua, was born in Berks county, March 29th, 1839. He married Catharine Helderman, of Schuylkill county. He came to Tamaqua in April, 1860, and en- gaged in the liquor business, at No. 19 West Broad street.
E. J. FRY, banker and merchant, Tamaqua, was born in Dauphin county, June 22nd, 1826. He married Isabella F. Ludwig, of Schuylkill county. After coming to Tamaqua, in April, 1847, he engaged in the hardware and drug business. He still continues the hardware bus- iness, the first of the kind established in Tamaqua. In 1853 Mr. Fry was elected colonel of the militia.
ALBERT H. GLASSMIRE, carpenter, Tamaqua, was born in Berks county, June 5th, 1833. He married Henrietta Billig, of the same county. He came to Tamaqua in 1851. In 1878 Mr. Glassmire was elected a member of the school board. He was a soldier in the Union army, enlisting as a private, and on being wounded was discharged, after having become captain of his company.
REV. I. E. GRAEFF, pastor of St. John's church, Tama- qua, was born in Berks county, August 20th, 1824. He married Mary Ann Jones, of Chester county. Mr. Graeff entered the ministry in 1849; was chaplain of the 195th regiment Pennsylvania volunteers for a year; came to Tamaqua in October, 1868, and his first charge was the little church on the hill, where he officiated four years and a half.
WALLACE Guss, teller of the First National Bank of Tamaqua, was born in Schuylkill county, in 1843. He came to Tamaqua in 1867, and accepted the position of teller in 1868. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1871; also served as captain in the N. G. P.
WILLIAM F. HACKETT was born in Ireland, November 30th, 1842. He married Elizabeth Porter, of Alleghny county. Mr. Hackett went to Pittsburg in 1851, and had charge of the chemical works at Tarentum. He has been superintendent on the Little Schuylkill Railroad, from Tamaqua to Port Clinton, since 1872; has resided on Spruce street, Tamaqua, since 1877.
JOSEPH HAEFNER was born in Germany, in 1849. He married Margaret Fisher, also of German birth. He came to Tamaqua in October, 1878, engaged in the brewing business, and is now the proprietor of the Ta- maqua brewery, on Lafayette street.
DANIEL HARRING was born in Schuylkill county, Sep- tember 6th, 1826, and married Lusanna Welch, of Sla- dam, Carbon county. He has been an engineer since
1853, assuming the charge of the engine at Breaker No. 8, Rahn township, at that time. In 1873 he was engaged at the hoisting engine.
FRANK HAUSER, of West Penn, was born in that town- ship May 7th, 1851. He was formerly a farmer, but is no'v a blacksmith and wheelwright. He married Eliza- beth Keller, of Berks county.
THOMAS HEGARTY, blacksmith at Tamaqua, was born in Ireland, in 1831, and came to Tamaqua in 1851, and married Ellen Delay, of Tamaqua. He has carried on blacksmithing since 1856.
R. S. HEINTZELMAN was born in Lehigh county, Aug- ust 10th, 1841. He resides in West Penn, and is engaged as school teacher and surveyor. He is justice of the peace, which office he has held for the past three years.
CHARLES H. HEITZ was born in Patterson, Schuylkill county, Pa., October 25th, 1847. He married Josephine P. Riegel, of Orwigsburg. He was formerly a general in- surance agent, but is at present overseer of the Alliance Store Company, of New Philadelphia.
F. T. HENNICKE, pastor of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church, Tamaqua, is a native of Germany, and was born December ist, 1833. He married Sophia Catharine Peters, of Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Hennicke has been a minister of the gospel since 1857, and offici- ated in Westport and Lockport previous to coming to Tamaqua, where he has lived since April Ist, 1876.
WILLIAM S. HOBART, Tamaqua, was born in Bedford, Pa., in 1836; he married Francis L. Sanborn, of Clinton county, N. Y. He was formerly a book-keeper, but is now a merchant, and has carried on business at Nesque- honing and Coal Dale. He served as first lieutenant in the Union army.
EDWIN F. HONSBERGER, Tamagu.1, was born in Schuyl- kill county, June 22nd. 1852; he married Ella Schwartz, of the same county. He came to Tamaqua in 1868, and was a book-keeper five years; he was clerk in the Phila- delphia and Reading Railroad office two years. In 1879 Mr. Honsberger formed a mercantile copartnership with Frank Schwartz, store on Center street.
C. FRANK HORN was born April 19th, 1851, at Tama- qua, and resides at Middleport. He is a composer of band and orchestra music.
J. F. HORN was born in Berks county, June 4th, 1853. He came to McKeansburg in 1867, and is engaged in huckstering. He was formerly a school teacher.
JOHN F. HOUSER, farmer, of Walker township, was born January 17th, 1839, and married Emma Seiberling, of Schuylkill county. He has held the office of justice of the peace for five years, and was re-elected in 1879. He removed to Walker township in the spring of 1878, and on the 6th of May following was commissioned postmas- ter of the Reynolds post-office, which office he still holds. He has also been ticket agent for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad since April Ist, 1878. During the years of 1875, 1876 and 1877 he held the office of deputy sheriff. He has been a teacher and hotel-keeper.
B. T. HUGHES, manufacturer of and dealer in harness, at Tamaqua, was born in Berks county, March 24th, 1821. He has filled numerous offices, and served during the war as a member of Company E of the 27th regi- ment emergency men.
THOMAS JENNINGS is a blacksmith at Middleport.
ROWLAND JONES was born in Montgomery county, July 9th, 1808. He married Hannah J. Kersey, of Chester county. He came to Schuylkill county in the spring of 1840, and carried on the lumber trade for seven years; then removed to Tamaqua, and was engaged in
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the coal business until 1864. In 1866 he commenced the undertaking business. His store is on West Broad street.
THOMAS L. JONES, a resident of Geary Town, was born at Summit Hill, Carbon county, in 1851, and married Susan Wood, of Schuylkill county. Mr. Jones com menced work for the L. C. and N. Co. when only ten years of age, and was employed as pumping engineer in 1868. He took his present position, that of engineer at pumping station, Greenwood No. 2, in July, 1880.
MRS. ANNA KANE is teaching at New Philadelphia.
JOHN W. KANTNER, plumber, was born in Pottsville, October 25th, 1845, and has lived in Tamaqua since 1856. He married Sophia Slasher, of the same county. He enlisted in 1862, and from corporal gradually rose to the rank of major. He enlisted over three hundred men from Tamaqua; received a wound in the arm while acting officer of the day.
JOSEPH H. KEEFER was born in Dauphin county, in 1844, and came to Ringgold in 1869. He is a carpenter and bridge builder.
PATRICK J. KELLY was born in Blythe township, in 1847. He now resides at New Philadelphia, and is out- side boss at the Alliance mines.
HENRY S. KEPNER, stone mason, was born in Ringgold, Schuylkill county, in 1826, and has resided in Tamaqua about thirty-three years. He married Hannah Davis, of West Brunswick. Mr. Kepner was one of the emergency soldiers. He filled the office of chief burgess of Tamaqua in 1874 and 1878.
DANIEL KISTLER, farmer and tanner, resides in West Penn township, but was born in Lehigh county, July 29th, 1828. He was formerly a merchant. He has held the office of justice of the peace.
I. J. KISTLER, M. D., was born in Lehigh county, Au- gust 18th, 1851. After graduating at Bellevue College, New York, in 1875, he located at West Penn, and has been a practicing physician there since.
FRANKLIN KOCH, son of John W. Koch, was born in Schuylkill county, in 1828. He came to Coal Dale in 1875, and three years later engaged in the mercantile business. His grandfather settled in Schuylkill county before the Revolutionary war, and his father was born in the same cour.ty, about 1805 or 1806, and died in 1866. Three members of the Koch family, Hiram, Daniel, and Edward, died in the army.
PHILIP KOLB was born in Germany, December 16th, 1829, and came to Tamaqua in 1854. He married Mary Wolfe, of Germany. He was employed as clerk for ten years, and then went into business for himself, in the flour, feed and grocery store at 54 West Broad street.
FREDERICK KRELL, Tamaqua, was born in Germany, in 1844. A year after his arrival in this county he en- listed in a New York regiment; being wounded at Antie- tam, he was discharged. In 1866, with his brother as a partner, he commenced the business of a manufacturer and wholesale and retail dealer in cigars and tobacco.
FREDERICK KRELL was born in Germany, June 24th, 1842; he married Anna Schmauch, of Germany. He came to Tamaqua in 1857, and has conducted his present business in boots and shoes, No. 25 West Broad street, since 1865. He was a soldier in the Union army.
GEORGE KRELL was born in Germany, in 1837. He came to Tamaqua in 1853, and five years later went to New York. Since 1866 he has been in the tobacco busi- ness with his brother, at Tamaqua.
AMOS R. LAMBERSON was born in Luzerne county, Oc- tober 21st, 1842, and married Mary E. Hape, of the same
county. He came to Tamaqua September Ist, 1875, and has held the position of chief of police there since that date, with the exception of eight months when he was acting deputy sheriff. Mr. Lamberson served through two years of the civil war.
J. C. LANCE, JR., Tamaqua, was born in Luzerne county, in 1847. He married Anna M. Hoffman, of Berks county. He came to Tamaqua in 1877 and engaged in the flour and feed business, at 41 West Broad street.
REV. WILLIAM H. LAUBENSTEIN, Tamaqua, a native of Minersville, was born July 16th, 1850. He married Margaret Heppe, of Philadelphia. 'Mr. Laubenstein en- tered the ministry May 26th, 1875, at White Haven, Luzerne county, and was the first regular pastor of the Zion English Lutheran church in Tamaqua.
AUGUSTUS L. LEOPOLD was born in Berks county, in 1834, and since 1863 has held the office of agent of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company at Tama- qua. He has been connected with the railroad since 1853.
SAMUEL L. LEOPOLD, clerk in the railroad office at Tamaqua, is a native of Berks county. He has been a resident of Tamaqua since 1863, performing his duty efficiently.
R. L. LEYBURN was born in Millersburg, Dauphin county, in 1842. He married Elizabeth M. Johnson, of Tamaqua, and made that place his home in 1857. In 1865 he commenced the practice of law, in addition to which he is managing editor of the Pottsville Journal.
JOSIAH B. LINDENMUTH, tobacconist, Tamaqua, was born in Berks county, August Ist, 1832. He married Susan Boyer, of Berks county. Mr. L. came to Tama- qua in 1860, prior to which time he was engaged in the tobacco business in Berks county.
JOHN LORENZ was born in Blythe township, Schuyl- kill county, June 9th, 1853. He is at present foreman of the Pine Dale Mining Company, and resides at Middle- port.
MOSES LUTZ, a native of the county and a resident of Tamaqua, was born in 1827. He married Harriet Meusch, of Columbia county. He was formerly engaged in the livery business, but is now senior member of the firm of Lutz & Scherer, merchants.
SAMUEL MAJOR was born in England, in 1829, and came to America the following year. His parents located at Pottsville. Mr. Major has taught school 30 years, and he is at present principal of the school at Middleport, where he resides.
D. E. MARBURGER was born in East Brunswick town- ship, March 23d, 1854, and was married to Emma Kindt, in 1879. He is proprietor of the Accommodation Hotel at Drehersville, and is also engaged in butchering.
EDWIN MATZ, a resident of East Brunswick township, was born April 5th, 1858. He is a school teacher. Post-office address, McKeansburg.
JOHN MCCRACKEN, of Spring Tunnel, was born in Carbon county in 1855. He married Mary Murphy, a native of that county. When a boy of eight years he commenced work in the coal mines, and in June, 1873, was appointed fireman at the hoisting station, which position he has retained since that time.
MRS. H. L. MCGUIGAN, postmistress of Tamaqua, was born in Luzerne county, in 1828. She came to Schuylkill county in 1847, and in 1867 received her present appointment.
THOMAS F. MCLAUGHLIN, Rahn township, was born January 7th, 1845, at Summit Hill, Carbon county, and married Elizabeth Mitchell, of the same place. He was
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appointed docking boss at No. 10 March 19th, 1866, and transferred to No. 8 July 24th, 1870. The follow- ing January he was appointed foreman at colliery No. 6, and again changed to No. 8 April 1st, 1871, and is now outside foreman at that breaker.
HUGH J. McLOUGHLIN was born in Blythe township, in 1855, and he now resides at Cumbola; is a fireman at the Eagle Hill mine.
JOHN McQUAII. is a native of Ireland. He was born August 14th, 1838. He resides at New Philadelphia, and is engaged in the lumbering business.
W. H. McQUAIL was born in Ireland, in 1845, and came to America in 1856, locating at New Philadelphia. He has been superintendent of the Alliance mine since 1873, and previous to that was superintendent of the Eagle Hill mine. He has held several borough offices.
REV. BENJAMIN C. MEEKER, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Tamaqua, was born October 4th, 1842, and married Laura L. Scudder. Both are natives of New Jersey, and have resided at Tamaqua since 1868.
REV. JOHN F. MEREDITH, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Tamaqua, is a native of Greensbor- ough, Maryland, where he was born June 27th, 1827. He married Isabella Scofield, of Chester county. Mr. Meredith entered the ministry in 1850; served as chaplain during the year 1862, and came to Tamaqua in 1879.
ELI T. MILLER was born in Berks county, in 1812, and when five years of age he came to Schuylkill county. He has been engaged in the lumbering business for forty-six years, and now conducts a steam saw-mill at Middleport.
W. A. MILLER is a farmer and resides near Drehers- ville, where he was born December 16th, 1847. He was married to Elizabeth Genger in 1868. He was formerly a school teacher.
NATHAN MINICK was born in Luzerne county, Septem- ber ioth, 1826. He commenced work for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company as mule driver in 1837, and in 1871 was was appointed general stable boss.
JOSEPH MITCHELL, born in 1840, in Bradford, England, is a coal operator. He came to Pottsville in 1844, and to Tamaqua about 1849. From 1862 until near the close of 1879 he was an employe of the Philadelphia and Reading and other railroads, and since that time has been engaged in the coal business.
JOHN MOSER, farmer, was born in Lehigh county, May 24th, 1805. He has been twice married; his first wife was Catharine Wertman, and the present Mrs. Moser was Mrs. John Karshner. Mr. Moser has been collector and treasurer of Rahn township several years.
FRANCIS MOYER, of East Brunswick, was born in Blythe, Schuylkill county, February 4th, 1848. He married Susannah C. Boyer. Mr. Moyer was a farmer, but is now engaged in teaching, and also holds the office of county surveyor.
LEWIS W. MOYER resides at McKeansburg, where he was born April 15th, 1863. He is a school teacher.
DR. ROBERT J. NICKELL, dentist at 32 West Broad street, Tamaqua, was born in 1856, in Philadelphia, and commenced the practice of his profession in 1879.
REV. P. V. O'BRIEN resides at New Philadelphia.
FELIX O'HARE was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1845, and came to Schuylkill county in 1847. He has taught school for 7 years, and is at present principal of the school at Cumbola.
JAMES P. O'HARE was born in New Philadelphia, in 1852, and resides at Cumbola; is a fireman at the Eagle Hill mine.
JOHN PARRY was born in Ireland, in 1843; he resides at 557 East Lehigh avenue, Philadelphia. He married Mary Crah, of Ireland. He came to Philadelphia in 1863, and served as an employe of the railroad com- pany in various capacities until 1872, when he was made an engineer on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
JAMES PATTEN, JR., was born in Schuylkill county, in 1851. He is outside boss at the Eagle Hill mine, Blythe township. P. O. address, St. Clair.
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