History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 102

Author: Prowell, George R.
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1372

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Colonel Hartley was married early in life to Catherine, daughter of Bernard and Elizabeth Holtzinger, of York. They had served as prothonotary of York County, and

Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses to represent a new district formed, of which Adams County was a part, serving continu- ously from 1809 to 1817, after which he re- sumed the practice of medicine, and died in 1823.

HUGH GLASGOW was born September which place his father emigrated about the in 1772. Hugh was the third son, but the Soon after his father's death he came to York County. For a time he was engaged in farming, and shortly after the Revolution- ary war, began the store business near the Peach Bottom Ferry. He continued this

two children: Charles W. Hartley, who 8, 1769, at Nottingham, Chester County, to

later a citizen of Maryland; and Eleanor, year 1730. His grandfather was a man of local distinction in the city of Glasgow,

who married Dr. James Hall, then Lazar- etto physician of Philadelphia, and whose Scotland. The father died at Nottingham descendants moved to the state of Georgia. Mrs. Hartley died at her home in York, Oc- only one that grew to manhood.

tober 2, 1798. Her remains were buried in St. John's churchyard.

JOHN STEWART was the second representative in Congress from York County. He was chosen by the Democratic party at a special election held January 15, business for a number of years and became 180I. He was re-elected in October, 1802. Before he was sent to Congress he had

prominent in township and county affairs. He was commissioned an associate judge of served continuously as a member of the the Courts of York County, at the age of Pennsylvania Legislature from 1789 to 1796. He died in 1820, in Springgarden Township, and his remains were buried on his farm, owned by the late John H. Small. A tombstone marks his grave.

thirty-one years, on July 1, 1800, and con- tinued to hold that position until March 29, 1813. At the October election in 1812 he was chosen to represent York County in Congress, and was re-elected in October, JAMES KELLEY was born in the lower end of York County, received a classical education at Princeton College, studied law and was admitted to the bar at York, July 17, 1790; was a member of the legislature 1795-6-7-8; was elected a representative from York County to the Ninth Congress and was re-elected to the Tenth Congress, serving from December 2, 1805, to March 3. 1809. He died at Philadelphia, February 4, 1819. 1814. He was in public life for a term of sixteen years-twelve as judge and four in the House of Representatives' at Washing- ton. He was a man of excellent character and discriminating judgment. During the war of 1812-14 he was an ardent supporter of President Madison. Before leaving Con- gress, he secured the establishment of a postoffice at Peach Bottom, the first in that section. Hugh Glasgow had a library of well-selected books. He contracted a se- DR. WILLIAM CRAWFORD was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1760, received a clas- sical education, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and re- two miles from the river. vere cold, took sick while in Washington, and died of consumption on January 31, 1818, at his home in Peach Bottom, about His remains were ceived his degree in 1791; emigrated to interred in the Slate Ridge burying ground. York County, and located near the present JACOB SPANGLER was born in 1768. Early in life he turned his attention to sur- site of Gettysburg; purchased a farm on Marsh Creek in 1795, and spent the re- veying, and was county surveyor for many mainder of his life there practicing medicine years. In 1800 he ran the boundary line among his friends, with the exception of in- that separated York and Adams County.

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In 1817 he made a re-survey of Spring- nine years. His wife survived him until ettsbury Manor. He was elected a repre- 1840. His son, Jacob Hostetter, became a member of the legislature of Ohio from Stark County, superintended the taking of the census of the same county in 1830, and was an associate judge of the courts for seven years. A number of descendants now live in Columbiana and Stark Counties.

sentative to the Fifteenth Congress from York County by the Federalist party, and served from December 1, 1817. to April 20, 1818, when he resigned. He afterwards became a prominent Jackson Democrat, and later served as surveyor general of Penn- sylvania. He died at York June 17, 1843.

JAMES S. MITCHELL was born near In his day he was a prominent man in the the village of Rossville, in Warrington affairs of York County. He was one of a Township, York County. He obtained his committee selected to escort Lafayette from York to Harrisburg, in February, 1825.

early education in the schools of his native township, and was a member of the Society of Friends. In 1812 he was elected to the Pennsylvania legislature and re-elected in 1810 and 1814. He was elected to the Sev- enteenth Congress as a Democrat ; was re- elected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses, serving from December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1826. At the expiration of his term of service, he moved west where he died.

JACOB HOSTETTER, who represented York County in Congress, was elected March, 1818, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jacob Spangler, was re- elected in October of the same year and served a full term of two years, and previ- ously served as a member of the State leg- islature from 1797 to 1801. He was born near the present site of Hanover, May 9. 1754, and was prominently identified with the growth and prosperity of what was then known as the Conewago settlement, being born ten years before Hanover was laid out by Richard McAllister. Early in life he learned the trade of a watchmaker, and for many years manufactured the large eight- day chronometer, then familiarly known to a large section of country as the "Hostetter clock," some of which are still in existence, and kept as mementoes by the descendants of persons who purchased them from the manufacturer. He diligently followed his trade in a building next door west of the

DR. ADAM KING was born at York and became a practicing physician in his native town. He was elected clerk of the courts and prothonotary of York County in 1818, serving one term. For many years he was one of the owners and proprietors of the York Gazette. He was elected a repre- sentative from York County to the Twenti- eth Congress as a Jackson Democrat, and re-elected to the Twenty-first and Twenty- second Congresses, serving from December 3. 1827, to March, 1833. On January 30, 1825, he was one of the committee to escort General Lafayette from York to Harris- Central Hotel, in Hanover. Meantime he burg. He was defeated for the election to

was an influential Jefferson Democrat in the Twenty-third Congress by Charles A. Barnitz, a Clay Whig. His death occurred in York, May 6, 1835. York County. His son, then a youth of twenty years, at the close of the congres- sional session regularly went to Washington CHARLES A. BARNITZ was born in York, September 11, 1780; received a lib- eral education, studied law and was admit- ted to the bar, and practiced at York, where he attained an excellent reputation in his profession. For a number of years he was the attorney for the heirs of Penn in the affairs of Springettsbury Manor. He was elected a representative from York County to the Twenty-third Congress as a friend of Henry Clay, defeating Dr. Adam King, and served from December 2, 1833, to March 3, on horseback to bring his father home, there being no railroads at that time. Jacob Hos- tetter, Jr., the son, in the spring of 1822, migrated to Ohio, locating at New Lisbon, Columbiana County, where a considerable Pennsylvania settlement had already been formed. He was followed three years later by his father, who had shortly before com- pleted his second congressional term. The clockmaker's business was continued by both father and son together. They sub- sequently moved to the vicinity of Canton. 1835. He was president of the York Bank where the father, Congressman Hostetter, for many years. He died in York, January died June 29. 1831. at the age of seventy- 8, 1850. A record of his career as a lawyer

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will be found in the chapter on The Bench Hampshire. In 1856 when James Buchanan and Bar, in this volume.

was elected president the latter tendered his

HENRY LOGAN, of Carroll Township, friend, Dr. Gerry, a government position at was born near Dillsburg, York County, April 14th, 1784. His father, Henry, and his home in Shrewsbury, July 19, 1873.

his grandfather, John Logan, came to this country from Monaghan County, Ireland, in 1749, and settled in the Cumberland Val- ley. They afterward purchased a large was elected to represent York County in the

tract of land near Dillsburg, which their de-

scendants have occupied for more than a receiving 4,016 votes against 3,413 votes for century. Henry Logan served as a soldier Dr. Alexander Small, Democrat, serving in the war of 1812. From 1814 to 1821 he from December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845; was lieutenant colonel of the Ninetieth reg- he was elected to the Thirtieth Congress as iment composed of the militia from York a Whig; and was re-elected to the Thirty- and Adams Counties.

Colonel Logan represented York County 5,989 for J. B. Danner, the Democratic can- in the House of Representatives for the didate, serving from December 6, 1847, to years 1818 and 1819, and was a member of September 10, 1850, when he died at York. the State Senate from 1828 to 1831. In

He was a member of the House of Repre- 1834 he was elected to Congress as a Jack- sentatives, when ex-President John Quincy son Democrat and served in that body for a period of four years, and in 184I was elected county commissioner.

He served for several years as a director in the Carlisle Deposit Bank and in the Al- len and East Pennsboro Mutual Fire In- surance Company. He was deeply inter- ested in the cause of public education and was a prominent member of the Presby- terian Church. He died December 20, 1866, near Dillsburg. Colonel Logan was the father of John N. Logan and grandfather of York and Adams Counties in the Thirty- James J. Logan, members of the York second Congress as a Democrat, receiving County bar.

DR. JAMES GERRY, of Shrewsbury, who represented this district in the Twenty- sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses, was born in Cecil County, Maryland, in August, 1796. He was educated at West Notting- ham Academy, of which he afterward be- came principal. In 1824 be located at 24, 1868.

Shrewsbury as a physician, in which profes- sion be excelled as a practitioner for many years. In 1838 Dr. Gerry was elected a representative in Congress as a Democrat and served as a member of that body for a period of four years. Being a protege of Andrew Jackson while a member of Con- gress, he delivered a speech against the In 1829 he visited York on an engagement United States bank. In 1852 as a delegate to remain a month or two. The visit was to the Democratic national convention he protracted to a term of fifty years. In 1831 supported the nomination of James Bu- he started the York County Farmer; in chanan for the presidency, but this conven- 1833, married Charlotte, daughter of Dr. tion nominated Franklin Pierce, of New Thomas Jameson, of York, and the same

DR. HENRY NES was born in York, in 1799. He studied medicine and practiced for many years; filled several local offices ; Washington which he declined. He died at Twenty-eighth Congress as an Independent,

first Congress, receiving 6,599 votes against

Adams, then a fellow member, fell from his chair from a stroke of apoplexy. Dr. Nes was one of his attending physicians.

WILLIAM H. KURTZ, member of Con- gress, was born in York in 1803, and ob- tained his education in the York County Academy. He was admitted to the bar in 1825 and later served for nine years as pros- ecuting attorney for York County. In 1850 he was elected to represent the Fif- teenth Congressional District composed of

5,765 votes against 5,372 votes for his Whig opponent. He was elected to the Thirty- third Congress in 1852, receiving 9,523 votes against 7,306 for Biddle, the Whig candi- date, in the newly apportioned Sixteenth District, composed of York, Cumberland and Perry Counties. He died in York June

ADAM J. GLOSSBRENNER was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, August 31, 1810. At the age of nineteen he commenced learn- ing the printing business, and in 1827 began the publication of the Monitor at Columbus, Ohio, for Judge Smith. In 1828 he started the Western Telegraph at Hamilton, Ohio.

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year published a history of York County. crat; after leaving Congress located in In 1834 he became a partner in the publica- Washington, D. C., where he engaged in the practice of law; died in 1899. During the time that Colonel Maish served in Congress he secured an appropriation of $80,000 for a new federal building at York, erected at the corner of Beaver and Philadelphia

tion of the York Gazette, and continued his connection with that paper until 1860. In 1838 he was appointed by Governor Porter to take charge of the motive power of the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad. In fund of the House of Representatives at

1843, he became cashier of the contingent Streets.

COLONEL JAMES A. STAHLE was Washington : in 1847 was appointed to have born in West Manchester Township, York charge of emigration and the copyright County, Pennsylvania, January II, 1830, and bureau, in the department of State at Wash- obtained his education in the public schools ington : in 1850 elected sergeant at arms in the United States House of Representatives and was re-elected by four successive con- gresses, serving until 1860, when he became private secretary to President Buchanan ; in 1862. established the Philadelphia Age. In 1864 he was nominated by the Demo- cratic Congressional Conference of York, Cumberland and Perry Counties and elected by a majority of 3,492 votes ; in 1866 he was again nominated and elected by 3,341 ma- jority. During the last years of his life he was connected with the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company, and died at Philadelphia in 1889.

COLONEL LEVI MAISH, member of the York County Bar and a soldier who won distinction in the army, was born in Cone- wago Township, York County, in 1837. He was educated at the public schools and sub- sequently at the York County Academy, working on a farm when not at his studies : apprenticed in 1854 to a machinist and re- mained with him for two years ; recruited a company for the Union army in 1862, and with it joined the One Hundred and Thir- tieth Pennsylvania Infantry, of which he was soon promoted to lieutenant colonel ; wounded at the battle of Antietam, pro- moted colonel after the battle of Fredericks- burg : again wounded while leading his regi- ment at the battle of Chancellorsville ; after having been mustered out with his regiment at the expiration of its term of service at- tended lectures in the law department of the University of Pennsylvania and was admit- ted to the bar in 1864: member of the State House of Representatives in 1867 and 1868; appointed by the legislature in 1872 one of a commission to re-examine the accounts of certain public officers of York County; elected to the Forty-fourth. Forty-fifth, Fif- tieth and Fifty-first Congresses as a Demo-

and the York County Academy. He learned the printer's trade, which he fol- lowed for a time, and then conducted a mer- chant tailoring establishment. From 1858 to 1861 he was the agent for the Adams Express Company at York. Early in life he became interested in military affairs, and made a diligent study of tactics. During the spring months of 1861, he organized the Ellsworth Zouaves. Under his drill and training it became a noted military organi- zation which on August 24, 1861, was mus- tered into the service as Company A of the Eighty-seventh Regiment. On January I, 1863. Captain Stahle was promoted to major of his regiment, and on May 9, 1863, upon the retirement of Colonel Hay, he suc- ceeded John W. Shall as lieutenant colonel. He participated with his command in the marches across the West Virginia Moun- tains, and in the campaign around Winches- ter in 1862 and 1863. He commanded the regiment in the Mine Run campaign, and part of the time when the army was in win- ter quarters at Brandy Station, Virginia. While General B. F. Smith was absent in the winter of 1863-4, Colonel Stahle was temporarily in command of the Third Bri- gade, Third Division, Third Army Corps. He participated with his regiment in the Wilderness campaign, and on June 1, 1864, when Colonel Truex was wounded and Col- onel Shall had succeeded that officer as bri- gade commander, he led the Eighty-seventh in the general charge of the army on the Confederate lines at Cold Harbor, when it captured many prisoners, and advanced and held a position beyond the first line of the enemy's works. During the night that fol- lowed he was at the head of the regiment lying on the ground with Corporal Ziegler of Company F when he received the infor- mation that his command should fall back at

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once, as it had lost its support on the right and also served three years as attorney to and left.

He had charge of the Eighty-seventh in the engagements along the Weldon Rail- road, in front of Petersburg and displayed marked courage and ability as its com- mander in the battle of Monocacy, near Frederick, Maryland. Soon after the re- turn of the regiment at the end of its three years' term of service, Colonel Stahle was appointed deputy collector of revenue at York, and held that position under Presi- dent Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur.

In 1894 he was elected to Congress as a Republican to represent the Nineteenth Dis- trict of Pennsylvania whose normal Demo- cratic majority then was 5,000 votes. He has devoted much time to agriculture and horticulture, and spends the years of his re- tirement from public life near Emigsville, a few miles north of York.

the County Commissioners.

ROBERT J. LEWIS, who represented the Nineteenth District of Pennsylvania in the Fifty-seventh Congress, was born at Dover, York County, December 30, 1864. He is a son of Melchior Lewis and a grand- son of Dr. Robert Lewis, a leading physician of York County, who practiced medicine for many years in Dover Township. Mr. Lewis was educated in the public schools of York and graduated from the High School in 1883; taught in the public schools until September, 1889, when he entered the law department of Yale University; graduated in 1891; admitted to the New Haven, Con- necticut, bar June, 1891, and August of the same year to the bar of York County, Penn- sylvania; elected school controller in 1893, and re-elected in 1897 and 1903; elected city solicitor in 1895 ; elected a representative to the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Republican ; declined a re-nomination ..

EDWARD D. ZIEGLER, a representa- tive from York County in the Fifty-sixth Congress, was born near Bedford, Pennsyl- vania, March 3, 1844. He is a son of Rev. Jacob and Anna Mary (Danner) Ziegler. His father was a prominent clergyman of the Reformed Church. He was educated at the York County Academy and Pennsyl- vania College at Gettysburg, where he was graduated with the class of 1866. leaving college he was chosen by Prof. George W. Ruby instructor in Latin, Eng- lish and mathematics in the York County Academy. While engaged in teaching for two years, he studied law under Henry L. Fisher, of York, and was admitted to the bar in 1868. From 1871 to 1873 he was clerk to the County Commissioners and the next three years served as their attorney. From 1881 to 1884 he was District Attor- ney. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Dem- ocratic National convention. In 1896 he re- ceived the support of the Democratic party of York County for the nomination to Con- gress, but withdrew in favor of George J. Benner, of Adams County, who was nom- inated and elected. In 1898 Mr. Ziegler was nominated by the Democratic party and elected to represent the Nineteenth Con- gressional District in Congress, which office as a business man aiding to build up the he filled with credit for two years. Since material interests of York, and has made a his retirement from Congress he has de- useful and progressisve member of the Na- voted his attention to the practice of law, tional House of Representatives.

DANIEL FRANKLIN LAFEAN was born in York, February 7, 1861; was edu- cated in the public schools of his native city, entering the high school in 1876. He has been actively engaged in the manufacturing business for twenty years, being connected with a number of local manufacturing con- cerns, as well as president of the Security After .Title and Trust Company, a leading finan- cial institution of York. He is a member of the board of trustees of Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at the same place. He was tendered a unanimous nomination by the Republican party to represent the district, composed of York and Adams Counties, and elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and re-elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress by a plurality of 4,306, receiving 19,088 votes, to 14,782 for William Mc- Sherry, Democrat, and 367 for S. S. W. Hammers, Prohibitionist. In 1906 he was nominated the third time and elected to the Sixtieth Congress. During his second term, Mr. Lafean secured the passage of an act, appropriating $75,000 to purchase a site for a new government building at York. He has been active and influential not only

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STATE SENATORS.

The office of State Senator was created by the constitution of 1790, which provided that the legislative power of the Common- wealth should be vested in a General As-

York County as a separate senatorial dis- trict : 1846, Philip Smyser; 1849, Henry Fulton; 1852, Jacob S. Haldeman; 1855, William H. Welsh; 1858, William H. Welsh; 1861, A. Hiestand Glatz.

The following named persons represented sembly, composed of a Senate and a House York and Cumberland as one senatorial dis- of Representatives, the number of the trict:

1863, George H. Bucher; 1866, A. senators in the state not to be less than one- Hiestand Glatz; 1869, Andrew G. Miller. fourth, nor more than one-third the number The next two represented York and Adams : 1872, William McSherry; 1875, H. G. Bus- sey. of representatives. The Senate upon organization was composed of twelve mem- bers. In 1801, the number was increased to twenty-five; in 1808 to thirty-one; in 1822 to thirty-three, and so continued until 1874, when it was increased to fifty.

The term of office was four years, from 1790 to 1838, and three years from 1838 to 1874, when the new constitution increased the term to four years. The first four years to 1794, York and Lancaster Counties formed one district, which was entitled to three senators. When Adams County was

elected every two years, generally chosen from the counties alternately. In the ac- companying list it will be noticed that some-

York County when first organized was entitled to two members in the General As- sembly, which then met at Philadelphia. times elections were held more frequently They were elected annually. The constitu- than every two years before 1838.

This tion of 1776 provided that in the years was caused by a death or resignation. The 1776-77-78, each county of the State was en- following is a list of State Senators, who titled to six members, and thereafter the represented York County, with the years number was to be determined by the Gen- of their election. For the district composed eral Assembly according to population. In 1779 the number was increased to eight members, and again reduced to six in 1786. The constitution of 1790 provided for an enumeration of the taxable inhabitants within three years after the first meeting ment of the members of the two houses created by that constitution, among the of York and Lancaster Counties under State Constitution of 1790 were Adam Hub- ley, Jr., Michael Smyser and Sebastian Groff; 1794, Michael Smvser, Thomas Lilly; 1795, General James Ewing; 1799, General James Ewing; 1800, William Reed; 1803, of the General Assembly, and an apportion- Rudolph Spangler; 1805, William Miller; 1807, Colonel Thomas Campbell; 1809, William Gilliland; 18II, John Stroman; counties, according to the number of tax- 1813, James McSherry; 1815, Charles A. ables, and a similar enumeration and appor- Barnitz; 1817, William Gilliland; 1819, tionment every seven years thereafter. Frederick Eichelberger: 1821, Jacob Eys-

ter; 1823, William McIlvaine; 1824, Zeph- aniah Herbert; 1826, Henry Logan; 1829, Ezra Blythe; 1831, Henry Smyser; 1833, David Middlekauff : 1836, James McConkey, with two associate senators represented York and Lancaster. He was elected in 1838 for York County; 1840, Thomas E. The elections were always held in October, Cochran : 1843, Adam Ebaugh.

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 102

Author: Prowell, George R. Publication date: 1907 Publisher: J. H. Beers Number of Pages: 1372

Author: Prowell, George R.
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1372