History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 101

Author: Prowell, George R.
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1390

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Mr. Good married Catherine. Bear, whose father was Jacob Bear and whose mother was before marriage a Miss Shelley. The chil- dren born to this union were: Rudolph. born April 15, 1822, died in this township: Jacob, born Oct. 29, 1823, died in Manchester town- ship ; Daniel, born Sept. 27, 1825, died in Man- chester township; Barbara, born Nov. 22, 1827, married John Shindel, and lives in Man- chester township; Anna, born June 8, 1830, died at Mt. Wolf; Moses, born Oct. 29, 1832, died in Manchester township; Emanuel B .; John, born July 15, 1837, is a dentist at St. Joseph, Mo .; Elizabeth, born May 22, 1841, died in Lower Windsor township; Catherine, born May 26, 1844, married George Dubbs, and resides in Manchester township: and Eli, born Nov. 14, 1846, lives at St. Joseph, Mo .. where he is engaged in dentistry and literary pursuits. In religion Jacob Good was formerly connected with the Mennonite faith, but before his death became a Dunkard. Mrs. Good died in Manchester township, and was buried there beside her husband.

Emanuel B. Good attended the township school, the teacher of which was Martin L. Duhling, who still resides in Manchester borough. Mr. Good remained with his father until his marriage in 1856 to Sarah Zorger, daughter of Martin and Eve (Lichtenberger ) Zorger, of Newberry township. when he lo- cated on the old homestead for three years,

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later removing to his present homestead of lowed farming all of his life and now resides 71 acres. Mr. Good has spared neither time nor money in the improvements he has made on the place, and he has every reason to feel some pride in the ownership of so fine a farm. He has about 1,500 peach trees, and for a number of years prior to 1899 was engaged in the nursery business, devoting about eight acres of his farm to this branch of agricultural in- dustry.

To Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel B. Good the · following children have been born : Alice Jane, born Oct. 23. 1857, married Frank P. Deisinger, and resides in York; Isabella, born Jan. 23. 1859, married Henry Kohr, deceased, and resides at Mt. Wolf, Manchester town- ship: Edward, born Oct. 28, 1860, is very active in politics, having served as judge of elections and held other township offices ; George, born Jan. II, 1862, resides at home ; Elizabeth, born Sept. 21, 1863, resides with her parents ; Wesley, born Aug. 4, 1865, mar- ried Hattie Brown, and is a dentist at St. Jo- seph, Mo .; William Henry, born April 16, 1867, married Susan Crone and resides in Manchester township; Catherine, born May 3, 1871, died April 27, 1873 ; and Jacob Emanuel, born Sept. 18, 1873, resides at home.

Mr. Good is very prominent in politics, having been assessor, tax-collector, school director and a member of the election board. His support has always been given to the Republican party, and he is considered a very valuable man by that party. He is a thorough business man, honest and upright in all his dealings, public-spirited and of much executive ability.

BENJAMIN S. SENTZ, a cigar and cigar box manufacturer of Felton borough, was born July 16, 1866, in Hopewell township, son of Henry and Elizabeth ( Mitzel) Sentz.

Henry Sentz, grandfather of Benjamin S., was a farmer of Hopewell township, where he died. He married Lydia Tyson, who died in July, 1866, and they had these children : Henry, father of our subject : Jacob; John ; Benjamin ; Lydia A .; who married Joseph Sechrist ; Cath- erine, who married John Schaeffer; Elizabeth, who married John Flinchbaugh; Miss Aman- da; and Sarah, who married William Stabley.

Henry Sentz. father of our subject, was born in 1844. in North Hopewell, where he re- ceived a common school education. He fol-

on his farm in Windsor township. In polit- ical faith he is a Republican. He is a Lutheran and has been very active in. the work of the church. He married Elizabeth Mitzel, born in what is now known as Felton in 1843, daughter of Daniel and Susan ( Raab) Mitzel, both now deceased. They had these children : Benjamin S. ; Henry D., of Yoe ; William F., of Windsor township: Jacob M., of Windsor township; John W. M., at home: James T., who lives on our subject's farm; and Lemuel E. at home.

Benjamin S. Sentz attended school in the winter terms until seventeen years of age, and worked in the summer on his father's farm. At the age of nineteen he started clerking in J. D. Hake's store, where he remained for one and one-half years. At the age of twenty-one he embarked in the mercantile business at Cross Roads, but after two years he removed to Fel- ton and engaged in business, where C. T. Grove is now located. Here he ran a general store for three years, and then sold to Andreson & Grove, engaging in the manufacture of cigar boxes and building a factory. He is also en- gaged in the cigar manufacturing business, which he began on a small scale, and as the demand for his goods grew, enlarged accord- ingly. He has all of the latest machinery and improvements, putting in entire new equip- ment last fall, including boilers and engines. Mr. Sentz is certainly a self-made man. When he embarked in the mercantile business he was the possessor of a horse and buggy and eighteen dollars in money. He received some backing from his former employer, Mr. J. D. Hake, and in this way was enabled to start in business. He is now one of the prosperous men of Fel- ton borough.

On Nov. 27, 1890, Mr. Sentz married Emma J. Stiles, born in 1868, at Adamsville, York county, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Neff) Stiles, and these children have been born to this union: Araminta E., Hobson Clare and Mary Elizabeth. In politics Mr. Sentz is a Republican, and has served as school director. He was appointed a justice of the peace by Governor Stone, and was again chosen in 1900. At the time of his first appointment Felton borough had just been formed, largely through the efforts of Mr. Sentz and Mr. C. T. Grove. Mr. Sentz has also been delegate to the State convention. His family are mem- bers of the Evangelical Church, although before

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coming to Felton, Mr. Sentz was connected with the United Brethren Church. In the Evangelical Church he is class leader and is very active in Sunday-school work, formerly having been superintendent. Fraternally Mr. Sentz is a member of Felton Lodge, No. 148, K. of P., in which he is past chancellor com- mander. He is serving his second year as dis- trict deputy of the K. P., and was representa- tive to the Grand Lodge, at Carbondale, in 1903. He is a member of Cashmere Temple, Knights of Khorassan, Reading, Pa .; Shrews- bury Blue Lodge, No. 462, F. & A. M .: Ka- tahdin Lodge, No. 560, I. O. O. F .; and Red Lion Encampment, No. 210.

On July 11, 1892. Mr. Sentz organized the Felton Cornet Band, of which for three years he was leader, and he had charge of the finan- cial affairs of that organization. He is a very talented musician, performing ably on the trom- bone. Mr. Sentz spent one week in Chicago at the time of the World's Columbian Exposi- tion, and spent some time at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. As an active supporter of educational and religious movements he is universally esteemed, and can with truth be named as one of Felton borough's representa- tive men.

PHILETUS F. WILT, city treasurer of York, has for many years been a well known business man of that city and comes of an old York county family.

The American ancestor of the Wilt family came to this country early in the eighteenth century. The great-grandfather of Philetus F. Wilt was a farmer in York county, and his grandfather, Peter Wilt, was born on the old homestead, but died in York.

William Wilt, father of Philetus F., died in 1880, in his sixty-eighth year. His wife, who died in 1888 at the age of seventy-six, was Lydia Forry, daughter of Rudolph Forry, a tanner, of York. Of the seven children born to this union only two survive : Miss Lydia A., living in York ; and Philetus F.

Philetus F. Wilt was born in York. May 26, 1838, and was educated in the York Coun- ty Academy. In 1860 he associated himself with his father in the coal business, and con- tinued in that line until 1900. In that year he and his son, William M., opened a fire in- surance office at No. 13 South George street, removing on Feb. I. 1905, to No. 33 West

Market street, where they secured quarters that were more in keeping with their growing busi- ness. In 1902 Mr. Wilt was elected city treas- urer for a term of three years, being the only successful Democratic candidate at that elec- tion, a great compliment to his personal popu- larity. Mr. Wilt married Mary J. Metzger. daughter of Elder F. Metzger, a hardware merchant and banker of Hanover, Pa. The chil- dren of this marriage are as follows: William M., in partnership with his father; E. Kather- ine, wife of Clarence W. Hyde, coal and wood dealer at South Bend, Ind .: Paul E., watchmaker and jeweler, at Phoenixville, Pa ... and Leila, a graduate of the Woman's College at Frederick, Md., and for several years a stu- dent in the Peabody Institute, now living at home.

In politics Mr. Wilt is a loyal Democrat. He is a director in the City Bank of York. and for twenty years has been a trustee and treasurer of the Prospect Hill Cemetery Co .. and is president of the York County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, having been elected in 1900. He is a member of the First Re- formed Church, of which he has been for twen- ty years a trustee, and no man in York stands higher in church, social, political and business circles.

GEORGE KISE is a native son of York county and a representative of one of its pioneer families. On the farm now occupied by Milton Burg, in Lower Windsor township. he was born Aug. 6, 1842.

George Kise, his father, was likewise born and reared in York county, and for a number of years was successfully engaged in contract- ing. after which he was identified with agri- cultural pursuits until his death. He had re- sided on the Wilton farm in Hellam township for fourteen years, and on the John Small farm in Lower Windsor township for sixteen years. He died at the home of his son George in Lower Windsor township. in April, 1904. at the patriarchal age of ninety-two years, two months and twelve days. He was a man of integrity and commanded esteem in his native county. He was originally a Whig, and later a Republican in politics, and in his earlier years was an incumbent of various local offices of public trust. His wife, whose maiden name was Christine Anstine, still survives hin. being over ninety years of age. Of the chil-

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dren of this marriage Henry is deceased: Jolin is a resident of Philadelphia; Jane is the wife of Nathaniel Snell, who resides near Yoe, York county ; George: Susan is the wife of George Kline, of East Prospect : Aaron is a resident of Harrisburg, Pa., William resides in Lower Windsor township; Milton makes his home in the city of York; Kate is the widow of Oliver Dietz, of Goldsboro. York county; Avilla is the wife of Rev. Edward Crumling, of Lewis- berry; Simon is deceased; Albert is a resident of Newberry township, and Elmer is a resi- dent of York, Pennsylvania.

· George Kise secured his early educational discipline in the township school at Craleys- ville and the Benson school, in Lower Wind- sor township, being fourteen years of age at the time of his parents' removal to Hellam township, where he continued his studies in the Levergood school until he had attained to the age of eighteen years, in the meanwhile hav- ing rendered material aid in the work of the farm. At the outbreak of the war of the Re- bellion his patriotic ardor led him to seek a place in the ranks of the brave boys in blue. In 1862, in company with Samuel Boll, Mr. Kise went to York for the purpose of enlist- ing, the company there having been raised by Captain Marsh. He duly enlisted and pro- ceeded to Harrisburg for examination, but when the authorities learned his age (twenty years). they refused to accept him, as at that time no recruits were received under the age designated as the legal majority. Boll prevari- cated to the extent of saying that he was twen- ty-one years of age, and thus was accepted. When the next call for troops was issued Mr. Kise accompanied a militia company from Wrightsville to a point below Chambersburg, where he enlisted and was mustered in as a member of Company G. 16th Pa. Cav., under Captain West, while later the regiment was commanded by Colonel Irving Gregg. After the battle of Antietam the regiment was ordered back to Harrisburg, where it was prop- erly outfitted and equipped, and in the autumn of that year (1862) the command was sent to Washington, D. C., where it went into win- ter quarters. In the spring of 1863 Mr. Kise was detailed on special duty at the cavalry corps hospital at Brandywine Station, Va., where he remained for one year. At the ex- piration of that time he was sent to Alex- andria, where the dismounted men were pro-

vided with horses and other equipments and organized into a command, which was sent forward to Frederick City, where they took part in the engagement. With this command Mr. Kise then went to Harper's Ferry and thence to Shepardstown, ten miles distant. where an attack was made on the rear guard of the Confederate troops at that time retreat- ing from Gettysburg. Mr. Kise was on guard duty and captured and held three prisoners until relief came, showing much finesse in suc- cessfully concluding this adventure. He took part in seven spirited skirmishes on Winches- ter Pike, and shortly after this service was sent to join his regular command at Gettys- burg, proceeding from that point to Peters- burg. In the winter he participated in the Bellfield raid, in which he aided in destroying railroad lines, being on picket duty during the balance of the time until spring, when he took part in the battle of Five Forks, his com- mand being dismounted during that engage- ment. Mr. Kise captured two prisoners at this time, and the next morning the command pushed forward to Amelia Springs. There a skirmish took place, Mr. Kise having his horse shot from under him and receiving a bullet wound in his left side, his life being undoubt- edly saved by the glancing of the ball from his belt plate, which had worked around to that portion of his body and which thus fortunately deflected the death-dealing missile. The next day he was enabled to secure another horse, and then proceeded with his regiment to Farmersville, incidentally making a raid on a wagon train ; on this day Mr. Kise was cap- tured by the enemy and taken toward Appo- mattox Court House. On the way he was in- formed by his captors that Sheridan's entire command were prisoners. About nine o'clock that night, in company with other Federal prisoners, Mr. Kise was marched up to the heights and there discerned the old flag proudly floating in

the breeze, while at this dramatic moment there came to them the news of Lee's surrender. Thereafter our subject was with his command on picket duty at Lynchburg, where he received his honorable discharge as corporal, June 15, 1865.

After the close of his exemplary military career Mr. Kise returned home and became associated with his brother Henry in the opera- tion of a canal boat, eventually securing his brother's interest in the enterprise and con-

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tinning operations for several years. There- after he was engaged in repair work on the tidewater, and for nearly six years following was employed in John Small's sawmill at Wrightsville. The mill finally burned, and while a new one was being erected he assisted in the buiding of the railroad roundhouse at Columbia. Thereafter lie was identified with the operation of the sawmill until 1884, when he removed to East Prospect, where he en- tered into partnership with W. E. Olewiler in the line of general merchandise, later be- coming the sole proprietor of the business. This he continued successfully for the ensuing fifteen years, when he retired from active busi- ness and purchased his present attractive and finely improved farm. He had previously be- come associated with his brother Henry in the ownership of a farm in Newberry township. and later became the sole owner of the place, which he still holds. He continued to devote his attention to the cultivation of his farm near Margaretta Furnace until April, 1904, when he returned to his old home in East Prospect, where he has since resided, giving the major portion of his time to the supervision of his farms.

In politics Mr. Kise is a stanch Republi- can, and in a fraternal way is identified with Lieut. R. C. Smith Post, No. 270, G. A. R., at Wrightsville. He is a prominent and valued member and a trustee of the United Evangel- ical Church, at East Prospect. He has taken . a specially deep interest in the promotion of the work of the Sunday school. of which he was superintendent for a period of ten years. In Lower Windsor township. Dec. 25. 1872, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kise to Sarah A. Young, daughter of the late George Young, who was a prominent citizen of that section of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Kise have no children.

CAPT. ADAM HENRY CARMAN, justice of the peace since 1885. an honored veteran of the Civil war and an influential citizen of North Hopewell township. York county, was born in old Hopewell township, Sept. 30, 1839. His father. Andrew Carman. spent the greater part of his life in Hopewell township, working at brick making during his younger days, while in later years he engaged in farming. He married Christina Berger, and both died in what is now Hopewell township.

Two children, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Car- man-Adam H .; and Nathan, who was a sec- ond lieutenant in the 12th Penn. Reserves, and was wounded in battle, at, or about, Fredericks- burg, and who after the war engaged in brick making at Stewartstown, married Henrietta Meads, and became the father of several chil- dren.

As a boy. Adam H. Carman, worked on the home farm. He learned the shoemaker's trade at Stewartstown, at which he was em- ployed for a time, and was engaged in this occupation at the outbreak of the Rebellion. He enlisted at York in Company C. 87th P. V. I., Captain A. J. Fulton, Colonel Hay, being mustered in Sept. 14, 1861, by Lient. H. M. Baldwin, U. S. A., in the three-years' service, being made corporal of his company. The regiment proceeded to Cockeysville, Md .. and became a part of the Third Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Army Corps, the latter being first commanded by General Milroy. Mr. Car- man's regiment had a great record as a fighting command, participating in some of the hardest struggles of the war, among them being Win- chester, South Mountain, Spottsylvania Court House, Antietam, the Wilderness, Chancellors- ville and Weldon Railroad. Two months be- fore his term expired, Captain Carman was placed on the sick list and sent to the hospital at Baltimore, Md., thence to Wilmington, Del., and to York, Pa., to be mustered out of service. This was during September, 1864. and Captain Carman returned to his home, where he fol- lowed the shoemaker's trade for a period of fifteen years. He commenced his agricul- tural career on his father's farm near Mount Pleasant, and later purchased a portion of his present place, to which he added from time to time, until at present he owns a fine farm of forty-five acres.

Captain Carman is a member of General Sherman Post, G. A. R., of Felton. His re- ligious connection is with the Evangelical Church. In politics he has been a lifelong Republican, and takes a great interest in the success of his party. On Nov. 30, 1866, the Captain was united in marriage to Margaret Jane Tarbert. and to this union were born : Jane Ann, Mrs. James Ream, who resides near Loganville: William, of North Hopewell township, who married Ruth Snyder: Jean- nette, Mrs. David Hess, of Hopewell town- ship; Mary, Mrs. Murray Sampson, of New-

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market, Md .: John W., of North Hopewell township, who married Ida Brenneman, and Ivy, Mrs. Harry Fulcomer, of Red Lion.

CHARLES F. GREIMAN, for many years identified with the business interests of York, is now living retired in the enjoyment of the fruits of his early labors. Mr. Greiman was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1832, son of Barnhart Henry Greiman.

In 1837 Barnhart Henry Greiman came to America from Germany, and with his family landed at Baltimore, Md., where, however, he did not remain long, but located at York, sawed wood and did whatever honest work came to hand. He married Anna Mary Fait- man, who died in 1847, and both are buried at Prospect Hill cemetery. They were the par- ents of Henry (deceased), who married Eliza Gotwalt: Anna Mary, a resident of York; Katie, who died in Harrisburg, the wife of John Feather; Augustus, who died at York, in August, 1901, and Charles F.

Charles F. Greiman received a common school education, and began to assist his father in wood sawing at the age of seven years. He later learned the brick-making business, and in 1860 purchased three acres of land in York, near Spring Garden township, where he oper- ated a brick yard. After all the clay had been removed from his ground Mr. Greiman com- menced operations as a builder, erecting about fifty dwellings. Mr. Greiman also manufac- tured whips in the winter months, a trade he had learned in early manhood. He retired from business in 1886, since which time he has lived a quiet life. In 1857 he was united in marriage with Caroline Brown, a daughter of Jacob and Sarah Brown, and to this union have been born these children: Emma is the wife of Jacob L. Wiest; Jacob, who died in 1892, married Sarah Brillhart, who after his death married Henry Flinchbangh; Alexander died when seventeen months old; Alice Ann died in 1894, the wife of Henry Lucking; Mary S. is the wife of David Martin, of Phila- delphia; Dora is the wife of Rev. Nelson B. Kline, a Presbyterian clergyman of Armagh, Pa .; Charles F., died at the age of seven years ; Fannie E. died when only ten days old, and Ellen Eliza, lives at home. Mr. Greiman is a Democrat. He is a faithful member of Christ Lutheran Church of York, and one of its liberal supporters.

The grandfather of Mrs. Greiman, Jacob Brown, was a farmer of York county, and died in Manchester township, being buried in East Manchester township. He married Amelia Fisher, and to this union were born : Joseph, John, Henry, Jacob, Daniel, Lena, and Sarah (deceased). Of this family Jacob was the father of Mrs. Greiman. He was born in York county April 12, 1817, and in early manhood learned the tailor's trade, which he followed for a number of years. For thirty-six years he was sexton of Christ Lutheran Church of York, and was a man well known and highly respected. He married Sarah Ziegler, who died Dec. 6, 1877, while he survived until June 5, 1891, both being interred at Prospect Hill cemetery. Their children were as fol- lows: Caroline, Mrs. Greiman; Alexander : Annie E .; Fanny; Mary Jane, who died young; and twins, who died in infancy.

WILLIAM R. SNYDER, formerly a farmer of North Hopewell township, York county, and now a resident of Winterstown, was born Dec. 28, 1839, on his father's farm below Stewartstown, Hopewell township, son of Jacob and Sarah ( Hartman) Snyder.

The grandfather of Mr. Snyder had three sons (William, Jesse and Jacob) and two daughters. The ancestors came from Germany and in the old country spelled their name Schneider. The grandfather died when his son Jacob was only seven years old.

Jacob Snyder was born in Springfield township, York county, and learned the shoe- maker's trade which he followed until he bought the farm. After that he engaged in farming until his death March 4, 1866, aged fifty-four years. He was reared in the Lutheran faith, and was always liberal in his religious donations, contributing with others to the building of the Mt. Pleasant Lutheran church. In his early days he belonged to the Know Nothing party and then became a Re- publican. He married Sarah Hartman, born in Hopewell township, daughter of Henry and Mary Hartman. She survived her husband only two years, and they both were buried at the Mt. Pleasant cemetery. The children of Jacob and Sarah Snyder were: Henry H., of York; William R .; Jesse; Jacob H .; Mary, Mrs. Andrew Zeigler, of Hopewell township; Sarah Elizabeth, Mrs. A. F. Strayer, of York ; Rebecca, Mrs. D. F. Hannigan, of East Pros-

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pect ; Agnes I., Mrs. Lee Detweiler, deceased; ill he took charge of the home farm. After Barbara E., Mrs. John W. Blake, of York; the death of his mother he bought the home- stead which he had been operating. He con- tinued to work the place until the spring of 1893, when he sold the property and retired to spend the balance of his days in a pleasant home at Winterstown. He is a leading men- ber in the Union Evangelical Church, and formerly was class leader and steward. and Moses M., of Loganville, who married Annie Hilderbrand. Of the above family, Jesse, Jacob H. and William R. served in the Civil war. Jesse was a private in Company C, 87th P. V. I., for two years, re-enlisted in the same company and regiment, and was killed in the battle of Monocacy, Md., and was brought home for burial. Jacob H., deceased, served three years in Company C, 87th P. V. I., re-enlisted for one year in Cook's Veteran Corps, and was captured by Mosby's guerillas while on his way home, but escaped and made his way into the Union lines ; he married Eliza- beth Portner, migrated to Ohio and resided near Mifflin.

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 101

Author: Prowell, George R. Publication date: 1907 Publisher: J. H. Beers Number of Pages: 1390

Author: Prowell, George R.
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1390