History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 116

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

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The marriage of Mr. Lanius was solem- nized Sept. 2, 1896, when Miss Margaret E. Stuck became his wife. She was born and enterprises in York, passed away at his home

ARTHUR E. ZIEGLER, for many years prominently identified with various business

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in that city Dec. 15, 1898. He was born in York in 1848, son of Emanuel K. Ziegler. His grandfather was born in Hanover, Germany, April 8, 1765, and on his emigration to Amer- ica settled in Hanover, Pa., where he died Feb. 12, 1860, aged ninety-four years, ten months and four days.

Emanuel K. Ziegler was born May 10, 1807, and was a coppersmith by trade, follow- ing that occupation in Hanover. He later went to Baltimore, returning, however, to York, where he engaged in the coal and lumber busi- ness, the firm being known as Weisler & Ziegler. For a number of years he was a di- rector of the York National Bank and the York Water & Gas Co. He was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, in which he took an active part. He died in December, 1901, in his ninety-fifth year, and was buried in Prospect Hill cemetery.

Arthur E. Ziegler attended the common schools and the York County Academy, and. learned the baker's trade. He worked at this occupation in different parts of the State for a time, in 1884 returning to York, where he engaged in the Patent Roof Paint business. This he discontinued, however, to engage in baking, in which he continued until his death, Dec. 15, 1898. He was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, in which faith he died, and was interred at Prospect Hill cemetery.

Mr. Ziegler was united in marriage with Mary E. Rhodes, who survives him and now makes her home at No. 529 West Market street, York. To this marriage were born : E. C., born Jan. 31, 1872, married Mary Jane Hubert, daughter of Peter and Eliza Jane (Rhodes) Hubert, and they live with Mr. Ziegler's mother in York; he is a baker and cigar maker. Harry C., born May 25, 1877, is in the drug business in Philadelphia; he married Sarah Louisa Knight. Martha, was born April 9, 18 -. Walter, born March 25, 1880, died Aug. 31, 1880. William Edward, born Aug. 16, 1874, died Nov. 3, 1880. Fred, born Jan. 25, 1884, died May 15, 1884.

JOHN F. BUPP (deceased) was for many years one of the good citizens and representa- tive farmers of Springfield township, York county, where he was born Aug. 3, 1827, son of John Bupp.

John Bopp (as the name was formerly spelled) was the grandfather of our subject,

and he was born Nov. 4, 1779, and died Aug. 22, 1862, aged eighty-two years. He was a large land owner in Springfield township, and gave the land for the well-known Bupp's Church, which is located on the farm now owned and occupied by the widow of John F. Bupp. John Bopp's wife, Elizabeth, was born Oct. 7, 1777, and died Oct. 24, 1862, aged eighty-five years. Both are buried at Bupp's Union Church, in Springfield township.

John Bupp, father of our subject, was born on the old home in Springfield township, in 1807, and was a farmer all his life, following that occupation in Springfield township. He died Dec. 28, 1855, aged forty-eight years. His wife, Barbara Folkenstine, died July 14, 1875, aged seventy-two years, and they were also buried in the family burying ground at Bupp's Church. Their children were: John F. ; Leah, of Illinois ; Sarah, of York; Caroline; Henry, deceased; Israel, deceased; Peter, de- ceased; and Jesse, a resident of Seven Valley.

John F. Bupp received a common-school education, and followed farming all his life, being one of the largest land owners of Spring- field township, having 348 acres of property. He erected a fine barn in 1884, having com- pleted his home in 1883. He was a member of the Reformed Church. For three terms he served his township efficiently as a careful, in- terested school director. Besides his large farming interests, Mr. Bupp was a director in the First National Bank of Glen Rock, Pa., a director in the Codorns & Manheim Fire Insurance Company, of York county, and had other interests. Mr. Bupp passed away Aug. 26, 1903, aged seventy-six years, twenty-three days, and was buried at Bupp's Church, where a beautiful monument marks his last resting place.

Mr. Bupp married (first) Maria Allison, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Reichard) Allison, and she died Sept. 28, 1863, aged thirty-four years, five months and twenty-two days, and was laid to rest at Bupp's Church. The children of this marriage were: Uriah, of York; Jacob and George, both deceased; Emanuel, of Seven Valley ; Amos; Malinda, deceased; Emma, wife of William Broadbeck, of Jefferson borough; Jesse and William, in business at Seven Valley; Elizabeth and Bar- bara. On May 2, 1865, Mr. Bupp married (second) Priscilla Allison, a sister of his first wife, and she still survives, living in her beau-

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tiful home in Springfield township. The chil- dren born to Mr. Bupp and his second wife were: Peter, deceased; John, deceased; Ella M., deceased; Levina, wife of William Wolf, living at Glen Rock; Taby ; and Eli A.

ELI A. BUPP was born Nov. 14, 1874, on the old home farm, and has always fol- lowed agricultural pursuits. He married Ida Sligel, daughter of Levi Sligel, and they have one son, W. John, who is attending school. Mr. Bupp is an industrious man, and is well esteemed in the community.

HEZEKIAH COOK, a retired farmer of Warrington township, York county, and a member of an old family, was born Sept. 1, 1837, son of Walker and Martha (Gates) Cook, a grandson of John and Hannah ( Wal- ker) Cook, and a great-grandson of Isaac Cook, who, it is believed, was born in Phila- delphia.

Isaac Cook's father, the great-great-grand- father of our subject, was born in Ireland, and came to America in 1681, settling in Philadel- phia. He was of a family of linen makers and weavers, and they followed that calling in Ire- land and America. In later years, however, they turned their attention to agriculture. Isaac Cook settled in Lancaster county, and later in Carroll township, York county. His wife's name is not known, but his children were: John, Samuel and Mrs. Maria Reed. Isaac Cook died in the latter part of the eight- eenth century, and he and his wife were Quakers.

John Cook, the grandfather, lived in Car- roll township. When Isaac Cook died, the land he had taken up in Carroll township came into the hands of John, who in turn gave it to his son, and the latter his son, W. R. Cook, who now owns it. John Cook was a prom- inent man of his day and his death occurred in 1864, aged eighty-two years, while his wife, Hannah, died in 1860, aged seventy-eight. They were the parents of these children : Anna married Daniel Garrison; Walker, the father of our subject, married Martha Gates; John married Lydia Walker; Mary died at the age of nineteen years; Hezekiah died at the age of twenty-one years; Hannah married Joseph Deardorff; and Leah married Jacob Lehmer. In religious belief Mr. and Mrs. Cook were Quakers.

Walker Cook was born in Carroll town-

ship in 1811, and died in 1856. He was edu- cated in the rude log school house common in those days, and received a fairly good educa- tion. He devoted about twelve years of his life to blacksmithing, and then purchased a farm, devoting the balance of his life to agri- cultural pursuits. Mr. Cook became very prosperous, and the property which he owned is now owned by Henry Speck. Mrs. Martha (Gates ) Cook died in 1892, aged eighty-three years. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Walker Cook were: Isaac met his death in a railroad accident ; Anna married William An- derson ; Mary married Godfrey Bishop: Heze- "kiah; John married Catherine Pence; Han- nah married Samuel Arnold; Elizabeth mar- ried Daniel Pence; Sarah married Jacob Har- bold; Martha J. married John Aker; Walker married Mary Kleindenst; and Joseph married Elizabeth Evens.

Hezekiah Cook was born in Warrington township, two and one-half miles from his present home. He received his education in the common schools of his neighborhood, and for a time followed mason work, but at his father's death he returned home and turned his attention to farming, which he continued all his active life, until in 1888 he retired. Mr. Cook joined the German Baptist Church at the age of thirty-five, and since 1880 he has been a minister of the Gospel in that denomi- nation. Mr. Cook is a well-read man, and a true friend to the cause of Christianity.

In 1858 Mr. Cook married (first) Eve Wiley, daughter of George and Catherine (Burguard) Wiley. Mrs. Cook died in 1885, aged forty-six years, leaving the following named children : George W., cashier of the Dillsburg bank, married Nancy Beitzel, and has four children, May, Ralph, Scott and Ray. Mary C. married Andrew Berkheimer; Ma- tilda J. married Albert Speck, and they have had one son, Ray; Oliver W., a minister of the German Baptist Church, married Catherine Wolf, and has had six children, Roy D., Wal- ter, Freeman, Albert, Nettie and --: John E. married Lula ,Spohr, and has six children, Carson, Ruth, Mervin, Wilbert. Paul and Elizabeth; Margaret A. married Edward Bitt- ner, and four children have been born to them, Gretna, Edith, Roy and Lena; Emma D. mar- ried B. F. Hoffman, and they have three chil- dren, Norman, Martha and Cathrine; and Hannah E. married Salven Shaeffer, and they

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have one child, Ada Viola. Mr. Cook's second marriage was to Lena Burguard. In his political belief Mr. Cook was a stanch Whig and aboli- tionist, and when the Republican party was formed he joined its ranks, and has been an active worker, but never an office seeker. Mr. Cook is well and favorably known, and is highly respected throughout Warrington town- ship.

THEODORE H. WALLICK (deceased), who was employed for sixteen years in the York Rolling Mills, and was in the employ of that company at the time of his death, was born in Peach Bottom township, York county, Pa., Nov. 13, 1851, son of Jacob and Annie (Steese) Wallick.

John Wallick lives in Pleasureville, York county. He followed carpentering for many years, but is now living practically retired. His wife died in 1903, in her seventieth year. She was a member of the United Brethren Church, as is Mr. Wallick. He is a Democrat in politics.

Theodore H. Wallick was educated in the common schools of York county. When a young man he was employed for several years in a flour and feed mill in Peach Bottom town- ship, operated by his uncle, George Shaffer. He then turned his attention to iron ore mining, which he followed for some time, when he again changed his occupation, securing a po- sition with the Northern Central railroad, first as brakeman, and later as a fireman, following this for some time. He was then promoted to be conductor, and he continued to follow rail- roading until 1886, when he left the road to accept a position in the York Rolling mill, where he was employed until his death in 1902.

In 1881, Mr. Wallick was married to Miss Clara J. Patterson, daughter of Andrew Pat- terson, a native of Whitehall, Cumberland county. To this union were born seven chil- dren: Jennie, deceased, who married Abner Wolfgang; Theodosia, who married George Shenberger ; Roy; Mabel; Emory; Clara, de- ceased ; and Myrtle. Mr. Wallick was a mem- ber of the Rolling Mill Beneficial Association, and in politics was a Republican. Mrs. Wal- lick resides at No. 257 Chestnut street, York.

JACOB TYSON owns and conducts a fine farm of sixty-five acres in Springfield town- ship. He was born Feb. 2, 1832, in Windsor township, York county, son of John Tyson.

Jacob Tyson, the grandfather of our sub- ject, was a farmer of Windsor township, where he died, being buried at the Lebanon Church. He married Elizabeth Lehman, of Lancaster county, and they had children as follows: Ja- cob, Benjamin, Nancy, Sallie, Rebecca, Pris- cilla and John. John Tyson was born in Windsor township, and there received a good common school education. He followed farm- ing in Windsor, York and Springfield town- ships, and died at the age of forty-seven years. He married Lyda Flinchbaugh, and she died aged sixty-seven years, and both were buried in the Goodling cemetery in Springfield town- ship. They had these children: John; Jacob; Charles; Henry ; Benjamin; Levi, killed in the battle of Winchester during the Civil war; Mary, the wife of Adam Diehl; Leah, the widow of John Stormer, living at Glen Rock; and Lydia, the widow of Henry Hildebrand, making her home in Ohio.

Jacob Tyson attended the schools of York and Springfield townships until eighteen years of age, at which time he started to learn the carpenter's trade with Henry Ehrhart, in Springfield township. He only followed that trade for six years, however, and then, in 1855, he engaged in the milling business, where he now resides. This mill was built by Jacob Rinehart in 1828, and is one of the oldest in the township. The house upon the farm was built in 1826, and is still in a good state of preservation, the shingles still remaining on the roof. Mr. Tyson did a large and lucrative business in milling, grinding in one year 5,000 bushels of corn, oats and rye for the William Forest Distilling house. In 1853 he married Leah Seitz, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Miller) Seitz. Mrs. Tyson is a very skilled weaver, and still follows that occupation oc- casionally. Mr. Tyson purchased his present farm of sixty-five acres, from his father-in- law. The old mill on the farm has a history connected with it, one of its sills having been removed from a building which stood in York Square, where the Spahr building now stands. Mr. Tyson has also engaged in the sawing and manufacture of cart saddles, having been engaged in that business for fifteen years, find- ing a ready market for his goods in Baltimore, York, and the surrounding country.

To Mr. and Mrs. Tyson have been born : Malinda, the widow of J. K. Tyon, lives in Ohio; and Sarah A. is the wife of Howard

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Ehrhart, a farmer of Springfield township. In politics Mr. Tyson is a Republican. He at- tends the Evangelical Church, in the work of which he takes a very active part. Mrs. Ty- son's people are members of an old York county family.

HENRY HOFF, a retired farmer of York county, who resides in North Codorus town- ship, was born in 1829, in Adams county, son of Henry Hoff, Sr., and grandson of Adam Hoff.

Adam Hoff was a farmer of North Codorus and attained a ripe old age. He and his wife were interred at Lesher Church in that town- ship.

Henry Hoff, Sr., was born May 18, 1786, and his death occurred Jan. 13, 1850. His wife, Susan, was born Jan. 29, 1796, and sur- vived her husband two years, dying March 3, 1852. Both were buried at the Ziegler Church in North Codorus township. After their mar- riage, they spent a few years in Adams county, and then removed to Codorus township, near Lesher Church, where he had a farm of 219 acres. Their children were as follows: John, Adam, Mary, Elizabeth, Henry, Lydia, Caro- line and Louise, all deceased except Henry, Caroline (who resides at Hanover, Pa.) and Adam (who resides in North Codorus town- ship).

Henry Hoff came to Codorus township from Adams county, with his father, when a boy, and received his education in the town- ship schools. In 1850 he married Rosanna Emig, daughter of John and Catherine (Car- baugh) Emig, of Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pa. They located on the home farm and after his father's death, Mr. Hoff took charge of the home place, where he remained until 1903, in which year he purchased a small, two-acre place, upon which he erected a home, and here he has made his residence to the present time, retired from active life.

To Henry Hoff and wife were born chil- dren as follows: Henry, Jr., a contractor and builder of York: Isabella, wife of Henry Shef- fer of York; and Susan, wife of Nathan Glat- felter, the well known cigar manufacturer of Seven Valley. In politics Mr. Hoff is a Dem- ccrat, and for over forty years has been town- ship treasurer. He is a member of Ziegler's Lutheran Church, in which he has served as deacon and elder, and he has been active in the work of the Sunday-school.

DAVID E. SMALL, one of York's most prominent business men, has been engaged in business in that city for a number of years, and holds various positions of trust with sev- eral large concerns. Mr. Small was born there Oct. 21, 1867, at at old homestead, No. 153 Market street, and received his education at the York Collegiate & Commercial Institute, and at New Haven, Connecticut.

Mr. Small's first business experience was gained as a clerk in Mcclellan & Gotwalt's hardware and grocery store, where he re- mained two years. He engaged in the manu- facture of sandpaper for two years, and then, in company with W. F. Ramsay, engaged in the real estate and insurance business, trading as Ramsay & Small. He assumed charge of the business in 1893, continuing it under the same name, and was highly successful, repre- senting the highest grade companies and many lines of insurance-fire, boiler, accident, health and liability. Mr. Small is a director of the Ruth Machine Company, for the manufacture of hosiery knitting machines, etc., the company, which is capitalized at $40,000, having an ex- cellent export trade, and the capacity per an- num being 1,000 knitting machines, and 2,000 automatic stop motions. Mr. Small is also secretary and treasurer of the York Automatic Scale Company, manufacturing automatic weighing devices for sugar, coffee, seeds, flour, grain, etc., which machines are greatly in de- mand among millers and packers.

Mr. Small was married Nov. 15, 1894, to Harriet M. Spahr, the youngest daughter of Mr. M. B. Spahr, whose sketch will be found elsewhere. Four children have been born to this union, one dying in infancy. Those living are: Henry Spahr Small, David E. Small (III) and Michael Spahr Small.

Mr. Small belongs to the Outdoor Club, of which he has been treasurer for ten years. He also is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, a teacher in the Sunday-school, and chairman of the executive committee.

WILLIAM HARRISON GABLE is an- other of York county's able young business men who is here upholding the prestige of a name which has long been honored in the his- tory of the county, and he is at the present time incumbent of the position of cost clerk for the York Manufacturing Company. He is a son of Taylor S. and Julia Alice ( Glad- felter) Gable, both members of old and hon-

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ored families of the county, and the father William Kennedy bought a tract of fifty is one of the representative business men of acres near Havre de Grace, which he improved York, where he is engaged in the wholesale and retail fruit trade. In his family are three children,-John Morris, who is clerking for his father; Harry Wayne, who is likewise as- sociated with his father's business; and Will- iam Harrison. with good buildings, and then sold for the purchase of a larger and better tract, this one having 140 acres, and he lived there until his death in January, 1884, at the age of eighty-six years. His first marriage was to Mary Ann Allen, who left this family of children at her death : Malcolm, who left Ireland before the family did, locating in Canada; James; Will- iam, deceased; Mary Ann, deceased; Joseph, who died aged nineteen years; and Margaret. He married for his second wife Betsy Scott, who lived to be about eighty years of age, and died near Havre de Grace in 1897. The chil- dren of this marriage were: Eliza Jane; Will- iam (2), of Maryland; Joseph (2) ; Mary Ann (2), deceased; David; Scott ; and George, of Maryland. William Kennedy was a strict Presbyterian in his religious belief. In politics he was a Democrat.

William Harrison Gable was born in the family homestead, in the city of York, May 22, 1872, and his educational discipline was secured in the public schools, the York County Academy, in which he was a student about two years, and in a business college. After leaving school he became a clerk in his father's fruit establishment, where he was employed until May, 1900, when he secured the position of receiving clerk in the works of the York Manufacturing Company, being promoted to the office of time clerk six months later, while in 1902 he was promoted to his present re- sponsible position, as cost clerk, in which he is rendering most effective and acceptable service.

Mr. Gable is a member of the Union Lu- theran Church and takes a zealous interest in its work, being at the time of this writing sec- retary of its Sunday-school. In politics he is stanchly arrayed as a supporter of the princi- ples and policies of the Republican party, in whose cause he is an enthusiastic worker, and during the national campaign of 1904, he was a member of the Eleventh Ward Republican Club of York.

JAMES KENNEDY, of Lower Chance- ford township, York county, was born Aug. I, 1831, in County Tyrone, Ireland, son of William and Mary Ann ( Allen) Kennedy, the latter of whom died in 1838 in Ireland.

William Kennedy was also born in County Tyrone, and by occupation he was a linen weaver and farmer, following the former line during the winter months. His son James was about nine years old, when the family decided to remove to America, and on Christmas Day, 1840, they left Liverpool on a sailing vessel which completed the voyage to the United States in six weeks. The party landed at Philadelphia, and there the father encountered a Mr. Boyd whose business it was to look after emigrants, and he took the family to his home near Havre de Grace, Harford Co., Md., and Mr. Kennedy worked for him for two years.

James Kennedy remained with Mr. Boyd until the latter's death, and then for two years with his widow, working on the Boyd farm all that time, and having but few educational ad- vantages, his schooling covering about one month. He bought a tract of forty acres in that vicinity which he later sold, and then pur- chased fifty-five acres, where he set out an orchard and made many improvements, sub- sequently selling this very advantageously and buying a farm of 147 acres in Peach Bottom township. In 1871 he moved to his present farm of seventy-five acres, and since then he has made many admirable improvements here, building a comfortable home and erecting other substantial buildings.

Mr. Kennedy was married (first), in Mary- land, to Catherine (Latimore), who died in 1864, in Maryland. In 1865 he married (sec- ond) Mrs. Mary (McNeal) Darragh, who died on the present home farm in 1883. His third wife, whom he married June 15, 1884, was Mrs. Hannah (Wright) Mckinley, widow of William McKinley. Mrs. Kennedy was born Feb. 13, 1844, in Chester county, Pa., daughter of Sylvanus Wright, who, in 1850, moved to the Coates farm near Getchville. By profession he was a surveyor and also a millwright. Next he moved to the Harris sawmill in Windsor township. After the death of his wife on the Coates farm he broke up housekeeping, and as his children were all grown, he made his home with them alternately, and died at the

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home of Mrs. Kennedy May 10, 1876, aged seventy-one years. Sylvanus Wright married Martha Atkins, born near Downingtown, Pa., daughter of Caleb and Mary ( Bumbough) At- kins, and the children of this marriage were : William, of this township; Sarah, who died young; Hannah, now Mrs. Kennedy; John, Benjamin and Margaret, all deceased; John (2), a soldier in the Civil war, now deceased; and Mary, Mrs. Henry Hayes, near York.

William McKinley, the first husband of Mrs. Kennedy, was born and reared on the old Mckinley homestead in Chanceford town- ship (where the ancestors of the late lamented President Mckinley also lived), and there his death occurred. His parents were Stephen and Jane (Armstrong) Mckinley. William Mckinley and wife had children: Alice M., wife of Edward Fitler, of York; George A., a miller of this township; Anna C., wife of Wil- liam Montorith, of Columbia, Pa .; and Syl- vanus, of Peach Bottom township.

The children of our subject by his first marriage were: Mary A., who died aged four years ; William J., a farmer in Nebraska ; Sam- uel, also a farmer in Nebraska; Joseph, who died aged twenty-five years ; and John, a farmer in this township. The children of the second marriage were: Annie E., wife of Elva Hess, of this township; Mary E., wife of George Mckinley of Lower Chanceford ; Catherine L., wife of Henry Wise, of Harford county, Md .; and John Q. A., who died at seventeen years. There was no issue by the third marriage.

Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy are consistent mem- bers of the Salem M. E. Church. In politics he is a stanch Democrat. For several years he served as supervisor of Peach Bottom town- ship, and he has always been a leading man in public matters wherever he has resided. He has many friends who regard him with high esteem.

DAVID KNISELY was born in Windsor township, Nov. 19, 1855, and was the son of Bornitz and Mary (Oberdorff) Knisely.

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 116

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