History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 14

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

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DANIEL K. TRIMMER, attorney-at-law, and prominently engaged in the real estate busi- ness at York and elsewhere, was born in Dover township, York county. Sept. 10, 1846. His parents were Daniel B. and Elizabeth ( Kauff- man) Trimmer, and his ancestors on the pa- ternal side were formerly residents of New

The first of the family to settle in York county was George Trimmer, who purchased a large tract of land in Dover township. Wil- liam Trimmer, great-grandson of the settler, was an influential citizen in his day, and a lead- ing Bishop of the German Baptist Church in York county. His son, Daniel B. Trimmer, the father of Daniel K. Trimmer, was born on the homestead farm in Dover township, in 1809, and died in 1873. Early in life he married Elizabeth Kauffman, a representative of an early Pennsylvania family, prominent in York and Lancaster counties, who died in 1900. They had eleven children, of whom are surviving : William, of York; Reuben, of Goshen, Ind .; Nancy, wife of George B. Stauffer, of Dills- burg, York county; Elizabeth, wife of John R. Altland, residing on the Trimmer homestead in Dover township, which has been in the Trim- mer name for five generations; Alice, of York; and Daniel K. Both the parents were earnest and devout members of the German Baptist Church, to which their ancestors had belonged for several generations. In politics the father was a Whig and later a Republican.

At the age of ten years Daniel K. Trimmer left the paternal home, growing to manhood in the family of an aunt, who resided in West Manchester township, near the city of York. He obtained his preliminary education in the country schools, and at York County Academy (of which he is now a trustee), in each of which he excelled as a student. At the age of eigh- teen years he began the profession of teaching in the township schools, and later taught a grammar school at Middletown, Pa., and in the city of York. During the last years of his teaching he registered as a law student with Hon. George W. Heiges, and was admitted to the Bar of York county Oct. 23, 1874, and later to the Superior and Supreme courts of Penn- sylvania and the United States District courts. For two years he practiced his chosen pro- fession at Hanover, and then removed to York, where he has since resided. and where he has been actively engaged as a lawyer and a, deal- er in real estate, prospering in both lines. His professional labors have been almost exclu- sively devoted to the settlement of land titles and trust estates, and to corporation work. He

Daniel K. Zimmer

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has served as vice-president and solicitor for the York Street Railway Company ; was coun- sel for the eastern extension of the Baltimore & Harrisburg Railroad Company from the copal Church, of which he is a member.

time of its organization until 1900, when this road became a part of the Wabash system; has been secretary and counsel for the York Hotel Company, and has been identified with various other corporations. He was the pioneer real estate dealer of York, but his efforts in that line are now confined to the management of his own estate and looking after extensive land deals in association with others. Besides his real estate interests in York he has interests in the city of Washington and at Fort Meyer Heights, Va., on the west bank of the Potomac, opposite the city of Washington. Within re- cent years a large portion of his time has been devoted to Orphans' court practice. During the summer and fall of 1905 he joined with a organization and incorporation of the Phila- delphia Life Insurance Company, of which he is the vice-president.

Being interested in the material progress of the city of York, Mr. Trimmer became asso- ciated with Capt. William H. Lanius in organ- izing and advancing the interests of the West End Improvement Company, which has de- veloped in a remarkable degree the northwest- ern section of the city. He has been a con- spicuous figure in the material upbuilding of the city of York, and is justly esteemed as such in his community.

In politics Mr. Trimmer has advocated the policy and supported the principles of the Re- publican party. In 1878, owing to his activity in electing the first Republican burgess of York, he was chosen solicitor for the borough. He served as chairman of the Republican County Committee during the years 1879 and 1884. Throughout his life he has been an active member of various social, benevolent and fra- ternal orders. For many years he was devoted to the interests of the Knights of Pythias ; he is a past grand of the I. O. O. F., and a past Chief Patriarch of the Encampment ; is a past officer in the Order of Elks; and has taken a high rank in the Masonic fraternity, being a past master, past high priest and past command- er. In the city of York he is a member of the Lafayette Club and the Outdoor Club. and has been active in promoting the interests of the

Historical Society of York County, of which he is a charter member. He has also served as vestryman in St. John's Protestant Epis-

Mr. Trimmer was married in July, 1900, to Miss Louise F. Dezendorf, daughter of Hon. John F. Dezendorf, ex-member of Congress from the State of Virginia. They have three children, Daniel, Mary and Louise.

JACOB L. KUEHN is not only one of the more prominent plumbers and house furnish- ers of York, but is widely known in other con- nections. His ancestors on one side, the Laumasters, settled in America before the Revolutionary War, some of them being soldiers in that historic conflict. On the other side Mr. Kuehn's forefathers, the Becks, had a similar Revolutionary record.

Jacob Laumaster was a wagonmaker, and number of capitalists of Philadelphia in the later became well known as a bridge-builder,

the latter business being continued by his sons. John Kuehn, the paternal grandfather of Jacob L. Kuehn, came from Leipsic in 1816, and settled in York county. John Lewis Kuehn, the father of Jacob L., was born in Cassel, Germany, and accompanied his father to York. He learned the trade of millwright with a noted millwright, Peter Zorger, following that occupation for several years, became a con- tractor and carpenter and later engaged in mer- cantile pursuits. He died in 1886, aged seven- ty-two years. He married Catherine Lau- master, daughter of Jacob Laumaster, and she became the mother of four children: John H., a carriage-builder, who died in 1890, aged forty-eight years ; Maria L .: Catherine Agnes, wife of Luke R. Rouse, retired ; and Jacob L.

Jacob L. Kuehn was born March 28, 1836. in the city of York, and was educated in its public schools. His first occupation was with his father, as a carpenter. He then worked as a machinist. and became superintendent of the York Gas Works, which position he filled for forty-two years, for twenty-five years of that time acting as superintendent of the York Water Company. Retiring from these offices. Mr. Kuehn established the plumbing, gas-fit- ting and house-furnishing business which has since become so prosperous. He is located on George street. and one of his specialties is the erection of all varieties of heating apparatus and systems.

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Mr. Kuehn was married Nov. 1, 1857, to Anna Catherine Vogel, daughter of Sebastian Vogel, a well known gardener and florist of Lancaster, and of the four children born to them, we have record of two, Anna Elizabeth and Harriet Augusta. The former married Dr. Gyula Ullmann, who has been awarded a medal by the Paris University for his small- pox remedies, and who lives and has practiced his profession for several years in Chester, Pa. Mr. Kuehn's first wife died in 1890, and in June, 1891, he was married (second) to Susan Hyde, daughter of Adam Ruhl, a carpenter of York; one daughter was born to this union, Louise Margaret, who is attending the York high school, being a member of the class of 1907. Mr. Kuehn's second wife died in 1893, and in March, 1899, he married Caroline Keiser, daughter of Francis Keiser ( deceased), who was born in Hanover, Germany, but died in York.

LOGANS OF DILLSBURG. The Logan family is one of the oldest families of York county, having settled along the Yellow Breeches Creek prior to the time the county was organized. The original settlers were cousins of James Logan, the secretary of Wil- liam Penn, and who is said to have been second only to Penn in the founding and developing of Pennsylvania. The family settled among the mountains surrounding Dillsburg and gave the name Monaghan township to that section of the country, taking the name from their original home in Ireland. At this time the Blair, Campbell, O'Hail and McCurdy fam- ilies-families also of Irish origin-settled in that neighborhood. The township of Mon- aghan was afterwards divided, and Carroll township formed from part of Monaghan township.

The Logan family is of Scotch origin. Its history can be found among the records of the early history of Scotland under the title "Logan of Restalrig." From the time of Wil- liam the Lion ( 12th century) and through subsequent ages the family was connected with

most of the important events in Scotch history. [See Tyler's History of Scotland-Buchan- non's History of Scotland].

One of the family married a daughter of Robert II of Scotland, and inherited a tract of land known as "Lands of Grugar." Two members of the family-Sir Robert and Sir Walter Logan-were associates of Robert the Bruce, and together with Sir James Douglass, were charged with the crusade to convey the heart of Bruce to the Holy Sepulchre. While en route to Palestine the Crusaders stopped in Spain and engaged in battle with the Moors near Granada (1313). The heart of Bruce, enclosed in a casket of gold, was flung by the Scots in advance of their line into the heart of the enemy. In the desperate rush to re- cover the heart, the Logans, together with Lord Douglass and the greater part of the Crusaders, fell. [Gross' Antiquities of Scot- land-Buchannon's History of Scotland].

Later the Laird of Logan became possessed .

Mr. Kuehn belongs to the Artisans. In politics he is a Republican. He is a man who of a large estate near Edinburgh. Within the possesses fine conversational powers and a wonderful fund of reminiscences of the early and later days of York. domains of this estate was located Restalrig Church, where Mary, Queen of Scots, was married. During the time of James VI of Scotland and I of England [Robertson's His- tory of Scotland and Bucker's History of Scotland] the Crown of Scotland coveted the estate of the Logan clan, and falsely caused charges of treason to be brought against a dead Baron of the house, who had died un- suspected of treason some years previous thereto. The bones of this Baron were dis- interred, brought into court and by false tes- timony condemned, the descendants attainted and corruption of blood decreed. The lands of the Logan family were forfeited to the great profit and lasting disgrace of the Scottish Crown, and the family driven in exile to Ire- land.

The Logan coat of arms will be found among the books of heraldry, and, referring to the heart of Bruce, has this motto- "Hoc Majorum Virtus." The Logan clan Tartan is also of record as is the Logan plaid.

The first settlement of the family in Ire- land was at Luigam. John Logan, the immedi- ate progenitor of the Logan family of Dills- burg, was born at Cout Hill (Koot Hill), County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1712. He was married in Ireland to Ann, otherwise Agnes,

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who was born 1700 and died 1799. About the Blair. The Blair family at that time were prom- year 1746 John Logan, with Ann, his wife, inent owners of land in York county, and gave their name to several hills in Carroll township. One of the descendants (James Blair) was a Deputy United States Consul to Brazil under President Cleveland. and five others-making seven in all-sailed for America. After a voyage of fourteen weeks, during which time one of the number died and was buried at sea, the survivors landed in this country. They came at once to the Cumberland Valley, and prior to 1750 settled in Carroll township, York Co., Pa. Here they secured lands which, with others afterward secured, were patented under the name of Logania, and which have continued

Henry Logan left to survive him the fol- lowing children, all of whom were more or less prominent in their day and generation, namely : Eleanor, wife of Robert Lynch; Saralı, wife of Matthew Lynch and grandmother of the Abraham Dehuff family of York, and also in the possession of the Logan family to the grandmother of Lyman D. Gilbert, now of Har- present date.

At the time the Logans settled near Dills- burg, the country was practically a wilderness. A few of the well-to-do families kept negro slaves. Indians roamed at will, and deer were in abundance. The nearest market was Bal- timore. Practically the only thing that the set- tlers were able to take to market was corn- whiskey. This made necessary the erection of a "still" house by nearly every farmer. The settlers were nearly all Irish and mostly Pres- byterians. Monaghan Presbyterian Church was built at Dillsburg, and was said to have been the centre of forty "still" houses within a radius of three miles.

While the settlers considered themselves well-to-do, they lived very simply. For ex- ample, the house built by John Logan was a small log affair with a dirt floor. The first floor was divided into two rooms. A ladder led to the second floor. A partition of logs about four feet high divided the second floor into two rooms. No door was ever sawed be- tween these two rooms. Entrance was had in- to the back room by climbing ove :: the parti- tion. In this house two generations of the Logan family lived.

Two of the women belonging to the fam- ily were carried into captivity by the Tuscarora Indians during the French and Indian War. Both the women returned, one after a captivity of eighteen months. Another member of the family was lost with Braddock's Expedition. The members of the family lie buried in the old Dillsburg grave-yard.

Henry Logan, son of John Logan, was born in Ireland in 1738, and died Aug. 3, 1825. He was married to Susanna Blair (B. 1743-D. 1817), who was a daughter of Bryce

risburg, an ex-Attorney General of the Com- monwealth ; James ; Henry ; and William.

Colonel Henry Logan, M. C., son of Henry Logan above referred to was born April 14, 1784, died Dec. 26, 1866. He served in a regi- ment commanded by General Thomas C. Mil- ler, of Gettysburg, during the War of 1812, and was present at the battle of North Point during the defense of Baltimore at the time the British General Ross was killed. He was made Captain of the 10th Company, 19th Regi- ment, 2nd Brigade, 5th Division of the Penn- sylvania Militia, and afterward (Aug. 1, 1814) Lieutenant Colonel of the same regiment. In 1818 and 1819 he represented York county in the Pennsylvania Assembly, and in 1828-1831 in the Pennsylvania Senate. In 1841 he was elected commissioner of York county. From 1831-1835 he represented York county in Con- gress at Washington. He was a hard Demo- crat, and a strong politician. He was accus- tomed to say toward the end of his life that he had gone io Congress when it was an honor to go, and that he had never solicited an office or asked a single person to vote for him. He was a member of the American Colonization So- ciety, whose object was to transport the ne- groes to Liberia. He was a member of the original Masonic lodge organized in York City, Pa., and which was suppressed in the days of anti-Masonry. He was a successful farmer, and at the time of his death owned more than seven hundred acres of land in Carroll township and vicinity. He married, Feb. 22, 1825, Mar- tha O'Hail, daughter of Edward O'Hail, a Revolutionary soldier and an elder of the Mon- aghan Presbyterian Church. Her mother was Jane Richey. The children of Henry Logan were: Susan, wife of William Beetam, of

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Carlisle, Pa. ; James Jackson (born 1830-died 1902), of Carroll township; Mary Ann, wife Logan were born children as follows: James of Abraham Williams, owner of the Granger J., Frederick W., Helen M., Caroline E., Henry and Eleanor. Picnic grounds near Dillsburg, Pa .; Martha; Josephine, wife of Dr. William D. Bailey, of Dillsburg (Dr. Bailey was a son of Colonel S. N. Bailey, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves, and was himself Major of the 87th P. V. I., during the Civil war, while his brother, Hon. John M. Bailey, deceased, was President Judge of Huntingdon county, and another brother, D. B. Bailey, was a member of the York County Bar) ; Rev. William H., now of Wilmington, Del. ; and John N.

JOHN N. LOGAN, senior member of the law firm of Logan & Logan of York and Dillsburg and son of Col. Henry .Logan, was born April 17, 1846. He was reared on his father's farm and attended the local schools. He afterward attended Tuscarora Academy, entered Prince- ton College and received the degree of A. B. in 1869. In 1871 he commenced the study of law. About that time he accepted the position of cashier of the Dillsburg National Bank, which position he held for more than twelve years. In 1889 he was admitted to practice at law at York, Pa. From 1870 to 1880 he served as justice of the peace in Carroll township. He served as elder of the Monaghan Presbyterian Church from 1871 to 1898, and was superin- tendent of the Sunday-school for more than twenty years. It was largely through his ef- forts that the Dillsburg branch of the Cumber- land Valley railroad was built in 1870-1872. He is the owner of certain magnetic iron ore lands in Dillsburg, and has devoted many years to the study of minerals.

In 1874 Mr. Logan married Ella M. Coover, who was descended on her father's side from Dietrich Kover (Coover) of the Palatinate on the Rhine, who sailed on the Ship "Thistle" of Glasgow from Rotterdam, and ar- rived in Philadelphia Aug. 29, 1730. Her father was Jacob Coover, born 1816-died 1899; and her mother was Lydia A. Welty, daughter of Frederick Welty, and Sarah Eich- elberger, and grand-daughter of John Welty of Emmitsburg, a Revolutionary soldier, born at Eppigen in 1722-died at Emmitsburg in 1817. [Maryland Archives, Vol. 18, pp. 258- 395.] Through the Eichelbergers, she is de- scended from Matthias Smyser, the elder, of

York. To John N. and Ella M. (Coover)

JAMES J. LOGAN, son of John N. Logan, and junior member of the law firm of Logan & Logan, was born in Carroll township Jan. 24, 1876. After attending the country schools of the neighborhood, he received an appoint- ment to West Point in 1893, but failed to enter. In 1894 he entered the York Collegiate In- stitute, and in 1896 Lafayette College, receiv- ing the degree of Ph. B. with the class of 1900, and the degree of M. S. in 1903. He was ad- mitted to practice law at the York County Bar, Sept. 9, 1901, and to the Supreme Court of · Pennsylvania in 1904. He is also a member of the United States District Court. During the Spanish-American War he served as sergeant of Company I, 4th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was in Porto Rico.

JAMES BUCHANAN ZIEGLER. A continuous practice for forty years before the courts of York County and southeastern Penn- sylvania, a period unsurpassed but by two members of the York County Bar, made the late James B. Ziegler a familiar figure. He was the grandson of John Ziegler, a native of Union county, Pa., and the son of Samuel Ziegler, the latter a former well known busi- ness man of York. Two brothers of Samuel, Jacob and Daniel, were well-known clergymen of the Reformed Church.

The father's life was spent in York, where he was engaged in the saddle and harness busi- ness. He married Miss Charlotte Danner, whose father was identified with the tobacco trade of York. The father died Jan. 27, 1867, at the age of fifty-one, the mother's death oc- curring several years later. The Ziegler fam- ily consisted of eleven children; five of this family are deceased, those living being : Sarah, who is the wife of Adam Wis- man, of Marietta, Lancaster county; Laura, wife of William Llewellyn, of the same place and county; Emma, wife of James E. Mun- dorf, postmaster of Mt. Holly, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; Catherine, wife of Ja- cob Krug of Hanover, York County; Daniel, also of York County, who lives in Hanover ; and Edward, who is traveling.

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James Buchanan Ziegler was born in York Dec. 2, 1838, in the old home that stood on the site of the present opera house on South Beaver street. His education was received at the York County Academy and at the Frank- lin and Marshall College at Lancaster, Penn- sylvania. Later he became a law student in the office of J. W. Bittenger, now President Judge of the Courts of York County. Mr. Ziegler was admitted to the Bar Aug. 24. 1864, and later to the Supreme and Superior Courts. From that time until his death he sustained a splendid reputation, not only as a successful practitioner, but as a broad minded, public- spirited citizen, seeking to encourage the phe- nomenal progress of the race as it works out the problem of civilization.

Mr. Ziegler's marriage to Miss Catharine Getz, occurred Oct. 4, 1864. She was a daugh- ter of George Getz, of Lancaster county, now deceased. He was well known throughout the county by that peculiar phrase which expresses so much, "a genius," and was related to Charles Getz, a noted scenic painter of Baltimore. To Mr. and Mrs. Ziegler three children were born: Arthur G., of York, is the Supervis- ing Principal of the King Street School; Her- bert S., a printer, and George P., a florist, re- side in York.

The citizenship of Mr. Ziegler was marked by many acts evidencing loyalty to duty and his sincere desire to ameliorate the ills of mankind. As a member of the common coun- cil for some three years, he was always alert to the interests of his constituents of the Thir- teenth ward, and he aided in carrying out sev- eral important reforms in the city government. As a member of the fraternal organization known as the Heptasophs, he evinced his interest in his fellowman socially; and as a worker in the Trinity Reformed Church and for long years an efficient and faithful Sun- day-school teacher, his ainfluence among the young people was a benison to the community. He passed away in 1906.

EDWARD A. RICE, cashier of the West- ern National Bank, is a native son of York county, and comes of a family well known in the county for generations.

William Rice, grandfather of Edward A. Rice, was born in Codorus township, where he lived and died.

William H. Rice, father of Edward A., is court crier for the courts of York county. He married Sarah, daughter of Peter Julius, a farmer of Dover township. The great-grand- father of Sarah (Julius) Rice came to York county from Germany, and the land which he bought, and on which he made his home, is now the property of his great-grandson, George D. Julius.

William H. and Sarah (Julius) Rice be- came the parents of the following children : Anna M., wife of Jacob Joseph, a farmer of West Manchester township; Charles P., D. D. S., a dentist of York; and Edward A.

On June 14, 1863, Edward A. Rice was born in Dover township, and he attended the public schools of York county, and the State Normal School at Millersville. He was for thirteen years a teacher in the schools in the town and county of York, and for six years he attended the summer terms of the East Ber- lin Academy in Adams county. Mr. Rice be- gan his banking career as teller in the Farm- ers' National Bank of York, where he was employed from 1891 to 1898. He was then made cashier of the Western National Bank, and he still retains that position.

In 1903, Mr. Rice married Mary G. Wiest, daughter of Peter C. Wiest, a prominent man- ufacturer of York. Mr. Wiest is president of the York Corrugating Company, manufactur- ers of corrugated iron cornices, spouting, etc., and his son-in-law, Mr. Rice, is secretary and treasurer of the company.

Fraternally Mr. Rice is connected with the Odd Fellows. He is a member of Grace Re- formed Church, where he has been an elder for a dozen years or more. He is also superintend- ent of the Sunday-school, and carries into that field of endeavor the same earnest energy and vital interest that characterize his secular af- fairs, and which have advanced him in his banking business. Mr. Rice has made a suc- cess of all his undertakings from the time he began teaching school; his career, already a credit to his county and town, opens toward even a brighter future. No life is without its influence for good or evil, and the community is fortunate which possesses citizens of the stamp of Edward A. Rice-clean, strong. kindly and helpful, an inspiration to the younger generation, reaching out for guid- ance to the highest things of life.

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ISAAC RUNK (deceased); who for many years was engaged in a mercantile busi- ness in what is now East York, lived retired from 1886 until his death, which occurred April 5, 1906, at his home in York. He was born in York township, York county, Dec. 3, 1829, son of John Runk.

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 14

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