History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 146

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

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Elias Glatfelter attended school in Conewa- go township until he was seventeen years of age and then learned the milling business with Jolın Sprenkle, who owned a mill along the Yellow creek in Cumberland county, Pa. This business Mr. Glatfelter followed for eight years, and then engaged in farming in Conewago and Dover townships, owning a very good farm in the former township, consisting of fifty-five acres, near Zion View. After acquiring that property he made numerous improvements, built an addition to the house and followed farming there until 1900. Since then he has enjoyed the ease of retired life, and since his sister, Mrs. Boring, has become a widow, he resides with her.

In 1865 Mr. Glatfelter was married to Sar- ah Jane Stoninger, a daughter of Henry and Margaret (Stetler) Stoninger. Mrs. Glatfelter died Feb. 10, 1900, and is survived by no chil- dren. She was laid to rest in the Strayer churchyard in Dover township. Mr. Glatfelt- er has always been identified with the Republi- can party, and for years was very active in politics. He was a man in whom his fellow citizens could always place reliance and on dif- ferent occasions was elected to the offices of township auditor and supervisor, and in 1906 was elected road supervisor for three years.

JACOB C. BORING, whose tragic death grieved and shocked the whole community on March 15, 1904, was one of the most highly re- spected citizens and farmers of Conewago town- ship. He was educated in the Ball Hills school in Newberry township, and after his marriage, resided for thirteen years on the old Boring farm there. In 1901 he came to Conewago township where he had a fine farm of fifty-five acres known as the old Hake Hotel place. He was a man who was popular with every one, making his death a calamity of more than usual seriousness. On Dec. 25, 1887, he married Sarah Jane Glatfelter, the ceremony being per- formed at Rossville, by Rev. Dick. They had these children: Laura, Jane, Lillie May and Walter Harrison, all going to school.

The accident which caused the death of Mr. Boring and his neighbor and companion, Sam- uel Lehr, was one of those unfortunate calam-

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ities for which no one seemed to blame. The two neighbors had started to attend a country sale together and after driving to Mt. Wolf, concluded to walk the rest of the way on the railroad track. They were walking on one track and when a freight train came in sight, changed to the other track. The noise of the freight prevented them hearing the rapid ap- proach of a passenger train in their rear and a curve in the road made it impossible for the engineer to lessen speed before it was too late. Neither one of the victims were mutilated but died instantly. To quote from a local paper : "On the previous Sunday they went to church together, sat together, and returned home to- gether. They lived as neighbors should, lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in death they were not divided. Brother Boring was a great friend of the prayer meeting and Sunday- school at Quickel's, where he will be much missed. He leaves a disconsolate widow and three children as well as an aging mother. This afflicted family has the sympathy of the whole community." As above noted, Mr. Boring was a worthy member of the U. B. Church, and he was buried in the Strayer churchyard.

LEWIS RAFFENSBERGER, one of the well-known citizens of Dover, York county, a survivor of the Civil war, was born in Con- ewago township, York Co., Pa., a son of Levi Raffensberger.

The paternal grandfather, who was the first of the family to settle in York county, had two sons, David and Levi. The latter was born in York county and followed farming and milling there all his life. A few years prior to his death he went to live with his brother, David Raffensberger, where he died aged fifty years, and he was buried at Rothtown Straight Hill Church. He married Sarah Feiser, daughter of George Feiser. She died at York, aged eighty years, and was buried at Stravers Church, Dover township. They had children as follows: Alfred, who married (first) Car- oline Maul and (second) Caroline Grissinger, the latter still surviving him and living in Phil- adelphia : Reuben, who died young ; Lewis, sub- ject of this sketch; Lucinda, who married (first) Henry Garber and (second) Charles Rupp, died in York, and is buried at Prospect Hill cemetery; and Delia, who married Ben- jamin Elliston, a baker in York .

Lewis Raffensberger obtained his education in the schools of Dover township, attending un- til sixteen years of age. Then he hired out to neighboring farmers for two years, after which he went to learn the trade of blacksmith with John Myers, at Weigelstown, in Dover town- ship, remaining with him one year and nine months. He then went to Washington, D. C., later coming back to Dover township, but re- turning to Washington and entering the pio- neer corps which worked for four months through Georgia and Alabama. Then he came back home and worked in a machine shop at Dover. On enlisting for service in the Civil war Mr. Raffensberger entered Company F, 28th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, and during his term of service participated in many min- or engagements and in the battle of Mobile, where the fighting continued for eleven days. Mr. Raffensberger relates one especially thrill- ing adventure. While his command was on the transport in the Gulf of Mexico, one of the ter- rible equatorial storms came up, and it was of such intensity that in order to save themselves the soldiers had to throw 480 horses overboard. It was a very exciting time, as the vessel was some one hundred miles from shore. Of all dangerous situations in which he was placed our subject thinks he was the nearest to death at that time. The exposure and hardship brought on typhoid fever, from which he suf- fered for seven days on the road, too ill to be moved to Mobile. He was later taken to the hospital there, where he spent six weeks, and was finally mustered out at Clarksville, Texas, receiving his discharge at New Orleans.

Returning to Illinois for a short time, Mr. Raffensberger came back to Dover, where he engaged in blacksmithing, and has always been considered an expert mechanic. He purchased his fine home on Main street, built a good barn. and made many other improvements. He owns seventeen acres of very valuable land, much of it in building lots, all of it continually gaining in value.

Mr. Raffensberger has been twice married. His first wife, Malinda Cling, daughter of George Cling, of Dover township, died while but a bride, thirty days after marriage, and was laid to rest in the cemetery at Strayers Church, in Dover township. Mr. Raffensberger's sec- ond marriage was to Amanda Bambart, daugh- ter of John Bambart, of Dover township, and they have had children as follows: Ida Kate is

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the widow of James Bear, who was a tinner by trade and died in Codorus township, where Mis. Bear still lives with her three children, Clay- ton, Charles and Ella, Margaret having died young ; Clayton, who is employed in the office of a large iron manufacturing plant at Johns- town,married Emma Bowman ; Ella is the wife of Alfred Kaufman, a cigarmaker at York; Emma died aged three months.

Mr. Raffensberger does not belong to any religious body, but he is a moral man and con- tributes liberally to the support of the Lutheran Church at Dover, of which his estimable wife is a member. In politics he has always been identified with the Democratic party, which has honored him on numerous occasions by election to office. He has served as a member of the council for Dover borough and is still a member of that body, having two more years to serve. He has always worked for the best interests of the community while in office, and has helped materially in the erection of the water plant in the borough, begun in 1905 and just completed, 1906. For eight terms he has served as school director, and has given his children educational advantages which he never enjoyed himself. He is an honest, upright man, one who is thoroughly respected by all who know him, and in every way worthily rep- resents the good citizenship of York county, and Dover borough.

SAMUEL H. KLUGH. The Klugh fam- ily of York county, Pa., is descended from one of two brothers who came to the States from Germany in the latter part of the eighteenth cen- tury. This ancestor was the father of six chil- dren : Henry, who settled near Maytown, Lan- caster county, where many of his descendants are living today ; George; Frederick; Susanna, who married Peter Arnold, and has descend- ants living in Clarion and Clearfield counties ; Catherine; and Jane. Of Henry, Catherine and Jane nothing is known.

George Klugh, the second son, and grand- father of Samuel H., was born Nov. 1, 1790, and died Dec. 20, 1879, aged eighty-nine. In addition to being a carpenter or builder he was an old time German cabinet maker. During the fities and sixties of the nineteenth century build- ing was only conducted in the summer season, and during the winter season the time was em- ployed in making up home-made, or hand-

made furniture, this consisting of all kinds of household furniture then in use, including the old time veneer work. Of the six sons of George Klugh, five followed their father's vo- cation, that of carpentering and cabinet making. George Klugh was for many years a member of the Franklin Lutheran Church (which he built) and was for a number of years a jus- tice of the peace in Franklin township. He married Hannah Arnold, who was born April 5, 1796, and who died Aug. 22, 1873. Nine children were born to them: (1) John, born May II, 1816, served as captain in the 209th P. V. I., during the Rebellion, and is today a prominent citizen of Franklintown. He mar- ried, in 1848, Henrietta, daughter of Henry Ritter, of York county, and has five children, Mary, Alice, Harvey, John and Milton B. (2) George, deceased, born March 25, 1818, mar- ried Harriet Frederick, and had a son, Henry, who married Eliza Kuntz, and had four chil- dren, John, Georgiana, Mary and Harvey. (3) Philip, born Oct. 31, 1820, died May 11, 1834. (4) Frederick, born March 20, 1823, was an undertaker and cabinet maker, and died in Dillsburg, Nov. 1, 1904. (5) Henry was the father of Samuel H. (6) Peter, born Dec. 4, 1829, lived in Harrisburg, until his death in November, 1904. By his wife, who was Miss Soranda Ritter, he had two children, Charles and John, the latter deceased. (7) The next child was a daughter, born May 28, 1833, who died tlie same day. (8) Clarissa, born May 23, 1834, married Leonard Heikes, who lives in Dillsburg. There were born to them: Emma, Mrs. Thomas Hooper, of Wellsville; Benjamin F., who married and has two children, and is principal of the public school at Manheim, Lan- caster county; Schuyler, foreman of bak- ing at the Industrial School at Scotland, Frank- lin county, who married and has children ; George, a mercantile clerk at Harrisburg; and Walter C., a teacher in the public schools of Harrisburg. (9) Joseph R., born July 5, 1836, married Miss Fannie Breckbill, and their chil- dren are John, Howard, Catherine and Jennie. The family lives at Orleans, Nebraska.

Henry Klugh was born April 29, 1826, and made his first profession that of teaching. For twelve years he was thus engaged through the school year, while he employed the summer months in carpenter work and contracting. He then abandoned teaching and devoted his at-

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tention wholly to contracting for the rest of parents of five children, Bruce S., H. Scott, his life. He was a man of high standing in Lynn S., Ray A. and Maude E. Mr. Klugh is a prominent and public-spirited citizen, and his long continuance in office attests the confidence in him felt by his fellow townsmen. He is a member of the Improved Order of Heptasophs, and also of the Modern Woodmen of America; in both fraternities he has held offices both of local and supreme appointments. the community and influential in public affairs, acting as justice of the peace, and inspector of elections. He was a Republican most of his life, but later in life joined the ranks of the Pro- hibition party. A devout Lutheran, he was for many years an elder in the church and superin- tendent of the Sunday-school. His marriage occurred Nov. II, 1856, to Eliza, daughter of Samuel and Katie ( Heikes) Knisely, and their AQUILLA FAUTH has passed his entire life in York county, and is a representative cit- izen of Delroy, where he is established in a suc- cessful general merchandise business. He is a representative of the third generation of his family in this county, and the name is one which has here stood for loyal and progressive citi- zenship and sterling character, so that a full measure of popular confidence and esteem has not been denied its various individuals. married life continued until May 22, 1895, when the husband was called from this world. His wife is now living in Dillsburg. The fol- lowing children were born of this union: (I) Mary Katherine, born July 17, 1857, married Ephraim Brame, a farmer in Adams county. (2) Samuel H. (3) George P., principal of schools at New Cumberland, Cumberland county, married Miss Julia Spangler, and has three children, Claude, Beatrice and Ada. (4) Jerre J., for the past seven- teacher,

teen years a is at present in

Dillsburg; he is a Republican in poli- tics and takes a deep interest in church mat- ters, being trustee of the church and parson- age, as well as steward in the U. B. Church, and teacher and superintendent in the Sunday school. (5) Hannah J., born July 14, 1871, died June 21, 1878. (6) William K., born March 20, 1875, a teacher by profession but now acting as station agent at Shiremans- town, Cumberland county, for the Cumberland Valley Railroad, married Lillie, daughter of Daniel Leathery of Franklintown.

Samuel H. Klugh was born June 28, 1863, i11 Franklintown borough. He was given a good education, and then taught for five terms in Franklin and Carroll townships. It was at this period, during the summers, that he learned the carpenter's trade under his father. At the end of that time he engaged with his uncle Frederick in the furniture and under- taking business in Dillsburg, and he has now become the sole proprietor. Like his father he takes an active part in municipal affairs, is a strong Republican in his views, and has held the offices of school director and auditor of the township, while since 1895 he has served con- tinuously as justice of the peace.

Christopher Fauth, grandfather of our sub- ject, was born in Gross Glattbach, Oberamt Maulbronn, Kingdom of Wurtemberg, Ger- many, May 10, 1810, son of David and Maria Fauth, who were born Feb. 20, 1784, and Sept. 30, 1790, respectively. He was reared to the age of sixteen in his native land, in whose ex- cellent schools he secured a good education, and came to America with his parents. Depending upon his own stout heart and willing hands to work out his fortune and help him to attain to a position of independence, he located in Low- er Windsor township, York county, where he was for a number of years employed at farm work. Finally he was enabled to purchase a small farm in that township, the property be- ing now owned and occupied by Daniel Del- linger. He continued to devote his attention to the cultivation of this farm for a number of years, and then, disposing of the property, lo- cated in a residence which he purchased in the same township, finally disposing of the latter property and passing the closing years of his life in the homes of his children. He died at the home of his daughter Mary, wife of Henry Abel, April 4, 1900, at the venerable age of eighty-nine years, ten months, twenty-five days, honored by all who knew him. His loved and devoted wife, whose maiden name was Cath- erine Miller. died just three hours prior to his demise, aged eightv-nine years, three months, twelve davs, so in death they were not divided.

Mr. Klugh was married, in 1886. to Eliza- beth J., daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Bos- ser ) Sollenberger, and they have become the the remains of both being laid to rest in one

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coffin in the Canadochley cemetery; both were he successfully conducted for six years, giving faithtul members of the church there. They had four sons and five daughters: Henry was the father of our subject; David resides in Lower Windsor township; George is a farmer of Windsor township; Jacob is deceased; Sar- ah deceased, was the wife of Reuben Abel; Mary is the wife of Henry Abel; Amanda is the wife of Jacob Loucks; Anna is the wife of Nathaniel Keller; and Magdalena is the wife of Daniel Hilt.

Henry Fauth, father of Aquilla Fauth, was born in Lower Windsor township, this county, and there passed his entire life. He had limit- ed educational advantages, and early became dependent upon his own resources. He learned the shoemaker's trade, to which he gave his at- tention during the greater part of several years, but he finally engaged in farming in his native township, and continued to be identified with this line of industry until his death, which oc- curred in 1894. He was a man of sterling char- acter and commanded unqualified esteem in the county which was his home throughout life. He was a stanch Republican in his political pro- clivities, and both he and his wife were con- sistent members of the Lutheran Church of Canadochley. He married Sarah Keller, who was born and reared in this county, and whose death occurred in 1892; she was a sister of James Keller. Of the children of Henry and Sarah (Keller) Fauthı, Aquilla is the eldest ; Harrison, a resident of Delroy, is mentioned elsewhere; and Saloma is the wife of Charles E. Leber, of Delroy.

special attention to dairying. In the spring of 1901 Mr. Fauth located in Delroy and pur- chased the general merchandise business of W. S. Flory, together with the store building and dwelling, which was erected in 1890, by David Gilbert. He carries an excellent stock of goods and controls a large and representative trade, extending throughout the territory normally tributary to the village of Delroy, while he is known as a progressive and reliable business man and loyal and public-spirited citizen. In politics Mr. Fauth is a stanch advocate of the principles of the Republican party, and while never ambitious for official preferment he served three years as tax collector of Lower Windsor township. He and his wife are promi- nent and valued members of the Lutheran Church.

In the city of York, June 3, 1890, was sol- emnized the marriage of Mr. Fauth to Miss Elmira Deitz, who was born and reared in Hellam township, daughter of Jacob Deitz, a representative of one of the old and honored families of York county. Mr. and Mrs. Fauth have one child, Ora Edith, who was born Nov. 22, 1892.

CHARLES E. BAIR, one of the promi- nent citizens and universally esteemed men of Newberry township, York county, was born in 1852, in that township, a son of Benjamin and Annie (Rudy) Bair.

· Jacob Bair, his paternal grandfather, fol- lowed the trade of hatter, in Lehigh county, Pa., where he married, and died at the age of eighty-two years. His children besides Ben- jamin were: Samuel, who died at Mt. Wolf: George and Melchoer, who died in Lehigh county ; Ephraim, who died at Reading ; Man- assa, who died in Newberry township; Rachel. Mrs. Koons, who died in Lehigh county, at the age of ninety-four years; Mrs. Daniel Hoover, who died near Mt. Wolf; and one child that died in Cumberland county.

Aquilla Fauth was born Oct. 9, 1867, on the farm owned by his grandfather, in Lower Windsor township, this county. He attended the public schools of his native township until he had attained the age of sixteen years, m ing good use of the opportunities thus afforded him. At the age of sixteen he began serving an apprenticeship at the trade of cigarmaking, in the factory of R. A. Paules, of Delroy, becom- ing a skilled workman, and continuing in the employ of Mr. Paules about nine years. He Benjamin Bair, father of Charles E., was born in 1821, at Millerstown, Lehigh Co., Pa. His education was acquired in Lehigh county, and he was eighteen years of age when he came to York county and settled in Newberry town- ship. Although he learned the trade of cigar- then engaged in the manufacture of cigars upon his own responsibility, in the village of Delroy, continuing the enterprise only a short time, however, and then turning his attention to ag- ricultural pursuits, becoming the owner of a well-improved farm in his home township which making he did not follow it continuously, soon

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taking up peddling, a business that was very ed a fine cigar factory and handsome residence. lucrative in those days before transportation Mr. Bair has been a very successful manu- facturer. He has a large established trade and deals both wholesale and retail. In addition to his great factory at Goldsboro, where he keeps some fifty skilled workmen employed at all times, he has a wholesale and retail store at No. 24 North 4th street, Harrisburg. He makes a specialty of the Gen. Hartranft brand, and through the excellence of his product is ready to meet all competition. was made easy, so that the country people could reach business centers. Mr. Bair followed ped- dling through Dauphin and Perry counties for thirty-five years, having his regular customers, but kept his home in Newberry township. After he retired from traveling he was elected jus- tice of the peace in Newberry township and served most capably in that office for a period of fifteen years, or until his death, in 1896, at the age of seventy-five years. In 1842 he mar- ried Annie Rudy, daughter of George Rudy, whose wife was a Miller. Mrs. Bair also died in Newberry township, where she and her hus- band are buried. In politics Mr. Bair was a strong Democrat, and he served as school di- rector for a long time.

The following children were born to Ben- jamin Bair and his wife : David, who died aged four years; George, who died young; Mary, who died aged seventeen years ; Jacob, deceased who served in the army during the Civil war; William, a farmer in Newberry township, who married Kate Burns; Elizabeth, who died aged twenty-one years; Kate, deceased, wife of Wil- liam Basehore; Charles E., of this sketch; George, foreman in a cigar factory, who mar- ried Henriette Groom and lives at New Cum- berland; Sallie, deceased, who was the wife of Isaiah Dugan; Benjamin, deceased, who mar- ried Ellen Jennings; Leah, who died aged fif- teen years; Annie, who died aged seven years; Harry, deceased, who married Emma Cook; and Rachel, wife of Jacob Sutton, who lives at New Cumberland.

Charles E. Bair attended the public schools of Newberry township until he was thirteen years of age and then was placed with a cigar- maker to learn the trade. He worked at that business in Newberry for five years and then removed to a point near Newberry and con- ducted a business there for nine years, subse- quently engaging in business in Newberry, where he carried on large operations, having a factory where he employed fifty skilled work- men. Finding a better field at New Cumber- land, he moved his factory there, taking with him a force of ninety people, and for two years he operated one of the largest industries of the kind in that place. Then he sold the business to John C. Herman and returned to Newberry township, but a year later removed to Golds- boro, where, in 1899, he bought a site and erect-

In 1871 Mr. Bair married Ellen Basehore. daughter of Daniel and Mary (Fink) Base- hore, both members of old and honorable fam- ilies of York county. These children were born to the union : William, who married Eli- zabeth Herman, and resides at Mechanics- burg: Fillmore, who married May Adlinger ; Annie; Harvey, who married Nettie Rider, and lives at Harrisburg; Daniel, at home ; Vernon, who died aged seven months; Ross, who mar- ried Elnora Pfisterer and lives at Goldsboro; Mary, Charles, Orville, Benjamin and Ella, at home; and Edwin, who died aged one year and three months.

In politics Mr. Bair is a Democrat. He is serving as one of the borough's worthy coun- cilmen, is also a school director, and is promi- nent in everything that concerns the well-being of his community. He has been very promi- nent for years in religious work, being a valued member of the Church of God, in which he is an elder, and while he resided at Newberry was Sunday-school superintendent for nine years. It was mainly through his efforts and financial help that a new church was built at New Cum- berland.

FRANCIS LITTLETON BAIR, of Spring Garden township, formerly of York, be- longs to a family of German descent which has been prominent in Lancaster county for almost two centuries.

His paternal grandparents, Isaac and Jen- nie (Sangry) Bair, had. a family as follows: Benjamin, deceased: James; Peter; and Eliza- beth, wife of Leander Vaughn.

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 146

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