History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 152

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

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In Yorkana, Feb. 20, 1903, was solem- nized the marriage of Dr. Inners to Miss Mag- gie M. Dietz, a daughter of Alexander Dietz, and of this union has been born one son, La- mare D.

JOHN R. HEINDEL, a successful teacher of Codorus township, York county, was born Jan. 30, 1870, in Manheim town- ship, near Green Ridge, this county, son of Aaron H. and Mary (Rohrbaugh) Heindel.

John Heindel, grandfather of John R., was a well-known farmer and good citizen of Man- heim township where he passed a long life, dying at the age of eighty-one years. He married Rebecca Heise, who lived to the age of eighty years, and both were buried in the graveyard at Stone Church in Codorus town- ship, where they were members. Their chil- dren were: William, a newspaper man, who has been employed with the Baltimore Sun for forty-two years; Jacob, who lives in Buf-

falo, N. Y .; Elizabeth, of Jefferson; Susan, wife of Alexander Cramer, of Alesia, Md .; and Aaron H.

Aaron H. Heindel was born in Shrewsbury township, York county, Pa., where he received a district school education and then engaged in farming, which occupation he followed until 1896. He has retired from business ac- tivity, and resides with a son at New Sin- sheim, Codorus township. He married Mary Rohrbaugh, daughter of John Z. and Eva (Hoover) Rohrbaugh. She died July 14, 1905, and is buried at the Stone Church in Co- dorus township. The issue of this marriage was as follows: Eliza, the wife of Valentine Miller, living at Spring Grove; John R .; Eva, wife of Harry Bricker, of Codorus township; Charles, who married Celestie Krebs, and lives at Seven. Valley; and Conelius, who married Amanda Shue.

John R. Heindel enjoyed excellent educa- tional advantages, attending the township schools, and also one session at the State Nor- mal School at Millersville. Later he took an academic course at Glenville Academy. In 1887 he began to teach, spending his first year in Manheim township, and the following year at New Sinsheim. In the spring of 1905 he came to his present field of work, this being known as the Sheaffer School.

Prior to becoming a teacher Mr. Heindel was connected for a number of years with mer- cantile interests, clerking first for S. B. Brod- beck and later for his successor, Lewis Bar- behenn, with whom he continued for fourteen years. There are few men better known or more highly esteemed through this locality than Mr. Heindel.

Mr. Heindel married (first) Henrietta Fishel, daughter of John L. and Maria ( Tay- lor) Fishel. She died in 1891, after having been married a little less than one year, leav- ing one child, Annie. He married (second) Maggie Rohrbaugh, daughter of Amos N. and. Sarah (Markel) Rohrbaugh, of Manheim township. They have three children: Lettie,, Paul and Claire.

In political sentiment Mr. Heindel is a stanch Democrat, and he has frequently been elected to responsible offices. At present he is township clerk, has been township auditor and has many times served as a delegate to im- portant conventions. Although he is a mem- ber of the Stone Church congregation, he at-

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tends the Shaeffer Lutheran Church while his York, the date of her marriage to the Doctor duties are in this locality, and wherever he being Feb. 23, 1893. may be he is one of the leaders in Church and Sunday-school work, and also in all educa- tional matters.

JOHN H. BENNETT, M. D., is one of the latest additions to the medical fraternity of York, though he has practiced for some years in York county, and has passed his entire life within its confines. Dr. Bennett was born in the rural village of Seven Valley, Feb. 22, 1873.

John Bennett, a mining engineer from Cornwall, England, and the father of John H., settled in Berks county, Pa., in 1878, and con- tinned to reside there until his death in 1897, aged fifty-four years. Dr. Bennett's mother was Sarah Buehler, a daughter of Michael, a merchant of Seven Valley, and her death there, at the age of twenty, was coincident with the Doctor's birtli.

Dr. John H. Bennett was reared in Seven Valley and laid the foundation of his literary education in the common schools of that vil- lage. This was supplemented at Kutztown

VICTOR K. JORDAN. Men of energy and force of character do not usually settle down in early life to a business of narrow lim- Normal College, Pennsylvania College at Get- its. There is that in human nature which de- tysburg, and by private instruction under the mands an insight into industrial life from sev- tutelage of Sylvanus Cobb Kline, A. M. A eral view points, and the experience thus ac- formal course at Maryland University fol- . quired widens and enriches the business acu- lowed, from which institution he graduated in men of the recipient in after life. Victor K. Jordan, president of the Hanover Steam Bot- tling Works, comes to that executive position with a fruitful and valuable experience, which, in the few years since he has acquired the busi- ness interests named, have conduced to the progress and prosperity of the company. 1892. Our subject then took up work at Bay View Hospital, in Baltimore, for a period, after which he matriculated at Jefferson Med- ical College. He took his degree of M. D. there, in 1893, and immediately began prac- tice at Jefferson, in York county. His coming to York in March of 1903 was preceded by a period of study at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he took a course in clinical diagnosis. Thoroughly equipped for the practice of his profession and a deep student, whose greatest « delight is in the mastery of its varied prob- lems, Dr. Bennett is rapidly securing the con- fidence of the people of York and building a practice which bids fair to equal his physical ability to meet its demands.

The home of our subject is made happy by the presence within it of a wife and son. the son bearing the name of John, and being the fifth generation to receive such christening. Mrs. Bennett was Miss Alice C. Crist, daugh- ter of Michael, now deceased, but for many years in the life and fire insurance business in

Doctor Bennett is alive to the interests of the community in which he has come to reside, and is active in its business and social life. He holds membership in the Masonic fraternity, is a Knight Templar and Shriner, and on elec- tion days supports Republican men and meas- ures. In 1905 Dr. Bennett was elected a mem- ber of the common council, and was chosen the first chairman of the Sanitary committee. He is also a member of York County Medical Society, of which he is corresponding secre- tary, and is a member of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, as well as of the Amer- ican Medical Association. His church mem- bership still remains at the old Ziegler Luth- eran church, near Seven Valley, a church for which he has particular regard on account of the fact that his great-grandfather, John Bueh- ler, was one of the men who caused its erection.

He was born near Allentown, Lehigh Co., Pa., son of Milton and Deborah (Kline) Jor- dan. The parents were both natives of Lehigh county, and by trade the father was a car- riage manufacturer. Victor K. received his education in the common schools of Coopers- burg, and in the same town acquired the mas- tery of telegraphy, after which he obtained a position with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, which he held for five years. He then went to Philadelphia and en- tered the employ of Strawbridge & Clothier, dry goods merchants, with whom he remained fourteen months. Returning to Coopersburg he learned the trade of painting and carriage trimming and thus equipped he went to Lans- dale, Pa., and for a year was with L. M. Lan-

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dis. Mr. Jordan then accepted a position with Ella E. Bucher, is a daughter of the late the Baltimore & Ohio road, after which he was Michael Bucher, a prominent citizen of Han- over borough, where he served many years as justice of the peace and conveyancer, while in this connection it should also be recorded that his family was founded in this county more than a century ago. Jesse and Ella E. Bollin- ger became the parents of four children, namely : Preston M., who is a salesman in the city of Philadelphia; Mary E., wife of Rev. Paul W. Koller, a clergyman of the Lutheran church and resident of Hudson, N. Y., at the time of this writing; Anna B., at home; and John J. The father is a Republican in his political proclivities, and both he and his wife are members of the Reformed Church. for a short time interested in the feather ren- ovation business at Quakertown, Pa. Return- ing to telegraphy, Mr. Jordan was again for two years in the service of the Philadelphia & Reading road, followed by rimning the "Slate Valley Hotel," Bangor, Pa. It was in 1899 that Mr. Jordan came to Hanover and pur- chased the bottling works from John Schmidt. This business he has since successfully con- ducted, and is in the enjoyment of an excel- lent trade. In 1891 Mr. Jordan married Len- nie C. Weaver, of Center Valley, Pa., the daughter of V. B. Weaver, a noted veterinary surgeon. To Mr. and Mrs. Jordan have been born two children, Herbert Victor and Wilson Clifford. Mrs. Jordan is a member of the Re- formed Church.

JOHN J. BOLLINGER, one of the younger members of the York county Bar, is a scion of one of the oldest and most hon- ored families of the county, with whose annals the name has been identified for more than a century and three-quarters. The original American progenitor of the Bollinger family was born and bred in Switzerland, whence he emigrated to America and settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, prior to the year 1716. This information is authenticated by a birth certificate of that date from Lancaster county, the interesting and valuable old document being in the possession of the family at the present time. In 1728 the family removed from Lancaster county into York county, and from that day to this the family name has been intimately linked with the civic and industrial affairs of the latter county.

Jacob M. Bollinger, grandfather of John J., was born and reared in York county, and became a prominent and influential farmer of Carroll county, Md., where he resided during the major portion of his long and useful life, though in his later years he resided in Adams county, in which latter both he and his wife died.

Jesse Bollinger, son of Jacob M., is one of the well-known and highly honored citizens of York county, and was for many years en- gaged in the mercantile business in Hanover, where he is now living retired, having been a resident of the county during practically his entire life. His wife, whose maiden name was

John J. Bollinger was born in the boroughi of Hanover, this county, Jan. 13, 1878, and after completing the curriculum of the public schools of his native town he was matriculated in famous old Franklin and Marshall College, in the city of Lancaster, where he completed the classical course, and was graduated as a member of the class of 1898, receiving the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts. While in college he was a popular and appreciative member of the Chi Pi fraternity, and also the Diagno- thian Literary Society. After his graduation Mr. Bollinger began the work of technical preparation for his chosen profession, entering the law office of Ross & Brenneman, of York, under whose effective preceptorship he con- tinued his studies until eligible for admission to the Bar. He was admitted to practice in the courts of York county July 23, 1901, and later was admitted to practice before the Su- preme Court of the State. He is meeting with success in his professional endeavors, and is rapidly gaining enviable prestige at the Bar and as a counselor. In politics he is a stal- wart advocate of the principles and policies of the Democratic party, and his religious faith is indicated in his holding membership in Emanuel Reformed church, at Hanover. Fra- ternally he is affiliated with the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias.

CHARLES W. VOGEL, general superin- tendent of the York Manufacturing Company, of York, Pa., and a man known throughout York county, comes of an old and honored family, his ancestors being among the pioneer settlers of Pennsylvania. His birth took place

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in Bedford county, Pa., June 16, 1875, and Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. he is a son of F, H. and Elizabeth ( Shreve) Vogel: James Holman, and Carl Stephens. In religious matters Mr. Vogel is a Methodist. Vogel.

On the maternal side of the house, the In politics he is a Republican, although as yet he has taken no active part in public affairs. He is enterprising, reliable and thoroughly competent, possessing a pleasant, courteous manner, which wins him friends on every side.

founders of the family of Shreve settled in Bedford county, and the maternal great-grand- father drove the stage from Philadelphia to Pittsburg in Colonial days.

F. H. Vogel, the father, was born in Ger- many, but came to America when fifteen years of age. At present he is a resident of Phila- delphia, and owner of a furniture factory. He and his wife have had seven children: Robert and Julia, who died in early childhood ; one that died in infancy unnamed; Daniel, in charge of the complaint department in Wanamaker's at Philadelphia ; Harry L., a member of the offi- cial staff at Strawbridge & Clothier, Philadel- phia, for a number of years, and at present with a pipe-organ concern, also in Philadel- phia; . Francis Gilbert, with the Gas Meter Company, of Philadelphia ; and Charles W., of York.

After finishing his public school course, Charles WV. Vogel was thoroughly educated in draughting and business and electrical methods, studying to be a practical machinist for four years at Philadelphia. He then took a private course in business, and then became connected with a bicycle concern, of which he was manager of the manufacturing depart- ment for a year. In 1898, Mr. Vogel became connected with the York Manufacturing Com- pany, but after a short period left that com- pany, and returned to Philadelphia, there en- tering the employ of the Pennsylvania Iron Works, where he continued for six months.

During the Spanish-American war Mr. Vogel was employed in the ordnance depart- ment of the Midvale Steel Works, and later returned to York, again entering the York Manufacturing Company. He occupied vari- ous positions with this concern until April I, 1904. when he was made assistant superin- tendent. After one year's service in the ca- pacity of assistant superintendent he was made superintendent of the entire works, which responsible position he now holds. He is well-fitted for the duties, and is a favorite with his men, as well as with his employers.

On Oct. 19. 1899, Mr. Vogel was united in marriage with Ida Holman, of England, daughter of Charles and Mary Holman, form- erly of England, but now of Philadelphia.

EDWARD THOMAS KEYWORTH, second son of Charles A. Keyworth (son of Thomas Keyworth of York) and Mary Jane Castor (daughter of Peter Castor of Frank- ford, Philadelphia), was born in the City of York Feb. 23, 1870. After attending the pub- lic school and the York Collegiate Institute Mr. Keyworth took a course in architecture in the University of Pennsylvania. He began his office practice under Arthur P. Rosser and later went in the office of J. A. Dempwolf. In 1903 he entered the office of Hamme & Leber.

At the beginning of the Spanish-American war Mr. Keyworth helped to organize, became a member and was appointed second sergeant of, a volunteer company for active service in the United States Army. Later this became Company F of the IIth Regiment of the Na- tional Guards of Pennsylvania, being thoroughly equipped for State and national service. Mr. Keyworth was elected second lieutenant of said company, and later was ap- pointed adjutant, of the Second Battalion, IIth Regiment, to Major A. H. Raber, by Colonel Louis A. Wateres, of Scranton. Mr. Key- worth participated in the military part of the inauguration of Governor W. A. Stone, and the unveiling of ex-Governor Hartranft's statue, and the funeral obsequies of Briga- dier-General Magee, of Wrightsville.

Mr. Keyworth married, Sept. 19, 1900, Irene Louise Rapalee, twin daughter of Miners Rapalee and Rowena Spooner of Penn Yan, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Keyworth have one child, Donald Rapalee, born April 25, 1902. During Mr. Keyworth's childhood he was as- sociatel with Zion Lutheran Sunday-school, but later, in 1884, joined Calvary Presbyte- rian Church. On attaining his majority he as- sociated himself with the Republican party, and he takes an active interest in its politics.

CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEYWORTH, youngest son of Charles Augustus Keyworth

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and Mary Jane Castor, was born in the city of York Oct. 2, 1874. When a boy he attended the public schools and later the York Colle- giate Institute. After leaving school he stud- ied architecture in the office of Arthur P. Ros- ser, and remained with him until Mr. Rosser's death, and several years with his successor. In the year 1895 he opened an office of his own in his native town, and is practicing his profes- sion with success. When he became of age he affiliated himself with the Republican, party, and takes some active interest in furthering its' principles.

Charles A. Keyworth, his father, was born in York Feb. 24, 1837, and died in the same town Feb. 24, 1876. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at the York County Academy, but the more import- ant part of his education was obtained through self tuition and attrition with people and places. He was a wide and diverse reader of literature, refined tastes and safe business in- stincts. He succeeded his father in the jew- elry business at No. 8 East Market street, York, which he conducted successfully until the time of his death. In addition to his duties in connection with his main occupation, he in- vested largely and judiciously in real estate, which in after years yielded a comfortable legacy in itself. He was a director in the York County National Bank, in whose affairs he al- ways manifested an active and intelligent in- terest. He was also president of several build- ing and loan associations, was one of the first promoters of the Peach Bottom railroad and the York and Chanceford turnpike, and sus- tained important relations to a number of other industries in York and environs. In politics he was a Republican, and served for some time as a member of the school board, and took a very general interest in educational affairs and the moral improvement of the com- munity. He was a member and officially con- nected with Zion Lutheran Church throughout the greater portion of his life.

Mr. Keyworth was united in marriage with Mary J. Castor, a daughter of Peter Cas- tor, of Philadelphia, and by her had six chil- dren, namely : Mary Leah, wife of Dr. Niles H. Shearer, wholesale druggist of York; Bes- sie Anna, who died in 1884, at the age of eighteen years ; William A .; Edward Thomas, draughtsman with Hamme & Leber; S. Louise and Charles Augustus.

HARVEY A. GROSS, a representative of the younger contingent of the members of the Bar of York county, is engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of York, and through his ability and close application to business is gaining unmistakable prestige. He is a native son of York county and a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families, the lin- eage tracing back to stanch German origin, while representatives of the name which he bears were numbered among the first settlers in the old Keystone State.

Joel Gross, his grandfather, passed his en- tire life in Washington township, this county, having been a wagonmaker by trade and vo- cation.

Joseph Gross, father of Harvey A., was born and reared in Washington township, and there learned the wagonmaker's trade under the direction of his honored sire, while he se- cured a liberal education and was for twenty- eight years a successful and popular teacher in the schools of Washington township, where he also was incumbent of the office of justice of the peace for a period of twenty-seven years. He was private in Company E, 200th P. V. I., and lost his left leg at Fort Steadman March 25, 1865. He is now living retired in York, Pa., having attained the age of sixty-two years (1905). His wife, whose maiden name was Maria Walker, was likewise born and reared in York county, being a daughter of John Walker, who was a prominent and influential farmer of Warrington township. Joseph and Maria (Walker) Gross became the parents of seven children, all of whom are living, namely : Olive, wife of David M. Everhart, of York : Anna, who is a graduate nurse; Lewis, bag- gagemaster of the Dallastown street railway, of Dallastown, this county ; Charles W., a clerk in the office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. at Altoona: Kate, a teacher in the schools of North York borough; Daisy, a teacher in the York city schools ; and Harvey A.

Harvey A. Gross was born on the old home- stead farm in Washington township, this county, Jan. 21, 1880, and after completing the curriculum of the public schools he continued his studies in the State Normal School at Kutztown, Berks county, where he was gradu- ated as a member of the class of 1898. There- after he devoted two years to successful teach- ing in the public schools of Washington town- ship, and in 1900, he was matriculated in the

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law department of Dickinson College, at Car- of his native place, and later the Stewartstown lisle, where he completed the prescribed course Collegiate Institute. His medical studies were and was graduated as a member of the class of 1903, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and being admitted to the Bar of his native State Jan. 19, 1904. He at once opened an of- fice in the Security Title & Trust Co.'s build- ing. in York, and is meeting with gratifying success in the early period of his professional work. In politics he is an uncompromising ad- vocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and his religious views are in harmony with the noble tenets of the Society of Friends, with which the family has been identified for several generations. Fraternally he is identi- fied with the Patriotic Order of Sons of America.

EVANS M. FREE, M. D., of Stewarts- town, was born there Jan. 30, 1877, son of Dr. John L. and Annie (Wiley ) Free. His pa- ternal grandfather, Peter Free, was a farmer of York county, while his maternal grandfather was David W. Wiley, a native of Harford county, Md., who was of French and English ancestry.

Dr. John L. Free, the father of Evans M., was a prominent figure in southern York coun- ty, having been actively engaged in the practice of medicine for about fifty-eight years. He graduated from Washington University in 1847, and, selecting Dillsburg as the field of his professional labor, remained in practice there for five years, at the end of that period locating in Stewartstown, where he remained until his death, which occurred in September, 1904. Dr. Free took an active part in religious work and was one of the most prominent mem- bers of the Stewartstown M. E. Church for more than fifty years, becoming well and fa- vorably known throughout the southern part of York county and the border counties of Maryland not only as a skillful physician, but as a man of high Christian chraacter. He was a general practitioner, and was very successful in many complicated cases. The Doctor won the confidence and affection of the community and enjoyed as much practice as he was able to handle. His children were : Howard, who is deceased; Jennie, who married John H. Kurtz; Dr. Evans M .; Nora E., who married James Gerry; and Elizabeth E., who married Prof. Arthur Carver.

Evans M. Free attended the public schools

prosecuted under his father, who prepared him for entrance to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Baltimore, from which he was graduated in 1899, in the same year beginning practice at Stewartstown. At the death of his father Dr. Free assumed his large practice, and he is regarded as one of the most promising and skillful young physicians in the county. He gives most careful attention to his patients, sparing himself in no way when life or health are in the balance. He is a close student, and has associated himself with the best medical organizations, among them being the York County Medical Society. He takes advantage of every opportunity to learn new methods in thie controlling and conquering of disease.

Dr. Evans M. Free married Miss Almeda Edie, of Harford county, Md., in the year 1902. He is an official member of the M. E. Church, and, like his father, takes an active part in the work of that denomination. If Dr. Free has a hobby it is a love of good horses, an appreciation which no modern mode of quick transportation can overcome.

CORNELIUS H. SEITZ, of Glen Rock, was born in September, 1877, in Shrews- bury township, son of Henry and Celinda (Frey) Seitz, and is a descendant of one of the old families of York county. Samuel Seitz, the grandfather, was a farmer of the county, and had the following children: Henry, Ed- ward K., James, Francis, Samuel, George, and two daughters. Henry Seitz, the father of Cornelius, was a butcher of Glen Rock, and is deceased. He had five children : Two daugh- ters who died in infancy, Oscar, Herbert and Cornelius H.

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 152

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