History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 182

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

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organ music soon won him promotion, and in 1895 he was elected by the vestry of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church of York, Pa., choirmaster and organist, with fine opportuni- ties for advancement. He developed his musi- cal talent in this position, and not only excelled in playing the pipe-organ, but in training his choristers. In 1900' Mr. Denues became a pupil of Minton Pyne, the eminent organist of St. Mark's Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, Pa., continuing his lessons until the latter's death, in 1905. In 1903 he was chosen instruc- tor of vocal music in the York high school, and in 1905 was elected Supervisor of Music of all the schools in the city. Mr. Denues' talent and accomplishments have won him a high position in the musical circles of York.

LEE F. ATTICKS, of York, Pa., manager of the sales department of the York Gas Com- pany, was born Nov. 4, 1870, on the old At- ticks homestead in Fairview township, York county, son of George W. and Lucinda (Fluke) Atticks.

Mr. Atticks has the distinction of belonging to one of the oldest families of York county, and one which has also been one of the most respected. The records reach as far back as his great-grandfather, who appears to have been a man of considerable local prominence. Henry Atticks, the grandfather, was a farmer, and with his agricultural pursuits combined the trade of cabinetmaker, and also followed under- taking on the old home in Fairview township.

George W. Atticks, the father, is a retired farmer, living now at New Cumberland, Cum- berland county. He married Lucinda Fluke, daughter of David Fluke, a farmer of Ashland county, Ohio, and the two children of this union were: Kelsy C., who is a teacher of penman- ship in a business college in Baltimore; and Lee F.

Lee F. Atticks was educated in the district schools, and was graduated from the State Normal School at Millersville, Lancaster county, in the class of 1894. He spent eight years in school teaching, three years of which were spent after graduation as principal of. a grammar school in York. Mr. At- ticks was connected for five years with the York Evening Press in the capac- ities of assistant editor and manager of the advertising department, meeting with such suc- cess in this line that a journalistic future may open up any time if he ever returns to news-

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paper work. Since April, 1902, he has had to America from Germany and took up a large charge of the sales and advertising department tract of land in Springfield township, York county, where he engaged in farming until his death. of the York Gas Company, and has proved his capacity as a first-class business man.

Mr. Atticks was married, June 26, 1895, to Laura Viola Gardner, daughter of Henry J. Gardner, a retired farmer, formerly of Ross- ville, but now of York. Mrs. Atticks is a niece of D. H. Gardner, who was superintendent of the schools of York county for four terms --- twelve years. Mr. and Mrs. Atticks have two children : Dorothy Louise and Bessie Lee. Mr. Atticks is a stanch Democrat, a follower in the footsteps of his father, who served as one of the commissioners of York county. The family belongs to the Reformed Church, and Mr. Atticks is much interested in its work, and is a teacher in the Sunday-school. He be- longs to the Knights of Malta.

GUSTAV BROSTROM, the mechanical engineer of the York Manufacturing Company, was born in Sweden Aug. 2, 1855, and was educated in the technical school at Eskilstuna, from which he was graduated in. 1873. He came to the United States in 1881. After spending two years in Chicago Mr. Brostrom became connected with the Reading (Pa.) Iron Works, and later with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, remaining with each three years. Mr. Brostrom's next position was with the Frick Company, at Waynesboro, Pa., with which concern he was associated for nine years. Coming to York in 1898, Mr. Brostrom be- came mechanical engineer for the York Manu- facturing Company.

Gustav Brostrom was married in October, 1881, to Miss Emma Erickson. Four children have been born to this union, as follows: Eva, of the York high school, class of 1905; and Elizabeth, Esther and Franklin, bright, intelli- gent children, all of whom are at home.

In fraternal circles Mr. Brostrom belongs to the Masons, being a Knight Templar. In his religious connections he is a member of the M. E. Church. In politics he is an ardent Re- publican.

ADAM H. KROUT, assistant foreman in the factory of Herman Noss & Sons, at York, Pa., and superintendent of the stair building department, was born July 26, 1854, in Spring- field township, York county, son of David and a grandson of Michael Krout.

The great-grandfather of Mr. Krout came

Michael Krout was also a farmer there, and also followed distilling. He married a member of the Miller family of that neighborhood, and his wife lived to the age of seventy-five. He died at the age of eighty-five years, and both are buried at Shuster's Lutheran Church in Springfield township.

David Krout, father of our subject, was born in 1827, in Springfield township. He learned the cooper's trade and the distilling business, and also farmed the home place. He married Susan Hamm, daughter of Conrad Hamm. His death occurred in 1891, in North Codorus township, and he was buried at Zieg- ler Church. His widow still survives, residing with her daughter, Mrs. Christian Baylor. The children of David Krout and wife were: Lu- cinda, wife of Christian Baylor; Matilda, wife of William Rambler, of North Codorus town- ship; Winnifred, who married Lydia Ronald, and after her death he married Ella Blocker, of Illinois; Adam H .; Adeline, who died un- married aged twenty-one years; Jesse, who- married Celestie Deveney, living in North Co- dorus township; Agnes, who died aged seven- teen years ; Cassie M., wife of Harry Lockman, of York; and Ellen, wife of Jacob Kessler, of North Codorus township.

Adam H. Krout attended the district schools of his native township until he was fourteen years of age, and then began to assist his father who had much business on his hands and needed the help of his son, and he remained at home until his marriage .. Then he settled in the borough of Jefferson, where he engaged in contracting and building, a business he fol- lowed for seven years. Removing to York, he located first on King street, but in 1892 he built his present attractive and comfortable home at No. 546 West Market street. For the past eighteen years he has been connected with the firm of Herman Noss & Sons, where he has charge of the stair building department, and, as assistant foreman of the factory, is respon- sible for much of the work.

Mr. Krout was married in 1874 to Lucinda Bair, daughter of Joseph and Susan ( Shearer) Bair, the former of whom died at Jefferson borough in 1877, and she in 1902. The chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Krout were: (1) Puria Hope married Rev. Charles F. Jacobs, a Luth-

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eran clergyman of West York borough, and was here engaged with the Edison Company they have two children, Dorothy and Margaret. two years and three months. At that time he found it to his advantage to enter the employ of the York Manufacturing Company and he continued with that concern for two years and seven months, leaving it in August, 1901, to go to York Haven to take charge of the elec- trical work at that place, having four assist- ants under him. Mr. Zone has been very suc- cessful in his work, and he has given universal satisfaction. (2) Palled Bertram, who learned the wood turning trade with his father, attended the York Academy in 1895-6, and was graduated at Gettysburg College in 1901, taking the first prize as a civil engineer, and he has an excel- lent position with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at Wilmington, Del .; he married Sarah Raffensberger. (3) Joseph David, who is a Lutheran minister located at the Stone Church in Northampton county, Pa., at- In 1902, Mr. Zone married Nettie Roden- houser, daughter of George and Annie F. Ro- denhouser, who was born at Littlestown, Adams Co., Pa. Their only child, Grace, is now deceased. tended the York County Academy, and during his vacations learned the turning trade with his father, then spent a year at the York County Collegiate Institute, at York, and was gradu- ated at Gettysburg College in the same class with his brother, in 1901, and from the Gettys- burg Theological Seminary in 1904; he mar- ried Blanche Spangler, of Harrisburg.

Mr. Krout is a Democrat in politics. He is elder in the Union Lutheran Church of York, and Mrs. Krout is president of the Aid Society and a valued teacher in the Sunday-school. They all are very highly respected people.

JAMES W. ZONE was born in Dillsburg, York county, son of Scott Zone, and is now located in Newberry township, this county.

Scott Zone was born in York county, the other children in his father's family being: John, living in York; Abraham, a farmer of Kansas; and Katie, a resident of some western state. Scott Zone was well edu- cated at the common schools, after which he learned the boiler making trade with the York Manufacturing Company, of York, with which concern he remained a number of years. He then went to Stulton, Dauphin county, and worked at his trade until 1900, when he re- moved to York city, and has since been living a retired life at No. 129 South Pine street. He married Barbara Ziegler, daughter of Edward Ziegler, and their children were: Berda, wife of Albert Wonplin, of York; Florence, mar- ried and living in Mechanicsburg; and James W.

James W. Zone attended the common and graded schools of Dillsburg, after which he went to Huntingdon, Pa., and entered into an electrical business with D. C. Carpenter, there remaining for three years, doing all kinds of electrical work, while the following two years he was with a large electrical house in Reading. His next change brought him to York, and he

In addition to other interests, Mr. Zone is one of the largest stockholders in the York Haven Canning Company, and he owns his pleasant home. He is a member of the M. C. Lodge of York, and takes an active interest in that organization. In politics he is a Republi- can. Both Mr. and Mrs. Zone have many friends.

W. SMITH HEIGES, an enterprising business man of York, Pa., connected with the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company, was born in that city Aug. 8, 1869, a son of Dr. Heiges, the leading dental surgeon of York, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere.

Mr. Heiges was educated in the York schools, completing the high school course, and subsequently entered the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated in 1889. He spent eighteen years altogether in. the drug house of Smith & Co., Market street, being there three years before he entered the College of Pharmacy. In 1903 he became as- sociated with George M. Rynick, the district agent of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company, and he has been more than usually successful in this line. He is well known to all the citizens of York, and enjoys public confi- dence and esteem.

Mr. Heiges has been very prominently iden- tified with several fraternal societies, particu- larly the Elks, of which he is past exalted ruler of York Lodge, No. 213; he is the only hono- rary life member of this lodge, the distinction having been conferred for services rendered. In 1904 he served as district deputy grand ex- alted ruler of the Elks for Central Pennsylva- nia, and declined a second term when this mark of esteem was tendered him. He is also past

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master artisan, A. O. M. Protection, and is vice-president of the Rex Hook and Ladder Company of York.

In politics Mr. Heiges votes with the Dem- ocratic party. He is an active member of St. John's Episcopal Church, and belongs to its vestry.

JAMES P. WEISER, one of York's en- terprising young business men, at the present time employed with the well known Reuben Ness Spoke Works, is a native of that city, born there in 1871. He is a son of Augustus Weiser, who followed farming, but was a car- penter by trade.

Mr. Weiser was educated in the common schools of his native city, and at an early age learned the electrotyping trade with the Hub- ley Printing Co., of York, where he remained nine years. Since leaving that concern he has been employed at the Reuben Ness Spoke Works, and is one of that company's most skilled mechanics.

Mr. Weiser was united in marriage with Miss Emma Heindel, daughter of William and Catherine (Wallick) Heindel. Mrs. Weiser's parents were very prominent in agricultural circles in York county, and the father died Nov. 19, 1889, since which time the mother has been making her home with Mrs. Weiser. Mr. and Mrs. Weiser have one son, Chester Augustus, a bright little fellow now attending school. They make their home at No. 874 East Market street, York.

JOHN THOMAS STARK, who since 1902 has held the position of night engineer at the York Manufacturing Company's plant in York, was born in that city April 2, 1847, son of John and Rachel (LeFevre) Stark.

John T. Stark attended the schools of York until the call for volunteers for the army in the Civil war, when he enlisted as a drummer boy, being but fourteen years old at the time. He served throughout the war, receiving his honorable discharge July 31, 1865. He then reenlisted in the regular army, and served until 1871, when he was discharged with the rank of sergeant. In that year he returned to York, engaging at different positions, seven years being spent on the York police force. In 1900 he engaged with the York Manufacturing Com- pany as watchman, in 1902 being promoted to the position of night engineer, an office he has since held.

In 1881 Mr. Stark married Ellen Motter, daughter of Joseph and Eva (Oberlin) Mot- ter, and to this union these children have been born: Anna J., a graduate of the York High school, who also attended the Millersville Nor- mal School in Lancaster county, is now teach- ing school in York; and George L., also a grad- uate of the York High school, is a draftsman for the York Manufacturing Company. In politics Mr. Stark is a Democrat, and is greatly interested in the success of his party in this section. He is a member of St. Paul's Luth- eran Church. He is popular in fraternal cir- cles and is a member of the Jr. O. U. A. M., Codorus Council No. 115; I. O. F., No. 853; the A. O. K. of M. C., No. 34; and the Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 37.

JOHN WILLIAM ROYER, of York, Pa., engaged in the grain, feed, flour, hay and straw business, was born March 12, 1865, at West- minster, Md., son of Amos Royer.

Amos Royer was a farmer of Westminster, Md., and he and his wife were the parents of the following children: Ida, who married Nathan E. Franklin, died at the age of thirty- three years; Mattie R., wife of George W. Hull, lives at Roland Park, Baltimore; David E. married Effie G. Shreiner, and lives in North Dakota ; and John William.

John William Royer attended the Meadow Branch school of his native State, and after graduating taught school for four years. In 1889 he was united in marriage with Lydia A. Aldinger, a daughter of Jacob and Eliza (Sprenkle) Aldinger. After his marriage he located on his father-in-law's farm, at the west- · ern part of York city, which is now known as Eberton, or West York. Here he remained eight years, following agricultural pursuits, the last two years being spent in trucking. He then came to York, where he purchased a fine residence on West King street. Mr. Royer built a fine factory, 36x25, three stories high, and engaged in the hay, grain, feed, flour and straw business in which he has continued very successfully ever since.

Mr. Royer's first wife died Oct. 29, 1902, and is buried at the Green Mount cemetery, York. They had the following children : Wal- ter, who was drowned in the reservoir at York, Oct. 9, 1903; Anna ; James ; David; John E .; Jacob N. and George A. On April 2, 1904, Mr. Royer was married (second) to Mary E. Graham, daughter of Amos Graham, of Fred-

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erick Co., Md. To this union has been born one daughter, Ruth Naomi, born April 30, 1905, at York, Pa. He united with the Ger- man Baptist Church at the age of seventeen years, Dec. 16, 1882, and later on became iden- tified with the Old Order Brethren, which or- ganization elected him to the ministry, Oct. 13, 1905.

ISAAC HARBOLD, the popular black- smith located at Hall, Washington township, York county, was born in 1865, in that town- ship, son of John and grandson of George Har- bold.

George Harbold, the grandfather, was born in York county, Pa., where he operated a mill and also farmed at Big Dam. His children were: Samuel, Daniel, Peter, John, Cather- ine and Susan.

John Harbold, father of Isaac, was born in Washington township, York county, and in manhood he bought a farm of 126 acres in his native township, on which he lived the rest of his life, dying at the age of fifty-eight years. His death took place at New Oxford, Adams county. He married Maria Baer, who resides at Hall. Their children, besides Isaac, the sub- ject proper of this sketch, were: Emory, a blacksmith at Middletown; Jesse, a blacksmith at Milton Grove, Lancaster county ; Wilson, a farmer in Washington township; John T., a druggist at Philadelphia; Joseph, a farmer at Tabor, Ia .; Annie, married and living at New Oxford; Ida, wife of John Bower, of Middle- town, Dauphin county; Gertrude, wife of Emanuel Z. Huntzer, of Hall; Mattie, wife of Noah Grove, of Reading township, Adams county ; Barbara, unmarried; and Fibbie, who died aged seventeen months.

Until he was seventeen years of age, Isaac Harbold attended school pretty regularly, and then assisted his father in cultivating the home farm until he was twenty-one years old, when he went into threshing and followed this busi- ness very successfully all through York county, for some nine years. Then he engaged in the implement business at Wellsville for a year, but in 1897 he came to his present stand at Hall. He has a convenient and well-fitted shop, 45×38 feet in dimensions, where he does general blacksmithing, repairing and painting of bug- gies. He also builds machinery for sawing. Being a careful and skilled mechanic, he has a large trade and through industry is accumulat- ing a competency.

Mr. Harbold married Ellen E. Renicker, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth F. Ren- icker, of Carroll county, Md. They have these children : Benjamin F., Annie E., Granville Eugene, Russell T. and Melvin. In poli- tics Mr. Harbold is a Democrat. He is a member of the Mennonite Church at Hall. He is a progressive, wide-awake young business man who possesses the respect and esteem of his whole community.

EARLE W. GARDNER. The city of York has attained distinctive precedence as a manufacturing and commercial center, and one of its most magnificent and important industrial concerns is the York Manufacturing Company, for which the subject of this review is the pur- chasing agent, while there can be naught of in- consistency in stating that he is one of the rep- resentative young business men of his native State, even as he is a member of one of the old and honored families of the Keystone Common- wealth. He is a grandson of Benjamin and Sabina E. Gardner, natives of Adams county.

Eugene C. Gardner, father of our subject, is the local editor of the Mechanicsburg Jour- nal, published in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland county. When a young man he was united in marriage to Miss Susan Wilson, daughter of Robert Wilson, of Mechanicsburg, where the latter was postmaster for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner became the parents of four children, as follows: Pauline died in 1896 at the age of twenty-two years; Bertha is the wife of Alfred J. Snyder, of Carlisle, this State, where he is engaged in the wholesale leather business; Grace remains at the parental home; and Earle W. is the immediate subject of this review.

Earle W. Gardner was born in Mechanics- burg, Cumberland county, Feb. 7, 1873, and after completing the work of the public schools of his native town he studied in the Chaffee Business College, in Oswego, N. Y., where he secured a very thorough training, ably fortify- ing himself for the practical duties of business, being graduated from that institution in the class of 1893. After leaving school he secured a position as stenographer in Philadelphia, where he remained for several months, and he then secured a position in the office of the Frick Company at Waynesboro, Pa., where he re- mained four years. At the expiration of that time, in 1897, he came to York and assumed the duties of his present position, for which he

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has proved eminently qualified, handling the offices, and he is most highly respected and very important details intrusted to his care with con- well known. summate discrimination and facility. In a fra- ternal way Mr. Gardner is identified with the GEORGE MALDEN BEARD, proprietor of the Beard Foundry Co., at Glenville, Pa., and one of the enterprising and successful men of this section of York county, was born Dec. 18, 1880, at Hanover, son of Henry H. and Sarah V. (Kruntz) Beard. P. O. S. of A., the Junior Order of American Mechanics and the Bachelor's Club. While re- siding in Waynesboro he was secretary of the Centennial Association and of the general com- mittee which inaugurated and carried to a suc- cessful outcome the centennial celebration which was given in 1897. Both he and his wife are zealous and valued members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. In politics our sub- ject is a Republican.

On Feb. 12, 1895, Mr. Gardner was united in marriage with Miss Florence M. Eberly, daughter of Benjamin F. Eberly, a lumber mer- chant of Adams county, and a veteran of the Civil war, in which he served as a member of Company I, 200th P. V. I., and was a member of the signal corps of that regiment. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner became the parents of three chil- dren, namely : Earle W., Jr., who died June 3, 1903, at the age of three years; and Jeane F. and Grace E., who are attending the public schools.

HARRY H. SWARTZ, a prosperous and enterprising young farmer of Jackson town- ship, York county, was born July 24, 1873, son of Jesse and Catherine (Hershey) Swartz. He received his education in the common schools of Jackson township. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Swartz removed to Illinois, where he re- mained for some time, and on his return to the place of his nativity he engaged with P. H. Glatfelter, at the paper-mill at Spring Grove. Finding that he preferred an agricultural life, Mr. Swartz rented a farm near Roth's church, where he remained about one year, in 190I purchasing his present home of 105 acres in Jackson township, which was formerly owned by his father, Jesse Swartz. Mr. Swartz has been very successful in his agricultural opera- tions and is justly considered one of the first- class farmers of the township.

In 1899 Mr. Swartz married Miss Sarah Sprenkle, daughter of Emanuel Sprenkle, and this union has been blessed with two children, K. Elizabeth and Ellen P. In religion the fam- ily are members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Swartz favors the Democratic party in politics. and always works for the interest of that party. He has been elected to some of the township

The Beard family is an old established one in the vicinity of Hanover, where William Beard, the grandfather, carried on a large car- riage business for a number of years. He mar- ried a Miss Bart, and they had issue as follows : Walter; William; Henry H .; George ; Mazzie, wife of John Sprenkle, resides in the city of York; and Sallie, wife of Elic Rhodes, lives at York.

Henry H. Beard, father of George M., was reared at Hanover and attended the local schools, learning the carriage painting business with his father, which he followed until his death in 1882, at the age of forty-five years. His burial was at Hanover. He married Sarah V. Kruntz, who still survives and lives at Han- over. Their children were: William H., who married Abice Altof, is foreman of a chair fac- tory at Hanover; Minnie is the wife of Cirtus Trone, of Hanover ; Edward B., associated with the Prudential Insurance Company, married Carrie Horner; Bertha K. is at home; and George Malden.

George Malden Beard attended the schools at Hanover until he was eighteen years of age, and then went to learn the trade of molding, first with the old Hanover Machine Co., completing his apprenticeship in one of the large foundry shops of Baltimore, where he spent fourteen months. After he returned to Hanover he was employed by John Fritz, and later in the American Foundry Machine shops at Hanover, where he continued until this plant was destroyed by fire in 1903.

Mr. Beard then came to Glenville and came into possession of his present large plant, form- erly the property of Jacob Klinefelter. Mr. Beard's foundry is 50x100 feet in dimensions, while the machine shop is 40x70 feet. Em- ployment is given twenty-five skilled workmen, and the output is all kinds of casting and gen- eral repair work. He has a large jobbing trade and makes a specialty of soil pipe. He has the large sewer contract with the city of Gettys- burg. Mr. Beard is a veritable business man,

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 182

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