History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 32

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

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Franklin D. Dietz

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HARRY I. GLADFELTER, postmaster at Hanover Junction, York Co., Pa., is en- gaged in the cigar manufacturing business. Mr. Gladfelter was born in North Codorus township Oct. 18, 1850, son of Benjamin Gladfelter.

Daniel Gladfelter, the grandfather of our subject, married a Miss Emig, and both died in York county.

Benjamin Gladfelter, son of Daniel, was born in 1812, in North Codorus township, where he received a common school education. He married Sarah Gibbons, and they located in North Codorus township, near Seven Val- ley, where he followed farming on his small farm, and died at the age of seventy-two years, his wife passing away at the age of seventy- one. Both are buried at the Ziegler Church in their native township. Their children were : Cornelius, deceased; Jesse, deceased; Nathan, a cigar manufacturer of Seven Valley ; Dallas, deceased : Dr. Jacob Allen, deceased; Aman- da, the wife of Samuel Gayman, of Sunbury, Pa .; Lucy A., wife of H. C. Kuntz, a large cigar manufacturer of Seven Valley; and Harry I.

Harry I. Gladfelter spent his school days at Ziegler's school, and after finishing his edu- cation taught school for two terms. He then became weighmaster at Seven Valley for the Thomas Iron Company, later coming to Han- over Junction as clerk for the railroad agent of the Northern Central railroad. He served as freight and passenger agent at Hanover Junction for the Hanover Junction, Hanover

In December, 1870, Mr. Dietz was united & Gettysburg Railroad Company fifteen years, in marriage to Miss Clayanna Jane Dosch, of also acted as postmaster, and had charge of the Western Union Telegraph from 1872 to 1904, when the Western Union wires were removed. He was also employed as superin- tendent by the Codorus Ore Company a few years, and in 1884 began the manufacture of cigars, in which he has since continued. He employs about thirty skilled workmen, selling most of his cigars in New York City and the West. He manufactures cigars from $14 to $60 per thousand, his special brand, which is in great demand, and is always as represented, being the "Belle of York." He has a two- story building which is conveniently located near the Northern Central railroad station. Windsor township. They have had children as follows : Mary M., wife of Henry C. Leader, a painter at Paradise, this county ; John C., who imarried Leah Sheaffer, of Glen Rock, and is associated with his father in the milling busi- ness; Harry S., who married Jennie Falken- stine, and is engaged in farming and general teaming in York township for his father; Dora Susan, who died at the age of thirteen years, and is buried in the beautiful Prospect Hill cemetery in York, as are also Edward, who died when one year old, and Charles, who died at the age of eight months; and Morris A., Ameda F. and Allen F., who are the younger children and still brighten the home circle.

Mr. Gladfelter married Miss Mary Estelle Wheeler, daughter of Darius Wheeler, of Baltimore, Md. Mr. Gladfelter is a Democrat politically, and served as township auditor six years. He is a member of the Seven Val- ley Lutheran Church, where he has served of- ficially as leader of the choir.

REV. CHRISTIAN NESS, known throughout York county for the great and good work he has accomplished as a minister of the Gospel, comes from one of the early and hon- ored families of the county.

John Jacob Nes, as the name was then spelled, the great-grandfather of our subject, came from Germany and settled in Shrewsbury township, York Co., Pa., following farming as an occupation.

Michael Nes, son of John Jacob, was also a farmer, following that vocation in Spring- field township. He married (first) a Miss Swartz, and after her death, a Miss Frey. He was a large land owner, and died at the age of eighty-six years in York township, being buried at Blimyer's church. Michael Nes was a Lutheran, and was very active in church work. His children were : Michael, Jacob, John. Henry, George. Samuel, Emanuel, Polly and Elizabeth.

Of the above family. George Ness was the father of our subject. He was born in 1802 in Springfield township, and received a com- mon school education. On reaching maturity he took the old homestead in Springfield town- ship. George Ness married Mary Mvers, and after her death he married (second) Elizabetlı Bankert. Mr. Ness was a faithful member of

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the Dunkard Church, and died in that faith at in 1858, and was ordained a minister June 4, the age of seventy-six years, being buried in 1866, at the home of Samuel Bowser, in Shrewsbury township, since which time he has been an active worker, preaching all over the county. Since 1892 he has lived retired from active life. He is the oldest minister in the Church, and is loved and honored by all who know him. the home burying ground on the farm. The children born to him and his first wife were: Rev. Christian, Sallie and Mary. To his second wife were born: George, in Springfield town- ship, married Sarah Feigley; Leah is the wife of Reuben Sprenkle of York township; and Elizabeth is the wife of Mr. Meyers.

Christian Ness was born Oct. 8, 1830, and received his preliminary education in the pub- lic schools of his native township, assisting his father at farming. In 1854 he married Cathi- erine Stiles, daughter of Jacob Stiles, and she died in 1890, and was buried at the Dunkard Church, of which she was a faithful member. The children born to this union were as fol- lows: Jacob, of Harrisburg ; George, of York township; Albert, of Springfield township; Thomas, also of Springfield township; Edward, of York; Mary, wife of Albert Reigart; Sarah, the wife of Levi Krout, of Springfield town- ship; Leah, the wife of S. B. Myers, a farmer of Springfield township, who was ordained a minister in the Dunkard Church, May 26, 1896; and Catherine, the wife of Milton Myers, came from the Fatherland in the Colonial era of Hopewell township. After the death of his of our national history. Simon A. Barshinger, was born on his father's farm, in Windsor widow of Joseph Myers, who was a farmer of township, this county, Aug. 7, 1863, son of Emanuel and Catherine ( Anstine) Barshinger. first wife Mr. Ness married Catherine Myers, Springfield township, and died in 1864, aged forty-five years in the faith of the Dunkard John Barshinger, grandfather of Simon A., married Susan Stabley, and they became the parents of nine children : George, Jacob, An- drew, John, Benjamin, Henry, Susan and Cath- erine (wife of John Streavig), all deceased ; and Emanuel. Church, leaving these children : Salome, wife of Samuel K. Hartman, of Springfield town- ship; Leah, wife of F. M. Baugher, living in Jefferson borough; Mary, wife of Milton Leh- man, of Springfield township; Samuel B., who married Leah Ness; and Andrew, who died at the age of four years.

Samuel Bowser, father of Mrs. Catherine Ness, was a farmer of Shrewsbury township, and her mother was Mary Hershey. Mr. Bow- ser died at the age of eighty-two years, leav- ing children : Mrs. Ness, the wife of our sub- ject : Elizabeth ; Margaret ; Samuel ; Lydia and Christian ; Mary, the wife of Charles B. King, of New Freedom, York county ; Benjamin H., living on the old homestead in Shrewsbury township, and Julia, the wife of Lewis Kraber, of York.

Mr. and Mrs. Ness reside on her farm of 240 acres, Mr. Ness owning another farm of 160 acres near Loganville. They have had no children. Rev. Mr. Ness united with the church

SIMON A. BARSHINGER, the owner and operator of the Kohler flouring mill in North Hopewell township, one of the oldest mills in the county, is a representative of one of the pioneer families of this section of the old Keystone state, and has here passed his entire life thus far, while he has gained through worthy and well-directed effort a position of prominence as a business man and a success which is of no indefinite order. In the early epoch when York county was yet to a large extent a wilderness, the Barshinger family came thither, and in each generation have been found men of sturdy integrity and sterling cit- izenship. The lineage traces back to German origin, and the original American progenitors

Emanuel Barshinger was born and reared in York county. He married Catherine Anstine, daughter of Simon B. and Mary Ann Anstine, sterling pioneers of this county, whose other children were: Amos; Daniel; Susan, wife of Philip Laucks, of Windsor township; and Ma- ria, wife of Jacob Landis, of Windsor town- ship. Of the children of Emanuel and Cath- erine Barshinger, all except Simon A. are deceased, the others being: Franklin Porter, Adam Emanuel and Mary Catherine. The parents make their home in Red Lion, and both are active in the Reformed Church. Mr. Bar- shinger is a Democrat.

Simon A. Barshinger passed his boyhood days on the home farm, early beginning to as- sist in its work, while his educational advant-

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ages were those afforded by the public schools of his native township. He attended the Koons school during a portion of each year until he had attained the age of sixteen years. In his youth he was employed for a time in the An- stine mill, in Windsor township, and later be- came again associated with his father in the work and management of the home farm, re- maining thus engaged until 1885, when he embarked in the same line of enterprise upon his own responsibility, becoming the owner of a fine farm property in North Hopewell township, and there continuing his residence until 1891, when he identified himself with his present industrial undertaking, having success- fully operated the Kohler mill since that date. As before stated, this is one of the oldest mills in the county, having been erected about 1853, by Jacob Kohler. The mill is now equipped with the best modern machinery and accessories having a capacity for the output of about thirty barrels of flour per day and controlling a large custom trade, besides a considerable outside business. Mr. Barshinger gives his personal supervision to the mill, and is known as a reliable and progressive business man and public-spirited citizen. In politics he is an un- compromising advocate of the principles and policies of the Democratic party, in whose ranks he has been an active and influential worker in a local way, having been for many years a member of the election board of North Hope- well township, and having served in various local offices of trust, while in the Democratic county convention in August, 1904, he was nominated for representative in the State Leg- islature, but suffered defeat at the polls in the following November. Both he and his wife are members of the Reformed church, and fra- ternially he is affiliated with Dallas Lodge, No. 1017, I. O. O. F., in Dallastown.

On Sept. 22, 1885, Mr. Barshinger was united in marriage to Miss Ellen Grove, daugh- ter of Charles and Leah (Seachrist) Grove, well known and honored residents of Wind- sor township, and of this union have been born three children : Clarence Franklin, Charles Emanuel and Edith May, all at home.

· GIBSON SMITH (deceased). son of Abraham and Salome ( Smith) Smith, in 1852 married Susan E. Fahs. For the first four years after his marriage he engaged in the

management of a rented flour-mill, after which he bought from William Wilt a coal-yard lo- cated on North Water street, York, giving his entire attention to this business until his death, in 1888. He was buried at Prospect Hill. Two sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith, namely: Edgar Fahs, born in Manchester township, May 23, 1853, who married Miss Margaret A. Gruel, and resides in Philadel- phia ; and Allen John, born in York, on Dec. 8, 1863, who married Pearl Pierce and lives in Philadelphia.

Mrs. Smith was born in West Manchester township June 10, 1829. daughter of John and Susan (Ilgenfritz) Fahs. Mrs. Smith's pa- ternal grandparents were John and Eva (Feiser) Fahs, the former a native of Dauphin county, Pa., and in later life a blacksmith of York. He followed that trade for about fifty years, and then lived retired until his death, in 1835, when he was laid to rest in Prospect Hill cemetery.

JOHN FAHS (2), born in York in 1792, attended the public schools until he was four- teen years of age, and then worked in his father's smithy until he was twenty. In 1822 he married Miss Susan Ilgenfritz, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Crone) Ilgenfritz, of York county, and began farming in West Man- chester township. After his father's death he inherited a farm which he conducted for fifteen years, and then, retiring in 1850, removed to York, and spent the balance of his life there. He passed away Sept. 6, 1880, and was interred at Prospect Hill. Mrs. Smith received a com- mon school education, and in 1852, when twenty-three years of age, was united in mar- riage to Gibson Smith.

JOHN F. PATTON, proprietor of the City Drug Store, so well known to the citizens of York. Pa., was born in Lower Windsor township, York county, on Dec. 15. 1839, son of Ebenezer and Rebecca (Smith) Patton. Mr. Patton's grandfather, John Patton, was born in County Antrim. North of Ireland. while his grandmother, who had been Margaret McGowan, was born in County Tyrone. In 1780, soon after their marriage. this worthy couple emigrated to America and located in Chester county. Pa. They had fifteen chil- dren-twelve boys and three girls. Both grandparents died at the age of eighty years 'or upward.

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Ebenezer Patton was the eighth son of this couple and early in life learned the shoemaker's trade. He moved to Chanceford township. In 1820 he was married to Rebecca Smith, of Lan- caster county. The other brothers and sisters located in Chester, Lancaster and Berks coun- ties, and the family became very numerous. Ebenezer Patton died at the age of forty-nine years, and the mother with her eight children moved to Wrightsville, York county, where she died in the year 1852.

John F. Patton, the fourth son of the fam- ily, received his education in the common schools. In 1853 he located at York and en- gaged as a clerk in a dry-goods store. In the spring of 1856 he entered the drug store of Dr. Jacob Hay, Sr., to learn the business for which he has since proved himself so admir- ably fitted. He entered the wholesale drug establishment of Thomsen & Block, of Balti- more, in 1859, remaining there until 1866. During the latter year he went to St. Louis, but on account of sickness remained there but a few months. In the year 1869 he began the drug business for himself in a small room on the north side of West Market street, York, on the site of his present handsome and com- modious establishment.

In 1873 Dr. Patton moved his store to the large business room of Martin Bender, nearly opposite the "Motter House." There he pros- pered greatly, enjoying a constantly growing trade. The familiar name of "City Drug Store" was found in the newspapers of the county, and on all of the conspicuous adver- tising places that could be utilized. His in- dustry, progressive business methods and close application were rewarded with unusual pros- perity, but the disastrous flood of June, 1884, played sad havoc with his stores, which were almost totally wrecked, and Mr. Patton barely escaped with his life. He had already begun the erection of the new City Drug Store, a three- story brick building, with a large and elegant store room, which he stocked and fitted up on a more extensive scale than ever, in September, 1884. In this place he continued to meet with a well deserved patronage, enjoying a wide and lucrative trade.

Mr. Patton is a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church of York. He was president of the Pennsylvania State Pharmaceutical As- sociation in 1891, was made president of the

American Pharmaceutical Association in 1900, and presided over the national meeting at St. Louis in 1901. In addition to these honors, Mr. Patton was a member of the council of the National Association, having served on the administrative committee for a period of three years, beginning in 1902, this committee con- sisting of fifteen members, elective from the entire body of druggists of the United States.

SAMUEL M. MANIFOLD, who enjoys the distinction of being the first sheriff of York county ever elected by the Republican party, is of Scotch-Irish descent, his ancestors having settled in York county about 1730.

Henry Manifold, his paternal grandfather, was a son of Joseph Manifold, who was a pri- vate in Capt. John Moffit's Company in the Revolutionary war-a company that also in- cluded among its members David Mckinley, great-grandfather of President William Mc- Kinley. Henry Manifold was an elder in the Hopewell Presbyterian Church.

Joseph Manifold, son of Henry and father of Samuel M., was a farmer in Lower Chance- ford township, and he died in 1889, aged sev- enty-four years. He married Rebecca P. Mar- tin, daughter of Rev. Samuel Martin, D. D., a distinguished Presbyterian divine, who had preached at Slate Ridge and Chanceford churches for a period of forty-two years, and who died in York county. Six children were born to Joseph Manifold and his wife, as fol- lows : Rosanna E., who married Zenas H. Dougherty, of Lower Chanceford ; William F .. a farmer of Lower Chanceford; Margaret J .; Keziah, who married C. C. Smith ; Henry, and Samuel M.

Samuel M. Manifold was born in Hopewell township, May 8, 1842, and was educated in the schools of that district. His first occupa- tion was farming, which he followed, off and on, until he was thirty years old. During the war of the Rebellion he enlisted in the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, being promoted from time to time, and when mustered out of service was a second lieutenant. He spent the first year of his enlistment in the Shenandoah Val- ley, where the cavalry regiment, of which he was a member was dismounted and brigaded with the infantry, taking part in the battles of Spottsylvania. Cold Harbor, Petersburg and others. In 1864 his regiment was remounted

Ommanifolie

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and attached to Gregg's Cavalry Division, graduate of Wilson College, married John S. Army of the Potomac, with which he served. McCoy, secretary of the York Card & Paper until the end of the war. After the close of Company; Myra Ross, who is a graduate of hostilities he served in the provost marshal's the Women's College, Baltimore, class of 1905, is teaching in Porto Rico; Emily Martin is a graduate of the York high school, class of 1905; Keziah W. is at the Women's College, class of 1909; Margaret Brinton is a student in the York Collegiate Institute, class of 1909. office at Lynchburg, Va., and Campbell Court House, where the oath of amnesty was admin- istered to Gen. Longstreet and many other prominent Confederates. Mr. Manifold's war record is one of which any man might well be proud, and it is a notable fact that he was never sick or absent from duty a single day of his term of enlistment.

When peace had again settled over the land Lieut. Manifold returned to farming, continu- ing at that until 1872, when he went to rail- roading, and was attached to the engineer corps who were surveying the Peach Bottom railroad. In 1874 he became chief engineer in charge of construction, and built the last twen- ty miles of that road. In 1878 he became the superintendent of the York & Peach Bottom railroad. His next position was that of road- throughout York county.

master of the Baltimore & Lehigh railroad, in which capacity he continued for several years, or until 1891. In the latter year he surveyed the extension of the Stewartstown railroad into Delta, York county, after which he accepted a position in the transportation department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Wash- ington, D. C. His next position was that of master of transportation of the Baltimore & Lehigh railroad, from which he was promoted to the office of general manager, and later be- came superintendent of the Baltimore & Har- risburg division of the Western Maryland rail- road, being promoted to general superintend- ent. On Jan. 1, 1904, Mr. Manifold was called to the position of general manager of the York Street Railway Company, being in charge of the constructing and superintending from three hundred to four hundred men. He was also manager of the Edison Electric Light Company of York. At present, besides acting as sheriff, he is chief engineer of the New Park and Fawn Grove Reservoir.

Mr. Manifold was married Jan. 1, 1875, to Sarah E. Gregg, daughter of George and Sophia Gregg, farming people of York county, and eight children have been born to this union, as follows: Granger R. died at the age of two years; Rebecca P. died at the age of four years ; J. Howard is an attorney-at-law, whose sketch will be found following; Rose Elma, a

Sheriff Manifold belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Heptasophs, and York Post, No. 37, G. A. R. He is a member of and a deacon in the First Presby- terian Church. He has always been an active worker in the ranks of the Republican party, and was twice elected to the city council of York, having been returned from the Fifth and Sixth wards. His triumphant election to the office of sheriff on the Republican ticket during the memorable campaign of 1904 gave abund- ant evidence of Mr. Manifold's popularity

JOSEPH HOWARD MANIFOLD is a son of S. M. Manifold, general manager of the York Traction Company, and sheriff of the county, and is a native of the city of York, born April 26, 1875. There his boyhood days were passed, and his early educational train- ing was secured in the excellent public schools of the city, and he then entered the York Col- legiate Institute, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1892. In the au- tumn of 1894 he matriculated in the law depart- ment at Yale, where he completed the pre- scribed course, and was graduated in 1896, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, while in the following year the degree of Master of Laws was conferred upon him by his alma mater. In the same year he was admitted to the Bar of the State of Connecticut, and in December, 1898, he was admitted to practice in the courts of his native county, where he gained his first practical experience. He is meeting with excellent success both as an at- torney and counselor, and enjoys marked pop- ularity in the professional, business and social circles of his native city. He is one of the rep- resentative younger members of the Bar of York county, is a gentleman of high scholar- ship and technical learning, and has won no uncertain prestige in his chosen vocation, though but a few years have elapsed since he

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gained admission to the Bar. In politics he ac- cords an unswerving allegiance to the Republi- can party, taking much interest in its cause, be- ing one of the active young working members in the local ranks of the party. He is a mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church. Socially he belongs to the Bachelors Club of York.

JOSEPH HARRISON WALLAZZ, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, born March 1, 1874, graduated from Girard College in 1892. He is now representing R. G. Dun & Company, in York and Adams counties, of which he has had charge since 1898. Mr. Wal- lazz is careful and painstaking, and his reports can always be relied upon. His wife was Mary Edith Dodson, daughter of William M. Dod- son.

HENRY B. KING, M. D., is a member of one of the old and distinguished families of this section of the Keystone State, with whose an- nals the name which he bears has been indis- solubly linked ever since the early pioneer era. He was born in the city of York in 1860, son of E. A. and Arabella F. (Nes) King, both of whom were likewise natives of York county, where their entire lives were passed. The for- mer passed to his eternal rest in 1877, and the latter in 1882. E. A. King was an influential and successful business man, having been a skilled sculptor and marble cutter and having for a number of years been engaged in business along this line in York, while he was also iden- tified with the phosphate trade and with the milling industry and general farming. Being a man of alert mentality, inflexible integrity of character and marked ability, he attained to a high degree of success in temporal affairs and commanded the most unqualified confidence and esteem in the community which was his home for the major portion of his earnest and useful life. He was a stanch Republican in his polit- ical proclivities.

Dr. Henry Nes, the Doctor's maternal grandfather, was one of the most honored and able of the pioneer physicians and surgeons of York county, where he continued to reside until his death. No man in the county was held in higher regard, and this fact was emphasized by his having been chosen to represent his dis- trict in Congress, of which he was a member for several terms.

Henry B. King completed the curriculum of the public schools of York and continued his studies in the York County Academy. He early determined to prepare himself for the noble profession in which he has met with such signal success and gained such noteworthy pres- tige. He began reading medicine under the pre- ceptorship of Dr. Benjamin F. Spangler, one of York's leading practitioners, and matricu- lated at famous old Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, where he was graduated in the class of 1883, receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. In addition to his three years' course in Jefferson Medical Col- lege he also took a post-graduate course in the institution. His ample fortification for the ac- tive work of his profession has been best shown in his record as a practitioner. He is a close student, and has recourse to the best standard and periodical literature pertaining to the med- ical and surgical sciences, while his devotion to the work of his profession has been constant. He has been successfully established in York since he began practice, and he is one of the valued members of the York County Medical Society, and the Pennsylvania State Medical Society.

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 32

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