History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 36

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

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Charles E. Smith was born in Windsor township, York county, Oct. 2. 1873. His

preliminary education was received in the Freysville public schools, which he attended until he was seventeen years of age. After being a student at the York County Academy for a time he was engaged to teach the Cedar Hill school in Windsor township. After one term there he was installed as teacher of the Fairview school. He met with no little suc- cess as a teacher, and, being thorough himself and naturally in love with his work, he be- came a source of inspiration to those under him, and he was able to accomplish much of permanent good. He entered the Millersville State Normal School, and was graduated therefrom in the class of 1895. Following his graduation he became principal of the schools of Washington borough, Lancaster county, and then later was a teacher in the York Coun- ty Academy. The last named position he re- signed to become principal of the Red Lion schools, where he was retained for a period of seven years, during which time he had occasion to refuse the principalship of the Johnstown schools, which he was earnestly urged to ac- cept. Not alone did he win a high reputation as a successful instructor and disciplinarian, but he gained the honest respect of all who came to know him. His profession as teacher was relinquished only when he was elected cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Na- tional Bank, at Red Lion-a position he has filled with signal ability ever since.

On Aug. 16, 1902, Mr. Smith was married to Miss J. Irene Smith, daughter of R. T. and Elizabeth (Hermann) Smith, the former a cigar manufacturer of Red Lion. Mrs. Smith was born in Windsorville Jan. 27, 1881, and received a substantial education in the schools of Windsorville and Red Lion and at Lebanon Valley College. She is an accomplished mu- sician, and prior to her marriage was engaged as a music teacher. Both Mr. Smith and his wife are active in the work of the United Brethren Church, of which they are both mem- bers. In his political belief Mr. Smith is a Democrat, as was his father before him.

HENRY KAUFFMAN DEHUFF, a re- tired business man of York, was born in Dills- burg, York county, March 16, 1828, son of Abraham Dehuff. The father was born in York, Nov. 15, 1798, and received his educa- tion in the common schools of the town. By

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occupation he was a maker of watches and fobs, and continued to work in that specialty until his death in 1895, at the age of ninety-six. He married Miss Maria Lynch, who was born in Botetourt county, Va., and five children were born of this union: Henry K. was the eldest. Francis Marion, born March 24. 1830, died in 1887, and is buried in Prospect Hill cemetery. Sarah Ann became Mrs. Conrad C. Leiben, and lives in Minneapolis. Annie E., living in York, is the widow of Dr. Frank Koch. George W. died in York in 1872, and is buried in the Prospect Hill cemetery.

Henry K. Dehuff was given an ordinary public school education, and when eighteen years old made his first essay in business, be- ginning as a dry-goods merchant and continu- ing in that line until 1852. The following year he went to California, when he spent four years employed in government surveying and in min- ing. Returning to York in 1857, he entered into a lifelong partnership with his brother. For the first ten years they were engaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements, but in 1872 they turned their attention to the jewelry business. After the death of Francis M. Dehuff. in 1887, Henry K. continued to conduct the business until 1894, in that year retiring from active life. He has since lived quietly in York, respected and esteemed by all who know him. In his political sentiments Mr. Dehuff is a Democrat.

attended this institution I know of none pos- sessed of superior ability, or more deserving than him. 1 regard him in short as a young man of superior worth and rare capacity as a thorough practical accountant."

In 1878 he located in Hanover, Pa., be- coming bookkeeper and clerk in the store of Grove & Carver, later Carver & Little. He continued in this position for twenty years. In 1898 he relinquished the mercantile business, and established an Insurance, Brokerage and Real Estate Agency, which he still continues very successfully. During the same year lie became the general manager of the Hanover Telephone Company, and continued as such for about three years, when largely through his influence, the stock of said company was sold at over one and three-fourth times its par value. In 1902 he was elected president and general manager of the Consumers' Water Company, of Hanover, Pa., also, in the same year, president and general manager of the McSherrystown Water Company. To both these positions he has been re-elected each year since then. He is a director in the First National Bank of Hanover, Pa., and has been a member of its Finance committee for over six years. In politics he is a Republican, but always declined any political office. He also owns and manages three good farms near East Berlin, Pa., and is financially interested in several of the leading industries of the borough of Hanover.

JOHN HENRY BROUGH was born in On Nov. 8, 1880, Mr. Brough married Ida M. Young, a most estimable lady, to whose de- votion to her husband and family may be at- tributed much of their success in life. She is the oldest daughter of William Jacob Young, and Louisa.Catharine (Eichelberger ) Young. To this union were born three chil- dren : Charles Young Brough, who is a grad- uate of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., Class of 1904, Mechanical Engineering, and at present employed by J. S. Young & Co .; Katie May Brough, a graduate of the Womans College of Baltimore, Md., Class of 1905, and who in her Senior year was awarded a scholar- ship to the Marine Biological Laboratory, in Woods Holl, Mass .: and Myra Elizabeth Brough, a member of the Class of 1907. Wil- son College, Chambersburg, Pa., at present at R'eading township, Adams Co., Pa., Jan. 21, 1855. As a boy he attended the common schools in said township and East Berlin, Pa., and assisted in doing farm work; at the age of sixteen he taught school in the building where he began his school-boy days, and dur- ing the following three winters taught the same school, continuing teaching for seven consecutive winters. In 1876 he entered the store of T. W. Belt, corner George and King streets, York, but a year later took a course of study in the Iron City Commercial College, of Pittsburg, Pa., and in addition to his di- ploma was given a very flattering letter from Prof. J. C. Smith, principal and owner of said college. One extract from this letter reads: "He has shown himself while here to be unusually quick, accurate and reliable. Of home. The family are members of St. Mark's the nearly twenty thousand students who have Lutheran Church of Hanover. Pennsylvania.

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Hermanus Bruch, great-great-grandfather of our subject, landed in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 20, 1743, from the ship "Lydia," whose master was James Abercrombie, shipped from Rotterdam, last from Cowes, England, and was the first Bruch who landed in the Colonies. [This information is from I. D. Rupp's 20,000 names of the first settlers]. From Prof. M. G. Brumbaugh's History of the German Bap- tist Church we learn that in 1770 Hermanus Bruch was a member of Upper Conewago Ger- man Baptist Congregation (Mummerts), which was established in 1741. On Jan. 6, 1786, Hermanus Bruch bought from David Myers a farm near East Berlin, Pa., which is one of the three farms now owned by John Henry Brough, and for which he has a continui- ous chain of title from then until he became the owner. Hermanus Bruch died in 1796, leav- ing issue. One of his children was Jacob, who was the great-grandfather of John Henry Brough. Letters of Administration were granted May 24, 1796, to Peter Brough, eld- est son of Hermanus Bruch, and John Stauf- fer. The father spelled his name Bruch, the son Brough. Peter Brough died Jan. 23, 1823; the administrators of his estate were Michael Haines and John Miley. Jacob, the great-grandfather of John Henry Brough, spelled his name Brugh.

Jacob Brugh was born July 5, 1752, and died Sept. 25, 1828, aged seventy-six years, two months and twenty days. He was mar- ried to Sophia Trimmer, who was born Feb. 3. 1752, a daughter of Andrew Trimmer, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. She died May 8, 1835, aged eighty-three years, three months and five days. Jacob and his wife are buried in a graveyard located on the north bank of the Conewago, below Diehl's Mill, about three miles from East Berlin, Pa. About fifty people, mostly Trimmers and Dier- dorffs, are buried there. Jacob Brugh had six children : John, who was the grandfather of our subject; Catherine, who married Abra- ham Trostle: Lizzie, who married Isaac Bow- ers ; Sallie, who married Jacob First: Andrew ; and Polly, who married Christian Picking.

John Brough. grandfather of John H., was born Feb. 15. 1784, and died April 21. 1848, aged sixty-four years, two months, and six days. He married Hannah Bowers, who was

born June 24, 1788, and died Oct. 20, 1854, aged sixty-six years, three months and twenty- six days. Both are buried at Mummerts Ger- man Baptist Meeting House near East Berlin, Pa. He was a farmer and besides for many years before railroads were built he drove a team from Philadelphia and Baltimore to Pittsburg and Wheeling, W. Va., hauling mer- chandise; he took great pride in having one of the best teams on the road. They had six children : (1) Abraham married Susanna Al- bert, a daughter of Rev. Mr. Albert, of the

Lutheran Church. They had three children. Abraham is buried at Ground Oak Church, near Trostle's Mill. His widow survived him, but is now also deceased. (2) Saralı, the only daughter, was born Nov. 13, 1812, and died March 16, 1884, aged seventy-one years, four months, and three days. She is buried at Mum- mert's Meeting House, She married Peter Studebaker, who was of the family that now manufacture the "Studebaker Wagons," after his death marrying Philip Brechbill. of Boil- ing Springs, Cumberland Co., Pa. She never had any children. (3) Emanuel, born Jan. 27, 1814, married Caroline Shultz, who bore him ten children, six of whom died young. The other four still live and are: Andrew, of near Bendersville: Edward, of Biglerville; Mary, who married Abraham Deitrich. of York Springs; and Hannah, who married James Leer, of near Clear Spring. York Co., Pa .; each of these four children has children. After the death of Emanuel's first wife he mar- ried Mrs. Catherine Mumper, who was a widow and a sister of his first wife. She still lives in Gettysburg, Pa. Emanuel died Feb. 23, 1879, and is buried at the Latimore Meeting House. He was a farmer, but for a number of years before his death lived retired in York Springs. (4) Jacob was born Sept. 10, 1815. He married Leah Eliker, and they had eight children, one of whom died young, the others growing up and marrying : Peter, William and Levi are farmers and live near Latimore P. O., Adams Co., Pa. Jacob and Susan are de- ceased. Kate and Sarah are widows, each having children living. Jacob was a farmer and died Oct. 7. 1873. while actively engaged in farming. He is buried at Latimore Meeting House.

(5) Andrew Brongh. father of John Henry was born near East Berlin, Pa., Dec. 18, 1817,

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and was reared on his father's farm. On Jan. farm, and remained there until his death, which 16, 1845, he married Eve Harbold, who died occurred Oct. 26, 1902, he dying very sud- June 20, 1846, and is buried at Latimore Meet- ing House. To this union one daughter, Sarah was born Oct. II. 1845. She married Jacob Leas, and died Oct. 26, 1900, leaving one daughter, Kate, who is married to S. Ambrose Trostle, and has four children. On Jan. 17, 1850, Andrew Brough married Catharine Agnes Arnold (mother of John Henry Brough), who was born Feb. I. 1826, and is now living on the corner of Baer avenue and Middle street, Hanover, Pa., enjoying good health, and retaining in a wonderful measure her mental faculties. She reads very much and retains well what she has read, rememb- ering things that happened during any part of her long and useful life. She is a consistent member of the German Baptist Church and

dently. He retired in his usual health, but about midnight his wife discovered he was dead. He is buried at Mummerts Meeting House, having been a member of the German Baptist Church, and for many years a min- ister in said church. He was married to Sus- anna Gochnauer, who was living at the home where he died at the time of her death. in 1905, when she was laid to rest beside her husband. They had five children: Emma died young. Sarah married Franklin Eisen- hart, a miller and they had nine children : Sarah died Jan. 26, 1892, and is buried at Holtz-Schwamm Church, about three miles from East Berlin; she was a member of the German Reformed Church. Mary married Benjamin Malaun Miller, who has for many loves to attend preaching services. She is, years been a justice of the peace and is success- and for many years has been, a Bible student, fully engaged in farming and lime burning; they have three children. Lizzie married Michael Burgard, an extensive and successful farmer, and they have five children. William E. married Kate Baugher, and they have two children ; he lives where his father died and is engaged in farming. and can quote from memory passage after pas- sage from the Scriptures, and endeavors to live an exemplary Christian life. To this union were born two children: John Henry, born Jan. 21. 1855, and Catherine Alice, born Oct. 23, 1857. The latter died June 26, 1890, aged thirty-two years, eight months and three MATERNAL ANCESTRY. days. She was a noble girl, beloved and ad- mired by a very large circle of acquaintances. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Hanover, Pa., and is buried at Mum- merts Meeting House.

Andrew Brough died Oct. 26, 1898, aged eighty years, ten months and eight days. He retained his mental faculties until the last mo- ment of his life, was conscious until the last breath, and died very peacefully. He was a member of the German Baptist Church and is buried at Mummerts Meeting House. He was a man of noble qualities, was as honest as steel, and his word was as good as a bond. By carefully managing his farms he acquired con- siderable of an estate, for many years being actively engaged in farming, but during the last twenty years of his life he lived retired in the borough of East Berlin, Pennsylvania.

(6) John Brough, the youngest of the fam- ily of John and Hannah (Bowers) Brough, was born Oct. 5. 1830, near East Berlin, Pa. After the death of his father he became the owner of the farm where he was born, about 1865 erecting buildings on one part of the

Abraham Arnold, great-grandfather of John Henry Brough, was born Oct. 5, 1761, and died Oct. 25, 1827, aged sixty-six years, twenty days. He was married to Catherine Close, who when she died was aged sixty- eight years, five months and nineteen days, both being buried at Mummerts Meeting House. (John W. Garret, former president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company, was a brother-in-law.) They had four chil- drden, Jacob, Abraham, Catharine and Eliza- beth.

Jacob Arnold, grandfather of John Henry Brough, was born June 16, 1791. He mar- ried Nancy Kauffman, a daughter of Henry Kauffman, and a twin sister of Rev. Andrew Dierdorff (who was the father of Rev. Daniel Dierdorff, of Franklin Grove, Ill.), also a sis- ter of the wife of Rev. Daniel Trimmer. father of D. K. Trimmer, Esq., of York, Pa. She was born Jan. 12, 1802, and died Feb. 21, 1848, aged forty-six years, one month and nine days. She was one of the most useful women of her time, was a devout Christian, and beloved by every one who knew her. She

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is buried at Mummerts Meeting House. They ternally and maternally of Philip Frederick had two children, Nancy, born March 17, 1823, and Catharine Agnes (mother of J. H. Brough), born Feb. 1, 1826. Nancy married Jacob LeFevre, and they had two children, Jacob and Henrietta, both of whom are living in Ohio. Nancy died Sept. 24, 1853, and is buried at Mummerts Meeting House. Jacob Arnold (grandfather of J. H. Brough) died Sept. 18, 1864, aged seventy-three years, three months and two days, from the effects of a paralytic stroke received the day before. He was a noble Christian man, unusually well versed in the Scriptures, a member of the Ger- man Baptist Church, and he was highly es- teemed by all who knew him. During most of his life he was engaged in farming, mer- cantile pursuits, and manufacturing blankets and woolens. He is buried at Mummerts Meeting House.

Abraham Arnold was born March 29, 1797. He was married to Anna Baker, and they had three children. He died in Hanover, Pa., July 11, 1878, aged eighty-one years, three months, and twelve days. He was a car- penter, a good mechanic, and a very jovial man. He is buried at Mummerts Meeting House; his wife Anna died March 22, 1882, aged sixty-seven years, eleven months and seventeen days, and is buried at Mummerts Meeting House.

Catharine, sister of Jacob Arnold, married Joseph Grove. They had four children, one of whom died young. The others were : Nancy married John Nicholas Kimmel and for many years lived near Wadesville, Va. They had two children, Andrew Jackson and Abra- ham, both married and living in Virginia. John Nicholas Kimmel and his wife Nancy are deceased. Barbara, who married Peter Shaf- fer, of Dillsburg, had several children, one of her daughters being married to Michael Ben- der, a prominent business man of Dillsburg. Abraham, of York Springs, married Mrs. Mollie Leatshaw, a widow, who was the daughter of Jacob Shaffer, of York Springs, and has one son.

Elizabeth, sister of Jacob Arnold, married John Grove, and had seven children : Frances, Adam, Abraham, Samuel, John, Catharine and Susan.

ANCESTRY OF IDA M. YOUNG BROUGH.

Ida M. Young, wife of John H. Brough, was born May 6, 1861, and is a descendant pa-

Eichelberger, the emigrant and head of the Eichelberger family in America, he being her . great-great-great-grandfather and born in Germany April 17, 1693. On Nov. 1I, 1714, he married Anna Barbara Dorness, and they. had five children, John Martin, Anna Mar- garetta, John Frederick, Margaret Barbara, Anna Barbara or Elizabeth. By his second marriage, in March, 1736, to Mary Magda- lene -, he had four children, Adam, born May 12, 1739 (who is the maternal great-great- grandfather), Jacob, born Sept. 26, 1746 (who is the paternal great-great-grandfather), Leonard, born Aug. 12, 1750, and Lewis, born in 1752. Philip Frederick died Sept. 19, 1776.

Adam Eichelberger, commonly called "Capt. Adam," married Magdalene Bechtel in 1761, and died Dec. 9, 1787. "He was a stout, lusty man, over six feet in height, weighed over two hundred pounds, had light hair and eyes, and was noted for his great kindness of heart and genial temperament." Soon after his marriage his father gave over to him the "Home Place" (later known as the Charles Eichelberger farm along the York road). Magdalene, his wife, died Dec. 30, 1821. They had eight children: Frederick, born Aug. 10, 1763; Michael ( maternal great- grandfather ), May 17, 1765; Samnel, Jan. 5. 1769; Elizabeth, Dec. II, 1770; Adam. Jr., Nov. 26, 1771; Susannah, Aug. 14. 1778 (died Sept. 21, 1804) ; Joseph, Jan. 15, 1781 ; and Salome, Aug. 11, 1783.

Michael Eichelberger, the second son of Capt. Adam, was a rather delicate child and man. To him his father left the home farm. While quite young he married Catharine Smy- ser, and they had five children; Adam, born Oct. 24, 1791; Polly, January, 1793; Eliza- beth, April 10, 1795; Michael, Oct. 2. 1797: and George, Feb. 22. 1800 (who was the ma- ternal grandfather). George was a babe in arms when his father died. The widow man- aged well until Adam grew to manhood, at the age of twenty-one applying to court and obtaining an order to buy the place for $11.934. This Adam, known as Sheriff Adam, was a tall, strong man, almost physical perfection, so finely proportioned that unless one stood beside him he did not seem to be so large a man.

George Eichelberger, who as already stated

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was a babe in arms when his father died, grew necessary to the same were held in the house up on the home place, which had belonged to · his great-grandfather, and when he became of age he bought it. On Jan. 18, 1822, he mar- ried Sarah Diehl, who was born Aug. 23, 1804. They had eight children : Martin, born March 25, 1823; Anna Maria, born May 5, 1825, died Aug. 29, 1842; Michael D., born March 20, 1827, died May 14, 1863 ; George W., born Nov. 17, 1829, died Feb. 28, 1838; Franklin, born March 10, 1832; Charles F., born July 2, 1834, died April 6, 1900; Sarah, born April 12, 1838, died in 1842; and Louisa Catharine, born July 4, 1842, who married William J. Young, and is the mother of Ida M. Young Brough. When George's son Mich- ael became of an age to take the farm George moved to Hanover, where he resided for some years prior to the death of his esteemed wife, which occurred Jan. 1I, 1865. George was a prominent Democrat, for many years county commissioner. Four of his children died be- fore him. He died March 10, 1869.

Jacob Eichelberger (the paternal great- great-grandfather of Ida M. Young), the second son of Philip Frederick and his second wife, was born on the "Farm" Sept. 26, 1746, but chose Hanover as his home. He was much interested in the cause of the Revolutionary war, gave largely of his means, and wrote and attended to business matters connected with his town and surroundings. He married Anna Maria, oldest daughter of Capt. Casper Rein- acker, who served in the Revolutionary war with honor and credit. She was born March 26, 1752, and died May 19, 1837. He died Aug. 14, 1811. They had only one child, a son, Jacob, who was the great-grandfather of Ida M. Young. He acquired fine business qualities early in life. The father and son set- tled up estates and carried on a great deal of business together. When the father died the son was fully equipped to take his place. Jacob Sr., was first buried in St. Matthew's Lutheran Church graveyard, of which he was a consist- ent member and part founder; afterward his remains were removed to Mt. Olivet cemetery, Hanover, Pa. He had carried on a farm and tavern as well, both of which the son took up- on the death of his father. Jacob, the son, was born April 24, 1775. He became quite prominent in the borough of Hanover for a great many years. When the village was in- corporated as a borough in 1815 the meetings

of Jacob Eichelberger. The tavern which he kept is now the "Central Hotel." He also be- came a merchant and in connection with all his other duties settled up many estates. He was the first president of the Maryland Line Turnpike Company, and was active in organ- izing the Hanover Saving Fund Society, of which he became president in 1835, and served as such with great acceptance for many years. He died Aug. 18, 1843. He was twice mar- ried, first to Elizabeth Nace, in 1796. They had four children : Louisa, born in December, 1797, married George Trone, and died March 4, 1872; Maria, born March 20, 1799, mar- ried Jacob Young, of Hanover (she was the grandmother of Ida M. Young) ; Eliza, born Aug. 20, 1800, married Michael Barnitz, and they had two children, a son Covington, and a daughter Elizabeth, who married Rev. Joseph A. Seiss, D. D., LL. D., of Philadelphia, a very noted divine, who died in June, 1904 (Eliza died June 10, 1841); Susannah, the other daughter of Jacob, died young. Upon . the death of his wife Elizabeth, Jacob married Maria, daughter of Christian Wirt, of Han- over, Pa. They had eight children: Matthew, Jacob, Henry, Catherine M., Abdiel W., Ru- fus A., Amanda and Amelia H. (these were half-sisters and brothers of Maria Eichelber- ger, who married Jacob Young, the grand- father of Ida M. Young Brough). [Informa- tion regarding Eichelbergers from Capt. A. W. Eichelberger's history.]

Maria Eichelberger, second daughter of Jacob Eichelberger, and grand mother of Ida M. Brough, was born March 20, 1799, and died March 26, 1872. On Dec. 19, 1820, she married Jacob Young, of Hanover, Pa., who was a grandson of Charles and Elizabeth Young, who emigrated from Germany about the year 1750, and located on a small farm three miles southeast of Hanover, a short dis- tance from the Jefferson road. Here they spent the remainder of their lives and died in the year 1800. Their son, William Young, who was the father of Jacob, married Catharine Etzler, a daughter of George and Francina Etzler. They had three children: Jacob, George and William. Jacob was born Dec. 4. 1795, and died June 8, 1875. He was a saddle-tree maker, and for a number of years after his marriage lived in Carlisle: later he bought a farm near Hanover, and moved

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 36

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