History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 45

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

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Andrew Cline was a Republican in politics and served as tax collector. He was noted for his honesty and integrity, and by industry and foresight he worked his way up from poverty and obscurity to prominence in financial circles, being a stockholder in the Central Transporta- tion Co., various railroad companies, and the holder of a number of Government bonds; and, notwithstanding the depreciation in real estate and some other of his holdings, at the time of

Lewis Cline.

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In 1830 Andrew Cline married Margaret Foster, daughter of Hugh and Avis (Franke- berger ) Foster. He died in 1882, and his wife in 1886, and both are buried in St. John's cem- etery. Their children were: Eliza Jane, mar- ried to Stephen Pipher in 1859, died in New Cumberland in 1897, and was buried in Mount Olivet cemetery ; Henrietta died in 1836; Margaret died in 1835 ; Lewis is men- tioned below; Avis Ann, unmarried, lives in the homestead at Lewisberry; William Henry Harrison, a farmer, unmarried, lives on the homestead (in 1863 he was drafted for ser- vice in the army, and his father needing him at home paid the $300 commutation money, and he holds a certificate of release from military duty during the term of the draft) ; Clarissa married Brice I. Sterrett of Decatur, Ill., in 1879, and lives in Decatur; Lucinda died in 1845; Caroline, unmarried, lives on the homestead with her brother and sister; and James F., who married Sallie Heck, of Lis- burn, in 1878, owns the Strinestown mill prop- erty, where he lived until 1904, when he built a home in Steelton, where he now resides.

Lewis Cline, son of Andrew, was born March 10, 1836. He has followed farming and milling all his life, and is now doing a large business, having made great improve- ments in the mill. He has put in rolls and a gasoline engine for use when the water is low. He also operates a sawmill attached to the mill. In 1885 he built the fine, large house which he now occupies, and has also built a good barn.

In 1871 Mr. Cline married Elmira Mor- dorf, daughter of Levi and Susanna (Leiby) Mordorf, of Cumberland county. The chil- dren of this union were: Clara, who married George W. Coover, in 1902, and lives in Le- moyne, Cumberland county; Rosaline and Edith, at home, and Lewis, who died in in- fancy, and was buried in St. John's cemetery.

In politics Mr. Cline is a Republican, and has served as school director for twelve years. In 1898 he was a candidate for the State Sen- ate. He is a survivor of the great Civil war, and has an honorable war record. He was seriously wounded in the arm at the battle of Antietam, and is still in possession of the bul- let which struck him. The injury has greatly incapacitated him and has ever since proved a great hindrance. At one time he was making some repairs and on account of his disabled

arm was caught in the master wheel of the mill, breaking his collar bone and receiving other injuries, nearly losing his life. Mr. Cline is a good citizen, a successful business man, and is highly respected throughout Fairview township. He is a member of the Col. H. I. Zinn Post No. 415, G. A. R., of Mechanics- burg, Pennsylvania.

E. M. BAILEY, justice of the peace and merchant in Codorus township, was born there Jan. 30, 1865, and is descended from an old family of York county, originally farming peo- ple in that section.

His paternal great-grandfather was a farm- er in Codorus township, and died there when ninety-three years of age. His son Henry, born on the homestead, was a mason by oc- cupation in the same neighborhood, and died there at the age of seventy-eight years. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Rohr- baugh, died a number of years before him, and both are buried in Shrewsbury township. Their children were Jesse, Jacob, John, Henry, Samuel, Levi, Sarah and Mary.

Samuel Bailey was born in 1841, and was educated in the public schools. During the Civil war he served four months in the army, enlisting in Company E, IoIst P. V. I. On his return home after the war he went into the mercantile business, establishing himself in 1867, where his son is now located, and from that time till 1901 he conducted a flourishing and constantly increasing business; all the buildings now used by his successors were put up by him. For fourteen years he also acted as postmaster, the office known as Neiman being located in his store. His was a long and honorable mercantile career, and he is now living retired. Mr. Bailey married Miss Chrisana Markel, of York county, and a fam- ily was born to them as follows: Emanuel M .; Amanda, Mrs. Franklin Luckenbaugh, of Codorus township; Dr. L. M., of Hanover, who married Lucy Glatfelter; Rosa, Mrs. Adam Stable, of Hanover; and Allen, at home, unmarried.

Emanuel M. Bailey was sent to the public schools of Codorus township, and then to the academy at Glen Rock borough. He after- ward took up the profession of teaching him- self, and was so employed in his home township for eight terms. He then went into his fath- er's store as a clerk, and worked for him in

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that capacity fourteen years, but March I, ried on Oct. 1, 1727, to John DeHuff, which 1902, he bought out his father, and is now con- union was blessed with eleven children. John ducting the store with a partner, under the DeHuff was of Huguenot descent, his people firm name of Bailey & Warner. Their estab- lishment is on the York road, and they do a thriving trade, carrying a full line of goods. They also do paper hanging, and in addition to their other interests conduct a cream sepa- rator station. The partners are both wide- awake, enterprising men, and are making a great success of their undertakings.

Mr. Bailey's chosen partner in life was Miss Mary Maul, a daughter of Michael and Sarahı (Bohn) Maul, to whom he was united in 1882. One son has been born to them, Victor, of Shenadoah, Pa .; and one daughter, Amy B., at home. The son is a graduate of Patrick's Business College, of York City, and is now general manager of Dempsey's store in Shenandoah, Schuylkill Co., Pa. He mar- ried Miss May C. Geltmacher, of Maytown, Lancaster county.

Emanuel M. Bailey is a Democrat, and a leading man in his party locally. He has al- ways been active in township and county af- fairs, and has been a delegate to the county conventions since he was twenty-one. He has also served as county committeeman. For twelve years he has been a justice of the peace, and at elections has acted as both inspector and judge of elections. He is equally prominent in religious circles. A member of Zion Re- formed Church, he is now filling the office of elder, and for twenty-one years has been super- intendent of the Sunday-school. He has also been choir master for a long time. Fraternal- ly he is a member of Friendly Lodge, No. 287, Knights of Pythias at Glen Rock, and of Co- lumbus Conclave, No. 262, I. O. H., at York. Mr. Bailey is thus closely identified with var- ious phases of the community's life, and holds a high place in the esteem of his fellow citi- zens.

DE HUFF. The first person of this name among the early settlers in Lancaster was John DeHuff, who was born in 1704, and died Dec. 25, 1757. His wife, Catharina, was born March 22, 1704, at Schriesheim, in the Pala- tinate. and died at the age of eighty-six years. Her parents were Johannes Brecht, an official in the principality, and Catharina Hoffman. In 1725 she came to this country, and was mar-

leaving France with many others after the re- vocation of the edict of Nantes, in 1685. He came to Lancaster from the eastern shore of Maryland, near the source of Labadie, whose commissioners secured for that purpose a large tract of land, situated on Elk river, in Cecil county, Maryland, and called Bohemia Manor. It is not known when he came to this country, but a record of him is found in Lancaster in 1742 and 1743 as assistant burgess. The char- ter of the borough of Lancaster was granted May I, 1742, and "did nominate and appoint Thomas Cookron and Sebastian Graff to be Burgesses, and Michael Bierly, Matthias Young, John DeHuff, John Folkes, Abraham Johnson and Peter Worrall as assistants." In 1744 he served as chief burgess of Lancaster. John DeHuff was a saddler, and prosperous,re- siding on East King street, and owning a num- ber of houses. In 1742, as history tells us, he was classed as one of the leading men of the town.

Jolın DeHuff, a son of Jolin DeHuff, was one of the original members of the Friendship Fire Company, having signed the articles of the Association Dec. 10, 1763, which included names of prominence, viz .: George Ross, Thomas Barton, James Bickham, Jacob Glatz and others. On the jury empaneled by Sheriff Matthias Slough, Dec. 14, 1763, to investigate the murder of the Indians at their village out- side of Lancaster, were Matthias DeHuff and John DeHuff. Between the time of the build- ing of the Moravian Church in Lancaster, in 1746, and 1800, are recorded the names of fifty-six DeHuffs' marriages, births or deaths, showing they were numerous ; as much so, per- haps, as any name then known in the commu- nity. In 1750, when it was proposed to build a chapel adjoining the church, he thought a building for a boarding school much more nec- essary, but later gave five pounds to the chapel.

Five children survived John DeHuff, viz .: Susanna (who died in 1761), Johannes (who died in 1774, leaving a widow, Anna Barbara, a daughter of Heinrich Zimmerman), Abra- ham, Heinrich and Matthias.

Heinrich DeHuff, born Sept. 14, 1738, was first married to Elizabeth Graff. and (second) to Philapena Ebarman, and died April 19,

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1799. Following in the footsteps of his fath- er, he was a saddler, and was chosen chief bur- gess of Lancaster in the years 1778, 1779, 1782, 1783 and 1784, and assistant burgess in 1772 and 1789. He was appointed by the court in March, 1759, as overseer of the poor. At a meeting held Aug. 25, 1764, of the Union Fire Company, Henry and Matthias DeHuff were present as members.

Matthias DeHuff was born Aug. 27, 1740, and died June 14, 1803. He married Catha- rine Kreamer. He was a soldier in the Revo- lutionary war, serving as a private in Capt. Jas- per Yeates' Company.

Capt. Abraham DeHuff, certainly one of Lancaster's most distinguished citizens, was born near the source of the river Elk, on the eastern shore of Maryland, Feb. 13, 1735, and died in Lancaster, March 11, 1821. On May 25, 1756, he married Mary Finch, of Phila- delphia, daughter of John Finch and Mary Li- bert, and she became the mother of nine chil- dren. He contracted a second marriage, with Catharina Wolf, Feb. 5, 1793. Maria, the daughter of Abraham DeHuff, married Robert Reed, born in Ireland April 28, 1785, and was the ancestor of the late George K. Reed and Mrs. Charles A. Heinitsh.

Abraham DeHuff was a saddler by occupa- tion. He was assistant burgess of Lancaster in the years 1761, 1762 and 1763. He was also one of the founders of the Lancaster Li- brary Company, in 1759 (renamed the Juliana Library in 1763), establishing the third circu- lating library organized in the Colonies. On Nov. 8, 1775. Abraham DeHuff was chosen a member of the Committee of Correspondence for Lancaster county. He was appointed cap- tain March 1.5, 1776. in Col. Samuel J. Atlee's musketry battalion, which was recruited in the spring of 1776, and joined the Flying Camp under Gen. Mercer. In Col. Atlee's battalion were two companies from Lancaster county, Capt. Abraham DeHuff's and Capt. Thomas Herbert's. Col. Samuel J. Atlee's and Col. Samuel Miles' regiments rendezvoused at Mar- cus Hook, and were ordered to New Jersey on the 12th of August, being brigaded with Glover and Smallwood's regiments under command of Brig. Gen. Lord Sterling. In the battle of Long Island, Aug. 27. 1776, Col. Atlee's and Col. Miles' regiments suffered so severely that Gen. Washington ordered three battalions to be considered as one regiment under command

of Lieut. Col. Brodhead until further orders. On the 5th of October, 1776, the Council of Safety ordered a rearrangement of three bat- talions. The company of Capt. Abraham De- Huff retained its place in the reorganization, being known as the State Regiment of Foot. A part of this regiment was present in the action at Fort Washington, Nov. 16, 1776, and fell into the hands of the enemy, with several of the officers, among them Capt. Abraham De- Huff, who had also suffered severely at the bat- tle of Long Island. He was exchanged as pris- oner of war, Nov. 16, 1778. On April 1, 1780, Abraham DeHuff was appointed sub-lieutenant of Lancaster county.

John, Thomas and Richard Penn, proprie- taries and governors in chief of said Province of Pennsylvania, by their patent bearing date of Nov. 30, 1717, granted unto Hans Pup- ather (alias Brubaker ) and Christian Hearsay a certain tract of land situated on Little Cones- toga creek, then called in ye county of Chester, now Lancaster county, containing one thous- and acres. In 1718, by mutual consent, this grant of land was divided into equal parts of five hundred acres each. The heirs of Chris- tian Hearsay, deceased, did grant and confirm unto Peter Baumgardner and Barbara, his wife, 268 acres of said land and the allowance of six acres for roads and highways. The above named persons heing aliens, and, therefore, not capable of making a legal conveyance of the said land, he, the said Peter Baumgardner, humbly requested that the proprietaries would be pleased to grant him a release. A patent was granted, recorded in Philadelphia, on the 20th of. August, A. D. 1734. On the 21st of November, 1737, John DeHuff bought the land held by Peter Baumgardner and wife, Barbara, and in January, 1761, John DeHuff, his eldest son, paid £550 for sixty acres of this grant of land on the Little Conestoga creek, in Hemp- field township, of the lawful money of Pennsyl- vania.

James Hamilton, Aug. 14, 1740, granted to John DeHuff and Catharine, his wife. Lots 329 and 330, or pieces of ground, situated in the borough of Lancaster, on the north side of King street, in depth of sixty-four feet, near Prince, west of Water : Lot 276, Prince street, near King, on the south, in 1735, with an out lot, No. 17, in Manheim township. John De- Huff bought from Roger Hunt and Esther, his wife, Jan. 8, 1743, a lot on Queen street, also

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a lot on King street from Harmon Updegraft, ing in his native township, and was there Aug. 20, 1757. John DeHuff was one of the in- fluential men in the organization of the First Reformed Church, before he became identi- fied with the Moravians. The original lot on which the church was built was a grant from James Hamilton, dated Oct. 5, 1741, to Henry Bostler, John DeHuff, Peter Balspach, John Barner, Philip Miller and Nicholas Caudle, members of the Reformed Church of the High Dutch Protestants, in the town of Lancaster, and the trustees for the said congregation. Lot sixty-four feet, four and one-half inches in depth, to a fourteen-feet alley ; depth two hun- dred and fifty-two feet. [Recorded in Book H, page 89.]

The writer, Frank DeHuff, born here in 1846, is a lineal descendant of the above men- tioned De Huffs.

JACOB MATHIAS SMYSER, a retired banker and one of the most substantial finan- ciers of York, comes of a family long estab- lished in this county and is himself a native of West Manchester township. He was born there March 18, 1845, and is a great-grandson of Mathias Smyser, whose old homestead in that township he now owns.

Jacob Smyser, grandfather of Jacob M., was a native of West Manchester, was a life- long farmer, and owned a large amount of land in York county. He was twice married, and his children were: David, Polly Diehl, Elizabeth Bott, Susan Gross, Mrs. Benjamin Myers and Mrs. Harry Ebert.

David Smyser, father of Jacob M., was likewise born in West Manchester township, and there received his education and a thorough training to agricultural pursuits. He was successful in business, and became a very large landowner, acquiring about 1,200 acres, all in York county except a farm of 190 acres in Adams county. He married Rebecca Eys- ter, and they passed their lives in their native township, where they are buried, at Wolf's Church. Mr. Smyser lived to be seventy-two years old, his wife to be eighty-nine. He was a member of Wolf's Lutheran Church, which he helped to build. David and Rebecca Smy- ser had children as follows: Martin, Charles E., D. Albert, Jacob Mathias, Eliza, Sarah Emig, Louisa and Amanda.

Jacob Mathias Smyser received his school-

reared to farm life under the able direction of his father, with whom he remained until he was twenty-six years old. Commercial life, however, appealed to him more strongly than agricultural, and on leaving the farm he came to York and entered the grain business with Mr. Menges, continuing in the same for six- teen months. He then embarked in the mill- ing, grain, coal and feed business in Springets- bury township, near York, and carried it on for eight years, until his removal to East Ber- lin, Adams Co., Pa., where he started a gen- eral banking business. He built up an exten- sive patronage, and continued in that line also for eight years, at the end of which period, in 1889, he returned to York. Here he has ever since remained, identified with some of the most important industrial and financial enterprises of the city and county, and his name carries confidence wherever he is known. He first became a member of the banking firm of Smyser, Bott & Co., whose place of business was on East Market street, where the Han- over shoe store is now located, and after six years with that concern changed to the York Trust Company, of York, taking the position of treasurer. His connection with that institu- tion covered a period of seven years. He then put up the large building at Nos. 13-15 South George street known as the Smyser building and re-entered the banking business as a pri- vate banker, giving all his time to that con- cern until he retired, in 1900. Few men in York county are better known than he is, es- pecially as a promoter of sound business insti- tutions which have proved to be of material benefit to the community. He was one of the organizers of the York Card & Paper Com- pany of York, of which he was treasurer for a time, and later a director; in company with Mr. George S. Billmyer he owned the Mid- dletown Water Company, which they bought in 1897 and sold in 1901 ; he was an organizer and director of the New York Match Com- pany of York; for one year was treasurer of the Norway Iron and Steel Company; and for six years was a director of the East Berlin Branch railroad. Mr. Smyser is an extensive owner of valuable real estate. He has just finished a large building at the corner of King and South George streets, one of the finest of the kind in the city of York, the lower floor of which has been arranged for stores, the upper

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part as living apartments. He also has in was born in Newberry township, where he course of erection a fine building at Nos. 116- was given a fair education in the schools of 118 South George street, 230 feet deep and his day, and there he learned the trade of four stories high, for business purposes, which is a credit to the street and to the city. He owns the old homestead of 137 acres in West Manchester township which was owned by his great-grandfather, and on which all the fam- ily have been raised, and also has a mill prop- erty of twenty acres in Springetsbury town- ship. He is also the owner of one of the finest farms in the county-situated in Jackson town- ship, and containing 100 acres, and he has a valuable store property at No. 106 South George street.

Mr. Smyser has business ability of a high order, and his business standards are unques- tioned in the best circles of the county. He has been remarkably successful throughout his career, and his present high position has been gained by irreproachable methods and good management of his various interests, which have benefited the community in many ways.

Mr. Smyser married Miss Amanda J. Smyser, daughter of Adam and Eliza (Brill- inger) Smyser, also of York county, and they occupy a beautiful home at No. 472 West Mar- ket street, in York, which Mr. Smyser built in 1889. Children as follows have been born to them: Nettie, who died when twenty-two years old; Annie, wife of Frederick Brun- house, a coal dealer of York; David H., a de- signer, now of Philadelphia; Mathias, who still lives at home; Mary, wife of William Ebert, of York; Adam, who is in his second year at the law school of the University of Pennsylvania; Lucy, at home; and Jacob, at- tending school. Mr. Smyser was instrumental in the erection of the Lutheran Church at East Berlin.

MAJOR DAVID Z. SEIPE, one of York's prominent and honored citizens, a sur- viving officer of the Civil war, comes from one of the old and well-established families of York county. The Seipe family originated in Holland, but for generations has been in- digenous to American soil. His grandfather, Adam. Seipe, was a prominent farmer in New- berry township, where he reared a family and spent his life. His children were: Samuel, Peter, John, Jacob, David, Emanuel, and three daughters.

Emanuel Seipe, father of Major Seipe,

blacksmithing, which he followed for a num- ber of years in the employ of Alban Ward, of that township. Later he engaged in farming, and continued to farm until his death, which occurred in 1849, when he was aged thirty- five years. He married Hester Zorger, who died in 1905, at the advanced age of ninety- three years. Both are buried in Newberry township. The children of Emanuel and Hes- ter Seipe were: David Z., of York; Herman, deceased; Israel, who died in 1858; Herman; Andrew, a resident of Youngtown, Newberry township, who married Mary Powell; Annie, wife of Jacob Keister, of Newberry; Mary, wife of Martin S. Crull, of York; and Jane, wife of Leonard Jontz, the well-known mer- chant of York, whose business location is at King and Penn streets in that city.

David Z. Seipe was educated in the town- ship schools and remained at home until he was fifteen years old, when he came to York to learn the machinist's trade. But this proved too hard a life for his health, and he embarked in the tobacco business. He had very fair prospects of business success when the break- ing out of the Civil war caused him to put personal considerations aside and to offer his services in defense of his country. In March, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, 16th P. V. I., and served three months as a private soldier. The danger still increasing, he re-enlisted, in 1862, entering Company K, 130th P. V. I. He was commissioned a lieutenant and in the early part of August, of the same year, had won a captain's commission. Capt. Seipe then entered Company B, 187th Regiment, June 23, 1863, which was in the Ist Division, 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac. He served with this body until the close of the war, and in May, 1865, was commissioned major, and was mustered out at Harrisburg in August, 1865. Major Seipe participated in all of the import- ant engagements in which his several com- mands took part, and was wounded on the field of Antietam.

After the close of the war Major Seipe lo- cated at Philadelphia and engaged in the to- bacco business, and later became interested in realty holdings in that city. In 1905 he re- tired from the tobacco business. Although he still retains large property interests in Phila- delphia he has returned to make his permanent

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home with his relatives at York, finding a ready welcome from old associates and daily making new friends. Major Seipe is an honored mem- ber of George Meade Post, G. A. R., of Phila- delphia.

MALCOLM O. SMITH, editor and pub- lisher, was born in York, Pa., Nov. 2, 1846, son of William W. and Charlotte (Stair) Smith. He obtained his education in the pub- lic schools of York, the York Classical and Normal Institute, the Eastman Business Col- lege at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg. The last named insti- tution bestowed upon him, in 1873, the hon- orary degree of A. B. Mr. Smith taught three terms in the public schools and conducted the Hanover Academy two years.

During the Civil war Mr. Smith served from March to August, 1865, as a private in Company D, 103d P. V. I. He has always taken an active interest in the affairs of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was one of the founders of Major Jenkins Post, No. 99, Hanover, and its commander during the first three years of its existence.

Having learned the trade of printer Mr. Smith founded the Glen Rock Item, in 1870, and successfully conducted it until he sold it, in 1872, to move to Hanover, where he has since resided. In 1872, with P. H. Bittinger, he established the Hanover Herald, of which he has been sole editor and publisher since 1884. A daily edition, The Evening Herald, was begun in 1894, and in 1904 was merged with the Hanover Daily Record, producing the Record-Herald. The Hanover Printing Company was incorporated at the same time, of which corporation Mr. Smith is the leading stockholder, president and superintendent.

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 45

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