History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 46

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

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won for him wide recognition. However, he has not in the pursuit of this special work neglected the present, for his paper has been the fearless exponent of current thought, maintaining the marked influence and position among the foremost publications of this part of the State which it acquired at the outset. Mr. Smith is a man of progressive ideas, and one of the best informed and most successful newspaper men of York county.

He has served for years as secretary of the Hanover Board of Trade. He has been treas- urer of McAllister Council, No. 980, Royal Arcanum, for years. He was one of the or- ganizers, and has been secretary and director since its foundation, of the Hanover Improve- ment Company, which laid out and developed a large tract between Hanover and McSher- rystown and adjoining both towns. He has been for many years a director of the Hanover Building and Loan Association. He was one of the founders, in 1884, and has been secre- tary ever since, of the Hanover Agricultural Society, which has held twenty-one successful annual fairs under his management. He has been active in the introduction of the street car and telephone service, and was secretary and director of the Hanover Telephone Com- pany from its incorporation until its sale to the United Telephone and Telegraph Co. Mr. Smith is a Republican but not an active poli- tician ; he served a three years' term as school director-his only public office.

Mr. Smith was married in Gettysburg, in 1867, to Miss Louisa H. S. Vandersloot, youngest daughter of Dr. F. E. Vandersloot, of that place. Three children, all of whom died in early childhood, were born of this. union.

Mr. Smith has always paid special attention BIRD HAUER LOUCKS, secretary of the York Manufacturing Company, was born in West Manchester township June 24, 1868. His first paternal ancestor in America, and a brother, came to this country with the earliest emigration from Germany, and settled in the- State of New York, about 1730. One of the brothers remained in New York. The other migrated to the vicinity of Philadelphia, and later located near Womelsdorf, Berks county, where he reared his family. Peter, one of the sons, remained in Berks county. Jacob, John and Casper came to York county. Jacob- Loucks, the great-grandfather of Bird H. to local history and pushed original investiga- tions with zeal. As a result, he published in his paper in 1872 a series of articles entitled "Annals of Hanover," and another series in 1876, "Early History of York County," be- sides many single articles-for posterity his- torical matter of great local interest. To the careful compilation of this matter he devoted much of his time. He is an able writer, and his wide research in such work has made him a recognized authority on the history of York county, his valuable collections rescuing from oblivion many interesting features of the prim- itive type of life of the country, and they have Loucks, was married to Margaret Ann Reed,

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of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Their children were sponsible position of secretary of this com- John George, Margaret, Catharine, Sarah, pany. Mr. Loucks was chosen school con- troller to represent the Eleventh ward of York in February, 1901, and was re-elected in Feb- ruary, 1905. He was married to Elsie May Bott, and they have one son, Walter Bott Loucks, born May 5, 1895. Leah, Mary, Elizabeth and Jacob. John George Loucks, the grandfather of the subject of this biography, was born near York, June 28, 1788, and died Nov. 2, 1861. By his first wife, whose maiden name was Keyser, he had five children : John, Michael, George, Henry and Mary Ann. His second wife was Cather- ine E. Shank, and their children were Abra- liam, Margaret, Isaac, Clara Anne, Jacob, Car- oline, Columbus, Amanda and Nathan.

Jacob Loucks, father of Bird H. Loucks, prominent in the affairs of York county, was born Nov. 3, 1828. He married Catherine E. Slagle, and they had five children: George, Clara, Laura, Ellen Catherine and Sylvester Jacob. His second wife was Mary E. Hauer, born Dec. 13, 1837, who died Jan. 2, 1900. They had three children: Charles Edward, William Henry and Bird Hauer. Mrs. Loucks was the daughter of Jacob and Susan (Thomas) Hauer. Jacob Hauer was born Jan. 29, 1804, and died Aug. 10, 1855. Susan Hauer, his wife, was born Feb. 2, 1816, and died July 9, 1863. Mr. Hauer early in life was manager of the Coleman Furnaces near Lebanon, Pa. In 1835 he removed to Spring Forge, York county, where he became the man- ager of the large iron industry then owned by the Colemans at that place. Subsequently he purchased this industry and about one thous- and one hundred acres of land, containing iron ore mines and valuable chestnut timber, which was burned into charcoal and used in the man- ufacture of iron. In 1852 Jacob Hauer dis- continued the iron business and began the man- ufacture of paper at Spring Forge.

Bird Hauer Loucks grew to manhood on his father's farm in West Manchester town- ship. He attended the public schools of York, and the York County Academy. In order to acquire a business education, in 1886, he en- tered Sadler's Bryant & Stratton Business Col- lege, in the city of Baltimore. After gradu- ating from this institution he entered the em- ploy of John A. Dushane & Co., Baltimore, continuing with them until Nov. 1, 1887, when he became connected with Stallman & Shetter, wholesale tobacconists, of York. On Nov. 15, 1897, Mr. Loucks entered the employ of the York Manufacturing Company, one of the largest industrial enterprises of southern Penn- sylvania. Through his energy and enterprise he was promoted, and at present holds the re-

MOUL. The family of this name in York county was founded there by Conrad Maul, as the name was originally spelled, and as it ap- pears on old deeds and gravestones. Some members of the family still spell the name that way, others have been spelling it with an "o" since 1848.

Bartholomew Maul came to York county with the earliest German emigrants in 1733 and took up a tract of land now covered by a part of the city of York. He was one of the founders of Christ Lutheran Church, at York, and was one of the early county commissioners. He died in 1755, bequeathing his property to his wife Elizabeth, his son George, and to his two stepchildren, daughters of his wife by a former marriage. Conrad Maul, his nephew, and the founder of the Moul family in York county, at the age of twenty-five sailed from the lower Palatinate of Germany, in the ship "Hampshire," from Rotterdam, Sept. 7, 1748, Thomas Cheeseman, captain. The Record Book of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church at Hanover records the birth of Catherine, daugh- ter of Conrad and Cadarina Maul, Feb. 16, 1750, and of a son Philip Maul, Sept. 8, 1752. Conrad Maul also had two sons, Peter and Conrad. A sheepskin deed now in the possession of Milton Moul, son of Philip Maul, of Moulstown, was given to Conrad Maul by Thomas and Richard Penn, proprietors of Pennsylvania, 1758, in the reign of King George II over Great Britain, and is recorded in Philadelphia, 1759, A, Volume 20, page 250.

Conrad Maul acquired considerable prop- erty in Heidelberg township. During the Rev- olution, he served in a militia company com- manded by Capt. Andrew Foreman. This company was called into active service in 1776 and in the fall of 1777 before the British cap- tured Philadelphia. In 1781 he was with his company when it was placed on duty to guard about twelve hundred British sol- diers who were prisoners of war at a canton- ment four miles southeast of York. At the close of the Revolution, according to a family

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tradition, Conrad Maul, with two of his neigh- seph B., and Charles E., and two daughters, bors, made a trip to the Blue Grass region of Sarah Jane and Carrie, the latter married to Jacob Fitz. Mrs. Fitz died in 1884, leaving three sons, Ervin, Marcy and Earle. Conrad died in 1893, at the age of eighty years, and was buried at Hanover. Kentucky on horseback with the intention of purchasing lands and locating there. After an absence of several months the news came to the family that Conrad Maul and his associates had died. Philip Maul, his eldest son, and Charles Moul, son of Conrad, son of Philip, was buried at York. He had three sons: Mil- ton, Edwin T. and Alexander. others went to the region where his father had gone and found the horses and the graves of his father and his comrades, but could not re- Josiah Moul died in 1901, at the age of seventy-nine, and was buried at Mt. Carmel, near Moulstown. He married Anna Harnish, and had six sons and two daughters: Jacob H., Martin, Clinton R., Josiah S., Edward H., Emory, Emma (married to Martin Bollinger) and Mary (married to George Hamme). cover the money. After his return home the Orphans Court of York county, on Dec. 4, 1783, granted a deed of the Conrad Maul prop- erty of Philip Maul. This deed is in the pos- session of Milton Moul, son of Philip, the sec- ond, of Moulstown, Heidelberg township.

Cadarina Maul, wife of Conrad, was born in Germany in 1729, died in 1806, and was buried in Maulstown graveyard.

Philip Maul, son of Conrad, was born in I752, and died in 1841 ; his wife, Elizabeth, was born in 1753 and died in 1836. Both were buried in the Moulstown graveyard. They had three sons and one daughter : Conrad and Henry, who remained in Moulstown; John, who moved to Ohio; and Elizabeth, who remained in Moulstown and was buried there.

Conrad Maul, son of Philip, was born in 1777 and died in 1851. He was twice mar- ried, his first wife being Elizabeth Hoshour, who was born in 1783 and died in 1808. She left two sons, Solomon and John, and three daughters: Elizabeth, married to George Baker; Nancy, married to Henry Shireman ; and Lydia, married to Solomon Danner. His second wife was Anna Mary Hare, who died in 1871, aged eighty years. The children of this wife were: Conrad, Charles, David, Jo- siah, Absalom, Jacob, Sarah, Lovina, and Maria (Polly), married to Abraham Thom- son.

Henry Maul, son of Philip, had six sons : John, Jacob, George, Henry, Philip and Peter. His daughters were married to John Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Reynolds, John Shaffer and Daniel Bowersox.

John Maul, son of Philip and brother of Henry and Conrad, moved to Ohio. He had two sons, Manassas and Edward, and three daughters, Mrs. Leali Walker, Mrs. Lavina Hershey and Mrs. Rebecca Seafung.

Conrad Moul, son of Conrad, son of Philip, was married to Susan Bollinger, and moved to Hanover, in 1842. They had two sons: Jo-

On all the deeds and records the name was spelled Maul until sometime after 1841, when it was changed to Moul by some branches of the family.

CHARLES E. MOUL, treasurer of the Hanover Wire Cloth Company, of Hanover, is one of the representative and enterprising business men of that borough. He was born in Hanover, Jan. 25, 1858, the son of Conrad and Susan (Bollinger ) Moul, and the grandson of Conrad Maul, and is a lineal descendant of Conrad Maul, who settled in Heidelberg township, at the present site of Moulstown, in 1748. The grandfather of Charles E. Moul was a prosperous farmer and distiller, distill- ing being then a common industry throughout Pennsylvania.

Conrad Moul, his father, was born at Moulstown, York county, in 1813. He was educated in the subscription schools, and in his youth acquired the trade of cooper. In 1842 he purchased a small property near Hanover and began the manufacture of water-tight bar- rels, but soon afterward engaged in the manu- facture of grain drills, reapers and mowers. In 1851 he introduced the Hussey reaper into Pennsylvania, and for twenty years was promi- nently and actively a manufacturer of reapers and mowers, during that time inventing and making many valuable improvements to this important class of machinery. In 1878 he added a planing-mill to the machine shop and organized the firm of C. Moul & Company.

He married Susan Bollinger, who was born near Mount Carmel church in 1817, the daugh- ter of John and Nancy (Stauffer) Bollinger, the former of whom was born at Bollinger's Mill, now Dubb's Mill, Heidelberg township,

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York county, and the latter came from Lan- and Annie (Harnish) Moul were born the fol- caster county. Four children were born to lowing children : Jacob H., a farmer; Martin; Conrad and Susan Moul. The father died in 1893, and the mother in 1906 was living at the age of eighty-nine in the full possession of her faculties.

Charles E. Moul received his early educa- tion in the public schools of Hanover, and later graduated from Dickinson Seminary, Wil- liamsport, Pa., and took a course at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mr. Moul returned to Hanover, and for three years was in the service of the Hanover Saving Fund Society as teller and for twenty years as direc- tor. He was one of the projectors of the Han- over Match Company, and in 1903 he organ- ized the Hanover Wire Cloth Factory, one of the chief industries of Hanover, its pay-roll numbering more than one hundred employees. Mr. Moul was also one of the organizers of the Hanover Sewing Company, another im- portant industry of Hanover, engaged in the manufacture of men's shirts, and employing about one hundred and twenty hands. He has been secretary of the firm of C. Moul & Com- pany since its organization.

In 1889 Mr. Moul married Clara E. Glat- felter, of Spring Grove, daughter of P. H. Glatfelter, a prominent citizen and paper manu- facturer. To Mr. and Mrs. Moul have been born three children, Elizabeth G., Philip C. (deceased) and Esther B. Mr. and Mrs. Moul are active members of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church.

MARTIN MOUL, manufacturer, coal dealer and architect, was born in Heidelberg township, June 15, 1853. He is a lineal de- scendant of Conrad Moul, one of the earliest settlers of Heidelberg township, who came here in 1748. Josiah Moul, the father of Martin, was born on the old Moul homestead in Heidel- berg township in 1822, and as a boy worked on his father's farm. He received a fair edu- cation in the common schools and followed the vocation of farming through life. He was one of the intelligent and progressive farmers of the county. In politics he was a Democrat. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, Hanover, and for many years an elder of the congrega- tion. He married Annie Harnish, the daugh- ter of Jacob Harnish, and a descendant of one of the pioneer families. Jacob Harnish was twice married. His first wife was a Miss Bech- tel, and his second a Miss Myers. To Josiah

Emma, who married Martin Bollinger; Mary, the wife of George Hamme; Clinton R., who resides on the old Moul homestead in Heidel- berg township; Josiah S., a teacher; Edward H., superintendent of the Moul planing-mill; and Emory, deceased. Josiah, the father, died in 1901, and was buried in Mt. Carmel ceme- tery. His wife, Annie, who was born in 1826, died in 1896, and was also buried in Mt. Car- mel cemetery.

Martin Moul spent his boyhood days on the old farm, attending the neigh- boring common schools. At the age of nineteen he began an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade with Solomon Zart- man, of Codorus township. Completing his trade, Mr. Moul worked for several years as a millwright, after which he became inter- ested in the planing-mill at Hanover. In 1890 he started in the manufacturing of matches and was so engaged for nine years, inventing sev- eral very useful machines for manufacturing matches. In 1899 he became identified with the coal and lumber business and is now presi- dent of the firm of C. Moul & Company, deal- ers in lumber, coal and roofing material. He is a stockholder of the Fitz Water Wheel Com- pany, of which he has also been elected presi- dent. He is a stockholder of the Hanover Wire Cloth Company and has other business interests.

In 1883 Mr. Moul married Mary E. Gem- mill, formerly of Baltimore county, Md., the daughter of David W. Gemmill. To Mr. and Mrs. Moul have been born six children, name- ly : Carrie, who died at the age of nineteen ; Walter Ray, a machinist; Alfred Guy; Horace Clare; David Gemmill, and Anna Ruth. Mr. Moul is a member of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, of which he has served as elder for ten years and of which he is a teacher in the Sunday-school. Mrs. Moul is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is independent in local matters and a Demo- crat in State and national affairs. Mr. Moul possesses talent and ability as an architect, to which profession he has in recent years given considerable attention. He has designed a number of Hanover's finest residences and a number of office buildings and public school- houses, these structures showing striking evi- dence of his originality and skill as an architect.

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CHRISTIAN F. MOUL, manufacturer retail grocery business on Abbottstown street, and dealer in coal and wood, was born in Par- Hanover, which business he conducted for four years. In 1903 he became interested in the manufacturing of plow handles and beams and general woodwork for farm machinery, with his brother, William H. Moul, which has been very successful and is now one of Hanover's leading industries. He is also a member and vice-president, secretary and general manager of the Moul-Miller Lumber Company Inc., who recently bought about ten thousand acres of timber lands in Virginia and West Virginia for the purpose of conducting the manufacture of lumber.

adise township,' York county, Feb. 17, 1871. He is a lineal descendant of Conrad Moul, one of the earliest settlers of Heidelberg township, who came to this country from the lower Pal- atinate of Germany in the ship "Hampshire," from Rotterdam, Sept. 7, 1748, Thomas Cheeseman, captain. He took up land in and around the site of Moulstown. Conrad Moul had three sons: Philip, born in 1751, died in 1841 ; he remained on the old homestead. Peter moved to near Holtzschwamm church, and Conrad, father of John, known as Weaver Conrad, located near Abbottstown. Peter, brother of Philip and Conrad, had six sons, Philip, Conrad, Peter, George, Solomon, John, and one daughter, Cathrine, who was born in 1799, and died in 1877 (buried at Roth church).

The second Peter Moul was born in 1794, and died in 1877; he was buried at Roth church. He had five sons and two daughters, Michael, John, Peter, William, Solomon, Lucy, and Cathrine (married to Emanuel Gross).

John F. Moul, the father of Christian F. Moul and son of the second Peter, was born in Paradise township, in 1837, and as a boy worked on the farm of his father. At the age of eighteen years he began an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade with his brother Michael. After completing his trade he be- came a contractor and builder. In politics he is a stanch Democrat; he is a member of the Lutheran Church. He married Christianna Gerber, the daughter of Christian Gerber. To John F. and Christianna (Gerber) Moul were born the following children : William H. Moul; Christian F. Moul; John P. Moul; Emma, who married William Straly; Ida, who married J. Emory Flickinger ; Mary, deceased, who was married to Charles Brodbeck ; 'Ella, married to George Wildasin; Daisy, married to George Rabenstine; and Sarah, deceased. John, the father, lives with his son-in-law, George Rabenstine, on High street, Hanover, Pa. His wife Christianna was born in 1837, died in 1906, and is buried in Mt. Olivet cem- etery, Hanover.

Christian F. Moul spent his boyhood days on the farm and received his education in the common schools. At the age of eighteen he began the carpenter's trade, at which he worked until 1899, when he became interested in the

In 1891 Mr. Moul married Emma J. Strine, formerly of Hanover, the daughter of Henry Strine. To Mr. and Mrs. Moul have been born two children, namely: Alvan, who died at the age of one month, sixteen days, and Arthur F. Mr. Moul is an active member of St. Mark's Church and Sunday-school and a member of the choir. In politics he is inde- pendent in local matters and a Democrat in national affairs, and in 1906 was elected school director in Hanover.

WILLIAM H. MOUL, a brother of Chris- tian F. Moul, son of John F. Moul, was born in Paradise township, York county. He spent his boyhood days on the farm and was edu- cated in the public schools. At the age of seventeen he became apprenticed to the carpen- ter's trade with his father. Completing his trade, Mr. Moul became an employee with the firm of Hench & Dromgold Company of York, manufacturers of farm implements, at which place he had a position as assistant foreman in the wood-working department for thirteen years. In 1903 he became interested with his brother Christian F. Moul in the manufacture of plow handles and beams and woodwork for farm machinery, and is president and general manager of the concern. In 1906 he became a member of the Moul-Miller Lumber Company Inc., of which he is treasurer and assistant manager.

In 1891 he was married to Sallie Bowman, daughter of George W. Bowman, of Hanover. To Mr. and Mrs. Moul have been born one son, Raymond, and one daughter, Myrtle. Mr. Moul is an active member of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church and Sunday-school. In poli- tics he is independent in local matters and a Democrat in State and national affairs.

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CORNELIUS RUFUS McCOSH, ice for his uncle, Capt. A. W. Eichelberger, and manufacturer at Hanover, was born in Ala- at the latter's death, in 1901, became the owner bama, near the Georgia line, May 29, 1850. of the entire plant. His ancestors were among the earliest Scotch- Irish settlers of Adams county, Pa. James McCosh, his grandfather, married Deborah McCreary, representing a prominent Scotch- Irish family. For a period of ten years or more James McCosh conducted a hotel at York Sulphur Springs, a popular summer re- sort for people from Baltimore, Washington and other large cities.

Mr. McCosh was married in 1879 to Nan- nie Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander and Louisa (Beck) Baugher. Her father, who served as a soldier in the Civil war, was born in the year 1820, and in 1906 was living at the advanced age of eighty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. McCosh have four children: Irma, mar- ried to Robert O. Wirt, teller in the Saving Fund Society at Hanover; Henry, now a clerk in the office of the Norfolk & Western Rail- road, at Roanoke, Va., married to Florence, daughter of Dr. William Stoner, of Sunbury, Pa .; Robert, a graduate of the Hanover High School and a clerk and stenographer of the Norfolk & Western Railroad at Roanoke, Va .; and Louise, a graduate of the Hanover High School, and now a student at National Park Seminary, near Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. McCosh, and their four children, are members of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Hanover.

Samuel A. McCosh, his son, and father of Cornelius R. McCosh, was married to Cather- ine Matilda, daughter of Jacob Eichelberger, the first chief burgess of Hanover, and sister of Capt. A. W. Eichelberger, a prominent citi- zen of the same town. Samuel A. McCosh conducted a store at York Springs for a num- ber of years and in the early forties migrated to Alabama, where he engaged in farming for several years. He then moved to LaGrange, Troup Co., Ga., where he erected a hotel and carried on that business for a time. He again returned to farming after purchasing a planta- tion in Troup county. Before the war he owned a number of slaves. When hostilities opened he was beyond the age limit to be drafted into the service, and engaged as a sut- ler in the Confederate army. In the early spring of 1865, when General Sherman was marching through Georgia on his way to the sea, Mr. McCosh went to Charleston, S. C., which city was then in a state of commotion owing to the approach of the Federal army. During this excitement Mr. McCosh lost his life. No intelligent information ever reached the family describing the cause of his death. His widow, 'Mrs. McCosh, died in Troup county, Ga., in 1868.

DAVID MILLER, who resides in East Hopewell township, has been a resident of this township continuously since 1865, and is one of its most substantial and influential agri- culturists. He was born on his father's farm, close to Cross Roads, April 9, 1824, one of the ten children-six boys and four girls-in the family of John and Elizabeth (Trout) Miller.

Mr. Miller's education was secured in the subscription schools, the sessions being held in an old log building near Cross Roads, which he attended several months each year until he was twenty. In his younger days much of the The following year Cornelius R. McCosh came to Hanover. He spent two years in the public schools and a year in Pleasant Hill Academy, on Baltimore street, Hanover. He then engaged for two years in the railroad business as assistant civil engineer for the Bal- timore & Harrisburg Railroad, and spent the succeeding year as a civil engineer, aiding in the construction of a railroad in Albemarle county, Va. From 1880 to 1890 he was opera- tor and agent for the Western Maryland Rail- road at Emory Grove, where the Baltimore & land in this section was covered with heavy timber, and as a boy he cleared land and picked stones. Only the poorest of crops could be raised, the home farm of 160 acres only yield- ing ten bushels of wheat for many years. In 1865 Mr. Miller located on his present farm, which he purchased from David Fishel, and in 1883 he erected his present home, the old home" which is occupied by his son, J. C., being over one hundred years old. Mr. Miller was con- nected with the Know Nothing party, and was a Whig before the Republican party was or- Harrisburg joins the Western Maryland. Since ganized, but being fair-minded, and liberal in 1890 Mr. McCosh has been carrying on an his views, votes more for the men than the extensive business in the manufacture and sale party, and has never been an office seeker. For of ice at Hanover. He first operated the plant fifty years Mr. Miller has been a member of

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 46

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