History of York County, Pennsylvania : from the earliest period to the present time, divided into general, special, township and borough histories, with a biographical department appended, Part 152

Author: Gibson, John, Editor
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: F.A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago
Number of Pages: 1104

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at mill construction from the jack-knife, the shin- gle and the country stream or roadside brook, where his childish ambition reveled in its fancied great accomplishment of his efforts. In 1860 he took up the manufacture of the Jonval turbine water-wheel, but an experience of several years demonstrated clearly to him that improvements were not only desirable, but necessary, and after a long period of experiments and attempts at different constructions, be,in June, 1870, patented and gave to the trade the old Bollinger turbine water-wheel, sometimes styled the " Success." . Though he afterward dis- posed of the right and title to manufacture that wheel, it was destined for him to perfect another, styled " Bollinger's new turbine water-wheel." June 1, 1875, and to this new wheel he is devoting his time and attention, offering the same to the public with · elaborate explanation by catalog and eir- cular. To his manufacture of water-wheels he adds mill machinery, and we particularly call the attention of those interested, to his inventions of mill-stone supports and driving devices, which reflect much credit upon the inventor and give the trade articles of sterling value. In 1874 Mr. Bollin- ger became one of the members of the York Manu- facturing Company, then just started, and took position in the firm as mechanical engineer and foreman of the shops. He remained there for two years, when, realizing the value of his new wheel, he began devoting all his time to it, and so he con- tinues to-day.

It can be said, in brief, that the new Bollinger turbine water-wheel, patented June 1, 1875, is the result and embodiment of the inventor's valuable experience of about thirty-five years in the design- ing and construction of water-wheels and mill machinery, and that in this turbine, good and well- tried features have been preserved, while register gates, pivot or claptrap gates, cams, eccentrics, racks and pinions under water, worm-gears, wind- lasses, and all such trappy and complicated devices which have heretofore rendered turbine wheels troublesome, impracticable and worthless, have been dispensed with, and substituted by new and substantial improvements, protected by letters patent. All wheels and machinery are built under the immediate supervision of the inventor, who invites the special attention of wheel builders and wheel buyers.

Mr. Bollinger has for sixteen years been a resi- dent of York, and hasadded much to its progressive business interests. He belongs to that class of men who, active and fertile in mechanical and inventive resources, have done mneh to give life and reality to the ideas which emanate only from men of natural inborn mechanical attributes. In 1856 he was united in marriage with Susan C. Fife, a native of York County and daughter of John and Eliza- beth Fife. To this marriage were born three chil- dren. Mrs. Bollinger died in 1883, at forty-five years of age. For twenty-five years Mr. Bollinger has been a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Politically he is a Republican, and has served as a member of the borough council. Affa- ble and of a kindly nature, warm in his friendships and sincere in his attachments, he is regarded as a good citizen, alive to all matters pertaining to his city's welfare, a reliable, straightforward business and moral man.

EMANUEL W. BOWMAN. dealer in coal and wood, was born in Springfield Township, August 1, 1830, to George and Catherine (Walter) Bowman, and is of German origin. The father of Mr. Bow- man was born in Chanceford Township, March 14, 1803, and his mother in North Codorus, Decem- ber 27, 1807. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Philip Bowman. The father of Mr. Bow- man was a farmer, whose death occurred on Novem-

ber 28, 1884. His mother died on March 27, 1838. When our subject was about eight years of age, he removed with his parents to Adams County, where he remained until his seventeenth year, when they removed to Carroll County, Md., where they re- mained a short time, and then returned to York County. In 1855 he went to Cumberland County, Upper Allen Township, where he remained until the beginning of the war, when he again returned to York County and settled in Franklin Township. He enlisted August 30, 1864, in Company I, Two Hundred and Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. In February, 1867, he returned to York, where he has since resided. For nine years he was employed by the Northern Central Railroad Company, and for more than eight years was employed by P. A. & S. Small. In February, 1884, he began the wood and coal business, which he now continues. The marriage of Mr. Bowman occurred April 30, 1854, to Miss Margaret Myres, a native of Adams County, born June 9, 1836, daughter of Peter Myres. To this marriage has been born one child-Sarah E. Mr. Bowman is a Mason and Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Bowman are members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church.

STEPHEN GILL BOYD, the subject of this sketch, is the oldest child of John C. and Martha (Farmer) Boyd, and was born in Peach Bottom Township, this county, on the 6th day of December, 1830. On his paternal side he is descended from an old Scotch-Irish family that emigrated from the County Antrim, Ireland, in the year 1736, and his maternal grandparents emigrated from Shropshire, England. in the early part of the present century, and settled near Darlington, Hartford Co., Md. During the minority of Mr. Boyd, his summers were devoted to working on his father's farm, and his winters to attending the distriet school. Upon reaching his majority he repaired to York, and en- tered, as a student, the grammar school of the late Dr. Andrew Dinsmore, and spent his time, until he was twenty-seven years of age, mainly in teaching, obtaining academic instruction at various educa- tional institutions, principally at White Hall Acad- emy in Cumberland County, Penn., and at Bryans- ville Academy in his native township, and in man- aging his farm, for several years farming in summer and teaching a district school in winter. In his twenty-seventh year, Mr. Boyd, in order to obtain a more thorough education, removed with his family to Lancaster, Penn., and for a term became a stu- dent at the Millersville State Normal School. then under the management of Dr. Wickersham. From this time until 1866, he devoted his time exclusively to teaching and study, teaching in Lancaster County. Lancaster City, and in Wrightsville, in this county. In the spring of the year last referred to, at the re- quest of Prof. S. B. Heiges, who was then county superintendent of schools of this county, he came to York and joined him in the management of a normal school, organized for the benefit of the young teachers of the county, with which school he was connected as one of its principal teachers for four years. In the fall of this year (1866) he was elected to a seat in the house of representatives, and was re-elected the ensuing year. In the spring of 1869, he was elected county superintendent of schools to succeed Mr. Heiges, and in 1871 he was elected to the presidency of the Peach Bottom Railway Com- pany, which latter position he filled for the term of six years, and until the road was completed and put into operation from York to Delta. In the spring of 1877 Mr. Boyd, in conjunction with some of the more enterprising citizens of Hartford and Balti- more Counties, undertook the organization of a company to construct a railroad from Delta to Bal- timore, and on the 21st day of January, 1884, this

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road was completed and opened to traffic. Mr. Boyd's conduct as a representative was characterized by a deep interest in all legislation calculated to pro- mote the educational interests of the State and the material interests of his own county. During his first terni he finally prepared and secured the pas- sage of the bill to incorporate the York and Chance- ford Turnpike Company, in which company, after its organization, he served as a director until his re- moval to Baltimore. in 1878. During his second term he prepared and secured the passage of the bill to incorporate the Peach Bottom Railway Com- pany, and during this term also he took an active part in the passage of the bill giving to the non- accepting school districts of the State, their for-

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feited appropriations from the State treasury, for the last ten years prior to its passage, and had the pleas- ure of seeing Manheim Township, in this county, accept the system during his first year as county superintendent. In his second year in the office of county superintendeut he co-operated with the hoard of school control of the borough of York in the reorganization of the schools of the borough, favoring a comprehensive and thorough course of study, and the borough superintendency. Mr. Boyd, since his withdrawal from the management of the Maryland Central Railroad, in the autumn of 1884. has been engaged in educational work, having adopted the educational platform as a profession. In addition to his labors on the platform, he fre- quently appears in print as an essayist, and is the author of a work on the signification of Indian

local or place names. Much of his life has heen given to the study of literary and scientific subjects, and no small part of it to the promotion of the ma- terial interests of his county.

H. C. BRENNEMAN, assistant principal of the York High School, was born in Washington Township, January 14. 1858, and is a son of Jacob Brenneman, a prominent farmer of the upper end, residing near the village of Wellsville. Mr. Brenne- man received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and early in life showed an ardent thirst for knowledge, which the excellent schools of the vicinity encouraged. In them ; he zealously studied, and succeeded so well that in the fall of 1875, he passed creditably at the town examination, and was employed as a teacher for that winter term. The following spring he attended Union Semi- nary at 'New: Berlin, Union Co., Penn. Returning home he very successfully taught in the public schools of his native township for three more winter terms, and in 1878 entered the State Normal School at Millersville, where he graduated with a class of thirty- seven in the spring session of 1880. After graduating he taught one term in Adamstown, Lancaster County, and returned to the nor- mal school again, taking a more extended course in the natural sciences and mathematics. He next taught a normal and select school in Millersburg, Dauphin County, and was afterward elected principal of the schools of that town, hut before the fall term opened, was elected in 1881 to the position which he now holds. Prof. Brenneman is a young man of fine literary tastes, excellent scholarship, and thoroughly devo- ted to the responsihilites of his profession.

DR. C. H. BRESSLER was born in Clinton County, Penn., in February, 1821, and is a son of George and Eliza (Darneck) Bress- ler, the former a native of Lan- caster County, and the latter of Philadelpha, Penn. Dr. Bressler was educated at the common schools of Clinton County, and sub- sequently attended : select schools at Flemington and Mill Hall. He hegan the study of dentistry, in 1839, at Lancaster, under Dr. Eli Perry, and continued for three years and a half, during which time he also studied medicine under Dr. Perry, who was a graduate of the Medical University of Philadelphia. During the last year of his stay at Lancaster, Dr. Bressler studied under Dr. Washington Atlee. In 1842 he went to Philadelphia and attended a course of lec- tures during the winter at the Pennsylvania Medi- cal College; in the fall following he entered the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, from which institution he graduated in March, 1844. He located at Bellefonte and practiced dentistry until 1849, when he went to Lancaster and formed a part- nership with Dr. Perry in the practice of dentistry. In the fall 'of 1849, he with Dr. Perry and others petitioned the legislature for a dental college; this was the first effort toward securing an institution of this kind in the State, and the following fall a charter was granted. Dr. Bressler returned to his

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practice at Bellefonte, where he remained until 1854, when he came to York and became the successor of Dr. James Perry. He has been twice a candidate for congress and has served as sheriff of York County. In May, 1849, he married Sarah A., daughter of Rev. John Tanner of Bellefonte, Penn. Their union has been blessed with eight children, as follows: John T., George Bowman (deceased), Emma B., Charles, Clara V., Wilber C., A. Curton, and Ella M. The Doctor and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; he is a Mason, a member of the Blue Lodge and Commandery of York.

JOHN W. BUCKINGHAM, dealer in paper and paper stock. is a native of Gettysburg, Penn., and was born May 5, 1832; is a son of Ezekiel and Maria (Test) Buckingham, is the third son by his father's second marriage, aud is of English descent. The father of our subject was born in Maryland about 1796. By occupation he was a coach-maker. His death occurred in Gettysburg in 1849. The mother of Mr. Buckingham was born in York about 1810. At the early age of about eleven years, the subject of this sketch was compelled to make his own way in life. He first learned the tailoring trade, and this he continued some years. His present business was established in 1860. The marriage of Mr. Buck- ingham occurred in 1850, to Miss Rebecca Meginley, daughter of Andrew and Catherine Meginley. To this marriage have been born eight children, five of whom are living, viz .: Maria C., William A., Henry E., R. Lizzie and Lewis E. W., Mr. Buckingham is a firm friend of education. His daughter, R. Lizzie, and son, Henry E., are graduates of the York High School, and his youngest son, Lewis E. W., is now a member of the junior class of the high school. Our subjeet is a Republican. His brother, Capt. H. F. T. Buckineham, was for four years a captain of a cavalry company. His death occurred in Baltimore in 1880. Mr. Buckingham is a Mason and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and wife are members of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch.

zen he is popular, liberal and enterprising. In 1867 he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Gar- verich, of Scotch ancestry. They have had born to them two children: Maurice (who was a promising young medical student and had passed his first course of lectures at the Baltimore City College, and died upon the day he was to enter upon his second course at the University of Maryland, in the seven- teenth year of his age) and Harrie.

NATHAN F. BURNHAM, York, was born in the city of New York March 13, 1822, and is of English-Irish and French descent. His father was a millwright. and with him Nathan F. worked at the trade in Orange County, N. Y., until he was six- teen years old. He then commenced learning the watch-maker's business, which he was obliged to re- linquish after three years on account of his health. He then went to Laurel, Md., in 1844, and engaged with Patuxent & Co. as mercantile clerk and book- keeper. In 1856 he commenced the manufacture of French turbine water-wheels. In 1859 he sold out his Laurel interests and came to York, commenced manufacturing his own patents, and here has since resided. May 22, 1883. he founded the Drovers' & Mechanies' National Bank of York and was elected its first president, which position he still holds. In 1881, with others, he built the York Opera House at a cost of $40,000; it was opened in 1882. Mr. Burn- ham was married July 3, 1850, to Ann Eliza Gray, of Maryland; she died a few years later, leaving one child, Horace H., horn September 16, 1851, and died January 28, 1857. Mr. Burnham's second marriage took place June 8, 1854, with Mrs. Delilah Israel, nee Jones; she bore him the following chil- dren: Ann Elmirah, born January 21, 1856, died March 6, 1861: Frank A., born August 18. 1858; William H., born September 21, 1860. Mrs. Delilah Burnham died May 1, 1881, aged forty-eight years, six months and twenty-eight days. Mr. Burnham has been constantly engaged in manufacturing and selling turbine wheels since 1856, and is the inventor and patentee of several, which are used in nearly every country in the world: among them may be mentioned the following: Improved Jonval Tur- bine, patented February 22, 1859; New Turbine Water Wheel, patented March 3, 1868: Improved New Turbine Wheel, patented March 9, 1871; Standard Turbine Wheel, patented March 31, 1874; Improved Standard Turbine, patented March 27, 1883. Burnham Bros., Mr. Burnham's sons, took charge of the Standard Turbine Wheel business October 1, 1881, and sinee then Mr. Burnham has devoted his time to the improvement of the stand- ard turbine wheel, which, after many experiments, he has made to run on either a vertical or horizon- tal shaft, and to discharge a larger amount of water and get a better percentage of power from the water used. This Improved Turbine, discharging one-half more water, with full gate drawn, yields as great a percentage for the water used as the Standard; and when one-half the water is used, which each is capa- ble of discharging at full gate, the gain is sixteen per eent over the Standard. During the past year lie has had four experimental wheels tested at Holyoke, mueh to his satisfaction, both in manner of testing and percentage obtained. This Improved Standard Turbine is guaranteed equal to any other make of turbine in the economical use of water at either full or part drawn gate. Mr. Burnham is a Knight Templar, and is Past Master of the I. O. O. F. and Past Sachem of Red Men.

DR. J. DE BURKARTE, a distinguished physi- cian and surgeon, was born in Philadelphia in 1831 and is the eldest son of Dr. S. and Mary De Burkarte. His father was a physician of Paris, France, and his mother a native of Berlin, Prussia. The subject of this sketch, in early life, received a good education in all of the ordinary branches, as well as a knowl- edge of medicine, and graduated at Harvard College in 1849, and has finally become a physician of ex- tensive practice. During the years of 1850-51-52, he attended two full regular courses of lectures at the University of Philadelphia, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, supple- mented with three regular full courses of lectures at the University of Maryland. He commenced the practice of medicine at Philadelphia, in 1858, where he remained in active practice until 1860, when he removed to Harrisburg, where. he continued his practice until 1863, when he enlisted as a private in the Union Army. In 1864 he had, through valor and courage, risen in the ranks to first lieutenant. At the battle in front of Petersburg he was severely wounded, which confined him to the hospital. Upon regaining strength he accepted an appoint- ment as surgeon and was transferred to McClelland Hospital at Philadelphia, where he served until the latter part of August, 1865, when, on account of wounds and disability, he received an honorable discharge. After a few weeks' respite he returned to Harrisburg and resumed his practice, continuing LEWIS CARL, deceased, was born in York County in 1826, to Martin and Mary Carl. He attended the public schools of York. At eighteen years of age he began the mercantile business in York, and for many years he was one of the promi- nent merchants of the county, and continued in until 1868, when he removed to York, where he has since resided, engaged in active and continuous practice. Dr. De Burkarte has established a large and extensive practice in York County, and keeps abreast with the progress of the age, not only in his profession, but in general literature. As a citi- | business until a short time before his death, having

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accumulated quite a fortune. He was married Sep- tember 20, 1866, to Snsan Hay, a native of York and a danghter of John and Susan Hay; no children were born unto them. For many years he was a member of the Lutheran Church. He was exten- sively known and a much respected citizen. His death occurred October 24, 1878.

· JERE CARL, banker, was born in York County, Penn., in 1829, and is a son of Martin and Mary (Deardorff) Carl, and is of Swiss-German extraction. The Carl family has for many years been identified with the interests of this county. The father of our subject died in 1855, and the mother ten years pre- vions. Jere Carl received a common school education and afterward learned the printer's trade. He then engaged in the mercantile business, which he con- tinued nntil 1853, when he was appointed book-keep- er of the old York Bank, which position he held for fourteen years. He then engaged in the banking business, becoming a member of the firm of Weiser, Son & Carl, and in this business relation still con- tinnes. He was married in 1861 to Adaline A. Weiser, danghter of Charles and Anna M. Weiser, of York, Penn. Three children were born to this marriage: Charles W., born in 1864, died in 1882; and Ballc. Mr. Carl has always been a supporter of the Dem- ocratic party. In 1875 he was elected chief burgess of York, and was re-elected in 1876 and 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Carl are members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church.

HENRY CASLOW, son of John Peter and Barbara (Flinchbaugh) Caslow, of York Township, was born May 14, 1810, in York Township, and is of English and German descent. He is the fourth child in a family of eight children, viz .: John, deceased; Lid- die, deceased; Infant, deceased; Henry, Peter; Dan- iel, deceased; Leah, deceased; and Amos. Our subject was reared on a farm, and the death of his father, when our subject was a small boy, made it necessary for him to assist his mother in rearing the family. He began to learn the trade of shoemaker when fourteen years old, and continued at that trade for twenty-four years. His health required a change of occupation, and he bought the mill property on the Peach Bottom Railroad, near Ore Valley. He ran this mill about eight years, and then removed to York, where in 1850, he bought the Seven Stars Hotel on South George Street. After a stay of twenty years, he removed to his present location, corner of Queen and College Avenue, where he has since conducted a retail grocery store. In March, 1832. he married Helena Houseman of Windsor Township. Our sub- ject's father-in-law, Christian Houseman, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Elenora, wife of Jacob Sechrist, is the only child of our subject. He is a member of the Lutheran Church.

EDMUND T. CHAMBERS, ticket-agent for the Pennsylvania and North Central Railways, is a native of France, born in 1846, son of John and Mary (Kennedy) Chambers. His parents were born in Ireland and immigrated to America in 1849, and settled in Baltimore, Md., where the father died in 1881. Our subject received a common school edu- cation at the public schools of Baltimore. In 1869 he came to York, Penn., and for some time was a clerk in the store of Thomas Chambers & Co., after which he accepted his present position. Mr. Cham- bers was married in 1871 to Amelia Bender, daugh- ter of Henry Bender, ex-treasurer of York Connty. To this marriage have been born five children: John H., William E,, Daisy E., James H. and George R. Mr. Chambers is a Democrat. He and his wife are members of the Roman Catholic Church.

ANDREW F. CLINCH, foreman of the boiler department at A. B. Farquhar's, is a native of Jer- sey City. N. J., was born in 1856, and is a son of Michael and Margaret (Ingersol) Clinch, and is of Irish extraction. His father was born in Ireland in

1811, came to America in 1847, and settled in Jersey City, and there remained eleven years, and then removed to Wilmington, Del., where the early por- tion of the life of our subject was spent. After receiving a common school education he learned the steam-fitter and boiler-maker trades. For nine years he was in the employ of Pusey Jones & Co., of Wilmington, Del. In 1879 he came to York, and has since been employed at his present occupa- tion, and is one of the leading mechanics of York. In his department he has charge of fifty men. The marriage of Mr. Clinch was solemnized in 1878 to Miss Cora Litsinger, of Westminster, Md. To this union have been born three children, viz .: Flor- ence May. George and Alice. He is a Democrat in politics.

HENRY M. CRIDER, publisher and bookseller, York, Penn., is the son of Jacob and Catherine (Mower) Crider. He was born near Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Penn., October 14, 1839. His father re- moved to near Newburg. in 1842, where the subject of this notice received an injury, while at school, which threatened to make him a cripple for life. In the years of suffering which followed, when he was debarred from the sports incident to childhood, he developed a fondness for books and an aptness for learning which determined his father to give him, if possible, a liberal education. A second removal of the family was made, in 1853, to Green Spring, Cumberland Co., Penn., where snch opportunities for improvement as the district school afforded were eagerly embraced. At the age of sixteen, he began teaching in the rural districts of his county, attending, during the summer months, varions in- stitutions of learning, with a view of advancing his own education. In 1858 he became a student of Otterbein University, where his poems and essays in the literary and rhetorical societies attracted con- siderable interest and comment. In 1861 he was licensed to preach, when he returned to his native State, and for a short time was engaged in the min- istry. December 24, 1861, he was married to Miss Sadie Elizabeth Kaufmau, of Boiling Springs, Cum- berland Co., Penn., and having resnmed his former profession, he was for some years engaged in teach- ing in various towns and cities. In 1866 he was selected as a member of the faculty of Cottage Hill College, near York, Penn., and, in connection with his duties there, established a night school and com- mercial college for young men, which was liberally patronized by the best eitizens of York. Abont this time, he wrote a book of poems, entitled " Peda- gogic," in which he embalmed in verse the varions specimens of the district school teacher of "Ye olden time." Its unique character called forth many favorable press notices. It was extensively read before teacher's institutes, and passed through several editions. In 1866 he originated and pub- lished the photograph marriage certificate, which was subsequently modified into many varieties, and by a liberal and jndicions system of advertising succeeded in introducing his certificates throughout the United States and Canada; and at this writing, 1885, nearly 2,000,000 copies have been sold. In August, 1867, he established a paper, which he edited for two years. the circulation of which, at one time, exceeded 5,000 copies. His first wife was removed by death in 1874. In 1875 he was married a second time, to Miss Amanda C. Fahs, a lady long and favorably known in York as a teacher in the public schools and the York County Academy. He is the father of one son and three daughters. The son, W. H. Crider, has reached his majority, and is now engaged in teaching in the State Normal School, at Morris, Ill.

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History of York County, Pennsylvania : from the earliest period to the present time, divided into general, special, township and borough histories, with a biographical department appended, Part 152

Author: Gibson, John, Editor Publication date: 1886 Publisher: F.A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago Number of Pages: 1104

Author: Gibson, John, Editor
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: F.A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago
Number of Pages: 1104