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 158

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

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Bank of York, where he is now engaged. April 26, 1869, he married Ellen Sarah, the second daughter of Joseph Smyser, of the borough of York, Penn., and has had born to him the following children : Ellis Smyser, member of St. Paul's Church, and clerk in the Western National Bank ; Joseph Smyser, Mabel Rebecca, Sadie Moore, Clay Eugene, Nellie Kate, and Margie Violet, all living.

WILLIAM Y. LINK. ex-prothonotary of York County, was born in Dover Township, York County, January 14, 1838, to Benjamin and Margaret (Yesler) Link, and is of German-Scotch descent. The parents of Mr. Link were natives of York County, the father, born about 1805, died in 1839, and the mother, born in 1806, died in 1872. The grand- father Link was also a native of York County, and still resides in Dover Township. The Yesler family is an ancient one, of York County. Mr. Link was educated at the public schools of Dover Township. At ten years of age he was thrown entirely upon his own resources. He worked on the farm until he was nineteen years of age, and then learned the carpenter's trade, and continued this until 1875. In 1875 he was elected prothonotary of York County and served three years, since which time he has been working at his trade. The marriage of Mr. Link took place in 1863, to Miss Catherine Aughen- baugh, daughter of George Aughenbaugh, a native of Manchester Township. They have six children, viz .: William F., Laura J., Harry E., Bertha K., Chauncy A. and Chester G. Mr. and Mrs. Link are members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church.

HENRY LINT, second of three children of Peter and Elizabeth (Smyser) Lint, was born in West Manchester Township, July 20, 1829, where he was reared on his father's farm and lived in this township until he removed with his father to the home where he now lives. He removed to York in 1840. His maternal ancestors. the Smysers, were the pioneer settlers in West Manchester Township. Mr. Lint is a member of the Lutheran Church. (For our subject's ancestral history, see sketch of his brother, Peter Lint).

DR. L. M. LOCKMAN, son of the Rev. A. H. Lockman, of York, was born in August, 1829, at Harrisburg, Penn. He attended the common schools of York in youth, and completed a course in York Academy. He then entered the drug store of Dr. Alexander Barnitz as clerk, and remained with him two years. He then began the study of medicine with Dr. Jacob Hay, Sr., with whom he remained two years, then began a course of study with Dr. James W. Kerr, of. York, with whom he remained until he graduated. He attended the Pennsylvania Medical College, of Philadelphia, and graduated in 1852. He returned to York and began the practice of his profession. He remained in York until 1853, then went to Littlestown, Penn., remained one year, and then moved to Liverpool, Manchester Town- ship. where he remained six years. In 1869 he again returned to York, where he still continues the practice of his profession. He married, March, 1853, Maria, daughter of Dr. John F. Fischer, of York. Their union was blessed with four children, as follows: William C. (deceased), John F. (deceased), Augustus (deceased) and Harry D. The Doctor is a member of St. Luke's Lutheran Church.

ZACHARIAH K. LOUCKS is a grandson of John George Loucks, who was one of the early em- igrants from Germany that settled in the beautiful region of Berks County, known as Tulpehocken, where he purchased a tract of land. About the year 1780, hearing of the fertile lands west of the Susquehanna, he immigrated to York County to con- tinue his chosen occupation of farming, and pur- chased land southwest of York. May 13, 1805, he purchased the mill and farm where Z. K. Loucks now lives. George Loucks, son of John George Loucka,

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father of the subject of this sketch, was born Au- gust 18. 1787, and died October 29, 1849, aged sixty- tro years, two months and eleven days. He fol- lowed the two occupations of miller and farmer at the Loucks' homestead. He purchased a great deal of z al estate, and at his death owned the mill property. . was married to Susanna Weltzhoffer, of Hellam wnship, and had three sons and four daughters. 2 .chariah K. Loucks, the subject of this sketch, was born March 14, 1822, on the place where he now resides. He received his education in the York County Academy, under Rev. Stephen Boyer. For a number of years was a class-mate of Prof. Kirk- wood, now the famous astronomer and mathema- tician. He commenced business in York first as a clerk with the firm of Schriver, Loucks & Co., and afterward was a clerk for Loucks & Becker at the old Manor Furnace in Chanceford Township, where he remained one year. He then entered the store of Henry Becker in York until 1839, when he re- tu ned to his home in Spring Garden Township, and a ended to the duties of the grist-mill'and farm un- t' his father's death. After this event he and his hrother, Henry I., succeeded their father in business

the old homestead, where they still reside, about one mile north of York, along the line of the North- e. n Central Railroad. In his new and elegant man- sion, built in 1881, with its large piazzas, porticoes and beautiful lawn around it, he is afforded all the comforts, conveniences and enjoyments of rural life. For many years he turned his attention closely to farming and milling. Here, on this site, was erected o ·e of the first grist-mills west of the Susquehanna. The old two-story mill, distillery and saw-mill were destroyed by fire on April 29, 1864. The present commodious, five-story brick mill was built during the fall of 1864, at a cost of $30,000. It contains the latest improvements of milling machinery, and has a capacity of 150 barrels of flour in twenty-four hours. During the past twenty years it has been leased hy P. A. & S. Small, of York. Cars are pulled by water power to the mill, over a switch from the Northern Central Railway to load flour. In connection with milling and farming, Mr. Loucks has been largely engaged in other business. At the time of the organization of the First National Bank of York, in 1863, he was elected a director. He was afterward elected vice-president, and in the year 1877 was chosen president of that institution, and now occupies that position. He was a director and general financier of the York & Peach Bottom Railway when it was built; for many years a mem- ber of the board of directors of York County Agri- cultural Society, and is a life member of the same; one of the projectors and is now president of the Chanceford Turnpike Company and a director; was a director of the York City Market until its comple- tion, when he resigned; is vice-president of the Penn Mutual Horse Insurance Company of York, and is largely engaged in the real estate business. Mr. Loucks was married January 5, 1843, to Sarah Ann, daughter of Col. Michael Ebert, of Spring Garden. She was born March 18, 1822. Their eld- est son, Alexander, resides in Manchester Town- ship, and was married to Catharine Wambaugh. They have four children: Harry, William, Annie and Isabel. George E., the second son of Z. K. and Sarah Ann Loucks, was married to Susan Jane Myers. He resides at Hellam Station. Edward. the third son, is at home. Z. K. Loucks, Jr., the fourth son, is a law student in Philadelphia, and graduated with high honors from the College of New Jersey, at Princeton. Isabella, the only daugh- ter, was married to John W. Kohler, and died at the age of twenty-seven, leaving two children: Will- iam I. and Edwin. Mr. Loucks, as a business man, has had an active and prosperous career. He is possessed of good judgment, keen discrimination

and excellent financial and executive abilities. In politics he was originally an active Whig, cast bis first presidential vote for Gen. Harrison, and was an enthusiastic advocate of Henry Clay's election. He is now an ardent advocate of the principles of the Republican party.

CASPER LOUCKS, born in York County, June 4, 1834, is a son of William and Elizabeth (Spang- ler) Loucks, and assisted his father, who was a farmer and distiller, until twenty-six years of age, then managed the home farm himself five years, removed to York in 18- and engaged in the manu- facture of all kinds of crackers and cakes for five years; subsequently erected a building and removed to his present location, southwest corner of South George and Maple Streets, where he opened a pop manufactory and beer-bottling establishment, and is doing an extensive business. He was married March 24, 1861, to Annie M., daughter of Israel Fis- sel, and they have seven children: Elizabeth, Will- iam, Ida May, Katie, Mary, Edward and Charles. Mr. Loucks has been an active member of the Re- formed Church for many years.

FRANKLIN LOUCKS, born in York County September 27, 1834, is a son of Peter and Maria Loucks, was brought up on bis father's farm in West Manchester Township. and followed farming on the homestead until 1869, then moved to York and engaged in business as a member of the firm of Fahs, Smith & Co., dealers in coal, and, subsequent- ly, dealt also quite extensively in grain, flour and feed. At the end of five years he severed his con- nection with that firm, formed a partnership with Bender Bros. in the flour, feed and grain business; sold his interest in the firm in 1882; bought a lot on West Philadelphia Street, and erected a commodi- ous warehouse, where he has built up an extensive trade in the same business. He was married Feb- ruary, 1857, to Mary A., daughter of Adam and Eliza Smyser, and they have had five children: Eliza (deceased), Charles A. (deceased), Anna and Sallie and William F. He is a member of the Lu- theran Church.

GEORGE W. S. LOUCKS is a prominent young business man and identified with the develop- ment of the manufacturing interests of York. He was born in Baltimore, Md., September 29, 1856, and with his parents came to York County, in 1865. He received his education in the schools of York County, finishing his studies at the York County Academy. After finishing his studies be engaged with P. H. Glatfelter at paper manufacturing, continuing until 1878 when he became an assistant of his father, who had purchased an interest in the York Manufacturing Company, and in 1881 he be- came a partner. This company is extensively en- gaged in the manufacture of steam engines, water- wheels and mill machinery, and employs about forty hands. Mr. Loucks was united in marriage May 23, 1883, with Anna N. Lord of Baltimore, Md. Mr. Loucks is a Knight Templar and also an en- campment member of the I. O. O. F.

HUGH W. McCALL, attorney at law, was born in Lower Chanceford Township, York Co., Penn., June 15, 1839, is a son of James L. and Sarah D. (Whiteford) McCall, and is of Scotch- Irish and English descent. The father of Mr. Mc- Call was born in Lower Chanceford Township, January 9. 1806, and his mother was born in Harford County, Md., in 1805. The McCall family has been identified with the history of York County for more than 150 years, and the maternal grandfather of our subject was a soldier in the war of 1812. Receiving an academical education, Mr. McCall went, in 1861, to Mansfield, Ohio, and took up the study of law, under Judge Thomas W. Bartley, ex- governor of Ohio. Our subject in 1862 enlisted in Capt. Miller's company, which was at that time

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ordered to the defense of Cincinnati which was threatened by Kirby Smith; in this capacity he served for thirty days, and returned to Mansfield and re- snmed his legal studies, which he continued until 1863, when he came to York County, where he raised and organized Company A, of the Twenty-first Penn- sylvania Cavalry, commanded by Col. W. H. Boyd, until be was severely wounded at Cold Harbor. Mr. McCall was commissioned captain February 19, 1864, and this position he held until the close of the war. He completed the study of the law in the office of Hon. Thomas E. Cochran of York, and was admitted to the bar August 27, 1866, and has since continued the practice of his profession. He is a Republican, and in 1868 was a delegate of the National Republican Convention at Chicago. He was married in 1871 to Miss Rachel E. Kell, a native of Franklin County, Penn. Their children are as follows: James S., born August 15, 1872; Hugh C., March 17, 1874, and Samuel K., April 9, 1876. Mr. and Mrs McCall are members of the Presbyterian Church.

DR. HENRY MILLER MCCLELLAN, de- ceased, was a prominent physician of his day. He was born October 12, 1809, in York, Penn., and was a son of Robert and Sarah (Miller) Mcclellan. Robert Mcclellan died March 12, 1813, and his widow was subsequently married to Dr. William Jamison, of York, with whom nur subject prose- cuted his medical studies. He was also a student of the Medical College of Baltimore, and a graduate of that institution. He began the practical duties of his profession immediately after graduation, and until his death was untiring in his devotion to his duty. He was a skillful practitioner and achieved an enviable reputation and a large practice. Dr. McClellan was for many years prominently identi- fied with the Presbyterian Church, of which he was an elder, treasurer and valued member. As a citi- zen, he was just and honorable to all, and his death, which occurred August 7, 1869, was sincerely regret- ted by all. His wife, with whom he was united May 7, 1835, was Miss Catherine Louisa Smyser, a daughter of Philip A. and Susan L. Smyser of York. She died July 9, 1884, and was the mother of seven children, only two now living, Catherine J. and William H .; the latter is one of the prominent busi- ness men of York, and is engaged in the hardware and grocery trades.

G. W. McELROY, district atorney of the county of York. was born in Lancaster County, July 23, 1824. He is a son of Daniel and Rebecca (Wishard) McElroy, and is of Scotch-Irish origin. He is the youngest of nine children, only two of whom are living. His father was born in the county of Donegal, Ireland, and his mother in Glasgow, Scotland, and came to America and settled in Lan- caster County, Penn., where they died. Our subject received a common school education in Lancaster County, and was afterward educated in the higher branches, under the kind favor and contin- ued patronage of his brother, A. McElroy, Esq., who died at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia County, in the summer of 1876. In 1841 he became the princi- pal of the Ephrata Academy, which position he held for three years and then read law under Col. Reah Frazer, at Lancaster. He was admitted to the Lancaster bar in 1846, and practiced there a numher of years, during a part of which time he edited the Lancaster Intelligencer, and then went to Meadville. Crawford Co., Penn., where he remained until 1853, and then returned to Lancaster and continued practice until 1860. In 1861 he enlisted in Company A, First Pennsylvania Artillery, and was abont to be promoted when he was taken ill and was brought to the York Hospital, but regain- ing his health, was placed in the commissary de- partment, and there continued until 1864, when he

was honorably discharged. He was admitted to the York County bar December 20, 1864, and in 1883 was elected district attorney of York County. He was married in 1866 to Miss Anna M. Fisher, a native of York. and has had eight children born to him. He is a Democrat.

JOHN T. McFALL, hatter and dealer in gents' furnishing goods, was born in Union County, Penn .. in 1842, and is a son of Thomas and Eliza (Mensch) McFall, and is of Scotch-German extraction. His father was born in Northampton County, Penn., but subsequently removed to Union County, where he died in 1846. The mother of our subject still resides in that county. Mr. McFall was educated in the public schools. He first engaged in the paint- ing business. In 1860 he left his native county and went to Chester, Delaware County. There he remained for nine years, and in 1869 came to York and engaged in his present business. He makes a specialty of fine goods and ranks as the principal hatter and gents' furnisher in York, and is doing a successful business. His marriage took place in 1866, to Miss Mollie E. Johns, a native of Adams County. They have two children, viz .: Wayne G. and Edith M. Mr. and Mrs. McFall are members. of the Lutheran Church.

DR. MATTHEW J. McKINNON, son of Mi- chael W. and Ann L. (McCall) Mckinnon, was born in February, 1832. The father was a native of Hartford County, Md., and the mother of York County. Penn .; the father was a tanner and farmer. Dr. Mckinnon began his education in the common schools of York County, which he attended until the age of ten years ; then entered the academy of York, where, after completing a course of study, he entered Franklin College, at New Athens, Ohio ;

after finishing his collegiate course he began the study of medicine under Dr. A. S. Baldwin, of York County, and subsequently entered the Uni- versity of Maryland, at Baltimore, and graduated March, 1853 ; practiced one year and then went to Shirleysburg, Huntingdon Co. Penn., and prac- ticed until 1861 ; was then commissioned surgeon in the army ; served until January, 1863; then re- signed and began the practice of his profession at Hagerstown, Md. He remained there until March, 1870, then removed to Chanceford Township, York Co., Penn., and practiced until October, 1873 ; then removed to York, where he still resides and continues the practice of his profession. Dr. Mc- Kinnon was a member of the school board of Huntingdon County, Penn .; a member of the school board of Hagerstown, Md .; a member of the town council of Hagerstown three years ; served three years in the school board of York, and was elected a member of the legislature in the fall of 1884, which position he still holds. He married in May, 1857, Amelia J., daughter of Daniel Schindel, of Hagerstown, Md., and to this union were born six children : Carrie, Annie, Robert B., John W., Walter S., Margaret H. The Doctor is a member of the asssociation known as the A. O. M. P .; a member of the Masonic fraternity ; a member of the American Medical Association, and York County Medical Society, and also a member of the Presbyterian Church, of York.

WILLIAM MACK, a native of Germany, was born in 1841. Learning the trade of cooper and brewer he has followed it all his life. He immi- grated to America in 1861. He has since been en- gaged at his trade in New York, Lancaster, Phila- delphia, and since 1869, in York. Since 1878 he has been engaged in the bottling business, in connection with that of a cooper. Mr. Mack was married in 1863, to Annie Rinehart, also of German ancestry. They have seven living children: Charles W., Annie, Lizzie, Fred, William, George and Frederike.

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HON. LEVI MAISH. This gentleman is one of York's most distinguished sons, and one who has most heroically hewn out his own pathway along the rugged highway of life. He was born in Cone- wago Township, York Co., Penn., November 22, 1837. His father, David Maish, a most estimable farmer, is now deceased. His mother, Salome Nie- man Maish, is still living. The Maishs were among the original settlers of York County, coming here from Chester County with the Quakers, who were among the pioneers in the red lands of the upper end of York County. The subject of this sketch, Col. Levi Maish, received the rudiments of his edu- cation in the common schools of his native place and afterward entered upon a course of study at the York County Academy. He was a close student and retired reluctantly from the academy to learn the trade of machinist, April. 1855. Desirous of completing his education and entering upon a pro- fessional life he abandoned his apprenticeship in the summer of 1857, and prosecuted his studies with renewed energy. For two terms he taught school in Manchester Township, York County, and also one term in York Borough. In 1861 he took up the study of the law under D. J. Williams, Esg., at the time an able practitioner at the York bar. Being of a patriotic turn of mind, in 1861, unable to resist the call to arms, he raised and organized a company of volunteers from among the young men of his town and vicinity, which, with three other companies from York County and six from Carlisle, Penn., formed the famous One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. In the organ- ization of the battalion, he was elected lieutenant- colonel, and August 17, 1862, went with his regi- ment to Washington. and was stationed in the de- fenses of the capital. Very soon afterward Gen. Pope met with disaster at Manasses and the One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment was attached to the Army of the Potomac, and participated in Gen. Mcclellan's pursuit of Gen. Lee into Maryland. While actively engaged in the thiekest of the fight at Antietam, he received a ball in the right lung. from the effects of which he suffered, terribly, and narrowly escaped death. The ball was never extracted and he still carries it in his lung as a reminder of that sanguinary conflict. Again, at the battle of Chancellorsville, he was dangerously wounded, this time in the hip by a minie ball. The colonel of his regiment, H. I. Zinn, was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg. December 14, 1862, when our subject was promoted to the colonelcy of the regiment, and for a time commanded the brigade to which his regiment was attached at the battle of Chancellorsville, the general commanding having heeu captured. On May 21, 1863, he was mustered out of service at Harrisburg, the period of his en- listment having expired. Previous to resuming the study of law, he attended lectures in the law de- partment of the University of Pennsylvania; in 1864 passed a highly creditable examination and was admitted to the bar. His talents and pleasant man- ners soon attracted to him a good practice. His party in October, 1866, elected him to the lower house of the State legislature of Pennsylvania, and was re-elected in 1867. He was a member of the committee of ways and means and that of local judiciary. He served also on the special committee to present the Hancock chair to the city of Phila- delphia. Col. Maish on entering the political field in his county identified himself with the reform wing of the Democraey, and labored zealously with the friends of that element to attain the satisfactory results which were secured and an end put to the extravagance and corruption so flagrant at the time. In 1871, when the question of the adoption of the new constitution was being agitated, Col.

Maish was a zealous advocate of this praiseworthy and desirable movement, and took no mean part in the discussion which resulted in the adoption of that constitution. In 1872, in company with the late Hon. Thomas E. Cochran and C. B. Wallace, Esq., he was appointed by the legislature of Pennsylva- nia, to reandit the accounts of all the county offi- cers, a duty he performed with great ability, judg- ment and discretion, and for which he was much complimented. The duties of this appointment were very complex, and from the delicate nature of the work, liable to make a man not endowed with the capability and foresight of our subject, forever afterward unpopular with his party. In August, 1874, he was nominated by the Democracy of the Nineteenth Congressional District, composed of the counties of York, Adams and Cumberland, as its candidate for congress and was elected by a very handsome majority. He served in the forty-fourth congress upon the committee of agriculture and coinage, weights and measures, with distinction. He was re-elected in 1876 to the forty-fifth congress and was placed second on the committee of military affairs, and again on that of coinage, weights and measures. It was at this session of congress, that he especially distinguished himself, and won the respect and admiration of the leading men of the nation by the display of his abilities, honesty of purpose and devotion, not only to the principles of the Democratic party, but his great reverence for constitutional liberty and work for the hest interests of the republic. We shall here briefly refer to some of Col. Maish's work in congress which brought him prominently before the country as a man of genius and ability.

HIS SPEECH ON THE PENSION BILL.

On July 29, 1876. a bill having been reported by the Committee on Pensions, providing for the pay- ment of pensions to pensioners of the government from the time of their discharge from the service to the time at which their pensions were arbitrarily commenced hy the Pension Bureau, otherwise called the Arrears of Pension Act, Col. Maish made a speech in the house of representatives, in advocacy of the bill, which speech was not only considered a very able effort, but one which attracted great at- tention in the house and all over the country for the originality of the views presented in it, and was also the subject of many complimentary letters from the soldiers of the Union.

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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 158

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