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 193

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

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and neighbor, the Hon. Jacob Kirk, as the first superintendent of the schools of York County. He was married at Carlisle, Penn., Sep- tember 15, 1825 to Katherine Ann Harman. They had nine children, viz .: Andrew (deceased); Ben- nett, died of cholera at Aurora, Ind., in 1849; Caro- line E., in Wichita, Kas .; Delilah A., in Missouri; Edward W., in Oregon; Rebecca R., in Cantrall, Ill. ; Mary (deceased); Winfield Scott, and Ida C., in Waynesburgh, Green Co., Penn. Mrs. Hammond was born August 31, 1807,in Warrington Township; was a daughter of Adam and Rachel (Diceman) Harman, members of the Methodist Church, and representatives of intelligent families. She, her- self, was possessed of a well-trained mind. She died July 31. 1863; Hervey H. died August 27, 1855.

WINFIELD SCOTT HAMMOND, the youngest son of Hervey Hammond, was born in Lewisberry September 11, 1847. He attended the public schools and studied the higher branches at home. When quite young he acquired a fondnesss for reading, and hence made good use of his father's library, and such other libraries as the town afforded. In the spring of 1865 he enlisted in Company I. One Hundred and Ninety-second Regiment of the Penn- sylvania Volunteers, and remained in the service until the fall of the same year. Shortly after the war he went to southeast Missouri, and remained in that section about eighteen months, spending a part of the time in a printing office as compositor and local editor, and assisting in the United States land office, which was under the charge of one of the proprietors of the paper. While there Mr. Hammond became intimate with the leading busi- ness men and politicians of the county; one was State senator, and afterward land agent for a leading railroad in the West; another, a prominent lawyer, pleading before the Supreme Court of the United States; another, State treasurer of Missouri; another, delegate from the State-at-large to the National Democratic Convention; another, district attorney, etc. This was under the "carpet bag" regime, and Mr. Hammond being a "Radical" (in Missouri poli- tics) was offered the office of county clerk in one of the southeastern counties, which he refused and returned home to take charge of the window-spring business, and became owner and controller of the popular springs, which he has manufactured and sold with great success. He introduced some new improvements in the construction of them, and en- tirely changed the process of manufacture, doing by machinery what was formerly done by hand. He has recently invented some new styles of springs, and is engaged in their manufacture, and has a number of workmen in his employ. Large quanti- ties of the springs are sold annually to wholesale dealers. Early in life Mr. Hammond developed a taste for painting, and now spends his leisure hours in sketching places interesting to the scenes of his childhood, and the picturesque ravines and hills of the upper end of the county. Mr. Hammond is the artist who furnished the sketch, from which we have engraved the cut of the "Old Friends Meeting House,"two miles east of Lewisberry; which engrav- ing"will be found in this work. Mr. H. is at present secretary of the school board, and was a member of the committee on resolutions in the late Republican State convention. Mr. Hammond was married, in 1873, to Miss Jeannette Starr, daughter of Reuben T. Starr, and Elizabeth (Lloyd) Starr, of Lewisberry. They have two children, viz .: Edward and Grace. Mrs. Hammond is a descendant of the Friends of Chester County, her ancestors being of the cele- brated Taylor, Sharpless, Lloyd and Starr families, and is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Hammond keeps himself abreast of the times in literature, science and art, being a con- stant reader of various periodicals, literary and art

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magazines, mechanical, scientific and architectural journals, etc., etc., and is a book buyer.

MORRIS M. HAYS is a lineal descendant in the fourth generation of Jesse Hays, who in 1770 immigrated to York County from Chester County, Penn., and purchased land one mile north of the village of Yocumtown. Jesse Hays was of Welsh descent. His ancestors were among the first immi- grants to America from Wales, who located in the northern and western parts of Chester, and most of whom became prosperous citizens in this country. Being a member of the Society of Friends, who, in principle, were non-resistants, when Jesse Hays was drafted during the Revolutionary war, his land was sold to furnish a substitute in the army. His oc- cupation was that of a tailor. In 1780 he married Margery, daughter of James Mills, who built the historic stone house, one-half mile east of Yocum- town, known later as the "Brubaker property." Their children were Susan, Hannah and Mills, who in 1851 was elected associate judge of York County. A sketch of him will be found in the chapter on the Bench and the Bar, in this work. Mills Hays was married to Eve Crull. They had children as fol- lows: John; Sidney married to William Eppley; Mary, married to George W. Hall; Jesse, born July 24, 1818, and now living in Mechanicsburg, married to Mary Miller; and Jane, married to Samuel P. Her- man. John Hays, the eldest son of Judge Mills Hays, was born October 11, 1810, in Newberry Town- ship, where he spent his entire life, a highly respected citizen. He served for many years as a director in the Dover Fire Insurance Company, and filled many local positions of trust and responsibility. He was married to Jane Morris, daughter of Charles Morris, of Warrington Township, of Scotch-Irish descent. In 1814 he marched with a company of soldiers to the defense of Baltimore. Jane (Glass) Morris, his mother, died in Warrington at the age of ninety-six years. The children of John Hays are Sidney, married to David Ort; Adacinda, married to A. B. Kurtz; Morris Mills; Granville, married to Kate Reiff; Crull, a soldier of the One Hundred and Six- ty-sixtlı Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers dur- ing the Civil war, and Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry; Ellen; Lucetta; Servatus, married to Kate Feiser, and now a merchant in Newberrytown, and John Pierce, a graduate of Shippensburg State Normal School, married to Maggie Flora of Franklin Coun- ty. Morris M. Hays, the eldest son and third child, was born September 13, 1841. He spent his early days on the farm and attending the public schools; afterward was a student in the Normal and Class- ical School, at York, and in the Millersville State Normal School. He taught school three suc- cessive terms. In 1867 he was married to Emma Fisher who died August 23, 1872. On the 20th of February, 1876, he was married to Sara M. Krone. They have three children: Ira. Kent and Boyd. In November, 1882, Mr. Hays was elected a member of the legislature of Pennsylvania, and while a rep- resentative in that body. served with great accept- ance on the committees on labor and industry, in- surance, military and geological survey. He now owns a farm on which he resides, located one mile east of Newberrytown, and is engaged in cultivat- ing it. He is a practical surveyor, and has served in various township offices. Mr. Hays, in the midst of his farm and professional labors, finds time for reading and general literary culture, and has accumulated a library of well selected books.

LAFAYETTE M. HERMAN was born iu New- berrytown, York County. September 13, 1853, and is the second son of William P. Herman, of Ger- man descent, who was born in Fishing Creek Val- ley, York County, and was the father of eight chil- dren-two sous and six daughters-and of Jane, daughter of Joseph McCreary, who was of Irish an-

cestry, though native born, and who, during his life time, held the offices of supervisor, overseer of the poor, justice of the peace, and commissioner of the County of York, and under whose supervision the present county alms house was built. William P. Herman, after the death of his father, Samuel Her- man, resided in Fishing Creek Valley, among the friends of his mother (whose maiden name was Mary Prowell), until becoming of age, when he married and removed to Newberrytown, where he re- mained engaged in the manufacture of cigars, until the time of his death, which occurred September 25, 1868, in the forty-eighth year of his age, leaving to survive him a wife, two sons, Clayton and L. M., and two daughters, Sadie E. and Eva. L. M. Her- man, at the time of his father's death, was fifteen years of age, and had to support the remaining family, consisting of a mother and two sisters. At the age of fifteen years he left the public schools and continued to work among the cigar factories for two years, at the end of which time, by his own exertions, and through the kindness of others, he attended a select school at Goldsboro, Penn., and was enabled to procure from W. H. Kain, county superintendent, a provisional certificate to teach in the common schools of the county for one year. He applied to the directors of his township and they granted him a school, which he taught three suc- cessive terms. During the summer vacations he at- tended the Cumberland Valley State Normal School until enabled to procure a professional certificate, granted by county superintendent, D. G. Williams, and up to the present writing he has taught twelve successive years in his native township. June 10, 1882, he received from Prof. E. E. Higbee, superin- tendent of public instruction, a permanent certifi- cate. In politics he is a Republican, and has held the office of township clerk for seven successive terms. At the expiration of his seventh term he was elected to the office of justice of the peace of Newberry Township for the term of five years, be- ginning on the first Monday in May, 1882. At va- rious times he has been committeeman, and repre- sented the district as delegate to county conventions. January 1, 1883, he engaged in manufacturing cigars. He is unmarried, and still remains at the old homestead, with the family, which consists of his mother and one sister, Eva-Sadie E. having died April 14, 1884, in Urbana, Ohio. The family are members of the Bethel, or Church of God.

ALFRED HUMMEL, was born at Hummels- town, Dauphin Co., Penn., July 12, 1833, and is a son of David and Barbara (Shirer) Hummel, na- tives of Dauphin County, Penn., and of German de- sceut. His great-grandfather, Hummel, came to this country some time in the eighteenth century, and located the village of Hummelstown, and laid out the lots and sold them (60x198 feet) at an an- nual rent of $2.22. David and Barbara (Shirer) Hummel reared a family of nine children-eight sons and one daughter-of whom Alfred is the eld- est. Two of the sons are dead. and four of the sons and the daughter still reside in Dauphin County, Penn. Alfred moved to Goldsboro in 1879, where his family followed him the following spring. In his youth he learned the carpenter's trade with his father, but at the age of seventeen years went to Harrisburgh, where he worked as journeyman for three years. He then returned to his native place and engaged as a builder and contractor until 1869. He was married at Harrisburgh, Penn., January 1, 1854, to Harriet W. Kennedy, a native of Pennsyl- vania, and of German and Irish descent. They had nine children: William D., died July 4, 1877; Emma L., Arthur L., Lizzie B., Winfield Scott, Calvin F., Estella H. and two who died in infancy. Mr. Hummel is a Lutheran, and his wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is also a member of

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the Masonic fraternity. He has held various public offices: Assessor of Derry Township, Danphin County, in 1862; collector of taxes for the same township; school director nine years; treasurer of Dauphin County in 1868, and since coming to York County, as school director. He is in the employ of Isaac Frazer, as manager of the large planing-mill at Goldsboro, and has from twenty-five to thirty men under him.

ISAAC KISTER was born in December, 1823, in Newberry Township, York County, and is the fourth of nine children of Henry E. and Tacey (Hart) Kister, natives of York County, and of Ger- man descent, both deceased. The father was a farmer, and acted as justice of the peace several times during his life. Isaac Kister was brought up as a farmer, and remained with his mother until he was sixteen years of age, when he hired out to work on a farm, performing any kind of labor until he was thirty-three years of age, when he purchased some land, where he finally made his home. He built large and commodious buildings, adding aere after acre to his farm, and has now a fine farm of seventy acres, as the result of his industry. In 1856 he married Letitia H. Shelley, who died in 1874. They had nine children, four now living: Crull S .. Ulysses G., Annie E. and Harry. Those who died were Viola, Flora E., Ida and two infants. In 1876 he married Mrs. Sarah Gross, widow of Daniel Gross; they have one child: Charley. Mr. Kis- ter enlisted in February, 1865, in Company K, One Hundred and Ninety-second Regiment Penn- sylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. Although in no engagement, he received a severe injury in the right knee in cross- ing a fence, the top rail giving way and throwing him to the ground. In politics he is very liberal, always voting for the man rather than the party.

DAVID H. KISTER was born in Newberrytown, York County, Penn., September 2, 1830, and is a son of Jacob E. and Catherine (Hart) Kister, of York County. At the age of ninteen years he be- gan to learn the cigar-maker's trade, which he has continued to the present day. He manufactures from 100,000 to 800,000 cigars per annum. He en- listed, in Harrisburgh. Penn., February 20, 1865, in Company K, One Hundred and Ninety-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, to serve forone year, or during the war, and was hon- orably discharged at the end of his term. On his return home he purchased several tracts of land, which he also cultivates. July 16, 1854, he was married to Mary J. Mills, of the same county, and daughter of James and Elizabeth (Miller) Mills, who was born July 2, 1835. To this union have been born eleven children: Elizabeth M., born July 1, 1855 : Jane M., born March 7, 1857; Inza M., born March 11, 1859; Ellsworth M., born May 4, 1861: Catherine M., born June 29, 1863; John M., born October 6, 1865; Mary M., born March 1, 1868; Annetta M., born September 8, 1870; Charles M., born January 11, 1873; Gertrude M., born March 20, 1875: Lulu M., born March 21, 1878-all living.

JOHN KISTER was born in Newberry Town- ship, York Co., Penn., June 24, 1833, on the place where now stands a part of Goldsboro. His parents were Jacob G. and Nancy (Bowen) Kister, natives of York County, of German descent, who had eleven children, of whom four sons and three daughters grew up, and of whom John was the sixth child. At the age of nineteen years John left the farm, and followed saw-milling, running a sta- tionary engine in York County, until he was twen- ty-six years old, when heengaged in farming, which he followed eight years. June 27, 1863, he enlisted at Harrisburgh, Penn .. in Company B, First Regi- ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry-six months' men-and served until October 3, 1863. Angust 17,

1864, he re-enlisted at Harrisburgh as second ser- geant of Company B, Two Hundredth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until the close of the war. His regiment was connected with the First Brigade, Third Division, Ninth Corps, and fought at Fort Steadman, Petersburg, and until Lee's surrender. At the close of the war he returned to Goldsboro In 1867 he quit farming, and again ran a stationary engine. In 1869 he was appoint- ed postmaster at Etters, Penn., and has held that office since. In 1855 he was married, at Shiremans- town, Penn., to Hannah Willis, who died January 8, 1867, leaving two children: Frazer and Nora. The son Frazer is engineer for Mr. Isaac Frazer, occupying his father's old position. The daughter, Nora, died a short time after her mother. March 10, 1868, Mr. Kister was married, at Goldsborough,, to Mrs. Catherine A. Wise, daughter of G. C. Wentz, and widow of W. Wise, who was killed in the late war. They had one child: Robert, who died in infancy. Mr. Kister belongs to the I. O. O. F., and is also a member of the Junior Mechanics; he was chief burgess four terms, councilman two terms, and school direetor two terms. He is a Republican. He owns a farm, is a stockholder in the Star Building & Loan Association of York, and keeps a confec- tionary store in the postoffice building. In 1883 he organized the Independent Cornet Band, of Golds- boro, and equipped it with uniforms and instru- ments at his own expense. He has traveled a great deal, but lives now within 300 yards of his birth- place.

JACOB S. KOCH was born March 26, 1823, in Newberry Township, York Co., Penn., and is the ninth of the eleven children of Daniel and Mary (Stair) Koch, natives of York County, Penn., and of German descent. He remained on the home farm until he was twenty-six years of age, when he be- gan for himself, first working on a farm, and then farming for himself, which occupation he followed until 1868, when he engaged in milling, and fol- lowed that for three years. He next engaged as foreman in the manufacture of cigars, employing from four to eight hands, and making about 335, - 000 cigars annually. In 1849 he married Ann Fry, a daughter of Conrad and Nancy (Burger) Fry, na- tives of York County, Penn. They have had elev- en children: Henry (deceased), Daniel (deceased), Benjamin. Samuel (deceased), Silas, Rosetta, Paul, George, Mary, Kate and Reuben. Mrs. Koch is a member of the Church of God. Mr. Koch is a strong advocate of temperance, and was a member of the S. of T. until the order went down.

LUTHER M. LANDES was born in Baltimore County, Md., April 26, 1856. His parents were John and Elizabeth (Fair) Landes, of Pennsylvania and Maryland, respectively, and of English descent. They had seven children-four sons and three daughters-of whom Luther is the fifth child and third son. At the age of fourteen years, he entered John Bahn's mill in Carroll County, Md., where he remained two years. He then came to York County, Penn., where he worked two years in A. Miller's mill, in Lower Windsor Township. He afterward worked for P. A. & S. Small five years, at Loucks' mills; then went to Selin's Grove, Snyder Co., Penn., where he worked in Schoch's mills two years, and in the spring of 1880, came to Goldsboro, where he took charge of P. A. & S. Small's mill, and where he has been since; he is a thorough miller, and gives entire satisfaction to his employers and patrons. May 26, 1880, he was married at Selin's Grove, to Ada Ott, daughter of Daniel Ott, a farmer of Sny- der County, Penn .: they have one child-George Erskine. Mrs. Landes belongs to the Lutheran Church.

1. LEO MINGLE, M. D., was born. September 15, 1839, in Berks County, Penn., and is the third of

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four sons in the family of ten children of Jacob and Hannah (Leoscher) Mingle (both deceased), of Berks County, Penn. The father was a mason by trade, but spent the last thirty-six years of his life in farm- ing. Our subject was brought up to farming, attending the public schools until he was eight- een years of age, and then attended two years at Freeland Seminary, now Ursinus College, in Mont- gomery County, Penn. He then taught school in Berks County for four terms. In the fall of 1861 he began studying medicine under Dr. F. B. Nice, and in July, 1862, joined the State militia; after leaving it he resumed the study of medicine with his former preceptor, and remained with him until the fall of the same year, when he entered the Jeff- erson Medical College at Philadelphia, where he remained until the following spring. March 8, he entered Long Island College, Brooklyn, N. Y., and remained until midsummer, when he returned home, opened an office and practiced one year. In the fall of 1865, he again went to Jefferson College, grad- uated in 1866, and returning home resumed his practice again. He practiced six years in Lebanon County, and eight years in Northumberland County, Penn. In the fall of 1878, he came to Newberry- town, where he has a lucrative practice. He was married, August 20, 1864, to Lydia A. (Loose), who died, leaving one child-Lu Annie L., May 29, 1865. Dr. Mingle next married, November 5, 1868, Mary M. Herr: they have had three children: Otis W. (deceased), Lillia G., and Almeda C. Dr. Mingle and wife, belong to the German Reformed Church.

HIRAM PAUP was born August 3, 1829, in Warrington Township, York Co., Penn., and is the eldest of the eight children of Valentine and Cath- arine (Raffensberger) Paup, natives of York County, Penn., and of English and German descent respect- ively, both deceased. Valentine Paup, was a weav- er by trade, but gave it up and went farming, which he followed until his death. Hiram, at the age of eighteen years, began learning the trade of black- smithing, which he hasfollowed, with the exception of a few years, until the present time. He came to Newberry Township in 1851, first locating in the country, and then in 1872, removed to Lewisberry where he has since carried on business. In Febru- ary, 1865, he enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Ninety-second Regiment Pennsylvania Volun- teers, and served as blacksmith until August 16, 1865. In 1853, he married Phœbe A. Hoopes. They have had six children, of whom four are living: Emma J., Mary E., James M. (deceased), Catharine (deceased), Amanda A. and Marlette C. Mrs. Paup is a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Nicholas) Hoopes, of York County. Mr. and Mrs. Paup are members of the Evangelical Church. He is a Republican, and has been elected chief burgess of Lewisberry, and school director. He is a class leader in the church.

JOHN A. RYNARD M. D., was born in Cum- berland County, Penn., September 19, 1839, and is a son of Cyrus A. and Susan (Landis) Rynard, natives of Cumberland County, Penn., and of German descent, who had eight children-six daughters and two sons-of whom John A., is the .eldest. The pioneer of the Rynard family was Christian Reiner, born in Wurtemburg, Germany, who came to this country about the year 1750, and settled in Northampton County, Penn., where he spent the rest of his life. His eldest son, John, who was born in Northhampton County, Penn., and died in Cumberland County, Penn., aged ninety-five years, was the great-grandfather of John A., and wrote his name Reinert. His son John, who spent his life in Cumberland County, Penn., was the first to write his name Rynard. The whole family has been more or less interested in agriculture. Our subject spent his younger days on his father's farm; for one year he worked at cabinet-making, but in

1858 he attended the normal school at Newville, Penn. The year following he attended a select school at the same place, and in 1860 he attended the Big Spring Academy. In the same year he was licensed to teach in the public schools, and taught eight years, and at the same time followed survey- ing. In 1869 he began the study of medicine with Dr. S. H. Brehm at Newville, Penn., and in the fall of 1870 entered Jefferson Medical College in Phila- delphia, from which he graduated as M. D. in the class of 1872. He first located at Bloserville, Penn., but after a short time removed to Greasonville, Penn., where he practiced medicine until 1875, when he located at Goldsboro, York County. Penn., where he has since practiced medicine and surgery. In 1880 he was appointed railroad surgeon at Goldsboro by the Northern Central Railway Company, which position he still holds. He was married, in 1863, to Sarah A. Daelhousen, of Cum- berland County, Penn., daughter of Daniel Dael- housen. They have four children: Mary E., teach- er; Mina B., wife of George W. Wise, of Golds- boro, Penn .; Charles W. and Norman B. Dr. Rynard was a member of the I. O. O. F. Encamp- ment at Newville, while he resided in Cumberland County. He was at one time justice of the peace, which office he resigned when he began the study of medicine. He and his wife are Lutherans.

JACOB F. SCOTT was born October 31, 1848, in Baltimore County, Md., and is the eldest of seven children born to Frederick T. and Elizabeth A. (Cook) Seott, natives of Maryland, and of Irish and German descent, respectively. He remained with his parents until he was eightcen years of age, when he began business for himself. He served an ap- prenticeship in a machine-shop in Baltimore, and came to York, Peun., about 1868, and worked at his trade. He was married, in the fall of 1872, to Ellen T. Ihnen, daughter of Henry S. and Eliza (Siger- smith) Ihnen, of German descent. They have had five children: Frederick I., Jeanetta C., Oscar C., Emma H. and an infant, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Scott belong to the Episcopal Church. He is a mem- ber of the Masonic Lodge No. 240, at Whistler, Ala .; and of Division 93, Jackson, Tenn., of the brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He is an engineer and has run the engine on the Peach Bot- tom Railroad for seven years. He is also working his father's farm and saw-mill.

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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 193

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