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 48

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

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Wie der weise S-o-l-o-m-o-n!

Schlafe rubig iu der Erde,

Staub und Ashe must du werden Wie der weise S-o-l-o-m-o-n!"'

Such was the funernl hymn sung by young Democracy at the grave of old Federalism in 1799.

Much of the true poetic spirit of the song must necessarily be lost in any attempt at translation.

The sense of a tolerably free English ver- sion would be about this:

Thou Black-thou silken Black cockade.

Thou must be in this garden laid; Our hats thou must no more adorn, Nor must we thy departure mourn:

Thou sombre symbol, it is best That from thy labors thou shouldst rest;

Thou dust and ashes must become, Like the mighty S-o 1-o-m-o-n! May thy slumbers peaceful be,

For corruption thou must see, Like the mighty S-o-1-o-m-o-n!

In 1799 Lewis was but four years old, and it was hardly possible he was present on the ground on all these occasions. Like his father, Lewis Miller was a man of considera- ble learning and ability. He had a taste for history and poetry, and was a firm believer in the Holy Scriptures, as the only rule of faith and practice. He was strictly virtuous, hon- est in all his dealings, and of intensely religi- ous feeling. He was a Lutheran by religi- ous training, and a member of the German branch of the congregation worshiping in Christ's Lutheran Church. He never mar- ried, and for some years past made his home with his niece, Mrs. Craig, at Christiansburg, Va., but occasionally he visited York, and the scenes of his childhood and youthful pleas- ures,

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To see the altered places And the few familiar faces Still lingering on the shore; To tell of other days- Of old and better ways And talk them o'er and o'er.

In all this, his wonderful memory and powers of mimicry were great helps to him; and as he warmed up with the subject, he could re-enact a scene of sixty years ago, so graphically and humorously as to move crowds to roars of laughter; and this he did during his last visit a few years ago (as many can bear witness), and that without even the least indelicacy of thought or expression. But, alas! at the age of eighty, man's spirit must be drowsy, and his bursts of humor short-lived, indeed; and such was the case with our old friend Loui. Soon he would relapse into apparent stupor and abstracted- ness; and melancholy, indeed, must have been the mood in which he wrote in one of his books the following stanzas:

"The hand of Time upon my brow may trace its lines;

From Memory's page efface fond recollection's tear, But not the treasured thoughts of friends who yet can cheer

This saddened heart of mine."

"Well I will bear what all have borne, Live my few years and fill my place;

O'er old and young, affections mourn, Rent, one by one, from my embrace, "Till suffering ends and I have done

With all delights beneath the sun,

"Whence came I? Memory cannot say; What am I? Knowledge will not show; Bound whither? Ah! away, away, Far as eternity can go! {

Thy love to win, thy wrath to flee, O!God, Thyself my helper be!"

He was a chronicler, indeed, and in mat- ters pertaining to local history he was always in the harvest field, gleaning and gathering and storing as he went, "line upon line and precept upon precept, here a little and there a little," and not always without a moral; his pencil and his scrap of paper ever at hand, on which he carefully and particularly noted down whatever of local interest he saw or heard. Many of these scraps have fallen into the hands of the writer, but the contents of only a few will be here given.

"The first settler, a mile from York, was old Balthazer Spängler; he took up a large tract of land, (had four sons, the eldest, George, came with his father from Germany,) and built a small house this side the run. I saw the ruins of it in my time, not far from the Rock Spring. His sons, George and John, kept the land, Rudolph and (young) Balthazer were in town. When William and Richard Penn laid out the town of York,

they were at the old house of Balthazer Spängler, and gave to Mrs. Spängler a pound of tea to make for supper, and she, never hav- ing seen tea before, took it for greens, and put it all in a small kettle and boiled it with bacon. At that time there were Indians about, and came to Spängler's for some whisky. Spängler had a small still he brought along from Germany. Next was old Herbach, Esq .; and out west of York, Ebert, Eichelberger, Michael Schmeiser, and his brother Martin Schmeiser, and Mr. Hoch, Fishel, Schank, Weler and Kuckes at the mill."

"The first settlers in York, 1730 to 1755, Jacob Billmyer, he was owner of one square east, now Market Street. He had two sons, Michael and Andrew. Michael was a printer in Philadelphia. Next comes Mr. Maul; he was owner of the land from the lower end of Water Street, running to the east as far dis. tant as Freystown. Old John Hay, Sr., was married to his (Maul's) daughter and became owner to all the land. Now comes George Adam Gosler, Michael Daudel, old Mr. Hahn, Mr. Schwab, David Candler, Mr. Stege, Charles Barnitz, Revs. Rauss and Kurtz, Charles Hartley, Maj. Clark, James Smith (signer of the Declaration of Independence), Peter Dinkel, Jacob Lottman, Conrad Leder- man, George Lewis Leffler, Philip Kraeber, Jacob Codex, Killian Schmall, Jacob Endler, Peter Mundorff, (the first druggist), Abraham Müller, Herman, Funk; Fackler, Wagner, Gräbill, Weber, Gartman,-Moontz, Esq., Fischer, Kuckis, Wampler, Rudisil, Baron Von Buhlen and Joseph Schmidt. The old est doctors in York were Revs. Rouss and Sensenig, old Drs. Jameson and Fahnestock. and now in my time, (1795, on) John Rouss, Pentz, Spangler, Morris, Thomas Jameson, Kenada, Adams, Joseph Müller, son of Lewis Müller, Sr .; Dr. Martin, Dr. McDoule and Bruks, he was a tailor by trade for a number of years, and when old he practiced as a doctor, a quackery, all of these doctors from 1794 till 1804-1809, so on till they died."

The old Lutheran preachers as far back as 1730 and 1743 were Revs. J. S. Rouss and Kurtz; after them Jacob Göhring; in 1809 George Schmucker, then A. Lochman. The first (Lutheran) church was of logs built. The second was a rough stone building- torn down in 1811-stood fifty-three years. The third is a large brick building-all on the same lot of ground in George Street. The mason work was done by - Epley and Michael Eurich, and the carpenter work by Peter Schinall.

"Old citizens of York in my time-Deutch:

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Striebeg,Staal,Brickel, Brenize, Yaus, Welsch- hans, Laumeisters, Fischers, Koch, Scheib, Kunz, Lenbart, Rothrock, Schmuck and so on, Rankin, he was a tory in 1776; his land was confiscated by an Act for public use and sold; one mile from town, at the mill. He disap- peared and went to Canada. The men that bought the land were George Barnitz, Con- rad Lederman, - Hahn, - Funk, Göringer, - Wagner, Capt. - Albright, - Jameson, - Pentz and James Kelley, Attorney."

"I saw three hung in York for murder. In 1805 Charles Cunningham, and in 1809

CONRAD LEDERMAN.

John Charles, a creole from France, and a woman, Elizabeth M., a mulattress, for poi- soning her child; the last two at one time." "In my time the Reformed Church in York burned down, the poorhouse was built and a stone bridge on North George Street, and afterward two wooden bridges at the same place; each in its time, called Chicken bridge, because, at the time of the great flood of 1817, a chicken coop with chickens in it came down the Codorus and lodged there at

the old stone bridge, and a rooster got up on top of the coop and crowed. That is the way it got the name, 'Hinkle Brück.'"

The original drawing from which the above likeness has been engraved, was made by Loui himself, when he was in his eighty- first year; and the picture of Conrad Leder- man, given below, as a good specimen of an old time Pennsylvanian German gentleman, then (1804), as Loui labeled him, " the rich- est man in York," has been engraved from an India ink sketch executed from memory, by the same rude artist, some thirty years ago.

As a rustic poet and writer of popular Pennsylvania German songs, Loui Miller had few superiors. Following is his "Wagoner's Song" of the olden time, when all surplus farm products, no small part of which was. whisky, apple-jack, and peach brandy, since- almost every big farmer had his little distil- lery where these popular and necessary bev- erages were made, and which, together with flour, clover, timothy and flaxseed, was from this, and some other southeastern counties, conveyed to the Baltimore market in Cones- toga wagons drawn by four or five stalwart horses driven by a jolly teamster, usually the farmer himself, his oldest son or hireling. The back-loading consisted of dry goods, groceries, etc., for the village or country stores, and oysters and sweet potatoes mostly for private use.

DAS FUHRMAN'S LIED.

Nooch Baltimore geht unser Fuhr Mit dem bedeckte Waage ; Der Turnpike zeicht uns die Geschpuur Die Gaul sin gut heschlaage ; En guter Schluck, Glück zu der Reisz, Der Dramm, der schteigt un fallt im Preisz - So blooze die Posauner- Hot, Schimmel, Hot ! ei, Brauner !

Mer fahre bis zum Blauen Ball,* En Deutscher Wirt, e'n guter Schtall- (Der Eirisch isch Schalk Jauuer-) Hot. Schimmel ! Hot, ei, Brauner ! Do schteht 'n Berg, dort ligt'n Dhaal, Un's Zoll-haus. gegenüwer : Es singt en Lerch, es peift e'n Schtaar- "Die Freiheit isch uns liewer."

Es regert sehr, der Pelz wert nass- Mer schteige uf der Waage, Un ziege aus dem kleene Fasz, Was taugt for unsere Maage ; Seenscht net das, nau, schun schpreyer geht? Mir bleiwe net da hinde ; Un weer des Fuhrwerk recht ferschteht Losst sich net lodisch finde.

* Blue Ball tavern.

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THE OLD CONESTOGA TEAM.

Den Dramm, den, hen mer jetz ferkaaft,

Un's Gelt isch in de Tasche ;

Jetz fahre mir ferguügt zu Haus, Un lere's in die Kaschte ; E'n guter Schluck ! Glück zu der Reisz !

TOWNSHIPS.

Total Taxables.

Pennsylv'a Germans.

Per centum of Pa. Germ's.

Carroll

379

340

Codorus.

630

597

Conewago

573

410

Dover.

741

705

Franklin

382

245

Heidelberg

419

298

Hellam.

570

452

Jackson

562

512

Lower Windsor

617

525

Manchester

835

792

Manheim ..

439

414

North Codorus.

726

620

Paradise

426

391

Penn ..

682

513

Shrewsbury.

633

530

Springfield.

559

417

Springgarden.

1939

1104

Washington

432

382

West Manchester ..

773

610

West Manheim ... .

401

384

Windsor

590

530

York ..

614

459

Loui Miller was a good man; honored and respected by all who knew him. Though physically of rather delicate and slender frame, he lived along the good old way, "mittel mas, die beste Strasz" far beyond man's allotted period; and on September 15, 1882, after a brief illness, he fell asleep in the arms of Him in whom was all his trust. Peace, peace, to his ashes, for, "Staub und Ashe must du werden wie der weise Sol- omon."

PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION.

Not only were the original white settlers of our county Germans, but how well their descendants, the Pennsylvania Germans, have maintained their hold here, may be seen by a glance at the names on the tax lists of what are known as the German townships and the two principal boroughs, York and Hanover.

1883.

Der Dramm, der schteigt un fallt im Preisz- So bloose die Posauner-

Hot, Schimmel ! Hot, ei, Brauner !

Jetz henmer schun. e'n gute Loth Fon alle sorte Waare,

Die Wolle mir, jetz. heemzus, graad,

Auf's Schmaale Eck hi fahre

Der Fuhrloh 'zaalt des Zehrgeld zrück

En guter Schluck, zu allem Glück-

Mir sin ke' Schalke Jauner !

Hot, Schimmel ! Hot, ei Brauner !

Showing an average of eighty-four per cent of Pennsylvania German taxables in these twenty-two townships (in 1883). Of the remaining nine townships, Fairview, Hope well, Monaghan, Newberry and Warring- ton, also have each a very large per centage of Pennsylvania German names. In the remain- ing four, viz. : Fawn, Peachbottom, Chance- ford and Lower Chanceford, the prevailing ancestral nationalities are Scotch Irish and Welsh ; notably so in Peachbottom.

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In the borough of York, * the total number of taxables for the same year was 4,369. Of these the names of 3,368, or seventy-seven per centum of the whole plainly indicate a Ger- man ancestry. In the borough of Hanover the total number of taxables for the same year was 832, and the names of 694, or eighty - three per cent of the whole, just as plainly indicate a similar ancestral nationality. A fair estimate, based upon these facts, places the Pennsylvania German population of York County at not less than seventy per centum of the whole. By this is, of course, not meant that proportion of persons who speak, or even can speak the dialect, but of those whose surnames show a German descent. By these, such are meant as Abel, Achey, Ackerman, Ahl, Bachman, Bahn, Bierman, Chrischt, Christman, Cramer, Danner, Del- linger, Dubs, Doll, Ebert, Ebersol, Eichel- berger, Frey, Fritz, Fackler, Fahhs, Fischer, Forney, Gehring, Gartman, Gerhart, Glass- brenner, Geis, Giesy, Hantz, Heckert, Hoff- man, Herrbach, Hiestand, Herman, Hess, Hass, Hoch (Hoke), Hartman, Harnisch, Heil- man. Ickes, Ilgenfritz, Immel, Jost, Jacobs, Kahn, Kitzmiller, Kunz, Kiefer (Keefer) Kohler, Koller, Kraber, Kreider (Crider), Landes. Lehman (Lehmy), Lehmayer, Lau- man, Laucks Lauck, Lederman, Lichtner (Lightner), Lichtenberger, Mann, Mardi (Martin), Mack, Mayer, Meyer, Maisch, Mor- genstirn (Morningstar), Nagler, (Naylor), Nagel, Neff, Nes, Nehs, Obermiller, Oswald, Opp (Upp), Opdegraff, Oberholzer, Papst, Paff, Pentz, Peiffer, Pifferling, Quickel, Ra- benstein, Rather, Rieling, Rohrbach, Roland, Rudi, Rausch, Rauch, Sabel, Saurbier, Schmidt, Schmeiser (Smyser), Schmahl. Schmall (Small), Schnell, Schreiner, Steiner (Stoner), Stick, Stickel, Schwartz (Swartz), Schlonaker, Siegel, Seyfert, Scherer

(Shearer), Schatzberger, Spängler. Thoephel, Tasch, Thoman, Umberger, Uhler, Ulrich, Utz, Vogel, Vogelsang (Fogelsong), Wanz (Wantz), Warner, Welsch (Welsh), Werner, Wanner, Wagner, Weiser, Witman, Witmer, Weil, (" Sammi"), Wilt, Weyer, Jung (Young), Zabel, Zartman, Zech, Ziegler, Zimmerman, Ziegel, etc., etc. In every case of doubt, the name has been omitted from the list of Pennsylvania Germans. But it is not alone in the tax-lists that a large propor- tion of their names is found. Whether we consult those of the State executives, National or State Legislators, the judiciary, the learned professions, the militia, the records of the

church, or the monumental inscriptions in a thousand graveyards, the result is the same. Among the governors were Simon Snyder, Joseph Hiester, John Andrew Shulze, George Wolfe, Joseph Ritner, Francis R. Shunk, and John F. Hartranft.

NATIONAL LEGISLATORS.

Senators : Albert Gallatin of Fayette County, (a native Swiss, who was elected in 1793, but was decided ineligible in February, 1794, "on the ground that he had not been nine years a legally naturalized citizen," but became secretary of the treasury under Presi- dent Jefferson, in 1801, "a post which he held for a number of years with pre-emi- nent ability"). Peter Muhlenberg, of Berks County, and Michael Leib of County.

In Congress: Charles A. Barnitz, Adam King, Dr. Henry Nes, Daniel Scheffer, Joel B. Danner, W. H. Kurtz, Dr. John A. Ahl, Adam J. Glasbrenner, Col. L. Maisch and Dr. John Swope, from our own district.

From other Districts : Albright (AI- brecht), Bachman, Beltzhoover, Bibighaus, Boyer, Brumm, Bucher, Conrad, Eckert, Erdman, Everhart (Eberhart), Friedly, Frey, Gloninger, Gottschalk, Gross, Halde- man, Halm, Hibschman, Horn, Hostetter, Hubley, Killinger, Klingenschmidt, Klotz, Koontz, Kremer, Kuhn, Kunkel, Lehman, Longenecker, Schallenberger, Schumacher, Snyder, Spangler, Strohm, Strausz, Wolf. The' total number of congressmem from Pennsylva- nia, is say, 530, of whom 69, or 13 per cent, were either Pennsylvania Germans, or persons of German descent. One of the sixty-nine representatives, Hon. Henry A. Mühlenberg, resigned his seat in February, 1838, and accepted the first mission-Minister Plenepo- tentiary-to Austria ; and another, Albert Gallatin, as we have seen, became a most distinguished cabinet officer. Frederick Au- gustus Mühlenberg, another, was speaker of the First Congress 1789-91 ; and of the- Third Congress, 1793-95.

Postmasters: Among the thirty post- masters in commission in 1834-35 in York County, fourteen were Pennsylvania Ger- mans, namely : Martin Scherer, Codorus ; Peter Dessenberger, Day's Landing ; G. L. Scheerer, Dillsburg ; E. Melchinger, Dover ; Martin Carl, Franklin Town ; William Snod- grass, farmers ; (Snodgrass is not a P. G. name, but the family spoke the dialect) Peter Müller, Hanover ; Samuel Keyser, Logan- ville ; J. T. Ubil, Manchester ; Abraham Bletcher, Pigeon Hill ; Michael Wollet, Rossville ; Philip Folcomer, Shrewsbury . Gustavus Wolfram, Wolfram's ; Daniel

*In a list just published of 242 names of persons residing in York, who are past seventy years of age, 207 or eigthy-five per centum are of German descent, and of these about the same proportion are Pennsylvania Germans.

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Schmall, York. Of the seventeen appointed for the borough of York (including Daniel Schmall) there were ten Pennsylvania Ger- mans, namely : Jacob Spangler, Peter Spangler, Peter Schmall, Daniel Schmall, David Schmall, George Upp, and Alex- ander J. Frey. James Kell, the present incumbent, also speaks the dialect, as already stated.

Among our State Legislators we find the following Pennsylvania German names:

Senators-Glatz, Welsh, Stutzman, Beck, Billingfelt, Linderman, Bosler, Rupert, Al- bright, Mumma, Strang, Heilman, Lamon, Dunkel, Crouse, Herr, Scheimer, Bechtel, Newmeyer, Ermentrout, Boyer, Yutzy,Engle- man, Everhart, Holben, Keefer, Meily, Royer, Kauffman, Gross, Schnatterly, Stehman, Hess, Selheimer, Wagner, and Longenecker. The whole number of State Senators from 1852 to 1884, inclusive, was 370, of whom seventy- five, or 20 per cent (as their surnames indi- cate) were of German descent.

Assemblymen-Mechling, Rhoads, Harner, Kurtz, Deise, Pennypacker (originally, Pfan- nebecker), Seiler, Hoffman, Kimmell, Steh- man, Roath, Meily, Kline (Klein), Fogel (Vogel), Wingard, Roush (Rausch), Schuman, Stumbaugh, Maisch, Kleckner, Heltzel, Beck- ert, Hottenstein, Brobst, Deise, Bergtresser, Gottschalk, Reinoehl, Heilman, Creitz, Lawsche (Lausche), Eschbach, Kase, Snively (Schnebli), Winger, Bomberger, Bowman, Brunges, Burkholder, Conrad, Fetter, Flee- ger (Pflieger), Greenewalt, Guss, Herrold, Hunsecker, Keffer, Koons, Laber, Lether- man, Mickey, Morris (Moritz), Schminkey, Schwartz, Schuler, Uhler, Woolever, Dry, Hegeman, Mühlenberg, Tschudy, Steckel, Stier, Ammernan, Wolfe, Greenewalt, Heiges, Loucks, Hildebrand, Christy, Gerwig, Kist- ler, Fortenbaugh, Scheibley, Hetrick, Kim- mell, Rutter, Snyder, Fagen, Petroff, Fred- ericks, Stahle, Geiselman, Seidel, Zern, Graff, Wendt, Keyser, Wanner, Batdorf, Achenbach, Nisley, Embich, Lecrow, Rosen- miller, Summi, Hoffer, Hostetter, Reighard, Steck, Shouk (Schauk), Fincher, Knipe, Stotzer, Reutter, Hollenbeck, Laudenslager, Losch, Schoch, Falkenbury, Myers, Anstine, Bakeoven (Backofen), Geiselman, Wimmer, Deyerman, Schull, Schantz, Jacoby, Kocher- sperger, Schaefer, Schell, Kramer, Engle- bert, Walter, Creps, Steinmetz. Bachman, Heller, Felthoff, Bowinan, Voegtly, Rumber- ger, Riegel, Gehart, Kahl, Landis, Bord- ner, Jarecki, Foust, Demuth, Gantz, Eberly, Etter, Nakel, Gans, Ackerley, Fabel, Danne- hauer, Hoyer, Newbaker, Scholl, Holman, Palsgrove (Pfalzgraff), Schroek, Messinger,

Leighty, Wiest, Bowman, Ernst, Boyer, Haspel, Stocksleger, Baer, Fegely, Sponagle, Isenberg. Leighner, Hartman, Kaler, Fetters, Vensel, Brungard, Fritz, Rife, Chritzman, Lantz, Altman, Brosius, Heidelbaugh, Kem- per, Imboden. Gockley, Harwick, Farber, Heebner, Faust, Redding, Engleman, Gable, Schoch, Hardenbergh, and Barnhart.

The whole number of assemblymen during those thirty-three years was, say, 1,904, of whom 460, or 24 per cent, were, according to their names (taking the above as speci- mens), Pennsylvania Germans; or, if not speak- ing the dialect, still, of P. G. parentage. The whole number of assemblymen from York County, from 1749 to 1833, inclusive, was, say, 326, of whom 114, or 35 per cent, were Pennsylvania Germans.

Among speakers of the senate were Isaac Weaver, William Marks, Jr., Jacob Kern, John Strohm, William Hiester, William M. Hiester, William H. Welsh, and Butler B. Strang.

Among speakers of the house: Isaac Wea- ver, Jr., Simon Snyder, John Weber, Joseph Ritner, Frederick Smith, Lewis Dewart, William P. Schell, J. Lawrence Getz. A. B. Longaker, Butler B. Strang, and E. R. Meyer.

Among State treasurers were David Rit- tenhouse, the eminent scholar and mathema- tician, (1777-89), who was also the direc- tor of the United States Mint at Philadel- phia, (1792-95), Christian Febiger, Isaac Weaver, and Eli Sifer.

Among secretaries of the commonwealth were, Francis R. Shunk, Jesse Miller. Will- iam M. Hiester, and Eli Slifer. Deputy Secretaries: A. W. Benedict, Henry S. Dif. fenbach, Adam C. Reinoehl, and John C. Schumaker.

Among the auditors general: Jacob Fry, Jr., Isaac Slenker, John F. Hartranft, and William P. Schell.

Secretaries of the land office: ( office abolished in 1843) John Gebhart (1836), John Klingenschmidt (1839).

Surveyor Generals by appointment: Jacob Spangler, (of York, from 1815 to 1821, and again from 1830 to 1836) Gabriel Hiester, (1824 to 1830). By election: William H. Keim.

Among principals of the State Normal Schools are Professors B. F. Schaub, N. C. Schaeffer, S. B. Heiges, and T. B. Noss.

Among county superintendents of com- mon Schools are Aaron Sheeley, David C. Keck, Lewis Strayer, T. A. Snyder, D. M. Wolf, S. R. Shearer, R. V. Ritenour, H. A. Disert, M. G. Brumbaugh, W. E. Amman, M. J. Brecht, William B. Bodenhorn, Reuben

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F. Hoffecker. Joseph H. Werner, E. Anmil- ler, John H. Kipp. George W. Weiss, George A. Spindler, A. S. Keeler, and D. G. Will- ianis.

Among city and borough superintend- ents: L. B. Landis, George W. Desch, David A. Harman, R. K. Bueherle, Henry R. Roth, C. B. Miller. Joseph K. Gottwals, H. F. Seisher, William F. Harpel, and W. H. Shelly; thirty, or more than 27 per cent. of the whole number; and so it has been in the past.

Among the officers of the State Board of Agriculture are vice-president C. C. Mussel- man, Executive Committee, J. A. Herr, and G. Hiester. Members: J. G. Zerr, C. H. Lantz, M. D., L. Sechler, A. D. Schimer, J. S. Keller, P. Frederick, and W. S. Roland.

Among members of the State Agricultural Society are William H. Holstein, Daniel H. Neiman, J. S. Keller, Gabriel Hiester, John S. Miller, D. W. Seiler, and John H. Zieg- ier.

Among Judges learned in the law: Dauiel M. Smyser, late of Adams County, O. H. Meyers. Third District; M. C. Herman, Ninth District; Joseph C. Bucher. Twentieth Dis- trict; Cyrus L. Persching, Twenty-first Dis- trict; Charles A. Mayer, Twenty-fifth Dis trict; S. H. Dreher, Forty-third District; Jeremiah Hagenman, A. S. Sassaman and H. H. Schwartz, Twenty-third District; William J. Baer. Eighteenth District; Edwin Albright, B. M. Boyer, Thirty-eighth District; John A. Sitzer, Forty-fourth District; David I. Krebs, Forty-sixth District; A. O. Furscht, Forty- ninth District; O. P. Bechtel, Twenty-first District.

Among Associate Judges not learned in the law there were, in our own county: Herman Opden Graeff (1750), Martin Eichelberger, Henry Schlagle, George Schwope, William Leas, Peter Wolf, John Herbach, Daniel Messerly, Frederick Eichelberger, Jacob Eichelberger, Henry Stake, Jacob Rudisil, Michael Schwope, George Stake, Barnet Ziegler. Daniel May. Jacob Dritt, Michael Hahn. Jacob Hostetter (1810), and in later years. John L. Hinkel, Isaac Koller, John Reiman, Peter Ahl, Sr., Jacob Wiest, and David Fahs.

Among Sheriffs: York County-Zachariah Schugard, Peter Schugard, George Eichel- berger, Henry Miller, Conrad Laub, Godfrey Lenhart, Nicholas Gelwicks, John Strohman, Jacob Eichelberger, Michael Kleinefelter, Benjamin Hirsch, John Kauffelt, Zachariah Spangler, Michael Doudel, William Spang- ler, Adam Eichelberger, Adam Klinefelter, Michael Hoke (Hoch), Jacob Hantz, George

Albright, Daniel Ginder, Samuel Forscht, William Martin, William W. Wolf, Chris- tian Pfahler, George Geiger, Michael Stum- baugh, James Peeling, Samuel Altland and Jesse Workinger, the present incumbent. The whole number of sheriffs is forty-seven; of whom thirty were Pennsylvania Germans.

Prothonotaries .- Among our prothonota- ries were Henry Miller, John W. Hetrich. William . Ilgenfritz, James B. Ziegler, F. Geise, W. Y. Link, S. B. Heiges, W. H. Sit. ler and S. B. Hoff, the present incumbent. all Pennsylvania Germans, competent and obliging, and speaking the dialect fluently.

Clerks of Sessions and Orphans' Court. - Among these were Henry Miller, Adam King, Jacob Spangler, Jacob B. Wentz, William Tash, John Reeser, B. F. Koller, Edward D. 'Bentzel, James B. Ziegler and J. A. Blasser.

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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 48

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