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South of the MeClure tract in 1755, Jolm Simeson took up four hundred acres, about the same time Andrew Simeson took out his war- rant. One hundred and thirteen acres of the tract were sold to George Minnich, AAugust 19, 1796, who later purchased the whole tract. George Minnich lived to be ninety-three years of age, and died in 1865. His land was divi- ded between his two sons, George and Daniel, long before his death. The east part is now owned by Henry P. Lightner and George W. Shoemaker ; the west part by John Minnich, son of Daniel Minnich. The sons of Danid
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are Jom, Joseph, William, David, George, Andrew and (. C. ; the sons of George are Samuel, Henry, Benjamin, John W. and James. With the exception of Joseph, all are living in the vicinity.
April 13, 1786, William Anderson obtained a warrant for two hundred acres adjoining lands of William Miller, and now owned by Jonathan Arnold. One hundred and twenty acres, west of the almshouse tract were taken up by John Sharp. May 13, 1763, adjoining Wm. MeClure, John Hamilton, James Thom and Win. Officer. In 1788 Michael Loy purchased the property of John and Agnes Sharp. In the sune year he built the dwelling-house now occupied by George Ritter, whose wife, Catharine, was a grand- daughter. He died about 1815, and left eleven children-George, Nicholas, Jolm, Michael, Mary, Catharine, Margaret, Susan, Eve, Eliza beth and Barbara. George, the eklest, obtained tracts of William Officer, and his grandson, Jolin Ritter, now owns it.
. Nicholas settled first in Saville township, on two lumdred acres of land, which, April 25, 1826, he soll to George Loy, and on which was a saw-mill. He then moved to Centre, and lived and died where Andrew Loy (his sou) now lives.
John Loy moved to Ohio; Michael married a Miss Shuman, and, October 15, 1805, pur- chased the home farm and lived there until his death ; Mary married Abram Ritter and settled near Elliot's Run ; Catharine became the wife of John Bernheisel and settled near Green Park; Eve married Adam Bernheisel and set- tled on the MeChuire tract, which, April 12, 1810, he sold and moved West; Margaret mar- ried - Lippert and settled in Cumberland County ; Elizabeth married John Kepner, of Juniata County ; Susan became Mrs. Nicholas lekes and lived in lekesburg ; Barbara was the wife of -Lupfer, of Bloomfield.
February 4, 1755, Ludwig Laird warranted one hundred and fifty-three aeres, which were surveyed to Henry Shoemaker August 2, 181 1. The west part of Green Park is on this tract, and the farm is now owned by M. Knoll. The cast part of the town is on a tract of fifty acres which was warranted to James Moore, Septem-
ber 25, 1766. The farm land is now owned by William W. MeChire and John Dum.
Robert Irvin, who lived in Saville township, warranted, July 23, 1791, three hundred acres adjoining Jolm Dunbar and Nicholas Bower, near Bower's Mountain.
Bell's Will derives its name from James Bell, who, on July 5, 1768, took up two hundred and twenty-three acres on and near it. April 16, 1802, he sold ninety-one acres to James Wilson, who, on April 16, 1812, sold it to Francis Post- line, a merchant of York. It was adjoining lands of Abraham Landis, George Stroop, Michael Kinsloe and George Waggoner.
James Smith, November 15, 1768, on appli- cation No. 5253, took up three hundred acres adjoining lands of Thomas Wilson and James Galbreath.
Michael Kinsloe located two hundred acres by lands of Letitia Alexander and William Henderson ; warranted it May 6, 1795, and on September 29, 1800, two hundred acres adjoin- ing William MeClure, now owned by William Loy and others.
James Galbreath, in 1750, took up a tract by the Landis tract. Simon Girty, father of Simon Girty, known as " Renegade " Girty, was one of the trespassers in 1750, and went away with the others. Simon Girty, the elder, settled as a tenant upon the tract of James Galbreath, who lived in Carlisle, and lived there for several years and removed to Greenwood township. The Galbreath tract, of about four hundred aeres, passed to Charles Stewart, whose heirs, in 1800, sold to George Waggoner, brother of John, who settled in Kennedy's Valley. IIe lived on the place until his death, December 26, 1824. About 1810 he built upon Montour's Run, a saw-mill, which was used until 1884, when it was abandoned. A bark and sumac- factory was erected in 1850, which was abau- doned in 1864. Hle left four sons, of whom Samuel lives in Spring township, on the farm owned by Hugh Kilgore in 1767. The Wag- goner farm was left to the three sons, George, Jolm and David, a part of which is still in the possession of the family.
On Sherman's Creek, and on the township line between Tyrone and Spring, Thomas Ros-, an
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elder of the Centre Presbyterian Church, lo- . cated two Inindred acres June 1, 1762, and Jon- athan Ross, on February 8d of the same year, warranted one hundred and fifty acres, The Ross farm was known many years as the Colonel W. J. Graham farm, and is now owned by Dr. D. B. Milliken and David Sheibley.
David MeChige was assessed in 1767 on one Inmdred aeres, and June 30, 1786, warranted a tract of two hundred and seventy-one aeres. Robert Kelly lived on one hundred acres ad- joining MeChuire in 1767. Henry Gass, who, in 1767, lived on a tract of two hundred and fifty aeres, died before 1786, as mention is made in that year of his heirs. Joining the Gass lands was a large tract of David Robb, taken in 1786. John Kennedy, in 1761, was adjoining the Ross farm. These lands were in Sher- man's Valley.
James MeCabe, on May 20, 1770, took np forty-seven acres along the valley. One Owen " MeKeab," owned two hundred acres near there in 1767. Above, in Kennedy's Valley, John Nelson, September 11, 1787, obtained a warrant for one hundred aeres by John Parks and James MeCabe ; Dennis MeCurdy, a tract of land reaching across the valley from Rob- ert Welsh's lands to the Blue Mountains. Robert Welsh, in 1787, lived on one hundred acres at the foot of what is to-day known as Welsh's Hill. Joseph Hays, January 14, 1794, settled ou one hundred and lifty acres adjoining Pilot Ilill, William Kennedy and' Robert Welsh. James McCauly, or MeAuly, took up lands in Kennedy's Valley, which, about 1794, were purchased by William Kennedy, from whom the valley derives its name.
Scott's Knob, or Mount Dempsey, owned by John and Christian Tussey before 1775, and was on April 3d of that your sold by them to Zach- arial Doughty. March 8, 1776, it was assigned to desse Butrine, who retained it until October 11, 1785, when he sold it to John Evans, who, | November 19, 1792, conveyed it to Charles Dempsey, from whom it takes its name. It is now owned by Henry Lightner.
Obadiah Garwood, who, in 1767, was as- i sessed with one hundred and twenty-five acres of land, and in 1779 with a saw-mill, lived in
Kennedy's Valley. Robert Garwood, proba- bly of the family, in 1782 was assessed with a grist-mill. John Waggoner, abont 1785, pur- chased the property, including the small stone grist-mill. In 1814 he had there a grist-mill, saw-mill and distillery. Waggoner lived on this place nutil his death, in 1831. He had ten children, of whom Benjamin bonght, about 1839, the Roddy mill. Moses, another son, mar- ried a daughter of Gilbert Moore, and descend- ant of Alexander Roddy. After the death of Benjamin he bought the Roddy mill, and his heirs still own it. John Waggoner, another son, bought the Patterson mill and lived there. John Waggoner, the father, built, in 1805, a grist-mill near Bridgeport (now Suyder's). The old homestead in Kennedy's Valley is now owned by Aaron M. Egolf.
The family of Lightner in the county are mimerons, and are descended from Matthias Lightner, who settled here before 1800, but did not purchase land. He had sons-Jacob, Mat- thias, Lowdou, Adam, Michael and Heury. Jacob and Henry settled in Tyrone, and the rest went West. JJacob purchased the farm, in 1822, now owned by his youngest son, Samuel R., and where he resides; his sons-John S., Henry, Peter, Sterrett, William and Samuel R.,-with the exception of John S., settled in Tyrone. John S. moved to Cumberland County. Henry settled half a mile from Landisburg, on the farm now owned by Henry Schaeffer.
William Miller was a resident in 1767 and owned two hundred and fifty acres. On the north of his land George Wolf warranted two hundred acres January 31, 1793. William Shoemaker and Jolm S. Ritter now own the property.
David Carson, June 3, 1762, warranted a tract north of Wolf's, which, in 1786, wassold to Peter Sheibley, who was one of the German Redemp- tioners, and who settled in Oley, Bucks Coun- ty (now Berks), where he worked out his term of service, and after a year or two came to the Sherman Creek settlement and purchased the Carson tract, on which he lived some years and sold it to Henry Kline, who had married his daughter, Magdalena ; they lived there until his death, and in 1819 the farm was divided
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between the heirs, After the sale to Kline, l'eter Sheibley bought the farm now owned by the heirs of John Stambaugh. Hedied in 1823 and had a family of twenty children, of whom the most fived to be over eighty years of age.
William Sheibley, now residing at Elliotsburg in his eighty-sixth year, is a son. Of other children, Solomon and Beter settled in Toboyne ; Abraham, Jacob and George in Spring town- -hip ; Bernard in Landisburg ; Catharine became the wife of Frederick Sheaffer and settled in Spring township; Susanna married Jacob Light- ner and located in Sheaffer's Valley ; Mary mar- ried Peter Bower and lived in Landisburg; Sarah became Mrs. Jacob Bernheisel, and now lives at an advanced age near Green Park ; Eliz- abeth married Jacob Stambaugh, and lives on the homestead of her father. The family are mmerons throughout the county and are all descendants of Peter.
The families of Hench, Hartman, Reys (Rice) and Fuller, who are so largely represented in this county, are descended from Christian Hench, Jacob Hartman, Zachary (Reys) Rice and William Fuller, who came to what is now Perry County in 1787. As the course of their emigration is so peenliar, it is here given : Richard Pike, of England, had received a grant of a large tract of land of William Penn, in Chester County, which he named Pikeland, and which later was made Pikeland township. This tract was sold and passed through several hands, and came to Samuel Hoar, of England, who sold to Andrew Allen and took a mortgage upon the property. Allen laid it out into farms of from three hundred to five hundred aeres each, and sold to cmigrants; among them were Johannes Henche, of Würtemberg, who came to this country about 1740 and purchased a tract, and Johanmes Hartman, who came to this county about the year 1750, with his wife and a family of several sons and daughters, and settled on the west side of Yellow Springs.
They purchased three hundred aeres in East Pikeland, where he built a mill. Catherine, another daughter of Johannes Hartman, mar- ried a William Fuller ; they also settled upon farms near the others. At the opening .of the Revolution Andrew Allen was for a time a staunch patriot ; but on the approach of Lord Ilove at Trentou, he became disaffected and es- ponsed the cause of the Loyalists, and at the close of the troubles his property was seized under the mortgage and sold at sheriff's sale. At the time there were settled upon the Pikeland tract one hundred and twenty-three families, who were all dispossessed and without redress. Zachary Reys was then the father of twenty-one children. He had been active in assisting the government during the war, and had aided in the erection of the hospital at Yellow Springs. The wives of Zachary Reys (Rice) and Christian Hench both died of typhoid fever, contracted in the hospital at Yellow Springs, while assisting in caring for the sick and wounded.
After their removal from their lands, and in 1786, Zachariah Rice, Jacob Hartman and Wil- liam Fuller, with their families, and some of the sons of Christian Hench, came to what is now Perry County, and purchased lands in various parts. Zachariah Rice, as far as can be ascer- tained, settled in what is now Madison or Sa- ville township, above the Bixler mill. He is mentioned by the Rev. D. HI. Focht as being the second to draw a log for the Lutheran Church which was built at what is now Loys- ville, in 1794. It was cut at a place called " The Barreus," in Madison township. The sons of Zachariah Rice who were in this section of country were John, Peter, George, JJacob, Con- rad. Zachariah, Henry and Benjamin. John, Peter and George settled in Juniata County. Indge Jolin Rice, who for many years lived in and near Bloomfield, was a son of John Rice. Jacob settled first in Juniata County, but later came to what is now Spring township, and lived on the farm now owned by his nephews, Zacha- riah and Joseph Rice. The sons of Jacob were Jacob and Henry ; the latter died near Warm Springs, in Spring township ; the former re- mained in .Inniata County. Conrad settled in
Zachary Reys and Johannes, his brother, came from Germany, in the ship " Edinburgh," and landed in Philadelphia September 16, 1751. of Johannes but little is known. Zachary mar- ried Abigail, a daughter of Johannes Hartman, who was given money to buy one of the farms. | Liberty Valley. Josiah Rice, ex-register of
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Perry County, is a grandson. Zachariah settled first in Saville township, and on June 25, 1813, purchased of George Stroop twenty-five acres, part of the Abraham Landis tract, on which was a house, part log and part brick, and a grist-mill. This mill was built before 1786 and was run by Shippen Rhine from that time until after 1795. It was rented after that to dlacob Bixler and others. The mill now contains its old wheels and machinery; a piece of iron post, forming a lever, bears the figures 1786 stamped upon it. The old scale beam is still there, with "Shippen Rhine, 1789" upon it. The brick house, above the mill, on the stream, was built in 1822; the saw-mill was built in 1812. Mr. Rice died in 1846. His son, Jere- miah, owns the property and lives there far ad- vanced in years.
Henry Rice, son of Zachariah, Sr., settled first in Juniata County and later bought the Charles McCoy farm, in Spring towuship. Ile had two sons, Samuel and Zachariah. The lat- ter became famous as a proprietor of stage-lines, which business was followed by his sons-Sam- nel, Jesse, William, Henry, James, Zachariah and Joseph. Samnel, Zachariah, Joseph and Henry are managing stage-lines in the county.
Benjamin, son of Zachariah, Sr., settled in Kennedy's Valley, on MeCabe's Run, where he erected a saw-mill and conducted it many years. The daughters of Zachariah Rice, Sr., were Margaret, Susan, Sarah and Maria. These were intermarried with Jacob Hipple, - West, John Hench and - Himes.
About two and a half miles from the mouth of MeCabe's Run, in Kennedy's Valley, Colonel William Graham, in 1812, erected a tammery on land formerly Abram Waggoner's. He con- ducted business nutil 1819, and sold to James 14. and John 1. Diven, who operated until 1858, when they conveyed to Solomon and Joseph Dewalt, who ran it until 1867, when it again came into the possession of Colonel William Graham, who coutinned business there until 1872, when it was abandoned.
James Baxter warranted two hundred and seven and one-half acres of land, adjoining lands of Sammel Fisher and on the township line. He erceted a tammery upon a run before
1820, which was carried on by him or his heirs until 1821, when John Titzell, who had been in partnership with John Loy, at the Centre Tannery (now Hench's), separated his connection and rented the Baxter tannery, and, April 3, 1828, purchased it and contimed in business there until 185 of 1856, when it was aban- doned. It is now owned by John Smith.
THE BETHEL CHURCH, in Shaffer's Valley, was built abont 1830, on land of Michael Murray and now near the farm of Samuel S. Lightner. It was remodeled in 1885. The pulpit is supplied by the ministers in charge of Bethel Church, at Landisburg, to which refer- once is made in the history of that church.
LoYSVILLE ORPHANS' HOME .- This institu- tion began as an academy in the basement of Lebanon Church, at Loysville, in 1853, with Josiah R. Titzell as principal. It was con- tinned there for a year or two, under the care of 1. T. Ross. Au academy for the vicinity was much desired and, Colonel John Tressler, in 1855, erected a three-story brick building, with a commodious school-room on the first floor. The second and third stories were divided into twenty rooms. It was not completed until 1856, and was finished and dedicated in that vear, at which time an address was delivered by the Rev. George J. Mertz. The first principal was Mr. John A. Kunkelman, who was suc- eceded by David L. Tressler, a son of Colonel John Tressler. In 1862 he enlisted as captain of Company HI, One Hundred and Thirty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and with him many of the pupils of the academy. The property came to David Tressler, and at the close of the war it was embraced in the schools for soldiers' orphans, under the charge of Wil- liam Minnich, who conducted it for cighteen mouth.
COLONEL JOHN TRESSLER was born in Perry County, 1803, and died at Loysville, Perry County, 1859. His father, Andrew Tressler, was born May, 1746, in Würtem- berg, Germany, and died October, 1828, at Loysville. When three years old, he came, with his parents and an only brother, to Gosh- enhoppen, Berks County. He was married to Miss M. Loy, and, after her death, to Miss
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t'atharine Hamman. About 1800 he located near Loysville, Perry County, where he brought up a large family, among which was the sub- jeet of this sketch.
tion. The Tressler and Loy families were prominent members of the Lutheran Church. Elizabeth Loy, wife of Colonel Tressler, was a member of a class numbering seventy, who
In the year 1826 Colonel John Tressler mar- " were admitted to church membership at Loys- ville, in the spring of 1821, by Rev. John William Heim, who was thirty-four years Lu- theran pastor of that congregation. Michael Loy died in 1820, leaving nine children. About the year 1854 Colonel Tressler began the erec-
ried Elizabeth boy, who was a daughter of tivorge boy and a grand-daughter of Michael Loy, in whose honor the town of Loysville was named. The father of Michael Loy emigrated from Germany about the year 1780. Michael came from Berks County to Perry County, tion, on the southeastern corner of his farm, of
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where he purchased a tract of land, on the east- ern part of which Loysville is now located. Here the Zimmermans, Loys, Hammers, Hol- lenbachs, Bernheisels, Fleishers, Bowers and others made their homes. Here Michael Loy and Martin Bernheisel donated two aeres and forty perches for church and school purposes, and Michael Loy was one of the building com- mittee of the first Lutheran Church erected at Loysville, and in the year 1822 be executed a dred for half an aere of ground for cemetery use, near the church, for one dollar considera-
a building for the classical school he had been instrumental in starting several years previous, and which had, thus far, been held in the base- ment of the church in Loysville. In the year 1856 the school was taken into the new build- ing, now known as the Loysville Academy, until the year 1865, when it was among the first in the State opened for soldiers' orphans. In 1867 the building, campus and twenty-seven acres of ground were bought by the Lutheran Church for an orphans' home, and the " Tress- ler Orphans' Home," as it is now named, has
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since that time enlarged its buildings and im- proved its grounds, and Rev. P. Willard, its efficient superintendent, has now many orphans under his charge.
The crowning glory of the life of Colonel Tressler is the interest he manifested in the canse of education and in the advancement of Christ's kingdom upon the earth. His teach- ings and exemplary character have produced their legitimate results in the lives of his chil- dren, who have all acquired a good education, and are nearly all graduates of our best col- leges and consistent members of the Lutheran Church. Five of his sons are members of the learned professions.
The records of the Lutheran Church show that a convention of delegates assembled in New Bloomfield, Feb., 1850, from the New Bloom- field and Liverpool charge, consisting of four- teen congregations, for the purpose of dividing the charge. Among the twenty-eight delegates in attendance, Colonel Tressler was selected to be secretary. Ile was a member of the build- ing committee for the erection of the Lutheran Church at Loysville, in 1850, and was himself the most liberal contributor towards that ob- jeet. He frequently represented the charge of which he was a member in the district Synod ; also the district Synod in the General Synod at Winchester.
He was a man of perseverance, diligence and application. As such, he has made his own history, and we had but to follow his " foot-prints on the sands of time." Men of noble character and virtuous deeds make his- tory, not so much with pen and ink, as by weaving those noble deeds into a living, har- monions whole.
" He was one of the laymen that met in Frederick, Md., and devised the plan of the church extension society. He served nearly ten years as a director of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. Hle offered his academy and four acres of ground for the benefit of the missionary institute, on condition that the board would locate it in Loysville. As his offer was not accepted, he has willed it such a way . that, though his heirs are the owners of it, it can never go ont of the hands of the Lutheran Church. Ile was a man of more than mediocrity of intellect, great firmness of character, bold in expressing his opinions, especially where the interests of the church
were involved, and indomitable in the exception of his plans. He was liberal in his views to others; yet he loved his church, and would make any sacrifice to promote her interests. Few men of his age and op- portunities had a better knowledge of Bible fruth and Christian duty. He was a kind parent, yet firm in his domestic rule. He sought to educate his chil- dren, and fit them to become intelligent and useful members of society; yet his principal aim seems to have been to bring them up for the kingdom of heaven. He had selected his funeral text, Rev. xiv. 13: 'And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.' "
The following are the names of Colonel Tressler's children :
His oldest son, Professor John A. Tressler, died, in 1851, in Columbus, Ohio, where he had been one of the profe -- ors in the Capital University. A monument has been erected to his memory at Columbus. He became a mem- ber of the bar at Carlisle prior to his moving West.
V. G. Tressler, retired farmer, living at Lakeside, Cook Co., Ill.
Mrs. Sarah A. Minnich, eldest daughter, intermarried with William II. Minich, a sue- cessful broker and money-lender, living at Newport, Perry County, Pa., with whom the widow of Colonel Tressler is living in content- ment.
Rev. John W. Tressler, living at Somerfield, Somerset County, Pa. He has served in sev- eral Entheran charges. He owns large real- estate interests. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Josiah E. Tressler has retired from the practice of medicine, and is now engaged in the banking business at Peabody, Kan. Ile has become a prominent citizen of that place, and has been quite successful as a banker.
Mrs. Mary E. Arnold intermarried with John II. Arnold, formerly of Perry County, now living at Harrisburg, and is engaged in the railroad business.
Dr. Martin Luther Tressler, also a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, living at Carthage, Ill., engaged in the drug and book business.
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Mrs. Matilda E. Richard intermarried with Rev. Professor J. W. Richard, professor of stered philology in Wittemberg College, Spring- field, Ohio,-one of the leading institutions of the Lutheran Church.
Mrs. Loyetta E. Lark intermarried with II. [. Lark, formerly a prominent member of the ; bar of Dauphin County, but now living at Pea- body, Kan., and engaged in the banking busi- ness with Shmipe & Tressler, proprietors of the Peabody Bank.
Mrs. Anna M. Scott intermarried with Sam- uel S. Scott, wholesale and retail dry-goods mer- chants at Ottawa, Ill.
Rev. David L. Tressler, Ph.D., president of Carthage College, where he died February 20, 1880. Ile was a man of fine oratorical powers. He was married to Miss Melntyre, of New Bloomfield, who survives him, together with three children, who still reside at Carthage. A biography of Dr. Tressler was published after his death.
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