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Colonel Tressler, being of German origin, inherited the indomitable energy of that hardy race. Although he did not live to great old age, yet he crowded much that was good and commendable into the time he lived. No man can wholly escape his ancestry if we believe the declaration : " For I the Lord thy God am a jealons God, visiting the iniquity of the father, upon the children unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate me, and showing merey unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments."
The degree of worldly competence enjoyed and the standing in the community of the chil- dren of Colonel Tressler are a source of gratifi- cation and comfort to the aged widow, who survives him and is spending her latter days in peace and contentment, and looks back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, and re- joices in the prosperity of her children.
The Rev. Philip Willard, who had been pastor of the Lebanon Church, with the advice of Daniel Eppley, Esq., president of the Far- mers' Bank of Harrisburg and the Synods of Pennsylvania, made arrangements for the pur- chase of the property, consisting of the academy and five acres of land.
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REV. PHILIP WILLARD is the grandson of Elias Willard, the descendant of a Huguenot family driven by perseention from France into Germany, whence he emigrated, when a lad, with his father, and settled in Frederick County, Md., where the residue of his life was spent. By his marriage with a Miss Gump, of Beth- lohem, a member of the Society of Moravian-, were twelve children, among whom George, born May 30, 1770, who died December 24, 1849, in his eightieth year, was the father of the subject of this biographical sketch. By oc- cupation he was both a tanner and a farmer. ITe married Susannah, daughter of Michael and Lenora Culler, who was born March 14, 1781, and died May 21, 1861. Their children are Mary, wife of Christian Weaver, born in 1805; Elizabeth, deceased, wife of Jacob Remsberg, in 1807; Philip, September 29, 1809 ; Catharine, deceased (Mrs. William Erving), in 1812; Su- sannah, wife of Dr. James Willard, in 1811; John, deceased, in 1817; Heury, in 1818; Am Eliza. in 1821 ; and George T., in 1824.
Philip Willard, a native of Frederick County, Md., began active life as an employe in his father's tannery, and on the decline of the latter's health assumed the management of his farms, which occupation was contimed until his twenty-fifth year. In November, 1834, he entered the preparatory department of Penn- sylvania College, at Gettysburg, Pa., and the following fall became a member of the fresh- man class, graduating in 1839 with the degree of A.B., and receiving the following year that of A.M. Having subsequently spent two years in the Evangelical Entheran Theological Semi- mary at Gettysburg, he entered the ministry in 1811, his first charge being at Manchester, Car- roll County, Md., where he also officiated in the German tongue, and ministered to eight congregations, often conducting tive services a day. The following your he removed to West- minster, the county-seat, where he remained three years, doing an extensive work in the or- ganization of churches and the spread of the gos- pel. After a period spent at Lovettsville, Lou- don County, Va., he returned, in 1818, to Get- tysburg, and acted as traveling agent for the Gettysburg Theological Seminary, in which ca-
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pacity he materially added to the prosperity of home. By the board of trustees of this home that institution. He was later settled as a pas- ; he was chosen its superintendent, which office he still holds, Mr. Willard has not been less success- f'ul in this enterprise than in his ministerial labors during the latter period about nineteen hundred names having been added to the membership roll
tor at Danville, Pa., remaining six years, dur- ing which time many acessions to the church were the result of his labors. He then min- istered for two and a half years to the church at. Loysville, where signal blessings followed his ! of the various churches under his care. A more efforts, and for the same period at Milllintown, full account of his connection with the growth whence, through the influence of his brother, he j and prosperity of the institution under his resigned to undertake a financial agency for ; present care will appear elsewhere in this vol- Pennsylvania College; but this plan being frus- | ume. Mr. Willard was married, in October,
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trated by the opening of the Rebellion, he took | 1841, to Margaretta, daughter of George charge of the church at Schuylkill Haven. | Chritzman, of Gettysburg, Pa. The children After three years spent here, he accepted the of this union are Virginia ; Janetta ; Martin general superintendency of the Lutheran Publi- : Luther, of Ameriens, Kansas; George M., of Philadelphia ; Samuel Schmucker, principal of the Orphans' Home; Ezra Kellar, of Perry County ; Herman Franke, of Americus, Kan- sas; and Newton T., a pharmacist, of Phila- delphia. cation House, in Philadelphia, and remained for five years officially connected with the organiza- tion. While there employed he purchased, in 1867, on behalf of the Lutheran Church, a property at Loysville, Perry County, Pa., and secured the co-operation of a number of Synods On the 30th of October, 1867, the Lutheran Synods of Pennsylvania petitioned the court of the General Synod of the Evangelical In- theran Church, in establishing there an orphans' ' of Perry County for a charter of incorporation,
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under the name and title of " The Tressler Orphans' Home of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the General Synod in the United States of America." The petition was granted Jannary 6, 1868. The property was in pos- sesion of the society since 1867, and was then under the care of the Rev. Philip Willard, who leased it to Mr. P. Bosserman, of Newport. In addition to the soldiers' orphans orphans from the Intheran Church were then received. Mr. Bosserman remained in charge until 1869, when the Rev. Philip Willard took the charge and has since managed the institution.
In 1868 twenty-seven and a half acres were purchased. In 1881 the large brick building which now forms the west part was erected. The east and west wings are connected by a building of the same height, which is also used for sleeping-rooms and other purposes. The cost of the improvements for 1884 was twelve thousand dollars.
The children who have been cared for in the home since JJune, 1869, were two hundred and sixty-five soldiers' orphans and one hundred and seventy-nine orphans of the Intheran Church. There are at present (1886) at the home seventy-one soldiers' orphans and seventy- nine orphans of the church. There are also other orphans, who are cared for by friends en- tirely, and others who are partially supported.
The teachers of the school are Samuel S. Willard, principal; Ezra Taylor, assistant ; Mrs. Addie Willard, Miss Clara Keifouver; Miss Elizabeth Allemon, teacher of music.
The Rev. Philip Willard has been actively sustained in his duties by the advice and coun- sel of the Rev. G. F. Stelling, of Harrisburg, now deceased, and Daniel Eppley, Esq,, also of Harrisburg.
LOYSVILLE.
Loysville is laid out on parts of two tracts; the east part is on the MeClure tract, warranted in 1763, the west part on a tract warranted the same year to John Sharp; these lands later came to Martin Bernheisel and Michael Loy. At the place where the town was laid out, the Lanthoran and Reformed Church, a parsonage and a paro- chial school-house stood. A store-house was
erected about 1880, and was kept by Michael Kepner, Robert Dunbar and Andrew Welch. It was destroyed by fire and rebuilt at the time the town was laid ont. A store on this site is now kept by Abraham Evans. Martin Kopuer, in 1839, built a dwelling-house on the corner now occupied by Samuel Shumaker and open- od a store in part of it. On the 20th of July, 1840, the directors of the poor of Perry Coun- ty surveyed a block of eight lots, sixty by one hundred and fifty cach, on the alms-house tract, on the east side of the road to Heim's Mill, and named it Andesville. Lot No. I was sold to Andrew Welch; No. 2, Jacob Crist; No. 3, Jacob Weibley; No. 4, Alexander Barnes; No. 5, Michael Kepner; No. 6, 1. Delaney ; and two lots unnumbered, one to Michael Kepner, ou which his building was erected, and the other to J. Newcomer, who erected the next year a dwell- ing upon it. In 1841 Jacob Weibley erected a brick house on lot No. 3 (now Newton Eber- sole).
David Kochendorfer built a store-house and dwelling on lot No. 1, originally bought by Andrew Welch, a few years after the laying out. David and Jacob Kochendorfer also built a house on the lot outside of the plot now owned by 1. P. Miller. They succeeded to the store of Michael Kepner in 1812, and were succeeded by John Zimmerman. John Evinger, David Kochendorfer, George F. Orrel, in 1865, and in the spring of 1867, Samnel Shumaker, who continued until the spring of 1886. The store now occupied by John Heim was started by D. B. Newcomer about 1862, he, with Daniel Lut- man, having been in business previously in the honse now owned by Dr. B. P. Hooke. The honse now occupied by Jacob Rickard was built by Andrew Welch, and before 1850 a tavern was kept by James Gracey.
In 1851-52, Andrew Welch was keeping tavern in the dwelling-house since remodeled by the heirs of Edward Miller.
A post office was established at Andesville about 1842, and a few years later the name of the town and post-office were changed to Loy's- ville, in honor of Michael Loy. The successive postmasters have been Jacob Rickerd, David Kochendorfer, George F. Orrel, David K.
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Minnich, Samuel Shumaker, Isaac P. Miller, David S. A-per, Joseph Newcomer and John W. Heim, who is the present incumbent. Michael Loy owned the land on which Lebanon Church stood. Michael Loy, Jr., died in 18 16 and provided in his will that his exeentors, George and William Loy, shonkl lay out a row of lots from what is now the Lutheran parson- age to the New Bloomfield road, sixty by one hundred and twenty feet. These lots number from 1 to 12, beginning on the New Bloomliekl road. Another row of lots, numbering from 18 to 16, inclusive, were laid out fronting on the New Bloomfield road, west from No. 1, an alley separating them from the others.
These lots were laid ont about 18 18 and sold soon after, and several houses erected before 1851. In that year John Ritner purchased lots Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 13, 11, 15 and 16, and on lots Nos. 1 and 2 he erected the present brick hotel, which his son Benjamin occupied from 1852 to 1881, when it was purchased by George Ebbert, who now owns and occupies the prop- erty.
LEBANON CheRen !!-- The Rev. John Tim- othy Kuhl began to visit the people of the Luth- eran faith in Sherman's Valley during 1790, and in that year organized a congregation there. The late George Fleisher, of Saville, who died in 1855, aged eighty-four years, when nineteen years of age, moved with a team Rev. Mr. Kuhl's family and effects from Path Valley to this section. Services were first held in private honses and barns. In 1794 Martin Bornheisel and Michael Loy donated for church and school purposes two acres and forty-two perches, on which a log church was built, the members uniting in the work of its erection, with John Calhoun as superintendent. The building com- mittee were Michael Loy, George Hammer and Peter Sheibley. The building was about thirty by forty lect, and stood cast of the present church. In 1808 the outside was weather- boarded and painted white, and from that time to its destruction was known as " the white church."
The majority of the congregation were Enth-
I Complied from a history of this church by Bey D. 11. Hoeht.
crans, the others were German Reformed, and cach had equal rights to the church. This first building was used until 1850, when it was sold to J. B. Zimmerman. The corner-stone of a new church was laid June 23, 1850, by the Rev. S. S. Schmucker, D. D., of the Theological Seminary of Gettysburg. The ministers pres- ent were Rev. Dr. Schmucker and Rey. J. Mar- tin, of the Lutheran Church, and Rey. C. II. Leinbach and Rev. A. H. Kremer, of the Re- formed. The church was consecrated March 2, 1851. The ministers then present were Rev. F. Ruthranff, pastor, Rev. B. Kurtz, D.D., Rev. J. Martin and Rey. M. J. Alleman, of the Lutheran Church ; and Rev. C. H. Loinbach, pastor, Rev. J. F. Merich and Rev. N. Gchr, of the Reformed Church. The cost of the build- ing, with fixtures and bell, was abont six thon- sand dollars. It was used withont material change until 1883, when it was remodeled at a cost of twenty-four hundred dollars.
Rev. Mr. Kuhl served this congregation and others until about 1796. Rev. John Herbst, of Carlisle, served as a supply until 1801, and was succeeded by Rev. Frederick Sanno. Rev. John Frederick Osterloh was then chosen pastor of this congregation, the one in New Bloomfield, St. Peter's, in Spring township, and Fishing Creek, in Rye township. He resided on a farm in Saville, now owned by the heirs of Henry Fleisher.
Rov. John William Heim, in May, 1815, became the pastor of Lebanon, Sherman's Valley, St. Michael's and New Buffalo con- gregations, and in 1816 the congregation of Blain was added to his charge. From that date until 1828 his charge embraced the con- ties of Mifflin, Jumiata and nearly all of' Perry. In 1828 he removed to Loysville. He died December 27, 1819, aged sixty-seven years, having served the church thirty-four years. In October, 1850, Rev. Frederick Ruthranll be- gan preaching a part of the time in the English language, services prior to this time having been held entirely in German. He resigned in November, 1852, and accepted a call from Con- tre County. Rev. Reuben Weiser began his lahors April 1, 1853, and preached hall' the time in German and half' in English ; he became
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president of the Central College of Iowa May 25, 1856, and was succeeded by Rev. Philip Willard, of' Danville, who served until 1858, when he accepted a call from Mifflintown. Rev. A. M. Settlemover was the next pastor of this charge, beginning AApril, 1859, continuing until April, 1861, and was succeeded September I, 1861, by Rey. Peter Salam, who served until February 1, 1869. Rev. Daniel Sell served from November, 1869, to December, 10, 1871; Roy. John B. Stroup, from 1878 to 1871; Rev. Isaiah B. Crist, from 1875 to October, 1877; Rev. Jolm F. Dietrich, from October 11, 1877, to 1880 ; Rev. F. Anrand, from May 1, 1880, to September, 1883. The present pastor, Rev. W. D. E. Scott, began his labors here Decem- IT 18, 1883.
After the death of the Rev. Mr. Heim, the congregation which had been under his charge were divided into three different charges, as follows: The Upper or Loysville charge, to be composed of the following congregations,-Zion, Lebanon, St. Peter's and Germany (Indolph's) Churches ; the Middle or Bloomfield charge, to be composed of lekesburg (stone church), Shu- mans, Bealors, Bloomfield and Newport; the Lower or Petersburg charge, to be composed of Pisgah, Fishing Creek, Bellows', Petersburg and New Buffalo Churches. At the present time the Lysville charge consists of Loysville, Elliotts- burg, Mount Zion, in Spring township, and contains a membership of two hundred and ninety-eight.
REV. JOHN WILLIAM HEIM, one of the fa- thers of the Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania, w .- the grandson of' JJohn George Heim, who was born in Würtemberg, Germany ; arrived in America October, 1751 ; was the father of Wil- I'm Heim, who settled in Mahanoy township, Northumberland County, Pa., in 1780, and re- moved to Jackson township, Perry County, Pa., in 1815, and died there in 1856, at the age of' ninety-five years. Rev. John William Heim, the oldest child of William and Elizabeth Il im, was born in Mahanoy township August . 1782. In 1799 he was confirmed a member of the lutheran Church, and began his prepara- tion for the ministry under the direction of Rey. Walter, who resided at Mifflinburg, Suyder
County, with whom he spent five years in the study of theology. In June, 181 1, the congre- gations at Lewistown, Mifflintown, in Tascato- ra Valley and Greenwood township called him as their pastor, and he accepted. He moved to .Inniata County, two miles cast of Mifflintown, and began to serve eight congregations-three in Perry County, one in Snyder, two in IInniata and two in Mifflin. In 1828 he ceased to preach at Lewistown and Decatur ; moved to Loysville, where the congregations had bought a parsonage and fifteen acres for the pastor's use. Some years after he bought a farm two miles south of Loysville, and built a grist-mill.
In 1833 he resigned the congregations on the northeast of the Imiata River in order that the Liverpool charge might be formed, and in 1835 he gave up the congregations in Juniata County, so that his labors afterward were confined to the congregations at Blain, Loysville, St. Peter's, St. Andrew's (Shman's), Bloomfield and Fishing Creek. In 18 10 he added to them St. John's (Bealor's), and, in 1812, Ludolph's (Germany).
He was married to Catharine Drenkel, whose mother was killed by a marauding party of In- dians, at her home on Penn's Creek, when Cath- arine was but four years old. Mrs. Heim died in 1818. On Sunday, December 16, 18-19, he preached his last sermon, and died December 27th of the same year, aged sixty-seven years.
During his long ministerial life of thirty-five and a-half years, Rev. Heim was instrumental in organizing sixteen congregations, baptized six thousand four hundred and fifty-six infants and one hundred and thirty-two adults, confirmed one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one cat- echumens and attended ten hundred and seven- teen fimerals.
THE REFORMED CONGREGATION of this church had as their first pastor Rev. Jacob Sholl, who became pastor of the Reformed Churches in this section in October, 1819, and served until he was succeeded by the Rev. Charles HI. Leinbach, in 1841. The pastors who have served the congregation since the Rev. Mr. Leinbach are as follows :
Henry Musser, 1860 to October, 1861. James A. Shultz, August, 1865, to May, 1867. T. F. Hofficier, July, 1868, to February, 1872.
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D. L. Steckel, July, 1872, to October, 1873.
W. H. Herbert, May, 1874, to May, 1880.
11. T. Spangler, October, 1880, to April, 1884. M. II. Groh, April, 1884, to the present time.
LOYSVILLE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHAPEL was situated about one-quarter of a mile west of Loysville and was built under the manage- ment of Rev. J. Riddle in 1865. It was sup- plied nutil 1883 by ministers from the Bloom- field (ireuit. It is about to be removed to Mannsville in Centre township, where it will be rebuilt.
GREEN PARK.
This hamlet is on part of two tracts; the west part was warranted by Ludwig Laird Feb- ruary 4, 1755 ; the cast part to James Moore September 25, 1766. The first house was built by William Reed about 1834; Jacob Noltrin- gen and John Weary subsequently built the latter the old brick house. About 1857 Judge Martin Mootzer and John Bernheisel built the store-house and opened a store; the post-office was established about the same time. They were succeeded in the store and post-office by Captain Frank Mortimer, George Ernest, Wil- liam B. Keck, W. W. MeClure and Samnel Stambangh, George Bernheisel and William Hoobaugh. The last-named is now postmas- ter.
A machine-shop was started by JJacob Bern- heisel & Sons about 1857, who later built a foundry. They contimmed mutil 1874 and sold to Ream & Bros., who still continue.
THE PRESBYTERIAN Courent that formerly stood on the site of the old burying-ground ou the land of William Brickley was known as the " Limestone" or " Lower Church." The meeting-house lot contained thirty-six acres and was surveyed in 1768. The congregation was partly organized in 1766, but the Presbytery declined to give it full standing, as being too near the Centre Church. A log building was erected, and after continued appeals Presbytery finally consented, June 24, 1772, and this church, with Centre and Upper Churches, called the Rev. William Thom. Supplies were sent to them in the mean time by Presbytery. October 15, 1777, a call was extended to the Rev. John Linn, which was accepted, and he was installed
in June, 1778, and remained in charge until his death, in 1820. The Limestone Church was abandoned before the death of Mr. Linn, and its place was filled by the organization of the Lan- disburg Church, a few years later. The old burying-ground still remains, but the old church has entirely gone.
Senoons .- The first school-house known to have been in the present limits of this town- ship was at the Lebanon Church, built about 1794. Rev. D. HI. Focht says of it,-
" A short time after the church had been built a large school-house was erected on the same lot of ground and near the church, A partition divided the school-house inside and a large chimney ocenpied the centre. One end of the house was occupied by the teacher and his family and the other by the school. For many years a sort of congregational school was kept here."
This old school-house was used mitil 1837, when the present one was built. The Loysville Academy was begum in the basement of the church in 1853, and later merged into what is now the Tressler Orphans' Home. Probably the next school-house was at Landisburg, on the lot laid out in the town plat in 1793, on the site of the present school-house. John McClore and Jona- than Ross were teachers in it. On May 7, 1825, an election was held for schoolmen to havecharge of the schools, and William D. Mitchell, Jesse Miller and Jacob Fritz were chosen. There was a school-house, as early as 1815, at or near the present. Green Park, and near the site of Rheem's foundry Of the carly teachers were Thomas Simonton, Robert Kelly, Alex. C. Martin, James Fleming and -- Thatcher. In 1842 a brick house was built, which was used until 1881, when it was replaced by the present one. A log school-house was used west of Sherman's Creek, near the Morrows' land, which, about 1870, was replaced by the present brick one. Another school-house stood near the Patterson mill. Soon after 1836 a lot was bought of John Waggoner, about fifteen rods from the old house, and a stone house was built which was used until 1858, when the brick house was built on Laurel Run. Near the Bethel Church a frame school-house was long used, and in ISST was superseded by the one now standing. In 1851 a school-house was
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built on the Waggoner farm, north from Land- isburg, which was replaced by the present neat structure in 188.4. In Kennedy Valley, on the Krull farm, a log school was in nse many years. About ten years ago the present one took its place. On the farm of William Allen stands a school-honse, built about 1872. A log house had been previously used. The school-honse at Bridgeport was built of brick
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHI.
JAMES 1 .. DIVEN.
James L. Diven is the grandson of James Diven, who was of Scotch-Irish descent, and removed, prior to the War of the Revolution, from York County, Pa., to Cumberland (now Per- ry) County, in the same State, where he was an
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before Spring township was organized. It is | industrious farmer. He married a Miss Wad- under the care of the board of directors of 'Tyrone.
The schools in the township at present are known as Loysville (High and Primary), Green Park, Union, Waggoner's, Chestnut Grove, Spruce Banks, Kennedy's Valley, Krull's and Bridgeport. Four hundred and seventy-eight pupils were in attendance at these schools in 188 1.
dell, whose children are Alexander, James, John, William, Joseph and five danghters. John was born in Spring township, Perry County, about the year 1778, and in 1816 re- moved to Landisburg, where he married Annie, daughter of Rev. John Lin. The children of this marriage are James L., born May 29, 1819; Mary G., February 7, 1821, who died June 23, 1831; Ama B., wife of William R.
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Fetter, September 5, 1825 ; John L., April 18, 1827. The death of Mrs. Diven occurred July 26, 1838, and that of Mr. Diven May 2, 1839. Their son, James L., was born in Landis- burg, Perry County, as were all the children, aud at the age of fifteen removed with his parents to a farm in Spring township, where he became familiar with the routine of fari labor, and on the death of his father acquired by purchase the property. Having, in 1841, abandoned farming, the following year he came to Landisburg and engaged in mercantile pur- suits. In 1846, having relinquished business, he, in 1847, removed to Kennedy's Valley and .embarked in the tanning business. He was in 1851 elected prothonotary of the county, and made New Bloomfield his residence, serving in that capacity two terms of three years each, meanwhile retaining his interest in the tannery in conjunction with his brother, John L. Diven. In 1858 Mr. Diven returned to Landisburg, and disposing of his share in the tannery, en- gaged again in mercantile pursuits, which have since that date occupied his attention. He was, on the 26th of September, 1839, married to Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. John Junkin, whose children are Anna M. (Mrs. George Stroop), Sarah B., Jane MeChire (deceased) and Emma (Mrs. William Murray). Mrs. Diven died June 28, 1817, and he was again married, November 20, 1819, to Mary, daughter of Robert Irvin, to whom were born children-Robert T. and William H. The death of Mrs. Diven occurred February 28, 1856, and October 25, 1858, he married Mar- garet J., daughter of Anthony Black. Their children are John A. (deceased), JJames L. aud Edward B. A Republican in politics, Mr. Diven is not a partisan nor a worker in the po- litical field. His ability and integrity have made his services desirable as guardian and adminis- trator, in which capacity he has often acted. Ile is an elder in the Presbyterian Church at Lan- disburg, as was also his father.
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