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WILLIAM C. BROWN is of English lineage. Robert Brown, his great-great-grandfather, .migrated from England about the year 1736, and settled in Chester County, Pa. In 1761 he located above Newport, in Perry County, and also took up a tract on Big Buffalo Creek, which was surveyed in 1763. Robert Brown haul eight children,-Martha (married to David Mitchell), Rodger, John, Matthew, Mary (Mrs. lately), Elizabeth (Mrs. Boggs), Margaret (Mrs. John Gutherie) and Grace (Mrs. Henry Bull). Rodger Brown married, May 11, 1767, Tabitha Morrison, and had six children,-Rob- et, William, Francis, Ellen, Martha (Mrs. William Wallis) and Elizabeth (Mrs. Anthony Braudt). Robert, of this number, married Mary Ann Cooper and had seven children,- William, Robert, Tabitha (Mrs. Nicholas Mil- ler), Ellen, Susan, Martha and Elizabeth, the la-t-named being the only survivor and a resi- deut of the homestead.
William Brown, born on the paternal estate, was carly engaged on the Juniata Canal, but subsequently became a farmer, in which voca- tion he was interested during the remainder of hi- life. He served in the War of 1812 and was active as colonel in the militia service of the State. He married Margaret, daughter of William Howe, of Howe township, Perry County, and had children, -Robert, (a physi- ciam at Newport, deceased), Abram (deceased), William C., Susannah (Mrs. Daniel Patton, of. Illinois) and Margaret (Mrs. Norton Glover, of' Selinsgrove, deceased).
William C. Brown was born ou the 22d of Inne, 1827, in Oliver township, Perry County, and spent his early life either in Newport or its immediate vicinity. After a rudimentary edu- cation he entered upon an apprenticeship with John Wiley, of Newport, and served three Svara at the trade of a tanner. After several
where Shuler's store is now, in Gallagher's |years speut as a journeyman, he rented the tan- nery of his employer, Mr. Wiley, for seven years, and then removed to Liverpool, where he rented a similar property for ten years, at the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. expiration of which time he purchased, rebuilt and now ocenpies the site. In 1881, hav- ing relinquished his trade and transferred WILLIAM C. BROWN. the business to his eldest son, he became interested in farming pursuits. Mr. Brown was, on the 21st of March, 1854, mar- ried to Margaret, daughter of William Mit- chell, of Juniata township, Perry County, whose children are William Mitchell, born January 18, 1855, who died August 31, 1857 ; Alice, born November 4, 1858; Francis, born April 24, 1860; Robert, born February 19, 1863, who died September 10, 1866; Martha, born July 27, 1865, who died September 7, 1866; Edwin, born May 29, 1868.
Mr. Brown adheres, in politics, to the principles of the Democratic party, but is not an aspirant for official distinctions. He has, however, filled the offices of chief burgess and school director in the bor- ough of Newport, and held the latter office for years in the borough of Liverpool. He is a member of the Evangelieal Lutheran Church and one of the church council.
MICHAEL B. HOLMAN.
MICHAEL B. HOLMAN is descended from German ancestry. His grandfather, John Holman, emigrated from Chester County to Cumberland, now (Perry County), Pa., in 1803. His children were John, George, Adam, Jacob, Isaac, Elizabeth (Mrs. Fry), Rachel (Mrs. Michael Shetterly), Catherine (Mrs. John Crane) and Hannah (Mrs. Abraham Grubb). Adam, of this number, was born June 26, 1786, in Coventry township, Chester County, and ae- companied his father to the present Perry County, where he became a successful farmer, his death having occurred November 9, 1834. He married Frances Bunn, whose children were John, born March 29, 1821 ; Hannah (Mrs. William Thompson), October 27, 1822 ; Michael B., March 31, 1821; Catherine (Mrs. Joshua Grubb), March 26, 1825; Jacob, August 1,
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1827 ; Elizabeth (Mrs. Isaac Crow), September 1, 1830; Susannah, Jannary 3, 1832; and Isaac, September 1, 1833. The birth of Michael B. Holman occurred in Liverpool township. lle, in youth, enjoyed but few opportunities for instruction, during the winter sessions of the public schools, and found em- ployment as a farmer's lad in the neighbor- hood. This carty service taught him a self- reliance which proved of great benefit in his | borough of Liverpool, and held office until
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that date his time and abilities have been chiefly employed in the settlement of estates and business of a like nature. Mr. Holman has since the organization of the Republican party been one of its stanch supporters. He was by that party, in 1859, elected county surveyor, and re-elected in 1862, following this pro- fession both before and after that event. Ile was in 1872 appointed postmaster of the
subsequent career. At the age of sixteen he | 1878, when he was precluded from further came to Liverpool and began a three years' service by election to the State Legislature, and re-election in 1880. He was chairman of the committee on Centennial affairs, and also a member of the committees on pensions, counties and township, banks, insurance, public build- ings, bureau of statistics, vice and immorality, and corporations. Ile was, in 1856, elected justice of the pace, and again in 1865, serving ten years in that capacity. He has also held various municipal offices. Mr. Holman is a director of the First National Bank of Selin- apprenticeship with JJacob E. Mann to the trade of a carpenter, which he followed for two summers, the winter being devoted to teaching. Ile then entered mercantile life as a clerk, and in 1847, with his brother Jacob, established a store in Liverpool. His interest in this enter- prise was sold in 1856, and an interval of three years devoted to the sale of lumber, after which, in 1859, he resumed mercantile pursuits, and continued thus employed until 1873. Since
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grove, and was president for eight years of the Farmers' Bank of Liverpool. He is identified with Adams Lodge, No. 319, of Free and Accepted Masons, of New Bloomfield. He has since 1855 been connected by membership with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Liverpool, fiequently as one of its officers, and at present as superintendent of its Sunday-school, which porition he has filled for a period of twenty- four years. Mr. Holman was, April 26, 18 19, married to Mary A., daughter of Henry Grubb, of Liverpool township. Their only children are a son, Henry G., and a danghter who died in infancy.
CHAPTER XXIII.
NEWPORT BOROUGH !!
DAVID ENGLISH, Sr., sold on the 12th of June, 1783, one hundred and ninety-nine acres of land which was patented to him on the 8th of February, 1775, and David English, Jr., sold on the 2d of April, 1789, the same tract to Paul Reider, who, by his will dated the 6th of August, 1801, gave it to his sons, Paul, John, Daniel, Abraham and Ephraim.
Paul, John and Daniel, after coming into profession of the paternal estate first laid out and surveyed the town, now Newport, into fifty- four lots, with streets and alleys. The part laid out was south along the Juniata River and Little Buffalo Creek ; the north part the heirs hopt.
This settlement was called Reiderville until the formation of the county in 1820.
A ferry was put across the river, which was known as " Reider's Ferry," and was crossed by the troops in the war of 1812-15. This ferry was used until the erection of the bridge by the Reider's Ferry Bridge Company, which was incorporated on the Ith of April, 1838, with six hundred shares of stock, at twenty dollars a share.
This company consisted of the following named stockholders : Thomas O. Bryan, Jannes Black, Abraham B. Demarce, John Leas,
Jonas lekes, Jacob Leas, Jacob, Loy, Samuel Sipe, Robert Mitchell, John K. Smith, John W. Bosserman, William Wallace, James Jack- man, Charles Wright, Sr., George Kepner and Abraham Reider. The bridge was built in 1850, by Garret Kirkpatrick, contractor. It will be seen that Newport was laid ont proba- bly about 1811. The first plan of the town extended from Hombach's marble works, to Ripman's tannery, and back from the river to Second Street.
The old farm house on the bank of the Little Buffalo Creek, was the first house built within the present borough limits. The second hous: was on the corner where Butz's store now stands. The third was erected by Meredith, of Milford, and stood on the present site of Hom- bach's marble works ; this building was after- wards owned and enlarged by James Smith. The fourth honse was built by Fred. Orwin, with a blacksmith shop, where W. H. Bosser- man's house now stands, back of Butz's store. The old hotel building, at the corner of Market and Water Streets, owned by J. & B. H. Fickes, was built in 1825 by Ephraim Bosserman. At this time there was a house where Mr. Henry Crist's now stands. The old house, where the Central Hotel now stands, was built by one Collar, in 1827-8.
On the 5th of November, 1829, a packet boat arrived at Newport from Mifflin, and remained over night. This boat had ou board a number of members of the Legislature and other persons of distinction, and " was drawn by two white horse- and set off in fine style with the flag flying at her head, amid the roar of cannon, the shouts of the people and the cheering music of the band on board."
In 1829 the land above Second Street was all in wheat. The first two honses built above the railroad were the one where J. S. Leiby's dwelling is, and the other where the old photo- graph gallery was, by Samuel and HI. Gantt. The first house on Second Street was built by Dr. Dolan, where John Fleisher's house now stands. In 1829 Daniel Reider built a house of sawed logs on the site of Jacob Happle's dwell- ing-house and furniture rooms, At this time there was but one store and that was kept by
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E. Bosserman and Samnel Beaver. The first tavern was kept in 1835 by John Sipe, in the building which he reuted, and then stood on Butz's corner. Up to this time there had been no whiskey sold along the river, between Dun- can's Island and Lewistown, when the Irish- men had to go to Milford for their " bitters." An inconvenience which was felt, and Sipe, in meeting it, did a very large " whiskey bnsi- ness." The second house erected on Second Street was the warehouse now ocenpied by Konghs, the grain and commission merchants. In this warehouse was stored the first lot of flour ever brought to Newport. It was shipped from the month of Little Buffalo Creek in an ark built by E. Bosserman and James Everhart. The ark's cargo consisted of this flour and pig- iron, manufactured by Everhart at Juniata furnace, then in operation, and was sold at Port Deposit.
In 1831 Samnel Sipe bought the lot where the log blacksmith shop stood, and started the hotel where the Central now stands. The opening of the Samnel "Sipe Honse " closed the John " Sipe House," and cansed John to go to Milford and take charge of' the tavern there. Philip Reamer built the first brick house in the borough limits, which Henry Myers tore down to make room for his new brick house. John Fite built the house which is now occupied by JJacob Tibbens.
Within the memory of the oldest persons now living in the town all the laud above Fourth Street was a woods in which these old men, when boys, set shares for rabbits.
tinned to be " the chief seat of learning" until the angry waters of the ercek swept it away. The next school was taught at Clonser's school- honse, near the present residence of James Hahn. In 1829, '30 and '31 by A. W. Mon- roe, John Ferguson and Jacob Gantt. The building has, since that time, been destroyed by fire.
The next school was one of greater preten- sions, having two departments,-a room ocen- pied by the boys and another in which the ree- itations were heard and the " sums done by the teachers for the boys," was occupied by the girls. This school was kept in the building known as the Barracks, sitnated between Cen- tral Hotel aud the canal, by Dr. Dolan in 1832-33.
The old brick school-house on Second Street was built by contributions from the citizens and a select school tanght in it the year it was built, in 1831, by John Ferguson. After the adoption of the free-school system, this was the first public school-house of the district. The lower school- .honse was built in 1846. Arnold Lobaugh taught the first school in it.
In 1839, Stewart Low was employed by the Oliver school board and tanght a three months' term in the Newport school-room. The town was incorporated in 1840. C. P. Barnett was the teacher that year and in 1843 Isaac Mutch.
The following is a list of teachers : 1815, Margaret A. Monroe; 1846, R. Wolf, A. W. Monroe; 1818-19, Jesse L. Butz, Arnold Lo- baugh and John Adair; 1850-54, H. G. Milan, In 1852 the term was five months. The other teachers during this tine were 1. H. Zinn and J. D. C.Johns; 1856, A. M. Gantt and J. E. Bon- sall ; 1857-59, Isaac T. Woods and Miss Il. Cooper were teachers.
Sonoons. - The first settlers of Reiderville had their children taught to read, write and cy- pher by George Monroe, in a building known as the "Old Manson," within the present borough limits. After this the pupils attended In 1865 a new brick school-house was built. The contractors were George and John Fleisher, who received six thousand dollars for creating the building. In 1865, George W. Bietz and John S. Campbell were teachers ; in 1866, George W. Bietz, Misses Cleaver and S. F. Jones, In 1867, Silas Wright rented the hour" for five months during the summer, and started his Normal School. The winter schools thi- school at the varions places in Oliver township, of which it was a part, until 1826, when the school of the community was removed from II. S. Smith's to a small, nestory house belonging to dol Reider, east of the street leading to Little Buffalo, and quite near to the crock. In this house the following persons taught school at the times given: John Ruth, 1825; John Ferguson, 1826, '27 and '28. This house con- 1 year were graded and were taught by Goor ;.
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W. Bietz, and Misses Murray and Passmore. In ISGs, W. IL. Hench, G. W. Miller, Mrs. A. 1 .. Hench. In 1869, W. H. Hench John San- derson, George W. Zinu, E. T. Williams In 1870, W. U. Hench taught ; T. C. Sanderson, No. 2, and G. W. Zinn, No. 3.
In 1872, II. B. Zimmerman, Joseph S. Campbell, No. 2, W. H. Stutzman, Miss Sue B. Myers. In 1874, John S. Campbell, Miss C. E. Arnold, J. C. Toomey, A. M. Gantt and Miss Maggie Louver. In 1875, John S. Campbell, J. M. Dunn, J. M. Flickinger, A. M. Gantt and J. B. Howe, for No. 5. In 1876, '77, '78, John S. Campbell, HI. C. Gantt, Amos Kongh, William A. Smith, A. M. Gantt and J. B. Howe, No. 5. In 1879, John S. Campbell, Isaiah E. Stephens, W. A. Smith, Anna S. Brown and A. M. Gantt. In 1881 there was a seven-months term, and S. B. Fah- nestock, William 1. Smith, Anna S. Brown, Kate E. Moyer, A. M. Smith and Katie L. Howe.
In 1882, Rev. George E. Zehner, Lloyd S. Fry, Anna S. Brown, Laura Honnstine, A. M. Gantt and Katie I. Howe.
In 1883, Jno. S. Campbell, William A. Smith, Laura Hounstine, A. M. Gantt and Katie 1. Howe.
In 1884, Jno. S. Campbell, J. C. F. Ste- phens, Helen V. Lane, A. M. Gantt, Laura Hounstine and Katie L. Howe.
In 1885, Elias Wright, Kate E. Moyer, A. M. Gantt, Alice Bentzell, Helen V. Lane and Mary W. MeCullongh.
THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH .- The first Episcopal service was held in Mrs. Bechtel's parlor, on the 28th of March, 1875. In this year a Sabbath-school was organized with ten teachers and pupils. In 1876 this school numbered one hundred and twenty-six pupils and ten teachers. Mrs. Bechtel was the first superintendent, and is still in the work. The missionaries are Thomas O. Tongue, Alfred J. Billow, C. E. D. Griffith, John Gregson, S. K. Boyer, James Stoddard at present.
EVANGELICAL CHURCH .- The members of the Evangelical association sold out their inter- est in "The Union Church " in 1813, and soon afterwards the congregation was organized. In
1849 this congregation bought the old M. E. Church which stood on a lot fronting Walnut Street, between Second Street and the Pennsyl- vania Railroad, for one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, which they repaired to last until 1878, when the new brick church, size, thirty-two by sixty feet, was built. The andi- torium of this church has a recess pulpit and a vestibule at the entrance. The building has a bell and tower, and cost two thousand five hun- dred dollars. The Sabbath-school mimbers one hundred teachers, officers and pupils. Henry Smith is superintendent of the Sunday-school.
The ministers have been Reys. D. W. Miller, U. F. Swengle, IT. A. Deiterick, John 1. Ir- vine, A. Stapleton, G. W. Currin, George E. Zehner, P. S. Orwig, R. W. Runyon and E. Swengle.
CHRIST'S REFORMED CHURCH.1-The Re- formed Church in Newport stands in organic relation with the General Synod of the Re- formed Church of the United States.
The Newport Congregation was organized, in 1820, by the Rev. Jacob Scholl, its first regular pastor, who continned in this relation till death in 1847, and was succeeded by the following named pastors in the order here given-Revs. Daniel Gans, Samuel Kuhn, David W. Kelley, William F. Colliflower, James Crawford, John Kretzing, and Rev. W. R. II. Deatrich, the present pastor. Up to the ministry of the Rev. William F. Colliflower, the congregation worshipped in the "Old Union Church," of which this congregation owned a one-third share. This interest the congregation sold to the Presbyterian and Evangelical Lutheran Congregations, in June, 1869, for nine hun- dred dollars. The present large and conmo- dious church was built in 1869 at a cost of nearly seven thousand dollars. The building committee was composed of William Bosser- man, Sr., John W. Smith, Dr. Joshua Singer, Josiah Fickes, of Henry, Charles K. Smith, Charles Bressler, and Isaiah Carl.
The congregation received its charter in 1868. In 1874, during the ministry of Rev. James Crawford the parsonage was built at a cost of
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three thousand and thirty-five dollars. The building committee was composed of James B. Leiby, John W. Smith, Elias B. Leiby and Jacob Sancerman. The congregation has a membership of two hundred and thirty-eight. The Sunday-school was organized, in 1869, with abont fifty pupils. George lekes was the first superintendent. . He was in turn snecceded by Elias B. Leiby, Jeremiah V. Fickes, James B. Leiby. The school now has one hundred and seventy-eight pupils and teachers.
LUTHERAN CHURCH .- About 1830 Rev. Jolm William Heim preached for the Intheran families of Newport, in school-houses and priv- ate dwellings. In 1812 he was requested to preach in the English language, as well as in German. In November, 1843, Rev. Levi T. Williams preached his first sermon here in the old brick school-honse. The congregation was organized on the 14th of January, 1844, when the following-named persons were installed its officers : Daniel Reider, senior elder ; Godfrey Lenig and Henry D. Smith, deacons. This congregation, in connection with the Reformed and Presbyterian congregations, began the erce- tion of the Union Church, which cost twelve hundred dollars, and was dedicated on the 23d of May, 1817. The Reformed congregation sold their interest in this church. In 1873 the Lutherans sold their interest to the Presbyte- rians for two thousand three Inmdred and ninety dollars.
The contract for building and furnishing the materials of a new church was given to Joshua Sweeger for ten thousand dollars. It is built in the Romanesque style of architecture. The Grace tower is one hundred and twenty five feet high, and the bell in this tower weighs nine hundred pounds. The anditorinm has a recess and end-gallery, and, including this gal- lery, will seat five hundred persons. The members of this congregation were connected with New Bloomfield Church until 1868, when a new charge was formed of Newport, St. Samuel's and Buckes Valley. In 1879 New- port became a separate charge. The ministers in order have been
John William Heim, 1830-12. Levi T. Williams, 1813-15.
Lloyd Knight, 1845-49.
Jacob Martin, 1819-52. William Gerhardt, 1852-53.
Adam Height, 1858-51.
David 11. Focht, June, 1855, to 1863.
1. P. Lane, October, 1863, to 1866.
George F. Sheaffer, Angust, 1866, to 1871.
A. 11. Anghe, November, 1871, to 1876.
M. Colver, May, 1876, to 1881.
W. B. Glanding, Angust, IS81, to 1885.
J. T. Gladhill, May, 1885.
The only pipe-organ in the Synod of Central Pennsylvania was dedicated by the Entheran Church, of Newport, on the 25th of January, 1885. Charles E. Bosserman is the present organist.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH .- On the 1st of May, 1846, John Wiley and Barbara, his wife, sold to A. B. Maxwell, Jacob Loy and John Fickes, trustees of the church named and styled " The Union Church of Newport," a lot, on which a church was built. The corner-stone of this church was laid on Tuesday, the 12th day of May, 18-16, Revs. Knight and Sholl ofli- ciating.
At the dedication, on Whitsunday, the 23d of May, 1847, Revs. Knight, Sholl, and Weaver participated in the exercises. A handsome building was erected during the past year by this congregation. The Sunday-school con- nected with the congregation was organized in 1873, and now has one hundred members. The church membership is forty. The elders, Dr. Mateer, 1873 ; George Jacobs, 1873; Jomm A. Crawford, 1873; George Campbell, Jame- Everhart, Thomas HI. Milligan, HI. C. Gantt, William II. Bosserman, J. C. Barrett and A. M. Gantt.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH .- James Black gave a deed on the 19th of October, 1836, to the trustees and preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church for a lot on which was built a ehmreh for the Methodists. This church occupied the site of the new brick Evangelical church. The date of the church organization has not been preserved. The Sabbath-school was organized in 1837. On April 26, 1869, the committee appointed to sell the old church building, reported the sale to the Evan- gelical Association for one thousand four Inin-
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dred and fifty dollars, and that they had re- vived the right to use the old building until October, 1869. The new church was dedi- usted on the 6th of Jannary, 1871. It is sur- mounted by a tower, in which there is a large Ill. The entire cost of the church was fifteen thousand dollars. The ministers wore the same as those given in the history of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Millerstown.
NEWSPAPERS,-The Newport Standard was started September 1, 1811, by Samuel Schrack. This paper was a weekly, eighteen by twelve inches in size, and had five columns. The press was removed to Bloomfield and continued from Angust 22, 1814, as Perry County Standard, by J. D. Crilly.
The Newport Ledger was established May 1, 1875, at Millerstown, by the present proprietor, George Sehrom. He removed it to Newport November 25, 1876, and named it The Ledger. On April 22, 1882, the present name was -elected. It is a four-page paper, thirty-one by forty-four inches in size, and an excellent local journal.
Newport News was first issued by Herman Smith, with E. T. Williams as editors and pro- prietors, as a weekly. In December, 1869, the materials of the Newport News were purchased by George Schrom, and the publication of the paper, which at that time was suspended, began. The paper was enlarged to a seven cohnun, single sheet, weekly. On the 21th of July, 1874, George Schrom sold his interest to Wil- liam HI. Minich, who transferred it to HI. B. Zimmerman, who continued the publication for a time, and after several changes it came into the hands of the present publishers and propri- cior, Messis. Cook & Fry, who have made the paper a six column, double sheet.
The Newport Gazette, after being removed from Millerstown, was begun on the 29th of April, 1858, and continued until the 20th of September, 1859, by Klauser & Bowman, who were the editors and proprietors. It was a five column, eighteen by twelve, four page weekly.
BANKS. - Jimiata Valley Branch Bank, of Newport, was organized in September, 1873, and continued until 1876, when it was discon- tinned and J. H. Irwin, the cashier, was chat-
ed to a similar position in the Newport Deposit Bank, which was organized December 12, 1866, by the election of Perry Kreamer, president ; Isaac Wright, cashier, and Chas. A. Wright, teller, and reorganized March 23, 1867, with John Wright president and I-aae Wright cashier, and these officers continued until 1872, when new articles of association were adopted and a reorganization took place January 2, 1872, with Thomas H. Milligan president and Isaac Wright cashier and J. M. Wright, teller. In 1876 J. H. Irwin was elected cashier and has continued since. Mr. Milligan has served as president from the date of his first election. From the first organization it was in the Bailey building until 1877, in January, when it was moved to its present place.
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