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Mr. Wolfe attended the convention which nominated General Baily for State treasurer. He conceived that body in complete submission to the men who in two National conventions had been bound to the unit rule, and controlled by the Pardon Board, that had destroyed at a blow the fruits of the Riot Bill prosecutions.
lot with indignation at what he deemed a base stultification of the Republican party, Mr. Wolfe retired to his quiet home in Lewisburgh, chagrined and humiliated. The action of the convention had placed him in a position that offered but one alternative-he must either in- dorse the nominee of the convention, and thus tacitly approve the action of the Pardon Board, which wiped away the results of the great triumph of his life, or come out in open rebellion against the machine. One thing meant self-stultification and the other meant sacrifice of political prospects. He chose the latter and without a word of consultation with his friends he announced himself as an Independ- ent Republican candidate for State Treasurer.
The history of the brief campaign which fol- lowed constitutes one of the most interesting chapters in the political annals of Pennsyl- vania. In the four weeks intervening between his announcement and the day of election he spoke in nearly every city in the State, his specches in every instance ringing with brave words for reform in methods of party manage- ment. ITis appeal to the people evoked a re- sponse which justified his courageous attitude and opened the way for the organized opposition which has since appeared against the machine.
In the following year he was an active sup- porter of the Independent Republican ticket. Since then he has entirely eschewed politics and has been devoting himself assidously to the law. Mr. Wolfe's personal character is that of the radical. His perceptive powers are keen, his convictions immovable and his manner im- petuous. He is impulsive and combative in the highest degree. He lacks patience; he is in- tolerant of those who lack his own power of reaching quick conclusions, and his brilliant manner of thought and speech sometimes dazzles aud misleads his own judgment. With these qualities he combines a conscientiousness
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which shines conspicuously through his every act, and a fidelity to his duty which always compels respect. He possesses the elements of political greatness, and his individuality is more vividly defined than that of any man of his years in Pennsylvania. The impartial historian must write him down as one of the fearless few who were brave enough to sacrifice the prospect of political advancement to a sense of duty to the Commonwealth.
SAMUEL S. BARTON was born in Mifflinburg, Union County, Pa., on the 6th of August, 1799; admitted to the bar September 17, 1861, and died at Lewisburgh September 13, 1864. He left to survive him, a widow, and two children -Winter Barton and Annie, married to Apple- ton HI. Bubb.
JACOB G. MOYER was born July 4, 1836, son of John Moyer and Violetta (Meiwell) Moyer, in Kelly township, Union County, Pa .; admitted to the bar December 18, 1861, and practiced one year in Lewisburgh, going into the army. In 1865 he began practice at Wil- liamsport, and in the spring of 1868 removed to Philadelphia ; now at 32 North Fifth Street, and in good practice. Married, 1865, to Mary P'., daughter of Francis Wilson, who died Jan- mary 8, 1866, leaving a son, Mayne Moyer.
GEORGE MERRILL, was a son of Jas. Merrill, by his second wife, Mrs. Hepburn, a daughter of John Cowden ; elected register and recorder of Union County November 27, 1857, to No- vember 28, 1863; admitted to the bar Febru- ary 18, 1862 ; removed to Topeka, Kansas.
HENRY S. MARR, admitted February 17, 1863.
ILUBLEY D. ALBRIGHIT, admitted May 20, 1863 ; retired from practice.
CHARLES D. BREWER, admitted May 20, 1863 ; removed to Williamsport in 1870.
AARON WOLFE, admitted May 20, 1863; re- moved to Tiffin, Ohio.
SPRYRER G. KENNEDY, admitted May 20, 1863 ; removed to Kansas.
CHARLES S. SWINEFORD, admitted September 21, 1863; removed to Richmond, Va.
DANIEL BRIGHT MILLER, the son of Hon. George F. Miller, was born at Lewisburgh, Union County, Pa., February 2, 1840. He
was educated at the university at Lewisburg, and graduated July 31, 1862, with degree of A.B., and received degree of A.M. July 27, 1865. He enlisted, August 30th, in Company E, One Hundred and Nineteenth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was commissioned first lientenant and regimental quartermaster Two Hundredth Regiment Pennsylvania Vol- unteers, September 3, 1864, by Governor Cur- tin, and captain and commissary sergeant Decem- ber 12, 1864, by President Lincoln ; breveted major November 2, 1865, by President Johnson.
He was admitted to the bar of Union County May 16, 1864, while home on leave of absence. After his discharge from the army he returned to Lewisburgh and entered into the practice of law, the firm being known as G. F. Miller & Sons.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER MARR Was born at Lewisburgh, July 8, 1838; a sou of Rev. Phineas B. Marr, and Mary, daughter of Alex- ander Graham. He was educated at the uni- versity at Lewisburgh, graduating in the class of 1860; entered as a law-student in Hon. G. F. Miller's office, teaching meanwhile at Dan- ville; admitted to the bar in 1865 ; settled at Ashland, Pa., where he has since been in the practice of his profession.
EDWARD SWINEFORD was admitted May 22, 1866 ; removed to St. Louis, Mo.
GEORGE BARRON MILLER, second son of the Hon. George F. Miller, was born in Lewis- burgh, October 7, 1844 ; educated at the univer- sity at Lewisburgh; graduated and admitted to the bar of Union County February 19, 1866. He served his "tour " during the war in Com- pany D, Twenty-Eighth Regiment Pennsylva- nia Volunteers, Colonel James Chamberlin. He was married to a daughter of Henry Frick, of Lewisburgh, and is one of the firm of G. F. Miller & Sons.
ADDISON G. MARR, born January 24, 1844; son of' Rev. Phineas B. Marr and Mary Gra- ham, daughter of Alexander Graham ; educated at Lewisburgh and Princeton ; began study of law May, 1866 ; admitted May 22, 1867 ; set- tled in Shamokin August, 1867 ; married, Jan- nary 24, 1871, to Miss Maggie W. Sheriff, daughter of J. W. and M. A. Sheriff, Lewistown.
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EFFINGER L. REBER was born at Lewis- burgh, Union County, Pa., March 21, 18:43, son of Thomas Reber and Mary (Beek) Reber.
Hle enlisted June 21, 1861, in Company D, Fifth Reserves, Captain Thomas Chamberlain ; was made a sergeant; promoted sergeant-major March 6, 1862. He was made adjutant of the Two Hundred and Fifth Regiment September 3, 1864, and mustered out with that regiment with the brevet rank of captain. He was married in the spring of 1864; admitted to the bar of Union County September 18, 1866 ; set- tled at Northumberland, and died December 27, 1877, of softening of the brain, which had its origin, no doubt, from the concussion of a shell at Fort Steadman, where he was thrown senseless for a time.
J. THOMPSON BAKER was born in Buffalo township, Union County, Pa., April 13, 1847, the son of Jacob Baker and Catherine, daughter of Philip Pontius. His ancestry on both sides were the earliest settlers in the valley, and were men of pluck and energy, and hell conspicuous part in the formation of their communities. They are mentioned in the local histories of the township.
J. Thompson Baker was educated at the university at Lewisburgh, and admitted to the bar at September term, 1870. With a very thorough start in his profession, in which he has been successful, and fluent in both English and German his cordial hearty manner puts clients at ease and in that accessible mood in which such relation is best sustained. With very tenacious memory and fine appreciation of humor, he is a very entertaining speaker.
DANIEL WEBSTER Cox was born August 3, 1850, at Carnarvon, Berks County, of Charles D. Cox and Sarah F. Cox. His father removed to Union County April 1, 1857, and his son was educated at Randolph's Academy, the Univer- sity at Lewisburgh and Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport. Hle read law with Liun & Dill, and was achmitted May 16, 1871. Married, 23d of September, 1880, to Ilannah J. Weidensaul, and has resided and practiced at his profession in Lewisburgh.
ROBERT C. MITCHELL, was admitted Septem- ber 16, 1872.
GEORGE W. IDDINGS was admitted Decem- ber 17, 1872.
GEORGE W. BLss was admitted May 20, 1873.
J. R. ZELLERs was admitted March 16, 1874.
FRANK SPENCER MARR, a son of Dr. Wil- liam 11. Marr and Eliza ( Baldwin) Davis. He was educated partly at an academy at Princeton ; graduated at the University of Lewisburgh ; read law with J. Merrill Linn, and admitted to the bar May 19, 1874; settled at Sunbury in the practice; married to Elizabeth D., daughter of Rev. N. S. Bucking- ham, on the 16th day of June, 1885.
GEORGE A. GUYER was admitted Decem- ber 22, 1874.
WILLIARD OGDEN SHAFFER .- The grand- father of Williard O. Shaffer, named David Shaffer, came from Berks County to Union at an early day, and married Anna Maria Bancher. Ile died at the age of eighty-nine, in 1864. ITis son Daniel, born February 5, 1821, married Mary Ogden, of Chillisquaque, Northumberland County, in 1845. Williard was born March 18, 1847. He attended the " Old Academy," as it was called, under Ran- dolph, and the university ; graduated in 1872, and for a year he taught an academy at Me- Ewensville. Registered as a law student with Linn & Dill in the summer of 1873; ad- mitted to the bar May 18, 1875; deputy prothonotary until 1877 ; entered into part- nership with S. D. McDonald, as Shaffer & McDonald, and continued in the practice of the law until January, 1884, when he became prothonotary ; elected to that office November, 1883.
CHARLES O. CORNELIUS was admitted May 18, 1875, but removed to Ashland, Saunders County, Neb.
G. NEWTON LEFEVERE was admitted De- eember 21, 1875.
SAMURL DAVIES MCDONALD, born of Rev. Samuel HI. MeDonald and Ann Addams. She had for her first husband Jacob Beaver, whose children were Mary (married to I. W. White), General James A. Beaver and J. Gilbert Beaver (who was killed at Antietam, second lieutenant Company HI, Fifty-first Pennsyl-
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vania Volunteers). She married Rev. Me- Donald in 1814, and their children were A. Addams, William II., Kate, A. Anie R. and Samuel D., born August 23, 1853, at Belleville, Mifflin County, Pa. He was educated at his father's academy, at Belleville, and graduated at the university at Lewisburgh in 1873; began reading law at the Columbian Law School, Washington, D. C., September, 1874, and graduated there June, 1876, and was ad- mitted to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia the same month. He was admitted to the bar of Union County on his diplomas in July, 1876, and has continued to practice his profession at Lewisburgh since. He has been attorney for the commissioners a number of years ; actively Republican in politics, and has a steady power of application to his profession, with a very appreciative knowledge of its niecties.
MARTIN L. Senoen was born at New Ber- lin April 18, 1840, a son of Abraham Schoch, tanner, and Hannah Seebold, youngest daughter of Christopher Scebold, one of the first settlers of New Berlin. Attended the common schools and Union Seminary until he was eighteen years old ; learned the tauning trade with his father and worked at it until the breaking out of the Rebellion. He enlisted, April 18, 1861, in the three months' service as a private in Cap- tain Chamberlain's company (G), Fourth Penn- sylvania Vohmteers, and was mustered out in the latter part of July. On September 3, 1861, he enlisted for three years as orderly sergeant in Captain Hasseuplug's Company (E), Fifty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers ; served with company and regiment until January 1, 1864, and then, at Blain's Cross-Roads, Tenn., re-enlisted for the war, January 12, 1864; promoted to second lieu- tenant of company. While home on a veteran furlough, on the 23d day of February, 1861, was married to Anna E. Kleckner, daughter of Michael Klockner, of New Berlin. April 26, 1864, promoted to first lieutenant and adjutant of the regiment. June 3, 1861, at Cold Har- bor, received gunshot wound through left shoulder ; sent to hospitals at Washington and A onapolis and discharged on account of wounds at Aunapolis, Md., Nov. 2, 1861. Soon after
returning from the army he entered into part- nership with his father in the tanning business, at New Berlin. He continued in the tanning busi- ness until 1875, when, on account of increasing disability caused by his wonud, was compelled to quit. He entered as a student-at-law with J. M Linn Esq., at Lewisburgh, in the fall of 1875, and was admitted to the bar of Union Conuty at March term, 1878.
HORACE P. GLOVER was born in Hartleton, Union County, Pa., on the 10th day of De- cember, 1852, the son of Robert V. Glover and Helen (Pellman) Glover. He graduated at Lafayette College in the class of 1871. He was cashier of the Mifflinburg Bank from 1872 until 1877. He pursued the study of law with J. Merrill Linn, and was admitted to the bar at March term, 1878, and to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania May 2, 1882. He settled in prac- tice at Mifflinburg, in the county of Union, and is a very careful and able lawyer.
ERWIN MORRISON BEALE, son of John H. and Mary Theresa Beale, was born in Lewis- burgh September 11, 1849. John II. Beale came to Lewisburgh in April, 1839, from Mif- flin Conuty, and on June 22, 1847, married Miss Mary Theresa Beyers, daughter of Charles Beyers, residing in Lewisburgh, and he has resided here ever since, doing business as a merchant tailor, and has always taken an active part in politics, being the chairman of the Dem- ocratie County Committee for a monber of years. Educated at the old academy, under John Ran- dolph, until he quit teaching; then attended the academy of the university at Lewisburgh and entered college in 1866, dropping the languages and taking a seientifie course. Made his junior speech, then the smallest and youngest boy who had made a junior collegiate speech. On account of age and health, left school, but never re- turned. Remained at home until fall of 1871, when he entered Grover & Baker's Sewing- Machine Company's office, at Philadelphia, and, after about six months there was transferred to their general Western office, at St. Louis, as as- sistant general manager, having charge of all their city business and the office, besides the book-keepers. They did the immense business of two to three millions yearly all over the
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West. He remained there until March, 1875, the 10th of September, 1811. Charles R. grad- when he was promoted general manager of their uated at the University of Lewisburgh, the val- edictorian ; registered in the office of JJ. Merrill Linu, July, 1876 ; admitted to the bar Decem- ber 16, 1879 ; opened an office at Lewisburgh, and in November, 1881, removed to Allentown, where he has been quite successful in the prac- tice of the law, doing little more than making a living, however. office at Pittsburgh to close up their business. They closed their business in 1876, and he re- turned home, and on the 10th of April, 1876, began studying law with Ling & Dill, and, after a few weeks, became their confidential clerk and kept up his studies with the rest of the class, besides doing an immense amount of labor during those busy times. He was admitted to THOMAS KITTERA VANDYKE was the son of James Cole Vandyke, late of the city of Phila- delphia, the seventh in the line of a family that came from Holland somewhere about 1600, who was born October 2, 1815; graduated at Rutgers ; read law with Thomas Kittera, Esq., was admitted to the bar at Philadelphia, 1838, and was United States district attorney under James Buchanan. On his mother's side he is a descendant of Governor Simon Snyder. the bar in May, 1878, and remained with Linn & Dill-having an interest in the firm Jannary, 1878-until April 1, 1879, when he opened an office for himself' and practiced alone until April 1, 1881, when he formed a law partnership with Hon. A. H. Dill, which still continues to exist. Hle is a direct descendant of John Beale, who came over with William Penn in 1682. ITis grandfather, Joshua Beale, was recorder of Mif- Ilin County from 1830 to 1836, and his great- Thomas Kittera Van lyke was educated at the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, and grad- uated at Lewisburgh University in 1875; read law with J. Merrill Linn, Esq., admitted March 15, 1880, and practiced at his profession in Lewisburgh. grandfather, Wm. Beale, was Senator from 1812 to 1815, and his great-great grandfather was judge from 1783 to - in Mifflin County and weighed four hundred and eighty pounds. On his mother's side, his grandfather was Dr. Charles Beyers, who was one of the first physicians of JAMES C. WALTER was admitted March 15, 1881. Lewisburgh.
ROBERT DAVENPORT EVANS was admitted to the bar September 21, 1880; was born Alu- gust 30, 1856, at Lewisburgh, Union County, Pa .; son of Thompson G. Evans, who was a son of Joseph, a son of William, a son of Joseph, one of the first residents. His mother was Rhoda A. Davenport. Educated at the university ; graduated in 1875; three years principal of the Starkey Institute, in the State of New York ; principal of the grammar schools at Lewis- burgh ; read law with Linn & Dill and removed to Wilkesbarre, where he is a law partner of General Osborn and county solicitor.
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CHARLES ROWLAND JAMES was born May 23, 1853, at Lewisburgh. His father was Charles Sexton James, a professor of mathe- maties at the University of Lewisburgh from 1852 until 1877, and shortly afterward became president of Monongahela College, Greene County, Pa. He was married to Mary Evans, a granddaughter of Nathan Evans, who ouce lived in Union County (Linn's "Annals," 391), ou
JOHNSON WALLS VANVALZAHL was born 26th of March, 1856, a son of William Van- valzah (who was a son of Dr. Robert Vanval- zah) and Catharine Van Buskirk ; educated at the public schools of Lewisburgh ; read law with Linn & Dill; admitted to the bar September 21, 1881 ; opened an office in Lewisburgh ; chairman of the Democratie County Com- mittec.
THOMAS EDWARD HALFPENNY, born Feb- ruary 6, 1856, near Laurelton, son of Mark Halfpenny and Christiana (Forster) Halfpenny ; was married to Laura A. Zeller, February 6, 1879; commenced reading law with J. T. Baker, Esq., in 1881, was admitted to the bar May 19, 1881, and settled at Lewisburgh.
FRANK 1. CUSHMAN was admitted Angust 14, 1884 ; removed.
WILLIAM RICKMAN FOLLMER, born Jan- nary 22, 1857, in Limestone town-hip, Montour Co., son of Henry E. Follmer, who was born Jan. 26, 1826, in Limestone township, and
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was married, Oct. 5, 1851, to Miss Ellen Rock- man, daughter of William Ruckman, of Lewis township, near Turbotville, Northumberland County ; came to U'hion County in 1869, and lo- cated on a farm across the river from Milton ; died April 25, 1881. W. R. Follmer graduated at university of Lewisburgh, in class of 1877; read law in the office of Lin & Dill, Esqs. In the fall of 1879 went to Helena, Texas ; taught in the academy at that place and was admitted to the bar in Karnes County, Texas, March 30, 1881 ; was admitted to the bar in Union County December 20, 1882, and settled for practice in Lewisburgh. He was com- missioned notary public May 12, 1885, and was nominated District Attorney by the Demo- crats in the fall of 1885.
CHAPTER IIL.
MEDICAL PROFESSION.
Ti first mention of a physician within the limits of Union County is in the account of the officers of the First and Second Battalion, who served uuder Colonel Bouquet in 1764. Among them was Lieutenant William Plunkett, who was also a physician and was mentioned as Dr. William Plunkett. He served in the French War as a lieutenant, and secured for his services six hundred acres of land, part now owned by Judge Driesbach. He owned large bodies of land, and was one of the leaders in the Penna- mite War. He lived afterward and died at Sun- bury in the spring of 1791. Ile married a daughter of John Harris, Sr., about 1754, and at that time resided at Carlisle, where four daughters were born. His danghters were Eliz- abeth, born in 1755, married to Samuel Maclay ; Isabella, born Jannary, 1760, married to Wil- liam Bell, Esq., of Elizabethtown, N. J .; Margaret, married to Isure Richardson, removed to Wayne County, N. Y. It is not known that he practiced here, although he lived on the Driesbach farm for several years.
J. Blair Linn mentions, in " Annals of Buf- falo Valley," that DR. JOSEPH EAKER, a surgeon in the Revolutionary army, married Elizabeth
Blythe, whose father, William Blythe, was one of the first settlers in the Buffalo Valley. A tract of land of six laidred and forty aeres Was taken up in the name of Margaret and Eliza- both Blythe April 3, 1769. The Elizabeth Blythe tract was on Red Bank Rum, below the late Samuel Henderson's house. Dr. Bakers lived at this place after his retirement from the army until October, 1798, when they sold the place to James Hepburn and went West, where she died. The doctor returned, resumed prac- tice and was drowned in Muddy Run, above Milton, many years ago.
In 1778 DR. Jons HousTox was residing in White Deer township, and is assessed in that year. Nothing more is known of him ; he evi- dently did not remain many years.
The next physician was one who lived and practiced in the Buffalo Valley for many years, and whose sons and grandsons followed in the same profession,-DR. ROBERT VAN VALZAH, who died at Buffalo Cross-Roads, April 18, 1850, aged eighty-five years. He was born near Croton River, N. Y., April 17, 1764. His father was one of the early settlers who emigrated from Holland to New York and settled along the Hudson. Robert was the only son, and when sixteen years of age served two tours in the Continental army, after which he studied medicine, and in 1786 came to the Buf- fido Valley. He arrived at Sunbury without finds sufficient to pay ferriage across the river. One of the Beattys gave him a shilling to pay his ferriage over the river, a favor he never forgot, and repaid it by caring for one of the family during his life, and afterwards on the old farm at Buffalo Cross-Roads until her death, in 1875, according to his will.
His sons were Robert, Thomas, John and William. Robert and Thomas became eminent as physicians ; John and William settled on the homestead at Buffido Cross-Roads.
Robert studied medicine with his father, set- dled at Mifflinburg before 1829, and died there March 1, 1851, aged sixty-two years. He had seven sons, five of whom were physicians, as fol- lows : Robert F., who practiced at Spring Mills, C'entre County, where he died. Ile had four sons, two of whom, Frank and Henry, are phy-i-
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cians, the former at Spring Mills, Centre County, the latter in Clearfield County. The second son of Robert Van Valzah, Jr., was Thomas, who practiced medicine at Boalsburg, Centre County.
DR. JOHN HI. VAN VARZANI, also a son of Robert, Jr., was killed by the Indians in Ne- bra-ka in 1870.
DR. SAMUEL B. VAN VALZAHL, Son of Rob- ert, Jr., practiced several years in Lewisburgh and Mifflinburg, and is now a resident and prac- titioner in Durand, III.
DR. SHEPHERD L. VAN VARZALI, the young- est of the sons who were physicians, is now practicing at Watsontown, Pa. His son, Dr. Grier Van Valzah, is also practicing at Watson- town.
DR. THOMAS VAN VALZAHI, the son of Robert Van Valzah, Sr., long a practitioner of medicine at Lewisburgh, moved to that borough about 1818, and practiced until 1836. A full account of his career and his sons will be found in the medical chapter of Mifflin County.
WILLIAM VAN VARZAII, a brother of Drs. Robert and Thomas, who settled on the homestead, had four sons, of whom Robert T. and William became physicians ; the former settled at Ashland, Schuylkill County, where he died. William is now practicing in Phila- delphia.
Elizabeth, a daughter of Dr. Robert Van Valzah, Sr., married Peter Wilson, and settled in Spring Mills, Centre County. They had three sons, one of whom, Robert, became a physician, and is now settled in Clearfield County, Pa.
In 1795 the name of DR. ROSWELL DOTY ap- pears in the assessment roll of East Buffalo township. He was the son of a physician in Sharon, Conn., and his brother, Dr. Ezra Doty, settled in Mifflintown in 1791. He did not remain in East Buffalo but a short time, as he soon located in Lewistown, Mifflin County, with his brother, Southard Doty, also a physician. He died in that borough in 1820.
DR. CHARLES BEYER came to this country as a Ilessian soldier when a young man. After the Revolution he remained in this country, as did many others, studied medicine and graduated
at a medical college in Philadelphia. In 1793 his name appears on the assessment roll of Union County as residing at Lewisburgh, and as a phy- sician. He was probably the first physician to reside in the town. He continued practice from that time until his death, September 13, 1830. ITis practice was throughout the Buffalo Valley, and, with Dr. Robt. Van Valzah, he did the pro- fessional work in the early years of the county. Ife resided for many of the first years of his residence in a building on the north side of Buf- falo Creek, near where the iron bridge crosses ; later he resided near the water-works, and in his latter days built a frame house on Second Street, below the court-honse, where he died.
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