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Within a few days after his settlement in Mifflinburg war was declared by the Congress of the United States against Great Britain. Mr. Fries, with all the vigor of his impetuous na- ture, espoused the cause of his adopted country, and on September 10, 1812, preached a charac- teristic sermon in Elias Church to the soldiers of Captain Donaldson's company of Pennsyl- vania militia, then about to march to the Call- ada frontier. Mr. Fries was short in stature, stout, full-faced, very near-sighted, of powerful voice, slow and distinct enunciation, high-temp- ered, possessed of a strong will, knew no fear, was a great politician of the Democratie school, very outspoken, both in the pulpit and in social intercourse. In those days nearly every person, clerical as well as lay, occasionally took a little wine for his "stomach's sake " and his " oft in- firmities," and Mr. Fries was not an exception to the general rule. His blunt and outspoken manner of speech naturally made him enemies, who circulated the report that on several oeca- sions he had been intoxicated. These reports assumed such dimensions that the matter was brought before the Synod, which recommended him to withdraw from Mifflinburg and take charge of the congregations on Middle Creek. Ile returned from Synod undaunted and called a meeting of the elders of all his churches, be- fore whom he dared his accusers to appear. The elders met and declared him innocent. This was in 1819.
When political Anti-Masonry became rampant in Union County, Mr. Fries took a decided stand against it. In connection with James
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Merrill, Esq., he addressed the Masons, on the | 14th of October, 1827, at New Berlin, where they at that time had a procession in regalia.
It was abont this time that Mr. Fries severed his pastoral connection with his Brush Valley congregation, and in his last sermon to them made use of the oft-quoted expression, "Geld regiert die Welt, aber Dummheit Brush Val- ley," " Money rules the world, but ignorance Brush Valley."
On September 15, 1829, at a time noted for its tremendous Anti-Masonic excitement, he de- livered an address before a Democratic, Masonic Wolf nominating convention in New Berlin.
Just Henry Fries died on Wednesday even- ing, the 9th of October, 1839, aged sixty-two years, five months and sixteen days. For some years before his death he was deprived of sight, but his astonishing memory enabled him to give out the hymns in full, and preach with a precision for which he was always noted. He refused to take medicine in his last illness, say- ing that he wished to die in the full possession of his senses.
Mr. Fries was remarkably open, honest and true. ITis word could be depended upon. Ho hated all sham and hypocrisy to such a degree that he was constantly in danger of falling into a blunt fraukness, without giving due attention to that snavity of manner which is to an open heart what the fragrance is to an open flower. Ile was fearless in preaching. He was un- necessarily open and free with his political views. He not only argned readily on this subject in private circles, but often introduced political matters, with more or less plainness in- to the pulpit, referring even to candidates and parties. He also wrote numerous articles for the papers during the heat of contests, anonymously, it is true, yet still so that their parentage was recognized by many. This was one of his weaknesses, which his friends always regretted, but which he was never able to see in its true light. He was very kind-hearted, which he manifested in great affection towards his family and in kindnesses to his friends. Ilis labors in the ministry were very extensive, and the complete statistics of his services show an astonishing result."-Harbaugh's " Fathers."
Ile was married twice, -first to Catharine Groff, by whom he had two children ; second, to Susana Groff, by whom he had eleven. After the death of Mr. Fries the Rev. Ephraim Kieffer was called from Centre County to the Mifflinburg charge, the duties of which he assumed in January 1840; he remained with the Mifflinburg people some fifteen or sixteen years, and then removed to Carlisle, Pa., where he died. Two of his sons are leading preachers in the Reformed Church. Next in order after Mr. Kieffer came Rev. John C. Bucher, and then Rev. Isaac S. Weisz, Rittenhouse, George E. Addams and A. C. Whitmer, recently re- signed.
Upon the sale of the old Elias Church to the school board of the borough, the Reformed con- gregation, in 1857, proceeded to erect an in- posing brick church edifice on the south side of Market Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets which they in 1884, enlarged, remodeled and improved.
THE LUTHERAN CHURCH .- It seems that Lutheran and German Reformed congrega- tions were organized in the Valley as early as 1771, but they had no church build- ing until the first log church was erected where the Dreisbach Church now stands in Buffalo township, in the year 1788. Preaching and other religious services were held in private houses prior to that time. As the population of Mifflinburg increased, a Lutheran congrega- tion was organized there, and stated services held. The first regularly settled Lutheran pastor appears to have been the Rev. Ludwig Albrecht Wilhelm Ilgen (commonly pronounced Ilyen), a native of Germany, who commeneed to minister to the Lutheran societies of Lower Penn's Valley in 1800, and also preached regn- larly to the Mifflinburg Lutherans. In 1809 Rev. John G. Heim became the pastor of the Lutherans at Dreisbach's, Mifflinburg, etc., and retained that position until 1831, when he was succeeded by Rev. John G. Anspach. Before the pastoral relation between Mr. Heim and his people was severed his moral character had for some time been under a shadow, which seriously impaired his usefulness. As the next incumbent of the pastoral office is remarkable,
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among other things, for the length of time he occupied it, a brief sketch will be given of him and his labors.
The ancestors of the Rev. George Anspach resided in the city of Anspach, in Franconia, und took a leading part in the events of their days. John Adam Anspach, the grandfather of Rev. John G., arrived. in America about the time of the Revolution. He settled in Phila- delphia and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1793, he and his family, excepting a son John, fell vietims to the ravages of the yellow fever. This son, upon the adjustment of his father's affairs, found himself penniless at the age of nineteen years, but, being possessed of a vigorous physical constitution, and having con- fidence in himself, he removed to the " Loop," in Potter township, in Centre County, Pa., purchased a tract of unimproved land, took unto himself for a wife one of the daughters of the land, cleared np a farm, and reared a large family of children.
Losses by fire and otherwise absorbed the earnings of years of persevering industry, and his numerons children were compelled to com- mence the battle of life with no other patrimony than a sound mind in a sound body, good re- ligions training and as much of an education as the schools of the vicinity at the time afforded. John George, the eldest son, was born Septem- ber 13, 1801 ; was licensed to preach by the Synod of West Pennsylvania, at Greencastle, in 1830 ; ordained at Indiana in 1831, and became the pastor of the Mifflinburg congregation of Intherans in the same year. In 1833 he married Miss Susan Wolf, of Berks County, Pa., who died September 19, 1842, leaving two sons, -- Luther W. and John M. The former has been for many years one of the leading teachers in the schools of Union County and elsewhere ; the latter is a prominent clergyman in the Lutheran Church, at present located at Easton, Pa. In March, 1843, he married Miss Susan Schoch, who still survives to share with her honored Imsband the respect of the community in which they reside. Mr. Anspach finally re- tired from the active dnties of the pastorate in 1881. He had previous to that time diminished the number of the congregations which he served.
He had charge of the Lutheran congregation at Ray's for fifty-three years, and during that tine took an active part in forwarding the building of the two churches erected there during that period. He served the White Deer congregation fifty years, and had a church built there during that time ; the congregation at Dreisbach's was under his charge nearly fifty years, two churches built there during that time ; at Mifllinburg he was the pastor about thirty years, a church built during that time ; at Lewisburgh fourteen years, a church built during that time ; at New Berlin nineteen years, church built; at the Union Church, in Buffalo township, forty years, church built ; at Laurel Run, or Laurelton, nine years; at. Centreville, two years, and at Milton, one year.
From a record kept by Mr. Anspach of his ministerial labors, it appears that from April 1, 1831, to April 1, 1884, he preached 7397 ser- mons in the course of his regular appointments; he also preached 1613 funeral sermons,-total sermons, 9010; he administered the rite of baptism to 3107 children and 548 adults ; con- firmed 2681 ; married 1007 couples; assisted at 13 corner-stone layings and 17 church dedica- tions.
He excelled as a preacher in the German langnage; in fact, he was emphatically a German preacher. He was distinguished for the purity and richness of his German, and never acquired the faculty of speaking the English language ntinged with the German accent. In 1857 the Lutherans built their present church on north side of Market Street, nearly opposite to the Reformed Church. Since the retirement of Mr. Anspach from the charge of the Mifflinburg congregation of Lutherans the successive pastors have been Messrs. Frederick Ruthrauff, J. M. Anspach, W. L. Heisler, Henry and J. C. Earnest.
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH .- At a Conference of the Methodist preachers, held in Baltimore in 1791, a new circuit called Northumberland was formed, and two preach- ers, Richard Parriott and Lewis Browning, ap- pointed to travel and preach through its bounds. This circuit extended from Northumberland up the North Branch to Wilkesbarre np the
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West Branch and Bald Eagle and Spring Creek, so as to inelnde Milesburg and Bellefonte ; then across to and including Pem's Valley, from which place the preachers traveled the road through the Penn's Valley Narrows, by way of Hartleton, Mifflinburg and Lewisburgh, to Northumberland. Each preacher traversed this cirenit on horseback once in four weeks, preaching every day or night, except when the distance between the appointments was too great ; generally in private houses, Under this arrangement Mifllinburg and the whole of the Buffalo Valley was included in Northumberland circuit, and retained this connection nntil, in 1806, all that part of the circuit west and south of the town of Northumberland was embraced in a new cirenit, called Lycoming. Abont 1832 Northumberland circuit was again made to embrace Buffalo Valley, and continued to do so until the formation of the Mifflinburg circuit, in 1855, with the exception that in 1850 Lewis- burgh had been made an independent station. The Mifflinburg circuit embraces four regular preaching-places, viz .: Mifflinburg, Forest Hill, Hartleton and Lincoln Chapel, all supplied by one pastor. The time of the erection of the first Methodist Church in Mifflinburg cannot be fixed with absolute certainty. An examination of the deeds for the land on which the present Methodist Church is built shows that on March 23, 1803, Jolm Aurand and wife conveyed a cer- tain lot of ground, therein described, containing twenty-four perches, to Christopher Wagner and Mishacl Lincoln, trustees of the " Communion Union Church." On this land a log church was built at or about that time, and was used by the Methodists, and known as the Methodist Church. This church was of one story, with a door in the west end, opposite to the pulpit, opening on what is now called Third Street. There was ako another door on the south side of the building, which was not used for ordinary purposes of ingress and egress, it being several feet from the ground and unprovided with steps. The ceiling was made of boards, nailed to the joists from below, and from the joists above the ceiling a chimney or ilne was built up, so as to extend beyond the roof. This chimney or flue received the pipe from the stoves used in warm-
ing the building. When this flue was built, the part above the roof was made a little larger than the part below, in order to keep the rain from running down along the flue. It thus came to pass that when the newly-built fine settled, the part below the roof became separated from the part above. While in this condition a pro- tracted meeting was held, and a revival was in progress ; penitents were at the altar crying for merey ; the prayers of the brethren were going up in their behalf, accompanied by the pions amens, when, all at once, that part of the fine between the ceiling and the roof toppled over, and fell with a tremendous crash upon the boards of the ceiling below, which straightway went down upon the backs and shoulders of the kneel- ing congregation. A scene of indescribable con- fusion then ensued. A rush was made for the doors ; the side-door from which there were no steps, was opened, and the affrighted people tum- bled pell-mell out of it into a promisenous heap, glad to get out in any way, not knowing but what some fiend incarnate was at their heels. Although the house was filled with people at the time, no one was seriously injured, but many ludicrous seenes occurred, which were laughed over in after-years. For some years prior to 1832 there had been no regular preaching by the Method- ists in Mifflinburg, on account of the dimin- ished number of the congregation. At this time Mifflinburg was again made part of the Northumberland cirenit, and the "cirenit riders" again made their bi-weekly visits, until the for- mation of the Mifflinburg circuit made a Meth- odist preacher a resident of the town. On July 11, 1844, Mishael Lincoln, surviving trustee of the " Communion Union Church," formally conveyed the church property to David Mizener, Henry Crotzer and Jeremiah Camp, trustees, and their successors, for the use of the Method- ist Episcopal Church.
In 1856 the old log building was torn down, and the present brick church erected in its place ; also a parsonage on the lot adjoining. The following list contains the names of the preachers appointed to the several eirenits, which, from time to time, embraced Mitllinburg and the sur- rounding country :
Northumberland Cirenit, 1791, -- Richard Parriott,
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lewis Browning ; 1792, -- James Campbell, William Tolbert ; 1798,-James Campbell, Janes Paynter; 1791,-Robert Manley, John Brodhead ; 1795, -- James Ward, Stephen Timmons ; 1796,-John Seward, Rich- ard Sneath ; 1797,-John Lackey, Daniel Higby ; 1798,-John Lackey, John Leach.
Wyoming and Northumberland Cirenit, 1799,- James Moore, Benjamin Bidlack and Daniel Stevens, a six weeks' circuit ; 1800,-Ephraim Chambers, Ed. Larkins, Asa Smith.
Northumberland Cirenit, 1801, -- Johnson Durham, Gilbert Carpenter ; 1802,-Anning Owen, James Aik- ens ; 1803,-Daniel Ryan, James Ridgway ; 1801,- Thomas Adams, Gideon Draper; 1805,-Christopher Fry, James Saunders.
Lycoming Circuit, 1806,-Timothy Lee, Jesse Pinnel; 1807,-James Charles, William Wolfe; 1808, -Anning Owen, Daniel Stansbury ; 1809,-John Rhoads, Jacob Barnhart; 1810,-Timothy Lee, Samuel Ross; 1811,-George Thomas, Abraham Dawson; 1812,-John Hazzard, James S. Lent; 1813,-George Thomas, Israel Cook ; 1814,-Peter Jones, James Bennett; 1815,-John Thomas, Wyatt Chamberlin ; 1816,-Israel Chamberlin, Rinaldo M. Everetts ; 1817,-John Thomas, John Rhoads; 1818,-John Rhoads, Benjamin Bidlack ; 1819,-Israel Cook, Thomas MeGhee ; 1820 .- John Thomas, Robert Men- shall; 1821, -Robert Menshall, Jacob R. Shepperd; 1822,-Robert Cadden, William McDowell; 1823,- Robert Cadden, Nathaniel Mills; 1824,-John Thomas, Thomas McGhee; 1825,-Thomas McGhee, Francis McCartney ; 1826,-Amos Smith, John Bowen ; 1827, -John Bowen, Henry Tarring ; 1828,-Edward E. Allen, Robert Kemp; 1829,-William Prettyman, Charles Kalbfus; 1830,-William Prettyman, James 11. Brown; 1831,-James W. Dunahay, William Evans.
Northumberland Circuit, 1832,-Marmaduke Pearce, Josiah Forrest; 1833,-Josiah Forrest, J. Reed, Ir .; 1834,-Henry Tarring, Oliver Ege, 1835,-Henry Tarring, R. Beey, John Guyer, and T. Myers ; 1836, -Charles Kalbfus, J. T. Chancy; 1837,-Charles Kalbfus, John Hall; 1838,-James Sanks, Isaac T. Stratton ; 1839, -- James Sanks, Isaac T. Stratton ; 1840,-Thomas Taneyhill, William Hirst ; 1841,- Thomas Taneyhill, James W. Miles. (James W. Miles remained on his circuit only a few weeks. Northumberland and Milton Circuits were then united, and were supplied by Thomas Tancyhill, Jolm Bowen and William Herst, until after the next Con- ference.) 1842,-James Ewing, William R. Mills; 1813, -- James Ewing, W. T. D. Clemm ; 1811, -- B. II. Crever, James Guyer; 1815,-B. H. Crever, N. S. Buckingham ; 1816, - P. B. Reese, John J. Pearce; 1817,-William R. Mills, J. W. Elliott ; 1818,- Joseph S. Lee, S. A. Wilson; 1849,-Joseph S. Lee, Benjamin B. Hamlin ; 1850, -- S. L. M. Conser, 11. W. Bellman; 1851,-S. L. M. Conser; 1852,-John Moorhead, T. M. SIusser; 1858, Thomas Barnhart, J. Y. Rothrock ; 1851, -Thomas Barnhart.
Mitllinburg Girenit, 1855, -- R. W. Black, J. W. Stout; 1856,-R. W. Black, P. B. Ruch; 1857, - Sammel Creighton ; 1858,-Samnel Creighton; 1859, Samuel Shannon ; 1860, -Samuel Shannon ; 1861,- A. W. Gibson; 1862,-Albert Hartman ; 1863,- Charles Cleaver, W. Case ; 1864,-Charles Cleaver, E. Shoemaker; 1865-66,-N. W. Colburn; 1867-68,- dances T. Wilson; 1869 .- N. W. Colburn ; 1870,- lohn Guss ; 1871-73, -- John A. Woodcock ; 1874-76. -M. P. Crosthwaite; 1877,-Mitllinburg Cirenit, D B. McCloskey ; 1878-80,-B. F. Stevens; 1881-83 .- A. M. Barnitz; 1884-85,-W. MeKendree Riley.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF MIPPLINBURG. -In 1808 Rev. Thomas Hood, then pastor of the Buffalo Church, commenced preaching in Mifflinburg for the accommodation of those of his members who lived in the vicinity ; gave them one-fourth of his time and continued un- til 1812. A congregation was formed in 1819 by Messrs. Mcclellan and Templeton and oc- casional supplies for three years were mostly from the Associate or Associate Reformed denom- inations ; among these were Rev. George Jun- kin, who served from 1821 to 1823 ; was fol- lowed by Rev. David Kirkpatrick, who, in Oc- tober, 1827, with the congregation, made appli- cation to the Presbytery of Northumberland, and were received by them from the Associate Reformed body. This congregation used the old log Methodist Church as their place of wor- ship. Mr. Kirkpatrick was the principal of the Milton Academy. He quit the Mifflinburg congregation about 1835 ; until 1840 the church was served by supplies, among whom were Revs. P. B. Marr, Sheddon, IIndson, Waller, Pollok, B. B. Newton, etc.
In 1841 Rev. G. W. Thompson became the regular pastor of the congregation, which was then received into Presbytery. He left in 1847 and was succeeded in order by Revs. William- sou, Morrison, Adams, Marrs, Reardon, Ken- nedy, Reed, Edwards. In 1846 a brick church on Green Street was built, which, in 1881, col- lapsed under the weight of snow on its roof. The church was rebuilt the same year.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH .- After the recep- tion into Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Church of Mifflinburg, that portion of the Presbyterians of Mifflinburgand vicinity which still belonged or adhered to the Buffalo congre- gation, with the consent of Mr. Hood, who was
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still their pastor at Buffalo, petitioned Presby- tery at its next meeting to allow Rev. Nathaniel Todd to preach to them in Mifflinburg on the Sabbath which Mr. Hood did not preach at Buffalo. This request was grauted, and Mr. Todd supplied the western part of the Buffalo congregation for six years and a half, preaching to them every alternate Sabbath. After the re- moval of Mr. Todd from Miffliuburg the west- ern portion of the Buffalo congregation had no preaching at Mitlliuburg umtil about 1851. In October, 1853, Dr. Grier accepted a call from the Buffalo Church for his wholetime and made Mifflinburg the place of his residence. IIc then commenced preaching in Mifflinburg to the members of Buffalo congregation who resided in and near Mifflinburg and continued until his death, in 1881. After Dr. Grier began preach- ing at Mifflinburg he was arraigned before the Presbytery on the charge of acting disorderly in preaching at Mifflinburg. The Presbytery decided in his favor. Eight years afterwards the subject was again brought before the Presbytery, carried to the General Assembly and decided in his favor again. In 1881 a church building was erected on Market Street, in the front of which is a tablet bearing the inscription : " Buf- falo Church; organized 1773, built 1881." Rev. W. K. Foster has been the pastor since the death of Dr. Grier.
Isaac Grier, son of Rev. Isaac Grier and Elizabeth, his wife, was born at Jersey Shore in January, 1806. His mother was a daughter of Rev. Robert Cooper, of Cumberland Valley. Robert C. Grier, late a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and General Grier, of the United States army, were his brothers.
Rev. Dr. Grier was graduated from Dickinson College, taught the Danville Academy for two years and then entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J., from which institution he was graduated in 1833. He then became a supply to the congregations of Shamokin and Washington, in White Deer Valley. In 1831 he accepted a call from the Washington con- gregation ; gave up the Shamokin one, and took also the Bethel, in White Deer lown-hip. In 1835, he accepted a call from the Buffalo Church, and in 1852 he accepted a call from the Wash-
ington Church and the next year returned to the Buffalo Church. He remained the pastor of this church until his death, June 17, 1874, aged seventy-eight years.
From the time he took charge of the Buffalo Church until his death forty-nine year- had passed, during all of which, as the years rolled by, he seemed to be more and more esteemed and respected by his people. This fact is his bet enlogy. Ilis aged widow now resides in Mifflinburg.
NEWSPAPERS .- In 1811, Andrew Kennedy, Jr., began to publish a weekly paper in Mifflin- burg, called the Union, continued it one year, when he sold it to Henry Shaup, who removed it to New Berlin, following the county-seat. In Angnet, 1813, Robert Swineford, proprietor of the Temperance Adrocate and Family Visitor, a paper published at New Berlin, sold it to James MeCInne and Jacob Haus, and they re- moved the establishment to Mifflinburg. Abont two years later the paper was sold to Rev. W. IT. HI. Barnes, who removed the concern to Milton. During the time the paper was pub- lished by MeChuine & Haus the subscription list increased from six hundred to one thousand.
Mr. Hans now lives in New Castle, Pa., where he has served as alderman for the last twenty-three years. He served as prothonotary of Union Connty from 1847 to 1850.
In 1855, Rev. Samuel Gutelins bought the Union County Star, a paper published in New Berlin, and removed it to Mifflinburg. He sold it to Dr. A. J. Crotzer, who formed a partnership with Dr. Cheselden Fisher. Sub- sequently Crotzer sold it to Renben G. Orwig, who, with his brother, Thomas G., ran the paper one year, when Reuben G. Orwig removed to Lewisburgh and established the Home Gazete. The Union County Star was sold to O. N. Worden, of the Lerisburgh Chronicle, and the paper was afterwards published as the Star and Chronicle.
In Ison, Frederick Smith established and published the Union County Press for about four years.
The Miglinburg Telegraph was established by C. E. Haus and Jos. J. R. Orwig ; the first number was issued June 10, 1862. Frederick
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Smith sold his paper to Hans & Orwig. In 1865 Mr. Hans sold his interest in the estab- li-liment to Mr. Orwig, who, with a few inter- missions, published the paper until Jannary 1, 1873, when he sold it to George W. Schoch, and -pon after received the appointment of assistant librarian in the State Library at Harrisburg.
Since January 1, 1878, Mr. Schoch has con- ducted the Telegraph with signal ability and marked success. It is Republican in politics.
On January 1, 1886, George W. Foote issued the first number of the Mifflinburg Times, a Democratie paper.
Soentries .- The Crescent Lodge, I. O. of O. F., was organized in 1816. The charter members were Dr. William A. Piper, Henry W. Crotzer, Matthias Wilson, Joseph Eiler and Dr. A. J. Crotzer. The lodge was reorganized Jime, 1874. Charter members : Samuel Getgen, John Bad- ger, Charles Crotzer, J. M. Stayman, B. F. Eaton and Alexander Frederick. The first of- ficers were: N. G., B. F. Eaton ; V. G., Robert 1. Wendell ; Secretary, F. M. Getgen ; Assist- ant Sceretary, S. W. JJohnson ; Treasurer, Sam- uel Getgen.
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