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John Williams was a son-in-law of Peter Fisher, and succeeded him in the ownership of the mill now Albright's. One of his daughters by a second wife is the wife of John F. Catherman.
John Winkleplech settled, in 1795, on the farm now owned by John Hoffman, Jr., back of the Frederick, Jones, Forster or Tees farm. Elias Winkleplech, of Laurelton, is his grand- son ; the remainder of the family live in Centre County. Christian Zimmerman and Jacob Zimmerman came into the township in 1791, and settled upon what was afterward long known
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as Captain John Rote's farms. None of that family remain in the county. John Verger lived on what was once the Cole place. It has had a Yerger for the owner ever since, and is now the property of John Yerger, a relative of the John Yerger who lived there in 1811.
Robert Barber, Jr., was a son of Robert Barber, Esq., one of the carly settlers at White Springs; he lived where John A. Cook now lives, and owned that place along with the Isaac Royer place and Knaner's mill. About 1835 he re- moved to Illinois and there died. J. Wilson Barber, of Mifflinburg, is his grandson.
William Forster owned the place where Samuel Hartman lives ; he was a bachelor, a son of Captain John Forster, of Buffalo town- ship, said to have been the first white child born in Buffalo Valley. He was passionately fond of dancing.
There was a large tract of land in the west- ern part of the township on which a rude cabin had been erected at an early day in the present .century, and a small clearing made, which went by the name of the Frenchman's tract and the Frenchman's cabin. It em- braced the present farms of the Pursleys, part of Barnett's and others. It was for a long time owned by parties who would neither sell nor improve it, and was an eyesore to the neigh- bors, until, at length, death came to their relief and removed the owner. It then came into the market, and is now the property of a half-dozen owners.
John Kehler, who, in 1814, is assessed as a tenant on the Frenchman's tract, was the father of the present John Galer, and was a soldier in the War of 1812, in Captain Ner Middleswarth's company. In his old age he removed to Mis- souri.
The family of Lincoln have been in the Buffalo Valley since 1783. In that year Mishael Lincoln (who had served in the Reyo- lution and in the region of the North and West Branches of the Susquehanna) purchased a traet of land in Buffalo township, abont a mile cast of Mifflinburg, near to where the toll-gate is. He had two sons, John and Thomas; the latter, about 1838, moved to Circleville and died soon after. A danghter, Sarah, became the wife of
Michael Ronsh. Mishael Lincoln and his wife spent the last few years of their lives with their son John, and both died in the eighty-eighth year of their age, and were buried in the Lewis grave-yard, in Limestone township. He was a descendant of Mordecai Lincoln, and of the same family as Abraham Lincoln. The follow- ing sketch of the Lincoln family is prepared by the Hon. S. H. Orwig, of Lewisburgh, and is from reliable data : .
Mordecai Lincoln came from Lincolnshire, Eng- land, to Massachusetts about A.D. 1680. From Massachusetts he removed to New Jersey, where his wife died. From New Jersey he came to Pennsyl- vania in 1728, and bought abont one thousand acres of land in Exeter township, Berks County. Here tic married a second time, and died in 1735 or 1736, leaving to survive him eight children, -Hannah, Mary, John, Ama and Sarah, five children of his first wife, and Mordecai, Thomas and Abraham (posthumous), three children of his second wife. His grave is in the Friends' burying-ground, in Exeter township, Berks County. His will, dated February 22, A.D. 1735, and recorded June 7, A.D. 1736, con- tains bequests to his children,-Mordecai, Thomas, Hannah and Mary, John, Anna and Sarah. To Jobu was left three hundred acres "lying in the Jerseys."
John Lincoln, son of Mordecai, and great- grandfather of President Lincoln, left New Jersey and bought a farm in Union township, Berks County, Pa., distant from Birdsborough about one mile. This farm he sold in 1760, and emigrated to Virginia.
Abraham Lincoln, son of John Lincoln, and grandfather of President Lincoln, was born in Rockingham County, Va., and was killed by Indians about 1784, in Kentucky, whither he had emigrated a few years before that time. Abraham Lincoln's wife was Hannah Winters, the eldest daughter of William Winters and Anna Boone, a sister of Colonel Daniel Boone, famons in the early annals of Kentucky. Mr. Winters had removed in 1778 from Berks County to a farm now included within the cor- porate limits of the city of Williamsport, and was living there when his son-in-law, Abraham Lincoln, visited him a short time before his death, 1783. Upon Lincoln's return to his home in Kentucky he was accompanied by his brother-in-law, John Winters. They traveled on foot from what is now Williamsport, by
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where Bellefonte now is, on " the Indian path leading from Bald Eagle to Frankstown."
John Winters visited his sister, Mrs. Potter, at Bellefonte, in 18 13, and wandering to the hill on which the academy is situated, his friends began to think he had lost himself, and dis- patched a messenger in search of him; but. when found, he said he was not lost, but was looking for the path he and Lincoln had trod sixty years before, and then " pointed out with his finger the course from Spring Creek, along Buffalo Run, to where it crosses the Long Lime- stone Valley, as being their route." '
Thomas Lincoln, son of the Abraham Lincoln above named, was the father of the President. The wife of Thomas Lincoln was a Miss Hanks, whose parents had also removed from Exeter township, Berks County, Pa., to Fayette County, Pa., and from there to Vir- ginia. No apology is necessary for introducing the following autograph letter from President Lincoln to his relative :
"SPRINGFIELD, III., April 6, 1860. " Richard V. B. Lincoln, E'sq.
"My Dear Sir,-Owing to absence from home, yours of March 19th was not received till yesterday. You are a little mistaken. My grandfather did not go from Berks County, Pa., but, as I learn, his ances- tors did, some time before his birth. He was born in Rockingham County, Va. ; went from there to Ken- lucky, and was killed by Indians about 1784. That the family originally came from Berks County I learned a dozen years ago, by letter, from one of them, then residing at Sparta, Rockingham County, Va. His name was David Lincoln. I remember, long ago, seeing Anstin Lincoln and Davis Lincol, said to be sons of Ananiah or Hananiah Lincoln, who was said to have been a cousin of my grandfather. I have no doubt you and I are distantly related. I should think, from what you say, that your and my father were second cousins. I shall be very glad to hear from you at any time. Yours, very truly, "A. LINCOLN."
Mordecai Lincoln, son of the first Mordecai, had two sons, Benjamin and John, who re- moved to Fayette County, Pa., where their descendants are still living.
Thomas Lincoln, son of the first Mordecai, was sheriff of Berks County in 1759. He had three children,-Mishael, Hananiah and Sarah.
October 4, 1776, Hananiah Lincoln was ap- pointed a lientenant in Colonel William Cooke's Twelfth Pennsylvania Regiment of the Conti- mental Line. He afterwards removed to Kentucky. Mishael Lincoln was a soldier in General Sullivan's expedition against the In- dians, and was also at Fort Freeland, on the West Branch, in 1779, when Captain Brady was killed, and assisted in carrying in his body. Having by his experience in the Revolutionary War become familiar with the valley of the West Branch, he, immediately after the close of the war, in 1783, bought a large tract of land in Buffalo township, abont one mile cast of Mifflinburg. To this farm he then removed from Exeter, with his wife and child, an infant a year old. From 1817 to 1820 he was one of the commissioners of Union County. The child just named was Johm Lincoln, who lived a long and useful life, and died in 1862 on his farm in Hartley township, at Lincoln Chapel, to which place he had removed in 1826, about three miles west of where his son, Richard V. B. Lincoln, has resided for the last forty years.
Abraham Lincoln, the posthumous son of the first Mordecai, was a member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania in 1782, and a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1790. He married Anna Boone, a first cousin of Colonel Daniel Boone. They had four sons,-Mordecai, James, Thomas and John.
David J. Lincoln, of Birdsborough, Berks County, a son of James, to whom we are in- debted for much valuable information, writes, " The old homestead remained in the (family) name until after the death of my uncle John, in 1864, having been in the family one hun- dred and thirty-six years. My father lived in Morgantown, Berks County, when Abraham Lincoln was nominated for President, and the citizens erected a Lincoln pole at the corner of his house, but he was too feeble to leave his room and see it, and died shortly after, aged ninety-four years. Daniel Boone was born in Exeter township, Berks County, and after settling in Kentucky frequently visited his relatives in Berks County, and always spent some time with his cousin Anna, and no doubt his glowing accounts of the south induced Jolin
' " History of Centre County," Lim,
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Lincoln to leave Berks County in 1760, and settle in Virginia." And we may add that the tide of the Revolutionary War carried Mishael Lincoln to the fertile fields of Buffalo Valley in 1783, where his descendants still live.
LINCOLN GENEALOGY.
Hannah.
Mary.
Abraham,
John.
( Abraham, killed ), ¿ by Indiana, 158.1. 3
Thomas, President ( United States.
Anun. Sarah, Benjamin. John, removed to Fayette Co.
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MORDECAI LINCOLN, Of Lincolnshire, England.
Mordecai
lananiah, to Kentucky.
Richard V. B.
John. Rachel. [ Catharine,
Thomas, moved to Ohio.
Thomas,
Mishael. Sarah, mar-
ried to Michael Roush. Sarah, married to Davis, Juniata County.
Mordecai. James. D. J. Lincoln.
Abraham
Thonins. John.
Joli Lincoln, the oldest son of Mishael, grew to manhood in the Buffalo Valley, and married, on the 3d day of June, 1819, Miss Hannah Van Buskirk, daughter of Richard and Hannah (Kelly) Van Buskirk, who was born March 20, 1801. After his marriage he owned and resided upon a farm four miles east of Mifflinburg, now owned by the heirs of Dr. Lotz. In 1826 his father-in-law gave him the farm in Hartley township now owned by John Lincoln Knight, on which he resided until his death, August 19, 1862. His wife survived him until March 20, 1880. For nearly half a century they were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their children were as fol- lows: Richard V. B., born December 18, 1822; Rachel T., born January 13, 1825; and Catharine Elizabeth, born October 19, 1829. Rachel married Dr. Samuel II. Knight, and had two children, viz. : Hannah E. and John I. Catharine E. married W. R. Halfpenny. Their children are Hannah, Mary, John L. and James M.
John Turner made an improvement in 1751, and sold his right to John Harris in June, 1755. An account of this traet will be found in the first pages of the township.
Richard V. B. Lincoln, son of John Lincoln, was born in Hartley township, and has always resided there. He attended the schools of his neighborhood, when opportunity offered, until he was nine years old, when he was sent to the Milllimburg Academy, then in charge of Rev. Nathaniel Todd. He remained at the academy most of the time umtil his sixteenth year, when he entered the sophomore elass at Dickinson College, located in Carlisle, Pa. He graduated second in his class in 1841. After leaving college he taught school four terms, when, having decided to follow farming as his business, he, in 1845, commeneed work on the farm he now owns and resides upon, and which has been his permanent home for forty years. It was then owned by his father, but became his before his father's death. In polities, Mr. Lincoln was in early life a Whig and cast his first Presidential vote for Henry Clay. On the formation of the Republican party he at once beeame, and has ever since been, an active and prominent member thereof. In 1851 he was made a justice of the peace and held the office twenty successive years. He was elected conn- ty commissioner in 1855 and re-elected in 1857 for three years. For twenty-four years he has held the office of school director, and has many times been assessor of his township, and has also been overseer of the poor. The Republic- ans of his county at one time presented his name as the choice of Union County for State Senator, and in 1876 made him their standard- bearer in the Congressional election of that year. The district having a Democratie major- ity, he was not elected, though he received his full party vote and in his own county ran several hundred votes ahead of his ticket. During the war Mr. Lincoln was active in his support of all war measures and at different times had charge of raising the quota of his township in the call for recruits. As an active, stands high in the estimation of those who knew him best. He was one of the organizers
John Lincoln, before his death, purchased a ! successful business man, Mr. Lincolu decidedly tract of land now owned by his son, Richard V. B. Lincoln. It was upon this farm that
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of the Mifflinburg Bank and has been one of | short distance west of Laurelton, where he died, its directors continuously since. He now owns in 1827, aged sixty-four years. Some of his sons went. West and some of them remained on their native soil. Christian still lives near the Kiester school-house; Michael died at Laurel- ton in 1878, in his seventieth year ; George went to Selin's Grove in his early manhood, and has resided there ever since, and has for a long time been one of its most prominent citizens. One of the daughters of John Christian Selmure three fine farms, containing four hundred and eighty acres of land in a body and under a high state of cultivation. Mr. Lincoln married, ou the 18th day of Angust, 1852, Miss Anna M. Pellman, daughter of Samuel and Mary ( Wolf') Pellman. She was born May 29, 1831, in Berks County. This union has been blessed with the following children: John W., born May 21, 1853; Samuel P., October 5, 1856, ! (Margaret, the widow of Robert Lucas) lives in
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died July 29, 1866; Mark H., September 13, | Hartleton, and in her possession is a certified 1860; Hannah Mary, September 7, 1863; copy of the record of the church at Dudenhofen, Loujs P., August 8, 1866; Richard V. B., Jr., April 17, 1871; and Annie R., February 16, 1873. in the German language, certifying that John Christian Schuure, a son of John George Schuumre and Anua (. Menner, was born July 2, 1763.
John Christian Schumre, the founder of the Schnuire family, was a native of Hesse Cassel, Germany ; came to America in carly manhood ; married, and first settled in what is now Snyder County ; afterwards removed with his family to the farm now belonging to William King, a
CHAPTER XIV. BOROUGH OF HARTLETON !! Pinar COLE was the first settler on the site,
' By R. V. B. Lincoln.
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the land being surveyed June 25, 1773. He ' of the town and vicinity. Among its early teach- left the settlement at the time of the "big run- 'ers were Cunningham, an irascible Irishman; away," and never returned, but sold his land to Gadding, an Englishman ; Samuel Haupt, Charles Colonel Hartley, who placed Peter Kiester there Mason, William Geddes and Joel Hamer. The as tenant, and the place was known as " Kies- first teachers of the common, or free-schools, ter's " until Colonel Hartley laid out the town. were James Madden, Esq., and Richard V. B. For many years the bulk of the trade and travel Lincoln. Others afterward- were Samnel Haupt, William Geddes and Mary Calvin.
of the lower part of l'enn's Valley found its outlet through this village. Hugh Wilson kept tavern here from 1793 to 1798, and was sie- ceeded by Martin Silton ; John Yerger in 1801; John Yerger, Jr., in 181 1. Thetown grew slowly ; ! it was on the post-route established April 1, 1798, from Northumberland to Bellefonte.
John Thomas was the first storekeeper, and was here in 1811 ; John Williams was next. In 1814 the town contained nine taxables, as fol- lows, viz. :
Abbot Green, merchant ; Amos Harris, shoemaker; Godfried Harloff, inn-keeper ; Thomas Miller, wheel- wright ; John McBride, joiner ; Joseph Madden, cordwainer ; James Madden, weaver ; John Williams, merchant ; William Poak, inn-keeper.
In 1829. Abraham D. Hahn, store and tavern in the house occupied by Daniel Long for forty-five years ; Robert Forster, a store and distillery ; John Klapp, a tavern and inn where M. S. Wagner's hotel is, then kept by John Wilson, Esq. It is now the only hotel in the town, but no liquor is sold.
At present Robert V. Glover and James Musser keep general store, the former having
Senoons .- At the time of the incorporation two of the township school-houses were within the corporate bound -. They were used until rooms was built, to which was added a second- story, with a hall, for various publie purposes. This was paid for by subscriptions of the citizens
CHURCHES,-Religions services were carly held in the old school-house by Methodist itin- erants, who often stopped overnight in the town. The same was done by preachers of other de- nominations. Dr. George Junkin, an eminent Presbyterian minister, preached there occasion- ally, as doubtless others also did. But it was not until in 1841 that the Union Church was built. This gave an impetus to the cause of religion, and since that time the Methodists, Presbyterians and Evangelical- have regularly had preaching services in the town. The Meth- odists and Evangelicals still use the old Union Church. The Methodists have always, since the erection of the church, been served by the preachers of the Northumberland and Mifflin- burg Circuits. (For their names, sce history of Mifflinburg.)
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. - In 1842 Rev. G. W. Thompson, then in charge of the Presbyterian Churches of New Berlin and Mit- flinburg, gathered up the scattered remnants of
been for more than forty years engaged in the the old Laurel Run congregation and organized business in the same room ; one drug-store, kept by Dr. M. L. Mensch.
them and others into a congregation at Hartle- ton, using the Union Church. Mr. Thompson, in 1847, was succeeded in order by Reys. James Williamson, W. S. Morrison and J. B. Adams to 1859. Rev. Phineas B. Marr was the pastor from 1859 to 1865, when Rev. J. D. Reardon took charge and remained until 1880. After Mr. Reardon retired the congregation was sup- plied by Revs. Dr. David Kennedy and others,
On February 16, 1858, a petition, signed by the majority of the electors within certain boun- daries, was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions, asking for the incorporation of a bor- ough to be called Hartleton. The petition, hav- ing been read, was laid before the grand jury, which reported in favor of the prayer of the petitioners being granted, and, on September 18, ; until 1885, when Rev. C. E. Edwards became 1858, the charter was granted by the court.
the settled pastor.
The Presbyterian Church building was com- meneed in 1883, but was not finished nutil 1×85. This good work was done chiefly through 1862, when a -chool-building with two -chool- the exertions of Mr. Robert V. Glover.
THE LUTHERAN CHURCH .- The Lutheran- began to hold services in the Union Church about 1851, when Rev. F. Ruthroff organized a
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congregation. After him came Revs. Dimm, Rieser, Daniel Klose and Dr. Sahm. The pres- out brick church was built in 1875, under the pa-torate of Dr. Salmm. In the new church the pastors have been Roys. W. C. MeCove, Charles Schunre, until 1880, when he went as a mission- ary to India; M. 1. Furst and S. G. Finekle, the present incumbent.
The preachers of the Evangelical Association also hold regular bi-weekly services in the I'nion Church ; Rev. W. W. Rhoads, pastor.
COLONEL THOMAS HARTLEY, the founder of the town, though he never resided here, was born in Berks County, Pa., September 7, 1748. Hle received the rudiments of a classical educa- tion at Reading, and in the eighteenth year of his age went to York, Pa., where he commenced the study of law, under Samuel Jolison, Esq. ; was admitted to the bar of York County July 25, 1760, and soon distinguished himself as a lawyer. Hle earnestly espoused the cause of the colonies as against the mother country, and in 1771 was elected by the citizens of York, a member of the provincial meeting of deputies which was held in Philadelphia in July of that vear. In 1775 he was a member of the provin- cial convention which met in Philadelphia Jan- mary 23d.
January 10, 1776, he was elected by Congress lieutenant-colonel of the Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion, of which William Irvine was colonel; and after the capture of Colonel Irvine, Colonel Hartley commanded the battalion. It served oule year. In 1777 he was appointed colonel in one of the new regiments of the Pennsylvania Line and commanded a brigade at the battle of the Brandywine. In 1778 part of his regiment was sent into the West Branch region, soon after the massacre at Wyoming; he was at Sunbury with his command Angust Ist, and Money An- gust 8th and left there on September 21st, on a campaign against the Indians. The command marched through swamps, over creeks and mountains, and had numerous skirmishes with the enemy. It penetrated the northern wilds almost to the New York line, destroyed the In- diam villages on the Tioga and Wyalnsing, and returned to Sunbury October 5, after having made a march of several hundred miles.
On February 13, 1779, after three years' ser- vice, he resigned his commission. In 1783 he was elected a member of the council of censors. In 1787 he was a member of the State Conven- tion which adopted the Constitution of the United States. In 1788 he was elected a mem- ber of the First Congress and was succes sively elected to the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Congresses, dying while a member, at his home in York, December 21, 1800, in his fifty-third year. Governor MeKen, on April 28, 1800, commissional him a major-general of the Fifth Division of the Pennsylvania Militia, consisting of the counties of York and Adams. Hle left two children, Charles W. Hartley, af- terwards prothonotary of York County, and a daughter, Eleanor, married to Dr. James Hall, of Philadelphia. Colonel Hartley, while in Congress, delivered the first speech ever made in America on the tariff question. His speeches, as found in the Congressional Debates, are fine specimens of logic and oratory. He was deci- dedly one of the ablest representatives of his day. His remains lie in front of St. John's Episcopal Church, of York, Pa.
CHAPTER XV.
LEWIS TOWNSHIP.'
No serions attempt to divide Hartley township was made until September, 1855. As the terri- tory of Hartley township, in the new county of Union, covered more than one-third of the entire county, it was thought necessary to make a di- vision of it. Accordingly at the September session of the court, upon a petition being pre- sented for that purpose, Henry Motz, George Shear and John Sehrach were appointed com- missioner- to make a new town-bip ont of the castern part of Hartley, and, on December 22, 1855, Messrs. Motz, Sehrach and Slear made a report in favor of a new town-hip, giving its bonds on the same day exceptions were filed. February 23, 1856, exceptions not sustained, and John Datesman, Flavy Clingan and James D. Chamberlin appointed reviewers. May 21,
' By R. V. B. Lincoln,
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1856, order for reviews continued. John Dates- 1758, became the boundary line between the counties of Cumberland and Berks, and re- mained such until 1772. It ran northwest on man, one of the reviewers, having been sick, John B. Linn was appointed in his place. July 10, 1856, David Watson appointed in place of or near the boundary line of Benjamin and Jolin B. Linn. September 20, 1856, John S. Schrach was appointed, and order to viewers thus constituted continued. December, 1856, reviewers made report in favor of a new town- ship, running by the same lines as the first views. Exceptions filed. February 14, 1857, "after hearing exceptions to report, both this and re- port of reviewers being in favor of the division of the township by the same lines, the exceptions are overruled and report confirmed, and the new township, as designated by the viewers, erected and constituted into a new township, to be called the township of Lewis." This name was given to it in honor of Judge Ellis Lewis, who presided over the courts of Union County with great ability from 1833 to 18 12.
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