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and disappeared before the onward march of reason and of knowledge.
THE LUTHERAN CHURCH .- In 1851 the old log structure was demolished and a new brick church, two-storied, with a gallery around three sides, was erected on its site.
This church was regularly used by the Faith- eran and Reformed congregations until, in 1883, it, too, in its turn, had to succumb to the spirit of improvement abroad in the land. In that year the brick church was taken down and a larger and more modern building erected on the opposite side of the turnpike, on land ob- tained from Sammel Rubl. The church has a commodious Sunday-school room in the rear part of the building. It is provided with a bell, ornamented with a tall spire, stained glass win- dows, etc., and, taken in all, is a credit to the people who provided the means for its erection. As far as can now be ascertained, Rev. John G. Heim was the first regular pastor of the Luth- erans,
In 1831 the now venerable John G. Anspach assumed the pastorate of the Lutheran congre- gation, and continued to serve in that capacity until 1884, when he resigned, after a pastorate of more than fifty years. He was succeeded by Rev. - Finekle, the present pastor.
THE REFORMED CHURCH .- For several years after the building of the Ray Church there does not appear to have been any regular pastor for the German Reformned congregation there, al- though it is not unlikely that the Revs. J. G. Phreemer, J. Dietrich, John Amrand and George Geistweit, and perhaps others, occasionally preached there. In 1808 and 1809, Rev. Jacob Dieffenbach lived in Mifflinburg and preached to the Reformed congregation there and to others in the valley. He resigned in 1810 and wassuc- ceeded by the celebrated J. H. Fries, a more ex- tended notice of whom will appear in the history of Mifflinburg. Mr. Fries died in 1839 and was succeeded, successively, by Rovs. Ephraim Kieffer, Weisz, John C. Bucher, Rittenhouse, George E. Addams and A. C. Whitmer, the present inemubent. The congregation at Ray's has always been served by the pastor of the Re- formed congregation at Mifflinburg.
CHURCH OF THE EVANGELICAL, ASSOULI-
MON .- About 1855 a small log building was built in the northern part of the town-hip by this association. Thisunpretentious building was usually knowa under the name of the " temple," and continued to be used for religions purposes until, in 1879, its place was supplied by a neat little church, weather-boarded and painted white, called " Pleasant Grove Evangelical Church," from the clump of pine-trees by which it is environed. In 1875 a brick church was erected by the same seet in the village of Mill- mont, the erection of which was materially as- sisted by the bequest of John Brown, made in 1846.
There was also a church erected in 1878, at Swengle, chiefly through the exertions of Rev. David Williams, a Baptist preacher, then hav- ing his home at Lewisburgh. This church is a union church, and free for all denominations of orthodox Christians.
The members of the Evangelical Association have leased from Mr. William Swengle a grove containing about ten acres of land near to Swengle, whereon have been erected cottages and other conveniences for the annual camp- meeting's there held.
On a slightly elevated knoll a short distance northwest of Millmont are the remains of an old burying-ground, in which were deposited the mortal remains of many of the first settlers of the neighborhood. Over half a century has passed since any interments have been made there. The great majority of the graves were unmarked and part of the grave-yard has been for many years under cultivation. On the part not yet desecrated by the plow lie a few frag- ments of broken stone, not marble, but reddish sandstone from the adjacent mountain, ou which part of the inscription is still legible,-e. g., " In memory of Andrew Fox, Jr., who departed this life October 1, 1795, aged " - here the Hone is broken off, and the remainder gone. On another, the top part of the stone containing the name is gone, but on the bottom part is re- corded in German the fact that the person to whose memory it was erected died December 15, 1791, etc.
SCHOOLS .- The school history of Lewistown- ship is connected with that of Hartley until the
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division of the latter, in 1857. At the time there was the brick school-house near Swengle, a school-house on the turnpike near to Reish's, the near to Orwig's mill, and one on the line between Hartley and Lewis, near Pem's Creek, to which have been added one at Spring Creek and one at Millmont.
VILLAGES,-When the Lewisburgh and Ty- rone R. R. was extended from Mifflinburg to Laurelton, in 1875, in order to accommodate the business of Hartleton, which was left out in the cold, something over a mile from the railroad, a depot was located in a field belonging to Jacob E. Royer, to which there was no public road or other means of access, and which was named Millmont (an appellation suggestive of a mill and a mountain). The place was a dead level, part of it a swamp, but a mill (Knauer's) was about a mile distant, and within two miles a mountain (Jack's) loomed up proudly and grandly. Steps were immediately taken to have a publie road laid out to the depot, and a small, but substantial, brick build- ing was erected for depot purposes. Mr. Royer, the owner of the land, had some acres of it laid ont in lots, and built a number of houses on them, and sold others to parties who built on them, so that now (1885) Millmont consists of about thirty dwelling-houses, two stores, one grain-elevator, one bark-mill propelled by steam, one steam planing-mill, box-factory, and one church (Evangelical Association). A post-office was established there in 1883.
At about the time that Milhnont was made a regular station on the railroad, a switch or siding was constructed and a post-office estab- lished at Swengle, about three-fourths of a mile cast of Millmont. It was so named from Mr. John Swengle, who then owned the land. Here, too, a small hamlet of about twenty houses has sprung into existence, including two stores, a blacksmith-shop and a grain elevator.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE BOROUGH OF NEW BERLIN .!
NEW BERLIN is situated on a bluff on the ! By R. V. B. Lincoln.
north bank of Penn's Creek, which is, at. this point, the dividing line between the counties of Union and Suyder. It is on the east end of the John Ord survey, made August 10, 1769, and on the west end of the George Albrecht, sur- veyed December 19, 1771.
In 1769 John Beatty settled near the spring north of the town, and in 1775 carried on a tannery on the site of the town. He died in 1787. In 1792 George Long laid out the town of New Berlin ; Frederick Evans was surveyor. It was for many years called " Longstown." The date of the first deed for a lot is JJanuary 18, 1793, given to Adam Suyder.
The residents in 1792 were Christopher Miller and George Moyer or Meyer; in 1794, Hugh Beatty, Geo. Moyer, Christopher Miller, Zeba Smith, Philip Har- mony, William Black, John Mitchell and Martin Car- stetter; in 1796, William Beatty, Hugh Beatty, Wil- liam Black, James Cook, Isaac Gill, James Hender- son, Christopher Miller, shop-keeper; John Mitchell, George Moyer, tailor ; John Overmeier, Wm. Rarick, blacksmith ; Christopher Seebold, tavern-keeper; John Smith, tavern-keeper; Peter Smith, tailor; Adam Specht, shoemaker; Martin Treaster. In 1800 they were William Beatty, Hugh Beatty, Philip Berger, John Clark, James Cook, Isaac Gill, George Grove, Philip Herman, carpenter; George Meyer, weaver; George Meyer, tailor; Philip Overmeier, James Park, Esq., store-keeper; William Rarick, Jacob Rothrow, Christopher Secbold, Peter Smith, Adam Specht, Mar- tin Treaster, Andrew Wagoner, inn-keeper. In 1802 the additional residents were Peter Himmelreich, Zacharias Mussina, Peter Renninger, shoemaker; Jeremiah Speddy, shoemaker. In 1803 Peter Hack- enburg, Leffard Haughawout, Robert Lucas, John Solomon, Daniel Spyker were additional residents. In 1807 Jacob Berger, Philip Miller, Henry Shoffler, Dr. Jacob Stern were additional residents. In 1808 Christian Estrich, merchant; Jacob Feather, hatter; William Franz, George Fought, Thomas Lehman, schoolmaster; William McCullough, Adam Maurer, Henry Pontins, Jr., Peter Smith, gunsmith; Henry Springer, chair-maker; Daniel Winter, inn-keeper. In 1810 William Kessler, John Shout, James Sproul, merchant. In 1811 James Charlton, Jacob Dennis, blacksmith; John Dennis, cordwainer; Abraham Hubler, weaver; Caspar Yost.
In 1814 there were fifty-nine taxables in the town, thirty log honses, seventeen log buildings for business purposes; one frame house, belonging to John Shout. Of the inhabitants, William Kessler was a tanner; John Borger, a millwright ; Sammel Bann, a gun. smith; John W. Epler, a schoolmaster; Andrew Moyer and George Eisenhuth were merchants ; Wil- liam Francis, Jacob Hine and Henry Weirick were
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inn-keepers : Christian Scebold, justice of the peace ; Adam Specht, Jr., and Philip Seebold were potters ; Frederick Shressler, stocking-weaver; Henry Spring- er, turner; Jacob Stern, doctor; Henry Hoekman, Jacob Hockman, David Neyhart, Henry Specht, John Shont and Abraham Solomon were joiners.
The commissioners appointed to select a seat of justice for Union County reported New Ber- lin as the most eligible location, and selected a site for the court-house on lot of Christopher Seebold, and in May, 1815, the courts and varions county offices were removed to New Berlin, which remained the county-seat until 1855, when it was removed to Lewisburgh, upon the erection of the county of Suyder. In 1816 the jail was erected by Frederick Hipple; contract price, four thousand dollars. Additions to the town were made at different times by Christopher Seebold, Christopher Miller, Henry Gross and Alexander Beatty. A plan of the original town and the subsequent additions, made by Adam Wilt, of Hartley, was recorded.
On the 20th of June, 1816, a public market or fair was held at New Berlin, lasting for three days, for the purpose of selling horses, cattle, etc. According to the advertisement, "Here the weary peddler was invited to repose a few days with his pack, and at the same time to vend jewelry to his advantage ; lovers of music and dancing to spend the careless hours in pleas- ure. Boxers and gamblers are not invited, but may attend at their own risk." About this time James Merrill and John Lashells, Esqs., located in New Berlin. (See Bench and the Bar, page 1201.)
George A. Snyder, Esq., the second son of Governor Snyder, was prothonotary of Union County from 1824 to 1830.
Among the residents in 1829 were Daniel Auble, George Boyer, Michael Bobe and Adam Shower, store-keepers; Samuel Brobst, Thomas Grier, Peter Kurtin, William Rockey, Philip Seebold and Adam Shower, inn-keepers ; James Merrill, John Lashells, Charles Mans, Isane Slenker and John Wyeth, law- vers ; Joseph R. Lotz and Jonathan Rishel, doctors ; George Miller and William Caruthers, printers ; John B. Potter, schoolmaster; Philip Franck, watch- maker ; John Bishop, postmaster.
In 1832 Samuel Aurand, Samuel Banm, Jr., Adam Shower and Philip Seebold were hotel-keepers; George Bogar, Peter Baum, Michael Brobst, Jesse Beaver, A. D. Hahn, Daniel Long and Samnel Wil-
son were merchants; David E. Germain ant John Parvin, teachers.
About 1816 George Spring had laid an ad- dition to New Berlin called Springfield, and disposed of the lots by a lottery.
On May 16, 1837, the grand jury of the county reported favorably on the petition of the inhabitants of New Berlin asking to be incorpo- rated as a borough, which was confirmed by the court. Mr. Long, in laying out his town, re- served and dedicated to public use a strip of land along Penn's Creek at the foot of the bluff, which is still used as a common pasture-ground by the citizens of his town.
On February 19, 1839, the hotel of Samuel Aurand, then one of the principal hotels, was burned. It was conrt weck and the house was filled with guests in attendance on the court. Some of them made narrow escapes. On April 28, 1832, the county commissioners had, in the the name of the county, subscribed two hundred thousand dollars to the stock of the Susque- hanna Railroad Company, npon condition that the road should run on the west side of the river. This subscription aroused intense ex- citement and opposition. In obedience to a call, the people of the county assembled at New Ber- lin to express their indignation. But the friends of the subscription, as well as its enemies, assem- bled. It was the largest meeting ever held in the town. Its deliberations were very hoister- ous and engendered much bad feeling. Reso- Intions were finally passed approving the sub- seription.
The bad feelings aroused by this railroad subscription, coupled with a consequent move- ment, soon afterwards, to ereet a new court-house in New Berlin, were the moving canses which, in 1855, caused a division of the county and the consequent removal from New Berlin of the seat of justice.
November 13, 1852, the Union County Agricultural Society was formed at New Berlin. This society is in existence, and holds its annual fair upon its grounds near Lewisburgh. The first officers of the society were Jacob Gundy, president ; S. N. Worden, recording secretary ; R. V .. B. Lincoln, corresponding secretary ; and Robert II. Laird, treasurer. The first fair of
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the society was held at New Berlin on the 13th and H th of October, 1853.
OLD PUBLIC BUILDINGS .- After the removal of the seat of justice to Lewisburgh, the Legis- lature passed an act appointing Ner Middles- warth and Henry C. Eyer, of Suyder County, and John V. Barber, of Union County, com- missioners to sell, by publie sale or otherwise, the court-house, jail and all the lots belonging to the county, in the borough of New Berlin, and divide the proceeds equally between the two counties. The court-house was bought by the school directors of the borough, and converted into a school building. Adjacent to the court- honse stood a long, two-storied brick building, called the "State-House," in which, on the lower floor, were the offices of the prothonotary, register and recorder, county commissioners and treasurer ; and in the second story were the grand and petit jury rooms ; this was sold to Henry Seebold, who converted the State-House into dwellings. The jail was sold to Jomm M. Taylor, who converted it into a dwelling.
INDUSTRIES .-- Before the days of rafting lumber down the Penn's Creek were ended, a goodly number of the rafts were sold at New Berlin. At least one tannery has always been among the industries of the town ; one is now carried on by James C. Schoch, and is, perhaps, the most extensive in the county. A dam was built across Penn's Creek, and a three-storied brick flouring-mill erected here by George Orwig and George Eisenhuth. It was bought by Solomon Kleckner, who remained the owner thereof until his death, in 1837; it then passed into the hands of his son, Joseph Kleckner. Its successive owners since have been Dreisbach & Schoch, Stahl & Pellman, Houtz & Dunkle- berger, Albert M. Houtz and George A. Schoch.
SeHooLs .- As early as 1800 there was a school-house, the first in the place, on Beatty's land, at northeast corner of Main and Cherry Streets. George Malick is said to have been the first teacher there. Some of his successors were Mr. McCord, 1804; John Beckman, 1806; Thomas Lehman, 1808 ; James Charlton, 1811; John W. Eppler, from 1812 to 1817 ; Joseph Stilwell and John Mauck, from 1817 to 1822; then Mr. Fields, John B. Porter, etc. About 88
1820 a stock company erected a frame building on lot belonging to the county, in the rear of the court-house. J. H. Hickok was the first teacher here ; he was also the first teacher who taught the classics in New Berlin. From 1826 to 1829 Messrs. Pratt and J. G. Armstrong tanght here ; in 1830 Mr. Hoge, succeeded by George A. Snyder, a son of Governor Simon Snyder, and an accomplished scholar. About 1832 John Parvin taught here for a time. He was succeeded by John St. Clair, a very learned man. After him, Henry A. Zellers, Michael H. Weaver, Hopewell Cox, Thomas Stilwell, David Hayes and Absalom Townsend, up to about 1838. About 1824 the octagonal brick school, which stood on the Emanuel Church lot, was built by subscription. Thomas Grier was the first teacher here. Next came John B. Porter; in 1829, Shubael Strawbridge was teaching here; from 1831 to 1836 David E. German taught here; succeeded by Catharine Kessler; abont 1827-28, Lewis Bertram taught; in 1828-30, Lneretia Moss, and also Mrs. Grove and her daughter Sophia ; in 1834- 35, a man named Crosby, said to have been an excellent scholar. A private school was kept in the second story of the court-house ; among its teachers was Aaron C. Fisher. After the borough incorporation the common-school sys- tem was adopted, school directors elected and the seltools, three in number, put into operation under the common-school law, in the school- houses then existing. Of this first school board, John Seebold, Esq., still survives ; born Jie 14, 1802, his erect form and elastic step would lead no one a stranger to him to suppose that the storms of more than eighty-three years had swept over him. In 1857, the school board having bought the old court-house, all the schools of the borough were centred in that building, where they still remain. Among the common- school teachers were Catharine Kessler, Anna Miller, Lewis Kessler, Kate Horlacher, Catha- rine Swineford, Harriet Swineford, Lizzie Ger- man, Jane Winter, Sarah Yoder, Kate Mauck, George Horlacher, Amon Shiffer, Charles Noet- ling, William Noctling, John Noctling, J. T. Smith, George Hill, Isaac King, Miss Calvin, A. G. Quinlan, Frank Weiriek, Henry Aurand,
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Emma Anrand, Ella Seebold, George Kessler, etc. Samuel Hermany is the veteran school director of the borough, having been in the service for twenty-six years.
THE REFORMED CHURCH .- Rev. JJonathan Rahanser was the first preacher of that denom- ination ; services held in the vicinity of New Ber- lin. Reverend George Geistweit succeeded him, and preached occasionally in New Berlin. From 1808 to 1810 Rev. Jacob Dieffenbach was the German Reformed preacher at Mifflinburg, and also at New Berlin. From 1812 until his death, in 1839, Rev. J. HI. Fries ministered to the spiritual wants of the Reformed Church at New Berlin, preaching there statedly during all this time. In 1821 and 1822 the Emanuel Reformed and Lutheran congregations unitedly built a church, the dedication of which took place on July 31st, by Rev. Mr. Kendall, of Berks County, assisted by Revs. Shindel, Smith and Fries. This church was of brick, two- storied, with a gallery on three sides, and with a steeple surmounted by a brass-winged angel, with a trumpet in his hand. After the death of Mr. Fries, Rev. Ephraim Kieffer became the pastor, and after him came, successively, Revs. A. B. Caspar, Weiser, Weisz, Aurand, Hoff- meyer, Sciple, Dotterer, Yearick, Kohler and Dietz, the present inemmbent.
In 1867, the Lutherans having decided to build a church for themselves, the Emanuel Church was remodeled and modernized. The serond story was taken down, and along with it the angel and his trumpet, and it is now called the Emannel Reformed Church.
THE LUTHERAN CHURCH .- The first Lu- theran preacher was Rev. Ilgen, who lived near Aaronsburg, in Centre County ; he preached to the New Berlin Lutherans occasionally from 1800 to 1809. At that time Rev. J. G. Heim became the Lutheran pastor at the Dreisbach Church, in Buffalo Valley, and also preached at New Berlin until about 1831, when Rev. J. G. Anspach, of Mifflinburg, became the pastor of the New Berlin congregation, and remained such until 1850.
From 1857 to 1860 Rev. P. Rizer was the pastor ; from 1860 to 1870, Rev. Daniel Klose; from 1870 to 1873, Rev. P. Sheeder; from
1871 to 1876, Rev. Dr. P. Salon ; from 1876 to 1880, Rev. W. C. McCool; from 1880 to the present time (1886), Revs. A. R. Glaze and A. C. Felker. In 1867 the new Lutheran Church was built. It is an imposing structure of brick, with a large and commodious basement.
THE EVANGELICAL, ASSOCIATION carly or- ganized a society at. New Berlin, and on Febri- ary 13, 1817, the church was dedicated in the presence of a great assemblage of people. Over two hundred steds and sleighs are said to have been in attendance. This church was situated on Water Street ; it was a wooden structure, weather-boarded and painted, and is said to have been the first church ever built by the association in America or elsewhere. It was nsed for the purposes of religious worship until, in 1873, it was torn down, and the material available for the purpose used in the construc- tion of the new brick church built in that year. A great deal of the old church material was manufactured into canes and other souvenirs, and other portions taken away and preserved by the brethren as relies of the first church build- ing of their denomination in the world.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH .- The Pres- byterian congregation in New Berlin was organ- ized in 1811. James Merrill, John Lashells and Joseph Stilwell, elders. In 1839 or 18-10, Rev. B. B. Newton came to New Berlin, and taught a High School or seminary for a year or two, and preached occasionally. In 1841 Rev. G. W. Thompson became the regularly-settled pastor, suceceded by Revs. James Williamson, W. S. Morrison, J. B. Adams, P. B. Marr, J. D. Reardon and C. E. Edwards, with occasional supplies. The New Berlin congregation has had since its organization the same pastors as the Mifflinburg and Hartleton Churches.
In 1844 the Presbyterian Church at New Berlin was built, and in October of that year some small boys having gathered some shavings from the church, and set them on fire, burned down the barn of Michael Kleckner, which was near to the church, with all the bay and grain therein, and came near starting a conflagration which would have been very disastrous to the town.
UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH .- The Eman-
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nel Church of the United Brethren in Christ was built in 1857, mainly through the self-sae- rificing labors of the Rev. Eusebius Hershey. It is a brick structure.
THE METHODIST CHURCH .- The Methodists used the Evangelical Church for their services until about 1810 or 1841, when they built a brick church for themselves. After the division of the county, and the removal of some of the members and the death of others, the society, never strong in numbers, became so small that the Methodist preachers quit preaching there The church had been unused for several years, when, abont 1876, in a storm of wind and rain, the roof of the church was blown off and the walls so injured that they had to be taken down. The bricks were sold and used in other build- ings, and the site of the church is occupied by a dwelling-house. There is now no regularly-es- tablished Methodist society in New Berliu.
NEWSPAPERS,-Upon the removal of the county offices to New Berlin, in 1815, Henry Shaup bought the Union, a paper published in Milllinburg, and removed it to New Berlin.
Hugh Maxwell started a paper there in 1815, called the Advocate. It lived about a year and a half.
Frederick Wire, about 1816, started the New Berlin Gazette, and in 1822 sold it to Nathaniel Henrie, who changed the name to I'nion Times. On July 2, 1825, John Cum- mings, Jr., became its editor ; on October 1st John A. Sterrett, Esq., in 1828 John Young- man ; next, John S. Ingram to September 12, 1834; James M. Kuester to September 19th, of the same year ; Gabriel Yearich next, for sev- eral years. In 1842 it was published by Jacob Reichley & Co., with John M. Baum as editor, and afterwards by Winter & Baum, and John M. Baum. About 1853 it passed into the hands of David IT. Roush, and, upon the con- summation of the division of the county, was sold to Frank Weirick, and removed to Mid- dleburg.
In 1821 Amos Stroh began a German paper under the high-sounding title of Die Stimme ron Union and Union, Northumberland and Centre County Advertiser. It was Federal in uts politics and died with its party.
In 1828 William Carothers published the Union Hickory, which was, in May, 1829, re- moved by him to Lewisburgh.
In 1828 Joseph Miller commeneed the pub- lication of an Anti-Masonic paper in the German language at New Berlin, which was styled Der Anti-Freymauser Advokat and Freund des Freyen coll:s.
About the same time, a paper in the English language, to advocate the cause of political Anti-Masonry, was established in New Berlin, called the Anti-Masonic Star, of which Charles Seebold, Esq., still living in New Berlin, was for some years the editor and proprietor. Abont 1839 the name of the paper was changed to Union Star, and passed into the hands of Israel Gutelius, Esq., then sheriff of the county. August 11, 1843, Gutelius sold the establishment to Michael H. Weaver. In December, 1844, it was published by John Smith. On July 23, 1845, Joseph Casey, Esq., assumed control of and published and edited the paper until December 17, 1845, when it was again turned over to John Smith. Smith contimmed to pub- lish the paper until January 12, 1848, when the names of J. S. Hauke and D. W. Woods appear as editors and proprietors. On July 14, 1848, the paper was issued in the sole name of D. W. Woods, and so remained until April 3, 1851, when the name of Adam J. Greer appears as the editor and publisher, and the name was changed from Union Star to Union County Star. April 3, 1851, Adam J. Greer retires, and Merrill & Smith (George Merrill and Edward Smith) appear as the publishers and editors. March 23, 1854, William T. Leader bought the establishment and published the paper until the division of the county, in 1855, when he sold it to Rev. Samuel Gutelius, who removed it to Mifllinburg, where it was pub- lished by him and others for a few years, when the Star forever set, and its light ceased to illumine the political horizon.
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