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2. Litzenberger's, near Kern's Mill. 2. 6. Qnth.
3. Sandy Peter's William 11. Sennuels.
4. Schwerk-ville (Primary) Miss Anna A, Mosser.
5. Schucksville (Secondary). .Charles A. Reischner.
i. sand Spring. 1. George Weisehier.
7. I'mouville ( Primary ) C. D. Rhoads.
8. I'monville (Secondary ). A. M. Kline.
4. Long's, or Benninger's,
c. F. Kuder.
0. Diebert's Vitloy.
I. S. Hitter.
11. Rockdale ...
L. M. Beidler.
12. Keck's.
11. 1), Keck.
13. hanry's ..
A. H. Bieber.
14. Model, or Kern's.
H. A. Franty.
15. Scheidy's
O. E. Kulins.
16. Ballietsville
J. M. Moyer.
17. Ironton ( Primary).
C. E. Frantz.
18. Ironton ( Secondary). 1. G. Schmucker.
19. Coplay Creek, or Ruchsville. (. 11. Werley.
20. Levan's
Miss Amelia C. Wotring.
The school board for the year 1883 consisted of Edwin Knutz (president), A. W. De Long (secretary), Willoughby Koch (treasurer), A. J. Breder, Dr. A. J. Erdman, and II. P. K. Romich.
The official records of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lehigh show the following to have been elected school directors :
18.40 .- Conrad Kennel, Isaac Hermany.
1841.1-Charles Weaver, Simon Hankey.
1842 .- John Sheirer, William Lentz.
18132-Joseph Eberhard, John Miller.
1844, 1845, 0846 .- No returns recorded.
1817 .- David Lanry, Aaron Kohler.
1818 .- Stephen Groff, Johin Schantz.
1819 .- James Newhard, Aaron Kisenhard.
1850 .- Abraham Neff, David Laury.
1851 .- Stephen Saeger, Puul Bailliet.
1852 .- A. J. G. Dnbbs, Henry Rockel, Joseph Newhard, William Leisen- ring.
1853 .- John Romig, William Leisenring, Martin Seipel, Abraham Yellis.
1854 .- Paul Brown, Joseph Newhard.
1855,-E. M. Kuntz, 3. Woodring, W. J. Keck, E. Kern.
1856 .- Peter Hendricks, Simon Kemerer.
1857 .- Reuben Saeger, Jonathan Schneck, Owen Romig.
1858 .- Franklin P. Mickley, Daniel Levan.
1850 .- Moses B. Schaadt, George J. Snyder, Jr.
1860,-William J. Keck, Joseph Eberhard.
1861 .- Josiah Lanry, Thomas Morgan.
1862 .- Francis Breinig, D. K. Wotring.
1863 .- David Sheirer, L. A. G. Whartman.
1861 .- Samnel Sell, Kenben Cole. 1865 .- Moses Heilman, Eli Hoffman.
1866 .- Samuel Miller, Edward Kohler.
1867 .- Edmund Erdman, William Kistler, E. Long.
1868 .- John Croll, Nathan Schneck.
1869,-Joseph Keller, William Andrews, Renben Steckel.
1870 .- S. A. Brown, John Seiberling.
1871 .- Jeremiah Kuntz, Joel Gross.
1872 .- Joseph Keller, A. W. De Long, Thomas Bertsch.
1873 .- Reuben Steckel, William Deibert.
1874 .- Joel Clanser, Henry Romig.
1×75 .- Joseph Keller, Josiah Scheirer.
1876 .- Hiram Balliet, George Ross.
1877 .- David M. Scheirer, F. P. Brown.
1878,-William Brown, Francis P. Semmel.
1879 .- Tilghinan Schneck, John Houser.
1×80 .- A. De Long, David Scheirer, Elias Deibert, Frank P. Brown.
1881 .- Willoughby Koch, Alleu Brader.
1882 .- Edwin Kuhus, John Hanser.
1883 .- Heury Romig, A. W. De Long.
1581 .- A. C. P. Lanry, Dr. A. J. Erdmau, Willoughby Koch, Joel Clauser.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
DAVID LAURY.
The Laury family are of Scotch lineage, Michael Laury, the great-grand father of David, having been a native of Scotland. He married Barbara Goodshall, born in Würtemberg, Germany, and with his wife emigrated to the United States in 1756. Among their children was Godfrey, born November 22, 1756, in Philadelphia, and married April 4, 1781, to Susanna Rockel, whose son, John, the father of David, was born September 12, 1784, in Lehigh County, and married in 1804 to Maria Magdalena Kuhus. Their son, David, was born June 1, 1805, in Lehigh County, Pa. He was raised as a farmer-boy, his schooling, which was
2 In this year there were seventy-seven votes cast in favor of the acceptance of the common-school law of 1834, unul seventy-seven votes against.
2 In this year eighty six votes wero cast for having common schools, and eighty agrinst, resulting in the township's accepting the provisions of the net of 1831.
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in German, being quite limited. After attaining a suitable age he learned the blacksmith trade, and during this time employed his leisure hours in study and reflection. While by self-application he gained in book-knowledge, he also educated himself by close observation, judgment of men and things, and keen perceptions. On the 12th of August, 1827, he was married to Maria Kline, a daughter of Jacob Kline, of Lowhill township, with whom he lived happily for a period of over fifty years, and during which time they were blessed with ten children, -four sons and six daughters,-of whom seven survive. In the year 1832 he moved to Lanry's Station, then called Slate Dam, and there engaged in the mercantile business in eopartnership with Messrs. Rupp & Shifferstein. Later on the firm dissolved partnership, and Mr. Laury continued the business on his own account. Encouraged by his well doing, and believing that a grist-mill was a need in that section, he erected one. The enterprise proving a success, he established not only a business reputation, but also a credit which few men in those days enjoyed. In company with James Newhard he at the same time held the agency of the Union Slate Company, of Baltimore, Md., and did so well that in the year 1844 he associated with himself Hou. James M. Porter, Samuel Taylor, Thomas Craig, Sr., and Robert MeDowell in the slate quarrying business at Kern's Mill, in Washington township, the spot now known as Slatington. His business prospered amazingly, and when yet a young man he manifested an interest in politics. He also connected himself with the military companies of the county when the volunteer organization was a power, and afterwards held various commissions from captain to major-general. Being a warm Democrat, his military association led him to an active partici- pation in the politics of the county, and gradually he acquired considerable influence in his party, and ulti- mately shared its honors.
In 1846 he was nominated for the Assembly by his party for the legislative district then composed of Le- high and Carbon, the district being entitled to two members jointly, the Democrats of Carbon having at the same time put in the field Peter Bowman. Mr. Laury was, however, defeated. In 1850 he was re- nominated for the Legislature, and elected, and so also in the years 1851-53, in each instance contrary to , his own wishes, and without opposition. In 1856 he was elected Presidential elector of the district, and on the electoral college meeting at Harrisburg, on December 3d of that year, he was present and recorded his vote for James Buchanan for President of the United States. In 1853 he was appointed postmaster at Laury's Station, and held the position until after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. A year later he was reappointed to the position, without his con- sent, by the very party that had charged him with disloyalty, and reaccepting the commission forwarded he held the position until his death. In 1865 he was
eleeted justice of the peace of his township, and in 1867 was appointed by the courts of Lehigh and Northampton to represent the district in the Board of State Revenue Commissioners for adjusting the amount of taxation to be raised in the different see- tions and counties in, the State. In 1868 he was elected associate judge of the courts of the county, and five years later, after the expiration of his term, was re-elected to the same position, In 1855 he was appointed express, freight, tieket, and station agent at Laury's by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com- pany, and held the position until his death.
In 1870 Mr. Laury was elected president of the North Whitehall Loan and Building Association, which he carried successfully through in less than nine years. In the year - 1838 he and Robert McDowell established a Sunday-school, known as the Slate- Quarry Sunday-school. It was at first exclusively English, though the exercises were later conducted in English and German. It was the first Sunday-school projected in Lehigh County outside of Allentown, and Mr. Laury maintained his love for the cause to the end of his days, having at the time of his death been the superintendent of the St. John's Sunday-school near his own home. In the year 1844 he was fore- most in having the common-school system adopted by his township, and aided in overcoming a strong and violent opposition to it. He was elected one of the : directors of the first school board chosen, and being made its treasurer, he retained the position for six years successively. In 1872 he was made one of the building committee of St. John's Church, and gave much valuable assistance to the furtherance and com- pletion of the project. He also manifested great in- terest in the projection of the Lehigh Valley Rail- road. He was called to discharge many responsible trusts, and in every one proved faithful to the letter. His career was interesting and extended. Perhaps no citizen of the county had more influence in public affairs during his life than he. In the Democratic party of the county he was when in his best years a power,-his reputation, sagacity, intelligence, and force of character giving him an influence that did much to shape its character and policy. He possessed enormous energy, and wonderful activity. He was a born leader of men. His maguificent physical pro- portions and the dignity of his appearance gave him a hold upon other men which rendered the task of directing them comparatively easy. lle was a man of decided convictions and of great courage. He did not believe in coneealing his convictions for policy's sake. He never hesitated between two opinions. His personal welfare was never for a moment taken into consideration. That a thing was right was enough to commend it to his hearty support. That a certain policy was wrong was sufficient to command his in- stant and unrelenting opposition. While in the Leg- islature he stood pre-eminent among the public men of this State for the peenliar straightforwardness of
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his views, for the tenacity with which he stood by them after having arrived at a conclusion, and for his unswerving fidelity to the doctrines of the Democratic party. A man well informed on publie matters, he was notable for his interest in debate, and for the un- mistakable directness of his arguments. He was characterized by quick perception, an excellent mem- ory for facts, and an unusual correctness of judgment. He lived emphatically a blameless life, whether as a private citizen or as a public official. His religious convictions were as strong as his political convictions. He felt a deep interest in the welfare of his church, and was ever ready to give his time and means for its advancement. He was a man of genial, sociable dis- position. formed strong attachments toward his friends and neighbors, and possessed those estimable qualities which endeared him to all classes. He was wonder- fully liberal in his gifts to every deserving canse, but for doubtful objects he had nothing. He loved truth and manliness. He hated falschood, humbug, and cowardiec. He was not a man to regard with complacency anything which savored of evil. Dubi- ous or immoral projects were always sure of his unre- lenting hostility. But those movements which had for their objeet the advancement of religion and the benefit of humanity could always count upon his sub- stantial aid.
The death of Mrs. Laury occurred March 12, 1878. From this great loss Mr. Laury never fully recovered. His death followed that of his wife on the 28th of September, 1883, in his seventy-ninth year.
PAUL BALLIET.
The family of Balyards were of French extraction and flourished as warriors and statesmen in France, England, and later in Germany. During the seven- teenth century there lived a branch of this family in the province of Alsace, on the Rhine, of whom a descendant known as Paulus Balliet was born, in the year 1717. At the age of twenty-one he, with many other Huguenots, was compelled to flee from the re- ; ligions persecution which followed the revocation of the Ediet of Nantes. Hle embarked for America on the 10th of September, 1738, and located in Lehigh (then Northampton) County, Pa. He married Maria Magdalena Wotring, who was born in 1727 in the province of Lorraine, France. His death occurred in 1777, and that of his wife in 1802. Both are buried in Whitehall township. Their children are five sons -- Jacob, Nicholas, Stephen, Jolin, and Paul -and four daughters,-Catherine, Susan, Eva, and Magdalena. Stephen Balliet was born in 1753. He was by occupation a merchant, and active in public affairs as member of the House of Representatives at Harrisburg in 1789-90, and as United States rev- enue collector for the Second District of Pennsyl- vania. Tradition relates that he was also a Revolu-
tionary patriot. He married Magdalena Burkhalter (then spelled Burgalter), born in 1765, and had two sons, -Stephen and Joseph. Mr. Balliet died in 1821, and his wife in 1805. Their son, Stephen, was born Oct. 27, 1781, and married, Jan, 22, 1804, to Susan, daughter of Conrad Ihrie, of Easton, Pa., whose birth oeeurred Oct. 7, 1784. Their eleven children were Stephen, Susan, Stephen (20), Paul, Aaron, Maria, George, John, Charles, Sabina, and Caroline. The death of Mr. Balliet occurred in 1854, and that of his wife in 1852. Their son, Paul, the sub- ject of this biographical sketch, was born on the 11th of May, 1811, in Whitehall township, at the hamlet. known as Ballietsville, where the years of his youth were spent. His education was chiefly obtained at home, with later advantages at Easton, Pa. On re- turning from the latter place he assumed charge of a store in Heidelberg township, which he managed in connection with a furnace belonging to his father, and remained several years thus employed. Preferring the life of a farmer to the sedentary employment of a merchant, he cultivated his father's farm, of which he later became owner by purchase. He has continued the labors of an agriculturist from that time to the present. In connection with his brothers, Aaron and John, he subsequently embarked in mining enter- prises in North Whitehall township, which interest he still retains. At a later day he became and is still a stockholder in a furnace at Coplay in the vicinity of his home. Mr. Balliet was married to Sarah, danghter of Peter Moyer, of North Whitehall town- ship, whose surviving children are Paul E., Sabina (Mrs. James D. Schall), Josephine (Mrs. Harry H. Trumbower), Catherine ( Mrs. David Kline) Ella MI., and Amanda M. (Mrs. James Roney). Mrs. Balliet died Feb. 11, 1869, and Mr. Balliet was married a second time (on the 20th of May, 1878), to Mrs. Kate Emery, daughter of John Haines. In politics Mr. Balliet is a Republican, and has served as county commissioner, though the excitement attend- ing active political life is not congenial to his tastes. He is a supporter and member of the German Reformed Church of Unionville.
SAMUEL A. BROWN.
Adam Brown, the grandfather of Samuel A., was descended from German ancestry and a native of Northampton County, from whence he removed to Lehigh County. Ile was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Spait, whose son, Paul, born on the 24th of February, 1807, in Northampton County, resided in North Whitehall township, Lehigh Co, He married Miss Maria Wotring, of the same county and town- ship, and had children,-Elizabeth, Samuel A., Ste- phen P., Kittie Ann, Lonisa R., P. Franklin, and Hiram Evan, of whom five survive. Samuel A. was born Oct. 2, 1833, in North Whitehall township, where his boyhood was spent upon the farm of his father.
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His education was obtained at the schools in the im- mediate neighborhood of his home and at the Allen- town Seminary. His health being far from robust, necessitated, for a period of several years, cessation from aetive labor, though he was eventually able to perform the duties of a clerk or accountant. In 1862 he entered the army as first lieutenant of the One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and remained in the service eight months, when ill health compelled him to relinquish his com- mission. He then became an employe of the Tron- ton Railroad Company, where he remained for three years, performing the active duties of his position.
Mr. Brown was in 1868 married to Miss Amanda M., daughter of Stephen Graff, of North Whitehall township. ITe was before his marriage, and is still, engaged in mining in North Whitehall township, having, in connection with his brother, leased the iron-ore beds from the estate of his father. He has encouraged also a taste for agriculture, and devotes a portion of his time to farming, bringing to bear in this, as in other employments, both intelligence and enterprise. He is in his political associations a pronounced Democrat, and has served as justice of the peace and school director of the township. He was formerly associated with the Allentown National Bank as a director. Mr. Brown, with a view to the benefits arising from travel and change of scene, in 1880, made the tour of Germany, Austria, France, and Belgium, and experienced much benefit from the journey. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, though also a supporter of the German Reformed Church, with which Mrs. Brown is connceted.
AMANDES SIEGER.
Samuel Sieger, the grandfather of Amandes Sieger, was by birth a Prussian. Among his children was a son, Samuel, born in Siegersville, Lehigh Co., where he resided during his whole life. Ile married Miss Hattie Guth, of Guthville, Lehigh Co., and had chil- dren, - Edwin, Tilghman, John, Josiah, Lewis L., and Amandes. The last named was born at Siegers- ville, on the 24th of April, 1840, where his early youth was spent. At the age of eighteen his educa- tion was continned at Allentown, and subsequently at the Mount Holly Academy, Mount Holly, N. J. After some time spent in travel, he located at the place of his birth as a coal and lumber merchant, and continued this pursuit for four years, when he again gratified his taste for travel. Having, together with his brothers, an interest in ore-beds, he engaged in : the mining of iron ore, which is still continued, to- gether with the mining and manufacturing of slate for roofing purposes at Tripoli, Lynn township, where he is president of the Tripoli Slate Company. Mr. Sieger also for a brief period embarked in the grain and coal business. He was married on the 26th of
December, 1874, to Miss Catherine, daughter of Peter Hendricks, of Union County. Their children are Virginia Ann, Hattie, and Bessie. Mr. Sieger has been an important factor in the polities of his county and a zealous exponent of the principles of his party. As a Democrat he was elected in 1880 to the State Legislature, and by a loyal constituency re-elected to the same position in 1882, serving on the Committees on Printing, Ways and Means, Constitutional Reform, and City Passenger Railroads, and Mining. He is a Lutheran in his religious faith, and a member of the Jordan Lutheran Church. He is connected with the order of Masonry as member of Lehigh Lodge, No. 326, of Free and Accepted Masons.
STEPHEN P. BROWN.
Stephen P. Brown, the grandson of Adam and Margaret Spait Brown, and the son of Paul and Maria Wotring Brown, was born July 19, 1835, in North Whitehall township. The neighboring school afforded him the rudiments of learning, and Allen- town Seminary later enrolled his name among its pupils. At the age of seventeen he learned the trade of carpenter and that of mining engineer, finding employment for five years in this connection with the Ironton Railroad Company. On his removal, at the expiration of this period, to Allentown, he engaged with Barber & Co. as a builder of mining machinery and a pattern-maker. Three years after he entered the establishment of William F. Mosser & Co. in the same capacity. He subsequently erected much of the machinery for the slate-quarries, and was also occu- pied in the superintendence of the Brown Iron Mine, owned by his father's estate. In 1879, Mr. Brown returned to the homestead, made it his permanent home, and has since been interested in the cultivation and improvement of the land embraced within its area. He was married in 1859 to Miss Elmina, daughter of Thomas Ruch, of North Whitehall town- ship, whose children are Edward S., Laura C., Annie C., and Eher J., living, and Hiram T., Wilson P., and Lizzie, deceased. Mr. Brown affiliates with the Democracy in politics, though neither his tastes nor his life of ceaseless activity have encouraged partici- pation in the busy scenes attending public life. He is in religion a Lutheran, and member of the church of that denomination at Egypt.
CHAPTER XXXV.1
SOUTH WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP.
This township is in the centre of Lehigh County. It has the shape of a rhombus, with its angles lying in the direction of the points of the compass. It is
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bounded on the northwest by North Whitehall, on the northeast by Whitehall, on the east by the city of Allentown, southeast by Salisbury township, and on the southwest by the townships of Upper and Lower Macungie. Its greatest length is the diagonal from west to east, which is about seven miles. The north and south diagonal is six miles long. It contains eighteen thousand five hundred and sixty acres of land. With the exception of Huckleberry Ridge, which runs east and west for about four miles, the surface is nearly level. The soil is generally fertile. The greater portion of the township is in a high state of cultivation.
The township is watered by two streams or creeks, -the Jordan and the Cedar. The former runs through the northern portion of the township from west to east, and furnishes power for one grist-mill in this township. This stream is very wild and turbulent some seasons of the year, overflowing its banks and carrying along everything in its way ; at other seasons it is perfectly dry. Hence it is very unreliable for manufacturing purposes,-the grist-mills generally require steam-power during certain parts of the year. It is gradually deereasing in its volume of water. Cedar Creek runs from west to east across the southi- ern portion of the township. It has its source just across the boundary line in Upper Macungie. There we find a large spring, which has a sufficient power to run a grist-mill only a few hundred yards from its fountain. Cedar Creek is a very remarkable stream. " Its volume appears invariable in wet or dry weather. It never freezes, and the grass, which grows to the water's edge, appears green all seasons, and is always uneovered, the water dissolving the snow as it falls."
Early Settlements .- At the organization of North- ampton County, in March, 1752, the territory which is now South Whitehall was included in that portion of land known as the " back parts of Macungie," or " the Heidelberg District." By referring to the his- tory of old " Whitehall township," which included the present Whitehall, and North and South Whitehall townships, there will be found much matter which bears upon the early settlers of this township. An assessment roll given there also contains the names of those who were living within the limits of this town- ship at that time (1781). Among the settlers who then came to this township, and of whom we have obtained accounts, we would mention the following :
One of the earliest tracts of land purchased in this township was by Nicholas Kern. Hle took out war- rants for lands Dec. 3, 1735, and Oet. 28, 1737. Some of these lands he sold to Laurence Good (or Lorenz Guth), Feb. 27, 1739. He afterwards, Nov. 24, 1737, and March 15, 1738, warranted lands on the south side of the Blue Mountains, now Slatington. There he settled and died in 1747. A portion of his large fam- ily settled at his home sonth of the Blue Mountains, and others on lands he retained in this township. In the year 1783, Jacob Kern, son of Nicholas, was in
possession of tracts of land known as " Kern's Folly," "Kernsburg," and " Delay." A part of these lands he sold to Peter Meyer (or Moyer). This land lies in North Whitehall and in the northeastern part of this township. Mechanicsville lies on a part of it. In 1819, Peter Meyer sold one hundred and twelve acres to his son, Peter, who resided in North Whitehall, where Henry Lazarus now lives. Simon Moyer, a son of Peter, now lives at Meyersville, and kept the hotel on the property to within a few months. It is now kept by his son. In 1852, Simon Meyer bought it from George Gangwere. Peter Kern, whose sketch comes later, is not known to have been related with this family.
Lorenz Good (or Gnth) was a native of Germany, and came to this country prior to July 27, 1739. On that day he purchased from Nicholas Kern and his wife, Mary Margaret, three tracts of land, warrants for which had been granted to Mr. Kern Dee. 3, 1735, and. Oct. 28, 1737, and one hundred aeres Feb. 24, 1737. The former embraced two hundred acres. All these tracts lie in South Whitehall. These tracts were pat- ented to Lorenz Guth by Thomas and Richard Penn, proprietaries, May 28, 1760. On June 12, 1741, Guth took out a warrant again for forty-seven acres. This was embraced in the same patent. He also took out a warrant for other lands ; the date of one was Nov. 1, 1749, containing forty-six acres, known as the "Guth's Pleasure." It adjoined the lands of Peter Troxell and Nicholas Kern. On the 10th of April, 1755, another warrant was issued to him, called " The Spring." It contained sixteen aeres, and adjoined lands owned by John Weaver and Nicholas Kern. Still another warrant of fifty acres is dated Oct. 23, 1755. It is called " Guth's Delight," and adjoined the Reformed Church property. These lands were patented to Guth March 17, 1769, and Dec. 13, 1760. Aug. 12, 1793, he bought of Peter Kohler one hun- dred and twenty-three acres. By the year 1800, Lorenz Guth had in his possession nine hundred and ninety-six acres of land.
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