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Mr. Klotz has ever been a staneh Democrat. As a Democrat he was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress from the Eleventh Pennsylvania District, in one of its most hotly-contested politieal battles, receiving 8211 votes, against 8116 for the Republican, 5173 for the Greenback, and 4345 for the Independent Demo- cratie candidate. On his re-election for the sueceed- ing term ( Forty-seventh Session), he received a ma- jority of 8347, instead of 95, as in the preceding campaign. As a congressman he was bold, praetieal, and industrious, more of a worker than a speaker, and respected for his sound, practical views. He was on the Committee on Mines and Mining, having in their charge the mineral developments of the great West; also for four years on the Committee of Dis- triet of Columbia, one of the most important, and henee most laborious, committees in Congress, his well-known characteristics of industry, praetieability, and unswerving fidelity being the inducements to his appointment thereon.
Mr. Klotz was in 1849 married to Miss Sallie A., daughter of Col. John Lentz and his wife, Mary Loeser, of Carbon County. They have one child, a son, Lentz Edmund, who is married to Miss Emma E., daughter of Hon. Joseph Laubach, of Bethlehem, Pa., and resides in Mauch Chunk. Their son is Robert Klotz.
DANIEL BERTSCH.
Daniel Bertsch was born in December, 1801, and spent the early part of his life at Lockport, North- ampton Co., Pa., where his parents resided. After receiving a limited education he learned the trade of a blacksmith, and for several years followed it. He made Mauch Chunk his residence in 1826, and on abandoning his craft was employed on the construc- tion of the works of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company between Mauch Chunk and Easton. He afterward received a contract for a portion of the works between Mauch Chunk and White Haven, and other contracts from the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad for the construction of a part of the road between White Haven and Wilkesbarre. Mr. Bertsch continued the business of contracting until 1845, when he engaged in the mining of coal by contract at Summit Hill for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, and continued thus employed until 1865, when the company decided upon the working of their own mines. Mr. Bertseh was married to Miss Cath- | erine Solt, to whom were born two sons-Daniel and I John-and three daughters,-Caroline, wife of Hon.
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Jolin Leisenring, who died in September, 1879; Em- eline, wife of James A. Polk, and Harriet, wife of S. B. Price. Mr. and Mrs. Bertsch and their deecased daughter were members of the Presbyterian Church of Mauch Chunk. The death of Mr. Bertsch occurred Feb. 20, 1877.
NATHAN D. CORTRIGHT.
Nathan D. Cortright was born at Beach Grove, Salem township, Luzerne Co., Pa., Feb. 11, 1817. His ancestors originally emigrated from England, settling in New York State, on the Hudson, from where they moved to the Wyoming Valley, being among the first settlers of that rich and inviting soil. His maternal great-grandfather, Thomas Dodson, was a soldier, and lived in the time of the Revolutionary and Indian wars. In one of their engagements he was taken prisoner by the British soldiers and carried into Canada. Some time afterward he was exchanged or released. He endured great hardships during his captivity, having to return to his home through hos- tile Indian lands, traveling the whole distance on foot by the Indian path.
Soon after peace was restored, his son, Thomas Dodson, volunteered the hazardous task of going to Canada on horseback to bring home Miss Abigail Dodson, who was kept a prisoner by an Indian chief- tain, having been taken prisoner along with the Gil- bert family from Gnadenhiitten during the Indian wars. He succeeded in rescuing her, and brought her safely to her family and friends. This was considered a daring feat, and her relations ever held him in high esteem for this aet of humanity. Mr. Cortright's pa- ternal grandfather, Elisha Cortright, was among the pioneer settlers of the Wyoming Valley, and during the trying scenes of the Revolution and Indian wars endured the hardships incident to that period. Being siek with a prevalent fever at the time of the battle of Wyoming, or which is more popularly known as the " Wyoming Massacre," July 3, 1778, his brother, John Cortright, served in his stead, and was killed. His name is inscribed on the monument at Wyoming, placed in memory of those who fell at that perilous time.
After the struggle between the Pennsylvania settlers and the Connecticut claimants, Elisha Cortright moved to Beach Grove, bought lands, and made a settlement. He married Ifuldah, daughter of An- drew Dingman, of Dingman's Ferry, Pike Co., Pa. His son, Isaac Cortright, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Hanover, Luzerne Co., in 1776, and removing with his parents to Beaeh Grove, Salem township, in the same county, in 1786, grew to man- hood's years at that place.
IIe subsequently married Mary, daughter of Thomas Dodson, and engaged in farming pursuits through a long and active life. For fifty-two years his wife and he lived together in the same house, surrounded by
many friends, in a Christian community, with good schools, and in a neighborhood where peace and social contentment reigned, his farm bordering on the west side of the beautiful and historic Susquehanna. They were blessed with eight children, namely,- Elisha D., Mabel D., Nancy A., Thomas D., Huldah D., Nathan D., Abram D., Rachel B.,-Nathan D. being the sixth in succession. His early life was passed upon his father's farm, enjoying at the same time the benefits of such education as was imparted at the Cortright school-house, which was located upon a plot of ground donated by Elisha Cortright for edu- cational and church purposes. At the age of nine- teen he removed to Beaver Meadow, Carbon Co., and in the spring of 1836 secured a position in the corps of engineers of A. Pardee and J. G. Fell, civil engi- neers, who were engaged in building the Beaver Meadow, Hazleton and Summit Railroads. In the winter of 1838-39 he was appointed the general ship- ping and boat agent of the Hazleton Coal Company, and in 1842 was made superintendent of the same company, under the direction of Dr. Samuel Moore, president, holding that important position eontinu- ously until 1857. This company during that period was one of the strongest coal organizations in the State. Its transactions, though numerous and varied, were carried on with the strictest integrity, even amid the most threatening financial storms, and it may be truthfully said that some portion of this success and prosperity were due to the fidelity, executive ability, and excellent business judgment of Mr. Cortright. In 1857 he engaged in the coal business for himself, and is still actively engaged, in connection with his son, N. D. Cortright, Jr., in carrying on that branch of business. He had witnessed the gradual and suc- eessful development of the great coal and iron inter- ests of the Lehigh and Wyoming regions, and occa- sionally participated in such development. From 1847 to 1852 he was interested with others in driving the old tunnel at Hacklebernie through about twelve hundred feet of rock and coal at the east end of the basin of the coal lands of the Lehigh Coal and Navi- gation Company. Since 1845 he has resided on the same premises, having built a new house in 1860 in Mauch Chunk, where he is recognized as a useful and valuable citizen, of modest tastes and inclinations, and actively identified with the various institutions in the locality. He is a member of the board of directors of the Second National Bank of Mauch Chunk, and has been one of the leading members of the Methodist Episcopal society since 1854, holding official relation with the same for many years, and in active sympathy with the temperance, Sabbath-school, and Bible causes. In 1851 he was appointed by Gov- ernor William F. Johnson one of his aides-de-eamp, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. On Feb. 6, 1845, he was married to Margaretta L., daughter of Ezekiel W. and Margaret Harlan, who were of Quaker I origin. They came to Mauch Chunk from Chester
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County in 1826. Mr. Harlan was one of the early employés of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com- pany, and afterwards became a partner of the late Asa Packer. This firm, Packer & Harlan, contracted for and rebuilt a portion of the Lehigh Canal, after which they operated the Nesquehoning mines.
Mr. Harlan's family consisted of twelve children. Margaretta L. was born Oct. 8, 1826. Their married life proved a happy and prosperous one; the issue of their union being six children,-four sons and two daughters. The eldest, Harlan W., who married Eliza Le Fevre, of Hurdtown, N. J., was superintendent for the Ogden Mine Railroad Company, near Dover, N. J., for sixteen years; is now engaged in the coal business. Nathan D., who married Maggie Kennedy, of Port Kennedy, Pa., has been engaged in the coal business for the past eighteen years; is the junior member of the finn of N. D. Cortright & Son, also postmaster of Maueh Chunk for the past five years. Gertrude M. is living at home with her parents. Samuel M., late superintendent of the Pennsylvania Telephone Com- pany, married Maggie Weyhenshimer, of Allentown. William S., after attending Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa., then graduated from Wyoming Com- mereial College, at Kingston, Pa., and graduated from the College of Dental Surgery in 1879; has been a successful practitioner of his profession at Mauch Chunk ever since. On June 5, 1883, he mar- ried Miss Jennie Rawling, of Mineral Point, Wis. Emma L., youngest daughter, was married to Edwin F. Keen, wholesale merchant of Philadelphia, Nov. 21, 1883.
MAIILON S. KEMMERER.
Mr. Kemmerer is of German antecedents, the family having been early settlers in Cherry Valley, Monroe Co., Pa. Among the children of his grandfather, Conrad Kemmerer, who resided in the above county, was Charles, a native of Cherry Valley, and a mill- wright by occupation. He married Mary Ann Price, daughter of John J. Price, an early lumberman of that vicinity, whose children were a son, Mahlon S., and a daughter, Annie ( Mrs. W. W. Watson, of Seran- ton, Pa.). Mrs. Kemmerer, after the decease of her husband, married Walter Leisenring, whose children were Gertrude II. (now Mrs. T. M. Righter), Ada L., Mary W., Albert C., and Walter. Mahlon S. Kennerer was born Ang. 27, 1843, in Cherry Valley, Pa., and in early youth beeame a resident of Carbon County. His edueation was such as the common schools af- forded, supplemented by a period at the Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport. His business career began at fourteen as clerk in a . colliery-store at Summit Hill; Carbon Co. In 1862, the heavy freshet of that year having suspended operations in the coal regions, 1 he joined a corps of engineers employed by the Le- high Coal and Navigation Company, and engaged in repairs connected with the property of the company.
This eorps then undertook the survey of the Lehigh and Susquehanna. Railroad, Mr. Kemmerer remain- ing with them for four years in the capacity of assist- ant engineer. The succeeding four years were spent as mining engineer and assistant superintendent of the Upper Lehigh Coal , Company, after which he began an active business career as a member of the firm of Whitney, MeCreary & Kemmerer, shippers of coal, the firm subsequently becoming Whitney & Kemmerer. He has since that date been largely identified with the coal and iron interests of the State. In 1876 he engaged in the mining of coal at Sandy Run, and later at Harleigh, Pond Creek, and 1 other collieries. He is a director and considerable owner of the stock of the Connellsville Coke and Iron Company, as also a director and stockholder in the Carbon Iron and Pipe Company, and an owner and director in the Carbon Rolling-Mill Company. He is secretary and treasurer of the Virginia Coal and Iron Company, and director of the Allen Coal Company, of Wilkesbarre. Mr. Kemmerer has re- cently been appointed by Governor Pattison one of the commissioners to revise the mining laws of the State. He was married, Dec. 1, 1868, to Annie L., daughter of Hon. John Leisenring, of Mauch Chunk. Their children are three in number,-John L., Mahlon L., and Gertrude L. In polities Mr. Kemmerer is a Republican, but without either taste or leisure for the allurements of a public life. His religious education prompts him to accept the tenets of the Presbyterian faith.
CHAPTER XII.
BANKS TOWNSHIP.
BANKS township was erected from Lausanne in 18441 (before the organization of Carbon County), and named after Judge Banks, then on the bench in North- ampton County. The first official information ob- tained of the ercetion of the township is in the assess- ment-rolls of Northampton County for 1842, and is as follows:
" NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, &N.
" COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE. " To A. B. LONGSHORE,
" Assessor of Banks township (formerly part of Lausanne), Greeting : We herewith transmit to you the last assessment of bansanne township, and with the assistance of the assessor of said Lausanne township, yon are to transcribe from it all such inhabitants, their professions, and prop- erty which now reside within your limits as they respectfully stand rated . . .
" Given under our hand and the seal of office this 7th day of April, 1842.
" JOHN SANTER, "JOHN LENTZ, Coms."
Banks township is about ten miles in length east and west, and about two miles in width. Its terri- tory comprises the top of Spring Mountain, and is from fourteen hundred to sixteen hundred feet above
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tide-water. Beaver Creek rises near Jeansville, in the northern line of the township, and flows easterly in a sluggish stream till it reaches Hazel Creek, in the edge of Lausanne township, from which junction its descent is very rapid. Hazel Creek rises in the north- east part of the township, flows southerly, and joins Beaver. From this junction it is called Hazel, or Black Creek.
The railroads now in the township are the Beaver Meadow Division, and the Philadelphia and Reading, which last passes across the western end of the town- ship through Yorktown, and affords larger facilities for shipments to the Yorktown and Audenried col- lieries.
The population as given by the census of 1880 is four thousand and nineteen.
The following is from the first assessment-roll of Banks township on record at Mauch Chunk, the county-seat of Carbon County, and is dated 1843:
" To the Commissioners of Northampton County.
"GENTLEMEN,-
"The following is a statement of the amount, description, and value of the real and personal property, etc., made taxable in Banks township for 1843, and also the number of taxable inhabitants of said township, vix. :
Number of taxable inhabitants. 260
Value. Tax.
Amount of valuation on real estate, horses, and cattle. $112,694 tax on excess of professions, etc .....
$225.38
23.00
valuation on carriages.
135
4 35
€4
valuation of furniture ...
500
2.50
tax on watches ..
1.00
money at interest.
130
.39
$256.62
"N. R. PENHOSE, Ass SaOr."
The Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company was assessed on nine hundred and twenty acres of land at sixty-two thousand dollars, thirty-four houses, saw-mill, and carriage. Thomas Bond, blacksmith ; Jonas Beltz, engineer; William Bruce, gentleman ; Henry Brenekman, brewer; H. B. Berryhill, clerk ; A. G. Brodhead, real estate (non-resident) ; Nathan Beach, three hundred and eighty-six acres (non-resi- dent) ; Charles Brittan, carpenter; Abraham Cool, carpenter; W. H. Cool, merchant ; . A. D. Cool, clerk ; Thomas Daniels, Richard Paris, carpenters; G. H. & James Dougherty, saddlers; Patrick Delany, tailor ; James Alexander, John Atkinson, and James Early, shoemakers; Joseph Engle, cabinet-maker; James Farrow, blacksmith ; James Garrahan, carpenter ; Daniel Gaston, preacher; James Gowen, real estate (non-resident) ; Charles Hanes, carpenter ; James and Aaron Hamburger, butchers; Jonas Hartz, real estate (non-resident) ; Robert Harrison, cabinet- maker; Henry Hoover, blacksmith; Philip Hoff- acker, machinist; Oakley O. Hampton, innkeeper ; Richard Jones, engineer ; Philip Jenkins, blacksmith; Walter Jones, engineer ; B. D. Jacques, carpenter ; Robert Jefferson, machinist ; R. M. Kinsey, pattern- maker; James Lewis, engineer; Henry Long, car- penter (three hundred and ninety aeres); Enos Leidy,
superintendent; A. B. Longshore, doctor; F. E. Lou- throp, Barnard and Thomas MeClane, gentlemen ; William McClane, superintendent; Lawrence Murry, carpenter ; W. W. MeGuiger, school-teacher ; W. R. MeKean, contractor; Reuben Miller, carpenter; Sam- uel Owens, engineer ; Robert Preston, carpenter; N. R. Penrose, justice of the peace ; A. W. Pratt, clerk; Fenton Quigley, innkeeper ; John Quigley, engineer ; Jacob Shafer, blacksmith ; R. M. Stansbury, doctor ; Stafford Coal Company, two hundred and twenty- eight acres and tavern-house ; Henry Teney, butcher ; Jacob & Thomas Hopkins, contractors ; A. H. Van Cleve, contractor ; C. G. Vanlage, clerk; Joseph Whit- worth, clerk ; Benjamin Williams, blacksmith; Wil- liam HI: Wilson, innkeeper and real estate ; Jesse Wil- son, innkeeper ; Samuel M. Wilson, constable. The remainder of the taxables were laborers and miners.
History of the Coal Operations in Banks .- Coal was discovered in the township before 1812. The title to the land was claimed by Nathan Beach, of Salem, on the Susquehanna, who opened the mine in 1813. Coal was taken by the Lehigh and Susque- hanna turnpike (Easton and Berwick) to Berwick and Bloomsburg, and used for blacksmithing. Sub- sequent to 1826 it was hauled to the Landing Tavern, on the Lehigh, and sent to Philadelphia in arks, where it was sold for eight dollars per ton. The title to the land was contested and suit brought in the winter of 1829-30, when Mr. Beach won the suit, and sold five hundred acres to Judge Joseph Barnes, of Philadel- phia. The Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Com- pany, soon after their organization, purchased two hundred aeres of land, since known as the Beaver Meadow Mines, which they operated until 1841, when they were leased to A. II. Van Cleve & Co. (composed of A. H. Van Cleve, James McKean, and Charles Von Tagen). They were worked by this firm abont five years, then leased to William Milnes & Co., and oper- ated till about 1847, when Milnes & Co. Ivased the Spring Mountain Coal-Mines at Jeansville. The mines were then leased to llamberger & Co., and operated till the freshets of 1850, since which time they were abandoned, until 1881, when they were leased to Cox Brothers & Co., who are now working them. When the Beaver Meadow Railroad was merged with the Lehigh Valley Railroad the mines came under the control of that railroad, in whose possession they now are.
Stafford Coal Company .- This company was in- corporated March 3, 1838, with a capital of two hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars, by Charles S. Cox for the Stafford Coal Company, he being the owner of the land, which adjoined the Beaver Meadow Company's land on the east and north. A slope was sunk about one hundred and forty yards, when the perpendicular rock was struck, and it was abandoned for the time. The company, by their charter, had power to hold not to exceed two thousand acres of land, and to build a railroad to connect with Beaver Meadow or Hazleton
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Railroad. July 26, 1841, time was extended to build its railroad to Sept. 1, 1846. No road was built.
A slope was opened some years ago by Jonas Reese, which was soon after abandoned. Cox Brothers & Co., in the year 1883, retimbered it, and are now drill- ing. At the depth of seventy-one feet a vein of coal was struck five feet in thickness. Drilling is still going on in the hope of finding a thicker vein.
Spring Mountain Coal Company .- This com- pany was chartered May 21, 1864. Coal was first dis- covered in this immediate region by James D. Gallup, who was connected with the Beaver Meadow Railroad. The property was once owned by Joseph H. Newbold, and was bought for about twenty thousand dollars by Joseph Jeanes and others, of Philadelphia. By this company it was let, in 1847, to William Milnes, at a rental of twenty-five cents per ton of coal shipped. The colliery was soon in operation, and in 1855 the company received forty thousand dollars rental. Mr. Milnes' lease was for twenty years, and about one and a half million tons of coal was shipped by him during that period. Since that time the mines have been operated by the Spring Mountain Coal Company.
The traet of land on which W. T. Carter & Co. are now operating at Leviston, also known as Colerain and Carter's, was owned many years ago by Altar & Stevens, of Philadelphia, who leased it to Rich & · Cleaver, and later to Rateliff & Johnson, whose lease ran out in 1862. Altar & Stevens then leased to Wil- liam Carter & Son, who operated it two years, and then purchased the property. The interest of Wil- liam Carter was later sold to Charles F. Shroener, and was continued by this firm until 1877, when William T. Carter purchased Shoener's interest, and now has entire control. About 1873 a stripping was com- menced by William T. Carter & Co., about a mile west of Beaver Meadow. The underlying vein of coal is about fourteen feet thick. The eoal is run to the breaker, and from there shipped to Readington to the furnaces of the company, and to Packer, Knowl- ton & Co., of Perth Amboy and South Amboy, N. J. An average of one hundred and ten cases per day is shipped from the two mines.
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Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company .- The mines of this company are at Tresckow and at An- denried. At the latter place the mines are all in Luzerne County, and the offices in Carbon County.
The German Pennsylvania Coal Company com- menced operations on the site of the present works at this place in the year 1851. They sunk a slope, built a breaker, tavern, store, and several dwellings. This they worked for several years, and sold to Samuel Bonnell, Jr., of New York City, who worked the mines for two years, and sold to the Honey Brook Coal Company, which was incorporated April 23, 1864, by whom they were worked till Feb. 1, 1874, when the company was merged in the Lehigh and Wilkes- barre Coal Company, who now own it. Three slopes are used. The present breaker was ereeted in 1866.
Yorktown Collieries .- The tract of two hundred and two acres on which the collieries of George H. Myers & Co. are located belonged many years ago to Christian Kunkle. Mr. N. P. Hosach, of New York, employed men to make an examination on the prop- erty for coal, and becoming convineed that coal was there in quantity, he purchased the property for thirty thousand dollars. After a few years he became in- volved, and a company was formed called " The New York and Lehigh Coal Company," who still own the property. In the summer of 1855 it was leased for ten years to James Taggart. He sunk the first slope on the Big Vein on the site of No. 1 Breaker, and shipped the first coal in April, 1856, by the Beaver Meadow Railroad to the Lehigh Valley Railroad. This slope was "drowned out" in 1860, and was not pumped out and ready again for work until 1864, when work was resumed.
Another slope on the Big Vein, ealled No. 2, was opened in 1858. The eoal was drawn to No. 1 Breaker. This slope was mined to the end of the lease. Upon this termination the New York and Lehigh Coal Company, in whose hands the property then was, leased the mines to George K. Smith & Co. for ten years. Mr. Smith had charge of the mines, and in 1867 was shot in his own house. Mr. Thomas Hull, one of the company, continued the mines under the lease till January, 1868, when he became embar- rassed, and gave up his lease. Slopes Nos. 3 and 4, on the Big Vein, were sunk by Thomas Hull & Co. Its coal was drawn to No. 1 Breaker. The property was leased for ten years by A. L. Mumper & Co. in 1868. Under this firm Slopes Nos. 5 and 6 were sunk. Breaker No. 5 was built in 1869, burned down and rebuilt in 1877. Breaker No. 6 was built in 1875. Slope No. 6 is on the Wharton vein.
In 1878 a lease for fifteen years was made to Thomas, John & Co. Mr. John died in September, 1880, and Mr. George H. Myers being the only one of the firm then living, the firm was reorganized by him, with George, John, and Thomas Dougherty as partners, under the firm-name of George H. Myers & Co., by whom it is still ruo. The shipments are about one hundred and fifty thousand tons yearly. Store and dwellings were built by J. Taggart. Thomas Hull & Co. built blocks of houses and the present company store.
In 1872 mines were opened by John Morton and E. N. Enbody, on land owned by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and Cox Bros., located about a mile northwest from Beaver Meadow, near the county line. They sold their interest soon after to E. B. Ely & Co., of New York. This company built a large breaker. They were not very successful and closed the lease of the Cox land, and continued work on the Lehigh Valley Railroad land until the expiration of the lease in 1881. Cox Bros, then leased the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company's land, and are now working both mines. A saw-mill and six blocks were erected.
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