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Andreas Wind ( Wind, Wint, Windt), from Dauein- heim, in the " Amt Lingenheim," came to this coun- try abont 1750 to 1755, and settled near Friedensville. His father was Johannes Heinrich Wind, his mother Anna Sovia, daughter of a " Land-Graf." His wife's
name was Elizabeth. They had three sons - Johannes, Johan Heinrich, and Johan Phillip and two daugh ters, Margaret, who married Balthauser Buchecker ; the other, " name unknown," married a Mr. Hoffmann und removed to Montgomery County. Johannes left the township in his youth, and is known to be the ances tor of the Wints residing in the neighborhood of Bath, in Northampton County. Johan Heinrich is known to have had at least two sons and two daughters. The names of the latter are unknown, those of the former were Henry and Andrew. Heury was the father of the late Joseph Wint, and grandfather of Addison R. and William Wint, residing in Allentown. The other children Henry is known to have had are Aaron, de- ceased; Nathan, who resides at Seranton; and two daughters, one married to Joseph Morgan, and the other to John Fogelman. Andrew was the ancestor of the Wints residing near Centre Valley. John Philip had six children, viz. : John, Philip, Andrew, Catharine, Elizabeth, and Susanna. Of these John removed to Lancaster and died there, leaving four sons and one danghter. Philip died a bachelor. An- drew had five children, viz. : Abner IL., who resides in Allentown ; William II., who resides in Philadel- phia; Mary Ann, first married to John Ritter, and after his death to John Shimer; Salome, married to Charles E. Christ ; and Lucinda, married to Reuben B. Sell.
Catharine, Esther, Elizabeth, and Judith, John mar- ried Catharine Boger, and had six children, viz., Jesse, Samuel, Leah, Judith, Anna, and Mary. Daniel married Christian Steininger, and had two children,-Isaac and Hannah. Solomon married Lydia Shuler, removed to the West, and nothing is known of his descendants. Christina married Elias Weaver, and is grandmother to Joseph Weaver, who resides near Emans. Catharine married Casper Wieder, and is grandmother to Edwin E. Wieder, of Emaus, and Mrs. Abraham Schaffer, of Limeport. Eve married John Weaver, and is grandmother to
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William H. Weaver, of Coopersburg, Job Weaver, of Centre Valley, and Ephraim Weaver, of Saucon. Elizabeth married John Hottel, and is grandmother to Wilson and Benneville Hottel, of Limeport.
Of Mathias' children, Charles died without issue, and Elizabeth became the wife of Jacob Ritter, and after his death of Solomon Wieder. Of Peter's chil- dren, David resides in Emans, and Elizabeth married John H. Bernd. Of Henry's children, Thomas mar- ried Hannah Wieder, and is the father of J. Adam and Charles Egner, of Lineport; Daniel Egner, of Locust Valley ; Ambrose Egner, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Solomon Weaver, of Allentown; Mrs. C. HI. Blank, of Coopersburg; and Mrs. Charles B. Schneider, of Saucon, Sarah married Durse Rudy, and is the mother of Professor Charles Rudy, of Paris, France, and Mrs. Peter Gross, of Slatington. Catharine mar- ried John Horlocher, and resides in Allentown ; Es- ther died unmarried; Elizabeth married Solomon Gangaware, and after his death Nathan Ran ; she resides at Limeport; and Judith married Jacob Michael, and resides in Allentown. Of John's chil- dren, Jesse married Esther Kochler, and left no issue. Samuel first married Theresa Stahler, and had a daughter, Angelina, now Mrs. Francis Schwartz, who resides near Emans. After the death of his first wife he married Sarah Lynn, and again had a daughter, Henrietta, now Mrs. William Dech, of Bucks County. Leah married David Engleman, and resides at Lime- port; Judith married Jonathan Smith, and is the mother of Mrs. Charles Michacl, of Allentown; Anna married David Erdman, and resides near Quaker- town; and Mary married Abraham Heller, and re- sides in Upper Saucon. Daniel's children both re- side in Emaus. Hannah is the wife of Charles Kidd.
George Reinhardt ( Reinhart, or Reinhard), a Pala- tinate, arrived in this country Ang. 28, 1750. Some time thereatter he settled on the farm now owned by Jacob Solliday, in Upper Saucon. He had three chil- dren,-Heinrich, Andreas, and a daughter, whose name we cannot ascertain ; the latter married a Mr. Rehs and removed to Bucks County, Andrew ro. moved to Albany township, Berks County, where his descendants still reside. Heinrich settled on his father's homestead, and had nine children, viz. : John George, Andrew, Jacob, Solomon, Henry, Abraham, Catharine, Elizabeth, and Hannah. Of these, Andrew married Elizabeth Shaffer, and is the father of James and John Reinhard, who reside in Upper Saucon ; John George was the father of the late Elias Reinhard, and grandfather to Dr. Wilson J. Reinhard ; Solomon is the father of George Rein- hard, who resides at Loenst Valley ; Abraham is the father of Edward Reinhard, who resides near Dillin- gersville. The descendants of all the others seem to have left the township long ago, and cannot therefore be traced.
Daniel Cooper, born at Dillenburg, in the duchy of Nassau, March 31, 1752, arrived in this country i
about 1770. He located in Goshenhoppen in the present limits of Montgomery County. On Nov. 3, 1778, he married Elizabeth Gery, daughter of Jacob Gery, of Goshenhoppen, and soon after removed to Upper Saucon. After settling here he was followed to this country by his parents, Wilhelm Cooper, born Aug. 24, 1722, and Gertrude Cooper, born Sept. 12, 1724. Daniel had ten children, viz. : Jacob, John, Peter, William, Charles, Daniel, Catharine, Elizabeth, and two others who died in infancy. Of these, Jacob removed to Philadelphia in his youth, engaged in mercantile enterprises, which rendered frequent trips to New Orleans necessary ; died of yellow fever on one of these trips, and was buried in the ocean. He left an only son, Dr. Daniel Cooper, who located in Leb- anon County. John died in 1847, leaving an only daughter, Faycita, who married Elias Nitrauer, and resides in Upper Saueon. Peter, born Dec. 26, 1790, married Susanna Buchecker, daughter of Daniel Buchecker, died May 19, 1837, leaving four children, viz. : Milton, Charles W., Esq., Dr. Thomas B., and Anna Matilda. William removed to Schuylkill County in youth, and nothing is known of his deseendants. Daniel married Sarah Ott, died in April, 1864, leaving several children, none of whom reside in the township or vicinity. Charles died in youth, and without issue. Catharine married Jacob Seider, and is the grand- mother of Mrs. Edwin Kline, of Allentown ; and Eliza- beth married Abraham Slifer, and removed to Flour- town, Montgomery Co., where she died in June, 1867. Of Peter's children, Milton resides in Coopersburg, Charles W. in Allentown ; Thomas B. married C. Ela- mina Shantz, and died in 1862, leaving seven children, viz. : Tilghman S., Thomas E., Amanda, and Matilda, who reside in Coopersburg; Alice, the wife of Jose- phus Lynn, of Freemansburg; Llewellen, and Oscar, the two latter of whom died in youth. Wilhelm Cooper died Jan. 23, 1809, and Gertrude, his wife, April 21, 1812. They also had a daughter, Catharine, born Jan. 28, 1765. She became the wife of Jacob Berger. After the death of his first wife, Daniel Cooper (the elder) married Margaret Brunner, widow of John Brunner.
Jolm George Blank, the ancestor of the Blank family, was born in 1729, and died in 1799. Ile came to Sancon (whence we know not) about 1750, married Elizabeth Steinmetz, daughter of Valentine Stein- metz, and after the death of his father-in-law suc- ceeded to and settled upon his estate, taking up his residence on the site of that now occupied by John HI. Laubach. How many children he had cannot be determined, but he had at least one son, also named John George, who had nine children, viz. : George, John, Jacob, Abraham, Charles, David, Mary, Lydia, and Sarah. Of these, George and David died un- married; John married Esther Clemmer, and had six children,-George and Charles IT., who reside in Coopersburg ; Edwin H. and Benjamin, who reside in Allentown; Eliza intermarried with William P.
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Weidner; and Elamina intermarried with Simon Troxel. Jacob married a Miss Hiltenbeutel ; nothing is known of his descendants. Abraham married Mary Bahl, and is the father of Jacob, John G., and Abra- ham Blank, who reside in the township; Mrs. John Laubach, of Saucon ; and Mrs. John Metzger, of Al- lentown. Charles married Priscilla Fry, and resides in Bethlehem ; Mary married Jacob Bahl, and resides in Bethlehem; Lydia married Nathan Eberhart, and died without issue; and Sarah married David Schneider, and resides in Emaus.
The ancestor of the Knepley family in the township married a daughter of - Gangwere, and settled upon the tract so well known as Knepley's. Their children all lived on the homestead tract and died at advanced ages, with the exception of Jacob and Mag- dalena, who died unmarried. Hester died at ninety- seven years of age, Melchior at eighty-six years, John at ninety-seven years, Jacob married, and his wife died early in life, leaving no descendant. Ile died at sixty-six years of age. Peter was a member of the Legislature in 1830-31, and died at eighty-seven years of age. Magdalena became the wife of Frederick Wittman, and died at eighty-seven years of age.
Frederick Wittman settled in Upper Saneon before 1800. He married Magdalena, daughter of Knepley. He died in 18444, and left four sons-Joseph, Andrew, Charles, and Peter-and two daughters,- Hester and Mary.
Joseph, Charles, and Peter now reside in Upper Saueon. Andrew became a surveyor, lived in the township till 1859, and removed to Allentown, where he now lives. Hester (Mrs. Christian Long) and Mary reside in Bethlehem.
Geography and Statistics .- Upper Saucon is bounded on the northeast by Lower Saucon, North- ampton Co., on the southeast by Springfield, Bueks Co., on the southwest by Upper and Lower Milford, and on the northwest by Salisbury. The surface is diversified. On the northwest is the Lehigh or South Mountain. Entering the township near its southern- most corner is the Chestnut Hill range, which divides the southern part into two water-sheds, each of which is drained by a branch of Saucon Creek ; but as the latter range runs out near the centre of the township, there is from thenee but one water-shed, and the two branches of the creek unite. One branch of Sancon Creek enters the township at Limeport, the other at Coopersburg. It flows ont near Spring Valley. The township abounds in iron, limestone, and zinc. Its vegetable productions are wheat, rye, corn, oats, pota- toes, tobacco, and the various kinds of fruits and garden vegetables incident to the latitude. The assessed valu- ation of property in the township is nearly two millions of dollars. According to the several census reports the population was as follows : In 1820, 16442 ; in 1830, 1906; in 1840, 2072; in 1850, 2372; in 1860, 2943; in 1870, 3487 ; and in 1880, 3224. (The apparent re- duction in the latter year is accounted for by the in-
corporation of Coopersburg, which now forms a sepa- rate district.) There were, in 1880, 1156 taxables in the township, of whom 585 were freeholders, 406 ten- ants, and 165 single men.
The township contains five villages, viz. : Centre Valley, Friedensville, Locust Valley, Spring Valley, and Colesville. Limeport is on the dividing line between Saueon and Lower Milford.
Post-offiees were established as follows: what is now the Centre Valley post-office was established Nov. 27, 1827, under the name of Fryburg. This name was changed to Coopersburg June 25, 1832. The office was removed to and named Centre Valley June 9, 1849. Saucon Valley post-office was estab- lished Aug. 25, 1841, and discontinued July 16, 1861. It was held at the present residence of Peter Witt- man. Friedensville post-office was established Feb. 16, 1843; the present Coopersburg post-office, Feb. 8, 1850 ; Lanark, July 25, 1862; and Locust Valley, Feb. 4, 1863.
There are now in the township seven hotels, eight stores, eleven mills, six saw-mills, one tannery, one foundry, one carriage-factory, three marble-yards, two coal-yards, and two brick-yards."
The laws were administered and the peace upheld in the township since 18401 by the following justices of the peace :
Andrew K. Wittman, commissioned 1840-45; Philip Person, 1840; Charles E. Christ, 1815; Joshua Fry, 1850; Charles W. Cooper, 1850, 1855; George Blank, 1855, 1860, 1865, 1870; Henry B. Person, 1856, 18G1, 1866, 1871; William HI. Snyder, 1875, 1880; George W. Brinker, 1876, 1881.
Among the citizens of the township who served in publie positions above those of township offices we know of the following: Joseph Fry, in the State Legislature, Constitutional Convention of 1837-38, and in Congress ; Jacob Erdman, in the State Legis- lature, Congress, and as associate judge; Dr. Thomas B. Cooper, in Congress; Dr. Jesse Samuels, as pro- thonotary and in the State Legislature; Peter Cooper, as deputy surveyor-general; John Philip Wint, Wil- liam Stehr, Joshua Fry, and Frank B. Heller, in the State Legislature; Henry B. Person, as commis- sioner; and George Blank, as county surveyor.
Miscellaneous Notes .- In 1748, David Owen, of Upper Saucon, applied for and was granted a license to open a tavern. Where this primitive hostelry stood cannot now be definitely determined, but as he. is known then to have resided on the farm now owned by the heirs of Abraham Heller, deceased, and as he is not known to have owned any other improved land in the township at the time, it is pretty safe to assume that it was located here, and that it stood on the site now ocenpied by the tenant-house on said farm.
About 1750, George Bachman opened a hotel, known as the "Seven Star," on the site of the present
1 The names of the justices prior to 1840 are found elsewhere in this work.
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Eagle Hotel, in Coopersburg. Heller's tavern was opened by a Mr. Keimly about the beginning of the present century. About the same time another was opened on the site of the present residence of Wil- liam P. Wiedner, by Jacob Seider. This was discon- tinued about 1831, and the Centre Valley Hotel took its place. The Colesville Hotel was opened in 1815, by Philip Bahl.
Peter Kuepley opened a store in the hall of Hel- ler's tavern soon after its erection. Solomon Keck another, in Coopersburg, in 1820, and John Seider, about the same time, a third, opposite Seider's school- house. Another store, and very probably the first in the township, was held on the site of the present residence of Aaron N. Laros.
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George Yewitz appears to have been the owner of a mill which stood on the site now ocenpied by Geis- singer's, at Centre Valley, prior to 1752, and Henry Kooken built a grist- and saw-mill on the site now occupied by Dillinger's mill prior to 1773. David Owen operated a saw-mill and hat-factory on the site of Mast's saw-mill about the middle of the eigh- teenth century.
John Philip Wint operated a tannery on the farm now owned by Wainfield Stephens. Andreas Kurtz another, on the farm now owned by Peter Hottle and Andreas Wint; a third, on the site of the present residence of Jonathan Schwartz, in Centre Valley. All of these were erected prior to the close of the eighteenth century. A fourth tannery was located in Coopersburg, and a fifth in Loeust Valley ; all these, with the exception of that at Locust Valley, are discontinued.
Old cemeteries are known to be situated on farms now owned by Joseph Wittman, John J. Trexler, Peter M. Sell, Peter B. Sell, James Reinhard, Nathan Weaver, Solomon Hartman, and Solomon Mory. Some of these are entirely obliterated, others in ruins, while one (that at Solomon Hartman's) is sur- rounded by a substantial wall, and some of the graves are marked by neat tombstones.
The Borongh of Coopersburg .- Fryburg (as the . place was originally called) rose to the dignity of a country village about 1818. At that time a post- office was established here, with David Roth as post- master; but the place seems to have been too small for such an institution, as we find it discontinued soon after, not to be again established until 1827. The village hotel, then kept by Joseph Fry, was the junc- tion of the two stage-lines from Allentown and Beth- lehem to Philadelphia. It was also the first stopping- place of the farmers from the upper sections of Le- high County on their way to Philadelphia with their produce ; thirty or forty teams in the yard during a night was not an unusual occurrence.
On June 25, 1832, the name of the village and post- ofliee was changed to Coopersburg, after Peter Cooper, who then seems to have been a very prominent man. From this time it grew the growth of an ordinary
country village, nntil Dec. 2, 1879, when it was in- corporated as a borough, upon the petition of John S. Stephens, George Blank, George W. Heaney, Henry T. Trumbauer, Samuel Y. Kern, Jacob An- stett, Frank K. Haring, Israel R. Parker, Milton Cooper, Peter Brunner,' Sylvester Clewell, Henry Barndt, William II. Bahn, John Fluck, David Bar- ron, Thomas E. Cooper, C. Elamina Cooper, Amanda M. Cooper, Jacob Shaffer, Jolm A. Laros, Tilghman S. Cooper, William H. Brader, M. H. Boye, Peter Eckert, William Jordan, Thomas Weaver, Samuel Furry, Genaah Jordan, Samuel K. Eichelberger, William T. Trumbauer, James T. Blank, Amos Haring, and Daniel Shaffer. The first election for : borough officers was held Feb, 17, 1880, and resulted in the election of the following officers, viz. : Burgess, John S. Stephens; Town Conneil, Milton Cooper, Frank K. Haring, Dr. J. A. Laros,-Samuel G. Kern, Daniel Shaffer, and Joel Ritter; Justices of the Peace, George Blank and T. S. Cooper ; School Di- rectors, Dr. H. T. Trumbauer, Henry K. Landis, Charles Ott, Genaah Jordan, Jacob Shaffer, and Abraham Geissinger ; Constable, Thomas Stephens; Judge of Election, William IL. Baim ; Inspectors, Allen H. Ott and Jeremiah Landis; Assessor, Aaron HI. Hackman ; Auditor, Charles Haring.
The borough contains an area of three hundred and sixteen acres, and (according to the census of 1880) a population of three hundred and ninety-two inhabitants.
There are now in the borough two hotels, four general stores, a drug-store, a bank, three carriage- works, an Odd-Fellows' hall, a stock-farm, a mill, two flour- and feed-stores, a coal- and lumber-yard, a butter- and cheese-factory, a furniture-store, a shoe- store, a stove- and tin-ware-store, a handle-factory, a millinery-store, two tailor shops, two saddleries, a watchmaker's shop, a cigar factory, a wheelwright- shop, a sewing-machine office, two blacksmith- shops, two shoemakers' shops, and a butcher-shop.
The borough with the surrounding county main- tains a place of religious worship in a public room in the Odd-Fellows' hall, two schools, a Mason's lodge, an Odd-Fellows' lodge, an encampment of Patriarchs, and a cornet band.
The Zinc-Mines at Friedensville .- The discovery of zine at Friedensville (like many another important discovery) is generally accredited to the one who first made it known rather than to the real discoverer. The following develops the true process of its discovery, and will serve to place the honor where the honor is due. On the west side of the road leading from Friedens- ville to Bethlehem, at a distance of about one hun- dred and fifty perches from the base of the Lehigh Mountain, in the middle of a field fertile and pro- ductive in every other part, there was a depression resembling in shape a large bowl, about three hun- dred feet in diameter, and about twelve feet in depth. On this spot, with the exception of a few sickly weeds,
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no vegetation would grow. This sterility was at- tributed by many to the presence of mineral sub- stances in the soil deleterious to plant-life, but beyond this no one ventured. The place was visited by one of the State geologists, but he made no report of his observations. On the edge of the hollow a number of bowlders, resembling limestone, projected from the surface. These Mr. Ueberroth, the owner of the land, attempted to convert into lime by the usual process, but failed, the whole mass melting together in the kiln. After this the place was made a repository for rubbish and the stones picked from the farm, and so it remained until 1845, when Mr. Andrew K. Wittman was called as surveyor to trace a line between lands of Mr. Ueberroth and one of his neighbors, While thus en- gaged his attention was attracted to these bowlders, and he took pieces of them along home to add to a collection of minerals he was then forming. Taking much interest in minerals, and being of an investi- gating turn, he resolved upon a test of his recently- acquired specimen, resorting first to the blowpipe, then to acids, and finally to the crucible. By the latter process he succeeded in obtaining about two onnees of metal, which, from his knowledge of metals, he knew to be zinc. On the following day he met Mr. Ueber- roth, told him of his discovery, and gave him a por- tion of the metal. On the afternoon of the same day Ueberroth visited Bethlehem, and stopped at Leipert's Hotel, where he exhibited his metal to some friends. Among the sojourners at the hotel at the time was Professor T. II. Roepper, who overheard the conver- sation between Ueberroth and his friends, saw the metal, and lost no time in proceeding to Friedensville and getting a supply of ore, of which he soon sue- ceeded in making brass by mixing it with copper. Roepper then went to Philadelphia, made the dis- covery known, and has since been accredited with it by nearly every one who undertook to write about it, while Mr. Wittman, the real diseoverer, has hardly been notieed or mentioned by any.
After this, timid efforts at mining the ore and re- ducing it to metal were made by various parties, but with little snecess until 1856, when the Pennsylvania and Lehigh Zine Company was incorporated, with a capital of $1,000,000, works erected, and mining and manufacturing pushed with vigor. Up to 1859 the product of the mines was converted into white zine paint, or oxide of zine, exclusively. In 1859 the man- ufacture of metallic zine by the Belgian method was begun, and in 1865 a rolling-mill for the manufacture of sheet-zine was added.
The ore consists principally of silicate of zine, but large masses of carbonate of zine are also found, and both are of superior quality. It is found in small veins mingled with clay in the cavities of the magne- sian limestone, which is the prevailing rock, and also in large masses of thousands of tons. As high as seventeen thousand tous of ore have been raised in a single year, and the only drawback to the more suc-
cessful prosecution of the work that has thus far pre- sented itself is the large quantity of water that aecu- mulates in the mines. Various pumping engines were introdueed from time to time, but none that was equal to the work assigned to it until 1872, when "The President," a mammoth engine, was erected and put in operation, and which realized in a full measure the expectations of the company, as it easily and speedily rid the mines of water. As this is the largest engine in the world, a description of it may not be uninteresting.
It is a vertical condensing engine, ten feet stroke, with a cylinder of cast iron one hundred and ten inches in diameter, and weighing forty tons. It has two fly-wheels thirty-five feet in diameter, weighing ninety-two tons apiece, four walking-beams weighing twenty-four tons apiece, twenty-six other pieces weighing over seven tons apiece, while the nut, made of steel, which secures the piston-rod to the cross-head, weighs eleven hundred pounds. The total weight of the engine is six hundred and sixty-seven tons. Sixteen boilers supply the stem for it; it has three thousand three hundred horse-power, and is capable of raising seventeen thousand gallons of water per minute from a depth of two hundred and twenty feet. .
Here we will draw the line and conelde our labors upon the history of Upper Saucon. That it is com- plete or perfeet we dare not claim, but we do claim that everything it contains is authentic and based upon the best information that was accessible to us. Re- course has been had to public and private libraries, the land-office, private, church, and public records, titles, and other legal documents, patriarchal memo- ries and recollections, old newspapers, tombstones, and traditions. Some of the details it contains may to some minds seem out of place in an historical work, but it must be remembered that the statistics of to-day will be history ten years hence. Many of the facts recorded may seem trivial or tediously minute to the general reader, and yet such facts have a local interest, and for that reason have been inserted. In its prep- aration material information was derived from Davis " History of Bucks County," Henry's " History of the Lehigh Valley," and " Rupp's Collections," kind as- sistance rendered by Messrs, George Blank and Charles T. Yeager, Revs. R. C. Weaver and William Rath, and many others, who furnished information or per- mitted the examination of their private records and papers. To all these our most grateful acknowledg- ments are tendered.
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