Indiana County, Pennsylvania; her people, past and present, Volume II, Part 133

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 884

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On June 1, 1898, Mr. Stanley was married to Bertha Miller, who is a daughter of George and Anna Miller, natives of Clearfield county, where the father is in the contracting and building business. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley have had three children: Matthew, Russell and Beryl, the two last named still at school. Mr. Stanley belongs to the Masonic fra- ternity, being connected with the lodge at Hollidaysburg.

ROBERT L. EMERICK, of Canoe town- ship, Indiana county, teacher and farmer, has lived in that section all his life, having been born Sept. 14, 1884, at Rochester Mills, son of John J. Emerick, and grandson of John B. Emerick.

John Emerick, his great-grandfather, was born in Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, and came to America many years ago. For eight years he worked as a merchant tailor in Balti- more, Md., and then moved to Franklin

county, Pa., where he farmed from 1832 to 1840, in the latter year coming to Indiana county. He obtained 150 acres of wild land, continuing his agricultural operations in Canoe township, where he died in 1878, aged ninety-four years, while his wife died in 1874, aged eighty-five years. They were members of the M. E. Church. Their children were : John B .; Henry, who married Mary Hoover, and lived in Canoe township (both are de- ceased) ; Elizabeth, who married John Hef- flick, and lived in Canoe township (both are deceased) ; and Mary, who married Michael Winsheimer, and lived in Indiana county and Maryland (both are deceased).

Tracy C. Stanley spent his early years on the home farm and attended school until John B. Emerick, son of John, came with about fifteen years of age, at which time he his parents to Indiana county and helped them to clear a farm in Canoe township, both working hard for their success. He secured fifty acres of the homestead and lived on it until his death, in 1894, at the age of seventy- eight years. Mr. Emerick was also a tailor and worked at his trade occasionally. A Re- publican in politics, he confined his public activities to casting his vote for the candidate of his party. The Lutheran Church of Trade City held his membership, and he was a most excellent man in every respect.

John B. Emerick married Barbara Wort- man, who was born in West Mahoning town- ship, this county, daughter of Casper Wort- man. They had the following children : John J .; Kate, who married James Colkitt, of Punxsutawney, and has four children, Charles, Alfred, Mary and Fred; George, who is living with his brother Harvey C., on the Emerick homestead, a huckster aud farmer; and Harvey C.

John J. Emerick, son of John B. and Bar- bara (Wortman) Emerick, was born Aug. 7, 1849, on the Emerick homestead in Canoe township, now occupied by his brother Har- vey, and received his education in the public schools there. He himself became the owner of a tract of sixty acres in that township, fol- lowing general farming and trucking, and for many years engaging as a huckster, mak- ing two trips a week to Horatio, where he not only disposed of his own produce, but that of other farmers which he gathered. His death occurred in 1892. Politically he was a Republican, but took no part in party af- fairs, and never held any office. On Jan. 7, 1880, he married Margaret E. Lowry, who was born Dec. 29, 1858, daughter of Lewis and Isabella (Hanna) Lowry, and died Dec. 2, 1908, aged forty-nine years, ten months. Mr. and Mrs. Emerick are buried in the Pine

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Grove cemetery at Richmond, in Canoe town- ship. They had children as follows: Robert L .; Oren B., who is on his father's homestead near Rochester Mills, in Canoe township, mar- ried to Mayme C. Colgan; Anna B., wife of Jacob McFarland, of Rossiter, Canoe town- ship; and Cecil B., who married Harry Dun- mire, of Juneau, Canoe township. The fam- ily are of Presbyterian faith.

Robert L. Emerick obtained his preparatory education in the public schools of his native township, and attended the summer normals held at Marchand, Marion Center and Smicks- burg. For one term he was a student in the preparatory school of Grove City College, in Mercer county, Pa. He holds a State perma- nent certificate. He has taught school for eleven years in Canoe and Banks townships and Smicksburg borough, and was thus en- gaged for three summer terms, two at Smieks- burg and one at Juneau. In 1912 he bought a farm of eighty acres in Canoe township, a few miles from Richmond, where he intends to engage in truck farming, following in his father's footsteps.

On Aug. 3, 1910, Mr. Emerick married Vesta Butler, daughter of John H. and Mar- garet C. (Aul) Butler, of Georgeville, this connty, and they have one child, John Lowry, born June 1, 1911.

Mr. Emerick has not only been associated with educational work in his locality, but with religious enterprises and general moral ad- vancement. He is a staunch Prohibitionist in political connection, and is one of the most efficient working members of the Salem Evangelical Church, which he is serving as trustee and Sunday school superintendent ; he is also secretary and treasurer of the Young People's Alliance. By reason of his attain- ments and high standards he is well fitted for such responsibilities, and has proved him- self a trustworthy and conscientious official.

JOHN HENRY BUTLER, father of Mrs. Emerick, is a merchant at Georgeville, in East Mahoning township. He is a native of New Jersey, born Sept. 3, 1849, near Rox- bnry, Warren county, and the family has been established in that State from an early day. Robert Butler, grandfather of John Henry, was a cooper; followed his trade in Warren county, and died there.

Holloway Butler, son of Robert and Eliza- beth (or Betty), was born in Warren county, learned coopering with his father, and worked at the trade for some time, but later became interested in fruit culture, raising small fruits and vegetables. He was thus engaged

until his death. He married Margaret Kimple, also a native of Warren county, and they had children: Mary Elizabeth, Thomas, John Henry, George, Bernard, James, Wil- liam, Anna, Lena, Samuel, Sarah and Oscar. John Henry Butler came to Indiana county in 1871, his maternal grandfather, John Kimple, and uncle, Capt. William Kimple, living here. He settled with the former and worked for him a year, in 1872 going to Butler county, where he remained a year. He has since been a resident of East Ma- honing township, where he farmed until 1882, the year he entered the general mer- cantile business at Georgeville. He now has a flourishing trade, being the leading business man of the place. He is still interested in farming, and continued to look after the operation of his homestead place until he turned it over to his son George in 1909. He is a Republican in politics and has held pub- lic office ; socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F. and Jr. O. U. A. M.

On March 24, 1873, Mr. Butler married Margaret Aul, and they have had children as follows : George H., Margaret (deceased), Rebecca (deceased), Annie, Frank (de- ceased), Ross (deceased), Urbie Clair (de- ceased), Edward Gale (deceased), Bessie (deceased), Bertha, Vesta, and Miles Putney (deceased). A full sketch of the Butler fam- ily appears elsewhere in this work.

CALVIN H. STEFFEY, of Heilwood, Pa., was born on a farm in Pine township, Indi- ana county, Sept. 25, 1877, son of George and Teresa (Goss) Steffey. His paternal grand- father was a native of Pennsylvania and an early settler in Pine township, for many years conducting a blacksmith shop about one mile from the present town of Heilwood. He also engaged extensively in farming, cleared a good tract of land, and erected a log house, in which he resided for a long period.

George Steffey, father of Calvin H. Steffey, was born in Pennsylvania. He was an early settler in Pine township and spent the rest of his life there, farming. His death oc- curred Nov. 8, 1908, on the old homestead, while his widow, who still survives and lives on the Pine township farm, is seventy-two years of age. They had a family of four sons and four daughters, as follows: Emma, the wife of William Sholtz, of Pine township; Frank G., engaged in farming in Pine town- ship; Catherine, the wife of David Martin, of Pine township; Calvin H .; Harvey, an elec- trician of Heilwood; Scott V., proprietor of

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the Steffey Livery, at Heilwood; Mazie, the county, Pa., where he spent his entire life in wife of Ardie Davis, of Grisemore, Indiana general farming. county ; and Pearl, the wife of James Hanna, Samuel R. Waddell was reared to the voca-

living on the old homestead in Pine township. tion of a farmer, and like other farmers' sons

Calvin H. Steffey attended the public schools of Pine township, and on completing his education began to teach school. After following the vocation of educator in Pine township for five years, in Buffington town- ship three terms, and at Barnesboro, Cambria county, two terms, he took a business course in the Eastman business college at Pough- keepsie, N. Y., and then accepted a position with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at Trauger, Westmoreland county. One year later he entered the employ of the Heilwood Company, as bookkeeper. Mr. Steffey is a member of Pine Flats Lodge, No. 1168, I. O. O. F. He attends the Lutheran Church.

SAMUEL R. WADDELL, who has been engaged in cultivating his present property in Green township, Indiana county, since 1900, was born in that township, Aug. 10, 1852, and is a son of James and Sarah (Wike) Waddell.

Samuel Waddell, his paternal grandfather, was a native-born American, of Irish ances- try. An early settler of Indiana county, in his younger years he was a tailor, but later purchased a farm in Green township and was engaged in tilling the soil there until his death. He is buried in Taylorville cemetery.

James Waddell, son of Samuel Waddell, was born Nov. 6, 1826, in Indiana county, three miles north of Blairsville. In 1845 he removed from Washington township to Green township, purchased the farm adjoining where his son, Samuel R., now resides, and cleared it from the wilderness, building a hewed log cabin and making numerous other improvements. He continued to reside in the original house and to engage in agricultural pursuits there until his death, which occurred Feb. 19, 1900. James Waddell married Sarah Wike, who was born May 11, 1826, in Bedford county, Pa., near the town of Woodbury, and came to Indiana county at the age of fifteen years with her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Blickens- dorfer. She resided near Greenville, in Cherryhill township, until her marriage, and her death occurred in Green township Oct. 11, 1892. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Waddell : Samuel R. and John, latter re- siding at the old homestead, Green township.

of his day and locality spent his boyhood in work on the home place in the summer months, his education being secured in the district schools during the winter terms. As a youth he engaged in lumbering, and for sixteen years was engaged in working in the woods, in 1900 purchasing the home farm, where he has since devoted his energies to agricultural work.

On Dec. 30, 1886, Mr. Waddell was mar- ried to Mary Conn, who was born in Butler county, Pa., Feb. 16, 1859, daughter of Wil- liam and Nancy (Mortimer) Conn, both na- tives of Butler county. Mrs. Waddell's par- ents came to Indiana county in 1866 and settled in Green township, Mr. Conn being engaged in farming here until his death in 1881, while his wife survived him until 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Waddell have had two children, one of whom died in infancy. The other, Meda M., is the wife of Willis A. Houck, and lives in Green township, near Purchase Line.

Mr. and Mrs. Waddell are members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Waddell's father and grandparents were charter mem- bers of the East Union Presbyterian Church of Taylorsville, Indiana county. Politically Mr. Waddell is a Republican, and he has served nine years as school director of his township.

WILLIAM H. FENTON, proprietor of the Central Meat Market, in Indiana, has owned that place for the last three years and is doing a thriving business, which under his careful management is steadily increasing. He has passed practically all his life in the borough.

Mr. Fenton was born Aug. 13, 1872, in Homer City, this county, son of James and Jennie (Crawford) Fenton. The latter's parents, Robert Fenton and his wife, were from Ireland. James Fenton was born in Indiana county, possibly in the borough of Indiana, and learned harnessmaking, which trade he followed for a time. Then he en- gaged in business, keeping a store, and he be- came one of the well-known and highly es- teemed citizens of Indiana, serving twenty years as justice of the peace. He was a prominent member of the M. E. Church, in which he was an active worker, serving as an officer for years. In politics he was a Repub-

Jacob Wike, the maternal grandfather of Samuel R. Waddell, was a native of Bedford lican. He died in Indiana in 1901. After

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his death his widow removed with three of neither having ever come to the United States. her unmarried children to Steubenville, Ohio, Naum Cooper received a public school edu- thence to Condersport, Pa., and from there cation in his native land, and on completing to Wheeling, W. Va., where she died in the his schooling was apprenticed to the trade of tailor. For some time he worked at his trade in Russia, and from 1892 to 1895 served in the Russian army. From that country he went to Austria, where he remained three months, and then proceeded to Berlin, Ger- many, and later to Bremen, working at his trade all the time. At Bremen he took a steamer for the United States, and from Balti- more, Md., where he landed, came direct to Pittsburg, Pa. After remaining in the lat- ter city for a short time Mr. Cooper moved on to McKeesport, Pa., but after ten months went to Johnstown, and remained there one year. He then went to Bolivar, Pa., where he engaged in the merchant tailoring business, and after, a residence there of three years came to Clymer. During all this time Mr. Cooper had been seeking a locality in which to settle permanently, and after spending a summer of 1907. The sons established the Fenton Art Glass Company in Wheeling, but after their mother's death removed the busi- ness to Williamstown, W. Va., where they erected their own plant and developed the concern to large proportions. Mr. and Mrs. James Fenton had a family of seven children, namely : Robert, of the Fenton Art Glass Company, who married Grace Dudley, of Marion, Ohio; John, also a member of the Fenton Art Glass Company, who married Tuindara Kerr, of Indiana, Pa., and lives at Millersburg, Ohio; James, of the Fenton Art Glass Company, who married Netta Clawson and since her death has remarried; William H .; Charles, a member of the Fenton Art Glass Company ; Gertie, Mrs. Charles Brand, of Williamstown, W. Va .; and Frank, of the Fenton Art Glass Company.

William H. Fenton grew to manhood in short time in Clymer recognized the general Indiana horough, obtaining his education in desirability of the borough as a business center and the opportunity offered for a live and alert merchant to engage in tailoring. Accordingly he established himself in busi- ness here, and later added men's furnishings to his stock, now having the only store of its kind in Clymer. the public schools. When a youth of fifteen he began to learn tanning, at the plant of the Indiana Tanning Company, and he followed that trade for a period of eighteen years. He then engaged in the hide business on his own account, continuing same one year, at the end of which time, in 1909, he bought the Central On Jan. 27, 1912, Mr. Cooper was united in marriage with Bertha MeCaskey, who was born in Butler county, Pa .; her parents are now residents of Boliver, Westmoreland county. Meat Market, at No. 565 Philadelphia street, Indiana. He carries a good stock of home dressed meats, butter, eggs and poultry, and enjoys a steady patronage, to which he has added materially since the business came Mr. Cooper is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Clymer and is also a popular mem- ber of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. into his hands. His straightforward dealing and reliable goods are the factors he depends upon to hold his patrons.

In 1895 Mr. Fenton was married to Ned- wena Gibson, of Greenville, Indiana county, daughter of the late Charles Gibson, and they have had nine children, namely: Jeannette Elmira, Nellie Jane, Anna Belle, Nedwena, Mabel, William, Monroe, Alene and Frede- rick Ream. Mr. and Mrs. Fenton are mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In his political views Mr. Fenton is a Republi- can. Socially he belongs to the Royal Arcanum.

ROBERT STRAWBRIDGE, mine fore- man for the Victor Coal Company, at Clymer, Indiana county, has been at that place sinee 1909 and has been engaged in mine work all his life. He was born Nov. 2, 1865, in the County of Durham, England, son of William and Margaret (Logan) Strawbridge. The parents were natives of the North of Ire- land, whence they went to Scotland, remain- ing there for a time and then removing to the County of Durham, England. William Strawbridge followed mining in Scotland and England, where he was killed in a mine explosion, in the County of Durham, in 1880; 165 lives were lost. His widow now makes her home in Rossiter, Indiana Co., Pa., with

NAUM COOPER, proprietor of the only merchant tailoring and men's furnishing goods establishment in the borough of Cly- mer, was born in Russia Nov. 20, 1879, son of Aaron and Vera Cooper, the former de- ceased and the latter still living in Russia, her daughter Mrs. Beecham. Mr. and Mrs.

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William Strawbridge had sixteen children, Pa .; and Mary Jane, wife of George Hunt- some of whom died in infancy, and eight ington, of Sykesville, Pa. survive, of whom Elizabeth Ann is the wife Mr. and Mrs. Strawbridge have six chil- dren, namely: Robert William, Ethel, Jane, Frank, Margaret and Willette. The parents are members of the Methodist Church, and socially Mr. Strawbridge belongs to the Knights of Pythias. of John Gowdridge, of Rossiter, this county : Margaret is the wife of Frank McManus, and lives in Frontenac, Kans .; Robert is men- tioned below; Thomas resides at South Fork, Cambria Co., Pa .; Joseph is a resident of Punxsutawney, Pa .; Sarah is the widow of Arthur Beecham, of Rossiter, who was killed in an explosion; we have no record of the other two.

LEVI M. BUTERBAUGH lives upon the farm in Green township, Indiana county, which his father purchased three quarters of Robert Strawbridge received his schooling in England. At the age of twelve years he began work in mines there, continuing thus a century ago. His grandfather, Peter Buter- baugh, was an early settler in these parts, making his home upon a farm adjoining that until he reached the age of sixteen, when he of Levi M. Buterbaugh. He remained in came to America. He landed at Philadelphia Green township to the close of his life, living and came thence direct to Philipsburg, Center to advanced age. Co., Pa., where he went to work in the mines, David A. Buterbaugh, son of Peter, was born Aug. 9, 1805, in Maryland, whence in young manhood he moved to Huntingdon county, Pa. In 1837 he came to Indiana county, where he bought the farm in Green township now occupied by his son Levi M. Buterbaugh. Here he passed the rest of his life, dying Aug. 21, 1893. He married Amy McGuire, who was born in Green township Jan. 11, 1814, and died April 27, 1886, and they became the parents of ten children, but four of whom survive, namely: William, who is a resident of Tennessee; Levi M .; Sarah J., wife of Aaron Burnheimer, of near Tanoma, in Rayne township, this county; and Ma- tilda, unmarried, who lives with her brother Levi. The deceased were: Calvin, who died in infancy; Emanuel, who died in infancy ; Lucinda, who died in infancy; Mary Ann, who died when tweny-two years old ; Emeline, who died at the age of twenty-five years; and Lucy Ann, who died at the age of twenty. remaining at that point six months. From there he went to Houtzdale, where he was located for five years, employed in the mines, and then he went West to Missouri and on to Kansas, remaining three years in that sec- tion. On his return to Pennsylvania he set- tled at 'Dubois, where he resumed mining, at Helvetia, near DuBois, becoming fire boss of the Helvetia mines. He held that position for four and a half years, being foreman for another period of three years, after which he came to Clymer, in the early part of 1909. Here he became foreman of Victor Mine No. 29, being transferred later to No. 24, where he is still employed. He is known as a thor- oughly reliable man, and his long experience makes him worthy of the responsibility in- trusted to him. Mr. Strawbridge was in the mine explosion in England in which his father was killed and in another at the Hel- vetia mines in which four lives were lost.

On Dec. 21, 1887, at Three Runs, Clear- Levi M. Buterbaugh was born May 5, 1848, on the farm in Green township where he now lives, and received his education in the local public schools. He has always been engaged in farming, and prospered in his work, be- coming one of the respected and substantial citizens of his township. He is a member of the M. E. Church. His wife is a Pres- byterian. field Co., Pa., Mr. Strawbridge married Eliz- abeth Watkinson, a native of the County of Durham, England, born April 25, 1868, about three miles from the place where her husband was born. Her parents, Thomas and Jane H. (Eslop) Watkinson, were natives of the County of Durham who came to America and passed the remainder of their lives in this country; Mrs. Watkinson died in 1898 in Jefferson county, Pa., and Mr. Watkinson On Nov. 6, 1866, Mr. Buterbaugh was mar- ried to Elizabeth Treese, who was born Sept. 13, 1848, in Huntingdon county, Pa., and died May 1, 1893. A family of nine children was born to this union, viz .: Anna, now the wife of Augustus Sonnenberg, living in Michigan ; William H., who lives at home; Morrison, of Indiana county; Jennie, widow of George died April 13, 1904, in Clearfield county. They had a family of nine children, one son and eight daughters, four of whom are liv- ing: Mrs. Strawbridge; Margaret, wife of Albert Huntington, of near Snowshoe, Pa .; Phyllis, wife of Richard Vivian, of Pardus, Mead, living in Johnstown, Pa .; Emma, wife

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of Frank Dealer, of Johnstown; Bertha, de- Mr. Kametz is a member of the Lutheran ceased, who was the wife of Marling Walker Church. and died when twenty-seven years old; Cal- lie, who died in 1877, in infancy; Richard, ISADORE KINGSTON, who conducts a restaurant, confectionery and pool room at Clymer, was born in Cambria county, Pa., Sept. 1, 1876, a son of James and Sarah (Kline) Kingston. who died in infancy; and Vinnie, who died in infancy. On Nov. 4, 1897, Mr. Buter- baugh married (second) Sarah Jane Long, daughter of James G. and Mary A. (Stewart) Long, of Center township, and by that union has had one child, Jay C., who is now at- tending school.

George Treese (also written Dreese, the German spelling), father of the late Mrs. Elizabeth (Treese) Buterbaugh, was born in Huntingdon county, Pa., as was also his wife, Rebecca (Blaugh). They came to Indiana county in 1856, settling in Green township, where they died, both attaining old age. Mrs Buterbaugh was the eldest of their ten chil- dren, one of whom, Emanuel, died in infancy, the others being: Kate, wife of John Roley, of Montgomery township, Indiana county ; John, who lives in Green township; Amanda, wife of Washington Fridley, of Montgomery township; Minnie, wife of William Hum- phries of the State of Indiana; George, a resident of Montgomery township; Emeline, wife of Dal Mumau, of Glen Campbell, this county; Adeline, wife of Anthony Arm- strong, of Montgomery township; and Grant, a resident of Green township.

ANDREW KAMETZ, who is in the gro- cery business at Creekside, Indiana county, was born in Austria in March, 1857, son of John and Annie Kametz, both of whom are deceased.

Andrew Kametz was educated in his native land, and when nineteen years old began his military service of three years. After leaving the army he began mining, and continued to work along that line until coming to America, in 1887. Landing in New York City, he came thence to Pocahontas, Va., and after a few years there went to DuBois, Pa., which con- tinued to be his home until he located at Creekside, several years ago. During all of this period, and for some time after coming to Creekside, he continued to work in the mines, eventually embarking in his present business. He now conducts a thriving gen- eral grocery store. His various ventures have prospered, and he built and owns his store and the house he now occupies.

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Indiana County, Pennsylvania; her people, past and present, Volume II, Part 133

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co. Number of Pages: 884

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 884