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The original of this sketch received instruction under a private tutor until ready to enter Anda- lusia College, from which institution he was grad- uated with the Class of '69. Upon leaving he was just twenty years of age, and was given the charge of his father's estate in Salem County, N. J., which comprises two hundred acres. His father being in ill health, young Garrison managed all his affairs and remained upon the farm for twelve years, after which he removed to Penn's Grove, that state, and at the end of three years we find him located in Columbia. Soon afterward, in company with a number of other gentlemen, he organized a wagon company, opening a factory at Penn's Grove. ile was elected Treasurer of the company, and when resigning some time afterward, again located in this city and established the Columbia Wagon Com- pany, of which he is President.
The Columbia Wagon Company occupies two . buildings, 48x100 feet in dimensions, besides num- erous smaller structures, and is operating with a capital stock of $100,000. They are doing an ex- tensive business and manufacture each week about seventy-two wagons. As before stated, they have a branch factory in New York City, and the en- tire business is under the management of William
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H. Platt, the most successful wagon-builder in the United States. The company employes thirty men in their New York branch and fifty workmen in Columbia. They manufacture the "Eclipse" steel wagon, besides the "Columbia" and many styles of business wagons. The Board of Directors in the company is composed of many prominent business men, namely: Andrew Garber, John C. Forrey. Z. F. Yargey, J. H. Herr, Mart Strebig, II. 11. Ileise. Gotlieb Young, J. B. Hutchinson and W. T. Gar- rison.
Mr. Garrison is also Treasurer of the Columbia Flint Company, and is one of the most prominent citizens in the community. In polities he is a stanch Democrat, and while living in New Jersey was the recipient of many minor offices of trust. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and in social affairs stands high in Masonic circles, belong- ing to Penn's Grove Lodge No. 162.
January 30, 1878. W. T. Garrison and Miss Jen- nie, daughter of James Runnington, were united in marriage. Mrs. Garrison's father is a retired lumber merchant residing in Philadelphia. Our subject and his wife are the parents of a son, Paul Runnington, who was born .June 20, 1892.
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J OIIN II. YOUNG, a native of the Keystone State, which has been his place of abode dur- ing his entire life, is engaged in the grocery business at the present time in Lancaster, having one of the largest trades in this line in the city. Hlis store is located centrally at the corner of King and Water Streets, and the premises which he occupies are 20x50 feet in dimensions and two stories high. Mr. Young is a son of Joseph and Sarah (Deibler) Young, well respected citizens and industrious and honorable people of Dauphin County. John H. was born December 22, 1860. in Lykens Valley, Dauphin County, and was given good educational privileges in the public schools , party and is a true patriot in every respect. Ilis
near his home. Subsequently he attended the Lebanon Valley College, but left his studies at the age of eighteen years to engage in the mercantile business at Annville, Lebanon County. For eight years he carried on an extensive trade in hard- ware and on the expiration of that time he came to Lancaster.
In was in 1888 that lohn II. Young first cast in his lot with the inhabitants of that enterprising and industrious city. lle entered the employ of .J. F. Reist, giving to him his faithful services for the succeeding five years. Deciding then to em- hark in business on his own account, he purchased the stock of George Wyant and opened a well equipped grocery on King Street, which he has continued ever since. He receives a large trade and merits the same, for he keeps the best lines of staple aud fancy groceries and his goods are thoroughly reliable, being the best obtainable.
May 7. 1886, Mr. Young was married in Eliza- bethtown, Lancaster County, to Miss Clara, daugh- ter of Henry Breneman, a prominent citizen of that village. and to Mr. and Mrs. Young have been born a son and daughter, who are called re- spectively Edgar J. and Anna E. The young couple are well received in the best social circles of Lan- caster, where they have made a host of friends. In his political relations Mr. Young is a Repub- lican and is a member of the Patriotic Order Sons of America, belonging to Camp No. 87 of Annville. Hle also belongs to Fulton Castle No. 410, Knights of the Golden Eagle, of this city.
The paternal grandfather of our subject was a miller by trade and followed that occupation dur- ing the greater part of his life in Cumberland County, but later became a resident of Dauphin County, where his death occurred when about sixty years of age. llis son Joseph was born in Cumberland County and learned his father's trade, which he followed for a number of years. Subse- quently he engaged in teaching school for a short period and then became a minister in the United Brethren Church, preaching for forty years. For a long time he was a resident of Annville, which is still his home. Politically, like his son, our sub- ject, he casts his vote in favor of the Republican
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wife, formerly Sarah Deibler, died JJuly 10, 1893, at the age of sixty-four years. They were the parents of three daughters and one son: Mary, whose death occurred when she was thirty-live years of age; Sallie, who became the wife of Aaron lloverter; Ella, wife of William Troxell, and John II.
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ENRY II. LANDIS. With such efficiency has this gentleman condueted agricult- ural operations that he is now enabled to live in retirement from active business eares, pos- sessing an ample competence to provide the com- forts of life for his declining years. Ilis advaneed and progressive ideas regarding farm work have placed him among the principal agriculturists of Manheim Township, and his estate is one of the best in this part of the county. Ile has spent his entire life in Manheim Township, and was born here September 4, 1838, being the son of Henry and Esther (Binkley) Landis, formerly prominent residents of this section.
The first representative of this family in Amer- iea emigrated from Switzerland about two hun- dred years ago, and made settlement in Pennsyl- vania. Benjamin Landis, our subjeet's great-grand- father, was born in Lampeter Township, Laneaster County, and there his entire life was spent upon his valuable farm, which included more than twelve hundred acres. Ile married a Miss Snavely, and they became the parents of six children, their sons being Ilenry, Benjamin and John. One of these, Grandfather Henry Landis, was born in Manheim Township, and became one of its most extensive farmers. He conducted a distillery and kept a team on the road between Lancaster and Phila- delphia, supplying the residents with the products of his distillery. Successful financially, he was very liberal with his children, giving to each of his sons a farm when they were ready to settled in life, and to his daughters $6,000 in cash. Ile was a devoted member of the Mennonite Church,
and active in advancing the religions interests of the people. His death occurred in 1839, upon the old homestead. Ile and his wife, whose maiden name was Anna Long, were the parents of ten children, viz .: Benjamin, John, Henry, Isaac, Ja- eob, Naney, Snsan, Elizabeth, Barbara and Mary.
Our subject's father, Henry Landis, was born April 15, 1797, and, like his ancestors, followed the life of a farmer for a number of years. From 1830 to 1840 he was engaged in shipping eattle to Philadelphia, an enterprise that proved highly satisfactory from a financial point of view. Ile was a member of the Mennonite Church, and num- hered as his friends the best residents of the eom- munity. llis first wife was Miss Annie, daughter of John Stauffer, and their union resulted in the birth of three children: Emanuel; Fannie, deceased; and Anna, wife of Levi Reist. His second wife, our subjeet's mother, was a daughter of Christian Bink- ley, who built the first stone bridge ever con- structed across the Conestoga, and the settlement near it is known as Binkley's Bridge. Near that place he erected a building formerly used as a flouring mill, and now a paper mill, operated by water power. Mr. Landis died April 15, 1876, and his good wife followed him to the better land five years later, passing away May 6, 1881. She was a devoted Christian woman, and an earnest member of the Mennonite Church.
Reared on the home farm in Rapho Township, our subjeet gained the rudiments of his educa- tion in the common schools and completed his studies in Freeburg Academy. Choosing the voca- tion of a farmer, he settled upon a good estate in this township, and continued to till the soil until 1893, when he retired from farm work. For a number of years he shipped cattle from Chicago to Philadelphia markets. His homestead is one of the best in the county, complete in all its ap- pointments and supphed with substantial and well ordered buildings.
November 26, 1861, Mr. Landis married Miss Emma Caroline, the daughter of George Diller, a farmer and drover of East Earl Township, this county. A family of four children is the result of their umon, viz .: Anna Margaret, deceased; llenry K., Professor of Mining and Metallurgy in
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the University of Missouri, at Rolla, Mo .; George D., a civil engineer; and Nettie May, who is a student in Millersville Normal School. In poli- ties Mr. Landis is a Republican, on which ticket he has been elected to the School Board and va- rious publie positions of trust. Hle stands high in Masonic circles, and is a member of Lancaster Lodge No. 43. F. & A. M.
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ENRY F. HOSTETTER, a farmer of Man- heim Township residing in Oregon, was born on the old family homestead in this township, October 3, 1847, being a son of Simon and Mary (Frantz) Hostetter. The founder of the family in America was Jacob Ilostetter, a na- tive of Germany, who emigrated to this country prior to the Revolutionary War. He was a farmer by occupation, and in religion a member of the Mennonite Church. His son Abraham, the great- great-grandfather of our subject, cultivated the farm in Manheim Township that is still in posses- sion of the family. The next in line of descent was Charles, who settled in Warwick Township, this county. Ile and his wife reared seven sons: John, Jacob, Daniel, Henry, Chusa, Israel, and one whose name is not known.
Jacob, grandfather of our subject, cultivated the farm now owned by our subject, and was suc- cessful financially, accumulating considerable prop- erty. In religious faitli he was identified with the River Brethren Church, and often filled the pulpit, being a well informed man and a fluent speaker. Ile and his wife, Barbara, were the par- ents of four children that attained years of ma- turity. Ile died about fifty years ago, at the age of sixty-nine.
The father of our subject, Simon, was born on the Hostetter farm in January, 1821, and has spent his entire life in this locality. For twenty years he followed the occupation of a miller, and owned the Hostetter mill at Oregon, but retired
from active business cares in 1892. In politics he is a Republican. He has held the office of School Director, and is a man who stands well in the community, being esteemed for his ability and in- tegrity. His wife, Mary, was a daughter of Sam- uel Frantz, a farmer of Rohrerstown. Of their three children, one died when young; Abraham F. is a lawyer of Lancaster; and Henry F. is the subject of this sketch.
The last-named was reared on the home farm, receiving the advantages of a common-school edu- cation and a course at the Millersville State Nor- mal. Afterward he taught school for a time, and since then has engaged in agricultural pursuits on the old Ilostetter farm. He is the owner of more than one hundred and sixty acres of well im- proved land, from the cultivation of which he re- ceives a good income. In political belief he is a Republican, stanch in his adherence to party princi- ples. Ile is interested in educational matters, and has served as School Director.
October 4, 1881, Mr. Hostetter married Miss Clara L., daughter of Levi S. Reist, deceased, form- erly a prominent farmer and Justice of the Peace, and one of the originators of the Lancaster Coun- ty Agricultural Society. Two children were born of this union, one of whom died in infancy, and the other is named Anna Mary. Socially the fam- ily occupies a high place, and is one of the best known and most highly esteemed in the county.
OL. DAVID BRAINERD CASE is one of the most prominent and worthy citizens of Marietta, and a distinguished member of the Lancaster County Bar. In both legal and military circles he has made an enviable record, and at all times acquitted himself with great credit. Ile comes of a long line of military ancestry. On the maternal side, one of his forefathers, Robert Scott, fought for the "Covenant and Crown" at Both- well Brig, and was a member of the Lower House of the Scottish Parliament before it was merged in-
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to the British Parliament in 1714. His great-grand- father, Robert Scott. was First Sergeant in Capt. John Arndt's Company. Colonel Baxter's Flying Battalion, and fought at the battles of Long I3- land and Ft. Washington. ITis great-great-grand- father, John Ralston, was a member of the Consti- tutional Convention of 1776. and a Major in the Continental Army. Ilis grandfather, Majci W. G. Scott, was commissioned Ensign in the Fifteenth I'nited States Infantry, under commai. 1 of Col. Z. M. Pike, at the outbreak of the War of 1812, and rose to the rank of Assistant Adjutant-Gen- eral.
Colonel Case was born in Northumberland Coun- ty, Pa., May 15, 1853. his parents being William G. and Sarah Ralston (Scott) Case. The former was also a native of Northumberland County, and was a railroad builder and iron manufacturer. At one time he was President of the Reading & Columbia Railroad, and was one of the original constructors of the road. In partnership with General Dodge, of Ohio, he built the Columbus & Ilocking Valley Railroad. He also assisted in the construction of the European & North American Railway from Bangor. Me., to St. John's. New Brunswick. He was the founder of the towns of Hailey and Cald- well, Idaho. and others in central Idaho, on land taken up by the Oregon and Idaho Improvement Company. A man of splendid executive ability. he possessed great business enterprise and met with success. Politically he was a Republican and act- ively concerned in the affairs of his party. The latter part of his life was passed at Santa Monica, where he became Elder in the Presbyterian Church. While on his way to attend the general assembly of his denomination at Saratoga, he was summoned by the death angel. During the Civil War he was in command of Company I, Second Regiment, which enlisted on the emergency call, and was main- ly composed of employes from the furnaces of his rolling mill at Columbia. To himself and wife were born five children, only two of whom are living, two having died in infancy, and a son, Howard, when in his twenty-ninth year. Col. Alliene Case, our subject's only surviving brother, is the pres- ent Adjutant-General of Idaho.
Col. David Case was reared in Wilkes Barre and
Columbia, and was given the advantages of a su- perior education. His first military instruction was obtained at Myer's Military Academy, at West Chester, Pa., and later he attended Alexander's Military Academy at Columbia. His later educa- tion was gained at Ilarvard University and at Heidelberg, Germany. Ile was in Germany and France during the Franco-Prussian War, and though quite young, made a considerable study of the military systems of the two countries. Dur- ing the years 1869-70, he pursued legal studies in the Harvard Law School. and after returning from Europe, in 1871, entered the office of Hon. S. P. Wolverton, of Sunbury, Member of Congress from that district, and in 1873 was admitted to the Northumberland County Bar. For about two years afterwards he was interested with his father in the iron business, but since 1876, when he commenced the practice of law in Columbia, his main attention has been directed in the line of his profession. In 1881 he left Columbia and came to Marietta, and here. as well as in his former field, has built up a good reputation as a general practitioner. His field of work comprises not only this, but neigh- boring counties, and he has been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court, and the United States District and Circuit Courts. At this writ- ing he is Vice-President of the Central National Bank of Columbia, and is Attorney for many of the leading concerns of Marietta and vicinity. Among others he is solicitor for the Marietta Ilome Building and Loan Association, and the water company, of which he was one of the projectors.
Colonel Case entered the service of Pennsylva- nia April 24, 1877, as Captain of Company II, Eleventh Regiment of the National Guards, under Col. Alfred Rupert. During the great railroad riots of July, 1877, his company. although un- armed, was ordered to join the regiment at Mal- vern Station. Proceeding to Harrisburg. they were there armed with rifles, thence went to Pitts- burg, and served with their regiment during the entire term of duty of the National Guards. Upon the reorganization of the same, and the disbanding of the Eleventh Regiment. Company HI was as- signed to the Fourth Regiment, then commanded by Colonel Good. December 11, 1885, he was
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elected Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourth Regi- ment, and was promoted to be Colonel Novem- ber 7. 1890. While he is a strict disciplinarian. he is thoughtful of his men and careful of their wel- fare. The Colonel is a elose student of the art of war, and devotes much time to the perusal of his well selected military library. Of commanding presence, some six feet in height, and well propor- tioned, he seems eminently fitted as a leader and official. Socially he is a member of the Sons of the Revolution and the Society of the War of 1812. During the Homestead strike the members of Colonel Case's regiment all reported for duty upon six hours' notice, with the exception of nine soldiers, who were not within the state, and there- fore were not reached in time.
On the 26th of June, 1872, Colonel Case married Miss Sarah Strickler MeCorkle, daughter of Dr. William S. McCorkle, of Columbia. One daugh- ter, Elizabeth MeCorkle by name, has been born of this union.
ILLIAM C. EICHLER, of Lancaster, has during his active business life fol- lowed his trade as a baker, first with his father and later as his successor. Ilis years of industrious and honest toil have brought him a good income and the respeet of those who have had business or other dealings with him from time to time. Ile is a native of Lancaster County, having been born June 21, 1850, at Lititz, in the vicinity of which place several generations of his family have been residents.
Gotleib Eichler, the great-grandfather of our subject, emigrated to the United States from Ger- many, prior to the War of the Revolution and was one of the early settlers of this county. His son, Abram, the next is descent, lived near Lititz, at what is now Whitehall, where he owned a distill- ery, a grist and flour mill, and one of the best ho- tels to be found in the county at that day. He | he is rapidly acquiring a competency. In politics
was a wealthy man for the times and owned seven stores in different parts of the county. A man of publie spirit, he was charitable and generous, and was an officer in the Moravian Church. As a member of the militia he took part in drills and was on guard duty at times. lle was twice mar- ried and had three children by his first union, with a Miss Becker, namely: Maria, Caroline E. and George S. ITis death occurred when he was in his fifty-third year.
His son, George L., our subject's father, was born near Lititz and received his education in Beck's Academy. Ile was for five years a resident on the old homestead, but later removed to Lititz and finally to Laneaster. Ile was the originator of the Lititz or kiln dried pretzel, and had a very large demand for the article. He was politieally a Dem- ocrat, and was a leader in the ranks of his party. At various times he held the offices of Sheriff, Pro- thonotary, etc., and made an efficient and trusty public man. In the Masonic fraternity he held membership and passed through all the chairs of the lodge with which he was identified. Relig- iously he was a member of the Moravian Church and held the position of Trustee for many years. His death oeeurred in 1880, when he was in his fifty-fifth year. Ile married Miss Mary Ann. daughter of Jacob Peterson, of Dutch descent. Ile too was a Moravian and possessed considerable means and real-estate interests. George and Mary Eichler became the parents of seven children, namely; Mary M .. Mrs. Henry Martin, of Boston, Mass .; Henry; Abraham, deceased; William C., John, James and Robert F.
William C. Eichler, the subject of this biography. received a good education in Beck's Academy, where he pursued the regular course of study. At the age of fourteen years he commenced learning the baker's trade with his father, in whose employ he continued for several years. After his father retired from the business our subject became pro- prietor of the plant, and sinee that time has con- ducted the business alone. Ile is master of his trade, understanding every department of work, and has a large number of patrons. His income from his business has been assured for years and
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he is a strong Republican and fraternally belongs to Lodge No. 43, F. & A. M., of Lancaster, to Lodge No. 67. I. O. O. F., and is associated with the Royal Areanum.
March 3, 1880, Mr. Eichler was united in mar- riage with Susan Rhienold, and two children have graced their union: Edwin, now deceased, and John. The parents are members of the Moravian Church, in which our subject is a Trustee and has served in other official positions.
H H. HEISE was one of the prime movers in getting the Columbia Wagon Company started, and is now a Director in that or- ganization. He solicited the citizens to subseribe the stock, and in every way used his influence and means to place the company in a flourishing posi- tion. It is now incorporated with a stock of $50,- 000, and will soon be numbered among the leading industries of Columbia.
Solomon Heise, a native of Switzerland, and one of the ancestors of our subject, located in Columbia in the early part of the eighteenth century, became a elerk in a store, and after his marriage engaged in farming in Union County, Pa. Later he re- turned to this place, and passed his remaining years on the "Patience Ileise Farm." He was a Whig, and, like his wife, was a Presbyterian. Among his two sons and four daughters was Ilarry, the father of our subjeet. Ile was born in Union County, Pa., in 1804, and became a farmer near this village, where he owned a place of two hundred and fifty acres. He was an old-line Whig, and socially was a member of the Odd Fellows' Society. For his first wife he married Fannie Furrey, whose mother lived to the age of one hun- dred and four years, and by this marriage were born three children. After her demise the father married llannah Heidler, and to them were born six children, of whom our subject is the eldest, and the others are Mrs. Jonas II, Nalt; B. F .; Mrs. J. II.
Wilmot, of Washington, D. C .; Mrs. J. P. Agney, and Anna Mary, who died when about eighteen years of age. The father of these children de- parted this life at the age of sixty years, February 3, 1863, and his wife also died when about sixty years of age.
II. IJ. Ileise, of this sketch, was born January 30, 1840, in this city, where he received his ele- mentary education, and later was a student in the People's Business College at Reading, Pa. In the spring of 1867 he started for Europe, and passed six months m travel, visiting all the most inter- esting places from London to the Adriatie. Ile crossed the Alps on foot, and was in Paris at the time of the Exposition of that year. Ile then went to Germany, Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, across the Adriatic Sea to Turkey, passing through Vemce, Rome, Naples, Hungary, and re- turning by way of Frankfort and Heidelberg, to Scotland, England and Ireland. After a journey of sight seeing, such as few travelers are now am- bitious enough to undertake, he started home by an Atlantic steamer on the New York and Bremen Line, and on his way visited Saratoga and Niagara Falls before coming to Columbia.
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