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USA > Pennsylvania > Northampton County > Portrait and biographical record of Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties, Pennsylvania. : Containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States > Part 59
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on North Center Street, and the work of the church has been progressing favorably along all lines.
In 1868, in Providence, R. I., our subject mar- ricd Miss Ruth M. Case, a native of that city, and four children have been born of their marriage: Ruth; Mabel; Robert Lincoln, who is attending Princeton College, in the Class of '96; John Case; and Sarah I. Rev. Mr. Litch is a member of the Lehigh Presbytery.
M ILTON L. CORTRIGHT, junior member of the firm of Riegel & Cortright, at Bethlehem, was born at Freemansburg, Northampton County, Pa., September 14, 1846. His father, Abraham Cortright, was born in Salem, Luzerne County, Pa., and was engaged some time in coal mining and shipping. He and his brother, N. D. Cortriglit, werc engaged in business at Frec- mansburg in connection with their enterprise at Mauch Chunk, doing a large business in coal mining and shipping, general merchandise, lumber dealing and boat-building, and they also had a saw- mill, located at Freemansburg. The father be- longed to the Whig party, and was a member of the Reformed Church. He died in the year 1857, and after his death the business was carried on un- der the firm name of N. D. Cortright & Co.
The mother of our subject, Elizabeth ( Lerch) Cortright, was born in Saucon Valley, this county, and was the daughter of Joseph Lerch, whose oc- cupation was that of a farmer. She located at Bethlehem about the year 1870, and is still a wo- man of strong constitution, hale, hearty and en- joying life at the age of seventy. The grandfather of Mr. Cortright was one of the "boys of '76" who answered to the "drumbeat of the nation."
Our subject was the eldest of four children, three daughters and one son. He was reared at Free- mansburg and attended the public schools there until he was twelve years old, when he came to Bethlehem and clerked for John Lerch, remaining with him until the year 1870. In that year he start- ed in business with Mr. Solt, under the firm name of
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Cortright & Solt, general merchants. They located on Main Street, at the present site of the Myers Building, and in 1872 they consolidated with Mr. Riegel and became known as Riegel, Cortright & Solt. In 1890 William H. Solt died, and the firm was henceforth known as Riegel & Cortright. They have the largest floor space of any firm in the locality.
Mr. Cortriglit was married at Seneca Falls, N. Y., in the year 1870, when he took Miss Lizzie Supplee, a native of Philadelphia, as his companion for life. Mr. and Mrs. Cortright have three chil- dren, Grace, Florence and Robert. Robert is a member of the Class of '95 at the Bethlehem High School. The family residence is at No. 20 South Centre Street.
Mr. Cortright is a member of the School Board from the Second Ward and has filled that position for three years. He belongs to Christ Reformed Church and is serving as Elder and Vice-President of the congregation, and Treasurer of the Sunday- school. He is also a member of the Board of Trade. In political action, belief and sentiment he is a stanch Republican.
J OSEPH C. BACHMAN is an enterprising young business man of Bethlehem, where he carries on a coal and wood trade and also runs a flour and feed store. It is now only four years since he started in this line here, but he has succeeded in building up a good trade and his business is flourishing. The paternal grandfather of our subject, Rev. Henry Bachman, was born in Germany, and was a missionary of the Moravian Church among the Indians in Canada, devoting almost his entire life to the cause, and finally de- parting this life at Hope, Ind. His son, Bishop H. T., is prominent also in the work of the Moravian Church, and now occupies a pastorate in Grace Hill,
Washington County, Iowa. The latter, our sub- ject's father, was educated in Canada, and also at Nazareth Hall, where he graduated from the col- lege and theological seminary, afterward teaching at his Alma Mater. On being ordained he preached, for a number of years in Indiana, Ohio and Penn- sylvania, after which he was made Bishop of the Northern District of the Moravian Church, succeed- ing D. E. Bishop A. Schweinitz. His district in- cluded from Maryland to northern Canada, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, also Alaska. Through this large territory lic traveled extensively, and was in Alaska one summer for the purpose of establishing missions. He was also President of the P. E. C. until his resignation. He still holds the title of Bishop and is in active service, though he will be fifty-eight years of age in October, 1894.
The mother of Joseph C. bore the maiden name of Sarah E. Gernand, her birth occurring in Grace- ham, Md. Her father, Edward Gernand, who was a manufacturer in Maryland, was also an ad- herent of the Moravian faith. Mrs. Bachman re- ceived her education at her birthplace, and after her marriage shc offered her services as a mission- ary of her denomination to the Indians, as workers in the field were very scarce. A lady of courage- ous and zealous qualities, she did a wonderful work in Alaska, where she was stationed for a year and a-lalf, there being only some four missions in" the country at that time, she with her son John hav- ing charge of two, and two other missions being located in the northern part of Alaska. Among the Esquimaux she was known as the grandmother and her son as the prince. Resigning lier work in 1890, with her son she returned to the United States bringing with them two Esquimaux by the names of George Nochneguk and David Scoveuk, who entered the college at Carlisle, Pa., to receive an education and are now back in Alaska helping the missionaries in their arduous work. Mrs. Bach- man is with her husband in Iowa, and of her seven children only four survive. Edward is a farmer and stock-raiser near Osborn, Kan .; Mary is in Iowa; John is attending Nazareth Hall; and Joseph C. completes the number.
The birth of the latter occurred June 5, 1868, in Graceham, Md., where he lived until one year
E. J. FREEMAN.
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of age, when his parents removed to Bethlehem. In his tenth year he beeame a student in Naz- areth, where he lived for three years, and then attended school in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, for two years. When only a youth of fourteen, he started out to make his own way in the world and for some years had a pretty difficult experience. Be- lieving that the West afforded good opportunities, he went to Colorado and engaged in prospecting for gold near Gold Hill, in that state, making sev- eral claims and continuing operations for a year and a-half, when he sold out and returned to the East. While carrying on his gold mine he eould find no place in the locality to board and lodge, and was obliged to sleep out of doors in wet and stormy weather, but when penetrating the moun- tains he was lucky in coming upon an abandoned log house, where he made a bed with poles, and with hay and pine needles for a mattress, covered with blankets, he managed to be more comfortable. However, during the winter season, when the snow was deep, he often suffered severely with the cold, and many a time during a blizzard he would waken in the morning to find two or three inches of snow on his bed. His ncarest neighbor was three and a- half miles away, and provisions were very hard to obtain.
On returning to the East Mr. Bachman located at Gnadenhutten, where he served an apprentiee- ship at the carpenter's trade, working at that voea- tion both there and in Bethlehem for four years. In the fall of 1890 he started in the eoal and wood business in the latter city, and later opened a flour and feed store, located on Vineyard and Water Streets. Here he has a good store of 40x100 feet, for his flour and feed business, with a coal and wood yard adjoining. He keeps a full line of supplies, and is succeeding in building up a lucra- tive trade, keeping about three delivery wagons in constant service.
In this eity, September 11, 1893, Joseph C. Baeh- man was married to Miss Sarah E. Clotz, who was born near Cherryville, and is a daughter of Phaon Clotz, now of Wilkes Barre. Our subject and his es- timable wife are members of the Moravian Church. In polities Mr. Baehman is a Republican, and fra- ternally belongs to the Royal Arcanum, and to the
Order of Red Men, being a member of Oppomany- hook Tribe No. 302. Besides those mentioned he is a member of the Mystie Chain, belonging to Cas- tle No. 42 of Bethlehem.
EORGE W. FREEMAN, M. D., a physi- eian and surgeon of Freemansburg, comes
of a well known and honored family of Northampton County, and for about sixty years has himself been a prominent factor in the growth and prosperity of this loeality. The Freeman fam- ily is said to have originated in England, some of its members having emigrated to Pennsylvania and settled in this eounty at a very early day. One of Dr. Freeman's immediate aneestors pur- chased and owned considerable land in Bethlehem and Lower Saucon Township. The borough of Freemansburg was named in honor of the Doctor's paternal grandfather.
The birth of Dr. Freeman occurred in this coun- ty February 20, 1832, his parents being Jacob and Susan (Butz) Freeman, who were also both born within the limits of the county. Receiving his education in the public schools, the Doctor's boy- hood passed pleasantly and without any event of marked moment. He studied in the publie schools of Bethlehem and Freemansburg, and also attended a private school at Easton under Professor Vander- veer, the latter being a college preparatory school. After attending that institution for some time, he eoneluded to enter the medical profession, and ac- cordingly read medicine with Dr. C. C. Field, of Easton. With that well known physician he con- tinued for three years, and afterward attended the medieal department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, from which he was graduated in 1852.
On commencing his active professional career, Dr. Freeman began practice in the town of his birth, and this has been his field of operations con- tinuously since. He is very successful in general practice, and numbers among his elients many of the best and most prominent families of the town.
In 1850 our subject married Matilda, daughter of Edward Seip, of Easton, and they became the par-
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ents of four children: Dr. Edward J., of Freemans- burg; Walter S., a druggist at Phillipsburg, N. J .; Mary E., wife of G. W. Bachman, also of this place; and Emma, who is deceased. The Doctor is a member of the Reformed Church, which he is serv- ing in the office of Treasurer. He keeps up his profess onal studies, and is identified with the Northampton County Medical Society.
Dr. Edward J. Freeman, the elder son of our subject, is a native of Easton, where his birth oc- curred December 18, 1851. He was reared to man's estate in Freemansburg, and gained the rudiments of his education in the public schools of this place, after which for five years he attended Swartz's Private Academy at Bethlehem. Later he for two years attended the Lehigh University at Bethle- hem. March 13, 1873, he was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsyl- vania. After his graduation he began in practice at Freemansburg and has built up a successful bus- iness. Socially he is identified with the Beneficial Order of Elks No. 191, at Bethlehem; Hulda Lodge No. 364, K. of P., and various other social organi- zations. He was married May 24, 1877, to Emily Knecht, daughter of the late John Knecht, of Shiemersville. Of their four children, Anna E. is the only one living. The Doctor is a member of the Reformed Church, and, like his father, is highly estecmed in this city, which has becu his home for so many years.
ROF. CHARLES T. BENDER, Principal of the West Bethlehemn Schools, was born at Grimville, Berks County, Pa., Febru- ary 27, 1856. His father, Peter Bender, who was born in Bavaria, Germany, came to this country when a young man and attended school at Beth- lehem, Pa. He also took private lessons in music and English, thus preparing himself to teach. He taught school in this state for a number of years, and was an organist in the churches of Whitehall, Grimville, Lowhill and in Howertown. The last twelve years of his life were spent as a Tax Col- lector in Bethlehem, where he died in 1890, when seventy-one years of age. He was a zealous mem-
ber of the Lutheran Church, and in politics was a stanch Democrat.
Eliza (Bacher) Bender, the mother of our sub- ject, was born at Whitehall, Lehigh County, Pa., and died at Weaversville in 1871. There were four children born to her, of whom we make the following mention : Rev. F. P. Bender is pastor of St. Michael's Lutheran Church at Philadelphia; Phaon is a merchant in Bethlehem; William is a farmer at Coopersburg; and Prof. Charles T. is the gentleman of whom we write. There was one child by the father's second marriage, Elmer J., who is now in the employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
The subject of this biography was reared in Bethlehem, and was educated mainly at the public schools in this place. He thien entered the Weav- ersville Academy, remaining there for three years, when he commenced teaching school in Hanover Township, Northampton County, although at the time he was but sixteen years old. He afterward taught for nine years in Bethlehem. In the year 1887 he went to Millersville and attended school there for one year, and then returned to Bethlehem, where he again taught for a short period. Sub- sequently he removed to Philadelphia, intending to engage in business, but circumstances prevented, and he returned to Bethlehem and taught for two years in Professor Uhlrich's preparatory school.
In 1886 Mr. Bender became Principal of the West Bethlehem Schools, and has since held that position. On first accepting the post, school was held in an old building, and the attendance num- bered but two hundred and thirty-three students. The town now has a fine new high school building, and an enrollment of over five hundred pupils. Professor Bender teaches the advanced branches, and has a staff of ten subordinate teachers. As to how he has acquitted himself in this most respon- sible position, there is but one opinion, and that the most favorable. He is a pleasing and logical speaker, and his influence is manifested in various ways. In taking charge of the school he has shown his great executive ability, for by his liberal and trustworthy management he has not only won the respect, but the hearty obedience and co- operation, of every student. His scholarship has
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benefited all who have come in contact with him, and his Christian character, as manifested in his daily life, is worthy of emulation.
Mr. Bender is an earnest member of the Salem Lutheran Church, and has been its organist for nine years. He was married in December, 1890, to Miss Mary Beitel, of Catasauqua. She is the daughter of James C. Beitel, a jewcler at that placc. Mr. and Mrs. Bender have one son, James Peter Bender. The father belongs to the Royal Arcanum, and politically he is a supporter of the Democratic party.
H ENRY WILLIAMS, President of the East Bangor Slate Mining Company, is a na- tive of Devonshire, England, born Jan- uary 25, 1844, to the union of William and Janc (Berley) Williams. His ancestors resided in Eng- land as far back as the family genealogy extends. His father, also a native of Devonshire, was for many years employed in the slate quarries of his native land, where he died in 1858. The parental family consisted of eight children, of whom five are still living, three having died in infancy. Those who survive are James, a stone contractor of the Transvaal Republic, South Africa; Will- iam, a resident of Australia, where he is agent for a labor organization; Ann and Betsy, who live in England; and Henry, the only one of the family to come to the United States.
On the 24th of October, 1869, our subject came to America, and proceeding from New York to Pennsylvania went to Chapman's Quarries, North- ampton County, where for a year he engaged in slate-making. Thence he removed to East Ban- gor and entered the employ of the Consolidated Slate Company, the members of the firm being Bray & Short. After two years thus spent he went to the Bangor Union Quarry, in which lic was em- ployed one year. At the expiration of that time, lic, with nine other gentleman, lcased the Star Quarry, in the operation of which he was inter- ested for twelve years, meeting with fair success in the undertaking. About May, 1891, he came to
his present quarry, the old East Bangor, the lease of which he holds together with James Masters. The quarry is operated under the firm name of the East Bangor Slate Mining Company. The product is a finc grade of roofing slate, which is, sold in the various markets and has an established repu- tation in this country. In addition to being Presi- dent of this company, Mr. Williams is still inter- ested in the Star Stone Company of East Bangor.
In the welfare of his community our subject is always interested, and has aided in its material and moral clevation. In politics a Republican, he is active in the local ranks of the party. For five ycars he served as Town Clerk, and at present is Justice of the Peace for the borough of East Bangor. Hc is also a member of the School Board of the same borough. His religious con- nections are with the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is licensed as a local preacher, and is also Trustee and Class-leader. Both in church and educational work he is deeply interested, and con- tributes of his time and means to their develop- ment. Socially he is a member of Prosperity Lodge No. 661, I. O. O. F., of Bangor, and is a charter member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, Castle No. 183, of East Bangor.
May 29, 1876, occurred the marriage of Mr. Williams to Miss Caroline O. Weidman, of East Bangor. Seven children have been born of their union, namely: Ophelia J., William J., Charles W., Arlington H., Carrie M., Raymond and Oscar.
M RS. ELIZABETH EMANUEL, a mucli loved and much honored lady of Cata- sauqua, died March 17, 1894. For nearly ten years she had survived her husband, Morgan Emanuel, Sr., who was born in North Wales, and was the son of a sea-faring man, his father being a shipmaster. Morgan Emanuel also began his bus- iness carcer as a seaman, but later left that occu- pation and became engaged with the iron works at Dowlais in contracting and furnishing supplics.
Mr. Emanuel was first married in Wales to Mary Jenkins, who was a native of that country, and
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who died there. In 1844 he came to America, set- tling near Pottsville, Pa., where he engaged as a mining contractor. About 1846 he came to Cata- sauqua and became connected with the Crane Iron Company, his business being to supply the furnace and to inspect ore. By his first marriage he had two children, one of whom died in childhood. The surviving son is Morgan Emanuel, of Catasauqua, whose biography will be found elsewhere in this volume.
February 22, 1856, in Easton, Pa., occurred the second marriage of Mr. Emanuel, Sr., which united him with our subject, then Miss Elizabeth Miller. She was born in Mt. Bethel, and was the daughter of Robert Miller, a native of Pennsylvania, but of English descent. The latter learned the trade of a weaver, but after engaging in that line of busi- ness for a time returned to his farm at Mt. Bethel, where he carried on agricultural pursuits. He lived to an advanced age. Our subject's mother was known previous to her marriage as Jane Mad- dah. She was born in Lower Mt. Bethel, North- ampton County, and was the daughter of Thomas Maddah, who was of Seotch descent, and had been a brave soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Mrs. Emanuel was one of a family of five chil- dren, three daughters and two sons. Of this num- ber two daughters are now living. Reared to womanhood at Mt. Bethel, she remained at home until her marriage, at which time she located with her husband at Catasauqua, where he was engaged in contracting supplies for the Crane and other furnaces until his death, and where he was a stock- holder in the Thomas Iron Company. He had also been a successful agriculturist, and had become the possessor of a comfortable competence.
Their beautiful residence on Pine and Third Streets was erected previous to Mr. Emanuel's death, which occurred in April, 1884, when in the seventy-second year of liis age. He had been for years a faithful and useful member of the Pres- byterian Church, in which his loss was deeply mourned. He was a stanch Republican in politics.
Mrs. Emanuel was also a very useful member of the Presbyterian Church. She became the mother of three children: Maggie, who resided with her mother until the latter's death; Thomas, who died
in October, 1892, in his thirty-first year; and Jen- nie, who died in childhood. The home was always a very hospitable one, and here mother and daugh- ter received the many friends who surrounded them.
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DWIN RAUCH. We have the honor to present to the readers of this work the biog- raphy of Edwin Rauch, who is a retired farmer and one of Lehigh County's successful business men. He is a native of this county, hav- ing been born in Lowhill Township, March 11, 1828. Now passing his declining years surrounded with peace and plenty, he realizes that there is no reward so satisfactory as the consciousness of a well spent life.
Henry Rauch, the father of our subject, was also a native of Lehigh County, where he spent his life, dying in 1839. He was engaged in follow- ing agricultural pursuits. The mother, whose maiden name was Maria Shoemaker, was born in the above county, and passed to the home beyond during the same year in which occurred her hus- band's death. The Rauch ancestors were origi- nally from Germany.
Our subject spent the years of his boyhood on liis father's farm, receiving a common-school edu- cation in Lehigh County's public schools, and em- ploying his leisure moments on the farm. The methods of farming were very primitive in those days, and Mr. Rauch has threshed many bushels of grain with a flail. At the age of sixteen years he began to learn the trade of a saddler, and was en- gaged in this line of work for fifteen years. In the year 1867 he came to Slatington and embarked in the hardware business, which he conducted very successfully until April, 1893, when he disposed of his stock to Boyer & Bro.
Mr. Rauch has always taken an active part in all public improvements, and has always been known as a sagacious business man, a faithful serv- ant of the public, and an energetic and indus- trious worker. He has served several terins on the Council, is a stockholder in the rolling mills
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(which company he helped to organize), and was one of the organizers of the Slatington Bank, and is a stockholder in the same. Hc also owns an interest in some town property. In politics he affil- iates with the Democratie party, whose principles he heartily indorses.
In the year 1854 occurred the marriage of Mr. Rauch and Miss Bregita, daughter of Jacob Kistler, and a native of Lehigli County. To Mr. and Mrs. Rauch has been born a family of three children, two sons and one daughter. One of the sons, Rev. O. H. E. Rauch, is a minister in the Reformed Church at Royer's Ford, Montgomery County. The parents are also members of the Reformed Church, and Mr. Rauch has served as Trustee and Elder of the same. He has been Sanitary Commis- sioner for the past fourteen years. Their hospit- able home is located in Slatington, and there are welcomed their many friends. As a result of tem- perate habits, Mr. Rauch enjoys good healthı, and despite advancing years is strong and robust.
J ACOB CAMPBELL, whose home is in Bingen, in Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County, valiantly fought and suffered while defending the Stars and Stripes in the War of the Rebellion, and on this aceount, as well as owing to his worthy characteristics as a man and citizen, holds a warm place in the hearts of his neighbors and fellow-citizens.
The birth of our subject occurred in Springfield Township, Bucks County, December 8, 1840. His paternal ancestors came from Scotland, his grand- father settling in New Jersey, and later removing to Bucks County, where he passed the remainder of his life, and on his demise was buried in Spring- field Cemetery. In order to obtain a livelihood, he followed the calling of a shoemaker, and was an industrious and upright man. Politically he was an old-line Whig; in the work of the Lutheran Church lie was very active. He married Barbara Ann Ohl, and to them were born twelve ehildren. Only two of this family yet survive, namely: Mrs.
Transue, of New Jersey, and Peter O., who is a resident of Milton, Northumberland County.
Our subjeet's father, Andrew Campbell, was born on the old homestead in Springfield Township, June 27, 1796, and died October 24, 1872. He followed the trade of his father, and in eonjune- tion with it carried on a farm. He married Mag- dalena, a daughter of John Hollocher, of Mont- gomery County, by whom he had four sons and six daughters. Two of the number are deeeased, namely: William J. and Henry. Aaron married Hannah Stover, and is a shoemaker by trade; Jacob is the next in order of birth; Susan became the wife of Oliver Neald, a cabinet-maker, carpenter and builder; Hannah is the widow of Silas P. Appel, who was a miller; Elizabeth wedded Will- iam L. Tranger, a farmer of Springfield Township, Bucks County; Mary married Joseph Hixon, a molder by trade, formerly of Catasauqua, Lehigh County, but now deceased; Catherine is Mrs. John Bitts, of Bingen, Pa .; and Matilda, Mrs. Reuben Hess, makes her home near Hellertown. Andrew Campbell was a Republican in politics, and greatly interested in the welfare of his community. In religious belief he was a Lutheran, and a pillar in his church.
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