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Frederick Portz, Jr., attended public school at Pottsville, and when a youth of sixteen became errand boy for the firm of Bright & Company, hardware dealers, in their Pottsville store. As he grew familiar with the business he
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was made clerk and he was employed by the same company for the long period of twenty-three years, during his last seven years with them having charge of the store. He withdrew from this connection when ready to enter business, on his own account on April 13, 1914, purchasing the stand of Charles F. Seltzer, who had the oldest business of its kind in the city of Pottsville. The stock is large and complete, including light and heavy harness, foreign and domestic saddlery, equipment of all kinds in fact, for horses, stables, carriages, and a repair shop is also maintained. Mr. Portz also deals in trunks and bags, and has introduced a line of sporting goods, carrying a stock which is up to date in every particular and adequate for every demand of the local trade. He has made a promising start in the venture.
Mr. Portz has a wide acquaintance in Schuylkill county and is well known in fraternal bodies, being a member of Pottsville Lodge of Elks (No. 207), the Independent Americans and Royal Arcanum, as well as of the Humane Fire Company. Politically he is a Democrat, in religious connection a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church. He married Clara Krebs, and they have three children: Frances Krebs, Marion Louise and Clara Jane.
THOMAS FAMILY. HENRY THOMAS, son of Thomas Thomas, of New- port, Monmouthshire, South Wales, was born in August, 1822. In 1852 his father emigrated to Australia, while the son came to America, locating in Minersville, Pa., where he followed the occupation of mining. On June 12, 1855, he married Mary Lewis, of Minersville, Pennsylvania.
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Mary Lewis was born on a farm (the family homestead for many genera- tions) known as Pen-y-fan, near Abberbeeg, Monmouthshire, South Wales, on July 3, 1833. Her father, Lewis Lewis, died when she was three years old. She continued to live at the farm with her mother, Cecilia ( Madoc) Lewis, and her several brothers and sisters until she was thirteen years old. In 1846 Mary Lewis, with her mother and eldest brother, David Lewis, emigrated to America, landing at New York City in April. They came to Pottsville May I, 1846, and subsequently settled in Minersville, afterwards moving to Tamaqua. Upon the death of her mother and brother David in 1852 she returned to Minersville, where she met Henry Thomas, and married him in 1855.
On May 3, 1864, Henry Thomas moved to Mahanoy City, when it was yet a wilderness, taking up his residence on the site of the present Thomas home on East Centre street, where two of his sons still live.
In 1871 Mr. Thomas met with an accident at the mines operated by C. B. Knevals & Co., known as the Primrose colliery. The accident was so serious that for several months his life was despaired of. Recovering from the injury and unable to work at the mines, he embarked in the tea and coffee business, and later opened a store, selling dry goods, notions and groceries. In 1875 he again engaged in mining, with his son David, at Shoemaker's colliery, operated by Fisher, Hazard & Co. Owing to poor ventilation of the mines ( prevalent in those days) he contracted miner's asthma, which was the cause of his death, Feb. 15, 1885. His health being impaired by work at the mines, he embarked again in business in 1878 and so continued until 1885. He was a member of the Welsh Congregational Church and also a member of the Ivorites-a Welsh organization-for a number of years. Politically he was a Republican in national politics, but in local politics he was independent, voting for' the man rather than the party. He was assessor of the Fifth ward of Mahanoy City for several years prior to his death. His wife, Mary (Lewis) Thomas, survived him twenty-eight years, dying Feb. 1, 1913.
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Nine children were born to Henry and Mary (Lewis) Thomas, four of whom grew to maturity, as follows : David Madoc Thomas (married Rebecca Williams, of Providence, Pa.), Charles Thomas ( 1858-1886), Thomas Lewis Thomas ( married Augusta A. Dillman, of Mahanoy City, Pa.), Johnathan (July 13, 1863-November, 1864) and Cecilia (July 13, 1863-July, 1864), John Thomas, infant daughter ( March II-March 14, 1869), Melanchthon (Oct. 5, 1872-August, 1873), infant son (born and died same day, October, 1874).
DAVID M. THOMAS, the eldest son of Henry and Mary ( Lewis) Thomas, was born in Minersville April 1, 1856. He came to Mahanoy City in May, 1864, and attended the public schools of that town. For a number of years he followed the occupation of mining, after which he embarked in the book busi- ness in Mahanoy City and Scranton, Pa. From 1901 until 1908 he was employed by the International Correspondence School at Brooklyn, N. Y. At present, he is employed at the wholesale grocery store in Mahanoy City. Fraternally he belongs to Camp No. 124, P. O. S. of A., of Mahanoy City, and the Citizens' Band. David M. Thomas married Rebecca Williams, of Provi- dence, Pa., and they have had five children: Lewis Orton Thomas, a resident of Philadelphia; Mabel, wife of George G. Lewis, of Mahanoy City, Pa .; Charles Allen Thomas, of Mahanoy City; Ronald Thomas (Nov. 19, 1893- Feb. 15, 1894) ; Mary M. Thomas, nurse in the Bellevue Hospital, New York City. David M. Thomas has had three grandchildren, Mary Theresa Lewis, Dorothy Lewis and Charles Joseph Lewis ( March 28, 1915-April 10, 1915).
Charles A. Thomas, the third child of David M. and Rebecca (Williams) Thomas, was born in Mahanoy City June 17, 1890. He attended the public schools of Scranton, Brooklyn and Mahanoy City, entered the Mercersburg Academy, at Mercersburg, Pa., in 1906, and graduated in 1910. Since then he has been employed as bookkeeper at the wholesale grocery store owned by T. L. Thomas.
CHARLES THOMAS, the second son of Henry and Mary (Lewis) Thomas, was born at Minersville, Oct. 8, 1858. He came with his parents to Mahanoy City at the age of five years, and was educated in the public schools of that borough, after which he worked for a time at the mines. He learned the trade of painter and paper-hanger. Fraternally he was a member of General Grant Lodge, I. O. O. F., Camp No. 124, P. O. S. of A., and the Washington Hook and Ladder Company. Becoming ill with typhoid fever, he died Nov. 16, 1886.
THOMAS L. THOMAS, the third son of Henry and Mary (Lewis) Thomas, was born in the Delaware (now Duncott), near Minersville, May 11, 1861. At the age of three years he accompanied his parents to Mahanoy City, where he. has since resided. He was educated in the public schools. From 1871 until 1876 he worked around the collieries; the only education he received at that time was obtained by attending the night schools for working boys. In 1877 he entered the high school, graduating in the class of 1880. In the fall of 1881 he entered the Eastman Business College, graduating in January, 1882. From March to September, 1882, Mr. Thomas was employed by John M. Taylor & Co., wholesale dry goods merchants, of Philadelphia. In September, 1882, he returned to Mahanoy City to enter the employ of David E. Focht as book- keeper. On Nov. 1. 1890, David E. Focht was succeeded by Daniel Stull & Co., the new firm being composed of Daniel Stull and D. L. Van Horn, and Mr. Thomas remained with the firm in the same position that he filled with Mr. Focht. On Feb. 1. 1900, at the death of Mr. Stull, a co-partnership was Vol. I-13
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formed, the interested principals being Mr. Van Horn and Mr. Thomas, who took over the entire business of Daniel Stull & Co., the firm name being changed to Van Horn & Thomas. On Jan. 1, 1911, Mr. Van Horn retired from the firm and Thomas L. Thomas became sole proprietor. He transacts a general wholesale grocery business, supplying the retail trade throughout a large area of surrounding territory, as well as in Mahanoy City.
Fraternally Thomas L. Thomas belongs to Camp No. 124, P. O. S. of A., General Grant Lodge, No. 575, I. O. O. F., Mahanoy City Lodge, No. 357, F. & A. M., Mizpah Chapter, No. 252, R. A. M., Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 31, K. T., Rajah Temple of Reading, and the A. A. S. R. of Philadelphia. He is also a member of the board of education of Mahanoy City. Politically Mr. Thomas is a Republican, leaning towards Progressive principles.
On Feb. 21, 1901, Thomas L. Thomas was united in marriage to Augusta A. Dillman, daughter of the late Daniel D. Dillman, a prominent lawyer of Schuylkill county, and his wife Isabel C. ( Bowman) Dillman. Four children have been born to them: A daughter (born and died Nov. 24, 1901), Muriel Isabel Thomas, Harold Lewis Thomas (born Dec. 18, 1905-died Dec. 28, 1905), Vivian Mary Thomas. Both little girls are regular attendants at the public schools.
JOHN THOMAS, the sixth child of Henry and Mary (Lewis) Thomas, was born at Mahanoy City March 11, 1866. He received his education in the public schools of that town and has since been employed in his father's store, in Williams' store at Gilberton, and as driver for the wholesale grocery store. Fraternally he is a member of Camp No. 124, P. O. S. of A.
BOWMAN. The history of the Bowman family in America extends back for nearly two centuries and covers at least seven generations. Tradition regarded as strictly historical would add a period of several genera- tions more in the Fatherland. The family name was originally spelled "Bauman," meaning builder or architect, a spelling still preserved by the German cousins across the sea and by one branch of the family in America.
The crest on the family coat of arms, in which an uprooted tree is borne over the right shoulder, would seem to indicate some significant relation to the family name. A German tradition relates that the early ancestors were German Swiss who emigrated to Alsace (a province ceded in 1870 to Germany, to which it anciently belonged), and that they finally settled in Prussia, first at Weisbaden on the Rhine, and subsequently at Ems, on the Lahn. The character and position in society of German Baumans have been ascertained from the trans-atlantic relatives, who represent that they were gentlemen of very considerable eminence ; that they were men of wealth ; that they built up villages and founded schools ; that they had many men in their employ to whom on occasion they issued letters which served as passports from province to province. In short, they appear to have exercised some of the rights and prerogatives which once belonged to the old feudal nobility, and, in fact, the family coat of arms is said (by heraldic authority) to denote the grade of earl. They owned a silver mine named Melbach, about fourteen miles south of Weilburg.
There appear to be several branches of the family in this country, although the relationship is hard to trace. It is an interesting fact that from this original stock there have sprung in one generation four bishops in the church, in three different denominations, namely : the late Rev. Bishop Samuel Bowman, of the
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Protestant Episcopal Church, resident of Lancaster, Pa .; the late Rev. Bishop Thomas Bowman, D.D., LL.D., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, resident at Newark, N. J. ; the late Rev. Bishop Thomas Bowman, of the Evangelical Church, at Lebanon ; and the Rev. Bishop Thomas Bowman, of the Evangelical Church, at Allentown, Pennsylvania.
From 1727 to 1775 immigrants poured into the American colonies, due no doubt to the wars raging in Germany. The continual drafting of soldiers, and the desolation caused by the armies tramping down wheat and corn fields and pillaging, caused the justice-loving tillers of the soil to turn their longing eyes to the English colonies on this side the Atlantic.
Hans Dieterich Bauman sailed to America in the ship "Adventurer" Oct. 2, 1727. His son, Capt. Henry Bauman, served in the war for American independence, and his grandson, Maj. Hans Dieter Bauman, served in the war of 1812.
PETER BOWMAN, the principal subject of this sketch, was the son of Maj. Hans Dieter Bauman and Margarethe (Newhard) Bauman. The Newhardt or Neihardt family had its origin in the village of Neihardt, in Odenwald, Germany. In 1140 Conrad Neihardt was an armorer, becoming so proficient in the art that Emperor Frederick Barbarossa elevated him to the dignity of a patrician and gave him a coat of arms. He settled in the province of Zweibruecken and was elected to the Senate. His descendants served in the Thirty Years' war. In 1737 Michael Newhardt came to America, settling on the frontier of Bucks county, Pa. His granddaughter, Margarethe Newhard, united her fortunes with the Bauman family in 1796.
Peter Bowman's paternal grandmother was Catherine Dreisbach, whose grandfather. Simon Dreisbach, came to America in 1743 in the ship "Lydia," from Oberendrof, in Wittgenstein, along the Danube river, in Bavaria. Simon Dreisbach was very prominent in Colonial history in Pennsylvania.
Peter Bowman was the eighth child of Maj. Hans Dieter Bauman. He and his twin brother, Henry, were born July 10, 1814, in the old stone mansion built by his father in 1813 at Bowmanstown, Pa. ( the mansion is still stand- ing). These twin boys were named for their grandfathers, Capt. Henry Bauman and Peter Newhard, the latter also an ardent patriot and a soldier of the Revolution. For three months every winter they attended the school which was provided by their father for the children of the district where he lived. The Yankee schoolmasters confused the German spelling "Bauman," and spelled the name Bowman ever after. Peter Bowman became a builder of railroads, collieries, street railroads and mine slopes, and later a prospector, owning extensive coal operations in Schuylkill county. He sank the second mine slope that was sunk in Schuylkill county, at Tamaqua, in 1848, known as the "Dunkirk Slope," operated by the Little Schuylkill Coal & Navigation Company. It was at this time, when engaged in the coal business at Tamaqua, that Mr. Bowman was closed in the mines for several days and his life was despaired of, but fortunately he was rescued in three days. In 1849 he was engaged in coal mining at Tuscarora and in 1858 he removed to Pottsville, having many collieries in that vicinity. In 1862 Peter Bowman came to Mahanoy City, when it was yet a wilderness, building the Bowman's colliery there and operating it for some years. He was also engaged in the mercantile business at Tamaqua in 1849, and at Mahanoy City in the early sixties.
Peter Bowman was the first treasurer of Carbon County, represented the legislative district of Carbon and Lehigh in the State Legislature in 1847, and
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was reelected in 1848. He served as tax collector of Mahanoy City in 1892, when he was seventy-eight years old-a vote of confidence for an old respected pioneer citizen of the town. Fraternally he was a member of F. & A. M. Lodge No. 238, of Tamaqua. He died at Mahanoy City Dec. 4, 1901, aged eighty-seven years, four months, twenty-four days, and is buried in the family plot in the German Protestant Cemetery at Mahanoy City.
Mr. Bowman's first wife, Polly Romig or Romich, born Oct. 3, 1820, was the daughter of Conrad Romich, of Hanover township, Luzerne Co., Pa. Her parents were of the Moravian faith, their ancestors coming to the Province of Pennsylvania in the ship "Dragon" in 1732, from Ittlingen, Germany. She was a good wife and mother, remarkable for her intelligence and ambitious for the success of her children. She died in the prime of life, May 6, 1866.
"And to her in holier welcome was the mystical meaning given Of the words of the Master, 'Of such is the kingdom of Heaven.'"
In February, 1869, Peter Bowman married Margaret Carl, who was a good and faithful wife. She survived him nine months, dying Sept. II, 1902, and is buried in the German Protestant Cemetery at Mahanoy City. Peter Bowman was a Lutheran in faith.
Peter Bowman and his wife Polly (Romig) had eight children, five of whom grew to maturity. They were: Awilda (died in 1841, aged one year), Isabel C., Milton M., Mark D., Kobert J., Mary F., Monroe J. (died in 1846, when six weeks old), and Lyman (died in 1847, when three weeks old).
ISABEL C. BOWMAN married Daniel D. Dillman, a prominent lawyer of Schuylkill county. She was a school teacher, and is a musician and artist of some ability, one of her oil paintings having been on exhibition at the New Orleans Exposition in 1885. She is a Chautauqua graduate of the class of 1900 and a member of the Daughters of the Revolution at Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Dillman have had three children: D. Walter Dillman, of Altoona, Pa .; Robert J. Dillman, who died in 1876; and Augusta A. ( Mrs. T. L. Thomas, of Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania).
D. Walter Dillman was educated in the Mahanoy City schools, having graduated from the high school in the class of 1887. He is a member of F. & A. M. Lodge No. 357, of Mahanoy City. He is located at Altoona, Pa., as a civil and mining engineer, is municipal engineer for the towns of Lilly, Cresson, Mount Union and Gallitzin, towns in the vicinity of Altoona, and is now constructing the hydraulic waterworks at Gallitzin. He was formerly with the Lehigh Valley engineer corps, located at Sayre, Buffalo, Rochester and Mauch Chunk; also with the Harbison-Walker Company, of Lock Haven.
Augusta A. Dillman is married to Thomas L. Thomas, a wholesale grocer of Mahanoy City. She was born at Pottsville, but when three months old came with her mother to Mahanoy City, where she was graduated from the high school in the class of 1891. After teaching a year in her native town she went to the West Chester State Normal School for one year, graduating with honors in 1893. She then taught school for eight years in the grammar grades of her native town. She is a Chautauqua graduate of the class of 1898, a member of Liberty Bell Chapter, Daughters of the Revolution, of Philadelphia, and the first treasurer of the Suffragist Club at Mahanoy City. Mrs. Thomas has traveled quite extensively through the United States (having been in twenty-seven States) and Canada. Being very fond of children, she organized a sewing class for little girls in 1910, which is still in existence, the children making great progress with their needlework. She has two interesting little
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girls, Muriel Isabel and Vivian Mary Thomas. The family are Episcopalians.
MILTON M. BOWMAN (born 1843-died 1903) was an active, enterprising citizen, engaged with his father ( Peter Bowman) in extensive coal operations, at one time mayor of Mahanoy City, and later employed at the Duquesne Steel Works, at Duquesne, Pa., and the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, Braddock. Pa. He married Emma Hoffinan (died 1887), daughter of Rev. Francis Hoffman, of Reading. Their one child, E. Lynn Bowman, of Cleveland, Ohio, is railroad editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He was news editor of the Lorain Times-Herald from 1910 to 1915. E. Lynn Bowman married Julia King, of Lorain, Ohio, and they have three children, Paul, Virginia and Pris- cilla. Milton M. Bowman is buried in the Elmwood Cemetery at Lorain, Ohio. E. Lynn Bowman and his family are affiliated with the Congregational Church.
MARK D. BOWMAN (born 1844-died 1902) was superintendent of several coal operations, namely, Shoemaker's colliery at Mahanoy City, and Sandy Run colliery near Upper Lehigh; had charge of the construction of several collieries, and was borough engineer of Mahanoy City and Shenandoah for a number of years. He is buried in the German Protestant Cemetery at Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania.
ROBERT J. BOWMAN (born 1849-died 1912) was associated with his brother Mark D. Bowman in the engineering business, and was mayor of Mahanoy City for a term. He is buried in the German Protestant Cemetery at Mahanoy City.
MARY F. BOWMAN married George F. Silliman and resides at Altoona. Her son Walter A. Silliman is a civil and mining engineer, and her daughter Margaret, and one granddaughter, Dorothea Silliman, constitute the family. They are Episcopalians.
DAVID BOWMAN was the sixth child of Hans Dieter Bauman and Margarethe (Newhard) Bauman. He was born May 18, 1808, in Towamensing Town- ship, Northampton (now Carbon) Co., Pa., and early attended the district schools provided by his father for the children of the district. He married Susan Lentz, daughter of John Lentz, of Mauch Chunk. He was engaged in hotelkeeping and the mercantile business at Parryville, Pa., and was also interested in the foundry at that place. In 1863 David Bowman came to Mahanoy City and entered the coal business with his brothers Jonas and Peter Bowman. Later he and his sons Oliver and John operated the Bowman's colliery. He was also engaged in the mercantile business at Mahanoy City at one time. David Bowman had seven children: Oliver Otis Bowman, Harriet (wife of James Jarard, of Mauch Chunk), John L. Bowman, Mary J. (wife of Dr. Phaon Hermany), Alexander Bowman, David A. Bowman, and Sallie ( wife of Harry A. Swalm). David Bowman died Dec. 17, 1895; his wife Susan (Lentz) Bowman died April 27, 1898, and they are buried at Lehighton. They were Lutheran in religious faith.
OLIVER O. BOWMAN is engaged in the pottery business and the manufacture of porcelain ware at Trenton, N. J. He is a member of the Methodist Church, and a prominent citizen. He has two sons, William and Robert, and six grand- children, Oliver Otis Bowman, Jr., Robert Bowman, Elizabeth, Helen, Ethel and Eleanor.
HARRIET BOWMAN, born Oct. 10, 1840, married James Jarard, and was proprietor of the "American House" at Mauch Chunk for many years. She
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died May 8, 1905. Her only child, Oliver O. Jarard, married Mary Brown and has one son, D. Bowman Jarard (born Aug. 20, 1888).
JOHN L. BOWMAN was engaged in the photography business until 1872 at Mahanoy City. Then he was with his father in the coal business in different sections of Schuylkill county, finally locating at Aspen, Colo. He married Julia May, of Mahanoy City, who died in 1882. His children are: Hattie Bowman, of Philadelphia ; Charles and John Bowman, of Aspen, Colorado.
MARY J. BOWMAN married Dr. Phaon Hermany, a prominent physician of Mahanoy City, and has had four children: Dr. Horace D. Hermany, Robert K. Hermany (died in 1872), Susan L. B. Hermany (Mrs. William Dyatt) and Sallie B. K. Hermany. Dr. Horace D. Hermany is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College. He is a member of F. & A. M. Lodge No. 357, of Mahanoy City, and Ivanhoe Commandery, Knights Templar, and is affiliated with the Methodist Church. He married Mary D. Mathias, the first president of the Suffragist Club of Mahanoy City. Susan Hermany married William Dyatt and has had two children, P. Hermany Dyatt and Margaret Dyatt (died in 1912).
ALEXANDER BOWMAN has been married thrice, first to Lizzie Barlow, daughter of William Barlow, of Mahanoy City, who died in 1876. His second wife was Mary Radenbush, who died in 1890, the third Lizzie Marshall. He has had three children: Lizzie Barlow Bowman (died in 1879), Sophia Bow- man and Alexander Bowman (died in 1884).
DAVID A. BOWMAN was at one time a photographer at Mahanoy City, but is now engaged in the manufacturing business at Philadelphia. He married Isabel Henderson, of Port Carbon (died in 1904), and has three children, Pansy and twin boys, D. Jarard Bowman and W. Henderson Bowman.
SALLIE BOWMAN married Harry A. Swalm and resided for some years at Shenandoah and later in Philadelphia. At present they live in Mahanoy City. She has had two children: Estella (died in 1907) and Phaon H. Swalm, the latter a resident of Trenton, N. J. He married Muriel Townsend, of that city, on March 11, 1914.
JONAS BOWMAN, the fifth child of Maj. Hans Dieter Bauman and Mar- garethe (Newhard) Bauman, was born in 1805. He was engaged in the coal business with his brothers Peter and David Bowman at Mahanoy City for some years, and then went into the millinery business. He died in 1876. On Nov. 4, 1844, he married Catherine Koons, and they had thirteen children: Ellen Bowman, a gifted musician ( 1846-1873) ; Lewis Wilson Bowman ( 1847-1848) ; Sallie Bowman ( 1849-1879) ; Alice Bowman (1851-1898), who married James Roscholar ; Emma Bowman, who married John Botz, of Wilkes-Barre; Lizzie Bowman ( 1855-1874), who married Thomas Jackson ; Jennie Bowman, who married Hiram Blodgett, of Delano; John Bowman; Frank and Jonas Bowman, twins (born in 1861, in which year Jonas died) ; Howard Bowman ; and twin daughters, Lillie (1867-1873) and Laura Bowman (who married Dr. E. J. Stoudt, of Philadelphia ).
The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Jonas Bowman are: Garrett Bowman ( 1871-1892) ; Bessie Botz ( 1884-1886) and Maude Botz (married to Walter Jones, of Philadelphia, and has one child), daughters of Emma Bow- man Botz; Lillie M. Blodgett (married Dr. John H. Bowman, of Berwick, and has three children, Catherine, Dorothy and Jack Bowman), daughter of Jennie Bowman Blodgett; Katherine Bowman, daughter of Frank Bowman, of
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