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Charles W. Eisinger was an infant when his parents settled at Ashland, in 1864. His education was received in the public schools there, and as he had to commence work rather early he attended night school for some time. Starting at the age of fourteen years he was employed at the collieries near Ashland until 1880, in which year he entered his present line, which he started in the employ of Hebner & Paul, of Port Carbon. He first handled sewing machines. After ten years with the firm mentioned he commenced business on his own account at Ashland, and when he considered there was sufficient inducement sold pianos, as well as sewing machines. He first dealt in old square pianos, selling uprights after the others became unpopular, and also put in a stock of smaller musical instruments, handling graphophones, phono-
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graphs, etc. Since dealing in musical instruments he has also sold a number of organs. Mr. Eisinger's first location at Ashland was across the street from his present place, which property he bought in 1901. It is at No. 1609 Centre street. Mr. Eisinger has found a profitable field of employment in and around Ashland, and has a large number of well satisfied patrons in his territory. He has not only been devoted to business, but has also interested himself in the social and other activities of the borough, being a member of the Royal Arcanum and the P. O. S. of A., and he has served as a trustee of the local camp of the latter organization. With his wife he holds membership in the Evangelical Church at Ashland.
On Nov. 25, 1886, Mr. Eisinger married Marie Christian Bachman, daugh- ter of Christian and Dorothy (Friedenberger) Bachman, natives of Germany. Mr. Bachman came to this country at an early day, settling in Tamaqua, this county, and died in May, 1914. His wife died in April, 1903. Mrs. Eisinger was born at Tamaqua, the second of a family of five children, namely: Eliza- beth, the wife of John Wittig, of Ashland; Marie C., Mrs. Eisinger; John, of Pottstown ; William, of Tamaqua ; and Louis, of Tamaqua.
Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Eisinger: Amy, the eldest, is deceased ; Charles William is a clerk in the Citizens' National Bank of Ash- land; Leah is at home.
LEWIS JOHN GRUBE, of East Brunswick township, has led an indus- trious life always, and is deservedly respected by his neighbors for the thrifty management which has made him one of the prosperous men of the locality. His various interests keep him well occupied. Mr. Grube is a typical repre- sentative of a family whose members have maintained a high reputation through several generations.
Christian Grube, his grandfather, lived in the Province of Hanover, Germany, and was a silver miner by occupation. He died at the comparatively early age of thirty-six, leaving a wife and five children, namely: Charles, who died in Baltimore about 1909, aged seventy-seven years; Charlotte; Louisa, Mrs. Charles Heberling; Dorothy, Mrs. John Weist; and William, who was one year old when his father died. The mother, whose maiden name was Hannah Shear, was a native of Hanover, Germany, and died at the age of seventy-seven years in East Brunswick township, Schuylkill county, at the home of her son-in-law, Charles Heberling. She was a member of the German Lutheran Church, and is buried in the Frieden's Church cemetery. Mrs. Grube came to America with her children eighteen years after her husband's death, the family settling in Baltimore, Md., for two years, and removing thence to Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania.
William Grube, son of Christian, was born July 8, 1834, in Klausthal, Hanover, Germany, was educated in his native country, and came to America with his mother. They first settled at Baltimore, and later at Lewistown, in Walker township. Schuylkill Co., Pa., and he was engaged at wood chopping for some time. Thence he removed to East Brunswick township, where he bought a farm of thirty acres, cleared most of it, and subsequently bought several tracts aggregating seventy-five acres. These he cultivated to the end of his days, carrying on general farming. He died Oct. 31, 1906, and is buried in the cemetery at Frieden's Church, New Ringgold, of which church he was a Lutheran member. In political sentiment he was a Democrat. Mrs. Grube still resides in East Brunswick township. Her maiden name was Sophia Vol. II-14
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Reidler, and she was born in Germany Nov. 3, 1841, daughter of Conrad and Maria (Knoblauch) Reidler. They had children as follows: Caroline married George Schaffer; Charlotte married Charles Eckroth; William married Cather- ine Shellhammer; Minnie married Adam Schofield, who is deceased; Lewis John married Cordelia Bachert; Louisa is next in the family; Charles W. married Emma L. Shellhammer; Katie married Harvey Houser; Henry is next ; Walter married Elsie Frantz.
Lewis John Grube was born Nov. 13, 1869, in East Brunswick township, and was educated there in the local schools. He continued to work on his father's farm until twenty-one years of age, when he left home and entered the employ of Wertman & Fletcher, as a wood chopper, in Rush township, Schuylkill county, for three years. His next position was with the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, as brakeman between Delano and Packerton, and he was so engaged for three months, living in Quakake during that time. He was obliged to give up this work on account of illness, returning to his parents' home in East Brunswick township, and was ill for six months. His brother William bought from Stephen Greenawalt a tract of ninety-eight acres, lying in East Brunswick township, and he sold his brother Lewis forty-eight acres and 103 perches of this purchase. Thirty acres of this are under cultivation, Mr. Grube following general farming very profitably. Part of his time is given to the sawmill he owns, and which he has been operating for nineteen years. Though he learned the business himself, acquiring all his experience practically, he is very proficient, and saws considerable timber for the farmers in the surrounding territory. He also hauls produce to the town of New Philadelphia twice a week in the summertime, and once a week in the winter season.
Mr. Grube married Cordelia Bachert, who was born Jan. 10, 1871, daugh- ter of Elias and Hannah ( Merkle) Bachert, and their first child died in infancy ; Hannah Sophia was born Sept. 19, 1904; John Elias, Dec. 16, 1906; George, June 16, 1909; Peter, Nov. 6, 1910. The children of school age are attending the Reigel school in East Brunswick township. Mr. Grube and his wife are members of the Frieden's Lutheran Church at New Ringgold. He votes the Democratic ticket.
Mrs. Cordelia (Bachert) Grube was educated in what .was at that period the Middle District school of East Brunswick township, and remained at home until her marriage. She is a great-granddaughter of George Bachert, an early farmer and wheelwright of East Brunswick township, who lived to be about eighty years old. His children were: Jacob, John, Henry, Simon, Magdalena and Mrs. John Faust.
John Bachert, Mrs. Grube's grandfather, was also a farmer in East Brunswick township. He married Elizabeth Zettlemoyer, and they had children as follows: Jacob, Emmanuel. James, Daniel, Elias, Elizabeth, Laura, Mollie and Katie.
Elias Bachert, father of Mrs. Grube, was born Aug. 14, 1843, in East Brunswick township, where he is now a prosperous miller and farmer, one of the substantial business men in his section of Schuylkill county. Ten children have been born to his marriage with Hannah Merkle: Albert Robert, William I., Elizabeth, Cordelia. John E., Richard E., Howard J., Luther P., Thomas W., and Oscar P. A fuller account of the family may be found elsewhere in this work.
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ALFRED A. YEAGER, of East Brunswick township, is now giving all his attention to farming, and has excellent prospects in that line. The ability and confidence which won him success in his earlier ventures are just as valuable in his present business, and combined with his practical early training on the farm should prove sufficient to insure prosperity. So far he has met with gratifying results, and he is sparing no pains to introduce the best methods and most approved systems into his work. He is a son of William Yeager and grandson of George Yeager, and belongs to an old family of Schuylkill county.
George Yeager, the grandfather, was a native of Schuylkill county, and for many years conducted a blacksmith shop at Orwigsburg. He married a Miss Weiss, and they had the following children: Thomas, who married Maria Yeager, resides in Orwigsburg; George, deceased, married Emma Edwards, who resides at Orwigsburg; William is the father of Alfred A. Yeager. The parents of this family are buried in the Lutheran cemetery at Orwigsburg. The father was a Democrat, and his religious connection was with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Orwigsburg, of which he was an active member.
William Yeager, father of Alfred A. Yeager, was educated in the schools of Orwigsburg, and served a thorough apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade in his father's shop. After conducting a shop of his own in Orwigsburg for about ten years he entered the employ of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, in the blacksmith department of the Pottsville shop, where he remained for the long period of twenty-nine years. He is now leading a retired life in Pottsville, Pa. He is a very skillful mechanic, and in his work- ing days was much thought of by his superiors. Mr. Yeager married Elizabeth Deibert, a daughter of Joseph Deibert, whose wife's maiden name was Sheep. They have had the following children : Alfred A. is mentioned below ; William, who is a blacksmith in the Pennsylvania & Reading shops, at Pottsville, married Laura Fenstermacher; Mamie married Henry Long, of Pottsville; Ann married a Mr. Hughes, of Pottsville; Frederick married May Smith, of Pottsville; Roy is unmarried and lives with his parents; Maggie is next in the family; Katie married Jacob Boss, of Pottsville; Joseph is deceased. Mr. Yeager is now ( 1915) about sixty-seven years of age, his wife about sixty-six. They are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Pottsville. Mr. Yeager supports the Democratic party.
Alfred A. Yeager was born April 24, 1868, in Orwigsburg, where he began his education in the public schools. When nine years old he left home and went to his uncle, Daniel Deibert, with whom he lived for one year, after which he lived with Joseph Deibert, at Orwigsburg, for two years. Then he entered the employ of William Shoener, to work on his farm, remaining with him five years, at the end of which period he made a change, working on the farm of Lewis Shoener for two years. His next place was with James Shoener, as farm laborer, continuing with him in that capacity for about one year, when they formed a partnership in the timber business. They would buy the timber by the acre, and sell it to the Reading collieries, the Dodson Coal Company and individual collieries, in fact they dealt with all the col- lieries between St. Clair and Tuscarora, the timber being for use in the mines. After an association of four years Mr. Shoener died, and Mr. Yeager took over his share in the business, and conducted it alone during the rest of his connection with that line, which extended to twenty-seven years.
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After that he bought his present farm of sixty acres in East Brunswick town- ship, about half of which is under cultivation. He has made numerous improvements on the property, now having a very fine home there. Since set- tling at this place he has bought two other tracts adjoining the original pur- chase, one containing sixty acres, of which forty acres are cleared, the other comprising 113 acres, of which seventy-five are cleared. Mr. Yeager culti- vates these three tracts and has been very successful in his agricultural work, being considered one of the leading farmers of his section. He is interested in everything affecting the welfare and social conditions of his locality, has joined a number of his neighbors as a member of Protection Council, No. 935, Independent Order of Americans, at McKeansburg, and belongs to Wash- ington Camp No. 100, P. O. S. of A., at New Ringgold. He attends the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Orwigsburg and contributes regularly to its support. On political questions he is a Republican.
By his marriage to Laura E. Wertman Mr. Yeager has had six children : Edward William, born Sept. 7, 1902, died when ten months old; Samuel Lewis, born May 25, 1904, died when four days less than fifteen months old ; Bertell Marie was born Dec. 11, 1905; Evelyn Emma, Dec. 10, 1907 ; LuVerne Estella, July 24, 1911 ; Madeline Laura, Jan. 29, 1914.
Mrs. Laura E. (Wertman) Yeager was born in West Penn township, Schuylkill county, Aug. 26, 1871, daughter of Samuel D. Wertman, and grand- daughter of Samuel Wertman. The grandfather was a successful farmer in West Penn township, where he owned a large tract of land and con- ducted a farming business the greater portion of his life. He married Eliz- abeth Danbenspeck, and they had children as follows: Samuel D. is the father of Mrs. Yeager; David married Catherine Fritz; Jonas married Mary Roth ; Elias married Kate Boyer, and both are deceased; Elizabeth, deceased, was the wife of Henry Mimm; Sarah married Joseph Wertman, of Walnut- port ; Mary, deceased, married George Alspach; Polly married Hiram Gobel. The parents were associated with the Methodist Church. The father is buried near Allentown, Pa., the mother in Zion's cemetery, in West Penn township. Samuel D. Wertman, father of Mrs. Yeager, was educated in the schools of West Penn township, and worked on his father's farm until he was twenty- five years of age, after which he hired out as a farm laborer for a few years. Then he bought a tract of seventy-five acres near West Penn station, and in connection with farming he formerly had charcoal ovens on his property, cutting the timber from his trees and burning charcoal, which he hauled from West Penn station to the powder mills, the Muir mills at St. Clair and the Weldy powder mills at Mintzers. He also bought charcoal from his neighbors and hauled it to the mills, carrying on that business for about ten years. Besides, he cut timber on his land and shipped the same to the collieries of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, and hauled railroad ties for the Slatington & Lehigh Railroad Company: He now owns about four hundred acres of land, a great portion of which is in timber. Mr. Wert- man is a veteran of the Civil war, having joined the 48th Pennsylvania Regi- ment for nine months' service; he received an honorable discharge at Har- risburg. Mr. Wertman has been a leading member of Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church, of West Penn township, and has held the offices of elder and deacon. Politically he works with the Democratic party, and has served as judge of election.
Mrs. Wertman was Maria Bebleheimer, daughter of George and Elizabeth
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(Yeager) Bebleheimer, natives of Orwigsburg. Mrs. Wertman died when sixty-two years old, and is buried in Zion's churchyard. Children as follows were born to Mr. and Mrs. Wertman : Ellen died aged three years; Dr. Sam- uel E. married Lizzie Fox, and they reside in Mahanoy City; Clinton died aged three years ; Laura E. is Mrs. Yeager; Mary married Oliver K. Mantz, " who is proprietor of the West Penn Hotel; Emma is a school teacher in West Penn township; Dr. Mahlon married Lizzie Follweiler, and they reside at Palmerton, Pa .; Sarah and George are at home; Stella is a school teacher in West Brunswick township; Clarence and Christie Belle are at home; Minnie C. is the widow of Irwin Lotz, and is living at home.
GEORGE YOUNG, a retired merchant of Ashland, Schuylkill Co., Pa., was born in Germany April 27, 1831, son of Peter and Mary Young. The parents died in Germany.
Mr. Young was educated in the German schools and came to America in 1852, landing at New York on June 27th. That year he was married to Mary Ripplinger, who came from the same part of Germany, and they started for America immediately after the wedding. Going to Patterson, Schuylkill Co., Pa., Mr. Young remained there until 1855, when he removed to St. Clair, and thence to Ashland. At the latter place he entered the mines, and remained at that work for forty years. About 1886 he engaged in business on his own account at Ashland.
Mr. and Mrs. Young have had children as follows: Lena, the widow of George Steinfeldt, residing in Ashland; John, also residing in Ashland; Charles and Elizabeth, twins (he resides at Oakland, and she is deceased) ; Peter, who resides in Ashland; Mary, deceased; and Joseph, a resident of Ashland, where he is engaged in business. Mr. Young and his family are members of St. Mauritius' Roman Catholic Church, of Ashland.
EARL D. BAUM, of Middleport, has the only manufacturing business con- ducted in that borough, and as it gives employment to a considerable number of hands its success will augment the resources of the town appreciably. The proprietor is one of the youngest business men there, and he has the good wishes of the community in his enterprise, which promises well.
Mr. Batım is a son of William Baum and a grandson of Benneville Baum, who lived in the Mahanoy valley in Schuylkill county, where he followed farming. Later he removed to Valley View, this county, at which place he died.
William Baum, father of Earl D. Baum, was engaged in farming during his early life, but for many years he has been a mine worker, having followed that occupation at Brookside and Goodspring, this county. His home is at Hegins. He married Agnes Shirey, daughter of the late Daniel C. Shirey, who represented Schuylkill county in the State House of Representatives, was a veteran of the Civil war, and died in Deep Creek valley, this county. To Mr. and Mrs. William Baum have been born five children: Vernie, Earl D., Agnes, Charles and Bertram.
Earl D. Baum was born Oct. 1, 1895, at Hegins, Schuylkill county, where he obtained his education in the public schools. From boyhood he has been employed in the shirt manufacturing business, gaining his first experience in that line in the shirt factory at Hegins, where he remained for three years. Then he went to Pillow, Pa., there establishing a shirt factory for Dochey &
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Reipe, with whom he continued for a few years, changing to the employ of Fox & Moore, at Pine Grove, Schuylkill county, for a short period, until ready to start on his own account. He chose Middleport as a desirable loca- tion, and obtaining quarters in the P. O. S. of A. building opened his factory Sept. 26, 1915. The equipment is entirely modern and the space laid out according to the most advanced ideas on convenience in making and handling the product, which consists of men's shirts. Mr. Baum has found a market for the output, having given close attention to the commercial as well as the manufacturing necessities of the business. He employs between seventy-five and one hundred hands. The factory has been welcomed in the borough and under judicious management should be one of its valuable industrial assets. Mr. Baum makes his home at Middleport.
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P. PHILIP KRELL had until recently a well patronized blacksmith and wagon shop at Tamaqua, Schuylkill county, where he did business on his own account for over twenty years. The Krell family is of German descent and one of the most respected in the borough, where George Krell, father of P. Philip Krell, lived from the time of his settlement in America.
Peter Philip Krell, the grandfather, lived and died in Germany. His son, George Krell, was born in that country and lived there until seventeen years old, at which time he came to the United States, making his home at Tamaqua, Schuylkill Co., Pa., thereafter. Throughout his active years he was engaged in mining. Then, when sixty-eight years old, he obtained a position with the Tamaqua Manufacturing Company, whose foundry and machine works are one of the largest industrial plants in this section of Pennsylvania. and the second day of his employment there met his death in a machinery acci- dent. Mr. Krell was not only an industrious man, diligent in attending to the responsibilities of his work, but also took an intelligent and public-spirited interest in the affairs of the community, was active in local politics, and was elected tax collector, in which office he served faithfully. He married Sophia Zilgenbein, like himself a native of Germany, who died at the comparatively early age of thirty-four years. A family of eight children was born to this . union: P. Philip, Annie, .Susan, George, Catherine, Elizabeth, Mary and George, Jr.
P. Philip Krell was born at Tamaqua in 1863 and obtained his education in the public schools of the borough. When old enough to work he began an apprenticeship to the trade of machinist, which he followed as a journeyman for six years before he engaged in business for himself. In 1893 he bought the old established shop of William Haber, at Tamaqua, and operated it suc- cessfully until 1914. when he sold out. Mr. Krell is a reliable workman, and by competent execution of orders and close attention to the wants of all his customers retained the old patronage of the shop and increased it. He is a well and favorably known citizen of the borough, a past officer of the Amer- ican Hose Company, and a valued member of the Lutheran Church, in whose activities he has been very helpful, both with his means and personal assistance.
Mr. Krell married Catherine Kniese, of Tamaqua, and they have two chil- dren : Verna L. and Clair F. L.
WILLIAM J. DALEY, a native of Schuylkill county, for the last twenty years a resident of Ashland, has been representing the Prudential Insurance
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Company at that point since 1896, and is now assistant superintendent of the Mahanoy City district, which includes ten towns and boroughs.
Dominick Daley, grandfather of William J. Daley, brought his family to America and settled in Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., whence the family later removed to Centralia, Columbia Co., Pa. Mr. Daley died there in 1898. He followed work during his active years.
Owen Daley, son of Dominick Daley, was born in County Kilkenny, Ire- land, and like his father followed mining in this country, continuing to engage in such work all his life. He died at Centralia in 1899. He is sur- vived by his wife, Sarah (Long), who was born in Cape Breton, Canada, daughter of William Long, who came from that country to Schuylkill county, and settled at Silver Creek, following mining for many years. He died at Port Carbon, this county, where he is buried. Mrs. Daley now makes her home with one of her sons at Ashland. She had a family of nine children, of whom Ellen, the eldest, is deceased; Dominick is deceased ; Alice is deceased ; William J. is mentioned below; James G. is engaged in the wholesale tea and coffee business with offices at Ashland; Ellen is the wife of Anthony Gaughan, of Centralia, Pa .; Alice is the wife of Charles Meehan, of Centralia, Pa .; Joseph lives at Ashland.
William J. Daley was born July 16, 1867, at Port Carbon, Schuylkill county, and was only a boy when the family moved to Centralia, where he attended school. As he began work at the age of ten years, he continued his studies whenever opportunity offered thereafter. During the seventeen years that he was employed at the mines he lived at Centralia, removing to Ashland in March, 1894. On June 15, 1896, he became agent for the Prudential Life Insurance Company, with which he has since been connected, at present hold- ing the responsible position of assistant superintendent in the Mahanoy City district. By conscientious attention to his duties he has succeeded in strength- ening the position of his company in this territory very materially, and at the same time has made an enviable reputation for himself as an insurance sales- man. He has many substantial qualities, and commands the respect of all with whom he is associated.
On Sept. 9, 1891, Mr. Daley married Anastatia Hendricks, a native of Centralia, Pa., daughter of Patrick and Mary (Quinn) Hendricks, who were born in Ireland. On coming to America Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks first set- tled in Lancaster county, Pa., later moving to Shenandoah, Schuylkill county, and subsequently to Centralia, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Daley are the parents of three children: Sarah E., who is now engaged in teaching music; Mary A., at present a student in the State normal school at West Chester, Pa .; and Alice A., at home. The family have a comfortable residence on Centre street, which property Mr. Daley pur- chased from the late Congressman Patterson, and he has his office at that location also. He is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Ashland, and of Sarto Council, Knights of Columbus.
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