Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; genealogy-family history-biography; containing historical sketches of old families and of representative and prominent citizens, past and present, Volume II, Part 53

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago, J.H. Beers
Number of Pages: 684


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George Garrett, Mrs. Seltzer's father, was of German descent, his grand-


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father coming to this country from Germany and settling in Lebanon county, Pa., at an early date. He died there. He became a prominent man of the county, serving as one of the first county commissioners. Jacob Garrett, father of George Garrett, was born in Lebanon county, where he lived and died. He followed farming. His wife's maiden name was Noll, and they had several daughters and two sons, John ( who died in Lebanon) and George.


George Garrett, son of Jacob, was reared in Lebanon county, and learned the trade of miller. He came to Pottsville, Schuylkill county, many years ago, and was one of the pioneer settlers at that place, where he died in 1842. He was engaged in burning charcoal. Mr. Garrett married Mary Mills, a member of an old family which was represented by more than one soldier on the Col- onies' side in the Revolutionary war. The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Garrett : Jacob died at Pottsville ; George W., who died at Potts- ville, was a soldier in both the Mexican and Civil wars; William died when nine- teen years old ; Nathaniel J., also a soldier in the Civil war, was outside foreman of the Hill colliery, at Mahanoy City, where he died and is buried ; Hannah E. is the widow of Francis B. Seltzer; Rebecca A. married Abraham Brower; Joseph A. and John A. died young.


MARTIN DORMER (deceased) was in his day one of the foremost citi- zens of St. Clair and all that part of Schuylkill county. The popularity he enjoyed indicated the likable qualities which attracted friends wherever he went, and the ample competence accumulated by his own efforts was an un- mistakable evidence of his versatile business ability. The fine picnic grounds near St. Clair which he laid out and developed were long known as Dormer's Park, and upon these grounds has been built the beautiful Catholic Church edi- fice.


Mr. Dormer was a native of Schuylkill county, Pa., born in the year 1824, son of Patrick Dormer. The father followed mining in this county, and died here, at Mount Laffer. His children were: Thomas, who died in California; James, who died in New York; Patrick, who died at St. Clair; Sarah; Cath- erine ; Margaret ; Mary, and Martin.


With few of the early advantages which boys of the present day are allowed, Martin Dormer began work at the mines when a mere boy. In 1849 the gold excitement lured him to California, and he had the grilling experience of a trip across the plains, making his way from Galena, Ill., to San Francisco on foot. It took him six months. En route, he was entertained at Salt Lake City by Brigham Young, being regaled with wine and cake, but most of the journey was characterized by hardships which would have deterred any but a man of determined spirit from continuing it. Upon his arrival in California he was taken sick, and spent some time in a crude hospital, where later he acted as an attendant for a brief period following his convalescence. He remained on the coast until 1852, when he returned to Schuylkill county and located at Pottsville, engaging in the bottling of porter. There he continued to live until ten months after his marriage, when, Mrs. Dormer preferring St. Clair as a residence and business location, they removed thither, establishing them- selves at what was known as the "California House," which they conducted for one year and nine months. Mr. Dormer continued the bottling business and also took up the wholesale liquor trade, in which he acquired an extensive connection, becoming very prosperous by close attention to the various lines he followed. In time he built what was known as Dormer's brewery at St.


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Clair, conducting it himself for four years. When he abandoned this industry he returned to the wholesale liquor business for a time, later carrying on a saloon, which he owned and operated until his death. He purchased a valuable tract of land in Norwegian township, near the borough of St. Clair, and seeing the need for a desirable picnic place in the locality there laid out and developed Dormer's Park in East Norwegian township, which became a popular gathering place for pleasure outings with all the residents of Schuylkill county.


Few men were more widely known than Mr. Dormer, or more kindly thought of in the community. He was a man of generous impulses, kind to the poor, and affectionate and lovable in his domestic relations. In business he was most successful, and owed much to the wise counsel and assistance rendered by his devoted wife. His fellow citizens had the utmost confidence in his integrity as well as faith in his good judgment, and chose him for several local offices, whose duties he discharged to their entire satisfaction. For twenty- eight years he was a school director of East Norwegian township; for many years he filled the office of township treasurer; and he was a member of the county board of poor directors. Politically he was identified with the Repub- lican party. In religious connection he was a Catholic, and socially he belonged to Catawissa Lodge, No. 178, F. & A. M. Mr. Dormer passed away Jan. 9, 1889, in his sixty-fifth year, mourned by a wide circle of friends and acquaint- ances, and he is buried at St. Clair.


On Sept. 4, 1853, Mr. Dormer was united in marriage with Mary Brannan, daughter of Michael and Margaret Brannan, and she survives him, continuing to make her home at St. Clair. The following children were born to this union : Mary married Winfield Fritz, and both were killed by Mexicans on a cattle ranch in Arizona, in 1884; Thomas, James and Margaret died young ; Margaret (2) is the wife of George J. Farne, a prominent merchant of the borough of St. Clair, and their children are Elsie, Margaret, Dorothy, Catherine and George; Michael is deceased; Virgie is deceased.


In July, 1915, Mrs. Dormer visited the San Francisco exposition in company with one of her granddaughters, Margaret Farne. She has many friends at St. Clair, sharing fully in the high esteem in which her husband was held.


JONAS KUNKEL, of East Brunswick township, is making a reputation as one of the wide-awake farmers of his section of Schuylkill county who have adopted modern ideas and methods to their profit. Though he is en- gaged in general agriculture, truck raising has become his specialty, and by marketing his produce in the nearby coal regions he has solved more than one difficulty which confronts the grower of perishable crops. By patience and industry he has worked out his own problems very satisfactorily, and he well deserves his prosperity.


Mr. Kunkel is a typical descendant of the old German stock which formed so large a proportion of Pennsylvania's early population. He is a native of Berks county, this State, and traces his line back to Georg Kunkel, the founder of a pioneer family of Albany township, that county. He lived near Wessnersville, on land now occupied by one of his descendants, Nathan Kunkel. Georg Kunkel (also spelled Kunckell and Kungel), a native of Germany, located in Albany township some time prior to 1754, and it appears that he reared a large family. In Rupp's History of Berks County, his name appears on the list of taxables of 1756 as "George Kunckell." In 1759, according to Montgomery's History of Berk's county ( 1886), his name is listed as George


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Kungel; in the latter year he paid a tax of six pounds. At the Kunkel home- stead is an old grandfather's clock that bears the date of 1772. It was brought into the house at the same time the house was being built, and is the work- manship of George Miller, of Germantown. It has kept good time all these years. On the brass face appear the letters "I. G. K." The Kunkel tract has been in the family name since about 1754. Georg Kunkel was a farmer, and since his time his farm has been divided and subdivided. His land at one time included all the upper end of Stony Run. He is buried at Wessners- ville. His children were George and Peter.


Peter Kunkel, son of Georg, born Dec. 20, 1774, in Albany township, died Oct. 28. 1830. After his marriage he moved to Lynn township, Lehigh county, where he engaged in farming, and also operated a distillery on his farm. Later he lived near Wessnersville, where he owned a tract of 275 acres, which is now owned by a descendant, Charles Kunkel. In 1797 Peter Kunkel married Maria Magdalena Rausch, born Nov. 10, 1778, died April 12, 1846. They had fourteen children, eleven of whom survived their parents (sixteen grand- children also surviving). Among these children were : Daniel, David, Andraes, Benjamin, Joseph (married Catharine Snyder and had twelve children), Peter, Polly (married Jacob Elbert), Catharine (married John Dietrich) and Sophia.


Daniel Kunkel, son of Peter, was born in Albany township, Berks county, March 2, 1798, and died Oct. 26, 1863. He was a farmer, owning two tracts, one of two hundred acres, the other of sixty. He owned and lived on the farm which later became the property of his son Jacob, who sold it to Henry Bau- scher, his brother-in-law, in 1870, for $10,000. It comprises 127 acres of ex- cellent land, situated in the potato belt, and is now tenanted and cultivated by Daniel Bauscher, son of Henry. The present barn on the place was built by Daniel Kunkel. He married in 1821 Maria Magdalena Zimmerman, born Feb. 27, 1797, died July 14, 1859, and they are both buried at the Frieden's Church at Wessnersville. They had a large family, thirteen children, among whom were: A daughter who married Daniel Brobst; Catharine, who married Reu- ben A. Dietrich ; Mary, Mrs. Derr; Benjamin, who married Sarah Hartman ; John, who lived and died at McKeansburg, Pa .; Jacob, born in 1841, died in 1900; and Sarah, who married Henry Bauscher.


John Kunkel, son of Daniel, was born about 1823 in Albany township, Berks county, and received his education there. He worked on his father's farm until 1850, when he left Albany township and removed to Bensingers valley, in East Brunswick township, Schuylkill county, locating at what is known locally as Schmaltzdale, in the vicinity of McKeansburg. There he bought 120 acres of land, upon which he remained the rest of his days, en- gaged in general farming and the raising of truck, which he sold himself, having a route to Middleport, this county. He married Mary Long, daughter of Chris- topher Long, a native of Albany township, Berks county, and she survived him many years, his death occurring in February, 1875, when he was fifty-two years old, hers on April 15, 1901, at the age of seventy-seven years. They are buried in the cemetery of the Frieden's German Lutheran Church at New Ringgold, to which both belonged. Mr. Kunkel was one of its prominent members, filling all the church offices. Politically he was a Democrat. The following children were born to him and his wife: Sarah married Samuel Bolich, who is deceased, and she lives in Albany township; Jonas is next in the family ; William married Mary Nester ; Mandus married Lena Neiswender, and they reside in Nebraska; Mary died young; Levina died young; Lewis


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married Caroline Leiby, and both are deceased ; Henry (deceased) married Ella Dundore, who survives him and is living at Springmont, Berks county ; John ( deceased) married Lena Merkel, of Lewistown, Pa., and is now living at Or- wigsburg; Daniel died unmarried; Emma married Joseph Shoener, of Mc- Keansburg.


Jonas Kunkel was born March 3, 1846, in Albany township, and grew up in Schuylkill county, obtaining his early education in the schools of East Bruns- wick township (Bensingers valley), with two terms subsequently at Freeland and two terms at the Keystone State Normal School, at Kutztown. He taught school for one term of six months in Albany township, Berks county, following which he settled at his present place, which his father had bought for him. The property then comprised 140 acres, to which Mr. Kunkel has added thirty acres since, and he now has about eighty acres under cultivation. He managed to pay off his obligations to his father after a few years, and he has prospered steadily. Until 1894 he operated a gristmill on his property, but he now uses this mill as a storage house for fruits and vegetables. However, he still con- ducts the sawmill on his property which he has operated since 1870, doing general custom work. Mr. Kunkel has changed his operations from time to time as he saw opportunity for betterment, and he is now making a specialty of the raising of fine fruits and vegetables, for which he finds a ready market in the coal regions, the produce being conveyed to market by his own men. His suc- cess is a strong argument for the possibilities of intensive farming in his neighborhood.


Like his father, Mr. Kunkel has been active in promoting local interests, being a member of McKeansburg Grange, No. 1256, P. of H., and of Christ Lutheran Church at McKeansburg, in whose affairs he has always been a fore- most worker; he has served as elder and in all the offices. His political con- nection has been with the Republican party, and he has held the office of school director.


Mr. Kunkel married Levina Trexler, daughter of Nathan and Lydia ( Baus- cher) Trexler, and five children have been born to this marriage: Nathan J., born Aug. 12, 1879, lives on the old homestead; he married Hannah Freeman, and their children are Florence, Esther, George, Irwin and Harry. Benjamin F., born July 9, 1881, married Annie Buehler, and has children, Ethel and Newton; they live at Tumbling Run, in Blythe township, this county. Elmer H., born Jan. 7, 1883, lives on the old Steigewalt farm ; he married Jennie Sieg- fried, and their children are Albert, Annie and Margaret. Agnes M., born March 16, 1885, married Harry Koch, and lives at Drexel Hill, near Philadel- phia, Pa., and their children are Mildred, Ruth, Elma, Harry and Catherine. Ellen, born Jan. 16, 1890, is engaged as a school teacher.


Mrs. Levina (Trexler) Kunkel, wife of Jonas Kunkel, was born in Albany township, Berks county, Dec. 21, 1848, a daughter of Nathan Trexler and a granddaughter of Benjamin Trexler. The Trexler family is one of the oldest and most numerous in Berks county. It has numbered in its ranks not alone the honest farmer and industrious laborer, but men in every profession, in civil and military life, and its women have been gracious and womanly. Indus- try has been a marked characteristic of the family. Money has been made, and when spent spent wisely, even lavishly when given to the less fortunate. Ambition coupled with ability has made leaders of men, and temperate lives have given strength to meet any issue. To Berks county, Pa., came Peter Trexler, some time prior to 1720, settling in Oley township. As early as Sept.


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5, 1720, he was one of the petitioners for the erection of the township. It was but a short time afterwards, however, that he left Berks county, and moved to what is now Upper Macungie township, Lehigh county, a territory that, covered with brush and scrub oak as it was, offered very little in the way of attraction to the early settler, other than an abundance of water with which it was blessed. He settled near Breinigsville, his land embracing what is now the John R. Gonser farm. On Nov. 18, 1729, he obtained from Casper Wister, the patentee, a deed for this land, and this deed is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, in that region. A seven-years' residence was required before naturalization, and Peter Trexler did not take out his papers until 1730. He and his family were the first white settlers in Macungie, and Dr. Helfrich, in his history of the various congregations of Lehigh and Berks counties, says : "Way down in the valley near what is now Breinigsville lived, before the gen- eral migration into this neighborhood, a Trexler family, with whom the Indians were very friendly. Mother Trexler often presented the Indians with gifts and gave them bread, and in return they brought her wild skins and showed friendship to the pale-faces."


Peter Trexler died in 1758, and his will, dated Dec. 17, 1744, divides his estate among his widow, Catharine, and three sons and three daughters-Jere- miah, John, Peter, Anna, Catharine and Margaret. The son, Peter (2), was made executor of the will. Peter Trexler and his wife were both buried in the family cemetery on their farm, but the graves, originally marked by soft sandstones now wasted away, cannot be definitely located. Steps were recently taken by the Trexler Family Association, in Reunion Aug. 28, 1907, to restore this ancient burial place of their ancestors, and to place a tablet to the memory of Peter Trexler and wife. Of the daughters of Peter Trexler nothing is known, but in the diary of Rev. John Casper Stoever, Nov. 9, 1732, is the record of the marriage of John George Schumacher and Catharine Trexler, of Macungie.


Peter Trexler, son of Peter the emigrant, was born Feb. II, 1721, and was bequeathed the homestead near Breinigsville, which had been deeded to him in 1748. He became a man of considerable importance, and was justice of the peace from 1752 to 1776, and, as such, under the Colonial system, sat in the courts at Easton. The first election in Northampton county occurred Oct. I, 1752, many of the voters being obliged to travel twenty-five miles to deposit their ballots. The opposing parties were the Irish and German settlers. Peter Trexler was elected one of the three county commissioners. He was a frugal man of methodical habits, and in favor of education. When compelled to be away from home to attend court, he filled his saddlebags with provisions so he could board himself. When schools were established in Pennsylvania by the English nobility for the purpose of teaching the English language, Peter Trexler was made one of the trustees of the William Parsons School at Easton. He died Aug. 25, 1798, and was buried in the family cemetery on the home farm. He married Catharine Winck, born Aug. 7, 1728, who died Aug. 14, 1815, aged eighty-seven years. She was the daughter of Casper and Gertrude (Kemp) Winck. According to the Lehigh Church Book, at her death she left sixty-two grandchildren and seventy-nine great-grandchildren. Seven children, three sons and four daughters, survived Peter Trexler. The sons were: Peter, Jonathan and John. The daughters were: Maria Christine, born Nov. 3, 1753, who married Aug. 13, 1776, Peter Haas, and died Sept. 13, 1829, the


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mother of ten children ; Mrs. Philip Fogel ; Mrs. Henry Grim ; and one of whom there is no record.


Peter Trexler, son of Peter of Macungie, and the third of the name, was born Aug. 15, 1748, and is known as Mertztown Peter, and frequently in the records appears as John Peter or Hom Peter. He was a patriot of the Revolu- tion, serving as captain of the 5th Company of Colonel Breinig's second bat- talion of militia, and on May 5, 1783, was made lieutenant colonel. He was elected county commissioner in 1782; representative in the General Assembly, 1785-86-87-88, thus serving four years, the time limit set by the constitution of 1776. He died March 13, 1828, aged seventy-nine years, six months, twenty- eight days, and was buried in the family cemetery. His will (see Will Book 6, p. 187) was made Feb. 15, 1825, and entered April 3, 1828, his sons Peter, Jacob, Reuben and Jonas being executors. He married Catharine Grim, daugh- ter of Henry Grim, youngest son of Geittie Grim, the ancestor of the Grim family so prominent in that section. She was born July 30, 1757, and died July 7, 1828, aged seventy-one years, less twenty-three days. Eleven children were born to Peter and Catharine (Grim) Trexler, namely: (1) Maria married John Folk, and had children, Joshua, John, Reuben, Anna (Shuman), Cath- arine (first married to a Keizer, and second to a Hilbert), Caroline (Guise) and Lydia (Guise). (2) John Peter (Jan. 2, 1777-March 6, 1828) married Rachel Fogel (Sept. 11, 1784. Jan. 1, 1867), and had children: Caroline (Horlacher), Sarah (Seiberling), Maria (Fogel) and Jonas. (3) Jacob be- came the father of Reuben, David, Peter, Jacob, Mrs. James Breinig, Cath- arine (Breinig) and Mrs. Stephen Sawyer. (4) Reuben ( 1782-1846) was an iron master, residing in Mertztown, Longswamp township, where he also carried on farming and was well and favorably known. He married Anna, daughter of Jacob Lesher, a charming, charitable woman of refined taste, and they lived in the old Trexler mansion in Longswamp township. They had children : Col. William (1816-1905), Horatio (who lived at Reading, where he was president of the National Union Bank), Dr. Lesher (of Fort Wayne, father of Mrs. Anna Wertz, of Allentown, and Mrs. Judith Reno, mother of Claude Trexler Reno, of Kutztown), Lucinda (wife of Gen. James Rittenhouse) and Caroline (wife of William Schall). Mrs. Anna (Lesher) Trexler died in 1848, aged fifty-four years. (5) Benjamin (1784- 1855) is mentioned below. (6) Catharine married a Mr. Haas, and had chil- dren; Judith (Gregory), Nathan, Leana (Butz), Kate (Hoffman), Tallie (Hoffman), Jonathan T., Reuben T. and J. P. T. (7) Jonas had children : Jonas, Willoughby, Abyle, David, Peter, Sarah (Ludwig), Angeline (Ahlum) and Eliza ( Miller). (8) Anna married Philip Dresher, and had two children, Nathan and Judith (Reiter). (9) Nathan lived in Longswamp township, where he died in February, 1865. His will is on record in Will Book II, p. 363. His wife Phoebe bore him four children : Edwin H., Mary (Mrs. George Schall), Amelia ( Mrs. Jonathan B. Grim) and Sarah (Esterly). (10) Daniel died leaving no children. (II) Judith married Rev. Isaac Roeller, and was affectionately known as "Aunty Roeller." She died in 1885, leaving no chil- dren. On Aug. 17, 1809, Peter Trexler bought his son Benjamin a large fam- ily Bible, printed in 1798, costing seven dollars. This is now in the posses- sion of Oliver Trexler (born Dec. 21, 1852), son of Nathan and grandson of Benjamin.


Benjamin Trexler, son of Peter of Mertztown, and Catharine (Grim), was born Feb. 2, 1784, in the Catawissa valley, and he died June 20, 1855,


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aged seventy-one years, four months, eighteen days. He first settled in the Catawissa valley, but in 1825 moved to Albany, Berks county. He married (first) March 10, 1805, Maria Dresher, and became the father of nine sons and two daughters: Daniel, born Nov. 30, 1805; Benjamin, Jan. 31, 1807; Amos, April 27, 1808; Fiana, July 26, 1809 (died young) ; Jonas, Dec. 16, 1810; Aaron, May 3, 1812; Jairus, July 26, 1813; Anna, April 25, 1815; one stillborn; Nathan, Jan. 11, 1818; and Peter, May 22, 1820. The wife and mother died May 23, 1820, and he married (second) June 13, 1823, Catharine Bolich, who bore him one daughter, Catharine, Sept. 3, 1824. Mrs. Catharine (Bolich) Trexler died Sept. 7, 1855, aged sixty-eight years, nine months, twelve days.


Nathan Trexler, father of Mrs. Jonas Kunkel, was born Jan. 11, 1818, in Albany township, and obtained his education there in the pay schools. He was a farmer, and owned two farms, renting out the larger and conducting the smaller, as well as a general store and custom mill. He died in Septem- ber, 1879. By his marriage to Lydia Bauscher he had children as follows: Levina, Mrs. Jonas Kunkel; Emma, who married Albert Kistler (both de- ceased) ; Oliver, who married Mary Kistler; Mary, deceased, who married Albert Smith, of Lynnport, Lehigh Co., Pa .; and Benjamin, deceased, who married Fannie Seidel. Mr. and Mrs. Trexler were members of the German Lutheran (Bethel) Church in Albany township, and they are buried in the cemetery of that church. Politically he was a Republican.


JOHN RENNINGER, a well known contractor and builder of Schuylkill Haven, with residence and place of business on West Canal street, was born in that town Aug. 2, 1873, and is a son of James Renninger, grandson of John Renninger, and a descendant of an old Northumberland county family. His great-grandfather lived and died in Northumberland county, and his fam- ily was reared there.


John Renninger, the grandfather, was born in Northumberland county, and learned the trade of boatbuilder, being one of the early boatbuilders at Schuylkill Haven and Landingville, Schuylkill county. He served nine months in the Civil war, under Captain Jones, from Schuylkill county. He died at the age of eighty-eight years, and is buried in the soldiers' lot in the Union cemetery at Schuylkill Haven. Mr. Renninger married Elizabeth, daughter of Philip and Sarah Wolfinger, and their children were: George, living in Berks county; Edward, residing in Pottsville; James, mentioned below; Elizabeth, who mar- ried Charles Lloyd, and lives at Newberry, Pa .; and four children who died in childhood.


James Renninger, the father of John Renninger, was born March 8, 1849, in Northumberland county, Pa., and was educated in the schools of Schuylkill Haven and Landingville, Pa. Following the example of his father he became a boatman on the canal, continuing such occupation until the closing of that waterway. He then turned to railroad work, for the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, in whose employ he remained for nineteen years, since when he has been working in the borough of Schuylkill Haven. Mr. Renninger married Rebecca, daughter of John and Mary (Ryon) Katerman, and they had children as follows: John, mentioned below; Charles E., residing at Schuyl- kill Haven ; Robert, Lewis and Roy, all residing in the same borough ; Eva, wife of William Bitzer; Mary, at home; Lydia married Robert Davis, and died at




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