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In about six weeks after the first meeting the membership had reached nearly one hundred members, and it was very evident that new quarters must be secured. A committee selected a hall in the rear of the Egan property, in the alley near M. Mellett's wall paper store, and the first meeting held there was for the election of officers. B. J. Duffy was elected president; T. J. McKeone, vice president, and John B. Lovett, secretary. Before long the company bought a fifteen-foot lot on North Jardin street, adjoining the present fire house, from Beddall Brothers, hardware merchants. There they erected a two-story frame building which is still standing, using the upper floor as a meeting place and the lower floor for the fire apparatus. They bought a hand hose cart, which was their entire equipment for some years. This building was the home of the company from 1887 to 1895, in which year the up-to-date structure now occupied was erected, the company moving in Oct. 21st. The lot, which was bought from the William Harkins estate, is 30 by 150 feet in dimensions, and the building is a handsome two-story stone front. The in- terior was remodeled in 1910, metal ceilings being placed throughout the house, by the Penn Metal Company of Philadelphia, and the wainscoting on all of the first floor was taken out and replaced by tile work, by Stokeley & McNalis, of Lancaster, Pa. The painting and paperhanging were done by P. J. Conville, Shenandoah. The engine house is furnished handsomely, there being a commodious parlor, as well as bath and reading rooms. The buildings are heated by steam, furnished from the plant of the Home Brewing Company. Some years ago a one-story addition, 27 by 30 feet, was made, providing stable room for five horses, and adding 21 feet to the engine room; the alterations cost between fifteen and eighteen hundred dollars. The property is valued at $20,000, and the total assets of the company at $40,805.41, including, besides the land and buildings, six horses, supply wagon, combination wagon, two drays, two trucks, three double cabs, sweeper and street sprinkler; money at interest, $9,800; liabilities, $1,000. When the company moved into the new building the old apparatus was used, with the addition of a hose cart. In May, 1904, horses were purchased, and on July 8th of that year the borough bought a combination wagon at a cost of $2,125, built by the American LaFrance Company, of Elmira, N. Y. In 1914 the borough bought a supply wagon from the J. C. Boyd Company, Inc., of Philadelphia, at an expenditure of $1,200, and that year the company leased a lot on East Apple alley from the Philadel- phia & Reading Coal & Iron Company and built a $500 barn in which to store the sweeper, drays, etc. The outside business of the company amounts to from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars annually; for the last five years it has been awarded the contract for the cleaning of the paved streets in the borough.
The first public appearance of the company in uniform was at an afternoon parade in which they accompanied the Columbia Hose Company to the latter's picnic at Columbia Park. Upon a visitation of the Phoenix Hose Company of Pottsville to its namesake in Shenandoah, April 30, 1888, the latter was presented a handsome silver trumpet. During the Spanish-American war a beautiful silk American flag was presented to the company by the school teachers of the borough.
Until May 9, 1906, after the company had served at fires it was customary for the citizens who had been benefited' to make donations of beer, etc., to the organization. The company decided that cash would be more acceptable, and in this respect established a precedent for other fire companies in the State, no intoxicating beverages of any kind being now allowed in or around the com-
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pany's buildings, and a member who visited the premises in an intoxicated condition would be fined and probably expelled.
A few years ago, when the G. A. R. post was about to disband for lack of a meeting place, the company showed its public spirit by offering the use of its parlor for the purpose so long as the post exists.
The company is composed of live men, the membership including many of the leading business men of the borough. On July 1, 1915, it had gone up to two hundred. The present officers are: Ed. J. Whalen, president ; Enoch Decker, vice president ; P. J. Conville, financial secretary ; P. J. Brennan, re- cording secretary ; John J. Cantlin, treasurer; M. J. Dugan, John J. Conville, Robert Shore, trustees; John J. Flaherty, John J. Martin, stewards; Fenton Cooney, foreman; M. J. Dugan, assistant foreman. Owen Brennan was ap- pointed general manager of outside work, having charge of the teams, etc.
List of members: Albert Atward, Philip Brennan, Patrick Broderick, Bernard Bradley, Thomas Boler, Daniel E. Brennan, Patrick Brogan, Owen Brennan, Miles Burke, M. J. Begley, John Begley, Hugh Barrett, Martin Brennan, M. M. Burke, Andrew Brennan, John Butler, E. J. Burke, John Burns, John Britton, William Byrne, Patrick J. Brennan, Adolph Bobbin, William Cox, James Coughlin, Thomas Caniff, Richard Coogan, Edw. Con- ness, Michael Cadden, Martin Cadden, Fenton Cooney, James Coogan, J. A. Coughlin, Patrick Corcoran, James Cantwell, Jere Curran, Thomas Cook, T. W. Conville, P. J. Conville, John W. Curtin, John Canley, Daniel Coakley, George Coughlin, Thomas Cantlin, Peter Campbell, Thomas Cantwell, John Coughlin, Val. Conroy, Michael Campbell, Martin Conville, John J. Cantlin, John J. Conville, Joseph Koch, Murton Durkin, Ed. Devers, Patrick Devers, Enoch Decker, Joseph Decker, Jolın Downey, Sr., John Downey, Jr., Richard Dougherty, Michael J. Dugan, Thomas Downey, Michael Durkin, Luke Daley, Martin Devitt, Charles F. Ditchey, James Dean, Patrick Dunn, John Dean, Michael Devers, John Elliott, James Egan, Martin Foley, Sr., Martin Foley, Jr., John Follen, Ed. Flynn, Joe Franks, Patrick Fox, John Flaherty, Sr., William Flaherty, Sr., Thomas P. Flaherty, Anthony Flaherty, William Flaherty, Jr .. John Flaherty, Jr., Martin Foyle, Peter Fabian, James J. Franey, John Gillus, William Graham, Patrick Graham, Matthew Giblon, P. J. Gaug- han, Martin Golden, Thomas Gill, Frank Hollister, John Hanley, Patrick Higgins, Michael Heffren, Martin Heffren, William Hill, Patrick Hand, Thomas Haverty, James Houghton, Martin Hobbs, William Kipe, Michael Kerrigan, Thomas Kennedy, Patrick Kearns, B. J. Keough, M. D. Keough, Michael Kearns, Timothy Lynch, John J. Leary, Patrick Loughlin, James Law- ler, William Lintus, Michael Leach, Martin Loftus, Martin Monaghan, B. J. Monaghan, Peter Monaghan, John Makley, Joseph Mitchell, Joseph Mahey, Peter Mahey, Martin Mulhahey, John Martin, Joseph Manley, Joseph Man- dour, Harry Mellet, Patrick Maher, Patrick Murphy, Patrick Martin, James Manley, E. J. McGinnis, John McGowan, Edw. McMalis, Thomas McGeaver, William McGuire, Sr., Michael McGuire, Michael McLane, Timothy McLane, Patrick McCarty, Anthony McNulty, Harry McDonald, Frank McDonald, Patrick McDonald, Michael O'Boyle, Patrick O'Boyle, Thomas O'Hearn, Richard Orbsey, Thomas O'Connell, Ed. Rooney, Nace Reilly, William Rey- nolds, Thomas Reilley, Harry Reilly, John Reilly, M. J. Reilly, Miles Reilly, Philip Ryan, Simon Romanat, Peter Rattigan, Anthony Sweeney, Ed. Stanton, Anthony Schmicker, Morris Sayres, Thomas Sheehy, John Scanlan, M. J. Scanlan, Patrick Stack, John Stanton, Patrick Stanton, Joseph Schistell, Chris-
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topher Schistell, Carby Stack, Robert Shore, Peter Toole, Jere Toomey, Mar- tin Tobin, Reese Thomas, Thomas O'Lackie, John Wade, Charles Wychules, J. J. Wilkinson, Ed. J. Whalen, John Whalen, Richard Whalen, Oliver Whalen, John Whalen, Thomas Whalen, Joseph Walsh.
NORMAN MILLARD STAUFFER is well known in Ringtown and all over Union township, where he resides, for his excellent work as a photog- rapher, and he is one of the most popular Sunday school workers in Schuylkill county. He is a native of Union township, born on the place now occupied by his uncle, Ambrose Stauffer, and belongs to a very old Pennsylvania family, descended from Hans Stauffer, who was a Mennonite and a native of Switzer- land, born in 1655 at Altzheim or Weisenau. In 1710 he came to America with his sons, Jacob, Daniel and Henry, and he is buried in the Mennonite cemetery at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
Jacob Stauffer, son of Hans, was born in Switzerland in 1696, came with his father to America, and is buried in the Mennonite cemetery at Bally, Berks Co., Pennsylvania.
Christian Stauffer, son of Jacob, was born Dec. 18, 1728, died July 14, 1798, and is buried at Bally. He was a Revolutionary soldier, serving through- out the war, was under the command of "Mad Anthony" Wayne, and took part in the battles of Three Rivers, Canada, Ticonderoga, Brandywine, Mon- mouth, Stony River, Green Spring and Yorktown.
John Stauffer, second child and only son of Christian, was born Dec. 24, 1758, in New Hanover township, Montgomery Co., Pa., and lived in his native county until 1809, when he settled in Ryon township, Berks (now Schuylkill) county. On May 10, 1839, he moved with his son David to the Catawissa Valley. He died March 5. 1845, while on a visit to his son Jacob at Broad Mountain, Schuylkill county, and is buried in Locust Valley, near Mahanoy City, Schuylkill county. Mr. Stauffer was always a farmer. He was a Men- nonite, like his father and earlier ancestors, but under the influence of Rev. Mr. Shaeffer, a Lutheran missionary who came into their district, all his children became Lutherans. Politically he was a Democrat. His wife, Eliz- abeth (Yerger), born Dec. 18, 1782, is buried with him in Locust Valley. His children were as follows: Jacob, Rebecca (Mrs. Peifer), John, Eliz- abeth ( Mrs. Drase), Catherine (Mrs. Puhl), George, Isaac, Henry, Magda- lene (Mrs. Bittler), Sarah (Mrs. Shell), David (married Maria Anne Andreas), Joseph and Amos.
Isaac Stauffer, son of John, was born Feb. 1, 1796, in Locust Valley, and died Nov. 15, 1869.
Henry Stauffer, son of John, was born in Locust Valley, near Mahanoy City, Nov. 8. 1797, and died Nov. 28. 1869, in Union township. In his younger days he worked as a miner at Middleport, where he married. Later he settled in Union township, where he bought from David Stauffer a tract of eighty-eight acres of which but one acre had then been cleared, and he labored in its development until he had fifty-five acres cleared. He also owned a fifty- two-acre farm in Roaring Creek township. Columbia Co., Pa. His first wife, whose maiden name was Rumbel, died without issue, and is buried in Locust Valley. His second marriage was to Susanna Merkel, daughter of Benjamin Merkel, both natives of the Mahantongo Valley. Schuylkill county. She lived to the age of seventv-seven years. and is buried with her husband at the Old White Church near Ringtown. They were the parents of children as follows :
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Benjamin, who married Sarah Schappel and (second) Phoebe Schappel; Henry, who married Kate Fry; Rebecca, Mrs. Peter Schappel; Samuel; Katie, who died young; Martin, who married Rachel Derr; and Isaac, who died when twenty-five years old. The father was a Democrat and a Lutheran, holding membership in St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church at Ringtown.
Samuel Stauffer, son of Henry, was born April 20, 1845, in Union town- ship, at the same place as his grandson Norman M. Stauffer. He was brought up there, received his education in the local schools, and farmed throughout his active years. After his marriage he went to Roaring Creek township, Columbia county, where he rented his father's farm of fifty-two acres, upon which he resided four years. Returning to Union township he purchased the tract of eighty-eight acres from his father's estate, and continued the work of clearing until all but four acres were under cultivation; this is still in timber. On Nov. 8, 1900, Mr. Stauffer retired and moved to his newly built home in Ringtown, situated across from the Lutheran Church, where he still lives. In 1913 he sold twenty-three acres and ninety-five perches of the original tract of his farm to the Girard Water Company, and later bought twenty-two acres from the Girard Estate, the latter purchase being the old Joseph Stauffer farm, adjoining his property. Mr. Stauffer followed general farming very successfully until he retired. He marketed his products at Shenandoah, Frack- ville, Mahanoy City, and other points in that region. When he gave up active labor and built the home in Ringtown where he now resides, Mr. Stauffer rented his home farm to his son Charles M. Stauffer. He owns consider- able other property, having managed his affairs very thriftily throughout his independent career. As a member of the Democratic party he has taken an interested part in local affairs, and he has filled a number of township offices, having been school director, auditor and election inspector. He was a charter member of Ringtown Lodge, No. 287, I. O. O. F., and belongs to St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church at Ringtown, which he has served efficiently as elder, deacon and trustee.
Mr. Stauffer married Lucy Beaver, who was born Feb. 6, 1848, in Roaring Creek township, Columbia county, daughter of Abraham and Fannie (Whit- ner) Beaver. Children,as follows have been born to them: William Elmer; Calvin A., a farmer in Union township, who married Emma Michael; Clara Ada, wife of Milton Seltzer, a farmer in East Union township; Samuel Am- brose, a farm worker in Union township, who married Catherine Evans; Lloyd Henry, who farms his father's twenty-two-acre tract in Union township (he married Pearl Hartzel) ; Charles Monroe, the farmer on the home place, who married Sarah Laudig; and Annie Elizabeth, married to William Fetter- man, a mine carpenter, of Ringtown.
WILLIAM ELMER STAUFFER, son of Samuel, was born March 17, 1867, in Roaring Creek township, Columbia Co., Pa., and was three years old when his father returned to Union township, where he spent his hoyhood and received his education. He assisted his father with the work on the home place until he reached his majority, and then having married started out on his own account. He bought a half acre of ground from his father, the site of the "Valley View Hotel," where he still resides, built a residence, barn, and other outbuildings, and established a comfortable home. For two years he was engaged in cutting timber for Bankes & Dresher. In March, 1892, he was granted a hotel license and opened the "Valley View Hotel," which he has since conducted most successfully, the place having acquired considerable
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popularity under his capable management. It is situated on the main road between Shenandoah and Ringtown, well equipped for the accommodation of the traveling public, and noted for its good meals.
Mr. Stauffer has added to his first purchase two and a half acres, and he has a busy establishment, being also engaged in dealing in feed, middlings, fertilizer, etc., as well as oil and gasoline for automobiles. He has a large scale (five and a quarter tons) on the premises, for weighing wagons, hay, straw, wheat, etc., which is a great accommodation to the farmers. About twenty years ago he built a blacksmith shop on his property and managed it himself for five years, hiring an experienced man to do the work. Later he built a new blacksmith shop on the premises, which he rents, and there is also a double house on the lot, which he rents. For about twenty-seven years Mr. Stauffer was a member of Ringtown Lodge, No. 287, I. O. O. F., and he was a charter member of Guardian Castle, No. 500, Knights of the Golden Eagle. He belongs to St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, of which he has been deacon for a number of years, and he was at one time active in the Sunday school, acting as secretary and teacher. On political questions he unites with the Democratic party.
Mr. Stauffer married Mary Sophia Lindenmuth, who was born Feb. 17, 1867, in Union township, in the same house her son Norman was born. Mr. and Mrs. Stauffer have had four children: Jennie May, born Feb. 13, 1887, died aged six months, fifteen days; Norman Millard is next in the family ; Florence Arvilla, born April 25, 1895, was educated in the Union township schools and Ringtown high school, which she attended two years, and is now living at home ; Fannie Irene, born Oct. 5, 1901, also attended the Union town- ship schools, and is now a pupil in the Ringtown high school. The elder daughter is a member of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church and is a teacher in the primary department of the Sunday school; the younger daughter is a member of the junior department of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Sun- day school.
Norman Millard Stauffer attended the Stauffer school in Union township, near his home, and had one year's study in the Ringtown High School. Enter- ing the employ of George Mess, at Ringtown, piano manufacturer, he was with him for six months, as "belly man," making and assembling sounding boards and backs, and when the firm of Harwood & Von Rohl took over the business he continued with them in the same capacity, having charge of his department for two and a half years. The establishment changed hands again, passing into the ownership of the Hamburg Piano Company, who removed the works to Hamburg, Pa. Mr. Stauffer accompanied them to that place, continuing his old work and also taking charge of the cabinet work. From early life he had cherished the ambition of becoming a proficient photographer, and while work- ing in the piano factory had made extensive experiments in that line, doing considerable photo work in his spare time. When he left the employ of the Hamburg Piano Company he bought himself a fine complete photo- graphic outfit, and has devoted his time to photography since, doing outdoor work as well as portrait work. Many fine specimens show the progress he has made. For three years he was in the post card business at Ringtown, making and selling local views, and has many fine pictures taken in this region. As a side line Mr. Stauffer has been making photographic enlarge- ments and doing framing, and he is now making a specialty of crayon enlarging, as well as all other kinds of enlarging, being prepared to furnish anything
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in the enlarging and framing line. During the construction of the large stor- age reservoir at Ringtown (capacity 312,280,000 gallons) built by the Girard Water Company, of Pottsville, he was the official photographer for the com- pany and also for Bennett & Randall, of Greensburg, Pa., the contractors.
Personally Mr. Stauffer bears the reputation of being a young man of the highest character, possessing many fine qualities. On March 31, 1907, he was confirmed in St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Ringtown, by Rev. A. P. Pflueger, pastor, and he has been one of the valued members of its Sun- day school for years. He was elected superintendent of St. John's Evan- gelical Lutheran Sunday school Jan. 7, 1912, and during his first year in that position had the pleasure of seeing the school qualify as a front line school, according to the standard of the Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Associa- tion. He has kept his school up to that standard during his many years of successful superintendentship. Mr. Stauffer has taken an active part in the county and State conventions of the association, and has been district super- intendent of its Organized Adult Bible Class in the Ringtown district, No. 1, Schuylkill county, comprising the three Union townships in Schuylkill county. He is at present district superintendent of the Secondary Division (teen age, thirteen to twenty ).
Mr. Stauffer is a member of Washington Camp No. 265, P. O. S. of A., of Ringtown, and a Past President of that organization, and was representa- tive to the State Camp in 1914, at York, Pa. On May 13, 1910, he joined Maple Leaf Camp, No. 246, Woodmen of the World, Ringtown, as a charter member, and has always labored zealously to promote its interests. He has just completed his term as Consul Commander, the highest elective office of the Camp, which he is now serving as Past Consul Commander, the highest office, an honorary position. During his term as Consul Commander (1915) the Camp gained thirty-five members, of whom he himself proposed twenty- seven, doing his utmost then as ever to promote the best interests of the organ- ization. In politics Mr. Stauffer votes with the Democratic party ..
Mr. Stauffer's mother was brought up in Union township, attending the Horne school. She is a devout member of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church at Ringtown, and was formerly a teacher in Horne's Union Sunday school. The Lindenmuth family, to which she belongs, has been in this county for considerably more than a century, her great-grandfather, Daniel Linden- muth, having come hither from Berks county, Pa., in 1792. He and his three brothers, George, Henry and Martin ( who later moved out to. Indiana), divided the four hundred acres awarded their father for his services in the Revolution, Daniel settling in Union township, where Mrs. William Boyer now lives. He was married four times, and he and three of his wives are buried in the family cemetery at Lindenmuth's Corner. The fourth moved from this section.
George Lindenmuth, son of Daniel, was born Feb. 7, 1815, on the old homestead in Union township, and died July 21, 1885. His wife, Polly (Durn- bach ), born June 27, 1814, died March 20, 1893, and they are buried at the Old White Church. They had six children: Charles Daniel, deceased in in- fancy ; Sallie Ann, Mrs. William Lindenmuth ; William D .; Jeremiah, who married Catherine Brobst; Polly ; and Amanda Elizabeth, who lives at Ring- town. She and William are the only survivors of the family.
William D. Lindenmuth was born May 9, 1841, on the old home place in Union township now owned by the William Boyer estate. He married Han- nah Fry, who was born Aug. 9, 1845, in Union township, and died July 10,
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1910; she is buried at the Old White Church. Four children were born to this marriage: Mary Sophia, wife of William Elmer Stauffer; Sallie Savilla, widow of William Boyer and living on the old Lindenmuth homestead; Dr. Eli Oscar, who married Elnora Breisch ; and George Clarence, who owns and occupies his father's old farm in Union township. In 1905 William D. Lin- denmuth sold most of his farm to his son Clarence, retaining for himself five acres, on which he built a fine house and barn, and there he is still residing. An extensive account of the Lindenmuth family appears elsewhere with his personal biography.
PIUS WILLIAM BIRSTON (officially Bierstein), of Shenandoah, has been practically a lifelong resident of Schuylkill county, having been a very young child when his parents settled here. He is of Lithuanian extraction and thoroughly familiar with the language and customs of his race and their native land, therefore well qualified to serve them with counsel in numerous matters, as he is often called upon to do. His broad ideals on the subject of good citizenship, as exemplified in his own life, have gained him esteem among all his fellow townsmen irrespective of nationality or other distinctions.
Mr. Birston was born Feb. 7, 1870, son of Joseph A. Birston and grandson of Ambrose Birston. The grandfather was born in 1819 in Birston, Lithuania, Russia, in which country he spent all his life. By occupation he was a farmer, and he had a tract of one hundred acres, which his wife received as dowry. Later he moved to Oskobolie, in the same country, where he died in 1840, when his son Joseph A. was five weeks old. He is buried at Oskobolie. His wife, whose maiden name was Anna Symanowycz, died when about seventy years old. By her marriage to Mr. Birston she had only the one son, Joseph A. She remarried, becoming the wife of John King, and they had the following children : John, William and Veronica. The family belonged to the Lithu- anian Roman Catholic Church.
Joseph A. Birston, father of Pius William Birston, was born in Oskobolie, Lithuania, Jan. 1, 1840. He received a good general education, attending a seminary in Warsaw. The 100-acre farm before mentioned was his inheritance when his father died, and a guardian was appointed to look after his interests until he was twenty-one years of age. His uncle was later appointed his guardian, and because of litigation with this uncle concerning this property Joseph A. Birston left his native country and came to America, in 1870. Upon his arrival in this country he was given the name of Bierstein, which he and his children have borne officially since, but they have not dropped the use of the proper spelling. For a while the family lived at Boston, Mass., thence removing to Pittston, Luzerne Co., Pa., where the father followed mine work for some time. Then they lived at Shenandoah, where he was similarly employed, and after trying various other locations he settled in 1872 at Girard- ville, Schuylkill county, where he followed mining for fourteen years. At the end of that time he returned to Shenandoah, where he did mine work until his death, which occurred in April, 1892, on Easter Monday. He is buried in St. George's Lithuanian cemetery at Shenandoah. Mr. Birston was a member of St. George's Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church, and of the St. Peter and St. Paul Beneficial Society. Politically he was a Republican.
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