Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Isenberg, Peter S. March 28, 1845 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

PETER S. ISENBERG, 
now serving as justice of the peace at Bellwood, belongs to that great class
of patriotic young men who exchanged school-room duties for the sterner
demands of the tented field in the dark days of our civil war, and surviving
that conflict, returned to lead industrious, useful, and honorable lives
beneath the folds of a flag they had helped to preserve.  He is a son of
Mordecai and Elizabeth (Heckendorn) Isenberg, and was born near Alexandria,
Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, on the 28th day of March, 1845.  His
paternal grandfather, Peter Isenberg, removed to Maryland when a young man,
and passed the rest of his life in that State, dying at an advanced age.  He
was a farmer by occupation, married and reared a family of children, among
whom was Mordecai Isenberg (father).  The latter was a native of Maryland,
where he was reared and received the limited education afforded by the
elemental schools of that day.  On leaving school he learned the trade of
carpenter, and followed that occupation nearly all his days.  In middle life
he removed to Pennsylvania, settling in Huntingdon county, where he died.  He
married Elizabeth Heckendorn, a daughter of John Heckendorn, of Huntingdon
county, and by this union had a family of seven children, three sons and four
daughters.  One of these sons, Nicholas, served as a soldier during the civil
war, and is now a resident of Los Angeles, California.  John Heckendorn,
maternal grandfather, was of German extraction, and came to Huntingdon county
when a young man.  He lived to be ninety years old, and died at his home in
that county.
      Peter S. Isenberg was reared principally in the township of Porter,
Huntingdon county, this State, and received his education in the common
schools of his neighborhood.  On June 4, 1864, when only nineteen years of
age, he enlisted in Battery C, 1st Pennsylvania light artillery, and served
until July 3, 1865, when he was honorably discharged.  During his term of
service he took part in thirteen battles and skirmishes, including the
terrible struggles at Fisher's Hill, Summit Point, Cedar Creek, and Harper's
Ferry, and was with Sheridan in his raid through the Shenandoah valley. 
After receiving his discharge he returned to Blair county and started in to
learn the trade of coach maker.  He has worked at that trade continuously
ever since, with the exception of two and a half years - 1871 to 1873 -
during which he was employed as a passenger car builder in the Altoona shops
of the Pennsylvania railroad.  On December 18, 1884, he located in Bellwood,
and worked steadily at his trade until the spring of 1890, when he was
elected justice of the peace for a term of five years.  In connection with
his office he runs a novelty store.
      Mr. Isenberg married S. Ellen Warfle, a daughter of John S. Warfle, and
by this union had a family of six children, all sons: William T., married
Elizabeth Loucks and resides at Bellwood, where he is engaged in the
blacksmith business; Walter J., a barber by trade; Alvin G., John E., David
A., and Arthur C.  All are yet living at home with their parents except the
married son.
      Politically Mr. Isenberg is a republican, and on general questions can
be counted on to support the policy of that party.  In local affairs he is
inclined to independent action, and gives his vote and the weight of his
influence to such measures as his judgment decides to be for the general good
of the whole people.  It is too early to pronounce a final verdict on his
official career, but he stands high with his fellow citizens, has given good
satisfaction during the year he has occupied his present position, and seems
to possess all the leading qualifications that go to make a first-class magistrate.

Additional Comments:
Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Janet Ebaugh.

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