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	 EGOLFF FAMILY - an introduction to a part of the Egolff family, 
and some of their descendants (written in 1896):  "The history of the 
Egolff family is quite a lengthy one, although I intend to bring up only 
the descendants of one branch of the family; I have, of course, 
reference to one of the branches that go back in a lineal line to the 
first Egolff that landed in the Province of Pennsylvania in 1746.  The 
history of this one branch will, however, be found sufficiently long, as 
it reaches to the seventh generation now in this year of grace 1896.
	"Michael Egolff, 1st.  (On the documents contained in the German 
Bible which was printed in 1746, in possession of William and Barbara 
Egolff, at Carlisle, the name Egolff is always written with a ff at the 
end of the name.)
	"Michael Egolff, 1st, was the oldest son of Michael and Agatha 
Egolff. He was born at Engstadt, in the district of Bahlinger, in the 
Duchy of Wittenberg, on the 26th of April, 1693.  His mother died in 
1608, when he was five years of age; his father died in 1734, thirty-six 
years after the death of his mother.
	"Michael Egolff, 1st, was a cooper by trade. He was married to Mary 
Voutsh on the 10th of April, 1735, in the church of Engstadt; his wife 
Mary Voutsh was born on the 27th of July, 1704, and was consequently 
eleven years younger than her husband.
	"The name of his father-in-law (his wife's father) was Martin 
Voutsh, a citizen and farmer at Engstadt; the maiden name of his mother-
in-law (his wife's mother) was Mary Reisbein, who it is said died a 
premature death when her daughter Mary was but six years of age.
	"Michael and Mary Egolff, 1st, had ten children, four of whom died 
in their infancy.  The births and names of those that died in their 
infancy are not given on the original documents. The following is the 
order in which those that grew up were born:  (1) Michael Egolff, 2d, 
was born at Engstadt, on the 2d of October, 1727.  (2) Balthaser Egolff, 
2d, was born at Engstadt, on the 8th of May, 1729.  (3) John Egolff, 2d, 
was born at Engstadt, on the 11th of August, 1732.  (4) Mary Egolff, 2d, 
was born at Engstadt, on the 9th of May, 1738.  (5) Martin Egolff, 2d, 
was born at Engstadt, on the 8th of October, 1742.  (6) Anna Elizabeth 
Egolff, 2d, was born in all probability at Philadelphia on the 15th of 
October, 1747. *  *  *  *
	"During the fall of 1745 Michael Egolff, 1st, conceived the idea of 
emigrating to the English Province of Pennsylvania in North America with 
his family.  They left their native town of Engstadt, as well as 
relations and friends, in the month of March or April, 1746, and 
journeyed to Rotterdam. one of the seaports of Holland; the name of the 
ship on which they embarked was 'Mary Gallen'; William Wilson was the 
name of the captain They must have been on the ocean considerably over 
one hundred days, for they did not arrive at Philadelphia until about 
the 20th of September of that year. On the 27th of September, just a few 
days after they had landed, Michael Egolff, 1st, was qualified as a 
British subject, which was the custom then according to the laws of 
Great Britain. They were also going to qualify Michael Egolff, 2d, 
thinking him to he old enough, but after ascertaining his age, and 
finding him too young, they abandoned it. (Some of the above 
information, in regard to their landing in Philadelphia and being 
qualified as British subjects, can be found in Pennsylvania Archives, 
Second Series, Vol. 17, page 225.)
	"Of the movements of Michael Egolff, 1st, with his family we have 
information. His three oldest sons were pretty well grown up when he 
arrived in this country. According to the traditions in the family, he 
remained at Philadelphia for some years. Whether he and his wife ever 
left the city is not known, but his children, or some of them, after 
having been in the city for some years, pushed up into the country into 
Lancaster, Berks and Montgomery counties, for it appears there are quite 
a number of Egolffs, down in that part of the State.  So far we have no 
account that ever any Egolff settled in Cumberland county except Michael 
Egolff, 2d.  What year he came to the county is not known, probably 
between 1780 and 1785.  The name of Egolff can not be found in the 
archives of Cumberland until 1784 or 1785. It appears that all the 
Egolffs through Cumberland, Franklin and Perry counties, etc., spring 
from one branch of the family, namely, that of Michael Egolff, 2d.
	"In stating in the above paragraph that Michael Egolff, 2d, was the 
ancestor of all the Egolffs in this part of the State, it will be 
understood that Grandfather Henry Egolff, 3d, was supposed to be one of 
his sons, although we have no absolute or authentic proof that he was 
(the matter is being investigated).  Should it, however be proved that 
he was not a son of Michael Egolff, 2d, then the descendants of the 
Egolff family in this part of the State would spring from two branches, 
namely, Michael Egolff, 2d, and one of his brothers (2d), whatever one 
would be proved to have been the father of Grandfather Henry Egolff 3d.  
The descendants of Grandfather Henry Egolff, 3d are much more numerous 
in this part of the State than those of the other branch.
	"Now we come to Michael Egolff, 2d, who is the only Egolff we know 
of that came to Cumberland county. Michael Egolff, 2d, as we have seen, 
was the oldest son of Michael and Mary Voutsh Egolff, 1st.
	
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He was born on the 2d of October, 1727, and was nineteen years of age 
when his father landed in this country. He had learned the coopering 
trade with his father. He was married to Elizabeth (her family name is 
not given), of Dellenburg, in Nassau, on the 14th of January, 1757. It 
was supposed they were married at Philadelphia. They had ten children, 
of whom two died in their infancy. There is no record of the births or 
names of the children, and the following imperfect record of them is 
from family tradition, with the supposition that he was the father of 
Grandfather Henry Egolff, 3rd:  (1) I will begin with Grandfather Henry 
Egolff, 3d, who was born in 1759.  (2) Joseph Egolff, 3d, who was born 
on the 16th of November, 1765 (William and Barbara Egolff, 4th children 
of Joseph Egolff, 3d, who are still living at an advanced age in this 
year of grace 1890, say that they think their father was born in 
Philadelphia; if it will be proved that Michael Egolff, 2d was the 
father of Grandfather Henry Egolff, 3d; then there is no doubt that he 
also was born there, as he was born six years before his supposed 
brother Joseph).  (3) Jacob Egolff, 3d (it is not known when he was 
born).  (4) Michael Egolff, 3d (it is not know when he was born).  (5) 
Polly (or Mary) Egolff, 3d (it is not known when she was born).
	"In the above we have five of the eight children of Michael and 
Elizabeth Egolff, 2d, accounted for; the investigation mentioned, if 
successful, will probably bring the other three to light. With this I 
will close with Michael Egolff, 2d. His wife Elizabeth died at Carlisle 
in 1795, and he died on Wednesday, April 9th, 1817, at the very advanced 
age of ninety years, having been born on the 24 of October, 1727. They 
are both buried at the old graveyard at Carlisle.
	"I will now begin with the third generation, which brings us a 
little nearer home. I will take them up in regular order, and give such 
information as is at my command concerning them, and will close with 
Grandfather Henry Egolff, 3d, and his family.
	"Polly (or Mary) Egolff, 3d, a daughter of Michael and Elizabeth 
Egolff, 2d:  Concerning her and her descendants I know but very little. 
Her marriage to Thomas Mattheson on the 3d of July, 1795, is recorded at 
the parsonage of the First Presbyterian Church at Carlisle.  They had 
some children. He was a nephew of Grandfather Henry Egolff, 3d.  I was 
informed that the descendants of the Matthesons were numerous, some of 
them living north of Carlisle, some in Perry county, and others farther 
west.
	"Joseph Egolff, 3d, son of Michael and Elizabeth Egolff, 2d: Of him 
I knew but little or nothing. I do not know whether he was older or 
younger than Grandfather Henry Egolff, 3d. I do not know when or where 
he was born. All I know concerning him is that he was never married and 
that he made his home with the Goshert family, and that he died at their 
house about 1837 or 1838 (the home of the Goshert family was three or 
four miles north of St. Thomas, Franklin Co., Pa.).  I do not know what 
age he was. He is buried at the Southern graveyard at St. Thomas.
	Michael Egolff, 3d: He is supposed to have been a son of Michael 
and Elizabeth Egolff, 2d, but when and where he was born is not known, 
nor do I know whether he was a mechanic or a farmer. He had a family. I 
only know from family tradition that he lived and died near Mercersburg. 
Do not know what became of his family after his death.  We have accounts 
of what might be supposed to be two Michael Egolffs, 3d.  They were no 
doubt one and the same person. In the history Cumberland and Adams 
counties, printed in 1886 (second part pages 101 and 102), it is stated 
that among the members of one of the companies that went from Carlisle 
to assist in subduing the Whiskey Insurrection in the western part of 
the State, in 1794, were Joseph and Michael Egolff; they were supposed 
to have been brothers.  The Michael Egolff, 3d, referred to above, in or 
near Mercersburg, Franklin Co., Pa., where he died prior to 1832, was a 
brother of Henry Egolff, 3d, and is supposed to have been the same 
Michael Egolff, 3d, that was in service during the Whiskey Insurrection.  
The investigation referred to will probably throw the desired light on 
this subject.
	"Joseph Egolff, 3d, a son of Michael and Elizabeth Egolff, 2nd, is 
supposed to have been born (at Philadelphia) on the 10th of November, 
1765. He was a saddler by trade. It is not known when he came to 
Carlisle, but it is quite likely that he came there with his parents 
about 1780 or 1785. He carried on his trade in Carlisle for many years. 
He was married twice.  The family name of his first wife was Catherine 
Roads.  It is not known what year he was married the first time. They 
had two children, a son and a daughter; the daughter died in her 
infancy, the son's name was John, 4th. He died at Harrisburg on the 5th 
of November, 1834, and was buried at Carlisle. At the time of the 
Whiskey Insurrection in the western part of the State, in 1794, as we 
have seen above, he was in that service with one of the Carlisle 
companies; they were only in service about two months, from the 1st of 
October to the 5th of December, of the same year, on which date they 
were discharged. [Refer to the History of Cumberland and Adams counties, 
as requested above.]
	"Whether Joseph Egolff, 3d, was single, married or a widower when 
he entered the service at the time of the Whiskey Insurrection is not 
known to the writer.  He was married the second time to Miss Barbara 
Loose, on the 12th of September, 1810. By this marriage, so far as my 
information goes, there were five children, three sons and two
	
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daughters; the names of these children are Michael, William, Joseph, 
Elizabeth and Barbara.  I will now give short sketches of the children 
of Joseph and Barbara Loose Egolff, 3d.
	"(1) Michael Egolff, 4th, was the oldest of Joseph and Barbara 
Egolffs family. He was born at Carlisle in 1811.  When, in 1832, he 
became of age, he engaged in the mercantile business in his native town, 
in which he, however, only continued until July, 1833, when he 
discontinued the business.  He was married to Miss Mary McManus, a 
daughter of Carmack McManus, on March the 23d, 1835, by the Rev. Mr. 
Ulrich.  Carmack McManus was one of the prominent members of the 
Catholic Church at Carlisle; his daughter Mary could not have been a 
Catholic as the Rev. Mr. Ulrich was the Lutheran minister at Carlisle. 
Michael Egolff, 4th, resides at Albany, N Y, where he has resided for 
many years. I am not able to say what year he left Carlisle.  His 
descendants are quite numerous there, in children, 5th, grandchildren, 
6th, and great-grandchildren, 7th.  He is still in the enjoyment of good 
health in this year of grace 1896, at the advanced age of eighty-five 
years.
	"(2) Joseph Egolff, 4th, is probably next in age to his brother 
Michael. I am not able to say what he follows. He was married in the 
month of June, 1837, to Susana Mickey, of Perry county. He resides at 
Reading, where he has a family of children, 5th, and grandchildren, 6th.
	"(3) William Egolff, 4th, was born at Carlisle in 1819.  He has 
resided at Carlisle all his life. He resides with his sister Barbara.  
They keep a private boarding house. William Egolff is now, in this year 
of grace 1896, seventy-eight years of age.  He is quite feeble, but is 
able to be about. He was never married.
	"(4) Miss Barbara Egolff, 4th, was born at Carlisle, where she has 
resided all the time, as stated above.  She and her brother William 
reside together.  She was never married.  She is a very pleasant 
conversationalist and enjoys very good health for a lady that is past 
seventy-two years of age.
	"(5) Miss Elizabeth Egolff; 4th: Of her I can say but very little. 
She died a few years ago and is buried at the old graveyard at Carlisle.  
She was never married.
	"Joseph Egolff was in very comfortable circumstances, and was very 
much respected among his fellow citizens. He owned several properties in 
the town of Carlisle.  In the month of March, 1826, he was nominated for 
town council and held other responsible places of trust.  His second 
wife died in 1845 and he having a partial stroke was confined to the 
house for four or five years, when in 1850 he followed his wife to the 
grave at the advanced age of eighty-five years.  They are both buried at 
the old graveyard at Carlisle.  With this I will conclude the history of 
Joseph Egolff,  and his family.
	"To all those who are lineal descendants of Grandfather Henry 
Egolff, 3d, the following will be the most interesting part of this 
investigation and history, namely, the biographical sketch of himself 
and his family.
	"Henry Egolff, 3d, was a son of Michael and Elizabeth Egolff.  His 
birthplace is no doubt Philadelphia, where he was born about the year 
1759.  We have seen that Joseph Egolff, 3d, a brother of his, was born 
in 1765, at Philadelphia also; and as Henry was six years older than his 
brother Joseph there is scarcely any doubt but he was born at 
Philadelphia.  Of his early life we have little or no information.  We 
do not know whether he had learned the trade of his father, namely, that 
of a cooper, or learned some other trade; or whether he followed the 
business that we find him employed in during the most active part of his 
life, namely, that of a farmer and teamster. We are informed through 
family tradition that his father, although a cooper by trade, followed 
farming. It is quite likely that he was with his father on the farm 
until he got married.  We have no means of knowing where his father was 
engaged in farming, whether in one of the lower counties of the State or 
near Carlisle. We first come across Henry's name on the military roll of 
the Pennsylvania volunteers who had enlisted to free the thirteen 
colonies in North America from the tyrannical yoke of Great Britain. 
Whether his father still resided at Philadelphia at the time of his 
enlistment or had gone to one of the neighboring counties west of 
Philadelphia we do not know. We know from public documents of the State 
archives that he was still in the service of the government on the 1st 
of January, 1781.  He was among the number who received depreciation 
pay. They were determined that they should receive what they had been 
promised, dollar for dollar, and not with money that they could only 
pass for forty or fifty cents on the dollar. He also received a pension 
by the general as well as by the State government. The official 
information in regard to Grandfather Henry Egolff and his confreres in 
the service during the Revolution will be found in Pennsylvania 
Archives, Second Series, Vol. 13, page 64.
	"About two years after peace was declared, namely, in 1785, we find 
his name in the archives of Cumberland county.  After the war of 
independence he returned to his home, to enjoy the fruits of his valor.  
He had bought about six acres of land from James Duncan. The land was 
not far from the town of Carlisle. The old homestead where he lived with 
his wife is on the Walnut Bottom road, something less than a mile from 
town.  The old log house, which was afterward weather-boarded, was torn 
down a few years ago and replaced by a brick house.  He was at this
	
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time about twenty-six years of age and in all probability single yet.  
His father, Michael Egolff, 2d, had no doubt now come to Cumberland 
county, if not with all at least with some of his children.
	 "It is not known what year he was married. What is to be regretted 
the most is that we have no information at all respecting his wife.  We 
do not know her family nor her Christian name. Their oldest child, 
Valentine, was born in 1790. We may reasonably suppose that they were 
married sometime in the year 1789.
	"From the conversations that I can remember by Mother Green, he 
lived with his family on the little farm he had bought near town, where 
it is supposed he went soon after they were married. He farmed in the 
summer; during the winter he would be engaged in teaming from Baltimore 
or Philadelphia to Carlisle and other neighboring towns, and later on, 
when the turnpikes were made westward, he sometimes went as far as 
Pittsburgh.
	"They had eight children, two sons and six daughters.  There are 
only two or three of them the date of whose birth I know very near, the 
rest I must put down promiscuously.  The names of the children are as 
follows: Valentine Egolff, 4th, was born in 1790, at Carlisle (died in 
1832); Mary Egolff, 4th, was born near Carlisle; in 1793; Henry Egolff, 
4th, was born near Carlisle (date of birth not known); Genevieve Egolff, 
4th, was born near Carlisle (date of birth not known); Catherine Egolff, 
4th, Sarah Egolff, 4th, Jane Egolff, 4th, were born near Carlisle (dates 
of birth not known); Malinda Egolff, 4th, is supposed to have been born 
in 1808, near Carlisle.
	"I will now give some short biographical sketches of the above 
mentioned children and their respective families, as well as I am able, 
and then resume and finish the biographical sketch of Grandfather Henry 
Egolff, 3d, himself.
	"Valentine Egolff, 4th, the oldest child of Henry Egolff, 3d, and 
his wife, was born on the little farm of his parents near Carlisle in 
1790. I am not able to say whether he had any trade or not. He was a 
farmer.  It is stated that he married young. He was married to Miss 
Elizabeth Martin in 1803. She came to America from Belfast, Ireland, in 
1800 A. D., settled in Carlisle, Pa. Her father's name was David Martin. 
Mother's name Elizabeth McCollough.  They had six children; three sons 
and three daughters; their names were as follows: Rebecca, 5th, Samuel, 
5th, Elizabeth, 5th, David, 5th, John, 5th, and Catherine Styles, 5th.  
(1) Rebecca Egolff 5th, was married on the 18th of December, 1838, to 
Daniel Bailey; Daniel and Rebecca (Egolff, 5th) Bailey were the parents 
of David Bailey, 6th. David is about fifty-five or fifty-six years of 
age.  He is a widower and has four children (7th) living, two sons and 
two daughters. They are all grown up. David is an ardent member of the 
G.A.R. and I think is holding some distinguished office in the 
organization.  He lost an arm in the Civil war.  He seems to be very 
comfortably fixed at Carlisle. I cannot say whether David Bailey, 6th, 
has any brothers or sisters or not. (2) Samuel Egolff, 5th, son of 
Valentine Egolff, 4th, was never married. He was of a rather roving 
disposition. I am not able to say whether he had a trade or not.  He was 
the owner of five teams which traded between Carlisle and Philadelphia, 
Baltimore and Pittsburg. I saw his name enrolled on an old list of the 
Union Fire Company at Carlisle. He died and was buried at Battle 
Mountain, Nev., about the year 1890. (3) Elizabeth Egolff, 5th, daughter 
of Valentine and Elizabeth (Martin) Egolff, 4th, was born at Carlisle in 
May, 1821.  She was married to David Snyder at Carlisle, Pa., in 
October, 1840."  They have descendants as follows:  Sarah Egolff Snyder 
(6th); born in August 1841, died in January, 1856, at Carlisle, 
unmarried. Rachel Snyder (6th), born Oct. 13, 1843, still living in this 
year (1911), married first Lieut. Harrison Fostick, U. S. A., who was 
born in 1833 and died in August 1866, at Washington, D. C. (he was 
buried in the Ashland cemetery at Carlisle); her second marriage, which 
took place at Carlisle Jan. 9, 1872, was to Lewis Bosh, who died at 
Chambersburg, Pa., Aug. 9, 1872, and is buried in the Ashland cemetery 
at Carlisle. Rebecca Snyder (6th), born at Carlisle in August, 1845, 
died at Carlisle and is buried there; she married Henry Kaufman, 
commissary sergeant, U. S. A., who is still living (1911), and of this 
union two children were born, of whom Charles William (7th), born May 
23, 1863, now foreman in the Linder shoe factory at Carlisle, married 
Sarah Speck, of Carlisle, in November, 1890; they have no children.  
Jesse H. Snyder (6th), born Nov. 25, 1849, a farmer near Carlisle in 
this year of grace (1911) married Laura Gosh, of Carlisle, Pa., and had 
eight children, 7th, all born at Carlisle, namely:  Harrison Fostick, 
Lewis Bosh, Mary May (Mrs. Fleegal born in March, 1876), Elizabeth 
Egolff (Mrs. Garret), Rachel Armstrong (born March 1, 1884), John Stotts 
(born July 29, 1888), Jessie Yates (born in November, 1891), and Charles 
Kaufman (born April 9, 1894). "(4) David Egolff, 5th, son of Valentine 
and Elizabeth (Martin) Egolff, 4th, was born at Carlisle. He was a 
saddler and harness-maker.  He had learned his trade with his 
granduncle, Joseph Egolff, 3d.  His name is also on the same firemen's 
roll that his brother Samuel's is on. I also saw his name among a list 
of jurymen of Cumberland county. He went to Illinois some time early in 
the forties and was married there to Mary Madden, of Galena, Ill.  No 
children.  He was postmaster at Galena, Illinois, for some time, but 
when the California gold fever broke out in 1848 he could not resist the 
temptation and accordingly
	
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in 1849 he left Galena for California with his family, where he died in 
1869, at Oleta, Cal. (5) John Egolff, 5th, son of Valentine and 
Elizabeth (Martin) Egolff, 4th, was born at Carlisle, where he resided 
all his life.  I am not able to say whether he had a trade or not. He 
married Elizabeth Sparr at Carlisle about 1850. They had a large family 
of children (6th) and grandchildren (7th). His son Cirus lives in the 
same log house in which his grandfather, Valentine Egolff, 4th, lived 
and died. The house is still in a very good state of preservation and 
promises to stand for many years yet. John Egolff, 5th, died in 1880; do 
not know what his age was.  Cannot say whether his wife is still living 
in this year of grace, 1896, or not. They had ten children.  (6) 
Catherine Styles Egolff, 5th, a daughter of Valentine and Elizabeth 
(Martin) Egolff, 4th, was born at Carlisle Dec. 25, 1825; died at 
Shamokin, Pa., Oct. 20, 1890.  She was married Oct. 18, 1845, at 
Carlisle, Pa., by Rev. Father P. Maher, Catholic Rector, to John A. 
Snyder, a brother of David Snyder, who is married to her sister 
Elizabeth. They have descendants as follows: Mary G. Snyder May (6th), 
born July 19, 1846, at Carlisle; Samuel Egolff Snyder (6th), born Jan. 
3, 1848, at Carlisle; Edw. Helfenstine Snyder (6th), born Sept. 6, 1850, 
at Carlisle; Martin McCullough Snyder (6th), born Jan. 29, 1854; John 
Patrick Snyder (6th), born June 15, 1858, at Shamokin; James Harrison 
Snyder (6th), born May 3, 1862 (died Feb. 16, 1864); George Britten 
Snyder (6th), born Sept. 24, 1864 (died July 14, 1891, at Shamokin).  Of 
this family, Mary G. Snyder, the eldest daughter, married Maj. James 
May.
	"Valentine Egolff, 4th, had considerable financial difficulties 
during his life. He died at Carlisle of the smallpox on the 10th of 
December, 1832, at the age of forty-two years (ten days before the death 
of his brother-in-law, Edward Green). He is buried at the old graveyard 
at Carlisle. I am not able to say when his wife died. With this closes 
the biographical sketch of Valentine Egolff, 4th, including his children 
as well as some of his grandchildren, and also some of his great-
grandchildren down to the seventh generation.
	"Mary Egolff, 4th: As she is the immediate ancestor of my family on 
my wife's side and the biographical sketch of her family and her 
descendants for several generations will make a long chapter, I will 
give the sketches of her brothers and sisters first, and then close up 
with her own.
	"Henry Egolff, 4th, was born at his father's home at Carlisle. I 
cannot say when he was born. He was a cripple from his infancy.  I was 
informed that when he was lying in his cradle a drunken man, an 
acquaintance of the family, came to the house and stumbling over the 
cradle, fell heavily on the child, injuring him to such an extent that 
he was a cripple for life. When he was grown up he got himself a small 
conveyance with which he would peddle notions through the country.  He 
was never married.  After his father broke up housekeeping he made his 
home with Simon Sholley, at Carlisle, Mrs. Sarah Sholley being Henry's 
sister.  He died at Carlisle when he was about forty-five years of age 
and is buried at the old graveyard at Carlisle.
	"Genevieve Egolff, 4th, was born at her father's farm near Carlisle 
but I am not able to give the date of her birth. She was married to a 
Mr. Hemwood.  I do not know his Christian name.  I have been able to get 
but very little information in Carlisle in regard to this family, with 
the exception that they were married at Carlisle, had a family and lived 
there, that some of their descendants were still in the neighborhood.  
The old folks are no doubt dead.
	"Catherine Egolff, 4th, a daughter of Henry Egolff and his wife, 
was born on her parents' farm near Carlisle, but I do not know the date 
of her birth. She was married to Mardicay Duncan, but what year they 
were married I am not able to say. Mr. Duncan is a shoemaker by trade 
and lived about two miles north of Loudon, in Path Valley, where he had 
a small piece of land which he tilled along with his trade.  They had 
three children, two sons and one daughter; their names were, 
respectively, Alexander (5th), William (5th) and Mary (5th). Alexander 
Duncan was a millwright by trade; he died suddenly, while a young man 
unmarried.  William Duncan:  Do not know whether William had a trade, or 
not; the last I heard of him he was in Colorado; cannot say whether he 
was married or single. Mary Duncan was married, but I could not learn 
the name of her husband nor the time when they were married; after she 
was married they moved to Michigan. Mr. Duncan was married twice. The 
above named children were all by his first wife, he had no children by 
the second wife. I do not know what year his first wife died.  When I 
first got acquainted with him, in 1845, he was married to his second 
wife and the three children were very near grown up. Mr. Duncan died, I 
think, in 1878 or 1879. His second wife had died some time before him. I 
cannot say where he is buried, but I suppose at Loudon.
	"Sarah Egolff, 4th, was born at the home of her parents near 
Carlisle, but I am not able to give the date of her birth. She was 
married to Simon Sholley, but I cannot say what year they were married.  
In regard to their children, I do not know how many they had, I can only 
remember two daughters (5th), who were nearly grown up when I first got 
acquainted with the family about 1845. Mr. Sholley had a horse and cart 
or wagon with which he was doing hauling about town. Mrs. Sholley kept 
what was in those days known as a cake house. She baked different kinds 
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cakes and made mead and small beer.  From my best recollections they 
left Carlisle for Ohio in the fifties.  I was informed by some of the 
relations after they had gone to Ohio that Mr. and Mrs. Sholley were 
both dead, without knowing where and when they died, and that none of 
the relations about Carlisle knew what had become of the children.  The 
above is all the information I could gather in regard to the Sholley 
family.
	"Jane Egolff, 4th, a daughter of Henry Egolff, 3rd, and his wife, 
was born at the home of her parents near Carlisle, but the date of her 
birth I do not know. She was married to a Mr. Koup. I do not know his 
Christian name, nor the date of their marriage. After they were married 
they resided in Perry county, Pa., where Grandfather Henry Egolff, had, 
paid them a visit in 1826. They had ten children; I do not know how many 
sons or how many daughters.  I do not know what their names were.  They 
are all dead but two, namely, Henry (5th) and Jeremiah (5th). Another 
brother, by the name of Jacob, died about four years ago, in 1892. The 
following is all the information I have in regard to the children of Mr. 
Koup and Jane Egolff, 4th, his wife:  (1) Henry Koup 5th (born no doubt 
in Perry county, Pa.), in 1810 lives in Pontiac, Livingston Co., Ill. 
Cannot say whether he is a mechanic or farmer. He has a family there. Do 
not know what year he went West, nor do I know whether he was married 
before he went to the West or got his wife out there. I am not able to 
say how many children they have.  (2) Jeremiah Koup, 5th, born (no doubt 
in Perry Co., Pa.) in 1832, resides at Ducannon, in the same county. I 
do not know what his occupation is. He is a widower with five children 
(6th), three sons and two daughters, but I do not know their names, age 
or occupation (3) Jacob Koup, 5th: Although he is dead, as his wife is 
living yet I will relate what little I know about him, He was no doubt 
also born in Perry County, Pa., but I do not know the date of his birth.  
His wife's Christian name is Josephine but her family name I do not 
know.  They had 10 children;  She resides in Duncannon, Perry Co., Pa., 
where her husband, Jacob Koup, died in 1892. With this I will have to 
close the family record of Jane Egolff, 4th, and her husband Mr. Koup. I 
am sorry that I have not got some information concerning the other seven 
children of theirs.
	"Malinda Egolff, 4th, was the youngest of the  family of Henry 
Egolff, 3d, and his wife, and was probably born in 1808. It is stated in 
the family traditions that Grandmother Egolff, the wife of Grandfather 
Henry Egolff, 3d, died in 1809, that several of the children were single 
yet at the time of her death, and that the youngest (Malinda) was only a 
few months old; that Mary, the eldest of the girls, who was then a good 
'chunk' of a girl of about sixteen years of age, had the whole charge of 
the family on her shoulders.  Malinda Egolff, 4th, was married twice.  
Her first husband's name was Sipes; could not say what his Christian 
name was, nor what year she was married to him. I don't think they had 
any children. I cannot say what year he died.  Some time after the death 
of her first husband she was married to Jacob Albert.  Mr. Albert was a 
house carpenter; they had five children, that are grown up. I am not 
able to say whether they had any children that died young.  Of the age 
of their children I am not positive, but think the following order is 
correct:  Barbara (5th), Levi (5th), Jacob (5th), Samuel (5th), and 
Rebecca (5th). The following is a short biographical sketch of the 
children and other descendants of Jacob and Malinda (Egolff, 4th) Sipes 
Albert: (1) Barbara Albert was born at Carlisle; do not know the date of 
her birth. She was married to Thomas Jameson. Mr. Jameson is a day 
laborer.  They have five children, three sons and two daughters (6th).  
The three sons are all married and have families; the two daughters are 
single.  (2) Levi Albert was born at Carlisle; do not know what year.  
Levi is a day laborer. He is married, but I do not know his wife's 
family or Christian name; they have two daughters (6th) who are both 
single.  (3) Jacob Albert was born at Carlisle, but I cannot say what 
year. He is an engineer and works for one of the railroad companies at 
Carlisle. He is a widower. He was twice married. He has no children, and 
makes his home with his brother-in-law, Jesse Hayes, who is married to 
Jacob Albert's sister Rebecca.  (4) Samuel Albert was born at Carlisle 
(year not known). He is married, but I do not know his wife's family or 
Christian name. He has some children (6th), but I cannot say how many, 
nor do I know what he follows.  (5) Rebecca Albert, the youngest of 
Jacob and Melinda (Egolff, 4th) Sipes Albert's family, was born at 
Carlisle, but I do not know the date of her birth.  She is married to 
Jesse Hayes.  Her husband is a watchman at one of the factories at 
Carlisle. They have four children.  One died in infancy, two sons and 
one daughter (6th) surviving. Their names are, respectively, Jacob, 
Martin and Mary.  The two sons are married and have families (7th); the 
daughter is single. Mrs. Hayes is a very pleasant woman.  I have 
received a good deal of information from her concerning some of our 
relations.  This completes the biographical sketch of the children and 
other descendants of Jacob and Malinda Albert's family. *  *  *  Jacob 
Albert died in the summer of 1879. He had been laid up for some time and 
was quite feeble.  I am not able to say what his age was at the time of 
his death.  His wife died some years before him. They are both buried in 
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	"Mary Egolff, 4th, was the second child and the oldest daughter of 
Henry Egolff, 3d, and his wife. She was born at the paternal mansion 
near Carlisle in 1793.  Her parents belonged to the Lutheran 
denomination, in which faith she was brought up. The early part of her 
life was passed on her father's farm, in the pursuit of such work as 
pertains to the female portion of a farmer's family, namely, the 
household affairs, culinary duties and the dairy. Schools were scarce in 
her young days, particularly in the country, consequently her education 
was limited; however, she was able to read quite well, but I do not 
think she could write. She had plenty of mother wit, good common sense 
and excellent judgment.  There were eight children in the family, one of 
them. her brother Henry; a cripple for life. Her father was engaged in 
farming during the spring, summer and early fall, and during the winter 
and early spring he was engaged in wagoning.  He would take country 
produce to Baltimore or Philadelphia and return laden with merchandise 
of different kinds, for the business men of Carlisle or some of the 
neighboring towns; and when the turnpike was finished westward he would 
make a trip once in a while as far as Pittsburg. In 1809 when she was 
about sixteen years of age she as well as the rest of the family met 
with a serious loss in the death of her mother. As she was the oldest 
daughter she was placed at the head of the family and nearly the whole 
responsibility of the family rested on her shoulders. This was more 
particularly the case when her father was away with the team. But when 
the war of 1812 broke out between the United. States and Great Britain 
her responsibility increased still more, as her father's patriotism 
(although he had fought for several years during the war of 
Independence, and was now past the age of doing military duty) prompted 
him to go again, and according to the family traditions he was gone 
almost three years.
	"If the traditions of the family are correct, the young Irish 
distiller Edward Green, who had arrived in the United States in 1811, 
had formed the acquaintance of Mary Egolff, 4th, and had obtained the 
consent of her father to their marriage before he left for the army. It 
is quite likely they were married in 1813 or 1814. She was then about 
twenty or twenty-one years of age, while her young husband was one year 
her senior.
	"After their marriage she no doubt remained at her father's home 
until he returned from the war. She was very conscientious and would not 
leave the family of her father without it being properly cared for and 
she thought she could do better herself than anyone else. From 
information received it would appear that her husband continued working 
at the distillery after they were married and after her father's return 
from  the army they commenced housekeeping themselves and lived at or 
near the distillery where he worked, in Cumberland county, a few miles 
west of Harrisburg, where it is quite likely they remained until they 
moved to Chambersburg.
	"It has been stated that she was born and raised in the Lutheran 
faith.  After her marriage she became a Catholic, and I think was 
received into the church by one of the Jesuit fathers from Conewago, who 
attended the mission at Carlisle. She had become a Catholic before they 
moved to Chambersburg.
	"Edward and Mary (Egolff, 4th) Green had eleven children, four sons 
and seven daughters; six of them, three sons and three daughters, died 
while they were young and only five, one son and four daughters, were 
permitted to grow up. The following are the names of their children and 
the time of their birth, as near as could be obtained: (1) Edward Green 
(5th) was born in Cumberland county, about the year 1815; died when 
small. (2) Sarah Green (5th) was born at Chambersburg on the 5th of 
June, 1817.  (3) Mary Green (5th) was born near Chambersburg in 1819. 
(4) Margaret Green (5th) was born near Chambersburg in 1821. (5) Susana 
Green (5th) was probably born near Chambersburg in 1823; died when 
small.  (6) Elizabeth Green (5th) was probably born at Bridgeport, 
Franklin county, in 1824; died when small.  (7) Catherine Green (5th) 
was born near Bridgeport in 1835. (8) Simon Peter Green (5th) was born 
near Bridgeport on the 27th of March, 1827.  (9) Isabella Green (5th) 
was born near Bridgeport in 1829; died when small.  (10) James Green 
(5th) was born near Bridgeport in 1830; died when small.  (11) John 
Green (5th) was born near Bridgeport in 1831; died when small.
	"Having now finished with the family of Grandfather Henry Egolff, 
3d, including all his children and also some descendants of his 
belonging to generations still further off, I will resume and finish his 
own biography.
	"From the family traditions we have it would seem that he lost his 
wife in 1809, when some of the children were still small, one of them 
Malinda only a few months old. He was still living on his little farm 
and the responsibility of the whole family principally rested on the 
shoulders of his daughter Mary who was then about sixteen years of age. 
When in 1812 war broke out between Great Britain and the United States 
he, being then about fifty-three or fifty-four years of age, and beyond 
the age of doing military duty, having besides been in the service of 
the government for several years during the war of Independence, the 
fire of his patriotism was kindled anew, and although his wife was dead, 
and having no one as head of the family except his daughter Mary, he 
shouldered his musket again against the same foe he had fought thirty-
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resolve to do as he had done before - not to return until victory had 
been accomplished.  It is stated that he was gone almost three years 
during the war of 1812-15 and that his duty during that time was 
principally on the lakes.  It is stated in connection with this war that 
he and his brother Joseph Egolff lost a team laden with flour which was 
taken near Philadelphia by the government. The driver of the team was a 
nephew of theirs by the name of Mattheson, a son of their sister Polly 
Mattheson.
	"We have no authentic information when he discontinued farming and 
probably also housekeeping, but it was no doubt before the year 1826. 
His youngest daughter, Malinda, was then about eighteen years of age, 
and although we have no record of the date when any of his children were 
married we may suppose that all, or nearly all, of them had been married 
before the year 1826.  On page 64, Vol. 13, of the Archives of 
Pennsylvania, Second Series, it is stated that Henry Egolff resided in 
Perry county, Pa., in 1826.  He had no doubt broken up housekeeping then 
and was simply staying with his daughter, Jane Koup, who resided with 
her husband and family in Perry county. It is quite likely that some 
pension money was sent to him in Perry county and in that way his name 
got into the State Archives as living in Perry county.  He had made his 
home at the house of his daughter Sarah Sholley, in Carlisle, where his 
son Henry, the cripple, also made his home, but he would pay periodical 
visits to his children, as I was informed.  He paid his daughter Mary 
Egolff Green a visit when she lived in Path Valley, in 1833, after the 
death of her husband.  Then he paid her a visit again in 1838, when she 
lived near Chambersburg.
	"He must have been of a very retiring disposition.  In perusing 
some old files of Carlisle papers, beginning with September, 1814, to 
June, 1839, embracing a period of twenty-five years, I never came across 
his name a single time.  There were a great many meetings published, 
some political, others 4th of July celebrations, some religious, some 
social and others business meetings, where in many cases the names of 
those present at the meeting or gathering were published, but his name 
never appeared a single time. It is stated that he could never learn to 
master the English language very well, which might have been a reason 
for him to absent himself from public gatherings. but during the first 
half of the present century a great deal of German (Pennsylvania Dutch) 
was spoken in Cumberland county, and if he was not able to speak the 
English very plain there is no doubt he had plenty company of that kind, 
during the time he lived near Carlisle.
	"After having reached a good ripe age he died at the house of his 
daughter, Mrs. Sarah Sholley, at Carlisle, on Friday, April 10th, 1840, 
in the eighty-first year of his age.  He was buried on Sunday, April 
13th, with military honors.  He is buried in the old graveyard at 
Carlisle, but as there is no tombstone to mark his grave, his grave is 
not known.  With this closes the history of the most important person of 
the Egolff family up to the time of writing these biographical sketches 
in the year of grace 1896, namely, that of Henry Egolff, the patriot of 
two wars, the war of Independence in 1776 and the war of 1812-15, with 
perhaps one single exception, that of Michael Egolff, 1st.  It is not 
complete in all respects, as I would like to see it, but I have done my 
best with the material at my command."

	RENN.  The Renn family has long been well known in Lower Augusta 
township, Northumberland county, where the old homestead of Ira T. Renn 
is still owned by his son Roland D. Renn, who makes his home in 
Harrisburg, Pa.  Bert. I. Renn, a merchant of Sunbury, and Ira T. Renn, 
his brother, are also sons of Ira T. Renn and worthy representatives of 
this family name.
	Adam Renn, great-grandfather of the brothers just named, was born 
in Germany, and coming to America settled about 1800 in Lower Augusta 
township, Northumberland Co., Pa., living in the locality known as Jews 
Hollow.  He was a farmer, and owned three hundred acres of land.  During 
the war of 1812 he served his adopted country as a soldier.  He was a 
Democrat in politics and a Lutheran in religion. His wife's maiden name 
was Snyder, and they had children as follows: Jacob; Bernard; Henry, who 
lived and died in Lower Augusta township; and Mary, who married Jacob 
Rhen and lived in Lancaster and Dauphin counties.
	Jacob Renn, son of Adam, lived in Lower Augusta township.  In early 
life he learned butchering, which occupation he followed for forty 
years, meantime becoming also an extensive and prosperous farmer.  He 
owned a tract of nearly two hundred acres, now the property of H. I. 
Reitz. In his earlier years he was employed as a boatman on what was 
known as the Pennsylvania canal. He was a tall man, six feet in height 
strong, robust and of military carriage though heavy build, weighing 
about two hundred pounds.  A Lutheran in religion, he was a zealous 
church worker and contributed liberally to church work, donating two 
acres of ground upon which to erect St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran 
Church in Lower Augusta. He served many years as elder of this church, 
and was one of the most active in the promotion and establishment of its 
house of worship.  In politics he was a Democrat.  He died March 28, 
1889, in Shamokin, aged eighty-one years, nine months and eighteen days.
	Mr. Renn was twice married, his first union being to Elizabeth 
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family. We have mention of three: Hiram; John, of Winfield, Union Co., 
Pa.; and Henry, of Shamokin, Pa. By his second wife, Eve Conrad, born 
Jan. 26, 1810, died Dec. 22, 1876, Mr. Renn had four children: (1) 
Isaiah J., born May 30, 1842, in Lower Augusta township, grew to manhood 
there, receiving his education in the public schools, and like his 
father followed butchering and farming, working at his trade for twenty-
five years. He also sold farm implements. He was a prominent Democrat of 
his locality, was elected justice of the peace in 1881 and served five 
terms, was overseer of the poor and township auditor, and represented 
his district in the Legislature two terms, being first elected Nov. 4, 
1890. In his active years he occupied a most influential position in the 
community. He died Feb. 21, 1906. In 1863 he married Melinda Kauffman, 
daughter of Daniel Kauffman, of Lower Augusta township, and he and his 
family are members of the Lutheran Church. (2) Samuel C. lived in Lower 
Augusta township, and is now an old resident of Sunbury.  (3) Mary L. 
married Lewis Evarts, and they live in Shamokin. (4) Ira T. was the 
father of the Renn brothers mentioned at the opening of this article.
	Ira T. Renn, son of Jacob, was born Dec. 14, 1850, on his father's 
homestead in Lower Augusta township, and received his education in the 
local schools. Learning the miller's trade, he followed it for a number 
of years, after which he began farming and stock dealing, owning the 
place in Lower Augusta which now belongs to his son Roland. There he 
passed most of his life, prosperously engaged in farming. For six years 
he lived on the old Adam Renn farm in Jews Hollow. He was an 
enterprising man, and owned some fine stock. Mr. Renn died on his farm 
in Lower Augusta Dec. 29, 1896, and is buried at the Lutheran Church in 
that township. He was an active member of that church, serving as deacon 
and elder, and was also interested in the success of the Democratic 
party, to which he tendered considerable service in his locality without 
caring for the material rewards of office or power.
	In 1869 Mr. Renn married Rachel Kauffman, whose father, Daniel 
Kauffman, late of Lower Augusta township, settled on a 150-acre tract in 
that township which he bought from the Silverwood family, large 
landowners in that section. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Renn: Roland D.; Bertram I.; Clayton Jacob, deceased; Amos S., of Lower 
Augusta township; Ira T.; Grover Cleveland, of Lower Augusta township, 
who married Frances Martz, daughter of Samuel V. Martz; Franklin F., 
born July 30, 1888, who died May 8, 1889.
	ROLAND D. RENN, son of Ira T., was born March 25, 1870, in Lower 
Augusta township, and received his early education in the common 
schools. Later he attended the Normal school at Bloomsburg, from which 
he was graduated in 1889, two years after which he entered the Eastman 
Business College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., graduating there from in 1891, 
the same year he entered; he took the commercial course. After teaching 
school for a number of years in Northumberland county Mr. Renn went into 
the railway mail service, in 1894, and has since been engaged in that 
work, his run being on the main line of the Pennsylvania road between 
New York and Pittsburg. He makes his home in Harrisburg, but still owns 
the homestead farm in Lower Augusta township. Mr. Renn has never lost 
his taste for reading, and he has a nice library. He is especially 
interested in agricultural and horticultural works, literature on stock 
raising, and history, and he has traced the family genealogy on both the 
paternal and maternal sides.
	On June 11, 1896, Mr. Renn married Jennie S. Knisely, daughter of 
Henry Knisely, of Steelton, Pa., and they have had one son, Roland R. 
The family are members of the United Brethren Church at Harrisburg.
	BERTRAM I. RENN, son of Ira T., was born July 13, 1872, in Lower 
Augusta township, was reared on the farm and received his education in 
the public schools. He began railroading when a boy of fifteen, and 
followed that work successfully for a number of years, traveling all 
over the United States. His last railroad position was that of yard-
master at Chicago for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway 
Company, but though he was doing well he resigned and returned East, 
buying an eighty-acre farm in Rockefeller township, in his native 
county. After farming there for two years, he moved to Sunbury, Dec. 14, 
1909, selling his farm at that time, and in November, 1910, disposing of 
his farm stock. Upon his removal to Sunbury Mr. Renn embarked in the 
fish, oyster and produce business at No. 455 Market street, handling 
fish and clams all the year round and oysters and sea food in season. He 
also carries a line of cigar and confectionery, and during the summer 
months sells ice cream and soft drinks. He enjoyed a good trade from the 
start, and in 1910 purchased a business place at the corner of Third and 
Walnut streets.  Mr. Renn is a most obliging dealer, and by his 
enterprising methods and accommodating ways has drawn an excellent class 
of patrons.
	On Feb. 25, 1896, Mr. Renn married Mary E. Basom, who is from 
Newport, Perry county, Pa., daughter of John and Jane (Zeiders) Basom. 
They have one child, a daughter, Lillian R. L.

	IRA T. RENN, son of the late Ira T., was born March 16, 1880, in 
Lower Augusta township, and was reared on the farm.  He first attended 
the local public schools, and later was a pupil at Selinsgrove (Pa.) 
Academy, and he was only seventeen when licensed to teach by Prof. Ira 
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terms, two in his native township and one in Little Mahanoy township, 
but farming has always been his principal occupation.  He assisted his 
father and mother until 1901, after which he farmed a year at home on 
his own account, in the spring of 1902 settling in Rockefeller township, 
where he purchased the Urias Malick homestead. This property consists of 
eighty-three acres of the best land in the township, and there Mr. Renn 
has since resided and engaged in farming. He is an energetic young man, 
public-spirited and interested in the social welfare of the community as 
well as in its material progress.  He has served in local offices, and 
has taken part in the work of the Lutheran Church at Hollowing Pun, of 
which he and his family are members, having acted as a member of the 
church council.  He is at present superintendent of the Sunday school at 
Augustaville. Politically he is a Democrat.  Mr. Renn has been quite 
active in the Odd Fellows fraternity in his section, one of the leading 
members of Augusta Lodge, No. 614, of Augustaville, which he represented 
at the Grand Lodge for seven consecutive terms.
	On Oct. 3, 1900, Mr. Renn married Mary E. Barrett, daughter of 
James and Mary (Burns) Barrett, formerly of Selinsgrove and later of 
Lewisburg, Pa., where Mr. Barrett died. Mr. and Mrs. Renn have two 
children: F. Fay and Harold W.
	NICHOLAS W. RENN, who is engaged in farming in Lower Augusta 
township, Northumberland county, was born in that township April 25, 
1858, son of John Renn and grandson of Philip Renn.
	Philip Renn was born in Pennsylvania and was the pioneer of this 
family in Northumberland county, having settled there at an early day in 
the history of Rockefeller township, on the farm  now owned by the 
Flemming sisters.  It comprises about one hundred acres, and Philip Renn 
built the barn still standing there.  He prospered in his farming 
operations, doing fairly well for that day. He was a Pennsylvania 
German, and spoke both German and English. He is buried at the Stone 
Church, one of the oldest churches in that section.  His family, two 
sons and three daughters, was as follows: Betzy married John Cornell, 
who came from Bucks or Montgomery county and lived in Rockefeller 
township; Henry lived in Iowa; John lived in Lower Augusta township; 
Tina married John Flemming and they lived on the Philip Renn homestead, 
where both died; Sarah married William Ross and they lived in 
Rockefeller township.
	John Renn, son of Philip, was born March 3, 1812, on the Renn 
homestead in Rockefeller township, and lived for the most part in Lower 
Augusta township, where he had a tract of five acres, upon which place 
be died March 25, 1893. He is buried at the Mountain Presbyterian 
Church. He was a laborer, and was a man of powerful build, noted for his 
strength and locally known as "Big Foot." On one occasion he was held up 
at a bridge in Schuylkill county by a husky Irishman, who told him he 
could not pass.  Renn said, "Yes, I will pass," picked up the Irishman 
and threw him bodily over the bridge; he died of his injuries. During 
the Civil war Mr. Renn enlisted for three years' service, in Company H, 
17th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and had served nineteen months 
when honorably discharged, because of the close of the war.  His wife, 
Margaret Fry, was born Oct. 24, 1814, in Alsace, France, of which place, 
her father, Jacob Fry, was also a native. She was twelve years old when 
she came with her parents to Pennsylvania, the family locating first in 
Clinton county, at the "Block House," and thence removing to Schuylkill 
county and later to Northumberland county, where they lived for two or 
three years.  Returning to Schuylkill county, Mr. Fry made a permanent 
settlement there, following farming until his death. Mrs. John Renn died 
in 1906 at Williamsport, Pa.  Ten children were born to her and her 
husband: Barbara married Andrew Baldy and (second) Edward Pickerine; 
Sarah married Abraham DeWitt; Maria married Samuel Beck; Catharine 
married Frank Hilbush; Elizabeth married Henry Eisenhuth; Rebecca 
married Osburn Difford; Emma married Harry Olmstead; Malinda married 
Peter Crissinger; Delila married Galen DeWitt; Nicholas W.
	Nicholas W. Renn was educated in the public schools and began 
working on the farm for his parents at an early age, continuing thus 
until he reached the age of twenty-eight years.  He then married, and 
for nine years worked among farmers, after which he began working upon 
the homestead of his father-in-law, Isaac Feaster, in Lower Augusta 
township.  In June, 1905, he purchased this property, which consists of 
fifty acres, the present buildings on which were erected by Mr. Feaster.  
Mr. Renn follows general farming, and occasionally attends the Sunbury 
and Shamokin markets.  Though he devotes all his attention to his 
business affairs, he has found time to serve his township as school 
director and inspector, in which offices he gave excellent satisfaction. 
He is a Republican in politics.  By thrift and industry he has attained 
a substantial position, and he is a respected citizen of his community.
	On March 2, 1886, Mr. Renn married Losenia Feaster, daughter of 
Isaac and Charity (Shipman) Feaster, and granddaughter of Jacob Shipman. 
Mrs. Renn was born Sept. 5, 1856, and died Feb. 2, 1895, aged thirty-
eight years.  Mr. Renn married her sister, Mrs. Addie Thomas, widow of 
S. D. Thomas, who died April 10, 1894, at the age of forty-two years.  
Mr. Renn had no children by either union.  Four children were born to 
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	JAMES FOX, for many years one of the leading agriculturists of 
Ralpho township, where he had the largest fruit farm in Northumberland 
county, was a native of Columbia county, Pa., born Feb. 28, 1813, in 
Catawissa township. The family was early in Berks county, this State, 
where Mr. Fox's grandfather was born. The latter had a family of nine 
children, six sons and three daughters.
	Jacob Fox, father of the late James Fox, was born in Berks county, 
and died in 1851 in Columbia county, Pa., whither he had removed when a 
young man.  He was a stonemason by trade, and went to Catawissa, 
Columbia county, to fill a contract he had obtained to build a church.  
Upon the completion of the contract he remained, having taken a liking 
to the place, and he later purchased a farm in Catawissa township upon 
which he made his home, cultivating his land and also continuing to 
follow his trade. He was thus engaged for many years and became very 
well known in that section, where he made many friends.  His wife, 
Rachel (McIntire), died in 1836. They had the following children: 
William, Daniel, Hannah (wife of Isaac Irwin), Mary E., Price, James and 
Jacob.
	James Fox, son of Jacob, spent his early life upon the homestead 
farm in Catawissa township, Columbia county, receiving a common school 
education in the locality. Soon after the death of his father he removed 
to Northumberland county, where he passed the remainder of his long 
life. In connection with his brother-in-law, John Campbell, he purchased 
a tract of 426 acres, upon part of which he established his home, 
becoming one of the best known and most substantial citizens of Ralpho 
township.  He was one of the most enterprising farmers of his district, 
and made a specialty of fruit raising, having the largest fruit farm in 
the county. In politics he was a Republican, in religion a member of the 
Presbyterian Church. He died Oct. 16, 1902, in his ninetieth year.
	In 1840 Mr. Fox married Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Obadiah 
Campbell, and she died long before her husband, passing away in 1880.  
Mr. and Mrs. Fox are buried at the McIntire church in Columbia county. 
They had a family of eight children, namely: George W. and Isaac N. died 
young Obadiah P. is mentioned below; Isabella married William 
Cherington; Joanna now resides at Bloomsburg, Pa.; William is also a 
resident of Bloomsburg; Mary J. lives at Bloomsburg, Christopher C. is a 
resident of Mount Carmel.
	OBADIAH P. FOX, son of James, located at Mount Carmel in 1884 and 
was among the early successful merchants there.  He died at Mount Carmel 
May 4, 1908, aged sixty-one years.  Mr. Fox married Elizabeth Campbell, 
daughter of Duncan Campbell, of Rush township, and they had a family of 
four children: Estella, Kimber, Howard and Ethel.
	CHRISTOPHER C. FOX, son of James and Elizabeth (Campbell) Fox, was 
born Oct. 4, 1860, near Elysburg, Northumberland county.  He was 
educated in the public schools of his native township and at Elysburg 
Academy, and remained upon the farm until he reached the age of eighteen 
years.  At that time he became engaged in the mercantile business with 
his brother Obadiah. They were at their original location for three 
years, after which they were out of the business for two years, in 1884 
settling at Mount Carmel, where they conducted a general store, under 
the firm name of O. P. Fox & Brother. They did a successful business 
until the death of Mr. Obadiah P. Fox, May 4, 1908, after which 
Christopher C. Fox closed out the mercantile establishment and embarked 
in the real estate line in association with C. H. Robins.  They have 
acquired a profitable patronage and are doing a live business.
	On April 18, 1895, Mr. Fox married Hattie M. Jones, daughter of 
Thomas and Rebecca (Graham) Jones, of Philadelphia, and they are the 
parents of the following children: Ernestine D., Russell J., Marion W. 
and Benjamin H.  Mr. Fox is a Methodist in religious connection.  On 
political questions he is a Republican.

	CHARLES F. BLANK, senior member of the firm of Blank & Gottshall, 
who have a large milling business at Sunbury, owning and conducting the 
City Roller Mills, was born Oct. 31, 1851, in Upper Saucon township, 
Lehigh Co., Pa.  He is a son of Jacob Blank and a descendant of John 
George Blank, who founded a family now numerous in Lehigh county, 
especially in the eastern portion.  The 1910 city directory of 
Allentown, that county, gives the names of thirty-two Blanks.
	John George Blank, the earliest ancestor of this family of whom we 
have record, was born in 1729 and died in 1799. He came to Saucon 
township, Northampton (now Lehigh) county, about 1750. He married 
Elizabeth Steinmetz, daughter of Valentine Steinmetz, and after the 
death of his father-in-law succeeded to and settled upon his estate, 
taking up his residence on the site later occupied by John H. Laubach.  
The number of his children cannot be determined, but it appears there 
are several branches of Blanks even in the territory now embraced in 
Lehigh county.  His son John George Blank had nine children, of whom we 
have the following account: George died unmarried; John married Esther 
Clemmer and had six children, George, Charles H. (both residing in 
Coopersburg, Lehigh county) Edwin H. Benjamin (both residing in 
Allentown), Eliza (married William P. Weidner) and Elamina (married 
Simon Troxel); Jacob married a Miss Hintenbeutel, but nothing is known 
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scendants; Abraham married Mary Bahl and was the father of Jacob, John 
G. and Abraham, who reside in Upper Saucon township, Mrs. John Laubach, 
of Saucon, and Mrs. John Metzger, of Allentown; Charles married 
Priscilla Fry and resides at Bethlehem, Pa.; David died unmarried; Mary 
married Jacob Bahl and resides at Bethlehem; Lydia married Nathan 
Eberhart and died without issue; Sarah married David Schneider and 
resides at Emaus, Lehigh county.
	Jacob Blank, father of Charles F. Blank, was born in Saucon 
township, Lehigh county, and died in 1864. He is buried at Zionsville 
church, in that county, having been a member of the Reformed 
congregation of that church.  He was a wheelwright, learning the trade 
early in life, and followed it at Emaus until his death. Mr. Blank 
married Sarah Groman, whose father lived in Salisbury township, Lehigh 
county, and she survived him many years, dying in 1906, at the age of 
seventy-five.  She is buried at Emaus. Eight children, five sons and 
three daughters, were born to this union: Wilson died at the age of six 
years; John is a resident of Emaus, Pa.; Charles F. is mentioned below; 
James was drowned when about seven years old; George died in 1902 at 
Bethlehem, Pa. (he had sons James and Harvey); Mary Alice married James 
Camburn, of Philadelphia, and died in 1909; Sarah married John 
Reinbaugh, of Lehigh county, Pa., and died about 1910; Anna married Paul 
Eisenhart, of Emaus.
	Charles F. Blank was reared and educated in his native county, 
attending school at Emaus and Allentown, to which latter place the 
family removed when he was thirteen years old. He worked at various 
vocations until, he reached the age of eighteen years, when he commenced 
to learn the carpenter's trade at Cetronia, Lehigh county, following 
same, as well as millwrighting, which work he began in 1875.  He engaged 
as millwright in the employ of others until 1888, being foreman for four 
years for the Wolf & Hamaker Company, then of Allentown. Since that time 
he has been in partnership with William B. Gottshall, who was also 
formerly with the Wolf & Hamaker Company and like himself a miller of 
thorough experience.  Messrs. Blank and Gottshall came to Sunbury in the 
employ of a Chambersburg firm to remodel the historic old Haas mill, 
from the burr to the roller system.  They soon leased the property and 
began operations on their own account, remaining at that place until 
1895, when they completed the building of the large mill they have since 
occupied. They have a three-story building 40 by 230 feet, with a two-
story addition 115 by 50 feet, as well as other buildings, among which 
is a large engine house. Their business has extended, in both volume and 
scope, until there are now many interests besides flour milling, the 
firm handling all kinds of flour and feed, cement, plaster, and similar 
commodities in large quantities.  Their principal brands of flour are 
"B. & G.'s Best" "Flaky Loaf" and "White Cloud," the daily capacity of 
the flour-milling equipment being two hundred barrels of wheat seventy-
five barrels of rye, seventy-five barrels of buckwheat and cornmeal.  
They manufacture cattle and poultry foods, about forty tons of chop 
daily, and the B. & G. Chick and Hen Food has a large sale not only in 
the Lehigh Valley but also throughout the Middle States.  Their hay shed 
is 40 by 60 feet in dimensions, the grain elevator has a capacity of 
40,000 bushels, and a large warehouse is included among the many 
conveniences of this well equipped establishment. Twenty-five men are 
given regular employment.  The products, which have the reputation of 
being of the highest excellence, are not only in steady demand locally 
and over the coal regions, but find a ready sale all over the eastern 
part of the country. Blank & Gottshall have shown their enterprise in 
the completeness of their plant, which is admirably located, facing the 
Susquehanna river and running parallel with the Philadelphia & Reading 
tracks, from which a switch connects with the mills; there is also a 
siding connecting with the Pennsylvania lines.  An engine of 150 horse 
power supplies the motive force for the operation of the mills and the 
power for the electrical conveniences and comfort of the fine residences 
which the partners have erected on adjoining property. As member of a 
firm whose enterprise is reckoned, upon as a substantial factor in the 
prosperity of Sunbury, Mr. Blank is one of the most respected and 
valuable citizens of that borough.  He is an intelligent and public-
spirited man, as effective a worker in other fields as in business 
circles.
	On Aug. 10, 1872, Mr. Blank married Ellen Jane Lentz, daughter of 
Josiah and Miranda (Shearer) Lentz, the former a lifelong resident of 
the vicinity of Allentown.  Mr. and Mrs. Blank had one daughter, who 
died in infancy. They are active in the work of the First Reformed 
Church of Sunbury, and Mr. Blank is a member of Maclay Lodge, No. 632, 
F. & A.M., of Sunbury.

	EDWIN E. HOLLENBACK, D. D. S., has been practicing dentistry at 
Shamokin throughout his professional career, having begun in company 
with his father, one of the oldest established dentists in the borough.
	Dr. Reuben Hollenback, the father, was born Sept. 1, 1841, in Lower 
Augusta township, near Sunbury, Northumberland county, son of Daniel and 
Elizabeth (Sherry) Hollenback. He received his early education in the 
public schools and was reared in his native locality, being trained to 
farming, which he followed until twenty-one years old. Meantime he had 
also taken up teaching, that stepping-stone to so many of the higher 
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sions, being thus engaged for six years, one year in his native 
township, the rest of the time in Coal and Shamokin townships. His older 
brother, Dr. D. S. Hollenback, had entered the profession, and he, too, 
had aspirations toward such a career, which led him, while teaching, to 
take up the study of dentistry, which he began under the tuition of Dr. 
B. F. Van Boskirk, of Selinsgrove, Snyder Co., Pa.  However, he was not 
in a position to devote himself to it entirely for a number of years.  
In 1864 he located at Shamokin, where he was engaged as engineer at the 
Big Mountain colliery two years, at the end of that time resuming 
teaching, which he continued, along with his dental studies, until 1868. 
He then commenced practice in Shamokin, but not being quite satisfied 
with his attainments he entered the Dental College of Pennsylvania, at 
Philadelphia, from which he was graduated March 1, 1877. Dr. Hollenback 
built up a large practice by his skillful and conscientious work, and 
deservedly won a place among the leading professional men of Shamokin. 
Moreover, without solicitation on his part, he has been honored with 
some of the most responsible public trusts in the gift of his fellow 
citizens, having served one term as representative of the Third ward in 
the common council, of which he served one year as president. He is an 
ardent supporter of the principles of the Republican party and for many 
years took a leading part in its local activities. In religious matters 
he has been identified with St. John's Reformed Church, of which he has 
long been a prominent member, serving as chorister for many years.
	In 1865 Dr. Hollenback married Dorcas Sober, daughter of Michael M. 
Sober, who lived in the Irish Valley in Northumberland county.  Three 
children were born to this marriage, viz.: William S., of Reading, Pa., 
a, piano tuner; Hudson S. a dentist, who is located at Mount Carmel, 
this county; and Edwin E. The mother of these died Oct. 24, 1887, and on 
Dec. 6, 1888, Dr. Hollenback married Savilla Fidler, daughter of William 
Fidler, of Shamokin. They have had two children, Harry Franklin and 
Flora Lillian.
	Edwin E. Hollenback was born at Shamokin May 25, 1871, and there 
received his early education in the public schools. He learned the trade 
of carpenter, which he followed for three years and then entered the 
Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, from which he was graduated in 
1891. For several years thereafter he practiced with his father, in 1898 
opening an office of his own. Hollenback is a general practitioner, but 
he make a specialty of high-grade crown, bridge and plate work, in which 
line he has a high reputation. His practice is large, and has been 
gained by the, most honorable methods and satisfactory work, many of his 
patrons having come to him ever since he commenced practice.
	Dr. Hollenback married Jessie Hoskings, of Schuylkill Co., Pa., and 
they have three children: Alfred, Martha Dorcas and Annie G. The family 
home is at No. 117 Marshall street.

	GEN. CHARLES M. CLEMENT, a leading lawyer of Sunbury, was born 
there Oct. 28, 1855, son of Gen. John Kay Clement.  His ancestors were 
Friends, the Clements having been prominent members of that Society in 
England.
	Gregory Clement, the earliest ancestor of whom we have record, was 
a member of Parliament in 1646 and was one of the famous body of 
Regicides, and with four others was hanged. When Gregory Clement was 
arrested, in 1660, his son James escaped, and emigrating from his native 
land came to America, landing on Staten island.  Subsequently he located 
near Camden, in Camden (then Gloucester) county, N. J.  He became a 
large land owner and surveyor and his descendants also followed that 
occupation for a number of generations. He married Sarah Field, and 
their children included a son Jacob.
	Jacob Clement, son of James, married Ann Harrison.
	Samuel Clement, son of Jacob and Ann (Harrison), married Rebecca 
Collins, a granddaughter of Francis Collins, who came to America in 
1678, locating in New Jersey, where he became a man of distinction. He 
served for a time in the capacity of judge and was a member of the 
Provincial Legislature of New Jersey.
	Samuel Clement (2), son of Samuel, married Mary Foster.
	Evan C. Clement, son of Samuel (2), was born in Camden county, N. 
J. He was associated with his father in the manufacture of glass and 
became a man of considerable means. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, 
serving as sergeant major. He passed all his life in his native county, 
where he died in 1827 at the comparatively early age of thirty-seven.  
He married Hannah Kay, great-great-granddaughter of John Kay, the first 
settler of the name in America, who came over in 1683, was speaker of 
the Provincial Assembly of New Jersey for several years, and one of the 
council for West Jersey.  John Kay, Mrs. Clement's father,  married 
Kesiah Thorne, daughter of Capt. Joseph Thorne, a soldier of the 
Revolution.
	John Kay Clement, son of Evan C. and Hannah (Kay) Clement, was born 
Jan. 1, 1820, in Philadelphia, Pa., and was but seven years old when his 
father died. As the latter had failed a short time previously, the boy 
was thrown upon his own resources at an early age.  He acquired his 
early education in the Friends' school of his native city, and began the 
study of law when eighteen years old in the office of his cousin, 
Richard Howell, of Camden, N. J. In l842, at the age of twenty-two, he 
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Soon afterward he removed to Schuylkill county, Pa., where he first made 
his home at Minersville, later at Pottsville, practicing law there until 
his removal to Sunbury, Northumberland county, in 1854. There he 
continued to live the remainder of his days, acquiring a very extensive 
practice and for many years holding a high place in public affairs.  His 
legal work was mainly in the line of criminal law, in which special 
branch of the profession he was one of the foremost lawyers of the 
State, participating in many of the most famous cases tried in his 
section.  He was not only versatile in the law, but gifted with unusual 
powers of eloquence, and as a pleader had few equals. He practiced law 
to the exclusion of almost every other interest, most of his public 
service being of a professional nature, and he won his high rank in the 
legal fraternity by unswerving devotion to the calling of his choice.  
His logic and eloquence, backed by a thorough understanding of the law, 
made him a powerful ally on either side of a case. From 1871 to 1878 he 
was engaged as counsel, on one side or the other, in every important 
criminal case tried here.  "Bear" Dolan, the first "Molly Maguire" 
convicted, was successfully prosecuted by him in 1872, and he defended 
Peter McMannes, the last of that famous band to be tried.  In 1859 
General Clement was elected district attorney of Northumberland county, 
was again elected in 1871, and in 1877 again took the office by 
appointment.
	While a resident of Schuylkill county he was made brigadier general 
of the State militia, and during the Civil war he not only aided the 
Union by personal service as officer and private, but also used his 
influence throughout that period in support of the Northern cause.  He 
was captain of the Pottsville Light Artillery, which organization still 
exists as Company F, 4th Regiment, P.N.G., served in the first baffle of 
Bull Run as aide to Colonel Cameron, and also served as a private of 
Company D, 4th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia. In 1862 he was made 
provost marshall of the 14th District of Pennsylvania and served 
efficiently until 1864. He was a Democrat in politics before the war, 
and subsequently a stanch Republican.  He served some years as a member 
of the council of Sunbury. He died at Sunbury Oct. 15, 1882.
	On May 18, 1854, General Clement married Mary S. Zeigler, of 
Sunbury, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Eyer) Zeigler, the former of whom 
was once a prominent leather merchant of Sunbury. She survived him, 
making her home in Sunbury until her death, April 30, 1908.  Five 
children were born to this union, Charles M. being the only survivor.  
General Clement was an Episcopalian in religion, and was a vestryman in 
St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal Church at the time of his death. 
Fraternally he was a Freemason.
	Charles M. Clement, only surviving member of the family of Gen. 
John Kay and Mary S. (Zeigler) Clement, received an excellent literary 
training in the academies at Sunbury, Pa., and Burlington, N. J., 
leaving school at the age of seventeen.  For the next six years he was 
employed as clerk in the prothonotary's office at Sunbury, and then read 
law with his father, being admitted to the bar March 11, 1878. The 
January following he began practice with his father, with whom he was 
associated in practice until the latter's death. This relation was of 
the utmost value to him.  His thorough study of legal principles gave 
him an excellent foundation for his work, and his aptitude for applying 
it to practical, everyday affairs made him popular with a large 
clientage who appreciate common sense interpretation of ordinary laws.  
But though he has engaged in general practice, corporation work has been 
his main line, particularly as a trial lawyer in causes affecting 
corporate interests.  From April, 1891, to April, 1898, he was 
associated in practice with Hon. S. P. Wolverton.
	General Clement, has long been a leading member of the Republican 
party.  From 1879 to 1883 he was secretary of the county committee, and 
from 1883 to 1888 was chairman of that body. He has served several years 
as member of the council, and one term as assistant burgess; he was 
borough solicitor, solicitor of the school and solicitor for the 
overseers of the poor for several years; is now a school director; on 
Oct. 1, 1887, he was appointed corporation clerk of the State department 
by Charles W. Stone; on Nov. 28, 1890, he was appointed by Governor 
Beaver deputy secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In all 
these offices his service was most creditable, showing the most 
intelligent citizenship and public spirited devotion to the general 
interest. He is president of the trustees of the Mary M. Packer hospital 
at Sunbury.
	In 1877 General Clement was one of the organizers of the Sunbury 
Guards, Company B, 12th Regiment P.N.G., which he joined as a private. 
He was promoted to the rank of captain in regular order and three times 
elected to serve in that capacity, in 1882, 1887 and 1892.  In 1896 he 
was elected major of the 12th Regiment in 1898 elected lieutenant 
colonel, and volunteering for service during the Spanish American war 
was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the 12th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 
which was mustered out Oct. 29, 1898. His eldest son, John Kay Clement 
then a boy of seventeen, was a corporal in Company F, same regiment. On 
Aug. 17, 1899, Charles M. Clement was elected colonel; was reelected in 
1904 and 1909; was appointed brigadier general March 29, 1910; and on 
Sept. 1, 1910, was assigned to the command of the 3d Brigade.  Socially, 
Colonel Clement belongs to the Sons of Veterans, the Sons of the 
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the Society of Foreign Wars and the Naval and Military Order of the. 
Spanish American war. He is a member of Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & 
A.M., Northumberland R. A. Chapter, No. 174, Mount Hermon Commandery, 
No. 85; K.T., Caldwell Consistory, thirty-second degree, and Zembo 
Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is a past master of his lodge and past 
commander of the commandery. General Clement is rector's warden of St 
Matthew's Church, Sunbury, secretary of the vestry, secretary of the 
diocesan convention; and has been a deputy to the general convention 
since 1898, serving therein on the committees on Admission of New 
Dioceses, on the Prayer Book, and on the Commission to Revise the 
Lectionary.
	On Nov. 19, 1879, General Clement was married at Northumberland to 
Alice V. Withington, daughter of Martin J. D. Withington. Four sons have 
been born to them: John Kay, Martin W., Charles Francis and Theron Ball. 
John Kay Clement married Isabel Colvin, and has one son, Charles M. 
Clement, 2d; he is captain of Company E, 18th Regiment, N.G.P. and is 
physicist in the Bureau of Mines; stationed at Pittsburg. Martin W. 
Clement married Irene H. Higbee, and they have one son, Martin W. 
Clement, Jr.; he is supervisor on the Pennsylvania railroad, stationed 
at Philadelphia, and is a captain in the quarter-master's department, 
N.G.P. Charles Francis is practicing law with his father, and is first 
lieutenant of Company E, 12th Regiment, N.G.P. These three sons are 
graduates of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. John K. is also a graduate 
of the University of Gottingen, and Charles F. of the law school of the 
University of Pennsylvania. Theron B. is in the local high school.

	WILLIAM F. KLINE, a leading citizen of the borough of Snydertown, 
Northumberland county, was born Sept. 9, 1833, at Klinesgrove, which 
place is so known in honor of his family. He is the last surviving 
member of his generation of the family, which was settled in this region 
by Isaac Kline, his great-grandfather.
	One Herman Kline emigrated to America in the early part of the 
eighteenth century and settled in Hunterdon county, N. J., where he 
bought considerable land. It is said he was rich, and generous to his 
less fortunate fellowmen.  He reared a large family of sons and 
daughters. The date of his death is unknown.
	In 1799 three of the sons of Herman Kline came to Pennsylvania, two 
of them (Abraham and another) settling on Fishing creek, in Columbia 
county.  Isaac Kline, one of these three brothers, was the progenitor of 
the family with which this article deals.  He settled in what is now 
Upper Augusta (then Augusta) township, Northumberland county, at or near 
the site of what is now known as Klinesgrove, which village was named 
for the Kline family. It is on the road leading from Sunbury to 
Danville, at the line of Upper Augusta and Rush townships. A number of 
the family, of the various generations, are buried at the Klinesgrove M. 
E. Church. In this locality Isaac Kline bought four hundred or five 
hundred acres of land, then nearly all forest, and he and his family 
were pioneers in all that the name implies. Their nearest neighbors were 
five miles distant. Wild beasts howled at night around the log cabin, 
rudely constructed, but affording a comfortable shelter. (There the 
family made a permanent home. Isaac Kline was accompanied into the 
wilderness by his wife, Margaret, and their two sons, Herman and Isaac, 
with their wives and families. He settled his oldest son, Herman, on the 
land now owned by Charles Rockefeller, and made his own home with his 
son Isaac, on the farm now owned by John F. Derr. There he died in 1818, 
at the advanced age of ninety years, a year or two after the death of 
his wife. They are buried in the M. E. Church cemetery at Klinesgrove.
	Herman Kline, eldest son of Isaac Kline, settled in what was then 
Augusta township. He had a family of four sons and four daughters: 
Elisha, who lived on the farm later owned by Charles Moore, died in 
1875, aged eighty-eight years; John,, who lived on the farm now in the 
possession of A. D. Moore, died in 1861, aged sixty-nine years; Isaac, 
who lived on the farm now owned by S. C. Kase, died in 1878, aged 
eighty-four years; David went West while young; Margaret became Mrs. 
Campbell; Jemima, Mrs. Stroh; (Polly, Mrs. Campbell; Susan died 
unmarried.
	Isaac Kline, Jr., the younger son of Isaac Kline, lived with, his 
father until his death, in 1804, at the early age of thirty-three years. 
He followed farming. His widow Catharine (Barton), lived with her 
children until her death, in the year 1856, at the advanced age of 
eighty-seven. After the death of their grandfather the children of Isaac 
(Jr.) and Catharine (Barton) Kline inherited his estate, there being 
three sons and one daughter, namely: (1) Henry, the eldest, born in 1791 
in Hunterdon county, N. J., obtained the farm on which his son Francis 
A. now lives in Upper Augusta township, and died in 1878, aged eighty-
seven years.  His wife, Elizabeth (Forrester), died in 1859. Their 
children were: John F. (born Dec. 25, 1814, in Augusta township), Sarah 
Ann (Mrs. Weaver), Jane (Mrs. Mettler, living in the West, and the only 
surviving daughter), Elizabeth (Mrs. Gilger), Isaac F., Mary (Mrs. 
Bassett), and Francis A. (2) Herman inherited the farm now owned by John 
F. Derr, and spent some years of his earlier manhood farming on the 
homestead, later living at Klinesgrove, where he operated the 
Klinesgrove gristmill. He died there in 1865, aged seventy-one years.  
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Nancy Mettler.  They left no descendants.  (3) Isaac is mentioned below.  
(4) Sarah, Mrs. Campbell, lived on the farm now occupied by her son, 
Isaac Campbell, and died there in 1841, at the age of about forty-four.  
She reared a family of ten children.
	Isaac Kline, son of Isaac (Jr.) and Catharine (Barton) Kline, was 
born Nov. 2, 1803, and died Oct. 10, 1876.  He inherited the farm near 
the Klinesgrove Church, a tract of 105 acres, upon which he followed 
farming, and resided there until his death.  In 1834 he built the stone 
residence still standing upon that farm. In politics he was originally 
an old-line Whig, later becoming a Republican, and he was particularly 
active in the religions life of the community, being one of the pillars 
of the Klinesgrove Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was an 
organizer, and he donated five hundred dollars when the church was 
erected, in 1867.  His family were also Methodists.  Mr. Kline married 
Lucy Ann Forrester, who was born Feb. 16, 1804, and died Jan. 8, 1886. 
They had three children: (1) Josiah F., born Aug. 29, 1831, married 
Elizabeth Condon, of Philadelphia, and they lived in that city. They had 
children: Edmund James, William H., Josiah F. and Henry B., the last 
named dying young.  (2) William F. is mentioned below. (3) James F.,  
born Oct. 20, 1837, died June 5, 1888, at Newark, N. J., and is buried 
at Danville, Pa. He was a lieutenant in the ad Pennsylvania Heavy 
Artillery during the Civil war, stationed at Fortress Monroe. He and his 
wife Mary (McGill) had one child, that died in infancy.
	William F. Kline attended the schools of the home locality in his 
early boyhood, and later went to Dickinson Seminary, at Williamsport.  
He taught school for one term in Upper Augusta township, at what is now 
known as Mount Pleasant (then Texas) schoolhouse. From early life he was 
trained to farming, in which he is still interested, having a valuable 
tract of 150 acres all included within the limits of the borough of 
Snydertown. He has made various improvements upon this estate since it 
came into his possession, and has twice remodeled the house during his 
ownership.  In 1867 Mr. Kline began tanning at Snydertown, in 1868 
putting up the present tannery buildings there, replacing the original 
buildings of an early tannery.  He continued in this business for a 
period of six years, until the end of 1873.  Mr. Kline's substantial 
success entitles him to a foremost place among the business men of his 
section, where he is regarded as a man of excellent judgment and 
ability. In the conduct of borough affairs he has for years been a well 
known figure. He has been a member of the board of school directors and 
served some years as secretary of that body: he was the first chief 
burgess elected in Snydertown, held the office for six years in 
succession, and later was elected for another two years. The mere record 
of the positions to which he has been chosen is sufficient evidence of 
the esteem and popularity he enjoys among his fellowmen. He has been one 
of the most prominent citizens of Snydertown since its organization.  It 
is the largest borough in area in the State, though the population is 
but four hundred.  Politically Mr. Kline is a Republican.
	In January 1860, Mr. Kline married Mary Margaret Wolverton, who was 
born March 13, 1838, and died July 2, 1886, the mother of three 
children:  One that died in infancy; Charles H., also deceased in 
infancy; and George W., who is located at Eleventh and Wolverton 
streets, Sunbury. On Feb. 19, 1890, Mr. Kline married (second) Margaret 
E. Moore, daughter of James R. and Priscilla (Martin) Moore, of 
Snydertown, who had the following children James A., John M., Jane F., 
Rebecca M., Perry M. and Margaret F.  Mr. and Mrs. Kline have no 
children.  Mr. Kline and his family are Methodists, prominent members of 
the church at Klinesgrove, which Mr. Kline served on the board of 
trustees continuously from 1866 to 1908, being also secretary of that 
board. He has long been regarded as one of the pillars of the church, 
and is highly respected among its membership.

	JAMES R. MOORE, the father of Mrs. William F. Kline, was the son of 
John Moore, who came from New Jersey at an early date and settled in 
what is now Rush township, where he purchased a farm. He died upon his 
farm at the age of fifty years and is buried in a grave yard near 
Deiblers station in Shamokin township. He married Rebecca, daughter of 
James Moore, and they had these children: John, James R., Rebecca, Mary, 
Anna, Miriam, Samuel and Hannah.
	James R. Moore, father of Mrs. Kline, was born in Rush township 
Feb. 2, 1805, and died at Olathe, Johnson Co., Kans., July 2, 1885.  He 
was reared upon the home farm and in the year of 1846 went to Morrow 
county, Ohio, where he followed farming, and remained until 1872, when 
he went to Olathe, Kans., and there he continued to farm.  He married 
Priscilla, daughter of Atchinson Martin, who died in Kansas. They had 
these children:  James A., John M., Jane E., Rebecca M., Perry M. and 
Margaret F., now the wife of William F. Kline.

	KLASE. The family history in this article on the Klases was 
contributed by Mr. John Hower Klase, of Snydertown, who intends to 
amplify it and complete the records as time and opportunity permit.  
Early records in his possession show considerable variation in the 
spelling of the name. The German forms are Kloss, Klesz, Kloesz. The 
Anglicized  spelling  John  Klase  (Johannes
	
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Kloess) appears in the tax record of 1773 for Bethlehem township, 
Northampton Co., Pa., and the forms Clase, Glase, Glos, Glosz and Kleiss 
are all found.
	On Nov. 22, 1752, one "Johonas Kloss" landed in Philadelphia from 
the ship "Phoenix," Reuben Hoaer, captain, from Rotterdam and Cowes. The 
emigration records of Philadelphia show Klosses here much earlier, as 
early as 1732, who evidently were of the same family, as they all 
settled to the north of Philadelphia, where they had land grants 
surveyed. But this Johanas Kloss is the earliest arrival to whom the 
family here under consideration can be traced. His family can be very 
easily traced from the records appearing at Easton, Pa.  He lived and 
died near Bethlehem, and his will, on record at Easton, makes grants to 
the following nine children (who were to receive £5,000 in money besides 
lands): Valentine, Philip, John, Jr., Jacob, Catharine, Michael, 
Elizabeth (married Michael Young), Annie Marie and Christians. The dates 
of birth and death of "Johon" Klase are at present not known, but he was 
still living in the year 1804, when he and his wife Catharine appear as 
witnesses at the christening of one of Valentine's daughters, Mary Eva, 
who later married Solomon Fegley, father of George K. Fegley.
	Valentine Klase, the eldest son of Johonas and the head of the 
family located in Northumberland county, Pa., was a resident of 
Northampton county, near Bethlehem, where he owned a farm of two hundred 
acres on what is known as the Dry Land. This farm appears on the tax 
list of Bethlehem township in 1788, and its location is known to the 
family, the Klase burying ground being on this farm.  Valentine Klase 
married Mary Eva Smitten, who was born Oct. 1, 1766, and died at 
Snydertown, Northumberland Co., Pa., on the old homestead, Aug 2, 1838; 
she is buried in St. John's Lutheran cemetery near Snydertown. The 
children of Valentine and Mary Eva were: Jacob, Abraham, Michael, 
Valentine, Jr., Henry, Mary Eva and Catharine, all born in Bethlehem 
township, Northampton county.  In the year 1753 Valentine took out a 
warrant for fifty acres of land in Northampton county. In the year 1778 
he entered the service of the Continental army, in Captain Reeser's 4th 
Company of Militia, from Forks township, Northampton county, Pa., 5th 
Battalion; ordered to march July 30, 1778 (Pennsylvania Archives, Second 
Series, Vol. 14, Page 591); for which service he was given a grant of 
land, which he never took up.  Valentine Klase was a farmer up to the 
time of his death, which occurred some time between April 12th when he 
made his will and May 18th, 1812, when his will was probated at Easton, 
Pa.  After the Indian troubles had been settled in the northern sections 
of the State and the lands of the last Indian purchase opened for 
settlement, he joined himself to others of Northampton county and came 
to Fort Augusta, or what is now known as Sunbury, Pa., and entered into 
the purchasing of lands. About eight miles east of Sunbury he purchased 
950 acres with an allowance of 6/10 per cent for roads, making 1,000 
acres all told.  This land lay north of the old Reading road, at what is 
known as Stonington, comprising a strip nearly one mile wide running 
north to the northern boundary of Snydertown borough, including what are 
now the lands of John Klase, William Garrow, Jesse Gonsar, Jacob Gonsar, 
H. A. Pensyl; Charles Snyder, and Jake Klase's farm, and part of the Fox 
farm. This tract had been surveyed at an earlier date and was known as 
the Hanover Manor.  Same was sold to Lewis Dewart and Jacob Snyder from 
whom Valentine Klase purchased. Jacob Snyder erected the first burr mill 
and saw mill at Snydertown, located on the site of the present mill 
owned by Grant Gonsar. The said Jacob Snyder was also the founder of 
Snydertown, Pa. [for above see deed of Valentine Kloss]. The date of 
this purchase by Valentine Klase was 1811, as recorded in the recorder's 
office at Sunbury, Pa.  After buying this land he returned to Bethlehem, 
with the intention of moving here, but meeting with an accident he died. 
His will bequeathed this land to his widow and children to be held by 
them as tenants in common, and he appointed his widow, Mary Eva, Jacob, 
Henry, Abraham, children, and John Smith, brother-in-law, as 
administrators of his estate, both in Northampton county and 
Northumberland county. He also stipulated in his will that the land in 
Northumberland county should not be sold before six years after his 
death. Some of the family were not suited with the land and requested 
the sale of same, so on March 19, 1816, four years after the purchase of 
the land, the Legislature of Pennsylvania passed an act for its special 
disposal.  After this, having been advertised for four weeks in a paper 
published at Easton, Pa., it was sold to John Smith, one of the 
administrators, for $11,067.67.  The tract was now parceled out to the 
following: Jacob, who took the southern part, about 200 acres; 
Valentine, Jr., central part, 200 acres; John Smith, 200 acres of 
northern part; Abraham, one half of the western part (joining John 
Smith), consisting of 200 acres; the balance being sold to different 
parties. The part that Abraham owned consisted principally of the land 
bought  of Jacob  Snyder. Michael, Henry, Eva and Catharine received 
their share in money.  Of this family we have the following record: 
	Jacob Klase, son of Valentine, Sr. born near Bethlehem, Pa., Jan. 
28. 1790, died March 18, 1870, and was buried in St. John's cemetery 
near Snydertown, Pa.  He cleared the greater part of his land for 
farming, which he followed throughout his life, and it was also the 
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family.  They were noted for their hospitality.  He built a stone house 
at Stonington, which is still standing, in a good state of preservation, 
and built a sawmill on the stream running past the house.  He married 
Polly Schweitzer and had these children: (1) Mary.  (2) Catharine, born 
in 1817, married Jacob Weaver, and died in 1899. She is buried at Rush 
Presbyterian church, in Rush township.  They lived near Rushtown, Pa. 
Mr. and Mrs. Weaver had the following children: Mary born in 1834, died 
in 1889 (buried in Rush Presbyterian cemetery), who married William 
Cunningham and had Catharine (married S. Bailey and had one child, 
George E.), G. S. (married Margaret Gulick, and had children, C. Louis, 
Sarah E., Margaret V. and Dessie Marione; G. S. Cunningham is living on 
the old homestead, where he is following farming) and Sarah G. (who 
married Rev. Thomas Kerr and they have one child, Kathren); Elizabeth, 
who married a Mr. Miller and had children, Frank, Warren, Charles, 
Jennie and Samuel; Kate, who married a Mr. Bartlet and had one child, 
Oliver (they live at West Pittston, Pa.); and Harriet, born in 1835, who 
died in 1909 and is buried in Rush Presbyterian church cemetery.  (3) 
Elizabeth was born at Stonington, Pa., and died at New Media, Pa., aged 
ninety-two years.  (4) Solomon, born at Stonington, died while living at 
the farm. (5) Jacob died unmarried.  (6) Annie Marie married a Mr. 
Lamerson and lived at Danville, where she died.  There were no children.  
(7) Leonard died as the result of an accident at the sawmill. He was 
unmarried.  (8) Samuel is living at Catawissa, Pa., now (1911) in his 
eighty-fourth year.  After selling the farm at Stonington he moved to 
New Media, Pa., where he also owned a farm, which he sold in 1905.  (9) 
Wilhelmina, born at Stonington, died unmarried.
	Abraham Klase, son of Valentine, Sr., was born in 1792, died in 
1850, and is buried in St. John's Lutheran cemetery at Snydertown. He 
made use of the western half of the northern part of the land purchased 
by his father, consisting of that part bought of Jacob Snyder, whereon 
was the gristmill and sawmill, and besides following farming he operated 
the mill for several years. Meantime he built a house near the mill, and 
then sold the mill to Samuel Gonsar, whose heirs own the same. He 
married Elizabeth Smith, and they had the following children:  (1) 
Hannah married George Krieger.  (2) Frank Klase died in Shamokin 
township.  (3.) Matilda married Samuel Yetter.  (4) Catharine married a 
Mr. Brobst and moved to Iowa.  (5)  Eliza married Daniel Weaver.  (6) 
William died in California.  (7) Abraham, born in 1819, died in 1885, 
and is buried at Shamokin. He married Catharine Miller, born in 1819, 
died in 1891, buried at Shamokin, and they had the following children: 
George Washington, born in 1843, who married Huldah Clark, died in 1908; 
Amanda, born in 1844, died in 1907; Regina Catharine, born in 1846, 
married A. G. Goodwill; Thomas Jefferson, born in 1849, married Sue E. 
Bolich; Martha Clementine, born in 1851, married A. E. Shissler; 
Franklin Pierce, born in 1853, died in 1854; Mary Elizabeth, born in 
1855, died in 1879; Addison Miller, born in 1857, died in 1881; Ida 
Rebecca, born in 1859, married W. F. Goodwill; James Buchanan, born in 
1861, married Mattie Applegate.  (8) Solomon P. was born June 28, 1831.

	SOLOMON P. KLASE, son of Abraham; born June 28, 1831, in Shamokin 
township, is now living retired at the borough of Snydertown. He became 
familiar with farm work in boyhood, and when eighteen years old 
commenced to learn the trades of stone mason and stone cutter, which he 
continued to follow until several years ago, giving up active work in 
1900. He had an excellent reputation for first-class workmanship, and 
among other undertakings intrusted to him may be mentioned the building 
of St. Edward's Catholic church at Shamokin, of which he had charge as 
superintendent.  Mr. Klase is a veteran of the Civil war, having entered 
the Union service in 1862 as a member of Company C (largely recruited 
from the territory about Snydertown), 131st Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, under Capt. Thomas R. Jones.  He served as corporal. He 
completed a nine months term, during which he took part in the fights at 
Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. He is a member of G.A.R. 
Post No. 835, at Sunbury. Politically Mr. Klase is a Democrat and he has 
taken considerable interest in the welfare of his party and the affairs 
of the borough, where he has been chosen for the offices of councilman 
and tax collector. He is a member of the Lutheran Church.
	On Nov. 26, 1854, Mr. Klase married Jane Wittington, who was born 
Jan. 4, 1834, daughter of Jacob Wittington, and died Feb. 19, 1900. His 
second marriage on May 14, 1901, was to Sarah Evert, daughter of Isaac 
Tribley.  Mr. Klase reared James McBride, who is now a resident of 
Shamokin.
	Henry Klase, son of Valentine, Sr., was born near Bethlehem, 
Northampton Co., Pa., settled at Snydertown in 1817, and there conducted 
a general store, hauling his merchandise from Reading and Philadelphia, 
by wagon and team.  He moved from there to Danville, Pa., where he died. 
He married Sallie Smith, daughter of John Smith, and had the following 
children: Jesse; Mary Jane, Mrs. Kesler; Henry; Jacob, and Wellington. 
Jesse, who now lives at Danville, is one of the committee of ten of the 
Klase Family Reunion.
	Michael Klase, son of Valentine, Sr., was born Sept. 4, 1794, in 
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Northumberland county he concluded to stay at the old home. He married, 
and had three children: Daniel, Joseph and William. He paid a visit to 
his brethren living in Northumberland county and while on the trip took 
sick at the home of Jacob Klase, where he died, Feb. 22,, 1852. His 
children lived at Allentown and Bethlehem, where his descendants are 
still found. Michael Klase is buried in the Klase row in St. John's 
Lutheran cemetery at Snydertown.
	Catharine Klase, daughter of Valentine, was born in Bethlehem 
township, Northampton Co., Pa., Sept. 12, 1796, died June 30, 1875, and 
is buried at St. Jacob's church, near Reed's station, in Northumberland 
county.  She married Felix Lerch, and early in life moved to Mount 
Carmel, where they engaged in keeping hotel. For a long time this was 
the only house of public entertainment in Mount Carmel. According to a 
reference in the Northumberland county history they had an important 
hotel stand. Located almost midway between Sunbury and Pottsville, and 
on the original Indian trail leading to Philadelphia, they saw numbers 
of the red men as they passed the place.  Later they conducted a hotel 
at Paxinos, Pa. Their children were: Susan, who married Amos Vastine; 
Benjamin, who lived at Stonington, Pa.; Abraham, who lived at Mount 
Carmel; Sebella, who married Jacob Tribley and lived near Stonington 
(they were the parents of Rev. D. B. Tribley, minister of the Lutheran 
Church at Minersville); and William H., the youngest, still living at 
Mount Carmel, the oldest settler living there today, who, though in his 
eighty-fourth year, conducts a store and is very bright for a man of his 
years.
	Mary Eva Klase, daughter of Valentine, Sr., was born Dec. 20, 1803, 
died Feb. 13, 1887, and is buried at the Blue church near Paxinos, Pa. 
On Dec. 7, 1823, she married Solomon Fegley, and they subsequently 
purchased a farm on what is known at present as the Reading road, three 
miles west of Paxinos, which they owned for several years.  At the end 
of that time they sold it and purchased a place just north on the Center 
turnpike.  Mr. Fegley followed farming nearly his whole life, in his 
early years being occupied to some extent in coal mining and railroad 
building. Mr. and Mrs. Fegley had the following children: Eliza; 
Valentine; Rosana, Mrs. Sober; Catharine, Mrs. McWilliams; Caroline, who 
married Willoughby Hass; William; Harriet; Ellen, Mrs. McWilliams; Mary; 
Eva; George K., living at present at Shamokin, Pa., who is a member of 
Lincoln Post, G.A.R., has served as sheriff of Northumberland county one 
term and has been active in politics for a number of years (he at 
present is treasurer of the Klase Family Reunion); and H. K.
	H. K. Fegley, son of Solomon, was born March, 15, 1836, and died 
Aug. 11, 1910.  At an early age he went to Sunbury, where he was 
employed by John W. Fryling in his store. He next engaged in 
merchandising, which he carried on successfully, and later built a nail 
mill; in the east end of Sunbury, which prospered also.  Mr. Fegley 
(married Mary O'Brien, of Washington, D. C., and their surviving 
children are: William, who is engaged in electrical operations in 
Topeka, Kans.; Mrs. J. A. Lamb, living at Sunbury, Pa.; and Mrs. William 
Colhoun, of Sunbury.
	Valentine Klase, Jr., son of Valentine, Sr., was born in Bethlehem 
township, Northampton Co., Pa., July 13, 1799, and died April 20, 1872; 
he is buried in St. John's cemetery at Snydertown. He married Mary 
Baker, of Milton, Pa., where she was born Feb. 6, 1794, her family being 
pioneer settlers in that section.  Mrs. Klase died Feb. 11, 1884, and is 
buried in St. John's cemetery.  Mr. and Mrs. Klase settled on a tract of 
land one mile south of Snydertown, same being a part of the purchase of 
Valentine Klase, Sr. Here in 1817 they erected a log house and barn, 
which is still standing and in a good state of preservation; it is now 
owned by Charles Snyder, who at present owns part of this farm, located 
a short distance south of Snydertown. They cleared the land of timber 
and started farming, which was Mr. Klase's occupation until the time of 
his death. In 1823 he erected a distillery for the manufacture of 
liquors. In looking over some of his papers we find the price for the 
distilling of one bushel of rye was twenty-five cents; whiskey sold for 
forty cents per gallon.  Valentine Klase was also engaged in the cutting 
of timber and its manufacture into lumber. He owned a tract of timber 
land on Fishing creek, in Columbia county, Pa., the timber for which was 
sawed up and rafted down the creek to the river, thence to Sunbury, 
where it was disposed of. He was a progressive man, as is shown by the 
fact that he was a strong advocate of the free school system. On 
election day he rode eight miles through eighteen inches of freshly 
fallen snow to cast his vote for free schools, being the only one to go 
from Snydertown. This election carried for free schools by a majority of 
one, so his efforts were not wasted. About the first school held in 
Snydertown was a subscription school held at his house for several 
winters.  Jacob Snyder, the founder of Snydertown, left a plot of ground 
for school purposes. Valentine Klase was one of three trustees appointed 
to hold this land and they filled this trust till there was a regular 
school board elected by Shamokin township, after which the same was 
turned over to them.  The papers relative to this are still in 
existence.
	On the farm which Valentine Klase owned was what was considered to 
be a valuable mineral deposit. This was tested for oil in 1869 to a 
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600 feet by drillings. In 1887 it was again tested, to a depth of 3,200 
feet for the same purpose, neither test showing any signs of oil.  On 
this farm is found a mineral spring the waters of which may be drunk of 
freely by man, but the same is death to small animals, as they succumb 
almost as soon as they touch the water. The compiler has seen as many as 
a half dozen dead in it at once, some having died apparently just before 
his coming.
	Valentine, Jacob and Henry Klase, along with John Smith and Samuel 
Hoover, were the founders of St. John's Lutheran Church at Snydertown, 
which church was erected jointly by Lutherans and those of the German 
Reformed faith, in 1821.
	All the generation of the sons and daughters of Valentine Klase, 
Sr., have passed away.  They were among the early settlers of Snydertown 
and vicinity, living there and raising families who were honest upright, 
stalwart men and women. They not only cleared the ground but improved 
it, fought back the wolves and panthers, and saw all the wild animals 
depart gradually for thicker forest lands.  The record of the children 
of Valentine Klase, Jr., is as follows:
	(1) Catharine Klase, daughter of Valentine, Jr., married Abraham 
Rimert They owned and lived on a farm one mile west of Stonington, on 
the Center turnpike, and were engaged in farming until the time of his 
death, which occurred very suddenly while he was on a trip to Sunbury. 
They had the following children: David; Martin; Valentine; Albert; 
Samuel; Mandis; Mary, who married John Savage and lived in Sunbury; 
Jane, Mrs. Koons, who lives in Watsontown, Pa.; and Anna, Mrs. Hoff. 
Abraham and Catharine Rimert are buried at St John's Lutheran cemetery, 
Snydertown.
	(2) Eva Klase, daughter of Valentine, Jr., was born at the 
homestead at Snydertown and died in Ohio.  She married George William 
Lerch and early in life they moved to Canton, Ohio, where he purchased a 
farm, which they cultivated until his death. They had eleven children, 
all of whom were living at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of their 
parents' wedding, which was celebrated on Feb. 4, 1891.
	(3) John Klase, son of Valentine, Jr., was born Oct. 3, 1821, at 
the homestead in Shamokin township, and died May 12, 1906. He is buried 
in St. John's Lutheran cemetery, Snydertown.  When John Klase was but 
sixteen years of age he would drive a four-horse team to Pottsville, 
Pa., with a load of produce. The trip would take from three to four 
days.  Arriving at Mount Carmel, he would stay over night stopping with 
Felix Lerch his Uncle.  This hotel being very often crowded, he like 
others would roll up in sheepskin robes and sleep on the barroom floor.  
At this time there were practically no houses after leaving the Weigh 
Scales, near Shamokin, till near Pottsville, and he has related how the 
deer often crossed the road in droves, and toward evening the howl of 
wildcats and panthers could be heard. while he was still a boy Mr. 
Arnold shot a panther that measured nine feet in length, within a half 
mile of the house, and one morning when sent out to bring in the horses 
he found a large black bear in the pasture fields; the animal scampered 
away at his approach. In his early life he began the study of music, in 
which he excelled considering the limitations of the times, and he 
taught singing school, was musician for the military company during the 
battalion days, and led the choir of the Lutheran Church at Snydertown 
for forty years.  His opportunities for obtaining an education were very 
meager.  After attending subscription school several months during the 
winter, he had the advantage of one winter at an academy in Bethlehem, 
Pa. He had charge of his father's lumber interests on Fishing creek in 
Columbia county, where he manufactured lumber, rafting the same down to 
Sunbury. Buying a piece of land, which now forms a part of the farm 
owned by Henry Pensyl, of Stonington, he cleared it and farmed there to 
the time of his marriage, Nov. 8, 1849, to Margaret Evert, daughter of 
Solomon and Rachel (Lorman) Evert, of Snydertown. After marriage he 
moved on the farm of Mr. Evert for whom he farmed ten years. Then he and 
his brother Valentine purchased the John Smith farm, a half mile east of 
Snydertown, which they farmed in partnership for a number of years, at 
the end of which period John Klase bought Valentine's interest and 
continued to live on the farm till the time of his death. He was a 
member of St. John's Lutheran Church of Snydertown, having joined the 
congregation when seventeen years of age, under the pastorate of Rev. 
Mr. Shindel. In 1845 he joined Mount Taber Lodge of Odd Fellows, located 
at Shamokin, and several years later he and several others succeeded in 
getting Shamokin Valley Lodge, No. 527, I.O.O.F., organized at 
Snydertown, Mr. Klase being one of the charter members.  He passed all 
the chairs, was secretary for twenty years in succession, and helped to 
build the new Odd Fellows Hall more than fifty years after the 
organization.  John Klase was one of the foremost men of this section in 
his active years, identified with many phases of the life of the 
community. He was one of the first school directors to serve in 
Snydertown borough, and held several other borough offices.  He was not 
only trusted and respected by his fellow citizens, but he held their 
affectionate esteem to an unusual degree, old and young alike addressing 
him familiarly as "uncle."  On Nov. 8, 1899, he and his wife Margaret 
celebrated their fiftieth anniversary of wedded life. The celebration 
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and Mrs. Klase were married by R. A. Fisher, and on the occasion of the 
golden wedding Rev. Mr. Wampole, of Shamokin, Pa., was present and gave 
a very interesting talk to the guests. Mrs. Klase is now living with her 
son John. She has reached the age of eighty. John and Margaret Klase bad 
the following children: (1) Sallie J., born Nov. 21, 1852, died Aug. 8, 
1897. She married Dr. G. A. Smith, Son of Daniel Smith, of Snydertown, 
and they lived for a short time at Hartleton, Pa., thence moving to 
Liberty, Tioga Co., Pa., where the Doctor built up a very lucrative 
practice. He is still living there. Mrs. Smith came home to visit her 
father in the summer of 1897, while he was sick, and taking sick while 
there died at his home. She is buried in St. John's Lutheran cemetery at 
Snydertown. She had three children: Bertha O., who is a graduate of the 
Mansfield State normal school, and has been teaching for a number of 
winters very successfully; Arthur A., who graduated from Bucknell 
University and later studied law, which he is now practicing in 
Williamsport where he makes his home (he married, Alta Shae); and Leon, 
who is at home with his father and is attending school.  (2) Solomon 
Ellis, eldest son of John Klase, was born at Snydertown, Nov. 12, 1854, 
and as a boy worked on his father's farm during the summer months, going 
to the public school during the winter seasons. When twenty he attended 
the Elysburg Academy one or two terms, after which he taught public 
school several terms. When fourteen years of age he joined St. John's 
Lutheran Church and at once became active in both Sunday school and 
church work. He has a fine record as superintendent of the Sunday 
school, which position he has filled for twenty-five years in succession 
without missing one Sunday in attendance.  He married Flora Deibler, 
daughter of Jonosoe B. Deibler, of Snydertown, and is living at present 
on the homestead farm of John Klase, where he has erected a house and 
barn, being half owner of the homestead. Mr. and Mrs. Klase had two 
children, Mabel, who died at the age of sixteen, and Myrtle, who is 
living at home. (3) John Hower.
	John Hower Klase, youngest son of John Klase, was born March 6, 
1864, at the homestead at Snydertown. As a boy he worked on the farm 
during the summer months, going to school during the winter terms, until 
sixteen years of age; when he went to the Missionary Institute at 
Selinsgrove for one term, thence going to New Berlin for two terms. He 
then helped to build the Philadelphia & Reading railroad through 
Snydertown, and in the year 1884 graduated from the Woods Commercial  
College,  Williamsport.   Immediately thereafter he started cutting and 
manufacturing timber for the coal mines, continuing this business alone 
for five years, when he entered into a copartnership with Luther Cooper 
and enlarged the scope of his operations, manufacturing member for all 
general purposes. After cutting and manufacturing timber for two years 
in the southern part of Northumberland county, Mr. Klase bought out Mr. 
Cooper's interest and connected himself with S. Bailey; of Danville, 
Pa., with whom he entered into the manufacture of lumber on an extensive 
scale in Perry, Juniata, Huntingdon and Franklin counties, in which 
region he spent live years. In 1897 he took a half interest in the 
homestead farm, which he and his brother Ellis bought, later on, each 
having half of the 180 acres. He is living at the present time on the 
old homestead farm, in the house built by John Smith in the year 1815; 
it is a stone house, and the walls are as solid as the day they were 
completed. John Smith, a brother-in-law of Valentine Klase and one of 
his administrators, lived and died on this farm and raised his family 
there.  He was the progenitor of the Smith descendants now in that 
community. He and his wife are buried in St. John's cemetery at 
Snydertown. At his death the farm was purchased by John Klase and 
Valentine, his brother. John Hower Klase is at present engaged in 
farming and the raising of market truck, taking special interest in the 
hybridizing of grains and small fruits, in which line he has had very 
good results, in the way of producing much hardier species.
	On June 12, 1889, Mr. Klase married Elizabeth L. Miller, daughter 
of Christian and Esther (Reed) Miller, of Paxinos, Pa., and they have 
had two children, both living: Myrtle May, born April 16, 1890, attended 
public school till seventeen years of age, taught Hills school one term, 
and then entered the Bloomsburg State normal school, where she graduated 
in July, 1910; she is engaged in teaching at the present time. Maud 
Esther, the younger daughter, born Feb. 27, 1894, attended public school 
till sixteen years of age and at the present time is attending 
Bloomsburg State normal school, being a member of the class of 1912.
	Mr. Klase is a member of St. John's Lutheran Church and for a 
number of years was a teacher of the male Bible class in the Lutheran 
Sunday school. In 1885 he joined Shamokin Valley Lodge, No. 527, 
I.O.O.F., of Snydertown, which was organized in 1856, and has gone 
through all the degrees; has represented the lodge at the annual meeting 
of the grand lodge several times; has been a representative of his lodge 
to the Odd Fellows' Orphans' Home Association for eight years; has 
served there on the Property committee three years, and at present is 
serving as chairman of the board of trustees, taking a particular 
interest in the welfare of the home.  He joined Royal Arcanum Lodge No. 
945, at Sunbury, where he continues his membership at the present time. 
He is also a member of the P.O.S. of A. He was one of the originators' 
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and has been active in the work since its establishment, having been 
first secretary of same and historian.  He has served his fellow 
citizens as member of the school board and of the town council, as 
auditor, constable and borough officer. Politically he is a Democrat.
	(4) Levina Klase, daughter of Valentine, Jr. was born at the home 
near Snydertown; she married Isaac Boughner and they moved early in life 
to Macon, Mich., where they engaged in farming to the end of their days. 
They had the following children: Jefferson, George, Clara, Bell and 
Henryetta, all living in Michigan, as far as known.
	(5) Hannah Klase, daughter of Valentine, Jr., was born at the 
homestead farm near Snydertown. She married Daniel Donbach, and they 
moved to Ringtown, Schuylkill county, where they resided at the time of 
her death. Their children were as follows: Catharine, the eldest, 
married Joseph Klingerman and they moved to Beaver Meadow, where he was 
an employee of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company; George, a 
college graduate, for several years was engaged in missionary work in 
the far West, coming back to Pennsylvania in 1908 and engaging in 
contracting and building at Shamokin, where he now resides; Laura, 
youngest daughter of Mrs. Hannah Donbah, is living at present at 
Ringtown, Pa., taking care of her father, who has become an invalid.
	(6) Susan Klase, daughter of Valentine, Jr., was  born  at the 
homestead near Snydertown Dec. 12, 1833. She received a meager education 
in her youth, attending public school for a few months during the 
winter. In September, 1855, she married George C. Adams, of Ralpho 
township, son of Casper Adams.  For several years they lived in 
Snydertown, until Mr. Adams bought the Adams homestead farm in Ralpho 
township, Northumberland county, to which they moved in 1863, residing 
there till the time of Mr. Adams's death. He was an active member of and 
worker in the German Reformed Church, where he held the office of deacon 
for a long time, and he is buried at the Blue church near Paxinos.  
Since his death Mrs. Adams has been living mostly with her son, G. G, 
Adams, and daughter Mahala.  She is a member of the German Reformed 
Church.  Mr. and Mrs. Adams had the following children: Alvin, who met 
with an accident on the railroad that caused his death; Leannah, who 
married Francis Barrell and they reside at Reading, Pa.; Mahala, married 
to Charles Paul, and residing at Paxinos, Pa. (they have one child, 
Belva, who married Grant Vought, now of Emporium, Pa., and has one 
child); and General G., youngest son, born in Ralpho township. As a boy 
General G. Adams worked on the farm during the summer months, attending 
school in the winter. He married Sadie Miller, daughter of Christian and 
Esther (Reed) Miller, of Paxinos, and after his marriage purchased a 
store in Snydertown, which he conducted for several years.  Selling it 
he bought the homestead farm, and engaged in farming for several years, 
then conducting the hotel at Paxinos for three years. He next bought the 
"Elysburg Hotel," which he enlarged and there he and his wife reside at 
the present time, conducting the hotel along with their farm. They have 
one child, George Hatton, who is at home with them.
	(7) Sallie Klase, daughter of Valentine, Jr., was born at the 
homestead at Snydertown.  She married Noah Ware and they lived most of 
their lives in the northern end of Northumberland county. They had four 
children: William, who is employed conducting a sawmill in operation 
near Catawissa, Pa.; Benjamin, who is married and lives near 
Washingtonville, Pa.; Jefferson, who is married and lives at Three 
Rivers, Mich.; and Maryann, who married Albert Hill and resides at 
Milton, Pa. (they have two children).
	(8) Valentine Klase, son of Valentine, Jr., was born at the 
homestead near Snydertown, in 1830, and died in 1891 at Snydertown, 
where he is buried at St. John's Lutheran cemetery. During his early 
boyhood he worked on the farm during the summer months, attending school 
a few months in the wintertime.  When a young man he learned the 
blacksmith's trade at Snydertown. He married Sophia Evert, daughter of 
Solomon and Rachel (Lorman) Evert. After his marriage he conducted a 
shop for several years in Elysburg, Pa., after which he and his brother 
John bought the John Smith farm in partnership, conducting it for 
several years. Then Valentine disposed of his interest to his brother 
John and moved on to the Solomon Evert farm, thence to Snydertown, where 
he erected a house and blacksmith shop, and continued to reside till the 
time of his death. He was a member of the German Reformed Church, and a 
well known man, having served in a number of the borough offices. He and 
his wife had the following children: Cordelia married George Albert 
Startzle and they reside in Snydertown; they have had children, Nora, 
Maude and Clifford. Allison married Lydia Startzle and they reside in 
Snydertown. John Curtis married Catharine Resler, resides in Snydertown, 
and has one child, Violet. Rodella married George Gross and they moved 
to Mount Carmel, Pa., where she died, survived by one child, Alice.  The 
brothers John Curtis and Allison Klase were for a number of years in 
partnership, conducting a threshing outfit and sawmill. Later Allison 
sold out his interest to John Curtis, who is conducting same at present.
	(9) William H. Klase, son of Valentine, Jr., was  born  at the 
homestead near Snydertown Jan. 3, 1824. Like the rest of the children of 
the family, he was employed on the farm during his younger years, 
helping to clear the land in the summer time and going to school several 
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winter. When he became a young man he learned the blacksmith's trade, 
which he followed for a number of years at Snydertown.  He married Susan 
Adams, daughter of Casper Adams, of Ralpho township, Northumberland 
county, and they resided for a number of years on a farm located on the 
Center turnpike, about two miles east of Stonington. In 1861 he moved to 
a farm a half mile west of Snydertown, which he bought, and has made his 
home there ever since. By his first wife he had two children, of whom 
Maryetta is married to Solomon F. Arnold and resides in Snydertown (they 
have one child, Lula, who married John Deibler and has two children, 
Martin and Robert).  After the death of his first wife William H. Klase 
married Lena Dunkelberger, by which union he had two children: P. C., 
who is at home with his parents; and Agnes, who married J. G. Quick and 
has two children living, Leon and Mildred, J. G. being deceased (they 
live at Snydertown, Mr. Quick being engaged in contracting and 
building).
	William H. Klase, at the present time of writing in his eighty-
eighth year, is in general good health for his age. He is a member of 
the German Reformed Church, has held numerous borough offices, and is 
highly respected in the community. At his home some forty members of the 
family, including his children, grandchildren, sister Mrs. Adams, and 
other relatives, assembled on Jan. 1, 1910, to celebrate his eighty-
sixth birthday, in honor of which he was presented a handsome Morris 
chair and other gifts. At this time and place the Klase Family Reunion 
was organized, Solomon F. Arnold being elected president and John 11. 
Klase secretary. The time appointed for the first meeting was July 27, 
1910, and Edgewood park, Shamokin, Pa., the place.
	KLASE FAMILY REUNION. The first annual reunion of the Klase family 
was held at Edgewood park, Shamokin, Pa., on July 27, 1910. The notices 
and invitations for this affair were sent out to the descendants of 
Valentine Klase (or Klose) Sr., as at the time there was not a complete 
record Of the children of Johonas Kloss. But since he began the 
compilation of this record Mr. John H. Klase has been able to learn who 
his children were, and finds that Jacob, one of them moved to Milmont, 
Ohio, in 1851, taking his family which consisted of sons and daughters. 
This branch of the family held its second annual reunion at Meadowbrook 
park, Bascom, Ohio, on Aug. 25, 1910. Mr. John Hower Klase received an 
invitation to same, as he did also to a reunion of the Hoover family, 
one of Johonas' daughters being married to Henry Hoover. They lived in 
Northampton county and are the ancestors of the Hoover family living in 
Northumberland county.  The rest of the family of Johonas cannot at 
present be located and should this sketch be read by any of the 
descendants Mr. Klase desires them to get into communication with him as 
soon as possible. Invitation to the next annual gathering of the Klase 
Family Reunion will be extended to the descendants of Johonas Kloss as 
far as known, every effort being made to include all the relatives.
	John Smith, one of the early settlers in Snydertown, Pa., was a 
brother-in-law to Valentine Klase, Sr. Mr. Smith settled here in 1811, 
and Mr. Klase finds from the birth of his oldest daughter that he built 
the stone house wherein Mr. Klase resides in 1815. So that part of the 
Klase family very probably came up at the same time about 1811, and 
settled on the Valentine Klase tract of land.
	The meeting at Edgewood park, on July 27, 1910, was attended by 
about three hundred and fifty, Mr. Klase's register showing 320 names, 
while there. were several families that did not register. The meeting 
was called to order by President Solomon F. Arnold at 1:30 P. M., and 
after he had stated the object of the gathering a committee of ten was 
appointed to serve for one year to complete the organization, viz.: C. 
F. Lerch, Silas Klase, George K. Fegley, Jesse Klase, Felix Lerch, Mrs. 
Alice Price, Mrs. Doll. Goodwill, Mrs. Jane Koons, Mrs. Mary Savage and 
Rev. D. B. Tribley. These elected Solomon F. Arnold, president, John H. 
Klase, secretary, George K. Fagley, treasurer, to serve for one year. 
Rolling Green park, near Sunbury, Pa., and the second Wednesday in 
August, 1911, were chosen as the next place and time of meeting. After 
these arrangements had been completed Rev D. B. Tribley was introduced 
and gave a very interesting address treating on the early immigration to 
America, the faithful honesty and liberality of the early members of the 
family. The address was well delivered and received. with applause.  All 
present enjoyed the occasion.
	In writing the sketch of the Klase family, Mr. Klase was hampered 
very much by want of time, being obliged to do most of it after working 
all day on the farm, writing generally for an hour in the evening. Where 
dates of birth and death are not given the same were missing from 
records he had at this time, and he hopes that the family will 
cooperate with him by furnishing all available dates and giving him any 
information at their disposal, so that the family record may be properly 
completed and preserved for future generations.

   JOHN B. CRESSINGER, M.D., who practices in Sunbury, where he has been 
located throughout his independent professional career, bears a name 
which has long been associated with professional circles in that 
borough, where his father has been a dental practitioner for over forty 
years.  The family has been established in Pennsylvania for over a 
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under consideration having descended from John George Cressinger, a 
German count who emigrated to America in 1753, he being one of three 
brothers who came to this country, William, John George and Henry.
	John George Cressinger settled in Berks county, Pa. He was an 
officer of the Continental army during the Revolutionary war, taking an 
active part in many of the battles of that struggle for independence, 
and his wife accompanied him through the entire period of his service in 
that conflict.  After its close they came to Northumberland county, Pa., 
settling in Augusta township, where they led long and happy lives, 
attaining a ripe old age.  They are buried at the White Church, at the 
foot of Trevorton mountain. They reared four sons, William, John, George 
and Henry.
	Henry Cressinger, great-grandfather of Dr. John B. Cressinger, was 
an officer in the war of 1812-15. For many years he lived at the 
mountain, near the mouth of Shamokin creek.  He flied Aug. 20, 1830, and 
is buried in the lower cemetery at Sunbury.  He married Margaret Renn, 
and they had two sons, John B. and Barney, the latter of whom left 
Sunbury during the fifties, and died in Michigan.
	Rev. John B. Cressinger, son of Henry, was born Jan. 1, 1812, in 
Sunbury, Northumberland county, and lived here many years. He became a 
minister of the Baptist Church, and in that, capacity organized and 
built up several churches, preaching in his native county until his 
removal to Ohio, in October, 1848. Here he passed the remainder of his 
life, and died May 4, 1895. On July 4, 1831, he married Mary 
Baumgardner, who died April 21, 1881, at the age of seventy-five years, 
her death being caused by an accident.  This couple were the parents of 
eight children, of whom two sons and one daughter died in infancy, four 
sons and one daughter reaching maturity. Of the sons, Daniel B. enlisted 
in 1861 in an Ohio regiment, received an honorable discharge from the 
army in 1863, and died soon after his return home, at Upper Sandusky, 
Ohio. Isaac and Jacob R., the youngest were twins.  Isaac enlisted in 
1862 in Company C, 23d Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was captured at Harper's 
Ferry and confined at Libby and Andersonville, and in the fall of 1863 
was exchanged, being subsequently discharged on a surgeon's certificate. 
In January, 1864, he reenlisted, and he was killed at the battle of 
Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864.
	Jacob R. Cressinger, D.D.S., son of Rev. John B. Cressinger, was 
born May 31, 1844, at Sunbury. He received his early education in the 
common schools and took up the study of dentistry with his brother. When 
the Civil war broke out he was a student at Oberlin College, Oberlin, 
Ohio, and he enlisted soon at Cleveland, being mustered into the service 
Aug. 27, 1861, becoming a member of Company F, 41st Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, with which he served four years and three months, receiving 
his discharge Nov. 27, 1865.  He rose to the rank of second lieutenant 
by brevet.  Dr. Cressinger was in active service throughout the war, 
taking part in the battle of Shiloh and the siege of Corinth; was on 
garrison duty at Murfreesboro; in the battles of Perryville and Stone 
River, where he was wounded the second day; was on duty at Readyville, 
Tenn., and in the Tullahoma campaign; took part in the engagements at 
Ringgold; Gordon's Mills, Chickamauga, Brown's Ferry, Orchard Knob and 
Mission Ridge; and in the expedition to the relief of  Knoxville. 
He  was  mustered out Dec. 31, 1863, at Blain's Cross Roads,  
veteranizing  Jan. 1, 1864; took  part in  the battle of Dandridge, 
Tenn., Jan. 16-17, and on Jan. 17th started for home, on a thirty days 
furlough.  Rejoining his command at Chattanooga, Tenn., March 10, 1864, 
he subsequently took part in the battles at Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, 
Adairsville, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Culp's House, Knickajack Creek, 
Chattahoochee River, Pickett's Mills, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Utah 
Creek, Lovejoy Station (Ga.), Columbia, Franklin, Nashville, and in the 
pursuit of Hood to Huntsville, Ala.  Thereafter he was with his regiment 
in Texas.
	After the war Dr. Cressinger completed his preparation for the 
dental profession, in February, 1868, settling in Sunbury, where he has 
ever since been engaged in successful practice.  Dr. Cressinger is the 
genealogist of his family, and has made considerable research into its 
early history, which interests him exceedingly. He has the little iron 
hammer carried by his great-grandfather while serving in the 
Revolutionary war, and by his grandfather while serving in the war of 
1812, used to sharpen the flints of their guns.
	Dr. Cressinger is well known in social and fraternal circles in 
Sunbury, being a prominent worker in the G.A.R., an Odd Fellow and a 
thirty-second-degree Mason.  He has been particularly active in the 
Masonic fraternity, in which he has a most creditable record of service. 
He was initiated in September, 1873, in old Lodge No. 22, of Sunbury, 
was crafted in October, 1873, and raised in November, 1873; was elected 
secretary of that body in December, and at the end of his first year's 
service declined renomination for the office, as he wished to pass the 
chairs, which he did. In 1885 he was again made secretary, and has 
filled the position continuously since, an office which he has also held 
in Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M., continuously since his first 
election, in 1892.  He is a leading member of the First Baptist Church, 
of which he has been a deacon thirty-six years, and was organist and 
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	On May 31, 1869, Dr. Cressinger married, in Sunbury, Mary A. Brice, 
and to them were born three children, the daughter, Edna, dying when 
eighteen months old. The two survivors are John B. and Horace G., the 
latter now living in Chicago, Ill., where he is connected with the 
Rubber Manufacturing & Distributing Company.
	John B. Cressinger was born in Sunbury, Dec. 27 (St. John's Day), 
1871, and obtained his early education in his native place. He graduated 
from the Sunbury high school in 1887, after which he took a course at 
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, graduating from that institution in 
1893, with the degree of Ph. B., and subsequently attending the medical 
department of the University of Pennsylvania for three years, graduating 
in 1896 with the M. D. degree.  For fifteen months after his graduation 
he was resident physician at St. Agnes hospital, on Broad and Mifflin 
streets, Philadelphia, at the end of that period settling in Sunbury, 
where he has built up an extensive practice. He met with encouraging 
success from the start, and has become widely known as an able and 
faithful physician, devoted to his work, in which he finds his keenest 
pleasure.  He is a man of athletic build, six feet, two inches in 
height, and a well known figure on the streets of Sunbury.
	On April 1, 1907, Dr. Cressinger married Eva Haas, daughter of John 
B. Haas, of Sunbury.

	REV. JAMES W. GILLAND, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian 
Church of Shamokin, Northumberland county, has served that charge for 
the long period of twenty-two years, having remained ten years from the 
time he was first installed, and at present serving the thirteenth year 
of his second period.
	Dr. Gilland was born Nov. 24, 1853, in Antrim township, Franklin 
Co., Pa., where his father had passed his long life.  His grandfather, 
Thom, Gilland, was a native of the North of Ireland, of Scotch-Irish 
extraction, and emigrated to America about 1804, locating in Antrim 
township Franklin Co., Pa where he followed agricultural pursuits.  He 
died about 1840, from pneumonia, when sixty-six years old, and his wife 
Jane (McDowell), died a number of years later.  They were Scotch 
Presbyterians, and both are buried near Funkstown, in Franklin county. 
Their children were James R. and Thomas. The former was a graduate of 
Jefferson, at Canonsburg, Pa., and became a Presbyterian minister in the 
South, later acting as professor of homiletics in the theological 
seminary at Columbia; S. C.; he died in 1868.
	Thomas Gilland, son of Thomas, was born Nov. 15, 1813, and learned 
the trade of carpenter, later, however, settling down to farming in 
Antrim township, Franklin county.  He lived retired several years, dying 
on his farm Dec. 14, 1893, in his eighty-first year. He is buried at 
Greencastle, Pa. He was a member of the Reformed Church. Mr. Gilland 
served a number of years as school director. His wife, Susan (Conrad), 
daughter of John Conrad, originally from Lancaster county, died in 1903 
at the age of eighty-four years. They had a family of ten children, 
namely: Mary, Mrs. Samuel Showalter; Thomas R., deceased; Susan, Mrs. 
Samuel Stover; Sarah Jennie, unmarried, who owns part of her father's 
homestead; Barbara, who died in infancy; Dr. John C., of Greencastle, 
Pa.; Matthew M., a farmer near Greencastle; Rev. James W.; David A., 
farmer, of Greencastle, who has part of his father's homestead; and 
George S., a farmer of Greencastle.
	James W. Gilland spent the first seventeen years of his life upon 
the farm, meantime receiving the beginnings of his education in the 
common schools of his native township.  In 1871 he entered Ursinus 
College, at Collegeville, Montgomery Co., Pa., where he remained one and 
a half years, doing preparatory work, and in 1873 he matriculated at 
Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa., where he completed a full course, 
graduating in 1873. He was valedictorian of his class and delivered the 
classical oration.  Entering Union Theological Seminary, at New York 
City, he graduated from that institution in May, 1880, and was ordained 
by the Presbytery of Carlisle at Duncannon, Pa., in June, 1881, when 
called to his first charge, the First Presbyterian Church of Duncannon. 
He was installed in June, 1881, and remained at that location until 
1884, when he accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church of 
Shamokin.  He received this call Feb. 20th and was installed May 29th.  
His labors met with gratifying rewards, (and he remained in the charge 
until 1894, when he became pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church 
at Brooklyn, N. Y., which he served until December, 1898. At that time, 
at the solicitation of his old congregation, he returned to Shamokin, 
where he has since been located. The First Presbyterian Church has a 
membership of 432, and the congregation has prospered in every way under 
his care $80,000 having been collected during his pastorate for the 
church edifice and parsonage. The church has grown in membership, 
equipment and efficiency under his charge. Dr. Gilland is a man of 
executive ability as well as other strong qualities needed for the 
successful administration of so large a church. He is an excellent and 
entertaining speaker, and indefatigable in prosecuting the various 
enterprises undertaken by the congregation. The degree of D D was 
conferred upon him in 1894 by Lafayette College.
	On Sept. 23, 1880 Dr Gilland married Mary Clark, daughter of Edwin 
and Mary A. (Davis) Clark, of Lancaster, Pa.  They have had the 
following children: Thomas O., a graduate of Lafayette College, is 
engaged as a civil engineer in Philadelphia with the Philadelphia & 
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Railroad Company; James M., a graduate of Lafayette College, is engaged 
as a civil engineer with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, 
being inspector of construction work on the Williamsport division; Prof. 
Edwin C., a graduate of Lafayette College, has charge of the department 
of mathematics at the Shamokin high school; William P. was ready for 
college but owing to poor health went out to New Mexico, where he is now 
engaged as superintendent of the North American Mining Company; Mary F. 
married Thomas B. Hill and they reside at Shamokin; Susan O. is 
deceased; Morris W. is the youngest.