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	KEEFER. There are a number who bear this name residing in the borough of 
Sunbury, Northumberland county, in and about which region the name is 
particularly well known for the reputation those members of the family who have 
engaged in contracting and building have made for skillful work and honest 
construction. In this connection the Keefers have been famous in their 
locality for many years, and numerous buildings - public and private - and 
bridges testify to the important part they have taken in the material 
upbuilding of this section of Northumberland county, though their work has not 
been confined wholly to that neighborhood. Moreover, the number of contracts 
which come into their hands shows that their work has stood the test of time, 
the confidence of their fellow citizens being well deserved. At the present 
time four of the family, George W., Philip W., John S. and Peter P. Keefer, are 
established as contractors and builders in Sunbury. Jacob J. Keefer, owner of 
the original homestead farm, of Keefer's station, in Upper Augusta township, is 
a cousin of the three first named, and a second cousin to Peter R. Keefer. 
	The Keefer family came to Northumberland county from Berks county, Pa., 
where Jacob Kieffer, the first of whom we have record, lived in Richmond 
township, near Lyons, owning there an excellent farm known as the original 
Kieffer homestead and now the property of his grandson, Nicholas Kieffer. He 
married Annie Sell, and to their union were born: Peter; Rebecca, wife of 
Jonathan Bieber, a prosperous farmer of Maxatawny, Berks county and Valentine, 
a farmer of Richmond township, who married Maria Merkel. 
	Peter Keefer, son of Jacob, was born in Berks county, and came thence to 
Northumberland county about 1806-07, with wife and two children. He was among 
the early settlers in Augusta (now Upper Augusta) township, where for the 
remainder of his life he followed farming and prospered, owning a tract at 
Keefer's station which has now been in the family for over one hundred years, 
being owned at present by Jacob J. Keefer. He died on his homestead about 1850, 
and is buried at Snydertown. He married in Berks county, and his children 
were: Daniel, George, Peter (a deaf mute, who lived at Keefer's station, in 
Northumberland county), John, Catharine, Molly, Elizabeth and Hannah. Two of 
the daughters married and lived in Berks county. 
	
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	The following interesting article concerning the Keefer farm appeared in 
the Sunbury Daily: "On Saturday, Sept. 7, 1907, the Keefer farm, at Keefer's 
station, about five miles from Sunbury on the creek road, was in the possession 
of the Keefer family for the period of one hundred years, a fact demonstrated 
by deeds shown a reporter of this paper by Mr. Calvin Keefer, one of the 
attaches in the office of the county commissioners. 
	"The deed of this tract of land, amounting to about 173 acres, was 
originally issued from the surveyor general's office of the Province under the 
Penns in 1769 to Samuel Pearson, after whose death it descended to his son 
George, who, in 1786, conveyed it to William Clark, of Catawissa township, and 
in the same year Clark deeded it to Alexander Porter, of Harrisburg, at the 
price of 410 pounds, which in the present currency would be about $1,693. 
Porter being unable to pay the whole of the stipulated price the tract was 
seized by Sheriff Martin Withington and sold at sheriff sale on Jan. 6, 1789, 
to Christopher Reed, of Tulpehocken township, Berks county, for 106 pounds and 
10 shillings. Reed held it until Sept. 7, 1807, when he deeded it to Peter 
Keefer, for the sum of 1,100 pounds, or about $5,346 in present currency. It 
was in this way that one hundred years ago this well known property came into 
possession of the Keefer family, remaining in that ownership for that long 
period without a break. In 1829 Peter Keefer conveyed it to his son, John 
Keefer, who retained the ownership of it for about fifty years and then 
transferred it by deed to Jacob Keefer, grandson of the original Peter Keefer, 
who is the present owner and occupant of the land. 
	"This farm has been the birthplace of a number of generations of Keefers, 
among whom were William, David, Eliza (wife of Joseph Wolverton), Benjamin F., 
Charles and Joseph, all of whom are deceased, and surviving are Mrs. George W. 
Stroh, of Sunbury; Amelia McCloughan, of Rushtown; Peter Keefer, of Danville, 
and Jacob, who now owns and occupies the old homestead. The fourth generation 
is living in the house, which was built by Christopher Reed, who bought the 
land at sheriff sale in 1789, making it one of the oldest houses in this 
section of country." 
	Daniel Keefer, son of Peter, had children as follows: Mary married George 
Hile and (second) Samuel Savidge; Elizabeth married Abraham Ruch and (second) 
Benjamin Kreigbaum; Catharine married Joseph Savidge, and died in 1909 in her 
ninety-sixth year; Hannah married Fred Reigel and (second) Thomas Van Kirk; 
Julia married Andrew Hoover; Samuel died in the West; Michael died in Sunbury: 
Margaret married Benjamin Hoover, brother of Andrew; Amelia married James 
Farnesworth; Rosanna married Jeremiah Weaver. The only survivors of this 
family are Mrs. Margaret Hoover and Mrs. Amelia Farnesworth. 
	George Keefer, son of Peter, was born in 1796 in Oley township, Berks 
Co., Pa., and came to Northumberland county with his parents when eight years 
old. After his marriage he moved to Lower Augusta township, settling near 
Lantz's Church and he owned three farms in that township, becoming very 
prominent in the business and public affairs of his locality. He was a miller 
by trade, and continued to follow both farming and milling until 1864, when he 
disposed of his gristmill; he farmed until his death, which occurred Oct. 16, 
1879, in Augusta township, when he was eighty-two years old. He is buried at 
the Lantz Church, having been an active member of the Reformed congregation of 
that church, which he helped to build. He served many years as trustee and 
elder. He was a well known member of the Democratic party and active in its 
councils and held township offices. He was twice married, his first union being 
with Rebecca Lantz, daughter of Samuel, by which marriage there were six 
children: Hannah married Isaac Albert; Samuel L. is mentioned below; Margaret 
married Henry Arnold; Molly married John Zimmerman; Peter, born March 3, 1838, 
is deceased; Mary died young. Mr. Keefer's second marriage was to Elizabeth 
Weiser, daughter of Philip Weiser, who served as a lieutenant in the 
Revolutionary war from Northumberland county. There were also six children by 
this marriage: Catharine married William Fegley; George W. is mentioned below; 
Philip W. is mentioned below; Sarah J. married Jacob Goss, of Sunbury; John S. 
is a well known contractor of Sunbury; Lucy Alice married Luther Cooper. 
	SAMUEL L. KEEFER, son of George and Rebecca (Lantz) Keefer, was born 
March 29, 1829, in what was then known as Augusta (now Rockefeller) township, 
and was reared to farm life, which he followed throughout his active years. 
Upon his retirement in 1886, he moved to Sunbury, where he owns the property at 
No. 816 Market street. He still spends his summers in Rockefeller township, 
however, owning a farm of fifty-six acres there; part of the old original 
homestead of his grand-father, Peter Keefer. Mr. Keefer always preferred to 
devote his time and energies to his own affairs refusing offices at various 
times, but he has nevertheless done his duty as an intelligent public spirited 
citizen, having served eight years as school director in Rockefeller township 
and two years as overseer of the poor after his removal to Sunbury. He is a 
Democrat in politics and in religion an active member of the Reformed Church, 
to which he has given valuable service as deacon and elder and in the church 
council. He helped to erect the parsonage of the Augusta charge, assisting in 
the work to a considerable extent. His family have also 
	
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belonged to this church. Mr. Keefer joined the F. of H. grange at Seven 
Points. 
	In 1850 Mr. Keefer married Barbara Ann Savidge, daughter of George 
Savidge, of Plum Creek, and three children were born to them: William O., who 
died in infancy; Amelia, now the wife of John Rebuck, of Lower Augusta; and 
Peter R., of Sunbury, mentioned below. The mother died in 1861. Mr. Keefer's 
second marriage was to Harriet Malick; daughter of William Malick, and by this 
union there were five children: Jennie (deceased), who married David Wolf; 
David Franklin, of Sunbury; Charles M., of New York; Harry Otto, who is engaged 
as clerk in the railroad office at Sunbury; and Eva, who is at home. 
	PETER R. KEEFER, son of Samuel L., was born Aug 1, 1859, in Upper Augusta 
township and lived on the farm until he reached the age of seventeen years. He 
then began to learn the carpenter's trade in the employ of his uncle, George W. 
Keefer, working as journeyman some years before he formed his partnership with 
Samuel Ruthrauff. The firm, known as Ruthrauff & Keefer, lasted for seven 
years, and since its dissolution Mr. Keefer has been in business alone, his 
home and business being in Sunbury. He builds from five to ten houses yearly, 
and has as many as twenty-five men in his employ. Mr. Keefer frequently does 
the designing and drafting as well as the construction work of his various 
contracts, and there are some very creditable specimens of his craft in this 
locality, he having erected the Moses Kauffman building on Market street; the 
East End Hardware Company's building; the Clemmer building; an addition to the 
"City Hotel"; and the Lemuel Rockefeller home - a large private residence of 
eighteen rooms. 
	On Feb. 21, 1881, Mr. Keefer married Emma H. Crowl, daughter of Jacob and 
Susan (Huey) Crowl, of Sunbury, formerly of Elysburg, and they have had one 
daughter, Mary Belle. Mr. Keefer and his family are members of the Reformed 
Church. He is a Democrat in his political preferences, and fraternally belongs 
to several local organizations, holding membership in Fort Augusta Lodge, No. 
620, I.O.O.F.; Maclay Lodge, No. 632, F. & A.M., and the Royal Arcanum, all of 
Sunbury. 
	GEORGE W. KEEFER, eldest son of George and Elizabeth (Weiser) Keefer, has 
been established in business in Sunbury as a contractor and builder since the 
early seventies, and has made a wide reputation in that line of work. He was 
born April 22, 1845, near Lantz's Church in Lower Augusta (now Rockefeller) 
township, and there received his education in the public schools. He was reared 
upon his father's farm and continued to assist with the work at home until he 
reached the age of sixteen, when he began to learn the carpenter's trade, 
working four years as a journeyman. In 1865 he engaged in the mercantile 
business at what was known as "Hull's store" in Lower Augusta (now Rockefeller) 
township, he and his brother Peter doing business there for a year and a half 
at the end of which time they sold out to Jeremiah Fasold. They then moved to 
Herndon, where they were in the same line of business for another year and a 
half, George W. Keefer coming to Sunbury in 1869. There he established himself 
in business at the corner of Fourth and Market streets, where he was located 
for nine years, but within a comparatively short time he became interested in 
what has proved to be his life work, taking up contracting and building in 
1872. The important contracts for buildings in and around Sunbury which he has 
filled are many, and he has achieved especial success in the building of 
bridges, in different sections of the State of Pennsylvania. In 1887 Mr. 
Keefer built the present high school building in Sunbury, and also erected the 
Zion's Lutheran Church, for which he also did all the designing and drafting; 
the Harrison building, now the First National Bank building of Sunbury, is of 
his construction; as are the Episcopal Church and many fine residences in and 
around Sunbury. Mr. Keefer has built nine bridges across the Juniata river; the 
Northumberland bridge across the Susquehanna (1876); the bridge across the 
Susquehanna between Milton and West Milton; and about one hundred other 
bridges, large and small, in various parts of Pennsylvania. He has built a 
number of schoolhouses in Sunbury, Altoona, Berwick and other cities, at times 
employing as many as seventy-five men. He is still active in the contracting 
business, and does his own designing and drafting. Meantime he has also 
acquired other business interests, having become president of the Sunbury 
Mutual Life Insurance Company upon its organization in 1896 and president of 
the Sunbury Board of Trade upon the organization of that body, in 1891. In this 
connection, as well as in his capacity of chief executive of the borough, a 
position he filled for three terms, he has had considerable influence in the 
progress and welfare of Sunbury. In fact, he has been a leader in almost every 
line, social, political or business, in which he has taken any interest. He is a 
Democrat in politics, served a number of years as member of the town council, 
and as stated was chief burgess for three terms: he and his family worship at 
the First Presbyterian Church of Sunbury, where he was leader of the choir for 
many years. Fraternally he is a Mason, holding membership in Shamokin Lodge, 
No. 255, F. & A.M., and he is a charter member of the Temple Club at Shamokin. 
For many years he continued his membership in various secret societies, but of 
late years has relinquished these associations. 
	On Nov. 16, 1869, Mr. Keefer married Isabella M. Zeigler, daughter of 
George W. and Mary A. 
	
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(McQuistion) Zeigler, the former of whom was at one time a prominent attorney at 
Sunbury, retiring in 1895. Mr. and Mrs. Keefer have no children. 
	PHILIP W. KEEFER, son of George and Elizabeth (Weiser) Keefer, was born 
Nov. 22, 1846, in Lower Augusta township, where he attended public school. He 
worked on the farm until he reached the age of seventeen, when he came to 
Sunbury to learn the trade of carpenter, serving his apprenticeship with 
Solomon Brosius. After remaining in his employ six years he went West, for a 
year working in Chicago, Ill., whence he went to Wisconsin, in which State he 
spent six years. Returning to Pennsylvania in 1876 he settled at Sunbury and 
followed his trade and also took contracts on his own account, building houses 
and bridges, in which work he is still engaged. Many fine residences in Sunbury 
are of his construction, and he has built many bridges in Northumberland, 
Mifflin and Juniata counties, this State, his work being substantial and of 
workmanlike execution. He has been successful from a financial standpoint and 
has been able to make a number of good real estate investments in Sunbury, 
where he owns considerable valuable property. Mr. Keefer was formerly a member 
of the Odd Fellows fraternity. In religion he unites with the Reformed Church. 
	Mr. Keefer married Annie H. Kemp, of Milwaukee, Wis., who died in 1899, 
at the age of forty six years, and is buried at Sunbury. Two children were born 
of this union: George H., of Mount Carmel, who is fully mentioned elsewhere in 
this work; and Elizabeth A., wife of Ernst F. Beals, of Sunbury (they have 
three children, Georgiana, Gordon and Manford). 
	JOHN S. KEEFER, son of George and Elizabeth (Weiser) Keefer, was born July 
13, 1850, in Lower Augusta (now Rockefeller) township, and was there reared. He 
began to help with the farm work at an early age, and was thus engaged until he 
went to learn the carpenter's trade, when a young man of eighteen. He has 
followed this work from 1868 to the present time, having been employed as a 
journeyman until 1880, when he began to take contracts for himself. At that time 
he entered into a partnership with his brothers George W. and Peter and Richard 
Gass, under the firm name of Keefer Brothers & Gass. This firm built and 
operated a store, which they sold out after three years to C. W. Bossier, the 
brothers George W. and John S. Keefer continuing the contracting and building 
business. Mr. Keefer has, like his brothers, done considerable work in the way 
of bridge-building in his day. Among his contracts have been the annex to the 
"Central Hotel" and school buildings in Sunbury; the large cap factory at 
Northumberland which was destroyed by fire in 1909; and other important 
structures. He has about twenty skilled mechanics in his employ. Mr. Keefer 
has been quite active in a number of movements affecting the progress and 
upbuilding of the borough. He was a member of the first Board of Trade 
organized in the borough, which body was instrumental in influencing the 
Susquehanna Silk Company to establish its plant in this place. He is a 
director of the Sunbury Mutual Fire Insurance Company, having served as such 
since its organization, in 1896. His enterprise and executive ability have 
made him a factor of value and influence in encouraging and promoting movements 
for the advancement of the welfare of the community. Mr. Keefer is a Democrat in 
political faith and has long been active in the councils of the party, having 
served a number of times as ward committeeman. He served two terms as overseer 
of the poor and two terms as councilman from the Fourth ward. At one time he 
was active in the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias fraternities. 
	In 1877 Mr. Keefer married Annie Beidelspach, daughter of Judge Isaac 
Beidelspach, of Northumberland county, and two children have been born to them: 
Maud, now the wife of Dr. H. M. Becker, of Sunbury; and Edna M., at home. Mr. 
Keefer and his family are members of the First Reformed Church of Sunbury. 
	John Keefer, one of the sons of Peter Keefer, who came from Berks county, 
was born in Berks county in 1801, and died Aug. 7, 1882, aged eighty years, 
nine months, two days. By his first wife, Mary (Martz), who died young, he had 
two children, David and William. His second wife, Susan (Martz), a sister of 
the first, died July 7, 1875, aged sixty-six years. To this union were born 
children as follows: Eliza, who married Joseph Wolverton, of Snydertown; Sarah, 
Mrs. George W. Stroh; Benjamin F.; Jacob J.; Amelia, wife of Samuel McCloughan, 
of Rushtown; Charles, of Sunbury; Joseph, of Sunbury; and Peter, of Danville, 
Pa. Jacob J. and Peter are now (1911) the only survivors. 

	CAPT. BENJAMIN F. KEEFER, son of John, was born Aug. 3, 1838, on the old 
home place at Keefer's station, a short distance from Sunbury. When a young man 
he went to Shamokin, where he learned the trade of carpenter, and upon the 
outbreak of the Civil war he answered the first call for volunteers, becoming a 
private. He served as such three months. Returning to Shamokin he remained 
there only a short time, going thence to Muncy, where he organized Company H, 
131st Pennsylvania Volunteers, going to the front in command of that company. 
He served nine months with credit and distinction, being mustered out with the 
rank of colonel. At the close of this period of service he returned to Muncy, 
in 1863, and was there married to Caroline Johnson, 
	
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of that place. They moved to Sunbury in 1865 and ever afterward made their 
home in that borough. Captain Keefer was not only a carpenter and contractor 
of recognized ability, but also an architect, and built up such an excellent 
patronage in the borough that it contained many evidences of his skill in his 
chosen field of work. He was a man of active mind, progressive and public-
spirited, and took part in the affairs of the municipality for many years, 
serving twelve years as a member of the school board and from 1893 to 1896 as 
chief burgess. He was influential in promoting many of the most beneficial 
changes in the administration of local affairs and was instrumental in the 
advancement of the local school system to an appreciable extent. A man of 
cheerful and sunny disposition, inclined to look on the bright side of life 
though practical in his habits, warm and sincere in his friendships, genial and 
hospitable, his death, which occurred at his home on Spruce street, in 
November, 1902, was mourned by many beyond his family circle. He was buried in 
the lower cemetery at Sunbury. Captain Keefer was a member of the G.A.R. and 
of Local No. 838, Carpenters and Joiners Union. He was survived by his wife and 
four sons, Clyde, Harry, Frank and Edward, all residents of Sunbury. 
	CLYDE KEEFER, son of Capt. Benjamin F. Keefer, was born Nov. 16, 1864, at 
Muncy, Pa. He was educated in the public schools of Sunbury, graduating from 
the high school, and when sixteen years old began doing clerical work as clerk 
in a general store conducted by D. H. Snyder & Co. With that concern, which 
changed ownership and style several times during this period, he continued 
until April, 1908, when three of the oldest clerks, Mr. Keefer being one, 
bought the business. His partners are S. H. Snyder and T. A. Layman, and they 
are associated under the firm name of S. H. Snyder & Co. Thus Mr. Keefer has 
been connected with the same establishment throughout his business career. The 
firm does a large general business, dealing extensively in country produce, 
groceries, flour, carpets, rugs, etc., and employment is given to ten people. 
Mr. Keefer is a respected citizen of Sunbury, and has served four years as 
auditor of the borough. He is a Republican in politics. 
	On June 23, 1896, Mr. Keefer married Carrie DeHaven, daughter of Jehu and 
Mary (Douglass) DeHaven, and they have one son, Harold DeHaven, born May 20, 
1897, now a student at the Sunbury high school. The family reside in a 
comfortable home at No. 449 Chestnut street Sunbury. They are members and 
supporters of the Presbyterian Church, in which Mrs. Keefer is an active 
worker. 
	JACOB J. KEEFER, son of John, the farmer on the original homestead at 
Keefer's station, in Upper Augusta township, was born March 12, 1840, at the 
place where he now lives. The common schools of the township afforded him his 
educational privileges, and he was reared to farming, which he has followed at 
the same place all his life. He purchased the property in 1882, after his 
father's death, and now owns 102 acres. The present house was erected by 
Christopher Reed prior to 1806. The barn was built by John Keefer in 1844. 
Jacob J. Keefer has been a successful general farmer and is one of the 
prosperous and substantial residents of his locality. He has been school 
director and served some years as overseer of the poor. 
	On Feb. 12, 1867, Mr. Keefer married Susan Neidig, daughter of Michael 
Neidig, of Little Mahanoy township, whose wife was a Wagner. On their fortieth 
wedding anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Keefer had their pictures taken, he in his 
wedding coat and vest and she in her wedding dress, in which she was buried. 
She died May 12, 1910, aged sixty-seven years, five months, five days, and is 
interred near Snydertown. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Keefer: (1) 
Howard F., born April 3, 1868, assists his father on the farm. He is unmarried. 
(2) Calvin F., born Aug. 16, 1875, took a business course in the Shamokin 
business college and subsequently began clerking for a lumber concern. For 
three years he was engaged as clerk in the county commissioners' office, and 
he is now employed as clerk in the Susquehanna Silk Mills at Sunbury.  He 
married Mary A. Pfahler, who was a school teacher before her marriage, and they 
have one child, Frances. (3) Lloyd C. is mentioned below. (4) Dennis F., born 
Dec. 26, 1884, received a public school education, graduating in 1902, and then 
took a course at the Sunbury high school, from which he was graduated in 1906. 
In 1908 he was appointed regular letter carrier on Route No. 7, in Sunbury. 
	Mr. Keefer and his family are members of St. John's Reformed Church, near 
Snydertown, and he has been elder and one of the pillars of the church for 
years. He is still serving as elder and also as treasurer. Politically he is a 
Democrat. 
	LLOYD C. KEEFER was born Feb. 7, 1882, at Keefer's station in Upper 
Augusta township, and obtained his early education in the township public 
schools. Later he attended Susquehanna Academy, at Lewisburg, from which he was 
graduated; and then for several terms was a student at the Freeburg Music 
Academy, after which he took a course at Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, 
Pa. Meantime, in his eighteenth year, he began teaching school, in his native 
township. He taught five terms in all, two in Upper Augusta township, one in 
Rush township and two in the grammar school at Snydertown. In the spring of 
1906 he engaged in farming - with which he has been familiar all his life - on 
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township, where he has since lived, near Klinesgrove. He has a tract of 150 
acres, upon which are two sets of new buildings. On April 19, 1905, he married 
Grace Eckman Savidge, daughter of Harman and Clarissa (Eckman) Savidge and 
niece of Judge Savidge, and they have had one daughter, Dorothy Gladys. Mr. 
Keefer and his family attend the Lutheran and Methodist Churches. He is a 
Republican in political faith, and socially a member of the Odd Fellows 
(Snydertown Lodge, No. 527) and Modern Woodmen (Camp No. 8678) at Snydertown. 

	MURDOCK. William Murdock, the progenitor of the Murdock family of 
Northumberland county, was a native of Scotland and came to this country about 
the middle of the eighteenth century. He served under General Braddock at the 
time of his defeat at the hands of the French and Indians in 1755. He was 
afterward a member of the garrison at Fort Augusta, and continued to reside 
there after his term of service had expired. In June, 1772, he was one of the 
men employed by Surveyor General Lukens in laying out the town of Sunbury. In 
the earliest list of taxables of Northumberland county, 1774, he was assessed 
as the owner of 300 acres of land, probably granted him for military services. 
From 1785 to 1790 he was tyler of Lodge No. 22, Ancient York Masons, at 
Sunbury. He died in 1790. His wife died in 1793. 
	Robert Augustus Murdock, son of William Murdock, was born at Fort 
Augusta. He was the first white male child born in Northumberland county. In 
1799 he married Mary Fisher, of Chillisquaque, a daughter of William Fisher, 
one of the early Chillisquaque settlers, who had obtained a patent from the 
proprietaries in 1774 for a tract along Chillisquaque creek. This tract he 
afterward sold to Samuel Bond and in 1790 bought 241 1/2 acres for 540 pounds, 
known at the present time as the Frederick and Rissel farms. William Fisher was 
second lieutenant in the Northumberland county militia organized in 1777. He 
also filled various township offices and was one of the original subscribers to 
the Chillisquaque Presbyterian Church. He died in 1794. He was a native of 
Cumberland county, as was also his wife Mary, daughter of Alexander Murray, of 
Cumberland county. Robert A. Murdock continued to live on part of the Fisher 
farm, where he followed his trade, that of cabinetmaker, to the time of his 
death, in 1845. He took an active interest in politics and filled various 
township offices. In 1834 he, with a number of other Chillisquaque men, 
vigorously protested against the removal of the public deposits from the Bank of 
the United States.  His wife, Mary Fisher Murdock, died in 1857. They were the 
parents of nine children. 
	Thomas Murray Murdock, second son of Robert A. Murdock, was born in 
Chillisquaque township in 1803. He was a contractor and builder. In 1834 he was 
married to Eleanor Wilson, daughter of Nathaniel Wilson, Jr. (1779-1826), who 
lived near where Pottsgrove now is, and who for many years was a justice of the 
peace and paymaster in the militia (48th Regiment), and whose father Nathaniel 
Wilson, Sr., was born in 1747 and died in Chillisquaque in 1807. Nathaniel 
Wilson, Sr., was married to Eleanor McAllister in 1774. He was one of the 
original subscribers to the Chillisquaque Presbyterian Church. Nathaniel 
Wilson, Jr., was married to Sarah Bond (1781-1832), a daughter of Samuel Bond 
(1754 - 1838) who emigrated to Chillisquaque in 1790 from Maryland, and who 
afterward became prominent in Northumberland county politics, being 
commissioned justice of the peace in 1797, and serving as county commissioner 
from 1806 to 1809, and as member of the State Legislature from 1811 to 1813, 
and, again, representing Columbia county in the Legislature from 1816 to 1818. 
Samuel Bond was a grandson of Sir Richard Bond, of England. 
	Thomas M. Murdock was politically a Democrat. In 1847 he rebuilt the 
Susquehanna river bridge, which had been swept away by a flood. His wife, 
Eleanor Wilson Murdock, died in 1872. They were the parents of six children: 
Sarah, wife of the late C. W. Tharp, Esq.: Robert Hammond, who is still living, 
and who for many years was the agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at 
Corry, Pa.; Jane, wife of Williamson Marsh, deceased; Nathaniel Wilson, who 
died in 1860, in his eighteenth year; Thomas A.; and Elizabeth Ellen, who 
married George Barclay, of Milton. 

	THOMAS AUGUSTUS MURDOCK, son of Thomas Murray Murdock, was born in Milton 
June 20, 1847. After attending the Milton Academy for a time he learned 
telegraphy and went to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in 1864, and 
was with that company continuously to the time of his death, Dec. 3, 1909, a 
period of nearly forty-six years. From 1866 to 1872 he was located in Sunbury, 
when he was made station agent at Milton, which position he filled for twenty 
years, after which he was supervising agent of the division, the position which 
he held at the time of his death. Mr. Murdock was a staunch Republican, but the 
only office he ever held was an appointment from the judge as school director 
in 1891. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and while living in 
Sunbury was superintendent of the Sunday school. He was retiring in 
disposition and was a well informed man and pleasing conversationalist. He was 
a member of the International Association of Ticket Agents. He founded the 
Milton Circle of the Protected Home Circle and was its treasurer for many 
years. 
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Gray, daughter of P. W. Gray, a merchant of Sunbury, Pa., P. W. Gray (1816-1894) 
was the only son of William M. and Elizabeth (Watson) Gray. 
	William M. Gray (1792-1858) was a lieutenant in the war of 1812. After 
the war he returned to Sunbury and engaged in merchandising. In 1830, 1831 and 
1832 he was worshipful master of Lodge No. 22, Ancient York Masons. in 1841 he 
organized the first Lutheran Sunday school in Sunbury and was its first 
superintendent. William M. Gray was the son of Capt. William Gray, who was born 
in Belfast, Ireland, in 1750, and emigrated to America on reaching his 
majority. A short time before the Revolution he settled in Sunbury, where he 
followed his profession, surveying, and where for a time he kept a general 
store. In 1776 he enlisted in the Continental army and was taken prisoner at 
the battle of Long Island, Aug. 27, 1776, and on the 8th of the following 
December he was exchanged for Lieutenant Thompson of the 26th British Foot. He 
continued in active service until 1781, when he returned to Sunbury. Captain 
Gray was prominently identified with the history and development of his town 
and county. In 1778 he accompanied General Sullivan's expedition, and his draft 
of Col. William Butler's march and a letter to Robert Erskine are printed in 
the Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol. XV. He was made paymaster of the 
county militia in 1781; collector of excise in 1783; and deputy surveyor in 
1781; he was auditor of Augusta township in 1787 and overseer in 1791; in 1796 
he was one of the trustees appointed to purchase a schoolhouse for Sunbury. 
Captain Gray was a Presbyterian and in 1787 he and Abraham Scoot, representing 
the congregation of Sunbury, united with the representatives of the 
Northumberland and Buffalo congregations in extending a call to Rev. Hugh 
Morrison, a licentiate of the Presbytery of Root, Ireland, who had been 
admitted to the Presbytery of Donegal in 1786; this call resulted in the 
establishment of the first Presbyterian Church in Sunbury. He was a member of 
the Pennsylvania State Society of the Cincinnati, and was made a Mason in Royal 
Arch Lodge No. 3, at Philadelphia, during the Revolution. He first appears in 
Lodge No. 22, at Sunbury, as a visitor on Aug. 31, 1781, and on Jan. 7, 1784, 
was elected a member of that lodge. He was elected worshipful master of the 
Lodge Dec. 27, 1784; Dec. 27, 1791; June 24, 1793; Dec. 28, 1795; Dec. 27, 
1797; June 28, 1798, and Dec. 27, 1799. He was an enthusiastic Mason and some 
of the meetings of the lodge were held in his house, which was a large two 
story log house standing at the southeast corner of Second and Walnut streets. 
The tax records at Sunbury show that in 1795 he was assessed as the owner of 
760 acres of land, sixty town lots, five horses, one house and lot and one 
slave. Captain Gray was drowned in the Bloody Spring, near Sunbury, July 18, 
1804; he had been working in the harvest field and sustained a stroke of 
apoplexy while leaning over drinking from the spring. 
	Capt. William Gray was married to Mary Brady, daughter of Capt. John 
Brady, who had served in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars, and who 
was shot by the Indians near Muncy in 1779. Captain Brady was a son of Hugh 
Brady, of Cumberland county, Pa. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary 
Quigley, was a daughter of James Quigley, of Cumberland county. 
	P. W. Gray, the father of Mrs. T. A. Murdock, was married in 1847 to 
Margaret Frantz, of Selinsgrove, Pa., who was born in Reading, Pa., in 1819, 
and died in Sunbury in 1891. Margaret Frank was the daughter of John and Mary 
(Fricker) Frank. After her mother's death in 1824 she was taken and raised by 
Mrs. Simon Snyder, of Selinsgrove, widow of ex-Governor Snyder, and a friend of 
her mother's. John Frank, her father (1781-1834), was a hotel-keeper in 
Reading. In 1805 he married Mary Fricker, daughter of Anthony and Margaret 
Fricker, of Reading; Mrs. Margaret Fricker was a daughter of Conrad Weiser, the 
Indian interpreter of Colonial Pennsylvania. 
	Thomas A. and Margaret L. (Gray) Murdock were the parents of five 
children: Edna G.; Helen Margaret married to William B. Godcharles, of Milton 
(they have two children, Charles Augustus and Margaret); Donald; William G., 
and Frances. 
	William Gray Murdock was born in Milton, Pa., July 27, 1881. He 
graduated from the Milton high school in 1898 and after working several years 
in the office of the American Car & Foundry Company he attended Bucknell 
University and Dickinson Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1907, and in 
1909 succeeded to the office of his preceptor, the late Clarence G. Voris, Esq. 
In politics Mr. Murdock is a Republican, and in 1910 was a delegate to the 
State convention which nominated John K. Tener for governor, and was a member 
of the notification committee. On May 16, 1911, he was appointed postmaster of 
Milton. He is a director and secretary of the Mountain Water Company, and is 
secretary of the Milton Fair and Northumberland County Agricultural 
Association, and treasurer of the Protected Home Circle of Milton. In 1908 he 
served as worshipful master of Milton lodge, No. 256, F. & A.M., and is the 
present scribe of Warrior Run Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Watsontown. He is 
also a member of Williamsport Consistory and Adoniram Council of Williamsport. 
He is a member of the Milton Lodge of Elks and of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon 
college fraternity. In 1908 he published a History of Freemasonry in Milton 
and in 1909 a History of the Brady Family. He has written a number of articles 
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is a contributor to the "Pennsylvania German" magazine and the "Sigma Alpha 
Epsilon Record." 

	FRANKLIN E. KRUMM, who died June 22, 1910, resided on his farm in West 
Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, from 1874, until his death, and 
he was one of the most active and respected citizens of that section. He was 
a native of Orange township, Columbia Co., Pa., born Dec. 10, 1831, son of Jonas 
Krumm and grandson of Henry Krumm, the latter born in Northampton county, Pa., 
whence he moved with his family to Columbia county. Henry Krumm was a 
shoemaker, and followed his trade throughout his active years, his children 
operating the farm which he owned. He married Mary Elizabeth Wertman, and to 
them were born the following children: Jonas, Eli, Daniel, Philip, John, 
Benjamin, Jacob, Susan, Lydia, Kate, Phoebe and Annie. 
	Jonas Krumm, son of Henry, was born in Northampton county and accompanied 
his parents to Columbia county. After assisting his father for some years he 
learned the trade of blacksmith, which he followed for a number of years. He 
then farmed for some time in Columbia county, later living in Montour county, 
and he died at Turbutville, Northumberland county. His wife, Catharine (Ernst), 
was a daughter of Henry Ernst, whose wife was a Gietner. Eight children were 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Krumm: Franklin E.; Henry, who died at Bloom; 
Daniel, who died in Michigan; Nathan, deceased, who lived at Catawissa, Pa.; 
Amos, living at Bloom; George M., deceased; Lloyd, who lives at Danville, Pa.; 
and John, of Turbutville. 
	Franklin E. Krumm attended public school in his native county and 
remained with his father until he reached the age of twenty-one. He then 
learned the carpenter's trade, at which he was engaged for twenty-one years, 
assisting in the construction of most of the important buildings at 
Williamsport, Pa., and many of which went up in his own district. In 1860 he 
helped to put up a fine barn for his future father-in-law, Joseph Frederick, in 
his day the most prominent man in this part of Northumberland county. In 1874 
he located on the farm of 103 acres in what is now West Chillisquaque township 
which was ever afterward his home. It was formerly a Nesbit farm. Mr. Krumm was 
as successful at farming as he was at mechanical work, and he was one of the 
most esteemed citizens of his community, having proved himself worthy of the 
confidence of his fellowmen in all the associations of life. He was a member of 
the Reformed Church, and in politics identified with the Republican party. He 
died June 22, 1910, and was buried at Lewisburg. 
	In 1873 Mr. Krumm married Mrs. Clara A. E. (Frederick) Hottenstein, 
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Myers) Frederick, and widow of Rev. Aaron 
Hottenstein. She passed away in January, 1909, and is buried at Lewisburg. The 
following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Krumm: Ida C., who is the wife of 
John Zearfaus; Sarah A. E., who married John DeFrain and (second) T. H. Hannah; 
Bessie, who is the wife of Newton Raup; and Frederick Myers, now engaged in 
farming the homestead, who married Mary Snyder. 

	IVANHOE STEES HUBER, cashier of Shamokin Banking Company, of Shamokin, 
was born Oct. 4, 1845, at Pine Grove, Schuylkill Co., Pa., son of Levi and 
Margaret (Stackpole) Huber. 
	Mr. Huber's great-grandfather was born in one of the German Canton's of 
Switzerland, and emigrated to the United States about 1763 or a few years 
later. He settled in Lebanon county. Pa., where he was married. His son, 
Michael Huber, the grandfather of Ivanhoe S. Huber, was born April 28, 1769, 
in Tulpehocken township, Lebanon Co., Pa., and followed farming. He was a major 
in the State Militia and took a very active part in such affairs. He married 
Regina Elizabeth Uhler, who was born in Lebanon county, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Christopher Uhler. Michael Huber and his wife were members of the Reformed 
Church, and both died in Pine Grove township, Schuylkill Co., Pa. They were 
the parents of these children: John, Jacob, Michael, George, Philip, Solomon 
and Levi, and one daughter who died in infancy. 
	Maj. Levi Huber, son of Michael and Regina Elizabeth (Uhler) Huber, was 
born Nov. 9, 1818, in Pine Grove township, Schuylkill Co., Pa. The public 
schools of Pine Grove township and the Academy of Myerstown, Lebanon Co., Pa., 
were the sources through which he obtained his education. Leaving school he 
learned the tailor's trade at Pine Grove, and for four years did journey work 
in New York City and London, England. In 1844 he went into the tailoring 
business in Pine Grove on his own account, continuing it up to 1849. Meantime, 
from 1847 to 1849, he was a school director. For five terms, from 1849 to 
1854, he was engaged in teaching in the county. He was town clerk from 1853 to 
1857. In the spring of 1854 he was elected justice of the peace, but had not 
yet completed his term when he was, in 1857, elected county recorder of deeds, 
etc., for the term of three years, having been nominated on the Democratic 
ticket, the Republicans declining to name an opponent. Shortly after his 
election the family moved to Pottsville, the county seat. He was a soldier 
during the Civil war, having been mustered into the service as second 
lieutenant of Company B, 96th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, to 
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to captain July 30, 1862; to major Jan. 18, 1864. He participated in the 
following operations: Peninsular Campaign, Seven Days battles, engagements at 
Gaines's Mill, Chickahominy, Savage Station, Malvern Hill, South Mountain, 
Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Salem Church, Gettysburg, 
Rappahanock Station, Wilderness, Spottsylvania (where he was slightly wounded), 
Bloody Angle, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Shenandoah Valley Campaign, battle of 
Winchester and others of lesser note. He was mustered out Oct. 21, 1864. 
After coming out of the service he, in November, 1864, accepted a position in 
the extensive establishment of P. G. Yuengling (now D. G. Yuengling & Son), as 
office manager and confidential agent which position he held until his death, 
April 26, 1900. He was one of the incorporators and a director from 1871 to 
1896 of the Shamokin Banking Company. In the spring of 1865 he was elected a 
school director of the borough of Pottsville and served continuously as such 
for over thirty years, and fully half that time as president of the board. 
Upon the re- organization of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, some years 
after the war, he served for some time on the staff of Maj. Gen. J. K. 
Siegfried, as assistant adjutant general of the division. He was member of the 
Masonic fraternity, belonging to the Royal Arch Chapter and Knights Templars, 
in both of which he passed the several chairs; to the Order of the Nobles of 
the Mystic Shrine; the Odd Fellows, lodge, encampment and Patrirchs Militant; 
and Knights of Pythias. He was an active member of the G.A.R., Union Veterans 
Union, and Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion 
of the United States. By appointment he was for many years the D.D.G. Master, 
F. and A.M., of District No. 11, comprising twelve lodges in Schuylkill county, 
Pa. Politically Major Huber was all his life a Democrat. 
	On Oct. 15, 1844, at Pine Grove, Pa., Levi Huber was married (Rev. Aaron 
Kern performing the ceremony) to Margaret Stackpole, who was born April 4, 
1826, in McVeytown, Pa., daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Stees) Stackpole, 
and died at 1:30 o'clock on the morning of Dec. 31, 1894; she was buried Jan. 
2, 1895, in the Charles Baber cemetery, of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church 
of Pottsville. They had children born as follows: Ivanhoe Stees, Oct 4, 1845; 
Regina Elizabeth, March 17, 1847 (wife of F. R. Carpenter, of Bloomsburg, 
Pa.); Alice Ruth, Aug. 12, 1849 (died in infancy); Frederick Thomas, Sept. 9, 
1850 (who married Amelia M. E. Beyer, daughter of George Henry Beyer, of New 
York City, and died in New York City); Isabella, Feb. 21, 1853 (who was a 
public school teacher in Pottsville, Pa., where she died Aug. 27, 1876); Amelia 
Rebecca, March 29, 1857 (of Kingston, N. Y., wife of Prof. John E. Shull); 
Katharine Louisa, Nov. 13, 1858 (died in infancy); Sara Margaret Jan. 16, 1866 
(unmarried, living at Kingston, N. Y.). The two last named were born at 
Pottsville, Pa., the others at Pine Grove. The family have all been 
Presbyterians, except Frederick T., who was a Lutheran. 
	Ivanhoe Stees Huber, son of Levi and Margaret (Stackpole) Huber, lived at 
his native place until 1857, when his father having been elected recorder of 
the county, the family removed to Pottsville. He received his early education 
in the public schools of Pine Grove and Pottsville. In 1862 he entered the law 
office of Hon. Francis W. Hughes, at Pottsville, where he was engaged until 
December, 1864, when he was appointed teller of the First National Bank of 
Mahanoy City, Pa., filling that position until 1868. He then became secretary 
and superintendent of the Ringgold Coal and Iron Company, at New Ringgold, 
Schuylkill county, holding this position ten months, and resigning to accept 
the appointment of deputy prothonotary of Schuylkill county, which he occupied 
until Sept. 4, 1871, when he was appointed cashier of the Shamokin Banking 
Company, of Shamokin, serving as such continuously until now. He also was for 
many years a director of that company.  Mr. Huber's interests, of a business, 
social and religious nature, have been varied and numerous, and all looked 
after in the capable manner for which he is noted. Since 1883 he has been a 
director and treasurer of the Building and Loan Association of Shamokin, and he 
is a member of the Shamokin Board of Trade. From June, 1881, to 1902 he was 
treasurer of the borough of Shamokin, and also served as member of the school 
board from 1882 to 1885, acting as president of that body in 1883 and as 
treasurer in 1884. His ability as a financier is so generally recognized that 
he has been intrusted with financial responsibilities by almost every 
association with which he has been identified. For many years he was treasurer 
of the Shamokin Bible Society, and treasurer of the local advisory board of the 
Children's Home Society of Pennsylvania. He is a prominent member of the 
Protestant Episcopal denomination, a lay reader and warden of his home church - 
Trinity - in Shamokin, and is superintendent of the Sunday school. He is a 
member of the Laymen's Club; of the Church club, of the Diocese of Harrisburg 
(Pa.), being one of its founders; and of the Church Historical Society; is a 
member of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Harrisburg and has 
been since its organization, in November, 1904; is a member of the national 
council (United States) of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, and president of the 
Local Assembly of the same of the Archdeaconry of Williamsport. Other 
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Pennsylvania Forestry Association, the Schuylkill County Historical Society, 
the American Red Cross, the National Geographical Society, the Art Collectors 
Club and the Shamokin Fire Department. In politics Mr. Huber is a Democrat. In 
1863, when the Confederate army under Lee invaded the State, he enlisted in 
Company A, 27th Pennsylvania Volunteer Emergency Men, and served during the 
crisis. 
	On Sept. 8, 1869, Mr. Huber was married at Columbia, Lancaster Co., Pa., 
to Mary Bloomfield Houston, daughter of John W. and Mary Bloomfield (Martin) 
Houston, of Columbia.  She was born Jan. 10, 1845, and was educated in the 
public and other schools of Columbia, Pa., taught school in Lancaster county, 
and later conducted a select school in Mahanoy City for several years. Mr. and 
Mrs. Huber are the parents of five children: (1) Levi Houston Huber, born at 
Pottsville, Pa., Jan. 20, 1871, was educated in the public schools of Shamokin, 
leaving the high school in 1888 to enter the employ of the Shamokin Banking 
Company, where he remained until May 1, 1896. He enlisted June 14, 1898, in 
Company E, 12th Regiment P.V.I., and served during the Spanish-American war. In 
1899 he was with the United Gas  Improvement Company, Philadelphia, and was 
drug clerk at various places until 1903, when he was appointed to the 
Government Printing office, Washington, D. C. He attended Georgetown 
University, Medical Department 1902-1903, and entered George Washington 
University, Medical Department, Washington, D. C. 1903, and graduated 
therefrom June 6, 1906. He was appointed Feb. 29, 1908, physician, in the U. 
S. Indian Service, Fort Peck Agency, stationed at Wolf Point, Mont. He married 
at Culbertson, Mont., July 6, 1910, Beulah Ethel Greenwald, daughter of the 
Rev. Daniel J. Greenwald, D. D., and Judith (Bleiler) Greenwald.  (2) John 
Houston Huber, born at Shamokin, Pa. Feb. 2, 1873, graduated from the Shamokin 
high school with the class of 1891. He was for some time in the service of the 
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, and then served for ten years as night 
shipper for the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company, at Shamokin. In 
1906 he had a position at Seattle, Washington, and the same year was appointed 
to the United States Arsenal, at Pittsburg, Pa., which place he resigned in 
1909 on account of ill health and came back to Shamokin, where he died May 19, 
1911. He was a member of the Laymen's Club, Brotherhood of St. Andrew and 
Liberty Hose Company. (3) Margaret Elizabeth Huber, born Dec. 17, 1874,  in 
Shamokin, Pa., graduated from the Shamokin high school, class of 1893, and 
attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, in 1897 and 1898. She was 
married Oct. 18, 1905, to William Kirk Heffelfinger, son of Elmer and Kate 
(Cleaver) Heffelfinger, and they have one son, William Kirk Heffelfinger, Jr., 
born at Shamokin, Pa., March 22, 1907. (4) Mary Bloomfield Huber, born Feb. 10, 
1878, at Shamokin, Pa., was educated in the public schools, leaving the high 
school before the completion of the course. (5) Gertrude Stees Huber, born at 
Shamokin, Pa., July 29, 1885, graduated from the high school, class of 1904. 
She was married June 17, 1909, to Thomas Francis Downing, Jr., son of Thomas F. 
and Sarah (Forrest) Downing, and they have one daughter, Annette Huber Downing, 
born March 16, 1910. 
	In the maternal line Mr. Huber is descended from James Stackpole, a 
native of Ireland, who married Dorcas Holt, a native of England, and they had 
the following children: James, Margaret, Thomas and John. All this family were 
Presbyterians but Margaret, who was a Methodist. 
	Thomas Stackpole, son of James, born Oct. 3, 1797, one mile below 
Waynesburg (now McVeytown), Mifflin Co., Pa., was a contractor. He and John 
Stees (his brother-in-law) were the contractors who built the Union railroad, 
and it was in the trial trip that he met his death. He was a jolly fellow, a 
great huntsman, and a member of the military company. In politics he was a 
Whig. He married June 10, 1824, Elizabeth Stees, their children, all born in 
Waynesburg (now McVeytown), Wayne township, were: Margaret, born April 4, 
1826; Dorcas, born Dec. 25, 1828; Frederick (no record of birth or death) and 
Amelia Elizabeth, born Nov. 1, 1831. Margaret, Dorcas and Amelia were Lutherans 
conditionally at Pine Grove, the two former afterward becoming Presbyterians. 
Thomas Stackpole died Nov. 6, 1833. His death was caused by a train of cars on 
the Union railroad between Lorberry and Pine Grove, Pa. (at a point two to two 
and a half miles above Pine Grove), running over his right leg at the knee 
joint, death ensuing almost instantly. The cars were drawn by horses and he was 
in the act of getting on or off the cars when he met his death. His remains 
were interred in the Pine Grove burial ground of St. Peter's Lutheran and 
German Reformed Church, Pine Grove, Schuylkill Co., Pa., on Nov. 8, 1833, and 
were accompanied to the grave by the military and a large concourse of the 
citizens. His wife, Elizabeth, died April 26, 1852, at 12 o'clock at night, at 
Pine Grove, Pa. Her remains were deposited in St. John's Lutheran burial 
ground, Pine Grove, April 29, 1852. Mrs. Thomas Stackpole's parents, Frederick 
and Barbara (Moor) Stees, lived in Union county, Pa., where their children were 
born, as follows: Jacob, Jan. 25, 1790; John, Jan. 31, 1792; Frederick, April 
28, 1794; Maria, April 9, 1796; Benjamin, July 16, 1798; Catherine, Sept. 4, 
1800; Elizabeth, June 5, 1803 (at Middleburg, Pa.). All of the Stees family 
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	John Houston, the first ancestor of Mrs. Ivanhoe S. Huber of whom we have 
record, was of Scotch-Irish descent, came to the United States in 1740 from 
County Tyrone, Ireland, and settled in the Pequea Valley, in Lancaster county, 
Pa. He had eight children, among them Dr. John Houston, born in 1742, who was a 
surgeon in the American army during the Revolutionary war. 
	Dr. John Houston married May 6, 1773, Susanna Wright, born Aug. 24, 1752. 
They had a son, James Houston, born May 24, 1779. 
	James Houston married Jan. 7, 1805, Anna Rhoda Wright, and they had two 
children, John Wright Houston (born at Columbia, Pa., Aug. 2, 1807) and Susan 
Eleanor. 
	John Wright Houston on Sept. 26, 1833, married Mary Bloomfield Martin, 
who was born at Muncy, Pa., Feb. 2, 1809, and they were the parents of these 
children: Anna Rhoda, who married Gen. Lewis Merrill, U.S.A.; James Wright, who 
died in infancy; George Martin, who married Mary May; Eliza Brown, who married 
Capt. Charles N. Warner, U. S. A.; Emily Wright, who married Col. Richard H. 
Alexander, U.S.A.; Susan Eleanor; Sarah Wright; Mary Bloomfield, who married 
Ivanhoe S. Huber; Rachel Vincent; James, who died in infancy; William Augusta, 
who married Laura Detweiler; and Eleanor Wright, who married Dr. Carl L. 
Spethmann. John Wright Houston in early life was a druggist, and later on a 
civil engineer, having helped to lay out and construct the Broad Top railroad 
near Huntingdon, Pa. During the Civil war, he was connected with the 
quartermaster's department of the "Merrill Horse," a noted cavalry command. Mr. 
Houston died July 24, 1869, and Mrs. Houston, Aug. 31, 1878. Her grandfather, 
Robert Martin, married Mary Bloomfield. They had a son, William Augusta Martin, 
who about 1806 married Eliza Brown, born Feb. 13, 1786, and they were the 
parents of these children: George, Mary Bloomfield, Thomas Williamson, Edward, 
Robert Davidson, Courtland Yardley; Elizabeth Brown, Sarah Wright, Rachel 
Vincent, William Augusta and Franklin Wright.  

	HARRY R. DEETER, superintendent of the Lewisburg, Milton and Watsontown 
Passenger Railway Company, at Milton, was born in Paradise, this county, April 
11, 1872. The Deeter family has lived in Pennsylvania for several 
generations. 
	Jacob Deeter, the grandfather, was born in Montour county, Pa., and on 
reaching manhood took up farming in Chillisquaque township, Northumberland 
county, where he died in 1850. He was a deacon and elder in the Methodist 
Episcopal church, to which his wife also belonged. He married Eliza Ann Barr, a 
native of Lycoming county, Pa., born April 3, 1821, died June 17, 1859, and 
buried at Paradise Church. To this union were born two children William A., 
mentioned below; and George M., who died unmarried. After Mr. Deeter's death 
his widow married Daniel Karchner, born March 26, 1814, died April 27, 1889, 
and buried at Paradise Church. To her second marriage were born Russell K., 
vice president of the Reid Tobacco Company, and residing at Milton; Martha J.; 
Anna R.; Nora, deceased. 
	William A. Deeter, son of Jacob and father of Harry R., was born in 
Chillisquaque township, Jan. 19, 1846, and followed farming all his active 
life. In politics he was a Democrat, and he always took a great interest in the 
welfare of his party. He was twice a candidate for county commissioner, being 
the nominee of his party both times, but was both times defeated by small 
majorities at the polls.  He served as tax collector in his district. Mr. 
Deeter was a deacon in the Lutheran church many years. In 1892 he came to 
Milton where his death occurred July 18, 1894, and his remains were interred in 
Paradise cemetery. In 1871 he married Margaret Gouger, daughter of John R. 
Gouger of Montour county. She now makes her home in Milton. This union was 
blessed with two children, Harry R. and May N. 
	Harry R. Deeter received his education in the local schools in Paradise, 
and for one term attended the Milton schools. For five years he was employed by 
the Reid Tobacco Company, at Milton, and for one year was traveling salesman 
for a Philadelphia house. On June 1, 1899, he entered the service of the L. M. 
& W. Passenger Railway Co., as chief clerk, and was advanced to superintendent 
 on Jan. 1, 1911. 
	Politically Mr. Deeter is a Republican, and he has served on the election 
board of the Second ward of Milton. He is a member of the Lutheran church. His 
fraternal connections are with Milton Lodge, No. 256, F. & A.M.; Warrior Run 
Chapter, No. 246, R.A.M.; and the Improved Order of Heptasophs. 
	Mr. Deeter married Ida M. Lowe, daughter of Thomas J. Lowe, of 
Watsontown, and they have one daughter, Margaret R.  

	MENGEL. The Mengel family with which this article deals is a Schuylkill 
county family and many of its members still reside in that region, where the 
founder, Adam Mengel, settled upon coming to this country. Dr. John S. Mengel, 
of Trevorton, Northumberland county, is descended from this pioneer through 
his son Conrad, and Frank J. Mengel, of Sunbury, Northumberland county, is 
descended through his son John. The family hold reunions, which are well 
attended, and the officers of the association are: Dr. J. S. Mengel, of 
Trevorton, Pa., president; M. D. Mengel, vice president; H. S. Mengel, 
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Fehr, treasurer; J. M. Hoffman, of Reading, Pa., historian. The second 
reunion was held on Labor Day, Sept. 6, 1909, at Bowen's Park, Schuylkill 
Haven, Pennsylvania. 
	Adam Mengel, the first of the family in this country, came from Germany, 
and settled in Schuylkill county, Pa., where Port Clinton is now located. He 
was one of the promoters and organizers of the old Pine Dale church there, 
being one of its original members, and he is buried at that church. His 
children were: George (who lived to the age of ninety years), Conrad, Adam, 
Philip, John, Jacob, Barney and Catharine (married Michael Hartman). 
	Conrad Mengel, son of Adam, was born upon the Mengel homestead in 
Schuylkill county and followed farming. For some time he taught private school. 
His wife was Susan Rishel, and both died when about seventy-seven years old.  
They are buried at Auburn, Schuylkill county. They had children as follows: 
Esther married Dewalt Paff; William R. died in Nebraska, at the age of ninety 
years; Sophia married Joseph Debinder; Kate married George Matz, (second) Adam 
Gabey and (third) Abraham Loose; Benjamin married Dorothy Fink; Peter married 
Mary Faust; Manasses is mentioned below; Lucy married Francis Hoffman and has 
children, Rosie (wife of William Affleck), Jeremiah M. (who married Laura A. 
Kantner), Lillie (married Lewis A. Mengel) and John (of San Francisco). 
	Manasses Mengel, son of Conrad, was born in 1828 at Auburn, Schuylkill 
county, and died Sept. 6, 1908. He was employed upon the canal for a time, but 
farming was his principal occupation through life, and he purchased a farm in 
Brunswick township, Schuylkill county, upon which he settled, cultivating that 
place until his death, which occurred there. He married Angeline Seltzer, 
daughter of Jacob and Mary (Faust) Seltzer. Mr. and Mrs. Mengel are buried in 
the cemetery of the Church of God, at Auburn. They had a large family, as 
follows: Francis S. (born in 1856, died in 1907) married Rebecca Hehn and had 
children, Robert, Oscar, John, Francis, Howard, Walter and Edith; John S. is 
mentioned below; Manasses, who resides in Reading, Pa., married Ida Fahl, by 
whom he had two children, Harvey and Eva, and (second) Isabella Schwartz, by 
whom he had one son, Clarence; Ellen married William Fehr, now of Easton, Pa., 
and they have children, Howard, Bertha, William, Charles and Lester; George, 
who is living upon the homestead in Wayne township, Schuylkill county, married 
Lucy Jamison, and they have children, Charles, Amy, Foster, Minnie, Elsie, 
Jennie, Abner, Lucy and Dorothy; Howard, now living at Friedensburg, 
Schuylkill county, married Sallie Reed, and their children are William, Lester, 
Ellen, Amelia and Irwin; Minnie J. is the wife of Prof. Samuel G. Smith, a 
teacher in the high school at Trevorton, and they have children, Carolyn, 
William, Howard, Herman and Esther; Ida (deceased) married Reuben Mengel, her 
second cousin; Allen married Jennie Nagel and their children are Miriam and 
Delina; Bertha married Milton Patchett and is living in Schuylkill county; 
Bessie married George Sheaffer and has children, Lillie, Edith, Effie and 
Herman (they live in Schuylkill county). 
	JOHN S. MENGEL, M. D., of Trevorton, Northumberland county, was born 
March 7, 1860, at Auburn, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and there received his 
preliminary education in the public schools. Later he attended the State 
Normal at  Kutztown, Pa., and he received his medical training at Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated in 1887. 
Locating at Greenbrier, Northumberland county, he practiced there until his 
removal to Trevorton in 1902. Here he has since continued in general practice, 
having a large circle of patrons in the town and surrounding territory, and he 
also has the only drug store in the place. Dr. Mengel has, by his useful 
citizenship and participation in the affairs of the community, become one of 
its respected and influential members. He is well known among the fraternal 
orders, belonging to the I.O.O.F. (he is president of the Odd Fellows Hall 
Association at Trevorton), the, P.O.S. of A., the K.G.E., the F.O.E. and the 
Woodmen of the World. The Doctor has been very active in the Mengel Family 
Association ever since its organization, and was its first president. Its 
first reunion was held at Friedensburg, Schuylkill county, in 1908; the second 
at Schuylkill Haven, in 1909; and the third at Landingville, Schuylkill county, 
in 1910. 
	On Feb. 16, 1892, Dr. Mengel married Mary E. Geist, daughter of Andrew 
and Abbie (Hepler) Geist, and they have three children: Willard G., John G. and 
Annie G. The family attend the United Evangelical Church. 
	John Mengel, son of the Adam Mengel who came to this country from Germany 
and settled in Schuylkill county as above related, was a farmer, and lived in 
the vicinity of Red Church, in West Brunswick township, that county, and he is 
buried at that church. He and his wife, Elizabeth, were advanced in years when 
they died. Among their children were: John, Adam, Peter, Joseph, Seth and 
Jacob. 
	Mengel records at the Red Church show the following:  Johann Phillip, 
born Nov. 9, 1771; parents Conrad and Catharine. Johanes, born March 15, 1793; 
parents Adam and Elizabeth. John Edwin, born April 2, 1799; parents John and 
Elizabeth. 
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born April 2, 1799, and lived and died in Wayne township, Schuylkill county, 
where he followed farming. He had a farm of 150 acres. He was a member of the 
Church of Christ and served as one of the officers of that church. His wife, 
Rebecca (Moyer), daughter of Jacob and Catherine Moyer, was born Dec. 28, 
1809, and died Feb. 8, 1897. Mr. Mengel died in 1876, and they are buried side 
by side in the cemetery of the Evangelical church at Reedsville, in Wayne 
township, Schuylkill county. They were the parents of thirteen children, 
namely: Sarah, who married Joseph Moyer; Dianah, who married Henry Gerhard; 
Priscilla, who died in youth; Rebecca, wife of J. B. Reber; Emma, wife of Seth 
Lenhart; Louisa, Mrs. Daniel Moyer; Thomas; Frank; Edward; John; Daniel; and 
one son and one daughter, who died young. 
	Rev. Edward Mengel, son of John, was born May 6, 1837, and died April 25, 
1897. He is buried in the cemetery of the Reformed Church at Orwigsburg, 
Schuylkill county. Mr. Mengel was a farmer by occupation, owning and operating 
a farm of ninety acres, but he devoted much time to religious work, being 
noted for his pious and Godly life. He was a leading member and local minister 
of the Church of Christ frequently preaching sermons, held various offices in 
the church and was also an enthusiastic Sunday school worker, serving as 
superintendent of the Sunday school. Mr. Mengel married Priscilla Gerhard, who 
was born May 4, 1837, daughter of Henry and Salome Gerhard, her people coming 
from the Tulpehocken Valley, in Berks county. Mrs. Mengel died Aug. 9, 1874. 
Her funeral services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Leise. Eight children were 
born to their union: Esther V. married John Werner; James A. is a resident of 
Mount Pulaski, Ill.; Annie P. died in 1907, unmarried; Sallie married William 
H. Blackton; Thomas E. lives in San Francisco, Cal.; Albert M. died July 6, 
1906, at Orwigsburg, Pa.; Emma L. (deceased) was the wife of Harry Charles; 
Frank J. is a resident of Sunbury. 
	FRANK J. MENGEL, son of Rev. Edward, was born Dec. 27,  1871, in Wayne 
township, Schuylkill county, and there received his education in the public 
schools. He spent his early life in his native place, and was reared on the 
farm. When seventeen years old Mr. Mengel learned the art of telegraphy in the 
service of the Reading Railway Company, at Auburn, Schuylkill county, working 
for that company about four years. In 1892 he changed to the Pennsylvania 
Railway Company, in whose employ he has since remained, and he has been 
located at Sunbury since 1894. In 1902 he was promoted to his present position, 
that of train dispatcher at that point. Mr. Mengel is a reliable worker, and 
has the confidence of his superiors, gained by conscientious service and 
trustworthiness in the discharge of all his duties. 
	Since becoming a resident of Sunbury Mr. Mengel has traveled very 
extensively in North America. In 1901 he crossed the continent and spent some 
time on the Pacific coast visiting the Catalina islands and the old historic 
bay of Monterey, scaling Mount Lowe in California, and on his return trip 
ascending Pike's Peak in a snowstorm on Aug. 7th. In 1906, with his wife and 
daughter Esther, he made a trip to Canada. In 1907 they took a trip along the 
New England coast visiting Bunker Hill and other places of historic interest. 
In 1908 they made a trip to the Gulf of Mexico and as far west as Salt Lake 
City, on July 1st of that year scaling Pike's Peak, where Mr. Mengel had his 
second experience of a snowstorm in summer. In 1909 they traveled through the 
Middle Western States. In 1910 business matters prevented them taking their 
annual trip. It has been Mr. Mengel's aim to visit and study the marvels of 
North America rather than go abroad, yet he would very much like to make a 
journey to Prussia, the land from which his ancestors were exiled for their 
religions activities during and following Luther's reformation. 
	On Dec. 11, 1902, Mr. Mengel married Laura Shipe, daughter of Freeman and 
Mary (Hallman) Shipe and granddaughter of Solomon Shipe, of Rockefeller 
township, this county. Freeman Shipe is a carpenter and lives in Sunbury. Mr. 
and Mrs. Mengel have one child, Esther Luella. Mr. Mengel is a leading member 
of the Catawissa Avenue Methodist church, in whose life he has been most 
active. He was chairman of the building committee that had in charge the 
rebuilding of the present edifice, in 1910, is a member of the board of 
trustees, and teacher of the men's Bible class. Socially he is a member of the 
Royal Arcanum and in political connection he is a Republican, though 
independent in his support of candidates.  

	KLOCK. The first ancestor of this old family in America was Peter Klock, 
a German by birth, who came to this country about 1750. His first location was 
somewhere in Berks county, in the Province of Pennsylvania, according to some 
in Bern township, according to others near Womelsdorf, and again in Oley 
township. It is probable that the last named location is more nearly the 
correct one. At any rate, Oley township was the home of one Peter Kluck in 
1756, on March 24th of which year the house of Peter Kluck, about fourteen 
miles from Reading, was set on fire by the savages, and the whole family 
killed. (Berks County History, 1909, says Peter Kluck and family, of Albany, 
were killed by the Indians in March, 1756.) While the flames were still 
ascending the Indiana made an assault upon the house of one Linderman, in which 
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one woman, all of whom ran upstairs, where the woman was killed by a shot 
which went through the roof. 
	John Peter Klock, the ancestor of the Klocks in Northumberland county of 
whom we write, was born Jan. 1, 1743, and as tradition has it that he came to 
America when seven years old - this substantiates the date of 1750 for the 
emigration of Peter Kluck, whom the Indians killed. Rupp's History makes the 
statement that the "whole family was killed," which is probably inaccurate, as 
John Peter Klock is said to have been and undoubtedly was a son of Peter 
Kluck. He died Dec. 9, 1817, aged seventy-five years, less twenty four days. 
His wife, Margareda, born April 10, 1747, died April 4, 1832. They had the 
following children: John Peter, Jr., was the grand father of Dr. Henry A. 
Flock, who died at Mahanoy City, Pa., in 1908, aged fifty-nine years; George 
had a son Abraham, who is buried at St. Peter's church, Mahanoy, and whose son 
Noah was county commissioner of Northumberland county; Henry located in 
Indiana, where his descendants still live; Jacob settled in Virginia before 
1790; Valentine is mentioned below; Mrs. Peter Starr lived near Rough and 
Ready, in Schuylkill county, Pa. According to another account there was also a 
son David, who lived in Pike township, Berks county, where on Aug. 13, 1818, 
his son David K. was born. On Feb. 25, 1793, David Klock received a warranty 
deed for a tract of 343 acres of land, called "Beauty," located on the Little 
Mahantango creek, near the line of Northumberland and Berks counties. The name 
in the deed is written Peter Kluck, but in the body of the document it appears 
as Cluck. It is now pronounced as if written Clock, from which we obtain the 
spelling Klock, in the German style. The name has been spelled Kluck, Cluck, 
Clock and Klock, the latter being the commonest and probably the correct form. 
The descendants of David Klock reside in the northwestern part of Schuylkill 
county and in Washington and Jackson townships, Northumberland county. The late 
Dr. Henry A. Klock, of Mahanoy, devoted considerable attention during 1907 to 
tracing the family history, but he died during 1908 before the completion of 
his laudable undertaking. 
	In the foregoing account Valentine Klock, the ancestor of the Klocks to 
which this article is specially devoted, is given as a son of John Peter Klock. 
According to another account he was probably a son of David Klock, Sr. He was 
born March 27, 1786, lived in Jackson township, and was a blacksmith and 
farmer, owning a tract of many acres, which has since been divided into 
different farms. Felix Flock, one of his grandsons, owns forty acres of this 
old homestead. Valentine Klock was engaged in blacksmithing near Mahanoy. He 
died Sept. 11, 1870, and is buried at St. Peter's Church, at Mahanoy, of which 
he was a Lutheran member. His wife, Maria Zerbe, was born Oct. 17, 1788, and 
died May 30, 1866. They had children as follows: Felix died unmarried; Peter 
lived near Mahanoy Church on the farm now owned by Felix Klock (he married 
Esther Schlegel and their children were John, Daniel, Frank, Joseph, David, 
Harriet, Clinton and Andrew); John is mentioned below; Daniel settled in 
Illinois; Rebecca married a Mr. Krebs and they also located in Illinois; 
Catharine married Jacob Zerfing and they lived in Washington township, this 
county; Sallie married John Schlegel; Judith died unmarried. 
	John Klock, son of Valentine, was born Aug. 11, 1818, in Upper Mahanoy 
township, and died Aug. 3, 1863. He is buried at St. Peter's Church, Mahanoy, 
of which he was an official member. Mr. Klock owned a tract of twenty-seven 
acres in Jackson township, and he was a carpenter by trade, during the winter 
time working in his shop. He built a number of houses and barns, and had a 
thriving business, teaching the trade to a number of apprentices and employing 
as many as five men during his busy seasons. He had an excellent reputation as 
a mechanic, and was known to all as a useful citizen, worthy of the esteem 
which he enjoyed among his fellow men. On Oct. 19, 1862, Mr. Klock enlisted in 
Company D (Capt. George Ship, Jr.), 172d Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, for 
nine months' service, and he is described as being five feet, ten inches in 
height, of dark complexion, and with gray hair. He was discharged from the 
service Aug. 1, 1863, at Harrisburg, where he died two days later, Aug. 3, 1863, 
while marching with his regiment; he is buried at St. Peter's church in Mahanoy. 
	Mr. Klock married Elizabeth Rebuck, who was born June 8, 1826, daughter 
of Peter Rebuck; his mother's maiden name was Stepp. Mrs. Klock died Aug. 31, 
1871, the mother of the following named children: Felix is mentioned below; 
Frank R. is mentioned below; Sarah Webster Leffler; Galen R. is mentioned 
below; Clinton is deceased; Wilhelmina, unmarried, lives at Berrysburg, Pa.; 
Miranda, unmarried, who lives at Sunbury, has been an invalid since 1874; 
Samuel is a resident of Washington township. 
	FRANK R. KLOCK, a retired farmer, now living in the borough of Sunbury, 
Northumberland county, was born Oct. 30, 1849, in Jackson township. He attended 
the schools at Mahanoy, in that township, and from his earliest years was 
trained to farm work, which he continued to follow throughout his active years. 
Living for a time in Jackson township, and then for three years in Little 
Mahanoy township, in 1882 he settled in Lower Augusta township, where he has a 
tract of seventy acres, his son Calvin now renting and operating this place. 
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1908, he moved to Sunbury, where his home is at No. 809 East Market street 
owning that place and another piece of property in the borough. Mr. Klock has 
always taken an interest in the public affairs of the community, and while a 
resident of Lower Augusta township he served three years as school director. In 
Little Mahanoy township he was constable for one year. Politically he is a 
Democrat and in religion he is a Lutheran, his family also belonging to that 
church. During his residence in Lower Augusta township he served the church in 
an official capacity. 
	On Feb. 29, 1882, Mr. Klock married Harriet Dunkelberger, daughter of 
Joseph and Mary (Malick) Dunkelberger and granddaughter of Christophel 
Dunkelberger, of Little Mahanoy township. They have two children: Howard D., 
of Lower Augusta township; and Calvin D., who farms his father's old place in 
Lower Augusts township. 

	GALEN B. KLOCK, a farmer near Mahanoy, in Jackson township, was born in 
that township April 18, 1853, and when nineteen years old commenced to learn 
the trade of miller. After following it about three years, he went to Ogle 
county. Ill., in 1874, and there remained for three months. Proceeding farther 
west he lived at Milton Junction, Iowa, for three years. Returning to his home 
in Pennsylvania Christmas day, 1877, he soon went to Shamokin, where he was in 
the hotel business for one year, and then for two years he returned to the 
occupation of his youth, farming in Jackson township. For six months he was a 
United States mail driver between Dornsife and Pitman, and after his marriage, 
which took place in 1880, he worked on the railroad for about six years. The 
next three years he was an employee of the National Transit Company. In July 
1895, Mr. Klock purchased the J. H. Hoffman homestead, near Mahanoy, where he 
has since made his home, having moved to this place soon after it came into his 
possession. This farm consist of seventy-five acres located along the State 
road from Herndon to Mahanoy. Mr. Klock has interested himself in local affairs 
to some extent, having served six years as supervisor, was roadmaster for three 
years, and is at present overseer of the poor. He is a Democrat in political 
faith. 
	In 1880 Mr. Klock married Amanda Agnes Kulp, who was born in Berks 
county, Pa., daughter of John and Caroline (Rhoad) Kulp, of Jackson Township 
and they have had children as follows: M., who married Frank Seigrath, of 
Mahanoy City; Dora J., John H., Mary F., George L., Katie F. and Anna M., all 
of whom reside at home. Mr. Klock and his family are members of the Lutheran 
congregation of St. Peter's church, at Mahanoy, and he has served as deacon of 
that organization.  

	FELIX KLOCK, a farmer near Mahanoy, now Red Cross, in Washington 
township, was born Jan. 16, 1847, on the farm of his grandfather, Valentine 
Klock, in Jackson township. He was reared to farm life, and in his twenty-first 
year went to learn shoemaking, which trade he followed for twenty-three years, 
in Jordan and Jackson townships. In 1890 he began farming at his present home 
in Washington township, a farm of 145 acres formerly owned by one of his 
uncles. It is good land, and under the management of the present owner has 
yielded an excellent income. Mr. Klock built a large frame dwelling house there 
in 1903. He has always been energetic and ambitious, and for sixteen years he 
followed threshing as well as farming, being regarded as one of the best 
threshers in his end of Northumberland county. He operated an up-to- date 
outfit and has threshed as much as 47,000 bushels of grain in one season. In 
this connection he became particularly well known. Mr. Klock is a Democrat and 
served one term as school director of Washington township. He is a Lutheran 
member of St. Peter's church, where many generations of the Klock family have 
worshipped, and many of the name are buried in the cemetery there.  
	On May 16, 1869, Mr. Klock married Sarah Adelia Bordner, and they have 
had twelve children: Alice, wife of Jerre Spotts; Lizzie M. who died young; 
Jonathan F., of the State of Washington; George F., who died when twenty-five 
years old, leaving three children, Charles H., William F. and George F.; Susan 
B., wife of Francis W. Hoffman; Dorsey L., of Washington township; Chartlena J., 
who died in infancy; Carrie A., who married George Schaffer; J. Cleveland, of 
Herndon, Pa.; Francis M.; Minnie A., who has been an invalid all her life, and 
William A. 
	BORDNER. The Bordner family, to which Mrs. Felix Klock belongs, is 
descended from Balthaser (Baltser) Bordner, who at the age of thirty- four 
years, together with his wife Marilles, aged thirty seven years, and three 
children - Jacob, Hanna and Mela, aged ten, eight and  seven years, 
respectively, sailed from Rotterdam on the ship "Adventurer," and landed at 
Philadelphia Sept. 22, 1732. Balthaser Bordner settled in Tulpehocken 
township, Lancaster (now Berks) county, immediately after landing, and died 
there in 1747. 
	Jacob Bordner, son of Balthaser, was born in 1722. He was executor of his 
father's estate, and on April 10, 1761, was naturalized as a citizen of 
Tulpehocken township, Berks county, at the Supreme court of Philadelphia. On 
June 20, 1761, he purchased from Thomas and Richard Penn the present Bordner 
homestead, which had been leased to Jacob Hoffman, who was unable to pay his 
rental. Since that day the homestead has been owned by a son of each 
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reared a family of seven children: Jacob (2), John, William, Daniel, Peter, Anna 
Maria and Barbara. The father died in 1792, and by his will the homestead passed 
to his eldest son, Jacob (2) 
	Jacob Bordner (2), son of Jacob, was born in 1754, and spent his whole 
life upon the homestead. He was married to Anna Maria Brosz, seven years his 
junior. They had a family of six children Jacob (3), John, Catharine, 
Elizabeth, Julian and Susanna. Jacob Bordner (2) died in 1837, willing the 
homestead to his eldest son Jacob (3). The widowed mother survived her husband 
two years. 
	Balthaser Bordner, grandfather of Mrs. Felix Klock, was of this stock. He 
was born in the Tulpehocken Valley, in Berks county, and at an early date 
settled in Lower Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, acquiring a large 
tract of land, which has now been divided into four farms. The original 
homestead now belongs to the Hain estate. Mr. Bordner was a lifelong farmer. He 
was born Feb. 21, 1778, and died Jan. 13, 1853, and is buried at Zion's Stone 
Valley church. His wife, Mary Magdelena Emerich, daughter of Jacob Emerich, a 
pioneer of the Tulpehocken Valley, was also of old Berks county stock. She was 
born April 22, 1782, and died Nov. 1, 1870. Their children were: Jacob, 
John, Jonathan (born Nov. 23, 1806, died Oct. 27, 1887; wife Leah Keihl, born 
May 28, 1809, died May 10, 1877), Peter, Molly, Elizabeth, Lucy, Catharine, 
Joseph, Isaac, Philip (died unmarried at the age of sixty-one and is buried at 
Stone Valley church) and George. 
	Jacob Bordner, one of the sons of Balthaser and Mary Magd. (Emerich) 
Bordner, died Nov. 23, 1845, aged forty one years, one month, four days. He was 
a butcher by occupation. His wife, Magdalena (Wolf), died June 29, 1844, aged 
thirty-six years, two months, twenty-nine days. They were the parents of nine 
children, as follows: (1) George is mentioned below. (2) Lucian,. born Jan. 
20, 1827, died May 7, 1831, and is buried at Williamsville, Erie Co., N. Y., 
from the cemetery at which place many of the dates in this article have been 
obtained. (3) Augustus born Jan. 9, 1829, lived at Burr Oak, Mich., was a 
cooper and mason by trade, and during the latter part of his active life was 
occupied as a dray man. He died April 13, 1909. On June 8, 1858 he married 
Catherine Lavin, born Sept. 20, 1839 died Jan. 14, 1905. They had children: 
George E., born Aug. 15, 1859, a jeweler of Mason, Mich. married Nettie Breed 
and they have one daughter Lenigene; Benjamin F., born April 18, 1861, married 
Carrie Betcher and they have one daughter Hazel. (4) Sarah, born April 2, 
1832, in Erie county, was married July 8, 1850, to A. N Hill, a cooper, who 
lived at Three Rivers, Mich. She died Feb. 13, 1907. Three daughters were 
born to this union : Martha, who married John Packard (a cooper) and died 
several years ago (no children); Emma, unmarried, who lives with her father; 
and Ida, who married Alex. Hall, a painter, of Three Rivers, Mich. (they have 
no children). (5) William, born June 6, 1833, died April 18, 1857. (6)  
Bliss, born May 21, 1836, died April 10, 1848, and is buried at Williamsville, 
N. Y. (7) Henry is a farmer at Onawa, Monona Co., Iowa.  (8) Benjamin F., born 
Aug. 22, 1841, is a farmer by occupation. During the Civil war he served in 
Company K, 11th Michigan Infantry. He married Mary Dunlap, who was born Oct. 
28, 1842, and they had children: Ralph born Nov. 14, 1870, a farmer, married 
Viola Everet, who was born July 19, 1879, and they have three children, Clare 
(born Nov. 30, 1897) Zada (born April 2, 1903) and Irene (born Oct. 24, 1909); 
Guy D., born May 4, 1876, cashier of the First National Bank of Burr Oak, 
Mich., married Vinnie Woodman, born Sept. 25, 1876, and they have three 
children, Howard (born July 23, 1903), Dorothy (born Aug. 25, 1907) and John 
Benjamin (born Nov. 18, 1909); Mark, born July 19, 1879, a carpenter, married 
Mamie McKee, born Dec. 30, 1877, and they have two children, Isabel (born Jan. 
20, 1903) and Rea (born March 7, 1906). (9) Martha, born July 19, 1843, 
married Hiram Pyle, a blacksmith, of Burr Oak, Mich., and they have three 
daughters all married: Mrs. Mary Watson, the eldest, lives in Coldwater, Mich.; 
Mrs. Sarah Plant lives on a farm at Burr Oak, Mich.; Mrs. Mina Stewart lives in 
Sturgis, Michigan. 
	George Bordner, eldest son of Jacob, was born Feb. 28, 1825, in Erie 
county, Pa., and died May 20, 1903. He lived at Burr Oak, Mich., and followed 
the trade of mason. Fraternally he was a Freemason. He was married Sept. 29, 
1850, and his wife, Catharine (Phillips), died July 1896. They had children as 
follows: Lucius A. born Aug. 10, 1851, died June 1, 1852, and is buried at 
Williamsville, N. Y.; William H., born Dec. 10, 1853, is mentioned below; 
Charles A., born June 7, 1855, lives at Pasadena, Cal., and is engaged at 
manual labor (he married Audra Morgan) ; Hattie C., born March 7, 1859, still 
lives on the place at Burr Oak, Mich., where she was born. 
	William H. Bordner, son of George, was born Dec. 10, 1853, at 
Williamsville, Erie Co., N. Y. and is a blacksmith and machinist of Burr Oak 
Mich. He is the patentee and manufacturer of the "Hold-Fast" marsh or mud shoe 
for horses, and follows blacksmithing in all its branches, wood working, and 
machinists' work of all kinds, also dealing in junk.  Mr. Bordner married Addie 
S. Gregg, who was born Nov. 27, 1854, and they have three children: (1) Mabel 
C., born Nov. 29, 1879, married Harry Van Etta, a druggist, born July 21, 
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Orland, Ind. They have two children: Maxon, born July 29, 1904, and Richard, 
born June 22, 1908.(2) Elmer Lloyd, born Dec. 21, 1883, is a machinist and is 
now in Chicago, Ill. (3) Gela B. born Aug. 7, 1888, married Alpheus J. Miller, 
a farmer, who was born March 1, 1887, and they live at Sturgis, Michigan. 
	Jonathan Bordner, son of Balthaser, and his wife Leah (Keihl) had nine 
children, as follows: Katie married Isaac Duttry; Lizzie married Moses Heckert 
and died Sept. 15, 1910; Sarah died unmarried; Louise married George Lahr; 
Corlina married Adam Daniel; John married Lovina Weary (buried at Shamokin); 
Emanuel married Mary Dreigo and is buried at Miser's Church in Snyder county; 
William married Polly Derrick and died in May, 1908 (he is buried at Zion's 
Stone Valley Church; his widow lives in Georgetown); Leah, born Sept. 4, 1839, 
married John Tressler (who is serving as justice of the peace Washington 
township, an office he has held for the past fifty years) and they have had 
eleven children, David (born Oct. 12, 1858, died aged four months, seven days), 
Mary Ann (born March 17, 1860, died Nov. 12, 1863, buried at St. Peter's 
Church), Sarah Alice born July 12, 1861, died Nov. 23, 1863, buried at St 
Peter's, Church), Minnie Minerva (married Daniel Schlegel and has one son, 
Jay), Adam B. (married Amelia Stepp, died Oct. 6, 1908, and is buried at St. 
Peter's Church, Mahanoy; they had two children, Curtis C., of Trevorton, and 
Gertrude M., who lived with her mother at Mahanoy - now Red Cross), Henry (born 
Oct. 11, 1864, married Katie Harris and has two children, Carrie E. and Ann), 
Jacob F. (born Dec. 19, 1866, married Nora Byerly and has five children, 
Charles I., Daisy N. Mary E., John Jacob and Goldie; of these: Charles I. 
married Mary A. Spotts, granddaughter of Felix and Sarah A. Klock, and they 
have three sons, Norman L., Luther I. and an infant), Anna (born Nov. 4, 1870, 
married Maurice Bower), Almeretta (born May 9, 1871, married John Krissinger 
and had four children, of whom Katie died June 18, 1911, Bertha is at home and 
Edgar is deceased), Katie S. (born in 1872, died May 21, 1893, and is buried at 
St. Peter's; she married Samuel Diehl and had three children, Harvey E., Gertie 
and Mabel) and Charlie J. (born July 15, 1873, graduated from the Kutztown 
school and taught many years, and is now cashier of the Sunbury Trust & Safe 
Deposit Company; he married Louise Geise). 
	Isaac Bordner, son of Balthaser and Mary Magd., (Emerich) Bordner, was 
born May 7, 1822 and died Aug. 15, 1899. In 1849 he married Mary Magdelena 
Eyster who died in 1871. Their children were: John, mentioned below; Amelia; 
Catherine, born Sept. 26, 1853, who has never married and has always made her 
home with her brother John; and Henrietta, born Feb. 10, 1857, who married 
Joseph Kauffman in 1873 and died Feb. 23, 1875.  All these children were born 
in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania. 
	John Bordner, born Oct. 28, 1849, was a farmer throughout his active 
years, on the place now cultivated by his sons John S. and William H. Bordner, 
and he and his wife, sister Amelia and two daughters now live just a half mile 
from that place. In 1876 he married Catherine Ann Dohmer, and they have five 
children: (1) John S., born Feb. 23, 1877, was married June 10, 1908, to 
Stanta Dora Lung. (2) William H., born Sept. 12, 1879, is in business in 
partnership with his brother John. (3) George E., born June 7, 1881, married 
Nov. 26, 1902, Edna May Statsman, and their children are Russell (born Aug. 4, 
1903) and Kenneth (born Dec. 15, 1906). (4) Ida Elizabeth, born Sept. 21, 
1883, and (5) Mabel Bernice, born July 5, 1899, reside with their parents. All 
the children and grandchildren of John Bordner have been born in Elkhart 
county, Ind. John S. and William H. Bordner are now on their father's old farm 
at Bristol, that county, engaged in scientific agriculture, specializing in the 
scientific raising of farm crops and also of stock.  Their place is known as 
The Bordner Plant and Animal Breeding Station.  Both brothers are college men, 
John S. of Indiana and Michigan Universities, and William H. of Purdue. While 
the former was a student at Indiana University he formed the acquaintance of 
several families of Bordners of Brookston, Ind., who knew considerable about 
the early history of the family. They claimed the Bordners were Swiss Germans, 
and said their brother, a professor in some eastern Pennsylvania College, had 
in his possession the original deed received by the first ancestor on this 
continent and his bachelor brother (the latter never married).  The land was 
located in one of the counties south of Northumberland. 
	Joseph Bordner, son of Balthaser, married Susanna Michael and had seven 
children, four of whom died in infancy. The others were: Henry, a sailor, who 
died at Harrisburg, unmarried; Catharine, wife of Joseph Klock, son of Peter 
Klock (lived at Urban); and Susan, who married Daniel Shappell, died at 
Shamokin, and is buried at St. Peter's Church, Mahanoy. 
	Molly Bordner, daughter of Balthaser, married Paul Lahr, of Lewisburg, 
Pennsylvania.  
	Elizabeth Bordner, daughter of Balthaser, married John Dockey, of Stone 
Valley, and had seven children, five of whom died in infancy; Lucetta married 
John Michael, and died in 1903; John died unmarried in 1863. 
	Lucy Bordner, daughter of Balthaser, married Daniel Michael, a 
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Zion's Church, Stone Valley. She had eight children: Isaac, John, Daniel, 
Emanuel, Franklin, Henry, Harriet and Elizabeth. 
	Catharine Bordner, daughter of Balthaser, married Eliah Enderson, lived 
in Snyder county, and is buried at Chapman, that county. She had eight 
children, James B., Mary P., Sarah A., Cornelia J., Josephine B., Eveline C., 
Mahala N. and Benton. 
	Peter Bordner, son of Balthaser, born Feb. 3, 1811, in Lower Mahanoy 
township, died in 1904 and is buried at Zion's Stone Valley Church. He was a 
blacksmith. His wife, Polly (Hepner), born in 1813, died in July, 1876, and is 
buried at Stone Valley Church. They had twelve children: Sarah married Henry 
Kemble; Polly married Hiram Brown; Rebecca married Jonathan Bobb; Catharine 
married Jonathan Hoffman; Elizabeth died in infancy; Jane married Daniel Engle; 
Mary married John Richenbach; Isaac married Harriet Richenbach; Benjamin 
married Sarah Rose; Samuel married Rose Leckel; Henry died in infancy; 
Frederick married Tillie McCurty. Of this family, Jonathan and Rebecca 
(Bordner) Bobb had the following children: Lewis, a farmer and plasterer, who 
lives at Red Cross (formerly known as Mahanoy), married Alice Rebuck and has 
four children, Calvin E. (married Katie Ferster), Annie E. (a student at the 
Lancaster business college) Edgar E. and George B.; Meclata married Galen Lahr, 
lives near Dalmatia, and has seven children; Frank, who lives at Herndon, 
married Lizzie Long and they have five children; John, who lives at 
Philadelphia, married Mary Reitz, and they have had four children, only one of 
whom survives. 
	George Bordner, youngest son of Balthaser and Mary Magd. (Emerich) 
Bordner, was a tailor by trade, and also had a small farm. He moved West twice, 
but came back to Pennsylvania to live, making his home in Lower Mahanoy 
township, Northumberland Co., Pa. He died Sept. 21, 1897, aged seventy-five 
years, four months, twenty-three days. His wife, Susanna (Phillips), died July 
3, 1892, aged sixty-three years, three months, thirteen days. Ten children 
were born to their union, namely: (1) A son, born in 1847, died in infancy. 
(2) Sarah Adelia, born in 1849, married Felix Klock. (3) Henry M., born in 
1853, died in 1887. He married Sarah B. Seiler, of near Dalmatia, and had six 
children, Lennie (married James Bogar), Charles N. (married a Miss Haas, of 
near Sunbury), William B., Susan B., George N. and one that died in infancy. 
All of this family are now deceased. (4) Mary B., born in 1855, married J. W. 
Kline, and is living at Spokane, Wash. They had eight children: Daisy L., 
deceased; George F.; Susan B., wife of Dr. Mitchell, of Oregon; Cora, wife of 
Henry Hummel, of Waterville, Wash.; John, deceased; Frank, of Spokane; 
Clarence, of Spokane; and Nettie, living at home, in Spokane. (5) A son, born in 
1857 died in infancy. (6) Jeremiah J., born in 1859, a resident of Greene, Pa., 
married Matilda Snyder, of that place. (7) Isaac E., born in 1861, married 
Anna Enderson, and lives at Riverside, Pa. (8) Lucian O. was born in 1863.  
(9) Lizzie C., born in 1865, married John Phillips and lives at Plum Creek, 
where he is engaged in farming and dairying. He also owns a farm at Hickory 
Corners this county. (10) George Franklin, born in 1870, lives in Nebraska, 
where he is engaged in agricultural pursuits, owning a large farm. He married 
Mary Heckerd, of Dalmatia. 

	JOHN J. SMITH, present street commissioner of Sunbury, has been a popular 
official of that borough for many years, having served his fellow citizens in 
various important capacities. He is widely and favorably known, and his duties 
of a public nature have brought him into contact with so many residents of the 
place that few citizens, at any rate of his own generation, do not count him 
among their acquaintances. He has lived in Sunbury since the close of his 
service in the army during the Civil war. 
	Mr. Smith's grandfather, James Smith, was born and reared in Bucks county, 
this State. He served as a soldier in the Revolution, in what was known as the 
Pennsylvania Provisionals, and the musket he used in the Colonial service is now 
in the possession of one of his grandsons - a highly prized heirloom. In 1787 
he came from Bucks county to Northumberland, being a pioneer at Sunbury, where 
in 1796 he built a hotel on the present site of the residence of Mrs. Louisa A. 
Moore (daughter of the late Ira T. Clement), conducting same for many years. 
His grandson John J; Smith, of Sunbury, has the board upon which the year the 
hotel was erected, 1796, appears. James Smith served some years as clerk in the 
office of the county prothonotary. In his later life he made his home for 
several years with his son James, at Reading, Pa., but he returned to Sunbury, 
where he lived with his daughter Catharine (Mrs. Withington) until his death. He 
is buried in the old South Fourth street cemetery. He was a member of the 
Lutheran Church. His wife, Barbara Ann (Vanholdt), was from Bucks county, her 
people living in the city of Philadelphia and in Bucks county. An oil portrait 
of her now in the possession of her grandson, John J. Smith, is in a fine state 
of preservation and highly valued by the owner. James and Barbara Ann, 
(Vanholdt) Smith had quite a large family, but a number of their children died 
when small. We have record of: Jacob, who lived and died at Selinsgrove, Pa.; 
James; John, a farmer of Upper of Augusta township, who after his retirement 
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William Withington; Polly, who married Robert Smith, and lived in Lower Augusta 
township; and Mrs. Benjamin Williams. 
	James Smith, son of James, was born in Sunbury in January, 1805, and 
there grew to manhood. He learned the tanner's trade in his native place, 
whence when a young man he moved to Berks county, this State, settling near 
Reading, at Tuckerton, in Muhlenberg township. At that location he remained 
about sixteen years, during which time he married and all his children were 
born. Returning to Northumberland county in 1846, he settled in Upper Augusta 
township, where he followed tanning and farming some years, until he bought and 
removed to a farm in Point township. He cultivated that place until 1871, in 
which year he came to Sunbury to make his home with his son John J. Smith. He 
died at the home of this son Jan. 1, 1880, his wife, Catharine (Medler), 
passing away at the same place May 31, 1875, at the age of seventy-five. They 
were the parents of six children: George W., formerly a merchant at Sunbury, 
moved west in 1882 and died at Salina, Kans.; Catherine died in infancy; Mary 
J., who is unmarried, makes her home with her brother John J.; Calvin died in 
infancy; James D. is a resident of Sunbury; John J. is a resident of Sunbury. 
	John J. Smith was born April 13, 1842, near Reading, Berks Co., Pa., but 
was practically reared in Northumberland county, the family having settled 
here when he was very young. During the Civil war he enlisted at Philadelphia 
in Company H, 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served twenty months, entering the 
service as private and being discharged as a corporal. He was wounded April 11, 
1863, in the second battle fought near Williamsburg, Va., being shot in the 
left leg, which was amputated, and he was discharged June 3, 1863. Coming to 
Sunbury, he took a six months course in a private school and then learned the 
tinsmith's trade, at which he worked until the end of the year 1869, when he 
went to Virginia for a short time. Returning to Sunbury, he was honored with 
appointment to the office of postmaster in 1871, during Grant's administration, 
and filled the position for a period of ten years, his efficient services 
giving general satisfaction. Mr. Smith was then elected justice of the peace 
of the old West Ward, serving as such for five years. In 1884 he was elected 
street commissioner, which office he held for ten successive years, after which 
he was engaged as inspector of paved streets and followed contracting on his 
own account until 1909, when the town council appointed him street 
commissioner. His long experience in that office, and his consequent 
familiarity with the streets of the borough, make him a most efficient and 
reliable man for this work, in which he has shown excellent judgment and 
trustworthiness, He is a popular man personally as well as in official circles. 
Mr. Smith has been a member of No. 1 Steam Fire Company since its 
organization, and since 1878 has been president so far as known the oldest 
president of a volunteer fire company in the State still in office. 
	In 1871 Mr. Smith married Lydia S. Diehl, daughter of William Diehl, a 
farmer and blacksmith of Point township, this county; Mrs. Diehl's maiden name 
was Fry. Four children have been born to this union: William J., who is a 
sergeant in the United States army; Jessie J., at home; Anna E., wife of M. D. 
Grove and living at West Milton, Pa.; and Mary M., at home. The family 
residence is at No. 214 South Fourth street, Sunbury. Mr. Smith and his 
family are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Sunbury. He is a 
Republican in political faith, and socially a prominent member of Lieut. W. A. 
Bruner Post No. 335, G.A.R., of which he has been commander since 1905. 

	WILLIAM BRUCE CLINGER, treasurer of the Milton Manufacturing Company, in 
the borough of Milton, is one of the native young men of that place who have 
risen to position and substance through their own exertions. He entered the 
service of the Shimers, who control that company, in the capacity of 
typewriter, and the important work now intrusted to him has come to him as the 
reward of diligence and well directed effort. Mr. Clinger has spent all his 
life in Milton, having been born there Sept. 15, 1874. 
	Mr. Clinger is of the sixth generation of his family in America. John 
Clinger, the emigrant ancestor of his family, was born in Germany, whence he 
emigrated to this country about 1745, settling at what was then known as 
Chester Springs, in Chester county, Pa. He took up land in that vicinity and 
followed farming there the rest of his days. His wife's maiden name was 
Sloyer, and it is supposed she belonged to the family of that name who came 
from Germany to America with John Clinger.  Both are buried in Chester county. 
	John Clinger (2), son of John, was born at Chester Springs, and died in 
Chester county, where he is buried, at Homeville. He was a miller as well as 
farmer. He and his wife reared a large family, as follows: Jacob, who died at 
Homeville, Pa.; Henry; Samuel who died at Camden, N. J.; Dr. Peter, who died 
at Conestoga Center, Lancaster Co., Pa.; Edgar, who died in Chester county; 
Margaret, Mrs. Rhoads; Ann, who married Thomas Pennington; and Hannah, Mrs. 
Booth. 
	Henry Clinger, son of John and grandson of the emigrant was the father of 
Daniel Clinger, of Milton. He was born Sept. 29, 1796, in Limestone township, 
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March 3, 1854, aged fifty-seven years, five months, four days; he is buried at 
Collomsville, in Limestone township. When a young man he learned tanning in 
Berks county from one Peter Clinger. He was married there, and in 1828 moved to 
Limestone township, Lycoming county, where he bought about four hundred acres 
of land, his property including a mill site. He erected a tannery and a grist 
and saw mill along one of the small streams in that township, and he became 
one of the best known men in all that section, his various business interests 
bringing him into contact, in some relation or other, with almost all of the 
residents of the neighborhood. He continued to do business for many years, and 
meantime served also as county commissioner (1850), several years as justice of 
the peace, and as land surveyor and conveyancer. He was a Democrat in 
politics. In his early years he served as colonel of a military organization, 
and he was long an active member of the Reformed Church; in which he was an 
elder for many years. Fraternally he was a Mason. 
	On May 18, 1823, Mr. Clinger was married, at Reading, Pa., to Susan 
Wagner, who was born Dec. 25, 1803, in Berks county, daughter of Abraham and 
Catharine (Greenwalt) Wagner, and died Oct. 25, 1896. Nine children were born 
to this union, namely: Mary, who married Michael Syphen, of Antes Fort, 
Lycoming county, and who is now living at Jersey Shore, Pa., with her daughter, 
Mrs. C. C. Bubb; Catharine, who married Adam Baker, formerly of Winchester, 
Va., and now residing at Newberry, Pa.; Susan A., who married John Knauff, and 
resides at Milton, Pa.; John W., who died at Winchester, Va.; Abraham, who 
died at Williamsport, Pa.; Henry S., who died in Limestone township, Lycoming 
county; Jacob, who died in Limestone township; Daniel; and Edgar, who died aged 
five years. 
	John W. Clinger, son of Henry, was born in Lycoming county, Pa., but 
later became a resident of Winchester, Va., where he died. He was quite an 
active citizen of his native locality, serving as justice of the peace for many 
years before his removal to Virginia. In politics he was a stanch Democrat. He 
married Rebecca Meixell, a native of Union county, Pa. 
	L. O. Clinger, son of John W., was born Jan. 31, 1852, in Lycoming 
county, Pa., and was nine years old when he went to Union county. He received 
his education in the public schools and at the Bloomsburg State Normal School. 
He first came to Milton in 1865, but a few years later went to Virginia, where 
he remained four years, returning to Milton, where he was engaged as a 
bookkeeper until 1883. That year he was appointed agent for the Adams Express 
Company, which position he continued to hold until his death. 
	In 1871 Mr. Clinger married Sarah Jane Nagle daughter of William Nagle, 
of Milton and to them were born the following children: John Benton, William 
Bruce, Sarah Nagle, Mary and Rebecca. Mr. and Mrs. Clinger were members of the 
German Reformed Church of Milton. He was a Democrat in politics, and in social 
connection a member of the Royal Arcanum, belonging to the lodge at Lewisburg. 
	William Bruce Clinger received his education in the schools of Milton. In 
1899 he became connected with the Milton Mfg. Co., as typewriter. Later he 
became bookkeeper, which position he filled for a period of eight years, in 
1907 being elected treasurer of the Milton Manufacturing Company. He is 
considered one of the rising young business men of Milton. 
	On Oct. 12, 1901, Mr. Clinger married Minnie Angstadt, daughter of Joseph 
Angstadt, and to them has been born one son, Melchior. Mr. Clinger is a member 
of the Presbyterian Church, and of Milton Lodge, No. 256, F. & A.M.; 
Williamsport Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth degree; Williamsport Consistory, 
thirty-second degree; and Lodge No. 80, I.O.O.F., of Milton. 

	WILLIAM HENRY SYPHER, now residing near Milton, until recently a 
prominent young farmer and business man of Turbut township, manager and 
treasurer of the Turbut Telephone Company, is the eldest son of Henry Jacob 
Sypher, now a resident of Union county, and a member of a family which has 
long been established in Pennsylvania. 
	The family is of German origin, and the first of the name in this country 
came from the Rhine valley during the early part of the seventeen hundreds, 
and settled upon the Delaware river near what is now Chester, Pa. Abraham 
Sypher (great-great-grandfather of William Henry) and five brothers served in 
the Revolution, participating in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandy-
wine, Germantown and Monmouth, and were at Valley Forge with Washington. One 
of his descendants, Gen. J. Hale Sypher, rose from private to the rank of 
general in the Civil war, after which he settled in the State of Louisiana, 
from which he was sent for four terms as representative to Congress. 
	Capt. Jacob Sypher, son of Abraham, was born in Perry county, Pa., but in 
early manhood located in White Deer township, Union county, where he conducted 
a farm and built and operated a sawmill.  He earned his title by service in the 
war of 1812. He married Salome Steece, a native of Union county and member of 
a well known pioneer family. 
	Abraham Sypher, son of Capt. Jacob, was born in November, 1821, in White 
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where he spent nine years engaged in farming. Returning to the old homestead, 
he operated the sawmill for ten years, and in 1869 bought the estate in Gregg 
township, Union county, where his son Henry J. Sypher now resides, there 
passing the remainder of his life. He remodeled the grist mill which stood upon 
the place, and operated it until 1892, when he retired.  He died Oct. 9, 1895. 
He was a Republican in politics. Mr. Sypher married Anna Follmer, who was 
born March 28, 1824, in Turbut township, Northumberland county, granddaughter 
of Michael Follmer and daughter of Henry and Eve (Follmer) Follmer, her parents 
being second cousins; both passed their lives in Turbut township, where Mr. 
Follmer was extensively engaged in farming and had other business interests, 
including grist-milling and the manufacture of lumber. Mr. Sypher died Jan. 
30, 1892, a devout member of the Lutheran Church. She and her husband had two 
children, Henry Jacob and Leah Ann, the latter marrying John W. Bricker, a 
merchant at Spring Garden, Union county, where he has also been postmaster; Mr. 
and Mrs. Bricker have had three children, Nathan, Anna and Laura. 
	Henry Jacob Sypher was born May 19, 1848, at the old home in White Deer 
township, Union county, where he remained until he reached the age of twenty 
years. He assisted his father mean-time on the farm and in the mill, and spent 
several winters at work in the woods, receiving only such educational 
advantages as the country schools of the time afforded. After his marriage he 
settled in White Deer township, where he operated a sawmill for a year. In 
1870 he removed to Turbut township, Northumberland county, where he rented a 
farm near Follmer's Church for twenty-three years, during which time he became 
one of the best known and most respected citizens of that locality. During the 
greater part of this time his agricultural operations were carried on by hired 
help, under his supervision, his time being taken up principally by his 
practice as a veterinary surgeon, in which work he is still principally 
engaged. In 1881, in accordance with a new law, he registered, and between 
that time and 1892, when he gave up the business temporarily, he averaged one 
sick animal a day, and sometimes had as many as thirteen under his care at one 
time. During one year he spent $350 for remedies. In 1892 he returned to Spring 
Garden to take charge of the mill, which had been left him by his father, the 
Spring Garden Grist Mill, in Gregg township, which is kept running night and 
day, so steady is the demand for the product. He has ground as much as 155 
bushels of grain in one day. He has purchased his sister's interest in his 
father's farm, being now the sole owner of the property. Mr. Sypher has always 
interested himself in the affairs of the various communities with which he has 
been identified. While in Turbut township he served as school director, and he 
was a prominent member of the Turbut Grange, P. of H., from the time of its 
organization. He is now a member of Spring Garden Grange, No. 32. In political 
matters he is independent, giving his support to the best candidate, regardless 
of party. 
	On Jan. 14, 1869, Mr. Sypher married, at New Columbia, Pa., Julia Ann 
Berkheimer, who was born Feb. 24, 1849, in Chillisquaque township, 
Northumberland county, and they have reared a family of five children Anna M., 
who married Harvey J. Sones, of Turbut township, Northumberland county, a 
teacher by occupation (he has held the office of township assessor); William 
Henry; George Abraham, a merchant at Spring Garden, who married Ida Kurtz 
(born in March, 1874, near the old home of the Sypher family in Northumberland 
county, daughter of Josiah W. and Sarah Kurtz) and has a daughter, Clara M.; 
Veronica Idilla, who married Bert Casper and lives in Williamsport; and Bessie 
Leah, wife of Leroy Hunter, whom she married Dec. 23, 1897, at Spring Garden. 
Mrs. Sypher and her family are members of the Lutheran Church. 
	William and Mary Berkheimer, grandparents of Mrs. Sypher, were born in 
Germany, and coming to America settled on a farm in Northumberland county, Pa. 
Their son, George Berkheimer, was born there. In 1854 he removed to White Deer 
township, Union county, where he followed farming and the trade of stonemason. 
He died in June, 1893, aged seventy- four years. His wife, Mercy (Stanart), 
daughter of Jonathan and Susannah Stanart, formerly of Northumberland county 
but later of Lewisburg, Pa., (where he engaged in the manufacture of brooms), 
died Feb. 7, 1887, aged sixty-four years, four days. They had children as 
follows: William F. and Susannah died in childhood; George became a farmer in 
White Deer township; Mary died young; Julia Ann married Henry J. Sypher; Jacob 
became a resident of Turbut township, Northumberland Co., Pa.; Sarah E. 
married Dennie Hibler, of Williamsport, Pa.; Andrew, Caroline and Lehr died in 
childhood; Samuel became a farmer in Northumberland county; Lavina married 
John Baker, of Limestoneville; Rebecca married William Hoffman, of 
Northumberland county. 
	William Henry Sypher was born May 19, 1871, in Turbut township, and there 
received his education in the local public schools. He spent one year as an 
employee in the car shops at Milton, and in 1901 bought the place in Turbut 
township which he still owns, a tract of sixty-five acres of very valuable 
land. He resided there until March, 1911, when he moved with his family to the 
fine residence near Milton which he has purchased, renting his farm. He is now 
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the organizers of the Turbut Telephone Company, of which he is a director, 
treasurer and manager; John A. Leinbach is president. He is a most enterprising 
citizen, one of the rising business men of his section, and an official who 
has demonstrated his public spirit in more than one position of trust, having 
served as constable of his township continuously since 1902, and as member of 
the school board since 1907. He is now serving as treasurer of that body. He is 
a Democrat in politics. He is one of the influential and enthusiastic members 
of the local grange, which has its hall built upon his farm. In religion Mr. 
Sypher is a Lutheran, and has served his church as trustee and deacon. 
	Mr. Sypher married Maggie G. Lahr, daughter of William and Sarah E. Lahr, 
and they have had three children: Morris Henry, born Sept. 17, 1895; Annie M., 
born Feb. 25, 1898; and Estella M., who died young. 

	NATHAN KASEMAN, retired, of the borough of Shamokin, was born Aug. 11, 
1844, in Rush township, this county, son of David Kaseman and grandson of 
William Frederick Kaseman. 
	William Frederick Kaseman was born June 8, 1760, in Nassau-Dilburn, 
Germany, and when twelve years old came with a brother and sister to this 
country, landing at Philadelphia. Little is known of his early life except that 
he was a resident of Berks county from 1772 up to the time of his coming to 
Northumberland county, about 1815. He purchased a tract of land containing 
fifty acres in what is now Ralpho township, and was one of the early settlers 
in that section of the county. He cleared his original purchase, and afterward 
added to it by further purchases, being a successful farmer and excellent 
business man. In Berks county he married Elizabeth Huntzner who was born Aug. 
20, 1771, and died June 9, 1862. They were the parents of the following 
children: Jacob, who died in Ohio; John; Joseph; Daniel; David; Lydia A., who 
married John Pensyl; Catharine, who was twice married, the second time to 
Gotleib Fogle; and Elizabeth, who married Leonard Pensyl. William Frederick 
Kaseman lived to the remarkable age of 107 years, dying Aug. 1, 1867. Up to 
within four years of his death he continued to do his share of the farm work. 
In fact, his great physical endurance was proverbial in the region in which he 
lived. When he first settled there the nearest store was at Sunbury, where he 
had to make all his purchases, and he would make the trip barefooted. He was 
one of the original members of St. Peter's Reformed Church, served as elder, 
and was buried at the old graveyard of that church. 
	David Kaseman, son of William Frederick, was born in Shamokin township, 
was a shoemaker by trade, and died at the early age of twenty-six years. He is 
buried at the Blue Church. To him and his wife Elizabeth (Adams), daughter of 
John and Mary (Boyer) Adams, were born two children: Frederick, who died in 
1864, and Nathan. 
	Nathan Kaseman, son of David, was reared by his paternal grandfather. On 
Sept. 10, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Union army, becoming a member 
of Company F, 50th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and he served in the 
Western Army and the Army of the Potomac, participating in a number of 
engagements; he was wounded five times in the lower limbs. He was honorably 
discharged April 23, 1865. After his return to Shamokin Mr. Kaseman was 
employed at the collieries and then followed railroading for five years, 
subsequently clerking for about twenty years, in the hardware stores of W. R. 
Kutzner, Boughner & Goodwill and Peter Buck. For two years he served as United 
States gauger for the Fourteenth district, after which he was watchman at the 
Cameron colliery four years, retiring in 1906. He was one of the first members 
of Post No. 140, G.A.R., of Shamokin, and is a member of the Union Veterans 
Union. His religious connection is with the Blue Church. 
	Mr. Kaseman married Sarah Schmuck, daughter of Samuel, and she died in 
1879, the mother of the following children: Bella (Mrs. Nicholas Mullen), 
Clara M. (unmarried), Anthony W., Hattie (Mrs. John Shipe), William F. 
(deceased), Laura M. (deceased), and two that died in infancy. Mr. Kaseman's 
second marriage was to Catharine Hoch, daughter of Thomas Hoch, who was killed 
while serving in the Civil war. By this union there were the following 
children: Nora (Mrs. Calvin Maclure), Nathan, Freeman, Walter, Ether, Hobart, 
and twins that died in infancy. 
	HARRY W. CHAMBERLIN, of Milton, Northumberland county, president of the 
Milton National Bank, lawyer and present borough solicitor, is a member of the 
third generation of his family to reside in that place and most worthily bears 
a name which in every generation within memory has had notable 
representatives. In both his professional association and his relation to the 
bank he is practically the successor of his grandfather, W. C. Lawson, with 
whom he studied law and who was president of the Milton National Bank for many 
years from its organization. Thus, though he had many advantages of position 
and education, instead of the usual difficulties which confront the young man 
who cares to make a name for himself, he had to take up the burden of 
maintaining a standard already set. That he has proved himself able to do that 
and more his standing in professional and financial circles in Milton today, 
which is second to none, clearly shows. 
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Milton; son of William B. Chamberlin. His grandfather, Moses Chamberlin, was 
born in Union county, Pa., and his great-grandfather, William Chamberlin, was 
a native of New Jersey, born Sept. 25, 1736, in Hunterdon county. He was a 
lieutenant colonel in the New Jersey militia, and served as such in the 
Revolutionary war. Having a soldier's warrant, about 1792 he removed to Buffalo 
valley and purchased six hundred acres of land at what is Hoffa's Mill, in 
what is now Kelly township, Union county, where he lived in prosperity until 
his death. The original mill there was erected by his son William. He was a 
prominent member of the Baptist Church, and died Aug. 21, 1817. 
 	William Chamberlin was four times married. On June 8, 1758, he married 
Elizabeth Tinbrook, who was born Aug. 23, 1740, and died April 29, 1770. This 
union was blessed with the following children: Lewis, born April 16, 1759, who 
was killed by a cannon-ball at the battle of Germantown, while on a visit to 
his father (his knee was shot away, and in that day of primitive surgery the 
injury necessarily proved fatal); Nellie, born Sept. 13, 1761, who died July 3, 
1817; Ann, born April 18, 1763; a daughter, born Nov. 12, 1764, who died Dec 
19, 1764; Lucretia, born Dec. 20, 1765, who died Jan. 19, 1841; John, born 
April 10, 1768, who died May 5, 1770; and William, born April 20, 1770, who 
died May 5, 1770. On March 3, 1771, Colonel Chamberlin married (second) Ann 
Park, who was born in 1762 and died April 29, 1791, the mother of four 
children: Uria, born June 21, 1783, who died Feb. 4, 1853; Elizabeth, born May 
22, 1785 (Elizabeth McCrary died March 22, 1827); Aaron, born May 24, 1787, who 
died Jan. 12,1856; and Rachel, born Sept. 16, 1789, who died April 9, 1791. The 
Colonel's fourth marriage on Aug 16, 1794, was to Ann Mary Kemble, who was born 
Nov, 28, 1769, and died March 4, 1859. She came of an old family, of 
considerable standing, and was on terms of friendship with George Washington, 
Washington Irving and other people of note. She was a member of the 
Presbyterian Church and a devout student of the Bible, many chapters of which 
she committed to memory. She was the mother of eight children, namely: 
Lawrence, born Aug. 4, 1795, who died in 1802; John, born Feb. 8, 1797, who 
died April 18, 1858; James, born Sept. 30, 1798, who died Aug. 30, 1801; 
Lewis K., born April 4, 1803, who died Aug. 10, 1889; Mary F., born Sept. 29, 
1804, who died April 3, 1865; Joseph P., born Sept. 18, 1806, who died Feb. 13, 
1873; James D., born Oct. 29, 1809, who died Oct. 11,1886; and Moses, born Nov. 
12, 1812. 
	William Chamberlin, eldest son of William by his second wife, married 
Nellie Sutphen, who was born Nov. 11, 1771, and they had children born as 
follows: Anna, July 15, 1793; Mary, March 19, 1795; John, Sept. 1, 1796; Nelly, 
March 23, 1798; John, Dec. 31, 1799; Sarah, Feb. 12, 1802; Lillen, Jan. 22, 
1804; William, May 3, 1808; Lucretia, June 15, 1810; Aaron, Sept. 12, 1812. 
	Moses Chamberlin, son of Colonel Chamberlin, was born Nov. 12, 1812, in 
Union county, Pa., the youngest father's twenty-three children. He was reared 
on the paternal homestead and received his education in the typical schools of 
the period When twenty years old he went to Lewisburg where he served a three 
years' apprenticeship at the tanner's trade, which, however, was never his 
principal business. In 1833 he removed to Milton, where he had a long and 
prosperous business career. He was a merchant, and also enraged in milling, 
lumbering and farming, continuing his active life until 1874, after which he 
lived retired. Besides conducting these various enterprises he purchased land 
and laid out what is known as the Chamberlin addition to Milton, and also laid 
out and sold the land upon which Watsontown is situated. His long and useful 
life ended July 29, 1902. Though busy with his personal affairs he found time 
to serve in several borough offices and also to be an active member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, which he served in many official capacities, being 
trustee, recording steward, class-leader, Sunday school superintendent, etc. 
He was a Republican in political sentiment. 
	In 1835 Moses Chamberlin married (first) Mary Ann Corry, daughter of 
George Corry, of Milton, and to this union were born two children, Elizabeth H. 
(widow of William Follmer, of Watsontown) and Mary A. Mrs. Chamberlin died 
Aug. 15, 1838, and in 1840 Mr. Chamberlin married (second) Mrs. Jane Hannah 
(Watson) Montgomery, daughter of John Watson, of Watsontown. Six children were 
born to this marriage, viz.: William B.; Harriet, deceased; Caroline W., Mrs. 
A. O. Furst, of Bellefonte; Mary Jane, deceased; James, of Harrisburg; and 
Frank, an attorney of Milton. 
	William B. Chamberlin, son of Moses, was born Dec. 19, 1841, at Milton, 
Pa. For years he has been one of the notably successful business men of the 
upper end of the county, having been from 1867 to 1885 engaged in the lumber 
business at Northumberland as junior member of the firm of Chamberlin, Frick & 
Co. In 1885 he became connected with the Reid Tobacco Company, of Milton, of 
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he makes his home in the borough, where the business with which he is 
identified ranks among the most important concerns. He married Margaret 
Sanderson Lawson, daughter of W. C. and Hannah (Sanderson) Lawson, and they 
have had three children, all sons, namely William L., a mining engineer, now 
located at Scranton, Pa.; Harry W.; and James S., who is connected with the 
American Car & Foundry Company of Manchester, England. 
	Harry W. Chamberlin attended the public schools of Milton, graduating in 
1887, after which he became a student at Lafayette College, from which 
institution he was graduated in 1892. He read law with his maternal grandfather 
and was admitted to the Bar of Northumberland county in 1895, since which time 
he has been continuously engaged in legal practice, occupying the same office 
which his grandfather had. His patronage has been steady and lucrative from 
the beginning, and the able manner in which he handles legal work has drawn a 
high class of such business to him. His inherited and developed talent for the 
profession, and his accomplishments in special cases, entitle him to a place 
among the most skillful lawyers of his day in his section. 
	On Oct. 29, 1903, Mr. Chamberlin married Miriam A. Bucher, daughter of, 
ex-Judge Joseph C. Bucher, of Lewisburg, Union Co., Pa., and his wife, Mary 
(Walls), daughter of Judge Walls. Mr. Chamberlin's grandfather was Rev. Joseph 
C. Bucher, D. D., a well known clergyman of the Reformed Church. 
	Mr. Chamberlin is a high Mason, holding membership in Milton Lodge, No. 
256, F. & A.M.; Warrior Run Chapter, No. 246, R.A.M., of Watsontown, Pa.; Mt. 
Hermon Commandery, No. 85, K.T., of Sunbury; Williamsport Consistory, 
A.A.S.R., and Irem Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., of Wilkes-Barre. He is also a member of 
the Zeta Psi fraternity, and an active member of the Presbyterian church. In 
political preference he is a Republican. 

	CHARLES W. NICKERSON (deceased) was for a number of years prominent in 
business circles in Sunbury, principally in his connection with the Sunbury 
Trust & Safe Deposit Company, of which he was a founder and president from the 
time of its organization until his death. Mr. Nickerson was a man of the 
highest standing, and he was a notable example of what men may attain by their 
own efforts, for he was truly self-made, having begun life in humble 
circumstances and risen to honor and affluence through hard work, perseverance 
and executive ability. His many admirable qualities won him the respect and 
friendship of all with whom he came in contact. 
 	Mr. Nickerson was born July 28, 1838, in Steubenville, Ohio. His parents, 
who were of English descent, died when he was but eleven years old, and he was 
thus early thrown on his own resources, having made his own way in the world 
from that tender age. Remaining several years in his native town, he went 
thence to Philadelphia, Pa., where he held a position in the office of the 
city register for some time. He next went to Elmira, N.Y., where he was engaged 
in various pursuits and did well, holding a responsible position at that point 
as an employee of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railway Company. It was 
there he became acquainted with the late Colonel Fonda, of Milton, 
Northumberland Co., Pa., who induced him to locate at Danville, Pa., just 
across, the Northumberland county line, where he was the Delaware, Lackawanna & 
Western train dispatcher for several years. From there he went to the borough 
of Northumberland, in this county, to engage in the coal business as the 
special agent in this district for the W. L. Scott Coal Company, of Erie, Pa., 
but was there only a short time when he came to Sunbury in the same capacity. 
This was in 1867, and Mr. Nickerson was identified with the coal business 
until 1892, when he sold his interests in that line to W. H. Druckenmiller, of 
Sunbury, and retired from that line. Meantime he had become active in another 
field, having been one of the organizers, in 1890, of the Sunbury Trust & Safe 
Deposit Company, the second banking institution of Sunbury, for which he and 
his associates saw a good opening. Mr. Nickerson was elected president of the 
new concern, retaining his position as its executive head until his death, and 
the immediate and continued success of the company proved the wisdom of his 
judgment. To his conservative but progressive policy, and the confidence he 
enjoyed in commercial circles wherever he was known, was due in large measure 
the high standing this bank took in the financial world from the start, and 
his influence has had a permanent effect on its conduct. His career as a 
banker was one of signal success, an honorable climax to long years of upright 
business dealings. He died Aug. 23, 1904, at the age of sixty-six years, and 
is buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery. Fraternally he was a Knight Templar Mason, 
belonging to lodge and commandery at Elmira, N.Y. Mr. Nickerson saw active 
service in the Civil war, going to the front with a company from Williamsport, 
Pa., and taking part in several important engagements, the most notable of 
which was the battle of Fredericksburg. 
 	On Dec. 16, 1869, at Danville, Pa., Mr. Nickerson married Margaret 
Elizabeth Woods, who was born at Milton, this county, but was living with her 
parents at Danville at the time of her marriage. Five children were born to 
this marriage, namely: Herbert and Virginia died before their parents; Mary, 
Gertrude and Ruth live at the old home in Sunbury, at No. 236 Arch street, a 
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idence which Mr. Nickerson erected in 1877. It was there he died, and there 
also occurred Mrs. Nickerson's death, Sept. 15, 1910, after a lingering 
illness. Mrs. Nickerson was associated with the Methodist Church from an early 
age, and to the close of her life continued to be a regular attendant at church 
services and a zealous church worker. She was prominently identified with the 
Women's Aid Society connected with the Mary K. Packer hospital, for a number of 
years, and was also deeply interested in the Young Women's Christian 
Association, toward the maintenance of which in Sunbury she contributed 
liberally. Broad, and charitable in her views, she was always ready and 
willing to help any good cause, or to relieve cases of necessity at any time, 
but she was as unostentatious about such matters as she was generous and 
sympathetic, and never needed the stimulus of publicity to encourage her in 
good works. Her name will long be cherished in the hearts of many whom she 
aided and comforted in the hour of need. 

	ELIAS BIEBER, now living retired, owns one of the finest farms in West 
Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, upon which he has made his home 
for over fifty years. He is a native of Lycoming county, Pa., born Sept. 1, 
1835, in Wolf township, son of John Bieber. 
	In 1768 three brothers, Valentine, Jacob and Michael Bieber, came from 
Zweibrucken, not far from Frankfort, Germany, to America. Valentine who 
settled in 1783 in Lycoming county, Pa., had three son, Nicholas, Adam and 
John, of whom Nicholas was the grandfather of Russ Bieber. Nicholas Bieber was 
born in Berks county, Pa., and was a youth when he removed to Lycoming county. 
There he purchased a farm and spent the remainder of his life; and he is 
buried at the Valley Church near Muncy. To him and his wife, whose maiden name 
was Dimner, were born the following children: Valentine, who had twelve 
children; Antina, Mrs. Cotner; Hannah, whose first husband was named Arbot her 
second Good; Rachel, Mrs. Neufer; Elizabeth, Mrs. Frantz; and John. 
	John Bieber, son of Nicholas, was born in 1791 upon the homestead place 
in Lycoming county, engaged in farming upon the old place, and there spent all 
his life, dying in October, 1863. He is buried near Muncy. He served as school 
director and tax collector, and was a well known man in his section, a 
Democrat in politics and a Lutheran in religious connection. He married Hannah 
Shaeffer, of Lycoming county, a native, however, of Seneca county, N. Y., and 
she survived him, dying in May, 1869. The following children were born to this 
couple: David, George, Reuben, John, Elizabeth (Mrs. George Opp), Elias, 
Benjamin (who lived in East Chillisquaque township), Anna (who lived in 
Lycoming county, and died unmarried), Charles and William (living at 
Clarkstown, Lycoming county), all now deceased but Elias and William. 
	Elias Bieber attended the old Clay school in his native district and from 
boyhood assisted his father with the farm work, which he continued to follow 
throughout his active years. In 1859 he bought the old Benjamin Troxel farm, a 
tract of 130 acres of valuable land in West Chillisquaque township, 
Northumberland Co., Pa., on the road between Montandon and Pottsgrove. All the 
improvements on this place are his work, and the farm is now one of the most 
desirable properties in that section, where Mr. Bieber has long been regarded 
as a leading agriculturist. He is still in the enjoyment of good health, though 
he has relinquished arduous work, continuing, however, to make his home upon 
the farm. A number of years ago  Mr. Bieber joined  Chillisquaque Grange, 
P. of H. He has been particularly prominent in his township in connection with 
school affairs, having served nine years as a member of the board, of which he 
has also been president. He was the first supervisor of his township. 
Politically he is a Democrat, and the family are Lutherans, still belonging to 
the Lutheran church at Lewisburg. 
	On Dec. 24, 1868, Mr. Bieber married Sarah F. Martin, daughter of Hugh 
and Hannah (Maurer) Martin of Montandon, and granddaughter of John Martin.  
They have had the following children: Howard L., a miller, located at 
Montgomery, Pa.; Woods M., a farmer in Northumberland county; Florence Bertha;  
William Ernst, at home; Charles, who died young; Annie E., wife of John Kerr, 
living at Sunbury; and Rev. Franklin B. H., a Lutheran minister now located at 
Center Hall, Center Co., Pa., who has five charges (he is a graduate of 
Bucknell University and Gettysburg College). 

	CYRUS BROWN, for many years one of the foremost druggists of 
Northumberland county, established at Milton, founded the business now carried 
on by his widow. He was a son of Samuel T. Brown, for many years a leading 
business man of the borough and the promoter of some of the most important 
local enterprises. The Browns descended from old Puritan stock, and were 
pioneers in White Deer valley, in Union county, Pa., where Samuel T. Brown was 
born July 18, 1798. 	SAMUEL T. BROWN learned the trade of tanner, and on 
coming to Milton, Northumberland county, in 1830, purchased the property later 
known as the Milton Tannery, where he did business for thirty years. Meantime 
he was active in other things which affected the growth of the town and 
enterprises made necessary because of its growth.  For over twenty years he was 
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land County Bank, and he was an organizer and director of the First National 
Bank, continuing to serve as director from its inception until his death. On 
June 18, 1819, Mr. Brown married Nancy Woods, born in 1796, who died in 1836, 
the mother of five children, three of whom grew to maturity, Cyrus, J. Woods 
and Oliver; all are now deceased. For his second wife Mr. Brown married 
Elizabeth A. Young, and they had one child, who died young.  Mrs. Elizabeth 
A. (Young) Brown was born in 1812, and died in 1881. Mr. Brown's death occurred 
June 4, 1875. This family are buried at Milton. Mr. Brown was a member of the 
First Presbyterian church of Milton and one of the most highly respected 
citizens of his day in the borough, noted for his sterling traits of character 
and high principles in all his dealings. He was a Democrat in politics. 
	Cyrus Brown, eldest son of Samuel T., was born May 25, 1824, in White 
Deer valley, Union county, and was a child when the family settled in 
Northumberland county. He received his education in the schools of Milton and 
at Lewisburg Academy, learning the drug business in a drug store in 
Philadelphia. Returning thence to Milton in 1854, he was in the business on his 
own account from that time until his death, a period of almost forty years, 
during which he earned the reputation of being about the most progressive man 
in his line in the county. He established a large business, the largest drug 
business ever conducted in the borough, and in addition to the regular lines 
handled white lead in large quantities and was the inventor and for many years 
the manufacturer of the Red Horse powder. His store was burned out in the 
great fire of May, 1880, his insurance falling fifty thousand dollars short of 
his losses, but he rebuilt, erecting in 1882 the fine store on Broadway where 
the business has since been carried on. Mr. Brown was enterprising and 
farsighted, and he was an extensive advertiser in the days when advertising 
was not generally considered a necessary investment. But the results proved 
the wisdom of his ideas, and he built up a business which has continued to 
maintain its supremacy up to the present day. Since his death, which occurred 
Sept. 14, 1893, it has been carried on by his widow with the assistance of able 
clerks. Mr. Brown was a man of fine character and upright life, universally 
respected. He served as a member of the borough council and proved himself a 
useful citizen in other capacities. In politics he was a Democrat, and in 
religion a member of the Presbyterian church. 
 	In 1859 Mr. Brown married Louisa B. Krauser, daughter of David Krauser, 
and she died leaving one daughter, Hettie L. On Jan. 1, 1876, he married 
(second) Mrs. Rebecca E. Rhodes, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Freeze) 
Hullihen, and widow of Dr. Charles Rhodes. 

	THOMAS HULLIHEN, father of Mrs. Brown, was born in 1792 in Northumberland 
county, Pa., son of Thomas and Abigail (Hulling) Hullihen. His father came to 
America from Cork, Ireland, landing at New York, and was an early settler at 
Milton, Northumberland county, where for many years he followed his trade, 
that of cabinetmaker. He died at Milton and is buried in St. Joseph's burial 
ground near that place. He married Abigail Hulling, of Lycoming, Pa., and they 
had four children, Thomas, Huey, Nancy and Mathias. 
 	Thomas Hullihen followed farming all his life, and died Nov. 6, 1849, in 
his fifty-seventh year. He married Rebecca Freeze, who was born in 1789, 
daughter of Simon P. and Sarah (Garrison) Freeze, and died Oct. 22, 1855, aged 
sixty-six years. They were the parents of a large family, eleven children, 
namely: S. Peter, M. D. (late of Wheeling, W. Va.), Richard, Abigail, Mary, 
Thomas, Nancy, James, Hannah, Rebecca E., Lucy and Rachel. The only survivor of 
this family is Mrs. Rebecca E. Brown, of Milton. Her first marriage was to Dr. 
Charles Rhodes, who died May 7, 1856. 

	ROBBINS. The Robbins family, now represented in Northumberland county, 
Pa., by John H. Robbins, the well known butcher of Pottsgrove, and William E. 
Robbins, cigar dealer at Milton, had its early home in New Jersey. From 
Hunterdon county, that state, came Daniel Robbins and several others by team 
to this section. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and had inherited all the 
sturdy characteristics of that race. He took up a large tract of land in what 
is called the Ridge (now in Montour county, though at that time included in 
Northumberland). In 1818 he built a house there which is still standing, and 
in good condition. The farm, now containing about 110 acres, is owned by John 
Egg, of Lewisburg. Mr. Robbins was a blacksmith by occupation, and in 
connection with the clearing and cultivating of his farm also carried on 
lumbering. He died in the one hundredth year of his age. His children were: 
Sarah (married John George Lesher), John, Martin, Catharine, Daniel W., Jane, 
Julia, Polly and Nancy. In the old Centre Church cemetery, in Liberty 
township, Montour county are buried the following: Samuel Robbins born March 
10, 1824, died May 5, 1891; his wife Christiana, born Feb. 16, 1833, died Dec. 
30, 1885. Polly Robbins died May 26, 1896 aged ninety-two years, two months 
twenty-nine days; Jane Robbins died March 16, 1872 aged seventy two years, 
eleven months, twenty-eight days. Martin Robbins died June 27, 1900, aged 
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years six months, fifteen days; his wife Catharine died Jan. 5, 1890, aged 
fifty-four Years nine months, thirty days. 
 	John Robbins, son of Daniel, married Dec. 10, 1811, Jane McWilliams, and 
they lived at Milton, Pa. They had children: Hannah, born Sept. 24, 1812, who 
never married; James, born March 9, 1814; Daniel, born Aug. 26, 1816; Julian, 
born Feb. 13, 1820; John, born Jan. 29, 1822; Mary B., born April 26, 1824; 
Ann L. and Sarah G. (twins), born Sept. 3, 1826. 
	Martin Robbins, son of Daniel, was born in 1795, and died Feb. 17, 1834, 
in Northumberland county where he followed farming. He married Elizabeth 
Critz, born in 1796, died Oct. 27, 1853, and both are buried in the old 
graveyard at Milton. They had six children, namely: Polly, who married Henry 
Boyer, and has two children, William and Elizabeth (married B. C. Lindner); 
Charles, who was twice married, and died in Ohio, leaving one son, Huston 
Taylor Robbins; Samuel; Jonathan, who died in the West; William, who was bitten 
by a mad dog and died Sept. 22, 1837, aged nine years; and Martin. Adam 
Critz, father of Mrs. Elizabeth (Critz) Robbins, was born in 1770, and died June 
26, 1843, and his wife Susannah, born in 1773, died March 18, 1854.
 	Martin Robbins (2), son of Martin, was born near Pottsgrove in 1832, and 
died in June 1902; he is buried at Centre Church, in Liberty township, Montour 
county. He was a saddler by trade and followed farming for some time, later 
being employed at day's labor. He married Catharine Heimbach, daughter of 
John Heimbach, of Berks county, and they had children: John H.; Elizabeth, of 
Pottsgrove; Annie, who married John Mowery, of Danville, and has a daughter, 
Helen; Mary, of Pottsgrove; Samuel, a butcher of Pottsgrove who married Essie 
Muffly (she died leaving two children, Elizabeth and Lawrence); George W., a 
butcher at Milton, who married Amanda Bickel, and had children, Martin (died in 
infancy), Carrie, Mary, Christine, Jennie and Emma; William Edward; Harry H.; 
and Charles, who died aged five years. 
	JOHN H. ROBBINS was born near Pottsgrove Dec. 16, 1855, and attended the 
schools of the neighborhood.  He began as a boy to learn the butcher's trade, 
and was but eighteen when, assisted by his brothers, he engaged in the 
business. In 1890 he leased the property at No. 153 South Front street, Milton, 
and established the business known as Robbins Brothers. This continued for 
four years, and one brother sold to another until eventually the business was 
taken by Harry, who conducted it for six years. He then sold it to Samuel and 
the latter's brother-in-law, Asher Muffly. Then Samuel in turn sold to his 
brother-in-law, and the latter carried it on a short time. On Oct. 1, 1907, 
John H. Robbins installed all new machinery and made the place entirely up-to-
date, and since then he has carried on the business with a steadily increasing 
success.  He has the leading trade in that line in the district, and his place 
is kept in a thoroughly sanitary condition at all times. Mr. Robbins resides 
at Pottsgrove, where all his killing is done. He married Hattie Ohl, daughter 
of William Ohl, of Columbia county, Pa., and has three children, Mabel, Blanch 
and William. Mr. Robbins has served his townsmen as a member of the school 
board and as supervisor. He is a Democrat in political principle, and is 
public-spirited and progressive as a citizen. In his religious faith he is a 
Lutheran. Fraternally he is a member of the I.O.O.F. and the Artisans. 

	WILLIAM EDWARD ROBBINS, son of Martin (2) and brother of John H., is 
engaged in the retail cigar business at Milton, Pa. He was born in Liberty 
township, Montour county, Oct. 1, 1866, and received his education in the local 
schools. As a young man, like his brothers, he engaged in the butchering 
business, and this he followed for a period of seventeen years. In the fall of 
1899 he began his present line of business, at No. 19 Broadway, Milton, and on 
Dec. 14, 1907, moved to his present location, at No. 21 Broadway. He carries 
the largest line of cigars in the city, and does a large business. He also has 
pool and billiard parlors, all new tables, and enjoys a good patronage. He has 
many friends who rejoice at his success. 
	Mr. Bobbins married Annie C. Evert daughter of Philip Evert, and they 
have two children, Helen P. and Mary C. Socially he is a member of the Milton 
Social Gun Club; Milton Rod and Gun Club; Lodge No. 913, B.P.O.E., of Milton; 
Castle No 265 K.G.E., of Milton; Commandery No. 27, K. of M., of Milton; and 
the I.O.O.F. at Pottsgrove. He and his wife attend the Lutheran church. 
	HARRY H. ROBBINS, son of Martin (2), was born Dec. 21. 1869, in Montour 
county, Pa., and was educated in the public schools. He learned the butcher's 
business, which he followed about twenty years. He married Jessie M. Hess, 
daughter of Wilson Hess, and they had one son, Martin W., who died in infancy. 
Mr. Robbins is a member of the local lodge of Elks at Milton, Pa. 

	JOSEPH ALBRIGHT, who has been living retired at Watsontown for a number 
of years, has had his residence at that place since the close of the Civil 
war. He was born July 6, 1836, at Allentown, Lehigh Co., Pa., son of Charles S. 
Albright and grandson of Joseph Albright. 
	The Albright family has had many creditable associations with the history 
of the Dutch in Pennsylvania. Christian Albright emigrated from Germany and 
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part of Berks county, Pa., married Elizabeth Rick:, and had children: Peter R. 
(who died in Schuylkill county), Solomon R., John Christian, Henry R., Jacob 
R., Daniel R., John R., John George and Justus Yost R. 
	John Christian Albright son of Christian, was born Feb. 26, 1748, and 
died Feb. 28, 1820. He was twice married, first to Maria Elizabeth Althouse, 
born May 27, 1776, died in May, 1799, and second to Maria Kauffman. His 
children, all by the first marriage, were: Maria Catharine, Anna Maria, Annie 
Magdalena, George, John Jacob, John, Solomon, Gabriel and Elizabeth. Of these 
Maria Catharine married George Wagner and had children, Daniel, Benjamin, 
Kate, Elias, George, Elizabeth, Samuel, Solomon, William and Lucy. Anna Maria 
married Jacob Shartle, and had children, George, William, Sallie, Eliza, Maria 
and Julian. Annie Magdalena married George Kauffman, and had two children, 
Hettie and Samuel. John Albright married Elizabeth Ruby and had two children, 
Samuel and Leah. Solomon Albright married (first) Maria Miller and (second) 
Elizabeth Shoemaker, and his children were: John, Henry, Gen. Charles, Mary, 
Eliza, Kate and Harriet. Elizabeth married Joseph Kauffman and had three 
children, William, Harrison and Kate (Mrs. John Grime). John Jacob married 
Maria Shartle and had seven children, Sarah, William, John, Jacob S., Daniel, 
and Moses and Elizabeth (twins). 
	Joseph Albright grandfather of Joseph Albright of Watsontown, settled 
in Lehigh county, Pa., and is buried in the vicinity of Allentown. His wife's 
maiden name was Yund. They had children: Mrs. Biggert, of Allentown; James, 
who died in Allentown; and Charles S. 
	Charles S. Albright was born at Allentown and married there. He was a 
tailor by trade, but followed farming for many years, moving to a place near 
Catawissa, Columbia county, where he farmed until he sold out and settled near 
Washingtonville, Montour county, owning a seventy-five-acre farm on which he 
died in 1867, at the age of fifty-nine years, nine months. He is buried at 
Strawberry Ridge Church. He was a Lutheran in religion. His wife, Esther 
(Newhart), who came from Lehigh county, died in 1882, at the age of eighty-one 
years. They were the parents of twelve children: George W., of the state of 
Washington; John T., who died at Paradise Northumberland county, Pa.; Thomas 
D., who entered the service during the Civil war and died while a prisoner at 
Florence, S. C.; Joseph; Anna Mrs. Ramson of Iowa; Charles F., who died in 
Iowa; Hettie, who was married three times, to Benson Carl, Christopher Herr and 
Reuben Clapp respectively; Henry A., who died when three years old; Alexander, 
deceased; Catharine, who died aged fourteen years; Elizabeth, who is unmarried 
and lives with her sister, Mrs. Clapp; and Jacob, deceased. 
	Joseph Albright was educated in Columbia county, and was twenty years old 
when he commenced to learn the plastering trade, coming to Northumberland 
county in 1856. He followed his trade until the Civil war period, when he 
enlisted in August, 1862, in Company B, 131st Regiment, with which he served 
ten months. During this time he was in the second battle of Bull Run, in the 
engagements at Monocacy, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and 
Chancellorsville. His second enlistment was in February, 1864, in Company K, 
112th Regiment, 2d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, for three years, and he served 
to the close of the war, taking part in the battles of the Wilderness, 
Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, etc. On June 16-18, 1864, the command was 
established in front of  Petersburg, where he received two bullet wounds, 
fighting hand to hand and standing up to his waist among the dead and wounded. 
At Cold Harbor, while he was reloading his rifle, a bullet stripped the skin 
from his nose. On July 30th, at the mine explosion, he was captured, and was 
held eight months in the prison at Danville, being transferred to Libby 
prison, from which he was exchanged March 10, 1865. He was then brought to 
Annapolis, and sent to Baltimore hospital, where he remained several weeks in 
a serious condition, weighing less than sixty-five pounds. He was brought to 
Sunbury in this sad condition, and thence to the "Huff House" at Milton, more 
dead than alive; he laid between life and death from April 2d to Oct. 2d, 
1865, but eventually recovered, though his improvement was very gradual. His 
army experience was trying and full of hardships, and he saw active service in 
some of the most important battles or the war. At Fredericksburg his brigade 
was nearest to the heights where the Confederate line was posted. 
 	After the war Mr. Albright worked at his trade for a year, and then, 
having some property at Watsontown, he engaged in business there, keeping a 
livery stable for eight years. Then he returned to his trade, which he 
continued to follow until 1881.  From 1883 until 1890 he was confined to bed or 
chair, with illness contracted during the time he was in his country's service, 
but he has since recovered. Though always occupied with his business affairs 
during his more active years Mr. Albright found time to serve his community, 
holding the offices of overseer of the poor, constable and collector with 
satisfaction to all concerned. He is a Republican in political faith, and in 
religion a member of the Methodist church, in the welfare of which he has been 
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having acted as president of the board of trustees of his church. He also 
holds membership in the Grand Army of the Republic. 
	In December, 1858, Mr. Albright married Mary Ann McCurley Tate, of 
Milton, who was born March 28, 1840, daughter of John and Nancy (Holder)Tate; 
who lived at Milton. Four sons were born to this marriage: David T., who lives 
in Milton; John S. (of Watsontown) and Elmer C. (deceased), twins, and William 
N., of Watsontown. Mrs. Albright was killed in a trolley accident at 
Philadelphia Aug. 26, 1902, aged fifty-nine years. In August, 1907, Mr. 
Albright married (second) Ella Blue, daughter of Isaiah and Phoebe Agnes 
(Taggart) Blue. Isaiah Blue married for his second wife Emma Falls Wetzel, by 
whom he had two children, David and Gertrude.