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	JOHN T. CROMPTON, of Mount Carmel, has been identified with the 
industrial interests of that place since he came there in 1906 to take 
charge of the hosiery mills, the leading manufacturing establishment of 
the place. For three years before he was sent to Mount Carmel he was at 
Shamokin in the employ of the same concern.
	Mr. Crompton is a native of Philadelphia, Pa., born in 1861. His 
father, John T. Crompton, was born in England, whence he came to America 
in 1847 in a sailing vessel.  The voyage took six months.  He settled in 
Philadelphia, where he found employment with a cousin of the same name 
in the manufacture of paper boxes, continuing to follow this work until 
his death, which occurred in 1873  His wife, whose maiden name was Mary 
Gould, died only a few months before him. They were the parents of four 
children, namely: Georgiana, who died young; John T.; Georgiana, who 
lives in Gloucester, N. J.; and William, of Philadelphia.
	John T. Crompton received his education in the schools of his 
native city.  He began work early, in a stocking mill but after a short 
period of employment there went to the State of Delaware, where he was 
engaged at farm work four years. In 1881 he located in New Jersey, where 
he also followed farm work and he was engaged in farming for fifteen 
years on his own account before he commenced commercial life.  He 
embarked in the commission business in Philadelphia, at No. 305 Front 
street, where he continued for three years. He has since been employed 
with the W. F. Tauble (Inc.) Hosiery Mills.  His first work for this 
concern was in New Jersey, in the dye house, and in 1903 he was sent to 
Shamokin, Pa., to take the position of assistant superintendent.  On 
Sept. 13, 1906, he came to Mount Carmel to take charge of the mill at 
that point, where two hundred and fifty hands are steadily employed. The 
mill is the leading industrial establishment in Mount Carmel, and as 
such occupies an important place in determining the local welfare. Mr. 
Crompton, in his capacity of superintendent, has shown himself to he a 
man of ability and resource, and possessed of excellent judgment, and he 
is a respected citizen of his community.
	On June 3, 1886, Mr. Crompton married Mary Lovell, and they have 
three children, John, Ida and George. The family reside at No. 305 West 
Third street. Mr. Crompton is a member of the Knights of Malta 
commandery at Mount Carmel, and while in New Jersey he joined the 
I.O.M., Jr. O.U.A.M. and P.O.S. of A. 

	HERBERT J. STANNERT, a leading business man of the borough of 
Northumberland, and the only lumber merchant at that point, is carrying 
on the business established by his father and occupies an important 
position in the commercial life of his section. He gives employment to a 
large number of men, having a variety of interests which keep him busy 
and attract capital to the town. 
	The Stannert family has been settled in Northumberland county from 
the time of his grandfather, Jonathan Stannert, back of whose time we 
have little definite record. The name Stannert is of French origin, but 
as many English have French names, through the thousands of Normans who 
went over to England with the Conqueror, it cannot be stated of what 
nationality the early members of the family in America are. At the 
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes over one hundred thousand Huguenots 
fled to England and hundreds of their sons came to Pennsylvania as 
English. Again, William, Prince of Orange, had a whole brigade of 
Huguenots with his army at the battle of the Boyne (1690) in Ireland, 
most of whom stayed in Ireland after the victory, and many of them, or 
their sons, came to Pennsylvania with the Scotch-Irish. For this 
information we are indebted to the Rev. Dr. A. Stapleton, who thinks 
these Stannerts may have come to Pennsylvania from New Jersey probably 
the second or third generation in this country, there being many such 
families in Pennsylvania.  General Stannert, of the Civil war, was from 
New Jersey.
	Jonathan Stannert, great-grandfather of Herbert J. Stannert, lived 
at Conshohocken, Pa., where he was a successful business man, a miller 
and merchant, and also had a farm. He had a number of children, who 
settled in the lower counties of Pennsylvania, and among them was a son 
Jonathan, who was born in Conshohocken.
	Jonathan Stannert, son of Jonathan, came to Chillisquaque township, 
Northumberland county, in 1829 or 1830, and there passed the rest of his 
active years, engaged, in farming, at Sodom. Originally he owned a large 
tract of land. Some years before his death he retired to Lewisburg, Pa., 
where he died and is buried.  In religious faith he was a Presbyterian. 
His wife, Sarah (Sedginger), who hailed from Conshohocken, died two 
years before him. They were the parents of the following children:  
Samuel, Massey, Dorothy, William, Harriet, Hannah, John H., and two who 
died young.
	John H. Stannert, son of Jonathan, was born June 10, 1833, in 
Chillisquaque township, and attended the eight-cornered schoolhouse 
still standing in the central part of Chillisquaque township. Until 
eighteen he was employed at farm work, and then learned the trade of 
blacksmith, which he followed until he entered the Union service during 
the Civil war.  In 1862 he enlisted in Company D, 150th Regiment 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, with which he served one year, becoming second 
sergeant of his company.  He was discharged from Turness Lane hospital 
the second day of the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, but reentered 
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til Lees surrender. After the war he was engaged in boating grain for a 
time, and later carried on the coal business at Lewisburg, Pa., in 1881 
coming to the borough of Northumberland, where he has since made his 
home. He dredged sand from the west branch of the Susquehanna for twenty 
years, until his retirement, in 1905, when he turned the business over 
to his son, who has since continued the original line and added other 
branches, now having a large establishment.  Mr. Stannert has long been 
one of the most respected residents of Northumberland, and aside from 
business has become particularly well known for his active association 
with religious work.  He is an earnest member of the Methodist Church, 
has served as class leader, exhorter and trustee, and has endeavored to 
lead an exemplary Christian life. He has been one of the pillars of his 
church for many years.
	In 1854 Mr. Stannert married Mary Paul, daughter of Sampson Paul, 
of Lewisburg, and they have had eleven children: Ella (deceased), 
Thomas, Wilson P., Lawrence, Mary, Clara, Harry, William (deceased), 
Herbert J., a daughter that died in infancy, and Nellie.
	Herbert J. Stannert was born Nov. 12, 1871, and received his early 
education in the public schools of Lewisburg, later attending the 
Northumberland high school and Williamsport Business College, from which 
he was graduated in 1894. From that time he assisted his father, who is 
engaged principally in the sand business, succeeding him in 1905.  Mr. 
Stannert not only deals in lumber, brick, slate and sand, but also 
handles all kinds of mill work. His business has reached large 
proportions, forty men being now given employment in the conduct of its 
various branches, Mr. Stannert being one of the busiest and most 
successful men in the borough. He has taken contracts of all kinds, 
having put up a number of buildings, including several dwellings, in 
Northumberland, does all kinds of cement work, and is daily increasing 
the extent and importance of his interests. He came to enter the lumber 
business, now his principal line, through contracting.  Mr. Stannert has 
given his influence and aid to the promotion of various enterprises of 
importance to the general welfare of his locality.  His standing in the 
community has been gained by able administration of his numerous 
undertakings, and his integrity and honorable methods are recognized by 
all who have been associated with him.  His connection with the public 
affairs of the borough has been continuous from his young manhood, he 
having been a member since 1895 of the borough council, of which body he 
was president for some years. He is a leading member of the Republican 
party in his section, has been Republican borough chairman since 1909, 
and was prominently mentioned for the senatorship of his district until 
he himself discouraged the movement in his favor.  Fraternally he holds 
membership in Eureka Lodge, No. 404, F. & A.M., and Lodge No. 196, 
I.O.O.F, both of Northumberland; and in Chapter No. 174  R.A.M., of 
Sunbury.
	On Dec. 25, 1895, Mr. Stannert married Ida U. Steffen, daughter of 
Jacob and Mary (Dangler) Steffen, of Snyder county, Pa., and they have 
one daughter, Mary Margaret.

	GEORGE M. HOWELL, general merchant, is a resident of the borough of 
Northumberland, Northumberland county, where he has his principal 
establishment. He began the business in partnership with his father 
Charles M. Howell, as junior member of the firm  of C. Howell & Son, and 
still does business under that name.
	The Howell family is of English origin and has been settled in 
America from early Colonial times, the first ancestor on this side of 
the Atlantic having been Edward Howell, who was born in England and 
baptized July 22, 1580, came to America about 1639-40 and first settled 
at Lynn, Mass. Later he moved to Long Island, settling at Southampton, 
where he died.  George M. Howell is directly descended from him.
	Charles Muirheid Howell, father of George M. Howell, was born July 
17, 1851, at Van Camp, Columbia Co., Pa., and in 1889 settled with his 
family at Northumberland, Pa., where he became one of the foremost men 
of his day. He was a leading business man of that place, and in his 
later years took his son George V. Howell into partnership, under the 
firm name of C. M. Howell & Son. He died at Northumberland July, 4, 
1907.  Mr. Howell married Frances E. McCollum, who survives him and 
continues to make her home at Northumberland, and to them were born 
children as follows:  Maude, wife of W. L. Gutelius, of Washington, 
D. C.; Edna, wife of Herbert W. Cummings, of Sunbury, Pa., ex-district 
attorney of Northumberland county; George M.; Charles M., a graduate of 
Bucknell University, now a civil engineer; and Edward L., a student at 
Bucknell University.
	George M. Howell was born Dec. 19, 1876, at Eckley, Luzerne Co., 
Pa., and began his education in the schools of Fayette county, this 
State, whither his parents moved in 1881.  He also attended Bucknell 
University and State College, meantime moving with the family to the 
borough of Northumberland. His school days over, he entered into 
business life as his father's partner, under the firm name C. M. Howell 
& Son.  Since the death of his father he has continued the business 
under the same name, and he still has his main office at Northumberland, 
where he has the leading general store in the place.  He conducts two 
branch stores, one at Oneida, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and the other at Fern 
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fice), Luzerne Co., Pa., all under his personal management. Mr. Howell 
has been a highly successful business man, applying the most modern 
methods to the operation of his stores, all of which are run on a 
profitable basis.  He is a well known citizen of Northumberland, and 
identified with the Masonic fraternity, holding membership in Eureka 
Lodge, No. 404, F. & A.M.; Bloomsburg Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth 
degree; and Bloomsburg Consistory, thirty-second degree. He is a member 
of the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity.
	On March 15, 1902, Mr. Howell married Jennie L. Eckert, daughter of 
H. T. Eckert, of Sunbury, and they have had one son, George M., Jr., 
born Aug. 4, 1904. The family are Presbyterians in religious 
association.

	J. IRVIN STEEL, Jr., of Shamokin, editor and publisher of the 
Shamokin Daily Herald, is a newspaper man "by inheritance," his father 
and brothers having all born successful publishers. His father, J. Irvin 
Steel, Sr., a native of Huntingdon, Pa., died May 29, 1904, at Ashland, 
Schuylkill county, where he resided for forty years. He started the 
Ashland Advocate, later known as the Evening Telegraph, and also owned 
the Shamokin Dispatch. His wife, Mary (Gwinn), died in Ashland twenty 
years ago. They had sons Charles E. Steel, of Minersville, Pa., cashier 
of the Union National Bank; W. A. Steel, newspaper man in Seattle, 
Wash., and Cordova, Alaska; J. Irvin Steel, of the Shamokin Herald; 
Stewart Steel, of Ashland, printer; and Harry G. Steel, of Cordova, 
Alaska, a newspaper man.
	J. Irvin Steel, Jr., was born in 1865 at Ashland, Schuylkill Co., 
Pa., where he was educated. Coming to Shamokin eighteen years ago, he 
was associated during the first year of his residence in the borough 
with his father, who owned the Daily Dispatch. One year later he joined 
his brothers, Harry G. and Charles F. Steel, as one of the proprietors 
of the Daily Herald, a newspaper originally established in 1862 and 
published continuously since. It has been issued daily since 1888. About 
eight years ago Mr. Steel bought out his brothers' interests, becoming 
sole proprietor, and still continues as such. His only child, William A. 
Steel, is city editor of the Herald.  The business is located at No. 712 
North Rock street, and a profitable printing business has been 
established, book, legal, general job and commercial work of all kinds 
being turned out.  On Jan. 17, 1911, Mr. Steel was appointed 
transcribing clerk of the Pennsylvania Senate.  He is a member of Lodge 
No. 355, B.P.O. Elks. Politically he is a Republican, and is considered 
a high authority in the local political field, prominent in the councils 
of his party in Northumberland county.

	JAMES B. ENT, a farmer of Ralpho township, Northumberland county, 
was born at the place he now resides Dec. 16, 1859, and has followed 
general farming and trucking all his life. He was the first tax 
collector elected in his township, and has the reputation of being a 
reliable, intelligent man, a valuable citizen of the district in which 
he makes his home.
	Peter Ent great-grandfather of James B. Ent, was a native of 
Jersey, born Jan. 11, 1749, and died Feb. 28, 1829, aged eighty years, 
one month, seventeen days.  He served as a flag bearer in the 
Revolutionary war.  His wife, Sarah (Kent), born March 11 1755, died May 
14, 1821, aged sixty-six years, three months, three days. Their daughter 
Susanna, who married William Brewer, was born May 16, 1784, and died 
Nov. 21, 1854, aged seventy years, six months, five days.
	Charles Ent, grandfather of James B. Ent, lived and died in 
Columbia county, Pa., where he followed farming, owning two large farms 
there, in Roaring creek valley.  He was born June 25, 1788 and died Jan. 
1, 1849.  He married Elizabeth Mear's, and his children, all now 
deceased, were: Peter, John, Jackson, Daniel, Charles, Thomas, George, 
Samuel, Sarah, Angeline, Caroline and Mary.
	Samuel Ent, son of Charles Ent, was born Feb. 13, 1813, in Columbia 
county, and died Nov. 9, 1869. In his earlier manhood he followed 
cabinet-making and the undertaking business and later engaged at the 
carpenter's trade, many of the old structures around Elysburg having 
been built by him. In 1865 he erected the old Elysburg Academy building, 
now known as Odd Fellows Hall. He was a prominent member of the 
Democratic party, and served as commissioner of Northumberland county in 
1858-59-60-61.  A member of the I.O.O.F., he originally belonged to 
Mount Tabor Lodge, at Shamokin, which he served as noble grand, and when 
Elysburg Lodge was organized he became a charter member. In various ways 
he was considered one of the leading men of his district.
	On March 30, 1836, Mr. Ent married Lucy Clayton, daughter of 
William Clayton.  She was born Dec. 17, 1814, and died March 31, 1883, 
and she and her husband are buried at St. Jacob's (Reed's) church in 
Ralpho township. They had children as follows:  Elizabeth married Luther 
Hoover, and died in 1869, aged thirty-one years; Ellen S., born in 1840, 
died in 1863; William Clayton, born in 1843, died in 1869 (he served 
during the Civil war in Company F, 104th Regiment. Pennsylvania 
Volunteer Reserves); Louisa married Freeman Haas; Adeline is living with 
her brother James B.; Charles W., born Feb. 19, 1850, died Nov. 2, 1869; 
George B., born April 19, 1853, died 31 March 7, 1873; Dora married 
Simon G. Kase; James is residing on the old home place.
	James B. Ent attended the local public schools and Elysburg 
Academy, and throughout his active life has been engaged in agricultural 
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now owns his fathers farm a tract of seventy acres near Elysburg and 
takes his produce to the Shamokin markets, where he finds a ready sale 
for his crops.  Mr. has prospered by dint of persevering industry and 
devotion to his work.  He is a man of solid worth, possessing the 
courage of his convictions, and votes the Prohibition ticket, and has 
served upon the local election board.  He was the first tax collector of 
Ralpho township.  In religion he is identified with the M. E. Church, 
being one of its active members, and socially he belongs to the I.O.O.F. 
and P.O.S. of A.
	On Nov. 2, 1881, Mr. Ent married Ida Grim, daughter of Amos and 
Elizabeth (Gilbert) Grim, of Dauphin county, Pa., and they have had 
three children Bertha, married to S. Kimber Fahringer (they reside at 
Tamaqua, Pa.); Harry, who died in infancy  and Lucy.

	WEBSTER HERB YODER, shoe merchant at Mount Carmel has been 
established in his present line of business in that borough for several 
years and has made a success of his venture, being one of the most 
progressive young business men of the community, one whose enterprise 
and perseverance deserve the reward of prosperity.  He is a public-
spirited citizen, ready to enter into projects affecting the general 
welfare as well as his Prosperity.  Mr. Yoder is a native of Schuylkill 
county, born Dec. 24, 1877, in Eldred township, son of Lewis K. Yoder, 
grandson of Peter and great-grandson of Anthony Yoder.
	The first of the Yoder (sometimes spelled Yodder and Yotter in the 
German) name in America were Yost and Hans (or Hance), brothers, who 
sought refuge in England from the religious persecutions suffered in 
their native Switzerland. They brought little with them to America 
besides their Bible. Upon their arrival in the New World they pushed on 
into the wilderness beyond Oley hills, and finally settled on the 
Manatawny. Yost Yoder was one of the most active of the early 
frontiersmen of Pennsylvania.  His chief occupations were hunting and 
trapping, which he always combined with farming, or rather with the 
"clearing and cultivation of a plantation.  It is certain that he and 
his brother were located in Pennsylvania before 1714. Nine children were 
born to Yost Yoder, and of seven of these the record is as follows: (I) 
Johannes Yoder, often called Yost, was born in 1718. After 1752 he 
removed to Reading, where he died April 7, 1812, and his remains were 
interred on his father's land at Yottersville (Yodersville), named after 
his family, now Pleasantville, in Oley township, Berks county. The 
following inscription marks his grave: "Hier Rhuet Johannes Yoder. Er 
wurde geboren 1718. Verelichte sich mit Catharina Lyster (Lesher) 1747 
und zeughte 4 sohne und 5 tochtern. Starb den 7th April, 1812, nach 
seiner 66 yahr in der ehe  gelebt hatte war alt warden 94 yahr und 14 
tag."   In 1747 be married Catharine Lyster (Lesher) and her tombstone 
records "b. 1730, d. 1812 having lived married 66 years and aged 82 
years."   (2) Jacob Yoder removed to the western side of the Schuylkill. 
On Nov. 6, 1757, at the age of twenty two years, he enlisted in the 
Provincial service of Pennsylvania, and was a saddler three year in 
Capt. John Nicholas Weatherholt's company.  He was stationed in 
Heidelberg township, Northampton county, in March and April, 1758. Pa. 
Arch., 2d Ser., Vol. III.  He served in the American Revolution as a 
private in Peter Nagle's company, and later in Capt. Charles Gobin's 
company, 6th Battalion, Berks county, Pa.  He was in a detachment of the 
6th Battalion to guard prisoners of war from the Hessian camp at Reading 
to Philadelphia.  He married Maria Keim. (3) Samuel Yoder settled on a 
"plantation" near Lobachsville, about one and one half miles from 
Pleasantville, which he received from his father. He had children: John, 
Jacob, Samuel and Catharine.  (4) Mary Yoder married Daniel Bertolet. 
(5) Catharine Yoder married John Reppert. (6) Elizabeth Yoder was the 
wife of Mathias Rhode and they had children: Jacob, John, Joseph, 
Abraham, Catharine, Maria and Esther.  (7) Ester Yoder married a man 
named Cunius.
	The wolves in Oley wrought great injury among the sheep and hogs of 
the settlers.  It was customary to make pitfalls and thus trap them.  
Many stories are told of Yost Yoder's efforts at their extermination.  
He sometimes disposed of five in a single night.  He was a man of 
remarkable strength and powers of endurance, and possessed famous 
courage.   He made customary hunting trips every fall into the Blue 
Mountains with his trusty rifle and faithful dog.  On his trail at 
different stages of his journeys he had places of deposit for supplies 
in hollow trees.
	The Yoder Bible, dated 1530, was printed during the lifetime of 
Martin Luther.  It was held continuously by the family until as late as 
1860, and is now the property of Mary B. Yoder, daughter of David, son 
of Daniel. It is well preserved, though unfortunately the lid and date 
are torn away.  This priceless treasure of their faith from the 
Fatherland was "as a lamp unto their feet" in their flight to America. 
The Yoders of Berks extended into New York and the West. In the list of 
representatives in the Fiftieth United States Congress was S. S. Yoder, 
of Lima, Ohio.
	Hans (or Hance) Yoder, the emigrant brother of Yost, was the 
builder and owner of what is now known as Griesemer's mills (burned in 
1847, and rebuilt the same year).  This property in the early days was 
the homestead of the Yoders of Oley. The survey of the plantation under 
proprietary warrant to Hance Yoder was returned March 25, 1714. At that 
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the haunt of Indians, and of wolves, bear and other wild game.  The 
wives of the German settlers also bore their part in the subjugation of 
the wilderness.  One day while at work, extending their clearing in the 
forest, they having shut their children in the cabin as a protection 
from the beasts which roamed over their land, they were suddenly aroused 
by the report of a rifle in the direction  of their cabin.  As it was 
not unusual for predatory bands of bloodthirsty Iroquois from the north 
to roam over the country they hastened in the direction of the shot to 
see their cabin surrounded by a party of drunken savages, who having 
been refused admittance by the terrified children within retaliated by 
firing through the closed door.  Mr. Yoder at once made an attack with a 
singletree, and soon put them to flight with threats of revenge. 
Returning with increased numbers they demanded satisfaction, but Mr. 
Yoder's coolness won him friends among them who forced the others to 
desist.  Hans (Hance) Yoder was the father of four sons: Hans (2), 
Samuel, Peter and Daniel. The last named, born in 1718, died Aug. 21, 
1749, aged thirty-one years, eight months, and was buried in the 
cemetery at Pleasantville.
	Anthony Yoder, great-grandfather of Webster H. Yoder, lived in the 
Mahantango Valley in Schuylkill county, where he followed farming. His 
wife was Sarah Howerter, and they are buried at the Howerter church in 
that valley. They had children as follows: Polly died unmarried; 
Elizabeth married George Moyer; Judith married Samuel Neiswender; Susan 
married Daniel Wetzel; Eva married Daniel Stitzer; Kate married Henry 
Hoffman; Sybilla married Jacob Zimmerman; Sarah married Josias 
Coppenhafer; Peter is mentioned below; Harrison and Reuben died in 
Schuylkill county.
	Peter Yoder, son of Anthony, was born in 1827 and died May 16, 
1868, in Upper Mahanoy township, Northumberland county. He lived in the 
Mahantango Valley for many years, and was a stonemason by occupation.  
He married Harriet Klock, who after his death became the wife of 
Sebastian Zimmerman, Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman being now residents of 
Sunbury, this county. To Peter and Harriet (Klock) Yoder were born these 
children: Mary F. died young; Lewis K. is mentioned below; Emma married 
Joel Hepler, who is deceased; Julia married (first) Benjamin  Fertig and 
(second) John Singmeister; Christiana married George Bennett; William H. 
died young; Peter is living at Scranton, Pennsylvania.
	Lewis K. Yoder,  father of Webster H. Yoder, was born Feb. 28, 
1856, in Eldred township, Schuylkill county, near the Northumberland 
county line. When a young man he learned shoemaking, and has followed 
that trade principally throughout his active years, except for a few 
years when he worked in the mines. In 1884 he made his home in Mount 
Carmel, where he has since resided.  He married Sarah Herb, daughter of 
William and Catharine (Kehler) Herb, and they are the parents of six 
children, namely: Webster H. is mentioned below; Elmer, born Oct. 7, 
1879, lives in Mount Carmel; Frank, born Nov. 21, 1881, lives in 
Pottsville; Alice, born Sept. 22, 1888, is now working for her brother 
Webster; Jennie, twin of Alice, is engaged as a teacher in Mount Carmel; 
Helen, born Jan. 12, 1897, is attending school.
	Webster Herb Yoder was a mere boy when his parents settled in Mount 
Carmel, so that he has practically been a resident of that place all his 
life.  He attended the local public schools and when eleven years old 
began work as a slate picker, working as such for two years. He then 
entered the employ of Daniel D. Bolich, with whom he continued for ten 
and a half years, learning the shoe business thoroughly. For a short 
time afterward he was in the service of Gimbel Brothers, at 
Philadelphia, on Dec. 30, 1902, embarking in business in Mount Carmel on 
his own account. He has been at the same location, No. 22 South Oak 
street ever since, and has built up a large business as a shoe dealer, 
making a specialty of the Crossett shoe for men, the LaFrance for 
ladies, and the Educator shoe, "for the whole family." Mr. Yoder keeps 
up with the times in the changes which occur in his line of business, 
and is ever ready to adopt new styles and new methods which promise 
satisfaction to his customers, who by long continued patronage show 
their appreciation of his efforts. He is secretary of the Retail 
Merchants Protective Association of Mount Carmel and holds the respect 
of his fellow citizens of all classes who have, had dealings of any kind 
with him.
	On Oct. 6, 1906, Mr. Yoder married Isabella Anderson, daughter of 
George D. Anderson. He is an active member of the Church of God, of 
which he is a trustee, and he has been county secretary of the 
Northumberland County Sunday School Association for the past six years. 
Socially he is a member of Lodge No. 630, I.O.O.F. (of which he is a 
past grand), of Camp No. 231, P.O.S. of A., and of the Modern Woodmen 
Camp No. 8207.  In political sentiment he is a Republican, but his 
activity does not go beyond the casting of his ballot.

	HENRY A. WOLF, a farmer of Jordan township, Northumberland county, 
has passed all his life there.  He was born in that township in June, 
1853, son of Henry Wolf and belongs to a family which was settled there 
in 1778, when Upper Mahanoy township was formed from Mahanoy, which 
formerly included all the territory in Northumberland county south of 
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	Jonathan Wolf, the first of this line of whom we have record, was a 
taxable of this district at the time of the separation, in 1778.
	Anthony (Andoni) Wolf, son of Jonathan, was born Nov. 16, 1768, and 
was one of the early settlers in Jackson township, living where Michael 
later resided. This homestead farm is near Peifers Evangelical meeting 
house, and is now owned by Isaac Wolf, son of Michael.  Anthony Wolf 
died March 29, 1852, and is buried at St. Peter's Church, Mahanoy.
	Michael Wolf (nephew of Anthony) was born Dec. 9, 1801, and died 
March 4, 1862. He was a farmer; owning the property which now belongs to 
his son Isaac.  His wife, Mary M., born Feb. 21, 1795, died Feb. 7, 
1882.  They are buried at St. Peter's Church, Mahanoy.  Their children 
were: Isaac, who is now (1910) one of the oldest residents of Jackson 
township; Samuel, born Nov. 18, 1830, who died May l0, 1902 (his wife 
Sarah, born July 6, 1841, died Jan. 20, 1885); Sophia; and Catharine, 
who married Jacob Hepner.
	George Wolf, son of Anthony, was born in the lower end of 
Northumberland county, and made his home in Jordan township, where 
Edward Schlegel now lives. The buildings which stood on the property in 
his time have, however, all been destroyed.  He was a wool hat maker by 
trade.  He died from the effects of a cold which he contracted after 
having a tooth extracted. To him and his wife, Esther (DeTurck), were 
born the following children: Catharine, who married Jacob Merkel and 
lived in the Mahantango Valley; Hettie, who married Daniel Weaver and 
lived in Juniata county, Pa.; Jeremiah, who lived in Lower Mahanoy 
township; Henry; and George, a farmer of Jordan township, whose children 
were Luzetta, Alice, Amos D. (1860-1892), George, Nathaniel, Henry, 
Morris, Minerva, Kate and William.  Mrs. Esther (DeTurck) Wolf was a 
lineal descendant of Isaac DeTurck, a French Huguenot, who came to New 
York about 1709-10 and in 1712 became the first settler in what is now 
Oley township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania.
	Henry Wolf, son of George, was born in Jordan township Oct. 21, 
1823, and died March 19, 1896. By trade he was a stonemason. For a 
number of years he lived with his son Henry A.  His wife, Rebecca 
(Adam), was born in 1826, daughter of John Adam (whose wife's maiden 
name was Herb), and died in 1907, aged eighty-one years, six months, 
twenty-two days. They are buried in Urban at St. Paul's Church, to which 
both belonged, Mr. Wolf being a Lutheran and his wife a Reformed member 
of that church.  He served as elder for a number of years. Twelve 
children were born to this couple: Hettie, who died young; John and 
William, twins, the former of whom is associated with his brother Henry 
in farming, Henry A. having a two-thirds interest, John a one-third 
interest, in the properties; Henry A.; Lydiann; Daniel, who lives on the 
tract belonging to his brother Henry (he married Emma Leffler and has 
two sons, Edwin and John); Elias; Rebecca Mary; and four who died young.
	Henry A. Wolf attended the pay schools conducted in the home 
district during his boyhood and later the free schools, and he was 
reared to farm life.  When eighteen years old he began farming for 
himself, having had unusual training of the most practical kind.  He was 
only eleven when hired by his uncle, Gabriel Adams, for whom he 
continued to work until he was eighteen.  He farmed the property of his 
uncle Gabriel for twelve years, and meantime also burned and hauled 
lime. In the spring of 1884 he came to his present place, a farm of 136 
acres in Stone Valley, in Jordan township, formerly known as the Isaac 
Wentzel farm, and there he has since lived and worked, following general 
farming with steady success. He has prospered, and acquired other 
property, owning a tract of thirty acres, also in Jordan township, which 
was formerly the farm of Henry Witmer, and a third piece, of forty 
acres, which was the John Wentzel home.  All of his tracts are limestone 
soil and very productive under his management, which is thoroughly up to 
date. Mr. Wolf is a hard worker and deserves the success which has 
attended his efforts, and he is one of the most esteemed citizens of his 
locality.  He has served as supervisor, and is at present one of the 
auditors of his township.  He has also been an active member of the 
Reformed congregation at St. Paul's Church, Urban, to which his family 
also belong.  Mr. Wolf is now serving as elder of the church, and is 
also one of the trustees. Though he has never had any instruction in 
music he plays very well, and for twenty-three years he served as 
organist of his church, his daughter Mrs. Baum succeeding him. In 
politics, like all of his family, Mr. Wolf is a Republican.
	In 1884 Mr. Wolf married Emma Dubbendorf, daughter of William and 
Julianna (Wiest) Dubbendorf, and they have had five children, one of 
whom is deceased.  The survivors are: Mary F., wife of Edwin Baum, who 
has one child, Charles Edward; William Oscar, who married Beulah Brosius 
May 30, 1909, and has one child, Melvin Stanley; Harvey E., who married 
May Schlegel Jan. 1, 1910, and has one child, Nevin Lee; and Nora S.

	JOHN P. CARPENTER, present solicitor for the municipality of 
Sunbury, and formerly justice of the peace of that borough, is an 
attorney who has risen steadily in his profession since he commenced 
practice, in 1893. He has been a hard worker, zealous in the discharge 
of his public duties and successful in the conduct of his private cases. 
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ty, Pa., born Oct. 18, 1867, at Beavertown, son of Alvin M. Carpenter 
and grandson of Giles Carpenter.
	Giles Carpenter was a native of Germany and was one of three 
brothers who emigrated to America.  He was a wheelwright and miller by 
occupation, and for a number of years conducted a mill at Ephrata, 
Lancaster Co., Pa., where he reared his family.  He married Jane E. 
McClintick, who was born and brought up in Mifflin county, Pa., and they 
became the parents of thirteen children, only four of whom survive, 
namely: Amanda (deceased), Martha (deceased), Margaret (wife of Philip 
Lash; they live in Michigan), James (deceased), Belinda (wife of Amos E. 
Sellers and living in Lancaster, Pa.), Hiram (who died young), Sylvester 
(deceased), Arabella (deceased), Cincanna (who died young), Louisa (who 
died young), Alvin M., Samuel L. (of Lancaster, Pa.), and one that died 
young.  Two of the children died of scarlet fever while the family lived 
at Ephrata.
	Alvin M. Carpenter, son of Giles, was born Aug. 21, 1841, in 
Lancaster county, Pa., and was reared principally on the farm.  When 
sixteen years old he commenced to learn the trade of cabinetmaker, which 
he continued to follow for fifteen years, meantime locating in 
Adamsburg, Snyder county.  He then began farming in that county, being 
thus engaged in Beaver township for a period of thirty years, and in 
connection with agricultural work he follows huckstering, buying and 
selling produce, in which line he has established a profitable trade.  
Occasionally he does carpenter work and painting, being an excellent 
mechanic and an all-around thrifty man. For eighteen years Mr. Carpenter 
taught singing classes, and in that connection is widely known to young 
and old in his locality.
	On July 29, 1866, Mr. Carpenter married Ellen Feese, daughter of 
Reuben and Eliza (Middlewerth) Feese, of Beavertown, Pa., and they have 
had a family of eight children: John P. is mentioned fully below; Gertie 
May is deceased; Charles E. lives in West Virginia; Rev. Sanford is a 
well known minister of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination, at present 
located at Carthage, Ill.; Elsie married George C. Walker, and they are 
farming people at Beavertown; Harry M. is deceased; Ira J., of Sunbury, 
is engaged in railroading; Bessie E. is the wife of Roy E. Eisenhour, of 
Sunbury. Mr. Carpenter and his family are members of the Evangelical 
Lutheran Church, in which he has long been a prominent worker, having 
served as elder and trustee, and for a number of years as superintendent 
of the Sunday school.
	John P. Carpenter received his early education in the public 
schools, later attending the State normal school at Bloomsburg and 
Susquehanna University, at Selinsgrove, from which latter institution he 
was graduated in the class of 1891. During the next two years he taught 
school in Rockefeller township, Northumberland county, meanwhile reading 
law in the office of C. B. Witmer.  In fact he gained most of his 
advanced education while supporting himself by teaching, having taught a 
number of terms before his graduation from the university, two in Lower 
Mahanoy township, this county. In 1893 he was admitted to practice 
before the Northumberland county bar, and he is now qualified to 
practice before the Supreme court (to which he was admitted in 1898), 
the Superior court (since 1909) and the Superior and Circuit courts of 
the United States. His public honors came to him unusually early in his 
practice. In 1899 he became justice of the peace for the borough of 
Sunbury, continuing to hold that office for two successive terms until 
1909, and he is the present solicitor for the borough of Sunbury, having 
held that position since 1907; in March, 1911, he was reelected to 
succeed himself for another term of three years.  In that capacity he 
defended the borough in the case of Cake versus the borough of Sunbury, 
in which a new principle of law was involved, and had the case decided 
in favor of the borough.  His professional work is above reproach, and 
his patronage comes from a substantial class of clients, whose 
confidence is a gratifying recognition of ability.
	From young manhood Mr. Carpenter has been an active member of the 
Republican party, in whose councils he is quite influential.  He was a 
delegate to the district convention that nominated Dr. E. W. Samuel, of 
Mount Carmel, for Congress.
	In 1894 Mr. Carpenter married Hannah Minerva Witmer, daughter of 
Isaac L. Witmer, of Lower Mahanoy township, and they have two children, 
Anna Ellen and Alvin Witmer. The family are active in church work in 
affiliation with Zion's Lutheran Church, in which Mr. Carpenter holds 
membership; he has been a member of the church choir since 1891.  
Fraternally he is a member of Lodge No. 167, B.P.O. Elks, of Sunbury, 
and of Col. James Cameron Camp, Sons of Veterans, also of Sunbury.

	DAVID J. JONES, who is engaged in business at Shamokin, 
Northumberland county, as a coal dealer and contractor, has lived in the 
borough from boyhood and has made his own way to a substantial and 
respected position in the community. He is one of the foremost 
contractors of this section, where much of his work is in evidence.
	Mr. Jones was born Jan. 25, 1871, in Danville, Montour Co., Pa., 
and is of Welsh descent, his grandfather, a native of Wales, having 
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his family to America and settled near Danville. He was employed in the 
ore mines, and died at Danville, where he is buried.
	John T. Jones, father of David J. Jones, was born in Wales in 1833 
and was fourteen years when he came with his father to this country. He 
learned shoemaking, and in time became a shoe merchant at Danville, 
where he was a leading business man for a number of years. At the time 
of the construction of the Reading railroad he made the shoes for the 
men employed in that work. He died at Danville March 28, 1874, at the 
comparatively early age of forty-one years.  Mr. Jones married Elizabeth 
J. Williams, daughter of Thomas R. Williams, and she died Feb. 4, 1886, 
the mother of nine children, viz.:  The first three died young; Sarah is 
deceased; Margaret married (first) William Humphrey and (second) Hugh 
Wier; May married (first) Harry Young and (second) H. P. Ridel; David J. 
is mentioned below; Elizabeth is the wife of John Tasker, of Shamokin, 
Pa.; John is deceased.
	David J. Jones was eight years old when he came to Shamokin, and 
when he was nine he commenced work as a slate picker at the Sterling 
colliery. Later he was employed by Cruikshank & Emes for a time and 
after that by Thomas Baumgardner at the Enterprise colliery, as door 
tender, remaining at the latter works until he reached the age of twenty 
years. He then spent a year at the Cameron colliery.  In September, 
1893, he turned to teaming, on his own account, and soon was interested 
in contracting, which he has since followed, having now one of the most 
extensive contracting businesses in Shamokin.  His combination of 
interests has proved very profitable, the various branches of work he 
carries on giving constant employment to his men and teams. His 
interests now include, besides coal dealing and contracting, moving (for 
which he has a large dray) and excavation work of all kinds. He did the 
excavation work for the building of the new Dime Trust & Safe Deposit 
Company.  His business is located at No. 132 East Arch street.  The fact 
that he constructed five and a quarter miles of the State road from 
Shamokin to Paxinos gives some idea of the magnitude of his 
undertakings. He has the confidence of a wide circle of patrons and is 
considered a reliable and intelligent citizen, being well known among 
the solid business men of the borough.  Many dwellings there are of his 
construction.
	On Dec. 26, 1892, Mr. Jones married Bessie Maude Keiser, daughter 
of Reuben Keiser, and they have had the following children: David 
(deceased), Sarah, George, May, Maude, Paul, John (deceased) and Fred. 
The family home is at No. 132 East Arch street. Mr. Jones is a prominent 
member of the Baptist Church, in which he has been an enthusiastic 
worker, having served fourteen years as deacon, the same length of time 
as trustee, sixteen years as leader of the choir, and nineteen years as 
superintendent of the Sunday school. He is a Republican in politics and 
socially a member of Garfield Lodge, I.O.O.F.
	Henry Keiser, great-grandfather of Mrs. David J. Jones, was of 
German origin and was born June 25, 1784.  He moved from Berks county, 
Pa., to Union county, and thence to Northumberland county, finally 
settling in the Irish Valley, where he engaged in farming to the end of 
his days He died Nov. 13, 1864, and his wife, who was born Aug. 5, 1781, 
died Oct. 11, 1852.
	Henry Keiser, son of Henry, was born in 1811 and passed all his 
life in Northumberland county, dying in 1873. He settled in Shamokin, 
where he carried on a general mercantile business. He was a member of 
the Evangelical Church.  He and his wife, Catherine (Reaker), had a 
family of six children.
	Reuben Keiser, son of Henry and Catherine (Reaker) Keiser, was born 
in Shamokin May 15, 1852, and is now living there in retirement.  He was 
long employed as a clerk in his brother's store, following this work 
about twenty-eight years. He married Sarah Hornberger, daughter of John 
Hornberger, of Minersville Schuylkill Co., Pa., and a family of ten 
children was born to this union, namely: Mary, Bessie Maude (Mrs. 
Jones), John, Reuben, G. Bert, Helen, Hazel, Winfield, Jacob and Frank.

	JOHN PHILLIPS, a prosperous farmer of the Plum Creek district in 
Rockefeller township, was born June 26, 1868, in Lower Mahanoy township, 
Northumberland county, son of Jacob Phillips.
	This Phillips family is of old Berks county (Pa.) stock, the 
progenitors of the line in this country having settled in that part of 
Bern township, Berks county, now embraced in Center township, that 
county.  From this locality came several of the name to Northumberland 
county, settling in Mahanoy township.  Mr. John Phillips traces his 
descent from the early Berks county settlers through two lines, his 
father's mother, Susanna (Phillips), having been a daughter of Georg 
Phillips, the first of his line to come to this county. He was born in 
Berks county March 24, 1774, and died April 8, l852. His wife, Sarah 
(Fuchs), died Sept. 25, 1836, aged sixty-one years, three months, 
twenty-six days.  They are buried at Zion's (Stone Valley) Church in 
what is now Lower Mahanoy township. Their children were: John; Heinrich 
(born Jan. 9, 1803, died Oct. 23, 1853); Maricha, who married Peter 
Brosius; Elizabeth, who married Peter Witmer; Catherine (born April 9, 
1805, died Sept. 30, 1889), who married Michael Witmer (born March 29, 
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tine, who died unmarried; and Susanna, who married Jacob Phillips.
	Solomon Phillips, the progenitor of the family in America, came to 
this country in the ship "Phoenix," Capt. John Mason, which arrived at 
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 28, 1750, he being the only Phillips among the 
339 passengers. He settled in Bern (now Center) township, where many of 
the name now reside, and lived to advanced years, as did his son 
Michael.  He reared a large family, two of his sons being Michael and 
Heinrich. Michael's son, John H., attained the age of 105 years, and the 
latter's son Jacob lived to be ninety-two years old.
	Heinrich Phillips resided near Belleman's Church, where he and his 
wife Esther (Mogel) lie buried.  They reared children as follows: Peter, 
Jacob, John, Samuel, John Adam and several daughters.
	Jacob Phillips, father of Jacob Phillips and grandfather of John 
Phillips, was born in Berks county, and came to Northumberland county 
when eighteen years old. He settled in Lower Mahanoy township, where he 
found work among farmers, one of whom was Georg Phillips, whose daughter 
Susanna he afterward married.  After his marriage he commenced farming 
on his own account in Lower Mahanoy, where he remained a number of 
years, moving thence to a farm he purchased in Jordan township, the 
property now owned by his son Elias.  He cultivated this place for 
several years, later purchasing the George Phillips farm in Lower 
Mahanoy, to which he moved, making his home thereon until his death, 
which occurred there April 20, 1862, when he was fifty-four years, ten 
months, four days old.  So well had he prospered by steady industry that 
at the time of his death he owned the two farms mentioned and one in 
Snyder county, and had several thousand dollars in money.  He and his 
wife Susanne, who died Aug. 16, 1892, at the age of eighty-one years, 
eight months, twelve days, are buried at the Zion's (Stone Valley) 
Church.  They were the parents of fourteen children, seven sons and 
seven daughters, viz.: Isaac, Elias, Benjamin, John, William, George, 
Jacob, Sarah (who died May 15, 1895, aged fifty-eight years, nine 
months, six days, married William Schaffer, who died May 6, 1895, aged 
fifty-nine years, one month, twenty-four days), Ann (married Samuel 
Spotts), Catharine (married Isaac Spotts, brother of Samuel, who married 
her sister), Malinda (married Isaac Trego), Susanna, (married Emanuel 
Boyer), Lizzie (married Frank Dreibelbis) and Emma J. (died young).
	Jacob Phillips, son of Jacob, was born in Lower Mahanoy township 
and there has spent the greater part of his life. In about 1874-75 he 
lived at Richfield, on the border of Snyder county, returning to his 
native township, where he farmed throughout his active years. He still 
owns a farm in that township which he has rented to his son Monroe. In 
1908 he retired from hard work and has since made his home at Hickory 
Corners, in Lower Mahanoy township. Mr. Phillips has served as overseer 
of the poor and as supervisor. He is a Democrat in politics, and a 
Lutheran in religion, he and his family belonging to the Lutheran 
congregation of Zion's Church, at Stone Valley, which he has served as 
member of the church council.  He married Hettie Leister, daughter of 
John Leister, late of Lower Mahanoy township. They have had five 
children: Frank, who lives in Lower Mahanoy; John; George, of 
Philadelphia; Charles, of Sunbury; and Monroe, of Lower Mahanoy.
	John Phillips was reared on the farm and worked for his parents 
until twenty years old. He then moved to Upper Augusta township, where 
he farmed for about twelve years, in 1902 purchasing his present farm, 
in Rockefeller township, which was formerly the old Philip Weiser place. 
It contains 121 acres of the best land in the valley, and has been 
highly improved, Mr. Phillips himself having made many changes which 
have materially increased its value. In 1909 he built the residence, and 
the two wagon sheds and silos, etc., are also of his construction.  In 
addition to general farming he specializes in dairying, keeping on an 
average twenty-five milk cows and having always from ten to fifteen 
young cattle. His milk team goes to Sunbury daily.  Everything about his 
property indicates progress and intelligent management, good judgment 
and the best of care, and the returns have amply repaid him for all his 
trouble.  Mr. Phillips is a public-spirited citizen, willing to assume 
his share of the duties of government, and is at present serving as 
overseer of the poor.  He is a Democrat in politics.
	On March 24, 1887, Mr. Phillips married Lizzie Bordner, daughter of 
George and Susanna (Phillips) Bordner, of Lower Mahanoy township, and 
seven children have been born to them, as follows:  Julius Augustus, 
Mary M., Maude E., Charles N. (Boyd), John E., Lottie I. and Verna. Mr. 
Phillips and his family are members of the Lutheran Church. 

	JOHN U. HOPEWELL (deceased) was a farmer at Point township, 
Northumberland county, during thirty years of his active life, and his 
son, the late John C. Hopewell, was a native of that township, where he 
passed all his life.  This family is descended from John Hopewell, a 
native of New Jersey, who came thence to Pennsylvania, settling in 
Northumberland county.  
	James Hopewell, son of John, was born in New Jersey in 1797 and 
came to Northumberland county with his parents, spending the remainder 
of his life in this region.  For many years he was a clerk in Cowden's 
store, at Northumberland borough, where he died Jan. 29, 1839.  His 
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Elizabeth Ulp, was born in December, 1800, and died July 18, 1850.  They 
made their home at Northumberland. Their children were as follows: Mary 
E., born in 1823, married Daniel Voris, and died in 1848; Elsie, born in 
1825, married Capt. William Gray, and died in 1847; Rebecca B., born in 
1827, married Hiram Young, and died in 1850; John U. is mentioned below; 
James H., born in 1834, died in 1896 (his family live at Scranton, 
Pennsylvania).
	John U. Hopewell was born Dec. 4, 1829, at Northumberland, at the 
corner of Market and Third streets.  He followed various occupations. 
For some years he was engaged as a boatman, later carried on the coal 
business, was engaged in butchering for a time, and for thirty years 
followed farming in Point township, where he owned over two hundred 
acres of land. He was not only successful in the management of his own 
affairs but took an interest in the direction of public matters in the 
locality, serving as supervisor, school director and overseer of the 
poor. An all-around useful citizen, he was respected throughout the 
community, and was a pillar of the Methodist Church, of which he was an 
active member and for some years an exhorter. In politics he was a 
Republican. He died Nov. 11, 1908.
	On May 25, 1854, Mr. Hopewell married Sarah C. Young, who was born 
Dec. 7, 1834, and who survives him. Thirteen children were born to their 
union, as follows: Mary E., born in 1855, married James Smith; Rebecca, 
born in 1857, married John P. Mertz; Margaret G., born in 1858, married 
John F. Hummel; Sarah H. J., born in 1860, married Michael E. Sanders; 
Eliza J., born in 1861, married William Botts, and died in 1910; William 
Y., born in 1863, married Margaret London, and died in 1897; John C., 
born in 1866, is mentioned below; James H., born in 1868, married 
Harriet Yoxtheimer; Hiram B., born in 1870, married Hannah P. Renner; 
Robert V. G., born in 1872, married Jennie Sampsel; Minnie R., born in 
1873, married Charles O. Heintzelman; Bessie M., born in 1876, married 
George C. Schaffer; Ella C., born in 1878, died in 1881.
	John C. Young, father of Mrs. Sarah C. (Young) Hopewell, was born 
Aug. 5, 1789, and died Oct. 11, 1845. His wife, Margaret C. (Philips) 
Young, born April 5, 1802, died Sept. 11, 1878.  They were farming 
people, and lived in Union county, but both are buried in the Riverview 
cemetery, at Northumberland.  Their children were born as follows: 
Philip, Nov. 25, 1820; George, Oct. 19, 1822; Hiram, Dec. 6, 1824; John, 
June 14, 1827; David, Oct. 30, 1830; Mary E., Oct. 10, 1832; Sarah C., 
Dec. 7, 1834; Rebecca, Oct. 16, 1836; Peter, Sept. 29, 1838; William, 
June 23, 1841; Eliza J., Dec. 3, 1844.

	JOHN C. HOPEWELL, son of John U. Hopewell, was born Oct. 14, 1866, 
in Point township, and spent his youth upon the farm, obtaining his 
education in the local public schools.  When fourteen years old he went 
to learn the trade of nailer at the Johnson mills, and followed that 
calling for some time, but for three years he was in such poor health 
that he was able to do little manual labor. After that he bought a coal 
digger, and for the three years before his death was engaged in digging 
coal, finding this business quite profitable. Mr. Hopewell died Sept. 
20, 1909, and is buried in Riverview cemetery.  He was a Republican in 
politics, and in religion a member of the Methodist Church, in which he 
was quite active, serving as steward. His family also belong to that 
church.
	On Feb. 12, 1888, Mr. Hopewell married Catharine E. Miller, 
daughter of Joseph E. and Catharine (Herr) Miller, and two children were 
born to them: Catharine G. is a milliner and dressmaker, assisting her 
mother, who is engaged in dressmaking; and Beatrice E. is attending 
school.

	JOSEPH E. MILLER, father of Mrs. Hopewell, was born in Lancaster 
county, Pa., Sept. 5, 1840, and his family is an old and honored one in 
that county.  Henry Miller, his grandfather, was one of three brothers 
who settled near Salunga about the time of the Revolution. He was a 
large land owner, a successful farmer, and a member of the Old Mennonite 
Church.  He lived to he nearly seventy years old, and always enjoyed the 
confidence and respect of the entire community.  He married a Miss 
Shenk, whose father was one of the pioneer settlers in the valley of the 
Chickies, near Salunga, where he preempted and patented several large 
tracts of land and built two mills upon the stream named.  One of these 
is still known as the Shenk mill, the other as the Garner mill. To Mr. 
and Mrs. Henry Miller six children were born. The eldest, John Miller, 
was the father of Joseph E. Miller.  He was born Oct. 15, 1797, and died 
Sept. 23, 1850, a farmer and a man of influence. He was long a member of 
the school board, and served for many years as supervisor.  He was a 
Whig in politics, and, like his father, a Mennonite in religious faith. 
On March 22, 1825, he married Elizabeth Erb, who was born Nov. 9, 1904, 
and died Aug. 29, 1863.  They had a family of eleven children: Emanuel, 
born Jan. 11, 1826, died in infancy; Daniel, born May 22, 1827, died 
Oct. 23, 1895, at Elizabethtown, Pa., where he had been first a farmer 
and then for many years an innkeeper; Susanna, born Feb. 19, 1829, 
married David Weaver, of Manheim; Henry E. died at Lititz, Lancaster 
county, where he was a very prominent citizen; John E., born Aug. 22, 
1823, learned the trade of a tailor and is engaged as a cutter at 
Portsmouth, Ohio; Andrew, born April 8, 1836, died when one month old; 
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tioned below; Reuben E., born Oct. 14, 1842, is a laborer at Salunga; 
Catharine, born Oct. 21, 1844, married Levi B. Zook, a farmer living 
near Lititz; Elizabeth, born Feb. 7, 1847, died Aug. 22, 1863.
	Joseph E. Miller lived at Landisville and was a farmer in his 
native county until 1893, in which year he came with his family to Point 
township, Northumberland county.  For nine years he farmed the Thomas 
Baumgardner property of 220 acres there, at the end of that time 
returning to Lancaster county.  He and his wife Catharine (Herr), 
daughter of Abraham Herr, now live near Columbia; Pa., engaged in 
farming.  They have had children as follows: Mary married James Probst; 
Catharine E. married John C. Hopewell; Joseph G. is a resident of 
Columbia, Pa.; Harry G. lives with his parents; Frances A. (deceased) 
married Harry Beats; two children died young.

	CHARLES C. LARK, a very successful practitioner at the 
Northumberland county bar, and a man of high ideals and sterling 
integrity, was born in Mifflin township, Dauphin Co., Pa., March 12, 
1874, son of Emanuel S. Lark.
	The Lark family is of Swiss origin.  George Lark, great-grandfather 
of Charles C., was born in Mifflin township; Dauphin county, and became 
a farmer there.  He died at the age of twenty-nine years, and is buried 
at Buffington church in his native township.  He married Elizabeth 
Enterline, who married (second) Captain Snyder, of Lykens township, 
Dauphin county.  After the death of her second husband she made her home 
with her son George, and died there aged seventy-five years.  To George 
and Elizabeth Lark were born four children: Amos and Elizabeth, who died 
young; John; and George, who settled at Berrysburg, as a merchant, and 
was the father of Leon, Elizabeth, Edward, William B., Mamie, Annie and 
Clara.
	John Lark, son of George, was born on the old homestead in Mifflin 
township Feb. 7, 1826. He learned the stonemason's trade as a young man, 
but never followed it.  He devoted his time to farming, and died in 
Salina, Salina Co., Kans., aged seventy-two years, and is buried there.  
He married Leah Shoop, daughter of Jacob Shoop, and they had two 
children: George, who died in infancy; and Emanuel S.
	Emanuel S. Lark, son of John, was born in Mifflin township, on the 
same farm on which both his father and grandfather were born, Feb. 8, 
1853.  He attended the local schools, Freeburg Academy, in Snyder 
county, Berrysburg Seminary and Millersburg Academy.  He taught ten 
terms of school in Dauphin and Northumberland counties, and was very 
successful as an instructor. Turning his attention to farming on the old 
homestead, he remained there for three years, after which he farmed for 
one year in Jackson township, Northumberland county, and then lived two 
years in Lower Mahanoy township, Northumberland county. In 1880 he came 
to Shamokin, and found employment in the mines, where he remained about 
six years.  The next five years he passed in a general hauling business, 
and the succeeding five years as conductor on a freight train for the 
Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company.  On Oct. 1, 1903, he assumed the 
duties of his present position, that of superintendent of the Shamokin 
cemetery, and his efficiency is well attested by the carefully kept 
condition of that beautiful city of the dead.  His residence is at No. 
53 Marshall street.  He is a member of St. John's Reformed Church.  Mr. 
Lark has been twice married.  In 1873 he married Emeline Boyer, daughter 
of Benjamin and Catharine (Stine) Boyer, the former of whom was born in 
Berks county, Pa., of French Huguenot ancestry, later settling in Lower 
Mahanoy township, Northumberland county.  Mrs. Lark was born Oct. 21, 
1847, and died April 9, 1895, and was buried in Shamokin cemetery.  The 
children born of this union were: Charles C.; Carrie C., who died aged 
eighteen years; John B., a physician, located at Trevorton, Pa.; Leah 
B., still living with her father; H. Wilson and Thomas F., overall 
manufacturers at Shamokin, trading as Lark & Lark; and Edward H., a 
salesman for Lark & Lark. Emanuel S. Lark married (second) Nov. 12, 
1908, Mrs. Margaret Umpleby, daughter of William and Susan Weitzel.
	Charles C. Lark was but six years of age when his parents came to 
Shamokin.  He was graduated from the Shamokin high school with honors in 
1893, and for a number of years was engaged in teaching, for four years 
being principal of the Coal township schools.  In 1894 he began the 
study of law in the office of John Quincy Adams, Esq., and was admitted 
to the Northumberland county bar in 1898. During his preparation for his 
profession he engaged in teaching. In 1898 he formed a partnership with 
Frederick B. Moser, under the firm name of Lark & Moser, which was 
dissolved in October, 1906. Mr. Lark was also been admitted to practice 
before the Supreme and Superior courts of the State, and the United 
States District and Circuit courts. He has been employed in a large 
number of important cases tried in Northumberland and other counties 
since his admission to the bar, among which deserving special mention 
are Bucher vs. Northumberland County, and Commonwealth vs. Angelo 
Molignani.
	The former of these cases involved the liability of the county for 
alleged negligence on the part of the county commissioners in failing to 
keep in good condition the sidewalks in the public street adjoining the 
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fense of the county he contended that there was no liability; and even 
though owners have been held responsible for their negligence in not 
properly maintaining the sidewalks abutting on their properties under 
similar circumstances, Mr. Lark was successful in convincing the Supreme 
court of Pennsylvania that the county is a quasi municipal corporation, 
a political subdivision and the agent of the State in the erection and 
maintenance of the courthouse and its appurtenances, and the State not 
being liable, its agent, the county, cannot be either. This case at the 
time attracted wide attention and was commented upon editorially by the 
large metropolitan newspapers; it was the first of its kind in 
Pennsylvania.
	The case against Molignani was one in which the defendant was 
charged with murder.  On the fifth day after the commission of the crime 
the trial was begun, and it was very generally predicted that the 
defendant would have to answer with his life. The jury, after having 
deliberated for five full days, decided that the defendant was not 
guilty of first degree murder.  Mr. Lark's address to the jury in behalf 
of Molignani is said to have been one of the most logical and finest 
oratorical efforts heard in the local courts in years. He is regarded as 
a resourceful lawyer, and as an eloquent pleader before a jury.  He is 
faithful to the trust his clients repose in him, and is honorable in his 
dealings. In 1903-05 he held the office of county solicitor.
	Mr. Lark has been active in politics, has frequently appeared as a 
delegate in Republican county conventions, and in 1901 was a delegate to 
the State convention.
	Mr. Lark is a member of St. John's Reformed Church and was, for a 
number of years, a member of its consistory and superintendent of its 
Sunday school. Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging 
to Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A.M.; and Caldwell Consistory, thirty 
second degree, at Bloomsburg.  He also belongs to James A. Garfield 
Lodge, No. 1061, I.O.O.F. Camp No. 30, P.O.S. of A.; the Royal Arcanum 
and Independence Fire Company. He is a member of the Temple Club.
	In the spring of 1910 Mr. Lark began organizing the Dime Trust and 
Safe Deposit Company with a capital of $125,000, and a surplus of 
$125,000. He was successful in his efforts and on May 16, 1910, this 
institution was opened for business and on April 1, 1911, moved into its 
handsome five story, fireproof building at the corner of Independence 
and Market streets, Shamokin.  In its directorate are some of the best 
and most substantial business men of Shamokin. The building occupied by 
this institution is without doubt the finest in Pennsylvania outside of 
the large cities. Ever since its opening day the Dime Trust and Safe 
Deposit Company has been gradually growing, and, although the youngest 
financial institution of Shamokin, it enjoys the unqualified confidence 
of its patrons. Mr. Lark is a director and solicitor for this 
institution. He is also a director and solicitor for the Central 
Building & Loan Association of Shamokin, as well as a number of other 
corporations.
	On Nov. 5, 1896, Mr. Lark was married to Lucy Cornelia Hamilton, 
daughter of the late Maj. E. C. Hamilton, of Shamokin, and they have 
three children, Cornelia E., Leah H. and Miriam R.

	HAUPT.  The Haupt family, which now has a number of representatives 
in Shamokin, was founded in this country by Conrad Haupt, a native of 
Wurtemberg, Germany, who settled in Berks county; Pa.  He had five sons: 
Conrad, who settled in Lower Augusta township, Northumberland county; 
Daniel, who settled in Bellefonte, Center county; Samuel, who settled in 
Schuylkill county; John, who settled in the western part of the State; 
and Henry, the ancestor of the Haupt family here under consideration.
	Henry Haupt son of Conrad, the emigrant ancestor, was born toward 
the close of the eighteenth century.  He came from Berks county to 
Northumberland when a young man and was a pioneer in the Mahanoy valley, 
settling in Coal (now Cameron) township; he had about four hundred acres 
of land in the valley. He served five, years in the Revolutionary war 
and after its close was engaged in fighting the Indians for two years; 
he was a private in Capt. Michael Hoelman's company, Chester county 
militia, in 1781 [page 858, Vol. V, 5th Series, Pennsylvania Archives]. 
At one time during the war he had nothing to eat for three days but a 
chicken hawk and a rattlesnake.  He died about 1847. He was a Democrat 
in politics and quite active in the affairs of his locality, filling a 
number of minor township offices; in religious belief he was a Lutheran. 
His children were:  Jacob, who died in the Mahanoy Valley; Benjamin, who 
died in the Mahanoy Valley; John; George, who died in Lower Augusta; 
Susanna, Mrs. George Kreamer; Annie, Mrs. Samuel Derr; Mary, Mrs. Henry 
Klock; Mrs. Daniel Kreamer, of Schuylkill county; Sarah, Mrs. George 
Derk; and Hetty, Mrs. Gideon Derk.
	John Haupt, son of Henry, was born April 26, 1808, in Cameron 
township, and grew up on the homestead.  He learned the trade of 
stonemason, which he followed in connection with farming, and was a 
substantial citizen of his day. He held various township offices, and 
was identified with the Democratic party in politics and in religion 
with the Lutheran Church, of which he was an active member and liberal 
supporter, and in which he held the office of elder. He died in 
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Gowen City. Mr. Haupt married Catherine Maurer, like himself a native of 
Cameron township, and a daughter of Philip Maurer, and she survived him, 
making her home with her son John. Eight children were born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Haupt: Sarah, Mrs. William Yoder, living in Jefferson county, Pa.  
Catherine, who lives in Philadelphia; Mary, who married Washington Smink 
and (second) John Bohner; Benjamin; Annie, Mrs. Jared Howerter; Philip, 
a resident of Cameron township; John, of Cameron township; and William, 
of Shamokin.
	Benjamin  Haupt, son of John, was born Jan. 15, 1841, in Cameron 
township, and was reared upon the farm settled by his grandfather, 
remaining there until he entered the government service during the Civil 
war.  He was drafted in 1862 and assigned to the 172d Regiment, 
Pennsylvania Militia, serving nine months.  After his army service he 
engaged in mining, which he followed for seventeen years, in 1880 
engaging in the butcher business in the borough of Shamokin. He removed 
from his first stand after several years to the place where he was 
located many years, then located two doors below, buying out Joseph 
Reitz, and in 1893 came to the corner of Market and Mulberry streets. He 
died Oct. 6, 1902. He was a much respected citizen of Shamokin, where he 
served as a member of the borough council, and was also quite active in 
church work, being a trustee of the Evangelical Church at Shamokin, in 
which he held membership.  He was a Republican in political matters.
	In 1863 Mr. Haupt married Catharine Henninger, daughter of Thomas 
Henninger, and five of the eight children born to this union survive, 
namely: Joseph H., Elizabeth (married George E. Long), Jennie (wife of 
N. E. Stepp), William T. and Harrison E.  Augustus died in 1903. The 
mother of this family died in 1880, and in 1882 Mr. Haupt married 
Elizabeth Daniel, daughter of Elias Daniel, of Schuylkill county, Pa. 
One child was born to this union, Charles D.

	JOSEPH H. HAUPT, son of Benjamin, was born May 14, 1866, at Bell's 
Tunnel, near Mount Carmel, this county, and came to Shamokin with his 
parents in childhood.  He attended the public schools, and began work as 
a slate picker, being employed at the mines until he reached the age of 
eighteen.  He has since followed the butcher business, and since 
February, 1904, has had a store of his own, at present conducting two 
establishments in Shamokin, one on Eighth street and one on Independence 
street.  He has built up a lucrative trade, which is constantly on the 
increase, and his satisfactory service and sincere desire to please 
customers have had their reward in the long continued patronage of many 
who have dealt at his establishments. He is a very favorably known 
citizen of the borough, and though not particularly active in local 
matters outside of business he is interested in the success of the 
Republican party and has served as delegate to county convention.
	Mr. Haupt married Emma R. Williams, daughter of James Williams, of 
Shamokin, and they have one son, W. Earle, who is now a high school 
pupil.  The family home is at No. 220 Sunbury street.
	Some years ago Mr. Haupt had a remarkable escape.  He and Judge L. 
S. Walter, of Mount Carmel, were passengers on the Lehigh Valley 
railroad train wrecked at Dunellen, N. J., Jan. 9, 1899, and though 
seventeen persons in the coach in which they rode were killed they were 
uninjured.

	WILLIAM T. HAUPT, son of Benjamin, was born at Shamokin April 26, 
1876, and there received his education in the public schools.  He 
learned the butcher's trade with his father, but for some years during 
his early life was engaged at slate picking in the summer months, 
finding employment at the mines for a number of years. However, 
butchering has always been his principal occupation, and he was engaged 
with his father until 1902, in which year he and his brother, Harry E. 
Haupt, engaged in business on their own account. They occupy their 
father's old stand at No. 259 South Market street Shamokin, a building 
which was erected in 1896. The Haupt homestead, next door, was erected 
in 1869.  The firm, which is known as Haupt Brothers, does a thriving 
business, carrying both meats and groceries, and the trade is large and 
steadily increasing, thanks to the Haupts commendable methods and 
judicious catering to the wants of their customers.
	Mr. Haupt married Jennie Miser, daughter of Jonathan Miser, of 
Snyder county, Pa.  They have no children. He is a Republican in 
politics, and socially holds membership in the Sons of Veterans, the 
I.O.O.F., the Royal Arcanum, the K. of P., and the local lodge of the 
B.P.O. Elks.

	YOCUM. The Yocum family of Northumberland county to which Adonijah 
F. Yocum and George W. Yocum, cousins, belong was founded here by their 
grandfather, who was a member of the old Berks county (Pa.) family of 
Yocum or Yocom.  The name has long been familiar to the inhabitants of 
that section of Pennsylvania, and the family is particularly prominent 
in the lower end of Berks county. The earlier generations were 
identified with Oley township, but Nicholas Yocom, who founded the 
family in Cumru township, settling there about the beginning of the last 
century, came from Douglassville.
	Late in the seventeenth century a colony of Swedes settled at the 
Wissahickon, near Philadelphia. In 1701 a number of these Swedes, among 
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the eastern bank of the Schuylkill, in the locality of Douglassville, 
Berks county.  Surveys for land for these pioneers were made Oct. 21, 
1701, and patents were issued between 1704 and 1705 for these lands: One 
J. Jonas "Jocum" (then "Yocomb," so spelled Yokham, Yocum and now 
Yocom),  youngest of these brothers, had a patent granted him by the 
Penns for 350 acres in Amity township. On the eastern bank of the 
Schuylkill where the Douglassville bridge spans the river, is an 
historic stone house erected in 1716 by Mounce Jones. He was a son-in-
law of J. Jonas Yocom, and was an executor, with Peter Yocum, of the 
will of J. Jonas Yocum.  This document was made Aug. 8, 1757, and was 
witnessed by Mordecai Thomas and Joseph Millard, Quaker people of Union 
township. The will was entered in Berks county courthouse for probate 
Dec. 27, 1760, and he left a large estate, equitably divided among the 
following children: Peter, who obtained one of the homesteads; Judith 
Mary; Margaret and John. At the making of the will, the "beloved" wife 
of the ancestor was still living.  The son John, who had died prior to 
the making of his aged father's will, left his widow Margaret and three 
sons, Jonas, Peter and John, the youngest child born after the father's 
death.  The ancestor amply provided for his widowed daughter-in-law.
	Moses Yocom, of Douglass township, a descendant of J. Jonas, made 
his will May 20, 1823; it was probated Feb. 28, 1824, and is recorded in 
Will Book D, page 449. His wife Susanna survived him. The executors of 
the will were Daniel Yocom and Joseph Fritz.  His children were: Moses, 
John, Peter, George, Mary, Ann and Hannah.
	The will of Maria Yocom, of Douglass township, probated in 1829, 
provides that each of the legatees of her will shall buy a large family 
Bible for each of their children.  Her children were: Ann, who married 
Jonas Yocom; Rachel Ragsize, who had a daughter Mary; and Daniel Yocom. 
Daniel Yocom, son, and Jonas Yocom, son-in-law, were executors of the 
will.
	John Yocom (son of John, and grandson of J. Jonas) was born in 1749 
and died Oct. 14, 1823. He had a son Moses, born on the homestead in 
Amity township Oct. 11, 1786, who died Aug. 30, 1850. Moses Yocom was 
married to Susanna, a daughter of Jacob and Anna Weaver, who were the 
parents of Peter Weaver, who was the father of Col. Jeremiah Weaver. 
Susanna (Weaver) Yocom was born Aug. 18, 1791, and died May 19, 1872. 
Moses and Susanna Yocom had a son William, born Jan. 23, 1817. He 
married Mary B. Kline, a daughter of George Kline, and they had a son 
William B. Yocom, a prominent man of Amity township.
	The grandfather of Adonijah F. and George W. Yocom was undoubtedly 
of this stock.  Moving from Berks county after his marriage to 
Northumberland county, he settled in Shamokin township at the present 
location of Paxinos.  He and his wife are interred in the old 
Presbyterian burial ground near Reed's station.  Their children were: 
Alexander, Peter, Daniel, Michael, Mrs. Hettie Carr and Mrs. Boughner.
	Alexander Yocom was born May 19, 1824, at Paxinos, Northumberland 
county, and learned the miller's trade, which he followed for some time, 
in all about eighteen years, first at Klinesgrove, later at Powers' mill 
and subsequently at Roaring Creek. He then bought the Adam Gilger farm 
of 109 acres, in what is now Ralpho township, now owned by his son 
George W., and at that place devoted himself to farming until his death, 
which occurred March 24, 1893.  He is buried at the Methodist church at 
Bear Gap, in which church he held membership and served as deacon. To 
him and his wife Martha Jane (Lot) were born children as follows: Mary 
J., who is deceased; Anna E., wife of William Fisher; Clara B., wife of 
John Unger; Sarah E, wife of William F. Adams; and George W.
	GEORGE W. YOCUM, son of Alexander, is a well known farmer of Ralpho 
township, born Feb. 22, 1864, at the place where he now resides. He 
obtained his schooling in the locality, and for a time after his school 
days were over was employed at the farm work with his father. Going to 
Shamokin, he was engaged in railroading three years and for one year he 
was clerk in the grocery of Amos Mengel, at Shamokin.  Returning to farm 
work, he spent two years cultivating different farms and in 1891 located 
on the home-stead, whereon he has since lived.  He purchased the 
property in 1908.  Many improvements have been made on the place during 
his occupancy. He is enterprising and thrifty, attends the Shamokin 
markets, and conducts his work in a business-like manner. Mr. Yocum has 
taken an interest in the public administration and has served as 
overseer of the poor of Ralpho township.  In politics he is a 
Republican, and in religion a Lutheran; being a member of Blue Church.
	In 1885 Mr. Yocum married Sallie A. Pensyl, and they have a family 
of five: Martha S., Edward B., S. Alexander, William C. and Caroline G.
	George Pensyl, Mrs. Yocum's grandfather, married Mary Keller, and 
they had a large family: Solomon, Jacob, Jeremiah, George, Daniel, John, 
Henry, Leah, Polly, Hannah, Susanna and Elizabeth.
	Solomon Pensyl, son of George, was a farmer and merchant and a well 
known man of his district, serving as tax collector and in other 
township offices. He died at Riverside May 24, 1904, and his widow, 
Caroline (Epler), is still living at that place. Their children were: 
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deceased, who was the wife of E. B. Vought; Sallie A., Mrs. Yocum; 
Harriet S.; wife of John Clingman; and H. Willington, who died young.
	Michael Yocum, brother of Alexander, above, was born at Paxinos, in 
Shamokin township, and followed farming all his life.  He died at the 
Ridge, in Shamokin township, in 1845, and is interred in the old 
Presbyterian burial ground near Reed's station, in Ralpho township.  His 
wife, Anna (Fahrensworth), died at the age of sixty-seven years, and is 
interred in the Baptist burial ground in Shamokin township.  They had 
children: John lives in Trevorton, this county; Sarah J., widow of 
Michael Yarnold, lives at Sunbury; Susanna, widow of Hiram Dill, lives 
in Shamokin township; Adonijah F. is mentioned below; Francis died 
young.

	ADONIJAH F. YOCUM, who is engaged in the teaming business at 
Shamokin, was born Jan. 1, 1844, in Shamokin township, and received his 
education in the public schools.  He assisted his mother as soon as he 
was able, his father having died when he was an infant.  During the 
Civil war he served nine months in the Union army, enlisting in Company 
C, 131st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.  Subsequently he spent one 
year at Trevorton, in 1864 moving to Shamokin and locating at the place 
where he still resides, No. 28 South Shamokin street.  For a period of 
twenty-four years he followed mining, and he then engaged in the hauling 
business, in which he has established quite a profitable patronage.  He 
is a steady-going, reliable man, and has the respect of his fellow 
citizens.  In politics he is a Republican, in religion a Lutheran.
	Mr. Yocum married Harriet Fegley, daughter of John Fegley.  She 
died March 24, 1905, and is buried at Shamokin.  The following children 
were born to this union: Hannah F., William and Bertha all died young; 
George C., who is a merchant and has other business interests at 
Shamokin, married Clara Haupt and (second) Anna Johns; Harry E., who is 
associated in the store with his brother George, married Gertrude Crason 
and their children are Marion, David, Harry and Edward; Benneville 
married Annie Isaacs, and died in 1910.

	JOHN J. LAUGHLIN, express agent at Mount Carmel, Northumberland 
county, until recently station agent of the Lehigh Valley & Pennsylvania 
Railway Company at that point, was born Dec. 28, 1862, in Schuylkill 
county, Pa., son of Lawrence Laughlin. The father was a native of 
Ireland and came to America when a young man, settling in Schuylkill 
county. He was a contractor at the mines and also did railroad 
contracting, and he met an accidental death at Ashland, Schuylkill 
county, when only twenty-seven years old.
	John J. Laughlin attended school at Ashland and there began work as 
a clerk in the employ of the railway company with which he is still 
connected, in 1879. He was the first agent at Ashland, whence he was 
transferred to Centralia, Columbia county; and thence to Girardville, 
Schuylkill county.  He was also at Lost Creek, Schuylkill county, for a 
time before receiving his position as station agent at Mount Carmel, in 
the fall of 1898.  This is an important station, and nine clerks are 
engaged here.  The first railroad opened to Mount Carmel was the old 
Northern Central, in 1854, and the next was the Lehigh Valley, in 1866.  
The present Lehigh Valley & Pennsylvania station at that point was 
constructed in 1907. Mount Carmel is a great shipping point, and there 
has been a steady increase of business which greatly enhanced its 
consequence during Mr. Laughlin's incumbency of the position. He proved 
a competent and resourceful man in the place, possessing good judgment 
in the transaction of the business of the station, and gained and held 
the respect of his fellow citizens in his adopted place.
	On Nov. 1, 1910, he resigned as joint agent to accept the agency of 
the Adams and Southern Express Companies at Mount Carmel. While living 
in Columbia county, Pa., Mr. Laughlin was elected justice of the peace 
for two terms, on the People's ticket.
	On Sept. 16, 1890, Mr. Laughlin married Catherine Flanagan, 
daughter of Peter Flanagan, a merchant of Ashland, Pa., and they are the 
parents of six children, namely: Howard, Mary, Margaret, Nellie, 
Lawrence and John.
	Mr. Laughlin is a Catholic in religious faith and is a prominent 
member of the Knights of Columbus having been the first grand knight of 
the Mount Carmel organization.  He is also a member of the local lodge 
of Elks.

	PROF. WILLIAM MENDON KLECKNER, an educator of several years 
standing in Sunbury, founder and principal of the Sunbury Commercial 
College and in charge of the commercial department of the Sunbury high 
school, has made a high reputation in his special field and has become 
widely known in the pursuit of his chosen calling.
	Taylor Kleckner, his father, was a native of New Berlin, Pa., born 
in 1848, and died May 29, 1904, in Lewisburg, Union county, aged sixty-
six years.  In his earlier life he followed farming, later becoming a 
salesman for the Champion Reaper Company, for whom he traveled twenty-
four years, his territory covering Union, Snyder and Northumberland 
counties.  He was a Lutheran and an active church member, serving some 
year, as deacon of the Dreisbach Church. Politi-
	
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cally he was a Republican.  He married Angeline Spotts, daughter of 
William and Elizabeth (Derr) Spotts, and two children were born to them: 
William Mendon and a daughter, the latter dying in infancy.
	William Mendon Kleckner was born Nov. 9 1872, at Vicksburg, Union 
Co., Pa., and obtained his early education in the public schools of that 
locality.  Later be became a student at Bucknell University, after which 
he entered the Williamsport Commercial College, at Williamsport, Pa., 
from which latter institution he was graduated in 1900.  Receiving a 
license to teach public school, he took charge of the commercial 
department of the Sunbury High school in 1902, and has since continued 
to fill that responsible position. The department has attained a high 
standard of efficiency under his management, and the importance of his 
work, together with the able manner in which he has handled it, has 
gained him many admirers among pupils and patrons. In 1902 he founded 
the Sunbury Commercial College, located on Fairmount avenue which has 
had a continued career of prosperity, the average attendance being one 
hundred students.  Professor Kleckner is a conscientious, untiring 
worker, devoted to his calling and sparing neither time nor pains in his 
efforts to bring the best in his pupils to the surface, and his success 
has been marked.
	On Aug. 6, 1905, Professor Kleckner married Ida Mussina, daughter 
of Henry B. and Eve (Hoover) Mussina, of Mount Cannel, Northumberland 
county.  They worship at the Methodist Church, and socially he holds 
membership in the Modern Woodmen of America.  In political sentiment he 
is a Republican.

	LONG. The Longs of Northumberland county, descendants of George 
Long, have been represented principally in the prosperous agricultural 
class, but at present one member of the family, Peter D. Long, is a well 
known shoe merchant of Sunbury, where his uncle, Benjamin C. Long, is 
now living in retirement after a long and active life as a farmer.  
David D. Long, brother of Peter D. Long, is a well-to-do farmer of 
Little Mahanoy township. We give the line of these from the emigrant 
ancestor.
	George Long, a native of England, settled on the farm near 
Augustaville, in Rockefeller township, now owned by A. J. Smith, and 
formerly by Andrew Gonser.  Mr. Long took up the land by warrant from 
the government of Pennsylvania. Here he lived and died, and he is buried 
at the Augustaville Stone Church.  He was a lifelong farmer, and made 
great improvements on this property.  The original set of buildings on 
the place were located on the road leading from A. J. Smith's to the old 
Shipman mill, in what is now the meadow about two hundred rods north of 
Mr. Smith's home; all have been razed.  George Long served in the war of 
1812 on the American side, and he may have been a soldier in King 
George's army during the Revolutionary war. Perhaps he was better known 
by the name of John George Long.  He was a member of the church at 
Augustaville, which he helped to build.  He was twice married, his first 
wife dying in middle age, and she was the mother of all his children, 
namely: George, a farmer, who lived in Upper Mahanoy township, and who 
had, among other children, sons Henry, John, Samuel and William (who was 
killed by a train, at Paxinos); Henry, who was a cripple and never 
married; and John.
	John Long, son of George, was born in 1805 in Rockefeller township, 
this county, and died in Montandon, May 20, 1888, aged eighty-two years, 
six months, one day, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Seabolt.  He was 
a farmer in Rockefeller township, owning and cultivating the place which 
is now the property of Albert Witmer.  In stature he was comparatively 
small, five feet, five inches in height, but he was vigorous, as may be 
judged by the advanced age he attained.  His wife, Anna Camp, born Oct. 
18, 1808, died March 27, 1880, and they are interred at the Ebenezer 
Methodist Church in Rockefeller township, of which Mr. Long was a 
member.  Their children were as follows: Elizabeth, Samuel C., 
Catharine, Henry (of Trevorton, Pa.), Jane (married William Zimmerman), 
John (died in February, 1888, in Indiana), Julia (married John Seabolt), 
Benjamin C. and Lucinda (unmarried, who lives in Mifflinburg. Pa.)
	Samuel C. Long, son of John, was born Dec. 22, 1828, in what is now 
Rockefeller township, and died April 28, 1890, aged sixty-one years, 
four months, six days.  He learned the trade of miller, which he 
followed for about fifteen years, during that period operating what was 
known as John Dunkelberger's mill, on Mahanoy creek, for a time, he had 
learned the business there.  He next went to Rockefeller township, where 
he did milling for Hiram Miller, and he also followed the butcher trade 
in that township for some years. In 1867 he returned to Little Mahanoy 
township and began farming on the David Dunkelberger farm, which he 
purchased, and which then comprised 170 acres.  He continued to make his 
home there to the end of his days.  Mr. Long was a man who took an 
intelligent part in the interests of his community, served his township 
a number of years as supervisor, and was an active member of the Little 
Mahanoy Lutheran Church, of which he was elder and trustee.  Politically 
he was a Democrat.
	In 1854 Mr. Long married Lydia Dunkelberger, who was born in 1833, 
daughter of David and Anna Marie (Smith) Dunkelberger, and died Sept. 
18, 1907, aged seventy-three years, eleven 
	
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months, nineteen days.  Mr. and Mrs. long are buried at the Little 
Mahanoy Lutheran Church. They were the parents of the following 
children: Peter D.; Mary, who died young; Elizabeth, who married Frank 
Bobb (he is deceased); Phoebe J., who married Joseph D. Wagner; David 
D.; and Louisa, who died when two years old.
	PETER D. LONG, son of Samuel C., was born Dec. 6, 1854. He was 
reared in Rockefeller township until his parents settled in Little 
Mahanoy, in 1867, and there he worked on the farm which his father 
purchased from his maternal grandfather, David Dunkelberger. He remained 
there until he attained the age of twenty-two years, at which time he 
went to Shamokin to learn the blacksmith's trade, which  he followed 
there for three years.  He next went to Clinton county, Pa., entering 
the shops of the Pennsylvania Railway Company at Renovo, and he 
continued to work for that company for twelve years, though he did not 
continue at his trade.  Beginning the freight service, he was engaged in 
that branch for six years after which  he was changed to the passenger 
service, and during the last three years of the period mentioned he was 
a conductor of a passenger train between Renovo and Erie.  He began as 
brakeman and rose by merit to the responsible position as passenger 
conductor.  At the time he left the Pennsylvania service he was offered 
an appointment in the passenger service of the Baltimore and Ohio 
Company, but he had decided to begin business on his own account, and he 
has never had good reason to regret his choice. In 1890 he came to 
Sunbury, where he bought out the good-will, stock and fixtures of Jasper 
Slaymaker, who conducted a shoe findings and harness manufacturing 
business.  He carried this on successfully for a few years, but in the 
meantime he had discovered a more congenial and profitable field in the 
shoe dealing line, and he accordingly sold out, in 1892, to Frank 
Simpson (who has since died).  That year he opened his present store at 
No. 732 Market street, Sunbury, where he is engaged exclusively as a 
shoe dealer, carrying the largest line of footwear in the borough.  He 
handles all the leading makes, and doing a business of large proportions 
is able to keep a very complete line, being the leading merchant of his 
kind in Sunbury.  His customers come from  a wide territory around 
Sunbury.
	Mr. Long is best known as a shoe merchant in and around Sunbury, 
but he has not confined his energies to the one line by any means, being 
connected with various other local enterprises of importance to the 
community.  He has served as president of the Business Men's 
Association, has been a director of the Sunbury National Bank since 
1909, and has to some extent engaged in real estate dealing, winning a 
reputation for good judgement in all his ventures.  He has served nine 
years as member of the school board and was treasurer of that body.  In 
political faith he is a Democrat.
	In 1880 Mr. Long married Lizzie Leathers, daughter of John 
Leathers, who lived and died in Union county, Pa.  They have had two 
children:  Charles O., who graduated from Bucknell University, at 
Lewisburg, Pa., in the civil engineering course, is now holding a 
responsible position in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, 
stationed at Bellwood, Pa.; and Florence is a graduate of Sunbury high 
school.  Mr. Long and his family are members of the Lutheran Church at 
Sunbury.  Fraternally he is a member of True Cross Commandery, No. 122, 
Knights of Malta, of Sunbury.

	DAVID D. LONG, son of Samuel C. Long, was born Oct. 15, 1865, and 
grew to manhood on the home farm, the place  formerly known as the David 
Dunkelberger farm (now owned by J. F. Dreibelbies) in Little Mahanoy 
township.  When he began farming on his own account it was on that 
property, where he lived for thirty-three years, owning it for ten 
years.  He farmed it one year for his father, for whom he worked until 
he was twenty-two years old. In 1900 he purchased his present farm, 
which then consisted of 142 acres, forty-two of which he has since sold.  
It is located between Line Mountain and a quarter of a mile east of 
Hunter Station. This was at one time the Jonathan Dunkelberger 
homestead, but Mr. Long purchased it from Isaac D. Raker.  The present 
owner has made a number of improvements, and the fine barn on the place 
was built by him in 1902, to replace one destroyed by fire the evening 
of Jan. 13th, that year; the cause of the fire has never been known.  
Though Mr. Long has never served an apprenticeship at any trade, and has 
made farming his principal business, he is a skilful mechanic in various 
lines, and has done carpenter work for many in his neighborhood, giving 
the utmost satisfaction.  He has also worked as a stonemason, blacksmith 
and barber.  Besides being an industrious and substantial citizen, he 
has proved a most useful member of his community, where he has served 
nine consecutive years as school director (being secretary of the board 
eight years of that time) and four years as supervisor; he was elected 
to the latter office when only twenty-four years old.  He is a Democrat 
in political connection.  He and his family are members of Immanuel's 
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Little Mahanoy, of which he has been 
deacon, elder and trustee.
	On March 28, 1889, Mr. Long married L. Cora Kerstetter, daughter of 
Felix and  Elizabeth (Beachell) Kerstetter, and granddaughter of Philip 
and Catharine (Eisenhart) Kerstetter. Mr. and Mrs. Long have had a 
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(attending Sunbury high school), L. Lizzie, Mary M., Samuel F., John M., 
E. Paul, Catharine L., Eva J. and J. Daniel.
	Leonard Kerstetter, Mrs. Long's first ancestor in Northumberland 
county, was an early settler in the western part of Cameron township.  
He owned a tract of forty-four acres on which he farmed, erected a house 
and barn on this place, and died aged about eighty years.  He is buried 
in Cameron township. In 1776 the names of Leonard and Martin Kerstetter 
appear among the pioneers of Mahanoy township, but in the first 
assessment of Cameron township, in 1814, Leonard's name appears among 
the taxables. His name appears in 1803 among the organizers of St. 
Jacob's Lutheran and Reformed Church, in Upper Mahanoy township. His 
wife's maiden name was Gerhard, and she is buried by his side. They had 
a large family, namely: Leonard, Philip, John, George, Daniel, Michael, 
Susan (married Peter Weigel), Hannah (married John Reichard), and Mary 
Elizabeth (married Michael Derk and died in May, 1898, aged one hundred 
years, three months, eighteen days, at the home of her nephew, Simon 
Peter Kerstetter, in West Cameron township; she is buried at St. Peter's 
Church in that township).
	 Leonard Kerstetter (2), son of Leonard, was a farmer in the 
western part of Cameron township, where he and his wife, Barbara 
(Heller), are buried.  They had five children: John, who died young; 
Simon Peter; Isaac; Catharine, who married David Kraemer; Salome, who 
married Solomon Gottshall.
	Philip Kerstetter, son of Leonard, lived at Trevorton.  He was a 
farmer for some years, in his later life hauling coal.  He was twice 
married, and by his first wife (who was a Schleigh) had five children, 
Robert, Elizabeth, Sallie, Henry (who died young) and Adam. To his 
second marriage, with Catharine (Eisenhart) Stein, widow of Jonas Stein, 
were born three children: Felix, Mary and Catharine.
	John Kerstetter, son of Leonard, was a farmer in Cameron township. 
His children were: John Abraham, Adam, Salome and Elizabeth.
	George Kerstetter, son of Leonard, was a farmer and landowner of 
Cameron township, and is buried there.  His wife was a Derck, and their 
children were: Daniel, George and Levi.
	Daniel Kerstetter, son of Leonard, lived in the eastern part of 
Cameron township, near Gowen City. He engaged in work around the coal 
mines. He married Lusenna Wary, and among their children are Alexander 
and Joseph.
	Michael Kerstetter, son of Leonard, lived in Bear Valley, two miles 
from Shamokin, where he did work about the coal mines.  He married a 
Martz, and they had a large family.  Their son William is out west.  
Charles was another son.
	Simon Peter Kerstetter, son of Leonard (2) and grandson of Leonard, 
was born June 3, 1840, and spent most of his life in Cameron township, 
working in the coal mines.  On April 15, 1866, he married Elizabeth 
Hingham, and of their four children three are deceased, the survivor 
Benjamin Franklin Kerstetter, being a farmer. He sold the farm in Little 
Mahanoy and moved onto their property in Cameron township.  Benjamin F. 
works at the coal mines and on his small farm. He married R. Agnes Long, 
and their children are: Elizabeth, Lloyd, George, Francis and Tretha 
(now deceased).

	BENJAMIN C. LONG, son of John, was born Dec. 30, 1841, and was 
reared on the home farm near Augustaville now owned by Albert Witmer.  
He worked for his parents until he was twenty-two years old, at which 
time he moved to the place of his father-in-law, Samuel Kelly, in Plum 
Greek valley.  He lived and farmed there from 1863 until his retirement, 
in 1901, a period of thirty-eight years, during which he prospered and 
acquired the farm, which consists of 120 acres of valuable land in 
Rockefeller township. This tract is all fertile, level land, and the 
place is equipped with fine, large buildings, erected by Samuel Kelly, 
who was one of the thrifty farmers of his day in that vicinity; he was a 
man of means and influence in his neighborhood, owning considerable good 
land, including the farm of 130 acres adjoining the 120-acre tract above 
mentioned.  In 1901, when he gave up arduous labor, Mr. Long moved to 
Sunbury, where he has since made his home, but he still retains the 
ownership of the farm, which he rents to his son Samuel E.  He also owns 
his residence at No. 209 Catawissa avenue, Sunbury.
	Mr. Long has been prominent and active in church work and local 
public affairs.  He served nineteen consecutive years as school director 
of Rockefeller township, having been elected for seven terms (twenty-one 
years), but gave up the last two years of his seventh term upon his 
removal  to Sunbury.  He served as tax collector at a period when nearly 
all the bills were paid in silver, and when out on a collecting trip 
would put the money in a bag under the seat of his buggy. He and his 
family were long leading members of the Lutheran Church at Plum Creek, 
but since removing to Sunbury have joined the church there. Mr. Long has 
held many church offices, and has served a number of terms in the church 
council. Wherever he is known his opinion is valued and his advice 
sought, and he is much esteemed by all his associates in every relation 
of life.
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daughter of Samuel and Anna Maria (Miller) Kelly, of Rockefeller 
township, and they have had a family of nine children, namely: Anna 
Maria married Charles Heckert, of Rockefeller township; Clara E. married 
George M. Hoffman, of Sunbury, Pa.; Charity L. married Calvin N. Furman 
and they live in Sunbury; Emma T. is the widow of A. Johnson Savidge and 
lives with her children in Sunbury; Samuel E. is a resident of 
Rockefeller township, cultivating his father's farm; Edna R. married 
Harvey Troutman, of Sunbury; John F. is a farmer of Rockefeller 
township; Edith married Charles Malick and they live in Upper Augusta 
township; Olive married Eugene Thomas and they live in Sunbury.

	MICHAEL P. TIERNEY, attorney at law, and borough solicitor of 
Northumberland, is a native of that place who, though young, has made a 
good start in his profession and bids fair to take an honorable place 
among the successful lawyers of his section. He was born in the borough 
Jan. 12, 1884, son of Michael Tierney.
	Michael Tierney was born Oct. 10, 1843, in County Galway, Province 
of Connaught, Ireland, son of Patrick and Winifred (Comer) Tierney. In 
1870 he came to America, making his first location at Danville, in 
Montour county, Pa., where he was employed in the iron works, living and 
working there for a year and a half.  He next went to Scranton, where he 
remained only three months, however, thence going to Oxford, Warren Co., 
N. J., where he was employed for three years, until a strike broke out. 
It was then he came to Northumberland, in 1876, his father-in-law, 
Patrick Carroll, living near, at New Berlin, Pa. Here he has since made 
his home.  When he settled in Northumberland he had a little money, 
which he lost, however, through no fault of his own, lending it to a man 
who was sold out before Mr. Tierney could make his claim. For fifteen 
years Mr. Tierney worked for the Van Alens, iron-masters, as a puddler, 
after which he was given charge of the Taggart mill at Northumberland, 
continuing there until Mr. Taggart died and the concern dissolved.  Mr. 
Tierney took advantage of his respite from work to make a visit to his 
aged mother, who was then about eighty years old, but after he had been 
back home only two weeks he was summoned to return to Northumberland, 
where he was appointed watchman at the cap factory.  This establishment 
was destroyed by fire in 1909, since when he has lived retired. He and 
his family occupy a nice residence at the corner of Second and Orange 
streets, Northumberland.
	In 1873 Mr. Tierney married Annie Carroll, daughter of Patrick and 
Susan (Doonen) Carroll, of New Berlin, Pa. She died in June, 1907, at 
the age of fifty-two years, and was buried in St. Joseph cemetery, at 
Danville, Pa.  Eleven children were born to this union, namely: Patrick, 
James, Mary, Thomas, Minnie (deceased), Michael P., Sue, Catherine, 
John, Harry and Daniel. The family are all members of the Catholic 
Church at Sunbury.
	Michael P. Tierney received his literary education in the public 
schools of the borough of Northumberland, graduating from the high 
school in 1901. In 1903 he became a clerk in the employ of the Trolley 
Company in the office of S. P. Wolverton, at Sunbury, and in time began 
reading law in the same office, being admitted to the Northumberland 
county bar Oct. 12, 1907. Meantime, in February, 1907, he had been 
elected justice of the peace of the borough; in 1908 he was elected 
attorney for the borough, and is also borough solicitor. Thus he found a 
field immediately for legal practice, and in addition to his public 
duties he has had considerable private work, having a steadily growing 
patronage.  He has his office in the Morgan building at Northumberland. 
Hardworking and enterprising, he has every prospect of an active future.
	On July 18, 1910, Mr. Tierney married Eva Mailey, daughter of John 
H. Mailey, postmaster of Northumberland. He is a member of St. Michael's 
Catholic Church at Sunbury.

	JOHN K. HETRICK, who lives  near  the Wolfs Cross Road Church in 
Rockefeller township, has been a prosperous farmer and well known office 
holder of that township for many years. He was born May 29, 1854, in 
Lower Mahanoy township, this county, and belongs to an old Pennsylvania 
family.  His remarkable memory has enabled him to learn by heart the 
complete record of the family from the time of his great-grandfather, 
Philip (or John Philip) Hetrick.
	There is a tradition that the early Hetrick or Hetrich family of 
Northumberland county, Pa., was first located in Berks county, this 
State, where in 1759 one William Hettrich was a taxable of Bern 
township, paying a Federal tax of eight pounds.  It is likely that this 
William Hettrich was the father or an elder brother of Philip Hetrich 
(Hettrich), a pioneer of Washington township, Northumberland county.  It 
is certain the family is one of long standing in Pennsylvania, as the 
Pennsylvania Archives record the names of Christopher and Nicholas 
Hettrich among the immigrants to the Province before 1750.  The 
probability is that Christopher, Nicholas, William and Philip were 
brothers, and that they first settled in Berks county, William remaining 
there. In 1778, in the list of taxables of Mahanoy township, which then 
embraced all that part of Northumberland county south of Line Mountain, 
are found the names of Nicholas and Christopher Hettrich, natives of 
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	Philip Hetrich (Hettrich) was a pioneer of what is now Washington 
township, where the family has since been well represented.  In the 
communion list (April, 12, 1818) of the Lutheran congregation of the 
Himmel Church there the name is conspicuous. It is likely Philip was one 
of the four Hettrichs above mentioned and the same person who landed at 
Philadelphia from the ship "Louisa" Oct. 3, 1753.
	John Philip Hetrick, great-grandfather of John K. Hetrick, was born 
July 24, 1785, and died March 1, 1853. He lived in what is now 
Washington township, Northumberland county, owning and occupying the 
property where his grandson, Daniel Hetrick, later resided, now owned by 
Henry Kobel. He and his wife, Catharine (Reitz), born Oct. 24, 1786, 
died June 25 l854 are buried in the old cemetery at the Himmel church in 
that township. Among their children were: Michael, Nicholas, Mrs. 
Abraham Deppen, Mrs. Henry Hoffman and Daniel.
	John Hetrick, son of John Philip Hetrick, was a native of 
Washington township, followed farming, owning the property where Charles 
Hetrick now lives, and shortly before his death retired, moving to the 
Himmel Church locality. He died at the age of sixty-five years and is 
buried at Himmel's Church.  His first  wife,  Catharine (Snyder), died 
long before him, and he subsequently married her sister Elizabeth. All 
his children were by the first marriage, namely: Daniel; Peter, of 
Punxsutawney, Pa.; John, who died on the homestead; William, who died in 
Washington township; Samuel, of Upper Mahanoy township; and Sarah, who 
married John Hoffman.
	Daniel Hetrick, son of John, was born in what is now Washington 
township, and there passed all his life, owning and living upon the farm 
which is now the property of Henry Kobel. He had a tract of 121 acres. 
Mr. Hetrick was a tanner as well as farmer, having a tannery on his farm 
which he conducted for many years.  He died at the age of sixty-nine and 
is buried at the Himmel Church, of which he was a Lutheran member. For 
ten years he held the office of justice of the peace, and he was one of 
the first board of school directors of Washington township, entering 
upon the duties of that position when the public school system of the 
township was established, in 1870. Politically he was a Democrat. His 
wife, Susanna (Kramer), died about two years before him.  They were the 
parents of eleven children: James was an invalid and lived at home until 
his death; John K. is mentioned below; Clara M. married Wilson Rebuck; 
Charles died in Washington township; Frank met his death in the 
Klondyke, where he was frozen to death with nine other men; Elizabeth 
(deceased) married F. L. Kehres; Catherine is the widow of Robert 
Garman; Ellen married Martin Kehres; Lewis is a resident of Sunbury, 
Pa.; Daniel lives in the borough of Northumberland; Ida died in infancy.
	John K. Hetrick worked for his father in the tannery and on the 
farm. When a youth of seventeen he commenced to learn the trade of 
plasterer, which he has followed off and on ever since, at present 
taking contracts, in the fulfillment of which he gives employment to 
several men.  His work in that line is principally in Sunbury and the 
vicinity. After his marriage he went to work for his uncle Elias in 
Lower Augusta township, in the tannery, where he had been employed for 
two years when his uncle died.  He has since resided in Rockefeller 
township, where he owns two tracts of land, the smaller comprising 
twelve acres, upon which his buildings are located.  The other contains 
forty acres, near by.  In 1907 Mr. Hetrick remodeled his residence, and 
he has made many improvements, of various kinds, upon his property. He 
is a thrifty and systematic worker, and has prospered deservedly in his 
undertakings. Though busy with his own affairs he has found time to take 
part in the work of the Democratic party in his locality and has also 
been called upon to fill a number of public positions, having served six 
years as school director and eighteen years consecutively as assessor. 
With his family he belongs to the Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church at 
Wolfs cross road, in the work of which he has long been active, having 
served in the church council and as superintendent of the Sunday school 
for a considerable length of time.
	On May 29, 1872, Mr. Hetrick married Amanda Kehres, daughter of 
William and Catherine (Erdman) Kehres, of Washington township, and four 
children have been born to them: Theda V. married Curtis Hummel and died 
about one year after her marriage; Rosa F. married Charles F. Schreffler 
and they live in Rockefeller township; Sapora married Charles Bobb and 
they live in Sunbury; Samuel O. died when six months old. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hetrick have adopted and reared five other children:  William Sultzbach, 
who is now in Nebraska; Galen Hoffman and William Kehres, both now in 
Sunbury; Dean Brosius, born April 15, 1895, who still lives with them; 
and Margaret Greggson, who is still in their hospitable home.

	HIRAM M. HAAS, of Sunbury, farmer, trucker and florist, is a 
prosperous business man who has been active in various lines during his 
busy life and has made a substantial success. He has served in various 
public offices and has proved a good citizen in every capacity in which 
his ability and integrity have been tested.
	Mr. Haas is a grandson of Lawrence Haas, who lived in Jackson 
township, Northumberland county.  He was possessed at one time of 
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for supposed friends.  He died early in August 1803, and his 
administrator was one Daniel Haas, probably a son.  Among his children 
were: John S.; Isaac, who lived and died in Jackson township; Daniel, 
who was a miller and farmer in New York State; Mrs. Smith; and Harriet 
who married Jacob Bower.
	John S. Haas, son of Lawrence, was born May 6, 1810, in 
Northumberland county and received a common school education.  He 
resided in Mahanoy and Jackson townships until 1850, when he moved to 
Upper Augusta township and there in 1856 purchased the McCarthy & Davis 
mill, then known as the Sunbury mill property, but since known as Haas's 
mill.  There he lived the remainder of his days, following milling and 
also farming, to which he had been reared, until his retirement, and 
accumulating a comfortable property by industry, good management and 
honorable dealing. He was unassuming and mingled little with his 
fellowmen, but he was universally respected, and he held several local 
offices, serving as school director and for many years as overseer of 
the poor. When a young man he joined a militia company and became quite 
prominent in that connection, rising to the rank of major and later to 
that of colonel; he made a commanding appearance, especially upon  
horseback, and attracted much attention upon public occasions. His 
death, which was caused by paralysis, occurred Nov. 30, 1885, at the age 
of seventy-five.
	On Dec. 6, 1835, Mr. Haas married Margaret Deppen, who was born 
March 4, 1812, near Womelsdorf, Berks Co., Pa., and died Dec. 13, 1887. 
Mr. and Mrs. Haas were members of the German Reformed Church, and in 
politics he was a Democrat. Socially he belonged to the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows. He and his wife are buried in Pomfret Manor 
cemetery. They were the parents of four children, all of whom died in 
infancy except Hiram.
	Hiram M. Haas was born March 4, 1846, in Jackson township, and was 
in his fifth year when his parents settled at the Mill property in Upper 
Augusta township, in the neighborhood of Sunbury.  He received his 
education in the public schools of the borough and at the Missionary 
Institute at Selinsgrove, this county, which he left in 1867, later 
attending the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for five 
months. From early life he assisted his father and was long associated 
with him in the management of his affairs, also conducting the mill for 
a time on his own account. It was equipped with a full roller system and 
known as the Sunbury Roller Mills. After his father's death he leased 
the mill and again took up farming, in which he had been previously 
interested, subsequently operating the mill again in connection with his 
agricultural operations, making high-grade flour by steam, water and 
roller processes.  He found the mill very profitable, there being a 
ready market for the products, which had an excellent reputation.  Mr. 
Haas lives in Fast Sunbury, on Haas avenue (named in his honor), where 
he built the "Haas mansion" in 1890, and he has large interests in and 
out of the borough. He has seventy-five acres of land to the east of 
Sunbury, most of it now included in the borough, and is engaged in the 
cultivation of same as a general farmer, track gardener and florist.  
The Susquehanna Silk Mills are located on this property.  He also has a 
farm of 165 acres in Upper Augusta township, which he rents. His 
interests are extensive and he devotes the greater part of the time to 
their management, being one of the prominent business men of his section 
of Sunbury, which was formerly known as Purdytown and formed an 
independent borough before its annexation. His home is included in what 
is now the Ninth ward. However, with all his numerous private interests, 
he has found time for valuable public service, having served three terms 
as school director of what was then Purdytown, a member for two terms of 
the East Sunbury council, township auditor three successive terms, and 
recorder. In political sentiment he is a Democrat with independent 
inclinations. Mr. Haas was for some rears affiliated with the Odd 
Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Royal Arcanum at Sunbury.
	In 1870 Mr. Haas married Luzetta, daughter of John Hull, a merchant 
of Snydertown, this county, and to them have been born children as 
follows: John F., of Sunbury, who married Harriet O. Detrich, of 
Sunbury; Edward L., of Sunbury, who died in August 1910, at the age of 
thirty-seven years; Isaac J., of Sunbury, married to Amy E. Fasold, of 
that borough; Bessie May; Hiram W., of Sunbury; Mary Margaret; Essie 
Mabel; Nellie Jane, and Marian Valeria.

	DANIEL ST. CLAIR was a native of Scotland, and came to America when 
twelve years old. He was in the Revolutionary war, in which he was drum 
major, and the four fingers of his left hand were shot off in the war. 
He was a scholar and a good penman and taught school.  His wife had a 
property in Lower Augusta township which Jack Smith now owns, and 
William Wynn owns another part of the old St. Clair holdings. Mr. St. 
Clair married Isabella Auchmudy, a daughter of Arthur and Sarah (Mills) 
Auchmudy, pioneers of the county. Daniel and Isabella St. Clair are 
buried at Fisher's Ferry. Their children were: Daniel, David, Casper, 
George, Abraham, Sarah, Anna, Lydia, and a son whose name is forgotten.
	Daniel St. Clair lived on rented land.  He is buried in upper 
Dauphin county.  By his first wife, Katie Hubb, he had two children, 
Sarah 
	
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and Walter.  To his second union, with Betzy Dietrich, were born:  
Hiram, Washington, Isabella, and one that died in infancy.
	David St. Clair lived and died at  the  Cart House.  He was well-
to-do. He married Amelia Reider, and they had a son George.
	Casper St. Clair married Mary Clymer, from Berks county, Pa.  For a 
time they rented, and later lived along the mountain in Lower Augusta 
township.  They are buried  at the Methodist Church. They had children 
as follows: Jeremiah died in Shamokin; Isabella, born Oct. 11, 1823, is 
still living, the widow of Robert Smith; Sarah Jane married Charles 
Reader; Mary E. married Alvin Reader; Andrew J. died in Chester county, 
Pa., in October, 1909, aged seventy-two years.
	George St. Clair lived in Schuylkill County, Pa., and St. Clair, in 
that county, was named after him. He married Polly Dietrich, and among 
their children were Matilda and Mary.
	Abraham St. Clair lived at Wilkes-Barre.  He entered the army and 
sold his property for $1,500, though it was worth much more, being rich 
coal land.  His wife was Ellen Courtright and their youngest child was 
Butler St. Clair.

	JOHN JACOB PEIFER, late of Shamokin, who was engaged in the leather 
and boot and shoe business at the corner of Arch and Market streets, had 
an extensive trade, supplying most of the shoemakers in his section. He 
was a substantial business man and a respected citizen, one of the best 
known residents of the western section of the borough.
	Mr. Peifer was the third of his name in direct line, being a son of 
John Jacob Peifer and a grandson of John Jacob Pfeifer (as the name was 
originally spelled), who was born Feb. 28, 1809, in Würtemberg, Germany, 
and came to America in 1852, making the voyage in a sailing vessel. He 
was married in Germany to Barbara Ziegler, a native of that country, 
born Jan. 19, 1806, and his wife and family accompanied him to the 
United States.  They landed at New York, later coming to Pennsylvania 
and locating in Shamokin, where Mr. Pfeifer found work at the mines. For 
some time before his death Mr. Pfeifer had his home at Weigh Scales, 
near Shamokin, where he died June 20, 1863; his wife died Dec. 3, 1868, 
and both are buried at the Blue Church, of which they were members.  
Their children were John Peter, John Jacob, Barbara and Magdalena 
(married Patrick Mackin).
	John Jacob Peifer, son of John Jacob, was born Nov. 19, 1835, at 
the town of Beringer, in Wurtemberg, Germany. He was in his seventeenth 
year when he came with his parents to America, and he was employed at 
Shamokin and at Allegheny City before settling at Weigh Scales, near 
Shamokin, where he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company. He began as a repairman, later became a fireman and in time an 
engineer, being employed in the latter capacity until he met his death, 
May 6, 1869, at Brady, this county. The boiler of his engine exploded, 
throwing him into the adjacent bushes, and life was extinct when he was 
found. He was a popular and well liked man, and had proved a loyal 
citizen of his adopted country, serving in the Union army during the 
Civil war.
	Mr. Peifer married Anna Maria Bader, who was born Sept. 18, 1842, 
near the town of Dettingen, in Wurtemberg, Germany, daughter of John 
George and Christina (Bossart) Bader, and came to America when nineteen 
years old. Three children were born to this union: John Jacob; Mary 
Christina, born Aug. 27, 1866, who married Peter Mans and has one child, 
Dr. John P.; and Anna Dorothy, born Nov. 21, 1868, who married Charles 
Martin. After Mr. Peifer's death his widow married John Michael Sheese 
(Schiese), a native of Germany, who died at Shamokin Feb. 5, 1877. Mrs. 
Sheese still survives, making her home in Shamokin. By her second 
marriage she had children as follows:  Elizabeth C., who is the wife of 
Elmer Long; Rev. George F., a Presbyterian minister formerly located at 
Montgomery, Pa., who recently moved to Oklahoma, where he is engaged as 
a printer, and Fredericka Matilda, married to John Henry Weitenhafer.
	John Jacob Peifer was born Oct. 27, 1864, at Mount Carmel, 
Northumberland county, and he began work as many boys in this region 
have done, picking slate at the mines. He was thus engaged during the 
summer season, in the winter months attending public school.  When 
fifteen years old he went to learn shoemaking, which trade he followed 
from that time until 1884, in which year he returned to the mines. But 
after a comparatively brief experience in his former line he resumed 
shoemaking, in which he was ever after interested. In 1898 he engaged in 
business on his own account as a boot and shoe dealer and manufacturer, 
and he established a large business, having all the most modern 
equipment and conveniences for facilitating his work. He also dealt in 
leather and findings, supplying almost all the shoemakers in this 
section.
	His profitable and constantly widening trade was the best comment 
upon his business methods. Mr. Peifer died April 23, 1911, and was 
buried in Shamokin cemetery.
	Mr. Peifer was a Republican in politics and active in borough 
affairs, having served nine years as councilman, and as school director 
for some time, from the Third ward. Socially he belonged to the Knights 
of Malta, P.O.S. of A., Sons of Veterans, I.O.O.F. and Maccabees. He was 
a member of St. John's German Reformed Church, and a member of the 
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charitable disposition, he enjoyed the friendship and good will of a 
wide circle.
	Mr. Peifer married Isabella Otto, granddaughter of William Otto, a 
farmer of Schuylkill county, who died in 1830; his wife was Margaret 
Kessler. Henry Otto, son of William, was born in Schuylkill county June 
21, 1825, and is now a resident of Shamokin. He married (first) 
Catharine Artz, by whom he had eight children, and by his second union, 
to Mary Fager, he had a family of eleven, of whom Mrs. Peifer was one.

	JEREMIAH LOWER, a retired citizen of Sunbury, has been a resident 
of that borough for the past twenty years; and until his retirement in 
1906 was a successful business man. He is a native of Dauphin county, 
born near the Northumberland county line Oct. 2, 1845.
	Michael Lower (Lauer), his grandfather, a native of Schwartswald; 
Germany, was one of four brothers, all then unmarried, who came to 
America, and he located in Dauphin county; another brother settled near 
Harrisburg, Pa., another in the vicinity of Philadelphia, while of the 
fourth nothing was ever known after his arrival in this country. Michael 
Lower owned a large tract of land on the north side of Mahantango 
mountain, near Malta (Vera Cruz), and there he engaged in farming until 
his death.  He was a Lutheran in religion, and is buried at Zion's  
(Stone Valley) Church.  (One Michael Lauer, buried at that church, was 
born Feb. 1, 1781, and died July 13, 1834.) His wife survived him a 
number of years. They had children as follows: William was the father of 
Jeremiah Lower; Jacob settled in Juniata county, Pa.; Michael died near 
Mahantango Pa.; Daniel located at Brookville, Ogle Co., Ill., where he 
died; John died in the Lykens Valley March 6, 1904, aged ninety-two 
years,  eight months, three days (his wife, Elizabeth, died Sept. 28, 
1894, aged seventy-four years, sixteen days); Elizabeth married John A. 
Snyder; Rebecca married (first) Abraham Frymoyer and (second) John A. 
Snyder, whose first wife was her older sister, Elizabeth; Polly married 
John Chroyer.
	William Lower was born in 1815 and died in August, 1849, on the old 
homestead.  He was a Lutheran in religions faith and is buried at the 
Stone Valley church.  He learned the trade of blacksmith, which he 
followed, and also farmed on the old homestead. His wife, Julia Zerbe, 
daughter of John Zerbe, of Lower Mahanoy township, died Feb. 28, 1904, 
aged seventy-nine years. They were the parents of two children, Jeremiah 
and Matilda, the latter dying in infancy.
	Jeremiah Lower received his education in the public schools of the 
locality where he had his early home and at the Missionary Institute, 
Selinsgrove. He was reared to farming, which he followed until he 
reached the age of forty-one years, cultivating land in Northumberland 
county; meanwhile he also conducted a butcher business for some time in 
the village of Vera Cruz, in Lower Mahanoy township. When he gave up 
farming he settled at Weigh Scales, this county, at which place he 
conducted the "State Road Hotel" (then known as "Hensyl's Hotel") for 
about two years, in 1889 moving to Ashland, Schuylkill county, where he 
was proprietor of the "Central Hotel" for a year. In March, 1890, he 
settled in Sunbury, where he has since made his home.  For seven years 
he conducted the "Packer House" in this borough, in 1896 buying the 
saddlery and hardware business to which he subsequently gave his 
attention until his retirement conducting same for a period of nine 
years. Mr. Lower manufactured and dealt in all kinds of custom and 
factory made harness, saddlery hardware and shoe findings, handling a 
superior line of goods. Those of his own manufacture were of the highest 
grade. He made any kind of harness, doing the work in the most approved 
manner and the mounting as desired, and carried a most comprehensive 
stock, everything needed in the stable. He gave special attention to 
repair work, and enjoyed an excellent patronage.  His store was at No. 
506  Market street. Mr. Lower has taken a deep interest in the welfare 
of his adopted home, and has served two years in the borough council. He 
is a Republican in political opinion.
	In 1886 Mr. Lower married Wilhelmina Witmer, daughter of Isaac 
Witmer, of Lower Mahanoy township, and six children have been born to 
them:  William R. is a resident of Sunbury, Julia V. married James R. 
Brosius and after his death married (second) G. W. Floyd, who is in the 
Federal service, and they live at Capitol Heights, Md.; Sarah A. is the 
wife of A. J. Kauffman and they live in Rockefeller township, this 
county; Mary E. married Frank Weiser, of Sunbury; Susan E. and Laura 
died in infancy.
	Mr. Lower and his family are members of the New Lutheran Church in 
Sunbury. He has always been an interested church worker, and has given 
many years' service in the councils of the different churches with which 
he has been identified at the various places in which he has resided.

	JOHN W. ZERBE, postmaster at Shamokin, Northumberland county, bears 
a name which has been known in this section from the time his 
grandfather came hither out of Berks county, founding a family which has 
ever since been counted among the worthy citizens of the region and in 
whose honor a township has been named. Zerbe valley and Zerbe run also 
help to perpetuate the name, and there is a Zerby in Center county 
doubtless of the same origin.  The Zerbe Valley Railroad, a line fifteen 
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Sept. 7, l867, and became a part of the Philadelphia & Reading system in 
1871.
	Among the registered passengers who came over in the early days 
appear the names of John Philip Zerbe, Martin Zerbe and Lorenz Zerbe, 
brothers, who according to Rupp's "30,000 Immigrants" made the passage 
together in 1710, coming across with  the Huguenots.  Lorenz Zerbe 
settled that year at Schoharie, N. Y., and in 1720-22 was one of those 
who emigrated thence to Pennsylvania, where he settled on the 
Tulpehocken creek, between what are now Womelsdorf and Bernville, Berks 
county.  He had one son who is of record, John Zerbe, who in 1761 built 
a mill on the Tulpehocken creek which was in operation until burned, 
about five years ago (the letter from which most of this information was 
taken was written Nov. 23, 1909); the corner stone bearing the date was 
still in the wall a short time ago.
	It is the general contention of those who have been collecting 
family records that all of the Zerbes in this country are descended from 
this John Zerbe (son of Lorentz) and his two wives (he married Catarina 
Stup June 4, 1744), his children numbering twenty-four in all, twenty 
sons and four daughters.  Some hold that the Zerbes are not all his 
descendants, but that they came from the three immigrant brothers 
mentioned  but up to this time no record has been unearthed to show that 
John Philip and Martin Zerbe, the two brothers who accompanied Lorenz, 
were ever married.  A great number, however, from various States, have 
been traced back to the twenty sons of John, and though many spellings 
of the name are found in the different branches of the family Zerbe, 
Zerbey, Zerby, Zerbo, Zerba, Zerbee all who bear it are supposed to he 
his posterity. In the first half of the nineteenth century many of the 
name went west, settling in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, 
Kansas, etc., so that its representatives are now scattered well over 
the country, and many are found in the professions as well as among 
agricultural and mechanical workers. As to the origin of the name, it is 
found in France, spelled Zerbo; and in 1505 one Gabriel Zerbi, an 
Italian anatomist, wrote a work entitled "Anatomy of the Human Body," a 
copy of which may be found in the Astor Library, in New York City.
	Daniel Zerbe, great-grandfather of John W. Zerbe, of Shamokin, came 
to this region from Berks county by wagon and was among the early 
settlers in what is now Lower Mahanoy township.  He lived about two 
miles from what is now Dalmatia. He is buried at the Stone Valley church 
in Lower Mahanoy township. To him and his wife, Maria, were born eight 
children:  Thomas, the grandfather of John W. Zerbe: Joseph, who died in 
Dalmatia, Northumberland county; John, who died in Stone Valley (he left 
no posterity); Daniel, who died unmarried; George, who died at 
Georgetown, Northumberland county (he married Fibbie Spengel, and two of 
their children survive, John and Ellen); Rebecca, who married Adam 
Bowman and moved to Illinois, where she died; Catharine, who married 
David Schwartz, both dying in Michigan; and Elizabeth, who married Adam 
Alman.
	Joseph Zerbe, son of Daniel, married Catharine Meek, and they had 
thirteen children: Henry, of Shamokin, who married Fibbie Alman (he 
served three years during the Civil war as a member of Company L, 16th 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, entering as a private, and receiving promotion to 
the rank of corporal); Joseph, a miner living (at Mount Carmel; George, 
who died in 1908; Daniel, a resident of Dalmatia; Samuel who lives at 
Millersburg, Pa.; Jonas, of Shamokin; Elizabeth, married to Andrew 
Campbell; Catherine, married to Jacob B. Bright; and others who died 
young.
	Thomas Zerbe, son of Daniel, was a farmer in lower Mahanoy 
township, this county, where he lived and died.  He married Elizabeth 
Gorman, and they had children as follows: Jesse was killed by a bull 
while at work at his barn. in Kansas; Thomas is the father of John W. 
Zerbe; Benjamin lives at Beavertown, Snyder Co., Pa.; Elias lives at 
Altoona, Pa.; Sallie is married to Henry Miller, and they live in 
Shamokin; Rebecca married George Heitzman, of Kansas; Katie married 
Elias Paul, who died in Shamokin.
	Thomas Zerbe, son of Thomas, was born in Lower Mahanoy township, 
Northumberland county; and came to Shamokin when a young man, finding 
employment at the mines.  Later he settled on his father's homestead in 
his native township, taking over the farm, which he is still 
cultivating. He has not only been a prominent farmer, but he is a well 
known man in the county which he has served two terms as commissioner in 
the most intelligent and efficient manner.  He is a Republican in 
politics, and a Lutheran in religious matter. Mr. Zerbe married 
Catherine Messner, daughter of Philip Messner, and to them were born 
seven children:  A son that died in infancy Charles, deceased; John W.; 
James, of Reading, Berks Co., Pa.; Joseph, of Dalmatia, Northumberland 
county; Webster, of Lower Mahanoy township, this county; and another son 
that died in infancy.
	John W. Zerbe, son of Thomas, was born Feb. 16, 1864, in Lower 
Mahanoy township, and received his education in the public schools of 
the home locality.  While yet at home he began to work in the mines, 
continuing thus until he was in his twenty-eighth year, when he was 
given a position in the police department of Shamokin, and he remained 
with that department for twelve and a half years, until appointed to the 
postmastership, in the year 1903.  He has proved a capable and faithful 
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faction in the office. His standing in the borough, both personally and 
as public servant, is unquestionably good.  Fraternally he unites with 
the P.O.S. of A. and the Knights of Malta, and in church connection he 
is a Lutheran.
	In 1886 Mr. Zerbe married Clara Kerkam, daughter of Wilhelm and 
Elizabeth Kerkam, the former a well known business man of Shamokin. They 
have had three children, but only one survives, May.